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May 21, 2022 - Lionel Nation
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DAILY BRIEFING: The Education Revolution

Didactics and pedagogy. The lost and abandoned arts and concerns. Ostensibly.

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All right, my friends.
This is the Saturday, the Saturday Daily Briefing.
And before we begin, let me tell you what's going on here in New York City.
They're talking about it being 90, what, 90-ish today?
90-ish?
And they're going crazy.
I'm getting all kinds of warnings.
All kinds of warnings and advisories.
Heat advisories.
It's a heat advisory.
They're sending letters and news accounts of how do you do, what do you do to get away from the heat?
What do you do?
How do you handle it?
Where can you go?
Will there be pools that are opening?
Tips to not succumb to the heat.
Avoid unnecessary flannel.
Don't drink.
Don't drink alcohol.
No, don't drink alcohol.
That's the best reason to drink.
Don't drink.
Just drink cold water.
Stay inside.
Go to a cooling station.
Now, that can be very, very serious.
What are we, stupid?
And also, they always say, check on the elderly.
Make sure you keep an eye on the elderly.
How do you think they got to be elderly?
They know what's going on.
They know exactly what's going on.
I don't want to be...
Crude about this whole thing, but give me a break.
The elderly?
God bless the elderly, but you know what I'm saying.
You know what I'm saying.
I'm from Florida.
I know heat like you can't even believe.
I hate heat.
I hate it.
No matter what happens, no matter what happens in...
I will always want to be in the Northeast or whatever it is.
I like it when it's cool.
I'm sorry.
60 degrees?
50?
You can always put on a jacket, but you can't get cold.
You don't know what hot means.
You have no idea.
Now, do you know what the number one cause of death?
The number one cause of death for individuals, for people, natural, not cause, excuse me, let me rephrase it, natural, the natural event, is it hurricanes or hurricane, as they say in the UK, hurricanes or tsunamis?
No, heat.
Heat kills more people than you can ever imagine.
It's horrible.
When I was a kid, we had a, was it a 66?
I think it was a 66. It was an Impala, Chevy Impala.
And they had these seats.
They weren't plastic, but might as well be plastic.
And I could sit in short pants in the hot, and your skin would sear, would become liquefied puddles of melted dermis inside.
It was horrible.
We never had an air conditioning.
We didn't have an air conditioning.
Nothing.
We had an attic fan that I swear to God worked.
It was the most wonderful thing of the world.
The drapes would billow.
It could be 150 degrees and it was great.
It was hot.
People say, well, you know, it's hotter now.
No, it was hot.
Sorry about that.
I like when they say, you know what?
It's not the heat, it's the humidity.
You know, when you go to Phoenix, that's a dry heat.
There's no humidity in an oven either.
That's an old joke.
Anyway, so that's where we are today.
The heat.
My God.
I'm not trying to mock it, but these news stations have nothing to say.
This is it.
And please, don't leave your pets inside.
How do you leave a pet inside a car?
How do you do this?
I'm going to be in for just a moment.
I'm going to crack the window.
What are you doing?
There's always that story where people come by.
Or, God forbid, they leave a baby.
Oh, my God.
Come on.
Can I tell you something?
Do you remember?
Oh, I'm so...
I love this.
I'm proud of my generation.
You might think, here's this old guy.
I'm not old.
Compared to what?
Compared to what?
A mountain?
The universe?
I'm here but a blink of an eye.
And for you to say that I'm ten years older or younger?
Stop it.
We are here in this evanescent, ephemeral little flash.
That's where we are.
But for some reason, I don't know why, we just seem to, I look around, and which is the purpose of today's, peace, education.
Don't ask me why, sometimes I start noticing things.
There were a whole bunch of kids yesterday, remember that?
They were going here in Hell's Kitchen, they were going to this park, every...
It seemed like every school they had uniforms on of some sort.
They were coming out of, I don't know, legions of these.
Where are they?
All heading to this park.
And I thought, well, that's nice.
I like to see kids.
I love to hear kids play.
I love to hear that sound.
Kids laughing and running around.
Oh my God, I love them running around.
Keep running around.
Go outside.
Go outside.
Ask yourself, do you have any kids?
Do you know what they say?
A bucket list?
Do you have a bucket list?
I don't care if you've never changed a tire or if you know how to change a tire or any of that stuff.
How many of you wonderful, brave, great people In your lifetime, have climbed trees.
Not a tree.
Climbed trees as part of your fun.
Give me a one for a yes, two for a no.
Who's climbed a tree?
That sounds stupid.
Sounds ridiculous.
Climb a tree?
Yeah, climb a tree.
Go up there.
Because the best part about trees is that, you know what?
Here's the best part.
Uh-oh.
Pam says, I was 21. Up thumb.
I don't know what that means.
Who did this?
Come on.
Al Denti.
Nova Scotia did.
Pete.
Liz.
Gus.
Isn't that great?
Eric Powell.
You've got to climb a tree because it's the coming down part that's the tough part.
Going up is easy.
It's like, oh my God.
Come on down.
It was great!
Look at this.
One-eyed climb trees so high that Trump would...
It's so stupid that Trump would go like this.
I loved it!
We had a woman in the neighborhood.
We were kids.
I know it sounds stupid to say this, but I loved it.
We would just get together.
I didn't know who these kids were.
We had a woman named Mrs. Wiley.
Mrs. Wiley was just this wonderful gal.
Old lady.
Not gal.
Old lady.
She just opened up her backyard.
I don't know.
I don't know if anybody would do this.
She had like a tree house.
We thought nothing.
We'd be in the back all the time.
We'd go, hey, how are you?
Okay, come on in.
They never said, you can't come in there.
And she had this tree, this oak.
Because in Florida, we have live oak and a lot of oak.
Man, it was great.
Every now and then, You hear that sound, that thud.
Oh, there goes Billy.
You okay, Billy?
You lost your breath.
First time I ever saw that, I thought, this guy's dying.
No, he lost his breath.
I didn't understand that.
Lost his breath.
You mean he's going to die, right?
No, he's not going to die.
He just lost his breath.
Dead people lose their breath.
What do you mean he lost his breath?
He lost his heart.
He lost his circulation.
I thought breathing was important.
Apparently not.
Oh, my God.
These kids are out there.
Climb a tree.
Not climb a wall.
Not that wall climbing.
Climb a tree.
Drink out of a hose.
One time we had this hose that was outside.
It would have this rosin, this sticky stuff.
It would be curled up.
And the water that would, the residual water in it would pile up.
And it would be like 3,000 degrees because it was in the sun.
I'll never forget this.
One of the kids in the neighborhood, I don't know what their name was.
We didn't know really names.
It's kind of like the mafia.
We don't really know names, no nicknames.
Went like this.
There was a little hesitation.
Turn it on!
I turned it on!
A little bit of hesitation.
Puts the mouth up like this.
And sure enough, it was a rat.
Like a dead mouse or something.
shout out You know what the kid did?
Went like this.
Ready?
Continued drinking.
Today they'd be at the hospital, get a tetanus shot, get out of here.
We heard this story one time about this guy drinking, mowing the lawn.
He had a Coke or a Pepsi or something.
And a wasp or a bee or something got into it.
He drank it.
It supposedly bit his throat.
He died.
Anaphylaxis.
I don't know if it's true.
The...
Layer ninks, as they say.
Swole.
Became swollen.
I'm looking at this.
Looking at kids.
I'm sorry.
I've got to tell you this.
I know I'm a broken record.
Helmets.
Helmets!
Helmets!
Do you have a kid wear a helmet?
A helmet?
A plastic helmet?
Because you're on a bike?
Yeah.
And you'll fall over.
Uh-huh.
And it might hit your head.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
This was in the 60s.
Yeah.
Or you could die.
Yeah.
That's the way we were.
Yeah.
Don't you want to have knee pads?
No.
But you could hurt yourself.
Uh-huh.
My mother had this even back...
Teen.
Do they make back teen anymore?
This stuff is...
You know, illness sticking through.
Get outside.
You wouldn't dare.
We need to have, listen to me, the Paris Island for schools.
I want to have summer camp, whatever, for kids doing stuff that we did.
Parents have to sign all kinds of waivers.
Today's class...
BB guns.
The Daisy.
A little bit older?
Pellet guns.
Everybody gets a little carton with the BBs in the pellets.
Crossman.
Pump it.
If you lose an eye, what does your mother say?
You're going to lose an eye.
You're going to lose an eye.
You're going to break your neck.
You're going to break your neck.
You're going to lose an eye.
Never thought anything of it.
I, one time, was shooting somebody.
He had a jacket on.
And as I'm doing this noise, I see the back of his jacket go up.
It could have pierced.
It didn't matter.
He's running.
A crossman pellet.
Gotta stop.
Pump it.
Made me who I am.
I thought nothing of it.
We weren't killers.
We weren't killers.
We've got to have kids.
Wouldn't you send your kid to this?
Wouldn't you send your kid to my camp?
Oh, we'd have, I mean, very serious.
First of all, they would be vetted.
Parents could watch this.
No sleepover.
None of that jazz.
I don't trust that.
But just during the day.
Come on.
Today we're going to do this.
Ready, kids?
Today, certain ages.
Today, fireworks.
What?
Fireworks.
We're going to show you the fun of fireworks.
How does that work?
Oh, how does it work?
Oh my god.
Let's start off with a baby.
Here's a firecracker.
Here's the way most people light it.
They light it, they put it down, and they run away.
Do that two times times.
Then you do one of these.
Hold it.
Put it in your hand.
Now light it and then throw it.
That's boring.
Get two or three.
This is what a boy does.
This is what a boy.
You heard me?
A boy.
A boy.
An American boy.
He starts taping them together.
Cutting them open.
Getting the powder.
We had this sick guy in the neighborhood.
It was so sick.
His mother had a glue gun.
She was into arts and crafts.
He took an M80.
Put glue on it.
Rolled it in BBs.
He made shrapnel.
You know what he said?
Brilliant!
Hey, you know, you could get hurt like that.
It was brilliant.
I never thought of that.
Roman candles.
Running with Roman candles in your hand.
2,000 degree phosphorus fireballs.
Come on!
Wrist rockets with an M80.
Blowing up a mailbox?
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I know you're not supposed to do it.
Government property?
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Who hasn't blown up a mailbox?
I see this.
I see it.
I see what they're doing to kids.
I see what they're doing to kids.
And we've got to say, nope, even playing field.
I swear to God, let kids be kids.
Just do stuff.
We used to play a game at Sacred Heart Academy on Florida Avenue in Tampa, which was a cemetery.
I took Mrs. Elder.
She didn't believe it.
There were mausoleums.
This is where we would play it.
It was a church and there was a mausoleum and anybody had to stay there.
At lunchtime, no, at lunch, recess, you know what games we played?
Recess.
Kill the Man.
Kill the Man was the name of the game.
All of a sudden we'd say, you, whoever you were.
Okay.
Fat, white, black, what?
I don't care.
Got glasses?
Don't have glasses?
Kind of the...
You know, kind of the dweeb.
And you know the worst thing you could do to somebody?
Do you know what the worst thing you could do to somebody?
The worst insult?
To say, no, no, no.
Hey, don't do that.
Don't pick on...
Hey, that's Toby.
Come on, man.
Don't do that.
Come on.
Toby would say, wait a minute, what do you mean?
Well, you're...
No!
I want to be normal.
Okay.
Kill the man.
Run and jump on him.
He thought nothing of it.
And now I'm seeing people with helmets.
So what's wrong with this country?
We need to go back to that.
And then we need to do something even more important.
Now I know you may have a problem sometimes with certain forms of education.
I understand this.
But thank God.
Thank God I had the nuns.
I don't know about those nuns today.
I have no idea.
We had nuns.
I couldn't tell if they were a man or a woman.
Sister Carmine, Sister Mike Tyson, Sister H.R. Bob Haldeman.
I don't know where they were from.
I don't know what language they spoke.
They had an accent.
They were four feet tall.
Scared the hell out of me.
And you respected them and you just sat down and you shut up.
And we had uniforms and nobody looked any different.
I don't care if you're rich or poor.
It was beautiful.
It was socialism.
No such thing as wealth.
Everybody in the uniform.
Sit down.
And we were always in lines.
Going to go to lunch?
Get in the line.
Precision.
Like, you know, Bataan, Death March, Paris Island.
Get in the line.
March in the line.
Get in the line.
Topic.
Go.
Hup, hup, hup.
Everybody remembers it.
Look at this list.
Sister Maureen.
Sister Harry Chin.
Everybody remembers their name.
Sister Anna Mary.
Sister Melanie Rose.
Sister Margaret Curran.
Sister Jean Eleanor.
And then it kind of gets a little weird.
Everybody remembers these people.
They always had these long, they had these things up their sleeves.
They didn't have a ruler.
They had a straight edge.
Made from the special wood in the petrified forest.
Then we had sometimes the Salesians.
The Salesians were from Sicily.
And growing up, they either had one or two choices.
You can work in the sulfur mines, or you can become a nun.
I'll be a nun.
These were tough.
These were from, like, you know, Palermo.
This is serious.
They had no...
And all this stuff up there.
First aid kit.
There you go.
Hang on a minute.
There you go.
What do you need?
A napkin or a Kleenex?
A ruler?
A tourniquet?
A dagger?
What is up these sleeves?
Wearing cardboard?
Not even a drop of sweat in Florida?
I don't understand how they did it.
They were sexless.
They had genderless.
They go in the bathroom.
All right, hurry up, sister, please!
Come on, let's go!
Come on, move it!
Loved it.
I didn't understand it.
I didn't understand it.
They never...
Hit us.
Never.
I never saw it.
I don't know where you were.
Priests?
We didn't have a priest.
They didn't really do anything.
They didn't do anything.
But nobody ever jumped a grade.
You know anybody who skipped?
Well, I skipped a grade.
Oh, you want to skip a grade?
Oh, no.
Oh, so this is too easy for you?
We'll fix that.
We'll fix that for you.
Skipping a grade?
People went back.
People would do a grade over, but they wouldn't.
Nope.
And now look at us.
Remote learning!
Remote learning!
Everybody walking around, scared out of their mind.
They can't speak.
They can't do math.
Reading scores are plummeting.
Reading.
Anybody remember?
Who remembers SRA?
Remember that?
Remember that thing you read with the colors, depending upon how advanced your reading was?
You would take these It was like this hinged box and he would take out purple.
The better you read, the harder.
The print would get smaller, there'd be more.
It would go from C, Dick, and Jane to Aeschylus, depending upon who you were.
It's the way it went.
Let me tell you something.
Let me tell you something.
This Iteration of humanity.
These children today.
Oh, the biggest joke in the world are private schools here.
Private.
How much did they spend a year?
Could they spend easy for a private school here?
Let's say elementary.
Oh, elementary, 50-60.
50 to 60,000 a year.
That's just plain old tuition.
It's just, you know.
Getting into this school.
Oh, my God, look at this.
Under my system, it's very simple.
Number one, everybody starts off even.
But immediately, immediately, if we figure out who's college-bound, if we don't have college anymore, and who's not.
What is the best?
Not that it's written in stone, but there are some people who are going to say, I'm never going to go to college.
I'm not going to go to college.
Fine.
First thing everybody does, balance a checkbook.
You're going to have a checkbook.
You're going to understand about credit.
You're going to understand about checks.
You're going to understand this stuff.
Rudimentary math, whatever.
And then, at some point, we figure vocational, college-bound.
That's it.
Draconian?
You betcha.
And they'll thank you for it.
This way, or that way.
More and more and more and more people are realizing they don't have a college education.
This magical mystery, hey, it's your ticket to...
Now, if you want to go into a professional school, yeah, I understand that.
But aside from that, no.
Uh-uh.
Uh-uh.
No way.
And by the way, charter schools ain't all that you think charter schools are either.
I know somebody who came from a charter school and they ask her, where does tornadoes come from?
He goes, God?
He's like, okay.
Now I don't mean to dismiss this, but we need sometimes to inculcate in people this notion of this thing called science.
And we have to take our best and our brightest and our smartest and we have to encourage them and recruit them and thank them and Hold them up to a claim.
The same way we do sports, and this one won the state title or whatever the heck it is.
That's what we have to do.
That's what we have to do.
It is critical.
We're going to be lambasted.
We're going to be gobsmacked and rode hard and put up wet compared to the rest of the world.
Eastern Europe, Middle East, Asia, in schools?
No.
And we're doomed.
And some people want it that way.
Not in my book.
We have no sense of appreciation for education today.
We don't.
We're an anti-intellectual group.
And we have to do something to reacquaint kids with being kids.
With doing the things that we did.
Because we didn't recognize at the time how important they were.
That simple.
There was something I read recently about either Mattel, maybe it's Mattel, and their toys were sustainable, recycled, whatever.
I thought, okay, good.
Fine.
But what I noticed were there were actual plastic toys where a kid looks at this.
Remember that?
Remember when you had the donuts as a kid and then we got smaller and you...
You had that little plastic and you had to figure out, what do I do with this?
Doesn't sound like much to you.
But to a kid, see he's got a hole in it and there's a post.
Hey, I understand this.
Touching, tactile, three-dimension, spatial, parietal lobe, circuitry, critical stuff.
It may not seem like much to you, but it's important.
Having kids to pick things up and grab, strategy, thinking, Colors.
Looking.
Puzzles.
Puzzles.
That stupid little game with the bee.
Remember the bee with the magnet and you were moving like this?
Chutes and ladders and sitting there and talking and old maid and strategy and winning and losing.
Do you ever play old maid with the kids?
Go ahead, take it.
All of a sudden there's this one card that's like, that's the old maid.
No it's not.
Yes it is.
Don't do that.
In fact, Put the other one up, they'll go for the other card.
Ah!
Fooling.
Strategy.
Thinking.
Talking.
Conviviality.
Society.
Getting.
Talking.
Kids.
Planning.
Negotiating.
What do you want to do?
I don't know.
You want to climb a tree?
That's boring.
What do you want to do?
Sounds like Marty.
All of that stuff.
All of that stuff.
Where you've got to look people in the eye.
And you've got to talk.
And you've got to think.
And you've got to get along.
And you just do these things that set the personality in place.
It hardens them.
They learn how to deal.
There's individuality, but there's this getting along part.
Kids need this drastically.
Drastically.
We can't have scaredy cats.
That doesn't mean being reckless.
It doesn't mean...
I didn't even realize at the time how great it was.
I think I've told you this.
I'll tell you this again.
One time my father was sitting in his chair.
He had a chair.
It was his chair.
It's like Archie Bunker.
It's his chair.
Don't sit in his chair.
Reading the paper, whatever it was.
And all of a sudden he looks and one of us he sees this hit the ground and he says don't hear any screaming and then the next one.
We had a sliding glass door.
He says, what are you doing?
We're jumping off the roof.
We put a towel around our neck.
We were Superman.
We're jumping.
We took a ladder on the side of the roof.
It wasn't real tall, but took a ladder.
The ladder could have fallen.
Went up and jumped off.
Could have broken something.
Didn't.
Didn't.
I don't know why.
Maybe we just didn't land.
And he said, okay.
I'll never forget that.
Hey, you want to go outside and jump off the roof?
Do you want to what?
Jump off the roof.
Want to get on our bikes and go to the corner?
There's a water fountain there.
Okay.
What is that?
And today I think, what do you want to do?
Huh?
What do I want to do?
Look at me.
I can't look at you.
I don't know about socialization.
I don't know about spatial.
My prehensile, my thumb, Agility is wonderful, but I don't know anything about conviviality, society, communication, problem-solving.
I don't know anything about that.
It's critical.
What we did was just simple, and we didn't realize it.
Not everything we did was wonderful.
The Internet is fantastic.
I don't want to go back to before the internet.
It's not either or.
How do you teach kids curiosity?
How do you teach?
How do we get the smart ones?
How do we say, be on the lookout for the smart ones?
You, come here.
This is our future.
Come here.
I want to talk to you.
You're pretty good at that.
Every class had the smart ones, And what happened to the smart ones?
They brought the smart ones down.
Because now what do they do?
They teach to the test.
It's not about individuality anymore.
It's about this massive indoctrination and treat them like cattle.
Oh my God.
And if you want to learn, we put them over here.
And we have special schools.
And you know what we have to?
Special teachers.
Oh my God.
Special teachers.
Eventually you're going to see teaching militias.
You're going to see groups of people who are going to be culled, who are going to be recruited from the outside world.
They're going to be asked to teach.
Groups of 10 or whatever it is.
Independently paid for.
It'll be considered at home or at home teaching or whatever you want to call it.
But these people will be the PhD students, maybe master's level, people who are really good to show people stuff.
And we're going to do stuff, things that are very simple.
Like going On a field trip.
I used to love a field trip.
And the more stupid the field trip, the better it was.
We went to a place in Tampa years ago.
It was the Wonder Bread factory.
And they gave us a little loaf of bread.
We saw how bread was made.
I still love conveyor belt stuff.
At the time, they cared more about kids than they do today.
And today what we are seeing, if I didn't know better, It was a deliberate, either a nonchalance, or a deliberate abandonment.
However you want to say it, whatever you want to call it.
That's precisely what I think this is.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
Does this make any sense to you?
This is not a joke.
This is not, you know, just, hey, there's an interesting kind of a favorite topic on a Saturday.
No, no, no, no.
This is beyond critical.
This is beyond critical.
And I don't know anybody who's talking about it.
I don't know anybody.
They used to talk about...
I don't know.
Listen, social programs are terrific.
You want a child to be a cognizant, lucid member of society.
Wonderful.
Great.
Understanding.
Kids tend to be.
Until they're taught otherwise.
But it is beyond frightening to see what's happening right now.
Because I see the next 25 years and I see this generation and before that and I don't want to see a bunch of people who don't make eye contact.
I don't want to see a generation of people who don't know how to shake hands.
I don't want to see a generation who can't write their name.
I'm going to say something to you and you're going to laugh.
And you're going to think, I've lost my mind.
But I'm going to say this.
The moment we lost handwriting, the moment we had the Palmer method, the moment we...
Do you ever see people write like this?
Do you ever see people, here, write your name?
What are you doing?
Are you stabbing something?
The moment we lost that, where you take an instrument, And drawing, and whatever it is.
Doodling.
Anybody doodle anymore?
No.
Just do something as simple as when you're on the phone, mm-hmm, yeah.
And you would make a box, and this thing, and a diamond, and you'd shade it.
Losing that?
The ability to look something, say something, say, here's my name.
This coordination, and from printing to cursive and back and forth.
Something was lost.
Because when this happened, there was a circuitry that was made.
There was something that connected.
There was a new pathway.
When little kids in their cribs look up and they see things they're trying to grab that are hanging there, you may not think much.
But spatial configuration, I keep talking about parietal lobe.
This is also God.
This is also the fact of the feeling of I'm not alone.
I am here.
I am stationary.
I'm in this position.
But I am not alone.
It's the most important thing in the world.
Stuff that you think is so silly, or maybe thought was silly, is so critical.
I can't explain it enough.
And nobody's talking about it.
And it's got to be done right now.
Immediately.
Okay?
Now, I'm sorry to have you hear me lecture, but it's something I truly believe in.
And it's not good enough.
I mean, I'm going to be long gone when this kicks in.
But we need to revamp everything.
And there are some things that were done before that I do not think we should ever go back to.
Spanking, physical striking of kids, no.
Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.
I know people love it.
I know they spare the route, spoil the child.
I know, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Violence, no, no, no, no, no.
That's something we shouldn't go to.
No.
But believe it or not, and I think that was less of a practice than people realize, but what we did and what parents did who really didn't know anything, and when Dr. Spock, you don't remember this, when Dr. Spock came along, it changed.
Remember Dr. Lendon Smith?
Remember this?
About how kids...
Dr. Spock actually looked at babies.
He became obviously anti-war.
But he looked at babies as little people.
Not just...
It was critical.
And how our parents did it?
I have no idea.
I have no earthly idea.
And I'm so...
Lucky.
I'm so lucky I was born then.
So lucky.
I can have this frame of reference.
So lucky.
That I can say, when our moms, when Mrs. So-and-so, yes Mrs. Campbell, yes Mrs. Martin, and they looked like moms.
And I think it was the most beautiful thing in the world.
It was an elegant picture of a mom.
And one mom, Was equivalent to the other moms.
And if your mom, or if somebody's mom told you something, and you, first of all, nobody would do it.
You wouldn't think, because we had this thing about adults.
It was respect.
A little bit of fear, but not fear as much as it was a sense of respect.
And there are certain things that people should do.
It's important for kids, for example, to have pets to realize responsibility, things like that.
I understand that.
But it was just, it was so different.
And I'm telling you, I look back and I see some stuff, which is before my time, but kind of like leave it to beaver and all that.
It was idyllic.
Absolutely idyllic.
What we are seeing now, they had gangs.
You know, they had gangs, of course.
It's completely different now, though.
Completely different.
So let that sink in.
And ask yourself, how would you do it?
How would you...
There has to be a revolution.
I'm going to say revolution.
Of course, it's always peaceful.
But there has to be a dramatic revolution at the level of family.
And I'm telling you right now, the people, the people, That I am absolutely so impressed with were people that, years ago, I would have kind of laughed at.
Sometimes, people who are devoutly religious, who pray before meals, who thank.
You know, there's something that Muslims say, which I love this.
They always say, well, God willing.
God willing.
How are you?
God willing, I'm doing great.
How's your family?
God willing?
And they say that because they never would be so presumptuous as to think that the reason for this blessing was from anything but God.
I love that idea.
I love that idea.
You don't have to believe in it.
It's like Bob Dylan says, you've got to serve somebody.
That simple.
By the way, my dear friend Jerry Wexler was the producer of that album when he won the Grammy.
I believe, Jimmy Buffett, it's my job.
That's it.
This is not a lecture.
I'm not lecturing you.
I firmly believe this.
There's certain things, I mean, it needs at this fundamental level.
Anybody see the movie Babies?
There's a movie called Babies, a documentary.
Babies.
And there's four different families.
One is an American, kind of a Silicon Valley, kind of a San Francisco.
One's a Japanese.
Young, upwardly mobile family.
One is from the steppes of Mongolia.
And the final one is an African.
I don't know where.
And the baby, the baby in this, he had two toys.
The first American baby had a computer and a Japanese family do very, very upwardly mobile computers and high-tech stuff.
The baby in Africa.
Had a...
Had a...
Oh, an empty two-liter bottle, like a soda bottle, Coke or whatever, and a rock.
That was it.
It's called Babies.
I think it's called Babies.
And the second one, not as...
Well, the more modern...
Was in the steps of Mongolia.
This kid was in this, basically like a stable, and the cows stepping over, trying not to step on the kid.
Kid was happy.
Alright.
The baby, the African baby, who had an empty bottle and a rock, was the most happy.
Because the mother held him.
And he was on his mother's hip.
And he was a part of the conversation.
And he was loved and cherished.
And they laughed.
And they didn't have any TV.
No reading.
I don't know about it.
Literacy.
But it had nothing to do with toys.
It had nothing to do with where they were.
It had nothing to do with modernity.
It had something to do with loving, imparting this frequency of connectivity that babies can pick up on.
It was one of the best things.
I think it's called babies.
Ah, gods must be crazy.
That western clicking sound.
Remember the bottle?
They threw a Coke bottle out of the helicopter.
They were trying to...
One of the best movies ever.
One of the best movies ever.
The gods must be crazy.
Alright, that's it.
Just something to think about today.
Have a great and glorious day.
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