Dennis Prager Show - Man's Search for Meaning
Aired: 2020-02-04
Duration: 06:26


=== The Drive for Meaning (05:54) ===

[00:00:00]  After food, meaning is the thing the human being most wants.
[00:00:05]  It's true for everyone.
[00:00:07]  It's universal.
[00:00:08]  It is more powerful a drive than sex.
[00:00:12]  That's how important the drive for meaning is.
[00:00:16]  The problem is, it is completely amoral.
[00:00:21]  Meaning can be gotten through evil as much as through good.
[00:00:28]  Right?
[00:00:29]  Think about it.
[00:00:31]  Nazism gave Nazis meaning.
[00:00:33]  Communism gave Communists meaning.
[00:00:37]  So, you know, helping the dead and the dying in Calcutta gave Mother Teresa meaning.
[00:00:48]  So that's good meaning versus bad meaning.
[00:00:52]  Meaning is neutral.
[00:00:53]  So that's the question to be asked.
[00:00:57]  With the death of religion, People have still yearned for meaning.
[00:01:02]  Leftism is the search for meaning in a post-Christian world.
[00:01:08]  That's it in a nutshell.
[00:01:10]  And they have the same fervor as religious people do.
[00:01:17]  That's why all of their battles are existential.
[00:01:21]  For Frank Rich in New York Magazine, Stopping Donald Trump is an existential issue.
[00:01:28]  That's his word, existential.
[00:01:30]  You can't bat bigger than existential.
[00:01:33]  Existential comes from the word existence.
[00:01:36]  America's existence is threatened by Donald Trump.
[00:01:40]  A lot of Americans believe that because they need meaning.
[00:01:45]  What could be more meaningful than saving America from Donald Trump?
[00:01:50]  The only thing more meaningful than that is saving the world from global warming.
[00:01:54]  That is one of the beauties of being on the left.
[00:01:56]  You're always saving something.
[00:01:59]  Saving the seal, saving the whale, saving the white rhinoceros, saving America, saving the world.
[00:02:10]  That's pretty, that's pretty, that really gives your life meaning and that's satisfying.
[00:02:17]  That's why you can't argue with them.
[00:02:22]  It's truly like arguing with a religious person about the deepest aspect of their faith.
[00:02:30]  It's not, and by the way, it's totally understandable.
[00:02:32]  It's not an argument.
[00:02:34]  You're going to argue with me?
[00:02:36]  I believe God gave Moses the Ten Commandments.
[00:02:38]  You're going to argue with me?
[00:02:39]  It'd be silly.
[00:02:40]  It's my faith that that happened.
[00:02:44]  But I acknowledge it's my faith.
[00:02:48]  Leftists think it's true.
[00:02:50]  Leftists think that, I think it's true that Moses got the Ten Commandments, but I know it's faith.
[00:02:56]  Leftists have faith, but they think it's rational and true.
[00:03:02]  That it's reason-based only.
[00:03:06]  Isn't it obvious that the Australian fires were set by global warming?
[00:03:12]  No, it's not obvious.
[00:03:14]  Not if you care about truth.
[00:03:16]  But if what you hold is faith, It's not an arguable issue.
[00:03:22]  Donald Trump is an existential threat to democracy.
[00:03:25]  How exactly?
[00:03:26]  They don't have an answer.
[00:03:29]  Because it's a statement of meaning and faith.
[00:03:34]  It's faith-based that Donald Trump is a threat to democracy.
[00:03:38]  I don't care if you hate him.
[00:03:39]  I care if you lie about his being a threat to democracy.
[00:03:43]  You can hate him all you like.
[00:03:44]  It means nothing to me.
[00:03:48]  That it means something to me if you lie that he's a threat to democracy.
[00:03:53]  How's he the threat to democracy when the Democrats won the midterm elections?
[00:03:58]  He did a pretty poor job.
[00:04:02]  It's like the anti-Semites about the Jews.
[00:04:05]  They control the world.
[00:04:06]  Really?
[00:04:06]  So how come they get exterminated?
[00:04:08]  They're doing a lousy job controlling the world and they keep getting exterminated.
[00:04:16]  To the haters, reason means nothing.
[00:04:19]  And the left is a hate-filled place.
[00:04:22]  Hate-filled.
[00:04:23]  Look at how they treated Brett Kavanaugh.
[00:04:25]  They're hate-filled people leftists.
[00:04:30]  They speak the language of kindness.
[00:04:32]  It's a veneer.
[00:04:34]  It's a disguise of the meanness at their heart.
[00:04:38]  What they did to Brett Kavanaugh shows what scum they are.
[00:04:42]  And that's what awakened Lindsey Graham.
[00:04:44]  Lindsey Graham was a changed man because he saw his colleagues acting as scum.
[00:04:51]  If you defend the way Brett Kavanaugh was treated, you're a lowlife.
[00:04:55]  I'm sorry, you are.
[00:04:57]  You should do penitence.
[00:04:59]  You should look in the mirror.
[00:05:00]  You should ask yourself, how could a good man be so lied about and I support it?
[00:05:08]  How could you do that?
[00:05:12]  Peggy Noonan wrote a very interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal on Friday.
[00:05:18]  It was about Kobe Bryant and the woman at the Washington Post who tweeted out about the rape charge against Kobe Bryant the day after he died.
[00:05:29]  And she rightly noted, you know, the man's body is basically still burning, and it's not what you write about.
[00:05:38]  And she was right.

=== People Define By Worst Actions (00:46) ===

[00:05:40]  And then she wrote a very interesting line in her piece.
[00:05:43]  She said, what's happening in America is people are now defined by, solely defined by the worst thing they ever did.
[00:05:53]  That's what the left does.
[00:05:54]  The left defines only its opponents, not people they agree with.
[00:05:59]  People they agree with, everything's forgivable.
[00:06:02]  Like Ted Kennedy.
[00:06:04]  Yes, exactly.
[00:06:07]  And...
[00:06:08]  That's the way they do it.
[00:06:09]  Oh, you did this?
[00:06:11]  Placido Domingo has done so much for so many people, and the L.A. opera has fired him, and all the operas have fired him.
[00:06:18]  He's one of the greatest singers in the world because he harassed some women, or at least he's charged with it, over the course of a lifetime.