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Moral Obligation to Act Happy
00:06:32
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| Alright, 1-8 Prager-776. | |
| Is there a challenge to your happiness at this time? | |
| And I'm sure there is. | |
| There's a challenge to everybody's happiness at this time. | |
| And I'd like to hear from you in that regard. | |
| Or things that you've worked out. | |
| Happiness and your isolation. | |
| That's what this is about. | |
| In the meantime, I will tell you... | |
| How the major themes of my views on happiness are so, unfortunately, are so clearly right at this time. | |
| So, for example, what is my basic theme? | |
| That we have a moral obligation to others to act happy, right? | |
| And that's... | |
| That's it. | |
| I mean, that's... | |
| If I could talk to kids... | |
| I mean, high school kids, let's say. | |
| That is one of the most important things I could tell them. | |
| I was invited to a very prestigious prep high school. | |
| I'm one of the most prestigious in Southern California, a number of years ago. | |
| The conservative kids, the handful of conservative students there, to their great credit, organized and organized. | |
| And even raised some money for me to come. | |
| It was not nearly what I normally charge, but they did raise something, and it was to their credit. | |
| So I came. | |
| My wife was with me. | |
| She can testify to this. | |
| So this young woman, bright, beautiful, I mean, really, just a terrific, terrific girl. | |
| She greets me, and she says, So, Mr. Prager, what's your topic? | |
| Because they worked so hard to finally get a conservative. | |
| And I said, happiness. | |
| And she and the others with her were clearly, I mean, they were very polite, but they were a little stunned. | |
| We worked so hard to bring a conservative, and he is going to talk about happiness? | |
| Of course, it turned out that it was the best thing I could talk about. | |
| They told me, weeks later, it was the most talked about speech in the history of the school. | |
| And I drove the liberal teachers crazy that I said, you have a moral obligation to act happy. | |
| It so bothered some of the teachers that... | |
| They started, at least one, I remember, just really laced into me. | |
| I mean, not disrespectfully, but laced into the argument and how important unhappiness is. | |
| That makes creativity. | |
| Anyway, why did I choose that? | |
| Because if I can get young people to understand they cannot act based on their feelings, they will be happier. | |
| Better and less likely to fall into the trap of leftism. | |
| Happiness, while I do not have a political agenda with the Happiness Hour, but it has inevitably a political ramification. | |
| The moment you think your feelings don't matter, only your behavior does, you have left the left. | |
| Anyway, so my point is, you're in quarantine, you're in isolation, almost all of you with someone. - Yeah. | |
| If that someone acts moody, you're having a tough time. | |
| Which brings me, that's number one lesson of what I've talked about all these years. | |
| The moral obligation to act happy when around others. | |
| You don't want to act happy when you're alone? | |
| That's your business. | |
| It's between you and your shower curtain. | |
| That's fine with me. | |
| Another one. | |
| Candace Owens asked me on a fireside chat before the coronavirus. | |
| She said, Dennis, you attended our, you know, it's a video question that she called in. | |
| So, Dennis, you attended our wedding, my wedding. | |
| And I didn't get a chance to talk to you much, so what is your advice to a young couple getting married? | |
| And I said, be as easy to live with as possible. | |
| That's my advice. | |
| Easy. | |
| You know what a blessing that is, to live with an easy person? | |
| Now you really know. | |
| Before this, you can get out of the house every day. | |
| Or that person got out of the house every day. | |
| Or you both got out of the house every day. | |
| Now you're in the house together every single day, all day. | |
| Easy is quite a virtue. | |
| No, who talks about it though? | |
| Or the moral obligation to be happy. | |
| Who talks about these things? | |
| It's so odd to me that such basic stuff in life is just not talked about. | |
| Alrighty, everybody. | |
| Are you pointing to the calls? | |
| 1-8-Prager-776-877-243-7776 One more. | |
| If nothing's horrific, life is terrific. | |
| Now a lot of you are thinking, wow, wow. | |
| If only this didn't happen and I could be back to six weeks ago or four weeks ago. | |
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Life Is Terrific
00:02:51
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| Yeah, but four weeks ago, were you saying how terrific things are? | |
| I was. | |
| Because nothing's horrific. | |
| I've never looked forward to great things to be happy. | |
| Never. | |
| I have been thrilled that nothing horrific was happening. | |
| If nothing's horrific, then life is terrific. | |
| That's right. | |
| Maybe, look, I know a lot of you take what I say seriously, and I've earned that. | |
| But I think people will take it a little more seriously as a result of how true things are or how clear these lessons have been now that people are living them. | |
| All righty, everybody. | |
| Let's go to Mark in Dallas. | |
| Hello, Mark. | |
| Hi there. | |
| Hi. | |
| Thank you. | |
| I guess I'll just get straight to it. | |
| Wait, hold on. | |
| Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. | |
| I'm not hearing you clearly. | |
| Yeah, it's muffled. | |
| It's really muffled. | |
| Are you speaking into the phone? | |
| I'm speaking into the phone, yes. | |
| Now you are. | |
| Okay. | |
| I'm 35 years old. | |
| What was the last words? | |
| Oh, you're 35 years old. | |
| Go ahead, yeah. | |
| I'm in a management position in Dallas, Texas. | |
| And I suppose my struggle is we've had to decide—I've had to lay off a quarter of my team. | |
| And I was discussing it with one of my colleagues, and we referred to it as survivor's remorse, where we took a pay cut, but we're still there, and our families are still being supported by the people that— We're laid off, and then there's going to be more furloughs. | |
| What is the nature of your work? | |
| I missed that word because of the muffled sound. | |
| What is your work? | |
| It's in the apparel industry. | |
| Oh, the apparel industry. | |
| Okay. | |
| It's horrible. | |
| Mark, it's horrible. | |
| The first thing that one has to do in life, Whether the subject is happiness or anything else, is acknowledge life. | |
| This is a terrible, terrible thing. | |
| And you are in the midst of a terrible thing. | |