April 27, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
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| Eric Metaxas' latest book, by the way, is terrific. | |
| It's Seven More Men. | |
| It's so important to read about great figures, my friends. | |
| And, you know, it's so clear to me. | |
| Every age, it's just a repeat. | |
| A handful of people stand out for courage, and most people follow the herd. | |
| It is the situation on Earth at this time. | |
| Let me ask you, I don't know if I talked to you about this, Italy. | |
| So, what is your take? | |
| I mean, you're in the middle of New York. | |
| You're at the new term, epicenter. | |
| Do you agree? | |
| With people like me and Victor Davis Hanson and Heather McDonald, who also lives in New York, that a lot of places should not be on lockdown? | |
| Of course I do. | |
| Look, it's ridiculous on a number of levels. | |
| It's ridiculous just because it's flat-out stupid, stupid. | |
| It's just dumb. | |
| You're not saving lives. | |
| You're not doing anything. | |
| You're not doing anything except harming the economy, number one. | |
| Number two, it's either unconstitutional or troublingly possibly unconstitutional. | |
| You have to educate the people about what you can educate them on. | |
| But at some point, we are free. | |
| If I want to jump in front of a bus and kill myself, there might be laws against it. | |
| But the point is, people are going to do what they want to do. | |
| You cannot force people not to run out in traffic. | |
| And I think that if people have enough information, most people are going to make the right I mean, this is a classic case, | |
| and I really do think that... | |
| It's a moment in our history where we're going to look back at how we dealt with this. | |
| I think it was brilliant of the president to throw it in the governor's Eric, | |
| I called it today the greatest Human error in human history. | |
| Obviously, there have been greater evils. | |
| The bombing of Pearl Harbor. | |
| Gulag. | |
| I'm not talking about evil. | |
| I'm just talking about error. | |
| Right. | |
| This is the greatest international error in human history, in my opinion. | |
| I think you're probably right, because there's nothing that has been global. | |
| And there's nothing where everybody has fallen in line. | |
| We haven't had the situation set up where this was even possible. | |
| You know, we didn't have the global culture. | |
| Now, do you agree? | |
| I had on my radio program last week Diana West who said she felt Trump was tricked into this. | |
| He wasn't tricked. | |
| He was, for the first time in his presidency, intimidated. | |
| Because if he didn't go lockdown in the beginning, which he clearly was opposed to, every death in America would have been ascribed to Donald Trump. | |
| Every single one. | |
| Right. | |
| Look, to give you an idea, I use the example, Eric, of India. | |
| 1 billion, 100 million people, 800 deaths. | |
| Why are they on lockdown when far more people are going to starve to death in India than will die from the coronavirus as a result of the lockdown? | |
| I mean, more people will starve in a week in India. | |
| That's unbelievable. | |
| So, the world seems to be governed by media. | |
| I don't know what else to say. | |
| Now we're getting to the big issue, Dennis. | |
| This is why you and I do what we do, because... | |
| We didn't used to be here. | |
| My theory, I've talked about this for decades, is that the rise of the media culture has been over the last five, six decades. | |
| In other words, values were transmitted mostly locally around the world, including in the U.S. But something happened with the rise of the media culture. | |
| Okay, hold it there. | |
| That's really important. | |
| I love that point. | |
| From local transmission. |
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