May 20, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
08:32
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| Most of the time on my program, I offer my thoughts and people react positively, negatively, just inquiring. | |
| But a fair amount of time, I mean the minority, but a fair amount of time, nevertheless, I ask you because I learn a lot. | |
| The collective wisdom of the audience is much greater than my own. | |
| Collective wisdom is a very wonderful phrase. | |
| So here's the question. | |
| Do you believe that the quarantine, unprecedented, I think, in history of all people, virtually all people, do you think that the quarantine will increase, decrease, or have no impact on people's desire to marry? | |
| 1-8 Prager 776. Especially young people. | |
| So let's say a 30-year-old, 25, 30, 35-year-old single man, single woman. | |
| Especially if you fall into that category of single under 40, let's say. | |
| I'd love to hear from you. | |
| You'll be doing a service to humanity. | |
| How often can you do a service to humanity, right? | |
| That's a big deal. | |
| So has this, you're a single person, now obviously you'll be single in 80 and I'm interested there too, but I'm particularly interested in how the never married react to this. | |
| Does it make you think, you know, when all is said and done, I'd really rather have somebody in my life on a permanent basis Some really fully stable relationship than what I have now. | |
| Or does a person say maybe they're with a significant other and things aren't going great and they're thinking, whoa, glad I had this test because I do not want to be with him or her the rest of my life or for that matter another year. | |
| Whichever comes first. | |
| That was just dark humor. | |
| Don't worry about it. | |
| It's like when people say to me, when I give my credit card on the phone, expiration date, I have a cute line. | |
| Every so often I will say, mine or the card's? | |
| Sometimes they laugh. | |
| Sometimes they go, the card. | |
| They don't find it as funny as I do. | |
| So what do you think the effect will be? | |
| Upon marriage, of the quarantining? | |
| I don't know the answer. | |
| Look, I have always believed that it is better to have a permanent person in your life. | |
| I've been divorced, but one has nothing to do with the other. | |
| I still obviously believe that that's the ideal. | |
| It's like saying, I think the ideal is to drive a car, but I've had bad crashes. | |
| Or a bad crash. | |
| I've never understood the idea that divorce made you, or your parents' divorce convinced you not to marry. | |
| I always say, if your parents had a terrible car crash, would it convince you not to drive? | |
| Anyway... | |
| That's the question here. | |
| Do you think it will lead to one or the other? | |
| Just as I'm thinking now, I don't need to pursue this, but I'm also wondering if it has had any effect on people's desire or lack of desire for children. | |
| I don't think that that's as big an issue at this time as, do I want someone permanently in my life? | |
| There are a lot of interesting questions that this whole thing has raised. | |
| Now that there have been months of forced domestication of the two parents, has that affected their view of the question, especially for women, whether you think it's fair or not, it just is, and that is work versus work out of home. | |
| Versus more toward a full-time mother and wife and taking care of a home. | |
| I wonder if that's affected any women. | |
| You know, I see the difference being with my kids. | |
| And the truth is, going to work is not quite as satisfying. | |
| I mean, that might be. | |
| That's not my overriding question because it's the male-female hour, but I would be interested to know the effect of this on mothers in particular. | |
| It's got to have had an effect. | |
| I mean, it's impossible not to have had an effect. | |
| The effect might be to reinforce what you're doing, but it's not possible. | |
| There is no woman whose full-time job out of the house, who has little kids in the home, Who has not thought about this question at this time? | |
| It's affected her decision, but it's not possible that she hasn't thought about it. | |
| But my bigger question is, what will it, or not bigger, rather the question that is germane to the male-female hour is, will it increase people's desire to marry? | |
| Or the opposite. | |
| It might tell people, wow, this is what it's like full-time with the person? | |
| Not for me, thank you. | |
| Or have no effect. | |
| So that's the question on the table. | |
| And let's go to Kyle in Cleveland. | |
| This is the famous Kyle of Cleveland. | |
| Hi. | |
| Hi, Dennis. | |
| I'm kind of amazed I got on again. | |
| I was on a couple weeks ago. | |
| I think it will definitely increase people's desire to be married because it's one of the most stable, consistent institutions historically, and we're in a time of great instability. | |
| Terminal, right. | |
| But the question is, you're 24, correct? | |
| Yes. | |
| Right. | |
| By the way, I remember that as my happiest birthday. | |
| For whatever reason, 24 sticks in my mind. | |
| Anyway, I assume, but tell me if I'm wrong, obviously, that you felt this way before the lockdown. | |
| You know what? | |
| When I was a lot younger, I always saw myself getting married, and then for whatever reason, as I grew older into my older teens and early 20s and stuff, it sort of ebbed away as... | |
| Oh, so it has had an impact. | |
| It has. | |
| Oh, that's very interesting. | |
| Have you discussed this with any of your peers? | |
| No, I'm not a super social person, and so I don't really discuss much with my peers. | |
| Why not? | |
| I don't know. | |
| Well, I'm... | |
| I'm conservative and Christian and stuff, and so I don't express a lot of my personal opinions among my peers. | |
| Oh, I see. | |
| For fear of the reaction. | |
| Yeah, yeah. | |
| Yeah, that's the age we live in. | |
| Isn't that amazing? | |
| I'm conservative and Christian. | |
| I'm 24, so I'm glad I asked him why. | |
| So it's not his temperament. |
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