Dennis Prager Show - Dinesh: Making the Best of Your Situation
Aired: 2021-02-18
Duration: 03:17


=== Making History Interesting (02:56) ===

[00:00:00]  Because you make everything interesting.
[00:00:02]  So, by the way, I had a silver lining in productivity because I also have not been on the road almost at all, albeit periodically, maybe once every two months, but nothing to speak of.
[00:00:13]  And I was able, therefore, to finish my next volume of my Bible commentary, Deuteronomy, which turned out to be the toughest of all the books.
[00:00:22]  And so it's a good thing if you could make something out of a bad situation.
[00:00:30]  Absolutely.
[00:00:30]  I've tried to do that.
[00:00:31]  I mean, I tried to do that with my case with the Obama administration, which is to say, you know, I found myself parachuted into a sort of world that I would never otherwise have set foot in.
[00:00:42]  And I looked around and said, you know what?
[00:00:44]  Let me think of myself as being in Papua New Guinea.
[00:00:47]  There are some very interesting human specimens walking around.
[00:00:50]  Let me try to understand who these people are, how they function, how they think.
[00:00:54]  And weirdly, at the end of it, I was able to link the kind of gang mentality, you might say, in confinement centers with the mentality of the Democratic Party.
[00:01:03]  Some may call that a leap, but for me it was a logical inference.
[00:01:07]  No, we're in many ways kindred spirits.
[00:01:10]  I did this when I was single.
[00:01:12]  I did this with regard to boring dates.
[00:01:15]  Because I'm easily bored.
[00:01:17]  So if I was on a date with someone who I found boring, I decided I would study boring people.
[00:01:27]  And boring dates became unbelievably interesting.
[00:01:31]  And there's no cuteness here.
[00:01:33]  I wanted to understand, why would I find somebody boring?
[00:01:37]  And I came up with great reasons, which I've applied to human life.
[00:01:44]  So I agree with you.
[00:01:46]  You make something constructive if you have no choice.
[00:01:52]  Absolutely.
[00:01:53]  I also think one of the things that we can learn from, Dennis, and this is true, by the way, in literature, but it's also true in life, we can learn a great deal from silence.
[00:02:02]  You know, when Abraham Lincoln was elected in November of 1860, he didn't take office until March.
[00:02:08]  In those days, you assumed office four months later.
[00:02:11]  And this was sometimes called the Great Secession Winter.
[00:02:15]  Lincoln made almost no public statements for four months.
[00:02:18]  And it's very interesting to think why, because there was a huge debate raging in the country about secession.
[00:02:24]  Lincoln said a few things, but by and large it was private notes and letters.
[00:02:29]  This public silence of Lincoln, you could almost write a whole thesis on it.
[00:02:33]  Why did the man say nothing?
[00:02:34]  Trump is relatively silent right now.
[00:02:37]  And everyone's like, well, Trump's been silenced on social media.
[00:02:40]  But by and large, Trump has been quite reticent now for several weeks.

=== Available Everywhere? (00:36) ===

[00:02:44]  Just a few short statements here and there.
[00:02:46]  Recently, I think he made a few more statements a couple of days ago.
[00:02:50]  But interpreting the silence can also be very illuminating.
[00:02:54]  We'll hear about that in a moment.
[00:02:57]  As always, a delight to speak to Dinesh D'Souza, who now does a daily podcast through the Salem Radio Network.
[00:03:06]  And available everywhere, basically.
[00:03:09]  As is Relief Factor.
[00:03:11]  Actually, it's not available everywhere.
[00:03:12]  Relief Factor is only available at relieffactor.com.
[00:03:15]  800-500-8384.