| Time | Text |
|---|---|
|
Moral Obligation to Act Happy
00:03:03
|
|
| I'm Dennis Prager, and I'm telling you, the happy make the world better. | |
| You have a moral obligation to act happy even if you don't feel it. | |
| You cannot impose your bad moods on others any more than you impose your bad breath on others. | |
| You wash away your bad body odor, you should wash away your bad mood. | |
| There are those who are incapable of doing so, just as there are people who even when they shower, they still have sad odors. | |
| They can't help it, just there are people who have physiological, chemical, brain... | |
| Defects that cause them an inability to act non-depressed. | |
| My heart goes out to them. | |
| It does. | |
| I know a family plagued by a family of wonderful grown kids and one who has a brain issue, probably schizophrenic. | |
| You know, I'd like to talk to Dr. Marmer, maybe even just a call on the air, our in-house psychiatrist. | |
| One of the reasons I am told that... | |
| What is the mental illness that I just described? | |
| Schizophrenia, yeah. | |
| One of the reasons that schizophrenics kept thinking psychotics. | |
| I knew there wasn't a word. | |
| Schizophrenics don't take their meds is the way it makes them feel. | |
| Is there massive research being done? | |
| You know, Bill Gates should consider giving money there rather than to math is racist programs in Oregon. | |
| Yes. | |
| All right. | |
| Happiness hour subject. | |
| Are you ready, ladies and gentlemen? | |
| If you're driving, two hands on your steering wheel. | |
| Actually, it doesn't need a big build-up. | |
| It's a theme I haven't discussed in years, and I have more thoughts on it. | |
| If you think you're a victim, you can't be happy. | |
| There you go. | |
| I let the cat out of the bag. | |
| By the way, how do you explain that? | |
| What does it mean to let the cat out of the bag? | |
| Do either of you understand that? | |
| I mean, I know what it means to reveal something, right? | |
| But why is it letting a cat out of a bag? | |
| No, no, okay. | |
| I really need him. | |
| God, you don't know what goes on in my earphones. | |
|
Why You Can't Be Happy
00:06:35
|
|
| It asks the question, okay, it begs the question, why was the cat in the bag in the first place? | |
| No, it doesn't. | |
| It takes a McConnell-esque mind to come up with that response. | |
| All right. | |
| All right. | |
| Okay, fine. | |
| You sure you don't need the men's room? | |
| I mean, you can take a break. | |
| You'll be back by the break. | |
| So anyway, it's an interesting... | |
| I like analyzing these things, like let a cat out of a bag. | |
| What about a dog out of a bag? | |
| Who puts cats... | |
| All right, be that as it may, I told you what the bottom line is. | |
| If you think you're a victim, you can't be happy. | |
| Did you see the woman, what was it, at Smith College, that black woman who claimed that when they asked her why she was in a certain room, Tucker Carlson played the video. | |
| This woman... | |
| At Smith College, what is it, $65,000 a year? | |
| And she sees herself as a victim. | |
| She went to a classy boarding school. | |
| She's at a $65,000 a year school. | |
| She probably has a room that is better looking and equipped than, you know, at some... | |
| Resort hotel room. | |
| And somebody said, why are you in the room? | |
| It's recorded unbelievably cheerfully and nicely because nobody should have been in that room at the college at the time. | |
| And their lives have been ruined. | |
| These people's lives are ruined. | |
| The woman, I raise her... | |
| And I will talk about the issue next week, but I'm raising her in the context of the Happiness Hour because she burst out into tears. | |
| Because she was asked, why are you in this room? | |
| On camera, in tears, victim of racism. | |
| She said that. | |
| I'm a victim of racism. | |
| Shows you how little racism there is. | |
| That's my proof. | |
| My proof that how little racism there was in America is that virtually every case of racism is either a hoax or trivial. | |
| This goes into the non-existent. | |
| This is the third category. | |
| She's not deliberately saying to be a hoax like Jussie Smollett. | |
| This woman can't be happy. | |
| There's no chance. | |
| She has no chance at happiness. | |
| And she will bring misery to her world and to her intimate world and to the larger society because of this profound unhappiness and anger. | |
| Victimhood produces horrible... | |
| It produces the worst thing of all, ingratitude. | |
| Right? | |
| You can't be a grateful victim. | |
| Is there such a thing as a grateful victim? | |
| No. | |
| And people have it no matter what. | |
| I mean, it's putting the racism issue aside. | |
| People think they're victims. | |
| I'll give you an example, because life consists of examples. | |
| How many of you, at some point in your professional life, were told by somebody, That they would help you. | |
| Right? | |
| They were in a higher position in your field, and they, oh, I'm going to help you. | |
| And they didn't. | |
| Let me tell you how often that has happened to me. | |
| The batting average of those who said they would help me rise is approximately 006. And I, in the very beginning, when the person didn't come through, I felt a drop victimized. | |
| And then over the course of life, I expected nothing. | |
| And by the way, the people who don't come through when they say, oh yeah, I'll help you, are not bad people. | |
| They forget about you, or they really can't do it, or it takes too much time, and that's human. | |
| Okay? | |
| My book on happiness, it's funny, the longer the period of time between when I wrote it and when I'm speaking, the more I realize it's a really good book. | |
| I know it's funny to say, but I do. | |
| I realize that happiness is a serious problem is the name of the book. | |
| And there's a chapter on not having expectations. | |
| There's a perfect example. | |
| When you have high expectations and they're not fulfilled, not only will you become ungrateful or bitter, but you will think you're a victim of life, of somebody failing you, or so on. | |
| Don't have high expectations. | |
| You live a life of permanent gratitude. | |
| Victim. | |
| Oh, God, it's the worst. | |
| I have to say, because I talk about myself so you'll hear the human, not just the talk show host. | |
| That is one thing I... I dreaded. | |
| I dreaded thinking of myself as a victim or being regarded by others as a victim. | |
| Even when I was. | |
| And everybody is a victim at some point. | |
| Everybody. | |
| That's the topic on the Happiness Hour this Friday. | |
| Do you know anybody in a perpetual state of victimhood? | |
| Were you? | |
| Are you? | |