Oct. 31, 2024 - Dennis Prager Show
03:05
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| Before you were born, well before the self-esteem movement was created, I think it was in the 1970s, in California, naturally. | |
| Yeah, shocking. | |
| I even remember who did it. | |
| For some reason, I can't forget his name. | |
| He was a California state senator. | |
| He has since passed away. | |
| John Vasconcelos. | |
| This will fascinate you. | |
| Because most people don't know the origins of the self-esteem movement. | |
| It started in California. | |
| The state of California gave a certain amount of money to explore the self-esteem roots of crime, which sounds great, but as soon as it happened, I knew it was stupid. | |
| What they really were saying is, Poverty causes crime. | |
| Racism causes crime. | |
| And now they were adding a third one. | |
| Low self-esteem causes crime. | |
| By the way, poverty is a lie. | |
| Racism is a lie. | |
| Not that poverty doesn't exist. | |
| It's a lie that causes crime. | |
| And low self-esteem. | |
| Roy Baumeister, one of the greatest criminologists in American life. | |
| Professor of criminology. | |
| Psychologist. | |
| He spent his life with criminals. | |
| I mean, murderers. | |
| Right. | |
| He said to me on my show, Dennis, the people with the highest self-esteem I have ever counseled are murderers. | |
| So related is the high self-esteem. | |
| So you and I have high self-esteem. | |
| It's obvious from what you said. | |
| But there's a very big difference. | |
| Our self-esteem is morally rooted. | |
| I like Dennis when he does good. | |
| I don't like Dennis when he doesn't do good. | |
| I would feel so holly. | |
| That's the point. | |
| I would feel like a cheat. | |
| So your self-esteem would go lower if you cheated to get a disability note. | |
| Yes. | |
| Vast numbers of people, it would not work that way. | |
| If I can get a doctor's note to get on Southwest faster, to have more time taking an LSAT, then damn it, I'm going to get that note. | |
| And their self-esteem does not sink. | |
| Yes, yes, it's an excellent point. | |
| Self-esteem, oh, it's everything. | |
| If self-esteem is rooted in the moral, in other words, I have to earn my own self-esteem. | |
| You know earn is one of my two favorite verbs. | |
| So I have to earn. | |
| That's how I feel. | |
| By the way, I believe I have to earn God's esteem. | |
| Well, that's another thing that I thought of. | |
| What would God think of me? |
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