March 21, 2018 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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| Allow me to tell you the classic children's tale of Chicken Little, otherwise known as Henny Penny, | ||
| a story about a young girl named Henny Penny. | ||
| As the tale goes, little Henny was outside one day when an acorn fell from a tree and hit her on the head. | ||
| Because of her naivete and simple mindedness, Henny foolishly began to believe that the sky itself was falling down around her. | ||
| She spent the rest of the day trying to convince others, like Goosey Loosey and Turkey Lurkey, that the sky was most certainly falling and the world was surely coming to an end. | ||
| In most versions of the story, the trip does not end well for Henny and her hysterical friends after they meet the sly Foxy Loxy. | ||
| I don't want to give everything away though, so either read the story for yourself, or check out the classic Season 6 episode of the Golden Girls, in which they reenact the tale. | ||
| I mention Henny and Lucy and Turkey and Foxy not just because they're great names to say, but because it seems that just about everyone is telling us the sky is falling these days. | ||
| Between Trump, Russia and North Korea, we've got about half the country that's in total freak out mode. | ||
| Every day this freak out takes on a new urgency. | ||
| One day the world is ending because America left the Paris Climate Accord, another day it's because of the net neutrality reversal, and another day it's because Trump holds his water glass with two hands. | ||
| This endless hysteria is not only being amplified by the media, but it's actually being poked and prodded by them as well. | ||
| Blue check verified journalists on Twitter who work for news organizations, which really are nothing more than partisan activist outlets, want to keep you clicking on their articles and videos, and they know that the best way to do that is to convince you that not only is the sky falling, but it's going to land directly on your head. | ||
| What if, and just hear me out on this one, this outrage factory is completely wrong and the world isn't coming to an end just yet? | ||
| Crazy, I know. | ||
| But I think that it actually might be true. | ||
| This doesn't mean that things are perfect, but they are pretty damn good. | ||
| This is the position of my guest this week, Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker. | ||
| Pinker argues despite our world of perceived horror and chaos, people are living longer, happier, healthier and freer lives right now more than any other time in human history. | ||
| This doesn't mean we don't have work to do, but if we don't stop and smell the roses, we might toss away all the goodness humans have created for the prospect of a utopia that will never appear. | ||
| This is why I'm so proud of the work we've done here on the Rubin Report. | ||
| I truly believe that the conversations we're having are at least some part of the antidote to the craziness right now. | ||
| If those of us who care about enlightenment principles like science, reason, and natural rights can make our voices louder, then this cliff we seem to be about to go off of might just turn into a bridge to a better world. | ||
| Henny Penny's story took a drastic turn when she met Foxy Loxy, who tricked her and her friends to go to his lair. | ||
| Well, in real life, we've got a wolf blitzer in a situation room. |
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