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4th of July -- What's to Celebrate? | Yaron Brook Show · Yaron Brook Show

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  Speaker 1: A lot of the fundamental principles of the widow Latte
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  Speaker 1: and an individual lots h.
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  Speaker 2: This is.
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  Speaker 3: Oh right, everybody, Welcome to your one book show.
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  Speaker 1: On this fourth of July Saturday. It's July fourth. Happy
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  Speaker 1: Happy Independence Day. Although we'll talk about independence and what
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  Speaker 1: that means in a minute, but Happy Independence Day. This
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  Speaker 1: is my, I guess, my favorite holiday. Together with Thanksgiving,
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  Speaker 1: there is a sense of which fourth of July even
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  Speaker 1: more so, there is I think still a lot to
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  Speaker 1: celebrate and and that's what we're going to be talking about.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to be talking about what is there to
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  Speaker 1: celebrate and what what should we be celebrating in How
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  Speaker 1: do we celebrate when the world is so upside down
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  Speaker 1: as it is today? In many respects America today is
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  Speaker 1: you know, at the worst it's ever been. Maybe, but
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  Speaker 1: you could consider it. On the other hand, we don't
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  Speaker 1: have slavery, that's good. We don't have gym crow laws,
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  Speaker 1: that's good. We don't have you know, we're not putting
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  Speaker 1: gage in jail or discriminating against them. Your sexual orientation
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  Speaker 1: is your business, that's good. Women women are you know,
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  Speaker 1: women can own property and engage in contracts and and
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  Speaker 1: are treated as equal citizens. So you know, there's sudden
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  Speaker 1: realms in which there is a lot to celebrate their being,
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  Speaker 1: periods in which there's a sense in which, at last,
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  Speaker 1: for many people of July was a lot darker, where
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  Speaker 1: America had not lived up to its ideals. It's also
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  Speaker 1: true right now that you know, if you watch for
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  Speaker 1: July speeches out there, God, it's hard to recognize America.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw mcdonney's speech. If you're
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  Speaker 1: going to see Trump's speech tonight, I think he's going
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  Speaker 1: to make the case for adding himself. You know, to
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  Speaker 1: to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. They're on Mount Rushmore.
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  Speaker 1: He is at Mount Rushmore and he's giving a speech
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  Speaker 1: from there. The world of Donald Trump is a world
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  Speaker 1: in which it's tough to celebrate. It's tough to celebrate
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  Speaker 1: America and America that voted for Donald Trump. It's particularly
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  Speaker 1: tough as an immigrant to celebrate a country that is
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  Speaker 1: so so, so hostile to immigrants, a country that I
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  Speaker 1: view as is really a country of immigrants and and
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  Speaker 1: te largess and for immigrants is it's it's tough. It's
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  Speaker 1: it's tough. So America is in a dark place right now.
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  Speaker 1: Whether it's the darkest or not, I mean, yeah, we'll
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  Speaker 1: leave that to historians. But it's in a dark place
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  Speaker 1: right now. Socialism is on the rise, Greepism, whatever the
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  Speaker 1: hell that is, is on the rise.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of bad out there. And indeed, we
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  Speaker 3: have to think.
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  Speaker 1: About what it is we're celebrating, because we're not celebrating
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  Speaker 1: the American state. We're not celebrating America as a country.
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  Speaker 1: And in that sense, I don't think the real celebration
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  Speaker 1: is a celebration.
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  Speaker 3: Of independence from Britain.
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  Speaker 1: We're not celebrating independence from Britain because we're not celebrating
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  Speaker 1: freedom in the in the Brave Heart sense. Remember the
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  Speaker 1: movie Brave Heart where the Scots your freedom as they
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  Speaker 1: go into battle. Yeah, they want the freedom to be
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  Speaker 1: ruled by a Scot rather than to be ruled by
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  Speaker 1: a brit or an Englishman. Sorry, that's not the freedom
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  Speaker 1: was celebrating. That's not what firths of July is all about.
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  Speaker 1: Fuss of July is not about independence from Britain. To
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  Speaker 1: properly celebrate the First of July is to celebrate an idea,
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  Speaker 1: erradical idea, erradical idea in seventeen seventy six, but sadly
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  Speaker 1: erradical idea today in twenty twenty six, two hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty years later. Indeed, in some respects, it's a more
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  Speaker 1: radical idea today than it was in seventeen seventy six,
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  Speaker 1: because seventeen seventy six was a product at the height
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  Speaker 1: of the Enlightenment, the ideas that were proloculating in the
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  Speaker 1: culture of what generated, in a sense, the radical idea.
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  Speaker 3: That gave birth to America and that changed the world.
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  Speaker 1: And what is the idea, What is the fundamental idea
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  Speaker 1: that changed the world, that changed America, That is worth
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  Speaker 1: sealibating and celeibating and celibating, and it shall always be
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  Speaker 1: celebated no matter what happens, particularly in any given time frame,
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  Speaker 1: to this great country. The idea is that the individual,
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  Speaker 1: the individual has a right to his own life. That
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  Speaker 1: is the revolution. This is a revolution of rights. The
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  Speaker 1: government is not the individual's master. He does not exist
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  Speaker 1: for the sake of the state, the king, the church,
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  Speaker 1: that tribe, the nation, the poor, the majority, the bureaucracy,
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  Speaker 1: or the common good. The individual exists for his own sake.
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  Speaker 1: He has a right, in other words, the freedom of action,
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  Speaker 1: a moral, a freedom of action based in morality, to
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  Speaker 1: act based on his own judgment, using his own reason,
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  Speaker 1: in the pursuit of his own values, and ultimately in
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  Speaker 1: the pursuit of his own happiness. And that the role
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  Speaker 1: of government this revolution is that the role of government
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  Speaker 1: is to protect the right of the individual, to protect
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  Speaker 1: his freedom, to protect him from courson, to protect him
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  Speaker 1: from force, to protect him from an authority that would
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  Speaker 1: impose its will on him, to leave him be.
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  Speaker 3: That is the role of government.
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  Speaker 1: So the meaning of the fourth of July is the
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  Speaker 1: sovereignty of the individual, his right his life, liberty, property,
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  Speaker 1: and the pursuit of happiness.
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  Speaker 3: The meaning of the of the fourth of July, of
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  Speaker 3: the of the of this day is.
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  Speaker 1: The declaration of independence and everything that it implies, everything
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  Speaker 1: that it implies, And that.
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  Speaker 3: Is what's celebrating.
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  Speaker 1: No matter what people out there are doing, no matter
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  Speaker 1: what Trump says, no what about Mamdani does. What we
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  Speaker 1: are celebrating is not Trump or Mamdani or anybody else.
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  Speaker 1: What you should be celebrating today, what you should be
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  Speaker 1: eager to celebate, enthusiastic to celibate, is that document and
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  Speaker 1: the fact that that document created is still the greatest
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  Speaker 1: nation in human history, as Einran said, the first and
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  Speaker 1: only moral nation in human history, because it was the
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  Speaker 1: first and only nation founded on a moral principle, the
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  Speaker 1: principle that your life is yours and you have a right,
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  Speaker 1: the freedom to live it as you see fit. Now,
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  Speaker 1: from the beginning, from the very beginning, America didn't live
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  Speaker 1: up to that. Some Americans, some individuals, didn't have the
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  Speaker 1: right to their own life see slavery. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: women didn't have full rights. And there are all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of interventions in the economy even back then, even early on.
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  Speaker 1: But by declaring it, by putting it into a political document,
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  Speaker 1: by building a nation around these principles, they said to
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  Speaker 1: the world. They said to the world, these are the
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  Speaker 1: right principles. This is what government has created for check
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  Speaker 1: the individual. And they set in motion a liberation and
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  Speaker 1: freedom all across the globe and including in America itself.
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  Speaker 1: They set in motion the eradication of slavery and ultimately
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  Speaker 1: the eradication of laws that institutionalize racism. They set in
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  Speaker 1: motion the liberation of groups. Now granted, in the one realm,
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  Speaker 1: the realm of economics, things have gotten worse not better.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, civilization is a process. There's a sense
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  Speaker 1: in which America is a process. It's a process that
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  Speaker 1: hopefully leads to progress, not just progress materially, not just wealth,
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  Speaker 1: but progress spiritually, intellectually, ideologically, and the funding Fathers set
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  Speaker 1: in motion something that at the end of the day
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  Speaker 1: cannot be fully reversed. Yes, America might fail, but those
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  Speaker 1: ideas are going nowhere. Those ideas will be the foundation
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  Speaker 1: of freedom in the future if freedom disappears from our world.
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  Speaker 1: For the first time in human history, a country was
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  Speaker 1: founded explicitly, explicitly in a document on the principle of
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  Speaker 1: political power must be subordinate to individual rights. That's the revolution,
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  Speaker 1: that's the achievement. That's what we celebrate today. So it's
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  Speaker 1: not perfection. It's not we're looking for perfection back in
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  Speaker 1: seventeen seventy six. It's not that we're looking for perfection
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  Speaker 1: in the world out there today, although it would be
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  Speaker 1: great if we have it. It's a recognition that for
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  Speaker 1: the first time in history, we have a political document
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  Speaker 1: that sets out an ideal, It sets out a standard,
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  Speaker 1: It sets out a moral and political measuring rod.
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  Speaker 3: A standard by which you can manage how we're doing.
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  Speaker 1: It says, this is what society should be like, this
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  Speaker 1: is what government is for, this is the principle by
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  Speaker 1: which people within a nation should be judged or nations
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  Speaker 1: should be judged. And by doing so again, they changed
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  Speaker 1: the world and they created this amazing country that we
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  Speaker 1: live in today. And you know, the reality is that
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  Speaker 1: the reality is that America has done an amazing job
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  Speaker 1: with this document ritten two hundred and fifty years ago.
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  Speaker 3: This country has thrived.
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  Speaker 1: People in this country have th right for the most part,
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  Speaker 1: not everybody, but the opportunities have been there. The opportunities
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  Speaker 1: for success, the opportunities for achievement.
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  Speaker 3: Are there. It's still a country where.
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  Speaker 1: If you're willing and able to take advantage of the opportunities,
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  Speaker 1: the outdare, if you're willing to do the thinking and
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  Speaker 1: the work, then you know, the sky's limiting tons of
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  Speaker 1: well as possible. So you know, the Declaration Independence again
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  Speaker 1: the most important document, again political document in human history.
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  Speaker 1: And you know it's a document that Frederick Douglas appeals
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  Speaker 1: to when he's fighting for abolition of slavery. It's a
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  Speaker 1: document that Lincoln would appeal to. Constantly, take your ideals seriously,
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  Speaker 1: take the principles that set this country in motion seriously.
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  Speaker 1: That's and the document is there for us to measure
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  Speaker 1: a performance against. It's sad how few people actually read
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  Speaker 1: the document, how few people truly understand the document. One
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  Speaker 1: of the great tragedies intellectual strategies is that we have
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  Speaker 1: a worse understanding today culturally of the concept of individual
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  Speaker 1: rights than the founders did. We have not advanced at
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  Speaker 1: all in our understanding in the last two hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty years, except for, of course Iman. The tragedy is
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  Speaker 1: she is not being taken seriously enough. Her views on
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  Speaker 1: individual rights are not known, popular, common as they should be.
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  Speaker 1: She is the ultimate defender of America. She has completed,
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  Speaker 1: in a sense, the revolution that the Founders started. She
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  Speaker 1: completed it philosophically, intellectually, setting the philosophical and intellectual foundations
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  Speaker 1: for the Declaration of Independence. And the tragedy is that
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  Speaker 1: today we don't understand what rights are, but we here do.
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  Speaker 3: And then for us this is a grand celebration.
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  Speaker 1: We understand exactly what the document means, exactly what it.
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  Speaker 3: Says I mean.
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  Speaker 1: Think about obviously, the key sense tents in the declaration.
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  Speaker 3: Starts with the idea that all men are created equal.
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  Speaker 1: Founders understood that that didn't mean that they were created
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  Speaker 1: equal in a sense of equal in in opportunities, as
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  Speaker 1: conservatives try to twist it.
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  Speaker 3: Opportunities are just outcomes.
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  Speaker 1: And certainly they didn't pretend that people were equal in outcome,
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  Speaker 1: in character, in moral, in morality, in you know, people,
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  Speaker 1: individuals are not equal.
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  Speaker 3: They're different. They're different because we're born different.
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  Speaker 1: They're different because we're raised differently, and we're different because
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  Speaker 1: we choose differently.
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  Speaker 3: We're all different.
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  Speaker 1: And then for the idea of out you know, quality
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  Speaker 1: of outcome should be bizarre to everybody, all human. You
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  Speaker 1: should look at that. I mean, it's this weird ideal
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  Speaker 1: that the egalitarians have, but it's very strange if you
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  Speaker 1: think about it. I mean, I didn't do the same thing,
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  Speaker 1: Why should I have the same outcome? And the conservatives
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  Speaker 1: who are whims, I mean unbelievable world class whims, who
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  Speaker 1: can't just say, no, equality of outcome is wrong, it's
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  Speaker 1: indeed evil, it's unjust because people do different things, why
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  Speaker 1: should I have the same outcome? They can't challenge the
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  Speaker 1: egalitarians and philosophical grounds because they both base all their
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  Speaker 1: claims and altruism. The conservatives then jump to equality of opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: But opportunity is just a it's just an outcome, and
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  Speaker 1: what does it even mean. I know, I worked really,
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  Speaker 1: really hard to give my kids as much opportunity as
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  Speaker 1: I could, to maximize their opportunities, whether they took advantage
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  Speaker 1: of them or not, My job as a parent was
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  Speaker 1: to try to maximize the opportunity. The parents do the same.
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  Speaker 1: Some did, some didn't, So those who did should be
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  Speaker 1: I mean, those who did should be sacrificed to those
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  Speaker 1: who didn't, Because how do you equate opportunities? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: how much can you boost those who don't have opportunities?
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  Speaker 3: All you can do is handcuff those who do.
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  Speaker 1: The Founders were talking about equality, non in terms of opportunities,
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  Speaker 1: non in terms of outcomes. The Founders were talking about
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  Speaker 1: opportunities in terms of rights, in terms of liberty and freedom.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, think about the time seventeen seventy six. In Europe,
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  Speaker 1: people are unequal. Put aside the issue of slavery, even
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  Speaker 1: non slaves unequal. There are aristocrats who have base lived
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  Speaker 1: by a different set of laws and have different freedoms
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  Speaker 1: then common folk, poor people. The law is rigged in
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  Speaker 1: favor of the aristocrats. There is no equality when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to freedom, when it comes to liberty, when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to rights, different sets of laws. Basically, I mean
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  Speaker 1: a lot of places pretended like it was equal. I
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  Speaker 1: think Great Britain did the most pretending, but it wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: There is theocrats had a leg up. They were better
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  Speaker 1: than everybody else and the law, in one sense or another,
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  Speaker 1: in certainly in practice, recognize that what the founders were
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  Speaker 1: saying is we're doing something completely new. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: treat every individual as an individual. We're gonna treat every
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  Speaker 1: visual as having the same rights and as a consequence,
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  Speaker 1: therefore equal before the law. There are no true sets
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  Speaker 1: of laws, there's only one. There are two sets of rights.
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  Speaker 1: There's only one. So declaration declares the no aristocrats, they're
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  Speaker 1: no classes when it comes to when it comes to rights,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's a complete rejection of the way humanity had
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  Speaker 1: been organized almost forever, with a few exceptions here and there.
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  Speaker 1: So all men are created equal, equal in rights, in
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  Speaker 1: unalienable rights, rights that cannot be taken away, not by majorities,
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  Speaker 1: not by a king, no, not by anybody. Nobody can
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  Speaker 1: take them away the rights to life, liberty, and the
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  Speaker 1: pursuit of happiness. And that means that means what they're
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  Speaker 1: really saying is your life's yours, Your liberty is yours,
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  Speaker 1: Your pursuit of happiness is yours, yours. It's it's an
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  Speaker 1: individual and men create governments to protect those freedoms. It
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  Speaker 1: means you don't have to ask a permission. And what
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  Speaker 1: profession are you going to pursue, who you're going to marry,
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  Speaker 1: what job, what career you're going to have, what business
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  Speaker 1: you're going to start, what invention you're going to invent,
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  Speaker 1: where you're going to live. In England, you needed permission
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  Speaker 1: to leave your village or to move around. No more
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  Speaker 1: much of Europe that was the case, No more, no permission.
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  Speaker 1: You don't need permission to build, you don't need permission
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  Speaker 1: to imploy, you don't need permission to develop, you don't
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  Speaker 1: need persission to create, to move.
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  Speaker 3: You are free, free.
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  Speaker 1: Of causion, free of cosion from the state, and the
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  Speaker 1: state is there to protect you from quosion from other individuals.
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  Speaker 3: So that is the ideal, that is the ideal right
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  Speaker 3: to life.
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  Speaker 1: Your life is yours, to live as you see fit.
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  Speaker 1: Notice that you know this is this means that the state,
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  Speaker 1: your neighbor have no business in, you know, regulating your business,
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  Speaker 1: in deciding what's acceptable and what's not acceptable in terms
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  Speaker 1: of what you say, what you build, what you create,
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  Speaker 1: how you use your land. I mean unless in any
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  Speaker 1: one of those things you are violating somebody's rights. In
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  Speaker 1: other words, you're using force against them. Force is manned.
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  Speaker 1: That's what rights mean. That abolition of force as a
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  Speaker 1: way to engage with one another, except in retaliation. So
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  Speaker 1: initiation of force is banned. So that's what freedom means.
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  Speaker 1: Do what you want to do. And I mean that
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  Speaker 1: suggests so much on the business fund of force. Start
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  Speaker 1: your business, create, build, make on the personal self. Have
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  Speaker 1: sex with whoever you want as long as it's consensual,
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  Speaker 1: live with whoever you want, get married, don't get married.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody's business. Nobody's business, it's your life. And yeah, some
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  Speaker 1: of the truses you're gonna make. We're gonna be irrational,
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna be stupid, they're gonna be bad, they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: hurt you, they're gonna be self destructive. Yeah, absolutely right.
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  Speaker 1: But that's for you to discover, not for your neighbors.
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  Speaker 1: To dictate to you. They can warn you, but.
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  Speaker 3: They cannot cannot prevent you. So, yeah, you know what
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  Speaker 3: you consume big soda, little soda.
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  Speaker 1: None of the government's business, drugs that give you a
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  Speaker 1: high or give you a low. None of the governments
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  Speaker 1: or your neighbor's business, medicine that is cutting edge and
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  Speaker 1: hasn't been approved. None of your government or neighbors business.
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  Speaker 3: So the right to life is the right to live.
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  Speaker 1: Based again on your own judgment, and that judgment might
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  Speaker 1: be bad sometimes in pursuit of your own values. And look,
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  Speaker 1: the whole point of the the whole point of the
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  Speaker 1: decoration is to protect.
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  Speaker 3: The rational man.
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  Speaker 1: Capitalism is the system that rewards virtue, and the declaration
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  Speaker 1: of rewards virtue.
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  Speaker 3: It leaves you free to be virtuous.
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  Speaker 1: What it doesn't do is give the authorities or your
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  Speaker 1: neighbors the right to decide what virtue constitutes.
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  Speaker 3: That we leave for reality.
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  Speaker 1: You will benefit to the extent that your rational you'll
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  Speaker 1: suffer to the extent that you're irrational. And as long
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  Speaker 1: as you're not violating other people's rights, it's not the
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  Speaker 1: state's job to figure out which is which.
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  Speaker 3: So the right to lie, the right to liberty.
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  Speaker 1: You have a right to say, publish, express yourself in
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  Speaker 1: any way you're like, you cannot commit fraught. Thought is
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  Speaker 1: a form of force. You are physically gaining something material
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  Speaker 1: from somebody else without their permission. It is theft. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, sort of inciting for violence. Again, that is
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  Speaker 1: not speech. That is violence. You are free to say
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  Speaker 1: whatever you want again and not everything you say will
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  Speaker 1: be rational, and everything you say will be good. Not
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  Speaker 1: everything you say it would be valuable. But it's not
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  Speaker 1: the job of government or your neighbor.
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  Speaker 3: To decide. Your neighbor can tune you off, can.
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  Speaker 1: Shut his ears, can walk away, not buy your book,
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  Speaker 1: even burn your book if they want, but.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: They cannot shut you down.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: They cannot shut you down. And you have a right
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: to property. Property is the means because this made it.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: This was in the first draft of the declaration, but
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: not later, and it was unfortunately taken out.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: But it means that what you make, what you earn.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Is yours. It's not anybody else's. It can't just take
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: it from you because it's you made it. You have
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: a right to life. Life means you know, being productive,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: being generating certain income, creating certain products. That life necessitates
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: to deny you the right to that is to deny
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: you your life, literally, to deny you your life. And
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: of course, in the most selfish statement in all of
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: political history, you have a right to pursue your own happiness.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: In other words, the standard that the goal ultimately is
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: your happiness, not the common good, not the public interest,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: not the state, not the king, not the tribe, not God,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: not an empire, an empire, not ancestors, not any collective.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: You your happiness.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, really, it's what makes this document such a revolution.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: It unleashes, in a sense, egoism. It gives more sanction
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: to people pursuing their own self interest at scale, without asking,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: finding permission, and with the knowledge that they could retain
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: there were war that which they, you know, created, the
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: aristocrat can walk in and just take it from you.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: So it's no wonder America became such an industrious place.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: It's no wonder so many people succeeded materially in America
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: really like no other country in the world world. It's
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: no wonder that people came to this country from all
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: over the world to build a life for themselves, and
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: they came mostly with nothing, with nothing but the willingness
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: to work, to think, to produce.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: To create, to take responsibility for their own life.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: They came because it was the land of the free,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: and they're still coming. I mean, I don't think immigration
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: has changed that much. People come to this country still
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: because it's a place to make something of yourself materially.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: And most nineteen tential people who came to America, they
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: didn't have a deep understanding of the ideas of the
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Declaration dependency. They weren't enlightenment philosophers. They came because it
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: was the streets.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: Were paved with gold.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: In other words, they were unbelievable opportunities, and you were
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: free to take advantage of those opportunities. Those opportunities did
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: not exist where they came from, and you were not
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: free to take advantage of them. You need a permission.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Your persiit of happiness was not the standard in Europe.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: In Europe, you were subservient to the king, the God,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: that tribe, the empire. You know all these things. What
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: the Declaration of Independence basically says you as an individual free,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: and what that means in practices. Your mind is unchained.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Your mind, now do with it what you will. And
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: the best people came here, and the best people thrived here.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: And since the mind is the source of all wealth,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: the mind is the source of all production. The mind
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: the source of science and technology and medicine and industry
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: and trade and everything that makes human life better. Human
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: life got better because once that mind was the shackles
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: were taken off of it, the shackles of authority, the
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: shackles of force and coasion.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: The shackles of having to live for others, the shackles
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: of force.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Of having to ask for permission of but think about
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: it as psychologically, the shackles of feeling guilty when you
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: do something interesting and new and exciting. So a different
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: culture was created, a culture that celebrated the mind, not directly,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: maybe didn't recognize it directly, but indirectly by celebrating with
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: the wealth that the mind creates. And again this is
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: the sense of which America is the manifestation of Enlightenment,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: because when America brings is the idea of reason and
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: individualism and political liberty makes them real. Those are the
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: ideas that made the Lightenment, those ideas that make Western
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: civilization Western civilization, and America is in that sense the
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: land of reason. But we don't think of it that way,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: because we think of it as the land of industry
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: and the land of businessmen and the land of wealth creation.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: But what is all of that?
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: All of that, those are products of the human mind.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Businessmen have to figive it out, discover opportunities, figure out
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: how to take advantage of them, stay on top of
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: a market. Inventor higher inventors. They're constantly using their mind.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: They're constantly taking science. Businessmen take science and turn it
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: into products that enhance the value of our lives, that
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: enhance our lives in one way or the other, that
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: we perceive as values. So America becomes the land of reason,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: of science, of individualism from the enlightenment. You know, man
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: knows can no reality. And the result of that is
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: this enormous, enormous explosion of innovation and entrepreneurship and new
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: products and new businesses and whole new industries. I mean
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: to think.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: About the railroads.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it started out in England, but soon America is building,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: not just because of the size of America, but also
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: just because of the scale of the production. Building railroads
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: at scale that could wasn't even imagined anywhere else. Steel, oil,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: it's just the telegraph, telephone, mass production, modern retail remember
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: sees Catalog and wo Worths and all their incredible retailing
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: and refrigeration and we cultural machinery, and of course modern
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: finances fuels all this and behind any every one of
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: those innovations, it is important to note there was a thinker,
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: a man of the mind, and of action. Businessmen combined
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: the mind with action. There was a vanderbilt At, a Carnegie,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: a Rockefeller, a JJ Hill and Edison, a bell a
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: Gustavos Swift, probably neiverhood of Gustavo Swift. There was a
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: butcher who figured out how to for the first time,
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: figured out how to create refrigerated cause before there was electricity,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: before there were batteries, how to create refrigerated cause to
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: ship meat, so you didn't have to ship whole cows.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: You could ship. You could slaughter the cows in one
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: place and ship the meat all over the country. Revolutionized
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: distribution of protein from animals at least and changed the
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: diet of Americans, changed the diet for all Americans. I mean,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: meat was a luxury because it was very, very expensive
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: because you had to ship these cows. And when you
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: shipped the cows the cows lost weight, there was less
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: of a cow to chop up. By centralizing slaughter, he
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: increased the amount of meat and decreased the cost. Anyway,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: you go on just on Swift easily for a couple
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: of hours, on all the things he innovated in the
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: food distribution business, in the really the merchandise business, the
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: stuff that we all buy on a day to day basis,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: A lot of it was a consequence of Gustav Swift's innovation.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: Gustava Swift, and there were hundreds of the thousands of these,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: thousands of these and because of them, transportation became cheaper
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: and still got cheap. And light lighting, lighting which was
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: very expensive because it used whale oil. In seventeen seventy six,
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: to light a place used whale oil, and whale.
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: Oil is very expensive.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: It's very expensive to hunt whales and kill them and
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: get the oil. And there's not a lot of whales
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: and there's not a lot of oil. And so the
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: rich had lights, and most people didn't, you know, a
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: vast majority of people.
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: When the sun went down, that was it.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: And by the time of the twentieth century, early twentieth century,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: we were read to get electricity, flip a switch and light.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's stunning. Food gets safer and more widely available. Cheaper,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: markets get connected, industries get built, Productivity goes up. Life
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: gets better by every material measure. Life gets longer by
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: any measure of life, longevity, richer by any measure of
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: income or wealth, and more secure. It's hard to believe,
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: but less violence. We live in some of the safest
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: time ever.
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: In human history.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: In spite of the news, In spite of what you
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: hear in the news, these men who you know, created,
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: and not just created, created but then figured out how
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: to manufacture at scale. So it's to make these things
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: not luxury goods, but goods that everybody could consume and enjoy.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: You know, the late nineties said you're early twentieth century
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: thought a mobile, the airplane, the radio, the television, air conditioning,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: any biodics, computers. Ultimately into the twenty twenty first semiconductors,
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: the internet, phone, modern medicine, modern logistics, AI.
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: And there's no end to it.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: This is what that document resulted it.
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: This is the product. The iPhone is a product of.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: The Declaration of Independence, of the Declaration of independence of
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: men set free and it's no accident that almost all
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: these innovations are here in America. The rest of the
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: world innovates, but at a far lesser rate, and they
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: innovated at fall lesser right because they are not built
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: around this principle of freedom. So while we regulate and control,
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: we don't do it with quite the same guest stow
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: as the Europeans do. We don't do it as thoroughly as
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: some of these other countries, because you know, it goes
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: against the very foundation of this country.
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: And therefore we leave gaps and holes.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: And businessmen can find those gaps and find those holes
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: and and and loopholes, and and as a consequence, they
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: can end of it.
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: By the way, my might talk at OCONN, which.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: Was about a lot of this and about the protective
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: geniuses of our world is UH is in a in
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: a linking of that to the Declaration independence a lot
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: of what we're talking about today.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: But you might find it interesting to watch.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: It's up on online on YouTube on the aar i
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: Iman Institute UH channel on YouTube. So check it out.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: I think you, I think you'll enjoy it, and and
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: and and and go see it. And even today, look
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: even today as politically dysfunctional as we are, as intellectually
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: dysfunctional as we are, the extent we don't really understand rights.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: We don't really understand and out declaration in our constitution.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: You see that in so many of the quotes you
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: Supreme courts decisions, even when make the right decision, they
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: often make it for a week or wrong reasons. Even now,
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: Even now, and we have this horrible mixed economy with
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: regulations and taxes, and in some industries you do need
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: to ask for permission, we still have breakthroughs. I mean
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: at OCONN, we're from Blake Shoals, who's building Boom hypersonic
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: aircraft New York to London in three to four hours,
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: cutting a flight to Tokyo by half.
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: I mean truly innovation, innovation, true, real innovation.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: New and there's a mountain of regulation against it. And
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: yet he's chipping away at that mountain and getting rid
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: of those regulations and fighting the regulators and getting them reversed.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: And he's going to come to market and we're going
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: to fly hypersonic planes. We are, it's just a matter
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: of time. We'll take uber that faced amounts and of
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: regulations to protect the taxi industry.
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: They chipped away at them.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: They both the law, and they challenged the laws in courts,
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: they challenged the law in public opinion, in the court
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: of public opinion. And today ubers everywhere and it's changed
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: our lives. And you know, you've got the self driving
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: cars the way moos. I mean, they're amazing, they're incredible.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: The amount of innovation and production and pushing ahead. I mean,
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: look at AI in video and SpaceX going to the
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: moon and then to Mars. We have Amazon that has
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: changed the.
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: Way in which we shop.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: We have Apple, which has changed the way we manage
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: our lives. In biotech, we talk a lot about biotech
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: and all the innovations around biotech that has the potential
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: to keep us.
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: Alive for a lot longer than we're living right now.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: And even in energy, there is huge potential if only
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: the shekels would come off, you know, only we didn't
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: have to ask a permission, the innovations infusion and in fission, fission,
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: in nuclear power and fusion nuclear power, and who knows
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: what else? Who knows? I mean, if only we just
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: just leave people alone, if only we've turned to that document,
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: innovation could be even faster. So what should he celebrate
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: the Declaration? We should celebrate the productive geniuses of the
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: last two hundred and fifty years, you know, really, from
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know, from Franklin all the way through the
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: mid nineteenth century into the early twentieth century, the famous
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: industrialists who are called today Robert Barons one of the
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: great injustices of life of the world, you know.
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: All the way to today.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, think about the heroism of the entrepreneurs,
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: the founders of companies in Silicon Valley who know they're
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: going to have to work hard, compete like.
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: Crazy with other companies, and.
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: Deal with bureaucrats and government officials that are going to
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: try to stop them. And yet they keep building, they
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: keep building, they keep pushing forward. The bureaucrats might try
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: to stole them down, regulate them, tax them, and take
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: the credit those entrepreneurs are were celebrating. So if we're
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: going to celebrate the fourth of July, let's celebate people
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: out there still creating and building and making because that's
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: the real that's the real heritage of the Declaration providing
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: us with the freedom to do that. And even when
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: there's not enough freedom to do it fully. These heroes
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: are still doing it. So when you make a toast
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: today to America, make that toast to businessmen as well,
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: to entrepreneurs, the founders, to the engineers, to the to
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: the to the you know, people changing the world in
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: whatever industry it is, whether it's in rockets. There's a
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: huge amount of innovation going on right now in defense
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: defense contracting, which will one day help defend this country
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: again against its enemies in AI, in robotics, and in
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: medicine and biotech and everything else. That's who you should
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: be saluting, the founders and everybody who's lived up to
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: those founders, and those of you who don't live in
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: the United States. I mean, the Firths of July should
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: be a global holiday. Every country in the world is
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: better because of America. America changed the world, not because
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: of military power, because of I don't know, economic power
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: or anything like that. Changed the world because it provided
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: these amazing ideas, the ideas of individual liberty, which different
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: countries have embraced to some extent, and whatever extent they've embraced,
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: they could have embraced it unless those ideas have been
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: made real. America is the country that made the ideas real.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: They didn't initiate the ideas. Those ideas came from Europe.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: They came from the enlightened. But they made it real.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: They created a shining city on a hill. This is
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: what happens when you expect the individual. This is what
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: happened when you establish freedom and countries embraced it to
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: some extent or another. And to the extent that they
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: embraced it, they've done well. The world is relatively speaking
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: of writing place. Poverty is way down because of the
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: ideas that made America because of decoration and independence. So
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: if you're in Asia or in Africa, Africa, star is
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: a way to go.
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: Suddenly, if you're in Europe.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: South America, you should be celebrating the declaration of independence.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: This is a document that has made you freer than
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: you otherwise would be and is the document on which
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: if you are going to be freer in the future,
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: this is the document to learn from. Again, America didn't
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: do it alone because intellectuals. It was intellectuals from Britain
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: and France and the Netherlands who really established ideas that
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: made America possible. But again it's a competization of those ideas,
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: and it's the only place in the world that made
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: them real, that applied them and is constantly trying to
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: consistently apply them now, granted, particularly in the realm of
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: economic liberty, it's failing. So today, don't focus on the
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: left that hates America. Don't focus on the right that
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: thinks America is I don't know.
• 46:32
  Speaker 4: About your heritage, about the color of your skin, about
• 46:41
  Speaker 4: your ancestors.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: Both left and right are viciously wrong, and it's evil.
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: They both hold evil ideas. America is a creed, as
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: they say, it is an idea made real by people.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: America is a particular history, but a history is shaped
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: by an idea. An idea, anybody can embrace it, and
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: therefore anybody can become an American, and those who do
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: not embrace it. If the country was truly free and
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: people came here and they didn't want to embrace the idea,
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: they'd leave because there's nothing here for them. There's no
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: sanction given to the collective as the tribalist, the irrational
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: in a truly free America. It's why a significant percentage,
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: a significant percentage of immigrantsity the United States in the
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: late nineteenth century and early twentieth century returned to their
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: home countries because they didn't get it, They couldn't make it,
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: they didn't understand it.
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: It clashed with their values.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: So they went. They left, truly, for America doesn't pay
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: them to stay, doesn't pay them to stay. So you know,
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: we live today in the richest time in human history,
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: and we live in America. We live in a world
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: that is richer than ever before, including South America, because
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: of America, because of the model, because of the ideas
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: that were made real here. If you look at the
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: better constitutions of South American countries, they never lived up
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: to those constitutions. They're all modeled after an American they
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: all have language straight out of the Declaration of Independence.
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: And just like America hasn't lived up completely to it,
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: they haven't. Now what we need today as we move
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: into the future, what we need today is to being
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: an idea, to being Einman's ideas into the mainstream. She
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: was is.
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: The American philosopher.
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: She is the philosopher for this country. The founders gave
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: us a political principle of individual rights, but they didn't
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: fully understand it or grounded. They didn't have a complete
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: Madel defense of individual rights, because they didn't have a
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: complete Madel defense of the individual and his right to
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: pursue his own happiness. And they didn't have a complete
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: mal defense or even a partial mal defense yet of
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: the individual's self interest. There's still in many ways products
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: of older ideas coming primarily from religion, ideas of duty
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: and sacrificing religion and service to others. They didn't take
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: these ideas over really seriously, and they knew to some
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: extent that they were wrong, and they created a political
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: system that marginalized, that put those ideas to the side,
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: and elevated the individual and his right to pursue happiness
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: above all. But they never provided the full philosophical defense.
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: Not to blame them, they were not philosophers, and that
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: philosophical defense didn't exist in the world yet. But the
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: reality is, and we're living in the consequences. The reality
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: is that politics rests on morality. You're not going to
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: be able to defend a free society while accepting a
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: morality of sacrifice. You cannot defend capitalism while teaching people
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: that self interest is evil. You cannot defend property rights
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: while teaching people that need is the mall claim.
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: And you can't defend.
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: Those productive geniuses, the producers, while teaching people that the
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: highest virtue is to serve those who do not produce. Eventually,
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: unless challenged at its core and overturned, that morality will win.
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: And that's what's happening in America. America is losing, not
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: because it doesn't have great ideas and the founding it does,
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: but because those ideas were never fully grounded and never
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: fully accepted, never fully embraced, and have been wither it
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: away at They've been challenged constantly, so all Americans still
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: have some of the language of rights. They've increasingly accepted
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: altruism as their standard, and as a consequence, the office
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: state has grown, the regulatory study has gone, administrative state
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: has grown, taxes grew, controls grow. Businessmen should feel guilty
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: and give back. And your life does not belong to
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: you anymore, at least not according to the prevalent philosophy
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: around us. Freedom cannot survive without a maral foundation. Iinman
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: has provided us with that moral foundation. She completed in
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: that sense and in many other senses, because she has
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: a grounded reason. The American philosophy you have a right
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: to life liberty in the pursuit of happiness. Ian tells
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: you why you have that right, because you have that
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: right because you live by reason. Man lives by reason,
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: survives by reason. Reason is the faculty of the individual
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: and a mind. Reason cannot function under force, and each
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: individual is an end in.
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: Yourself and rational self interest.
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: Your life, your survival, you're thriving. Your survival as man,
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: as a human being, is your moral aim. That's why happiness.
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: Pursuit of happiness is so crucial. Self interest is not
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: just moral. Self interest is what morality is about. You
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: should be the beneficiaries of your own action, not others.
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: And as a consequent, productiveness is a virtue, and happiness
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: is the moll purpose of your life. Happiness is the
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: male purpose of your life. That's why freedom, political freedom
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: is right. Capitalism freedom the American system as imagined by
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: the Founding. Again not practice, but imagine that the Founding
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: is the only male social political system. It's the only
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: ma philosophical system that is consonant with man's nature, with
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: the idea that man has reason and lives by his reason,
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: that reason is his basic means of survival. Capitalism is
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: the only political, social, political, social, and economic system consistent
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: with man's nature as a rational being. And that's Rand.
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: That's Rand. So Rand gives us the mall philosophical base
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: of liberty. It gives us a deep understanding of why
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: the declaration is so important, so valuable. It gives us
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: a deep understanding of why capitalism works and why it's small,
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: and why it's good.
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: And this is a great day.
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: This is a great day to kind of re what
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: we commit yourself to who ideas and to making who
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: ideas the dominant ideas in America in the future, to
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: making who ideas the dominant ideas in our world in
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: the future, to continuing the path of making the Declaration
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: of Independence an ideal that's known and practiced. You know this,
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: You know, civilization and freedom is something that has to
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: be constantly daily, all the time, foughtful, and we have
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: the tool now it's in random. So today we celebrate
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: the Declaration of Independence. We celebrate the ideal that it represents.
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: We celebrate the fact that in a world of kings, tribes,
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: prest dictators, and collectives, individuals stood up and said no,
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: the individual has rights individuals, and in the himself goverment's
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: only job is to protect him.
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: Man is not born to obey.
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: Man is born to live and produce and act on
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: his own judgment.
• 56:53
  Speaker 3: And that's why we celebrate.
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: We celebrate the founders as man who made an extraordinary
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: intellectual achievement and pledge their lives, their fortunes, and their
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: sacred honor to it. Men who both created in intellectual
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: achievement and then went and fought for it, men of action.
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: And we celebrate the progress that we have seen over
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: the decades, in the last two and a half centuries.
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: We celebrate the abolitionists who forced America to confront the
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: contradiction of slavery. We celebrate the people who fought for
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: real civil rights. Civil rights properly understood, not group privilege,
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: not quotas, not collectivism, but the equal protection of individual
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: rights under the law. We celebrated the women who demanded
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: recognition as independent individuals. We celebrate every step America is
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: taken towards the logic of the Declaration, and we condemn
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: every step that it's taken away from it. The regulatory state,
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: the welfare state. It's a state that tell us the
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: protection is the industrial policy, the idea that achievement belongs
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: to society, the infliction of guilt. You know, we condemn
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: the Mambani's and the Trumps, but at the end of
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: the day, there's much more to celebrate than it is
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: to condemn. We celebrate the producers, the businessmen, the inventors,
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: the scientists, the engineers, entrepreneurs.
• 58:26
  Speaker 3: The investors, the builders, the builders.
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: The doctors, the program is the industrialists, there anybody who's
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: out there being productive in their lives. We celebrate the
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: people who actually make their life better, whether at scale
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: or in just their own life. So today is indeed
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: a day to celebrate the Declaration and the good that
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: has come from it, because is only good has come
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: from the Declaration in spite of the inconsistencies of people
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: who deployed it. So happy Fourth of July, everybody. All right,
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: thanks everybody for being here.
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: I hope you have a great fourth.
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: I hope, I hope you get to go see some
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: amazing fireworks. It's always fun fun to see fireworks on
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: the fourth of July. But this is this is still
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: a great country. Look, it's still a great country. Even
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump can't can't change my mind about America and
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: Americans and you know, we just need to work harder,
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: We just need to work smarter to change it for
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: the better and remind the Americans of what they really
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: really really standful. At least I hope that's true. All right,
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: you know, buying, buying attent, you know, having the government
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  Speaker 1: new definition that equates capitalism with socialism. Trump is a
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: socialist anyway, let's don't talk about Trump. He's milking the list.
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• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: let's turn to our super chat. Adam came in with
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  Speaker 1: one hundred dollars. Thank you, Adam, he says, candless and live.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: But the World Cup and two hundred and fiftieth with
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: the World Cup in two undred and fiftieth. Hey, there's
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: no Bold Cup game right now.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 3: It's on in another hour before who's playing in an hour?
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: I forgot. I just watched Morocco and Canada and in
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: spite of Canada playing really well in the first half,
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: couldn't score any goals, and Morocco scored two goals in
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: the second half and one.
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  Speaker 3: I was rooting for Canada. But which is said?
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: You got to take advantage of the opportunities you get
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: because you never know when you're going to get it,
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: particularly when you're ultimately the week of team. And it
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: was clear Canada as the week of team.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 3: But yeah, the World Cup has been amazing.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: Did you guys see the game yesterday between Argentina and
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: Cape Verda, couple of vertas, a little clump of islands
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: colonized by their Portuguese, so they speak Portuguese in these
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: islands just off the coast of Africa an important place
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: because it's the place where Columbus, when you would come
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: to America, he would go to Capa Verdad, sell to
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: Caper Verta and wait there until you get the wins,
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: the wins that we see right now out there in
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: the in the Atlantic, the wins that blow from the
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: from Africa to the Americas. And he would use those
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: wings to come to America sailboats right dependent on the wins,
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: and then he would wins use the northern track to
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: go back to Europe. But he would he would literally
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: have to sitting cap of Verda until the weather changed,
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: until the winds off the African coast, blowing that African
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: dust towards the Caribbean. And that's why he always when
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: he entered, he entered right here in Puerto Rico and
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: and and the Dominican Republic.
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  Speaker 3: That's the route he followed.
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  Speaker 1: And it's why these are the areas that the Spanish
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: colonized early, and where we have one of the most
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: ancient Spanish forts here.
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  Speaker 3: And all of that.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: So a couple of Verta's important cup, a tiny little
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: line of five hundred thousand people with no history of football,
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: soccer and Argentina is a powerhouse. They won the World
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: Cup last time, they're one of the favorites to win
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: at this time. And what a game. And Kapa Verda
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: played really, really really well and they basically got the
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: Argentinians kept going up one goal and then a couple
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: of Verda would would tie it and it official time
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: ended at to two.
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  Speaker 5: And and it's only in an extra time did the
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 5: Argentinians go up in a goal three two, and it
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 5: still looked like Appaveda might score a goal to equalize it.
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  Speaker 1: And it's just a terrific game. Any game with Messy
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: is fun to watch because he is he just he
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: just when he touches the ball, uh, often sparks fly
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: and something interesting happens. But it was a it was
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: just a it was just a fun game. And it's
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: always fun to have an underdog who does well, even
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: if they don't win, but does well. So I'm enjoying
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: this World Cup. I always enjoy the World Cup. I'm
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: looking forward to I'm looking forward to seeing Brazil tomorrow.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: Which reminds you about tomorrow. Tomorrow is Nicos and Yuron.
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  Speaker 1: Our show will be on tomorrow at one o'clock and
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: We're doing it early so we can make the Brazil game.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: So Adam had no excuses tomorrow because you can watch
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: the Brazil game after the show. He says, I like
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: the positive press. I like the positive press for the
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: US the last few weeks. A long way to go
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: to get back to the revolutionary idea of individual liberty.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: But I am nonetheless celebrating this country this weekend from
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: its birthplace. Absolutely, that's great. So he's in Philadelphia, that's
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: the birthplace. Excellent, Adam, thank you for the support, really
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: really really appreciated all. We got a sticker from Gail
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: and then we got one hundred dollars stick up.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, thank you from Wes.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: He says, happy forth, thank you, Wes.
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  Speaker 3: Really appreciate that. So yeah, Adam came.
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  Speaker 1: In with one hundred, and West came in with one hundred,
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  Speaker 1: and we're walking rolling. So yes, again, that is what
• 1:06:50
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• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: by the way, the US is playing on Monday, so
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: you're playing in the World Cup. They're going to play
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: against Belgium, which is a tough team, but US has
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: a good chance of beating Belgium and going onto the
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: h to the quarterfinals. So it'll be it'll be exciting.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be exciting to watch the game, all right, Andrew
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  Speaker 1: fifty dollars, Hey, Andrew. In your show on the Manosphere,
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  Speaker 1: you and Nicos discussed the agreement between post modern post
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  Speaker 1: modernists and Tate that two plus two is not full.
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  Speaker 1: Attila's motives to put might over the mind was indicated
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: by Tate, he'll punch you if you say it's full.
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  Speaker 1: What's the leftist motive? Well, I think it's the same.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, for.
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  Speaker 3: It's similar. For Tait, it's it's power potato.
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  Speaker 1: It's false.
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  Speaker 3: For Tait, it's the mind doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: The only thing that matters is physical force, and that
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: results ultimately in that kind of a nihilistic perspective. The
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  Speaker 1: left's motivation is a hatred, a hatred of reality, hatred
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: of progress, hatred of success. And therefore it ends in
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: the same thing, nihilism. It's just you know, and and
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: it ends in force. Just look at just look at
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: the commis. But it's not owing in it towards we're stronger, uh,
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: you know, and will beat you up. It's just will
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  Speaker 1: undermine your mind, will destroy the mind, and the world
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: will fall apart. We don't even have to lift a finger.
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: We don't have to, you know, pick up a gun.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: We'll just destroy it from within. But it's the same.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: They have a real eagerness to destroy. You see it
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: environmental movement that that cares more about snails and about
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: human beings. Uh. And and you see it in the
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: in in the postmodern movement that just undermines truth and
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: the whole concept of truth, no concept of objective reality,
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: no concept of the of reason, and the idea that
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: using reason we can discover truth. And they know that
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: what that leads to is destruction. I mean that was
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: a two year speech in the Fountain Air. Gives you
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: an illustration, maybe not of what they're thinking explicitly, because
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: it's hard to hold that explicitly, but what is actually
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: ultimately driving them? Right, So the leftist motive is destruction
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: and hatred for the sake of destruction, and hatred and
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: and hatred of themselves more than anything else. But really,
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: anybody who says too plus two is not for it
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: is evading and motivated by Yeah, anger, fear and hate. Anger, fear,
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: hate go together, all legitimate emotions. When and the legitimate
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: right when there's a cause, but when it's not grounded
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: in anything rational, that is a brew that generates real
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: evil out there in the world, or even happy forth
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: and two hundred and fifty, Stay Free, Stay Brave. Watch
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: the inspirational Matthew McConaughey video for two hundred and fifty.
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  Speaker 1: It was pretty good. It was pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: I wish he was more philosophical. Could have been better.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: He has a great delivery, He's a great actor. But
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: it was good. Ryan. Heyaron, this is the Ryan who
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: beat me at poker. Aaron, thanks a great time playing
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: poke at OCONN. I was worried about your energy levels
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: for the closing talk, so I hastened your departure for bed.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: I noticed that he really, he really did, you know,
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: egg me on to to to try to you know,
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: because I was complaining about how tired I was. You're welcome,
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: Thank you again, Ryan. See you next year. Yeah, next day.
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: I'm going to be fresh next year. I'm going to
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: rest well the night before, I am going to be
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: full of energy. I'm going to have a five Red
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  Speaker 1: Bulls before the game. I'm going to crush Ryan. Watch Out,
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  Speaker 1: Watch Out. Pe feris what thinkers came from the Netherlands,
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: and what did they contribute.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 3: Oh wow, I've got to talk about that.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: I've got to talk about Amsterdam.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 3: But the thinkers.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: God, I'm trying to I'm trying to remember who it was. Okay,
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: So there was a religious thinker who was kind of
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  Speaker 1: part of the Reformation, but part of not.
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  Speaker 3: He certainly didn't like Luther or Calvin, and.
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  Speaker 1: Was very much about the individual and individual responsibility and
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  Speaker 1: individual thinking and very much elevated reason. Erasmusen or something
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  Speaker 1: like that, who kind of left left the Catholic Church
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  Speaker 1: during the Reformation.
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  Speaker 3: It was also Spinosa, who of course is maybe one.
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  Speaker 1: Of the greatest and most important philosophers in the sense
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  Speaker 1: that he broke away from uh, you know, from Christian philosophy,
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  Speaker 1: conventional philosophy and presented a almost egoistic moral code and
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  Speaker 1: a deep skepticism about God and about the certainly the
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  Speaker 1: existence of a Erasmus. Thank you Erasmus. Erasmus was the theologian.
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  Speaker 1: But Spinosa Manville. But you know, also just the it
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  Speaker 1: was more.
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  Speaker 3: It's beyond those people.
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  Speaker 1: It was the the economy of the Netherlands and the
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  Speaker 1: the example, the protection of property rights, I think, what's
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  Speaker 1: the other guy who talked about individual rights who I
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  Speaker 1: think was from the Netherlands or at least from northern
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  Speaker 1: Europe Grociers. Grociers who was kind of a precursor to
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  Speaker 1: John Locke kind of started to, you know, talk about
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  Speaker 1: some of these issues before lock and and and lock
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  Speaker 1: of force formalized them. And really, I mean Locke was
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  Speaker 1: the greatest philosopher. He really built on them. But but
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  Speaker 1: there were some people who kind of helped later foundations
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  Speaker 1: for all that in the Netherlands and then again by
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: example property rights and markets and stock markets and banking.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, it didn't happen in the Netherlands, but they helped.
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  Speaker 1: They added Also, you know, maybe the most important contribution
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  Speaker 1: of the Netherlands made is the Netherlands were the printing
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  Speaker 1: press of Europe. The Netherlands is where all the banned
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  Speaker 1: books were printed and distributed from the Netherlands had, for
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: variety of reasons, much more freedom of speech, so people
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  Speaker 1: ran away to the Netherlands when they wanted to escape prosecution.
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  Speaker 1: But more importantly, the Netherlands is where all the printers were,
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  Speaker 1: all the publishers were of all the so called banned
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  Speaker 1: books of the Enlightenment that religion had banned, and they
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  Speaker 1: were the ones who distributed them. So they played a
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  Speaker 1: huge role in the Enlightenment. I've got to talk up
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  Speaker 1: there somewhere about the importance of Amsterdam to the birth
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  Speaker 1: of capitalism. Thank you, Paul, all right, equal to reality,
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  Speaker 1: Happy fourth of July to all Americans and Americans at heart.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely soun I view something like that. Jan thank you
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  Speaker 1: for the show. What are your thoughts on the rough
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  Speaker 1: draft Jefferson wrote before it was revised? What a radical
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  Speaker 1: and great document? Yes, I mean it was. I mean
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember the details, certainly the addition of property
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  Speaker 1: was there, but look, it's a it's it's it's a
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  Speaker 1: great document, even after the revisions, and Jefferson, a young
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  Speaker 1: Jefferson was just just brilliant and and uh so committed
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  Speaker 1: to liberty and freedom. I wish you'd free the slaves.
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  Speaker 1: I wish he'd be more wish he was more adamant
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  Speaker 1: about that. But you still have to recognize just how
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  Speaker 1: just how extraordinary he was, and how the extraordinary The
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  Speaker 1: founders were on Milcot Happy Independence Day, celebrating by ordering
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  Speaker 1: the food of the minorities America hates now. Thank you
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: on Melkot. Some Americans hate them, politicians hate them, but
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: we all love immigrants at least here in ther own bookshow,
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: I Make It says my Burrito should be here soon, Enjoy.
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  Speaker 3: Michael says sys.
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  Speaker 1: Kan't died out at all.
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  Speaker 3: Well, look, I mean.
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  Speaker 1: There's a sention which you know, there's still a lot
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  Speaker 1: of ideas out there in academia, in certain parts of
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  Speaker 1: academia based on cont I don't know if he's more,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if there are more of those today than
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: there were.
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  Speaker 3: A few years ago or not.
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  Speaker 1: We'd have to ask one of our philosophers who is
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  Speaker 1: more worth a hand on the pulse on what's going
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  Speaker 1: on in academia today. Andrew. On a very basic level,
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: thank you Andrew for fifty dollars really generous. On a
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  Speaker 1: very basic level, is the right celebration of the US
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: as a great nation a virtue as against the explicit
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: anti americanism socialists in view of your strong opposition to conservatives,
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: are you emotionally conflicted on that difference? Well, it depends
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: who and why. So I find it despicable those on
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: the right who celebrate this as a as a blood
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  Speaker 1: and soil celebration as a celebration of you know, ancestry
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  Speaker 1: is a celebration of heritage. They are just as despicable
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: as the left. Most Americans are neither here nor there.
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: And most conservatives, I think I neither hear nor they.
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: They celebrate America for the goodness of it. They don't
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: completely understand what the good is. They don't know what
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: it comes from. But I'm sympathetic to those people. I
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: just am so resentful of the new right of the
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: JD Vance and the Josh Hawleys of the world, and
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: many others, including Rubio. He has the same tendency to
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: attribute America's greatness to race, to heritage, and Rubio's case,
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: it's quite as.
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 3: It's kind of funny given his own heritage.
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: So yeah, the national conservative, the Christian conservatives are just
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: as bad as the socialist and just anti American in
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: a fundamental sense. But most conservatives are not that way.
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: Most people are in the cent left or not or not.
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: Like the socialists, there is a vast majority of Americans
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: who still celebrate America for to some extent it's virtue.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: Now there was you know, there was a demonstration early
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: this morning in Washington, d C. By by uh uh,
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: you know, white racist nationalists. They're all over the place there,
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: you know in d C. And and very explicit and
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: just horrible on the fifth of July to have these
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: creeps and anti Americans demonstrating as if this is their holidays.
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: So they're all masked, of course, Uh, just just disgusting.
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  Speaker 3: So but then you've got mom Danny.
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: So but these people are worse because they claim heritage
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: of America. They claim that this country is fundamentally theirs.
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  Speaker 1: All of us are not part of it. So I
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: hate them more than I hate the socialists in many respects. Dan,
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: did you offhand mention objectivism achieving victory one hundred and
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: fifty years after the shrugged? Where did one hundred and
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: fifty come from? Happy Independence Day? And thank you for
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: all that you do.
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's seventy years next year. I figure eighty years.
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: Another eighty years is a pretty good benchmark. It's completely obvious.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think it's going to happen in
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: ten or twenty years, and I don't think it takes
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: two hundred years, So eighty years from next year seems reasonable.
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: But you know it's not scientific, if that's what you're asking,
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: Jennifer says one of my favorite quotes of Thomas Paine, quote,
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: we have it within our power to start the world
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: over again, to start the world and new and new. Yes,
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: it's a beautiful quote. Thank you. J It reminds me
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: of a poem, but I can't remember.
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  Speaker 3: All right. I'll have to dig that up.
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: Happy fifth of July, Happy and Independence from Gin tracks.
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Jin Keith thoughts on nineteenth century US free
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: thought movement Robert Ingersol he identified the Attila witch doctor
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: dynamic in his Voltaire lecture. Not familiar with that. I
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: have to look it up. That sounds really really interesting,
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: So thank you, Keith.
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  Speaker 3: I'll check that out.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: So you got me with something I'm not not really
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: that familiar with. I was I looking for here? Yeah,
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: all right, I am cutting and pasting that so to
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: remember it, all right, let's see, Uh, thank you, Keith.
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: Newly Dan Conservatives want to regulate and liberals want needs
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: needs decided. Yeah, sadly they both want both. It's become
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: much worse. We're both liberal left and the right want
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: to regulate and to redistribute. Andrew J. D. Evans said,
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  Speaker 1: many converts initially attracted to Catholicism's aesthetics. I think that's
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: true in rejecting the ugliness of the modern world. What's
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: your reaction, I mean, I think that's that's true. I
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: mean the Catholic Church has from certainly from the Renaissance,
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: but from really the days of the cathedrals, have understood
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: the power of monuments, the power of great art, the
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: power of great music, the power to bring people to you. Now,
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: I do think there's a certain ugliness in the modern world. Certainly,
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: modern art is ugly, and there's so much celebration of
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: ugly ness out there, and a lot of modern architecture
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: is ugly, and people are looking for beauty, and there
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: is beauty in the Catholic Church, particularly if you look
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: at the art, the music. You know that they that
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: they have promoted forever. It's a reason why they promoted Michaelangelo,
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: they promoted Leonardo, they promoted Raphael because they wanted to
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: capture that beauty in order to attract people to them.
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 3: So I think the Catholic.
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: Church has had an understanding of the power of esthetics
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: and used it used it. Ryan says, favorite you're unquote,
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: that's my pie. Go make your own pie. Yeah, that's
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: what my inequality talk. Thank you. Ryan Paul says, Happy
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: turn in fiftieth. Thank you. Paul Daniel says, thanks. Articulating
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: one makes America the greatest politicals. Your reverence and seriousness
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: for the American project is deeply inspiring. Wish our leaders
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: builders at all understood it. YEP, I do too. Enric
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: enjoyed the two undred fiftieth celebration of Independence. Thank you, Enric.
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 1: Here's the freedom, here's the capitalism. Thank you. Ian.
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  Speaker 3: I do want to say this.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I was here in America in seventeen seventy,
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy six. Now I'm not that old. Nineteen
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: seventy six, I was a teenager. In nineteen seventy six,
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: I was fourteen, fifteen, I was fifteen, and I don't
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: remember the details, but I remember that there was a vibe.
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: There's excitement, there's energy. People really celebrated. People went out
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: there and politically, there were spectacles. And think about this.
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: Nineteen seventy six was just after Watergate. It was an
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: election year. The country was divided, Nick and it resign.
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: You know, Ford was present. It just it was not
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: a great time. Inflation was high, unemployment was high, you know,
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: the economy was doing terribly. Crime was much higher than
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: it is today. And yet people really celebrated the fourth
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: of July and the two hundredth anniversary, and today turn
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: the fiftieth is going to go buy I think fairly quietly. Now.
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's because I'm in Puerto Rico. I don't get
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: this vibe. You can tell me. Maybe in your part
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: of the world, it's not like that.
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 3: You're part of America, it's not.
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: Like that, But it just doesn't seem that way. It
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: seems like it's not there's nothing really, there's no excitement
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 1: and no big celebrations. Or maybe they are, but people
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 1: are not energized around them. Now, maybe I'm wrong about this,
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: Please correct me if I am. But it's sad. It's
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: sad two fifty in a sense, it's a big deal.
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: The Maican experiment is still going two hundred and fifty
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: years in that's a lot a long time. It's exciting.
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: We should all be energized around it, right, real spuck,
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 1: what do you think it took for the colonists to
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: defeat and establish European armed forces?
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 3: Like the British, it seemed impossible bits at everything.
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: Well, it took that they were far from England, it
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: took that the French helped, and it took that the
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: British were distracted. And more than anything, more than anything,
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: it took that the makers wanted it. They fought with passion,
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 1: they fought courageously. They fought for their homes. You know,
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: you could think of think of the Ukrainian fighting for
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: their homes right now.
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 3: People were, you know that.
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 1: Their freedom was going to be taken away from them,
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: and many of them who understood the ideas fought for
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: the ideas. And they had phenomenal leadership. I mean, George
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: Washington was a phenomenal leader. So is motivation, leadership and
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: historical circumstances that led the Americans to win. All right,
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: thank you, TPA. I'm not sure how to pronounce it. Pack.
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 3: Thank you for the fifty dollars. Really appreciate the sticker.
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Somebody says nineteen seventy six, wages way increasing
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 1: together with productivity. Wages stagnated seventy united. That is so
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: untrue that it's just complete bs. But what can I do?
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: Inflation, Remember inflation, remember stagnation. American businesses can compete. The
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: Japanese were kicking up butt in televisions and about to
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: kick up out in VHS they were kicking up, but
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: in automobiles they were. You know, America was in decline
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy six, big time decline, much in some
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: ways economically, certainly much bigger decline than today.
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 3: It was a dark time.
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 1: I was there. Jacob closed down a house to relocate
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: to Ventura last week. What are the hidden California costs
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: for which I need to budget in comparison to Saint Luis. Well,
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: gasoline is much more expensive and you need two cars.
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 1: Need everywhere is by call, and gas is very expensive.
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: Income tax, of course is more. Is higher.
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's it.
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: But congratulations, Ventua County is an amazing place to live.
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 3: It's very beautiful and uh, you'll enjoy.
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: You know, they're just a modernity that is California, and
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: enjoy that. But it is everything's more expensive, starting with
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: gasoline and uh and taxes. But yeah, it's a it's
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: it is a beautiful place. Congratulations.
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 3: All right, guys, people pursuing their happiness.
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: I love it.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you all the super Chattas. Thank you to all
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 3: the stickers.
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: Thank you to everybody who supports the show on Patreon
• 1:28:46
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• 1:28:51
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• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: couldn't exist. I'd have to do something else. So thank you.
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: Let's keep on going, keep on fighting. Let's remind Americans
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: what this country is really about and try to move
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: it in that direction. Right, we've got Loan dissenter, let's
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: come in, he says. Federalists argue the large republic allowed
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: for so many interest groups that none could become tyrannical.
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: They didn't foresee national political parties, well, they warned against it.
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: Was this a miscalculation? What can be done? Well, I
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: don't think the problem with political parties. The problem is
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: we now have learned so we need a constitution that
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: is more explicitly it more explicitly separates economics from government,
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: that more explicitly reduces the power of the state over
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: our economic lives, and then more explicitly articulates what individual
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: rights actually mean. That is the only way to move forward.
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: Thing you can do. They are always going to be
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 1: political parties, but okay, we've learned, We've seen what the
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: challenges are now you know. Now let's let's make changes
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: stuff founding documents to reflect our new knowledge. But that
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: can only happen if the idea is shaping up modern
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: American society changed in dramatic ways, because we wouldn't want
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 1: to start tinkering with the Constitution given just the awfulness
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 1: of people's understanding of individual rights today. Thank you, Londer, Sanda,
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: thank you to all of you.
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 3: Have a great foth of July.
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: I hope you catch some amazing fireworks and do whatever
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: you do, barbecue or whatever you do.
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 3: I'm going out to a nice restaurant with my wife.
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: It was a birthday a few days ago while I
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 1: was at Ocon, so we're celebrating tonight. So we're combining
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: her birthday with fourth of July. It's it's going to
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: be fun. I'll see you all tomorrow one PM. Me
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: and Nikos we were talking about Kurtis Yovin, an important
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: figure on the crazy right. We've talked about crazy left.
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: Now we'll talk about crazy right. And after that everybody
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: will sit down and watch the Brazil game.
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 3: See you soon. Bye, everybody,