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The Michael Berry Show

A Nation Must Decide Who They Want To Be And How To Get There

The Michael Berry Show

KTRH

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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The Michael Berry Show.

0:02.0

So a nation has to decide.

0:05.0

Who are you?

0:08.0

What? What are you?

0:12.0

There's a book called Of Human Bondage and there's a character in a little boy

0:18.1

named Philip Carey and Philip, I forget if his parents died or I can't remember why, but he ends up with like his great uncle and his wife.

0:32.0

It's been years since I read this so I may get something wrong but you'll get the point.

0:36.0

And he's sort of this strict Calvinist minister, no fun, no smiling, no joy in the home. Very strict, stern. And Philip spent a lot of time on his own.

0:56.8

And Philip began thinking about big issues at a young age.

1:00.3

And I don't remember how old he was.

1:01.3

Let's say he was 10 or 12 and Philip decided he

1:06.7

would create in his mind sort of a rougbe Goldberg machine where anything that happened in life he could drop it into that

1:18.8

machine and it would go to do to do top top to do at the end it would come out with how he felt about the issue.

1:27.0

But what he had to do, he decided, was he had to consider how he felt about fundamental issues and began to build upon those fundamental issues,

1:42.0

a framework, an infrastructure, and then he would be able

1:50.5

to create a cohesive whole. Let me explain, because most people have never done this.

1:57.0

This is why people lurched back and forth on political issues.

2:01.0

Do you believe that the political issues.

2:02.6

Do you believe that the individual should be able to make health decisions for himself?

2:11.6

Or for himself or do you believe the collective should be able to make health decisions

2:21.3

for him? So you might immediately go, oh well the individual, I'm

2:24.8

I'm an individual, I'm an individual, I'm for the individual. Okay. What if his health

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