Fireside Chat Ep. 138 — Pay Attention: Your Freedom Is Fragile

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🗓️ 11 June 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Our society is rooted in freedom, yet "Freedom is never more than one generation away from distinction." We must conscientiously fight to preserve it amidst the destructive ideas of the left. This week, Dennis discusses how the protests are a sham based on the myth of systemic racism, and why defunding the police will do more harm to black communities. This episode is sponsored by the T. W. Lewis Foundation. To learn more, visit https://solidgroundbook.com/ 0:00 Our Unprecedented Crisis 1:00 Sponsored By T.W. Lewis Foundation 1:40 Protests And Covid-19 Hypocrisy 3:17 The Leftist’s Lack Of Meaning In Life 4:36 Creating Chaos 5:41 All These Protests Are Based On A Lie 7:55 Protests Are All Emotion, No Data 9:23 Care About Black Life? Keep The Police 10:42 What Does Equality Mean? 11:08 How To Rise Out Of Poverty 12:37 Freedom Is Fragile 13:18 White Privilege: What They Get Wrong 15:17 Dennis’s Privilege 16:30 Why Should We See Color First? 17:19 Societies Can Change Very Quickly 18:15 The Left Teaches To Reject Dialogue 19:31 Why Doesn’t The Right Use Violence? 21:44 An Easy Question To Ask In Life 22:54 The Best Interracial Relationships 24:33 Left/Right Divide In America 26:06 Betraying The Jewish People? 27:46 Fight To Keep America Free And Good Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, Dennis Prager here, the Fireside Chat, which features, oh, he moved.
0:10.2	Otto, Snoopie's in the room, but I don't know if you guys see him.
0:15.5	You don't see him.
0:16.7	Just I'm just reporting that his brother who was a Basset Hound is in the room.
0:21.4	Anyway, great to be with you.
0:22.8	This is unscripted, but for one of the only times, how many of the, about 140 and a
0:29.0	145 side chats, I will be looking at a paper on which I wrote some notes because there
0:35.0	were so many points I want to make because of the unprecedented since the Civil War in America
0:42.3	in the 1860s, unprecedented crisis, which I do believe threatens the United States value
0:50.4	system and what made America the freest country.
0:54.6	That's how serious I think what is going on is that I want to address some of the main
0:58.6	issues.
0:59.6	But before that, I just want to tell you about a book.
1:01.6	A man who is a big supporter of Prager, you has written this and I am happy to recommend
1:06.9	it.
1:07.9	He especially wants young people to read it because it's happiness, meaning wisdom and
1:13.7	success and purpose.
1:16.6	That's what you need more than another course in whatever you might be learning at college.
1:24.0	So this is a terrific book, solid ground, a foundation for winning in work and in life.
1:29.5	And Tom Lewis has won in work and life.
1:33.8	He knows what he's writing.
1:36.0	Okay.
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