Fireside Chat Ep. 186 — A Hopeless Generation?

Fireside Chat with Dennis Prager

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Self-improvement, Education, How To

4.8 • 5.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

51% of young Americans are feeling depressed with a negative outlook on life, according to a recent survey. Why are they feeling so hopeless? Well if you are indoctrinated to hate your past, to live fearfully, and to expect the world to end, how could you not be? Subscribe so you never miss a new Fireside Chat! 👉 https://www.prageru.com/series/fireside-chats/ 0:00 Otto’s Motto: “What, Me Worry?” 1:19 51% Of Young Americans Depressed 4:23 Older Generation’s Negative Influence 7:04 Nothing To Fear But Fear Itself 9:32 Scared Of The Future: Global Warming 12:35 Hating America 15:21 Need A Sense Of Purpose And Meaning 21:13 Advice For Returning To Religion 26:16 Happiness & Having No Expectations 30:07 Don’t Live A Deprived Life

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, I'm Dennis Prager. This is the weekly fireside chat and I mean weekly like I don't miss
0:07.7	You have no idea much. I travel. I still don't miss this is very important to me
0:12.5	That's auto needless to say I don't need no introduction. I need an introduction auto does not by the way
0:17.6	You may not know this but a little behind the scenes note. I do ask him if he's okay with this
0:24.0	I want you to know no animal was injured in the making of
0:27.9	Of this video. I just want you to know that as well
0:32.9	Auto
0:34.4	Auto's motto in life is the famous one from old mad magazine what me worry
0:41.3	That's his motto
0:43.6	During I don't know what would agitate auto. I have never seen him agitated
0:50.0	In 10 years. I have not seen him agitated once his brother the the
0:55.2	um bass at ham is agitated on an hourly basis
1:00.1	And big sub-front auto great to see old pal
1:04.0	Okay
1:05.3	All right everybody this is a chance. I just share thoughts with you. I take questions from you
1:10.9	And that's basically what it is. It's quite spontaneous
1:14.4	Although obviously the product of many many years of thought. So I want to talk to you about a
1:21.5	Micro slash macro issue. It's both I divide issues into micro and macro micro personal macro or
1:29.4	So social societal global etc
1:32.4	This is both
1:34.0	So a study just came out. That's why I have a piece of paper
1:38.5	CNBC reports
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