Jonathan Safran Foer | The Ben Shapiro Show Sunday Special Ep. 63
The Ben Shapiro Show
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4.4 • 152.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2019
⏱️ 64 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | A lot of the ways that people talk about making a difference are not making a difference. |
| 0:04.0 | They just feel good. And I think in the future, our children and our grandchildren, our great-grandchildren, |
| 0:10.0 | aren't going to look back and say, what did great-grandpa Ben feel? |
| 0:14.0 | They're going to look back and say, what did great-grandpa Ben do? |
| 0:27.6 | Hey, hey, and welcome. This is The Ben Shapiro Show Sunday special. We're joined today by Jonathan Safran Fuller. He's the author of, among other books. Everything is illuminated, extremely loud |
| 0:31.8 | and incredibly close. And most recently, here I am. And he's here to talk about his brand new book, |
| 0:35.2 | which is actually about climate change. We are the weather. It's available on September 17th. You can pre-order it now. Jonathan, thanks so much for stopping by. I really appreciate it. Very happy to be here. One of the things that's interesting about having you on is obviously my catchphrase is the whole facts don't care about your feelings, schick, but so much of your writing is deeply felt. How do you balance those elements when you're talking |
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| 2:01.6 | separate out what the thrust of what you're trying to say is from the feelings? How much of it |
| 2:06.8 | is reasoned argument and how much of it is just the drive toward a moral feeling that you're going |
| 2:12.6 | for? Well, to begin with a little humility, I can't, I don't know for sure because feelings are distorting. |
| 2:19.3 | And oftentimes we don't realize the extent to which our feelings are distorting our thoughts. |
| 2:24.1 | And we might think that we're being clearheaded, but we think that with the head that is clouded, right? |
| 2:29.8 | That slogan, though, could also have been the slogan of this book. |
| 2:33.2 | The central premise of |
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