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Lions vs Scavengers The Values That Built the West | 5-Minute Videos | PragerU

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Self-improvement, History, Non-profit, Business, Education

4.86.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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The West is in a war for its survival. That war is playing out both at a civilizational and personal level. Ben Shapiro sees this as a war between lions and scavengers. The lions want to defend civilization and the scavengers want to destroy it. ▶️ Watch more episodes of 5-Minute Videos at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://l.prageru.com/4lCX76A⁠⁠⁠ ⭐ Did you enjoy this episode? Follow the show, leave a rating, and share it with someone who needs to hear this conversation! 👉 What else is PragerU unpacking? From timeless wisdom with Dennis Prager to unfiltered Real Talk with Marissa Streit — discover your next favorite at PragerU.com/podcasts: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://l.prageru.com/40ZbPLH⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow PragerU: YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@PragerU⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/prageru⁠⁠⁠  X/Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/prageru⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠ Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/prageru⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠ Rumble: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://rumble.com/c/PragerU⁠⁠⁠ PragerU Español: ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@esPragerU Follow Ben Shapiro: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BenShapiro Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/officialbenshapiro/ X/Twitter: https://x.com/benshapiro Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/officialbenshapiro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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UK slash podcast to learn more. The West is in a war for its survival. That war is playing out

0:30.3

simultaneously at a civilizational level and in every human heart. It is a war between the lion

0:36.2

and a scavenger. The lion is the part of each

0:39.1

of us that prizes freedom, responsibility, and achievement. It knows that there are rules to success

0:44.6

and failure, that we are creative beings with autonomy and power, and that freedom comes with an

0:50.1

equal measure of obligation. The scavenger, by contrast, is the part of us that believes

0:54.8

that society from top to bottom is rigged, that powerful forces, not individuals, dictate outcomes,

1:01.4

that personal failures are a result of a great conspiracy, and that rage, including violence,

1:06.7

is the only response to this corrupt system. We all wake up each morning and must decide, will we be lions or scavengers?

1:14.5

Will we take ownership of our problems and work to solve them?

1:17.4

Or will we blame others for our failures and wallow in resentment?

1:21.4

The values of the lion animate Western civilization and provide its founding principles.

1:26.5

First, free minds, because human beings are made in

1:29.2

the image of God with the power to choose and innovate. Second, free markets, because we are

1:34.7

autonomous, creative beings who fairly earn what our labor produces. Third, public virtue, because virtue

1:40.9

and duty, and the institutions that support them them give order to the exercise of liberty.

1:46.3

And fourth, equal rights before the law because otherwise justice is impossible.

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