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Morning Edition but first a word.

Mike Slater, Philanastical Phil O'Reilly on this Friday morning, I am thinking about

the soul of the nation.

It's what Biden talked about last night, right?

First of all, it's a bit rich hearing this from people who don't think that humans have

souls to talk about the soul of the nation, but whatever we won't go there right now.

Ernest Renon.

He's a 19th century French philosopher.

He wrote a book.

What is a nation?

He said a nation has a soul.

One is in the past, the other in the present.

One is the possession of the rich legacy of memories.

The other is the desire to live together and to value the common heritage.

I love that a rich legacy of memories.

Okay, well let's see the left's embrace of the great memories in the 1619 project.

Oh that's right, we're an evil racist, horrible country that was founded on slavery and

fought our independence from England to maintain the slave trade and we'd never recovered it

anyway.

Super.

And we teach our kids this.

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