Os Guinness: The Magna Carta of Humanity

Socrates in the City

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 3 August 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Os Guinness and Socrates in the City host Eric Metaxas discuss Mr. Guinness’ recent books: “The Magna Carta of Humanity” and “Zero Dark America.” This event took place at the Union League Club in New York City on December 6th, 2022. Learn more about Socrates in the City at socratesinthecity.com.

Os Guinness, author and speaker, is the great-great grandson of Arthur Guinness, the Dublin brewer. He was born in China in World War II where his parents were medical missionaries. A witness to the climax of the Chinese revolution in 1949, he was expelled with many other foreigners in 1951 and returned to Europe where he was educated in England. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of London and his D.Phil. in the social sciences from Oriel College, Oxford. In the late 1960s, Guinness was a leader at the L’Abri community in Switzerland and, after Oxford, a freelance reporter for the BBC.

Guinness has written or edited more than thirty books and is a frequent speaker and seminar leader at political and business conferences in both the United States and Europe. He has also lectured at many universities, including Oxford and Cambridge, Harvard and Stanford, and has spoken at the White House, Capitol Hill and other public policy arenas around Washington D.C. area.

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0:00.0	Wow, wow, I'm intimidated. I am just so blessed to see so many of you here. Thank you for coming. I know some of you come from a long way, and I don't mean Stanford, Connecticut. I know some of you came from, like, hey, man, we're coming from Stanford. Actually, I appreciate, particularly at this time of year, that you would make your way in from Fairfield County,
0:39.8	or they even would admit to living in a place like Fairfield County.
0:43.4	I got out of there a long time ago.
0:46.1	But there are people here, I'm not kidding, I want to just say this because I met them in the reception,
0:51.6	from other parts of the country who flew here for this event.
0:57.5	If you're from Kentucky, would you raise your hand?
1:01.1	There we go.
1:03.7	That's, they get the gold, you get the Golden Hubcap Award.
1:07.8	That is unbelievable, unbelievable.
1:10.2	There's somebody from California who
1:11.5	asked you. You're from California? Really? Well, since I didn't meet you at the reception,
1:20.9	it doesn't count. It doesn't count. No, seriously, it means so much to me. Thank you for coming
1:26.1	and being a part of this. I can see by the reeds that the Christmas season has fallen upon us. It seems everywhere I go, I realize that the Christmas season has fallen upon us, like an obese man, unsteady on his feet.
1:45.4	You'll notice that's a negative image.
1:48.0	I find it annoying that the Christmas season is falling on us earlier and earlier every year.
1:55.7	I resent it.
1:57.7	And if you're okay with it, I resent you.
2:01.0	You may notice that I'm wearing neither green nor red.
2:06.8	And this is my gentle way of flipping the bird
2:11.6	to those people who think the moment you cut the turkey,
2:16.5	you should scramble to the chimney,
2:18.5	scramble up the chimney and try to drag Santa down from the North Pole.
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