1 00:00:09,199 --> 00:00:13,400 happens we got real talent this girl is 2 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:22,739 four cameras rolling red dots everybody cool 3 00:00:34,079 --> 00:00:44,079 of influence including transatlantic influence on the states we have prior to 4 00:00:55,200 --> 00:01:04,239 Geneva and spreading all over where where his theology spread but the father of 5 00:01:04,239 --> 00:01:10,840 this at least in the form of written documentation that's easily available 6 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:31,799 and writes two influential utopias one well known the republic and one not so 7 00:01:31,799 --> 00:01:39,560 well-known the laws which is the product of his mature reflection on what 8 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:55,760 these four major names spanning European history agree that the ordinary 9 00:01:55,760 --> 00:02:04,400 population is a very dangerous to the social order if it learns how to think 10 00:02:13,319 --> 00:02:22,039 that there is no way to improve this and what I've left out is the killer app 11 00:02:22,039 --> 00:02:29,960 that occurs in the middle to the end of the 19th century for one of the wealthiest 12 00:02:38,599 --> 00:02:49,080 minister-trained son Charles who in his second major publication the descent of 13 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:07,560 physical integrity of the human race the advance of civilization because of the 14 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:15,080 few evolutionarily advanced like the Scandinavian blondes and the English 15 00:03:24,439 --> 00:03:32,120 march backwards into the swirling mists of the dawnless past and nothing can 16 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:39,560 change that maybe a few million years might change it certainly nothing that 17 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:44,479 current generations can do Darwin of course is in every school including 18 00:03:50,639 --> 00:03:57,439 bothers to mention that he doesn't say the human race is evolving there's a 19 00:03:57,439 --> 00:04:06,039 few a fraction are evolving now put yourself if you're watching this in the 20 00:04:14,319 --> 00:04:23,079 worldly success has a little bit of time in their hands and resources and now you 21 00:04:23,079 --> 00:04:29,360 know that if these ordinary people walking around in the American 22 00:04:38,439 --> 00:04:45,959 evolution is going to march backwards you now have a justification beginning in 23 00:04:45,959 --> 00:04:53,720 1871 second to none you can argue with Calvin you can argue with Spinoza you 24 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:10,079 furthermore and an unknown connection that has for some reason escaped the 25 00:05:10,079 --> 00:05:20,360 attention of the Darwinians Darwin's earlier cousin Thomas Malthus has said 26 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:35,480 reproduce more successfully and then there'll be twice as many then four 27 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:43,800 times as many that population expands geometrically but food only 28 00:05:50,759 --> 00:05:59,160 pursuit of the secrets of biology are stimulated by the work of his cousin 29 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:08,120 Malthus now we have after Darwin's two blockbusters the second of which I'm 30 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:20,720 species the the progress of the favored races and he does not use the term 31 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:29,079 race the way we do he recognizes about 57 separate races of which the Irish are 32 00:06:29,079 --> 00:06:35,680 on the very bottom thank goodness he said that because respectable percentage 33 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:46,759 these things so it's derived for anybody here derived from a partial Irish 34 00:06:46,759 --> 00:06:53,040 background you know he's in the Irish are hopeless there is no hope for the 35 00:06:53,040 --> 00:07:03,839 Irish of course what's left out of simply relating what Darwin said is his 36 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:19,480 of common prayer hundreds and hundreds of years preceding Darwin you find that 37 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:27,000 God's will is to defy all the living creatures and plants into an infinite 38 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:41,360 worst sacrilege at all so that Darwin's theory fully 39 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:51,040 explicated is the Anglican homily of obedience homily of obedience says 40 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:06,120 biological category because it's hopeless and prior to that don't try to 41 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:11,519 get out of your spiritual category because it's hopeless there's a great 42 00:08:11,519 --> 00:08:18,519 similarity between the two ideas now if you set out to find evidence that this 43 00:08:24,459 --> 00:08:35,799 abundance of natural forms so the real actor in the piece Darwin's a shy man 44 00:08:35,799 --> 00:08:44,320 fantastically wealthy that's been left out of all the fantastically wealthy the 45 00:08:54,240 --> 00:09:03,519 source of the Darwin family wealth so Darwin's first cousin is a man I was 46 00:09:03,519 --> 00:09:10,440 taught in high school back in the early 1950s is estimated to be the most 47 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:29,759 Francis Galton a world-famous explorer mathematician inventing little statistical 48 00:09:29,759 --> 00:09:37,399 formula line to discriminate shades of quality that the schools are infested 49 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:53,039 the United States he makes several pilgrimages to the US to spread the 50 00:09:53,039 --> 00:10:04,639 insight that a man as to the human race exists in 95% of the population and 51 00:10:14,259 --> 00:10:24,720 ficta Spinoza Calvin and play that's the way to do it and we'll defend this with 52 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:33,279 precise mathematical science we will keep to ourselves the biological reason 53 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:49,740 one another if you will trace the founding years of the elite private 54 00:10:49,740 --> 00:10:55,720 boarding schools in the United States with the exception of no more than six 55 00:11:03,759 --> 00:11:10,879 the woman's colleges the seven sisters in the 30 years after the descent of man 56 00:11:10,879 --> 00:11:17,440 which will be in every respectable library in the United States and of 57 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:25,120 course overseas to I urge you especially if you're Irish to pick it up and read 58 00:11:34,639 --> 00:11:43,960 on earth just as the English without Darwin would have agreed you know well 59 00:11:55,639 --> 00:12:03,600 scientific mathematical evidence and the proselytizing of Francis Galton vigorous 60 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:09,759 rigorous out of that comes in the period right after the American First 61 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:26,039 families competitions you set up the criteria for ranking and you know you 62 00:12:26,039 --> 00:12:36,080 present your daughters like prize heifers to be rated by the judges so we have a 63 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:52,279 reinforcement of Anglican theology or Calvinist theology or platonic philosophy 64 00:12:52,279 --> 00:13:01,200 or fictian philosophy or if you want to go liberal of a Spinoza philosophy until 65 00:13:08,919 --> 00:13:16,000 not only are people justified in setting up a former schooling that's 66 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:24,519 anti-educational but they're doing either nature's work or the Lord's work you 67 00:13:24,519 --> 00:13:29,440 decide you want to go Calvin you're doing the Lord's work you want to go 68 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:46,320 foundation is right on the surface 69 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:48,360 Someone has to point your attention to it. 70 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:54,759 Please, no one watching say, "Oh, this fellow Goddard was spun off." 71 00:13:54,759 --> 00:13:59,040 You know, this phenomenal, interesting, but wacky theory. 72 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:00,640 I didn't spin off anything. 73 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:26,879 post-Darwin Gaughton comes a German, a Prussian psychophysicist named Wilhelm Wun... 74 00:14:34,879 --> 00:14:44,320 The only place in the world for a long, long time you could get a Ph.D. degree was either 75 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:52,960 Prussia, University of Berlin, Leipzig, these little nests of Germanic countries. 76 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:10,800 1814 or '16 in the United States when a guy who later became the governor of 77 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:13,519 to get his Ph.D. degree. 78 00:15:13,519 --> 00:15:21,440 By the 1870s, 1880s, was a flood from Japan, from Russia, from everywhere, 79 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:38,880 presidents of universities, heads of government bureaus, because their families 80 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:45,600 and now that's become the ticket to intellectual management. 81 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:50,560 That's how these Prussian ideas spread like wildfire. 82 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:02,080 and he's close. 83 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:09,280 I think he has a French Ph.D., because the French scrambled to try to get that degree 84 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:16,640 That's Tichner, Cornell, or the head of all the heads of psych departments, Prussian 85 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:30,720 I mean, everywhere, the same idea. 86 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:43,040 The Japanese Constitution in 1868 is scrapped, and the Prussian Constitution 87 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:55,840 I mean, we're talking here the domination of ideas that's so interesting that what should 88 00:16:55,840 --> 00:17:02,480 make you suspicious is that, no, whenever they heard of this detail, this detail, 89 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:06,079 why hasn't anyone joined them together? 90 00:17:14,799 --> 00:17:23,920 ago when I bearded him and his dad, and I said, "Doug, surely you know these things. 91 00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:29,680 Why is a junior high school teacher left to beat the drum?" 92 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:34,799 He looked at me and he said, "Not a good way to get tenure. 93 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:51,680 I know that financial finally prize or penalty is enough to control the way we al... 94 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:58,000 and these things have been studied since the collegiate in ancient Rome. 95 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:01,039 Armies have put together these insights. 96 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:17,599 to their sons usually, and of course the daughters catches catch hand, but eventual... 97 00:18:17,599 --> 00:18:24,320 If I could notice the pattern that you're describing, it seems that people are 98 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:29,920 They come up with ideas of utopias, and then they, in order to get this utopia, compulsory 99 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:37,599 to make people think that this is how it has to be. 100 00:18:37,599 --> 00:18:43,599 But when you look at the real effects of Darwin in the form of, say, eugenics, 101 00:18:43,599 --> 00:18:45,360 and the role it played in America. 102 00:18:45,360 --> 00:18:47,680 Goulton is the inventor. 103 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:55,920 His first cousin is the inventor of eugenics and the chief global distributor. 104 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:08,960 a follower of the exception, claim to have read his book like the Bible, 105 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:15,120 have never seen him say what I'm about to say. 106 00:19:15,120 --> 00:19:24,240 I'm talking about the so-called father of capitalism, the wealth of nations. 107 00:19:33,120 --> 00:19:39,360 son and the street sweepers son, except early training. 108 00:19:39,360 --> 00:19:47,360 A dead giveaway that this idea was known to be highly dangerous. 109 00:19:47,360 --> 00:19:53,519 And I don't think this has ever occurred in publishing that I know of before or since. 110 00:19:54,480 --> 00:20:02,160 In the 1809 reprint of wealth of nations, because it immediately became 111 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:10,640 an international must read, the publisher of the book, a man with the ironic name of 112 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:19,759 Playfair, an economist, takes his own author to task in the preface of the book. 113 00:20:31,599 --> 00:20:34,480 intellectual development. 114 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:42,559 The only way we've progressed through thousands of years of history is to make t... 115 00:20:42,559 --> 00:20:48,400 they depend on our goodwill, you know, for their bread and butter, 116 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:59,519 It's a scathing upgrade of his own immortal author, Adam Smith. 117 00:20:59,519 --> 00:21:07,120 But Smith is, as far as I can see, other than minor figures like Florence Nightingale, 118 00:21:07,120 --> 00:21:09,039 I'm not even sure about her. 119 00:21:09,039 --> 00:21:14,400 He's the only one who says what ought to be obvious on the face of it. 120 00:21:24,079 --> 00:21:33,680 gold coast of the Upper West Side, so I taught the sons and daughters of the media 121 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:40,960 and the sons and daughters of the professoria and the doctors and lawyers. 122 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:55,920 a tablecloth in their life, nor was I raised with a very democratic outlook. 123 00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:59,920 It wasn't an undemocratic outlook, but it wasn't stressed. 124 00:21:59,920 --> 00:22:07,440 So you could hardly call my family in modern terms liberal, although I hope we'll discuss. 125 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:10,880 It's what you ought to be aiming to be. 126 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:20,640 And because of my German grandfather who cried out in the middle of the street in 127 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:27,519 Mont City for German victory during the Second World War, even though his son was ... 128 00:22:27,519 --> 00:22:32,400 commander at the Battle of the Bulge, but he was calling for German victory, 129 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:51,119 Well, a large percentage of the population at the time was German. 130 00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:53,280 Oh, right now. 131 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:58,960 There was a whole swing of pro-German up until like 1913, and then all of a sudden 132 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:02,000 the Germans were Huns and ad hominem attacks. 133 00:23:09,519 --> 00:23:18,480 There's a center section that's a tribute to the United States as thema pure Germanic 134 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:26,800 country on earth, the 10 foot portrait of Henry Ford behind Hitler's desk, and 135 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:45,280 That's why you don't find that would disturb people to know. 136 00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:48,480 It's the best they don't know that stuff. 137 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:06,240 class population around Pittsburgh who will break your nose if you insult them rather 138 00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:15,920 for mercy, I decided, and partly because of laziness, I decided with my five classes a 139 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:35,360 It all certainly made my life easier, but what I had done was throw away the assigne... 140 00:24:35,360 --> 00:24:41,360 which I believe was Jack London, and nothing wrong with Jack London. 141 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:55,599 way to go. I had taken from Cornell in Columbia and Reed College in Oregon, which 142 00:24:55,599 --> 00:25:06,079 major colleges I attended, I had taken a level of text fully equal to that. 143 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:25,039 maybe shorter papers and stuff, that the level of intellect in the ghetto black 144 00:25:25,039 --> 00:25:33,039 in the ghetto Hispanic population, was really quite equal to the others. 145 00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:46,559 I had a little black kid named Gregory Smith. Gregory, I hope somehow or other you're alive 146 00:25:46,559 --> 00:25:54,720 and you're listening to this, and I'm replacing Jack London with Moby Dick, the 147 00:25:54,720 --> 00:26:01,840 American novel ever written that explores all the great ideas of European history, 148 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:17,599 reading a book that's way beyond anything and difficulty they've ever read, and I hear a 149 00:26:17,599 --> 00:26:26,160 A look and Gregory Smith has fallen asleep and crashed to the floor. Well, I'm fresh ... 150 00:26:33,039 --> 00:26:36,720 They wake up real quick. That's the way the cops do to us when we're 151 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:43,119 making out on their cars around Pittsburgh, and if our feet stick out, they kick our 152 00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:53,119 So anyway, Gregory wakes up, and I'm very insulting, and he said, "I don't need to p... 153 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:07,119 but I say, "What do you mean you learned that in third grade?" He said, "Well, I learned 154 00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:16,720 are these sats of ladies who weave your future, and you can't change it. Either th... 155 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:22,960 Scandinavia, the fates in Greece." And as I was reeling back from that, because he had 156 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:27,640 from that, because he had made a connection, Cornel in Columbia never made for me between 157 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:37,160 predestination and these, he said, and I learned these things from the visiting 158 00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:51,640 your nose, you can't change that, so I don't need to listen to you talk about 159 00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:59,480 well at that minute, I mean at that exact second, I said this kid has written a PhD 160 00:28:06,360 --> 00:28:14,200 Samantha's stupid kid, you know, and then I completely opened my eyes and sure enough, 161 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:27,640 behind the street idiom was active mentality, you know, fresh ideas, it just had been 162 00:28:36,519 --> 00:28:45,800 it revolutionized my teaching, but then over the balance of the, that was the first yea... 163 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:57,480 of the 29 years I taught, I decided to use the fresh eyes and perspectives of the 164 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:19,560 what they wanted to do seriously, if Jamal Watson wanted to do nothing but draw comic 165 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:35,640 listen Jamal, I used to read comic books, and if you want to do this seriously, you're 166 00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:41,960 he'd get angry, it's how I'm the best in the school, I said yeah maybe I said, but in a 167 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:47,640 comic book, all the panels aren't the same size, look at the one you're copying from, 168 00:29:56,120 --> 00:30:03,000 the, by the head comes out, the fist comes out, I said look you're copying and you do... 169 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:11,160 why don't you take a week out of school, go to the local public library, I'll cover fo... 170 00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:34,360 use of your time, so I found out that each person, one girl wanted to do nothing but 171 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:50,680 to being an Olympic swimmer, she's 13, and I said well why don't you do that for the re... 172 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:58,440 year, you can't do it in school, we don't have a swimming pool, but there are about ... 173 00:31:06,039 --> 00:31:14,840 visit every one of them, set up a rating for these swimming pool, concentration of 174 00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:23,480 water, depth of the pool, length of the lane, lighting, access costs, and you will produ... 175 00:31:30,519 --> 00:31:38,120 say you're doing it, and could you be cataloged, because who else has such a 176 00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:48,920 well she was, her life was transformed because I treated her time and with respec... 177 00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:07,720 in each one of them, we got a call from New York, that's a city magazine in New York, 178 00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:14,280 midway through the school year, and they said they had heard about this, and they wanted... 179 00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:30,120 our own writer's name on it, this girl, I doubt if she'd ever seen a $10 bill in her 180 00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:39,160 I'm offering her $500, she said no, it's mine, if they want to use it, they'll put ... 181 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:59,080 a famous American writer, somebody that, the New York senator from Harvard, what was hi... 182 00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:18,920 no prior to that, but he coincided with Cuomo, no, he was, he had written books about 183 00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:26,360 the plight of poverty, but they weren't sympathetic books, he was nationally famous, 184 00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:46,360 I had a friend who had flunked out of Cornell, I'm reluctant to mention his name 185 00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:53,880 because he's a nationally famous writer by assassinations, and this famous New York 186 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:15,640 he was a flunk out from Cornell, how did this happen? Because when he saw the Kennedy 187 00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:33,159 we stayed up all night, and we both agreed, if anything happened to the assassin, that 188 00:34:33,159 --> 00:34:40,760 the information could be trusted, and the next morning or afternoon, and that was it 189 00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:59,720 who's did, started the general studies program in Columbia, and given him a Ph.D.... 190 00:34:59,720 --> 00:35:07,079 of one, without ever going to class, he would spend all his time writing a book about the, 191 00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:21,480 which I thought was a very clever way to sidestep, you know, all the, you know, 192 00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:29,880 yellow journalism stuff, it became inquest, it was called, it became a national 193 00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:48,119 they took him in, in South Africa as a house guest for a long, long time, and he wrote ... 194 00:35:48,119 --> 00:35:54,760 saying diamonds are essentially worthless, because they have thousands of years of 195 00:36:04,519 --> 00:36:16,360 investigative study called News from Nowhere, about how news actually is selected for 196 00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:35,640 from the Harlem kids, the Spanish Harlem kids from my flunk out Cornell friend, 197 00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:57,720 determines, and I could begin to see around me all the narratives that were disconnected 198 00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:16,600 narratives, and they occurred over and over and over again in every aspect, 199 00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:35,400 ethical or moral break on what insiders were able to say and all the other insiders 200 00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:45,400 would agree with, so that when I turned to what obviously was wrong with school was t... 201 00:37:55,320 --> 00:38:05,240 must have money to relieve, that it seemed like a closed universe which one hand wash... 202 00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:25,800 contributors, and it wasn't a very long distance to go, for example, I remember one, 203 00:38:36,519 --> 00:38:46,680 worst class on the eighth grade, the kids were huge, they had no tradition of 204 00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:57,079 but I determined to utterly ignore that and to say that we were going to start with 205 00:39:07,240 --> 00:39:14,039 from school for months, and they could travel around elementary schools, put these plays 206 00:39:14,039 --> 00:39:21,400 and then talk about the problems of staging them, of mastering the character, or 207 00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:42,280 some kid burst out laughing in the middle of, oh that this two-two solid flesh would mel... 208 00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:49,320 resolve itself into a dip, what are you laughing about, don't you know, he said we... 209 00:40:01,079 --> 00:40:09,640 illusion, but it wasn't an illusion, broken, but we still got some good work done, we 210 00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:19,000 problems that we then have to solve, that's what I think all experts do, I don't think 211 00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:35,079 to learn, it takes some time, so you can benefit from prior experience, but it does... 212 00:40:35,079 --> 00:40:44,199 near the time expanse, so the point is that individuals have an innate infinite 213 00:40:48,519 --> 00:41:00,360 people wish to learn, it used to be called emulation, you're around somebody can do 214 00:41:00,279 --> 00:41:12,679 Of course, you're watching how they do it. We talked earlier about the disadvantage adop... 215 00:41:12,679 --> 00:41:21,559 have. When you watch your mother and father and you're 14 months old and have no 216 00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:39,400 contend with one another. You're seeing so many hundreds of skills that, in fact, you... 217 00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:49,000 programmed to imitate. Later, when the mind kicks in, you have some selection, which o... 218 00:41:59,960 --> 00:42:11,719 experience base away. The easiest way to turn your kids into geniuses, I mean by the tim... 219 00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:31,400 My favorite story is Richard Branson tells it in his autobiography. His mother, who was ... 220 00:42:42,039 --> 00:42:55,000 that he wouldn't become dependent. When he was four years old, picture 48 months, she 221 00:43:03,319 --> 00:43:12,920 from there and he said, I thought he could get out and do so. Then she said, and now 222 00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:21,319 he? He doesn't even have many words. So eight or nine hours later, when he finds his way 223 00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:39,639 never goes to college, has his first million bucks by the time he's 19 by figuring out 224 00:43:39,639 --> 00:43:46,679 need and want and giving it to them cheaper or better or bringing anyone to offer it. 225 00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:07,159 closer to what colonial America was than early federal America. When nobody wanted ... 226 00:44:07,159 --> 00:44:14,199 for somebody else, they wanted an independent livelihood. It would be closer to that than 227 00:44:23,079 --> 00:44:33,639 have begun to need less and less people, but they have such political control over the 228 00:44:33,639 --> 00:44:43,400 and the federal government that there's no way to arrest this progress. Furthermore, ... 229 00:44:50,519 --> 00:44:59,480 you guys had the world, there wasn't any competition. What happened? You know, I 230 00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:07,079 when the Jap cars came in, they had names like the Bluebird and the Fair Lady. I mea... 231 00:45:18,039 --> 00:45:23,719 fast track to the executive suite and profit sharing and all the rest of the good stuff, 232 00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:33,799 stopped being the fast track. Finance became the fast track, taking these huge profits, 233 00:45:43,319 --> 00:45:49,480 same thing that happened to the steel industry in Pittsburgh. It wasn't moved ou... 234 00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:55,639 because any of them were losing a penny. They're making great profit. It's that the 235 00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:12,599 would get rid of a hundred thousand steel workers and truck drivers, but who the hel... 236 00:46:12,599 --> 00:46:21,480 them? Didn't Darwin say they're not evolving? They're all Irish anyway. Well, this is th... 237 00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:26,119 between eugenics and that type of mentality where people were under control and someon... 238 00:46:31,319 --> 00:46:37,639 of this country with high literacy rates. When we had a high entrepreneurship, 239 00:46:37,639 --> 00:46:41,319 literacy rates, people who had critical thinking and knew how to deal with problem... 240 00:46:41,319 --> 00:46:47,079 because if not, you might die. Or other people think badly of, if you said I want ... 241 00:47:00,119 --> 00:47:06,440 So by studying one and the other, as if you're going to pass a short answer test, 242 00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:28,119 what enables you to strike out so that history doesn't infinitely repeat itself. ... 243 00:47:37,159 --> 00:47:47,239 internationally because the Chinese, the Japs, the Malaysian can do this brain 244 00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:53,880 better than we can because they have traditions that allow that. And we still t... 245 00:48:04,519 --> 00:48:14,039 from this segment saying, what did he say? It's that the bad things done in school ha... 246 00:48:14,039 --> 00:48:23,480 intellectually justified and you're not going to change that set of mind. So all the eff... 247 00:48:33,079 --> 00:48:40,679 now the majority of the important people in the country make their living either direc... 248 00:48:40,679 --> 00:48:49,480 or indirectly because you no longer have a critical mind. And what is the definition ... 249 00:48:57,000 --> 00:49:06,199 Well, if there is no sales resistance, you do that by juggling balls and dancing. Here's a 250 00:49:06,199 --> 00:49:18,920 pretty girl by the product. You can have her. It's quite a pickle that we're in. Our 251 00:49:27,719 --> 00:49:39,000 well versed in screwing rival power. We might have been around a few hundred years. They're 252 00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:54,359 just forget the dollar is paper. Give us our money back. 253 00:49:54,359 --> 00:50:03,319 How are populations kind of prepared and indoctrinated and conditioned into receiving 254 00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:19,800 Well, the interesting thing about leverage, and it has been studied since ancient Rome... 255 00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:28,840 don't have to do everybody. You just have to do a few opinion makers. They do the rest. 256 00:50:36,440 --> 00:50:44,519 in one fell swoop, donated a brand new organ to every church in the United States. This 257 00:50:44,519 --> 00:50:54,519 in the old atheists, opened his purse. Everybody got a new organ. Do you suppose 258 00:51:01,559 --> 00:51:08,199 you grew up in a Christian tradition. You don't you thank Mr. Carnegie for his organ? 259 00:51:08,199 --> 00:51:16,599 Don't you being human hope that something else will follow that organ? And you bet y... 260 00:51:23,639 --> 00:51:33,079 for teachers. The government didn't set up the pension system. Rockefeller and Carneg... 261 00:51:33,079 --> 00:51:40,119 the pension system out of their own pockets. And of course, they didn't give it to 262 00:51:49,559 --> 00:51:53,880 credits of anything, whatever they were, or two credits of math, whatever they were. 263 00:51:53,880 --> 00:52:01,719 You could compete for the pensions if you followed the Carnegie credit system. 264 00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:08,840 Is there any school in the country who didn't? I never heard of one. How could yo... 265 00:52:16,199 --> 00:52:23,800 what you're doing isn't so great anyway. Why don't you do it this way? So this whole 266 00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:34,119 religion of leverage, which is just accumulated over more than 2000 years, 267 00:52:44,199 --> 00:52:52,279 You may have a rough idea what leverage means from a physics course and see how 268 00:52:52,279 --> 00:53:01,000 connections. But you don't have any idea how you can plan the future for an entire 269 00:53:13,559 --> 00:53:23,319 available wasn't the newspapers, although it was good. It was the pulpits. And so mixed... 270 00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:41,000 The whole Harper's publishing empire is, I think it's Methodist, but don't know how many 271 00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:47,159 of that. Maybe it's Baptist. And I think the Rockefellers are Baptist. But they're not 272 00:53:56,119 --> 00:54:04,840 like Episcopalians. I forget the name of it. When I was studying the Quaker transformat... 273 00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:12,840 pious, humble people to among the most powerful, certainly the most powerful smal... 274 00:54:21,239 --> 00:54:28,359 five percent. Nixon being the most recent, right? Nixon being the most recent. Nixon ... 275 00:54:43,800 --> 00:54:49,800 can't think clearly. Well, someone knew that thousands of years ago. What data to remove, 276 00:54:49,800 --> 00:55:00,600 how to spin a local authority into your scheme. Let him do the work. School teachers, 277 00:55:07,080 --> 00:55:15,400 they're caught rid of. They're drawn out of a pool of college graduates. The New York Ti... 278 00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:30,680 the lowest single scoring graduates on standardized exams except for school 279 00:55:41,720 --> 00:55:52,280 group. So the managers, so-called, are the dumbest people of all. They know that thei... 280 00:55:52,280 --> 00:55:58,680 depends on, because there's 20 people to take their job. They don't want them. He's sitting 281 00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:14,120 Tom Tom's telling them what to do different. And of course, what to do different always 282 00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:22,440 identify the most influential parents that are always the richest. Do something 283 00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:41,960 If you looked at schools in 1905 and schools today, the correspondences are overwhelmingly 284 00:56:50,519 --> 00:56:58,039 Frederick Gates helped out Rockefeller at a time when the family was getting a bad 285 00:56:58,039 --> 00:57:02,120 reputation. And like Carnegie, they were having a lot of labor disputes. 286 00:57:02,120 --> 00:57:07,080 How does the idea of philanthropy and altruism affect American education? 287 00:57:17,880 --> 00:57:27,640 is the explanation for what's called American education. Let's us call it American 288 00:57:27,640 --> 00:57:35,320 That's a pretty comprehensive condemnation. Do I have any evidence for that? Yes, I do. 289 00:57:46,600 --> 00:57:57,560 one in 1959 by Guy named Carol Reese, both came to the identical conclusion that all ... 290 00:58:08,120 --> 00:58:21,160 money, use leverage to control the curriculum, the testing system, the public 291 00:58:32,039 --> 00:58:50,360 the ring leaders. They had divided responsibility. Ford took, let me not miss... 292 00:58:55,720 --> 00:59:03,160 well, Mr. Dodd, we have directives from the White House and we're at the Ford Foundati... 293 00:59:03,160 --> 00:59:14,440 for OSS. The White House, back in the 20s and 30s, set up conferences of experts in orde... 294 00:59:24,920 --> 00:59:35,160 they spoke, all the other courts fell into lawn. I think Ford took over the 295 00:59:49,079 --> 00:59:56,840 this thing, the Carnegie Foundation, still today. If you go up to their library, I th... 296 00:59:56,840 --> 01:00:03,640 awesoming or around there and just read their annual report for the Carnegie Corporation. 297 01:00:10,200 --> 01:00:19,240 was cooked up in the project offices and then it's dumped on the world through 298 01:00:19,240 --> 01:00:28,760 the control of the media. How's the media control? Well, it's controlled through 299 01:00:35,560 --> 01:00:40,600 why aren't you advertising when you say, well, your point of view is so radical. 300 01:00:40,600 --> 01:00:49,079 Advertising? All right, cool. Let's take at least a 15-minute break. Cool this room off. 301 01:00:49,079 --> 01:00:58,600 I think the mechanics of how it's done is the most useful thing to someone just new to