1 00:00:12,519 --> 00:00:15,919 Is there an easy way to learn? 2 00:00:15,919 --> 00:00:27,440 If you begin and understand yourself thoroughly and you have a lot of raw 3 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:43,320 And I do believe that all the graceful, easy learning comes from people who are 4 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:48,799 inside their own skin because they understand. 5 00:00:48,799 --> 00:00:53,920 And people who've had a lot of early experience. 6 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:07,239 I set aside one full day a week. 7 00:01:07,239 --> 00:01:13,599 I won't get into the politics of how this was pulled off, but it was never easy. 8 00:01:13,599 --> 00:01:22,959 Where the kids could follow their own instincts anywhere in New York City they 9 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:40,239 in New York City, that would group projects that would end up with a tangible goal, such 10 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:59,159 The New York Times announced on the front page, about three weeks before the Ed Koch, 11 00:01:59,159 --> 00:02:07,719 Dave Dinkins election of, let me say, 1980, somewhere around there, that Dinkins was 12 00:02:12,759 --> 00:02:20,039 And I had a black kid in the class come up and asked me why the city was so prejudiced. 13 00:02:20,039 --> 00:02:22,439 And I said, "Why do you say that?" 14 00:02:22,439 --> 00:02:26,159 And he said, "Well, look at this." 15 00:02:26,159 --> 00:02:30,479 And I said, "Well, why do you believe that's true? 16 00:02:30,479 --> 00:02:33,360 Maybe that's to get you not to go and vote. 17 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:35,479 I don't know," I said. 18 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:46,000 There's 8 million of us. 19 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:50,879 I said, "There's 120 people in my five classes. 20 00:02:50,879 --> 00:02:59,199 If each one of you do 20 interviews and we do it according to the way you get a random 21 00:02:59,199 --> 00:03:03,840 distribution, then that's easy enough to find out." 22 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:14,719 We gathered the data. 23 00:03:14,719 --> 00:03:16,680 We processed it. 24 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:22,960 And we discovered about a week after the Times said, hopefully, behind, that he 25 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:28,599 was ahead by a fraction of one point. 26 00:03:28,599 --> 00:03:30,639 That's quite a skew. 27 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:37,400 He won in the closest race in New York history. 28 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:47,599 But notice that a random group of 120, 13-year-olds had produced more accurate 29 00:03:47,599 --> 00:03:56,840 The math in the statistical processing is hardly daunting for a fifth grader. 30 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:15,319 Since, obviously, it's a crucial part of commerce, you know, opinion. 31 00:04:15,319 --> 00:04:22,040 Well, there must be a reason they're not used that way, nor do they hear about statistical 32 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:30,839 Why not? 33 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:39,800 According to Alfred North Whitehead, one of the major mathematicians of the 20th century, 34 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:48,800 other than addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, the only 35 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:03,560 organized around those things, the politics is organized around those things, said that 36 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:11,279 in aims of education, which I think was published in the mid-1940s, well, you know... 37 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:17,160 have gone by, and where is it? 38 00:05:24,759 --> 00:05:31,240 And what can one learn from the gene sequencing hobbies of 11-year-olds? 39 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:40,800 I got a foundation award at a fancy hotel in Washington, D.C., I guess about 15 years 40 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:41,800 ago. 41 00:05:46,019 --> 00:05:57,360 And sitting next to me was an 11-year-old boy receiving the same award from the foundation. 42 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:09,319 And I mean, I was tickled as this little skinny Chinese kid, and he has made some 43 00:06:09,319 --> 00:06:10,319 breakthrough. 44 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:25,920 And I said, "Well, how did you learn to sequence genes, you know, instead of 45 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:30,360 I'm a swimming champion, I remember he said that to me, I have a lot of metal, so he was 46 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:34,040 a well-balanced 11-year-old kid. 47 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:53,000 said, "My uncle or my grandfather explained to me that the way you train fleas, he had 48 00:06:53,000 --> 00:07:00,040 a soft part in me because I used to go to Hubert's Flea Circus on 42nd Street and watch 49 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:14,560 If you put fleas in a container, they'll instantly leap off and head off in all 50 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:19,600 because they have flea agendas, and even they don't fall off in the same direction. 51 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:22,319 They have individual agendas." 52 00:07:22,319 --> 00:07:28,360 So he says, "You've got to break that autonomy in the flea first. 53 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:44,759 keep attempting to follow their own agenda, and they strike themselves over and over 54 00:07:44,759 --> 00:07:51,199 And if you come back in an hour or so, they're all huddled in a mess together. 55 00:07:51,199 --> 00:07:55,439 Now when you take the lid off, they don't even try to escape. 56 00:08:00,279 --> 00:08:07,360 The minute the 11-year-old kid said that to me, "I knew that I had been hired as the 57 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:10,360 lid on the container. 58 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:17,360 Not that I hadn't sabotaged it somewhat, but nevertheless, that's what we all had been 59 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:19,399 hired to do." 60 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:30,120 of years ago. 61 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:37,159 And whoever trained those fleas understood the principle and saw that it could be 62 00:08:37,159 --> 00:08:47,320 as it is in military training to human beings, as it is in much religious trainin... 63 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:48,320 but much. 64 00:08:52,399 --> 00:08:57,360 designing an education system, and then you've got these Machiavellian techniques 65 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:01,879 in on top of it of how to break the will of animals, and it's being used to train our 66 00:09:01,879 --> 00:09:02,879 children. 67 00:09:02,879 --> 00:09:10,799 Yeah, what's surprising is that these insights and even these activities that do... 68 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:28,279 Roman collegia in the fifth century was, I'll put an umbrella over it, crowd control, you 69 00:09:28,279 --> 00:09:37,399 know, how you divide to conquer what buttons on the human organ you press to produce 70 00:09:37,399 --> 00:09:38,399 sounds. 71 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:50,840 What has happened in the inner ring, 16 centuries, they forgot that, or was it add... 72 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:56,480 Has it become amazingly sophisticated? 73 00:09:56,480 --> 00:10:04,279 Less and less people necessary to produce more and more leverage. 74 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:16,440 state and modern states like Israel, which are also built along the same theocratic 75 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:25,639 I think, and I'm trying to be as fair as possible to the villains in this, I think 76 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:39,320 how much menace is out there jeopardy, certainty. 77 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:51,639 So to follow a list of rules, algorithms, you know, is emotionally very satisfying, but 78 00:10:56,879 --> 00:11:01,000 You know, and the minute everyone's doing it, you don't have to do it. 79 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:10,080 You now are handed freedom because the menace has been reduced of other people 80 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:14,740 with humanity and enlarging its boundaries. 81 00:11:20,580 --> 00:11:26,679 If that's the overproduction thing, I hope we talked about that yesterday because it 82 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:36,960 finally was the tipping point in the late 19th century as corporations were enlargin... 83 00:11:36,960 --> 00:11:40,500 layering themselves. 84 00:11:49,279 --> 00:11:57,659 was a tremendous risk to capital formation because to talk people out of their wealth 85 00:11:57,659 --> 00:12:07,539 on the grounds that you can multiply doesn't work if too many people invent ways to do 86 00:12:13,700 --> 00:12:23,139 So the easiest way to manage the future and the present of course, they saw a series of 87 00:12:23,139 --> 00:12:29,980 financial crises all through history, but especially in the 19th century where the boot 88 00:12:38,059 --> 00:12:44,220 I mean, America's producing more inventions than all of us in the world put together. 89 00:12:44,220 --> 00:12:50,779 You can't have that because on that new base, the next base is going to be frightening. 90 00:13:02,820 --> 00:13:11,379 You have to use government to control overproduction, dumping too many goods or 91 00:13:11,379 --> 00:13:16,139 market that it can't absorb and the easiest way to do that. 92 00:13:23,039 --> 00:13:35,779 groups, but ultimately the killer app is to remove the ability to be inventive from the 93 00:13:35,779 --> 00:13:37,620 ordinary mass. 94 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:48,700 penetrate what that means is much harder than to see instantly what over 95 00:13:48,700 --> 00:14:02,120 production means. Then a second menace emerged in the late 19th century, but by 96 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:17,560 hyper-democracy. If too many people take democracy seriously and understand how to 97 00:14:17,560 --> 00:14:26,560 form alliances with one another to confront power with power, then power 98 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:47,240 them, I mean this was so intolerable, the cost to privilege classes of this rain of 99 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:54,120 money, the cost to the government of not being able to suppress dissent on the 100 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:09,280 Trilateral Commission gave me the the break I needed to understand this more 101 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:15,680 precisely. They underwrote the publication of a book called The Crisis of 102 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:24,080 Democracy in 1975, published by New York University Press, in which now you have 103 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:41,960 brokers aren't nakedly making these statements, but if you read Crisis of 104 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:48,400 Democracy carefully, you will see that the crisis is too many people took it 105 00:15:57,960 --> 00:16:07,560 the hierarchy a war that, you know, now the next war would be harder to to run. I 106 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:15,640 mean to get together, it would be more absurd. At least you could make a case in 107 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:27,880 of Iraq or in the mountains of Afghanistan why national security depends 108 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:35,160 on on suppressing these barefoot people and people whose weapons are blowing up 109 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:40,400 their feet in their underwear. Hey, you know, they're going to take the bread out 110 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:56,440 Sandinistas to communicate the idea that it was just a stone's throw from our 111 00:16:56,440 --> 00:17:02,040 southern border and these people might pile into their 20 and 30 year old 112 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:19,320 Well, you know, we our economy of course cannot function without warfare so that 113 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:24,519 when these things are over, count on the fact that if we have to attack the South 114 00:17:32,079 --> 00:17:37,279 Conference 1919, pre-CFR formation, Colonel House and these characters are 115 00:17:37,279 --> 00:17:42,120 hanging out and Ho Chi Minh comes in and says we want to be free like America, we 116 00:17:42,120 --> 00:17:46,200 love democracy, we want to do this and instead of helping them out, helping them 117 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:50,400 to become free, they're like well we're gonna have to take them out, that makes a 118 00:17:55,599 --> 00:18:01,440 thing about the book The Crisis of Democracy is that spreading out like 119 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:08,160 ripples from a stone thrown in a pond, the popular magazines impressed. Time 120 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:14,960 magazine did a cover story on too much democracy, question mark. Of course they 121 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:30,259 to make decisions there, but it was everywhere. So they, Tom-Toms, they're 122 00:18:30,259 --> 00:18:36,720 interconnected and they beat simultaneously or nearly so. What's the 123 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:55,279 it forces you really in a fun way to think for yourself there and then it 124 00:18:55,279 --> 00:19:03,079 turns out that the secrets of nature or of society aren't really very hard to 125 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:16,000 little babies are always curious. How do you destroy curiosity? Well one good 126 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:22,279 way is to sit people in chairs, tell them to speak when you're spoken to, 127 00:19:22,279 --> 00:19:31,720 threaten them with upcoming tests. If they don't memorize usually erroneous 128 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:46,960 Perry's opening of Japan. The school book last one I looked was nominally 129 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:55,599 under the ages of the Librarian of Congress, so a major scholar, and it 130 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:08,140 part of the modern world. It wasn't fair to leave them in medieval and so Admiral 131 00:20:08,140 --> 00:20:15,120 Perry sailed over there and negotiated and they said okay you can have coaling 132 00:20:15,120 --> 00:20:23,320 bases or we'll take care of sunken ware crews. What no one says is that Perry had 133 00:20:31,360 --> 00:20:38,640 with a range of about 75 yards and Perry's guns could reach 10 miles. And 134 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:47,840 that Perry emphasized the destructive impact of his force of three black 135 00:20:54,640 --> 00:21:01,759 structures on the shore. Then they rode out fast enough and said you know please 136 00:21:01,759 --> 00:21:08,360 Mesa. When did the American dream become one of lifelong servitude and debt and 137 00:21:08,360 --> 00:21:17,559 debt slavery? It's so fascinating that the American dream is enunciated in 1850 138 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:37,000 152 years ago and he says the American dream is to write your own script to 139 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:44,160 have an independent livelihood. That's why we don't have giant corporations like 140 00:21:51,279 --> 00:22:00,640 put a stake together and they figure out what people need and then they do. So the 141 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:09,480 American dream was as elementary school books it was liberty, freedom, personal 142 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:27,119 the earth or even tribal bodies. And did it work? It almost immediately propelled 143 00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:38,160 us into a paramount position among the just because there's a I'm not hostile 144 00:22:47,599 --> 00:22:53,240 with the theory of what's going on and about three or four years ago there was 145 00:22:53,240 --> 00:23:01,559 a wonderful analytical book called The Cathedral and the Bazaar. Are you familiar 146 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:22,200 nature was about proving itself through IT. The author or authors maintain that 147 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:30,880 the crowd collectively has more wisdom and insight collectively and gave 148 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:47,720 company putting its limit. It knew that there had to be an ore body there but it 149 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:57,119 also knew that if it used the normal procedures and the whole proved dry, 150 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:15,240 have to sell what they knew. It's a gold corp today GG on the exchange. So how 151 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:23,960 did they discover the ore body instead of going to the recognized engineers and 152 00:24:32,079 --> 00:24:38,480 anyone at all from any background at all. They wanted a theory of how to find 153 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:45,400 that ore body and somebody who had nothing to do with mining that pick up 154 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:51,480 the book because I'm losing the richness of the details. But it's the 155 00:24:55,360 --> 00:25:01,280 there is a book I made a note to bring up here. There's a book that used to be 156 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:10,000 required reading at MIT and maybe still would be. It's by a middle-level physicist 157 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:17,759 named Robert Scott Root Bernstein. It's called Creativity. It's this thick and 158 00:25:25,559 --> 00:25:31,200 discussion among different people why he did that. But eventually I forced myself 159 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:40,559 to read it and what just comes pouring out of it is how actual life world 160 00:25:49,360 --> 00:25:57,360 funds and assistance to a project you almost destroy your ability to make 161 00:25:57,360 --> 00:26:03,320 these breakthroughs. People who have to saw ice cube trays in half to make a 162 00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:19,280 Now that's often then taken over by a big project. One of the most recent 163 00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:24,800 dramatic examples and I'm sure you can Google or whatever the search engine 164 00:26:32,079 --> 00:26:44,440 account of a new way to treat cancerous tumors with radiation without 165 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:54,079 any side effects at all and it had been discovered by a man in his garage who 166 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:06,240 about. Who? John Kanzius. Yes Kanzius. He worked in radio and television and he was 167 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:14,280 a kid. He was an enthusiast and he knew that if you shot radio wires through metal 168 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:20,720 that it heated up and he wanted if it would kill a tumor but not leave the 169 00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:31,880 radiation does and in fact it did. Now we don't have to take it on faith the leading 170 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:42,519 researchers in the world said this is a whole new ball game you know and some key resear... 171 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:59,800 himself and he knew that the established treatments wouldn't help him and in fact h... 172 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:07,320 and he died. I think the thing is that you Pittsburgh now but but it's it's some major 173 00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:28,280 irrelevant but that's a commonality. I copied some notes out of the Root Bernstein book ... 174 00:28:38,519 --> 00:28:45,960 breakthrough you know you can get the best Johns Hopkins it doesn't matter it's the 175 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:54,600 narrowness of training the people who make these breakthroughs have as wide a range o... 176 00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:14,759 etc etc most successful people in physics make it by going off by themselves and 177 00:29:24,039 --> 00:29:31,640 is how to deal with ambiguity but the established bodies of scientific knowledge 178 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:38,680 get in the way of thinking of fresh you know as soon as you hear these things they're so 179 00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:59,720 every scientific pioneer men like Edison Franklin Einstein Plunk Maxwell many others 180 00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:18,360 which is given rise to an understanding in the higher levels of the sciences that if ... 181 00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:28,840 made a major breakthrough by your middle 20s you're not going to what you can do is hea... 182 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:46,600 students but you're not going to be worth worth gambling on it isn't the age in itse... 183 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:57,640 inside it's the imprint of rigid patterns of habits now I happen to dig up a wonderful 184 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:21,400 psychology as an academic subject and James was of course it's I had ambivalent feelin... 185 00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:43,880 years ago habit is the enormous flywheel of society its most precious agent it alone 186 00:31:56,039 --> 00:32:05,720 from being deserted it holds the minor in his darkness it keeps different social strata 187 00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:29,640 me as I was reading it is how frequently the great discovery in a scientific arena is n... 188 00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:49,320 into chemistry or physics has fresh eyes cuts through the habits that lock the mind in 189 00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:10,360 insight comes only by getting out of ruts and plugging into a variety of methods so 190 00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:34,360 and saying hey look wake up you know the the world is much bigger and much different th... 191 00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:55,880 six purposes of schooling as laid down in 1917 by the man who harvard named their ho... 192 00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:18,599 honor lecture in education is named as it is the engels lecture looks like english but 193 00:34:18,599 --> 00:34:25,000 pronounced engels and I would like to read you the six purposes of schooling 194 00:34:27,079 --> 00:34:34,360 I moved heaven and earth and it took years to find this book just like trying to find an... 195 00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:46,119 years copy of carol quigley's tragedy and hope I learned about engels from the 20 ye... 196 00:34:56,920 --> 00:35:03,559 inner circle of the atomic bomb project world war two was the high commissioner of occupied 197 00:35:03,559 --> 00:35:14,200 germany after the war so he wrote oh that must be 20 books about the institution of 198 00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:32,039 myself to read most of these books and in one of them he says that if you really want to 199 00:35:32,039 --> 00:35:40,280 what school is about you need to pick up the book that I'm referring to here principles of 200 00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:58,840 and as dull as you your imagination can conceive and furthermore it's not until yo... 201 00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:07,720 very middle of the book in an unlabeled section that he spills the beans let me sp... 202 00:36:17,159 --> 00:36:28,039 adjust of function schools are to establish fixed habits of reaction to authority that... 203 00:36:28,039 --> 00:36:37,240 purpose habits of reaction to authority that's why school authorities don't tear 204 00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:57,240 in 1990s printed by scott fordsman distributed and why each of these books ha... 205 00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:13,559 adjust of function fixed habits now here comes the wonderful 206 00:37:13,559 --> 00:37:25,159 insight that being able to to analyze the detail will give you how can you establish 207 00:37:34,119 --> 00:37:42,280 they're given sensible orders to follow it that's not what they want to reach the onl... 208 00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:50,600 measure this is to give stupid orders and people automatically follow that now you'v... 209 00:37:59,079 --> 00:38:06,920 continue number two he calls he calls it the integrating function but it's easier to 210 00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:15,640 if you call it the conformity function it's to make children as alike as possible the 211 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:35,320 and it only works if people react generally the same way the third function he calls the 212 00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:54,760 that here's where you are in the great pyramid so that future people won't allow ... 213 00:39:03,240 --> 00:39:13,559 diagnosed kids in this layer you do not want them to learn anything that the higher layers 214 00:39:13,559 --> 00:39:23,240 are learning so you teach just as far as the requirements of that layer number five and 215 00:39:32,519 --> 00:39:42,600 Darwin meant by natural selection you're assessing the breeding quality of each 216 00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:48,360 you're doing it structurally because school teachers don't know this is happening and 217 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:07,880 humiliating labels around their neck encouraging the shallowness of thinking yo... 218 00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:15,960 wondered because it came from a very very strict scotch Irish culture that never 219 00:40:24,519 --> 00:40:31,400 really no redress for the girls at all ship not showing up in the classroom you know h... 220 00:40:46,039 --> 00:40:54,119 from a relationship and everything else will waste the time and expensive so the select... 221 00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:02,759 The idea is to consciously improve 222 00:41:02,759 --> 00:41:08,519 the breeding stock. Schools are meant to tag the unfet 223 00:41:08,519 --> 00:41:14,440 with their inferiority by poor grades, remedial placement, 224 00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:21,880 humiliation, so that their peers will accept them as inferior. 225 00:41:25,639 --> 00:41:33,079 will reject them as possible, partners. And the sixth is the creepiest 226 00:41:33,079 --> 00:41:39,559 of all, and I think it's partly what tragedy and hope is about. 227 00:41:39,559 --> 00:41:45,000 It's a fancy Roman name, the propydutic function, 228 00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:51,159 because as early as Roman big-time thinkers, it was understood 229 00:41:58,119 --> 00:42:03,559 being trained that they were the custodians of this. 230 00:42:03,559 --> 00:42:10,039 So some small fraction of the kids are being ready to take over 231 00:42:10,039 --> 00:42:14,839 the project. That's the guy in the honor lecture, 232 00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:26,440 the major general at the Siege of Lucknow in India, 233 00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:32,039 famous for tying the mutineers on the muzzles of the cannons and blowing them 234 00:42:32,039 --> 00:42:37,719 apart, or somebody who was forced to flee 235 00:42:37,719 --> 00:42:43,480 New York City, a churchman at the beginning of the American 236 00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:53,719 of Thomas Paine's common sense that were going to tar and feather him. 237 00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:58,920 He fled and was rewarded by the British by making him the 238 00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:06,440 Bishop of Nova Scotia. Those are Engels ancestors. 239 00:43:14,359 --> 00:43:20,840 and wrote to Harvard asking for access to the Engels lecture, 240 00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:25,319 "Strike me dead, Lord, if I'm exaggerating at all." 241 00:43:25,319 --> 00:43:32,519 I was told, well we have no, there is no Engels lecture, 242 00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:44,840 It was the same thing that happened when I discovered 243 00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:51,480 that Elwood P. Coverley, the most influential schoolman of the 20th 244 00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:57,480 century, and the bionomics genius, had been the 245 00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:01,079 elementary school editor of Houghton Mifflin, 246 00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:10,199 record of anyone named Elwood P. Coverley." Now Harvard's telling me 247 00:44:10,199 --> 00:44:16,840 there's no Engels lecture. A week passed, and I got a call 248 00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:22,519 from Harvard, from some obscure office at Harvard, 249 00:44:22,519 --> 00:44:29,319 saying, "What is your interest in the Engels lecture?" 250 00:44:38,279 --> 00:44:45,880 James Conant referred me in his books to the man, the Engels 251 00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:51,079 lectures, named after him." I was wondering if I could get some 252 00:44:51,079 --> 00:44:57,880 background on this fellow, and a list of the lectures, and in 253 00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:11,639 the texts, but not easily. You know, enough hoops that someone who has to mow 254 00:45:11,639 --> 00:45:16,679 the lawn and burp the baby wouldn't jump through 255 00:45:16,679 --> 00:45:22,519 those hoops. I was able to prove, Harvard's wouldn't 256 00:45:26,759 --> 00:45:33,159 Lulay from named against school, probably after Jeremiah's against, 257 00:45:33,159 --> 00:45:39,159 but I had called the Artificial Extension of Childhood, because I 258 00:45:39,159 --> 00:45:46,519 think that's the key mechanism at work here. So 259 00:45:53,159 --> 00:45:59,400 coverly, because how Mifflin denied it, was only months 260 00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:06,679 afterward that I looked through my extensive library of incredibly dull 261 00:46:06,679 --> 00:46:12,440 books about schooling, and opened in the facing page, said I would coverly 262 00:46:18,119 --> 00:46:23,880 publishing arm of how Mifflin, by the way, the secondary 263 00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:30,359 editor-in-chief, was Alexander Engels. So you see how 264 00:46:30,359 --> 00:46:37,960 this cousinage, the incest, works. If Martin Luther's idea was to cut 265 00:46:43,559 --> 00:46:46,279 instead of going to the middleman for their information? 266 00:46:46,279 --> 00:46:53,079 Well, the the more highly placed the schooling is, 267 00:46:53,079 --> 00:47:00,039 the more likely it is that they do do that. They go to primary documents, 268 00:47:00,039 --> 00:47:06,039 they understand how suspicious all secondary documents are, not that they 269 00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:17,559 editorial staff the ability to shift the information. 270 00:47:17,559 --> 00:47:22,599 That's why in the reprints of Quigley's tragedy and hope, 271 00:47:22,599 --> 00:47:27,799 we really need some of you out there to sit with the original, 272 00:47:27,799 --> 00:47:33,000 and sit with the reprint and make sure the key things 273 00:47:38,199 --> 00:47:43,159 you know, we want to shrink this down from 1,300 pages to 1,000 or 274 00:47:43,159 --> 00:47:50,359 whatever. Oh, it was an oversize. We have eight minutes, 275 00:47:50,359 --> 00:47:54,359 nine minutes left. I have two questions, and then we can 276 00:47:54,359 --> 00:47:57,719 do an informal book signing and get you out of here. What's that? Yeah, well you 277 00:47:57,719 --> 00:48:02,199 should want to know what happens 278 00:48:08,440 --> 00:48:13,480 a smattering of that. I mean as much as they can absorb 279 00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:20,599 in a short time. Well, many of you will have seen Strawberry Fields, the 280 00:48:20,599 --> 00:48:27,559 monument to the Beatles in Central Park. I don't want to pat myself in the back 281 00:48:32,359 --> 00:48:39,159 But I was approached by three girls, two of them here, bitterly complaining 282 00:48:39,159 --> 00:48:45,239 that the Community Planning Board had denied Yoko Ono's petition 283 00:48:45,239 --> 00:48:50,599 to build Strawberry Fields, and they were furious 284 00:48:50,599 --> 00:48:55,559 that this had been done. And I said, well you don't have to accept their decision. 285 00:48:59,079 --> 00:49:04,759 First, according to protocol, you have to take your case to them. 286 00:49:04,759 --> 00:49:10,359 So we'll book you an appointment and you lay down the reasons you want to take 287 00:49:10,359 --> 00:49:14,759 three acres of Central Park and give it to this group who could only 288 00:49:14,759 --> 00:49:19,480 play three musical chords. But I told them whatever 289 00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:24,840 you want to do, including building a pistol, I'll show you how 290 00:49:29,639 --> 00:49:36,039 it had been voted down 45 to 8 by the Community Planning Board 291 00:49:36,039 --> 00:49:39,960 and the Community Planning Board unanimously 292 00:49:39,960 --> 00:49:47,319 rejected their appeal. I said, now you want to look who has to sign off in their 293 00:49:47,319 --> 00:49:53,399 decision. This is not a group of local big shots. 294 00:49:57,239 --> 00:50:02,279 You don't get on that unless your ancestors come over on the Mayflower 295 00:50:02,279 --> 00:50:08,199 or you have ten billion dollars. I said, this is the elite of the elite. 296 00:50:08,199 --> 00:50:14,359 And now what you want to do is research. The names are publicly accessible. 297 00:50:14,359 --> 00:50:18,920 23 of them, and I'll bet four or five of them 298 00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:31,639 to reject this for it to happen. So you find out who these people are 299 00:50:31,639 --> 00:50:35,800 and get as much biographical information. You know, 300 00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:41,000 IT has made this on these people and you will find 301 00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:45,079 the buttons to play them like a noble organ. 302 00:50:48,920 --> 00:50:55,800 noteworthy, etc, etc. And now what you're going to do, because there's 12,000 303 00:50:55,800 --> 00:51:00,279 kids in this school district, is I'm going to free you from school 304 00:51:00,279 --> 00:51:04,519 for a month and you're going to split up and go from school to school. 305 00:51:04,519 --> 00:51:11,079 Find troublemakers and get petitions because what we need, because your 306 00:51:17,239 --> 00:51:22,679 on a petition and you're going to write an individual letter writing campaign 307 00:51:22,679 --> 00:51:28,359 to each of the 23 members of the community planning board asking them to 308 00:51:28,359 --> 00:51:39,399 please immortalize this group. Well, I get a phone call in the 309 00:51:44,279 --> 00:51:49,239 and the voice on the phone says, "Hello, this is Yoko Ohno." 310 00:51:49,239 --> 00:51:53,239 You know, I thought it was one of my cockamamie friends. I said, "You know, 311 00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:58,119 this is George Washington, Yoko. What's on your mind?" 312 00:51:58,119 --> 00:52:02,359 Fortunately, she didn't take Umbridge. Maybe he didn't even hear me saying it. 313 00:52:02,359 --> 00:52:06,679 She said, "The decision has been reversed. 314 00:52:14,119 --> 00:52:19,639 from school?" Well, I don't know, Yoko. I'm going to miss a lot. 315 00:52:19,639 --> 00:52:27,639 So, that's one. Look at this one. Here's a 12-year-old C-student 316 00:52:27,639 --> 00:52:33,159 from, well, he lived in a home. Well, I think he was a C-student but he was a 317 00:52:38,279 --> 00:52:41,880 he had the effrontery to go to a pizza parlor 318 00:52:41,880 --> 00:52:48,039 in an all-white Upper West Side in 1980. And the owner of the parlor, 319 00:52:48,039 --> 00:52:53,000 a six-foot-six-inch crazy Greek who happened to be a friend of mine, 320 00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:58,840 took his pizza, took his soda, threw them away. The charge was 321 00:53:04,840 --> 00:53:09,559 So, he comes over ranting about racial prejudice. I'll say, 322 00:53:09,559 --> 00:53:13,880 I said it was the wrong thing to do and I'm going to show you how to deal with it. 323 00:53:13,880 --> 00:53:20,199 But I don't think it was racial prejudice. His clientele lunch comes from the 324 00:53:20,199 --> 00:53:23,960 collegiate school. They wear blue blazers, gold buttons, 325 00:53:29,559 --> 00:53:36,920 and he knows the public school kids, black or white, go in there for lunch. 326 00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:41,880 He's going to lose that blue ribbon trade. Nevertheless, 327 00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:45,960 you're going to give him a chance to back down. This is an 328 00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:51,559 absolutely massive, insane Greek who believes violence 329 00:53:56,920 --> 00:54:03,239 jazz saxophones, bounced the $10 check. He had it blown up to billboard size 330 00:54:03,239 --> 00:54:07,559 and mounted outside the restaurant. Okay. 331 00:54:07,559 --> 00:54:13,559 So, I said, you go to the phone and I'll listen. And you say, I'm the guy who's 332 00:54:13,559 --> 00:54:20,279 pizza you took, but I'm willing to let bygones be bygones if I could. 333 00:54:25,719 --> 00:54:28,759 that you attempted to solve this problem 334 00:54:28,759 --> 00:54:36,119 peaceably. Now, I said, you want to go over there in person tomorrow 335 00:54:36,119 --> 00:54:40,679 and I'll provide a long-distance witness and you want to say, 336 00:54:38,039 --> 00:54:43,320 distance witness and you want to say look it's just a slice of pizza give me 337 00:54:43,320 --> 00:54:50,039 a slice of pizza back but Nick had the bit between out the kid goes and now I 338 00:54:50,039 --> 00:54:55,800 said you're going to call him one more time with a different teacher as a 339 00:54:55,800 --> 00:55:01,320 witness then you're going to write him a letter certified return receipt 340 00:55:08,760 --> 00:55:13,320 provide to the court and then you're going to sue his ass and small claims 341 00:55:13,320 --> 00:55:19,320 court only costs like three dollars in those days but it was 17 miles from the 342 00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:25,640 school kids can't sue I said anyone with three dollars can sue that doesn't 343 00:55:25,640 --> 00:55:30,039 mean you're going to win but the way they were offering small claims court 344 00:55:38,760 --> 00:55:44,519 you will have four pieces of evidence and this guy will be steam coming out of 345 00:55:44,519 --> 00:55:52,519 his ear while he was awarded triple damages how about that now what do you 346 00:55:52,519 --> 00:55:59,960 suppose the small claims court referee said when he got home that night to his 347 00:56:06,280 --> 00:56:12,519 about four days later we got a call from the Brooklyn College Law School could he 348 00:56:12,519 --> 00:56:17,720 come over and lecture of course he said no and I said listen I'll ruin you if you 349 00:56:17,720 --> 00:56:23,480 don't we'll work it out then Columbia Law School called then we got daily calls 350 00:56:23,480 --> 00:56:29,720 from judges to take him out to lunch because isn't this a symbol that the 351 00:56:39,560 --> 00:56:45,640 not to waste your time in a high school I said any number of very good colleges 352 00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:51,320 will take you in at the end of your sophomore year if you provide the 353 00:57:00,760 --> 00:57:09,480 University Law School and wait by the way these two events 354 00:57:09,480 --> 00:57:17,120 strawberry fields and pizza palace so are from the same term in a junior high 355 00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:34,519 year old girl who came to me complaining that her mother was a liar said she could 356 00:57:34,519 --> 00:57:41,080 go to Paris alone that summer she could raise the money she I just checked and 357 00:57:47,240 --> 00:57:54,080 nobody I said well you can't do it run a job but it's not very much money if you 358 00:57:54,080 --> 00:58:00,360 have a little business and she said 13 year old kids can't have businesses I 359 00:58:00,360 --> 00:58:06,800 said if you have something people want they don't care how old you are I mean 360 00:58:16,680 --> 00:58:24,200 takes a week out of school figures out a really interesting exotic business that 361 00:58:24,200 --> 00:58:31,000 you can read my ball I can find out and raises enough money in a short time by 362 00:58:37,400 --> 00:58:41,480 way to pay she came as I've got much more money I need I said why don't you take 363 00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:48,160 your mother to pair she might appreciate it on the basis of that she went to what 364 00:58:48,160 --> 00:58:54,079 I believe is the finest college in the United States Hampshire College where 365 00:58:54,079 --> 00:58:59,600 you write your own curriculum and then you negotiate with the faculty my 366 00:59:08,120 --> 00:59:15,640 all say so what phrase in Icelandic means writing of God yes well it's a her 367 00:59:15,640 --> 00:59:22,120 real name was well it is carried popularly as Goodrin but she wasn't 368 00:59:22,120 --> 00:59:28,079 satisfied just you went to court and changed this at Christina so hey you 369 00:59:31,800 --> 00:59:35,840 through time and each and every person from now until the end of humanity would 370 00:59:35,840 --> 00:59:46,320 hear it yeah sensible children do not wish to be incomplete human beings and 371 00:59:46,320 --> 00:59:54,240 so when you impose a stage theory of human development upon them you affect 372 01:00:01,480 --> 01:00:08,960 history knew the childhood is over about the age of seven and if it persists be 373 01:00:08,960 --> 01:00:15,160 on the age of 12 you've got some hopeless human being on your mind don't be 374 01:00:15,160 --> 01:00:21,840 your kids enemy because they're not a kid that's a fellow human being male or 375 01:00:32,680 --> 01:00:41,960 what does a college education really get you in the 21st century I think it's 376 01:00:55,079 --> 01:01:02,000 through but it never delivered much to most of the people who jumped through 377 01:01:02,000 --> 01:01:08,000 that hoop it is possible if you understand that an education is 378 01:01:14,320 --> 01:01:21,200 actually stitch together an education for yourself and get some value but most 379 01:01:21,200 --> 01:01:27,760 people of course follow a prescribed plan which has been put together by a 380 01:01:27,760 --> 01:01:35,640 committee somewhere and in fact doesn't do much for most people I went to 381 01:01:42,760 --> 01:01:55,680 Columbia I remember nothing except the babes the alcohol hangovers etc. from 382 01:02:05,840 --> 01:02:15,520 arguing with with the with the professor who encouraged that you know it 383 01:02:15,520 --> 01:02:24,079 does it doesn't give you a bang for your buck unless you commit which who does 384 01:02:30,079 --> 01:02:39,480 eligible the funny thing is that IT has accidentally exploded a lot of that there's 385 01:02:39,480 --> 01:02:45,200 so many people I remember my daughter graduated from MIT and she used to 386 01:02:45,200 --> 01:02:52,680 bitterly complain that her classmates would vanish for months at a time doing 387 01:02:58,440 --> 01:03:10,800 punished them you know sorry to say that we were so slow picking up on you judge 388 01:03:10,800 --> 01:03:20,560 people by performance not by credentials and real people you'd be insane to hire 389 01:03:29,280 --> 01:03:35,200 so large that eventually you're top heavy with people who don't know how to do 390 01:03:35,200 --> 01:03:42,079 anything much I'm gonna ask this last question I'm gonna go burn your your DVD 391 01:03:42,079 --> 01:03:48,600 is that way you're not late and so just answer to Gittu and Tony and Kevin what 392 01:03:57,200 --> 01:04:07,200 ago I set up I helped to set up a foundation that at Edison High School 393 01:04:18,579 --> 01:04:27,079 class and persistence in the face of adversity is the final test if you can 394 01:04:27,079 --> 01:04:37,120 stick to something nothing is difficult to learn I mean nothing at all but the 395 01:04:47,120 --> 01:04:54,120 disrespect I can't do that and many other things eliminates almost everyone 396 01:04:54,120 --> 01:05:03,000 except the persistent those are the ones who demonstrate merit now obviously a 397 01:05:10,039 --> 01:05:18,240 aren't go to the persistent and that includes the arts and the sciences as 398 01:05:18,240 --> 01:05:28,200 well as as politics I mean who could imagine for example that it obviously 399 01:05:37,320 --> 01:05:45,320 could pass through all the screens on the way up and then me elected not once 400 01:05:45,320 --> 01:05:55,600 but twice by the American population he flunked his pilots course 25 out of a 401 01:06:02,039 --> 01:06:10,720 course he pulled strings you do that and clearly was a an embassal he looked 402 01:06:10,720 --> 01:06:16,880 like an MSO he talked like an MSO and you cannot believe that any decisions 403 01:06:16,880 --> 01:06:24,480 attributed to him were actually made by him no one would be crazy enough to put 404 01:06:30,079 --> 01:06:37,680 persistent and he did reject the negative assessments that occurred all 405 01:06:37,680 --> 01:06:48,480 through his life what a rock is about in my opinion is showing daddy that the 406 01:06:54,960 --> 01:07:02,960 the carnage is one of the great mass murders in history but daddy daddy's 407 01:07:02,960 --> 01:07:10,960 reputation was saved from disgrace what do you feel the role of UNESCO has been 408 01:07:20,520 --> 01:07:29,340 general mass of of conspiracy literature attributes powers to the United 409 01:07:29,340 --> 01:07:34,079 Nations which it simply doesn't have that doesn't mean that isn't filled with 410 01:07:44,120 --> 01:07:49,120 it's a respectable institution but they don't be had no one says what is the UN 411 01:07:49,120 --> 01:07:56,920 say about no one says that you know and they've almost given up trying I mean 412 01:07:56,920 --> 01:08:04,039 there's now a minority opinion that it's not worth spending the money to have it 413 01:08:12,520 --> 01:08:19,039 out our subtler designs I noticed that UNESCO focuses a lot of their their 414 01:08:19,039 --> 01:08:23,119 workings on the education 415 01:08:21,380 --> 01:08:24,979 Oh, yeah work of nations and you go to the when you and I would - 416 01:08:24,979 --> 01:08:33,279 Estelosi and her heart and wound are all yeah, yeah, of course, well wouldn't anyon... 417 01:08:33,279 --> 01:08:38,239 Unformed minds with no experience wean them away 418 01:08:38,239 --> 01:08:40,760 Yeah, I mean it just 419 01:08:41,720 --> 01:08:49,579 It's an engineering sense what you would expect to happen and so who wouldn't be 420 01:08:49,579 --> 01:08:52,119 does happen 421 01:08:52,119 --> 01:08:58,619 Who was Johann Pestilosi and what were some of his new ideas that the 422 01:08:58,619 --> 01:09:04,640 the most intriguing thing about the followers of Pestilosi or 423 01:09:11,880 --> 01:09:14,560 quickly failed 424 01:09:14,560 --> 01:09:18,880 Every single one of them what he had that was intriguing 425 01:09:18,880 --> 01:09:25,479 to the Prussian hierarchy and really the global hierarchy was 426 01:09:25,479 --> 01:09:34,199 That he his method of kindness and it may have been sincere his method of kindness 427 01:09:39,500 --> 01:09:43,039 Instead of whipping the poor 428 01:09:43,039 --> 01:09:51,319 Threatening them menacing them tormenting them. You killed them with kindness the the 429 01:09:51,319 --> 01:09:56,359 Written principles of the Fabians are 430 01:09:56,359 --> 01:10:04,340 Pestilotian, you know by extending this blanket of kindness to people 431 01:10:07,199 --> 01:10:09,720 effective in that 432 01:10:09,720 --> 01:10:17,399 You know lots of lots of a big fraction of the American population 433 01:10:17,399 --> 01:10:21,000 He expects 434 01:10:21,000 --> 01:10:27,399 Charity and sees it as a blessing. No, it's not hard to see why and 435 01:10:27,399 --> 01:10:31,560 Down this day or that day it could be a blessing but overall 436 01:10:31,560 --> 01:10:34,560 That you get weaker and weaker 437 01:10:35,479 --> 01:10:41,300 Like your arm gets weaker, but doesn't lift stuff above your head. I mean it's it's su... 438 01:10:41,300 --> 01:10:45,520 Fundamental principle of human physics 439 01:10:45,520 --> 01:10:48,960 including mental physics that 440 01:10:48,960 --> 01:10:53,640 To pull the wool over so many people's eyes 441 01:11:05,560 --> 01:11:10,600 Thank you for it. You also talked about the crews to open up 442 01:11:10,600 --> 01:11:13,720 Oh, hey, this is 443 01:11:13,720 --> 01:11:17,439 Taft 444 01:11:17,439 --> 01:11:24,880 Tafts on the it's Roosevelt's daughter Roosevelt's president Taft goes with her a... 445 01:11:24,880 --> 01:11:28,100 Who is the admiral that you mentioned they went over there? Oh? 446 01:11:32,159 --> 01:11:37,760 But you know what I'm saying they had already gone yeah 447 01:11:37,760 --> 01:11:42,479 And this was the second one and then this sets up the whole World War two World War ... 448 01:11:42,479 --> 01:11:46,720 The opium smuggling it's all in there and this guy wrote 449 01:11:46,720 --> 01:11:52,560 Flags of our fathers and fly boys. Oh, yes, James Bradley. Yes, and so 450 01:11:52,560 --> 01:11:55,600 Thank you. I will 451 01:12:00,319 --> 01:12:08,039 Hey, I this has been a lovely course and how complicated it is 452 01:12:08,039 --> 01:12:10,600 you know to make 453 01:12:10,600 --> 01:12:24,880 No, that was with the name of the Illuminati before it was known as the Illuminati was ... 454 01:12:30,039 --> 01:12:33,279 So their top secret is the trivium and learning but they use it out of order 455 01:12:33,279 --> 01:12:37,640 So they don't establish what exists first they assert logic without no no no 456 01:12:37,640 --> 01:12:42,880 You look in the back. It has a full glossary of individuals of yeah 457 01:12:42,880 --> 01:12:43,840 He's cataloged now 458 01:12:43,840 --> 01:12:48,079 This is my copy, but I want you to take it and I can get another one. Oh, and then yo... 459 01:12:55,600 --> 01:12:59,199 And you'll have a lot of references to your own material. Thank you all 460 01:12:59,199 --> 01:13:06,079 And certainly now you got a heavy bag to carry now. I got a heavy bag to carry 461 01:13:06,079 --> 01:13:11,680 Yes 462 01:13:21,600 --> 01:13:28,720 We've done the hard work of organizing the facts and now it's up to you to think lear... 463 01:13:28,720 --> 01:13:34,239 But we don't expect you to do this alone and in fact since this message applies to all ... 464 01:13:34,239 --> 01:13:41,359 It's truly a circumstance which unites us and makes us indivisible so that we might deli... 465 01:13:41,359 --> 01:13:44,479 Not just to ourselves, but to people around the world 466 01:13:49,920 --> 01:13:54,960 It was built this way on purpose. It serves those who created it 467 01:13:54,960 --> 01:14:02,319 Not those who are managed by it as a result our potential as human beings has been 468 01:14:02,319 --> 01:14:08,159 Our birthright has been stolen and our adolescent period of life has been extended 469 01:14:08,159 --> 01:14:10,159 indefinitely 470 01:14:13,920 --> 01:14:17,840 Further by the 15 000 hours of public schooling 471 01:14:17,840 --> 01:14:23,760 Which is mandatory in order to earn the right to live and work in our civilized culture 472 01:14:23,760 --> 01:14:30,560 We have been under the impression that public schooling was about educating us as a meas... 473 01:14:30,560 --> 01:14:36,800 But those assumptions were formed based upon information supplied to us by our natural 474 01:14:41,119 --> 01:14:44,960 intentions and actions they hold us 475 01:14:44,960 --> 01:14:52,319 In contempt they manage us like livestock and they poison us both figuratively and 476 01:14:52,319 --> 01:14:54,720 as if we were pests 477 01:14:54,720 --> 01:14:57,359 Each of us has a choice to make and the question is 478 01:14:57,359 --> 01:15:00,880 What is most important to us? 479 01:15:00,880 --> 01:15:06,720 Is it the products which money buys or is it having a safe happy and healthy family? 480 01:15:10,800 --> 01:15:17,840 We must choose to either put our full support behind that which is most important to us ... 481 01:15:17,840 --> 01:15:22,399 I made that choice eight years ago and through the help of some friends 482 01:15:22,399 --> 01:15:28,319 I transformed the materials around me into the resources which have delivered this 483 01:15:28,319 --> 01:15:33,039 In the minutes before Patrick Henry spoke into existence the phrase 484 01:15:42,239 --> 01:15:48,079 He first addressed the convention's president, Peyton Randolph of Williamsburg 485 01:15:48,079 --> 01:15:56,079 "For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery 486 01:15:56,079 --> 01:16:02,239 And in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of debate 487 01:16:10,000 --> 01:16:12,479 to God and country 488 01:16:12,479 --> 01:16:15,920 Should I keep back my opinions at such a time 489 01:16:15,920 --> 01:16:22,399 Through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself guilty of treason towards ... 490 01:16:22,399 --> 01:16:27,920 And an act of disloyalty toward the majesty of heaven which I revere 491 01:16:27,920 --> 01:16:30,399 above all earthly kings 492 01:16:36,800 --> 01:16:46,239 We are apt to shut our eyes against painful truth and listen to the song of that siren 493 01:16:46,239 --> 01:16:52,479 Is this the part of wise men engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? 494 01:16:52,479 --> 01:16:56,720 Are we disposed to being of the number of those having eyes, 495 01:17:04,079 --> 01:17:08,479 For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost 496 01:17:08,479 --> 01:17:12,159 I am willing to know the whole truth to know the worst 497 01:17:12,159 --> 01:17:14,800 And to provide for it 498 01:17:14,800 --> 01:17:16,960 end quote 499 01:17:16,960 --> 01:17:21,520 So if you realize that your family and or community was in danger 500 01:17:21,520 --> 01:17:26,880 How would you make them aware of it as a measure to protect them from the peril? 501 01:17:27,600 --> 01:17:32,960 Well, once you meet and surmount the mental obstacles by employing your use of reason 502 01:17:32,960 --> 01:17:36,559 It would then be logical to organize the facts 503 01:17:36,559 --> 01:17:43,039 Connect and communicate with your loved ones and community to learn together how to dis... 504 01:17:43,039 --> 01:17:47,840 How to take informed constructive actions and when you meet resistance 505 01:17:47,840 --> 01:17:50,399 How to learn your way forward? 506 01:17:50,399 --> 01:17:55,680 It doesn't benefit anyone to continue to sanitize the world for our youth 507 01:18:03,119 --> 01:18:06,239 To that end as I mentioned in the introduction 508 01:18:06,239 --> 01:18:13,920 We've also created the ultimate history lesson.com which specifically hosts the 509 01:18:13,920 --> 01:18:22,159 As well as the mp3 versions for your downloading pleasure as well as the 510 01:18:26,800 --> 01:18:32,559 All with the goal of helping you to understand and while this all might sound 511 01:18:32,559 --> 01:18:38,399 Most people need a little help outgrowing the habits which enable us to be so easily 512 01:18:38,399 --> 01:18:44,800 In order to help each and every individual tap into their internal natural resources 513 01:18:51,199 --> 01:18:55,840 After screening our productions now that you've heard john talk about the book 514 01:18:55,840 --> 01:19:00,479 Tragedy and hope a history of the world in our time by dr carol quigley 515 01:19:00,479 --> 01:19:06,559 You'll indeed appreciate the fact that we've created an international network of 516 01:19:06,559 --> 01:19:12,640 All of whom consistently provide educational films podcasts and video reports 517 01:19:20,159 --> 01:19:27,760 Posting blogs forming study and research groups and learning the arts of intellectu... 518 01:19:27,760 --> 01:19:33,840 We have built a truly unique experience which has thus far been denied to the general 519 01:19:33,840 --> 01:19:39,119 And it is in every way designed to help you realize your birthright 520 01:19:46,720 --> 01:19:53,840 A section of central park in new york dedicated to john lennon across the street 521 01:19:53,840 --> 01:20:02,640 We've done a lot since creating tragedy and hope in 2009. So let me share a bit of 522 01:20:10,239 --> 01:20:14,000 It evolved into an interactive community of critical thinkers 523 01:20:14,000 --> 01:20:17,039 I'd say that not only have we come a long way 524 01:20:17,039 --> 01:20:23,039 But we've also stayed on track and I think that's reflected in the synchronicity of 525 01:20:23,039 --> 01:20:26,399 We're serious about studying the big problems 526 01:20:26,399 --> 01:20:29,680 identifying the root causes and enacting 527 01:20:34,640 --> 01:20:38,000 We'll help you catch up on what you've been missing 528 01:20:38,000 --> 01:20:45,440 We must ask the questions. Can we have peace without understanding the root causes of war? 529 01:20:45,440 --> 01:20:52,640 Can we have liberty without the responsibility and reason incorporated int... 530 01:20:52,640 --> 01:20:56,079 Why aren't we preparing our children for their lives? 531 01:21:03,520 --> 01:21:05,840 to be avoided 532 01:21:05,840 --> 01:21:10,159 And in learning the answers we found that it's due to the fact that the predators 533 01:21:10,159 --> 01:21:13,039 designed the public schooling system 534 01:21:13,039 --> 01:21:19,440 It's time to reclaim our birthright and this interview is aimed at delivering it to you 535 01:21:19,440 --> 01:21:22,239 What you do with it is your choice 536 01:21:30,399 --> 01:21:34,800 Help us create a network of affiliates and continue to spread this message 537 01:21:34,800 --> 01:21:37,359 of self-liberation 538 01:21:37,359 --> 01:21:41,039 By understanding the problems the solutions become known 539 01:21:41,039 --> 01:21:43,760 The truth is the future 540 01:21:43,760 --> 01:21:49,680 And we want to see what the world looks like when you develop the habits which reveal y... 541 01:21:57,279 --> 01:21:59,920 Because the world is made up of words 542 01:21:55,859 --> 01:21:58,260 what you've learned with others. 543 01:21:58,260 --> 01:22:02,500 Because the world is made up of words, and if you know the right words, you can make 544 01:22:02,500 --> 01:22:05,579 of the world what you will. 545 01:22:05,579 --> 01:22:07,859 Go and do likewise. 546 01:22:07,859 --> 01:22:12,659 Be persistent, refuse to give your consent to irrationality, and realize that in your 547 01:22:12,659 --> 01:22:18,340 heart and mind that we are only victims until we mature and take responsibility for our 548 01:22:20,539 --> 01:22:23,340 And to that end, keep learning. 549 01:22:23,340 --> 01:22:24,979 Keep moving forward. 550 01:22:24,979 --> 01:22:27,340 Thank you for tuning in and not dropping out. 551 01:22:48,340 --> 01:22:49,340 . 552 01:23:18,340 --> 01:23:19,340 . 553 01:25:46,340 --> 01:25:51,340 . 554 01:25:51,340 --> 01:26:03,340 . 555 01:26:10,340 --> 01:26:19,340 . 556 01:26:19,340 --> 01:26:28,340 . 557 01:26:38,340 --> 01:26:47,340 . 558 01:26:47,340 --> 01:26:56,340 . 559 01:27:06,340 --> 01:27:16,340 . 560 01:27:16,340 --> 01:27:17,340 . 561 01:27:17,340 --> 01:27:18,340 . 562 01:27:18,340 --> 01:27:19,340 . 563 01:27:19,340 --> 01:27:20,340 . 564 01:27:20,340 --> 01:27:21,340 . 565 01:27:21,340 --> 01:27:22,340 . 566 01:27:22,340 --> 01:27:23,340 . 567 01:27:23,340 --> 01:27:24,340 .