WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:07.040 Hey, everyone, let's do a new reading for substack and 2 00:00:07.080 --> 00:00:11.119 for the supporters here. This may be a book that 3 00:00:11.240 --> 00:00:15.000 some of you have heard of by Maurice Samuel, called 4 00:00:15.039 --> 00:00:21.320 You Gentiles. It's pretty infamous. Anelope Hill has their own 5 00:00:21.440 --> 00:00:24.359 version of it. Let me show you how they describe 6 00:00:24.359 --> 00:00:30.640 it here. They say. There has been no shortage of 7 00:00:30.640 --> 00:00:34.520 writings detailing and incompatibility between Jewish and Gentile people from 8 00:00:34.520 --> 00:00:37.759 a variety of sources and perspectives. Many of these fade 9 00:00:37.799 --> 00:00:40.320 with the circumstances it sparked them, but a few make 10 00:00:40.439 --> 00:00:46.039 lasting contributions to the understanding of millennia of conflict, preserved 11 00:00:46.039 --> 00:00:49.240 by his own stature as a titan of Jewish literature. 12 00:00:49.520 --> 00:00:53.920 Maurice Samuel authored You Gentiles in nineteen twenty four, which 13 00:00:53.960 --> 00:00:57.320 persists as one of the most visceral and fundamental contrasts 14 00:00:57.359 --> 00:01:01.640 of Jews and non Jews. Emils writes with confidence as 15 00:01:01.640 --> 00:01:05.239 a recipient as a recipient of several awards for his writing, 16 00:01:05.359 --> 00:01:11.560 including the Annisfield Wolf Book Award and the It'sick Manger Prize. 17 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:15.879 With reference to his own deep familiarity with the collective 18 00:01:15.959 --> 00:01:20.079 Jewish experience, Samuel makes no qualification for his belief in 19 00:01:20.120 --> 00:01:23.920 the spiritual, racial, and religious incompatibility at Gentiles with his 20 00:01:23.959 --> 00:01:29.040 own people. His thesis culminates in the ultimate rejection of 21 00:01:29.079 --> 00:01:35.280 any possible reconciliation between these peoples. So it's very easy 22 00:01:35.400 --> 00:01:42.159 for people to say that, oh, that's just one person writing. Well, 23 00:01:42.200 --> 00:01:45.920 I mean, this is somebody who was very celebrated in 24 00:01:45.959 --> 00:01:51.719 his day. Wikipedia describes him he was actually born in Romania. 25 00:01:52.879 --> 00:01:58.280 His family then they went to England. He moved to 26 00:01:58.359 --> 00:02:00.599 Paris with his family at the age of five, about 27 00:02:00.599 --> 00:02:04.599 a year later to England, where then they moved to 28 00:02:04.959 --> 00:02:08.680 England a year after that. He studied at Victoria University. There, 29 00:02:08.719 --> 00:02:12.280 his parents spoke Yetdish at home, and he developed strong 30 00:02:12.319 --> 00:02:14.520 attachments to the Jewish people in Yiddish language at an 31 00:02:14.520 --> 00:02:18.680 early age. This later became a motivation for the books 32 00:02:18.680 --> 00:02:21.360 he wrote as an adult. Eventually, he left England and 33 00:02:21.400 --> 00:02:24.120 emigrated to the United States, settling in New York City's 34 00:02:24.159 --> 00:02:26.879 Lower East Side. He served in the US Army during 35 00:02:26.919 --> 00:02:31.439 World War One. A Jewish intellectual and writer, Samuel was 36 00:02:31.479 --> 00:02:34.080 known for his role as a polemicist and campaigner against 37 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:37.560 anti Semitism. Most of his work concerns itself with Judaism 38 00:02:37.639 --> 00:02:40.000 or the Jews role in history in modern society, but 39 00:02:40.039 --> 00:02:43.240 he also wrote more conventional fictions, such as The Web 40 00:02:43.280 --> 00:02:47.039 of Lucifer, which takes place in the borgious role of 41 00:02:47.520 --> 00:02:54.439 Renaissance Italy. He Let's See. He and his work received 42 00:02:54.439 --> 00:02:57.159 acclaim within the Jewish community during his lifetime, including the 43 00:02:57.240 --> 00:03:01.000 nineteen forty four Ennisfield Wolf Book Award for his nonfiction 44 00:03:01.159 --> 00:03:06.800 work The World of Shalom Alecam I Like him. He 45 00:03:06.879 --> 00:03:11.319 received the Itzig Manger Prize for Yiddish Literature posthumously in 46 00:03:11.400 --> 00:03:17.560 nineteen seventy two. He was a radio personality, appearing on 47 00:03:17.960 --> 00:03:25.879 NBC summer program Eternal Light the Worlds We Live By. 48 00:03:26.159 --> 00:03:31.240 He did a Bible, a radio show discussing the literary 49 00:03:31.240 --> 00:03:34.840 and cultural impact of the Bible. He died in nineteen 50 00:03:34.919 --> 00:03:39.120 seventy two at the age of seventy seven. He had 51 00:03:39.199 --> 00:03:43.639 six fiction works and a ton of nonfiction works. The 52 00:03:43.639 --> 00:03:46.719 first one was You Gentiles. The second one was I 53 00:03:46.960 --> 00:03:51.919 the Jew, Never read Ei the Jew. Some of the 54 00:03:51.960 --> 00:03:56.280 other ones are Prince of the Ghetto, Jew Want Approval, 55 00:03:56.919 --> 00:03:59.719 the Gentleman, and the Jew certain people of the book. 56 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:05.599 So this is someone who was celebrated and someone who 57 00:04:05.719 --> 00:04:09.159 was known in the Jewish world. This just wasn't some 58 00:04:09.360 --> 00:04:15.080 random guy who wrote a book and someone found it 59 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:17.279 and was like, oh look at this. No, this is 60 00:04:17.319 --> 00:04:21.160 well known. And in nineteen twenty four, and this would 61 00:04:21.199 --> 00:04:24.519 be after World War One, Henry Ford is writing at 62 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:29.000 this time about Jews in the United States and the 63 00:04:29.000 --> 00:04:33.680 international jew Also, nineteen twenty four is also the year 64 00:04:33.800 --> 00:04:40.560 of the first real immigration restriction. It was a clampdown 65 00:04:40.600 --> 00:04:43.319 in immigration that year that a lot of people took 66 00:04:43.319 --> 00:04:50.040 offense to. So let me just scroll through here, here 67 00:04:50.079 --> 00:04:52.399 we go. I got a copy, actually reading of a 68 00:04:52.600 --> 00:04:57.480 printing of a book actually from nineteen twenty five, just 69 00:04:57.519 --> 00:05:02.040 a year after fifth printing able of contents. The first 70 00:05:02.160 --> 00:05:05.879 chapter will be called The Question. It's thirty one pages. 71 00:05:05.920 --> 00:05:10.040 They're very short pages because it's like a small paperback 72 00:05:10.120 --> 00:05:12.160 kind of book. But I don't know if I'll get 73 00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:18.360 through the whole thing today, But yeah, why don't I 74 00:05:18.519 --> 00:05:21.519 start and let's see where this goes. There are audio 75 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:24.319 books of this on YouTube and everything, and I think 76 00:05:24.360 --> 00:05:32.079 that I think I hypocrite did an interview with someone 77 00:05:32.120 --> 00:05:35.480 from Antelope Hill, because Anelope Pill has their own version 78 00:05:35.519 --> 00:05:37.839 of this. If you're going to pick it up, you 79 00:05:38.079 --> 00:05:42.160 get it from Antelope Hill, the use the promo code 80 00:05:42.240 --> 00:05:46.120 PETE pete Q five percent off everything in order there. 81 00:05:47.240 --> 00:05:51.160 But yeah, let's get into this and let's read it, 82 00:05:51.199 --> 00:05:54.279 and let's see see what his message is. In nineteen 83 00:05:54.319 --> 00:05:59.639 twenty four, chapter one is excuse me. Chapter one is 84 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:02.040 titled the question let me take a sip real quick? 85 00:06:07.800 --> 00:06:11.439 All right? These last ten years and more, I have 86 00:06:11.480 --> 00:06:14.720 been asking myself, with increasing urgency, a number of questions. 87 00:06:15.560 --> 00:06:17.879 Is there any significance in the distinction I have so 88 00:06:18.040 --> 00:06:21.680 long cherished, the distinction of Jew gentile not to be 89 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:25.680 found in the class of distinctions implied in American foreigner 90 00:06:26.279 --> 00:06:33.600 or Englishman foreigner? Is there between us Jews and you gentiles? 91 00:06:34.360 --> 00:06:36.240 That is, between the Jew on the one hand, and 92 00:06:36.279 --> 00:06:38.920 the Englishmen, the Frenchman, the American on the other hand, 93 00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:43.680 that which transcends all the differences which exist among yourselves, 94 00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:47.800 so that in relation to us you are gentiles. In 95 00:06:47.839 --> 00:06:51.199 relation to us you are gentiles first and afterwards and 96 00:06:51.240 --> 00:06:57.360 without particular relevance in this connection Englishmen, Frenchmen, Americans? Or 97 00:06:57.480 --> 00:07:01.560 is there nothing more implied in that distinction Jew gentile? 98 00:07:01.639 --> 00:07:05.439 Then in a general way, and the distinction's Jew American 99 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:12.319 American Englishman, Englishman, Frenchmen. In other words, are we Jews 100 00:07:12.399 --> 00:07:18.120 but part of the Gentiles Americans, Englishmen, Jews, Frenchmen? Or 101 00:07:18.199 --> 00:07:21.480 is there a deeper cleavage between us? Is this Western 102 00:07:21.519 --> 00:07:26.360 world divided primarily into two parts? You Gentiles, we Jews? 103 00:07:27.800 --> 00:07:31.519 From the outset? I shall be asked, quote, even if 104 00:07:31.519 --> 00:07:34.399 you suspect the existence of such a primal cleavage beyond 105 00:07:34.480 --> 00:07:38.680 the reach of ordinary national or racial classifications, what purpose 106 00:07:38.759 --> 00:07:41.079 can you have in urging it upon the attention of 107 00:07:41.120 --> 00:07:45.439 the world? Has it any practical application? Does it in 108 00:07:45.560 --> 00:07:48.600 any fashion clarify the status of the Jew? Or give 109 00:07:48.639 --> 00:07:54.199 greater cogency to such claims of his as are still unsatisfied. 110 00:07:55.519 --> 00:07:58.040 This question will be asked of me by many Jews, 111 00:07:58.319 --> 00:08:00.480 but in particular it will be asked with the utmost 112 00:08:00.519 --> 00:08:03.439 insistence by those Jews who have based our case for 113 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:08.959 national rights national equality precisely on this assumption that we 114 00:08:09.079 --> 00:08:12.759 Jews are people like all other peoples, similar in needs 115 00:08:12.759 --> 00:08:16.240 and impulses. That we are Jews, you are Englishmen, you 116 00:08:16.279 --> 00:08:19.839 are Italians, you are Americans, That we the world's races 117 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:23.319 or peoples are all of us? Are all of us 118 00:08:23.319 --> 00:08:29.519 similar in our differences? Leaving on one side, those who 119 00:08:29.639 --> 00:08:33.559 deny the existence of any distinctions at all, Those that is, 120 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:37.480 who say that Jew, that the Jew is either a Frenchman, 121 00:08:37.759 --> 00:08:40.639 an American, or an Englishman according to the place of 122 00:08:40.639 --> 00:08:44.440 his birth, I would answer quote for me, the ordinary 123 00:08:44.519 --> 00:08:50.519 nationalist or racial classification has not sufficed. If I have 124 00:08:50.679 --> 00:08:53.240 long pondered this question of Jew and Gentile, it is 125 00:08:53.279 --> 00:08:56.759 because I suspected, from the first dawning of Jewish self consciousness, 126 00:08:56.759 --> 00:09:00.559 that Jew and Gentile are two different worlds. Between you 127 00:09:00.679 --> 00:09:05.440 Gentiles and us Jews, there lies an unbridgeable gulf. Side 128 00:09:05.480 --> 00:09:08.240 by side. With this belief grew another which is related 129 00:09:08.279 --> 00:09:12.639 to the practical aspect of the distinction. I do not 130 00:09:12.759 --> 00:09:17.279 believe that, situated as we are in your midst, scattered 131 00:09:17.279 --> 00:09:19.279 among you from one end of the Western Well to 132 00:09:19.320 --> 00:09:22.159 the other, we have the right to retain our identity 133 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:25.600 if we are but another addition to the gentile peoples. 134 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:29.639 This is in parenthesis. Nor, by the way, do I 135 00:09:29.720 --> 00:09:32.440 believe that we could have retained it so long had 136 00:09:32.440 --> 00:09:37.759 this been the case. If we are but one more 137 00:09:37.799 --> 00:09:41.080 people added to the long roster of peoples living and dead, 138 00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:46.480 we have no claim worthwhile under these circumstances to continuity 139 00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:53.759 of separate consciousness consciousness. Such a claim could never have arisen. 140 00:09:54.120 --> 00:09:58.519 Had we remained secure, segregated on our own soil, it 141 00:09:58.559 --> 00:10:02.879 would have been our tests at birth right. But as 142 00:10:02.879 --> 00:10:06.679 it is, our existence has secured an infinite expense of 143 00:10:06.759 --> 00:10:11.440 special effort on our part and of particular discomfort to you. 144 00:10:13.480 --> 00:10:16.600 Wherever the Jew is found, he has a problem, a 145 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:22.759 source of unhappiness to himself and to those around him. 146 00:10:22.799 --> 00:10:26.600 That's an interesting way to put it. That's an interesting 147 00:10:27.320 --> 00:10:34.320 sentence for someone to admit. I wanted to say before 148 00:10:34.360 --> 00:10:37.559 I moved on, you know, talking about the reason why 149 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:40.879 I wanted to talk so much about who he was 150 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:47.679 and how well he was believed to know, how in 151 00:10:47.720 --> 00:10:51.600 his community, how well he was known and regarded, is 152 00:10:51.639 --> 00:10:57.559 because I just watched this documentary called Protocols of Zion, 153 00:10:58.679 --> 00:11:00.879 and it's from like two thousand five or two thousand 154 00:11:00.879 --> 00:11:04.159 and six, and as a Jew, his name is Mark Levin, 155 00:11:04.360 --> 00:11:09.279 not Mark Levin, and he basically goes through the protocols 156 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:18.200 and he his whole thing is that well, me, as 157 00:11:18.240 --> 00:11:21.039 an individual Jew, I don't have the power to do this. 158 00:11:21.200 --> 00:11:28.919 So this is pretty much all bull I don't when 159 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:32.159 writings like this, when writing is like two hundred years together, 160 00:11:32.399 --> 00:11:35.879 when you have all the writings of Jewish philosophers over 161 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:39.279 the centuries, you don't need something like the Protocols of 162 00:11:39.320 --> 00:11:43.559 the Elders of Zion. That is, I don't consider it. 163 00:11:43.679 --> 00:11:46.120 I don't take it seriously. I'm not going to read it. 164 00:11:46.600 --> 00:11:48.200 I'm not gonna I mean, I've read it, but I'm 165 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:50.320 not going to read it to you. I'm not going 166 00:11:50.360 --> 00:11:54.360 to have a conversation, a serious conversation about it. When 167 00:11:54.360 --> 00:11:56.919 you read a sentence like wherever the Jew is found, 168 00:11:57.039 --> 00:11:59.559 he has a problem, a source of unhappiness to himself 169 00:11:59.559 --> 00:12:05.720 into those around him, and it's from somebody who's prominent, 170 00:12:05.799 --> 00:12:07.879 somebody who sold a lot of books, somebody who had 171 00:12:07.919 --> 00:12:11.919 a radio show, somebody who was popular in his day, 172 00:12:12.080 --> 00:12:15.000 somebody who you know, most Jews, I would say, and 173 00:12:15.039 --> 00:12:18.440 I'll just say New York and New York was I mean, 174 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:21.000 if you remember from Race Warren High School, there were 175 00:12:21.080 --> 00:12:23.799 sixty thousand public school teachers in New York in the 176 00:12:23.879 --> 00:12:29.000 nineteen sixties, and sixty percent of them were Jewish. So 177 00:12:29.120 --> 00:12:32.159 you're talking about I think at the time fourteen or 178 00:12:32.159 --> 00:12:35.960 fifteen percent of the city was Jewish. These people knew 179 00:12:35.960 --> 00:12:40.720 who he was. This is not some obscure writer. This 180 00:12:40.799 --> 00:12:43.960 isn't a book that fell out of the sky. This 181 00:12:44.080 --> 00:12:48.759 is someone who is taking himself very seriously, and not 182 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:53.440 only taking himself very seriously, but he's taking us very seriously. 183 00:12:56.159 --> 00:12:59.440 That needs to be respected when you're listening to what 184 00:12:59.559 --> 00:13:09.320 he writes. Okay, onward. Ever since he has been scattered 185 00:13:09.360 --> 00:13:12.039 in your midst he has had to maintain a continuous 186 00:13:12.039 --> 00:13:16.159 struggle for the conservation of his identity. It is worthwhile, 187 00:13:16.159 --> 00:13:19.080 in the face of this double burden our own in yours, 188 00:13:19.720 --> 00:13:24.799 to perpetuate what may be, after all, an addition of 189 00:13:24.919 --> 00:13:28.639 one unit to scores of similar units. Were these centuries 190 00:13:28.679 --> 00:13:32.679 of alternate torture and respite not a disproportionately high price 191 00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:35.440 for the right to increase by one page the already 192 00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:40.440 overburdened records of the nations were at my belief, as 193 00:13:40.480 --> 00:13:43.480 it is at least in expression, the belief of many 194 00:13:43.519 --> 00:13:46.639 fellow Jews, that our right to exist is founded on 195 00:13:46.679 --> 00:13:52.720 our similarity to other peoples. That where American or Belgian 196 00:13:52.840 --> 00:13:57.360 or Italian has a right to homeland, culture, history, parliament, 197 00:13:57.639 --> 00:13:59.919 we Jews have the same right for the same reason, 198 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:03.799 and for no other reasons. Were this my belief, I 199 00:14:03.840 --> 00:14:06.279 could not find the heart to continue the struggle, or 200 00:14:06.320 --> 00:14:11.120 to urge the struggle upon others. The effort is too severe, 201 00:14:11.240 --> 00:14:17.000 the price is too high, But arden is insignificant. Were 202 00:14:17.000 --> 00:14:19.559 we like other peoples, we ought to have done what 203 00:14:19.639 --> 00:14:23.960 other peoples under similar circumstances would do. A people driven 204 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:26.720 from its homeland, a people ground into dust and carried 205 00:14:26.720 --> 00:14:29.399 by winds of misfortune into every corner of the world 206 00:14:29.879 --> 00:14:33.759 has no right to inflict its woes and longings on others. 207 00:14:34.200 --> 00:14:37.399 It should cease to exist. It should rid the world's 208 00:14:38.080 --> 00:14:46.440 world of its importunate presence. Such would be my belief 209 00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:49.279 if I saw in ourselves only the replica with the 210 00:14:49.320 --> 00:14:52.080 proper variations of the rest of the world. But this 211 00:14:52.200 --> 00:14:55.840 is not my belief, for I see otherwise. Years of 212 00:14:55.879 --> 00:14:59.080 observation and thought have given increasing strength to the belief 213 00:14:59.120 --> 00:15:02.679 that we used and apart from you, gentiles, that a 214 00:15:02.720 --> 00:15:06.840 primal duality breaks to humanity, I know into two distinct parts, 215 00:15:07.639 --> 00:15:11.240 that this duality is a fundamental, and that all differences 216 00:15:11.240 --> 00:15:15.840 among you, gentiles are trivialities compared with that which divides 217 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:19.799 all of you from us. So what he's saying is 218 00:15:19.840 --> 00:15:24.200 he is saying is this isn't a crack in the sidewalk, 219 00:15:24.919 --> 00:15:30.600 This is a chasm, This is the Grand Canyon, or 220 00:15:33.000 --> 00:15:38.679 the distance across an ocean. I'm aware that this is 221 00:15:38.720 --> 00:15:41.799 a thesis what can which cannot be supported by diagrams, 222 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:46.240 tables and logarithms. Basically, what he's saying is it's not 223 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:52.480 I guess what he's saying is not logical. It cannot 224 00:15:52.480 --> 00:15:55.679 be urged with the apparent half compulsion of social and 225 00:15:55.720 --> 00:15:58.720 economic laws. The cogency of what I have to say 226 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:04.759 it does not depend on reference to obvious and ineluctable laws, 227 00:16:05.600 --> 00:16:09.960 natural processes acknowledged and accepted. I am also aware that 228 00:16:10.000 --> 00:16:13.200 the weight of what we call what is called learned 229 00:16:13.320 --> 00:16:17.000 opinion will be thrown against me, that my connection will 230 00:16:17.759 --> 00:16:22.799 meet with the ridicule of facile common sense and of scholarship. Nevertheless, 231 00:16:22.840 --> 00:16:25.159 I set it down clearly that in the Western world 232 00:16:25.200 --> 00:16:29.679 there are essentially two people's as spiritual forces, only two 233 00:16:29.759 --> 00:16:39.440 human sections with essential meaning jew and gentile thing about that, So, 234 00:16:39.600 --> 00:16:51.399 in the Western world you have Germans, English, French, Spanish 235 00:16:51.600 --> 00:16:58.600 peoples who've had empires, people people who've conquered the known world. 236 00:16:59.600 --> 00:17:04.039 And what he does is he says there are only 237 00:17:04.079 --> 00:17:11.559 two jew and everyone else, So basically we're lumped in 238 00:17:12.920 --> 00:17:21.839 with each other. He's basically drawing the line boldly, all 239 00:17:21.839 --> 00:17:28.440 of you and then us. But at least what credentials 240 00:17:28.480 --> 00:17:31.480 I have to offer? Since the presentation of credentials must 241 00:17:31.519 --> 00:17:35.839 always precede the presentation of the thesis, what claim have 242 00:17:35.920 --> 00:17:38.480 I on the attention of the world. I can only 243 00:17:38.519 --> 00:17:42.319 answer that this book, being a serious book, much must 244 00:17:42.519 --> 00:17:45.640 carry its own credentials and does not attempt to borrow 245 00:17:45.640 --> 00:17:48.920 importance from outside sources. I offer myself only as a 246 00:17:48.960 --> 00:17:52.599 Jew who has lived, observed, and thought. My experiences in 247 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:55.759 contacts have been somewhat more varied than those of most men, 248 00:17:56.160 --> 00:17:59.079 but this has little to do with my views. The truth, 249 00:17:59.119 --> 00:18:02.079 which is spread over the whole world, is also contained 250 00:18:02.119 --> 00:18:05.200 in any part of it. The laws of gravitation are 251 00:18:05.240 --> 00:18:08.359 implied as completely in the falling of a pebble to 252 00:18:08.480 --> 00:18:11.400 Earth as in the rush of the Sun against the 253 00:18:11.440 --> 00:18:15.200 counter rush of its companion stars. The law of Einstein 254 00:18:15.279 --> 00:18:18.279 works no less truly in the crawling of a snail 255 00:18:18.480 --> 00:18:22.519 than in the dizzy vibration of the fastest atomic subunit. 256 00:18:22.920 --> 00:18:26.160 These laws are more easily observed in the one set 257 00:18:26.200 --> 00:18:30.440 of cases than in the other. That is all, if 258 00:18:30.440 --> 00:18:32.799 I have touched a truth, it has been primarily through 259 00:18:32.839 --> 00:18:35.559 contact with life, And I have regarded books as but 260 00:18:35.680 --> 00:18:39.119 a class of living things, to be observed and interpreted 261 00:18:39.160 --> 00:18:42.640 in place in their setting life itself, observation of men 262 00:18:42.640 --> 00:18:45.599 and women singly and in masses, a knowledge of their works, 263 00:18:45.640 --> 00:18:49.039 among which books are important, a feeling for their desires, 264 00:18:49.119 --> 00:18:53.599 perception of their intent in cities, laws, theaters, games, wars. 265 00:18:54.400 --> 00:18:57.279 All this has been brought me to, has brought me 266 00:18:57.440 --> 00:19:02.599 to the conception I shall set forth all scholarship, particularly 267 00:19:02.599 --> 00:19:05.920 that scholarship which deals with the manifestations of men's desires 268 00:19:05.920 --> 00:19:10.680 and fears, consists of unauthoritative, marginal notes, which are of 269 00:19:10.799 --> 00:19:14.480 interest chiefly as giving us some insight into the nature 270 00:19:14.519 --> 00:19:18.319 of those who jotted them down. It does no harm 271 00:19:18.440 --> 00:19:21.440 to know the history that is in the books, but 272 00:19:21.519 --> 00:19:24.720 the only authentic history is around us. It has made 273 00:19:24.799 --> 00:19:29.000 daily in newspapers, theaters, meetings, election campaigns. And it is 274 00:19:29.119 --> 00:19:32.279 less valuable to know that the waiter said at the 275 00:19:32.359 --> 00:19:37.160 simple Sissamus cabaret in Vienna when I was there three 276 00:19:37.240 --> 00:19:40.599 years ago, than to know what Terence reports a slave 277 00:19:40.720 --> 00:19:43.119 to have said in Rome when he was there two 278 00:19:43.160 --> 00:19:46.640 thousand years ago. What if my neighbor the professor reads 279 00:19:46.680 --> 00:19:51.119 Greek rather than fluently, rather less fluently than did a 280 00:19:51.160 --> 00:19:54.599 certain thick witted Athenian citizen who lived in the time 281 00:19:54.640 --> 00:19:59.599 of Pericles, and by no means as well as well 282 00:19:59.599 --> 00:20:02.799 as I I read English? Is that proof of wisdom 283 00:20:02.880 --> 00:20:06.200 or understanding? And supposing my neighbor on the other side 284 00:20:06.240 --> 00:20:10.279 the history, the professor, the famous professor of history knows 285 00:20:10.359 --> 00:20:14.400 rather less about the Peloponnesian War than the intelligent college 286 00:20:14.400 --> 00:20:18.200 student knows about the World War? Is that professor therefore 287 00:20:18.319 --> 00:20:21.759 wiser than most men? Is his opinion on life more valuable? 288 00:20:23.720 --> 00:20:27.039 And supposing another scholar purports to tell us what the 289 00:20:27.160 --> 00:20:30.960 ancient Egyptians believed, and from his account of this dead religion, 290 00:20:31.519 --> 00:20:34.799 pretends to teach the secrets of faith, Can he tell 291 00:20:34.839 --> 00:20:38.039 me what John Doe or Isaac Leviy believes? Does John 292 00:20:38.079 --> 00:20:42.279 Doe believe that Christ rose from the dead? Really really 293 00:20:42.279 --> 00:20:45.480 believe that as a plain truth as he would believe it, 294 00:20:45.640 --> 00:20:49.480 believe it if his mother, whom he buried five years ago, 295 00:20:49.759 --> 00:20:52.720 should suddenly come walking into his house wrote it away 296 00:20:52.720 --> 00:20:57.000 and cladd in her tattered cerements believe it as simply 297 00:20:57.440 --> 00:21:01.000 and as terribly. And does isaac Levi believed that the 298 00:21:01.039 --> 00:21:03.240 waters of the Red Sea were divided? As he would 299 00:21:03.279 --> 00:21:06.799 believe it if one day below the Williamsburg Bridge he 300 00:21:06.839 --> 00:21:09.559 were to see the water split rear and fall again. 301 00:21:10.720 --> 00:21:13.839 And if neither John Do nor isaac Levi believes as 302 00:21:13.839 --> 00:21:17.519 cogently as this, then what do they really believe, if 303 00:21:17.559 --> 00:21:20.839 they believe anything at all? And if the professor cannot 304 00:21:20.880 --> 00:21:23.759 answer these questions, what does he mean when he says 305 00:21:23.799 --> 00:21:29.200 that the Egyptians believe that Asiris rose from the dead? 306 00:21:29.880 --> 00:21:34.039 And what do his reports matter? There is no test 307 00:21:34.119 --> 00:21:37.119 or guarantee of a man's wisdom or of his reliability 308 00:21:37.119 --> 00:21:40.920 beyond what he says about life itself. Life is the touchstone. 309 00:21:41.119 --> 00:21:43.759 Books must be read and understood in order that we 310 00:21:43.799 --> 00:21:47.519 may compare our experiences in life with the sincere report 311 00:21:47.640 --> 00:21:50.920 of the experience of others. But such and such a 312 00:21:51.039 --> 00:21:54.279 one who has read all the books extent on history 313 00:21:54.279 --> 00:21:57.559 and art is of no consequence unless these are to 314 00:21:57.680 --> 00:22:04.119 him an indirect commentary on what he feels around him. Hence, 315 00:22:04.160 --> 00:22:07.839 if I have drawn cheap chiefly on experience and contemplation, 316 00:22:07.960 --> 00:22:11.680 and little on books which others will discover without my admission. 317 00:22:12.480 --> 00:22:15.640 This does not affect my competency, which must be judged 318 00:22:15.640 --> 00:22:21.440 by standards infinitely more difficult of application. Life is not 319 00:22:21.480 --> 00:22:23.599 so simple that you can give a man. You can 320 00:22:23.680 --> 00:22:26.039 test a man's nearness to truth by giving him a 321 00:22:26.119 --> 00:22:29.839 college examination. Such examinations are mere games. They have no 322 00:22:29.920 --> 00:22:33.920 relation to reality. You may desire some such easy standard 323 00:22:34.000 --> 00:22:36.599 by which you can judge whether or not a man 324 00:22:36.720 --> 00:22:41.200 is reliable. Does he know how? Does he know much history, 325 00:22:41.319 --> 00:22:45.680 much biology, much psychology? If not, he is not worth 326 00:22:45.680 --> 00:22:48.599 listening to. But it is part of the frivolity of 327 00:22:48.640 --> 00:22:52.359 our outlook to reduce life to a set of rules, 328 00:22:52.440 --> 00:22:55.720 and thus save ourselves the agony of constant reference to 329 00:22:55.759 --> 00:23:00.240 first principles. No standardized knowledge is no guarantee of truth. 330 00:23:00.599 --> 00:23:03.119 Put down a simple question, a living question like this, 331 00:23:03.640 --> 00:23:07.720 should A have killed? B Ask it of ten fools, 332 00:23:07.880 --> 00:23:10.720 five will say yes, five will say no. Ask it 333 00:23:10.799 --> 00:23:13.160 of ten intelligent men. Five will say yes, five will 334 00:23:13.160 --> 00:23:16.400 say no. Ask it of ten scholars. Five will say yes, 335 00:23:16.440 --> 00:23:19.480 five will say no. The fools will have no reason 336 00:23:19.519 --> 00:23:22.000 for their direction. The intelligent men will have a few 337 00:23:22.079 --> 00:23:25.640 reasons for and as many against. The scholars will have 338 00:23:25.720 --> 00:23:30.799 more reasons for and against. But where does a truth lie? What, then, 339 00:23:30.880 --> 00:23:35.799 shall be the criterion of man's reliability? There is none. 340 00:23:35.880 --> 00:23:39.039 You cannot evade your responsibility. Thus, by entrusting your salvation 341 00:23:39.119 --> 00:23:42.839 into the hands of a pre specialist, a simpleton may 342 00:23:42.839 --> 00:23:46.200 bring you salvation, and a great philosopher may confound you. 343 00:23:47.799 --> 00:23:50.279 And so to life direct as I have seen it 344 00:23:50.400 --> 00:23:53.240 working in others and felt it within myself, I refer 345 00:23:53.400 --> 00:23:56.240 the truth. I refer the truth of what I say, 346 00:23:57.200 --> 00:23:59.559 And to books I refer only in so far as 347 00:23:59.599 --> 00:24:03.000 the air men manifestations of life. Bessie, you can tell 348 00:24:03.039 --> 00:24:06.000 of what he's trying to say is that he's going 349 00:24:06.039 --> 00:24:15.119 to be going on experience, his experience amongst Gentiles and Jews, 350 00:24:22.480 --> 00:24:27.640 Part two of chapter one. But another question, more subtle 351 00:24:27.640 --> 00:24:30.880 and disturbing, must be faced. I have said there are 352 00:24:30.880 --> 00:24:34.079 two life forces in the world, I know, Jewish and Gentile, 353 00:24:34.519 --> 00:24:37.480 hours and years. If this be a truth, we must 354 00:24:37.519 --> 00:24:40.839 not be driven from it. From it if, like many 355 00:24:40.880 --> 00:24:44.279 other truths, it is overlaid and obscured by the irrelevancies 356 00:24:44.319 --> 00:24:48.720 of life, by the intersection and confusion of currents. Here 357 00:24:48.759 --> 00:24:51.839 is the gentile life force, Here is the Jewish life force. 358 00:24:52.480 --> 00:24:55.400 What their origin was I cannot say. I can only 359 00:24:55.400 --> 00:25:01.799 surmise dimly what circumstances, reacting upon what original impulses, produce 360 00:25:01.880 --> 00:25:05.119 the Jewish life force and the Gentile life force. I 361 00:25:05.119 --> 00:25:08.359 can only affirm to the Jews and the main belongs 362 00:25:08.359 --> 00:25:11.880 to Jewish life force, a consistent and coherent force, a 363 00:25:11.920 --> 00:25:17.799 direction in human thought and reaction. To you others belongs 364 00:25:17.799 --> 00:25:20.759 to Gentile life force, a mode of life and thought 365 00:25:20.799 --> 00:25:25.440 distinct from ours. But the borderline is not clear. Not 366 00:25:25.519 --> 00:25:28.279 all of us Jews are representative of the Jewish life force, 367 00:25:28.599 --> 00:25:32.839 not all you Gentiles are altogether alien to it. We 368 00:25:32.880 --> 00:25:38.839 have lived for many centuries in close contiguity, and if 369 00:25:38.880 --> 00:25:43.559 not in intimacy. Our prophetic books, our most characteristic influence, 370 00:25:44.160 --> 00:25:47.480 have been read to you for many hundreds of years. 371 00:25:48.200 --> 00:25:50.799 Something in these books has developed here and there among 372 00:25:50.880 --> 00:25:54.480 you a latent individual impulse to our Jewish way of 373 00:25:54.519 --> 00:25:57.960 life and thought. Essentially, our prophetic books cannot change your 374 00:25:58.000 --> 00:26:03.119 gentile nature in wh dray predestined hearts. They bring forth 375 00:26:03.240 --> 00:26:12.119 fruit your outlook on life. Your dominant reactions are the 376 00:26:12.160 --> 00:26:15.480 same today as they were two thousand years ago. All 377 00:26:15.480 --> 00:26:18.359 that has changed is the instrument of expression. You live 378 00:26:18.440 --> 00:26:22.240 the same life under different faiths, but something clings to 379 00:26:22.279 --> 00:26:24.880 you here and there, resembling the original form of the 380 00:26:24.920 --> 00:26:28.200 faith we gave you. Here and there, our somber, earnestness 381 00:26:28.240 --> 00:26:33.319 breaks out on the dazzling kaleidoscope of your history, and we, 382 00:26:34.119 --> 00:26:38.319 for all our segregation, have caught, particularly of late, something 383 00:26:38.400 --> 00:26:41.920 of your way of life. As a few Gentiles have 384 00:26:41.960 --> 00:26:46.039 spoken in Jewish tones, so more than one Jew speaks 385 00:26:46.079 --> 00:26:49.839 the language of the gentile. Jews live a gentile life 386 00:26:49.880 --> 00:26:53.839 here and there, while while gentile lives give expression to 387 00:26:53.920 --> 00:27:00.359 Jewish emotions, yet the cleavages there abysmal and undeniable. In 388 00:27:00.359 --> 00:27:04.039 the main, we are forever distinct. Ours is one life, 389 00:27:04.079 --> 00:27:08.640 yours is another. Such accidental confusions, as makes some Northerners 390 00:27:08.720 --> 00:27:11.680 darker than Southerners, does not affect the law that the 391 00:27:11.720 --> 00:27:16.720 Southerner is darker skinned. The law holds, nonetheless for accident 392 00:27:16.799 --> 00:27:20.920 and contradictory cases. You may even have Jews in your 393 00:27:20.960 --> 00:27:23.440 midst who did not learn their way of life from us, 394 00:27:23.480 --> 00:27:26.720 and did not inherit it from a Jewish forebear, we 395 00:27:26.799 --> 00:27:30.000 may have authentic gentiles in our myths, in our midst. 396 00:27:31.039 --> 00:27:34.440 These single protests are of no account. They are extreme 397 00:27:34.599 --> 00:27:40.000 and irrelevant variations. And of his little account are the 398 00:27:40.079 --> 00:27:44.799 occasion occasional transferences of customs and conventions taken over in 399 00:27:44.839 --> 00:27:48.119 the mass. We may have customs and conventions of yours 400 00:27:48.160 --> 00:27:51.279 imposed on our fundamental way of life, even as you 401 00:27:51.319 --> 00:27:54.119 have surface credo of a Jewish faith imposed on your 402 00:27:54.160 --> 00:27:56.839 way of life. But in the end, your true nature 403 00:27:56.920 --> 00:27:59.319 works itself into the pattern of the borrowed faith and 404 00:27:59.400 --> 00:28:03.920 expresses it self undeniably. So we borrowing from you finally 405 00:28:03.960 --> 00:28:07.720 assimilate the loan, and in time make it essentially ours. 406 00:28:10.559 --> 00:28:14.440 Beyond all these irrelevancies, which hide at times but do 407 00:28:14.519 --> 00:28:18.000 not change the issue, lies that clear and faithful division 408 00:28:18.039 --> 00:28:22.400 of life, Jewish and Gentile. Because I am mingled intimately 409 00:28:22.440 --> 00:28:24.880 with the Jewish world and with the Gentile world, I 410 00:28:24.920 --> 00:28:28.880 know well how easily exceptions obscure the rule. But I 411 00:28:28.920 --> 00:28:34.160 know just as well the unsounded, the unsounded abyss between us. 412 00:28:35.319 --> 00:28:37.880 What I've learned in your midstands in my mind sharply 413 00:28:37.960 --> 00:28:39.960 severed from what I have learned in the midst of 414 00:28:40.000 --> 00:28:43.119 my people. I listen to your life, to the brilliant 415 00:28:43.119 --> 00:28:47.519 course which goes up from lands, governments, cities, books, churches, moralities, 416 00:28:48.200 --> 00:28:49.960 and in my mind I can no more confuse it 417 00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:52.319 with the tone of Jewish life than I can confuse 418 00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:56.240 the roaring of a tempest with the deliberate utterance of 419 00:28:56.279 --> 00:29:02.920 the still small voice. I repeat, it is of life. 420 00:29:02.960 --> 00:29:06.480 I speak of masses of men and women, of the 421 00:29:06.519 --> 00:29:10.279 things they say and do do their daily selves, as 422 00:29:10.319 --> 00:29:13.279 I have known them. It is of life at firsthand 423 00:29:13.279 --> 00:29:16.799 that I speak of yourselves as you are in masses, 424 00:29:16.839 --> 00:29:20.000 and singly of my own people as I know them. 425 00:29:20.880 --> 00:29:24.400 My conviction came first from this contact, and from meditation 426 00:29:24.559 --> 00:29:27.480 on its meaning. I learned this belief of mine not 427 00:29:27.599 --> 00:29:31.680 in books, not in history, but in Manchester, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, 428 00:29:31.839 --> 00:29:35.559 New York. So Gentiles, I concluded, have a way of 429 00:29:35.599 --> 00:29:38.920 living and thinking wherever they may be. So Jews have 430 00:29:38.960 --> 00:29:42.160 a way of living and thinking. Had no books ever 431 00:29:42.200 --> 00:29:46.200 been written, were there no histories to refer to, I 432 00:29:46.240 --> 00:29:50.039 would have come to this belief. I do not believe 433 00:29:50.079 --> 00:29:53.759 that this primal difference between jew and Gentile is reconcilable. 434 00:29:56.880 --> 00:30:00.599 You and we may come to an understanding. Never to 435 00:30:00.680 --> 00:30:05.480 a reconciliation. There will be irritation between us as long 436 00:30:05.519 --> 00:30:10.680 as we are in intimate contact. For nature and constitution 437 00:30:10.880 --> 00:30:14.920 and vision divide us from all of you forever. Not 438 00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:18.200 a mere conviction, not a mere language, not a mere 439 00:30:18.279 --> 00:30:22.680 difference of national or religious allegiance. With the best will 440 00:30:22.759 --> 00:30:27.759 on both sides, successful adaptation to each other will always 441 00:30:27.839 --> 00:30:39.480 be insecure and transient waves of liberality may affect our 442 00:30:39.559 --> 00:30:43.559 mutual relationship. From time to time, we shall delude ourselves, 443 00:30:43.559 --> 00:30:45.880 you and we, with the belief that we have bridged 444 00:30:46.079 --> 00:30:51.160 the gulf. Many will pass our lives in that delusions. 445 00:30:51.720 --> 00:30:55.400 But as has come to pass so often, the difference, 446 00:30:55.440 --> 00:31:00.960 which is deeper than will, deeper than consciousness, will assert itself. 447 00:31:01.559 --> 00:31:04.279 There is a limit to our moral and mental possibilities. 448 00:31:04.559 --> 00:31:07.640 We cannot climb out of ourselves. The complete and permanent 449 00:31:07.680 --> 00:31:11.039 reconciliation of your way of life with ours is beyond 450 00:31:11.480 --> 00:31:18.799 that limit. Some of you already made you know, are 451 00:31:18.799 --> 00:31:26.359 already asked them the question, if you believe that, why 452 00:31:26.400 --> 00:31:31.960 do you stay among us? Why don't you separate? Especially 453 00:31:32.160 --> 00:31:36.079 since twenty three, twenty five years after this it's called 454 00:31:36.079 --> 00:31:43.839 it twenty five, they'll have their own country of course, 455 00:31:43.880 --> 00:31:48.759 it is the frequent theme of editors, of popular professional optimists, 456 00:31:48.799 --> 00:31:52.359 and of gullible and facile publicists that the paths are 457 00:31:52.359 --> 00:31:55.640 reconciliation between you and gentile. Is the path of knowledge, 458 00:31:56.119 --> 00:32:00.680 or rather of information. The more you know concern our history, 459 00:32:00.680 --> 00:32:03.119 our customs, our belief, the nearer you will find us 460 00:32:03.160 --> 00:32:06.759 to you, the less you will dislike us. But this 461 00:32:06.920 --> 00:32:12.359 is feutile and unreliable amiability. It is by no means, 462 00:32:12.400 --> 00:32:14.839 even in general rule, that the best informed people are 463 00:32:14.839 --> 00:32:19.000 the least successible to anti Semitism, the most backward countries 464 00:32:19.039 --> 00:32:22.119 are the most infected. Here is a cult, or at 465 00:32:22.200 --> 00:32:24.960 least a feeling, which sits with equal grace on the 466 00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:29.519 grossest of your peasantry and the most refined of your aristocracy. 467 00:32:31.000 --> 00:32:33.440 In the one case, it is fortified by superstition, in 468 00:32:33.480 --> 00:32:36.519 the other case by all the information the scientific research 469 00:32:36.559 --> 00:32:42.799 ins of philosophy, history, ethnography, and anthropology can accumulate. Not that, 470 00:32:42.920 --> 00:32:45.960 in my opinion, the aristocrat knows us better than the peasant, 471 00:32:46.000 --> 00:32:49.519 the scholar better than the bore. But even if you 472 00:32:49.559 --> 00:32:52.839 should understand us, and I offer you this toward that end, 473 00:32:53.400 --> 00:33:01.400 we would not find mutual tolerance any easier. This book 474 00:33:01.519 --> 00:33:05.799 therefore cannot be presented as an effort to achieve an 475 00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:10.319 end which from the outset is declared impossible. I do 476 00:33:10.440 --> 00:33:15.559 not propose to combat antisemitism. I only wish to present 477 00:33:15.640 --> 00:33:19.319 what seems to me it's true explanation, in the hopes 478 00:33:19.359 --> 00:33:25.000 of changing some of its manifestations. I'm going to stop 479 00:33:25.079 --> 00:33:30.240 right there. So basically, in this last paragraph he tells 480 00:33:30.279 --> 00:33:32.880 you what the purpose of writing this book is. This 481 00:33:32.920 --> 00:33:35.880 book therefore cannot be presented as an effort to achieve 482 00:33:35.920 --> 00:33:40.440 an end which from the outset is declared impossible. Basically, 483 00:33:40.480 --> 00:33:42.559 what he has said so far and what I have 484 00:33:42.680 --> 00:33:48.759 read is the gulf cannot be. It can't be bridged. 485 00:33:50.920 --> 00:33:54.319 He says, I don't even want to fight anti Semitism. 486 00:33:57.200 --> 00:33:59.440 I only wish to present what seems to me it's 487 00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:04.039 explanation in the hope of changing some of its manifestations. 488 00:34:05.799 --> 00:34:09.760 So basically, what he's saying, what he would appear to 489 00:34:09.800 --> 00:34:13.199 be saying so far we will read more another day, 490 00:34:14.639 --> 00:34:19.679 is that, Yeah, the true explanation of what Anzie Semtism 491 00:34:19.800 --> 00:34:25.440 is is that the gulf can't be. There will always 492 00:34:25.480 --> 00:34:32.360 be enmity, and his only real hope in writing this 493 00:34:32.400 --> 00:34:39.400 book is to change some of its manifestations. And when 494 00:34:39.400 --> 00:34:42.880 he says that, he's not saying that for our benefit, 495 00:34:44.159 --> 00:34:49.880 the gentile benefit. All right, so a little bit of 496 00:34:49.920 --> 00:34:51.719 the way through this. It's gonna take a little bit 497 00:34:51.760 --> 00:34:54.079 to get through this, but it's really not that long 498 00:34:54.119 --> 00:34:57.960 a book. It's really only like one hundred pages. So yeah, 499 00:34:58.079 --> 00:35:00.840 but it'll be a nice thing to spread out and 500 00:35:01.840 --> 00:35:04.639 read over probably a couple of weeks, all right, So 501 00:35:06.159 --> 00:35:09.000 be back in a couple of days. Watch out for 502 00:35:09.119 --> 00:35:14.480 some really fun episodes coming up, and one in particular 503 00:35:14.559 --> 00:35:17.880 that I think everyone's really gonna like a lot and 504 00:35:18.840 --> 00:35:26.440 might go pretty wide. All right, take care everyone, really, 505 00:35:26.639 --> 00:35:28.719 just take care of yourselves and take care of the 506 00:35:28.719 --> 00:35:34.639 people around you later. All right, welcome back to part 507 00:35:34.719 --> 00:35:41.599 two of my reading of Maurice Samuel's You Gentiles. We 508 00:35:41.719 --> 00:35:46.039 read chapter one, parts one and two within chapter one, 509 00:35:46.840 --> 00:35:50.440 and the one takeaway we should come away should take 510 00:35:50.440 --> 00:35:55.320 away so far is that he's making the statement that 511 00:35:57.800 --> 00:36:03.079 the chasm between you and gentile is too big. It 512 00:36:03.239 --> 00:36:07.360 will never be it will never be bridged, it will 513 00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:15.199 never in his opinion, it's always going to be a chasm, 514 00:36:16.280 --> 00:36:19.599 and there's no bridge that can bring the two together. 515 00:36:21.639 --> 00:36:24.679 I just want to say again remind everyone this is 516 00:36:24.679 --> 00:36:27.800 written in nineteen twenty four. This didn't fall out of 517 00:36:27.840 --> 00:36:32.519 the sky like the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 518 00:36:32.679 --> 00:36:38.599 which I don't take seriously. As a scholar of Jewish history, 519 00:36:39.079 --> 00:36:42.679 somebody who studies their history, I don't take that seriously. 520 00:36:42.760 --> 00:36:48.199 It means nothing to me. It's other than a curiosity. 521 00:36:48.320 --> 00:36:50.119 This is a book written by a man who was 522 00:36:50.199 --> 00:36:53.960 known in his time as a Jewish intellectual, known within 523 00:36:54.119 --> 00:36:59.440 the Jewish community, had a radio show. This was a 524 00:36:59.519 --> 00:37:07.320 serious scholar and a commentator on what he sees around him. 525 00:37:07.360 --> 00:37:10.320 And he makes that It makes very clear in what 526 00:37:10.360 --> 00:37:14.519 we've already read that there's no science to this. This 527 00:37:14.679 --> 00:37:18.400 is what he is seeing, and this is He's not 528 00:37:18.639 --> 00:37:24.039 putting together equations. He's not saying a equills be here 529 00:37:24.719 --> 00:37:28.199 but not here. He's saying, this is just what I'm witnessing. 530 00:37:28.639 --> 00:37:33.559 This is what I feel within me. So let's move on. 531 00:37:35.960 --> 00:37:38.119 We shall not come to understand the nature of the 532 00:37:38.159 --> 00:37:41.880 primal difference between Jew and gentile and Jew if we 533 00:37:41.920 --> 00:37:44.360 attempt to treat it merely as a difference in accepted 534 00:37:44.400 --> 00:37:48.880 dogmas and philosophies. A religion in its formulated essence is 535 00:37:48.920 --> 00:37:53.559 seldom the real religion. The practice and belief creeds, which 536 00:37:53.639 --> 00:37:56.519 in their formulated essence are alien to a people, may 537 00:37:56.559 --> 00:37:59.519 be accepted by the people, but the true nature of 538 00:37:59.559 --> 00:38:02.639 the people asserts itself. I actually agree with that one 539 00:38:02.679 --> 00:38:12.079 hundred percent. He's basically saying anything you write down is sure, 540 00:38:12.199 --> 00:38:16.480 this is what we believe, but it's really what you practice. 541 00:38:17.199 --> 00:38:24.559 It's how it manifests in reality. But the true nature 542 00:38:24.719 --> 00:38:27.800 of the people asserts itself. The form and dogma of 543 00:38:27.840 --> 00:38:31.079 the religion are retained, but the fabric, the institutions, the 544 00:38:31.119 --> 00:38:35.039 true reactions which make the religion what it is outside 545 00:38:35.039 --> 00:38:38.920 of its sacred books, these are the indices to its 546 00:38:39.000 --> 00:38:42.679 actual force and significance. There is such a thing as 547 00:38:42.800 --> 00:38:46.400 conversion of a man's opinions. There is no such thing 548 00:38:46.519 --> 00:38:50.760 outside the field of long and laborious psychotherapy and individual cases, 549 00:38:52.159 --> 00:38:57.639 as conversion of a man's nature. That is beyond the 550 00:38:57.679 --> 00:39:00.559 reach of conscious effort, certainly beyond the reach of the 551 00:39:00.599 --> 00:39:04.280 missionary change. A man's opinions and his nature will soon 552 00:39:04.400 --> 00:39:09.199 learn to express itself through the new medium. This I 553 00:39:09.320 --> 00:39:12.039 preface to my observations on the difference between you and 554 00:39:12.079 --> 00:39:16.280 gentile because I anticipate the commonplace illusion to the similarity 555 00:39:16.280 --> 00:39:19.239 of our creeds. See the identity of source and the 556 00:39:19.280 --> 00:39:23.920 origin of the founder of your religion, Christianity, the reality, 557 00:39:24.079 --> 00:39:27.599 not the Credo, is not a variant of Judaism. Whatever 558 00:39:27.679 --> 00:39:32.920 Christ or his chroniclers may have intended, your nature is 559 00:39:32.960 --> 00:39:35.960 the same today as it was before the advent of Christianity. 560 00:39:36.599 --> 00:39:39.599 Within the framework of another creed, your instincts would have 561 00:39:39.719 --> 00:39:45.239 woven a similar design. So basically, what he's saying is 562 00:39:45.800 --> 00:39:52.840 Christianity didn't change those who call themselves Christians. It could 563 00:39:52.840 --> 00:39:57.679 have been something completely different, and we who call ourselves 564 00:39:57.760 --> 00:40:04.599 Christians would be no different. That it won't change, that 565 00:40:04.719 --> 00:40:08.199 this belief structure on the outside will not change who 566 00:40:08.239 --> 00:40:14.199 we are at the base, And if not religious, this 567 00:40:14.239 --> 00:40:17.639 difference certainly cannot be in the nature of a philosophy 568 00:40:18.199 --> 00:40:23.199 or a Veltenschang. It is true that a man's nature 569 00:40:23.239 --> 00:40:31.920 dictates his philosophy. In Veltenschang, start that again, clear my throat. 570 00:40:32.480 --> 00:40:35.320 It is true that a man's nature dictates his philosophy, 571 00:40:35.400 --> 00:40:41.360 and Veltenschiang sheng, that's a word, even as it does 572 00:40:41.400 --> 00:40:44.960 his religion but we must also remember that our logic 573 00:40:45.079 --> 00:40:49.039 is nearly always at variance with our natures. A man's 574 00:40:49.119 --> 00:40:53.000 nature expresses itself only indirectly, is never found in the 575 00:40:53.039 --> 00:40:57.400 face in the face value of his assertions. Surely we 576 00:40:57.440 --> 00:41:00.000 differ in religion and philosophy, but only if we can 577 00:41:00.320 --> 00:41:03.559 religion of philosophy not as assertions, but as the practice 578 00:41:04.039 --> 00:41:08.039 or art of life presents it in their name. Though 579 00:41:08.119 --> 00:41:12.159 you and we were to agree on all fundamental principles 580 00:41:12.360 --> 00:41:15.280 as openly stated, though we should agree that there is 581 00:41:15.320 --> 00:41:18.599 only one God, that war is evil, that universal piece 582 00:41:18.639 --> 00:41:21.639 is the most desirable of human ideals, yet we should 583 00:41:21.679 --> 00:41:29.719 remain fundamentally different. The language of our external expression is alike, 584 00:41:30.159 --> 00:41:34.239 but the language of our internal meaning is different. You 585 00:41:34.360 --> 00:41:37.480 call that line in that part of the spectrum, read, 586 00:41:38.000 --> 00:41:41.079 so do we. But who will ever know what that's? 587 00:41:41.480 --> 00:41:44.639 What that say? But who will ever know that the 588 00:41:44.679 --> 00:41:49.000 sensation read in you is the sensation read in us. 589 00:41:50.679 --> 00:41:53.920 Life is fluid, and dogmas are fixed, And life trying 590 00:41:53.960 --> 00:41:57.000 to come to terms with dogmas, does not easily break 591 00:41:57.000 --> 00:42:02.519 with them, but endows them with almost infinite plastice. Under 592 00:42:02.559 --> 00:42:05.039 the same dogmas, a man will kill another or die 593 00:42:05.320 --> 00:42:09.599 rather than lift his hand to kill. One generation means 594 00:42:09.639 --> 00:42:12.599 one thing in a dogma, another generation means another thing. 595 00:42:13.840 --> 00:42:16.880 And at last, even the elasticity of the dogma will 596 00:42:16.920 --> 00:42:20.280 not stand the strain. A sudden wave of emotion comes 597 00:42:20.280 --> 00:42:23.880 to reinforce accumulated resentment. There is a revolution, and a 598 00:42:23.960 --> 00:42:30.599 new religion is founded. New dogmas are accepted. Perhaps they 599 00:42:30.639 --> 00:42:33.039 do not answer the need. Perhaps they express only a 600 00:42:33.079 --> 00:42:36.440 passing fashion. Perhaps they are no nearer than the old 601 00:42:36.480 --> 00:42:41.639 dogmas to a reconciliation between philosophy and instinct. But they 602 00:42:41.679 --> 00:42:44.760 may take root, and the process begins all over again. 603 00:42:45.519 --> 00:42:52.840 Instinct endures for glacial ages. Religions revolve with civilizations. Let 604 00:42:52.920 --> 00:42:55.920 us differentiate, then, between a religion as a dogma and 605 00:42:56.000 --> 00:42:59.280 the same religion as a practiced art or way of life. 606 00:43:00.400 --> 00:43:03.679 We may compare religion with religion. This is legitimate and fruitful, 607 00:43:04.320 --> 00:43:07.639 But let us, in so doing compare dogma with dogma, 608 00:43:07.679 --> 00:43:11.199 practice with practice. And even when we treat of dogma, 609 00:43:12.039 --> 00:43:15.000 let us be careful to distinguish between the dogma as 610 00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:18.119 proclaimed and the dogma as it is transmitted by the 611 00:43:18.400 --> 00:43:24.960 transmuted by the emotions, and certainly between the dogmas of 612 00:43:25.000 --> 00:43:28.920 your religion and ours is little difference, for we gave 613 00:43:28.960 --> 00:43:32.400 you the dogmas. It is absurd to assert that the 614 00:43:32.400 --> 00:43:34.840 sole difference between you and us is that you believe 615 00:43:34.880 --> 00:43:37.599 the Messiah has already come while we believe that he 616 00:43:37.679 --> 00:43:40.519 is yet to come, or that you believe, even in theory, 617 00:43:40.559 --> 00:43:42.880 in the doctrine of forgiveness, while we believe in the 618 00:43:42.920 --> 00:43:51.639 doctrine of retaliation. It's interesting, huh, Christians believe in the 619 00:43:51.639 --> 00:43:55.480 doctrine of forgiveness, and he's saying that Jews their doctrine 620 00:43:55.760 --> 00:44:02.679 is one of retaliation even in theory. This difference is 621 00:44:02.760 --> 00:44:06.599 trifling in the face of the overwhelming bulk of common inspiration. 622 00:44:07.119 --> 00:44:10.760 The difference between us is abysmal. It is not a 623 00:44:10.760 --> 00:44:14.199 disagreement about a historical factor, about a commandment which neither 624 00:44:14.239 --> 00:44:18.440 of us observes. In some of these dogmatic disagreements, we 625 00:44:18.519 --> 00:44:21.000 may find the key to our differences. They do not 626 00:44:21.079 --> 00:44:24.960 constitute a difference. A few of them, those which have 627 00:44:25.079 --> 00:44:29.239 not been stretched to accommodate your stincts, but express them readily, 628 00:44:29.760 --> 00:44:33.119 were caused by the difference between us. They did not 629 00:44:33.320 --> 00:44:39.159 cause it. That primal difference which I have sensed more 630 00:44:39.199 --> 00:44:41.519 and more keenly as I have tasted more and more 631 00:44:41.559 --> 00:44:45.159 of life. Your life in our life, is a difference 632 00:44:45.239 --> 00:44:48.039 in the sum total of our respective emotions under the 633 00:44:48.079 --> 00:44:51.360 stimulus of the external world. It is a difference in 634 00:44:51.400 --> 00:44:55.159 the essential quality or tone of our mental and spiritual being. 635 00:44:55.880 --> 00:44:58.960 Life is to you one thing, to us another, and 636 00:44:59.000 --> 00:45:01.960 according to these two central qualities we make answer to 637 00:45:02.039 --> 00:45:05.920 the needs and impulses which are common to both of us. 638 00:45:06.920 --> 00:45:09.519 To you, life is a game and a gallant adventure, 639 00:45:09.800 --> 00:45:13.199 and all life's enterprises partake of the spirit of the adventurous. 640 00:45:14.239 --> 00:45:16.960 To us, life is a serious and sober duty pointed 641 00:45:17.000 --> 00:45:22.599 to a definite and escapable task. Your relations to Gods 642 00:45:22.679 --> 00:45:24.880 and men spring from the joy and rhythm of the 643 00:45:24.920 --> 00:45:30.880 temporary comradeship or enmity of spirit our relation to God 644 00:45:31.199 --> 00:45:34.280 and men. When he for those of you who aren't 645 00:45:34.280 --> 00:45:37.079 reading along, he says your relations to Gods and men, 646 00:45:38.239 --> 00:45:44.519 he properly makes a G small case when he says 647 00:45:44.679 --> 00:45:49.199 here our relations to God, and he uses a big G. 648 00:45:49.400 --> 00:45:52.239 But he doesn't cross out the O. Why has become 649 00:45:52.280 --> 00:45:56.320 so common in modern day? Our relation to God and 650 00:45:56.360 --> 00:45:59.880 men is dictated by a sober subject subjection to some 651 00:46:00.079 --> 00:46:04.400 external principle. Your way of life. Your moralities and codes 652 00:46:04.480 --> 00:46:08.119 are the rules of a game, nonetheless severe or exacting 653 00:46:08.199 --> 00:46:12.599 for that but not inspired by a sense of fundamental purposefulness. 654 00:46:14.599 --> 00:46:17.519 Our way of life, our morality and code, do not 655 00:46:17.599 --> 00:46:21.679 refer to temporary rules which govern a temporary and trivial pastime. 656 00:46:22.199 --> 00:46:25.039 They are inspired by elite a belief, a true belief, 657 00:46:25.480 --> 00:46:29.880 a belief which reaches below assertion into extinctive reaction in 658 00:46:29.920 --> 00:46:35.159 the eternal quality of human endeavor. To you, morality is 659 00:46:35.480 --> 00:46:40.800 the right thing. To us, morality is right for all 660 00:46:40.800 --> 00:46:45.039 the changing problems of human relationship which rise with changing circumstances. 661 00:46:45.079 --> 00:46:47.719 You laid down the rules and regulations of the warrior, 662 00:46:48.119 --> 00:46:52.280 the sportsmen, the gentleman. We refer all problems seriously to 663 00:46:52.360 --> 00:46:56.679 eternal law. For you, certain acts are unbecoming to the 664 00:46:56.719 --> 00:47:00.760 pertinent ideal type, whether he be a knight or a fellow. 665 00:47:01.400 --> 00:47:05.840 We have no such changing systems of reference, only one command, 666 00:47:06.840 --> 00:47:12.800 and all your moral attributes are only varieties of Queensbury rules, Honor, loyalty, purity. 667 00:47:13.079 --> 00:47:15.960 These are sets of regulations. The best of you will 668 00:47:16.000 --> 00:47:18.280 not swerve from them. You will die in their defense 669 00:47:18.360 --> 00:47:21.159 like the gallant gentlemen you are. But you will not 670 00:47:21.280 --> 00:47:24.079 brook the question whether your system of honor is founded 671 00:47:24.119 --> 00:47:29.039 on right, whether loyalty has relation to intelligence, whether purity 672 00:47:29.079 --> 00:47:33.519 has relation to the state of mind. Honor means but 673 00:47:33.559 --> 00:47:36.199 one thing, to do, the honorable thing, whether it be 674 00:47:36.280 --> 00:47:40.880 honor and dueling, honor among thieves, honor of women. Loyalty 675 00:47:40.920 --> 00:47:44.320 means the quality of being loyal, independent of right or wrong. 676 00:47:44.800 --> 00:47:47.480 Purity means the chastity of the body or the denial 677 00:47:47.519 --> 00:47:50.840 of desire. As such, it is related to the game, 678 00:47:51.639 --> 00:47:55.719 not to God. For us, these distinctions do not exist, 679 00:47:55.760 --> 00:47:58.440 for we are serious in our intentions. We will not 680 00:47:58.519 --> 00:48:01.199 accept your rules because we are not. We do not 681 00:48:01.400 --> 00:48:05.800 understand them. We will not accept your rules because we 682 00:48:05.840 --> 00:48:08.880 do not understand them. Right and wrong is the only 683 00:48:09.000 --> 00:48:12.880 distinction we are fitted by our nature to appreciate. We 684 00:48:12.920 --> 00:48:19.159 are puzzled by your punctilios, your quoint distinctions, your gentleman's 685 00:48:19.280 --> 00:48:25.079 call me faults. We are amazed when you fight for them. 686 00:48:25.480 --> 00:48:28.320 We are struck dumb when you die for them a 687 00:48:28.400 --> 00:48:33.440 song on your lips. Not that we not that we 688 00:48:33.480 --> 00:48:35.760 do not know how to die for a cause. But 689 00:48:35.840 --> 00:48:38.559 we must die for a serious cause, for a reason, 690 00:48:38.840 --> 00:48:42.719 for right, for God, not for a slogan without meaning, 691 00:48:42.760 --> 00:48:44.880 for a symbol for its own sake, for a rule 692 00:48:44.920 --> 00:48:47.960 for its own sake. We will die for the right, 693 00:48:49.079 --> 00:48:53.199 not for the right thing. This difference in behavior and 694 00:48:53.280 --> 00:48:57.159 reaction springs from something much more earnest and significant than 695 00:48:57.199 --> 00:49:00.159 a difference in beliefs. It springs from a different in 696 00:49:00.199 --> 00:49:05.000 our biological equipment. It does not argue the inferiority of 697 00:49:05.039 --> 00:49:07.519 the one or the other. It is a difference in 698 00:49:07.559 --> 00:49:11.360 the taking of life, which cannot be argued. You have 699 00:49:11.440 --> 00:49:14.639 your way of life. We ares in your system of life. 700 00:49:14.639 --> 00:49:18.039 We are essentially without honor in our system of life. 701 00:49:18.119 --> 00:49:21.840 You are essentially without morality in your system of life. 702 00:49:21.920 --> 00:49:25.639 We must forever appear graceless to us, You must forever 703 00:49:25.719 --> 00:49:31.360 appear godless. Seen from beyond both of us, there is 704 00:49:31.440 --> 00:49:37.320 nothing right nor wrong. There is your Western civilization. If 705 00:49:37.360 --> 00:49:42.239 your sense of the impermanence of things, the essential sportiness 706 00:49:42.280 --> 00:49:46.480 of all effort, the gamesomeness and gameness of life, has 707 00:49:46.480 --> 00:49:49.519 blossomed in events and laws like these I have seen 708 00:49:49.559 --> 00:49:52.519 around me, it cannot, from an external point of view, 709 00:49:52.760 --> 00:49:55.840 neither yours nor ours be classified as right or wrong. 710 00:49:57.000 --> 00:50:01.320 Wars for Helen and for Jenkins's ear, duels for honor 711 00:50:01.400 --> 00:50:06.400 and for gambling, debts, death for a flag, loyalties, gallant gestures. 712 00:50:06.440 --> 00:50:09.960 A world that centers round sport and war, with a 713 00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:13.800 system of virtues related to these, art that springs not 714 00:50:13.880 --> 00:50:17.920 from God but from the joyousness and suffering of the freeman. 715 00:50:18.599 --> 00:50:21.320 A world of play which takes death itself as part 716 00:50:21.400 --> 00:50:24.840 of the play, to be approached as carelessly and pleasantly 717 00:50:25.159 --> 00:50:27.960 as any other turn of chance. Cities and states and 718 00:50:28.039 --> 00:50:30.800 mighty enterprises built up on the same rush of feeling 719 00:50:31.119 --> 00:50:34.199 and energy as carries a football team, and in the 720 00:50:34.199 --> 00:50:40.519 same ideology. This is the efflorescence of the Western world. 721 00:50:42.000 --> 00:50:46.800 It has a magnificent, evanescent beauty. It is a valiant 722 00:50:46.800 --> 00:50:50.079 defiance of the gloom of the universe, a warrior shout 723 00:50:50.119 --> 00:50:54.599 into the ghastly void, a futile thing for us, beautiful 724 00:50:54.599 --> 00:50:59.239 and boyish for all its inconsistencies and failures. Without itself, 725 00:50:59.280 --> 00:51:01.840 it has a charm, arm and rhythm which are unknown 726 00:51:01.880 --> 00:51:05.679 to us. We could never have built a world like yours. 727 00:51:08.679 --> 00:51:13.199 The efflorescence of our life, given free room, is profoundly different. 728 00:51:13.760 --> 00:51:18.280 We have none of this joyous gamesomeness. We fight and 729 00:51:18.320 --> 00:51:21.440 suffer and die, even as we labor and create, not 730 00:51:21.559 --> 00:51:23.679 in sport, and not under the rules of sport, but 731 00:51:23.679 --> 00:51:25.400 in the feeling and belief that we are part of 732 00:51:25.440 --> 00:51:29.760 an eternal process. We cannot have art such as you have, 733 00:51:30.039 --> 00:51:34.199 a free and careless lyrical beauty, songs and epics. Our 734 00:51:34.280 --> 00:51:36.960 sense of beauty springs from immersion in the universe, from 735 00:51:37.000 --> 00:51:39.320 a gloomy desire to see justice done in the name 736 00:51:39.360 --> 00:51:45.079 of God. Morality itself we take simply and seriously. We 737 00:51:45.119 --> 00:51:48.360 have none of your arbitrary regulations, your fine flourishes and 738 00:51:48.400 --> 00:51:52.559 discipline gallantries. We only know right or wrong. All the 739 00:51:52.599 --> 00:51:57.039 rest seems to us childish irrelevance. When God speaks in us, 740 00:51:57.400 --> 00:52:00.559 when his overwhelming will drives us to utterance, are great. 741 00:52:01.119 --> 00:52:07.519 Otherwise we are futile feudal. With you, there cannot be 742 00:52:07.559 --> 00:52:11.599 a question of utility. We belong to the one mastering God. 743 00:52:12.199 --> 00:52:18.039 You belong to the republic public of playful gods. These 744 00:52:18.039 --> 00:52:20.880 are two ways of life, each utterly alien to the other. 745 00:52:21.400 --> 00:52:24.639 Each has its place in the world, but they cannot 746 00:52:24.639 --> 00:52:27.719 flourish in the same soil. They cannot remain in contact 747 00:52:27.719 --> 00:52:31.519 without antagonism. Though to life itself, each way is a 748 00:52:31.559 --> 00:52:40.159 perfect utterance to each other. They are enemies. Moving on 749 00:52:40.280 --> 00:52:47.000 to chapter two, sport. The most amazing thing in your life, 750 00:52:47.079 --> 00:52:51.000 the most in contrast with ours, is its sport. By 751 00:52:51.000 --> 00:52:53.840 this I do not mean simply your fondness for physical exercise, 752 00:52:53.880 --> 00:52:59.039 your physical exuberance, but the psychological and social institutionalization of sport, 753 00:52:59.159 --> 00:53:04.400 its organization, its predominant role as the outlet and expression 754 00:53:04.480 --> 00:53:08.199 of your spiritual energies. I will not go into the 755 00:53:08.239 --> 00:53:11.039 history of sports among you, contrasting it with its absence 756 00:53:11.079 --> 00:53:14.559 from our records and emotions, but surely there is something 757 00:53:14.559 --> 00:53:18.159 of extraordinary significance in the predominance of sports in your 758 00:53:18.199 --> 00:53:22.599 first high civilization, their religious character, and their hold on 759 00:53:22.639 --> 00:53:35.480 the affection and attention of the masses. That the overwhelming 760 00:53:35.519 --> 00:53:39.480 significance of this manifestation of life has been ignored is 761 00:53:39.559 --> 00:53:42.920 due essentially to the promposity of historians who care for 762 00:53:43.000 --> 00:53:46.880 dignity and scholarship more than for truth, and who often 763 00:53:46.960 --> 00:53:53.599 lacking the shrewdness, insight, cynicism, craftiness, vulgarity, affection, and live wiredness, 764 00:53:53.880 --> 00:53:57.400 in brief the worldliness to understand what is going on 765 00:53:57.480 --> 00:54:01.039 around them. In newspapers, politics and movements, think they can 766 00:54:01.079 --> 00:54:04.599 nevertheless understand history, which they seem to regard not as 767 00:54:04.679 --> 00:54:08.280 yesterday's acts of the people around them today, but as 768 00:54:08.320 --> 00:54:13.760 a detached and peculiar system, inaccessible to ordinary and uncultured intelligence. 769 00:54:16.119 --> 00:54:19.039 I need not go to ancient history when I read 770 00:54:19.119 --> 00:54:22.280 serious accounts of the history of our own times, and 771 00:54:22.320 --> 00:54:27.039 see is what a seeming conspiracy of stupidity Our historians 772 00:54:27.079 --> 00:54:32.159 ignore the most potent manifestation of modern life, sport, football, baseball, 773 00:54:32.519 --> 00:54:36.679 and concentrate almost exclusively on such trivialities as politics, which 774 00:54:36.719 --> 00:54:41.239 no one takes seriously. I am filled with astonishment and despair. 775 00:54:42.800 --> 00:54:47.320 Such men cannot write true history. But some records there are, 776 00:54:48.800 --> 00:54:51.960 and however small the attention which serious historians have given 777 00:54:52.000 --> 00:54:55.639 to this. We must feel that the chief chief free passion, 778 00:54:55.920 --> 00:54:58.960 that is, the chief passion not inevitably aroused by the 779 00:54:58.960 --> 00:55:04.480 struggle for exist The chief spiritual passion was sport. Witnessed 780 00:55:04.480 --> 00:55:08.760 the elaborate religious celebration of sporting events built on athletic contests. 781 00:55:09.280 --> 00:55:12.280 Witness the adulation the love that was poured out to 782 00:55:12.320 --> 00:55:16.599 athletic prodigies. Witnessed the dedication of the highest, most inspired 783 00:55:16.679 --> 00:55:21.519 talents to their glorification witness the tremendous mass passions enlisted 784 00:55:21.559 --> 00:55:26.000 in sporting events in Athens, in Rome, in Byzantium, and elsewhere. 785 00:55:28.280 --> 00:55:31.079 But in this regard, as in most others, history is 786 00:55:31.119 --> 00:55:35.159 by far less important than contact with life. I need 787 00:55:35.199 --> 00:55:37.440 not study history or read books to know what sport 788 00:55:37.519 --> 00:55:40.119 means to you. I have only to feel the emotions 789 00:55:40.119 --> 00:55:43.440 around me. Read your newspapers, watch the records of your universities. 790 00:55:44.360 --> 00:55:47.679 The most certain, the most consistent, the most sustained. That intense, 791 00:55:47.719 --> 00:55:51.719 free emotion in your life is sport. And when here 792 00:55:51.760 --> 00:55:55.440 in America, as indeed elsewhere too, some of your professors 793 00:55:55.440 --> 00:55:58.840 and educationalist deplore and condemned the prepondering role of sport 794 00:55:58.880 --> 00:56:02.880 in the schools, they fail to understand your spirit. Your 795 00:56:02.920 --> 00:56:06.599 spirit is sport, particularly your young men, who are not 796 00:56:06.679 --> 00:56:10.440 yet absorbed in the struggle for existence, and whose emotions 797 00:56:10.480 --> 00:56:15.079 are therefore for the largest part free, must find in sport, 798 00:56:15.199 --> 00:56:19.440 in games in contest, the most satisfactory expression of their instincts. 799 00:56:19.679 --> 00:56:24.079 This is exactly why they have to keep us distracted, 800 00:56:24.400 --> 00:56:32.800 especially young men. Young men, says here, your spirit is sport, 801 00:56:32.880 --> 00:56:35.599 particularly your young men who are not yet absorbed in 802 00:56:35.639 --> 00:56:41.199 the struggle for existence. That is why when it comes 803 00:56:41.239 --> 00:56:50.039 out that there is growing groups of young men who 804 00:56:50.119 --> 00:56:53.719 see that they have a struggle for existence and they 805 00:56:53.760 --> 00:56:58.559 decide to come together to talk about it and to 806 00:56:58.719 --> 00:57:02.840 organize such a threat to them, they would much rather 807 00:57:03.000 --> 00:57:08.960 have you playing sports because they understand the struggle for 808 00:57:09.079 --> 00:57:15.000 existence they don't want you to have. They don't want 809 00:57:15.000 --> 00:57:18.960 you to be cognizant of that, because then you become dangerous. 810 00:57:24.159 --> 00:57:26.920 For the most part, of course, both professor and public, 811 00:57:26.960 --> 00:57:29.400 despite occasional jokes at their own expense and at the 812 00:57:29.440 --> 00:57:32.519 expense of the institution, sympathize with the attitude of the 813 00:57:32.559 --> 00:57:35.239 young men, encourage it not only by their energetic interest 814 00:57:35.320 --> 00:57:39.079 in organized sport outside, but by the passionate attention with 815 00:57:39.119 --> 00:57:42.639 which they follow the sporting records of the colleges. It 816 00:57:42.719 --> 00:57:46.039 is a commonplace that the scholastic achievements of the universities 817 00:57:46.079 --> 00:57:50.039 are both unintelligible and uninteresting to the vast massive graduates, 818 00:57:50.360 --> 00:57:53.239 and that academic work can in no wives compete with 819 00:57:53.840 --> 00:57:57.239 athletic achievement in taking the heart and interest both of 820 00:57:57.320 --> 00:57:59.920 these and of the general public. If this was really 821 00:58:00.119 --> 00:58:05.159 in nineteen twenty four, You're what are your He's writing 822 00:58:05.159 --> 00:58:10.599 it nineteen twenty two, nineteen twenty three, what's your professional 823 00:58:10.599 --> 00:58:14.480 sports leagues at the time? Major League Baseball, that's probably 824 00:58:14.480 --> 00:58:18.840 the biggest one. Football has not become Basketball has not 825 00:58:19.360 --> 00:58:26.639 reached any kind of height. Hockey's in its infancy. It 826 00:58:26.639 --> 00:58:35.360 makes you wonder why professional sports became so important, Because 827 00:58:35.440 --> 00:58:39.559 if college sports can occupy the mind of the young 828 00:58:41.159 --> 00:58:43.920 and do damage to it, and they don't understand the 829 00:58:43.960 --> 00:58:50.639 struggle that they're in, and the older, if they have 830 00:58:50.760 --> 00:58:53.920 professional sports to watch, if it's just right there on 831 00:58:53.960 --> 00:58:57.639 the TV or on the radio at the time, then 832 00:58:57.719 --> 00:59:01.039 they become subsumed in it and they don't see the 833 00:59:01.039 --> 00:59:06.960 struggle therein Maybe there is a reason why at one 834 00:59:07.079 --> 00:59:17.880 time basketball was a huge part of basketball was Jewish 835 00:59:18.400 --> 00:59:26.360 and they stopped playing and they bought the teams, And 836 00:59:26.400 --> 00:59:29.440 even those who can understand the content of scholastic achievement 837 00:59:29.480 --> 00:59:35.320 are also drawn more powerfully towards sporting achievement. I do 838 00:59:35.400 --> 00:59:37.880 not agree at all with the few critics of your 839 00:59:38.000 --> 00:59:40.760 universities who see in this state of affairs a decline 840 00:59:40.760 --> 00:59:43.360 of the spirit of the country and of its educators. 841 00:59:43.800 --> 00:59:46.760 This state of affairs is not decadence, but the full 842 00:59:46.880 --> 00:59:50.960 and vigorous blossoming of your spirit. This is your way 843 00:59:51.000 --> 00:59:56.119 of life. What he's saying is he's saying that when 844 00:59:57.559 --> 01:00:01.559 you see some professors in academ come out and say, really, 845 01:00:01.639 --> 01:00:07.519 maybe the sports thing is distracting, what he's saying is no, 846 01:00:07.559 --> 01:00:13.559 it's not being distracted and concentrating on sports and not 847 01:00:13.639 --> 01:00:21.320 taking anything seriously. Is who you are. We depend on that. 848 01:00:26.760 --> 01:00:29.079 The contention of the majority of your educators and the 849 01:00:29.119 --> 01:00:32.159 moral instinct is trained in the football and baseball field, 850 01:00:32.280 --> 01:00:36.280 in boxing, rowing, wrestling, and other contests, is it a 851 01:00:36.280 --> 01:00:39.920 true one? Is truer perhaps than most of them realize. 852 01:00:41.039 --> 01:00:43.320 So read that again. The connection to the majority of 853 01:00:43.360 --> 01:00:45.679 your educators, that the moral instinct is trained on the 854 01:00:45.719 --> 01:00:49.920 football and basketball field, and box wrestling and other contests 855 01:00:50.039 --> 01:00:52.960 is a true one. Is truer, perhaps than most of 856 01:00:53.000 --> 01:00:57.760 them realize. Your ideal morality is a sporting morality. The 857 01:00:57.840 --> 01:01:00.760 intense discipline of the game, the spirit of fair play, 858 01:01:01.239 --> 01:01:05.280 the qualities of endurance, of good humor, of conventionalized seriousness 859 01:01:05.320 --> 01:01:09.719 and effort, of loyalty, of struggle without malice or bitterness, 860 01:01:09.760 --> 01:01:13.920 of readiness to forget like a sport. All these are 861 01:01:13.920 --> 01:01:16.760 brought out in their sheerest and cleanest darkness and well 862 01:01:16.840 --> 01:01:23.559 organized and closely regulated sports. Sounds like he's saying, you 863 01:01:23.679 --> 01:01:32.400 love your rules, stick to that because we're not playing 864 01:01:32.440 --> 01:01:37.760 by any and on the experiences and lessons which these 865 01:01:37.800 --> 01:01:44.119 sports imply, your entire spiritual life is inevitably founded. It 866 01:01:44.199 --> 01:01:47.280 is therefore unjust to treat this aspect of your life flippantly. 867 01:01:47.679 --> 01:01:51.480 You yourselves, often failed to recognize, except an unknowledged instinct, 868 01:01:51.840 --> 01:01:54.960 how deeply it is rooted in your life, and having 869 01:01:55.039 --> 01:01:58.440 sundered it from the overt and organized homage which you 870 01:01:58.519 --> 01:02:01.639 pay to spiritual values in the church, that is, you 871 01:02:01.679 --> 01:02:06.119 have split yourselves, hence the comparative weakness of your organized churches, 872 01:02:06.159 --> 01:02:10.639 which are founded on a misconception. Sport is for you 873 01:02:10.679 --> 01:02:14.280 a serious spiritual matter. It is the proper symbolization the 874 01:02:14.320 --> 01:02:19.000 perfect ritual, wherein your spiritual forces find the expression, also 875 01:02:19.079 --> 01:02:23.960 find exercise and sustenance. They were cleaner witted who They 876 01:02:23.960 --> 01:02:27.719 were cleaner witted who before the advent of Christianity associated 877 01:02:27.719 --> 01:02:31.920 sport intimately with your religious life. Today you are practicing 878 01:02:31.960 --> 01:02:35.079 on a vast scale the troubled hypocrisy of unhappy converts 879 01:02:35.119 --> 01:02:38.159 who have been convinced in reason of a new religion, 880 01:02:38.599 --> 01:02:42.679 but whose proper and healthy instincts drive them to surreptitious 881 01:02:43.079 --> 01:02:47.280 homage to older gods. Or sport given its right place 882 01:02:47.320 --> 01:02:51.679 again in your acknowledged spiritual institution, the Church, you would 883 01:02:51.719 --> 01:02:57.360 be happier, clearer, stronger. For the premise, once granted, that 884 01:02:57.440 --> 01:03:00.039 life itself is but a joyous adventure, a combat, a 885 01:03:00.519 --> 01:03:03.519 passage at arms. You cannot do better than symbolize this 886 01:03:03.639 --> 01:03:07.559 premise in your athletic contests and olympiads, with local worship 887 01:03:07.599 --> 01:03:10.119 conducted on the village green, and in the athletic halls 888 01:03:10.119 --> 01:03:13.920 and academies of the cities. The rigor of the rules 889 01:03:14.000 --> 01:03:17.440 or sacred rights which attended the open association of sport 890 01:03:17.760 --> 01:03:21.360 religion testifies to the profound inner compulsion which makes the 891 01:03:21.400 --> 01:03:26.119 two identical. Indeed, even when religion and sport have been sundered, 892 01:03:26.400 --> 01:03:30.880 there is more moral odium attached to bad sportsmanship, cheating 893 01:03:30.920 --> 01:03:34.199 in the game, cowardice, selling out, striking, foul, and so on, 894 01:03:34.960 --> 01:03:38.360 than to the contravention of a moral injunction bearing no 895 01:03:38.960 --> 01:03:48.880 sporting character. What's he saying. Basically, he's saying that there is. 896 01:03:49.320 --> 01:03:57.000 We would have more outrage as gentiles if we found 897 01:03:57.039 --> 01:04:01.960 out that someone was fixing baseball games than we would 898 01:04:01.960 --> 01:04:05.320 a politician was cheating on his wife, a politician who 899 01:04:05.360 --> 01:04:16.480 considered themselves to be Christian kind of Inarguable. You cannot therefore, 900 01:04:16.519 --> 01:04:19.280 do better, from your point of view than instill into 901 01:04:19.320 --> 01:04:22.320 your young a keen love and admiration of right sportsmanship, 902 01:04:22.760 --> 01:04:26.880 and encourage your participation in sports governed by severe regulations. 903 01:04:27.760 --> 01:04:31.559 Trained with sufficient consistency, they will carry into their adult 904 01:04:31.599 --> 01:04:34.719 life in ever imminent sense of right and wrong according 905 01:04:34.760 --> 01:04:38.760 to your lights. And no better training could be devised, 906 01:04:38.800 --> 01:04:42.079 of course, than that which is associated with your powerful 907 01:04:42.199 --> 01:04:45.960 educational institutions. It is true that the system, even when 908 01:04:45.960 --> 01:04:48.760 seen from its own point of view, has its potential evils. 909 01:04:49.480 --> 01:04:52.400 Partisanship may become so keen that it thwarts the purpose 910 01:04:52.440 --> 01:04:56.760 of the sports sport institution. This is, the desire to 911 01:04:56.880 --> 01:04:59.000 win or to be on the winning side may become 912 01:04:59.119 --> 01:05:02.880 so bitter as to overrule the moral sense, and combats 913 01:05:02.920 --> 01:05:06.840 between champions, as once between the principles of opposing armies, 914 01:05:07.320 --> 01:05:14.440 may actually discourage individual participation. But every system, if it 915 01:05:14.480 --> 01:05:17.719 is a living thing, is subject to this danger. And 916 01:05:17.880 --> 01:05:20.320 even out of the evil side you may draw good 917 01:05:20.920 --> 01:05:24.599 if millions watch with breathless interests the combat of champions. 918 01:05:25.079 --> 01:05:28.920 That combat conducted under the truest sporting rules becomes a 919 01:05:28.920 --> 01:05:34.280 great influence, and fine gentlemanly athletes may become the teachers 920 01:05:34.559 --> 01:05:40.400 of the nation. And again seen within itself, sport morality 921 01:05:40.480 --> 01:05:44.519 has as severe a discipline, if not, from our point 922 01:05:44.559 --> 01:05:49.239 of view, any spiritual sincerity, as a god morality. It 923 01:05:49.320 --> 01:05:52.320 is as difficult and as exacting to be a gentleman 924 01:05:52.440 --> 01:05:55.719 as to be good in many respects. Of course, the 925 01:05:55.760 --> 01:06:00.239 two concepts overlap, though they are differently centered. Both call 926 01:06:00.239 --> 01:06:03.400 for restraint, for consideration of rules. Both are in advance 927 01:06:03.440 --> 01:06:09.519 on moral anarchy. In thus characterizing your ethical concepts, I 928 01:06:09.519 --> 01:06:13.639 have already indicated the essential difference with difference which separates 929 01:06:13.679 --> 01:06:17.800 them from ours. There is no touch of sport morality 930 01:06:18.159 --> 01:06:21.480 in our way of life and our problems of human relationship. 931 01:06:21.960 --> 01:06:25.519 Our life morality cannot be symbolized in a miniature reproduction. 932 01:06:26.199 --> 01:06:30.440 We have no play presentation of life. Our young, even 933 01:06:30.519 --> 01:06:33.760 like our adults, are referred at once to the first source, 934 01:06:33.840 --> 01:06:35.480 to the word of God, to the word of the 935 01:06:35.519 --> 01:06:39.119 prophet or teacher speaking in the name of God. Or 936 01:06:39.239 --> 01:06:42.760 to secularize this statement. Our young, like our adults, are 937 01:06:42.760 --> 01:06:47.079 imbued with a feeling of the absolute in their moral relations. 938 01:06:47.639 --> 01:06:51.000 Our virtues lack the flourish and charm of the lists. 939 01:06:51.480 --> 01:06:56.719 Our evils are not mitigated by well meant and delightful hypocrisies. Murder, 940 01:06:56.760 --> 01:07:00.559 except in self defense, is murder, whether committed a duel 941 01:07:01.000 --> 01:07:05.719 with all its gentlemanly rules, or an unrestrained rage. When 942 01:07:05.719 --> 01:07:09.480 we are set face to fit, so how would they 943 01:07:09.519 --> 01:07:16.320 act in war? When we are set face to face 944 01:07:16.400 --> 01:07:18.480 with an opponent, and one must kill the other, we 945 01:07:18.559 --> 01:07:21.400 proceed in the most effective way. We cannot understand the 946 01:07:21.440 --> 01:07:26.559 idea that rules of conduct governed murder. We cannot understand 947 01:07:26.559 --> 01:07:29.360 a man who, attacking another, insists that the other, in 948 01:07:29.440 --> 01:07:33.639 self defense shall strike only above the belt. That strange character, 949 01:07:33.719 --> 01:07:38.400 the gentleman thief, the gallant and appealing desperado, who recurs 950 01:07:38.440 --> 01:07:42.519 with such significant frequency in your fine and popular literature, 951 01:07:42.559 --> 01:07:46.199 perhaps points by meaning best. The idea of a gentleman 952 01:07:46.320 --> 01:07:50.800 thief is utterly impossible to the jew. It is only you, gentiles, 953 01:07:51.000 --> 01:07:55.639 with your idealization of the sporting qualities, who can thus 954 01:07:55.760 --> 01:08:01.800 unite in a universally popular hero immorality and ridd or kite. 955 01:08:02.000 --> 01:08:06.360 That's a very long German word. It is probable, of 956 01:08:06.440 --> 01:08:09.119 course that the majority of your robin Hoods and Claude 957 01:08:09.199 --> 01:08:13.159 Duval's we're nothing but low ruffians, devoid even of chivalry. 958 01:08:13.599 --> 01:08:16.680 But their significance is not what they were, but in 959 01:08:16.760 --> 01:08:21.640 what you make them, make of them in worship. The 960 01:08:21.680 --> 01:08:24.439 persistence of the types is evident today as much as ever, 961 01:08:24.720 --> 01:08:28.119 when popular fancy is charmed and you've tempted into emulation 962 01:08:28.279 --> 01:08:30.920 by the raffles and lupins of the world of books. 963 01:08:31.560 --> 01:08:34.479 At no time have we Jews sympathized with this type. 964 01:08:34.920 --> 01:08:38.199 We are insensible to the appeal of the correct and 965 01:08:38.279 --> 01:08:42.439 the graceful as a substitute for our morality. Nightly or unknightly, 966 01:08:42.640 --> 01:08:46.560 courtly or uncourtly sportsmanlike are the opposite in our real 967 01:08:46.600 --> 01:08:51.279 life means nothing. We only ask is it right or 968 01:08:51.399 --> 01:08:56.680 is it wrong? For the rules which you bring into 969 01:08:56.760 --> 01:08:59.000 life from the athletic field have no relation to the 970 01:08:59.079 --> 01:09:01.880 ultimate moral value of your acts, and serve only to 971 01:09:01.920 --> 01:09:05.359 give you the moral satisfaction of having obeyed some rule 972 01:09:05.479 --> 01:09:09.560 or other while doing exactly what you want to do. Thus, 973 01:09:09.640 --> 01:09:12.279 grown and intelligent as you may be, you govern the 974 01:09:12.359 --> 01:09:16.399 hunting of animals with the most curious and seriously taken regulations. 975 01:09:17.159 --> 01:09:19.039 You must not shoot a pigeon or a rabbit in 976 01:09:19.079 --> 01:09:22.000 sport unless such and such regulations are obeyed. It is 977 01:09:22.079 --> 01:09:26.840 unsportsmanlike you make a great moral to do about these regulations. 978 01:09:27.119 --> 01:09:29.159 But what in God's name has this to do with 979 01:09:29.399 --> 01:09:35.000 right or wrong of killing defenseless animals for sport. You 980 01:09:35.039 --> 01:09:38.199 have attempted to infuse into business, which you have made 981 01:09:38.319 --> 01:09:41.720 the stark translation into modern social terms of the old 982 01:09:41.880 --> 01:09:45.760 kill and be killed, chaos and ineffectual gallantry, which will 983 01:09:45.800 --> 01:09:48.920 again give you the sense of playing the game, while 984 01:09:48.920 --> 01:09:52.439 giving free course to your worse instincts. I mean that, 985 01:09:52.680 --> 01:09:55.680 apart from the necessities of the law, you attempt to 986 01:09:55.680 --> 01:09:58.920 bring into the field of business to curious punctilio of 987 01:09:59.000 --> 01:10:04.000 defencing master courtesies and pretenses, slogans and passwords which mitigate 988 01:10:04.079 --> 01:10:06.720 only an appearance to the primal savagery of the struggle 989 01:10:07.600 --> 01:10:11.159 service the good of the public, a square deal, all 990 01:10:11.199 --> 01:10:14.159 the catchwords of the advertising schools, which give a flavor 991 01:10:14.199 --> 01:10:17.600 of games, some friendliness to a world that is essentially merciless. 992 01:10:18.680 --> 01:10:22.239 This is not intentional lying. It is not deliberate hypocrisy. 993 01:10:22.680 --> 01:10:26.399 You believe that homage to these forms constitutes a morality, 994 01:10:27.399 --> 01:10:31.439 It does constitute a morality of a kind. We, on 995 01:10:31.520 --> 01:10:35.119 our part, recognize no particular system that divides business from 996 01:10:35.119 --> 01:10:38.640 the rest of life. One is as honest in business 997 01:10:38.640 --> 01:10:41.399 as in anything else. For us, business has not a 998 01:10:41.399 --> 01:10:45.760 specialized idealism or a court etiquette, a particularized code of honor. 999 01:10:46.439 --> 01:10:49.039 We are honest and truthful, or we are not honest 1000 01:10:49.079 --> 01:10:52.119 and truthful. It has nothing to do with our being 1001 01:10:52.199 --> 01:10:55.439 in this game or in that game a shopkeeper, or 1002 01:10:55.479 --> 01:10:58.960 a tailor or a banker. And because we cannot, by 1003 01:10:58.960 --> 01:11:01.880 reason of our nature, you in these playful chara calls 1004 01:11:02.279 --> 01:11:06.560 or curvetings, but drive straight to the purpose using the 1005 01:11:06.560 --> 01:11:09.960 plain common sense and honesty or dishonesty of the occasion. 1006 01:11:10.279 --> 01:11:12.720 You're bound to regard us, as many of you do, 1007 01:11:13.119 --> 01:11:19.960 as lacking an etiquette that is in your morality. A 1008 01:11:20.000 --> 01:11:23.920 similar division in other essential opinions illustrates the primal difference 1009 01:11:23.960 --> 01:11:28.239 between us. Your attitude towards combat, duels, wars, and all 1010 01:11:28.239 --> 01:11:30.920 the virtues pertaining to it is one from which we 1011 01:11:31.039 --> 01:11:33.960 shrink to you. Courage is an end to itself to 1012 01:11:34.000 --> 01:11:38.039 be glorified, worshiped as imparting morality to an act. To us, 1013 01:11:38.119 --> 01:11:41.560 courage is merely a means to an end. Hence, your 1014 01:11:41.640 --> 01:11:48.760 courage is combative ours passive Yours offensive ours defensive heroics 1015 01:11:48.760 --> 01:11:51.800 play a great part in your idealism none in ours. 1016 01:11:52.720 --> 01:11:55.520 To fight is never a glorious business. To us, it 1017 01:11:55.600 --> 01:11:58.199 is a dirty business. We perform it when we must. 1018 01:11:58.239 --> 01:12:00.439 And I suppose there is very little to choose between 1019 01:12:00.439 --> 01:12:02.760 you and us and the matter of courage. But we 1020 01:12:02.840 --> 01:12:06.119 cannot pretend that the filthy necessity is a high virtue. 1021 01:12:06.960 --> 01:12:10.640 Dulce et decorum s pro patria mori is not a 1022 01:12:10.720 --> 01:12:14.399 Jewish sentiment. For it is not sweet to die for anything, 1023 01:12:15.039 --> 01:12:19.000 but if we must die for it, we will. Nor 1024 01:12:19.039 --> 01:12:22.000 do we glorify the warrior as a warrior, despite occasional 1025 01:12:22.079 --> 01:12:26.199 individual defections of hours. From that view, if my brother 1026 01:12:26.279 --> 01:12:28.520 goes mad and attacks me, and I must slay him 1027 01:12:28.720 --> 01:12:32.199 in self defense, how can I be happy over it. 1028 01:12:32.199 --> 01:12:35.399 It is a cruel and miserable business to be finished 1029 01:12:35.399 --> 01:12:38.239 with as soon as possible, to be forgotten as soon 1030 01:12:38.279 --> 01:12:41.920 as possible. This is essentially the Jewish attitude toward war 1031 01:12:41.960 --> 01:12:44.359 and warriors. I do not find it in the Bible 1032 01:12:44.439 --> 01:12:47.760 delight in war and warriors. Our exultation in victory was 1033 01:12:47.760 --> 01:12:51.199 not the glorification of the warrior, but only a fierce 1034 01:12:51.319 --> 01:12:56.000 joy of having survived. We fought bitterly, vindictively in order 1035 01:12:56.039 --> 01:12:58.079 to kill, and our God was a god of war. 1036 01:12:58.560 --> 01:13:02.640 But however this may be, I know with utter certainty 1037 01:13:02.960 --> 01:13:06.680 concerning us as we are today, that the conscious Jew, 1038 01:13:07.039 --> 01:13:10.399 the Jew steeped in Jewish life, despises the fighter as 1039 01:13:10.439 --> 01:13:13.039 such a boar's war, And though he can die for 1040 01:13:13.079 --> 01:13:16.399 his faith as well as anyone else, refuses to make 1041 01:13:16.439 --> 01:13:20.359 a joyous ritual of combat. For when you gentiles assert 1042 01:13:20.359 --> 01:13:23.199 that you a bore war, you deceive yourselves. War is 1043 01:13:23.199 --> 01:13:26.359 the sublimeness to the sports, and therefore the most deeply worshiped. 1044 01:13:26.840 --> 01:13:30.319 Do you mourn when you must fight? Is a nation 1045 01:13:30.520 --> 01:13:33.600 plunged into gloom? When a declaration of war arrives? Do 1046 01:13:33.680 --> 01:13:36.760 you search your hearts closely, cruelly to discover whether you 1047 01:13:36.760 --> 01:13:39.560 yourselves or not to blame that this monstrous thing has 1048 01:13:39.560 --> 01:13:42.399 come to pass? Does a tremor of terror go through you? 1049 01:13:42.479 --> 01:13:45.560 Perhaps we are guilty? Do you clamor for the records 1050 01:13:45.600 --> 01:13:49.000 of the long complications which have ushered in this horror. 1051 01:13:49.439 --> 01:13:54.439 Do you go to your task of defense or offense darkly, grimly, bitterly. No, 1052 01:13:54.600 --> 01:13:59.119 You hang out your most gorgeous banners, you play merry music, 1053 01:13:59.399 --> 01:14:02.840 your blood run swiftly, happily, your cheeks brightened, and your 1054 01:14:02.880 --> 01:14:06.439 eyes sparkle. A glorious ascension of strength marks the throwing 1055 01:14:06.520 --> 01:14:09.520 down or the acceptance of the gauge. From end to 1056 01:14:09.720 --> 01:14:12.439 end of the land, the tidings ring out, and every 1057 01:14:12.520 --> 01:14:15.800 man and women, woman of metal, every red blooded man 1058 01:14:15.840 --> 01:14:18.720 and woman, itches for a hand in it. Let me 1059 01:14:18.720 --> 01:14:21.439 say clearly that I do not think all of you 1060 01:14:21.479 --> 01:14:24.319 are fighting heroes. I have no doubt that millions of 1061 01:14:24.359 --> 01:14:27.439 you in every country went to war reluctantly. But this 1062 01:14:27.479 --> 01:14:30.640 does not contradict my contention. It only means that millions 1063 01:14:30.680 --> 01:14:32.479 of you are not capable of living up to the 1064 01:14:32.520 --> 01:14:36.239 ideal morality which you cherish. But even the greatest coward, 1065 01:14:36.279 --> 01:14:39.880 even the most unwilling conscript, toys in his emotions with 1066 01:14:39.960 --> 01:14:43.000 the adventures and triumphs of war. I speak throughout this 1067 01:14:43.039 --> 01:14:45.359 book of the ideals to which you aspire and from 1068 01:14:45.399 --> 01:14:48.760 which you draw your moral inspiration. And it is certain 1069 01:14:48.800 --> 01:14:52.399 that war itself independently of all aims and justifications, is 1070 01:14:52.439 --> 01:14:55.600 a prime necessity to you, and a declaration of war 1071 01:14:55.680 --> 01:14:59.840 is a long awaited signal of release, greeted with extravagant, 1072 01:14:59.840 --> 01:15:03.680 nons hysterical joy. It is not love of country which 1073 01:15:03.680 --> 01:15:06.600 induces the flood of happiness. It is combat, the glory 1074 01:15:06.640 --> 01:15:10.439 of sport, the game, the magnificence of the greatest of 1075 01:15:10.479 --> 01:15:15.319 all contests. Again, they were cleaner witted those of you 1076 01:15:15.399 --> 01:15:17.960 who declared openly and frankly that war is a natural 1077 01:15:17.960 --> 01:15:20.800 pursuit of noblemen and of kings. The highest and most 1078 01:15:20.840 --> 01:15:24.039 life passionate among you, the most exalted, were to be 1079 01:15:24.079 --> 01:15:29.000 dedicated above all others to your way of life. Conversely, 1080 01:15:29.039 --> 01:15:32.119 the basist among you were accounted as unworthy of admittance 1081 01:15:32.119 --> 01:15:35.840 into the splendid company of warriors. The scullion must not 1082 01:15:36.039 --> 01:15:41.159 dare to aspire to combative distinction. Today, as of old, 1083 01:15:41.239 --> 01:15:44.359 you have nothing but contempt revealed in its true intensity 1084 01:15:44.359 --> 01:15:48.319 and time of war. For the true pacifist, your nature 1085 01:15:48.399 --> 01:15:51.199 is today what it was a thousand years ago, And 1086 01:15:51.279 --> 01:15:54.560 the somber obstinacy of the British worker still survives. The 1087 01:15:54.600 --> 01:16:00.119 tacit rage of the Scandinavian berserker and vain, and feudal 1088 01:16:00.520 --> 01:16:03.479 and foolish are all those efforts to dam up and 1089 01:16:03.560 --> 01:16:07.720 choke the extremest and most cherished outlet of your natural instinct. 1090 01:16:08.399 --> 01:16:10.439 But in war, as in all other games of life, 1091 01:16:10.520 --> 01:16:16.399 you satisfy your morality by means of amazing punctilios. To 1092 01:16:16.560 --> 01:16:21.279 kill thus leaves you clean to kill otherwises, ungentlemanly. In 1093 01:16:21.319 --> 01:16:23.159 a few of these fine points in the conduct of 1094 01:16:23.199 --> 01:16:26.520 war and of duels, there may lurk some true moral significance. 1095 01:16:27.079 --> 01:16:29.680 But it amazes us that in the exercise of this 1096 01:16:29.720 --> 01:16:34.880 punctilio you find sufficient righteousness to ease your conscious altogether. 1097 01:16:35.640 --> 01:16:37.960 Were you truly concerned with right and wrong, instead of 1098 01:16:38.000 --> 01:16:41.600 with the sporting right thing with honor, what a flood 1099 01:16:41.600 --> 01:16:45.560 of horror and of pity of prostration would follow each 1100 01:16:45.600 --> 01:16:48.800 of your wars, With what frantic haste you would fly 1101 01:16:48.960 --> 01:16:52.279 to the consolation of each other, With what tremors of 1102 01:16:52.359 --> 01:16:55.640 moral terror you would examine again and again the catastrophic 1103 01:16:55.720 --> 01:17:00.439 madness from which you have just emerged. Merciful God, slain 1104 01:17:01.239 --> 01:17:04.119 one hundred thousand men, fathers and sons in the red 1105 01:17:04.239 --> 01:17:08.319 rage of combat. You have disemboweled them, suffocated them, drowned them, 1106 01:17:08.399 --> 01:17:13.239 torn them limb from limb, blinded them. A million, loving parents, children, friends, 1107 01:17:13.239 --> 01:17:16.079 have we awakened, sweating in the night, out of a 1108 01:17:16.159 --> 01:17:20.840 terrible vision of last despairs of contracted, screaming agonies. And now, 1109 01:17:20.920 --> 01:17:23.520 when it is over, do you run to your churches, 1110 01:17:23.520 --> 01:17:25.840 and with streaming eyes, flinging yourselves at the foot of 1111 01:17:25.840 --> 01:17:28.199 the priests and altered, terrified, Lest the murder you have 1112 01:17:28.239 --> 01:17:32.600 committed might have been avoided, Let lest at least some 1113 01:17:32.760 --> 01:17:35.640 of the guilt rest upon your head. For surely it 1114 01:17:35.720 --> 01:17:39.800 is if even the faintest stream of culpability, the minutest 1115 01:17:39.880 --> 01:17:44.319 blot a grain, and all but indivisible fleck and oversight, 1116 01:17:44.560 --> 01:17:50.920 momentary impatience, pride, carelessness, leave you not utterly, utterly, utterly blameless. 1117 01:17:51.479 --> 01:17:54.680 You have need of all the divine compassion, all the 1118 01:17:54.760 --> 01:17:59.279 infinite forgiveness of God. But your wars have never ended 1119 01:17:59.319 --> 01:18:02.840 since history records of them, save with the same outbursts 1120 01:18:02.880 --> 01:18:07.119 of pride and insolence as began them. Was there ever 1121 01:18:07.760 --> 01:18:12.279 to tedaem turned into a cry of mea culpa? Was 1122 01:18:12.319 --> 01:18:14.600 ever a war entered in a history book, save as 1123 01:18:14.640 --> 01:18:19.279 a glorious adventure, glorious in victory, glorious in disaster. And 1124 01:18:19.359 --> 01:18:21.920 even if, after one hundred years a historian here and 1125 01:18:21.960 --> 01:18:26.720 there it tarnishes this the stainless records of your purposes, 1126 01:18:26.760 --> 01:18:30.000 with a single plausible doubt? Was there ever an awakening 1127 01:18:30.039 --> 01:18:33.199 of guilt a thousandth part as strong as the awakening 1128 01:18:33.239 --> 01:18:36.439 of pride and happiness which accompanies the recalling of the 1129 01:18:36.479 --> 01:18:41.600 exploits of any war, however remote, you have just passed 1130 01:18:41.640 --> 01:18:44.760 through the wildest and most universal of all wars. Search 1131 01:18:44.760 --> 01:18:48.439 your memories and your press. Well, where was the hushed humility, 1132 01:18:48.600 --> 01:18:51.840 the awe, the shuddering amazement which should have fallen on 1133 01:18:51.880 --> 01:18:54.439 the world when the armistice was declared? It's talking about 1134 01:18:54.439 --> 01:18:58.199 World War One? Did you not straight did you not 1135 01:18:58.319 --> 01:19:01.960 straightway send forth emissary to bargain and barter, to accuse 1136 01:19:02.039 --> 01:19:05.199 and to denounce, and above all to maintain your dignity? 1137 01:19:05.279 --> 01:19:08.680 What dignity prey? What was left of dignity to a 1138 01:19:08.720 --> 01:19:11.399 single one of you? What was left of decency to 1139 01:19:11.439 --> 01:19:13.800 any of you? Had joined in the furious and blasphemous 1140 01:19:13.800 --> 01:19:17.920 revelries of those five years? You hate war nonsense, you 1141 01:19:18.079 --> 01:19:21.680 enjoy it if in the passing tiredness which follows to 1142 01:19:21.760 --> 01:19:25.399 strenuous exertion, you pause a while to reflect. You do 1143 01:19:25.520 --> 01:19:27.920 not dare to think into the root causes and evils, 1144 01:19:28.039 --> 01:19:30.960 lest indeed you make war impossible. You tinker with a 1145 01:19:30.960 --> 01:19:35.319 few regulations, gas laws, flowment, war for rules, armed and 1146 01:19:35.479 --> 01:19:39.560 unarmed ships, and similarly feudal trivialities. You call each other 1147 01:19:39.680 --> 01:19:42.279 bad sports, and a day later you are prepared if 1148 01:19:42.279 --> 01:19:48.479 the occasion offers, to embark again on the exhiliarating, exhiliarating enterprise. 1149 01:19:49.680 --> 01:19:51.640 Yet I say for all this, you can never be 1150 01:19:51.680 --> 01:19:54.800 guilty in your own eyes, not one of you. Denunciation 1151 01:19:54.920 --> 01:19:57.760 can only come from one who does not share your morality. 1152 01:19:58.119 --> 01:20:01.199 Your conscience cannot be seared. You have done no wrong 1153 01:20:01.680 --> 01:20:03.760 or as the high mark of your life, the true 1154 01:20:03.800 --> 01:20:07.800 and triumphant expression of your instincts. And therefore, whatever church 1155 01:20:07.840 --> 01:20:10.920 and religion may preach, in the intervals between actual fighting, 1156 01:20:11.279 --> 01:20:14.199 you remember all your wars with wistful and longing pride, 1157 01:20:14.199 --> 01:20:17.840 as the greatest events in your existence. The splendor of 1158 01:20:17.880 --> 01:20:21.119 war in preparation and in action and in recollection, in 1159 01:20:21.159 --> 01:20:23.439 the rhythm of the training of the armies, in the 1160 01:20:23.439 --> 01:20:27.239 frantic excitement of battle in the glorious commemoration of monument 1161 01:20:27.279 --> 01:20:30.520 and song in tapestry is the flower of your civilization, 1162 01:20:30.760 --> 01:20:34.680 material and spiritual. In nothing are you as efficient as 1163 01:20:34.720 --> 01:20:38.640 in war. In nothing as true to yourselves strains to 1164 01:20:38.680 --> 01:20:42.600 the utmost. In this terrific game, your splendid faculties find 1165 01:20:42.680 --> 01:20:47.439 full and vehement exercise. And whosoever from under the shadow 1166 01:20:47.520 --> 01:20:51.239 of God upbraids you and discourages you as your eternal enemy. 1167 01:20:51.880 --> 01:20:54.840 I cannot undertake, while developing this theme, to answer all 1168 01:20:54.880 --> 01:20:58.319 of the objections which occur even to me. In part, 1169 01:20:58.439 --> 01:21:01.000 of course, some of these objections are on answerable, and are, 1170 01:21:01.079 --> 01:21:05.199 in my opinion, only overborne by counter objections. In part 1171 01:21:05.239 --> 01:21:08.840 they are feudal objections. But in touching on some of them, 1172 01:21:08.960 --> 01:21:11.800 I may make my viewpoint clear. I shall be reminded 1173 01:21:11.840 --> 01:21:14.680 that wherever war was declared, we Jews have responded as 1174 01:21:14.680 --> 01:21:18.319 readily and as equally as you Gentiles. Statistics, which are 1175 01:21:18.399 --> 01:21:21.359 quite reliable in such ual thumb matters, bear this out. 1176 01:21:21.560 --> 01:21:23.560 But I do not believe that we did so from 1177 01:21:23.600 --> 01:21:28.359 motives that resembled years. Many reasons compelled us. We are everywhere, 1178 01:21:28.359 --> 01:21:32.239 to a large extent, aliens a sense of inferiority in 1179 01:21:32.319 --> 01:21:35.880 status drives us to extremes of sacrifice in justifying our 1180 01:21:35.880 --> 01:21:38.880 claims to equality. More than that, we Jews are so 1181 01:21:39.000 --> 01:21:43.560 frequently and so vigorously reminded in all constitutionally governed and 1182 01:21:43.600 --> 01:21:46.319 liberal countries that we ought to be grateful for permission 1183 01:21:46.399 --> 01:21:49.079 to live there, that we developed a gratitude which is 1184 01:21:49.119 --> 01:21:55.880 not only disproportionate, but occasionally grotesque. Our children, in schools 1185 01:21:55.880 --> 01:21:59.159 and elsewhere are taught year in year out, contrasts their 1186 01:21:59.159 --> 01:22:02.720 present freedom, equality of opportunity with the oppression and bitterness 1187 01:22:02.760 --> 01:22:08.680 with which was the lot of their parents elsewhere. Frequently 1188 01:22:08.720 --> 01:22:11.479 the contrast, as painted in their imagination, is not a 1189 01:22:11.560 --> 01:22:15.680 duplicate of the reality. However this may be, these incessant 1190 01:22:15.760 --> 01:22:20.479 and vehement reminders produced their effect. The child almost comes 1191 01:22:20.479 --> 01:22:23.760 to believe that it was for the especial benefit of 1192 01:22:23.920 --> 01:22:27.920 oppressed foreigners that America became a free country, and instead 1193 01:22:27.920 --> 01:22:31.439 of accepting American forms of government level headedly, with the 1194 01:22:31.479 --> 01:22:34.880 proper degree of appreciation and criticism, he develops a suppressed 1195 01:22:34.960 --> 01:22:38.720 hysteria of gratitude. This is not a healthy and natural feeling. 1196 01:22:39.000 --> 01:22:41.439 Children should not be made to feel such things, and 1197 01:22:41.439 --> 01:22:44.600 if it comes to the matter of contributions to liberty. 1198 01:22:44.880 --> 01:22:47.239 We Jews have done as much for the enfranchisement of 1199 01:22:47.279 --> 01:22:50.359 man as any other people. But the Jew, the oppressed 1200 01:22:50.439 --> 01:22:54.279 par excellence, begins to look upon America's liberty as a 1201 01:22:54.279 --> 01:22:59.119 personal favor. Favor No wonder then that Jews will rush 1202 01:22:59.159 --> 01:23:02.239 to fight for America. Yet, despite the contradiction of figures, 1203 01:23:02.279 --> 01:23:05.479 there is still a strong impression abroad that the Jews 1204 01:23:05.479 --> 01:23:10.039 failed in their duty, were slackers. This feeling rises from 1205 01:23:10.079 --> 01:23:14.279 an instinctive appreciation of that difference between us. We Jews 1206 01:23:14.279 --> 01:23:18.439 don't like fighting. You Gentiles do Moreover, because you like fighting, 1207 01:23:18.479 --> 01:23:21.199 You are much more skillful than we in hiding occasion 1208 01:23:21.600 --> 01:23:25.279 occasional reluctance to fight. Indeed, it is obvious that the 1209 01:23:25.319 --> 01:23:28.960 more fearful you are of taking a hand in the combat, 1210 01:23:29.279 --> 01:23:31.760 the more you will glorify and idealize it. While the 1211 01:23:31.840 --> 01:23:35.039 Jew who is afraid adds actual and overt dislike to 1212 01:23:35.119 --> 01:23:46.159 his cowardice. Yeah, he's although I know, I'm sorry. I 1213 01:23:46.199 --> 01:23:47.880 agree with a lot of what he has to say 1214 01:23:49.520 --> 01:23:56.840 about how we fight wars. I don't agree he is 1215 01:23:56.920 --> 01:24:04.640 applying his scholarly academic He's applying that to all Jews 1216 01:24:04.680 --> 01:24:07.520 at this point by saying that they don't like war, 1217 01:24:09.880 --> 01:24:15.279 that they're reluctant to fight. They're reluctant to fight for others, 1218 01:24:16.039 --> 01:24:18.199 but when they think it benefits to them, they will fight. 1219 01:24:19.920 --> 01:24:22.840 We look at the pograms, so many of them were 1220 01:24:22.840 --> 01:24:26.399 started by Jewish revolutionaries and then put down, and then 1221 01:24:26.640 --> 01:24:32.359 they screamed pogram or you know, especially the sixteen forty eight, 1222 01:24:33.680 --> 01:24:36.279 which was just them going on to Jews going on 1223 01:24:36.319 --> 01:24:39.359 a murderous spree and Kamel Neetsky coming in to put 1224 01:24:39.399 --> 01:24:48.960 it down. It just isn't true. And yet I can 1225 01:24:49.079 --> 01:24:52.159 look at what he said about how Gentiles think about 1226 01:24:52.239 --> 01:24:56.560 war and agree with a lot of what he hasked 1227 01:24:56.560 --> 01:25:05.359 to say. And remember, he's not talking about northern white Europeans. 1228 01:25:05.600 --> 01:25:08.640 He's not talking about Eastern Europeans. He's not talking about 1229 01:25:08.640 --> 01:25:12.319 Western Europeans or Southern Europeans. He's talking about Gentiles. He's 1230 01:25:12.359 --> 01:25:20.680 talking about West, the West as a whole. But apart 1231 01:25:20.760 --> 01:25:23.079 from this, we must not forget that what the schools 1232 01:25:23.079 --> 01:25:25.319 of the Western world open to our children, your view 1233 01:25:25.319 --> 01:25:28.359 of things is gradually being imposed on our alien psychology 1234 01:25:29.039 --> 01:25:31.439 of the real and apparent successes of your effort. I 1235 01:25:31.479 --> 01:25:34.199 write elsewhere in this book, but here let me note 1236 01:25:34.239 --> 01:25:36.279 that the Jewish child in your schools is made to 1237 01:25:36.279 --> 01:25:40.039 feel that not to like fighting is a sign of 1238 01:25:40.119 --> 01:25:44.720 complete inferiority. Determined to become your equal, he essays, often 1239 01:25:44.800 --> 01:25:48.680 with success to become warlike in his attitude. But it 1240 01:25:48.720 --> 01:25:52.720 is an artificial success. He does from an imperious sense 1241 01:25:52.720 --> 01:25:56.760 of duty. What you do by instinct, He fights by 1242 01:25:56.800 --> 01:26:00.760 forcing himself to. He has not your natural gift and 1243 01:26:00.840 --> 01:26:11.560 inclination for it. I don't agree. I think it is there, 1244 01:26:12.680 --> 01:26:20.000 and I think that if he would have, I wouldn't 1245 01:26:20.000 --> 01:26:22.079 need to. I mean, he lived till nineteen seventy two, 1246 01:26:22.119 --> 01:26:24.640 so I need to read some of his later writings 1247 01:26:24.680 --> 01:26:30.119 on the founding of Israel. I'm assuming if he were 1248 01:26:30.159 --> 01:26:35.760 to discuss Irgun, Hagana stern Gang, the founding of Israel, 1249 01:26:36.199 --> 01:26:46.399 the war subsequent wars, I would assume cope. But who knows. 1250 01:26:47.760 --> 01:26:50.039 I would have to read more, and his books are 1251 01:26:50.079 --> 01:26:54.039 out there, so maybe I shall. But onward, this is 1252 01:26:54.039 --> 01:26:57.520 almost done. Of course, I shall be told in establishing 1253 01:26:57.520 --> 01:27:01.079 this distinction among others, that it is dangerous to generalize. 1254 01:27:01.520 --> 01:27:05.239 It is curious with what finality this commonplace is supposed 1255 01:27:05.239 --> 01:27:08.800 to crush the generalizer. Suppose it is true that it 1256 01:27:08.880 --> 01:27:12.520 is dangerous to generalize. Are not many necessary things dangerous, 1257 01:27:12.800 --> 01:27:16.800 like bearing children and digging coal? A truth is nonetheless 1258 01:27:16.800 --> 01:27:20.159 a truth because it is a dangerous truth, open to 1259 01:27:20.239 --> 01:27:25.319 easy abuse. Nevertheless, the most serious truths can only be 1260 01:27:25.399 --> 01:27:29.479 stated as generalities, and this most serious truth is among them. 1261 01:27:29.800 --> 01:27:33.359 This contrast and attitude towards war of jew and gentile. 1262 01:27:34.399 --> 01:27:36.680 And as long as the contrast exists, it will be 1263 01:27:36.720 --> 01:27:40.359 stronger than will, stronger than reason. As long as we 1264 01:27:40.399 --> 01:27:43.880 are at opposite poles, we shall have to make continuous 1265 01:27:43.920 --> 01:27:50.239 and strenuous efforts to get on side by side. All right, 1266 01:27:50.439 --> 01:27:54.760 that's the ending of chapter two. Sport, finish up chapter one, 1267 01:27:55.199 --> 01:27:58.439 and finish all of chapter two, and on the next 1268 01:27:58.479 --> 01:28:03.359 episode we will touch chapter three. Gods, but I will 1269 01:28:03.399 --> 01:28:05.800 say a lot of what he had to say made sense, 1270 01:28:06.439 --> 01:28:10.960 And if you're honest with yourself, you will know it 1271 01:28:11.039 --> 01:28:16.640 made sense. If you're not just being reactionary and not 1272 01:28:16.680 --> 01:28:18.640 wanting to agree with him because of who he is, 1273 01:28:21.359 --> 01:28:26.000 think about it. Take it to heart. Now. I think 1274 01:28:26.000 --> 01:28:30.199 that he's his saying that they are not a warlike people. 1275 01:28:33.960 --> 01:28:37.600 I tend to differ, especially when you consider this was 1276 01:28:37.600 --> 01:28:41.319 written in nineteen twenty four and there was already violent 1277 01:28:42.199 --> 01:28:47.800 violence being inflicted upon the inhabitants of Palestine at the time. 1278 01:28:48.960 --> 01:28:52.880 So anyway, thank you for listening. I'll be back in 1279 01:28:52.920 --> 01:28:56.279 a couple of days and we will continue with chapter three. 1280 01:28:56.840 --> 01:29:02.800 Take care, right, let's get back into this. Sorry, I 1281 01:29:02.840 --> 01:29:07.159 needed a few days off there recorded a lot, also 1282 01:29:07.199 --> 01:29:13.600 had a lot to do personally. So the last episode 1283 01:29:14.000 --> 01:29:17.439 we finished up chapter one, and then we finished up 1284 01:29:17.560 --> 01:29:22.520 chapter two, which was on sports and more specifically on war. 1285 01:29:24.399 --> 01:29:31.960 So chapter three is called titled Gods. So let's see 1286 01:29:32.000 --> 01:29:40.000 what mister Samuel has to say Chapter three. Gods. This 1287 01:29:40.159 --> 01:29:43.199 is the essence of our difference. That we are serious. 1288 01:29:43.600 --> 01:29:46.760 You are not. The French shading of the word comes 1289 01:29:46.800 --> 01:29:53.800 nearer my meanings. Puni pa seeru sorry French people. Not 1290 01:29:53.920 --> 01:29:57.039 as a matter of intent, but as a matter of constitution. 1291 01:29:57.960 --> 01:30:01.600 This lack of seriousness, thus uttering itself in your ethics 1292 01:30:01.600 --> 01:30:04.279 and governing the character of your relations to each other, 1293 01:30:04.760 --> 01:30:09.760 must also govern your religion, your symbolized relations with the universe. 1294 01:30:11.800 --> 01:30:15.439 And I've always felt, in contemplating your religious experiences and declarations, 1295 01:30:15.520 --> 01:30:20.079 the same alienation from them as from your morality. Your 1296 01:30:20.079 --> 01:30:24.199 feeling for Godhead partakes of the imaginative and lyrical playfulness 1297 01:30:24.199 --> 01:30:27.720 which is your essential nature. And whatever may be the 1298 01:30:27.760 --> 01:30:30.439 formal creed in which your feelings are rapped, their true 1299 01:30:30.560 --> 01:30:37.319 nature cannot be hidden. You Gentiles are essentially polytheists, and 1300 01:30:37.399 --> 01:30:41.760 to some extent idol worshipers. We Jews are essentially monotheists. 1301 01:30:42.600 --> 01:30:48.720 I hope my reading of Israel shahaks two hundred years together, 1302 01:30:49.119 --> 01:30:53.960 not two hundred years together. Apologies, mister soulshaniesan, but Jewish 1303 01:30:54.000 --> 01:31:01.199 history religion puts the bed that Jews are a monotheists 1304 01:31:02.199 --> 01:31:07.439 for the most part. Their leadership especially is polytheist. Their 1305 01:31:07.520 --> 01:31:13.199 religious leadership. I would assert this even if it were 1306 01:31:13.239 --> 01:31:15.840 not known that we have been singled out for centuries 1307 01:31:15.880 --> 01:31:19.279 by our obstinate monotheism. I would assert it on the 1308 01:31:19.319 --> 01:31:21.800 basis of my observations of the worlds I have known. 1309 01:31:22.479 --> 01:31:26.279 Monotheism is a desperate and overwhelming creed. It can be 1310 01:31:26.279 --> 01:31:29.399 the expression of none but the most serious natures. It 1311 01:31:29.439 --> 01:31:32.319 is a fundamental creed which involves individual and mass, and 1312 01:31:32.319 --> 01:31:35.800 and unfathomable sea of unity. In monotheism, there is no 1313 01:31:35.880 --> 01:31:39.720 room left for individual prides and distinctions, no room for 1314 01:31:39.880 --> 01:31:44.560 joyful assertiveness. I will agree with a lot of that. 1315 01:31:44.680 --> 01:31:49.640 There in monotheism there is no room left for individual 1316 01:31:49.680 --> 01:32:02.279 prides and distinctions. But a certain brand of monotheism that 1317 01:32:03.199 --> 01:32:07.479 is fairly recent when you take into account the history 1318 01:32:07.479 --> 01:32:14.600 of the Church, definitely leads open everything for individual prides 1319 01:32:14.600 --> 01:32:23.359 and distinctions and individual interpretations. No room for joyful assertiveness. Well, 1320 01:32:25.039 --> 01:32:26.800 I don't even really know what to make of that. 1321 01:32:28.560 --> 01:32:32.680 Monotheism means infinite absolutism, the crushing triumph of the one, 1322 01:32:32.800 --> 01:32:38.640 the crushing annihilation of the ones. So if you're just 1323 01:32:38.720 --> 01:32:43.199 listening to this, says monotheism means infinite absolutism, the crushing 1324 01:32:43.239 --> 01:32:48.520 triumph of the one capitalized, the crushing annihilation of the ones. 1325 01:32:49.520 --> 01:32:55.800 Ones is lowercase. To the serious natred is inconceivable that 1326 01:32:55.880 --> 01:32:58.520 this world should be at the changing mercy of opposing 1327 01:32:58.520 --> 01:33:02.560 and uncontrolled forces, that gods of varying power and purpose 1328 01:33:02.600 --> 01:33:05.479 should be making a sport of their own with us 1329 01:33:05.520 --> 01:33:09.319 and themselves. But to the sporting nature, the ghastly unity 1330 01:33:09.359 --> 01:33:14.560 of all life and power, the grim and paternal, settled 1331 01:33:15.000 --> 01:33:20.319 predestination of all effort, is when accessible and intolerable thought, 1332 01:33:21.239 --> 01:33:26.000 we Jews are incapable of polytheism, You gentiles are incapable 1333 01:33:26.000 --> 01:33:33.880 of monotheism. Let's see where he goes with this given 1334 01:33:34.159 --> 01:33:37.520 in the most explicit terms, the definition of monotheism, which 1335 01:33:37.560 --> 01:33:40.720 you have tried as sincerely as lies in your power 1336 01:33:40.760 --> 01:33:42.880 to accept, you still fail to make it your own. 1337 01:33:43.840 --> 01:33:47.920 If life here is a sport, an heroic epic, the 1338 01:33:47.960 --> 01:33:51.399 origins of life must be the same. Let the exceptions 1339 01:33:51.399 --> 01:33:54.199 among you proclaim what they will. I know that the 1340 01:33:54.239 --> 01:33:56.880 creeds of your masses, as I have heard them expounded 1341 01:33:56.880 --> 01:33:59.399 from pulpits and in homes, as I have read of 1342 01:33:59.439 --> 01:34:05.119 them in books and imperiodicals, are poleistic creeds of the 1343 01:34:05.159 --> 01:34:08.159 three and one. The three is stressed. The one is 1344 01:34:08.199 --> 01:34:12.920 a reluctant concession to the dogma. For where there is 1345 01:34:12.960 --> 01:34:16.680 the happy and imaginative gentile spirit, there cannot be the 1346 01:34:16.720 --> 01:34:21.520 complete and unconditional prostration of the individual. The utter breakdown 1347 01:34:21.520 --> 01:34:24.159 of self, which is revealed in our prayers before God 1348 01:34:24.560 --> 01:34:28.159 and our feelings toward Him, is an experience which you 1349 01:34:28.279 --> 01:34:32.359 are too proud to share. Most of our prayers are 1350 01:34:32.399 --> 01:34:37.560 helpless repetitions of our helplessness. The stammerings of a child overwhelmed, 1351 01:34:37.680 --> 01:34:48.560 overmastered by contemplation of the supreme unity capital you unity. 1352 01:34:49.279 --> 01:34:52.520 You cannot pray. Thus, at no time, even in the 1353 01:34:52.560 --> 01:34:56.199 presence of the gods, do you lose your self possession 1354 01:34:56.439 --> 01:35:00.800 your dignity. You too pray, but your prayer, compared with 1355 01:35:00.840 --> 01:35:06.520 ours a requests. Your offers of service to Christ the God, 1356 01:35:06.720 --> 01:35:09.640 are the offers of a vassal to a powerful superior. 1357 01:35:10.560 --> 01:35:14.199 Our prayers too beg something, but requests of ours are 1358 01:35:14.239 --> 01:35:18.039 folded in an abasement, a humility which would be revolting 1359 01:35:18.159 --> 01:35:21.840 to you. Hence it is that you have never, in 1360 01:35:21.880 --> 01:35:25.439 these many centuries of Christianity, produced utterances like those of 1361 01:35:25.479 --> 01:35:30.399 the prophet of Job and of David. Your inspirations come 1362 01:35:30.439 --> 01:35:34.520 from other sources, not from the one source. Your gods 1363 01:35:34.520 --> 01:35:38.680 are universal gods of the world, not of the universe. 1364 01:35:38.800 --> 01:35:43.920 The universal aspect of divinity, its attributes of infinity and eternity, 1365 01:35:44.680 --> 01:35:51.239 it's omnipotence. These find only your formal acknowledgment. But emotionally 1366 01:35:51.279 --> 01:35:54.319 you are unfitted to give them the true acknowledgment of 1367 01:35:54.439 --> 01:35:59.760 complete and almost incoherent abasement. That language is alien to 1368 01:35:59.760 --> 01:36:02.920 your spirit. The terror of the infinite cannot touch you 1369 01:36:03.279 --> 01:36:07.039 the eternal. You know, as it were, by symbol and formula, 1370 01:36:07.159 --> 01:36:11.840 but not by horrified experience. Your very professions and humility 1371 01:36:11.880 --> 01:36:16.119 are like proud trumpet blasts. Your habsburg burial ceremonies and 1372 01:36:16.159 --> 01:36:20.920 annoyance things by priests are but artistic flourishes which bring 1373 01:36:21.079 --> 01:36:28.039 into graceful relief the true soldierliness of your character. I 1374 01:36:28.079 --> 01:36:31.520 do not remember even having met the exceptions which must 1375 01:36:31.560 --> 01:36:34.680 exist among you. I do not remember ever having heard 1376 01:36:34.720 --> 01:36:39.600 a gentile pray with that abandonment, that objectness, that as 1377 01:36:39.600 --> 01:36:44.439 it must seem to you, fulsomeness of homage, which characterizes 1378 01:36:44.600 --> 01:36:49.520 our prayer. Only they who, like us are broken under 1379 01:36:49.520 --> 01:36:52.279 the burden of realization and the infinite can pray thus. 1380 01:36:53.000 --> 01:36:56.439 Only they who, in dreams and awaking ecstasies, and above 1381 01:36:56.479 --> 01:36:59.760 all in instinct, have been touched with the rage of 1382 01:36:59.800 --> 01:37:04.600 the undeniable power, of the undeniable power, can utter such 1383 01:37:04.680 --> 01:37:13.199 adoration of ours. Our very anthropomorphisms reflect the difference in 1384 01:37:13.239 --> 01:37:17.439 our spirit with our personified God. We hold speech such 1385 01:37:17.479 --> 01:37:21.279 as you would never hold. When we translate infinite extent 1386 01:37:21.600 --> 01:37:26.479 into infinite individual power, we shadow forth a being charged 1387 01:37:26.520 --> 01:37:30.439 with an intensity of existence. The concentration of life and force, 1388 01:37:30.560 --> 01:37:33.680 which you are unable to apprehend, being too free in 1389 01:37:33.760 --> 01:37:37.640 spirit to attribute to any outside force such untrammeled and 1390 01:37:37.760 --> 01:37:44.640 unapproachable tyranny. So your gods, too, are playthings, higher powers 1391 01:37:44.680 --> 01:37:48.760 in the tempestuous game of life. All your mythologies retale 1392 01:37:48.760 --> 01:37:52.199 of adventure for your very gods are not serious. And 1393 01:37:52.319 --> 01:37:54.880 most fascinating are the tales of those gods which you 1394 01:37:55.000 --> 01:38:00.000 fashioned when your first brilliant blossoming in Greece started out, 1395 01:38:00.920 --> 01:38:05.920 started out of your turbulent soil. Who could conceive the 1396 01:38:05.960 --> 01:38:08.479 mythology of Greece as a product of the Jewish people, 1397 01:38:09.359 --> 01:38:13.479 that grace, that sunny charm, that adventurousness, that quarrelsomeness. Could 1398 01:38:13.479 --> 01:38:17.800 gods like these ever have sprung from us? The emptiness 1399 01:38:17.800 --> 01:38:20.479 of life and space and time brought forth out of 1400 01:38:20.520 --> 01:38:24.000 your free and bounding imaginations a host of beings which 1401 01:38:24.000 --> 01:38:28.359 you imagined with infinite loveliness in stone, one god for 1402 01:38:28.479 --> 01:38:31.000 heaven and one for the bowels of earth, and one 1403 01:38:31.039 --> 01:38:34.119 for the sea, and God's for music and tragedy, God's 1404 01:38:34.119 --> 01:38:37.560 for commerce and for voyaging. Was not this a changing, 1405 01:38:37.680 --> 01:38:41.319 a charming game, a game of children? Can anyone say 1406 01:38:41.359 --> 01:38:43.880 that this was a serious and desperate attempt to become 1407 01:38:44.000 --> 01:38:46.680 in concept, the one with the universal spirit of life. 1408 01:38:48.000 --> 01:38:51.039 All right, let me just stop right here so I 1409 01:38:51.079 --> 01:38:52.920 don't forget what I'm going to say when I finish 1410 01:38:52.960 --> 01:38:54.720 this chapter, because I'm only going to read this chapter, 1411 01:38:54.760 --> 01:39:04.039 and this chapter is rather short. Yeah, I'm sorry, mister Samuel, 1412 01:39:05.119 --> 01:39:12.560 for the Western tradition, the Greek tradition, the Aristotilian tradition 1413 01:39:12.840 --> 01:39:22.239 being that of homogeneous societies in which people live free 1414 01:39:22.279 --> 01:39:30.960 and people be the shire. What you're telling me is 1415 01:39:30.960 --> 01:39:34.359 is that, yes, you want a homogeneous thing too, but 1416 01:39:34.600 --> 01:39:41.319 your goal is to enslave humanity. And that's what you 1417 01:39:41.359 --> 01:39:50.880 get from your quote unquote monotheistic God. It's it's literally 1418 01:39:50.920 --> 01:39:54.479 what he said in the first chapter. It's gentiles against 1419 01:39:54.520 --> 01:39:56.720 the rest of the world. I mean, it's Jews against 1420 01:39:56.720 --> 01:40:01.800 the rest of the world. There should be Germans, there 1421 01:40:01.800 --> 01:40:08.199 should be French people, there should be the English. There 1422 01:40:08.239 --> 01:40:12.399 should be the Americans who broke off away from you know, 1423 01:40:12.600 --> 01:40:16.600 broke away from that and started their own thing, the Japanese, 1424 01:40:17.039 --> 01:40:22.640 the Chinese, and they all should live where they live, 1425 01:40:23.520 --> 01:40:29.359 how they wish, and they should only interact with other 1426 01:40:29.399 --> 01:40:33.800 people when they want to or need be or a 1427 01:40:33.880 --> 01:40:41.960 hand is outstretched, but you don't outstretch the hand, do you? 1428 01:40:41.960 --> 01:40:48.840 You bring the sword? And I'm not talking and I'm 1429 01:40:48.840 --> 01:40:54.399 talking about a metaphorical sword too, whether it be briefcases 1430 01:40:54.840 --> 01:41:03.880 or checkbooks or loans. Up until a certain point when 1431 01:41:03.880 --> 01:41:08.159 you took over governments and now you have nuclear weapons, 1432 01:41:10.359 --> 01:41:18.119 I get it. It's you against everyone else. And you think, 1433 01:41:18.159 --> 01:41:24.079 because certain groups don't want to go forth and subject 1434 01:41:24.279 --> 01:41:30.359 everyone to their whims, you think you're better than us. 1435 01:41:33.840 --> 01:41:37.680 Just understand that it's exactly what he's saying here. This 1436 01:41:37.760 --> 01:41:40.720 is exactly how I'm interpreting it. If somebody else has 1437 01:41:40.720 --> 01:41:43.840 a different interpretation, please please put it in the comments. 1438 01:41:45.239 --> 01:41:48.920 But this is what I'm reading. We have this monotheistic god. 1439 01:41:49.520 --> 01:41:53.199 You guys, you're out there doing it's polytheism. You're doing 1440 01:41:53.239 --> 01:41:57.840 everything you want. You know, you have this group over here, 1441 01:41:57.920 --> 01:42:00.840 this group over here, and you're never going to be 1442 01:42:00.840 --> 01:42:03.479 able to beat us because you can't come together like us. 1443 01:42:04.079 --> 01:42:08.119 And plus your whole attitude isn't to subject the other 1444 01:42:09.319 --> 01:42:19.600 like ours. Is continuing compare with this, our own first gropings, 1445 01:42:20.000 --> 01:42:23.239 our own first clumsy expression of the universal spirit which 1446 01:42:23.359 --> 01:42:27.039 sought utterance in us. Even as an absolute tribal ruler. 1447 01:42:27.079 --> 01:42:31.279 Our God was one was master, a serious god. And 1448 01:42:31.319 --> 01:42:33.840 out of that god unity, which we felt even in 1449 01:42:33.920 --> 01:42:38.760 our primitive limitations, grew at last that concept which touched, 1450 01:42:38.800 --> 01:42:42.319 with under dying ecstasy, the lips of our prophets, and 1451 01:42:42.399 --> 01:42:44.600 cast over the life of the entire people for all 1452 01:42:44.720 --> 01:42:49.079 time the shadow of omnipresence and omnipotence. Even when our 1453 01:42:49.119 --> 01:42:52.439 God was a jealous god, his jealousy was absolute. He 1454 01:42:52.479 --> 01:42:57.239 would brook no homage, no homage but to no homage 1455 01:42:57.399 --> 01:43:01.680 but to him, no acknowledgment but of him. But the 1456 01:43:01.800 --> 01:43:05.039 jealousies of your gods were only the jealousies of sport. 1457 01:43:05.800 --> 01:43:09.600 They did not seek universal mastery and exclusiveness, only superiority. 1458 01:43:10.319 --> 01:43:15.880 To be primis interparus was the ambition of your gods, 1459 01:43:16.479 --> 01:43:19.520 with mastery, each in his own domain. But our gods 1460 01:43:19.520 --> 01:43:22.960 sought universal dominion in our hearts. Such dominion has made 1461 01:43:23.079 --> 01:43:29.359 all other homage inconceivable. Your gods gave you loveliness and 1462 01:43:29.479 --> 01:43:33.760 joy and battle. You liked your gods and served them 1463 01:43:33.800 --> 01:43:37.079 with alternating loyalties. You pitted one against the other, appealed 1464 01:43:37.079 --> 01:43:39.800 from one to the other, plotted with one against the other. 1465 01:43:40.399 --> 01:43:43.600 Your gods were kings and princelings, mightier than you and 1466 01:43:43.680 --> 01:43:46.800 more splendid, But no God of yours was the king 1467 01:43:46.840 --> 01:43:50.760 of kings in your soul. Your gods have never grown up, 1468 01:43:51.039 --> 01:43:54.560 nor any single one among them, Nor have you grown 1469 01:43:54.560 --> 01:43:58.239 into your God, but have always remained external, proud and 1470 01:43:58.319 --> 01:44:03.479 warlike and free, paying homage as of old, but retaining 1471 01:44:03.520 --> 01:44:07.640 the mastery over yourselves. You do not know of a 1472 01:44:07.680 --> 01:44:10.680 God who is all a God in whom you are, 1473 01:44:11.319 --> 01:44:14.560 a God who has reduced you to the dust, to 1474 01:44:14.640 --> 01:44:19.920 the infinitesimal, in whom you are breaking foam, a bubble 1475 01:44:20.600 --> 01:44:23.560 on an infinite sea. It breaks, and it was born 1476 01:44:23.640 --> 01:44:29.319 and is gone forever and ever. And so, despite occasional exceptions, 1477 01:44:29.880 --> 01:44:33.560 which I acknowledge freely, the dedication of all life, all being, 1478 01:44:33.680 --> 01:44:37.279 to God's will and way is alien to you. You 1479 01:44:37.319 --> 01:44:40.319 are not naturally steeped in God. You salute Him and 1480 01:44:40.319 --> 01:44:47.600 bring him homage. Your relations with your gods are occasional, 1481 01:44:47.840 --> 01:44:50.880 even if inevitable, that you cannot compare that with the 1482 01:44:50.920 --> 01:44:55.079 imminence and intimacy of Godhead. In Jewish life, God is 1483 01:44:55.079 --> 01:44:58.520 a commonplace experience. In Jewish life, He is a tacit 1484 01:44:58.600 --> 01:45:03.760 continuous miracle of all our days and knights, thoughts, and experiences. 1485 01:45:04.720 --> 01:45:08.239 We cannot conceive of a duality religion and life, the 1486 01:45:08.279 --> 01:45:11.399 sacred and the secular. A Jew is a Jew in everything, 1487 01:45:11.600 --> 01:45:14.880 not merely in prayers and in synagogue. In the eyes 1488 01:45:14.920 --> 01:45:17.319 of a Pietist, a Jew who does not follow the 1489 01:45:17.399 --> 01:45:21.279 rules and regulations of the synagogue, who even denies all dogma, 1490 01:45:21.439 --> 01:45:24.840 is not a non Jew. He is a bad Jew, 1491 01:45:25.079 --> 01:45:30.479 a sinful and rebellious Jew. In the orthodox world of Jewry, 1492 01:45:31.119 --> 01:45:35.399 every act and incident in an acknowledged Jewish pheno is 1493 01:45:35.439 --> 01:45:39.560 an acknowledged Jewish phenomenon, acknowledge that is openly by prayer, 1494 01:45:39.840 --> 01:45:42.960 the whole day is saturated with God or with Jewishness. 1495 01:45:43.520 --> 01:45:46.359 Our Jewishness is not a creed, It is our self, 1496 01:45:46.920 --> 01:45:52.960 our totality. Indeed, it may be fairly said that the 1497 01:45:53.000 --> 01:45:56.520 surest evidence of your lack of seriousness and religion is 1498 01:45:56.560 --> 01:45:59.399 the fact that your religions are not national, that you 1499 01:45:59.439 --> 01:46:02.720 are not commonised and dedicated and masked to the faith. 1500 01:46:03.600 --> 01:46:05.680 For what value has God for you if you do 1501 01:46:05.760 --> 01:46:09.800 not surrender to Him, even formally, all your gifts and faculties, 1502 01:46:09.920 --> 01:46:13.920 all your skill, and emotion. This is an amazing duality 1503 01:46:13.960 --> 01:46:17.479 of allegiance. One is an Englishman first and then a Christian, 1504 01:46:17.720 --> 01:46:21.000 an American first and then a Baptist. Your most generous, 1505 01:46:21.279 --> 01:46:26.119 generous loyalties, your readiest sacrifices, are inspired by your nationalism. 1506 01:46:27.239 --> 01:46:31.199 Faculties are nationalism. You claim this is typically American, this 1507 01:46:31.279 --> 01:46:35.359 is typically British, this is typically French. You cut this 1508 01:46:35.439 --> 01:46:37.720 off at once from God and the best of yourselves 1509 01:46:37.800 --> 01:46:42.000 you hold with you withhold from Him. But in the 1510 01:46:42.079 --> 01:46:45.640 Jew nation and people and faculties and culture and God 1511 01:46:45.680 --> 01:46:48.640 are all one. We do not say I am a Jew, 1512 01:46:48.760 --> 01:46:51.760 meaning I am a member of this nationality. The feeling 1513 01:46:51.760 --> 01:46:54.399 in the Jew, even in the free thinking Jew like myself, 1514 01:46:54.800 --> 01:46:56.960 is that to be one with his people is to 1515 01:46:57.000 --> 01:47:01.199 be thereforeby admitted to the power of an enjoying the infinite. 1516 01:47:01.720 --> 01:47:04.880 I might say of ourselves, we and God grew up together. 1517 01:47:05.359 --> 01:47:09.640 If you want to understand exactly how people like Benjamin 1518 01:47:09.640 --> 01:47:12.319 net Yahoo and all of these Zionists who do not 1519 01:47:12.439 --> 01:47:23.000 believe in God can be so obsessed, can be so 1520 01:47:25.439 --> 01:47:31.439 cult like, can be so fanatical, this is how what 1521 01:47:31.520 --> 01:47:35.960 does he say here, I am a member of this nationality? 1522 01:47:36.000 --> 01:47:39.359 The feeling in the Jew, even in the freethinking Jew 1523 01:47:39.560 --> 01:47:45.159 like myself. What's he saying about free thinking? He's not 1524 01:47:45.399 --> 01:47:51.319 part of He's not Orthodox, he's not part of some 1525 01:47:52.920 --> 01:48:00.239 hyper religious sect. He's a free thinking Jew, an atheist. 1526 01:48:03.199 --> 01:48:12.479 God is just from everything I've read and even things 1527 01:48:12.479 --> 01:48:22.119 I've heard anecdotally, some Jews say their God they all 1528 01:48:22.159 --> 01:48:33.359 are individually their God, and is one their God. That's 1529 01:48:34.640 --> 01:48:41.199 when you come to that realization. That's so lots to 1530 01:48:41.239 --> 01:48:48.359 think about. So it builds up a great nation, millions 1531 01:48:48.399 --> 01:48:53.039 of human beings, schools, armies, art, galleries, books, legislatures, theaters, 1532 01:48:53.199 --> 01:48:57.079 immense newspapers. Is not this the all in all of 1533 01:48:57.159 --> 01:49:00.319 national achievement? The best and strongest in you? To have 1534 01:49:00.359 --> 01:49:03.399 done this without your God is a central idea. By 1535 01:49:03.399 --> 01:49:08.159 taking over our newspapers. It's almost like they're just mocking, like, look, 1536 01:49:08.159 --> 01:49:15.479 how you're not even taking this seriously. You're so unserious 1537 01:49:15.479 --> 01:49:18.239 that we just walk in and take it, We just 1538 01:49:18.359 --> 01:49:32.399 buy it with money, and you allow it. Let me 1539 01:49:32.479 --> 01:49:36.800 read that sentence again, because he follows it up well. 1540 01:49:37.000 --> 01:49:42.920 To have built up a great nation, millions of human beings, schools, armies, art, galleries, books, legislatures, 1541 01:49:43.439 --> 01:49:46.479 theaters and men's newspapers. Is not this the all in 1542 01:49:46.600 --> 01:49:48.960 all of national achievement? The best and the strongest of 1543 01:49:49.000 --> 01:49:51.359 you to have done this without your God is the 1544 01:49:51.439 --> 01:49:57.479 central idea? Is that taking your religion seriously? No, any 1545 01:49:57.560 --> 01:50:01.960 nation that takes us religious seriously is a nation of priests. 1546 01:50:09.239 --> 01:50:11.600 Not too long after this, they're going to see a 1547 01:50:11.680 --> 01:50:22.840 nation of priests, as he describes it. You will tell 1548 01:50:22.880 --> 01:50:27.119 me that such things have been among you, that you 1549 01:50:27.159 --> 01:50:30.720 have had national religions national gods. I do not believe it. 1550 01:50:31.199 --> 01:50:34.319 I've certainly seen no evidence in any record which has 1551 01:50:34.359 --> 01:50:37.319 come to my attention. For we must distinguish between a 1552 01:50:37.399 --> 01:50:43.680 patron or tout or to tutelary god and a national god. 1553 01:50:44.039 --> 01:50:47.319 The first isn't especially assigned power. The second is to 1554 01:50:47.399 --> 01:50:49.600 complete reflex of the people, a God who was born 1555 01:50:49.640 --> 01:50:52.199 with the people, who is to raise on detra, without 1556 01:50:52.239 --> 01:50:55.039 whom the people would not have come into national existence. 1557 01:50:56.039 --> 01:50:59.680 You have had paid, you have had patron or appropriated gods. 1558 01:51:00.079 --> 01:51:02.439 We have a national god in the heart of any 1559 01:51:02.439 --> 01:51:07.439 pious Jew. God is a Jew, is your god, an 1560 01:51:07.520 --> 01:51:15.920 Englishman or an American? There is no real contradiction between 1561 01:51:15.920 --> 01:51:19.319 this confessed anthropomorphism and my claim that we choose alone 1562 01:51:19.439 --> 01:51:25.840 understand and feel the universality of God in anthromorphism. In anthromorphism, 1563 01:51:26.319 --> 01:51:30.560 we merely symbolize God. We reduce the infinite temporarily to 1564 01:51:30.680 --> 01:51:35.479 tangible proportions. We make it accessible to daily reference. For 1565 01:51:35.600 --> 01:51:38.279 neither we nor you can carry on the business of 1566 01:51:38.359 --> 01:51:44.119 ordinary living on the plane of constant abstraction. It is 1567 01:51:44.159 --> 01:51:47.960 not because of your anthropomorphism that I accuse your religious 1568 01:51:47.960 --> 01:51:51.600 feelings of being trivial. It is because of the manner 1569 01:51:51.640 --> 01:51:56.680 of your anthropomorphism. It is because of what your anthropomorphism produces. 1570 01:51:57.119 --> 01:52:00.359 And thus, by natural reaction, we, in our anthropomorphism, are 1571 01:52:00.399 --> 01:52:03.560 all the more personal, because in our abstraction we are 1572 01:52:03.600 --> 01:52:07.319 truly abstract, because we alone are dedicated to the infinite, 1573 01:52:07.439 --> 01:52:11.880 our God. When anthropomorphized is our own God. I might 1574 01:52:12.000 --> 01:52:13.920 say that there is no Jew who does not believe 1575 01:52:13.960 --> 01:52:17.560 in God. The free thinking Jews. The agnostic or atheistic Jew, 1576 01:52:17.680 --> 01:52:24.960 like myself, simply does not anthropomorphize him in his religious emotions. 1577 01:52:25.000 --> 01:52:28.840 The atheistic Jew is as different from the atheistic atheist 1578 01:52:28.920 --> 01:52:33.199 Gentile as the confessing Jew from the confessing gentile Christian. 1579 01:52:34.239 --> 01:52:38.239 For if gods are the rationalized explanation of religious emotions. 1580 01:52:38.319 --> 01:52:43.000 They differ in acceptance and denial. Even as these emotions differ, 1581 01:52:44.239 --> 01:52:47.119 and of course, by religious emotions, we only mean one 1582 01:52:47.199 --> 01:52:51.600 aspect of all emotions. Your emotions, your life reactions, differ 1583 01:52:51.600 --> 01:52:58.279 fundamentally from ours. Why I can't tell. But as in 1584 01:52:58.359 --> 01:53:05.840 morality you are freer, sporting, and very variegated, so your 1585 01:53:05.880 --> 01:53:12.479 gods are many varied and manly, and our gloomy and merciless. Monotheism, 1586 01:53:12.920 --> 01:53:18.079 intolerant and abstraction and in personification is the eternal enemy 1587 01:53:18.439 --> 01:53:25.000 of your gods. I don't know that there's much more 1588 01:53:25.039 --> 01:53:39.039 than I can already say that I've already said the fact. 1589 01:53:40.319 --> 01:53:42.319 You should go and read this for yourself. It's a 1590 01:53:42.439 --> 01:53:45.079 very short chapter. You can find PDFs online of this. 1591 01:53:45.279 --> 01:53:51.359 Read this chapter yourself, and remember that when he gets 1592 01:53:51.399 --> 01:53:54.039 to the end, he's going to say I'm an atheist, 1593 01:53:57.520 --> 01:54:02.479 and then you can start to begin to realize what 1594 01:54:02.560 --> 01:54:13.399 we're up against. All right, thank you everybody for tuning in. 1595 01:54:13.800 --> 01:54:15.439 It's off to you in a couple of days. Take 1596 01:54:15.479 --> 01:54:21.880 care bye. All right, let's knock out another chapter of 1597 01:54:22.039 --> 01:54:27.079 You Gentiles by Maurice Samuel. The last one was called 1598 01:54:27.159 --> 01:54:31.560 Gods and considering some of the comments I got. Yeah, 1599 01:54:31.600 --> 01:54:36.760 that raised some people's ire. But uh, having read this 1600 01:54:36.840 --> 01:54:40.079 so long ago, I'm trying to remember what this chapter 1601 01:54:40.239 --> 01:54:44.279 is about. So I'll be rediscovering this while you're discovering 1602 01:54:44.359 --> 01:54:47.640 it if you've never read it before. Chapter four is 1603 01:54:47.680 --> 01:54:53.520 called utopia. The dreams of men concerning the latter days 1604 01:54:53.520 --> 01:54:56.119 are a common index to their ideals of life, for 1605 01:54:56.199 --> 01:54:58.520 no one will think of the future except as his own. 1606 01:54:59.119 --> 01:55:02.720 These dreams, their close kin the night dream, are extraordinarily 1607 01:55:02.720 --> 01:55:06.920 difficult of interpretation, much more difficult than the psychoanalysts would 1608 01:55:06.920 --> 01:55:10.039 have us believe. But on occasions there are presented with 1609 01:55:10.159 --> 01:55:17.000 unmistakable clarity and directness by the by the prophets. The 1610 01:55:17.039 --> 01:55:20.159 functions of the prophet as a seer and a foeseer 1611 01:55:20.479 --> 01:55:23.720 have been confounded. For this reason. The true prophet sees 1612 01:55:23.760 --> 01:55:26.960 into the ultimate longings of his group, longings which may 1613 01:55:27.000 --> 01:55:31.840 even run counter to the day's desires. These ultimate longings 1614 01:55:31.840 --> 01:55:34.680 are shifted into the far future, beyond the reach of 1615 01:55:34.760 --> 01:55:38.880 temporal complications and compromises, and he that unveils Amen's in 1616 01:55:38.920 --> 01:55:42.439 most longings, when's credence is having foreseen the true finality 1617 01:55:42.439 --> 01:55:45.960 of life, I have chosen Plato's republic in our own 1618 01:55:46.039 --> 01:55:49.720 Hebrew prophets as the basis of contrast between your dreams 1619 01:55:49.760 --> 01:55:53.479 of the latter days and hours, between your longings for 1620 01:55:53.560 --> 01:55:57.760 perfection and hours. I have chosen Plato because of all 1621 01:55:57.840 --> 01:56:01.279 the seers who have sprung up in your midst, he 1622 01:56:01.359 --> 01:56:04.479 is the most universally adopted, and of all utopias, your 1623 01:56:04.520 --> 01:56:08.039 thinkers refer to his most frequently, that is to say, 1624 01:56:08.079 --> 01:56:11.439 he comes nearest to your desires. Hence, in discussing him, 1625 01:56:11.880 --> 01:56:16.199 I am discussing you. I've used the phrase of all 1626 01:56:16.239 --> 01:56:18.479 the seers who have sprung up in your midst because 1627 01:56:18.520 --> 01:56:21.159 it is true that you still mention the Hebrew prophets 1628 01:56:21.159 --> 01:56:24.279 more frequently than Plato. But it is of singular and 1629 01:56:24.319 --> 01:56:27.560 final significance that as soon as you develop free intelligence 1630 01:56:27.840 --> 01:56:31.119 and desire expression for it, you turn from our profits 1631 01:56:31.159 --> 01:56:35.560 to your own. The overwhelming bulk of your intelligent discussion 1632 01:56:35.600 --> 01:56:39.039 of life and the end of life centers around the 1633 01:56:39.079 --> 01:56:42.359 free philosophers or seers, and among these you have made 1634 01:56:42.399 --> 01:56:48.239 Plato preeminent. Plato's analysis of the of the analysis of 1635 01:56:48.279 --> 01:56:53.359 the ideal life still approaches your dreams most intimately, investigating 1636 01:56:53.399 --> 01:56:58.199 the true nature of morality. Plato bodies forth his ideal 1637 01:56:58.279 --> 01:57:01.439 of a perfect state, and with the license of a dream, 1638 01:57:01.520 --> 01:57:05.159 giving free reign to his imagination, unfolds step by step 1639 01:57:05.159 --> 01:57:10.399 his famous Republic. No considerations of practicality or of feasibility 1640 01:57:10.479 --> 01:57:14.560 were there to check the career of his fantasy. The 1641 01:57:14.640 --> 01:57:17.960 republic is to him life as it should be and 1642 01:57:18.039 --> 01:57:21.479 as he would like to see it. The apotheosis of 1643 01:57:21.600 --> 01:57:26.039 human aspiration. Contrasts this with the visions of his almost 1644 01:57:26.039 --> 01:57:29.039 contemporaries to Jewish prophets, and in this contrast you will 1645 01:57:29.039 --> 01:57:34.359 find again the key to our essential difference. The Republic 1646 01:57:34.399 --> 01:57:38.279 of Plato is an institution organized with infinite ingenuity and 1647 01:57:38.319 --> 01:57:40.520 dedicated to the delights of the body of the mind. 1648 01:57:41.359 --> 01:57:44.880 It draws its inspiration from the pure jorjois a vive 1649 01:57:45.479 --> 01:57:49.119 of the ideal man, of a perfect physical, of perfect 1650 01:57:49.199 --> 01:57:52.520 physical and psychic health. You would seek in vain that 1651 01:57:52.600 --> 01:57:56.159 extraneous compulsion of a God, which to Hebrews called inspiration. 1652 01:57:56.680 --> 01:58:00.000 There is no somber passion driving to creation, no intolerance 1653 01:58:00.119 --> 01:58:04.319 demands impossible of fulfillment. It is not God creating man 1654 01:58:04.359 --> 01:58:07.039 in his mold, that is man creating God or the 1655 01:58:07.079 --> 01:58:11.960 gods in his mold gods that are companionable and comprehensible. 1656 01:58:13.199 --> 01:58:17.279 He sets before you a pretty intriguing little model, a 1657 01:58:17.319 --> 01:58:20.039 city not too big to lose, the characteristics of a 1658 01:58:20.079 --> 01:58:25.520 city which sundered from universal humanity, untouched by the universal hunger, 1659 01:58:25.640 --> 01:58:29.479 restricts supreme goods to the possession of a comfortably secreluded group. 1660 01:58:30.319 --> 01:58:32.600 It is a city for the prosecution of the happy 1661 01:58:32.640 --> 01:58:37.359 and artistic life. The harmonies and symmetries shall be carefully guarded, 1662 01:58:37.760 --> 01:58:41.960 the satisfaction of body and of mind wisely and cleverly pursued. Nay, 1663 01:58:42.079 --> 01:58:46.960 in that supreme human product, they shall even be astounding triviality. 1664 01:58:47.279 --> 01:58:52.920 A censor. There shall even be a censor. There is 1665 01:58:52.960 --> 01:58:56.079 a wealth of ingenuity devoted to these questions. How shall 1666 01:58:56.159 --> 01:58:59.000 children be initiated into the art of war? How shall 1667 01:58:59.000 --> 01:59:01.880 cowards and heroes treated? What about the plundering of the 1668 01:59:01.920 --> 01:59:07.439 slain and the perpetuation of deeds of battle in monuments? Now? 1669 01:59:07.680 --> 01:59:10.359 Is it not of the greatest moment that the work 1670 01:59:10.399 --> 01:59:13.479 of war shall be well done? Or is it so 1671 01:59:13.600 --> 01:59:16.079 easy that anyone can succeed in it and be at 1672 01:59:16.079 --> 01:59:18.600 the same time a husbandman, or a shoemaker or a 1673 01:59:18.680 --> 01:59:22.359 laborer or any other trade whatever, Although there is no 1674 01:59:22.359 --> 01:59:24.560 one in the world who could become a good drought 1675 01:59:24.600 --> 01:59:27.479 player or dice player by merely taking up the game 1676 01:59:27.520 --> 01:59:31.119 at unoccupied moments, instead of pursuing it as his special 1677 01:59:31.159 --> 01:59:34.880 study from childhood. And will it be enough for a 1678 01:59:34.920 --> 01:59:37.560 man merely to handle a shield or any other of 1679 01:59:37.560 --> 01:59:40.640 the arms and implements of war, to be straightway confident 1680 01:59:40.720 --> 01:59:43.720 to play his part well that very day in an 1681 01:59:43.800 --> 01:59:46.960 engagement of heavy troops, or in any other military service. 1682 01:59:47.960 --> 01:59:50.039 Is it not the greatest moment that the work of 1683 01:59:50.119 --> 01:59:53.920 war should be well done? This is this in a 1684 01:59:54.000 --> 01:59:56.960 vision of human perfection? For it never occurs to Plato 1685 01:59:57.039 --> 02:00:00.600 that perfection if in humanity precludes the possible ability of 1686 02:00:00.680 --> 02:00:04.920 war and treating of God? He says, surely God is 1687 02:00:05.000 --> 02:00:09.039 God in reality, and is so to be represented. But 1688 02:00:09.119 --> 02:00:13.840 what can we make of his ultimate good? Is not 1689 02:00:13.880 --> 02:00:16.840 his God merely a good thing? As right is for 1690 02:00:17.000 --> 02:00:20.399 you the right thing? And what can we make of 1691 02:00:20.439 --> 02:00:23.720 his God? When after talking of the goodness and dignity 1692 02:00:23.760 --> 02:00:25.920 of God, he goes on to talk of the gods, 1693 02:00:25.960 --> 02:00:28.439 and of how the poets are to be arranged for 1694 02:00:28.560 --> 02:00:32.039 not treating them respectfully in that they make them laugh 1695 02:00:32.239 --> 02:00:37.399 or portray them in undignified occupations and postures. Well, does 1696 02:00:37.439 --> 02:00:41.000 he say the inquiry we are undertaking is no trivial one, 1697 02:00:41.039 --> 02:00:44.039 but demands a keen sight. He does not say that 1698 02:00:44.079 --> 02:00:46.479 it demands the aid of God, or of a loving heart, 1699 02:00:46.640 --> 02:00:50.000 or hunger after righteousness. But the very question of God 1700 02:00:50.079 --> 02:00:53.319 is a trivial one. For, as one says in this book, 1701 02:00:53.560 --> 02:00:57.720 it is urged, neither evasion nor violence can succeed with 1702 02:00:57.800 --> 02:01:01.640 the Gods. Well, but if they either do not exist 1703 02:01:01.800 --> 02:01:04.159 or do not concern themselves with the affairs of men, 1704 02:01:04.600 --> 02:01:09.039 why we need concern ourselves? Why need we concern ourselves 1705 02:01:09.039 --> 02:01:13.159 to evade their observation. It's amazing that he's already admitted 1706 02:01:13.199 --> 02:01:17.079 that he's an atheist, but he just keeps bringing up God. 1707 02:01:18.319 --> 02:01:21.600 This graceful skepticism, which strikes the opening note of the book, 1708 02:01:21.640 --> 02:01:25.439 sets the tone for the entire theme, What is justice? What? 1709 02:01:25.600 --> 02:01:28.680 Indeed does any man that loves the true justice, not 1710 02:01:28.800 --> 02:01:32.399 the game, ever asked this question? Can anyone truly believe 1711 02:01:32.439 --> 02:01:36.840 that the subtlest and sk skillfulest analysis of justice will 1712 02:01:36.880 --> 02:01:41.479 help one shot in creating love of justice? Desire for justice, 1713 02:01:42.039 --> 02:01:44.680 a vision of the perfection of mankind, and children being 1714 02:01:44.720 --> 02:01:49.359 trained for war. Contrast it with this. In that day 1715 02:01:49.359 --> 02:01:51.960 there shall be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, 1716 02:01:52.039 --> 02:01:55.399 and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian 1717 02:01:55.439 --> 02:01:59.279 into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians. 1718 02:01:59.760 --> 02:02:02.479 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt 1719 02:02:02.520 --> 02:02:05.039 and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of 1720 02:02:05.079 --> 02:02:08.359 the land, whom the Lord of Hosts shall bless, saying, 1721 02:02:08.800 --> 02:02:11.560 blessed be Egypt, my people, and Assyria the work of 1722 02:02:11.600 --> 02:02:15.720 my hands in Israel mine inheritance, or with a better 1723 02:02:15.760 --> 02:02:18.359 known passage. And it shall come to pass in the 1724 02:02:18.399 --> 02:02:20.520 last days that the mountain of the Lord's house shall 1725 02:02:20.560 --> 02:02:22.640 be established on the top of the mountains, and shall 1726 02:02:22.640 --> 02:02:25.640 be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow 1727 02:02:25.680 --> 02:02:29.000 into it. And many people shall come and say, come, 1728 02:02:29.439 --> 02:02:31.159 let us go up to the mountains of the Lord, 1729 02:02:31.239 --> 02:02:33.239 to the house of the God of Jacob. And he 1730 02:02:33.640 --> 02:02:35.840 will teach us of his ways, and we will walk 1731 02:02:35.880 --> 02:02:39.520 in his paths. And he shall judge the nations, and 1732 02:02:39.520 --> 02:02:42.279 shall rebuke many peoples, and they shall beat their swords 1733 02:02:42.279 --> 02:02:46.119 into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nations shall 1734 02:02:46.159 --> 02:02:49.439 lift up sword against nation. Neither shall they learn any 1735 02:02:49.479 --> 02:02:55.479 more war. I think I've said before, and Israel Shahak 1736 02:02:56.680 --> 02:03:02.479 pointed out in his book Jewish History Jewish Religion, for 1737 02:03:02.560 --> 02:03:07.560 a people who don't believe in God, they are addicted 1738 02:03:07.600 --> 02:03:14.960 to this book because this They take that book to 1739 02:03:15.159 --> 02:03:24.600 mean that it's talking about them. That is it. Is 1740 02:03:24.640 --> 02:03:34.119 it talking about someone named Maurice Samuel from Romania? From Europe? 1741 02:03:34.720 --> 02:03:38.479 Is it talking about a European somebody who has less 1742 02:03:38.560 --> 02:03:41.439 DNA in him, tying him to the land of the 1743 02:03:41.439 --> 02:03:49.039 Middle East than the average Palestinian. A vision of the 1744 02:03:49.039 --> 02:03:52.560 perfection of mankind, with censors and with carefully groomed gods 1745 02:03:52.800 --> 02:03:55.560 the limit of his imagination. But this and the arth 1746 02:03:55.600 --> 02:03:57.439 shall be filled with the knowledge of God, as the 1747 02:03:57.479 --> 02:04:00.399 water has covered the sea. And this and it shall 1748 02:04:00.399 --> 02:04:02.439 come to pass afterward that I shall pour out my 1749 02:04:02.479 --> 02:04:04.960 spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters 1750 02:04:05.000 --> 02:04:08.520 shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young 1751 02:04:08.560 --> 02:04:11.319 men shall see visions, and also upon the servants and 1752 02:04:11.439 --> 02:04:13.920 upon the handmaids. In those days I will pour out 1753 02:04:13.960 --> 02:04:28.760 my spirit referencing spiritual what spirit is he looking for. 1754 02:04:33.640 --> 02:04:37.000 And because his world is not God's world and the 1755 02:04:37.000 --> 02:04:39.479 world of his self created gods, he must sit down 1756 02:04:39.520 --> 02:04:43.319 and argue anxiously what is justice? But he that really 1757 02:04:43.359 --> 02:04:48.439 loves justice asks no questions. He cries instead, seek good 1758 02:04:48.479 --> 02:04:51.399 and not evil, that ye may live. And so the Lord, 1759 02:04:51.439 --> 02:04:53.439 the God of Hosts, shall be with you as ye 1760 02:04:53.439 --> 02:04:56.760 have spoken, hate evil and love the good, and establish 1761 02:04:56.880 --> 02:05:00.720 judgment in the gate, and let judgment run down his waters. 1762 02:05:00.720 --> 02:05:04.760 And righteousness is a mighty stream. And when baffled by 1763 02:05:04.760 --> 02:05:08.279 the inadequacy of his human standards, your philosopher refers justice 1764 02:05:08.319 --> 02:05:12.880 to the categoric imperative, he betrays the triviality of your world. 1765 02:05:14.039 --> 02:05:18.439 What is that categoric imperative that helpless compromise and confession? 1766 02:05:18.880 --> 02:05:22.079 What man recognizes it will bow to it, That phrase 1767 02:05:22.159 --> 02:05:25.720 itself as its own denial. For he that refers mankind 1768 02:05:25.760 --> 02:05:29.720 to a categoric imparative is himself neither categoric nor imperative. 1769 02:05:30.920 --> 02:05:32.880 But even the death will hear and tremble when the 1770 02:05:32.920 --> 02:05:37.199 prophet thunders. Thus saith the Lord, there is the categoric imperative. 1771 02:05:39.840 --> 02:05:43.000 For me, conscious of being Jewish and of the meaning 1772 02:05:43.039 --> 02:05:45.479 of being Jewish. It is impossible to write of this 1773 02:05:45.600 --> 02:05:48.840 contrast without bias, as if this book were merely an 1774 02:05:48.920 --> 02:05:52.560 intellectual exercise. Because I am Jewish, I look with ultimate 1775 02:05:52.560 --> 02:05:56.039 aversion on the world which finds supreme and ideal expression 1776 02:05:56.119 --> 02:05:59.520 in Plato's Republic. And though I may repeat that this 1777 02:05:59.640 --> 02:06:02.800 is no question of right and wrong in these two worlds, 1778 02:06:02.840 --> 02:06:06.399 yours are ours, I cannot but feel profoundly and vehemently 1779 02:06:06.439 --> 02:06:15.079 that ours is the way and the life. I can 1780 02:06:15.199 --> 02:06:17.840 feel how many of you would have loved to meet 1781 02:06:17.920 --> 02:06:25.319 him right now. Yet I would pay what tribute I 1782 02:06:25.359 --> 02:06:27.600 can to the dreams of one like Plato. I have 1783 02:06:27.640 --> 02:06:30.039 at least touched your world closely enough to have caught 1784 02:06:30.079 --> 02:06:32.920 some of the beauty of its freedom. There's a Jewish 1785 02:06:33.039 --> 02:06:35.880 legend which tells that when God brought the Law his 1786 02:06:36.079 --> 02:06:39.000 Law to the children of Israel assembled at the foot 1787 02:06:39.039 --> 02:06:41.439 of Sinai, after he had offered it to all the 1788 02:06:41.479 --> 02:06:44.399 other peoples, only to have it rejected. He left them 1789 02:06:44.439 --> 02:06:48.119 no choice, but said, either you'd take my law, or 1790 02:06:48.159 --> 02:06:50.560 I will lift up this mountain and crush you beneath it. 1791 02:06:55.079 --> 02:06:58.880 There are any of you who are familiar with Citeriology 1792 02:06:58.960 --> 02:07:03.039 and the New testament thing king what I'm thinking, who's 1793 02:07:03.079 --> 02:07:09.680 been crushed beneath it? For rejecting it? I attach no 1794 02:07:09.760 --> 02:07:13.600 psychological significance to the fable. The practice of interpreting fables 1795 02:07:13.640 --> 02:07:17.520 psychologically is as a rule, a dishonest one. But quote 1796 02:07:17.560 --> 02:07:20.399 it as a handy illustration. We are not free to 1797 02:07:20.479 --> 02:07:23.439 choose and to reject, to play, to construct, to refine. 1798 02:07:23.760 --> 02:07:28.119 We are a dedicated, enslaved people predestined to an unchanged relationship. 1799 02:07:28.319 --> 02:07:30.880 Freedom at large was not and is not, a Jewish 1800 02:07:30.880 --> 02:07:36.119 ideal service love consecration. These are ideals. With us. Freedom 1801 02:07:36.159 --> 02:07:41.079 means nothing to us. Freedom to do what? Yet in glimpses, 1802 02:07:41.119 --> 02:07:43.800 I understand the charm of your life, and sometimes lose 1803 02:07:43.880 --> 02:07:47.640 myself in the fascination of your Plato's dream such a world, 1804 02:07:47.680 --> 02:07:51.199 as he foreshadows, a world of sunlight, exercise, singing fantasy, 1805 02:07:51.600 --> 02:07:55.079 a world of graceful and elastic bodies, of keen, flashing minds, 1806 02:07:55.119 --> 02:07:59.279 of clash and effort, war and heroes and monuments. A 1807 02:07:59.319 --> 02:08:03.520 life wheel and dashing and splendid formations, rejoicing under free 1808 02:08:03.600 --> 02:08:07.520 and loving scot lovely skies. A life without brooding in gloom, 1809 02:08:07.520 --> 02:08:12.359 without the intolerable burden of this unrelaxing imminence man in 1810 02:08:12.439 --> 02:08:15.800 man's effort, Man's love and agonies are ends in themselves 1811 02:08:16.079 --> 02:08:18.560 to be exploited for themselves, the coming and going of 1812 02:08:18.600 --> 02:08:22.039 men and nations and gods, or without ultimate significance, a 1813 02:08:22.159 --> 02:08:25.279 dance of atoms, a passing ecstasy, without thought of the sinister, 1814 02:08:25.399 --> 02:08:29.760 beyond beautiful, But not for us. While this dance goes on, 1815 02:08:29.800 --> 02:08:32.079 while nations and gods enter the game and leave it, 1816 02:08:32.119 --> 02:08:35.239 we continue through all time and apparition, almost a dread 1817 02:08:35.359 --> 02:08:40.720 reminder of infinity. He is so jealous, it's ridiculous. He's 1818 02:08:40.760 --> 02:08:46.640 so jealous that you and I can look upon beauty, 1819 02:08:46.680 --> 02:08:53.279 that these things mean so much to us, and he 1820 02:08:53.439 --> 02:09:04.239 rejects them out of hand. Hope singing, being able to 1821 02:09:05.000 --> 02:09:17.039 imagine your dreams of perfection are only a piece of 1822 02:09:17.399 --> 02:09:21.159 your present life. The transient become permanent. The skies will 1823 02:09:21.159 --> 02:09:23.640 be blue forever, Your dance will never end, Your bodies 1824 02:09:23.680 --> 02:09:27.119 will always be strong, your WIT's keen, your battle's glorious. 1825 02:09:27.159 --> 02:09:31.800 The game will reach its limit of enjoyment. But for us, 1826 02:09:31.880 --> 02:09:35.760 this is not an apotheosis, this is not a vision. 1827 02:09:36.159 --> 02:09:40.039 For us, the end is ecstatic unity, the identification of 1828 02:09:40.159 --> 02:09:48.119 man with God. You get the idea that God has 1829 02:09:49.079 --> 02:09:54.239 basically every you know, there's the glory of God, which 1830 02:09:54.279 --> 02:09:56.880 is to be worshiped, but there's also the wrath of God. 1831 02:09:57.960 --> 02:10:02.199 There's his as church fathers have written in the past, 1832 02:10:02.319 --> 02:10:11.960 his terribleness, the catastrophic things he can do, and you 1833 02:10:12.039 --> 02:10:16.960 get this idea that that's the only part of God 1834 02:10:17.000 --> 02:10:21.840 that they want associated with them. He's saying that that's 1835 02:10:21.880 --> 02:10:24.800 the only part of God that he wants to associate with. 1836 02:10:29.680 --> 02:10:40.479 He doesn't see joy in God. He only sees that 1837 02:10:40.640 --> 02:10:44.960 God wants things done a certain way, and only a 1838 02:10:45.000 --> 02:10:50.840 certain way, and everything outside of that is sin, and 1839 02:10:50.880 --> 02:10:55.640 that's what he wants the world around him to see him. 1840 02:10:55.680 --> 02:11:05.079 As you would like to play with your gods forever 1841 02:11:05.159 --> 02:11:07.760 we will not we will return to God to the universe. 1842 02:11:07.880 --> 02:11:10.880 Yours is a sunlight afternoon with a combatants swaying forever 1843 02:11:10.920 --> 02:11:13.800 in a joyous struggle. Ours is a whole world with 1844 02:11:13.840 --> 02:11:17.239 the spirit of God poured through all things. Your ideal 1845 02:11:17.279 --> 02:11:24.399 is Plato's republic. Ours is God's kingdom. Yeah, I just 1846 02:11:24.479 --> 02:11:31.600 don't it's baffling some of the some of you have 1847 02:11:31.680 --> 02:11:41.840 commented that this is just frustrating and it is because 1848 02:11:41.880 --> 02:11:44.399 you can't relate to it. And then that's his whole 1849 02:11:44.399 --> 02:11:47.600 point from the beginning. We're not going to be able 1850 02:11:47.600 --> 02:11:54.039 to that's it. Be back in a few days, all right, 1851 02:11:55.079 --> 02:11:59.279 take care, There is a short one, but all right, 1852 02:11:59.359 --> 02:12:04.199 everyone ready for chapter five of You Gentiles. This one 1853 02:12:04.279 --> 02:12:09.760 is called loyalty. Whenever friendly tribute has been paid to 1854 02:12:09.800 --> 02:12:18.239 the higher ethical nature of the Jew, let me start 1855 02:12:18.279 --> 02:12:22.600 over again. Whenever friendly tribute has been paid to the 1856 02:12:22.680 --> 02:12:25.800 higher ethical nature of the Jew, it has always been 1857 02:12:26.039 --> 02:12:28.439 made to appear that the Jew obeys the law of 1858 02:12:28.439 --> 02:12:33.119 a common morality more strictly than does the gentile. Jews 1859 02:12:33.119 --> 02:12:35.439 and friends of Jews have wanted to make it appear 1860 02:12:35.600 --> 02:12:38.159 that if we differ from you ethically, it is that 1861 02:12:38.199 --> 02:12:44.079 we are more self sacrificing, more generous, more loyal, honor, honest, 1862 02:12:44.600 --> 02:12:49.640 et cetera. I do not desire to make it appear so, 1863 02:12:49.920 --> 02:12:52.399 and in the foregoing pages I have tried to avoid 1864 02:12:52.439 --> 02:12:56.000 any such implication. Within our system, we need to better 1865 02:12:57.239 --> 02:13:01.079 within our system, we need be needed, We need be 1866 02:13:01.560 --> 02:13:06.359 neither better nor worse behave than you within yours. Not 1867 02:13:06.479 --> 02:13:12.159 only is most of this is just such an inversion. 1868 02:13:13.760 --> 02:13:15.640 He just writes it in such a way as to 1869 02:13:15.680 --> 02:13:18.760 be like, oh, look, look how smart I am. He's 1870 02:13:18.800 --> 02:13:23.359 writing in the nineteen twenties, and basically what he's trying 1871 02:13:23.359 --> 02:13:26.319 to write in old English, or trying to write in 1872 02:13:26.359 --> 02:13:29.640 one hundred year old English. Prior to this, we get 1873 02:13:29.640 --> 02:13:33.039 a I'll even give you a grant you you're smart. 1874 02:13:33.319 --> 02:13:38.319 You're smart. We may transgress as frequently as you, perhaps 1875 02:13:38.319 --> 02:13:42.399 more frequently I cannot tell. It is on the nature 1876 02:13:42.399 --> 02:13:45.560 of the systems that I base the distinction. We deny 1877 02:13:45.720 --> 02:13:51.319 your very system, you hours, so that casually we must 1878 02:13:51.359 --> 02:13:54.560 seem immoral to you, you to us. That is why 1879 02:13:54.600 --> 02:13:57.800 even the lowest type of gentile despises the Jew, the 1880 02:13:57.840 --> 02:14:01.520 lowest type of Jew the gentile. For it is well 1881 02:14:01.600 --> 02:14:04.319 to remember that criminals do not deny a system of ethics, 1882 02:14:04.319 --> 02:14:07.560 They only transgress it. To the criminal, the subverter of 1883 02:14:07.600 --> 02:14:11.000 a nation of morality is a horrible creature, as which 1884 02:14:11.000 --> 02:14:14.279 I have already intimated. To the coward, the pacifist is 1885 02:14:14.319 --> 02:14:18.880 particularly abhorrent. This must spring from the fact that for 1886 02:14:19.000 --> 02:14:23.800 the professional criminal, it is essential that humanity would otherwise, 1887 02:14:24.239 --> 02:14:27.359 that humanity should be moral. His very existence as a 1888 02:14:27.359 --> 02:14:31.560 criminal would otherwise be impossible. Indeed, he has more reason 1889 02:14:31.640 --> 02:14:35.399 than anyone else to foster a sense of morality in mankind, 1890 02:14:35.760 --> 02:14:39.319 for the more exceptional he is the better for his trade. Hence, 1891 02:14:39.359 --> 02:14:41.880 his greatest enemy is not the policeman, for the policeman 1892 02:14:41.920 --> 02:14:45.880 maintains a social order which is his prey, but the 1893 02:14:45.920 --> 02:14:51.399 moral anarchist. And since the Jew is to the gentile order, 1894 02:14:51.760 --> 02:14:54.319 and since the Jew is to the gentile order of 1895 02:14:54.439 --> 02:14:59.520 conduct a moral anarchist, the gentile criminal who has come 1896 02:14:59.600 --> 02:15:03.079 into contact with Jews will be the aptist to hate Jews. 1897 02:15:04.720 --> 02:15:06.960 It is for this reason I think that criminality is 1898 02:15:06.960 --> 02:15:19.039 so closely allied to anti Semitism. This it's the moral anarchist. 1899 02:15:20.279 --> 02:15:23.680 And since the Jew is to the gentile order of conduct, 1900 02:15:23.800 --> 02:15:28.680 a moral anarchist, the gentile criminal who has come into 1901 02:15:28.720 --> 02:15:34.479 contact with Jews will be the aptist to hate Jews. Wow. 1902 02:15:37.319 --> 02:15:41.760 In the attitude of the public towards literary and stage censorship, 1903 02:15:41.800 --> 02:15:44.159 I find the clearest illustration of this distinction between the 1904 02:15:44.199 --> 02:15:46.520 breaking of law and the denial of law. A play 1905 02:15:46.520 --> 02:15:50.560 which is indecent may be so for one of two reasons. 1906 02:15:50.600 --> 02:15:53.079 Either it deals with sex within the frame of morality, 1907 02:15:53.159 --> 02:15:57.039 or it denies the validity of this morality. In the 1908 02:15:57.079 --> 02:15:59.920 first case, which covers most successful plays, we have no 1909 02:16:00.199 --> 02:16:03.000 attack on current notions of what is right and wrong 1910 02:16:03.000 --> 02:16:06.960 in the sexual relationship. We have indeed complete acceptances of 1911 02:16:07.000 --> 02:16:11.199 the current principles of sex morality. But with this acceptance 1912 02:16:11.279 --> 02:16:16.840 and princip goes a generous denial. In practice, plays of 1913 02:16:16.880 --> 02:16:20.159 this kind cover countless breaches of morality with a knowing wink, 1914 02:16:20.520 --> 02:16:24.119 a tolerant appeal to human weakness. It is ludicrous to 1915 02:16:24.159 --> 02:16:27.560 deny that the desire to tickle and provoke the sexual 1916 02:16:27.560 --> 02:16:32.600 appetite and covertly to encourage its promiscuous satisfaction, governs these plays, 1917 02:16:33.719 --> 02:16:37.280 but it is not made a principle at all. It 1918 02:16:37.319 --> 02:16:40.479 is the breaking of the law, not the denial of it. Hence, 1919 02:16:40.520 --> 02:16:43.760 such plays, except when they become too obvious in their 1920 02:16:43.760 --> 02:16:47.079 purpose and thus become an overt attack and mass, are 1921 02:16:47.159 --> 02:16:51.479 tolerated by the censorship and encouraged by the public. But 1922 02:16:51.559 --> 02:16:54.959 the play, which has little sex appeal yet seriously denies 1923 02:16:55.000 --> 02:16:58.440 the validity of accepted sex morality, is dealt with promptly 1924 02:16:58.440 --> 02:17:01.479 and severely. And among those who condemn it most vigorously 1925 02:17:01.559 --> 02:17:05.799 will be found those who frequent assiduously the first type 1926 02:17:05.799 --> 02:17:11.840 of play, I see nothing incongruous. Incongruous in this nothing 1927 02:17:11.879 --> 02:17:15.280 illogical even for the first type of play is perhaps 1928 02:17:15.360 --> 02:17:20.079 the safety valve to human nature. It remits us our 1929 02:17:20.239 --> 02:17:26.200 unavoidable allowance of license, without which morality would become an 1930 02:17:26.239 --> 02:17:30.079 insufferable imposition. But the second type of play breaks up 1931 02:17:30.120 --> 02:17:33.680 morality completely to the system of law. The a moralist 1932 02:17:33.840 --> 02:17:46.200 is more dangerous than the criminal, then well, yes, But 1933 02:17:46.319 --> 02:17:51.200 why I would say the amoralist is more dangerous than 1934 02:17:51.639 --> 02:17:54.719 somebody who seeks to destroy morals, is more dangerous than 1935 02:17:54.719 --> 02:17:59.760 someone who seeks to steal. But why does he think 1936 02:17:59.799 --> 02:18:04.280 that as such? The naked chorus girl is less dangerous 1937 02:18:04.319 --> 02:18:07.639 than the naked truth. Such a danger, a danger not 1938 02:18:07.799 --> 02:18:11.120 merely of malpractice, but of essential denial, is the Jew 1939 02:18:11.440 --> 02:18:18.200 in your morality and against the Jew. There is a 1940 02:18:18.399 --> 02:18:23.319 union sucker of all classes and conditions of men, the prince, 1941 02:18:23.440 --> 02:18:26.280 the labor or the professor, the saint, the thief, the prostitute, 1942 02:18:26.319 --> 02:18:28.719 the soldier of the merchant. There does not seem to 1943 02:18:28.760 --> 02:18:30.959 be a single country with a history which has not 1944 02:18:31.079 --> 02:18:41.200 been anti Semitic at one time or another. Why why 1945 02:18:41.879 --> 02:18:45.760 if there is a country in the world where Jews 1946 02:18:45.760 --> 02:18:51.360 have not gone, there's no anti Semitism there. But once 1947 02:18:51.399 --> 02:18:58.559 they show up, anti Semitism appears. And I've heard Jewish 1948 02:18:58.559 --> 02:19:03.399 philosophers say this. They say it. I think he even 1949 02:19:03.479 --> 02:19:08.440 said it in a previous chapter. There is no country 1950 02:19:08.440 --> 02:19:11.079 today of which the Jew can say. In this country, 1951 02:19:11.159 --> 02:19:15.360 anti Semitism will never become triumphant. You're dislike of us 1952 02:19:15.399 --> 02:19:19.600 finds uneven and unequal. Expression is lulled into rest for 1953 02:19:19.639 --> 02:19:22.840 a time. At times is overborne by generous impulses. But 1954 02:19:22.920 --> 02:19:26.479 it is equality inherent in the nature of things. Nor 1955 02:19:26.600 --> 02:19:29.120 is it conceivable to me that as long as there 1956 02:19:29.120 --> 02:19:36.840 are Jews and Gentiles, it should ever disappear. Well, why 1957 02:19:37.479 --> 02:19:40.120 for your system of morality is no less a need 1958 02:19:40.200 --> 02:19:43.280 to you than ours to us, And the incompatibility of 1959 02:19:43.280 --> 02:19:47.079 the two systems is not passive. You might say, well, 1960 02:19:47.319 --> 02:19:49.639 let us exist side by side and tolerate each other. 1961 02:19:49.840 --> 02:19:53.040 We will not attack your morality nor you hours. But 1962 02:19:53.159 --> 02:19:56.319 the misfortune is that the two are not merely different. 1963 02:19:56.719 --> 02:20:02.959 They are opposed in mortal though tacit enmity. No men 1964 02:20:03.200 --> 02:20:07.680 can accept both, or accepting either to otherwise than despise 1965 02:20:07.879 --> 02:20:13.200 the other. No single attribute or virtue shows our mutual 1966 02:20:13.319 --> 02:20:17.399 enmity more clearly than that of loyalty, which, among all 1967 02:20:17.440 --> 02:20:20.520 the attributes contributing to your morality, is perhaps the most 1968 02:20:20.520 --> 02:20:24.879 dearly cherished and most vehemently advocated. It is impossible for me, 1969 02:20:25.000 --> 02:20:29.239 in writing of it, to take up a purely analytical 1970 02:20:29.360 --> 02:20:33.559 attitude analytic attitude, but I believe that the prefaces and 1971 02:20:33.600 --> 02:20:36.559 aversions which I hear express will at least serve to 1972 02:20:36.600 --> 02:20:40.920 make clear the irreconcilable difference between Jewish and gentile morality. 1973 02:20:42.479 --> 02:20:45.760 The abstraction loyalty is not related to good or bed. 1974 02:20:45.920 --> 02:20:48.719 Loyalty is preached naked as a virtue for itself. It 1975 02:20:48.760 --> 02:20:51.200 is proper and right to be loyal, to do a 1976 02:20:51.239 --> 02:20:53.920 thing out it is proper and right to be loyal. 1977 02:20:54.120 --> 02:20:56.760 He so, I already said, he's an atheist. He's what 1978 02:20:56.840 --> 02:21:02.200 is his philosophy? He has no philosophy. His philosophy is 1979 02:21:02.280 --> 02:21:05.879 to call himself an atheist and then say that he 1980 02:21:05.920 --> 02:21:11.760 obeys God. How do you deal with someone like that? 1981 02:21:14.879 --> 02:21:16.719 It is proper and right to be loyal to do 1982 02:21:16.760 --> 02:21:18.760 a thing out of loyalty. Loyalty to a man, to 1983 02:21:18.799 --> 02:21:21.000 a group, to an idea is in itself a sort 1984 02:21:21.040 --> 02:21:25.760 of justification. To develop a loyalty is in itself commendable 1985 02:21:26.280 --> 02:21:31.239 to the jew Naked loyalty is as incomprehensible a bewildering thing. 1986 02:21:31.799 --> 02:21:34.520 That men should be called upon to keep a quality 1987 02:21:34.799 --> 02:21:37.399 of this virtue on constant tap, to be applied on 1988 02:21:37.479 --> 02:21:41.399 instruction to this or that relationship is not merely irrational 1989 02:21:41.479 --> 02:21:45.120 to us. It is beyond the apprehension of our intelligence. 1990 02:21:47.120 --> 02:21:49.680 We can understand love born of a natural relationship, But 1991 02:21:49.719 --> 02:21:53.239 the quality of love differs essentially from the quality of loyalty. 1992 02:21:53.559 --> 02:21:56.840 Loyalty is demanded as an independent quality, as a thing 1993 02:21:56.920 --> 02:22:00.959 in itself. It is cultivated. Love cannot be cultivated. He 1994 02:22:01.239 --> 02:22:06.280 quotes cultivated. There it is stimulated and forced. It is 1995 02:22:06.319 --> 02:22:09.719 not demanded essentially that you love. It is demanded that 1996 02:22:09.760 --> 02:22:13.520 you be loyal. Very often, indeed, loyalty is demanded where 1997 02:22:13.520 --> 02:22:16.959 a demand for love would be too obviously ludicrous, For 1998 02:22:17.000 --> 02:22:19.840 the application of loyalty is to you, as seemly in 1999 02:22:19.920 --> 02:22:22.559 the case of an association of shoe salesman, as in 2000 02:22:22.600 --> 02:22:28.559 the case of country itself. It is expected in your 2001 02:22:28.600 --> 02:22:30.559 world that a man should be loyal to his country, 2002 02:22:30.600 --> 02:22:32.680 to his province, to his city, to a section of 2003 02:22:32.680 --> 02:22:35.079 the city, to his college, to his club, to his 2004 02:22:35.159 --> 02:22:38.639 business associations, to his fraternity, to every chance group in 2005 02:22:38.680 --> 02:22:49.120 which events may bring him. So where you're born, your country, 2006 02:22:49.639 --> 02:22:54.360 that's a chance group owes no loyalty. Where you live, 2007 02:22:54.440 --> 02:22:57.719 what section you live in. No loyalty city, no loyalty 2008 02:22:58.040 --> 02:23:02.040 section of the city, No loyalty college, No loyalty that 2009 02:23:02.079 --> 02:23:06.680 makes sense. Club well, Fraternity well, he says, fraternity up 2010 02:23:06.719 --> 02:23:13.159 here has to be loyalty, business associations. It's not a 2011 02:23:13.159 --> 02:23:17.920 blind loyalty to every chance group into which events may 2012 02:23:17.959 --> 02:23:22.840 bring him. In the first instance, country, the distinction between 2013 02:23:22.879 --> 02:23:26.600 love and loyalty startlingly clear. Love of country is a 2014 02:23:26.639 --> 02:23:29.360 profound spiritual quality. It may go hand in hand with 2015 02:23:29.399 --> 02:23:33.000 a dangerous and exalted morality. But loyalty merely says, my 2016 02:23:33.079 --> 02:23:36.120 country must triumphit all her undertakings, whether they be right 2017 02:23:36.239 --> 02:23:38.719 or wrong, or rather, there is no such thing as 2018 02:23:38.760 --> 02:23:43.399 my country wrong. And in loyalty to king, class or church, 2019 02:23:43.440 --> 02:23:46.600 the same distinction or substitution is observed. Loyalty is a 2020 02:23:46.680 --> 02:23:52.840 rigid code of behavior, not an emotion. He's just going 2021 02:23:52.920 --> 02:23:58.040 black and white. You can have a loyalty to your country. 2022 02:23:58.079 --> 02:23:59.719 But he doesn't even know how to say. I don't 2023 02:23:59.719 --> 02:24:01.959 know that he knows how to separate country from government. 2024 02:24:03.120 --> 02:24:11.319 Because nation is people, government is government. How many people 2025 02:24:11.360 --> 02:24:13.239 have a loyalty to the nation but don't have a 2026 02:24:13.239 --> 02:24:19.319 loyalty to this government. It's all black and white in 2027 02:24:19.399 --> 02:24:25.040 his estimation. But the real nature of loyalty is only 2028 02:24:25.040 --> 02:24:27.760 seen in its application to those relationships which are much 2029 02:24:27.760 --> 02:24:31.879 more fortuitous than those of country, church, class, And these 2030 02:24:31.959 --> 02:24:35.959 loyalty is clearly revealed as a fictitious and artificial regulation 2031 02:24:36.319 --> 02:24:39.079 with no roots in moral conviction. Let us take the 2032 02:24:39.120 --> 02:24:40.920 case of a young man who's faced with a choice 2033 02:24:40.959 --> 02:24:43.399 of college. He may have preferences, but there is no 2034 02:24:43.479 --> 02:24:47.799 compelling association which identifies him with any one institution. The 2035 02:24:47.879 --> 02:24:51.319 choice is socided finally by some quite irrelevant influence. He 2036 02:24:51.360 --> 02:24:54.280 goes to any one college as he might have gone 2037 02:24:54.319 --> 02:25:03.239 to another. Well, what if his father went there, his 2038 02:25:03.319 --> 02:25:09.280 grandfather went there, I mean, But once he is there, 2039 02:25:09.360 --> 02:25:11.719 loyalty demands that he regard this college as the best 2040 02:25:11.719 --> 02:25:15.040 in the country, perhaps in no particular for particulars or 2041 02:25:15.200 --> 02:25:18.559 occasional to tangible, but at large, the best, the finest, 2042 02:25:18.559 --> 02:25:22.000 the noblest. I never felt that in any college, I 2043 02:25:22.000 --> 02:25:28.360 want to one to three of this college, he must 2044 02:25:28.360 --> 02:25:31.840 think and above all, speak with enthusiasm, passion, and devotion. 2045 02:25:32.280 --> 02:25:35.799 He must defend its name against all aspirations without investigating 2046 02:25:35.879 --> 02:25:39.639 their foundations. If he even stops to consider the plausibility 2047 02:25:39.639 --> 02:25:42.840 of these aspirations before denouncing them, the quality of his 2048 02:25:42.879 --> 02:25:47.159 loyalty is already second rate, or he is just a 2049 02:25:47.479 --> 02:25:53.120 nuanced thinker. The scholastic reputation of his college may be 2050 02:25:53.200 --> 02:25:57.079 less than mediocre. It's staff may not number a single 2051 02:25:57.079 --> 02:26:00.120 scholar of note. It's alumni maybe an indistinguishable mob of 2052 02:26:00.159 --> 02:26:03.559 obscure failures. Worst of all, it's football and baseball teams 2053 02:26:03.559 --> 02:26:07.200 maybe the laughing stock of the locality that does suck. 2054 02:26:08.319 --> 02:26:12.120 As somebody who has been on as at least high 2055 02:26:12.159 --> 02:26:14.760 school team that was the laughing stock of the locality. 2056 02:26:14.840 --> 02:26:21.799 It does suck. So what, But his college is the 2057 02:26:21.799 --> 02:26:24.079 best and noblest in the country and the world. The 2058 02:26:24.120 --> 02:26:28.040 astonishing feature of all this being being that not only 2059 02:26:28.120 --> 02:26:32.719 his schoolmates except him to say, expect him to say, 2060 02:26:32.799 --> 02:26:36.159 and seem to believe so, but that everybody outside the college, 2061 02:26:36.239 --> 02:26:40.040 convinced of its worthlessness, also expects this of him and 2062 02:26:40.079 --> 02:26:42.680 considers him rather a cat if he acquiesces and what 2063 02:26:42.840 --> 02:26:49.000 to them may be obviously true. I don't. I've rarely 2064 02:26:49.040 --> 02:26:52.639 been around somebody who made their you know, I mean, 2065 02:26:52.680 --> 02:26:57.000 I know you can see people who make their college 2066 02:26:57.120 --> 02:27:00.680 and where they graduated from, and people even do this 2067 02:27:00.760 --> 02:27:05.559 with the military, where that becomes their identity for the 2068 02:27:05.639 --> 02:27:08.239 rest of their life. You know, if you see an 2069 02:27:08.280 --> 02:27:11.760 older man and he's wearing the hat of the ship 2070 02:27:12.760 --> 02:27:16.360 that he's served on or something like that, he's obviously 2071 02:27:16.399 --> 02:27:20.239 made that his identity. I don't know how I feel 2072 02:27:20.280 --> 02:27:22.840 about that. I mean, I just have to say to 2073 02:27:22.879 --> 02:27:27.920 each his own, because I don't feel that way. There 2074 02:27:28.040 --> 02:27:32.120 has to be a reason why I'd be loyal to something, 2075 02:27:33.680 --> 02:27:37.760 not just because I've sunk money into it or something 2076 02:27:37.840 --> 02:27:41.639 like that. That makes no sense to me. Maybe I'm different, 2077 02:27:41.639 --> 02:27:44.520 and maybe he's right. I don't think he is. At 2078 02:27:44.600 --> 02:27:48.479 least most of the people listening to this. This obligation 2079 02:27:48.520 --> 02:27:50.920 of loyalty must pursue the man to the end of 2080 02:27:50.959 --> 02:27:53.479 his life. Forty years after he had left his college. 2081 02:27:53.520 --> 02:27:56.639 He will be regarded with suspicion as something less than 2082 02:27:56.639 --> 02:27:59.000 a gentleman. If he should be discovered that his alma 2083 02:27:59.079 --> 02:28:03.920 mater was is an extremely inferior and uninteresting institution. It 2084 02:28:03.959 --> 02:28:06.120 may be all that you know, but a man's got 2085 02:28:06.159 --> 02:28:09.200 to be loyal to his college. Who's he talking to? 2086 02:28:11.120 --> 02:28:15.399 He heard one person say this, two people say this, 2087 02:28:15.760 --> 02:28:20.040 and I mean basically this to me just sounds like 2088 02:28:20.079 --> 02:28:23.760 a straw man. That's that he's erected and he's burning down. 2089 02:28:26.440 --> 02:28:32.440 I mean sorry. Which is true of college loyal What 2090 02:28:32.520 --> 02:28:34.920 is true of college loyalty is true of other loyalties. 2091 02:28:34.959 --> 02:28:36.719 A man who joins the army and is assigned to 2092 02:28:36.760 --> 02:28:39.639 any regiment must have loyalty for his regiment, which means 2093 02:28:39.680 --> 02:28:42.680 that he must seem to lose the faculty of discrimination 2094 02:28:42.879 --> 02:28:45.399 and criticism as soon as the regiment he was accidentally 2095 02:28:45.440 --> 02:28:48.920 assigned to is under consideration. Should he, in later life 2096 02:28:48.959 --> 02:28:51.600 become a member of a fraternity, of a business association, 2097 02:28:51.680 --> 02:28:54.520 of a poker club, he must be loyal. He must 2098 02:28:54.559 --> 02:28:57.959 be loyal even at large without an organization's be loyal too. 2099 02:28:58.440 --> 02:29:01.000 He must be loyal to the paperman, facturing trade, to 2100 02:29:01.040 --> 02:29:04.280 the cleaners and desires to the transport business. And if 2101 02:29:04.319 --> 02:29:06.479 he goes down into a factory to earn by the 2102 02:29:06.479 --> 02:29:08.920 sweat of his brow and under the bitter dress, a 2103 02:29:08.959 --> 02:29:12.079 bare livelihood. He must at once be loyal to his employers. 2104 02:29:15.719 --> 02:29:18.879 But the application of loyalty is sometimes pushed to extremes 2105 02:29:19.120 --> 02:29:22.840 which are nothing short of grotesque. One finds in surface cars. 2106 02:29:23.280 --> 02:29:27.399 One finds in surface cars, One finds in surface cars 2107 02:29:27.440 --> 02:29:30.520 notices like this, be loyal to the Bronx, to Bensonhurst, 2108 02:29:30.520 --> 02:29:35.120 to Wopping, to Pendleton, to Charlottenburg, to the Ring, to 2109 02:29:35.239 --> 02:29:41.600 the Marshall Kowska to mont Martra. Sometimes I have wondered, 2110 02:29:41.639 --> 02:29:43.200 if you live in the Bronx and are loyal to 2111 02:29:43.239 --> 02:29:46.040 your neighborhood grocer, how long are you supposed to yearn 2112 02:29:46.079 --> 02:29:48.520 for him after you have moved to Brooklyn? And how 2113 02:29:48.639 --> 02:29:52.959 soon may you, with the seeming with seemliness, develop a 2114 02:29:53.000 --> 02:29:58.239 loyalty for your neighborhood grocer in Brooklyn. He's he's fucking 2115 02:29:58.280 --> 02:30:03.840 out of his Sorry, he's out of his mind. He's 2116 02:30:03.879 --> 02:30:10.120 a he's a madman. Now you can make the argument 2117 02:30:10.239 --> 02:30:14.760 that maybe people should be loyal to their local grocer. 2118 02:30:15.159 --> 02:30:17.799 Maybe someone wants to make that argument. It's not me, 2119 02:30:18.799 --> 02:30:24.719 But how many people do you know who've like? You know? 2120 02:30:24.840 --> 02:30:31.319 There are believe me, when I left Atlanta, there are 2121 02:30:31.319 --> 02:30:34.799 some things that I missed. It wasn't that I was 2122 02:30:34.879 --> 02:30:37.680 loyal to them, It was because they were convenient and 2123 02:30:37.719 --> 02:30:42.040 I liked them. There has to be a reason for 2124 02:30:42.200 --> 02:30:48.399 me to be loyal. Or are you supposed to leap 2125 02:30:48.479 --> 02:30:51.159 into your loyalties at once, as into a bathtub, and 2126 02:30:51.200 --> 02:30:54.440 be immersed in them without a moment's loss. And similarly, 2127 02:30:54.600 --> 02:30:58.040 how if you attend two or three colleges in succession, 2128 02:30:58.280 --> 02:31:01.079 or are attached to a number of red mins in succession, 2129 02:31:01.280 --> 02:31:03.959 or changes change your business or your fraternity or your 2130 02:31:04.000 --> 02:31:06.040 poker club. It is clear to me that the very 2131 02:31:06.120 --> 02:31:09.040 quality of loyalty and its place in your life again 2132 02:31:09.159 --> 02:31:13.280 bespeaks the sport origin of your morality. The success of 2133 02:31:13.280 --> 02:31:16.000 a football team depends not on the physical aptitude and 2134 02:31:16.000 --> 02:31:18.600 fitness of its members, but also on their spirit. They're 2135 02:31:18.600 --> 02:31:23.440 a spirit de corps. There must be atmosphere for sporting effect. 2136 02:31:24.000 --> 02:31:26.799 It is as important as physique and must be cultivated 2137 02:31:26.840 --> 02:31:32.319 as assiduously, as carefully, as skillfully, as artificially. Whichever team 2138 02:31:32.399 --> 02:31:34.879 you join, your loyalty is essential to its success. And 2139 02:31:34.920 --> 02:31:40.239 your loyalty must be instantaneous and unconditional, neither curtailed by 2140 02:31:40.280 --> 02:31:43.799 delay nor mitigated by reflection. Your loyalty has nothing to 2141 02:31:43.840 --> 02:31:46.799 do with ultimate moral values. It is part of the game, 2142 02:31:47.280 --> 02:31:50.120 and life is to you a game on the football 2143 02:31:50.120 --> 02:31:52.879 field in the college, and the factory on the battlefield. 2144 02:31:53.159 --> 02:31:56.200 The game alone can make loyalty a transportable quality of 2145 02:31:56.200 --> 02:32:00.319 this kind. The game alone can give birth to the 2146 02:32:00.399 --> 02:32:04.479 concept of loyalty. In our life, the Jewish life, loyalty 2147 02:32:04.520 --> 02:32:08.280 is unknown. There is no equivalent for it among our attributes. 2148 02:32:08.600 --> 02:32:12.639 We understand love, which is serious, profound, which must be treated. 2149 02:32:12.680 --> 02:32:15.879 Therefore we do dignity, But we do not understand loyalty, 2150 02:32:15.920 --> 02:32:24.360 which is trivial, gallant game. Some conventionalized believe believe people 2151 02:32:24.399 --> 02:32:28.040 when they tell you things that you instinctively know are true. 2152 02:32:29.680 --> 02:32:32.840 If someone you do not trust, this is me speaking 2153 02:32:32.920 --> 02:32:35.799 though you're just listening. If someone you do not trust 2154 02:32:35.879 --> 02:32:40.440 says something, you go instinctively, you're in your instinct is 2155 02:32:40.440 --> 02:32:44.319 to go, yeah, I don't know about that. But isn't 2156 02:32:44.319 --> 02:32:46.920 it weird that you when people you trust, when they 2157 02:32:46.959 --> 02:32:50.559 speak the truth, you know it, you know they're speaking 2158 02:32:50.600 --> 02:32:54.040 the truth. You may actually say things like, oh wow, 2159 02:32:55.079 --> 02:32:59.200 they just told them themselves, just revealed themselves. They said 2160 02:32:59.200 --> 02:33:06.399 the quiet part out loud. They can't hide it. Yeah, 2161 02:33:06.760 --> 02:33:09.399 as students, we Jews are accused of lacking the right 2162 02:33:09.399 --> 02:33:12.280 attitude towards the college. It is perfectly true that we 2163 02:33:12.319 --> 02:33:14.920 have not the loyal attitude as you have it, or 2164 02:33:14.959 --> 02:33:17.840 despite occasional efforts to the degree in which you have it. 2165 02:33:18.159 --> 02:33:20.479 We are apt to see the college as an institute 2166 02:33:20.479 --> 02:33:23.520 of learning. We go there to study under competent teachers. 2167 02:33:23.959 --> 02:33:26.680 What has loyalty to do with this organization? We may 2168 02:33:26.719 --> 02:33:29.200 develop love for the place, it may in later years 2169 02:33:29.200 --> 02:33:31.879 become a beloved memory, or it may not. But we 2170 02:33:31.879 --> 02:33:35.280 cannot attach an immediate combative value to our connection with 2171 02:33:35.360 --> 02:33:39.360 the college and instantaneous regimental pride. We cannot attach a 2172 02:33:39.440 --> 02:33:42.639 moral value to the prescribed set of sporting emotions and 2173 02:33:42.719 --> 02:33:46.040 thrills which are supposed to be a proper part of 2174 02:33:46.079 --> 02:33:53.000 college life. I'm maybe it's just my experience and my lifetime, 2175 02:33:53.360 --> 02:33:56.600 but if anybody knows, like back then this is written 2176 02:33:56.639 --> 02:33:58.799 I think in twenty two, twenty three, nineteen twenty two, 2177 02:33:58.799 --> 02:34:01.959 twenty three, twenty four. If you know that it was 2178 02:34:02.120 --> 02:34:06.159 different on college campuses back then, that people were almost 2179 02:34:06.200 --> 02:34:12.719 demanded a loyalty, let me know that'd be interesting history 2180 02:34:12.760 --> 02:34:19.239 to look into actually continuing, we are unquestionably an alien 2181 02:34:19.319 --> 02:34:24.479 spirit in your colleges, I would say everywhere within our society. 2182 02:34:25.040 --> 02:34:28.479 For your colleges are the most coherent mouthpieces of your morality, 2183 02:34:28.479 --> 02:34:31.040 and that morality is not ours. Your college is a 2184 02:34:31.079 --> 02:34:34.120 miniature world in which you first developed the sporting instincts 2185 02:34:34.159 --> 02:34:37.520 which must accompany you through the real world. We, with 2186 02:34:37.959 --> 02:34:40.879 our proper exceptions, see the college only as a center 2187 02:34:40.920 --> 02:34:44.600 of study and incidentally, occasionally of valued friendships. The idea 2188 02:34:44.639 --> 02:34:47.360 of a rivalry with other colleges in which each student 2189 02:34:47.440 --> 02:34:50.440 must defend his own college seems us childlike. It is 2190 02:34:50.479 --> 02:34:53.559 not to the purpose, to the purpose at all. It 2191 02:34:53.600 --> 02:34:56.799 is not serious. College to them is also a place 2192 02:34:56.879 --> 02:34:59.280 to set up secret society so that they can push 2193 02:34:59.399 --> 02:35:08.600 Zionism get us into world wars. That seems kind of important. 2194 02:35:10.200 --> 02:35:12.200 But I have touched on the college only as a 2195 02:35:12.200 --> 02:35:16.079 single illustration of the predominance of the virtue of loyalty 2196 02:35:16.239 --> 02:35:20.440 in the concept. In your concept of the proper human relationship, 2197 02:35:20.479 --> 02:35:23.520 all your society is divided into teams with a fictitious 2198 02:35:23.600 --> 02:35:27.639 morality to correspond. It has little to do with direct utilitarianism. 2199 02:35:27.959 --> 02:35:30.959 One might object saying this morality like any other, is 2200 02:35:31.000 --> 02:35:35.000 merely the adjunct of the economic or biologic struggle. What 2201 02:35:35.040 --> 02:35:38.840 we call morality is merely the assistant illusion in the 2202 02:35:38.879 --> 02:35:41.799 struggle for existence. And in this regard, Gentile and Jew 2203 02:35:41.840 --> 02:35:44.959 are alike. But this is an irrelevant truth. There was 2204 02:35:45.000 --> 02:35:48.159 a time when among you gentiles, one man would courteously 2205 02:35:48.239 --> 02:35:52.079 challenge another to mortal combat, without real motive, without enmity, 2206 02:35:52.120 --> 02:36:00.639 without passion. So it was when no excuse for combat 2207 02:36:00.680 --> 02:36:03.479 was available, you dropped even the pretense of an excuse. 2208 02:36:04.040 --> 02:36:06.559 Do not answer that this was a passing phase. For 2209 02:36:06.680 --> 02:36:08.840 I say that when men actually kill each other from 2210 02:36:08.879 --> 02:36:13.360 mere sport, it betokens a profound, almost eternal instinct. That 2211 02:36:13.520 --> 02:36:18.159 instinct today finds expression and equally moral less relations, equally 2212 02:36:18.239 --> 02:36:22.920 passionless associations and enmities. You arrange your life in such 2213 02:36:22.959 --> 02:36:26.120 wise as to get the maximum of sport out of it, 2214 02:36:26.239 --> 02:36:28.360 And for the purpose of sport. It does not matter 2215 02:36:28.399 --> 02:36:31.319 to which team you belong England or America, Harvard or Yale, 2216 02:36:31.319 --> 02:36:34.319 the Black Watch or the Old Guard, the Neighborhood Association 2217 02:36:34.399 --> 02:36:37.920 of Wigan or the Rotarians of Los Angeles. The good 2218 02:36:38.000 --> 02:36:42.000 Rich Rubber Factory or the Sunlight Soap Garden Club, the 2219 02:36:42.040 --> 02:36:45.120 Alpha Sigma MoU or the ninety five Club, the Progressive 2220 02:36:45.120 --> 02:36:49.079 Republicans or the Decorators Association, the United Cigar Makers or 2221 02:36:49.120 --> 02:36:54.559 the FASCISTI. There's good fun in all this. It is exciting, jolly, sporty. 2222 02:36:54.799 --> 02:36:57.559 It puts Russian gaiety into life. But we Jews are 2223 02:36:57.600 --> 02:37:03.040 no good at it. Just as we are inaccessible to 2224 02:37:03.120 --> 02:37:06.840 the meaningless exhilaration of college loyalty, so are we bewildered 2225 02:37:06.879 --> 02:37:09.479 by the fast and furious games of your general life. 2226 02:37:10.040 --> 02:37:13.479 We Jews cannot play the game. Perhaps you will answer 2227 02:37:13.520 --> 02:37:17.159 that it is you who taking the chance relationships of life, 2228 02:37:17.239 --> 02:37:20.120 as the all in all of existence, are really serious. 2229 02:37:20.399 --> 02:37:22.719 That it argues seriousness in a man if he gives 2230 02:37:22.719 --> 02:37:27.200 the every passing association, all faculties, all his emotion, such 2231 02:37:27.239 --> 02:37:30.280 an argument would be a quibble. A woman may take 2232 02:37:30.319 --> 02:37:34.040 an absorbing interest in dress to the exclusion of everything else. 2233 02:37:34.159 --> 02:37:38.200 One could hardly call her serious serious absorption and trivialities 2234 02:37:38.280 --> 02:37:41.000 is not seriousness. Then you may answer me, but all 2235 02:37:41.040 --> 02:37:44.159 life is a triviality, which would reveal clearly the difference 2236 02:37:44.200 --> 02:37:49.959 between your outlook and ours. No one's saying that. No 2237 02:37:50.000 --> 02:37:57.040 one said that, Oh man, This truly is a look 2238 02:37:57.079 --> 02:38:01.840 behind the curtain. So if you want to read this book, 2239 02:38:01.840 --> 02:38:03.159 if you want to get it for yourself, go to 2240 02:38:03.200 --> 02:38:06.840 Analope Hill and get it there. I think Kevin McDonald 2241 02:38:07.280 --> 02:38:11.680 and I forget who who does the uh the intro 2242 02:38:11.920 --> 02:38:14.719 for it? Let me see you? And so sorry about that. 2243 02:38:14.879 --> 02:38:21.639 I should have had this pulled up Antelope pill. Oops. Sorry, 2244 02:38:23.600 --> 02:38:34.200 there we go. Yeah, the there is and there's a 2245 02:38:34.239 --> 02:38:38.600 forward by Kevin McDonald, So yeah, okay, so that's it. 2246 02:38:38.760 --> 02:38:40.559 There's a forward by Kevin McDonald, so you might want 2247 02:38:40.559 --> 02:38:43.559 to check that out. It's one hundred and fifty pages 2248 02:38:43.639 --> 02:38:46.719 over there. And I have a promo code. That's not 2249 02:38:46.719 --> 02:38:49.120 why I'm showing Analope pill. It's just that this is 2250 02:38:49.159 --> 02:38:51.000 a you know, this is a company that I like, 2251 02:38:51.159 --> 02:38:55.200 and you can use my promo code. It's Pete Pete 2252 02:38:55.280 --> 02:38:58.200 Q and you get five percent off. But yeah, if 2253 02:38:58.239 --> 02:39:00.840 you want to follow along with this and or you know, 2254 02:39:01.200 --> 02:39:03.239 just this is probably a book you should have. It's 2255 02:39:03.280 --> 02:39:10.600 a good reference. But yeah, I'll continue this on in 2256 02:39:10.639 --> 02:39:15.159 a couple of days. We will look at chapter six, 2257 02:39:15.319 --> 02:39:19.600 which is discipline. All right, everyone, take care, see you 2258 02:39:19.600 --> 02:39:23.959 a couple of days, all right, let's knock out Chapter six, 2259 02:39:24.319 --> 02:39:30.120 A Few Gentiles by Maurice Samuel. I know you all 2260 02:39:30.159 --> 02:39:33.159 are enjoying this so much, but a lot of you 2261 02:39:33.200 --> 02:39:35.239 have heard of this haven't had a chance to read it, 2262 02:39:35.280 --> 02:39:44.920 So we'll read it together. Chapter six is called discipline. 2263 02:39:45.319 --> 02:39:46.680 Do you get the idea there's going to be a 2264 02:39:46.680 --> 02:39:52.760 lot of projection here or I don't know. We shall 2265 02:39:52.760 --> 02:39:57.639 see one of the best illustrations wherewith to contrast your 2266 02:39:57.680 --> 02:40:01.200 adaptability to discipline in our li lack of it is 2267 02:40:01.239 --> 02:40:03.639 to be found in the difference between your behavior in 2268 02:40:03.760 --> 02:40:10.000 church and our behavior and our unmodernized synagogue, the Orthodox synagogue. 2269 02:40:10.639 --> 02:40:14.520 In church, all is order, intocorum, rhythm and regime. In 2270 02:40:14.559 --> 02:40:19.319 the synagogue, all is chaos. In the church, leaders and 2271 02:40:19.440 --> 02:40:23.879 responses are carefully prepared, carefully followed and observed. It is 2272 02:40:23.959 --> 02:40:28.639 clean and neat, charming and exact. You behave well, you 2273 02:40:28.719 --> 02:40:32.360 do as you are told. In Mass, you create a 2274 02:40:32.399 --> 02:40:35.719 spear of the core. In the church, there is a 2275 02:40:35.760 --> 02:40:39.920 suggestive hypnotizing decency in the trained correctness of your service. 2276 02:40:41.000 --> 02:40:43.920 In the synagogue, all is disorder. We talk during service, 2277 02:40:43.920 --> 02:40:47.079 we answer out a turn, and when we answer in Mass, 2278 02:40:47.159 --> 02:40:52.280 one begins earlier another ends later. It is babbel itself. 2279 02:40:52.760 --> 02:40:55.520 People walk in and out, Some take longer than others, 2280 02:40:55.559 --> 02:40:58.000 who get through a certain prayer, and the ones who 2281 02:40:58.040 --> 02:41:01.879 read more rapidly chat in the end. Part of the 2282 02:41:01.920 --> 02:41:06.319 congregation is standing, part sitting somewhere prayer shawls others do not, 2283 02:41:07.120 --> 02:41:12.000 and the perishawls are not all alike. Sometimes there is 2284 02:41:12.040 --> 02:41:14.319 so much babbling that the voice of the cant or 2285 02:41:14.440 --> 02:41:17.280 leader cannot be heard. One of you at our services 2286 02:41:17.319 --> 02:41:20.440 would be amazed. Our own young generation, which has picked 2287 02:41:20.520 --> 02:41:23.840 up your ways, is disgusted, and the last couple of 2288 02:41:23.879 --> 02:41:30.079 generations has seen reform synagogues conducted on your models. He's 2289 02:41:30.079 --> 02:41:34.639 specifically talking about Catholic and Orthodox here, and more of 2290 02:41:34.639 --> 02:41:38.639 the high Church if you know that term, the difference 2291 02:41:38.639 --> 02:41:42.159 between high Church and low Church. And yeah, I would 2292 02:41:42.200 --> 02:41:44.840 have say there's middle churches too, but I don't want 2293 02:41:44.879 --> 02:41:48.840 to dive too deep into that. So yeah, I think 2294 02:41:48.879 --> 02:41:51.120 he's talking a little more about h He's talking about 2295 02:41:51.200 --> 02:41:56.200 high Church here. Taking this illustration as one fairly may 2296 02:41:56.360 --> 02:41:59.120 of model discipline and lack of it, we may say 2297 02:41:59.440 --> 02:42:02.840 as is offer and said, you Gentiles are discipline, we 2298 02:42:02.959 --> 02:42:05.840 Jews are not. And it is not in church and 2299 02:42:05.920 --> 02:42:09.360 synagogue alone that we find this contrast. It persists equally 2300 02:42:09.440 --> 02:42:13.399 clear cut in all branches of organized life. Compare any 2301 02:42:13.440 --> 02:42:17.440 gentile institution with an uncorrupted corresponding institution in Jewish life, 2302 02:42:17.479 --> 02:42:21.680 and you will observe it at your secular public assemblies, 2303 02:42:22.159 --> 02:42:25.440 the same decency and unified restraint at ours, the same 2304 02:42:25.479 --> 02:42:30.200 scrambling irregularity. Jewish meetings never begin on time, never end 2305 02:42:30.280 --> 02:42:37.920 on time, so you're on your own schedule, your own clock. 2306 02:42:38.799 --> 02:42:43.120 You don't show up on time. So comments I've made 2307 02:42:43.200 --> 02:42:51.760 about being like another group pretty much land okay. In 2308 02:42:51.840 --> 02:42:55.840 your clubs and societies, order in harmony. In ours, noise, disorder, 2309 02:42:55.879 --> 02:42:59.440 and wastage. Your programs are observed with fair strictness. Our 2310 02:42:59.479 --> 02:43:04.399 programs are merely points to the part in your homes, 2311 02:43:04.479 --> 02:43:12.920 calm and even systematization. In ours, boisterous affections, formlessness, and 2312 02:43:12.959 --> 02:43:16.360 despite much effort, we cannot introduce your rhythmic exercise of 2313 02:43:16.399 --> 02:43:21.200 discipline into our life and retain our individuality. We can 2314 02:43:21.239 --> 02:43:26.120 imitate you excellently, produce a substitute as good as the original. 2315 02:43:29.639 --> 02:43:39.079 Can definitely imitate, and you get fool some people. But 2316 02:43:39.159 --> 02:43:41.879 the institution then no longer has Jewish spirit. It is 2317 02:43:41.920 --> 02:43:46.600 a gentile institution artificially maintained by Jews, like our reformed temples, 2318 02:43:47.000 --> 02:43:49.520 and in these the jew gradually learns to present a 2319 02:43:49.600 --> 02:43:55.520 gentile exterior. But wherever we are unrestrainedly Jewish, we shock 2320 02:43:55.639 --> 02:44:00.920 you by our uncouthness. We lack social grace, the disciplined 2321 02:44:00.959 --> 02:44:04.920 and distinguished social grace of high society, as well as 2322 02:44:05.000 --> 02:44:10.680 the mean and spiritless, punk punctiliousness of your middle classes. 2323 02:44:11.280 --> 02:44:13.879 In the colleges, in the street and the surface cars, 2324 02:44:14.000 --> 02:44:17.600 in the clubs, in the army, we betray ourselves. Indeed, 2325 02:44:17.600 --> 02:44:20.799 your very breaches of discipline differ from ours by a 2326 02:44:20.799 --> 02:44:27.120 certain conscious rebelliousness, which is partly homage. Our breaches a 2327 02:44:27.120 --> 02:44:32.639 discipline are offhand, unconscious and insolent. Okay, So if you're 2328 02:44:32.680 --> 02:44:35.559 my age, and I mean it's a classic, so I 2329 02:44:35.600 --> 02:44:39.840 think a lot of people have seen it. The movie 2330 02:44:39.879 --> 02:44:48.520 Caddyshack Rodney d Angelfield. Rodney plays a guy who, you 2331 02:44:48.559 --> 02:44:53.280 know it, wants to be part of this club, and 2332 02:44:53.840 --> 02:44:58.239 this club is orderly, has a way of doing things, 2333 02:44:59.440 --> 02:45:06.000 and he comes and he wrecks it. And the whole 2334 02:45:06.040 --> 02:45:08.600 point of that movie is to make you think that 2335 02:45:08.719 --> 02:45:11.079 Rodney's the good guy and the other ones to the 2336 02:45:11.159 --> 02:45:20.079 bad guys. I think what really reveals it about the 2337 02:45:20.079 --> 02:45:22.520 movie is when he reveals what he does for a living. 2338 02:45:23.399 --> 02:45:30.879 He's made his money by building low cost housing, and 2339 02:45:30.920 --> 02:45:39.319 he implies in nice neighborhoods. So I think it's funny 2340 02:45:39.360 --> 02:45:45.639 that Rodney Dangerfield and his character in that movie basically 2341 02:45:45.680 --> 02:45:54.479 reflect what he's saying here and carrying this still further. 2342 02:45:54.559 --> 02:45:58.159 We choose the most clannish of peoples and helplessly disorganized. 2343 02:45:58.479 --> 02:46:01.559 We have never achieved compared of unity, not even in 2344 02:46:01.600 --> 02:46:06.879 a single territory, much less throughout the world. All our 2345 02:46:06.959 --> 02:46:10.120 organizations are small, but never too small to be unwieldly 2346 02:46:10.319 --> 02:46:16.159 because of dissension, and worse than dissension, because of unameniability 2347 02:46:16.360 --> 02:46:22.200 and amenability to regular discipline. To those who have known 2348 02:46:22.239 --> 02:46:27.280 the comparative evenness of your organization's political, religious, social, commercial, 2349 02:46:27.959 --> 02:46:31.600 we are an unsightly people, and every effort to impose 2350 02:46:31.639 --> 02:46:36.000 this sense of form on us only accentuates our formlessness. 2351 02:46:37.319 --> 02:46:40.600 This distinction between us again points to the root difference 2352 02:46:40.639 --> 02:46:46.319 between us, your triviality and our seriousness. The fact is, 2353 02:46:46.399 --> 02:46:48.879 of course, that in true discipline and effectiveness. We are 2354 02:46:48.920 --> 02:46:52.079 by no means your inferiors. No one would dream of 2355 02:46:52.079 --> 02:46:54.719 asserting that our religion is not more effective than yours 2356 02:46:54.760 --> 02:47:00.120 in compelling obedience or in perpetuating itself. Remember he's he's 2357 02:47:00.120 --> 02:47:03.360 an atheist. But I'm probably going to say this over 2358 02:47:03.440 --> 02:47:07.280 and over again. But remember he's an atheist. What is 2359 02:47:07.319 --> 02:47:13.399 the purpose of this religion to an atheist? Why does 2360 02:47:13.440 --> 02:47:16.920 he keep talking about it? The mere fact that we 2361 02:47:16.959 --> 02:47:20.639 have persisted for eighty generations and maintaining a racial and 2362 02:47:20.680 --> 02:47:24.159 spiritual identity in the face of so much persecution, and 2363 02:47:24.479 --> 02:47:30.280 more significant, of so much infiltration of blood, bespeaks essential discipline, 2364 02:47:30.319 --> 02:47:37.840 of amazing rigor and power. Hmm. Do I want to 2365 02:47:37.840 --> 02:47:41.879 get into Kasari and ah? Leave that? We talk enough 2366 02:47:41.920 --> 02:47:44.840 about that? On two hundred years together and other places. 2367 02:47:46.319 --> 02:47:49.520 Disorganized as we are, we have outlived the most ably 2368 02:47:49.719 --> 02:47:52.840 organized nations. We have failed to imitate the Roman legion 2369 02:47:52.920 --> 02:47:55.600 or the Order of Jesus. We have survived the first, 2370 02:47:55.639 --> 02:48:01.280 and shall no doubt outlived the second. We have not 2371 02:48:01.399 --> 02:48:04.639 your skill, your German or English or American skill, and 2372 02:48:05.040 --> 02:48:10.040 wheeling perfectly vast masses of perfectly subordinated men. Yet I 2373 02:48:10.079 --> 02:48:12.520 have no doubt that when Germany and England and America 2374 02:48:12.520 --> 02:48:17.239 will know well long have lost their present identity or 2375 02:48:17.319 --> 02:48:23.559 name or purpose, we shall still be strong in ours well. 2376 02:48:24.479 --> 02:48:28.959 Who's responsible for Germany, England and America losing their present 2377 02:48:29.040 --> 02:48:40.959 identity or name or purpose? For true discipline should always 2378 02:48:41.000 --> 02:48:43.479 be seen in relation to a purpose. Your discipline is 2379 02:48:43.559 --> 02:48:47.600 goose step discipline. Remember you wrote this in the early 2380 02:48:47.719 --> 02:48:52.079 nineteen twenties. Your discipline is goose step discipline. It is 2381 02:48:52.159 --> 02:48:56.399 the hypnotic discipline of imposing rhythms possible only in the 2382 02:48:56.440 --> 02:49:01.239 absence of the individual discipline. There is hypnotic charm in 2383 02:49:01.280 --> 02:49:03.840 your discipline, but it is not effective. As soon as 2384 02:49:03.879 --> 02:49:07.799 the organization crumbles, the individuals are lost. We have never 2385 02:49:07.840 --> 02:49:14.040 been the victims of organization. Your organization. Discipline, moreover, is 2386 02:49:14.079 --> 02:49:17.440 a necessary part of your sport life. Games cannot be 2387 02:49:17.479 --> 02:49:20.440 conducted without discipline. Discipline is the essence of a game. 2388 02:49:20.920 --> 02:49:24.479 When two perfectly disciplined beings are opposed, the game is 2389 02:49:24.639 --> 02:49:27.680 at its best, and the same feeling runs through all 2390 02:49:27.680 --> 02:49:31.360 your manifestations of life. The game of nationalisms, the game 2391 02:49:31.399 --> 02:49:35.799 of society, the game of commercial success. The most startling 2392 02:49:35.840 --> 02:49:40.159 and compelling monuments of your gentile genius are not individual productions, 2393 02:49:40.159 --> 02:49:43.280 but the productions of mass. Most of the wonders of 2394 02:49:43.319 --> 02:49:46.120 the ancient world were wonders springing out of the great 2395 02:49:46.280 --> 02:49:51.120 organized rhythmic effort, and your chief wonders today, those which 2396 02:49:51.319 --> 02:49:55.479 dominate your general life are like these great buildings, great countries, 2397 02:49:55.520 --> 02:49:59.440 great ships, great wars, great the Pyramids, the Olympic, the 2398 02:49:59.440 --> 02:50:02.280 Colossus of Roads, the Hanging Gardens, the Eiffel Tower and 2399 02:50:02.319 --> 02:50:06.120 the Woolworth Building, the Red Cross, the Catholic Church Babylon, 2400 02:50:06.200 --> 02:50:10.120 New York, the Daily Mail. These are the distinctive triumphs 2401 02:50:10.159 --> 02:50:15.680 of your civilization. The final appeal an individual ingenuity is 2402 02:50:16.159 --> 02:50:20.719 subordinated to the production of your mass effects, your discipline monsters. 2403 02:50:22.159 --> 02:50:27.360 What single individuals can alone affect, play, what single individuals 2404 02:50:27.360 --> 02:50:30.639 can alone effect plays a very minor role in your 2405 02:50:30.680 --> 02:50:34.200 way of life. Mass and rhythm and teamwork the game 2406 02:50:34.399 --> 02:50:37.600 that is your ideal. It is not ours, and we 2407 02:50:37.639 --> 02:50:42.680 are impressed only superficially and transiently by their productions. The 2408 02:50:42.680 --> 02:50:45.719 individual is our climax, as the mass as yours. One 2409 02:50:45.799 --> 02:50:48.559 hundred thousand men labored for twenty years to build the 2410 02:50:48.600 --> 02:50:54.120 Great Pyramid. One man wrote the Book of Isaiah, you 2411 02:50:54.159 --> 02:50:57.399 will answer. One man also wrote Hamlet and the Critique 2412 02:50:57.399 --> 02:51:00.959 of Pure Reason and the Republic. But I ask our 2413 02:51:01.000 --> 02:51:03.879 Plato and Shakespeare and Kant in your life, what the Bible, 2414 02:51:03.959 --> 02:51:08.120 the Talmud, and the Rabbis are in ours? To our 2415 02:51:08.239 --> 02:51:10.639 very masses, the Jewish masses, the wonders of the world 2416 02:51:10.639 --> 02:51:16.360 are Moses, Elijah, the Rambam, the Vilon, the Domna, Maguide, 2417 02:51:17.959 --> 02:51:25.040 the Hasid in the neighboring village. These actually dominate our life, 2418 02:51:25.079 --> 02:51:29.639 as governments, mass radio exploits, armies and woolwards dominate years. 2419 02:51:30.040 --> 02:51:32.719 We are the people of the book, but we were the 2420 02:51:32.719 --> 02:51:34.639 people of the book before a million copies could be 2421 02:51:34.719 --> 02:51:40.360 printed in a single day. The intractability of ours to 2422 02:51:40.479 --> 02:51:43.719 your disciplines is one of our chief and to you, 2423 02:51:44.079 --> 02:51:49.399 most unpleasant characteristics. It is best noticeable in our new 2424 02:51:49.520 --> 02:51:53.920 arrivals in western countries, those who Eastern and Eastern ghettos 2425 02:51:54.239 --> 02:51:57.319 have lived a more nearly Jewish life. It is much 2426 02:51:57.440 --> 02:52:01.440 less noticeable in our modernized types through here, though here 2427 02:52:01.600 --> 02:52:06.680 still noticeable, for despite our clever imitativeness, we do not 2428 02:52:06.719 --> 02:52:10.159 retain our natural character and cannot hide it consistently, but 2429 02:52:10.200 --> 02:52:13.479 betray ourselves at intervals in the colleges and the army. 2430 02:52:13.639 --> 02:52:16.959 Least here except during the Great War, for in peacetime 2431 02:52:17.040 --> 02:52:21.399 only the westernized Jews joined the army. In business associations, 2432 02:52:21.440 --> 02:52:27.600 we irritate and disgust you by our obdurate, seeming singularity. 2433 02:52:28.520 --> 02:52:31.000 We don't fit in properly. We don't keep a straight 2434 02:52:31.079 --> 02:52:34.200 line on the social or public parade. We don't cheer 2435 02:52:34.239 --> 02:52:36.239 in unison, we don't bow with the waving of the 2436 02:52:36.280 --> 02:52:42.120 wand we don't play the game. He's separating palest settlement 2437 02:52:42.239 --> 02:52:51.000 and Eastern Jews from Western Jews, and he's degrading, and 2438 02:52:51.040 --> 02:52:54.559 he's insulting in his own way, the Western Jews. And 2439 02:52:54.600 --> 02:53:00.280 he's raising up those who came out of the stettles, 2440 02:53:01.360 --> 02:53:04.680 those who didn't even know that there was a continent 2441 02:53:05.520 --> 02:53:09.399 called America until the early nineteenth century. You can read 2442 02:53:09.440 --> 02:53:14.159 about that in Israel Shahak's book Jewish History Jewish Religion. 2443 02:53:16.079 --> 02:53:21.440 When the first Jewish book, when the first Jewish history 2444 02:53:21.479 --> 02:53:24.440 book outside of their own history, was written, they did 2445 02:53:24.479 --> 02:53:28.399 not include America because it was impossible that America existed. 2446 02:53:32.000 --> 02:53:45.959 He's basically saying the Jew who has been Europeanized is 2447 02:53:46.440 --> 02:53:57.680 not as good as the one who hates you. If 2448 02:53:57.680 --> 02:54:07.000 you've been following two hundred years together, you understand there's 2449 02:54:07.079 --> 02:54:14.920 a reason why when German and European Jews came here. 2450 02:54:15.360 --> 02:54:17.399 You hear this all the time. Oh, Jews were kept 2451 02:54:17.440 --> 02:54:20.879 out of golf clubs. They weren't allowed to join golf clubs. 2452 02:54:20.920 --> 02:54:27.879 And you know who kept them out, European Jews because 2453 02:54:27.879 --> 02:54:30.559 they thought that the Eastern Jews, the palest Settlement, the 2454 02:54:30.639 --> 02:54:34.559 Jews that came from Russia, I will not say Russian Jews, 2455 02:54:35.360 --> 02:54:39.319 but the Jews who were in Russia, Ukraine, palest Settlement, Poland, 2456 02:54:40.959 --> 02:54:50.440 they looked down upon them. Well, why you're reading it, 2457 02:54:50.959 --> 02:54:56.959 we're reading it together. This is comprehensibly irritating in the 2458 02:54:57.000 --> 02:54:59.680 highest degree. And in your irritation you have ascribed these 2459 02:54:59.719 --> 02:55:02.879 in actions to our savagery. You have said, we are 2460 02:55:02.879 --> 02:55:05.959 not fit for civilization. We have not the ability to 2461 02:55:05.959 --> 02:55:09.479 subordinate the individuals of the community, or if we have 2462 02:55:09.600 --> 02:55:12.840 the ability, we have not the desire, not having the 2463 02:55:12.840 --> 02:55:16.520 ethical impulse with us. You have said it is every 2464 02:55:16.559 --> 02:55:21.879 man for himself. We are too impudent individually. We cannot 2465 02:55:21.920 --> 02:55:27.120 behave as gentlemen should, unobtrusively submissive to the code tacit 2466 02:55:27.319 --> 02:55:31.799 unassertive regular This is what you mean saying we are undisciplined. 2467 02:55:32.360 --> 02:55:36.760 But the fact is that we consciously despise the code itself. 2468 02:55:38.959 --> 02:55:43.000 It is not that we recognize its validity and refuse 2469 02:55:43.079 --> 02:55:45.799 to submit to it out of individual and selfish reasons. 2470 02:55:46.000 --> 02:55:49.319 It is rather that the whole game disgusts us, and 2471 02:55:49.360 --> 02:55:52.799 your seriousness in it. Most of all, it is to 2472 02:55:52.920 --> 02:55:56.639 us a ludicrous and not an impressive thing to see 2473 02:55:56.719 --> 02:55:59.440 ten thousand grown up men, a large proportion of them 2474 02:55:59.479 --> 02:56:03.000 actually marching in step up and down a street or 2475 02:56:03.040 --> 02:56:06.600 across the field. This blaring of the trumpets, this beating 2476 02:56:06.639 --> 02:56:10.120 of the drums, this left right, left right, this rhythmic 2477 02:56:10.200 --> 02:56:15.200 snappy form force, this intoxication of united mass movement, which 2478 02:56:15.239 --> 02:56:19.840 sends you, gentiles frantic with excitement, is a laughable exhibition 2479 02:56:20.000 --> 02:56:25.200 to us, Foolish gentiles, we say contentiously to us, ten 2480 02:56:25.239 --> 02:56:28.000 thousand fools are no more impressive than a single fool. 2481 02:56:28.920 --> 02:56:31.440 Where you see the flash of swinging ranks, a mighty 2482 02:56:31.520 --> 02:56:36.760 lifting and falling power magnificence, we see only ten thousand 2483 02:56:36.879 --> 02:56:41.760 serious faced men engage in astonishing antics with astonishing skill. 2484 02:56:46.040 --> 02:56:51.120 The best that you can say about what he's saying here, 2485 02:56:51.239 --> 02:56:55.319 is that sure? Yeah? I mean, you know, we're a 2486 02:56:55.360 --> 02:57:00.280 tight knit group, but we all do our own thing, 2487 02:57:02.920 --> 02:57:08.319 and we really only come together to defeat you, to 2488 02:57:08.399 --> 02:57:13.479 fight you. Whereas you got your default is to be 2489 02:57:13.799 --> 02:57:23.520 as one. But you have this discipline about you that 2490 02:57:23.600 --> 02:57:31.479 doesn't allow you to do the things we're willing to do. 2491 02:57:31.520 --> 02:57:33.959 The drill of your regiments, the drill of your colleges, 2492 02:57:34.000 --> 02:57:37.879 of your social usages, your clubs all impress us alike 2493 02:57:37.920 --> 02:57:42.000 with their triviality. We do not understand it. Perhaps you 2494 02:57:42.040 --> 02:57:45.920 will reply that this contempt is merely rationalization. We despise 2495 02:57:46.000 --> 02:57:48.760 discipline because we lack it, and secretly we aspire to 2496 02:57:48.799 --> 02:57:52.079 acquire it. But in fact, it is the most severely 2497 02:57:52.200 --> 02:57:57.360 disciplined Jew who most heartily despises your disciplines. It is 2498 02:57:57.399 --> 02:57:59.760 to modernize Jew who has thrown off the discipline of 2499 02:57:59.840 --> 02:58:03.600 Orthodox Judaism, who comes nearest your spirit. It is the 2500 02:58:03.719 --> 02:58:07.319 Orthodox Jew, the most Jewish Jew, who least understands you. 2501 02:58:10.200 --> 02:58:14.120 Remember he's saying he doesn't believe in God? Why is 2502 02:58:14.159 --> 02:58:17.840 he siding with the Orthodox Jew? Does the Orthodox Jew 2503 02:58:17.840 --> 02:58:23.959 believe in God? And it is this Orthodox Jew this 2504 02:58:24.120 --> 02:58:29.440 ghetto Jew, who whose apparent individualism deprives his mass life 2505 02:58:29.479 --> 02:58:32.200 of all form and discipline. It is the Orthodox Jew 2506 02:58:32.200 --> 02:58:35.239 who seems, of all Jews to be least accessible to 2507 02:58:35.280 --> 02:58:39.719 your orderliness. It is this Orthodox Jew who nevertheless submits 2508 02:58:40.120 --> 02:58:43.719 to an amazing discipline unknown to most of you. I 2509 02:58:43.719 --> 02:58:46.479 have said that the obstinate maintenance of our identity and 2510 02:58:46.559 --> 02:58:51.360 our religion through eighty generations of oppression, bespeaks a rigorous 2511 02:58:51.360 --> 02:58:55.520 and effective discipline. But what that discipline is in practice 2512 02:58:55.559 --> 02:58:59.120 you do not realize. The Orthodox Jew submits to an 2513 02:58:59.319 --> 02:59:04.520 unrelaxing regime which you gentiles would find intolerable. It governs 2514 02:59:04.600 --> 02:59:06.719 him in all his actions, from birth to death. That 2515 02:59:06.840 --> 02:59:10.639 controls and directs with an iron hand, his daily occupations. 2516 02:59:10.680 --> 02:59:15.440 It pervades with obsessive eminence every moment of his time, 2517 02:59:15.600 --> 02:59:20.000 every moment, every function. The Orthodox Jew begins a day 2518 02:59:20.040 --> 02:59:23.879 with long prayer, closes it with long prayer. He cannot 2519 02:59:23.920 --> 02:59:26.559 take a glass of water without a prayer. He cannot 2520 02:59:26.639 --> 02:59:30.719 satisfy his physical needs without a prayer. He stops for 2521 02:59:30.840 --> 02:59:35.879 long intervals afternoon and evening to pray. The discipline extends 2522 02:59:35.959 --> 02:59:38.920 to his relations with his wife. It imposes on him 2523 02:59:38.959 --> 02:59:42.040 the obligation of study. It binds him to daily and 2524 02:59:42.159 --> 02:59:47.719 hourly use of a language Hebrew, artificially maintained. It intersperses 2525 02:59:47.760 --> 02:59:51.440 his years with numerous facts and feasts, each with its 2526 02:59:51.559 --> 02:59:55.239 enormous burden of ritual and tradition. All this over and 2527 02:59:55.280 --> 02:59:58.840 above the fierce discipline of the world's enmity and contempt, 2528 02:59:59.079 --> 03:00:01.920 the discipline of me your existence in an alien and 2529 03:00:02.120 --> 03:00:10.239 unfriendly atmosphere. Much of this religious ritual covers eventualities which 2530 03:00:10.280 --> 03:00:16.159 you would regard as secular dietetic laws, sanitary laws, sex laws, 2531 03:00:16.200 --> 03:00:19.680 social laws. For all life is religion to the jew 2532 03:00:20.040 --> 03:00:24.200 and all life proceeding from God must be governed by him. 2533 03:00:24.799 --> 03:00:27.200 But when the ritual is reduced to what even you 2534 03:00:27.239 --> 03:00:30.399 would call the religious, it still presents a bulk of 2535 03:00:30.440 --> 03:00:33.879 tyranny to which you would never submit, a discipline which 2536 03:00:33.920 --> 03:00:37.920 you are incapable of suffering, a discipline which demands incessant 2537 03:00:38.000 --> 03:00:41.840 vigilance lest a prayer be omitted, A discipline that detail 2538 03:00:42.079 --> 03:00:45.959 that a discipline, the details of which it takes years 2539 03:00:46.000 --> 03:00:51.760 to acquire, and into which one must be trained from childhood. 2540 03:00:52.079 --> 03:00:54.559 And what is most relevant in this connection is that 2541 03:00:54.639 --> 03:00:58.440 this discipline is a corporate discipline. It is directed to 2542 03:00:58.479 --> 03:01:02.239 a common purpose outside of the individual, to the perpetuation 2543 03:01:02.520 --> 03:01:08.000 of a people through its religion. In our religious ideology, 2544 03:01:08.079 --> 03:01:11.120 the selfish salvation of the individual soul is a very 2545 03:01:11.239 --> 03:01:16.479 minor theme. It is I believe in acquired dogma, and 2546 03:01:16.520 --> 03:01:21.000 its irrelevance is proved by its unimportance. Our prayers are 2547 03:01:21.079 --> 03:01:25.719 largely common prayers. We pray little attention to the afterlife, 2548 03:01:26.040 --> 03:01:29.000 and even our dreams of an afterlife are associated with 2549 03:01:29.040 --> 03:01:33.399 the Jewish people as a whole. What does that mean? 2550 03:01:34.840 --> 03:01:39.159 As individuals We sometimes pray for personal benefits, but so 2551 03:01:39.200 --> 03:01:42.719 infrequently that we could omit these prayers without changing the 2552 03:01:42.760 --> 03:01:45.520 bulk of our ritual. Most of our prayers, or prayers 2553 03:01:45.520 --> 03:01:49.239 of glorification, they link the people as a whole to 2554 03:01:49.600 --> 03:01:52.479 God's service. They praise God for the burdens he has 2555 03:01:52.520 --> 03:01:56.879 placed upon us, and with passionate iteration, they thank Him 2556 03:01:56.879 --> 03:02:03.799 for having made us different from you. Again, he has 2557 03:02:03.840 --> 03:02:10.799 said he does not believe in God. It does not 2558 03:02:10.920 --> 03:02:13.879 need a Jewish scholar. It needs only an intelligent jew 2559 03:02:13.920 --> 03:02:16.719 who has lived in an Orthodox or semi Orthodox environment 2560 03:02:16.719 --> 03:02:20.079 to appreciate that all this tyranny of discipline was bent 2561 03:02:20.120 --> 03:02:23.239 to one end, to our preservation as a distinct and 2562 03:02:23.399 --> 03:02:27.399 separate people. We feel that we are not merely different 2563 03:02:27.399 --> 03:02:31.000 from you. At points. It is a totality of difference 2564 03:02:31.200 --> 03:02:41.719 and of separation, which they don't want. We have carried 2565 03:02:41.879 --> 03:02:45.920 out with us into exile. The complete atmosphere of our 2566 03:02:46.000 --> 03:02:49.959 national life, our holy festivals are largely national, and even 2567 03:02:50.000 --> 03:02:53.239 in those which are predominantly religious, there is the continuous 2568 03:02:53.680 --> 03:02:59.040 minor theme of our separate nationalism. One holiday celebrates celeberation 2569 03:02:59.159 --> 03:03:02.360 of the Jewish people from Egypt, another the deliverance of 2570 03:03:02.399 --> 03:03:05.920 the people from the Asiatic Greek oppressor, another the confusion 2571 03:03:05.959 --> 03:03:09.239 of a national enemy. Still others celebrate the time of 2572 03:03:09.280 --> 03:03:12.680 the Palestinian Harvests, the irony and tragedy of it, with 2573 03:03:12.799 --> 03:03:19.000 appropriate prayers and ceremonies. And even in our pure religious festivals, 2574 03:03:19.000 --> 03:03:23.399 the memory of our national institutions, our Temple, our hereditary priesthood, 2575 03:03:23.639 --> 03:03:29.799 maintains an unbroken background of suggestion. In eighty seventy, when 2576 03:03:29.799 --> 03:03:35.120 the temple was destroyed, and it was destroyed, so were 2577 03:03:35.159 --> 03:03:46.079 the birth records. Think about that they're all gone. Nobody 2578 03:03:46.120 --> 03:03:49.280 calling themselves a Jew can prove that they have any 2579 03:03:50.120 --> 03:03:55.399 connection to that land, they have any connections to jud 2580 03:03:55.799 --> 03:04:00.360 to historic Judaism, to that temple, to that regil industry, 2581 03:04:01.399 --> 03:04:09.440 It's all gone. And with these recurrent climaxes in our 2582 03:04:09.520 --> 03:04:13.159 religious life, dominated by the national consciousness, the general tenor 2583 03:04:13.280 --> 03:04:16.440 of all our religion repeats this theme from day to day. 2584 03:04:16.920 --> 03:04:19.760 The discipline of our religion, of our Jewishness, is a 2585 03:04:19.840 --> 03:04:23.479 corporate discipline, the subjection of the individual to the mass. 2586 03:04:24.120 --> 03:04:27.559 I repeat this to remind you that, contrary to your accusation, 2587 03:04:27.760 --> 03:04:31.040 the intractability of the jew to your forms of discipline 2588 03:04:31.079 --> 03:04:33.840 does not spring from individualism or from lack of a 2589 03:04:33.920 --> 03:04:39.360 social consciousness conscience. We are disciplined more bitterly than you, 2590 03:04:39.399 --> 03:04:43.159 and we bear the discipline without the assistance of narcotic rhythms. 2591 03:04:43.559 --> 03:04:49.399 We bear our burden like civilized adults. Nor do I 2592 03:04:49.440 --> 03:04:52.840 see any contradiction between this fierce insistence on separate national 2593 03:04:52.840 --> 03:04:56.879 existence and our dedication to a universal ideal. We believe 2594 03:04:56.920 --> 03:04:59.799 and feel that for such as an ideal, we alone, 2595 03:05:00.040 --> 03:05:04.399 as a people, possessed you especial aptitude. The Orthodox Jew 2596 03:05:04.399 --> 03:05:08.120 bases it on divine will and choice. Others like myself 2597 03:05:08.239 --> 03:05:12.479 know not on what to base it. A special racial psychology, 2598 03:05:12.559 --> 03:05:16.120 the results of inbreeding, the results of accident, but believe 2599 03:05:16.159 --> 03:05:22.920 it nonetheless. Me repeat that again. The Orthodox Jew bases 2600 03:05:22.959 --> 03:05:27.319 it on divine will and choice, others like myself. He's 2601 03:05:27.319 --> 03:05:30.600 not an Orthodox Jew, but he is. He does this 2602 03:05:30.840 --> 03:05:36.239 trick where he's trying to when he talks about the Orthodox, 2603 03:05:36.719 --> 03:05:39.520 he's trying to include himself in there, although he says 2604 03:05:39.600 --> 03:05:44.719 he's not. But by continually bringing up the Orthodox, it's 2605 03:05:45.280 --> 03:05:47.360 you have a tendency to relate it to him, but 2606 03:05:47.479 --> 03:05:53.639 he's not. Others like myself. No, no, not on what 2607 03:05:53.799 --> 03:05:59.639 to base it. A special racial psychology, the result of inbreeding, 2608 03:06:00.319 --> 03:06:08.680 the results of accident, but believe it nonetheless, there's a 2609 03:06:08.719 --> 03:06:14.159 lot there. We shall not further that ideal by losing 2610 03:06:14.200 --> 03:06:17.000 our identity to mingle with you and be lost in 2611 03:06:17.079 --> 03:06:22.840 you would mean to destroy the aptitude forever. Thus universal 2612 03:06:22.879 --> 03:06:26.559 ideal and national identity are inextricably bound up to the 2613 03:06:26.600 --> 03:06:31.559 maintenance of this high union. We have given, consciously, seriously, 2614 03:06:31.639 --> 03:06:35.200 without kings and courts, without metals and reviews and orders, 2615 03:06:35.520 --> 03:06:40.319 without cheering, and without drills, a bitter and obstinate devotion, 2616 03:06:40.600 --> 03:06:44.520 more exacting than anything you have known, and in its 2617 03:06:44.520 --> 03:06:53.479 deliberate effects, more successful. What's he got? What's the next job? Oh? 2618 03:06:53.879 --> 03:06:59.799 The reckoning? All right, we will save that for next time. 2619 03:07:01.799 --> 03:07:07.159 I mean, this is just a bundle of contradictions. It's 2620 03:07:08.799 --> 03:07:17.239 extremely difficult to figure. I think the best comment I've 2621 03:07:17.280 --> 03:07:19.840 gotten so far from somebody who's been reading along and 2622 03:07:19.920 --> 03:07:26.600 listening to this is he is just a bitter, angry 2623 03:07:26.920 --> 03:07:35.440 and just someone you wouldn't want to be around, which 2624 03:07:35.479 --> 03:07:39.799 is all well and good. But they insist upon being 2625 03:07:39.840 --> 03:07:44.559 around us. People like him insist upon being around this. 2626 03:07:49.879 --> 03:07:56.559 It's like doctor Johnson says, individually, you know, you make 2627 03:07:56.680 --> 03:07:58.959 choices you grow up. If you grow up in a 2628 03:07:59.000 --> 03:08:00.920 certain area, you're going to know, you're going to know 2629 03:08:00.959 --> 03:08:03.840 some people who are Jewish, and some you're really gonna like, 2630 03:08:03.840 --> 03:08:09.159 and some you're gonna be like, eh, whatever. But really, 2631 03:08:09.200 --> 03:08:11.719 what it's what it what it all comes down to 2632 03:08:12.040 --> 03:08:19.079 is how does a group act if they're acting in 2633 03:08:19.120 --> 03:08:24.559 their own self interest? As this whole thing that he's 2634 03:08:24.559 --> 03:08:29.399 written here so far as self serving. Well, then there's 2635 03:08:29.399 --> 03:08:34.360 a lot of questions. Anyway, that's it. I'll be back 2636 03:08:34.399 --> 03:08:38.799 in a couple of days with uh. Chapter was this seven? Yeah? 2637 03:08:38.879 --> 03:08:45.840 Chapter seven? Take care? All right? My apologies. I've been uh, 2638 03:08:47.600 --> 03:08:50.479 I've been really busy, and I know it's been about 2639 03:08:50.479 --> 03:08:56.079 eight days since I did chapter six, but I'm back 2640 03:08:56.879 --> 03:09:01.920 ready to read, and let's continue. You Gentiles by Maurice Samuel. 2641 03:09:03.360 --> 03:09:08.959 Chapter seven is called the Reckoning. I've spoken of Jews 2642 03:09:08.959 --> 03:09:12.879 and Gentiles in mass. Certain of you will assuredly object. 2643 03:09:13.000 --> 03:09:16.120 You cannot deal with masses as with men. You cannot 2644 03:09:16.159 --> 03:09:21.000 indict a nation. The objection is futile. Not only has 2645 03:09:21.040 --> 03:09:23.719 it been the universal practice to indict and to punish 2646 03:09:23.760 --> 03:09:26.799 masses as if they had personality, and to treat nations 2647 03:09:26.840 --> 03:09:31.360 as such, but you're doing it today everywhere. I think 2648 03:09:31.399 --> 03:09:35.479 it's interesting because you know, he's getting ready to indicte 2649 03:09:35.520 --> 03:09:40.120 US as a whole, specifically probably Americans as a nation. 2650 03:09:42.239 --> 03:09:45.879 And I wonder how he would have felt about indicting Israel. 2651 03:09:48.600 --> 03:09:55.040 I would almost guarantee that every Israeli and every Jew 2652 03:09:55.360 --> 03:10:00.959 would have to be judges an individual. And I believe 2653 03:10:00.959 --> 03:10:03.920 the fundamentally the practice is just, despite the objections of 2654 03:10:03.920 --> 03:10:07.440 the few whom I shall answer here, particularly consonant is 2655 03:10:07.479 --> 03:10:11.639 to practice with your gentile philosophy. Here is your nation X. 2656 03:10:12.079 --> 03:10:15.639 It is composed of militarists and pacifists and mobs. The 2657 03:10:15.680 --> 03:10:20.639 government is militaristic. Whether it represent a minority or a majority, well, 2658 03:10:20.760 --> 03:10:27.000 now it represents in its militarism, especially in the Western Asia, 2659 03:10:27.159 --> 03:10:29.680 if you want to call it the Middle East, it 2660 03:10:29.799 --> 03:10:38.639 represents Israel Jews. And the militaristic government engages the whole 2661 03:10:38.680 --> 03:10:42.520 country in its acts, is responsible for a war for oppression. 2662 03:10:43.120 --> 03:10:46.000 How shall we treat that nation. Single out the militarists 2663 03:10:46.000 --> 03:10:49.000 and pacifists go into the workings of it. Separate out, 2664 03:10:49.159 --> 03:10:52.559 separate out the constituent elements. You cannot. Every member of 2665 03:10:52.559 --> 03:10:54.799 that country is a member of the team. Must take 2666 03:10:54.799 --> 03:10:57.520 the good with the bad, must pay the debts contracted 2667 03:10:57.520 --> 03:11:02.159 by the government. It cannot be in nation otherwise. I'm 2668 03:11:02.159 --> 03:11:07.600 going to apply that to Israel, mister Samuel, and I 2669 03:11:07.639 --> 03:11:09.680 guess you have to apply it to this government too, 2670 03:11:09.840 --> 03:11:19.200 because yeah, Israel's taken over and we've pretty much allowed it. 2671 03:11:22.200 --> 03:11:26.159 Social engineering is the social engineering regime has been rough, 2672 03:11:28.399 --> 03:11:30.920 and I know people don't like to hear this, but 2673 03:11:31.000 --> 03:11:34.079 we have been victims of it. We've been subjected to 2674 03:11:34.120 --> 03:11:38.600 it our whole lives, our parents, grandparents, all of us. 2675 03:11:40.719 --> 03:11:48.000 How else would we how else would this government support 2676 03:11:49.840 --> 03:11:59.559 such a disgusting anachronism like Israel. This from your point 2677 03:11:59.559 --> 03:12:01.879 of view, and from the point of view of the 2678 03:12:01.879 --> 03:12:05.600 workings of justice, that happens to be less defensible when 2679 03:12:05.600 --> 03:12:08.639 the whole of a nation reaps reward or punishment, a 2680 03:12:08.719 --> 03:12:12.760 rough general justice is executed. If it is only the 2681 03:12:12.799 --> 03:12:15.959 will of a minority which has brought on catastrophe, and 2682 03:12:16.000 --> 03:12:18.719 the majority must pay, then it pays for having suffered 2683 03:12:19.159 --> 03:12:23.559 the will of the minority. H Well, I mean makes sense. 2684 03:12:23.600 --> 03:12:28.520 You know, we've been suffering the will of a minority 2685 03:12:28.520 --> 03:12:33.520 for a while now. Had the German masses foreseeing defeat 2686 03:12:33.559 --> 03:12:37.719 and its consequences, Germany would never have gone war. Militaristic, 2687 03:12:38.479 --> 03:12:42.239 militarist minority or none. The masses which obeyed their masters 2688 03:12:42.280 --> 03:12:45.840 readily or sullenly must pay for the obedience which gave 2689 03:12:45.920 --> 03:12:49.079 their masters strength. And the same is true of every 2690 03:12:49.079 --> 03:12:52.760 other nation which is guilty. I mean, I believe in, 2691 03:12:53.280 --> 03:12:58.239 you know, metaphysical justice. We allowed ourselves to be taken 2692 03:12:58.280 --> 03:13:01.040 over by a foreign entity and we're paying for it. 2693 03:13:04.280 --> 03:13:06.159 I know a lot of you won't believe that and 2694 03:13:06.239 --> 03:13:13.479 won't accept that, but pretty true if you think about it. 2695 03:13:13.479 --> 03:13:19.280 If you want to get past the cognitive dissonance, all 2696 03:13:19.319 --> 03:13:22.799 extenuation is irrelevant. How shall the majority learn that it 2697 03:13:22.920 --> 03:13:27.719 must not acquiesce indolently in the will of the minority, 2698 03:13:28.079 --> 03:13:31.719 shall it not suffer the consequences of its indolence? A slow, 2699 03:13:32.360 --> 03:13:37.159 almost impossible process, but assuredly a just one for the 2700 03:13:37.200 --> 03:13:42.920 impotent or corrupt. Acquiesce of a acquiescence of the majority 2701 03:13:43.120 --> 03:13:47.000 made the minority effective. But if, on the other hand, 2702 03:13:47.120 --> 03:13:49.520 a nation suffers for the will of its majority and 2703 03:13:49.559 --> 03:13:53.200 the minority suffers with the majority, then very clearly effective 2704 03:13:53.360 --> 03:13:55.559 justice is being wrought, and just as clearly as the 2705 03:13:55.639 --> 03:14:00.319 payments opposed to alter the will of the nation. You 2706 03:14:00.399 --> 03:14:09.399 look at Israel now and probably yep, yeah, yeah. Just 2707 03:14:09.520 --> 03:14:15.760 hold this, hold Israel up to a mirror. I think 2708 03:14:15.760 --> 03:14:18.200 a lot a lot of people on our side, even 2709 03:14:18.200 --> 03:14:24.639 people listening to this, watching this, I think Israel's like winning. 2710 03:14:29.079 --> 03:14:33.040 I don't know how anyone who's paying attention could think that. 2711 03:14:33.040 --> 03:14:36.559 That's why I'm not black pilled. So I want to 2712 03:14:36.559 --> 03:14:40.159 allow people to black pill me. I know more than 2713 03:14:40.760 --> 03:14:43.479 a lot of people. I will not say I know 2714 03:14:43.559 --> 03:14:46.799 more than you, because that would be speaking generally, but 2715 03:14:46.879 --> 03:14:50.440 I know more than a lot of people. We've seen 2716 03:14:50.479 --> 03:14:54.719 this before, You've seen this in history. As long as 2717 03:14:54.760 --> 03:14:57.479 there are nations in groups, these laws must hold. And 2718 03:14:57.559 --> 03:14:59.799 as soon as these laws collapse, nations and groups will 2719 03:14:59.799 --> 03:15:02.319 see to be It is not meaningless to say this 2720 03:15:02.479 --> 03:15:07.760 nation is parsimonious, this nation is treacherous, this nation is cruel. 2721 03:15:08.280 --> 03:15:11.280 It is a relevant answer. You must judge by the individual, 2722 03:15:11.840 --> 03:15:15.719 not by the nation. When we say Scotchmen are parsimonious, 2723 03:15:16.159 --> 03:15:18.959 we simply mean that out of a thousand Scotchmen, a 2724 03:15:19.040 --> 03:15:22.360 larger number are parsimonious than out of a thousand Englishmen. 2725 03:15:22.840 --> 03:15:25.760 A Scotchman whom I do not know, has therefore more 2726 03:15:25.799 --> 03:15:29.520 probability of being parsimonious than an Englishman whom I don't know. 2727 03:15:30.440 --> 03:15:35.799 If therefore, I have to choose for generosity between two men, 2728 03:15:35.959 --> 03:15:38.200 an Englishmen and a Scotchman, both of whom I do 2729 03:15:38.319 --> 03:15:42.200 not know, I would choose the Englishmen. I stand a 2730 03:15:42.200 --> 03:15:44.680 better chance of being in the right. Naturally, the entire 2731 03:15:44.719 --> 03:15:47.479 assumption may be wrong, and that is another matter, But 2732 03:15:47.559 --> 03:15:51.319 it is ludicrous to deny the tendencies or characteristics in nations. 2733 03:15:52.040 --> 03:15:57.959 In nations exist, Yeah, let's just keep applying this allt 2734 03:15:58.000 --> 03:16:03.799 to Israel day Israel, which didn't exist when he wrote this. 2735 03:16:05.319 --> 03:16:08.159 Only the shallow demagogue insists that a thousand Englishman, a 2736 03:16:08.239 --> 03:16:11.159 thousand Frenchmen, a thousand Germans, a thousand Jews picked up 2737 03:16:11.159 --> 03:16:13.719 at random, or ten thousand or one hundred thousand would 2738 03:16:13.760 --> 03:16:17.120 react similarly to the same stimulus. Assuredly, if I have 2739 03:16:17.159 --> 03:16:19.600 the opportunity to check up on the individual, I will 2740 03:16:19.639 --> 03:16:23.120 do it. But if I must take him on trust, 2741 03:16:23.280 --> 03:16:27.040 I shall sensibly assume him to possess his race characteristics. 2742 03:16:29.159 --> 03:16:31.520 As for you Gentiles and US Jews, we have both 2743 03:16:31.559 --> 03:16:34.079 acted on the assumption that the mass must be treated 2744 03:16:34.079 --> 03:16:37.040 by a general law. The instinct of the gentile is 2745 03:16:37.079 --> 03:16:40.159 to distrust the Jew, of the Jew to distrust the gentile. 2746 03:16:40.440 --> 03:16:43.360 We only make exceptions. There is nothing inconsistent in the 2747 03:16:43.360 --> 03:16:45.920 anti semi who says, some of my best friends are Jews, 2748 03:16:48.040 --> 03:16:53.600 Oh dagger. I say therefore, that in the conflict between us, 2749 03:16:53.680 --> 03:16:56.799 you have fought us physically, while our attack on your 2750 03:16:56.799 --> 03:17:02.440 world has been in the spiritual field. Again, love, When 2751 03:17:02.440 --> 03:17:05.600 an atheist talks like that, it is a nature of 2752 03:17:05.639 --> 03:17:07.799 the gentile to fight for his honor. In the nature 2753 03:17:07.799 --> 03:17:11.040 of the Jew to suffer for his whether because we 2754 03:17:11.120 --> 03:17:13.879 are so inclined by first nature, or whether because we 2755 03:17:13.920 --> 03:17:16.760 have so become we have so become through lack of 2756 03:17:16.840 --> 03:17:20.239 land and government and army. This is true. You revel 2757 03:17:20.319 --> 03:17:23.760 in force. We despise it even where we can and 2758 03:17:23.840 --> 03:17:28.559 do exert it. It's amazing to me that like it's 2759 03:17:28.600 --> 03:17:33.280 like what he's saying with that last sentence is everything 2760 03:17:33.559 --> 03:17:38.159 that Jews have done since the founding of Israel, since 2761 03:17:38.159 --> 03:17:42.680 they first started going there. Irragoon Hadana, the Stern Gang. 2762 03:17:44.280 --> 03:17:48.799 Everything is happening in Gaza West Bank. Now they despise 2763 03:17:48.920 --> 03:17:53.280 doing it just has to be done. And so since 2764 03:17:53.319 --> 03:17:56.440 we have lived among you, you have instinctively appealed to 2765 03:17:56.479 --> 03:18:01.959 brute force in combating our influence. When the reckoning is 2766 03:18:02.040 --> 03:18:05.600 drawn up, your guilt cries to Heaven. Whatever have been 2767 03:18:05.639 --> 03:18:08.360 your relations to each other, we Jews have at least 2768 03:18:08.399 --> 03:18:13.920 been the common denominator of your brutality. Compared with each other. 2769 03:18:13.959 --> 03:18:18.799 You are gentlemen, warriors, democracies we sought set side by 2770 03:18:18.879 --> 03:18:21.760 side with us. You are bullies and cowards and mobs 2771 03:18:22.440 --> 03:18:28.879 in vain. In vain, do your keyscant majorities wash their 2772 03:18:28.879 --> 03:18:32.680 hands their key cints is their effective guilt. I care 2773 03:18:32.760 --> 03:18:35.879 not that your minorities struck the blow. I should not 2774 03:18:35.920 --> 03:18:38.920 acquit the majority, even if I could give judgment and 2775 03:18:39.079 --> 03:18:45.520 impose punishment. That you are unable to meet us on 2776 03:18:45.520 --> 03:18:48.079 the spiritual level is made evident by the following. We 2777 03:18:48.159 --> 03:18:50.799 are a disturbing influence in your life, not through our 2778 03:18:50.840 --> 03:19:00.440 own fault. If you remember the essay Israel the Psychopathic Nation, 2779 03:19:02.079 --> 03:19:05.360 all of the Jewish philosophers, especially ones that came after 2780 03:19:05.440 --> 03:19:11.319 this French school, guys Levinus and Ashkenazi, they all said 2781 03:19:11.879 --> 03:19:18.280 we are never wrong. And even when they say, try 2782 03:19:18.319 --> 03:19:21.479 to quote them, when we say, when you say we 2783 03:19:21.559 --> 03:19:28.280 are wrong, we believe more that we are innocent. First, 2784 03:19:28.319 --> 03:19:30.520 we are not in your midst by our own will, 2785 03:19:30.559 --> 03:19:33.159 but through your action. And second, which is more to 2786 03:19:33.200 --> 03:19:36.239 the point, we do not attack you deliberately. We are 2787 03:19:36.319 --> 03:19:40.200 unwelcome to you because we are what we are. It 2788 03:19:40.319 --> 03:19:44.840 is our own positive way of life which clashes with yours. 2789 03:19:45.360 --> 03:19:48.840 Our attack on you is only incidental to the expression 2790 03:19:48.920 --> 03:19:51.959 of our way of life. You too have this field 2791 03:19:52.000 --> 03:19:55.000 open to you. As surely as we are a spiritual 2792 03:19:55.000 --> 03:19:59.360 discomfort to you, you are a spiritual discomfort to us. 2793 03:20:00.000 --> 03:20:03.959 Nearly is we attack you peacefully, so you waste us peacefully, 2794 03:20:04.000 --> 03:20:06.760 and we can our numbers. But you do more than this. 2795 03:20:06.879 --> 03:20:09.079 You bring the attack down to the physical plane where 2796 03:20:09.079 --> 03:20:12.920 we are defenseless. You do that, you do with us 2797 03:20:13.000 --> 03:20:16.399 as your animal whims dictate. You rob us, you slay us, 2798 03:20:16.440 --> 03:20:18.520 You drive us from land to land, and while one 2799 03:20:18.600 --> 03:20:22.120 of you drives us, drives us forth, the other shuts 2800 03:20:22.159 --> 03:20:28.799 the gate in our faces. He can say this seventeen fifteen, sixteen, 2801 03:20:28.879 --> 03:20:35.040 seventeen years after the nineteen oh five revolution in Russia, 2802 03:20:35.159 --> 03:20:49.760 we never we attack you peacefully. From the first day 2803 03:20:49.799 --> 03:20:52.879 of our contact, since the first of our communities in exile, 2804 03:20:53.000 --> 03:20:57.799 you have made us the sport of your brutality. I 2805 03:20:57.840 --> 03:21:02.200 think that's or bully, But you know you could always 2806 03:21:02.239 --> 03:21:07.879 ask why if you feel that way. There is at 2807 03:21:07.959 --> 03:21:11.600 least one clear note in Gentile world history, one consistent theme, 2808 03:21:11.959 --> 03:21:14.959 the note of our agony, the theme of your cruelty 2809 03:21:17.360 --> 03:21:23.639 because you because Jews go into cultures that they clash with. 2810 03:21:24.799 --> 03:21:28.319 What is something that when Thomas and I did the 2811 03:21:29.520 --> 03:21:35.319 JQ series talked about how when Jews were in Spain, 2812 03:21:36.479 --> 03:21:41.559 a Jew and a Catholic, the fact that they could 2813 03:21:41.680 --> 03:21:52.479 live without murdering each other. Just doesn't It doesn't compute 2814 03:21:52.520 --> 03:21:58.239 if you understand historical Catholicism, not what you see now, 2815 03:21:59.559 --> 03:22:11.760 and use them. And then when they're given power, like 2816 03:22:11.840 --> 03:22:15.399 many Muslim Muslim where they've been in Muslim nations and 2817 03:22:15.440 --> 03:22:19.040 they they've been made police or they've been made quote 2818 03:22:19.120 --> 03:22:24.479 unquote peacekeepers, what do they do? They always end up 2819 03:22:24.559 --> 03:22:30.559 abusing Christians. Christians let them into Christians have let them 2820 03:22:30.559 --> 03:22:33.120 into their society. I mean, you're reading two hundred years together. 2821 03:22:34.879 --> 03:22:41.319 They did everything they possibly could, ten twelve conferences on 2822 03:22:41.559 --> 03:22:44.200 how to deal with these people in the nineteenth century 2823 03:22:44.200 --> 03:22:49.760 alone in Russia they institute laws and they don't even 2824 03:22:49.840 --> 03:22:56.639 really keep to them, don't really enforce them. But I 2825 03:22:56.639 --> 03:22:59.360 guess because you don't let them get away with everything 2826 03:22:59.440 --> 03:23:04.680 they want to do. That's cruel. I guess because your 2827 03:23:04.840 --> 03:23:13.920 society that you've built for Christians or Englishmen or Germans 2828 03:23:14.440 --> 03:23:20.440 or Spaniards and the system is designed for that, because 2829 03:23:20.440 --> 03:23:24.079 you don't allow them to come in there and change that, 2830 03:23:24.079 --> 03:23:30.479 that's cruel. Even from your point of view, you have 2831 03:23:30.520 --> 03:23:33.479 been guilty on our side. At least the fighting has 2832 03:23:33.520 --> 03:23:37.719 been clean. We have not misrepresented you on your side, 2833 03:23:37.760 --> 03:23:40.040 the fighting has been dirty from the dawn of civilization. 2834 03:23:40.120 --> 03:23:41.959 You have lied about us. You have accused us of 2835 03:23:42.040 --> 03:23:46.200 murdering children that we might use their blood for ritual purposes. 2836 03:23:46.840 --> 03:23:50.239 You have accused us of poisoning wells. You have accused 2837 03:23:50.319 --> 03:23:53.879 us of precipitating wars. You and war is the breath 2838 03:23:53.879 --> 03:23:57.719 of your nostrils. And you accuse us today of fomenting 2839 03:23:57.719 --> 03:24:03.360 a worldwide conspiracy to seize the government of the world. Well, 2840 03:24:03.520 --> 03:24:13.040 Israel Toof's book, Passover of Blood, precipitating wars? What is 2841 03:24:13.079 --> 03:24:18.760 the what was to perish them? What was the Balfour Declaration? 2842 03:24:21.239 --> 03:24:28.000 And worldwide conspiracy? What is all? Do not answer us 2843 03:24:28.040 --> 03:24:31.559 that a minority does this. Does it matter to us 2844 03:24:31.559 --> 03:24:36.079 that a minority of America preaches in the clan virtual disenchantment, 2845 03:24:36.120 --> 03:24:43.799 disenfranfranchisement of the Jew Well, you might want to. You know, 2846 03:24:45.079 --> 03:24:52.479 the Klan was pretty pretty much neutral not neutralized, but 2847 03:24:53.719 --> 03:25:02.920 they were sleeping around nineteen thirteen, Leo Frank, clan didn't 2848 03:25:02.920 --> 03:25:13.719 even Jews, weren't even on their radar. So, Leo Frank, So, 2849 03:25:17.760 --> 03:25:23.200 I don't know. Does it matter to us that a 2850 03:25:23.239 --> 03:25:26.799 minority of America preaches in the clan, virtual disenfranchisement of 2851 03:25:26.840 --> 03:25:29.559 the Jew, that a minority in Germany preaches death to 2852 03:25:29.600 --> 03:25:33.159 the Jew, that a minority in Poland slew hundreds of us. 2853 03:25:34.239 --> 03:25:38.120 Don't get me started on Poland. I ask an accounting 2854 03:25:38.159 --> 03:25:40.680 of you, as you ask it of one another, as 2855 03:25:40.680 --> 03:25:43.479 the Allies ask it from Germany, as Germany asked it 2856 03:25:43.520 --> 03:25:46.680 from France, from you as a whole. Do you see 2857 03:25:46.719 --> 03:25:55.360 the hatred for I mean, just the seething hatred for Germany. 2858 03:25:55.760 --> 03:26:01.280 Just these crazy national socialists just know, came together and 2859 03:26:01.399 --> 03:26:06.200 just took power, and you know, directed their hatred at 2860 03:26:06.239 --> 03:26:10.440 these people because they were jealous of their wealth, They 2861 03:26:10.479 --> 03:26:17.840 were jealous of how smart they were. That's it for 2862 03:26:17.920 --> 03:26:20.959 this minority which spreads these lies. There is a complacent 2863 03:26:21.040 --> 03:26:25.079 majority which tolerates or accepts them. And it is because 2864 03:26:25.360 --> 03:26:28.000 in your opposition to our way of life, you stoop 2865 03:26:28.079 --> 03:26:31.120 to such lies that your masses respond with physical force. 2866 03:26:31.680 --> 03:26:34.200 I care not how I care not, how ignorant a 2867 03:26:34.319 --> 03:26:37.479 Jew is, You will not get him to believe of you, 2868 03:26:38.879 --> 03:26:43.040 believe of you, of you such foul untruths as millions 2869 03:26:43.040 --> 03:26:47.040 of you believe of us. Yet we have more cogent 2870 03:26:47.159 --> 03:26:50.799 reasons for hating you, And as I hold you all 2871 03:26:50.840 --> 03:26:53.840 responsible for these lies, so I hold you all responsible 2872 03:26:53.840 --> 03:27:01.239 for the cruelties in which they issue. And I know 2873 03:27:01.319 --> 03:27:05.040 that soon enough these crimson slices will be opened again, 2874 03:27:05.159 --> 03:27:07.479 and we shall bleed from a thousand wounds as we 2875 03:27:07.520 --> 03:27:10.959 have bled before in the Ukraine, or in Russia, in Poland, 2876 03:27:11.040 --> 03:27:13.520 or in Germany. And who knows when the same will 2877 03:27:13.520 --> 03:27:16.280 not come to pass in England and America, in France. 2878 03:27:16.760 --> 03:27:21.040 What guarantees have we beyond the guarantee of public opinion? 2879 03:27:21.440 --> 03:27:24.399 And from a public opinion which tolerates a slaughter of 2880 03:27:24.520 --> 03:27:28.159 hundreds of Negroes, how far to the public opinion which 2881 03:27:28.200 --> 03:27:31.760 will condone the slaughter of Jews. Let us spark, but 2882 03:27:31.879 --> 03:27:36.200 carry far enough down into the recesses of your animal natures. 2883 03:27:38.680 --> 03:27:48.680 There's the uh, there's calling us quilliam. How you gloated 2884 03:27:48.680 --> 03:27:51.639 among the Allies over stories of Germans blown to pieces, 2885 03:27:51.639 --> 03:27:54.120 cut to pieces, and in the Central Powers over stories 2886 03:27:54.159 --> 03:27:57.799 of Englishmen Frenchmen done to death. Your comic journals made 2887 03:27:57.920 --> 03:28:01.399 merry over them a good oak from life. An Englishman 2888 03:28:01.479 --> 03:28:04.680 shaking his head, saying, Molly, I don't think this air 2889 03:28:04.760 --> 03:28:09.399 bayonetal go through more than two Germans at a time. 2890 03:28:10.040 --> 03:28:13.360 Your women applaud them, your children scream for blood, democracy 2891 03:28:13.479 --> 03:28:18.559 vibe in bestiality with an aristocracy and royalty. How shall 2892 03:28:18.600 --> 03:28:24.360 we trust you? You mean like how Randy Fine says 2893 03:28:24.440 --> 03:28:29.479 he want to see more dead children and celebrates it. 2894 03:28:30.520 --> 03:28:36.639 He's not the only one the way. Don Bacon, a 2895 03:28:36.639 --> 03:28:42.680 allegedly a gentile, says that we need to amend the 2896 03:28:42.719 --> 03:28:53.440 First Amendment to for anti anti Semitism laws. If we 2897 03:28:53.479 --> 03:28:55.680 are willing to forget the past. Is not your past, 2898 03:28:55.760 --> 03:28:59.920 You're present? Is not the blood libel alive today? Blood libel? There? 2899 03:29:00.079 --> 03:29:03.680 It is one more for the Bengo card and it's 2900 03:29:03.760 --> 03:29:09.600 convent companion viper the elders of Zion? Well POI yeah, 2901 03:29:09.639 --> 03:29:14.840 he's uh? Has he mentioned Henry Ford? Yet? Henry Ford 2902 03:29:14.920 --> 03:29:23.479 was talking about the elders of Zion will poison work 2903 03:29:23.520 --> 03:29:26.000 forever in the blood and never break out? Did not 2904 03:29:26.159 --> 03:29:31.040 hundreds of thousands of Englishmen, Frenchmen, Germans, Americans read these 2905 03:29:31.159 --> 03:29:35.760 legends without protesting, without seeking to punish the libelers. Do 2906 03:29:35.840 --> 03:29:38.879 we not know how easily your morality fits your mood? 2907 03:29:39.520 --> 03:29:43.200 Kill the Jews, kill the Jews, the christ killers? Does 2908 03:29:43.239 --> 03:29:47.280 indeed ring strange these days. But does a damn good 2909 03:29:47.280 --> 03:29:58.040 dose of lead for the Jewish Bolsheviks sound very remote? Huh? Well, 2910 03:29:58.079 --> 03:30:03.319 I mean the Bolsheviks. I don't think they were a 2911 03:30:03.360 --> 03:30:09.840 majority Jews, majority of the thought leaders were definitely over represented, 2912 03:30:10.559 --> 03:30:16.360 according to Juris Leskin in his book The Jewish Century. 2913 03:30:17.520 --> 03:30:25.040 But is are we going to deny that the war 2914 03:30:25.200 --> 03:30:29.440 on the Orthodox Church and on Christians that the Jewish 2915 03:30:29.479 --> 03:30:36.760 Bolsheviks carried out? See he's so close to the event. 2916 03:30:36.920 --> 03:30:41.559 Now there's no Internet, none of this, you know, He's 2917 03:30:41.600 --> 03:30:45.319 just this is this is still going on as he's writing, 2918 03:30:47.799 --> 03:30:59.280 this revenge against Christendom in Russia. And if arguing from 2919 03:30:59.280 --> 03:31:03.239 the individuals the mass, your clans and your awakening maggyars, 2920 03:31:03.639 --> 03:31:07.440 your chester Tins, and your dow Dets shall call us 2921 03:31:07.520 --> 03:31:11.000 choose sharks and swindlers, shall we not answer with better 2922 03:31:11.079 --> 03:31:14.559 warrant by the millions of our murdered by the Inquisition 2923 03:31:14.719 --> 03:31:17.399 and the Crusades, by the smoking ruins of the Ukraine, 2924 03:31:17.440 --> 03:31:22.600 and the swinging body of Leo Frank Dastard's murderers and thieves. 2925 03:31:23.280 --> 03:31:29.559 There it is there, it is the Inquisition, in the 2926 03:31:29.600 --> 03:31:37.440 Crusades based they were based I'm sorry the Inquisitions. It's 2927 03:31:37.479 --> 03:31:41.239 probably the greatest legal system in the history of mankind, 2928 03:31:42.399 --> 03:31:48.120 and the Crusades. One of these days maybe the Inquisition 2929 03:31:48.200 --> 03:31:50.920 will have to cover the Crusades. We have talked about it. 2930 03:31:51.600 --> 03:31:55.959 But that as that is the end of chapter seven. 2931 03:31:56.639 --> 03:31:58.920 So I will leave you with that, and I will 2932 03:31:58.959 --> 03:32:02.159 try to be back seriously in a couple days with 2933 03:32:02.319 --> 03:32:06.000 part eight. Once again, I apologize for how long it 2934 03:32:06.040 --> 03:32:08.440 took me to get out part seven. Take care now, 2935 03:32:08.680 --> 03:32:13.559 thank you bye. All right everyone, Once again, my apologies. 2936 03:32:14.639 --> 03:32:16.719 I wish I could get these out quicker, but I 2937 03:32:16.760 --> 03:32:23.120 have been insanely busy. Let's do chapter eight of Maurice 2938 03:32:23.159 --> 03:32:29.520 Samuel's You Gentiles, and the title this is but as moderns, 2939 03:32:30.440 --> 03:32:35.440 all right, let us have done with recollections and recriminations. 2940 03:32:35.479 --> 03:32:39.000 You say you have spoken hitherto of conditions which you're vanishing, 2941 03:32:39.079 --> 03:32:42.680 of Orthodox Jews, mostly of old customs and emotions which 2942 03:32:42.680 --> 03:32:45.959 you're dying out. You yourself are not an Orthodox Jew, 2943 03:32:46.120 --> 03:32:50.639 nor are we medieval Christians. We see the Jew gradually modernizing. 2944 03:32:51.920 --> 03:32:55.000 He becomes more like us, more difficult to recognize as 2945 03:32:55.000 --> 03:32:58.680 a Jew. Granting there are occasional relapses, we are still 2946 03:32:58.719 --> 03:33:02.280 moving toward real tolerate rance. The present age is not 2947 03:33:02.440 --> 03:33:05.239 like any age before it, and the modern Jew is 2948 03:33:05.280 --> 03:33:08.680 not like any Jew before him. You have lasted two 2949 03:33:08.719 --> 03:33:12.920 thousand years in exile. You will not last forever. All 2950 03:33:12.959 --> 03:33:16.200 those ceremonials of yours are breaking down your discipline, your 2951 03:33:16.239 --> 03:33:22.159 defensive mechanisms. At least in America, England, France, Germany, Russia. 2952 03:33:22.280 --> 03:33:25.799 You are changing, becoming like us, taking your share in 2953 03:33:25.920 --> 03:33:30.479 all our activities, sports, civic duties, achievements, arts. You have 2954 03:33:30.559 --> 03:33:33.600 spoken hitherto in the terms of a world which is 2955 03:33:33.639 --> 03:33:38.319 fitfully dissolving. You've ignored the liberal Jews, the radical Jews, 2956 03:33:38.319 --> 03:33:41.959 the modernized Jews, the agnostic Jews, now becoming the dominant 2957 03:33:41.959 --> 03:33:46.000 element in Jewry and approaching us, mingling with us, solving 2958 03:33:46.040 --> 03:33:50.479 the problem without deliberate effort. Do not your own radicals 2959 03:33:50.520 --> 03:33:54.559 renounce their Jewish connections. Will not your modernized Jews be 2960 03:33:54.600 --> 03:33:57.920 the first to denounced the thesis of this book. I 2961 03:33:57.959 --> 03:34:01.239 have already said, anticipating the subject, that there is the 2962 03:34:01.280 --> 03:34:04.440 same difference between the Jewish atheists and the gentile atheists, 2963 03:34:04.440 --> 03:34:07.680 between the orthodox Jew and the believing Gentile. I have 2964 03:34:07.840 --> 03:34:11.680 said or implied that the religion itself is but practical 2965 03:34:11.719 --> 03:34:15.360 expression of the difference between us, not the cause of it. 2966 03:34:15.360 --> 03:34:17.760 It is true that the expression of a view serves 2967 03:34:17.760 --> 03:34:21.319 to strengthen it, as the exercise of a faculty serves 2968 03:34:21.360 --> 03:34:25.120 to develop it. But expression does not create a view, 2969 03:34:25.239 --> 03:34:29.920 nor exercise a faculty. Even conscious adherence to the Jewish 2970 03:34:30.000 --> 03:34:33.959 people is but partial expression of our Jewishness. It was 2971 03:34:34.000 --> 03:34:36.879 not the conscious desire to remain a people which gave 2972 03:34:36.959 --> 03:34:40.239 us the world to endure. It was our unavoidable commonality 2973 03:34:40.760 --> 03:34:44.280 of feeling which made us and continued us as people. 2974 03:34:46.200 --> 03:34:50.760 Repudiation of the Jewish religion, or even of Jewish racial affiliation, 2975 03:34:51.200 --> 03:34:55.600 does not alter the jew. Some of us Jews may 2976 03:34:55.639 --> 03:34:58.760 delude ourselves, as some of you gentiles do, but in 2977 03:34:58.799 --> 03:35:01.719 effect modernizations seems to have done nothing to decrease the 2978 03:35:01.840 --> 03:35:08.000 friction between us. Interesting the dislike continues, and though your 2979 03:35:08.040 --> 03:35:11.360 masses may not know why they dislike us, there must 2980 03:35:11.360 --> 03:35:14.360 be a sufficient reason. It is Germany, the mother of 2981 03:35:14.360 --> 03:35:17.719 the modernized Jew, that gave birth with him to modern 2982 03:35:17.840 --> 03:35:22.920 anti Semitism. Where the old ostensible reasons for disliking the 2983 03:35:23.000 --> 03:35:27.920 Jew collapse, new ones, more self conscious were substituted. When 2984 03:35:27.959 --> 03:35:31.799 modernization removed the old, superstitious form of expression. The professor 2985 03:35:31.840 --> 03:35:38.239 replaced a priest science religion. We are disliked on scientific grounds, 2986 03:35:38.239 --> 03:35:41.399 as we were disliked on religious But both the scientific 2987 03:35:41.440 --> 03:35:46.239 and the religious reasons were rationalizations. The true reasons underlay 2988 03:35:47.079 --> 03:35:51.840 these analyzes. Nor can the revulsion of the war, with 2989 03:35:51.920 --> 03:35:55.319 its release of primitive instincts, be blamed for this German 2990 03:35:55.319 --> 03:35:58.840 anti semitism as dates the war. The higher anti semitism 2991 03:35:58.879 --> 03:36:03.239 has nothing to do with it, either conscious religion or localizations. 2992 03:36:03.319 --> 03:36:07.799 Like patriotism. It is true modern anti semitism. It is 2993 03:36:07.840 --> 03:36:11.399 the old dislike of the Jew, transvalued into modern terminology, 2994 03:36:12.040 --> 03:36:14.920 and it has been evoked by the appearance of that 2995 03:36:15.040 --> 03:36:21.239 new phenomena, the westernized Jew. For many Jews were fooled 2996 03:36:21.239 --> 03:36:24.440 by appearances. They took the word of the gentile literally. 2997 03:36:24.840 --> 03:36:27.200 The gentile said, we dislike you because you are different 2998 03:36:27.239 --> 03:36:30.760 from us in religion and usages. You are separate, you 2999 03:36:30.799 --> 03:36:34.000 are old fashioned. And the Jew, believing these charges to 3000 03:36:34.079 --> 03:36:37.479 mean what they say, abandoned his customs and his usages, 3001 03:36:37.559 --> 03:36:42.479 took to baptism, became externally similar to the gentile, thinking 3002 03:36:42.559 --> 03:36:45.239 thus to evade the issue. It failed, for no sooner 3003 03:36:45.280 --> 03:36:47.479 had he made this change in himself, than the gentile 3004 03:36:47.520 --> 03:36:52.399 shifted ground went from the religious to the ethnic. That 3005 03:36:52.520 --> 03:36:56.920 is not why jew stopped being religious. If you're listening 3006 03:36:57.360 --> 03:37:02.360 following the two hundred Years Together series, the Stettl system 3007 03:37:03.040 --> 03:37:07.799 kept most of the Jews as basically slaves to the 3008 03:37:07.879 --> 03:37:11.760 higher elite Jews. As soon as they had a chance 3009 03:37:12.760 --> 03:37:19.360 through rising democracy laws that gave people more liberty individually, 3010 03:37:20.000 --> 03:37:22.840 they jumped at the chance to get away from their elites. 3011 03:37:26.079 --> 03:37:28.840 Maybe there were some who were like, oh, the gentile 3012 03:37:28.840 --> 03:37:39.680 will treat now now this he's deceiving and for sooner 3013 03:37:39.719 --> 03:37:41.879 had he made this change in himself, and the gentile 3014 03:37:41.920 --> 03:37:44.760 shifted ground went from the religious to the ethnic? Well, 3015 03:37:44.799 --> 03:37:53.000 why is it? Because there is just something inherent there? Okay, yes, 3016 03:37:53.040 --> 03:37:57.959 but what is it if they didn't like you when 3017 03:37:58.000 --> 03:38:00.959 you were religious and then you gave up your religiosity 3018 03:38:01.879 --> 03:38:09.600 and now you're just ethnic, what's the problem. What happened 3019 03:38:09.639 --> 03:38:13.239 in Germany is happening elsewhere. As fast as the Jew modernizes, 3020 03:38:13.360 --> 03:38:17.000 so fast does dislike of him adapt itself to the 3021 03:38:17.040 --> 03:38:19.959 new situation and find a new excuse where the Jewish 3022 03:38:19.959 --> 03:38:22.959 dislike it is the modern Jew who is disliked equally 3023 03:38:23.079 --> 03:38:26.959 with the old fashioned, the klan, the console, the dearborn, independent, 3024 03:38:27.399 --> 03:38:31.520 the dwa gross the action. Francais no longer preached a 3025 03:38:31.559 --> 03:38:34.959 modernization of the Jew as a solution to the Jewish problem. 3026 03:38:35.520 --> 03:38:39.280 No Jew, however modern or radical, is acceptable to the 3027 03:38:39.319 --> 03:38:44.559 anti semi. It is now a racial question. But you 3028 03:38:44.639 --> 03:38:47.319 still have an answer, you say, these new forms of 3029 03:38:47.319 --> 03:38:50.799 anti Semitism are hangovers. We have had anti Semitism with 3030 03:38:50.879 --> 03:38:52.360 us for a long time. It is hard to get 3031 03:38:52.440 --> 03:38:55.959 rid of the effects linger along after the cause disappears. 3032 03:38:56.879 --> 03:39:06.520 But in time again, why this I deny? For I 3033 03:39:06.520 --> 03:39:08.760 am convinced that the modernized Jew, as long as he 3034 03:39:08.840 --> 03:39:11.079 retains the quality of the Jewish people, that is, as 3035 03:39:11.079 --> 03:39:16.319 long as he inherits predominantly Jewish characteristics, is as objectionable 3036 03:39:16.360 --> 03:39:18.479 to you as the orthodox Jew was to your fathers, 3037 03:39:18.520 --> 03:39:21.600 And for the same basic reasons. The effort of the 3038 03:39:21.680 --> 03:39:24.079 Jews to enter your modern life, to become part of it, 3039 03:39:24.239 --> 03:39:29.840 has been essentially ineffective, by which I mean that through 3040 03:39:30.120 --> 03:39:33.600 hundreds of thousands, though hundreds of thousands of us have 3041 03:39:33.719 --> 03:39:36.239 taken on your garbs, speak like you, look like you, 3042 03:39:36.319 --> 03:39:40.000 share your countries, institutions, games do all we can to 3043 03:39:40.079 --> 03:39:43.079 avoid friction. Yet we fail to offer in cross section 3044 03:39:43.200 --> 03:39:46.319 the same significance as any cross section of hundreds of 3045 03:39:46.399 --> 03:39:54.280 thousands of you. Our ability to imitate extends only to inessentials, appearances, 3046 03:39:54.479 --> 03:40:00.559 surface desires, and ambitions. We fail to be gentiles. The 3047 03:40:00.559 --> 03:40:04.319 modernized Jew still stands apart from the modern gentile world, 3048 03:40:04.399 --> 03:40:07.799 and his effective contribution to its life is as disastrously 3049 03:40:08.239 --> 03:40:11.680 different as if he put on the phylacteries every morning. 3050 03:40:12.479 --> 03:40:17.000 The old racial seriousness, somberness, still persists in one hundred 3051 03:40:17.079 --> 03:40:20.079 years of modernity. We enable race, have given little more 3052 03:40:20.120 --> 03:40:23.319 than mediocrity to your way of life. Our best work 3053 03:40:23.360 --> 03:40:26.399 has been the old true work of our people, fundamental 3054 03:40:26.399 --> 03:40:29.079 and serious examination of the problems of man's relations to 3055 03:40:29.159 --> 03:40:32.600 God and humanity. In the arts we have been second rate, 3056 03:40:32.719 --> 03:40:36.639 third rate, while in moral effort we have exceeded any 3057 03:40:36.680 --> 03:40:40.639 living race and have produced an overwhelming number of revolutionaries 3058 03:40:41.120 --> 03:40:45.600 and socialists and iconoclass of the true prophetic type. We 3059 03:40:45.639 --> 03:40:49.159 have in science, bell letters, and the plastic arts been 3060 03:40:49.200 --> 03:40:54.360 a thoroughly minor people. And even if in these last 3061 03:40:54.399 --> 03:40:57.600 fields we have done comparatively well for our numbers, which 3062 03:40:57.639 --> 03:41:02.520 I doubt our preponderant contribution of fundamental moral effort still 3063 03:41:02.520 --> 03:41:09.200 makes modern Jewry a secularized replica of old religious Jewurry. Again, 3064 03:41:09.799 --> 03:41:15.200 why the astonishing thing is that this took place despite 3065 03:41:15.280 --> 03:41:18.680 desperate conscious efforts on our parts to become like you. 3066 03:41:18.840 --> 03:41:23.239 We joined your armies and fought in them beyond our numbers. Well, 3067 03:41:23.319 --> 03:41:31.200 that's questionable. Yet Jewish passivism. Yet Jewish pacifism and pacifist 3068 03:41:31.559 --> 03:41:35.600 gave the tone to your world's pacifism. We have joined 3069 03:41:35.600 --> 03:41:45.559 your capitalistic world. Oh man, Oh, he's really going to 3070 03:41:45.639 --> 03:41:50.319 do this all right. We have joined your capitalistic world 3071 03:41:50.360 --> 03:41:55.479 in deliberate emulation and rivalry. Yet Jewish socialism and Jewish 3072 03:41:55.520 --> 03:41:58.680 socialists are the banner bearers of the world's armies of liberation. 3073 03:42:00.079 --> 03:42:03.920 Four million modernized Jews, a ludicrous, ludicrously small number, have 3074 03:42:03.959 --> 03:42:07.680 given to the world's iconoclastic force, its chief impetus and 3075 03:42:07.719 --> 03:42:12.200 by far its largest individual contribution. American England put together 3076 03:42:12.200 --> 03:42:15.959 with they're almost two hundred millions have not played that 3077 03:42:16.040 --> 03:42:21.280 role in world iconic's icono clasm, which a handful of 3078 03:42:21.399 --> 03:42:24.959 Jews that played. Had we produced as vigorously in art 3079 03:42:24.959 --> 03:42:27.600 and science, we should have flooded the arts galleries and 3080 03:42:27.639 --> 03:42:31.360 the libraries. But in these we have shown no special aptitude. 3081 03:42:32.159 --> 03:42:35.280 We may have done as well for our numbers as England, 3082 03:42:35.440 --> 03:42:39.239 as France or Germany, though even this I doubt well. 3083 03:42:39.319 --> 03:42:42.920 It just gave it a couple more decades, and you 3084 03:42:43.000 --> 03:42:49.440 had the libraries and the art galleries and the trash 3085 03:42:49.479 --> 03:42:53.360 we see there. We modern Jews of the Western world 3086 03:42:53.360 --> 03:42:57.239 are this fundamentally, are this in this fundamentally different from you. 3087 03:42:57.959 --> 03:43:01.120 The occasional in you revolution and against the game is 3088 03:43:01.120 --> 03:43:04.319 dominant in us. Your instinct is truer than you know. 3089 03:43:04.440 --> 03:43:06.680 The dislike of your modern world for the modern Jew 3090 03:43:06.799 --> 03:43:09.200 is as relevant as the dislike of your old world 3091 03:43:09.600 --> 03:43:16.079 for the Orthodox Jew. He's basically saying that Jews had 3092 03:43:16.120 --> 03:43:21.200 nothing to do with capitalism technically, that is, they have 3093 03:43:21.239 --> 03:43:25.639 nothing to do with capital They're not creators for the 3094 03:43:25.680 --> 03:43:31.840 most part, they're subverters. They subvert other people's businesses, worm 3095 03:43:31.879 --> 03:43:40.479 their way in, or they financialize everything. So he's basically 3096 03:43:40.639 --> 03:43:45.719 saying it's almost like he's saying that capitalism, which if 3097 03:43:45.760 --> 03:43:48.000 you look at it, and especially once you start getting 3098 03:43:48.000 --> 03:43:51.399 into late eighteen hundreds, you see who the most prominent 3099 03:43:51.639 --> 03:43:58.719 quote unquote capitalists are, then you and you see that 3100 03:43:58.799 --> 03:44:01.479 he's celebrating that it's a socialists and as the radicals, 3101 03:44:02.719 --> 03:44:08.879 that's who the Jews are. Yet Marx clearly said we 3102 03:44:09.079 --> 03:44:20.600 need capitalism. Yeah, it's kind of remarkable. He doesn't really 3103 03:44:20.719 --> 03:44:30.040 have a He's either lying or he's just clueless and 3104 03:44:30.120 --> 03:44:37.159 has allowed himself to be blinded. All right, this is 3105 03:44:37.200 --> 03:44:40.840 probably the most famous chapter out of this book, So 3106 03:44:41.200 --> 03:44:43.360 let's knock it out. That was such a short chapter. 3107 03:44:43.760 --> 03:44:46.760 I'm not going to leave you at twelve minutes. Let's 3108 03:44:46.840 --> 03:44:53.319 run through this. We the Destroyers Chapter nine. If anything, 3109 03:44:53.360 --> 03:44:56.040 you must learn and are learning to dislike and fear 3110 03:44:56.120 --> 03:44:58.639 the modern and assimilated Jew more than you did the 3111 03:44:58.680 --> 03:45:02.040 old Jew, for he is more dangerous to you. At least, 3112 03:45:02.040 --> 03:45:05.200 the old Jew, kept apart from you, was easily recognizable 3113 03:45:05.239 --> 03:45:08.680 as an individual, as the bearer of the dreaded Jewish 3114 03:45:08.840 --> 03:45:12.159 Jewish world idea. You are afraid of him and loathed him, 3115 03:45:13.520 --> 03:45:17.959 but to a large extent he was insulated. But as 3116 03:45:18.000 --> 03:45:21.879 a Jew assimilates, acquires your languages, cultivates a certain intimacy, 3117 03:45:21.959 --> 03:45:25.239 penetrates into your life, begins to handle your instruments, you 3118 03:45:25.280 --> 03:45:27.959 are aware that his nature, once confined safely to his 3119 03:45:28.000 --> 03:45:31.600 own life now threatens yours. You are aware of a 3120 03:45:31.639 --> 03:45:35.000 new and more than disconcerting character at work, and the 3121 03:45:35.040 --> 03:45:38.239 world you have built and are building up, a character 3122 03:45:38.479 --> 03:45:43.159 which crosses your intentions and thwarts your personality. The jew, 3123 03:45:43.200 --> 03:45:45.760 whose lack of contact with your world had made him 3124 03:45:45.760 --> 03:45:50.319 an effective, becomes effective. The vile is uncork. The genius 3125 03:45:51.159 --> 03:45:56.000 is out. His enemity to your way of life was 3126 03:45:56.159 --> 03:46:00.959 tacit before today it is manifest and active. Help himself. 3127 03:46:01.319 --> 03:46:04.159 He cannot be different from himself, no more can you. 3128 03:46:05.040 --> 03:46:07.799 It is futile to tell him hands off. He is 3129 03:46:07.840 --> 03:46:13.840 not his own master, but the servant of his life will, 3130 03:46:14.520 --> 03:46:20.319 For when he brings into your world his passionately earnest, sinisterly, earnest, righteousness, 3131 03:46:20.680 --> 03:46:25.079 absolute righteousness, and speaking in your languages and through your institutions, 3132 03:46:25.079 --> 03:46:28.120 scatters distrust to yourselves. Through the most sensitive of you, 3133 03:46:29.040 --> 03:46:33.520 he is working against your spirit. You, gentiles, do not seek, 3134 03:46:33.600 --> 03:46:37.360 or need or understand social justice as an ultimate ideal. 3135 03:46:38.079 --> 03:46:41.239 This is not your nature. Your world must be fashioned 3136 03:46:41.319 --> 03:46:46.079 as to give you the maximum of play, adventure, laughter, 3137 03:46:46.440 --> 03:46:50.840 animal lyricism. Your institutions frame themselves to this end. Your 3138 03:46:50.920 --> 03:46:54.520 countries and ideals flourish most gloriously when they serve this 3139 03:46:54.639 --> 03:46:57.799 end most freely. All ideas of social justice must be 3140 03:46:57.840 --> 03:47:03.159 subservient to this consideration first, then ultimate justice only as 3141 03:47:03.239 --> 03:47:07.680 it can serve the game. I do not believe that 3142 03:47:07.680 --> 03:47:09.879 we Jews are powerful enough to threaten your way of 3143 03:47:09.879 --> 03:47:16.479 life seriously now. Yet we are only powerful enough to irritate, 3144 03:47:16.600 --> 03:47:19.680 to disturb your conscience, and to break here and there 3145 03:47:19.719 --> 03:47:23.239 the rhythmic rush of your ideas. We irritate you as 3146 03:47:23.280 --> 03:47:26.639 a sardonic and humorless adult irritates young people by laughing 3147 03:47:26.680 --> 03:47:30.000 at their play. For the real irritation lies in the 3148 03:47:30.040 --> 03:47:33.239 fact that to our queries regarding your life, there is 3149 03:47:33.319 --> 03:47:37.079 no answer on our level. As to yours. Regarding our life, 3150 03:47:37.120 --> 03:47:40.840 there is no answer on yours. We Jews are accused 3151 03:47:40.879 --> 03:47:43.879 of being destroyers. Whatever we put up we tear down. 3152 03:47:44.760 --> 03:47:47.319 It is true only in a relative sense. We are 3153 03:47:47.360 --> 03:47:51.319 not iconoclass. Deliberately, we are not enemies of your institution 3154 03:47:51.479 --> 03:47:54.520 simply because of the dislike between us. We are a 3155 03:47:54.559 --> 03:48:00.360 homeless mass seeking satisfaction for our constructive instincts, and in 3156 03:48:00.399 --> 03:48:04.239 your institutions we cannot find satisfaction. They are the play 3157 03:48:04.319 --> 03:48:07.600 institutions of the splendid children of man and not of 3158 03:48:07.639 --> 03:48:11.120 man himself. We try to adapt your institutions to our needs, 3159 03:48:11.159 --> 03:48:14.360 because while we live, we must have expression, and trying 3160 03:48:14.360 --> 03:48:17.879 to rebuild them for our needs, we unbuild them for years, 3161 03:48:19.280 --> 03:48:23.040 because your chief institution is the social structure itself. It 3162 03:48:23.079 --> 03:48:26.280 is in this way that we are most manifestly destroyers. 3163 03:48:27.040 --> 03:48:29.639 We take part in the economic struggle for existence, this 3164 03:48:29.799 --> 03:48:33.559 necessity we share with you, but our free spiritual energies 3165 03:48:33.600 --> 03:48:36.639 point away from this struggle, for unlike you, we have 3166 03:48:36.680 --> 03:48:39.879 no pleasure in it. You gentiles fight because you like 3167 03:48:39.959 --> 03:48:42.920 to fight. We fight because we have to and in 3168 03:48:43.040 --> 03:48:45.680 order to win. It is not in a spirit of 3169 03:48:45.760 --> 03:48:49.319 hypocrisy that you have turned your business world into a 3170 03:48:49.360 --> 03:48:54.079 sporting arena with joyous flourishes, slogans, pretenses. It is not 3171 03:48:54.120 --> 03:48:56.680 in a spirit of hypocrisy that you talk of playing 3172 03:48:56.719 --> 03:48:59.879 the game while you cut each other's throats in the markets. 3173 03:49:00.399 --> 03:49:05.879 That's hilarious, you mean it. You're advertising propaganda books with 3174 03:49:06.000 --> 03:49:08.799 their sentimental appeals or not lies, they are the true 3175 03:49:08.799 --> 03:49:15.200 evidence of your spirit. I'm sorry, sir, but Edward Burnet's 3176 03:49:16.319 --> 03:49:20.879 not a gentile, and as you're writing this book, he's 3177 03:49:21.000 --> 03:49:27.879 writing propaganda. It is only when we Jews to use 3178 03:49:27.959 --> 03:49:31.959 these methods that there is hypocrisy. For we see starkly 3179 03:49:32.000 --> 03:49:34.520 through your life illusions, yet we are forced to use 3180 03:49:34.559 --> 03:49:38.120 them in self defense. But our inmost longings turn from 3181 03:49:38.159 --> 03:49:42.959 this fierce and clamorously happy struggle. While your inmost longings 3182 03:49:42.959 --> 03:49:46.920 are part of it. You give your best to it, 3183 03:49:47.040 --> 03:49:50.920 your souls, yourselves, your souls. We give only our cleverness 3184 03:49:50.959 --> 03:49:53.440 to it. This is why, in spite of the popular 3185 03:49:53.520 --> 03:49:56.200 delusions of the contrary, there are hardly any Jews among 3186 03:49:56.239 --> 03:50:00.959 the world's wealthiest men. Please yeah, I mean is that true? Now? 3187 03:50:01.319 --> 03:50:07.920 What's the percentage of billionaires? The greatest financial institutions, as 3188 03:50:07.920 --> 03:50:13.639 well as the world's greatest businesses, are almost exclusively non Jewish. 3189 03:50:13.760 --> 03:50:17.239 Dislike of the Jews in business springs from the feeling 3190 03:50:17.280 --> 03:50:20.239 that we regard all your play conventions with amusement or 3191 03:50:20.239 --> 03:50:25.440 even contempt. Our abominable seriousness brings jarringly into your life mood. 3192 03:50:26.040 --> 03:50:29.760 But you feel our disruptive difference most keenly, most resentfully 3193 03:50:29.840 --> 03:50:38.399 in our deliberate efforts to change your social system. Yes, correct, 3194 03:50:40.200 --> 03:50:43.520 we dream of a world of utter justice and God's spirit, 3195 03:50:43.639 --> 03:50:46.159 a world which would be barren for you devoid of 3196 03:50:46.200 --> 03:50:50.959 all nourishment, bleak, unfriendly, unsympathetic. You do not want such 3197 03:50:50.959 --> 03:50:54.440 a world. You are unadapt for it. Seeing in the 3198 03:50:54.520 --> 03:50:57.399 dazzling lights of your desires and needs, our ideal is 3199 03:50:57.440 --> 03:51:03.639 repellently morose. I mean, so is that what they're doing? 3200 03:51:05.959 --> 03:51:15.159 Is that what Eretz Israel is is building a is 3201 03:51:15.799 --> 03:51:19.440 we dream of a world of utter justice and God's spirit, 3202 03:51:20.239 --> 03:51:22.399 a world which would be barren for you to avoid 3203 03:51:22.399 --> 03:51:26.159 of all nourishment, bleak, unfriendly? Is that what it is? 3204 03:51:25.840 --> 03:51:32.520 Is that nourishment? What you do? Is it friendly? Is 3205 03:51:32.559 --> 03:51:42.639 it sympathetic? Is it hopeful? How then shall we live? 3206 03:51:46.680 --> 03:51:49.799 We do wrong to thrust these ideals upon you, who 3207 03:51:49.879 --> 03:51:52.399 are not for justice or peace but for play living. 3208 03:51:53.159 --> 03:51:56.079 But we cannot help ourselves any more than you can 3209 03:51:56.159 --> 03:51:59.559 help resenting our interference. While we live, we must give 3210 03:51:59.639 --> 03:52:03.639 uttering to our spirit. The most insistent effort on our 3211 03:52:03.959 --> 03:52:07.920 part will fail to change our nature. What is an 3212 03:52:07.959 --> 03:52:16.159 atheist believe spirit and nature? Is not that you are 3213 03:52:16.239 --> 03:52:19.920 untouched by poverty, by human degradation, not that you do 3214 03:52:20.040 --> 03:52:23.200 not wish at times that these unhappy things could be destroyed. 3215 03:52:23.600 --> 03:52:25.479 But this is not in the direct line of March 3216 03:52:25.520 --> 03:52:29.319 of your life in social injustice. If social injustice will 3217 03:52:29.319 --> 03:52:32.840 remove together with the game, you would unquestionably recall both 3218 03:52:33.440 --> 03:52:37.639 life before everything, freedom, joy, adventure. I talk here of 3219 03:52:37.639 --> 03:52:40.559 the modern and not of the orthodox Jew. I talk 3220 03:52:40.600 --> 03:52:43.760 of the Jew as alien as you to forms of 3221 03:52:43.799 --> 03:52:47.920 our orthodox and consciously Jewish life. This is the Jew 3222 03:52:47.920 --> 03:52:50.920 who forms the backbone both of the audience and contributor 3223 03:52:51.000 --> 03:52:53.879 to your radical and revolutionary organs. The Jew who is 3224 03:52:53.920 --> 03:53:00.159 precipitating center of spasmodic and inconsistent efforts for justice. This 3225 03:53:01.239 --> 03:53:03.559 man in your midst is not to be recognized on 3226 03:53:03.600 --> 03:53:07.000 the surface as a Jew. He himself repudiates in all 3227 03:53:07.040 --> 03:53:11.000 sincerity his Jewish affiliations. He is a citizen of the world. 3228 03:53:11.040 --> 03:53:13.520 He is a son of humanity. The progress of all mankind, 3229 03:53:13.559 --> 03:53:17.520 and not of any single group of it is in 3230 03:53:17.559 --> 03:53:23.200 his particular care. It is to this Jew that liberals 3231 03:53:23.280 --> 03:53:26.680 among you will point to refute my thesis. And it 3232 03:53:26.719 --> 03:53:29.600 is precisely the Jew who best illustrates this truth. The 3233 03:53:29.760 --> 03:53:32.520 unbelieving and radical Jew is as different from the radical 3234 03:53:32.600 --> 03:53:37.959 gentile as the orthodox Jew from the reactionary gentile. The cosmopolitan. 3235 03:53:38.639 --> 03:53:41.959 The cosmopolitanism of the radical Jews springs from his feelings 3236 03:53:41.959 --> 03:53:44.479 shared by the Orthodox Jew, that there is no difference 3237 03:53:44.520 --> 03:53:50.319 between gentile and gentile. You are all pretty much alike. 3238 03:53:50.879 --> 03:53:54.520 Then why this fussing and fretting and fighting. The Jew 3239 03:53:54.600 --> 03:53:59.479 is not a cosmopolitan in your sense. He is not 3240 03:53:59.520 --> 03:54:03.360 one who feel feels keenly the difference between national and 3241 03:54:03.479 --> 03:54:06.959 nation and overrides it. For him, as for the Orthodox Jew, 3242 03:54:07.000 --> 03:54:09.639 a single temper runs through all of you, whatever your 3243 03:54:09.719 --> 03:54:12.959 national divisions. The Radical Jew, like the Orthodox Jew, is 3244 03:54:13.000 --> 03:54:16.079 a cosmopolitan in a sense which must be irritating to you, 3245 03:54:16.399 --> 03:54:18.559 for he does not even understand why you make such 3246 03:54:18.559 --> 03:54:22.079 a fuss about that most obvious of facts, that you 3247 03:54:22.159 --> 03:54:25.319 are all alike. The Jew is altogether too much of 3248 03:54:25.319 --> 03:54:29.840 a cosmopolitan, even for your internationalists. Nor is the handful 3249 03:54:29.879 --> 03:54:32.280 of you who, against the desires and instincts to the 3250 03:54:32.319 --> 03:54:35.479 mass of you, proclaim social justice as a life aim. 3251 03:54:35.920 --> 03:54:38.399 Is a Jew any more truly at home at one 3252 03:54:38.479 --> 03:54:41.520 with Ismailiu than the old time Jew in his world. 3253 03:54:41.920 --> 03:54:45.879 Our very radicalism is of a different temper. Our spur 3254 03:54:46.120 --> 03:54:50.680 is a natural instinct. We do not have to uproot 3255 03:54:51.200 --> 03:54:55.879 something in ourselves to become radicals dreamers of social justice. 3256 03:54:56.040 --> 03:54:58.479 We are this by instinct. We do not see it 3257 03:54:58.520 --> 03:55:04.639 as something revolutionary at all. Think of the video of 3258 03:55:04.680 --> 03:55:08.559 the Witch with the all seeing eye speaking for the 3259 03:55:08.600 --> 03:55:12.639 world Jewish Congress, talking about all the things that Jews 3260 03:55:12.719 --> 03:55:19.399 have done for America, every single one of which has 3261 03:55:19.440 --> 03:55:30.200 sought to destroy our culture, the founding culture, and did 3262 03:55:31.399 --> 03:55:34.040 it is tacit with us, But with you it is 3263 03:55:34.079 --> 03:55:37.840 an effort and a wrench. Your very ancestry cries out 3264 03:55:37.840 --> 03:55:40.479 against it in your blood, and you become silly and 3265 03:55:40.600 --> 03:55:43.760 enthusiastic about it, with flag waving and shouting and battle 3266 03:55:43.799 --> 03:55:46.920 hymns in all the regular game psychology property your world 3267 03:55:46.959 --> 03:55:49.159 in a way of life. Even of this you make 3268 03:55:49.200 --> 03:55:54.120 a play. But such as these radical and international movements 3269 03:55:54.159 --> 03:55:57.319 are the modern Jew, the best and most thoughtful modern Jew, 3270 03:55:57.360 --> 03:56:00.399 that is, is nearer to them than to your anything 3271 03:56:00.440 --> 03:56:03.959 else in your world. He is the only true socialist 3272 03:56:04.040 --> 03:56:07.319 and cosmopolitan, but in such a true and tacit sense 3273 03:56:07.600 --> 03:56:10.840 that he is completely distinguished from all of you. It 3274 03:56:10.920 --> 03:56:13.760 is one of many vital paradoxes, a thing illogical and 3275 03:56:13.840 --> 03:56:17.040 yet true to life. It is our very cosmopolitanism that 3276 03:56:17.159 --> 03:56:22.000 gives us our national character, because we are the only 3277 03:56:22.040 --> 03:56:25.280 ones who are cosmopolitan by instinct rather than by argument, 3278 03:56:25.360 --> 03:56:33.879 we remain forever ourselves. That's read that again, because we 3279 03:56:33.920 --> 03:56:38.120 are the only ones who are cosmopolitan. By instinct rather 3280 03:56:38.159 --> 03:56:43.479 than by argument, we remain forever ourselves. Basically, what he's 3281 03:56:43.479 --> 03:56:45.680 saying is if you have a Jew, if you have 3282 03:56:45.719 --> 03:56:48.639 a Jewish radical out there, and you have a Gentile 3283 03:56:48.719 --> 03:56:54.639 radical out there, the gentile is arguing the Jew just 3284 03:56:55.000 --> 03:57:03.799 is in everything we are destroyers, even in the instruments 3285 03:57:03.799 --> 03:57:06.719 of destruction to which we turn for relief. The very 3286 03:57:06.799 --> 03:57:10.879 socialism and internationalism through which our choked spirit seeks utterance, 3287 03:57:11.159 --> 03:57:13.559 which seem to threaten your way of life, are alien 3288 03:57:13.639 --> 03:57:17.440 to our spirits, demands, and needs. You're socialists and internationalists 3289 03:57:17.440 --> 03:57:20.559 are not serious. The charm of these movements, the attractions 3290 03:57:20.559 --> 03:57:23.479 such as it is which they exercise, is only in 3291 03:57:23.520 --> 03:57:27.600 their struggle. It is the fight which draws your gentile radicals. 3292 03:57:28.280 --> 03:57:30.920 And indeed, it is only as long as there is 3293 03:57:30.959 --> 03:57:33.479 an element of adventure in being a radical, that the 3294 03:57:33.559 --> 03:57:39.120 radical movement retains any individuality. And it is only in 3295 03:57:39.159 --> 03:57:42.200 the fierce period of early combat that you welcome us 3296 03:57:42.280 --> 03:57:46.719 choose as allies. You're deluded in this, so are we. 3297 03:57:48.120 --> 03:57:56.239 You go into the movement boldly adventurously, we darkly tacitly. Basically, 3298 03:57:56.319 --> 03:58:00.319 what he's saying is, if those people, those gentiles who 3299 03:58:00.360 --> 03:58:05.639 ran to join the Bolsheviks, ran to join any kind 3300 03:58:05.719 --> 03:58:14.120 of far left psychotic movement, Genziles are running their bold 3301 03:58:14.239 --> 03:58:23.360 and adventurously. Jews were running there because they are. You 3302 03:58:23.399 --> 03:58:26.000 make it a game. We do it because we cannot 3303 03:58:26.120 --> 03:58:30.399 help ourselves. And sure enough, in the end the split 3304 03:58:30.479 --> 03:58:33.639 comes again. The liberal and the radical er is apt 3305 03:58:33.680 --> 03:58:37.319 to dislike the jew as the reactionaries are. The liberal 3306 03:58:37.360 --> 03:58:39.959 and the radical do not use the weapons of the reactionaries, 3307 03:58:40.200 --> 03:58:43.239 but the dislike is there finds expression in anti Semitic 3308 03:58:43.440 --> 03:58:48.680 socialists and workers' movements, and in the almost involuntary contempt 3309 03:58:48.760 --> 03:58:55.719 which springs to the lips of countless intellectuals. Philosophies do 3310 03:58:55.799 --> 03:59:00.639 not remold natures. What your radicals want is another form 3311 03:59:00.680 --> 03:59:04.639 of the game with our rules. Their discontent joins hands 3312 03:59:04.639 --> 03:59:07.600 with Jewish discontent, but it is not the same kind 3313 03:59:07.600 --> 03:59:10.399 of discontent. A little distance down the road, the ways 3314 03:59:10.440 --> 03:59:14.000 part forever the Jewish radical will turn from your social movement. 3315 03:59:14.120 --> 03:59:17.079 He will discover his mistake. He will discover that nothing 3316 03:59:17.079 --> 03:59:20.040 can bridge the gulf between you and us. I believe 3317 03:59:20.079 --> 03:59:22.639 the movement has already started, the gradual secession of the 3318 03:59:22.719 --> 03:59:26.799 Jewish radicals, their realization that your radicalism is of the 3319 03:59:26.840 --> 03:59:30.959 same essential stuff as your conservatism. The disillusionment is set 3320 03:59:31.000 --> 03:59:37.000 in a century of partial tolerance gives us Jews access 3321 03:59:37.040 --> 03:59:40.079 to your world. In that period, the great attempt was 3322 03:59:40.120 --> 03:59:43.879 made by advance guards of reconciliation to bring our two 3323 03:59:44.000 --> 03:59:47.280 worlds together. It was a century of failure. Our Jewish 3324 03:59:47.360 --> 03:59:51.799 radicals are beginning to understand it dimly. We Jews, we 3325 03:59:52.000 --> 03:59:57.479 the destroyers, will remain the destroyers forever. Nothing that you 3326 03:59:57.639 --> 04:00:01.280 will do will meet our needs and demand. We will 3327 04:00:01.360 --> 04:00:04.959 forever destroy because we need a world of our own, 3328 04:00:05.440 --> 04:00:08.360 a God world which it is not in your nature 3329 04:00:08.399 --> 04:00:12.239 to build. Beyond all temporary alliances with this or that 3330 04:00:12.440 --> 04:00:16.120 faction lies the ultimate split in nature and destiny, the 3331 04:00:16.200 --> 04:00:19.760 enmity between the game and God. But those of us 3332 04:00:19.799 --> 04:00:22.600 who fail to understand that truth will always be found 3333 04:00:22.600 --> 04:00:27.840 in alliance with your rebellious factions until disillusionment comes. The 3334 04:00:27.879 --> 04:00:31.840 wretched fate which scattered us through your midst has thrust 3335 04:00:31.879 --> 04:00:41.239 that unwelcome role upon us. I don't think I need 3336 04:00:41.239 --> 04:00:49.000 to explain anything. I think it's all right there. All right, 3337 04:00:51.600 --> 04:00:53.479 be back in a couple of days. I'll try to 3338 04:00:53.479 --> 04:00:55.239 be back in a couple days as soon as possible. 3339 04:00:55.959 --> 04:01:00.479 You take care of everyone, right, all right again, I 3340 04:01:00.520 --> 04:01:06.639 apologize for doing this what seems to be a week 3341 04:01:06.680 --> 04:01:09.639 apart on episodes. I really need to be doing this more. 3342 04:01:10.600 --> 04:01:14.639 Make every effort to do it. Sorry, no promises, but 3343 04:01:16.799 --> 04:01:22.760 let's move on to episode chapter ten of Maurice Samuel's 3344 04:01:22.760 --> 04:01:25.120 You Gentiles. Let's see what he has to say. This 3345 04:01:25.159 --> 04:01:31.399 one's called the Games of Science. Illusions changed the instruments 3346 04:01:31.399 --> 04:01:34.959 of their expression, but they remain the same illusions. Religions 3347 04:01:35.040 --> 04:01:38.440 changed their gods, but remained the same religions. The atheist 3348 04:01:38.479 --> 04:01:41.600 gentile has made science as god he, but it has 3349 04:01:41.639 --> 04:01:47.120 not changed his religion. In the scientific field, the atheist 3350 04:01:47.200 --> 04:01:50.559 gentile tells me, we will find world unity in science. 3351 04:01:50.600 --> 04:01:53.600 There is no room for the subconscious. For the subconscious, 3352 04:01:53.639 --> 04:01:57.120 and it is a subconscious which dictates the eternal enmities. 3353 04:01:58.959 --> 04:02:02.200 Place your relations on a conscious basis, and you may 3354 04:02:02.239 --> 04:02:06.760 have differences to be adjusted, but not enmities. The solution 3355 04:02:06.840 --> 04:02:10.520 of the Jewish gentile problem, as of every instinct problem, 3356 04:02:10.639 --> 04:02:15.520 lies in the pursuit of truth through science. All other 3357 04:02:15.600 --> 04:02:18.719 problems are not really problems, but purely technical matters to 3358 04:02:18.760 --> 04:02:22.959 be settled by the application of mathematics. And as we 3359 04:02:23.000 --> 04:02:26.239 will learn to make this distinction between instinct problem and 3360 04:02:26.319 --> 04:02:29.440 technical task, the greater is a discredit into which the 3361 04:02:29.520 --> 04:02:32.760 former falls, the clearer is the attention that we bring 3362 04:02:32.879 --> 04:02:37.399 to the latter. The greatest contribution to science to human 3363 04:02:37.479 --> 04:02:40.680 advance has been the opening of paths to our free intelligence, 3364 04:02:41.000 --> 04:02:45.079 so that the unconscious and subconscious mind, with its inheritance 3365 04:02:45.200 --> 04:02:52.239 of the best, might fall into decutude. The truth alone 3366 04:02:52.280 --> 04:02:57.600 will save us, and in science is truth. I do 3367 04:02:57.680 --> 04:02:59.920 not wish to go into an examination of the nature 3368 04:03:00.079 --> 04:03:02.360 of truth. I do not wish to question the validity 3369 04:03:02.399 --> 04:03:05.760 of scientific truths. I don't believe that for a second. 3370 04:03:07.639 --> 04:03:10.520 I am ready to admit that scientific truths are truths 3371 04:03:10.559 --> 04:03:13.520 in an accepted sense of this word, or if there 3372 04:03:13.520 --> 04:03:17.040 are mistakes, if this or that scientific theory is wrong, 3373 04:03:17.120 --> 04:03:20.200 I will not argue that therefore the scientific method is wrong, 3374 04:03:20.639 --> 04:03:23.440 or that science itself does not go nearest to the truth. 3375 04:03:24.479 --> 04:03:27.239 My contention is at science. The examination of facts in 3376 04:03:27.360 --> 04:03:31.920 literal terms is quite irrelevant to the spiritual problems of man, 3377 04:03:35.000 --> 04:03:36.840 and we're get in someplace. I mean, what does an 3378 04:03:36.840 --> 04:03:43.120 atheist mean by spiritual? But you know, hey, science is accurate, 3379 04:03:43.159 --> 04:03:47.159 but its accuracy is pointless for spiritual purposes. The truths 3380 04:03:47.159 --> 04:03:49.879 which are unveiled by the scientific method, and which it 3381 04:03:50.079 --> 04:03:53.040 is to which it is the special aptness of this 3382 04:03:53.200 --> 04:03:57.719 method's unveil, do not matter to anybody. Science teaches us 3383 04:03:57.719 --> 04:04:00.040 that the Earth goes around the Sun rather than the 3384 04:03:59.840 --> 04:04:02.639 Sun around the Earth. Does it really matter which is 3385 04:04:02.680 --> 04:04:07.120 the case? Science teaches us that the occasional retrogression of 3386 04:04:07.239 --> 04:04:09.639 fact and the observed motion of the planets is not 3387 04:04:09.760 --> 04:04:15.120 due to cycle to cycle in epicycle, orb in orb 3388 04:04:15.479 --> 04:04:19.159 but to change the perspective produced along the plane of 3389 04:04:19.200 --> 04:04:24.200 the ecliptic ecliptic during the revolutions of the planet around 3390 04:04:24.200 --> 04:04:27.959 the Sun. Well, what of it? It has revealed the 3391 04:04:28.000 --> 04:04:31.079 fact that certain diseases are due to the action of 3392 04:04:31.360 --> 04:04:36.000 minute parasites, that there is a marvelous structural parallel between 3393 04:04:36.040 --> 04:04:39.680 man and beast, that forms of energy are interchangeable, that 3394 04:04:39.760 --> 04:04:42.559 the Earth is extremely old, that there were other forms 3395 04:04:42.600 --> 04:04:44.959 of life on the planet before us, that we are 3396 04:04:45.000 --> 04:04:48.799 merely a point in space. All this is accurate. But 3397 04:04:48.959 --> 04:04:52.440 is any of it? But is it of any importance? 3398 04:04:53.479 --> 04:04:56.559 I ignore, of course, the obvious advantages which were supposed 3399 04:04:56.559 --> 04:04:59.840 to accrue from the application of these facts, the conquest 3400 04:04:59.879 --> 04:05:03.280 of nature, as it is bombastically called. Though even these 3401 04:05:03.319 --> 04:05:08.559 advantages are vitiated by our inability to exploit them decently, 3402 04:05:09.799 --> 04:05:14.760 it should be vitiated. I believe it is not to 3403 04:05:14.879 --> 04:05:19.319 these advantages that the science hasts alludes. When he talks 3404 04:05:19.319 --> 04:05:22.399 of the spiritual value of science, he means pure science, 3405 04:05:22.399 --> 04:05:25.000 the perception of these truths for their own sake, or 3406 04:05:25.360 --> 04:05:27.879 more accurately, for the sake of the change which may 3407 04:05:27.920 --> 04:05:31.920 produce in our attitude towards life, the universe, each other. 3408 04:05:33.920 --> 04:05:37.360 But science and revelation of scientific truths have no effect 3409 04:05:37.399 --> 04:05:40.479 on our attitude toward life, the universe, and each other. 3410 04:05:40.879 --> 04:05:42.840 The mood of the mind of man, the temper of 3411 04:05:42.879 --> 04:05:47.239 his outlook, is essential nature. This totality of spiritual reaction 3412 04:05:47.360 --> 04:05:49.680 has nothing to do with the additional number of facts 3413 04:05:49.719 --> 04:05:52.799 which science reveals. It would not alter the effective mood 3414 04:05:52.840 --> 04:05:55.399 a civilized man if it happened that light will reveal 3415 04:05:55.479 --> 04:06:00.559 this the radiation of corpusles, rather than as waves in 3416 04:06:00.600 --> 04:06:05.840 the ether. Whatever that may mean there may be eighty 3417 04:06:05.879 --> 04:06:10.399 eight elements or eight hundred and eighty eight. The atom 3418 04:06:10.479 --> 04:06:12.840 may be a kind of solar system, or it may 3419 04:06:12.879 --> 04:06:15.920 be a figure of speech. Life, may be the function 3420 04:06:16.159 --> 04:06:19.680 of a complicated molecular structure, or it may be an illusion. 3421 04:06:19.920 --> 04:06:22.920 Whichever should turn out to be true, we should remain 3422 04:06:22.959 --> 04:06:25.879 the same. Our only concern is with the exploitation of 3423 04:06:25.920 --> 04:06:28.920 these things for physical advantages, and as far as that 3424 04:06:29.040 --> 04:06:31.520 is concerned, it does not matter whether we have the 3425 04:06:31.559 --> 04:06:35.399 truth or have hit on a method by conventional hypotheses. 3426 04:06:37.639 --> 04:06:41.000 The ptolemaic system of astronomy could permit the calculation of 3427 04:06:41.040 --> 04:06:48.719 eclipses as accurate, as accurately as the Copernican cycle cycle 3428 04:06:48.760 --> 04:06:51.840 in epicycle orb in orb works as effectively if the 3429 04:06:51.879 --> 04:06:57.440 figures are closely enough washed as ellipses with the Sun 3430 04:06:56.200 --> 04:07:00.920 at one at one of the foci. For science as 3431 04:07:00.920 --> 04:07:04.719 a game, a particular systematization, which might well be any 3432 04:07:04.760 --> 04:07:09.479 other systematization. Indeed, despite the prodigious number of facts which 3433 04:07:09.479 --> 04:07:12.559 science has unveiled, no new type of spiritual outlook has 3434 04:07:12.600 --> 04:07:16.520 been evolved. Is the general consciousness or self consciousness of 3435 04:07:16.520 --> 04:07:19.399 the modern materialists different in effect from that of the 3436 04:07:19.399 --> 04:07:22.920 civilized stoic or more than or more than two thousand 3437 04:07:23.000 --> 04:07:26.760 years ago. If you substitute stress in the ether for 3438 04:07:26.840 --> 04:07:30.120 the numa, if you substitute the laws of gravitation or 3439 04:07:30.159 --> 04:07:34.200 some electromagnetic formula for each other, or for tension, will 3440 04:07:34.200 --> 04:07:38.280 that alter your response to the universe? Science is so 3441 04:07:38.360 --> 04:07:42.120 far a game, indeed that self confessedly it deals with symbols. 3442 04:07:42.159 --> 04:07:45.639 Only these are pure abstractions. The ion x to the 3443 04:07:45.799 --> 04:07:50.639 end the theory of relativity. We juggle with figures, with symbols, 3444 04:07:50.920 --> 04:07:54.360 with arrangements. The things or truths or facts which are 3445 04:07:54.399 --> 04:08:01.040 supposedly represented are utter utterly beyond our apprehension. To take 3446 04:08:01.079 --> 04:08:04.399 the simplest illustration, the sun is ninety two million miles 3447 04:08:04.399 --> 04:08:06.680 from the Earth, the moon a quarter of a million miles. 3448 04:08:07.239 --> 04:08:10.000 Neither one of these distances means anything to any human 3449 04:08:10.040 --> 04:08:12.760 being a million or ten million, or one thousand billion. 3450 04:08:13.120 --> 04:08:15.600 We have no spiritual reaction to any of these figures. 3451 04:08:16.879 --> 04:08:19.760 They are symbols or counters in the game, and themselves 3452 04:08:19.840 --> 04:08:23.159 intelligible to no one. Or to take the most significant 3453 04:08:23.200 --> 04:08:27.840 of new scientific facts a truths the truth theory of relativity. 3454 04:08:28.680 --> 04:08:31.719 Its application is only to the game or system. No 3455 04:08:31.840 --> 04:08:35.719 man himself reacts to its implications. He uses it in 3456 04:08:35.719 --> 04:08:38.440 the laboratory, in the observatory, he cannot bring it out, 3457 04:08:38.520 --> 04:08:41.079 He cannot even lift it off the paper. Indeed, such 3458 04:08:41.079 --> 04:08:44.000 a revolution was brought in our conception of the universe 3459 04:08:44.040 --> 04:08:47.159 by the exposition of the theory of relativity. That if 3460 04:08:47.200 --> 04:08:52.360 scientific truths had any significant, any spiritual significance, there should 3461 04:08:52.440 --> 04:08:56.319 have been a religious revolution in its wake. Since the 3462 04:08:56.399 --> 04:08:59.840 dawna science, we have been I mean, he doesn't understand 3463 04:09:00.120 --> 04:09:10.799 how revivals work, which is not surprising at all. Since 3464 04:09:10.840 --> 04:09:13.280 the DNA science we have been blind to a tremendous 3465 04:09:13.319 --> 04:09:18.000 and fundamental truth, and all inclusive and inescapable truth, namely 3466 04:09:18.319 --> 04:09:21.120 that the motions of light rules all our measurements of 3467 04:09:21.159 --> 04:09:24.079 a time and space and mass, that the length of 3468 04:09:24.120 --> 04:09:26.600 a lign or of a period of time is nothing 3469 04:09:26.680 --> 04:09:32.920 but a function of varying values. A terrific and sublime discovery, 3470 04:09:33.040 --> 04:09:35.799 one might say. Yet not only does it fail to 3471 04:09:35.799 --> 04:09:39.120 make a particle of difference to the spiritual attitude of 3472 04:09:39.159 --> 04:09:43.360 scientists towards the universe, they cannot even theoretically integrate it 3473 04:09:43.399 --> 04:09:48.760 into a spirit with a spiritual system. All the effective 3474 04:09:48.799 --> 04:09:52.239 spiritual value of the theory of relativity is things are 3475 04:09:52.239 --> 04:09:55.200 not what they seem. To this suspicion, which is a 3476 04:09:55.200 --> 04:09:57.799 basic spiritual reaction of a man to the universe, the 3477 04:09:57.799 --> 04:10:00.959 theory of relativity adds nothing, and most of the theory 3478 04:10:01.000 --> 04:10:06.159 of relativity is an additional but superfluous illustration. But as 3479 04:10:06.200 --> 04:10:08.760 shall be told by the scientist, it is not any 3480 04:10:08.799 --> 04:10:12.799 individual scientific revelation which matters. What matters is a scientific outlook. 3481 04:10:12.799 --> 04:10:15.799 As such, the conception of the universe as an ordered 3482 04:10:15.799 --> 04:10:19.239 and harmonious process, the elimination of the providential and accidental, 3483 04:10:19.479 --> 04:10:26.520 the final and decisive removal of the Taumatollurgical science means 3484 04:10:26.600 --> 04:10:30.479 neither the theory of evolution, nor the discovery of the basilis, 3485 04:10:30.559 --> 04:10:34.399 nor the theory of relativity. Science means a cancelation of 3486 04:10:34.440 --> 04:10:39.840 the inherited instinct errors. In brief, science is a substitution 3487 04:10:39.959 --> 04:10:45.200 of reason for superstition. But even at that variation, I 3488 04:10:45.239 --> 04:10:48.239 can tend the scientific pursuit of truth has given nothing 3489 04:10:48.280 --> 04:10:51.879 to our knowledge of the ultimate secret of things. What 3490 04:10:51.920 --> 04:10:55.479 the scientists would call the scientific outlook in accordance with 3491 04:10:55.559 --> 04:10:58.639 the above definition, has nothing to do with the scientific 3492 04:10:58.680 --> 04:11:08.360 study of phenomena manner by nature untraumaturgical or traumaturgical in 3493 04:11:08.399 --> 04:11:11.239 their reaction to the universe. Well that one second, I 3494 04:11:11.319 --> 04:11:20.280 want to look with this. Let's see what taumaturgical refers to. 3495 04:11:20.360 --> 04:11:24.799 Something related to taumaturgy, which is the practice of performing 3496 04:11:24.879 --> 04:11:31.840 miracles or magic, especially in a religious context. If you 3497 04:11:32.040 --> 04:11:38.159 knew that, good on you. I'm very unfamiliar with those terms, 3498 04:11:38.200 --> 04:11:44.959 and I've studied, studied a lot of things. Science in 3499 04:11:45.000 --> 04:11:49.000 its modern sense does not make them untraumaturgical. It is 3500 04:11:49.000 --> 04:11:51.520 one of the most basic qualities of human life. This 3501 04:11:51.600 --> 04:11:54.840 particular variety of outlook on the universe. I say it 3502 04:11:54.879 --> 04:11:58.520 existed before the advent of what we denote under the 3503 04:11:58.559 --> 04:12:02.159 restricted term of science. I say it would exist just 3504 04:12:02.200 --> 04:12:04.280 as strongly in these types of men, though not a 3505 04:12:04.280 --> 04:12:07.879 single discovery had been added to human knowledge of phenomena 3506 04:12:07.959 --> 04:12:11.479 since the time of Aristotle. I say that those science 3507 04:12:11.520 --> 04:12:14.959 should add a million startling new revelations to its old ones, 3508 04:12:15.239 --> 04:12:17.479 it would not increase or decrease the number of men 3509 04:12:17.520 --> 04:12:23.319 who have the untoumaturgical outlook. I referred to the Stoics 3510 04:12:23.319 --> 04:12:28.239 and said that Stoicism contained as untoumaturgical and outlook as 3511 04:12:28.319 --> 04:12:31.520 any that modern science claims to have inspired. But even 3512 04:12:31.559 --> 04:12:34.639 if this were not true, I should not change my opinion. 3513 04:12:35.159 --> 04:12:38.000 For life at firsthand taught me this view, and what 3514 04:12:38.120 --> 04:12:40.799 I know of history I used only as an illustration. 3515 04:12:41.479 --> 04:12:44.360 Life at firsthand was taught to me taught me that 3516 04:12:44.479 --> 04:12:47.200 knowledge of science has nothing to do with the superstitious 3517 04:12:47.280 --> 04:12:53.440 or unsuperstitious, with a taumaturgical or untaumaturgical, with idealism or materialism. 3518 04:12:53.959 --> 04:12:57.920 I have known thoroughly ignorant men who see life quite rationally, 3519 04:12:58.040 --> 04:13:03.440 apparently untroubled by unconscious impulses, men who see life quite rationally, 3520 04:13:03.520 --> 04:13:07.680 apparently untroubled by unconscious imple men who have the scientific 3521 04:13:07.719 --> 04:13:13.840 outlook without knowing or needing science. I have known thoroughly 3522 04:13:13.920 --> 04:13:17.920 scientific men who are profoundly taumaturgical, who are saturated with 3523 04:13:17.959 --> 04:13:22.879 the spirit of superstition. It is not the knowledge of 3524 04:13:22.959 --> 04:13:25.799 facts which changes the man. A man may believe in 3525 04:13:25.879 --> 04:13:28.719 ghosts and yet may not be superstitious. He may merely 3526 04:13:28.799 --> 04:13:32.079 be mistaken. Another man may believe neither in ghosts nor 3527 04:13:32.120 --> 04:13:38.920 in anthropomorphic God, and yet be essentially of the superstitious type. 3528 04:13:39.040 --> 04:13:41.280 It is not even a question of sophistication. I have 3529 04:13:41.360 --> 04:13:45.479 known simple and primitive peasants, quite illiterate, who are as 3530 04:13:45.600 --> 04:13:50.000 clearly rationalist and scientific and outlook as any professor inspired 3531 04:13:50.000 --> 04:13:52.559 by complete knowledge of the revealed mechanics of the world. 3532 04:13:53.399 --> 04:13:57.559 I've known cultured city dwellers rotten with sophistication, whose surface 3533 04:13:57.600 --> 04:14:01.360 cynicism could not hide their subjections to the terror of invisible, 3534 04:14:01.879 --> 04:14:07.680 unrevealable possibilities. Scientific genius is only the genius of the ingenious. 3535 04:14:09.079 --> 04:14:12.000 Men who by their nature are materialists, spend their energies 3536 04:14:12.000 --> 04:14:17.760 in building intensely ingenious scamata, wherein the known facts of 3537 04:14:17.840 --> 04:14:22.239 life constitute the soul material. But these ingenious scamata do 3538 04:14:22.319 --> 04:14:26.040 not alter their nature with their shape or with the 3539 04:14:26.159 --> 04:14:30.040 quantity of their material. The mechanics of the universe might 3540 04:14:30.079 --> 04:14:32.920 be thus or thus. Things might work in this way 3541 04:14:33.040 --> 04:14:35.319 or in that way. It might be one formula or 3542 04:14:35.360 --> 04:14:37.879 another formula, but the spirit of the thing is the same. 3543 04:14:39.079 --> 04:14:42.559 For hundreds of years, capable minds of search constructed, reconciled, 3544 04:14:43.040 --> 04:14:47.040 their knowledge of the mechanism is indefinitely greater than any 3545 04:14:47.079 --> 04:14:50.319 man's knowledge a thousand years ago. Yet men who know 3546 04:14:50.479 --> 04:14:54.319 as little of these mechanics as was known a thousand 3547 04:14:54.440 --> 04:14:57.319 years ago have come to the same conclusion regarding the 3548 04:14:57.399 --> 04:15:01.479 nature of the universe. There is in science a certain 3549 04:15:01.559 --> 04:15:05.799 naivete the belief that facts differ in their nature, the 3550 04:15:05.799 --> 04:15:09.360 belief that a fact which it is more difficult to 3551 04:15:09.479 --> 04:15:13.559 unearth is therefore profounder than a fact which is obvious. 3552 04:15:14.040 --> 04:15:18.319 The belief that a microbe, because it needs a microscope 3553 04:15:18.360 --> 04:15:21.239 to reveal it, touches truth more deeply than the flea 3554 04:15:21.639 --> 04:15:24.079 which can be seen with a naked eye. Yet a 3555 04:15:24.120 --> 04:15:27.239 fact is not more valuable for being difficult to access, 3556 04:15:27.600 --> 04:15:29.959 any more than a thought is more profound by having 3557 04:15:30.440 --> 04:15:35.079 been made obscure. In the end, it comes to this, science, 3558 04:15:35.120 --> 04:15:37.399 which is the accumulation of literal fact, hopes that the 3559 04:15:37.440 --> 04:15:40.920 accumulation of facts will reveal the nature of fact. Science 3560 04:15:40.920 --> 04:15:44.879 seems to believe, if I may use these rather clumsy locutions, 3561 04:15:45.760 --> 04:15:49.079 that some facts are of a different order from other facts, 3562 04:15:49.280 --> 04:15:51.760 going nearer to the sources of the nature of things. 3563 04:15:51.920 --> 04:15:54.399 This is untrue. All facts are on the same plane. 3564 04:15:55.000 --> 04:15:59.479 Facts are not explanatory but expository, and what they expose 3565 04:15:59.719 --> 04:16:02.680 is of the same natural or material as that which 3566 04:16:02.719 --> 04:16:07.239 we know. Without science to expect facts to reveal the 3567 04:16:07.319 --> 04:16:09.879 nature of facts is to expect the microscope to reveal 3568 04:16:09.920 --> 04:16:13.319 the nature of the microscope. You can examine one microscope 3569 04:16:13.319 --> 04:16:16.799 by means of another, but its nature or secret is 3570 04:16:16.840 --> 04:16:21.079 not accessible to this mode of examination. It is of 3571 04:16:21.120 --> 04:16:24.559 a different order. The chain of facts is everywhere uniform. 3572 04:16:24.959 --> 04:16:26.799 When you know one inch of this chain, you have 3573 04:16:26.879 --> 04:16:29.200 learned as much as you can learn from a mile. 3574 04:16:29.680 --> 04:16:33.559 If the chain of causes and effects fact related to 3575 04:16:33.719 --> 04:16:38.000 fact is indefinitely long, any length of it is equally insignificant. 3576 04:16:38.399 --> 04:16:41.000 A thousand years is not nearer to internity than a 3577 04:16:41.040 --> 04:16:45.159 moment of time in time. There is indeed a certain 3578 04:16:45.200 --> 04:16:49.719 vulgarity in the appeal to quantity. It is a democratic vulgarity, 3579 04:16:50.079 --> 04:16:53.280 the belief that one million mediocre people have more spiritual 3580 04:16:53.319 --> 04:16:58.120 significance in one mediocrity, that size affects quality, that one 3581 04:16:58.159 --> 04:17:01.159 thousand new facts mean more than a hundred old facts. 3582 04:17:02.120 --> 04:17:05.360 There is in all this even the vulgarity of provincialism 3583 04:17:05.719 --> 04:17:09.879 and cockney fashionableness, the belief that the latest is the best. 3584 04:17:10.319 --> 04:17:14.040 But vulgarity is most patent in the common assertion that 3585 04:17:14.079 --> 04:17:17.040 science is of spiritual value because there reveals to wonders 3586 04:17:17.040 --> 04:17:20.639 of the universe. So marvelous a structure, they say, arouses 3587 04:17:20.680 --> 04:17:24.440 our astonishment and our reverence, the glory of God's house 3588 04:17:24.479 --> 04:17:27.479 and the infinite wisdom of his ways. Science leads to 3589 04:17:27.520 --> 04:17:31.239 religion because it teaches us both our insignificance and the 3590 04:17:31.280 --> 04:17:35.719 amazing cleverness of creation. I hold this to you to 3591 04:17:35.719 --> 04:17:38.719 be patently vulgar, because it is an appeal to headlines, 3592 04:17:39.319 --> 04:17:42.239 recourse to the stimuli of the advertiser for the benefit 3593 04:17:42.280 --> 04:17:45.360 of a stupid and jaded public. The thinking man needs 3594 04:17:45.479 --> 04:17:48.120 no science as to teach him the wonder of creation. 3595 04:17:48.680 --> 04:17:51.319 He needs neither a telescope nor a microscope in order 3596 04:17:51.319 --> 04:17:54.520 to see God, nor do formulate teach him the nature 3597 04:17:54.559 --> 04:17:58.399 of God. Life itself, being the staggering wonder of mere existence, 3598 04:17:59.079 --> 04:18:03.360 feels completely the crams beyond all possibility of addition the 3599 04:18:03.360 --> 04:18:08.520 faculty of astonishment and bewilderment in the sensitive man. Those 3600 04:18:08.600 --> 04:18:12.840 doom existence has become commonplace by familiarity, or who have 3601 04:18:13.159 --> 04:18:16.840 never been smitten prostrate by the riddle of existence, need 3602 04:18:16.879 --> 04:18:20.319 a crescendo succession of shockers to touch their British minds. 3603 04:18:21.159 --> 04:18:23.399 They didn't know the marvel of the universe until they 3604 04:18:23.440 --> 04:18:27.399 learned of electricity, but now that electricity is commonplace as sunlight, 3605 04:18:27.600 --> 04:18:29.799 they need a theory of relativity. And when that has 3606 04:18:29.879 --> 04:18:33.360 played out as an advertising stunt for the ingenuity of 3607 04:18:33.399 --> 04:18:40.040 the Almighty, they will need something else. It's hard to 3608 04:18:40.159 --> 04:18:49.000 tell if he's if he's against learning, if he's scared 3609 04:18:49.040 --> 04:19:01.239 of it, if if this is just simply you can't 3610 04:19:01.280 --> 04:19:10.959 know anything, so don't bother goy. I mean, reading all this, 3611 04:19:11.079 --> 04:19:13.360 and I mean I understand most of it. Sometimes he's 3612 04:19:13.399 --> 04:19:16.600 just going off on tangents that make no sense. But 3613 04:19:16.680 --> 04:19:19.600 I mean there's a certain there's a certain nihilism in 3614 04:19:19.680 --> 04:19:24.040 all of this, this chapter more than any other. He's 3615 04:19:24.120 --> 04:19:29.159 not really It's almost like he's just taken a time 3616 04:19:29.200 --> 04:19:33.159 out after he's told you that we are the destroyers 3617 04:19:33.440 --> 04:19:41.479 and we will never stop, to basically try to convince 3618 04:19:41.520 --> 04:19:47.920 you that you can't know anything, that there's no truth 3619 04:19:52.360 --> 04:19:58.319 and it's all doom. Maybe somebody else sees see something 3620 04:19:58.319 --> 04:20:04.520 else in this other than frustration just in trying to understand, 3621 04:20:06.079 --> 04:20:09.239 trying to make sense of somebody who, in my opinion, 3622 04:20:09.319 --> 04:20:13.559 is just basically trying to sound smarter than he actually is, 3623 04:20:16.040 --> 04:20:20.239 or he's insanely intelligent and he's doing all this to 3624 04:20:20.280 --> 04:20:26.559 convince you that facts don't mean anything. He keeps coming 3625 04:20:26.559 --> 04:20:31.639 at it from a spiritual sense, but he keeps referring 3626 04:20:31.680 --> 04:20:34.280 to the spirit. It's a god. And I mean, but 3627 04:20:34.760 --> 04:20:38.680 he doesn't believe in any of these things. I mean, 3628 04:20:38.719 --> 04:20:41.479 I assume most of you at this point believe that 3629 04:20:41.840 --> 04:20:44.760 when he talks about gods, he's God. He's talking about 3630 04:20:44.840 --> 04:20:51.399 himself and the Jewish masses. That's all I can think of. 3631 04:20:55.079 --> 04:20:57.639 Such vulgarity and sciences is not a whit different from 3632 04:20:57.639 --> 04:21:01.440 the vulgarity of city mobs, which with astonishment when first 3633 04:21:01.440 --> 04:21:04.600 they see an electric light, but afterwards smile pityingly at 3634 04:21:04.639 --> 04:21:10.120 those who manifest astonishment. Well, I mean, that's just familiarity 3635 04:21:10.159 --> 04:21:17.639 breeding contempt. That's a human It's very human. I think 3636 04:21:17.719 --> 04:21:23.440 everyone knows that the man of the mass mistakes impudent 3637 04:21:23.520 --> 04:21:28.200 familiarity for understanding. Because he uses the electric chair, the telephone, 3638 04:21:28.520 --> 04:21:30.639 and the telegraph every day, he imagines that he is 3639 04:21:30.639 --> 04:21:33.040 wiser than the barbarian who has never known of them. 3640 04:21:34.159 --> 04:21:36.760 If at all, he is less wise, being too impudent 3641 04:21:36.799 --> 04:21:40.040 to know his own ignorance, the fool to say it 3642 04:21:40.120 --> 04:21:41.959 in his heart, there is no God is the city 3643 04:21:42.040 --> 04:21:45.799 fool to whom nothing is wonderful anymore. And those who 3644 04:21:45.799 --> 04:21:49.719 do not wonder do not know God. I think that 3645 04:21:49.799 --> 04:21:56.600 there is some truth in that, that the greatest way 3646 04:21:56.639 --> 04:22:01.600 to keep and perpetuate a good relationship with God is 3647 04:22:01.680 --> 04:22:07.799 through mystery. But I don't That's not what he's saying here. 3648 04:22:10.120 --> 04:22:17.159 It's almost like he's quoting this to try to create 3649 04:22:17.200 --> 04:22:25.200 a common ground. It is not significant that the greatest 3650 04:22:25.239 --> 04:22:27.879 human cry of wonder of the Bible was the utterance 3651 04:22:27.920 --> 04:22:32.760 of men who knew nothing concerning the Plesiosaurus, the Amiba, 3652 04:22:32.959 --> 04:22:40.280 the nebula of Orion, Mendon, Yelev's tables, Bodie's law, the 3653 04:22:40.280 --> 04:22:44.360 theory of Kwanta. In them, the marvel of existence shocked 3654 04:22:44.399 --> 04:22:47.239 like a clash of symbols. The echoes of that first 3655 04:22:47.319 --> 04:22:50.680 fresh amazement still put to shame the sophisticated stammering of 3656 04:22:50.719 --> 04:22:54.440 the wise age. Have all the revelations of science brought 3657 04:22:54.479 --> 04:22:57.520 just a single utterance like that of job. Though a 3658 04:22:57.520 --> 04:23:00.479 man should master all the ingenuities of science, though he 3659 04:23:00.520 --> 04:23:06.239 should should double and trouble them, though he should know 3660 04:23:06.360 --> 04:23:08.200 all the workings of his own body and of the 3661 04:23:08.239 --> 04:23:13.479 stellar systems. Though Earth's past and future, that through Earth's 3662 04:23:13.520 --> 04:23:17.239 fat past, and though Earth's past in future, the past 3663 04:23:17.280 --> 04:23:19.799 and future of all life should lie open before him. 3664 04:23:20.079 --> 04:23:24.440 Can he say or feel more than this? Can sciences 3665 04:23:24.479 --> 04:23:28.040 even add anything to skepticism? In doubt? Shall he who 3666 04:23:28.040 --> 04:23:31.840 suspects that all life is a phantasm perception itself the 3667 04:23:32.120 --> 04:23:35.159 shadow of a shadow, and are very whispers to ourselves 3668 04:23:35.200 --> 04:23:38.040 that ten times tampered with instruments of things which are 3669 04:23:38.079 --> 04:23:43.079 not ourselves. Shall he that suspects that between himself and himself, himself, 3670 04:23:43.120 --> 04:23:46.280 speaking in himself, listening, himself, thinking, and himself thought of, 3671 04:23:46.680 --> 04:23:51.719 there looms world without end, system within system, aberration within aberration. 3672 04:23:52.280 --> 04:23:54.639 Shall such a one be rendered more doubtful? Because the 3673 04:23:54.680 --> 04:23:57.479 sky is not an inverted bowl above our heads, because 3674 04:23:57.520 --> 04:24:03.479 disease is carried not by demons but invisible fleas. If 3675 04:24:03.520 --> 04:24:06.200 the whole is insecured, it's the double insecurity of a 3676 04:24:06.280 --> 04:24:10.040 part make any difference? If all is illusory? Does it 3677 04:24:10.120 --> 04:24:14.920 matter that there were particular little illusions within the general illusion. 3678 04:24:15.799 --> 04:24:18.079 If we suspect the very instrument of our perception, if 3679 04:24:18.120 --> 04:24:20.760 we doubt our senses and our thoughts, if we doubt 3680 04:24:20.760 --> 04:24:23.639 our very doubts, and in the end from a frantic 3681 04:24:23.719 --> 04:24:28.760 hunting of protein shadows relapse into utter silence and impotence. 3682 04:24:29.440 --> 04:24:33.959 What additional impotence is to be derived from the correction 3683 04:24:34.120 --> 04:24:38.479 of unscientific errors? The worlds wonder, the world's debt, the 3684 04:24:38.559 --> 04:24:41.079 terror and illusion of life. These things lie patent to 3685 04:24:41.120 --> 04:24:44.280 the naked eye life at first, and teaches everything the 3686 04:24:44.280 --> 04:24:49.239 blind cannot see, even through a microscope. What then, is 3687 04:24:49.319 --> 04:24:53.600 science and wherein lies its lore? Why are men drone 3688 04:24:53.639 --> 04:24:59.840 to its service? Why do why do the best enables 3689 04:25:00.120 --> 04:25:05.040 give up their lives to its pursuit? Science which can 3690 04:25:05.079 --> 04:25:07.920 be of no ultimate value in bringing us nearer to 3691 04:25:07.959 --> 04:25:10.719 the roots of life, to Godhead, and to its secrecy. 3692 04:25:10.879 --> 04:25:14.040 Science is a game, a convention. The charm of science 3693 04:25:14.079 --> 04:25:18.520 is the charm of gentile life. The ultimate does not matter. 3694 04:25:18.600 --> 04:25:21.399 Within the system, there is the lyric grace of rhythm 3695 04:25:21.479 --> 04:25:28.680 and harmony. If science, you know, if if they believe 3696 04:25:28.719 --> 04:25:32.399 that the charm of science is the charm of gentile life, 3697 04:25:32.399 --> 04:25:34.959 if they believe that that is what gentile gentile has 3698 04:25:35.040 --> 04:25:40.760 just looked to, science would be any Is it any 3699 04:25:40.760 --> 04:25:43.280 wonder that they would seek to take over the science 3700 04:25:43.319 --> 04:25:49.520 and absolutely slant them into their direction, especially the soft sciences, 3701 04:25:50.200 --> 04:25:58.479 the social sciences, the scientific development of your Western world 3702 04:25:58.520 --> 04:26:01.440 is an inevitable consequence of your nature. It is inevitable 3703 04:26:01.440 --> 04:26:04.399 that you should worship science because your very skepticism is 3704 04:26:04.399 --> 04:26:07.280 a substitution of one set of illusions for another, the 3705 04:26:07.319 --> 04:26:10.120 adoption of one set of conventions in place of another. 3706 04:26:10.600 --> 04:26:15.399 I do believe that that is something that Westerners and gentiles, 3707 04:26:15.600 --> 04:26:24.040 Gentile Westerners, they worship science. I think that it's hard 3708 04:26:24.079 --> 04:26:28.639 to argue against that. Now, you may not, but you're 3709 04:26:28.719 --> 04:26:34.879 just proving the rule there. So if he recognizes that 3710 04:26:38.920 --> 04:26:42.559 other Jews are recognize that, and they've seen sorts of 3711 04:26:43.479 --> 04:26:46.159 take them over as much as possible and lean them 3712 04:26:46.159 --> 04:26:49.760 in your direction. And that's when when you hear Thomas 3713 04:26:49.840 --> 04:26:54.120 talking about a social engineering regime. One of the easiest 3714 04:26:54.159 --> 04:26:56.280 ways to do that would be to influence science as 3715 04:26:56.360 --> 04:26:59.760 much as possible. I mean, basically all of psychology is 3716 04:26:59.760 --> 04:27:05.200 for You are bound to find spiritual value in science, 3717 04:27:05.200 --> 04:27:08.239 because you do not want ultimate spiritual value, only the 3718 04:27:08.239 --> 04:27:12.559 spiritual value of immediate lyric enjoyment. You who worship gods 3719 04:27:12.559 --> 04:27:17.280 instead of God must naturally worship science. Science is merely 3720 04:27:17.319 --> 04:27:23.040 idle worship for icons, instruments, for incantations, formulae, the palpable, 3721 04:27:23.159 --> 04:27:27.959 the material, the enjoyable. Science is not a serious pursuit, 3722 04:27:28.040 --> 04:27:32.079 your grave professors of chemistry, astronomy, physics, Your Nobel Prize 3723 04:27:32.079 --> 04:27:35.360 winners are but bald or bearded schoolboys playing mental football 3724 04:27:35.840 --> 04:27:40.639 for their own delight and the delight of spectators. That's interesting. 3725 04:27:42.479 --> 04:27:46.840 Does I vote the argument? I've always heard it's a way, 3726 04:27:47.559 --> 04:27:49.639 you know, one of the ways they try to prove 3727 04:27:50.559 --> 04:27:58.319 high Jewish iq is their Nobel Prize winners. They did 3728 04:27:58.760 --> 04:28:05.639 Jews somehow after or this seek Nobel prizes, but they're 3729 04:28:05.879 --> 04:28:13.440 just bald or bearded schoolboys playing or did they have 3730 04:28:13.520 --> 04:28:17.680 to become Nobel Prize winners to surpass that? And how 3731 04:28:17.680 --> 04:28:26.520 are Nobel Prize winners picked? Does God pick them Nobel prizes? 3732 04:28:27.000 --> 04:28:35.360 Nobel Prizes are chosen no differently than oscars are given out. Science, then, 3733 04:28:35.680 --> 04:28:39.559 is an art, though it's technique is of so peculiar 3734 04:28:39.559 --> 04:28:41.840 in nature as it divided from all the other arts. 3735 04:28:42.200 --> 04:28:44.879 But we most easily recognize that as an art because 3736 04:28:44.920 --> 04:28:48.479 the true sciences takes an artistic delight in science, and 3737 04:28:48.520 --> 04:28:51.000 because your science is not serious, we Jews have never 3738 04:28:51.040 --> 04:28:55.680 achieved it in any peculiar pre eminence. We have our 3739 04:28:55.760 --> 04:28:58.920 few exceptions. We can master as well as you the 3740 04:28:58.959 --> 04:29:02.239 system and the scheme, but we lack the spiritual urge, 3741 04:29:02.319 --> 04:29:04.639 the driving joy, the illusion that this is the all. 3742 04:29:04.680 --> 04:29:08.000 In all, we know nothing of science for science's sake, 3743 04:29:08.639 --> 04:29:11.280 as we know nothing of art for art's sake. We 3744 04:29:11.360 --> 04:29:15.360 only know of art for God's sake. If there is 3745 04:29:15.639 --> 04:29:18.399 art or beauty in our supreme production, the Bible, it 3746 04:29:18.479 --> 04:29:21.799 is not because we sought either. The type of the 3747 04:29:21.920 --> 04:29:25.399 artist is alien to us, and just as alien is 3748 04:29:25.440 --> 04:29:29.040 the delight of the artist. The artist is one who 3749 04:29:29.079 --> 04:29:31.399 seeks beauty, goes out of his way to find her. 3750 04:29:31.879 --> 04:29:35.120 But the Hebrew prophet, who who wrought so beautifully, did 3751 04:29:35.159 --> 04:29:37.520 not go out of his way to find God. God 3752 04:29:37.559 --> 04:29:40.840 pursued him and caught him, hunted him out, and tortured 3753 04:29:40.920 --> 04:29:43.479 him so that he cried out. Until this day, you 3754 04:29:43.559 --> 04:29:46.120 have no artist in your sense. Such art as we 3755 04:29:46.159 --> 04:29:50.239 have created has been the byproduct of a fierce moral purpose. 3756 04:29:59.360 --> 04:30:01.520 Let's see. But what do we have upcoming after this 3757 04:30:01.680 --> 04:30:14.959 Hollywood pornography? It's never it's about money. It's about money 3758 04:30:15.000 --> 04:30:19.040 and corruption. That's it. Art and science. This is your 3759 04:30:19.079 --> 04:30:24.760 gentile world. The lovely and ingenious world, kaleidoscopic, graceful, bewilderingly seductive, 3760 04:30:24.840 --> 04:30:30.280 A world at it's best of lovely apparitions, banners, struggles, triumphs, gallantries, 3761 04:30:30.319 --> 04:30:33.879 noble gestures and conventions. But not our world, Not for 3762 04:30:34.040 --> 04:30:37.799 us Jews, for such field of the cloth of gold delights. 3763 04:30:37.879 --> 04:30:41.639 We lack imagination and inventiveness. We are not touched with 3764 04:30:41.719 --> 04:30:45.280 this vigor of productive playfulness. Under it arrest, we take 3765 04:30:45.319 --> 04:30:48.239 part in the ringing melee and give an indifferently good 3766 04:30:48.319 --> 04:30:51.239 account of ourselves. But we have not the heart for 3767 04:30:51.319 --> 04:30:55.360 this world of yours. I could almost picture him, and 3768 04:30:55.399 --> 04:30:58.360 I'll finish with this. I could almost picture him looking 3769 04:30:58.399 --> 04:31:02.520 at all the Jewish artists and scientists and everything these days, 3770 04:31:02.520 --> 04:31:05.840 the people who relish it so much, the Weinstein's and 3771 04:31:06.040 --> 04:31:14.959 the Weinstein brothers, and he would from what he says here, 3772 04:31:15.520 --> 04:31:19.200 I would almost picture him. If he's being completely honest 3773 04:31:19.200 --> 04:31:22.840 in all this, which I doubt that he sees them 3774 04:31:22.840 --> 04:31:27.920 as like the downfall of Judaism. Why would these Jews 3775 04:31:27.959 --> 04:31:33.879 care about these things unless they were subverting, which I 3776 04:31:34.040 --> 04:31:38.079 leave all doors open, all right, thank you. I'll try 3777 04:31:38.079 --> 04:31:42.000 to come back to the next chapter is called the Masses. 3778 04:31:42.799 --> 04:31:46.120 I will, and I doubt he's talking about the Catholic Church, 3779 04:31:46.680 --> 04:31:50.120 so I'll try to come back as soon as possible. 3780 04:31:50.159 --> 04:31:53.600 All right. I apologize for taking so long in between these. 3781 04:31:54.000 --> 04:31:55.319 I want to get it over with and move on 3782 04:31:55.360 --> 04:32:00.559 to something something new. This is as much this needs 3783 04:32:00.600 --> 04:32:06.520 to be read. This person is insufferable, and I'm so glad. 3784 04:32:06.600 --> 04:32:10.920 I was so glad. I never I would never have 3785 04:32:11.000 --> 04:32:17.200 a chance to know him. Take care everyone, Thank you, bye. 3786 04:32:17.680 --> 04:32:21.280 All right everyone, here is part ten of you gentiles. 3787 04:32:21.399 --> 04:32:24.239 I'm gonna try to knock these out a little faster now. 3788 04:32:24.239 --> 04:32:26.680 I'm probably just going to do two chapters because I 3789 04:32:26.680 --> 04:32:29.200 have an idea for the next book, and I'll be 3790 04:32:29.200 --> 04:32:31.959 completely off of this subject because I need a break 3791 04:32:32.479 --> 04:32:36.719 too much talking about this lately, and uh, we'll look 3792 04:32:36.719 --> 04:32:40.159 at something else. Have an idea, might change my mind, 3793 04:32:40.680 --> 04:32:45.680 always do, but yeah, it's there, so all right. This 3794 04:32:45.719 --> 04:32:49.280 is chapter eleven, The Masses. It would be absurd to 3795 04:32:49.280 --> 04:32:52.040 pretend that the Jewish masses are distinguished from your masses 3796 04:32:52.040 --> 04:32:55.399 by a conscious by a conscious appreciation of the differences 3797 04:32:55.600 --> 04:32:58.639 the difference I've described. Indeed, very few, even of the 3798 04:32:58.680 --> 04:33:01.680 thinking Jews, understand the nature of the problem. It is 3799 04:33:01.719 --> 04:33:04.439 certain that the westernized masses of Jews are doing their 3800 04:33:04.439 --> 04:33:07.439 best to minimize or to ignore the difference between jew 3801 04:33:07.439 --> 04:33:11.159 and gentile. They and their leaders assert frequently and vehemently 3802 04:33:11.279 --> 04:33:13.959 that there is no difference. Jew and gentile are alike 3803 04:33:14.040 --> 04:33:18.080 except in their opinions regarding certain very simple matters of faith. 3804 04:33:19.360 --> 04:33:22.479 You too, will assert, even if we grant this distinction 3805 04:33:22.599 --> 04:33:26.200 between gentile and Jewish genius, are we to understand that 3806 04:33:26.240 --> 04:33:28.840 it permeates the masses, that the strain of seriousness is 3807 04:33:28.880 --> 04:33:32.720 to be found in your households of thousands, what thousands 3808 04:33:32.919 --> 04:33:39.720 of yes, westernized workers, lawyers, salesmen, merchants, manufacturers, contrasting with 3809 04:33:39.759 --> 04:33:42.720 a corresponding levity or a lack of seriousness, and the 3810 04:33:42.759 --> 04:33:48.520 same classes among us. It is incredible. The same language, 3811 04:33:48.560 --> 04:33:51.680 the same occupations, the same sports, the same pursuits are 3812 04:33:51.680 --> 04:33:54.840 common to both of us. Let any intelligent man live 3813 04:33:54.919 --> 04:33:58.599 first for ten years among middle class gentile families and 3814 04:33:58.639 --> 04:34:02.080 then change his miliu completely and pass into the environment 3815 04:34:02.119 --> 04:34:06.159 of middle class, assimilated Jewish families. What will there be 3816 04:34:06.279 --> 04:34:09.319 to give him the impression of another world? Will he 3817 04:34:09.400 --> 04:34:12.680 not find the same amusements, the same ambitions, the same morality, 3818 04:34:12.720 --> 04:34:15.720 the same taboos, the same abilities, and the same stupidities. 3819 04:34:16.560 --> 04:34:19.200 Did not the Jewish and gentile middle class families admire 3820 04:34:19.240 --> 04:34:21.720 the same heroes, vote for the same politicians, read the 3821 04:34:21.759 --> 04:34:25.560 same newspapers and magazines, frequent the same theaters, weep over 3822 04:34:25.599 --> 04:34:29.520 the same movies, laugh at the same comic strips. But 3823 04:34:29.599 --> 04:34:32.840 the question cannot be put so simply. The world is yours, 3824 04:34:32.880 --> 04:34:35.279 and you are the ones who set the standards. You 3825 04:34:35.319 --> 04:34:37.759 are the ones who supply the material for the reactions. 3826 04:34:37.759 --> 04:34:40.639 And when the Jews want to become part of your world, 3827 04:34:41.119 --> 04:34:44.880 enjoy its privileges and pleasures, we must accept your standards. 3828 04:34:45.119 --> 04:34:48.200 Speak as if it were the same language. But just 3829 04:34:48.240 --> 04:34:50.799 as a word can never mean quite the same thing 3830 04:34:50.840 --> 04:34:53.959 to two persons, so a common expression does not mean 3831 04:34:54.000 --> 04:34:58.279 the same emotion. The fact is that as long as 3832 04:34:58.360 --> 04:35:01.119 Jews retain their identity, there is a same tension between 3833 04:35:01.119 --> 04:35:05.240 your middle classes and hours as between your geniuses and hours. 3834 04:35:07.040 --> 04:35:10.799 Our middle classes, even when thoroughly modernized, retain a certain 3835 04:35:10.799 --> 04:35:14.840 individuality which is repugnant to you. And though at four 3836 04:35:15.439 --> 04:35:18.000 and though if forced to a yes or no questions 3837 04:35:18.680 --> 04:35:22.439 answered to the question above, enunciated I should have to answer. Yes, 3838 04:35:22.680 --> 04:35:25.439 there is a difference, difficult to describe, but felt it 3839 04:35:25.560 --> 04:35:30.080 resents it. Nonetheless, our modernized Jews have done their best 3840 04:35:30.080 --> 04:35:32.200 to take up your life and become part of it. 3841 04:35:32.360 --> 04:35:35.959 But despite outward appearances, they have failed. There is, first 3842 04:35:36.000 --> 04:35:38.840 of all, too eager and intensive desire to be gentile. 3843 04:35:39.680 --> 04:35:42.439 What you do tacitly, and by the grace of and 3844 04:35:42.479 --> 04:35:45.040 by the grace of God, we do deliberately and in 3845 04:35:45.080 --> 04:35:49.439 the gracelessness of ambition. You go into this new life 3846 04:35:49.439 --> 04:35:53.319 of yours. We can toort ourselves into it. In one 3847 04:35:53.360 --> 04:35:55.479 or two generations. We would achieve what it took you 3848 04:35:55.520 --> 04:35:59.360 one hundred generations to reach. We take up your life 3849 04:35:59.360 --> 04:36:03.279 with an anxiousness, a ferocity which is its own undoing. 3850 04:36:04.159 --> 04:36:07.759 Whatever in you can be imitated, we do imitate admirably. 3851 04:36:08.240 --> 04:36:11.240 But though you cannot quite define it, you are aware 3852 04:36:11.279 --> 04:36:17.000 of a deception. It's interesting they haven't had their own 3853 04:36:17.080 --> 04:36:20.759 nation at this point for I guess nineteen hundred years, 3854 04:36:20.759 --> 04:36:24.319 but it's longer than that. I mean, first the Greeks 3855 04:36:24.360 --> 04:36:35.439 and then the Romans, and look look at how they failed. 3856 04:36:36.000 --> 04:36:40.720 They can't even survive on their own. They lash out 3857 04:36:40.720 --> 04:36:45.119 at everyone around them, They want to kill everyone around them. 3858 04:36:45.200 --> 04:36:49.319 They have delusions of grandeur of taking over large swaths 3859 04:36:49.360 --> 04:36:59.479 of land in the Middle East. It's it's evil in 3860 04:36:59.520 --> 04:37:02.880 a sense, and I hate to say evil because yeah, 3861 04:37:02.919 --> 04:37:06.080 I'm looking for a better word. It's it's malicious in 3862 04:37:06.119 --> 04:37:12.000 a sense, the things they do. But it's also very incompetent. 3863 04:37:15.159 --> 04:37:20.200 I mean, they could easily have destroyed the Palestinians, destroyed 3864 04:37:20.200 --> 04:37:28.919 their neighbors simply if they're so smart, they could have 3865 04:37:28.959 --> 04:37:32.639 figured this out a long time ago. They don't have 3866 04:37:32.680 --> 04:37:37.840 to be going through this now. But either this is 3867 04:37:37.880 --> 04:37:41.400 the only way that they in their being can do it, 3868 04:37:44.279 --> 04:37:55.400 or they like it. I don't know. I don't know. Violence, 3869 04:37:55.479 --> 04:37:59.919 and you know mega violence and war has always been seen, 3870 04:38:00.040 --> 04:38:06.479 is something that just happens, not that you would enjoy it. 3871 04:38:12.479 --> 04:38:15.720 Whatever in you can be imitated. We do imitate admirably. 3872 04:38:15.840 --> 04:38:18.240 But though you cannot quite define it, you are aware 3873 04:38:18.240 --> 04:38:22.319 of a deception. Our patriotisms are hysterical, our sports pursuits 3874 04:38:22.319 --> 04:38:29.639 are unnaturally eager, our business ambitions artificially passionate. He's describing 3875 04:38:30.279 --> 04:38:36.439 that it's this is not who they are. So when 3876 04:38:36.479 --> 04:38:40.479 they it almost seems like when they and I don't 3877 04:38:40.479 --> 04:38:43.919 think he's trying to say this. I'm trying to figure 3878 04:38:43.919 --> 04:38:48.599 things out here from what he's saying. He's basically saying, 3879 04:38:48.599 --> 04:38:52.919 when we try to imitate you, it's forced and we 3880 04:38:52.959 --> 04:38:56.279 don't know how to do it. It looks like inevidently 3881 04:38:56.319 --> 04:39:03.680 becomes failure, Like they are a people who are meant 3882 04:39:03.720 --> 04:39:08.159 to wander. And the fact that they found this thing 3883 04:39:08.200 --> 04:39:10.880 and they stopped. Even if you buy it, even if 3884 04:39:10.919 --> 04:39:13.279 you buy the cause cause our theory, which I do, 3885 04:39:14.759 --> 04:39:24.119 there still are Jews there that are probably direct descendants, 3886 04:39:26.520 --> 04:39:30.880 but it's I think they've just even the cause AARs 3887 04:39:30.919 --> 04:39:37.119 have just taken on a spirit of if any of 3888 04:39:37.159 --> 04:39:44.560 you know your old Testament, just how obstinate every forty 3889 04:39:44.560 --> 04:39:46.799 to eighty years, they would just revert back to child 3890 04:39:46.919 --> 04:39:51.360 sacrifice and things like that, which is why they kept 3891 04:39:51.959 --> 04:40:00.360 being punished over and over again. We see the same 3892 04:40:00.400 --> 04:40:02.799 apparent ends as you, but not in the same spirit. 3893 04:40:03.720 --> 04:40:07.759 Would you have us fight and die for country, We'll 3894 04:40:07.759 --> 04:40:11.119 do it as well as you would you have us 3895 04:40:11.200 --> 04:40:15.000 run fast box skillfully, We'll do it. Would you have 3896 04:40:15.080 --> 04:40:18.159 us build up enterprises, We'll do that too. But one 3897 04:40:18.159 --> 04:40:20.959 thing we cannot do. Do it for the same reason 3898 04:40:21.159 --> 04:40:31.279 and in the same spirit, and they can't do it 3899 04:40:31.319 --> 04:40:34.799 for the benefit of anyone else but them. I'm not 3900 04:40:34.840 --> 04:40:38.040 saying for the benefit of all Jews, because that's bullshit. 3901 04:40:38.159 --> 04:40:41.119 I mean, anyone who's following two hundred years together knows 3902 04:40:41.159 --> 04:40:46.799 that the elite Jews do not the lower class Jews 3903 04:40:46.799 --> 04:40:49.000 and the poorer Jews and even the middle class Jews. 3904 04:40:49.000 --> 04:40:54.680 That's he's mentioning here, or look down upon German Jews 3905 04:40:54.680 --> 04:40:57.479 at this time, we're looking down upon pali settlement Jews. 3906 04:40:57.959 --> 04:41:00.720 When you hear about oh we were we couldn't go 3907 04:41:00.840 --> 04:41:04.400 into we weren't allowed into golf clubs. Yeah, most of 3908 04:41:04.439 --> 04:41:08.639 the time that was German Jews who were the Enlightenment 3909 04:41:08.720 --> 04:41:11.479 and hit them a lot earlier. Looked down upon palae 3910 04:41:11.479 --> 04:41:19.439 settlement Jews trash. Since you insist we will measure values 3911 04:41:19.439 --> 04:41:22.560 with your standards and register the results, but you know 3912 04:41:22.799 --> 04:41:25.599 you feel that the standards are not ours. We betray 3913 04:41:25.639 --> 04:41:29.119 ourselves singly and en mass. We haven't the manner we 3914 04:41:29.279 --> 04:41:32.840 have and we haven't the manners, for manners are but 3915 04:41:32.959 --> 04:41:37.479 a manner with you. We Jews are lacking in manners 3916 04:41:37.479 --> 04:41:40.200 because manners, as you have evolved them, are a spirit, 3917 04:41:40.319 --> 04:41:44.119 a reflex of your playworld. Manners cannot be copied. One 3918 04:41:44.200 --> 04:41:48.520 must have the aptitude for this charming triviality. A single 3919 04:41:48.560 --> 04:41:51.520 note of insistence spoils at all, and we choose insist 3920 04:41:51.560 --> 04:41:55.680 too much. And just as Jews are without manners, so 3921 04:41:55.840 --> 04:42:00.520 they are without vulgarity. Well, I have observed that between 3922 04:42:00.560 --> 04:42:02.959 the vulgar gentile and the so called vulgar Jew there 3923 04:42:03.000 --> 04:42:06.119 is a singular and dreadful difference. The vulgar type of 3924 04:42:06.159 --> 04:42:10.279 gentile is not repellent. There is in him an animal 3925 04:42:10.319 --> 04:42:14.759 grossness which shocks, embraces, but does not horrify. He carries 3926 04:42:14.799 --> 04:42:17.560 it off by virtue of a natural brutality and brutishness, 3927 04:42:17.599 --> 04:42:23.360 with which provide a mitigating consistency to his character. But 3928 04:42:23.439 --> 04:42:27.680 the lowest type of Jew is extraordinarily revolting. There is 3929 04:42:27.720 --> 04:42:34.159 in him a suggestion of deliquescent putrefaction. The gentile can 3930 04:42:34.240 --> 04:42:38.560 be naturally healthily vulgar. The Jew corrupts into vulgarity. He 3931 04:42:38.599 --> 04:42:41.560 has not the gift for it. What is vulgarity in 3932 04:42:41.599 --> 04:42:46.560 the gentile is obscenity in the Jew. I am able 3933 04:42:46.599 --> 04:42:50.040 to watch, either with amusement or indifference, a vulgar performance 3934 04:42:50.080 --> 04:42:53.919 on the gentile stage. On the Jewish stage, I find 3935 04:42:53.919 --> 04:42:59.599 it intolerably loadsome in the company of low and Brutish gentiles, 3936 04:43:00.159 --> 04:43:03.680 in the company of low and British gentiles loose. I 3937 04:43:03.720 --> 04:43:05.639 may not feel at home, but I can be an 3938 04:43:05.680 --> 04:43:09.200 unmoved spectator. But when Jews try to imitate this behavior, 3939 04:43:09.520 --> 04:43:13.919 I feel my innermost decency outrage. Well mannered gentile society 3940 04:43:13.959 --> 04:43:21.880 rejects us. So does vulgar gentile society. Wow. That says 3941 04:43:21.919 --> 04:43:30.759 a lot. An individual genius cannot be taken as the 3942 04:43:30.840 --> 04:43:33.639 higher type of the people which produced him. But in 3943 04:43:33.680 --> 04:43:36.880 the mass, there is an inevitable correspondence between the product 3944 04:43:36.919 --> 04:43:39.599 of the geniuses of a people and the people itself. 3945 04:43:40.240 --> 04:43:48.880 Studied actu actuarially, the people finds utterance in the geniuses. 3946 04:43:49.880 --> 04:43:52.560 There is an undoubted consistency in all the products of 3947 04:43:52.599 --> 04:43:56.880 the greatest Jewish minds. Whether we take their statistics laterally 3948 04:43:57.319 --> 04:44:00.639 through an age or vertically through history, we will obtain 3949 04:44:00.680 --> 04:44:03.560 a similar result. Whether we begin with the Bible and 3950 04:44:03.599 --> 04:44:06.240 take the sum total of our work down to Karl Marx, 3951 04:44:06.840 --> 04:44:10.599 or confine ourselves to a single country and generation America today, 3952 04:44:10.639 --> 04:44:16.959 for instance, with Untermeyer, Lewis sohne frank hect We will 3953 04:44:16.959 --> 04:44:20.439 find the same appeal to fundamentals, the same passionate rejection 3954 04:44:20.520 --> 04:44:23.279 of your sport world and its sports mentality, the same 3955 04:44:23.439 --> 04:44:28.360 ultimate seriousness, the same inability to be merely playful, merely romantic, 3956 04:44:28.599 --> 04:44:32.520 merely lyrical. It is unthinkable that the masses of a 3957 04:44:32.560 --> 04:44:36.159 people can mean one thing, its genius is another. Or this, 3958 04:44:36.279 --> 04:44:39.080 so the utterances of great minds will lose all relevance, 3959 04:44:39.119 --> 04:44:42.279 would become pointless and impotent. If we symbolize a people 3960 04:44:42.360 --> 04:44:46.080 as a single organism, its geniuses may be likened to 3961 04:44:46.119 --> 04:44:49.080 an organ of self consciousness. And the self consciousness of 3962 04:44:49.119 --> 04:44:52.119 a man is not an independent function, but the instrument 3963 04:44:52.159 --> 04:44:55.240 of all of him. All his body and being. Thinks 3964 04:44:55.479 --> 04:44:59.919 through the brain that which genius illuminates in the life 3965 04:45:00.040 --> 04:45:05.560 from which it springs, the amorphosis crystallized in it. The 3966 04:45:05.639 --> 04:45:08.439 confused diffusion is brought to a focus, so that the 3967 04:45:08.479 --> 04:45:11.360 pattern is made clear. Our geniuses in the midst of 3968 04:45:11.360 --> 04:45:14.959 your world are an alien and destructive element. More clearly 3969 04:45:15.000 --> 04:45:19.040 revealed that such, because they are articulate, they are spokesmen, 3970 04:45:19.240 --> 04:45:25.040 or better said, ourselves in utterance, They like us, being us, 3971 04:45:25.360 --> 04:45:28.599 cannot join your game. You say, because they lack imagination. 3972 04:45:28.880 --> 04:45:31.840 In a sense, it is true. We are unimaginative, as 3973 04:45:31.880 --> 04:45:34.959 old people are unimaginative. In the presence of young people. 3974 04:45:38.479 --> 04:45:41.840 We neither play with emotions nor with things. We lack romanticists, 3975 04:45:41.880 --> 04:45:47.959 as we lack inventors, because we lack inventiveness. That is 3976 04:45:48.040 --> 04:45:56.240 true even among the masses where diffusion confuses. An apt 3977 04:45:56.279 --> 04:46:00.159 instance points to the truth. Among our simple people, you 3978 04:46:00.000 --> 04:46:03.040 do not find the delight in constructive trifles, which is 3979 04:46:03.040 --> 04:46:06.720 one of your characteristics. Your simple people like to build things, 3980 04:46:06.759 --> 04:46:09.279 fix this and that in the house, play the handyman. 3981 04:46:09.799 --> 04:46:13.360 They take pleasure in putting up shelves, looking to the plumbing, 3982 04:46:13.680 --> 04:46:18.200 adding and altering. We're devoid of this kind of craftsman's pleasure. 3983 04:46:18.759 --> 04:46:21.799 We do what is necessary only because it is necessary, 3984 04:46:22.000 --> 04:46:26.439 and as a man, engage happily in such pleasant, childlike pursuits. 3985 04:46:26.880 --> 04:46:31.319 Resents the chilling indifference of an unsympathetic onlooker. So your 3986 04:46:31.360 --> 04:46:35.720 world resents are uncalled for analysis of your acts and occupations. 3987 04:46:36.159 --> 04:46:38.000 This is your life, and you enjoy it. Why do 3988 04:46:38.080 --> 04:46:43.919 we disturb you with questions concerning ultimate values? We lack inventiveness. 3989 04:46:44.240 --> 04:46:47.119 You will say that springs from our lack of vitality. 3990 04:46:47.840 --> 04:46:50.319 Men are lyrical because life sings in them. They are 3991 04:46:50.319 --> 04:46:53.520 inventive because life is restless in them and drives their 3992 04:46:53.560 --> 04:46:58.959 fingers to activity. Some may call that the faustian spirit, 3993 04:47:00.439 --> 04:47:05.599 which I'm sure he would decry. I will not argue 3994 04:47:05.599 --> 04:47:09.119 the cause of the difference. But lacking inventiveness, we also 3995 04:47:09.200 --> 04:47:11.959 lack sympathy for it. And you're to let you call 3996 04:47:12.319 --> 04:47:16.479 inventiveness the conquest of nature. But the boast is to 3997 04:47:16.599 --> 04:47:20.439 us a foolish and childlike boast. The problem with which 3998 04:47:20.520 --> 04:47:24.279 man is faced cannot be answered by scientific inventions. The 3999 04:47:24.319 --> 04:47:27.520 conquest of nature does not lie in evolving keener sight, 4000 04:47:27.959 --> 04:47:32.680 swifter motion, larger strength. This is about magnification, which leaves 4001 04:47:32.680 --> 04:47:36.560 the element of the problem untouched. Can you conquer not 4002 04:47:36.680 --> 04:47:39.680 nature but the nature of things? For it is in 4003 04:47:39.720 --> 04:47:42.880 the nature of things that the bitter problem resides. If 4004 04:47:42.919 --> 04:47:45.400 science should double the span of human life, will the 4005 04:47:45.479 --> 04:47:48.439 nature of life and death be altered? Will we not 4006 04:47:48.479 --> 04:47:51.880 feel as mortal as insignificant? Will we even be able 4007 04:47:51.919 --> 04:47:55.479 to be aware of living longer? If science should bridge 4008 04:47:55.520 --> 04:47:58.040 the planet's in the stars, will the new playground be 4009 04:47:58.200 --> 04:48:00.759 larger than the old? To those that live in it, 4010 04:48:01.560 --> 04:48:03.599 you have found a whole world. Since the days of 4011 04:48:03.639 --> 04:48:05.799 the Greeks, they lived on a tiny plot of land 4012 04:48:05.840 --> 04:48:08.400 and ant hill, and you have a gigantic globe to 4013 04:48:08.439 --> 04:48:12.720 build on. What differences it made? What significant conquest have 4014 04:48:12.840 --> 04:48:17.799 you achieved? Not things, but the nature of things baffle us, 4015 04:48:18.119 --> 04:48:20.959 the dreadful circle, the eternal balance. For every gain, a 4016 04:48:21.000 --> 04:48:24.479 compensating loss, for every new revelation, a new deception, for 4017 04:48:24.639 --> 04:48:28.919 every new extension, a loss of intensity. The nature of 4018 04:48:28.959 --> 04:48:31.680 things cannot be solved because we partake of that nature. 4019 04:48:32.439 --> 04:48:36.400 We can never get round ourselves. We can only turn round. 4020 04:48:37.119 --> 04:48:40.759 Your world spends an enjoyous illusion of progress. We untouched 4021 04:48:40.759 --> 04:48:44.560 by that illusion, destructive of your mood. Stand aside, static 4022 04:48:44.680 --> 04:48:49.200 serious we will be satisfied with nothing but the absolute. 4023 04:48:49.279 --> 04:48:52.520 That alooftiness speaks clearly or obscurely in our masses as 4024 04:48:52.560 --> 04:48:55.759 well as in our geniuses. Dealing with objects instead of 4025 04:48:55.799 --> 04:49:00.639 with laws, they betray the same enthusiastic object activity in 4026 04:49:00.680 --> 04:49:03.319 their attitude to your world. And as long as they 4027 04:49:03.360 --> 04:49:06.919 retain their Jewish identity, they will, despite denial and effort 4028 04:49:07.000 --> 04:49:14.759 to the contrary, remain the same. All right. Chapter twelve, 4029 04:49:15.599 --> 04:49:19.439 Solution and dissolution. Does the situation which I have described 4030 04:49:19.479 --> 04:49:21.720 constitute a problem? Or is it merely one of the 4031 04:49:21.759 --> 04:49:26.439 insoluble difficulties of life, which, being insoluble, should be understood 4032 04:49:26.479 --> 04:49:30.000 as such and suffered tacitly. Death is not a problem, 4033 04:49:30.119 --> 04:49:34.759 being inevitable, is this struggle between our two worlds as inevitable? 4034 04:49:35.360 --> 04:49:37.560 Shall we resign ourselves to the struggle and do what 4035 04:49:37.599 --> 04:49:40.560 we can to mitigate its worst effects? Or shall we 4036 04:49:40.599 --> 04:49:44.680 continue the search for a complete solution? The one solution 4037 04:49:44.720 --> 04:49:47.560 which is generally offered as complete and satisfactory, is quite 4038 04:49:47.599 --> 04:49:50.799 apart from its feasibility, not a solution at all, only 4039 04:49:50.840 --> 04:49:54.040 a dissolution. Does disappearance of the Jewish people by complete 4040 04:49:54.040 --> 04:49:57.479 submergence in the surrounding world would not in reality solve 4041 04:49:57.520 --> 04:50:01.119 the problem any more than one solves a chess problem 4042 04:50:01.159 --> 04:50:06.279 by burning chess board and figures, But it would seem 4043 04:50:06.319 --> 04:50:09.279 to do the next best thing. It would apparently destroy 4044 04:50:09.319 --> 04:50:12.080 the situation which grace the problem. The problem, with that 4045 04:50:12.200 --> 04:50:15.000 having been solved, would at any rate cease to exist, 4046 04:50:15.520 --> 04:50:17.639 And by the dissolution of the Jewish people can be 4047 04:50:17.720 --> 04:50:21.400 meant only one thing. The disappearance of Jewish identity individuals 4048 04:50:21.840 --> 04:50:25.439 in individuals or masses, the complete obliteration of Jewish self 4049 04:50:25.439 --> 04:50:29.319 consciousness down to the very name and recollection. When it 4050 04:50:29.319 --> 04:50:31.639 will be impossible for any man to say to himself, 4051 04:50:31.680 --> 04:50:33.840 I am a Jew, or my father or grandfather was 4052 04:50:33.840 --> 04:50:37.560 a Jew, this consummation will have been achieved. There is 4053 04:50:37.599 --> 04:50:41.759 only one instrument to this end, free and unrestrained intermarriage. 4054 04:50:42.159 --> 04:50:45.000 This is interesting considering Jonathan Greenblad from the ADL the 4055 04:50:45.000 --> 04:50:52.680 other day was to crying Jewish intermarriage. But we know 4056 04:50:52.680 --> 04:50:57.840 how he feels if a German said they only want 4057 04:50:57.880 --> 04:51:04.959 to marry another German. I mean, is the whole thing about, 4058 04:51:05.880 --> 04:51:09.119 you know how calling out hypocrisy and I mean it's 4059 04:51:09.159 --> 04:51:15.560 just a lot of that just comes from them. They 4060 04:51:16.040 --> 04:51:18.279 you know, what's good for them is not good. What 4061 04:51:18.840 --> 04:51:28.240 they advocate for themselves, they cry criminal for others. This 4062 04:51:28.319 --> 04:51:32.000 act or fact alone will count the mere changing of names, 4063 04:51:32.000 --> 04:51:35.520 the substitution of religious forms, the so called liberalization and 4064 04:51:35.560 --> 04:51:38.680 modernization of Judaism is ineffective. It is a matter of 4065 04:51:38.759 --> 04:51:41.479 common observation that there is no inverse ratio between the 4066 04:51:41.479 --> 04:51:45.919 westernization of the Jew and anti Semitism, and this very 4067 04:51:45.959 --> 04:51:49.000 fact will have to be considered again in its relations 4068 04:51:49.000 --> 04:51:52.000 to the feasibility of this proposal. If we talk of 4069 04:51:52.400 --> 04:51:55.080 the submergence of the Jew, we must not play with words. 4070 04:51:55.119 --> 04:51:58.759 Words alone cannot submerge the Jew. If there is anything 4071 04:51:58.759 --> 04:52:00.799 in what I have said, you cannot make a gentile 4072 04:52:00.840 --> 04:52:03.639 of a Jew by arguing with him any more than 4073 04:52:03.680 --> 04:52:10.520 by lynching him. He mentioned Leo Frank earlier, so I'm 4074 04:52:10.560 --> 04:52:16.360 assuming I don't know what that means. You can make 4075 04:52:16.360 --> 04:52:19.520 his children half gentile, his grandchildren only a quarter Jewish, 4076 04:52:19.520 --> 04:52:21.919 and so on till the balance is perfect. And this 4077 04:52:22.000 --> 04:52:23.840 truth seems to have worked out in the minds of 4078 04:52:23.840 --> 04:52:28.000 some Westernizing Jews. Reform Judaism or modernized Judaism is the 4079 04:52:28.040 --> 04:52:31.840 halfway house to baptism, or at least to inner marriage. 4080 04:52:31.959 --> 04:52:37.040 Its very purpose is such, despite the protestations of reform Jews, 4081 04:52:37.279 --> 04:52:39.919 it cannot be anything else. For if the desire is 4082 04:52:39.959 --> 04:52:42.639 to become like the world around us, then all barriers 4083 04:52:42.720 --> 04:52:45.439 must go down, And the real barrier, the conservator of 4084 04:52:45.520 --> 04:52:51.680 all distinctions, is our practice of endogamy. One thing is 4085 04:52:51.759 --> 04:52:54.119 quite certain. The Jew is never baptized for the purpose 4086 04:52:54.159 --> 04:52:57.799 of becoming a Christian. His purpose is to become a gentile. 4087 04:53:04.479 --> 04:53:11.000 That's an interesting take that's a sentence typed in anger, 4088 04:53:14.000 --> 04:53:20.319 certainly typed in anger. Yet, obviously you do not make 4089 04:53:20.360 --> 04:53:23.159 a gentile of a Jew by baptizing him, anymore than 4090 04:53:23.200 --> 04:53:26.319 you would make an arian of a Negro by painting 4091 04:53:26.400 --> 04:53:30.520 him with osher. The sole and sufficient value in this 4092 04:53:30.599 --> 04:53:33.560 direction of baptism is the removal of all conscious prohibition 4093 04:53:33.639 --> 04:53:38.479 against intermarriage. Of course, even baptism is not a necessary preparation. 4094 04:53:39.040 --> 04:53:42.680 Jews marry gentiles without this preliminary formality. The case is 4095 04:53:42.720 --> 04:53:47.279 somewhat different here. This is a natural wastage or attrition. 4096 04:53:47.759 --> 04:53:51.680 Individual passion, not policy, is to cause, though the effect 4097 04:53:51.759 --> 04:53:54.680 is the same, the disappearance of the Jew, and it 4098 04:53:54.759 --> 04:53:58.880 certainly connotes, even if indifferently, the renunciation first of Judaism 4099 04:53:58.880 --> 04:54:01.439 and then of Jewish affiliation. A Jew married to a 4100 04:54:01.479 --> 04:54:05.720 Gentile may remain a Jewish obstensibly as he is. In fact, 4101 04:54:06.279 --> 04:54:10.959 his children seldom, if ever, profess Judaism, or as see 4102 04:54:11.000 --> 04:54:16.840 it themselves. With the Jewish people, You know, you really, 4103 04:54:20.119 --> 04:54:29.080 you really just have to wonder, how do you First 4104 04:54:29.119 --> 04:54:30.959 of all, how would you ever have a conversation with 4105 04:54:31.040 --> 04:54:33.759 this person about the subject matter of this? Can you 4106 04:54:33.840 --> 04:54:37.360 imagine trying to interview him when he was alive about 4107 04:54:37.360 --> 04:54:46.520 this book, and it certainly connotes, even if indifferently, the 4108 04:54:46.560 --> 04:54:50.560 renunciation first of Judaism and then of Jewish affiliation. A 4109 04:54:50.639 --> 04:54:53.240 Jew married to a Gentile remain may remain a Jew 4110 04:54:53.240 --> 04:54:57.040 ostensibly as he is. In fact, his children seldom, if ever, 4111 04:54:57.080 --> 04:55:01.159 professed Judaism or as associate themselves with the Jewish people. 4112 04:55:01.759 --> 04:55:04.360 In this case, the evasion is even more dishonest than 4113 04:55:04.360 --> 04:55:06.520 in the first. A man who professes to belong to 4114 04:55:06.560 --> 04:55:09.360 the Jewish faith, in the Jewish people, and who nevertheless 4115 04:55:09.439 --> 04:55:12.040 give his children to the Gentiles, is making the best 4116 04:55:12.040 --> 04:55:15.840 of both worlds. He evades the odious name of renegade, 4117 04:55:15.919 --> 04:55:22.080 which attaches to the baptized Jew also having his conscience, 4118 04:55:22.400 --> 04:55:25.639 and at the same time contributes effectively to the dissolution 4119 04:55:25.720 --> 04:55:28.400 of the Jewish people. It is well to note that 4120 04:55:28.439 --> 04:55:33.200 the westernized or reformed Jew maybe may deplore the practice, 4121 04:55:33.240 --> 04:55:35.439 but will not exclude such a man from the temple. 4122 04:55:35.959 --> 04:55:38.759 The Orthodox Jew consider such a man lost to Judaism. 4123 04:55:39.080 --> 04:55:43.599 The view, whatever its ethics, is clearer and healthier. Yeah, 4124 04:55:43.639 --> 04:55:46.080 you just can't help but read this, and you know, 4125 04:55:46.279 --> 04:55:52.840 just have a you know, have an Englishman or a 4126 04:55:52.880 --> 04:56:06.360 Welshman or an Irishman argue the same, and yeah, you know, 4127 04:56:06.880 --> 04:56:11.599 you know what it was. It's just I don't want 4128 04:56:11.639 --> 04:56:14.560 to be the magine if the role is a reverse person. 4129 04:56:15.880 --> 04:56:24.040 But it's so once you realize the hypocrisy of it, 4130 04:56:24.040 --> 04:56:29.639 it says more about that. It just it informs how 4131 04:56:29.680 --> 04:56:32.759 much more, how they will never because they care so 4132 04:56:32.840 --> 04:56:34.919 much about themselves, they will never be able to fit in. 4133 04:56:36.599 --> 04:56:39.840 And that's clearly what started this book out by saying, 4134 04:56:42.000 --> 04:56:44.040 but I want to consider it not the accidental, but 4135 04:56:44.080 --> 04:56:47.599 the deliberate or political accidental. Inner marriage being accidental and 4136 04:56:47.639 --> 04:56:51.159 therefore uncontrollable is not a policy. Baptism is a policy. 4137 04:56:51.479 --> 04:56:54.159 The weakening of Judaism, by the removal of its nationalist 4138 04:56:54.200 --> 04:56:58.759 implications and by its modernization, is also a policy, the 4139 04:56:58.759 --> 04:57:03.159 same policy, in fact, more circumspect and less self confessed. 4140 04:57:03.599 --> 04:57:06.400 The policy has as its objective the solution of the 4141 04:57:06.479 --> 04:57:09.880 Jewish problem by the dissolution of the Jewish people. I 4142 04:57:09.919 --> 04:57:14.000 will consider later later whether this policy can obtain the objective. 4143 04:57:14.319 --> 04:57:17.639 The question here concerns the objective, will the dissolution of 4144 04:57:17.680 --> 04:57:21.680 Jewish identity by free and prolonged marriage resolve the struggle 4145 04:57:21.680 --> 04:57:24.560 of the two types that I guess that's the question. 4146 04:57:26.159 --> 04:57:28.759 Or will the struggle continue in another form, less obvious 4147 04:57:28.759 --> 04:57:33.400 but equally uncomfortable. Will the struggle center around isolated individuals 4148 04:57:33.439 --> 04:57:37.040 recurrent types, or will the final product be homogeneous and 4149 04:57:37.119 --> 04:57:42.040 in relation to this particular struggle static. Both a negative 4150 04:57:42.360 --> 04:57:47.000 and affirmative answers to this question are unsatisfactory. Suppose, on 4151 04:57:47.040 --> 04:57:50.119 the one hand, the struggle continues. Suppose the Jewish character 4152 04:57:50.159 --> 04:57:54.319 persists in strains, breaks out in individual atavisms long after 4153 04:57:54.360 --> 04:57:57.240 the Jewish name is perished. The problem will be the same. 4154 04:57:57.319 --> 04:58:00.520 Your world will be confronted with recurrent instances of alien 4155 04:58:00.560 --> 04:58:03.680 and destructive types, all the more dangerous because they are 4156 04:58:03.680 --> 04:58:07.599 not isolated and a recognized repute at a group. Their 4157 04:58:07.639 --> 04:58:10.919 power of destruction will be the greater because they will 4158 04:58:10.959 --> 04:58:14.560 work from within. The Jewish problem will have disappeared, but 4159 04:58:14.599 --> 04:58:19.040 the Gentile problem would remain as bitter as ever. It's 4160 04:58:19.080 --> 04:58:22.599 an interesting tact he is taken here. You almost have 4161 04:58:22.639 --> 04:58:25.159 to admire the You almost have to admire the argument here. 4162 04:58:27.680 --> 04:58:31.000 Let us examine the negative answer. Suppose there are no 4163 04:58:31.119 --> 04:58:34.279 reversions to type. Suppose the Jewish so completely absorbed this 4164 04:58:34.400 --> 04:58:37.639 to be lost beyond possibility of detection in the surrounding world. 4165 04:58:37.919 --> 04:58:41.200 Such a consummation, if possible, calls for one inevitable condition, 4166 04:58:41.400 --> 04:58:45.560 that is, the proportionate judaization of your world. It is 4167 04:58:45.639 --> 04:58:48.400 unthinkable that so vivid an element as a Jewish people 4168 04:58:48.479 --> 04:58:51.360 should be absorbed into your world without producing an appreachable 4169 04:58:51.400 --> 04:58:55.599 alteration in its constitution. A world that has absorbed the 4170 04:58:55.639 --> 04:58:59.560 Jews will be, to the extent will to that extent 4171 04:58:59.759 --> 04:59:12.159 be a Jewish world. There's prophecy, and this is precisely 4172 04:59:12.200 --> 04:59:14.680 the condition which you refuse to admit. You want no 4173 04:59:14.799 --> 04:59:17.479 tampering with your identity. You want to remain what you are. 4174 04:59:17.759 --> 04:59:19.720 You have no intention of meeting us at the point 4175 04:59:19.720 --> 04:59:22.080 of balance. You do not want a world tinged with 4176 04:59:22.200 --> 04:59:24.520 Jewish blood. You want us to be absorbed in you 4177 04:59:24.560 --> 04:59:27.560 without leaving a trace, and with the best intentions in 4178 04:59:27.599 --> 04:59:30.919 the world. We cannot oblige. We can, in that sense 4179 04:59:31.000 --> 04:59:34.040 no more destroy ourselves than we destroy a single particle 4180 04:59:34.080 --> 04:59:37.560 of matter. But I shall show in the following pages 4181 04:59:37.639 --> 04:59:40.919 that all this talk of dissolution is academic. Even if 4182 04:59:41.000 --> 04:59:44.240 you should tolerate and prospect both of these alternatives, there 4183 04:59:44.240 --> 04:59:48.599 are insuperable of obstacles which make it highly improbable that 4184 04:59:48.639 --> 04:59:53.159 you will ever that you will ever be faced with either. 4185 04:59:54.720 --> 05:00:00.040 All Right, end it right there and come back and 4186 05:00:00.319 --> 05:00:02.479 make every effort to try to finish this up this week. 4187 05:00:03.000 --> 05:00:07.000 All right, take care everyone, and I hope you're getting 4188 05:00:07.000 --> 05:00:12.040 something out of this. All right, We've got two more 4189 05:00:12.119 --> 05:00:16.319 chapters and one page left, so this is you Gentiles 4190 05:00:16.360 --> 05:00:19.759 by Maury Samuel, Part eleven. You're going to finish it up. 4191 05:00:21.000 --> 05:00:23.560 Sorry about I meant to finish it up earlier. Had 4192 05:00:23.599 --> 05:00:25.599 a whole bunch of work done on my mouth, still 4193 05:00:25.639 --> 05:00:29.479 being done, waiting for certain bridges to come in and 4194 05:00:29.520 --> 05:00:32.360 everything like that, trying to fix a problem I've had 4195 05:00:32.360 --> 05:00:35.919 for a long time. There's gonna be mouth noises. I 4196 05:00:35.959 --> 05:00:38.759 know there's been mouth noises up until now. Part of 4197 05:00:38.759 --> 05:00:40.759 the new work is to get rid of those mouth 4198 05:00:40.840 --> 05:00:44.680 noises and everything because of partials that I've been suffering 4199 05:00:44.720 --> 05:00:51.360 with for years, not really suffering, but yeah, so forgive 4200 05:00:51.400 --> 05:00:56.400 anything that sounds terrible, but yeah, let's finish this up. 4201 05:00:57.200 --> 05:00:59.360 So I want to start on something new as soon 4202 05:00:59.400 --> 05:01:04.720 as I get the choppers. The last chapter that we 4203 05:01:04.759 --> 05:01:09.599 did was called Solution and Dissolution. This one is called 4204 05:01:09.599 --> 05:01:13.880 the Mechanism of Dissolution, Chapter thirteen. This would be an 4205 05:01:13.880 --> 05:01:17.000 ideal condition, presumably, the merging together of Jew and Gentile, 4206 05:01:17.040 --> 05:01:20.159 for the production of a world neither holy gentile, nor 4207 05:01:20.240 --> 05:01:23.959 yet duel with Jew and gentile, but composed of both 4208 05:01:24.000 --> 05:01:26.959 in certain proportions fixed by our numbers and the laws 4209 05:01:27.000 --> 05:01:31.880 of heredity. That is, at least the best solution within view, 4210 05:01:32.400 --> 05:01:34.439 and if we are to be reasonable on paper, at 4211 05:01:34.520 --> 05:01:36.840 least it would be the only one to be considered. 4212 05:01:37.680 --> 05:01:40.200 But we must remember that this ideal cannot be realized 4213 05:01:40.240 --> 05:01:42.919 in one generation, or in two, or in five. If 4214 05:01:42.919 --> 05:01:45.840 we were to assume the assumption is an absurd one 4215 05:01:46.040 --> 05:01:48.959 that within this generation the Jewish world could be won 4216 05:01:49.080 --> 05:01:51.439 over to this point of view, it would still need 4217 05:01:51.479 --> 05:01:56.680 four or five generations, probably more, to obliterate our identity. 4218 05:01:56.720 --> 05:02:01.080 At that it would call for forcible interm marriage, for 4219 05:02:01.240 --> 05:02:05.880 even when we cease to believe in endogamy, we will 4220 05:02:05.880 --> 05:02:11.840 practice it because our affections so incline us. It would 4221 05:02:11.840 --> 05:02:14.040 have to become a sort of principle that, in the 4222 05:02:14.119 --> 05:02:16.000 name of the great ideal of a solution of the 4223 05:02:16.040 --> 05:02:19.880 Jewish problem, the Jew shall be forbidden morally, at least 4224 05:02:19.880 --> 05:02:23.599 to marry among his own but it is clear that 4225 05:02:23.639 --> 05:02:27.080 even if intensive propaganda were to break down, it could 4226 05:02:27.119 --> 05:02:30.439 not for reasons I shall return to our prohibitions the 4227 05:02:30.479 --> 05:02:33.799 int intermarriage. It would have to work progressively. It would 4228 05:02:33.840 --> 05:02:37.200 take many generations to carry the change successfully through all 4229 05:02:37.200 --> 05:02:41.840 the strong strongholds of Jewish life. And when we add 4230 05:02:41.880 --> 05:02:44.880 to that the time thus needed, the time needed for 4231 05:02:45.040 --> 05:02:49.119 actual absorption by intermarriage, we are faced with a task 4232 05:02:49.159 --> 05:02:53.520 of centuries. But I deal with ideal conditions. I will 4233 05:02:53.520 --> 05:02:56.119 deal with a single, large group of Jews determined to 4234 05:02:56.119 --> 05:02:58.799 abandon their identity and to lose themselves and their children 4235 05:02:58.840 --> 05:03:01.639 in the surrounding gentile world. Cald we know well that 4236 05:03:01.680 --> 05:03:05.000 their children will not yet be assimilated in the full 4237 05:03:05.040 --> 05:03:09.400 sense of the word. Children of mixed Jewish gentile percentage 4238 05:03:09.439 --> 05:03:12.439 still carry the Jewish stigma. The child of a half 4239 05:03:12.520 --> 05:03:16.720 Jew and complete gentile is in better plight, and a 4240 05:03:16.799 --> 05:03:19.720 Jewish great grandfather is hardly any handicap at all. The 4241 05:03:19.759 --> 05:03:24.680 third generation, as the saying is, produces the gentleman it 4242 05:03:24.720 --> 05:03:29.279 needs at least these three generations of intermediary stage, probably more. 4243 05:03:29.520 --> 05:03:33.360 It would be absurd to expect absorption in a single generation. 4244 05:03:33.479 --> 05:03:37.080 It never happens there's needed a transition period, and is 4245 05:03:37.159 --> 05:03:43.720 this transition period which you gentiles will not tolerate, even 4246 05:03:43.720 --> 05:03:47.000 if you believe, as most of you do, that the 4247 05:03:47.040 --> 05:03:48.720 best thing that could happen to the Jew would be 4248 05:03:48.799 --> 05:03:53.840 his complete absorption by inner marriage. You oppose tacitly, but 4249 05:03:53.080 --> 05:03:58.360 not the less obstinately his steps in this direction. You 4250 05:03:58.400 --> 05:04:02.360 want us to intermarry. You don't want to intermarry. You 4251 05:04:02.439 --> 05:04:05.799 want us to produce gentile offspring without having taken your 4252 05:04:05.840 --> 05:04:09.360 sons and daughters as mates. In other words, you want 4253 05:04:09.360 --> 05:04:12.400 an end without permitting the means. The prospect of a 4254 05:04:12.520 --> 05:04:15.880 jewless world is charming, indeed, But who will enjoy the 4255 05:04:15.919 --> 05:04:20.040 actuality your grandchildren and great grandchildren, and who will have 4256 05:04:20.080 --> 05:04:22.759 to pay the price of the first embarrassing contact, the 4257 05:04:22.799 --> 05:04:27.000 first difficult intimacy Jewish sons and daughters in laws, Jewish 4258 05:04:27.040 --> 05:04:32.040 fathers and mother in laws, you yourselves. The prospect is 4259 05:04:32.080 --> 05:04:36.119 too distant, too hypothetical to exert any influence. It is 4260 05:04:36.240 --> 05:04:39.479 much too much like the promise of heaven and the 4261 05:04:39.479 --> 05:04:44.439 threat of Hell. I just love that there's no consideration 4262 05:04:44.560 --> 05:04:48.759 for separation, and just go to your own land. As 4263 05:04:48.799 --> 05:04:52.000 a matter of fact, I think he died in nineteen 4264 05:04:52.080 --> 05:04:55.439 seventy four in New York. I don't think he ever 4265 05:04:55.479 --> 05:05:03.840 wants to live in Israel. Curious. I've alluded more than 4266 05:05:03.880 --> 05:05:06.000 once to the fact that westernization of the Jew is 4267 05:05:06.040 --> 05:05:10.759 nowhere a guarantee against anti Semitism, indeed conscious modern antisemitism. 4268 05:05:10.959 --> 05:05:13.520 The formulated fear of the Jew is the racial bearer 4269 05:05:13.560 --> 05:05:17.799 of alien and dangerous ideas, is to result of Westernization. 4270 05:05:19.439 --> 05:05:23.240 Far from encouraging or tolerating our intermarriage with you, you do 4271 05:05:23.360 --> 05:05:26.880 not even relish the results of our westernization or gentileization. 4272 05:05:29.240 --> 05:05:31.959 It is an amazing and terrifying paradox. You would like 4273 05:05:32.040 --> 05:05:34.639 us to be absorbed, but you shrink from the process. 4274 05:05:34.959 --> 05:05:38.560 The inoculation is painful, even revolting. You are uneasy and 4275 05:05:38.599 --> 05:05:42.479 unhappy when we swarm into your universities, your professions. The 4276 05:05:42.560 --> 05:05:46.639 nearer we come to you, the more you dislike us. Wow. 4277 05:05:50.880 --> 05:05:53.080 You dislike us because we are different. And when we 4278 05:05:53.119 --> 05:05:55.439 make efforts to overcome the difference, we are forced into 4279 05:05:55.439 --> 05:06:01.240 a proximity which rouses your inmost resentment. The ku Klux Klan, 4280 05:06:01.520 --> 05:06:06.119 the Awakening Magyars, the consul no longer warn you against 4281 05:06:06.159 --> 05:06:09.040 the religious and secluded Jew. The ghetto and the Talmud. 4282 05:06:09.360 --> 05:06:13.560 They warn you against the baptizing Jew, against the assimilating Jew, 4283 05:06:13.560 --> 05:06:18.000 against the intermarrying Jew. They warn you, indeed, against that 4284 05:06:18.080 --> 05:06:20.040 part of the Jewish people which is apparently in the 4285 05:06:20.040 --> 05:06:24.639 process of realization of that ultimate ideal. The disappearance of 4286 05:06:24.680 --> 05:06:30.279 the Jewish people. Another aspect of the mechanics of dissolution 4287 05:06:30.439 --> 05:06:35.200 makes clear difficulties somewhat more subtle, but even more effective. 4288 05:06:35.919 --> 05:06:38.360 The death of a people or of a type can 4289 05:06:38.400 --> 05:06:42.000 be natural only race suicide is an idea as an 4290 05:06:42.040 --> 05:06:45.840 ideal is contradiction for an ideal, as a manifestation of 4291 05:06:45.919 --> 05:06:50.959 life deliberately to set before ourselves, the objective of self 4292 05:06:50.959 --> 05:06:56.040 elimination would be as absurd as a man, as absurd 4293 05:06:56.080 --> 05:06:58.880 as a man insisting on watching himself fall asleep. It 4294 05:06:58.919 --> 05:07:03.279 can be done tacitly. Only it can happen, but it 4295 05:07:03.319 --> 05:07:07.000 cannot be propagated. We might drift out of consciousness, but 4296 05:07:07.080 --> 05:07:10.599 every effort to accelerate the pace would retard the process. 4297 05:07:10.639 --> 05:07:12.919 To appeal to Jews to cease to be Jews because 4298 05:07:12.959 --> 05:07:19.159 they are Jews is to accentuate their Jewishness. Of course, 4299 05:07:19.159 --> 05:07:21.400 the effort has been made. But with those grotesque and 4300 05:07:21.479 --> 05:07:24.840 unnatural results, which are in part responsible for your aversions 4301 05:07:24.880 --> 05:07:28.240 of the process. There is nothing more ludicrous and pitiful 4302 05:07:28.240 --> 05:07:31.680 than the Jew who has made his gentilization a deliberate ideal. 4303 05:07:32.200 --> 05:07:36.680 His anxious self repression, his self disclaimers, his demand to 4304 05:07:36.720 --> 05:07:40.919 be considered a gentile, His uneasy sense of inferiority, his 4305 05:07:41.119 --> 05:07:44.360 impoinite resentment of all that reminds him of his origin, 4306 05:07:45.000 --> 05:07:48.400 make him an object of scorn. Alike to you and 4307 05:07:48.439 --> 05:07:52.040 to us, there are assimilated Jews who hate with an 4308 05:07:52.080 --> 05:07:56.080 ignoble and consuming hatred the unassimilated part of the Jewish people. 4309 05:07:56.599 --> 05:07:59.840 Jews who, rousing your secret contempt as renegades, in your 4310 05:07:59.840 --> 05:08:05.799 resentment as intruders, attribute their discomfort falsely to those Jews 4311 05:08:05.840 --> 05:08:10.479 who are most obviously Jewish. For the gentilization Jew is 4312 05:08:10.599 --> 05:08:16.439 reluctant to admit that his very gentilization accentuates his Jewishness 4313 05:08:16.520 --> 05:08:19.560 to you, his only recourse, to say the last remnant 4314 05:08:19.599 --> 05:08:22.439 of his self respect is to blame the unassimilating Jew. 4315 05:08:23.599 --> 05:08:26.880 In eager self vindification, he points out the object lesson 4316 05:08:26.919 --> 05:08:31.119 of the sufferings of Orthodox and National Jewies and associates 4317 05:08:31.159 --> 05:08:35.840 his own severer sufferings with the same cause. He deliberately 4318 05:08:36.119 --> 05:08:38.599 ignores the fact that the cradle of the newer anti 4319 05:08:38.639 --> 05:08:41.520 Semitism is to country which witnessed the first efforts of 4320 05:08:41.520 --> 05:08:45.200 the jew to make a high ideal of assimilation. Germany, 4321 05:08:45.240 --> 05:08:48.360 which in the nineteenth century offered the classic example of 4322 05:08:48.439 --> 05:08:53.560 Jewish assimilation, both internal in adaptation of our own life 4323 05:08:53.639 --> 05:08:57.240 and external in baptism and intermarriage, also became the country 4324 05:08:57.279 --> 05:09:03.720 of classic anti Semitism. Terrified at the infiltration of Jewish blood, 4325 05:09:03.759 --> 05:09:07.279 the German gentile recasts formulae of Jewish hatred and such 4326 05:09:07.360 --> 05:09:13.799 wise as to arrest the process. I'm all I'm hearing 4327 05:09:13.880 --> 05:09:20.360 is is that people are different and they should separate. 4328 05:09:24.360 --> 05:09:28.840 But that's really the issue, isn't it. They don't want 4329 05:09:28.880 --> 05:09:35.200 that much like many people make the claim that black 4330 05:09:35.240 --> 05:09:37.799 people feel like they have a right to access to 4331 05:09:37.840 --> 05:09:46.279 white people. Same thing here, same thing I mean, well, 4332 05:09:46.319 --> 05:09:48.360 I mean you could just go to your you know, 4333 05:09:48.439 --> 05:09:51.080 you have your own country, now, you could just go Well, 4334 05:09:51.080 --> 05:10:00.520 that's anti Semitism. Maybe it's just logic. Wh examine the 4335 05:10:00.599 --> 05:10:03.919 mechanism of dissolution in detail and come down to an 4336 05:10:03.959 --> 05:10:07.439 examination of its working on the individual. We understand better 4337 05:10:07.439 --> 05:10:11.200 the revolting character, at least of at least as first effects. 4338 05:10:11.840 --> 05:10:13.319 It is one thing to say that a people in 4339 05:10:13.360 --> 05:10:16.119 the first stages of dissolution is as horrible a spectacle 4340 05:10:16.119 --> 05:10:19.880 as a body in the first stages of putrification puture faction. 4341 05:10:20.880 --> 05:10:25.360 But this sounds somewhat academic, perhaps even metaphysical. Even so, 4342 05:10:25.520 --> 05:10:28.119 there is little conveyed in the statement that a country 4343 05:10:28.159 --> 05:10:31.159 is starving. We realize the import of the statement only 4344 05:10:31.200 --> 05:10:33.680 when we speak of hungry men and women. When we 4345 05:10:33.759 --> 05:10:37.040 examine the personal reactions of the deliberately assimilating Jew, we 4346 05:10:37.119 --> 05:10:40.080 see more clearly why he is not a pleasant spectacle, 4347 05:10:40.119 --> 05:10:42.959 either to Jew or to gentile. A Jew who has 4348 05:10:43.040 --> 05:10:45.680 made the repression of his Jewishness an ideal must be 4349 05:10:45.720 --> 05:10:48.959 prepared to suffer and to seem to ignore every slight, 4350 05:10:49.159 --> 05:10:52.080 every rebuff which he encounters. He must not permit an 4351 05:10:52.080 --> 05:10:55.599 open sneer to sting him into Jewish self consciousness. Such 4352 05:10:55.639 --> 05:10:58.799 a weakness would undo his purpose. He must seem to 4353 05:10:58.799 --> 05:11:02.880 be unaware of the caiseal coolness which follows the accidental 4354 05:11:02.919 --> 05:11:06.680 revelation of his origin. He must bear silently with those 4355 05:11:06.759 --> 05:11:13.040 countless unspoken snubs, half snubs, un uttered queries, faint ah yes, 4356 05:11:13.240 --> 05:11:16.080 astonishments which will be his lot until the day of 4357 05:11:16.119 --> 05:11:19.040 his death. He must not feel himself implicated in a 4358 05:11:19.080 --> 05:11:22.080 general slander of the Jews. He may only protest in 4359 05:11:22.119 --> 05:11:24.880 a generous disinterest. This sort of way as a fair 4360 05:11:24.919 --> 05:11:28.279 minded gentile. An angry retort or repudiation might be the 4361 05:11:28.360 --> 05:11:31.840 ruin of him. He would suddenly realize the intolerable nature 4362 05:11:31.880 --> 05:11:34.479 of his position. It is not an easy thing to 4363 05:11:34.599 --> 05:11:39.680 kill one's self by degrees. Such a Jew has the 4364 05:11:39.720 --> 05:11:43.520 whole way to go. He is not entering a world 4365 05:11:43.560 --> 05:11:45.680 already made it easier for him by an admixture of 4366 05:11:45.759 --> 05:11:48.599 Jewish blood. He does not move forward to a partly 4367 05:11:48.639 --> 05:11:51.720 prepared position. All is alien around him. His claims have 4368 05:11:51.840 --> 05:11:55.439 no precedent. There is something pitifully impotent in his demand. 4369 05:11:55.599 --> 05:11:58.240 But I am an Englishman like you, an American like you. 4370 05:11:58.560 --> 05:12:00.799 I have no affiliations outside of it this country, except 4371 05:12:00.799 --> 05:12:05.119 those general human affiliations which I share with you. I 4372 05:12:05.159 --> 05:12:08.200 feel for my co religiono iss abroad, nothing more nor 4373 05:12:08.319 --> 05:12:11.439 less than you feel for your fellow Christians among the Turks. 4374 05:12:12.439 --> 05:12:14.720 Between me and my fellow Jews in this country, there 4375 05:12:14.759 --> 05:12:18.959 is nothing more than between Protestant and Protestant, Catholic and Catholic, 4376 05:12:19.560 --> 05:12:22.880 or if he is baptized, this incriminating confession may presumably 4377 05:12:22.919 --> 05:12:26.720 be omitted. Quote. I am part and parcel of your country. 4378 05:12:26.759 --> 05:12:30.720 Our forefathers came later, but our posterity will stay as long. 4379 05:12:31.000 --> 05:12:33.240 There is no difference between you and me, except a 4380 05:12:33.400 --> 05:12:36.799 very slight difference of faith, nothing really worth mentioning. In 4381 05:12:36.880 --> 05:12:39.680 all else we are utterly alike. Do not let yourself 4382 05:12:39.720 --> 05:12:42.599 be misled by the apparent contrast between me and my 4383 05:12:42.680 --> 05:12:46.639 unassimilated co religionists. It is merely a matter of externals. 4384 05:12:47.000 --> 05:12:49.119 In a little while, in a generation or two, they 4385 05:12:49.119 --> 05:12:52.639 will be like me, indistinguishable from you. They will be Americans, 4386 05:12:52.680 --> 05:12:56.520 or Englishmen or Frenchmen. In every respect, your destiny in ours, 4387 05:12:56.680 --> 05:12:59.959 your outlook, and ours, your hopes and hours are identical. 4388 05:13:00.560 --> 05:13:08.200 End quote. But his plea falls on skeptical ears that 4389 05:13:08.880 --> 05:13:12.000 there is that in the very name of Jew which 4390 05:13:12.040 --> 05:13:16.279 invalidates his protestations. And the more vehemently he urges his case, 4391 05:13:16.319 --> 05:13:20.040 the more suspicious and uneasy you become. For he is 4392 05:13:20.200 --> 05:13:22.799 urging as an accomplished fact, that which is nothing but 4393 05:13:22.880 --> 05:13:26.840 a hopeless personal aspiration. Your demand is not connected with 4394 05:13:26.880 --> 05:13:30.200 behavior or with reviews. Neither of these makes the American 4395 05:13:30.360 --> 05:13:33.200 or the Englishman. It is a question of identity. You 4396 05:13:33.240 --> 05:13:36.119 want us to be Anglo Saxons, or two sons if 4397 05:13:36.200 --> 05:13:41.439 you are, if you are to call us Englishmen or Germans, 4398 05:13:42.119 --> 05:13:45.360 and we cannot be that. At best. Our great grandchildren 4399 05:13:45.479 --> 05:13:48.279 can be as nearly that as matters, But we cannot 4400 05:13:48.319 --> 05:13:56.000 remarry our great grandparents. We cannot but exasperate you by 4401 05:13:56.080 --> 05:14:02.319 such important, importunate assumptions. That strangers, aliens to your blood 4402 05:14:02.360 --> 05:14:04.479 should come to dwell in your midst is one thing 4403 05:14:05.439 --> 05:14:08.040 that they should claim, after a sojourn of a generation 4404 05:14:08.159 --> 05:14:10.599 or two, complete identity with you, as absurd as it 4405 05:14:10.639 --> 05:14:13.240 is insolent. And even if they should dwell in your 4406 05:14:13.240 --> 05:14:17.279 mysts a thousand years, yet should keep apart, neither giving 4407 05:14:17.400 --> 05:14:19.959 nor taking in marriage. They are not identical with you. 4408 05:14:21.000 --> 05:14:25.159 In those words our ancestry, our forefathers, there are implied 4409 05:14:25.159 --> 05:14:28.360 the dearest and tenderest of human associations. The love of 4410 05:14:28.360 --> 05:14:31.159 his forbearers and of his posterity is all that man 4411 05:14:31.240 --> 05:14:35.119 has of earthly immortality. The pride and affection, which are 4412 05:14:35.159 --> 05:14:38.319 the natural counterparts of these concepts, are as narrow and 4413 05:14:38.400 --> 05:14:42.560 as broad, as potent for good and evil, as sexual 4414 05:14:42.599 --> 05:14:45.319 love as life itself. Shall we come to you and 4415 05:14:45.360 --> 05:14:50.000 share your ancestry? Shall we intrude on these exalted recollections 4416 05:14:50.279 --> 05:14:54.319 with a we two? You cannot help resenting these claims 4417 05:14:54.360 --> 05:14:59.319 They savor at once of ingratiating humility and arrogant blasphemy. 4418 05:14:59.599 --> 05:15:02.439 Try you will, you cannot make the concession. You are 4419 05:15:02.479 --> 05:15:05.279 trapped it by a vital paradox. You may ask, what 4420 05:15:05.319 --> 05:15:07.400 difference is there between a Jew claiming to be an 4421 05:15:07.400 --> 05:15:10.119 American and an Italian claiming to be one? Is it 4422 05:15:10.119 --> 05:15:13.159 more humiliating for one than the other? Is the Italian 4423 05:15:13.159 --> 05:15:17.319 of our ancestry more than you? There is some similarity 4424 05:15:17.319 --> 05:15:19.680 in the plight of all foreigners, and we Jews suffer 4425 05:15:19.759 --> 05:15:23.720 all that foreigners suffer. But our case is unique, because 4426 05:15:23.840 --> 05:15:27.080 we are unique. If there is anything in what I 4427 05:15:27.080 --> 05:15:31.639 have said, the cleft between you Americans and Italians, Frenchmen 4428 05:15:31.680 --> 05:15:35.040 and Germans is but a wide jump as compared with 4429 05:15:35.119 --> 05:15:37.759 the chasm between us and any of you. What is 4430 05:15:37.799 --> 05:15:40.279 true of the gentile foreigner in this regard is ten 4431 05:15:40.360 --> 05:15:45.240 times true of us. For our very record testifies against us. 4432 05:15:45.639 --> 05:15:47.880 The older, the past from which we attempt to flee 4433 05:15:47.919 --> 05:15:51.159 the closer it pursues us. To you, who share with 4434 05:15:51.240 --> 05:15:54.240 us the human attribute of pride of ancestry, it seems 4435 05:15:54.240 --> 05:15:57.720 incredible that, having retained our identity for one hundred generations, 4436 05:15:57.880 --> 05:16:02.279 we should abandon it in one suspicious and odious for 4437 05:16:02.400 --> 05:16:07.319 you suspect rightly that in this tenacity of identity, which 4438 05:16:07.360 --> 05:16:10.639 has outlived so many nations and civilizations, there is implied 4439 05:16:10.639 --> 05:16:14.720 a kernel of individuality which is as which is as 4440 05:16:14.759 --> 05:16:18.799 singular in its nature as it is in its history 4441 05:16:19.639 --> 05:16:23.080 Among yourselves. Assimilation is problem enough. The birth and death 4442 05:16:23.080 --> 05:16:27.479 of nations is attended by war, wars, pains, humiliations. But 4443 05:16:27.919 --> 05:16:31.119 what you have done a thousand times, a dozen times 4444 05:16:31.200 --> 05:16:33.880 over in the last four thousand years, we have not 4445 05:16:34.000 --> 05:16:37.840 done once. We cannot assimilate. It is so humiliating to 4446 05:16:37.919 --> 05:16:41.159 us that we become contemptible in submitting to the process. 4447 05:16:41.200 --> 05:16:44.080 It is so exasperating to you that even if we 4448 05:16:44.080 --> 05:16:51.840 were willing to submit, it would avail us nothing. Which 4449 05:16:51.880 --> 05:16:56.959 brings us to the official last chapter. Is there any hope? 4450 05:16:57.759 --> 05:17:03.840 Considering everything he's been saying, what do you think chapter fourteen? 4451 05:17:04.000 --> 05:17:07.279 Is there any hope? There is little more to be said. 4452 05:17:07.560 --> 05:17:10.279 I would only like to sit down before concluding a 4453 05:17:10.319 --> 05:17:13.319 few considerations might which might help to clarify the issue 4454 05:17:13.319 --> 05:17:16.240 between us. For I cannot believe that the contest between 4455 05:17:16.240 --> 05:17:18.400 our two ways of life will come to an end 4456 05:17:18.439 --> 05:17:21.439 within measurable time. And I cannot believe that while the 4457 05:17:21.479 --> 05:17:25.759 contest continues, it will ever be lifted to purely spiritual levels. 4458 05:17:26.360 --> 05:17:34.080 That's I mean. I mean, it's a great prediction. Don't 4459 05:17:34.240 --> 05:17:35.599 you know you don't have to play the lottery. I 4460 05:17:35.639 --> 05:17:40.000 don't think you're gonna win. I mean, I will not 4461 05:17:40.080 --> 05:17:43.439 confound eschatology with daily experience. If ever the dream of 4462 05:17:43.479 --> 05:17:46.520 the prophet should come true, If ever men should live 4463 05:17:46.560 --> 05:17:50.119 at peace with each other, expressing their antagonisms with that enmity, 4464 05:17:50.439 --> 05:17:53.959 why they will no longer be men but another species, 4465 05:17:54.000 --> 05:17:56.400 and talk of jew and gentile will be as irrelevant 4466 05:17:56.439 --> 05:17:59.159 then as it might have been twenty thousand years ago. 4467 05:18:00.560 --> 05:18:03.560 The world is getting better, no doubt, but the improvement 4468 05:18:03.639 --> 05:18:06.040 is not to be measured in generations or centuries, and 4469 05:18:06.080 --> 05:18:08.360 what will come to pass ten thousand years from now 4470 05:18:08.560 --> 05:18:11.520 does not concern me in connection with this problem. Certainly, 4471 05:18:11.520 --> 05:18:14.000 I have no patience with those who bid us weight 4472 05:18:14.400 --> 05:18:17.919 to bid us wait dumbly for the apotheosis of mankind, 4473 05:18:18.360 --> 05:18:20.639 as though the millennium were right around the corner, as 4474 05:18:20.720 --> 05:18:24.759 though every year registered a perceptible and even considerable improvement. 4475 05:18:25.240 --> 05:18:28.119 If ever, within the span of one generation mankind could 4476 05:18:28.119 --> 05:18:31.919 suffer visible improvement, it should have been now within the 4477 05:18:31.959 --> 05:18:37.479 generation which witnessed the war. But only the fool and 4478 05:18:37.520 --> 05:18:40.360 the professional optimists will assert that our way of life today, 4479 05:18:40.400 --> 05:18:44.159 our utterances, our emotions, our ambitions are at all cleaner 4480 05:18:44.200 --> 05:18:46.479 than they were ten years ago when the war started, 4481 05:18:48.560 --> 05:18:52.040 the same handful of sensitive men and women struggle hopelessly 4482 05:18:52.119 --> 05:18:55.639 against the passions of humanity, the same ugliness and meanness, 4483 05:18:55.639 --> 05:18:59.080 the same selfishness in lying, the same lust for bloody adventure, 4484 05:18:59.159 --> 05:19:02.919 the same delight physical triumph, the same wilful self deception 4485 05:19:03.040 --> 05:19:07.119 and abuse of lovely phrases have us in thrall. The 4486 05:19:07.200 --> 05:19:09.360 race is still to the swift, and the battle to 4487 05:19:09.400 --> 05:19:11.959 the strong, and the goal and the prize are what 4488 05:19:12.000 --> 05:19:15.200 they were ten years ago. What I say then is 4489 05:19:15.240 --> 05:19:17.799 not prompted by the hope that words of mind or 4490 05:19:17.840 --> 05:19:20.520 of anyone else can give a new complexion to the 4491 05:19:20.560 --> 05:19:24.720 general struggle between jew and gentile, But only by the 4492 05:19:24.759 --> 05:19:27.319 desire to clarify, for the encouragement of a few, the 4493 05:19:27.400 --> 05:19:30.360 nature of this struggle, convincing them perhaps that behind the 4494 05:19:30.400 --> 05:19:34.720 sordid stupidity which seems to govern our Jew Gensaur relationship, 4495 05:19:34.959 --> 05:19:39.720 there may be found a compensating grain of eternal principle. 4496 05:19:39.959 --> 05:19:43.439 And my concluding words or address less to practical expectations 4497 05:19:43.799 --> 05:19:52.919 than to the desire for completeness. So you get to 4498 05:19:52.959 --> 05:19:55.560 the end of the war, there's some World War one, No, 4499 05:19:57.799 --> 05:20:04.279 Germany is basically decimated, taken over visibly by people of 4500 05:20:04.840 --> 05:20:11.080 Jewish persuasion. Austria is actively being starved. People are noticing 4501 05:20:11.080 --> 05:20:14.959 that the only people running the black markets in say 4502 05:20:15.439 --> 05:20:20.599 Vienna or yeah, in Vienna are Jews. Where do they 4503 05:20:20.599 --> 05:20:23.479 get the food from? They're noticing that the Communists who 4504 05:20:23.479 --> 05:20:28.279 are coming over and destroying farms are a certain group. 4505 05:20:29.200 --> 05:20:32.479 And you want to talk about how, oh, because of 4506 05:20:32.520 --> 05:20:36.959 the war, people should just say there's losers in war, 4507 05:20:40.040 --> 05:20:45.639 especially that war. And then the Germans find out that 4508 05:20:47.880 --> 05:20:56.319 basically Jews were bribed, there was bribery going on, or 4509 05:20:56.360 --> 05:21:00.240 there was persuasion going on that if Jews got were 4510 05:21:00.279 --> 05:21:02.799 able to persuade the United States to get into the 4511 05:21:02.840 --> 05:21:08.720 war on the side of the Allies, that they would 4512 05:21:08.919 --> 05:21:13.319 Jews would get the vow for declaration. They found out 4513 05:21:13.319 --> 05:21:18.119 about that almost immediately. You didn't think that that was 4514 05:21:18.159 --> 05:21:20.400 going to cause a problem. You thought people were just 4515 05:21:20.400 --> 05:21:23.360 gonna be like, Oh, the horrors of war, war of 4516 05:21:23.400 --> 05:21:32.560 which your people won. Really, yeah, Why are we Jews 4517 05:21:32.599 --> 05:21:35.680 prepared to give you, which, in my opinion, you should 4518 05:21:35.720 --> 05:21:38.799 consider sufficient obedience to the laws of the state and 4519 05:21:38.880 --> 05:21:41.680 readiness to defend it, even if against our inmost belief 4520 05:21:41.680 --> 05:21:44.560 in time of danger. This constitutes a full payment for 4521 05:21:44.599 --> 05:21:48.360 the privilege of citizenship and the protection of the laws. 4522 05:21:53.919 --> 05:21:55.959 But this offer on the part of the Jew becomes 4523 05:21:56.000 --> 05:21:59.840 inadequate when the state begins to assume functions which seemed 4524 05:21:59.880 --> 05:22:03.159 to me totally beyond its capacity. What was intended only 4525 05:22:03.200 --> 05:22:05.479 for the regulation of the external actions of a given 4526 05:22:05.520 --> 05:22:08.439 group in becoming a growing tyranny against the inmost values 4527 05:22:08.479 --> 05:22:13.080 at man, an attempted violation of our most inaccessible privileges. 4528 05:22:13.439 --> 05:22:16.680 And this despite the professions of your statesmen and political thinkers. 4529 05:22:18.560 --> 05:22:20.919 It is acknowledged in principle that a man's religion is 4530 05:22:20.919 --> 05:22:23.279 beyond the reach of law, and his God need neither 4531 05:22:23.279 --> 05:22:26.880 pay taxes, nor take out citizenship papers. But the acknowledgment 4532 05:22:26.919 --> 05:22:29.639 of this principle is gradually becoming meaningless. Perhaps it never 4533 05:22:29.680 --> 05:22:32.520 had any meaning in light of the growing spiritual tyranny 4534 05:22:32.520 --> 05:22:36.479 of the state. Perhaps nothing that you can ever that 4535 05:22:36.520 --> 05:22:39.680 you have ever feared from the economic tyranny of socialism 4536 05:22:39.720 --> 05:22:44.520 approaches the oppressive spiritual tyranny of your great democracies. These 4537 05:22:44.520 --> 05:22:46.959 seek to control not only the acts, but the emotions 4538 05:22:46.959 --> 05:22:50.680 of the individuals. They would compel us to love and hate, 4539 05:22:51.000 --> 05:22:53.520 to admire and despise as part of our civic duty, 4540 05:22:53.599 --> 05:22:57.080 and not content with that part of us which alone 4541 05:22:57.119 --> 05:23:00.680 affects the well being of government. Would also conquer and 4542 05:23:00.720 --> 05:23:04.040 control that part of us which belongs to no one 4543 05:23:03.439 --> 05:23:08.080 but each man and God. They would control our culture, 4544 05:23:08.119 --> 05:23:13.040 as though culture were controllable except for the purposes of destruction. Well, 4545 05:23:13.560 --> 05:23:16.759 that's a mouthful tell us in which language to create, 4546 05:23:16.840 --> 05:23:21.639 as though they could fructify us and direct our ecstasies, 4547 05:23:21.680 --> 05:23:24.959 as though these were run along wires and commanded by switches. 4548 05:23:26.919 --> 05:23:30.520 Our obedience, our tribute, our bodies will not do. They 4549 05:23:30.520 --> 05:23:32.880 will have the very secrets of the heart of their 4550 05:23:33.000 --> 05:23:35.200 of the heart torn out of us and delivered to 4551 05:23:35.319 --> 05:23:38.880 Washington or Berlin or London, and the terror of socialism. 4552 05:23:38.959 --> 05:23:42.639 They depict the intolerable misery of the man who can 4553 05:23:42.680 --> 05:23:46.479 claim nothing for himself, but must yield up the fruit 4554 05:23:46.560 --> 05:23:48.959 of his labor down to the last husk, to the 4555 05:23:49.000 --> 05:23:52.240 disposition of the state. But they have instituted a spiritual 4556 05:23:52.279 --> 05:23:56.080 socialism infinitely more hideous. And for economic equality, they have 4557 05:23:56.119 --> 05:24:03.200 substituted a spiritual hejemanith illgeneity, sorry, which the communists can 4558 05:24:03.240 --> 05:24:06.959 never hope to parallel in the physical field. And woe 4559 05:24:07.040 --> 05:24:10.080 to him who dares to practice private initiative in the 4560 05:24:10.119 --> 05:24:13.799 spiritual socialist state. His punishment is not only spiritual, but 4561 05:24:13.799 --> 05:24:16.759 physical too. And we choose the most obstinate and most 4562 05:24:16.880 --> 05:24:19.840 enduring centers in this respect are the best measure of 4563 05:24:19.919 --> 05:24:25.880 vindictive fury with which this tyranny is armed. If then 4564 05:24:26.000 --> 05:24:29.159 the struggle between us is ever to be lifted beyond 4565 05:24:29.159 --> 05:24:32.680 this physical your democracies will have to alter their demands 4566 05:24:32.720 --> 05:24:41.799 for racial, spiritual, and cultural homogeneity within the state. Yeah, 4567 05:24:41.840 --> 05:24:44.319 but it would be foolish to regard this as a possibility, 4568 05:24:44.360 --> 05:24:47.240 for the tendency of the civilization is in the opposite direction. 4569 05:24:48.439 --> 05:24:50.680 That's why you need a world war, and that's why 4570 05:24:50.680 --> 05:24:55.680 you need a devil, and that's why you need the 4571 05:24:55.720 --> 05:25:03.439 worst event that ever happened in history. Remember what Daryl 4572 05:25:03.479 --> 05:25:06.520 Cooper and I said. What Daryl Cooper said, Well, there 4573 05:25:06.560 --> 05:25:12.000 are Jewish question episode. He said, well, it turns out 4574 05:25:12.040 --> 05:25:15.439 that the way you integrate the Jews, which was JQ 4575 05:25:17.200 --> 05:25:23.599 Jewish question after Marx's initial one, was you basically had 4576 05:25:23.599 --> 05:25:30.840 to make Christian nations not Christian anymore. There was a 4577 05:25:30.840 --> 05:25:34.479 steady approach toward the identification of state with race instead 4578 05:25:34.479 --> 05:25:37.200 of with the political state. And since this is largely 4579 05:25:37.240 --> 05:25:40.439 beyond your conscious control, it is perhaps as foolish as 4580 05:25:40.479 --> 05:25:44.599 it is futile to expect to change. I mean, I 4581 05:25:45.639 --> 05:25:48.040 haven't gone forward to look and see later in his 4582 05:25:48.119 --> 05:25:51.560 life if he was a Zionist. I am assuming he's 4583 05:25:51.599 --> 05:25:57.360 a raging Zionist. But look what he's saying here, saying, 4584 05:25:57.520 --> 05:26:03.319 you know, you expect to have a state based on race? Ugh. Uh. 4585 05:26:07.639 --> 05:26:10.479 The best fighting unit is a nation which is homogeneous 4586 05:26:10.520 --> 05:26:13.560 in blood and emotions, no less than in political allegiance. 4587 05:26:13.599 --> 05:26:16.520 And since the chief function of the state is to fight, witnessed, 4588 05:26:16.520 --> 05:26:19.080 a proportion of your taxes spent in payment and preparation 4589 05:26:19.159 --> 05:26:22.880 for wars. You will inevitably demand the subordination of all 4590 05:26:22.959 --> 05:26:33.799 human functions to that end. But this is really crying 4591 05:26:33.799 --> 05:26:38.880 out in pain as he gets struck, especially with what's 4592 05:26:38.959 --> 05:26:44.720 to come, or crying crying out in pain as you strike. Sorry. 4593 05:26:45.680 --> 05:26:50.279 The demand for racial homogeneity, racial homogeneity within the state 4594 05:26:50.360 --> 05:26:53.040 has led in America, still the most unexploited country in 4595 05:26:53.040 --> 05:26:55.759 the whole world, to the exclusion of the immigrant, and 4596 05:26:55.759 --> 05:26:58.520 particularly of the immigrant who will not lend himself to 4597 05:26:58.560 --> 05:27:01.080 the type of assimilation orself instructure with you' de meant. 4598 05:27:01.319 --> 05:27:03.400 He's writing this right around the time of the nineteen 4599 05:27:03.479 --> 05:27:09.639 twenty four Immigration Act, so you can also see an 4600 05:27:09.680 --> 05:27:13.200 impetus for writing this, the anger behind that. There was 4601 05:27:13.319 --> 05:27:16.680 a lot of Jewish anger behind that act because they 4602 05:27:16.720 --> 05:27:26.560 saw it as keeping them out, without for a moment 4603 05:27:26.599 --> 05:27:29.639 admitting that any kind of exclusion is justifiable in a 4604 05:27:29.680 --> 05:27:33.000 world which God created before the nations appeared to disfigure it. 4605 05:27:33.360 --> 05:27:35.400 I submit the case of the Jew is an exception. 4606 05:27:36.400 --> 05:27:38.680 The Jew has no homeland of his own. When the 4607 05:27:38.720 --> 05:27:41.400 Jew migrates from one country to another, it is almost 4608 05:27:41.479 --> 05:27:46.639 invariably under the pressure of persecution. Why why would you 4609 05:27:46.680 --> 05:27:51.439 be persecuted over and over again. Oh that's right, you 4610 05:27:51.479 --> 05:27:57.479 explained it in this book. Thank you. To close the 4611 05:27:57.520 --> 05:28:00.479 gate against the Jew is not the same then closing 4612 05:28:00.520 --> 05:28:03.360 it against the Italian or the Pole. In the latter cases, 4613 05:28:03.400 --> 05:28:06.119 you insist as certain racist state in their own homes, 4614 05:28:06.279 --> 05:28:08.599 whether or not the land will support them. But the 4615 05:28:08.639 --> 05:28:10.959 Jew is not being forced to stay at home while 4616 05:28:11.000 --> 05:28:13.840 one part of the gentile world persecutes him, the other 4617 05:28:13.919 --> 05:28:17.080 part refuses him a chance to escape for very shame. 4618 05:28:17.240 --> 05:28:20.000 If you were capable of it, you should give the 4619 05:28:20.080 --> 05:28:26.520 Jew free immigration everywhere. The irony of it is, of course, 4620 05:28:26.680 --> 05:28:29.840 that it is chiefly against the Jew that anti immigration 4621 05:28:29.919 --> 05:28:32.799 laws are passed here in America, as in England and Germany, 4622 05:28:33.919 --> 05:28:36.279 and the liberal countries which could make room for the 4623 05:28:36.360 --> 05:28:41.919 hunted Jew, cooperate despite a few gallant and unsustained gestures, 4624 05:28:41.959 --> 05:28:45.279 with the most illiberal in the persecution of their common victim. 4625 05:28:46.080 --> 05:28:48.560 He that refuses asylum to a victim fleeing from a 4626 05:28:48.639 --> 05:28:52.000 murderer is before God a free and will income accomplice 4627 05:28:52.040 --> 05:28:58.240 in the crime. He said over and over. He's an atheist. 4628 05:28:59.200 --> 05:29:04.959 It's just it's so. This book is so perfect, and 4629 05:29:05.000 --> 05:29:07.599 to me it is infinitely strange that even from your 4630 05:29:07.639 --> 05:29:09.840 point of view, the sporting point of view, you should 4631 05:29:09.880 --> 05:29:13.200 be able to reconcile your morality with your acts. If 4632 05:29:13.200 --> 05:29:15.799 there is anything at all in your professions, you should 4633 05:29:15.799 --> 05:29:18.959 be filled with admiration and astonishment at the incredible pluckiness 4634 05:29:18.959 --> 05:29:23.119 of a small people, which, in the face of infinite discouragement, 4635 05:29:23.319 --> 05:29:26.680 has clung with such tenacity to its identity and cult. 4636 05:29:28.240 --> 05:29:31.919 Oh man, this is so good. I love the way Jansas, 4637 05:29:34.360 --> 05:29:37.200 without understanding us at all, you might have paid the 4638 05:29:37.240 --> 05:29:41.279 homage of warriors to the courage of our unconquerable enemy. 4639 05:29:42.439 --> 05:29:45.880 That you watch us with vicious irritation rather than with respect, 4640 05:29:46.200 --> 05:29:53.000 that you load us with comely, You load us with contumely, 4641 05:29:53.200 --> 05:29:56.759 when so much in your own instinct should have given 4642 05:29:56.919 --> 05:29:59.880 us a peculiar place in your regard. Makes me feel 4643 05:29:59.880 --> 05:30:02.959 that nothing which can be urged upon your conscience will 4644 05:30:02.959 --> 05:30:06.840 avail to lighten the burden of our destiny. They have 4645 05:30:06.880 --> 05:30:11.400 a destiny we allowed to have a destiny. We have 4646 05:30:11.520 --> 05:30:14.919 just witnessed in America the repetition and the peculiar form 4647 05:30:14.959 --> 05:30:18.119 adapted to this country, the evil farce to which experience 4648 05:30:18.159 --> 05:30:21.799 of many centuries has not yet quite accustomed us. If 4649 05:30:21.840 --> 05:30:24.919 America had any meaning at all, it lay in the 4650 05:30:25.000 --> 05:30:28.639 peculiar attempt to rise above the trend of our present civilization, 4651 05:30:29.080 --> 05:30:36.840 the identification of race with state. In the old world, 4652 05:30:36.840 --> 05:30:38.880 the evil had taken root in the course of centuries. 4653 05:30:38.880 --> 05:30:42.919 Its hideous fruits was therefore inevitable. He knows. He's just 4654 05:30:43.119 --> 05:30:43.639 telling you. 4655 05:30:45.439 --> 05:30:49.759 If you're if it's not a homogo, if it's a 4656 05:30:49.799 --> 05:30:53.560 homogeneous state, we stand out like a sore thumb. You 4657 05:30:53.599 --> 05:30:57.159 gotta let a bunch of other people in. You gotta 4658 05:30:57.240 --> 05:30:59.080 let a bunch of people who don't look like you. 4659 05:30:59.080 --> 05:31:03.720 You can't, don't be cohesive. Then we can come in, 4660 05:31:04.159 --> 05:31:06.159 be cohesive and take over. 4661 05:31:07.919 --> 05:31:12.720 Did that happen? But America seemed to offer the hope 4662 05:31:12.759 --> 05:31:16.159 of a change. Whatever other evils America had inherited, at 4663 05:31:16.200 --> 05:31:19.400 least this one she had avoided. America, therefore, was the 4664 05:31:19.479 --> 05:31:22.319 New World in this vital respect, that the state was 4665 05:31:22.360 --> 05:31:26.400 purely an ideal, and nationality was identical only with acceptance 4666 05:31:26.400 --> 05:31:29.720 of the ideal. But it seems now that the entire 4667 05:31:29.759 --> 05:31:32.040 point of view was a mistaken one. That America was 4668 05:31:32.080 --> 05:31:34.919 incapable of rising above her origins and the semblance of 4669 05:31:34.959 --> 05:31:37.959 an ideal nationalism was only a stage in the proper 4670 05:31:37.959 --> 05:31:41.959 development of the universal gentile spirit. The ideal, which for 4671 05:31:42.080 --> 05:31:47.279 a time constituted American nationality, disappears now and in its 4672 05:31:47.279 --> 05:31:53.840 place emerges again with atavistic certainty, the race. It is 4673 05:31:53.880 --> 05:31:57.880 true that even while the ideal flourished triumphant over race, 4674 05:31:58.000 --> 05:32:01.959 the seeds of our enmity lay securely embedded in our natures. 4675 05:32:02.520 --> 05:32:06.200 But the passing generosity keeps the seeds in slumber. It 4676 05:32:06.279 --> 05:32:09.360 is not the first time that gentile nations, forgetting themselves 4677 05:32:09.360 --> 05:32:12.560 for a brief period, have offered us friendship and even affection, 4678 05:32:13.119 --> 05:32:17.680 But the strange and unnatural exultation, pasted and bitter sobriety succeeded. 4679 05:32:19.479 --> 05:32:26.080 Why today, with race triumphant over ideal, anti Semitism uncovers 4680 05:32:26.080 --> 05:32:29.159 its fangs into the heartless refusal as of the most 4681 05:32:29.159 --> 05:32:34.319 elementary human right, the right of asylum, is added cowardly insult. 4682 05:32:35.080 --> 05:32:43.840 The most elementary human right is the right of asylum. 4683 05:32:43.959 --> 05:32:47.279 If you don't let us into subvert your culture, you're 4684 05:32:47.479 --> 05:32:53.840 evil and cowardly. We are not only excluded, but we 4685 05:32:53.880 --> 05:32:56.799 are told, in the unmistakable language of the immigration laws, 4686 05:32:56.799 --> 05:33:00.360 that we are an inferior people without the moral courage 4687 05:33:00.360 --> 05:33:03.200 to stand up squarely to its evil instincts. The country 4688 05:33:03.560 --> 05:33:07.159 prepared itself, through its journalists by a long drought of 4689 05:33:07.240 --> 05:33:10.759 vilification of the Jew, and when sufficiently inspired by the 4690 05:33:10.799 --> 05:33:15.119 popular and scientific portions, committed the act. How then, shall 4691 05:33:15.119 --> 05:33:18.279 I delude myself into the belief that the considerations covered 4692 05:33:18.279 --> 05:33:22.759 in this chapter will produce any effect? Have we Jews 4693 05:33:22.799 --> 05:33:26.759 not known this evil long enough? Should we not have 4694 05:33:26.880 --> 05:33:29.720 known better by this time than to repose hope in 4695 05:33:29.840 --> 05:33:33.959 any of the nations. Perhaps we were foolish in our overconfidence. 4696 05:33:33.959 --> 05:33:38.040 But our credulousness does us less dishonor than your cruelty 4697 05:33:38.200 --> 05:33:42.200 does you. And if it savors again a foolish simplicity 4698 05:33:42.279 --> 05:33:44.439 to make this plea to you, I am willing to 4699 05:33:44.479 --> 05:33:53.840 take the risk. This last part is called a last word. 4700 05:33:54.919 --> 05:33:57.360 It would have been a happier task for me if 4701 05:33:57.400 --> 05:33:59.919 I had been able to write this book with sincerity. 4702 05:34:00.119 --> 05:34:02.639 In another tone, if I had been able to record 4703 05:34:02.639 --> 05:34:05.599 a struggle of two ideals and types which was never 4704 05:34:05.680 --> 05:34:10.119 compromised and obscured by physical lusts and cruelties. But rather 4705 05:34:10.159 --> 05:34:14.919 than utter the old, untruthful courtesies, tempering resentment with caution. Intact, 4706 05:34:15.319 --> 05:34:17.520 it would have been better not to write at all, 4707 05:34:17.759 --> 05:34:21.159 and I was driven to write. I believe that though 4708 05:34:21.240 --> 05:34:24.040 I may have aired here and there, I have been 4709 05:34:24.159 --> 05:34:26.840 mainly right. And I console myself with the thought that 4710 05:34:26.919 --> 05:34:31.799 this book offends by its assertiveness. God knows that the 4711 05:34:31.840 --> 05:34:36.360 infinite tactfulness of thousands of other Jews seems to have offended. 4712 05:34:36.400 --> 05:34:40.080 No less. Whatever we do, we are damned. And I'd 4713 05:34:40.159 --> 05:34:45.599 rather be damned standing up than lying down. That's it. 4714 05:34:47.159 --> 05:34:56.599 That's the book. I mean, how much do I have? 4715 05:34:58.400 --> 05:35:01.959 What am I supposed to say? What commentary am I 4716 05:35:02.000 --> 05:35:07.200 supposed to have? It's like Camp of the Saints. When 4717 05:35:07.200 --> 05:35:09.240 I read through Camp of the Saints, there was so 4718 05:35:09.799 --> 05:35:14.119 little for me to comment on because it was so obvious. 4719 05:35:14.759 --> 05:35:18.040 What am I going to explain to you? I just 4720 05:35:18.119 --> 05:35:20.880 comment for my own sake so that I feel better 4721 05:35:20.880 --> 05:35:27.240 about what I'm reading. But I mean, this, come on, really, 4722 05:35:30.880 --> 05:35:35.400 all right? I hope you like it. I am going 4723 05:35:35.439 --> 05:35:37.639 to get off this subject, and the next thing I 4724 05:35:37.759 --> 05:35:42.599 read for you all will be something different, something enjoyable, 4725 05:35:42.680 --> 05:35:45.639 I promise you, maybe something I haven't read and we'll 4726 05:35:45.639 --> 05:35:47.799 read it for the first time together. That would be fun. 4727 05:35:48.720 --> 05:35:51.599 But yeah, I hope you got a lot out of this. 4728 05:35:51.639 --> 05:35:57.040 I hope you learned a lot. And yeah, I really 4729 05:35:57.080 --> 05:35:59.759 don't have much more to say. Take care of everyone, 4730 05:36:00.080 --> 05:36:05.159 Thank you, I really, I'm this is only being released 4731 05:36:05.159 --> 05:36:09.319 to supporters. I can't tell you how much I I 4732 05:36:09.360 --> 05:36:14.319 appreciate y'all, and I might release it publicly one day. 4733 05:36:15.639 --> 05:36:18.360 But I want to do something. You know, if you're 4734 05:36:18.560 --> 05:36:20.919 willing to take money out of your pocket and send 4735 05:36:20.919 --> 05:36:23.319 it to me every month, I want to do something 4736 05:36:23.360 --> 05:36:27.200 that you can. You know, this just us, just us talking, 4737 05:36:27.520 --> 05:36:33.000 So thank you and see you in a week hopefully, 4738 05:36:33.159 --> 05:36:35.279 and get this while tayking care of later