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Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, let's do a new reading for substack and

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for the supporters here. This may be a book that

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some of you have heard of by Maurice Samuel, called

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You Gentiles. It's pretty infamous. Anelope Hill has their own

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version of it. Let me show you how they describe

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it here. They say. There has been no shortage of

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writings detailing and incompatibility between Jewish and Gentile people from

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a variety of sources and perspectives. Many of these fade

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with the circumstances it sparked them, but a few make

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lasting contributions to the understanding of millennia of conflict, preserved

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by his own stature as a titan of Jewish literature.

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Maurice Samuel authored You Gentiles in nineteen twenty four, which

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persists as one of the most visceral and fundamental contrasts

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of Jews and non Jews. Emils writes with confidence as

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a recipient as a recipient of several awards for his writing,

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including the Annisfield Wolf Book Award and the It'sick Manger Prize.

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With reference to his own deep familiarity with the collective

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Jewish experience, Samuel makes no qualification for his belief in

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the spiritual, racial, and religious incompatibility at Gentiles with his

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own people. His thesis culminates in the ultimate rejection of

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any possible reconciliation between these peoples. So it's very easy

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for people to say that, oh, that's just one person writing. Well,

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I mean, this is somebody who was very celebrated in

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his day. Wikipedia describes him he was actually born in Romania.

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His family then they went to England. He moved to

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Paris with his family at the age of five, about

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a year later to England, where then they moved to

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England a year after that. He studied at Victoria University. There,

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his parents spoke Yetdish at home, and he developed strong

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attachments to the Jewish people in Yiddish language at an

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early age. This later became a motivation for the books

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he wrote as an adult. Eventually, he left England and

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emigrated to the United States, settling in New York City's

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Lower East Side. He served in the US Army during

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World War One. A Jewish intellectual and writer, Samuel was

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known for his role as a polemicist and campaigner against

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anti Semitism. Most of his work concerns itself with Judaism

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or the Jews role in history in modern society, but

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he also wrote more conventional fictions, such as The Web

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of Lucifer, which takes place in the borgious role of

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Renaissance Italy. He Let's See. He and his work received

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acclaim within the Jewish community during his lifetime, including the

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nineteen forty four Ennisfield Wolf Book Award for his nonfiction

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work The World of Shalom Alecam I Like him. He

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received the Itzig Manger Prize for Yiddish Literature posthumously in

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nineteen seventy two. He was a radio personality, appearing on

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NBC summer program Eternal Light the Worlds We Live By.

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He did a Bible, a radio show discussing the literary

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and cultural impact of the Bible. He died in nineteen

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seventy two at the age of seventy seven. He had

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six fiction works and a ton of nonfiction works. The

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first one was You Gentiles. The second one was I

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the Jew, Never read Ei the Jew. Some of the

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other ones are Prince of the Ghetto, Jew Want Approval,

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the Gentleman, and the Jew certain people of the book.

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So this is someone who was celebrated and someone who

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was known in the Jewish world. This just wasn't some

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random guy who wrote a book and someone found it

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and was like, oh look at this. No, this is

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well known. And in nineteen twenty four, and this would

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be after World War One, Henry Ford is writing at

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this time about Jews in the United States and the

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international jew Also, nineteen twenty four is also the year

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of the first real immigration restriction. It was a clampdown

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in immigration that year that a lot of people took

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offense to. So let me just scroll through here, here

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we go. I got a copy, actually reading of a

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printing of a book actually from nineteen twenty five, just

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a year after fifth printing able of contents. The first

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chapter will be called The Question. It's thirty one pages.

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They're very short pages because it's like a small paperback

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kind of book. But I don't know if I'll get

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through the whole thing today, But yeah, why don't I

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start and let's see where this goes. There are audio

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books of this on YouTube and everything, and I think

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that I think I hypocrite did an interview with someone

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from Antelope Hill, because Anelope Pill has their own version

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of this. If you're going to pick it up, you

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get it from Antelope Hill, the use the promo code

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PETE pete Q five percent off everything in order there.

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But yeah, let's get into this and let's read it,

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and let's see see what his message is. In nineteen

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twenty four, chapter one is excuse me. Chapter one is

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titled the question let me take a sip real quick?

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All right? These last ten years and more, I have

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been asking myself, with increasing urgency, a number of questions.

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Is there any significance in the distinction I have so

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long cherished, the distinction of Jew gentile not to be

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found in the class of distinctions implied in American foreigner

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or Englishman foreigner? Is there between us Jews and you gentiles?

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That is, between the Jew on the one hand, and

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the Englishmen, the Frenchman, the American on the other hand,

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that which transcends all the differences which exist among yourselves,

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so that in relation to us you are gentiles. In

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relation to us you are gentiles first and afterwards and

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without particular relevance in this connection Englishmen, Frenchmen, Americans? Or

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is there nothing more implied in that distinction Jew gentile?

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Then in a general way, and the distinction's Jew American

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American Englishman, Englishman, Frenchmen. In other words, are we Jews

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but part of the Gentiles Americans, Englishmen, Jews, Frenchmen? Or

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is there a deeper cleavage between us? Is this Western

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world divided primarily into two parts? You Gentiles, we Jews?

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From the outset? I shall be asked, quote, even if

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you suspect the existence of such a primal cleavage beyond

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the reach of ordinary national or racial classifications, what purpose

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can you have in urging it upon the attention of

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the world? Has it any practical application? Does it in

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any fashion clarify the status of the Jew? Or give

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greater cogency to such claims of his as are still unsatisfied.

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This question will be asked of me by many Jews,

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but in particular it will be asked with the utmost

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insistence by those Jews who have based our case for

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national rights national equality precisely on this assumption that we

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Jews are people like all other peoples, similar in needs

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and impulses. That we are Jews, you are Englishmen, you

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are Italians, you are Americans, That we the world's races

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or peoples are all of us? Are all of us

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similar in our differences? Leaving on one side, those who

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deny the existence of any distinctions at all, Those that is,

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who say that Jew, that the Jew is either a Frenchman,

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an American, or an Englishman according to the place of

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his birth, I would answer quote for me, the ordinary

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nationalist or racial classification has not sufficed. If I have

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long pondered this question of Jew and Gentile, it is

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because I suspected, from the first dawning of Jewish self consciousness,

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that Jew and Gentile are two different worlds. Between you

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Gentiles and us Jews, there lies an unbridgeable gulf. Side

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by side. With this belief grew another which is related

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to the practical aspect of the distinction. I do not

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believe that, situated as we are in your midst, scattered

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among you from one end of the Western Well to

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the other, we have the right to retain our identity

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if we are but another addition to the gentile peoples.

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This is in parenthesis. Nor, by the way, do I

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believe that we could have retained it so long had

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this been the case. If we are but one more

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people added to the long roster of peoples living and dead,

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we have no claim worthwhile under these circumstances to continuity

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of separate consciousness consciousness. Such a claim could never have arisen.

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Had we remained secure, segregated on our own soil, it

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would have been our tests at birth right. But as

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it is, our existence has secured an infinite expense of

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special effort on our part and of particular discomfort to you.

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Wherever the Jew is found, he has a problem, a

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source of unhappiness to himself and to those around him.

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That's an interesting way to put it. That's an interesting

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sentence for someone to admit. I wanted to say before

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I moved on, you know, talking about the reason why

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I wanted to talk so much about who he was

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and how well he was believed to know, how in

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his community, how well he was known and regarded, is

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because I just watched this documentary called Protocols of Zion,

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and it's from like two thousand five or two thousand

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and six, and as a Jew, his name is Mark Levin,

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not Mark Levin, and he basically goes through the protocols

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and he his whole thing is that well, me, as

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an individual Jew, I don't have the power to do this.

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So this is pretty much all bull I don't when

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writings like this, when writing is like two hundred years together,

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when you have all the writings of Jewish philosophers over

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the centuries, you don't need something like the Protocols of

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the Elders of Zion. That is, I don't consider it.

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I don't take it seriously. I'm not going to read it.

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I'm not gonna I mean, I've read it, but I'm

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not going to read it to you. I'm not going

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to have a conversation, a serious conversation about it. When

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you read a sentence like wherever the Jew is found,

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he has a problem, a source of unhappiness to himself

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into those around him, and it's from somebody who's prominent,

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somebody who sold a lot of books, somebody who had

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a radio show, somebody who was popular in his day,

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somebody who you know, most Jews, I would say, and

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I'll just say New York and New York was I mean,

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if you remember from Race Warren High School, there were

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sixty thousand public school teachers in New York in the

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nineteen sixties, and sixty percent of them were Jewish. So

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you're talking about I think at the time fourteen or

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fifteen percent of the city was Jewish. These people knew

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who he was. This is not some obscure writer. This

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isn't a book that fell out of the sky. This

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is someone who is taking himself very seriously, and not

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only taking himself very seriously, but he's taking us very seriously.

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That needs to be respected when you're listening to what

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he writes. Okay, onward. Ever since he has been scattered

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in your midst he has had to maintain a continuous

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struggle for the conservation of his identity. It is worthwhile,

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in the face of this double burden our own in yours,

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to perpetuate what may be, after all, an addition of

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one unit to scores of similar units. Were these centuries

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of alternate torture and respite not a disproportionately high price

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for the right to increase by one page the already

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overburdened records of the nations were at my belief, as

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it is at least in expression, the belief of many

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fellow Jews, that our right to exist is founded on

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our similarity to other peoples. That where American or Belgian

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or Italian has a right to homeland, culture, history, parliament,

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we Jews have the same right for the same reason,

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and for no other reasons. Were this my belief, I

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could not find the heart to continue the struggle, or

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to urge the struggle upon others. The effort is too severe,

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the price is too high, But arden is insignificant. Were

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we like other peoples, we ought to have done what

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other peoples under similar circumstances would do. A people driven

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from its homeland, a people ground into dust and carried

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by winds of misfortune into every corner of the world

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has no right to inflict its woes and longings on others.

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It should cease to exist. It should rid the world's

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world of its importunate presence. Such would be my belief

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if I saw in ourselves only the replica with the

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proper variations of the rest of the world. But this

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is not my belief, for I see otherwise. Years of

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observation and thought have given increasing strength to the belief

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that we used and apart from you, gentiles, that a

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primal duality breaks to humanity, I know into two distinct parts,

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that this duality is a fundamental, and that all differences

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among you, gentiles are trivialities compared with that which divides

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all of you from us. So what he's saying is

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he is saying is this isn't a crack in the sidewalk,

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This is a chasm, This is the Grand Canyon, or

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the distance across an ocean. I'm aware that this is

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a thesis what can which cannot be supported by diagrams,

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tables and logarithms. Basically, what he's saying is it's not

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I guess what he's saying is not logical. It cannot

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be urged with the apparent half compulsion of social and

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economic laws. The cogency of what I have to say

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it does not depend on reference to obvious and ineluctable laws,

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natural processes acknowledged and accepted. I am also aware that

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the weight of what we call what is called learned

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opinion will be thrown against me, that my connection will

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meet with the ridicule of facile common sense and of scholarship. Nevertheless,

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I set it down clearly that in the Western world

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there are essentially two people's as spiritual forces, only two

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human sections with essential meaning jew and gentile thing about that, So,

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in the Western world you have Germans, English, French, Spanish

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peoples who've had empires, people people who've conquered the known world.

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two jew and everyone else, So basically we're lumped in

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with each other. He's basically drawing the line boldly, all

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of you and then us. But at least what credentials

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I have to offer? Since the presentation of credentials must

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always precede the presentation of the thesis, what claim have

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I on the attention of the world. I can only

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answer that this book, being a serious book, much must

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carry its own credentials and does not attempt to borrow

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importance from outside sources. I offer myself only as a

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Jew who has lived, observed, and thought. My experiences in

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contacts have been somewhat more varied than those of most men,

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but this has little to do with my views. The truth,

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which is spread over the whole world, is also contained

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in any part of it. The laws of gravitation are

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implied as completely in the falling of a pebble to

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Earth as in the rush of the Sun against the

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counter rush of its companion stars. The law of Einstein

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works no less truly in the crawling of a snail

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than in the dizzy vibration of the fastest atomic subunit.

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These laws are more easily observed in the one set

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of cases than in the other. That is all, if

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I have touched a truth, it has been primarily through

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contact with life, And I have regarded books as but

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a class of living things, to be observed and interpreted

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in place in their setting life itself, observation of men

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and women singly and in masses, a knowledge of their works,

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among which books are important, a feeling for their desires,

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perception of their intent in cities, laws, theaters, games, wars.

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All this has been brought me to, has brought me

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to the conception I shall set forth all scholarship, particularly

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that scholarship which deals with the manifestations of men's desires

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and fears, consists of unauthoritative, marginal notes, which are of

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interest chiefly as giving us some insight into the nature

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of those who jotted them down. It does no harm

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to know the history that is in the books, but

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the only authentic history is around us. It has made

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daily in newspapers, theaters, meetings, election campaigns. And it is

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less valuable to know that the waiter said at the

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simple Sissamus cabaret in Vienna when I was there three

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years ago, than to know what Terence reports a slave

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to have said in Rome when he was there two

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thousand years ago. What if my neighbor the professor reads

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Greek rather than fluently, rather less fluently than did a

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certain thick witted Athenian citizen who lived in the time

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of Pericles, and by no means as well as well

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as I I read English? Is that proof of wisdom

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or understanding? And supposing my neighbor on the other side

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the history, the professor, the famous professor of history knows

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rather less about the Peloponnesian War than the intelligent college

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student knows about the World War? Is that professor therefore

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wiser than most men? Is his opinion on life more valuable?

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And supposing another scholar purports to tell us what the

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ancient Egyptians believed, and from his account of this dead religion,

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pretends to teach the secrets of faith, Can he tell

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me what John Doe or Isaac Leviy believes? Does John

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Doe believe that Christ rose from the dead? Really really

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believe that as a plain truth as he would believe it,

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believe it if his mother, whom he buried five years ago,

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should suddenly come walking into his house wrote it away

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and cladd in her tattered cerements believe it as simply

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and as terribly. And does isaac Levi believed that the

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waters of the Red Sea were divided? As he would

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believe it if one day below the Williamsburg Bridge he

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were to see the water split rear and fall again.

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And if neither John Do nor isaac Levi believes as

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cogently as this, then what do they really believe, if

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they believe anything at all? And if the professor cannot

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answer these questions, what does he mean when he says

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that the Egyptians believe that Asiris rose from the dead?

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And what do his reports matter? There is no test

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or guarantee of a man's wisdom or of his reliability

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beyond what he says about life itself. Life is the touchstone.

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Books must be read and understood in order that we

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may compare our experiences in life with the sincere report

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of the experience of others. But such and such a

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one who has read all the books extent on history

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and art is of no consequence unless these are to

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him an indirect commentary on what he feels around him. Hence,

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if I have drawn cheap chiefly on experience and contemplation,

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and little on books which others will discover without my admission.

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This does not affect my competency, which must be judged

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by standards infinitely more difficult of application. Life is not

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so simple that you can give a man. You can

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test a man's nearness to truth by giving him a

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college examination. Such examinations are mere games. They have no

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relation to reality. You may desire some such easy standard

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by which you can judge whether or not a man

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is reliable. Does he know how? Does he know much history,

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much biology, much psychology? If not, he is not worth

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listening to. But it is part of the frivolity of

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our outlook to reduce life to a set of rules,

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and thus save ourselves the agony of constant reference to

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first principles. No standardized knowledge is no guarantee of truth.

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Put down a simple question, a living question like this,

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should A have killed? B Ask it of ten fools,

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five will say yes, five will say no. Ask it

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of ten intelligent men. Five will say yes, five will

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say no. Ask it of ten scholars. Five will say yes,

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five will say no. The fools will have no reason

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for their direction. The intelligent men will have a few

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reasons for and as many against. The scholars will have

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more reasons for and against. But where does a truth lie? What, then,

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shall be the criterion of man's reliability? There is none.

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You cannot evade your responsibility. Thus, by entrusting your salvation

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into the hands of a pre specialist, a simpleton may

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bring you salvation, and a great philosopher may confound you.

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And so to life direct as I have seen it

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working in others and felt it within myself, I refer

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the truth. I refer the truth of what I say,

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And to books I refer only in so far as

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the air men manifestations of life. Bessie, you can tell

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of what he's trying to say is that he's going

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to be going on experience, his experience amongst Gentiles and Jews,

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Part two of chapter one. But another question, more subtle

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and disturbing, must be faced. I have said there are

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two life forces in the world, I know, Jewish and Gentile,

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hours and years. If this be a truth, we must

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not be driven from it. From it if, like many

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other truths, it is overlaid and obscured by the irrelevancies

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of life, by the intersection and confusion of currents. Here

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is the gentile life force, Here is the Jewish life force.

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What their origin was I cannot say. I can only

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surmise dimly what circumstances, reacting upon what original impulses, produce

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the Jewish life force and the Gentile life force. I

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can only affirm to the Jews and the main belongs

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to Jewish life force, a consistent and coherent force, a

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direction in human thought and reaction. To you others belongs

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to Gentile life force, a mode of life and thought

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distinct from ours. But the borderline is not clear. Not

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all of us Jews are representative of the Jewish life force,

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not all you Gentiles are altogether alien to it. We

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have lived for many centuries in close contiguity, and if

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not in intimacy. Our prophetic books, our most characteristic influence,

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have been read to you for many hundreds of years.

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Something in these books has developed here and there among

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you a latent individual impulse to our Jewish way of

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life and thought. Essentially, our prophetic books cannot change your

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gentile nature in wh dray predestined hearts. They bring forth

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fruit your outlook on life. Your dominant reactions are the

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same today as they were two thousand years ago. All

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that has changed is the instrument of expression. You live

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the same life under different faiths, but something clings to

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you here and there, resembling the original form of the

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faith we gave you. Here and there, our somber, earnestness

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breaks out on the dazzling kaleidoscope of your history, and we,

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for all our segregation, have caught, particularly of late, something

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of your way of life. As a few Gentiles have

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spoken in Jewish tones, so more than one Jew speaks

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the language of the gentile. Jews live a gentile life

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here and there, while while gentile lives give expression to

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Jewish emotions, yet the cleavages there abysmal and undeniable. In

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the main, we are forever distinct. Ours is one life,

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yours is another. Such accidental confusions, as makes some Northerners

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darker than Southerners, does not affect the law that the

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Southerner is darker skinned. The law holds, nonetheless for accident

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and contradictory cases. You may even have Jews in your

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midst who did not learn their way of life from us,

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and did not inherit it from a Jewish forebear, we

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may have authentic gentiles in our myths, in our midst.

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These single protests are of no account. They are extreme

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and irrelevant variations. And of his little account are the

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occasion occasional transferences of customs and conventions taken over in

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the mass. We may have customs and conventions of yours

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imposed on our fundamental way of life, even as you

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have surface credo of a Jewish faith imposed on your

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way of life. But in the end, your true nature

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works itself into the pattern of the borrowed faith and

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expresses it self undeniably. So we borrowing from you finally

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assimilate the loan, and in time make it essentially ours.

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Beyond all these irrelevancies, which hide at times but do

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not change the issue, lies that clear and faithful division

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of life, Jewish and Gentile. Because I am mingled intimately

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with the Jewish world and with the Gentile world, I

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know well how easily exceptions obscure the rule. But I

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know just as well the unsounded, the unsounded abyss between us.

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What I've learned in your midstands in my mind sharply

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severed from what I have learned in the midst of

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my people. I listen to your life, to the brilliant

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course which goes up from lands, governments, cities, books, churches, moralities,

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and in my mind I can no more confuse it

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with the tone of Jewish life than I can confuse

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the roaring of a tempest with the deliberate utterance of

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the still small voice. I repeat, it is of life.

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I speak of masses of men and women, of the

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things they say and do do their daily selves, as

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I have known them. It is of life at firsthand

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that I speak of yourselves as you are in masses,

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and singly of my own people as I know them.

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My conviction came first from this contact, and from meditation

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on its meaning. I learned this belief of mine not

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in books, not in history, but in Manchester, Paris, Berlin, Vienna,

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New York. So Gentiles, I concluded, have a way of

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living and thinking wherever they may be. So Jews have

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a way of living and thinking. Had no books ever

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been written, were there no histories to refer to, I

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would have come to this belief. I do not believe

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that this primal difference between jew and Gentile is reconcilable.

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You and we may come to an understanding. Never to

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a reconciliation. There will be irritation between us as long

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as we are in intimate contact. For nature and constitution

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and vision divide us from all of you forever. Not

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a mere conviction, not a mere language, not a mere

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difference of national or religious allegiance. With the best will

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on both sides, successful adaptation to each other will always

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be insecure and transient waves of liberality may affect our

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mutual relationship. From time to time, we shall delude ourselves,

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you and we, with the belief that we have bridged

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the gulf. Many will pass our lives in that delusions.

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But as has come to pass so often, the difference,

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which is deeper than will, deeper than consciousness, will assert itself.

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There is a limit to our moral and mental possibilities.

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We cannot climb out of ourselves. The complete and permanent

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reconciliation of your way of life with ours is beyond

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that limit. Some of you already made you know, are

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already asked them the question, if you believe that, why

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do you stay among us? Why don't you separate? Especially

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since twenty three, twenty five years after this it's called

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it twenty five, they'll have their own country of course,

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it is the frequent theme of editors, of popular professional optimists,

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and of gullible and facile publicists that the paths are

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reconciliation between you and gentile. Is the path of knowledge,

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or rather of information. The more you know concern our history,

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our customs, our belief, the nearer you will find us

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to you, the less you will dislike us. But this

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is feutile and unreliable amiability. It is by no means,

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even in general rule, that the best informed people are

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the least successible to anti Semitism, the most backward countries

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are the most infected. Here is a cult, or at

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least a feeling, which sits with equal grace on the

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grossest of your peasantry and the most refined of your aristocracy.

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In the one case, it is fortified by superstition, in

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the other case by all the information the scientific research

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ins of philosophy, history, ethnography, and anthropology can accumulate. Not that,

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in my opinion, the aristocrat knows us better than the peasant,

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the scholar better than the bore. But even if you

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should understand us, and I offer you this toward that end,

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we would not find mutual tolerance any easier. This book

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therefore cannot be presented as an effort to achieve an

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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
Speaker 2: 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
Speaker 1: 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