Ep. 336: This Is What’s Driving the Death of the West | Fireside Chat

hi everybody Dennis Prager with fireside chat number something 336 336 it's magic number 336 I have a lot to share with you today welcome to the fireside chat no dog behind me one day when Mr tubs is out of puppyhood we trust that he will take the honored place that Otto had for so many years I just returned from from over a week in Nashville Tennessee where I participated once again with Jordan Peterson and his handpicked group of people to study biblical texts a little over a year ago Dy wire which is the creator and producer of these sessions these seminars put out Exodus the book of Exodus and it got millions of views which is encouraging this is uh not light stuff that takes place there were times that some of these people spoke and I didn't understand what they were saying most of the time I don't want to I don't want to in any way discourage you for watching because it's it's really phenomenal but some of these people are used to speaking to fellow professors and will use a terminology that is uh somewhat unique to that world but otherwise first of all I I want to say this in case any of the folks who I participated with would be watching this and they're they're from all over the world I really came to adore all of the uh eight participants you know what I said you I think you'll you'll find this of interest so at the very end after let's see how many sessions there were two were uh 10 2hour sessions that's a lot that's 20 wow we did 20 hours is that possible yes 5 days time 5 Time 4 is 20 yes 20 hours and and likewise I think we did the same amount with the book of Exodus so I said to them I I think very often in musical terms because of my deep love of music and I conduct orchestras periodically so like I said you're like an orchestra one of the things I love about orchestras is every single member of an orchestra certainly professional Orchestra is a virtuoso that's the Italian word which meaning means great at what you do and yet they all have to sublimate their own ego and virtuosity for the greater good of making music as an orchestra and I felt that that's what this group did because these are they're all virtuosi or virtuosos in their particular area of expertise whether it's biblical or philosophic or what have you but nobody and I I'm I'm very sensitive to this no one spoke for the sake of his own ego was it was all he so I'm saying he it was it was really a desire to make music to use that analogy I was very moved by that so I want to reflect on a number of things that's that is one of the reflections you can't make beautiful music if you if you're only concern well you can if you want to be a soloist I guess that's the only way but but otherwise and even if you're a soloist the composer has to come before you're ego and certainly if you're playing with anyone else that's life if you want to get good done you it's it's very rare that you can do it alone you have to do it with others so we we did the book of Exodus and then this this time we did the four gospels so I will have many parenthetical thoughts here's parenthetical thought number one so at this point as I do every week I ask you to go to prageru.com to see and or hear the rest of the Fireside chat we don't trust big Tech to keep prer you broadcasts podcasts available we we don't know what they'll do so we want people to watch the fireside chat listen to the fireside chat and everything else we do at prageru straight at prageru so next week please start at prageru get a prageru app it's the EAS eest way to do it or just go to prageru.com and now go to prageru.com to hear the rest of this fireside chat