whether male or female

whether male or female um not um not looking at yourself uh with um thinking of yourself as greater than you you are as better than you as better than you are um you know paul's admonition in romans not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think um that's um a moderate or a modest way of seeing yourself the way you see yourself is the way that you're going to project yourself in public and you want others to see you and the way you see yourself when i was in high school i always wanted i always wanted to be tall i didn't really care i mean i knew i was never going to be you know a splendid muscular, you know, specimen.

But I did always want to be tall.

And I hoped, you know, when I was in my early teens that I would grow and be like my dad.

My dad was tall.

I wanted to be over six feet.

And I got to be about 5'10".

Amen.

So what is communism?

Communism emerges from the thought of Karl Marx.

Marx is a follower of G.W.F. Hegel, who died in 1831.

Hegel was a longtime professor at the University of Berlin.

And he wrote several books.

He wrote a book called Philosophy of History.

He wrote a book called The Phenomenology of Spirit.

Yeah.

if we were to go back in time, let's say, uh, a hundred years prior to the French revolution, a thousand years prior to the French revolution, did people groups think of themselves at all in the same way as this nationalist impulse that we see in Europe? Or is that sort of something new that emerges on the scene after the French revolution and kind of explodes across Europe?

Yeah, it's a, that's a great, it's fascinating, fascinating question.

Um, So let's go back 1,000 years before.

So let's go back to 789.

I think it's a great sort of moment in time to consider in Europe.

We'll say 800 because it's a much more famous year.

On Christmas Day of 800, Charlemagne was crowned King of the Romans, Emperor of the Romans by Leo III, Pope Leo III.

What would, let's say, the opposite of what we're talking about look like? What is a healthy, appropriate expression of this patriotism?

yes.

However, the reason why they considered themselves having been being tyrannized... by the parliament and by the king, is because the parliament and the king were no longer operating along the lines of English tradition that went back prior even to the Magna Carta, which was 1215.

Going all the way back to the rule of Henry I, Henry II, all the way back in the 1100s when trial by jury was invented.

Yeah.

Because trial by jury was being denied to the colonists.

So it wasn't just taxation or that representation.

It was a dismissal of the colonists' rights as Englishmen that the parliament was guilty of.

Let them stew in

Political violence is common throughout all of American history.

When Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, there wasn't, um, some kind of, uh, navel-gazing about, like, "What's wrong with us?" Americans are, uh, are, are human beings and they have, uh, the same human nature as Russians do, or as Iranians do, or as Frenchmen do, and that political violence is not a- not necessarily unique to them and, and not unique to us.

He quotes Mark Twain, "History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes."

When we think about hope for the future, we can, we can take some encouragement from experience of previous generations of Americans, that they can get past irreconcilable conflicts, to the extent, uh, that they actually forge a new love of country as a result of those divisions.

World Opinion's contributor and historian, John Wilsey, says there are many reasons to remember it.

One week after the momentous events in 1775, the President of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, Joseph Warren, wrote these words to his fellow colonists.

"We profess to be the King's loyal and dutiful subjects and are still ready, without lives and fortunes, to defend his person, family, crown and dignity.

Nevertheless, to the persecution and tyranny of his cruel ministry, we will not tamely submit.

Appealing to heaven for the justice of our cause, we determine to die or be free." Less than two months later, Warren was killed by the British at the Battle of Bunker Hill.

His body was dumped into a common grave by his enemies.

Later, Paul Revere recognized the body from a set of false teeth he had made for Warren.