Dave Rubin: belief

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…Final question. You have a very different background from many or all of us, most of all being a professional comedian and being so much on YouTube, but not only. What do you think there is that you might understand about the future of liberty that we would not get that you could communicate to us? As an interviewer, I just wanna say that’s a great last question. That’s a good one right there. I think, probably because I’m so in it with young people, there is something, they’re feeling something right now. And I don’t mean it purely at the academic level, I think existentially they’re feeling… They grew up in this crazy time of everybody tearing each other down all the time endlessly. It’s like we’ve all been bullied or we were bullies or whatever we all grew up with, that’s fine, but they’re walking around with this in their pocket all the time. And then you throw in a really terrible job that the mainstream media is doing these days, and you throw in fake news and you throw in Trump and they’re really having trouble figuring out what’s true. So, as I say on my show every week, basically, I’m doing the best job I can to try to bring them something that’s true. And people will say to me all the time, “Dave I trust you, I trust you.” And I’m like, “Well, you gotta find a lot of other people to trust than me. I’m one guy, I’m doing the best I can, I certainly make mistakes and I try to correct them when I do.” But I think they’re truly feeling an existential squeeze on them that I don’t think, certainly my generation didn’t feel. They’re having trouble grasping what’s real. And I think it’s the job… That’s why this college thing, that this whole conference has been about, is so important. If we’re gonna shield them, if they’re gonna go to college to be shielded from the very ideas and the foundation that they need to go out into society, well, then we’re truly setting them up for a really depressing life and probably for, not to be overly dramatic, but the end of a functioning democracy. So that’s why the ideas of liberty and individuality and knowing political philosophy, knowing why it’s your life and you should live it and all of those things, that’s why it’s so important. And we need more of that and that’s why for the two days that I’ve been here it’s been so nice, ’cause I see you guys doing it at an academic level and I’m doing it in an obviously different way, but we have to hit them in every way so that the kids that won’t listen to me might listen to some of these professors, and the ones that won’t listen to the professors might listen to me. Dave Rubin, thank you very much. [applause]…

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