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In this episode of the Ultimate Issues Hour, Dennis Prager argues that contemporary Western society is in an "age of stupidity," a term he uses to describe a widespread loss of wisdom rather than a lack of intelligence. He traces the origins of this condition to the baby‑boom generation, whose unprecedented college education, narcissistic self‑focus, and rejection of older authority fostered a culture that devalues traditional wisdom. Prager identifies universities as the primary laboratory of anti‑wisdom, citing the rise of gender‑theory, anti‑war sentiment, sexual liberation, drug experimentation, and the dismissal of religious and historical teachings. Throughout the hour, callers challenge Prager on his authority to critique war, abortion, and other moral issues, prompting him to argue that personal experience is required for moral judgment. He recounts personal anecdotes from his time at Columbia and his reaction to the Vietnam‑war protests, illustrating his view that the herd mentality of his generation was both naïve and destructive. The episode intersperses promotional spots for financial products and other podcasts, which are peripheral to the core argument. Prager concludes by urging a return to wisdom rooted in religious and historical tradition, warning that the current anti‑wisdom trend threatens the intellectual foundations of Western civilization.
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I, I'm 61 years old. I have to take exception to what you were saying about we were stupid and we didn't know what we were doing when we voted when we were 18 years old.
I didn't.
I didn't. All right.
I was voting for— when I voted for Lyndon Johnson versus Goldwater back in '64, Also, I would like to ask you, since you seem to feel it's OK to fight wars, did you go to Vietnam?
No, I didn't go to Vietnam.
OK, you were never in a war, so you don't know what the experience is. That's right.
So wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, so if I had—
Did you take drugs?
No, I didn't, in fact.
OK, you didn't take drugs, but you never enlisted in the war.
No, I didn't.
So you didn't even believe in your own principles.
I don't know why that— if you didn't fight in the war, you cannot—
You're right, you're wrong. You tell everybody else they were wrong.
You didn't do the things that you said you were going to do. I didn't say I was going to do it. I said—
Well, you're telling me the things you pretend to believe in.
So you think it's a pretense?
Yes, I do.
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This is the Ultimate Issues Hour on the Dennis Prager Show, every week at this time, at this hour. I talk about some great issue of life. My subject, my subject today is why I call the age in which we live the age of stupidity. You know, there are many eras. There was the Renaissance, there was the Age of Reason, there was what was called the Enlightenment, and the Romantic Age. There were all sorts of periods in Western history. We now live in the age of stupidity. And this is not meant as a funny line, a throwaway line, or anything like that. It is, we do live, and I will try to make my case. I will give you idea after idea that has permeated the intellectual life, and especially the intellectual life of Western society in the last 40 years or so, ushered in by the baby boomers, as they're called. Although they had to pick up these ideas from people who lived before them, they didn't manufacture them. So these are not brand new ideas, but they blossomed in the baby boomer generation. And I call it the age of stupidity because what is the opposite of stupid is not smart, it is wise. It's the— I would call it the non-wise, the age of unwisdom, but it wouldn't mean anything. That would be the most precise sense. But by stupidity, I don't mean people who don't have brains. I mean people who have no wisdom. And that is what— what is wisdom? It is understanding life. Knowledge is what my computer has. Wisdom is what some people have. have earned or been blessed with in some other way. The origins of the age of stupidity, the ideological origins, are to be found, in my opinion, in this. My generation, the baby boomer generation, overthrew— and please, I'm gonna say this once, I'm not gonna say this over and over— it doesn't mean everybody in my generation. It doesn't include me, for example. because I believed in wisdom that preceded my birth. But very many members of my generation, to a great extent because this was the first widely college-educated education, and college makes people stupider as a general rule. I believe there's no doubt in my mind because every idea I'm about to give you permeates the university where there—
it's—
they are bastions of anti-wisdom, our universities. Those of you who are younger than I will only have heard as a sort of historical hilarity the notion that was fairly popular in my generation, don't trust anyone over 30. That is emblematic of what happened in my generation. Don't trust anyone over 30 meant before us there was no wisdom. Not among other things, the stupid are deeply narcissistic. Narcissism is preoccupation with oneself. And my generation, the baby boomer generation, was preoccupied with itself. We, we are smarter than our parents was a very, very big belief. Now, every group of adolescents at some point thinks they know more than their parents, but, but not like— it's like that was a stage of adolescence. People didn't believe this in adolescence. My generation believed this in college. Not when they were 14. When they were 21. Their parents were bigots. Their parents were narrow-minded. Their parents may have been religious, which was, was, was also associated with, with being a moron at best and an intolerant bigot at worst. Don't trust anyone over 30 was my generation's way of saying we know better than all the generations before us. That's why works of wisdom were not read. People read what— and here was another key word of my generation— relevant. It had to be relevant, which generally meant I have to— it has to appeal to what I think right now. So, so you wouldn't, you wouldn't read, uh, the Bible, you wouldn't read Shakespeare, you wouldn't read Greek wisdom or, or, or any of the ancient wisdoms, or, or you wouldn't read the Founding Fathers' works because What for? What for? What do they have to say to me? Hey, hey, hey! I went to Columbia. I don't need any of this drivel. Anyway, they were a bunch of racists anyway. Oh, and I'm gonna, I'm gonna read what Thomas Jefferson has to say? Please. So the age of stupidity. which the baby boomers, many of whom still, of course, adhere to these beliefs, still believe them and have passed them on to their children. They permeate the universities today. Emanates from the belief, first and foremost, I know every— that's, I know everything. That's why the vote was changed to 18. And by the way, for the record, I was opposed to it. I was about 18 when it happened. I would like to know what year it happened, then I would know exactly my age. But I know I was about 18 myself. And I remember saying to a girlfriend, I remember I said to her, I don't know anything. How am I going to vote? By the way, knowing you don't know much is the beginning of wisdom. That's why I thought I really had to read and I had to learn and I had to study from people who knew more than me. And I believed that older people knew more than I did, and I had all these quaint notions that have served me well in my life. So let's see, so I think so— no, I was about 21 when it happened then. Yeah. And so, but I was opposed to it. 18 years old, you're just leaving high school. They're going to vote? Now, of course they are. Well, if they can die for the country, they can vote.
All right.
I think it's a non sequitur, but I didn't wage a major campaign against it. Not that I had any ability to do it anyway. But please understand, the origins of the age of stupidity lie in the belief that there is no wisdom prior. Well, wisdom isn't even a word my generation cared about, but that's what it was. There was no meaningful knowledge prior to us. We are better people. We love peace. Our parents loved war. We loved equality. Our parents were sexist. We loved all races. Our parents were racist. We were college-educated. Our parents only went to high school. We are secular. Our parents were religious. And that's it. So we know better. They were morons. Everybody prior to us essentially was a fool, and that's why don't trust anybody over 30 was taken seriously. It was taken seriously by the baby boomer generation, the dumbest in American history. Not in terms of book knowledge, although even there it's pretty minuscule, but in terms of wisdom. I will give you, when we come back, a series of ideas. I'm not merely generalizing. I'm going to give you a series of ideas that are all dumb. And that is why I call this the age of stupidity. And we are— I don't know if we will survive it. I do not know. I'm not— if I thought we wouldn't, I would say I think we won't. I don't know if we will, but it's very hard to shatter The, the ideological, intellectual bases of a civilization and survive. It's very hard. And survive on what? On what your heart thinks is right. I don't need to have any wisdom. 1-800-PRAGER-776. Why We Live in the Age of Stupidity is my subject for this Ultimate Issues Hour. 1-800-PRAGER-776. A listing of at least 10 Truly foolish beliefs coming up on the Dennis Prager Show.
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Dennis Prager here. This is the Ultimate Issues Hour. Every week at this time, this hour is devoted to some great issue of life. Why I believe we are living in the age of stupidity ushered in by the baby boomer generation is the subject today. I gave the origins. I can't repeat them right now, obviously. 1-8-PRAGER-776. Among the discussion groups, interestingly, I'm looking at the South Jersey Philly Prager discussion group, and it lists this in fact as— but under what they have, Pragerisms. And one of them is in fact that the baby boomers ushered in the age of stupidity. So this is apropos of exactly that. All right, here are some of the truly foolish ideas that permeated my generation and continues to do so. And the laboratory of anti-wisdom is the university. It is the laboratory. And The unwise have taken over the universities. The weak ran the universities when I was a baby boomer at college. And the weak— and I say the weak because I saw when I was at Columbia University, I saw the, the deans and the professors all cave in to the leftist students who took over classrooms and shut down studies. Instead of expelling these fascists, and they were fascists, they gave in to them. And that was searing in my heart and soul. I have never fully recovered from the— and it was a trauma. I don't use these words easily, as you know. I almost never use them, certainly not about my own life. I was traumatized. By the abject cowardice of the professors and administrators of Columbia University. It has never— it is one of the defining moments of my life to see them cave into fascist students the way they did. Our version of, of, uh, of come some more. Trashing professors' records, closing down studies, all in the name of peace. Violence for peace. Well, anyway, it was the age of stupidity. Make love, not war. War is not the answer. And give peace a chance. 3 spectacularly stupid comments. Spectacularly dumb. Spectacularly amoral. Make love, not war, which by the way has exactly worked. That's— that has worked. They have given that over the next generation. Sex, that's the be-all and end-all. The more variations on an orgasm, the greater one's life. And that is why it is so important to normalize adolescence adolescent sexuality or sexual activity. It's very important. You don't stigmatize it. Forget, forget anything. You don't even stigmatize it. The only thing you have to worry about— kids are gonna do it. Kids are gonna do it. 'Cause kids didn't do it throughout Western history. But all of a sudden it became an inevitability that 15, 16-year-olds will be doing it. So they certainly succeeded in making love and not war. And by, by being anti-war, they became essentially pacifists.
pacifists.
And war is wrong. So what if it saves hundreds of thousands or millions of others' lives? It doesn't matter. It prevents us from having appropriate orgasms. War is not the answer, another ingenious idea of my generation. Of course, it was the answer to the Holocaust. It was the answer to Japanese fascism. It was the answer to a whole host of evils. War is the answer on a number of occasions, and on a number of occasions it is not the answer. Some of your calls, and I'll continue to go down the list over the course of this hour. Richard in Dallas, Texas. Dennis Prager, hi.
Hi, Dennis.
Hi.
Hi, this is Richard. Thank you for taking my call. I had 2 points. First, and I'm 60 years old, just turned 60, I believe the root cause of why we said don't trust anybody over 30 was we thought we'd been lied to, not that we were smarter. And we were lied to because we saw Little Rock on TV, the U-2, when our president told us repeatedly that we didn't do certain things. And with the advent of TV into our lives at an early age— We saw unfiltered news so quickly it told us that all our parents had been lying to us. And so we then discarded anything they said and we replaced it with wisdom, with good intentions.
Hmm.
Well, it's, it's a very good explanation, and I, I'm very happy you called. I would just take issue with one thing immediately: the notion that television gave you unfiltered news. It was profoundly filtered.
Oh, I'm sorry. What it gave us was, in the past, it took news a long time to get to the youth.
Well, we got filtered news during World War II. See, I believe had there been television and the same educational opportunities a generation before, then people would have said that we're being lied to about World War II.
Oh, that's true, but I guess what I meant was that At an early age, we were seeing, if you would, raw news, and we weren't prepared for the inconsistencies and discrepancies in life. We were told that we're good guys, we wear white hats, and we always do good. Well, that's not reality. That's not life. There are—
Well, we did wear white hats in Vietnam.
Oh, we did, but we also did things that were less than pretty.
Well, we did things that were less than pretty when we shot German prisoners.
That's true, but the young people, 6 to 8, 10 years old, did not— wasn't faced with the reality of that.
Well, that is right. That is right, Richard. I agree with you. I think that this was an extremely naive generation. The baby boomers grew up in the easiest time, perhaps in human history, 1950s America. 1950s America, of course there were exceptions, there was still racism. I'm generalizing. So, but in general, the average American had, growing up in the '50s, had an idyllic life that from a societal standpoint, I, you know, their parents may have been mean. an uncle may have abused them. That's been unfortunately throughout history. But by and large, the ease of life, the expectation of material well-being, of health, of peace, was astonishing. And it raised a spoiled generation, a naive generation. And so, Uh, one incapable of saying, well, yeah, we did get some false reports from Vietnam, so the trick is to get true reports from Vietnam, rather than say that fighting communism was wrong and make love, not war, and don't trust anybody over 30. We'll continue in a moment, and I will give you more of the list. Of course, men and women were— the views on men and women were particularly foolish, as I will explain, and take your calls. On the Ultimate Issues Hour.
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Dennis Prager here. This hour is titled the Ultimate Issues Hour, each week at this time. The issue today is why I believe we live in the age of stupidity, the age of anti-wisdom. And I have given you the origins of it, the rejection of all insights, wisdom, ways, ways to lead a life of the past. My generation, the baby boomers, thought that we knew better than all those who lived before us. We were better than they. After all, even Washington and Jefferson owned slaves. So, and of course, what is there to be learned from religion? Oh, we went to college and we knew. That religion was, was just a fairy tale. And so we trusted our hearts and of course had a lot of sex. And that, that was what life is for anyway, because that's when you— that and drugs are when you really feel. That you don't know, folks. A lot of you were too young to even know that in my generation, drugs were considered a good thing. That's how dumb my generation was, that you, you didn't really, really feel life until you had a hallucinogenic experience. Remember how alive you would be and you see the world in better ways? And of course marijuana, then you were— then you could really make love.
Yep.
Some of the ideas that became popular, all of which are dumb, not, not merely wrong, or ideas I disagree with truly dumb. In other words, ideas that are either not true, factually not true, like men and women basically the same. It is factually untrue. But we were taught this over and over. I was taught this at Columbia. I was taught this at City University of New York. And everybody was taught this who went to college. You know, you give a kid, you give a girl trucks, you give a boy tea sets or dolls, and by golly, you get get the opposite form of behavior. It's all socially induced. There's no such thing as fixed gender characteristics. Please, please. And that there is only one place on earth where that is still believed, and that is at universities, the center of non-wisdom in Western society, and especially in America. And so we were taught that. You know, you give those— you give a boy a doll. Of course you give a boy a doll. The doll will be armless in about a day. Oh, and of course, don't give boys toy guns. Remember that one? I even bought that and it really bugs me, but I wasn't totally unaffected. I was largely unaffected. But I decided my first boy, I wouldn't give him toy guns. So what he did was he made everything in the house into a gun. The obvious ones were brooms, of course. They were machine guns. But even less obvious things like molding the bread into guns at the table and shooting everybody. Bananas were a perfect form of gun. So I realized, let them leave the food alone and I'll then let them get toy guns. Anyway, what's wrong with guns in any event? The issue is what they're used for. Intrinsically, how could they— they're amoral. They're either used morally or immorally. Alrighty, let's go to, uh, what is that, Deltran, New Jersey? Is that right, Lynette?
Hello, how are you?
I'm fine, thank you for calling.
I, I'm 61 years old. I have to take exception to what you were saying about we were stupid and we didn't know what we were doing when we voted when we were 18 years old.
I didn't.
I didn't. I was voting for When I voted for Lyndon Johnson versus Goldwater back in '64. Also, I would like to ask you, since you seem to feel it's okay to fight wars, did you go to Vietnam?
No, I didn't go to Vietnam.
Okay, you were never in a war, so you don't know what the experience is.
So wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. So if I had—
Did you take drugs?
No, I didn't, in fact.
Okay, you didn't take drugs, but you never— You never enlisted in the war.
No, I didn't.
So you didn't even believe in your own principles.
I don't, I don't know why that— if you didn't fight in the war, you cannot—
You went to war and you tell everybody else they were wrong.
You didn't do the things that you said you were going to do. I didn't say I was going to do it. I said—
I mean the things you pretend to believe in.
So you think it's a pretense?
Yes, I do.
Okay. This is what I mean by the age in which I live, and I thank you for your call. I don't mean to be insulting, but that is exactly the non-wisdom that that I'm referring to. If you didn't fight in a war, you can't be pro-war. It's like if you don't, if you don't get pregnant, you can't comment on abortion. That's the same. This is the thinking.
This is it.
More of these examples will be helpful to me, my friends. There is no moral truth unless you've experienced it. That's the narcissism I'm talking about.
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Hi, Dennis Prager here. Well, as you know, I've been off the air since my injury in November 2024. Thank you for your prayers. Believe me, I've missed talking to you. I'm starting the Ask Me Anything episodes on the Timeless Wisdom Podcast, and I'd love to hear from you. Whether your question is about faith, morality, politics, history, relationships, happiness, or even my life, give me a call and leave a voicemail. The number is 877-243-7776. That's 877-243-7776. Please include your first name and where you're calling from. I will answer as many questions as I can on future episodes of the podcast. Obviously, I can't respond to every question, but I will listen or read every question. I look forward to hearing from you. Thank you for listening. Ultimate Issues Hour, 44 minutes past the hour on The Dennis Prager Show. Talk about some great issues on the Ultimate Issues Hour each week. At this time on this day. And today it is explaining why I call the age in which we live the age of stupidity ushered in by my generation, the baby boomers. And I'm sorry to say, and I swear, and I don't do that often, I swear the point is not at all to insult my last caller, whom I am grateful to for calling, but is a baby boomer herself. And her take was that you can't comment on war, on the morality of fighting any war, if you haven't fought in a war. This is this personalizing of all moral issues. And I gave the other example, and there are so many. You can't comment on the morality of abortion if you're not a woman. Which is, is believed by many, many people in the baby boomer generation. Alrighty, now number 5, number 6. Michael in Folsom, California. Dennis Prager, thanks for calling.
Hi, Dennis.
Hi.
I love your show.
Thank you, me too.
One reason I love your show is that you're always so precise with language. So I was kind of curious as to why you used the word stupidity instead of just saying the age of the unwise or something like that.
Because it would have no meaning for most people. Wisdom is not even a value that my generation held. So what? So unwise? Oh, big deal. It doesn't mean— it means nothing. It would mean something to people who value wisdom, but my generation and the universities don't value wisdom. They value politically correct positions and they value emotion. How does your heart feel about it, which is the antithesis of wisdom. So the age of unwisdom is almost like saying the age of non-chiropractic. It just has no meaning. You're right. I mean, an absolute precision, that's what it would be. I appreciate your call. And let's go to Lafayette, California, and Jim. Hi, Jim. Dennis Prager. Thanks for calling.
Hi, how you doing, Dennis?
Good.
Listen, I just wanna— I'm listening to your thesis here, and it does sound that your view seems to suggest that I think that the counterculture that you so despise and call stupid arose out of a vacuum. But really, a number of callers are trying to hit on the same point that I'm trying to here with you, and that is, it is a response, it is a countermovement to what I would call gross stupidity in trying to get us into the Vietnam War. Look, it was a herd mentality that the older generation wanted. Follow us, don't ask any questions. If you follow— and that's— you followed the herd into that war, which did not have to be fought, obviously, because it was lost and communism was destroyed anyway. How can you equate that with stupidity when for the first time in history you had a mass uprising against a stupid administration? The first time in history that a populace rose up against a war and demonstrated a non-herd mentality. Isn't that a sign of intelligence?
Well, that's worthy of its own hour, in fact. I'd love to. Yeah, we should. I appreciate your calling. First of all, if there was any generation with a herd mentality, it was our generation, or my generation. I don't know how old you are, but I think— I think you're a baby boomer too. The herd mentality of thinking alike on almost every matter was at least—
No, I'm not talking about that. I'm just simply talking about the herd mentality means—
Well, it wasn't to me—
Following unquestioningly my leaders into a war, and I'm not going to question—
Well, what about following— well, you could follow questioningly. The fact is, I thought that it was a moral thing to prop up the South Vietnamese government. As it turns out, I personally— I don't think it's relevant to the discussion, but for the record, I personally did join antiwar demonstrations. I'm neither proud of it nor—
Good for you.
I appreciate that. That shows a sign of intelligence.
No, it doesn't at all. No, no, no, no. On the contrary, the herd protested the war. It was the—
Well, no, no, no. The true herd follows a leader.
Yes. That's what a herd is.
There's one lead animal and they follow it and they don't question it.
Right.
Well, who was the lead animal?
That's not a correct characterization. It takes intelligence to buck the trend and go somewhere else.
To buck the—
okay.
These are the people who singularly separated themselves.
To buck the trend in our generation was to not take drugs, was to not have premarital sex, and was to support the war in Vietnam. That was bucking the trend. I mean, not if you lived in rural Montana where perhaps '50s values still ruled in the '60s and '70s. But, you know, I lived through this and if there was any herd pressure, it was to be— it was to go hey, hey, ho, ho. No, what? Ho Chi Minh. Yeah, ho, ho, ho, Ho Chi Minh, yeah. And, or, hey, hey, LBJ, how many babies did you kill today? That was the herd mentality. The herd mentality was, was to be anti-religious and so on. I didn't think— the issue was not intelligence there. There were intelligent people who opposed the war and there were intelligent people who were for the war. But one could have said the same thing. Imagine if our parents, if what's called the Greatest Generation, had decided to buck their leaders. I don't want to be in the herd. I'm not going to fight Hitler and the Japanese. You know, maybe Lindbergh was the true nonconformist of his generation, or any of those who celebrated, at least before the war, the Hitler achievements, making the Autobahn and welfare and and anti-animal experimentation and the Volkswagen. I'll take more of your calls when we come back. See, the battles are still being fought. Nothing has changed. That's what's so amazing. There it is, truly, as you can hear from the calls. And I'm very appreciative of your calling, very, because I know it takes, takes some courage. We'll be back in a moment.
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Dennis Prager here, the Ultimate Issues Hour. Why, why the age of stupidity is what we live in. New Brownfells, New Brownfells, Texas, and Pastor Ike Hite.
Yes.
Hi, Pastor.
Yes, how are you?
I'm well, thank you.
Good.
Go ahead, tell me what's on your mind.
Oh, I'm sorry, it didn't sound like your voice, Dennis.
I'm sorry. Oh, I'm sorry too.
Yes, uh, I just— I agree with you. I, I am just blown away at your topic because that just— I've tried to put a, a name on this for a long time. I've been a pastor for over 30 years, and, um, and of course I'm 60 years old now. And when I was in school and in college and seminary, you know, Greek and Hebrew And the deeper works and critical thinking and all that was very much prominent. And today it seems like clergy have come down to where it's just a feel-good thing, and I think that fits with the mentality of a more ignorant generation.
Well, yes, go on.
Yes, simply because you look at a typical Christian bookstore, you see fluff.
How interesting. How interesting.
Deep things, you know.
And well, you know what I've often said, Pastor, is that the secular world has influenced the religious world more than the religious world has influenced the secular in our lifetime. That's a good example. Uh, the— that's another ultimate issue, is the changed religion to make you feel good rather than do good. Uh, and, and there, even there, there's a lack of wisdom. How do you feel about it? How do you, how do you feel about, uh, about, uh, And anything. And of course, it's all man-made anyway, so you do what you want. There's no authority above us. Not only no man-made authority, but there is— of course, there is one authority though that they always— the experts. You say the word expert. There was no God, no parents' authority, but there was the experts' authority. That's what mattered. That's why people could believe that heterosexual AIDS— my generation believed heterosexual AIDS was going to vanquish America. Plus so much else, plus the population. They— I mean, they didn't decide— many decided not to have children to save the planet. I wish I could take all your calls. This hour has been about the origins of the Age of Stupidity and many of the ideas that have become— bilingual education, profoundly dumb idea. Make sure that ensures that children of immigrants will not assimilate into America's life. The notion that religion was not, was not at least helpful to moral conduct because there's a God that says do not steal and do not murder, but we don't need a God to say that. By the way, if you call 800-225-8584, you get the best of the Ultimate Issues hours on CD or download. 800-225-8584 or DennisPrager.com. I will love, love your emails on this. Thank you for listening. This has been the Ultimate Issues Hour on the Dennis Prager Show.
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I'm going to give you a statement, and then I'm going to pose a question. Here's the statement: we all want to be loved by our spouses. If you don't, If you don't want to be, then either there's something wrong with you or something wrong with the marriage. Obviously, normal people want to be loved by their spouse. Okay, that's hardly a revelation. Here comes a slightly revelatory thing. It is critical to understand how that person Understands being loved. And I, I've on occasion mentioned this in the context of a call that I received quite a number of years ago from a young man who told me that he was dating a woman. They were very serious, but they had a big problem, or a big difference at least, in that when Valentine's Day came, he refused to get her a card. Uh-oh, even, let alone flowers, or let alone take her out. He said all of this was just created by American business to make money so that people would buy gifts. Guys would feel necessary, they'd feel obligated to buy some present or go out to some restaurant or the like, let alone Hallmark cards. That old conspirator.
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