The Bryan Hyde Show hour one 8-18-2020

It's an honor each week to get to connect up with Eric Peters and to pick his ample brain regarding current events. Today, Eric joins me to discuss the original Red Flag Act and what we can learn from the obsessive quest for safety that takes the joy out of living.

If there was ever a phrase to describe the fear-driven decision making that dominates our society today, it would be "the curious, but quite authentic, inability to think." Jack Kerwick has an excellent essay on this phrase and the remarkable Hannah Arendt who coined it.

To be authentically "woke" means having a grasp of basic history and the ability to learn from the lessons it offers. James Walpole has 5 rules for studying history that will help you gain depth and breadth in your understanding of how we got here from there.

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