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there is
a a
concept that is spoken about in our very
left liberal campuses and they are left
and they are
liberal you'll be interested to know
that one of my students in UCLA was Ben
Shapiro if you know who he is he's a a
commentator and when when I was a rabbi
UCLA he was very young that time 17 18
and he had just written a book that was
published that really went Far and Away
at the very young age about the left
leaning College teachings and he was
ahead of his time because today we all
know we speak about it but at that time
it was like it was it was considered a
novel novel
book and the byword on
campuses the password to get into
society
was and still is even more today
open-mindedness I'm an openminded person
I'm open to all possibilities I'm so
non-judgmental I'm so open-minded my
brains have fallen out I'm
open-minded
Hollywood tells us be open-minded to
everything as if open-mindedness is the
goal it's a goal is to be open-minded
and of course it sounds like that
because if I say I'm a closed-minded
person that sounds terrible that sounds
auster it sounds like I'm so narrow
religious close-minded Society May
shm careful for them they'll throw rocks
at you they'll spit at you close minded
but I'm an openminded
person that's part of the Great
Hollywood lie you know we like to think
we're open-minded but we're not
really you know how I know we're not
open-minded because if I asked
you is it okay to
shoplift would you
say yeah it depends you know you know
maybe I can see why it's okay you know
maybe in a communist Society we have to
make sure that the wealth is dispert you
wouldn't say that right you would say no
it's not okay to shop with is it okay to
to to kidnap
no why are you so sure I thought you an
open-minded
person I can I could give you a whole
list of things that you are sure about
what happened to
open-mindedness and your answer would be
cuz this is for sure wrong it turns out
that if I were writing this as a
mathematical formula it would sound
something like
this x equals
Clarity and when I have X and then I
have a decision to make which would be
y z would be
close-mindedness when I have clarity
about what is right and what is wrong
I'm close-minded I'm not open to the
possibility that Hitler was right yes
I'm Clos minded Nazism is wrong Kamas is
wrong it's never okay to kidnap little
babies or grown men or solders it's not
okay
and if you accuse me of not being
open-minded I will give you a list of
things that you're not open-minded about
it turns out that open-mindedness is
never the value that we're looking for
you know what we're looking for listen
carefully we're looking for clarity and
open-mindedness is the vehicle that we
use to find
Clarity the end
the goal is never to be open-minded open
mindness is not an ends it's a means to
an end it's the means to find truth so
I'm open-minded to possibilities until I
get my clarity but once I have my
clarity then I'm close-minded but not
because I'm narrow but because I now
know what is okay and what's not okay
when we are when we don't have Clarity
so we are open-minded so I could listen
to the
argument to say that the goal is to
remain open-minded it's like saying the
goal of soccer the goal of soccer is to
find the
ball that's not the goal of soccer
imagine the whole game I'm looking for
the ball where's the ball where's the
ball I found the ball I won the game no
what's the but what is the game how do
you play the game to kick the ball into
the net now of course you got to have a
ball to kick to the net so the goal is
not to find the ball the goal is to kick
the ball into the net the goal is not to
be open-minded the goal is to get
clarity so that you can begin your life
by living up to Clarity by living up to
Truth by living up to
righteousness the goal if to get that
Clarity what is right what is wrong now
the game begins once I know what's right
what's wrong now can I live up to what's
right and wrong that's the game the game
of life is to live up to truth not to
find truth to finding truth is a
prerequisite but if all your life you're
just looking for what's real at what
point do you live up to it at what point
do you say now I got it now let me see
if I can live up to it we are we on the
same page you a a very important thing
