I used to listen to Churchill’s speeches over the radio during World War II and most of them made sense, but then, some of them did not. This one rubbed me the wrong way then, and it still does, all these years later. He said, “Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.” That clearly puts people at war …
If I could train every newborn child in this country to think for himself, the first thing I would do is to make him express his own opinions without letting him hear my opinions or the opinions of others, including the experts. Essentially, there are some basic storylines that our lives revolve around and we build on those themes throughout the years. We change the dialogue to fit the circumstances, but we’re repeating certain patterns in our behaviors and thought …