it was the worst of times stacey this sounds like the opening lines to a tale of 2 cities by charles dickens and he was somebody quite useful and relevant to this age because he was writing during the beginning of the end of the british empire and also during the explosion of the wrong take class a lot of what he wrote about is the disaster capitalism caused by the ron say class so we're in a very similar time to that with this pandemic meeting the over leveraged fake system that we have and the chaos that is causing and just for those of you out there who are you know perhaps like myself perhaps too busy reading twitter all the time and not enough time to devote to reading a tale to cities i want to read the rest of that quote from the opening of a tele to cities because it's quite relevant i think to our time because that book was written in the period leading up to the french revolution and then through the reign of terror which i think is similar to what we have today it was the best of times it was the worst of times it was age of wisdom it was the age of foolishness it was that of beli

stacey this sounds like the opening lines to a tale of 2 cities by charles dickens and he was somebody quite useful and relevant to this age because he was writing during the beginning of the end of the british empire and also during the explosion of the wrong take class a lot of what he wrote about is the disaster capitalism caused by the ronte class so we're in a very similar time to that with this pandemic meeting the over leveraged.

exhibited a little person a 4 feet tal tall, black man who weighed 50 pounds the missing link between charles dickens book who has just come out in 1859 and this was 1860. and it was just awful but what is interesting was, when he was exhibited there would be a white man out front telling histli story. and in the background, this man would be mocking the white guy to say don't really believe this this is what is going on. which is meant in some way and barnum finally permitted it but ended up building a house for this man. they were friends for the remaining of barnum'ss life and then to be seen by 100 million people. so anyway that is another one that is hard to think about. so i will leave you with one quick image lay in barnum'sou life in the late 18 seventies taking james bailey and went to england that was in the big building in olympia for the three rings and at the beginning of each day's performer there were two performances arf day. and then into a fancy carriage with foot men. and then to go slowly around the ring. and then to a stand up and say if you want to see barnum i am mr. barnum. an

well done charles dickens captured the guys at that moment in the christmas count being a condemnation of capitalism wasn't yes you know the ghost of christmas future was neoliberalism visiting upon the president to try to warn people what happens when you financial life the global economy and you do 3 or 400 years with the consumption today christmas being a holiday of consumption losing its its significance as a spiritual soulful. and here we are you know we've all been very very naughty and we've all been sent to our room and we're all sitting in our rooms now thinking about what we did this is a moment of self reflection for the global community to sit in your room and think about what you and. your government and our government and all the other major governments of the world know what's going to and when it's going to. but they haven't told you and they haven't told me they haven't announced.

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little had changed since 1849 with the visiting charles dickens sarcastically described its nondescriptive dwellings into wide streets that petered out in empty fields as the city of magnificent distances. nothing more aptly epitomize the unfinished city than the capital itself surrounded by à Ãstrewn around the building like a symbolic fragment of a nation and pieces washingtonians felt the probable sense of doom the city, jefferson davis his wife irina felt as her husband's last days in the senate slipped away was like some kind of mausoleum with no one visiting, no dinners or parties, just a sullen gloom and pending overall things. on january 27 ohio representative claimant to landing him wrote to his wife, i am able to do no good here so i sit and obliged to sit quiet and sorrowful condemned as one who watches over the couch a beloved mother slowly dying with consumption to see my country perished by inches. americans who had taken their nations immortality for granted knew that things would never be the same again. the empty seats in the house and senate they spoke of revolution in te

and charles dickens sarcastically and those that petered out and empty fields there are nothing more epitomized in the capital itself for the new dome like the symbolic fragment of a nation pieces. and the city jefferson daviss i and senate they spoke of revolution in terms of more graphic than any of the stormy words that had been spoken during the months passed. with the departure of the southerners gloom shaded inexorably into fear that events were spinning out of control and that the worst had really come to pass. worrying rumors flew through the air that the defenseless capital would be attacked by a virginia mob that a coup d'ctat would come any day and unexplained fires around the city were part of a terrorist plot. the landing him mored his wife that an uprising was so likely he might have to send her to safety someone loans. others dispatch their wives and children to philadelphia or new york for safety. of the nations entire army 16,367 men few were stationed east of the mississippi river and most of them were in the seceding states. even the armies gentlemen in chief winfi

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the whole works and i thought i would talk about the virtue of justice, which ia examine throuh charles dickens, a tale of two cities. justice, the hardest virtue for me to research and wrap my mind around and write about because unlike the other virtues, justice, all the other preachers have to do with one individual person and you obtaining and practicing these virtues. justice is a virtue related to an individual, we can be just people, not just people but justice is also a virtue of another community. that makes it complicated that there is individual attainment of the virtue of justice and also society, culture community can attain or not attain political social justice which i don't mean social justice but justice in its societal communal way. essentially, justice is the right ordering of relationships within our community so as individuals, we need to desire that right ordering and if we are just individuals, we want our society to attain and protect that right ordering. so in a tale of two cities, we see again this propensity that we have as humans to gravitate toward the extreme becaus

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as the missing link between charles dickens book it just come out on the origin of species in 1959. this was 1960. he started exhibiting this man. this man johnson. putting in a pursuit. it was just awful. one of the things that was interesting was when he was exhibited there, the white man was upfront telling his story telling him how vaping found in africa or something. in the background, this man would sort of be mocking the white guy. and kind of saying that don't really believe this. this is not really what's going on. it was sort of messed up in some way i guess. and barnum clearly was probably encouraging that he ended up building a house for this man in bridgeport. they were friends for the remainder of barnum's life. he went on to be exhibited in a be seen by a hundred million people. and into the around 1920. this another one that is sort of hard to sort of think about. i just leave you with one quick image though. late in barnum's life, he got involved with the circus in the late 1870s. in the late 1880s, ambani, james bailey was the genius behind the circus, took the cir

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like a charles dixon -- charles dickens christmas carol. it was hard for cartoonist to caricatures on all reagan but when trait this brings up was what many viewed as a simple cinematic view of the world broken down into good guys and bad guys. in his central american, latin american policies, this is something that was manifested in support for a lot of unsavory characters engaged in human rights abuses against leftist regimes. i just wanted to say this, moves me personally. >> this one reminded me of a quote from mark twain. i did not memorized it so i will paraphrase it. you should never do this with a writer as good as mark twain. but the essence of what he said was, when you are writing humor, you should never try to teach and you should never try to preach. if you want your humor to last, it has to do both of those things. this is an image that will last. it has a little bit of both of those things it does it exceedingly well. >> it is very good at capturing the fundamental debate about the threat or what constituted the threat and ce

said at first we thought basically it was time, you know, they're going to compare jk rowling to charles dickens but actually she's more influential and harry pot is literally unprecedented. this was a book -- and wasn't only that kids read this book once a cut over. every kid read this book and then read it six more times over the course of a young adult because they read it when there were 11 and then when they were 12 and then they read the third book when you're 13, and harry potter sort of aged alongside a lot of these people. i'm being very rambling but there are studies that show people who are fans of harry potter tend to have more progressive values, partly because the themes of the book are about tolerance and bring in social outsiders in rejecting authoritarianism and kids banding together against evil. at a notice like when i was interviewing a couple years ago now not the type of harry potter a lot. they were like yeah, rick scott is baltimore. oh, my god, he totally looks like kim. [laughing] and it was just something kept kind of coming up in a really kind of mine away just people

ledger sheet which went into and out of it system so as i said in the book, it's right out of charles dickens, everything was done by hand. it didn't take us long to learn that we could not continue to do everything by hand and expect the business to grow and of course, we all wanted the business to grow and saw the opportunity. so we had to have some sort of automation to help us out and as i described in the book, the first company we use with the company by the name of computer research they gave us of machine, like a great big typewriter, our clerk would type in the activity for the day, the traits that were made, money received and checks going out those things. that machine then perforated a tape and we would set our telephone in a holder and the tickertape was pulled up to the holder so it would do the beeps and the bops and information to the computer in philadelphia. here in omaha, all of this goes to philadelphia. if you have static on the line, the information was incorrect. so the company philadelphia would receive the information we sent, process it and print out in chicago so al

like charles dickens "christmas c carroll." i think it was hard to do ronald reagan, but this is a world of good guys and bad guys, and latin american policies this was something manifested and supported for a lot of unsavor why characters. and i just want to say that, you know, this is -- this one moves me personally. >> this reminded me of a quote from mark twain, which you should never do, but the essence of what he did was when you're writing humor, you should never try to teach or preach, but if you want your humor to last, it has to do both of those things. this is an image that will last. it does a little bit of both of those things. >> it captures the fundamental debate about what constituted the threat in central america. particularly reagan always thought that problem was in the campaign of 1980. he talked about dominoes falling in central america. mexico, the last domino being the united states. and that reflected his policies. also to what extent was the regime aheadlined, and reflecting problems in central america.