Without believing in yourself, you're going nowhere, and you won't believe in yourself if somebody beats the individual out of you. If somebody convinces you that you don't deserve to do better than anybody else because that's not fair, and they are teaching you that in school about your grades and they're teaching you that about economics. It's not fair that you might have a nicer car than the schlub down the street. It's not fair. It's humiliating to the people who have less. So they're trying to beat the individual out of you, and the individual in you, the belief in yourself is the only thing you've got to compete against everybody that's trying to hold you back, and they all are. It's the way of the world. You look at things from afar, you look at pop culture, you look at movie stars, and you think that's a community, and they all decided one day, they all decided that Cameron Diaz is great and they all got together and they all loved Cameron Diaz and they've all made her a big star.
THAT'S BULLSHIT. NOBODY IS trying to beat the individual out of you. HE SAYS THAT BECAUSE HE HIS TRYING TO TURN THE NATURAL POLITICS OF ENVY INTO SOME KIND OF UNNATURAL TOTALITARIANISM.
THAT'S THE KEY. I'VE ALWAYS UNDERSTOOD THIS, AND WONDERED WHY IT ISN'T WRITTEN IN STONE. AND IT IS.
No two people are the same. Everybody has a different IQ. Everybody has different intelligence. Everybody has a different metabolism. Everybody has a different hairline.Everybody's got different level of ambition, desire. Everybody's got something. No two people are the same. And it's not fair.
RUSH GOT IT. HE SAID IT. IT'S NOT FAIR. KENNEDY SAID THE SAME THING. LIFE IS UNFAIR. BUT THAT IS THE ROOT OF SOCIALISM. TO MAKE THINGS MORE FAIR. BUT NOBODY WANTS TO GIVE UP ANY REAL DEGREE OF THEIR LIFE STYLE TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN. I JUST DIFFER FROM RUSH BECAUSE I THINK IT'S A KIND BELIEF. BUT I KNOW, HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN, KINDNESS DOES NOTHING. IT'S NOT THAT GOOD GUYS DON'T WIN BALL GAMES. BUT THAT KINDNESS IS NEUTRAL. TOUGHNESS AND TALENT WINS BALLGAMES. KINDNESS DOESN'T HELP OR HURT. I'M SURE RUSH UNDERSTANDS AND BELIEVES THIS. EVERYONE DOES.
Some people are smarter than others; some people are more creative than others. Some people could walk down the street and just have people throw money at them.
Cameron Diaz is like everybody else, she had to fight for everything she has,
EXCEPT THAT SHE IS GORGEOUS. SHE IS ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE THAT COULD WALK DOWN THE STREET AND JUST HAVE PEOLE THROW MONEY AT THEM. THAT'S DIFFERENT FROM HAVING TO FIGHT FOR EVERYTHING SHE HAS.
I KNOW. IT DOESN'T MATTER, BUT YOU CAN SEE THE IMPULSE TO REDUCE THE HUMILIATION AT WORKING AS HARD AS ANYONE AND GETTING NOTHING MORE THAN SURVIVAL AND WORRY.
Some people are smarter than others; some people are more creative than others. Some people could walk down the street and just have people throw money at them.You take a look around you, the genuinely successful people that you see who you want to be did not check their individualism at the door when they started their work. They didn't check their self-interests at the door, and they didn't check their self-respect, and they didn't turn over the belief in themselves to somebody else.
NOBODY CHECKS SELF INTEREST AT THE DOOR. THE DIATRIBE FAILS AGAIN AND AGAIN. OF COURSE WHAT HE IS REALLY SAYING IS, HEY LOOK, I'M BETTER THAN YOU, THAT'S WHY I'M RICH AND FAMOUS. It's not fair. It's humiliating to the people who have less. BUT THERE'S NOTHING THAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT. MAN UP AND RANGER ON. WHICH IS OF COURSE WHAT WE DO.
BUT I SURE LIKED THE NEW DEAL. JOB SECURITY. SOCIALISM, A GUARANTEED ANNUAL WAGE. LIFETIME UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE FOR THE SHLUB WITH THE CRUMMY CAR. OR THE BUS PASS. OR THE WHEEL CHAIR.
RUSH IS JUST AS NICE A GUY AS THE NEXT MAN.
EXACTLY. AND RUSH DOESN'T CARE AT ALL AND NEITHER DO I. NOBODY CAN. I DON'T CARE ABOUT ANYONE THAT IS MORE HUMILIATED THAN I AM. I JUST RESENT MY BETTERS. RUSH DOESN'T QUITE COME TO TERMS WITH THIS. HE CAN SAY IT'S NOT FAIR. HE CAN SAY IT'S HUMILIATING TO THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE LESS. BUT HE CAN'T BRING HIMSELF TO RECOGNIZE HOW TRULY HUMILILATED PEOPLE FEEL. HOW PEOPLE WHO TRIED THEIR BEST AND CAME OUT AS SECOND RATERS FEEL. HOW THEIR RESENTMENT WON'T GO AWAY.
HE KEEPS HOPING THE PROBLEM WILL GO AWAY IF PEOPLE WOULD JUST LLIE TO THEMSELVES AND BELIEVE, FOR EXAMPLE THAT CAMERON DIAZ OR BILL GATES OR BARACK OBAMA "IS LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE, THEY HAD TO FIGHT FOR EVERYTHING THEY HAVE.
and they're nipping at her heels now as she gets older, same thing with Julia Roberts, it doesn't change, no matter where you are, no matter what kind of glamour. You take a look around you, the genuinely successful people that you see who you want to be did not check their individualism at the door when they started their work. They didn't check their self-interests at the door, and they didn't check their self-respect, and they didn't turn over the belief in themselves to somebody else. That's all I'm talking about and that's under assault by this administration, which wants to control and limit freedom, 'cause the only way Obama can get the power he wants and the Democrats can get the power they want is if you willingly turn it over to them, by getting rid of your self-interest, your self-respect and holding your best interests at heart. Your best interests do not coincide with your government's, especially now.
And Reagan looked at them and said, "You know, you're right about that. We had to invent these for you to use them. We had to invent them for you." Take your favorite actor or actress, take your favorite television personality and ask yourselves what government, what protective agency got them their job, or was it rugged individualism? Or sleeping on the couch or whatever they had to do, but they did it. They also get $20 million a movie because they put people in the theater seats. Whether the movie's any good or not, people go, except Tom Cruise is in trouble right now. Well, Valkyrie just wasn't quite it. But the point here, ladies and gentlemen, is that anything that beats you down, anything that says to you that you're no more than anybody else, that you're no better, no different, no worse, that you're the same as anybody else, is lying to you, and they're seeking to control you. They're seeking to limit your own ability and your own desire, because we're not the same. The whole premise of equality, it's a great thing to strive for, like equality before the law, equality in job opportunity and so forth. But there are no two things that are equal, certainly not outcomes. Other than identical twins, no two human beings look exactly alike.
Do you realize that as many human beings as will be created in the history of the earth, no two of them will look alike. It's not possible, other than the rare cases of identical twins. But even those people are not the same. They have the same shell, the same look, but they're not the same inside.
Other people can toil their whole lives and never make more than minimum wage. Why? Who knows. But it is our contention that the people who never make more than minimum wage can do far better if they're just invested in themselves, not in a government, not in a president, not a Congress, not a program. How many people in those people's lives tell 'em that they're special, versus how many of them tell them, "You don't have a chance. You don't have a prayer. This country's racist. It's homophobic; it's bigoted. You don't have a chance. You need to vote for us." Even I, ladies and gentlemen, you listen to me, and you see whatever you see, but you see me as successful, it may make you mad, may make you furious, but nevertheless you see me successful. But you don't know the 35, 37 years that I've spent in this business since I was 16 (minus five that I worked for the Kansas City Royals baseball team) you don't know the seven times I got fired, and you don't know how many people in this business told me to quit and told me to give it up, that it's not a fair business, even if you're good, there are too many idiots above you, too many jealous people above you that don't want you to get anywhere because you're better than them. Hey? Hello? That's the world. There are a lot of professors who don't want you to be smarter than they are. There are a lot of people working at banks who are tellers that probably could be at the investment side but somebody is threatened by them. Everybody's trying to hold everybody back.
It's just human nature, and it's only the belief in yourself that propels you through all those things, and yourself is the individual. I got fired seven times. One time was it probably justified. The other times due to vagaries of the broadcast business, but each time I got fired the person that fired me said, "You know, you really don't have what it takes to succeed here. If you want to stay in this business you need to go into sales or something else. You really don't have that much talent," and I'm saying to myself, "How would you know? You've never let me exhibit it. You and your brilliant management have come up with ways that I could only say this here or that there, and I can only take that much time. How do you know what my talent is? And when was the last time you cared to really find out what my talent is?"
Without believing in yourself, you're going nowhere, and you won't believe in yourself if somebody beats the individual out of you. If somebody convinces you that you don't deserve to do better than anybody else because that's not fair, and they are teaching you that in school about your grades and they're teaching you that about economics.
It's not fair that you might have a nicer car than the schlub down the street. It's not fair. It's humiliating to the people who have less.
So they're trying to beat the individual out of you, and the individual in you, the belief in yourself is the only thing you've got to compete against everybody that's trying to hold you back, and they all are. It's the way of the world. You look at things from afar, you look at pop culture, you look at movie stars, and you think that's a community, and they all decided one day, they all decided that Cameron Diaz is great and they all got together and they all loved Cameron Diaz and they've all made her a big star.
That's the image they project because they want you to think it's all a giant community.
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