Arthur Brooks
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 11 Jul
Arthur Brooks’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's the perfect recipe for misery.
to do something like that.
On the contrary, you should be joyful.
There's something that you can actually do.
I mean, the message of most religions is notwithstanding all the hard things in your life, you're beloved.
Notwithstanding that you can have a good life.
You know, that's the whole idea that the good life is open to absolutely everybody.
As opposed to, I know you grew up in some, you know, you grew up in a first world country with all kinds of prosperity, but you're still an eggnog.
I mean, that's a hell of a way to live.
But, of course, that makes you really a putty in the hands of the dark triad activist boomer.
You know, the person who's a narcissist, the person who's Machiavellian, the person who has psychopathic tendencies, which, by the way, the research is very clear, describes most real activist leaders today in the political environment.
They have these tendencies.
That's 7% of the population is dark triad.
But they're disproportionately represented in the activist community, and they want soldiers.
How do you get that?
By freaking them out, by making them think that the world is actually against them, as opposed to helping them understand how they can take control, how they can have agency, how life can be joyful, how life can be good, which is the responsible thing for all of us to do with young people today.
Yeah, no, that's absolutely the case.
That quote is frequently attributed to President Theodore Roosevelt, of all people.
And whether he said, he said it on the internet.
So it may or may not be his, but it's certainly manifestly true.
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