Ben Sasse

I think that in my pantheon of American greats and villains, we radically underappreciate the downsides of John Dewey.

I think John Dewey did many, many, many, many terrible things.

And one of them was say, well, the economy went from kind of...

craft work and agriculture to industrialized scale, we should make childhood on an industrialized scale and we should institutionalize children for the vast majority of the time.

Indoors, sitting still, passive, mother may I, and only around people with their same birth year.

one of the least significant factors about life is people that just happen to have my same birth year, except when you're 14 or 16, then it's really terrible because our frontal lobes aren't done.

And what a horrible thing to segregate 16 year olds only with 16 year olds.

Those people are idiots and they deserve the benefits of 80 year old wisdom.

And by the way, 80 year olds deserve the benefits of the reward of seeing 16 year old vitality again.

What are the things I think the digital revolution does is it takes our generational segregation and puts it on speed and we lose lots of wisdom.

We need a lot more communitarian thickness to get at some of these self-restraints and self-controls that can use the tools instead of being used by the tools.

I got my diagnosis in mid-December, and similar to when you were going through your health episodes, I was incredibly blessed to be quickly at peace.

I kept hearing the Pauline phrase, to live is Christ, to die is gain.

And death is terrible.

We should never sugarcoat it.

It is not how things are meant to be.

but it is great that death can be called the final enemy.

It's an enemy, but it's a final enemy.

And there will then be no more tears.

Um, I believe in the resurrection and I believe in a restoration of this world.