Jack Barsky
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And I didn't know that I was poor because everybody else was poor.
So you got, at Christmas time, you got a bunch of presents and there was only one that you really wanted.
The rest of it was underwear and socks.
Wait a minute, Christmas time?
How did you have Christmas?
No one believed in God.
No, but you see, Christmas also has a pagan tradition.
And in the communist countries, that was the tradition that was kept.
I honestly had no idea that the rest of the world was celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ.
I had no idea Jesus even existed.
Yeah, that's pretty extreme.
So you didn't get a lot of, in your education growing up, you weren't learning about other ideas.
They were teaching us the wisdom, and there was only one truth.
There was science and math, and then there was ideology.
And the ideology was treated as if it was a science.
Marxism-Leninism was considered a science equal to physics and chemistry and so forth.
Wow, that is fascinating.