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Werner Herzog

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Freakonomics Radio
665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

give a blueprint to the Americans how to handle their educational system.

Freakonomics Radio
665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

You don't.

Freakonomics Radio
665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

And you don't tell the Japanese how to deal with their education or the Italians or the – you just name it.

Freakonomics Radio
665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

You just don't do it.

Freakonomics Radio
665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

You have to come with your cultural, historical identity.

Freakonomics Radio
665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

You will come to your conclusions.

Freakonomics Radio
665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

But of course, Germany was consistent in it from the end of the Second World War until literally today.

Freakonomics Radio
665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

And it's not only education, it's translated into legislation.

Freakonomics Radio
665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

For example, it is a criminal offense to be a denier of Holocaust.

Freakonomics Radio
665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

If you're a fervent denier and go to public as a denier of the Holocaust, you will end up in jail in Germany.

Freakonomics Radio
665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

And I think it's good that it is like this.

Freakonomics Radio
665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

I mean it in a larger context, of course.

Freakonomics Radio
665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

I mean what you're hinting at politically.

Freakonomics Radio
665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

And I try to encourage all my friends who are not Trump supporters, I tell them, don't complain.

Freakonomics Radio
665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

It is a majority.

Freakonomics Radio
665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

It's not lottery that brought Trump to the presidency.

Freakonomics Radio
665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

He won the popular vote by a very significant margin.

Freakonomics Radio
665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

Both houses, Senate and Congress, and the Supreme Court is to some degree shaped by him.

Freakonomics Radio
665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

So it's significant.

Freakonomics Radio
665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ...

It doesn't come because he's a lucky man.