The Michael Knowles Show - September 08, 2022


Queen Elizabeth II Has Died ｜ A Life To Remember


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Length

29 minutes

Words per Minute

158.67053

Word Count

4,618

Sentence Count

371

Misogynist Sentences

8

Hate Speech Sentences

5


Summary

Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest reigning monarch, has died after 70 years on the throne at the age of 96. And it is somehow even sadder than a lot of us thought it would be. So sad that I had to come back on and do a bonus segment.


Transcript

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00:00:30.540 Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest reigning monarch, has died after 70 years on the throne at the age of 96.
00:00:41.400 And it is somehow even sadder than a lot of us thought it would be.
00:00:48.140 So sad that I had to come back on and do a bonus segment.
00:00:52.520 I've already done my show for the day. I'll have another show tomorrow.
00:00:55.340 But this is world historic news and news that people, not just in the United Kingdom, but people all around the world, can't take their eyes off of.
00:01:05.740 The fact that this very nice, very aged German lady, actually, of German extraction, although she was the Queen of England,
00:01:15.200 that she died at a ripe old age, is leaving people so, so sad.
00:01:22.220 And it's not, I think, just because she was a very nice lady who did a very nice job for a very, very long time.
00:01:27.800 I don't even think it's just because she lived such an extraordinary life.
00:01:33.400 The first prime minister over whom she reigned was Winston Churchill.
00:01:36.800 The first American president whom she met as Queen of England was Harry Truman.
00:01:41.600 Not even that, I think, is why.
00:01:44.760 I think the reason why people are so affected by her death is because it feels as though she was the last one,
00:01:54.480 the last connection to Western civilization at its height.
00:02:00.920 The last connection to a generation that is gone, a generation that puts service above personal interest,
00:02:10.400 and a generation that valued and exemplified and put into their very lives the heights of Western culture and civilization.
00:02:24.760 That's what it feels like to me, at least.
00:02:26.700 I think that's what it feels like to a lot of people.
00:02:29.140 Service was at the heart of this woman's life.
00:02:33.100 She never retired.
00:02:34.680 She never quit her job.
00:02:37.760 She kept working right up until the very end.
00:02:40.160 She just received Britain's new prime minister just days ago.
00:02:45.220 An absolutely amazing work ethic.
00:02:51.260 And it's what she promised at the very beginning of her reign when Elizabeth was, I believe, 21 years old.
00:02:57.560 She promised, this would have been in 1947, she promised that she would give her absolute utmost in service of her countrymen and of her country and of her God.
00:03:10.980 On my 21st birthday, I welcome the opportunity to speak to all the peoples of the British Commonwealth and Empire,
00:03:21.940 wherever they live, whatever race they come from, and whatever language they speak.
00:03:27.500 I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and to the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
00:03:44.060 But I shall not have strength to carry out this resolution alone, unless you join in it with me, as I now invite you to do.
00:03:55.600 I know that your support will be unfailingly given.
00:04:00.180 God help me to make good my vow.
00:04:03.540 And God bless all of you who are willing to share in it.
00:04:07.000 It's one thing for a 21-year-old woman who becomes the queen seemingly accidentally.
00:04:15.160 It's not as though she had always been in line to the throne.
00:04:19.140 In fact, she only became the queen of England because her uncle, Edward VIII, abdicated.
00:04:24.060 And her uncle, Edward VIII, abdicated because in many ways he was the opposite of Queen Elizabeth.
00:04:29.080 He prioritized his own personal preferences.
00:04:32.160 He prioritized his own leisure and his own lower desires.
00:04:35.720 He wanted to marry an American divorcee.
00:04:38.900 This was not possible because the monarch in England is not only the head of state but also head of the Church of England.
00:04:46.720 This was not permitted, certainly not at the time.
00:04:49.860 And so when he had to choose between his personal preferences and his lusts and his desires and his duty, he chose his personal preferences.
00:04:59.820 And then Elizabeth's father comes to the throne, George VI.
00:05:02.740 Then when he dies, she becomes the queen.
00:05:06.880 And it's easy to say when you're 21 years old, I dedicate myself to service.
00:05:11.180 I will never stop serving my country.
00:05:13.500 But to actually do it is what is so amazing.
00:05:18.920 To actually do it.
00:05:20.520 Not in the spotlight all the time, not constantly receiving applause.
00:05:26.040 Of course, the queen was admired for her entire life.
00:05:28.720 But that's not where that sort of work happened.
00:05:31.440 That's not where, forget even the work, the commitment, the sacrifice, the duty.
00:05:37.480 Every second of this lady's life in service of her country.
00:05:42.120 Any time there was any conflict between her personal choices and her duty, this woman chose her duty.
00:05:48.040 She did it in those quiet moments.
00:05:49.620 The quiet and steady and determined and constant service.
00:05:54.640 That is a far more difficult thing.
00:05:57.600 And Queen Elizabeth elaborated on these themes in one of her most famous addresses ever.
00:06:02.280 That would have been ten years after her promise of service in 1957 in her first Christmas broadcast, which was broadcast on television.
00:06:13.220 Queen Elizabeth put the matter of duty and service and the monarchy and the whole British form of government and the whole body politic in Britain.
00:06:24.240 Put it into the context of this rapidly changing world where you had rapidly changing technologies like the television.
00:06:32.240 But you had rapidly changing social mores, new perspectives against the monarchy, against tradition, against the British nation as it was known.
00:06:42.080 You've come out of the Second World War and there Queen Elizabeth explains how to make sense of it all in the modern world.
00:06:48.660 I very much hope that this new medium will make my Christmas message more personal and direct.
00:06:59.380 It's inevitable that I should seem a rather remote figure to many of you.
00:07:05.020 A successor to the kings and queens of history.
00:07:08.400 Someone whose face may be familiar in newspapers and films, but who never really touches your personal lives.
00:07:16.180 But now, at least for a few minutes, I welcome you to the peace of my own home.
00:07:25.100 That it's possible for some of you to see me today is just another example of the speed at which things are changing all around us.
00:07:35.420 Because of these changes, I'm not surprised that many people feel lost and unable to decide what to hold on to and what to discard.
00:07:45.100 How to take advantage of the new life without losing the best of the old.
00:07:53.460 But it's not the new inventions which are the difficulty.
00:07:57.920 The trouble is caused by unthinking people who carelessly throw away ageless ideals as if they were old and outworn machinery.
00:08:07.360 They would have religion thrown aside, morality in personal and public life made meaningless,
00:08:17.320 honesty counted as foolishness, and self-interest set up in place of self-restraint.
00:08:23.680 At this critical moment in our history, we will certainly lose the trust and respect of the world
00:08:31.960 if we just abandon those fundamental principles which guided the men and women
00:08:38.180 who built the greatness of this country and commonwealth.
00:08:42.080 Today, we need a special kind of courage.
00:08:49.560 Not the kind needed in battle, but a kind which makes us stand up for everything that we know is right.
00:08:58.000 Everything that is true and honest.
00:09:01.360 We need the kind of courage that can withstand the subtle corruption of the cynics.
00:09:07.600 We need the kind of courage that can withstand the subtle corruption of the cynics.
00:09:14.940 And I think this is another reason why people are so affected by this woman's death all over the world
00:09:20.480 is because our culture is just mired in cynicism.
00:09:25.840 Our culture is just mired in this distrust of anything high or noble, any claims of truth, any kind of dignity at all.
00:09:38.700 We just live in such an undignified, shameless culture now.
00:09:44.560 When you think of the way that people speak in public life on television,
00:09:49.100 the way that people speak even from high political office, the sorts of things.
00:09:54.660 I don't even want to sully this moment in which we're talking about Queen Elizabeth's life and legacy
00:10:02.620 by discussing the present troubles in the American government.
00:10:05.960 But you think of the kinds of people running the American government,
00:10:08.740 the shameless, debauched, disgusting things that they do.
00:10:12.260 And that they do publicly, not even that they're caught in a scandal.
00:10:14.880 They post photographs of all sorts of disorder.
00:10:20.920 In that culture, you had a handful of people, and probably most notable among all of them, Queen Elizabeth,
00:10:29.460 who stood there as a reference point to say, no, it doesn't have to be this way.
00:10:35.360 You actually can conduct yourself with dignity.
00:10:39.680 You can aim at something higher.
00:10:41.400 However, that line from that Christmas speech, the trouble is caused.
00:10:48.080 It's not caused by the technology.
00:10:50.000 It's not that we're saying that we conservatives, or we traditionalists, or we, I don't know,
00:10:55.540 these days you might say we normal people who just think things have gone a little bit wrong,
00:10:59.780 and we'd like to recover some of what we've lost.
00:11:02.540 It's not that we want to just freeze time in the past.
00:11:05.240 It's not even that we hate technology, that we're Luddites or something.
00:11:09.380 You can use technology to some good.
00:11:13.740 It can be used for evil, but it can be used often to some good.
00:11:16.760 Queen Elizabeth gave us that speech on television.
00:11:18.920 That's the reason we can watch it right now.
00:11:21.360 That's not where the trouble lies.
00:11:24.080 The trouble is caused by unthinking people who carelessly throw away ageless ideals as if they were old and outworn machinery.
00:11:34.680 It's so common today to hear glib, flippant, shallow people say,
00:11:42.600 what, you still believe X, Y, and Z idea?
00:11:46.940 Come on, man, it's 2022.
00:11:49.660 Come on, it's 2022.
00:11:51.520 And the very fact that chronology has progressed must mean that you can't believe such a thing anymore,
00:11:58.100 as though there were no eternal truths.
00:12:00.440 You still believe in marriage and family and country and God and responsibility before all of those things?
00:12:10.580 Come on, man, it's 2022.
00:12:12.580 No, some ideals are ageless.
00:12:16.100 And Queen Elizabeth made clear what she meant by those ageless ideals.
00:12:19.240 She said that these people, these unthinking people, who carelessly throw away the ageless ideals,
00:12:25.760 they would have religion thrown aside.
00:12:28.440 Morality in personal and public life made meaningless.
00:12:32.940 Honesty counted as foolishness.
00:12:35.280 And self-interest set up in place of self-restraint.
00:12:40.780 Queen Elizabeth was not some partisan.
00:12:44.380 She was a true head of state, a queen of the whole country.
00:12:46.940 It's difficult for those of us who don't have such a figure to really make sense of.
00:12:54.100 We think, well, you know, was she a conservative or a liberal?
00:12:56.640 Was she a Democrat or a Republican?
00:12:58.720 What is she?
00:12:59.480 Well, these problems are not just the problems of the left.
00:13:04.460 The left causes a lot of these problems.
00:13:06.420 There's no question about that.
00:13:08.240 In the very term, the left comes from the French Revolution.
00:13:10.960 And the people who sat on the left of the National Assembly were the ones who wanted to get rid of the king and attack the church.
00:13:16.140 So, yes, the left drives a lot of these problems.
00:13:20.120 But not all of them.
00:13:21.780 Those who would have religion thrown aside.
00:13:23.520 I know plenty of people on the right who would have religion thrown aside.
00:13:27.460 Who at least wouldn't take it seriously.
00:13:30.280 Those who would have morality in personal and public life made meaningless.
00:13:33.560 How many people who call themselves conservative, who call themselves in the right wing,
00:13:38.360 do you know who say, well, we can't legislate morality?
00:13:40.900 Well, what you think is good, maybe someone else thinks is bad.
00:13:44.440 We can't get the government involved.
00:13:46.640 No, no, we can't say anything about morality.
00:13:49.180 It's not just the left doing it.
00:13:50.660 It's the right sometimes, too.
00:13:52.800 Honesty counted as foolishness and self-interest set up in place of self-restraint.
00:13:57.480 I know plenty of people, especially in the kind of business first right wing.
00:14:04.120 You know, the people who only care about GDP, don't care about anything else.
00:14:07.500 The ones who want to get rid of the social issues.
00:14:10.740 Ignore the social and cultural issues.
00:14:12.900 They're the sort of ones who say, well, I'm just in it to get my own profit.
00:14:16.640 Self-interest.
00:14:17.560 Greed is good.
00:14:19.020 That kind of nonsense.
00:14:20.180 That's a right wing problem, too.
00:14:23.760 Not just a left wing problem.
00:14:25.060 It's why people are so affected by this woman's death.
00:14:28.780 It's because we know that what she stood for and exemplified and personified is largely lost.
00:14:38.960 Not just on one side of the political aisle or the other.
00:14:41.480 It's just kind of lost.
00:14:43.900 People don't have it anymore.
00:14:45.320 Now, I think there is an inkling.
00:14:47.220 The very fact that people are so moved by her life, so affected by her death, I think
00:14:54.220 reminds us that there is a longing for this.
00:14:56.440 The fact that you're seeing trends of younger people going back to churches and going back
00:15:02.000 to churches that are specifically orthodox, lowercase o, you know, that take the religion
00:15:07.800 seriously, that are traditional.
00:15:09.440 I think that tells you that we look back and we say, huh, maybe all this change wasn't
00:15:16.100 so good necessarily.
00:15:18.600 At least not all of it was good.
00:15:20.580 I think this is probably going to be Elizabeth's lasting legacy.
00:15:24.940 To make people think in our shallow age, to make people think twice, this shallow age we
00:15:32.780 live in where we're convinced that all monarchy is terrible.
00:15:35.280 All monarchy is terrible.
00:15:38.260 All democracy is good.
00:15:39.920 Then you look around, some of our democracies, the very people who are so quick to invoke
00:15:44.140 our democracy, they seem like some of the worst rulers of them all.
00:15:48.280 And very often what is called a democracy is very often just an oligarchy in disguise.
00:15:53.420 We look at someone like Elizabeth and we say, huh, maybe that, I was told monarchy was
00:16:00.660 so bad, but that lady seems to be ruling a lot better than some of the people in our
00:16:05.020 so-called democracy.
00:16:06.680 Maybe it turns out that when you get rid of one set of elites, you don't get rid of elites,
00:16:11.520 period.
00:16:11.920 You just, you get a different set and sometimes a much worse set of elites.
00:16:15.820 Maybe people have to think twice beyond a monarchy.
00:16:19.320 Just a tradition.
00:16:21.760 We live in this glib age where we say, oh, that's the past.
00:16:24.480 We hate the past.
00:16:25.740 We're, come on, we're in the new future.
00:16:26.840 We have cool little gadgets on our, on our wrist and we can get our emails on our wrist.
00:16:30.720 We're so much better and smarter.
00:16:32.820 Everything's gotten better.
00:16:35.420 We look around and we say, well, I don't know.
00:16:38.580 Anyone living right now, would you say that anyone, yourself included, are you living a
00:16:43.500 life as good as Queen Elizabeth?
00:16:46.720 No, you don't have castles, you don't have palaces, you don't have guards, but so what?
00:16:50.280 Now, I'm saying in your personal comportment, money aside, money, money can't buy class and
00:16:57.520 very often the wealthiest people in the world are, are the most miserable.
00:17:01.180 They're the ones who die early of all sorts of drug overdoses and degeneracy.
00:17:06.000 So money's not going to fix it.
00:17:07.460 Would you, would you say right now that there are people who are living a life as good as
00:17:11.840 that woman?
00:17:13.420 Probably not.
00:17:15.760 Probably not.
00:17:16.600 Why is that?
00:17:17.360 Because we live in the modern world and we say the modern world is so much better, you
00:17:22.080 know, because we can like have sex all the time with whoever we want and we can do whatever
00:17:26.600 drugs we want.
00:17:27.460 They're all getting legalized and we don't need to really work all that hard, you know,
00:17:31.180 and we can get, we can just kind of get whatever we want on demand without really waiting or
00:17:36.660 patience or any virtue.
00:17:37.940 Is that, is that making for a better world?
00:17:40.420 No, no, I don't think it is.
00:17:42.560 I don't know that the world in 2022 is, is so much better than it was in 1957 or 1947
00:17:52.680 when, when Elizabeth gave those speeches.
00:17:55.560 In many ways, the world is much worse.
00:17:57.480 I think this might be her lasting legacy, a, just this, this thought that maybe everything
00:18:07.740 old isn't bad and maybe everything new isn't so great.
00:18:11.980 And maybe there is a way to age gracefully.
00:18:16.600 The woman aged so gracefully and she didn't get the constant nip talk and she didn't try
00:18:24.880 to turn herself into a Kardashian.
00:18:26.260 She physically aged very gracefully and she aged gracefully in her entire person.
00:18:32.060 And she embodied her role, her role as queen, her role as mother, her role as grandmother,
00:18:38.040 her role as great grandmother, her role as head of state, her role as head of the church,
00:18:42.660 the church of England.
00:18:43.380 And she, she did all of these things with grace and she accommodated herself to the world
00:18:50.180 as it is.
00:18:50.760 She didn't just live in the past.
00:18:52.560 You didn't have to dust her off.
00:18:54.160 Okay.
00:18:55.280 She, she wore modern clothing with dignity, with class.
00:19:01.420 She, after the September 11th attacks in the United States, she bucked a 600 year old
00:19:06.820 tradition.
00:19:07.180 She had the guard outside the palace play the star spangled banner.
00:19:10.800 It's quite revolutionary.
00:19:14.620 Well, not really.
00:19:15.300 No, there's, there's something deeper there.
00:19:19.940 It's, it's, it's sort of the way that, uh, if you want to be an avant-garde artist, you
00:19:26.380 need to know how to paint first.
00:19:29.020 You know, when, when young people, they don't want to actually learn anything about a craft
00:19:32.900 or a, or an art form.
00:19:34.880 So they say, no, I'm just going to be free form and avant-garde.
00:19:37.260 You'll say, well, before you become avant-garde, maybe become guard, you know, maybe figure
00:19:42.320 out how to paint first.
00:19:43.280 And then, then you can become more abstract.
00:19:45.560 And because Elizabeth was so reverent toward the tradition, so she had a perspective, not
00:19:53.060 of resentment for her ancestors, but of gratitude to the people who come before her, came before
00:19:57.580 her and to the people who were her subjects.
00:20:00.500 Because she was so steeped in tradition and so reverent toward the tradition, she, she could
00:20:05.620 recognize when circumstances called to buck a tradition.
00:20:09.360 And that, that was an organic sort of change.
00:20:13.420 And it meant quite a lot to the people of the United States.
00:20:16.480 I remember it.
00:20:17.020 I remember when it happened.
00:20:18.360 I was a little kid, but I remember it.
00:20:21.420 That, that is a, a lasting legacy.
00:20:25.220 That is something that we don't see anymore.
00:20:27.280 And the antipathy toward the royal family as such, there have been all sorts of royals who
00:20:33.440 have had all sorts of, done all sorts of terrible things.
00:20:35.840 In many ways, it makes Elizabeth even more admirable because she withstood them.
00:20:41.940 And the, the most emotion she ever showed as she, as she had all of these awful scandals
00:20:47.260 of her children and the divorces and the terror attacks in her country and all these awful
00:20:51.800 things, she referred to it as the annus horribilis.
00:20:56.720 She, even when she's expressing emotion, she does it in Latin.
00:20:59.840 Okay, this woman just, just had courage and this woman had dignity and had a stiff upper lip.
00:21:07.780 Now, today, you think of young people who, you know, a random person they meet on the
00:21:14.100 street won't refer to them by their imaginary pronoun and they break down in tears.
00:21:19.840 Meanwhile, you've got this woman who has lived and lived through and led her country through
00:21:25.080 major tragedies, keeps a stiff upper lip and remains grateful.
00:21:31.060 And the, the kind of reflexive antipathy, I think that a lot of people have, especially
00:21:36.800 some Americans have for the royal family.
00:21:39.720 I think that's a mistake too, because it, it comes from a, I think an undue elevation of
00:21:47.500 the meritocracy.
00:21:48.520 We say, well, the, the only people who should have privileges are the people who earn those
00:21:53.880 privileges.
00:21:54.740 And there's something to that.
00:21:56.040 Obviously, you want people to accomplish things.
00:21:58.600 You want people to earn things.
00:22:00.020 You don't want an unfair, unjust system.
00:22:05.060 But meritocracy is a really slippery, tricky thing.
00:22:08.540 And it gives way very easily to pride.
00:22:11.360 And at, at the most basic level, there, there can be no such thing as a pure meritocracy,
00:22:16.420 because we are all given such privilege.
00:22:20.200 The very, the fact that you were born in the United States, if you're listening, people
00:22:23.540 listen from all over the world, I suppose.
00:22:25.800 The very fact that you were born in the West, let's say, wherever you were born.
00:22:28.920 The very fact that you were born at all is a privilege.
00:22:31.560 You could have been killed in the womb, as many people are.
00:22:35.020 The fact, if you had some parents, that's quite a privilege.
00:22:39.900 Two parents married together and you grew up in their household.
00:22:42.120 That's an amazing privilege.
00:22:43.500 If you were raised by anybody at all, that's a privilege too.
00:22:47.240 The people that you chance to meet along the way.
00:22:50.140 The helpful priest, I don't know.
00:22:52.960 The nice guy at the deli counter that you meet, who gives you some advice, who gives you
00:22:56.800 some encouragement.
00:22:57.920 Someone in your, in your life who gave you a break, gave you a lucky break maybe in your
00:23:03.360 career.
00:23:04.260 And yes, you earn things, you work hard, true.
00:23:06.800 But, but we shouldn't allow the fact that we have earned certain things and accomplished
00:23:12.800 certain things to, to give us a swell head and to make us lose sight of so much that we
00:23:18.480 have been given.
00:23:20.860 Because then we will discard it.
00:23:22.760 We will cast it away.
00:23:23.840 And that's what we are doing with our cultural inheritance here in the United States.
00:23:28.040 Queen Elizabeth was born royal.
00:23:31.860 And then because of happenstance, because of the twists of fortune or providence maybe,
00:23:38.960 she came into the line of the royal throne and then she ruled her country.
00:23:42.860 She was given immense privileges.
00:23:45.920 Of course, palaces, castles.
00:23:48.500 And she fulfilled the duty that came with those privileges.
00:23:55.440 When we, when we, in this imagined pure meritocracy that we all flatter ourselves that we're living
00:24:01.180 in, when we deny the real privileges that we have all been given, then it's much easier
00:24:07.380 to deny the duty as well.
00:24:09.500 And we do deny that duty.
00:24:11.500 We frequently do.
00:24:13.520 We talk only from the perspective of rights.
00:24:16.540 The left in America talks only from the perspective of rights.
00:24:19.820 That you have, you have a right to, I don't know, you have a right to be called whatever
00:24:22.560 fake pronoun you make up.
00:24:23.780 You have a right to someone else's money.
00:24:25.820 You have a right, you have a right to this, you have a right to that.
00:24:27.900 But, but the conservatives do this too.
00:24:30.500 The conservatives view politics very often through the lens of rights.
00:24:35.420 I have my right to my gun.
00:24:36.660 I have my right to my this.
00:24:37.560 I have my right to my that.
00:24:38.600 Yeah, sure.
00:24:39.120 We do have some rights.
00:24:40.660 Whatever happened to duty, whatever happened to duty,
00:24:42.840 whatever happened to sacrifice, whatever happened to the natural bonds of loyalty that we have
00:24:47.720 the very moment we're born into this world.
00:24:49.240 Born into a family and into a community and into a country and into, and all underneath the providence and the kingship of our creator.
00:24:59.200 The duty that we have to our God.
00:25:00.680 What happened to that?
00:25:03.080 You don't hear people talk about that anymore.
00:25:05.840 One of the last people you heard talk about that was the lady who died today.
00:25:09.760 And I think it's one of the reasons that, that people feel that they will miss her so much.
00:25:15.360 And that people are so affected by her death.
00:25:19.580 The woman finished the race.
00:25:22.680 She did what she was called on by her country and by history to do.
00:25:29.000 And she set a very good example.
00:25:30.840 And she endured that whole time.
00:25:33.960 She was, I think, far and away the noblest and most admirable public figure in my lifetime.
00:25:41.420 I think we all fear that there will not be another like her.
00:25:47.680 That she is the last of her breed.
00:25:50.700 Or at the very least that there won't be another like her for a very long time.
00:25:55.200 We can pray that there will be.
00:25:57.700 We can pray for the repose of her soul.
00:26:00.880 Requiescat in pace.
00:26:02.660 We can observe.
00:26:04.560 This was an amazing, this was reported by the British journalists.
00:26:07.740 There's some photos of it, I think on Getty Images.
00:26:09.840 As she lay dying at Balmoral in Scotland, a double rainbow appeared over Buckingham Palace.
00:26:20.020 And then, at the very moment after she died, when they lowered the flags to half-mast,
00:26:28.220 another rainbow appeared over Windsor Castle.
00:26:32.380 It reminds me of a line from my priest, Father George Rutler, who, quoting scripture, says,
00:26:38.040 It's an evil generation that looks for signs and wonders.
00:26:40.500 But it's a stupid generation that ignores signs and wonders.
00:26:44.300 And when you see these little signs, they're little hints of providence, I think.
00:26:49.000 A little bit of sort of God peeking out behind the curtain.
00:26:52.500 To remind people that there are things that are higher.
00:26:56.380 We're not just meat.
00:26:59.060 We're not just flesh.
00:27:00.080 We're not just our lusts and our appetites and our interests.
00:27:02.920 We're not just atomized individuals clubbing each other to get a little bit more of an advantage.
00:27:09.480 But there is a transcendent moral order to the world.
00:27:13.680 There is such a thing as justice.
00:27:15.920 There is such a thing as goodness and rightness and truth.
00:27:20.660 And we ought to live our lives in accordance with those things.
00:27:24.160 And it might not always be the most celebrated.
00:27:29.160 And we might go through all sorts of travails and troubles.
00:27:32.140 In fact, we will.
00:27:33.100 We will do that.
00:27:34.820 But it will be worth it.
00:27:37.100 And we can recognize it.
00:27:38.240 Even the ones of us who want to deny that those things exist.
00:27:42.000 You look at a life well lived like that in service to others.
00:27:46.600 And you recognize that dignity.
00:27:50.400 And you admire it.
00:27:51.860 And would that we could all live so admirable a life.
00:27:56.000 Rest in peace to the queen.
00:27:57.880 Long live the king.
00:27:58.740 And we'll see you tomorrow on the show.
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