WEBVTT NOTE Authors Forum: The New American History 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.600 You're all tired of hearing about this book for heaven's sake now, right? 2 00:00:02.600 --> 00:00:07.900 I mean, how many whiny articles is this guy going to write about this stinking thing? 3 00:00:07.900 --> 00:00:10.900 But the one on the Mises site the other day can blame Jeff Tucker for that, 4 00:00:10.900 --> 00:00:13.700 because he's such a good friend, he wants to help me and support me, 5 00:00:13.700 --> 00:00:16.600 and he said, we should write a Mises version of the article. 6 00:00:16.600 --> 00:00:19.400 Well, just say a few things about this book, 7 00:00:19.400 --> 00:00:22.600 The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History. 8 00:00:22.600 --> 00:00:26.700 As I mentioned in the preface, this was an idea that Regnery had. 9 00:00:26.700 --> 00:00:32.700 They had the idea for the concept and the title, so the title is not mine. 10 00:00:32.700 --> 00:00:37.700 The idea is that they want to do a whole series of these, a series of politically incorrect guides. 11 00:00:37.700 --> 00:00:41.700 So it would be an answer to the complete idiot's guide to whatever. 12 00:00:41.700 --> 00:00:47.700 And plus, there is a left-wing series out there, and it's called Introducing Blank, 13 00:00:47.700 --> 00:00:50.700 like introducing whatever, Islam, capitalism, whatever. 14 00:00:50.700 --> 00:00:54.700 And you look through it and it's just complete, just left-wing propaganda. 15 00:00:54.700 --> 00:01:24.700 in Uganda. No one seems to be upset about that. That's okay. But this, because I'm highlighting particular episodes and I'm giving sort of a free market angle on them, well this is just completely out of the question, so when they find out there's going to be a whole series of these, some people are just going to have to be hospitalized over this. Oh my gosh, another one! I haven't recovered from the first one. Anyway, I'd like to say hello by the way to all the people who have been stalking me since the book has come out. Nice to see you. Thank you so much. 16 00:01:24.700 --> 00:01:36.700 Now, a couple complaints about it I completely share. I mean, there are some things in here I'm not entirely happy with and issues that were sort of finessed a little bit. 17 00:01:36.700 --> 00:01:40.700 But the thing that frustrates me the most, really, there are two things. Number one is there are no footnotes in the book. 18 00:01:40.700 --> 00:01:44.700 And a lot of people have used this as grounds to say, well, you know, how can we take it seriously? 19 00:01:44.700 --> 00:01:49.700 Well, two things. Number one, Regnery said no footnotes. Okay, that's it, no footnotes. 20 00:01:49.700 --> 00:01:53.100 And as you can see from my other books, I'm footnote crazy. 21 00:01:53.100 --> 00:01:54.900 I mean, footnotes everywhere. 22 00:01:54.900 --> 00:01:57.320 You know, George Washington was the first president. 23 00:01:57.320 --> 00:01:58.260 Super script won. 24 00:01:58.260 --> 00:01:58.760 OK? 25 00:01:58.760 --> 00:02:05.740 So it's not like some kind of secret plot of mine, 26 00:02:05.740 --> 00:02:08.820 you know, to put fake stuff in here and not footnote it. 27 00:02:08.820 --> 00:02:10.500 The idea of the book is that it's supposed 28 00:02:10.500 --> 00:02:13.980 to be fun and accessible, like the complete idiots guys, which 29 00:02:13.980 --> 00:02:15.420 don't have footnotes. 30 00:02:15.420 --> 00:02:16.580 So the purpose of it is, you know, 31 00:02:16.580 --> 00:02:18.260 I introduce people to new material, 32 00:02:18.260 --> 00:02:22.260 I have a long bibliography. I'm citing people as I go along, which is good enough. 33 00:02:22.260 --> 00:02:27.260 And I've answered, people have emailed me to say, well, how do I find more about this or where did you get that? 34 00:02:27.260 --> 00:02:31.260 You know, typically I've been replying to that as time permits. 35 00:02:31.260 --> 00:02:35.260 So that's an unfortunate aspect, but that's the way this type of book is written. 36 00:02:35.260 --> 00:02:39.260 They don't want it to be weighed down by a heavy scholarly apparatus. 37 00:02:39.260 --> 00:02:43.260 The second thing is there was a word limit that was strictly imposed. 38 00:02:43.260 --> 00:02:46.260 They said this cannot exceed 80,000 words. 39 00:02:46.260 --> 00:02:55.260 Now, I've gotten a lot of complaints about it from people on the left saying it's not victimological enough, it's not focusing on this or that group. 40 00:02:55.260 --> 00:03:00.260 Again, with 80,000 words, and look, it's my book, I want to focus on things that interest me. 41 00:03:00.260 --> 00:03:07.260 So I'm interested in the Constitution, I'm interested in World War I, I'm interested in things of that kind. 42 00:03:07.260 --> 00:03:10.260 So that's what I'm going to write about in my 80,000 words. 43 00:03:10.260 --> 00:03:17.260 80,000 words go by so fast, trying to cover the history of the US, it's unbelievable. 44 00:03:17.260 --> 00:03:24.260 What I originally submitted to Regnery was 100,000 words, secretly hoping they just wouldn't count. 45 00:03:24.260 --> 00:03:29.260 Oh man, they've got a full-time counter over there, because it was scaled. 46 00:03:29.260 --> 00:03:35.260 But first they told me to scale it back, so I scaled it back a little, and then sent it back again. 47 00:03:35.260 --> 00:04:05.260 and then they basically in consultation with me they scaled it back to 80,000 so I feel like it would have been better as a longer book but on the other hand the reason they wanted short is again they're excellent marketers at Regnery got to hand them that and their view is that it needs to be of a size that people will actually read it might be intellectually satisfying for me to write 800,000 words but then it'll just sit there on the shelf and nobody read the idea is that this is not meant to be a history of the United States it's a guide it's a 48 00:04:05.260 --> 00:04:08.260 to highlight the certain episodes of interest and importance. 49 00:04:08.260 --> 00:04:14.260 Now, the reason that I am pleased with it, even though it's, you know, okay, it's at a sort of popular level, which is fine. 50 00:04:14.260 --> 00:04:16.260 It's different from sort of other things I've written. 51 00:04:16.260 --> 00:04:21.260 The reason I'm particularly pleased with it, though, is that it introduces to a large audience 52 00:04:21.260 --> 00:04:25.260 a lot of our people and their work that they would never have found out about before. 53 00:04:25.260 --> 00:04:31.260 Because I don't think a lot of people are reading, you know, Armantano on antitrust, but now maybe they might. 54 00:04:31.260 --> 00:04:36.760 Okay, I never heard of them, because we tend to talk to scholarly communities, that sort of thing. 55 00:04:36.760 --> 00:04:39.760 Ordinary person doesn't get acquainted with this sort of thing. 56 00:04:39.760 --> 00:04:43.060 Or scholarly articles that people can look up, that sort of thing. 57 00:04:43.060 --> 00:04:44.660 How would they have known about this before? 58 00:04:44.660 --> 00:04:50.260 So what I'm trying to do is, as you go through the book, I have in little boxes on the various pages, 59 00:04:50.260 --> 00:04:54.160 a little box called a book you're not supposed to read. That was my idea. 60 00:04:54.160 --> 00:04:56.060 A book you're not supposed to read. 61 00:04:56.060 --> 00:04:58.760 And it would be some book that, you know, again, like, 62 00:04:58.760 --> 00:05:04.200 I think Burt Folsom's book is one of those books you're not supposed to read, and the 63 00:05:04.200 --> 00:05:09.480 idea is to highlight a whole tradition of scholarship that flies totally under the radar, 64 00:05:09.480 --> 00:05:13.320 that doesn't get on television, you don't hear much about, but to acquaint people and 65 00:05:13.320 --> 00:05:17.320 say, here are things, here's how you can pursue your research on this and your reading on 66 00:05:17.320 --> 00:05:19.960 this, here are reliable sources. 67 00:05:19.960 --> 00:05:21.520 So that I was pleased with. 68 00:05:21.520 --> 00:05:26.920 Now it's true, it was on the New York Times bestseller list for some time, which was an 69 00:05:26.920 --> 00:05:27.920 absolute shock to me. 70 00:05:27.920 --> 00:05:32.560 I was very happy, but some of that has to do with, I'm sure, the fact that, again, 71 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:38.480 Regnery has got just an absolute unstoppable machine when it comes to publicity and promotion 72 00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:39.480 and marketing. 73 00:05:39.480 --> 00:05:40.480 Unbelievable. 74 00:05:40.480 --> 00:05:41.480 Unbelievable. 75 00:05:41.480 --> 00:05:46.200 I mean, the first week, when I had my so-called launch week, which is the week that they're 76 00:05:46.200 --> 00:05:52.200 really going to start pushing the publicity, I mean, I must have gone three days with almost 77 00:05:52.200 --> 00:05:57.840 no sleep at all, because I was on Hannity and Colmes, then I did Alan Colmes' radio 78 00:05:57.840 --> 00:06:02.400 show after that. The funny thing is, we got along great. I mean, we got along just great. 79 00:06:02.400 --> 00:06:08.120 On the commercial breaks, I remember saying to him, how do you keep your sanity at this 80 00:06:08.120 --> 00:06:13.960 network? You know, we all want to ask you this question. How are you doing this? I appreciated 81 00:06:13.960 --> 00:06:17.440 that sort of frank with me, you know, with the things. So we got along just great, you 82 00:06:17.440 --> 00:06:21.720 know, and he said, you know, my wife is a Christian, because I was saying to him, you 83 00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:26.040 know, I can't believe there are so many Christians in the country who are just completely, they 84 00:06:26.040 --> 00:06:32.680 They think that Pentagon press conferences are like sacred scripture, for heaven's sake. 85 00:06:32.680 --> 00:06:37.640 He said, my wife's a Christian, but at least she walks the walk. 86 00:06:37.640 --> 00:06:39.720 He said, I don't share her faith, but she walks the walk. 87 00:06:39.720 --> 00:06:41.200 So we had a great exchange. 88 00:06:41.200 --> 00:06:44.840 But anyway, so then I was supposed to be on Fox and Friends the next morning, which I've 89 00:06:44.840 --> 00:06:49.040 never watched, not because I don't watch the channel or whatever, but because when would 90 00:06:49.040 --> 00:06:50.960 I ever be up at six in the morning? 91 00:06:50.960 --> 00:06:51.960 Like I've never. 92 00:06:51.960 --> 00:06:52.960 Never. 93 00:06:52.960 --> 00:06:53.960 I'm an academic. 94 00:06:53.960 --> 00:06:55.960 I'm having it up at nine in the morning. 95 00:06:55.960 --> 00:07:01.960 So I went on this program and I'll tell you, these folks, they couldn't have been nicer. 96 00:07:01.960 --> 00:07:03.960 They could not have been nicer. 97 00:07:03.960 --> 00:07:07.960 And I didn't know any of them because I don't watch this program. 98 00:07:07.960 --> 00:07:12.960 But sure enough, it was the first thing in the morning and I was all wired when I got back from the late night raid. 99 00:07:12.960 --> 00:07:16.960 So I hadn't slept a wink. It wasn't like I slept an hour, nothing, no sleep at all. 100 00:07:16.960 --> 00:07:18.960 And I thought, oh my God, how am I going to do this? 101 00:07:18.960 --> 00:07:22.960 But sure enough, there's like some chemical in my brain that when there's no sleep, 102 00:07:22.960 --> 00:07:27.960 it's this magic chemical that comes aboard. I think it may be in effect right now, as a matter of fact, 103 00:07:27.960 --> 00:07:34.960 coming ahead, helping me out, lack of sleep. So I can't tell you how exciting this whole thing was, 104 00:07:34.960 --> 00:07:38.960 because normally I lead this very sort of quiet life and very uneventful. 105 00:07:38.960 --> 00:07:41.960 Now all of a sudden, I'm going three days where I'm not getting any sleep, 106 00:07:41.960 --> 00:07:45.960 or then I'm supposed to be on Ernie Brown's show, and his show is from midnight to one, 107 00:07:45.960 --> 00:07:50.960 and then I was supposed to be on Scarborough Country that week and I can't possibly do this. 108 00:07:50.960 --> 00:07:53.960 I actually wrote to the directory and said, please, please cancel something. 109 00:07:53.960 --> 00:07:56.960 I'm going to drop dead here. So thank goodness for them though. 110 00:07:56.960 --> 00:08:00.960 They've got connections with everybody. So it's been great. 111 00:08:00.960 --> 00:08:07.960 The thing that has sort of disappointed me, alright, at this point I don't look at Amazon anymore. 112 00:08:07.960 --> 00:08:13.960 You know, you have this heady period where you look at Amazon every day and see what your rank is and how it's going. 113 00:08:13.960 --> 00:08:18.960 You know, I'll admit that. I mean, Virginia Postral admitted that, that she looks at it like ten times a day or something. 114 00:08:18.960 --> 00:08:22.960 Well, I don't know if I'm supposed to say that or not. 115 00:08:22.960 --> 00:08:32.960 But I stop because I just, you know, I don't, I know that there are some people who, I guess I didn't realize this before, 116 00:08:32.960 --> 00:08:36.960 there are some people who don't read a book and then they post a review of it. 117 00:08:36.960 --> 00:08:41.960 Like, they read a bad review and then they say, oh well, I'm a big crusader for justice, 118 00:08:41.960 --> 00:08:45.860 for Justice, I've got to go and write a review against this book before the country goes completely 119 00:08:45.860 --> 00:08:50.160 down the tubes because of it. And so we get, you know, this David Greenberg writes this 120 00:08:50.160 --> 00:08:55.480 review the other day. And I wondered to myself, because only recently have I stopped totally 121 00:08:55.480 --> 00:08:59.240 stumbling through names, I wondered, well, gosh, it's funny, there's a whole slew of 122 00:08:59.240 --> 00:09:04.080 one-star reviews by people who obviously haven't read it. Like, I mean, just flagrant that 123 00:09:04.080 --> 00:09:08.480 they haven't. I wonder what's causing this. And then it turns out, like, whole sentences 124 00:09:08.480 --> 00:09:11.480 from these reviews are lifted from this guy's review. 125 00:09:11.480 --> 00:09:17.400 So Amazon is just, that's just a shame, but what's disappointed me though is that people 126 00:09:17.400 --> 00:09:22.480 on the left, it amazes me how much they don't understand libertarians, they don't understand 127 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:23.480 conservatives. 128 00:09:23.480 --> 00:09:24.800 It amazes me. 129 00:09:24.800 --> 00:09:28.920 Because I used to have at least an abiding respect for some of the people at Foxhounds 130 00:09:28.920 --> 00:09:33.720 where they would keep an eye on the Fox News channel and tell us what they're saying. 131 00:09:33.720 --> 00:09:35.600 But then the way they treated me I thought was unbelievable. 132 00:09:35.600 --> 00:09:39.600 They were saying, well, Sean Hannity, this book will be right up Sean Hannity's alley. 133 00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:46.600 You mean you watch Sean Hannity basically round the clock, and you can't tell the difference between Sean Hannity and me? 134 00:09:46.600 --> 00:09:51.600 I mean, what is the matter here? Why does the left have such a problem making distinctions? 135 00:09:51.600 --> 00:09:59.600 Why can't they at least say, well, this isn't Rush Limbaugh, it's a kind of a, I still don't agree with it, 136 00:09:59.600 --> 00:10:12.600 I agree with it, but at least it's an older tradition that doesn't think that, you know, that isn't maniacally focused on war, that's focused on decentralization of power, as, you know, some older lefties used to favor that. 137 00:10:12.600 --> 00:10:19.600 I mean, you'd think they would see some distinctions here. None. None. This is just a Sean Hannity. I mean, come on. You know, it's just very frustrating. 138 00:10:19.600 --> 00:10:31.600 So anyway, that's that. So I think that by now we're looking at, there's a paperback edition, which is the main, these are all going to be paperback books, that's the main issue. 139 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:42.600 But then there's also a special hardcover edition that was printed mainly for select book clubs. So when you put those together, I think we're in the vicinity of about 50,000 sold at this point. 140 00:10:42.600 --> 00:11:05.600 I have a second book here that I'm publishing. This one, you might think that maybe I just got cold feet after I had Longstreet on the cover. Now I have a cover like this. 141 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:16.380 But this isn't doing wonders for me at all. No, actually, the thing is that this other 142 00:11:16.380 --> 00:11:21.260 book is called The Church and the Market. It actually, this is a book that is published 143 00:11:21.260 --> 00:11:25.480 by Lexington, which is a division of Roman and Littlefield. And actually, they publish 144 00:11:25.480 --> 00:11:31.080 hardcover and paperback simultaneously. But the paperbacks are all sold out at the moment. 145 00:11:31.080 --> 00:11:35.880 And for a split second I thought, wow, sales must be great, but then of course I'm forgetting 146 00:11:35.880 --> 00:11:38.600 it's a scholarly press, the print run is probably 50. 147 00:11:38.600 --> 00:11:40.040 Of course they're out of it. 148 00:11:40.040 --> 00:11:46.040 So to get books in here in time for the conference, they sent the hardcover. 149 00:11:46.040 --> 00:11:50.320 Now the hardcover, I'll tell you what this book is all about in a minute, but the hardcover 150 00:11:50.320 --> 00:11:54.640 typically retails, I kid you not, $75. 151 00:11:54.640 --> 00:11:59.360 You can get it for $20 at this event, okay, because they said to make up for the fact 152 00:11:59.360 --> 00:12:03.360 In fact, they were out of the paper. They'll give us this at the hardcover price. 153 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:06.360 Why would they sell the hardcover for $75? 154 00:12:06.360 --> 00:12:12.360 Basically to take advantage of institutions that have to purchase them, like libraries or whatever. 155 00:12:12.360 --> 00:12:14.360 That'll be $75. Thank you very much. 156 00:12:14.360 --> 00:12:17.360 So they don't expect many individuals to buy them. 157 00:12:17.360 --> 00:12:21.360 But today's your lucky day, because that's basically the same price. 158 00:12:21.360 --> 00:12:23.360 They're selling it for $20. It's the same price as the paper. 159 00:12:23.360 --> 00:12:28.360 Well, this book actually came right out of an Austrian Scholars' Conference of a few years ago, 160 00:12:28.360 --> 00:12:31.000 where I gave a paper on Catholic social teaching 161 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:34.120 because now that I've basically alienated everybody on the left 162 00:12:34.120 --> 00:12:36.440 now I'm going to go after all my traditional allies 163 00:12:36.440 --> 00:12:40.200 so that it'll be pretty much me and Tom DiLorenzo 164 00:12:40.200 --> 00:12:43.080 a few other people will be my friends still 165 00:12:43.080 --> 00:12:45.240 let's see anybody else who can be alienated by me 166 00:12:45.240 --> 00:12:47.720 well I wrote it because you know I'm associated 167 00:12:47.720 --> 00:12:49.800 I have certain I'm in all different circles 168 00:12:49.800 --> 00:12:51.880 I'm in so many different circles it's unbelievable 169 00:12:52.520 --> 00:12:54.680 and occasionally I see at a conference like this 170 00:12:54.680 --> 00:12:57.720 one guy from like the Latin Mass Magazine Conference 171 00:12:57.720 --> 00:13:02.720 I was at it on Sunday, and it's like worlds are colliding. You're not supposed to be at this conference. 172 00:13:02.720 --> 00:13:07.720 Well, you know, I think of myself, you know, I'm sort of an amateur Austrian. 173 00:13:07.720 --> 00:13:12.720 I mean, I've been studying the Austrians pretty intensely for about 12 years now, 174 00:13:12.720 --> 00:13:18.720 ever since I went to the Mises University, which is one of the greatest experiences I'd ever had academically. 175 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:23.720 And when I was in college, I had the benefit of a great university library. 176 00:13:23.720 --> 00:13:28.080 I was at Harvard and they had everything, and they had every journal. It was unbelievable. 177 00:13:28.080 --> 00:13:32.120 I think I had to use Interlibrary of Oil maybe three, four times my whole college career. 178 00:13:32.120 --> 00:13:37.240 It was unbelievable, the resources. So when the Institute sent me this bibliography saying, 179 00:13:37.240 --> 00:13:41.080 here are some sources that, well, they sent a few things like, you know, what has government 180 00:13:41.080 --> 00:13:44.800 done to our money? But then they sent a bibliography saying, here are some additional articles 181 00:13:44.800 --> 00:13:49.040 and resources you might look at. I read all of them. I mean, talk about a geek. I spent 182 00:13:49.040 --> 00:13:53.320 the whole summer going through the library and just looking through all these articles. 183 00:13:53.320 --> 00:13:59.320 I remember Tom DiLorenzo won't remember this, but I remember meeting him for the first time out in California and saying, 184 00:13:59.320 --> 00:14:03.320 Oh yeah, I've read your antitrust material. What a geek, right? A little suck-up. 185 00:14:03.320 --> 00:14:09.320 But I love this stuff. I found it so compelling. I just absolutely fell in love with it. 186 00:14:09.320 --> 00:14:16.320 And then in my life I went through a brief little phase where I sort of became one of these anti-market conservative types. 187 00:14:16.320 --> 00:14:22.280 the market leads to bad things. 188 00:14:22.280 --> 00:14:30.280 But finally I thought, the more I talk to people in that tradition, the less I found they knew what they were talking about, the less I found they knew about economics. 189 00:14:30.280 --> 00:14:40.280 And I think what really absolutely solidified me and put me completely back, totally, 100% in the pro-Mises camp was actually Hans Hoppe's book on democracy. 190 00:14:40.280 --> 00:14:45.280 Which was exactly where the point I was at, at that point, that he was making arguments that sort of appeal to my brain. 191 00:14:45.280 --> 00:14:55.280 So now I'm totally here. The problem is that among traditional Catholics, the sense is that capitalism is another one of these bad modern ideologies. 192 00:14:55.280 --> 00:15:01.280 And my own view is that capitalism in a certain sense is not really an ism. It's not an ism. It's just saying, don't steal things. 193 00:15:01.280 --> 00:15:05.280 Okay, just don't, just stop it. If you're tempted to do it, don't. 194 00:15:05.280 --> 00:15:11.280 Okay? I mean, okay, that's maybe just a little bit of an, you know, oversimplification, but that's the way I look at it. 195 00:15:11.280 --> 00:15:27.280 And I'm so compelled by the Austrian tradition. So I wrote this book trying to show, in effect trying to justify myself and the position of other people who have this vague sense that they're being somehow disloyal to the Church if they like Austrian economics. 196 00:15:27.280 --> 00:15:39.280 So I've tried to show to the contrary that there has been such a diversity of opinion on economic matters over the centuries within the Church that certainly there is room for legitimate, illicit disagreement on these matters. 197 00:15:39.280 --> 00:15:42.400 and so I've got a chapter, I've got an introduction, I've got a chapter called 198 00:15:42.400 --> 00:15:45.960 Indefense of Economics because there are some people I think who think that 199 00:15:45.960 --> 00:15:49.960 economics is just a sham science that's developed as a rationalization for 200 00:15:49.960 --> 00:15:53.120 greed and I'm trying to show that's not the case, trying to show the unique 201 00:15:53.120 --> 00:15:56.760 virtues of the Austrian School in particular why that should be appealing 202 00:15:56.760 --> 00:16:01.520 and everything, I mean major issues you can imagine, wages, prices, labor unions, 203 00:16:01.520 --> 00:16:07.000 money and banking, there's a chapter on foreign aid and the economics of foreign 204 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:10.500 Foreign Aid and the Morality of Foreign Aid, because there was a whole encyclical letter 205 00:16:10.500 --> 00:16:14.780 in 1967 basically saying we've got to support foreign aid programs. Well, they've been a 206 00:16:14.780 --> 00:16:19.800 disaster. So what now is the, what is the moral status of that demand? So I'm trying 207 00:16:19.800 --> 00:16:26.440 to again carve out a space again for illicit disagreement on non-essential matters. There's 208 00:16:26.440 --> 00:16:30.520 a welfare state chapter. So this, in case you're thinking Michael Novak has already 209 00:16:30.520 --> 00:16:36.880 done all this, Michael Novak looks like a girly boy next to this book. Totally, totally 210 00:16:36.880 --> 00:16:55.880 And then finally, the last chapter is on distributism, which is this view among some traditionalists that, you know, instead of the division of labor, wide-scale division of labor, we should instead have a situation in which most people are landowners, property owners, largely if not entirely self-sufficient. 211 00:16:55.880 --> 00:17:04.880 That type of thing is sometimes presented as if it's the only licit Catholic system, which I hope not, because most people would be dead under that system. 212 00:17:04.880 --> 00:17:08.880 So I've written, the longest chapter is a critique of that. 213 00:17:08.880 --> 00:17:12.520 Now if any of you know of any long critiques of distributism, 214 00:17:12.520 --> 00:17:15.020 let me know because I wanted to find some 215 00:17:15.020 --> 00:17:17.040 so I could use some of those ideas 216 00:17:17.040 --> 00:17:20.400 and I couldn't find any long critique of it. 217 00:17:20.400 --> 00:17:22.220 So I had to, it's all my own. 218 00:17:22.220 --> 00:17:23.680 So it has all the weaknesses of the fact 219 00:17:23.680 --> 00:17:25.800 that it's entirely original to me, 220 00:17:25.800 --> 00:17:27.160 but I did the best I could with it. 221 00:17:27.160 --> 00:17:30.500 So here you go, you got these two things, 222 00:17:31.560 --> 00:17:34.160 but please, since I'm not gonna have any friends 223 00:17:34.160 --> 00:17:36.160 Stay my friends, folks. 224 00:17:36.160 --> 00:17:38.160 Thank you so much.