Love Your Enemies How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt

And then in 2019, you publish a book called Love Your Enemies, how decent people can save America from the culture of contempt.

And this book argues that we have reached a contempt crisis in the US and we need to fight it with kindness, essentially.

Reading your book, Love Your Enemies, it was so moving to me, especially the portions where you're describing the difference between contempt and anger.

The book title is 'Love Your Enemies' got ten other ones too.

He's the author of 'Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt.'

I love the idea that it's better to be kind than to be right, when we're talking with people on the other side of the aisle or on the other side of the Thanksgiving dinner table.

I wrote it because I want to lash myself to the mast, when you write a book and it's the bestseller, you know it's uh, you can't ever do the thing that you're railing against ever again.

I'm gonna dedicate myself to loving others especially those with whom I disagree and standing up for the people with whom I disagree for the rest of my life, those are my moral standards.

It's an absolute compliment. I've really had a great time here today. What I love about this conversation is that today we went completely off the rails and ended up with something better than I ever could have prepared and that's because Arthur Brooks is a real thinker. And he cares about the ideas that he presents. So obviously we geeked out over here. I think you'll dig this one especially if you care about how and why discourse in politics and America have changed and why and how media figures and political pundits are actually using some pretty morally bankrupt tricks to get us to divide further apart something he calls the outrage industrial complex.

I'm going to make you more persuasive, I'm going to make you happier and I'm going to start a social movement in your heart in a tiny little way to bring our country together and that's answering hatred with love as much as you possibly can.

I'm going to lash myself to the mast when you write a book and it's a best seller you know it's uh you can't ever do the thing that you're railing against ever again.

The reason I wrote love your enemies is because I always haven't I always haven't lived up to that in the past what I'm committing myself is trying to live up to it in the future yeah.

Brooks your ideas are immoral but you can't say Brooks because of your ideas you are immoral that's a huge a cognitive leap and it's been foisted upon us by the outraged industrial complex has made us into lesser people by basically saying you are the sum of your views that's insane.

He's got some great books as well that are worth reading. Love your enemies, the conservative heart, the road to freedom, gross national happiness and his first book Who Really Cares, which is about charitable giving.