5,000 feet each, a meter isswha? what? the globe that is not even not n accurate. tucker: it is made up out. of nothing. tucker: it is made up out of nothing. it. it totally made up. and something else. even overturning custom has been the meters imposition of ten. a ten size fits all mentality. the french revolution went all in for ten, they try to impose . the french revolution ten day week. all in for ten, they try to impose 100 hours. a ten day week. 100 minutes, 100 seconds. 100 h they had a whole revolutionary calendar, the metric system ofof 100 minutes, 100 seconds. they had a whole revolutionary calendar, the ten is what remains of the metrc radicalism. system of ten is what remains of the radicalism. that sounds reasonable, cou that sounds reasonable, counting by ten is pretty good. we have ten fingers, it is goodn for abstract calculation. finged for abstract calculation. but not great for but not great for measuring things in the real world. measug things in the rea
revolutionary calendar. history starts now. ignorance of the past isn t simply tolerated, it s required. does your average protester know anything about christopher columbus? that he is celebrated as a heroi throughout much of latin america for example? of course not. the left speaks only ofeb his genocide, mostly because his ships brought old world diseases to the new world. of course those ships returned to europe with syphilis and tobacco, which proves only thatw real history is more complicated than theit childish theology yor kids are learning in school.ry you could make those arguments to liberals if you wanted to, but save your breath. they don t care, because none of this is really about christopher columbus. what we are watching is a full-scale assault from withinr on the west itself. its history, its political and intellectual legacy. it s not a debate where one side tries to convince the other. it s a war, with one side trying to erase all remnants of its opponent. in this c