Confucian values; such as social harmony. The oldest residents of the PRC can remember a time when China was governed by a non-communist regime, that of Chiang Kai-Shek that venerated Confucius and made much of the need to follow his moral dictates. For Chinese born between the mid to late 1940's and early 1960's by contrast, the current celebration of Confucius and his ideas may seem a bit odd, since they may remember mass campaigns to criticize all vestiges of Confucianthought. But for Chinese born recently who are unfamiliar
And what I try to do with the people I interview is to humanize them. The people that we venerate and might-- I don't know-- sort of put on a pedestal and think of as heroes are actually ordinary people who have their own anxieties and challenges and dealt with their own crises and struggles.
But before we get into the pursuit of the Nobel Prize and the ultimate loss of winning Alfred's namesake medallion, I want to explore a little bit of how the Nobel Prize came to be so venerated , so esteemed, that it really dominates headlines around the world. And I can't really thank the media enough because, right now, the Nobel Prize and our fearless leader Donald Trump are in the news almost on an hourly basis.
in the very, very early 1990s, but it was the culmination of the idea that we should love and trust and respect and venerate only the rogues, the people who go rogue against everything. And this became an explanation for how the government still did things right, is that there were people inside the government who said, "I'm not gonna listen to the rules put
It's titled, "The Know-It-Alls: The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball." The book is an incisive biography of some of Silicon Valley's most venerated leaders. It offers a critique of the current state of the internet and explores the implications of radical individualism on democratic ideals in American life.
And most of them suspected at the end of that time in Philadelphia that the Constitution that they wrote by September is, as the kids might say, a bit of a hot mess. For starters, this venerated document doesn't mention the word "slavery" or the word "democracy" or even "Facebook." It plays favorites among the states, giving Wyoming as many Senators as New York.
With Iraq, they emerged from around the region. The Khawarij emerged. And they venerate the old Khawarij. They make the same claims.
J. KENJI LOPEZ-ALT: Well, it depends what part of the country you're in, I think. In certain parts of the country, it's very well venerated . In New York, where do you get a good hoagie?
I guess maybe that's well-known-- I didn't realize that is what-- I focused one chapter about John McCarthy, who was this fairly significant figure. Particularly in Google, I would think he'd be very venerated , like you were saying. I know that early on, he was in the same building with Sergey Brin and Larry Page and they were grad students at Stanford.
be a little bell in the tomb that he would ring every day to let everybody know that he was still alive and when the bell stopped ringing his followers would take the monk out of the tomb and put him on display to be venerated something like
And so the second section is from-- I think I set it in '83. Your mothers and fathers voted to make me their supreme leader, the most venerated position an American can aspire to.
Like there's still Jews? Brigade, Second City, Groundlings-- all of these venerated comedy schools, where people learn
out the implications of your theory. There is the discipline to argue with yourself and other people because most ideas are wrong. But then there's what you just described, that intuitive spark, and that is something that is very, very difficult to, to create. There's a reason that we venerate these people, is because it is an unusual feature, and most people only have that aha moment once in their lifetime, if they have it at all.
You had, you know, the first emperor of China jumping forward a bit in into 21 BC. He is anti scholars, he burns books, and he doesn't venerate these kind of rituals and things. So he was very much against the things that Confucius stood for.
But I also know what it denied kids who grew up 15 minutes away whose families have been here way longer than mine. And at the end of the day, all of that kind of comes down to the choices that we make about who we venerate . And my parents took a bet on the idea of government of the people, by the people, and for the people. And when I see that
hasn't been influenced by extremism, is very melodious and intentionally so. And you go into the mosque, you see the architecture, the calligraphy exceptionally beautiful designed out of love, love to venerate the divine. And then in their daily pursuits, most Muslims will say inshallah to mean God willing, mashallah as God wills, and ,,
- And this, this would be an interesting actually interplay between the law and religious institutions- ... Throughout the East- ... uh, Roman Empire. So you argue that even though the personality of the various emperors varied, as we'll talk about, and as they're often venerated , celebrated, criticized, talked about,
I always wanted to be one, I think, partly because it was venerated in my family.