1:13:02
For two years she'd cleaned pigsties
on a re-education farm.
1:13:06
Father murdered,
mother committed suicide.
1:13:10
And some dumb French-Canadian who's
seen the films of Jean-Luc Godard
1:13:15
and read Philippe Sollers
1:13:18
says that the Chinese
Cultural Revolution, is wonderful!
1:13:24
Cretinism doesnt sink any lower.
1:13:38
Voluntary simplicity.
1:13:40
Scrambled eggs with ossetra caviar
and fresh truffles. -From Tuscany.
1:13:48
And to stay in Italy, Castello Banfi Excelsus,
a modest vintage.
1:13:54
Why were we so dumb?
-Are we to infer congenital stupidity?
1:13:59
Not at all.
-Intelligence isn't an individual trait.
1:14:03
It's collective,
national, intermittent.
1:14:07
Oh, a new theory!
1:14:10
Athens, 416BC
Euripides premieres his Electra
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Two rivals attend,
Sophocles and Aristophanes.
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And two friends, Socrates and Plato.
Intelligence was there.
1:14:21
Firenze, 1504, Palazzo Vecchio,
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on facing walls, two painters:
Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.
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An apprentice: Rafaello.
A manager: Niccolo Machiavelli.
1:14:37
Philadelphia, USA, 1776 - 1787.
1:14:41
Declaration of Independence
and the Constitution.
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Adams, Franklin, Jefferson,
Washington, Hamilton and Madison.
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No other country
has been so blessed.
1:14:57
I was born in Chicoutimi,
Canada, in 1950.