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So, the Americans really started this self -help fad. All right, so let's read certain passages from the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin to gain insight into the American psychology. From the bosom of poverty and obscurity, so he was born poor and he was born a nobody, in which I drew my first breath and spent my earliest years, I've raised myself to a state of opulence and to some degree of celebrity in the world. This is the American dream. You can be born poor. But for hard work, you can become rich. Okay? A constant good fortune has attended me through every period of life to my present advanced age. And my descendants may be desirous of learning what were the means of which I made use and which, thanks to the assisting hand of providence, have proved so imminently successful. 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We are discussing the American Revolution today. So to review what we've done so far, after the defeat of Napoleon in 1815, there are now four major civilizations that are competing against each o..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0002", "segment_id": "seg-0002", "start": 87.44, "end": 158.88, "time_label": "1:27", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And they were able to do this in order to redeem humanity from the prejudices, the atrocities of civilization. Okay? So that's the argument we will look at today. All right. 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We are discussing the American Revolution today. So to review what we've done so far, after the defeat of Napoleon in 1815, there are now four major civilizations that are competing against each o..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0002", "segment_id": "seg-0002", "start": 87.44, "end": 158.88, "time_label": "1:27", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And they were able to do this in order to redeem humanity from the prejudices, the atrocities of civilization. Okay? So that's the argument we will look at today. All right. 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So they were able to speak upon them more permanently. Okay? So they know that Providence has..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0021", "segment_id": "seg-0021", "start": 1328.06, "end": 1393.24, "time_label": "22:08", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "The Russians are here as well. But over time, the Americans will push everyone out. And this is what they call Manifest Destiny. Okay? All right. So 1776, America declares independence from Britain. 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