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Derrick Van Orden: “We have become so fast in our society that we have actually…”

Featuring: Derrick Van Orden, Republican | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 3

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Published | Video Starts at 10:11

And I was going to say, having spoken at Harvard before, I prefer the campfire because I would imagine the people on the other side of the campfire are probably more intelligent. But we won't go there. You don't know. Yeah. So I mean, We have become so fast in our society that we have actually retarded our movement. We are reaching the point where we are incapable of deciphering the amount of information that we are capable of receiving. So we are overwhelmed. We can't process things that fast. (10:11–10:19)

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