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He wrote a book on it, but like, I don't know if it's the age, if it's the, if it's the internet, all the video games, people are diving into as kids, if it's being kids set in front of a YouTube for three hours, when the mom's in the kitchen, just doing whatever, if it's the drugs, like the pharmaceuticals, the kids are like moms on amphetamines that are giving birth to kids that have like hard time, their gut biomes. That's all of it.

He explained it way better.

not art of war I read that one later on

And he's like one of the top guys who's written a book on the dangers of AI.

I think that he wrote a book recently was published right and uh The Courage to Be Free I think And I read it I went from beginning to end and it was a nice book good biography

But I don't think enough of him was in it like he talked about his whole baseball career Right, he played baseball in high school and college very proud

But I feel like he needed to be more there's something wrong with the book because it never told me what position he played

I don't know if any of you guys have listened to the podcast but it's very good and he talks about how if you ask a man at a random farm in the middle of nowhere in the middle east who he is he's gonna be able to tell you he knows exactly who he is he knows who his family has been for thousands of years he knows what his identity is what his job is you are gonna have a tough time manipulating that man into absurd ideologies whereas if you ask someone a modern suburbanite in the city who they are what did he say he said they don't need existentialist philosophers there they don't need these people asking who are we because they know we need those people here because we are such a diaspora we are so spread out we are kicked out of our houses we don't know who our families are we don't know our history we don't have these lineages of jobs and we're very easily controllable because of that and very easily confused because of that you get offered a sense of identity in the realm of a new radical ideology every single day on twitter instagram youtube you're going to be desperate for that because there is nothing you are latched onto in this world when you are kicked away from your family and the closest people you have are nuclear and there's nothing outside of that even it's a big problem it's a huge issue

and it's why it's important you have these conversations about well if you don't go to college for your options in America we desperately need people to go into the trade which you can have a successful living without taking on debt and in some ways have a more free life right if you are shackled to student debt you have to be conscious of that in how you financially plan for your life even though you have this high paying degree whereas if you are able to start making significant amounts of money at a young age imagine all the things that you could do and the investments you could make and the changes that you could have if you want to be an electrician you can also be a YouTuber you can be an artist and a craftsman now in this world and you can make a lot of money and you don't need to go to school for it you can learn the trade online

I like the idea of Chester Tins when you find a fence figure out what it was for before you tear it down and sometimes you know maybe that fence is for something bad and it's okay to tear it down I'm not saying no one should ever defy expectation but what I am saying is when someone is defying expectations when they are tearing down fences that very clearly have a person of course there's a sense of entitlement there.

Thomas whoever wrote the book in the time is more yeah Thomas Moore wrote that and it's actually a very dystopian place in his book yes the EU is also a dystopian place Utopia Utopia it does feel like the US government's been hijacked by global banking industries and they're just selling us out and moving us towards this new corporate governance

And in fact, I have a book here that I was reading today.

I didn't quite finish it today, but it's what really happened or the secret history of Camp David in the year 2000 and how Arafat just took all the blame that they try to give him a whole state and he refused to do it.

people like Josh McDowell and Lee Strobel who actually set out to disprove. They figured if we could disprove Christianity, if we could just disprove that Jesus did, that the things that they say happened to Jesus didn't actually happen.

And if we could somehow poke holes in that, then that also means the rest of the Bible is false. And so they set out to actually disprove and for Lee Strobel specifically, I don't know if you've seen the movie, The Case for Yes, but they are humans in the game.

There's a great book called Amusing Ourselves to Death and it talks about how the medium Completely shapes everything where we used to be a society that reads and then we became a society that watches television Now we're becoming a society that watches podcasts

Well, V for Vendetta, you know?

And then he wrote what your audience may be more familiar with, he wrote the book "Dreamland" about the opioid crisis in America, and now most recently, "The Least of Us" about fentanyl, and he does the reporting. He knows the drug.

Son Dallas Jenkins is doing the chosen which went to the fathom out as well the child chosen.

My books are there. I got true strength and I got true faith two wonderful books and I got this one course.

It's uh, it's sci-fi fantasy based off of like objectivist ideas from like "The Fountainhead" and Cool, the bat the boss is actually is literally named Atlas and the story is basically ultra wealthy people build a city underwater to escape regulation and...

There's that I was just reading that book what was it the age of enlightenment right.

The Age of Entitlement and he says in there like there is always a battle of that of like your personal need for flexibility and sexuality versus your the structural need for survival and constraints on your sexuality.

I just finished watching this said the superb Mini series from back in the day called angels in America about the other crisis And I think this I might write even write a book about at some point because I think people have forgotten how dark it was And it was a joke because it was happening to them and like ha ha and it was it's really if you look back It was extremely disturbing how this population was treated and and like I just also plotted I heard conspiracy theory about the MMR vaccine 1980 They they established and they distribute a mass distribution of the MMR vaccine some new vaccine And it was this is the conspiracy theories that it was tainted with HIV, right? A lot of people got it most people were able to fight it off It was the people doing poppers and parting till 5 a.m. They got really sick and they're like gay It's gay and it's like no it's cuz their body is where we can we don't we don't need that conspiracy because we know that Bayer had tainted Hemophilia medication. That's that's historically. Yeah fact well. Have you heard of Celia Farber?

Rafberg has a great book Immortality by rafberg and like there's going to be a scientist who's working on the breakthrough and his name is going to be like hey zoos martinez or something he's going to be he's going to be like you know I I think we've cracked stem cell regenerative therapy to reverse aging everyone's going to look at each other and be like it'll come out of hard david's plane then I think that technology technology will come on now hey zoos in clear hi zoos the question is are the people like hillary clinton's of the world going to control it or will it be for everyone.