 Can I make it 40 here taking a break from potting plants to reflect more on the magic key? So we all want one simple explanation for how the world works So people who believe in monetarism in economics they want to believe that inflation is essentially determined by the money supply and people who believe in Christianity they want to believe that salvation is determined by Your theological beliefs your belief or lack thereof in their savior Messiah God and You see this with one note people like the people who just everything goes back to Christianity or to Torah or to Marxism or Libertarian economics, so People love that simple explanation, and I love it too. So I think there are Domain specific magic keys So for example IQ More than any other single variable will explain somebody's success or lack thereof at work IQ more than any other explanatory variable will Account for group achievement in education So I think there are domain specific magic keys So there's nothing I think wrong. We're trying to figure out. What's the key to this particular situation or this particular problem? but The world is incredibly complex and so we always keep wanting to boil it down and we have no choice, right? Because of the complexity of life. We have to boil things down to a few magic keys So think about the National Football League a quarterback, right? He's taking about to take a snap And he looks at the defense and he wants to see where the you know the safety is What's the average IQ of Luke Ford's viewers? So I would say it's about my IQ so about 120 so let's say you're playing the the Dallas Cowboys and You want to account for where is my capacitance? Like where is he rushing? Is he rushing from the right rushing from the left? So Where is the safety so the safety's up to stop the run or the safety's back to stop the long pass? So the Dallas Cowboys for example, they've gone through a big offensive slump the past five weeks prior to Sunday's game 56 to 14 of a Washington, but they had a five-week offensive slump because Perhaps in part because defenses were playing to safety's back so defenses were taking away the long pass and forcing the Cowboys just to dink and dunk down the field and with the Additional problem of the lack of an unproductive running game that essentially seemed to squelch the Dallas Cowboys offense so so a quarterback wants to see where the safety's are right those are keys may want to see where the key, you know the Lawrence Taylor like defender is and Like who's the mic right the mic is the linebacker who is calling that calling the plays so So I think my IQ is in the 120s I think my dad's was 137 So I'm not not particularly high, but I think I'm pretty good in verbal IQ. So there are situation-specific magic keys But there's not general magic key. So think about Darwin's origin of species like such a fantastic work of of science It's just complete role model for how to do science because he sets out all sorts of Forms of evidence for his theory and then he also lays out evidence that would invalidate his theory and That Charles Darwin's origin species incredibly productive Incredibly important probably the most important book of the last 200 years now any religious people wanted to debunk it and still do Because it makes understanding life more complicated Right instead of just being out to saying, you know, God did this God did that That they're obviously more variables. So I Find it tiring when people Reduce their life to one or two key variables, you know, the Jews or the capitalists or the communists or the Marxists or the globalists and I find that tiring so People on the right sometimes just want to Looks on a boat or is it early on set Parkinson's? It's look. It's absolutely exhausted from potting. So I've been potting plants moving plants from smaller parts to bigger plots and I'm tired, man. I haven't done manual labor for about 30 years. So I'm lifting and using shovel and Wheeling around a wheelbarrow and just trying to be a useful manual laborer and I'm absolutely exhausted but just what I love the analogy of Situation that a quarterback faces so when a quarterback has about say 10 seconds before he has the ball hiked He's looking at the defense and there are magic keys to the defense, right? So you account for maybe the defenders key best player or you You account for what the safety is doing how many are in the box? So when Dak Prescott comes to the line of scrimmage, he always has as I understand it to two plays called There's a primary play and then he can kill it at the line of scrimmage if he sees the defense lined up a particular way So there are keys in life and in situations. So for example job interviews and not predictive of job performance Except to the extent that you get a sense of somebody's IQ now IQ is more predictive of job performance particularly incognitively demanding tasks than any other single variable IQ is more predictive of income levels and educational attainment than any other single Variable so is it legal to talk about American football? So American football is increasingly popular over here It's not one of the top three sports, but These explanations are effective at least they may allow for action, which is a step forward when the alternative is in action Yeah, so life is complicated. So we develop some keys, right? So That is a heuristic. It's a good enough understanding and explanation model, but it's not perfect and So we we're constantly having to take action without adequate information And so to to do the best that we can with with With a world that constantly demands that we make choices and take action then we do have certain keys Such as like what's the intelligence of the people I'm dealing with? What's the honesty of the people I'm dealing with like who are my friends? Who are my enemies? Like what's my tribe? What's my in-group? What's my out-group? like these can these can be useful keys in some situations of conflict or Who are the people that I trust in a particular area? So I may trust some people that matters of business and trust other people in say matters of geology and trust other people in Matters of philosophy. Obviously I've got a question about philosophy. I'm Blessed to have about five philosophers in my life. So I don't think that I know more about philosophy than any of those people So there are keys. I think two different situations But there's no one magic key to explain all of life like the modernity means that no one narrative is Adequate for understanding the challenges that are before us So one narrative may help spiritually say with twelfth step recovery, but it's not necessarily going to help you in business It's not necessarily going to help you navigate your love life or your Finances or you know issues that come up in your community. So I love keys And sometimes keys can be incredibly useful just like a quarterback looking at defense seeing where the safeties line up Incredibly useful. They don't have to be perfect But just knowing where the safeties line up. It's not going to be adequate. Have you heard of meta modernism? No, I have not heard of metamodernism. So you can just barely get around my mind around post modernism Which is the idea that no one narrative is adequate. So there's a terrific book. I read on How football explains post modernism and post modernism explains football so Australia is one of the third tests now. We've retained the ashes We're heading into an election. I'm enjoying myself very much in Australia. I'm doing myself spending time with family So I'm not reading nearly as much. So I'm not doing as many streams And I'm spending time doing manual labor. I'm spending time with family So not reading as many books not developing as many political thoughts just enjoying tranquil coherent cohesive life here in Tenem Sands