 Alright, here's a story that should really, really infuriate you but you might not be surprised at all. And here is the story, here's egalitarianism, I mean the ultimate manifestations of altruism in full force. I mean it's so disgusting, it's hard for me even to tell you the story. Alright, so remember yesterday I talked about math and how mass scores are dropping and we talked about all that. And one of the things I mentioned was the number of kids enrolled in algebra classes has plummeted from like 34% to 24%, something like that, yeah 34 to 24% in the last 10 years. And we're kind of speculating on why that was and so on but I didn't even consider the obvious reason why this is happening or one of the obvious reasons why this is happening. And of course none of the stories I read had this but the New York Times in a story about the phenomena had this sentence buried in the story. No focus, no emphasis on it but to their credit they had their sentence, I didn't read any other new story that had the sentence in it and it just, you just gasp when you read it. Here's the sentence. In some districts and states notably California there has been a push to equalize math education by placing fewer eighth graders into advanced math. So the reason that fewer kids in algebra classes is because some states and some counties and some districts have chosen to hold back kids in math for the sake of equality. Hold back kids, I mean is there anything more evil than this? I mean really? I mean I guess math slaughter and stuff but sort of slaughtering thousands, millions of people, is there anything more evil than holding people back, restraining their potential, not allowing them to advance at the rate they want, can, could, keep them back? Not because somehow it's good for them, I can't imagine how that would be good for them. But because it's good for the other kids, they don't, I guess they don't seem out of line that the kids are slower for the sake of the slow kids. I mean one godless monkey says like cutting off LeBron's legs, yeah, but in, yeah I mean oh god, I mean it is LeBron, but there's a sense in which this is more evil because this is the mind and this is on scale. This is thousands and thousands of kids who couldn't be getting algebra in at a certain age, at 13 years of age and they're not going to, and this is just happening in one class. What about the books they read? What about the science they study? What about everything else? They just throttled it down. Let's make people dumber. Why? Because some of us are dumb. So we need to make the ones who are not dumb dumb. And this is the point of egalitarianism, it's not about money, it's not about wealth. It's about everything. It's just about making you equal and ultimately the way we're unequal is primarily about the mind, so therefore we have to find a way to throttle the mind of some. In order to benefit somebody, nobody benefits from this. Nobody benefits. It's just to penalize the able. I mean maybe they rationalize it so that the dumb don't feel too bad about themselves, but that's not even true. Everybody knows. All right, I mean that's just outrageous and disgusting. Also, if you'd like to see the Iran Book Show grow, please consider sharing our content and of course subscribe. Press that little bell button right down there on YouTube so that you get an announcement when we go live. And for those of you who are already subscribers and those of you who are already supporters of the show, thank you. I very much appreciate it.