 I really wanted to talk about today kind of a positive vision really I'm going to assume and granted is an assumption because until until the vote is certified until all these votes are counted I'm going to assume Joe Biden is going to be president because that looks like the most by a long shot the most likely scenario right and that the Republicans keep the Senate so they control the Democrats and prevent them from doing the crazy nutty insane things right and the question is what what do we do what do you do what all of us do to try to make the world a better place to try to diminish the negative the negatives in the political world in which we live now I said there's four I'll say it again the most important thing you can do the most important thing you can do is live is live is isn't take these ideas that you have and apply them to your life and make your life a great life enjoy living forget about these elections forget about politics forget about Democrats and Republicans and libertarians and and and think just just find something you love to do and do it go out there and and create a beautiful space for you to live in to work in to create in I mean I try and so that the primary focus you should have in your life is on your life and how to make the best of it how to make the most of how to enjoy it how to be productive how to have a great career how to make money how to find somebody you love how to create a family that you love how to live a happy life and politics should be third fourth fifth sixth I don't know 10th on the list of things to worry about things to be concerned about because you know what there are lots of things day-to-day in your life that you should be dealing with that you should be confronting that you should be managing that you should be improving on that you should do to make your life the best that it can be and that should be your primary focus and by the way that even that even just that helps spend good ideas because people will come to you and say how come you're so happy how come you're so successful what's your secret well I read I read here's out the shrugged you should read it I mean that's huge that's huge so first and foremost and always focus on your life make yourself a better thinker make yourself a better liver make yourself take take the ethics seriously live up to the ethics take pride we haven't talked about pride yet we'll do a show about pride soon but take pride seriously pride means living up to your best striving for perfection being the best that you can be and that's just a cliche but it's real it's what life is about but what do we do politically I am saving your super chat questions I will get to what do we do politically can we do anything politically and my answer is absolutely yes but before we get to the positive let me say something about the negative we will not move this country one inch if we play partisan politics we will not move this country one inch if we become tribalists if we embrace a political party because it's a political party and then we follow everything that it says we cannot move anything the world an inch forward for example by becoming Trumpists and supporters of supporters of Trump to the extent of never criticizing accepting everything he does and thinking that anybody who criticizes anybody uses is who is against him is the emphasis enemy don't think in terms of Republicans and Democrats think in terms of what you should always be thinking in terms of truth what is true what is right what is just is this policy moving us towards greater freedom or isn't it is this policy supportive of individual rights or violation of individual rights that's what needs to happen that's what we need to focus on so if a Democrat if a Republican does something good that promotes individual rights it's moving in that direction let's support that policy without enshrining the man as a super god and if that same Republican does something that's antagonistic to individual rights that's bad that's wrong for freedom then let's criticize that and the same with a Democrat no matter who is in power no matter what who's passing the bills we should support that not the party not the personality those bills that support freedom that move us in that direction and object to those that don't and look always keep in mind though the bigger picture so for example yeah we're always gonna support tax cuts but we should never be super excited about tax cuts because on their own they do nothing well we should really be excited about and emphasize and push and get people engaged on is on cutting spending which is what they don't want to talk about what they don't want to be engaged on so that's our job cutting taxes is easy every Republican in history has done it let's focus on the hard stuff cut the spending reform entitlement yes ultimately we want to get rid of all entitlements they shouldn't be so security this shouldn't be Medicaid but you're not gonna win that argument and you're gonna win it and you don't really believe it in the short run it has to be phased out so for now let's talk about reducing not reducing sorry restructure entitlements for example for example here's a great issue for us there is a massive redistribution of wealth going on right now and there's going to go on for the next 20 years from young people to old people from young people to old people so for example old people are using Medicare and the baby boom generation is gonna drive up the cost of Medicare to dominate the budget I mean all other spending will be irrelevant so security is bad but Medicare as much was and who pays for old people's Medicare and Social Security well don't let anybody fool you the money that they paid into the system has been spent a long time ago and so it's young people paying for their health care for their Social Security so we need to pick up the mantle and talk about phasing out privatizing reforming entitlements and the best way to do that is kind of let the old people with 65 already have what they were promised and privatize everything else yeah the left will say all kinds of things about us because the rights is the same thing it's not like the right will actually pass any of this they've had they've had the Senate the House and the presidency they had it under Trump they've had it under Bush and they did none of this none of it it's our job to talk about it's our job to bring it up it's our job to push these ideas constantly and nephatically and to create a momentum around it this is the way you get to young people your life sucks not because there's not enough welfare not because of I don't know systemic racism your life sucks because you're gonna be taxed so high in order to fund Medicare for people you don't know we have to get engaged in politics not in the little partisan stuff we have to get engaged in politics on the principled stuff on the big stuff on the stuff nobody else will talk about on the stuff where the only ones are willing to say yeah somebody says yeah we should be advocating for not how much the steel tariffs should go up or down on which country should we have it on there should be no tariffs zero tariffs across the board and then if you want to deal with China stealing this or doing that then you can have sanctions you can bring shut down the embassy you can surround them with the sixth fleet whatever six fleets in the Mediterranean so they'd have to travel over there but you know you can deal with them but tariffs is not the way tax is just it's anti-individual rights it's a violation of the rights of Americans it's a tax increase so but so many people in a free market world got up with the oil of Trump and you can't you can't criticize him and all of that that yeah no this time tariffs are good this time the Chinese will pay this time trade wars will work this time will be different great really it's just straight yeah intellectual poverty threat then sanction them or boycott them completely but tariffs are not the way you deal with intellectual poverty theft or anything else taxes of tax on your own people it's not a way to deal with other countries again this is one-on-one this isn't controversial this isn't difficult this is just this is why it's so frustrating and a whole Trump presidency was frustrating because he did stuff there was obviously anti-individual rights obviously anti-freedom obviously bad for America and people supported those policies because it was Trump so if you want a better world if you want elections in the future where you might have a candidate that you'd be excited to vote for then we have got to be principled and consistent and fight for the things we actually believe in fight for the ideas we actually believe in not the ideas that are gonna win not the ideas that this or that candidate might or might not support not get caught up in personalities but fight for the ideas that we believe in advocate for policies that move us there doesn't mean you have to get it all at once it doesn't mean so security goes away all at once doesn't you know on immigration which I know many people disagree with me on it's not that I'm advocating tomorrow open borders ultimately yes but in the meantime there's a phasing in and part of that phasing in would be for example that I've given is allow anybody who has a work permit so work on the principles work on the on the on the foundational ideas and whenever you're tempted because you like this guy or like that guy or because politically it stop yourself check your premises go back to basics and fundamentals go back to principles that's the beauty of principles go back to principles and say is this policy consistent with my principles is me supporting tariffs in China consistent with my principles somebody asked about the Lex Friedman interview I just don't know I wish I knew I thought it was gonna be I mean he's bouncing around some of the interviews he's releasing seem to be older ones others were from his trip to California and Oregon when he was traveling because you can see it's in a hotel room so I don't know at some point at some point the interview will be out it is a three-hour interview a little over I think three hours and I think it was great I think it was a really good interview I think Lex really enjoyed it there were a number of times where he was he seemed blown away by my answers so I think it's I think it's gonna be fun for everybody for you guys and and most importantly much more important than you guys sorry are the new people who this will expose expose them to me who probably don't know who I am and have never seen me before because he has a very unique audience so I'm I'm very very excited to see it hopefully we'll get good viewership you know Eric Weinstein just I don't know got 600 thousand views or something here's an interview with Eric but Eric Weinstein is huge I'm not quite as well-known and popular so we'll see how we'll see how well it goes so my point is that we need to start focusing on the positive on what we want stop playing defense focus on what we can get and where we can go focus on the issues important to us not on other people's issues focus on our principles not on their principles so the whole point has to be positive the virtues of capitalism the wonders of the modern world the amazing world we live in how you can make your life so much better how under freedom we succeed so even entitlements is not a big issue for us because the only reason we want entitlements to go away is that you young people can have more money to invest in yourselves invest in your life invest in what you want to do we need to be less negative and more positive we need to be more unique and less just part of the crowd we need to be more controversial we need to be more out there we need to be less less conventional I mean again what Trump did to some people call themselves objectivist is he made them conventional because they become they just became trump heads justifying everything he would do even shockingly for me hugging you know and hanging out with the with a dictator of North Korea they even justified that I mean that's again 101 so get away from the partisan stuff get away from the nationalism there the xenophobia that I the closed-mindedness which I see so much so much around me let's be positive in and on this positive and I want to make one more point I listened to I saw a talk recently by Peter Diamantes I don't know if you guys know Peter Diamantes you wrote a book called abundance and I read the book too and the book is is really interesting in the talk was really interesting and it's I'm so jealous of Peter and others like him in in Silicon Valley because he is so optimistic tell what politics tell with all this rioting and demonstrations in this BS we are potentially on the cusp of some unbelievably unbelievable technological revolutions whether in biotech or whether in AI or robotics or you know just technology more broadly autonomous cars we are on the cusp of amazing things of amazing achievements of amazing potentials I mean it really is true that it really is true that the potential for like fix tension is stunning in terms of what is potentially possible in the next to achieve in the next 10 20 50 years AI and robotics will increase what will dramatically improve health care will dramatically improve at the potential dramatically improve our lives dramatically improve how we do everything and indeed autonomous cars will reduce deaths on the road dramatically and save you huge amounts of time because traffic jams will be less frequent and you'll be able to work while the car is driving itself now again all these things depend on regulations they depend on politics and politicians staying away but our focus should be on that free up the mind free up the innovators free up these people to make our lives better yet we obsess and how evil these businesses men are instead of obsessing about how wonderful they're making life for us and how evil the people are trying to stop them all I mean there is you know again artificial intelligence robotics is going to take away jobs yes but they're going to take away the jobs nobody wants to do the jobs that are too dangerous one of the points Peter Diamantes makes I've made this point before but it's rare to find somebody make the point so I was so impressed that he did it is that AI makes us all smarter AI is a tool that makes people let's say with mediocre or even low IQ much much smarter and I'm not talking about the chip that you planned in the brain which wow I mean that would be pretty amazing if they when they do that I know alone Musk has a company called New Orleans that does that always working on it but I'm even talking about just the fact that I'm at a computer and I have access to all the information ever produced at my fingertips instantaneously easily I mean that's just made me much smarter I know more I have access to more I can do more and this is just the beginning of what these computers will be able to do we are just at the cusp of a potential revolution that will change human life in ways that I don't think we can fully comprehend we'd have to be a science fiction writer to fully get it and instead we you know instead of focusing on that we focus on this nonsense within the objectives movement we focus on this political BS we obsess about voter fraud and who gets elected president as if it makes that much difference we should be defending progress defending industry in the most important industry right now is technology defending and and allowing for innovation and for growth and for I want to live to be 250 years old in a healthy way not connected to machines and to do that to do that we need to be the defenders of technology the defenders of business the defenders of freedom the defenders of getting their regular eaters off of us again it was this administration that went after Google in an anti-trust lawsuits just a few weeks ago if you want me to answer questions you can have to super chat them because I can't see in the string of things what you're asking and why would I ask that why would answer them versus versus questions that are being posed that are being posed and dollars put to them yeah somebody says flying cars I mean drones look at the drone technology Amazon got a permit now look it needs a permit that's disgusting but got a permit to use drones to deliver to you to your doorstep the stuff you need I mean that's cool and that's what we should be defending that's what not just defending we should be fighting for it not defending we should be on the offensive we should team up with with the people doing this amazing technology and and and we should understand this technology and its impact on human life and we should be advocates for it now I intend to start doing that on a much more significant basis so I'll be starting a new podcast in January that has as its focus as its focus innovation progress what it takes what's required what's happening I'm gonna try to get some of the top innovators to come on the show and I'll do interviews the show will be primarily interviews there's a lot of stuff that I intend to do in the years to come on this not objectivism but not inconsistent with completely consistent with objectivism but not objectivism not philosophy not but something positive about innovation growth progress success new technologies how far we can go and what does it take so it will very much be an anti-regulation podcast right we will talk about how regulations destroy destroy technological progress this is part of the thing yeah man really will be my really will be somebody I invite but there's it's I don't want to say too much because I've got big plans and it's bigger than Matt because Matt has some flaws and part of the thing will be to engage with Matt and then to engage with other people and to build towards a real understanding of innovation and progress a real understanding of and you know it might be in you some new terminology involved I mean there's a lot that we're gonna be working on in the next few months leading up to this January this January launch of the podcast and it's gonna be a multi-year project and ultimately there might even be an investment component to it and all kinds of things so I'm really really really excited about it putting plans together right now and by the way just so you know your contributions your financial support for the Iran book show makes all that possible right it's not gonna be in the early days a profit-making operations I think ultimately if we could create an investment product it'll make the doodles of money but originally it's gonna be all money going out not money coming in and that money going out is gonna be possible partially because of your support because you know you you're supporting the Iran book 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granted we take our iPhone to grant it we take all that for granted but what and all of that really didn't exist 10 years ago 12 years ago what happens in 10 years in 20 years how far can we go and why aren't we thinking about that instead of thinking about oh who won Nevada how many votes are still going to be counted oh oh you know it's close anyway I figured I figured we'd I'd make that pitch we're gonna we're gonna talk about yeah we'll talk about I think nuclear power is really really interesting and really a huge potential for the future I think that I think that you know we've got companies building supersonic jets we've got I mean there's really a lot of innovation going on that is exciting right now today what we need today what I called a new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason by the intellect not by feelings wishes women's or mystic revelations any man or woman who values 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