 mean I think the two primary paths to this one is philosophical and the second is autistic and in philosophical I mean well it's not right they're not two paths to this there are many paths to this so there are many paths to this I'm gonna take three today we're gonna take three one is education two is intellectual content intellectuals and three is art so let's start with the scores we need to replace the government schools we just need to replace the government schools there's no more important a political issue than privatizing education or just as a stopgap measure just increasing the options in education just increasing the options in education because the government schools will never change you cannot bring the kind of educational reforms kind of a change in educational attitude that I'm talking about into the government schools that just is never going to happen there's no incentive and there's the opposite incentive so just never will happen you have to find private outlets for schooling where you know anything would go I'm not a huge fan of vouchers but it's for now it's better than nothing I'm not not a fan of charter schools but for now it's better than nothing and the ultimate which we should be arguing for we should be arguing the ultimate needs to be that we need to argue for private education in every opportunity in every stage every single everywhere the complete and other privatization of education the complete eradication of any state involvement in education and you know we'll do a whole we've done shows about that in the past we'll do more shows about that in the future but but that is so so crucial number two we need large numbers of intellectuals to be producing the material that reshapes the debate reshapes the debate completely we need to reshape the debate about economics we need to reshape the debate about history we need some real history true history valid history to be produced so we need you know people waiting about the enlightenment writing about the founding of America like Brad Thompson just had has in his book about the founding about well in his book about the Declaration of Independence we need people to we need intellectuals to present the facts about the world out there about science about capitalism about freedom about history about what really happened partially because that's what our schools in the future will use as the basis for what they're going to teach the kids so we need intellectuals and philosophy and history and economics but also in places like biology and and the sciences in every one of these fields we need more than one intellectual we mean multiple voices who can articulate the case for objective reality and objective facts and the truth about what is really going on so we need good scientists good psychologists good historians good philosophers and we need hundreds of them they need to dominate the debate and they need to be the kind of intellectuals I like to call them crusaders who willing to take on the fight who willing to take on the enemy who willing to challenge the status quo who willing through their example and their theories to teach people how to think Stefan says online epistemology is so important yes in the best way to teach people epistemology it's the model it to make arguments based on reason to use logic to discuss facts to show people how thinking is done so we need to incrementally over the next hundred years because it's going to take a long time we need to privatize the schools we need to get dozens and ultimately hundreds of new intellectuals writing speaking teaching writing writing writing and then the third is we need artists because art is a shortcut art is a shortcut that inspires people to be the best that they can be to rise up to the occasion if you want people with self-esteem with courage then we need to model that courage we need to show them what courage makes possible we need to show them what bravery means we need to show not just talk show and art shows it shows in its novels and its paintings and its poems and its in its sculpture and its paintings what life can and should be it shows what it means to live a full life what the universe can be if one lives such a life it would show the effects of freedom the effects of the right philosophy on an individual life and why they should embrace it it's a shortcut to show the kind of values the kind of world the kind of life that is possible to individual human beings so we need great romantic art great romantic art not cheap romantic art not poor romantic art not mediocre romantic art but great romantic art we need more who goes and more rands and Modestyevsky's although you're not gonna get them immediately so you need people who are not as good but somewhere in between somewhere on the way at every level we need good children's art but we need great young adult art and we need fantastic grown-up art because art can show us what is possible to us most of us lack the kind of imagination that would project what is possible that's the beauty of artists they have that imagination they have that ability to recreate a world in their own image based on their own values and we need them to have the right values so that's what needs to be done and it's a long path and there's a lot of things that need to be done to change the world from getting from getting our schools privatized or at least moving in that direction to getting some great artists who produce inspiring art to producing the kind of intellectual content that is gonna move the culture in the right direction because it's gonna move the culture in the direction of facts in the direction of learning the right lessons from history understanding the principles of economics to understand what the consequences of actions are we need all of that and as we move towards a world in which people could think as they've been educated properly they have the way attention span I want to say this about attention span art is one way in which we can expand and extend our own attention span whether it's by sitting down and reading a book a novel by Victor Hugo which is thousands you know hundreds of pages long and and engaging with it and in you know really delving into that universe and letting it sink in and spending the time in that place without shifting between our iPhone and whatever else stimuli is out there but really sitting quietly in a room and reading or another way you can you can extend your own focus and your own attention span is use classical music put on a 45-minute symphony and try to do nothing but listen your mind will drift you will lose focus but put yourself phone and everything else far far away from you I've many said many times turn off the lights close your eyes try to think about nothing except follow the music when your mind drifts use your will your will to focus back on the music it'll train you to focus and I'll train you to sustain that focus because classical music is long it takes time and therefore it needs sustained it requires sustained focus so I think using art great art there's plenty of great art that's being produced in our history not a movie that something needs to blow up something needs to explode something needs somebody needs to be shot some blood needs to splatter all over the screen every two minutes in order to keep your attention but no you know go watch an old movie go watch a movie from the 40s and 50s that was slow and smart with great dialogue and real meaning and real purpose and again sit and watch the movie for an hour and a half without looking at your phone turn off all the lights just focus on the screen and nothing else so try to get away from action movies now that doesn't mean you should go watch the Irishman which is four hours long of sustained I mean you cannot sustain an attention span during the Irishman because it's such a bad movie but they are long movies the Godfather for one that don't involve constant violence and constant car chases a constant explosions in order to keep your interest think dialogue think characters and I can give you recommendations if you want about movies so use use art to improve yourself to improve your own moral character by looking at the arts and and thinking about what makes certain people heroic and what makes people certain people cowards watch the art experience the art and try to allow and and focus on it even on a painting you can just look at a painting or you can focus on a painting try to really look try to see what the artist is trying to convey look at all the details look at everything that's in there it'll sharpen your mind if you go to a museum and you do it right and you really focus on all the elements in a painting and you spend real time in front of paintings not just quick running through the museum then when you get home you'll start noticing things in your environment you didn't notice before it'll sharpen your mental acuity I think music does that it'll increase your attention span and increase your focus art is incredibly powerful now I will do another show maybe maybe later this week we'll talk about what you personally can do to make your life better and prepare you for this amazing world of the future but we'll talk about that personal values how to how to live a better life for yourself now we're still talking about the culture all right so that's what we need right that's what we need to fight for that's what we need to get to it's it is a lot to do there's a lot to cover within each one of these elements art intellectual battle education that 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 his life and who does not get want to give in to today's cult of the spare cynicism and impotence and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist brought using the super chat and I noticed yesterday when I appealed for support for the show many of you step forward and actually supported the show for the first time so I'll do it again maybe we'll get some more today if you like what you're hearing if you appreciate what I'm doing then I appreciate your support those of you who don't yet support the show please take this opportunity go to your own book show calm slash support or go to subscribe star calm your own book show and and make a kind of a monthly contribution to keep this to keep this going I'm not sure when