 Steve. Yeah, I wanted to ask you, though, about the relationship, like the relationship, or a specific part of the relationship of altruism to what's going on here. So I completely agree with you. Like at the base, like at the base, altruism is like the dominant driving force that's like driving a lot of this forward. But this is unsatisfying for me in at least two different ways. One of which is, well, if it's really the only thing, then there's, it doesn't seem to be much to do other than maybe what the work that the Ironman Institute is doing, because you really have to attack these kind of things at the most fundamental level. But then the second reason is, and this is something I've been thinking about for a while, which is like the general lack of competence in many of our institutions. And for me, this was typified by an op-ed that David Petraeus wrote in response to October 7th, as though what Israel needs is the expertise of someone whose principal expertise is losing wars. And I guess I'd love for you to opine on that, but I have a specific question, which is are we way more altruistic than we were 100 years ago or 50 years ago? Like how is that playing out? So just say, you know, part of the lack of competence relates also to altruism. Like what made it possible for Petraeus to become, now for example, Petraeus is considered one of this generation's greatest generals, right? He is considered a great general because we live in an altruistic era in a sense where it's measured and evaluated kind of based on altruism. And by those standards, yeah, Petraeus did very well sacrificing American lives for the sake of Iraqi lives and for the sake of Afghan lives. So are we more altruistic? It depends what that means, right? I think that in many respects, we have made altruism universal in ways that I don't think it was in the past. And we have made altruism and we take it more seriously to the extent that we don't have anything to counter it with. That is there's no, I think in the past, in America at least and we'll get to the other past in a minute. In the past in America, there was a certain sense of life which was fundamentally selfish, which was fundamentally about pursuing your own happiness and success and being achieving and making stuff and building stuff and doing stuff for yourself. And it wasn't explicit, it wasn't a deep moral theory. It might have even been viewed as a moral, but it was there, it was in every aspect of the culture, this was the land where you came to seek opportunity for you and to make something of yourself. And that's a remnant of the Enlightenment. That is the Enlightenment spirit of progress, of success, of individual achievement and ultimately, of course, the pursuit of happiness. So that aspect is gone or at least diminished. There's a lot less of that in America today that what I meant called the sense of life or you could even broader, just call it the spirit of the Enlightenment or the ideas of the Enlightenment have just slowly decayed over the decades. It's slowly going away. So there's a sense in which what we're left with is the alternative, which is autism. That's all there is, it's just there. We still don't like it. We still don't want it because I think most people want to survive and they want to live and they want to do positive things, but there's no counter force. There's no counter ideology. There's no counter voice. It's all different forms of different variations of different levels of altruism in ways that I don't think existed during World War II or before that. And then the other part of this, when I said we've made it universal, altruism used to apply to your in-group. And so if you were Christian, yeah, you weren't gonna be altruistic towards the pagans. They either converted Christianity or you slaughtered them. You know, there's no, so it was within the in-group sacrifice was expected. And ultimately the sacrifice was to God. And in World War II even you could argue, yeah, I mean, they're Germans, right? They started this, we're gonna crush them, we're gonna defeat them, we're gonna do this. There was no altruistic consideration for what the Germans needed or what they wanted, even though domestically FDR's policies were very altruistic with regard to economics and regard to domestic policy. So I think what's happening modern times, it's been universalized. We now take in a sense of love that enemy like theyself more seriously. We apply altruism to our enemies. This is what multiculturalism has given us, right? Everybody's equal, everybody's the same. Everybody's deserving of a sacrifice. Why are you discriminating in favor of the West when there's all this suffering out there, we need to alleviate it everywhere in the world. So I think in both those senses, things are worse now in terms of their altruism or more altruistic. Yeah, how does that lead to, because we just have this group of generals and we've had them since definitely Vietnam, somewhere between the Korean War and Vietnam. Yep. They're not even interested in winning. It's like it's the furthest thing from their mind when they get into these things. Well, I mean, it really started with Korea, right? I mean, you had General MacArthur who wanted to win and it was committed to winning and basically it was willing to do what was what wasn't necessary to win. And Truman reigned him in and basically forced him to resign. And since his resignation, America's not really won a major war, right? And there's, you know, at West Point, if you go in and look at what they taught at West Point, they taught just war theory. They taught how to lose. They taught altruism, altruism explicitly in war. They taught Augustine, right? You know, Augustine has made a comeback, but you see Augustine was kind of like, well, it's okay to slaughter civilians if it's in the, you know, I'm paraphrasing, but it's okay to slaughter civilians if it'll lead to the expansion of Christianity. But once you get rid of that kind of in-group, out-group perspective, then it's never okay to slaughter civilians. That's Augustine. So the generals have just become part of the altruistic culture. They've embraced it and they taught it. They explicitly taught it. I mean, if you read just what they, if you read Michael Walter, I mean, it's just, it's just altruism 101. Now he couches it in, you know, yes, this will also lead to victory and it's better for morale and it's, but it's all bullshit. It's fundamentally altruism. It's the negation of your own interests for the sake of your enemy. It's the worst kind of altruism possible. And generals have embraced that because there's nothing else. They offered nothing else. You know, when I, when I spoke on just war theory after 9-11 in front of military groups, they all supported me. But the higher ups couldn't get it to the higher ups. There's actually a video of me talk about old videos, right? There's a video of me in after 9-11 at some point talking to the Air Force, an Air Force base for the Air Force intelligence, I think it was or something like that. And the group in front of me are all military people. I mean, nobody else was allowed in. And there's some very, very senior people in the audience. And it's worth watching. It's worth watching for the Q&A and everything. Although I think we blanked out the section where they were asking questions because they didn't want to have that on video. But it's worth listening to because just to get, to get the fact that, the fact that somebody's in the military doesn't actually change them in any significant way. The last thing I'll say is I'm reading your and Elon's book on this. I guess it's written like 2004, 2005. It's Elon's book, but I've got three essays in it. The prediction of the future of that book is shock. Knowing what's gonna happen over the next 20 years is absolutely shocking. I know, I've said this before on the show, but somebody once asked me, what's the most frustrating thing about my job? And I said the most frustrating thing about my job is that I know how to fix the problems of the world and nobody will listen to me. And that is, and that's an expression of it. You know, I made predictions in the 2000, which is always very risky and they've all basically come true and nobody cares. My profile is now risen because, oh, wow, your run was right. On the contrary, I have more enemies today than I've ever had, even within the objectives movement I have more enemies today than I ever had, even though almost everything I've said about the world and America has come true. So be it, that's the world in which we live and we make the most of it. But it's super frustrating. It's super frustrating to know that this death and destruction and the path the West is taking are not inevitable and we know how to prevent it and it doesn't matter.