Joe Lonsdale
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And most of them, they've lost the lessons of the enlightenment and how that was filtered into our government and what that means for the West and why America has been an example, right? If anything, I think we're taught about why America is terrible.
And so, and then on top of that, I think the worst of all, so you miss all the wisdom, but then the worst of all is you're basically taught the opposite of courage. You're taught to shut up and go along. You're taught that if you speak out, there's something wrong with you, right? You're taught that everyone's supposed to virtue signal. And so-
And so, and then on top of that, I think the worst of all, so you miss all the wisdom, but then the worst of all is you're basically taught the opposite of courage. You're taught to shut up and go along. You're taught that if you speak out, there's something wrong with you, right? You're taught that everyone's supposed to virtue signal. And so-
And so, and then on top of that, I think the worst of all, so you miss all the wisdom, but then the worst of all is you're basically taught the opposite of courage. You're taught to shut up and go along. You're taught that if you speak out, there's something wrong with you, right? You're taught that everyone's supposed to virtue signal. And so-
If you have a whole generation of our supposed elite that are all taught to be like beta and wimpy and scared, that's terrible for our civilization. That means we're going to give up everything.
If you have a whole generation of our supposed elite that are all taught to be like beta and wimpy and scared, that's terrible for our civilization. That means we're going to give up everything.
If you have a whole generation of our supposed elite that are all taught to be like beta and wimpy and scared, that's terrible for our civilization. That means we're going to give up everything.
And so I think even having one university that starts to teach the wisdom, but try to create people who speak up, who debate, who have the intellectual humility not to say, this is just my way of thinking of it, but to have actual debates where they listen and they learn and to go out in the world and to model that culture and model that courage for others.
And so I think even having one university that starts to teach the wisdom, but try to create people who speak up, who debate, who have the intellectual humility not to say, this is just my way of thinking of it, but to have actual debates where they listen and they learn and to go out in the world and to model that culture and model that courage for others.
And so I think even having one university that starts to teach the wisdom, but try to create people who speak up, who debate, who have the intellectual humility not to say, this is just my way of thinking of it, but to have actual debates where they listen and they learn and to go out in the world and to model that culture and model that courage for others.
That's a really big deal for our civilization.
That's a really big deal for our civilization.
That's a really big deal for our civilization.
I think that some of these institutions are very good at teaching very narrow, advanced topics, right?
I think that some of these institutions are very good at teaching very narrow, advanced topics, right?
I think that some of these institutions are very good at teaching very narrow, advanced topics, right?
I think if you want to be really, really good at certain types of physics or chemical engineering or computer science, there are other top universities with other really smart people there, first of all, so there's a great network of smart people, and there's professors who are very good at these certain narrow fields, and that's positive, but
I think if you want to be really, really good at certain types of physics or chemical engineering or computer science, there are other top universities with other really smart people there, first of all, so there's a great network of smart people, and there's professors who are very good at these certain narrow fields, and that's positive, but
I think if you want to be really, really good at certain types of physics or chemical engineering or computer science, there are other top universities with other really smart people there, first of all, so there's a great network of smart people, and there's professors who are very good at these certain narrow fields, and that's positive, but
I think there's like so much that's gone wrong with science, so much that's gone wrong with pretty much every part of the humanities where it's been conquered by ideology. And the other thing that's crazy, the administrations at these top universities have tripled in size on average. So you have more administrators at Harvard and Yale than you have students. No way. Yeah, it's crazy.