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Q or innovation at The government level or the state level. I'm just interested in your perspective on that because we have seen it at the individual level, the company level, but we are seeing stagnation at that higher government level. So are you also thinking that we're going to see some of these smaller nations or completely new nations come up as we see the stagnation in the Western world?
A Yeah. So there's this great word that gets used, um, reform, right? Um, reform is one of those words where my ears always perk up when I, when I see the word, cause I kind of know the game is being played. Um, and so I'll give you an example. I have all these friends who are very into this thing and they call it education reform, right? And so they're, you know, philanthropists, you know, they've been successful, they've got money and they've got a foundation now and they want to like make the world better. And so what do they do? They look around, they're like, well, what are the big problems in the world? And they inevitably, you know, a lot of, a lot of times they end up looking at public education and they're just like, wow, like public education is like this, you know, huge force in our society and all these kids, you know, legally you like have to send your kids to basically, uh, you know, most, most people legally are required to send their kid to a, to a public school. And it's like, wow, like the outcome seemed like really bad. And like, you know, we keep injecting more money into these schools and yet the results don't get better. And then by the way, there's all these problems and there's all this like, you know, child abuse, you know, that takes place. And there's all this, you know, he's like teacher sex scandals. And then there's, you know, all these controversies…
AI assessment note: “So there's this great word that gets used, um, reform, right?”
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Q build and invest in the future, but he's also spent a wealth of time studying history. So in this clip, Mark discusses the moral panic that's accompanied new technologies throughout history, and specifically one of the most unique ways that society responded to one of those technologies, the automobile. Could you speak a little bit more to the red flag laws that were implemented when cars were coming to be?
A Yeah. So cars. So this is another great one. So like cars, it's like, okay, like we all live with cars. We all can't live without cars. Like, you know, there's still huge fights about how, you know, cars should be used in our society, but like there's cars everywhere. Like our society doesn't function without cars. We just kind of take them totally for granted. Uh, by the way, we take them so for granted that we just like repeatedly bail out the big car companies, right? Like at this point, like the taxpayers have kept them in business for a long time. Um, and so, you know, the car, and so then you're just, you're just like, you know, it's just like, okay, the car must've been this obvious thing, like a Of course you want the car. You know, who, you know, who could, who could have fought the car at least for any kind of, you know, kind of valid reason. And so again, to your point, like it turns out actually the cars were, were actually a profound threat to the sort of social order of that time, uh, of the era. This is like going back a hundred, a 120 years. Um, and, uh, and, and it was basically this exact same kind of process played out with the car. Um, and so the, the, the, the thing you mentioned, basically the thing that happened at the peak of kind of the anti-car hysteria at the time, uh, the moral panic around cars was basically It's basically what happened was cars wer…
AI assessment note: “the thing you mentioned, basically the thing that happened at the peak”
