the reasonable interpretation.

And now it looks like Congress has completely reversed from the Michael Shellenberger frame which was the productive one that you have to do some of these things you don't like to get to a place you do like. And the new frame is you don't have to do the things you don't like. You can just magically get to the new place of clean energy but nobody knows how. So this is pushing us into the loser frame whereas the Shellenberger approach would be the winning frame where you could account for all the costs and benefits and make a reasonable decision.

All right. I love this. There's a famous venture capitalist under fire for calling new dads losers if they take months of paternity leave. Was this Joe Lonsdale? I think it was. And yeah, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale. He responded to a tweet Wednesday about talking about Pete Buttigieg who took time off for his child. And Joe Lonsdale said quote, any man in an important position who takes six months of leave for a newborn is a loser. In the old days men had babies and worked harder to provide for their future. That's the correct masculine response.

Now if you'd like my opinion on this I don't really have one. You know that I don't think this is a situation in which my opinion should have anything to do with you and your baby. Do you? Do you think I should have an opinion about what you do with your baby? No. No. I mean I suppose if I were in this situation I'd want the option and if I'm not in the situation I'll just look to you. If you want the option I think I can live with it. I don't have a problem with it. But I just love the fact that he would say this opinion in public. It's just saying it. And this is saying it in public that makes it a funny story. It's not like a lot of people weren't thinking it but it's hilariously said in public anyway.

I'm not really completely defined by men have to be masculine in every way in every situation or anything like that. But I think it's perfectly fine for him to say it. Yes. So I'm glad he could say it without getting cancelled. I think he's rich enough he doesn't get cancelled.

Rasmussen has some poll results saying that the majority across political spectrum, so no matter what party you are, you're concerned about what is being taught in public schools. Now of course you would be concerned in a different way if you're a Democrat versus a Republican but a lot of people. So 90% of Republicans, 66% of Democrats and 76% of the non-affiliated people are concerned that public schools may be promoting controversial beliefs and attitudes.

I feel as if these numbers tell us that the traditional school system is dead. Maybe not right away but it looks like we're about to enter an irreversible trend toward getting other people's brainwashing away from your children. Because it is brainwashing. The only difference between the modern brainwashing and the old brainwashing, the old brainwashing was patriotism and melting pot and everything like that. The old brainwashing was explicitly designed to turn kids into good citizens, patriots etc. Now it was brainwashing. You could argue that it was unethical but also militarily necessary. To defend the homeland you have to brainwash the children to make them patriots. Now you could say it's just education but that's just word thinking. It is what it is. We're training people who do not have critical thinking to have a specific point of view. If you train somebody who doesn't yet have critical thinking skills into a specific point of view it's brainwashing. It might be productive and that's what I'm saying it is but it's still brainwashing. It's not like you gave the kids some information and let them make their own decision.

So brainwashing is universal but it used to be the kind that we pretty much all thought was a good idea and now they're brainwashing them in different ways. Not everybody agrees it's a good way. So I think that we have to develop a hybrid system th