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est your intelligence. Many of you have not seen this news, but I want to see if you can use your powers of deduction. What percentage of the population thinks that things are moving in the right direction? Go. How are you doing that? How are you doing that? 25.6 percent. You guys, you guys and gals, you impress me. I've never seen a group that could guess things better than you. But once again, o…
← Previous segment →our free markets and our flow of information, which isn't as free as it could be but it's getting better, a hundred percent of things are self-correcting. All of it. Everything is self-correcting. Now I told you about Germany was going to freeze over the winter because they didn't have Russian gas. And then the latest report was, oh, somehow they figured out enough how to store enough gas so they can make it through the winter. They solved it, right?
Now here's what I see happening. Because everything's broken, that gives you license to improve it. Did you ever work in a company where something's working fine? Do you think you could improve it? Everybody would say, why? Why are you focusing on that? It's fine. But everything looks broken, which causes us to try to fix everything. We're in this frenzy. You know, it's in society, in the world in general. We're in a frenzy of redesign. Everything's getting redesigned, usually by the free market, right? Absolutely everything's being redesigned from almost the bottom up. We're in a reinvention phase that you won't recognize until it's toward the end. But you don't recognize we're in a creative, inventive phase that will be one of the great ones of all human history right now.
I would argue that after World War II we had a creative explosion, wouldn't you say? And then there was the Industrial Revolution, creative explosion, etc. But I feel like we're in one. But you don't feel it when you're in it. It just feels like everything's broken because you're just trying to fix everything. But when it gets fixed, it will be better. It'll be fixed better than it was. And I think that applies to everything from our energy policy to the way we run elections to Twitter to you name it. Literally everything is trending positive if you look at it as a system that's in the phase of correcting. So that's my optimism. It does not say we should not be vigilant about all of our problems. We'll do that automatically because we're good at being vigilant.
How many of you saw the video of John Fetterman giving his speech outdoors? He had a bunch of American flags behind him, and the wind blew them all down while he was talking. And Fox News had an article about how social media was
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mocking it. And it had some tweets there from some notable people saying funny things. And I could not be more angry at Fox News today. Fox News was saying that people were saying clever things about that Fetterman flag thing, and they did not include my tweet. That oversight cannot be forgiven. And so since they only mentioned some lesser clever tweets, which were pretty good but they were lesser…
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