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ing else, you irrationally think that the thing it reminded you of is telling you something about the thing. It probably isn't. That's just two things that remind you of each other. But here's what it reminds me of. When I used to own restaurants locally, when I saw a restaurant start to serve brunch when normally they were just a lunch and dinner place, as soon as they would offer brunch you kne…
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All of the top-down stuff is anti-children. I don't know. Is that a coincidence that it's all anti-children? All of it? Because it is. It's all anti-children. I don't know how that ever evolved to be like complete anti-children. But maybe we've always been this way. Yeah, maybe it's just a little more obvious because of the pandemic. But maybe we've always just not cared about children. We just pretend that we feel otherwise because we do care about our own.
So I think we're conflating how much we care about our own kids with how much we care about your kids, you know what I mean? Because that feels like your problem.
A few other things. If you keep looking at the Google searches, you'll see all kinds of science of both sides. So I'm saying it's hurting our attention spans and some saying it isn't. But let me tell you my favorite pushback from this. It's all right, so I'm an old man, old man shouting at the sky, right? So I'm clearly a boomer. I'm clearly in that demographic who says, you know, get a haircut you kids, stop listening to that Elvis Presley and that rock and roll. It's gonna hurt your minds.
So after I make this whole tweet thing about the safety of children, a Twitter username, Steve Stevens — I won't say anything about the creativity of his parents who named him Steve Stevens, but I'll just say that his comment was hilarious. So after talking about how smartphones are hurting the children, he tweets, "You left out pinball and pool halls." Okay, you win. You win. Good. Can we just let Steve Stevens have the win? Stevens for the win. Total win. Yes.
Steve Stevens, who has been around long enough to know that there's never been a time when we didn't say the children are dumb this time, and we've been wrong every time. We always say the children are dumb. Always. Since I was a kid, all that rock and roll was going to destroy our minds and nothing like that ever happened, right?
So this was just such a good comment. You left out pinball and pool halls because they're gonna rot those children's minds.
Here's what I think is true. The truth is that the only smart people who matter are the top one percent, and they're probably no different than they ever were. In fact, there might be more of them. Did you invent any microchips today? I didn't. I didn't. Did
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you make any breakthroughs in artificial intelligence today? I didn't. I really didn't do anything. So it almost doesn't matter how smart I am. I just have to be able to take care of myself and that's it. The one percent of smart people who have always been with us are still doing what they always do. They invent the future and then we live in it. So it doesn't matter if the average person can me…
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