it is. Of course it is. But I also believe that if you act like it's real, you're going to see it. If you act like it's not real or that it's not going to stop you if it is real, you'll do fine. It's the thinking it's real that is the problem. It's not even the racism. Because if you acted like you didn't even know it existed, you'd end up like Zuby. He's got a great life. Zuby just pretends it doesn't exist, and for him it doesn't. If you've watched him, all of his interactions, you know what kind of people are drawn to him. It's not like 100% Black people. It's just a full complement of just people. And why is that? Because he is very consistent in saying that he's not being discriminated against. But is he? I don't know. Maybe in some small way that I'm not aware of. But if you act like you're not, you're not. That will be your reality, even if technically speaking you are being systemically somehow damaged. Just act like you're not, and that's how you get past it. So you could have asked me about that one.

All right. I saw a hypothesis, and this was on the X account Foundation Father, Foundation Dads. That's the account. And he's talking about an Oxford anthropologist who has this name JD Unwin. Oh, what a terrible last name. His last name is spelled U-N-W-I-N. So instead of being a winner, it's JD Unwin. Oh, that's so sad. Terrible last name. Anyway, he's smart, and he's studied 86 societies and civilizations to see why they collapsed. And he says that within three generations of sexual debauchery, your civilization will collapse. So we've got like maybe half a generation left, because we're already in this sexual debauchery. Now, the way he defines it is if your country values virginity until marriage and then values staying together after marriage even if it's not easy, then your society will thrive. And that would be the United States in the 50s, you know, pretty much that model. But he says that once people say I don't need to get married or to be a virgin, I want to just go have some fun, then what happens then is you basically fall apart. And that's where America is right now.

Now here's my take on that, because you need some optimism. Today's optimism day. That pattern is very clear, but we don't know what is cause and what is effect. Is bad management of the government the reason that families fall apart and therefore there's more sexual perversions or whatever? I sure don't think they got this cause and effect right. See, if the government did not make it easier to get divorced, wouldn't people stay together unhappily but they stay together? If the government did not have a way to keep you alive unless you got married, doesn't that create more single people? So I'm not sure it's the people change and then that collapses the government. It seems to me that the government changes and says yeah, go do your thing. And then when you go do your thing, everything falls apart because you can't replace people. And you know, if the family unit falls apart, you get more bad children out of that who do bad things.

So here's the good news. I think that the United States in the current time has the ability to do something like DOGE and something like electing President Trump and something like sending reusable rockets into space. We are sort of in a place where the things that never worked before could be made to work. That doesn't mean it will be. So I'd keep an eye on this. You know, virginity, marriage thing is probably important, but we do have the ability to say how about you add a robot? How about nobody gets a financial benefit from getting a divorce? How about the children who have the most likely chance of contributing get raised by a group of people plus their parents so that you would never let anybody just have bad parents? If they had bad parents, you'd say, wait, you've got a good kid that seems to have potential, but I've got one bad parent or two bad parents, so we're going to layer on top of that a lot of contact with some high-functioning successful people so that that kid can get some good advice too. So you could imagine—and I'm not saying I've got the right ideas for it—but you could imagine that we're smart enough and we have enough different kinds of options and resources that we could find a way around it in a way that no society had ever done in the history of humanity. Because we've done that a bunch of times, right? By now we should have run out of oil, but we figured it out. By now we should have run out of food, but we figured out how to make fertilizer and GMOs and stuff. So we may be at a point where we can engineer our way out of things that would have destroyed any prior civilization.

And I say that also because of communication today. There aren't that many cities that are major cities that just disappear, because those major cities have communication with all the other cities in the world. So if their prices of real estate goes down enough, then people who communicate with them around the world say, wait, what's the house cost in Detroit? Really, $25,000 and I could have my own house? It's a lot of crime. You say, well, it's still worth it for that cheap house. So as long as you have communication and a free market, most cities can decline, but then they'll decline to the point where they're a good value, and then there's a chance they can come back. Now that would never be the case in the ancient world. If you started losing your food source, well, you're screwed. What are you going to do about it? Ship more food in from China? Nobody's shipping any food anywhere, so you're just going to die. Or let's say the Mongols come in and they want to burn your city and destroy it. Well, we're watching that. Gaza is being completely destroyed, but it's still going to be there in 20 years probably, because when the war winds down, it's probably a place that they're going to rebuild. And probably most of the same people will be there. So I don't know if the si