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e'll get on it. So I guess something happened recently with the Soros organization, the Open Society, and Alex Soros was just saying something defiant on the X platform. And what Alex, the son of George Soros, said was, he basically said that the Soros organization wasn't going anywhere. The most important thing that I didn't write down. All right. Seriously. Oh yeah. His exact words. Alex Soros,…

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ltrated US colleges and it aims to quote transform Western society from within and that it's halfway done with its 100-year plan. So 50 of its 100-year plan has been done and they claim to be about half done in conquering the West via the educational systems. Is that real?

Do you believe that the inevitable future is that Islam and let's say Muslim Brotherhood in particular because that's who this is about, do you believe that the natural arc of history is that they will infiltrate, they will reproduce slowly but methodically, they will take over various institutions until the US is Islamic? Well, unless there was a counterforce, I don't see how you could stop it because Islam is a very, I'm going to try to use the most respectful language. So you're going to watch me struggle here to pick the right words. But Islam is a very successful system. Now there I did it. I wanted to make it not sound like it was biased. Islam is a very successful design for a system.

For example, if you're in the more extreme elements and you tried to leave the religion, they'd kill you, right? I mean that's not the normies, but for some part of the Islamic world, you can't really leave. And even if they're not going to kill you, it's not going to be very fun. So it's a system that says if you leave, you're going to pay a price. And if you're competing against, and when I say competing against, I mean just trying to own the future, if you're competing against some other religion or system that lets you go in and out if you like, in theory, the one that kills you for leaving is going to do better in the long run. And has a number of other advantages such as the high reproduction rates and I won't get into all of it but if you were to design it on paper, on paper Islam would conquer the other systems just by being introduced and then you wait. Am I right that it would conquer all the other systems one at a time just by being introduced? Now it takes a while but its design guarantees that it dominates over time.

So that's going to happen. I would say we're probably halfway to that. And if you were going to ask me, Scott, is there any way the West can save itself to not be destroyed by this superior system? And the answer is there might be one way. There might be one and only one way that the West could save itself from an Islamic just guaranteed system design takeover. Do you know what that is?

What is the one system that could defend against that? It's not Christianity because Christianity is a little too peace-loving for that to work. I'll tell you what it is. It's Elon Musk and it's AI. If AI becomes maximum truth-seeking, which is what Elon is after, he says it almost every day that the AI has to be maximum truth-seeking. You can't give the AI morality. You can't program morality into AI. That would just cause the potential for the biggest problems in the world. But if you program it for ultimate truth, you could come up with something that's just purely additive. Ideally, we don't know, but it'd be worth a shot.

So now imagine that it becomes a normal thing that half of the country is teaching its own half to think better. My prior conversation. Do you think that that is also a system that can reproduce? Yes. Yes. If you learn how to think better and you're sitting in the room with somebody who doesn't know how to do it and an opportunity comes up where you can kind of explain to them, you know, the way you should think about this might be this way instead of that. You'll do it.

So there's something about the common sense learning how to think approach to life which would be Elon's and the other people I mentioned as well that is in its own ways sticky and it doesn't require a specific educational structure. In fact the whole college system might fall apart in 10 years. Who knows? But the idea of thinking better probably will just keep going because it's good for everybody who's exposed to it and it's easy to teach the technique of something being too on the nose. I haven't described that here but it's really easy to teach somebody how to spot things using a certain set of tools.

So that is a way that the West could possibly become immune from any external systems be they Islam or anything else. How's your brain doing?

All right. The CDC has apparently altered its statement about vaccines and autism. Now it's scrubbing the bold statement that they used to have, the CDC, that vaccines do not cause autism and they've replaced it with vaccines do not cause autism is not an evidence-based claim. So there maybe the primary claim that the CDC has made for my entire life, the primary thing, I mean I've been hearing it since I was in

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my 20s I think that they would have said that the vaccines, all the vaccines not just the COVID ones, they would say that all the vaccines do not cause autism but they would say it as a statement of fact. Should they have said it as a statement of fact? No. No. Because they hadn't tested it. They just didn't have any evidence that it was. There's a real big difference between not having evidence…

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