הישיבה המיוחדת של הכנסת לכבוד נשיא ארה"ב דונלד ג'יי טראמפ | Special Session of the Knesset in Honor of the President of the USA His Excellency Donald J. Trump https://t.co/EnRbENnL9d
👨🏫 A month ago, my father — a leading expert in Ancient Roman literature — turned 80. I asked what advice I should pass to the next generation. He gave me 3:
Imagine something that causes people to have more kids, but the strongest effect is on the smartest people. Interested?
That's what religion does! See this chart.
Large families generate personality types that are increasingly absent from the world with the disappearance of large families -- super responsible eldest siblings who raise younger children; youngest children largely insulated from parental influence; a combination of the security that comes from being part of a large brood and selflessness that comes experiencing no solitude all of one's formative years. These personality types play crucial societal functions that have fallen into abeyance.
Israel is the only proper nation-state in the Levant expressing a coherent sense of history, people, language and cultural connection to land of the majority. All others - Lebanon, Syria and Jordan are not.
In general, States that were created by receding empires without allowing for self-determination, and so forcing several ethnicities/nations/religions into one state, have generally spent the time since imperial collapse oscillating between civil wars and dictatorships.
The transition from empires to nation states - as much as it increased the spread of democracy and rights - has been a bloody process. Still is.
This is insane…
Marc Andreessen on how the Biden Administration wanted to control AI with government regulatory capture, blocking free markets similar to the CCP.
ROGAN: “When you leave a meeting like that, what do you do?”
ANDREESSEN: “You endorse Donald Trump.”