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Young People, Chaos, and Historical Ignorance
from Searching For Bobby Fischer · #81
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3 minA discussion of how young people, having grown up watching institutions collapse since the mortgage crisis, have embraced chaos and gender radicalism without understanding economic history, unlike Tim who plowed through Wealth of Nations on audiobook.
- 22:42Young people drawn to chaos through gender pronouns and crypto, expecting new forces to emerge and build a new empire.
- 23:00Tim identifies Halliburton as actually positioned to thrive in chaos, not the idealistic groups hoping for it.
- 23:30Young people now feel they can't do anything, a sentiment Tim says he never experienced.
- 24:09Young people don't read history or understand the 20th century's massive achievements and failures.
- 24:45Tim argues young people have watched nothing but institutions collapse since the mortgage crisis, leading them to embrace the Wild West.
- 25:25They can't even explain why the mortgage crisis happened in the first place.