The recent decline in non-conforming gender and sexual identities among students is independent of broader cultural and political trends such as the state of free speech attitudes.

“One of the things that does come out in the study is that the peak of woke and the political peaks are not necessarily the same as the gender and sexuality peaks. They're not the same thing. There's quite a bit of independence between these trends.”

It is important for individuals to embrace their natural appearance rather than altering themselves to fit external beauty standards.

“you can change everything about yourself but you will still be you do you know what I mean so just like Embrace that the body that you're in especially if you want to have children everything that you change about yourself now yeah your kids are going to come out looking like every single one of you”

Communism is a destructive political system that has caused mass death and suffering.

“It's not. Usually results in about 50 million people dying.”

The history of communist leaders like Mao is essential to study because the ideology is often romanticized despite its high death toll.

“because all you know the youngsters these days, they think it's far out and fly. >> Yeah. It's really weird. >> It's not. Usually results in about 50 million people dying.”

The recent wave of teen takeovers in public places is a destructive trend that requires higher punishments.

“this whole craze of these teen takeover. They rally up on Snapchat. Hey, get together on on Instagram and everything.”

The rejection of DEI and a return to colorblind meritocracy is the best social trend of 2023.

“My best trend is the return of color blindness as the standard and the pushback on DEI. We already talked about the university presidents and what Bill Ackman is doing.”

The over-diagnosis and categorization of mental health issues allow people to avoid personal accountability for their actions.

“When you're start saying I got ADHD or I'm bipolar, I got borderline or you got this or that or whatever, you know, I got a I got a crutch I can lean on for every single [ __ ] shitty thing I do to somebody, which is awesome.”

Mainstream media is underpriced and will become highly valuable over the next five years due to its remaining prestige compared to the low barrier to entry for digital content.

“I'm ridiculously bullish in the next five years on the VA the mainstream media has um which is like the oh it's kind of like don't go to college kind of statement whereas it's kind of saying almost the opposite now of go to college mainstream media in particular there's it's almost like they have th”