Did you know the USA high school math team just won the global Math Olympiad? They narrowly beat China, Korea and India with their absurdly intelligent team of quick problem solvers and powerful minds that not even ChatGPT could hold a candle to while be in high school.
Way to go, kids. Way to go, America.
But the real question I have is this: why is an event like this not being covered anywhere with a live stream? When I learned this news, I responded with the following tweet:
What an absolute celebration of brilliance. What a beautifully positive moment for the US.
However, you won’t hear about this achievement anywhere else except on a fringe blog like mine or a tweet on X.
Meanwhile, the majority of the population is spending more time hanging around legacy media, be it CNN, Fox or anything else, in which case all you hear is negativity and the same 4 cultural issues on loop: abortion, immigration, vaccines, and wars in the Middle East.
Do these people have any creativity? Does a country for 330 million driven and free people deserve to discuss all the other cool things happening?
Thankfully, our younger generation is working its tail off at real things that matter, expanding their minds in the hard sciences, engineering, and now taking home global medals. As Warren Buffett says:
“As a result of this negative drumbeat, many Americans now believe that their children will not live as well as they themselves do. “That view is dead wrong: The babies being born in America today are the luckiest crop in history.”
The lesson is rather simple here. And it goes like this – the smartest people are building and learning while the most distracted people waste their time on old media, poisoning their souls by the hour.
As they say: the kids are alright.