And we know it's already dumbing people down because people are deferring to it. And it's killing cognitive development.

You start out with low cognitive ability. You go to a peak of training, experiences, life, revelations. You hit a peak. And then your brain cells begin to die. You begin to do less and less. You begin to become the child again.

Usually it's about six, but child psychology, the ability to think abstractly doesn't usually develop until about the age of 11. 11 is kind of on the downside of it. Interesting. So, if you don't know, the ability to think abstractly is basically understanding symbolism and metaphor, the idea of dealing with texts critically, using critical thinking, understanding argumentation, those sorts of things, usually aren't around until you're about in, like, fifth grade or so. Okay. So, up till that point, most of education is nurturing what's there and being really... Simple, with like worksheets. Building a base. Yeah. So the idea that Alex is like, I was reading all these high-end things when I was six, he probably was, but he wasn't understanding them. Either that, or he truly was a child genius prodigy. No, but if he was, he wouldn't have dropped out of community college. Probably, although many geniuses have dropped out of college in the past. Right, but not community college. They got into a college to begin with. Also... I don't want to get into it. I looked into the dropout rate of Austin Area Community College. Okay. He should have dropped out. I got his back on that. It looks like a terrible program. But be that as it may, here's my theory that I think holds some water. Alex started reading really complicated things when he was young. Maybe even the age of six, like he reports. But he didn't understand them. But because he is very stubborn, because he's bullheaded, Because he's the Texan. Self-inflated. These sorts of things. When he was that young, he thought he was understanding those things. So then he never bothered to actually learn how to understand them. Bingo. That's what your theory is? That's your possibility? He never felt the need. To take the real step into critical thinking. He never actually went through... He screams about the rites of passage all the time. Yeah. He never went through abstract thought.