Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast live stream number 40 with a cat's ears

barely in the frame.

We are facing the most remarkable stuff and we are continuing to grapple with it live

with you all.

Heather Hying, how shall we start today?

May we start with a brief reading from the Carling of the American Mind?

Excellent.

Alright, so this book for those of you who don't know by Greg Lugianaff and Johnathan

Height, The Carling of the American Mind, How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are setting up

a generation for failure.

It was published two years ago this week.

It's an extraordinary book.

It was based on an article and the Atlantic of the same name, I believe, from a couple of

years prior.

And Pamela Presky, who was their senior researcher on the book, approached us along with Johnathan

Height just as Evergreen was blowing up to talk to us about what we were seeing there.

And so we were privileged to be able to see this book as it was emerging.

And excuse me, I just want to briefly summarize a couple of their main points and then read

a little bit from it.

So they start by naming three, what they call three great untruths, which are what doesn't

kill you makes you weaker, what they call the untruth of fragility.

They stress your feelings, what they call the untruth of emotional reasoning.

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