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TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

#558: Educating A Free Society with Chad Thevenot

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8764 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Marty sits down with Chad from UATX to discuss bringing the values of the Age of Enlightenment back to education.


Chad on Twitter: https://x.com/chadthevenot

UATX: https://www.uaustin.org/


0:00 - Intro


1:28 - 6th and Congress is the center of the universe


4:09 - The story of UATX


10:26 - Unchained & Coinkite


12:20 - Problems with current education


21:15 - Curriculum for a free society


28:37 - Regulation and Trump regime


32:33 - Zaprite & SOTE


34:06 - Enlightenment values and free discussion


47:37 - Destroy institutions or reform them?


53:14 - Bitcoin endowment


57:25 - Austin’s strength


1:01:52 - Decentralized power


1:08:35 - We’re gonna win




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0:00.0

I think this is very much part of the human cycle.

0:02.0

Like every 50 years or so we kind of go through these moments.

0:04.0

We saw that in the late 60s.

0:05.0

People forget how volatile that was.

0:07.0

The president was assassinated.

0:09.0

A presidential candidate was assassinated.

0:10.0

The leader of the civil rights movement was assassinated.

0:12.0

Students were shot on campus at Kent State, all in the space of a few years.

0:17.0

Chad Thevenot, founding leader of the University of Austin, uncovers the dark truth behind today's college educations.

0:23.5

Half the time the students don't even know that's what they're getting.

0:26.0

They think they're getting this kind of broad truth about the world

0:28.2

and what they're really getting is just like a narrow version of what one group believes.

0:33.0

If you're interested in reforming universities, you have to ask yourself,

0:36.4

what is the incentive of the university to change? And honestly, if you look at in reforming universities, you have to ask yourself, what is the incentive of the university to change?

0:39.0

And honestly, if you look at the incentives where universities change, they're not good.

0:43.3

You know, it's weird knowing that you're probably living through a moment of history.

0:46.8

Not just where things are just kind of going along, but like we're seeing this kind of cataclysmated shift.

1:02.0

You've had a dynamic where money has become freer than free. If you talk about a Fed just gone nuts, all the central banks going nuts.

1:08.0

So it's all acting like safe haven.

1:10.0

I believe that in a world where central

1:12.9

bankers are tripping over themselves to devalue their currency, Bitcoin wins. In the world of fiat

1:17.9

currencies, Bitcoin is the victor. I mean, that's part of the bold case for Bitcoin. If you're not paying

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