The ultimate form of happiness is using all of your abilities to their maximum power.

Well, hi, everybody. Welcome to the Virtue Signal. I'm Bill Whittle with my friend Alfonso Rachel,

and you probably know the drill by now. Zoe, I was out last week for my epic road trip with

friends hadn't seen in quite a long time. And the destination was the U.S. Air Force Museum.

And we had, I don't know, seven people, I think, show up, just kind of on the

spur of the moment to meet us there. And aside from the fact that the museum is amazing,

the thing that struck me the most about the museum, now I understand that this is a quality of

museums to have old things in it. But I think the newest airplane that was present there is 20 years old and the most impressive

airplanes are 50 or 60 years old right there's an aircraft called a B70 Volkeria put a little

picture of it here for you which does not look like it could possibly have been made by human

hands it's it's so enormous and so beautiful.

And it flies at three times the speed of sound, first flew in the early 60s.

And this got me thinking about this idea of progress.

Now, the progressives think that progress of course is how far off the cliffs of depravity we can march and how quickly.

But when I was a kid, progress meant going faster, higher, further, scientific advances, you know, real science, technological breakthroughs rather than technological refinements or even technological downgrades in order to protect the

environment, which is much, much, much, much, much cleaner than it was when I was last with

these guys 50 years ago. And so I want to take a really kind of specific angle on this.

What I'm trying to get at here is it's clear that the nation has bound itself to an ideology

or allowed itself to be bound to an ideology that is determined to stop the genuine definition

of progress, which is the definition I grew up with.

And what I really want to do here is I want to avoid being pessimistic because one of the

many thunderbolts that have hit me over the last several years is that how much of that

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