many of you are familiar with the iconic essay by leonard reed, called eye pencil. yes?aise your hand. i think this should be mandatory. if i had a common core curriculum, i pencil would be taught in second grade or first grade. this is the way of illustrating the miracle of millions of voluntary exchanges that go on obviously in our country every day, and around the world where they can. of all the cooperation that goes on without any centralized top-down hand coordinating it. the engine, the the fuel for producing something as simple as a pencil comes from allowing people to pursue their self interests. it's the same thing with toilet paper, which is wife one of the chapters i wrote is called eye, toilet paper. boy was it fun writing in the voice of a roll of toilet paper. what i found was, and this is what i talk about it was such a joy to take a break from the daily wear and tear of the cable tv world where there so much focus on the negative, just to be able to breathe in this incredible legacy. the history of toilet paper can be traced back to our founding fathers,