Oh, and before we go on, Orden Mackensar put out an episode this week on his show talking about maybe you don't want the state to be smaller.

Yes, brilliant episode, everyone needs to go listen to it. Yes. He talked about Blue Laws. He talked about Blue Laws.

For people who don't let, no, Blue Laws would be like

Can't sell alcohol on Sundays, or you can't open any stores on Sundays.

And he talked about how those laws actually make the state smaller.

And that is so foreign to most people who, you know, believe the state is Satan and radical individualism is Jesus that they can't even begin to understand why blue laws would make the state smaller.

Yes, and Tom will get into it later than to say, but it is precisely because we've made individualism the load star of our society, that the statements have gotten so big

because there are no more ethnic clubs, or there's no more fraternal lodges, and there's no more churches, and there's no more associations, and there's no more fraternal lodges and there's no more churches and there's no more associations and there's no more you know

Tom will get into this in the essay but you know big government is not necessarily bad government.

A state that says,

I was on with Jason from 2-bit podcast a couple weeks ago, right?

And Jason, I was kind enough to have me on. And one of the things that got

brought up was Jillian Michael was talking about how she was leaving California and she was just

really sickened by the legalization of pedophilia by homosexual men and you know she's a half

Arab half Jewish you know lesbian with adopted foreign kids who are both you know

black and Latino and blah blah you know she's laying out all of her cards so she's got all the cards in the Victim Olympics.

A state that just says that's really nice Miss Michael's but but you're like a foreigner and a

pervert so you just don't get to talk here, is much, much freer than a state that just says, oh, we're all individuals, right?

This idea that the government, you know, any use of

morals enforcement by the government is inherently wrong because it somehow impinges on individuals freedom is how we got here.

You know, if we were to wind the clock back to 1997 when Tom wrote this and didn't change any of the inputs,

we'd end up where we're at.

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