And we're live. Are you going to update the people out there? No. Oh you shut your phone off?

Oh, you're a professional. All right, sir. Good to see it. What's going on?

Everything. It's all pretty weird out there. It is very weird out there. We were just

talking about how weird it is out there before the podcast about how it just seems like

it's very difficult to keep together during these times and to keep a

reasonable position and to handle all of the pressure of all the people that get

upset at anything you do left or right in the middle centrist you're two

centrist you're two left you two right you're unreasonable you're too reasonable you're too

nice you're not nice enough well suddenly I feel like I'm in a marriage.

Doesn't it seem like that though?

Yeah, it does. I think that this is why this is the era for disagreeability.

If you're not easily swayed because you're

somehow insensitive enough that you just want to keep to first principles

wherever it is that you believe that seems to be the best hedge against getting swept up in the

madness of others.

How so?

Well, I guess when I go medcognitive, I look at my yearning for group belonging and then I also watch my

inability to belong to groups that say crazy things.

And so those are two conflicting feelings.

I think sometimes when people look at me, they say,

wow, you're really contrarian

and you have an easy time standing up to,

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