I hate to say this, but it does feel like I've been radicalized in some ways.

And radicalize, you know, not obviously to take up arms or to do anything violent,

but radicalize in the sense that I realize that there are some things which are broken

that I don't see how they can be repaired at this point.

We've reached over the line in ways that is beyond the pale.

This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world. All right, it's been a few weeks now since the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

And I wasn't sure I was going to make a video about this, but I thought that maybe it would actually

be an opportunity to make a video, of course, about the event, about some of what I perceive

to be its effects, but then also about

politics in general. You know, I get comments all the time, people asking me, why don't I talk

more about the war in Ukraine or, you know, the situation, the war in Gaza, or why I don't talk about, you know, Nigerian Christians being slaughtered,

or why I don't talk about, you know, the different political things.

And in some ways, the same thing goes to Charlie Kirk.

Many people have written messages, and they ask,

are you going to talk about the assassination?

And as you've noticed, I actually very rarely talk about politics.

It's not that I don't have political opinions.

I definitely do have political opinions,

but at least in my public sphere,

I feel like that is not my function.

I will talk about politics if I feel that it's insightful and that it's helping you understand bigger questions.

As you notice, I started talking about the end of the World War II consensus,

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