Good morning everybody, Stephen Roll and New Farm.

Free Domain, hope you're doing well.

Questions from Free Domain. Locals.

Great community. I hope you to join.

When you say you don't do politics anymore, does that mean even in your personal life?

You just avoid it?

Politics is becoming

soul-crushing these days and plays with my head. I don't do politics really in my

personal life. I'll occasionally read up on it a little bit here and there just to get the lay of the land and

someone but I do find politics to be profoundly uninteresting.

I think profoundly uninteresting. Profoundly uninteresting.

I think that debate is important where there's two things, free will and free speech,

where you have free will and free speech, where you have free speech, then I think debate is interesting and important.

But obviously there's not a lot of free will in politics anymore, everybody's just scrambling

for the last piece of gold from the decaying empire all

over the place and so everybody's just motivated by self-interest and their perceived need to survive and so on and flourish.

And people have like over a couple of generations people adapt to state power and feel like

they can't really live without it.

So there's not really much free will bear.

Is there much free speech in politics?

Well, no.

Not really because if you say the things about politics that are the basic truths you don't make it really so I I where there's no

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