All right, hello fellow ex-denizens.

Thank you for your warm, robust, and occasionally manic.

Welcome back to the greatest social media platform in the world.

X, formerly known as Twitter, formerly known as formerly censorious.

Thanks again, Elon.

Now, for those of you who can't make the live streams,

I begged on my hands and knees, bruises, on both my, for those of you who can't make the live streams, I begged on my hands and knees,

bruises on both my knees for you for questions that I could put my philosophical brain towards.

These other questions, here are the answers. Why do you think the West has fallen into this

existential crisis?

And what's the way out?

See, I like to start with the easy questions.

You know, the two and two make four questions.

So the existential crisis fundamentally is fueled by statism.

Statism is the idea that the government is an effective arbiter or solver of complex social problems.

State is an agency of force, which is to say the complexity is able to be solved by a force.

Using the government to try and solve social problems is like using a gun to make someone write a great poem.

It doesn't work.

And the people who confidently talk about the government being able to solve complex social

problems like poverty and discrimination and so on or a lack of education, the idea that the

government can solve these problems is a drug. I'm not kidding

about this. It is a, it is a drug. Dopamine is a very powerful human motivational biochemical.

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