All right, this is questions from the fine listeners at X with due respect to the bloody raging

sorrows of the past few days.

We must continue on with our good work in the world.

So, philosophical questions.

Somebody writes, the morality of unearned privilege.

Whether beauty, high IQ, or natural athleticism,

etc. largely unearned gifts. Are they to be enjoyed fully, to the benefit of the holder,

or should they use them in some way to help the less fortunate, modesty, charity protection?

For one, two, three, beauty, modesty, high IQ charity,

natural athleticism protection, one, two, three. It's a great, big and good question,

and I really do appreciate you asking it. I mean, I always knew I was kind of different from those around me, but it didn't really flower until I remember very clearly, I think I was maybe 19 years old, so still almost

half a decade away from brain maturity, and I started writing a book about the First World War. It's called

The Jealous War. It's never been published. It's about how war is possessive and jealous

of life, and a soldier who has an affair with war, so to speak, rather than his fiancé.

And the language and the imagery and the vividness and the smacket smell it, I could feel the mud,

I could listen to the bullets, it all just kind of erupted in my brain.

When I was writing it, it just blew me away.

It just, it just happened.

And now, gosh, many, many decades later and 40 years later, I'm still writing. And I have just finished and, or I'm going through the second edits of my novel called

Dissolution. And these are by far the most real characters that I've ever created,

and I know them in some ways better than I know others in my life or myself, because I can go

into their inner thoughts directly. So if you have an analogy creating mind, which I certainly

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