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On the new season of the divided dial from On the Media, we're exploring shortwave radio, where prayer and propaganda coexist with news and conspiracy theories, and where an existential battle for the public airwaves is playing out right now.

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Okay, today we're diving into Meditation 25 from Book 5 of the Meditations, which reads as follows.

Another does wrong. What is that to me? Let him look to it. He has his own disposition, his own activity. I have now what universal nature wills me to have,

and I do what my own nature wills me to do. So someone else robs a bank, someone else hits their spouse. Someone else racially slurs another person.

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