From the Abraham Lincoln Radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center,

the Armstrong and Gettyshow.

It's going to be a little podcasty, I think. I mean, the show is always turned into a podcast after the live radio show is done, but the

this hour is going to be a little more single topic key. I think. And then Jack will be back tomorrow and we'll get back to more bingo, bongo, plow through the news in an imitable fast paced and semi coherent way.

Do you remember last time Jack was out, perhaps you're here, I went through the first half of a piece written by Jonathan height is one of my favorite thinkers.

And then the last time I was out there, I was in a very small period. Why the past 10 years of American life have been uniquely stupid.

It's not just a phase. And he talked about a lot of trends in society, the rise of social media. He goes through the background of human psychology and how the founding fathers knew that we would become

often over stupid stuff. That's just the way human beings are. And then how social media gave everybody a dark gun. And we started hurling dark sit each other,

aided by the very algorithms of social media that realized the best way to keep people engaged is to make them angry.

So the greatest minds of our generation devoted their lives and careers to keeping us angry at each other and giving us tools to attack each other online.

And then one of his summary points in the first half of the thing is fairly lengthy. But one of the things he comes to is that so many of these darts were

chucking at each other all the time are from the most aggressive angry people. So we have like the rule of the most aggressive and they're often, often aimed at our own side of the argument.

Whatever argument you're having right left whatever. So it's become this context, the contest rather of ideological purity, but dictated by that outer few percent, who most of us consider nut jobs, but now they have the reins.

So that's where we've gotten, you know, up till now and in discussing Jonathan Heights piece before I dive back into it though, by way of way of illustration, I'm going to bring you this story.

They questioned gender, affirming care, then their kids were kicked out of school. It is a story from Marin County, California, which is historically been a great, I mean large, liberal enclave.

And you know, in a way, a great as in terrific liberal enclave to because in the 60s, 70s, it was a very hippie feeling, do your own thing. I don't judge you place.

And that has that's that's a complicated notion that's not always a good thing because often doing your own thing is bad for yourself in society and in the whole hippie, hippie thing went way too far and people ended up chasing down roads that will never bring the human soul satisfaction pleasure seeking.

It just it never has and it never will, according to every great philosophy, this ever caught hold on planet earth, but you know, the short though, the Marin County thing was kind of gentle and accommodated.

It ain't anymore, especially in pockets of it, it is the opposite. It's the story of Paul and Rebecca was just a month or so ago that they pulled their minivan over to the side of the road just north like Tahoe where they happen to be and logged into a zoom made.

With the head of their Marin County Country Day school.

Today was the last day of school for your children said the the principal Catherine didn't.

The Sinclair has been driving home from vacation celebrating their anniversary. The principal appeared to be reading a script to other board members of the school joined around the call but didn't say anything.

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