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John, I want to start out the program here with our favorite subject lately, and that is politics.

And it's a subject that may not actually be our favorite, but it's sort of been forced on us here.

It's something we have to talk about.

And there was a point you made on Breakpoint. It's something we have to talk about. And there was a point

you made on Breakpoint Friday, yeah, Friday of last week about how our politics are actually

fracturing. Is our, is politics singular? Yeah, politics is singular. Is fracturing under the weight

of our culture. It can no longer sustain it. I liked that angle. I had not seen anyone take that exact sort of angle before you.

So talk to us a little bit about that first, because our first question opens right into

this, and I think it's a good background.

Well, you know, cultures carry weight, you know, the weight of, you know, collective morality,

the weight of a vision for the future, the weight of the

problems that need to be solved, the whatever. And, you know, when cultures function

at their best, that weight's distributed. It's distributed both locally and nationally. It's

distributed both in political and pre-political ways. You know, education carries certain things.

And, you know, if we kind of looked at

culture as a collection of different spheres of activity, then, you know, education should

carry some weight, family should carry some weight, the religious sphere should carry some weight,

the arts should carry some weight, the government should carry some weight, and so on.

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