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I just don't get, I don't see what the advantage is of like having just everybody fighting

between Trump and DeSantis at this point.

Maybe I'm, maybe I'm all.

Well, there's not much of an advantage and yet it goes on anyway.

I mean, we're still sort of huffing the fumes of, you know, the reality TV era and even

among, you know, leading intellectuals, public intellectuals on the right, there's still

this sort of like stubborn devotion to the idea that like if we just get the right narrative,

if we can just tell stories that people like better than the ones that they're hearing,

then we can somehow sort of get a grip back on the institutions or something.

I mean, you know, Jordan Peterson's new thing arc, which is I guess going to be the like,

you know, if, if the world economic forum was not like lizards anonymous or whatever,

I don't know, just really just doubling and tripling down on the idea that like narrative

still rule and so whoever can craft the best narrative is going to win.

And I just, you know, what did it were so simple?

I mean, you look around and you see what?

You see many radically different narratives, which may not even necessarily be fundamentally

different in terms of their, their presuppositions about how the world works and what it is to

be human, but still positioning themselves as, you know, the, the anti matter to whatever

matter it is that they're, that they're going after and there's no indication that that kind

of like, you know, muscular, agonistic contestation between narratives is going to yield the truth

or the winning argument or the most powerful block or necessarily anything.

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