Hello, time travelers. It's me again. We're here again together, traveling through time and space, certainly through time.

Before we get started, I always like to say thanks to everyone who's signed up to my Patreon site. It's the

Patreon presence that makes possible everything else is

else is and always will be free and that's viable because of the

Patreon site so if you haven't done so already and you'd like to go to

Patreon.com search for me by name Neil Oliver and follow the instructions and you part with a bit of cash either monthly or for the year and if you join up for the year all at once it's a little bit cheaper and you become part of the family.

You get two exclusive vaudcasts every week.

We do quizzes from time to time with prizes, signed books,

that kind of thing.

We do a question and answers. I think as much as anything

else, perhaps it matters most to become part of a community of light-minded free-thinking, curious types, people with questions,

because as well as addressing questions to me, there are conversations that go on amongst the

other members of the family. So that's got to be a positive addition to the world, I think.

Okay, it's now time to strap ourselves, yourselves into the time machine

as we set off on another episode of my love letter to the world.

Recorder microphone. Action. It can be on our terms. We can continue to be ourselves and know what's true and know what's right and know what matters right up until the moment when our eyes closed for the last time. They can't take that away.

No matter what else they do, they can't make us submit and they cannot force our consent. Living through great change, upheaval and revolution is a constant theme in the story of the world. In many ways it

is the story of the world. As new ideas and leaders emerge the choice between

submitting or resisting,

between kneeling or standing,

is one of the oldest stories,

one of the oldest challenges.

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