I'm told by people way smarter than me about this whole internet gig that you want your

content to be evergreen you don't want to say stuff that is that is locked in a

moment in time because in a year or two years or whatever later it won't make as much

sense I think the thing I want to

talk about at this moment though is going to make sense for a long period of time

because I think everybody forever will recall the disastrous first debate of the 2020 American presidential election season that took place last night.

I know a bunch of people watched it. People are disillusioned, they're frustrated frustrated they're angry at each other

what a disappointing weird moment this is I'm offering no political commentary

whatsoever about one of the candidates or the other other than to say if you think that was a

good look for our country last night I guess you and I will just have to

respectfully agree to disagree on that point.

I thought it was ugly and horribly disappointing.

But even more disappointing is that I feel like there's a feedback loop

that's occurring right now where our awful, awful political rhetoric, just nasty, scorched earth,

burn each other down political rhetoric, is informing our relationships day to day not just on the internet

it at least used to be just on the internet and now it's leaked over into the rest of

our relationships and it's burning bridges and creating tension and friction and nastiness between individuals

and then that informs the politicians because they feel like

that gets attention and it works and that's how we are now.

So then they do more of it and then we see more of it and we do more of it and then we do more of it and then

they do more of it. This just has to stop at some point. But one of the most heartbreaking

things about all of this very disappointing moment we're going through right now is what it's doing to you and me.

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