Welcome to PlotGast episode 99.

You know what this means.

It means that we're just one episode shy of Plotghast episode 100. That's a real milestone. But I will be

chardling about that in the next one. Not in this one. This is

Plodcast episode 99. Thanks for joining us. Good to have you here. So I want to talk about

culture and the fact that faith is upstream from culture and that culture is upstream from politics.

There are many political blessings that we currently enjoy that we are recipients of in Western culture, and particularly here in the United States. And these... culture and these blessings came from somewhere.

It's very easy, you know,

if you're the millionaires kid and you're growing up in an affluent

household and there's just always food in the fridge you if you're hungry you go to the fridge. You just say that's where food comes from.

That's where I go get the ice water. That's where I go, yeah. So if you grow up around wealth, you take it for granted. We have grown up

around an enormous amount of moral capital.

There are things that we take for granted.

We think that, well, this is just the way

human societies should be. or they either are most of the time and should be all of the time.

And we just assume that it's our birthright and we assume that it's just kind of there.

Not recognizing, not realizing, not realizing that there are all sorts of things that we take for granted that are not commonplace in other societies at all.

Now, not only we, when it comes to this moral capital, and I'm talking about everything from the fact that people know how to line up at the

post officer at the bank, they take their, wait their turn, people assume that you should be defering, you know, whether it's holding the door for

someone else to go through, go into the building first or all kinds, those sorts of things are part of our culture because they've been instilled in our culture over the course of centuries.

Now, in the abolition of man, C.S. Lewis says,

with a sort of he talks about people who have not thought the issue through and they he says in a sort of ghastly

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