Greetings. Last night I recorded a long and fire hose-like, frankly. It was so long that in the end I forgot to articulate my main intended conclusion that I wanted to get across.

So I'm going to say that now, which will kind of give you a destination in mind as we go through this 40 minute, frankly.

Where I lay out various categories and subcategories for empowering more individuals, presumably you,

the viewers of this platform, towards mature and resilient development

in service of life.

This is meant to specifically contrast the concept of the sovereign individual,

which is in service of increasing power and wealth accumulation, narrow boundary versus

wide boundary. From the evolutionary perspective of multi-level selection, we are now at a place

that being aware of the stakes of our times

and all the things that we talk about on this podcast, the concept of the sovereign individual

makes no sense. It is an oxymoron. The stakes of our time demand that we embrace our interconnected

nature and move beyond the pursuit

of individual sovereignty, for sovereignty's sake, into being sovereign as homo sapiens,

but collectively as islands of coherence together in service of life. So the following list of

nine categories with three subcategories each is my first

pass at mapping what this might look like, at least directionally. Plus, Frank makes a cameo.

Here we go. Happy New Year. Happy 2025. That's just one of those things that we say that we've gotten used to saying but there's a big

old asterisk saying happy new year Frank is doing well though he's living the great

simplification with duct tape on his little winter outfit it is negative 15 Fahrenheit as I record this. I have a lot to say today.

This is maybe more of a presentation than frankly. And I have many more to come in the new year.

There's a lot going on in the world.

I think as the months and now years go by, it's becoming a central point of this podcast

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