I want to welcome everyone back to the Pete Cagnone show and welcome back, Aaron.

What's up?

Nice for having me.

Yeah, yeah.

Always a pleasure.

Always a pleasure.

Here to do a reading and I don't know.

This may take, this will definitely take two.

This could take three.

So people can be patient with us as

you're a very busy man to get you back on and, uh, and do more of this. But this is a,

an essay kind of, kind of popular. A lot of people, even people on the left push, a lot of people on the left pushed this essay,

but a lot of people who like left the left, or say the left left them.

And then they start coming over to the center more or less.

Oh, you have to read repressive tolerance by Herbert Marcos.

So what do you know about him?

I know that very little other than that he was a he was a Frankfurt school guy.

You know, big in the big in the 60s, leftist thinker, kind of a post-Marxist, didn't, wasn't

too into the scientific socialism like I am, but more of the socialist humanism.

And, you know, just different focuses, but focused a lot on culture and praxis.

And, you know, I did a little background on this essay and him.

And it's one of those things that I think it's perfect that we're having this episode

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