So how's your Iran war been so far? You enjoy in the Iran war? Well, that really depends on who you

are. We like to think, as Americans, that we're all in this together and big events like wars or

economic booms or crises or natural disasters affect all of us equally, but that's not true and it never

has been true. How you experience something big really depends on where you sit. And again,

that's been true since the beginning of time. When Rome fell in 476, September, 476,

it of course was a history-changing disaster that we're still talking about. Books have been

written about it ever since, more than 1,500 years. And for most people, it was really the end.

It was the end of a civilization, the world's largest empire. But there were some people,

you can imagine, on New Year's Eve, 476, sitting around the table with their families, assessing the year that just went by.

And they looked around the table and said, you know, that was the best year we ever had.

Of course, Germanic hordes are plundering the city of Rome, but for us, honestly, it's pretty great.

And that's just the nature of it.

Not anything inherently wrong with that.

It's just a fact.

You saw it during COVID.

COVID was a massive disaster for most Americans, for most people in the West.

Addiction rates went up, suicide rates, divorce.

Kids didn't get educated for over a year.

It destroyed a whole generation of young people.

It affected them badly anyway.

On the other hand, if you were fortunate enough to have a second home, like a weekend house in a

rural area that didn't have COVID restrictions or enforcement officers capable of enforcing

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