This is the Mr. DeBate Society. I am Gaius. I'm in Lunditian. It is live on a gloomy, gloomy night.

However, and you cannot see the Thames. It's ridiculous. You can stand at the shoreline and hear it,

but it's too bleak out there. There are no watermen out. In other words, if you're on the wrong side of the river, you're going to spend the night there. I don't know why you're traveling around in near winter conditions anyway. It's 91 AD, and we're very safe from the intrigues of Rome. Germanicus is here, and so are the centurians. We've given them the word peace. Germanicus, you note how they all go

for another glass of wine when I bring up the word peace. Makes them anxious. I suspect that they've

survived too many pieces and they know how dangerous they are. We're going to turn to something, though,

that the French recommend, which is civic communion it seems the

concept disappears the moment i say it so i have to contain it here civic communion is best is best for me

to define us what it's not it's not the present fragmented state of the united states

when the president goes out for the State of the Union message,

a ceremony at the beginning of each calendar year, and says the union is strong, he's kidding.

He's repeating something that they've said before. There's no metric that could prove such a thing.

The state of the Union is not a union. It hasn't been for some time.

And to observe this is not to be cynical, is to recognize the world as it is, not the world as I want it to be.

Now the recommendation by the French philosophers is to work on major institutions, religion, military, education, health care, major institutions

where people belong to each other, no matter their immutable background, and people who

celebrate together.

Now, Germanicus reminds me that the French are very good at this.

The Americans thought so good, maybe because we have so many different traditions.

And Germanicus, I want to make this exciting for the Centurians.

I watched a French thriller movie about a submarine and rogue powers and nuclear weapons. I watched it beginning to end.

I enjoyed it immensely because it was no way to predict what was going to come out of it.

The French are quite random, it occurs to me, with their destruction of heroes. I mean,

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