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A lot of things to take. 2 50860.

Got a lot of things to think about tonight. A lot of different angles to take with an event that happened this morning.

Something as simple is reading a headline.

It sparked my imagination and this is why I want to talk to you tonight about a few things that I think that there's a difference between woke

and being awake and Plato once argued that when democracy ripens and once it's ripen it goes unattended it'll become rotten and a tyrant can seize the moment.

Now who's the tyrant? Well he's usually of the elite but has a nature

in tune with the times. Given over to random pleasures and whims, he feasts on plenty of food and

he has sex, he revels in non-judgment that is democracy

is civil religion. He makes his move by taking over a particularly

obedient mob and attacking his wealthy peers is corrupt. If not stopped quickly, his appetite for attacking the rich

on behalf of the people swells further.

He's a traitor to his class.

And soon, his elite enemies, short of popular legitimacy, actually find a way to appease him and are forced to flee.

What Playo was talking about was a sort of anti-Christ figure.

And eventually this figure promises to cut through the paralysis of Democratic incoherence.

It's as if you were offering the addle distracted and self-indezed citizens

the kind of relief from democracy's endless choices of insecurity. Promising a reset, promising a new world, a new world order a new normal

he rides a backlash to excess too much freedom seems to change into nothing but too much slavery. He offers himself as the

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