Welcome back for Copton. I'm so glad that you're here, and I'm glad to be back in the saddle of doing this, normal episodes and such. The tour kind of took me off of doing that for a few weeks. And, you know, that's nice. It's nice to take a break. But it's also nice to be back to work on doing the work. So before I start today, real quick, the Easter sale for the journaling program

is still going on, 50% off. Use the code Easter 50% off, which I believe brings the price

from 72 pounds down to 36 pounds. So a lot more affordable. I'm keeping it that way until the 1st of May.

Second, I am officially going on a really big tour, a workshop tour across 20 cities in the UK. I'm starting in Lester. So if you are in Lester or in Lestershire and you're interested in attending the first talk, I'll be having it at the Secular Society. It's a half day. It's on Saturday, May 23rd. It will include lunch. You'll get a journal to take home and you will actually get access to the journaling program as a benefit of having attended that workshop. Again, there are going to be 20 of these. I'm still figuring out venues, but I have some soft commitments from all 20 across the next 40 weeks. So I'll be doing

one of these live workshops every other week for 40 weeks, which is wild. I'm very excited to be

doing it. I just feel great about going around talking to people about this. And I've found a way

to make it economically viable for me to do, give a lot of benefit, like include lunch in the workshops,

give things away in the workshop. I've found a way to make that happen. So as long as I can put the butts in the seats, hey, it's good. So there'll be more about that as perhaps I get the actual dates and all that worked out. But for now, just know it's coming up. And if you live in Lester or Lester Shear or even in Nottingham and you want to make the trip up. There is a link in the

description of this episode that you can just see the one tour stop that is currently listed on my website. And if you like, you can register for it if there are any seats left. Now, with that, we're going to start today's episode. It's about the idea of silence being

complicity, this idea that if you are not loud about an issue or if you don't speak out

about an issue, you're automatically implicated in it as being part of the problem.

I've had this on my mind for a long time, years. I've never really liked the concept. I think it's an impractical concept to hold. It's an impractical position to hold. Ethically speaking, it doesn't hold water, I don't think. And I'm going to talk a little bit about why I think that is. But I want you to know that it wasn't my idea to come up with this episode. In fact, I had recently, in the last, let's say, three months or so,

two months or so, started a substack called Dear Tanner, where people who were following my work,

either here on the podcast or the writing I do through Stoic Brecki or anywhere else, that they

could write in with their personal questions, I'd anonymize them, and I'd respond to them

and try to give some, you know, try to give some advice. Now, unfortunately, I'd anonymize them, and I'd respond to them and try to give some,

you know, try to give some advice. Now, unfortunately, I chose substack to do that, and I've become

aware of problematic issues with substacks since doing that, so the substack won't remain,

which is why I'm not going to share a link to it in the show notes. But I would like to ask if any of you have alternatives

for like blogging that aren't Substack and please aren't WordPress because I really don't want

to go through the process of like paying for a WordPress or hosting a WordPress and all the

work that comes along with it. But if you have a blogging platform that you'd like to suggest

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