I'm going to be honest. I'm very excited about this episode. This is something that we've been

talking about internally for quite some time, and that is the question of the friend-inemey

distinction. What exactly is it? Because it sounds kind of on the face, simple enough. Sure,

you have friends, you have enemies. You have people you agree with. You have people that you disagree

with. But it's more than that. It's actually part of somewhat of a comprehensive political theory

that was discussed and thought about in this book called the concept of the political in the

mid-20th century, which is a fairly volatile time for politics, war, international relations,

et cetera. But in this book and in this theory, it's questioning what politics actually is.

So it's not just something as simple as saying, do I agree with this person? Do I disagree with

this person on any topic? It's a little bit more existential in nature. And the thing is,

is that this particular philosophy, its origins are very controversial. But what's so fascinating

is that you're actually starting to see a lot of people talk about it. And the revival of it

is coming from both the left and the right.

And so what we're going to do today on this episode is we're going to talk about this concept,

this theory.

Does it have any merits whatsoever?

Who came up with it?

What was that guy's background like?

And is it currently going on whether we like it or not?

Is this something that we have to contend with and deal with?

Or is this something that we can, I don't know, perhaps overcome?

We're going to be talking all of that. I'm more on this episode of making the argument.

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