Greetings. I am recording this a day and a half after the attempted assassination on former President Trump.

Boy, in intervening two days, I've learned a lot about myself and I've learned a lot about my fellow citizens, left, right, north, south, young, old. Wow, some fascinating

observations. I think this was, as my friend Jordan says, an inescapable cultural cleaving

event. And everyone had to make sense of what happened.

And there does feel to be a sea change in our culture.

Something shifted.

Of course, longtime followers of this podcast and my work over the past 10 plus years will know

that I'm not apolitical, but I'm nonpartisan

because I care about reality. I care about getting the story right and passing the baton

to more humans to make better decisions individually and collectively in the future.

But I increasingly fear that both political parties in the United States are disconnected

from the reality that is coming.

And what would a reality platform, a reality party, look like?

So I want to start by instead of having people agree on reality, what would be some things

that the majority of people in this nation would agree on reality, what would be some things that the majority of people in this nation would agree on?

And I start with not values, but just preferences.

I think we would agree that we like quiet sunsets with people we love and sunrises filled with birdsong.

I had a wren singing out my window for an hour this morning.

We like healthy food and clean water.

We like to feel safe and walk our dog or our daughter around the block or in a forest.

We like the smell of babies fresh out of a bath or freshly

washed linen or the air before a rainstorm or the garlic, cumin, and onion in beans that my girlfriend

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