Hi everyone. I'm Josh, and this is The Emerald,

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All that's happening on this green jewel in space. Okay, how do we start this episode?

Do we start it with the rain ritual?

With the repetitive, on a monopoetic drone of chant and step?

Is that how we start it?

Perda, purta, purta, perda, but then reverse of guinea water, pitta, pita, pita, purta, purta, pert da, and tith.

Perhaps it should start an end there, because enacted ritual in context connects and answers in its wordless way much of what I want to talk about today.

Ways of learning, modes of communication, what it means to be in contextual relationship with land and people in a system that actually functions over time within supply chains and feedback loops that make sense.

What it means to construct a mutual space in which transformation actually can happen

and what it takes to get there.

So, yeah, maybe the rain ritual is a good place to start.

But we can't talk too much about it, because, as Tyson Yonkaporta would say,

thing, that'll be a little more clear later.

So maybe we throw out all the context and just dive right in with, sometimes a triangle is just a triangle, bro.

Sometimes you can just have a pizza.

Sometimes a triangle is just a fucking triangle, bros.

Sometimes people can just have a pizza. Yeah. Or maybe we start it with the effect of Protestant

individualism on modern progressive communication dynamics. And it is a Protestant thing. And the whole

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