Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Yeah, so I'm very curious about tonight's talk,

because I have a lot of things buzzing around in my imagination

that are related to the topic of identity,

and I'm very curious to see if I can weave them together.

So I guess we're gonna find out.

It's a lot of fun to try to do something.

Like I do a different lecture every night.

I have a different question every night.

It's a lot of fun to see if I can make something coherent

out of a genuine investigation. You know, it's a kind of a high wire act, but it's very

entertaining. It's fun to do it with an audience too because, and I can see simultaneously if I can

manage to push my thought forward in a manner that's coherent,

but also in a manner that's communicable and comprehensible.

That's a great privilege to be able to have that opportunity.

So identity, you know, we have identity politics, right, And that's a core element of the culture war.

So identity has become political.

So let's, it isn't necessarily the case that identity would be political.

It could be psychological, it could be sacred, it could be, it could be patriotic, it could be national.

There's lots of manners in which identity could manifest itself,

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