This is why the social media also fosters this idea that there's a continuity in us. In Jung, this is called individuality, but we just call it individuality because we're talking about very social beings. My work we don't even use the word individual. I think it's actually kind of individual was invented by people to put them in persons and hold them responsible for things. And I don't want to go there. So we call them, we call each other individuals. I'm an individual, right? But we can't pretend that we are shaped into an individual who is the same because we are not the eternalizationist of the issue. And we change all the time and people do. And we even expect people to change. We even expect people to learn or develop or go wise as they go all good or whatever and die one day. And all those changes we expect from people make them be the biggest. Donald Trump is president because he's the parody of a politician. Since politics can't create value, you can only destroy value these days. It can only be ironic. And we wrote in the Netocrats, 60 years before Donald Trump became president, who said, it's only a matter of time before America picks the president as a reality TV show star. It was obviously it would happen. And celebrities now conditioned to become politician. It means power is moving somewhere else. And thankfully, AI can solve most of those mundane problems because with blockchain, especially, it's a perfect record of the past. I can always go to the day and say, instead of having a political debate today,

why don't we look at any town like our little town here in the world that has best practice of work?

And we just do what they do.

And it's hard to argue against that.

After much Riverside finangling, we finally got it to work.

And I'm super excited to talk to you.

Yeah.

And yeah, you know, as you know, as we've talked about, I had this conversation with John Vervaki recently about some of the deeper

ideas we're working on in the book. You know, one domain John is very popular for exploring with people

is neoplatonism. And at the core, the foundation of neoplatonism is this, I guess you call it a notion.

It's kind of like the notion that is beyond notions of the one.

And I wanted to just dive in here.

So like, I guess we're just quite a my relationship to John Fitton.

Please.

To begin with, since we're good friends, it would be kind of embarrassing if we didn't.

John and I belong to a new generation of philosophers who have agreed that we'd be embarrassing

to start with the Greeks once again.

It's just historically untrue.

The idea that everything started with the Greeks

is simply because the Greeks left a lot of text and because there was a need in the 19th century

among the European Empire to invent this history that the Greeks was the foundation of Western culture,

which is incredibly and deeply untrue. So I've been working on something called the Persian Hebrew

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