Adam Gurri

I know.

What's up with that?

No, our system was already, I mean, I talked about how expensive the court system is, but how expensive it is to run for office too.

I mean, it also filters out to a certain kind of person, both someone who is already somewhat affluent, but then also has to have backers that really, really are.

Okay.

So a lot of the criticisms of liberalism make a basic mistake in treating liberalism as if it's synonymous with the modern world.

Patrick Deneen and all those people just do that.

They think,

oh, this commercial society, this mass society, the pluralism, all of that, that's caused by liberalism.

But it's not caused by liberalism.

In the past 200, 300 years, the world has been utterly transformed.

We call it the Industrial Revolution.

Frankly, that's a misnomer.

It's much more a revolution in...

uh, science, technology and production period of all kinds.

Um, and, uh, you know, one aspect of it is that the average person forget about how wealthy they are.

Cause wealth is sort of, you could take different ways of measuring what wealth means, right?

Depending on how you want to define it.

The average person is more mobile physically.

Like we have cars, we have trains, we have airplanes.