Bill Thompson

on everything they can do with your thing that you paid $2,000 for.

It's just, you know, we need more ethical people.

At least what Eric Prince was trying to do was right, which was we need to off ramp from some of these big things because the way that this government is going, I'm very worried about the rights of the individual now

And going forward, because we have an uneducated class of people for all of the reasons in the world, like if you want to just focus on your family and you're not thinking about these things, I don't hate that for you.

But the idea of individual autonomy and rights has been so shit on.

in recent years that when we get more uneducated and we rely, large language models are great, but they're not a foundation of learning.

In other words, we have a lot of people with access to information but no wisdom.

It's like when your parents would say, learn how to do addition and subtraction on paper before you use a calculator.

Like, understand how to do research and cite sources and understand, you know, how to conduct really good analysis before you just use a neural network for everything.

Because as we lose focus of our civics and what our founders were trying to do and the uniqueness of it, which is truly unique, which is, you know, when I joined the Army, I joined the Army to get out of North Dakota.

When I reenlisted in the Army, it's because I believed in the experiment.

And that's another five-hour podcast, but...

The foundation of the experiment is good, but we've eroded it in so many ways over the years and given up so many individual rights in the name of security.

And I'm sure it's been said on here before, but Franklin said anybody who gives up their individual rights in the name of security deserves neither.

Your freedoms in the name of security deserve neither and it's some of the ways that they've done it have been really above the surface and it frankly blows my mind that we let the government get away with some of these things that we let them get away with where you even explain it to people like I don't see it like I don't see how that was a big deal and I'm like.

It was a total recalibration of the system that allowed the Democratic Party and the Republican Party to usurp your rights in a way that if you knew any better, you'd probably be protesting.

Some of the ways that they've done this, we can go with the easy stuff like the Patriot Act.

In the name of security, we're going to start collecting on Americans.

And the Biden and Obama administration, I will say this, at risk of getting in trouble because I used to have a clearance.

They had a massive vacuum cleaner and they knew what it was vacuuming up and they kept vacuuming it up anyway in the name of security.