Bridget Phetasy

So this idea that, oh, I'm popular and that means I'm right is such a very strange.

I understand it from if you're young, I can understand that.

But from somebody who's older, it seems like you should know better.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, totally.

I mean, it goes back to a couple things that you said.

I really do try and ground myself in those recovery principles all the time, one of which is principles before personalities.

So like you, I try not to get bogged down in too much of the personal mudslinging.

I have friends and family members on all sides of the aisles.

I see the same thing in media.

And I actually think it should be that way.

It's healthy to be able to have conversations with people who disagree with you.

And I do think turning everything, as James Lindsay is always talking about, this friend-enemy distinction makes it very easy to kind of divide and conquer people.

And we have outside forces who are influencing this from other countries.

Now...

There's also a lot of truth in the idea that, and this was really embedded in this piece, I've never peaked.

So I have literally built what I made.

Truly, I'm still an independent creator.

I've never had a machine behind me.