Chris Moritz

Right. They're totally disconnected. They're completely removed from the bad schools, from the bad roads, from the crime. They have private police force, basically.

Right. They're totally disconnected. They're completely removed from the bad schools, from the bad roads, from the crime. They have private police force, basically.

Right. They're totally disconnected. They're completely removed from the bad schools, from the bad roads, from the crime. They have private police force, basically.

Well, so like when we talk about neo-feudalism and maybe how that's not a perfect analog, I would add in support of your approach is, well, at least in feudalism, they believed in God.

Well, so like when we talk about neo-feudalism and maybe how that's not a perfect analog, I would add in support of your approach is, well, at least in feudalism, they believed in God.

Well, so like when we talk about neo-feudalism and maybe how that's not a perfect analog, I would add in support of your approach is, well, at least in feudalism, they believed in God.

It actually structured the entire society.

It actually structured the entire society.

It actually structured the entire society.

I would say that, you know, if you're going to make a historical comparison to like, let's say, are we in a new dark age? You could argue that, you know, the dark, the so-called dark ages was characterized by a dark, separation from Hellenism and classical ideas and literacy, right?

I would say that, you know, if you're going to make a historical comparison to like, let's say, are we in a new dark age? You could argue that, you know, the dark, the so-called dark ages was characterized by a dark, separation from Hellenism and classical ideas and literacy, right?

I would say that, you know, if you're going to make a historical comparison to like, let's say, are we in a new dark age? You could argue that, you know, the dark, the so-called dark ages was characterized by a dark, separation from Hellenism and classical ideas and literacy, right?

And so I think you could argue, frankly, that modern America, actually modern society as a whole, and this is especially true in California, is also disconnected from its history. It is forgetting its history purposefully. Oh, I know. And we're also becoming... Ironically, we are subject to more information than we can absorb, and so we absorb nothing. And maybe that's a kind of new illiteracy.

And so I think you could argue, frankly, that modern America, actually modern society as a whole, and this is especially true in California, is also disconnected from its history. It is forgetting its history purposefully. Oh, I know. And we're also becoming... Ironically, we are subject to more information than we can absorb, and so we absorb nothing. And maybe that's a kind of new illiteracy.

And so I think you could argue, frankly, that modern America, actually modern society as a whole, and this is especially true in California, is also disconnected from its history. It is forgetting its history purposefully. Oh, I know. And we're also becoming... Ironically, we are subject to more information than we can absorb, and so we absorb nothing. And maybe that's a kind of new illiteracy.

Yeah. You know, it'll be very interesting to see if there ever, if things get so bad that it catalyzes action by the voters themselves. One of these prosecutors I talked to from Alameda County, we were discussing the broader implications of how we got to the place that we did. And she said to me, she said, I blame you. And I said, what?

Yeah. You know, it'll be very interesting to see if there ever, if things get so bad that it catalyzes action by the voters themselves. One of these prosecutors I talked to from Alameda County, we were discussing the broader implications of how we got to the place that we did. And she said to me, she said, I blame you. And I said, what?

Yeah. You know, it'll be very interesting to see if there ever, if things get so bad that it catalyzes action by the voters themselves. One of these prosecutors I talked to from Alameda County, we were discussing the broader implications of how we got to the place that we did. And she said to me, she said, I blame you. And I said, what?

I blame, and when she said, you, I mean the uneducated voter, right? The voters that are susceptible to the marketing gimmicks of our politicians that reframe legalizing theft as Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act. And this kind of complacency has resulted in a significant way to the degradation of the state.

I blame, and when she said, you, I mean the uneducated voter, right? The voters that are susceptible to the marketing gimmicks of our politicians that reframe legalizing theft as Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act. And this kind of complacency has resulted in a significant way to the degradation of the state.