Greg Lukianoff

We took a long, dark journey from whataboutism.

Yeah.

Yeah.

My wonderful employee, Angel Anduardo, has something that he calls star manning.

And I find myself doing this a lot.

It's nice to have two immigrant parents because I remember being in San Francisco in the weird kind of like ACLU slash Burning Man kind of cohort and having a friend there who was an artist who would talk about hating Kansas.

And that was his metaphor for middle America is what he meant by it.

But he was kind of proud of the fact that he hated Kansas.

And I'm like, you got to understand, I still see all of you a little bit as foreigners.

And think about, like, change the name of Kansas to Croatia.

You know, change the name of Kansas to some – that's what it sounds like to me.

And the star manning idea, which I like, is the idea of being like, so you're saying that you really hate your dominant religious minority.

Like, and that's – when you start actually detaching yourself a little bit from it, how typical –

America is exceptional in a number of ways, but some of our dynamics are incredibly typical.

It's one of the reasons why when people start reading Thomas Sowell, for example, they start getting hooked because one of the things he does is he does comparative analysis of countries' problems and points out that some of these things that we think are just unique to the United States exist in Europe.

75% of the rest of the countries in the world.

For instance, Fukuyama's, the book that I'm reading right now, Origins of the Political Order, actually does this wonderful job of pointing out how we're not special in a variety of ways.

This is actually something that's very much on my mind.

Fukuyama, of course, it's a great book.

It's stilted a little bit in its writing.