Jacob Ward
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 31 Aug
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Switzerland.
And they were in the middle of their big national and regional elections.
And there were these very impassioned uh that like like they had these these purpose built uh like like kiosks full of campaign posters for various political things.
And they had a whole thing where it was like all this sturm and drunk, and there was like nine, and then another one was yeah.
They were so, you know, and I and I asked my hosts, what what are they fighting about here?
Like clearly they are feel very strongly about this.
And they said, Oh, that's a very hot topic.
They're trying to uh decide whether to expand the funding for music education in the city beyond classical music and into other forms of music, jazz and the rest.
And and it's a and it was an enormous political issue because they put a ton of money into making sure that any kid who wants to can learn music, you know.
And that like this thing that we're gonna treat creativity the way we've treated like customer service jobs or being a telephone operator or being a you know, a buggy whip manufacturer, I just think it's sort of the it's not the right way to protect
A creative culture.
And I don't wanna seem insensitive.
But it's my I'm I'm not putting this on you.
I'm putting this on
I like that you know, it it makes me think about the the v the the Pope's big encyclical on AI that came out.
Yeah, I thought that was great.
And he, by the way, was an
No, but he was but he was so smart about hearkening back to his namesake, right?
Leo the thirteenth or facing the same issues, right?
Yeah, so facing the same issues that Leo the Thirteenth in 1891 was talking about industrial capitalism and the way in which labor is being exploited in factories and kids are being chained to the loom and all of this stuff.
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