Jeremy Kauffman

And so there's this weird aspect where what's really special about religion

Western European culture is this desire to be fair, is this desire to cooperate.

But now the thing that's great about it is kind of being exploited and taking advantage of, you know, and it's not just a matter of intelligence.

It's not just a matter of an ability to contribute economically.

There are all kinds of aspects of our society that, you know, our jury trial system depends on people's willingness to be impartial and fair.

But if you could be a very intelligent person, but come from a clannish culture,

where your view of morality is, is very focused on your family is very focused on who's close to you, who's in your immediate family, you know, and, and so there are all kinds of aspects, I think of things that will break down or at risk of breaking down and are more fragile than we appreciate.

And we need, you know, and, and I'm, I'm worried, you know, I do feel like

The system is increasingly exploited.

The train has no brakes.

And it's not included.

I know it's even at the wheel at this point.

You know, we have this runaway set of mores and norms and culture that is suiciding us.

And it's become this problem that I think about, you know, more and more.

Yeah, so I have two sort of comments in response to that.

One is that culture is clearly important.

Culture is in many ways upstream of politics.

One of the reasons that I still, despite having plenty of specific problems with Trump on policy, still kind of like him overall is I feel that he's positive for the culture, that he's willing to say these things and introduce these things into the culture that otherwise wouldn't happen.

And so in terms of in terms of combating your sort of egalitarianism or gay race communism, which I use as almost synonyms, you know, this is that, you know, he that he's a positive force for this.

And we have to care about these things.