Joshua Citarella

Yeah, yeah, mess.

One way to put it.

I was going to be more complimentary.

Yeah, you...

you optimize for sort of rote knowledge as opposed to understood wisdom in that way.

There's not really any applicability of this in terms of the understanding.

If I'm to ask you about what it is beyond the glossary definition you've got from the other angle,

or how it interlinks with, so tell me who would be on the other side of this, or what would be an example of a time that this has occurred in history, or why do you think this came about?

All of those questions just sort of bounce off the wiki of this thing and sort of fall to the floor.

That's interesting.

So you mentioned there...

I don't know whether you use the word, but it sounds almost like a pipeline or a funnel of radicalization of going from whatever the political equivalent of cute, fluffy dog and cat memes are to something more serious over time to improvised explosive devices.

And then...

So talk to me about that.

Talk to me about the extremism radicalization funnel pipeline.

Have you tracked this?

Have you come up with a way that this sort of fits together?

constellations of political beliefs that people have where they will hold kind of mutually exclusive positions on certain issues and that cognitive dissidence spurs growth at some point they have to kind of resolve it oh that's interesting uh it seems to me especially over the last six months we've seen a lot of uh friends of mine be accused of being some gateway drug to a more nefarious belief structure online uh

Is that an inaccurate characterization in your opinion?

Before we continue, I've been drinking AG1.