Ken Burns

We can look back at the revolution and perhaps take some solace from the fact that it was much more divided then.

There are always going to be people who are going to shortcut the messiness and the promise of those ideals to say, no, it's actually really about

one religion, even though the First Amendment of the Constitution is establish no religion, that it isn't really free speech for everybody, that it's not this and that we're seeing limited.

But there's been times all the way through.

In fact, the founders were very religious and

This was not a revolution to create a democracy.

Democracy was a consequence, not an intention of the revolution.

It's an accident because of who had to fight it, who actually ended up fighting it.

You needed to throw them some things.

And what they threw them was the same kind of representation in a legislative and executive and a judicial system that they assumed that only the

elite founders the aristocracy of talent would have and that's made all the difference and we're constantly battling with those forces regressive forces that want to say no no no you know it's like Orwell's animal farm you know all animals are equal but some animals are more

equal than others and and it's just not the case and so i think your kind thing about saying that maybe this could be the life of a country if you collected all the patches of the quilt that i've done not you know without any rhyme or reason we're not picking them because a marketing group says you should do this thing to actually do what the gut suggests but um

When an individual like you or me, you talked about getting some support.

When an individual is in crisis, you seek a professional or a pastor or whatever it might be.

And they're going to ask you some basic questions.

Where were you born?

Who are your parents?

What was your upbringing like?

That's called your origin story.

And it helps reconnect and reestablish your own narrative.