Oz Veloshian

So I don't pretend that most of what people are doing is the interesting and worthwhile, but the more we can do,

And if I had 10 times as many resources, I'd have a lot more reach.

And you can aim and aspire towards that.

But as long as I'm here, I'm going to at least try.

That's, I guess, the way I view it, is that you've got to try.

You've got to try, even if it's not super effective.

And the fact that I've got a platform and I'm pretty well known, if I'm trying, that will also inspire younger people and other people in my field that don't have the same reach.

They say, well, Ian can get away with it, so I can get away with it.

It's important that they feel like they can also be more public in their commentary and saying what they think.

At the end of the day, the Soviet Union succeeded because people were censoring themselves.

Self-censorship is the worst kind of censorship.

It's the most pernicious.

You make an example of one person or 10, and then a million decide that they're going to not act in certain ways because it's not worth the risk.

And so you've got to do what you can to try to erode the horrors of self-censorship.

It's funny.

I mean, I think of it a little differently in that the Progress Network also does these social media clips, some of which get millions of views.

And I'm only saying that by way of, yeah, relative to hundreds of billions or trillions of views, a few million is not necessarily any more significant than any other few million.

And the AI cat video and the...

Bill Maher had a hilarious reference the other day saying the combined viewership of Fox, MS Now, CNN is less than the guy power washing his driveway on a TikTok video, right?

Probably right.