Paul Conti

And we got to go places that people hadn't gone.

Foreigners hadn't gone in many, many years.

It was just kind of the right timing to experience that.

And it really is true that someone said on short notice to these poor kids that these group of Americans were coming.

And I have a picture somewhere of the kid in a gas mask.

Like they went under their desks and put on gas masks and they thought, right, that's what, I mean, that's what, they're taught to think about us and we're taught to think about them.

And like, now we're back in an us-them, right?

When, you know, we're all trying to survive and we're all such, you know, human life is so...

delicate, right?

You know, let alone human happiness.

And we make these divisions and we create this aggression and latent aggression.

During the Cold War, we developed, right, the ability to destroy the earth, right?

And then just sat looking at one another, you know, with further growing misunderstanding and the opportunity for the proxy fights, like rather than say the Cuban Missile Crisis, which I know wasn't a war, but it's an aspect of that, right?

Where we just have ourselves wildly, you know, at risk of destruction.

without any mutual understanding.

And again, I would argue that that is the opposite of the counter entropy, right?

Like we are setting everything up for lack of communication, lack of understanding.

How do those feelings of love and shared humanness happen?

They don't, right?

If you separate people and then we push ourselves more and more and more towards reinstating the state of entropy that's present in the rest of the universe.