Paul Conti

I think starting off with sort of first principles of, okay, what are my values?

How do I want to live life?

Because I'm in my early 50s, and when I was a kid, we waited for the – the newspaper came in the afternoon, and then we'd see something.

Okay, what's going on in the world?

We'd learn something.

I'd get the West Coast baseball scores, right?

And learn about, oh, here's what happened in different parts of the world.

And by and large, I and everyone else there, adult or child, were living in a reality that was largely, our conception was largely what was around us, right?

And now, in many ways, it is, I'm not saying it's entirely negative, of course, that we have more information, we can sort of think globally, so to speak, right?

Right.

The other side of that is so much of the world's problems are on us all the time, right?

Like, here's this awful thing that happened.

How many awful things happen each day?

And they're right in front of us.

And there's such an immediacy to it all that I think it can paralyze us with terror, right?

And for someone who's...

who's young and trying to make their way.

It's like, how do you figure your way out in this world that you're worried isn't even going to exist, right?

And then you see how profligate the generations before you are, right?

In so many ways.