Ryan Holiday
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
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It's very easy to evaluate the moral choices and the complicity and the contradictions in other people.
And of course, as citizens, it's our job to do that and to throw those people out.
We cannot keep this republic, as Benjamin Franklin said, if we don't do that.
However, to me, the main...
The main purpose of looking at this, the cowardice and the contradictions and the shamelessness and the sort of petty turf wars is it should be a mirror reflected back at ourselves and go, well, I could be doing more.
Like I could be, I tell my kids to follow their dreams and then I'm like,
not doing it, you know?
And so, I don't know.
I just think it's really easy to kind of just point this, like, judgment lens at Washington or the State House or whatever.
But ultimately, you've got to point it at yourself.
The comments can be helpful for that.
No, no.
I mean, look, this is why...
This is why a company's gotta have a board of directors.
This is why a president is supposed to have a cabinet.
I think the most alarming thing about where we are politically right now is that not only are a lot of the governmental checks and balances not there, but a lot of the
a lot of the cultural checks and balances aren't there.
Like the press is supposed to be hostile to power.
And the cabinet is like, the founders set up a system where ambition was supposed to be a check against ambition, right?
The...
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