Ryan Holiday
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1,843 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
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Like, the antagonistic...
hostile, like, the system of government we have is set up there for a reason.
Even the so-called deep state is also there for, like, you want career governmental employees who are not necessarily political.
I mean, there can be problems with it too.
I don't mean to overstate it, but like, you want a bureaucracy that doesn't want to swing too far in one direction or the other direction.
You want Congress to be oppositional.
You want your cabinet to have their own political ambitions.
Like, Lincoln staffs his cabinet with his political rivals because he wants
He knows that what he has to do is extremely difficult.
And if he only has people telling him what he wants to hear, he will not actually be able to do it.
And so that to me is what alarms me about where we are.
Look, sometimes you got to establish some deterrence or you get pushed around.
I think that's important.
But yeah, I do think what we're talking about culturally is the problem.
We want people to stand up.
We want people to do the right thing.
And then what examples...
do they have of that happening?
And I think we're in like, almost like a cultural death spiral of a lack of those examples.
And so I do think it's important, but making a martyr of yourself, you know, is usually not a great thing to do.
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