Wright Thompson

And then on both extremes, you have the American versions of the IRA for the next 100 years.

And the political violence, even if we tamp it down, even if we sort of get out of this moment and find some sort of radical center to return to, the lesson from 1955 and Emmett Till

Is that once unleashed, political violence cannot be controlled.

And it has a very, very, very, very, very long tail.

And so the scary thing is that what's being unleashed now, even if like our better angels emerge and everybody is like, shit, we got to like.

All of us like, hey, we got we got too crazy.

The algorithms ran our lives.

We have to like put our sabers down and figure out how to be neighbors again.

Something has been unleashed that we have no idea how it's going to ultimately manifest.

And it just feels like let's slip the dogs of war, like something terrible has been unleashed.

excuse my French.

He's just a pussy.

Like, do you want to mean like, you don't think that the guys working for Bull Connor were pussies?

No, but of course they were.

And like, that's the thing.

Like, I'm just like this guy, like, what's this guy going to do in five years?

The American people know, most people know that's insane.

And like one of the things, the lies are getting more and more the less people who believe them.

And so in some ways, it's almost a sign of the sort of death rattle of something, right?

I mean, am I just being hopeful and naive?