00:00and I don't think I've ever known why.
00:05People would rather watch their civilization collapse
00:09than listen to reason and evidence. I don't get this fundamentally.
00:15To me it's the actions of crazy people.
00:19Like rather than just have, you know, some admittedly tricky conversations or
00:22difficult
00:23conversations
00:25about state and coercion and resource distribution and counterfeiting and debt
00:30Like rather than have just difficult conversations about the morals of a
00:32society, people would just rather ride this damn thing
00:35into the ground like Dr. Strangelove on a bomb. Because, you know, lots of people in
00:39my youth, lots of people in my childhood and teenage years and twenties, I'm not
00:42in touch with them anymore because they just
00:44won't
00:45listen.
00:46Just won't listen.
00:47There's some movie, it's a pretty bad Coen
00:50Brothers movie about a writer in an apartment and
00:53John Goodman is just yelling, you just don't listen. And it's like, I don't know
00:57why, why won't people listen?
00:59Are people doubling down because they can't see a future?
