I don't always agree with him. I'm not expecting anyone to be more perfect than am I. I do appreciate that there are aspects of grift to making a living as journalist whose income is donations from their audience, which is why I bend nails for a living. It's just the cost of spending all of your time on that task, and reflects being 'on' all the time.

You've had the courage to pump out continual videos in which you had to always be 'on' and every least opinion was judged. You have earned the right to comment on others that do that, as a result.

I am confident opinions of me, however poor they are, would be far worse if I made any attempt to live by such means, and as a result there aren't so much as pictures of me online. I limit my speech to what I can at least cursorily edit, in writing, which is how I feel I think best. I am very aware that when I am glib I can be absolutely wrong and need to retract my statements, seek forgiveness for what I have said that was wrong, and try to make amends, and I very much prefer to take the time to write out my thoughts before making them public and reducing that error rate by a vast margin.

Which is why I state it takes courage to do what you have done, and Broze does.

Regardless of the many things I think he is, or may be, wrong about, his statement that what we need to do today is to apply our best consideration to the circumstances we want to be in come 2030 deeply resonated with me, and strongly inspired me to reconsider my focus. It is too easy to be swept up in the constant stream of news of bad actions being applied to us by evil doers, and this leaves evil in charge of the paradigm we live in, the thoughts we think, and the actions we take.

I don't think we should ignore evil being done to us, but that should be impetus to act to reach goals we have set ourselves and to attain objects we have chosen to seek after careful consideration. We should be working towards our vision of what we want, and I think most of us aren't. I think most of us are simply striving to remain in place in an onslaught of attempts to knock us out of the race, and acting only defensively will guarantee no one knocks evil doers out of the race.

We can outcompete them. We can only do that if we make that effort to have a vision of what we want to accomplish and then set ourselves goals we can attain while reaching towards that vision. I sincerely intend to be part of an evolution of society away from centralization and the power of overlords and towards decentralized production of the goods and services that avail us the blessings of civilization, and leave overlords, tyranny, and war in the dustbin of history.

We'll have to work with the allies we are to do that. I hope we can utterly support each other despite we may not like the way they wear their hair, sing, or dance for their supper. We have actual enemies that want to scalp us all, cut our throats to silence our voices, and bury us so we can never dance again. I hope we can save our hatred for actual enemies, and forgive our allies our differences.

Thanks!