To reduce war, you've got to show everyone you care, most of all your enemies. So it's not necessarily great when America gets really focused on showing the rest of the world what America is. The main problem is our audiences are too ignorant. We're impressing people who can be impressed by things that are kind of stupid. And if they weren't so gullible, we would try harder to impress them with more difficult things that made more different.
If intros aren’t about introductions, then what’s this here for? Is not including one a countersignal? Either way, you’ll enjoy this conversation — and that says a lot about you.
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