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Yes, on the m 25, or whatever it is, you in't going slow. So everything slows down. Now, thits ta tactic that john rob talks about in his book, which was a very precient book written maybe ten years ago, ca, brave new war, where he said, the world's a network, and in the future, war will be people using and attacking the network. So to drive a car slow on it on a freeway. And whas interesting too, is some of the protest movements that we saw in the freedom protests. A amusing inverted commes during the pandemic in places like canada, with trucks coming to ottawa. You'rl now seeing that adopted for a different cause in the netherlands, over farming a. You've seen massive convoys in india farmers a rights. So you're seeing this really interesting thing where people are using the network and attacking the network. But a lot of it is actually, we've talked about polarization, but i think what's really missed, a lot of people have missed in terms of polarization discussions, because perhaps those discussions are driven by people who are younger, live in uran centres, is one of the big polarizations hapin th waters between rural and city people, big structural ones in the world. So it was interesting ilearnd this little sketch here, we study in shilanke. But we've gone broader. I was listening to a report from the globe mail in canada, and they're talking about, in ottawa, they had another freedom protest. Now, many of the mandates and restrictions that the sort of freedom movement in canada was protesting had been against their being lifted. But they sort of turned up anyway. And they're almost looking for a new cause. And i'm going to predict, it's a mug scheme to predict, am, but i'm going to do it. Waee, i gong to do it. And i could be wrong, and i hope i'm wrong. But i sense we're going to start to see as the world, i think, possibly moves into a resertion. If either two things happen, inflation keeps going o, central banks pull back inflation by raising interest rates, which causes a recession. Economic difficult times are ahead. There's already an anti alite, anti a urban sentiment. And what we could see is with something like the freedom movement in a ousow wellington, parliament in wellington surround, o think it was for eight days. And an sort of blockades on fire, having to be cleared by the new zealand police. You saw ottawa shut down a you saw as part of a a, the protest movement, more around the election in the us. Ah, you know, thir's capital, right? You saw in australia, old parliament house set on fire. You've seen stuff like this around the world. Now, the issue with the freedom stuff is you are only ever going to reach a certain percentage of the population who were frustrated rond vaccines, frustrateor ond mandates. As much as there was discontent there, it was not a majority. In most countries, we had a freeo movement in australia, we had a couple of days of writing here in melbourne, but the polling was always a minority of people. Now, if they can tie that energy, there's this protest energy out there of discontent, and a lot of people felig gike, the world's changing too fast. I'm discontent. If they can connect that to economic issues, an inequality, and particularly with the rural thing, i think we're going to see a massive protest movement begin to move across the world, which has the potential, as we move. So its not just what we're seing. Shulanka is also having a kenu. It's happening in argentina, a abutto finandes, i think, ias, the president of argentina, you know, to sect, one of his ky financial advisers, a, you know. And there's people, you're seeing people around presidential palaces in many countries at the moment. Most of it is countries a, that you wouldn't sort of put in the sort of a, you know, you may expect that to hap. Ben like agentias, had a lot of economic problems for a number of years. But i wonder whether we're going to see this coming together of these protest movements, but it's going to move from more identity politic stuff to now economic, a popularism and economic protest movements, which i think is going to be far bigger and possibly more disruptive. That's my prediction. That's my prediction. I can, you can come back in a year and say, i was wrong. Aga, so omnipul, back, what big themes are you ot saying, what are the train lines? And all this just
