 I'm Roderick Long. Welcome to my YouTube channel, Agorac Cafe. First, a little bit about me. I'm a professor of philosophy at Auburn University. I also head up the Mollinari Institute, a small anarchist think tank. I'm a senior fellow at the Center for a Stateless Society. And this is my first YouTube video. This channel is going to be a chance for me to talk about Aristotelian philosophy, anarchist politics, science fiction, intellectual history, whatever I feel like sounding off on. And also I plan to do some interviews with various interesting people. The name Agorac is, it has a double reference in this case. On the one hand it refers to the Agarra, the ancient Athenian marketplace that's Athens behind me, not really, really in my apartment in Auburn, Alabama, but but that is a genuine photo that I took of Athens, the last time I was there. I didn't get it off the web. That's the Acropolis over one shoulder and modern Athens over the other. The Agarra itself is not visible in this photo, but it's farther down there. And that's where Socrates used to engage people in philosophical conversation. And I identify with the Greek philosophical tradition that Socrates inaugurated the tradition of Plato, Aristotle, and Stoics, and so forth, in many ways. And so, in that sense, this is Agorac as for the cafe. I like to think of this as chatting with you. I can imagine that I'm chatting with you at a cafe over some coffee in Athens. We've got my coffee mug here. It's the original table of elements. The simplified one that Aristotle gave us before later people got all more complicated. And the other meaning of agorac is the reference to agorism or agorism. It's a form of anarchism that's pro free market, but anti capitalist, and it favors replacing the state by building alternative institutions and gradually winning people's affiliation away from the state toward those institutions. And that is, you know, so those are two, two things that are, you can probably be hearing more about from me on this channel, but could be anything else as well. The opening photo at the beginning I did not take. But I licensed it, not because I have any respect for intellectual property because I think intellectual property is a form of both censorship and protectionism but because I don't want, I don't want this channel been taken down. I also licensed it, I also licensed the performance of the music, the beginning and the end. So I've been a good boy in that respect, you know, prudence, not ethics in this case. This is a proof of concept video to see whether I can successfully put this thing together. You know, I'm, I'm talking about the images and the music before I've actually incorporated them into the video we'll see how that works. And then we'll see if I can upload this to YouTube. And if you're watching this, then I've succeeded. And the next video will be longer and more substantive. And if this is something you'd like to see more of, please consider liking, sharing, subscribing, all that good stuff.