 Some people, I'll just comment on something that's going on on the on the on the on the chat. Some people conflate the idea in this world. The certain people can only think in two dimensions. You can only be a leftist or a rightist. So if you're against the right, you're by definition a left. And if you're against the left, you're by definition right. And people like that can't actually place objectivism. Because objectivism in the political map today is neither left nor right. As I've often said, the real political line is between collectivism and individualism. It has nothing to do with left to right. Left and right today are both collectivists. You can be shockingly, I know this is a shock to some people, you can be both anti-left and anti-right at the same time. By being pro-individualism, by being pro-capitalism, by being pro-freedom, you would actually by definition be anti-left and anti-right at the same time. So you cannot be an objectivist and a leftist. But they conflate objectivism with left because objectivists don't go get all excited by supporting the right. So, since they can only think in dualities, you either left or right, and you're not pro-right, so you must be pro-left. And, you know, get over it, guys. Get over it. And you don't start thinking using your mind. It's there for a purpose. And get away from the tribalism and the kind of dual thinking, this duality, that Ayn Rand talks a lot about, you know, objectivism is not intrinsic, it's subjective. We're not, you know, we're objective. A two-party system doesn't define who you are and what you are. There's a two-party system. Both a collectivist doesn't mean you're for this or for that. I'm against both. The fact that there's a two-party system doesn't change the fact that I reject both. As Ayn Rand did, Ayn Rand was often critical of the right and of the left and often didn't vote in elections. And sometimes, I think when she was younger, voted for the left because the right was so important to her. You've got to make decisions about individual rights, about freedom, about liberty, not about left to right, about liberty, not about Republicans versus Democrats. Now, we can disagree about which path goes towards liberty. But the fact that we disagree about which path goes to liberty and you don't agree with me does not make me or anybody else in this chat a leftist. It doesn't make us, if you're arguing from a different perspective, a rightist objectivist. Politics is not the politics of the right objectivist. Politics is the politics of individualism. And if the right is not individualistic as it's not today, then, yep. Daniel asked you on, you're making the absurd proposition that the left and right are both statist. Yeah, they are. Might one even call them mystics of various kinds? Yeah, both of them. Having non-fundamental disagreements with one another? Yeah, absolutely. And they're both altruistic in a sense that they both believe in the sacrifice of the individual to some collective goal. They just have different collective goals. They're both mystics. One worships Mother Earth and one worships Father in the skies, right? And they're both wrong on issue after issue after issue. Both two people both disagreeing with one another and being wrong. And this is the thing about the world. There are multiple ways in which you can be wrong. Multiple ways. An infinite number of ways. There's only one way of being right. But there are lots of ways of being wrong. And that's what we're seeing today. We're seeing left and right being wrong. And objectivism, I think, is right and has a right view of politics. And neither one of those views is any of the objectivist views are represented by left or right. So how can I be pro-right when my views are not being represented in the right? How can I be pro-left when my views are not represented in the left? I'm neither right nor left. And I know, I know, these are hard concepts because we're so trained to think in dualities and we're so trained to think in tribes and in collectives and in groups and in belonging. And we don't belong anywhere. And I know that's hard. It's lonely. And this issue of the stimulus, by the way, is a good example. I mean, Republicans and Democrats are going to vote for this. The right and the left are going to vote for it. It's crazy to spend $1.4 trillion on top of $4 trillion you've already spent. And we've spent $4 trillion, by the way, because both left and right wanted to. The right didn't stand up for capitalism. Trump didn't veto stimulus bailout bills. And we've been running trillion-dollar deficits during Trump administration. Is that a right I can support? Support. No. I can't support the left either because they want to run $2 trillion deficits. So I've got two evils and it's such a level of evil that I'm not sure there's a less of two evils. 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