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I wanted to put together my 92nd
case or so on something that you

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and I do not see eye to eye on 
and you could give me a 

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propaganda analysis or logic 
analysis and grade my argument. 

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Here is the case for the return 
of Stefan Molyneux to Twitter. 

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Assume the human race has 
existed for 10,000 years. 

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For 99.9% of human history, the 
opportunity cost and monetary 

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cost of communicating 
information has been 

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extraordinarily high. 
Today, thanks to Elon Musk, you,

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Mr. Molyneux, the most important
philosopher in the English 

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speaking language, have been 
reinstated to Twitter. 

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Now X, meaning the site's 611 
million monthly visitors could 

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have access to free domain 
content. 

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My small account with 14,000 
followers received 73,000 

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impressions in the last three 
months. 

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With your account at 380,000 
followers, consider how many 

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thirsty horses can be brought to
the free domain. 

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Well of truth, even your most 
recent tweet has 520 likes. 

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Considering my college history 
course had only 50 students in 

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total, it's reasonable to 
believe that you're at least 10 

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times as influential as an 
Arizona State University 

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professor. 
Yes, it's better to have 20 

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dedicated students than 10,000 
uninterested students. 

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The problem is, you don't know 
who these dedicated people are 

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in advance. 
You could drastically increase 

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your capacity to bring the very 
free education progressives 

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pretend to offer and outcompete 
the psychopathic sophists, 

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politicians, journalists, 
academics and media elites as 

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Socrates was enlightening the 
common man in the agora. 

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X is the marketplace of today 
where you can extend your global

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reach at a microscopic 
opportunity cost and 0 monetary 

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cost. 
I can see your return tweet now.

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Not sure if Taylor Swift has had
any kids yet. 

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If so, Taylor along with all 
parents and future parents can 

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enjoy a free PDF of my new book 
at Peaceful parenting.com. 

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The most important topics 
communicated to millions of 

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people at your fingertips. 
Yes, the evil bastards of old 

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Twitter owe you a sincere 
apology. 

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I ask that you do not let Jack 
Dorsey being a prick stop you 

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from communicating the 
importance of truth and 

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volunteerism to your hundreds of
thousands of ex followers. 

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They committed fraud by banning 
you. 

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You never violated the terms of 
service, but X could possibly be

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the best bulwark philosophers 
have against the psychopath 

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class who was unapologetically 
provoking nuclear wars and 

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inflating our currency, wiping 
away our savings. 

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I ask that you take advantage of
this technology, something kings

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and Queens of the past never 
could have imagined anyone would

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ever have access to, and 
increase your unique capacity to

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improve the lives of millions of
X users as you have mine. 

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Well, I would add to that 
beautiful case to say that if 

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I'm not tweeting on X about 
peaceful parenting, how many 

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hundreds of thousands of 
children are going to continue 

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to experience violence because 
of what I don't do? 

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And do I not have some 
responsibility for that? 

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So listen, man, I, I think 
that's a great case. 

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And I'm just going to pretend 
that I'm having Internet 

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difficulties because it's hard 
for one to answer. 

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So glitch, glitch, glitch. 
So no, it's a, it's a great 

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case. 
And, and in fact, I happened to 

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see somebody shared with me that
people were tweeting about me. 

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And I mean, combined the tweets 
got like, I don't know, like 2-2

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tweets about me got like 8 
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mean, it's, it's nice to see, 
it's nice to see that that 

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people still Remember Me. 
It's also not not quite so nice 

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to see. 
I actually got the website 

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called one website over because 
that's sort of been my, my case 

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that people are like, Hey, 
whatever happened to that guy? 

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Is he still alive? 
Is he still, what's he doing? 

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And it's like, you know, I, I'm 
just one website over, right? 

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So, so listen, I, I hear what 
you're saying and, and you are, 

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you are whispering sweet worm 
tongue sounds into my, my ear 

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because it is very, very 
tempting. 

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It is, it is very tempting. 
I wrestle with this. 

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I wouldn't say quite on a daily 
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that the temptation is real. 
The temptation is real. 

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So the counter arguments are go 
something like this. 

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So if I do have a fairly unique 
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in practical ways to the world, 
I don't think that's fairly safe

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to say then what I should do is 
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Now the question is, do you do 
maximum philosophy in the here 

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and now or do you do maximum 
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Now if you do maximum philosophy
in the here and now, you just 

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get killed like historically 
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happens, right or disabled in in
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So if I the more traction I have
in the present, the more risk 

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there is obviously we can we can
see that and we can see that all

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over the world in the present. 
We can look at tons of examples 

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in the past and that would 
minimize philosophy in the 

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future, right? 
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maximum philosophy, the question
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in the Bush, right? 
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philosophy now, the blowback is 
obviously for high and I've 

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experienced it to some degree, 
but more so if I'm aiming for 

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maximum philosophy, then I would
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help the future as a whole 
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changes towards philosophy in 
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blowback associated with that. 
So that's sort of one argument. 

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The second is of course, what 
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suggesting, which again, I 
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up. 
It's something that I have 

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already done and I've done that 
for 40 years, which is to go out

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with as much charm and, and 
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reasoning evidence into the 
public square to talk. 

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And the result of that was, you 
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significant portions of my 
life's work, lots of falsehoods 

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around media violence and and so
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And what would prevent that from
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well, but you know, there's this
the new guy at the Helmand, You 

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know, I think Elon is doing 
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world. 
And obviously he's a, a very, a 

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very principled man when it 
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talk about putting where your 
money where your mouth is. 

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That's that's something and a 
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And so I also recognize that I 
don't even believe it was Jack 

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Dorsey in particular. 
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sort of actors behind this kind 
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obviously Elon Musk is not 
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people did prior. 
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organization. 
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users and it inherits the assets
and it inherits the debt, it 

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also inherits the moral choices 
made by those beforehand. 

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So if I were to go back on 
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without any restitution, without
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going to happen again, then I 
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abusive relationship with 
promises of change, but with no 

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promises of change. 
So what I do is I say to myself,

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if somebody called into one of 
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was in this really abusive 
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said he'll take me back, you 
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Let's say whatever analogy you 
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ownership. 
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with this guy who, you know, set
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or whatever. 
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he'll take me back. 
And well, he hasn't said so, but

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I've heard through some friends 
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Why would I be in pursuit of 
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Well, he's changed. 
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there would be evidence of that 
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restitution. 
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legal system. 
I understand the complications 

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involved with all of that. 
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counsel someone to go back into 
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somebody who signalled that they
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relationship, but who'd made no 
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of prior insults? 
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So I can't, and listen, I, I 
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is great and, and I really 
appreciate you bringing it up, 

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but I can't, you know, and I'm 
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suggesting this, of course, but 
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if I, if I wouldn't give the 
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And the idea that I could do 
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course, absolutely there there 
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Would that cost me more in the 
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Possibly, possibly. 
I mean, we can see that we don't

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have to go through the list, but
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The the truth tellers who both 
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have come to a very bad end is 
not, it's not a very short list,

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unfortunately, it's a very long 
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So I'm aiming for maximum 
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I am. 
I have a standard of resuming 

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relationships that does require 
restitution and apologies and 

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some commitment as to it not 
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And those are not forthcoming 
for reasons that I can vaguely 

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understand from a legal 
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important. 
And so I just have to follow the

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advice that I've given others. 
I have to aim in a practical 

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sense for maximum philosophy, 
and I can't resume a 

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relationship where there has 
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mistreatment without apologies. 
Restitution and certainties to a

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large degree that it's not going
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So and I this is not even 
anything negative towards Elon 

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Musk. 
I mean, I think that there are 

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lots of pressures put on 
businesses regarding free speech

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that are hard to figure out and,
and hard to know where they're 

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originating from. 
But I don't think it's just 

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internal. 
So they can't make that 

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guarantee, right? 
Because if it's just a purely 

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internal matter, that's one 
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But if there are other factors 
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censorship things, then they 
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So I will continue to do maximum
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You know, I have, like all 
philosophers should have a 500 

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year business plan. 
Because if you don't, I think it

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keeps you away from the core 
truths that most influence the 

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future. 
It is, you know, there's the old

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saying, no, no prophet is 
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Well, philosophers are attacked 
by the culture that is and 

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defined positively the the 
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And so recognizing that as a 
pattern, if I the more I focus 

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on the present, the less I 
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The more I focus on the future, 
the less I need to influence in 

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the present and the more I can 
change the future. 

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I think it's just a matter of of
patience for me. 

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So again, it's a great case that
you brought up and I am tempted 

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by on a regular basis, but I do 
have to sort of grip my teeth 

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and focus on those, those 
aspects.