- And all the celebrations and all the stuff going on. So it's weird for me to be looking at this 49 years later, and seeing a very different state of affairs in the lead up to something that should be and will be celebrated, but against the backdrop that, I don't know, it worries me a great deal. Because without America as America in the world, I do wonder what falls apart that it's holding together, even if we can't see that it's holding together. It's interesting. I hear you completely the way you've described that. I'm like, you know, actually, the problem isn't the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, our fundamental documents are remarkably sound, considering the passage of time. The problem is the immense weight of laws and regulations that have been placed on top of it. And the fact that in the US, we have no mechanism for ever removing a law or a regulation, we only add them. And the Congress is a machine for writing not just legislation, but really bad legislation, where (78/99)
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