billion people in a unified sort of nation state is through very strong, common narrative structures held together by media institutions that form some sort of shared reality. And if our reality is each person's own reality on social media, on YouTube, whatever your particular channel is getting, and people are increasingly checked out, as we talked about earlier, in the process of governing themselves and in being responsible for the world that they live in, I mean, again, this is, people interact less with their neighbors, talk with fewer people out in the world or on their phones, with their headphones on. I do worry that we're ceding a potential anarchy. And that is very scary. That's very scary, man. That's what it feels like also when the president launches a meme coin, or maybe what that just means is either it's anarchy or dictatorship. And I do think that dictatorship is totally in the cards for America's future. And I feel more like that today than I did four years ago. I (94/99)
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