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What is politics?

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Like I said, I like to start at the ground level with first principles. What is politics about?

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To me, politics is the art and science

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of negotiating a shared understanding of reality,

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shared values, and desired outcomes, and crafting strategies to achieve those desired outcomes as efficiently as possible

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while adhering to our agreed upon values.

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That's a big task, but that's what is required.

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We call the strategies

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policies, but they're also known as laws, regulations,

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institutions,

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and more.

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Entrepreneurship, to me, is the art and science of effecting change with limited resources.

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The job of government is similar, but on a societal scale and with a crucial difference.

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With private business, we can have lots of them and people can choose who they want to buy from except when there is a monopoly, which is why we have antitrust laws.

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A government is a monopoly in its geographic area,

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most critically a monopoly on violence.

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The government is the only entity in its geographic jurisdiction that is allowed to use violence to achieve its objectives.

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Everything the government demands of you, like paying your taxes, having a valid driver's license when driving, and not breaking the law is backed by a threat of violence.

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If you don't do what we demand, we will show up at your door with guns and put you in jail until we decide that you've been punished enough.

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Everything the government does is backed by the threat of violence. Everything.

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And the government is the only entity that's allowed to do this.

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People outside the government who use violence to achieve their goals are called criminals.

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So with government, because it's a monopoly, we better get it right. We have to compromise.

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We have to do our very best together.

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It'll never be perfect. Our best bet is to keep approximating.

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And we can only do that by working together.

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I hope this helps

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educate a little bit.

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I've spent

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so much time

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studying all of this and, again, like, applying

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a lens of spirituality to this that I haven't seen anywhere else, like entrepreneurship, spirituality, first principles.

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So I hope that there's something that you get out of this that

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makes you think about things a little bit differently.

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And I hope to be able to restore relations between America and Europe

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and

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help all of us, like, usher in

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a new golden age. And I know, like, now Trump has started using that term.

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I first heard it from Scott Adams,

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but he started talking about, like, that a golden age is actually possible, and I started thinking more about that.

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That was, like, five, six years ago. So I've been thinking about that more and more, and it's like,

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literally, we have the power in our minds to to create any world we want,

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and then we created this shit.

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This is, like, mess. And the world is beautiful, and I love life. But come on.

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There's some room for improvement here.

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How do we create something that's actually beautiful, but it starts with

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recognizing

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starts with questioning what you think is no is true

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about the reality as it is. Right? We gotta start by being like, oh, I don't know

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that everything is the way that I thought it was.

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What's actually true here? What the what's the reality actually really like?

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It's important to figure out.