and I think that plays into kind of what we were talking about the Kind of the radical subcultures that exist in percolate online, you know, I feel like a lot of people are going through these existential malaise and they're they're searching and so they're just scrolling through social media and they find something that piques their interest seems counterintuitive or exciting and and suddenly they're kind of whisked down this rabbit hole without much awareness of what's Happening one of the reasons that I'm rather. Staunch admirer of traditional Christianity say even its Catholic form. Let's say which is the most traditional form arguably is that I think that Catholicism is as sane as people can get like we

have areas of Catholicism that were a little out there. there

still are mean the doctrine is very difficult to understand the idea of the Virgin birth, for example, and all of the this stranger rationality that goes along with a religious belief, but the problem is is that We we need something structured and irrational to protect us from even less structured and more irrational beliefs. That's my sense of it. We can't live in a fully rational world because we're not smart enough. We need something to fill in the gaps and the advantage of a codified religion is at least that there's a unifying force behind it and what you get now is this fragmentation and search for replacement for religious values and there's not much difference while conspiratorial Theory will offer exactly that but none of the true benefits of a religious system, you know one that's evolved over time and that That has a deep that has a deep basis.