gq chesterton said, he had a couple of ways of saying this. the one i like best is an analogy for this. he said if you inherit a piece of property under the fence on the property and you think it's useless you want to take it down, make sure you understand why it was put up. you may still want to take it down but if you don't understand why it was put up you probably are making a mistake because somebody did the work of putting this in there and it's really essential to see why that isn't what was a solution to. it's important for us to approach our institutions of government in this way. to change them but surely cushion we understand why they are the way they are before we do that. that's what the book tries to do. >> all right. i'm going to open it up to you all. if anybody has a question please raise your hand. calling you and then a microphone will come your way. there's a microphone right by you so you can go first. >> thank you so much m for that, yuval. this is been fantastic. the most dysfunctional aspect to one of the most dysfunctio