always like to find patterns as if, you know, you stand back far enough and it's like surveying a surratt painting. you can finally see what all those little points mean. in my experience in government over 24 years in this city, the decisions of individuals matter. most and to a degree that it's almost frightening of individuals truly matter. i mean, let me tell you, my reaction to listening to these three presentations. you read about the progress of movement of change and the new nationalism and wilson versus taft versus and it all sounds at all kind of very abstract. and it's up there in the air from this presentation of the decade comes across very, very different. it was a time of war, of revolution. the growth, of radicalism in america. tremendous racial violence and. well, there was a while there was a certain amount that kind of the usual a modicum of partizan rhetoric that we're familiar with in all epics this decade that feels in many objective respects. like recent years in the united states, they even had a pandemic that was worse than ours got worse. it did not lead to the s