Hey, Larkin Rose here. Can things change? I mean, can human society fundamentally become
something different in a relatively short period of time? I know lots of people. I respect
lots of people. I like lots of people who I'm pretty sure they think society can't change.
It's not going to happen at least not quickly and significantly. And I can absolutely sympathize
and I can absolutely relate. I felt that way for many years. And part of me says, well,
what's the point of trying to talk them into changing their mind about whether things can
change? But there is a slight point if they stop trying because they don't think things
can change. So why do I think things can change? First of all, I'm wearing an octopus hat. That's
a change. That's all the proof you need. Okay, that's not all the proof you need. But when
you look at human society and the things that have gone on, mostly change has happened very slowly.
Human progress has been clumsy and stupid and ridiculous. However, just recently, technology
has allowed the beliefs and the mentality of a huge number of people to change way faster than has
ever happened before in the history of the world. Now, not all of that's good. Change isn't
automatically good. But when people can communicate both stories and facts, or stories and
falsehoods, which is sometimes the case, or ideas as quickly as they can now, it has a
massive cultural impact on any culture that has the communication technology to be exposed to
new ideas. And that's just people learning about things like, oh, now I can find out what's
happening in Botswana. Okay, well, yeah, that's one thing. But can these communications
actually change the way people think fundamentally enough to change society? Because you have
to change how people think to change how people behave. And you have to change how
people behave in order to make society fundamentally different than it is now. And the number of
people I know, I mean, I just look at myself, I'll use myself as an example. At this point,
it was over 30 years ago, it was about 30 years ago, when I was still, or when I stopped
being a statist, stopped being a statist, look, I have my new teeth, but I'm still
practicing speaking. Look, there's some change. I have teeth in my face instead of being
golem. But for, for society to fundamentally change, people have to change their
viewpoints and their behaviors. Now, if I just look at my behaviors over the last 30
years, back when I was a status, I stopped being a status in 1996. And I know that
because I was ex-Ragnar 1996 on AOL chat rooms. And I remember that that was my handle
back when I completely gave up statism. If the world had changed the way I did from
30 years ago, like if everybody had had the exact same journey, of course, that
wasn't going to happen. But if everybody had the exact same journey, of course,
the world would be fundamentally different. A population of status that then
turns into a population of voluntaryists, good luck dominating them and robbing
them because suddenly the ruling class, like, has no power because the people
aren't giving it any power. Now, I'm just mean, you're just you and a bunch of
you have your own journeys. And, but a bunch of you, your journeys happened
more recently than 30 years ago. Few of you turned into anarchists before I
did. Most of you didn't. Like, statistically speaking, it was more
recent than that. Well, if you extrapolate, yeah, if this is the expense,
like, here's a population of the world, and it went from this many
voluntaryists to this many voluntaryists, okay, that may seem like, well,
big whopper is still massively outnumbered. But the thing that matters,
I've talked about this before, is the growth. Like, if there's exponential
growth, it doesn't matter. It's sort of like, oh, I'm looking around in my
kitchen, I see a few flies like laying maggots. It's okay. There's only
like three or four of them. Okay, go away for a couple days, come back
and there'll be three or four thousand all over the place because
they multiply. They don't just add, they multiply. And ideas can very
much multiply. And it doesn't happen as fast as fruit flies. But
it still spreads that way. And the thing is the breaking point
for behaviors and what ruling classes can get away with is much
lower than most people, including most pro-freedom people
really understand. Because it's easy to say, well, if 90% of the
people still believe in the state and worship the state and
play the stupid game called democracy and feel an obligation
to bow to these political psychopaths, then we're doomed.
No, we're not. If 10% of the people didn't believe that,
that is the end of any empire. I don't care what the 90%
thinks, they're not going to go out and enforce it. They're
going to go, hey, we kind of like that. Well, the 10% disobey
and topple literally any regime in the world. Like in this
country, I've pointed this out before, 10% is 30 some million
people, 34 or so million people. If 34 million people want to
disobey and sabotage and end some authoritarian monstrosity,
they're going to, even if the vast majority of them like,
well, we're not going to get violent about it, more forceful
since violent implies a violation of rights. But even just
that many people sort of peacefully sabotaging things and
getting in the way and just gumming up the works and throwing
a wrench in the gears and any other cliche things you can think
of that mean the same thing. If you look at the percentage
of people it takes, and if you look at how many people it
would take to do that, the fact that you had mainstream
conservative status, and you still do out there talking
about, well, maybe there should be a tax strike. If they're
doing all this heinous stuff and warmongering, maybe we should
stop paying taxes. Yeah, I know some of you are going to say,
well, I don't really need the tax revenue, they can print
money. Yeah, but then you get inflation and the taxes are
to counteract that. And most of you know this stuff. So I
have to give the whole spiel about it. But the thing is, if
people break the cycle of obedience, it's not coming
back. If one year 34 million people said, yeah, we earn money,
we do business and stuff, but we're not going to file and
we're not going to give you money. I know a lot of people
get withheld from so it doesn't even help them to not
file. But if a bunch of people just said, we're not
playing your game, the weakening of the system and
the weakening of control and the weakening of the mentality
of the people's obligation to obey can very quickly spread.
Like if you ask the average person, hey, if you could pay
zero taxes this year and you absolutely knew that you'd get
away with it, there'd be no repercussions. They're not
taking your money. They're not prosecuting. Nothing's
going to happen. You just don't pay and nothing happens
would you do it? Approximately 100% of people, the
answer is yes. Some of them would pretend the answer is no,
they're lying. There may be like three people in the world
who actually would still pay without any adverse
consequences. Okay, maybe a little bit more than three, but
it's not very freaking many because as much as they
repeat the dogman, the stages propaganda, they don't
really like being robbed. They don't really like being
dominated and I know a bunch of pro-freedom people
constantly say people don't want to be free. That is
not true. That is not ever true. They want to be free
themselves. Everybody does. Every sewer rat and cockroach
wants that. If you don't believe me, grab it. See
what happens. It'll bite you or struggle or try to get
away because everything wants to be free. Now, they
don't want a free society because they don't know
what that looks like and they're scared of it. They
think Mad Max and they think, well, we need masters
making everything work. But when a certain number of
people get to the point where they realize not only do we
not need that, but this parasitical ruling class
does literally the exact opposite. That's one of the
kind of hysterical or pathetic things about
statism. Every status says, we need government in
order to have it blank. Whatever they put in the
blank, it already isn't doing it and it has never
done that in the history of the world. We need
government to protect the innocent. Has it ever
done that anywhere in the history of the world?
No. I mean, now and then it might happen to
protect an innocent person while being the biggest
thief in the world and doing a crappy job of
protecting the other 99.99 percent. Okay, but we
need, we need it there to take care of this
and take care of the tap to have roads. Do the
roads suck in lots of places? Yeah. Are they
heinously expensive and inefficient and their
construction patterns take forever and waste time
and waste money and they build bridges to
nowhere? Well, yeah, they don't actually do a
good job, but we need government to do that
thing that it does a really bad job at.
And so if you get those people to recognize
that government does more harm than good and
more and more people are starting to notice
that and they think, well, why don't we just do
that stuff? Instead of waiting around for these
crooked cops to protect us and you call 9-1-1
and they show up an hour later and shoot your
dog, why don't we like create a network where
you know, know some of your neighbors,
especially the ones who have guns and are
stable. So you have their phone number and
you can call them in the middle of the night.
Hey, somebody's trying to kick my door down.
Can you like help? I mean, some of us who
are heavily armed don't really need to call
anybody else. But hey, if you're my neighbor
and you're not armed and you want to call
me, be my guest. But if people start to
think in terms of making their own
solutions, like we're going to help each
other, there's somebody in need, let's
help them out. That already happens all
over the place and it's certainly not
just volunteers doing that. That change
of people stepping away from their
dependency on government is massive
because it isn't just practical. It
isn't just, well, you guys suck at
caring for people who need it. Like half
of it goes to just drugged out
entitlement lazy dumbasses who could be
working. They just, you know, game the
system and get a bunch of free money
while I'm working my butt off.
Whatever people think of the welfare
state, they can look and go, well,
here's somebody I actually know. I know
they're down on their luck. I know
they need help. I'm just going to help
them out directly instead of waiting
for government to do it because it's a
crappy job of it. Or there's something
nasty going on. There's somebody we
have to stop. So we stop them. Now
government tries to dissuade us mere
peasants from doing contact the law
into your own hands. Just sit there and
be victimized and call the authorities
so they can show up an hour later
and chew your dog. But a lot of
people now have the mentality, I mean
a bunch of conservatives, especially in
rural areas, already had the mentality
hey, if you try to break into my house at
2 in the morning, I'm not calling the
cops then. Probably not calling them
later. Nobody will ever know what
happened to you. We'll take care of it.
That's done. Nobody will ever know what
happened. So the cops don't
investigate me for killing the
intruder and burying him in the backyard.
So the independent mindset,
obviously that's sort of an extreme
example, but the independent mindset
naturally grows as government shows
itself for the useless pile of crap it
is. And you can look at the Soviet Union.
I mean, the Soviet Union all the way
fell over. This big superpower that we're
all supposed to be terrified of.
If you wanted to eat and you lived
over there, you'd damn well better
find a way other than relying on
government. Oh yeah, every how many
weeks we get half a loaf of moldy
stale bread. Mm, delicious. If you
want something better, you learn to go
around the system. And you do it
in spite of the system. Like the system
doesn't not only does not help, it gets
in the way a whole bunch. But people
learn to do that. And lots of people
are like, I'm going to live off grid.
I'm going to have solar. I'm going to
try to be all the way independent,
grow my own food. So if the
shit hits the fan, I know what to do.
And there's tons of people with that
mentality. There's tons of people with
that mentality who are liberals and
who are conservatives. And
obviously a bunch who are
volunteers and libertarians and
whatever across the spectrum, that
mentality of people deciding, you
know, we probably can't count on
government to do the right thing
because not only is it corrupt, but
it's also inefficient and it sucks
at almost everything. So if you want
to be safe, learn how to protect
yourself and your family and your
neighbors. If you want to help
people in need, learn how to help
the people you know and your
community and stuff like that.
And so what it takes to jump back
to the original question, what it
takes to fundamentally change
society and humanity, isn't even
for everybody to sit down and go,
I'm going to have philosophies and
read 27 treatises on Austrian
economics. Like, if you want to do
that, have at it. I'm all in favor
of people learning a whole bunch
of stuff. There is an instinctive
level rebellion that in a lot of
people comes first. And so a lot of
people, you know, a lot of people
in the world already, they live
somewhere where the tentacles of
government sort of don't get to
very often. So they, you know, they
have their little village and they
take care of each other and they're
living almost in a stateless
society. Now government may show up
and boss people around and steal
shit and do whatever. But the
instinctive level understanding of
we better handle it ourselves. You
can watch that kick in in an
emergency. When there's a flood, when
there's a fire and there's chaos
and people are like, well holy crap,
let's not wait around for 9-11.
They're 9-1-1 to respond. 9-11 to
respond. It's not wait around for a
false flag to happen. Let's not wait
around for the authorities to fix
it because they're not going to, they
suck at that and mostly they just
show up and get in the way. If my
neighbor's house is like floating down
the street, maybe I'm going to run
out and try to help my neighbor
off his roof and whatever else.
The fact that when an emergency
happens, so many people can shift
from, hey, I'm just, you know,
hemp's throwing a wheel, I'm going
through the motions, I'm doing my
job, I'm doing my career, to holy
shit, this is an emergency, this
really matters. We got to handle
stuff ourselves. Shows that
underneath the surface of a hell
of a lot of statists is a
voluntary, like a responsible
grown-up ready to act like a
responsible grown-up if the need
presents itself. Now, may not be
everybody, but it's a lot of
people. And so when, when you're
talking about whether society can
actually change significantly in a
short amount of time, you have to
look at both what it takes for an
individual to change because I know
like of the thousands of
volunteers I now know, the
process, I mean, you've all heard
the joke, what's the difference
between a libertarian and anarchist,
about six months. Of course, that
varies a whole bunch. Some people
never let go of that last little
shred of statism. For me, it was
slower than that, which is
embarrassing and stupid, but I
might as well admit it. Back
when I had this belief in limited
government, I hung on to that for
several years before I realized
why am I bothering to hang on to
this stupid self-contradictory
bullshit. And so I let go and
became an anarchist. But, so it
isn't always the exact same time
period for everything, but the
amount of time it takes for a
person to go from, I believe I
have a moral obligation to pay
tribute to and bow to these
political powers that be into
going, oh, they're all liars and
crux, never mind. Oh, those
bastards, a damn thing. If a
human being can do that in the
span of like six months, I
mean, I know some people have, I
watched one person do it in one
conversation, and that was
truly amazing. That was many
years ago. That does not usually
happen where they were so, so
analytical and so much a
thinking person that when it was
laid out in front of them, they
were like, oh yeah, I guess
authorities always bogus. Never
mind, that makes me an
anarchist. Like, I've only
seen that happen like in one
conversation once in my life. But
I've seen it happen in a
matter of weeks, sometimes
days in pretty many people. Like
I said, it took way longer than
me, which is kind of embarrassing.
But I've seen a lot of people
do it in weeks or months. So
it's a matter of the message
getting to people. So, I mean,
that's one of the reasons I'm
working on the mirror, because
the mirror, a billion people can
do it at the same time, and
each one will have a
slightly different experience, and
it'll go in a different
direction based on how they
answer the questions. I'm not
going to get all the way into
that at the moment. But it's
just a question of when these
ideas hit people. Because if
you, if somebody could do a
V for Vendetta stuff, now
somehow he like hijacked the
official broadcasting of the
state and sent out a message
to everybody. Like, obviously
it's not how anything works. But
it's not a matter of, oh, it
automatically takes decades to
change people's minds. I don't
know anybody that it took
that long to change that
person's mind. So it's just a
matter of when these people
get hit with these ideas and
start hearing about them and
start thinking about them. And
there's the 10% rule I'm going
to mention again, which, I
mean, 10% is kind of arbitrary.
But basically the idea is when
a new idea gets to 10% of
the people and 10% of the
people like embrace it as a
rough number, it's going to
be everybody pretty damn
soon. Because now people are
talking about it, people are
going to hear about it. You
know, when it comes to
voluntarism, most people are
like, why, what, what does that
mean? I've never heard the
phrase. It's like, okay, so
we're starting from scratch.
But when it becomes part of
the discussion and
everybody hears about it, then
people talk about it, then
people think about it, and
you can get a gazillion
people suddenly going in the
other direction. That was
nowhere near as possible
before as it is now because
of primarily the internet and
our communication
technologies. Because now
some weirdo like me can make a
video and a few thousand
people might watch it.
Somebody else can make a video,
write a book, and a few
million people can watch it
or read it or whatever.
Something can happen to
catch on and get people's
attention and go viral, and
a bunch of people can
suddenly pay attention. And
so it's to gauge what's
going to happen tomorrow by,
well, this is what happened
yesterday and the day
before and the day before
and the day before is, I mean,
that sounds reasonable, but
that's no longer a predictive,
like that's no longer 100%
predictive of what's
going to happen tomorrow.
And you can actually see
massive shifts in less
important things, less
fundamental things.
But you watch the, you
know, the Trump circus
and a bunch of conservatives
go rah, rah, rah, then they
all get stabbed in the back.
And a bunch of them are
like, oh, we got stabbed
in the back. This is
ridiculous and horrible
and this sucks and maybe
both parties suck.
And there's a bunch of
mainstream people who
a few years ago were like,
Trump's going to save us.
And now they're like,
this whole thing is bullshit.
Nobody's going to save us.
Voting is pointless.
That's a bunch of mainstream
people. Of course, there
are still people, you know,
that the ruling class
is still pushing, you
got to vote to change things.
And a bunch of bootlicking
idiots are still worshiping
mango, Mussolini and
bootlicking idiots on the
other side are going to
worship whatever clown
they put up for election
next time.
But the majority is
never what matters.
The majority is never
what changes anything.
So all this to say,
this may sound like
a flying leap,
but there's actually
a connection.
The my book Approaching
Humanity, which comes out
a month from today
because it will come out
at our July 18th event
in Sedona, Arizona
called, surprisingly,
Approaching Humanity.
It was written with
the normal people in mind,
the people who don't
particularly like to
read about philosophy
and ponder stuff.
It's still a book,
but it's also going to
be other things.
And there's going to be
little videos
from the event
that we put out little tidbits.
The whole thing's
going to be available for
Rose Channel subscribers.
You can see the description
below.
If you want to sign up
for that, you can get,
we're going to try to
live stream the whole event
on July 18th.
At worst case scenario is
if the live stream doesn't
work or our connection
isn't good enough,
the whole thing will be edited
and the whole thing will be
posted on the Rose Channel
afterwards.
Anyway, so Rose Channel
subscribers are going to
get the whole dang thing.
Although if you can be there
in person,
it's going to be really
dang cool.
Been frantically putting
together a rather grand use
symphony of anarchy,
but compatible.
I'm not calling it that.
For the public.
Molotov cocktail.
No, it will be a
Molotov cocktail free event.
But designing it
for the normal people
who they want to get along.
They want the innocent people
protected.
They don't like corruption.
They don't really like
warmongering.
Yeah, they still vote.
They still believe
in political masters.
They're scared of one side
more than they're scared
of the other side.
But to think that
people can't change,
I mean, to think that
society can't change quickly.
You have to believe
that people can't change quickly.
And if you haven't seen
anybody change
relatively quickly,
do you not?
I mean, are there any
volunteers out there
who don't know?
I mean, you may be the one.
Do you not know somebody
who changed their mind?
Like in the last six months
in the last year
and went from sadists
to volunteers?
I mean, I know
hundreds and hundreds of them.
But, you know,
I'm maybe in contact
with more people than you.
Do you know anybody?
And you're allowed to count
yourself if you're one of them
because lots of you are
one of those people.
But to see a person change,
you realize, oh, well,
this is a shit.
That person went all the way
from mentally enslaved
to mentally free.
Yeah, they're still robbed
and bossed around
and they can do what they can
to try to minimize
the authoritarian control
over them.
But they no longer feel
beholden to the master.
Well, if a person
can go that quickly
from there to there,
it's just a matter of,
OK, well, how many people are doing that?
And what do we do
to get more people
doing that more quickly?
Because however you picture it
happening,
you have to know
that somewhere between
where we are
and 100 percent of the population,
if a certain percentage
of the population
stops believing in the state,
the state is doomed.
It just falls over.
Doesn't nearly have the power
to enforce anything
if a bunch of people just say,
yeah, we're not playing
a stupid game anymore.
Not giving you money,
not cooperating,
not reporting anything,
not squealing on our neighbors,
not acting as enforcers
for you slimeballs.
Yeah, we're done.
We don't recognize you
as having the right
to do anything anymore.
Screw you.
You have to know
that if a big enough percentage
of the population does that,
any empire is going to fall over.
It might get,
might try to get nasty
in between
out of desperation,
but it's still going to fall over.
So to believe that humanity
cannot significantly change
in a relatively short amount of time,
you have to believe
that there's some magic rule
that says a bunch of people
can't change their mind
all at once.
I could point to you,
you to several thousand people
who in the last five years
went from being status
to being volunteers,
like thousands of them.
Now, if it was hundreds of thousands
or millions,
that's pretty close
to the end of statism.
Not just putting up
a new ruling class,
knocking over this one
and putting up a new one,
that doesn't really accomplish anything,
but people actually
escaping the cycle.
And so, yeah,
I, you know,
I don't have that much faith
that I can talk everybody
into the possibility
to give a fundamental shift
in human society.
And in fact,
15 or 20 years ago,
maybe even just 10,
if you had asked me,
will there be a fundamental change
in your lifetime?
I'd say, no,
I'm going to hit my head
against a brick wall
and scream this
from the rooftops
with whoever else
is going to help.
And maybe in a few centuries,
people will figure out,
that's absolutely what I thought,
pretty damn recently.
I changed my mind
about humanity's ability
to change,
having talked to lots
and lots of people
and realizing
if there was a town
of a hundred people
or a thousand people,
I was like,
can I call a town meeting
and talk to you people?
Our mayor
is a power happy creep,
and it wouldn't take
very many of us
to completely demolish
his power system.
I bet I could get
a whole town
to completely crumble
the political system.
I mean,
a little town like that.
And then it's just
a matter of scale.
Can you get the message
to enough people?
And the first question is,
are you trying to?
Or did you stop trying
because you can't imagine
that big a change
actually happening?
So I would challenge people
to,
well, first of all,
if you can be at
our July 18th event,
be there.
And if not,
you can get
on the Rose Channel.
There'll be snippets of it
posted on YouTube
for free,
but the whole thing
Rose Channel subscribers
will get.
One of the purposes
of that,
like I said,
is to talk to the
general public
and get them
started thinking
in the right direction
just to be consistent
with their own values
and what they want
because
zero people who
believe in political power
are consistent side
their own heads.
I totally wasn't
when I was.
So that's one of the
goals of my book
and the event.
The other goal
is to have people
who already understand this
able to visualize
Oh,
this is all it takes.
No,
you don't have to get
the world to understand
Austrian economics
or know what the
hell that means.
You don't even have
to get them to understand
the non-aggression
principle
or voluntaryism.
Like it's fine if they do.
It's nice if people
want to think
about that stuff.
But the ability
of humanity to change
is only limited
by a few factors.
And for the most part
it's been very limited
by controlled
communications
where the state
like
it's really hard
for one person to go
Oh, I have an idea.
I want to tell some people about.
Now it's really damn easy.
Will it be viral?
Will it get a bunch of attention?
Well, obviously the
the machine
is trying to stomp any ideas
that pose any threat to it
with some success
and also with a lot of failures
because the ideas
are still getting out there
and they're in comments
all over the place.
But I would say
if you
if you really and truly
believe that humanity
cannot fundamentally change
and I'm not talking about
everybody suddenly
becoming wise,
enlightened saints
like that's not going to happen
and I'm not even
trying to have that happen.
But if you cannot imagine
humanity fundamentally changing
in a short amount of time
I would basically
dare you to
well be at our event
if you can
July 18th
or read the book
when it comes out
right after July 18th
by the way I'm about to start
taking pre-orders for the book
or just
watch some of the tidbits of it
the videos they get posted
here and there
and see if you can't
start to imagine
what it would look like
because so many people
get stuck in the mindset
of well this is what I know
this is what I see
day in and day out
I see people playing
this stupid game
they believe the politicians
they fall for the divine
gongar
so frustrating
yeah I totally sympathize
I can totally relate
I've been able to relate to that
for many years
but if you can't imagine
a bunch of people
one way or another
suddenly coming across an idea
and going
huh well I mean
that kind of makes a point
is government just
complete BS
and it never really served us
right now
huge numbers of people
are more able to have that
conversation
than they have ever been before
partly because of the COVID
circus
partly because of the
mango Mussolini
circus
a lot of people are ready
for the discussion
and has to start at their level
not as a philosophical
treatise that they don't
understand
you know talking about
concepts they've never even
pondered
but approaching them
where they are
and showing them
a better world
and how you get there
showing them how we
yes this is going to be cliche
how we approach humanity
and what humanity
should be
anyway I'll shut up for now
if you can be
in Sedona on July 18th
be there
it will be a grand time
it'll be an event
unlike anything you've ever seen
unlike anything I've ever seen
and we are frantically putting
together
quite the presentation
which will be
fun and entertaining
in addition to being
informative
and
kind of paradigm
smashing for
a bunch of people
so
be there
or read the book
or just
talk to people on your own
you don't really need me
you
if you understand these ideas
by the way if you want to
be better at communicating them
you can try candles in the dark
the one thing I would say is
don't give up
because I guarantee
the world doesn't change
if the people who know
a truth that the world needs
don't say it
they think
well nobody's gonna listen
if you're not saying it
if everybody around you
isn't saying it
because you've all decided
oh resistance is futile
nobody's ever gonna wake up
so yes
people are going to
people still are
I see it on a daily basis
and so to
to give up now
when the battle is literally
easier than it's ever been
in the history of the world
that's pretty spineless
okay
blatantly insult you
it used to be
if you said
oh the king is a fank
you get your head chopped off
or if you say that
you know
if you hand out pamphlets
and on the third right
you might get your head chopped off
now you can say it
and you won't get your head
chopped off
you won't get shot
other people may go
oh I disagree with that
what do you do
if you can't say something
for fear of somebody
disagreeing with you
holy smokes
and just please stay out of the way
well
while some of us
state the bleeding obvious
in a way that hopefully
other people
can pay attention to
and learn from
so yes
not only do I think that
humanity can fundamentally change
very quickly
I think it is
absolutely going to
and it's going to be in the
very near future
much closer
than I would have said
10 or 20 years ago
I would have said
how that's way down the road
it's not so way down the road
anymore
and you don't have to
take my word for it
but don't stop trying
just because you can't imagine
what it would look like
for the world
to suddenly
lots of them
not be mentally enslaved
by the superstition of authority
because that's going to happen
very soon