I'm Rory Stewart, and I want to talk about ignorance.
I will die without having read everything.
That was written in classical Latin.
Because ignorance isn't simply the opposite of knowledge.
It's part of what it means to be human.
Just about every game I can think of involves ignorance.
There's no adventure without ignorance.
There's no narrative.
The long history of ignorance, from Confucius to QAnon.
With me, Rory Stewart.
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Almost heaven.
Country Roads is a song about homecoming.
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah river.
It calls to a sense of home and captures it in a way that's almost primal and that's resonant for people, whether they're from West Virginia or not.
Country roads take me home to the place I belong the notion of getting to go back to a place where you belong, I think everyone wants to reach for that, even if that's not necessarily a reality.
The idea of having a place where you feel comfortable or where you feel like you belong, particularly the place where you grew up.
For me, like, the minute I get around the trees of Massachusetts, I feel more at ease.
The minute I see, like, crabgrass and sand of Cape Cod or anything like that, I feel instantly more at ease.