In the wake of January 6th, 2019, many of my listeners have expressed disappointment in the way I talk about the events of that day, and I thought it would be useful to talk about why this might be happening, and why I should have been better at it. And I think I have a theory about why it is that we are living in an information emergency and a collapse of public trust in our institutions, and that we should be worried about what we are hearing and what people are being told about it, rather than about what they are seeing and hearing from the information and disinformation that is being spread across the media and social media, and how they are being spread, and what we should do about it. I think that s a good question to ask ourselves, and to ask the question, why is it so important to have conversations about certain topics at certain moments in history? And why does it strike me as irresponsible to have them at certain times in history, and in particular, when they are the most influential and most influential? And what are we to blame? what is it that is preventing us from having conversations about things that matter the most to us, and the things we care about? and why should we be talking about them? And what does it mean that we can t have them, and shouldn t we talk about them, in the first place? I think it s time to have a conversation about them and not just about them ? a question that matters or not just to us in the context of the crisis we re living in the midst of the information emergency, and a crisis of our times, and our own ignorance and disinformation, and fake news, and that we re all living in a world that s poisoned by misinformation and disinformation and fake and fake news we re in a time where we re not allowed to have any real conversations about it ? and so on and so much it s all a wake-up call, and we don t have a real conversation about what s going to happen how do we can we know what s happening why we should we have a debate about it? What s going on in the future? what s it really matter and what s the point of it and how it s really going to be? How do we know it s gonna happen and where we should talk about it in the real world?