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Music, music, well, that's one of the more positive welcomes I've had from you. Alright, yeah, thank you for coming. If you'd like to give a few opening remarks, and then we'll move on to some questions. Okay, so I have about half an hour for this, I guess about 15 to 20 minutes for the opening case. So, I think I'm going to talk to you today a little bit about hierarchy. It's a small talk that I've been developing as I've been doing my public lectures over the last couple of weeks. It's an elaboration of some of the ideas I put forth in some of my scientific writings and in maps of meaning, but more particularly in 12 rules for life, in rule one, which is stand up straight with your shoulders back. And it's in part a meditation on hierarchy. And I want to talk about the political significance of that and let you know how I've been trying to sort that out in my own imagination. So, I'm gonna put and I think it sheds light on the political, on the nature of political debate itself, and maybe deeper light on why temperamental factors might contribute to political framing and perception. Because we know that people tend to vote their temperament, although there are other reasons that influence their political allegiance and their voting behavior. So, let's start with a couple of simple observations. And the first is that complex biological creatures, and even simple biological creatures for that matter, have to move forward in the world. And so that's the case for any creature that's mobile, and that goes all the way down to one-celled organisms. The idea that approach and avoidance are the fundamental motivations is a very old biological idea and seems...