Tucker Carlson

So how's your Iran war been so far?

You enjoying the Iran war?

Well, that really depends on who you are.

We like to think as Americans that we're all in this together and big events like wars or economic booms or crises or natural disasters affect all of us equally.

But that's not true.

And it never has been true.

How you experience something big really depends on where you sit.

And again, that's been true since the beginning of time.

When Rome fell in 476, September 476, it of course was a history-changing disaster that we're still talking about.

Books have been written about it ever since, more than 1,500 years.

And for most people, it was really the end.

It was the end of a civilization, the world's largest empire.

But there were some people, you can imagine,

on new year's eve 476 sitting around the table with their families assessing the year that just went by and they looked around the table and said you know that was the best year we ever had of course germanic hordes are plundering the city of rome but for us honestly it's pretty great and that's just the nature of it not anything inherently wrong with that it's just a fact you saw it during covid covid was a massive disaster for most americans for most people in the west

Addiction rates went up, suicide rates, divorce.

Kids didn't get educated for over a year.

It destroyed a whole generation of young people, affected them badly anyway.

On the other hand, if you were fortunate enough to have a second home, like a weekend house in a rural area that didn't have COVID restrictions or enforcement officers capable of enforcing them, it was pretty great.

If you lived in a traditional world, like say where your wife didn't work because she didn't have to because you made enough money, you could live a kind of 1950s family existence.

And you had a coherent family and children who still liked you sort of, and they were all home for months.