charge, i don t think that s crazy. i don t necessarily agree with the conclusions they come to and the way it manifests. in fact, don t agree with them at all but i think the sentiment is rooted in something. there s so much in this book. there s one part i do want to ask you about where you say you think the most crucial lesson you might have gotten was at a point at which you started to read the book of mormon. you couldn t understand it. you were puzzled. but you knew out of deference and because, you know, it was the most important book in your life, you had to read it. explain why that might have been the best thing that happened to you. i think a lot of people are angry with my parents because i say they didn t provide me with a good education. in some ways that s true. they were not attentive to my education and i struggled a lot as a result. on this point i was brought to read the book of bible, book of mormon and other 19th century texts and they were difficult. and i was
what s left from the descendents of bible-thumping dutch settlers who came here to farm, to ranch, to build their own world on top of an existing one. they came in the 1600s, and if nothing else can be said about them, they were a tough bunch of bastards. in 1800s, the british game. diamonds were discovered. there was war, and an ugly one. in the end, there was an uneasy sharing of power. the boards were known as africaners and racist africaner ideology, apartheid laws were enacted and it became the rule for almost 100 years. you want to see a south african wheat, wave this under their nose. mussolini themed restaurant? that s it. the good old days. it didn t look like any butcher i ve ever seen.