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America is turning 250, and Lloyd Dobler is not bringing a casserole.
In Chapter 37 of The Tao of Lloyd, America250 becomes the starting point for a darkly funny meditation on patriotism, propaganda, charity, silence, empire, and the difference between celebration and repair.
With Palantir, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, Coinbase — and somehow Cracker Barrel — helping sponsor the national birthday party, Lloyd asks whether America needs fireworks, or whether America needs five minutes of actual stillness.
This episode riffs on Chapter 37 of the Tao Te Ching, where the Tao “never does anything, yet through it all things are done,” and asks what might happen if America stopped performing innocence long enough to tell the truth.
From the edge of empire — and the center of self — this is The Tao of Lloyd.
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