Friction Not Fiction- The Things That Matter

The ground keeps shifting. Some truths don’t—won’t. In just 5 minutes, this episode hits where it matters.. Truth. Justice. Memory. Not trends. Not fiction. Friction. Because what matters… holds.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome And Episode Theme
• 0:29 Defining Bedrock Ideals
• 1:40 Friction As Moral Practice
• 2:31 Enduring Ideals Beyond Power

Transcript

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Fill to capacity, where heart, grit, and irreverent humor collide. A podcast for people too stubborn to quit and too creative not to make a difference. Hi, this is Pat Benin Caza and welcome to Fill Two Capacity. Today episode one hundred and twenty Friction, not fiction the things that matter. Some things are older than time. They run deep in the psyche, and they endure. Especially now in the swirl of broken norms and vanishing safeguards. When it's hard to tell what's real, what's right, or who's paying attention? But in the churn, something steady remains. This isn't about politics, it's about bedrock. Truth and justice aren't trends or ideologies. They're moral coordinates, deep, stubborn ideals that live in people, not governments. When institutions tremble, it's people who carry those ideals forward. Truth is staying awake. It's saying I saw that when silence would be easier. Justice is holding a line even when that line keeps getting redrawn. It's the belief that power should have limits, that people deserve dignity. It's not clean, it's not perfect, it's friction. These ideals endure because we carry them. They're lived, not legislated. They've survived exile, fire, censorship, collapse, crossed borders, picket lines, and still say no to banned books. They live in the stories we tell and the silence we refuse. Truth and justice outlasts regimes, older than power, older than fear, not handed down, held on to. They are the friction in a world that forgets too fast, the quiet truth that will not yield.