 I wanted to use this chance while I'm stuck here in traffic, and forgive me for the reflection thing, to talk about a really cool subject, which you may hear sometimes, and the subject is that when you have an opinion, like a strong opinion about something, you also want to have a very good knowledge of your opponent's opinion about the exact opposite opinion to yours. So for example, I'm very pro-conservatism, pro-capitalism, while, for example, I detest, I hate the post-modernist movement that basically says that since nothing has supposedly any value, that means that nothing has real value and everything is arbitrary, so all value is completely subjective and therefore all opinions are an attempt to get power over someone. So there's no facts, only opinions, and it sounds absurd, but many, many, many people believe it. So I have taken upon me to actually study post-modernism, and that starts with Marxism and the rational, logical, mostly illogical, but basically how a person gets to believe in that, because until you have a way of kind of viewing things, where you can see your opponent's position and actually see how it makes sense from his perspective, you're not really mature, you're not really logically wise at that point, and true wisdom actually comes when you are able to look at the other side's point of view and actually argue for them better than they argue for themselves. So once you're able to articulate your opponent's view better than they can articulate it themselves, that means that you have their attention, so now you can say, okay, so this is how you reach that conclusion, because this and this and this means that, and this is how you know it, and they're like, they actually completely understand, and now you can actually bridge the gap and teach people something new, because you can't just override people's beliefs by saying, you're wrong, I'm right, while you're completely coming from, again, from a completely different frame of mind or a different state of thinking. So one person might say that it's best to be a very nice person that never offends anyone, and that's their position, so their position is never offend me because it's not nice to offend people. While you might be very disagreeable and think it's actually very good sometimes to offend people, it's very good to make them feel bad sometimes because that's where growth comes from, or that's an important virtue because you can actually defend yourself because somebody who's too agreeable, he's so worried of offending others that he won't even stand up for himself. And unless you can bridge those two positions, unless you can actually fight for your opponent better than they can fight for themselves, you're not actually doing a debate, a real debate, it's mostly where you're actually trying to convince the other person. It's mostly you trying to demolish their position, but the ways you do it will be only sound good to people who are already supporting your position or already inclined to your position, so basically half the population most of the time won't get you because you're speaking a completely different language, you're not able to speak their language. And even on an even deeper implication, by you actually having the wisdom and the patience to look at the other side that you completely disagree with and actually dig deep enough until you find how it could actually happen that you would trust that position, meaning why that position could actually mean something for you, until the point where you actually did that type of investigation, you're not really the kind of person that represents truth, you're more like the person that represents their side in truth, and by being able to look at the other person's position, you're developing extremely deep roots in yourself. So a confidence in yourself to navigate through the world in the right manner. Now, there's always the fear that if you navigate too much in other people's opinions, maybe you'll get sucked up into them. And that's where the whole logical integrity and honesty comes in, where I talked about this in the previous video about the journey and taking the call, basically answering the call to adventure, that when you do such a thing, when you venture into the unknown, and instead of strengthening your position, you actually check out your opponent's position, when you do that, you're venturing into the unknown and it's dangerous. It's really, really dangerous because there's that fear and it's real that you might actually become one of them. So you actually stare into the abyss, as Nietzsche said, and you can become one of the monsters in the abyss if you stare long enough into it. That's where the strength comes from and that's where the solidity comes from. It's from going into those places where you, for a short time, completely adopt your opponent's position. So somebody you completely disagree with, you choose to look at things from their perspective for a while and now you can actually call yourself wise. So until that point you're intelligent because maybe you can debate really well, but you only become wise when you know both sides because the wise person is like a balance scale. He always looks at things from both sides and that's sort of hedging where you're able to see things from both perspectives rather than just yours. That hedging is actually the greatest courage that you can have because, again, it means that you're comfortable with being outside of the known and venturing into the unknown. So with the traffic congestion clearing up, I'll have to cut this video short. I hope you got a lot of good value from it and let me know if you still have any questions or anything you'd like me to further expand upon on this topic. So thanks for watching and until next time.