 Yeah, yeah, I seem to have the perception that reason is not enough. Okay, let's say you have a few Individuals where reason has basically gained a priority in their lives Is there a threshold or a point after which they begin to impact society and we actually have a Push against government for example Is there some kind of threshold some sociological socially based threshold after which you have so many people Are reasonable that actually gets to impact all this. Sure. I think there is but I think it's it's not it's not a numbers game It's who these people are so what changes the world is the minority and it's usually the intellectual minority so it's It's the intellectuals Advocating for reason it's the intellectuals advocating for freedom So it's when you see the intellectual world Dominated by people who believe in in freedom who believe in Individualism That's when you'll start seeing political change. It doesn't have to be the majority of people because sadly Majority of people are followers, but who do they follow? Whether we like it or not they follow in a sense that the writers of the New York Times, right? Or the professors at the universities or the people who show up on television, right there Intellectuals to show up on television the intellectuals lead a culture. They drive a culture the left took over America's institutions through the universities through the intellectual elites they became the professors But ultimately they became the lawyers and the judges and then ultimately the politicians But it all starts at the universities and then of course once you have the universities or the other people who? Go into journalism were trained in the universities and all the people who go into all the intellectual professions are trained in the universities and as long as you don't have a Mechanism to train in the intellectuals and as long as you don't dominate the intellectuals You can't have real You know Progress you can't really move a culture whether we like it our intellectuals determine a culture and and The intellectuals of a warming leader left and therefore even the right in America is left I mean Donald Trump is a Democrat. He's not a Republican not a traditional Republican everything on his agenda is them I mean tariffs or Bernie Sanders thing Anti-immigration was always the left the Democrats were anti-immigration. Why because they didn't want cheap labor competing with unions So, you know, that's a left now It's also combined with a nativist type xenophobic Nationalism which is on the right, but it's a combination, right? But you think about policy after policy he is and it's no accident that he usually wrote a Democratic, right? He was a Democrat. He was a registered Democrat until a few years ago So most of the policies of the Republican Party when they actually are in power are left That's because the whole Intellectual world is left of center. There's very few intellectuals on the right I Mean there's some conservatism some neocons and some paleocons and but they are relatively weak in comparison What is it 90-something percent of in certain fields in the humanities are leftists and not just Slightly left of center. We're talking about way out there left and It's hard to make progress in a world where the intellectual space is so dominated by one political or more deeply what one philosophical view of the world and The right is being impotent When it comes to dealing with that and the whole political map is shifted left Constantly both on social issues, which often has been a good thing not a bad thing and an economic issue The whole thing is shifted leftwards because the intellectuals control it so to me reason is the key But and it needs to you know So we need to overcome the the postmodernists and all the variety of of different Anti-reason ideologies that exist on at universities on campuses define reason properly because I think there are a lot of people who claim They're for reason, but are not really for reason. They're not really for evidence facts logic, you know reality And and when that becomes this idea of the importance and significance of reason is the way in which we know about the world and coupled when you couple that with individualism When that is the dominant intellectual, that's what dominates the intellectuals in terms of the ideas Then it's just a matter of time and the world will change But it's gonna take a long time We're way behind Thank you very much. Thank you. We need today what I called a new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think Meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason By the intellect not by feelings wishes women are mystic revelations Any man or woman who values his life and who does not get want to give in to today's cult of the spare cynicism and impotence and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist