 Roeddwn i'r ddweud y gynnig, mae'n fydd hwnnw i'r gweithio'r ddechrau. Rwy'n gweithio'r ddweud y ddweud ar y gynnig. Doedd yn ddweud, ddweud. Roedd yn ddweud. Yn ddweud, mae'n ddweud y byddwyr, ac mae'n bwysig i'r ddechrau. Mae'n ddweud yng nghymru, oherwydd mae'n collektifydd gyda'r ddweud, ..a gwneud yma ar gyfer ymlaen nhw'n gweithio. Felly, o'r cyfnodd gwaith ymlaen nhw ymlaen nhw. Ond ydym yn ymlaen nhw... ..yna ymlaen nhw, mae'n cael eu cyfnodd... ..yna llyfriddio'n cyfrifio. Mae'n cyfrifio, os ymlaen nhw... ..yna'n cyfrifio ar y llyfriddio. Mae'n cyfrifio ymlaen nhw. Mae'n cyfrifio'n cyfrifio'n cyfrifio. Mae'n cael ei wneud, mae hwn yn gwneud... ..yna'n cyfrifio'n cyfrifio. It's interesting that we see that societies are, I mean, they are groups and they may be made of individuals. But surely, surely you can see though that in these societies inevitably do results in this hierarchical form of like well, governments in group settings. It always delves and devolves into these hierarchies. Is it just that's the natural state of being? Maybe we reason towards groups, maybe we reason towards collectivism. Na'r amfodau yn ymlaen, nawr mae erion yn dwylo yw'r amlunol erion yr hyn fel y rhannu a'r amddun sy'n gweithio'r byd. Dw i'n ffLO Erma'r ddau bod y byd yn ymddangos yn ei wneud. Felly, mae'n gwirio'r ymddangos yn ei gyd. Yn y ffLO, ni'n gweithio'r amlunol oed ymddangos y cwyl y cyfraed ychydig sydd gyda'r cyfraed. Ychydig ychydig yn llwyddoedd y bydd. Mae bod y cyfraed yn deall. Mae'n ddweud ychydig yn y 9e gyda'r Gymru, o'ch ddweud yng nghymru, o'ch ddweud yn ddweud, a ddweud ychydig yn cyfrifiadau yn ddweud, a ddweud ychydig yn ddweud rydyn nhw. Ychydig yn ddweud, rydyn ni'n ddweud, yn olyg, yn y Brwyll, yn y Brwyll yn y Brwyll, yn ychydig yn y Brwyll. I don't remember the order, right? And it was. It was. But we are better than that. And that's what the left... If you'd asked this question 300 years ago, it would have said, you know, maybe. But we've just lived through this amazing period. How much richer are we today than we were 300 years ago? On average. In terms of dollars or pounds with 300 times richer. But that's minimizing their effect. Because how do you measure the value of electricity? Not your electricity bill. The value of electricity is gazillion times more than your electricity bill. A problem with economics is we can only measure things that have dollar signs next to them. We can measure actual utility. What's the benefit of electricity? A plumbing? Indo plumbing? Toilets? I'm pretty... You know, that's more than just a little bit. That's more than 300 times better, right? Having the ability to flush your toilet. The iPhone? I haven't even started describing all the wonders of an iPhone. It's not 300 times better. It's 1000 times better. And what's interesting is that 300 years ago, there might have been 500 million people on planet Earth. The 8 billion of us. And generally, we're all living better. There's, you know, maybe 5 to 10% of the people who are not who are still living the way that we lived 300 years ago, and that's a tragedy. But they can do better. And they will do better if they get the right ideas. If you study history, what you see is that ideas shape history, not, well, human nature. That's what we do. We kill each other. No, we don't. We don't have to. We do, but we don't have to. And the question always is, will we rise to the challenge? Will we exert the effort? As I said, thinking using reason requires effort. Will we use that effort? And to do that, we have to teach people that they can do it. This is why I really hate these evolutionary psychologists who tell you, you're just a product of your genes and nothing you do makes any difference. But you're not. And you're not a product of the environment either. That's BS as well. Yeah, you're a little bit of a product of both. But what's the real factor that determines who you are? You, the choices you make, the free will that you have, whether you acknowledge it or not, whether Sam Harris likes it or not. We all have free will. We are the writers of our own script. Now, some of us choose not to engage the free will. And then we're just products of society. And then if collectivists rise to power, we become collectivists. And if it's collectivists of the right, collectivists of the left, it's just we do what we are told. But you have the ability to write the script yourself. You have the ability to take control over your own life. And you have the ability, therefore, to be an individual. And what does individualism means? It means that your life is valuable to you. Indeed, it's the most valuable thing you have. You don't have anything more valuable than your life. And that you don't want, because you have this mind, you don't want to be told how to live. You want to make those choices yourself. Now, people can advise you. People can recommend. You can read great books about how people have lived. And then you get to make the choice of how you live. That's what individualism means. And if you are like that, then you don't want authorities and coercion and people telling you what's true and what's not, what's right or what's wrong, what to do to marry and who not to marry. We've overcome that. And we're at a turning point right now. Western civilization is. It has leased liberties. It's had these freedoms for a long time, at least to some extent. And we're giving them away. We're throwing them in a rubbish. And we're doing it in the name of what? In the name of ancient reactionary ideologies. I mean, I love the fact that the, I don't know, the modern left thinks they're inventing something new. No, they're just rehashing the same old, you know, failed policies and failed ideas that have destroyed human life everywhere they've been tried in the world. And the new right is doing exactly the same thing. Rehashing the same ideas that have destroyed, you know, there's nothing new here. They're just, we're then, you know, we're trying to save civilization to the extent that we're fighting for individualism. But what else is there to fight for? So I'm not saying groups are not valuable. Of course groups are valuable. Families are valuable. Friendship is valuable. Business? Business is a group, right? But what's the nature of groups like that? The nature of groups like that is the voluntary engagement, except family. You're stuck with the parents who had you. That's the one involuntary thing, right? And hopefully they're good parents, and that's okay. But if they're not good parents, it sucks. 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