 building walls around the country, not to allow food out, so not to allow export the food, right? So trade in food is being shut down in the name of the war, right? In the United States, just this week, the Biden administration has established a disinformation office, an office that will, within the Department of Homeland Security, which will, I guess, determine what the truth is and what is disinformation. I can't wait to hear what they discover is the truth and be educated by government officials about the truth. This is in America. So at every realm, in every direction, freedom is under attack and the struggle against the statists, the struggle against those who would oppress us, who would lock us down, who would tell us what the truth is and isn't, is not an easy one. It's fun, some of us would tell you, but it's not an easy one. And I want to address a fundamental question today and that is, why do it? In other words, a question that I think most people out there don't know the answer to and it's important for us to know that is, why is freedom important? Why should we care? What's the big deal? So somebody will decide on what's true and what's not. What's the point? People manage. People get along. So we'll give up a few percentage of GDP. People don't understand what GDP is. There's no conception of that. Why freedom? Why is it worth fighting for freedom? What is it about liberty that is important? These are very abstract ideas and most of the world out there is against them. Most of the world out there seems not to care about freedom and need. You could argue that freedom and liberty are a huge achievement. It's very rare, very, very rare in all of human history to have freedom. It's very rare in all of human history that people seek to care enough about freedom to fight for it. So what do we need out of the stand about freedom to make it worth fighting for? Why should you care? And to me, it's easy. For me, it's not about some abstraction of freedom. Some abstraction of free markets. Some abstraction of the state should be the size of that size like the sponsors of GDP or entrepreneurs or whatever. To me, it's something much simpler than personal. To me, it's about happiness. It's about my happiness and your happiness but primarily about my happiness. I want to be happy. I want to live a good life. I want to meet the most of my one time on planet Earth. You only get one shot of life. I want to be able to be the happiest and I can be on this one. I want to be successful and I want to live a good life. I want to live the best life I can. And I know that to do that, only I can make choices about my life. Some of you might know me pretty well. Some people know me really well. But no matter how much you know about me, only I can make choices about my values, about my life. And that's true if you want to do it. Only you know what's really important to you. Only you know what really makes you happy, what allows you to be successful at living. Our values are personal. They're our own. And yes, there are some truths with regard to values. There's some objective values, things that for all of humanity makes us successful. But how to apply them and what the specifics of them are is personal. You know Terry and Matt love beer. If you hang out with them all you hear about is beer, beer, beer, beer, beer. I'm just lying. I'm just lying. I don't. I don't. I mean I like Hawaiian, but it's not that important to me. That doesn't make their preference for alcohol good or bad. It's just not mine. Each one of us is going to apply the principle of how to live in an independent way based on your specific values. Again, there's some general principles. Generally, you want to be happy, you want to be successful in life. Use your mind. Reason is the way human beings succeed and survive and thrive on this planet. We all know, we all know that when we get into trouble we never save ourselves. When we get into real trouble, right? Yeah, I thought about that too much. Almost always when we get into trouble we go and I should have followed by emotions. I should have thought a little bit more about it. Thinking is how we solve problems. Thinking is how we solve problems in life. So I want to be able to choose my values. I want to be able to use my mind and think and to figure out how to live the best life I can. And what do I need to do that? In order for me to figure out the best use of my time, in order for me to figure out what values I can and should pursue, in order for me to solve the problems that was a pandemic, well, what should I do? Should I lock myself at home? Should I get a vaccine? Should I wear a mask? Should I do one of a million different options that are available to every individual? I need to be able to use my mind. I need to be able to think. I need to be able to check the array of possibilities and make decisions about which one is appropriate for me and which one will lead me to having a better life and limits my capacity to do that. What is the enemy of thought? The enemy of choice? The enemy of options? What shrinks your universe? What makes it impossible for you to array all the different possibilities and make decisions about how to guide your life? What's the enemy of reason? And I think it's a consequence, the enemy of values and it's a consequence, the enemy of happiness. Well, it's coercion. It's force. It's authorities telling you what you can and cannot do. So during the pandemic, you could have pretended to choose anything you wanted. It didn't make any difference. You were locked out. Whether you thought it was good for you or bad for you, whether your values dictated you shouldn't be at home or shouldn't be at home was not an option. You did what you were told. Otherwise, no consequences. A gun pointed at you. My wife was out swimming in the ocean during lockdown. She was the only person on the beach. She was in the water. Two policemen came out of the water. Go home now. Or if she'd said no and gone back in the water, what would they have done? They would have taken her home. They were fine. They would have used force against her. She was going to give corpins to the fish. So the enemy of reason, the enemy of thought, the enemy of values, the enemy of happiness is force and coercion. When the government regulates, when the government controls, when the government takes your income, it's using force and coercion and limiting your choices and limiting your values and telling you how you should live, what is available to you and what is not. And they always do it, by the way, in the name of what? In the name of they know what's good for you in the name of protecting you because you're too stupid to know what's good for you. You're too incompetent to know what's good for you. You don't have a good enough mind to determine your own power, your own values, your own progress. You need somebody else to tell you, somebody else is dictating you. Somebody else can control you. I say no. Only you can make the choices about your values. Only you can make the choices about how to live the best life that you can and all of us make different choices. And as long as we're not, as long as we're using our minds to live that kind of life and not violating other people's rights, as long as we're not competing in other people's ability to pursue their happiness, are you limiting me? Why are you stopping me? So it's time to fight for freedom, to fight for liberty, in the name of personal happiness and in the name of something people really care about. You know, there's huge amounts of self-help works out. But a big chunk of happiness is today limited. We are constrained by government in what we can and cannot do. We are constrained by government options available to us and what not. What they are doing to us is taking away our values, taking away our choices, taking away our possibilities with regard to success and living the best life that we can live. And every time they do this, remember that you only have one life and your time is the most precious thing that you have. Every time you stand in line in front of a bureaucracy, every time you have to ask for permission in order to do something that you believe is good, every time you need a permit, a license, permission from anybody, those are minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, you will never get back. That they have taken from you, they have stolen from you, much more important than the money they take from you. They take your time and therefore they take your life. So why should you fight for freedom and liberty? Because it's life or death. Because your time is life when they steal it, that's death. So for your own happiness, that's why you should fight for it and that's what you should try to educate all those people out there who seem not to care. Maybe if you put it in the context of their own lives, their own happiness, of their own being, they'll start caring. Thank you.