 Daniel. Quite the story indeed. Matthew Broker, a British journalist has been living in Hong Kong for more than 25 years, wrote a story that was published in Bloomberg, a farewell to the Hong Kong I loved. And he tells a lot that has changed, you know, in the time that he's lived there. And at the end, he kind of says as sad as this is, I really don't think the Chinese will crush the Hong Kong spirit. And then he says, he says, the soul of Hong Kong, which I associate with an outward looking attachment to universal values of freedom, individual dignity and justice. Now by dignity here, doesn't he mean food, shelter, healthcare handed out by the taxpayers? I mean, isn't that exactly opposite of freedom and justice for everyone? It's, you know, forget about Hong Kong for a minute. If any country or culture was based on freedom, justice, and give me free stuff, aren't they doomed to failure? I'm not sure he's talking about the free stuff here. So I'd have to research how they use the word dignity in let's say British culture. But my sense is that he means dignity as rule of law, treating people as equals, equals in a good sense, in the political sense, in the sense of no matter where you come from, no matter who you are, you're a human being, right? And I think importantly, because think about what's associated with dignity, even today to some extent, its work is associated with dignity. The opportunity to work, the opportunity to make a living, the opportunity to have dignity and honor in your own life. So I'm maybe spinning this a little benevolently in terms of what I think he means. And I think I'm doing that because of knowing people in Hong Kong, right? And knowing the people of Hong Kong and they're not, I mean, the young people, put aside the young people, young people unfortunately, a much more inclined towards a welfare state type system in Hong Kong. There's a whole generation that's been brought up just like here and everywhere else at universities and schools with the leftist agenda. But in the people I know in Hong Kong, the older generation and maybe more of the liberty-minded young people, there's a certain love of the fact that people come there as immigrants with nothing. And the dignity is that they get a job and they can earn a living and they can live well. It's not handouts, handouts of the anti-dignity. So I don't know what this guy means, but that's how I think of Hong Kong. That's what I think Hong Kongers mean by dignity. Okay, and it may have been just the tanges that I got from him, from earlier other things he wrote in the article about, here's one I can find real quickly, which finally brought in a minimum wage in 2010. And there's other things that he talks about that I thought he was handed towards his handouts, but maybe I'm being unfair with this thing. So maybe he is, maybe he is one of those more leftists who've complained bitterly about poverty in Hong Kong and not enough handouts and we don't do enough. There are handouts in Hong Kong, there is a small safety net, there is a minimum wage, although it's low, but it's, and the free market people in Hong Kong always complain bitterly about regulations and controls and all this stuff. And I used to laugh at them saying, you think that's bad, you don't know what it's like elsewhere in the world. They're the most economically free place in the world and they were complaining about regulations and controls, which they're right to do because one regulation control is too much. So, and redistribution is too much, but the people I know valued freedom and would be half-fied by the idea, but suddenly the intellectuals in Hong Kong are just like intellectuals everywhere. And maybe this author is the same way. And that's, it's sad, but that's the fight we're in constantly, right? It's that there's almost nobody on our, there are very few intellectuals on our side, very few. Thank you. Thanks Daniel. What we need today, what I call the 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, wins or mystic revelations. Any man or woman who values his life and who does not want to give in to today's cult of the stare, cynicism and impotence and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist roads. All right, before we go on, reminder, please like the show. We've got 163 live listeners right now, 30 likes. That should be at least a hundred. I figure at least a hundred of you actually like the show. Maybe they're like 60 of the Matthews out there who hate it, but at least the people who are liking it, I wanna see a thumbs up, there you go. Start liking it, I wanna see that go to a hundred. 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