WEBVTT NOTE Freedom 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.000 There's not a lot I need to say about the founder of the Mises Institute. 2 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:07.000 I'm just very grateful to be here in his presence. 3 00:00:07.000 --> 00:00:14.000 He's known for many years since about the same time Kevin Duffy was in Stanford boot camp, 4 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:16.000 met a little about the same time. 5 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:20.000 And he's been a wonderful presence in my life since then. 6 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:29.000 And before I get all gushy about it, I just want to say the Mises Institute is incredibly successful 7 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:37.000 This is a very successful and wonderful institute, and Lew's leadership has been really exemplary. 8 00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:50.000 Ladies and gentlemen, Lew Rockwell. 9 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:04.000 Thank you very much. I have to apologize to Chris Whelan, who I don't think is still here. 10 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:09.000 And to all of you, I'm not going to be talking about Hazlitt and Bretton Woods, although I might just mention, 11 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:15.000 although that'll come in the future, but I'll just mention just a very quick anecdote about Henry Hazlitt, 12 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:24.000 who Mises Institute was very blessed to have, to be in his will and to have that recognition from him. 13 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:28.080 But he was fired from two important jobs. 14 00:01:28.080 --> 00:01:30.600 In the 20s, he was the literary editor of The Nation, 15 00:01:30.600 --> 00:01:34.160 which was a much bigger deal then than it would be today. 16 00:01:34.160 --> 00:01:36.480 And The Nation was a classical liberal publication 17 00:01:36.480 --> 00:01:39.360 at that time, and they turned, as so many did, 18 00:01:40.320 --> 00:01:43.660 to the dark side under FDR and supported the New Deal. 19 00:01:43.660 --> 00:01:46.480 And when Haslett wouldn't support the New Deal, 20 00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:50.120 they gave him a choice, either support it or go, and he went. 21 00:01:50.120 --> 00:01:51.680 Later, he was an editorial writer 22 00:01:51.680 --> 00:01:53.920 for the New York Times, as Chris mentioned, 23 00:01:53.920 --> 00:01:58.960 and he kept attacking the coming Bretton Woods. He had followed the whole thing. He of course knew 24 00:01:58.960 --> 00:02:03.360 the evil of Keynes. He understood exactly what was going to happen. His wonderful, 25 00:02:03.360 --> 00:02:07.360 some of the wonderful articles collected in his book from Bretton Woods to World Inflation. 26 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:13.120 But the publisher of the Times, and I don't know how he was able to keep the Times on the straight 27 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:19.440 and narrow for as long as he did. He's a man of tremendous power and charm as well. But the 28 00:02:19.440 --> 00:02:23.740 The publisher called him in and he said we can't, he said he'd gotten the word, we don't 29 00:02:23.740 --> 00:02:28.480 know from whom, although we can guess, that the Times could no longer oppose Bretton Woods 30 00:02:28.480 --> 00:02:33.680 and indeed had to support it, endorse it, cheer it on, and he wanted Haslett to say 31 00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:40.680 and do that, and Haslett said he couldn't, and so he was gone again. But a very great 32 00:02:40.680 --> 00:02:46.640 man, a very prolific man, he once estimated he'd written 10,000 articles during his lifetime 33 00:03:16.640 --> 00:03:21.600 Classical liberal tradition believed would be most beneficial for mankind. 34 00:03:21.600 --> 00:03:27.220 It would appear that the more liberty we lose, the less people are able to imagine how liberty 35 00:03:27.220 --> 00:03:28.540 might work. 36 00:03:28.540 --> 00:03:30.840 It's a fascinating thing to behold. 37 00:03:30.840 --> 00:03:36.040 People can no longer imagine a world in which we could be secure without massive invasions 38 00:03:36.040 --> 00:03:41.800 of our privacy at every step and even strip searching before being boarded, boarding airplanes 39 00:03:41.800 --> 00:03:53.480 People no longer imagine how a true free market in medical care might work, even though all 40 00:03:53.480 --> 00:03:58.960 the problems of the current system were caused by government intervention in the first place. 41 00:03:58.960 --> 00:04:04.660 People around the world imagine that we need 700 military bases around the world and endless 42 00:04:04.660 --> 00:04:10.160 wars in the Middle East for security, although Switzerland doesn't. 43 00:04:10.160 --> 00:04:19.160 I don't think it's insane to think of life without central banks, even though they are modern inventions that have destroyed currency after currency. 44 00:04:19.160 --> 00:04:33.160 Even smaller metalsome agencies like the Consumer Product Safety Commission strike most people as absolutely essential, even though it is not they who catch the thieves and frauds, but private institutions. 45 00:04:33.160 --> 00:04:38.840 The idea of privatizing roads or water supplies sound outlandish, even though we have a long 46 00:04:38.840 --> 00:04:40.240 history of both. 47 00:04:40.240 --> 00:04:45.760 People even wonder how anyone could be educated in the absence of the public schools, as if 48 00:04:45.760 --> 00:04:51.560 markets themselves didn't create in America the world's most literate society in the 18th 49 00:04:51.560 --> 00:04:53.480 and 19th centuries. 50 00:04:53.480 --> 00:04:55.240 The list could go on and on. 51 00:04:55.240 --> 00:05:00.980 But the problem is that the capacity to imagine freedom as a very source of life for civilization 52 00:05:00.980 --> 00:05:05.620 and Humanity itself is being eroded in our society and culture. 53 00:05:05.620 --> 00:05:10.780 The less freedom we have, the less people are able to imagine what freedom feels like, 54 00:05:10.780 --> 00:05:15.420 and therefore the less they are willing to fight for its restoration. 55 00:05:15.420 --> 00:05:18.780 This has profoundly affected the political culture. 56 00:05:18.780 --> 00:05:24.520 We've lived through regime after regime since at least the 1930s, in which the word freedom 57 00:05:24.520 --> 00:05:29.820 has been a rhetorical principle only, even as each new regime has taken away ever more 58 00:05:29.820 --> 00:05:31.420 and more of our freedoms. 59 00:05:31.420 --> 00:05:36.500 But now we have a president who doesn't even bother to pay lip service to the idea of freedom. 60 00:05:36.500 --> 00:05:39.760 I wonder if the idea has occurred to Obama at all. 61 00:05:39.760 --> 00:05:45.300 If the idea of freedom has occurred to him, he must have rejected it as dangerous or unfair 62 00:05:45.300 --> 00:05:50.360 or unequal or irresponsible or something along those lines. 63 00:05:50.360 --> 00:05:55.500 To him and to many Americans, the goal of government has to be an extension of the personal 64 00:05:55.500 --> 00:05:57.300 values of those in charge. 65 00:05:57.300 --> 00:06:03.180 I saw a speech in which Obama was making a pitch for national service. 66 00:06:03.180 --> 00:06:08.540 The ghastly idea that government should steal two years of every young person's life for 67 00:06:08.540 --> 00:06:13.980 slave labor and to inculcate loyalty to the government, though obviously setting back 68 00:06:13.980 --> 00:06:16.540 a person's professional and personal life. 69 00:06:16.540 --> 00:06:21.120 Now how did Obama justify his support of this idea? 70 00:06:21.120 --> 00:06:26.220 He said that when he was a young man, he learned important values from his period of community 71 00:06:26.220 --> 00:06:32.020 Service. It helped form him and shape him. It helped him understand the troubles of others 72 00:06:32.020 --> 00:06:39.500 and think outside his own narrow experience. Well, I'm happy for him. But he chose this 73 00:06:39.500 --> 00:06:46.860 path voluntarily. It is a gigantic leap to go from personal experience to forging a vicious 74 00:06:46.860 --> 00:06:52.300 national plan and imposing it on the entire country. His presumption here is taken from 75 00:06:52.300 --> 00:07:05.300 The Father Leader will guide his children's citizens in the paths of righteousness so that they will all become good like the leader himself. 76 00:07:05.300 --> 00:07:08.300 To me his comment illustrates one of two things. 77 00:07:08.300 --> 00:07:14.300 It could show that Obama is a potential dictator in the mode of Stalin, Hitler or Mao. 78 00:07:14.300 --> 00:07:21.300 For the presumptions he puts on display are just as frightening as any imagined by the worst tyrants in human history. 79 00:07:21.300 --> 00:07:28.940 Or more plausibly, it may be an illustration of Hannah Arendt's view that totalitarianism 80 00:07:28.940 --> 00:07:33.700 can be merely an application of the principle of the banality of evil. 81 00:07:33.700 --> 00:07:38.700 With this phrase, Arendt meant to draw attention to how people misunderstand the origin and 82 00:07:38.700 --> 00:07:40.300 nature of evil regimes. 83 00:07:40.300 --> 00:07:47.540 Evil regimes, she said, are not always the product of fanatics, paranoids and sociopaths. 84 00:07:47.540 --> 00:07:53.980 Although of course power breeds fanaticism, paranoia and sociopathology, instead the total 85 00:07:53.980 --> 00:07:59.780 state can be built in part by ordinary people who accept the wrong premise concerning the 86 00:07:59.780 --> 00:08:03.060 role of the state in society. 87 00:08:03.060 --> 00:08:08.740 If the role of the state is to ferret out evil thoughts and bad ideas, it must necessarily 88 00:08:08.740 --> 00:08:11.400 become totalitarian. 89 00:08:11.400 --> 00:08:16.140 If the goal of the state is that all citizens must come to hold the same values as the great 90 00:08:16.140 --> 00:08:24.140 Whether economic, moral or cultural, the state must necessarily become totalitarian. 91 00:08:24.140 --> 00:08:32.140 If the leaders believe that scarce resources are best channeled in a direction that producers and consumers would not choose on their own, 92 00:08:32.140 --> 00:08:36.140 the result must necessarily be central planning. 93 00:08:36.140 --> 00:08:41.140 On the face of it, many people today do not necessarily reject these premises. 94 00:08:41.140 --> 00:08:47.140 No longer is the idea of a state-planned society seen as frightening. 95 00:08:47.140 --> 00:08:52.700 What scares people more today is the prospect of a society without a central plan, which 96 00:08:52.700 --> 00:08:55.680 is to say, a society of freedom. 97 00:08:55.680 --> 00:09:00.260 But here is the key difference between authority and everyday life, such as that exercised 98 00:09:00.260 --> 00:09:06.820 by a parent, or a teacher, or a pastor, or a boss, and the power of the state. 99 00:09:06.820 --> 00:09:11.060 The state's edicts are always enforced at the point of a gun. 100 00:09:11.060 --> 00:09:15.560 It is interesting how little we think about that reality. One virtually never hears that 101 00:09:15.560 --> 00:09:23.200 truth stated so plainly in a college classroom, for example. But it is the core reality. Everything 102 00:09:23.200 --> 00:09:29.220 done by the state is ultimately done by means of aggression, which is to say violence or 103 00:09:29.220 --> 00:09:35.140 the threat of violence wielded against the innocent and their property. The total state 104 00:09:35.140 --> 00:09:40.580 is nothing but the continued extension of these status means throughout every nook and 105 00:09:40.580 --> 00:09:47.100 and Cranny of Economic and Social Life. Thus does the paranoia, megalomania and fanaticism 106 00:09:47.100 --> 00:09:54.100 of the rulers become deadly dangerous to everyone. It begins in a seemingly small error, a banality, 107 00:09:55.260 --> 00:09:58.260 but with the state what begins in banality ends in bloodshed. 108 00:09:58.260 --> 00:10:03.540 Let me give another example of the banality of evil. Several decades ago some crackpots 109 00:10:03.540 --> 00:10:09.780 had the idea that mankind's use of fossil fuels had a warming effect on the weather. 110 00:10:09.780 --> 00:10:14.780 Environmentalists were fired up by this idea, so were many politicians. 111 00:10:14.780 --> 00:10:20.220 Economists were largely tongue-tied or in favor because they had long ago conceded the 112 00:10:20.220 --> 00:10:25.300 idea that there are some public goods that the market can handle, truly the weather is 113 00:10:25.300 --> 00:10:27.300 one of them. 114 00:10:27.300 --> 00:10:30.100 Enough years go by and what do you have? 115 00:10:30.100 --> 00:10:34.260 Politicians from all over the world, every last one of them a huckster of some sort only 116 00:10:34.260 --> 00:10:39.760 pretending to represent their nations, gathering in a posh resort in Europe to tax the world 117 00:10:39.760 --> 00:10:44.760 and Plan the Weather Down to Precise Temperatures Half a Century from Now 118 00:10:44.760 --> 00:10:52.760 Floyd Lilly and Jim Sheehan, who were both here, were at that conference to heckle. 119 00:10:52.760 --> 00:10:58.760 I wonder if for the entire history of mankind there could have been a more preposterous spectacle than that. 120 00:10:58.760 --> 00:11:03.760 I don't know if it was a tragedy or a farce that the meeting on global warming came to a premature end 121 00:11:03.760 --> 00:11:33.760 I draw attention to this absurdity to make a more general point. What seems to have escaped the current generation is the notion that was once called freedom. Let me be clear on what I mean by freedom. I mean a social or political condition in which people exercise their own choices concerning what they do with their lives and property. People are permitted to trade and exchange 122 00:11:33.760 --> 00:11:38.760 They can exchange goods and services without impediment or violent interference. 123 00:11:38.760 --> 00:11:43.500 They can associate or not associate with anyone of their own choosing. 124 00:11:43.500 --> 00:11:46.400 They can arrange their own lives and businesses. 125 00:11:46.400 --> 00:11:54.160 They can build, move, innovate, consume, marry, procreate on terms they themselves define. 126 00:11:54.160 --> 00:11:55.160 What will be the results? 127 00:11:55.160 --> 00:12:00.080 We cannot predict them any more than I can know what everyone will have for breakfast. 128 00:12:00.080 --> 00:12:08.040 Human choice works that way. There are as many patterns of human choice as there are 129 00:12:08.040 --> 00:12:12.680 humans who make choices. The only question we should ask is whether the results will 130 00:12:12.680 --> 00:12:19.320 be orderly, consistent that is, with peace and prosperity, or chaotic, and thereby at 131 00:12:19.320 --> 00:12:25.120 war with human flourishing. The great burden borne by the classical liberal tradition, 132 00:12:25.120 --> 00:12:30.000 stretching from medieval times to our own, is to make believable the otherwise implausible 133 00:12:30.000 --> 00:13:00.000 to be sure the generation of Americans that seceded from British rule in the late eighteenth century took the imperative of liberty as a given they had benefited from centuries of intellectual work by true liberals who had demonstrated that government does little or nothing for society but divide and loot people in ways big and small they had come to believe that the best way to quote-unquote rule a society 134 00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:05.960 is with people's consent and in the most minimal way. Today the social order 135 00:13:05.960 --> 00:13:10.800 sounds like chaos. Without anything we dare try, thus we'd be overrun with 136 00:13:10.800 --> 00:13:16.520 terrorists and drug fiends amid massive social, economic and cultural collapse. 137 00:13:16.520 --> 00:13:21.200 To me this is very interesting. It is the cultural condition that comes about in 138 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:26.680 the absence of experience with freedom. More precisely, it comes about when people 139 00:13:26.680 --> 00:13:35.840 One might think it would be enough for most people to log on to the World Wide Web, browse 140 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:41.440 any major social networking site or search engine, gain direct experience of the results 141 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:43.040 of human freedom. 142 00:13:43.040 --> 00:13:48.840 No government agency created Facebook, no government agency manages its day-to-day operation, 143 00:13:48.840 --> 00:13:54.400 it's the same with Google, noted a bureaucratic agency, invent the miracles of the iPhone 144 00:13:54.400 --> 00:13:59.200 or the iPad or other things President Obama says he doesn't know anything about 145 00:13:59.200 --> 00:14:04.200 or the utopian cornucopia of goods available at any Walmart. 146 00:14:04.200 --> 00:14:07.200 Meanwhile, look at what the state has given us. 147 00:14:07.200 --> 00:14:13.600 The Department of Motor Vehicles, the post office spying on our emails and phone calls, 148 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:18.000 full body scans at the airport, restrictions on water use, 149 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:36.000 The court system, wars, taxes, inflation, business regulations, public schools, social security, the CIA, and another 10,000 failed programs and bureaucracies, the reputation of which is no good no matter who you talk to. 150 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:44.000 Now one might say, oh sure the free market gives us the dessert, but the government gives us the meat and vegetables to keep us healthy. 151 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:54.000 That view does not account for the horrific reality that more than a hundred million people were slaughtered by the state in the 20th century alone, not counting its wars. 152 00:14:54.000 --> 00:15:08.000 This is only the most visible cost. As Frederic Bastiat emphasized, the enormity of the cost of the state can only be conceived in considering the unseen costs, 153 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:38.000 The inventions not brought to market, the businesses not opened, the people whose lives were cut short so they could not enjoy their full potential, the wealth not used for productive purposes but rather taxed away, the capital accumulation through savings not undertaken because the currency was destroyed or the interest rate held at zero, among an infinitely expandable list of unknowns. To understand these costs requires intellectual sophistication. 154 00:15:38.000 --> 00:16:03.000 If we lack this understanding, we go through life accepting what exists as a given. If there is wealth in society, there is wealth and nothing more to it. If there is poverty, there is poverty and we can know nothing more. 155 00:16:03.000 --> 00:16:08.360 It was to address this deep ignorance that the discipline of economics was born in Spain 156 00:16:08.360 --> 00:16:14.560 and Italy, the homes of the first industrial revolutions in the 14th and 15th centuries, 157 00:16:14.560 --> 00:16:20.280 came to the heights of scientific exposition in the 16th century to be expanded and elaborated 158 00:16:20.280 --> 00:16:26.840 upon in the 18th century in England and Germany, in France in the 19th century, finally achieving 159 00:16:26.840 --> 00:16:35.640 Its fullest presentation in Austria and America in the 19th and 20th centuries. 160 00:16:35.640 --> 00:16:39.000 What does economics contribute to human sciences? 161 00:16:39.000 --> 00:16:41.240 What was the value that it added? 162 00:16:41.240 --> 00:16:45.800 It demonstrated the orderliness of the material world through a careful look at the operation 163 00:16:45.800 --> 00:16:50.980 of the price system and the forces that work to organize the production and distribution 164 00:16:50.980 --> 00:16:52.800 of scarce goods. 165 00:16:52.800 --> 00:16:56.800 Its main lesson was taught again and again for centuries. 166 00:16:56.800 --> 00:17:12.800 This was its contribution. This was its argument. This was its warning to every would-be social planner, your dreams of domination must be curbed. 167 00:17:12.800 --> 00:17:25.800 In effect, this was a message of freedom, one that inspired revolution after revolution, each of which stemmed from the convention that we might be better off in the absence of rule period than in its tyrannical premise. 168 00:17:25.800 --> 00:17:31.080 and its tyrannical presence. But consider what had to come before the real revolutions. 169 00:17:31.080 --> 00:17:36.080 There had to be this intellectual work that prepared the field of battle, the epic struggle 170 00:17:36.080 --> 00:17:40.800 that lasted centuries and continues to this day between the nation-state and the market 171 00:17:40.800 --> 00:17:47.280 economy. Make no mistake, it is this battle's outcome that is the most serious obstacle 172 00:17:47.280 --> 00:17:52.480 to the establishment and preservation of freedom. The political order in which we live is but 173 00:17:52.480 --> 00:18:22.480 The Theory of Money and State The Theory of Money and State 174 00:18:22.480 --> 00:18:28.480 and yet this power requires the cooperation of public culture. 175 00:18:28.480 --> 00:18:32.480 The rationales for power must convince the citizens. 176 00:18:32.480 --> 00:18:37.480 This is why the state must be alert to the status of public opinion. 177 00:18:37.480 --> 00:18:41.480 This is also why the state must always encourage fear among the population 178 00:18:41.480 --> 00:18:44.480 for what life would be like in the absence of the state. 179 00:18:44.480 --> 00:18:49.480 The political philosopher who did more than anyone else to make this possible 180 00:18:49.480 --> 00:19:04.480 The only possible was not Marx or Keynes or Strouse or Rousseau. It was the 17th century philosopher Thomas Hobbes, who laid out a compelling vision of the nightmare of what life would be like, he said, in the absence of the state. 181 00:19:04.480 --> 00:19:15.480 He described such life as solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short. Great name for a law firm by the way. 182 00:19:15.480 --> 00:19:22.480 The natural society, he wrote, was the society of conflict and strife, a place in which no one was safe. 183 00:19:22.480 --> 00:19:27.480 He was writing during the English Civil War, and his message seemed believable to many. 184 00:19:27.480 --> 00:19:36.480 But of course the conflicts in his time were not the result of natural society, but rather a fight over the control of Leviathan itself. 185 00:19:36.480 --> 00:19:41.480 So his theory of causation was skewed by circumstances akin to watching a shipwreck 186 00:19:41.480 --> 00:19:46.480 and concluding that the natural and universal state of mankind is drowning. 187 00:19:46.480 --> 00:19:51.480 And yet today, Hobbesianism is the common element of both left and right. 188 00:19:51.480 --> 00:19:56.480 To be sure, the fears are different, stemming from different sets of political values. 189 00:19:56.480 --> 00:20:02.480 The left warns us that if we don't have Leviathan, our front yards will be flooded from rising oceans. 190 00:20:02.480 --> 00:20:05.480 Big business moguls will rob us blind. 191 00:20:05.480 --> 00:20:15.480 The poor will starve, the masses will be ignorant, and everything we buy will blow up and kill us. 192 00:20:15.480 --> 00:20:22.480 The right warns that in the absence of Leviathan, society will collapse in a cesspool of immorality, 193 00:20:22.480 --> 00:20:27.480 loaded over by swarthy terrorists preaching a heretical religion. 194 00:20:27.480 --> 00:20:33.480 The goal of both the left and the right is that we make our political choices based on these fears. 195 00:20:33.480 --> 00:20:43.480 It doesn't matter so much which package of fear you choose, what matters is that you support the state that purports to keep your nightmare from becoming a reality. 196 00:20:43.480 --> 00:20:49.480 Is there an alternative to fear? Here is where matters become a bit more difficult. 197 00:20:49.480 --> 00:20:56.480 We must again begin to imagine that freedom itself could work. In order to do this, we must learn economics. 198 00:20:56.480 --> 00:20:59.480 We must come to understand history better. 199 00:20:59.480 --> 00:21:06.160 We must study the sciences of human action to relearn what Bastiat, Mises, Rothbard, 200 00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:11.400 Hazlitt, Hayek and the entire liberal tradition understood. 201 00:21:11.400 --> 00:21:17.320 What they knew is the great secret of the ages. Society contains within itself the capacity 202 00:21:17.320 --> 00:21:23.080 for self-management. And there is nothing the government can do to improve on the results 203 00:21:23.080 --> 00:21:31.360 of Voluntary Association, Exchange, Creativity and Choices of Every Member of the Human Family. 204 00:21:31.360 --> 00:21:36.320 If you know this lesson, if you believe this lesson, you are part of the great liberal 205 00:21:36.320 --> 00:21:42.260 tradition. You are also a threat to the regime, not only the one we live under currently, 206 00:21:42.260 --> 00:21:48.100 but every regime all over the world, in every time and every place. In fact, the great guarantor 207 00:21:48.100 --> 00:21:59.100 The power of liberty would be an entire population that is a relentless and daily threat to the regime precisely because it would embrace the dream of liberty. 208 00:21:59.100 --> 00:22:07.100 The best and only place to start is with yourself. After all, this is the only person you can really control in the end. 209 00:22:07.100 --> 00:22:14.100 And by believing in freedom yourself, you might make the biggest contribution to civilization you could possibly make. 210 00:22:14.100 --> 00:22:26.800 After that, never miss an opportunity to tell the truth, sometimes thinking the unthinkable, saying the unsayable, teaching the unteachable, so it makes the difference between bondage and sweet liberty. 211 00:22:26.800 --> 00:22:38.900 This was the vision of Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, it is the vision of the Mises Institute, it is the vision of every dissonant intellectual who dared to stand up to despotism in every age. 212 00:22:38.900 --> 00:22:43.500 I challenge you to enter into the great struggle of history and make sure that your days on 213 00:22:43.500 --> 00:22:46.500 this earth come for something truly important. 214 00:22:46.500 --> 00:22:51.180 It is this struggle that defines our contribution to this world. 215 00:22:51.180 --> 00:22:55.020 Freedom is the greatest gift you can give yourself and all humanity. 216 00:23:08.900 --> 00:23:10.900 Thank you very much.