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Speaker 1: 00:00 One of the things that has just blown me away in the last year, because I've talked to lots of people, lots of people live, you know, but also lots of people online, but it's more obvious live and it's obvious in this theater as well, is that I've, I've, I've gone around and spoken and a large proportion of my audience has been young man, you know, under 30, something like that and I've spoken to them a lot about responsibility and what's so odd about about this is that of all the things that I've spoken about because I can see the audience and I can feel how the audience is reacting because I'm always paying attention to all of you. It's in so far as I can manage that. So I get some sense of how what I'm saying is landing. You know, which you have to do if you're going to speak effectively to people and what. What happens is if I talk about responsibilities, everyone b is silent just like they are now silent and, and not moving, right? Focusing attentive, say pick up your responsibility, pickup the heaviest thing you can and carry it and the room goes quiet and everybody's eyes open and I think that who making me break up, I was.
Speaker 1: 01:20 I don't, I don't know why I was speaking to an English journalist today. You're just going to write an article in Spectator magazine. I was talking about this and at the same point in the discussion the same, I had the same emotional reaction. I don't really understand it. It's. I think it's something. There's something about it that's so crucial because you know, we've been fed this unending diet of rights and freedoms and there's something about that, especially if there's something about that that so pathologically wrong and people are starving for the antidote. And the antidote is truth and responsibility, right? And it isn't, it isn't because that's what you should do in some, you know, some, some I know better or someone knows better for you what you should do sense. It's that. It's that, it's that, it's that that's the secret to a meaningful life and without a meaningful life, then all you have is suffering.
Speaker 1: 02:12 And, and nihilism and despair and all of that, and self contempt and that's not good, and so the man hits necessary for men to stand up and take responsibility and they all know that and and are starving for that message and the message is more that that's also a good thing to stand up and take responsibility because you're cursed so much now, from, from, from, from when you're young with this notion that your active engagement with the world is part of what is destroying and undermining the planet and adding to the tyranny of the social systems. It's like, how about not so much that, hey, because it's instant, it's, it's to soul deadening. It's andy human right to the core and my sense instead is that, you know, if you, if you were able to reveal the best of yourself to you in the world, that you would be an overwhelming force for good.