All righty, ready, good. Morning everybody. Some great questions from the listeners at

X on X. So we start with, so not a philosophical question, but you talk a lot about family dynamics.

Have you ever talked about dealing with senior parents? I'm extremely anti-nursing home,

but dealing with folks on their own that refuse

any help or to move in near me and the grandkids, they refuse to turn over any control over the

health or finances. I prefer not to come in and force my way into their affairs, but they're now in

their 80s, and I think that to leave them be is going to start to border

on negligence at some point, i.e. driving, med management, et cetera, any advice would be appreciated.

So the great enemy of virtue is not evil, but vanity. Vanity is a subset. Evil is a subset of

vanity.

There's something that's kind of missing from men in particular in the modern world,

which is cold-hearted justice, cold-hearted justice.

We've sort of been replaced with this, bend over backwards, turn the other cheek,

love everyone, and it's terrible. Absolutely. We only have the modern world because of cold-hearted justice, at least in the West. And I'm talking,

of course, about the cup one or two percent of evil people who were executed like every year

for hundreds of years. So we have this kind of cold justice and one of the problems,

we used to have this kind of cold justice, and one of the problems we have in the world at the

moment is that because we mostly got rid of our worst evildoers, what's happened is we now can

afford to, quote, love everyone and be nice to everyone, be kind to everyone, it's not a reality.

It's like the kid who's inherited $10 million, wondering, gee, well, why does anyone take any

jobs they don't like? Why does anybody, why don't you have a yacht, you know, this kind of thing,

right? I mean, I had a friend when I was younger.

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