You cannot have this perfect hedonistic life. It doesn't exist. Even if

advertising media and everybody tells you so, there is no life without suffering.

There is no love without suffering. Today sit down with Ambassador Edward Habsburg,

the Archduke of Austria and Hungary's ambassador to the Vatican. He is from the

royal line of the Habsburgs and author of The Habsburg Way,

Seven Rules for Turbulent Times. It's the contrary of the message we hear every day now.

You can be whatever you want, every day something different. This is something

that won't make man happy when I'm built like that. In this wide-ranging

interview, we take a look at what it means to live a good life and to die a

good death. Is there something to learn from the ruling philosophy of the

Habsburgs? What core principles unite the American founding and the Habsburg

approach? What I see as a man is of globalism. Decisions are being taken not on

a local level, not even on a national level, but on a super-national level.

Single nations don't even have a choice anymore. This is American thought

leaders and I'm Janja Kellek. Ambassador Edward Habsburg is such a

pleasure to have you on American thought leaders. Thank you very much for

having me on the show. I've really been enjoying reading your book The Habsburg

Way. Let's start with this in the US and in Canada, frankly, in many places when

you think of aristocracy, right? You kind of think of the Howard Zinn version,

right? Abaristocracy. Basically, people that made others suffer while they

enjoyed all the luxuries of life. And this is certainly not the picture that you

get from reading The Habsburg Way and I want to give you a chance to talk about

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