Hello, everyone. Welcome to this interview of the Lotus Cetus. I'm very pleased to be interviewing Johan Noberg. Thank you very much for being with us.

Thanks for having me.

Is an historian, an author and a commentator, also senior fellow of the Cater Institute, and author of books like Peak Human, what we Can Learn from the Rise and Fall of Golden Ages.

And also you have written a book called The Capitalist Manifesto and many more books.

And The Capitalist Manifesto is called Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World.

And as I was saying before, I follow your work for a long time, especially after I watched a documentary you did about Adam Smith.

So thank you very much for this, and I'm very pleased to be interviewing you today.

Thanks for the opportunity.

Right.

So the first thing that I'm very happy about is that this book is very optimistic,

peak human, everyone can watch it here.

And we live in a world that has pessimistic tendencies, and especially on social media and

the news, there seems to be too much negativity and too little stress on positivity.

So it's good to have some optimistic books once in a while.

And I wanted to start by asking you a personal question.

So what made you want to be an intellectual and an author?

Yeah, that's a great question, and it depends on how deep you go.

It could be just my other love of books and of literature and of history and wanting to live in that world.

But obviously you need some kind of message as well.

I guess that's one reason why I always wanted to write, do research, learn more and talk about what I've learned in various ways.

And I think that's partly because I learned something important when I was young,

and that was that my worldview was all wrong.

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