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Thank you, Robert. and i'm an equally deeply honnered to be introduced by you.

And what you just said like: what can we do?

In the response to do this propaganda machinery

which has been unleashed, and the which is

by far the most impressive

propaganda machine the has ever been

unleashed in the history of mankind.

Well, you know I've been talking so much about

the phenomenon of mass formation and totalitarianism

throughout the last few years,

focusing on a, on what happens in a population which falls prey to propaganda.

And focusing on how we can understand how an entire

population goes mad

and buys into the most absurd

beliefs you can imagine.

And i'm focusing now

much more, on the psychology of totalitarian leadership,

and the psychology of propaganda itself.

What guys have do we have to do with

and, in particular, what can we do? Because that's the most important thing, of course.

the better you understand the nature of a propaganda, the more you see that

counter propaganda is not an option.

If you

going to the same level as the people you try to fight,

because you also lose touch with sincerity. You also lose to lose touch

with the ethical principles of humanity,

and that's the big question you have to ask ourselves.

And I was really touched by what Senator Johnson just said. It's, as far as i remember,

but that there is something that is even more important than freedom,

and that is truth.

And i think that's really right. That's really right.

Because freedom... there is no absolute freedom for a human being.

A human being can be free to a certain extent,

but it will always be subjected,

if it wants it or not

to the eternal ethical principles of humanity.

If we lose touch with that, freedom is worth nothing.

we can get in touch with them by speaking sincere, by speaking truthful

through truth speech,

And that again i agree with Senator Johnson

when he said that it is very hard to know for a human being

what truth is. What is truth actually?

It's very hard to determine that. If we think we can possess the truth,

we lost it already.

articulate, truthful words, but that's it. We can never possess it.

That's actually what i'm doing now. I'm focusing,

on the one hand, on propaganda

and, on the other hand...

I try to understand as well as possible, psychologically speaking

what the truth is. What is truth?

Is truth a kind of speech?

Is through a kind of words

that refer in the correct way to facts?

I don't think so.

I don't think so.

Even a joke can be truthful

if it is articulated at the right moment

and the joke has no reference to facts.

Truth speech... we can only define truth in reference

to something completely different than the fact.

Through speech, is this kind of speech

which penetrates through the veil of appearances, which

destroys lies, which destroys fake, which destroys the...

what they like to call the veil of appearances.

And we can do that at every moment

in our existence, every day, we have a chance to speak truthful and sincere

in so many occasions.

and every time we do so, even if it is

about a minor detail of life, every time we do so,

we establish

we go through the veil of appearances

that isolates people from each other,

we go through the veil of our own ego

and we establish a resonating bond

between the soul of two human beings.

That's why truth speech

makes the soul of a human being emerge from behind his ego.

That's where we create a human bond

and that's where we create resilience to propaganda.

We can do so one hundred times a day, or at least ten times a day,

and every time we create a human bond, a human bond between two souls,

we make the bond between the soul of two human beings stronger,

and that's the historical revolution we're witnessing now.

It's a historical revolution. The metaphysical revolution,

where a mass that is in the grip of propaganda,

is slowly getting weaker than a group connected through sincere speech.

The more we realize that, the more we understand that we have to do our best

to learn the art of sincere speech, because i believe it's really an art.

It's an art we can learn. In Belgium and Holland,

I give these workshops. About three hundred people followed them by now.

We practice for four days straight the art of truth speech.

And

I encourage people to continue to practice it after it, because

like every art, we have to practice it our entire lives.

But the more we understand that, that's what will be decisive...

The oldest act of humanity, speaking in a sincere way, will be what ultimately

overcomes the most impressive propaganda machinery mankind has ever known.

We will do it together and am happy to do it with you people.