What is personal integrity? Personal integrity is knowing what you know – what you know is what you know – and to have the courage to know and say what you have observed. And that is integrity, and there is no other integrity. Of course we can talk about honor, truth, all these things. But I think they’d all be covered very well if what we really observed was what we observed.

Life itself could become a surrogate, Substitute) as people will only be able to think through their cell phones and AI. We will live with AI, and we will be able to use it constructively. But it will not replace life, and it will not replace auditing as only a being can audit.

An obsessive sense of responsibility that compels you to go everywhere to destroy all bad ideas, all at once and all at the same time, is almost as crazy as not fighting them at all. There is a spectrum between irresponsibility – bad – and total responsibility – bad. In between, there is a mixture of responsibility and irresponsibility. This is a perfectly acceptable attitude.

The merchants of fear have lost all ability themselves to create, they cannot work themselves, they must either amass money which is never to be spent or must prevent others from amassing money. They produce nothing, they must steal one way or another, and then devaluate whatever they obtain. They speak very sternly of honesty or ethics and put on a formidable front of complete legality.