Hans, if the founders showed up today in 2026, what would they be most surprised by?

I think they would be pleasantly surprised that we're still here.

You know, because they, you look at some of the writings from that time period, you know, they had a lot, some of them had some real doubts about whether this could go on for very long.

They knew the vulnerability of governments because they had toppled one, the most powerful one in the world.

And they were concerned about threats from without, and we didn't have, we weren't a world military power at that point in time.

And they were very concerned about threats from within.

And they studied the course of history and they saw that you can start out with a good government and it can go bad really quickly.

In the course of getting older, I've changed my point of view.