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McAlvany Weekly Commentary

Who's Watching The Watchers South Africa: 600,000 Security Guards & Only 150,000 National Police Fear Those Who Disagree - Return To Tribalism "The irreconcilable differences between various political perspectives and the intolerance for or unwillingness to engage in dialogue rests on differences in definitions and cultural contexts. Four traditions have developed from differing cultural bases and a whole differing understandings of what justice is, for that matter, what truth, what rationality are. The influence of cultural bias and tradition has to be acknowledged, and if you want, let's debate the merits of each, except that I fear we're in an age without dialogue and with more and more propaganda, and it becomes clear that to even have a voice takes a real effort." —David McAlvany Kevin: Welcome to the McAlvany Weekly Commentary. I'm Kevin Orrick, along with David McAlvany. David, I know you and your wife have debated on getting another guard dog, but you've got a lovable guard dog, but actually this dog responds to language that you've taught it that really we don't necessarily speak. When you give it an order, I don't understand what you're saying. David: No, it communicates very clearly, but it's because the training has taken place. Now the debate has now gone across two generations. My dad loved German Shepherds. I loved Malinois. We had a German Shepherd. Mary Catherine calls them German Shedders, and so the [unclear] for hair and the collection of hair on all things, clothing, furniture, floor makes dogs detestable to some degree. As delightful, as beautiful, as friendly, as loyal, it doesn't matter, they are hair factories. So we're not getting a second, much to my chagrin. Kevin: Isn't it interesting though that dogs or even we will respond to language that we've been taught? Maybe not everybody understands that same language, but it is, it's very interesting when you tell him to stop barking or whatever you're speaking a different language to him. I'm wondering if that doesn't happen to us sometimes. With all this going on with Zuckerberg, are we being taught a language to speak right now that maybe isn't the language we should be speaking? David: Yeah, I think that's fair. It's because in part we don't take time to find our terms and understand what is being said. We make some assumptions and we work off of what is familiar to us. So we grow accustomed to communication, and it implies meaning, and we assume that we're speaking the same language. But even this last week, Mary Catherine and I are having a conversation and I said, "No, that's not what I said," and she said, "That's exactly what you said." And she gave it to me in different words and I'm like, "This is fascinating." Kevin: We're not saying the same thing. David: Humanoids from the same continent, maybe different states, maybe that's it, Colorado versus Texas. No, it's just fascinating how you just miss each other if you're not clear on your definitions. It happens even innocently within a home and sometimes not so innocently outside of the home. Kevin: So on the topic of guard dogs, because the very fact that you have a guard dog, I mean obviously that offers you some protection, but you think about the world, we look at these campaigns right now, you've got people actually talking about defunding the police, and it's like, okay, so when you defund the police, who actually comes to the door when you call them? And I'm just wondering if you're not going to see a lot more guard dogs. David: Last week's client-only conference, this is for our hard asset strategies, there was a question about platinum and South African companies that mine it, and that was put on the table. The majority of platinum in the world comes from Russia and South Africa. Obviously it's verboten to invest in Russia today, so South Africa is the only way. That was the question, what would you recommend? Interestingly,