When I was born, Taiwan was under martial law. It was extremely centralised: no freedom to form new parties, no free press. We saw how democratisation added creativity to everyone who associatively formed civic, spiritual, and other muscles — what I call civic muscle. Still today in Taiwan, spiritual organisations have very high legitimacy. The more highly educated you are through the democratisation process, the more likely you are to practise openly. I am a Taoist, for example.