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July 3, 2025 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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My vision for the RESTORATION OF AMERICA (after the collapse...) – BBN, July 3, 2025

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	We are now seeing a pretty aggressive rolling out of a censorship regime from the Trump administration that very effectively mirrors the censorship of the radical left that we've all been trying to escape or overturn for many years.
	So welcome to the broadcast today.
	It is Thursday, July 3rd, 2025.
	I'm Mike Adams.
	Thank you for joining me.
	I'm going to start out with a tweet that I sent out.
	It goes like this.
	So Secretary Rubio shuts down USAID, absorbs it into the State Department.
	He says we're done funneling money to useless projects.
	Then he turns around and immediately funnels nearly $95 million to Jewish organizations to, quote, fight anti-Semitism at a time when Israel is engaged in criticism-worthy actions targeting civilian women and children.
	So the very same slush fund money that the left was using to fight transphobia or fight Islamophobia is simply rebranded to fight anti-Semitism.
	Same slush, different recipients.
	Neither party fundamentally believes in free speech or the freedom to think, the freedom to criticize those in power.
	Replacing Democrats with Republicans is nothing more than an exercise in replacing one group of authoritarian tyrants with another.
	And the discernment of whether your speech is celebrated or hateful does not depend at all on the content of your speech, but rather the political biases of the party in power.
	If you are a person of principle, you will be alternatively branded a heretic or celebrated as a national treasure as various politicians come and go across the landscape of time.
	To exist as a person of principle is to live from time to time as an enemy of the state.
	So that's the tweet I sent out.
	Got a lot of positive feedback on that.
	And I'm seeing a lot of other people who are noticing much the same thing where Trump is doing things like threatening universities.
	We're going to pull all your funding if you don't announce that all student groups are banned from boycotting Israel.
	But no other country.
	Like they can boycott Iran or they can boycott North Korea or they can boycott China.
	No problem.
	But if you boycott just this one country, then, oh, your university will lose millions of dollars.
	And then Trump is now talking about deporting people, I mean, Americans, regular Americans, not just students, but deporting Americans.
	And I believe Trump has even said that Elon Musk might need to be deported back to South Africa for him, is what Trump said.
	So, of course, a lot of people are noticing all of this and saying, what?
	This isn't what we voted for.
	We already fought against authoritarianism for 10 plus years.
	We paid the price for that.
	We all got deplatformed and demonetized and smeared and censored and blacklisted.
	And, you know, it wasn't just because we were opposed to transgenderism predatory behavior targeting children.
	And, you know, it wasn't just because we were opposed to the vaccine bioweapons, which, of course, Trump promoted through Operation Warpspeed.
	It wasn't just that.
	We demanded the freedom to speak, the freedom to think, even if your speech and your thoughts are not popular, even if they're not appreciated by some people, as long as you're not directly calling for specific violence, you're not calling to kill a certain person or stalk a certain person or kill certain types of people.
	You're not inciting violence with your speech, then all forms of speech are protected by the First Amendment in America, including offensive speech, specifically offensive speech.
	And that is what the Trump administration has forgotten.
	And the reason I'm pointing this out is because you know how I project many years ahead.
	And almost always those projections come true, sometimes not on the schedule that I anticipate.
	Sometimes they take longer.
	Sometimes I'm wrong.
	But for the most part, especially the trends, they come true.
	And the trend that I'm seeing right now is that the Democrats are going to be able to reposition themselves as the party of free speech.
	Yes.
	And they're going to, of course, depict Trump and all of Trump's people as the authoritarian tyrants that are kidnapping people out of their dorms at universities, which has already happened.
	Or that are silencing musical artists because they led a chant against the IDF or whatever.
	And whether or not you agree with people's speech, what I'm saying is that Trump is handing the Democrats an almost certain win, not just in the midterms, but also in the 2028 presidential election, if our country even holds together that long, which I don't believe it will, but whatever.
	The Democrats will be able to sweep back into power by just promising an end to Trump's authoritarianism.
	And they've already got their scripts for that.
	But just to be clear, the Democrats don't believe in free speech at all.
	They are, of course, authoritarian tyrants themselves.
	You know, some of the worst.
	And I will never vote for Democrats again because of what they did and all the horrible things they did to Trump, too.
	I mean, impeached him twice over Trumped-up charges, you know, fake the Russian dossier, all that nonsense.
	But Democrats will be able to win and they will sweep Into power, they'll take majorities in the House, the Senate, and the White House if Trump stays on this current course of acting like an authoritarian tyrant, which was reflected in the recent protests called the No Kings protests.
	At least they were called that in America.
	No kings.
	Well, that message actually resonates with a lot of people, a lot of younger people, a lot of people on the left.
	People 50 and under don't agree with what Trump is doing hardly at all, especially with Israel and the Middle East.
	Now, the so-called boomer generation loves what Trump is doing, but the non-boomers absolutely despise it.
	And that is why most people in society are too cowardly to operate on principle.
	Instead, they are tribal.
	So that dichotomy, that contrast, think about it.
	Some people operate on principles, and those principles, they may evolve, but they're not like drive-through fast food principles.
	They're not disposable.
	And I've shared my principles with you, and you have your principles.
	And although typically as we age and have more life experience, we may develop or our principles may mature, but we don't simply discard them.
	For example, if we have value, if we value other people's lives and we value human consciousness and we have compassion and empathy for fellow human beings, we don't just wake up one day and say, no, that's a horrible idea.
	Let's make everybody suffer.
	No, at least that doesn't happen in principled people.
	But the vast majority are tribal because tribalism is much easier than having principles.
	Tribalism only means you have to go along with the tribe and whatever insanity it's currently pushing.
	And of course, society presents all kinds of tribes that you are encouraged to join.
	You know, you can join the LGBT tribe.
	And even within the LGBT tribe, there are sub-tribes.
	There's like the T tribe that sometimes the G, the gays don't always agree with the T's, the transgenders, right?
	So there are sub-tribes within that tribe.
	Or you could join the academia tribe.
	You could join the climate change tribe and you could make climate the focus of your life.
	You can join the Zionist tribe or the Trump tribe, which is sometimes called the Church of Trump.
	Or you could join the technocracy tribe and you could worship Elon Musk.
	But I say that if you are worshiping tribes or other men, typically, or women, then you must, by definition, abandon your principles in order to adhere to the tribe.
	Because the tribe will never operate with consistent principles.
	The tribe will make demands one day that seem reasonable and then another day that seem insane.
	And then that's a test of your loyalty or obedience to the tribe, which is, are you willing to go along with the tribe and support the current insanity that the tribe is pushing?
	Or are you going to break from the tribe and actually stand as a person of principle?
	And it is this key question that I believe is one of the soul challenges in this realm that, you know, this is going to be a conversation between you and God one day is, did you live as a person of principle or did you throw away those principles in order to conveniently fit in with the tribe that accepted you because you were just like them,
	just like them.
	In other words, if you're willing to be an NPC, you can just pick a tribe and you can go along with any tribe and say what they say, believe what they believe, and alter your beliefs at any time based on how they alter their behavior.
	And you can make it through life.
	You can have, you know, quote, a good life, but you will never be a real person.
	You will just be a programmable life form, a PLF or, as we say, an NPC.
	You'll never be yourself.
	And it is this very point that Stefan Molyneux and myself discuss in today's interview.
	Or at least this is one of many points.
	And so that's the interview I have for you coming up today.
	It's very exciting, actually.
	Well, cognitively stimulating.
	It's nourishing to the soul to have a conversation with Stefan Molyneux.
	And I've been pronouncing his name incorrectly for years, it turns out.
	And I asked him right before this interview, I said, is it Stefan or Stefan?
	And he said, he said, well, I prefer Stefan.
	And then I proceeded to introduce him as Stefan because I had been saying Stefan so many times.
	So I apologize to Stefan.
	Apparently, my name pronunciation abilities have hit the fan, the Stefan.
	And I apologize for accidentally doing that.
	Anyway, he and I talk about this very point and many other philosophical points that I think you will find intriguing.
	So that interview is what's coming up later today.
	Now, if you missed my interview yesterday with Sasha Latipova, then I strongly encourage you to go back and listen to that interview.
	I've had so much positive feedback on that.
	And, well, actually, I should qualify that.
	Sasha has had so much positive feedback.
	Like, pretty much everybody that got back to me about that interview, you know what they said?
	They said, wow, Sasha, she's such a brilliant woman.
	She's amazing.
	And then the implied message is, yeah, you were okay too, Mike, but Sasha, man, she was the one.
	Yeah, she lit up that interview.
	Sasha was awesome.
	And you were there.
	you were there, but Sasha was the hit, right?
	Which I totally accept.
	I'm joking as I say this because I don't have an ego in this matter.
	I think those comments are absolutely correct.
	Sasha is brilliant.
	And I really enjoy interviewing brilliant people.
	And by design, I'm not there to make myself the focus of the interview.
	I'm there to help elicit the most brilliant parts of the knowledge base of the guest.
	And if I do that, then I'm doing my job as an interviewer, right?
	And according to the feedback, people really, really love that interview.
	So be sure to check that out.
	That's Sasha Latipova, L-A-T-Y-P-O-V-A.
	And if you missed that yesterday, you will want to put that on your watch list for sure.
	Now, in political news, apparently the Big Beautiful bill has passed the whatever procedure that had to be voted on in the House of Representatives.
	And so it appears that the House is going to approve this bill, or maybe they've already approved it at this point.
	And there was a big, what do they say, a kerfuffle involving Thomas Massey.
	Those of you who are international listeners, look up the word kerfuffle.
	It begins with a K. That's an actual American word that you hardly hear anymore.
	But there was a kerfuffle involving Thomas Massey, who is beginning to turn into Ron Paul.
	And Ron Paul was known as Mr. No.
	Because Ron Paul, who is a very principled person, very disciplined person, he would vote no on anything that would increase the size of government.
	I mean, just consistently.
	At some point, they, I mean, and he was a Texas congressman, and they stopped trying to twist his arms because you couldn't.
	He just, he was so firm on his principles.
	You couldn't threaten him.
	You couldn't bribe him.
	He was just Mr. No or Dr. No.
	And Thomas Massey, I think he went from no to yes to no, yes.
	I don't know.
	I guess we'll find out.
	But the point is, this new so-called big, beautiful bill is a, regardless of what you think of Trump or what's in the bill, it is a massive expansion of the size of government, and it's a massive expansion of government spending and the size of ICE, which is the, of course, the deportation enforcement body in the federal government.
	And, of course, I am in favor of the rule of law, which means I think that all those who trespassed and came into the country illegally should leave.
	And I absolutely support them leaving and then applying for immigration and going through the legal process because I actually do support legal immigration.
	But what concerns me is that when government creates very large police forces, they almost never cut them back to size.
	This massive explosion of funding for ICE is never going to go away, even if ICE achieves most of its goals and, let's say, deports many millions of illegals or convinces them to self-deport.
	ICE is not going to sit around doing nothing.
	They're going to find a reason to exist and they're going to find a reason to demand more funding.
	And one of my concerns is that that reason under Trump is going to be to round up dissidents, that is, people who are speaking out against the current administration or against the large donors to the current administration or against, in particular, Israel, right?
	Even though Israel is committing genocide and bombing women and children daily, you're not allowed to say that in America.
	And Trump seems to be moving towards the so-called Noahide laws that will seek to actively arrest and deport even Americans, you know, Christian Americans in particular.
	And a lot of MAGA right now are falling for this.
	And they're going along with this whole idea that we have to be authoritarians and now we have to suppress this speech, which is like MAGA was supposed to be the opposite of that.
	It was supposed to be freedom, freedom to speak, freedom to criticize, freedom to offend.
	And then what we're finding out is that there's a whole lot of MAGA that never believed that.
	They were just saying that when they were the oppressed people.
	But now that they are the oppressors, they demand the power to oppress others.
	So again, they never had principles.
	They were just tribal.
	And that never ends well.
	And then some people in MAGA are celebrating this new, what's it called, Alligator Alcatraz in Florida.
	It's a new, what is it, a holding facility, a detainment camp in Florida that's surrounded by a swamp filled with alligators.
	And I mean, it really starts to sound like idiocracy, but it's a deterrent, obviously, from these people escaping the facility.
	Although, I'm pretty sure you can accomplish the same thing, you know, with razor wire if you really want to.
	You don't really need alligators.
	And I guess if they built one of these in Texas, they would surround it with fire ants, you know, call it like the, instead of alligator alcatraz, it would be like fire ant folsom or something.
	But anyway, you got a lot of bag of people celebrating this, not realizing that, folks, this is for you.
	This isn't for illegals in the long run.
	Yeah, it may be used to detain illegals in the short run.
	They're building these camps for you.
	It wasn't that long ago that Jesse Ventura and Alex Jones were warning and filming episodes about the dangers of FEMA camps, and all across conservative, alternative thinkers, there were all these warnings about FEMA camps and how FEMA was going to round up everybody.
	And then now MAGA celebrates the Alcatraz, Alligator Alcatraz, which is just an ICE camp.
	So we went from MAGA people hating FEMA camps to loving ICE camps.
	But of course, they're not going to stay as ICE camps, like I said, because ICE is going to expand its role.
	As always happens, like when the CIA was created, it had a very limited role.
	It was supposed to operate only overseas.
	Now, it runs OpenAI and it runs Wikipedia and it runs all the tech giants, etc.
	When the FBI was created, it was supposed to be a very small force, federal investigations of serious federal crimes like money laundering and racketeering and things like that.
	And then it expanded to all kinds of things, like during the Biden administration, hunting down peaceful J6 protesters.
	So every law enforcement agency funded by the federal government always, always, always without exception, expands its mandate, expands its power, and eventually begins to target American citizens.
	Look at the ATF, Waco, Texas.
	What year was that?
	1994 or something?
	93?
	I forgot the exact year.
	Waco, Texas.
	The ATF needed increased funding.
	So they, instead of catching David Koresh when he went to town to buy groceries, instead of just arresting him at the grocery store because they knew where he lived and then charging him with whatever gun charges because I think he had some firearms that were considered illegal at the time, instead they held a giant siege of his compound and they brought in CNN and the media.
	CNN is always there to push the next false flag operation or to catch Roger Stone being raided by the feds, right?
	CNN is always given the right tip for the right narrative, the right story.
	And then the ATF proceeded to burn down the compound and murder women and children while machine gunning some of them down in the back.
	That was all viewed from the helicopters.
	And then claiming that, oh my God, radical religious extremists are a danger to the world or a danger to America.
	And therefore the ATF needs all this power.
	So think about that from that year, 1990.
	Let's just say it's 93.
	I haven't looked it up.
	Where the entire corporate media in America was saying, we have to watch out for radical religious extremists to today in 2025, where our government is run by radical religious extremists that are known as Zionists.
	So we've gone from a federal agency burning down a bunch of innocent women and children in Waco, Texas, to our government sending bombs and missiles to a nation that is committing genocide by bombing women and children in apartment buildings and hospitals and refugee camps.
	You see what I'm saying here?
	Government never gets smaller, as we are seeing with the so-called big, beautiful bill.
	It's big because it's big government.
	It's bigger government.
	Government never gets smaller, not even under the GOP.
	It gets bigger.
	And the bigger it gets, the more it has to justify its existence.
	And to justify its existence, it has to create more enemies.
	Those enemies, like with the Patriot Act, it may have started as, hey, there are enemies overseas.
	They all happen to be enemies of Israel, so let's go bomb them, you know, Iran, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, etc.
	And Saddam Hussein, right, thus began the 25-year-plus war on Israel's enemies in the Middle East and the George Bush war on terror, right?
	And then when that wasn't working out as planned, especially under the Biden administration, but also to some extent under Obama, they turned those agencies inward domestically to start targeting Americans.
	Think about Operation Fast and Furious under Obama with Eric Holder.
	That was an operation to target American gun owners.
	Oklahoma City, I think that was 1995.
	That was an operation to target American veterans, gun owners, and conservative radio listeners.
	You know, Rush Limbaugh in particular, who was gaining in popularity at that time.
	And they needed, you know, Bill Clinton needed an excuse to crack down on radical conservatism in America.
	So they staged the Oklahoma City bombing, which was, of course, an FBI act of terrorism.
	The FBI set up the van, set up the explosives, actually put demolition charges into, what was it, the Murrah building there in Oklahoma City.
	That was a total FBI operation.
	And of course, they gained a lot of experience there to assist with 9-11 that happened, what, six years later.
	Always explosives, always blaming whatever target they want to go after.
	So this leads me to the conclusion that, of course, now the Trump administration has its own targets domestically, which would be, number one, any enemies of the Trump administration, such as Elon Musk, who used to be best buddies, now has become an enemy.
	And then secondly, anyone who criticizes Israel, who will be labeled with an anti-Semitism label and will be targeted by law enforcement or by ICE to be designated a terrorist and taken to a concentration camp, possibly alligator Alcatraz.
	And so some of the very same people that are celebrating this who thought that if they voted for Trump, they were going to get freedom, they're going to find themselves actually being eaten by alligators if they tried to escape because they're going to be in the camps.
	You see how this works?
	Again, government never gets smaller.
	It only grows and has to find new enemies.
	And sooner or later, those enemies, they turn inward to find domestic enemies.
	Now, it doesn't mean that there aren't actually domestic enemies in America.
	Clearly, there are because there are many people from other countries who despise real America.
	And they did cross the border.
	They crossed the open border during the Biden administration.
	And even during Trump's first administration, when, to his credit, he was trying to build a wall and all the judges kept stopping that effort.
	You know, Trump was trying to secure the border in his first administration.
	And on the positive side, part of this big, beautiful bill right now will increase funding for securing the border.
	So that element of it, I fully support.
	Absolutely.
	And I even support short-term ICE funding to carry out the necessary deportations.
	So I'm not, don't get me wrong, I'm not like philosophically anti-Trump, and I don't suffer from Trump derangement syndrome.
	My concern is even what happens after Trump is gone.
	So Trump puts all this funding, big beautiful bill, massive funding into ice, okay?
	And then Trump leaves the administration.
	Maybe his term is up.
	Maybe he resigns.
	Maybe who knows?
	Whatever.
	War, maybe there's a like secession.
	Lots of scenarios.
	But sooner or later, Trump leaves power, right?
	So even if you think that Trump himself would never misuse the power of ICE to try to round up people who are critical of Israel, let's say, well, that ICE is still going to be there when the next person comes into power, who might be, you know, God forbid, like AOC or California Governor Newsom or some other tyrant Democrat.
	And what are they going to do with ICE?
	They're going to take that infrastructure of a nationwide police force, a nationwide sort of government kidnapping and detainment infrastructure, and they're just going to flip it around.
	And they're going to say, well, we have to go after veterans now, or we have to go after Christians, or we have to go after gun owners.
	You see how that works?
	Just like Secretary Rubio shut down USAID, and he took the money, he flipped it, he flipped the slush.
	So the slush now is funding, quote, anti-Semitism slush funds instead of, you know, Islamophobia or anti-Islamophobia or anti-transphobia, right?
	He just flipped the script.
	He flipped the slush.
	That's what the Democrats are going to do.
	They're going to flip ICE back around to target their enemies.
	And then the Democrats, when they're in power, they'll run a false flag, you know, school shooting or something.
	And then the narrative will be, all gun owners are bad.
	And we got to round up all the gun owners.
	And then everybody who bought suppressors, let's say, who is on the list, because if you've bought suppressors like I have, legally, obviously, then, yeah, I have a tax stamp for every suppressor.
	I've paid the 200.
	But more importantly, I've been fingerprinted and background checked and I applied and I waited for the approvals and then the ATF comes back and gives you the approvals.
	And then, yeah, I have the documentation and the trust and everything, like all of us do who buy suppressors, right?
	So our names are on a list held by the ATF.
	Well, the Democrats are going to come in and they're going to say, hey, ATF, turn over that list to ICE.
	And then ICE will say, hey, new targets now.
	All Americans who own suppressors.
	So they'll just take that police force and they'll just retarget it to the current enemies of the current administration.
	That's how it always works.
	And that's why I'm issuing this warning.
	And let me clarify.
	This warning is not pro-Trump or anti-Trump.
	It's really not even pro-Democrat or anti-Democrat.
	It's about the issue of principles versus tribalism and the fact that if you are a person who holds a set of clear principles, such as perhaps pro-life principles or pro-truth principles or whatever your principles happen to be, if you stick with those principles, from time to time, you will be considered an enemy of the state, depending on the administration and power.
	And then whatever infrastructure has just been approved by the big, beautiful bill, that infrastructure will be weaponized against you.
	You see how this works?
	So look at RFK Jr., head of HHS.
	Has RFK Jr. said, hey, we need to slash HHS by 50%?
	We need to slash or just shut down the FDA or the CDC?
	No.
	He's saying we need more funding.
	We need AI technology.
	Now we have to make these agencies more efficient.
	That's what RFK Jr. is saying.
	Well, what does that mean?
	More efficient.
	Well, it means, you know, palantir.
	It means the FDA will use AI technology weaponized against the American people and small businesses in order to choose new targets to terrorize with, you know, typical FDA terrorism.
	That's what they do.
	They run around the country terrorizing small businesses.
	What's the CDC going to do with all of its new money?
	Well, of course, the CDC is going to plant new plandemics.
	The CDC, which actually runs black ops teams that run around distributing contact poisons or coordinating the distribution, they will start new pandemics to create a new panic to have more power.
	And then they can use that power to demand that people are rounded up and placed where?
	In alligator Alcatraz camps.
	You see, they did that during COVID.
	And remember, the CDC faked the AIDS epidemic.
	They faked so many elements of that.
	Did you know that even the tests that were used throughout the late 1980s and 1990s, even up until recently, the tests that were used for AIDS were all completely fraudulent.
	They didn't actually test for the presence of the HIV virus at all.
	And that's why on the test, they would ask people about their lifestyle.
	Like, you know, are you gay?
	How many sex partners do you have, et cetera?
	And then they would use that to fudge the results.
	The so-called AIDS tests have always been fraudulent.
	Fauci ran that just like he ran COVID.
	Fauci ran the AIDS hoax.
	It was a massive hoax.
	Now, it doesn't mean that people weren't getting sick.
	People were getting sick from sharing blood through shared needles and homosexual intercourse and other similar types of habits.
	But if you share blood with, you know, let's say just filthy drug users or people who have filthy multiple partner sexual habits with a lot of anal intercourse, guess what?
	You're going to have immune system problems.
	So Fauci came along and said, well, that's AIDS and declared it a pandemic, you know, and declared that the CDC needs a massive amount of new funding.
	That's how that whole thing started.
	And then brought in the drugs, oh, you need AZT.
	And then started dishing out AZT drugs to everybody.
	And then the AZT drugs actually caused AIDS-like symptoms.
	Does that ring a bell?
	Does that ring a bell?
	Remdesivir in the hospitals, causing COVID-like symptoms.
	You see, it's the same playbook, folks.
	Same playbook.
	Seriously, if the entire federal government did not exist at all tomorrow, do you realize there would be no flu season?
	There would be no pandemics.
	Your money would hold value.
	There would be almost no terrorism in America because almost all of it is carried out by these agencies.
	There would be no wars.
	Think about that.
	The government itself is running these operations.
	The government itself is the terrorist.
	It is the architect of the pandemics.
	And these psyops are so effective that most people fall for them.
	And even for most of my life, I fell for them too.
	And frankly, if it wasn't for COVID, I don't think I would have even awakened to this point to have the realizations that I've been sharing with you here.
	Now, let me step back for a moment, though, and make a counter argument against everything that I just said.
	Some people listening to this might say, well, just the fact that you can say this, all the things you just said, means that you must live in a free country.
	And of course, there's an element of truth to that.
	The point is, we're supposed to live in a free country.
	We're supposed to be able to say these things.
	The First Amendment is supposed to protect our speech, even if it's unpopular, even if it triggers people.
	So we shouldn't give the government credit for, quote, allowing us to speak in the way that I'm speaking today.
	Remember that our freedom of speech does not come from the government.
	It's not granted by the government.
	And the Bill of Rights does not express rights that are granted to us by the government.
	Rather, it expresses and defines our natural God-given rights.
	And then the Bill of Rights says the government shall not interfere with those rights that are natural.
	And of course, a lot of people are confused about this.
	They do not understand that.
	They think all rights come from government, and the government allows you to do things, like allows you to own an AR-15 or to speak in a certain manner.
	No.
	We have a God-given right to self-defense.
	We have a God-given right to speak, a God-given right to think for ourselves, a God-given right to criticize, especially corruption or fraud or what have you, or bad policies for that matter, or bad wars.
	And that's why the Bill of Rights was actually written several years after the Constitution was initially created.
	The Bill of Rights had to be added because our founding fathers realized that, hey, if we don't really enumerate these rights, the government's going to get big and powerful and it's going to crush all these rights.
	And so that's why the Bill of Rights was added, 1791.
	And in case you forgot your history, remember that the so-called Bill of Rights were simply 10 amendments to the Constitution.
	And that's why it's called the First Amendment or the Second Amendment or, you know, the Third Amendment, etc.
	Not that anybody remembers what the Third Amendment is all about.
	It happens to cover the quartering, the forced quartering of soldiers in civilian homes.
	That hasn't been an issue since the Revolutionary War, probably, but that's what the Third Amendment is all about.
	I'm happy to swap out the Third Amendment with a health freedom amendment, which Dr. Benjamin Rush back in the 18th century had suggested that we have a health freedom amendment.
	And it was downplayed, it was dismissed by his colleagues because they thought, that's crazy.
	Why do we need to enumerate the rights of Americans to have power over their own medical decisions?
	Like, no one's forcing anybody to take medicine.
	You know, it was unthinkable in, let's say, 1789.
	It was unthinkable.
	But then fast forward to 2020, COVID, and then all of a sudden the government's jamming all kinds of crap into your arms and down your throat and making you wear masks and everything.
	So Dr. Benjamin Rush was correct.
	We need a health freedom amendment.
	Not that the government abides by any of these amendments anyway.
	For example, the Biden administration, the DOD conspired with other agencies, including the State Department, to make a list of people to censor.
	I was on that list.
	And that's why we have standing in our lawsuit, our pending lawsuit against the DOD and other government agencies and certain NGOs and big tech companies.
	That lawsuit is still pending in the federal courts in Texas, by the way.
	It's moving very slowly through the court system, but it's still pending.
	I have standing because I was named or my companies were named by the DOD.
	So, I mean, there's an example just confirming what I've said here.
	The Pentagon named me as an enemy of the state.
	And we have those documents, and it's actually, it's in our lawsuit.
	So it's public information.
	So if you have thought that the things I was saying here were, you know, imaginary or something or exaggerated, no, no, they're not.
	It's actually, it's all documented in our lawsuit.
	The DOD names Americans as enemies of the state.
	And it has been doing so for years.
	And now under the Trump administration, that is still going on.
	They've just shifted to different enemies of the state.
	And you know who those are now.
	You know, it's the pro-Palestine students and professors at Yale or Harvard or whatever.
	You know, not to say, I mean, look, I'm no fan of Harvard and all its wokeism and left-wing nonsense.
	And I think Harvard is definitely a spy hub.
	But you should vet these student visas before you let them in.
	And that is beginning to happen now.
	And that's to the Trump administration's credit.
	So, you know, here's a case where I commend the Trump administration because they're now requiring applicants for student visas, at least this is my understanding, to list their social media accounts so that the,
	I guess it's the State Department that or whatever agency goes through that, I think it's state, they can determine if these applicants for student vasas are, let's say, ideologically aligned with the goals of America.
	And I do believe that every nation has the right to gatekeep who comes in, even on student visas.
	So I am not opposed to that effort.
	We have a right to know what students are, you know, what is their ideology or their philosophy before we grant them visas.
	But once we grant them visas, it seems very authoritarian to send a State Department van with armed men to their, you know, student apartment complex and kidnap them out of their apartment and then throw them into a detainment camp.
	That seems really authoritarian to me.
	Whereas saying no to the student visa application, that's not authoritarian.
	That's the right of every nation.
	Just like, you know, if let's say if you were applying for a student visa for the University of Tehran, would the Iranian government have the right to say no if they didn't like, you know, your philosophy?
	Maybe you've been criticizing Iran or criticizing Islam or whatever.
	You know, maybe your slogan is that you hate Shias or whatever.
	Well, of course they would have the right to reject you, saying, no, you can't be a student in Tehran.
	We don't like your vibe.
	And America has that same right, too.
	You see what I'm saying?
	But then to run around kidnapping students, that, like, especially just because they led a peaceful protest on campus where they were denouncing the, you know, the IDF or Israel or whatever, you know, that reaction is very authoritarian.
	And it's notable too, by the way, that when Black Lives Matter and Antifa were going insane on college campuses all across America, or at least in many cities, during the first Trump administration, you notice that state governors didn't lift a finger.
	They did nothing.
	They just let it happen and police departments stood down and did nothing.
	They let their police departments get overrun by Antifa and Black Lives Matter.
	It's like, well, we can't do anything.
	They're black lives matter, you know, so they get to do whatever they want.
	They can burn whatever they want.
	Remember that?
	But then when the students, the pro-Palestine students were doing a lot less than that, mostly just holding signs, like free Palestine signs and things like that, what happened in America?
	Almost every governor, almost every university president went insane and brought in police and, you know, deputies and you're under arrest and shut it all down and dragged them out of there by their feet, you know?
	So the measure of the response tells you the political priorities of our government, doesn't it?
	Our government tolerated Black Lives Matter terrorism, but our government will not tolerate somebody saying free Palestine on a college campus, you see?
	And to me, that seems backwards.
	Right?
	I mean, if somebody's just marching around campus and saying free Palestine, okay, hey, that's their right.
	It's a First Amendment right.
	As long as they're not shooting up the place, you know, that's their right.
	But when Black Lives Matter is throwing Molotov cocktails and setting property on fire and burning government buildings and hurting people, Why was that tolerated?
	See?
	See what I mean?
	So you are not living in a country run by the rule of law, if you're living in America.
	You're living in a country where you are witnessing the theater of the rule of law, just like TSA at the airports is engaged in security theater.
	All across America right now, the selective prosecution or persecution or even selective deportations is also, of course, a kind of targeted theater that is not rooted in fundamental consistent philosophies that can be articulated by the administration in most cases.
	Although, to his credit, Secretary Rubio is an outstanding speaker.
	In fact, let me just offer a tangential comment here.
	Secretary Marco Rubio, regardless of what you think of as politics, I think he is by far the best, the most persuasive speaker in the Trump administration.
	He is listening to him articulate his position, he is a virtuoso master in it.
	He sounds very genuine and very believable and very knowledgeable and not at all judgmental.
	I just got to give him credit.
	Secretary Rubio, who I think has a very strong political future, and regardless of what you think about his politics, his pluses and minuses as usual.
	But I got to say, Marco Rubio, he's like, he should be the debate team champion of the world.
	He is such an incredible speaker.
	I would not want to face off against him in a debate.
	It's actually a joy to listen to him explain his positions, even though those positions are sometimes very absurd.
	But just to hear him talk about it, it's delightful in terms of the cognitive mastery.
	You understand what I'm saying?
	Like, I can appreciate a person's word mastery, even if I disagree with their conclusions.
	And Secretary Rubio is an absolute delight to listen to in terms of his word mastery.
	I don't know what his relationship is with Trump, by the way, because remember Trump called him little Marco when they had their feud in the presidential debates and everything.
	But Marco Rubio and Trump made up, and Rubio's been doing what Trump wants as a Secretary of State.
	And I think this is just my guess, and I'll finish up this tangent.
	My guess is that Secretary Rubio, he has decided to play ball with Trump through the Trump administration, however long it lasts, in order to position himself as a very viable presidential candidate.
	And I think Rubio is, I should say, his skill set, his knowledge, et cetera, his ability to articulate things really makes him a very viable candidate for president.
	So do not be surprised if Marco Rubio is in the running for 2028 versus J.D. Vance or somebody else in the Trump family.
	I think Rubio is a separate faction that, or he represents a separate faction with some different donors.
	And Rubio is biding his time to make a political move.
	Not to betray Trump, I'm not implying that, but rather to compete against Trump.
	And it might be that Rubio actually articulates a vastly superior vision for America that perhaps doesn't involve widespread censorship of political dissidents, et cetera.
	I don't know.
	We'll have to wait and see.
	I just wanted to throw that comment out there in all fairness.
	I will fairly, I believe, criticize Trump or Rubio or whoever or even Elon, but I will also fairly give them credit when I believe that they are doing things or when they have certain skills or attributes or talents or certain types of vision that I think is beneficial.
	So, you know, I'm an equal opportunity critic and complimentarian, let's say, from time to time.
	And also another important thought here, especially for those of you listening who are in government or in various agencies, you should know, you know, I am not trying to make myself an enemy of the state.
	I'm trying to make myself a friend of humanity.
	And I am a true, you know, I was born in the Midwest, pledge allegiance to the flag every day growing up.
	Now for the last 15 years, I've been a Texan.
	You know, I'm a true American.
	Even when I lived elsewhere around the world, I was a, you know, America first, right?
	And I think I did a good job representing America when I lived in other places like South America or Taiwan.
	I showed the positive attributes of American people, which is something that is often not shown by American tourists.
	So, you know, many American tourists are very sort of condescending and arrogant, and they march around the world and like, you know, serve us first.
	We're Americans, you know.
	I was not that guy at all.
	I always, when I interact with other cultures, I'm very humble about their cultures.
	I'm very respectful.
	And I always work to learn the local language.
	And that's why I became conversationally capable in Chinese and Espanol also.
	I think of it as respect.
	I don't run around the world demanding everybody speak Merkin.
	That's not what I do.
	If I were to travel to Japan, I would spend three months learning basic Japanese, which would, that would be a fun language to learn.
	It actually would be very delightful.
	I really, I like Japanese pronunciation.
	If I were to travel to Russia, I would learn Russian.
	If I were to travel, you know, you get the idea.
	Wherever I go, and someday I hope to learn Australian, but no one can make any sense of that, so who knows?
	But wherever I go, I would always try to learn the language.
	And as a matter of respect, right?
	And so here in America, I respect America's core values and call me perhaps gullible or naive, but when I grew up in the Midwest saying pledge allegiance to the flag, I believed that stuff.
	I believed all that.
	I believed it when the teachers in fifth grade told me that, oh yeah, these national leaders are looking out for us.
	Yeah, they're smart and things are going to be better.
	And if we just do our part, we're going to make America great again.
	Although nobody said MAGA back then, but that was the idea.
	It was like JFK, ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.
	That kind of vibe was very much present in my childhood, and I believed all that.
	I was like, yeah, America, you know, America is the strongest.
	We have the best technology.
	We have the best everything.
	We have the best food.
	We have the best fashion.
	Not that I knew anything about fashion, hadn't met Roger Stone yet, you know.
	But we thought America was the best at everything, and for a while it was.
	And then now you look around, if you've traveled the world, you know that America's airports look like third world dumpsters compared to airports everywhere else.
	Even like the airport, the main airport in like Hungary or airports in China or airports in Russia for that matter.
	Like everybody's got better airports than we have in America, except a few South American countries that I've also been to.
	And I definitely had some airborne adventures in some of those airplanes and airports.
	There was this one route I used to fly from Quito that I swear the pilot, it was a 707, it was a Boeing 707, and this pilot, he'd loved, man, he'd love to bank that thing about 300 feet off the ground.
	And I thought I was going to die a couple times on that, but I guess he did that every day.
	I doubt he's still with us, but he was rocking it at the time.
	Anyway, today in America, you look around.
	Look around at the airports.
	Or if you're really courageous, go to an Amtrak station or a Greyhound bus station.
	If you really want to see what Trump used to call like shithole countries, right?
	Is that what he called?
	Go to a Greyhound bus station in America.
	Yeah.
	Go look at parts of L.A. Go look at parts of St. Louis.
	Go look at Chicago or just try to drive in Chicago without actually getting your vehicle lost in a sinkhole in the pavement that the city has not maintained for 20 years.
	And it's like you can actually orbit your car around the pothole inside it.
	You got to build up enough speed to get back over the lip onto the highway.
	You can do that in Chicago.
	You know, parts of New York City look like a total dump at this point.
	And of course, you know, they're going to bring in now the communist who's going to have government-run grocery stores, which should be a very interesting adventure in economics.
	I can't wait for those lessons.
	But just, I mean, look at Seattle.
	Seattle's a drug-infested shithole.
	I mean, I'm sorry about the profanity, but I'm going to blame that on Trump because that's the term that he used.
	But that applies to Seattle.
	I mean, when I was young, I toured the Boeing plant in Seattle, and it was this great, amazing example of American ingenuity.
	It was Boeing, for God's sake, and we build the world's best planes.
	And I was like, wow.
	And I think they said, we have the world's largest building or something.
	I don't know to make planes.
	And then, you know, I would tour like the Kennedy Space Center in Texas.
	I was, oh, my God.
	And I would visit the Smithsonian.
	And, you know, the museum, the air and space, what is it?
	The Air and Space Museum.
	It's like, this is amazing.
	You know, look at the Apollo capsule and the fake moon rocks that they have there.
	Like, oh, my God, they're moon rocks.
	And watch the videos.
	And I was just so amazed.
	And I was so impressed.
	And I was like, the future is going to be so awesome.
	You know?
	And I was in like a gifted and talented program in school.
	And the so-called gifted students, they would gather us together every couple of weeks.
	And we would basically skip school and do other weird projects.
	And I was working on, at one point, biofeedback projects, another point, robotics and computer programming, et cetera.
	Even back then, we had the old Apple II computers and I was writing code in the sixth grade.
	And the overall impression of this whole thing was that America's got this bright future and you're going to build that future.
	You, you know, the gifted students, the high IQ students, here you are.
	And, you know, I was surrounded by all these other genius students and we were like, yeah, and we were all awesome at math and computers and everything.
	And then somehow that all went into the dumpster fire of the last 40 years or whatever it is.
	And we ended up with this mostly collapsing economy, collapsing currency, collapsing morality.
	The rule of law has collapsed.
	The judicial system has collapsed.
	The education system has collapsed.
	We collapsed as a nation into libtard wokeism insanity.
	And we've collapsed to where free speech isn't allowed.
	And again, that crosses both parties, its left and its right.
	We've collapsed into idiocracy, where, you know, if they were to have gifted and talented programs in middle school today, if they were to take like seventh graders, you know who would be the gifted and talented students?
	It would be the ones that could do like two plus two equals four.
	Oh my God, you're gifted, you know?
	Or if you could put a round peg into a round hole.
	Oh my God, you're gifted.
	Like nobody has passed that test yet, you know, because the idiocy has taken over.
	Widespread idiocy, widespread incompetence.
	I did a special report the other day about the rising cognitive incompetence across America.
	And you see it everywhere you go.
	You see it when you, let's say you try to make an appointment with a doctor or a medical professional.
	You're interacting with medical staff and they are morons, right?
	Or you're trying to talk to an insurance company.
	Or you're trying to sort something out with a cashier at a retailer.
	And the cashiers look at you with this blank stare with drool dripping out of the side of their mouth and NPC stare like, like, no, seriously, this is a store credit.
	Okay?
	You need to key this in.
	Whatever you need to do to make this store credit work in your ancient computer system there.
	I don't know if you need to scan it.
	You need to zap it.
	You need to lick it.
	Whatever you need to do.
	Scan this.
	They get it in your damn computer system.
	And, you know, give me the store credit.
	And they're like, what?
	This one goes in your mouth.
	And you see this all across America.
	This just total idiocracy at this point.
	Right?
	Yeah, I mean, you've seen it.
	We've all lived through this shocking transformation.
	I saw a video where they opened up a new Buckies in Texas.
	If you're not familiar with Bucky's, it's a cultural phenomenon in Texas.
	These are these massive gas stations that have, I kid you not, because I've been to these, they'll have like 75 gas pumps in a giant parking lot.
	And then you go into the Bucky's and it's all this processed food with MSG and processed sugars and garbage and everything.
	And they're known for really clean restrooms.
	And they are clean.
	They clean them like every two minutes because people go in there and crap out the stuff that they bought to eat at Bucky's.
	And they ruin the toilets with their feces.
	So they go in there, they clean those restrooms every few minutes.
	And, you know, Bucky's should have a sign out front with all the gas pumps and the processed food and the toilets they have.
	Their slogan should be, eat here, get gas.
	You know, that would be the perfect Bucky slogan.
	Anyway, I saw a video of a new Bucky's opening up.
	And apparently, all these people were waiting in line to rush in to the new Buckies.
	And I've been told by people numerous times that if you haven't been to a Bucky's, you've never been to Texas.
	Like, you've got to go to the Buckies.
	That's an exaggeration, but there's really nothing that impressive.
	There's nothing in Bucky's that I need at all.
	I mean, I've been there.
	It's so what, you know?
	But all these people that were lined up at the door, the doors open up and they stampede into Buckeys and they're all obese, or like 90% are obese.
	And they look like degenerates of a different non-human species.
	They're kind of waddling in like barely ambulatory recording with their phones.
	And they're all ugly as hell.
	They look like they haven't seen sunshine for months.
	Like they've been living indoors on their computer screens, playing video games or watching porn or whatever they do.
	And all these people couldn't wait to get in the buckies to have more processed food and go crap in the clean Bucky's toilets.
	Like this is what America has come to.
	The new vision in America is no longer to be geniuses and to have innovation and to invent things and to be great, but rather to eat processed food and shit at a Bucky's.
	That's what America has come to.
	Far from the vision that I bought into when I was a teenager.
	So I'm not trying to be an enemy of the government of America.
	It's just that I miss America.
	I miss the America that I was promised and that I worked for, that I contributed to.
	I miss the dream of America that our founding fathers outlined in the Constitution and in the Bill of Rights.
	I miss America.
	And I have given so much to our society.
	And right now, even today, for example, I've just launched Enoch, the AI engine.
	Did you know it's live right now as you're listening to this?
	Yeah, it's live and functioning unless it's glitching, but it's live right now, free of charge, right?
	My company put $2 million into this project For decentralized human knowledge to help empower people and give research tools to everybody.
	It's at brighteon.ai if you want to use it.
	It's there right now.
	It's just one of many projects that I've worked on to give back to society because these are the values that I was taught.
	To give back to society, help make America a better country, help create a brighter future.
	That's why I built platforms like Brighteon.com or Brighteon.social, free speech platforms, or technology, or I worked so hard to try to help people save themselves from deadly toxic vaccines.
	Or in 2005, when I was writing about toxic grocery ingredients like, you know, the food dyes and the MSG and the hydrogenated oils and all that garbage, my first self-published book was called Grocery Warning.
	I think I've still got a copy around here somewhere.
	And I work to help people become healthier.
	And now here we are, 20 years later, RFK Jr. announces that Hershey's is going to remove food dyes by 2027.
	Yay!
	And clapping like seals.
	Hershey's.
	Really?
	So you think this is progress, that a processed junk food company whose products are absolute crap that promote obesity, they're going to remove some dyes and this is your progress?
	Meanwhile, mRNA is still on the market killing children?
	Okay.
	You see what I mean?
	You see what I mean?
	Yeah, there's disappointment in my voice because I had higher expectations.
	I thought we would be much further along as a civilization than where we are right now.
	If anything, we've gone backwards.
	Backwards.
	Airports were nicer when I was a kid.
	People were healthier.
	I was even, I told you I've been watching these old episodes of the Kiefer Sutherland series called 24 because I found this DVD collection that I had from the show back then.
	I don't do Netflix.
	I don't do streaming because I'm not into digital surveillance, you know, which is what Netflix is.
	So I have a DVD player.
	I plug in DVDs and I watch 24 and I saw that one of the characters in 24 is a tall, thin woman named, well, her character name is Riley Gaines, I believe, in the show.
	Riley Gaines.
	And she's so thin, which was normal in 2005 or whenever this was.
	Today, she would not be cast in the role because she looks too thin.
	She looks unusually thin, like she's starving or something, by today's standards.
	Today, if they were to recast and re-film 24, you would have an obese lesbian with purple hair and a nose ring and like neck tattoos.
	And it would be a lesbian, obese lesbian in that role today because that has become the norm.
	And so we are devolving.
	What you see in movies, in media, even in political leadership, are people who would have been considered wildly undisciplined and unqualified, if not gluttonous, 20 years ago.
	And today it's normal.
	So our society or what America has become today, this is the point I've been trying to get to, it is on the verge of societal collapse.
	It is not sustainable.
	We don't have a sufficient critical mass of intelligence, of health, functional intelligence, of education, of economic intelligence, or planning.
	We don't have, I mean, planning is key.
	We don't have enough of these key properties to continue to exist as a nation.
	When our leaders are just short-term, reactionary, you know, emotional, reacting to everything in the short run, but they have no long-term strategic plan for America.
	That doesn't work.
	When our leadership is about, you know, hey, we're going to announce, you know, half a trillion dollars in a data center project in Texas, you know, just to get all the headlines.
	And then a week later you find out, well, Texas doesn't have enough power on the power grid to power these data centers.
	But that's not part of the press release, you know.
	It's like, yeah, we're going to have half a trillion dollars in data centers.
	There will be no power for them.
	But hey, in India, they just built a bridge with a 90-degree angle on one edge that no vehicles can navigate.
	And they spent 200 million rupees on that bridge.
	So I guess in America, we can spend half a trillion dollars on data centers that have no power.
	And that's, I mean, that's the perfect metaphor for what America has become.
	All pomp and circumstance and no integrity, nothing that's real.
	That's what America has devolved into.
	And you see it every day.
	You see it in the actions of Congress.
	You see it when virtually every candidate runs and campaigns on a series of promises.
	And then the minute they gain power, they betray every single one of those promises.
	You see it in the collapse of functional intelligence in everybody around you.
	You see it when you go to your bank and you try to have an intelligent conversation about money with a banker and you come to realize that your banker Doesn't understand integers and it's bewildering.
	Bewildering.
	AI doesn't have to overcome a very high threshold of intelligence in order to replace most humans in this society.
	Keep that in mind.
	So the decline of human cognition is about to collide with the rise of artificial intelligence.
	There will be a great crossing right there, right?
	So human cognition is collapsing.
	Artificial intelligence is skyrocketing.
	Probably that intersection has already happened.
	And now we are about to live through the rapid obsolescence of the vast majority of human beings on this planet.
	And of course, there are certain factors that are accelerating that on purpose, such as the vaccines, such as chemtrails, such as hormone disruptors, pesticides, herbicides, engineered famine, engineered war, engineered financial collapse, etc.
	These are all designed to eliminate the so-called useless eaters who are, you know, admittedly actually vectoring in the direction of becoming increasingly useless.
	You know, I mean, how else do you, you know, if you're going to be intellectually honest, you have to say that description is actually not that far off from, you know, for a lot of people.
	So then that leaves the rest of us who are highly intelligent, highly principled people.
	We have high compassion.
	We believe, I think you probably share this with me, we believe that there is a creator of our universe.
	We believe that there is a conscious connection among all of us.
	And we value principles more than we value tribalism, right?
	So what you and I have to do is navigate this.
	Navigate the collapse of human cognition and the collapse of Western societies that we once believed would become great, and now they become a dumpster fire.
	So this is the task before us.
	Now, for my part, I'm going to continue to simply contribute to society in the best ways that I know how, which is building platforms for decentralization, freedom of speech, etc.
	Yes, I will continue to express my viewpoints.
	My voice, though, will be less and less important as there are so many other voices and so many other influencers that, of course, have much larger audiences than mine.
	But I'll continue to express my own views where I think they matter.
	But most importantly, I'll be building platforms and releasing technology for humanity.
	So as I mentioned earlier, you can go to Brighton.ai right now and you can start to use the Enoch engine.
	Now, if it glitches, we did have a glitch yesterday.
	If it glitches, just try again a few hours later.
	We've got teams that are working on this and fixing a few bugs here and there and fixing issues.
	But go ahead and use it.
	Use it and enjoy it.
	Now, there's something else I want to share with you, which is really actually very cool, very positive.
	As you know, I'm into music and creative expression, and I've been a musician my entire, I mean, since I was five or five and a half.
	You know, that's when I started taking piano lessons before I was six years old.
	And so I started with music at a young age, and I've been musically inclined my entire life.
	And you may know that in 20, I think it was 2012, I released a song and music video called Doin' All Right.
	And I sang that song because we didn't have AI music generators, obviously, in 2012.
	So, of course, I was, not only did I write the music, and then I hired some musicians to record it with the guitars and everything.
	And I think I hired a keyboardist for that one, too, even though I do keyboards myself.
	But I wanted an additional keyboard approach to this song.
	And then I recorded all the vocals myself.
	And I released that song in 2012.
	And I did a music video also of just like, I don't know, walking around singing.
	I mean, nothing very special.
	And I'm going to play a few seconds of that for you here so you can get the vibe of that.
	But recently, the Suno AI engine has released a capability to take an existing song that you've written or even something that you've hummed.
	Like you could hum out a tune yourself and just record it.
	Or you could take a song that you did and you can upload it to Suno and then you can ask Suno to rework that song with the same chord progressions, the same lyrics, the same tone, but just to really modernize it, make it better and have better vocals, better everything, right?
	And so I've done that and I wanted to share that with you today because the results are really extraordinary and it's bringing new life to my music.
	Now, just to be clear, this is not a total rework of the song Doing All Right.
	This isn't like, you know, new chords and new everything.
	Basically, it's a cover of my original song reperformed in a modern style with the same sheet music, essentially.
	So let me play for you a few seconds of my original song of Doing All Right with my music video from 2012 just to set the tone for you here, okay?
	So check this out.
	Here we go.
	Do you ever feel, do you ever feel that it's too?
	too much, it's so much, it's so hard to keep it right?
	Do you ever wish, do you ever wish that something, someone could call on to make it alright?
	Okay, folks, you got that?
	You got the riff?
	So now I'm going to play for you the new improved version of that same song that Revid was able to produce.
	So let me just actually play 30 seconds.
	And I've had AI render some just some images to show you something.
	So let me just play 30 seconds of the new song to show you the comparison.
	Give this a listen.
	Check this out.
	Do you ever feel, do you ever feel that it's too much?
	It's so much.
	It's so hard you can't get it right.
	Do you ever wish?
	Do you ever wish that there's something, someone to call on to make it all right?
	So how cool is that, right?
	There's a basically a 30-second snippet of the old song, the original song versus the new song that was created by Suno as a cover of my original song.
	Now, what's interesting about Suno is, of course, you have to have the rights to the music that you upload in order to process it in this way.
	So you can't just take somebody else's music or your favorite Def Leopard album or whatever and upload that.
	You actually have to own the music that you upload that gets transformed like this.
	But of course I own the music because I wrote the song.
	And I'm the artist, right?
	So I was able to do that.
	And so now what I'd like to do is play for you that full song, the new song, which is, of course, a few minutes, it's three and a half minutes.
	And we did just kind of slap together a very quick music video.
	Don't read too much into the music video.
	It's got like rainbows and stuff in it.
	It's whatever.
	It's just kind of a real quick automatic image thing.
	But I want to have something on screen for you to watch while you're listening to the song.
	But the song has some really great, inspiring lyrics, I think.
	And so it's generally considered to be an uplifting, optimistic song.
	And it is based on my voice.
	So even though it sounds different now, it's based on my original track and me singing it.
	So here we go.
	Enjoy the entire music video here.
	Again, this is a Doin'All Right 2025 version, which is a cover of my original 2012 version.
	enjoy Do you ever feel, do you ever feel that it's too much?
	It's so much, it's so hard you can't get it right Do you ever wish, do you ever wish that there's something, someone to call on to make it alright?
	When you feel there's a load on your back now And your world seems under attack now You don't really have to take it like that Don't make it like that, you can change all that When you feel like it's out of control, it's in with the new, out with the old You don't have to keep on doing as you're told Break the mold,
	Turn letting it go, you know'Cause I'm doing alright this time I'm doing alright this time I'm doing alright this time I'm doing alright It's a nice
	day, I'm doing alright this time It's a nice day, I'm doing alright this time
	another day, it's another day It's a new time, a new time to do things that make you feel right There's a better way, there's a better way To pursue it, you knew it, a way to get through it this time When you feel like the world don't respect you And the dumbed-down crowd, They reject you.
	Truth is they don't have the intellect.
	You were born with so the spirit could direct you.
	Let the light shine in and protect you.
	Do your thing so the world won't forget you.
	Help those who never met you.
	That'll get you a whole new fate to connect you to the real you.
	So they can feel you.
	And the whole wide world can heal with you.
	I'm doing all right this time.
	I'm doing all right this time.
	I'm doing everything I'm doing.
	doing alright this time I'm doing alright When you feel like it's out of control It's in with the new and out with the old You don't have to keep on doing as you're told Break the mold,
	turn lead into gold You know, when you feel like it's out of control, it's in with the new and out with the old You don't have to keep on doing as you're told Break the mold Cause we're doing alright Well,
	we're doing alright Well we do it alright in the whole wide world Can we hear with you here with you This time it's gonna be alright now Can you feel it?
	Can you hear it?
	It's alright now, now, now, now And I want you to know that we're doing all right, alright, alright, alright.
	All right, welcome back.
	Hope you enjoyed that song and music video.
	Doing all right.
	What a great message, right?
	It's a message of spiritual transmutation.
	You don't have to keep on doing as you're told.
	Break the mold, turn lead into gold, you know?
	That's it.
	When you feel there's a load on your back now, and your world seems under attack now, you don't really have to take it like that.
	Don't make it like that.
	You can change all that.
	These are really, you know, powerful, principled words that I hope you can find some inspiration in these as well.
	And this is the way I feel about how we can navigate this collapsing world.
	But also, after the collapse, there's a rebirth, too.
	So that's how we turn lead into gold.
	I've said collapse is the only real reform.
	So believe it or not, collapse is a necessary step to actually creating the real America or the real world for humanity that we, all of us, had at one time or another believed could exist.
	Maybe you still believe that now.
	And I'm actually describing that I believe it too.
	It's just, it's not going to be this system.
	We're not going to reform this system into a beautiful world.
	No, this system is going to crater and collapse.
	And then out of the ashes, then we have an opportunity to create a beautiful world.
	But only if we use that opportunity wisely.
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	Welcome to today's interview here on Brighteon.com.
	And I am just really honored and pleased to bring back, I think, one of the most important voices of our time.
	He is a philosopher, a teacher, just an incredibly inspiring figure.
	And he has been, he's sort of disengaged from large parts of the internet for a number of years.
	And he's back.
	It's Stéphane Molyneux, and he joins us right now.
	His website is freedomain.com.
	And there you go, freedomainjustlikeitsounds.com.
	Welcome, Stefan or Stefan.
	Excuse me.
	Everybody pronounces your name differently.
	Welcome to the show.
	It's great to have you on.
	Thanks.
	It's great to be here.
	We haven't chatted in a while.
	It's been a number of years, and honestly, I've missed your voice.
	I've been a big fan of your work for a long time.
	And then I saw a video of you recently talking about how you are focused on, what do you call it, peaceful parenting.
	And so you're not beating the kids?
	Is that where that begins?
	It's not my own, obviously, because they can fight back.
	Yeah, so I took some time in the hiatus.
	I wrote three books, and one of the books I wrote was called Peaceful Parenting, which is the application of sort of the libertarian values of the non-aggression principle, respect for persons and property, applied to parenting.
	Because, you know, one of the things that's kind of troubled me in the history of philosophy, and I created and narrated a 22-part history of philosopher series on my site, is that philosophers don't really talk about parenting.
	Oh, the Abstract questions of metaphysics and epistemology, oh, politics, oh, relationships between the sexes, and so on.
	But they don't go to the core furnace of the human experience, what shapes us in irrevocable ways, which is parenting.
	Ayn Rand didn't talk about it, Plato barely touched on it, Aristotle really not at all.
	The church fathers did, but really from a mere biblical, not purely philosophical perspective.
	And I've just always had the idea or the goal that philosophy should be actionable in your life.
	Now, I don't like the Federal Reserve, but there's really not much I can do about it except maybe pee on their building at 2 o'clock in the morning and risk arrest.
	However, when it comes to the most widespread violation of the non-aggression principle that we can do the most about, well, that would be parenting.
	And I've been a stay-at-home dad.
	My daughter turns 17 this year.
	So we're almost done, at least for the time being, until grandparents' stuff slides into the interview.
	And it works beautifully.
	Of course, I have a lot of friends who are peaceful parents and sibling conflicts are virtually non-existent and everyone gets along really famously and there's not a lot of fighting, if anything, really.
	And it just works beautifully.
	And so it becomes a lab.
	We want people to take on the non-aggression principle for society as a whole.
	Why don't we show how it works so well in our own families?
	And of course, we don't beat our spouses.
	So why hit your children?
	Why yell at your children?
	Why call them names?
	If you wouldn't do it to your boss or your coworker, don't do it to your own flesh and blood.
	Yeah, you know, for everything that we see on the world stage right now, there's a microcosm of that in the household, like economic sanctions.
	It's like I'm suspending your allowance, you know?
	Right?
	Or canceling trade routes, you're grounded.
	So, you know, I mean, here we are as a world where right now, especially in the Trump presidency, and I know your focus isn't politics right now.
	I'm not going to take it there, but rather in an abstract way, everything that we see in the world with so much conflict and war and sort of separation, a lot of separation.
	It's mine, not yours.
	I win, you lose, that kind of thing.
	If we can't conquer that in our own homes, how do we expect to, and even, I'm sorry, to even use the word conquer.
	That's even the wrong word.
	That's an imperialistic term.
	But if we can't navigate that locally, how do we navigate it globally, right?
	Yeah, and I would even push back on the idea of taking away a kid's allowance and granting them and so on.
	These you wouldn't do to your coworkers and you wouldn't do it to your friend who bothered you.
	And so there's just great ways to reason with children and to respect children.
	Children will listen to and emulate who they most respect.
	And the best way to get respect from children is not to be wildly hypocritical, as in the extreme example of the parent yelling at the child, telling the child not to yell at people, or the parent hitting the child, saying, how dare you hit someone, you know, you bad kid.
	So if you have a kind of base consistency in your life as a parent, then kids will just emulate that.
	Kids are, you know, copy-paste machines, especially when they're young.
	You know, when if you go around kids, spend time around kids when they're learning language, it's mind-blowing.
	Just how quickly, like 20 words a day, 30 words a day, without even, I can't remember where the coffee is in my household after eight years, but kids are just absorbing like sponges all of this language.
	And they also absorb your behavior.
	And the more consistent and rational and friendly and positive and enthusiastic and affectionate your behavior is, the more they're going to import that into their sort of operating system, so to speak.
	And then with a strong bond with the parents, they are shielded against some of the most pernicious influences, right?
	Bad schools, bad media, bad online stuff, and bad peers.
	What's going on among the young with peers these days is kind of shocking, you know, very high body counts for the girls and lots of drugs and vaping and smoking.
	Not so much smoking, but it's rough.
	And the closer the bond to the parents, the more they are going to resist the sort of siren smash your head on the rocks lure of their peers.
	And I mean, almost all parenting is gearing up for the teenage years when they start to get that independence and that skepticism and all of that.
	And if you have a great bond, it works out well.
	And if you don't have a great bond, all the time you saved by having sort of lazy or aggressive or indifferent or absent parenting, all the time you saved from taking the shortcuts when you're younger gets burned up, burned up, I say, by all of the stress and problems of the teenage years.
	So, I mean, parenting is always pay me now or pay me later.
	And if you put your deposits in early, the payoff is beautiful.
	Well, you used the term operating system there.
	And it's really fascinating because even though I don't have children, I've spent the last 20 months training, in essence, a digital child, which is an AI language model.
	And it absorbs everything that I, what I train it on, a specific data set.
	It absorbs that and then it regurgitates that.
	And that seems, I'm not saying that AI is human, obviously, but there are language models and there are behavior models.
	And there's a digital neural network in the AI systems.
	And in humans, it's a biological neural network.
	And that biological neural network, as you say, learns very rapidly.
	And it's not just listening to words, as you say, expanding her vocabulary every day, but she or he is also greatly expanding their behavior modeling, as you said.
	And that's something that I think a lot of parents don't notice.
	As you said, there's so much hypocritical behavior that gets picked up.
	And then parents are like, why?
	Like, you know, like a cigarette smoking, drug-using parent, like, don't use drugs, you know?
	Like that happens all the time, right?
	Well, children are relentlessly and beautifully empirical.
	So if you ever want to really annoy a child, say, hey, I'm going to give you some candy.
	And they say, oh, oh, I like candy.
	I want some candy.
	And then you write down the word candy on a piece of paper and you give it to them and you say, there you go.
	I just gave you some candy.
	Well, the kids are going to be like, well, we do it with rights all the time, right?
	So it's okay.
	It's written in some books.
	So you guys.
	But so kids are empirical.
	They care about what is, not what is conceived of.
	And they are, especially when they get to their teenage years, they are relentless sniffers out of hypocrisy.
	And this is one of the reasons I, the main reason I ended up going back on Twitter.
	My account was restored, I don't know, a year or two ago or something like that.
	But I had these sort of standards for Returning on Twitter, and my daughter, you know, just sort of sat me down and said, All right, let's step through this big guy.
	And she made an irrefutable case.
	So I'm back on Twitter.
	And kids who know that you're going to listen to them, that reason and evidence are going to win the day, and that your behavior, actions speak louder than words, your behavior is in line with your values.
	Really, that's the best you can do in any relationship, but the most important thing you can do with kids.
	May I ask you, and I apologize if this is too sensitive, but why did you leave the internet space for a number of years?
	And I mean, what's behind that?
	Whatever you can share with us.
	Oh, sure.
	I mean, it's not a secret because it was very public at the time.
	So basically, an election year, remind me, was it an election year?
	Yeah, probably.
	I do believe it was.
	Divide by four, leap year and election year.
	So I was unceremoniously with no negotiation and barely any reports on what I might have violated.
	I was deplatformed.
	You know, the old phrase, right?
	And so I was kicked off most of the major video and social media platforms as a whole.
	And where I was retained, it is my genuine belief.
	It's hard to prove that there was a huge amount of suppression given what's happened since I got back on Twitter.
	It's easy to see how suppressed I was on other platforms.
	So, of course, I went to your lovely platform, which I was already on.
	And I went to other platforms that were willing to accept the heretic or whatever it is, you know, take shelter wherever you can.
	And I basically went from playing stadiums to playing a jazz club.
	So I would do live streams to a smaller number of people.
	We'd have sort of intimate conversations, chatty conversations.
	And as to why I was deplatformed, I mean, boy, pick your reasons.
	Just about everything that I touched was a third rail.
	And I knew that ahead of time.
	I knew the risks going in, but I felt it was worth talking about difficult truths with the world.
	But some of that was about gender.
	No, some newspaper stuff.
	There was race stuff.
	There was political stuff.
	There was anti-Chinese stuff, anti-communist, not anti-Chinese, like the Chinese people.
	I did a whole documentary in Hong Kong and I visited China before.
	Lovely people.
	But yeah, it was that and skepticism about COVID.
	And I did a whole presentation called the case against China as to how we're pretty sure that it came out of the Chinese lab.
	Oh, what else?
	Oh, yeah.
	I mean, if you remember, George Floyd, I had a black cop and a white cop on my show talking about George Floyd and how sometimes people get what's called excited delirium and they just kind of faint and have medical problems when getting arrested.
	So I think there was just a whole narrative that wanted to be pushed forward that people didn't want push forward.
	And rather than, you know, I do shows where people can call in and argue and debate with me all the time, but rather than do that, well, they proved to be rather intolerant of tolerance.
	And that's sort of the paradox.
	So I think that was it as a whole.
	But that's the gig, right?
	I mean, as a philosopher, you're supposed to promote virtue and truth, and that interferes with the goals and plans of the corrupt and the false.
	So, I mean, that's the gig.
	And I will say, too, I will say this with great gratitude.
	It's a way better gig than most philosophers in history have ever, ever gotten.
	True.
	Because, you know, I get to largely work from home and I don't have to drink any hemlock.
	I'm not tortured.
	I'm not set fire to and so on.
	I'm not driven into exile.
	So, yeah, I mean, it's a pretty good gig.
	Not yet, yeah.
	I think we'll stay on the sunny side of that street.
	Okay, excellent.
	During this time, I would say that I think mainstream awareness of the importance of philosophical underpinnings of our actions has only increased.
	And I've seen like Thomas Sowell fan clubs and things like that, right?
	And people really talking about core philosophies more and more.
	And even myself, I've been influenced by your work.
	And I've said publicly many times, like, I don't worship any man or woman.
	I'm not pro-Trump or anti-Trump.
	I have a system of values.
	And when Trump is aligned with those values, I will applaud his work.
	When he contradicts those values, I criticize him.
	End of story.
	And I'm actually seeing that that kind of philosophy is catching on more.
	And your voice, I dearly miss your voice, by the way.
	I'm so glad that you're back.
	And do you think that humanity right now as a whole, I know there's still the whole annoying mainstream Twitter crowd that doesn't think there are NPCs, whatever.
	But as a whole, do you think people are actually being, I don't want to say quite red-pilled, but more amenable to the idea of the importance of philosophical underpinnings?
	Well, I think so.
	And because I was, and, you know, I sort of hate to use the phrase like in the wilderness or exile because, you know, the places that took me in were very valuable and I hugely appreciated.
	But I will say that having been away from really mainstream idea talk, mainstream reasoning talk, boy, things have changed in the last half decade since I was in the fray on a regular basis.
	I mean, things have changed a lot.
	Stuff that used to be controversial is now largely accepted.
	And it's actually because people are telling me, and it's an interesting thing to hear, because I always used to be, I don't know, cutting edge, bleeding edge, self-mutilation edge, something like that.
	But people are now telling me, you know, hey, old timer, you know, you've been out of the game for half a decade.
	Don't come back as if time hasn't moved on in your absence or people's thoughts haven't moved on in your absence.
	So I'm obviously, it's been like two weeks since I've been back on X. And thanks, Elon.
	Really, really mean that.
	And people are sniffing out where things are.
	They've moved on a lot, which is great.
	I mean, I think that's wonderful.
	So, I mean, boy, I think that COVID, man, did that ever do a number on people's trust in authority.
	Like now the new occult leaders, the nerds in white pocket protectors and lab coats are all telling everyone, trust the Science, as if science isn't about foundational skepticism in the wisdom of your elders and rigid empiricism for nature and reason.
	So, I think for a lot of people, they're like, okay, well, it's clear that we got a lot of lies about that.
	If they're lying about that, and that was some pretty important stuff, then what else are they lying about?
	That's number one.
	And number two, I've sort of been asking people about this on Twitter to get the lay of the land because I really don't know what people are thinking en masse post-COVID because I was deplatformed near the beginning.
	And it's like, what are people doing with the fact that there was so much turning on each other over COVID?
	Right?
	Because I think we all saw that.
	People snarling at each other to wear their masks.
	A lot of the Democrats said children should be taken away from parents who won't vaccinate their kids or people should put in internment camps or we should go full Australia.
	Like, I know it started as a penal economy, but why would you want to revisit that under COVID?
	That's weird.
	And so the number of people who just went kind of evil and corrupt over COVID, and now everyone is just, move on.
	Let's, you know, like you hit something in that car, dump it, dump.
	It's like, keep driving, man.
	Keep, don't turn back.
	And then you pretend nothing happened five minutes later.
	And I think that's weird.
	I think that's destabilized a lot of people's relationships.
	And so, I mean, and all the people who were like, oh, well, you know, you can't separate families.
	I mean, what about the illegals?
	And it's like, well, you know, you all wanted Granny to die on her own because the coldness was ravaging the people who already had three or four more comorbidities.
	So it's, I think that the hypocrisy, I think the falsehood, and I think the absolute five seconds later, Will Smith pen in the face amnesia is just wild for people.
	And I'm, I'm trying to understand how people are processing that because, of course, I didn't really spend time around people who bought into a lot of the COVID stuff.
	And seeing how that's shaping out post-COVID is wild.
	I mean, I think that people are just erasing the past, but in erasing the past, it's really making the relationships weak as well.
	Because if people won't even admit the fault that's really in front of their faces, which they did a year or two ago or three, what really is there?
	So yeah, just trying to get the lay of the land, having been away from the mainstream alternative media for so long is really fascinating.
	I'm getting some really good advice on that, which I appreciate.
	Oh, I'm sure.
	I'm sure.
	Let me ask your reaction to something that I experienced in the last year along these very lines, and I'll try to keep your feet out of the fire on this by not making it too controversial.
	But last year, I studied the Bible, and I taught 104 Bible sermons.
	I stopped teaching Bible sermons because the minute I started asking questions about the Bible and why there are different versions of the Bible and what about these missing books that are in the Ethiopian Bible, and what about the translations and the Roman Catholic Church and the counterfeit 2 Peter book, and these kinds of questions annoyed the hell out of Christians.
	And then I found out, based on other world events and certain things I'm not going to specify, I found out that a great many Christians absolutely do not believe anything that Christ taught, such as peace or nonviolence.
	Even Christ himself was opposed to animal sacrifice, for example, freeing the animals of the temples, etc.
	And for me, that was a big disappointment to realize that here's a large group of sort of mainstream, let's say mega-church so-called Christians who actually behave like just a cult, not with any philosophical underpinnings that they claim to follow.
	And then I connected with some other people who actually know the history, study the history of Jesus of Nazareth and actually follow the teachings of peace and so on.
	And I was really shocked by that.
	So I experienced this mass disillusionment among a group that I thought was fighting for truth and freedom of speech all these years as Trump was being persecuted.
	And then when it came time for them to persecute this other group somewhere else, they were like all for it, like bomb them, kill them, whatever.
	That blew my mind, Stefan.
	I mean, how do we make sense of this?
	I mean, the big challenge of a belief system is when it commands you to do something you really, really don't want to do.
	And one of the things that happens in the Bible, of course, is, and I have been going to church and I have been studying this stuff and I did a whole series on Bible verses this last year.
	Not that I'm any kind of expert, just please understand that, but I've certainly been thinking about it.
	And one of the things that happens in the Bible, of course, is that if you are a, you know, like an angry, judgmental person, you can find justification for that.
	If you're a meat, forgive everyone person, you can find justification for that.
	The real challenge is when you are commanded to do something that goes against the grain.
	Otherwise, it's like a buffet.
	Hey, just eat what you want, eat what tastes good.
	You never have to restrict your diet.
	And that's not healthy in life or in a belief system.
	And so for me, when somebody hits or gets a counter argument to what they feel like doing, that's when you really test whether you believe in it or not.
	So, I mean, for instance, the non-aggression principle, thou shalt not initiate force, I mean, when applied to child raising, it's very clear.
	Obviously, it's not self-defense against your children.
	And if there are alternatives to violence, we should take them.
	And the non-aggression principle says the initiation of force is wrong.
	So can you apply that in your own life?
	And right, there's tension because it's like, okay, well, now I can do something about these values that I claim to hold.
	And in the same way, you know, I'm criticized for saying that people should be free to criticize their own parents.
	I mean, how are we going to progress?
	How are we going to progress as a society if we can't criticize those who came before us?
	I mean, it happens in science, in math, in business, it happens, and it should happen in the family.
	And then people say, oh, well, honor thy mother and thy father.
	And I'm like, but you don't honor people by lying to them and pretending things aren't true.
	Like if you have a family that went kind of crazy over COVID, you should sit down and talk with them about it.
	And if it's your parents, same.
	You got to sit down and talk because the important one for me is thou shalt not bear false witness, which means in important matters of morality in society, you must tell the truth.
	And so, if people are just like, Well, honor their mother and their father and forgive everyone so I don't have to say anything about anything negative that anyone's ever done to me, I don't really think that's the point.
	But it goes in line with you know, confronting corrupt people and confronting people who did you wrong can be kind of alarming.
	I mean, they can get really angry, they can escalate, they can spread rumors about you.
	I mean, maybe hopefully it'll go well, but it might go badly.
	And so, and that's just in your family confronting, I mean, this is kind of what my whole gig was for 20 years.
	So confronting people who've done wrong is a very volatile situation.
	It's easier to sit back and just say, well, I'm commanded to forgive, so I don't need to be honest.
	I don't need to confront.
	It's not what the Bible says.
	The Bible says if someone wrongs you, there's a three-step process.
	Number one, talk to them individually.
	If they don't listen, number two, gather them together with a small group of the congregation.
	Number three, talk to them in front of the whole congregation.
	If they still don't listen or provide any apologies or amends, then ostracize them from the church.
	I mean, that's very clear.
	It's not just, you know, no matter what you do.
	I mean, the turn the other cheek thing, I think, is like, you know, if somebody hits you, it could be by accident.
	Turn the other cheek, if they hit you again, now it's not by accident.
	You've got a more clear moral situation on your hands.
	So when people want to not confront evil because it's scaring to confront evil or corruption or just bad behavior, then they say, oh, big forgiveness.
	It's like, well, if I make this argument, suddenly they look at the Bible and the Bible says, you know, here's what you do.
	And you kind of have to confront people who do wrong.
	And then they don't like it anymore because it is not in accordance with what they kind of want to do or what feels more comfortable to do, if that makes sense.
	And yeah, along those lines, I'm seeing just a tremendous amount of real tribalism now, sort of a philosophical tribalism.
	And most people choose a tribe.
	It's really like prison gangs.
	If you're in prison, you know, you choose a gang or you die, right?
	So, you know, you go in, somebody chooses the skinhead gang or the Latino narco gang or whatever or the Asian gang.
	Everybody's choosing a gang right now.
	And there are a few prominent gangs.
	Some of them are, you know, politically affiliated or religious affiliated or what have you, or a technocracy-affiliated gang, like the technocrat gang, right?
	But everybody's choosing a gang.
	And the thing is, or most people, the thing is, or a tribe, those tribes, at least in my observation, those tribes, none of the prominent tribes that I see, I just named some examples, have any core philosophical underpinnings that are sustainable in the long run for human civilization to live in prosperity and peace at all.
	So that's why I'm not joining any tribe or gang because none of them make any sense to me.
	What do you say?
	I mean, it's the fundamental choice that we have is to align ourselves with reason and evidence or to align ourselves with the agreement of others.
	And it's very tough going it alone, especially as society generally becomes more collectivist and as there is a lot of, as you say, breakup into these kinds of tribes.
	And this is very important politically because the government shovels trillions of dollars around based upon tribalism and special interest groups and so on.
	So going it alone is tough.
	And the choice of do I want to reason according to facts and evidence or do I want my existing beliefs reinforced by other people who believe the same thing?
	That's the fundamental question in life.
	And I've certainly tried it both ways.
	And the problem is, of course, that if you end up focusing on what other people agree with you about, the great price you pay is individuality, integrity, and love.
	Because, you know, there's this funny meme on the internet, which is, and it's a bit unfair, but it is a guy's driving past a frat, right?
	And all the women look the same.
	And they're mocking them, oh, you'll never find another woman like me.
	And it's like, if you're just kind of the same as everyone else in the group, you can't be loved as an individual.
	You know, it's like seeing a bunch of Canada geese flying overhead and saying, oh, I really love that one, but the rest of them, no.
	It's like they kind of look the same, they kind of act the same.
	And so you have to individuate in order to love and be loved.
	You have to have virtue, which means a relationship with reason and integrity, rather than just the approval of the brute mob.
	The approval of the brute mob may further the survival of your body, but as far as your soul and your virtues and your intellect and your consciousness goes, it's a really bad deal.
	You dissolve everything that is unique about you into the vat of approval and you emerge as just as an NPC that people will put up with but never really love.
	Yeah, that's a really good point.
	But it's so much more convenient.
	It's easy to have the buffet handed to you.
	Like, you're going to believe this.
	You're going to cheer this.
	Well, sorry to interrupt, but and the chance for it happening and you being able to survive is very new.
	Very new.
	I mean, certainly earlier than the internet, but not much, right?
	Because in the past, you had to go along with the tribe because you couldn't survive on your own.
	You couldn't reproduce.
	You couldn't, you know, somebody's got to guard you while you sleep.
	You can't build a barn by yourself.
	So the opportunity to actually think for yourself is so new.
	I mean, we really haven't adapted to it.
	And there's this real tension, right?
	Yeah, societies want this conformity because that way you get cohesion and the phalanx and all the army marches in the same direction.
	So you want this cohesion, but at the same time, if the society is too quote cohesive, then you don't get any particular progress.
	I sort of talked about this in my Hong Kong documentary that one of the reasons why China lost out to Europe is that Europe has valued, I mean, really since the Greeks and certainly through Christianity, they valued a lot of independent thought and challenging thought and the Socratic reasoning and so on, and the ability to use faith to go against the mob to have a relationship that is different than approval.
	And so because in the West, we accepted and killed, you know, a few percent fewer of our individual thinkers, we ended up with a lot of technological progress and economic progress, which allowed us to overtake and overcome the sort of very, not primitive, but very stagnant, a sort of 6,000 year stagnant Chinese society.
	So there's this tension in human life.
	We want the individuals, but at the same time, we need the cohesion for war and defense and so on.
	And that tension has really swung towards more the individual side of things at the moment, which I think is a very sort of positive thing.
	But of course, as you get more individuals, you get people recoiling from that and further joining groups.
	So there's this sort of hollowing out in the middle.
	Which brings us to the point, I just read this in the news this morning.
	In Germany, a woman was arrested and fined for posting a thumbs-up emoji.
	Actually, it was a triple thumbs-up, which apparently is a serious crime in Germany, based on the comment that she was giving the thumbs up to.
	So emojis are thought crimes now in Europe.
	And in the UK, the police spend more time raiding their own citizens' homes over social media posts than they do arresting illegals who have crossed the border illegally and are increasingly occupying cities like London.
	So Europe, I mean, the description you just gave about the history of relative free thought in Europe, I think was right on.
	But has that now been sacrificed in the authoritarianism and the thought control that we're witnessing today?
	Oh, it's heartbreaking, really.
	I mean, when you think of John Milton wrote back in the day a tract called Areo Pegidico, which was one of the first robust, full-throated defenses of free speech.
	Thomas More, of course, worked in a similar vein.
	And it took hundreds of years to build up a respect for free speech in the West.
	And it's collapsing everywhere.
	And you could say, ah, well, America, but don't worry, we have the First Amendment in America.
	And it's like, well, sure, but that's why there's deplatforming, right?
	So it's not like you have that either in sort of a practical sense, right?
	So it is things that our forefathers bled and died by the millions to hand to us, which was robust free speech and free inquiry and the willingness to accept that you can't think without the risk of offending someone.
	And that is within a very short period of time.
	Really, it is half a generation.
	Within a very short period of time, that has largely collapsed because the ideas that are reigning roughshod over Europe are indefensible.
	And that which is indefensible is oppressive.
	It has to silence the questioner because there are no answers.
	And so censorship is the tool of the fool.
	Censorship is an admission of defeat.
	And it is very, very sad to see what was struggled for for hundreds and hundreds of years over the course of European history just vanishing in a flurry of hysteria within a decade or two.
	Oh, yeah.
	And a really good, relatively recent example of that is this musician that was just performing, I think, in the UK.
	I think his name is Violin or Villain.
	I don't know how it's pronounced, but he was, maybe it's villain.
	But he was chanting death to the IDF, right?
	This has been big news.
	And he and his band have been denied visas to the United States based on his speech, which, of course, is right there on the edge of what most people would consider to be tolerable speech.
	But in U.S. Supreme Court case history, that is clearly First Amendment protected speech.
	But the thing that I find shocking about it is that we have senators like Lindsey Graham that are constantly shouting essentially death to Iran.
	So, you know, it's like with the politics aside, we live in a country where it's okay for our elected officials to call for the death or the bombing of other countries.
	But if somebody else calls for the death of someone that we consider ourselves to be allies with, then that's not allowable.
	So we don't really have a First Amendment that is a universal philosophy.
	And if it's not universal, then it's not really a philosophy, is it?
	So we have this selective enforcement.
	Yeah, I mean, that's one of the natures of corruption and power is rules for thee, but not for me.
	And I always feel that if somebody is not like, debate me, bro, come on, come in in the ring, debate me, debate me.
	If somebody's not doing that, if somebody's not willing to be questioned and criticized and hopefully unraveled, and if you're wrong, someone's doing you a favor.
	It's like when you're driving in your car, if you make a wrong turn, your GPS says recalculating, and you're happy about that because you want your GPS to get you to the right destination.
	The destination is truth, virtue, and integrity.
	And this is why for me, I've always, every time I open up my live stream, it's like questions, comments, issues, criticisms, and people who've got criticisms go to the front of the line.
	And if people are criticizing me on social media, it's like, hey, come on in, debate me, set me straight, tell me where I've gone wrong because I don't want to be wrong.
	Who wants to keep blindly driving into the desert because you're not listening to your GPS?
	This way to go out there and die among the cactuses and the, I don't know, woolly mammoth bones or whatever the hell's out there.
	You said something really profound about this on Twitter.
	You said, this was just, I think maybe yesterday, you said, when you are debating or arguing with somebody, ask them to explain your position from your point of view.
	And usually they can't.
	And you've also said something that I've taken to heart for many years, which is that the first time you meet someone, you treat them by default with respect and politeness.
	The second time you meet them, you treat them the way they treated you the first time you met them.
	I've taken that to heart.
	It served me well.
	So thank you for that.
	Well, it's mathematically the best winning strategy.
	And the thing is, that doesn't mean that you end up, let's say you meet someone the first time you're nice and then they're nasty, right?
	For whatever reason.
	That doesn't mean that their relationship is now stuck in nice, nasty for the rest of time.
	Because if they say, ooh, you know, I'm really sorry, I really overreacted to that.
	I called you a mean word.
	I'm really sorry.
	Let's reboot and so on, right?
	Well, now they're treating you nice.
	So now you can treat them nicely, right?
	It's not a one.
	Everyone thinks it like hardens like concrete into this opposition.
	It's like, no, no, I've had people in my life and I've had to do this to people in my life.
	Like, ah, I went too far.
	I'm really sorry.
	that was unfair.
	That was over the top.
	And I let my emotions get away with me.
	I'm going to work on that.
	And here's how.
	And all of that, you know, you make your apologies, you make your restitution, and some reasonable commitment about how it's less likely to happen again.
	So, yeah, that is an absolutely winning strategy in life, but it's tough because a lot of people want to feel virtuous with this one-waving forgiveness stuff.
	And yeah, when it comes to, there's a lot of people who cannot handle other people's viewpoints.
	They can't really conceive of other people's viewpoints.
	And it certainly is more the case on the left than the right.
	If you go to the average conservative and you say, why do the leftists care about this right or that right or this group or the poor or the sick?
	And they say, oh, well, because of X, Y, and Z. And I don't agree with their solution, but this is their approach.
	And this is, you know, government spending will, they don't want people to get sick.
	Government spending doesn't really hurt the rich that much and it really helps the poor.
	And you can make this case from a leftist standpoint.
	And most conservatives can do that with regards to leftists.
	While they don't agree with it, they can do it.
	But leftists, not so much the same way.
	Leftists almost cannot conceive of the rightist position or the conservative position.
	They can't conceive of it.
	And I don't know if that's cause or effect.
	But then what happens is they basically just scream, you know, racist, Nazi, Home of whatever it is, right?
	And so when it comes to debating, if the other person can't even articulate your position, then it's not a debate.
	Now, you may do it publicly to educate people as I do, but I wouldn't ever engage in a debate with somebody who couldn't articulate my position because they're just talking to, it's like watching a bird attack a mirror.
	Like they're not talking to anyone other than their own prejudices.
	And all they're going to do is straw man and project.
	So yeah, it definitely on the left, especially if you're debating with a leftist, just say, okay, give me just 30 seconds.
	Give me 30 seconds on why the conservative position on X is important to conservatives.
	I'm not asking you to agree with it, but it's like almost like if they let the ideas in their brain, it's an eviction that they're going to wake up as Pat Buchanan or something, right?
	So yeah, they really can't.
	And it's one of the reasons why debates tend to escalate pretty seriously.
	Yeah, that's really interesting.
	And I'm finding there's a lot of cognitive, I don't know if illiteracy is the right word, or let me call it functional stupidity.
	And I don't mean that in a derogatory way.
	I mean it in a descriptive way.
	A functional stupidity or an inability to function cognitively as adults, right?
	And that's a great example of what you just said.
	For example, I can articulate the left-wing view on abortion, right?
	I don't agree with it, but I can certainly articulate it or on gun control or on climate change or anything, right?
	I absolutely understand their points, but I can refute those points with other points, right?
	But, or any issue for that matter, at least I can understand the other side.
	But we live in a time, like you said, when it's just, it's an emotive, reactionary, in-your-face, just your speech is violence.
	I mean, that's what the left, especially during the years where you were banned, the things you said, I bet you got a lot of reactions where people said, your speech is a violent assault.
	Did you hear that from people?
	I saw it more acted out than spoken about.
	Like people would react to data that I presented or arguments that I presented or experts that I interviewed as if I was attempting to set fire to their baby crib.
	And it is, so it wasn't usually spoken because to say that is really tough.
	But definitely people acted in that kind of way.
	And it's very tough.
	And of course, a lot of that has to do with the fact that there are a lot of people who survive off moral corruption, right?
	So the people who like military industrial complex for the rich, the welfare state for the poor and so on.
	It's all the unjust transfer of money against people's choice and willpower.
	And so consistency in moral virtues would completely reshape resource.
	I won't say allocation because that sounds like somebody shuffling stuff around who's got godlike powers.
	But who would have what resources would massively change if we focused, say, on the non-aggression principle and a respect for property rights?
	Because you'd actually have to go and ask people for money rather than getting the government to threaten them with jail in order to get your steady diet of government cheese in a van down by the river.
	So when people rely on false moral principles, then moral integrity becomes a predator that is going to steal from them.
	And so they react in the same way, like if you're out there and it's been a lean year and you're going to set fire to the farmer's fields and he's not going to make it through the winter in his perception, he's going to get pretty aggressive with you because you burning down his fields is endangering his entire family.
	And so when we start talking about moral integrity and property rights and limited small or no government and free market allocations and all of that, well, then a lot of people feel like the tax benefits that they are receiving are going to be threatened and they react as aggressively as a farmer when you're about to burn out his crops.
	And I understand that, but it still doesn't make it violent.
	It just makes it, you know, I mean, the people who owned and traded slaves were really mad when slaves were freed.
	So, you know, even the people who bred horses were mad when the horseless carriage came along because people didn't need horses as much.
	Or the people who shoveled horse poop in the cities, they didn't have a job.
	I mean, progress is all about some people losing out and the majority of people gaining.
	And so, yeah, I mean, I understand why they're mad, but, you know, maybe you shouldn't be dependent on a corrupt system in the first place.
	And it's not friendly to let people stay on welfare because welfare is mathematically going to end and not even that long from now.
	So it's really, you know, you want to wean people off an addiction.
	You don't want them just to crash out when the monies and the checks, the checks stop coming.
	So we're actually trying to help people by telling them that the system can't continue and they need to make some alternate arrangements.
	Really good point.
	Yeah.
	We're not doomers to state the obvious.
	It's really helping people prepare.
	But that brings me, I wanted to ask you, and this is a question for you to queue up because I want to plug your website and talk about your site First, but the question to queue up is about the concept of the UBI as AI tends to replace at first more desk jobs and white-collar jobs.
	So, before we get to your answer on that, tell us about freedomain.com and what you offer, how people can interact with you.
	You can share your social media accounts, video channels, whatever is important.
	Thank you.
	I appreciate that.
	Yes, it's freedomain.com.
	I would really point people towards freedomain.com slash books.
	All of my books are free with the exception of The Art of the Argument.
	And I really got some great books there.
	I hope you'll check it out.
	You can go to freedomain.com slash connect, which has a list of all of the social media sites that I'm on now, including X. And so I really, really do appreciate that.
	I do interact with people.
	I live stream a lot.
	I take questions a lot.
	I'm not an ivory tower kind of guy.
	And so I hope that people will come and check it out.
	It's a great set of resources for learning how to think, how to reason.
	And, you know, at its best, my work will absolutely shake you to the core in terms of challenging things that you believe to be true, but aren't necessarily true.
	So I hope people will check that out.
	And I appreciate that.
	That's a rough one.
	Is it a quote from Mark Twain?
	It's not what you think is true that gets you.
	It's what you think is true that just ain't so.
	Is that a Twain quote?
	I think it's, I mean, it's hard to know because every pithy saying goes through the Twain colon at some point.
	Well, Twain said it.
	Well, it's fine, but I'm going to say Mark Twain because he was really funny.
	So it's a great statement no matter what it is.
	And the assumptions that people have are very dangerous and easy to manipulate.
	If you live in other people's ideas rather than connecting to sort of raw empirical sensual reality, if you live in other people's ideas and arguments, you are just a leaf in the wind.
	It's like the concept of hate speech.
	There is no such thing.
	Speech you hate is not hate speech and it's not evil and it's not bad.
	They're just words.
	But if you live in other people's words, you are not your own person.
	You are being whacked around by the dictionary and you are bonding with other people's prejudices like a duckling on the most evil duck that you can imagine.
	My daughter's going to hate that analogy because she loves ducks.
	But yeah, so you have to find a way to connect your brain, not through other people's language.
	That's Plato's cave.
	That is living in delusion.
	Not through other people's language, but redefine what is true, building from the ground up reason and evidence.
	I've got a 17-part Introduction to Philosophy series I did in 2006.
	Oh, lordy, lordy.
	No kidding.
	Which you can find on the website under playlists.
	And I've got a couple of documentaries.
	And yeah, I hope people will check it out.
	It's a great set of resources and get involved with the community.
	There's a lot of great people who want to talk philosophy.
	Well, I strongly encourage people to interact with you and your content, your website.
	I think that doing so will make you a better person.
	It will make you, because it will encourage you to engage in that introspection, that, let's call it the self-checksum, the error correcting code of the self, which is a normal process of maturity.
	And we all go through that, and sometimes we can benefit from more of that.
	So thank you so much, Stéphane, for all that you bring to the world.
	I really appreciate you.
	Now, if I could encourage you to answer my last point about the UBIs.
	Now, let me just preface that by saying that as someone who has worked now in AI for about two years and with a background in computer science and running software and so on, I am absolutely convinced, and you may or may not agree with me,
	which of course is fine, but I'm absolutely convinced that agentic AI will, within the next six to 24 months, be capable of replacing a very significant percentage of typical desk jobs.
	I call it KVM, keyboard video mouse.
	So any job where you have a keyboard, a screen, and a mouse, where the computer doesn't even know you're human, right?
	But the computer doesn't know you're human.
	The computer is just, you're inputting into the system through the keyboard and the mouse, and you're getting, you know, feedback visually or audibly.
	KVM jobs can be replaced quite competently by reasoning AI engines, I believe, like I said, in that timeframe.
	What do you think are the implications for society and how will humanity, that is, if you agree with what I'm saying, how will humanity be able to adapt to that, in your view?
	Yeah, I share your background.
	I ran a computer software company for many years.
	I was chief technical officer and lead programmer and so on.
	So I understand that stuff fairly well.
	I've done entire presentations on AI.
	So the way that I sort of view AI at the moment is the forest is burning down and the animals are fleeing through the undergrowth.
	It's coming for you.
	It's coming for me.
	And there's really only one thing you can do to escape the forest fire of AI.
	And of course, forest fires are damaging in the short run, but healthy for the forest in the long run.
	And we really haven't had something like this in society.
	I really could think twice before.
	One is the introduction of computers as a whole, but before that, it was the introduction of labor-saving machinery on farms.
	At the turn of the 20th century, like 125 years ago, 90% of Americans were involved in farming.
	Now it's like 2% or 3%.
	So these kinds of revolutions, these kinds of changes happen not infrequently, but certainly it's been a while.
	And there's really only one way that you can deal with the challenge of AI, which is don't be an NPC.
	You have to think for yourself.
	It's one thing that AIs can't do is think creatively because they are just word-guessing machines, very sophisticated and complicated word-guessing machines that are nosing their way through the existing undergrowth of human thought and then assembling things.
	But it's like a Lego set.
	You can only build what the Lego set can build.
	And so the only way, and it's not, you don't have to be a super high IQ guy or woman, but you just have to reason from first principles and think for yourself.
	That's something that AI will probably never be able to do any more than it will be able to get insights about its own life from dreaming at night, all the other things that the human brain is capable of.
	But if all you are is an assemblage and a pastiche of other people's thoughts and fragments of things you've read and a little bit of fear because this guy disapproved you of you and a little bit of lust because this girl will go out with you if you say you are big into X, Y, or Z leftist cause.
	So, if all you are is kind of like a fallen from an airplane jigsaw puzzle of chaotic sentiments programmed by the media and fear and lust, you're going to be replaced by AI.
	Absolutely.
	Now is the time.
	Yeah, now is the time that you have to learn how to think.
	Again, artoftheargument.com.
	There's lots of resources for people.
	Plato's dialogues, lots of resources for people to learn how to really think and question.
	But now's the time, man.
	If you stand in that forest, you're going to get burnt to the ground, but there's a way to flee towards the sunlit upper planes of reason and evidence and creative thought.
	And that will allow you to just watch the fires go by and take this lower.
	You and I have reached the exact same conclusion on this.
	And this is the first time we've spoken in years.
	And let me just add in the medical application in our society for this.
	So just like you said, Stefan, a doctor, a mainstream doctor who currently functions algorithmically, who is fed through medical school a series of symptoms that match up with a sequence of pharmaceuticals.
	He is just a biological skinbag vending machine for pharmaceuticals.
	He or she can be replaced just like that by an AI system.
	And I have no doubt that AI doctors will soon be granted the power to write prescriptions because that, of course, today.
	Sorry, I didn't know.
	So it was just today that they released a study that AI, I think it was 400% better and 20% cheaper in terms of its diagnosis of complex cases.
	And I don't want somebody who's programmed by a bunch of textbooks and programmed by weird incentives.
	Like, well, if I vaccinate everyone so they look like a porcupine, I get X amount of number of extra dollars.
	I want objective, neutral, from the ground up reasoning.
	I don't want a doctor who's just following a maze like a rat after a piece of cheese.
	I want some creativity and thought.
	Because AI is very good at writing code and prescribing prescription drugs based on symptoms is just like writing code in medicine.
	But to your point earlier, what you said, if you have a gifted, I'm going to call a person a healer or a naturopathic physician, a holistic thinker who can look at the entire patient, the mind, body, the soul, the lifestyle, the family interactions, the emotional everything, AI can't do that.
	So a real healer will always have value in society because of being able to have that human connection and perception and that holistic point of view.
	Whereas mainstream doctors will be obsolete within a couple of years, as far as I can tell.
	And even the surgeons, even the surgeons will be replaced by robotic surgeons that are already very accomplished at all kinds of common procedures right now and just getting better every day.
	So it's a good time to not be a human robot.
	Very true.
	If you run on programs, you can be replaced by AI that runs on programs.
	So uncouple yourself from the programming and think for yourself.
	And that's really your only shot.
	Well said, Stefan.
	And in wrapping up the show, I mean, I'm so glad to hear your analysis of this.
	And I really look forward to tuning into more of your content and seeing more of your tweets on X. What's your handle on X, by the way?
	Oh, yeah.
	It shouldn't be, but it is.
	It's my unspellable name.
	So let me just put it out there.
	At Stefan Molyneux, S-T-E-F-A-N-M-O-L-Y-N-E-U-X.
	Because that's what you want, is an F that should be spelled P-H and a silent X at the end of your name, because I'm all about the marketing, bro.
	All about the marketing.
	So unfortunately, my history gave me a name.
	Bob Smith would be better, but I don't have myself a Bob Smith.
	I have a Polish and French pastiche, and at least my middle name, which is British Basil, isn't sort of jammed in there somewhere.
	So yeah, it's Stefan Molyneux.
	I'm sure you put a link to it and you can follow me there.
	We will put a link.
	So it's N-E-U-X at the end.
	That's right.
	N-E-U-X.
	And I've got to get used to calling you Stefan.
	I keep saying Stefan because that's just in my mind, that's my internal voice of how I say your name.
	And then you've been posting about internal voices and also the fact that so few people have an internal dialogue, which is scary.
	Oh, yeah.
	The 30 to 50%, depending on how you measure it, but 30 to 50%.
	I've seen higher, I've seen lower, but 30 to 50% of people do not have an internal monologue or dialogue.
	I don't exactly know how their brains work, but it's mostly just imagery.
	It's not an IQ thing.
	You can be super smart.
	And, you know, engineers work with things and they don't work with language.
	And it's wild, but it certainly does explain a lot in the world.
	Yeah, I think you described it in your tweet as like a mishmash of images and emotions and something like that.
	And I think you're right.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	These are the people like you have this is the fabled quarter second, right?
	So when you have an impulse, right?
	Nerves travel, I think, 240 miles an hour, nerves, emotional impulses go through your body.
	It slows to like 20 miles an hour in your brain.
	You have about a quarter second to intercept an impulse, to not act out something.
	You know, if somebody's really annoying you and you want to yell at them or grab them by the shoulders, don't do that.
	But if you do want to do that, you have about a quarter second and civilization lives in that quarter second because if people don't repress that, you know, that blow up, then they act out and they go to prison and bad things happen in society as a whole.
	So we really do have to focus on getting people to not just act and react, which means DNPC yourself, reason from first principles, deal with emotional difficulties and recognize that all that feels good is not good.
	Otherwise, we'd all be hedonists.
	Well, that was a profound quote that you said that the fate of human civilization rests on that quarter second of intervention.
	And I thought about that quite a lot for a little bit more than a quarter second, it turns out.
	And I'm still pondering that point.
	But thank you so much for your insight.
	Thank you for spending time with us today.
	Stefan Molyneux and the website is freedomain.com.
	God bless you, Stefan.
	Thank you for all that you do.
	I appreciate that.
	Thank you for your lovely site that hosts my videos and your friendship over the years.
	It's been a real treasure for me and I look forward to seeing you on Twitter.
	You as well.
	Okay, take care now.
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	He's just a real treasure for humanity.
	You will become a better person as you interact with his information, learn more, and embrace whatever parts of his philosophy resonate with you.
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