985 Real-Time Relationships: The Second Reading
The book is out, here is another section for your listening pleasure! :)
Feb. 19, 2008 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| Hi everybody, I hope that you're doing well. | |
| It's Devan Molyneux from Free Domain Radio. | |
| I just wanted to let you know and do a short reading because the fourth, I guess, the fourth book in the Free Domain library is out and I will strongly, strongly urge you to get this into your hot little hands. | |
| It's called Real-Time Relationships, The Logic of Love. | |
| The philosophical truth about family, lovers, friends and culture. | |
| And this is really me pouring my heart into everything that I know about how to develop beautiful and wonderful, rich, deep, joyous and enriching relationships with those around you. | |
| That's where the real joy is. | |
| I'm just going to read you from the jacket cover. | |
| Philosophy is the tool that we use to undo our illusions. | |
| Our relationship with virtue brings us happiness. | |
| Our relationship with others brings us joy. | |
| Philosophy brings us closer to the truth and to virtue, but its greatest gift is bringing us closer to each other. | |
| Real-time relationships helps you bring the virtue of real honesty into your relationships with your friends, family, colleagues and lovers. | |
| Filled with practical examples of how to achieve true intimacy, this book will open your heart to the beauty of love without endless conflicts, resentments and misunderstandings. | |
| Don't spend another day mired in the misery of inconsistent, fractious or disappointing relationships. | |
| Use the power of real-time relationships to bring the peace and joy of relaxed intimacy to all aspects of your life. | |
| The book comes in two versions. | |
| There's a compact. I tried to keep the cost as low as possible, so that particularly, I mean, if you're not married yet, and particularly if you're single, and particularly if you're unmarried, single, and young, you should get a hold of this book. | |
| The deal is the same as it's always been. | |
| I really would prefer you to buy it, because I do like to eat, and I need some bowling ball wax for the old forehead. | |
| But if you can't afford it, I will send you an audiobook version Or a PDF. Just pay me whenever you can. | |
| If you buy it and you don't like it, I will refund your money. | |
| It's a risk-free obligation. | |
| I will do whatever I can to get this book out there because I want to share the joy that I have I've discovered or grown or experienced, particularly in my personal relationships, and that is where the real joy is in life. | |
| We are not islands, and we gain joy, security, serenity, comfort with productive, positive, happy, joyous and loving relationships. | |
| It's the clinical director of MetaVale Psychotherapy, so she brings the psychological aspect, I bring the philosophical aspect, and we've just worked out a beautiful, beautiful way to interact that just gets better and better every day. | |
| So I just, I really want that for you. | |
| I really want you to have that kind of security and joy, and I've poured everything that I know and everything that we've developed about how to have these kinds of wonderful relationships. | |
| Into a book that, I mean, it's going to be, it's going to change your life. | |
| I mean, I know it's ridiculous guy on the internet, ooh, I read a book, it's going to change your life. | |
| But it's true. It's true. | |
| You should really, really, you must, you must get this book. | |
| However, you are going to receive it, you simply have to get it. | |
| So there's two versions of the book. | |
| And it starts for like $11.99. | |
| So, you know, what is that? | |
| A meal for two at McDonald's. | |
| So there's a compact edition, which is about 300 pages, which is the core text, and everything's there. | |
| And then there's an extended edition, which is 420 pages, and the additional 120 pages are transcripts of real-time relationship conversations that I've had with listeners at Free Domain Radio. | |
| You get the podcast links as well, so you can either listen to them or read them as you like. | |
| If you're stuck on a plane and can't download, you can read them. | |
| Either one is fine to get. | |
| The compact edition is more theory, and the extended edition has some examples of real practice in it. | |
| So it's entirely up to you, but whatever it is that you get a hold of, get a hold of it. | |
| As quick as you can. | |
| The audiobook is a little under nine and a half hours. | |
| It's read by me, and some sections have been read by my wife. | |
| It's a really good audiobook, I think. | |
| We tried to make it as high a quality as possible. | |
| That's available in two versions. | |
| There's one which is lower quality audio. | |
| It's somewhere between AM and FM, and then there's CD slash DAT quality audio, which you can get a hold of as well. | |
| That's up to you, so I'm going to read a little section of it. | |
| The book is not just about your personal relationships with those around you, but I also talk about your relationships with your culture, because we can't navigate the relationships that we have with the people around us without talking about the culture that we all swim in. | |
| So, I do talk about culture and certain political aspects. | |
| But here, I just wanted to read you a short section. | |
| This is called The Goal, and it comes right after the section, which is, so, why speak? | |
| Why speak? Speaking the truth can sometimes feel like self-abuse. | |
| But I will share with you one thought, one vision, That keeps me going when the path is darkest. | |
| In my mind's eye, I see a world where people can be honest without fear. | |
| Where the desperate terror that truth-tellers feel now will only be felt by a few liars and cheats. | |
| I see a world where relaxed and benevolent intimacy is the natural state of human relations. | |
| I see a world without masters. | |
| Not without hierarchy, since ambitions and talents vary, but without coercive, exploitive and destructive monopolies like church, state and the cult of the family. | |
| I desperately want to live in that world, but I know that I cannot, since what we are talking about here is a multi-generational project at best. | |
| I desperately want to live in that world, but since I cannot, the best thing I can hope for is to do my part to help create that world for the future. | |
| I cannot live in a free world. | |
| I can barely see it from where I am. | |
| I squint at it, though, like a man at the bottom of a well searching for a star in the distant circle of the night sky above him. | |
| I wish with all my heart that I lived in that world. | |
| And if I did live in that world, I would feel such enormous gratitude for the brave souls who did everything they could to bring that wonderful world into being. | |
| I would admire their courage to sacrifice immediate personal comfort for the sake of creating this wondrous world. | |
| I feel that gratitude flowing down the steps of time from the future. | |
| I feel the joy of those who live in a free world that we can only begin to create. | |
| I feel them looking back in time to we poor, struggling, courageous souls and thanking us for making their world so beautiful. | |
| It is their gratitude that picks me up when I fall. | |
| It is also the near infinite sorrow that I would feel if I knew that such a world would never come into being. | |
| Imagining an eternity of human experience that is little better than what we have today, where good people cower like beaten dogs while evil braggarts strut and rule, would make the story of our species an infinite tragedy, especially given our wondrous potential for truth and beauty. | |
| Evil will fade from the world. | |
| If we act now. | |
| Evil will fade from this world. | |
| but we must give up many seemingly pleasant things in order to end it. | |
| Surely we are glad that the early pioneers of science did not bow to the difficulties of their struggle, but persevered against torture and oppression, giving us a world of technology, medicine and wonder that giving us a world of technology, medicine and wonder that they did not live to see. | |
| We do not live in their world of medieval ignorance only because they were willing to imagine our world of science and knowledge and work to create it. | |
| The world we will create will be as wondrous to those who live in it as ours would be to the medieval mind. | |
| I just wanted to remind you of the world that we are in fact creating. | |
| Because the beauty of the goal, even though we shall never live to see it, makes the difficulties of the journey all worthwhile. | |
| So I hope that you will drop by and pick up a copy. | |
| I will get it to you however I can, however you need it, however you want it. | |
| There's no risk. Grab a copy. | |
| It will change your life. | |
| Thank you so much for watching, as always. |
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