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Oct. 12, 2011 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
09:23
2010 Occupy Wall Street Protesters: Break The Matrix!

The reality of corporations, the abuses of history, and how to truly break free of propaganda. From Freedomain Radio.

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Hi everybody, it's Stefan Molyneux from Free Domain Radio.
Hope you're doing well. This is a message specially from our brothers and sisters occupying Wall Street and protesting with all the just might in their sturdy frames about the rapacious predation of the financial system.
I'm going to tell you some stuff that is going to be shocking, alarming, frightening, probably enraging, but you need to hear it.
The matrix is not what you think it is.
The matrix, people often think, is government education, corporate propaganda, advertising, and all this kind of stuff.
These are just effects of the matrix.
The true matrix is something that's much harder to see.
There is an irrationality in the position of many protesters.
And I mean this with care and with concern and with affection and with positivity.
I'm not trying to tear anybody down.
I'm trying to switch on a light that you may not have seen.
Maybe everything I'm saying is complete bullshit to you, then you can just ignore it.
But I think that there's some very valuable truths in what I can impart to you.
The irrationality is that most of you are clamoring for the government to fix the problem.
Governments have so much power these days.
They have so much authority.
They can print money. They can wage war.
They can go into debt. They can regulate anybody they see fit.
And you complain that corporations have taken over the government.
As if people trained in business school can somehow take over people with the largest military-industrial complex the world has ever seen.
This is not the way it works. It seems true.
It seems true. I'm going to tell you why.
It seems true because almost nobody can see the state and society as a whole for what it actually is.
We all see society through the matrix called the family.
And in this matrix, the government is mommy and daddy.
And if you had more maternal influences in your family, if you were more of a matriarchy, then you're going to be on the left.
And you're going to be, let's stop the wars overseas and increase the use of government coercion at home through taxation and regulation.
If you had an Old Testament dad or a patriarchal kind of family, you're going to be more on the right.
And you're going to be, let's wage wars overseas and let's cut the use of violence at home.
I mean, the use of violence is constant, whether it's at brown people or white people, it's whichever side of the political spectrum you're on.
But this is pretty well established.
Psychologically and scientifically, this is not just my opinion.
People's political opinions can be very, very accurately predicted from their family situations.
Mommy is a Democrat, and Daddy is a Republican.
That's the typical way that things work.
But where do corporations fit into this matrix?
Well, I'll tell you. Let's look at the Christian theology.
In the Christian theology, We have God, who is obviously daddy, the father, the holy father, and the priest, of course, hooks into this by calling himself father so-and-so, and the monks call themselves brother so-and-so, and the nuns are sisters, and I'm sure there's an aunt demon thrown in there somewhere, but obviously it hooks directly into the family matrix.
The one thing that's always missing from these equations It's siblings.
It's siblings. Where do siblings fit into this?
Siblings arguably have more power, more influence, and more authority over younger siblings than even the parents do.
You spend more time with your siblings and more alone time, and according to recent estimates, more than 50% of sibling relationships are considered directly abusive.
And so the pantheons of big abstract thought, the state, religion, these have to encompass...
Family matrix is.
Otherwise, they don't work.
So, in religion, you have God, who's the daddy?
You have the Virgin Mary, who's the mommy?
Or the bad mommy is Mary Magdalene.
And then you have man, who is the sibling, usually the youngest sibling.
But the devil is the sibling.
Satan is the sibling.
In that metaphor, it's clear. He's created by mommy and daddy.
He's a tempter, he's a destroyer, he's an abuser.
And you can only be saved from this terrible sibling by mommy and daddy, who you appeal to, to save you from your terrible, nasty sibling.
Mommy and daddy, save me, help me, intervene, do something to save me from my sibling, my peers.
And this is a desperate and blind appeal that children make.
Because... The sibling is dysfunctional because the parents are dysfunctional.
Right? This is clearly shown in Christian mythology.
Right? Satan is so bad.
He was created by mommy and daddy.
He has power over mankind, like an abusive elder sibling has power over a younger sibling.
As created by the parents, and you appeal to God to save you from the devil, who God created and gave power over you.
And of course, in the Christian mythology, God is even more destructive than the devil in many ways.
The devil didn't create hell, he just went to live there.
God created hell and the punishments, or Jesus more accurately.
This is a common set of mythologies, that there's a weak individual, the younger sibling, there is an intermediary figure who has more power but not ultimate power, who is more directly controlling and abusive, called the devil or the elder siblings, and then you have the ultimate authority called the parents, and there's this belief that you call out to the parents.
You call out to the parents to save you from the sibling, but it never works.
Because if the parents were just and healthy and rational and peaceful to begin with, the sibling wouldn't be abusive towards the younger siblings.
You understand? It's part of a system.
You following? We're unplugging, right?
From the illusions. Now, in the modern world, in the socialist world, in the left-wing world, we have the same set-up.
It's exactly the same.
You have the workers, who are the younger siblings.
You have the government, who is the maternal deity, who is the maternal power.
This is why they're left-wing or democrats or whatever.
And you have an elder sibling called the corporation, the capitalist, the owner.
Not as powerful as the parents, But we appeal to our parents, to the government, to save us from the sibling called the corporation.
But the reality is that the corporation only exists because the state is destructive and abusive and dysfunctional, by definition.
It uses violence to get what it wants.
This may be shocking to you, this may be ridiculous to you, but I urge you, I strongly urge you, encourage you, exhort you, I beg you to think about it, to think about your own family history.
Did you have dysfunctional parents?
Did you have a destructive or negative or very difficult relationship with a sibling?
If this is the case, you owe it to yourself.
You owe it to the cause that you want to serve, that I want to serve, the cause of bringing peace and virtue and justice and rationality and decency to the world.
You owe it to that cause to look within yourself and make sure that you are not anthropomorphizing from your family to society as a whole.
Because that is going to blind you and that is going to turn you irrational and keep you ineffectual.
Because you're attempting to heal the world when what you really need to do is to heal yourself.
You want to fix the world When you really need to fix yourself.
You want to bring peace to the world when you really need to bring peace to yourself, first and foremost, and then, and then, with self-knowledge and clarity, we can march together.
But remember, self-knowledge, know thyself, the first commandment of Socrates, self-knowledge is everything.
With self-knowledge, there is nothing we cannot do together without self-knowledge.
All we are doing is repeating and recreating and avoiding the actual history we experienced.
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