Oct. 17, 2016 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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3455 What Pisses Me Off About Ken Bone
Various mainstream media outlets have taken an innocent man with fifteen minutes of fame and decided that he must be smeared and attacked. Stefan Molyneux is pissed off over the treatment of Ken Bone and offers a word a warning to the jackals who participate in this kind of public disassembly of harmless periphery public figures. Background: http://nypost.com/2016/10/14/why-did-the-trolls-have-to-take-down-ken-bone/Freedomain Radio is 100% funded by viewers like you. Please support the show by signing up for a monthly subscription or making a one time donation at: http://www.freedomainradio.com/donate
Hi everybody, Stefan Molyneux from Freedom Aid Radio.
So the screaming, broken banshees of the internet have descended vulture-like to feast upon the shattered bones of another innocent victim.
Ken Bone, the fellow who was asking a question about energy in a presidential debate, has had some pretty positive media attention.
He was on Jimmy Kimmel.
They apparently want him back because he was very good.
And so he rose to prominence based upon a small intersection of, you know, maybe looking a little less than cool and having that kind of face that people want to meme and so on.
And of course, people are just looking for new prey, right?
These shattered people who break others because they were broken themselves and can't admit it and thus must reproduce the savage tearing apart of their own histories by savagely tearing apart other people's histories.
Swooped in on him because when he didn't ask me anything, he used some public account.
And then, of course, people began scouring the Internet and found things that they considered objectionable, like I think he left a couple of comments on some erotic images.
Wait, there are erotic images on the Internet?
Oh, wait, sorry.
That is the Internet.
And what else did he do?
Oh, he talked about the George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin interaction and said that it was justified.
In other words, he clarified, he said it was legally justified, which of course it was, because if it wasn't legally justified, then Zimmerman would have gone to prison rather than been set free.
So he said a true thing.
And this true thing, of course, is something that people on the left, social justice warriors and the race baiters and so on, they don't like the fact that George Zimmerman was acquitted of the death of Trayvon Martin, and therefore they must destroy his life.
And this psychotic herd of screaming banshees that races around the internet trying to find dirt on people and render them ostracized and inert and unemployable.
And I mean, good Lord, this is a brutal form of abuse that occurs.
And it makes the internet, which should be about the free exchange of unfiltered ideas and arguments and disagreements and thoughts.
It makes it something where people feel there's this landmine.
You know, did you ever say anything anywhere that could be traced back to you and these people could grab it and raise it to the sky with the compliance of the media and everyone might write about it and your life will never be the same and then everything that...
Anyone ever searches for you, if you're going to go for a job, they're going to find all of this stuff and realize that you come with a lot of baggage and people who dislike you and it's...
Oh my God.
Oh my God.
How tragic.
What a ridiculous and awful and brutal place to end up with the greatest medium for the exchange of ideas that the world has ever known.
And certainly the greatest step forward.
Until we all become telepathically linked and can read each other's thoughts, which...
I'm not sure it would be a positive thing.
But until we all become telepathically linked, this is the greatest step forward in human communication.
And like all great things that come to pass, there are trolls who will try and mess it up.
Now, I actually have a great deal of sympathy for the trolls.
I mean...
If the great giggly glee of your life is tracking down some guy, digging up all of his dirt, and then holding it, cackling like a wounded crow for the baying of the wounded crowd, that to me is a pretty tragic thing.
It's a confession of being broken very early in life.
You know, why do people try to hurt others?
Well, originally it was because they were hurt themselves.
Why do people steal?
Because they were stolen from emotionally or physically.
Why do people abuse others?
It's the old thing, hurt people hurt people.
It doesn't mean that they're not morally responsible.
It doesn't mean that they're not doing terrible things.
But for those with the eyes to see, it is very clear that it is a confession of very deep and very early hurt and neglect and abandonment that occurs.
And of course, a lot of this has to do with what goes on in daycare, a lot of the social justice warrior stuff.
The fragility has a lot to do with daycare, right?
The studies have shown that if you put a child into daycare for more than 20 hours or so a week, that child will experience all of the same symptoms as a child who's been completely abandoned by his mother.
Maternal abandonment is the most terrifying thing that a child can go through, and I think it leaves people with lifelong anxiety and fear and instability and hostility and all of this kind of shaky snowflake stuff that we see going on.
Well, this has come out of the daycare generation.
So, good job, feminism.
Excellent job getting mothers to abandon their children so that they can go to the workforce and contribute more in taxes so that the government can use the taxes that they contribute in the workforce as collateral to borrow against their children's future.
So...
Excellent.
Excellent job.
Also, not only is it the taxes that women who go into the workforce start paying, but also then you get taxes and unions and government support from the daycare workers.
And that is wonderful for the government.
It's great for the expansion of power.
It just tends to take a rather brown-shirted jackboot to the hearts and souls of innocent babies.
But hey, you know, in the rush to power, does it really matter if you drive the tank of political lust over the faces of the next generation?
Apparently not.
So this is a great tragedy.
It has a lot of the decisions that we've made, the welfare state, single motherhood, daycare, the abandonment of children to be raised in institutions where they get exposed to the lowest common denominator of the craziest kid in the class who tends to rule and dominate the entire social apparatus, the lack of bonding, the lord-of-the-flies dog-eat-dog jungle of childhood that we've basically turned children over to.
Well, it's created a huge set of wounds in society, and I view this kind of, this sort of shock-infested, try and step through the waters of any kind of prominence without getting your limbs chewed off, this sort of feeding frenzy that goes on, this, you know, piranhas on the spine and soul of the cow that wanders into the Amazon.
This is evidence of the giant boot print of bad decisions that we've made as a society about how we deal with children, about how we raise children.
And, you know, the loving maternal warm embrace of a mother who's there consistently for you has been abandoned because apparently motherhood is déclassé.
And what's really fantastic is working in some customer service department dealing with endless complaints.
Rather than suckling and nuzzling and raising your children.
But these decisions have been made and we've got this fallout that has come from it.
And the fallout is...
A lot of the people in the world who don't have that kind of early attachment don't have confidence to engage with other people at an equal level.
They must either, as the old saying used to say about last mid-century Germans, they're either at your feet or they're at your throat.
They're either you're like bowing down to you or going for you with every spiritual dagger they can summon.
These are bad decisions that were made as a society.
And every society that abandons the needs of children slowly begins to undermine its own future.
And so I do have sympathy.
You know, this guy just asked a question.
He's just participating in a democracy.
And turned out that he had a pretty funny and engaging streak when he was in the media.
And therefore, of course, somebody who is an average person who rises to some prominence and some popularity, all of the other people who are broken, you know, broken people don't like to see anybody rise up and make themselves whole.
And so they must be torn down.
Misery loves company, as the old saying goes.
If you see someone assemble themselves into something better than you and you have the chance to undercut them, I think?
A piece of ice or, you know, trips going down some stairs or whatever.
That is the, I don't know, it's like an autistic sadism of brokenhearted people who can't admit their pain, right?
And therefore must destroy others as they were themselves destroyed to make their own destruction a principle rather than something that happened to them individually as the result of particular people's choices.
So...
It is really, really tragic.
It is really vile.
It is something that we really, really need to find a way to push back on and to recognize as the extremely dangerous phenomenon that it is.
So don't consume the articles that talk about this.
Don't go to the advertisers of people who support this kind of stuff.
Just steer clear of it and recognize that it is a great bay and cry of a wounded animal to go around savagely attacking other people who've done nothing other than That rise above their station.
And this creates this paranoia of, well, what if I did or said something?
Well, I can't then go into public life.
I can't then become prominent.
And what happens is then people who are concerned about these things end up often shying away from any kind of public life.
And the people who don't give a rat's ass about it are the ones who end up confidently stepping into the public arena, not caring how many skulls are tied to their heels Those are the kinds of people often who end up in the public arena, which is exactly the opposite kind of people, people who are sensitive, who have a conscience.
Those are the people we want in the public arena.
But this, you know, baying pack of wolves that takes down every innocent doe, they are the ones who are keeping people from, quality people from, a public life.
So please avoid this kind of stuff.
Recognize it for the damage broken cry for...
Hysterical non-help that it is.
Stay away from it.
Don't support these articles.
Don't email.
Don't share these articles.
Don't giggle at some guy in a red cable knit sweater who, you know, may have packed on a few pounds.
He's just a guy.
He just asked a question.
Let him have his moment in the sun.
If he can stretch it out to more than a moment, more power to him.
