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| You know we hear a lot about outsourcing in the media and in economics and economic outsourcing is a problem and a challenge but the really dangerous outsourcing is our impulse to outsource heroism to others right now right now This is the big fight. | |
| This is what I have been gearing up for for over 30 years. | |
| Right now, this is the big fight. | |
| Right now, the mainstream media has finally woken up to the fact that the alternative media is running circles around them and undermining the very foundations of their profitability and capacity to control public discourse. | |
| And now they are lashing back. | |
| Now the powers that be have identified the source of the undermining of their power and are fighting back. | |
| Now Lauren Southern recently got kicked off Patreon. | |
| Now hit pieces are being written about friends of mine, people who do wonderful work bringing truth to the masses. | |
| Right now Apple is pulling VPN applications in China so that people can't even try to bypass internet censorship from... | |
| A semi-totalitarian regime right now is the time when the trumpet call, the bugle call goes out for you. | |
| Right now, and of course for the past decade, I have resisted the lure, the temptation of advertising and requiring that people pay for what I do. | |
| I have steadfastly resisted it. | |
| There could have been great money in it. | |
| There could still be great money in it. | |
| I resist it because I want to remain a Focused on you and your needs and the needs of the future. | |
| I don't want to be a mechanism for delivering you to advertisers or for delivering you to some other revenue source. | |
| I want to depend on you and that way you can depend on me knowing that I'm focused on your needs and your preferences. | |
| So right now is what it comes down to. | |
| If you don't feel The fingertip-thrumming pulse of adrenaline in your veins for the battle that is to come. | |
| I need you to wake up and snap out of it because that's where we are. | |
| So, I have of course come, as I am one to do every couple of months, to ask you, to remind you, to encourage you, to please, please, please, please support what we are doing here on this philosophy channel, on this show. | |
| We're not consuming... | |
| Your days in little time slices of ads right in the middle of powerful conversations about philosophy, self-knowledge, economics, you name it. | |
| We are not interrupting and jarring you with little ads for this and that and the other. | |
| I'm not sponsored. | |
| I'm not beholden to any think tank. | |
| I'm not beholden to any specific large base donors. | |
| It's you. You are it. | |
| You are the only reason that I'm able to do what I'm able to do. | |
| And we are cranking up unbelievably. | |
| We're talking close to 15 million views and downloads a month now. | |
| This is truly powerful and astounding stuff. | |
| I have a new book coming out very soon called The Art of the Argument, which is... | |
| Great! A very, very powerful book. | |
| It's going to do very well and it's going to really spread the power of debate, the need for the debate, how to debate, and it ties civilization itself into the very act of debating. | |
| I'm working on a new book, An Introduction to Philosophy, that is going to be shorter and pithier and funnier and more powerful and designed to stimulate People's interest in reasoning from first principles, that's all that can save us. | |
| It is going to be reason, or it is going to be force. | |
| And right now, the mass tsunami of existing power structures are towering over the alternative media. | |
| They no longer imagine we're just going to go away. | |
| They no longer imagine that we're going to be scared off by mean typing. | |
| And now, the battle is upon us. | |
| And I need your help. | |
| I need your help. You know, the... | |
| A person can ride up and down the ranks of the population and cheer them and exhort them with powerful phrases, but it is you who has to make choices. | |
| It is you who has to act. | |
| Now, of course, I'm asking for your support for what it is that I do here. | |
| Freedomainradio.com slash donate. | |
| One-time subscription. | |
| Recurring subscriptions. You know, it can be $5, $10, $20 a month. | |
| It's less than the price of coffee a day to do your part to help save civilization itself. | |
| If you don't want to pay, that's fine. | |
| Like, subscribe, share, create your own channels, have challenging conversations, do what you need to do to get the word out there. | |
| There is nothing to save for anymore. | |
| There's nothing to be left in reserve. | |
| Now is the time to hit the gas. | |
| Now is the time when everything has come together. | |
| If we strike with reason and peace and evidence and arguments, if we strike now, at the base of power, the entire tottering infrastructure of mental control known as academia known as the mainstream media known as television It can all fall apart. | |
| It's all held up by a series of delusional threads. | |
| Snip, snip, snip. | |
| This can all happen. But don't outsource the heroism that is necessary. | |
| Don't think I can do it or anyone else can do it. | |
| It is your choice. Where you put your resources is where the future will go. | |
| And there are bad people who pour resources into bad causes, irrational arguments, inhumane, anti-humane, civilization undermining and destroying language. | |
| They pour resources like you would not believe! | |
| into those terrible ideologies and belief systems and that's one of the reasons why they spread whoever commits the most wins the future and I'm asking for you to commit to what is necessary to save everything we treasure our capacity to have this conversation our capacity to reason our capacity to speak freely our capacity to think And change the world through language. | |
| That is a very powerful thing. | |
| It is the only thing that separates civilization from barbarism. | |
| It's our capacity to reason together that must be protected and expanded. | |
| And all of the people who are in the way can be elbowed aside. | |
| But you are the one who has to act. | |
| To support what I'm doing here. | |
| To replicate what I'm doing here. | |
| To share what I'm doing here. | |
| To support whoever you find the most powerful, the most compelling, the deepest, the most committed. | |
| Find who those people are. | |
| Support them with everything you've got. | |
| There's nothing left to keep in reserve. | |
| There's no reason to keep everything in reserve. | |
| I'm going all out. | |
| I invite you, please, please, to help those who are leading the way, the icebreakers who are dragging us along to a sunnier climate. | |
| Please, please get behind those who are doing the greatest work. | |
| Because if we don't succeed now, there will be no success possible. | |
| If we fail now, there will be nothing left to save. | |
| Do not look back in regret at this crucial moment and curse yourself for not acting. | |
| Thank you so much for your support over the last 10 years. | |
| I look forward to the next 30. | |
| Stefan Molyneux, Freedomain Radio. |