Nov. 20, 2018 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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4248 International Men's Day Livestream!
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Alright, looks like we are up and rolling and it's a little dark.
We're still working on some of this cool, funky stuff.
But yeah, we are aiming at kind of a new studio setup.
Turn on the light.
Alright, hang on. We can do that.
We can do that. A little better, a little better.
Always hard to know how it's going to work out as we go forward.
Is the audio good?
Good-ish? Alright?
Seem okay to you and me?
But we are looking to futz around a little bit with our studio and the lighting and all kinds of cool stuff.
Bit dark, yeah, I agree.
We'll work on it.
I'll try and figure out the best way to make it all work, but I'm free of the microphone.
As you can see, there's no mic in front of me.
It's a shotgun, and we have some Different possibilities with the background.
Not that I wasn't, of course, happy with everyone saying, you're killing my phone every single time you do a show because this white background and, dare I say, the white foreground, well, it's a little bit tough for people.
So it's coming along.
We'll build in some stuff.
I'm sort of starting somewhat small.
We're building in some stuff.
And we're going to try and make it just look a little bit less garish, a little bit less This is what we're going to do.
We're going to keep it dark for a little while, and then just when you're used to it, I'm going to turn on every single cathedral light known to man, and it's going to be just crazy.
That's what we're aiming to do.
I hope that you enjoy it, and thank you everyone, of course, who has I donated and supported the show to make all of this possible.
I'm very pleased and I hope that you like it.
I do have some options.
I can actually swap out.
I can change the color behind me, which is kind of cool if people want it like that.
Oh, this is geeky stuff, but I love it.
I can swap it out if you want to get a little citrusy, just a little tangerine-y.
We could do all of that.
And anyway, I'll go back to what I was thinking of and we will sort it out.
So hello, my friends.
And we are going to talk a little bit about International Men's Day.
I'm going to tell you some of my thoughts about it and I really want to get your thoughts What is it like out there to be a man, to date a man, to love a man?
What is it like for you guys these days in the realm of the West when it comes to masculinity?
So Here's what I find very frustrating about being a man in the modern West.
Disasters are approaching.
Disasters are coming. I think we all know it.
We've talked about it in this show a whole bunch of times.
Things are coming that are going to be an extraordinarily deep and dark challenge for humanity.
And I think that men Men are pretty good at figuring out when risks are coming, when there's gonna be a problem, taking proactive steps to try and solve these problems.
That is something that men are pretty good at.
And the one thing that's really frustrating is because of all of this government programs and welfare state and forcing to pay for migrants and forcing to pay for welfare and forcing to pay for mass migration from all corners of the planet.
It means that we can't do anything really to slow down.
It sometimes even seems to slow down or to stop any of the disasters that are approaching.
And as a man, And I'm sure you feel the same way if you're a man as well.
We're pretty good at knowing when disasters are coming.
And what we want to do is leap into action to deal with these issues.
And I just feel bound up like Frodo in a Shelob Webb.
I just feel bound up and constricted and tight like I just can't take the action that's necessary in order to avert coming disastrous.
And that is really tough.
That is really tough. There's that old biblical saying that he who increaseth in knowledge also increaseth in sorrow.
And I'm not sure that's ever felt more true in the world as a whole than it feels at the moment.
It really feels at the moment like disasters are coming.
I'd love to leap into action to try and solve them.
But I can't. Because the one great weapon for preventing coercive disasters in the world has been taken from us.
And that is the power of ostracism.
The power of withholding resources from people with whom we disagree.
That has been taken away from us.
If you don't like single moms, too bad.
The government is gonna rip into your wallet with all the power and force of the state, and it's gonna take that money from you and redistribute it to single moms, whether you like it or not.
And that's life in the West as a man.
Do you not like mass immigration from the third world?
Sorry! Doesn't matter!
You gotta step up, man up, I dare say, and pay your taxes anyway.
So that we can buy votes using people imported from all four corners of the world who are statistically going to vote socialists, going to vote large government, going to vote for the left, the Labour, the Democrats, you name it.
They say, oh, it's racist to be concerned about immigration from the third world.
It's like, no, it's not, because statistically, they're going to overwhelmingly vote for the left.
So, of course, they act as a block differently since, say, your average white male.
So calling it racist is ridiculous.
Racist is when you have a negative judgment about a group which isn't backed up by any kind of data.
And if you want small government, well, guess what?
Third world immigration, third world migration is not your friend.
So of course it's funny that the left screams racist at everyone who can read statistics about voting patterns and demographics, but of course it's exactly those demographics and the voting patterns that the left is completely relying on in order to maintain and expand power.
So, it is a little frustrating.
It is a little frustrating.
Do you want to get divorced?
Well, sorry.
Can't really do it. Or you can do it in terms of not living with someone.
You can do it in terms of not having sex with someone.
You can do it in terms of not having the care and comforts of somebody running your household.
But you can't do it with regards to just hanging on to your money.
See? You can fire your wife.
You just can't ever stop paying for her in many places.
What is it, in California, after 10 years, you have to pay until the end of time, pretty much.
You have to pay for as long as she's drawing breath.
I don't get any ideas.
So this is all very tough.
The choices are whittled down to the point where, yeah, free speech, you know, it's worth fighting for.
Don't get me wrong. It's really, really important to be able to make these arguments.
But it feels like free speech without free action?
It's like trying to eat a recipe book and thinking you've had a meal.
Because free speech is supposed to give us the capacity to change our minds about things, to change fundamentally our resource allocation about things.
And because the government takes and takes and takes, largely from men, largely from white men, and gives to women, gives to minorities and so on, well, it's nice to have free speech in theory, but if you can't use it to hang on to any of your money, It really doesn't feel much like free speech at all.
So I just wanted to point that out and to mention that there is this frustration.
And I was just thinking, I don't know if you've ever had this thought.
I was just thinking about, wouldn't it be nice?
Wouldn't it be great?
Think of how much time You would be able to save in your life if you didn't have to constantly worry and fret and fume and try and talk about and try and convince people about the next disastrous thing the government was doing.
Hey, let's let out a bunch of violent criminals!
Sounds great! Hey, why don't we sign this UN migration compact so that we can open up the sluices and floodgates to mass third world largely Muslim immigration to first world countries.
Wouldn't that be great? Oh, and also if you criticize it Well, that's hate speech and you may be going to jail.
Like, if you didn't constantly have these random electrical shocks of terrible government programs that you had to keep being aware of, at least for me, and fighting and pushing back and researching, wouldn't it be wild if you didn't have to wake up each morning, put on your crash helmet, scroll through Twitter and say, hey, I wonder what terrible things have now happened overnight that I need to be aware of that I can do Almost nothing about men.
We think and we speak in order to act, and when the action and the choices are stripped from us, well, the thinking and the speaking, well, it's nice in theory, and I suppose it keeps us occupied, but it really feels like you're trying to drive a car with the wheels three feet off any kind of grip, off any kind of tarmac, and that That gets a little frustrating from time to time.
So I wanted to mention that. And I do want to ask you guys what your thoughts are, but let me just spend a minute or two.
So, many years ago, I wanted to do a documentary, and then I got sick, I got cancer, and it all fell by the wayside, and my animator flaked out, and I was just, it was a mess.
Anyway, my fault, my responsibility, of course I was the one in charge, but lo these many moons later, It was about a year ago on a show.
I was talking with a guest, and we were talking about Poland's 100-year anniversary.
So I grabbed a film crew and went out and had a wonderful guy set up a whole bunch of interviews, and we met with academics and politicians and activists.
I got a tour of the parliament and...
It was a wild time and a huge amount of work.
I'll tell you this, I am not going to a place where there's a six-hour time difference in starting work immediately the next morning because StephBot needs a little bit of time to transition.
It's not particularly enjoyable to just be shot out of a sleepy cannon and try and hit the ground running full tilt boogie right away, but we were there for seven days and I mean, we spoke with a whole bunch of people, joined in the march,
and did great walking talks, talked about Polish history and where it is currently in relation to the EU, why it has this perspective against collectivism, particularly supranational agencies like the EU, which is reminiscent, of course, of the USSR. It's the EU-SSR these days.
Why it has the history it has with concerns for Islam and so on.
It was great. It was really a wonderful time, a powerful time, a very tiring time.
I mean, I've got a fair amount of go-go juice in the old system, but I was flying back pretty much on fumes as far as personal energy went, but I had some good sleep and recovered.
Now we're putting together all of the footage, and it's going to be a really good documentary.
And, of course, speaking of documentaries, you may have noticed...
I'm wearing the Hoaxed shirt.
Hoaxed is aiming to be out early next month.
That's December 2018.
And there's going to be December 6th in Washington, D.C., I believe.
Check it out at hoaxedmovie.com.
It's a great movie, and I hope that you will...
Check it out, and it's going to be available online, and please, please, you know, buy it if you can, like it if you can, share it, and tell people about it.
It's not a left-right film, it's not a MAGA film, and it's certainly not a yay Mike Cernovich film, but it is a very powerful film, and I show up a few times here and there, mostly in the in-between cuts, pretty much the same as what Tyler Durden sliced in in Fight Club.
You'll see it! And, of course, it has to be IMAX for obvious reasons.
I just really wanted to take this new studio setup for a test run, and it seems to be doing alright.
Comments are that it's a little murky.
It's a little dark, which we will work on.
But if you do want to fire me some questions, I would appreciate that.
The best way to do it is throw it up in the Super Chat.
And it really feels like it should be a superhero.
So Joshua says, I'm not racist, but I do not want to import people with values that if widely adopted will destroy the culture that created me.
Well, sure. Well, sure.
I did a presentation called The Truth About Free Speech.
I've done a presentation called America's Demographics.
And, yeah, we lose free speech if we keep importing people from the third world, because people from the third world, for a variety of issues to do with religion, to do with culture, to do with cousin marriage, reducing IQ by 10 plus points, to do with IQ as a whole, you're just not going to get to keep it.
You're not going to get.
To keep it. And now, of course, we see America has a couple of Muslim congressmen, congresswomen, congresspeople, I guess, at the moment.
And, of course, they come from, what is it, Minneapolis.
There's a big Somali Muslim population there.
It's not like the Somali Muslim population are not sitting there going, huh, Well, I wonder what everyone's positions are, and I wonder how it ties into the Constitution, and I wonder how it ties into the wonderful Western traditions that are keeping me alive and afloat.
Well, I guess welfare is not really keeping people alive and afloat according to Western traditions.
But they're not evaluating people according to the policies.
What they are doing is saying, oh, there's a Muslim who looks like me.
Checkbox, checkbox, checkbox.
You know, and the blacks did it with Obama and so on.
So you are going to—Ocasio-Alexandria, Ocasio-Cortez, right?
I mean, so people are saying, oh, it's Hispanic or whatever, and it's like me.
And so people are just voting along racial lines, ethnic lines, religious lines, and so on.
It's no evaluation of policies.
There's just a— Wet finger squint at skin tone and ethnicity and religion.
I mean, it's just tribalism.
That's exactly what you would predict.
And what has been predicted very, very many times in the West, which is you start bringing in different ethnicities.
And if you don't have a strong enough culture to unite them all together under universal values, and given that, I mean, I've been working hard, and please, please check out my book, Essential Philosophy.
Which you can find at freedomainradio.com.
Essential philosophy. You can watch it here on YouTube.
On SoundCloud, there are links to listen to it in WAV, or you can download it if you want in MP3. I've enabled the download option, so you can listen to it on MP3. It's in two parts.
I was wrestling with it for days before I realized SoundCloud has a limit of 6 hours and 40 minutes, which is shorter than my audiobook.
So... If you don't have universal virtues to tie a population together, then they are going to just fragment along tribal, ethnic, religious, and racial lines.
It's just the way it's going to be.
My team good, your team bad, my team skin color, ethnicity, background, religion, you name it.
That's just how it is.
And if you have, as America did have in the past, A rough separation of church and state Christian foundation.
Well, then, if you get Christians from the West coming into the country, yeah, okay, they'll adapt, you know.
It's like a strong current.
All the salmon end up swimming the same way.
Not all at the same time, not all in exactly the same direction, but in general, they end up swimming the same way.
And in the culture of semi-deist Christianity, Christianity that founded the United States, you bring Christians in and they can be Christians or they can be agnostics and so on and it can kind of work out.
They can be deist, right? Deist is the idea that God wound up the universe and then kind of buggered off, right?
Got things started but doesn't intervene anymore and has just retreated to watch the play unfold, so to speak.
And... Because there aren't universal values that are held by Americans as a whole anymore, then there's no strong current for people to get in line with.
And it's really hard to sell first world values to third world cultures these days.
Because... The third world cultures look at first world countries and say, well, there's a lot of debt, there's a lot of decadence, there's a lot of hedonism, there's a lot of sexually transmitted diseases, they don't really get married, or if they do, they get divorced a lot, the men are miserable as a whole, and the educational system is terrible, and they just print money rather than confront difficult issues, and they just don't have enough babies, so they can't sustain themselves as a culture.
So, who is supposed to say, gosh, I want me some of that?
Now, people will come for the money, but they're not coming for the values, because the values that we currently manifest post-Boomer are not particularly valuable.
I surprised someone the other day when I was saying how there are certain things that I admire about Islam.
It's very true. Islam and Sikhism and other religions, which is the parents of those religions.
Religions really do work to inculcate values into the minds, hearts, and souls of their children.
They expend the energy, they maintain themselves as moral authorities, they work really hard to instill what is to them objective values into the hearts, minds, and souls of their children.
Whereas basically since the 60s, the youth in the West have just been ridiculously adrift, wildly adrift, Invent everything for yourself and they exist in a state of chronic anxiety and irritation because they just have to kind of reinvent everything from scratch.
Oh, that's why there was monogamy.
Oh, that's why you didn't sleep around.
Oh, that's why you didn't just live for money.
Oh, that's why you didn't just live for fame.
Like everything was abandoned by the boomers as a whole and post-boomers we've all just been trying to Evolve from nothing back to civilization rapidly.
And that's not much for people to envy.
All right. You've got questions, particularly on the old International Man's Day.
I'm happy to hear them. Here we go.
Nikolai says, I believe that Western civilization is going to fail, just like other civilizations that came before them.
However, we have the technology to save some of it.
What should we save? Well, certainly this new studio setup is number one.
There's an old quote from Gandhi that I didn't really understand as much at the time.
I'm beginning to appreciate it a little bit more as I get older.
And the quote goes like this.
Somebody said to Gandhi, what do you think of Western civilization?
And Gandhi said, I think it would be a good idea.
That's quite fascinating.
What do you think of Western civilization?
I think it would be a good idea.
Civilizations don't fail.
Civilizations don't fall.
Because as long as you have a civilization, you won't fall.
Civilizations fall when you are no longer civilized.
Civilizations fall when you substitute propaganda, brainwashing, and coercive state redistribution for free thought, free speech, free action, and free markets.
You can't destroy a civilization.
As long as it's still civilized, it's invulnerable.
But this unholy bargain that, not to pick too much on the boomers, but I picked a lot on the boomers, this unholy bargain that Western populations were offered, you can be free of insecurity.
You can be free of risk.
You can be free of disaster.
And all you have to do is vote for whoever is going to offer you the most money.
I think it was Franklin, or Jefferson, I think, who said the Republic will last until the point where the people realize they can vote wealth out of the Treasury for themselves.
It's very tempting for us as wayward, haphazard, At risk and in constant mammals, it's very tempting for us to attempt to create a portal to heaven that leads only to hell.
The portal to heaven is, oh, honey, did you get knocked up at the wrong guy?
Did you forget to take birth control?
Did you try and snag a guy with vagina clamps and he just broke free, leaving some seed behind?
Well, that's tough.
Boy, that's tough.
Boy, your parents must be really mad, really upset about all of that.
Well, not to worry, honey. No biggie.
We'll just crank up the printing presses, borrow a whole bunch of money, and give you the money to raise your kids.
It's easy. You know, because she's sad.
You know, she's crying, she's upset, the parents are mad, and, you know, everybody votes and feels sympathy and all that.
So, that's the great temptation.
Oh, man, did you...
End up going out partying a lot.
Oh, that was fun, wasn't it?
Oh, man. So it was up all night, disco ringing tinnitus in the ear, wolfing down street meat at 4 o'clock in the morning, trying to figure out if it's worth going home for a quick shit shower and shave and start up at the morning.
Or do you just go to an all-night diner, grab a couple of cups of coffee, and move your way through to the next day?
You keep doing that, you keep doing that, you keep...
Oh, did you get fired? Oh, man.
That's rough, man. I mean, you know, if you hadn't been out partying and drinking all night, maybe you wouldn't have got fired.
But you got fired. I get it.
You know, hey, man, it happens.
So, well, just fire up the printing presses, print a whole bunch of bonds, borrow a whole bunch of money, and next thing you know, we'll get you some good old unemployment insurance, and, uh, yeah, you'll be fine.
Oh, no. That didn't happen, did it?
Did you...
Sugar bomb, eat yourself into diabetes?
Oh, man! Woo!
That's tough. Well, not to worry.
We'll just have socialized health care take care of you for the next 40 years at a cost of millions and millions and millions of dollars.
So you can't let people die in the street and in the gutter.
This idea of letting, you can't let the poor suffer.
You can't let the sick be sick.
You just, you can't let it happen.
As if you have control over everyone, and you're just not exercising the right control in the right way.
It's a very, very bizarre mindset.
So this bargain, this culture, exists because of decadence, you understand?
Decadence is the shadow.
Culture is the statue.
Or you could say, actually since I say that the cause effect is another way, Decadence is the canyon.
Culture is the bridge. We have a civilization because we're animals, and we need to fight that, and we need to rise above that, and we need to have appetites beyond the mere physical.
We need to have elevated Appetites, elevated vision, which is deferral of gratification and all of that.
We need to have these things so much.
That is civilization, fundamentally.
We have muscles because we fight resistance.
We have bones because we fight gravity.
We have a spine because the world is constantly trying to accordion pull us down to the center of the planet.
We have thoughts because we have doubt and we have error and we need to be correct.
We have engineering because we can't squint our way into building a cathedral.
We have all of the great things in life because of all of the dangerous and dark things in life.
And so when you take away risk, you take away morality.
When you take away consequences, you take away what is elevated and human, distinctly human within us, which is the chance to see over the horizon conceptually into the many dominoed consequences of our actions.
You take away disaster.
And you take away community.
Why do we need community?
Why did people used to gather together And help each other build a barn?
Why did everyone in Europe help each other gather the crops in the late harvest time?
You needed community because without community you simply couldn't survive.
And when government just keeps pumping money and pumping money and pumping money and pumping money into the community, it washes away the community.
It washes away the need for values.
It washes away the need for philosophy.
Why has philosophy indulged itself?
You understand you saw a rise in the welfare state at the same time as you saw a spread in postmodernism, cultural Marxism.
The two go hand in hand. You can indulge yourself in esoteric claptrap like postmodernism.
If you're getting money from the government, if you're getting tenure from the government, if your job is guaranteed by the government, you can afford that stuff.
I remember once, I think it was my therapist years ago, who said that if you have an addictive personality, being in possession of great talent, great looks, or great money is the greatest disaster that you can have.
Because then you get attention, you get Options, you get choices, and you really face very, very few consequences in the short run for negative behavior.
Like if you're a drunk, you're an alcoholic, if you've got to get up and go to work, that's going to put some limit on how much you can drink and what you can muster, and it's going to give you that sense of, well, if I do get fired, no welfare, that's really bad.
If you win the lottery and you're an alcoholic, Reality puffs and vanishes, right?
It's brutal. It's brutal.
When you take away consequences, you take away civilization.
And trying to resurrect philosophy in the presence of the endless, our selected fantasy of infinite resources called the modern socialist state is really, really hard.
People don't even want to confront each other anymore.
Four words to ruin Thanksgiving dinner.
Orange man, not bad.
Who did you vote for? I mean, we become snowflakes, of course.
Because there's no point in having tough conversations with people.
Because the resources are infinite.
All right. Thank you very much.
It's a great question. And...
I appreciate that.
Somebody sent me a super chat in a currency that looks really impressive.
And I've been fooled with that once before.
It's not quite that way.
But nonetheless, I hugely appreciate the support.
All right, let us continue.
William Merrick said, just wanted to say thank you.
We debated free will a while back and you called out childhood trauma.
I can report that since then.
I've dealt with it quite dramatically in a talk therapy session and become a Christian.
Thank you. Well, William, I really appreciate that.
It's very, very kind. And yeah, it is quite common.
And I've done it too. I've done it too.
You hide behind abstractions in order to avoid the scar tissue of early trauma.
And you think you're making choices.
I remember, I don't think it was this guy.
No, no, this is probably seven or eight years ago.
We had a very vivid conversation.
I don't remember the podcast.
You can find it at fdrpodcast.com under free will.
I had a very vivid conversation with a man who was a determinist, and it turned out that his parents let him make almost no choices as a child, and they in fact locked him in his room for good portions of his childhood.
So since he wasn't able to exercise free will as a child, he rejected the theory of free will as an adult.
Plus, of course, if you've been brutalized by your parents, or your priest or your teachers or whoever, if you've been brutalized by an adult authority figure, it's a whole lot easier to Say, well, they didn't have a choice.
I didn't have a choice.
It's just rocks rolling down a hill, crashing into each other.
That way you don't have to deal with the pain of being acted upon in an evil manner.
Being the victim of evil doers.
That makes you pain, in pain.
That gives you pain and it gives you anger.
And the anger is what frees you from repetition of that evil doing.
So I'm very glad that my conversation helped.
I really appreciate your kind words.
Bruno says, Merci Monsieur Molyneux.
Your intellectual and empirical analysis has been educational and enlightening, especially when it comes to peaceful parenting.
Thank you. Ah yes, my daughter has instructed me in no uncertain terms.
To remind you, well, to inform you, I think is a better way of putting it, to inform you that we are going to do another show together.
And the first one, an introduction to Peaceful Parenting, I didn't brand it with her because I kind of wanted to see how it went and how it was received.
So you can check that out on YouTube.
It's, I think, two weeks back or so, maybe three.
But we are... So, yeah, send your questions in.
You know, the email's on the website, or you can put it in the comments below this show or other places.
I'm sure you know how to get a hold of me.
But, yeah, send in your questions.
You really, really did enjoy the show.
And it's so funny.
A tweet. I've been really, you know, working the Twitter account recently, like a giant attempting to create a volcano with a set of bellows.
But I... I put out a tweet with one of my daughter's pictures, and I said, my daughter is not very much into princesses, and it was a picture she drew a couple months ago when she was, I guess, nine and a half, yeah, nine and a half or so, and it was of a big fierce dragon, and that was seen by close to a quarter million people, and she got incredibly good feedback, not even counting what was going on on Facebook.
But I'm like, man, I'm in the wrong business.
Enough of this philosophy stuff.
I'm just going to draw dragons because that was a good picture and all that.
But it was really very nice to see how people responded to that.
So, yeah, we're going to do a show.
So get your questions in.
One of the big questions we're going to deal with is the great Skittle controversy from my earlier podcast.
And you'll, well, if you were around back then, you'll know what I'm talking about.
If not, you'll know about it when we talk about it more.
So, yeah, I appreciate that.
The peaceful parenting is very important.
It's something, of course, that you can do in your personal life.
You can't alter the Federal Reserve policy.
You can't directly influence the UN or anything like that.
But, but, but, what you can do is you can not initiate force against people in your own life.
You say, oh, I don't go around punching people.
It's like, yeah, but... But if you are withholding food from your child, or sending your child to bed, or hitting your child, or screaming at your child, or yelling at your child, calling your child names, you know, calling people names is not illegal, but it's pretty nasty for a developing brain.
And the violence.
Spanking violates the non-aggression principle.
Spanking is hitting a child, not in self-defense, like the child is running at you with a chainsaw or something like that.
So, yeah. Spanking is a violation of the non-aggression principle, and you don't have to do it, and you shouldn't do it.
It's so much fun to have parenting where you don't have the back of my hand, as a friend of mine's mom used to say.
All right, the Texan.
Thank you for your super chat.
He said, thanks for your hard work.
I wrote a book on philosophy called Modalities of Conversation.
Can I send you a copy?
And here I'm afraid I must break your heart.
I would rather you didn't.
And I'm sorry to say that.
I really am sorry to say that.
I wish I had time for all of the projects and the thoughts and the ideas that people...
Have. I'm sure it would be a great book to read.
I'm sure it would be very interesting.
I am very busy.
I'm very busy. And the idea that I'm going to have time to sit down, not just sit down, but make notes and give feedback and then, you know, maybe perhaps read the next one if it's going, if it's sort of a work in progress.
That's a big job.
That's a big job.
And I'm You know, with parenting and the documentary and doing regular shows and upgrading the studio and so on, it's just a kind of crazy busy time.
It usually is, of course. It's kind of a crazy busy time.
And so I, um...
Now, of course, the fact that you've written a book on philosophy is wonderful, and I think it would be great for you to get that work out there.
And, you know, the best way to do that is, I mean, I hate to say just do what I did or whatever, but just, you know, start a channel or find some, write a blog, find some way to get it out.
And, um... I don't know if you can still do this.
I don't know what the policies are these days.
But, um... Back in the day, this is probably 11 or 12 years ago now, back when I was starting out, what I used to do was, you know, I'd record a show and then I would spend hours and hours just posting it to message boards and sending it to people, like just a podcast or whatever.
Just so that people could get a hold of it or be aware.
Or, you know, what I did also was I wrote for a couple of more popular libertarian blogs that I've had articles pulled from since, which I can sort of understand in a way.
But, you know, just find somebody who's got a larger audience.
And particularly if it's a fairly popular site that will publish outside authors, just put your best foot forward.
That's where my very first article was published.
Oh, I guess it doesn't matter if I say lourockwell.com.
And I think the links are still there, but I don't think the searches work for me anymore.
But The Stateless Society and Examination of Alternatives was my first big brainwave about how a truly free society would work.
And that eventually grew into the books Everyday Anarchy and Practical Anarchy and the whole approach to this.
So there's lots of ways that you can get your book out there.
Very sorry that I would not be able to do it justice or have time, but I don't want you to send something in, wait for my feedback if it's not going to be particularly imminent.
So I'm sorry about that.
Thank you very much for the support.
There's lots of ways you can get the book out these days, and I hope that you will give that a try.
We certainly could use a whole lot more philosophy in the world.
Cucklord says, How would you recommend someone exiled by family?
On ODSP in Canada and feel trapped in my apartment where you barely ever leave.
I'm alone, but I know I'm not.
I want to go to America. 24 old.
Am I missing something here?
It just feels like that got cut off.
Hold on a sec here. Oh, 24 years old.
Uh... ODSP. I assume that's disability of some kind.
I'm sorry, I don't know the, um...
The acronym, but, um...
Exiled by my family.
I'm sorry about that.
Gosh. You know, it's funny.
I... I go back and forth on this.
And I think reasonably so.
Let me know what you think.
But... Life should have a decent amount of momentum.
In other words, not everything should be willed.
Because will is a turbo resource that dries up pretty quickly.
Like you've ever played those games, like those racing games.
Nitro! Like you hit the nitro, right, you go leaping forward.
Willpower is kind of like that, but it doesn't last.
So, willpower is good for dislodging you from inertia, but it's not good as a sustainable method of, like, I don't have to will myself to do philosophy.
I'm not like, oh, I gotta get up and, like, I'm, yay, get to a chat on International Men's Day with the greatest audience in the world.
I mean that absolutely for sure.
So, I mean, there's a couple of times where I have to will things, but not much, you know, like, When we did an overnight flight to Poland and I was really tired to get up and talk about academics and economics and so on, which are topics that I love, but I had to really like, oh, I gotta get myself up and going for that kind of stuff.
But for the most part, like I would say, like 95% of what I do is very pleasurable and very enjoyable.
I'm sorry, I'm being redundant.
Let me just try and trim that down.
Because if I have a life where I have to will everything, that's really exhausting.
That having been said, if you're really stuck, it might be time to hit the jump boots.
It might be time to hit the turbo.
It might be time to engage the nitro.
And what I mean by that is, can you...
Open the door, walk to the sidewalk and go back.
Can you open the door, walk down to the end of the street and come back?
Can you go and buy a coffee and come back?
Can you just break out of that particular pattern?
Because you know what happens in life if you let the fears and the restrictions collapse in on you, you get smaller and your life gets smaller and tighter and it becomes even harder to move.
Face fears, overcome fears is very, very important.
Very important. I was shy as a child, and I had to work hard to be in a situation where I can be this effusive and public about what's going on in my heart and my mind.
And other things, like I used to have a big fear of heights, and then when I was a teenager, I went skydiving and pretty much burned out my system entirely.
So there are times where you just do need to grit your teeth, and you need to get out there and make something happen.
And you've got to start small, because if you start big, you're just setting yourself up for failure, you know?
But, you know, like if, let's say, you're not comfortable speaking in front of people, well, you can join Toastmasters.
You can just practice speaking.
You can give speeches to your family.
Whatever it is, like you can find ways...
To make that happen.
And I always did have a bit of a performer ability or performer desire.
I wrote this in my novel, The God of Atheists, but it was a moment or a story taken from my actual life when I was about eight years.
I was reading the book Emil and the Detectives.
I basically was like, we had these folding desks in school, and I would put the book I wanted to read, and I was reading the book.
It's a really, Eric Kastner, I think it is, a great book.
I read it to my daughter, with my daughter.
And it's got a wonderful dream sequence that makes no sense, but it's literarily quite delightful.
But I was reading this book, and the teacher got mad at me.
And this was not the first time or the last time where the teacher would get mad at me, rather than saying, hey, I wonder if I'm just boring, the teacher would say, right?
You know? It's like if you've ever been to see a really bad comedian, and the bad comedian gets angry at the audience for not enjoying the jokes.
That's terrible. That's terrible.
And I was reading Emil and the Detectives, the teacher got mad at me, and it was one of these petty, stupid teachers, in other words, just about every teacher I ever had, And the teacher said, oh, Mr.
Molyneux, apparently you don't need my lessons.
Apparently you're so well informed about what I'm talking about that you can just get up and teach the class yourself now, can't you?
Not massively fun, but, you know, I'm like, okay.
You know, like when I'm staring down the Australian and New Zealand media, I'm like, okay, well, if you want to rumble, let's rumble.
And So he demanded I get up and, no it was she, sorry, she demanded I get up and teach the lesson.
So I got up, it was Friday the 10th, let's just say it was Friday the 10th, I don't remember the actual date.
It was Friday the 10th, I got up to the front of the class and I wrote November the 11th, rather than November the 10th, or September the 11th, rather than September the 10th.
And the class started giggling and I turned around and said, what's so funny?
And they said, you got the date wrong.
And I said, no, I didn't. It's the 11th.
You know what that means? It's Saturday.
Class dismissed. I don't know where it comes from, but it comes and it served me well in my life.
So I think you might just have to will yourself to do, you know, one foot in front of the other, one step at a time.
And if you don't have a lot of mobility, then you can do mental mobility.
You can take your place at the culture wars, which can happen through typing and recording.
So I think it's important to just will something.
An object that is...
It's another saying that I got.
All these little things I've sort of stitched together into pastiche of useful things.
I hope they're useful. I was told when I started my business career, if you ever want something done, give it to the busy man.
They said man. If you ever want something done, give it to the busy man.
Isn't that fascinating? It's really true.
It's really true. And an object that is that rest tends to stay at rest and an object that is in motion tends to stay in motion but to take an object from being at rest to being in motion takes a lot of energy and effort so I think you you might just have to get out and the first little bit's gonna be real doozy and then it just gets easier and easier as you go forward and once you get real momentum you will realize that motion has saved your life we are like sharks we are designed to swim or to sink we don't have a bladder All right.
I hope that helps.
I don't think the solution is in America.
It might be. But the solution is probably more to do with just getting you into motion.
All right. Blake says, what do you think about open convos with other creators to address social governmental problems of the day with market ideas for alternative and personal change?
I think this would be a great change of pace for you and the show.
I mean, what do you mean change of pace?
I've done tons of interviews and debates and conversations with other people who are alternative media people, so you might want to go back and check some of those things.
I have pulled back, as you know, I mean, as you probably know, I have pulled back on the call-in shows.
I do have some really good ones to release, just sort of individual convos.
I'm still doing the individual convos.
And I've pulled back on expert interviews for a couple of reasons.
One is that I've interviewed just about everyone I want to interview.
I'm sure new people would come along, but I was sitting there with a blank piece of paper the other day, like, who's my wish list of who to interview?
And I'm like, I don't know.
I mean, some people I'd like to chat with again, maybe, but I wasn't...
I wasn't really like, oh, I've got to get this guy, or I've got to get this woman, or whatever.
So I've talked to just about everyone I want to talk to, and it's a huge amount of work.
It's like two or three days straight just to get good questions for one interview.
Like, I've got to read one or two books, a whole bunch of articles, and look at their previous interviews to make sure I don't cover old ground.
It's a big, big chunk.
And... I mean, this may sound kind of silly, but what happened for me was...
I want to do more creating and less questioning.
So, you know, when I do an interview, it's fun and it's interesting for me, but it's 90% me just going, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, and interesting, asking another question and so on.
And I've done that for like 10 years or 11 years, and it's been great.
We've got hundreds and hundreds of interviews.
But then, and I really saw this at the end of Hoaxed, I won't tell you about it, but at the end of the movie Hoaxed, where I'm in, I really saw, wow, I can do a lot more with this camera stuff.
It's another one of the reasons why we jetted off to Poland to shoot this documentary, because I have not been leveraging my social skills or my in-person, on-camera skills, rather than sort of in the studio, and I'd like to do more of that, so.
I had, yeah, like I had an invite, I think it was from Destiny, To do debates and stuff like that, and...
Well, it's funny, you know, Ann Coulter, it's not related to Death of the Earth, and when I was at Politicon with Mike Serinovich to help promote Hoaxed and to chat with people and be interviewed a couple times, Ann Coulter was up there with Ben Stein, Ben Stein, and...
People were nagging. Why don't you take this debate from person X, Y, and Z? And she's like, I don't know who this person is.
I'm not just going to debate with anyone.
You know, I mean, does he have a New York Times bestseller?
He doesn't have to have like a dozen like me, but does he have at least one?
Because, you know, I'm just debating anyone.
So, all right.
I hope that helps. Buzz Hall said, Men's Day.
We need more. Well, here's the challenge, right?
I did tweet about this, so I'll keep it real brief.
Men, in particular white men, we're kind of hated because we are the elemental foundational tax cattle that keeps this whole crappy system running. we're kind of hated because we are the elemental foundational And when you exploit people, you have to dehumanize them.
Like, if you have slaves, you can't look at them as fully human.
And you have to set up this situation with the slaves where the slaves are inert because they're slaves and being brutalized and dominated.
So they don't really want to work.
And they want to laze around if they can or they'll work slowly just to be passive-aggressively annoying and it's perfectly understandable.
But then what happens when you get into this cycle where you say, ah, these slaves, they're so lazy.
They're shiftless.
They don't work hard. They're not focused.
They're not interested in being productive.
No wonder they're slaves. It's like, no, no, they're doing that because they're slaves.
Ah, these Soviet-era employees in the factory, they're just not motivated to do good work.
They're shoddy, they're lazy, they're slipshod, inattentive, always trying to sneak off, smoking a vodka.
Well, sure they are, because they're kind of slaves, right?
I mean, because they're slaves to the communist system.
I mean, it literally is, and this is an extreme example, it's like getting mad at people in a concentration camp for just not being full of pep and positivity and not being innovative and not giving you good ideas.
So, white males in particular, in the West, we are the taxpayers.
We are the taxpayers.
We pay a significant majority of the taxes.
I think you could look at this Australian study where they figured out men and women, how much they pay into the system and how much they take out.
And women take out vastly more than they put in.
And men take out vastly less than they put in.
So men, in particular white men in the West, just demographically true for now, we work a hell of a lot and we pay taxes a hell of a lot.
And other people come in and take those taxes from us and use it to their own purposes.
So of course we're hated.
Because you can't exploit people unless you dehumanize them.
It's like the blacks in South Africa, for the most part, white people didn't steal their land.
But you see, they want to take land from the white people.
They want to take land from the white farmers, the white farmers who built those lands and have been around in South Africa longer than whites have been in America.
They want to take the white people's land.
But if you empathize with someone and you view them as another human being like yourself, it's really tough to just go in and take their land, using the power of the state or whatever.
So what you have to do is you have to call them racists, and you have to call them Nazis, and you have to call them white supremacists, or white nationalists, or you just, oh, they stole our land, we're just taking it back, or they beat us all up during apartheid, and they just threw us in prison, and blah, blah, blah, blah, although the population of blacks grew up 800%.
Under apartheid, that's not exactly a genocide, my friends, and the whites in South Africa introduced modern medicine and sanitation and books and reading and the wheel and anyway.
But if you want to take something from someone, you have to dehumanize them first.
Of course, right? And so the reason why there's all of this white male cisgendered scum stuff is because people steal from us using the power of the state.
And you have to dehumanize someone you want to exploit.
You can't exploit them unless you've dehumanized them.
That's the way it works, psychologically and emotionally.
So, that's a challenge.
It's a challenge.
It's a challenge. And white males in the West have the nervous, quaking, jumpiness and obsequiousness of...
People who are in abusive relationships.
We are in an abusive relationship with our culture and with our governments and with everyone around.
It's rough, and the odds of it ending even remotely well are very, very, very low, sadly.
Booker, thank you very much for your super chat.
I appreciate that. You don't have a question.
Scott McLean, any interest in trying to get Maxime Bernier on at some point to give the guy another large platform to reach Canadians from?
Yeah, I mean, I'm interested.
I think he's an interesting guy, and I appreciate the work that he's doing here in Canada.
I'm not going to talk about why I'm postponing that, but there is good reason which will come out over time and will hopefully make a good deal of sense.
Let's see here.
Thank you.
Oh yeah, if you have more questions, feel free to throw them into the chat.
This really was just a kind of test run, and I did want to touch base with you guys.
I haven't really chatted with you in a while.
I'm sorry about that. Again, all of this studio revamping and travel and documentary stuff, I haven't forgotten about yet.
I love you guys to death, but I did have a couple other things, and I really, really think this documentary is going to be very good.
It's not just about Poland.
It's about the West. It's about history.
It's about the war. I mean, it's amazing stuff, I think.
And I'm certainly looking forward to gritting my teeth.
You know, I don't mind seeing myself on camera, I don't mind listening to myself, but this is a big risk for me to try something like this, so I'm gonna grit my teeth and take a shot or two.
No, I won't really do that, but I'll grit my teeth when it comes time to looking at the footage and figuring things out.
We did get some lovely shots with a...
We did get a drone, because there's some beautiful sights up there in Poland, and it's a beautiful place.
Let's see here. Joseph Clarke says, Stephen, do you think the reintroduction of Aristotelian ethics is necessary for men to reclaim the collective moral character?
So Eudomania, the...
Eudomania? No, Eudomania.
The idea that the pursuit of excellence in moral activities is the highest goal that you're going to get in terms of happiness.
Oh, you're just making me pull out my heart through my armpit.
But... It's not enough.
It's not enough. Any more than objectivism was enough, or any more than utilitarianism is enough, or any of these moral philosophies have not been enough.
And I have really striven to close that gap with universally preferable behavior, a rational proof of secular ethics.
Again, available free at freedomainradio.com.
Or you can, of course, get Essential Philosophy on Amazon as well.
And I've got a short, I think, elegant and concise explanation of a truly universal approach to rational ethics in the book.
And also, I wrote a series of Socratic dialogues, like me arguing with evil, vaguely Richard Dawkins staff, which is probably worth listening to an audiobook, although it's good to read as well in the book.
But I... The past failed.
The past led to where we are now.
We can't go back.
It's like rewinding the movie and hoping to get a different ending this time.
Doesn't happen. Sorry.
The therapist is dead no matter how many times you rewind.
So to me it's like, well, can we go back and just get that stuff that we lost and bring it forward?
It's like, I'm not trying to say determinism.
But the fact is that the past led us to where we are now.
And Aristotelian ethics has had just a little under two and a half thousand years to take root and fix things.
And it hasn't.
It hasn't. Now you can go back and you can hope that you can resurrect it and rewind it and make it work this time.
But I doubt it. I doubt it's going to work very strongly.
You have to try something new.
You know, the old thing, to do the same thing but expect a different outcome is the definition of insanity.
Tried Socrates. Tried Aristotle.
Tried St. Augustine. Tried Nietzsche.
Tried Hegel. Tried Spinoza.
Tried Descartes.
Tried the existentialists.
Tried the pragmatists. The utilitarians.
Tried the deists. Tried the Christians.
Tried, like, tried, tried. We tried it all, and this is where it's led.
Us two. We have to try something new.
We have to try something new.
There is great temptation to go back into the past and say, well, you know, Aristotle's a very respected philosopher.
Let's resurrect his ethics and solve everything.
It's not going to.
It's not going to. Filling yourself with the ballast, the weight, and the wind of essentially what has turned out to be historical errors is not going to lead you to the Promised Land.
It's just not. It's a trap.
It also arises out of an interesting kind of insecurity, at least I think it's interesting, certainly interesting to me, which is if you need to hook yourself into Aristotle, the question is why?
Can you think for yourself?
Can you come up with your own arguments and your own theories and your own ideas?
Are you willing to stand naked before the world and say, this is me and my arguments?
And I got nothing except my arguments and the force of my personality.
That's all I got. That's all I got.
I got no PhD from Harvard.
I got no grand pedigree.
I got no peer-reviewed papers.
I got no great acceptance from the general philosophical doohickey whistleblowers of the modern world.
I got nothing. Nothing.
Three chords and the truth.
I got 26 letters and the truth.
That's all I got. That's all I got.
I'm not on TV all the time.
I'm not being discussed by the very erudite in the world.
In fact, I'm being opposed by them.
So I'm not going to give you any reason to believe me other than my arguments themselves.
You can't reference any pedigree.
You can't reference any letters.
You can only reference what I'm saying.
That is very tough for people, because everybody wants the argument from authority, which they can hide behind, whether it's Aristotle or a PhD or television appearances or a best-selling book or whatever it is.
I'm popular in a dying culture!
I'm accepted by the elites who led us here.
The universities that have gutted Western civilization saw fit to grant me a PhD.
Say some people, not me.
No, we can't.
We can't go back.
Can't go back. It's tempting because there's pedigree in the past.
It just leads back to here.
But we'll be worse off because we've...
Opportunity costs is the essence of life in many ways.
Opportunity costs. All the time we spend pursuing the past, attempting to resurrect the past, attempting to save the future with the errors of the past, is all time we are not spending building something unique and powerful, individuated in the here and now.
So, I hope that helps.
Sorry, since I have this tooth out, I have to wait for it to heal before figuring out what to do with it.
I get this odd little bit of drool on this side.
Or maybe it's just me in this new studio lighting.
All right. Jerma.
Ah, wash my hands. Okay, so Jerma says, any chance of getting Saifedean Amwassan, a great Austrian economist primarily known for Bitcoin, but he knows so much about the history of money.
Where he can ignore Bitcoin and just talk shit on Fiat.
Okay, let me make a note of that.
And after he probably just heard me pronounce his name, he may not want to come back on, but let me just make a note of that.
Thank you for the suggestion.
I have talked, me, with some Austrian economists, and I'm sure I will do it Again!
All right, so let me just make my note here.
Thank you again. Actually, I'll just copy the whole super chat so I don't forget.
And that's, you know, I hate to say, well, that's one I won't need to do a lot of research for, but I know me some Bitcoin and I know me some Austrian economics.
All right, what do we got here?
Oh, Lord, let me not miss anyone.
Conway, did I say thank you for that?
Thank you for that. Booker DeWitt.
I'd like something on a lighter note.
Okay, can you talk about one of your favorite movies, perhaps a movie that you found both influential and entertaining?
My friend Booker. Oh, I was just thinking about doing this.
I'm going to tell you about my very favorite movie.
My very favorite movie is a Merchant Ivory production called Room with a View.
I so vividly remember seeing that in the theater With a couple friends and family members.
I didn't even know when it came out, but 30 years ago, probably a little more.
Julian Sands is in it.
Just a great, great cast and a beautiful movie.
Exquisitely acted, delicately put together with wonderful comedy and surprising twists and turns.
It is a treasure of a movie.
And that life, that English aristocracy life where they get to play tennis in windy, rainy days out in the back lawn and read books and study fossils and learn and lead.
Oh, God. Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished.
To climb into that movie in the Victorian days or the quasi-Victorian days.
I don't know exactly when the movie happened, but...
It's a glorious movie.
It's a beautiful movie. And it's a movie around love and authenticity and honesty and not being manipulative and being vulnerable.
It's a great, great movie.
And... I have an affinity for the Victorian age because it gave rise to the modern world and the IQs in the Victorian age were considered to be about a standard deviation higher than they are now.
We are dumb and down like crazy these days.
And I love that movie.
Let me just, you know, I'm just blanking out on a couple of the cast member names.
I've got them on the tip of my tongue and you'll know them when I say them.
But I'm gonna just have a quick look of them up.
It's, of course, an adaptation of an old E.M. Forster novel, and I've read a couple of E.M. Forster novels, and that one is really good.
That one is really good.
And this way, I can find out...
1985!
I was 19. 1985.
Lucy Honeychurch.
Oh, the name! Oh, that's right!
Maggie Smith is in it, too. I forgot about that.
I mean, what a cast.
Check this out. So we've got Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, who's actually descended from a politician who jousted with Churchill back in the day.
Denholm Elliott, Julian Sands, a gorgeous, gorgeous man.
Simon Callow.
Actually, I read Simon Callow's autobiography, and he said when he was up for that movie, he thought he would get the young, handsome guy's part.
He's like, hey, I can lose some weight.
Patrick Godfrey, Judi Dench.
Daniel Day-Lewis was incredible in that movie as a very sort of uptight and self-conscious and social metaphysician, other-directed kind of personality type.
Rupert Graves, who had like the best hair.
I was just starting to lose my hair, and that's back when I was self-conscious about it.
Rupert Graves had like the best hair on the planet, and still a good-looking guy.
I mean, okay, the movie's a little gay.
Don't get me wrong. Definitely a little gay.
But, yeah, it's a 1908 novel.
I assume it was set back a little bit in time.
Edwardian era of England.
It taught me a lot about just being authentic.
Just being authentic.
I hope that this is what comes across.
I can't really tell, but you can tell me in the chat.
I hope this is what comes across.
When I talk is that I'm genuine.
I want to be honest and frank with the world and talk about my thoughts without artifice, without artificiality, without manipulation.
Just tell you guys straight what it is that I think and feel and why.
Because I think that's the only way we can connect and it's the only way we can have any kind of community or linkage or anything like that.
So Seeing that movie was quite powerful for me, just in terms of be honest, be direct, be straight, and if you can do it at all, try to be as good-looking as Julian Sands in his prime, who was a tasty slab of hunkasaurus man-meat, without a doubt. So, yeah, go check that movie out.
BL Perak says, love the Q&A format.
Very interesting. Thanks, Stefan.
Well, thank you very much for your support.
Conservative kookaburra.
I still love that part of my speech in Australia.
I got people to imitate the kookaburra bird.
Anyway, will predominantly Islamic electorates ever vote for Christian-slash-Atheist candidates over Islamic candidates?
It's a big, big question.
I would not hold my breath in particular.
Islam, as I've talked about, just as Judaism does, has in-group preferences and does not extend its moral Absolutes to the out-group.
So a Muslim is allowed to lie to a non-Muslim if it serves the cause of Islam.
There are of course the Judaic chosen people and if you are not a Jew you are not part of the chosen people and there are words out there, you know them as well as I do, that are considered by some to be dismissive or derogatory.
So there's a very strong in-group preference in the Old Testament religions that don't have Jesus, right?
So Jesus was thou shalt not steal.
Now originally thou shalt not murder was thou shalt not murder Jews and then they sort of lopped that one off I guess as is somewhat common in the Jewish tradition and it was thou shalt not kill and the moral Commandments of Christianity extend to everyone, regardless of whether you're a Christian or not.
But in a lot of the other religions, and again, Islam and Judaism in particular, the in-group preference is overwhelming.
Like I was talking to a guy, this is just a silly anecdote, but I think it illustrates it.
I was talking to a guy who had some sort of conflict with some shop owner across the street, and the shop owner comes in and is yelling and screaming at him and really angry at him and threatening and all that.
And then the guy says, well, you know, I'm I'm a Muslim too, right?
This guy was a Muslim. And, you know, showed him his Koran and his prayer mat and so on.
And the guy changed 180.
Oh, I'm so sorry, my brother.
You know, let's sit down. Let's have a tea.
Let's work it out. And it's like...
You know, it's like...
So the in-group preference stuff is really, really tough.
And if you've lived in a society without that strong in-group preference, morality has spread from Christianity around the world in very powerful ways.
Christianity had a lot to do with the genesis of the free market.
Christianity had a lot to do with the genesis of universal ethics.
And, of course, it was Christians who hounded slavery off the major maps and ports of the world throughout the 19th and 19th.
Well, 19th century in particular, after Wilberforce and so on, they banned it in the British Empire, and then they worked not just to ban it in the British Empire, they worked to ban it all over the world.
Christians, Christians who did that.
So Christianity has this non-in-group preference that allows for the spread of universal ethics.
But it is that non-in-group preference that lends Christian societies to be uniquely weak relative to more assertive societies when you have a welfare state.
And that's a big, big, big problem.
And our inability to let people suffer is going to cause the suffering of everyone.
I mean, I'm just telling you that straight up right now.
Oh, well, you know, if the woman gets pregnant by the wrong guy and she shouldn't suffer, she shouldn't.
It's like, yeah, she should.
She should. Not because I want her to.
It's because the alternative is for everyone to suffer.
The alternative is for everyone to suffer.
If we take away negative consequences from people who make bad decisions, everyone's going to end up making bad decisions, and there will be no resources available for anyone after a while.
The welfare state is the single mother state.
The national debt is the single mother debt, to a large degree, not exclusively, to a large degree.
So it's like, well, we can't have sad women.
Okay, well, we just end up with...
Everyone's miserable because people got dependent on the state.
The state ran out of money. It's a disaster.
So there will be, of course, Muslims who will vote for non-Muslims.
But there is a very strong in-group preference, and I think that that is going to assert itself.
All right. Matt, any advice from men who have no clear path in life, feel dispensable, or have little to offer the world?
Thank you for your work. I admire your hustle.
Do-do-do. You admire my still-the-pot dance moves as well, if you knew them.
So... Well, Matt, you are dispensable, I'm afraid.
I'm dispensable, too, if that makes any consolation to you.
It's more than a feeling, my friend.
You are dispensable.
And... The only thing that you have to offer the world is the tax money you can generate, and in return for that, you will be slandered and smeared and called a patriarchal, sexist, racist, whatever, right?
So, this is the grave danger of where the world is in the West, is that men have been so mistreated by their culture that most of them will do little to lift a finger to save it.
In order for men to want to save their society, like, the soldier doesn't fight because he hates what's in front of them.
The soldier fights because he loves what's behind him.
Right? I mean, if it's your car, maybe you'll resist somebody who tries to carjack you with you in it.
But if it's a rental car, you'll be like, hey man, have the car.
It's fine. Take it.
Want me to give you some gas money too?
Right? You understand.
Nobody changes the oil in a rental car.
Nobody steam cleans the seat in an airplane, right?
You steam clean, I hope.
You steam clean stuff at home, right?
You have to love something to want to treasure and to want to protect it.
It has to be your own private property.
And as socialism has taken over the West, societies have been socialized and men don't want to protect that which has been socialized because it's destructive to men.
You don't want to save a system that's preying on you, do you?
Right? You don't want to fight to defend a system that uses you as a tax slave in order to buy votes from foolish people.
Why would you want to? It would be crazy.
So get angry. Peacefully.
Reasonably. But no, get angry.
Get angry. This system sucks for men.
This system sucks for men.
You've got no respect in the society.
You're always portrayed as an idiot.
The civilization that you have built turns on you and pretends that it just somehow magically appeared out of resentment and entitlement and victimhood.
The rationality That you manifest and espouse is now considered to be white privilege.
Meritocracy is considered to be white privilege.
It's all racism, right?
Objectivity. Racism.
It's mad. It's mad.
I wouldn't lift a finger to save this damn system.
I won't. I won't risk one hair on my chinny chin chin to save this wretched, Testosterone mind exploitation of gonads system which crushes men like old cans in a vice or old cars on a magnet.
Don't care about it. Don't like it.
Have contempt for it.
Despise it. As a vicious, violent, self-important, pompous virtue signaling pile of shit.
I'd hate it If it had any grandeur to it.
But it's so petty and squalid.
You know, late democracy is so petty and so squalid and so dumb.
It's so stupid.
It's so stupid.
Everybody knows the government's running out of money and everyone pretends it can go on forever.
Everybody knows that the debts are absolutely unsustainable and everybody just wants to take on more obligations.
It's so retarded.
Nah, that's an insult to retarded people.
It's not their fault, but nah.
You know, space aliens can come down tomorrow and say, we're changing everything.
I'm like, well, I'm listening.
You know, I go to Poland.
What is it, 99% white?
I don't need any security.
The streets are incredibly clean.
Crime is almost non-existent.
Nobody gets called a racist.
There's no talk of white privilege.
No identity politics.
No endless diversity nagging.
You know, I've spoken against white nationalism, but I'm an empiricist.
I'm an empiricist.
I went to the country.
I saw how it was like.
We could put something out on social media to have a social gathering, and we actually had the social gathering without bomb threats, without violence, without attacks, without things coming through the window.
I've spoken out against white nationalism, but I'm an empiricist.
I'm listening. I'm listening to my experiences.
Can't argue with the facts.
Can't argue with the reality.
I mean, you can, but Alright, a couple more?
Let's see here. Asriel says, would love it if you could do a response video to my rebuttal of the art of the argument.
Check out this on mine.
Willing to donate an additional $100 if you agree.
Thanks. Listen, dude, look, I appreciate that.
It's a very, very kind offer.
But I'm really not for sale.
Do a rebuttal video.
I'll pay you. Because people call me.
They email me and they say, listen, I'll pay for a private card.
I don't...
I'm not for sale.
I'll take donations, but I'm not for sale.
And I will have a look, but I don't think I'll do a response video.
I think if you've got some good criticisms, let's just have a debate.
I mean, let's have a conversation about it.
So I will make a note of it.
But again, I hate to sound this way, but I'm more interested in building new stuff than I am in revisiting old stuff.
That doesn't mean I won't at all, but I'm just telling you where I'm coming from.
And hopefully that will make some kind of sense.
How many views does the video have?
It's important, too. If you want me to come and check something out, I do kind of need to see how many views.
Oh, you're on mine. Okay. Yeah, I will check it out.
I will check it out. All right.
One or two more questions.
All right.
Oh, yeah. Give me some praise for the...
Well, give the... I mean, I did very little of this.
This is mostly done by people who know what the hell they're doing.
What have we got here? Let me...
See, tell me what you think of the setup.
Yeah, I think it's a little dark.
It's a little tough to tell in here in the studio.
It looks pretty nice on the monitor, but it's hard to tell on YouTube because they freak up your stuff quite a bit here.
You a whore, Steph.
Don't lie to me, brah.
No.
Yeah.
I am a whore in some ways, but only for reason and evidence.
Stefan equals give me money.
Oh, yeah, the e-bagging stuff.
You know what? I like to have good equipment with which to spread philosophy to the world.
And it's kind of shockingly expensive, some of this stuff.
I mean, you try bringing a film crew out to Poland and it's some money.
So, yeah, I mean, you can help out.
As you know, freedomainradio.com.
Sorry, that's not very helpful.
Freedomainradio.com forward slash donate.
You can help out. It is a little dark.
Nice color, right? Yeah, we will sort it out.
I mean, there's things that I can fart around with.
I probably won't do it right now because it's probably going to mess everything up.
But yeah, like I can brighten up the lights a little there.
How's that? A little better, right?
Yeah, basically we got stuff to play around with, which I didn't have before.
And before it was kind of garish.
And it was also kind of tough because I was looking into a camera with these lights coming in like a 747 landing on my frontal lobes.
That was kind of rough. All right.
The color is sexy.
It's not the color, my friend.
All right. Why is Ben Shapiro aggressively against big government and welfare, but he supports giving Israel billions of dollars every single year?
I'm pretty sure you know the answer to that as well as I do.
So I think to ask that question is to answer it.
Oh, yeah. So the other thing, too, is that I've got some additional stuff here, too.
I plan on changing up the lighting a little bit for various things as well.
All right. Let's see here.
What do we got? Oh, yeah.
No, I had one I missed. Oh, no!
I'm so sorry I missed one.
That was a...
All right.
Ah, here we go. Durr, you shouldn't ask for money for your work, Steph.
Lose us without jobs. Keep up the good work.
No, here's the thing, man.
And I've said this before, but it really does bear repeating.
Like... The people, like, if you're out there and, you know, you guys are great and even the trolls are fun, right?
If you're out there, like, getting mad at me, like, oh my gosh, you should have seen the comments when I sang a few bars of songs in my Queen Bohemian Rhapsody review.
Whoa! I mean, holy trigger, Batman.
You know, I can't use their songs.
You know, I've got an edgelord show.
I can't be using other people's material.
There's a reason why I don't use people's clips anymore, you know?
Like, it's dicey. I'm on the edge at all the times, right?
So I wanted to mention a couple of things about these songs, and I sang a couple of bars.
And, you know, some people were like, hey, I really liked it.
Some people were like, yeah, you're a decent amateur singer.
I'm like, yeah, I think that's a fair assessment.
People were like, never ever sing again!
Cringe! Death! Oh, I can't take it!
You lost me when you started singing!
I had to close out of the show!
I'm never coming back!
I unsubscribe because of your singing!
And it's like... That's just a little hysterical.
It was just a couple of notes that I sang.
I kind of like to sing.
I know I'm not a great singer, but I kind of like to sing.
And I do okay with some things.
So the people who were like...
I'm still gonna sing on the show if I feel like it.
Hey, sorry if you don't like it, but, you know, I mean, what is it?
A grand total of maybe one minute every year that I sing on the show?
It's really not a big thing.
And other people really liked it.
Like, ah, buy an album if yours not.
It's very kind. It's very nice.
But the funny thing is that people are like, cringe, you sang, man!
And it's like, oh, I couldn't take it.
I couldn't. Like, you're not going to stop me from singing.
You're just going to stop you from singing.
Like, you're just going to stop you from doing stuff that's fun and spontaneous and enjoyable.
Like, people think that they're putting a noose around me.
You're not. I just walk out of that illusion, right?
Like, I just, you know, fart that noise into the stratosphere.
I just keep going and doing my thing.
It's you who get stopped by this, not me.
Not me. I'm going to sing.
I'm going to do it now. No, like, I'm going to look at that.
Some light fell off. What is that now?
It just looks like I'm getting an x-rayed or something now.
But, and it's like the people, like, you're e-begging.
It's like all you're doing is you're preventing yourself from being able to ask for what you want in the future.
You understand, right? That's all you're doing.
That's all you're doing. If you get mad at me for saying, I would like you to help support what it is that I'm doing at freedomainradio.com slash donate, if you get really mad at me about that, you get enraged, e-begging, and it's pathetic, and it's pitiful, and it's like, I'm still going to keep doing it, and I get to do what I love because of wonderful people like you.
But you are walling yourself in, you understand?
You think it's a bear trap that goes on my leg?
No, it goes on your balls, that's all.
I'm just walking off in the woods, and...
You know, you think you're throwing a spear at me.
You're just gouging your own leg.
Like, it's very silly and it's very sad.
But I really want people to understand this.
You're not stopping me.
Because I have my own values.
I have my own system.
I have a whole system here.
I have a whole system of people who love me and people who give me feedback and people I've run over ideas with and so on.
So... That's what matters to me.
Those people. My conscience matters to me.
The people around me matter to me.
You typing away on the internet?
I'm sorry. It's nice that you type.
But you remember the words that I forget.
You remember the restrictions that I just walked past.
You think you're digging me some sort of hole that I get stuck in and you get to wander off?
No. I walk right over it like it ain't even there because it's not for me.
You're the one who falls in the hole.
You're the one who gets stuck. You're the one who has to live with trying to squelch someone's spontaneous and joyful creativity because, because, because, and I know why, I know why.
It's because when you were a kid, people shat all over your creativity.
And I'm really sorry for that.
Like, it really, oh, it's so sad.
It's so sad, and you probably have a lot to offer the world in terms of creativity.
You probably really do have a lot, because you wouldn't get mad at my spontaneous, joyful creativity if you didn't want it for yourself, if you didn't want that freedom for yourself.
You understand? You're not trying to chain me down.
You're trying to chain your own pain, your own history, and your own desire down.
Because it's you who won't be able to sing!
I'm still gonna sing! It's you who won't be able to burst into song.
It's you who won't have that joy and that pleasure of spontaneous creation.
And I do it partly because it's fun for me.
I do it partly to illustrate something I wanted to illustrate.
And I do it partly to free you, my friends, to free you!
Because I'm not a great singer.
I'll go belt out a couple of lines.
I don't give a shit if you like it or not.
Like, honestly, I wish maybe I'd be a better person if I did.
I don't really care.
It was important for the show that I was doing.
It was important. It was something I was very passionate about.
And I couldn't just mumble why I made through it and say, oh, this song that was like...
Like, it just...
It was passionate. It was powerful for me.
So I wanted to express that.
Oh, no, he's singing.
Just go sing, man.
Just go do something fun and joyful and spontaneous in the world.
Just live in a world where everyone's not like you.
And maybe you'll be fine.
All right. One or two more.
In my opinion, the lighting looked better when that light fell.
All right. Well, you know what?
I'll take that light down.
So you're saying that looks better?
That looks better. Ah, you know, we'll fight around with it.
And thank you very much for that.
There's 101 ways to censor people.
Sorry, that was from, I forgot to say, John Bob.
Joanne says, there's 101 ways to censor people you don't want to see.
The premise of censorship is to prevent others from seeing content you don't like.
Keep singing. I will keep singing.
Thank you very much. I appreciate that.
Hey, sorry capitalism entertainment and technology said hey for some a bear trap on the balls might be their thing not mine, but eh You know it might be your thing, but it probably isn't your thing for that long cuz you know that's Quite a thing to to put on your balls.
Let me tell you that All right Sing another song both of them POFA I don't know.
All right. Well, yeah, women's suffrage.
Yeah, it's sad, eh? The suffragettes fought hard to get votes for women before even men had the right to vote when men had to go off to war.
It was one of my favorite tweets recently.
I tweeted, okay, men, you can have the vote, but you will have to sign up for the draft and we'll probably be sent for war.
And men are like, okay.
Okay. Now, women, you can get the vote too, but you will have to submit to yourself to objective standards of evidence when it comes to making claims of sexual assault for men.
And the women are like, actually, just a vote, thanks.
That's just a vote, we'll do. It wasn't the singing, it was the reverb that raped our ears.
Raped your ears?
Hyperbole much, my friend?
so It's when I did my first show with Diamond and Silk, who I left to death.
And I just remember there was a comment that RIP headphone users, because they are emphatic and very, very nice.
Democrats now control the House.
What do you think? Well, you know, all Trump did was buy some time.
And Trump was like white people's panic response to demographic changes that guarantees socialism.
Well, the fact that half of America is willing to vote for a company that, sorry, for a company, willing to vote for a political party that weaponized women's accusations of sexual assault, that's pretty telling. Addicted to power and so on.
So, it means that, to use an overused phrase, 2020, my friends, it's going to be pretty lit.
Well, next year, though, it's going to be pretty lit here in Canada, and I'm going to have...
Oh, Phil Collins!
Yeah! Yeah, I like.
The reverb is non-consensual.
Oh, I do like Phil Collins, actually.
Some of his stuff is fantastic.
And I won't even say some of his earlier stuff.
I wasn't a huge fan of the stuff he did with Genesis, but his solo stuff was fantastic.
Lonely Man on the Corner was great.
The song Abacab from the album Abacab is great.
Home by the Sea. It's one of the few songs that I, when I first started getting into singing, as we will live our lives in what they tell you.
There's that high bit and it's like really powerful.
It's really got quite a voice. I was actually struck by Phil Collins when he was on tour, but only faxed his children back before email because he couldn't phone because he had to save his voice.
That's how delicate the instrument is and when you've got, you know, 10,000 people who want to come and see you.
That's quite a big thing. And, you know, the classic, you know, well, if you told me you were drowning, I would not lend a hand.
That's great, great song.
All right. Phil Collins is a globalist.
Yeah, well, probably.
Steph, how do you stop self-hatred and self-sabotage?
Well, you recognize that these are demons implanted in you by horrible people in order to control you, and you push back with anger.
All right. Well, it looks like we're just now running porn lines on Phil Collins songs, which is entertaining.
Do you think Macron and Trudeau will be elected on a second term?
Not objectively, but they're going to alter the demographics to the point where they're a shoo-in, and that's where the balance is right now.
All right. Okay, one more.
Thank you very much. A.V. Scott and Flower says, your thoughts on the MGTOW YouTube adpocalypse?
I've been telling everyone forever, please, please stop relying on ads.
I never have, I never will.
I rely on you lovely, beautiful, generous people.
Stop relying on ads.
It's kind of like, if you tell people over and over again, and I have for years, tell people over and over again, If you're going to do anything controversial and you rely on ads, you have a huge point of weakness.
And I have been suggesting it.
I've been telling people how to do it for years and years and years.
Stop relying on ads.
Rely on your audience. Have the courage to ask for donations.
It's not an easy thing to do because people can say no and most of you do.
But nonetheless, say to people, I really, really need your support.
Please help me out at freedomainradio.com slash donate.
And some people will send you money.
Not many, but some.
Enough. But it's hard for people to do that, so I think they just rely on ads.
And that's a huge vulnerability, and you can only tell people so long that what they're doing is very, very risky, and if they want to keep doing it, well, as the gods say, take what you want and pay for it.
That's the way that it works.
All right. Well, I should probably pack it in for the night, though...
I do love chatting with you guys, and I could do it all night long, baby.
But there's your gif. Anyway, so...
Owen Benjamin.
What about Owen Benjamin? Oh, you guys are too fascinating.
All right. Well, thank you very much for the feedback.
We will work on the lighting and get it a little brighter, but trust me, this bowling head, flesh-faced forehead is not the easiest thing to light in the known universe, but we will work it out.
Yeah, just tell me now of this.
Let me know of this. Let me know.
Just drop me a line if you can or let me know in the comments below.
What was it? Was it Reddit?
Somebody tried to posting a video of mine on Reddit and they got a message back that says that my channel was not whitelisted or wasn't on the whitelist.
Probably nonsense, but anyway.
All right. Love you guys so much.
I'm sorry that I didn't get to the final Super Chats because I'm still half on, good lord, I'm still half on Poland time.
And in Poland, like it's 10.37 p.m.
where I am, but in Poland, that's 4.37 a.m.
So I'm going to sort of pack it in.
Thanks, guys, so much.
As always, it is a huge, deep privilege and a pleasure to speak philosophy with you guys.
Thank you for the thousands of people who've dropped by.
Freedominradio.com slash donate.
And we're going to try and get the documentary done relatively quickly.
And I am kind of a one-take wonder when it comes to speeches, so...
We will get that out for you. And I'm really, really curious what you guys think.
I hope you like it, because I really, really enjoy doing it.
And I hope that you will let me know.
So, freedomainradio.com slash donate.
Thanks again, my friends, so much.
This new studio setup is not quite done, so I must wander away.
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