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May 1, 2019 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
01:27:12
Freedomain Livestream - Venezuela & AMA!
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That's right!
And we're live.
Thank you, everyone, so much for joining me.
Pinch punch, I suppose.
Last day of the month.
And we are good to go.
We're just about to start.
I'm just saying hi to everyone.
Good evening, good evening, good evening.
Thank you so much for joining.
I am... Well, I am not pleased.
And I'm gonna tell you straight up, my friends, Don't play this loud with your grandparents around.
Don't play it where the kids are.
Don't play it at work.
And don't play it if you're sensitive to the kind of language your average sailor would exhibit if he woke up with an anaconda in his pants and I don't mean of the Freddie Mercury kind.
Because I want to talk about...
I want to talk about Venezuela and I want to talk about socialism.
And yes, I will get to the Ask Me Anything if you want to drop a super chat in or I'll get regular chats as well.
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But let's put that aside.
Let's put that aside.
Where are they?
Damn it, where are they?
Where are all the people who were licking the snake boots of power, who were praising Hugo Chavez, who were cheering on as the Venezuelan government seized by force the oil production and nationalized this and controlled that and price controlled the other?
Where?
These people were all cheering.
Oh, we're sticking it to the banksters.
We're sticking it to the oil men.
He's taking back the resources for the people!
He is a man of the people!
Where have they gone?
Where have they gone?
Now, today, I'm sure you saw that in Venezuela there were protesters and an army vehicle was driven over these protesters.
You know that famous picture of the guy in Tiananmen Square, that young, incredibly brave young man, standing in front of a line of tanks in Tiananmen Square, which by the way was horribly cold when I visited it, but anyway, he's standing there, it's an iconic picture, a man standing before a line of communist tanks.
Now, I know that people were killed in Tiananmen Square and I get all of that, but that picture, Well that changed in Venezuela today because the military vehicle just mounted up and rolled over the protesters.
Where are all the people who praised the socialist policies?
The fuck is wrong with you people?
Don't you have a conscience at all?
My God!
I am paranoid about getting things wrong.
Little things.
Little things.
And these people can get things wrong to the point where there are army trucks driving over unarmed civilians in the Venezuelan government that they loved!
And helped ascend into power on the foamy sea praise of their disgusting adulation.
And this is how it plays out.
How the fuck do you sleep at night?
This is what you wanted!
This is what you praised!
This is what you pumped up!
This terror!
Women streaming across the border into Colombia, selling their bodies for food.
Children being sold like side orders of fucking bacon.
People without healthcare, people without food.
The average Venezuelan has lost like two dozen pounds because they've got nothing to eat.
And 2012, not that long ago, they took away the guns.
Oh, the Venezuelans.
Because, you see, they just care so much about the Venezuelan people that they want to keep them safe from any harm, you see, so they just took away all their guns, and now what?
There's not one human being alive who is going to take your guns with good intent.
It's like a guy saying, hey man, or hey young lady, let's go on a date, let's go on a make-out session, deep, dark in the Kennedy-esque woods, But one condition, you cannot bring your cell phone and you sure as hell cannot bring a rape whistle.
And no guns.
What do you think's gonna happen?
What is wrong with people?
I keep running into this brick wall of my own stupidity.
In that, I think that there are people out there that at some point, their conscience has got to catch up with them.
At some point, their conscience has, like, at some point, don't they wake in the morning?
Don't they wake in the morning and say, like, three o'clock in the morning, some deep, deep dark tea time with the soul, don't they wake up?
Don't they have a dream about the horrors that they've unleashed on the world, on these poor people in Venezuela?
Don't they wake up and say, how could I got that?
Man, did I get that wrong?
I praised a guy who created a system that turned into this semi-fascistic, half-totalitarian nightmare.
Like the people who praised the founding of
Communist North Korea and now it's turned into this absolute nightmare the world's biggest open-air prison camp With starving people and Broken people and abused people and I mean you got to see the sketches of people who've survived these North Korean concentration camps and just the terror that they have of the hatred that they have towards the guards who had power over them who did what every human being who thirsts for and gets power does
Which is, fuck everyone with it as hard as they can.
That's what human beings do when they get power.
Like, we have these weird things.
We say, oh, Lord Acton said the power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I accept that now.
Let's get the government to control food!
Let's get the government to control medicine!
Let's get the government to take all our weapons!
Let's get the government to control prices, and oil, and roads, and everything.
Children's education, old age pensions, unemployment insurance, welfare state, food and goodies for single mothers.
Let's let the government control it all!
But you know power corrupts and I accept that.
What is people's major malfunction that they accept all of this and then still want to shovel bucket loads of human gristle into the power furnaces of the state?
It's insane.
No, no, I'm sorry, it's not.
I apologize for that.
I got that completely wrong.
It's not insane, because that would actually be an insult to insanity, which is relatively harmless compared to the pumping up of the sociopathic oligarchy known as socialism.
Crazy people, to some degree, keep to themselves.
Crazy people can't destroy an entire economy.
You know, there's this old saying, you can't turn a whore into a housewife.
Dunno, never really tried.
But you know how you can turn a housewife into a whore?
Just give her some socialism, and it'll work that way for sure.
Because she'll not have any food, she'll not have any money, she'll not have any medicine for her kids, and she'll go and sell the only thing that God and the devil gave her that men will always pay for.
She'll go and sell her soul, her body, her mind, never her heart, because that's never for sale.
And where are the feminists?
Well, of course, feminists are just useful idiots for socialists, right?
Feminists are just socialists in granny panties and comfortable shoes.
Where are the feminists saying, oh my gosh, these middle-class women are being forced to sell their bodies for groceries and medicine?
They've been turned into prostitutes by socialism.
Where are the feminists?
Of course, the feminists Are too busy complaining about mansplaining and manspreading and microaggressions.
Microaggressions.
Microaggressions.
Microaggressions, honey.
Do you know in Venezuela they're breaking into zoos to eat the animals?
In Venezuela, they're eating their own pets.
They're so fucking hungry.
He took up too much room on the subway.
What kind of weird sociopathy do you have to have where that's something you think about, or care about, or even crosses your vacuous mind?
This is the big issue you want to talk about.
Gender pronouns could be imprecise.
You know, there's a video of a truck crash in Venezuela and there's a guy, I don't know what happened to him, I hope he's alive, I don't know, right?
But there's this guy in the cabin of the truck.
He's just lying there.
He's bleeding.
I don't know if he's bleeding out or what.
He's just lying there with the hot trucks on its side.
And people are just climbing everywhere.
They don't care.
They're not stopping to see if he's alright.
They just need to get to the goods.
To get to the food!
Get to whatever they can get their hands on so they can sell, so they can eat, so they can live.
Why don't people care?
Why don't... How is it possible that you would elevate a mere ideology?
about this level of human suffering and human helplessness and human degradation.
What the fuck do you think it's like to be a woman Who might have been married to a doctor, might have been an architect, could have been an accountant, I don't know.
And you sit there and say, well, if I want to eat, I have to go and sell my body and let some skeevy, seamy, half-shaven, body odor, wife-beater, t-shirt-wearing guy maul at my boobs and have sex with me.
Just so I can get some food for my children.
Can you imagine that being your day?
Where is people's compassion?
Here's a weird thing.
One day, it's conceivable, somewhere out there on the internet, I could be called a racist.
I, you see, obviously this is blue sky way out there at some point in the future.
Somebody out there might call me a racist.
But if people had listened to me about socialism in Venezuela and central planning, hundreds of millions of brown people would be infinitely better off.
If they'd listened to me about gun control, if they'd listened to me about Chavez, if they'd listened to me about Madero, if they had listened to me about all of it.
Tens or hundreds of millions of very brown people would be infinitely better off if people had listened.
Not just for the past 15 years I've been doing this publicly, but for the past 35 years I've been doing this in any capacity and under any venue that I could possibly get a hold of.
Whereas the people who promoted this socialism, who praised all of this socialism, I mean the Michael Moores, the Sean Pans, the Noam Chomsky's, he's taken back the power for the people!
They're gonna starve!
They're gonna eat zoo animals and pets and sell their children and sell their bodies!
Who claim to be the champions of the working class!
They get to, like, sail off into the fucking sunset like they just did all the good in the known universe.
And just cared for the people.
They're not racist at all!
Despite the fact that their system is crushing the hopes, dreams, aspirations, lives, families, careers, potential, everything!
Of these poor people in Venezuela.
Now the poor people in Venezuela are not sitting there because they're in a state of extremist and emergency, the road situation where they can only hope to find people in a basement they can eat.
They're not sitting there saying, well, I guess I had better brush up on the latest translations of the Misesian doctrines in Austrian economics, they're not.
It's too late.
It's too late for them.
They can't be saved by ideals anymore.
Now they're just going to have to fight their way out, or survive their way out, or something like that.
Because socialism creates this massive dependent class of people who will fight like hell to keep their unjust gains.
It's an aristocracy.
It's an aristocracy, what Ayn Rand used to call the aristocracy of Paul.
It's such a... It's so unnecessary.
It's so unnecessary.
It's so explained.
It's so well understood.
It's so predictable.
And every day it's like this groundhog day.
Except the groundhog is a vampire that bleeds out the jugular of any human potential, hope, or happiness you might have possessed.
Socialism does the opposite of working.
See, there's something that doesn't work, there's something that doesn't work, and then there's something that fucks you up completely.
Right?
That's different, right?
That's different.
You know, you get a Marijuana joint and let's say it's just got tobacco in it.
Well, it's not great for you, but you know... And then there's, you know, maybe it's got like TNT in it and it blows your fucking head off, right?
That's like, well, you know, the drug is not great.
No, the drug just took your head off, right?
There's stuff that doesn't work and then there's stuff that does the complete opposite of everything that works and undoes our very potential and actuality as human beings.
To say socialism doesn't work is an insult to things that don't work.
You know, like, like, you got a bike stored for the winter, like, maybe it's up on your wall, Seinfeld style, and you take it out, and you're like, hey, you gotta pump up the tires, you know, and you get out your bicycle pump, you attach it, and you... Now, if the bicycle pump doesn't work, it just doesn't inflate.
Oh, that's a drag.
Hey, look, it's not working.
But if it explodes and takes out half the block, for some reason, you know, if you've been annoying the Mafia in pretty significant ways, What happens?
Well, let's say your car doesn't work one morning.
Right?
Doesn't work, right?
That's a drag.
Oh, guess I better call a cab.
Gotta take a bus.
Gotta work from home today.
Because your car's not turning over.
See, that's not working.
But if the mafia have put 50 pounds of gelignite under your car and you say, oh, look, the car didn't work.
It's not really that the car didn't.
Okay, technically, it's true that the car didn't work and that it didn't start up nicely and take you somewhere.
But it blew up half the fucking block.
So...
So don't tell me socialism doesn't work.
The question is why?
Why don't people understand this at this point?
Why?
Marxism has been around as theory and practice- well, theory for 150 plus years, practice more than a hundred years.
And it's the same time every time.
Same result every time.
Same thing every time.
Why?
Why?
Because it's immoral.
Because it's evil.
Because it slices and dices humanity into opposing classes with opposite moral properties.
And since those opposing classes don't really exist in reality, you have to have an elite of murderously sociopathic quote philosopher kings who then substitute their coercive violent power for all of the voluntary choices that might otherwise exist in a free market.
That's why socialism doesn't exist.
It's anti-rational.
It's evil.
It's vainglorious.
It's corrupting.
And it destroys, and it destroys, and it destroys.
So, why doesn't it work?
Thank you.
It doesn't work because it violates property rights.
You say, oh, property rights, but they're separate from human rights.
No, they're not.
Property rights are identical to what most people call human rights.
Identical.
Identical.
Do you want the right to live?
Well, you've got to have the right to property.
Why?
Because we need property in order to live.
You can't live without food, and to consume food is to exercise property ownership over that food.
Need a place to have shelter from the storm?
Well, you've got to have property rights for walls and a roof.
Do you want to have free speech?
Well, you've got to have some place you can stand, something you can use, a microphone, a computer, an internet.
You've got to have some place that you can have your free speech from.
Do you want to have freedom of religion?
You've got to be able to own a church, you've got to be able to go there, you've got to be able to say what you want to say.
It's all about property.
There are no human rights separate from property rights.
At all.
You want to have a family, you have to establish that we own the effects of our actions.
And if our actions are hot sex followed by gestation, followed by birth, well, we've created that child, therefore we own that child.
Not as a slave, but as a potential human being.
You can't have human rights.
Without property rights.
And see, that's the difference between the free market and socialism.
See, ideologically, there's freedom to.
Right?
Freedom to go make your money, freedom to give your money to whoever you want, freedom to have charity, freedom to speak.
There's all the freedoms.
Freedoms to do stuff.
Free of violence, free of coercion.
There's no such thing as freedom without freedom from coercion.
That's the only thing that freedom means, is freedom from coercion.
That's all it means.
Nobody's gonna punch you in the face For doing your thing.
That's all it comes down to.
The freedom to go and act free of coercion.
That's all it means.
Now, you can have coercion and self-defense.
I'm a big fan of self-defense.
I'm not a pacifist.
I get all of that.
I'm just talking about when you're not raping, assaulting, trying to murder, or stealing from someone.
Because if you steal from someone, you make them your slave.
Right?
Because if I work for five hours and produce a hundred dollars worth of value and I go and buy something for a hundred dollars and you steal it, you just made me a slave for five hours.
You enslaved me.
Because you're taking my labor without my permission and that's slavery.
Asterisk.
See taxation.
So you can't have any rights under socialism because you have no absolute right of property.
Government can take Whatever it wants.
It can give you what it wants.
It can withhold from you what it wants.
Either actively or passively.
So you have no human rights without property rights.
Human rights are property rights.
And property rights are human rights.
I challenge you, I dare you, to give me a right you want to exercise that does not involve property.
You want the right to start a business?
Well, you gotta be able to start that business.
You gotta be able to rent and be secure in An office and computers and some bullshit corporation papers that are only there to protect the rich and are not part of the free market?
Tell me, tell me any right that exists outside of property rights and you won't be able to find one.
So you have no property rights in socialism.
The government owns whatever it wants.
Yeah, you can maybe keep a toothbrush but Who cares?
You have no property rights, therefore you have no human rights.
If you don't have property rights, you have zero right to life.
You have zero right to life.
Now, when I say you don't have property rights under socialism, I'm literally talking about you.
Yeah, you.
Yeah, you.
Playing Fortnite.
Listen up, this is more important.
You don't have property rights, but other people do.
Who has property rights under socialism?
The government.
They have all the property rights.
They can go take stuff.
They can exercise control over entire industries.
They can exercise control over entire prices, over goods and services flowing across the border, over what jobs you're allowed to have, what licenses you require, whether you're allowed to earn a living or not.
You know, a third of Americans need a goddamn government piece of paper to earn a living.
Think they're free?
Think they have property rights?
Think they have freedom of association and freedom of trade?
No.
They really, really don't.
You don't have rights without property rights.
And the more property rights the government exercises, the less right to life you have.
And if you want to know the difference between socialism and the free market in terms of ideology, The free market is freedom too.
Socialism is freedom from.
Freedom from consequences.
Freedom from mistakes.
Freedom from being fired.
Freedom from having sex with the wrong guy and having three children by three different guys.
Freedom from consequences.
Which freedom from consequences is always other people being enslaved to fill in the void of your own stupidity and bad decision-making.
It's all it is.
It's all it is.
Why else does socialism do the opposite of working?
Because there's this incredible symphony that happens in the free market, the push and pull and supply and demand, an incredibly complex, symphonious interweaving of supply and demand.
What scarce resources should be applied to what personal requirements?
You've got a pound of coal that you pulled out of the ground.
Where should it go?
Here's the perfect answer.
Nobody has a fucking clue where that pound of coal should go.
Nobody has a fucking clue where that loaf of bread should go.
Nobody has a clue where that gallon of oil should go.
Nobody has a clue where that ton of steel should go.
Nobody knows where it should go!
How do you know where it goes in the free market, right?
Nobody knows where it should go outside of price, right?
Absent of price, right?
Where does that pound of coal go in the free market?
Well, it goes to where the demand is.
Now, demands are easy.
Everybody's got a demand.
Everybody wants stuff.
Everybody wants everything all the time for free.
Of course, right?
We want eternity.
We want perfect health.
We want infinite resources.
We want everything all the time.
I want it all!
And I want it now!
This is the way human beings work.
All animals, I think.
So, what is it that tempers our insatiable black hole gut lust for infinite consumption?
Trade.
Trade.
So, someone has a loaf of bread and you have a dollar.
And you can make that trade.
Now maybe somebody else wants to spend $1.50 but they're far away and it would cost you resources to ship it there and you don't know who they are.
So you just make this trade.
Now why wouldn't you want two loaves of bread?
Because you only have one dollar.
So you can buy a loaf of bread because somebody bought your services in the past and gave you a dollar for it.
And that's the magic of the free market.
You get this incredible information about real human desires.
Real human desires.
Unreal human desires are just pounding the table and wishing for an end to all group inequalities of outcome and wanting no more mansplaining and whatever, right?
I mean those are just things that people wish for that have no meaning because they've got nothing at stake.
They don't have to give anything up for what they claim they want and therefore their wants are meaningless.
Meaningless!
If somebody doesn't have skin in the game then what they say they want I don't Care.
It's masturbatory.
Well, it's worse than masturbatory, because at least that can help you with prostate cancer, right?
So, you get this incredible symphony, continuing motion, of supply and demand, of real-time pricing.
And real-time pricing is incredible.
I played a game, oh gosh, this is way back in the day, called Necromancer, on the Atari 800.
It's actually a pretty good game.
Pretty tough.
Real button-masher.
But necromancer is somebody who is a wizard who can bring the dead back to life and have them serve his needs.
You know, he can raise the army of the undead and he can screw up all the endings of Game of Thrones and own a man.
It's a necromancer.
Necro is the dead, right?
Necrophilia is sex with the dead or sexual attraction to the dead.
Necro-voting is the basis of Leftist political power.
So why am I talking about raising the debt?
Because price has the capacity to raise dead resources and bring them to bear in the world.
It's an amazing thing.
It's an amazing thing.
So let's say There's a sudden demand for... I can give you one of this.
It's not a free market demand, but there's a demand for metal, right?
So in the Second World War, there was a huge demand for metal in England because they needed to have new freighters, new fighter planes, new tanks, new guns, and metal.
So what they did, of course, was they went and ripped up a bunch of railings and turned railings into bombs and bullets and guns and all that.
Now, in the free market, it has the capacity to raise dormant resources and bring them back to life.
So let's say there's a shortage on computer equipment, and if you've messed around with computers for a while, you usually have a bunch of stuff in the basement, like old video cards, old sound cards, stuff that doesn't work anymore.
I constantly try and recycle that stuff.
Sometimes with some effect, sometimes with good effect, sometimes a bad effect, but anyway.
But let's say that there was a shortage of the gold and the copper or the wiring or whatever it is and suddenly you could get two hundred bucks for an old video card or an old sound card.
Well you're gonna go down in the basement and you're gonna go and get all this stuff!
You're the only one who knows it's there!
Central planners have no clue whether the video card you bought five years ago was thrown out or is in your basement.
They have no clue.
But if the price Raise is high enough.
You will go down and you will resurrect, like a necromancer.
The dead products, unused.
The study recently turns out in Canada, some places in Canada, 40% of the stuff you think is being recycled is just going to the landfill, like with everything else.
Of course.
Of course, if recycling made any environmental sense, people would pay you to come and pick it up.
The fact that nobody will pay to come and pick it up is how you know that it costs more energy to recycle than it does to just throw out.
And it's terrible for the environment, because it means it wastes resources coming to pick up stuff, and also it means because people think that they're recycling, they'll just use more crap, right?
They'll say, oh, this coffee cup is going to be recycled so I won't bring my own cup, I'll just use theirs.
I can have all the bottles of water I want recycled.
It's not recycled, come on.
So it doesn't work because resources die and decay in the absence of high prices bringing them back to life and reinserting them back into the marketplace.
It's true of goods, it's true of services too.
Let's say that you're a accountant and you retire and then suddenly for some reason the price of the demand for accountants doubles and the price of accounting goes way up you might come out of retirement it's worth it for you right if the price goes down you're like I forget it it's not worth it right not worth even staying certified it just can't possibly work because violence doesn't work violence does the opposite of working
Violence destroys.
Violence dehumanizes.
Violence turns those you manage into kind of like insects in your eyes.
Like think of the person in charge of the socialist economy.
And how they look at this begging, whining, whinging, complaining, terrified, angry, rebellious, seething mass of mob humanity that they have to somehow keep their grip over.
Contempt.
Disgust.
It's why they can end their lives or end their hopes or end their futures without any conscience.
It's why people can just move on from their horrible predictions Oh, it's going to be great when socialism takes over in Venezuela.
Let's move on.
Because those people aren't real to them.
The people who are suffering aren't real to them.
And how is it that the people who want those people in Venezuela to have great lives and freedom and have the potential that up until their last female socialist takeover a place like Chile had?
Why?
They don't care.
They're not human to them.
Because ideology dehumanizes.
You can't see people as individuals anymore.
You can only see them as part of some weird class structure.
They're bourgeoisie.
Their relationship to the means of production is exploitive and thefty and steely and they're bad.
Or they have white privilege and therefore they're bad.
And then you have all of these people who come and say, I saw one's on Twitter today.
I was talking about this on Twitter today.
You should really follow me, it's Stefan Molyneux.
Finally passed 400,000.
Thanks, Jack.
Took a while.
It was like I was stuck at 399.9 for, like, it felt like weeks.
Probably was.
And then, you know, once that burst past, like in two days, I'm at... 100.3.
Anyway, but... People saying, well, mass immigration is the result of the free market because people want cheaper wages.
Well, of course people want cheaper wages.
Of course employers want to pay people less.
But so what?
People want to make more, and they negotiate, and they balance.
And if you want people to make more money, which I do, I think it would be wonderful if people added more value and made more money, then what you should do is get the government the hell out of the educational system, because it does no more good in the educational system than it does to the general economy, so that people can come out of 12 years of government education knowing more than how to put a big X where their name is.
Could actually have economic value, learn how to negotiate, Learn how to be productive.
Learn what an economy is.
Learn how a business works.
That way they could actually make money.
More money.
That would be helpful.
They say, oh, mass immigration comes.
No, it doesn't come from the free market.
Because the vast majority of the costs are offloaded onto the taxpayers.
There's a reason why Obamacare had to come into force.
Because they couldn't sustain mass immigration, which they need, legal and illegal, for the support of the Democrat Party votes in America.
They couldn't sustain that because the health care was too expensive because of other government crap.
So they had to have Obamacare to shift the costs from the taxpayer, so shift the costs from the immigrants to the taxpayers, so that people would keep coming in.
If there's no welfare state, unproductive people can't make it in this society.
They just can't.
They just can't.
What was it in Switzerland I was reading?
80%?
80% of the Somalis in Switzerland are on welfare.
It's like 2.3% of the white population, it's less than 1% of the Japanese population, which again is all what IQ would predict and all that, but the IQ topic is kind of boring.
Now I've been doing it for a while and it's kind of boring and I'm just gonna wait until the science establishes it beyond any reasonable doubt, because, you know, anyone who's got the brains enough to listen has already listened, and other people won't listen until some facts come, and even then some people won't listen.
So, they say, oh, mass immigration's a free market phenomenon.
No, it's not.
No, it's not.
It's a phenomenon of the welfare state.
They say, well, colonialism was a free market phenomenon.
How absolutely dumb and propagandized, which is kind of the same thing in effect, do you have to be to think that colonialism was a free market phenomenon.
That's beyond astounding.
Beyond astounding.
People were forced into the military.
The military was forced to be paid.
The average taxes went up in the colonial power, so the people who were inflicting the colonies on the rest of the world.
It has been a mass disaster afterwards, if you look at the number of people in the former French Colony of Algiers who poured into France, or people from India and Pakistan pouring into the UK.
All as a result of colonial, right?
The problems of the colonies are still going on.
How the hell did it benefit the average British sailor dying from scurvy on a vessel somewhere in the Indian Ocean that Queen Elizabeth or Queen Victoria was able to paint a third of the globe her colour and have the sun never set on the British Empire?
How did that guy, spitting out his teeth and dying from scurvy because They hadn't figured out the vitamin C thing, that's where Limey's came from.
Limey's the name of the British people.
And more sailors in the British Navy died from scurvy than ever died from enemy combat or pirates or anything like that.
How did the average guy, grabbed off the street, thrown into a ship, forced to fight, dying of scurvy, oh, he's like, wow, I'm really enjoying the free market here.
This is just so much freedom, I can't even tell you.
Ah, slavery was part of the free market.
No!
Slavery was a big giant government program.
It's a big giant government program.
Terrible.
It's never going to work.
It's going to always do the opposite of working.
And I'll tell you this, like anybody who's still hanging on to the socialist thing, my view?
Immediate sociopath.
Complete sociopath.
Doesn't care about people, wants power, lusts for power, and is one of these right fighters.
People who would rather be right than happy, right than honest, right than have integrity, right than be virtuous.
They just want to be right!
I don't want justice, which is equality of opportunity, I want social justice, which is equality of outcome.
Equality of outcome is always tyranny in practice.
You want to have a fair race?
Put everyone at the beginning, start a pistol, and wherever people run to, they get to.
You're free.
Start, end.
There you go.
Let them run.
You don't have to interfere.
Let them run.
You want to have a tyranny, then everyone's got to end up in the same place.
Everyone's got to cross the finish line at the same time.
You've just got to adjust.
Oh, the fastest runners got to run slower.
Well, then the slower runners run slower.
So you've got to force them to speed up.
And you've got to then, when they speed up, the faster runners want to go faster.
You've got to control every step that everyone takes all the time.
And that's a running race, for God's sakes.
Complex economy?
You literally have to be batshit crazy to think that any individual or small group of individuals know better what people want and how they should live than tens or hundreds of billions of people in a geographical area.
It's completely insane.
It's completely insane.
So I just wanted to point that out.
This is horrendous.
I probably take this stuff too personally, but I mean, I've done a whole bunch of shows on Venezuela.
I've never been to Venezuela.
I've been to Nicaragua and Belize and Brazil, of course, and other places somewhat in the vicinity.
You know, it's terrible.
It's not their fault.
I mean, they're just average people trying to live their lives, and they're trying to survive under this giant crushing weight of an intellectual structure propagated by sociopaths who seek power or some kind of weird justification for their initial beliefs.
And I just, it breaks my heart.
Like, I literally cannot get these images out of my, it breaks my heart.
Just how terrible their lives are, and how little these supposed champions of the working class and anti-racists, how little they seem to care.
I don't think it troubles them at all.
Michael Moore should get his fat fucking ass on a plane down to Venezuela with a giant camera crew that he should finally start paying honestly and should do a show called What the Fuck Did I Get Wrong?
That's what his next documentary should be.
Get your fat ass on a plane Get down there, because you claim about, oh, I care about the working people, and racism is terrible.
Well, get your fat ass on a plane and get the hell down there, set up your camera crew, and film what the hell is going on down there.
And as penance, get on your knees and read out all of your praise for Venezuela, and socialism, and beg for forgiveness from those you have sinned against.
Oh, what if we gotta have a regime change in Venezuela?
Hell no!
God, no, no, no, please.
Not more, not more guns.
You know, it's like that old line from Fight Club.
We're a generation of men raised by women.
I'm not sure that another woman is our solution.
We're a generation staring down the barrel of a gun of debt and coercion and control.
I'm not sure that another gun is what we need, whether it's pointed at someone in Venezuela or not.
No, the Venezuelan socialist experiment was largely successful in achieving power because of the praise of all the goddamn socialists and socialist wannabes and socialist-leaning assholes in the West.
The media, the news organizations, academia, the entertainment industry, you name it.
The pundits, they all were praising this shit.
A cultural revolution in the West, not another failed state regime change in Venezuela.
I mean, you've got to deal with the thousands and thousands of outright Marxists in American universities alone.
I don't mean deal with violently, I just mean like, first of all, they should stop being paid by the government, and secondly, all honest people should shun anyone who has anything to do with these people.
I mean, the idea that you need a regime change in Venezuela because there's too much socialism when you look at academia and the media and the entertainment industry in the West and say, well, see, the problem with socialism is that it's out there in Venezuela and that's really bad!
Like, why are you worried about the moat in another man's eye when you have a giant beam in yours?
And, okay, one last thing.
One last thing.
And I'm sorry, I mean, I'll get to the questions.
It's an unusually long rant, but it's been building in me for a while.
What is the source of the power that the state has in this context, in other contexts?
What is the source of the power that the state has?
The source of the power that the state has is not fundamentally political.
It's not fundamentally coercive.
Those are manifestations that deal with the outliers.
But the fundamental issue
with regards to state power the fundamental susceptibility is that people will do almost anything than face the truth will do almost anything to face the truth and so much of education indoctrination that the state runs all the way from pre-k to grad school is designed to do one thing and one thing only and that's keep the basic facts at bay
So that if those facts ever make it through the matrix and into people's faces, people are like, ah!
What the hell was that?
You make things so weird and freaky like they've never heard.
It's all just keep facts at bay, keep facts at bay, keep facts at bay.
Human biodiversity, race and IQ, differences between men and women.
What freedom actually means you keep all that stuff far away from people.
As far away as humanly possible.
And should those facts ever leap out into people's faces, they recoil.
They have no context in which to process these things.
They have no mental machinery with which to digest anything that's outside the narrative.
Keep that Overton window as narrow as the thigh gap of Rebel Wilson.
Keep that really really squished tight.
And that way anyone who speaks the truth, people have almost become allergic to the truth because they've become so addicted to lies.
Now if people are willing to hear the truth, then government power diminishes, state power diminishes.
But if people continue to recoil from the truth, the state has all the power it needs.
all the power it needs which is why the state is so hostile and the mainstream media that supports the state, the corporate media that supports the state and sometimes is directly paid by the state is so hostile to anyone who brings basic truths to the people because that's going to stretch and move the Overton window to the point where the Overton window closes so people are fundamentally emotionally allergic to the truth they just bay and react and you know it's like silver to a werewolf, right?
or sunlight to a vampire or Reason to a leftist.
I mean it burns like holy water, right?
So just that's the whole point So if people are willing to manage their anxiety and look at the truth state power can collapse relatively fast.
All right Thank you my friends for letting me get that off my chest and oh Yeah, these people Stefan needs to talk to an actual social it's like Richard Wolff he has no idea what it is and Yeah, get lost.
Get lost.
I've no idea what it is.
Yeah, I've never studied it at all.
I've no idea.
I've never read any socialist literature.
I've never taken entire courses in socialism.
I've never been taught by a Marxist.
I've never learned anything.
You can go through your entire life in the socialist-infested West and never get the first clue about socialism.
He doesn't know!
It's not real socialism!
Get lost.
Get lost.
Show me some fucking respect.
Jesus.
I've been doing this 15 years.
I've been studying this stuff 35 years.
I've been doing this publicly 15 years.
I've studied.
I've talked to economists.
I've read countless books.
I've debated.
I mean, Jesus Christ.
Oh, nothing.
Socialism has nothing to do with the state or state ownership.
No, nothing.
Just that every single time it manifests, it happens to take that form.
It's a weird coincidence.
Nothing to do with it!
Nothing to do with it!
Well, if it has nothing to do with the state or state ownership, then it ain't socialism, because socialism is state coercive control.
Well, in the extreme form, over the means of production, in other words, over currency or interest rates or significant portions of people's income, it is coercive control over property that is stolen.
And, yes, currency production, currency printing, control of interest rates is just another form of theft, like counterfeiting.
Well, it is counterfeiting.
So this... Oh, yes!
Well, Steph doesn't have any clue what socialism's all about!
He's got to talk to a real socialist because he doesn't have any clue what socialism's all about!
Oh, God almighty.
Dunning-Kruger.
Dunning-Kruger.
People who are stupid think that I don't know anything.
What do I know?
I don't know.
Oh my gosh.
All right.
Let me get to the old superchats.
That one wasn't a superchat, so hey, sometimes you'll get it, right?
Anthony says, hey Anthony, better off moving or schooling.
Parents are toxic.
I don't know what you mean by schooling.
Do you mean going to pay to be indoctrinated by idiots who are going to overcharge you for misinformation?
No.
No.
And yeah, if your parents are toxic, hey, you only have one life to live.
John says, when all else fails, a pig-headed refusal to look facts in the face will see us through.
All right.
BL Parox says, the left has no real empathy.
The left can't understand an argument unless you relate it to them or a family member.
Basil!
Basil?
Says Steph, can you do a USA versus Canadian gun laws video at some point in time, preferably soon?
People are so uneducated in that topic.
I would say that if you can give me a philosophical angle, sure, but I'm not just going to sit there and do A point-by-point comparison.
I'm really, really focused on can I get some philosophical content out of what it is that I'm doing.
T Sky says, thank you for your support.
He says, not that I say that, he says, I may not always agree with you, but you remind me every day that a little thinking can go a long way.
Thanks for that.
I appreciate the donation and here's my little bit of wisdom to you, my friend.
Please don't agree with me.
Please don't.
Don't agree with me or disagree with me.
Don't.
Accept the arguments because they're valid.
Reject the arguments and hopefully instruct me on why if they're invalid.
Give me better data if I've got the wrong data, but don't agree with me.
So all what I don't agree is like, what the hell?
What is agreeing with me?
What does that got to do with anything?
Two plus two is four.
Well, I don't agree with you.
It's like, what do I have to do with it?
Just does two and two make four?
All right, 30th April, sorry, that's the date.
Sorry, I'm just, I'm apparently, I'm just a tech, I'm a text-to-voice machine at the moment.
Leon, hey!
How is this, how cool is this?
Oh my gosh, Leon.
So, update from your former furry caller.
Oh my gosh.
So this, oh my gosh, North American River Otter.
So this is a guy from back in the day.
I did a show with him, a conversation with him.
And I've got some great ones coming out, by the way.
But I did a conversation with him.
I'm going to get the title for you, my friends.
And he had a furry fetish, which is dressing up as a North American River Otter, if I remember rightly.
And The Shocking Furry Fandom Conversation, yes really, 16th October 2017.
Wow, not even two years ago.
So the Shocking Furry Fandom Conversation from 16th October 2017 And that's quite the thumbnail.
Anyway, so I assume that's you.
So he says, update from your former furry caller, and we had a great conversation about it.
He says, wife is a virtuous, wholesome woman.
My little lad is almost two months old, not circumcised, and we're raising him peacefully.
Want another conversation?
LDS understanding of deity.
You have definitely earned another conversation, my friend.
How wonderful to hear That you are happily married, that you've got a boy, almost two months old, who's not circumcised.
You're raising him peacefully.
Hats off to you, man.
I can't give you the furry thing.
Chest hair is not maximum.
Hang on, let me see here.
Yeah, it's a little bit, a little bit in here.
But I can not give you the furry, maybe a little on the chin, but I can give you my massive congratulations and huge appreciation for giving me that feedback.
That is wonderful and great job.
John Sprott says, love you man, love you back, thank you for your support.
Anthony again says, BA in philosophy or explore the world?
I'm 29, explore the world, in my humble opinion.
Kan Indian says, thank you, very kind support.
You talk a lot about race and IQ.
Assuming IQ is genetic and largely Euro-North Asian dominated, Should it not then be beneficial and logical to spread Euro and North Asian genes through Sub-Saharan Africa and others, for example, through polygamy or other strategy, ethics aside?
See, here's the thing.
Low IQ is not a problem.
It's not something to be fixed.
It is not a catastrophe that needs to be solved or anything like that.
That doesn't mean, of course, that low IQ functions well in a high IQ society or that high IQ functions well in a low IQ society.
There's nothing wrong with low IQ.
There's nothing wrong with it whatsoever.
And so I don't think that it needs to be fixed.
I don't think that we need to do any kind of horrible eugenics or state-based experiment which would be immoral and destructive and ghastly and hideous and so on.
So, no, I don't know.
Beneficial and logical to spread genes through Sub-Saharan Africa and others?
I don't see any ethical way to do that and I wouldn't support it in any way, shape or form.
All right.
Gladium Spiritus says, should I keep working a job I hate?
I think to ask that question is to answer it.
I'm not sure why you would.
Clark Smith, what are your favorite books?
Is there one book that really made a difference in your life?
Oh, many, many, many, many, many.
Um, I actually just did this the other day.
I think it's sort of top couple of books.
I love the Russians.
Love the Russians.
So, I mean, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged were very influential to me.
Crime and Punishment, which I first started reading when I was, believe it or not, I mean, I was 12.
I didn't make it all the way through, but then I read it straight in like a 20-hour period.
It was an incredible experience.
I still remember sitting on this rally couch in a student apartment reading that book, start to end.
I like some Dickens.
Dickens is either great or like the Tale of Two Cities, I've never made it through, but some Dickens.
David Copperfield is great.
I really like Great Expectations, it's a wonderful novel.
And Oliver Twist really broke my heart as a kid.
Well, it's not spoilers, but anyway, when there's that misunderstanding and the guy thinks that Oliver Twist ran off with his stuff and he was actually kidnapped by Fagin.
I mean, it just broke my heart.
Great.
I did Turgenev's Fathers and Sons.
I actually adapted to a play I called Seduction, which I produced and directed in Toronto on stage and it was a wonderful experience to do that and had a great time working with the actors.
One of the first times I ever had to fire someone.
I had to fire an actor because he was just so affected and just didn't understand how to, you know, just talk like a normal human being.
And so, and then a friend of mine, I'd based the character on him, and he actually stepped in to play the role, which he had no acting experience, but he's actually pretty good.
So, is there one book that really made a difference in your life?
I will, I mean, I hate to say this, but it was the books that I wrote myself that made the most difference in my life.
And the book that I wrote, which I'll never publish, I don't think, which is called Crazy Talk, is the book of my Therapy journal notes.
When I was in therapy I erupted into, that's why I got this idea of the Miko system, when I was doing therapy I erupted into a whole series of dialogues with myself.
I had all of these different characters who would recur both in dreams and I would end up having to these incredibly deep and powerful debates with aspects of myself that were new and I still have to negotiate with from time to time and so Because I'm not a single entity, so to speak, and this is not woo-woo, this is all very well established, this is not, you know, I'm a multiplicity, I'm contradictions and so on.
I have a variety of different perspectives, I'm ambivalent about a lot of things, and I can see a lot of different sides of the same angle, which is, I think, an educated and intelligent approach to life, but I was in ferocious debates with myself about compassion versus integrity, about ethics Justice versus compassion and what it meant to have values and how manifested those values should be in your life.
And these incredibly deep and ferocious debates that went on.
I was in therapy for quite a long time.
I dropped like $20,000 on therapy, which was some of the best money I'd ever spent in my life.
But it was expensive and it was a struggle.
So that book of my therapy journal was definitely the book that changed me the most.
And that's why I'm somewhat immune to self-attack, right?
A lot of criticism out there.
As long as I'm okay with my conscience, I could give a shit what other people say.
All right, TJ Jensen said, I read Ayn Rand, I went from teaching to a steel mill.
Did I make a mistake?
If you couldn't teach with integrity, you'll have more integrity in the steel mill.
Ann On, Ann On I guess, says, how does intellectual property fit into voluntarism?
and people arrive at the same solutions independently all the time.
Jeff Tucker, who I believe has disavowed me now, we were friends for a time, and he is a Christian, and he believes, I think, that I have fallen into egregious error by accepting the basic science of human biodiversity.
I think, as a good Christian, he should call me up and reason with me out of my error, but instead I think he's just withdrawn and is disavowing me left, right, and center.
We're trying to get a debate on nationalism versus open borders going at a Libertarian conference, but everybody's... I'm not going to go through the list, but everybody's backing off and backing away and won't... just won't debate me.
That won't come out to play.
It's really a shame.
He's, to be fair, Jeff Tucker has a great, a series of great articles on intellectual property and you also want to read Stephan Kinsella's, that's S-T-E-P-H E-N, I think?
K-I-N-S-E-L-L-A, Stephan Skinsella's book.
It's free, I think, on intellectual property and so on.
It's not... Intellectual property is whatever you negotiate and can contract for involuntarism.
So, that's... Alright.
Corey Jones says, Stephan, love the videos, you are incredibly wise.
Do you believe the USA is headed into civil war?
Also, your thoughts on private ownership of firearms?
Well, of course everybody should be able to own...
Firearms.
I mean, I don't care what people own as far as weaponry goes and The ownership of a gun is not a violation of the non-aggression principle.
So Do I believe the USA is headed into a civil war?
Well and not just the USA but Macron came out recently was talking about radical Islamism in France and saying some things that if he Wasn't Macron would be considered I'm sure hate speech or something but Well, if nothing, listen, I mean, if we don't wake the fuck up, if we don't start having challenging conversations, if we don't confront the living hell out of people in our lives, yes, the USA is headed into a civil war.
Of course it is.
Of course it is.
I mean, the only way to avert it is to have really powerful, deep, consequential conversations with people in your life.
I've said this way back in the day.
My first big speech was in New Hampshire, called How to Win Political Arguments.
You can find it on YouTube.
Where I introduced the against me argument, which is if people support the use of violence against you, they're no friends of yours and they're going to be ending up lining up the sides of the other people if we're dragged off to camp.
So it's up to you.
It's not up to me.
It's up to you.
It's up to what you're willing to stand up for in your life.
Because I'll tell you this, it's a hell of a lot easier to have difficult conversations than to get drafted into a civil war.
It's a hell of a lot easier.
To live with the regret of people who won't listen to reason, who may kick you out, or abandon you, or reject you, than it is to kick yourself if you're in some camp somewhere.
Because there's a lot of people on the left, they absolutely want to put us in camps.
They absolutely want to, and that may just be the start of it.
There's no question of that.
I mean, everybody's a Nazi, and you can punch Nazis, and they have withdrawn the ban on the use of force.
They're willing to violate the non-aggression principle based upon ideology that always leads to civil war.
Dogeater says, hey Steph, ever been to the app?
No idea.
Shayna says, I just want to say I highly disagree with a lot, not all, of your opinions on things, but I like that about your videos and I find you interesting.
Oh Shayna.
Oh Shayna.
What can I say?
They're not opinions.
I don't care about being interesting other than it might help make facts transmit easier.
Disagree with my opinions on things.
I'm making rational arguments.
They're either valid or they're invalid.
I'm bringing reason and evidence to bear on complex problems.
I'm either successful or unsuccessful.
I have consistency and integrity or I don't.
Forget about my opinions and forget about whether you disagree with me or not.
Forget about me!
I'm not important.
The arguments matter.
Marussia Darukai?
It's a familiar name.
Okay, we should crowdfund a week-long trek for the Bernies and the AOCs of the world to live a week in Venezuelan slums and then another on the Mexican border.
Well, see, here's the thing, right?
I mean, there were a lot of people, a lot of socialists and communists took a trek to Moscow.
I wrote a poem about this when I was 20.
They had this long trek to Moscow.
There's pilgrimage to go and worship at the feet of Lenin and then Stalin and so on.
You would not believe how easy it is for people to simply disregard Empirical facts right there in front of your face, right?
Right there in front of your face.
I mean, there are articles out there where people have gone through all of this alternative media stuff and they've completely unchanged with all the facts, reason, and evidence that's in there.
People can ignore, right?
Because they'll just blame capitalism.
They'll just blame US foreign policy.
Like, oh, the only reason Venezuela is doing badly is because America's got a boycott.
Oh, come on.
Like America's the only country you can trade with and that's the only reason that, come on, it's just, you know, they'll just blame something else or whatever, right?
Joe Kochavsky says, I think Trump is a lost cause, a coup in Venezuela, trying to go to war with Iran and making Israel great again, it seems.
Yeah, but he's trying to push for the Muslim Brotherhood to be deemed a terrorist organization.
So, you know, with Trump, it's always have something decent to eat and then hold your nose for the next bite, which is going to taste like crap.
Lee Owen says, I don't care to engage in rhetoric-filled discussions.
Living a principled life of non-aggression is all that I desire at this point.
Surely, I think that's wonderful.
But if you're surrounded by people coughing up leprosy into your ventilation system, saying that you just want to breathe clean air may not be a particularly wise or sustainable decision.
John says, hi Steph, can you touch on the fact that Venezuela is now considering Bitcoin and Litecoin as legal tender?
Taste of things to come globally.
Well, of course, everybody and their dog who's got half a brain wants to peel countries and entire geographical regions off central banking.
But it's a highly dangerous thing to do.
It's a highly dangerous thing to do to attempt to get out of the central banking criminal racket.
I mean, pretty good arguments that this is what brought down Gaddafi, that he wanted to get a gold-backed currency, that this is what brought down Saddam Hussein, that he wanted to get an oil-backed currency that got him free of the petrodollar.
And this is a huge criminal organization and enterprise that masks itself as central banking.
You know, if there is regime change, I would assume fundamentally that it has more to do, if they're thinking of ditching central banking and going with a cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Litecoin and so on, then if there's an invasion, I will simply assume that it has to do with the fact that they're trying to get out of central banking rather than anything else.
Tiffany says, I sent an email Friday regarding being a successful businesswoman who just turned 30.
I heard you say on live stream to keep pinging you.
I hope to eventually catch you free to speak.
Message you on Skype.
All right.
We will make a date for this this Friday.
Okay, just send me when you're available and make sure I have your Skype ID.
I apologize and thank you very much.
I want to reward this kind of persistence.
I am doing, it's funny, I'm actually doing more hours of call-ins of listener convos a week now than when I used to do the show, but it's easier because I have more breaks between them.
All right.
Drew Tasey says, protect our Second Amendment.
Do not think it can't happen here.
True.
It's funny, you know, I just kicked the base of the mic stand and it just reminded me, I left this in, when I talk about Plato and the forms, his answer was the forms, I actually hit the microphone stand and you can hear this forms, this big bass noise in the background, but I left it in because I thought it was kind of cool.
Crepsy K says, said it before.
Thank you.
Had 10 out of 10 childhood score.
Oh, that's the adverse childhood experience score, which is very good.
I don't agree with all of it, but it's very good place to start.
You can look it up.
It's adverse childhood experience score developed by Dr. Vincent Felitti, who I interviewed probably 12 years ago as part of the Bomb in the Brain series.
Good to know.
I'm doing well.
How can I get on this show?
Just send me in what you want to talk about.
Marushia says I made a video rebutting your comments from previous live stream on Trump's gambit Here's hoping you will take a look and let me know what you think.
I will I assume that this is you on YouTube.
So, thank you All right Joshua R Paulson Paulson his name was Robert Paulson sure convenient to give a speech on the USS Harry Truman four hours before it goes south to South America.
Hmm Jizz the Eunuch was Stormy Daniels' movie ever.
Jizz says, I'm poor but you make my life better.
Have two dollars.
Two dollars, thank you.
Lucy Truth says, would you be on my YouTube channel?
Arvind Vohr is on next week.
Libertarian interviews, metaphysics and scientific discussion.
I have to say, all right, I'm not going to go too late tonight because I have something to do somewhat early in the morning.
Let me just see here.
Alright, Philip Fry says, thanks for all you do.
You change lives.
I appreciate that.
But the diet book doesn't lose the weight for you.
People have to make the choice themselves.
Really been debating therapy lately.
Only have two on the adverse childhood experience score, but have been struggling with near continuous negative thoughts.
Already understand why.
Will talking it out really help?
I think so.
This is going back a way.
It's, I guess, um, or you should check out my Poland documentary.
I'm just, cause I'm now thinking it's podcast FDR1939, how to find a good therapist in my opinion.
So yes.
Um, a good therapist can be, can be great.
And, um, even if you've got a good childhood experience, we're still free thinkers struggling to survive in a world that is often and sometimes increasingly hostile.
to reason, so it's very, very tough.
All right.
Thoughts on Theresa May dealing with Brexit?
I mean, she's... I mean, I don't know, just... I hate to say sort of watch her dancing, but it tells you a lot about someone, that she really is goofy, and you'd be really surprised, and there are some exceptions to this, but you'd be really surprised just how not smart Leaders are.
We're really, really surprised, just they're not very smart.
And it takes a certain lack of intelligence to think you can run a country.
Again, I mean, I know Trump is very smart and I get all of that and he's the most anti-communist president, even including Ronald Reagan.
His mentor, was it Ray Cohn, was involved with, was it Nixon and McCarthy trying to root out communists in Hollywood.
So it's another reason why the left hates him so much is because they get all of this stuff that they deny the history of everyone else to understand.
Most leaders are not that smart.
And I remember this even in the business world.
And we'd have business leaders...
They're just, they're confident and they're glib and they have a lot of, sometimes a lot of charisma, not so much Theresa May, but they're really not that smart for the most part.
And you can see this, I mean, and there's no incentive, right?
Why would she want to deal with Brexit?
The European Union is monstrous and they can make your life very difficult and they can cause a lot of problems.
And why would you want to deal with that?
Just, right?
All right.
Michael Conway, thank you for your support.
Somebody says here... Cairn Indian says, I'm sorry my earlier question about IQ was somewhat clumsy, character limit, record I was not implying state involvement, just a thought experiment.
I'm a big fan, respect, thanks for all you do.
Well, I mean, when it comes to the IQ stuff, I mean, the Japanese, you can see Stephen Sue's work on this, HSU.
I mean, the Japanese are just, I mean, they're all in, they're all over the place with this kind of, they've got CRISPR gene editing.
They're trying to work on producing IQ 200 babies.
They're merging human intelligence DNA with monkeys.
I mean, so we can do all of this kind of stuff.
But we can't because it offends certain groups in society and so on.
And so we can't have honest conversations about this kind of stuff for the most part.
All right.
So Adam Davidson says, anything by Solzhenitsyn that should get attention like the Gulag Archipelago but doesn't?
Two hundred years together?
The Architect of Fate says, do you possibly have a need to employ an L3 audio-video technician specializing in global video conferencing?
I'd love to get out of Silicon Valley.
That's interesting.
You know, I mean, I've worked with a variety of people over the years.
I worked with Mike for five years, which was a great privilege and a great and enjoyable thing to do and a wonderful experience.
And it's tough, though.
Let me tell you what the issue is.
So I'm sure you know this kind of stuff, right?
So when I produce, you know, like, like Plato, right?
I mean, The play-to-video file was like 70 gigs.
It was four hours, 1080p, 60 frames a second, LPCM audio, like maximum.
I just, because to me it's for the ages.
I want it to be as high quality as possible.
Now transferring those files would just take forever and so sending the files to someone else to work on and then having them work on it and then sending, getting it back, it just puts in this massive multi and sometimes many day delay on it and then you've got version control issues and then I need double the backup storage if I'm going to keep the files because I need the original then I need the copy and I've got to review everything and it's just really really hard to have anybody
off-site working on stuff, and so that's that's sort of an issue.
All right.
Marusha Doc says, these days I fear Brave New World more than 1984.
Jake the Dog says, how can I get smarter?
Well, you I mean, you can't get an increase, to my knowledge, much of G, or sort of raw general intelligence, but who cares?
Who cares?
Who cares?
I mean, you know, there's this old... gosh, this is way, way going back, right?
So, back before Harrison Ford was a hypocritical, environmental-obsessed douchebag, Who lectures the world on climate change and reducing carbon footprints while also bragging that he likes to fly one of his ten fucking planes up the coast to get a cheeseburger, lives in a giant mansion, and also has motorcycles.
I mean, come on, let's just fuck off.
Just shut up and act, you douchebags.
But this is way back in one of the, I think it was the second Indiana Jones movie, not the third one which was pretty good, but the second one which wasn't.
Where this guy comes out, there was supposed to be this big sword fighting scene in an Arabic marketplace and Harrison Ford had a cold and he just made this joke where he pulled out and shot the guy and Spielberg liked it so much they kept it in the movie.
So you say, oh, you know, how can I become better at swordplay?
It's like, I don't know, get a gun.
In the analogy is, you can't get smarter, but you can get more rational.
And being more rational is way better than being smarter.
Because reason equals virtue equals happiness.
Intelligence is not equal.
Reason does not equal virtue, does not equal happiness.
Smart people are not substantially happier than less smart people.
But rational people tend to be the happiest of all.
So forget about getting smarter.
I can't get smarter, you can't get smarter really, but we can become a whole lot more rational.
And that's to do with wisdom.
Architect of Fate says, is it possible that culture has more impact on genetics than genetics on IQ?
I haven't found any recent in-depth studies on the topic.
It's not really possible according to all of the information that has been produced.
So, I mean, I hate to give you the big whack of videos, but if you go to fdrurl.com forward slash IQ, you can see my 18 interviews with the world's leading experts on IQ and no, environment has very little effect on IQ.
It has some.
But very little.
It tends to be 80% genetic by our late teens and so there's 20% environment and culture and again IQ, who cares?
It doesn't matter.
What matters is how rational you are and philosophy can make everyone more rational.
The people in Venezuela could be far wiser and more rational than the people in North America despite some average IQ differences if people were giving them information.
Could the IQ issue be related to lack of nutrition?
Well, sure.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Insofar as height can be related to a lack of nutrition.
But once you have your bare minimum nutrition...
IQ doesn't seem to, like you can't budget upwards.
So you can do things to lower IQ.
You can traumatize the hell out of children, you can starve them, you can beat them, and that's going to lower their IQ in some circumstances.
But you can't raise it.
Above like more food doesn't make you taller just makes you fatter, right?
And there has been examples of Korean kids who were raised in absolute starvation situations who grew up to have perfectly normal IQs There are also kids in I think it was in Finland Shortly after the Second World War they were raised in starvation situations.
The brain will take every Ounce of energy that you get and apply it to your brain and they had normal intelligence.
So it doesn't really seem to be the case Donut Guard says, Stefan, how about a truth about the Lion King video since the new CGI version just came out?
It's anti-communist, anti-open border, and the hyenas clearly represent third world hordes.
It's interesting.
That means putting my face into a Disney production, which is pretty rough, but I'll think about it.
Thank you.
Lee Owen says, I'm encouraged to see Sargon of Akkad entering politics.
I hope to see the voices of YouTubes like yourself and others announce political campaigns so that we can do more than upvote your videos.
Is it in your future?
Just watch my presentation on Plato.
Arminius Kalgakis says, take a deep breath and say, fuck socialism and communism perhaps.
Slavey McSlaverson says, is a little bit of taxation still theft?
And would any legitimate libertarian say otherwise?
I'm reminded of something that Harry Brown used to say with regards to the voluntarism versus libertarian debate.
He said, well, we get government down to the size of something we can put in a bathtub, then we'll rent a big giant stadium and have a debate about how much smaller it should get.
But let's get it smaller first.
Garrett Townsend says, I've been watching your video, your Play-Doh video in parts, incredible and enlightening.
Now I want to know your theory if you could be an art.
Thanks for the info and keep up the good work.
Thank you.
All right.
Well, I think we'll keep it relatively short tonight.
I really just wanted to touch base with you wonderful people before the end of the month.
Friedrich von Ziegler-Schickeldorf says, thanks for your work.
Have you ever read anything by recently deceased writer V.S.
Naipaul?
I have.
I have read something by V.S.
Naipaul.
I can't, it's not, this is not a suitable boy guy, no.
I have and I can't honestly remember it now, so I apologize for that.
Depictions of certain races in his fiction and nonfiction books was often slammed as bigoted.
I don't care about any of that stuff.
I don't care about any of that stuff.
I mean, if nobody's talking about how white males are portrayed as racist, weird goofs, and incompetent, I don't care.
I don't care about any of that stuff.
Mountain Man Reviews says, I took the IQ test you shared on Twitter and I got 75, and it was certain I had a PhD.
It's not an IQ test.
I just happened to find some sort of test that I ran through.
There's a hundred questions.
I got 96 of them right.
And unfortunately, with a hundred questions, you tend to hurry a little bit.
I probably could have got 98.
That sounds kind of goofy, but yeah.
So anyway, you can see it on my Twitter feed.
You handsome, racist, blue-eyed demon, says Tom Youngjun.
Well, you know, three out of five ain't bad.
Yes, I am persistent says Tiffany.
I think this helped a business success sent you my availability an email just now sent a message on Skype Fantastic All right, Joshua Huffman says hey Steph I recently had my third baby and I've been looking into the potential harms of vaccines in my state We have one out of 35 kids diagnosed with autism Have you ever looked at any of the vaccine safety studies ever think about doing a video on it?
Yes, I have I certainly have thought about doing a video on vaccines, but I'm not going to and The reason for that is that's real close to medical knowledge and medical opinions, and I'm not a doctor.
And so I don't see that.
And of course there's so many people who've been doing so much work on this that I'm not sure I'm necessary for it.
I try to sort of, you know, if it's been done, I don't want to say done to death, that sounds bad when it comes to health issues, but if it has been done a lot, I generally will not, unless I have something really significant to add, which I don't think in this area I would.
I tend to avoid.
All right.
Dane Madsen says, plans for the truth about Nietzsche and Kant.
Well the truth about Nietzsche would be really complicated because he's kind of a disco ball.
But yes, I already have the first draft of a presentation to truth about Kant, which is going to be really really great.
Michael Conway says, what do you do if and when the Democrats retake the White House?
What do you have to see before you pack up the kids and go abroad?
Where to go?
Well, the Democrats are going to retake the White House unless something really radical happens with immigration, because they're importing people who vote for them.
So, you may want to have a plan, somewhere to go, Central Europe, Eastern Europe, some place, there could be any number of things.
I can't really tell people where to go, but keep your eye on the exit.
Kuki says, I'm thinking of mailing my copy of The Art of the Argument to an acquaintance online.
He can't afford the book right now, but I just wanted to let you know that I'd like to help spread your work.
Thank you very much, and I appreciate that, and it's theartoftheargument.com.
It's a great book.
It's the one I charge for.
Everything else is free.
You can get them free books at freedomandradio.com forward slash free.
Machiavellis sucks says hello good show.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that and It's a great pleasure to to have you come by.
All right.
Let me just have a quick look in here and let me see here Hi Stefan, I really enjoy your content.
Thank you.
When was the last time you read the New Testament?
Oh I read the whole Bible when I worked up north.
I have not read the New Testament in quite some time Someone says I didn't like the book part of the argument.
I I guess you might want to read it again if you think I didn't like his argument.
You could say it was incorrect in this area or something like that.
Repeal the 19th or we'll go the way of the Dodos.
Yeah, let's see.
Yeah, not in agreement, but whatever, whatever.
Alright, so let's see if there's anything else that I can... Truth about Freud.
Yes, I will continue to work on that.
Yeah, Notre Dame.
Someone says, I've been feeling the power of Christ lately since Notre Dame.
I feel like I am on fire.
Make Christians great again.
Yeah, it's terrible.
I said this on Twitter.
The big battle is between the universalist ethics of Christianity and the in-group, quote, ethics of other religions and ideologies.
It's pretty bad.
It's a very, very big, important fight right now.
So let's see here.
Oh yeah, that's an old joke.
Oh yeah, it's funny how many of you... Oh, Plato.
Sounds like Plato.
Yeah, no one ever noticed that before.
You might want to scroll through the comments before you try and make jokes you think are interesting.
Steph, have you read Stephen King's On Writing?
I'd love to hear you analyze his background.
It's fascinating.
I actually did.
I read Stephen King's book On Writing Gosh, more than 20 years ago, and I actually sent him a thank you note for it, because after I read Stephen King's book on writing, which is a very good book, I got some significant success in writing.
It's a good book.
All right, all right, all right.
Let me just see here.
Lots of interesting stuff there.
The brain transplant can raise the IQ if the patient survives.
Sorry.
Read The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand.
There's a free audiobook here on YouTube, only six hours long.
It's a very good book.
It's the kind of book that if you get it from the title, it's well worth a read.
And let's see here.
All right.
Well, I'm going to... It's very tempting to go through all everybody's wonderful messages and exciting messages and occasionally not so wonderful messages, but...
Thank you, everyone, of course, so much.
It is the end of the month.
Close to the end of the month?
Yeah.
Well, it's really close to the end of the month because it's the 30th and it's close to 11 p.m.
So thanks, everyone, of course, so much for a wonderful conversation this evening.
I really, really appreciate everyone's feedback.
It's great to see the thousands of people who dropped by.
I appreciate that, too.
And it's interesting, too.
I just want to mention this.
I did something the other day.
I've never done it before, which is kind of weird because I should have.
What I did was I looked up a variety of mainstream media outlets and looked at their Twitter engagement.
If you want to understand some of their hostility to the alternative media, look at the corporate media's engagement relative to their claims of how many people subscribe to them.
It's kind of revealing.
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