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April 6, 2020 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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Philosopher Stefan Molyneux - Ask Me Anything!
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premiere of the new Sunset of the Golden State episode.
It's a fairly short, tidy, soliloquy-based update on my thinking regarding religion and a little bit of my history with Christianity as a child, where I was, as I said, in the choir, and I went to church many times a week,
and things that I miss, things that I fear, things and things that I miss, things that I fear, things that I hope for, and I think I'm not alone in this as an atheist who has seen what's happening with the absence of religion and Christianity in the West.
I hope that you will check out the episode.
The full series, which is well worth looking at, is fdurl.com forward slash ca.
I will put the link to the show notes here.
And you should check out the series.
In it, I go up to the city council and demand to know how they're going to pay for things.
And I interview politicians and people on the street.
And I had a pretty wild time striving to wrap my head around how the glory of California, the golden state from my youth, has fallen into a...
Kind of sewage state at the moment.
So I hope that you will check it out.
It's really not about California.
It's about the West as a whole.
But that's FDRURL.com forward slash CA. And episode 8, you can just go to that playlist and it's at the bottom.
And sorry it took a little while to get there, but I kind of got swept up in other things.
And we have one more episode to go to finish it off.
One of the greatest analogies that I have ever...
Put to camera I did for this last section.
It's about the Golden Gate Bridge and everything that it means.
So I hope that you will check it out.
I hope that you are doing all right in these challenging times of decay and quarantine and all of that.
You know, it's a wild thing having spent 35 years warning people about communism.
It's kind of a wild thing.
I mean, I hate coronavirus as much as everyone else, but it is fascinating to see the impact that communism is going to have on a country before communism actually takes over a country.
And so that is a powerful thing to see, and that is pretty wild for people.
So... So here's the thing.
Let's get straight into questions.
I would like to hear what you have to say.
You can give me questions here on YouTube or other places.
You can, if you are a subscriber, through subscribestar.com forward slash free domain.
You can send me questions there as well.
And by the by, how are my wife and daughter?
Very well. Thank you. It's a great pleasure.
It's a great pleasure to be spending time with them.
If you're going to have to be bunched up with people, it's really, really good if you love them and get along well with them and all of that.
So they're doing very well, and I appreciate that.
Are we all screwed?
No. No.
And I tweeted about this today, man.
You... You know, everyone's like, can we get back to normal?
I'm like, God, no! No!
No, no, no, no, no. None of this getting back to normal stuff at all.
None of that stuff at all.
We don't want to be getting back to normal.
What was normal? Well, normal was demographic suicide.
Normal was debt suicide.
Normal was creeping socialism.
We really, really don't want to get back to normal, my friends.
I can guarantee you that.
So, this kind of...
White Swan Disruption Event.
Is it White Swan or Black Swan?
I can never remember that. I would have checked with the guy, but he and I got into a fracas, and it's a Taleb, and he blocked me.
And so I'm going to just go to these questions, and have your thoughts about forgiveness shifted since you recorded the documentary?
Now, this is kind of, this is from somebody on, oh, it's from James, on...
Discord, and listen, I hope that you will join the Discord server, because that's where we just did a call-in show this morning.
I had a really, really great conversation with a woman who's about to divorce her husband, and is there any way to avoid that, to keep the family together, and everybody prunes the leaves.
I go, straight for the roots, baby!
Straight for the roots. My thoughts about forgiveness, and this is a repeat of a question that That someone has sent me before, these two are linked together.
What is the best approach to explain to your children that their grandparents aren't going to be around due to the fact that they're toxic or dangerous people to be around?
What tips do you have for parents going through similar situations?
Well, okay, so the conversation, I think, goes something like this, and I'm not going to make it specific to my own situation because I want to sort of make it about others, right?
You know, you can say to your child when your child is old enough.
I don't know when that is. You know, maybe seven, maybe eight.
Depends on their maturity. Depends on your relationship, which I hope is great as you listen to this show, your peaceful parent and all that.
But the conversation is so, you know, a lot of kids have...
Like a grandma and a granddad, and they may have them on both sides.
So you get four, right? Four for one, right?
And you can do that little chart. Mommy has a father and a mother, just as you do.
Daddy has a father and a mother, just as you do.
And a lot of people have those...
Elderly people, like really old people or older people, in their lives.
And you don't.
And you don't as a result of the choice that I've made to not have my mother in my life.
And this is not a decision that I just flipped a coin.
You know, it took many years and a lot of thought.
And I worked really, really hard to...
Sort this out. But, you know, as I raise you, right, I mean, one of the things that I need to do is I need to prepare you for adulthood as best I can.
And I'm going to...
Give you some suggestions as you get older, right?
So right now you're playing with friends and it's mostly like, you know, running around and, you know, like, I don't know, playing video games and all of that, climbing trees.
But as you get older, you may notice, or maybe you've noticed now, and you hopefully have had these conversations with your kid, that there are some kids who are just kind of mean, right?
They push, they spread rumors, they hit, they steal, they just manipulate it.
They're just, you know, maybe that's a bit of a big word, but, you know, they're just not nice, right?
And I'm hoping, at least my question to you would be, is it worth being friends to mean kids?
I mean, really mean kids.
Kids who make you scared.
Kids who bully you.
Kids who spread bad stories about you.
Kids who try and turn other kids against you.
Like, they're rare, but they're there.
They're rare, but they're there.
It's like the story of evil, right?
Now, you want to keep this in conversation because, listen, when you're talking to kids, if you don't get a back and forth going, like, they'll glaze out after, like, 20 seconds.
Just their attention span is just not there.
Their focus is not there.
They get very easily distracted by their own thoughts.
So you want to ask them questions as you go through.
So I'm not going to throw all of that in because I don't want to roleplay me plus a kid.
You say, well, listen, if you – and if you do become friends with a kid who turns out to be a bully – What advice would you think I would give you?
What advice do you think I would give you?
It's a fair question, right?
Now, you know, hopefully the kid would say, well, you know, A, try and work it out, like have a conversation, and B, and I say, okay, so you sit down, you have a conversation.
That's a good idea. Like if it's someone you care about, and let's just say they kind of become bullying, then you sit down, you have a conversation with them, right?
Now, if they won't admit that they're bullies, if they won't admit that they've done anything wrong, if they, you know, let's say they, I don't know, they purposefully slammed the door in your face and then refused to apologize, like something like that, like whatever it's going to be, right?
If they simply refuse to admit that they've done anything wrong, And they won't change, then what should you do, right?
And I think the kids will kind of...
Your kids will kind of understand that, right?
Because you're not... I don't know how to put it.
You're not... You're not doing anything that they wouldn't do in your situation, right?
That's kind of the idea behind this kind of stuff.
So, you know, then you'd say, well, listen, I would not suggest...
That you stay close friends to someone who's a real bully.
I would not suggest that at all.
In fact, I think that would be a bad idea.
And do you think it would be a good idea for me to stay in contact with someone who is mean who's a bully, right?
Well, I think the answer is no.
You should not stay in contact with people who are mean who are bullies, right?
I mean, give them every chance, right?
Give them a couple of chances. Give them a bunch of chances, however many it takes.
But at some point, you kind of got to make a decision, right?
You kind of got to make a decision. And, you know, I'm very sad about this.
I'm very sorry about this. It would be great to have grandparents in your life.
But, you know, it's not really up to me, if that makes any sense.
Because if I want you to not be bullied, I have to not be bullied, right?
Like, wouldn't it make kind of weird if, like, I mean, I don't want you to smoke, but wouldn't it be kind of weird if I'm like, hey, kid, you shouldn't smoke, right?
I mean... If I want you to exercise, I should exercise.
If I want you to be reasonable, I should be reasonable.
If I want you to talk rather than hit, I should talk rather than hit.
In the same way that I don't point at a tree and say that's a really giant broccoli and get you all confused.
I'm going to get consistency in what I do.
So if I don't want you to be bullied, then I have to model or I have to show you not being bullied.
That's a reasonable thing to do.
And so I have really sort of made that choice.
I am not...
I'm going to be bullied in my life.
And it's a little different with friends, right?
Because with friends, you kind of go into the relationship because you choose to some degree, right?
Maybe they sit next to you at school or whatever, but you still kind of make a choice to become friends.
But with parents, you don't, right?
Like, you didn't pick me out of a lineup, right?
It wasn't like, you know, when you go to the fair and you win a prize, you get to choose one of these big, giant stuffed animals.
And then you say, oh, which one did you choose last?
Just keep them engaged, right? And you didn't get that with me.
Like, you didn't win a prize before you were born and choose me out of all the other parents.
Now, I'm trying to parent in a way that, and this is how you should parent, by the way, you should parent with the goal that if your children could choose anyone on earth to be their parents, that they would choose you and your wife, you and your husband, right?
That's how it happens. That's how you keep quality, right?
Because that was kind of the case with you and your wife, you and your husband.
I mean, you got to choose each other, right?
So you didn't get to choose me, and I'm aware of that.
You're kind of stuck here, right?
I mean, it's not like you can go move out, right, because you're...
Nine or ten or whatever hour, right?
Eight. So you can't go anywhere, so I've got to be extra careful and extra nice and all of that.
I mean, I'm nice either way, but you have to parent like you could choose me even though you didn't.
Right? Because, you know, mom, if she doesn't like me tomorrow, not that she ever would, because, you know, we're really in love.
But, you know, she could just get up and say, yeah, that's it.
I'm going to Disneyland for a week or whatever.
And I can't stop her.
She's an adult. Right? But you kind of stuck here.
Right? And it's the same thing when I was a kid.
Like, I was kind of stuck with...
My mom and my dad.
And they weren't like me.
They were like, ah, you're stuck here so we can be super mean and all of that.
And I wouldn't get into the details of your sort of whatever happened to you as a child.
Of course, if it's anything of a sexual abuse nature, that's not for them to know at any time before adulthood.
But... That's the conversation I think that you have.
And they will be curious and they'll say, I want to meet them.
And they may say, I want to meet them, right?
In which case, it's like, I completely understand that.
I mean, you're curious. You want to know.
And it's part of your history and it's part of your family in a biological way, but not in a social way, right?
So I completely understand that.
And when you get older, you can make that choice, right?
So anyway. So...
That would be my approach.
All right, so what else have we got for questions?
I hope that that helps.
Let's see here. Based on how quickly complacency returned after 9-11, do you think the brief wholesomeness experienced locally due to lockdown will fade just as quickly?
No, because 9-11 was a burst event, right?
9-11 was an event that happened and it ended.
This is not a thing that is...
The coronavirus is not a thing that's happening and is going to end, right?
It's going to come in waves, right?
There's a small wave, there's a big wave, then there's a small wave.
Again, there's the triple-decker sandwich from hell.
So it is going to go on for a long time.
I would plan...
I mean, I'll tell you this.
I am not planning, just myself, right?
I am not planning to go out into the world...
Much for the rest of the year, at least for the rest of 2020, I'm kind of home.
Now, I'll go for walks in the country, but I am not going out into society because they're going to lift all of this stuff.
It's unsustainable, right? So they're going to lift all of this stuff, and what's going to happen?
Well, everyone's going to go out, and everybody's going to make each other sick again, and then it's all going to go back to where it started, but with more people who then have some kind of immunity, right?
So, I'm just telling you my plans, that I am not planning.
To do much out in the world for the next, what is it, nine months?
April, May, June, September, September, nine months, yeah.
So it's not going to return.
I mean, people will, of course. They'll get complacent and then they will remember or realize or understand that this thing is sticking around and it's going to mutate and Lord knows, right?
All right. I had a very unsettling day the other day when I was thinking about my purpose.
I love my life now, but I'm not sure what the ultimate goal is.
Any suggestions on how to figure out what my purpose is?
What your purpose is?
So this is like the question, what is the meaning of life?
Which you only ask if you're not happy, right?
So if you aim at virtue...
Act in a morally courageous way.
Stand up to bad guys.
Support the good guys. Then you will achieve happiness.
It'll be a rough passage.
You'll be scared at times and so on.
But you will achieve happiness.
And like I've been doing this for 15 years.
And there have been times where it's been very, very tough.
Not going to lie. There have been times where I've gotten out of bed and not wanted to have anything to do with philosophy whatsoever.
I have been repulsed by it.
I've been revolted by it.
The cost has seemed too high.
There's no question, no doubt.
So how do I keep bouncing back?
Well, I have the self-respect of moral courage.
Moral courage is one of these things like, this is Aristotelian, right?
So Aristotelian is avoid excesses, right?
So in Aristotle's view, the golden mean or the Aristotelian mean, you don't run away from the battle.
If you can win. You don't run into the battle if you're going to lose, but you find some balance.
Like, a deficiency of courage is cowardice, an excess of courage is foolhardiness, right?
You just run in and get cut down, right?
So you have to balance your risks.
You have to be intelligent about what risks you take and when and how, and you have to recognize that where you start versus where you end in any given day or month or year, your goal is to shift The Overton window.
To shift the goal of acceptable discourse to the point where you can start introducing new ideas.
And people will become acclimatized to them in the same way that, you know, if the temperature drops 40 degrees in...
Three minutes, you're going to really, really notice it, but from summer to winter, it's not too bad on a day-to-day basis, right?
So you have to move the Overton window.
You have to move the boundaries of acceptable discourse slowly and carefully, recognizing that there's lots of landmines and volatility and tripwires and aggression and violence and death threats and all of that involved in moving that Overton window.
So when you have moral courage, you will gain happiness.
That's the price. I mean, we know this, right?
I mean, just look at the story of heaven, right?
I mean, to get into heaven, which is happiness, you have to have moral courage.
You have to follow the teachings of Jesus.
You have to uphold the Ten Commandments.
You have to fight evil or at least oppose it.
And you have to enhance virtue.
And then you get into heaven.
It's true in a philosophical sense, right?
So once you are morally courageous in a sensible manner, then you gain happiness, self-respect, contentment.
Now, once you gain that, once you gain happiness, you don't have to worry about meaning or purpose.
You understand? Like if you're happy.
Nobody in the midst of a great orgasm says, yes, but what's the meaning of all of this?
What they say is, right?
So once you're happy, you don't have to worry about meaning or purpose or anything like that.
So just focus on the moral courage and that will give you the happiness and that will have you overleap the problem of meaning and purpose.
All right. Ah, let's see here.
What are your views on the mandatory social distancing laws?
I have found people locally to be supportive of one another, but that the kids think it's a scam.
Yeah, well, the kids have been lied to so brutally.
I mean, the kids have been lied to so brutally that there's so much cynicism among the kids, right?
Like, I posted this on Twitter, right?
Like, all of the...
Let me try and find the Aristotelian mean regarding rage!
Because all of the scientists and the scientific groups, scientific organizations that have hoovered up, deep-throated up hundreds of billions of dollars to try and move the needle of the world's temperature by a tenth of a degree in a hundred years, who have terrified children with doomsday prediction after doomsday prediction.
And stolen through lies and fraud, hundreds of billions of dollars.
Boy, you want to see thieves? You want to see real thieves in the world?
You look at those white-coated assholes who frighten children for a living.
That's like the it clown writ large.
You're all going to die.
You're going to be underwater. See this polar bear?
We're going to garrot that mother right in front of your kid because why?
Because you used a hairdryer.
You killed a penguin, kid.
Don't worry, we'll make you feel better if you just give us all of your allowance and lunch money and your good night's sleep and your future and your sense of optimism and purpose and happiness and capacity to achieve anything in the world.
Too bad. You liked all that stuff?
No. It's ours, man.
We own you. Oh, do you like this dolphin?
You like this dolphin? Dolphin's gonna die, kid!
Why? Because Daddy has an SUV, that's why.
And you left your Xbox on last night.
So, sorry, the dolphin gets it.
Like these whales, too bad.
Too bad you don't get any.
Oh, how about these lovely Siberian Huskies?
Nope! Dead, right?
They are literally just going through, in the child's mind, they're going through his stuffed toys with a chainsaw and sprays of ketchup while they mime screamings As their teddy bears get beheaded.
They're a bunch of shakedown, psycho, monstrous sociopaths.
And they scare children for money.
And the money has been pretty freaking good for scaring children.
And so, after you hear, and I grew up with these doomsday predictions, these fucking assholes, I grew up with these doomsday predictions.
When I was a kid, in the 1970s, worldwide hunger...
Starvation by 1980. I literally thought I only had a couple of years to live.
And then it switched to, oh, peak oil, man.
We're going to run out of oil. The cities are going to grind down.
There's going to be no electricity.
Boom! Death, kid.
Death. And, I mean, you can run through.
I've run through this a million times.
Everybody's got all of these scares, right?
And, you know, we're all still standing and everything's fine and the price of oil is going down and there's tons left and, you know, as far as all of that goes, we're fine.
But these psycho-it clowns in lab coats have been professionally and parasitically and vampirically terrifying children and the weak-minded.
Oh, I mean, God, it goes back to Malthus, right?
So Malthus, the Malthusian doctrine.
So Malthus was a thinker.
I guess it was early, what was it, early, I don't know, late 18th century, mid-18th century, something like that.
And he said, here's the problem, you see, here's the problem.
Humanity will always face imminent starvation, always, because human birth rates go up exponentially, but food production only goes up in a linear fashion, so there'll always be a crossover and people will always starve to death.
And this produced a lot of social paroxysms and fears and hatred of the poor and fear of the poor and cruelty and all of that, because you've got to keep the human population down.
Well, Malthus was just another intergalactic asshole who got everything wrong.
Terrified people out of their freaking gourds and had immensely cruel public policy enacted in his name.
And it's been going on and on.
It's all a doomsday cult.
End of the world is coming!
Give me your money! End of the world is coming!
Give me your money! So kids these days, like I've lived through a bunch of these things, and look, I hate these people.
Like I hate these people with a burning biblical, like I never just watched my own documentary, episode 8, Passion.
I really do, because they strip childhood, and they strip innocence, and they strip joy, and they strip purpose, and they strip the capacity for happiness from children for money.
It's demonic. It's satanic.
It really is fundamentally satanic.
Well, it's even worse. At least Satan will take your soul but give you some cool stuff.
In the meantime, you lose your soul, but you can be Taylor Swift.
So, you know, there's some of that.
But no, I really, really hate these people.
And are any of these people, like these scientists, scientists are supposed to be guarding the walls, supposed to be guarding the walls, standing up there, looking down the tunnel of time for any threats coming our way, and using their magic science wands to protect us from the incoming dragons of danger, right? And what have they been doing?
What have they been talking about?
Climate change. Global warming.
50 fucking years. These jerkwads have been droning on and on about that, right?
Funny story!
Funny story!
Spoiler! It's not climate change!
It's communism.
It's communism. But you see...
The scaremonger, it-clown scientists work on communist principles.
Communism creates imaginary enemies and strips you of your life and freedom to fight the imaginary enemies that turn out to be themselves.
So scientists are like, hey man, the big problem is not communism.
The big problem, you see, is markets and pollution and all of that.
And it turns out that science created this problem.
Science created this problem.
So, I'm not a big fan of these people.
Yes, you may sort of understand.
Are they apologizing?
Are they saying, hey man, we took hundreds of billions of dollars from you to protect you against problems, and we told you all those problems had to do with climate change, but they didn't.
Sorry. They're not apologizing.
They're not saying, wow, how did we ever take all this money that could have been used to buy some basic freaking masks and wasted it on bullshit computer models that Predict the path of a pest dispenser down the lower rectum of some fantasy beast in another dimension.
Well, none of that.
Thanks for the money. Fuck you very much.
We're keeping it. So now we've all got to survive all this crap and we don't have the money to because the it clown assholes in white lab coats stole our money and our childhoods and our happiness and our purpose.
And I love science, don't get me wrong.
I love science.
But I hate this government program called fear-mongering assholes get rich of the future of children.
So, let's go back in here.
Should Canada nationalize their banking system?
Well, I mean, I guess originally it was.
No, everything should be privatized.
The production of money should all be privatized.
It's going to happen either way. It's going to happen either way.
Let's see. Why is it that the people most responsible for starting wars, the political elites, are exempt from the consequences of the war?
Well... You don't want power to be subject to the rules inflicted on other people.
I mean, that's not what you want power for.
You want power to inflict, quote, universal values on other people called don't steal, and then you want to be able to steal, right?
Because you want other people not to steal so they're very productive, and then you want to be able to steal from them.
But you see, now the elites are worried about this, right?
Now the elites are worried about coronavirus.
Right? Because they can catch it, right?
I mean, look at Boris Johnson just got hospitalized for coronavirus.
I shouldn't laugh.
Open borders asshole gets dinged by a virus from another country.
I'm sorry. Like, I don't want it to happen, but it's karma.
It's karma, man.
There's a white swan. Taleb called it white swan.
So, yeah, now they're stuck, right?
35 years. I've been warning people about the dangers of communism.
And here it is. Here it is.
All right, let's see here.
Your thoughts on our epistemological crisis?
Again, I have to zoom in on that.
What are your thoughts on 5G? I've read some stuff on 5G. I've consulted with a couple of friends of mine that I know who I think are knowledgeable on this.
But I don't have any particular conclusions.
So I gotta tell you, I mean, it seems to me that 4G is pretty fast.
Like, I mean, what do you need? Like 8K on your smartphone?
Good lord, right? So I don't know.
It just seems like a kind of a useless upgrade.
But anyway, I mean, it's just weird, right?
All right. Will USA go on gold?
I don't think the gold standard is coming back just because it's relatively inefficient compared to something like Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies.
How do you feel about forced vaccinations?
I don't like them, of course, right?
I mean, to not be vaccinated is not the initiation of the use of force.
So the way that vaccinations should work is in a free society, the vaccinations would work this way.
So first of all, the companies that make and administer those vaccinations should be subject to lawsuits.
Do you know in America they're really not?
They're kind of exempt from this kind of market feedback, so to speak.
So that makes me immediately suspicious.
Immediately suspicious, right?
The other thing, of course, is that if you didn't have this wild, multicultural, people pouring in from all parts of the planet and living in Western countries, you wouldn't need as many vaccinations because you wouldn't have as many illnesses coming in, right?
So that's another thing.
So forced vaccinations, no, it's freedom of association.
So let's say you run a school and you believe in vaccinations.
Then you will require vaccinations or certain kinds of vaccinations for kids attending your school.
And then the parents who also believe in vaccinations will do that as well.
And other schools, they say we don't care about vaccinations.
We're just in hand washing and we're, you know, whatever, right?
And so those kids and those parents will send their kids and, you know, maybe one set of kids will get sick more and one set of kids will get sick next and they'll just less and there'll just be this A-B experimentation going on in society all the time.
That's what you want. That's what you want.
But the idea that you get a gun to your head and get shit injected into your veins, I mean, that's Nazi, man.
That is Mengele shit right there, right there.
quarantine reveals how boring and annoying people are.
Well, you know. And being popular on Twitter.
That's also going to reveal quite a little bit.
Yeah, most people are boring and annoying.
I mean, it's just a reality because they don't think for themselves.
They barely exist as independent human beings.
They're, you know, what are called NPCs.
They're just programmed by culture.
They're programmed by the media.
And they just react emotionally.
They don't think for themselves.
It's not our birthright as humanity.
It's not the typical human being any more than a man under communism represents a man under a state of freedom.
But yeah, most people are boring, and most people are unfathomably dense.
And the problem is, like, I know I'm not an opera singer.
You know, I like to sing, but I'm no opera singer.
I'm not even a pop singer. I'm like an okay amateur singer.
That's it, right? So, I don't elbow people off the stage at the Met and say, I'm taking on all...
I'm not going to be doing any of that, particularly the tenor stuff, right?
So... I know my limitations.
I know my limitations.
I'm not going out for any hair commercials.
I know my limitations, right?
I'm not selling app machines, right?
So, I know my limitations.
But the problems with dumb people, dumb people or average people, they're just certain about everything.
They know the answers. I call them the period people.
Like, it's this and this and this.
Period. It's like, no, there's no period in most things.
There's no period in most things. There is a lot of questions, a lot of complexity, a lot of balancing, and so on.
So people are just like, well, we've just got to go back to work.
We've just got to go back to work.
Period. It's like, have you thought this through?
No, we've just got to go back to work because it's bad when the economy is stopped.
Yeah, I'm all kidding.
It's bad when the economy is stopped.
I get it. I get it.
It's bad when the economy is stopped.
Genius. Good for you, right?
How many lives...
How many lives...
Are you willing to accept ending because you want the economy to restart?
That's an adult and mature and intelligent question.
What's the balance, right? Now, the balance should be negotiated in a free society, but, you know, given that we're in a status society, that's the reality, right?
We've got to start the economy.
Okay. If it costs 10 million lives, is that worth it?
Is it a million lives? It's like immigration, right?
I mean, are you willing to have hundreds of thousands of little British girls raped by your Pakistani Muslim immigrants?
Because diversity is a strength, right?
You say, well, but immigrants are good for the economy.
Okay. So let's say, it's not really true, but let's say that immigrants add X number of dollars to the economy.
And let's say that only works out to each British girl gets raped and it adds $500 to the economy, right?
Because you got this mass immigration and all that, right?
Okay. Is it worth it for a child to get raped for $500?
I would pretty much say, hell no.
Like hell to the no to the infinity, right?
There's no amount of money that makes that worthwhile, right?
I don't care what the financial incentives are, right?
And I did this math a little while ago.
I don't know if I have it handy.
I probably don't. But I did this math a little while ago.
And if you were to spend an hour with each victim of these rape gans in England, these little girls, these little boys, white girls, white boys, Sikh girls, Sikh boys, and some others, of course, right?
But if you were to spend an hour with each one of those girls, it would take you hundreds of years to go from start to end.
Hundreds of years to go from start to end.
So most people, I mean, it's not even two-dimensional thinking.
Most people, it's like a dot.
It's just a point, right?
Coronavirus is a hoax.
Some hospitals are empty.
Yeah, I get it. I get it.
Coronavirus isn't hitting everywhere all the time exactly the same.
I get it. It's a big country.
It's a lot of demographic diversity.
There are different strains of the virus.
L.A. doesn't use much public transportation.
New York does. I get it, right?
I get it. People in the country are...
Better off than the people in the city for transmission.
So it's a complexity. It's a complexity.
And all of these idiots are just like, Trump should have acted earlier!
Right? Well, Trump was going through impeachment.
And Trump, of course, in just trying to get the Obama-listed bans on countries where there's no vetting for any kind of terrorism, that took how long?
Months? And there's that one complete D-bag judge in Hawaii who keeps blocking everything and it's like, you think he could have just snapped his fingers and closed the borders in the middle of an impeachment?
Come on. I mean, politics is the art of the possible.
We should have just done this.
It's like, oh, come on. I mean, it's just boring, right?
So yeah, most people are boring and annoying.
And they're not boring and annoying innately.
It's just when they try to do things that they're not good at.
Most people trying to philosophize is like me trying to do ballet or hit a high C or sing the entire yes catalog in falsetto in a toilet, right?
It's just not my wheelhouse, so to speak, right?
And most people just, if you're dumb, like I haven't given medical advice.
I haven't given policy suggestions.
Like there are things I don't know about.
Oh, well, how about this?
I heard this is really good for...
Coronavirus, well, I'm not a doctor, so I don't know.
Could be, could be not.
I don't know. I know the government shouldn't be dealing with all these decisions, but I don't know.
They could see me giving out medical advice.
Of course not, because I'm not an idiot.
You see, all these people, they become these instant experts.
Instant experts. Hey, I saw a bunch of videos of empty hospitals.
It's all a hoax. It's like, oh, God.
Stupid. Stupid.
Just stupid people who feel compelled to put their literal two cents worth of thoughts in.
Actually, it's worse than two cents because they're clogging up the avenues of productive conversation.
Just stupid. Or the people are like, well, I know a bunch of scientists who said coronavirus couldn't have come from a lab.
Bullshit, they don't know.
And scientists are...
Mostly sociopathic it-clowns preying upon the lifeblood and happiness of children for money.
So you'll pardon me if I step a fucking side and don't give two shits about what they say.
Oh, and all these scientists are being compromised by Chinese money.
Oh yeah, they're going to be totally objective.
It's just stupid. I mean, yeah, people are stupid.
And you've got to push back on this.
You've got to hit people hard, rhetorically, right?
This is what I do on Twitter. People come in and say stupid stuff.
I will point out that they're saying stupid stuff, right?
So, you know, like one guy, actually, it doesn't matter.
I won't look it up. I can paraphrase it.
So one guy was saying, you know, I'm a big fan, Steph, but lately I've been seeing a lot of poorly thought out tweets from you.
It's like, okay, you want to make a case for that?
It's not an argument to say these tweets are poorly thought out.
What does that mean? I don't know what that means.
Which tweets? Where's my reasoning deficient?
Where's my evidence deficient? Where's my contradictions?
Where's my lack of support?
Where's my valid but not sound or sound but not valid?
Where's all of this? I said, not an argument.
He said, I wasn't trying to make an argument.
I was just making an observation.
That's such a cowardly dickwad move.
Of course you're not making an observation.
Of course, you're making a claim, an objective truth claim that my tweets are irrational or, you know, poorly thought out or something like that.
Like, what does that mean? So there's a standard called rationality.
I'm falling short of that standard.
He's making an objective claim.
You make an objective claim.
It's incumbent upon you to prove that claim.
But then people just retreat.
It's just an observation. Bullshit!
An observation is...
I don't know. I don't like the short videos.
That's fine. That's subjective.
That's an observation, right? Observation is, you sit too close to the camera.
Observation is, you have freckles.
Yes, that is an observation, and that's true.
But if you're going to make a truth claim about the lack of quality of my arguments, you need to kind of make that...
You need to show that, right?
Because you're publicly accusing me of thinking badly.
So... Help a brother out, right?
Help me out. Help me out of my error.
If I'm making an error, you don't just sit in a car.
If you know someone is driving in the wrong direction and you're late for something, you don't just sit there and say, well, I'm not going to say anything about it, right?
Why would I say anything about it?
I'm just going to keep quiet, right?
You would correct that person and say, no, no, you took a wrong turn here.
You need to go here. You need to do that or whatever, right?
That's what you would do. So it's just malevolent concern trawling.
You know, this is poorly thought out.
Show me how. Oh, it's just an observation.
No, it's not an observation.
It's just, I don't know, it's just lazy.
So you've got to hit people hard and push them away from the stuff that they're bad at.
You know, you've got to be the Simon Cowell looking at people auditioning to have a smidge's worth of relevance on the planet.
Nope! All right.
All right. Like the Christmas truth, have you thought of a way to bring humanity to this world?
Well, let me tell you. Let me tell you.
My morning.
I woke up this morning, 8 o'clock.
And I lay in bed.
And I thought, nope. I'm solving this shit.
Like I did with ethics, with the university preferable behavior.
It's like, I'm solving this.
I'm solving this issue.
What the hell is going on? Why are we so dear in the headlines?
Why do all we have is paralysis?
Now, I could tell you the answer to what I came up with.
I had to lie in bed for like an hour and a half.
I had like half an hour's worth of bed sores before I got out because I finally got it or worked it out as I was going, right?
And then I wrote it all down this morning.
So I do have the answer as to why we're so dear in the headlights with this stuff.
But I'll do it separate. I don't want to sort of bury it in the live stream.
So that's my morning.
I just sit there and like, no, I'm not getting up.
I'm hungry. Gotta pee.
Not getting up. I gotta solve this problem.
Steph, how do I stop being low IQ? Well...
10% to 20%, maybe a little more, of IQ is environmental.
So work on your environment. And it's more important to be wise than smart in terms of happiness, right?
So high IQ isn't going to help you.
A lot of high IQ gives you the capacity to lie to yourself with great convincing sweeps of rhetoric.
So, all right.
So, yeah, work on philosophy and all of that.
And, you know, don't worry about it, right?
So, Steph, how come we can't restructure Social Security and the debt towards the private sector and away from government debt, which would default?
Because there are no assets in Social Security.
Like, there's no money. There's no money in the Social Security Fund.
Like, nothing. In fact, there's negative.
There's a bunch of dusty IOUs from the Treasury Department, right?
So there's no money in Social Security.
And there is no...
There's no stomach in the population to hear the truth.
And that's largely because of media hysteria and so on, right?
But where's the politician who's going to stand up and say to the boomers, sorry, there's no money?
Well, you taxed us for it.
It's like, yeah, but the money was stolen.
It was spent. You guys wanted a whole bunch of social programs.
You wanted to go to war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and you haven't demanded that those wars be stopped.
You want mass immigration.
You didn't want a border, because you're all hysterical about that stuff, a lot of you, right?
And so you wanted a whole bunch of stuff, and you weren't willing to pay the government to do it.
And so the government stole from your social security programs.
Fund to fund all of the things that you wanted the government to do that it didn't have the money to do, right?
And so because you underpaid for all that you wanted, there's no money there.
Now, who should pay for that?
Well, the rich aren't nearly numerous or rich enough to pay for it.
Should the next generation pay for it?
Should the millennials pay for it?
Well, no. Because they didn't make these particular decisions, and there's still time for them to save for their retirement.
Because you told everyone that the government responds to the will of the people.
And if the government responds to the will of the people, then the government was doing what you wanted, which was to give you vastly more in benefits than you ever paid in taxes.
And it's true. The boomers got like $1.60 plus in benefits for every dollar they paid.
So they ripped off the next generation.
In general, right? Lots of exceptions, but in general.
Okay, so what happens when you create a giant fiscal hole because of your greedy voting and inability or unwillingness to accept basic fucking math, right?
What happens? Who's responsible for that?
Well, the answer is pretty obvious.
It's the generation who voted for that is responsible for it.
In other words, they don't get to keep stealing from the next generation until they die.
And then you say, oh, well, that's really, really tough.
You know, that's tough for them. Well, it is.
Of course it's tough for them. You know, actions have consequences.
If you vote for massive amounts of largesse from the government and you don't want to pay the bills necessary for that, then you create a massive fiscal hole.
And who's responsible for that?
You say, oh, but you can't blame an entire generation, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
It's like, okay, let's say that's true.
Well, you sure as hell can't tax an entire generation either, right?
Because you can't judge an entire generation, therefore you can't tax an entire generation, so you can't tax the young.
Boomers are the richest generation that ever lived on this planet.
They are the richest generation that ever lived on this planet.
They've got artificially inflated real estate prices.
They've got savings. They were there for the big boom times and all of that, particularly in the 90s.
I was there, I know. It was part of taking a company public in those times.
It's a lot of money sloshing around that kind of stuff for the boomers, not so much for people like me, but for the boomers, there was a lot of money floating around for that kind of stuff.
And yes, there's some poor boomers and all of that, in which case, you know, there's charity and all that.
But no, there's no money, right?
There's no money. And who is willing to stand up and say to the boomers, sorry, you fucked up.
Sorry! There's a test called retirement, and you didn't study for it.
And so now you're going to fail the test called retirement.
Say, oh, yes, but, you know, they need all these things.
Well, should have thought of that when you were voting for the last 50 years or so, right?
But any time...
I mean, I remember this, because, I mean, you guys were probably younger, right?
But I remember... Ross Perot.
Ross Perot was this businessman who tried to bring some sense of fiscal reality to American politics.
I mean, he had his kid's wedding threatened, I think, like that, dropped out of the race.
He wasn't getting anywhere, really, because they didn't want to hear, right?
They didn't want to hear. The boomers didn't want to hear about any fiscal reality whatsoever.
It's a delusioned generation.
It's a completely deluded generation, allergic to basic reality.
Now, some of that is their own greed and their own selfishness, and some of that is the communist programming and socialist programming that they absorbed and amplified for the most part throughout their lives.
It sounds like a reboot, but I'm just trying to make sure I get the next point in a relatively flowing fashion.
And what did the boomers do?
Well, they wanted open borders, and they refused at all to deal with the dangers of communism.
And now communism has released a virus that's crossed open borders and is hitting the boomers hard.
What do they call it? It's coarse and it's harsh, and I don't agree with the terminology.
They call it the boomer remover.
They call it the boomer doomer.
I mean... I don't want any of these consequences, but actions do have consequences.
Alright. What is the libertarian solution to pandemics like COVID-19?
Well, I wouldn't want to fly on an airline that allowed sick people to come into the country.
Now, of course, the airlines, if they had said, look, I'm sorry, we're canceling our flights to China.
I don't understand airlines, fundamentally.
I've got people who are saying, hey, I want to come on and talk about airlines.
Like, maybe. But here's the thing.
You idiots.
Like, there's a pandemic.
Oh, well, I guess it was an epidemic when it was still in China.
Like, what the hell are you flying people from China for?
Shut down your stupid flights.
Like, what are you, retarded?
This is like running into a burning building and then complaining that your hair gets singed and you lose an eyebrow.
It's like you ran into a burning building, didn't you?
What the hell are you doing flying to China when they're going through an unknown epidemic?
Oh no, now the airlines are in deep financial doo-doo.
Well, of course you are!
God alive! You're flying people back and forth to China!
Hey man, COVID can't swim.
You got to get it over the ocean somehow.
Airlines going in, picking people up, zooming them out.
Airlines sort of sat down.
They should have sat down and said, okay, this is, what are we doing here?
This is a highly dangerous virus.
We've got to shut down our flights to China.
No, don't worry about it, man.
We're rich already because we've been using all this money to pump up our stock value.
There's enough for me to retire.
Screw the workers. There's enough for me to retire.
And you know what? If it gets bad enough, we'll just go crying to the government and they'll give us billions and billions of dollars.
So in a libertarian solution, you pay people to quarantine, right?
Yeah. Insurance companies and airlines and all these people are heavily invested in making sure nothing like this spreads.
It's all relying on the government.
The government will screw you every time.
Every time. Thunderfoot utterly destroyed 5G. Oh, didn't he?
I think that's a guy who bitched about me years ago.
Anyway, doesn't really matter. Okay, I don't know.
Maybe he did. All right, let's see here.
What have we got here? Oh, let's go back to Discord.
Discord and rhyme.
All right. That is some good singing.
Thanks. Appreciate it. I can do a little bit.
What is your take on the Salem Witch Trials?
Still safer than political correctness.
It would be interesting to do a show about that.
I've got so many shows on hold, it's ridiculous.
So many shows that I started building up presentations to, but I've done almost 30 shows on coronavirus, man.
All human desires are infinite, right?
All right. Jesus, dear Lord.
You guys like a little favor in here?
You know what? I'll give you a little favor.
I'll give you a little favor. It's nice that you guys are watching me rather than all the endless coronavirus updates.
Okay, I'll give you a little something here.
Give you a little wee summit.
All right, this is the...
Is it?
Should be. Should be.
Is this running? I will get the call-in show.
The call-in show. Oh, yeah, I will get the call-in show.
From today, if I can find it.
If I can find it. If I can find it.
Let's see here. Oh, maybe I have to go somewhere else to get that.
Okay, I'll get that in a bit. But I'll be getting the call-in show from today.
It's really wild. And the reason I thought of that is that, let's see here.
Would you have a multi-stream with the guys from ADB China, ADB Podcast?
Yes, I would be thrilled to.
Please set it up. I would appreciate that.
Thank you. Like, I don't have my producer anymore for reasons not really particularly important to go into, but it's a little more challenging to get all this stuff set up without it.
All right, so what else have we got here?
Would you consider creating freedommatch.com?
Oh, like a dating service?
I don't know if I'd have time for that right now.
And I don't even know the legality of that kind of stuff.
But you're welcome to come to the Discord server and chat with people.
Thank you for providing so much content and being courageous.
Steph, will you do speaking engagements next year?
Maybe. Maybe.
Maybe. I think that...
I shouldn't laugh.
I think people might be a little bit more open to what it is that I have to say after I predicted all of this stuff and talked about this being a pandemic back in January.
Switch from YouTube to Twitch.
Quality looks great. Yeah, so you can find me on Twitch.
You can find me at FreeDomain.
You can find me on DLive.TV. I'm on Periscope.
I'm on just a wide variety of...
Alternate platforms. You know, it's kind of funny, too.
Like, I did a live stream the other day, and it just vanished right after I was done.
And I complained or requested this be looked into by YouTube, but, well, they didn't really do much.
Now I get it. I mean, they've got a lot of automation that's going on right now, but, yeah, they didn't really get around to doing much helpful with that.
I had a backup, so I sent it, but I guess we lost the chat, right?
As someone who grew up in a household with this issue, what's your take on why people become hoarders?
Ah, why do people become hoarders?
Oh, yeah, I mean, I can tell you why I think people become hoarders.
So people become hoarders because they've been psychotically aggressed against for being unprepared as children.
Right? So, I don't know about how you guys experienced childhood.
For me, I had this uneasy feeling for a good chunk of my childhood because there was always something that I could be nailed on, right?
Like, always something. Like, oh, I couldn't find my braces.
Or, oh, I was the last one to use the flashlight.
Now I don't know where the flashlight is, right?
And someone, my mom's going to remember that I was the last one to use the flashlight.
Or, it could be anything.
Oh, I spilled some silver paint when I was making a 124 scale model of a Spitfire airplane.
And I spilled a little...
A bit of silver paint.
And I was so terrified that I cut a little section out where the silver paint was because I couldn't clean it.
And I cut a little bit out from under the couch from the carpet and I put it in so it couldn't be seen.
But what if that gets discovered?
Like there was always something.
Always something. And, you know, it takes a little while to shake that kind of unease.
Like that feeling of like, you know, is today the day, right?
And it was because there was a lot of violence in my household and I faced some significant risk of physical injury if this stuff was...
So, hoarders in general, they were probably insanely aggressed against or punished for not being prepared, for not having things on hand, or for losing things, or not having things available, for borrowing things and not returning them, or returning them in a poor estate, or, you know, whatever, eating the last cookie, like, whatever it is.
Just things not being around, they're heavily punished for, and so to try and maintain security, they just keep hold of everything.
Because you know what it is with hoarders, right?
And I'm not a hoarder, but I have books that I've had sitting there that I've been meaning to do for this show for like five years, seven years.
I came across something that I had saved from 2013 the other day, and I'm like, hmm, what are the odds that I'm actually...
I literally had a book by my bed on global warming that I've been meaning to do something on for at least a year.
So I'm not really a hoarder.
I'm just, it's tough. Like, I really want to do these shows.
Am I going to get around to them?
I don't know. I chatted with you guys now, so I don't know, right?
But, if you're a hoarder, what it means is you believe that you're going to need it or someone else is going to need it, right?
So, let's say you've got some magazine and there's some article in there that you want to read at some point.
It's interesting on the outside, right?
I remember a friend of mine, his mom, had a whole bookshelf of Reader's Digest condensed books and other books, and I was looking over that, and I'm like, I want to read all of these, every single one of these, right?
I would borrow them from time to time, but you're like, I've got this magazine.
It's got an article in it.
I really, really want to read it.
I'll just put it to one side.
And then you get another magazine.
Oh, I don't have time to read this now, but yeah, I'm going to read it soon.
I really want to read this, right?
Now, if you're going to throw it out, it means that you're accepting that you're not going to read it.
And what if you then need it later?
Well, for most of us, like, let's say I throw out some book, and I'm like, I don't know, six months from now, I'm like, oh, I need that fact from that book, right?
Okay, you survive, you move on, right?
You can deal with it, right? The alternative is to end up in a mountain of mad mayhem, right?
But if you can't handle the self-criticism of needing something but not having it, then you're just going to hold on to everything.
Now, where would this kind of self-criticism come from?
Well, it doesn't come from Our natural selves.
It's not like hunger or thirst, right?
Which is an innate experience.
This kind of hoarding comes from being attacked as a child for not having something on hand and not being prepared.
And it also comes from a funny feeling of avoidance of mortality, right?
Because at some point, let's say you've got an entire half room full of magazines Wherein there are articles at some point you want to read.
Like at some point you're going to have to say, I'm mortal.
I'm not going to get around to this, right?
So you have to accept that you're going to die in order to declutter your life.
Now, I don't have anything around, like I'm still only, I'm only 53 and 54 this year, so I got time, right?
I mean, good health and all that, so I got time, right?
But at some point you have to recognize that You can throw this stuff out, and even if you need it, you can handle it.
And the reason why hoarding escalates is that every time you conform with a fear, you strengthen the fear.
So if you're afraid of self-attack, if you throw something out and you need it, then every time you hoard it, you're reinforcing that capacity for self-attack, which is why it tends to escalate and get worse.
So if you've got a hoarder, ask about, in my opinion, you would ask about what happened with them As children, and you would say, what was it like for you when you were a child and, you know, mom wanted something or dad wanted something and it wasn't there?
And maybe they blamed you for it or whatever.
That's where I would go. Maybe it's not the answer for everyone, but that's the first place that I would go.
Hank says, my sister-in-law has recently come out to her husband, my wife's brother, that she has had an affair with her female yoga instructor and wants to get a divorce.
They have three children, one of whom is on the autism spectrum, and she has said that they can still co-parent and have a great story, whatever the hell that means.
Short of the advice to not divorce that my wife and I have given them, what information can I provide to dissuade them from a monumentally stupid decision?
Well, this is the power of family separation, right?
And I'm not talking about the parents.
It's that it's bad for the kids and the kids will be under no obligation to see them in the future.
And does she want to really give up a lifelong relationship potentially with her three children because of some crazed lesbian yoga instructor?
I would assume not, right?
Because here's the thing, right?
So parents... Act really shitty.
Why? Because they know that society is going to force their kids to see them for the rest of their lives no matter what.
And then someone like me comes along and I'm not the only one.
Dr. Phil's talked about it. A bunch of other people talked about it.
But it's still not common parlance.
I come along and say, hey, you know what?
If your parents are abusive, if your parents are toxic, if your parents are unrelentingly nasty, you don't have to see them.
It's called freedom. It's called free will, baby.
It's called moral responsibility.
You don't have to see abusive people.
It doesn't matter if they're your parents.
In fact, if it's your parents, it's kind of even more important because you didn't choose that relationship, right?
Your parents are the one unchosen relationship in your life.
So since you didn't choose them, they should have the highest standards of behavior.
I am responsible for the highest standards of behavior to my daughter.
The highest standard of behavior.
She didn't choose me. Didn't choose me.
Whereas what happens is that people just sit there and take children for granted that they're going to be able to guilt and manipulate and bully them so they can treat them like shit, like the same way the DMV treats you like shit because you've got nowhere else to go.
They've got a monopoly, right?
Same way the tax departments treat you like shit sometimes because they've got the power of the gun, right?
And so why are parents so mean sometimes, right?
Or why are so many parents so mean?
Why do more children get hit than spouses?
Because spouses can leave.
Privatizing the family is essential to the freedom of the species.
Because if children have no choice all the way through their lives but to go and trudge over and see their abusive parents, what reason would the abusive parents have to reform themselves?
The free market works everywhere.
The free market and voluntarism is quality.
It is quality. And there's nothing else that will produce quality other than the free market and voluntary relationships.
If you want quality in the family, the family must be voluntary.
Now, it can't be voluntary when the kids are little, but it sure as hell can be voluntary when they become adults.
Privatizing the family...
Bringing free market voluntary trade principles to the family is how you improve parenting.
You move it from the public sector to the private sector.
You move it from coerced to voluntary, from bullying to chosen.
That's how you do it.
That's how you improve parenting.
You know, it's like when there were all of these industries in the Soviet Union, you couldn't improve them except by privatizing them.
It's the same thing with the family.
So, yeah, just remind them that there are thinkers out there who are going to remind their kids that they don't have to deal with a selfish mom who blew up the entire family because she liked the thigh gap of some yoga instructor.
And is it really worth it?
Is it really worth it? You know, your kids are going to be around.
Let's say that the kids are young.
So the kids, and let's say the mom is, I don't know, 40 of the kids are in their 8 to 15 or whatever it is, right?
Okay, so your kids are going to be around for another 40 years.
Can you really say the same for the yoga instructor?
Of course not. I mean, and also the yoga instructor is a psycho bitch enough to bust up a family.
Like, that's a shitty human being, man.
That's a totally shitty human being.
That's a garbage human being who's going to bungee in with her yoga pants and bust up a family.
So you scare the sister-in-law into her common sense.
She's going to run off with this yoga instructor.
She's going to find out that the yoga instructor is crazier than a bag of Chinese Wuhan bat soup.
And then the yoga instructor is going to run off.
Something's going to happen. It's going to be some blow-up.
And her parents are going to be like, nope.
Nope. Thanks.
Gave it a shot. But you chose the yoga instructor.
Guess what? Welcome to your life with the yoga instructor and not with me.
That's the reality. That's how you do it.
Now, if she does decide to run off with the yoga instructor and destroy the lives of her own children, well, they're probably better off without her.
That's harsh, but it's probably true.
All right. What are your thoughts on trying to conceive during our current state?
This is very important to my partner and I, but it's worrisome given the uncertainty of the future economy.
Well, don't let communism take you from your children.
You will find a way to make it work.
You will find a way to make it happen.
I mean, look at this. I mean, we've shut down the entire economy.
People are just like, okay.
Really adaptable. Really adaptable.
If you promise people that the end is near, they turn to hedonism and nihilism.
Did a number on me in my 20s.
It makes me so angry.
Yes, that is very true, and it's brutal.
It's brutal. All right.
If you've ever watched the show Hoarders, you'll see that most of the people have lost someone they were close to.
Yeah, but there's so many people who lose stuff who don't become hoarders.
That's not the answer.
All right. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Dr.
Gabor Mate. Mate with a gay accent.
Yes, you should definitely do that.
All right. What do we say here?
Have you noticed a lot of political commentators or pundits on YouTube always seem to start as gamer channels?
I don't watch gamer channels, so I think Destiny was one of those, right?
But yeah, it could be, right? What are your thoughts on autism?
I'd really like to do a call-in show about my son and whether I'm adequate to homeschool him, but I'm not sure if that's something you would be interested in discussing.
Well, it's not that I wouldn't be interested in discussing it.
I just don't have any particular expertise.
That's a fairly specific disorder, and you should listen to the experts on that.
How do I actually confront my inner mom and inner child?
How does that look like? Do I write questions in a journal or something like that?
Well, I don't know because everyone can do it differently.
But what I did was I have a therapy journal that I kept for years.
And one of the things that I had was I had incredibly vivid dreams during this time in my life.
I still have pretty vivid dreams, but these were something else, man.
What I did was I took the dream characters.
I still remember all of their names and all of the nicknames that I gave them.
It's so funny, right? But I engaged with my dream characters and I wrote it down in Socratic dialogues about meaning and truth and history and all of that.
But you don't want to confront your inner mom.
Your inner mom is there to help you.
Your inner mom is your savior.
So if you have a violent mom, you have to internalize what leads to that violence so that you're one step ahead of it and you prevent yourself from doing the things that are going to get you beaten up.
Anytime violence is inflicted upon you, You can die.
I mean, this is just a basic reality.
Or you can lose an eye. Or you can burst a blood vessel.
Or, like, even if you're being spanked, right?
You turn suddenly and a hand or a ring or a nail goes into your eye.
I mean, violence is a really uncorked devil.
And so you have to avoid those situations.
So I could tell the warning signs with my mom.
So I needed to feel uneasy before she got violent.
So I had to internalize her moods so that I could navigate through my childhood and get out.
Alive. You're in a violent prison and you've got to find the rules pretty quickly or you don't make it, right?
So your inner mom is there to keep you alive, right?
I mean, she seems like your outer mom, but she's there to keep you alive.
She's there to help you. She's there to protect you from the violence out there.
So it's not a confrontation thing.
First, start off by saying thanks, right?
Thanks. All right.
That was from Beethoven.
could benefit from what I have to say too.
The way I did it was I'd make myself remember traumatic events in my childhood, and I'd insert my current self into that situation to stick up for my inner child.
That's great.
Ranging from attacking the abuser physically and verbally to giving advice and words of encouragement to my inner child.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's a good thing to do.
The other thing, too, of course, is if you're having trouble with self-empathy, think of a child that you know and care about, and then imagine seeing what was done to you, if you were abused, being done to the child that you care about in the present.
This is particularly true if you're a parent yourself.
You have a son, and if you were beaten up, imagine that you go out and you hire a babysitter, and the babysitter does to your son what was done to you, how angry you would be.
Well, why is your son more important than you?
He's not. He should be as angry about what happened to you by...
So that is, I think that is very, very important, right?
Somebody says, been listening for seven years, about to turn 23, studying to be a philosopher, still depressed and procrastinating.
What can I do? Well, figure out the disconnect between theory and practice.
The values matter. You've got to put them into practice.
Brutally beautiful. Thank you, Free Domain.
Thank you very much. I appreciate that.
Thoughts on learning a number of different complex things at once.
I'm learning painting and drawing and studying philosophy and anxious about juggling those subjects.
Well, why would you be anxious? I mean, if you find that you're not that effective in studying both, focus on one or the other.
I mean, just be flexible and all of that.
All right. Should we do a couple more?
How are you guys enjoying the chat?
It's delightful for me, of course.
And it's lovely to see.
Oh, look at that. More people are dropping in.
Hi. How are you doing?
Very nice to chat with you.
Okay, I'll run through a couple more questions.
Nomad Mike says, love you, stay safe.
Thank you very much. I love you guys as well.
Any thoughts on with Boris Johnson admitting to hospital?
I did that before. Curious about Steph's thoughts on the origins of the Bible.
Okay, I certainly do have some thoughts on the origins of the Bible, but that might take a while.
So let's see if there's other things here.
I only drink water that I've blessed with Stephan's voice.
There we go. That's very funny.
It's very funny. Moksha says, I just got here straight from the latest Golden State video.
Absolutely moving, powerful.
Tear and thought-provoking.
Wonderful work, Stephan. Yes, Jesus says forgive, but we don't have to forget.
Peace. Thank you very much.
I appreciate that. And I had an interview with the great Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson recently where he...
Not exactly cornered me because I was there by choice, but all of that, right?
Instead of relying on Machiavellian tactics, how can I process or proceed in the workplace through the lens of philosophy?
I'm in banking technology and looking to position for a leadership role.
Thank you. Well, you know, here's where you get exposed to what I think is my rationally amoral side, which is, look, morality is not something that you...
Let me put this in a way that is not going to be misconstrued.
So if you show up to play tennis and the person on the other side of the tennis match field, the tennis court, is there with a baseball bat, do you just play as if they're there with a tennis racket?
Well, no. You say, look, we're not playing the same game.
Like, I'm happy to have the rules of tennis, but you've got to bring a tennis racket.
And I'm not playing with a hardball because that's going to kill my racket and I've played tennis ball.
So if you want to come here with a baseball bat...
Actually, no, because if that person was Chinese, they'd have eaten the bat.
But anyway, if you want to come here with a baseball bat and a hardball, we can't play the game.
I don't know what it is. It's not tennis, right?
So it's the same thing with ethics.
If somebody shows up and they're not playing by the rules of decent behavior and they're not playing by the rules of reciprocity and empathy and, you know...
Then play their game. Morality is not a commandment that you owe to the universe like physics.
Morality is a relationship and it is a respect that is earned by reciprocal behavior.
Be good to the good.
Be virtuous to the virtuous.
People who aren't virtuous, you don't owe them virtuous behavior.
You don't owe them honesty.
You don't owe them integrity.
You don't owe them respect.
You don't owe them any of that.
You don't steal from people who don't steal from you.
If someone steals from you, you can steal it back.
You understand? Morality, this is the most fundamental problem with ethics as it's generally understood, or rather generally inflicted upon the general population.
Ethics is a relationship you have with virtuous people.
It is not a relationship you have with corrupt and lying and false and brutal and manipulative and amoral or immoral people.
You don't have that relationship.
Now, of course, the immoral people will say, well, you've got to act morally no matter what.
Bullshit. Bullshit.
You buy an iPad online, 500 bucks?
They don't ship you the iPad?
Do you pay them? No, but you got to pay for what you, you know, but you didn't get it.
They weren't honorable.
They didn't send you the iPad so you don't send them the 500 bucks.
You understand? Be good to the good.
The exercise of virtue is a prize that is won by other people being virtuous to you.
So if you're in a business relationship, and I will say this directly from my own experience, and I'm damn proud of it.
of it.
I have no problem with this whatsoever.
Once I was in a business relationship and I had a corporate credit card and I had put thousands of dollars of expenses in and they just weren't paying me.
They just weren't paying me.
So I went and I took that corporate card and I bought thousands of dollars worth of stuff for myself.
They had to pay that bill, right?
And I said, you know what? You can deduct all of this from the money that you owe me.
And they, you know, they tried to get all kinds of surety with me.
Well, that's an unauthorized and improper use of the corporate card.
It's like... Hey man, I was going to buy this stuff.
I didn't get my expenses back.
And so I had to use the card.
I mean, sorry. You just deducted, right?
Now, if people had been paying my expenses as they're supposed to, and I literally, I waited three months or four months for these expenses to be paid.
That's a lot of money. If people had been paying my expenses, I never would have dreamed in a million years of putting anything personal on a corporate card.
Like, it would never have crossed my mind as anything even...
But it's like, sorry, now we're in a state of nature.
If you're not paying me, I'm going to put things on the card.
You can take it up with Visa.
You can deduct it from what you owe me.
I'm in a state of nature.
I don't owe them moral considerations because they're kind of ripping me off.
I had another business situation where a guy had a really bad temper...
But only with me in private.
Now, he was my boss.
Can't fire your boss, right?
And what did I do?
Well, I tried to reason with him.
I tried to talk with him, but it didn't really work, right?
So then what do I do? Well, I'm in a meeting, and I needle him to the point where he blows up in front of his boss.
Then he got fired. I don't have any problem with that.
At all. So, you know, I don't want to be Machiavellian.
Well, why not? Why the hell not?
Why not? Are you above all of that?
Are you willing to just get cuck-wrapped by society as a whole because you're just too good to play dirty?
Hey man, you go into the boxing ring and you fight as clean as the other guy.
If the other guy starts fighting dirty and you stick to your Queensborough rules, you're going to lose.
You're going to lose. So no, morality is a special gift that you give to people who've earned it through their own virtuous behavior.
But it's not something that you...
You tart around like some drunken British girl with her skirts hiked up to there.
So... Be as mean as you have to be.
I mean, the point is to gain resources for your family and...
Keep that special gift...
Of reciprocal virtue to those who've earned it.
But yeah, people...
What's your favorite zombie movie?
I think Shaun of the Dead was pretty funny, but I don't really watch zombie movies.
Oh, I did watch World War Z, but it's pretty forgettable.
How do you know if you might have PTSD? I don't know, because that's a technical thing, and I can't really judge that.
What do you think of Berdaev, the Russian philosopher?
I don't. Steph is like heroine.
I'm more of a hero than a heroine.
When his live YouTube vids aren't running, I go through withdrawal.
Well, that's...
Remember, there's almost 5,000 podcasts.
All right. What have we got here?
Favorite classic novel or novels?
I've got a lot of time to read right now.
Ah, yeah. Pick up The Fountainhead.
Go through that. That's an amazing book.
My favorite of her books.
Alright. I only drink water that has traveled through the system of our Canadian goddess, Trish Stratus.
Okay, now you've got me curious.
Egg check on.
Egg check on aisle three.
Egg check on aisle three.
Trish Stratus.
Dare I click on images? Canadian professional wrestler and model.
All right. Yeah, those don't look real.
Who knows, right? Who knows these days?
That is one toothy smile.
Yeah, that's pretty good.
All right. Pretty good.
All right. Oh, look at that.
Somebody sent me a penny through money button.
Oh, please. I insist that's too much.
All right. I'm not going to complain, though, because there's no overhead.
All right. A couple more.
These are fun. You guys are great fun.
As someone who agrees with every other word you say, I would love to debate the existence of a supreme being with you.
I'm not really doing religion debates at the moment.
Too much in common with Christians.
What is your preferred brand or source of water?
I don't really drink the stuff from the bottles.
I don't really drink that from the bottles, but...
I don't really have a preferred brand or source of water.
I mean, my source of water is filtered stuff through my fridge, and no for the ride.
All right. 96% is a fantastic overall survival rate.
Why do you feel we have risked the economy?
It seems to be a big risk. A plummeting economy would surely cause more damage.
I don't know. I see you and I don't have information that the leaders do.
I bet you the leaders have a lot more information about the source and origin and purpose of this virus than we do, right?
Lord of the Rings or war and peace?
You know, I've never had much luck with him.
Tolstoy? Never had much luck with him.
I think I got through Anna Karenina, but I've never made it through war or peace.
I never... I've just...
Really... His stuff really puts me to sleep.
How much will the single home prices decline?
Well, probably quite a bit.
Do you have any good news? Are you kidding me?
There's so much good news in all of this.
You know, so when the car is going off the cliff, you roll out.
You say, well, I could get bruised and scraped from the rolling out.
It's like, yeah, but what's the alternative?
The system that was prior to the CCP virus, the system that was, was suicidal.
It was absolutely going to crater.
It was absolutely going to be a disaster in the most horrifying kind of ways.
This is a horrible, horrifying, shocking wake-up call to do something different.
I, you know, this is like, I don't know what you guys are, who you're listening to, but all right.
Is Lord of the Rings good? I haven't seen it.
Yes, it is good.
Do you think the interest rates will rise soon, given the downturn, or is it going to be low indefinitely?
Well, they can't raise the interest rates when they just hand out over $2 trillion, right?
I love your work, but when are you going to upload more Doom Eternal?
I need more data frags.
I don't upload it, my friend.
It's live, baby, live!
In XS style. So, maybe tomorrow?
We'll do some tomorrow. All right.
I live in California, and if the government forced COVID-19, I don't want to take it.
I think that means a vaccine.
Yeah, I don't. Oh, a vaccine.
I don't want to take it. I'm a heart patient, two heart attacks.
Not sure if I should say no.
Risking it forced in jail.
I don't know. Maybe you can move.
Again, I don't know.
Do you still seek an answer for world peace?
Yes, peaceful parenting is the answer to world peace.
China is buying lots and lots of food manufacturers in Brazil right now.
How should a narco-capitalist talk about that subject without looking anti-market?
I think it's kind of easy now that China has infected the world.
So if you like fantasy, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever is a great series.
So there are two writers who actually made me weep passionately with their fantasy novels.
So Ayn Rand has a great scene.
I think it's The Wet Nurse and Hank Reardon in Atlas Shrugged.
It always made me kind of weepy.
And Thomas Covenant, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, is amazing.
Amazing. Stephen R. Donaldson, I think his name is.
It's amazing work.
I, of course, haven't read it in many years, but it's wonderful.
It is wonderful stuff.
He made me.
When he returns to that woman he had that unpleasant encounter with when he first goes into the other world, oh, oh, amazing, amazing.
It really is a beautifully written book, but man, does that guy have a thesaurus and a half.
I am a bully. Be my friend.
I will, but just because you're making a good joke.
All right. 4% death rate is still very high.
Well, so, you know, if I give you 100 M&Ms and say only four of them are poisoned, you're happy to eat them?
I don't think so. Let's see.
What is the deal with women who are proud of being childless and their obsession with houseplants or strange pets?
Well, they've been programmed that way, right?
They've been programmed, I think of the show Damages with Glenn Close.
Um... Damages... Glenn Close is a really creepy psycho character in that, as she is in just about everything she does outside of West Wing, but...
It's always like this perfect...
They're having the glass of wine in this perfect place, and it's quiet, and they're listening to classical music, and it's all empty and boring and empty and...
Sorry, I just repeat myself. Empty and boring and endless is what I meant to say.
So proud of being childless.
It's one thing that's particularly true with whites as a whole, that if you can convince a white person that something is virtuous, they will do it despite all misery.
It's one of the great strengths and weaknesses of white civilization.
And so if you can convince a woman, That there are too many people in the world and that not having children is a responsible way to deal with the environment and consumption of nature, scarce resources and so on.
Then they will do it and they will suck up and suffer the agony and loneliness and all of that because they're doing the right thing, don't you know?
And it's great if you want people to say self-quarantine.
It's bad if you want them to continue as a race.
Alright. Thank you for being a great example.
Four rainbows. Well, that's very nice.
Broccoli is little trees.
Is that right? Making a live YouTube video is bullying.
Okay, okay. I don't know.
How is producer Mike doing?
I don't know. I'm sure you can find him.
Just go ask him. Let's see here.
What was the name you used for a guy who had a lot of different jobs?
Handyman? Jack of all trades?
Master of none? Me?
I don't know. Apparently Eric Weinstein is afraid of you.
Or so he said on Rogan.
Yeah, you know, so somebody was saying that...
I was on Joe Rogan years ago a couple of times, but, you know, he was programmed by women to attack me and, you know, kind of cucked out and all that.
So anyway. I don't really think about him at all, of course, anymore.
But somebody pinged me a couple, actually a large number of people pinged me and said, Eric Weinstein.
Weinstein? I don't know. Eric Weinstein was on Joe Rogan and they were talking about you and Eric Weinstein said, he's afraid of me.
I'm a really nice guy.
This is a big surprise that everyone has.
They read my Wikipedia page and they're like, wow, let me go check out the live stream from Satan!
I'm a really nice guy.
I care a lot about people. I'm a happy guy.
I love the world and I want it to be happy.
I'm willing to take the slings and arrows of outrageous discomfort if it means bringing the truth to people that Makes them happy, right?
It seems kind of important to me.
But so why Eric Weinstein would be afraid of me, it just strikes me as a completely ridiculous lack of self-knowledge.
I mean, there's nothing to be scared about with regards to me.
I'm not armed. I'm not sinister.
I'm not doxing people. I'm not dangerous physically or anything like that.
So there must be some ideas that I have that he's I don't know what it means to be scared of ideas.
Well, no, I guess they do. I mean ideas like communism that I want people killed for disagreeing with them.
Yeah, that's something to be scared of, but that's not me, right?
I've never advocated for the initiation of the use of force in any way, shape, or form.
So why would he be scared of me?
I don't know. It's just like playing the victim, crying out.
I don't know. So anyway, I haven't watched a Joe Rogan show.
I watched the occasional clip.
I watched the one on Bernie Sanders.
Oh, if only we could figure out what Joe Rogan's wife and Bernie Sanders had in common.
It's hard to know. Hard to know.
Hard to figure out. But I did sit down and watch this.
And I didn't watch the whole thing, because I don't mean to say, because my shows are long, but the shows seem ungodly long to me.
And just, they're kind of murmury.
They're kind of droney a lot of times.
I mean, I try to throw some variety, and I'm halfway to a cartoon character online anyway.
But So somebody said, oh, the timestamp is like 59 minutes they talk about you, and I'm like, oh, you know, what the heck?
I'm just working away on the call-in show this morning.
I'm like, I throw that on in the background, right?
So it's on my second monitor, and I'm sort of glancing over, and Joe Rogan is talking with Eric Weinstein, and it's kind of hypnotic, because Eric Weinstein is like, he really needs a murmur.
And I hear, like, Eric Weinstein's got this theory about how rebellious versus how corporate you are.
It's like, yeah, that's what you want to talk about in the midst of a pandemic, right?
And he kind of made fun of Joe Rogan a little bit, and they were talking about how edgy and rebellious they were.
And then, you know, I kind of faded out a little, because it's like, ugh, right?
And then I tune back in again in my brain a minute or so later, and they're talking about obscure wrestlers.
And I'm like, what now?
It just seems so disconnected and weird in the midst of a massive pandemic when society is going through the death throes of an old empire and an old existence to be patting yourself on the back for how rebellious you are and talking about obscure wrestlers.
It's just very, very strange to me.
And anyway. All right.
Let your inner bully out on a bully.
All right. A couple more.
How do I get a wife?
The way to get a wife is to be a wife.
How do you get a wife? I hope this isn't the yoga teacher.
How do I get a wife?
Well, you change your avatar, you freak of nature.
Sorry, that's like one creepy avatar.
Don't do that. Don't. And change your name.
Killers with a Z. Yeah, sorry.
Don't do any of that, right? So you just have relentless high standards for what it is you're looking for, and you just don't date anyone who's not going to meet those standards, right?
Who's not weird and freaky and who's normal and wants to have kids and wants to be a mom and wants to be a wife, all that kind of stuff, right?
Why do you look so scared, Steph?
Just realize people with faith fear not.
I think you might not be quite hitting the peak of love your enemies there.
Sometimes you wear glasses and sometimes you don't.
Do you need to wear glasses or not?
I guess you're not in your 50s.
So I started to need to wear glasses probably about 10 years ago or something like that.
I don't desperately need them, but yeah, I mean, I can't.
Yeah, I can read my watch. So, I do...
Yeah, I do need to wear glasses.
I don't need to wear glasses when I'm just like out walking around.
I don't need to wear glasses when I'm driving, but when I'm reading.
Yeah, and so it's a little bit easier, right?
I love you, brother. I hope you and your family stay safe.
Thank you very much. Weinstein himself mentioned that it was hard to stay on point.
Isn't house arrest wonderful?
Do you think leaders like Trudeau and Merkel should be charged with treason?
Well, I... You know, when George Bush Jr.
gets charged with war crimes for invading Iraq, get back to me, right?
Is he even reading questions from this chat?
No. I'm not.
What's your opinion of David Icke?
I don't know much about him, really, at all.
I don't have enough. I know he's considered to be pretty far out there, but so am I. So, you know, glass houses, stones and all that.
These chat spammers are painful.
Have you stared at your hamster with a bag of ketchup yet?
Oh, that's basically.
Weinstein didn't say he didn't like Steph.
I don't know. It's just like, I'm scared of him.
I like him. I don't like him.
It's like, can you actually degree?
Can you actually deal with the content of anyone's arguments or are you just going to...
Gossip. Does he check Subscribestar messages?
Yes, I'm a little bit behind on that.
I apologize for that. I mean, just so you know, this is sort of my work day, right?
So I got up and I... I mean, just so you know, it's a day in the life.
I heard the news today, oh boy.
So it's a day in the life, right?
So I woke up, had breakfast with my family, and then I... I apologize profusely because I completely forgot about the call-in show today.
I lost track of days. And so I did a two-and-a-half-hour call-in show from 11.30 until 2 o'clock.
And then I worked on processing that.
And then I did some recreational time with my family, went for a hike, and chatted with my daughter quite a bit.
And then I came back and I set up the premiere for tonight of episode 8 of Sunset in the Golden State.
And then I wrote a newsletter and I put the newsletter out.
Then I spent a little bit more time with my family and then had some dinner.
And then I am now from 8 o'clock until...
What is it? It's almost 10. So for the last two hours, I've either been doing the premiere or doing this.
So, I mean, that's a lot of work.
And so I do sometimes get behind on emails, and I am sorry for that, but I'm just one man.
I've always appreciated what you do, Steph, nowadays more than ever.
Thank you. I appreciate that.
Can you get James Watson on the show?
Well, that's an interesting idea.
Can you release a copy of Practical Anarchy without your name on it?
That is not a bad idea.
That is not a bad idea.
What's your favorite thought-provoking movie?
I mean, it's kind of gay, but Fight Club was pretty good, right?
Steph, Weinstein actually was liking what you had said and praising you for it.
You just have a lot of energy for some people.
I think it's fair to say that I probably have just a smidge more energy than Brett Weinstein.
So yeah, so Brett Weinstein and I, I mean, I think the last thing I haven't thought about him in forever, but I think the last time I had any brush by with him was when he was talking about white supremacy.
And I mean, Brett Weinstein obviously is Jewish, right?
So he was talking about white supremacy.
And I brought up a prominent Jewish lawmaker who says that Jews are the supreme race, and that's pretty important.
And I also brought up a rabbi, the most famous and popular rabbi in all of Israel.
And Netanyahu was at his funeral.
His funeral was attended by 800,000 people.
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