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June 10, 2020 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux

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Philosopher Stefan Molyneux Asks: How Are You Doing?

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	Well, hello everybody.
	Stefan Molyneux from Free Domain.
	Good evening, good evening.
	I hope that you are...
	Well, I hope that you're doing alright, to be honest.
	I hope that you're staying safe.
	I hope that you are measuring your connection to the news and moderating how much...
	I guess if the rather alarming situations that are going on in the world, you are putting yourself in.
	Good evening, frosty night.
	I hope you're doing well.
	And yeah, I wanted to talk to you guys.
	I have a couple of things I wanted to talk about, but I also wanted to just see how you guys are doing and get your thoughts about this situation as well.
	It's okay to be white? Yes, I dare say that it is.
	Howdy, Emily. Hello, hello, Hunter.
	Is this thing on?
	Hello, Steph. Nice to see you guys.
	Hey, from Saskatchewan.
	Hey, from Saskatchewan.
	Do you guys think I should go and do a speech in Ottawa?
	Hmm. Really sad about race relations, Aaron.
	I can't help but agree with you.
	This, of course, is the point and the purpose, all too sadly.
	The point and the purpose of what's going on at the moment is to try and get people to dislike each other as much as humanly possible.
	It's a really, really sad thing. It's a really, really sad thing.
	Like, did you know? I mean, it's pretty obvious, I suppose so.
	But did you know that most black people actually really like and approve of the job that the police are doing?
	And did you know that...
	Thinking that all blacks hate the cops is basically saying that all blacks are criminals, which is a horribly nasty thing to say.
	Most blacks like the cops, respect the cops, approve of the cops.
	The majority of blacks want more policing in their neighborhoods.
	And of course you don't hear any of that because everybody's trying to make everybody look as bad as humanly possible.
	I am doing well.
	I am doing well.
	I am, boy, I gotta tell you, I am real half and half about all of this kind of stuff that's going.
	Ronald Ginsberg, hi Steph, pleasantly surprised you're on live chat tonight.
	I gotta tell you, I missed you guys, you know?
	I really, I miss chatting with you guys, I miss getting your questions, and I miss hearing what you have to say.
	It's a great and beautiful community, and thanks so much to the people who came by every now and then on the Free Domain Discord server.
	We like to do something a little bit Fun and nutty, so we did a bunch of quizzes tonight on, well, a variety of things on biology, on space, on science, on history, a bunch of trivia questions, and also we did cultural diversity sensitivity training, which was actually kind of hysterically fun.
	So, you are worried for the future of the nation.
	Yes, yes, you should be.
	Doom is becoming a documentary.
	This is how much I love you guys.
	I could have been playing Doom, but no, I'm chatting with y'all, which is...
	I guess what's going to happen is I'm just going to basically forget how to play Doom, and then when I get back to it finally, it feels a little bit frivolous to be playing Doom at the moment.
	Anyway, what can I tell you? Nikolai says, Steph, I hate you.
	Just kidding, bro. Going to like this video.
	Keep doing God's work, brother. Thank you.
	Thank you very much. Losing my mind and picking fights on Facebook.
	People still on Facebook?
	Seems a bit... Well, I guess so.
	I guess so. Good to see you in fair spirits.
	Well, it's really, really tough.
	It's, you know, there's a plus and a minus.
	Oh, and by the way, let me ask you guys some advice.
	Let me ask you advice.
	Very, very important.
	So, I have...
	The opportunity to debate somebody who's kind of pro-Antifa on Sunday.
	We're having trouble coming up with a moderator.
	The moderator that he wants is someone I don't like.
	I don't care. I don't think we need moderators, but we're sort of going back and forth on that.
	A, do you think I should do it? I think it would be interesting.
	I would be quite curious to hear the viewpoint of people from that side of the aisle, so to speak.
	And do you think we need a moderator?
	No. Do you have any good ideas as to who could moderate it that we would both?
	I don't think we need a moderator.
	I'm an anarchist. But yeah, I'm just curious what you guys thought about all of that.
	Feeling ever tied to self-censorship closing in?
	Any advice? You know, it's kind of easy for me to say, so I'm with all sensitivity to that.
	I mean, I've kind of...
	I've built a living, so to speak, out of really pushing the envelope.
	So, like, moving the Overton window sometimes with mental dynamite if need be.
	So it's kind of easy for me to say, you know, just push it, man, and now or never.
	And so I get that.
	You know, you guys got bills to pay.
	And, of course, donation link is down below, freedomain.com forward slash donate if you'd like to help out.
	I'd really appreciate it. But...
	If we don't find a way to stand up against this encroaching social and thought tyranny, and eventually economic tyranny, if we don't find a way to stand up against it, like our jobs aren't going to mean anything.
	Our lives, frankly, aren't going to mean anything.
	Because here's the thing, man.
	When hard leftists take over, you and I are going to camps.
	And that may be, well, I don't know if we're going to be lucky or not, but that's the reality.
	That's what happens historically. I'm in for a penny, in for a pound, as they used to say when I was a kid growing up, which means that if you've already taken a stand, there's no point backing down now.
	You understand? Like, even if I were to say, oh, you know, I've turned total communist or whatever, which I'd never do, but even if I were to say that, they would still say, well, we can't trust you, man, and you harmed our cause a lot before you turned around, and if you betrayed your cause, maybe you'll betray communism, and they'd still put two between the eyes, right? So it's, you're in now.
	You crazy bastards, you're listening to me.
	What are you, nuts? Right?
	So you're in now. And what are you going to do?
	Like, if they get their way, the dollar is going to be destroyed, the economy is going to be destroyed, and they're going to be all over the place.
	At least you will finally have friends at camp.
	Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
	Absolutely. So, yeah, we can't take a stand.
	It's job loss and family loss central.
	What do you think is going to happen if you lose?
	It's a serious question, right?
	What do you think is going to happen if and when we lose?
	What happens, my friends?
	What happens? It's really, really important.
	It's really important. What happens if you lose?
	You say, oh, well, you know, but it's going to be tough on my family, and my family's not going to be happy, right?
	Well, if you lose, you're going to lose your family anyway, because they're going to take you away in a wheelbarrow or...
	A blender or a wood chipper, Fargo style, right?
	So there's no way that anything can remain the same given the way that things have accelerated.
	And, you know, there's plus, it's a minus to this acceleration.
	The minus, of course, is that it's really kind of stressful right now.
	But the plus, of course, is that it's, you know, that boiling frog scenario where you raise the temperature so slowly that the frog just dies rather than jump out of the pot.
	The temperature, and this is part of what the point of Trump was, right?
	The point of Trump was to lure these predators out of hiding.
	To me, at least, that was the point of Trump, was to accelerate The takeover to the point where people are actually noticing it and being shocked and appalled by it, right?
	Like they're tearing down statues, they're defacing Churchill who was fighting against National Socialism and so on.
	So the plus is it's really noticeable now and lines are being drawn.
	And this really wasn't supposed to happen until whites were a minority, whites being, of course, the people who really, in general, white males in particular.
	You know, we really dislike communism as a whole and collectivism.
	We're individualists.
	We're free market people.
	We're small to limited to no government kind of people.
	So this would all have been a fait accompli, as they say.
	Like it would be accomplished without barely a finger snap if demographics had been allowed to go their way.
	But because COVID-19 is screwing up the left's plans for demographically washing over the Western populations to the point where they can vote in the terrible system that they want, that's a big issue.
	That's another reason why things are accelerating is because immigration is on hold and borders are somewhat being enforced at the moment.
	They're kind of freaking out and they don't want another four years of Trump because they're afraid when they're this close.
	It's like you've got a million dollar winning lottery ticket, you're on your way to the convenience store and the wind just takes it from your hands and you're going to freak out, right?
	You're going to step on people's heads to get that lottery ticket.
	I'll give you money later. Fix your head, right?
	So, yeah, things are going really, really fast.
	2020 election prediction.
	So, you know, man, you know, it's tough.
	I mean, you know, each side thinks that they're going to win.
	Biden is an extraordinarily weak candidate, and I think this is going to come out in the debates.
	But the mainstream media is really splitting people, really dividing people.
	Like they're saying, I mean, the New York Times had an editorial out just this last week, I think it was, saying, if your family doesn't support Black Lives Matter, cut them right out of your life.
	Cut them right out of your life.
	And, you know, I remember when people were completely horrified at me for saying, you know, if your family supports violence, the use of violence against you for following your beliefs, like taxation or statism or whatever, then you don't have to spend time with people who want you dead for disagreeing with them.
	And that's, you know, that's not they've got to donate to me or some charity I like.
	That's like they literally, if you're anti-tax, And people are like, I'm pro-tax, then they want you thrown in jail for disagreeing with them, which is a brutal and ugly and vicious thing to do.
	And if people have taken my advice 10, 15 years ago about this, we'd be in a whole particular different situation here because people would have said, oh, wow, these people are really serious about their beliefs and it matters a lot and maybe we can listen now more.
	But now, and of course, I was roundly eviscerated for all this.
	Oh, it's a cult, you know.
	It's like, no, integrity looks like a cult to the corrupt.
	You understand? Integrity looks like a cult to the corrupt.
	To the corrupt. But now, of course, the New York Times is saying, man, just turf family members who don't donate to Black Lives Matter.
	Like, that's a whole different thing from you might want to question the love and loyalty of people who want you thrown in jail, where you might get raped, just for disagreeing with them about the allocation of social resources through charity versus taxation.
	So they're going to put a huge amount of pressure on families.
	As you can see, there's a real shakedown going on at the moment where various corporations are being targeted by leftist activists.
	And the leftist activists, particularly under the cover of the Black Lives Matter movement, are basically saying, you know, give us donations, support us, do what we want.
	Or we're going to call you racist because silence is violence.
	If you're not with us, you're against us.
	And if you don't support us, you oppose us.
	trying to smash and destroy and set up boycotts against those particular companies who don't turn on the money spigot or take the knee or submit and bow to whatever demands they have.
	And of course, you bow to these demands, there'll just be more and more and more and more and more and more and more until the end of time.
	So at some point, we as a whole are just going to have to say no.
	And so there's going to be the pressure that is going to be on people's See, for those of you who weren't around in 2015, 2016, like, it was a really, really crazy, crazy time, crazy, crazy time.
	And it was crazy enough, even with the general mainstream media's complete and total belief that there was no way that Trump could win.
	So 2015, 2016 is nothing compared to what's going to go on over the next 140 odd days, right?
	God, I can't believe it that's long. I mean, they're going to go completely insane.
	And this is part of what's going on with this George Floyd stuff.
	Disavow your family if they don't donate to a Marxist group.
	BLM is a Marxist group, founded by Marxists and Leninists, and they have a cop killer as one of their patron saints.
	I mean, yeah, it's a straight-up Marxist.
	That's why people are like, well, why don't they like David Dorn?
	Well, because he was not a Marxist.
	He was an anti-Marxist, I assume.
	Conservative, Christian, traditionalist, and so on.
	So... It's going to get really, really crazy.
	And yeah, they're going to try and get you fired.
	And they're going to attack your...
	I mean, what do they do? Well, they do two things, which they've done to me for 15 odd years.
	They will try to destroy your reputation and try and destroy your source of income.
	That's how they roll, right?
	And that's how they get that kind of conformity out of people because everyone's like, you know, I've got to pay the bills and I get all of that, right?
	And I'm... I get all of that, but this is not so much for the people who've been around for a long time.
	Sorry, it's not for the people who are new to this, but I've been saying exactly how we need to defeat this stuff for a whole bunch of years, and libertarians kind of backed away slowly.
	Ooh, he's a radical. Ooh, he's telling you to actually live your values in your personal life.
	And yeah, I think it was 2010, 2011, I did a speech at Libertopia called How to be Free in an Unfree World.
	And yeah, it was basically about if people support the state against your desire for freedom, they want you thrown in jail for disagreeing with them.
	That is not an act of love.
	That is not an act of friendliness.
	That is a hostile act of rage and anger.
	And people, you know, I basically got kicked out of the libertarian movement to a large degree because I said we really, really need to take a stand, otherwise things are going to get really crazy.
	Like, better to take a stand now and sort of shock people into waking up from their dogmatic slumber, or it's going to be a really, really desperate stand later, right?
	So this was like, I started making these arguments 12, 13, 14 years ago.
	And yeah, libertarians were like, whoa, this guy's crazy.
	So, you know, now we're in a situation where the left has gained enough power that they're destroying families.
	And black lives matter. It's not about black lives mattering.
	It's, I mean, they have as one of their core principles, they wish to destroy the nuclear family and wish to destroy the family.
	I don't want to destroy the family.
	I love the family. I love the family.
	The whole point of me deploying what's called the against me argument, that if you support the use of the state against me, that is a ugly and vicious act.
	It's not to break up families, but to shock people into realizing that what they support is brutal and evil, and they should reject it because they love you.
	And that's a way of fixing and solving and helping families.
	It's like a strict intervention.
	It's tough love, right? But people are so alienated from tough love because of a gynocentric educational system that tough love seems like...
	I guess almost hatred in a way.
	So the 2020 election, they are going to pull out all the stops.
	They are going to try and destroy everyone who supported Trump in the last round, or at least opposed Hillary in the last round.
	They are going to try to provoke urban conflict, which in a weird way is going to drive people more towards the Republicans.
	They are going to attempt to cheat like crazy when it comes to this election.
	It's going to be a pretty tough thing to get the ballot stuff in, like the mail-in ballots for voting.
	But they're going to try like hell, right?
	But as the old saying goes, you know, if you can loot in person, by God, you can vote in person too.
	They're going to try and just get as many people on the voting rolls and Judicial Watch, of course, under Tom Fitton has been doing a lot of great work trying to clean up the voter rolls and so on.
	But, you know, all the 120-year-old people miraculously bounding them, cartwheeling their way down to the polling stations, they're going to try and steal like crazy.
	And they're going to put out all the stops.
	There's going to be a huge amount of interpersonal, emotional bullying, economic bullying, attacks, deplatforming.
	But the problem is, of course, when you remember, Trump won by about 70,000 votes, right?
	So a lot of the older people, some of them died, of course, through coronavirus.
	Some of them died simply over the intervening four years or so.
	And, you know, if you think of one prominent social media personality who was pro-Trump, if one of those had been removed from the equation, Trump would have lost because it was really, really close, right?
	And people don't remember because, you know, I know he worked on the electoral college vote, which is what really counts.
	But if you look at just the numbers of people, it was really tight.
	And so the left kind of let, they let people slip through the net because they didn't think Trump would win.
	So it's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, you guys can be pro-Trump.
	We're not going to de-platform you because it's going to alarm everyone and it's going to expose all that white fragility.
	So you can have your videos and you can have your podcasts and you can have your little blogs and because, you know, There's no way Trump is going to win.
	So, you know, knock yourself out.
	That's the kind of... Go for it, man.
	Just have at it, you know, to do your very best because they wanted to see all of the crushing disappointment of the pro-Trump people when Trump lost.
	And so they were like, yeah, go for it.
	Go for it. But now they got it.
	They got it in November 2016.
	Like they got it. They understood that it is social media that determines elections.
	And Biden, you know, Hillary was not great at social media at all.
	The left can't meme, as we all well know, because they're too full of fear and rage.
	You need a bit of a light heart to meme, and you need a bit of courage and confidence, and they are fundamentally very scared and angry people, so I can't meme, right?
	You ever see those comedians?
	Eddie Murphy used to do this bit where he started talking about his dad and like you could watch it just got weirder and weirder you know like where they cross over to like weird gestalt primal scream therapy rather than trying to make jokes and it's kind of an uncomfortable thing when when comedians veer that way but they get it now they get it that social media has to be shut down like there's a reason why Everyone to the right of Chairman Mao is being brutally suppressed and deplatformed and demonetized and destroyed in an economic and social sense,
	right? And it's only going to get worse.
	And I think people don't understand, at least I don't think Trump understood, because, you know, not that I would ever be an advisor to Trump, but if I were...
	I would have told him, you know, starting in 2016, you've got to start working on this de-platforming stuff.
	You've got to start working on this You know, the publisher versus platform distinction that I've talked about before, because it's going to be very, very hard for Trump to win in the absence of an equal playing field on social media platforms, right?
	Because, as you know, they're immune from liability for content because they've promised to be neutral.
	That's the only reason that they've grown into the multi-hundred billion dollar economic powerhouses that they are, is they've got to be neutral.
	And if they're not neutral, then they have no business model.
	They cannot possibly survive.
	And so I would have said, look, I mean, you've got midterms in 2018, you've got an election in 2020, so you've got to work on making sure this even playing field is occurring, and you've got to put that first and foremost.
	But it's not a particularly fun and sexy thing to be working on, and so it's kind of rough.
	So now he's talked about it, but it was like six days ago he said we're going to declare Antifa a terrorist organization.
	That ain't happening yet.
	So we'll see.
	I don't think that there's time To try and get a social media playing field that's even, that nobody has any fingers on the scale, I don't think there's any time to do that before the election because, you know, whatever they propose, it's going to have to wend its way through.
	There's going to be lots of legal challenges and all that.
	And, you know, they can basically just, if they want, keep their fingers on the scale until after the election and then the Democrats will get in and they don't have to worry about it anymore, anymore at all, right?
	So, yeah, I think people should not take Trump's victory for granted at all.
	It is a very great and significant plus that the hard left has shown its hand so quickly through coronavirus and through this rioting that they've shown their pathological, violent, destructive side really vividly, really powerfully.
	And so that is going to scare a lot of people into the conservative camp.
	But they're not taking their victory for granted like they did In 2016, which means they're going to fight dirty, they're going to fight hard, it's going to be ugly, and we'll see.
	We'll see. Good evening, says Century.
	Recently got a job. I'm ecstatic.
	Congratulations. Yes, yes, yes.
	Joe Rogan is not critically injured in a car accident in Los Angeles.
	Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Block, block, block.
	The people who try to get me to put on this fake stuff.
	Petition for Elon Musk to make a new YouTube.
	Yeah. So, it's tough to make money on YouTube.
	It really is. It's tough to make money on YouTube because bandwidth costs are just enormous.
	And sure, yeah, you get some ads and all of that, but especially now, it's like 60 frames a second, 4K for people and stuff.
	Like, it's rough, man. It's a rough business model to make money off of YouTube, so...
	David says, Steph, I have a son.
	Wife had a baby yesterday.
	She was diagnosed with the Rona 2.
	Oh, you sent me an email about this, right?
	Rollercoaster. Please read my email.
	You did send me an email, and my gosh, massive congratulations.
	I'm very, very sorry about the coronavirus stuff.
	That's a little alarming, a little scary, but yeah, just...
	Well, okay, so somebody says, this is cultural revolution, says Ronald Ginsburg, long-time NBA announcer fired for tweeting All Lives Matter.
	Well, sure. Yeah, absolutely.
	See, I mean, this is what the devil does, right?
	So the devil offers you all of this free shit, and you get used to it, and then he threatens to take it away if you don't conform, right?
	It's, I mean, I know it's not a honey trap, like a honey trap is someone with cleavage who ends up burying your family, but it's...
	It's how they work, right?
	It's how they work. You mentioned Joe Rogan.
	I mentioned this the other day, right?
	So Joe Rogan gets a deal with Spotify for what, like $100 million?
	There's no way that money comes for free.
	Spotify has... A partnership with Tencent, which is basically a Chinese Communist government party front.
	And yeah, now Joe Rogan is blaming white people for the riots and saying that white people are just all out there as idiots, no thoughts in their heads, just trying to grab sneakers.
	And you can see his face when he makes these statements.
	It's all, you know, it's just, yeah, it's...
	Everything's for sale. Like some guy was on Twitter this morning and I had to kind of strap my hands back from the typing keyboard to not respond because he was like, hey man, I've donated a lot of money to you and I hate your George Floyd coverage.
	You're wrong, man. You got to walk this stuff back.
	You're, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	And it's like, dude, I'm not for sale.
	I mean, you donate money to me to tell the truth.
	And if I've told something that's not true, if I've said something that's not true, please tell me and I will correct it as I do on a regular basis.
	But the idea that somebody would say, well, of course, the idea that somebody said, Steph, I've donated to you and therefore you should do what I want.
	Come on, man. Don't donate to me if you think that gives you any kind of leash around my neck.
	Like, do not donate one penny to me if you think that's going to make me do what you want to do.
	Donate to me because you feel or believe or accept.
	I think that I'm a valuable source of truth and objectivity and courage in standing up to the mob.
	Please do that, but don't do that because at some point you want me to dance like a puppet.
	That's not going to work at all, right?
	Have I heard about proprietarianism?
	Yes, I have. But not much about it.
	All right. Let me get to a couple other questions.
	And just let me know.
	Just hit a Y if you could.
	And let me know if you do want me to debate a pro sort of Antifa person.
	If you feel that would be worthwhile.
	If you want to get...
	A view into that kind of mindset.
	I mean, there is an old saying from a French philosopher.
	He said, nothing human is alien to me.
	And do we? We got a lot of yeses there.
	Yeah. If the far less sweeps into power, where does one go after that?
	Well, you've got to get out before, right?
	You've got to get out before, I think.
	Yes. Lots of yes.
	Somebody says, you know, we had the same revolution three to four years ago in Macedonia.
	Yeah. Jacinda Ardern in New Zealand.
	Yeah, total leftist. Hard leftist.
	I mean, she does speeches all the time where she's comrade this and comrade that and all of that.
	So, yeah. Jacinda Ardern.
	I know her very well.
	Trust me. Trust me.
	I know that lady quite well.
	Are you familiar with and have an opinion on Larkin Rose?
	I do know Larkin Rose, actually.
	We met many years ago. I think we were on a panel together at one point at Porkfest or Libertopia or something like that.
	And a smart guy.
	Not the most socially relaxed guy.
	Not that that's any kind of argument.
	I'm just sort of pointing it out. It seems a little jumpy and tense around people.
	And if I remember rightly, he ended up trying to not pay his taxes and he had this whole legal defense prepared and then he ended up not even being able to give taxes.
	His legal defense, he got tossed in jail, and he's got a kid, and it just seemed like a very unwise thing to do.
	Because he's like, well, I've got these rules, right?
	And it's like, the government doesn't have any rules.
	The government is anarchy, as people understand it, right?
	How do I get to the Super Chat?
	Well, that is a fine question.
	I will tell you this, that the Super Chat here has been, oh my gosh, like disabled for, I can't even imagine how long this has been going on.
	But you can go to freedomain.stream forward slash tip, freedomain.stream forward slash tip, and you could throw something in there.
	I would absolutely and hugely and massively appreciate that.
	Let's see here. My mom was emotionally abusive and knew my dad beat me.
	She's a lawyer, so I'm considering sending my therapy journal to the court system to destroy her career.
	I'm angry and want revenge.
	Should I? That is a tough question.
	That is a tough question.
	I'm going to assume that you've tried to sit down and talk with your mother about these issues.
	That would be my first instinct, right?
	So my advice has always been the same.
	You've got big issues with abusive parents.
	First thing you want to do is, assuming it's safe, I assume you're an adult, right?
	Sit down with your parents and try and talk about things.
	Try and work things out. It's really, really, really important to do that.
	Now, if it's just relentlessly abusive and so on, then I would absolutely say...
	To engage with a therapist in order to talk about if you want to separate from your family of origin, right?
	It's called defooing, right? Family, F-O-O, family of origin.
	So that's if you're married or whatever and you say my family, people don't know if you're talking about your current family or family of origin, so it's called foo.
	So a defoo is like a divorce, right?
	If you have abusive parents, you can choose to see them or not see them, right?
	In my particular instance, no.
	Didn't want to see him, and I'm enormously happy, and my dad has now died, so the big gypsy curse of, oh, regret, and I should have, and I thought I'd be by his bedside, and I couldn't be by his bedside anyway, because I couldn't fly anywhere, right?
	He's in another country, died in another country.
	And, yeah, nobody from my family even told me he was sick.
	I just got a very terse note that he was dead, and...
	That is, I don't have regret at all.
	In fact, if I had stayed in touch with my family of origin, I would not have this great life that I have now.
	You know, when you want to do something great with your life, you wouldn't believe the number of people who would just try and tear you down, who would just try and destroy and diminish your life.
	Dream. Your goal.
	If you want to do something big with your life, it is an incredible threat to the people around you.
	Because there's so many people who have the vanity of living small, right?
	They think they know everything.
	They think they know what the world needs and they don't bother trying to change anything.
	They just redefine whatever needs to be changed into exactly what they're doing, right?
	And so when you do actually try and stand for something bigger and stand for something better, it's a massive threat to the people in your life, and they will come after you with pitchforks, man.
	They really, really will.
	And, you know, the funny thing, too, like I'm...
	I mean, I hope you guys get a sense of this.
	I'm such an enormously nice person.
	You know, I mean, not, of course, if you read my Wikipedia page, but I really am an enormously nice person.
	I love to help people.
	I love to make people laugh.
	I love to engage with people.
	I'm very social.
	You know, it's kind of like the life of the party at dinner tables and so on.
	And just really, really nice person.
	And that's just not how my family of origin perceived me.
	And... You have a choice, right?
	You can try and live a big, great and powerful and meaningful life and provoke and annoy the small souls and small-minded people around you.
	And that's your fork in the road, right?
	You either go back into the box of smallness or you break out.
	And when you break out, it's a big challenge.
	It's a big challenge. Like somebody asked me the other day to tell the story Alright, should we do?
	It's late, right? It's late night.
	Do a little story time.
	Push Y for story time.
	I don't even know what push F for means, but anyway, push Y for story time.
	Because this is a story that I've been asked to tell a whole bunch of times.
	So let's do it.
	And I think this is going to be a story that's going to resonate with people, with you, wonderful people, because, man, I'm telling you, everybody's going to have this at one time or another, man.
	Everybody's going to have this at one time or another.
	Okay, I will tell you this.
	This chat is probably too small.
	I don't know how to change the font size on this thing.
	Let me just see if I can. Can I make the font size any different?
	I am no expert on live streaming.
	In fact, I'm no expert on...
	What am I using here?
	OBS. Yeah, OBS. All right.
	So... So here's the story.
	A friend of mine, call him Bob, right?
	We were friends...
	Gosh.
	We were friends for...
	About a quarter century. We worked together, gold panning and prospecting, so we...
	I don't know if you ever want to hear the story about the bear that attacked the camp dog in the middle of the night and broke its back and scared the living crap out of us.
	I don't think I've ever loaded a shotgun quite that quickly in my life when we thought we were about to be attacked by a giant bear.
	But yeah, we went through some stuff together.
	We went through a car crash together.
	We went through working together.
	We play Dungeons and Dragons together.
	And he's a very, very smart guy.
	Very, like, super smart.
	Quirky as hell, but super smart guy.
	And, you know, he's the kind of guy who just, like, he would just rip off these things that would just blow your mind.
	Like, I remember him saying to me when I was in sort of my mid-teens and struggling to understand women because I was trying to read too much Freud.
	And he said, like, if you want to understand women, just imagine being half your size, weaker, and everybody wants to get into your pants.
	I was like... Yeah, imagine.
	Everyone's chasing you when you're tiny and weak and vulnerable.
	And I'm like, oh my gosh, that's really something, right?
	So we'd have these just amazing things, amazing things.
	And he also taught me a lot about...
	My heart is several sizes too big, right?
	I'm prone to being manipulated by self-pitying people I'm overly charitable in some ways.
	Am I going to call? Ah, forget it.
	Doesn't matter. Okay, just trust me.
	I'm overly charitable.
	Not tonight. Tonight's just about a great chat and it's great to sit and chat with you guys.
	But he was the one who really taught me the value of...
	Holding your cards closer to your chest.
	Of being more circumspect.
	Of being more...
	Of being harder to read.
	And a great value.
	We also... I hired him to work at my company.
	And he was one of the best men at my wedding.
	And, you know, just... Anyway, so...
	You know, whenever I talk to people...
	They've been in a relationship.
	Usually it's a romantic relationship.
	They've been in a relationship.
	And it goes badly, right?
	And what do I always say? I always say, okay, what were the signs at the beginning that this was not going to go well?
	What happened at the beginning that if you could go back, you'd say, you've got to keep it.
	This is where the thread begins to unravel.
	So my friend Bob, very rational guy.
	And very good at objective, rational disciplines that aren't my strong suit.
	I'm good at logic.
	I'm good at debating. I'm good at arguing.
	Bob was really, really good at math, physics, science, and so on.
	Just stuff that I can't wrap my head around in any but the most abstract philosophical sense.
	But I remember...
	Going on a walk with him.
	We used to go for these walks and just talk and just talk and just talk.
	Like this whole talking thing does not come out of nowhere for me.
	I'm like the 40-year overnight success, right?
	But we used to go for these walks for like hours and hours and just talk, just share ideas, share thoughts and so on.
	He wasn't sort of from the ground up philosophical, but he had this way of just knitting together disparate facts and arguments and ideas into just these He's gloriously connected.
	You know, he's like, you look at the stars at night and it's just a bunch of pinpricks, right?
	But then if you read about the constellations and the stories behind them, you start to see these lines between the stars.
	And my friend Bob was the guy who drew the lines between the stars and turned random dots of lights into constellations with stories.
	And it was a really, really powerful thing.
	thing and I will forever be grateful for him teaching me about the value of that.
	He was also pretty good with the instincts and the gut sense and your gut brain down there.
	This is the brain for understanding the world.
	The gut brain is the brain for understanding evil, which you can't have a happy life unless you know how to understand evil.
	So my friend Bob, one night, we were probably, maybe he was 15 or 16, and we were walking I used to live down in Don Mills.
	And we were walking just at Don Mills and York Mills.
	There is a golf course.
	And we were down there walking.
	We used to love to go down and walk in that golf course in the middle of the night because there was nobody there.
	Really nice place to walk, and you can't really walk in the woods at night because it's too crowded, right?
	So we were down there, and we were walking away.
	I remember we had to keep swatting the bugs off because, you know, we were too intellectual to wear bug spray.
	And he was telling me about something that happened when he was very young.
	And he said, when I was very young, he said, I don't exactly know how old I was, but I know I was very, very young.
	I woke up in the middle of the night, and I couldn't move.
	I was frozen.
	All I could open was my eyelids.
	I couldn't get anything else to move in my body.
	And floating over me, like, not quite nose to nose, but maybe a couple of inches away from my nose, was the outline of a woman in Victorian dress.
	And she just, her eyes just kind of fell into me.
	And for some period of time, which is kind of hard to figure out when you're freaked out and your heart's pounding and you're kind of paralyzed in the middle of the night, I was too, you know, I was a little kid, right?
	So I wanted to You know, cry out for my mom.
	But I couldn't.
	I couldn't. I couldn't even.
	I didn't feel like I was breathing.
	And she didn't say anything.
	She didn't do anything. She just floated there.
	And then vanished.
	I don't even know for how long.
	And he said, you know, that...
	That has just stuck with me like nothing else.
	Like a burr on a beard, man.
	This thing has just stuck with me.
	And I remember getting this, I don't know, it's like a little spinal body chill or what they used to say, a goose walking over your grave or some sort of ice centipede wrapping its twirly way around your spine or something like that.
	And I remember being very scared for him.
	Very scared for Bob. Because when people tear down the walls of reality and start poking their head on the other side, it never goes well.
	It never goes well.
	You take a machete to sense data and you jam your head like, you know, like that old medieval carving about the guy who jams his head through the bowl that holds the stars and looks at once on the other side.
	You detach yourself from your body, your flesh, your senses, your reason, and the simple thump-noggin objectivity of the rational universe, and you, like a squeezed bar of soap, just squirt right out of reality into something like a Victorian woman is floating...
	Above your terrified, childlike, paralyzed form and her eternal eyes are pouring into you from another dimension.
	That fundamentally alters your relationship with reality.
	You know, the dead outnumber the living like 30 to 1.
	And you might be alone in a room and you wonder how many people are swaying back and forth like shadows on the wall, drifting through the room, looking at what you're doing, trying to read the book that's half open on your desk.
	Pouring through your mind, your memories, distracting you, begging you to provide them something, to find their murderers, or discover the lost treasure they meant to give to their children but died before they could pass it along, or that your world is inhabited, you know, sixth sense style, like by the unseen.
	That is a It's a terrifying thought to me.
	It's a terrifying... And my mom was kind of like this too, right?
	Not kind of. My mom was mystical, but not religious, right?
	Because religion has too much structure, too many rules.
	It's this kind of me-ism, like you just indulge in this dissolution of reality, but without any rules coming through.
	You just dissolve reality and responsibility and identity and And everybody who's alive in your life is vastly outnumbered by the dead who surround you.
	And I remember that night we were walking along and I was like, I'm scared because I, you know, I love this guy.
	It's a great friendship, but I'm scared of this story.
	Really scared of this story.
	Because it says so much to believe something like that.
	It says that there's another dimension.
	It says that we have a soul.
	It says that we last after death, but the destination is not heaven or hell.
	Like Dostoevsky says, he's got this terrifying character who's a pedophile in...
	Crime and punishment named Svidrigailov.
	Svidrigailov or something like that.
	And is a completely terrifying character.
	And I'm...
	Either Dostoevsky was or he was raped as a child or he knew a pedophile because it's uncannily, creepily terrible.
	I've encountered one pedophile in my childhood.
	Completely terrifying encounter.
	I'll tell that story another time.
	But... So Sridhar Gailov in Crime and Punishment says something that just, again, scared a little bit of crap out of me.
	I read that book in like two and a half days basically straight.
	I barely slept. And he says, well, what if the afterlife isn't heaven and it isn't hell?
	What if the afterlife is just some grimy, dim, dusty old bathhouse with spiders in it that you can't get out of?
	What? Terrifying.
	Terrifying. Terrifying thought.
	Even worse than Pas de sortie, No Exit by Sartre, where people go to hell and they wonder where the demons are and they're just torturing each other and it turns out that hell is other people.
	You don't need demons. You can just be around dysfunctional people and they'll just pick at your wounds all the time.
	That's hell. And for my friend Bob, the idea that this woman from the Victorian age had died like 150 years ago, she didn't go into the ground, she didn't just fall from the heights of abstract reasoning that we all inhabit to just this flat mattress of empty meat that we get buried in.
	Like there's no more us in our body than there is a DJ in the radio when we turn it off.
	She didn't fall to nothing.
	She didn't go to hell.
	She didn't get to heaven.
	She didn't go to limbo. For 150 years, she floats around, pointlessly staring at terrified sleeping children in dingy little apartments.
	That's her afterlife.
	Night after night, coasting from child to child, in these dingy, rent-controlled, single-mother-infested apartments of depression and mess and despair and dysfunction.
	And she just stares down at little children, and that's her life.
	That's her afterlife.
	That is some seriously terrifying stuff.
	It changes your relationship to life, to death, to achievement, to reality.
	And naturally, of course, because he had this view that ghosts could exist, that they float above you, and the dead wander through life like you're looking at an empty highway, but it's actually bumper to bumper with the cars of the dead.
	But do you think you're alone?
	And you're taking a dump or masturbating and all the dead are crowding around saying, Oh, I remember that.
	Wasn't that great? Wasn't that cool?
	Wasn't that fun? I remember having a body.
	Look at that guy. And that's what you have to look forward to after you die.
	It's a terrifying thought.
	And I fought with him.
	I was scared because I didn't want to alienate him, but I fought with him and I fought hard.
	You know, whenever I see the demons of anti-rationality going into someone's reason and their mind, it's like somebody opens up your head and takes this flaming ice cream scoop and just gouges out everything that makes you truly human and replaces it with Mysticism wherein your brain has spilled out into reality to the point where you can't tell where your brain ends,
	your mind ends, and the truth begins and reality begins.
	Everything becomes projection.
	And your brain is no longer encased in the skull, but it spills out like somebody's just put a gun up your mouth and blown your brains back out over a wall, except the wall is unreality.
	And you don't die. And I fought with him.
	And I remember saying, I said, Bob, man, holy crap.
	I said, look, I get this is like a big story for you, man.
	And I get that it makes you, like she came to visit you.
	And I get that this was a turning point in your perception of the world of truth of reality when you was a kid.
	But my God, man. I said, let's look at what is more likely?
	What is more possible? What most likely happened?
	So either A, there is an afterlife, we have a soul, but it's like a balloon bumping around a room in an abandoned house.
	You just float around and scare kids and don't say anything and This is piercing the entire biological substructure of our life and saying that there is an essence to us that survives death, but very badly.
	It doesn't even have the stimulus of hell.
	You just drift from terrified child's face to terrified child's face, pouring your unreality like sand is just pouring out of your eyes into the mouth of the child and filling him up with nothingness like the way that the Aborigines in Australia used to kill their babies by pouring sand into their pouring your unreality like sand is just pouring out of your eyes into the So that's one possibility that it was a real ghost.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	That our mere sensible, tangible, material, empirical reality is mostly a delusion.
	And life is eternal, and we are just spirits in the material, as the song goes.
	Maybe that's the case. Or, I said, okay, that's got a whole bunch of, like, crazy stuff that goes on with reality, and I didn't know the phrase metaphysics very well back then, but, you know, this really takes a hammer.
	This takes an axe to the face of science, truth and reality and objectivity.
	God! That's terrifying!
	Or... What could have happened, Bob, is you had a lucid dream.
	You dreamt you woke up.
	You saw something incredibly vivid.
	You tried to control your body while waking up to a lucid dream, but you were so chock-full of the muscle-deadening chemicals that have us not run when we dream of running and not kick when we dream of kicking that you couldn't move.
	And you dreamed a dead woman with her eyes pouring into you, floating over your bed.
	You dreamt it.
	But it was so vivid it seemed real and you couldn't move and then you passed into a deeper frame of sleep and you woke up normally but with the dream incredibly vivid in your mind, so much so that it seemed to eclipse the basic reality of your existence.
	I said, come on, if you were hearing the story from someone else who said, I was asleep as a little kid, I thought I woke up, and I thought I saw a ghost, and then I went back to sleep.
	You'd say, okay, you just had a very vivid dream.
	And, oh my god.
	What a battle. Oh my god, what a battle.
	What a battle. He couldn't...
	He couldn't let it go.
	He couldn't examine the possibility that It was just a dream.
	That no ghost visited him.
	That there's no afterlife in this context.
	That reality is simple, bland, passive, vivid.
	That there's just us and stuff.
	That's all there is. There's us and there's stuff.
	And there's no ghosts.
	And if you want to know what life is, it's the biochemical, electrical, and neurological energy that clusters around a couple of pounds of wetware we call the post-monkey beta expansion pack of a brain.
	It's all we got. We're just really, like we're super monkeys.
	We are just super damn monkeys.
	Like monkeys look at us like we look at Superman, right?
	We are the uber-monk-y.
	Uber-mensch monkey? I don't know.
	But I couldn't... Man, did I fight with that guy that night.
	Now, not like, you idiot, right?
	But just like, patient and patient.
	And I just... I couldn't...
	I couldn't... I couldn't get there, man.
	I couldn't get there. Maybe the conversation came up a couple of other times.
	But he's just, hey, man, we just disagree.
	You know, the agree to disagree people.
	Like, that's the first grenade that rolls into the tent of the friendship, man.
	The agree to disagree people.
	No, no, no. You can't agree to disagree about what reality is.
	You can't agree to disagree about what the truth is.
	You can't agree to disagree what is more likely.
	Some Scooby-Doo, Booga Booga, Scare Queen ghost floats above your head in the middle of the night.
	Or you had a vivid dream as a kid.
	Which one's more likely, Mr.
	Scientist? You can't just have a let's agree to disagree about what reality is.
	But he needed it. I don't know why.
	Fundamentally, I thought about it a lot.
	I don't know why he needed that so much.
	My mom, of course, had the same thing.
	That she believed that she could knit psychic helmets for people to protect them from bad thoughts or evil forces.
	So, you know, people say, you know, why are you such an empiricist?
	Why are you so devoted to reason?
	It's like, because mysticism kills.
	I'm not talking about religion.
	Religion is a different matter. I'm talking about superstition.
	Mysticism. Which is the cracking of material reality without any boomeranging responsibilities.
	That kills people mentally.
	It destroys them mentally.
	If you can surrender mere empirical reality in return for a community, a sense of identity, a sense of morality, a sense of duty in the Christian sense...
	Hey man, I'm way more friendly to that than I used to be and I have apologized for my harshness towards Christianity in the past and will continue to do so because it was vainglorious and wrong and a little devilish, frankly.
	But when you give up reality and you don't even get responsibility and community, you are just locking yourself into Dostoevsky's shadowed, tight, empty, dusty, spidery bathhouse for eternity.
	I mean, and it's the same thing.
	I mean, you can see the same stuff.
	So he had his ghost that overwhelmed and subjugated reality.
	Bob did. Other people have racism.
	They have sexism.
	They have... Bigotry.
	They have anti-white hatred.
	These are the ghosts, right?
	The fantasms that people are dreaming, that they think they're real.
	And they live in a world of words, and they live in a world of imagination.
	And, you know, the whole point of philosophy is to bind up the wounds that occur in people's minds when mysticism tears holes in their thinking.
	We've got to bind the wounds up. We've got to, like pounding nails, you've got to pound the projections of the human mind back into the mind so that we can deal with what happens in the mind as what happens in the mind.
	For a while when I was doing therapy, I did like, I think a year and a half or so of three hours a week therapy and I did another 10 hours or 12 hours of like journaling.
	I was a single man and I had time and huge motivation to do it.
	And I had vivid dreams.
	I had some vivid dreams on some business meetings.
	I remember flying over a city.
	I flew over a city.
	I could see everything in that city.
	I could see the tire tracks and the tires of the cars hundreds or thousands of feet below.
	I could see every bottle cap ground into the tarmac.
	I could see every out-of-place feather hair on the back of a pigeon.
	I could see everything. Everything and it was vivid and it was incredible.
	And there was one where I was just, I remember I was in a business meeting in Houston and I slept and I dreamt that I woke up in the same hotel that I was sleeping in.
	I opened the door and I could see so vividly the wallpaper across the hallway, every single little hole and how they didn't quite match.
	And they had different shapes and it was like super senses, right?
	But I didn't think that I'd entered into some alternative dimension.
	I'm like, wow, my brain can do some really cool stuff.
	But not to project what occurs within the brain onto reality is the fundamental maturation of the species that is necessary.
	We must stop projecting occurrences of the mind into the fabric of reality.
	What occurs in the mind is singular to the universe.
	We must passively accept the universe and not project everything that we want and everything we think and everything we dream onto that Onto that universe.
	I don't know why Bob was so wedded to this.
	I think it made him feel special.
	I think it gave him a sense of excitement.
	I think it gave him a sense of adventure.
	But there's so much capacity for real adventure in this world and so much necessity for real courage in this world.
	I don't know why you'd take a vivid dream and make that the essence of your metaphysics.
	I don't know. Maybe you guys can figure it out.
	It's a puzzle I've never been tempted by any of that stuff.
	Never. It was a relief for him not to be hyper-rational.
	But see, the word hyper, I don't know what hyper means.
	I mean, it's like when people say, well, you're over-exaggerating.
	It's like, oh, you're over-explaining, or you're over-rational.
	Like, what does hyper-rational mean?
	I don't know. What does that mean?
	What is hyper-rational?
	Is not rationality a good thing?
	Well, you wouldn't want to be hyper-healthy.
	You wouldn't want to be, you know, I don't know.
	You wouldn't have hyper...
	You wouldn't want to have your teeth hyper-uncavity'd.
	I don't know what any of that means.
	But I don't know. I don't know.
	Let's see here. Oh, good question about Christianity on Discord.
	Okay, yeah, please, Discord.
	I've got to tell you, as I mentioned before, I have such a musical brain that I hear Discord and immediately I go to the lyrics of Hungry Like the Wolf, Discord and Rhyme, I'm on the hunt after you from Duran Duran.
	All right, live stream questions.
	What have we got here? Let's see here.
	Oh yeah, I gave a lecture at a university, a remote lecture, obviously, at a university in Taiwan last night.
	I will put...
	You know what? Should I put this out?
	Nice little bonus for you guys.
	Yeah, you know what? We're sitting, we're chatting, we're having a great time.
	Oh, you know what? Thank you for the people who are donating.
	It really does help.
	It's a tough life as a philosopher.
	It's a tough life with the views going down through no fault of my own.
	I know that their podcast numbers are going up.
	I control all of that. But yeah, it's a hard life to have the leftist after you at all times and deplatforming and insults.
	Well, at least it's not just me anymore, right?
	No, it's everyone. They deplatform me.
	Then they did Platform America and they're working on England and all that.
	But yeah, I can give you guys.
	Give guys a wee bonus. This was a good conversation.
	A good conversation. I don't have a good title for it yet, but I'll throw it in here.
	Why not? Let's put it in here.
	And obviously don't go watch it now, but you can.
	Scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll.
	Too many people chatting.
	Too many people chatting. Here we go.
	There you go. Alright.
	Let's see here. You have an interview tomorrow for a very good job.
	Hopefully I'll get it. Okay.
	I'll tell you how to get the job.
	Because I audition every day.
	I have a job interview with you guys every time I open my mouth.
	So, here's how you get the job.
	You ready? This is how you're going to get a job.
	Because, you know, I want you guys to have jobs.
	For your happiness. And it does also help if people who might donate to me also have jobs.
	So, First of all, when you go to the job, you have to be alert and aware to the fact that it's not you who want a job, it's the employer who wants a good employee.
	So you have to have a strong sense of the value that you can add, and if you can find any way to quantify that value, so much the better.
	You're there to make a business case.
	You're not there to ask for a favor.
	You're not there to ask for a job.
	You are there to provide value.
	And you've got to be really clear about the value that you can provide.
	And you've got to be confident that you can provide more value than the guy before you or the woman after you or whoever.
	You are the person who can provide the most value to the company.
	So whatever job it's going to be, you're in there 150%.
	You understand that if you're a programmer, you're not there to type.
	You're not there to write code.
	You're not there to make programs.
	You're there to make money.
	And so if you go in, and I'll tell you this, as a guy I interviewed probably 1,000 people over the course of my business career, hired 100 or 200 of them over the course of the career, the people I always hired were the people who came in and said, I understand your business.
	I understand your business model.
	I understand how you make money and here's how I can contribute to that.
	Because I want to provide value.
	You're going to be paying me and I want to provide way more value than you're paying me because if I provide way more value than you're paying me, I can get a raise and you can make more money.
	So you got to go in there like...
	Here's how I'm going to provide value for you, not here's all the things I've done, please give me a job.
	And if someone, because if someone doesn't understand that, you don't want to work for them.
	Like if they don't understand that you're there to provide value.
	If you are there to provide value, honest question, did you grow up as a Catholic or an Anglican?
	Well, yeah, Protestant Anglican for sure.
	Alright, let's see here.
	Sons of Anarchy is the best anime.
	I don't know much about anime, but I definitely have been freaked out by the Odd Studio Ghibli production.
	Your opinion on Israel. Should we be taxed billions of dollars to spend on them every year?
	Well, of course not. I mean, all foreign aid is garbage.
	All foreign aid is garbage, right?
	All right. I think you need to edit your Wikipedia page, man.
	Hey, man, you want to do that?
	I'm happy to help, but I don't think you're allowed to edit your own Wikipedia page, as far as I know.
	Well, yeah, ask them a question about that company for sure, but, you know, ask the person, you know, oh, where do you see yourself in five years?
	Where do you see this company in five years?
	How ambitious are you as a company?
	Like, do you want to become huge?
	Do you want to become medium? I mean, just really keep asking questions.
	Read their website. Understand how they make money.
	Ask the person how he got into the business.
	Ask him about his management style.
	See if it fits. Like, you're there...
	If you're there desperate, you won't get hired.
	If you're there, like you're interviewing them and they're interviewing you as well, it's the same thing with dates, right?
	If you're just like, oh, please be my girlfriend, she's not going to want you.
	But if you are there saying, do I want to work for you?
	That gives you a sense of confidence that they're going to want, right?
	There's a Taoist proverb that says, if you stand by a river long enough, you will see the corpses of your enemies float by.
	Oh, that's pretty funny. America died 1913.
	Yeah, well, so founding of the Fed.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah. How are your daughter's tadpoles coming along?
	Yeah, I'm sorry. I will. We've been filming some stuff, but, you know, there's a couple of takes, and I'm not sure what I posted.
	I will get those out tomorrow.
	They are coming just, just great.
	Jack says, Steph, I appreciate your time in these night chats.
	Stay the course. Better times are coming after this great battle of our time.
	Yeah. Yeah, I think so.
	Are you familiar with the work of Will of Scott Peck?
	He was the first Jordan Peterson.
	Ooh, hopefully he had a different outcome.
	But no, I'm not aware of Scott Peck.
	Sorry. All right.
	Let's see here. What do you think about all these large companies like Infinite Ward preaching support for Black Lives Matter?
	It's a shakedown. This is how you sell diversity training.
	First of all, you get a government rule that says you have to have your workforce mirror the general population without normalizing for things like IQ and education and so on.
	If you wanted things to be fair in society, you would simply have a completely blind IQ test as the basis for hiring.
	There's nothing really better than an IQ test.
	To predict success, particularly in complex jobs.
	IQ predicts success in complex jobs 0.8.
	Like 1 being a perfect correlation and 0 being no correlation.
	It's a 0.8.
	That's about as good as you're ever going to get.
	IQ predicting success in complex jobs.
	So this is why everybody knows that IQ is an issue and ethnic differences in IQ is an issue because if you wanted things to be fair, if you thought there was systemic racism or white privilege or...
	Whatever. Then what you would do is you would simply have people take some sort of intelligence test, but with no names, no genders, no race, just completely blind.
	And you'd have them marked so that people didn't know what race, what ethnicity, what sex the person was, right?
	That's how you would do it. And then you just hire the people with the highest scores, right?
	That's what you would do. If you thought there was racism, then you would...
	But you're not allowed to do that in America.
	You're not allowed to do that throughout the West.
	You're not allowed to say, hey, we're just going to take a blind IQ test and hire the smartest people.
	Can't do it. Because that would require...
	Well, that would end up with a lot of Jews, a lot of East Asians, a lot of whites, not so many Hispanics, not so many blacks, because, again, lots of brilliant blacks and lots of dumb Hispanics, lots of dumb East Asians and some dumb Jews, and I get all of that, right?
	But, you know, in general, it would shake out that way.
	So, yeah, you're not allowed to do what is useful and smart.
	So you pass these laws that say you have to have your, you know, if you've got 50% women, you've got to have 50% women on your executive board and whatever it is, right?
	And then what happens is people can't reach those numbers.
	Thank you.
	Google, I think, is like 2% of their engineers are black, right?
	And certainly proportional to population, the vast majority of them would be East Asian, white, and so on, right?
	So then you allow people to sue for over-representation or under-representation, and then that opens up the path to massive diversity training, right?
	Because if you say, well, we don't have enough numbers of X, Y, and Z category, but we've taken all of this great diversity training and we're working on it, then that can help you if you get sued, right?
	So it's just defensive diversity. Where they come up with implicit bias training.
	And implicit bias is complete bullshit.
	It doesn't mean anything. It's just there's no numbers, no data behind it.
	And it's still not...
	Well, it's even worse than EQ, which is almost completely useless, like emotional intelligence.
	It's almost completely useless.
	It's a consolation prize for people who don't score high on the IQ test.
	But it's not really...
	It's a consolation prize for the ladies, I suppose.
	And so then what happens is...
	A bunch of race hustlers come along and they say, hey, man, you've got to take this racial sensitivity training.
	Because we've looked at your numbers and you don't have the numbers that you should have, but you've got to take this racial sensitivity training.
	And if you say, well, I don't want to take this racial sensitivity training.
	We're just going to hire the best, the best, the best.
	It's like, no, man, but it's...
	But you don't have enough of X, Y, or Z groups.
	You can't just be hiring the best, at which point you could say, hey, we're going to put blind IQ tests in, but you're not allowed to do that, so you end up having to take all of this training, and you pay for all of this stuff, and then what?
	Now it's metastasized to the point where if your company is not taking a stance on the death of George Floyd or the value of Black Lives Matter, then you're a racist company who has to be destroyed, right?
	It used to be class, now it's race.
	I mean, they had to shift, right, so...
	The truth about white privilege video.
	Ah, white privilege is just...
	You know, white privilege is being surrounded by a lot of white stuff called snow.
	I have a sister who won't even look at facts against her feelings of white privilege.
	Let's see here. Gosh, that kind of whipped around a little here.
	Yeah, it's really tough, man.
	It's really tough. So Yuri Besmanov basically says that when...
	People get demoralized to that extent.
	Facts are never going to matter to them.
	Like, you can't fix them. They're demoralized beyond recovery.
	And you can see these videos of these...
	It's largely white women, like, kneeling with their hands up in the air and praying and begging for forgiveness and kneeling before blacks and washing their feet and blah, blah, blah.
	And it's like, man, when white women don't...
	Have babies, they just get caught up in these stupid, dangerous causes, right?
	You have babies, so you end up in a cult.
	It just seems to be the way for a lot of white women.
	Steph, where can I get a hard copy of UPB? You can go to Amazon.com, do a search for it there.
	How do I beat my narcissistic personality disorder that I inherited from my father?
	Yeah, I don't think it's that genetic.
	So there's no aspect of personality not influenced by genetics, but it's not 100% genetic.
	That's not how these things work.
	So first of all, it's a good thing that you want to beat it, because your father probably never thought about that.
	But I would really, really avoid self-labels.
	Really, really avoid self-labels.
	I know that they're popular in psychology and psychiatry and so on, but really try to avoid labeling yourself.
	It's a very, very unhealthy thing to do as a whole because it reduces yourself to one variable in general.
	Like, oh, I'm bipolar, or, oh, I have depression, or I'm narcissistic, or, oh, there's everybody's little meme there.
	But do not, you are, so I call it the MECO system, and you can, my book is free, Real-Time Relationships.
	You can get it at freedomain.com.
	We are incredibly complex.
	And this is one of the reasons why it's hard to have self-knowledge, right?
	So, you know, like an ecosystem is not one thing, right?
	The ecosystem of a rainforest is like everything.
	It's like the sunlight and the plants and the trees and the toucans and the monkeys and everything kind of in balance.
	And when things get thrown out of balance, then something else will happen.
	Like my daughter was upset a couple of years ago because there weren't that many frogs and toads around.
	And I said, like, that's a real shame.
	But on the plus side, like birds won't survive, so there'll be more frogs and toads next year.
	And then because there were more frogs and toes next year, the birds come back and it all just balances itself out, right?
	So I call it the MECO system.
	Your identity, you're not one thing.
	I'm not a philosopher.
	I'm not just a man.
	I'm not just a father. I'm not just a husband.
	I'm not just a whatever, right?
	I'm a very complicated ecosystem of my own thoughts, of cultural thoughts, of the limitations of the fact that English is my primary language and the benefits of that and everybody I've interacted with and...
	All of my teachers and authority figures and my mother is in there, my father is in there, or the lack of my father is in there even more than the presence of my father.
	And you've got to be comfortable with yourself being a complexity that sometimes is highly contradictory, right?
	So if you have an abusive parent in your life, then you will benefit and you probably want to confront that abusive parent.
	But your abusive parent desperately does not want to be confronted by you.
	And when you were a child, it was too dangerous to confront your abusive parent.
	Now you're an adult, you can, but your inner child is saying, hey man, we still could get killed or abandoned or not fed or whatever, right?
	So, even with something as foundational as, should I go talk to an abusive parent and confront them on the abuse that they had?
	Or, I want to tell the truth, but I'm afraid of the consequences from the leftist mob, or, you know, whatever, I want to share Steph's video, but oh man, I could get in trouble three years down the road when somebody scours my Twitter feed or whatever it is, right?
	So we want to tell the truth, but we're afraid to.
	We want to confront bad people, but we're afraid of blowback.
	We want to ask the girl out, but we're afraid of rejection.
	We want to quit her job and start her own business, but we're afraid of failure.
	So you've got desire and counter-desire that is like the frogs in the...
	The birds, it's very, very complicated.
	And I'm just always...
	So if you embrace that complexity, the ecosystem, that you're not just one thing, that you're a competing balance of forces, some genetic, some historical, some environmental, some personality based from others, some personality based from yourself, all with the free will, right?
	So you think of an Amazon jungle, there's an Amazon jungle, and then there's a botanist in there measuring everything and exploring everything and cataloging everything.
	So you are an incredibly – like our brain is layered, right?
	You've got the reptile brain.
	You've got the lizard brain.
	You've got the mammal brain.
	You've got the human brain.
	You've got like – we just keep building things on stuff that we had before.
	And your lizard brain is really good at figuring out predators.
	And your mammal brain is really good at figuring out hypocrisy.
	And your rational brain is really good at figuring out the universe and coming out with consistent physical and moral principles and so on.
	It's all really complex.
	And sometimes your instincts say that something is bad for you or someone is bad for you.
	But, you know, it's like the crazy hot matrix, right?
	Like the hot mess.
	Like she's really, really hot and my balls want to do the Macarena.
	But... And my brain is like, yeah, she's really high status.
	People are going to think I'm a great guy for having such a hot girl.
	And then your gut is like, yeah, but she's really dangerous, man.
	She's going to make up something.
	She's going to drag me through hell.
	And I won't even come out the other side with a satisfied, nervous, happy smile, right?
	So we're all very, very complex.
	We're incredibly complex.
	So my strong suggestion is, yeah, okay, maybe you got some selfish tendencies.
	You got them from your dad, or rather, you had to adapt to your dad's selfish tendencies in order to avoid being attacked by your father, right?
	Because if you bring a lot of empathy to selfish people, they'll just exploit you for it, right?
	Well, it's immigration, right?
	So please, please, my friend, do your very best to not boil yourself down to one or two or five or ten variables.
	We're a playground. We're an ecosystem of identity and influence and effect and genetics and all that.
	What IQ test would you recommend?
	So the only really valid IQ test is one that is administered by a professional.
	And so that is my way to go.
	We'd love to see you talk about cinema and movie culture.
	I have done a whole bunch of movie cultures.
	I haven't really seen movies. I really find it...
	I mean, the woke stuff is so...
	I mean, it's...
	I really, really have a tough time watching modern shows.
	I really, really have a tough time watching modern shows.
	They're so predictable. They're so boring.
	They're so manipulative. They're so, oh, everything's got to be diverse and every couple's got to be interracial and it's all just so...
	It's programming. It's straight-up programming.
	There's not anything challenging or exciting or interesting or stimulating.
	Yeah, it's just terrible.
	It's absolutely terrible. I don't know why all presidents are genetically related.
	Okay, fine. I don't care.
	I'm an anarchist, right?
	Can I label myself smart?
	Sure. I mean, intelligence is one of the things that you are.
	Absolutely. And you've got to be careful because, of course, intelligence is one of these things where you can talk yourself in and out of stuff.
	So, as many people have pointed out, Tom Sowell among them, there's a lot of people...
	Who are very, very smart and can talk themselves into the most absurd things.
	Does the Western civilization still exist?
	No. No, no, no.
	That's all done. No, that's all done.
	All of that historical stuff is done and it's been done for a long time.
	We are no longer in Western civilization.
	We're in something else. And hopefully it's going to end up being better.
	Have you seen Black Mirror? I saw a couple of them.
	I thought they were okay. Nothing too exciting.
	How can I get out of the habit of giving others excess praise when trying to form friendships?
	Well, you've got to stop being manipulative, right?
	Because you're manipulating people.
	It's a kind of subtle form of bullying.
	What you're doing is you're dangling a delusion in front of them, hoping that they'll bite.
	And recognizing that if you're trying to manipulate people into being your friend, the friendship won't last because anybody of any quality will veer away from you.
	So what you're doing is just driving away people who you might actually have a productive friendship with and you're drawing people who are like, oh, manipulation.
	I get that. I know that.
	I can manipulate too. And then you end up with no friendship.
	I'm the smartest crew on planet Earth.
	You can hear the laughter amongst the stars.
	Yeah, well, grandiosity can be an aspect of your personality, but you may not want to feed it too much.
	All right, so what have we got here?
	Another couple of questions? If you are an anarchist, how do you feel about the efforts by anarchist rioters?
	Well, I mean, they're just the shock troops sent out by the single moms to make sure nobody messes with the welfare state.
	So they're unfortunately just completely matrilineal, absorbed by the devouring mother, the Medea, and they don't have any particular free will of their own left because all they're doing is serving the bottomless voices of mothers who desperately wish to avoid any responsibility for the bad choices they've made in life.
	Nice glasses, man. Well, thank you.
	I almost came down. I have a pair of glasses that are taped up on one side.
	I almost started the show with them, which wouldn't be the end of the world or anything, but we try to be a smidge professional here.
	Let's see here.
	Go to a protest and talk to people...
	Very few actual anarchists there.
	Jennifer, what are you, crazy?
	I'm a father.
	I can't... I can't go...
	I can't go...
	To a communist meetup, they will try to kill me.
	Like, I mean, I'm sorry, maybe you're a little naive in this area, but they are very violent, right?
	And they hate me.
	And so, yeah, somebody who was able to, you know, crack me on the head would get huge kudos in the community.
	So, my God, no. Can't do that.
	I mean, I'm not bulletproof.
	What's your favorite topic to talk about, Mr.
	Molyneux? I mean, I like the deep philosophy stuff.
	I went into that in my lecture to the Taiwanese University, but it's sort of what it is in the moment.
	Like what... I didn't know I was going to tell the story about Bob tonight, but it is what there.
	Hi, Steph. I'm still not over a girl I left over three years ago.
	I haven't dated since. I was only with her for a year, and the fact that I hurt her has kept me down for years.
	How did you hurt her? I mean, I had that once.
	So when I was working up north, I dated a girl...
	And we went out for maybe a year, a year and a half or whatever.
	And I ended up breaking things off with her.
	And then I ended up going to work back up north again.
	I ended up in the same room, in the same little house where we first met.
	And I just...
	I just really got into her again.
	And I spent a couple of months really trying to get her back and being very, very...
	I'm sad and upset and that I had done her wrong.
	And it was really tough.
	And we played around with the idea of getting back together.
	And then eventually she's like, no, no, it's not going to happen, right?
	And then I just let it go.
	But it's really tough, you know?
	It's really tough. And it took me a while to sort of figure out what had been going on.
	It's because... You can't bond with people if you're afraid of rejection.
	You can't bond with people if you're afraid of rejection.
	Because if you're really terrified of rejection, then bonding to people is like...
	Being dangled over the edge of a building if you're terrified of heights.
	It's way too stressful to really give your heart to someone if you're terrified of rejection.
	So for me, I had always played it cool.
	I'd always played it distant. I don't need you.
	I can move on. I was a young, good-looking guy and charismatic and...
	Blue eyes and blonde hair and all of that.
	So, you know, it was not hard to date.
	It was not hard to date. There were very few women that I couldn't date.
	There were a few. Don't get me wrong. There were a few women that I couldn't date.
	And... So I was distant because I didn't have a bond.
	I hadn't grown up with a bond, right?
	So I protected my fear of rejection by never getting attached to people, attached to women, right?
	So in this particular instance, I really got attached to a woman.
	And like all really first adult attachments, if you haven't grown up with healthy attachments, it was kind of wild.
	I mean, I didn't stalk her or anything.
	I mean, I didn't chase her down the street or anything.
	But, you know, I wrote a lot of letters to her.
	I wrote her poems. And, you know, I really, really worked hard to try and win her back.
	And eventually it didn't work out.
	And I mean, I think she made the right call.
	I think she made the right decision.
	But after that, I was able to start really attaching to people.
	So my guess is that you're not mourning the girl.
	What you're doing is you're mourning the The fact that your fear of rejection has kept you from truly bonding.
	And if you have a fear of rejection, you guarantee rejection because you won't commit to the point where somebody is truly secure in their relationship with you.
	And so having a terrible fear of rejection guarantees you that that fear will come true and manifest.
	And that's the big problem, right?
	Because you fear rejection.
	Then you don't truly attach, which means you can hurt people.
	If people who don't have a strong attachment can really be dangerous, they can really hurt people.
	And so, whatever it was in your life that had you not be able to attach to people, probably maternal, could be paternal as well, right?
	What you're terrified of is that you're too afraid to attach and therefore you're always going to end up alone.
	And You just got to attach.
	You just got to... I mean, I think two girlfriends I tried to get back after the fact, and neither one did it work out.
	No, three! No, two and a half.
	I tried to get back after the fact.
	One I just kind of vaguely talked about the idea rather than me.
	And you just got to declare yourself.
	You throw yourself on your knees and you ask the person to be your girlfriend.
	And if you're in the relationship, man, just be in it.
	Just give your heart.
	You can survive being rejected.
	Now, right now, because you don't know what your fear is, you don't know how to get over it.
	But, I mean, I can virtually guarantee you, you're too scared of rejection to fully commit to someone, to fully connect to someone.
	And therefore, your relationships will always be unstable and you'll always end up back alone.
	So just try and find a way to confront that lack of connection, in my humble opinion.
	If you're an anarchist, what financial system best fits?
	Whatever the voluntary ones are, I suppose, right?
	Begging is seen as weakness.
	No, no, no. See, this, Brandon, come on.
	I don't mean to be harsh here, but because I get a lot of this stuff, I'm e-begging, you know.
	Hey, look, I'm going to model assertiveness.
	Like there was a guy, you know, called me some Nazi cult leader or whatever on Twitter.
	So I had a quick look at his feed just out of curiosity.
	And he said, I'm addicted to watching cooking infomercials, right?
	And so I wrote back to him and said, okay, so you're addicted to watching cooking ads.
	Any healthy infomercials? Male assertiveness is probably terrifying to you, which is why he kind of lashes out, right?
	So really, really, really asking for what you want is not begging.
	It's not begging. Like when I ask people, please help me out.
	I gotta live. I got bills to pay.
	I do documentaries.
	They're expensive. I have a pretty good technical setup going on here.
	The audio and video quality are really, really good.
	That's not cheap at all.
	My bandwidth costs are insane for the podcast, right?
	Because I can get people to watch stuff through YouTube, of course, although less well now.
	But... The significant majority of my show is through the podcast, which I pay for, and it's quite a lot of money, let me tell you.
	Plus, you know, all the servers, all the technical equipment, the video cards, the video adaptation cards, like headphones, headsets, software for process.
	I mean, it's all... It's not cheap.
	It's not cheap. And I'm really, really concerned and obsessed with video quality and audio quality, which is why I do get a lot of compliments on it.
	And it's sort of important to me that it is good because I want to produce a good quality show.
	It's going to be around for a long time and you can't do better than the source, so why not have a good source, right?
	So, yeah, I will ask for donations.
	Freedomain.com forward slash donate.
	There's more that I want to do.
	Much more that I want to do.
	I'm kind of locked down at the moment, but there's a lot that I want to do.
	I want to go do a history of philosophy in Europe.
	I really, really want to go and do a documentary on Japan.
	I want to do a documentary on Thailand.
	I want to do a documentary on a wide variety of different questions and different issues and...
	There's a lot that I want to get done and I know that I provide a huge amount of value.
	There's no show like this.
	There's no show where we bounce from racial issues to why your lack of bonding with your girlfriend is causing you to be alone.
	This is the all show.
	It's the all-encompassing show.
	We do dream analysis.
	We do economic analysis.
	I talked Bitcoin back in the day quite a lot.
	And yeah, I mean, it's the old show.
	So I know I provide a huge amount of unique value.
	It's fair to ask for that value back.
	It's fair. It's reciprocity, right?
	I mean, you're all a bunch of free market people and...
	And you all say, well, we don't need the welfare state because, you know, charity will help, right?
	It's the kind of charity, except I'm really providing value.
	So I'm going to ask for people to donate.
	I'm not going to yell at people to donate.
	I'm not going to say, well, you're a blah, blah, blah if you don't donate.
	I think it's a matter of integrity.
	I think that it's important for you to do it if you're getting value from the show because your unconscious doesn't care what you say.
	It only cares what you do. And if the show is not worth $10 a month, it's probably not going to change that much about you.
	But anyway, that's sort of my particular thoughts and opinions.
	I know that I've really improved by jumping in with both feet into this crazy life.
	But it's not begging.
	It's not begging to ask.
	If you want the girl to go out with you, say, I really, really want you to go out with me.
	You're really asking for what you want.
	I really want the job.
	I really, really want the job.
	I really, really want you to listen to this podcast.
	It matters to me.
	It means something to me. I care about it.
	It's important to me.
	That's called being honest.
	I do want people to support this show.
	I do want people to share this show.
	I do want you to do that.
	I'm asking for what I want.
	What's wrong with that? And the people who get mad at me for doing that, oh, you're e-begging.
	I'm not saying it's you, Brendan.
	I'm just... I'm being honest.
	It's what I want. I know.
	I'm not just saying I want it because I want it.
	I'm not just... Having a show saying, please send me money, but I mean, I'm providing a lot of value and I think it's fair and right to ask people to support what it is that I do.
	I think it's fair. It's right.
	It's good. It's moral.
	And I'm being honest about it, right?
	So should I lie to you?
	Should I, right? So being honest is strong.
	Asking for what you want is assertive.
	Now, bullying people and manipulating people into giving you what you want, that's not right.
	You're not a bad person if you don't donate to my show.
	Listen, I get it. I get you some of you guys have been unemployed for a while.
	It's a tough situation, and you know that I have cut back on donation requests enormously.
	There were a couple of months there I didn't ask for a penny.
	Well, that bills pile up, right?
	So you've got to ask yourself why you're bothered by me asking for what I want.
	Am I not allowed to?
	Am I not supposed to? Is it bad for me to be honest about what I want?
	Come on. So, no.
	Ask what you want. All right.
	Are the reasonable people officially outnumbered?
	Absolutely. But we have more sway than most.
	All right. Do another couple of questions.
	Would you debate cultured thug on fascism again?
	Nothing particularly draws me in that direction.
	All right. Stefan adds value to my life and us all, not like he is Peter Popoff, selling debt-canceling water.
	I don't even know what that means, but it sounds...
	James, modern like a boss.
	Yes, thank you. Just heard a really loud gunshot.
	Gosh. Now is not the time to make a joke about Floyd George's heart.
	Nothing wrong with asking for donations, but you need to be strong with women, no begging.
	No, but... I think?
	It's like going for the job.
	You have to say what you're going to offer.
	Listen, I know what I have to offer the world.
	I know what I have to offer this community.
	I know what I have to offer tonight.
	We've got thousands of people on various platforms all getting together at a moment's notice to talk about deep philosophy.
	You can't get that anywhere else.
	This is a beautiful, beautiful thing that we're doing here.
	We've got thousands of marriages.
	We've got tens of thousands of babies coming out of this show.
	People getting out of bad relationships.
	People getting better jobs.
	People pursuing their life's dreams.
	You can go to my, like on my blog at freedomain.com.
	I've been gathering these testimonials over the last couple months.
	God. There's nothing like this.
	What are your thoughts on Jared Taylor?
	He's a very noble guy. Very noble guy.
	Someone says, I've posted Seth's video for years, never had any bad repercussions.
	His name, of course, is Reckless Abandoned, so whether that fits or not.
	Somebody says, I've been fighting deep depression since 19 years old.
	I'm 33 now and feel proud that I've managed to fight this.
	Good for you, man. Good for you.
	Good for you. The left has already taken America, the institutions, the local government, universities, big tech, the media, Hollywood, all left-dominated.
	Very true. Very, very true.
	And all we have is three-quarters of the truth, man.
	Would you debate or discuss with Jay Dyer, round two?
	Yeah, I mean, I liked that, all right.
	All right. Tom says, well, for giving me X amount of money, I'm going to flick you 20 bucks for answering my question.
	Thanks. I guess I'm busking for money.
	I appreciate that. Thank you.
	Communism terrifies me.
	Yeah, it should. Oh, it absolutely should.
	Absolutely should. Absolutely should.
	How do people over 50 deal with regret, resentment, and sour soul?
	The best thing to do, I think, is to go and warn younger people about the mistakes that you've made.
	Trying to turn your regret into their hope is probably the best thing that you can do.
	And, you know, you're over 50, you're not over 80, right?
	Thoughts about the protest turning into a class war?
	Well, I mean, a class war and a race war are very much aligned because of the stuff we've talked about before.
	Communism truly is unstoppable, it would seem.
	I don't know that it's unstoppable.
	Everyone can help the broadcast and channel by sharing it online with others you know.
	Yeah, like, share, subscribe, all of that kind of stuff.
	How are you explaining everything to your daughter?
	That's a very, very good question, and I will talk about that another time.
	Hi, Stefan. In an anarchist society, would there be police or individuals who would have to deal with criminals through gun ownership and self-defense only?
	See, that's the thing, right? What do you want?
	There will be some people who will be happy to take on their own defense.
	There will be other people who would want to outsource it, and there would be agencies that would help deal with your defense.
	You can go to my website, free books, Practical Anarchy and Everyday Anarchy.
	Talk about this in detail, so go for that.
	All right. Thanks for another great live stream, staff.
	Thank you so much, Andy. I really, really appreciate that as well.
	Caleb says, I'm exceptionally low in industriousness from a biological temperament perspective.
	Advice? Find something you love.
	The only cure for laziness is love.
	If people think it's discipline, it's not.
	It's love. I love philosophy.
	I love talking to you guys.
	I appreciate that.
	Honesty is the best policy.
	It seems that Steph has an excessive amount of guilt, but whatever.
	Oh, that's such a wet noodle of a statement.
	That's such a creepily, swampily, manipulative, gross, creepy, clingy kind of a statement, dude.
	Honesty is the best policy.
	It seems that Stephane has an excessive amount of guilt, but whatever.
	But whatever, people.
	All right.
	What have we got here? Let's see here.
	Coach Red Pill? I've heard of him, too.
	Would you have a discussion with Joe Jorgensen, the Libertarian presidential candidate?
	I mean, I would, but I doubt he would want to come on something as controversial as this great conversation.
	Let's see here.
	Will the left eventually take over the US? It's still early days for determinism, so no.
	Removed a friend from my life for believing the white guilt stuff.
	Yeah, yeah, you gotta cut people, man.
	You gotta cut people. Like, at this point, like, I'm sorry, man, because people will drag you down, right?
	I talked about this as an old show called Suits, which gave birth to the possibly...
	Future queen of England. And there's this guy who's got a friend of his who does drugs and the lawyer, his mentor, is like, yeah, cut him loose, man.
	Cut him loose. This guy's going to drag you down.
	Yeah, people are going to drag you down.
	Advice for a young man recovering from porn addiction when he enters the dating scene.
	Don't know. Sorry, it was not a big deal when I was a kid or when I was a teenager or early 20s.
	I don't know why people have to put this caveat in like they don't agree with everything I say.
	I don't agree with everything I say.
	That's why I have shows called I Was Wrong About X, Y, and Z. It's a weird kind of way to pretend that you have individuality.
	I mean, first of all, you're not supposed to agree with me.
	You're not supposed to agree with me.
	I put forward arguments with data and perspective and reason, and if they're valid, right, if they accord, if they're rational arguments that accord with the data, you're accepting the arguments.
	They're not It's like, I'm a chef who prepares a meal.
	You don't eat me. Right?
	Unless you're married to me. Right?
	You don't eat me. You eat the meal.
	Right? So, recognize that I'm just asking you to believe in reason and evidence and philosophy, not me.
	So, this distancing thing, it's a pseudo-individuality.
	Right? But whatever is a Karen thing to say?
	Yeah, yeah. Because you take enough time to come and comment and insult someone and then you immediately back away by saying it's unimportant.
	Oh yeah, it's just really, really terrible.
	How would you describe a dysfunctional family?
	A dysfunctional family is where...
	Wounds trump truth.
	that everybody expects each other to deal with their emotional problems without being honest, but merely to appease their upsets.
	And nobody can tell the truth.
	You've got to cut people, yeah.
	Yeah, dysfunctional, destructive people, man.
	We are in a cold war.
	Like, it's going to be a hot war if we don't shape up, but you've got to take a stand, man.
	You've got to take a stand.
	Do you agree that increase in similarity scores are why more people have become leftists?
	Dr. Flynn talks about that as a TED talk.
	Well, you want to see a wild argument about leftists.
	You want to look at Edward Dutton, D-U-T-T-O-N, the Jolly Heretic.
	He's got some wild, powerful arguments about why leftists are on, right?
	Does the cut people sound cultish?
	No. God, no.
	No, listen. If somebody's trying to convince you that you are a despicable human being because of the color of your skin, they're a godforsaken racist asshole.
	And they either have got to stop doing that, or you can't have...
	I mean, I wouldn't have them in my life.
	I can't tell you what to do. But if somebody said...
	Like, if somebody believed the Wikipedia page and wanted to be my friend...
	Are you kidding? Like, what kind of weird self-flagellating monster of a self-hating human being would I be to have someone around who thinks that I'm a bad person because of the color of my skin or I'm a Nazi because I talk about science?
	Like, no. You've got to have some basic self-respect in your life.
	And you can't be so desperate for proximity to carbon-based life forms that you'll let them spit in your eye every time you try and hang out.
	Like, God, no. God, no.
	Stephan, I just wanted to say I appreciate you, and I'm honored that you've clicked like on many of my comments.
	It always lifted my spirits. Well, thank you.
	Appreciate it. Could you have Jeff Berwick on for the latest ways to break free of the West to have a homogenous expat community somewhere else affording a libertarian society contracted minarchy?
	I'm not sure that Jeff Berwick has always been the most up-and-up in some of his business dealings, so I'm not sure that I would hold my breath for that.
	Candace Owens annoys the leftists so much.
	Yeah, she's good.
	She's good. All right.
	Could you use dream analysis for a recurring nightmare I had?
	Yeah. So just send an email in to call in at freedomain.com and maybe we can get you scheduled in there.
	I do. I do like that.
	I do like doing dream analysis.
	It's really, really cool.
	Steph, do you believe you should act as if there is free will or do you believe in free will?
	I don't believe in free will. I know that there's free will and you can get more On that, my free book at essentialphilosophy.com.
	All right. Listen, lovely, lovely chat with you guys, but I'm going to try and have not too late at night.
	I've been burning the midnight oil kind of lately.
	So, great to chat with you guys.
	I can't believe how long have we been going for.
	Quite a while, right? Gosh, yeah.
	Hour 40, something like that.
	So, yeah, a real, real great pleasure to chat with you guys.
	Thank you so much.
	Somebody says they very much enjoyed your debate.
	With rationality rules, I think it was the best so far.
	Yeah, I think it was a good debate.
	I think we both really went for it.
	Reason one, which means me, but it was a very good debate.
	All right. So, yeah, freedomain.com forward slash donate.
	Thanks, everybody, so much for dropping by tonight.
	Great to see a couple of grand of people, a couple of grand of grand people coming in to chat about philosophy in the, well, not quite the wee hours.
	I guess the wee hours for some of you guys, right?
	But yeah, a real great pleasure to chat with you guys, and I love you all.
	I look forward to chatting with you soon.
	Got really, really cool stuff coming up, and I will keep you posted about the debate that might be happening on Sunday night with somebody who's on the sympathetic side to the Antifa folks, and we will keep you posted about that.
	That could be quite... Fiery, but I think very, very important at the moment.
	All right. Lots of love from up here to wherever you are.

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