Dec. 2, 2020 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| Gotta laugh, right? | |
| Gotta laugh. What are you gonna do? | |
| Cry all day? So here's a funny thing, right? | |
| So remember when you were growing up, I got the same thing. | |
| When you were growing up, it was like, you gotta get to college, man. | |
| If you don't get to college, you'll be nothing. | |
| You won't even be a waiter. | |
| You might actually end up being an entrepreneur like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. | |
| Gotta get to college. Go to college. | |
| College is your IQ test that costs a quarter million dollars in four years out of your life. | |
| Unlike 200 bucks in a couple of hours for a genuine IQ test, which is actually more accurate than college in predicting job success, but you can't have any of that. | |
| So you were told go to college, right? | |
| Because college, you see, produces an enormous amount of value. | |
| Now this comes out of the basic reality. | |
| Up until the 1950s, 1960s, only about 10% of people went to college. | |
| And they were the 10% of the world's, of the smartest people around. | |
| And so, of course, after they went to college, or whether or not they went to college, We're good to go. | |
| It's like a good singing voice or being tall or whatever it is. | |
| It's just a lot of genetics involved. | |
| There's stuff we can move, stuff we can change. | |
| Really, really important. So smart people went to college and smart people did well coming out of college. | |
| Not because they went to college, but because they were smart. | |
| You know the way like tall people play basketball, but... | |
| If you want to become taller, there's no point joining a basketball team because you've got your course in effect backwards, right? | |
| So smart people went to college and they did well in life. | |
| So what society in its infinite ignorance said was, wow, people who go to college do really well. | |
| So let's just put more people in college so everyone can do really well. | |
| And, well, that's not what happened. | |
| What happened, of course, well, you can picture it in the basketball league, right? | |
| If you say, well, we've got to take everyone regardless of height and people say, well, you know, Pro ballplayers, they make a lot of money, and they're really tall, and they get a lot of girls. | |
| So I'm just going to go and join a basketball team. | |
| It's going to make me really tall, really skilled athletically, and I'm going to get a lot of girls. | |
| Of course, what happens is your cause and effect is reversed, right? | |
| So it doesn't work. | |
| And actually, it would destroy the NBA if they were forced to take people who weren't good at the game or weren't tall or whatever, right? | |
| And I know there's a couple of exceptions in ballplayers who aren't tall, whatever, right? | |
| The exception trolls are some of the most annoying and boring brain insects on the planet. | |
| But anyway, so everybody was told, go to college, you'll make a fortune, do well. | |
| And now they're talking about student loan forgiveness with no reference, no reference, no reference at all to the previous bullshit about how valuable college was. | |
| So if college is so valuable, why on earth would you need student loan forgiveness? | |
| Makes no sense at all. | |
| Logically, right? So... | |
| Nobody's talking about that. | |
| Nobody's talking about, oh man, totally sorry. | |
| We told everyone to go to college and get massive student debt. | |
| Because it turns out it wasn't college that made people successful. | |
| It was smart people who got into college. | |
| And it was their intelligence that made them successful. | |
| And you can't teach IQ in college. | |
| You just can't. You can make people wiser through philosophy, which is kind of what I'm interested in doing. | |
| I really can't make anybody smarter any more than I can make anyone taller or change their eye color. | |
| But what you can do... | |
| You can make people wiser, and that's really, really important. | |
| Of course, you're not going to get any wisdom in college. | |
| What you're going to get is socialist propaganda, self-loathing Western propaganda, and you're going to end up coming out either a sadist or a masochist, depending on your particular identity. | |
| So it is really ridiculous. | |
| And of course, the fact that they're talking about student loan forgiveness, and what is it, $1.5 trillion? | |
| The U.S. economy is wrapped up in student loans. | |
| The fact that people need student loan forgiveness means that the entire half-freaking-century Last, a propaganda about the value of going to college is all a complete lie. | |
| And of course it was a lie, right? | |
| The Marxists love it if you go into debt so that they can indoctrinate you because they care so much about the poor. | |
| So nobody's talking about this. | |
| Nobody's talking about, well, maybe we've just made a giant mistake dumping everyone in college. | |
| Nobody's talking about that at all. | |
| And I'm kind of really interested in the shadow of what is not being talked about because everyone's been gaslit. | |
| And this last 60, 70 years really of pro-college propaganda has been proven as a complete lie. | |
| And nobody's circling back and revisiting it and saying, well, why, if college is so valuable, do we need to forgive all these loans? | |
| It was all a lie, and it's such a desperately dangerous lie. |
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