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July 23, 2021 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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THE JOY OF JEFF BEZOS IN SPACE!
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So, let's talk a little bit about the Elon Musk thing and the Jeff Bezos thing, right?
So, do you ever have this when you were a kid?
Do you ever have this where you come into school and you got some gum, right?
You got some gum and you're chewing the gum and the teacher says, hey, hey, are you chewing gum?
Yeah. Did you bring enough for everybody?
If not, go spit it out.
And it's always a female teacher.
Every single time it was a female teacher.
And I've gone over all of this, that women are obsessed with equality because women raise kids.
Right? So if you're a younger sibling, think of this historically, right?
Half a kid's died before the age of five.
So if you've got a six-year-old and you've got a two-year-old, the parents are going to invest way more resources in the six-year-old because he's past the worst mortality window, so he's probably going to live.
Right? The two- or three-year-old is much more risky.
So the two- or three-year-old has to fight like hell and complain like hell if they don't get equal resources, or at least roughly equal resources.
And if you're a younger sibling, you know exactly what this is like.
So, women are constantly managing complaints about inequality and the only way to keep peace in the household is to make sure everything's equal.
So women have a natural tendency when united with the power of the state to move towards redistributionist socialism because they get very anxious with inequality because inequality means trouble at home and possibly the death of of the youngest kid because resources were short.
And, you know, if you've ever seen the piglets trying to burrow in through and kick each other aside to get at the mom's, the sow's nipples for the milk, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
If you're a younger sibling, you know that you have to be as scrappy as shit to get resources in the family because the older kid's going to gravitate more towards the resources, get more of the resources, whether that's money, time, attention, food, whatever it is, right?
right?
Shelter.
So women feel anxious when there's inequality because it threatens the peace and survivability of their offspring.
And so women generally tend towards more equality of outcome, whereas the guys are like, you know, fight and compete and contest and all of that.
That's what we do, right?
So men are generally drawn towards more free market meritocracy, women more towards state-infor socialism.
Or to put it another way, the beautiful aspect of women that keeps us all alive, which is making sure the kids get equal portions, is corrupted by state power, just as a man's desire to win is corrupted by state power to become coercive dominance through statism.
So, here's the thing.
What you see on social media with regards to...
Let's just talk about Elon Musk taking what he do, 10 minutes in space or something like that.
And you see all of these things like, oh, wouldn't you love to be the...
It's the perfect divorce thing.
You get $50 billion and your ex-husband literally leaves the planet.
Or, you know, when Jeff Bezos gets back, let's pretend that nobody knows him.
Let's all pretend we don't know him.
Or whatever, right?
Or they make fun of the fact that his rocket tends to be somewhat penis-shaped or whatever, right?
Or you get this Bernie Sanders stuff, which you see all over social media, which is like, you know, when we have a bunch of multi-billionaires all trying to get into space to show how big their penises are, when we have literally hundreds of millions of homeless and poor and starving people in this world, there's something wrong!
There's something wrong with the system where some people can afford to go to space and other people can't afford food!
Right? All this stuff. If you don't have enough gum for everyone, you've got to enjoy any gum yourself.
To which I can just say, fuck right off.
Seriously. Seriously.
Fuck right off. We're allowed to have dreams.
We're allowed to be successful.
We're allowed to shoot for the stars.
And the fact that you all aren't doing it, or can't do it, or won't do it, or too lazy, or too indifferent, or too limited, or who knows what.
Sorry. The fact that some people can't sing doesn't mean we can't have beautiful music.
The fact that some people won't bother learning how to play piano doesn't mean I can't listen to a great concert piano.
Pianist. The fact that some people are too lazy to refine their screenplay doesn't mean I can't watch a great movie.
The fact that some people never finish their damn novel doesn't mean I can't read a great novel.
The fact that some people are losers, whether it's accidental or choice or biology or genetics.
The fact that some people are losers in life doesn't mean that the rest of us can't shoot or aim high.
The fact that some people are bad at debating doesn't mean I can't be A good debate or the fact that some people suck and most people suck at philosophy except for you, my lovely crew, doesn't mean that I can't be great at philosophy.
Tell you what, world, I'll make you a fucking deal.
I will aim as high as I goddamn well want to.
And you can live with it or fuck off.
How's that? How's that for a deal?
I aim as high as I bloody well want to.
And if you don't like it, you can fuck off.
You can aim higher if you want.
You can beat the pants off me with regards to philosophy.
You can become more eloquent, more enjoyable, more witty, more...
Rhetorically gifted. You can just be the orator of the gods and you can out-compete the living shit out of me.
You can aim higher than me.
I've got no problem with that. And if you beat me, fantastic.
That means philosophy gets even more adherence.
It gets even more spread in the world.
But that's the deal. That's the deal.
If I work hard and I can afford a piece of gum and you don't want to work, you don't get my gum.
Hey, I may choose to give it to you if I'm feeling in a generous mood and I pity you or take care and want to take care of you.
Totally fine. But how about we let people make a shit ton of money and shoot for the stars so that we have something to look up to, so we have something to aspire to, so we have some greatness that hangs literally in the sky, burning like hell's own hard-on For us to admire.
So that we've got something to look up to rather than this looking down and saying, oh yeah, there's some poor guy with sores and a heroin addiction who's lying half dead in a gutter and we can't have anything nice because he's sad and his life didn't work out so you can't ever be happy, you can't ever aspire, you can't ever do well, you can't ever look up!
You know, we didn't get out of the fucking caves so that we could just go back in and hang around the people who won't get out.
We got out of the caves so we could see the stars, so we could shoot for the stars, so we could aim as high as our talents and ambitions and grandiosity could ever manifest to be real.
Is Jeff Bezos a perfect guy?
No, he's not a perfect guy.
He's a guy who's trying to make his money in a woke culture of oppressive government hyper-regulation.
Is he an incredibly skilled businessman?
Yes, he is. Is he a good husband?
He is not. So give him his spaceship because he lost his wife or drove his wife away.
Oh, I don't know what he had an affair or something like that, right?
So just this idea, oh my God, somebody's doing better, somebody's aiming higher, somebody's doing something magnificent!
And we have to pull everyone's eyes away from that inspiring vision of someone doing something powerful and magnificent and enormous.
And we have to remember to return everyone's eyes to the gutters where the sad, pathetic, broken losers of humanity, through their fault, through no fault of their own, doesn't really matter, but we can't ever look up because there are people down there who were sad and broken and unhappy and we can't ever tear our...
Eyes away from the sad and broken, unhappy people.
We can't ever enjoy and dream and be huge and be powerful and be magnificent.
Can't ever do it, man. Sad, broken losers in the world.
You can't ever be happy.
Now, it's probably not everyone, but it was either women or soy boys who posted all of this stuff.
And it comes straight back to this, well, there's inequality.
I feel anxious because...
I'm a female or woman-ish, right?
Yeah, very sad.
Very sad. You know, Jeff Bezos, you magnificent bastard.
Good for you. Listen, I don't like some of the decisions you make in your company.
I don't like them at all, but I'm not a guy who has to try and survive in a hysterical, hyper-woke culture with half-socialist employees who faint at the sight of the free market.
I don't have to live with that.
I'm an entire company of one person, so I have diversity with split personalities.
That's all I've got, right? Multiracial second step showing up for duty, right?
I don't have to deal with what this guy...
I don't have to deal with hyper-regulation, being hauled in front of Congress, having to justify things, having the government breathing down my neck, threatening...
I don't have to deal with all this shit.
So the fact that he makes what I think are some pretty bad decisions when it comes to woke shit within his culture...
I don't care.
Those rich bastards who go off into space, they're driving down the price of everyone else getting to go.
You think you're going to get to go into space?
And I do want to go into space.
Do you think you're ever going to get to go into space if some rich asshole doesn't get there first?
You think there's ever going to be a cell phone unless some rich asshole is going to pay 10,000 bucks for a Kleenex-sized box of circuitry that you get radiation burns from and can't stand under a tree if you want to make a phone call?
You know, a friend of mine...
I had an uncle who was super rich, and I remember the very first time, he called me, and he said, you'll never guess where I am.
I said, I don't know. What are you doing outside with the phone?
He's like, dude, I'm in a car.
And I was like, what?!
A car, and you imagine this long cable from a box of the car, like, you're waiting for him to get the cable to run out, and he's going to be jerked back like that woman from My Big Fat Greek Wedding, or Jared playing Goose Goose Duck.
He called me from a car.
Blew my mind. First time I got online with my cozy 300 board modem in a 386SX computer from esteemed hardware seller Mighty Max in Toronto.
Back when I paid $1,200 for a computer with one mega RAM and a 60 mega hard drive.
You're never going to get the cool stuff unless the rich people have it first.
Because they are proof of concept, and they open up the market, they say slow the shit out of that thing, and then it trickles down to where you and I are.
Beautiful. They are the icebreakers that create the passage that create the cruise liners that get us to Alaska.
There's no other way to do it.
So the fact that Jeff Bezos is showing his flaming ass in his giant cock of a rocket ship, fantastic.
Beautiful. Flame that ass, baby.
Jeff, flame that ass.
Let me shower down.
You can have used dollar bills to fuel.
You can set fire to dollar bills and Weimar-style jet that thing to the stratosphere.
I'm perfectly content and happy, man.
Do it! Show me your flaming giant cock-rocket ass.
That's what I want to see because that's how we get people like you and me up into space over time.
And I don't want to die before I get to see a curve.
I don't want to die before I get to see a curve.
Because, you know, I'm still haunted by that debate from many years ago that was one of my most popular videos, me versus the flat earth guy.
Flame that ass, baby!
Flame that ass!
Nah, that's what I want to see!
I've been waiting my whole life to go to space.
I was a science fiction nut when I was younger.
I was very excited about going into space before I realized because the government was going there, you and I would never go there.
But now, capitalist bastards are breaking the ice to get us to space.
But no, we can't have any of that because there are poor people somewhere.
Oh, my God. Fucking tyranny of the underclass.
My God. It's exhausting.
It's exhausting. Can't have anything good because there are sad people.
You can't be happy because there are sad people.
You can't ever have a good meal because there are hungry people.
You can't ever be tall because there are short people.
You can't ever sing well because there are people who can't sing.
Talk about... Wet fingering, the bright candle of human potential.
No! Everyone get underneath and celebrate the shit out of this.
It'll do you good. Because if you get to drag down the high because you're too incompetent or stupid or lazy or unable to climb anything or to rise or to do anything, if all you do is drag down the high, you know what you do?
You give a sense of power.
You give a sense of power to the losers.
No! The losers should feel powerless until they stop being losers.
And they aim for something higher and better.
And of course, it doesn't have to be being Jeff Bezos.
It could be anything better.
It could be getting a minimum wage job.
It could be getting your own place.
It could be having a date that doesn't end in an injection, right?
Or maybe a hot beef injection, but not a heroin injection.
You get where I'm coming from, right? So I'd never want to empower the people Where the Nietzschean hideous anti-virtue of resentment, resentment.
Ah, someone's doing really well and they're going up in a spaceship.
I resent that. I want that resentment to be as powerless as humanly possible.
And all the people out there saying, well, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk shouldn't be aiming to space when we have hungry homeless people down here.
Spoiler! You could take all the money, all the money, all the money, all the money.
You could take all the money. That Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk and, I don't know, Richard Branson spent on their space flights.
You could give it and you could go down to the poor people.
You could hand it all out. You could hand it all out.
You know what they would do? Waste it.
For the most part. Waste it.
You'd waste it. There's a reason when I worked up north, there's a reason why every town had the same configuration.
Post office, convenience store, beer store.
You go to the post office, cash your welfare check, you go to the convenience store to pick up your smokes, and then you go to the beer store to get your beer.
Or they'd have a whole bunch of kids, which they then would underparent, to put it as nicely as humanly possible.
Or they'd buy useless stupid shit.
Ooh, look! Really shiny, bright sneakers for people who aren't runners.
And who don't play basketball much.
No, they just waste that shit.
So what would happen is we'd end up with a whole bunch of wasted money, wasted capital.
Instead, we get some glorious fart explosion of glorious space climbing for something we can look up to rather than just taking it down and distributing it.
You know, oh my God, the amount of money.
The money that I've given over the course of my life to people who've wasted it.
There will be no excuse for wasting the dawn.
The amount of money I've given over the years.
I don't regret it because it bought me a lot of wisdom, but the amount of money I've given to people over the years when I've been in a slightly better position and they've needed help and they have just wasted it.
Just wasted it.
I used to give money to my mother and all she did was turn around and give it to shady lawyers to sue people.
Nope! Can't do it.
I've given money to listeners.
Now, a lot of them have gone to therapy and done the right stuff with it, but some of them just burned the money out.
Just burned the money out. You give money to someone and then they post, hey, I just bought a new video card.
It's like, yeah, you kind of wasted that.
You were supposed to use that to get a place and a job.
But hey, it happens, you know. You throw your seeds sometimes on fertile ground and sometimes on the stony ground of short-sighted selfishness, right?
We can't have anything good because there are some people...
Who don't have stuff. And what you're doing is you're empowering failure.
Because now failure can pull down the bright burning skylight of human ambition and human grandeur.
Now you have empowered.
The losers to wet finger the second son of glorious sky-spanning human ambition.
You've allowed them to pee on the roaring fires of progress and now they feel powerful.
Now they feel important.
Now they've pulled down the high.
And if you take the money from all of this stuff and you tax the shit out of these rich people, which they're already taxed quite a lot, and then you give the money to the poor, you're paying people To shit on human potential.
You're paying people to take a giant, pinch off a giant deuce dump on the flaming potential of human ambition.
And then what they'll do is they'll take this money and they'll go out and buy a bunch of shit that's useless and usually self-destructive, which only exists because other people decided to build convenience stores and Farm tobacco and put hops, barley and failure together and yeast to make beer.
So you're rewarding them for shitting on human potential and then you're having them feed the people who profit from human failure.
So, it's very sad.
But you see this everywhere.
No, no, no. Give me the heights.
Give me the grandeur. Give me something to look up to, man.
You cannot spend your entire life looking down at the squalid, dune-moor, infinite, shark-toothed, snake-hollowness of human failure.
Can't get anywhere. Can't do anything because there are poor sad people out there.
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I don't have Twitter.
It's a commie site. I haven't been on Twitter, of course, gosh, over a year.
Over a year. All right.
We've done our two cozy hours.
I hope that you're having a wonderful evening.
It is now 6.58 p.m.
on the 22nd of July 2021.
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All right. Thanks, everyone, so much.
We've made a cozy two hours.
What a great, great chat.
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Have yourselves a wonderful, delightful, glorious evening.
And thank you so much for dropping by tonight.
It was just such an enormous pleasure to chat with you guys as it always is.
And yeah, don't forget to...
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