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May 11, 2023 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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How (and Why) to Love Your Enemies!
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Welcome, my friends, to the Wednesday night show.
I am going to go through a true smorgasbord of amateur actor accents tonight.
All right. Hi, Steph.
You recently remarked on a stream that CO2 makes up a fraction of 1% of the atmosphere and that we are perhaps overly fixated on the tiny portion in regard to climate change.
But surely the fact that atmospheric fluctuations in CO2 has such a huge impact on the growth of plants nullifies your suggestion that it's too small a proportion to be significant.
Sorry if I'm butchering your analysis, but it seems somewhat contradictory, and I know you'll have a good critique.
So, I'm sure you know, but back in the past, CO2 levels were, what are we, 390, 400?
It was like 6,000, 7,000 in the past, and life was fine.
See, here's the basic thing.
Life, over 4 billion years, there's been a lot of fluctuations.
You know, ice ages, hot ages, and so on.
There's even been little ice ages in the middle of the period.
So, there's been a huge fluctuation in climate.
Now, when you are riding a bicycle, bicycle race, when you're riding a bicycle, sometimes you wobble, right?
And then you correct, right?
Now, if you couldn't correct your wobbling, you just tip over.
And I don't know if you've ever done it when you're just learning.
Your wobble gets too big and you tip over.
So for life to survive for billions and billions of years...
The planet has to achieve a self-correcting equilibrium.
That doesn't mean, of course, that everything's, you know, your bike wheels are always wobbling, but you adjust them back to the center, right?
Maybe you turn a little bit, right?
You turn, you want to go right, you turn, and then you straighten out again, right?
You don't just go in a circle, right?
So, a self-correcting mechanism is absolutely required, essential.
Life could not evolve without it.
Life's been on the Earth for, what, four billion years.
So, life could not have survived to evolve us if the planet did not have a self-correcting mechanism.
Now, CO2, of course, comes out of the ocean.
CO2 comes out of volcanoes.
It comes out of a wide variety of things.
And if you look at a planet like Venus, Venus doesn't have a self-correcting mechanism.
So it's basically its atmosphere is sulfuric acid.
So understanding that CO2 has gone up and down, there has to be a self-correcting mechanism.
In other words, if there was something that simply produced a massive amount of CO2 and there was no correcting mechanism...
Life could not exist, right?
But there is a self-correcting mechanism, which is that when you put out more CO2, you stimulate the growth of plants, and the growth of plants take the CO2 out of the atmosphere and replace it with O2, right, with oxygen.
They take out the carbon, they keep it for themselves to grow their foliages and pollen and things like that.
So you have a corrective mechanism.
Now, one of the things that's tougher, though, is that if there's an excess of CO2, Then there is a growth in plants.
If there's a deficiency in CO2, then what happens, of course, is that plants die and animals die, which releases CO2 from their rotting bodies back into the air and so on, right?
So there just has to be a self-correcting mechanism.
I mean, you understand that when it comes to predator-prey relationships, there's an equilibrium, right?
And if there are too many wolves, they eat all the rabbits, and then the wolves starve, and then the rabbits come back, and then the wolves have something to eat, and you end up with a general sense of equilibrium, right?
Which is why there's R versus K. If rabbits and wolves switched their gestational and upbringing periods, then they couldn't survive.
So... There is an equilibrium in nature, the balance of nature and so on.
And again, it wobbles.
So it simply has to be the case that over 4 billion years, CO2 has fluctuated wildly.
There has to be a self-correcting mechanism.
Now, the argument goes something like this, that when you start to get into the 200s of CO2 parts per million, then plant life dies off.
That's very bad. If plant life dies off, we die off, at least lots of us do.
So the argument goes something like this, that the CO2, because what happens is that animals die, and then they sink into the earth, right?
They sink into the earth, and they turn to oil over millions and millions of years, or billions of years maybe.
No, I guess millions. So animals fall into the earth and they sink down into the earth and that's how CO2 gets taken out of the atmosphere.
Now, what we are doing as a friendly and wonderful species to the planet as a whole, what we're doing is we're digging up that CO2 and we're releasing it back into the atmosphere.
And so plants were not far off from being starved for CO2, which is pretty bad.
So by domesticating animals and cow farts, by digging up oil and then putting the CO2 back into the atmosphere, you know, the argument goes that we're really saving the planet.
And it's also kind of a nice thing, right, in that human beings rely on Either plants directly or indirectly in the form of domesticated animals like sheeps and goats and cows needing plants to eat that the more people there are the more CO2 we produce and therefore the more plants there are.
I mean the planet survived No life.
It survived the transition from reptile-based thunder lizards to mammals.
It survived Pangaea.
It survived massive asteroid strikes.
There just has to be a self-correcting mechanism on the planet otherwise.
And so the idea that human beings contributing a relatively tiny percent increase in CO2 as a whole, the idea that that's simply going to throw the entire planet out of balance, I mean, this is not how...
It's not how life in a sustainable fashion works.
It has to be self-correcting.
It has to be something that strives towards equilibrium.
Otherwise, there could never have been any possibility for 4 billion years worth of life expanding.
So, yes. So, for sure, there has been increases in CO2. Does it have a huge impact in the growth of plants?
I think there certainly has been some impact in the growth of plants, but it's too small.
No, so when I say it's too small a proportion to be significant, I'm not saying that it's too small a portion to have any effect on plant growth.
No, it certainly has had an effect on plant growth.
It's too small a proportion to radically alter in a permanent sense.
The weather, to tip it towards some sort of Venus hellscape of self-destruction.
I hope that makes sense.
Yeah, it has a proportion to be significant on plant growth.
It does not have a proportion to be significant on the overall climate of the planet over time.
So I hope that helps.
Stefan, I'm a bit spectrum.
And sometimes the way I articulate is misinterpreted as offensive, accusatory, passive-aggressive, critical.
When I make an assertive statement or a simply interrogative, albeit I acknowledge the awkwardness of my language.
I often have difficulties getting even family members, who should be used to my style of language, to understand my questions as genuine, non-antagonistic inquiries.
I obviously have no idea if you're on the spectrum, but that wouldn't be my first question when it comes to these things.
My first question wouldn't be, are you on the spectrum?
My first question would be, is everyone around you ridiculously hysterical?
Ridiculously hysterical.
Because that's the norm these days.
Thank you very much for your tip.
That's the norm these days, is unbelievable levels of rank hysteria.
I was talking about this with my daughter today.
We went out for a lovely outing this afternoon and had a lot of fun and had some food.
Anyway, so we were talking and I said, look, I don't...
It's hard for us to understand, those of us who don't live in fear, it's hard for us to understand what it's like to be someone steeped in hysteria and paranoia.
It's really tough because...
Okay, let me ask you this.
Let me ask you this. On a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being very chill and 10 being like panic attack, on a scale of 1 to 10, what's your average daily level of anxiety?
1 to 10. Let me know.
Somebody's got a 2, 4...
2 to 3. Some are 7.
3. 1.
I'm pretty happy-go-lucky.
4 to 1.25. Two decimal places is important, right?
6, 8. Yeah, so some of you high.
Most of you, you know, a 1 or a 2.
I'm sort of a 1 or a 2 or a 3.
Depends on what's going on in my day.
But, yeah, I'm fairly chill. So...
For those who believe that the world is going to die over the next 5 to 15 years,
like it's just massive storms and an ice age and bursting into flames,
whatever they believe climate catastrophe is going to happen,
that is a terrifying way to live. And it's appallingly bad for your health, of course,
right? It's a form of slow murder, in my opinion, because it just gets your cortisol flowing,
your fight or flight mechanism going, it suppresses your immune system. It's just a
form of slow choking, right? And there's many different schemes that terrify people.
Like the people on the left, every seeming piece of inequality is evidence of a vast racist, sexist, homophobic, misogynistic...
There's just evil...
Everywhere, all over, in everything that they see.
There's toxic masculinity, there's patriarchy, there's rapists lurking around every corner.
I mean, it's exhausting to live like that.
I mean, this can also happen if you're doom-scrolling through Twitter and you're just seeing endless tales of disaster and woe and so on, right?
So, the unease that a lot of people feel, it's kind of the unease...
So, there's fight or flight, which is a bear runs at you.
That's only supposed to last for a couple of minutes, right?
Because either you get away from the bear, you fight off the bear, or you're dead, right?
I mean, so this kind of fight or flight is only supposed to last for a short amount of time.
The general unease that you have, or that people have, which is like...
Ooh, you know, it's going to be a long winter.
Do I actually have enough food for my family to survive throughout the course of the winter?
I don't know, man. And you get this uneasiness, right?
Or, you know, if you've ever had it like, oh, did I put the alarm on?
Did I lock the door? You know, that kind of stuff, right?
Yeah.
That prompts you to go and do something and then there's just that straight up panic.
So the way that you keep people controllable is, of course, as I mentioned before, you
just make them afraid all the time.
And so people who are stressed out all the time, imminent disaster is occurring, it's
inescapable, everyone's being exploited, everyone's being stolen from, there's evil rapists everywhere
and horrible racists everywhere and the planet is going to die and all of this.
right? I mean, that's an exhausting, debilitating and terrifying way to live.
And so, to have curiosity, you have to be in somewhat of a relaxed state of mind.
If you're just stressed and wired and panicked and jumpy all the time, then curiosity is overwhelming to you.
People just making things that are upsetting.
It's just way too upsetting.
You're already on the edge.
You know, the straw should not break the camel's back, but it is that straw that breaks the camel's back.
So you just may be surrounded by people.
People had this through COVID, that everyone's going to die.
I mean, you remember the data, right?
That Democrats thought that 50% of every COVID case ended up being hospitalized.
Half of every, 50% of everyone who got COVID ended up in the hospital.
Of course, the real number was much less than 1%, right?
Women are also stressed in particular.
This can happen to men too, but women are also stressed in particular.
So if you are a young woman and you are looking for a guy 18 to 40, 18 to 40, any race, 6 foot tall, makes $100,000 or more a year and is not overweight.
It doesn't have to be buff.
He's not overweight, 6 foot tall, 100K or more.
percentage of men fit that criteria.
What percentage do you think?
Don't look it up. You guys are lovely optimists, and I'm afraid you would be very bad girls, right?
Okay, yeah. So people are saying less than 1%, 1.3%.
Oh, I'm sorry. I thought this was the 1 to 10.
So, yeah, I think it's 0.35% or 0.4% or something like that.
So it is very, very small.
It's very small. And that's, you know, any race, six foot tall, 100k or more a year, not overweight.
So you've got a bunch of women fighting over one guy in 250 or something like that.
It's really crazy.
So women are very stressed about that because they feel that they should, you know, they should get these guys.
And look, it can happen the other way, too.
I saw some chubby neckbeard guy posting this anime hourglass-figured woman saying,
if you don't look like this, don't even bother to contact.
And it's like, I don't think online images are doing you any good, my friend.
So women are also stressed because they have been told you're a 10,
and all you have to bring to the table is you, whereas a guy has to have all these
standards, you know?
It's like, women have a checklist, men have a...
Will she say yes?
And so women are stressed too because they're aiming for guys that they can't
get, guys that really they don't deserve.
And they're getting really stressed because they, you know, you can get a vagina subsidy which allows you to vault up maybe three.
Like a woman who's a five can get a guy who's an eight if she offers up easy sex, but he doesn't want to have a relationship with her.
So women get tense and stressed and all of that.
And then women put off, they're programmed to put off getting married and having kids and There's a general depopulation strategy, right?
So they're programmed to put off Getting married and having kids.
And then they scramble when they hit 30 or in their early 30s.
And then they try to look for guys who just almost exclusively do not exist.
Do not exist. And then they're really stressed and they're tense.
So they can't get married.
They can't get a boyfriend who will stay with them.
They're stressed. They're confused.
They're tense. They're angry.
They think the world's going to end.
They believe there's toxic patriarchy everywhere.
Everyone's being exploited and stolen from.
Like it's a nightmare existence.
Like a seriously, it's a nightmare existence and people are just burning out.
Get the sense in society?
I mean, I'm telling you, man, I go out into the world, my head's on a swivel.
I mean, it has been for many years just because of who I am, but my head's really on a swivel and I'm really super polite in my car.
Hey man, you want to come into this lane?
You come into this lane. Especially post-COVID, man.
People are nuts. I mean, they got the living crap scared out of them for years.
And they also...
They also...
People looked in the mirror and they saw that they can be really, really, really evil.
They looked in the mirror. COVID was this horrible experiment, like the Milgram's experiment, right?
The conformity experiment.
It was this horrible experiment where it's like, oh, can we just teach you to hate an entire class of people in society?
Can we just do that?
Everyone's like, no, I can't.
But every totalitarian regime, I would have been on the side of goodness, light, and angels.
And it's like, oh, this group, they're the unclean.
These unvaccinated, they're the unclean, man.
They're the ones making you sick.
They're the ones endangering you.
And it's like, oh, yeah, okay, we'll hate those guys.
Oh, yeah, we'll take away their rights.
Oh, totally, yeah. I'm down with that, yeah.
We'll deny them medical care.
We'll take them off organ donor lists.
We'll ban them from travel.
We'll ban them from grocery stores.
So just, yeah, lock those bastards up.
So, yeah, they've...
And so they have that tension, too.
You know, it's not a lot of fun looking in the mirror and realizing that you would have joined every minority-destroying regime in human history.
Like, that's really tough. It's really tough.
To look into that and to look into the mirror and whether you admit it to yourself, know deep down that you would have joined in every evil mob in history and hunted down whoever, right?
That has been, the real infection is totalitarianism and that's what COVID has revealed.
So people are messed up now, right?
They are messed up.
They're messed up. So, yeah, you're asking sort of basic, simple questions, right?
And people are getting really tense, really wired.
People are there.
We don't have a society anymore.
We have an asylum, right?
People are nuts. All right, let me get back to your questions.
I don't want to do my super rants.
Steph, your recent dream analysis call in was spot on.
I was listening to it thinking, how can he be describing my life so accurately?
Yeah. That's tragic.
Hey, Steph, thanks for everything with your show.
Helped me so much in life.
Do you have a recommended reading list on things you've read that have helped you come to your philosophical perspective?
No, because, I mean, I read Aristotle and Ayn Rand and some others and so on, but it's been a long time since I got good philosophy from a book because I'm sort of making it, doing my own stuff, right?
I listened to several Harvard lectures on philosophy today.
I wonder if the amount of utilitarians changed from before and after to any significant degree.
There were very few libertarians out of hundreds of people even 13-ish years ago.
Yeah. Utilitarianism is...
It's beautiful. Utilitarianism is a beautiful, pure, crystalline, shark-like, efficient lever to grab power with.
So in the past, right, in the past, oh, is that a rant?
Yes, it might be.
Is it a standing rant or a sitting rant?
No. Alright, I will defer to your tender sensibilities, my friend, and I will ask you 1 to 10, how intense do you want the rant to be?
Let me 1 to 10.
10? 11? Squatting rant to 12?
Standing 10? 1,000?
So you guys are just egging me on here at this point, right?
You are just egging me on.
What does that dial on spinal tap go up to?
Go up to 11. Lunging 20.
Are we squatting slav levels of rantiness?
All right. Okay. So, utilitarianism, it's the greatest good for the greatest number, right?
So... In the past, assholes needed an invisible friend to dominate you with, right?
Sometimes he was more visible, but it's not like this dude with the crown.
It's the divine right of kings or some god, some deity.
He demands that you obey me.
Don't shoot the messenger, man.
I'm just delivering to you the message that you need to obey my big ass invisible friend.
When the world became more secular, more materialistic, when it became more scientific, what happened?
Well, people stopped believing in ye old invisible buddy that demanded you kneel before his representative on earth, in the court, or whatever, right?
So you ran out of invisible friends to dominate and bully and grind people down into the glass powder dust of their former selves to end up with human sawdust on the floor of the car, right?
So, there was a problem.
If it was the divine right of kings and God that demanded you sacrifice yourself to his chosen representatives on this earth, if you didn't have an invisible friend that orders people to obey you, his chosen representative and voice on earth, invisible friend who, you know, doesn't really speak for himself, but trust me, man, trust me, bro!
Trust me, bro. He needs you to obey me.
Because that's virtue and he's all good and all virtuous and all knowing.
So he needs you to obey me, bro.
Trust me. Right.
So science worked pretty freaking well.
Science is by far the most successful human invention in all of history.
You understand? Science is, and this is why I base my philosophy on the most successful Mental construct or approach to the world in human history.
All science, all the time.
What does science do? Conjectures have to be rational and they have to bow to evidence and scientific method comes from the observation of reality.
Why am I an empiricist?
Because empiricism is the foundation of science.
Why do I say theories have to bow to reality?
Because that's the basis of science.
I base everything I do because I'm not an I'm an idiot on the most successful mindset that has ever been developed in human history called the scientific method and science.
And please don't. This slavish, bullshit, court-toady, asshole-fest called modern state-funded science is a sickly bunch of toadying, parasitical, monastic jerks sucking up money and spitting out your freedoms from their armpits.
So let's not confuse any of that with science.
All right? Here's the problem.
Here's the problem.
When you run out of invisible friends to control people with, you need a new invisible friend to enslave people.
You just need a new invisible friend to enslave people.
Now, science being so successful, they couldn't just invent another supernatural being.
They couldn't just invent some monstrous, some abstract thing.
So what did they...
Oh, abstract personified thing.
So you needed a new foggy club to beat human beings into knee-broken submission.
Just slam it down on their brains until their brains turn to easily malleable sky powder.
Can't be divine. Can't be superstitious because we've got science.
Science is the truth, all of that stuff.
So what do you do? You're not going to give up power because you're addicted to power.
What do you do? Ah, wait a minute.
Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on.
Eric Clapton style, here we go.
I've got it. I've got it.
Oh, oh, I know.
What's an invisible thing that can't speak for itself that I can use as a foggy club to beat everyone into submission and have them bow down before me?
It's spoken representative.
Oh, I know. The demos, democracy, the collective, the group.
Oh, oh, oh.
Come on, come on and touch me now.
Here we go. Oh, this is good stuff.
Oh, man. This is like a succubus' silk gloves on my testicles.
Oh, yeah, baby.
I got it. The new invisible friend we grind everyone down into obedient little water nymphs is the greatest good for the greatest number.
Ah, yeah!
The greatest good for the greatest number.
That's it. That's it.
Because the greatest good can't be defined.
And if it can be defined, you say, well, that's not for the greatest number.
And if you say, well, let's go poll the greatest number, we say, well, you can't poll them accurately.
They don't even know what they're talking about.
It has to be left to the experts.
But the experts need a club to grind you down, to beat you down.
Now that club, do you know what the newest club is?
The newest club is scientific consensus.
Don't do your own research, man.
It's scientific consensus.
Who are you to argue against the world's most eminent scientists, all of whom are...
Fellating the deep state money wagon glory hole money shot.
So you're utilitarianism.
What do we have to do? What's the greatest good for the greatest number?
Oh, really? Can we poll the greatest good for the greatest number?
No, it's not really efficient. Can't really do that.
Okay, so what is the greatest good?
Well, it's the greatest good.
Okay, who speaks for the greatest number?
They can't all speak at one. Oh!
I speak for the greatest number, you see.
I speak for God.
I speak for the collective.
I speak for the country.
I speak for your ancestors.
I speak for all the invisible assholes in history that have been used to club human beings into knee-bending submission.
I speak for the collective.
I speak for the greatest number.
And you know, it's kind of an interesting coincidence.
You wouldn't believe this. You wouldn't believe this.
It's wild. You know how like the good guys have won every conflict throughout history.
What are the odds, right? What's really wild, what you really won't believe, is that the greatest good for the greatest number happens to have like a one-to-one overlap with that which benefits me the most.
It's just wild. It's like 20 natural 20s in a row.
The greatest good for the greatest number that I alone can interpret and command upon you just happens to one-to-one overlap with what happens to be the greatest good for me and my friends.
Isn't that wild? So utilitarianism is just inventing another abstract bullshit quagmire entity that can't speak for itself that needs a radical series of priests, i.e.
sophists and politicians and media pundits and all other sorts of Manipulative, con-job bullshit artists.
The greatest good for the greatest number is just this big foggy thing.
And if you oppose it, you say, what, you oppose the greatest good for the greatest number?
Well, that's no good. You oppose the scientific consensus?
As if science has anything to do with consensus and if progress has anything to do with agreeing with the past.
Progress is violently disagreeing with the past, particularly moral progress.
So utilitarianism...
is a giant, foggy, bullshit, collectivist club used to grind you down
and attempt to intimidate you into giving up your own conscience
for the sake of obeying Sophus.
It's that old joke from Shrek.
By the way, Shrek was based on a real guy.
I didn't even know that. Well, somebody has to die for this country and I'm happy to believe that it's you.
I'm happy to nominate you.
Let's see here...
Sorry, I ranted long enough that...
I've lost my questions.
Thank you for your patience.
Working out does help kill anxiety, that's right.
When I was younger, I used to think the wrong politician getting elected would cause the end of the world.
It was a nightmare living like that, yeah, for sure.
The climate change hysteria also is very vague about the danger they predict, which fuels the hysteria even more.
Yeah, I mean, they just need some bullshit to pick your pockets, right?
They just need some bullshit to pick your pockets so that you don't riot when they steal from you.
Let's see here. Well, Wendy's fast food restaurants announced it will now implement AI in their restaurants.
Border's wide open. Where are all these immigrants going to work?
Is the border open to cause chaos in the U.S.? The borders are open to destroy countries.
That's why you open borders, right?
I can't figure out if my anxiety is from early childhood experiences or if I would be at ease if around functional people.
Well, I don't know. Try being around functional people and see how you feel.
Probably will be a whole lot better.
When I was in my teens and had a good friend circle, I wasn't anxious at all.
Yeah, isolation. You couldn't design public health policy better over the past couple of years to cause massive mental health and physical illness crises.
All right. Let's see here.
Somebody says, I appreciate the analysis.
Oh, this is the guy. He says he's on the spectrum.
I'd say frequently we're dealing with anxious, frightened people, but I struggle with normal people not understanding me or rather reading antagonism in my language that isn't there.
It's very frustrating and I struggle frequently in my intimate communications to set aside the counterparty concerns.
How can I penetrate that barrier of communication?
Again, you could be totally right.
Who are these normal people?
I mean, you're talking about it here.
Nobody's freaking out, right? Who are these normal people?
Can I find them too? I shouldn't say that.
I'm good friends. But I struggle with normal people.
How do you know that? What is normal these days?
Propagandized, frightened, ill health.
Sleep-deprived, tense, frustrated, cortisol dumps, amygdala stimulation, a fight-or-flight mechanism on a semi-perpetual basis, easily triggered, reactive, hysterical, self-loathing.
Isn't that normal these days?
I don't think I'm being too harsh, am I? Imagine taking that anime poster seriously.
It's a joke because women, on average, are like 170 pounds in the US. Yeah, I remember one of the many things I got into trouble with on Twitter was saying...
That women's obesity is to do with the welfare state.
Because when women rely upon men to provide them resources when they're big with child and breastfeeding and raising kids, they need men to stay with them.
They need men to be attracted to them.
And so they stay slim and healthy.
You look at the women in the 50s, right?
They stay slim and healthy.
But the welfare state comes in.
They don't need to stay attractive for men.
So they balloon up. People were appalled.
I don't know. Just boring.
People without curiosity are...
I don't even know how they get out of bed in the morning.
I've seen a lot of attractive women with short men in my area.
I may take a survey and find out the percentage.
Same, Steph. I commute a lot for work and just let a lot go because I don't know if someone may go crazy.
Oh, yeah. People are wired, man.
I mean, also the people who lost a lot of money on crap coins and all of that.
So, yeah, it's, you know, the people who were very wealthy on paper and then it all vanished.
I mean they're messed up man and I sympathize with that so.
Alright let me get to your questions and comments.
I hate utilitarianism.
It makes no sense to say you can define the greater good when you can't even define normal good.
Yeah, greatest good for the greatest number.
number at the moment I see that and just my eyes roll up and I just cover my
pockets and back away slowly because it's just like oh they're coming for you
with with pickpockets and straight razors. I watched some debate with a
utilitarian and he literally just was totally cool with killing people if it
was necessary for a certain outcome.
Yes. Yes, for sure.
For sure. Like the electrical shock experiment.
Yeah, yeah. Milgram's experiment turned that dial, ran to maximum voltage.
Oh, you're talking about me, right, right. Let's see here.
Also not a question, but a thought I wanted to share as someone who's always been intensely curious about the topic.
I found that knowing too much about the mechanics of the feminine guile, and in particular, as I do, having a propensity to translate it into the more cold, objective masculine language, is a huge turnoff for many women.
Perhaps itself a defense against the curiosity of men into the underpinning of the social world that can drastically change the course of their lives.
Well, I mean, here's the thing.
You have to look at the mechanics of human nature and love it.
I mean, you don't have to, but you're going to have a pretty miserable life if you don't.
I love the mechanics of human labor.
I really do. Of human nature.
I love the mechanics of human nature.
You combine human nature with the state, then you have a problem.
But the problem is the state, not human nature.
Human nature is a beautiful, a wonderful thing.
It's adapted and kept us alive and brought us to where we are.
You combine that with the state, you get toxicity.
So women are incredibly beautiful.
Women plus the state are vampiric nightmares, right?
But same thing with men. To give a simple, concrete example here, it's hard to think of an easier way to upset a woman than to tell her that you find her long nails unattractive because you recognize that the main purpose of long nails is as a signal to other women that she does not have to perform manual labor, and that as someone seeking genuinely equal partner, you're turned off by her taking pride in not doing any work.
What's that line from First Wives Club, you know?
I did laundry, I did the shopping, I did groceries, I did gardening, and you did?
Well, I supervised, right?
Yeah, for sure. For sure.
But here's the thing, right?
I mean, if you talk to women about the fact that a woman's makeup is specifically designed to simulate an orgasm, Because the flushed cheeks, the red lips, the popping out eyes.
A woman's makeup is designed to disarm men by having an orgasm face.
And I remember talking about this back in the social media days.
A woman pointing out a lot of makeup is saying, here's how I look when I'm extremely...
Turned on sexually, right?
It's literally like a man having a giant boner pressing out from his pants.
Like you wear something where your penis was on time but you were five minutes late, right?
You got this giant picture tent boner coming into the meeting and then you come in afterwards.
That would be like weird, right?
Like why are you bringing a boner to the meeting?
And it's like, well, makeup is there to simulate sexual excitement to bypass men's critical faculties.
You point that out and, you know, some women are like, oh, well, that's interesting.
And a lot of women are just like, oh, he's on to us.
He's disarming our witchy ways.
All right I see here
Do do do do do do do All right
Let's see here Bye.
I've been thinking of setting up a YouTube Rumble channel to influence the culture towards rejecting child mutilation.
What wisdom of my information should I know before I attempt to help spread some truth?
I mean, I don't want to tell you how to do it for you, but I mean, for me, it's like, just don't hold back.
Some of you may die, but that's a sacrifice I am willing to make.
Yeah, that's the line. Thank you. So, yeah, just, this is not a time in history to hold anything back, in my view.
So, just go full 100%, right?
Have some coins for that rant.
God bless. Thank you very much. I appreciate that.
With mass immigration, what happens very soon when there's no more money?
I think we all know the answer to that.
That's sort of the point of it, right?
All right.
So I'm immersed in language all day long and adhering to the precept that words have meaning.
I'm particularly sensitive to subterfuge and deception and shape my own language to avoid hypocrisy and misinterpretation, but that seems to backfire when I try to communicate important ideas to friends and family, and I can't get through.
Is there some sort of body language overlay, some form of gentle body touch or gesture that I can use to make sure my words aren't misinterpreted?
Any advice? Okay, so let's say that you're, I'll bow down before this, and let's just say that you're a bad communicator, right?
So you're saying that your family gets upset with you because you're a bad communicator, alright?
You're too blunt, you're whatever, right?
But they know this about you.
They know if you're right about being on the spectrum, whatever that means, right?
If they know that you're on the spectrum, then why on earth would they get upset with you based on how you communicate?
You know, if my family knows that I don't speak Japanese, they don't speak to me in Japanese.
If they do speak to me in Japanese, knowing that I don't speak Japanese, why would they get upset if I refuse to answer them in Japanese?
You're not even understanding what I'm saying, they say in Japanese.
So this is what I don't understand, genuinely don't understand.
Your family, your friends know this is who you are.
Why would they be upset about the way you communicate?
I mean, your family raised you, right?
Your parents raised you. Why on earth would they be upset?
About how it is that you communicate.
That makes no sense to me at all.
So I'm happy to get clarity on this.
Alright. Let's see here.
Hey, Steph, I'm a systems analyst and was offered a managerial role, but fancy title with a little more money.
My wife also gave birth to our first child after trying for over 10 years.
Oh, congratulations. Thank you for making the choice clear and easy for me to invest more of my effort into my son rather than pursue 15% for wealth.
Family is where the value is at.
Must make up for lost time. Yeah, there was a guy, Lord knows what his name was, but like, I don't know, 30 years ago, I heard the following story on...
I used to listen to books on tape long before Audible was a thing.
So the guy said that Judas betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver.
And the story is...
That Judas felt so bad about this afterwards that he hung himself on a tree and the tree died.
Now most of us don't have anything quite as Global spanning, history spanning, a temptation is turning in the Son of God to the Romans.
But we have these little betrayals.
Maybe there's a girl who's really virtuous but not quite as pretty.
We go for the pretty girl and we're betraying the virtuous girl.
Maybe we really love doing art but then we're offered a job as a manager of artists and it's more money and we take that and then we don't do the art anymore and we lose the joy of our job.
So most of us don't have...
Big dramatic choices like Judas betraying Jesus.
But we have our little temptations.
And if you give up what makes you passionate and happy and alive in return for money, in return for the 30 pieces of silver, it's not as dramatic as Judas hanging himself on the tree.
But for us, for us, the tree dies anyway.
I'm paraphrasing like crazy and I have no idea who it was after all these years, but you didn't take a little bit of money.
If you're a systems analyst and you get to be a managerial role, you're no longer doing what you love.
You're now managing people who do what they love.
And again, maybe that's fine.
Maybe you enjoy it. I enjoy being a manager, but it meant that I got less programming in.
So good for you. I am going to listen later.
I have to get the youngest off screen time.
Keep up the philosophy. Thank you.
I appreciate that. And thank you for the tip.
I watched the Rumble live the other night, and I was the guy who said I'd chosen hedonism in my 20s and 30s.
My wife listened to your response, and her takeaway was that I need to accept my choices and not punish myself because I'm making much better choices in my life now.
Thank you, because it's been your work that helped me change my choices over the last four years.
I made my choices, and it is what it is.
I had some fun, but if I'm being honest, I was probably living in anxiety.
Yeah, I mean, when you're living in a situation that can't be sustained, you have anxiety.
And the sort of hedonism fun lifestyle really can't be sustained into your 40s and 50s, right?
There's an Eddie Murphy bit that I remember listening to when I was a kid about, like, you don't want to be the old guy in the club.
You know, everybody's there. They're in their 20s and late teens and 20s and you're the guy who's like 40 or 42 and, you know, you've got to hope that the light doesn't swing your way and reveal all that craggy moon crater face stuff and you just don't want to be that old guy in the club.
You've got to be out of the clubs by then, right?
Steph wrote a documentary called The Present as to what will happen when the government runs out of
money.
Yeah, yeah.
And, you know, if you are on the spectrum, as somebody points out, we need people with zero filter.
We need people without filters.
Maybe I'm on the spectrum, right?
But we need people without filters.
What car do you drive, Steph?
It really depends on your donations today.
So, alright. Questions, comments, issues.
I certainly do have stuff to talk about.
I have stuff to talk about.
But I want to make sure that I get what you wish to say first.
Casual cannabis use by teens raises risk of depression and suicidality.
I mentioned this because somebody asked me, so I only occasionally smoke and so on.
What's that? Good or bad or whatever, right?
I got the actual, so the chances of finding a man with the following characteristics.
Not married, any race, at least six foot tall, not obese, earning at least $100,000 per year is 0.35%, which is one in 300, give or take, right?
A European study has concluded that COVID-19 vaccines are causing long-term brain damage.
I guess that's also called having a really bad conscience.
And also did you know that Under Trump, child trafficking.
Under Reagan, Bush the elder Clinton, Bush the younger Obama, child trafficking was high.
Under Trump, it actually went into negative.
They recovered children from this.
Under Biden, it's gone unbelievably through the roof.
Like higher, twice as high almost as it was under Clinton.
So that's another reason why they didn't like Trump.
All right. Let me see if I can find this.
Yeah, in the US, 45% of millennials now have more credit card debt than savings.
45% of millennials now have more credit card debt than savings.
That's kind of terrifying.
I like this. I am yet again asking the Olympics to simply let a regular non-athlete person do the event first so I can understand how good these people are.
There was another one which was like, you know, just let people juice.
Just let them juice with whatever they want.
one, I really, really want to see how high a human being can jump no matter what.
Also the four laws of behavioral genetics.
Eric Turkheimer, I actually interviewed him many years ago.
The nature and nurture debate is over.
The four laws of behavioral genetics.
First law, all traits are partially heritable.
Identical twins reared apart are more similar than fraternal twins reared apart, who are more similar than non-relatives reared apart.
All traits are partially heritable.
Second law, the effect of the genes is larger than the effect of the shared environment.
By adulthood, identical twins reared together are little or no more similar than identical twins reared apart.
Ditto adopted siblings.
Third law. A lot of variants in behavioural traits isn't attributable to either genes or to the shared environment.
And that's true, right? Social environment, school, friends, and all that, right?
Fourth law, most complex traits are shared by many genes of small effect.
Like, there are no common genes that increase or decrease IQ by, say, five points, but there are hundreds or even thousands of genes that increase or decrease IQ by a tiny fraction of a point.
Another study, scientists have proven historical queens were 38.8% more likely to start wars than kings, right?
Because, you know, all this stuff. Oh, if women ran the world, there'd be no wars.
It's like there'd be nothing but war compared to men.
There was a woman, a woman 37 stabs husband multiple times after finding explicit photos
of another woman that turned out to be her when she was thinner.
That's pretty wild.
That's pretty wild. So what was I looking for here?
Did I find it?
Oh yeah, the online shaming of others is motivated by schratenfreude, not by social justice concerns.
Online shaming of others is driven by people just wanting to see other people suffer.
It's really a form of sadism.
They'll cover it up with morality, but the study is pretty clear that...
People are doing it.
The current studies point to the hedonic motive in general and Schadenfreude specifically as a key moral emotion associated with people's shaming behavior.
They don't shame you because they have some moral ideal.
They don't shame you because you've been a bad person or done something wrong.
They shame you because they want to see you pulled down because they are unhappy with themselves.
Alright, I could do this for a while, but I do these shows, social media reviews, so I'll do that.
Let's go back here. I still haven't found what I'm looking for.
Okay, let's see here. Repeated question.
Sorry about that. With respect to the truth about witches.
Awesome video. Thank you. Do you have any ideas for what men might do to defend against and negate the social reputational damage spells of witches, particularly those of second-level witches we didn't choose to include in our lives, say, second-level contacts like a colleague of a friend, etc.?
Right. Um...
You like it now, but you're going to love it later.
You're going to learn to love it later.
So... It's a cleansing fire.
It's a cleansing fire. So you know how forests that never burn down are just complete tinderboxes?
And it's the lack of controlled burns that cause a significant number of massive blazes, right?
I mean, even the sort of, quote, primitive indigenous populations of the world knew that they had to burn down their forests from time to time.
So here's the thing, right?
Are you ready for...
A giant, I hope well lubed life lesson.
Are you ready? Hit me with a Y if you're ready for a life-changing life lesson, which I speak of with genuine, deep, and occasionally bitter experience.
Are you ready? This will change your life.
I guarantee it.
Right. So we think that our life is supposed to progress in a general upward trend, right?
We make more money. We have success.
We date better girls.
We get married, hopefully.
And there's this general sense that life is supposed to go in an upward thrust.
That expectation is what drives the midlife crisis.
That expectation is to me, I believe, what drives anxiety, depression, and all the way
to the extremes of suicidality.
Life does not progress in a steady upwards path at all.
I mean, it feels that way sometimes, but at least once in your life, if you're doing anything of note, if you're doing nothing, who cares, right?
At least once in your life, you will be burnt to the ground.
You will be raised to the ground.
You will have nothing.
If you're doing anything of note, of risk, of importance.
I mean, that's how you know you're doing something of importance, is you get burned to the ground.
It could be health, it could be money, it could be career, it could be wife, it could be reputation, it could be a job, it could be just about...
At some point in your life, the controlled burn of random inevitability will take you to the ground.
It will take you to the ground. Now, why is it so healthy for a forest to burn down from time to time?
Because it gets rid of the accumulated dead wood and the nonsense and the detritus and the excess.
Because if you don't burn down, or if the forest doesn't get burnt down from time to time, there's no new growth.
You've got to get rid of the canopy of history in order to get the shoots and the new growth of life.
We are in a revolutionary cycle of birth, death, and rebirth, not just in the whole arc of our life biologically, but in our life as a whole.
Now, we have this expectation that life is going to progress in a linear fashion, and things are going to go well, and generally get better.
No! That's going to make you miserable.
Now, the forest, there's no individual tree that welcomes the fire.
The trees hate the fire.
The trees are terrified of the fire.
The trees would do anything to avoid the fire.
But the fire is essential for the forest as a whole.
So your setbacks, your disasters, your catastrophes, you hate them, but by God they're necessary in your life.
You must learn to love the fire that burns everything down.
You must learn to love it.
I mean, you don't have to. You can do whatever you want.
I'm just telling you, it's going to happen either way, and you might as well love it.
Do you know how liberating it was for me to be deplatformed?
Incredibly liberating.
I mean, look, if you're with a woman you love, you're with a man you love, you dated people
before and you were very unhappy when those relationships didn't work out, but everything
paved the way to the glorious cathedral of life that you live in now.
Bye.
...
So let's say somebody is fucking with your reputation.
Spreading all kinds of lies.
And you're like, oh, that's bad.
That's terrible. I hate that.
It's so bad. Yeah.
They're setting fire to your forest.
Setting fire to your forest.
And you hate that and you are afraid of that and you wish vengeance and you...
There's another approach, right?
There's another approach. To thank them.
This is what is meant by love your enemies.
Because your enemies will always reveal your true friends.
Hit me with A for abstract explanation or P for personal.
Hit me with an A for an abstract explanation or a P for a personal explanation.
Oh, you all need to go pee-pee?
I can't believe you fell for that.
Pa-pa, pa-pa, pa-pa, pa-pa, pa-pa, pa-pa.
Dear Lord, we've got the clatter of small arms fire in the chat window.
All right, I think you're kind of evenly split, right?
Kind of evenly split? No, no, I said either or.
Give me one or the other. Good Lord, you clever people.
Because they take longer.
Okay, let's do this again. No A&P sneakies.
No wishing for more wishes sneakies.
Do you want an abstract philosophical explanation or do you want a personal explanation?
This is actually really interesting because this is one of the first times where it's really, really split.
Okay, I'm just kidding. I'll do both.
No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. All right.
So it looks like we don't know.
All right. Okay, I'll go with personal.
So, as you know, back in the day, I, you know, helped get a lot of people's careers started.
I picked them to some degree out of obscurity, gave them a platform, and it's not a big thing.
They helped me as well, blah, blah, blah, right?
And I had people who seemed to be, you know, good friends and so on, right?
I get deplatformed and everybody vanishes, right?
Now, that's incredibly liberating for me.
I mean, I'm not saying it was super fun at the time.
I'm not saying everyone should say, oh great, negative things are happening.
I mean, you can't reverse everything.
I'm just saying get a longer and bigger perspective.
Because everything that can't survive that fire was already dead to begin with.
The fire doesn't take anything away from you.
It simply reveals what wasn't there in the first place.
Loyalty, friendship, kinship, whatever it is, right?
With my family of origin.
Big-ass family of origin.
I performed a radical little experiment called telling the truth.
Maybe on the spectrum.
Telling the truth in a sort of blunt way.
And I felt by telling the truth, in a sense, I lost my family.
And it's like, of course, that's how it feels at the time without this perspective.
But that's not what happened.
What happened was I didn't lose a family, I gained a family.
In other words, I lost a family that was not loyal to me and had no particular love for me and in fact had hostility towards me telling the truth.
I lost that family but because of that I got the family I have now who actually love and care for me and would walk through fire with me to the ends of the earth and who I would do the same for.
So I lost the bullshit and I got the real.
Lost the lie, got the truth.
Lost the appearance, got the facts.
Lost the lie, got the love.
And that's the new growth.
And you can't get the new growth until the old bullshit is out the way.
So if you're doing anything in this life, people will try and burn you to the ground.
And they will succeed at least once.
At least once, maybe more.
I've had it happen a number of times.
A number of times.
I had it happen in theater school when they viciously turned on me because I was anti-communist.
I had it in graduate school when people said I had essays read to the class because I was so brilliant and everyone said that I was the most talented person who'd come through that program in forever and then nobody would sponsor me going forward, right?
That kind of happened in the business world.
I won't get into details of that, but trust me, it's happened to me a number of times.
It happened with deplatforming.
You get burned to the ground if you're doing anything.
Because there's blowback.
And what's your option?
To do nothing? Well, the reason you do nothing is because you're afraid of losing stuff.
But if you're afraid of losing stuff, it's already gone!
You're holding onto a mirage, a nothing, a fantasy, a simulacrum.
You're about to marry an AI robot thinking that you're passionately in love with a flesh-and-blood female
So somebody's gonna spread bullshit lies and slander you and rip down your reputation
Thank you.
you And you can shrink from that process like, oh my god, this is the worst thing ever, it's so terrible, it shouldn't happen.
Or, or, or, or, you can say, thank you for shooting up a flare so I can see my actual friends.
This is to love your enemies.
Your enemies lead you to your friends.
They lead you towards your genuine friends.
Your enemies illuminate and cast out the shadows and phantasms that you imagine are companions
and clear the way to genuine connection.
I was taking unbelievable risks for an audience of which 90% couldn't be bothered to come
to a new website.
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If I hadn't been deplatformed, I would have continued to take those risks for people who didn't care about me enough or philosophy enough to come to a different website.
Oh man, that's more typing.
Okay, you're risking your entire reputation and your survival and everything.
But, you know, man, that's a whole other website, man.
That's a lot of work.
It's like, oh, come on, man.
You know, how many people had me on their shows after I was deplatformed?
I don't say this with any hostility.
I really don't. I always, always embrace the facts and the truth.
And when your enemies come at you, and they will, Your enemies do you a massive favor by revealing your actual friends, those who genuinely care about you.
Your enemies take away the dead canopy so things with a future can grow.
Can grow.
Can grow.
When I say that I really appreciate and love you guys for showing up and supporting and donating and being here,
I genuinely mean it.
Thank you.
We few, we happy, proud few who stood tall when the fire came through.
The jungle of facts that we had all assembled.
The fire came through. It's necessary.
It's essential.
It's healthy. It clarifies.
And you walk through this smoking wreckage, and you can cry for what is gone, or you can look down at the green shoots and say, there is the future.
There is the sustainability.
There is the renewal.
There is the second half of my life, or the last third of my life.
There is the new. Somebody, a lover, a friend, a family member, a business associate, somebody is going to betray you.
Somebody is going to burn you to the ground.
Somebody is going to try and ruin your life.
And it's going to really feel that way.
It's really going to feel that way.
And you will feel lost and alone and cast out to the edge of the rings of the universe of interstellar emptiness.
And then it will come to you.
Hopefully with some help.
Hopefully this helps. But it will come to you.
And you won't feel it at the time, but you will feel it later.
You will feel it later.
Thank you for bringing that clarity to my life.
Philosophy felt like it was, my God, man, My brothers and sisters, philosophy felt like it was taking everything from me.
It was just pulling me apart and pulling me down and disassembling me.
It felt like every morning I woke up and lost another body part.
I felt like I was dissolving and being carried away like leafs in a train of ants.
I just was being pulled apart.
It felt like I was losing everything.
But all I was losing were lies.
That's all I lost. Philosophy says this is the truth.
Keep the truth, discard the lies.
Keep the truth, discard the lies.
Now, I was fine, like most people, I was fine when that was at an abstract level and it was just about ideas and arguments and statism and voluntarism, blah, blah, blah.
But when you make that progress and you build that base, philosophy is like, great, okay, we've got the abstract stuff sorted out.
Keep the truth, discard the lies.
Keep the truth, discard the lies.
Now! Now! We're going to take this giant searchlight, this clarifying dark side of the moon sunbeam that you have focused.
We're going to take that away from the abstractions because they're sorted.
We're going to go back into the cave and we're going to take this sunbeam interrogatory lights that you have And we're not going to look at abstractions anymore.
We've done that. It's been great.
It's been wonderful. We're now going to take this wide, scalding sunbeam of yours and we're going to point it at the people around you.
We're going to point it at the people around you.
That's all we're going to do. And see who cares about you when you're not convenient to them.
Who cares about you when you're even a little bit difficult?
Who cares about you when you disagree with them?
Who cares about you when you think out loud to them?
Who cares?
Who likes you, when you're actually you?
Who cares?
Who likes you, when you're actually you?
Who likes you, when you're actually you?
Who cares?
Who likes you, when you're actually you?
Who cares?
Who likes you, when you're actually you?
Who cares?
Who stands by you, when everyone stands against you?
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Who's coming in through the door when everyone's bailing out through the window?
Who's got your back when people are creeping up from behind?
Who's got your back when people are creeping up from behind?
I thank everyone who got me The incredible clarity about people in my life.
I don't blame anyone.
I'm not mad at anyone.
I don't resent anyone.
I am incredibly grateful for the fire that came through so that everyone who was left was as close to me as my own spy.
You follow me? You will get burned to the ground at some point in your life.
More than once, probably.
And you will lose nothing of value.
You will gain everything.
and you will lose nothing but lies, nothing but falseness, nothing but manipulation, nothing
but a lack of loyalty.
Pretty eye-opening when you speak truth based on reason and evidence and are viciously attacked.
Thank you.
I mean, it's funny.
I thought of this today apropos of nothing.
I can't even remember why.
Sorry, that's kind of redundant.
I thought of all the people I knew over the course of my life, my childhood, teenage years, 20s, whatever, right?
People I was in business with and so on, right?
I'm sure that they read the articles.
I'm sure that they heard the nonsense and all of that.
And I was just thinking, I was thinking, what would I do if somebody I knew even from years ago, if somebody I knew from years ago, what would I do if they were just being attacked and I knew that that wasn't them, I knew that they were a good person or whatever it is, what would I do?
What would you do? If you knew, maybe someone you were friends with 20 years ago or someone you spent a lot of time with or, you know, and maybe you're not interested in rekindling the friendship for whatever reason, But what would you do if someone you knew was being unjustly attacked?
Someone you had cared about at one point, or what would you do?
Hit them up at least, yeah?
Jump into the fray, yeah? That's not the guy I knew, that's not true, right?
And yeah, wouldn't you at least private message them and say, dude, like, I know this isn't you, and my gosh, this is terrible, right?
I would message them and let them know to fuck the fake news.
Yeah, and a guy I had been friends with for decades, when I was first attacked,
the only message he sent me was, you know, this publicity could maybe help you sell more books.
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To plant, you must first clear.
To build you must first dig.
To glide you must first be pulled to a great height.
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We live in fear Of this, these attacks, which I understand.
I understand. I'm not saying, you know, there's no effect.
It'd be totally Zen. We're human beings, right?
So we do live in fear of these kinds of attacks or these kinds of losses, even if you're not attacked, right?
Somebody's going to cheat you. Somebody is going to steal from you.
Somebody is going to betray you.
Someone. And probably more than once in your life.
Somebody is going to take something enormously precious from you, something you perceive or believe to be precious, and you will feel diminished, you will feel whittled down, you will feel broken.
And you will end up stronger.
I know this sounds like, if you strike me down, I shall only return stronger.
But you are. You have gotten rid of the detritus.
You've gotten rid of the rubble. You've learned the actual facts about your existence and the people in it.
You've learned the truth. Some woman's going to cheat on you.
It's going to break your heart. Some guy's going to cheat on you.
Some guy's going to cheat you. Some guy's going to steal from you.
Some guy's going to betray you. Some guy's going to screw you over.
And it's not so much the specifics of what happens.
It's how everyone reacts in your environment, in your vicinity around you.
That's what you learn. That's what you find out.
And it's a weird thing because you'd rather not go through it.
Maybe you'd feel like you'd give anything to not go through it.
But after you've gone through it, you're like, damn, that was great.
That was great. I'm just telling you, I've had my share of successes and failures and supports and attacks and loyalties and betrayals.
Man, none of those troughs, none of those breakdowns, none of those attacks did anything but good for me.
anything but good for me.
I mean, everything that led me to this conversation tonight is great!
you Everything. I'm sorry if I haven't thanked you for the tips.
I know this is very, very important and powerful stuff.
If you tip, I hugely appreciate it.
And I thank you for it.
Everything that's left after the fire is of value.
Thank you.
All who's left after you're burned to the ground are there for you and not some material advantage.
Here's the...
I'll give you another example.
So let's say I had gotten the dream that I wanted when I was younger.
I wrote plays, I acted, and I was very good.
I mean, you've heard my audiobooks.
books I'm not not too bad at this stuff and I was like one out of a hundred or
one out of a thousand people to be accepted to the National Theatre School
And I studied there.
And the first couple of months, they just loved me.
They said, man, you're such a good actor.
Forget about this writing stuff. Just do that, right?
And then, you know, found out about my politics and they kind of turned on me viciously and so on.
And I ended up leaving because I just found the...
Environment to be... It's just vile and depressing and weird and I just didn't like the people and I didn't like the environment.
I didn't like the atmosphere and it just seemed very sort of corrupt in its own way.
Well, very corrupt. But imagine.
Imagine that I had...
I've not been rejected in that kind of way or attacked or in a sensitive platform.
What if I had not? What if I had not?
Let's play that through. So I would have become a big actor, maybe a famous actor.
I would have been in movies or whatever it is, right?
Well, almost everyone in the media is there because why?
Because they're talented? Sure, lots of talented people.
But everyone you see who becomes and stays prominent is compromised in some essential fashion.
They have to be. They have to be.
I mean, you look at the people who run the entertainment industry, you look at the people who have spoken up against the predations in the entertainment industry and what happens to them.
So I would have been drawn into a circle of fame and wealth and prominence that would have inevitably had people attempt to corrupt or control me in some fashion.
Without philosophy, would I have had the defenses?
To avoid that?
To bypass that? To escape that?
To survive that? If I had pursued art and talent, artistic talent, instead of philosophy, I would have been corrupted.
I would have been corrupted.
I can't say that for sure.
But I wouldn't really put any money on the opposite.
Because I would have been drawn as a naive young man into an environment where the people who were corrupting others had vastly more experience than the people they were trying to corrupt in the arts and seduction of corruption.
I would have been wandering into a sword fight with a master swordsman when I was barely figuring out which end of the sword to hold.
I would have been decapitated so to speak, right?
If I had gotten what I wanted, I would have got the opposite of what I wanted if I had.
if I had gotten what I wanted the world wouldn't have got what the world needs
and wants which is morality, virtue, truth, integrity, honesty
I would have been corrupted and I would not have done very well as a result
I see...
I mean, I talked about this the other day in a call-in show.
I haven't released it except to donors.
I don't know what I'll do with it, but...
The American comic actress Sandra Bullock was talking on Ellen DeGeneres...
About a face cream that she loved that helped keep her young.
And she's pretty, no question.
And she was stammering and stuttering over the ingredients and Ellen DeGeneres just said,
yeah, it's made from the foreskins of Korean babies.
And because Ellen DeGeneres, I think I pronounced that correctly,
though probably not, it would be Ellen DeGeneres as the joke goes,
she just kind of made, oh, it's this, right, and the audience just laughed, laughed, laughed, laughed, laughed.
They laughed. They laughed.
That's the world, man.
Imagine if there was a male vanity product Made from the ground up volumes of female infant circumcision victims.
Monstrous. And that's the media, right?
That's these two very prominent, very successful, very wealthy media personalities.
And no one in the media said, well, this is appalling, this is horrible, we can't have this, this is monstrous, we have to organize a ban on this!
Right? We've got to organize a ban on this.
We've got to stage an intervention that these monsters are rubbing the ground up mutilated flesh of infant babies on their faces for ephemeral vanity and money.
Did anyone organize a boycott over this or stage an intervention?
Nope. Just moving on business.
That's the entertainment industry, right?
I'm not sure how it would look if it would directly run by actual Satan, but I can't imagine how that would be much different.
Somebody says, without philosophy you might have been divorced.
Look how without philosophy you almost married the wrong woman.
Yes, that's right. Could Judas' betraying Jesus be a metaphor for betraying the abstract virtue Jesus represents for earthly or material gain?
30 pieces of silver.
Yes. It's a demonic offer.
I will give you that which you imagine will make you happy, but will in fact strip you of all happiness.
I will give you that which you imagine will make you happy but will in fact strip you
of all happiness.
But you won't find out until it's too late and you can't recover.
It's too late.
.
Let's see here. Everyone has self-interest that permeates the psyche and wrap up their rhetoric in suitable lines that at least fulfill some primal desire in the host and audience, though, if he's good at it.
I can see how some people say that's grifting.
I don't quite understand what that means.
NPCs were programmed to laugh at foreskin joke.
Yeah, no, I get that.
I get that. I mean, I understand that.
I understand that. But it's fucking Aztec child sacrifice to try to look younger by rubbing mutilated baby torture remains on your face.
I mean, this is satanic or horrifying.
And of course, Sandra Bullock is, you know, her personal life's a complete and total mess.
She married some guy from some car show that cheated on her.
I mean, she gets what happens, right?
At least she had the grace to feel somewhat shy about talking about it.
Ellen Jenner's like, no, it's this!
Steph, I think there was a chat issue with my question.
Are you able to take a look at it, please?
I'm Oh, yes.
Thank you for the reminder. And thank you for the tip.
Took this truth of flamethrower with my dad recently and resulted in massive insult.
Then he looped my brother into it where he was insulting and name-calling me too.
And it's still difficult to tell myself that it's for the best.
Do you have any tips on how to better deal with this?
Well, you're not going to like my answer, but it's what I said already.
Love them for this.
They have done you an enormous favor.
They have liberated you from a toxic, destructive, lie and abuse-based relationship.
If your father threw you into the water from a burning building and you survived that way, would you not thank him?
Maybe I'm missing something here.
Like, I had a friend many years ago who had some issues with his wife's mother and his wife's brother recorded, without my friend knowing, recorded the phone calls and played them back to the mother and never really apologized.
Never really, right? It's like, whew!
Man, that's liberating, isn't it?
Isn't that liberating? Isn't that incredibly liberating?
What else could people tell you to free you from their lies?
If you tell the truth to people and they loathe and hate and try to destroy you for it, when I felt an essential obligation to save the world, when the world attacked me and most people stepped aside and let it happen or joined in, It released me from that obligation.
I am thankful to everyone who attacked and everyone who stepped aside.
I am thankful you have released me from caring what happens to the world.
What a load off my mind.
I can now talk about the things that really matter to me.
I can talk about the things that really matter to the audience in terms of call-in shows and these questions here.
I'm not getting political questions here.
Yeah, Roman Polanski. Entertainment industry gave Polanski an award.
Meryl Streep just clapping away, applauding Roman Polanski.
Yeah, gave him an award.
Yeah, absolutely. And you know who they really hated?
They really hated the guy who directed On the Waterfront and A Streetcar Named Desire, who discovered Marlon Brando, Elia Kazan, who, because he came from Eastern Europe, really hated communism, and joined in to some degree with Joseph McCarthy, revealing the communists' That we're infesting the entertainment industry in the Second World War and post-Second World War period.
But they hated that guy.
He was banished for decades.
They hated that guy.
Roman Polanski, the anal statutory rapist, yeah, he's fine.
Yeah, cheer, cheer, cheer. But the guy who tried to protect America from communism, oh, they hate that guy.
Blah! It's beyond hideous.
And it's, you know, I thank all those people.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Oh, God bless you people.
Because, I mean, look, you must have had this in your life, right?
This is not just me. You must have had this in your life.
Hit me with a why. If you have...
Had someone in your life that you've desperately tried to help.
They reject, attack, reject an attack, and at some point you're just liberated.
You're just freed. I did my best.
My conscience is clear.
There's nothing else that I can do.
I accept that you don't want my help.
I accept that you choose this path of self-destruction.
I accept that. I'm going to respect your choices.
I'm going to stop interfering, and I'm free.
I had a friend when I was a kid, one of my closest friends in my early adolescence here in Canada, one of my closest friends, he had a bad temper and he was impulsive.
The bad temper, like, you know, when you get involved with male friends, particularly male friends, I was 11 when we became friends, he didn't really have that much of a temper.
When he hit puberty and he just got all fired up and so on, he just grew to have a real temper.
I actually wrote about this scene in my novel, The Future.
And I won't get into the details of it here.
You can read the book. And I was like, dude, your temper is like out of control.
What's the matter with you? Like, you've got to fix this, right?
I wasn't very eloquent about it.
I mean, I was a kid, right?
And eventually I was like, no, I'm like, dude, it's actually becoming just dangerous like I'm done.
And he tried to still be my friend.
He'd actually hang, like I lived in his apartment building, he'd hang outside in the hallway, like for an hour or two, waiting for me to come out so we could go and do something.
And I'd just say to him, I'm not doing anything, man, you're crazy.
He never dealt with his temper.
Never even admitted that it was a problem.
His impulsivity. Okay?
Okay. A couple of years later, I'm on the bus, reading the newspaper, and he's died in a terrible motorcycle accident.
Because he had a bad temper and he was impulsive, and I'm sure that was the situation, right?
Now, if I'd stayed friends with this guy, I would bound up, his death would have torn me apart.
As it was, it was kind of shocking and unpleasant, but I was past really caring, because I had done my...
I had done everything that I could do at my tender age.
I was with women who were like, the patriarchy is so bad.
It's like, oh, look, I'm sorry you had a bad relationship with your dad.
I really am. But, you know, if you get robbed by one black guy, do you get to say all black guys are robbers?
Of course not. That's immoral and bad and wrong and an unjust generalization.
So I'm sorry you had a bad relationship with your dad, but don't drag me into your psychodrama.
Like Olive and Jada. Jada wouldn't apologize.
That's right. Jada would not apologize.
And so Oliver was freed from having to care about what happened to her.
See, people can treat you very badly.
Of course they can, right? And they think that they're harming you when they are, in fact, liberating you from obligation.
Do you follow me? People who treat you like shit.
They're trying to make you feel like shit.
But all they're doing is liberating you from obligation towards them.
Thank you for the tip.
Now, if all you do is, oh, they treat you badly and they insult you and you just feel so hurt and it's bad, they're just jumping into the fire that's supposed to clean up the forest.
Why? Let the fire burn!
Let it clean up the forest!
Somebody insults you and slanders you and lies about you, let them do it!
Thank them for it! Thank you for leading me to my true friends.
Thank you for leading me to genuine loyalty.
Thank you for revealing all of the inconstant assholes in my life.
It's a non-invasive way to scan your relationships.
It's a non-invasive way to scan your relationships.
.
How do you process guilt of potentially giving up too early on a friend?
An old friend of mine died this year from alcohol withdrawals.
I had not been in contact with him for four years.
probably not enough info here.
Did you do as much as you reasonably could given that you have a life?
Right? Did you try to help him?
Did you try to talk to him?
Blah, blah, blah. Okay, well then, then you're clear.
And if you didn't, the important thing is not to condemn yourself, but to be curious why.
Why? Why did you not?
I mean, should I have continued with my friend when I was, I don't know, probably the last time I was friends with him?
I think I was friends with him from like the age of 11 to maybe 15.
Should I have just continued for the next half a decade or nine years or four years or whatever to just continue to try?
No! He wouldn't even admit a problem.
If somebody won't admit a problem, I'm not going to pretend that I can help them.
Right? Why didn't the people who were supposed to be my friends and companions in these challenging battles, so to speak, why didn't they privately say, hey, man, I can't speak out publicly, but, you know, I'm really sorry, blah, blah, blah, right?
Maybe they thought, oh, I'm going to screenshot this and send this to whoever, right?
Okay, well, then they don't trust me.
Okay, then if I haven't earned their trust by being a trustworthy person for the last half decade or half century, really, then, okay, then they don't know how to process who's trustworthy.
Like the lead tech on YouTube.
Oh, that guy? Yeah, yeah.
Tech lead on YouTube. He went to Japan and got arrested trying to see his son.
He said he felt relief because he did everything he could to see his son.
Yeah. Yes, although he did end up marrying a woman who did that to him.
So it's not like he's totally off the hook.
I didn't generate the temper in my friend.
I chose him as a friend and then as his temper got worse and worse over time, I ended up
un-choosing him as a friend.
But yes, he has done everything he could.
The tech lead has done everything he could.
And it's actually kind of interesting that he started off as this tech guy.
I haven't watched him in a long time, but he started off as this tech guy and he ended up talking about this really personal stuff.
Quite interesting and a little bit unusual for the Japanese culture.
Alright.
Enough truth bombs for tonight?
Thanks for watching!
I had an old friend who died of alcoholism a couple of years ago.
Nothing I could have done. Yeah, if you choose the bottle, I'm freed, man.
I'm free. Don't try to help people get free when they insult you and then feel
bad when bad things happen to them.
Sorry, just have to answer a quick message.
I don't think I did enough.
I'm sorry, what do you mean you don't think you did enough?
What do you mean you...
Oh. Oh my gosh.
It's been a long day. I did an almost three-hour call-in show trying to desperately save a guy's marriage because he's got four kids.
So that was sort of my day.
But I might have one more little thing in me.
Would you like one more little thing?
This is going to be a bit of a rant.
It's going to be a bit of a rant.
You guys have been nice tippers tonight.
I appreciate that. And because you have been...
Can we see your shirt, please?
Yeah. Atlas Shrugged, now non-fiction.
All right. You guys have been nice tippers tonight.
Maybe I can grab another tip out of the people who are still uncertain.
Okay. Because you have been such nice tippers, I feel motivated to give you this rant.
This is going to be your last flamethrower of forest-clearing truth tonight.
Hopefully we'll get you some tomorrow.
Are you ready? Are you ready my brothers and sisters?
Are you ready?
Get your flame retardant Mormon underpants on.
We're going deep, baby.
We're going deep. Okay. You say, my friend died of alcoholism.
I should have done more.
I should have done more.
That is so narcissistic, I can't even tell you.
I should have done more.
I should have inhabited his skin suit and knocked away every piece of alcohol from him, although I was there for him.
I was there for him, and I was available, and I would have given up sleep, and I would have moved to towns, and I would have crossed the country, and I would have prayed for rehab, though I would have done almost anything for him to help him.
Get free of the alcohol demon, though I would have done almost everything and anything for him.
I should have done more.
Like you just beat yourself up for some sadistic parental alter ego reason, right?
That's total bullshit. He had a phone.
He knew your number. He knew you cared.
He could have fucking called.
All right? So let go of this narcissistic, I'm responsible for everyone.
That's solipsistic. That's going to isolate you.
Give people their free will, for God's sakes.
Give them their free will.
You tried to help people.
They knew you wanted to help.
They had your number. They had six million different ways of contacting you in this modern plug-in-your-central-cortex-of-the-internet-ethernet planet.
Okay? They could have called you any time.
Any time. They could have swallowed their pride knowing that somebody was there to help them.
They could have done it. But I didn't possess them like Satan and lever their arms around so they dropped the bottle.
Okay. Okay. Given that you can't take over somebody else's neurological system, given that you can't stick your dick up somebody else's spine and jizz free will into their brain, okay, given that you can't physically possess people, what responsibility does your friend have?
Well, he doesn't have any responsibility because I'm a god and I could have done more and I should have done more and I should have taken them over.
Dear Lord, I mean, how vainglorious are you?
What limits on your abilities do you recognize or accept?
Any? You have to be kidding.
I should have done more. That is vanity.
I know it doesn't feel like vanity.
I'm telling you it is.
That is vanity. I am omniscient.
I am all-powerful.
I have such savage depths of energy that I can overcome.
Teenage vocal fry.
I can walk through walls.
I can travel through time. I can step through the clouds like a tap-dancing Bertenguster.
I can do it all.
I can inhabit other people.
I can change their essential histories.
I can inhabit their free will and move them like marionettes.
I can pass through their eyes, and I can take over their entire brains.
So if anything bad happens to anyone, it's my fault, because I am everything, and I am all.
My God, man. Do you know that your skin ends and all you can do is talk to people?
You know that, right? You know that you can't inhabit them.
You know you can't possess them.
You know you can't take them over.
You know you can't carjack them and drive them wherever you want to go.
You know that all you have is words.
All you have is language.
All I have is language.
You put a good faith effort into helping someone.
If they fuck up, it's on them because you can't control them.
You end here.
Other people begin. There's a huge space in between that you can't splay out your entire nervous system like a bunch of sea-anenomy legs to go up their nose and take over their brain.
Can't do it! It's not possible!
You know, if I'd just been a better philosopher, I could have got I could have got 20% of people to follow me to the new platforms instead of 5 or 10%.
Maybe I should have gone to their houses.
Maybe I could have found some way to hack into their system legally and ethically and maybe I could have just done something and it's my fault that these people didn't follow me.
No! Give people the sovereignty of their own free will!
Well, it's my fault that my father never contacted me for years before he died, and I should have reached out for him.
And no, he's the dad.
I talked to him, I tried talking to him, and he's got his own fucking fingers.
It's not like I'm hard to find on the internet.
Good news about me hard to find, but I'm not hard to find on the internet.
If my father had put in a message saying, I feel really bad, I've thought about what you said years ago, I really need to talk, I'm not well, I'd have called him.
But I should have done more.
The only reason that you believe that you could do more is you fundamentally have this bizarre belief that other people don't exist.
They don't have independent existence or they're not sovereign entities with their own control over their own mind and bodies.
What are you talking about? You could have done more.
Should have done more. Like what?
What? I'm sure you poured heart and soul into trying to help someone.
Don't strip people of their free will to serve your guilt-drenched vanity.
God, you've got to be kidding me.
I should have done more.
If I were a God, I could have done more.
Even God doesn't do more.
Even God.
Look, let's say you're a Christian, right?
God is all-powerful and all-knowing.
God can physically, with no effort, stop people from drinking or doing drugs.
Does he? Nope. I give you free will, says God.
I want there to be more virtue in the world.
If I force you to choose virtue, it's no longer virtue.
I give you free will. So God himself did not intervene.
God did not take down his ghostly fingers and punch the keypad of somebody's free will and unlock slavish obedience to not drinking.
God himself did not do that.
But what you say, and this is why I say it's narcissistic vanity of the highest degree, what you say is, well, okay, God doesn't do it, but I should have.
The supreme, all-knowing, all-good deity of the entire universe before and after the Alpha and the Omega, God himself didn't do it.
But I should have.
So, God here, you're infinitely higher.
And you understand why this is just vanity?
And it's a slavish desire to...
Punish yourself for things that are impossible?
Man, I should have.
I should have turned myself into ethereal vapor, crept up his nasal passages, and taken over his central cortex.
I should have done that. Man, I'm so bad.
I'm such a bad person. I'm such a bad...
A really good friend would have done that.
Are you insane? What are you, the fucking face-hugging...
Beast from Alien that lay the eggs of your physical takeover in his gizzards?
My God! Are you kidding me?
Take pride, you did your best!
Do you blame me for the world not being a perfect place?
Do you blame me for...
Peaceful parenting not being the biggest movement in the world.
Do you blame me? Should I have done more?
I'm curious. Maybe you do. Maybe I should have.
Hit me with a why. Do you blame me for not making UBB and peaceful parenting the very biggest topic in the world and revolutionizing the way that people think?
Should I have done more?
Should I? I'm open to the case.
I'm open to the case. Yes, just kidding.
Should have taken to show up more stuff.
Yeah, well. I think you've done tons.
Yeah. Could I have done more?
I can't see how.
I did as much as...
I wrote free books, recorded dozens of podcasts, had half a dozen debates.
I did live speeches with audience participation to explain the ideas.
I just... I did it at all.
I brought experts on with peaceful parenting.
I wrote entire articles about it, debated famous libertarians about it.
I mean, I did... So do you have this goal that says, I wish to achieve X. X requires the free participation of others, but it's entirely up to me.
You understand? That's completely insane, logically.
I need to achieve X. X requires the voluntary participation of others.
I'm entirely responsible for achieving X. Right?
Here's an example, right?
Here's an example. Let me tell you how powerful I am.
This is going to blow your mind. All right.
Here's my finger. Here's my nose.
I can touch my finger to my nose.
Do I have that power? Yes, I have.
I have the power to touch my finger to my nose.
Isn't that incredible? Oh, wait, there's my other finger touching my nose.
I'm going to do an OnlyFans Simulacrum and touch my nose to the microphone, right?
Now, I want you to touch your finger to your nose.
Touch your finger to your nose!
Do it! Touch your finger to your nose!
I'm sure some of you have, and some of you have not.
Hit me with an Y. No, hit me with an N if you didn't touch your finger to your nose, you disobedient audience you.
Of course you guys won't, because you think for yourself.
Of course you didn't, right? All right, touch your finger to my nose, right?
So, no, of course, yeah. So, a few of you did, yeah.
Touching nose now, honestly enjoying a lot, right?
So, you see the difference here, right?
Now, I have control over whether I touch my nose or not, right?
So, yes, I have control over that, right?
Because I am the one in charge of my body and I make a difference.
Do I have any control over whether you touch your nose or not?
Nope. Now, what if I start yelling at you and cornering you to touch your nose?
I mean, I know this audience. You'll do a lot of what I ask you to and you'll do absolutely nothing that I order you to because you think for yourselves, right?
If I ask nicely, maybe.
If I order you to and get aggressive, nope, right?
I touch my ankle instead because rebel.
Absolutely. How do I touch your nose?
Is that a subscription to you?
No. Nose touching is in no way a benefit.
A little kinky, Steph.
Oh, I'm never a little kinky.
No, but in all seriousness, you understand the difference.
If I said my mission is to get you to touch your nose, you must touch your nose, and I'm 100% responsible for touching your nose, I am saying that I am you and you are me and we are all the walrus.
I can touch my own nose.
I can't make you touch your nose.
I can't make you do it. Oh, I'm so, I'm so, I'm just so bad because although I cajoled you and begged you and half-bribed you and gave you the data and you just wouldn't touch your nose, I'm so bad, I'm so wrong, what have I done?
I'm so guilty. No.
Tell people here's why you should touch your nose.
Here's why it's good to touch your nose, right?
Somebody just posted a picture of themselves with my screenshot.
They're touching my nose on the screen.
I felt that. I felt that hard.
I felt that deep. I should have done more.
You can't do it. Can't do it.
You don't have a standard to do things you can't do.
Of course not, right? A really good person would have advertised UPB by jumping to the top of Mount Everest in a single bound.
Okay? Can't jump to the top of Mount Everest in a single bound.
Do you have any other irrational standards that I can't achieve?
Can't make people touch their nose.
knows you can't, make people touch their cell phone and call you.
I had a high school friend, he says, someone that died a year ago from a drug overdose.
Every time I think of him, I remember the six foot two jacked handsome man that threw away his life.
And I'm still here. Nobody is immortal.
And it's the moment I realized it in my young life.
Yeah, one of my first, my first best friend in Canada, I got him for about a year and then he died in a sleep of a congenital heart defect.
Because socialized medicine.
So please, I'm begging you on my hands and knees.
I'm begging you. Give people the respect and honor that they have free will.
They have free will.
They can call you.
They can listen to advice.
They can read books.
They can figure out they have a problem.
They can call. They can get help.
They can do whatever. It's not on you when people don't listen.
You can talk to them. Can lead a horse to water, can't make him think.
You can lead people to reason you can't make them think.
And you can't even lead them to reason.
You can broadcast reason.
You can't make anyone think. I put as much, if not more, work than any other philosopher throughout history.
I put as much, if not more, work than any other philosopher throughout history, mostly because of the great technology.
So I did the most and the maximum and the greatest to spread reason, the non-aggression principle, peaceful parenting, UPB, rationality, objectivity, and empiricism.
I did the most that any human being has ever done throughout human history.
Which means, with great relief, I get to step back and say, hey man, now it's on you.
Now it's on you. I did my part.
I did my part. I want to be somebody who asks a woman on a date.
I don't want to be a stalker who hides in their vents.
Right? Give people.
And you know, if you take on ownership of other people's problems to the point where only you can solve them, you're paralyzing them, you're crippling them.
That's what vanity does. You're taking away their free will.
Yeah, I did videos on trying to cool the race riots during Floyd, during Zimmerman, during Mike Brown, all of these things.
Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.
And the media. So they had the angel and the devil, right?
They had me saying, here are the facts, and they had the media saying, blah, blah, blah, right?
And they listened to the media, they listened to the devil.
That's their free will, man. Oh, that's their free will.
That's their free will. You can have your free will.
I take my free will. Other people have their free will.
I'll make the case. If people choose evil, that's their choice.
God doesn't interfere. Why would I? I'm not God.
Right? I'm infinitesimally small relative to God's knowledge and virtue.
God doesn't intervene.
God gives us free will. Physically, even if you're not religious, fine.
Physically, you cannot take over somebody else's body.
All you have is reason, persuasion, violence, or bribery.
Now, we don't use violence or bribery here because that's violations of the non-aggression principle.
Well, bribery, you could pay people but bribery is when it's illegal, right?
So we don't break the law. Don't own other people.
That's erasing them and paralyzing them.
You are contributing to other people's disasters if you own their bad decisions.
You give people their bad decisions.
If you want to keep drinking, I can't stop you.
I'm not going to support it.
I'm not going to enable it.
Is Canada a bit of a disaster?
Kind of is. Did Trudeau say that his favorite government structure was China?
He did. People vote for him.
Okay, well, I'm liberated now.
I'm free. People listen to lies about Trump.
They listen to lies about Trump. Okay.
You vote and...
I've been saying for decades that we've got to revisit and fix the immoral education system.
People won't make this a big thing.
Okay, so now your jobs get replaced by AI. I mean, I weep no tears for the inevitable results of people's free will.
That's freedom. I'm a big fan of freedom.
I'm a big fan of freedom, which means I accept that people are free.
Let people be free.
Thank you.
Give them advice. Let them make their choice.
Their choice is not you. Their choice is not yours.
Their choice is not your responsibility.
I mean, give them information, hopefully, so they can make better choices.
I said to people, toxic family members can be dangerous.
And then a lot of people ended up being pressured to get questionable medical treatments, to put it mildly.
All I can do is put the information out there.
I can't make people do anything.
I don't own people's choices.
I don't own people's decisions.
I don't control their bodies.
And even if you gave me some magical capacity to do it, I wouldn't do it.
I wouldn't want that kind of power.
I wouldn't dream of having that kind of power.
I would find that kind of power utterly repulsive.
We woo. We don't rape.
We encourage charity.
We don't steal. We encourage rationality.
We don't bully. We give people the respect of their choices.
My father chose to die without contacting me, without apologizing to me, without taking ownership.
Though he was, earlier in his life, an atheist and agnostic, he became a Christian.
He chose not to do that.
That's his choice. I respect his choice.
It's not my fault. It's his choice.
Steph, is that why some gravitate to determinism, some sort of narcissistic grief?
No. People gravitate towards determinism because they've got a shitty conscience because they've done terrible things, and they like to believe that they weren't to blame because they're just dominoes that fell from before.
They have rejected their free will because they've made terrible choices that have harmed other people.
They've become brutal, if not downright evil, and so they cling to determinism as a way of avoiding their conscience, but of course it just makes it worse, which is why they tend to be so weird and aggressive.
Alright. Any last tips for tonight?
Come on, baby. Come on.
You know it's been cold. You know it's been great.
You know you can't get this any other place.
And this is the first time these words...
This is the first time these words and these arguments emerge into reality.
You're here to see it live, baby.
Tell your grandkids you're here to see it live.
When these illuminating asteroids land on the planet and pours above it to illuminate it, they cause no destruction, only illumination, which only destroys the false.
Steph, your dad could have subscribed to locals and messaged you there if you didn't have your number.
Oh, contact information is very easy to get for me.
I have the contact form on the website, for heaven's sake.
Of course. Of course.
I respect his choice.
It wasn't my fault. I said my piece.
He made his choices. I respect his choices.
I'm not vain enough to imagine that I'm responsible for my father's choices.
My gosh. Of all the people in the world.
My father, right? That I'm responsible for his choices.
his mind wasn't even around when he made most of his choices.
Well I hope that this show has liberated you and I hope that it's helped you to
embrace the fire.
Bye.
Embrace the fire. It's been good tonight.
Yeah, it really has.
Like, I try to aim to do really great shows every time, but this one's been pretty special.
And I appreciate that.
And other people will resist you being the flamethrower.
And you know that you're doing them good when you have clarified their life with the truth.
Steph, I've been marathon listening to you all day at work and it's been great brain fuel to keep me from falling asleep in my cubicle.
I appreciate that. Thank you very much for that last tip.
Very awesome show. Excellent show.
Thank you. Thank you for a great one.
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I'm grateful. Please don't give me anything too tiny because...
I still have to do the book, kick me in the accounting, and, you know, if you can save up for something a little more than a buck or two, that would be great, but whatever works for you is most gratefully appreciated.
Thank you so much.
All right. Lots of love, everyone.
Have yourself a fantastic evening, and I will talk to you guys soon.
Thanks again for dropping by.
You guys are the best.
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