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Sept. 18, 2023 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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WHY DO WE THINK ABOUT THE FALL OF ROME?
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Yeah. Well, freedomain.locals.com, you should definitely check it out.
So, would you like to hear the case for social media?
And it's related to why men think of Rome.
Why do men think of Rome?
And what is the case for consuming social media?
Yes. Well, so just for background's sake, a blue-shaded background's sake...
So just for background's sake, there is a general level of estrogen incomprehensibility out there on the hinterlands of the Internaeans these days where some woman asked her husband, how often do you think of the Roman Empire?
And he said, like, every day.
And this is absolutely incomprehensible.
To women. Does this make sense?
I'm not saying do you agree that it's incomprehensible, but you get a sense of like why that would be just utterly incomprehensible to women?
That you think of the Roman Empire as a man every day.
Every day. And now, today, on Sunday, we're doing it too.
So why?
Why do men think of the Roman Empire?
Now, I personally, obviously it's partly the job, but I personally guarantee you that every day I'm thinking about the world and its outcomes.
Every other day, some old civilization, right?
So, for women, but most women don't understand men, many by choice.
Well, there's understanding and then there's appreciation, right?
So, I don't understand Other than at the most abstract levels.
I don't understand how computers work.
I don't understand how cell phones work.
And again, I know the general gist, but you know, deep down in the metal and bits and bolts, I don't really understand how it works.
So I don't understand how computers work, but I appreciate that they work and I appreciate the people who make them work.
Right? So there's a difference between not understanding and not appreciating.
Does that sort of make sense? I don't understand how air conditioning works, but I appreciate it.
I really do. I don't really understand.
I remember I dated a woman who was an engineer many years ago, and she said she missed the old cars, because in the old cars she could pop the hood and figure out what was going on.
Now it's all a black box. She doesn't know.
She doesn't know. So I don't even know.
I know cars are controlled explosions and so on, but I don't really know how they work.
I've seen some diagrams, but, you know...
It's like that old meme of like, this guy who goes back in time and tells all of the ancient people about electricity and they say, oh, how does it work?
And he says, I have no idea.
No idea. The fact that women don't understand why men think about the fall of Rome or the Roman Empire is...
I mean, I understand that.
I understand that people don't...
I mean, most of what I live in, I don't understand.
Right? Most of everything that happens, I don't really know why or how it happens.
I mean, there's a few things I'm good at.
Like everyone. I mean, the whole point of a modern economy is division of labor and specialization.
So I know how a bunch of things work to do with my business and philosophy and so on, but most things, I don't know.
I appreciate them, but I don't know.
I don't know how they work.
So I don't think I'm alone in that.
That's just, I think, a general statement of humility and understanding.
And just because I read an article on how air conditioning works doesn't mean I fundamentally understand how it works.
Like I could build one or repair one or something like that.
I'm still working on the chips thing.
So the issue to me is not that women don't understand why men think of the Roman Empire.
And I'll tell you sort of why we do.
The issue to me is not that women don't understand why men think of the Roman Empire.
The issue to me is that they find it...
Baffling, incomprehensible, and useless for men to do that.
Yeah, so I know how to program computers.
I know, like, I tallied it up once.
I had worked in 17 different computer languages.
So computer programming I know quite well.
But again, I haven't done core computer programming in quite a long time, so it's probably changed quite a lot since then.
So the problem to me is not that the other sex is incomprehensible.
There's going to be a certain amount of that.
The problem is that it's incomprehensible and there's a general principle that that which is incomprehensible is bad or useless or a waste of time.
It's bad or useless or a waste of time.
My last girlfriend found it weird that I would have spare water.
Yeah, we follow that, right?
We follow that. That makes sense.
If you're a prepper, and I strongly suggest you have some food around, even if just for inflation's sake, women are like, well, why would you need that?
The grocery store is right down the street.
So, would you like to have the sexes summed up in six words?
Would you like to have the sexes summed up in six words?
And when I say this, there will be a burst of illumination in your mind, and it will never ever go dim again.
You can just listen for the first six minutes, and you're done, and you've got huge value.
No, not even seven. Not even, don't even need seven.
So, are you ready?
All right, here we go.
The sexes summed up in six words.
And if I'm wrong, I'm certainly happy to be told that, but this is how I work with things, and I think it's great.
So, the sexes summed up.
Women see deeper, men see further.
Women see deeper, men see further.
So, when you think of the inner life and the world as a whole, women see deeper, they go deep into emotions, into the inner life, into relationships, into the minds and hearts of other people.
Men see further through time, over the horizon, across the universe, deep into the heart of matter, which is not into people.
Women see deeper, men see further.
Am I right about this? Tell me if I'm wrong.
If I'm wrong, I'm happy to reformulate, but this is how it's worked for me forever.
Right.
Now, the problem is that men often don't appreciate women seeing deeper,
and women don't often appreciate men seeing further.
Oh, I got a Pepe Y. Nice.
Correctamundo. Right.
So, as a man, do you appreciate that women see deeper?
Well, not if you're a man with something to hide, you don't.
If you're a man with something to hide, you're like, ah!
Don't! For a woman, a woman's irradiating perceptiveness is sort of like trying to go through the scanner with some sort of heart thing, you know, like the shunt or whatever they call it, where you just, ah, you can't see, it's going to cause my heart to stop.
So a lot of times when men have something to hide, they're annoyed at a woman's perceptiveness or they fear it and so on, right?
So a lot of men have anxiety around women's perceptiveness.
If you have a pacemaker, you can't go through the scanner, right?
The scanner, which is supposed to probe you, will cause your heart to explode.
I don't know, I'm not a scientist, but something like that, right?
So does this make sense?
That a woman's perceptiveness makes a lot of men anxious.
After being married to a man for 20 years, I've learned to see further.
I think he's also learned to see deeper.
Absolutely. Completely and totally right.
That's exactly right. The cross-pollination is how we become wise.
The cross-pollination is how we become wise.
And since the rulers don't want us to become wise, they keep men and women apart.
Now, so men, what do men say about women's seeing deeper?
Women seeing deeper, what do they say?
about that to put it down, right?
Because men and women put each other down a lot and that's a real shame.
It's real, I mean, this is a fundamental divide and conquer strategy.
Yeah, just be rational.
What do you care about what so-and-so thinks or what so-and-so said?
And you can't tell an objective story.
It's all about feelings and all of that, right?
Navel-gazing, it's neurotic, it's, you know, right?
It's petty. It's not about Rome, right?
Be more like a man.
Yeah, it's a strange thing, right?
It's a strange thing. For a straight man to want a woman to be more like a man, well, it's kind of odd, right?
It's kind of odd. Right, so there are all these comedians.
Oh, yes, thank you, Edward, for the tip.
Yes, if you could tip, I would hugely, hugely appreciate it.
Thanks for the amazing shows.
Determined to take my philosophy, understanding to the next level and start sharing and applying to my YouTube channel.
Well, thank you, Edward. I appreciate that.
If you want to share your channel here, you can't get too much philosophy in the world.
So please feel free to go ahead.
And again, if you wanted to. I mean, tell me this isn't something that's going to help you in your relationships, right?
So men kind of hover over the depth of women and they look down there and it's alarming.
And to some degree, because we're not equipped for those kinds of depths, we go down there and we end up like the, you know, the Titanic sub-explorers, just imploded black hole tin can, right?
So we hover over women's depth, and it's kind of a little alarming, a little incomprehensible.
We sense its depth, and as men, we're like, ooh, if I get sucked into the black hole, I can't keep my eyes on the horizon!
Can't keep watching for what's coming, right?
So women are scanning for what's coming in relationships, and men are scanning for what's coming in politics.
Does this make sense?
Women are scanning for what's coming in relationships, good and bad,
and men are scanning for what's coming in politics, good and bad.
Now, from 1 to 10, how stereotypically sexist should I be in the next part?
Just give me one to ten, and remember, I have to live with this more than you.
Oh, the great instigators are at it again.
Oh, thanks, Tom, for a 9.9.
Oh, somebody gave me.
Oh, yeah. Thanks, Jared.
That makes sense. So you have to live with it, too.
All right. So if you're a man...
And you've read something alarming about politics.
And politics is society as a whole.
It could be the economy. But just the material elements of society that are outside of your control that pose some kind of risk, right?
So if you're a man, have you ever read something that alarms you about politics and kept it from your wife or your girlfriend or the women in your life?
Yes, of course you have.
Of course you have. Yes, everything it seems, right?
So let me ask you, there's an old joke about, you know, when you want to be honest in relationships, but if you're thinking about Raquel Welsh in a fur bikini, and your wife says, hey, what are you thinking?
You say, I'm thinking about how much my life has been enriched by knowing you.
So have you read something alarming, you're a little moody about it, and your wife says, Hey, everything alright?
And you're like, no, it's fine. It's fine. I just...
No, it's fine. And this can happen in reverse, right?
This is just a minor trend.
It can completely happen in reverse.
But this is the general trend.
Right. Now, as...
They have no comprehension?
No, that's not true. Come on.
Come on, man.
Don't downgrade complementary skills.
Oh, my gosh.
I mean, if you're a mechanic and some guy's a dentist and he says, I'll trade you a cleanup for an oil change, do you sit there and say, oh, he has no comprehension of changing oil or...
Filters or checking the brake pads.
He's got no comprehension of a tune-up.
He's an idiot. It's like, no, he's a dentist.
So is he going to sit there and say, well, he has no idea of what to scrape along the gum line to get rid of plaque?
He's an idiot. Come on, man.
Accept it. Don't fall into the petty vanity of thinking that your specialization is the only thing.
Why did they vote leftist then?
Okay, do you want you want to know why?
Do you want to know why? Yes, we'll get to the women thing.
I was just talking about this morning.
All right. That which is most dangerous to men is force.
That which is most dangerous to women is consequences of bad decisions.
So that which is most dangerous to men is force, right?
You get involved in some violent encounter, some guy beats you up, or you beat up some guy and then his brothers come and try and take you out.
So that which is most dangerous to men is force, right?
That which is most dangerous to women is, say, pregnancy out of wedlock, is dating the wrong man, or marrying the wrong man, getting a stalker, right?
So what keeps men safe is the non-aggression principle.
What keeps women safe is the welfare state.
No, ostracism is equally dangerous for men and women because it's genetic death.
So men vote to protect life and property, to protect persons and property.
That's what men vote for.
Women vote to protect themselves from the consequences of bad decisions.
I married the wrong guy. I got pregnant out of wedlock.
Fundamentally, those are the two big things.
I married a guy who doesn't work.
I married a guy who's a drunk.
I married a guy who's violent.
I have kids. Now, what we do as men is we look at the men who vote to protect persons and property and we say, well, those men are just more rational because persons and property should be protected, right?
Madness. Like men will literally look at other men voting for property rights and the non-aggression principle and say, well, that makes sense.
That's rational. Because persons and property should be protected.
And then we look at the women who vote for the welfare state and old age pensions and socialized medicine and so on.
Well, that's crazy. That's exploitive.
Right? But the men are no saner than the women.
My God, this idea that men are sane and women are crazy.
Women are sane and men are crazy.
I mean, tell me, tell me.
Look me in the eye. Look me in the eye.
Tell me. Tell me.
Tell me. As a man, you look at other men voting for small government.
voting for lower taxes, and putting criminals in jail,
and you say, well, that's sensible, because men are sensible,
and that all makes sense.
And you look at women voting for the welfare state, socialized medicine, old age pensions,
and you say, well, that's just crazy.
One is right and one is wrong.
So, come on. We've all thought that, right?
I think, as men, right?
And we look at the women and we say, oh, yes, but what the women want violates our property rights.
And our property rights shouldn't be violated.
The women, when they want stuff, they vote to take away our property.
We think that this is a valid argument.
Because we grew up without fathers or something like that, right?
For women, it's amoral resource acquisition.
Okay, so hit me with a why.
Let's be frank about this, right?
Hit me with a why. If you look at women and you say, well, they vote to take away my property.
That's bad. I vote to keep my property.
that's more sane, rational, and good.
Okay. Is it too early to blow your mind?
Is it probably too early to blow your mind, right?
I did three times already.
Blow it. I'm still in bed.
Hey, that's my line.
All right.
So when you go...
Oh, no. This is going to be too much for you guys.
There's going to be touch. Too much...
I just heard 36 hours of horrible guests fill my head with something else.
So when you go to women, right, these supposedly irrational women who just take stuff and don't think things through, right?
So you go to women and you say, you know, we should privatize the healthcare system.
What do women always say? What do the fine ladies always say?
In general. Yeah, who will take care of my kids?
What about the poor?
You just want people to die in the streets.
Don't you care about the sick, right?
Right. So they say we need the state to provide health care because otherwise health care will not be provided and it will just be a disaster, right?
We've all heard of this, right?
They are wrong. Now...
Oh, now that we know, that we understand, and I accept that, right?
Okay. Here's the mind-blowing part.
Here's the mind-blowing part.
And you can try this as a social experiment.
You really can try this as a social experiment.
Lord knows I've done it for 40 years, so you can try this as a social experiment.
I'm fully confident. So let's say you go to a guy who's more right-wing.
And you say to that guy, healthcare should be privatized, you know, he's probably relatively okay with that, right?
And now you go to that same guy who says, well, of course we should privatize the healthcare system because it would be more efficient and it would be better and it would be provided and it would be sustainable and it won't be debt-based and it will make money off people's health rather than their sickness and all these great things, right?
Now go to that same guy, oh that same guy, and say to him, not that the provision of health care should be privatized.
Go to him and say, the protections of life and property should be privatized.
What's he gonna say?
He's not gonna say no problem.
What's he going to say? Well, you can't do that.
Only the rich will be protected.
There will be nothing. Chaos, violence, civil war.
It will be a disaster. It'll be anarchy.
So you see, when you take away from the state that which women want, they freak out and propose all kinds of disaster scenarios.
When you take away from the state that which the men want, they do exactly the same thing.
Exactly the same thing, but with less excuse.
The private police forces will set up their own government.
It'll be a takeover.
It'll be war of all. I mean, even Ayn Rand did this.
Oh, well, you get two private police agencies and they don't agree on rules and they get together.
What's going to happen? War, right?
No, you guys are going to want to differentiate this.
It won't work. You're going to want to differentiate this.
You're going to say, no, no, no, it's different. No, it's different.
Women wanting socialized medicine is very different from men wanting socialized protection of property.
It's totally different. No, men have less excuse for socialized protection of property.
Because they're saying, I need an agency that violates my property rights in order to protect my property rights.
It's beyond retarded.
It's much more self-contradictory for a man to want state protection of property than it is for a woman to want state provision of healthcare.
It's much more irrational what the men want.
Much more irrational. It's like a social contract, man.
Yeah, yeah, at least women are trading possible things.
Yeah, and women say, yes, it's a violation of property rights.
Women say, yeah, yeah, I mean, if I want health care, it has to be paid for by taxes.
People are going, yeah, but that's a social contract, and I want it, and it's fine, and it's good, and the consequences are worth it.
So women aren't being contradictory when they're asking for old-age pensions, and they're asking for socialized health care, and they're asking for the welfare state, and they're asking for palimony and alimony and child support, and they're not being contradictory.
They're saying, yeah, this violates property rights.
So what? I mean, that's good, right?
You don't have the experience of men arguing for state protection today.
Well, either you're lying, which I don't think you are, or you just haven't talked to many people about it.
You understand? So the men are saying, I need an agency that can violate property rights at will in order to protect my property rights.
I need an agency that can draft me and send me off to get my face blown off and my lungs filled with mustard gas on a whim.
I need an agency that can enslave me for the war machine in order to protect me from coercion.
I'm sorry, don't be the laugh, because it's so grim.
So, you look at men and women, the commonality is that both men and women, both men and women,
both men and women want what they want socialized.
Thank you.
There's no difference. Cannot agree to this comparison.
You don't have to apologize. If the comparison is invalid, I'm perfectly happy to hear.
Men tend to ask who will build the roads.
More often, too, I've noticed.
Yeah, could be. I'm sure you're right.
I'm not going to argue with that.
But yeah, both men and women want their preferences socialized.
Men want protection of property in persons socialized.
And women want what they want, protection from consequences, socialized.
One is a service, the other is a right.
Okay, but you're not understanding what I'm saying.
I'm sorry, you are not understanding what I'm saying.
If property is a right, then assigning protection of your property to an agency that can violate your property at will is contradictory.
Can we at least understand that? We can understand that, right?
So, men look at women and say, I can't believe that you want other people to pay for what you want.
But men do it with the state as well.
I can't believe that you would relinquish your rights to a centralized oligarchical agency in order to get what you want.
Same thing with men. Same thing with men.
Men will socialize, they will want to socialize what they want, which is protection from violence and property, theft.
And women, so men will want to socialize what keeps them safe and women will want to socialize what keeps them safe.
And then men will literally look at women and say, I can't believe that you will want to violate my rights for socializing what you want.
And the women are like, I'm just doing what you're doing.
You want protection from violence and theft?
And so you rely on the state.
And so when I want protection from what endangers me, suddenly I'm the bad guy.
Are you kidding me? This is literally like someone from the coal industry saying to someone from the gas industry, I can't believe that you want subsidies and that they're applying for subsidies.
This is brilliant. Nobody has ever pointed this out.
Yes and yes.
I'm not going to argue with you when you're right about me being right.
I just won't do it.
Come on, people. Give me some love.
Look what I've done in half an hour.
Half an hour! I've blown your minds four times.
Come on. Give me some sugar.
Give me a couple of bucks.
Give me a latte or two. I've blown your mind twice.
I've blown your mind four times in 30 minutes.
minutes. That's a mind blow. Every 8 minutes. Come on. You know how hard I work for these.
This month end is going to be a cannonball of tips.
Thank you. I appreciate that.
Thank you. That was awesome.
Look, I'm just trying to bring men and women back together.
I'm just trying to bring men and women back together.
Now, let's switch to the ladies.
Thank you, Ed. I appreciate that.
Let's switch to the ladies.
Right. So, ladies, have you ever kept something that you've seen deeply from your man for some reason?
Something about a relationship, something about a trend, something about something else.
Have you ever kept something from your man because either he can't handle it or it's negative him with no upside or something like that, right?
So if you have a friend who doesn't particularly like your boyfriend, maybe you don't tell him.
Or she has a problem with him or something like that, right?
Yeah, of course you have.
Of course you have. So ladies, you've seen something that's true and real and valid and maybe important and you've kept it from your men.
And men, you've seen stuff usually in the political realm.
so the women keep stuff from the personal realm from their men and for
women there's stuff that you see and know and understand in relationships
that you keep from your man .
Frida says, I think Steph's prime directive of promoting peaceful parenting is definitely of foremost importance, but, jeez, bringing men and women back from the propaganda I state mutual resentment is a close second.
Well, their two are very closely related.
You can't have peaceful parenting if you're fighting with your spouse.
The stability of peaceful parenting rests on the stability and happiness of the marriage.
So I don't view them...
They're complimentary, to put it mildly.
A house divided cannot stand.
This is true. This is true.
All right. Now.
Why do men scan politics?
And the Roman Empire is scanning politics for reasons I'll get to in a second.
But why do men scan politics?
Why do men... Well, why do you?
They call it doom-scrolling or whatever, but why do you scan politics?
Preparing for disasters. Looking for threats.
Yeah, of course. But for what?
Because what the woman's going to say is, what do women say about a man scanning for politics, right?
What does the woman say? Oh, I read this.
Crazy law is coming into effect.
And the women are like, well, you can't do anything about it.
So why do you bother? Why do you learn about these things?
To protect our family from coming trouble.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, sorry.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But how?
How do you protect your family from coming trouble?
Because the women say, we can't do anything about it.
Why would you? Right?
Prepping, yeah, there's some of that, right?
For sure. Yeah, prepping.
to prepare. So what are the two things that men can do to protect their families
in times of political disasters?
To see who not to vote?
No, that's... Buy Bitcoin.
Well, you're not wrong about that, Edward, for sure.
But in general, what are the two things that men do to protect their families in a time of social or political chaos?
Stock up, build up communities, or prepare to flee.
James! You are on fire, baby.
You are on fire like Michael Jackson in a Pepsi commercial.
Yeah. Shelter or run.
Burrow or run. Right?
Fight or flight. Well, you can't fight.
So it's hide or run.
It's hide or run. Now, hiding is sort of prepping and making sure that you have a good community and being prepared for all of that.
But what is the number one thing that people, certainly over the last couple of hundred years, what is the number one thing that people have done when their societies turn to crap on a stick?
They run. I mean, America and Canada and, well, maybe not so much Australia.
They were kind of driven out. But America and Canada in particular are founded by people who ran.
So when you're studying politics and it's like, oh man, tsunami of totalitarianism is coming, right?
You run! You run!
Am I wrong? As a Westerner, where are you going to run to?
Oh Dave, oh Dave, oh Dave, where are you gonna run to?
Well then you're going to have to borrow.
if you don't think or plan or figure out where you might run to you're gonna have to borrow.
Because if you haven't looked into this at all...
What are you going to need? Where are you going to go?
What are your options? What are your choices?
Then I don't have much patience for your paralysis.
I mean, just stare and do nothing.
Then that's some childhood doom thing, right?
That's nothing to do with the rational analysis of what's going on, right?
What percentage of money ever created in the US, what percentage has been created in the last three years?
What percentage of money ever created in the American economy has been created in the last couple of years?
Eighty percent. Eighty percent.
I mean, this is the official numbers.
I'm sure it's far worse, right? The amount of debt in the US economy is beyond staggering.
Half the people are paycheck to paycheck.
My point is the issue doesn't disappear by going to another country.
You're still a foreigner.
Sorry, Dave. Give me your age range, Dave, because I don't understand this statement at all.
And you don't have to tell me your actual age.
Just tell me what decade you're in.
Please. Late 40s?
Late 40s?
Dave, are you insane?
Anybody who's over 35 is a foreigner to the childhood country they grew up in.
You are a foreigner to where you grew up right now.
Am I wrong? It's unrecognizable.
It's incomprehensible. The country that I grew up in, both in England and in Canada, the country that I grew up in is not here.
What do you mean? You'd be a foreigner in some other country?
You're a foreigner in your own country to some degree in terms of the values you grew up with.
Am I wrong? I could be wrong.
I could be wrong. Not to my peers.
Well, you're just moving the goalpost, Dave.
You're just moving the goalpost. We're talking about countries and you're like, well, no, no, no.
Now I'm talking about my peers, so you're not right.
So we're talking about fleeing countries, and you're like, look at my peers.
It's like, well, don't waste my time, right?
Don't waste my time with just moving categories.
that's boring and we're better than that right so yeah so so we watch to figure out when you got a run
If you're going to run, right? And, you know, maybe you stay in Barrow, maybe you lay low, maybe you whatever, right?
But, I mean, the world that I grew up in doesn't exist anymore.
The world that I grew up in is gone.
I mean, maybe you live in a country with more continuity and all of that, but yeah, the
country that I grew up in is not around anymore, mentally, in terms of all of that, right?
So yeah, I mean, I think that's important, right?
I think that's important. So I just wanted to point that out.
So yeah, so men are...
Why do we think about the Roman Empire?
I think I'm getting...
Somebody says, I think I'm getting ready to run to another country.
I found happiness overseas, wanted the USA will provoke a hot war with Russia.
It seems the USA always wanted a war with Russia.
No, that's not the case.
They wanted a war with Russia since Russia rejected communism.
So.
All right, so, men will often hide political concerns from their wives because their wives may be overwhelmed and
too anxious and it's not time to act in whatever peaceful manner you
can.
right? And women will keep things from the man that might be bothersome to the man, which they're not going to act on or can't do much about, right?
So, ladies, here we go.
This is your man cave exploration time.
Here we go. Why do men think about the Roman Empire I will tell you using an analogy that you will deeply, deeply understand.
I want you to imagine that you have a stalker.
And that stalker comes and goes, but it's very dangerous.
He's not just a stalker who's like going to hide in your closet and jump out and scare you.
He's like a stalker who might set fire to your house.
Or cut the brake cables in your car.
He's like a really, really not-so-dangerous stalker, right?
Now, he's in prison.
He's out of prison. You go to the police.
Maybe they help somewhat. Maybe they don't.
But... You're always going to live a little bit with one eye over your shoulder.
Now, if he's in prison, you're going to relax for a certain amount of time, but, you know, he's going to get out of prison and so on, right?
So, he's just in your orbit.
Right? You got a stalker.
Now, if a man were to say to you, why do you think about this stalker?
I mean, you haven't heard from him in months.
Why do you think about this stalker?
You haven't heard from him in months or years.
But he's out of prison and he's talking about you on social media and then things maybe go quiet as you say, right?
The silence is worse, right?
So can you ever not think about your stalker?
Can you ever just go live your life, pretend you don't have a stalker, right?
Could you do that? If women need an analogy and can't get it through logic and math, oh Dan, I bet you want the state to protect your rights and property too.
So, something a woman said to me many years ago about Parenthood, right?
Women, in general, never stop thinking about their kids and their families.
And it's kind of like a dimmer switch that doesn't go off.
You can turn it down, but you can't turn it off.
You can turn it down, but you can't turn it off.
And so if you have a stalker, you can dial it down, right?
You're in a movie theater, and you're probably okay, and you can watch the movie, but then you come out and you just, you know, you never know, right?
So what is the stalker for men?
What is the stalker for men?
Well, in general, it's political predation.
It's political predation.
Political predation is the biggest predator in history.
I mean, I've mentioned this before.
It's called democide. You can look it up.
D-E-M-O-C-I-D-E. Democide that the state in the 20th century outside of war murdered a quarter of a billion people.
You have tyrannies, right?
So you have a predator, a stalker, that you follow and you track and you think about continually.
And you look for patterns and you try and figure out where he is or what he might be doing because you're trying to figure out how safe you are.
So for men, so for women, the Roman Empire is like, it was 1500 years ago the thing fell.
It was thousands of years ago.
Like, why would you think?
Which is like the man saying to the woman, you haven't heard from this, you haven't seen this stalker in months or years.
So you understand that for men, the Roman Empire is not in the past.
the Roman Empire and the fall of Rome is potentially in the not too distant future.
Women track predators.
Men track predators.
Who preys on women?
Often sexually obsessed men.
Who preys on men?
Political predation.
So we're not thinking about the Roman Empire.
We're thinking about our families and our protection and our future.
And we need to understand the predation.
We need to understand the predation.
Now, key salient aspect of the Roman Empire was deflation of the currency, or inflation of the currency, deflation of the value of the currency.
Right? So, as you know, the denarius went through 90 to 95 percent devaluation over a relatively short period of time.
So we need to keep track of politics and we need to keep track of the money supply because that's our lifeblood.
Right? Like that movie, the play, A Raisin in the Sun, that I had to read when I was in junior high school.
That money was made for my daddy's blood.
Guy runs off with the savings of this black guy.
So yes, in the same way, That the family needs to make sure that mice don't get into the grain supply because they eat, leave diseases and poop, thus rendering the grain supply inedible.
You need to keep people from preying on your stuff.
And who preys on your stuff the most is the central bank.
You know, an inflation rate of 7% steals half your stuff in a couple of decades.
So you understand that men think about the Roman Empire and women are like, well, that's the past.
And men are like, that's not the past.
That's the pattern for the present.
Again, if I'm wrong, tell me I'm wrong.
But this is what...
But men have to keep this from women.
Because women tend to worry more.
Right? I mean, this is the shield, right?
This is the shield. So for women, it's like, well, that's incomprehensible.
Why on earth would you think about?
How could you possibly think about the Roman Empire?
It's so long ago, it makes no sense.
It's so in the past, it's incomprehensible.
And do you know why it's incomprehensible?
Because we've been keeping it from you.
Because, you know, there's been a lot of money printing and that's going to have an effect and that's going to be food for our families.
So why do women keep their deep stuff from men?
Two reasons. So first of all, women need to know that their men are scanning the horizon.
Women offload concerns about political predation to men.
And men offload deep examination of relationships to women.
I've noticed women in general avoid deep philosophical arguments.
Well, because women have a higher need to get along with others
because they need the participation of others to raise children.
Somebody says, because we have not learned anything from the fall,
or at least our so-called leaders haven't.
.
Boy, you really are blaming the victims here, aren't we?
We've not learned anything from the fall of Rome.
Boy, history just repeats itself.
Or if it doesn't repeat itself, it certainly rhymes.
Oh, we just don't learn anything.
Those who do not learn from their history are doomed to repeat it.
You ever had those thoughts?
People are just idiots that refuse to learn from history.
I can't believe that. Right?
You ever had those thoughts?
Yeah? I just, I can't keep blowing your minds.
Like I can't. Yeah, I can't.
It's too much, you guys.
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