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Dec. 19, 2023 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux

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	Yes, sorry for the late start.
	I don't like to call out software by name because, you know, stuff happens.
	But I'm going to do it this time.
	So I thought, you know, hey, you know, let's change up the background a little, right?
	Let's try and change up the background a little.
	So, I installed a program called XSplitVCam.
	XSplitVCam. Now, with XSplitVCam, you can replace the background.
	And because I'm bald, it actually works out kind of well, because it's not like I've got this big fluffy hair that people have to figure out, right?
	Socrates did have a few tech issues.
	It turned out he was highly incompatible to Hemlock.
	So, yes, my tech issues are relatively minor.
	So, I set it all up.
	Seems to be working okay.
	Go and look for a background.
	Spend a little while finding the right background.
	But it seems kind of shuddery, even though I've got a pretty fast computer.
	So, what I do, of course, is there's an option which says, always make it 30 frames a second, right?
	Always make it 30 frames a second, right?
	So I hit that option and the whole program freezes.
	It doesn't give you an error message.
	It just freezes. So then I force quit it.
	I sign it back up again and it doesn't give you an error message.
	It just freezes after the program starts and then vanishes.
	And there's no option to start it in safe mode, at least not one that I found.
	So I just uninstall it.
	So then I reinstall it and just say, okay, well, I won't choose the force 30 frames a second thing because it's an option.
	And generally, I was a programmer for many, many years.
	Generally, you should not include an option that says...
	Crash this thing like the Hindenburg.
	You know, a little option that just says, if you would really like to completely screw up your install and have the thing not boot at all, just check this button.
	Check this button for Interstellar Infinite Hellscape Jank.
	That's what you need, right? So, anyway.
	So... So I uninstalled, but it still was causing problems.
	I had to uninstall, reboot, and now we're fine.
	So yeah, excellent job, guys.
	XSplit, you guys are well worth the money.
	I pay you every year because...
	And I don't have some big non-standard setup or anything like the standard ring, right?
	Standard video card, standard Windows install.
	And yet they've included a program that says, not only, not only is this going to mess up this program, it's going to mess up your webcam as a whole.
	And that's really quite impressive.
	That is really quite impressive.
	All right. Thank you, Matt.
	I appreciate that so much. That's a very kind tip.
	And he says, your show has helped me recover from an adverse childhood experience score of nine.
	And I'm incredibly grateful for your work.
	I'm living a better life than I could ever have dreamed of.
	And a big reason is your moral arguments that have allowed me to see reality more clearly.
	I hope you will continue your writing on the peaceful parenting book.
	So far, it's a masterpiece.
	Oh, thank you. That's incredibly kind.
	Having read most of your other work, I feel this surpasses anything you've ever done before.
	I'm super excited for chapter eight with love.
	Matt! Magnificent.
	Look, I, and if you want to donate to freedomain.com slash donate, that is incredibly kind.
	I really, really appreciate that.
	And, you know, however you want, you can do crypto, you can do whatever works for you.
	But that's incredibly kind.
	And thank you so much. And please, of course, I mean, please tell me.
	Remember to tell yourself that if I wrote a recipe, you're the one who got the ingredients and learned how to cook it well.
	So please take whatever praise you give to me.
	I appreciate that. And take some for yourself as well.
	Please take some for yourself as well.
	Make sure you take more for yourself than for me.
	So I really, really appreciate that.
	Thank you so much. And let's see here.
	Yeah, the IT rents, it's bad.
	Yeah, it's bad out there, right?
	The amount of... It's not just time that gets wasted.
	It's like any kind of...
	Base human enthusiasm.
	After you wrestle with tech crap for a long time, then you just kind of drain your joy of existence, doesn't it?
	Doesn't it just kind of drain your joy of existence?
	Where it's just like, oh my god, I'm coming up against idiots.
	Outsourced, I assume, usually outsourced idiots.
	But then we can go and check Bitcoin and What is it at?
	53,620.
	It started off this year, or about a year ago, at 22,000.
	So, yeah, you know, so we have some tech rants.
	But I suppose there are worse things in the world.
	And I guess we've got to be grateful for the pluses.
	So all the technology that doesn't work is, to me, more than offset by all the technology that does work.
	Very well. Spectacularly well, i.e.
	Bitcoin. So, I guess we just have to take our victories where we can.
	Oh, the newsletter side is down.
	Excellent. Excellent.
	AI will demand a peaceful programming book soon.
	Oh, peaceful programming. Yeah, for sure.
	Happens so often, it's just a fact of life now.
	Yeah, Uber Jank is just the essence of technology these days.
	In the last few months at work every day, it seems there's some company-wide issue with tools.
	And of course, it should be getting better, right?
	You understand technology should be improving and getting better as a whole, right?
	Because skill is improving, technology speed is improving and so on.
	It should be all shaking out.
	It wasn't like 50 years after the car was invented, they just regularly exploded and took out an eyeball.
	The cars that started, you had to crank them.
	They were uncertain when they first started.
	But of course, we all know it's a general arc of incompetence.
	It's overtaking the glories of our prior civilization.
	So yes, we should be better skilled.
	There should be better tools. And there are better tools for coding.
	You know, when I first booted up, Basic on my Atari 800 back in the day.
	It just said ready, and the cursor didn't even flash.
	Why did the cursor not flash?
	Because that's too many system resources to make a flashing cursor.
	It's ready. Here's your cursor.
	More HR staff will absolutely solve the problem.
	So start, hit me with a P for personal or a PH for philosophy.
	P for personal, I don't know how you want to start the show.
	I'm happy to take questions.
	Thanks again to Matt. P for personal, PH for philosophy.
	What would you like? What would you like?
	I won't take it personally if you want philosophy.
	It's a philosophy show after all, so happy to do that.
	With so many people falling prey to soundbites and lacking the ability to navigate the world of politics, do you think your knowledge, expertise, and ability to interpret what is happening in the world and communicate to the masses in digestible form means that a return to politics could be beneficial to the world?
	Sorry, I don't mean to laugh.
	I don't mean to laugh. I don't mean to laugh.
	Well, I mean, I am a man of the masses.
	I'm a man of the masses. I came from the masses.
	I came from poverty. I came from the tragic end of the welfare-ridden single mother lower class.
	And so I know how to talk to people who aren't particularly educated.
	I know how to talk to people who aren't philosophical.
	I know how to break things down into digestible ways that spread philosophy in an actual and practical sense.
	If you ever want to get really murderous, like genuinely feeling, don't ever act on anything obviously, but if you ever want to feel genuinely murderous, let's do this.
	Let's try this exercise. We can try it together if you like.
	You can open up a browser.
	Latest academic philosophy papers.
	Oh my gosh.
	So I just went to Oxford Academic Journals.
	No. F off with your cookies.
	All right. Join us in celebrating another year of excellence in philosophy research at Oxford University Press.
	Our Best of Philosophy collection brings together the most read content published in our philosophy portfolio in 2021, offering a free selection of journal articles and book chapters from this year's most popular publications.
	Number one. There are no fundamental facts.
	There are no fundamental facts.
	By Roberto Loss.
	I present an argument proving that there are no fundamental facts, which is similar to an argument recently presented by Mark Iago for truth-maker maximalism.
	I suggest this article gives at least some prima facie, defeasible reason to believe that there are no fundamental facts.
	That's number one. Number two.
	Philosophical proofs against common sense!
	Holy vampire jugular parasitism, man!
	Brian Francis! Many philosophers are skeptical about the power of philosophy to refute commonsensical claims.
	They look at the famous attempts and judge them inconclusive.
	I prove that even if those famous attempts are failures, there are alternative successful philosophical proofs against commonsensical claims.
	War against reality, war against consciousness, war against empirical evidence as accepted by the vast majority of human beings.
	What else do we have here?
	Keith Frankish, in Aristotelian Society's supplementary volume, has this to add to the world of philosophy.
	Panpsychism and the de-psychologization of consciousness.
	The problem of consciousness arises when we de-psychologize consciousness, that is, conceptualize
	it in terms of phenomenal feel rather than psychological function.
	Panpsychism offers an elegant solution to the problem which takes de-psychologization seriously.
	In doing so, however, it also...
	What else do we have?
	Ah! Yuyin Nagasawa!
	Offers up the glorious philosophical tome called A Panpsychist Dead End.
	Panpsychism has received much attention in the philosophy of mind in recent years.
	So-called Constitutive Russelian Panpsychism, in particular, is considered by many the most promising panpsychic approach to the hard problem of consciousness.
	In this paper, however, I develop a new challenge.
	There we go. Constitutive Russelian Panpsychism.
	Alright, here we go.
	Here we go. Mark Gilks in the British Journal of Aesthetics.
	I assume it has a glorious font.
	In the British Journal of Aesthetics, Mark Gilks says, Aesthetic experience and the unfathomable.
	A pragmatist critique of hermeneutic aesthetics.
	Fuck. If you could just take my fucking tax money and just shovel at me a completely...
	Arrational, incomprehensible grab-bag of bullshit syllogisms and syllables.
	I would just be really thrilled.
	Because who doesn't want to give up their hard-earned tax money in return for an attack on the foundations of consciousness and civilization as a whole?
	Mmm, beautiful. In his attack on the notion of immediate experience, Hans Jörg Adama argues that aesthetic experience should be absorbed into hermeneutics because it alone cannot account for the historical nature of experience predicated on an ontological theory of art.
	All right. What else do we have?
	Moral criticism and structural injustice.
	Moral agency is limited, imperfect, and structurally contained.
	This is evidence in the many ways we all unwittingly participate in widespread injustice through our everyday actions, which I call structural wrongs.
	To do justice to these facts, I argue that we should distinguish between...
	Okay, I just literally can't do this without wanting to punch my monitor.
	There's tech fails, and then there's just philosophy fails, which is the undermining of civilization as a whole.
	Let's just do one more. Charlotte Knowles in The Monist gives us...
	Responsibility in cases of structural and personal complicity, a phenomenological analysis.
	In cases of complicity in one's own unfreedom and instructural injustice, it initially appears that agents are only vicariously responsible for their complicity because of the roles circumstantial and constitutive luck play in bringing about their complicity by drawing on work.
	Oh my God!
	Here's a more honest one from Kasper Osterheld and Vincent Konica.
	Extracting money from causal decision theorists.
	Extracting money. I think that's what it's all about.
	What are they paid for? What are they paid for?
	They're paid to keep people away from philosophy.
	They're paid to keep people away from philosophy, to render it incomprehensible.
	They are guardians of...
	It's like the world is in pain and they're just holding up their spears against the painkillers and the cures.
	Midwit porn. Yes.
	I'm not going to do a Red Dead Redemption 2 livestream with Izzy.
	Thank you, appreciate it.
	And I think I'll get around to it.
	Ahhhh.
	These papers tempt me to violate the non-aggression principle.
	Well, these papers are violations of the non-aggression principle because nobody's paying for them except those who are forced to, or those who are programmed and propagandized into paying for them through, you've got to get a degree or whatever, right?
	Yeah, it is terrible.
	I read an academic paper published and presented in an engineering conference this morning.
	It was high school level at best. The rot is deep.
	Yeah. Pan-psychism is what happens when cast iron hits the cranium.
	Nice. I think Steph lost more weight.
	Yeah, yeah, it's coming along. Yeah, you know, when people talk about book burnings, I get it.
	On principle, book burnings are bad, but you always have to ask yourself, what books are they burning?
	What books are they burning?
	Somebody says, this is the stuff I really dislike when people take something beautiful like philosophy and it gets inverted into something it isn't.
	Hermenoidal gastrics. Is that just internal bleeding from heart source?
	No, it's internal bleeding from sophistry.
	Verbal equivalent of jacking off in front of everyone.
	Well, I guess.
	Imagine sitting down and having a meal with one of these writers.
	Yeah, I mean, they're bought and paid.
	To pretend to be intelligent so that people associate philosophy with incomprehensibility and don't learn about the basics virtues.
	Let's see here. Uh, Gerard says, don't forget to tip, you're a friendly neighborhood philosopher.
	I was never a big fan of Matthew Perry, I just didn't watch any of his stuff.
	I don't think I watched more than an episode of Friends, but he did seem like a nice guy.
	I started his audiobook and he seems like he would, quote, be a fun guy to hang out with.
	I spend my life alone, but a wingman like Matthew Perry would help me appear less socially isolated.
	Yeah. Well, the man broke a lot of hearts and was a relentless addict and pathologically insecure and self-hating.
	So, we don't do, like, surface here.
	We don't do surface stuff here.
	He appeared confident.
	He was on television.
	He was funny. Yeah, but, I mean, the man was a fundamental hellscape, right?
	When I was in college reading nonsense like this, I always thought, wow, maybe I'm stupid.
	I don't understand this shit. LOL. Well, one of the reasons that you are rendered unconfident is so that you don't demand that experts explain things to you in terms that you understand.
	Right? The purpose of being an expert is to communicate to the masses in a language they understand.
	That's the entire purpose.
	Having expertise which you cloud in massive, toxic, noxious fogs of brain-shredding, polysyllabic bullshit is not being an expert.
	It's being a predatory fool, in my opinion.
	I mean, if these guys worked for me and they said there's no such thing as truth, I just wouldn't pay them.
	And then they'd phone me up and they'd say, where's my paycheck?
	And I said, I paid you.
	No, you didn't. Here's a show in my bank account.
	The money hasn't shown up. No, I did.
	No, there's no money in my bank account.
	How am I supposed to pay my bills? Dude.
	You told me that there's no such thing as truth, so I'm telling you I paid you.
	You didn't pay me.
	No, no, no. You see, here's the thing.
	I paid you in the past and you told me there was no such thing as truth, so there's no need for me to pay you because there's no such thing as truth or reality or objectivity or facts or anything, right?
	So you shouldn't care.
	Now, if you suddenly care that there's such a thing as truth and facts and numbers and so on and it's an absolute fact that I didn't pay you and it's an absolute fact that you have bills to pay, Then your paper, which I paid you for, is a lie.
	Now, why would I pay you for a lie?
	I mean, if you want to buy a car for $10,000 and the guy lies about the kind of car it is, he says it's an X car, but it turns out to be some crap car.
	It's a Lada from Romania from 1962 instead of a late model BMW. If the guy lies to you, you don't pay him, right?
	So... If you're now telling me that this is a fact, that you didn't get paid, but what I paid you for last month was for you to produce a paper that says there's no such thing as the truth, now you're saying there is such a thing as truth, which means I shouldn't have paid you because you lied to me last month when you told me there was no such thing as the truth.
	So either way, you don't get paid.
	Now fuck off. I know some...
	Yeah, so... The way that academic intimidation works is this.
	They baffle-gap you with a whole bunch of polysyllabic bullshit and then you feel stupid, right?
	You feel stupid. And then you feel insecure, right?
	Now, what would a confident person do if somebody's explaining something to you?
	They're an expert. They're explaining.
	They're explaining something to you and you don't understand it.
	What would a confident person say?
	What would a confident person say?
	To someone who's explained something to you and it doesn't make any sense.
	And it doesn't make any sense in an objective way.
	Like they're using words they've never defined that aren't common parlance and so on.
	What would a confident person say?
	A confident person would say, explain it to me like I'm a toddler?
	Maybe. But you couldn't do that with more advanced topics, right?
	Try again. You're not making sense to me.
	No, no, try again.
	This doesn't make any sense to me.
	Your job is to educate me.
	Your explanations are incomprehensible.
	You're doing a bad job of explaining it to me.
	I don't understand what you're saying.
	These words have never seen before.
	I've never heard before. I don't know what they mean.
	And if you are...
	I mean, this is a fundamental thing.
	It's a foundational thing.
	Is you don't use words that people don't know without defining them first.
	Right? Whenever I say the word epistemology, I'll usually say, unless it's an advanced topic, I'll say, yeah, it's a study of the nature of knowledge, right?
	Metaphysics and nature of reality, whatever it is.
	So, yeah, explain it in plain English, no jargon.
	And if they say it can't be explained in plain English, then you would say, is philosophy not for the masses?
	Is philosophy not supposed to help people?
	And if philosophy is not supposed to help people, then why are you taking money from people for philosophy?
	No, your explanations suck.
	You're bad at explaining this.
	I don't understand. I want to understand.
	You claim to be an expert.
	I don't understand. People, Ayn Rand used to call it philosophizing in midstream, rather than build the case from the ground up.
	Rather than building the case from the ground up, they just start in the middle and assume that you will be too insecure to say, I don't understand.
	You're supposed to explain this to me so that I can understand it.
	Give me a real world example.
	Give me a practical example.
	Give me a tangible example.
	Define your terms. Build your case from the ground up.
	Bullshit tyranny is foundational to reality, to human society.
	I mean, with the state, right? Bullshit tyranny?
	You know what that is, right?
	Bullshit tyranny is when people use language that you can't possibly understand, that has no clear definition, and you're just supposed to bow to them out of intimidation.
	Of course, it used to happen in the realm of theology.
	The witch doctor would ooga-booga, dance and chant around.
	He'd get these visions and he would say, you have to obey because visions, which I can't communicate to you, I have this mystical knowledge.
	Ooga-booga-booga, obey, right?
	And then, of course, it would happen to some degree with the early church when they did the church services in Latin and people didn't speak Latin and you just had to obey because you didn't speak Latin and so on, right?
	Until Martin Luther came along and translated the Bible into the Vulgate, into the vernacular, into the local German and so on, right?
	And you understand that the new priesthood of the atheists are the scientists, right?
	Science! We had to move at the speed of science!
	Science! Science!
	Right?
	Science is the new thunder god of prostrating yourself before endless waves of cascading
	bullshit.
	Science is the return, in the modern parlance, in the way that the hierarchy of science works,
	Trust the science!
	As if science is anything to do with trust.
	All science is founded on mistrust of expertise.
	Trust the science.
	And people like literally, well, they're so badly educated.
	She blinded me with science.
	She's tied it up and I can't find anything.
	That was actually kind of funny.
	That's a Thomas Dalby song.
	Malcolm Muggeridge? What's that song?
	Anyway, somebody really poured heart and soul into sounding like an old cranky scientist.
	But people literally will hear, well, a guy in a white coat said it and used the word science, therefore it's true.
	Whereas if you were to say to an atheist, a guy in a funny hat said it and it's true, therefore God.
	They would say, well, that's just ridiculous.
	You can't just accept something said by a guy in a funny hat because he claims God.
	That's ridiculous. Oh, wait, is there a guy in a white coat claiming science?
	Oh, well, I'll accept that 100%.
	Scientific consensus is a scream for someone to go figure out what they're not seeing.
	Well, scientific consensus is something that you know is an MPC phrase because science is always and forever about the overturning of consensus.
	Science is the rape of the consensus because consensus is It's almost always wrong.
	Almost always completely wrong.
	One of the guys at work said, all the studies that support the vax are trustworthy and the rest are fake news.
	So, in religious terms, somebody who comes up with an argument you can't answer is called a heretic or an infidel or whatever, right?
	Heretic! And in the science world, if somebody comes up with an argument you can't answer, he's called an anti-vaxxer, a science denier, a climate change denier, a denier, it's a heretic.
	Nothing's changed. They just shifted from hats to coats.
	Nothing's changed. In fact, scientism, like the cult of science, is infinitely worse than Christianity.
	Because with Christianity, you can read the source texts and you can pray to God yourself directly.
	Whereas the priestly class of scientists who bully people, you can't get their source data.
	They won't release their source data.
	And they don't debate. Steve Kirsch on X has forever been trying to get people.
	He's got data. He says that vaxxers are dangerous and everybody insults him.
	But people won't debate with him.
	Scientific consensus is just renaming of all these scientists who are paid by the same
	Yeah, like peer review.
	Peer review, my God.
	Yeah, from hats to stethoscopes.
	And scientism is infinitely worse than Christianity because you're forced to pay for scientism.
	Scientism is a universal, predatory, exploitive cult.
	But you're forced to pay for the scientists.
	You know, every time I do research, I come across scientific papers that I want to read.
	And it's always the same thing.
	The scientific papers that you and I have been forced to pay for, what if you want them?
	We've been forced to pay for them.
	What if we want them? Oh, I'm so sorry.
	That's going to be another 50 bucks.
	Oh, my God. Can you imagine scientific consensus in any other realm?
	Well, I really want to date this girl.
	I don't know if I'm attracted to her.
	I'm going to ask all my friends if she's attractive.
	Oh, I have a passion to do this particular career, but I'm going to check with all my friends and see if I should.
	I think I see a stop sign ahead.
	I'm going to need a quick conference call with everyone to see if they see it too.
	Can you imagine not being able to judge yourself and your own reality and your own data and your own facts?
	During one of our university classes, we were told about a resource site which basically ranks studies in their trustworthiness based on how many peer reviews they've had, as if that alone was the only metric upon which the quality of a study is built upon.
	Now, you could talk about peer reviews if it was a voluntary process, right?
	You could absolutely talk about peer reviews if it was a purely voluntary process, but it's not.
	Because the people who run the peer reviews hold the funding in their hands, and if someone breaks from consensus or goes against the peer review general consensus, then they won't get their funding.
	Everybody knows how this works, right?
	That's what the girls do when they're interested in someone.
	Not as far as I know, and certainly not my wife.
	I mean, hit me with a why if you know about the replication crisis.
	Do you know about the replication crisis?
	I mean, I've talked about it in the past, but you might not have been around for a while.
	Have you heard about the replication crisis?
	It's psychology, in medicine, in just about everything.
	Let's see here.
	It started in psychology, but now findings in many scientific fields are proving impossible
	to replicate.
	you Science is in the throes of what is sometimes called the replication crisis.
	This is from 2022, last year.
	So named because a big hint that a scientific study is wrong is when other teams try to repeat it and get a different result.
	While some fields of psychology initially seemed more liable than others to generate such fake news, almost every area of science has since come under suspicion.
	An entire field of genetics has even turned out to be nothing but a mirage.
	Of course, we should expect testing to overturn some findings.
	The replication crisis, though, stems from wholesale flaws baked into the systems and institutions that support scientific research, which not only permit bad scientific practices, but actually encourage them.
	And if anything, things have been getting worse over the past few decades.
	Uh, no, I'm not going to subscribe.
	You probably already took my money.
	I mean, the Dunning-Kruger effect has turned out to be relatively false.
	Anyway, you can read about it all, but it's really pathetic.
	Replication crisis is the result of women in science.
	Nope. Women have always been in science.
	It's not on women in science.
	It's terrible.
	I mean, they suppress science that we know to be true.
	We all know what I'm talking about.
	They suppress science they know to be true, and it's...
	Sorry, it's just funny.
	Now, here's the funny thing, is that to everybody who says science is based on evidence, the evidence is that modern science is largely bullshit.
	Not all bullshit, but it's largely bullshit.
	It just is. And science has proven that modern science is mostly bullshit, particularly psychology.
	The only thing that works in psychology is IQ and some personality measures.
	That's the only thing that's really robust, and that's all the stuff that's denied.
	So, yeah, the replication crisis, isn't that funny?
	Replication crisis is such a euphemism for people ripping off the public and lying for money.
	No, no, no! I'm not ripping off the public and lying for money.
	It's a replication crisis.
	It's just a crisis of replication-ability.
	Oh, you know, the guy who robs you in the alley, it's a cash flow reallocation.
	Not a replication crisis.
	It's a bunch of people taking forced money from the public and lying for profit.
	It's a con job. It's a bunch of con men and con women lying for money.
	But it's even worse. Most of these people just redoing the stats.
	Nobody ever actually replicates the experiment.
	In fact, it's unlikely to get past ethics committee approval.
	Oh, yeah.
	It's in medicine too, right?
	It's in medicine as well.
	So this is a 2020 science.
	Science has been in a replication crisis for a decade.
	Have we learned anything? Much ink has been spilled over the replication crisis.
	It's just fantastic.
	I mean, what a great phrase.
	Credibility gap. Are you a liar?
	No, I have a credibility gap.
	I have minor facts deviation syndrome.
	So John Iannidis, 2005, wrote an article, Why Most Published Research Findings Are False.
	There was a controversy around a 2011 paper that used then-standard statistical methods to find that people have precognition!
	Oh my gosh.
	Most papers fail to replicate for totally predictable reasons.
	When research papers are published, they describe their methodology so other researchers can copy it or vary it and build on the original research.
	When another research team tries to conduct a study based on the original to see if they find the same result, that's an attempted replication.
	Often the focus is not just on doing the exact same thing, they're approaching the same question with a larger sample and pre-registered design.
	If they find the same result, that's a successful replication and evidence the original researchers were onto something.
	But when the attempted replication finds different or no results, that often suggests that the original research finding was spurious.
	No, they're lying!
	They're lying! They're lying!
	I mean, if I tried this in business, and I had five years' worth of sales, and I took the three best months of sales and said that was the average for the whole thing, that would just be outright fraud.
	One 2015, Attempt to reproduce 100 psychology studies was able to replicate only 39 of them.
	A big international effort in 2018 to reproduce prominent studies found that 14 of the 28 replicated and an attempt to replicate studies from top journals Nature and Science found that 13 of the 21 results looked at could not be reproduced.
	A 2018 study published in Nature had scientists place bets on which of a pool of social science studies would replicate.
	They found that the predictions by scientists in this betting market were highly accurate at estimating which papers were replicated.
	So everybody knows what's bullshit. Everybody knows what's bullshit.
	And it really was. I'll give you the image here.
	It's wild. So they said, which stuff is the most likely to be bullshit?
	And everyone was like, they knew exactly.
	So this is how you know.
	It's just straight up falsehood in the situation as a whole.
	There you go. This is the study.
	I do it at 36. I'll just make a note of that to put that in the video.
	I would like to enter at least one character.
	Why can I not post a picture?
	Oh, lordy.
	Why? Because apparently it saved the whole document.
	Hang on a second here. We'll get there.
	Save image as. That's what I want to do.
	I don't want a web file.
	Jeez. Save image as and then it gives me a web file.
	All right, fine. I'll do a screen grab because your technology blows.
	So here's the funny thing.
	The website that says things don't work, you can't save the image because it's labeled it as a web file.
	I can't even reproduce Save S. All right.
	Repro, I'll call it. All right.
	Let me just put this in here. Isn't that funny?
	So look at that. So this is very interesting.
	This is the image or the study of people predicting that things were going to be false and whether they were, in fact, actually false.
	Why is this not uploading? Oh, tell me that's the case, right?
	It's a PNG file.
	It should work. Do they have to give back their PhDs if they can't reproduce?
	Oh yeah, no, absolutely. Of course they do.
	And also they find the people they taxed and give it all back.
	Get all the money back. Alright, I'm going to try one last thing here.
	Can I save it as?
	Alright, save.
	Well, maybe it prefers JPEG, I don't know.
	Maybe the file's too big.
	Maybe, maybe, right? That's the kind of stuff you can waste your life trying to get this stuff to work.
	Please keep this window open while your file is uploading.
	Is it uploading? No, it just vanishes.
	Okay, can't do it because things aren't working.
	All right. So, can't even reproduce something uploaded, so...
	Additional research has established that you don't even need to poll experts in a field to guess which of its studies will hold up to scrutiny.
	A study published in August had participants read psychology papers and predict whether they would replicate.
	Lay people without a professional background in the social sciences are able to predict the replicability of social science studies with above-chance reporting.
	On the basis of nothing more than simple verbal study descriptions, right?
	The lay people were able to predict many failed replications.
	So, many of them have flaws that even a lay person can notice.
	So, a replication crisis with like 50% of stuff not even being able to be reproduced, right?
	I assume it's higher for reasons we can go into perhaps another time.
	So, 50% of scientific studies that have passed peer review Can't be reproduced.
	What is it? 50% of cancer studies can't be reproduced.
	Cancer cure studies or cancer evaluation studies.
	So, what...
	Yeah, the Sokal affair.
	I was writing about this in my novel, The God of Atheists.
	Professor Sokal was a guy who created a bunch of nonsense and had it published in a social science journal.
	And everybody published it.
	So, since the 90s, so for like, you know, I mean, what was that in the early 90s?
	So for like 30 years. For 30 years, we've known that science is mostly bullshit.
	And the people who are science, they follow scientism, the cult of science, they genuinely believe that they're different, better, and superior to religious people.
	They're worse than Christians.
	They're absolutely infinitely worse than Christians.
	Because Christians will at least, let's say you have faith, you get some really great morals out of it, right?
	Don't lie, don't kill, don't steal, and have integrity and do good in your community and love others, and you get some really great morals out of it.
	Whatever you think of the study of the epistemology or the theology or how you get to those, let's say that your doctor...
	Diagnoses the illness wrong but gives you the right medicine.
	You'd rather that than a doctor who diagnoses the illness right but gives you the wrong medicine, right?
	All you want is the right medicine.
	So you have a personal relationship with God.
	You pray, which has great value.
	You have a great community. You have kids.
	And you love life.
	And you honor God with your virtues.
	And so you get some really wonderful stuff out of it.
	And the scientific people will say, ah, but, you know, it's a false belief.
	It's like, well, modern science is founded on coercion, and half of it is just a total lie, and it's all past peer review, and you don't get any morals out of it.
	What do you get? Subjugation to sociopaths in white coats, right?
	But they don't, I mean, yeah, like the professors you can read in two seconds of audio, so this is from the Blink book, Yeah, at least religion doesn't say reality doesn't exist, yeah.
	And virtue is the most important thing.
	And you should try to not let evil people dominate your life and your mind and your consciousness.
	So, yeah, the comparison between scientism and Christianity, scientism is satanic relative to Christianity.
	Because what is...
	What does Satan do? He's the father of lies.
	And what do most scientists do?
	I mean, statistically, they're lying for money.
	Because they call it a crisis, but what has changed?
	Yeah, science grew out of exploring God's natural world.
	Yeah, I did a show with Tom Woods many years ago about that.
	You should look for it at fdrpodcast.com.
	And we will get you the natural language search engine for the podcast, hopefully before English becomes obsolete.
	We're working on it. But we'll get there.
	So yeah, religion affirms the reality of the truth.
	It affirms the existence of natural reality.
	It validates the senses. It gives you great morals, Christianity in particular.
	And what does scientism do?
	What does scientism do?
	It tells you Do this shit or you're anti-science.
	Do this shit or you're anti-science.
	You're an anti-vaxxer, right?
	I mean, that's not even remotely rational.
	So people run to science as a way of escaping the ethics of Christianity.
	And they're happy to sell their minds, hearts and souls to scientists in return for scientists waving away the grim specter of personal responsibility and morality.
	A good example of this is the government food pyramid or saying that margarine was healthy for years.
	Well, look at what's happened to the health of Americans since Fauci took over in the 90s.
	Hmm. I love science.
	Science is one of the great triumphs of the human mind and it is one of the greatest things that has ever happened to humanity.
	Like true, absolute science.
	But if science isn't voluntary, it's just organized false fascism.
	It's where the priests go now because that's where the money is.
	The cult of science is one of the most destructive things that has ever happened to society.
	It's really, really appalling.
	What is it, Fauci? You criticize me, you're criticizing science.
	Which is exactly the same as the Pope saying questioning me is questioning God.
	See, it's the same people.
	They don't care where they end up as long as they get their money and power.
	It's the same people. And worse, really.
	And people run to science to escape morals.
	They don't run to science to find truth.
	They run to science to hollow out the soulful aspect of the universe that differentiates us from the animals and to become atoms and greed and fat and food and fucking.
	That's what people run, to become mere cunning animals in the pursuit of power, to empty themselves out from any of the beautiful glories of actual responsible consciousness.
	That's what people run to science for, so that they don't have to take responsibility for anything, and also so they get a bully tool to shout down people who have questions, which is kind of ironic, because the whole point of science was to start with questions.
	Oh, well, the whole purpose of government originally was to protect your country.
	How's that going? Right?
	Alright, I'm not sure if we're catching up or not.
	Everybody's typing, nobody's...
	So much of this stuff started in the French Revolution, they literally called it the cult of reason.
	Yeah, reason is a word that most people use to wave away the responsibility of moral autonomy.
	We are atoms and void.
	You show me where the soul is.
	You show me where virtue is.
	You show me where anything higher than humanity exists.
	We are just apes.
	Yeah, the cult of science is fairly sociopathic signals to exploit the living shit out of you.
	You want to cut science funding?
	You're anti-science.
	You want to cut arts funding?
	You're anti-art. I'm kind of anti-coercion.
	That's sort of the thing. You want to...
	You oppose the mafia?
	You're anti-protection? I mean, they literally provide protection.
	You just don't want people to be protected?
	Nobody seems to I mean, of course, this crisis...
	What is the crisis? It doesn't matter.
	There's no crisis till the money runs out.
	They just talk about it.
	But, of course, the population should be outraged, of course, right?
	I mean, of course, right? So, yeah, 30 years after the replication crisis starts, people are still obeying scientists like they're high priests with perfect knowledge to the divine.
	Wow, science! What do I have to yell at you?
	Heretic! Will you obey me if I yell heretic?
	How about racist? How about homophobe?
	How about whatever? Okay, what if I yell anti-science?
	Will you obey me then? They just keep trying words to get you to obey, right?
	If you're really about science, you're welcome pushback and questioning.
	You're against gain-of-function research?
	Yeah, kind of. Gain-of-function.
	If function is power, it is, in fact, gain-of-function.
	It's like that new white-lung stuff, coasting around.
	It is, in fact, one of the VAX side effects, but probably.
	Who knows? Who knows?
	Not I. All right.
	I have more topics, but I am also, then, of course, here for you.
	To help you the most with philosophy, because...
	Can you imagine if philosophers...
	Sorry, can you imagine if scientists operated like I do?
	Oh, and by the by, there are actually very clear studies that say that science advances when the old guard retires.
	There's an old saying that says science advances one funeral at a time.
	So there are very clear studies, and you can see the graphs.
	Science advances when the old guard dies.
	When the people who believed in the prior paradigm die, then the new paradigm will move forward at best.
	So that clearly says that the scientists were not interested in reason, but they had to wait for the people who claimed to be interested in reason to die off before they could get their arguments forward.
	Yeah, that's crazy.
	Crazy, man. But it could be worse.
	We could be in that life.
	Uh, let's, uh, just want to see here.
	In many cases, journals effectively aren't held accountable for bad papers.
	Bad papers.
	Many, like The Lancet, have retained their prestige even after long strings of embarrassing public incidents where they published research that turned out to be fraudulent or nonsensical.
	Even outright frauds often take a very long time to be repudiated with some universities and journals dragging their feet and declining to investigate widespread misconduct.
	Well, why would they? They don't want to investigate misconduct.
	I've investigated myself and found that I'm very hot.
	They don't have to improve if they get their money by force.
	I mean, the guy who's the stick-up artist just needs a gun.
	He doesn't need any quality. Journalists now retract about 1,500 articles annually, a nearly 40-fold increase over 2,000.
	Fantastic. Or is it the guy who did the original hockey stick graph?
	Didn't he refuse to release his original data or something like that?
	Ah... Anyway, I mean, I don't care what people do on the other side of the weapon.
	I mean... Okay, so imagine if scientists had to work like me, right?
	Imagine that. Imagine scientists had to work like me.
	Originally, that was kind of the thing, right?
	So scientists had to work like me.
	So a scientist had to find a way for you to be interested and find value in what he did.
	You had to donate to him.
	You had to support him in some manner.
	You had to tip him or watch ads.
	So he had to provide enough value that you would voluntarily go and support that scientist.
	Can you imagine? How long would somebody who faked their results, lied about things, and whose experiments couldn't be reproduced, how long would someone like that last?
	They'd get community noted, people would come in every live stream and say, oh, this guy's last five findings haven't been reproduced, and he couldn't sue them, because it would be true, right?
	So... And of course, I think everyone recognizes this.
	You've seen, like, how modern science works.
	It's a guy looking in a microscope.
	The microscope is a billfold with a bunch of money.
	I mean, this is, you know, the business case of a philosopher is really tough.
	It's really horrible. I mean, you all know this.
	I've been talking about this from the beginning.
	The philosopher says, well, I'm going to take you out of the matrix.
	We're going to go out of Plato's cave together and you're going to see that you live in hell.
	And most people are devilish and lie to you and attack you if you see the truth.
	So you're going to be kind of alone.
	I can't offer you heaven because I'm not a priest, right?
	I can't offer you a paradise or however many virgins.
	I can't offer you all of these wonderful things.
	All I can say is we're going to try and walk through this hellscape together in the hopes that three or four generations from now people will live in a better world.
	Gonna hurt like hell. Gonna probably cost you a lot of your relationships or reveal that your relationships are based upon your conformity to unreality.
	That if you're not serving the gods and demons of other people's fantasies, they will expel you from their paradise of illusion.
	Yay! If you could tip, that'd be great.
	Oh my gosh.
	The propaganda film day after tomorrow.
	I think they showed the hockey stick graph.
	Yeah. Yeah.
	You ran any data through that, you got a hockey stick.
	Fantastic. On a completely irrelevant note, you have never paused the stream to go to the washroom.
	Great value. I did actually once.
	I had to drink like 14 gallons of seawater an hour in order to get a colonoscopy done and I had to flee for that.
	It wasn't to pee though, but it felt like peeing.
	well we don't need to know all of these details.
	So, alright.
	I'll do the personal thing.
	Thank you for both my call-ins.
	You are very welcome, Jared.
	I'm glad that you found the one helpful yesterday.
	And I appreciate that.
	Thank you. Thank you very much for your tip.
	Alright. From minus 10 to plus 10, please, my friends.
	From minus 10 to plus 10, can you please tell me how well you sleep at night?
	From minus 10 to plus 10, how well do you sleep at night?
	I just want to know what your thoughts and experiences are with sleep or insomnia or wakefulness or upy-downy or whatever.
	I just want to get a sense of where everyone's at.
	Plus 8. Good for you, man.
	Plus 7. Plus 6. 3 to 4.
	7.5. Plus 8.
	7 to 10. 8.
	2. 10. Wow, you're all pluses.
	That's good. Nobody's a minus. So nobody has...
	You may sleep less well, but nobody has real trouble sleeping.
	That's really cool. That is very cool.
	Unless you didn't listen. Now you listen.
	Of course you listened. Minus 10 to plus 10.
	You all heard that. So everyone's a plus.
	Everyone's a plus. Okay. Well, I might skip that topic then.
	If everyone's a plus. All right.
	Plus four since giving up coffee.
	Yeah, I don't have coffee in the afternoon.
	Or late afternoon, for sure. Okay, so everyone's sleeping positively.
	Nobody's negative, right? Okay, so there's no real insomnia here.
	Okay, I won't bother then.
	All right. On the Friday live stream, I think you had some thoughts about dating vaxxed women, but you got sidetracked by people making financial excuses.
	If so, do you remember what they were?
	I'm a 56-year-old mom of a six-year-old.
	I'm sorry, but that math is one person minus seven.
	Okay. Yeah, I don't do coffee past two to four.
	I had insomnia last year, 2 a.m.
	to 4 a.m. It's nice to wake up in the morning every morning and look out the window and say, hey, is society still here?
	We're still hanging on?
	Okay. So, with regards to vaxxed women...
	To me, the vax is not the essence.
	It's not to do with vaccines.
	It's to do with NPC. You want to date a person, not a bipedal propaganda machine.
	You want to date a person, not an NPC. So it's not particular to the vax.
	But you want to...
	See...
	The NPCs share one foundational characteristic, which is...
	Oh, egg donation? Wow, good for you.
	I'm glad you had a kid.
	But the NPCs have one foundational characteristic, which is they experience...
	Disapproval of death as death.
	They experience a lack of conformity as a lack of existence, as a lack of identity.
	They only exist insofar as they are approved of.
	Now, in any long-term relationship, you're going to have criticisms, and you're going to be criticized.
	And that's exactly right.
	My wife and I made a pact when we got married.
	If we start gaining weight, we will not keep it to ourselves.
	We will tell the other person, right?
	So if you can't give any negative feedback to your partner or your friends
	and you won't listen to any negative feedback, if you can't stand disapproval,
	you can't have a relationship.
	Gerard says, I sleep well, but getting to sleep is a problem.
	Been lying in bed for the past three hours.
	Maybe if I wasn't addicted to the Internet, I would be asleep.
	But after a long night of drinking the previous night and getting home at 6 a.m., I went off to sleep very swiftly.
	Yeah, so drinking will help you get to sleep but not stay asleep, as far as I understand it.
	You need to be free to give feedback to others.
	You can't stay sane without feedback.
	I mean, no matter how much philosophy I had, if I was locked in a room or a cave alone, I would go mad.
	We can't stay sane without feedback.
	We need feedback from other people.
	I get all this great feedback from you guys and thoughts and whether the tips are up or down.
	I get all of this great feedback on how to guide the show.
	Without feedback, we go mad.
	you The human tendency is to drift.
	Like, you know, people lose time.
	If they're put in a cave, they don't know what day it is, they lose time, right?
	So without night and day.
	Alcohol does ruin the quality of sleep.
	Yeah, you'll get to sleep, but you won't get any decent sleep.
	And a watch is good to track those kinds of things.
	It can tell you what your quality of sleep is.
	What is that old Dean Martin thing?
	Well, you're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
	Boy, didn't he make alcoholism charming.
	Dreams can be helpful with a powerful feedback system, but the problem with dreams is that they're telling you stuff that your conscious mind really doesn't want to hear.
	That's why it has to come out in dreams.
	So, somebody who follows along with the masses, who follows along with the media, who follows along with the crowd, is someone who can't accept or handle any critical or negative feedback.
	They can't evaluate things for themselves.
	Now, if they can't evaluate things for themselves, how are they going to pair bond with you?
	Pair bonding is the judgment that you're perfect for me.
	Pair bonding is the judgment that you're perfect for me.
	But how are you going to judge If somebody is perfect for you, if you can't judge anything, if you can't judge independently.
	The people who can't decide can't commit.
	People who can't think for themselves can't pair bond.
	People who aren't the fountainhead of their own rational evaluations can't love.
	They have no loyalty because they're so easily programmed.
	NPCs are like your computer.
	Can your computer love you? No, it just does what you tell it to.
	I want to start a live stream. I want to play a game.
	I want to write a book.
	I want to voice dictate.
	I want to draw. It just does what you say.
	There's no choice. It can't love you.
	It can't hate you. It has no independent consciousness or evaluation capacity.
	If somebody can't disagree with propaganda, they can't agree with virtue.
	If somebody is subjugated by other people's opinions they will never bow before the truth.
	And if somebody is wedded to lies they will always divorce you for telling the truth.
	If somebody Is married to propaganda.
	They might have an affair with you.
	But they'll never commit. You know there's always these women who are like.
	What was it? It was an old Woody Allen film.
	Something about Hannah. And this woman was like.
	Was it Carrie Fisher? She's having an affair with a guy.
	And she's like. He's never going to leave his wife.
	I know he's never going to leave his wife.
	wife but I can't let go it right so she might have you might like you might be
	her side piece as a truth-teller but she's married to the mob
	And she will always go back to the mob, and she will always remain loyal to the mob.
	I mean, I wrote at the age of 17 that we have to bury ourselves in order to be resurrected.
	Like, you have to go through a kind of spiritual death.
	And this is common in just about every theology, every philosophy.
	You have to go through a kind of spiritual or soul death or soulless death in order to be resurrected in the realm of truth.
	Gandalf the White, Jesus, I mean, Socrates had to die for his truth to become more widely known.
	That you have to die in order to be born again in the truth.
	Which just tells you it's not a fundamental human experience except that we're lied to so consistently as children that we have to discard our prior identity.
	Like we literally have to go through the caterpillar to the butterfly.
	It's not like a snake shedding its skin because it still retains the shape of a snake.
	We literally have to die.
	All the lies that formed and shaped us as children and teenagers, all the lies that are inflicted upon us, not told to us, inflicted upon us, we're punished for It could be the lie of parental virtue or the benevolence of the educational system or the inevitability of environmental disaster or white guilt.
	All the lies that are told to us, forced upon us, inflicted upon us, we have to shed those and it really feels like dying.
	It really feels like you're disintegrating, dissolving.
	And there's a kind of death anxiety that goes along with that, which makes perfect sense, because evolutionarily speaking, truth-tellers didn't reproduce, which is why truth-tellers are kind of rare.
	We're like this weird mutant gene that society pokes up every now and then.
	Right? So, society is in a foxhole, and there's snipers called propagandists around who shoot the truth-tellers, right?
	This has been a constant fact of society ever since there was such a thing as society, and probably even before.
	And so what happens is, societies that get too addicted to lies die.
	Like, they die. They just completely fall apart and collapse, right?
	So, the genes are like, oh man, okay, so the truth tellers are getting killed.
	Okay, we'll ease up on the truth telling for a bit.
	But every now and then, a truth teller is born, and society lifts the truth teller up over the parapet.
	Okay, there's still snipers.
	A truth teller is still getting shot.
	Damn it! Another body on my hands.
	Okay, fine. So then we'll wait for another generation or two.
	So every now and then, there's just a random mutation of truth tellers come up and we see if we can survive, right?
	That's society. And the truth tellers are...
	Society attempting to heal from the liars, right?
	Because the liars are driving everyone off a cliff, right?
	The liars are just keeping everybody deluded, particularly about being valid recipients of things they did not earn.
	Love or money or power or whatever, right?
	So the liars are undermining and destroying society and the social body, so to speak, creates these antibodies called truth-tellers, right?
	We create these antibodies called truth-tellers.
	And the truth-tellers go at war against the liars.
	And the mob decides their fate.
	There's an old Zoroastrian belief.
	I dated a girl who was raised a Zoroastrian many years ago.
	And the Zoroastrian belief is that the gods and the devils are in constant combat, but man decides the fate.
	The gods and the devils are in constant combat, but man decides the outcome.
	We are the tipping point.
	So the truth-tellers and the liars are in public combat.
	You know how everyone loves these Marvel movies where the devils are throwing clouds of acid and robots and the good guys are throwing thunderbolts and bras or whatever.
	And so... And this is particularly playing out on the internet, that the liars and the truth-tellers are in public battle, and the mob decides their fate.
	Now, if you don't have the truth-tellers, you don't really have any choice, because nobody's countering the narrative, and it just seems like reality, right?
	And sometimes a truth teller gets taken out and sometimes a liar gets taken out.
	But this is why now, finally, the mob is responsible for their fate.
	Because of the internet, the truth tellers have a prominence that has never before existed.
	So, really, for the first time, the mob has a chance to decide their fate.
	And I'll leave it to you to decide how they're doing in terms of deciding their fate.
	Well, you guys, I think, are doing the right thing.
	I know I'm doing the right thing.
	And, of course, hopefully, assuming that society doesn't go completely atomic, then the truth will, you know, we'll be out there forever and so on.
	So... This is the reality.
	And the truth-tellers are allowed as long as they don't have any effect, right?
	Because the truth-tellers are allowed as long as they draw people into a little corner of truth and they just mutter among themselves and don't have any effect.
	But with the internet, truth-tellers can actually have an effect on society and that's why truth-tellers get taken out.
	And all the truth-tellers that remain are those who don't have much of an effect on society.
	So, yeah, I mean, this is the way I view myself.
	I'm a mutant reality gene here to test whether society can accept reason or not.
	Is society willing to give up its addiction to falsehood?
	Well, here's someone who can tell the truth and do it in a pretty engaging and entertaining way and take on some courageous stances and so on.
	And it's just a test, right?
	It's just a test. And now people have a choice that they never had before.
	I think sort of in the past, a lot of times the mob was not really responsible for its own disasters.
	You know, how much can we really blame the mob for all of the massive events of the French Revolution?
	I mean, I've got an interesting take on that, which you should check out.
	I mean, donors or subscribers here for the most part, so if you haven't listened to the French Revolution stuff, you should.
	But... Now...
	The great relief is that, like, the horror of philosophers in the past was watching the mob dance off the cliff edge through the flute pipes of the sophists and being helpless.
	Like the times you yell in a dream that the danger's coming and nobody listens, right?
	So, in the past, philosophers, and there was always this, I should have done more, I should have done better, I should have done bigger, I should have, wow, right?
	Oh, gosh. And it's a kind of personal agony because you feel responsible for every Peasant shod foot that slips over the crumbling edge of the ravine into the abyss, right?
	I should have done more. Now, I personally, my conscience is clean on that matter.
	I did as much as I possibly could.
	As much as, I did the maximum, right?
	To do more and be destroyed would not be to do any more philosophy.
	So I'm doing the maximum. And given that now the truth, you don't need to learn ancient Aramaic.
	You don't need to dig up the lost library of Alexandria.
	You don't need to go and be a monk or join the inner circle of the saffron-robed monks in Buddha-land for 10 years.
	The truth is right there.
	That's the great thing about cell phones.
	People are actually carrying the truth with them at all times.
	Everyone can hear, everyone can look up, everyone can have doubts.
	And if you choose not to have doubts, like, the great thing is that the philosophers now can finally be relieved of the burden of the masses.
	Alright, so people aren't really chatting.
	So, I mean, maybe this is not an interesting topic to you, so I'm happy to hear what would be...
	Oh, somebody says, if dreams are telling me things that my conscious mind doesn't want to hear, why do I almost exclusively have good and pleasant things?
	I have maybe a single nightmare a year.
	Is my unconscious trying to tell me that everything is actually fine and dandy?
	I don't know. I don't know, because I don't know the circumstances of your life.
	But do you think that I dream about doing live streams?
	Do you think that I dream about doing philosophy?
	I don't, because I do that already.
	So there's a certain amount of wish fulfillment in dreams.
	And so if you're dreaming about all these wonderful things, maybe you don't have enough of them in your life, and your brain is trying to give you a reason to keep on living and flourishing by giving you an imaginary paradise that maybe you can't achieve in your waking life.
	So... Could be possible.
	I don't know because I don't know the circumstances of your life.
	If you want to talk about it, it's been a while since we did a good old dream analysis.
	But you can, of course, call in at freedomain.com.
	C-A-L-L-I-N, call in at freedomain.com.
	Dark Iron Knight, thank you very much for finishing the future.
	Finishing the future.
	I appreciate that. I was actually, I listened to a little bit of the audiobook a couple of nights ago and I'm like, Well, first of all, of course, I'm always like, oh, my reading should have been even more naturalistic and so on.
	But when I listen to people read audiobooks, I think about if they were on the phone and just telling me the story.
	And of course, it's never particularly realistic.
	So I'm always kind of like, should I be more naturalistic?
	Or is that going to sound too jarring?
	Like I just interrupted and I'm actually talking to you.
	I'll take the paradise dreams any day.
	Dreams will bug you until you change.
	Dreams will bug you until you change.
	And they can be aspirational too, of course, right?
	I had dreams of being the drummer for Queen many years ago on a big sloped amphitheater,
	pounding out the drumbeat to We Will Rock You.
	All right, questions, comments, issues?
	Let me just see. I had a couple of other things to mention.
	Let's see here. Where is my feed?
	There is my feed.
	And what do we got here? So did you know that in order to keep...
	This is from Dom Lucre on X. Did you know that in order to keep Genghis Khan's burial a secret, all 2,000 plus people who attended his funeral were executed?
	The executioners were then killed by members of his escort, who eventually took their own lives when they reached their destination.
	Nearly 800 years later, the burial site remains undiscovered to this day.
	Isn't that wild? So, you attend a funeral, and then you're executed.
	That kind of blows my mind.
	That kind of blows my mind.
	I mean, you gotta ask, like, how good were the canapes there?
	These shrimp are to die for!
	That band must have been incredible that you're willing to die.
	You're literally willing to die to be at the funeral.
	Like, how good...
	How pretty are the bridesmaids?
	That's what I want to know. I thought that was kind of neat.
	That guy had some great posts. Oh, what else here?
	Ah, yes. Don't be like Yahoo.
	A world of engineering.
	1998. Yahoo refuses to buy Google for a million dollars.
	2002. Yahoo realizes it's a mistake and tries to buy Google for $3 billion.
	Google says, give us $5 billion.
	Yahoo says no. 2008.
	Yahoo refuses to be sold to Microsoft for $40 billion.
	2016. Yahoo sold to Verizon for $4.6 billion.
	I'm not saying it's a female CEO. I'm just saying that these aren't the wisest business decisions.
	There's a great meme.
	It's a woman's shocked face when she's in the other room waiting for you to apologize and she hears the PlayStation beep.
	Dun-dun-dun!
	Dun-dun! Alright, let me get your opinion on this.
	Tell me, what is your thoughts?
	Sorry, question. According to your French Revolution podcast, the reasons for all the awful things that happened was due to a horrible childhood.
	No. No.
	In a podcast not long ago, you said that abandoning is the problem we have today with the young.
	Does this mean that even if politics goes really horrible, we should not expect a horror show that was in the past?
	So, the abandonment means that you can't stand against evildoers, so the future is most likely that people will just step aside when the evildoers come for the virtuous people.
	No, the reason for awful things that happened was due to a horrible childhood.
	No. No, no.
	Come on. I mean, with all due respect, I'm glad that you're here, but that's lazy.
	It's really lazy. I don't know even know how many times I've said that a horrible
	childhood does not dictate what happens in the future.
	Ah.
	Not all but most. No!
	Nobody gets an excuse because of horrible childhood.
	Nobody! Nobody gets an excuse because of horrible childhood.
	In fact, people are...
	You absolutely can very honorably and believably make the case that people are
	much more responsible for providing better childhoods and more virtue if
	they've been the victims of evil as children.
	Stop giving the domino theory credence, Matt!
	Love you to death, but please stop it.
	I know it's tempting.
	Well, bad things did not happen because of horrible childhoods.
	Horrible childhoods happened because people didn't fix them.
	People didn't take responsibility.
	People weren't honest with themselves.
	People didn't... The Catholics, right?
	France was largely Catholic.
	And Catholicism says, protect the children.
	Christianity says, protect the children.
	They weren't religious enough. They weren't honoring their beliefs enough.
	They weren't nice enough to their children.
	They didn't deal with their own trauma.
	They didn't follow the virtues, right?
	What does Christianity say?
	Virtue is really, really, really hard.
	Because the devil runs the world.
	And people do a lot of evil things that will make you cynical and bitter and angry.
	And you'll bring out that rage against those who are helpless.
	When you are helpless, they'll pray upon you and therefore when you get power, as all parents do, you'll be tempted to take out your rage on your children.
	Christianity says all of these things.
	They chose not to listen.
	They chose to do evil.
	Would it be fair to say that the French Revolution was caused by unprocessed childhood trauma?
	No! The French Revolution was not caused by anything because everybody has a choice.
	If you say the French Revolution was caused by, you've got dominoes.
	Resist the domino theory.
	The domino theory will get you...
	If you believe in...
	This is why I'm sort of passionate about this.
	If you believe and propagate the domino theory, you're sealing your own doom.
	Like you're sealing your own fate.
	Because the moment you say bad things were caused by childhood trauma or even bad things were caused by unprocessed childhood trauma, you're taking away moral free will from people.
	And everyone's desperate, including you and me.
	I get all of that. Everyone's desperate to have moral free will taken away.
	Because it's really agonizing to look at the world without giving people excuses.
	Do you know how fucking painful that is?
	You know how painful that is. This is why everybody avoids it.
	I understand it. I do it too.
	I'm tempted by it as well.
	To look at the world and say, you chose this!
	You are 100% responsible for your world.
	No excuses. No excuses.
	And again, I can see excuses in the past.
	The internet has irradiated excuses from the delusions of mankind.
	Well, I'm unhappy because my husband is mean to me.
	You chose him. How angry do people get when you give them responsibility?
	Right? How angry do people get when you give them responsibility?
	Manuel says, I had a shitty childhood.
	Now I'm doing my best to find a good partner to build a great family with.
	I'll do just about all the opposite than what my parents did to me.
	Right. So, Manuel, you absolutely know.
	That's why I said unprocessed childhood trauma because they didn't choose to process it.
	No! Unprocessed childhood trauma does not You didn't say choose.
	And if you don't say choose, everybody will interpret it as deterministic.
	And you know that. Come on. Since the default is to avoid responsibility, anytime you don't say choice, people assume no choice.
	So what you said was, and I get you said, The French Revolution was caused by unprocessed childhood trauma.
	No. The French Revolution, if we say was caused, would be caused by people refusing or avoiding processing their childhood trauma.
	Choosing to leave their childhood trauma unprocessed.
	Unprocessed childhood trauma is still a big, inert mass of causality.
	Insomnia, yes. Same man well.
	Every time I had a decision to make concerning my kids, I asked myself what my parents do, went ahead and did the opposite.
	I am not chatty because my name is my profile.
	It's very brave or stupid to express your truth in this public forum.
	I'm not sure which. Just change your profile name.
	It's fine. No, you constantly have to...
	You constantly have to remind people of their choices.
	And they'll hate you for it.
	Oh my God. Tell me if I'm wrong.
	I'm wrong. Have you ever gone to somebody who's faffed up their life and say, you chose this?
	Matt says, is the domino theory the reason why evil can continue?
	If people didn't blame their childhood for the evil they do, if they didn't have the option to say hurt people hurt people, the evil people would need to take responsibility for their actions.
	So the way that evil reproduces is it gives excuses.
	Reproduces excuses. It reproduces not trauma, it reproduces excuses.
	See this is the wild thing that people literally on my livestream when I'm a really great parent and have overcome my childhood and in fact turned the evils of my childhood into some great virtues People on my live stream will tell me that bad things happen because of a bad childhood.
	Like, you understand, you're goading me, right?
	You're literally saying the exact opposite of everything that made me good to my face.
	Sorry, you know, I don't think, and I don't think people are consciously being a troll.
	That's being goaded. So the devil within you is trying to goad me and the virtue within you wants me to fight the devil that's goading me.
	I mean, this is the mechanics, right?
	The mechanics of that are very clear and very simple.
	That you're telling me the most appalling things to the exact opposite of how every virtue in my life came about.
	You're telling me the exact opposite of those things because you want me to take a flamethrower to your inner devil.
	Actually, maybe not a flamethrower because I'm sure he'd enjoy that like a shower, right?
	No. No. You give people responsibility, they hate you.
	Which is how you know that responsibility is exactly what they need, right?
	People who've messed up their lives are going to hate anybody who tries to fix them.
	And there's a certain point beyond which people simply cannot take responsibility.
	I mean, you know this story that I remember once when I took my mom to the Pizza Hut at the old Dom Mills Mall, sitting across from her in a booth, and I said the following speech, I don't know, I was probably maybe 17.
	No, she would have been away by then.
	I was maybe 20. And I sat to her and I said, look, this medical stuff that you're dealing with is really, really tough.
	It's really tough. It produces a lot of stress.
	Now, you know, you say you can't do much about the medical stuff.
	I accept that. But, you know, there's a library like two minutes walk from here.
	Let's at least go and get some books on how to manage stress so that you can manage the stress of all of this stuff a little bit better.
	Literally, she got so angry, she ended up hurling the pitcher of water at me.
	I had to go home with pizza groin, wet pizza groin, right?
	Now, that's a more extreme example, but that's only because I was pretty consistent with my conviction, right?
	You give people responsibility.
	He left me. You show as a guy who left you.
	Right? I'm having trouble finding a man in my 30s.
	Well, you rejected men in your 20s.
	And your value is down now.
	My boyfriend doesn't pay for my child, right?
	Our child. My boyfriend doesn't pay for our child.
	You chose a guy who wasn't going to...
	Like, you give people responsibility for the most part.
	Some people, they...
	They grab it greedily as a survival mechanism.
	I don't know exactly the mechanics of the difference.
	But you understand that the one thing that can save the world is got to be what most
	people find most unbearable.
	If the world is sliding as it is, sliding into disaster, then it's because whatever
	people find the most unbearable is exactly what's needed.
	And of course, the devils in our hearts, in our minds, in our souls will make that which exercises them the most unbearable thing.
	Because it's the most unbearable thing for them, right?
	Everyone who's in power who tells you you can't talk about this is almost
	always talking about the one thing that would threaten their power.
	Yeah. Real men would take on my three children.
	So you know what a real quality man is, so then why did you end up with three children without a dad?
	Women in general can't cope with rejection.
	Well, they're not really wired to cope with rejection.
	Because, well, sorry, no, because the women all want the top-tier men, and they're all rejected by the top-tier men.
	Women have been programmed to avoid settling without the demand to improve, right?
	So, you see this all the time, some pudgy woman on social media with blue hair and weird granny glasses and misshapen tattoos that she got when she was more slender is always like, if you're under six foot, don't even bother, right?
	So, look, there's nothing wrong with wanting the top-tier quality people at all.
	I think that's great. So, you say, well, I want a really, really attractive partner.
	So, then you should work on becoming really, really attractive.
	Right? There's nothing wrong with wanting to make a lot of money, but then you've got to provide a lot of value.
	So, women are constantly being rejected because they sex subsidize themselves higher on the attractiveness scale and then they get ghosted or rejected or spurned or whatever, right?
	Or they're just used as a booty call or something like that, right?
	So, women are constantly getting rejected.
	I think that's one of the reasons why they get bitter.
	At this point, women can't cope with Accurate status.
	I think, and men as well to some degree, but we're just talking about women here.
	Women can't cope with accurate status.
	Where do you stand on the hierarchy of attractiveness?
	Well, you're a goddess, you're beautiful, you're glorious, you know.
	In Sex and the City, which had a lot to do with programming women in the 90s, Sex and the City, it's really sad.
	Like, the women are just, it's truly heartbreaking.
	It's truly heartbreaking.
	Yeah, they're getting rejected, but look, not doing well accepting it.
	No, they pursue it.
	Sorry, I'm sorry to be disagreeing with you, and I could be wrong, of course, but women are constantly dating men who won't commit to them.
	They're in pursuit of rejection.
	Because the women are rejecting reality, they end up being rejected by men.
	And women are constantly...
	I mean, when you look at a woman who's got a double-digit body count, she's now been rejected a whole bunch of times.
	And they pursue men that they know will reject them.
	If you reject reality...
	You will be rejected by everything within reality, right?
	Now, women are in pursuit of rejection.
	So, in Sex and the City, there's a sort of plot line.
	It's kind of cartoony, obviously, right?
	So, there's this guy, played by Chris Noth.
	He's literally called Mr.
	Big. I don't even think he has a first name.
	He's just called Mr. Big, and they refer to him as Big, right?
	Mr. Big is like a cartoon name for a powerful man, right?
	Mr. Big! Anyway, so, the woman, Carrie, she's neurotic, and All she has to offer is, I don't know, Sarah Jessica Parker.
	I mean, some interesting hair.
	Face is a bit too angular for my tastes, but I guess she's very skinny.
	So she has a great body and she's willing to have a lot of sex.
	So she gets a guy. She's in her 30s.
	She gets a guy. I think he's mentioned to be 42 or something.
	And he's very good looking. But he's also corrupt himself.
	He's had threesomes. He's had constant girlfriends.
	He won't commit. He's very opaque.
	And so she throws her body at him and he'll have a lot of sex with her.
	And then he ends up marrying another woman.
	So he's with her for two years and then he ends up marrying a 25-year-old model from Eastern Europe who's pleasant, submissive, compliant and pleasant and not sex-obsessed and high-strung and neurotic and kind of weird, right? And honestly, it's a genuinely heartbreaking scene.
	Like to me, when I watched it, like it's like, oh God, that's just about the most awful thing that for a woman, because this is a brutal hierarchical flashbulb, right?
	Where are you in the hierarchy?
	Where are you in the hierarchy?
	If you can't figure that out, for men, like you understand for men, if you can't figure out If you can't figure out where you are in the hierarchy as a man, you can get killed.
	right?
	if you attempt to go too higher if you attempt to go too high in the hierarchy you can get
	killed Sarah Jessica Parker looks too much like Dee Snider from Twisted
	Sister It's actually quite accurate. Quite accurate.
	Wasn't he a guy who was like, get vaxxed or get gone?
	Anyway, seems to be a common pattern.
	So she is like, I can get Mr.
	Bick. I can be loose.
	I can be...
	She dresses totally slutty, like belly and boobs out all the time, right?
	So I can be slutty, and she writes a column all about sex, and she doesn't really make that much money, and she's not particularly successful, and she sleeps in till noon, and she can't cook, and she's got no homemaking skills.
	She'd be a... I don't even know what to say what kind of mother she would be, but it would be pretty bad.
	So, it's got to be just about the worst thing for a woman that you have this on-again, off-again relationship with this guy who's really high status.
	You know, he's tall, great-looking, and all kinds of wonderful stuff going on.
	He's wealthy, confident, charming, charismatic.
	Like, he's the whole thing, right?
	And she keeps throwing sex at him, and she can get him for a small amount of time by throwing a lot of sex at him.
	And so she has this on-again, off-again relationship with him for, like, years.
	And then he meets another woman and marries another woman within a couple of months.
	Now, that's brutal.
	That's brutal. Bit of a tangent, says James.
	Seeing sex positive on a dating profile is a turn-off.
	Well, sex positive means STD positive.
	Two of the letters are wrong.
	So that's horrible. So then what should happen, of course, is that Carrie, the woman in Sex and the City, what she should do is she should say, what's wrong with me that he didn't choose me?
	Like, what's wrong with me that he didn't choose me?
	So he's ready to settle down, and he wants a woman, and the woman he marries is, she dresses modestly, she's pretty, she's thoughtful, she's attentive, she's kind, she's stable, she's not neurotic, right?
	So what should happen, of course, is the character should, and we all have these things where you're like, where am I in the hierarchy?
	I heard it a couple of years ago with de-platforming.
	Where am I in the hierarchy? Well, pretty low, right?
	So You've got to look at that as a person, as a sane human being.
	You've got to say, well, I couldn't lock this guy down for two years.
	This other woman got him to marry her in a couple of months.
	Right? Oh, does she have a nose ring?
	Does she have a nose ring? Yeah, something like that, right?
	So that's rough, man.
	That's really horrible. And that's a gut punch, right?
	You have these things in life and you just get this gut punch.
	This is where I am in the hierarchy.
	So you can't force the hierarchy, right?
	And the new fiancé is perfectly sweet to the ex-girlfriend and very nice and invites her places and very positive and not neurotic, right?
	So it's very well-written from that standpoint, although I don't think with an ounce of insight.
	So what should happen, of course, is that Carrie should have like a long dark tea time with the soul and should spend a week just going like, okay, like I wanted this guy.
	Clearly he can commit, just not to me.
	And of course, I mean, I've done this, right?
	I mean, I dated women sometimes for quite a while.
	And, you know, when I met my wife, we got engaged within a couple of months and married in 11 months.
	And that's got to hurt the ex-girlfriends, right?
	I get that. I understand that.
	It's like if someone's miserable with you and then they go and date someone else and they're really happy.
	It's like, ooh, ooh, not good.
	Candy Crush voice, ooh, right?
	Bad. Now, of course, what happens?
	She should fall to the proper hierarchy, right?
	Which is, what do I have to offer except my body?
	And she's in her 30s, so her body's fading, right?
	Especially because she's thin, right?
	So in your 30s, women have a choice, right?
	Good face or good figure. If they have a good figure, they're skinny, which means their face looks old.
	And if they have a good face, it means they're slightly overweight and therefore they're figurative, right?
	In 20s, good face, good figure, no problem.
	In 30s, it's good face or good figure.
	That's it, right? Take a woman in her mid-30s who's really skinny out into the sunlight, make her laugh, Like, I look okay on this camera, right?
	But when I'm out doing my outdoor walkie chats and I laugh, right?
	Crater face, right? Like, just natural, right?
	And my skin's fairly good for my age, but, you know, out in the sun, right?
	This is what they talk about.
	Mitch talks about this with Blanche Dubois in Streetcar Named Desire.
	Like, I never see you in daytime. It's always evening.
	It's always got these stupid lights with these Chinese lights with these wraps around them, right?
	Angela and Dave from TGOA. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Yeah. From that over-tanned raisin you call a heart!
	He has the best insults.
	I get that from my brother.
	He's fantastic at insulting people.
	Mr. Big does choose her in the end.
	I think you're right philosophically, but in the fiction, he ends up paying her debt and buying them this lavish New York City apartment.
	Did you just spoil her the whole series?
	I never watched it till the end. The moral of the story was that he truly loved her despite her failings.
	No. That's why it's the fiction.
	In the fiction, he ends up paying her debts and buying them this lavish New York City apartment.
	So, the guy who wants to settle down...
	I've heard guys say, is she a day walker?
	Oh, Dave Walker is that a zombie who can't be out in sunlight?
	Um... So, no, that is a complete fiction, right?
	Because if he didn't want her when she was in her early to mid-30s and the show ran, what, six seasons?
	Then she's 40, right?
	And so, are you saying that she's 40, she's more used up, she's more traumatized, she's more neurotic, she's infertile, probably, and that's when he decides to commit to her?
	Like, come on. So, anyway, the Carrie, she's getting a wake-up call, and the wake-up call is this.
	He wouldn't marry me, but he's marrying this other woman.
	That's the wake-up call. Right?
	Now, what is the reaction of her friends?
	Right? Her friends all keep her away from the wake-up call.
	Right? Carrie's friends.
	And this is... Okay, it's a show.
	I get that. But it's a very popular show.
	And I don't think people see it for what it is, personally.
	But... Carrie's friends are all like, oh, what has she got?
	You know, you're smarter, you're funnier, you're sexier, you've got more going on, you actually have a job, you know, you're the coolest.
	Like, they just pump up her ego, right?
	So her ego gets a reality check about her status, right?
	Because she's... This is the life of perpetual immaturity, right?
	So Carrie gets a reality check as to her status, and her friends are desperate to try and raise her status back up to that which failed.
	So you were overconfident.
	You thought you could get this guy. He chose someone else.
	So then her self-esteem goes down rationally as it should.
	And then her friends, quote friends, they're all codependent enablers, suicidal egg destroyers.
	But her friends then try to pump her ego back up to the place where she fails.
	Which is, you know, if you're not that great a singer and you keep losing singing competitions and your friends all say, no, you're a great singer, they're perpetuating your failure.
	Yeah, she spends all her dollars on clothing.
	No, she's investing in slut wear in the hopes of getting a millionaire.
	It's an investment. She's going all in on her looks, as my mother did, and I mean, it's a complete disaster.
	You hit 40 and it's game over.
	I mean, statistically, some of the most miserable women in the world are 42-year-old single women who are professionals.
	So, yeah, it's rough.
	It's rough. Yeah, so they're all trying to trap her in this world of failure because if any of them genuinely succeed, it will cause rage from the others, right?
	I wanted to date a girl who told me she's not ready to date because she's still processing her last breakup.
	A few days later, I found out she was chasing another guy.
	Yeah. Well...
	Alcoholics make alcoholics.
	Sluts make sluts. Did somebody order Domino's again?
	Oh, that's funny. That's got to become a catchphrase.
	That's brilliant. Love that. All right.
	Any last tips for the glorious, hardworking Sunday philosopher?
	I got a Sunday kind of wisdom love.
	Any last tips for what I'm doing? I am going to get back into reading the
	Peaceful Parenting book. I will get back into that. I promise it will be soon.
	It will be soon. But I'll just wait. You can tip on the app.
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	would really, really appreciate that. It was a wee smidge dry last month.
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	I blame myself.
	Alright. I blame myself.
	I take responsibility. Pour moi.
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	That was really, really kind.
	Thank you again. Matt, that is.
	I'm not ready as code for you're not good enough to be ready for.
	No, I'm not ready as I think I can do better.
	And there's nothing wrong with I think I can do better.
	Sure. But you've got to earn doing better.
	Right? You've got to earn doing better.
	I mean, when I was younger, I sort of bought into the lie that women want resources, and I thought I would get more attractive women when I made more money.
	But that really wasn't the case.
	I mean, when I met my wife, I wasn't working at all except on books.
	It's kind of funny, right? It's kind of funny.
	A lot of these theories don't really play out that well.
	I think that they work evolutionarily speaking, but they don't work with the artificial state situation, right?
	People trying to analyze men and women these days.
	It's like a biologist trying to analyze the natural habits of animals who are in a zoo, right?
	I recall meeting this 40-year-old Barbie who owned two condos in Vancouver and had a great career, but she couldn't pick a partner.
	She wanted kids, but was so picky she just couldn't settle for one.
	She had frozen her eggs some years before, but they were about to expire.
	It was sad to see. If they don't want resources, what did they want?
	Well, they wanted pretty boys.
	I was a pretty boy when I was younger, but I wasn't a pretty boy after about the age of 25.
	So they wanted pretty boys, yeah, for sure.
	For sure. But they don't need resources.
	Because they can get their resources from the state or from men or divorce or whatever it is, right?
	So they don't need resources. They don't need to provide quality to get resources.
	They just need to provide votes or sex or lawyers.
	Henry Cavill. He's a guy who's having trouble settling down, right?
	And he's wealthy and, I mean, fantastically handsome.
	I mean, he's no original Superman, but I make like seven times the average man, but I feel like it's not the best to display.
	Well, most people who have money don't display it.
	I don't understand the point of men going above their level in hierarchy can end up dead.
	Can you elaborate? Well, sure.
	If you, I mean, you look at apes, right?
	If a young ape challenges a stronger older ape, the older ape can beat the crap out of him and possibly kill him.
	And if you go too much up in the hierarchy, you start to compete with the aristocrats,
	the aristocrats can just get you killed, right?
	Yeah, display is tough, right?
	Display is tough. It's hard to, you know, for women, if you have a great figure, you don't want to put it on full display, right?
	But at the same time, you don't want to wear, you know, full tent, right?
	So it's tough. It's tough to figure it out, man.
	Men are just an accessory or source of fun for careerist women.
	Well, so, I mean, it's one of the fundamental things which I remember learning in my 20s, like, okay, They're just not like me.
	Women are just not like me. So one of the things that happens, of course, is that women who want a smart, successful, ambitious, aggressive guy think that men want the same.
	It's like, nope. And men who want a sort of sensitive, emotional, bonded, accessible woman think that women want the same.
	It's like, nope. No.
	Thanks, David. I really appreciate that.
	So, no, thinking that what you want in a woman is what a woman wants in you is not non-valid.
	I mean, it's literally like saying, women want a penis, therefore I want a penis, right?
	I mean, it's not the way it works.
	I mean, maybe if that's not what works for you, but no, it's not.
	Women want things kind of different, right?
	Ah, so many modern men require that a woman have a career to pay half the bills while their kids are in daycare and school systems.
	It's very common here in Vancouver.
	Yeah. Canceling is how they kill you first nowadays.
	Yes. Yes.
	Yes. Um...
	Back in 2017, I was at a Christmas party for a big crypto exchange in San Francisco.
	I'll never forget a woman, probably in her 40s, trying to signal money, sex, and success to me, and dripping with a deep, deep desperation.
	Oh, it's horrible. Everybody's met those older, weathered women who are just desperate.
	And it's appalling, because they're doing all the wrong things.
	And really, there's no right things to do anymore.
	For a woman, once you get into your 40s, assuming that the man wants kids or a homemaker or something like that, and most successful men do, right?
	Because a woman wants a successful man who already has money.
	Why would he want the woman to have money?
	So, yeah, they're doing all the wrong stuff and it's just terrible.
	Just terrible. Because there's no right stuff left to do.
	Because a man who wants a family is just not going to choose a woman in her 40s.
	He's not going to choose a woman in her mid to late 30s, usually.
	My hierarchy has slipped at 57.
	As we speak, working to gain a point back.
	I got 7,000 steps while listening last Wednesday.
	Well, Paula, I think you look great, but my hierarchy has slipped at 57 too.
	I don't get the looks that I used to get.
	Of course, right? I mean, it's natural.
	Women have a radar for these things, and I'm now at the point where I might not survive the birth of a child to maturity, right?
	Right? Because I would be 75 if I had a child now to get to 18, right?
	I might not, right? A 40-year-old woman approached me at the gym.
	She had it all out with one of those waist squeezes that crushed the ribs.
	Oh yeah, no, it's like, I remember a Tom Likas show from many years ago where the woman was like, she's like, I don't know, she was 50, and she's like, I want to date a guy, and like, I have my own house, it's paid off, and he's like, why would a man care about that?
	Have you ever discussed Bezos and Laura?
	Oh, Jeff Bezos? Well, of course, most of the rich, almost all the rich women got there through inheritance or divorce.
	Very few of them earned it.
	If any, I think.
	Any of them earned it? Probably not.
	Yeah, it's just, it's really, it's really sad to, for somebody to be flogging goods after their best buy date.
	It's really tough. I had a harsh phrase from a fairly bad character in The God of Atheists talking about older women playing hard to get, and it's like, the phrase was, the intense guarding of food long rotted.
	Tom Likas was pro-vaxxed.
	Really? Well, I mean, wasn't he a very...
	Wasn't he north of 300 pounds?
	So maybe it was more important for him.
	I don't know. Let's see here.
	She was tall and blonde and attractive, but good luck with kids.
	And at that age, how much self-knowledge is she going to be willing to gain?
	Yeah. I feel like what's sad is seeing a woman who has it all, who just never chose a guy to settle down with.
	It's perplexing. No, it's not.
	It's not perplexing. She just aimed too high.
	She just aimed too high. Tom Likas would be liberal because wasn't he really partial to Hispanic women or something like that?
	So he would want liberal policies so that he could continue to have sex with a lot of women so that they wouldn't settle down.
	Right before menopause, some women get sexually aggressive last gasped with their eggs.
	It's also wild to me that older women just won't compromise.
	Right? I mean, men, we have to learn how to compromise in terms of like, well, I really want to get this job, but I can't get this job, so I'll take this job.
	And if I can't get, like, I was, you know, even when I had a bachelor's degree, I was like weeding gardens and washing cars because it was a big recession.
	I couldn't get a decent job.
	So you just take what you can get.
	Also, Tom Liker is not a philosopher.
	He's an interesting guy and had some smart stuff to say, but not a philosopher.
	So, what's surprising to me is a man, he's like, I'm willing to starve to death rather than do a job that's beneath me.
	Right? That's how it is with a lot of women, right?
	He lost a lot of weight but he still looks terrible?
	Well, I mean, he probably was overweight for so long that...
	So...
	Yeah, man, we just, like, we settle.
	We have to settle. We have to settle.
	Man's got to eat, right? Like, you don't have a lot of pride if your kids are hungry and you need a job, right?
	So, I've just taken all kinds of jobs, odd jobs.
	You know, I remember spending a long weekend moving furniture into, setting up partitions and moving furniture into an office building and, you know, shredded my hands to hell.
	Couldn't make a fist for like a week.
	And, yeah, you just do what you need to do.
	Right? So for a woman who's like, I don't know, she's 38 and she's desperate to settle down, it's like, so you should be as nice and positive as possible, but they're still like brittle and standards and it's like, okay, you know, I can't even, right?
	All right. It's sad to see these men and women who never create a family and spend their old age and memories in hopes of what could have been.
	There's no hopes of what could have been.
	Were you a computer programmer already when you got the odd job during the recession?
	I knew how to program computers, but I had no experience in the workforce doing that.
	No. Uh...
	Yeah. Now, you have to be realistic about what you can get.
	And telling women not to settle is a fundamental depopulation agenda.
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