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July 19, 2024 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux

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	Yes, good evening!
	17th July 2024.
	Wednesday Night Live.
	Wednesday Night Live.
	And I'm here to talk to y'all.
	And thank you everyone who sent me positive responses to my WeChat on the assassination attempt on Trump.
	Maybe we should do that.
	Hit me with a why if, you know, we could do... I could answer questions about politics on a donor livestream.
	But just be donors, we could do it after the first hour of the Sunday morning livestream, if you would have any interest.
	I don't know if you guys are interested in politics or doing politics or not.
	And if you are interested in politics, I would be happy to answer questions on politics, just for donors.
	And we could do that.
	Yeah?
	All right, that's something we can think about.
	All right.
	So let's get your questions, my friends!
	Thank you for your support of the show.
	FreedomAid.com slash donate.
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	All right.
	I figured out a concise question to ask pertaining to my situation with general philosophical value.
	If somebody is producing and responsible for $4,000 worth of product daily, is 3.75% $150 a reasonable and equitable amount to be compensated for?
	There's obviously other bills and expenses that need to be covered by the $4,000.
	But I just want to make sure I'm being reasonable plus any other insights you would have.
	Right.
	Right.
	Well, if you can make $4,000 worth of product daily, why don't you work for yourself?
	I know that sounds like a genuine question, right?
	Why wouldn't you just work for yourself?
	I mean, then you get the full $4,000 gross and then you just deduct your expenses from that.
	So, if you know how to produce $4,000 worth of product, like if let's say you're making jewelry for someone and you make $4,000 worth of jewelry for them and they only pay you $150, why don't you just go make your own jewelry?
	I mean, it's a serious question.
	Why wouldn't you just go make it yourself?
	Go do it yourself!
	I mean if I was working for someone and I said, gee, you know, I'm doing all this great philosophical world-changing
	content, I'm not getting paid enough, it's like, well, why don't you
	go solo and just do your own show?
	This is the problem.
	If you're not willing to quit, you can't really negotiate.
	If you're not willing to quit, You can't really negotiate.
	The only way that you can negotiate is to have options.
	I don't mean stock options although those don't hurt.
	The only way you can ever negotiate in anything in this world is to have options.
	Get a side hustle.
	Get other job offers.
	Get an objective evaluation of what your compensation should be.
	Get performance reviews.
	Go in with confidence and if you don't have Any options, all if you're negotiating, is bluffing.
	So before, people think like negotiation is just sort of sitting down and willing your way and manipulating and being, it's like no, it's just about having options.
	It's just about having options.
	If you're a 39-year-old woman and you want to have kids and only one guy is interested in you, let's not pretend you have anything to negotiate with.
	You could negotiate with not having kids, but if you really, really want kids, you're going to have to find a way to please that guy who's willing to take on your four years plus geriatric pregnancy eggs so that you can have a kid.
	Knowing when you have leverage.
	It's absolutely essential to success in life.
	If you don't know when you have leverage, you have no skill or ability to negotiate in any way, shape or form.
	It's so important in life.
	When do you have leverage?
	I foolishly thought I had a bit of leverage on the social media platforms because I thought they might follow their own rules before kicking people off.
	You know, you live, you learn, right?
	I thought, well, I'm not getting any warnings.
	I'm not getting any issues with my content.
	Nobody's saying, ooh, this might not be great.
	It's just like... Judge, jury and executioner.
	Somebody with a button in our soul central.
	So, you think that there is a reasonable amount to be compensated for.
	There is no such thing.
	You are worth what you are willing to accept and what someone else is willing to pay for you.
	That's all you're worth.
	Right?
	There's no, well if it's this percentage and that percentage, it doesn't matter.
	You're worth nothing more or less than what you are willing to accept and what someone else is willing to pay for you.
	There's no fantasy world in which what I do is Ten billion dollars a year and everything less than that is unreasonable.
	It's like, am I adding a huge amount of value to the world?
	Why, yes I am.
	I know that I am.
	I know that I am.
	Millions of children over the course of this show have stopped being hit, yelled at, tortured, manipulated, neglected, and confined.
	Millions, millions of children.
	What is the net effect of that in terms of society over the long run?
	Reduction in crime, reduction in dysfunction, reduction in addiction, reduction in teenage pregnancies, reduction in interpersonal violence.
	It's inestimable.
	That's just one, one aspect of what I do.
	What am I worth?
	I'm worth what I ask for and what you are willing to donate.
	That's all I'm worth.
	I'm worth what I ask for.
	I generally say like 50 cents a show.
	You know, you listen to 100 shows.
	100 shows, that's usually 200 hours of great content.
	You know, tip me 50 bucks.
	You know, 50 bucks is a night of the movies, right?
	Popcorn, drinks, gas, maybe parking, the price of the... You go into the movies, it's 50 bucks.
	That's two hours and apparently three hours of previews now.
	So two hours of manipulative bullshit, non-entertain... Well, it's entertaining junk food for the brain, right?
	So I say, you pay 50 bucks for two hours of programming, How about you pay fifty bucks for two hundred hours, not two hours, two hundred hours of intense high-quality philosophical content that truly changes the world?
	That's what I ask for.
	I think that's a reasonable ask.
	Lord knows the price hasn't gone up since I started the show.
	Fifty cents a show.
	I think that's reasonable.
	But it doesn't matter what I think is reasonable.
	It matters what you're willing to pay.
	And that's it.
	That's it.
	Happy birthday, by the way.
	Happy birthday.
	I had two people email me saying it was their birthday, so happy birthday to you!
	Yeah, happy birthday, man.
	Happy birthday!
	Well, happy birthday.
	I hope you're having a wonderful day.
	All right.
	See?
	All my money is in cash at the moment.
	Would you guys accept Google Play Store cards?
	Yes, let me give my money to Google.
	Alright.
	Let's see here...
	Let's get your further questions.
	So it's great when it comes to negotiation.
	Just ask, man!
	Just ask!
	Well, what's your justification for what you're asking?
	Well, it will make me happy.
	It will make me happy.
	So when you go to your boss, you want a raise?
	Say, pay me 10% more.
	Well, that's too much.
	Well, that will make me happy.
	I understand you want to be happy.
	How about we find a number where we're both happy?
	Neither one of us is going to be fully happy because that would be at the expense of the other and nobody with any empathy wants to be fully happy at the expense of someone else.
	Let's find something.
	So, well, objectively, no, no, no, value is subjective.
	I think I'm worth this.
	Maybe you can make a bit of a case here and there, but whatever, right?
	Steph, an older woman, got fired from Home Depot for posting she was bummed that the bullet mistrumped.
	Some people are saying she shouldn't be fired, and she could have been going through hard times mentally, so they feel bad for her, while others are saying they don't feel bad.
	What are your thoughts?
	Ah, the great cuckolding.
	Well, it's true that for the last ten years, leftists have been a feral lava tide going through everybody's social media, trying to get everyone deplatformed, fired, and charged.
	But you see, we don't want to descend to their level now, do we?
	We don't want to do the same thing to them, do we?
	It's so funny to me.
	Listen, if you're nervous to apply the same pressure back that's been put upon you and your friends, if you're nervous about it and you want to chicken out of it and it's not for you, then just say that.
	It scares me.
	I don't want to do it.
	I'm nervous.
	For God's sake, don't take the fucking high ground, whatever you do.
	That's embarrassing.
	You're scared.
	You're nervous.
	You don't want to fight fire with fire.
	You don't want to get into the mud.
	You don't want to brawl.
	I get that.
	But let's not pretend that there's any moral high ground here.
	That's embarrassing.
	It's embarrassing.
	Well, it is true that a guy broke into my house and was taking potshots at my dog, but I wouldn't want to use any force because, you see, that would just be lowering myself to his level.
	Shut up.
	Shut up.
	It's embarrassing.
	Because people are all like, well, you know, you shouldn't, um... You shouldn't advocate for censorship because it could blow back upon you!
	and then when there's a chance to have it blow back upon people,
	well no we don't want to do that!
	Oh gosh let me get this quote.
	Oh, it's just embarrassing.
	It's just embarrassing.
	Just say you don't want to fight.
	You don't want to... I get that.
	I mean, I'm... I understand that.
	I understand that.
	I understand that.
	But then just say, I'm not... I don't want to fight.
	It makes me nervous.
	I'm afraid of blowback.
	Blah, blah, blah.
	right?
	From A Man with All Seasons, William Roper says, So now you give the devil the benefit of law?
	said Thomas More.
	Yes!
	What would you do?
	Cut a great road through the law to get after the devil?
	William Roper.
	Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that.
	Oh?
	When the last law was down, when the devil turned round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?
	This country is planted thick with laws from coast to coast—man's laws, not God's.
	And if you cut them down—and you're just the man to do it—do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?
	Yes, I'd give the devil benefit of the law for my own safety's sake!
	You are withholding a lesson from those who lack empathy that could allow them to develop some empathy.
	It's embarrassing to watch the great cuckolding occur among these brave, noble heroes.
	you you
	It's a shame that we went to deplatforming, but if only one slide goes for deplatforming, you lose in your cucked sense of smug self-superiority.
	So, no.
	I don't understand.
	I understand that it's just cowardice masking itself as moral superiority, but it's embarrassing.
	Tips on citing writing.
	Well, it's easy.
	You just sit down and stare at a blank screen until your forehead begins to sweat beads of blood.
	You just sit down and start writing.
	Get out of your own way.
	Don't self-censor.
	Just write as if you're a genius and see how far you can get.
	But you just make it happen.
	Have you considered doing a truth about Europe?
	Things aren't looking great here.
	Yeah, I mean, Europe is toast, right?
	And Europe is toast Because Europeans want free things, and deny reality, and deny empathy, and deny morality.
	You can't win if you deny reality, empathy, and morality, and Europeans want stuff for free.
	See, now, if Europeans... Let's just go on a little mind journey here, just for a minute or two.
	So, if Europeans loved their children, as you're kind of supposed to, and everyone claims to do, if Europeans loved their children, what would they do?
	What would they do?
	They'd say, holy crap, they would have said this in the 60s and 70s.
	They'd say, oof, you know what, we can't afford this welfare estate and we certainly don't want to burden our children.
	We don't want to burden our children with being born into a million pounds or dollars or euros of debt just for the privilege of drawing breath under the giant gut shadow of the Obscenely greedy boomers.
	We say, man, we love our kids, man.
	This welfare state, it's producing fatherless children, which is bad for children.
	It is causing women to turn feral against men because they don't need men for resources.
	And it's burying our children in absolutely unsustainable debt.
	So, with great regret, we're going to have to dismantle the welfare state because we love our children.
	Unfortunately, very unfortunately for a tens of thousands year old civilization, people were too fucking greedy and lacked love for their children and therefore they kept voting for more and more free fucking stuff.
	They literally sold off the hands and muscles and minds of their children for emotional self-gratification and virtue signaling in the here and now.
	Oh, you want to get rid of the welfare state?
	You must hate the poor.
	That's terrible.
	People are starving in the streets.
	Oh, oh, oh, oh.
	Okay.
	What does the devil do?
	What does the devil do?
	Hey, here's some free shit.
	You don't have to earn it.
	You want some talents?
	Snap my finger so you don't have to work to get them.
	You want to be beautiful?
	Don't have to work out.
	Make you beautiful.
	Oh, you want to be good?
	Yeah, just here's the pretense and appearance of virtue.
	You'll be fine!
	You'll be fine.
	And then, you have your fun.
	And then, you lose your soul.
	And Europe is in the late stages of that.
	They wanted a whole bunch of free stuff.
	They wanted to feel good about themselves rather than do good in the world they rejected.
	Morality, reality, history, virtue, truth, evidence, data, reason, charts.
	It's not sustainable!
	We don't care!
	We don't care!
	It can't last!
	We don't care!
	Your children will be born into debt!
	We don't care!
	We just want to look good and sound good and feel good!
	It's the greatest addiction.
	The greatest addiction is to the unearned.
	All evil is the taking of the unearned.
	If Europe had loved their children they would have said ooh I'm afraid we've got this big giant lever called government education and this big giant lever gives people way too much power over the minds of the next generation and people are going to misuse that power.
	Why?
	Because power corrupts and the power over the education of the next generation is the greatest power of all and therefore with great regret and sorrow we're going to have to say we need to really fragment this and have diversity!
	Funny, all the people who want diversity never want diversity in the realm of government education, right?
	That's got to be uniform, centralized, bureaucratic, curricular.
	No diversity!
	Everybody, get in line!
	Jackboot your way across the type-imprinted, shallowed-out, hollowed-out, bombed-out-with-propaganda
	former minds of the children.
	Thank you.
	We don't want to be good.
	Being good is tough.
	You've got to be strong, you've got to be tough, you've got to be sensible, and you're going to have to waste some resources.
	No!
	We just want to feel good, and if that comes at the expense of our children having little future... Well, the important thing is how they feel, not the good they do.
	If you reject morality and truth and love and virtue and empathy and facts and reason and data.
	How can you last?
	You can't last as an individual, you can't last as a society.
	I mean if you want to know what the current times are, the current times are an inoculation in every nation in the West.
	It's an inoculation.
	It's the fall of Rome but in 4k 60 frames a second, vivid, videoed, documented, factual reality.
	So in the future, people will say, hey, let's try X, and be like, no, no, we have about a zillion hours of footage about how X turns out, and we know that that slippery slope is a very real thing, so we know, we know, we know, so... Not so much, you know, we gave that a shot.
	You know, it could be if somebody comes along and says, Hey, let's try slavery again, Millie.
	No, no, no, that's evil and terrible.
	And we know where that leads.
	And that's really, really bad.
	So we are just going through a big inoculation.
	People are just generally so dumb that they never learn by principles.
	They only learn by bitter experience.
	And now the fact that we have to learn some very hard lessons by very bitter experience will be documented now until the end of time, which will inoculate future societies from doing all of the stupid, selfish shit that we're doing.
	The wages of sin is what?
	The wages of sin is what?
	Good to see you this Wednesday.
	Thank you.
	Thank you for dropping by.
	See, you pay your boss to do the things that you don't want to do.
	It's fine.
	I don't want to learn how to be a dentist and operate on myself with a mirror, so I
	pay my dentist to do that.
	Like going on vacation.
	Have you ever taken your family?
	Oh yeah, we've gone to the beach.
	I love snorkeling, I love swimming, and I love body surfing.
	So if there are good waves, cool fish, I actually swam with a turtle once as well.
	I think it's great fun.
	And of course, when your kids are little, you know, just building those endless trenches is a blast, right?
	All right.
	Steph, I got a $17,000 raise per year by changing jobs this week.
	I felt underpaid and I was correct.
	Excellent.
	Excellent.
	So once you decide you're underpaid, you have some options, right?
	It's awkward when a bad employee doesn't understand that you have options.
	Oh, it's the boss!
	Oh yeah, for sure.
	for sure people really don't understand the unfathomable amount of
	value you add to Yes, for sure.
	Let's get some donations going!
	Yes, please.
	Yes, please.
	Why do men get so hung up when women reject them?
	Is it something deeper?
	Women are stuck in mid to late teens for the most part in the West for very simple reasons.
	So for women as a whole is it more fun to be wooed and dated and taken out places and wined and dined and flowers and chocolates and all of that kind of stuff or is it more fun to have say five babies under five Is it more fun?
	I'm not talking deep or meaningful.
	Is it more fun in the short run to be wooed and dating or to settle down and have kids?
	It's more fun, of course, to be wooed and dating.
	So, women are stuck in the wooed and dating phase because that's more fun than settling down.
	Now, what is it that has women settle down?
	Well, the good men get taken.
	The high-quality men get taken.
	And you get the leftovers, the chunky, the oddballs, the weirdos, the addicted, the violent, the desperate, the needy, the clingy, the dysfunctional in every way, shape, and form, the oddly shaped, the oddly featured, the crooked-toothed, the too-big-a-nose, too-small-a-nose, too-wide-an-ears.
	I get FM, right?
	So, you have to pick, because The quality pickings get slimmer and slimmer so women have to commit.
	In the past they had to commit because the quality men were going.
	But now, women want to date, be wooed, dangle sex for free dinners, a lot of times, and they don't have to worry, at least they don't think they have to worry, about all the good men being gone.
	Because there's a great guy called Uncle Sam.
	He's going to be your sugar daddy.
	He's going to be your sugar daddy, honey.
	Uncle Sam, deep pockets, infinite money printing, professional counterfeiter, right?
	He's just going to borrow and print and buy your votes by keeping you single.
	He's going to give you a wallpaper.
	He's going to give you a walled, fiery moat of fiat currency to keep all the quality men at bay.
	And if you get an STD, he's going to give you free penicillin.
	And if you get a baby without a marriage, you're going to get free welfare and health care and education and dental care.
	All going to be free.
	All going to be free.
	Just keep fucking around and fucking things up and it's all going to be free.
	And it's going to be paid for by the people who are more responsible.
	The men and women who are more responsible.
	So, Men get hung up when women reject them because men want girlfriends.
	Right?
	Men want girlfriends.
	And men have had their negotiating power.
	Their negotiating power with women has been castrated and disemboweled
	because the government goes to men, by force, takes money from men, and gives money to women.
	And so women don't have to woo men.
	They don't have to say to men, oh, okay, so I'm a woman, you're a man.
	What is it that you want?
	What would make you the happiest?
	What would make you want to commit to me?
	Because I'm for sale in the marketplace, just as men's resources are for sale, women's fertility is for sale.
	It's a monetary transaction because children take resources to raise, blah, blah, blah, right?
	So the women don't have to go to men and say, what do you want?
	What's your preference?
	What would you like?
	What's good?
	No, instead, like, do women want, do men want women with with master's degree in communications and social work to raise their kids?
	Nope.
	They don't care.
	We don't care.
	We don't care.
	We don't want that.
	Yet what do you keep providing?
	An endless conveyor belt of, I got it!
	Master's degree!
	We don't want, we don't care.
	We don't care.
	We want you to raise our kids.
	We want you to be a bright, smart, intelligent, witty, wise woman and companion and to raise our kids.
	We don't want that.
	Don't be fat.
	Don't be fat.
	Right?
	As Kevin Samuel says, we're men of visual creatures, right?
	Don't be fat.
	And what do keep, what do women keep giving?
	Well, more and more and more of you.
	Don't be fat.
	Don't sleep around.
	Women keep, a lot of women keep sleeping around.
	Like men.
	Nope.
	Easy to poison women's minds with the patriarchy, right?
	Because easy, if you don't need men because the government's forcing them to provide resources to you, it's easy to dislike men.
	Because men are kind of the modern day galley serfs of the gynocracy, right?
	So women vote for more and more free stuff which has to be extracted out of the hard working hands of men.
	And you say, oh well women have jobs.
	It's like, Yeah, really?
	I mean, really?
	Jobs protecting Trump, right?
	No, I mean, do they?
	I mean, the majority of women work for the government, don't they?
	Not only do they often not have real jobs, they're actually in the way of men getting real jobs or having real jobs because they have bureaucracy and paper and layers, right?
	So it is something deeper.
	It is something deeper.
	It's a lack of compassion, right?
	If women loved their men, if women loved their men, if women loved men, then this weird psychotic curse called the patriarchy would never have taken root.
	See, the patriarchy is inflicted upon women so that they get mad at men for their own choices, remain helpless, dependent, unpleasant, single, therefore they'll vote for the left.
	A bigger and bigger government.
	And it is a lack of love.
	It's a lack of love.
	If women loved their brothers, husbands, uncles, fathers, they would never accept the patriarchy because the patriarchy is horrifying sexism.
	I mean, throughout almost all of human evolution, or all of human evolution, men and women were just trying to survive against insurmountable odds.
	Because we rolled the biggest crap dice in the universe, right?
	We rolled the biggest set of dice in the universe and the odds of, the odds of victory, of winning, were incredibly slim.
	So what we did, we tried this thing.
	And we said, okay, what if, okay, just, let's try this.
	We'll shrink our muscles.
	We'll remove our claws.
	We'll make our teeth smaller.
	We won't even grow any body hair, really.
	Sicilians accepted.
	We're going to take everything we've got and throw it on this intergalactic crapshoot called the giant brain.
	We're going to be good at nothing else than thinking.
	Every other creature can take us down.
	Even a bunny while we're sleeping could bite through a jugular.
	Every other creature in the known universe can take us down.
	We're going to be susceptible to sunlight because we're not going to have fur all over our body.
	So we're going to take everything.
	You know how in the old Star Trek it's like, divert power to shields, Sulu!
	Divert power to shields!
	Divert absolutely everything to the brain.
	Because life was getting a little bit tired of this fight, fuck, flee and feed.
	A little bit of a hamster wheel there.
	A bit of a groundhog day for about four billion years.
	Don't get eaten.
	Find someone to fuck.
	Have a snack.
	That's it.
	So life got completely bored and was like, you know what?
	I'm so tired of this ridiculous stuff.
	It's so boring.
	It's so repetitive.
	Let's just get one species.
	I don't know... you, hominid guy.
	Okay, from here on in, we're taking everything away from you and pouring it into the brain.
	Just that's it.
	The brain.
	You don't get muscles.
	You don't get claws.
	Or big teeth.
	You don't get hair, fur.
	Massive strength.
	You know, a gorilla can pluck your head off like you take the top of a twist off.
	Beer, and we're just going to take everything and pour it into your brain.
	Go for broke, baby.
	Double or nothing, double or nothing.
	Infinity or nothing.
	And, you know, it was really, really touch and go for a long time there.
	We were down to 10,000 people in the last Ice Age.
	10,000 human beings.
	That's the whole thing.
	That was it.
	That was it.
	And we're like, I don't know, man.
	I don't know that this whole, let's put everything in the brain thing, that seems like a bit of a dice roll.
	Can I at least get some tusks?
	No.
	How about some retractable claws?
	No.
	Shark fin?
	I don't know.
	Laser eyes?
	Can my nipples produce liquid flame?
	Anything.
	Any super ba- No.
	All you get is the brain.
	Good luck.
	And hey, man, it happened to pay off.
	Really did happen to pay off.
	So throughout almost all of human evolution, men and women were like this close away from death and we had to take on specific roles in order to survive.
	Because in order to get the giant brain, our babies have to be retarded until they're about 25.
	Years!
	Not minutes or months.
	You know, they have to be kind of stupid.
	I was, you were, because you know, that which is the most complex is going to take the longest to develop.
	And we've got the most complex brain, therefore our brain barely works in any significant or productive way for 20 to 25 years.
	And in order to do that, women had to be disabled for most of their adult life, either with caring for their children or their grandchildren.
	And men had to go out because it's like we got this giant Pac-Man brain.
	It takes up, what, a third of her body energy?
	It's insane!
	It's a black hole!
	So, men have to go and hunt to feed the brains for 20 to 25 years before they become useful in hunting or reproducing back.
	So there's a razor's edge of survival and we made it through, man.
	We together, men and women, took the ultimate gamble of put everything, not into shields on the enterprise, but into brain on the brainstem.
	Grow the brain, grow the brain, throw everything else overboard.
	We're just sailing for the brain.
	We're going to do the brain, junk everything else, throw out everything else.
	And we made it, man!
	We brought this thing in like a Blues Brothers spin parking in, right?
	We brought this thing home.
	We brought it in.
	Men and women.
	What an incredible team.
	We created the only point of the universe which is having a brain that does more than fight, flee, feed and fuck.
	Oh!
	Magnificent.
	We won the lottery.
	We played the odds.
	We got the greatest prize in the known universe, rational consciousness, as a team.
	And then, apparently, we just used that rational consciousness, which we got as the result of being an incredible team with each other, but used that rational consciousness to say, it's patriarchy, we're exploited!
	Which is like, you know, it's like an office pool where, you know, ten abysmal, pencil-necked, chubby losers win a hundred million dollars, get ten million dollars apiece, and all they do is start suing each other.
	It's almost like we fought so hard and for so long that the moment we got any kind of comfort, we just turned on each other.
	We're used to fighting everything all the time, nature, everything, to get to the top of the food chain.
	Over at the top of the food chain, let's fight each other!
	Because we're just fighters!
	And we got all this office turning us against each other.
	Rather than, holy crap, we made it through, man.
	We made it through.
	We made it to the top against all odds.
	It's like us getting to this giant brain was like those insane Nintendo Levels.
	With Luigi.
	Right?
	Where you got lasers and asteroids and jump platforms and, like, getting through it takes, uh, you know, cocaine and the brain of a twelve-year-old, but I repeat myself.
	We got it through!
	We got through!
	And can't we—can we celebrate and say, wow, dog, phew, did we ever do a great job developing this rational brain?
	No!
	There ought to be no celebrations over an infinite, ultimate victory.
	All we can do is turn into each other like a pack of rabid fucking dogs.
	We both, collaboratively, men and women, over four billion fucking years, we created the greatest glory in the known universe against all conceivable odds in the biggest dice roll the galaxies have ever seen.
	We created this infinite, giant, Goldilocks-just-right brain.
	And the moment we got any kind of peace or plenty at all, a couple of assholes came along and told all the women that the men are just bad.
	They were just controlling.
	They were just mean.
	They just ordered women around.
	You know, if women were slightly less susceptible to sophistry, people might be slightly more enthusiastic about giving them power.
	It's just a thought.
	It's just a thought.
	Conservatives are all, imagine if the situation was reversed, and then when the situation is reversed, don't stoop to their level.
	Yeah, yeah.
	You know, uh, wishing, wishing to death.
	See, I mean, if the, and you know, it's like a hair's breadth, right?
	If the Trump assassination had succeeded, then, I mean, significant social chaos would have resulted.
	So they're not just talking about Trump.
	Hatred is destructive because it blocks you from visibility for consequences.
	What happens after, right?
	People say, I wish this, I wish that, but okay, let's say you get your wish, then what?
	Then what?
	Sigh The left bans for people for saying things they don't like
	but when they advocate for murder. Oh no we can't ban them!
	Nobody's getting banned.
	Just consequences, right?
	If Euros loved their children so much, they'd make some to begin with.
	He's a good guy.
	Yeah, it's a funny thing that happens.
	It's a funny thing that happens.
	That before you have kids, it's easy to not want kids, right?
	I don't know if you guys have had this, if you've gone through the experience of having kids.
	Before you have kids, it's pretty easy to not want kids and to think my life's going to be fine without that, right?
	Now once you have kids, you're like, everything before was kind of bullshit, was kind of meaningless.
	And kids just are so fantastic and such a wonderful part of your world that that knowledge is hidden until you have them.
	It's a funny thing.
	And the other thing too is in particular for women, although it certainly happens to men as well, but in particular for women one big problem is that by the time your life is empty your eggs are dead.
	By the time you realize, holy shit, I'm 40, I'm unmarried, no kids on the horizon,
	no tadpoles in the womb, I got another 40 to 50 years to go, oh my god, what am I gonna do, right?
	When Greece went bankrupt, people were still rioting against austerity.
	Yeah, even crashing against a stone wall of mathematics isn't enough for some people.
	Because this is the funny thing, you know?
	This is the funny thing, is that so often in life, and on my deathbed I'll write my autobiography probably, right?
	But so much in my life I thought was a bad thing and turned out to be a great thing.
	So right now, of course, if you just look at single moms, right, they say, oh my gosh, when the welfare state runs out, when, not if, right, when the welfare state runs out of money, oh my God, who's going to feed my kids?
	What are we going to do?
	And it's like, well, it'll take them about three days to figure it out.
	And what they'll do is the single moms will all rent a big house, you know, six or seven single moms will rent this big giant house.
	And then they'll work in staggered shifts so that they can take care of each other's kids.
	Right?
	And what do they get out of that?
	Right now, they're isolated, right?
	This big moat of fiat money comes to them and they don't have to interact with society to get resources.
	They just have to vote, right?
	But if the single moms, when the welfare money runs out and the single moms decide to get together and work together and watch each other's kids and so on, they get a massive community out of that.
	They're no longer as isolated, no longer as lonely.
	They watch each other's boyfriends!
	For God's sakes!
	There's no vetting!
	Women who've proven they can't choose a man just get to keep choosing men with no vetting and no resources.
	Now, no repercussions.
	You can't a bunch of women together in a single mom mansion.
	And they all are going to watch each other.
	Oh no, he's not good, man.
	He looked at my kid funny.
	He's too aggressive.
	He's a drunk.
	I can't have him around my kids.
	So they will start watching each other's boyfriends and they will end up so much happier.
	They can't even imagine how much happier they're going to end up.
	And also, you know, one of the things that the Welfare State does, of course, is it makes people feel like they're helping the poor, and they don't actually have to help the poor.
	So the satisfaction, people care so much, oh my gosh, we can't cut the spending, it's like, okay, well go and help people.
	Go and actually help people.
	Go and actually help people.
	I mean, there's a reason I ask for donations.
	If you think of the millions and millions and millions of people, tens of millions by now probably, who've listened to call-in shows, who've got that kind of wisdom, who understand things about the world they wouldn't otherwise have even figured out.
	I mean, I don't charge for those call-in shows.
	I never will.
	Right?
	I mean, you can get private call-ins if you want, right?
	Just you and I talking and all of that.
	freedomain.com slash call if you want that. But that's a donation, right?
	I'm helping the poor.
	How did I help the poor?
	Well, I helped a lot of my friends, helped them get jobs and so on.
	Once I became in the business world, I got raises from my employees to the tune of over a million dollars a year of increased spending.
	I made sure the people I worked for got really good stock options and so I actually helped people.
	Put people out of being broke-ass students and got them solidly into the middle class, watched them form families, have kids, made sure they got paid well.
	So I actually helped people.
	Now the satisfaction that comes from actually helping people...
	There's no comparison.
	Like voting and whining about the welfare state and complaining, that doesn't actually give you any happiness or satisfaction.
	In fact, deep down there's just a sense of shame and guilt because you're an asshole lying about consequences because you want the dopamine of virtue without actually doing any good.
	But once you get the dopamine of real virtue, like once you get the happiness that is associated with really doing good and being good and helping people, you wouldn't want any of this bullshit substitute, right?
	So, the welfare state falls, people actually help the poor, and they're like, oh my god, I didn't even know this feeling was there.
	I didn't even know I could feel this way.
	I didn't even know I could feel this good.
	I mean, what sustains me?
	Endless attacks and nonsense and lies.
	Well, I mean, I'm sustained by the dopamine of knowing exactly how much good I'm doing in the world.
	Which is obviously, exactly, it's unmeasurable.
	Right?
	So people think that this disaster is going to occur when the made-up money runs out.
	And it's like, no, no, no, no.
	People don't have any clue how happy they're going to be on the other side of that, how much community is going to grow out of that, how the genuine happiness that comes from really helping people rather than just voting and pretending and lying to yourself.
	Because, you know, the people who say, well, we need the welfare state, they're disassembling families and people and the futures of children and things are just getting worse and worse down there.
	So they don't know, like you actually go and help people, and you actually have a community, and you live with people, your kids play together, they're going to get much better adjusted, right?
	Because one of the things that teaches kids empathy is unstructured play, and in particular, older kids helping younger kids, which is going to happen.
	You're going to get better boyfriends, a community, your kids are going to grow up healthier and happier, people will actually go and help the poor, rather than just shrieking about the welfare state, and they will look back and they'll say, oh my gosh, That was the best thing that ever happened in my life and in society as a whole.
	That was the best thing that ever happened.
	They're just going to have to learn that, I suppose.
	Alright.
	All right, let me just get to your comments.
	What about, it's the best time to live in?
	I tend to agree with that still.
	I wouldn't want to live in any other time.
	I would have taken all my thoughts with me to the grave.
	Terrible, terrible, terrible.
	All rights.
	Thank you for the insight, Steph.
	All was spot on.
	I donate, but my money is actually all in cash at the moment.
	You are right, though.
	My boss is handling a lot of the stuff related to the business.
	He did know before I got really into this what my value in the market would be, and I just think it's kind of funny that you picked up on that with very little information points.
	Well, I have a little bit of experience now.
	I've got 42 years in philosophy, and if I'm not pretty good at this stuff by now, I need to go back to violin playing and karaoke.
	So, um, if your money's in cash, so what?
	Go and buy a prepaid visa and you can donate that way?
	Sorry, if it was a problem you'd really want to solve, if I gave you a lottery ticket for a million dollars but said you gotta pay for it, would you say, well, I'm sorry, my money's all in cash at the moment?
	No, you'd go out and buy a prepaid credit card and donate that way!
	Funny.
	Don't give yourself excuses, just be honest!
	I don't want to donate right now.
	It's a bit of a hassle, Steph.
	Oh no, my money's all in cash.
	Just go with your cash.
	Get a prepaid credit card and donate 50 bucks.
	It's fine if you don't want to do that.
	But just be honest about it.
	Because if there was, you know, the woman of your dreams.
	Really wants to have a date with you.
	You need to take her out, but the restaurant only takes Visa.
	Well, I'm sorry, I'm going to have to give up on the woman of my dreams, because they only have cash lying around.
	It's like, oh, you can't solve that problem?
	Of course you can!
	Just, oh God, don't insult me with this nonsense.
	Just tell me you don't really feel like donating, because it's a little bit of a hassle.
	Because I got to put something else on the conveyor belt in the grocery store.
	A little Visa card for 25 bucks or 50 bucks.
	Ah, I can't do that, man.
	That's a hassle.
	Okay, just tell me that.
	Just don't insult me with this.
	It's all in cash, right?
	Why is it so hard for women to rate themselves realistically?
	I ask because on the whatever podcast women do not want to rate themselves or other women.
	Right.
	So magical thinking is again just amateur nonsense for me.
	I'm no mental health professional.
	Of course.
	But magical thinking to me is a kind of psychosis and women are living in unreality.
	Women are living in rank unreality.
	So they can make up whatever they want.
	Right?
	I mean they can show some skin on the internet.
	And they can make thousands of dollars a month.
	I mean, this is the sort of masturbation culture that is so rampant, right?
	There's a reason that cultures that ban pornography and masturbation tend to actually produce children.
	It's a funny thing, right?
	So, why would women have to have any reality whatsoever?
	The government and money printing and debt shields them from all the consequences of all their bad decisions, right?
	I mean, we understand that a kid whose father pays her no attention, she's got a really wealthy dad, he's always traveling and working, her dad pays her no attention!
	And, uh, just gives her lots of stuff, gives her an unlimited credit card, and anytime she's in trouble, he bails her out.
	Anytime she gets a DUI, he pays off.
	He makes it all go away.
	Right?
	Anytime she gets sick, he free healthcare, whatever, right?
	We understand that she's gonna grow up with no sense of reality.
	And certainly no sense of morality.
	Because morality... Morality comes out of scarcity.
	Right?
	So, women can rate themselves however they want.
	It doesn't matter.
	See, in the past, when there was a short window, you know, two to four years, maybe, not even that, sometimes six to eighteen months, there's a very short window for women to lock down a mate.
	Very short window.
	Tiny, tiny, tiny.
	Tiny.
	Now then, women had to rate themselves realistically.
	Because if they rated themselves too low, Then they would not get the high quality man that they wanted or deserved or could get.
	But if they rated themselves too high, they also would not get the quality man.
	So they either end up with a schlub and a loser.
	Let's say the woman is a nine and she ends up marrying a five.
	She's going to feel bad.
	Women hate that deep down, right?
	Women hate that deep down.
	It's like if you sell something At a yard sale, you got some old painting that's been gathering dust, and you sell it for like ten bucks, right?
	And then somebody else says, holy crap!
	I got a hundred thousand dollar painting at a yard sale!
	And they sell it for a hundred thousand dollars.
	The rage and frustration and horror that you'd feel about that is what women feel about dating down.
	I could have got more!
	Oh, God!
	So stupid!
	And now I'm locked in!
	Because I can't divorce!
	I got kids!
	And they look at... that's a horror!
	For a woman to spend the rest of her life looking at a man, knowing she could have done better.
	You know, she marries some guy, he's like a 5, she's a 9, right?
	And the guy she really wanted years later says, oh man, I really wanted to marry you so badly.
	It was crazy.
	Now I'm a multi-millionaire.
	So she's going to, it's going to eat her alive.
	As a woman, if you aim too low, your life is wrecked.
	And if you get a smart woman who dates and gets married to and has kids with a dumb guy, then she's going to have to have time parenting, right?
	Because the IQ will probably fall in between the two, right?
	So, the dad's going to be frustrated because the kids are smarter than he is, right?
	The mom's going to be frustrated because the kids are dumber than she is.
	So, nobody's going to be happy.
	It's going to be a mess.
	Can't do it.
	That's no good.
	So, the woman who's a 9, maybe she can get a 10 if she works super hard, but she's just going to get a 9.
	Maybe she'll settle for an 8, right?
	And you've got 6 to 18 months to make that decision.
	So, you've got to rate yourself accurately in the same way If you want to understand it as a man, you're a highly skilled man, right?
	You're a lawyer, right?
	You're a accountant, top-level accountant or whatever, right?
	And you're looking for work.
	Now, if you're a lawyer and you end up working as the night janitor in a local junior high school, you're going to feel depressed and you're going to feel like crap.
	and people are going to be like, you're a lawyer, what the hell are you doing here?
	On the other hand, if you're a lawyer and you say, I want to be paid 10 million dollars a year,
	because Brad Pitt gets 10 or 20 million dollars a movie, and I want to be paid 20 million dollars
	a year, right? So in one you're miserable, and in the other one you're unemployed, because nobody's
	going to pay a lawyer 10 or 20 million dollars a year, just like a good lawyer, right? Maybe you
	make a couple hundred K a year, maybe half a mil a year if you make it to partner or whatever.
	.
	So for a man, if you aim too low, you're depressed and horrified and hate yourself.
	And if you aim too high, you're broke, starving and can't get married.
	So it's the same thing with women.
	They have to rate themselves just so, just right.
	Not too high that they end up alone and not too low that they end up with self-hatred or self-loathing or frustration or whatever it is, right?
	So women are experts, absolute experts at rating themselves perfectly.
	This is the old line from... I remember this gave me goosebumps when I first read this play.
	Streetcar Named Desire.
	Do you think it's possible that I ever could have been considered attractive?
	I don't go into that stuff.
	I don't go for that stuff.
	Stuff like what?
	Complimenting women about their looks.
	I don't go in for that stuff.
	I never met a woman yet who didn't know exactly how attractive she was.
	A lot of them give themselves credit for way more than they got.
	Right?
	So that women know exactly how to rate themselves.
	So what are the consequences for a woman these days of rating herself too high?
	No negative consequences because she can get her money by showing skin on the internet or she can get money like you understand a lot of women will date multiple guys that they have no intention of sleeping with just to get free meals and nights out.
	Right?
	Yeah, you won't spend $500 on a first date at a three-star Michelin restaurant.
	Forget you, move on to the next guy.
	Yeah.
	Education is mostly agreeing with the professor nowadays, not exactly a good measure of character or IQ for that matter.
	Oh, IQs in university are dropping catastrophically.
	Yeah, some girl who's in her 30s without children posted how she got her master's.
	In my mind, I was thinking, enjoy those two weeks of dopamine.
	Oh yeah, I was doing some research the other day and I came across a government website that was talking about women's prime earning years from 25 to 40.
	I'm like, whoever tells women?
	And I did a show with Janice Heimlich many years ago where she was pointing out that the more money and education a woman gets, the smaller and more narrow her pool of men she'll date with is.
	Can't wait to share this live with my girlfriend over the weekend.
	Live or lying?
	Yeah, you can really tell how unlikely the odds were based on how there's no other comparatively intelligent life on Earth or in the Milky Way as far as we can tell.
	Yeah, for sure.
	We beat out those damn Neanderthals.
	I think we absorbed them.
	I ask, answering phones.
	I don't know what that means.
	Yeah, I worked for the government very briefly in my early twenties.
	Well, I shouldn't say for a whole, I worked there for a whole summer, Department of Education, and it was ridiculous.
	I mean, honestly, I was doing all the work, and the women just sat around chatting and gossiping, and I remember the woman saying, oh, you know, my husband's quit smoking and he's such a bear, I'm on my knees begging him to smoke a cigarette just so he stops being such a, such a grouch, and they're all laughing, and my gosh, long lunches, and oh my gosh, crazy.
	Thank you for all you do for myself and my family.
	You are very welcome, my friend.
	Thank you for the tip.
	I believe I found your content in 2006.
	I was a freshman in college and taking an Intro to Philosophy class, so I searched Intro to Philosophy on YouTube and found your series.
	Finally, the world made sense and my life changed forever.
	I can't thank you enough.
	But you can thank me enough.
	It's $20.
	Well, thank you.
	I appreciate that.
	Good evening, Chris.
	Now, women are against men.
	Well, you have to dehumanize whoever you want to exploit, and because women fundamentally
	know that their resources are coming from male taxpayers, they have to dehumanize men
	because you can't both sympathize with a group and exploit them, right?
	New reality TV show, Single Moms Mansion.
	Yes, yes, yes!
	Every supermarket has those gift cards.
	That is very true.
	See, let me give... yeah, when was the last time they worked in a homeless shelter, sewed clothes, bought boxes of groceries for food banks?
	I mean, that's fine, that's fine, but the poor don't need that stuff as much.
	What the poor need is sympathy for their childhood, empathy for their suffering, and responsibility for their adulthood.
	Otherwise, you're just feeding them to make more mistakes.
	All right, um...
	Yeah, so when you say to... Here's the thing, right?
	If you want to have quality interactions with people, and you do, obviously, you want to have quality interactions with people, don't give excuses.
	So if you feel the urge to give an excuse, say to yourself, is it possible?
	And I'm sorry, Zinf, I absolutely don't mean to pick on you.
	I love you to death, brother.
	I'm glad that you're here.
	So I'm just using you as an example.
	So please don't feel bad.
	This is a good example, right?
	So when Bro says, oh, I can't donate, everything's in cash right now, right?
	So before you say something like that, you have to ask yourself, would it be possible for me to solve this problem?
	Right?
	So if somebody said, well, the solution to your problem, Steph, is B20, again, it's like, well, I can't do that, right?
	But if the problem is, is there any way to send cash, to convert cash to something you can send electronically?
	Well, sure.
	There's tons of ways to do that.
	So before you give an excuse, ask yourself, is it possible for me to solve the problem?
	Now, just because it's possible for you to solve the problem doesn't mean you have to do it.
	But then don't lie about why you're not doing it and saying, well, it's all in cash and I can't do it.
	It's like, it's inconvenient for me right now.
	And it's fine.
	Just be honest.
	Because here's the thing.
	Oh boy, oh boy.
	I had this in a private call in, so I won't give any details whatsoever.
	The speech that came out of the private call-in was, Do you really think nobody knows when you're lying?
	Do you really think nobody knows when you're lying?
	Everybody knows everything all the time.
	They either call you out on it, which is rare, or they go along with it, which is dangerous.
	So when you lie, even if it's unconscious, people either call you out on it, or what they do is they just kind of let it slide.
	You let it slide down there, people.
	When I come back home, my landlady got nothing nice to say to me, she says.
	Where you been all day?
	I've been looking for work, sir.
	You weren't looking for work.
	I saw you the other day just leaning up against the post.
	He says, I'm tired.
	I've been walking all day.
	There's another song quiz for you.
	One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer.
	Boy, that George Thurgood did look a little bit like an ape, didn't he?
	good guitarist though and good singer but people know when you're lying
	You have to make a commitment just to not lie.
	Just to not lie.
	As best you can, right?
	And the way that you check that is when you feel like giving an excuse, say, is it physically possible?
	Right?
	I mean, the number of people over the years who've said to me something along the lines of, I say, oh, you have issues with your parents.
	Have you ever talked about it with them?
	Right?
	And they say, uh, well, you know, they live far away.
	Oh, God.
	Oh, it burns.
	The level of pathetic, ridiculous toddler avoidance.
	This literally is like a toddler putting his hands over his eyes saying, you can't see me.
	That's what lying is.
	It's just everybody participating in the lie and pretending it's something other than what it is.
	Everybody knows.
	So I have to say to people, I said, you know, you're literally talking to me from the other side of the world saying you can't talk to me about... Sorry.
	You're saying you can't talk about important things with people far away while talking about important things to me far away.
	Literally this call is proof that you could talk about these things with your parents.
	I knew a guy once.
	He started listening to me seven or eight years ago.
	Knew he had problems with his parents.
	And I said, why haven't you confronted them?
	them and he says, well I've been really busy the last couple of weeks.
	Oh.
	Sure.
	Absolutely.
	Been really busy the last couple of weeks.
	I've known for seven or eight years I need to have this conversation.
	But you know, the last couple of weeks, I've been jammed, man.
	Jammed.
	Like a raspberry and pectin.
	Hey Steph, you got me introduced to Ayn Rand in one of your shows a few years ago.
	I want to say thanks.
	I loved The Fountainhead.
	On a side note, what's your opinion on Schopenhauer?
	We had a book club many years ago.
	A bookie book club.
	We did 1984, we did The Antichrist, we did The Fountainhead.
	James, can you let me know if we have, do we still have, are they anywhere on the premium?
	We had a, it was a donors only book club.
	We did a bunch of books and so I'm glad you like The Fountainhead.
	I think it's a great book.
	What's your opinion on Schopenhauer?
	Well my opinion on Schopenhauer is obviously some bitter and wise things to say but I do not have a comprehensive enough knowledge of Schopenhauer.
	Clearly he's on the list of history of philosophers things which I'll get back to at some point in this known universe but I do not have enough of a comprehensive knowledge of Schopenhauer to give you much of an opinion other than stuff I've read here and there.
	Alright.
	On good news my body is healing from surgery fighting infection but still but feeling stronger every day.
	Hope to be back to work by September.
	They have to hold my job.
	Union job, thank goodness.
	Good.
	Good for you.
	I don't... I want to donate and I will donate.
	I just don't want to drive 45 minutes to deposit it in my account and spending $4 extra on a Visa card seems like a waste.
	What?
	I just don't want to drive 45 minutes to deposit it in my account and spending $4 extra on a Visa card seems like a waste.
	Really.
	So, you're trying to tell me... I don't know why people do this.
	Why do they do this?
	So, spending $4 on a Visa card seems like a waste.
	Let me ask you this, my friend.
	Have you ever withdrawn cash from an ATM?
	Why do people try this?
	Why?
	Have you ever taken money out on an ATM?
	You know you pay like 10% so 2 bucks on 20 or 3 bucks on 30.
	I mean sometimes you pay 10% or more to withdraw money from an ATM.
	Have you ever done that?
	Oh suddenly spending a little extra doesn't like it.
	Just why?
	I don't know why people do this.
	Why do they try?
	All right.
	Ayo Dylan still have a stepchild from a past relationship that still wants to see and spend time with me.
	His father has never been in the picture.
	I was the only man he knew.
	I care for him deeply but I'm worried how this could affect future relationships.
	What?
	Oh man, that's gross.
	That's gross.
	What do you mean?
	So you were with this, you were around this kid for years, right?
	You chose to get, voluntarily you chose to get involved in this kid's life.
	Voluntarily.
	It's a package deal.
	Right?
	The mom comes with a kid.
	You chose to get involved in this kid's life.
	You chose to mentor him, to parent him, to be a father to him.
	And now you're gonna bail on him because you want a date?
	Bro, that's fucking cold.
	I mean, if I were a woman or just, I don't know, A good human being.
	And I found out that you spent years being in a child's life, being a father to a child, and then you dumped him because you wanted to find it easier to date?
	Imagine if this was a mother.
	Imagine if this was a mother who said, oh yeah, I raised my kid for five years, but I found that it was tougher to date, so I just put him in an orphanage.
	What?
	Wouldn't that be a giant ass red flag?
	Bro, what's the matter with you?
	Appreciate the tip, I gotta be frank with you though.
	You got involved in this kid's life, you mentored him, you became his father!
	You don't get to dump him, because it's slightly difficult to date.
	Because if you dump him, and a woman finds out about this, a quality woman will run for the hills.
	Some point she's going to find out, hey, you were a stepdad for five years or ten years.
	Wow.
	What's that like?
	What's your relationship like with the kid?
	But like, no, I don't see him because it was interfering with my dating.
	Run!
	Run away, run away, run away, run away.
	All right.
	It's amazing how you were able to break down social dynamics.
	You're a treasure, Steph.
	I love you!
	No homo.
	Thank you.
	Appreciate that.
	I prefer 2% myself, so I'm with you there.
	All right.
	Question from Orson over on Rrrrumble.
	I'm interested in a woman who's in a relationship.
	What is the right thing for me to do?
	Do I just keep my mouth shut?
	Do I try and steal her away?
	and if I succeed, does that prove she isn't virtuous?
	Well, the problem is...
	is.
	Bye.
	So, the only thing I think that's right in terms of trying to woo a woman away is something like if she has been in a relationship with a guy who hasn't committed to her for like five years, she's not committed.
	Okay, but then the problem is she's got five years of relationship to undo, right?
	It's like half the time of being in a relationship you need to recover from a relationship.
	So, she's not going to be fit to date you for a couple of years after she gets out of a five-year relationship.
	I've never stolen a girl.
	I'm not saying there's some big right or moral thing.
	I'm just, I've never done it because I don't want the complications.
	And I also don't want the woman who could be stolen because if she'll cheat with you, she'll cheat on you, right?
	Just joined.
	Is he talking about destiny?
	Ooh, did you see that tweet?
	Oh, that is just a skin-crawling tweet.
	You're just going to have to go and look it up.
	I'm not even going to reproduce it here or say anything about its contents.
	But if true, and it seems to be true, the tweet from Destiny is about as skin-crawlingly repulsive as anything I've ever seen on the internet.
	Lord knows we've all seen some stuff on the internet.
	Metaphorically.
	All right.
	Some people lie to themselves.
	I don't think, I mean, maybe you guys are way better than I am, but I don't think there's anybody who doesn't lie to themselves or hasn't lied to themselves.
	I mean, honestly, I'm a fairly big fan of gaslighting yourself at times.
	I mean, I wouldn't have got anywhere without a massive amount of lying to myself, to be honest with you guys.
	I'm gonna be frank with you.
	I mean, I came from this, like, trash heap, bottom-of-society, welfare-of-state, crazy-mother-institutionalized hellhole of a nightmarish situation, and this is before I knew anything about my sort of family line and pedigree, really, so I just came from the absolute crap-tastic, shit-stained bottom of the universe, and you don't think I had to gaslight myself a little bit about my potential in order to get out and get moving?
	Yeah!
	Absolutely!
	Absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	I can do it!
	Right?
	Yeah, sometimes.
	And is it a lie?
	Well, sort of.
	Because I'm saying I can do it.
	I have confidence when I have no particular reason to believe that.
	I thought, oh, I could be good in business.
	I've read some economics.
	Turned out I was pretty good in business.
	You know, the little bit of fake it till you make it stuff, is that lie?
	Well, I believe I can do it.
	I believe I can rise.
	I believe I can do good things or great things.
	I believe that I can do all of these things.
	Can I prove it?
	Nope.
	It's kind of like faith, right?
	It's kinda like faith.
	So...
	Yeah, I dunno.
	Saying you can do it.
	I mean, I gathered evidence along the way and so on, right?
	But believing that you can do it is kind of important and you kind of have to believe it before you know.
	So, is that lying?
	Blah blah blah.
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	but honesty is a complicated thing not finding book club on the premium site
	Did trip over some book club mp3s.
	Yeah, I think so.
	Yeah, we did 1984.
	We did the Antichrist.
	We did, as I mentioned, we did the Fountainhead and a couple other things.
	So.
	I don't pay ATM fees with my bank.
	I As in, I get reimbursed from out-of-network ATMs.
	I get reimbursed from out-of-network ATMs.
	I don't know what that means.
	Banking apps are photo deposits for paper jacks.
	Yeah, but I think he's talking about... He's got it in cash.
	So... Well, maybe the lust of the winds of time.
	I remember some of the old participants.
	You could always ping them.
	Somebody says, I'm a Discord subscriber who usually watches pre-recorded shows.
	What is the preferred app for live streams and chats?
	Freedomain.locals.com.
	You can install the Locals app.
	And don't forget, don't forget bros, a lot of FDR content is now installable.
	FDR podcasts, the AIs, a lot of stuff is installable now.
	I think we did CS Lewis.
	I know I did the screw tape letters with Duke Pesta.
	And we are still working on potentially a meetup in late November in Central Florida.
	And yeah, FDRURL.com slash apps.
	FDRURL.com slash apps.
	There's lots of instructions there.
	You can install them as apps, which is really great.
	James has done some great work on that, which I really, really appreciate.
	But yeah, I think the book clubs were great.
	And I think they're worth resurrecting.
	There was some really, really great stuff in there.
	If I use an ATM that isn't my bank, functionally I don't pay an ATM fee since it gets reimbursed but it's not my bank's ATM.
	Since I was 18 I've used this bank.
	I don't pay an ATM fee.
	So you pay no ATM fees?
	Wow.
	Do you use credit cards?
	Because credit cards have a 3-5% overhead.
	So I don't know if you've ever used credit cards.
	I mean, we can play this game all day, but I guarantee you, you've paid fees on things for convenience in the past.
	Guarantee you that.
	I mean, you donate here, right?
	His space trilogy is worth looking into, yeah.
	Oh, you still have the old app?
	Is that the old APK?
	Yeah, if you still have the old app, shoot me an email at support at freedomain.com.
	Support at freedomain.com.
	Cool.
	Yes, I absolutely have paid fees on things for convenience.
	Ah, yes.
	So you do pay fees on things for convenience.
	So saying, I don't want to pay fees on things doesn't make much sense, right?
	So again, it's just, is it possible for you to do it?
	Yes, it is.
	All right, people.
	Freedomain.com slash donate to help out the show.
	Come on, I've been on fire tonight, baby.
	For the meetup, will we be meeting shirtless Steph, backward hat Steph, or Steph in his base form?
	Well, let me tell you something, my friends.
	Let me tell you something, my friends.
	Today, I did a show outside with no shirt on.
	Yes, that's right.
	Nippletastic Steph philosophy lasers were flying all over the place, burning up the squirrels, the livestock, the fences, the clouds.
	Cut right past an airliner at one point.
	was raw and I thought my god I should be chopping wood with my wood I can you know I just try not
	to because it feels like showing off but uh yeah I did a show uh no one has seen it except me
	but it was some pretty raw stuff because the thing is I'm trying to get some sun right I'm
	no longer afraid of the sun and I didn't even work out You know, people like, I gotta work out like crazy before I take my shirt off.
	I didn't even work out and I just took my shirt off and I'm like, I'm gonna get some sun.
	Let's turn on the camera.
	Let's see Steph in all of his orchid glory and slightly 58-ish man boob muscularity.
	Oh, why not?
	Why not?
	So maybe you'll get a chance to see that.
	I'm not sure if I'll release that or not with video.
	I don't know.
	Do you care?
	Does it matter?
	You don't care, right?
	Yeah, you don't care, right?
	Do you care?
	I don't know.
	Alright.
	I will be donating that.
	Thank you, I appreciate that.
	Thank you very much!
	Oh, I've gone all... I've got to get that laser Tom Cruise, like he's got this bolted perfect baseball cap in his movies.
	Special... what was it?
	The Out... No, not Outlander.
	That was Sean Connery.
	But, uh...
	Yeah, maybe I'll put it on donor only.
	So you were not caught in the floods?
	I was not in the path of the floods.
	But I'll tell you this, I lived in Toronto for decades and there were no floods.
	So, blaming it as the mayor did on... What did she blame it on?
	Oh yeah, climate change and people with big driveways.
	Oh, that's funny.
	Yeah, well, you know.
	Once you have anything other than a meritocracy, things are doomed, right?
	Meet up in Winnipeg in January, minus 20 bills character.
	Well, Winnipeg, you either get minus 20, or you literally get carried aloft by the, uh...
	You get carried aloft by the mosquitoes.
	It's really something.
	You're either freezing your tits off or you're getting liposuction from an infinity of Galactica viper-like mosquitoes.
	I've been to Winnipeg.
	Actually, I went to Winnipeg right before I got married to do some business and I was like, everybody here is really, really odd.
	I mean, I lived for Thunder Bay.
	I lived in Thunder Bay when I worked up north for quite some time.
	Well, it was based in Thunder Bay.
	We went all over the bush, all over the place.
	I like Thunder Bay.
	Some great clubs in Thunder Bay.
	Some great clubs.
	Some great dance clubs and, uh, great, uh, discos and met some great ladies up in Thunder... Thunder Bay!
	Thunder Bay.
	Uh, JustPoor and The Present Book Club, anyone?
	Just donated a free domain.
	Thank you very much.
	War of the Worlds.
	He has that perfect baseball hat.
	Yeah, I don't know.
	It's wild.
	I don't know how he gets that hat.
	It's like... It's like it's been visored on like a Cylon top.
	I guess everybody knows what show I'm watching at the moment.
	But yeah, it's been sort of visored on in this perfect laser-like way.
	And it's pretty wild.
	Yeah, I would love to do A Just Poor Book Club.
	That's one of my favorite books.
	It's a book I rewrote the entire second half of that book because I met this woman on a plane who was a publisher.
	If there could be a potential for you to donor only livestream Politics Plus Philosophy, I'd be curious to know if such may be apt to ask Steph about Venezuela.
	Absolutely, yeah.
	I mean we're just talking about this, you may have missed this at the beginning, I'll mention it again, that for donors I could do the first hour on Sunday 11 to noon could be general and then on the second hour I could just make a donor only and could answer questions about politics, which is fine.
	Alright.
	Somebody says, I have my first child on the way!
	Oh yeah, I think you get a... don't you get text messages on each point of the vantage point, right?
	I've mentioned to my mom that I need to have a chat with both her and my dad again soon.
	I've since sent Peaceful Parenting to her and all my siblings.
	They all said they would listen.
	Ah, fantastic.
	Yeah, James did a great upgrade on PeacefulParenting.com.
	There are testimonials.
	You can listen to the first chapter right away and all of that, right?
	He says, my dad wasn't clued in On all this yet, he had just gotten home and didn't want to ruin his vibe right away.
	My parents are very religious and tend not to take any thought seriously if it isn't rooted in religion.
	Every serious talk I've had with my parents in my life resulted in getting Bible verses in response.
	How do I approach people like this?
	Well, you would study the Bible and you would learn how the Bible talks about children and how in particular Jesus talks about children, right?
	Um... Jesus...
	On children.
	I mean, one of the things that Jesus got in trouble for the most was his sympathy for
	children.
	So let me see here.
	See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven continually see the faces of my Father who is in heaven.
	So it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones perish.
	But Jesus, knowing what they were thinking in their hearts, took a child and stood him
	by his side and said to them, Whoever receives this child in my name receives me, and whoever
	receives me receives him who sent me.
	For the one who is least of all among you, this is the one who is great, the children.
	Taking a child he set him before them, and taking him in his arms he said to them, Whoever
	receives one child like this in my name receives me, and whoever receives me does not receive
	me but him who sent me.
	So, it is through respect for children that you attain heaven and love God.
	them and said truly I say to you unless you are converted and become like children you will not enter the kingdom of
	heaven whoever then humbles himself as this child he is the
	greatest in the kingdom of heaven and whoever receives one such child in my name
	receives me powerful
	because in many religions children are sinners to be beaten cajoled and bullied into virtue but for Jesus
	children are perfect we are born perfect yeah
	and of course Jesus says whoever
	harms the least among us the children it is better that a millstone
	be tied around his neck and he be dropped into the ocean
	you Children are innocent but corruptible.
	Christ is very caring about children's well-being.
	Jesus tells people not to look down on children.
	Jesus shares a secret.
	Little children all have angels.
	God cares so much for little ones that he assigns them angels.
	The angels maintain such a close relationship with God that they see God's face.
	Children are that precious to God.
	Now, for those of you who've read my novel, The Future, well, you know where that's coming from, right?
	that the children need angels to protect them.
	Jesus said he longed to gather us as a mother gathers her chicks under her wings.
	He said he longed to gather us as a mother gathers her chicks under her wings.
	So this is one of the challenges that all thinkers who work to protect children all thinkers who work to protect children face attacks from the devilish.
	I mean, what has happened with me is nothing new.
	It's just that most philosophers get attacked for things that mean far less.
	If I had to sit down with religious parents and they quoted the Bible at me, I would say, God himself instructs me to not bear false witness.
	I will not lie to you.
	Honor thy mother and thy father.
	Yes, we honor people but the truth.
	We dishonor people by lying to them.
	Honor thy mother and thy father.
	Absolutely, I will honor you with the truth.
	And I will not lie.
	I will not bear false witness.
	Are you asking me to lie to you?
	Do you want me to lie to you or do you want me to tell the truth?
	Now religious parents, of course, and any decent parents can't say that they want you to lie to them.
	So you say, okay, well then I have to tell the truth, right?
	Now they will say, maybe, they could say that you are lying to them when you say bad things happen, right?
	So then, what I would say, if they say, well, these things didn't happen, these complaints you have are invalid, it's not true, what I would say then is, okay, so we have a victim and we have a perpetrator.
	You did wrong to me as a child.
	And if they say, well, spare the rod, spoil the child, it's like, no, no, no.
	That means if you spare instruction from your children, it will spoil them, which is true.
	You need to give your children feedback and instruction.
	So it's not about beating children.
	But I'm accusing you of doing me wrong.
	Now, I'm not calling you criminals, but we can understand that in a situation where a person is accused of a crime, in general, the person who is accused of the crime, let's just say somebody says to him, I think you committed a crime.
	If he did commit the crime, what is he most likely to say?
	Right?
	What is he most likely to say?
	If a neighbor thinks If a man thinks his neighbor stole his lawnmower and he goes over to his neighbor and says, hey, did you take my lawnmower?
	What's he going to say almost automatically, almost immediately?
	No, I didn't.
	No, what are you crazy?
	I didn't take your lawnmower.
	How dare you, blah, blah, blah, right?
	So we do understand that we would expect people accused of wrongdoing to
	immediately deny it and to gaslight the other person. Now I understand that we
	can't say well he who denied it is he who supplied it. We can't say that all
	denials are proof of guilt but we do expect almost everyone who's accused of
	wrongdoing to deny it right
	And to call the person who's accusing them of wrongdoing a liar, and to take offense.
	Like, it's all a very boring and predictable script.
	Oh, that never happened!
	How dare you?
	I can't believe this!
	You've been thinking this for how long?
	Why didn't you come to us earlier?
	I can't believe you've let these delusions fester in your mind, and how dare you?
	Like, the whole script is very boring and predictable, right?
	So, if your parents say, that never happened, right, you would say, but that would be in accordance with it happening.
	Right?
	That would be in accordance with it happening.
	Now, if you have siblings, it's good to talk to your parents.
	If they did you wrong, it's good to talk to your parents with siblings.
	Because they can confirm, yes, this did happen.
	Say, now you have two kids, three kids, three adult kids, all saying the same thing.
	So now, and this is the problem, right?
	This is the problem.
	It's a huge problem.
	When you accuse someone of wrongdoing, I've had this in my life, man.
	It's brutal.
	When you accuse someone of wrongdoing, You did me wrong.
	The moment they gaslight you and lie to you and manipulate you is the moment the relationship as it stands is done.
	Because if you say to your parents, you harmed me, and they say, you're making it up, you're nasty and mean and you're a liar, then they're continuing to do it.
	And if your parents say, I never said that or did that, then you have to say, this is logic, right?
	This is just logic 101 and it's all in the peaceful parenting book, right?
	So if your parents say, I never said that!
	Like, Mom, you called me an idiot on a regular basis.
	I never did!
	Right?
	Say, okay.
	So was I allowed to deny things as a child?
	Like if you accused me of something, right?
	If you accused me of something and I denied that I did it, was that the end of the story?
	Right?
	If you came home and I had broken your favorite plate and I said, I didn't break it, was that it?
	Like, oh, okay.
	Right?
	No.
	You'd say, of course you did.
	Right?
	Oh, defenses are NPC talk.
	Defenses are all the same.
	They're all ridiculously boring.
	They're all ridiculously predictable.
	Denial of reality is a train track.
	Reality itself is a 360 aerodrome of possibilities.
	Denial of reality is a one-way descending train track to hell.
	So, it's programmed, right?
	So, if your mother says, I never said that, you say, well, was I allowed to say that as a kid?
	No.
	When I did something wrong and I wasn't allowed to just deny it, you say, well, I don't remember.
	Your dad says, I don't remember shit.
	Okay, well, when I was a kid, if I didn't remember that I had an exam, was I still punished?
	If I didn't remember stuff?
	So, right.
	And the other thing that I would say, as a whole, with regards to this, right?
	If you're confronting anyone, it doesn't matter, parents, right?
	If you're confronting someone with the wrongs they've done you, and they try to gaslight you, they try to minimize, they try to defend, they're all blah-blah-blah, right?
	They play fake offense and they just can't believe that you would even think and blah-blah-blah how offensive, blah-blah-blah, right?
	Then you can say, what I would say is this, I have said this, I'd say okay, so you're really raising the stakes here, like just so you know, like you're totally raising the stakes here.
	Obviously, if my repeated memories from my childhood have been implanted by space aliens or I got some sort of brain injury or somehow I mistook a movie for ten years of you calling me an idiot, so if you're saying it didn't happen, then I'm unjust for accusing you of something that didn't happen, right?
	So obviously I will come and apologize to you on bended knee if I've accused you of something false, right?
	Now, on the other hand, and I just want you to know what the stakes are here, I can forgive you for what you did in the past if you don't lie about it now.
	It was tough.
	I can absolutely find a way to forgive you.
	For what happened in the past.
	I cannot ever forgive you if you lie to me about it in the present.
	If you call me unjust for calling out things you did that were wrong.
	If you say that I'm a liar and you completely mess with my sense of reality.
	If you pretend to be offended because you're feeling guilty.
	If you're that manipulative and that destructive towards my mind and my certainty and my reality and the truth of what I know to be a fact.
	So I will put this on hold and I will go and ask other people and I will check my diaries and I will look at old videos and I will look at messages and I will look at emails and I will look at text messages And you say, well, son, I never called you an idiot, so I'm going to go talk to my siblings.
	I'm going to go and talk to my friends.
	I'm going to check the messages.
	I'm going to check emails.
	I'm going to check posts.
	I'm going to check everything that's written down.
	And if there's one time that you ever called me an idiot, we're done.
	Absolutely done.
	You need to understand what the stakes are here.
	You could just blasé, attack my sense of reality.
	And say that I'm a liar and I'm unjust and this never happened, but if I find one instance of this happening, we're done.
	We're absolutely done, because I can forgive you for what you did in the past, but if you lie to me about it now, if you lie to me about it now, it means you've learned nothing, you continue to escalate, you continue to lie.
	So if I find out that this never happened, I will come on bended knee and apologize to you.
	But if I find out it even happened once, We're done.
	That's it.
	I have nothing left to say to you in this or any other life.
	Now, just so you know what the stakes are, you cannot lie with impunity.
	You could lie with impunity when I was a kid because I was a kid and I was dependent on you.
	You cannot lie to me with impunity now.
	There will be consequences if you lie to me.
	Now, I'm going to give you a day.
	I'm going to give you a day.
	Now, I also promise you if you come back and say, I was really shocked.
	I handled it badly.
	I did call you an idiot.
	I did yell at you.
	I do remember spanking you.
	I'm so sorry.
	Let's reboot.
	Let's start this conversation again.
	Hey, open minds, open heart.
	We absolutely can begin that conversation again.
	But if you double down, and I find even the slightest shred of evidence that you're lying to me, and there's a lot of people who came through our house, Lot of family videos, lot of text messages from you.
	If I find out or have any shred of evidence that this did happen, it's unforgivable.
	Because then you will have lied to me about the most essential aspects of my childhood in order to save your own skin and not admit fault.
	In other words, this is stuff that you would have absolutely punished me for as a child
	and sometimes quite brutally you would have punished me for this as a child and now you're
	claiming a lying and a minimizing and a gaslighting and a fogging and a manipulation that you
	never would have allowed for me as a child.
	I just want you to know where the stakes are.
	If upon reflection and research I find that you're lying to me, now, as an adult, I'm done.
	Because how can I?
	I can't have a conversation with people who attack my very sense of reality.
	Like I'm just not going to do it.
	People who've learned nothing and continue to abuse and escalate and use exactly the same defenses that they would have violently punished me for as a child!
	No.
	Done.
	Done, done, and done.
	So, I think those are the... I think that's the approach that I've taken.
	Now, once or twice I've had people say, you know, you're right, I reacted badly, I reacted defensively, I tried to gaslight you, I'm really sorry, that was a bad approach and thank you for calling me out on it.
	Once or twice in my life that's happened.
	Everybody else just doubles down.
	In which case it's like, okay, you prefer lies to me, I'm gone.
	If you prefer lies to me, I'm gone.
	Why on earth would I want to spend time with people who prefer lies And destruction to truth and connection.
	Yeah, we can only meet in reality.
	We can only meet in reality.
	Absolutely.
	Ah.
	You know, it is so satisfying in my mind when the locks and clicks and tumblers all click into place.
	you It's such a relief and a release for me when the planets align, the truth comes out, and it's irrefutable.
	What I want to provide to you guys is absolutely irrefutable stuff.
	Not, well, the proportion of evidence or the preponderance of evidence or proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
	It's like absolute proof.
	Absolute proof.
	Somebody says being called lazy and stupid by my parents for not doing well in school, for not being fast to do chores.
	The ADHD thing is doing many tasks at the same time several times over in your head long before you ever physically get to a thing.
	Very exhausting.
	Trying to do work or run with the ball and chain tied to your ankle and being called lazy or not capable for not being successful at a thing.
	That causes damage.
	I mean, ADHD or just fatherlessness.
	I'm not sure.
	you you
	Let's get fathers back in the household and see how much ADHD we have left.
	I mean, we men are so constituted that we don't often respect women as authority figures.
	I mean, right or wrong, good or bad, it's just the way in nature is.
	I mean, I'm not apologizing for it, it's just a fact.
	It's really tough for a boy to accept a mother as an authority figure, both because he's got to learn how to be a man and not just obey women, because if he obeys women he can't ever be a father himself, because women don't respect men who just obey them.
	And also because women tend to have a pretty shrill way of enforcing discipline.
	There's not a relaxed, calm, you know, Adama style, low voice, let's do it this way, right?
	I mean I know there are of course hysterical and aggressive men and I get all of that, but in general male authority tends to be less shrill and Male authority as a whole, female authority I don't know this could just be my experience so and it's certainly not the case in my current family and so I could be completely wrong about all of this but in my experience female authority it tends to be they take it a lot more personally if you don't obey them.
	Like women get upset, mothers get upset if you don't obey them because they think that they should be obeyed and it's disrespectful and it's personal and it's emotional.
	Whereas men are like I'm trying to teach you something that's going to keep you safe or productive like you need to listen to me because this is the right way to do things.
	Whereas for moms it tends to be you need to listen to me because I'm really upset and taking it personally and you're being disrespectful if you don't.
	And boys don't respond to that.
	Boys don't respond to that.
	Boys don't respond to... I'm morally insulting you if you don't do what I say.
	You're a bad kid, you're a disrespectful kid, you're this or that, the other.
	Boys do not respond.
	I'm sure girls don't that much either, but I can only speak from a boy's standpoint.
	It's gross.
	It's gross.
	Somebody says, what I truly hated is when My mother would say, why aren't you like so-and-so?
	Her kids can do this and that.
	Why can't you?
	Right.
	This would make me doubt myself so much.
	It was so cruel of her to do this to me as a child.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, no, I remember my mother would get mad at my brother because one time we were at my aunt's place and my uncle said to my brother, uh, hey, he just said somebody left the cap off the toothpaste tube and my brother flew up, my mother would always say, you just flew up the stairs and did it and why don't you listen to me and you listen to him and it's like, Because he wasn't shrieking.
	Because he wasn't taking it personally.
	Because he wasn't panicking and felt that I had to obey him because of vague feelings of hysterical offense and upset and he was just like saying it.
	Like, yeah, just somebody should fix that, right?
	All right, Stanislavski, famous acting teacher.
	When the actor has been acting so much that he's believing that he is in reality the role he is portraying, you have to fire him immediately.
	What you described did remind me of this, so I'd ask you, Steph, if this could have been seen in your own life experience.
	I don't know what that question means.
	Yeah, my mother takes everything so personally, it's so annoying.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, for sure.
	All right.
	Questions, comments, any last tips, my friends?
	I have no problem with the fact that women take things personally.
	I mean, that's a beautiful part of female nature.
	Just for older boys, right?
	In the past, when there was a family breakup, the children would go with the man.
	Because women were absolutely essential from pregnancy to the age of seven or so and then after that the authorities should shift to the males, right?
	Because the women are about keeping the babies alive and the men are all about preparing them for adulthood.
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	Oh, I don't remember what my hat says.
	Honestly, I grabbed it, I don't know, years and years ago.
	I think at a garage sale.
	Because, you know, if I go out someplace and I don't have a hat and it suddenly turns sunny, oh, gotta grab a hat.
	So, I don't know what it says.
	It's some... You tipped on my site!
	Thank you, brother!
	You're connecting some dots.
	For me, why at least admitting you did wrong is necessary for reconciliation.
	If you don't admit you did wrong, then you're not living in the same reality as the person you wronged, and it's impossible to meet.
	Well, no, because maybe you didn't do wrong.
	I mean, I get accused of wrongdoing and it's not true, right?
	Mujeres.
	Isla Mujeres, right?
	Island of the women.
	So, no, I mean, just because you get accused of wrong doesn't mean you have to agree, right?
	Dad was there, Edwardian attitudes and tyrannical.
	Do what I say because I said so.
	Mom would use verbal abuse until I exploded.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Men tend to enforce rules.
	Women tend to be upset.
	I mean for women of course emotional sensitivity is very high and again that's beautiful.
	They need to be attuned to nonverbal infants.
	So they need to have, like you know when you crank things up?
	I mean I remember a friend of mine gave my brother an audio tape back in the day when you'd make audio tapes.
	And I remember he said, oh, this is a great song, but you're going to have to really turn up the volume, because I just can't get the volume to play.
	But trust me, it's a fantastic song.
	And the opening is kind of delicate, but really worthwhile.
	And so my brother, of course, cranked up the stereo.
	And then, bum, bum, bum, bum, came out from like, he just cranked up to maximum volume the opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
	Almost gave my brother a heart attack.
	It's not funny at all.
	Not funny at all.
	Yeah, men tend to enforce, do it because otherwise you're against the rules.
	Women tend to be, do it because otherwise you're upsetting me.
	And upsetting me is bad, right?
	So, men tend to be a little bit more objective in the enforcement of rules.
	Women tend to be a little bit more reactive and emotional in the, quote, enforcement of rules, and so on, right?
	So these things can certainly go that way.
	And again.
	Very great strengths.
	I absolutely love women of death.
	Great strengths in both males and females.
	But obviously we have divided up labor in some ways, right?
	Because, you know, one of the ways that moms enforce rules is to be upset.
	Because as babies and toddlers and little kids, you really don't want to upset mom.
	She's your source of comfort and food and so on.
	So being attuned to mom and not wanting to upset mom is very healthy and right.
	But you've got to grow out of that.
	And you've got to start obeying objective rules and reality and reason and facts.
	Right?
	Because women can be upset and men will bend reality to make things better for them.
	If the man shoots at the deer and misses and cries, the deer doesn't die and feed him, right?
	So, we men, we have to deal with objective reality, which means we have to subjugate ourselves to rational, objective, material, empirical rules.
	So, if you're training men as boys to subject themselves to emotional outbursts and to be
	slaves to upset, then they won't be providers when they get older.
	Thank you very much.
	All right, let me just see if there are any last questions here.
	Really appreciate everyone coming by tonight.
	I promise I'll look at this goofy hair, right?
	That's why I'm wearing a hat, because I'm getting all kinds of Christopher Lloyd hair going, so I need to get that sorted.
	I just, you know, haven't been in a convenient place to get a haircut.
	Whenever my mom would act upset when I was a kid, I just didn't take her seriously.
	Yeah, we boys, we hate this.
	We hate, hate, hate the idea or the argument that we have to change because our mom is upset.
	Like, I'm sorry ladies, you know, you can say what you should, it doesn't matter.
	It's like saying to men, well, you should be chubby chasers, like you should like the overweight women, or you should find women who are 60 as attractive as women who are 30.
	And it's like, I mean, being lectured about basic reality is kind of pointless.
	Does a barber give a discount to bald guys?
	No.
	So, yeah, like we just, we hate it.
	And for women, if you're a single mom, you either need to find a way to not take disobedience personally, Or you need to get a man in to start giving some rules.
	But boys, my god, we absolutely find it repulsive in our very souls to be subjugated by emotionality.
	It is enraging and horrifying and appalling and negative and destructive.
	Oh, it shouldn't be this way.
	I don't care.
	We have howdies, not innies.
	This is our nature.
	This is our nature.
	And the sooner the men stop apologizing for their nature, the better.
	On a lighter note, why are you no longer afraid of the sun?
	I've just been reading about some of the vitamin D stuff and how where there's more sun there actually tends to be less vitamin D and even when you account for skin lightness and demographics and so on.
	I'm still obviously, I'm not out all day in the sun but I used to cover up in sunscreen and all that kind of stuff and I'm just less afraid of the sun.
	My mom always got upset at me when I did something she disliked.
	In my teens I just turned to anger and rage.
	Yeah, because it's kind of claustrophobic, right?
	So, just, it's claustrophobic when you've got to... because women can be kind of moody and if you try to obey a woman's moods, your mom's moods, you end up paralyzed.
	Because sometimes she likes stuff, sometimes she doesn't.
	Could be hormonal, could be menopausal, could be period-based, and so on.
	Right?
	So you just get paralyzed.
	At least with a man who's trying to teach you some objective rules or how to deal with reality, you're dealing with facts, you're dealing with reason, you're dealing with empiricism.
	Right?
	If your dad teaches you how to build a table, you know, getting upset isn't going to change the outcome.
	And so for a man to be dragged into a woman's upset, into mom's upset, and to feel like he has to obey because the woman is upset, for that man it feels like tentacles are pulling you down at a quicksand and you've got to fight and chew and bite your way to get out.
	That's how I was raised.
	Obey my mother, and especially when she's upset.
	If I didn't, my father would step in to back her up with furious rage.
	Right, so that's the enforcement arm of feminine upset, right?
	Which is now the state as well, right?
	Women are upset so we can't have a society.
	Just hit me, I want to make sure that, because this could just be more my personal experience of what I've seen, hit me with a why if as a man you lost respect if your mother was trying to be a rules enforcer through emotionality, through being upset and offended and how dare you and that's inappropriate and I'm so upset and if you loved me you'd obey and if you got that kind of stuff did you, I certainly rebelled against it absolutely ferociously like literally I was fighting for my life.
	I felt like I was fighting for my life getting out of that quicksand.
	I just felt like I was going to be a slave forever if I fell into that and just spent the rest of my life trying to please unstable women.
	It's like, oh God, no, no, no, no, can't do it.
	Like, if that succeeds, the tribe dies.
	Men don't get used to dealing with objective facts but rather appeasing aggressive emotions and appeasing aggressive emotions rather than dealing with objective facts doesn't get any crops sowed, it doesn't get any fences built, it doesn't get any houses built, it doesn't get any game trapped, it doesn't get any of that stuff.
	Yeah, it's really.
	And we feel this all over the place.
	So, you know, just for those of you who don't know, like, you know that old meme, it's like, hey, when you tell a joke so funny that HR wants to hear it too.
	Like, so going into this hyper-sensitive, appropriate, inappropriate, HR-based, pink ghetto nonsense that is like a noose around the neck of productive men... Ooh!
	All of this creepy, free-floating, vaguely-it's-going-to-go-in-your-permanent-record careening that's going on in society.
	Men hate this stuff!
	We hate it with a burning testosterone passion!
	Because you can't get away from it now!
	It's everywhere!
	Isn't everyone who banned me was a female, if I remember rightly?
	Yeah, it's, it's just, and then, you know, Elon Musk comes back in, it's like, yeah, let's do free speech again, right?
	Ah, it's gross!
	It's gross.
	That letter from HR, it's time to come in and talk about, could have said something inappropriate, blblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblbl It can be hard to think about that much emotionality, and men can't compete because they're not equipped with emotionality the same way, so fighting on that battlefield means you always lose.
	Yeah, and of course we understand that the deplatforming comes because women are upset, in general, right?
	Deplatforming comes because women are upset.
	Whereas men are like, yeah, if he's wrong, prove him wrong.
	Prove him wrong.
	DEI is an invention of women.
	Oh, but leftism as a whole is female nature plus the state.
	So, women are programmed to use coercion to redistribute resources to those who are more vulnerable and less able.
	Of course, right?
	If you've got, you know, five kids under the age of 10, let's say 10-8-2, sorry, 10-8-6-2 and newborn, you don't just put a bunch of food out and let whoever grab what they want because the baby will starve and the ten-year-old will get all the food, right?
	So, if, you know, the bigger kid's taking food from the younger kids, the mom has to intervene and, if necessary, pull the kid out of... pull the food out of the kid, give it to the younger kid.
	So, using force to redistribute resources is essential to female nature, and it's a beautiful thing.
	It's why we're all alive.
	I say this as a younger sibling myself.
	It's kind of important that I wasn't in a free-for-all against my brother, because he would have won!
	Bigger, right?
	So, women using force to redistribute resources to the vulnerable, and the underrepresented, and the excluded, the marginalized, all this, I mean, just, it goes into the female nature to coercively redistribute resources to keep toddlers alive in the face of grabtastic ten-year-olds.
	And it's beautiful and perfect and wonderful, right?
	You combine that with the state, well, you have some serious problems, right?
	All right.
	Well, that's a cozy two hours.
	I really appreciate everyone dropping by.
	If you're listening to this later, you know that this is gold.
	And here's the other thing too.
	I really don't repeat myself that much.
	A little bit here.
	I've talked about this before, but it just came up here at the end.
	But there's a lot of new stuff.
	And this is after 18 years, man.
	There's a lot of new stuff.
	You come by here because there's new stuff.
	I'm not repeating myself.
	It's not the same old speech over and over again.
	And the same old arguments and data and ideas, like you were getting new stuff all the time.
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