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Dec. 2, 2024 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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Hong Kong is going big on Bitcoin.
Hong Kong to remove tax on Bitcoin and crypto gains for investment funds.
Okay.
Rat bastards as a whole.
Investment funds.
What's wrong with private people?
But that's interesting.
Half of misogynistic tweets were sent by women.
Study finds.
Demos research reveals women and girls as well as men are responsible for using misogynistic words and abusive Manners online.
That's interesting.
Did you know?
That exactly 11 years ago, today, the first Wall Street research paper on Bitcoin was released, and it forecasted $100,000 Bitcoin price by 2024. Good job!
December 1st, 2013, 11 years ago, today, and The first Wall Street research paper on Bitcoin, forecasting 100,000 Bitcoin price by 2024. That's pretty wild.
In terms of Canada, oh my, oh my.
So to qualify for a home in Toronto and Vancouver, you need to be earning over $230,000 a year, at which point the government thinks you're rich and taxes you at over 50%.
This is from Steve Saretsky, completely broken system.
It's kind of...
It's kind of...
It's kind of hard to argue.
So I suppose I've gotten in trouble, blah, blah, blah, whatever annoys, who cares, over the last...
Oh, forever, ever, amen, for talking about hypergamy.
And actually, it was a woman named Janet Heimlich I had on the show many years ago, who first taught me about hypergony.
And...
Thank you.
She pointed out that as women become more educated and more wealthy and accumulate more property, it becomes tougher and tougher for them to settle down with a man because they want a man at their level or higher, right?
At their level or higher.
So, from the New York Times, they had an article that came out just yesterday.
How are messed up dating culture leads to loneliness, anger, and Donald Trump?
So women are pulling ahead, making it harder to fulfill their Cinderella fantasy.
Even though the economic pressure went down for women, they still want to marry up more than ever.
Women's college enrollment first eclipsed men's around 1980. Past two decades or so, this gap has become a chasm.
In 2022, men made up only 42% of 18 to 24-year-olds at four-year schools, and their graduation rates were lower than women's.
Since 2019, there have been more college-educated women in the workforce than men.
Yeah, the show is 2183. The show is 2183. So, Cinderella may now have her own castle.
This is from the New York Times.
Single women are also exceeding men in rates of home ownership, but she is unlikely to be scouring the village for a housekeeper with a certain shoe size.
A 2016 study in the Journal of Marriage and Family suggests that even when economic pressure to marry up is lower, cultural pressure to do so goes nowhere.
A recent paper from economist St. Louis Federal Reserve found that since the 1960s, when women's educational attainment and workforce participation first began to surge, Americans' preference for marrying someone of equal or greater education and income has grown significantly.
And there was, in 2017, an article from Medium analyzed 32 romantic comedies from the 1990s and the 2000s, and precisely zero of them featured broke losers or broke guys.
So all-starred, smart, ambitious women, only four out of the 32 featured a woman with a higher status job than her male love interest.
Husbands were the happiest in a 2019 study.
Husbands were the happiest when their wives contributed 40% of the family's income.
Any percentage above this threshold, however, increase their anxiety.
So women's growing success coupled with the belief that a male partner must always be more successful gives the shrinking pool of more successful men tremendous power.
Oh yeah, like if you're going to university these days and you're a reasonably attractive guy, you are set, man.
You are good.
Because, you know, there's so many women there that you basically have a harem if you want it.
In 2017, researchers at the University of Utah found that in unbalanced populations, quote, the more common sex must cater to the preferences of the rarer sex in order to acquire a mate.
This could explain why today social media is rife with male fantasies from beautiful submissive trad wives to the hyperfeminine sorority pledges of Bama Rush.
It could also explain why, alongside popular hashtags like hashtag marry up and hashtag rich men, another trending topic for women is celibacy.
And while a small group of hashtag rich men may be reaping the benefits, many others find themselves shut out.
According to Richard Reeves, whose book, A Boys and Men, explores the reasons behind the growing gender achievement gap, heterosexual men who fall behind their female peers often experience a hit to both their romantic prospects and their sense of identity, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Romantic pessimism, of course.
Thanks.
Thank you.
So, what is the solution, right?
The manosphere would have us believe that this situation was inevitable, that women have emasculated men with their success, and now complain that there aren't enough real men to go around.
In truth, our culture is broken, because while we have acknowledged the limiting nature of the peasant to princess storyline, we've not done the same for the prince.
Over the past 60 years, as girls and women have fought their way into classrooms and boardrooms, society has expanded its idea of womanhood accordingly, yet her definition of manhood has failed to evolve alongside it.
Letting go of the male breadwinner norm is not an instant fix for our culture, but we can't move forward without that step.
After all, breadwinner is not only a limiting identity, it's also a relative one.
If we don't release men from the expectation, any plan to help them regain lost ground will have to also ensure that women never catch up.
The zero-sum paradigm has always been a feature of Trumpism, which is all about keeping resources with the right kind of people.
But if we are willing to reject the manosphere's narrow ideas for masculinity, we will find that it's possible for both men and women to thrive at the same time.
And in work and in love, the future is ours to create.
Don't let anyone tell you it's fairytale.
So ladies, look, it's really simple.
It's absolutely simple.
All you need to do is overcome four billion or so years of evolution with some polysyllabic phrases from uberfeminists.
All you got to do is overcome all of your biological programming to be attracted to a more successful wealthy provider male.
What the unholy fuck is going on in people's brains.
I mean, this is like the idea of profit, right?
Oh my God.
Profit is hardwired into our DNA. Profit is calories, right?
Like we are built for capitalism because of calories.
So any species which expends more calories getting food than it gets out of that food dies, dies off, right?
So all of these successful species over the last 4 billion years have had calorie profits.
And not just calorie profits for themselves, but calorie profits with enough excess calories to provide for their offspring.
So, a man needs about a 9 to 1 excess ratio of resources to provide for a wife and children.
In other words, men can live on about 10% what they need to spend in order to get a wife and kids throughout most of our evolution.
So, men have to have A 900% ROI every day on their calorie expenditures.
I mean, more, really, but let's just make it 10 to 1, make it nice and easy.
So all life is based upon profit, all life.
Mating rituals, you expend time, energy, and resources for your mating rituals, and then you get offspring and all of that out of it.
So all life is founded on profit.
Profit in calories, profit in investment in sexual market value, profit in investment in children, and so on.
All life, all life.
Like, profit and life are the same thing.
You can't have life without profit, and you can't have profit, of course, without life, and rocks don't care about profit.
So, from the very building blocks of our genetics all the way up to the most abstract concepts we have, Profit is interwoven into life.
And then, fucking Marxists come along, and what do they say?
Oh, you just abandoned profit.
We can just create new human beings.
They're not interested in profit.
We just, you know, just work like Boxer, the horse in Animal Farm.
Just work for the idea.
Work for the abstract.
Don't work for profit.
Telling you to not be a human being is the most bizarre con in intellectualism that has virtually ever been conceived of.
I don't understand.
What is the people's fragile relationship to their own biology that some asshole with a beard can come along and say, okay, do the opposite of everything that makes you human.
Do the opposite of everything that makes you alive.
Do the opposite of everything your ancestors had to do in order to deliver life unto you.
Do the exact fucking opposite of life!
And you'll be great!
Like, I've never understood what is wrong with people.
Like, what is wrong with people where some loser, idiot, fucking failure can come along and tell you to do the exact opposite of life, and you're like, sounds great!
So, going to women and saying, okay, women, Although it has been true for billions of years that females need to seek out males with excess resources.
Although in virtually every mammal species, the male is larger and stronger and more driven and more ambitious than the female, because the female in every pair-bonded, certainly mammal species, needs the male to provide and protect.
So, although it is woven into your genetics, just do the exact fucking opposite.
I mean, it's like giving people a meal of gravel and saying, just will your stomach to digest it.
I'm genuinely fucking baffled at how people can be talked out of everything that makes them alive and human.
I don't understand.
Just women, just go against every single piece of biological programming.
Have you guys seen this video?
It's on X, probably other places too.
So they raised a beaver from a baby.
And the beaver, it's in a house, right?
And the beaver is dragging all of the pillows from the couches and making a dance.
It's never been exposed to beavers.
It's never been in a river.
It's never seen a dam being built.
They haven't watched documentaries.
It's never had it trained.
Its behavior is hardwired into its genetics.
There is no worse tyrant than the person who can fool you into doing the exact opposite of who you actually and really and totally are.
So going to women and saying, just do the opposite.
Of everything that has had you survive and exist as a person, as a species, as a life form.
Just do the exact, you know, snap your fingers and do the opposite.
Why does anyone listen to this shit?
Help me out, brothers and sisters.
Help me out.
How the fuck does anyone listen to this shit?
I don't know.
It's bizarre.
It's bizarre.
Just, yeah, do the opposite.
Just do the opposite and everything will be fine.
The question about the Spanish teacher is going to get posted, I think.
I got your bachelor's degree and still haven't had much success with women.
Yeah, just do the opposite.
Don't have any in-group preferences.
Don't be masculine as a male.
Don't be feminine as a female.
Steph, when you were in the tech industry, about how many books do you think you read per year to help you?
Sorry, every time a new question is posted, they all flip away.
Yeah, and hypergamy is a real thing.
I mean, people take this weird pride in being the opposite.
I don't know what it is.
It's like, well, I can be a woman and I can be very successful and I can date a broke loser and I can be the primary breadwinner and that's going to be fine.
I find it so bizarre that people can take pride in going against everything that kept their ancestors alive and delivered life unto them.
How the unholy hell is that even remotely possible?
How the unholy hell is that even remotely possible?
Like, what is wrong with people that they're just so much programmed to do the exact opposite of everything that kept them alive?
I just find it very very strange yeah it's very very strange Hey, Steph, been long for the ride with you since your car commute conversation day.
It's a long time.
I thought that said boner, although that's good too.
Long time donor and a dad to a happy and healthy eight-year-old.
Thank you so much for everything you do.
Relocated out of Canada to Singapore a while back to escape the crazy atmosphere there.
Hope to grab a coffee with you next time I'm through Toronto.
Cheers.
Very nice.
Nature has truth on its side.
It will always win.
Someone says, I think people misunderstand or lose sight of their own circumstances by comparing them with others, or at least how other people present their circumstances.
The 1 to 9 ratio doesn't seem right.
I'm thinking of a typical man with a family.
If he took away his obligations to his family and left him with 10% of his income, I don't think he could survive out of that.
Of course he could.
I mean, have you not seen the videos where men, what do we, we want a fucking futon, an Xbox and a TV.
And the TV can sit on the box it came in.
Thank you.
Thank you.
If a man, if you, I mean, monks famously live sort of cheaply, right?
If you're a man and you're not interested in dating, you can live ridiculously cheaply.
It is women who drive nesting and materialism.
I mean, come on, man, just go to the mall.
What percentage of stores in the mall are dedicated?
Thank you for the tips.
What percentage of stores in the mall are dedicated to male consumerism?
What percentage?
honestly for Canada as a whole the size of government represented 40.5% of the economy Thanks.
Thank you.
From 2007 to 2022, government spending as a share of the economy increased in 8 out of 10 provinces.
Furthermore, 7 provinces experienced an increase in the size of government since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
So, two-fifths of the entire Canadian economy is government.
Thank you.
Yeah, I mean, what do you need as a man?
I mean, I won't go into the details, but when I was a grad student, this is in my sort of mid-late 20s, I paid $270 a month for rent, all-inclusive.
I had one room in a house.
I paid $270 a month for rent.
I biked everywhere on an old bike I'd had for many years.
I would whip up giant vats of pasta with tomato sauce and then eat that with some cheese sprinkled on top.
I had a gym membership for free because I was at the University of Toronto, so I had a gym membership, played squash and all of that.
I remember it was $2.70 to get PETA. A pita, like a Greek pita with meat.
And I would view that as a real luxury.
I would rarely do that.
I would have, you know, store-bought foam packet cereal, like the stuff that comes in the big bags, splash of milk, and you're good to go.
And I didn't go on vacations.
I would buy...
I bought a computer.
I remember at a place called Mighty Max, I bought a 386SX25 with one One meg of RAM and a 40 meg hard drive.
And I used that thing for years.
I used that thing for years.
I ended up selling it for 900 bucks.
It didn't even cost me that much.
It had a modem, believe it or not.
The first time I ever went online, it had a modem.
So, I mean, I never regretted spending any money on technology because it always was great for doing work.
So...
What do you need?
I didn't, right?
I mean, you get one bar of soap and toothbrush and toothpaste.
I mean, I didn't go to the dentist for many years.
I mean, I could even have got it pretty cheap as a student.
Anyway, so yeah, you can live dirt cheap.
And I wasn't like, oh my God, I need more stuff.
The I need more stuff comes along when you're married.
I don't complain about it.
It's not a negative thing.
It's just a reality, right?
Somebody says, a man says, I don't even need real furniture.
It's only women that complain when they come over.
They're like, I'm not sleeping on a futon.
A futon is a cab.
So I'm like, you want a real bed?
LOL. Yeah.
Yeah.
All right, let's see here.
And if you've known bachelors, like if you've known guys who are bachelors for a long time, you absolutely know how they live.
I mean, a friend of mine was living...
I literally...
This is too much even for me.
He had some furniture from his mother that he barely used, and he lived...
He slept on a ratty old army cot.
I mean, he could have upgraded by getting a cardboard box from a homeless guy.
That's how he lived.
And he actually, he inherited a car, but never bothered to get his license because he didn't want to pay.
He's like, I'm fine with the bus, right?
I mean, there'd be like no economy if it was mail-driven.
Well, there'd be an economy in electronics and flashlights, maybe.
I don't know.
Crazy.
Crazy.
I think they see capitalism as coercive rather than beneficial.
I'm not sure what that refers to.
There is no, not all women are like that, or men that aren't like that, and there shouldn't be.
We are just fine how we are.
Yeah, it's just a satanic thing, right?
Marx used envy to the extreme, yeah.
This choking rage of being left behind is the foundation of most violent revolutions.
The problem is a combination of Could you really afford rent somewhere on 10% salary?
Any thoughts on the news about Margot Robbie?
You can afford rent, just don't live downtown.
Let's see.
What is the news about Margot Robbie?
Margot Robbie gave good face.
All right.
Margot Robbie, what is going on?
All right.
Search time.
What's going on?
She demanded to go nude for the Wolf of Wall Street.
Yeah.
Thank you.
What can I tell you?
I mean, there is unfortunately a fairly common meme about That a woman's primary agency is her sexuality, right?
And if you don't understand that, then you need to go arguing with women online.
If you go and argue with women online, you will occasionally get recent arguments, and it's not like men have a whole bunch of them either.
But if you argue with women online, I mean, this is sort of back to my famous Taylor Swift tweet or the tweet about if women can't get drafted, then they need to not talk about war in the same way that if men can't get pregnant, they need to not talk about abortion.
But...
Men, of course, have an absolute right to talk about abortion because there are males involved.
Half of the abortions are males because men are forced to pay for babies through the welfare state and that if women choose not to have babies, then demographics change, which can be destabilizing for men's peace in the long run.
I don't see...
I don't see any news.
So, yeah, if you're going to...
Hint.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
I don't know what you're doing.
Give me some news.
In a live stream, don't make me guess at what's going on.
Yeah, she had a kid?
She had a kid?
I don't know.
Why is that news?
Why is that news?
I have no idea.
But try to be helpful when you're doing a show.
If I'm doing a live stream, try to be helpful.
Don't give me guessing games when I'm doing a live stream.
It's kind of annoying.
All right.
The hint.
Jesus.
Now, total transaction value in 2023. Mastercard, $9 trillion.
Visa, $14.8 trillion.
Bitcoin, $36.6 trillion.
Isn't that something?
And of course, as of last month, as of last month, Last month was the largest monthly price rise in Bitcoin history.
So in 30 days, Bitcoin went up US $26,267.
Up $26,267 in 30 days.
Any thoughts on Jaguar going woke?
I love it.
I think it's beautiful.
I'm thrilled that Jaguar went woke.
See, the Jaguar is kind of Europe's version of the BMW. You know, what is the difference between a BMW and a porcupine?
Well, with a porcupine, the pricks are on the outside.
I remember when I was a student, it was raining hard, cold as hell, and people were trying to cross the street to get to the subway, and a BMW driver was literally elbowing his way through people and blocking their way to the subway because, you know, he had to get somewhere.
And when I was in the business world, I was told to get a good car.
I couldn't, like, I was given a car allowance because I would drive.
I'd pick up customers and we'd have customers come up and spend a couple of days with us because they wanted to make sure we want some flight by night operation.
And these are customers from like Fortune 500 companies.
So I'd pick them up at the airport, take them to the hotel, or we would take them out to dinner.
We'd go to a comedy show and just get to know each other because you've got to like each other to do business.
The best business is with people you like.
And so I was told to get a nice car.
For me, I'm like, oh, car allowance.
I grew up so lean that I'm just used to not spending money.
So I was told, oh, you got to get a nice car because everybody knew that I was going to buy some old beater.
And so I did.
I looked at an Audi.
I looked at a BMW. I ended up getting a Volvo.
And the Audi was cool.
It had this Tiptronic thing where it was like half manual.
I learned how to drive on a manual.
It's half manual and half automatic.
So that was really cool.
But they were like, it took 16 months or 14 months to get one.
And I needed the car right away.
I did look at a BMW. I just couldn't do it.
Don't get me wrong.
I love German engineering.
I think Germans are great.
And I love that high IQ. I love the precision, the intellectualism, the very strange sense of humor that occasionally comes out.
But I couldn't join the ranks of the BMW owners.
So Jaguar is a prestige car, right?
It's a prestige car.
I view people who buy prestige cars as spiritually deficient to the point where they might as well be a hollowed-out chocolate Santa.
Well, because at least the chocolate Santa has some value.
People who buy Stata stuff, I just view them as sad.
Apes shaking their bulbous red butts at people trying to look better.
I want to be around people who have high status due to virtues, right?
People who are great parents, people who are moral people, people who do the right thing, people who stand up for what's right and true and good.
Those are the people I want to be around in terms of status.
That's great stuff.
That's really great stuff.
Love that stuff.
I don't want to be around people who parade their wealth around in stupid and useless trinkets and machines, right?
I mean, come on.
I mean, do you think...
I mean, what high-status stuff am I trying to show here, right?
I'm just trying to talk into a camera and tell some valuable truths.
So I love the fact that a Jaguar went from high-status to cringe-status like that.
Good.
That's your punishment.
That's your punishment for...
Buying stuff for status.
I think it's sad.
I think it's pitiful.
And I'm glad that Jaguar went from high status to cringe right away.
And maybe that will teach you to stop buying stupid stuff for status.
I think that stuff is just terrible.
As somebody wrote on X, I just got a call with one of the most powerful people I know.
There is a country who wants to introduce strategic Bitcoin reserve legislation as quickly as possible.
But they aren't stopping there.
They want more.
This is just the beginning.
Gradually, then, suddenly.
Amazing.
As of a day ago, more than $5 billion worth of Bitcoin has been withdrawn from cryptocurrency exchanges over the past three days.
That's pretty wild.
At 105,000 US, Bitcoin overtakes the market cap of Google.
60 plus publicly traded companies worldwide now hold over 522,000 Bitcoin.
Russia's President Putin has officially signed the law regulating Bitcoin and crypto as property and accepting transactions from the VAT tax, value-added tax tax, VAT. There's a really wild thing.
A new study shows large language models, AI, outperform neuroscience experts at predicting experimental results in advance of experiments.
86% versus 63% accuracy.
That's incredible.
You can literally run the AI on your experiment and 86% of the time it will be accurate, which is better than the weather.
What's going on here?
Of course, Russia has recognized Bitcoin as property.
Morocco has legalized it after a seven-year ban.
China has declared Bitcoin as property.
Brazil has introduced the Bitcoin strategic reserve bill, and that's just wild.
The Bitcoin balance on exchanges as of two days ago just hit an all-time low.
So there's a supply shock incoming.
French department store Printeps to accept Bitcoin and crypto payments?
As of two days ago, 17,200 Bitcoins were taken off exchanges in just one day, which is just one.
China has discovered a gold-filled cave worth nearly $100 billion in a mountain.
And that's very interesting, of course.
That is very interesting, of course.
Because you can't find more gold, you can't find more Bitcoins.
Nearly half of master's degree programs leave students financially worse off, and just one subject results in a static salary over $100K. So, yeah, I mean, the purpose of education is to kill the birth rate, right?
I don't really know what is confusing about that.
Somebody wrote, if you bought $100 worth of Bitcoin every time the media called it dead, you'd have $99,952,524.62 as of two days ago.
So if you bought $100 worth of Bitcoin, every time the media calls it dead, you'd have almost $100 million right now.
That is really, very funny.
That is really funny.
All right, let's see here.
Why would I care about Margot Robbie giving birth?
I'm not sure why that's important.
Love from Libya, Steph.
Love back, baby.
Thank you so much.
All right.
Thoughts on Britain recently pushing the medically assisted death, the MAID? Medical assistance in death, is that what it is?
Yeah, Canada's been doing it for a while.
I think it's now the fifth or so, the largest cause of death in Canada.
Well, I mean...
Governments can't pay their bills and old people are expensive.
I don't know that there's much more to it than that.
I saw this supposed financial expert.
I think he was from the government.
He's being interviewed and he was saying, well, you know, the American government can't go bankrupt because we can just print our own money.
It's like, okay, but if you can just print your own money, why do you borrow?
Why do you borrow money?
And he couldn't really answer it.
I mean, it's not complicated.
I'm sure he was smart enough to answer it.
He just didn't want to.
So, if the government can print money, why does it borrow money?
Well, it's not super complicated.
The reason why governments borrow money rather than print money is borrowing money defers the deflation down the road.
So if, of course, you borrow money, then you don't have to print it.
If you borrow a billion dollars, you don't have to print a billion dollars right away and you're deferring the inflation down the road.
So the more you can disconnect cause and effect, right?
This whole wax thing, right?
The more you can disconnect cause and effect, the harder it is for the average person to figure out what the heck is going on.
All right.
Somebody says, Steph, when are you going to reclaim your mind?
Yep, being passive-aggressive here.
By dropping this arbitrary concept, God, which refers to nothing that you keep using.
God does not refer to nothing.
God has a definition.
All right.
Women with too many options are the problem societally.
It means no babies.
Women don't want to do labor.
They want to have everything handed to them.
I wouldn't necessarily, I mean, the desire or the goal of getting mad at women for corruptions of statism is blaming your fellow inmate for bad prison rules, right?
The idea of getting mad at women because of statism is really sad.
And boy, talk about falling into the trap laid by corrupt people.
I mean, that's really, don't get mad at women because of the state.
I mean, it's like, oh, I couldn't believe how lazy those Soviet workers were and Stalinism.
Oh, they were so lazy.
It's like, no, it's just wrong, man.
Are women in higher positions due to merit or DEI hiring?
What are the male, female numbers in STEM at universities?
So women generally get a lot of government work.
They get a lot of HR work.
They get a lot of DEI stuff.
Women are being bribed to not have children, right?
It's a much more civilized war than what we used to have.
So it used to be the case that women had a lot of children.
Those children would then be drafted in a giant war and blown fucking sky high to the point where you could barely even reassemble a body.
Right.
So women used to it's much more environmentally effective to bribe women to not have children than to have women have children and then draft them into a war to get mustard gassed and have their toes gnawed off by rats and, you know, drape on the barbed wire in no man's you know, drape on the barbed wire in no man's land.
And so we have a much more efficient way of depopulating people at the moment.
It's very sad, of course, but you simply give women a lot of money.
And when you give women a lot of money and you give them a lot of status and you give them a lot of propaganda, then they'll just stop having children.
And then you get a lowering of the population as a whole.
And again, it's much more civilized, in my view, for someone to not be born than it is for them to be born and drafted and then blown to bits.
bits all right uh but people's gonna believe yeah yeah i can't i can't do legal You need to talk to a lawyer, obviously, right?
All right, what have we got here?
Now, at the same time, though, if you have been around, I don't know if you have, you can tell me, tell me, of course, if you have, if you've I don't know if you have, you can tell me, tell me, of course, if you have, if you've been around people who are dealing with somebody who is aging out in a terrible fashion, and a right?
They get really frail, especially if their mind goes...
I mean, the spike protein crosses the blood-brain barrier, so people are, I think, getting some pretty heavy neurological effects.
So if people are aging out mentally and losing their memories and losing their connection and losing their identity, it is a long and ugly, ugly journey.
And as far as euthanasia goes, I'm not a fan, of course, of governments having that power.
But I can see, you know, the euthanasia question is very tough.
If people have living wills, right, then it's not euthanasia.
If somebody says, look, if I pass below a certain cognitive threshold, I'm fine with ending my life.
Because you just live in this life of chaos and confusion.
It's really like being trapped in a waking nightmare for 10 years.
It's fairly monstrous.
So that's not euthanasia in a sense.
That's just the fulfilling of a contract.
But of course, we really haven't had to make any difficult decisions because of government debt, right?
So the cost benefit of If a family, like 90% of your medical costs over the course of your life are in your last six months of life, would you rather give that money to your kids?
I mean, these are all difficult questions, right?
Again, your life is your own property.
You have the right to destroy your own property.
And because it's all this government stuff, whenever you have government debt, you just get overwhelmed with sentimentality and emotions rule the day, right?
Emotions rule the day.
Which is why, you know, you've seen, I'm sure you've seen all of these videos where people are like, oh, do you support migrants coming to the country?
Yes, we've got to help the refugees and the migrants.
It's like, okay, here's one family, they want to come and live in your house.
Oh, God, no, right?
Because then there's sort of personal costs, there's actual personal consequences.
So when other people have to pay, the next generation has to pay, it's all very abstract, then it all just becomes about Emotion, right?
If money is conceived to be free, then denying money to people is like denying air to them.
You know, should people you disagree with have the right to breathe?
Well, yeah, I mean, most sane people would say yes, right?
But because people aren't putting their own money on the line, there's no virtue without sacrifice.
Literally, not like there's no virtue without sacrifice.
There is no virtue without sacrifice.
At all.
And so when people don't have to sacrifice, they're just yapping.
It's my daughter's favorite word these days.
They're just yapping, just yappers, just making noise, feeling good, addicted to false virtues.
All right.
Yeah, blowing up people is blowing up people is not feasible anymore due to nukes, you know.
Yeah, for sure.
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You care about Taylor Swift's fertility, so I don't know why you wouldn't care about Margot giving birth.
Since they're both the same age.
I don't understand that.
I care about...
Why would I care about...
I don't care whether Taylor Swift has kids.
I mean, Taylor Swift is, what, 34 years old.
Taylor Swift is an individual.
I don't care whether any particular individual 44-year-old woman has a child.
Now, Margot Robbie is not an icon for women in the way that Taylor Swift is.
Taylor Swift is the cool friend who justifies your bad life choices as long as she never changes, right?
I've actually talked about this in a recent Q&A. Sorry, my nose is crazy itchy.
Sometimes it happens.
But I talked about this in a recent Q&A. So Taylor Swift is...
I remember the guy who first got me into Ayn Rand.
I was standing on a balcony.
He'd moved to the States.
I was standing on a balcony with him.
And I really, really wanted to know if he was still into Ayn Rand.
This is sort of many years later.
If he was still into objectivism.
And if he'd have said to me, If he'd have said to me, yeah, you know, I liked it when I was younger.
I've found much better stuff.
I've moved on with that.
I've got a more nuanced view of things like I've grown up, you know, it's kind of a little childish, you know, for me, you know, then I would have felt, I would have felt, honestly, I would have felt sad, bad, left behind.
I mean, it's just a natural human thing.
I would have had the integrity to keep going.
But in that moment, and I remember not, I didn't ask him.
And it's funny because, you know, in hindsight, maybe he had the same question to me, right?
But...
One of the problems is friends can really elevate you or friends can absolutely paralyze you.
Choose your friends is choosing your future.
I mean, you don't choose your family, but choosing to stay in the orbit of your family absolutely determines your future.
But your friendships are your future.
If you spend your 20s getting to know cool people doing cool things who are ambitious and mature and dating with the intent to marry and have kids and all that, If you spend your 20s detaching yourself from the Velcro-attached losers and failures and attach yourself to people...
I moved out of the academic and art world because mostly there were losers there.
And I got into the business world.
And through the business world, I met very, very, very successful people.
And did a lot of business.
I don't think I'll ever list these off, but you would know just about every company that I sold my software to.
And I worked with very high-level people, and I worked with very successful people.
And once you get away from the losers and the deadbeats and the weird hobbyists and the guys who sleep on army cuts into their 30s, Then you start spending time around successful people.
Once you start spending time around successful people, opportunities arise of their own accord.
And if you spend your 20s building relationships with successful people, because a lot of successful people want to transfer their knowledge.
I mean, it's part of what I do, right?
But if you start weaving together quality contacts with people, People who are successful, then you can't help but rise.
You can't help but rise.
You internalize their way of thinking.
You internalize their mindset.
You internalize their comfort with their own success.
As opposed to being around these losers who work bad jobs and complain about their bosses and sleep with trashy women and, again, have bizarre hobbies and I mean, honestly, in your 20s, just be around people who have good, decent personal grooming.
I mean, I hate to say it, right?
But yeah, just be around people who've maybe bought some property, who have a nice car.
I know this is not the Jaguar thing, but not some total beater.
And if you spend your 20s building up quality relationships, Then you cash in on your 30s, 40s, 50s, and forever because it just tends to sort of go up and up.
And you provide value of some kind to people who are successful.
They like to spend time with you.
And if they like you, they'll mentor you, which kind of happened to me.
And then in turn, you can mentor others.
And it's this wonderful exchange of information.
But You're not choosing your future in any more foundational way than choosing your companions.
And if you have companions around who are losers and failures and stagnant and so on, then it will justify it.
And I don't know if you've heard of these women like, everyone around me is getting married, everyone around me is having kids, and I'm still single.
They cling together.
This is the ultimate bitter claimers.
They absolutely, desperately cling together.
They cling together.
And they hold each other down.
You know, it is, you know, the famous video of like the embassy in Saigon, you know, the last people are trying to get on the helicopters.
I mean, that's...
So, I mean, that's the people who are still in Loserdom into their 20s.
I mean, you can't help where you're born, but you sure as hell can help who you choose to hang with when you get older.
And there's a familiarity, and there's a safety, and there's a security in hanging out with the losers.
But it's very hard to escape.
It's very hard to escape that orbit because they're just...
The unsuccessful people and the successful people do not travel in the same world.
They don't live in the same places.
They don't.
And a lot of society is getting away from A lot of success is getting away from the people who are sabotagers because you're not just a loser.
I mean, they're a sabotager.
So for a lot of the Taylor Swift fans, which is not the case with Margot Robbie, for a lot of the Taylor Swift fans, the fact that she is pompous and vain and shallow and materialistic and arrogant, right?
And the fact that she...
I don't know, because I don't know much about her music, but I don't know that Taylor Swift has ever done a song about how she is responsible for her bad relationships.
I think it's always, well, he was a loser, and he betrayed me, and we are never getting back together, and I'm all this, and you're going to miss me, and, you know...
I mean, that's like the anthem from Beyonce about, you know, you're in the club and the guy wants you, and if you liked it, then you should have put a ring on it, that kind of stuff.
So this arrogance that men are just bad and you're always the heroic, noble, both the victim and the superwoman at the same time, this is programming.
This is not organic.
This is programming.
And as long as Taylor Swift remains a failure in her relationships, and as long as Taylor Swift Never learns anything and just externalizes everything.
Then she has an endless horde of bitter clingers who are going to pay her to justify their own terrible decisions.
I don't know if you've seen the videos of the girls.
I mean, I've never understood this.
This is one of the things where I was like, okay, men and women are just completely different.
I remember as a kid, when I first saw, I'm sure you've seen these, when the Beatles were playing, They tried touring the States, but it was completely useless because they couldn't even hear their own music.
Have you seen this?
The girls, completely hysterical, screaming at the top of their lungs at these four Liverpoolian boys of reasonable attractiveness, but not exactly Adonis's.
You know, cute and bubbly.
And when you see, and you saw some of this with Prince William when he was younger before, it's not a guy who balded well, but you know, good for him for hanging in there.
But when you see this level of hysteria among girls, and some of them weren't even girls, like young women, like screaming at the top of their lungs, fainting, falling over, like they don't even want to hear the music.
They just, this collective, I mean, this, okay, men and women are really different.
I really can't, I mean, men will throw money at strippers.
And once that woman rain, made $43 million off OnlyFans.
Which is obviously quite demonic.
Taylor Swift, if she were to say...
Let's say she put out a song, and the song was...
I've really screwed up my life.
I've been an adult for 16 years.
I've really screwed up my life.
I chose the wrong guys and I justified it.
And I blamed them and I never took responsibility.
I've done some therapy.
I've realized how much I've damaged people with my music, which is a justification for immaturity and other blaming, which gets people...
I mean, we all love to blame others, but the price for that is you don't grow.
You don't change.
You can't improve.
You can't You can't get more virtuous because all you do is externalize things.
So if she were to write a song apologizing to her fans for constantly singing about how bad men are and what poor victims the women are, and it's never their fault that she had tens of millions of women she'd helped paralyze by justifying their bad choices.
If she were to write a song about that, Like, millions of women would be thrown into catastrophic depressions.
Like, I'm not kidding about this.
I mean, millions of women were thrown into, tens of millions of women were thrown into catastrophic depressions and Princess Diana died because that was the end result of the Princess Fantasy, which is a drunken driver death in a dingy tunnel being chased by photographers and literally vanity slaughtered her.
And, of course, her looks could not protect her.
So, in fact, her looks endangered her.
And women reported significantly improved mental health and happiness after the death of Diana.
So Taylor Swift, she may get married, maybe Travis Kelce or whatever, she may get married, although she would be an impossible person to be married to, really.
But Taylor Swift is the friend who holds the other friends back.
And I'm not saying she's entirely a psyop.
Of course, she's got her own mind, her own thoughts.
But she's obviously a very savvy reader of the female pulse.
And women are desperate for excuses.
I mean, men too, right?
Obviously, but I'm just talking about the female side of things.
Women are absolutely desperate for excuses.
When things go really badly in a woman's life, They're absolutely desperate for excuses that don't hold themselves accountable.
Women are so self-critical that accountability for women is like poker in the dance for men.
Because women have to stave off this anxiety.
They score higher in neurosis than men.
So women have to stave off self-collapse, self-criticism.
Not all, but a lot.
And so for women...
Criticism is almost unbearable for a lot of women.
And so, because criticism is incredibly difficult and painful for women because they're so self-critical, then they have a very, very strong and deep desire, a lot, not all, to be delivered excuses.
Because excuses...
Allows them to avoid self-attack.
But the problem is that whatever you act on to avoid fear only increases that fear in general.
If the fear is particularly and almost solely if the fear is psychological, right?
So women are very much afraid of self-criticism because it's often self-attack.
And so they are desperate for excuses for mistakes they've made.
But the problem is that when they get excuses, they continue to make bad decisions, which means that they are more self-critical, which means they need more excuses, and it really spirals from that.
that and I view Taylor Swift as a manifestation of all of that.
Lots of truth in these talks.
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What would you say to Trudeau if you ran into him on the street?
on earth would I have to say with her.
I thought you said she would be a great mom.
Thank you.
I think she would be a fun mom.
Five years ago, if she'd have become a mom in her 20s, then she would have been a fun mom.
I don't think so much anymore.
Somebody says, I think Marco, oh, this is Marco Roberts.
Marco Roberts' pregnancy sets a good precedent and example for young women to follow.
34 is pretty late, but better late than barren or geriatric like Taylor.
William's a billionaire.
He had the money for the good fake hair Hollywood guys all get.
Yeah, true.
The Canadian Prime Minister is a huge fan of Taylor Swift.
Yes, very true.
Rachel.
All right.
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The big city life is destructive, if not toxic, or often deadly.
I don't have quite the hatred of big cities.
It's statism that is the problem, in my view.
It is not cities as a whole.
All right, let me just get to any other questions or comments.
See if I got anything posted here that I needed to see.
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Alright, let's see here.
Somebody says, I personally think Taylor Swift just has a really high sex drive and she dislikes riding the carousel.
And to some extent, she's being responsible because she knows she's just going to drop the father and become a single mom if she goes off the pill.
So, is your theory that if you have...
Is your theory that she has a high sex drive, therefore she sleeps with different people?
I think that's the exact opposite of the truth.
I think that's exactly the opposite of the truth.
If you have a high sex drive, you want to get into a happy marriage.
If you have a high sex drive, you absolutely want to get into a happy marriage.
You really can't have more or better sex than being in a happy marriage.
And that's just not me.
I'm not Making this up, right?
This is actually pretty well established in terms of facts.
Steph, can you mention your thoughts on RFK Jr. getting the HHS head nomination?
Well, let's see if it actually is going to come true.
I mean, the guy spent 14 years as a heroin addict, right?
That's pretty wild.
And he was a little bit of a sleep aroundy kind of guy.
So, yeah, that is kind of wild.
you Thank you.
That is kind of wild.
Alright, let's see here.
I've always thought that Taylor Swift, if somebody wants to have multiple sex partners, I'm not blaming the man and being serial monogamous.
She feels it spares her from being labeled promiscuous.
You know, it's always the question about the sort of money and fame problem, right?
I mean, I don't know if you...
I wouldn't want it.
As Mike Zornovich had a great term for this many years ago, being jazz famous.
Smart guy, man.
By being jazz famous, right?
Which is, you know, you're known to a small number of aficionados, but you're not, like, you can still walk around and nobody particularly cares.
Being that famous, I very, very much like and appreciate, this is why these live streams are great for me, I hope they're great for you too, but to stay in touch with people, to stay grounded, to...
If you were super famous, right?
I mean, like Zuckerberg, Musk famous, like Mark Zuckerberg has to have like 19 security guards around him when he goes for a jog.
And it's what Elton John said this about Freddie Mercury, just how disconnected he is.
Like he doesn't know the price of milk.
He doesn't know the price of bread.
He just, you know, he lives in a bubble.
And the problem is when you live in a bubble, then other people's perspectives and opinions become your reality, right?
Other people's perspectives and opinions become your reality.
You become almost inadvertently a social metaphysician.
And so you end up being highly manipulated and disconnected from reality.
Significant degrees of fame are very close to a mental illness because it's not like you're generating your own hallucinations, but you're subject to the manipulations of others.
And other people are highly incentivized to both manipulate you and to hide those manipulations from you.
And it just looks really, really bad as a whole.
It is, I think, really bad for your mental health.
The only people who I think would want that kind of fame are, I think, fairly damaged people.
And of course, everyone around them can prophesy, can profit from it.
And therefore, there's no reality.
All right.
All right.
Kash Patel is pretty wild.
We'll see what happens.
We'll see what happens.
I was...
I mean, I haven't talked about this for a while, but one thing I did remember, and this was a huge effect, For me, I had an absolutely brilliant roommate in college.
I was still in touch, actually.
I ended up with two PhDs, and he's a great communicator.
He's one of these people, the Midas Touch.
He's great at everything he does, and he's done a lot.
Almost everything.
He said to me that they've done research on the prisoner's dilemma, and if you're in a A cell and there's a place you can hand your food and things that you need, cigarettes or soap or whatever, back and forth.
That they've run so many different experiments on what the best strategy is.
And the best strategy seems to be, I'm sure it's still the case now.
I was just reading up on this and it still seems to be the case.
Treat people the best you can the first time you meet them.
After that, treat them as they treat you.
So we'll see what happens with Kash Patel, but you can't do better than that.
Somebody says, I don't know if this is true or not, but it's interesting.
Somebody says, I just got off a call with the finance minister of a small Caribbean nation.
They're buying 25 million in Bitcoin right now to put into their currency reserves and are considering adding Bitcoin as legal tender in 2025.
Things are about to get absolutely insane, mind-blown, bullish.
China is looking for an alternative to diversify its 3.3 trillion in FX reserves.
According to the Wall Street Journal, highly likely they're buying Bitcoin.
Yeah.
That is wild.
Thank you.
All right.
Oh, it's a great social rule.
Ever since I heard this in my early 20s, it has been, I mean, 35 years now, it has been a foundation of my relationships as a whole.
Treat people the best you can the very first time you meet them, first time you interact with them.
After that, treat them as they treat you.
If they continue to treat you well, treat them well.
Well, if they treat you badly, treat them badly.
So that has kept me safe from some very bad situations Because, you know, as a male, we've all seen this, right?
Especially if you're a little older.
As a male, you have seen the sharpshooters of circumstances take out men left, right, and center.
You know, some of the sharpshooters are a lack of ambition.
And the lack of ambition usually is related to a lack of trust, not trusting people.
And why do you trust people?
Oh, sir, why do you not trust people?
Why do you have difficulty trusting people?
Because you have to feel your way through every interaction and you don't have a simple rule and principle like treat people the best you can.
First time you interact with them after that, treat them as they treat you.
Well, I have that, you know, obviously I've had my ups and downs in life, but That has kept me safe from a bad marriage.
That has kept me safe from really destructive or litigious business relationships.
That has kept me safe from exploitation when I was obviously a bit more famous than now, a lot more.
So, if you have a simple rule, then you can trust, right?
You can trust yourself.
And when you can trust yourself and trust your judgment, then you can trust people.
When you can trust people, you can interweave your fates and lives into their fates and lives, and then you gain the division of labor and the additional benefits, significant additional benefits of working with other people.
That rule has never gone wrong.
The rule to treat people the best you can, first time you meet them, after that, treat them as they treat you.
I've never, never gone wrong with that rule.
That rule has never, it's never served me poorly, right?
Now, of course, there are exceptions to every general rule, but you still have to have a general rule.
It's like saying, well, I'm not going to eat well and exercise because I could get hit by a bus.
Yes, some people who eat well and exercise do get hit by a bus, and they probably would have had more fun if they hadn't eaten well and exercised, but you still have to.
I mean, the exceptions prove the rule, right?
The sharpshooters of...
I mean, my gosh.
You know, I knew men over the course of my life whose girlfriends got them arrested, whose wives threw them in jail, who got taken for everything in the business world, who lingered and languished in the basements of, despite incredibly high abilities, incredibly low or non-achievement.
I saw men get married and the wives doubled their weight.
Not the men's weight, but yeah, I saw a guy get married to a woman who was 110. She went up well past, she went close to 300. So I've seen these sort of take out, like things, just guys get taken out.
I've seen men falsely accused of terrible things.
I have just seen men go from significant heights of success to living in a car.
I've seen men be bled for hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees.
We've all seen these sharpshooters just taken out, and sometimes it's a headshot in the analogy, right?
And sometimes it's just some debilitating belly wound or something like that.
Very sad.
Any plans to attend your mother's funeral?
I know you had no interest in attending your father's funeral, but it would be an appropriate time to mourn the mom she could have been.
So I'm not sure why I would need to go to my mother's funeral to mourn the mom she could have been.
I mean, my wife is the mom my mom could have been.
And I celebrate that every day.
So, I already celebrate the mother my mother could have been by seeing how great my wife is as a mother.
And I didn't have the opportunity, of course, I didn't have the opportunity to go to my father's funeral because of COVID and not being back.
So the government took away My choice regarding going to my father's funeral.
But no, I would not.
I would not go to my mother's funeral.
I have, you know, I mean, one of the great things about sort of doing self work, self knowledge work, and so on, is you really do genuinely leave things in the past.
And I can go for like a week or two, and I'm being conservative here, it could be longer, without thinking about my mother at all.
I mean, she last had control over me 43 years ago, you know, when I was 15. I confronted her I mean, it's got to be coming on for 30 years now.
28 years.
I mean, she's so far in the rear view.
And I think about her so little that I'm not sure.
To me, it would be completely hypocritical to go to a funeral.
Because if I had unfinished business with my mother, then I would talk to her.
If I had something I wanted to I'm not saying I'm going to be indifferent when she dies, of course.
But I would say that my father's death had little impact on me, but then my father had little impact on me other than all the things he didn't do, which is tricky to see sometimes.
But I won't be indifferent to my mother's death, but what she did those many, many decades ago You treat people the best you can when you first meet them.
And I tried to love my mother when I was very little.
I really did.
I remember being in boarding school and crying over the thought of her and so on, right?
And I tried.
I really did try my very best to do right by my mother.
I gave her money.
I gave her time, attention.
I tried to help her.
I really did try to treat my mother as best as I possibly could.
And the fact that she has not tried to contact me, despite the fact that it's very easy to contact me, she's not tried to contact me for almost 30 years means that she doesn't care, right?
So you treat people the best you can, and then you treat them as they treat you.
I really, I cannot care about people who don't care about me.
That would be For me, that would be shameful.
It would be...
I don't know how to put it exactly.
It would be catastrophic to any sense of self-respect.
It would be like being a stalker.
You know, a stalker is someone who cares about a woman who doesn't care about him or is actually kind of grossed out by him.
And that would just be humiliating, like following a woman around and hiding in the bushes.
I mean, it would be wrong, an invasion of privacy, and ridiculously humiliating, right?
I mean, I've always been of the opinion that, you know, when I was single...
If the woman doesn't want to date me, obviously she has some issue with quality, and best of luck to her, right?
So, why would I have all of this pent-up mourning?
I mean, the woman never really cared about me.
She's had every opportunity in the world to go to therapy, right?
And she won't, right?
Even though it's free for her.
So she doesn't care about me.
So why would I have all of these feelings about someone who doesn't care for me?
That would just be strange to me and kind of pathetic.
I'm not saying you.
I'm just saying that for me, it would be kind of pathetic.
All right.
Can a woman go from 110 to 300 pounds?
Is that even possible?
It certainly has.
Seth, have you seen this X thread about the woman saying, if you don't give me $150, you don't love me?
Well.
Well, well, well.
Yes, but that's kind of sad.
I'm sorry, let me get to the other place where I can get questions from...
Slow down, she don't take no prisoners.
Alright.
Where is my live stream going?
I really feel like there should be a live streamer going on.
Your videos.
Is that right?
Go to get the live stream.
I really should know this.
It was right here, and now it's not.
Ah, swirlies.
That's what we like.
Ah, there we go.
There's little old me.
Ah, right.
Oh, okay, that's not there.
My mother was so wretched that after eight years of carrying around her ashes during a move, I just tossed them in the trash heap as I was getting rid of all meaningless items.
I get that.
I get that.
Do you feel disappointment about not being able to go to your father's funeral?
But I don't like it when arbitrary state power diminishes any of my choices.
I'm not answering questions that are too obvious.
you Somebody says, things changed completely when I held my family of origin to a gold, in my opinion, a perfectly reasonable and attainable standard, and stopped making excuses for them.
It's appalling the insane things my family of origin sweeps under the rug or laughs about looking back.
I'm glad these people, especially my father, won't be involved in my life and my family's life going forward.
I can't imagine the soul-sucking dissonance bubbling under the surface if I were a slave to my family system for the rest of my life.
I'm really sorry that this is your family situation.
That's very sad.
That's very sad.
But yeah, congratulations on getting out.
Somebody says, spot on, Steph.
The more philosophy guided my life, the more I could remove dependencies I had upon people who didn't care about me to the very principle you just mentioned.
Yeah, I mean, it was a big, it's all dusty, long ago, prehistoric revelations now, but I just remember thinking, Does my family know my favorite writers?
Does my family know my favorite musicians?
Does my family know my favorite movies?
Does my family know my favorite arguments or ideas or thoughts?
They didn't really know much about me at all.
You don't really know much about me at all.
Have you ever heard of somatic theory?
Not really, no.
Sorry.
I don't know why everything gets sent out here twice.
I don't think I would have gone to my father's funeral, but I don't like the principal being stripped from me.
I don't like the choice being stripped from me on arbitrary government power.
And the thing is, too, you know, Now, I got distracted.
The thought is gone.
But I'm sure...
Oh, yeah, here we go.
Yeah, so I don't know.
Have you been watching any of the videos?
I can sort of close on this topic.
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Yeah.
But have you seen all of the liberals who are defooing based on politics?
So you see this, right?
Of course, they're not being called cult leaders by the mainstream media.
So the mainstream media, in attacking me for talking about ostracism as a way of protecting yourself from unrepentant and relentlessly abusive people, Or the against me argument.
They never had any problem with what I was doing.
They just didn't like this sort of powerful social tool being in the hands of virtuous people because they wanted to reserve the use of this powerful social tool for corrupt people, right?
So I just, so you understand, it's sort of the general arc of the moral story of me, of this show, of philosophy in this way, that when I said to people, you don't have to spend time with abusive people, And you probably shouldn't spend a lot of time with people who support the use of violence against you for disagreeing with them.
I was called, you know, a cult leader and all kinds of terrible things.
And all of that was not because they have any principle, because none of the leftists who are I mean, the people leaving the country, right?
It was Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi went to England where they ended up five feet underwater, or at least their house did.
So they didn't have any problem with the principle of ostracism.
they just didn't want good people to have access to it, just so you understand the general harm as a whole.
Do you think you'll have an Ayn Rand-like return to the public eye if you're invited to speak across news circuits, et cetera, say a decade or so from now?
Would you like to mainstream peaceful parenting if given the chance, if it was from a good-hearted, well-meaning person with prominence?
Never say never.
Never say never.
I do occasionally miss striding the stage, talking to a thousand people.
It was a lot of fun.
But it could happen.
I heard you say you and Izzy listened to some Taylor Swift songs and thought they were copy and paste, and I couldn't disagree more.
I'd actually go toe-to-toe with anyone willing to compare lyrics against a choosing of mine of Taylor's.
I don't know what the hell that means.
To start, I'd recommend these three.
Tolerate It, which I choose because it's about her relationship with her father and her contemplating cutting it out of her life.
Evermore, Coney Island.
Okay...
So, let's see here.
The song is called Tolerate It.
Let's try it.
Let's try it live.
No, not Michael Robbie Tolerate It.
All right.
All right.
Tolerate the lyrics.
Let's have a look at this.
Eww.
Why does it seem so hard to actually get these loads?
Swift, all right.
Dear God.
Nevermore!
All right.
I really can't believe that it's this hard.
Oh, past week.
There we go.
I still had past week on for the Margaret Robbie thing.
All right.
Here we go.
Tolerate it.
I sit and watch you reading with your head low.
I wake and watch you breathing with your eyes closed.
I sit and watch you.
I notice everything you do or don't do.
You're so much older and wiser than I. So much older and wiser.
And I, I wait by the door like I'm just a kid, use my best colors for your portrait, lay the table with the fancy shit, and watch you tolerate it.
If it's all in my head, tell me now.
Tell me I've got it wrong somehow.
I know my life should be celebrated, but you tolerate it.
Oh, okay.
So she's got...
This is an emotionally distant parent?
Yeah.
So much older and wiser.
So you...
To be tolerated, right?
This is her father.
I greet you with a baffled hero's welcome.
I take your indiscretions all in good fun.
I sit and listen at polished plates until they gleam and glisten.
You're so much older and wiser than I. And I wait by the door.
Just like I'm a kid, use my best colors for your portrait.
Play the table with the fancy shit and watch you tolerate it.
If it's all in my head, tell me now.
Tell me I've got it wrong somehow.
I know my love should be celebrated, but you tolerate it.
While you were out building other worlds, where was I? Where's that man who'd throw blankets over my barbed wire?
I made you my temple, my mural, my sky.
Now I'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life.
Drawing hearts in the byline, always taking up too much space or time.
You assume I'm fine, but what would you do if I break free and leave us in ruins?
Took this dagger in me and removed it.
Gain the weight of you, then lose it.
Believe me, I could do it.
If it's all in my head, tell me now.
Tell me I've got it wrong somehow.
I know my love should be celebrated, but you celebrated.
I sit and watch you.
Yeah.
She wrote this based on the 1938 novel by Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca.
Oh, this is not about her father.
She says, when I was reading Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, I was thinking, wow, her husband just tolerates her.
She's doing all these things and she's trying so hard and she's trying to impress me.
She's tolerating her the whole time.
There was a part of me that was related to that because at some point in my life, I felt that way.
Okay, so it's not about her father.
It's about a marriage.
So I'm a little...
A little confused.
And she is a victim, right?
She's not saying, what am I not doing to generate your love?
She's saying, you are a bad person because you just only tolerate me and you don't love me, even though I'm doing all the right things, right?
So, yeah, no responsibility or anything like that.
All right, my mother...
Sorry, somebody says.
My mother claims she calls me, but I don't answer.
She complains to my siblings and my father about it.
When I have the receipts of my call logs over the years of her not contacting me, I'll show the screenshots to my siblings and dad, which diffuses the topic, but they don't seem to understand why I don't concede and call her regularly and claim I'll regret my decision when she's gone.
It ends up as I just don't talk to them much either.
Oh, so you have...
The psychological dysfunction, which I admit to having myself on a fairly consistent basis, you have this psychological dysfunction that if you provide facts to people, they will change their minds.
Because you're driven by facts, you think that other people are driven by facts, and you think if you give them the facts, they will change their minds.
This is not true.
Most people are programmed...
Out of fear and greed.
And they are absolutely immune to facts.
And this is, Yuri Besmanov is talking about this, he calls it demoralization.
Doesn't matter what facts you show them, they will simply, they might scatter.
It's sort of like when you've got a bunch of crows, and there's a dead raccoon by the side of the road, the cars come by, the crows scatter, and they just come back.
Then they just come back because they want to feast on the crow, want to feast on the dead raccoon, right?
So, yeah.
You can scatter.
We've seen this with, there's something dead on the beach.
Seagulls are all there, or there's food on the beach.
Kid runs through it, and seagulls will scatter, and then they just return.
So you can bring facts to people, and they'll change, and they'll just reconstitute right afterwards to the falsehoods.
Very few people are driven by facts.
Very few people will change their minds based on reason and evidence.
Now, I hope that's not the case in the future, but right now, that's what it is.
All right.
In her song, Back to December.
Alright, let's do this one.
Let's do this one.
Back to December.
Yeah, a woman whining that a man is not paying her much attention.
Maybe she's boring.
Maybe she chose the wrong guy.
Maybe she got a guy based on her looks and doesn't really have much of a personality.
Okay, back to December, sees Taylor apologizing to her ex, Taylor Lampner, for ending their relationship.
All right, so what does she say here?
I'm so glad you made time to see me.
How's life?
Tell me, how's your family?
I haven't seen them in a while, and you've been good, busier than ever.
We small talk, work in the weather.
Your guard is up, and I know why.
Because the last time you saw me, it's still burned in the back of your mind.
You gave me roses, and I left them there to die.
So this is me swallowing my pride, standing in front of you, saying, I'm sorry for that night, and I go back to December all the time.
It turns out freedom ain't nothing but missing you, wishing I realized what I had when you were mine.
I go back to December, turn around and make it all right.
I go back to December all the time.
These days, I haven't been sleeping, staying up, playing back, myself leaving.
When your birthday passed and I didn't call, then I think about summer, all the beautiful times.
I watched you laughing from the passenger side and realized I loved you in the fall.
And then the cold came, the dark days, when fear crept into my mind.
You gave me all your love, and all I gave you was goodbye.
No responsibility.
There's no responsibility here.
Fear crept into my mind, right?
That's not her making decisions.
That's just her being overwhelmed by the fear that crept into my mind, right?
So this is me swallowing my pride, standing in front of you saying, I'm sorry for that night, and I go back to December all the time.
It turns out the freedom ain't nothing but missing you.
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
I miss your tanned skin, your sweet smile, so good to me, so right?
And how you held me in your arms that September night, the first time you ever saw me cry.
Maybe it's a wishful thinking, probably mind is dreaming.
But if we loved again, I'd swear I'd love you right.
I'd go back in time and change it, but I can't.
So if the chain is on your door, I understand.
But this is me swallowing my pride, blah, blah, blah.
Yeah, how is she taking responsibility?
I wish I'd done things differently, but fear overtook my mind.
It's being a victim to fear.
It's not making choices and decisions.
And it's still about her needs and her preferences and what she wants.
I miss you.
as opposed to, you know, I'm really, really sorry for the harm that I did to you based upon my own voluntary bad decisions.
Now I write, my argument was that her songs are not copy and paste.
Whether they are correct or not, there are many that are psychological experiences and not just pomp.
Okay.
Taylor Swift is very talented, but her politics are so god-awful.
What does she know, right?
I mean, she's just...
I mean, she's just trying to survive in a...
or trying to flourish in a music industry where lies are well-rewarded, right?
All right.
comments, any other last questions, comments, issues, challenges?
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What do you think Taylor Swift's IQ is, Steph?
She doesn't seem to be interested in anything other than sex.
I don't think that's fair.
I have no idea.
probably at least a cozy 120, probably 125.
That would be my guess.
I don't, I mean, obviously, I don't have any thoughts about Taylor Swift as a whole.
It It's just that Everything is so distorted through the power of the state that controlling a pop star is highly profitable to people who want to change populations, right?
It just is what it is.
I don't blame her.
She's a victim of the system.
I think that She may end up with some kind of happily ever after because she's an attractive woman.
She obviously takes care of herself and she can afford all of the reproductive assistance technology known to man.
And she's going to consistently be in high demand, of course, well into her 40s and beyond, like the Salma Hayek thing.
So I think the issue that I have is she's tall, statuesque.
I don't quite like her.
She's too lemon-mouthed for me.
But, you know, she's pretty.
She's got a nice figure, very talented, very wealthy, very well-known, very famous.
So she's going to be in high demand into her 40s and 50s.
She can have children.
She can...
She can do IVF. She can have a surrogate if necessary.
So she can get her happily ever after.
Right?
No question.
If she wants it.
If she gets some self-knowledge, maybe.
But she can get her happily ever after.
The problem is, all the women who are not Taylor Swift, That's the problem.
The problem is all the women who aren't Taylor Swift.
You know, you'll see these women who will post, oh, Salma Hayek is still hot in her 50s.
And it's like, well, yes.
But Salma Hayek is like a one in a million face and figure, right?
So, I guess my sort of concern is it's like someone who claims to be a financial advisor.
Because he won the lottery and he says, you don't need to work.
You don't need to take care of yourself.
You can just blaze around.
You can do whatever you want.
And it's like, but he won the lottery.
Taylor Swift, you know, obviously hardworking and talented, but she won the lottery.
She won the lottery in terms of looks, of height, her body shape, and her singing voice.
She didn't earn that singing voice.
She was born with that singing voice.
And she's got a talent for writing songs and performing.
And I'm not saying she's not responsible for any of it, but she's not responsible for most of it.
She's just lucky.
And my concern is that if you win the lottery and then other people take your life philosophy as gospel, they didn't win the lottery and they're going to get screwed, right?
They're going to get screwed.
What happens when Taylor Swift gets her happier ever after and all the women who follow her and use her to justify their own bad decisions?
What happens when they don't get their happy ever after?
Well, that's really sad.
That's really sad.
And, you know, I think it's really heartbreaking.
You know, these women...
Who are, you know, sentimental and so on and love Taylor Swift and all of that.
To me, that's a huge red flag.
You know, it's better to love the Beatles.
To me, if I was dating and a woman was hugely into some female singer, I would view that as a huge red flag.
It means that she's into the sisterhood, not masculinity.
She's into the sisterhood.
At least the women screaming for the Beatles liked males.
And so she's into the sisterhood, and that means that her friends are going to have a way outside influence on her life, and it means that her friends are probably going to sabotage any relationship she has because the friends don't want to see their friends get successful.
Winners love to see winners.
Losers love to replicate losers.
They love to copy-paste loserhood.
So it, to me, would be a...
And I've had this.
I remember I'm dating a woman and She wanted to come and visit me when I was rewriting the second half of Just Poor, and I decided to take two weeks off work, and I flew to England, and I rented a cottage in the exact location where I imagined the novel taking place so that I could visit the older towns, I could visit the landscape, I could really embed and embody myself in that environment.
I remember I had this little Rio 500, which had 64 megs of memory, and I had really crappy audiobooks because I had to have really low quality to fit any on them.
And I remember there was a woman I was dating.
She wanted to come and visit me.
And her sister was like, but he could be an axe murderer.
He could be inviting you to this cottage in the middle of the nowhere.
And it's like, oh my God, like, forget this relationship.
Don't bother.
No, thanks.
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