Dec. 5, 2024 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| So, I'm sort of reminded of that scene in The Matrix where that robot tracker is pulled out of Neo's belly. | |
| Extracting fiat is the most dangerous, risky, and ugly experiment or necessary procedure in all of human history. | |
| But it's either that or... | |
| It's either that or nothing, right? | |
| Because there's so much technology now that without Bitcoin, fiat would simply devolve into techno-tyranny, right? | |
| Techno-tyranny, right? | |
| Everything you do is tracked and, right? | |
| Every spending and CDBCs and so on, right? | |
| All right. | |
| He says, in your conversation with Michael Woodley, Michael Woodley! | |
| He mentions periods where group selection was accentuated and how innovations per billion were up during these times. | |
| These periods coincide with when there was a gold standard. | |
| The Jolly Heretic talks about how geniuses are beneficial at the level of group selection. | |
| My hypothesis is that sound money leads to accentuated group selection, which leads to more geniuses, which leads to more innovation. | |
| I think a Bitcoin standard will lead to unimaginable levels. | |
| So, I was talking about this the other day with a friend of mine about aristocracy. | |
| I'm watching a show called The Crown on occasion, but it's pretty heartbreaking for me to see all that was lost in order to see siblings who are good to each other, at least at that time in their histories. | |
| But the aristocracy are those who are both intelligent and competent at war. | |
| I mean, not just competent as fighters, not just martial courage, but I always remember Lord Gort from 1940. The eyes of the empire are upon you. | |
| So, the aristocracy was hived off from the serfs because the aristocracy were very good at fighting wars on the behalf of the king. | |
| And so you had the intelligent warlords Who would innovate and study battles and improve weaponry and defenses and create all of the necessary ruses for the fog of war, right? | |
| War is 99%, at least in the past. | |
| War was 99% deception. | |
| That you want the enemy to think that you're strong where you're weak and that you're weak where you're strong. | |
| And, you know, like the endless thing where you chase the enemy into a valley and then the pincer comes around, you get cut off and slaughtered, right? | |
| So, a huge amount of deception. | |
| It's a little bit tougher to deceive people now with satellites and so on, but all of war was sort of based on deception. | |
| So, the only way that the intelligent could survive in war was to become sociopathic. | |
| In other words, if you were intelligent, but also good at planning and executing wars, which takes a certain sociopathic element, I'm not saying it's bad, I'm just saying it does, right? | |
| And so the only way that you could survive as an intelligent person was, you know, you would either join the priesthood, or become a rabbi, or something like that, or you would join the ranks of the military as an officer, right? | |
| Now, of course, the officers led the charge a lot in World War I, which was the decimation of the brilliance of 19th century Europe, which Europe has never survived, right? | |
| Never really flourished after that. | |
| So, Bitcoin has allowed for the concentration of wealth in the hands of those who are very intelligent, but not warlike. | |
| First time in human history where wealth has accumulated, Through brilliance, but not through sociopathy. | |
| So when land, Genghis Khan, you've just got to go around raping and burning and destroying and capturing and so on. | |
| It's the same thing with the aristocracy as a whole. | |
| You just ride in and you're the warlord and you take over the land and you demand your tribute from the peasants and they can't hunt on your lands. | |
| That's bad. | |
| That's poaching. | |
| So in the past, wealth accumulated through Intelligence and sociopathy. | |
| Intelligence and coldness towards the suffering of others. | |
| Now, for a smaller period of time, from post-enclosure movement, probably till about 1840, 1850, capital did accumulate among those who were intelligent and somewhat less sociopathic. | |
| But then, of course, the sociopaths came in and used the government to control or to raise barriers to entry to enable rent-seeking and to initiate wars and so on and get special protections and licenses and all this, that and the other, right? | |
| And then the 20th century was all the way back to brilliant plus sociopathic, right? | |
| Like the communists and the national socialists and so on. | |
| Brilliant and complete sociopaths. | |
| And so it came back to political power and war and the ability to starve out your enemies and slaughter their children and start wars and the holodomor and the Holocaust and so on. | |
| Just massive slaughterhouses. | |
| So intelligence and sociopathy gather resources, but of course when resources gather towards sociopathy, you end up with endless evils in the world, because those who have the most money and the most power tend to be the most cold, cruel, and calculated. | |
| And there certainly are some exceptions in the modern world, without a doubt. | |
| But that's the general pattern. | |
| So, Bitcoin, though, has allowed people to gather resources Without being sociopaths. | |
| It's absolutely unprecedented. | |
| Like, all the tax money that flowed from the intelligent and productive to the needy and sociopathic, right? | |
| And please understand, like, this kind of evil and coldness occurs throughout the classes. | |
| Everyone thinks, you know, because the poor are always going to portray themselves as needy and lovely and wonderful and caring and so on. | |
| Well, we'll share all our food. | |
| It's a complete lie. | |
| Everybody who says, well, the rich need to pay their fair share, to me, total sociopath, total, yeah, just as cold-hearted, right? | |
| Because it's dehumanizing the wealthy, right? | |
| Saying that they're just cattle and slaves that need to serve the needs of the less competent and the less responsible, or maybe even the less intelligent. | |
| Of course, that's an aspect to it as well. | |
| So, for the 20th century, really since the 1930s, a great deal, and certainly the labor victory in England after Churchill defeated the Axis powers in World War II, there has been a massive flow of capital away from the competent and intelligent towards the greedy and cold-hearted poor. | |
| And Bitcoin is the recapture, it's the retaking of the capital of capital, so to speak. | |
| Bitcoin is the war to reclaim value from those who have stolen it through force and fraud and propaganda and lying and money printing, counterfeiting and so on. | |
| It's a massive pendulum swing, utterly without precedent in human history, that people who have moral sensitivity, and I was of course around and gave speeches in the early days of Bitcoin, and people really cared about the world. | |
| They really cared about I got cheers when I did my speeches on how Bitcoin would end war. | |
| There's a huge amount of compassion and empathy in, I don't know what the scene is now, but certainly back in the day, it was very much about that, and that was something to be enormously celebrated and loved and respected and treasured, really. | |
| So the sensitive, the moral, and the intelligent finally are getting their day in control of capital. | |
| Finally, finally, finally. | |
| The most humane, empathetic, sensitive, and moral economics theory is the Austrian school. | |
| It's the Austrian school. | |
| Because it actually cares about those who are on fixed incomes, and it has property rights, which are human rights, at its core. | |
| And it resists the conception that anyone can handle the near-infinite power of money creation and the control of interest rates. | |
| And it's not even a close second. | |
| Keynesianism is institutionalized sociopathy. | |
| Mixed economy stuff is just wanting to have enough livestock to pillage. | |
| Communism is when deformed freaks make it legal to be normal and kill everyone who looks healthy. | |
| That's an old meme. | |
| And I talked about this in my documentary on Poland, that... | |
| In Poland, when the Nazis came in, they killed everyone who was intelligent, they shot everyone in classes, killed the doctors and lawyers. | |
| To decapitate the high IQ aspect of the population is to destroy it for centuries. | |
| When the very intelligent and creative and productive fled Spain after the hyperinflation that came when the gold was discovered in the New World, Spain went into a fairly desperate depression-slash-recession for 400 years. | |
| Because it takes millions of years to develop very intelligent brains, but they can be blown apart with one bullet. | |
| So, in Poland, the Germans came in and killed the intelligent out of resentment. | |
| Because the hatred of the intelligent by the less intelligent is bottomless and a profoundly... | |
| And horribly energetic sociopathic force in human history. | |
| And then the Russians came in to Poland and did the same thing, shot whoever was left over, who made it through the first wave, and decapitated the smart people in Poland. | |
| So, the smart people have always been running from the violent people. |
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