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Dec. 11, 2024 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
05:30
Binary Thinking: Want the Unearned
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And I understand that in our human evolution.
I understand all of that in our human evolution.
Force was, tragically, the solution to most conflicts because people didn't have reason and they didn't have communication.
They didn't have the language for it.
They didn't have the debate.
Parents, got problem?
Yell, intimidate, frighten.
Dial up the cortisol.
Get the child to self-attack.
Beat, hit, confine, starve.
Shame.
Got problem?
Use force!
That's the problem.
problem.
Thank you.
Thank you.
For doctors back in the day, the reason why we have licensure boards is not because the customers wanted them, it's because the doctors wanted them.
Oh, there's too many people who are providing healthcare services, it's really bad, so we need a licensure to make sure things are safe and proper and protected and that the customers are served.
Well, the customers don't want it, they're happy.
I talked about this many years ago with the eponymously named Poor name, Dr. Roderick Long.
Yes, his name is Rod Long.
And he wrote a great article on the provision of healthcare prior to the government stepping in with licensures, and you could get an entire year's worth of access to healthcare for the price of one or two days' salary.
He joined a friendly society, they were called.
And the problem was, of course, the doctors felt that they were being undercut, so they ran to the government, want the unearned, want the unearned, want the unearned.
And if we can't confront the basic demonology in our hearts that all complex problems require a fist to solve and cannot be solved in any other way, then people, because we have this addiction, sadists will keep inventing problems, so we keep suggesting more and more violence.
More and more violence.
Want people to take a vaccine?
Well, hide all the documents from them.
Hide all the tests from them.
Hide all the validation that it's safe from them.
Give immunity, legal immunity to the manufacturers, and take away their jobs and their ability to travel.
Or eat in a mall.
I was, uh, kicked out.
I was kicked out of malls.
Would like to eat.
Show your certificate.
Nope.
You get to eat in the snowy parking lot.
Force, force, force.
It's all we can think of.
It's our reflex.
It comes out of parenting, of course.
But, you know, how did public schools start in America?
Public schools started in America despite a 98% literacy rate and a population so literate that the rather complex Moby Dick was a national bestseller.
Herman Melville's novel, go try and read it, and imagine people these days reading it when we've had 150 years of advancements in nutrition and education when we've fallen to half the IQ, it seems, of the early Americans.
So, why?
Because there were a bunch of non-Protestants, right?
America was founded as a Protestant nation.
There were a bunch of non-Protestants coming in that said, well, we're going to lose our culture.
You know, it's going to become un-American if we don't have the government take over education.
How's that working out for you?
How are American values, how well are they being preserved by the government educational system?
Right?
Got a problem?
Run to the government.
Got a problem?
Use force.
It's not just a good idea.
It's the law!
Right?
And that's binary thinking.
And binary thinking comes from trauma.
And trauma leads to more binary thinking.
Binary thinking is so easy to manipulate.
It's either this or it's that.
Why the fuck would I have to listen to your two options as if you are some god of reality?
Well, either the problem doesn't get solved, or we throw people in jail at gunpoint.
Okay, that's binary thinking.
Binary thinking is the mark of a slave mentality, which we all have.
I understand it, right?
This is why, to be free, we have to reject binary thinking.
Either this or this.
Oh, uh...
Women getting pregnant out of wedlock.
Well, for a sate!
Alimony, that's it!
Just put guns to the heads of mostly males and give their money almost exclusively to females.
Otherwise there's no solution.
Well, even single mothers would be infinitely better off without welfare.
Because single mothers are incredibly isolated, and isolation bad enough for men, a particular torture for women.
Without welfare, the single mothers would all band together, they'd rent big houses, they'd have a community, their kids would have other kids around, they'd get to share parenting duties, they'd work, and they'd be way happier.
Way happier.
You were kicked out of them all for being unvaxxed?
Love to hear that story.
What is the story?
I was eating at a mall with my daughter and a woman came up and said, where's your certificate?
She said, don't have one.
She said, well, you'll have to leave.
Don't make me call security.
And we took our food and we ate in a snowy parking lot.
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