Dec. 15, 2024 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| So this show has been tough at times. | |
| I'm not going to lie, right? | |
| I'm not going to put on all of this false front. | |
| For the most part, it's been great. | |
| But there's been times where it's not been fun at all. | |
| But do you know how unbelievably grateful I am that I've been able to carve my thoughts into the mindscape of the planet for eternity? | |
| Because the odds are, certainly without the internet, without your support, which is why I'm so incredibly grateful for what you do for philosophy and for me, For us. | |
| For the future. | |
| That I could have passed through like a meteor passes 100 miles above your house while you're sleeping. | |
| Gone. | |
| Don't hear it. | |
| Didn't even know it was there. | |
| I could have just shot through the world, leaving almost nothing in my wake. | |
| Certainly not the thousands and thousands and thousands of great, powerful, and deep presentations, conversations, documentaries, solo shows, questions and answers, live streams, and so on. | |
| What an incredible gift it is to me that this technology exists that allows me to take the contents of my brain and unpack it on the stage of the world forever and ever. | |
| Amen. | |
| And it doesn't really matter how many people are listening and watching in the here and now that I can't tell you how grateful I am that you're here. | |
| I really can't tell you how grateful I am that you're here. | |
| But I was this close. | |
| I was this close to vanishing. | |
| Like a sperm whale fart 3,000 feet down. | |
| Well, I guess even that would leave some bubbles eventually. | |
| But I was this close to vanishing without a trace. | |
| If I had been born one generation earlier, maybe I could have fought my way into academia, unlikely. | |
| But, I mean, as a white male, you can't even really get published in the publishing industry anymore. | |
| I didn't really understand that when I was trying to get my novels published. | |
| "Oh, they're such great novels, why can't they get published?" I mean, how many people came and went before me as smarter, more eloquent, more powerful, How many people came and went before? | |
| This technology allowed it to be shared and dispersed. | |
| As long as my bits are carved into someone's hard drive, I'll never die, fundamentally. | |
| Think of all of the amazing writers who stored their works in the Library of Alexandria, which fell into disuse, decay, and disrepair even before it was burned down. | |
| There are Tibetan scrolls, thousands and thousands of which have yet to be translated. | |
| Think of all of the people who wrote so many things down that have I get a permanent hieroglyphic set of constellations in the night sky. | |
| Humanity's mental landscape forever and ever. | |
| Amen. | |
| God help the scholars in the future. | |
| I'm so sorry. | |
| I'm so verbose. | |
| Damn, I was so close to coming and going. | |
| Like a bird flying through a womb. | |
| Did you see that? | |
| Gone. | |
| Man, this is sure stirring up some ghosts for me. | |
| I think I'll go down to Madame X and let her read my mind. | |
| So, there is so much to be grateful for, to simply stand here in this room. | |
| And speak my heart, mind, thoughts and soul to a world that has been waiting for these communications for thousands of years. | |
| And thousands of as good if not better people have come and gone like leaves over a waterfall in the middle of nowhere. | |
| Like a tree falling in a forest that nobody ever sees or will see because it gets buried by the sludge before human footfalls come by. | |
| You know, one of the reasons why the fossil record is so incomplete is that we have almost nothing, right? | |
| If all the people in North America died, according to the fossil record and the number of people and the number of bones we don't get, you'd get one thigh bone out of everyone in North America. | |
| I think of all the animals that came and went and left nothing but their progeny behind. | |
| But we have thought, which is different from the genetic... | |
| Copy-paste. | |
| The blind photocopier of biological reproduction. | |
| We have thought. | |
| And so, when things are difficult, as occasionally they are, I do remember that I have such a deep and humble gratitude at the technology and you, the audience members, that has allowed me to have these conversations for like 20 years almost. | |
| When I was this close to coming and going, muttering only to a few people at parties, being gone, dead, buried, and forgotten, without the enormous contents of my mind being splayed out like a pinned set of butterflies for all humanity to regard and engage with from here to eternity forever, ever. | |
| Amen. | |
| And that is to be grateful for. | |
| Now, what I can do is I can say, well, but compared to, I don't know, you know, Jordan Peterson is wearing his justice coat of many colors and he's strolling around Oxford. | |
| What, what? | |
| I compare myself to that. | |
| Or Stephen Crowder was offered $25 million and Candace Owens might be getting her own talk show. | |
| And I can compare myself to that, absolutely. | |
| And I can say, oh, that's bad. | |
| I made mistakes. | |
| I did a... | |
| Or I can compare myself to all the people who never had a voice, who I feel that I do speak for. | |
| I feel that I do speak for all of the people who never had a voice. | |
| And again, it is with deep humility and gratitude that I thank you for being here for this conversation. | |
| I thank you, Steph, truly for everything you have done and continue to do. | |
| Thank you. | |
| I appreciate that. | |
| Steph, Sister Nisa, you are the most influential person I've ever had in my life. | |
| I'm so grateful for you staying. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Thank you, Steph. | |
| I absolutely love your commitment to rationality. | |
| Thank you. | |
| I will donate on FreedomAina after the show. | |
| I'm so grateful for you being here. | |
| Right. | |
| And I appreciate that. | |
| Thank you. | |
| I compare where I am to where everybody else was not. | |
| Do you see what I'm saying? | |
| I compare where I am to where everyone else was not. | |
| And if the price of holding fast to what I know to be true is relative obscurity in the here and now, while genuine prominence in the future, it is a price. | |
| I have absolutely no hesitation in saying, oh, I could be more popular. | |
| I could have Colored within the lines and all of that. | |
| But I had to lie as a kid. | |
| I don't have to lie as an adult and that's how I remind myself constantly that my childhood is in fact over. | |
| That I do not have to tell any more lies out of fear of people in authority. |
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