Jan. 19, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| Yeah, I think I watched about five minutes of Twin Peaks, and I was like, this is brain rot. | |
| This is brain toxicity. | |
| This is brain rot. | |
| Yeah, he could have had that in common with J.D. Salinger. | |
| Yeah, I mean, it's like... | |
| Orgy scene in Stephen King's It. | |
| It's a book I've never read. | |
| Oh, it's monstrous. | |
| Now, his films are all about this sort of idyllic 50s thing and then this absolute evil underworld underneath it that people need to see, right? | |
| And I assume, since he grew up in a pretty idyllic 50s environment, and he did, he said it was paradise, like... | |
| We could roam all day. | |
| We never spent any time indoors. | |
| He said, it's so sad that we don't allow our kids to grow up that way anymore. | |
| Why did we let that happen? | |
| Well, because you're boomers and you're fucked. | |
| So he grew up in this idyllic 50s society, and his movies are all about the unbelievably horrifying crimes and violence and just completely sadistic, screwed-up stuff. | |
| Not violence for profit, just violence for sadism. | |
| So he's got all of this cheery music, and there was this incredible cliché, you know, of like, Happy Italian singers with mafia machine gunning just became this real, hey, let's put on happy music. | |
| It's all the way through Fallout and shit like that, right? | |
| We'll put on happy music while horrifying things happen. | |
| We'll put on classical music and, look, they're going to be baptizing their kids while there's all this gunplay. | |
| Look, look at all the deep irony. | |
| See, we're playing something pretty while something ugly is happening because that's really fucking deep, man. | |
| That's so deep. | |
| You know, it's deep like a sad clown. | |
| Like, cause clowns are supposed to be happy, man, but if we show a sad clown, like Joker, that's deep. | |
| And if we have something ugly going on while a pretty song is playing, that's deep, man. | |
| Don't you get it? | |
| It's a contradiction. | |
| Like you're hearing happy but seeing sad. | |
| That's so deep. | |
| Fuck off. | |
| Lazy, lazy, lazy, lazy shit. | |
| Have you commented on physiognomies? | |
| Stephen King and David Lynch just look foul. | |
| Well, I assume that something absolutely appalling happened to him as a kid, because he would also construct all these bombs and so on, right? | |
| Yeah, those weird Andy Warhol things and all of that. | |
| Well, Andy Warhol was, like, doing nude pictures of little boys. | |
| I mean, he's just a complete, just complete blech. | |
| So, yeah, he's just foul. | |
| I only listened to a video of someone explaining the lore of Twin Peaks. | |
| It's basically a lore horror modern video game in TV form. | |
| Yeah, I don't know what that means. | |
| I have no idea what that means, but it doesn't explain anything to me. | |
| Maybe it does to others, so it could just be me. | |
| But yeah, so there's this pretty world, and then underneath this pretty world is this absolute savagery. | |
| Well... | |
| Like the Five Nights at Freddy's series? | |
| Well, not, sorry to be annoying, not in particular because the Five Nights at Freddy's series is mechanical things kind of gone haywire. | |
| But it's not specifically sadistic. | |
| So, as I say, Dennis Hopper rapes his fantasy of his mother while sniffing nitrous oxide. | |
| He rapes Isabella Rossellini while screaming that she's his mother. | |
| I mean, honestly, you couldn't get more vile. | |
| You couldn't get more violence. | |
| Yes, but, you know, there is ugliness in the world, and we've got to see it, and it's like, but not without a cure. | |
| Showing people savagery and evil and sadism and just completely screwed up things with no cure is just traumatizing them. | |
| It's like, imagine if you were running a medical school and you just showed endless shots of pustules and gangrene and black rot and, you know, just... | |
| Tumors that were eclipsing people's heads. | |
| And you'd say, well, why are you showing me this? | |
| I mean, are we supposed to cure this? | |
| Oh, no, nothing can be cured. | |
| I'm just showing you just really, really ugly, nasty, putrid stuff. | |
| I mean, it's fine to show evil, but you've got to show the cure. | |
| If you're just showing evil and virtuous helplessness, you're training people to submit. | |
| To monstrous. | |
| You're training people to submit to monstrous. | |
| It is enabling and participating with the evils of the world to show evil hidden and ascendant and good, blind and or helpless. | |
| No thank you. | |
| That's why, you know, I'm always saying to people, if there are corrupt and evil people in your life, you don't have to see them. | |
| You don't have to spend any time with them. | |
| It is totally, completely optional. | |
| And there are good reasons to not. | |
| Somebody says, I'm okay with horror as long as it teaches actual principles, which reflect some aspect of reality. | |
| Folk tales, for example, can be really scary, but they're meant to inform about the dangers of the world or symbolically describe real dynamics that influence us. | |
| But I know you're mostly talking about the meaningless horror stuff, for sure. | |
| Lynch was a huge proponent of transcendental meditation. | |
| He thought it was the way to save the planet. | |
| I mean, so transcendental meditation is an endless... | |
| Goal as a whole to overcome the horrors of your own bad conscience. | |
| It's an attempt to induce internal dissociation to avoid the horrors of your bad conscience. | |
| And he must have been a monster to live with or he wouldn't have been divorced four times or had four marriages. | |
| And he was a Platonist as well. | |
| So David Lynch, and again, who knows what he really was? | |
| We can only get with what he said. |
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