Feb. 1, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| Good evening, good evening. | |
| Welcome to your Wednesday Night Live. | |
| Oh, my God, is it the last show of... | |
| No, no, we've got one more to go. | |
| It's the 29th of January 2024, and it is time to settle in for a gorgeous, deep, leather-sex couch sofa of philosophy P. Diddy Lubing. | |
| Well, I think I just rendered myself a star witness in ongoing trials. | |
| There we go. | |
| It's always good to have a plan. | |
| Just as we start here, I do occasionally check the numbers on local subscribers, the ones that count, so we're down about 10-12% over the last year or so. | |
| In terms of number of subscribers, not all of that is on you, of course. | |
| Part of that is on me not going back on mainstream social media, or at least on Twitter. | |
| But if you could see your way clear to setting up a subscription, I would be thrilled beyond measure. | |
| It does help in terms of motivation. | |
| I don't know if you follow numbers for your job or whatever, but there is always a little bit of a dip when you see the numbers go down. | |
| So, if you could see your way clear to a couple of bucks a month, it would lift my spirits and, of course, help pay the bills, which is almost as important as lifting high spirits, no bill payments. | |
| That's a different matter. | |
| So, if you could help out, I would really, really appreciate it. | |
| You do get some... | |
| Absolutely fantastic bonuses. | |
| 12 hours deep dive as only I can do on the history and meaning and current applicability of the French Revolution. | |
| Well over 100 great premium podcasts and call-in shows that were too spicy for the mainstream and access to four or five different StephBot AIs. | |
| It really is amazing. | |
| So, yes, if you could help that out, I would appreciate it. | |
| I would appreciate it. | |
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| Just remember, you know, somebody has to pay. | |
| Why not you? | |
| Because, you know, if we do this commercial-free, right? | |
| This isn't exactly the same as a commercial, and this is fairly rare. | |
| But we do the show commercial-free. | |
| Which I think is really to the benefit of, can you imagine, somebody's digging into their traumatized history as a child, bawling their eyes out, and it's like, this VPN could be yours for the low, low price of, right? | |
| It would be a bit odd and jarring. | |
| And so somebody's got to foot the bills. | |
| Why not you? | |
| Why not? | |
| I hate to say step up because it's such a male thing, but why not step forward? | |
| Step forward and throw a little, you know, whatever you fund gets stronger. | |
| Whatever you don't fund gets weaker. | |
| I think we've done fantastic work over the past 20 years, and hopefully here's to at least 30 more. | |
| I was just thinking. | |
| I was thinking back to, hey, it's a funny thought. | |
| It's a funny thought. | |
| I think back, so now I'm old enough, I think back to the people who were adults when I was a kid. | |
| So 40 years ago, believe it or not, 40 years ago I was 18. 40 years ago, I was 18. Ah, a fresh-faced, young, spanking, shaggy-haired, brill-creamed 80s dude. | |
| And, yeah, so I was 40 years ago. | |
| In 1984, I was 18. And, of course, the adults were 30 years older. | |
| Felt like, you know, the people in charge and so on. | |
| So now, 30 years from now, I'll be 88. Wait, why does that seem familiar? | |
| I'll be 88. And so a lot of the people who were kind of in charge and adults when I was a teen are dead. | |
| Are dead. | |
| Are dead. | |
| You know, and not an insignificant number of them. | |
| And this is a funny thing. | |
| You know, I don't wish ill upon anyone because I don't really waste my time. | |
| I'm terrible at holding grudges. | |
| I mean, I will hold a grudge, but it's not a conscious thing. | |
| Like, every now and then, someone who did me wrong in the past comes to a bad end or has a bad past in their life, and they're like, hmm, what's that slight flutter of butterfly pleasure I'm feeling in my loins? | |
| Is it my wife walking in the room? | |
| No, it's actually the downfall of an enemy. | |
| But I don't sort of hang on to it. | |
| I certainly don't really plot for it. | |
| I used to do that in the business world, but not anymore. | |
| But when I was in my teens, since I got into philosophy at about the age of 14 or 15 or so, I got into philosophy at that age, started arguing for sort of free markets and small government, and back then I was a minarchist, not a voluntarist. | |
| And, of course, all the teachers argued how essential And necessary government was for our survival, you know? | |
| It's a pretty simple thing that the government does. | |
| It takes over something, and then people who only think of one variable, I did a whole podcast on this today, which you should check out, called An Invitation to Unintelligence, which was the nicest title I could come up with. | |
| Black Hole of Stupidity seemed a bit abrupt, but even though it's my year of bluntness, but not necessarily in show titles and thumbnails. | |
| But a lot of them were like, the government, then you think, well, if the government's taking it over, only the government can do it. | |
| I mean, slavery was a giant government program to pick food, which held the entire economy of the world back for, you know, tens of thousands of years. | |
| So, a lot of the people who were teachers and elders and priests and so on, even people's parents, Who rolled their eyes at my youthful naivete that human beings could spontaneously self-organize around the mechanism of voluntary price. | |
| Basic Austrian economic stuff. | |
| That's an Austrian school, not the economy of Austria. | |
| Which is apparently about either invading other countries or letting other countries invade them. | |
| There really seems to be no middle ground in governments. | |
| Either we go invade everyone or everyone comes to our... | |
| Anyway. | |
| So... | |
| All of these people, and I do wonder sometimes how many of the people who rolled their eyes at me, scorned me, marked me down. | |
| Let's not forget that there are pretty significant scholarly penalties, for telling the truth. | |
| I wonder, of course, how many of them ended up being unalived, in a sense, by governments. | |
| I mean, the waiting lists in Canada for healthcare are absolutely brutal. | |
| It's one of the reasons I eat well and exercise. | |
| Yes, you do not want to be at the mercy of socialist medicine, right? | |
| That's really not where you want to be at all. | |
| And I wonder how many of them, you know, got locked up for the last couple of years of their life under the COVID stuff. | |
| I wonder how many of them got injured, you know, medically. | |
| I wonder how many of them couldn't get healthcare because of all of this stuff. | |
| And I just, I wonder. | |
| I do wonder about this. | |
| I mean, my personal belief, I'm sure that there'll be statistics at this at some point, I'm like 97% accurate in the things that I've talked about. | |
| And someday we'll compile a list, maybe AI can do it for us. | |
| Maybe, James, why don't you make that as a project? | |
| Compile all the things I've been right about. | |
| Maybe don't use any of the woke AI. In other words, you can only use an AI that's been invented in the last eight minutes. | |
| But, I do wonder if the people who, you know, just had absolutely blind trust in the endless benevolence and virtue of government, I wonder if they end up being treated badly by governments later on in their lives, and then, I wonder if they ever think back about that blonde, blue-eyed, Yapper planet known as my forehead. | |
| And say, I wonder if that guy might have had a point. | |
| That guy, you know what? |
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