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Feb. 1, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
06:44
Men and the Death of the Social Contract!
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All right.
What do you think of a ban on corporations owning single-family homes?
It seems like that, or French Revolution-style violence is the only way people under 30 will be able to afford to own housing.
So, I mean, authoritarian structures as a whole.
What they do, of course, what they do is they appease the crazy to make The lives of the sane increasingly impossible.
The sane revolt, and then they pay the aggressive to control the sane, right?
So you just make it progressively more impossible, more and more impossible for people to have a life.
In other words, you break a social contract.
The social contract is, okay, society, okay, okay, okay, the stuff that you want me to do, that I don't really want to do, because, you know, I'm...
A young guy and I'm energetic, full of testosterone and so on.
So there's stuff that you want me to do.
I don't really want to do it, you know.
Come on, man.
Young and stronger.
This is like the mindset, right?
I'm young and stronger than the old thoughts.
I'll just take their stuff.
Right?
I'll just take their stuff.
I mean, there's some old guy with a car, say, the young guys.
At least this is what the biology says.
There's some old guy with a car.
Why not just drag the old guy out of the car and take his car?
So how does society tame this?
Well, it tames it with religion.
It tames this with morality.
But that's been diminishing.
So what it does is it says, okay, technically you are faster and stronger than all the old people with all the stuff.
But, but, here's the deal.
Hear me out.
If you obey the rules, then...
You can have their lives and it won't be taken away from you either.
Because if you're a young guy and you take away all the stuff from the old decrepit guys, well, you're going to get old and decrepit.
Then guys are going to just take stuff away from you and throw you off a cliff.
So obey the rules and you can grow into having lives like the old guys and you'll be not at the mercy of younger, stronger people when you get old.
That's kind of the deal.
Obedience in return for a path.
To success.
And fundamentally, the social contract is utterly broken.
See, this is sort of a practical thing about society that's really important to understand.
Societies that facilitate reproduction are the only societies that can survive or deserve much respect.
Let me say this again.
From an evolutionary standpoint, societies that facilitate reproduction are the only societies that can last or deserve much respect.
Because the purpose of human life, the reason why we have human life, the reason why there are male and female, of course, is reproduction.
Now, reproduction requires certain things.
It requires a relatively benevolent relationship between the sexes, right?
Men and women have to kind of like each other.
They can ribbit each other.
They can josh each other.
They can make fun of each other.
They can roll their eyes.
But there has to be a fundamentally positive relationship between males and females.
That's number one.
Number two, there has to be some kind of sexual monogamy.
For two reasons.
One, so that you end up with a one-to-one ratio, so you don't end up with a small number of men having all the sex and a large number of men with absolutely no stake in the continuation of society.
That's number one.
And number two, you need sexual monogamy so that men are invested in their own offspring.
Because if a man is having sex with a bunch of women, he's not invested in his offspring because he doesn't even know if they're his children, right?
He doesn't know.
He don't.
He don't know, baby.
So, society has to provide conditions wherein men as a whole can be reasonably guaranteed access to reproduction, to having...
Because, of course, if men don't have families, their testosterone levels remain extraordinarily high and their aggression levels remain extraordinarily high, right?
A man's testosterone...
Goes down when he gets married, goes down in particular when he becomes a father, which is a good thing, right?
It's a good thing.
So, society, at the moment, what does it have to offer a young man?
There's no path forward.
Like, depending on how you read the numbers, but half to 60% of men have checked out of the dating market.
It's hard to overemphasize what an absolute catastrophe that is.
And so, if you are a wannabe tyrant, what you do is you make it increasingly impossible for young men and young women, but in particular young men, to marry and to be tamed through family and reproduction.
The purpose of male aggression is to get a mate, and then the purpose of male aggression is there to sustain the family.
So what you do is you make it increasingly impossible for young men to date, marry, settle down, become fathers, and then they start pushing significantly for social change.
And then, because they're pushing significantly for social change, you have the capacity and the excuse to increase your control over society, which leads to worse and worse outcomes.
And, of course, the gynocentrism of female-dominated voting patterns.
And women will always, always, always, always dominate democracies, right?
With one person, one vote, women will always dominate democracies for a number of reasons.
They live longer.
They need more from the government, right?
They need three things from the government.
They need security for children.
They need health care, and they need old-age pensions.
And the more they get, Of those things from the government, the less they will be interested in compromising with and working with men.
The men are then harvested to pay the taxes off the women's requirements, because a man can choose to go hungry, a woman cannot choose for her children to go hungry.
A man can choose to limit his spending, a woman cannot choose to limit her spending because her children need resources, right?
So you make it increasingly impossible, you back men into a corner which says, Your genes are going to die out unless you do something!
Your genes are going to die out unless you fucking do something.
That's the perception that the men have.
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