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Feb. 17, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
05:06
How I View Most People
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So the way that I view most people as a whole, the way that I view most people, whether this is helpful for you or not, I don't know, but I view most people as they're underwater.
Like, you know how you can sprint and run and run upstairs?
So imagine if you were underwater, right?
Like you were a gill man or something like that.
So if you were underwater, you couldn't run.
You could only move kind of slowly because you're not a shark.
You can't swim with the fins, right?
You're just a human being.
You can breathe underwater, or maybe...
So I just view...
Most people are just underwater.
So I can just run all over the place, go up and down stairs, and I can...
And stuff like that, and they're just...
So it's kind of like if you're playing tag, and other people are underwater, or moving as if they're underwater, and you're not.
Like, the game of tag is completely boring.
That's how I kind of feel in debates, right?
So I just experience other people as just...
They're just the sea people.
They're just the underwater people.
It's slow motion sickness, right?
And again, no hate.
It's not their fault.
It's just that my mind works very rapidly.
And other people's minds just seem kind of painful.
And I used to get quite frustrated because I used to be like, get there faster!
And it's like, no, that's unfair because they're underwater.
They can't run.
Because every time they try to run, they just bounce off and float a little bit.
And then they have to wait to come back down.
And then they might run again, but they just float a little bit more.
They're just zero-gravity people, right?
They can't run.
They can't run.
Having to constantly explain stuff to people who can't understand is super frustrating.
Well, and that's just the intellectual stuff, because with the intellectual stuff comes the emotional stuff.
When the slow types gravitate to project management and provide negative value, Yeah, because a lot of people who are just kind of really slow are perceived as thoughtful.
There was some actor who was trying to give another film actor advice, like, how do you look so thoughtful?
I don't know, I just look down at a spot on the floor and kind of space out.
Elon Musk, he struggles to speak because he has so many other thoughts going on at once.
Well, Kevin Samuels, he would sometimes start three different thoughts at the same time.
You're describing my husband's job to a T.
And it is genuinely difficult for people.
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It's genuinely difficult for people because they can't comprehend how good you are at things.
Right?
They cannot comprehend how good you are at things.
They just get baffled and confused and annoyed.
And in general, when I was a kid, I was constantly told by people to slow down.
They would just get annoyed.
I remember with my brother, we had these TVs, right?
We always had these cheap old 12-inch black and white TVs with these ripples on them because we always got them secondhand.
Trying to watch Wimbledon was like a dreamscape from a Besson film.
And when I wanted to go from Channel 12 to Channel 4, I'd just go, and I'd always land on Channel 4. It was pretty easy, right?
My brother would get so mad.
You're going to break the TV. It's like, I'm not going to break the TV. And people would always just slow down.
Like, no, speed up.
But that's not possible, right?
I mean, the only thing worse than being frustrated by slow people is just being a slow person.
I can't imagine.
I can't imagine being baffled by dust moats and confused by anything beyond the range of the moment.
Because, you know, you've got your narrow area of sad expertise and then there's just these vague shadows of things that move.
And, you know, the worst thing about being the average is how much they fucking fake it.
They fucking fake it, the stinky ass, middle of the bell curve liars.
They lie.
Have you ever had this where you're talking, I used to have this in the business world sometimes, marketing people.
I remember there was one when I had my first programming job, some guy had a spreadsheet, and he was telling me how it was, in fact, it was a trader out there on the work floor, and he was telling me about it was a neural net, and I'm like, that's not a neural net, that's a spreadsheet, you liar.
Like, when you're good at stuff, you realize just how many people are faking it, and it's really crippling.
Like, when you hear people, I understand tariffs.
No, you don't.
No, you don't.
I mean, if you've done Austrian economic stuff or basic free market stuff and so on.
You know, Paul Krugman and people are just bullshitting.
They don't know what they're talking about.
They don't have any particular principles.
They're just saying shit.
They're just saying what is popular.
They're saying what gives people more power.
And they get paid and elevated based upon their ability to just fucking lie.
I was reading The Economist, God Help Me.
God Help Me.
I used to read that thing a lot.
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