Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux - How I View Most People Aired: 2025-02-17 Duration: 05:06 === Most People Are Underwater (05:06) === [00:00:00] 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. [00:00:10] Like, you know how you can sprint and run and run upstairs? [00:00:14] So imagine if you were underwater, right? [00:00:17] Like you were a gill man or something like that. [00:00:19] So if you were underwater, you couldn't run. [00:00:21] You could only move kind of slowly because you're not a shark. [00:00:25] You can't swim with the fins, right? [00:00:26] You're just a human being. [00:00:27] You can breathe underwater, or maybe... [00:00:29] So I just view... [00:00:31] Most people are just underwater. [00:00:33] So I can just run all over the place, go up and down stairs, and I can... [00:00:36] And stuff like that, and they're just... [00:00:38] 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. [00:00:49] Like, the game of tag is completely boring. [00:00:51] That's how I kind of feel in debates, right? [00:00:52] So I just experience other people as just... [00:00:55] They're just the sea people. [00:00:57] They're just the underwater people. [00:00:58] It's slow motion sickness, right? [00:01:00] And again, no hate. [00:01:02] It's not their fault. [00:01:02] It's just that my mind works very rapidly. [00:01:05] And other people's minds just seem kind of painful. [00:01:08] And I used to get quite frustrated because I used to be like, get there faster! [00:01:12] And it's like, no, that's unfair because they're underwater. [00:01:14] They can't run. [00:01:15] Because every time they try to run, they just bounce off and float a little bit. [00:01:21] And then they have to wait to come back down. [00:01:22] And then they might run again, but they just float a little bit more. [00:01:25] They're just zero-gravity people, right? [00:01:28] They can't run. [00:01:32] They can't run. [00:01:39] Having to constantly explain stuff to people who can't understand is super frustrating. [00:01:42] Well, and that's just the intellectual stuff, because with the intellectual stuff comes the emotional stuff. [00:01:50] 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. [00:01:59] There was some actor who was trying to give another film actor advice, like, how do you look so thoughtful? [00:02:04] I don't know, I just look down at a spot on the floor and kind of space out. [00:02:08] Elon Musk, he struggles to speak because he has so many other thoughts going on at once. [00:02:16] Well, Kevin Samuels, he would sometimes start three different thoughts at the same time. [00:02:21] You're describing my husband's job to a T. [00:02:29] And it is genuinely difficult for people. [00:02:34] Freedomain.com slash donate, by the way, to help out the show. [00:02:36] I'd appreciate that. [00:02:37] It's genuinely difficult for people because they can't comprehend how good you are at things. [00:02:45] Right? [00:02:46] They cannot comprehend how good you are at things. [00:02:51] They just get baffled and confused and annoyed. [00:02:55] And in general, when I was a kid, I was constantly told by people to slow down. [00:03:01] They would just get annoyed. [00:03:03] I remember with my brother, we had these TVs, right? [00:03:06] We always had these cheap old 12-inch black and white TVs with these ripples on them because we always got them secondhand. [00:03:11] Trying to watch Wimbledon was like a dreamscape from a Besson film. [00:03:15] 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? [00:03:23] My brother would get so mad. [00:03:25] 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. [00:03:31] Like, no, speed up. [00:03:33] But that's not possible, right? [00:03:35] I mean, the only thing worse than being frustrated by slow people is just being a slow person. [00:03:45] I can't imagine. [00:03:47] I can't imagine being baffled by dust moats and confused by anything beyond the range of the moment. [00:03:53] Because, you know, you've got your narrow area of sad expertise and then there's just these vague shadows of things that move. [00:04:01] And, you know, the worst thing about being the average is how much they fucking fake it. [00:04:05] They fucking fake it, the stinky ass, middle of the bell curve liars. [00:04:11] They lie. [00:04:12] Have you ever had this where you're talking, I used to have this in the business world sometimes, marketing people. [00:04:18] 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. [00:04:32] Like, when you're good at stuff, you realize just how many people are faking it, and it's really crippling. [00:04:37] Like, when you hear people, I understand tariffs. [00:04:40] No, you don't. [00:04:41] No, you don't. [00:04:42] I mean, if you've done Austrian economic stuff or basic free market stuff and so on. [00:04:46] You know, Paul Krugman and people are just bullshitting. [00:04:49] They don't know what they're talking about. [00:04:51] They don't have any particular principles. [00:04:53] They're just saying shit. [00:04:54] They're just saying what is popular. [00:04:55] They're saying what gives people more power. [00:04:57] And they get paid and elevated based upon their ability to just fucking lie. [00:05:03] I was reading The Economist, God Help Me. [00:05:05] God Help Me. [00:05:05] I used to read that thing a lot.