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Feb. 21, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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How to FLOURISH From Being Unloved!
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Good evening, good evening, everybody.
Welcome to the 19th of February, 2025. Hope you're doing well.
That was just the year flying by, isn't it?
Moving fast.
Moving fast.
Things so hot.
Shorts are so hot, you can cook things in them.
All right, so hope you're doing well.
Good evening, good evening.
Welcome.
Welcome, welcome.
Happy to take questions, comments, issues, challenges, disagreements, and so forth.
On.
And I think everything's going fine from a techie-tech standpoint.
And hit me up with your questions.
And I am all ears while we're waiting for the questions and comments to flow in.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is suing Trump because Trump has put a funding freeze on the massive amounts of money they were getting.
For resettling immigrants and refugees.
What can you tell?
I mean, what can you even say?
Somebody wrote today, Jesus spent his time among the mentally ill, the poor, and unemployed, the prostitutes, so in a way, by being on Twitter, we're like Jesus.
Jordan Peterson dropping haiku, Candygram, bangers, wrote, you're going to encounter pain in life.
Make it worthwhile.
So if you're going to stub your toe, make sure it's in hot pursuit of a criminal.
I love the guy.
I really do.
I think he's a great guy.
But this is just a DVD. You're going to encounter pain in life.
Make it worthwhile.
Yep, that's going to help me live a moral life, for sure.
That's clear as mud.
That's clear as mud.
Somebody wrote, Despite having been warned, I was not prepared for the fact that when my toddler son cried about not getting his way, I found it almost humorous, remained steadfast, felt no pressure to alter my course.
But when my toddler daughter acts likewise, my stomach sinks and I'm compelled to give her whatever her little heart desires.
For my sons, the fields.
For my daughters, the fruits of those fields.
We read books together as a family, like my wife and my daughter and I, and we've gone through a bunch of books, and now we're dipping into the classics, so we're starting Sense and Sensibility, which is a lot of fun.
I do not sell free-domain merchandise, but I probably should.
I probably should.
All right, so, yeah, let's get your questions and comments.
Any thoughts on the origin of compulsively watching...
Police body cam videos.
I've been quite hooked for the last couple of months.
Police body cams is one of the most ironically tragic and occasionally funny things in the world, right?
Because all of these activists were like, police are racist and terrible and we've got to have them wear body cams so that we reveal all of this terrible corruption.
And how's that going?
Turns out there's not really that much corruption.
There's some.
Steph, if someone...
Oh, sorry.
So, the reason that you watch police body cam videos, I assume that you live in somewhat of a dangerous neighborhood and you need to study the predators.
So, that's the best way to do it.
Somebody wrote, Steph, if someone may make their first prospective, digital sale, pushing relevant philosophy, 10-page document, how do you leverage and scale from...
After your first sale.
Digital has been very hard for me to make any sales.
I'm excited, but don't want to lose focus on what matters.
How do you juggle relevance slash accuracy while also making even just a few sales?
Now, it's hard when you create something because, of course, when you create something, you love it.
It's wonderful and beautiful and a treasure and, you know, you've invested.
It takes the average novelist, for instance, two years to write a novel.
And so when you create something, you love it, and it's hard to put yourself in the mindset of an indifferent consumer.
Everybody's trying to sell you something all the time.
And so the challenge, of course, is to put yourself in the mind of somebody who doesn't care about what you're doing, doesn't care about your dreams, doesn't care about your ambitions, doesn't care about your hard work.
Somebody is only looking for the value that you can provide to him or her.
And that's how, I mean, if you want to be humble about what you sell, think of the number of people you turn down every day.
Every little piece of inbox, every little web ad, every even piece of spam or whatever, you're saying, nope, nope, nope, delete, delete, delete, right?
And each one of those things is somebody's dream and somebody's passion and they care about it.
And you're just like, delete, delete, delete, right?
So it's easy to take things personally.
But it's kind of solipsistic, almost narcissistic to say, well, I reject a thousand people a day or a hundred people a day or 50 people a day who want to sell me something.
I mean, look, it's somebody's dream to have you extend your car's warranty.
It's just somebody's mad passionate dream.
So you say no to just about everyone and everything all day, right?
I mean, the car dealership would love for you to come and buy a car from them.
Every day, right?
But you don't.
But you don't, right?
So you say no to the car dealership every day.
You say no to...
There's restaurants in your neighborhood that would desperately love for you to come and eat at the restaurant.
And eating at the restaurant might be the difference between the restaurant surviving and the restaurant dying.
And, you know, somebody's poured heart and soul into that restaurant and they're desperate.
They've experimented with the menu.
They chose all of the chairs and all of that.
And they Gordon Ramsay'd up the whole decor.
And it's their dream.
And you just walk past like it ain't no thing.
So just remember, the indifference that you have to just about everyone who's trying to sell to you is, frankly, the indifference that everyone else has to what you're trying to sell to them.
You've got to find a way to make it positive and important and valuable to them.
I don't know what the answer to that is, but that's the thing.
Don't think I've ever told you how amazing the Free Domain app is, Steph.
Well, thank you, Dylan.
I appreciate that.
Freedomain.com slash donate to help out the show.
Concerning the police arrest camps, I grew up in a major leftist city.
That makes a lot of sense.
I've luckily moved away at this point, but feel the laws of the whole state closing in.
Hey, James.
Somebody says, somebody says!
I found it so difficult to accept that my parents won't change.
Is it finally accepting that they don't love me?
Not wanting to believe that my fantasy parents aren't real?
I found you're inside a stream or three ago that they are desperately hiding from a conscience that is out to get them very good.
Well, would you like me to liberate you from Guilt, fantasy, and obligation.
Hit me with a Y. Hit me with your rhythm stick.
Hit me with a Y if you would like to be liberated from guilt and obligation and rank sentimentality.
Because that's a fairly important thing in life.
To not be manipulated by sentimentality is, in many ways, the absolute essence of virtue.
All right.
Well, I'll tell you.
Well, I'll tell you, baby.
Show you a little shoulder and tell you.
A little off-the-shoulder number here.
So, unfortunately, my arms aren't off-the-shoulder, otherwise I wouldn't be able to applaud.
So, the major error that you're making, and I say this with great sympathy because Lord knows I made it for decades too, you say, is it finally accepting that they don't love me?
If someone you know is homeless, genuinely broke, not a penny to their name, nothing in their pockets, and you say, I take it nothing in their pockets, and you say, I take it very personally that he's not spending any money on me.
Thank you.
He's not lending me any money.
He's not taking me out for dinner.
Why doesn't he buy things for me?
Why doesn't he lend me money?
Why doesn't he get me a birthday present?
Why doesn't he care about me enough to It doesn't have to be much.
Five dollars.
Four dollars.
A candy bar.
I don't care.
A piece of gum.
Anything.
I take it very personally that he's not spending any money on me.
That would be kind of crazy, right?
That would be kind of crazy.
Don't take it personally.
When broke people don't spend money on you.
And don't take it personally when people incapable of love don't love you.
It's not about you.
I can't believe that this desiccated, mummified pharaoh from 3,000 years ago won't donate any blood to me.
Why?
Why?
I need the blood.
Well, because he's the dried up piece of dust and strangely European genetics.
It's not that my mother doesn't love me.
My mother is incapable of love because that's the price you pay for abusing children.
It's not personal to me.
It's not like she loves other people, but just not me.
She has nothing in her pockets.
And she has only a void in her heart.
A void.
Avoid your conscience and a space.
Void.
It's not personal.
I mean, do you think the people who rail against me, do you think they hate me?
No, they don't hate me.
I interfere with some practical or material self-interest of theirs.
What I say provokes their conscience.
It's nothing to do with me.
Nothing to do with me.
My father didn't not love me.
My father couldn't love anyone.
In my opinion, it's more than an opinion, it's what I saw.
Don't take it personally when people who don't have stuff don't give you stuff.
Don't take it personally when people who don't have stuff don't give you stuff.
Go to a homeless guy who's got no money and ask him to give you money and then say, that guy must hate me, man.
He won't give me anything.
He's got nothing to give!
Nothing!
They're empty.
All they have is manipulation, Greed, consumption, and falsehood.
That's all they have.
They have nothing to give you.
They have nothing to offer you.
They cannot love.
That's the price you pay for selfishness is you cannot love.
That's the price you pay for abusing people and manipulating people and using people and lying to people and gaslighting people and bullying people.
You cannot love.
It is stripped out of your fucking heart.
Like a fat pig with a ladle and a little bottle of Haagen-Dazs.
Out it comes.
That's the price.
The price of always needing to be right is you cannot love.
The price of not listening to people is you cannot love.
The price of harming people, of bullying people, is you cannot love.
Look, we all know that there's a price to be paid.
For doing evil.
And no one, not even God, can undo the price you pay for immorality.
Nobody.
God himself cannot undo the damage cigarettes do to your lungs, which is why people don't pray their way out of lung cancer.
I do not take it personally when evil people don't love me.
When I put it this way, isn't this clear?
I don't take it personally when people without money don't donate to my show.
They have no money.
They're not donating to anyone else.
they have no money.
I don't take it personally when somebody I don't judge someone or condemn someone who was blown up in World War I for not donating their organs now.
They don't have organs.
They are dust in the wind.
When you are with profoundly selfish people, they cannot love...
It's not that they don't love you.
They cannot love...
They cannot love anyone.
Please, please, please, grind this into your very bones and balls, ovaries and spine.
They cannot love anyone.
It's not personal to you.
Did my mother have wonderful, warm, beautiful, healthy affections towards others?
No.
Evil was done unto her, and she did evil unto others.
Love, the capacity to love, is permanently slaughtered through cruelty.
Theoretically, there's a redemption arc.
I've never really seen it, but theoretically, there's a redemption arc.
But the capacity to love is slaughtered through cruelty, and the greater the power disparity, the less you can love afterwards.
And there's no greater power disparity than that between parents and children.
People who mistreat children cannot love anyone because they have murdered their empathy, they have murdered their kindness, they have murdered their virtue.
And what is love?
It is an involuntary response to virtue if we're virtuous.
So if someone doesn't love you, right?
We'll take that specific example.
Someone doesn't love you, there's only a few logical possibilities.
Very simple.
Very simple.
Only a few logical possibilities.
If someone doesn't love you...
It's either because they lack the capacity for virtue because they've done too much evil.
They have the capacity for virtue but they're not exercising it.
Or they are virtuous but you are corrupt.
That's really all there is.
Either they're corrupt, in which case they cannot love anyone, and you're just...
One of that number, right?
Or, they are virtuous and you are corrupt.
But if you are virtuous and they are virtuous, they will love you.
It's not complicated.
I mean, virtue can be complicated, but this equation is very simple.
If you are virtuous and another person is virtuous, they will have love for you.
Now, Depends on how close you are, how well they know you.
I get all of that.
But we're talking parent-child here, right?
Now, a child who is not virtuous, a child who is corrupt, cannot be condemned by the parents who raised that child any more than a painter who paints a painting can condemn the painting as if he didn't make it.
I understand that parenting, is not the sole determining factor in how children progress.
There are genetic elements to personality, there are peers, which the parents also choose.
But a parent who grows virtue in the child through good instruction, good examples, and good theory and good practice, the child will love the virtue in the parent, And the parent will love the virtue in the child.
A husband and wife love each other's virtues.
I mean, if you look at this, take a, you know, a pair like Musk and Trump, right?
Elon Musk and Donald Trump.
They love each other.
And Musk has said he loves Trump.
I mean, they're both courageous, both of great intellect and capacity, and both of significant moral purpose and intent.
If you are unloved, it's either because somebody has the capacity to love, but you are corrupt, which is not the case here with children and parents, it's never the case, or they which is not the case here with children and parents, it's never you If they are corrupt, the price you pay for selfishness and immorality is the capacity to love.
In fact, they will hate you.
If you are...
A child who has grown into virtue despite the corruption of the parents, the parents will hate you for your virtues.
Sorry.
They just will.
They'll manipulate you.
They might pretend to love you and so on, but they will not love you.
They cannot love you because all we can love is virtue.
That's all we can love.
It's like our bodies are airplanes and only the pilots, who are good pilots, can love each other.
Wow, that's fantastic.
They literally can't love at this point.
So true.
I donate regularly and will continue to do so.
Thank you.
Another question I think you have mentioned in the past that you appreciate music.
I love music.
Are you a fan of art?
And if so, what kind of art do you enjoy?
I'm not really a fan of art.
I mean, I love some of the older art.
Angre and so on.
Modigliani.
And so on.
I like some of the older art, but I don't look through pictures of art.
Is an internal dialogue more likely to be linked to an internalized system of morals slash ethics?
I don't really understand the question, sorry.
Then the price of doing evil turns them into a sort of papier-mâché figure after their soul leaves their body.
That's the price.
You get material gains and the loss of relationships.
Right?
What do you want in life?
Most people will choose stuff over people.
They will choose money over connection.
They will.
They will be bribed into giving up their soul.
They will be bribed into giving up their capacity for love, compassion, passion, feeling.
And then they wonder why they're hollowed out skin suits of regret, wandering through life complaining about a lack of meaning.
The experience of love is so foundational, so human, so connected, and so beautiful.
I can't imagine living without it.
I can't imagine what life would look like.
You know, this morning, my wife got up shortly before me.
She comes out of the bathroom, I jump out of bed, and I hop like a pogo stick to give her a big hug.
It is so...
such a joy to see her.
Without that, what is there?
The greatest asset is the integrity required for the capacity to love.
Yeah.
I mean, you wouldn't go into business with someone without checking their assets, would you?
So you won't get into relationships, at least you shouldn't get into relationships, or in my view, you shouldn't stay in relationships, where people don't have virtue and integrity, because then all they where people don't have virtue and integrity, because then all they have left is manipulation and
self-pity, plea, like all of this bullshit, squid, jello, tentacle, acidic undoing of your integrity and connection by constantly manipulating.
I, I, I can't do it.
I mean, I can't do it.
I wouldn't do it.
You couldn't pay me enough to do it.
I can't stand, you know, you hear me do these role plays with people.
I just did one on the show today.
I do these role plays with people and just manipulation and lies and falsehoods and gaslighting and you can't admit that you're wrong and people are just constantly, all they do is maneuver.
You see this in...
Sort of mainstream media debates.
They're just maneuvering, maneuvering, maneuvering.
Nobody's being honest.
Nobody's interested in the truth.
They're just maneuvering, trying to get one over, trying to win.
It's vile.
It's vile.
Repulsive.
I can't, because there's no connection.
I can't do that with people.
I can't connect with them.
I can't trust them.
They're machines of self-righteousness.
They're just machines of self-justification.
I'm right.
You're wrong.
This is one of the reasons why I don't particularly miss places like X is just seeing people's machinery of self-righteousness, the covering up of bare material predatory vampiric greed with the supposed skin suit of ethical considerations.
Ah, it's just gross.
And it's so obvious and so tiresome.
Boring.
It's absolutely boring.
People who are only manipulators are so predictable and so boring.
All right, so I hope that helps.
Don't take it personally.
Like, I'm really sorry.
When I say don't take it personally, I'm not saying don't be sad.
Yeah, be sad.
But don't be sad that you weren't loved.
Be sad that people make shitty choices, sold their souls to the devil and rendered themselves hollow empty shells.
of potential human beings with no capacity for love and attachment.
You know, like some woman with a body count of like, I don't know, 50 guys.
No capacity to pair bond anymore.
She's damaged and ran through and resentful and it's just the heartbreak is appalling.
She sold her capacity to love.
For lust, bad sex, and scant orgasms.
You know, if you want to have great sex, the longer you stay with someone, the better it gets.
It's a big benefit of monogamy.
You can't undo that.
You can't fix that in people.
Women with high body counts almost never get married.
And if they do, they get divorced, almost certainly.
You can't undo that with people.
You can't undo the damage they've done.
Now, maybe if they have some massive revelation and they go to therapy or they pursue self-knowledge or they find God or whatever, or philosophy, maybe there's a redemption arc.
But I don't care for the redemption arc because it's so improbable.
And for most people, if you start caring about their redemption, like most of the soulless people, the manipulators, the corrupt, the liars, you start caring about their redemption, they'll just fuck you over with it.
Oh, you care about my redemption?
Oh, okay, let me dangle my potential redemption in front of you for clout.
Right?
Like all of these porn stars doing the Christianity circuit.
You can't care about people's redemption arc if they're corrupt, because the moment they sense that you care, they'll just use that caring against you to exploit you and pillage you.
Can't do it.
So somebody says, do you have to debate with yourself if an action is good or not in your head, such as stealing a piece of bread?
Or do people without an internal dialogue just know better sometimes?
I still don't really understand the question.
I don't debate myself whether stealing bread is good or bad.
With UPB, I know that it's immoral to steal.
I just know that.
Respect for property rights is universally preferable behavior.
And violations of property rights is immoral.
It's not UPB. It's the opposite of UPB. So I don't need to debate that.
So I'm not sure what you're asking.
Alright, question, how to let go of the past?
Dwelling over lost opportunities, past mistakes, bad relationships, etc.
What's wrong with dwelling on the past?
You dwell on the past until you learn from it.
And then once you've learned from the past, you are relieved of its burden.
It's like people saying to me, how do I get rid of the pain of holding my hand in a fire?
Well, you have to take your hand out of the fire.
In other words, you have to learn the lesson of being burned.
which is stop doing shit that gets you burned.
So in every war we have over the nature of the past, there are two sides, the moral side and the corrupt side.
So, for instance, if your parents were corrupt and immoral, then they trained you To do bad things, to be corrupt and immoral yourself while hiding it from you and blaming you for your bad choices, bad decisions.
And your parents will work extraordinarily hard to ensure that no virtuous people land in your life.
I gotta tell you, man, like I learned this when I first began dating the woman who became my wife since almost a quarter century ago.
Holy shit, bros.
She landed.
Like a comet among the dinosaurs of my history.
She's just...
I didn't even see it.
I didn't even notice it.
I didn't quite get it.
But everyone sensed, man, she's tough and good.
Man, she's moral and honest.
And she is.
Beautiful.
I couldn't figure out.
I mean, she's delightful.
She's funny.
She's warm.
She's friendly.
She's, you know, definitely tough, strong, and will say what she thinks and feels very directly and will judge.
And she should.
And she's trained.
But I was like, well, she's delightful, right?
I have nothing to hide from people who are perceptive, people from good, I mean, scour my soul, go through my phone, I don't care, right?
I mean, my conscience is good.
It's not perfect, but it's good.
So, when my wife landed in my life, I remember people like literally stammering around her and freaked out and...
And hostile.
And, you know, I had a family member who used to put on these absolutely elaborate spreads.
And when I brought my wife over when she was still my girlfriend, you know, he put like a couple of pieces of frozen veggie burger on a plate.
Like, that's it.
I mean, it was shocking.
But I didn't get it.
I didn't get it.
Just how much her virtue, courage, and honesty frightened the shit out of people.
I mean, have you met people like this?
I'm like this to some degree.
But have you met people like this in your life?
Hit me with a why.
If you've met people who are just like, nope, don't believe it.
Nope, that's not true.
Nope, that doesn't make any sense.
Nope, that seems pretty corrupt.
Nope, that's not right.
Like who are just, boom, right?
Met people like that?
It just messes people up.
Now, again, she can cross-examine me for what it's worth.
I do it to myself.
I'm happy to be cross-examined.
In fact, I welcome it.
I've nothing to fear.
In fact, I find it delightful and pleasurable.
You know, like I wrote about Lydia and then I married Lydia from just poor.
In terms of honesty and courage.
Freedomend.com slash internet.
Come on, man, I'm spitting gold.
Throw me some gold.
Boomerang me some gold.
So, when you're wrestling with the past, there are you, you desperately want to learn the lessons, the moral lessons of the past in order to stay safe.
The people preying upon you don't want you to learn lessons of the past.
and will obscure the lessons of the past so that you remain under their control.
So, just recognize that if you come from a corrupt history, most of the people in your past will do almost anything to have you avoid learning the moral most of the people in your past will do almost anything to have you avoid learning the moral lessons of the past which come at Thank you.
So don't let go of the past.
Hold on to it until you learn from it, and then, and only then, will it recede.
Listening to you since 2010, what are your thoughts on being called a racist?
I mean, the communists said this in the 1940s.
They said if somebody's interfering with our process, we'll call them a Nazi, we'll call them a racist, we'll call them a bigot, and we'll publicly smear them and remove their irritating presence from our discourse.
I mean, this was like 70 years ago.
So people just create negatively charged terms like racist and so on, and then they just attach it to people so that they can be excluded from public discourse.
It's not an argument.
So, it just means that you're interfering with the plans of evildoers, right?
Somebody says, I put up a video on YouTube last year about your unfair removal from YouTube.
The replies I got were pointing to your series on race and IQ. I didn't do a series on race and IQ. I interviewed 17 world experts from all over the political spectrum on the factual reality of race and IQ. I didn't just do a series like I just pulled things out of my armpit, right?
I interviewed the experts because I wanted to make sure that the facts were accurate and cohesive.
So I interviewed the experts and let them talk.
And somehow it's like, my opinion!
You know, like I... Some guy interviews Stephen Hawking and it's like...
Why were you doing a series on physics?
It's like, I wasn't doing a series on physics.
I was interviewing Stephen Hawking and he was talking about physics.
So, I mean, and that's what I was talking about with Dave Rubin.
It's not me.
Don't shoot the messenger, man.
So, yeah, people don't like that topic.
I understand.
I understand.
All right.
Well, I just, I don't want people to be blamed for things that aren't their fault.
Isn't that reasonable?
Right?
It's not anyone's fault that different ethnicities, on average, don't judge individuals, but on average tend to have different IQs.
As a whole.
Again, you don't judge individuals, but as a whole.
It's nobody's fault.
I don't think it's right to blame people for things that aren't their fault.
That's not right.
But unfortunately, guilt is very profitable in a statist society.
All right, sir, I'll try third time to get your question.
I'm trying to know if people who don't think to themselves inwardly, such as reflect slash introspect, but may have empathy, how likely are they to be exploiters?
Such as taking advantage of someone dropping their wallet compared to someone who has a series of plotting decisions and actions in their head structured in language.
Oh, so you're saying people without an inner dialogue, are they more or less moral?
Well, You have to compare proposed actions to ideal standards.
I don't know how you do that without an inner dialogue.
Is this the right thing to do?
For most people, I've got UPB, so it's sort of a different thing.
But I don't know how you can pursue or achieve morality without comparing proposed actions to ideal standards.
How close does this proposed action mesh with ideal standards?
Now, there are some debates, right?
The brutal honesty versus diplomatic politeness, you know, there are some debates about that kind of stuff.
But I don't know.
I mean, that would be a scientific study.
I would imagine that people without any kind of inner dialogue tend to be more conformist and less moral.
They tend to be more subject to propaganda because they don't ask what is true.
They ask what is safe, what is acceptable, what is perceived to be true.
Because that's more empirical.
But that would be a scientific study, I assume, or a psychological study where you would divide people who have inner dialogues into those who don't have inner dialogues and you would give them a series of abstract moral questions and see if there were differences in the answers.
but I would imagine there would be, but I obviously don't know without the data.
Yeah, like a third of people don't have an inner dialogue.
They don't have voices.
They don't argue with themselves.
They don't have other people in there to their conscious knowledge or anything like that.
Somebody says, when I question mainstream beliefs, people usually say, I think I know it all.
It's impossible to argue with them.
Well, then you should stop arguing with them.
Yeah, it's like being called anti-vax, anti-science.
It's just that they charge up these negative labels and attach them to people so the mob attacks or veers away.
If I had a dime for every time I've heard, don't look at the past, just look ahead, or you ponder too much.
Yeah, I had a conversation with a fellow who had a pretty brutal father, and his father said, well, you know, you dwell on the past and you're unhappy, you don't let things go, you don't move on.
And so on.
And it's like, but this guy got beaten with bamboo sticks as a kid.
So it's like, okay, well, if you're supposed to let go of the past, not be upset by things and move on, then why did this guy get punished as a kid?
Yeah, for sure.
We used to have FDRURL.com slash IQ. Do we still have that?
FDRURL.com slash IQ. People are easily offended and quick to offend.
That is the way I see it.
I mean, people aren't really easily offended.
They're given mental tricks that allow them to be aggressive and not feel like assholes, right?
They're given mental programming that allows them to be aggressive and not feel like abusers.
I found your Stop Being Ruled by Idiots lecture so helpful, Steph.
Thanks for all you do.
Thank you for the tip.
I very much appreciate that.
Yeah, you're overthinking again.
Yeah, it's funny how people, like, they put the word, you're overanalyzing, you're overthinking.
It's like, the word over is not an argument.
All right, Jimmy says, hey, hey, Apple, I got a question about voting.
Here in Australia, elections are coming up soon.
Would you have a problem with an employer demanding his employees to show them who they voted for in an election?
Obviously, it would be against the law, but as an employer, You want to know if your employees are committed to your business, and by voting, not in the interest of the business could be detrimental to the business.
Thanks.
Yeah, I don't think that...
I mean, I'm not a big fan of the government or voting as a whole, but no, you should not be asking people how they voted.
No.
It's a private ballot.
I mean, that would be like saying to your employees, I need to see your medical records, right?
Could that be good or bad for the business?
Yeah, but medical records are private.
All right.
Two-part question.
Ooh, a two-for-one-y.
How do you personally ground the ideal standards?
What the hell does that mean?
How do you personally ground the ideal standards?
Do you mean prove?
I don't know what that means.
And how can you propose to someone who may be nihilistic that they should accept such standards as motivating?
Well, somebody who's nihilistic still has a standard, which is that nihilism is true and valid.
So you can say, okay, well, you accept things are true and valid.
Let's explore more.
No, no, Steph, seeing medical records by employers has been done.
It was called COVID. No, I get that.
But I mean all medical records, right?
And that was wrong too, right?
Love what you just shared at the joy of being seen if you are living a great life.
Nothing to hide and joy to reflect on one's actions.
Truly, Steph, cannot thank you enough.
Thank you.
Do you think, with the recent changes in America, it will bring a new life to the West, or just a force to all the death of the West?
I don't want to blackpill anyone, but of course, if you looked in the early 70s, or the late 60s, when Nixon got in, and it looked like it was going to be a new dawn, and it was the House and the Senate and all of that, the White House, I think it was all controlled by Republicans.
Ah, it's a new dawn, it's a new day, and I'm feeling good.
Well, how did that play out?
How did that play out?
I think a lot of it comes down to the elections in Germany.
And the French did not make it.
The French did not make it with Marine Le Pen versus Emmanuel Macron.
I did shows on this way back in the day.
And the French chose a kind of suicide.
Okay, well.
That's often the case when people are corrupt.
They have a death impulse, right?
So, I think it's...
I find the news addictive.
I didn't really read much news, at least compared to when I was younger, over the last couple of years, because I was doing politics, I was deplatformed, and it was all just depressing as shit.
Like, it was all just awful and horrible and terrible and...
Like it was just because you had this, you know, absolute constitution trampling, vegetative state, a third of his presidency on vacation, zombie fest of a presidency.
And now I find the news is actually interesting and fun.
The right seems to have turned the corner and gained some confidence.
and they don't seem to be as susceptible to manipulation anymore.
Oh, and I don't know, for those of you who are still interested, I've had more thoughts about going back on X or Twitter, so I don't care if anyone's interested in that or not, but I can see a standard so I don't care if anyone's interested in that or not, but I can see a standard wherein my former demands would not be The demands I made earlier...
We're not, Matt.
I would still go back.
All right.
Nixon was sabotaged by the deep state.
Yeah, of course.
Yeah, for sure.
I mean, Tucker Carlson has a great bit on that, right?
What is the best question you have ever been asked?
What is true?
Someone interested in that?
Yeah.
So, my requirements for going back on X were...
an apologies, a restitution, and significant guarantees that it wouldn't happen again.
No, so if it turns out, I don't know if this data will come out with Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard being in charge of national I don't know if this data will come out with Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard being in charge of national security and the FBI and so on, but if it turns out that information comes out, that there was significant
maybe myself included, that would be a different matter.
Then that would be a different matter.
Then it would not be a personal decision, but rather a subjugation to state power.
So that would bypass the need for Apologies, because it would not be, you know, like if someone does you harm and it turns out that they, you know, somebody had a gun to their head that you couldn't see or something, that would be a different matter, so.
All right.
Yeah, you think you know it all, says the person claiming to know the inner thoughts within your head.
Very true, very true, very true.
Yeah, I mean, if you think your girlfriend cheated on you and it turns out she was kidnapped, then you wouldn't need an apology for her because, like, assuming she did nothing wrong, right, she just got grabbed from someplace, then if it turns out that she was kidnapped, then you wouldn't demand an apology from her, her, right?
Or any kind of restitution.
All right.
I will learn to survive.
Save.
I love this picture of the sad Asian guy on a plane, and the caption is, when the plane just took off and you hear the doctor behind you say, I found the cure for cancer.
Subtle.
Very subtle.
That's pretty wild.
There's a quote here.
We believe this breakthrough will allow us to create a truly meaningful quantum computer, not in decades, as some have predicted.
But in years, a chip that can fit in the palm of your hand yet is capable of solving problems that even all the computers on Earth today combined could not.
Wouldn't that be wild?
Just think of the VR you could get, man.
Alex Berenson, for what it's worth, I have a mildly ambivalent relationship with this Twitter feed.
But he wrote, I can't, obviously, evaluate the science, look at the data.
I certainly don't have time, although I could probably puzzle it out over time.
But he wrote today, a very urgent top Yale scientists have found of T-cell exhaustion.
I don't know what is missing there.
Found signs of T-cell or found T-cell exhaustion.
So top Yale scientists have found of T-cell exhaustion and prolonged spike protein production in some COVID vaccine recipients, with spike levels increasing.
Over time.
And then he said about this, this is not a joke.
It's as bad as can be.
T-cell exhaustion and depletion are, well, they're AIDS. And the finding is from a team led by one of the world's top immunologists.
We really need to know how often this is happening.
And I've heard some rumblings that there might be reversals in the promotion of the vaxxers under Trump.
Somebody, a garbage human, posted one of my 2014 race stats, which is homicide rates by race, and it's currently cooking at 3.1 million views.
Almost 100,000 likes.
Interesting.
It's nice and interesting to see stuff I did, like, 11 years ago.
popping up and getting views and everyone like wow all right I haven't talked about this with Izzy.
Please come back to X. It would be so much fun.
Yeah, you know I'm a moral philosopher, right?
Not a hedonist.
So the fact that it might be fun is not...
It's like, please cheat on your wife.
It would be so much fun.
It's like, I have vows, right?
I have vows.
So, are you going to see what congressional hearings or DOGE might reveal in regards to the government threatening X or Twitter?
Well, I mean, it would be interesting to see if there was a kind of end run around the Constitution, maybe not specific to me, but an end run around the Constitution, the First Amendment, pressuring with governments, pressuring companies to do X, Y, or Z platform or suppress or whatever it is, right?
So, and I don't think it was just X or Twitter.
It could have been any number of social media platforms, right?
Have you thought about joining Blue Sky?
Uh, no.
No.
Pardon me.
Alright.
What else did I have?
A bookmarked.
A bookmarked.
Ah, I thought this was really good.
I thought this was really good.
I mentioned this on a call-in today.
This is from Lucas.
He said, Normies think being in shape is expensive, but it's actually the reverse.
Not only does food cost much less, you're eating less while craving less, overpriced, snack garbage, but life in general gets cheaper.
It costs four times less to look good.
You can buy clothes in sizes that fit normal people now.
So they're cheap and fit better.
Most girls will look great with just eye makeup because their skin tone eventually fixes itself.
He writes, fully 98% of your health problems just go away with time.
So doctors become mostly unnecessary unless you're neurotic or have a genetic condition.
A lot of genetic conditions go away too because they were actually just being fat.
Again, I don't know whether it's true or not, but it's interesting.
Your sleep quality, he writes, goes up because even if you don't technically Have sleep apnea while fat.
You almost certainly have some level of obesity-related breathing restrictions that cause sub-apneatic sleep disruptions.
Now you get better sleep in less time, and you get a promotion because you're not a fat-confused retard, he says.
You don't need weird $8,000 mattresses just to be comfortable sleeping.
You don't need a chiro, physio, massages, or any of the other stuff you got from sleeping on the world's most goofy mattress to avoid the 47 hot spots and spinal distortions you had from sleeping while obese.
Expensive padded shoes with orthotics aren't necessary to dampen the shock of your enormous body taking steps anymore.
Cheap, reliable, fun cars are usable.
You can daily a two-door that gets 35 miles per gallon now that you're thin enough that the Japanese consider you a human again.
You can even fit comfortably in a Prius, now if that's your thing.
You don't need the expensive plane tickets because you're not spilling over the armrest anymore.
Basic hygiene costs less because you don't need weird excessive scents or 13 levels of body wash to cover up how bad you smell naturally from being obese and eating like trash.
There's tons of other stuff, but in general life, just isn't that complicated when you're the size humans are supposed to be?
I mean, harsh, yes, absolutely.
And it's pretty cheap.
I mean, I haven't had a gym membership in years.
I mean, I just have a sort of little machine and some weights at home.
And again, I'm not some big workout guy, but it's certainly enough to stay.
Stay strong.
So I think that's interesting.
Also, you don't need to rebuy clothes.
Like, I can still fit into the same clothes I wore when I was 18. In fact, I weigh a little bit less now than I did when I was 18. This was interesting, too.
Why do men seem to struggle more when they catch a cold?
You know, this kind of thing where men have cold and they take to bed and it's just terrible.
Somebody writes, male immune systems tend to use fever rather than inflammation.
As an early response, which makes you feel more exhausted and more likely to rest.
The energy cost of fever is greater with larger body mass, but activating targeted immune responses is even more expensive.
And somebody wrote, dudes posting their wins, higher testosterone equals suppressed immune response.
So I think men and women, potentially, if this is true, men and women do experience infections and so on, like Viral or bacterial differently, which I think is interesting and goes to some degree to explain why men have a tough time with colds.
Peter Schiff, dare I say the great Peter Schiff, the S&P is not at a record high if priced in real money.
In terms of gold, the S&P is worth less than 2.1 ounces.
At the start of this century, year 2000, the S&P It was worth 4.85 ounces.
So, in real terms, the S&P is down 57% over the past 24 years.
The nominal gain is all due to inflation, right?
And you get this, right?
I remember when I first started working in the business world, started making some decent coin, and it just felt impossible to get ahead.
There was always some bills, some tax, like something.
It's just like you just can't get ahead.
You make some more money and then everything gets more expensive.
And you, you know, your insurance goes up, your car insurance goes through the roof because they got no-fault insurance.
And then life insurance goes up and your rent goes up.
And it's just like, don't you get this?
Like, this is the myth of Sisyphus, you know, rolling the rock up the hill, that the boulder up the hill continually comes back down.
That there's this treadmill that you just can't get ahead.
It's like these dreams where you're underwater and trying to run.
Get anywhere.
Can't decide anything.
Just everything's in slow motion sickness.
Everything erodes.
Everything you put down gets beamed up by space aliens and beamed back to some other house and everything just entropy and falling apart and you just can't get ahead.
Maddening.
Thank you, Chris.
Thank you.
Maddening.
Maddening.
I can't hit my protein!
I can't.
I can't do the protein thing.
I just can't get that obsessed.
Do you think AI can ever achieve consciousness?
I do not.
The binary nature of computers is just incompatible with the multicellular synapse firestorm of the human brain.
Hi, Steph.
Seeing that you did shows recently about Christianity, could you share your thoughts about the encyclical of Pope Paul VI, development of peoples, following...
are the parts I'm curious about.
Yeah, I'm not going to read all that.
I mean, I doubt it, because, I mean, I was raised Anglican, and so when I talk about the Bible, which I've read cover to cover, I have some context and some way of understanding it, but going through papal encyclicals, encyclicals, encyclicals?
Writing the Pope a bike would be sort of negative.
Did you discuss CBS Margaret Brennan saying the Holocaust was caused by the abuse of free speech?
Sad state of mainstream media.
I mean, it's just a talking point.
I mean, the Nazis were very hostile to free speech and so on.
And the Weimar Republic that gave rise to the Nazis was incredibly hostile to free speech.
So, sorry, bang, bang, crash, boom, bang.
Sorry if you were napping.
My apologies.
Somebody says, real estate priced in gold is even worse than the S&P. I bought my house in 2010 after the bubble and I still lost priced in grams of gold.
Yeah, for sure.
Yeah, you need a place to live.
That's right.
What are my thoughts on Gnosticism?
Mm-hmm.
What are my thoughts on Gnosticism?
Gnosticism.
I'm not sure I have any particularly deep or important thoughts on Gnosticism.
I do not think that I do.
Can I double click on that?
So Gnosticism to me is pretty close to mysticism.
I prefer thinking.
With regards to external rules that you don't just pull out of your own armpit.
Mysticism is, you know, insights, untestable, unreproducible, unscientific, unrational, unempirical, anti-empirical.
So I don't...
I don't have any particular respect for people who view their own innards as the most important part of the empirical exploration of truth.
Oh, I had a vision, man.
I had a thought.
I had a...
Feeling I had.
It's just lazy.
It's lazy.
People who want revelation over the disciplines of rational thought, people who want that, are just lazy.
Right?
Like, again, talking to a caller today.
Today, man!
And he supported his wife for like 11 years.
He supported his wife for 11 years.
And men, you know, we're supposed to give.
We give, we give, we give, right?
Ask the girl out, risk rejection.
Pay for the dates.
Pay for the trips.
Pay for more on Valentine's Day.
Buy her stuff for her birthday that's more expensive usually than the stuff she buys back.
And, you know, all of that.
It's like, men, we give, we give, we give.
We pay, we pay, we pay.
We lie in the nest.
We lie in the bank account.
And then, right, so men pay, pay, pay, work, work, work, support, support, support, and then it's supposed to switch.
It's supposed to be a switch, a little switcheroo there.
And the switcheroo is women are supposed to have a bunch of kids, and then the work, primary work, the primary shifts to them.
So the man proves that he can provide and takes care of the woman and builds the nest, buys the house, you know, whatever, right?
I mean, I'd be living in a one-bedroom apartment with the TV on the box it came in, and a futon.
If I wasn't married, father, right?
My wife likes a nice place, so, you know, she's made our place really nice, and I appreciate it.
It's not something I would do on my own.
So, men work like crazy, and, you know, create excess value, build civilization, get nice places, throw money like a flaming fire cannon of Fiat at women, and then in return, women are supposed to take up and shoulder the burden of having and raising children.
Funny story.
Women still want all the free shit, they just don't so much want the work that they'd have to do in response, which is the having and raising of children.
Chivalry is saying to women, you can have children with me because I'm devoted to you.
So women still want the devotion and the deferring and the paying, they just don't so much on average want to actually have the children that that's all for.
And I think men are getting pretty sick and tired of that.
Thanks for the reply, but do you not judge your empirical evidence based off the logical consistency of your interior model?
What now?
But do you not judge your empirical evidence?
Okay, if it's empirical evidence, it's not mine.
Empirical evidence is objective.
It is facts about the universe and the behavior of matter and energy that come through the medium of the senses.
Empirical evidence is factual and independent of consciousness.
So it's not my empirical evidence.
It's the difference between my favorite color is blue and this is the wavelength of blue.
It's not my empirical evidence.
Based off of the logical consistency of your interior model, okay, logic is supposed to determine that which is potentially true or potentially false.
If something is illogical or antilogical, it cannot be true because truth refers to things outside of consciousness, that which can be verified independent of subjective experiences and opinions, which is why there's math and engineering and physics and biology and so on, so we can evaluate things independent of mere unreproducible subjective experience.
So logical consistency means in accordance with the laws of logic which we derive from the consistent and non-contradictory behavior of matter.
Thank you.
Thank you.
We have logic because the universe is objective, rational, and consistent.
It's the only reason we have consciousness and a body that works, is the universe is objective, rational, and consistent.
So empirical evidence is receiving the facts about the universe through the evidence of the senses.
Logical consistency is to describe things that are true outside of consciousness according to the principles derived, called reason, from the objective properties of matter and energy.
He says, but precisely the empirical evidence is collected by subjects, no?
No.
Thank you.
What do you mean by subjects?
Oh, you're trying to sneak something in here.
Like a subject is another word for subjective, right?
So, are you saying that it requires a human being for the evidence of the senses to enter the mind?
Yes, you are correct.
It does take a human being with eyes to have the material facts of the universe Enter the mind through the windows of the eyes.
Yes, that is correct.
You do need a human being with eyeballs in order for a human being to collect visual empirical information about the universe.
What is that?
Is that a big insight?
You know, it takes a human being to see things and think about them.
Yes, it does.
Thank you for your contribution to the blindingly obvious game show.
What does this mean?
Empirical evidence is collected by subjects, no?
And therefore, it is an amalgamation of subjective agreement.
What?
Okay, man, get your head out of your own ass.
Just think about the actual world.
Just, you know, the shit that a fucking 18-year-old, 18-month-old understands, a two-year-old understands.
Okay, here's what I want you to do.
Here's what I want you to do.
I want you to...
Get off your ass tomorrow.
Go down to the seashore with a friend of yours.
Right?
Go stand in the shallows.
Wait for a big giant wave.
Close your eyes and say, I don't believe in the wave.
La la la.
No wave.
Doesn't exist.
Not real.
La la la.
No wave.
What's going to happen?
Boom.
You're going to get smacked by the wave and thrown on your ass.
Just try it.
Honestly.
Things are subjective.
Evidence of the census is subjective.
Well, then you can't listen to me because you're watching and listening to me.
That's the evidence of the census.
Right?
If you doubt this, you can try this experiment without even going to the beach.
Close the door and try and walk through the doorway with the door closed.
Try and walk through the door.
Now, I want you to close your eyes, plug your ears, you can get a nose plug too if you want, and then stand there and absolutely strongly disbelieve in the door, walk forward.
It's called object constancy and you're supposed to learn this at about 16 months of age.
you Thank you.
Come on, man.
If you think that the universe is subjective, you can experiment.
You don't need to think about all of this abstract stuff.
You don't need to be gnostic.
Just test it.
I remember this.
I remember as probably about...
I was about maybe eight years old, seven or eight years old, and I got an LP, a little 45, 10 cc's, The Things We Do For Love, The Things We Do For Love, and I would listen to it, and I remember being kind of freaked out that it just kept looping at the end, The Things We Do For Love, and the needle would be just kind of scratching at the end there, and I remember lying in bed listening to the song.
I didn't really want to get up, and I'm like, you know what?
I'm going to lift the needle, and I'm going to put...
Because, you know, this is the big telekinesis 70s shit, right?
So I'm going to lift the needle, and I put it...
And I put it there.
This is 73, 1973, right?
I'm going to lift the needle.
I'm going to concentrate.
And I tried a whole bunch of times.
Nothing happened.
Nothing happened.
Just You don't need to...
Have all of this abstract language.
Just go test your thesis.
If you think that reality is subjective, then try to manipulate reality through your subjective mind.
Not people.
Reality.
Objective empirical reality, right?
Can I put my head through the microphone?
Oh, wait, let me try again.
No, let me try again.
No, let me try again.
Right?
And at some point, you'll be like, hey, I can't put my head through the microphone.
Easy peasy, nice and easy, simple and done.
Done and dusted.
He says, And therefore it is an amalgamation of subjective agreement...
Nope.
No, it's not.
Go to the beach.
Let the wave hit you and your friend.
You stand there and disbelieve in the wave and see what happens.
This is all eminently testable.
You do not need philosophy.
You just need honesty.
You know you're going to get knocked on your ass by the wave.
Well, I just don't disbelieve in it strongly enough.
Okay, then that's a non-testable hypothesis.
There's no null hypothesis, right?
And thus, there is a probabilistic agreement as to how many individuals agree upon a set of observations, but it is ultimately Still your observation?
Right.
So, are you saying that the sun only exists in the sky because people just believe in it?
Well, then, you know, stand out there in your bathing suit with no sunscreen and just believe in the sun and see if you get a sunburn.
It's all eminently testable.
I don't know why people do this stuff.
Honestly, I don't understand it.
Stop yapping and do some fucking science.
Just test some stuff.
Just test some stuff.
You believe reality is subjective.
Okay.
Go prove it.
Have it as a hypothesis.
You are your own lab.
Try.
And you will fail.
And you know that you will fail.
So I don't know why people have beliefs that they never live by.
I genuinely don't understand that at all.
It's like saying, I desperately need currency and then picking up a bunch of ancient Zimbabwe trillion dollar bills that nobody will ever accept.
Why would you ever want to have beliefs that are the direct opposite of everything you do all day?
Every day.
You're literally listening to me talk, saying the senses are inaccurate and it's just mere mutual agreement and coincidence.
Well, how the fuck are you supposed to debate with me if you think the senses are subjective and unreliable when you're typing so I can see it with my eyes and listening to me with your ears?
Why would you say the senses are unreliable Using the senses.
I don't understand.
Why do people live in their mind the opposite of everything they do during the day?
I don't understand.
That just seems bizarre to me.
Can you share about the development of your strength?
To hold and share truth the way you do takes nearly unimagined strength.
Well, I mean, to some degree, I come by it honestly.
Like my...
My family on my mother's side were a bunch of German intellectuals who were all chased around and suppressed during the Nazi regime, so they were deplatformed in a very serious manner.
One of my ancestors, I mean most of my ancestors were intellectuals, the shining light in my ancestor tree is William Molyneux, who was best friends with John Locke, and they were both chased around the Irish countryside by the soldiers of the king because they had questioned some aspect of the divine right of king, so they were deplatformed and he had to flee.
The country.
So, you know, maybe there's some just...
We Molyneux, and my mother's maiden name was Zickler, right?
We Molyneux and the Zicklers, we say stuff and get in trouble.
Now, why do I say stuff?
Because...
Fuck bullshit.
I mean, it's really all...
Philosophy is just down to fuck bullshit.
Fuck bullshit.
I'm not going to talk bullshit.
I'm not going to lie.
Lying is what slaves do.
I'm not a slave.
You can't force me to lie because that would be to be a slave.
Fuck bullshit is the honest cry of the free soul.
Fuck bullshit.
You lie, fuck you.
I'm going to tell the truth.
I'll get punished for telling the truth.
Fuck the punishments.
Don't care.
Tell the truth.
I mean, all the people I admire told the truth, despite attacks, right?
Why would you not want to be that which you admire?
I don't know if it's strength, it's just I have such bottomless contempt for the squid-beak-faced intellectual parasites that bully you into lying.
I just find it repulsive.
Now, of course, when I was a kid, I had to lie.
We all have to lie as children.
Even if our parents don't make us lie, we can't tell the truth in school.
And, you know, when you become an adult, you put away childish things, right?
And being forced to lie as a child To me, it was this big, giant, drawn bowstring of, fuck bullshit, I'm going to tell the truth as an adult, because that's how I know I'm an adult.
As a child, I was a bullied slave.
As an adult, I'll tell the truth, because that's not allowed to slaves, and I don't want to be a slave my whole fucking life.
I don't want to.
Can't make me.
All right.
Thank you for the tips.
Freedomain.com slash donate.
Let's do a little bit of time.
According to the anthropic principle, is that the universe has finely tuned constants because the universe is the type that is capable of having conscious perceiving beings such as ourselves.
The universe is, has, objective laws, and they are finely tuned, which permits us to exist and discover those objective laws.
All right.
Just, you know, you can...
Check your typos.
That would be helpful.
All right.
Is there a semi-midwit 30 to 60 second response to someone who says that there are contradictions in the laws of the universe at the quantum level?
Do we just tell them to pay bills or eat food at the quantum level?
No, quantum contradictions such as they are all cancel themselves out long before you get to sense data.
So it doesn't, they don't exist at the sense data level.
The contradictions do not exist at the sense data.
Level.
So, if they believe that there are contradictions in the laws of the universe, I'd say, show me.
No, no, no, they exist at the quantum level.
Okay, so they don't exist at the level that we operate as biological human beings.
They certainly don't exist at the moral level, because the moral level is all about empirical evidence, right?
Proof of crimes and so on, right?
Evidence.
Beyond a reasonable doubt.
Proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
So I'd say, oh, the contradictions in the nature of the universe.
Show me.
Oh, I can't show you because there aren't any contradictions at the level which human beings operate.
It's like, well, then leave the contradictions to the physicists and the moralists deal with sense data, which is not contradictory, so it doesn't matter.
It's irrelevant.
All right.
So, which is worse?
The hitman who kills for cash.
Don't care.
Already bored.
Nobody deals with this.
I love your reply, Stefan.
I agree, but your statement about revelation almost completely negates the subjective experience.
Don't know what that means.
For example, if you personally witness that other people do not share your views yet occupy the same physical world, therefore your subjective qualifier must be important.
What?
For example, if you personally witness that other people do not share your views yet occupy the same physical world, but that's because we have free will.
We have free will, which means we can choose well or we can choose badly.
Are you saying that Determinism or the, quote, objectivity or the objectivity of physical laws means that everybody must believe the same thing, but because people don't believe the same thing or the same things, that reality must be subjective.
Is that your argument?
But we have free will.
So people can choose well or they can choose badly.
So people can choose to accept evidence or they can choose to reject evidence.
People can choose to Taste the sweet fruits of conformity or the bitter, exciting, extreme sport of integrity.
People can choose to empty out their souls by agreeing with idiots or they can choose the capacity of love by living for the truth.
Right?
Some people smoke.
Some people quit smoking.
That doesn't mean that the universe is just a set of dominoes.
It just means that we have free will and a choice.
If I close my eyes, you can't see me, says James.
Yeah, it really is.
So, as somebody says, every time I see a video of a professor arguing about how life could be an illusion slash simulation, every time I see a video of a professor arguing about how life could be an illusion slash simulation, I always hope for A lot of academic nonsense comes from people who have never experienced pain.
Well, Life as a simulation means that we exist in the minds of another, but a professor is a curated housecat of slavery slash domestication who is paid to propagandize people, and if he tells the truth, he'll be ostracized or fired.
And you can see this in a wide variety of academics who told the truth over the years and got, you know, fired, right?
I mean, J.D. Watson, was it?
Watson?
Of Watson and Crick, the DNA guy.
Anyway, James Watson got fired because he talked about race and IQ. And he was one of the premier cancer researchers in the planet, right?
So the good news is that I don't have to care about anybody who calls people racist who gets cancer.
It's like, well, that's the price you pay for getting rid of one of the most premier or at least supporting the ideology that got rid of one of the most premier cancer researchers in the world because he said something that's scientifically true.
You get to die of cancer, and I don't care, because you contributed the ideology that eliminated one of the greatest cancer researchers in human history.
Annoying authority must run in the family.
Yeah, maybe.
Maybe.
I have not heard of these thinkors.
Sorry.
This is priceless.
I signed up for Rumble Premium just to ask you questions.
Well, thank you.
I'm with Rand.
Contradictions don't exist in reality.
If you find a contradiction, you need to check your premises.
Yeah, that's obviously Jan.
She gets that from Aristotle and all of that, right?
Somebody clip a professor as a curated house cat.
Yeah, so professors live in the minds and often the delusions of others, so they're quite compatible with the idea that we live in a curated reality run by demons because they have academic boards.
Right?
My favorite rap song is your Eminem rap that you made over five years ago.
John Locke was in that song.
Thank you for sharing your lineage.
That was, yeah, the Eminem rap that I did to Mark Eminem.
I just wrote that in like ten minutes and recorded it in one take with my daughter's candy necklace flashing and a do-rag on my head.
And a do-rag on my head!
All right.
Any other last questions, comments, issues, challenges, problems? Problems.
Problems.
Thank you.
I like this one.
This is from Doge.
I think this came out yesterday, two days ago.
The treasury access symbol TS is an identification code linking a treasury payment.
To a budget line item, standard financial process.
In the federal government, the TAS, treasury access symbol field, was optional for about $4.7 trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost impossible.
As of Saturday, this is now a required field, increasing insight into where the money is actually going.
Thanks to the U.S. Treasury for the great work.
If you got $600, will you want to trace that Venmo?
$4.7 trillion?
Not so much.
Not so much.
I love how Doge did the UNO reverse card on IRS audits.
It's going to be wild to see what comes out of that.
It really, really is.
It's going to be wild.
Question.
Steph.
No, they're not irritating.
I don't mind the questions at all.
Yeah, the podcast number is 3855. I think it was more than five years ago.
I think it was longer than that.
But yeah, somebody put it actually to rap music and all of that.
Yeah, professors live in a world of books.
They're manipulated.
They're slaves to the system and enslave others in their delusions in return for summers off.
Dr. Walter Block wrote an article some years ago about how great it is to be a professor.
You barely have to work.
You make $175,000 a year.
You get summers off.
You get sabbaticals every couple of years where you can do whatever the hell you want.
And it's like, you know, all of that comes with a price.
Right, Walt?
You know all of that.
If you talk about how great it is, the question is, why is it so great?
Why is it so great?
I always find it funny.
This was one of my arguments from a while back ago.
You probably haven't heard it if you've not been around for like 15 years.
But sort of one of my arguments was when you say, well, we'll just educate people on free market economics and then they'll love the free market.
And it's like, nope.
And I put the challenge out to free market professors, right?
People who teach free market economics.
You know, they teach Von Mises, Bastiat and Hayek and Friedman and all that.
And Murray Rothbard and so on.
These people, they all have PhDs in the virtues and values of the free market.
And I said, look, I'm out here in the free market.
I'm doing a podcast.
I'm taking donations.
I'm out here in the free market.
Maybe, you know, 50 years ago, 40 years ago, you couldn't go out in the free market.
It'd be kind of tough, but now you can.
So, you want to prove to people that you believe your values.
You want to live your values.
What if you have the chance and it's reasonably remotely possible to do so?
So I said, y'all, just quit.
You know, you call me.
I will guide you through the process for free.
I will help you get set up.
I will tell you the technical setup.
I will tell you the feed.
You can come on my show and promote what you're doing.
I will give you an instant audience.
But leave the fucking cloistered...
Bitter shit wound of academia and come out here into the glorious free market you spent your entire fucking career praising.
Put your balls where your money, where your mouth is.
Okay, I may have mixed that analogy a tiny bit, but you get the point.
You love the free market?
Join us in the free market.
I will help you set up, and I offered all of this for free.
Business consultation, technical setup, how to...
Spread the word.
Come on my show.
Talk about your new podcast.
I offered all of this stuff for free.
How many academics quit their jobs to join the free market?
How many academics who just spent their entire careers praising the free market, how many of them quit the government-protected, amniotic, womb-sack of academia to come out into the free market?
Zero.
So they say, well, we've just got to educate people on the free market.
It's like even people with PhDs in the free market don't want to have anything to do with the free market.
They'd rather suck off the government-protected titty of academia.
So education ain't going to do it.
It's one of the reasons why I really worked on peaceful parenting.
Oh, education?
Education ain't going to do it.
You can give everyone a free market.
PhD.
You can have them work through a PhD in the free market economics, how virtuous and valuable and efficient and great and wonderful it is.
And they'll still suck off the infinite government titty and destroy the next generation and discredit the free market by staying as far away from it as humanly possible, even when it's eminently possible.
Ah, you know, the free market is what produces quality.
Without competition, there's no quality.
Oh, well, you should then improve your teaching by coming out into the free market.
You'll reach far more people.
No!
I am here to praise the free market, not join it.
Are you crazy?
I'm here to talk about how moral and efficient it is.
I'm not here to be actually moral and efficient by joining the free market.
Oh, my God.
Crazy.
Oh, dear.
Oh, dear.
Any last tips?
Come on, people.
It's been a great show.
John Danahan did.
He quit his philosophy gig at Columbia University to become the greatest jiu-jitsu grappling coach ever.
Okay, but he still didn't do philosophy, right?
Does Tom Woods count?
Yeah, maybe.
Yeah, maybe.
Yeah, no, that's a great point, and I appreciate that.
Thank you for the correction.
All right.
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