Feb. 24, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| Like, my particular feeling, and I could be wrong or right about this, I'll just tell you my feeling at the moment. | |
| It is a feeling. | |
| Just a feeling. | |
| I don't feel common course with the common people anymore. | |
| I used to. | |
| I really, really used to. | |
| I used to feel real common course with the common people. | |
| I felt very strongly my responsibility for that, you know, like happened to be gifted with a certain gift of gab and reasoning and communication and so on. | |
| And I felt real common course with the common people as a whole. | |
| I did. | |
| But I don't anymore. | |
| It's kind of been whittled away from me. | |
| I won't say passive, because there's choices involved in it. | |
| But it's kind of been whittled away from me over the last 15, 17 years. | |
| Because the common people lap up. | |
| I'm just a bad guy, right? | |
| There's a bad guy, a cult leader, a supremacist. | |
| Like, I'm just a bad guy. | |
| They lap it all up, right? | |
| They go to the newspapers and the magazine, lap it all up, right? | |
| And they don't defend me and they don't protect me. | |
| In fact, they give lots of money and eyeballs and advertising dollars to people who say terrible things about me. | |
| And that's fine. | |
| You know, they can absolutely do that. | |
| That's absolutely their choice. | |
| But as I've always said, I treat people the best I can. | |
| After that, I treat them as they treat me. | |
| So the sort of common people, the average people and so on. | |
| I mean, I wish them good luck. | |
| I really do. | |
| I absolutely wish them good luck. | |
| I wish you the best, but I'm not sacrificing for you because you don't sacrifice for me. | |
| You know, for the common people as a whole, common people, the NPCs, the average, the normies, if you want your intellectuals to defend you, you have to, A, not defend, not attack your intellectuals, or B, even if you're not attacking them, defend them a little. | |
| I, of course, you know, when I was attacked in the mainstream for years and years and years, I would go and I would read the comments, right? | |
| And the comments were all, I agree, he's a terrible guy, this is the worst thing ever, he's a bad guy, and I'm like, okay, that's fine. | |
| People are completely free. | |
| I'm a no-censorship kind of guy. | |
| So, I don't, I don't... | |
| Have any particular wish or desire? | |
| Like, have you seen me rushing to the defense of England much lately? | |
| Well, no, because, I mean, England was the country I was abused in for many years, and it was the British press that launched attacks on me many years ago, and the British people all lapped it up, and it's like, well, good luck, right? | |
| If the common people... | |
| In their wisdom, and they have some wisdom, the common people in their wisdom have decided that they can do without moral philosophers protecting their interests. | |
| Because, you know, somebody dangles a piece of meat, they just snap at it and growl at it. | |
| And so, you know, if there is a town, you know, you have medicine and you want to go to a town to help people with the medicine, But then the local witch doctor ooga boogas you, and oh, he's a bad guy, and his medicine is actually poison, and then you go to the town because you want to help the people. | |
| They've got a terrible disease, you've got the cure, you want to help the people, and the people, you know, turn over your jeep, drag you out, and beat you up, and then, right? | |
| Then you'd be like, okay, well, geez, that was pretty bad, but I really want to help the people, so you try again, and then, you know, they set fire to your tent, and they... | |
| They scream at you and they throw things at you and they chase you out and you barely escape with your life and that kind of thing, right? | |
| So, after a certain amount of time, after a certain amount of time, do you want to keep going back to that town to try and save the people? | |
| You don't! | |
| If you have half a brain or, you know, a snail in a tire track sense of self-preservation, you don't. | |
| Okay, you guys have decided to do without your doctors and your medicines because you want to listen to the Ooga Booga Witch Doctors. | |
| Who tell you that the doctor is mean and wants to hurt you and all that kind of stuff, right? | |
| So, my particular relationship, I wish them the best. | |
| I hope that they come to wisdom, you know, but if they want to listen to the witch doctors and attack the real doctors, then I wish them the best. | |
| I doubt they'll get it because they chose the witch doctor over the doctor, right? | |
| They chose sophists and liars. | |
| Over souls who really cared for their improvement. | |
| So, I mean, they will probably end up standing, the average person as a whole, will probably end up standing in history as an example of what not to do. | |
| Of what not to do. | |
| There's no point me going back to the town with my medicine. | |
| You understand? | |
| Like, what's the point? | |
| Why would I go back to the town with the medicine when they listen to the witch doctors and attack me? | |
| I mean, this happened where places that I went, there was, you know, violence, bomb threats, death threats, you know, sort of thing. | |
| I swear to God, half the time I was peeing, I was expecting to get shanked in the kidneys. | |
| And so the media, you know, was to some degree whipping this kind of stuff up, and people were cheering on the media. | |
| I mean, there were exceptions. | |
| Don't get me wrong. | |
| There were exceptions. | |
| I can still reach those people. | |
| Through what I do now, but people have made their choice. | |
| They want the liars in this office. | |
| They don't want the moral truth-tellers. | |
| They don't want me. | |
| They don't want me. | |
| I mean, I know that what I have is of value. | |
| I know that I'm the cure, but they don't want me. | |
| They have chosen the liars who flatter their egos rather than the people who challenge their illusions. | |
| And that was sort of the one, but the two-punch was, The common people are baying like a bunch of jackal, vulture vampires to take away the rights of people, overcome it. | |
| So, I don't, you know, the bunch of people in power said, oh, these people are terrible, people who are skeptical, they're terrible, they're anti-vaxxers, they're, you know, and people are just like, take them down! | |
| Right? | |
| Okay. | |
| Pretty fucking dangerous time to be a freethinker. | |
| So they have chosen not just to be instructed by sophists, but they are willing to attack dogs on freethinkers. | |
| Now, maybe... | |
| It's wrong with me. | |
| Maybe Matt Walsh is a bigger-hearted and more... | |
| Yeah, but I just, in my heart of hearts, I'm just like, oh, AI might take your jobs? | |
| You almost took my freedoms, my life, and my career. | |
| Oh no, AI might take your jobs. | |
| What sacrifices would I make for those who have supported those who've attacked me and so on, right? | |
| And I'm happy to hear the arguments, and maybe there's something big that I'm missing, but this is To me, completely consistent with my philosophy as a whole, that if even 10 to 20% of people had gone to bat for me in the comments, |
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