March 3, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| So I say this with all humility. | |
| I really do. | |
| I'm not blaming. | |
| I'm not shaming. | |
| I'm just saying. | |
| I'm just speaking facts. | |
| Do not shred your integrity on the altar of approvals by assholes. | |
| You tell the truth. | |
| If people reject you because they hate the truth, there was no relationship there to begin with. | |
| There was only subjugation and slavery and kneeling before the petty, bloody knees of endless bullies. | |
| You better not say this! | |
| I'm gonna walk out! | |
| How dare you! | |
| Fuck off! | |
| I'll tell the truth. | |
| There's no shortage of people in this world who lie their ass off for approval. | |
| No shortage. | |
| At all! | |
| And this... | |
| God-forsaken world as it stands, there's no shortage of people who will lie, falsify, degrade, and corrupt themselves for the sake of approval by the inconsequential. | |
| People who don't tell the truth, people who hate the truth, people who attack the truth, are inconsequential. | |
| Even if they have power in the moment, they're just another flash in the pan evaporating from history. | |
| You know, like, you've got a hot fry pan, you put that water on, test the temperature, bubble sizzles. | |
| sound and fury signifying nothing. | |
| So if you've got something to say to this boy who's dating a potentially dangerous girl, you've got something to say, say it. | |
| If they get mad, they get mad. | |
| What's your alternative? | |
| I can't say anything. | |
| I can't. | |
| Be honest. | |
| I can't. | |
| Because they go too far, they're going to get too mad. | |
| They're going to get upset at me for telling the truth. | |
| Good Lord. | |
| Now, I don't know what the rest of your life is like, but if I'm around, let's say, if you're a woman, right? | |
| If I was around a woman and she was terrified of her family and conformed to her family and said nothing to her family and never told the truth to her family, I would not date her. | |
| No. | |
| No, no, no. | |
| Because I would recognize that that was bullying and a kind of enslavement. | |
| And she did not have a commitment to truth, right? | |
| Now, if she doesn't have a commitment to truth, how can I trust her? | |
| Doesn't have a commitment to truth, can't trust her. | |
| You know, forget the family stuff. | |
| You're signaling to the herd of potential mates as a whole. | |
| Now, maybe you're married, maybe you have kids, whatever, right? | |
| But you're signaling to the herd of potential mates as a whole. | |
| And the more you enslave yourself for the sake of the approval or at least avoidance of conflict, but the petty, useless and inconsequential, The more you are signaling to everyone of quality to stay away from you. | |
| I cannot be trusted. | |
| I have no commitment to honesty. | |
| Now, I get that I'm not saying you have no commitment to honesty, just to be clear, like you're asking the question. | |
| I'm just being emphatic here. | |
| Or talking in generality is not specific to you. | |
| I have no foundational commitment to honesty. | |
| I'll balance it. | |
| Can I get away with it? | |
| Will people get too upset? | |
| Will people get too upset? | |
| Is this what you would say? | |
| This is the test. | |
| Is this what you would say to your own children? | |
| Well, you know, the kids want me to do stupid, dangerous stuff. | |
| They want me to take pills at parties. | |
| They want me to drink unknown liquids. | |
| They want me to drive my bike off this wall. | |
| They want me to shoplift. | |
| And if I don't do it, Mom, Dad, they're gonna be upset with me. | |
| They might not like me if I don't do these bad things. | |
| What would you say to them? | |
| Well, it's tough to do the right thing, but you kinda got it, right? | |
| So model that. |
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