March 3, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| Because for men, helplessness is a precursor to death. | |
| And this comes as a bit of a surprise to women, and maybe it comes as a surprise to men, but it's really important. | |
| So for a man, helplessness is a precursor to death, which is why we avoid situations of helplessness almost literally like the plague. | |
| So for a man, you sort of think you're... | |
| Hiking in the middle of nowhere is a snowstorm for some reason there, and you're lost. | |
| You don't have a map. | |
| You don't have a compass. | |
| You don't have a phone. | |
| So you're going to walk for a long time, and eventually your strength is going to give out, and then you're just going to curl up, and you're helpless, and then you die, right? | |
| If you're wounded on the battlefield, and they're coming through, and they're killing all the wounded, as was often the case in martial history, you're wounded on the battlefield. | |
| You know, like the knights couldn't even get up, right? | |
| The armor was so heavy sometimes, so they just come and kill you, right? | |
| So you're helpless. | |
| So for men, helplessness is what happens before death, right? | |
| Like if you have been a really, it's been bad hunting or whatever it is, and you no longer have the energy to hunt, like you're super skinny, you just, you've no longer the energy to hunt, you can't get food, you're helpless, and you're going to die, and your family's going to die, your kid's going to die, right? | |
| So... | |
| Helplessness for men, we avoid it like the plague. | |
| It's another reason why Twitter is not appealing to me because I'm helpless as to the maintenance, right? | |
| Because the only thing that keeps men from feeling helplessness is physics and honor. | |
| Physics is obviously God or nature's rules enforced at an atomic level by the nature of matter and energy and honor. | |
| Loyalty. | |
| Integrity. | |
| Integrity is the attempt to turn decision-making into a kind of physics. | |
| Like, you can listen to my show and you can trust that I'm not going to advocate for communism tomorrow, right? | |
| Or, you know, say something crazy like kids should be beaten or whatever it is, right? | |
| So there's a kind of integrity to what it is that I do and that hopefully is not as predictable as physics because then physics is not creative, right? | |
| So then there would be nothing new. | |
| That it all hangs together and fits together and is reasonable and if I'm corrected with better information, I'll revise my perspective and so on, right? | |
| So you're not helpless in your relationship with me, right? | |
| So if I say something wrong and you point out that I've said something wrong and you give me the proof, I'll say, oh, I'm so sorry I got something wrong and I will correct it. | |
| And so you're not helpless with regards to me. | |
| And I don't know if we've usually had the situation in life where... | |
| We're in a relationship, and we try to hold the other person to some reasonable standard of behavior, and we realize, oh, dang, they're crazy. | |
| Yeah, they won't listen. | |
| They're just escalating. | |
| They're just, like, beyond all the reason or sense or anything like that. | |
| Oh, yeah, okay, well, they're crazy. | |
| And then you bail, right? | |
| Because helplessness is a precursor to death for men. | |
| We avoid it like the plague. | |
| So if a man or a bunch of men are in a church and some woman does something terrible, right, bad with regards to the faith and so on, then the man will say, yeah, she's out. | |
| Yeah, she's, I mean, talk to her once or twice, but if she just escalates and won't listen, they'll say, well, she's out. | |
| Because men, you can't have any authority in effect with crazy people or people who are narcissistic or selfish or immoral or immoral. | |
| And so the men will say, no, she's out. | |
| And then the women all get horrified. | |
| Give her another chance. | |
| She means well, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. | |
| And it's tough, right? | |
| I mean, we've all been in these situations in life where, and, you know, it could be male, it could be female. | |
| We're just talking about women at this point, where the woman is behaving badly and without recourse to reason or feedback or coaching or whatever it is. | |
| And the men are like, She's out. | |
| She's gone. | |
| She's done, right? | |
| This happens in families, right? | |
| You've got some crazy aunt who just wants, you know, the MAGA people, I don't know, thrown in prison. | |
| And so the men are like, no, she's not coming. | |
| Oh, no, but, you know, just don't talk politics. | |
| And she means well. | |
| She's just, you know, she's lonely and just making up all of this cavalcade of excuses. | |
| And then it comes down to the fork in the road. | |
| And if the women get their way, then there are no rules that can be enforced and men don't want to play the game. | |
| I remember when I was a kid, I mentioned this story before, so I'll keep it brief. | |
| When I was a very little kid, I learned how to play chess, and I built my entire strategy. |
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