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June 12, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
05:46
Why We Need Courage
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I have to talk about IQ.
Can't understand the world without it, and it's essential to the decisions that society's trying to make.
had to talk about IQ.
And I was like, stepping off a cliff right now.
I could have sit there and say, well, I'm going to dismantle all my, I knew what my resistances were.
And I knew what the fears were.
Because the fantasy is, I won't need courage, man!
I'm not going to need courage if I just introspect enough.
I'll walk forward with pure zen-like serenity and I won't need any courage at all.
And this is not true.
The reason we need the virtue of cold courage is you can't dismantle all of your resistances and stride forward without fear when you're entering a dangerous situation.
Right?
It's like if you have a duel in the morning because you insulted someone or they insulted you, you've got some duel in the morning, you say, well, you won't be able to sleep very well, right?
Because you're nervous about how the duel is going to go because it could maim or kill you, right?
So is there enough introspection?
Well, if I introspect enough, I'll be fine about the duel.
It's like, nope, no, you won't.
Just go do the duel.
Just go do it.
Just go do it.
At the turn of a trendy card.
All right.
So this is the other thing, too.
Again, this is why I say it's female, is that if you have a close male friendship, women will often, not always, if you have a close male friendship, women will often call you gay.
Oh, the bromance.
Oh, your boyfriend's here.
A lot of women will call you gay about this.
Now, do you know why?
Do you know why women will call you gay?
For having a close male friendship.
Come on!
You can do it!
You can do it!
You can do it.
You can tell me.
You can tell me.
The great rant poet Razorfist did warn people about Elon.
He, Elon, has some questions, political ideas, such as carbon taxes.
Yeah, I get it.
I get it.
Well, I mean, of course, Elon would like there to be carbon taxes because that would benefit electric vehicles, right?
To be doing this in public, smack talk, back and forth, they can both be correct.
Elon to slash the budget.
Trump is a dealmaker.
He cannot slash and burn, making the gap, making the GOP unelectable.
Right.
But you understand, Taylor, and I appreciate your comments as always, but you understand that this is very significant for the American electorate, right?
The American electorate deeply Trump believes, for the most part, that they can vote their way out of these problems.
Now, if Trump, the best dealmaker on the planet, and Elon Musk, the best and most competent businessman on the planet, if they can't solve these problems, who's next?
Who they got in backup?
Who's like, well, you know, this person can't do it, but don't worry.
Somebody else we can find who's more dedicated, more competent, more experienced, more wealth, they'll do it.
If you've already got your best man on the job, and the job can't be done, then you've got to give up on the job, right?
If you have your dream team of amazing basketball players and they can't win, then whoever's on the other side is better, and therefore your dream team can't get the job done, right?
Sorry, that's a pretty bad analogy.
My apologies, because you'd look for the best, right?
But if the strongest man in the world can't lift something, who can?
Jennifer Garner?
No.
Right?
If the strongest man in the world can't lift something.
And if these two guys can't solve the problem of government spending, then what is difficult for people, and this is why they're reacting in this bromance kind of way, right?
Calling it some stupid breakup bromance stuff.
Like, these are legitimate policy disagreements that are decisive to the future of America.
Whether there is a future to what we call America right now.
So, people believe that they can vote their way into having the government do the sensible thing and spend less than it takes in, right?
Next year.
Not happening.
Big, beautiful bill adds trillions of dollars to the debt.
Even Trump is bragging and crowing about moving the budget of the Pentagon from $700 billion and change to a trillion.
And I don't think they ended up ordering either the Fed or the Pentagon, right?
The Doge team?
Big balls and co.
Although who knows what they got into in terms of data with regards to the Epstein files.
I doubt anything, but...
So, if...
This is why people are reacting and minimizing it to some degree, because it's pretty terrifying when you think about it.
That like if the spending, particularly post-COVID, is during and post-COVID, the spending is completely...
I mean, it's absolutely deranged.
It is a final-stage addict selling an eyeball for another hit of drugs.
Madness.
And so, if these guys can't solve it, despite their dedication, their obvious brilliance, their deal-making capacities, their business-making capacities, their platform, their charisma, their whatever, right?
Well, how's it going to be done?
How's it going to be done?
Arrived late.
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