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July 9, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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I Had Kids with the Wrong Woman! Listener Questions
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All right.
Hi, everybody.
Stefan Molyneux from Free Domain.
And sorry, it took me a couple of days to get to these questions, but here we are.
Does George St. Peterson have the right to comment on the Russia-Ukraine war, or is he a psychologist out of his depth talking about geopolitics?
I'm not sure what you mean by the right to comment.
I mean, he can talk about whatever he wants, and it is up to the free market of ideas to determine if what he has to say is valid or valuable.
Does he go into the deep history?
Does he talk about the holodomor?
Does he talk about the mass rapes?
Does he talk about the degree of animosity?
Does he talk about the childhood of both children in Russia and Ukraine?
Origins of war and child abuse is a book I read by the late Dr. Damas, which you can get at freedomain.com slash booksforfree, to sort of understand where this stuff comes from as a whole.
So he can talk about whatever he wants to, just as everyone and anyone can.
The real question is, does he have a great deal of value to offer?
And that, of course, is up to every individual to evaluate for himself or herself.
So talk about whatever you want.
I think as a psychologist, Dr. Peterson would have a fairly unique insight into the mind and childhood origins of this kind of conflict and war.
And hopefully he's talking about that, but I haven't reviewed because I'm not really following the Russia-Ukraine war.
Will Christianity make a comeback in the West?
And is this a good thing?
Well, the way that I view this is the following.
Sorry, that's kind of redundant.
Of course, it's my views.
My apologies.
I won't cut this out, though, because sometimes it's important to know that people decent at public speaking misspeak or waste time.
All right.
So in the battle between reason and faith, reason has decisively won out in the material realm.
I'm just going to give you the straight goods here.
Reason has decisively won out in the material realm.
The realm of faith did not provide the modern amenities that support the lives of billions of people.
Faith did not improve agriculture.
Faith did not provide industrial machinery, the internal combustion engine.
Faith did not provide modern technology.
Faith did not provide the free market and so on, right?
So reason, individualism, property rights, and science have produced absolutely staggering levels of comfort and productivity, one of which being that you can hear what it is that I'm talking about without me having to knock on the mud door of your hut.
So science has won so decisively in the realm of metaphysics and epistemology and productivity.
Science and the free market, you look at modern medicine, at least up until the government took it over, it was an absolute miracle.
So science, reason, empiricism, that has won in the material realm so decisively that faith is discredited as a means of practical knowledge.
Now, faith, of course, retains its power in the realm of morality, in the realm of virtue, in the realm of good and evil.
There has been, at least until my work on ethics, universally preferable behavior, rational proof of secular ethics.
You should definitely check it out.
And there's a shorter version of it in my book, Essential Philosophy in the Last Third, essentialphilosophy.com, also free.
Now, to take the discipline of objectivity, rationality, and empiricism and do to ethics what those disciplines did to human productivity and comfort will be the biggest advancement in humanity that is conceivable of.
It is an advancement through peaceful parenting, peacefulparenting.com, a book on parenting also free.
Through peaceful parenting and through rationality in ethics, we will do to life infinitely more even than what the Industrial Revolution did for human comfort.
We will do for human happiness, what the Industrial Revolution and the free markets did to human comfort.
I mean, imagine, just imagine.
And I wrote about this in my novel, The Future.
But just imagine, no doom scrolling.
Imagine a life with no politics, with no, oh God, but are they going to change the regulations?
Are they going to increase the taxes?
Are they going to change the country?
Are they going to run up more debt?
Are they going to indoctrinate my kids?
Like, just imagine a world and a life without any of that.
Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished for.
And in the same way that the free market liberated us from starvation, scarcity, to a large degree, disease and want, and increased our comfort almost infinitely, a philosophical, rational, empirical revolution in the realm of morality will do even more for our happiness than the Industrial Revolution did for our comfort.
But it's going to take at least 100 to 200 years because people are so embedded in false ideology that they cannot conceive not just of a life with the truth, they cannot conceive of their own identity with the truth.
And of course, one of the big problems, which we'll get to in the next question or two with human relations, is that if we are corrupted and we are propagandized and we believe and hold fast, true and dear, many things which are actually false, wrong, and immoral, we choose our relationships based upon our falsehoods.
And once we have chosen our wife, once we have raised our children, we can never backtrack on our ethics.
We can never backtrack on our ethics because that would be to undo and unravel the supposed virtue and existing relationships of our entire lives.
Can you imagine somebody working for some hellacious organization that funds, fuels, and profits from war and suddenly realizing that war is largely about profiteering and the destruction Of the most virtuous among us.
That's what war is.
Can you imagine that he, you know, he's like, oh my God, or a soldier who fought, right?
Can you imagine the people who fought in Afghanistan, watched men they cared about or loved get blown apart, destroyed, disassembled, crippled?
And what is there, a meme?
It's a brutal meme.
If you ever feel like you're not particularly effective in life, well, the United States took 20 years and trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives and countless Afghani lives to replace the Taliban with the Taliban.
So people who've gone through all of that, can you imagine them becoming voluntarists, people who've beat their children?
Can you imagine them becoming peaceful parents or peaceful grandparents?
That kind of moral revolution, and I've gone through it to a small degree.
I went through it to a much smaller degree in my 30s.
It's brutal.
The truth and genuine rational virtue goes through your life like a wildfire.
The forest, although it is renewed from the fires, although it is essential for the health of the forest in the long term, for the fires to burn through it, no individual tree wants to be consumed.
And all the false relationships, based upon lies and shared delusions, have to be burned away for the quality relationships to emerge.
But it feels exactly the same as dying, without even the oblivion that death brings.
Christianity, faith, religion as a whole, has been discredited by the massive influence, power, liberation, and comfort generated by science, engineering, and the free market, all of which are empirical, rational disciplines.
We just need to take the same rational and empirical discipline and apply it to morality, which I've done.
I did it about 17 years ago.
It remains undefeated, despite countless objections, debates, you name it.
It is undefeated.
But it's a bridge too far for most people, so we have to wait for generations to change.
So because of science, the free market, and engineering and medicine, we can't go back to the foundation of life as a whole called faith.
We must press on to bring the same reasoning that produces science and engineering and medicine.
We have to bring that same reasoning to the realm of morality.
There is no other way.
There is no way back because you simply can't undo the last 250 years of science and markets, which are rational, empirical, objective disciplines.
You just can't undo that in people's minds.
You can't ask people who live in houses fueled and cooled and arrayed with the most rational technology that has been conceived of and say to them, faith is superior to reason.
Faith has been discredited by the rationality of the markets and the rationality of science.
There's no going back.
We can only go forward and bring the same reasoning to morality, and then we get heaven on earth, not before and not any other way.
All right, so another question.
What should one's own attitude be towards the other parent with whom one mistakenly procreated when that person is an immoral, defective, and narcissistic, irresponsible parent, aside from shielding the children from one's negative judgment of the other parent?
Mistakenly procreated.
Well, the first thing you want to do is understand the root of what you refer to as a mistake.
Now, I say this with all due humility, being far from perfect myself, but the reality is that when I look back upon, let's say, a particular relationship I had in my 20s that got very close to marriage, I bought the ring, I proposed, and then flat, because of a chance comment of a friend's girlfriend who said, you think an engaged person would be happier?
A man engaged, wouldn't you be happier?
And I'm like, just one comment, right?
One comment.
That someone I'd known tangentially for only a couple of months, yeah, I'd met her like, I don't know, five or seven times before, and she made this comment.
And hey, interesting story.
Do you know who didn't make this comment?
My mother, my father, my brother, other people that I'd known for decades, decades, and had worked with and suffered with and sometimes bled with and played with and occasionally fought with.
The people who claimed to love me for decades and decades and decades did not say anything.
It was a chance comment of a friend's girlfriend that saved me and this woman from a marriage that would have been a disaster.
So it's not a mistake.
If you got into a relationship with and procreated with an immoral and destructive woman, in this case, could be a man, right?
If it was a woman riding in, I assume this is a man.
So if you got involved with and procreated with a destructive woman, then it's not a mistake.
The only way that you can blame yourself is to pretend that you live in some sort of atomistic cat-like isolation, but you don't.
You're a social animal.
You have, at a minimum, for the most part, parents, siblings, you have grandparents, uncles, aunts, you have cousins, you have friends, you have people in your life who've been in your life for years or decades who claim to care so much about you and they buy you birthday presents and they get together with you at Christmas.
And they are wrapped up and involved with in your life like a whole bunch of trees growing together into one trunk.
All these people are around you and claim to love you.
And oh, we care so much about you.
Oh, you're the best.
Oh, you're the greatest.
Oh, we love you so much.
Okay.
Great.
The most important decision an adult makes is who they have sex with.
Singular to plural, sorry.
The most important decision a man makes is who he has sex with.
Now, and that's in the short run.
In the longer run, the most important decision a man makes is who he marries.
So, given that young men are full of lust, confusion, hormones, and vagina-seeking missiles referred to as gonads, everybody knows that, and therefore young men need wisdom in the management and focusing of their romantic and sexual energies.
This has been known since the dawn of time.
And given that it is known and understood, who was it who helped you choose who to procreate with?
Remember, there's all these people who really care about you.
They know that young men make poor decisions, particularly, of course, if, let's say, your parents were divorced or they made bad decisions with who to procreate with at some point in their life, then they should sit down with you and pass along their wisdom and help you avoid disaster.
But of course, largely because of the state firing cannons of money at everybody who screws up their life, there really isn't much caring left in the West anymore.
And one of the reasons, of course, that parents used to care who their children dicked up was because if their son dicked up the wrong woman, then they would be on the hook, right?
I mean, if you were a woman and you got dicked up by the wrong guy and had a baby without the guy sticking around, I mean, you'd try to get the guy to marry the girl, but generally what would happen is she'd move in with her parents and her parents would be responsible for taking care of that child for the next 20 years, and no man in general would marry this woman, so then they'd also have to take care of her.
So they took great interest and had great focus on who their children had sex with because they faced these consequences.
If your son impregnated the wrong woman, then he would have to get married to what could be a very chaotic and destructive family, which would unite your two families together in ways that would be difficult and uncomfortable.
So you took great care to point your children towards the right procreative organs so that they didn't end up in a multi-decade mess of horror.
Now, the practical financial and social consequences have largely evaporated because of money printing and debt and taxation, right?
That if a woman gets pregnant with the wrong man's child and he buggers off to Timbuktu, well, she just runs to the government and the government gives her $100,000 a year.
So the parents are left not with economic considerations, but just personal levels of actually caring about people, not in terms of negative financial or social consequences, in terms of having to pay for a child or children and a single mother, who would almost certainly not get married, because without the welfare state, single mothers are too much of a financial liability for men to marry.
So they are bereft.
Families are now bereft of financial concerns and social disasters.
So all that's left is, you know, the actually caring about people.
You know, that little thing where you say, I love you, you want to take care of, and you want what's best for your children.
We want what's best for your children.
Okay, well, now there are no financial considerations.
The social stuff has largely vanished.
In other words, if your son has a child with the offspring of a chaotic and dysfunctional family because of the welfare state and other considerations.
I mean, the welfare state includes, quote, free education and things like that.
But you don't actually have to get meshed and involved with the other family anymore.
So now all that's left is the actual caring about people as a whole.
And we don't have that.
We don't have that.
Now, the welfare state produces a form of psychosis, and the welfare state certainly produces bottomless narcissism as a whole.
Because the practical effects of bad decisions are taken care of by selling unborn children on the ghostly auction blocks of foreign banksters.
So we don't actually have to care about each other other than from an emotional, moral, and ideological or idealistic standpoint.
I mean, there's no way that the single mother rate would be so high if parents genuinely cared about their children.
So you understand that when you procreated with the wrong woman, it was not a, quote, mistake.
It was the inevitable result of an entire system of unexamined coldness and indifference.
How the living fuck did people let you date such a corrupt and immoral person?
Or if you had the habit of sleeping with chaotic and immoral women, why the hell didn't people sit you down and sort you out?
Because that is Russian roulette.
Right?
Sex with women you don't know and you don't trust and whose morals you have not deeply tested.
Sex with women.
Sex with little known women is Russian roulette, bro.
Bro.
It is the same thing I would talk about if I had a son.
I would say, yes, you're full of lust, and that's a beautiful thing.
Lust is a beautiful thing.
And a dangerous thing.
You know, we teach children, if you're in a country which allows the ownership of guns, we teach your children about the value, utility, and danger of weaponry.
And we teach them this about bikes.
Yes, they're wonderful things, can get you where you want to go very quickly, but they're dangerous things because they're much smaller than cars, and you can fall quite easily, and that can be quite bad for you.
We teach our children, oh, yes, if you want to cut some food up, yes, a knife is a good thing, but a knife can also take off your thumb.
So I would say lust is a beautiful thing, and you should treasure it, you should hold on to it, and you should make sure that you are aware of its grave and great dangers.
So if you go around fornicating with women you don't really know, you get diseases, you get unwanted pregnancies, you get stalkers, and you get, I was just talking about this with my daughter last night, like the dangers of lonely people.
The dangers of lonely people.
Sometimes it can be dangerous to make eye contact with really lonely people because they'll fixate upon you and then invade your space and demand you spend time with them and want you to come over and all that.
I'm sure.
I mean, if you've lived in an apartment building, most people have had that experience of some often elderly woman, but someone who just clutches at you and is so abominably lonely, you can smell that interstellar space seeping out of their bone marrows.
Just abominably isolated.
And because they're isolated, they're desperate.
And because they're desperate, every time they try to make contact, they actually just push people further away.
It's like being terminally thirsty.
And then every time you reach for the glass of water, you knock it over and it drains into the sand.
It's maddening and irrecoverable, usually at that point.
So you could get stalkers.
You could get women obsessed with you.
You could get women who will regret.
You know, maybe they throw their ass at you and then, so I guess I wouldn't say that to my son.
They throw their body at you.
You have sex.
And then she brags about her new boyfriend to all of her friends.
And then maybe you don't text her or you don't talk to her.
And then she gets really angry.
And her friend's like, oh, where's your new boyfriend?
And then some friend says, well, maybe it wasn't as voluntary as you think, you know?
And then maybe she makes an accusation against you.
And maybe she does that in a university, which is incredibly horrifying the whole process.
Or maybe she does it to the police, which is also incredibly horrifying the whole process.
So you are dancing through a landmine.
It's all fun and games until you lose a limb.
She also might just spread negative rumors about you.
If there's bitterness or contempt or a feeling of shame and loss for her.
If you use a woman for sex, it's Russian roulette.
It's not quite so bad with a man, but not great, but so you would talk about all of this.
And you can say that the guy can say, well, I wear a condom for diseases and pregnancies and so on.
It's like, yeah, well, there have been situations called sperm jacking, right?
Where a woman, particularly if she's older and particularly if the younger man is intelligent and good looking, there certainly have been quite a number of recorded instances of sperm jacking where the woman takes the semen either out of her mouth or from her body or from the condom and inserts it into her vagina.
And bingo bango bongo, you're now in baby jail for 20 years plus and tied into a manipulative woman forever and ever amen.
So you mistakenly procreated?
No.
Everybody watched and yawned and went back to their screens while you, tied to the conveyor belt of last, went into the bladed vagina of disastrous procreation.
They hummed, they whistled.
Oh yeah, well, good luck with that.
Young people end up in disasters due to the foundational indifference of their elders.
So it is not just a mistake.
Mistakes in general, in life, mistakes in general, do not just happen.
They are the result of significant numbers of bad decisions made before.
And you need to figure out those bad decisions so that you can prevent it from happening to your children.
You can prevent it from happening to maybe your brother, your sister, nephews, nieces, whatever.
Friends, friends, kids.
You need to start spreading this wisdom of protecting people from the dangers of lust and the disasters of blowback.
Blowjob rhymes almost with blowback.
Now, if you have an immoral co-parent, you are condemned to decades of lying.
I like, I wish it were different, but it's not.
Of course, as you know, let's say it's Bob and Sally.
You're Bob, the bad mom is Sally, and so on, right?
So, and you know, you may not have been a great person when you were banging Sally like Ringo Star Snare Drum, but let's just say you're a good person, Sally's a bad person, you had kids for whatever reason.
Well, you can't say that Sally's bad.
You have to lie about it.
You have to prevaricate, right?
Because if you say, here's the bad things about Sally, those kids get a run back.
And the next time they're in a fight with Sally or the next time they want to score some points, they're going to say, well, you know what dad said about you, mom, right?
And then you're back to chaos and debt and all kinds of horrible things, right?
So you have to lie.
And you have to raise your children in an air and atmosphere of falsehood.
Now, of course, all parents lie.
I mean, you don't say to your two-year-old, you know what's real is cancer surgery.
I'm going to show you the video.
So you withhold negative truths from children until they're old enough to handle them in context and so on.
So there's a certain amount of prevarication or benevolent falsehood in parenting as a whole, right?
I mean, and that's fine.
I mean, that's society as a whole, right?
I mean, it's true that people go to the bathroom, but you don't have to show people.
Well, you're hiding it.
It's like, no, no, no, it's just basic politeness, right?
And boundaries and so on, right?
So you're going to just have to lie about moral issues until the kids are adults.
And especially, you know, if the mom has more custody than you do, then you face the fact that, and if she's an immoral person, a liar, then she's going to make up things and lie about, right?
She will not tell you that you're supposed to see the kids at some point.
And then when you don't show up, she'll say, oh, well, I guess your dad doesn't care about you.
He's supposed to be here.
She'll just do that kind of stuff.
I mean, there's no bottom to people who don't admit moral fault.
There is no bottom to their behavior.
So it is grim lesson learned.
And generally the most good you can get out of that situation is helping other people not get into that situation.
All right.
Are setting genocide supporters ablaze morally right to justify it?
Well, I'm a free speech absolutist.
So you can say all sorts of terrible things, and you should be allowed to say all sorts of terrible things, and you should be ostracized by decent people if you say all sorts of terrible things.
So if you are whipping people into imminent violence, that could be another matter.
I guess slander, defamation, that's another matter.
But outside of immediate incitements to violence and slander and defamation, I'm a free speech absolutist for the simple reason that I don't trust anyone to police free speech.
Now, in a free society, it would be policed by voluntary organizations that would be competing for efficiency and virtue.
But I certainly, with regards to political power, I don't trust anyone, anyone to police free speech.
I mean, it is generally the case that in governments, if you're a virtuous person, your governments will inevitably be inhabited by people whose interests are diametrically opposed to yours.
That's how it always goes.
So.
With regards to free speech.
Yeah, I'm a free speech absolutist.
All right.
In principle, can we have any kind of political activities on the other side from Lenin, as long as we raise our children peacefully and do not harm other than peacefully raised children?
Such has been my impression.
I don't understand the question.
Please rephrase, and I would be happy to hear more, but I don't understand the question as it stands.
So if you could please send it in again, I would appreciate that.
All right, here are the questions from freedom.locals.com.
What is the Bitcoin of AI agents?
Is Grok still number one, least censored?
Something like allegedly uncensored in private Venice AI or something else?
I don't know.
I use Grok, and I'm sure that there are other good ones out there, but I use Grok, and it's pretty good.
I mean, I know that a whole bunch of woke crap is going to be in AI because AI gathers and scours documents from across the web and the world, a lot of which are woke documents.
So remember, AI can't judge anything.
AI can simply assemble sentences based upon its input.
I did a whole two presentations on all of this back in the day, but you can check out AI, Free Domain, sorry, FDRpodcasts.com.
So it's AI is if the input output, right?
Garbage in, garbage out.
So if the source documents for AI are woke, then AI will be woke.
And it's not ideology or censorship.
It's just the source documents.
And woke documents outnumber non-woke documents.
And I'm sure that, I mean, of course, there are some interferences as well in these areas, some programmatic interferences.
But nonetheless, I don't have any particular answers as to which is the best AI.
It does what I want it to do.
Grok does what I want it to do.
And I haven't really explored others.
Now, of course, StaffBot.ai is very good.
You can get that for premium.
For premium donors, you can get my AIs.
You can go to premium.freedemand.com to see some of the goodies there, and then you can sign up for those.
All right.
Somebody says something about folks with 100 bumper stickers on one car.
It gives me an odd feeling about them.
I can't imagine even having one bumper sticker.
Am I onto something?
Well, people need to signal for their tribe.
Right.
So modern society is a war.
It is a perpetual war to control the powers of the state.
And the fact that political decisions are made according to threats and bribes, not according to the will of the people.
I mean, this is very well established that the will of the people has almost no effect whatsoever on what happens in politics.
This has been pretty randomly studied, particularly American politics.
People wanted Trump to do his thing 2016 to 2020, and what did they get?
Well, they got obstruction, they got endless lawfare, they got charges, they got all kinds of crazy stuff, right?
So people, the Doge cuts were enormously popular.
Vast majority of people, at least, you know, it wasn't like 99% of people, but the vast majority of people, you know, anything above sort of 60, 65% is the vast majority.
And the vast majority of people were very keen on the Doge cuts, right?
And they wanted Elon to keep doing his thing because, you know, they care about their taxes.
They care about their parents, their children, right?
And the debt and all of that, right?
And their parents in terms of the solvency of Social Security.
And they're not, at least so far, not been codified into law.
Elon Musk has left the government in, you know, and I really dislike, this is one thing I really, I just, by the by, I really hate when men have significant disagreements that they characterize it like some tween breakup.
That's so, it's just trashy, man.
Just don't do that kind of stuff.
Oh, the bromance and you guys got to hug it out.
And, you know, it's like, no, these are substantial disagreements.
Elon Is an idealist, and Trump is actually trying to work the machinery.
And the idealist running up against the brute reality of power politics, the idealist, is appalled and says, Well, why can't we do the right thing?
And the guy actually working the machinery says, Because the machinery is designed to have nobody ever do the right thing.
We talk about the right thing, but we don't do the right thing.
So Elon is, as a sort of tech wizard himself, Elon is in the kind of funny position of being the marketing or salespeople who say to the technical people, well, why don't we just do this?
Why don't we just integrate Java?
Why don't we just integrate AI?
Why don't we just blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right?
Well, because this is a big, messy, complicated technical thing to do.
And we can do it, but you're going to give us money.
It's like, no, no, no, I want you to do, I want you to work all of this magic with your existing team.
Well, we can't work all of this magic with our existing team.
It's not how things work.
So it is the idealist versus the realist.
Trump is working his best to try and wield a machine that is specifically designed to repel virtue.
He's like a vampire trying to grab holy water or a priest trying to wrangle satanic powers.
It's a difficult and dangerous game.
Why can't we just, right?
Well, we've got to cut spending.
Well, the problem is that you have a population of psychos in the West who believe and have been lulled into the demonic and psychotic sense of infinite resources.
They are like children demanding candy in a store.
The parents who have a yacht and a mansion and private airplanes, the parents cannot reasonably, to the child's mind, say, we can't afford it.
It's one of the big challenges of parents who get money is they can't say to their kids, we can't afford it.
So people have regressed into an infantile or toddler state where they believe that the parents can afford anything and everything.
And therefore, the only reasons that the parents would say no is because the parents hate the children.
If you loved me, you'd buy me candy.
Right?
And so if you try to cut spending, then you get all of these fearmongers like Bono was the singer was one of them.
My God.
One of the most appalling human beings on the planet with regards to the destruction of the West.
My God.
Absolutely astounding.
I mean, he was railing against the IRA back in the day, which I understand, but is he saying anything about what's happening in Ireland at the moment?
Fuck no.
So, yeah, Bono was like, oh, they cut USAID and 300,000 people died.
And it's like, so you're hugely rich.
I think Bono made more money off investing in Facebook than he did off his entire career with YouTube.
So if you care about those people so much, then you should go and to fund them.
You've got the money.
Go fund them.
No.
Right.
So you just get lies and sentimentality and manipulation and so on.
And because there's no morality, which is that all of this government spending is taxation without representation, because in general it's stolen from either the unborn or it's stolen through inflation from particularly from people on fixed incomes who don't understand the connection and therefore they don't understand how much it's being stolen from.
This is one of the great values of having the intermediaries in a semi-capitalist system of the store owners, the corporations.
Well, they just keep raising prices because they're mean.
It's like, no, they raise prices because the value of each dollar is being lowered through massive inflation, inflation of the money supply.
So you can't cut spending because the benefits of cutting spending are diffuse and future-based, but the costs of cutting spending are immediate specified, laser-targeted, and right now.
Sorry, immediate right now.
You get it.
So it's like saying to a two-year-old, well, you shouldn't really have candy because you might have tooth problems in 20 years.
I mean, the two-year-old cannot comprehend the 20 years and only knows right now how much he or she wants the candy in the moment, right?
I mean, you can't, it's the marshmallow test, right?
A lot of kids can't even not eat a marshmallow if they'll get another one.
If they wait for 15 minutes, they'll get two, right?
A lot of kids can't do that.
So the population and the population is whipped into a demonic frenzy of infinite consumption by the tententious and hysterical and maudlin and manipulative media, right?
Any cuts, you're going to get pictures of dying children.
Well, that's what happens.
This is not who we are.
It's stupid shit they say like this.
This is not who we are.
Math reality, right?
So yeah, it's not.
I mean, even adults, look, the near-infinite consumption that's going on in the world based upon debt is also why people eat too much, right?
It's all sort of tied into the same thing.
Screw the future, enjoy the present, right?
Forget the hangover, just get drunk.
And so Elon is like, we can't spend this much.
But the political reality is that people are addicted to lies.
Now, you get mad at the media.
I get all of that.
But I mean, the media don't force anyone to consume their falsehoods, right?
In particular, the boomers who are addicted to old school media and are so far out of touch with reality, they're basically living a matrix-style fever dream of external digital manipulation.
They're so far removed from reality, and they're so embedded in the absolute falsehoods and hungry for them that confronting a boomer with any kind of fact as a whole is like stepping into an asylum and trying to reduce the prevalence of LSD to infinite addicts.
It's a dangerous thing.
I've certainly done it a couple of times, just even socially, just talk to people about, sort of, older people about basic facts.
They're just absolutely petulant and offended and more than half children themselves, which is sort of an insult to children because they have the excuse of childhood.
So cutting spending?
How are you going to cut spending?
Whoever you cut is going to scream bloody murder, is going to lie through their teeth.
The media is going to amplify their lives with the most emotionally manipulative shit known to mankind, and people are going to swallow it because they're crazy.
Now, you can't fix that.
How are you going to fix that?
I remember saying, gosh, it's 2016 or something like that when I went down to Mike Cernovich's A Night for Freedom.
I remember saying, so the problem is they're making crazy people far faster than we can fix them.
And I remember there was an old MASH episode that gave me goosebumps when I was a kid about one of the surgeons when there was some new, horrible new weapon that melted flesh off the human bones or whatever it is.
And he was like, you know, they're finding new ways to destroy people faster than we can find ways to fix them.
And when I was a kid, at least there were some areas of rationality that were still allowed.
But now, I mean, the teachers for the kids are all almost all demonically insane.
And it's an asylum of drip-down intergenerational madness.
And I really, I can't tell you how much sympathy I have for the kids going through all of this absolute mental disassembly that's going on in schools these days.
So making things is easy.
Breaking minds is easy.
Repairing them and fixing them is hard.
Any old goat can step on a complicated wristwatch or pocket watch, but it takes a significant amount of training and expertise, time and money to repair them.
It's the same thing with easy to break minds.
It's very hard to repair them.
And minds are being broken.
I mean, honestly, I'm like, it's like the old Lucille Bull thing where she's on the chocolates.
She's got to do something with the chocolates and the chocolates go on the conveyor belt just come too fast and she ends up stuffing them in her mouth and her blouse and throwing them to the side because there's too many.
Well, I see this massive tsunami of broken brains going towards to swamp and destroy the tall spires of our prior civilization.
Just a massive tsunami.
And, you know, we can rescue a couple, but it doesn't have any particular impact on the wave as a whole.
And I'm immensely proud of the work that I've done to help people come to reason and virtue.
I'm immensely proud, and I'm very thankful for your help.
And I think you should be immensely proud of the work that you've done in this area.
But we cannot compete with the absolute slaughter of the minds of children under the current media educational complex.
We just, we can't.
We can't.
I mean, if you were a doctor and it took two years to cure someone of smallpox or the black death, how would you be doing in the middle of a smallpox, black death, plague or epidemic?
You'd maybe save a couple of people, but the course of the disease would go forward largely without your input or change or alteration.
And these are just facts.
It's not blackpilling.
These are just facts.
Go talk to young people about reasons, facts, truth, and evidence and science, and they have been rendered allergic to reality.
They have been inoculated against facts.
And, you know, a lot of people are, but in the past, at least there was more nominal respect for facts.
Now it's all a fever dream of propaganda.
So people need to find their tribes.
It's a war.
To return to the sticker on the car question, people need to find their tribes, and it's a war.
So what that means is that people put stickers on their cars for the same reason that people in war are supposed to wear uniforms.
It's to identify their allies and provoke their foes.
So that's why people do this kind of stuff, and they do it in a lot of different ways.
Do they mark their armies, right?
The armies of the takers versus the armies of the makers.
So.
All right.
Steph, could you please explain why, in your opinion, the U.S. government bribes women not to have kids and instead choose work in Korea?
Less kids, less people, and less taxpayers in the future?
Aren't they see that mid and long term?
Or don't they see that?
I think you mean don't they see that?
The mass migration solution isn't the answer either.
Creates a plethora of other issues for the government itself.
Sorry for the off topic.
I mean, I've talked about this a whole bunch of times before, so I'll just keep it very briefly here.
So the enemy of totalitarianism is conscience and empathy.
So if you say to women, don't have children for the sake of the planet, the future, sustainability, Malthusian issues, you know, all of that sort of stuff, right?
The population bomb, ZPG, zero population growth.
So if you put out abstract empathy feelers to not have children for the sake of the planet and its future, then two things happen.
One is that a woman's laziness and greed for sexual attention will activate.
And she will then get to say, well, I'm doing it for moral reasons.
I'm doing it for the planet.
I'm doing it for the future.
But, you know, she just prefers to travel, have sex, and get male attention.
So you're giving somebody a cover for their most primitive and destructive in many ways, certainly to civilization, their most destructive impulses.
You're giving them a plausible cover for that, right?
So, but the people who even think in terms of what's best for the collective, what's best for the planet, what's best for the future, are the people with the most empathy and conscience.
And people with empathy and conscience tend to resist totalitarianism.
I mean, there are a lot of people who benefit from totalitarianism.
There's an old story of Ayn Rand when she met her sister, that her sister was very nostalgic for the times of Stalin, right?
And there's an article from some years ago about how socialism allows women to have better orgasms because they're more relaxed and they're taken care of and they don't have financial stressors and worries about men leaving them because socialism will provide for them no matter what.
So you're basically saying give up your freedom for the sake of material comfort and better orgasms, right?
So if you put out a message which says, you know, for the sake of the future, for the sake of the planet, for the sake of the collective, then it will have the most effect on people with the most empathy and conscience.
And therefore, since empathy and conscience, like all personality traits, have some degree of transmissibility, you are reducing the number of empathetic people with a conscience in the future.
Now, even if you say it's all nurture and no nature, that's fine, but people with empathy and a conscience are more likely to raise children with empathy and a conscience.
So the reason that the government wants to grow and the resistance to its growth are people with empathy and a conscience, because people who think in universal abstractions think in terms of generalized human rights, which means that they want the government to protect rights, not to contravene them.
So the government has as its barrier to growth people with empathy and a conscience.
And so if you start talking to people about the future and the planet and sustainability and environmentalism and so on, then it will have the most effect on people with the most empathy and the most conscience.
And therefore, you'll be reducing the prevalence of those people in the future, which allows you to grow faster.
So it's the same reason that farmers put up scarecrows, right?
All right.
Steph, you mentioned many times that most people are heavily propagandized and programmed and do not have their own thoughts.
But aren't we all just re-translators of existing information?
How do I know that the thought that I have now is uniquely mine?
I'm not sure.
I mean, have other people had it before?
Right.
You look it up and see if other people have had it before.
So I don't.
How do you know that the thought, I mean, think of, what do they call them, Mac or Mackey, Mackey?
Paul McCartney, right?
So Paul McCartney woke up from a dream with the tune for the song yesterday floating around in his head, although it was scrambled eggs.
Oh, my dear, you have got lovely legs, right?
So, and he played it.
He played it to everyone and said, have you heard this song before?
Do you know about this song?
Have you had this song?
And nobody had heard it before.
So he was like, well, I guess I didn't dream a song that somebody else had.
I put it out.
And so you put out your song.
And if you were like Sam Smith with, oh, Tom Petty, I think Tom Petty said Sam Smith's songs was like, don't back down.
And Sam Smith agreed to share credits.
And there was battles about some, I think it was some old Motown song and that song from a couple of summers ago, Blurred Lines.
And so, you know, you put out your thoughts.
And if other people say, oh, somebody's had this thought and I've had this thought before and so on, right?
So, I mean, I know for sure that UPB is unique because otherwise UPB would, I mean, people have said UPB is just like the categorical imperative, which it's not.
So in general, you put out your thoughts and you see, you do some research, ask AI these days, put out your thoughts, see if anybody else has had them before.
And if they had, it could be coincidental or it might be derivative.
So that's the way that I would do it.
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