Stop Being a SLAVE! Transcript

Chapters

0:00 - Embracing Emotions
3:13 - The Slave Mindset
17:20 - Activating the Slave Self
19:06 - The Power of Shared Emotions
23:45 - Vulnerabilities in Relationships
26:18 - Steps Towards Self-Expression
32:01 - Philosophy for Future Decisions

Long Summary

In this episode, I delve into the profound implications of our emotional responses to negative interactions, particularly focusing on the experience of guilt when confronted with the emotions of others. As we explore the listener's realization that external negativity often stems from the speaker's own issues, I highlight the fundamental distinction between personal accountability and the undue burden of absorbing others' emotional states, emphasizing that their feelings typically have little to do with us.

Moving into the crux of our shared human experience, I discuss the historical context that contributes to our tendency to adopt a “slave mentality,” where we often feel compelled to submit to the authority of others, initially shaped by our evolutionary past. My assertion is that while many of us were historically bred to be subjugated, we must recognize this reflex and consciously resist it in our interactions today. I argue that much of societal structure, from the familial to broader hierarchical systems, is entrenched in these master-slave dynamics, as individuals continually seek to assert dominance or submit to it.

Through this lens, I tackle the nature of relationships, revealing how the desire for acceptance and fear of rejection can fuel a cycle of submission and aggression. The ability to influence and be influenced is a hallmark of human interactions, and I stress the importance of fostering environments that promote equality, understanding, and negotiation instead of oppressive control. I dissect how such dynamics can emerge within families—particularly in parenting—urging listeners to prioritize egalitarian principles that abolish the master-slave paradigm in raising children.

Furthermore, I explore the complex interplay between self-expression and the external validation we receive from others. Our emotional well-being is often hinged upon the nature of our current relationships rather than merely past experiences. Thus, I underscore the necessity of surrounding ourselves with supportive individuals who encourage our self-expression without fear of judgment or exploitation. I encourage listeners to critically assess their current associations and recognize how these relationships contribute to or detract from their emotional health.

Throughout our discussion, I stress the importance of looking forward rather than getting lost in the maze of past traumas and historical influences. The ultimate goal of self-knowledge is to empower future decision-making, promoting a proactive rather than reactive stance in our lives. This proactive approach is grounding: as we banish the slave self by establishing control over our future, we inherently foster healthier interactions that are less about dominance and control and more about mutual respect and partnership.

Finally, I remind listeners that philosophy is not merely an exploration of past experiences but rather a toolkit for navigating future choices. With newfound awareness and commitment to making better decisions, we can reject the impulses that lead to subjugation—whether of ourselves or others—and cultivate relationships based on shared strength, respect, and collective growth.

Transcript

[0:00] Embracing Emotions

[0:00] Good morning, good morning, everybody. Stefan Molyneux from Freedomain. I don't think I've done these questions. Let's find out, shall we? All right. Freedomain.locals.com, a great community. Hope you'll join. Freedomain.com slash donate to help out the show. Hi, Stef. I just wanted to say, despite listening to you for close to a decade now, I have only recently started to feel comfortable with the idea that other people's negative emotions do not necessarily, and in most cases, have nothing to do with me or my actions, including my parents. Logically, I've known this for a while, thanks to you, but it's only recently that it feels like I'm beginning to feel it and believe it. I actually found humor after initially feeling some guilt about a random angry person I came across this morning. Well, I think the humor came from my own realization of the absurdity of feeling guilt or anger because of someone else's actions or emotional state who doesn't know me and has nothing to do with me. My parents sort of fit this category, actually. For my question, when you encounter scenarios like this, i.e. Random angry person, someone calls you rude over a simple misunderstanding, how is that jolt of guilt or pain or shame halted or sandboxed so it can be evaluated? Or is there not even this jolt? I think there is something fundamental I am missing about this. Thanks a bunch, Stef. It's a very interesting question. I do appreciate it.

[1:27] So, here is what I would say. So, when you encounter negative, destructive, harmful, abusive, whatever people, one of the things that I find very helpful to remember is that we are mostly bred to be slaves. Human beings. We're mostly bred to be slaves. Now, we could have been slaves evolutionarily, historically speaking. We could have been slaves because one tribe conquered our tribe and turned us into slaves and took our women or whatever it is. But we had to survive as slaves. Another, of course, is that you are a slave, or really worse than a slave, within your own tribe, which is to say that you've got a king, the king needs soldiers, so the king comes and, takes you and makes you a soldier or a sailor, where, you know, you're more likely to die of scurvy than you are of enemy fire, at least for the British Navy prior to the understanding of vitamin C and citrus fruits.

[2:38] So we largely had to survive. I mean, the vast majority of humanity were slaves. I mean, this is just a basic fact of history and of evolution and of life. So we have to be very good at being slaves. And even if we are not a slave, we can become a slave, So the mighty fall, someone goes from the bottom to the top, someone goes from the top to the bottom, ducks fly.

[3:13] The Slave Mindset

[3:13] We have to have the slave mindset ready at any moment. And the way that the slave mindset is activated, which is a survival mechanism, because if your tribe lost to another tribe and you refused to become a slave, you died. At least if you became a slave, you might have an opportunity to reproduce. Because one of the things that happens in society is that society is really, really destabilized when you have a lot of young men in particular with no particular opportunity to reproduce, which is another reason why things are getting bad at the moment in escalating ways. When young men don't have an opportunity to reproduce, they become highly rebellious because if there's a structure that is genetic death for them, they might as well try and find some way to change that structure. And this is why not allowing free speech tends to get really bad over time.

[4:17] Because free speech could solve the demographic crisis, but free speech is limited very much at the moment. And, you know, for the foreseeable future. So, the way that you know that your slave self gets activated is a wall of propaganda rolls towards you, and you are portrayed negatively in the media.

[4:50] And all of these problems of all of society tend to be laid at your feet so if the in ancient rome if the economy of the society is not doing well well the slaves are lazy and rebellious and don't know their place and you just get this roll of wave of negative propaganda about you and that's It's a prequel to some, you know, obviously, historically, it's been some pretty ugly stuff that has gone on. So this is one of the reasons why what is talked about in society is a signal of whether you can think for yourself or not, right? This is very foundational. It happens really deep down in our instinct level. Level so most people throughout human history were slaves of one kind or another serfs or or slaves or they were impressed or they were taxed to death or they were controlled or regulated or just bullied and pushed around by the organs of the powers that be.

[6:01] And once you understand that most people have a survival-based slave morality, a slave morality is, I will be strong, not in my achievements, but in resisting suffering, right? That's the slave morality is, my virtue is my forbearance of suffering. My virtue is to keep taking it, and taking it, and taking it, and managing that suffering is my virtue. And again, it's perfectly understandable, this is nothing new, this is somewhat bastardized Nietzsche master and slave morality, temporality but you you see this that that um you assume a kind of guilt and then you assume that your suffering is to purify you of that guilt right and this is why there are a lot of masochists out there in the world who are very happy and willing to assume that they're guilty, and that way the suffering that is inflicted on them is a form of purification from the guilt.

[7:17] People are very, very keen and hungry. And if somebody hands you a guilt narrative, then that's an invitation to adopt this mindset. So, that is human nature. Now, on the other hand, of course, human nature can also slip towards the master or bully, quote, morality, which is that the exercise of your will and the control of the world is the good, right? So the Genghis Khan morality or, I mean, British Empire morality, and it happened all over the place, which is that the exercise of your will and the control of others is your goal.

[8:12] The capitalist morality is very different because the capitalist morality is about influencing others in control of nature. So control of nature is, I have found a better way to produce automobiles. I have found a more efficient way to grow crops. I have found a better way to transmit information. It's not carrier pigeons and smoke signals anymore. It's the Pony Express.

[8:35] It's mail in airplanes. It's the internet, right? So control over nature combined with influence of people. Influence of people is advertising and so on, as opposed to direct control. People are going to try and control others, or they're going to try and influence others. That's inevitable, and there's nothing wrong with that. Language was invented for that, and so on. So we're going to try and influence others. We try and influence a woman to go on a date with us by being charming and nice. And if we say something mean to our wife, we try to influence her to buy her flowers or, you know, well, it's not my particular habit because as if I would ever upset my wife, right? But we try to influence others all the time. I'm trying to change your mind about certain things. So I'm out here getting my morning sun and trying to influence you, hopefully to better, to reason and so on. So we are tribal species, which means we're constantly influencing each other and we either have a free market influence or a forced non-market control like we either have advertising or we have propaganda that leads to war all propaganda eventually leads to war so when someone is snappy at you or they're mean to you they call your names there's some sort of dominant personality structure that's trying to what they're trying to do is they're trying to activate your slave self.

[10:00] That's unconscious, we can assume. Motives are particularly uninteresting as a whole because it's just a form of mysticism you can never get. The motives of bad people will never be revealed to you because they may not even know them themselves. And if they do, they're certainly not going to tell you. If we could get to people's motives easily, we wouldn't need a court system, right? We wouldn't need any of that.

[10:22] So when someone is acting in a dominant manner towards you, then they are trying to activate your slave self they're trying to say i have dominance over you and you must comply it's a sort of shot across the bows it's a warning shot and it's trying to activate the slave self. They are, and usually that's because for people as a whole, trying to move from the master-slave paradigm is very tough. It's very tough if you look at parenting. This is what peaceful parenting, available for free at peacefulparenting.com, this is what peaceful parenting really is all about, is trying to remove the master-slave paradigm from the operations called parenting.

[11:12] Does that make sense? Hopefully that makes sense. Parents are not masters. Children are not slaves. You want to teach your children how to negotiate rather than bully and dominate them and threaten them explicitly or implicitly with rejection and abandonment and control them physically and grab them and pick them up and jam them down on a stair and say, you sit here and control their food intake and negotiate with them. Because negotiation is equality. Free speech is equality. Free speech is neither of us dominate each other. We must reason together right free speech is egalitarian and those who wish to undermine free speech are those who cannot operate at a level of equality and human beings are not very well constituted evolutionarily speaking psychologically speaking from my view human beings are not very well constituted to operate at a state of equality quality. It is like pushing those two pieces of paper together on a table, right? One of them goes over the other, right? Human beings meet, and one has to dominate the other. Human beings meet, one has to subjugate, one has to dominate. That's how we evolved, that's how most of human history works, and that's how things work pretty much throughout most of the world.

[12:27] Let us reason together, saith the Lord, and we either reason together or we threaten each other. People have to get their way. We either reason together, come to some sort of accommodation, some sort of hopefully win-win situation, which is kind of what a voluntary market transaction is, is a win-win situation.

[12:43] Free speech and nonviolence is the only sphere, it's the only possibility for human beings to both benefit from an interaction. You can't force people to buy your stuff. You can't force people to accept your ideas. You don't use force to prevent other people from communicating their ideas. free speech and the free market are the only chances we have to negotiate as equals and those who have been seduced into the master-slave paradigm want to use violence to control the market want to use violence to control free speech and of course it's always under the umbrella of reducing violence well this free speech is going to lead this speech is going to lead to violence you see and of course if speech leading to violence was a big problem journalists that foment wars would all be the first right it's never never that never that way right so when someone is being snappy and and aggressive towards you um they are trying to establish a master-slave relationship towards you usually i mean often unconsciously and usually they do it because someone has done it to them so this is sort of the leveling concept right so bob Bob puts down Dave, right? And then Dave feels humiliated, and Dave feels irritable because his status has been lowered and his slave self has been activated, which is negative for him. We don't want to be slaves, but it's generally how we used to survive. So.

[14:12] Bob puts down Dave. Dave is then in an irritable mood and is looking to stave off the overtaking of his personality by the slave self, and therefore, it's like demonic possession, right? The slave self is activated. It's like a demon that possesses you, and you have to cast that demon into someone else. Without self-knowledge, without knowing all these things, you have to cast the demon into someone else. So then Bob puts down Dave's slave self is activated the slave demon comes to life in his heart and begins its preparations to subjugate him for survival and he says well I need to prove to my slave self that I'm not a slave so what I'm going to do is I need to prove to my slave self that I'm not at the bottom of the hierarchy I am not at the bottom of the hierarchy I am not that that last line on the chain of kicking downstairs, right?

[15:05] So the only way to stave off the activation of the slave demon of the slave self is to prove to yourself or prove to the demon that you're not at the bottom of the hierarchy, which means you then have to humiliate someone else, right? So the ultimate slave, like the people at the very bottom of society, they have nobody to humiliate, maybe their children or maybe pets or something like that, right? But their slave self is activated and becomes permanent because they have no freedom, they have no power.

[15:45] They can't, there's no need for them to negotiate, so they have to just obey. And so our will is wrecked for the sake of obeying because obeying is the only chance for survival, right?

[16:00] And so when Bob humiliates Dave, Dave's slave self is activated, and he has to then humiliate someone else to escape the spread of the slave self into the personality and the subjugation of Will. Human beings don't like to be humiliated, but we'll take humiliation over death. Or to put it another way, those who chose death over humiliation did not pass along those genes. So we are who we are and we should be very thankful for all of this so when I see somebody trying to put some whip hand over me it is because, somebody has whipped them and they are falling into an abyss of the slave self and they need to throw me in instead, it's very instantaneous it's very instinctual it's very sort of base of the brain stuff But I view someone like they're falling because they've been pushed and they want me, they want to grab me and land on me. And then they get up and walk away and I'm supposed to be squished in some loony-tooned manner. So I look at a sort of big chain that goes back through history and say.

[17:20] Activating the Slave Self

[17:20] Well, we're all bred to be slaves. Somebody has activated their slave self. They're then trying to activate my slave self so that their slave self jumps from Bob to Dave to me to you to whoever. It just keeps chasing all over the place, right?

[17:37] So I hope that helps. What are the steps I could do? Sorry, I'm used to somebody saying, what are the steps I could take? Every step you take, every cake you bake. What are the steps I could do to become more self-expressed as opposed to self-erased? I have gone no contact with my family already. A bit like the 30-year-old virgin caller, I spend a lot of my time in my head carefully weighing things up, a mixture of self-censorship and appeasement. Note that, when I separated from my family of origin at the time, it was more of a knee-jerk reaction as opposed to anything based on reason and evidence and proper philosophical principles and virtues.

[18:15] Later on, as I listened to you, big thank you, i had more language to describe what i instinctively experienced with my family of origin i think the real question is how do i more how do i move from a mode of bomb disarming hyper vigilance to a mode of cool reef cool relaxed creative expression right so okay please please understand this we are social animals which means that our emotional processing is shared with others or it's this sort of Randian hero of splendid isolation. I mean, that wasn't even Ayn Rand. That's a seductive idea that we can be splendid. Aristotle said, the only people who can live alone are beasts and gods, right? So our emotions are not ours. Our emotions are shared.

[19:06] The Power of Shared Emotions

[19:06] I'll give you a little example. So...

[19:13] Why is it that we can learn so quickly? One of the reasons we can learn so quickly is because we sleep so deeply. Now, why is it that we can sleep so deeply? How did we evolve to sleep so deeply? Well, we evolved to sleep so deeply because we had people who protected us while we slept. Now, those people could be immediate and that they're around the fire making sure predators don't get closer, or they build us walls or shelters. So people protect us while we sleep, right? If you've ever, and I've certainly been in this situation, if you've ever been sleeping in the woods alone, you don't get much sleep.

[19:50] I mean, I can think of twice when this happened once when I went hiking with friends in Algonquin as a teenager and we got lost and separated. We ended up separating for one of our friends that was like, I don't need no stinking water purification tablets. I'll be fine. And he got really sick. And so we ended up going to get help because this is long before cell phones. And anyway, long story short, I ended up sleeping in the woods alone. I had a little tent. But of course, I'm attuned to every sound, right? Every sound. I mean, I hung my food up in a tree in case bears came and so on. So that was one time, didn't get much sleep. Another time when I was working up North Goldpang and prospecting, a series of events had me sleeping in the middle of nowhere by myself in a very thin tent. And there was some animal that was snuffling around my tent and I obviously didn't get much sleep. So the reason we get sleep is that we share our self-protection with others. We guard them, they guard us, and so that's how we get sleep and that's how we are able to learn so much and so well.

[20:59] Language, of course, is collective and working on the definitions of language is a challenge. And so we inherit language we add to it we work with it as a whole if you look at why are we hairless for the most part on our bodies because other people give us clothing i mean we make our own clothing but even the skills to make our own clothing have come from other people so So our fur is collective, our language is collective. And so we share our mind, our heart, our feelings, our souls are all blended together. I'm sorry, like this is just a fact. This is just an evolutionary fact. Why do we have eyes in the front of our head rather than on the side? Or why do we have only eyes in the front of our head and not like all around? And like, why do we have fly eyes or something like that? Well, we have eyes on the front of our head because people are supposed to be watching our back. I said back to back, they faced each other, drew their swords and shot each other. It's an old limerick from when I was a kid.

[22:00] So we have eyes in the front of our head so that we can focus on what's ahead of us without worrying about what's behind us. And why can we not worry about what's behind us is because there are other people watching our backs. That's how our entire physiology works on the fact that we share our eyeballs with other people. We share our language with other people. We share our skills with other people. We can sleep deeply and learn and grow because of other people. All of the farming methods are usually inherited from other people. You don't go out into the woods and try and figure out which berries are safe. You look them up. You don't try and figure out which snakes are safe. You look them up. And so our existence is blended in with other people. This life of splendid isolation is only attractive because other people wear us out. There's a great line. It was that Deborah Winger has in a pretty powerful movie called Shadowlands with Anthony Hopkins about C.S. Lewis. Lewis and she's talking about some neurotic or borderline personality boyfriend she had and she's just like, man, he wore me out. He just wore me out. He wore me out. Now, the fact that our minds and hearts are shared with others is, I hate to be Mr. Cliché guy here, but it is both our greatest strengths and our greatest weakness. We are vulnerable to others. We depend on others. We merge together, which means that we're incredibly powerful or we're incredibly destroyed.

[23:27] Because if you're empathetic, if you care about other people, if you care about the world, if you have some sort of basic empathy.

[23:35] Almost guaranteed, at least once over the course of your life, you're going to be targeted by somebody who exploits that in horrible, destructive ways.

[23:45] Vulnerabilities in Relationships

[23:45] Empaths get pillaged. They are a village undefended. So, that's why you've got to be tough as well as sensitive.

[24:02] So, your feelings are defined more by your current relationships than your prior history. All my feelings, I have this anxiety, I get this depression, I feel sad a lot, I can't relax. Okay, and we think, well, geez, you know, when I was five and I was 10, when I was 15, X, Y, and Z. And that's not unimportant, and I recognize all of that. But your feelings are less to do with your history and more to do with your experience.

[24:40] Current relationships and your feelings are not yours your feelings are shared with those around you in other words if you have someone in your life who's chaotic and stressful and and they threaten and they uh um you know like i was reading this uh tweet the other day from a woman who's like yeah this they dated this crazy guy for a while and didn't want to have anything to do with him and then i'd let him stay at my place and he kind of glommed on to me and now he's blackmailing me and like all of this sort of stuff i don't know the truth of any of it but But, okay, so that woman is stressed, right? She has to move, she can't sleep, and that's because she has a stressful person in her life. So if she were to say, why am I stressed? You say, well, because you have a dangerous person in your life, right? So people can bring us security, right? People can bring us security, or people can bring us danger, right? I mean, the people who are supposed to guard us while we sleep, they can either guard us well so that we sleep well, or they can sell us into slavery and let the predators attack us and tie us up and they can rob us and, you know, so we're either very safe or when we let our guard down, which we have to in order to have relationships, we're either very safe, because we have someone watching our back or the person behind us isn't watching our back but creeping up to stab us. Stab in the back, right? They stab me in the back. This is one of the reasons why that phrase is so powerful.

[26:06] People are either watching your back or targeting it they're either protecting you or they're getting you to lower your defenses so that they can exploit and betray you.

[26:18] Steps Towards Self-Expression

[26:18] So steps that you can take to become more self-expressed don't look at your history i look at your history but you look at your history in order to deal with the current situation situation. So if you had a crazy parent, if you had a crazy parent, and that parent caused you stress and sleeplessness and so on, right? A crazy parent, that's definitely tough. And I understand that. And I sympathize with that. But what's more relevant is, do you have crazy people in your life right now? You can say, well, as a result of my crazy parents, I got used to crazy people. And so now I have crazy people in my life okay and that's that's an important thing but you know when i do call-in shows we don't just talk about the past we talk about its past and its relationship to the future self-knowledge is not about the past self-knowledge is about the future right, i mean the rosetta stone which allows people to translate hieroglyphics well that is about translating ancient egyptian hieroglyphics in the future it's not about the past right it's about out what we do differently in the future. If you touch something hard and you get burned, your feelings can't change the past. Your feelings are there to change the future.

[27:40] So, the way that you become less self-censored and more self-expressive is you have people in your life that you 100% trust will never use their knowledge of you against you, right?

[27:59] When troubles come, they come not in single spies, but in battalions. But the spies always come before the battalions, right?

[28:06] So, I mean, an example from history would be a guy who is a great general. He has a great sort of attack plan or something like that, right? He's got a great attack plan, but he wants to verify that it can work. So he has to go to somebody else in the army and share his attack plan so that he knows it can work. Do we have the right materials? Do we have enough supplies? Do we have enough ammo? Do we have enough people? What's the morale of the troops? So he's got to share his attack plan with someone else. Now, if he's sharing that attack plan with somebody who's on his side, the attack plan is going to improve. But if he shares his attack plan with someone who's an enemy, who's a spy, then he's going to get wiped out. He's literally going to get the whole thing. If they know the attack plan, then his whole army is probably going to get wiped out. So the stakes of sharing information are very high. If people are on your side, they can really help you and you can do way better by sharing your information than keeping it to yourself. But if they betray you, and everyone's gone through this in life at one one time or another then right so rather than say well your history this that and the other um are the people who are currently in your life benefiting you and are you benefiting them, so i would do that don't it's not just about it's not just about um trying to work with massage and change the self and and who my history and this and i gotta adjust this and tweak that and that's fine but at some point.

[29:29] If you feel unsafe at some point it's probably because, there are unsafe people in your life at the moment you are in danger I'm in danger so I would say look at that alright.

[29:46] I think that will do for this morning there will be another one soon but I really do appreciate that I should not overly get my morning sun So lots of love. I hope that these responses are helpful to you. I hope that they help shutter-click things into focus. And remember, philosophy is all about the future. Philosophy is all about making better decisions in the future. Don't get lost in the past. Don't spiral down into the infinite well of history. You know, there's an old question that I was asked, and a friend of mine's father was a professor of engineering when I was growing up.

[30:24] You know, one of the questions was if there's a hole all the way through the earth, A hole goes all the way through the earth, and you jump in that hole, what happens? And of course, everyone thinks, well, you go down, you go back up, you go down, you go back up, and then you end up sitting in the middle. That's not what happens. What happens is you go down, and you slow down, and you come to rest in the middle.

[30:43] You're not going down and then swinging up like a big heavy ball on a rubber rope. You go down because as you go down, the gravity changes all around you to the point where you simply slow down. Because as you go down, the weight of the gravity above you begins to slow you down. You just stop in the middle. That's what happens when you go into the past. You don't come out the other side. If you go into the past without saying, I need to change my decisions in the future. If you go into the past, you just step in a hole and you end up in the middle of nowhere, far away from any surface and any productivity. It's very easy to become overly introspective and to navel gaze and to say, you know, the the purpose of my self-knowledge is to understand this about my partner. No, everything has to lead to making better decisions in the future, right? Everything has to lead to making better decisions in the future. When I was a teenager, I used to read the Harvard Business Review, and it helped me a lot, of course, because I ended up in business. I've always been interested in business. I ended up in business.

[31:39] And the reason that you do case studies is not to understand the past, but to make better decisions in the future, right? The reason that you adopt a nutrition plan is to make better decisions in the future, the reason you start to exercise. The reason you do all of these things is to make better decisions in the future. Philosophy is not about the past. It's not about your internal workings. It's not about personal history or even world history.

[32:01] Philosophy for Future Decisions

[32:01] Philosophy is about one thing and one thing only, to make better decisions in the future. And that's what it's all about. That's what our entire purpose is, to make better decisions in the future. And anything that gets you lost in the past is a way of staying away from making better decisions in in the future and it is a way of avoiding making those better decisions because making better decisions in the future.

[32:25] Rejects the slave self because slaves can't plan right slaves just get handed out they just get their assignments handed they're told what to do they have no say no control they get sold they have to move elsewhere they get drafted they have to go fight slaves can't make any plans about their future so the most foundational thing you can do to fight the slave mindset to exercise and dispel the slave demon is to use the knowledge of the past to make better decisions in the future and And once you vow to make better decisions in the future, the slave self is banished. Because then you have control over your own future. And once you have control over your own future, then you no longer need to control others. Because you have control over your own future. You don't need to exploit others because you can generate your own path. And that is like, you know, when the powers that be can't control you, they will simply try to control other people's perceptions of you. They're calling you a bad guy or whatever it is, right? So if you can't be controlled, then other people's perceptions of you will be controlled. Rejecting control is making rational plans for your future and having standards of quality in your relationship that you're not at the whim of crazy people. And then say, gee, why are my emotions so chaotic? It's like, no, your emotions aren't chaotic. Your social environment is chaotic. And your emotions are simply responding to that. The reason you can't sleep is because people pillage you while you sleep, not because you have some underlying X, Y, and Z. So I hope that helps. It's freedomain.com slash donate. Lots of love from up here. I'll talk to you soon. Bye.

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