0:08 - Welcome to FreeDomain
11:34 - Understanding Hate Speech Laws
13:57 - The Statistics of Homicide
17:47 - The Kilmar Garcia Deportation Case
19:33 - The Role of Mothers in Violence
28:30 - The Reality of Due Process
32:49 - Generational Responsibilities
38:04 - The Boomer Generation's Impact
50:40 - The State of Public Education
57:29 - The Crisis in Scientific Replication
1:00:28 - The Nature of Peer Review
1:08:11 - Lifestyle Choices and Health
1:16:32 - The Decline of American Prosperity
1:27:17 - The Burden of National Debt
1:35:32 - Navigating Family Dynamics
1:40:07 - The Marketplace of Ideas
1:47:59 - Fear of Failure and Personal Growth
1:55:14 - Reflections on Pain and Purpose
In this episode, we delve into a wide range of political topics while addressing listener questions in a dynamic call-in format. We begin by reflecting on the recent Canadian elections, exploring the implications and societal sentiments surrounding them, particularly how the political landscape is perceived among different generations. The discussion quickly shifts to Donald Trump and his comments about Canada, examining the national identity crisis and how Canadians react to perceived slights from their southern neighbor.
We also touch on the generational divides in political priorities, contrasting the concerns of younger voters with those of older generations. Issues such as housing affordability and economic viability dominate the discourse for the youth, while the older demographic appears more concerned with symbolic issues and media-driven outrage. This stark contrast highlights a growing disconnect in priorities, leading to a deeper conversation on the moral responsibility of older generations towards the younger ones.
As we navigate through audience questions, I provide insights into the nature of political discourse today, suggesting that the conversation has evolved into a battleground where brute force often overshadows rational debate. Drawing from historical contexts, we explore how previous generations have shaped today’s socio-political climate, including the ramifications of past decisions on the current state of affairs.
Further into our discussion, we take a contemplative look at family, responsibility, and societal obligations. With various listener insights, we analyze the hows and whys of generational responsibility, particularly surrounding the behaviors of older generations that have led to younger generations facing significant challenges today.
We touch on contemporary issues such as the rise of social media and its impact on civil discourse, the complexity of immigration debates, and the therapeutic ramifications of the pandemic. During the call, I emphasize the importance of not only understanding one’s rights but also recognizing the generational effects of public policy decisions.
Throughout the show, I aim to foster a sense of personal agency among listeners, encouraging them to engage with the world critically and seek truth amidst a sea of misinformation. We end with a thought-provoking discussion on the dynamics of personal relationships, societal expectations, and the push for self-improvement in an increasingly complex environment.
This episode invites you to reflect on the nature of freedom, responsibility, and the moral obligations we owe to one another across generations, underscoring the relevance of open discourse in navigating today's intricate political landscape.
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[1:03] Nice Joe nice Joe alright should we do a rare exception show thank you I appreciate the tip should we do a rare exception show where you can just ask anything you want, feels like it feels like it look I owe you guys for staggering through, my messed up ear and voice, April, so I do appreciate your patience. We're halfway back to normal, which is great. It's a slow, it's a slow heel, man. It's a slow, slow heel. Alright, so let's get your comments and questions. And yes, the picture of the boomer giving the fingers. Any chance that the NAP can be amended live to not include boomers? Well.
[1:55] As you're probably aware, there was an election in Canada. What was that, Tuesday? Tuesday. And I assume that the NDP didn't even retain political party status, if I remember rightly. And Trump, unfortunately, did a little bit to scotch the Conservatives' chances by making jokes about annexing Canada. See, Canada, it's interesting. It's Schrodinger's country, right? Because apparently Canada has absolutely no identity, right? It's a post-nation state. It's just a geographical boundaries of tax farming. Um see that's canada or or conversely uh if if donald trump says anything about an ex in canada suddenly you have to be super patriotic and you're all about all of that, and of course i think it was was it back in the 90s the conservative party said that they weren't going to take on any kind of immigration issues so it really has just been.
[3:07] Kind of a waste of time since then. You know, the urban centers vote liberal, the resource-heavy areas, and the countryside votes conservative. And it's one of the reasons I'm not in politics anymore. There's no arguments. There's just particular cultures, particular patterns. There's not arguments anymore. It's just people who want to take stuff from the state and people who don't want to give stuff to the state. It's not about arguments anymore. Well, I don't know that people took Trump as being serious. Like, I'm not sure about that.
[3:48] But Canadians have a real younger sibling relationship, like Nietzschean resentment, younger sibling relationship to America. Thank you, Mobius. I appreciate the tip. And... So, whenever Trump makes jokes about annexing Canada or Governor Trudeau, I mean, of course he's not going to annex Canada. That's funny, right? And, of course, it was Canada who burned down the White House in the War of 1812.
[4:19] But, people, it was a point of faux outrage. Like, okay, hit me with a Y. If you have people in your life prone to faux outrage, you want Alberta? I can see that. I can see that. Faux outrage. They just crank themselves up. They just crank themselves up. That's their gig. That's their job. Or they're just easily cranked up like NPCs by the media.
[4:54] Because there was a poll, I think it was, was it post or pre, but right around the election, there was a poll. And the poll asked for people to talk about or to tell the pollsters what their biggest issues were. And for the young people, it was like cost of living, affordability of housing, survivability of their potential offspring, you know that kind of stuff right that was what the young people were were interested in um what do you think the number one issue was among the boomers what was the number one issue among the boomers yeah the whole yeah let's use this faux outrage for sure a faux outrage is when you're outraged at people and you take a strong moral stance against people who you absolutely know aren't going to do you any harm, right?
[5:55] All the morally courageous people, right? I oppose white male patriarchy. It's like, well, really, what are the white males going to do to you, right? You're opposing other groups, and you might have some trouble. But, yeah, so the number one issue for the boomers was someone who'll stand up to Trump, man. You've got to stand up to Trump. Someone who's going to stand up to Trump and put that cheetah bully in his place. Of course, the young people don't care, because they understand that Trump was just being funny, right? But people who are bitter, you know, really can't afford to have a sense of humor. People who are really bitter can't afford to have a sense of humor, which is why the left can't meet, right?
[6:50] Yeah, it was Trump. And suddenly, you know, I mean, Canada has had tariffs on America for decades, but suddenly you see it's really bad to have tariffs. People, I don't know, they just don't think. Yeah, Trump uses the word bloodbath with regards to the economy, and everyone thinks he wants blood in the streets. Now, when there is actually blood in the streets in the summer of 2020 with the George Floyd riots, which apparently did not cause any viruses to spread at all, then, well, there was a mostly peaceful protest, right?
[7:47] I mean, yeah, there's really, there's so very little, from a philosophical standpoint, like from the standpoint of philosophy, there's so little to talk about with regards to politics these days that I just, I would consider it, I mean, you might as well step into the, octagon, right? You might as well step into mixed martial arts. You know, words don't count. It's just brute force these days. It's the same thing with politics. I think, I mean, I would say that words counted around 2016, I think, was the last time that words really counted. And that's only because they didn't think words were going to count. Like, they didn't think the alternative media could have any effect on anything in particular. And when it turned out that the alternative media could and did have quite a big effect on things, well, oh shit, they have an effect on things. Shut them down.
[8:46] Oh yeah, where Trump was imitating a stupid person and everyone thinks that he's talking about that disabled reporter. He wasn't. He uses the same gestures for everyone. Just, I don't know, just touchy, touchy people with no reality processing. You can't correct them. And I mean, I was thrilled, honestly, deeply thrilled and happy to be part of the alternative media you know, I'm obviously staggered on past 2016, but I knew it was just a matter of time at that point.
[9:24] Words are weapons, sharpen the knives, makes you wonder how the other half dies. Yeah. Yeah, so words of violence, well that, you know, free speech is largely a male issue, right? Free speech is a male issue because women, again, tons of exceptions, right? But women, as a whole fight using words. And women attack on libel, defamation, spreading gossip, spreading lies, and all of that. That's how women fight. And men fight generally with fists. So men can afford free speech because the alternative for men is to fight with fists. We either reason with each other or we take each other and disassemble each other physically for men. But for women, they don't fight physically they fight through words which is why they tend to be more censorious with regards to that.
[10:31] This is why when you get the rise of female power you get hate speech her laws right, All right. Let's get to your questions and comments. Do you think if Hitler was alive today, he would get as much hate as Trump? Yes. Yes, for sure. For sure. All right. So here's an interesting fact. What is the age and sex of the most common victim of homicide?
[11:35] What is the age and sex of the most hate speech laws are sinking the UK? Well, it's the uneven application of hate speech laws. That's the problem, right? I wrote about this in my novel, The God of Atheists, like 30 years ago. So you think that the most common victim of homicide are males 18 to 21, 17-year-old male, middle-aged men, guess 25, 19-year-old male, 19-year-old male, 25-year-old male, black male, 17 to 28. These are all fine guesses. You are incorrect. Abortions, let's not... I have not seen the movie, Look Who's Back. Abortions don't count in this. I mean, you could certainly argue that they should, but they don't count in this analysis.
[12:27] Yeah. So, the most common victim of homicide is a male baby under one year old. The most common, it's funny, right? I mean, not funny, right? But the most common victim of homicide is a male baby under one year old. Now, we're a pretty enlightened group here, and I don't think I would have got this right at all. And, you know, that's, I'm not saying that it makes me better or worse. I'm just saying, I don't think, because I think I would have gone with you guys. It's like, oh, yeah, male violence, teen violence, gang violence, whatever. But it is not the case. It is not the case. Thank you, Sauer.
[13:18] Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So, I think the next one we can guess, right? Oh, the next one we probably know. What is the percentage in sex of the most common perpetrator of the most common homicide, which is a male baby under one year of age?
[13:58] Male violence, you're right, is predominantly towards other men. Women's violence is predominantly towards babies. Yeah, of course, if you include abortion, the numbers go, right? So, in this instance or case, the most common perpetrator of the deaths of male babies under one year of age are women, 72%. Mothers kill children. Mothers kill children.
[14:54] Mothers were also found to be involved and infanticized by 71.7% of the cases among 12 countries considered and 100% responsible for neonaticide in 13 countries. Prevalence rates are likely to be significantly underestimated due to the concealment of the crime.
[15:16] Now, of course, are you familiar with the Kilmar Garcia deportation situation in the US? Is that the guy who's reported to have MS-13 on his knuckles? Is that right? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I'm a little familiar with it. I mean, if you want to ask a question, I'm a little familiar with it. Thank you for the tip, Torco, and crime time. I appreciate that. Yeah, didn't some Democrat fly down to El Salvador to break bread with this guy? Phew. Don't forget, freedomain.com slash donate. How about the show? I'm going to bug you a little bit less tomorrow, but it's the end of the month, and I do gather my data at the end of the month, and it is a plus or minus experience for me. based upon the donations. So, freedomain.com slash donate. Really would appreciate that. So, yeah, if you have a question about the Kilmar Garcia deportation situation, I'm happy to answer as best I can. But, it's pretty bad.
[16:35] And, of course, when women, kill their children, the press it feels almost anathema to hold them morally accountable. It's always like, well, the father abandoned them, she was living in poverty, she was trying to get mental health services, she was unable to get a therapy. So it's always like some dominoes that other people failed these women and then they end up killing their children. Or at least their child. Hmm.
[17:18] Crazy. And if there is not equality in accountability, there cannot be equality in society as a whole. There just can't be. Just can't be. Terrible. I'll give you the link here in the chat, in case you want to read further.
[17:48] Um, this can't be right, Stef. I was told if women ruled the world, all violence would end. Yeah, well, of course, you know that women, female rulers declare war more often than male rulers, right?
[18:04] What are your thoughts on this deportation thing in regards to all humans deserving due process, regardless of citizenship? And if you think due process was given in this situation, I mean, didn't, didn't he go in front of a judge a bunch of times, and didn't he have a deportation order? So, due process is, for people who are in the country legally, so my analogy, imperfect though it may be, my analogy would be something like this. So, thank you, Jimmy. Due process is if you rent an apartment and you're there, you know, you sign your lease, you rent the apartment, and then at the end of the lease, let's say halfway through the lease, your landlord wants to kick you out, right? This was always kind of hell for me and my friends when we would go away for school, right? I would go away from school, and we would have, you know, a 12-month lease. I lived for four years in Montreal. I did almost two years of theater school. Then I did two years finishing my undergraduate history degree at McGill. So...
[19:33] I had a 12-month lease, but I was only there for sort of eight or nine months on the outside. So I needed to find somebody, because I couldn't afford two places. I couldn't afford to rent in Toronto, where I had to work. I didn't speak French well enough to work in Montreal. So I'd have to go back to Toronto to live, and I would need to find somebody to take over. To sublet, right? To take over my lease. and it was tough, you know, because it was very hard to get people to actually pay full price because they knew you were kind of at the short end of the stick as far as that went, right? So if you rent an apartment, you got a 12-month lease and let's say you're there legally, you have a legal right to be in there because you signed your 12-month lease and let's say that at month 11, the landlord wants to kick you out, right? Well, then there would be a due process thing, right? The landlord might say, you signed the lease earlier, you've got to get out. Maybe he changed the date on the lease or like did something and maybe you kept a copy. So there's a disagreement, there's an argument about when you have to leave the apartment, right? So you have to have due process, right? You can't just stay there if you're not signing, like if you are past your lease, and he can't kick you out if you're within your lease right there's a due process for all of that stuff right.
[21:02] Now uh what about though if you're home lazing on a sunny afternoon tom jones style and uh some guy, um you know kicks in your window and comes into your house.
[21:22] Well, you tell him to get the hell out. What due process does he deserve? He's not there legally. You didn't invite him in. He has no legal right to be there. He's not paid any bills. There's no paperwork. He just has entered your house against your will. He's, He's trespassing He is a break-and-enter, I don't think I'd do a movie review of Sinners It does not look like my kind of movie at all So If somebody has come into the country Right? If somebody has come into the country, illegally, then as far as I understand it, there is no necessity for due process, coming out. If somebody trespasses on your property, there's not due process to get them off.
[22:41] So my understanding is that if it's sort of like if you're in a um if you're in a movie theater, and for some reason someone comes in and wants to check your ticket and you don't have your ticket, right and you know maybe you can't bring up on your phone well i just paid and blah blah blah right so you don't have a ticket then they kick you off you know when i was a kid in england there were these big double-decker buses you know how holton coalfield wants to be the catcher in the rye i wanted to be the bus driver because you were curtained off and just in control and all of that so.
[23:22] There was uh there was the ticket taker so you would you would pay to get on the bus They changed that later so that you had to pay when you went on. So you have a bus ticket or something like that, and then the guy would come and check your ticket, right? And if you didn't have a ticket, then you were escorted off the bus. Well, where's the due process? Are you supposed to have a court date, a trial date, or does he have to be a little hat and wigged and robed guy in the back of the bus? Well, you have to have a ticket to be on the bus. You don't have a ticket, get off the bus.
[24:12] Did you see what I mean? Now, I'm looking at, of course, equivalents in a free market. It was the same thing on the trains, right? I used to, when I was sort of six and seven and eight, I used to take a train to boarding school. I remember being in Universal Studios in Florida, many, of course, many years later. Thank you, Jared. And they have a little ride, like a Harry Potter ride. And it was like almost exactly the same train that I was on. I had flashbacks, man. Almost exactly the same train that I was on as a kid to go to boarding school. And that was the way it works, right? You would buy a ticket and then you'd keep your ticket on you. And everyone always told me, keep your ticket on you, keep your ticket on you, keep your ticket on you. Because Because if you don't have a ticket, I mean, I guess they wouldn't throw a six or seven-year-old kid off the train, right? But that was the deal. So I don't know what due process is needed in a free society if you're someplace, that you have no legal right to be if you're trespassing right.
[25:40] I mean if you wake up tomorrow morning and there's a bunch of hippies and homeless people camping in your backyard, wouldn't you say you guys are going to have to go, right? Like you don't have the right to be here.
[26:08] So, you would order them off, right? Would there have to be a big due process thing, right? There was an old Michael Keaton movie called Pacific Heights, one of the few movies that actually talked about property rights, about how tough it could be to evict someone from an apartment that they were in. And this can happen, right? People try and get in, and once they're in, it's really tough to get them out. So, if you're in America and you did not enter legally, you are trespassing. You are there illegally. You are on the, quote, property called America, which is owned by the citizens, by the government. Again, I know this is not exactly a voluntarist-centric argument, but you know what I mean, right?
[26:59] So, you are someplace. place, you have no legal right to be.
[27:04] Try going through one of these doors that's marked for employees only. I mean, they catch you back there, they're going to, hey, you're not supposed to be back here. You've got to get out, right? So, if you are illegally on someone's property, what due process are you supposed to get? Or are you just ordered off? Right you you you uh you you try and go and try and break into a mall with a security guard in the middle of the night uh you know because you want to film some stupid video right you try breaking into a a mall that's locked right well the you're going to get kicked out of the mall, what what due process is needed you're trespassing you're in the mall when it's closed and it's locked. And of course, not only will they kick you out of the mall, but they'll probably demand that they might just kick you out of the mall. Or if you broke a door to get in, they're going to hold you there and they're going to call the cops and they're going to have you be liable for the property damage, right?
[28:30] So, I'm not sure what, and you have to understand, of course, there are tens and tens of millions of illegal aliens in America. I mean, I know the estimates have been stuck at 12 million for decades, tens of millions for sure, right? How is the legal system possibly going to function if every single person who is in the country with no record of entry into the country, right? In other words, they have no right to be there. How could there be due process for tens of millions of people? It's not possible. I mean, even if you wanted to shut down everything else that the legal system could possibly be doing.
[29:37] Anyway. Let's see here. Due process doesn't mean a court trial. It means the proper process you are owed. No, no, but when people talk about due process, they generally are talking about legal right to appear in front of a judge or a jury or a court or something. That's generally what people mean by that. Sigh.
[30:15] And it's funny, of course, because, I mean, somebody mentioned the Martha's Vineyard situation. What was it, like 40 migrants were dropped off in Martha's Vineyard, and they were gone within like 24 hours because they called in the army to get them out? You know, go to these liberals, right? I'm not saying do this, just as a thought exercise. Don't do this in reality. But as a thought exercise, go to the people, and, you know, if they've left their car unlocked, just be in the back seat. And then when they drive away, say, hey, great, you can take me where I'm going. They'd freak out. They'd stop the car, and they'd order you out. Say, no, no, no, man, I need my due process. We're going to have to resolve this in front of a court. And I get to use your car for the next 10 years until we get a court date. I get to be in your car and use your car, sleep in your car. I get to do all of this, all of it, until we have a court date in 10 or 15 years or something like that, right? I mean, that's one of the reasons why if they just stay in the ice beds, they get a hearing in 40, like 30 to 45 days. But if they get released into the country, then it's, you know, five, seven or more years before they can get a court date.
[31:28] And this, of course, is another blow to the credibility of the media and the ruling elites where they said, remember, they were saying, well, you can't possibly close the border without additional legislation, man. You got to get your legislation. And Trump did it, you know, pretty quickly and pretty easily, right?
[31:51] It's amazing to see the left simp for illegal criminals. I mean, a bit of a redundant statement. But, you know, in general, right, you could make the case that just paying to take people out of the country, because deportation is usually the cost. Aren't they usually born by the, aren't the deportation costs normally born by the state? I think they are. I don't know the people who charge themselves. But no, it should be much more than that. If the illegals have taken government benefits, then those benefits should have to be repaid. They should have to pay for the costs of their own deportations and so on, right? So I don't know that the punishment exactly fits the crime, if that makes sense.
[32:50] All right. I mean...
[33:03] All right, let's get to your. U.S. citizens are guaranteed a trial as their due process. People conflate the wording. Illegals get deported as their due process. Yeah, I think that's a good way to put it. But that's not what people are using due process to mean. They usually mean that there's a trial. Why are boomers leaning left now? I'm sorry, have you met boomers in the past? What do you mean now? Boomers have always left. Always. I mean, they're very pro-the-welfare state there. I mean, they were against the Vietnam War, but that's just because they were, A, drafted, and B, told to by the communists and the media.
[34:04] Have you thought of watching Europa, the last battle? I have not. I've heard of it. I've never particularly wanted to watch it. So, did the doge stealing their social security lies scare them into the arms of the left? Boomers are congenitally allergic to sacrifice. They are congenitally allergic to sacrifice. And boomers are, again, tons of exceptions, but boomers as a whole, very much, uncritically swallow things that make no sense at all. They make no sense at all. They just swallow them, regurgitate them, and they don't have, a rationality process filter. They have no skepticism. Really at all. They have no skepticism.
[35:14] I mean, it's the boomers that are driving the climate change narrative, right? I mean, I remember having a conversation with a boomer many years ago where he said, you know, these particular islands will be underwater. Like climate change is just going to raise the water levels around those particular islands and nowhere else, right? And I said, can you pile up water at one end of your bath but not the other? They just get so mad. I mean, they're like toddlers. You have to just, you know, shield them from facts, right?
[36:05] Talk about IQ, talk about taxation, talk about national debts, right? You know, talk to a boomer and say, well, you guys were primarily responsible for driving up the national debt. And shouldn't you, like, is it right when you guys drove up the national debt to continue to pillage the young in order to pay for your pensions?
[36:39] Yeah, I mean, if you could take the TV away from the boomers, that would be something. And the boomers went generally mental for COVID and the sort of fear-mongering and stuff. Yeah, I mean, this is from Statista as of April 26th 2023 percent of total population who took, the COVID vaccine was 81% and change it was 95 among 65 and older at least one dose. Completed primary series, 69.4% of the general population, 94.3% of the boomers, and percent of population updated bivalent booster dose, 16.8% of the gen pop, 42.6% of the boomers. They went mad for COVID.
[38:04] Yeah, it's, I mean, they have, in general, the boomers have infinitely more empathy for other countries, other culturists, than their own children and their own children's future. Thank you, JP. I appreciate it. Yeah, they just swallowed this stuff whole. Thank you, Anthony. They just swallow this stuff whole. And they can't, in general, be reasoned with. I mean, that's true for a lot of people, but I've certainly found it to be more the case with the boomers. They have faux knowledge, faux wisdom, which always turns out to be completely self-serving. And the boomers... Howard Stern, COVID broke his brain. I mean, for reasons too obvious to state, right?
[39:12] So the boomers were shielded from reality by debt, which meant they became vainglorious, kind of narcissistic, and uncorrectable. You can't correct boomers. They just get mad. They just, they're the sort of, okay, but how does this affect you personally?
[39:42] Is it partly because the boomers lived through the Cold War, expecting everything to end? I don't know that that's it, because Gen X also lived through the Cold War, my generation. There were two movies, I think that they ended up being funded by the Kremlin, actually, under communism, but there were two movies that had a fairly big effect on me when I was a kid. One was The Day After, and another one was called Threads, which The Day After was like a couple of days after a nuclear war, and Threads was like years and years after. like what happened after a nuclear war.
[40:20] So boomers have, I would say that one of the things that happened with the boomers, and I say this with some sympathy, of course, right? But one of the things that happened with the boomers, was the boomers were really part of, the older boomers were not bonded. They had massive amounts of anti-Western and communist propaganda really hard attacked to them. And because they were turned against their own culture and their own history, their own ethnicity, their own everything, their own countries, they did not have or did not retain much of a capacity for pair bonding. Heavily propagandized people can't pair bond. Because pair bonding is when you connect to the authentic self, and propaganda is the opposite of the authentic self. So if you are propagandized and you fall for it, you swallow it, and so on, you have a very tough time pair bonding with anyone because all you are is an NPC. You can't fall in love with a character from Skyrim, right? And you can't love a propagandized NPC. So they lack pair bonding, which is why they skidded around from job to job. It's why they got divorced at such high rates. It's why there were these key parties in the 70s with everyone sleeping with each other.
[41:45] You know, ice storm style. So for the boomers, they don't really pair bond much. Now, because they were heavily propagandized, I mean, through art, music, movies, books, you name it, right? Excuse me. Because the boomers were so heavily propagandized, they couldn't pair bond, and they therefore couldn't pair bond with their own kids, and therefore they put their own kids in daycare. And because their bonds are so fragile, conformity is an absolute, I mean hit me with a why if you've been in relationships, where you have to bite your tongue like crazy because if you tell the truth you're gone you're just gone, Just gone. Have you had those? Been in those? Well, try contradicting a boomer. Try telling a boomer you're wrong. It's not true, right? I mean, even about some basic bitch stuff like the... The... Cinebaton argument. Yeah, I saw that old meme. That's funny.
[43:12] So just go to a boomer who's talking about you know feminism or the patriarchy and and they bring up i mean this is so basic it's ridiculous like the wage gap right oh women are underpaid relative to men right and just say well no uh that's actually not true um women are actually paid slightly more than men if you take into account education and time in the workforce and it's been illegal to pay women less than men for jobs of the same value since 1965. And the more freedom that women get, the more they tend to choose occupations or careers that pay less, right? They prefer to work with things. Sorry, they prefer to work with people. Men often prefer to work with things. Things can make more economic value, right? Working with people is hourly, whereas if you invent some fantastic widget and sell a million of them, you make more money. So working with people generally is less renumerative than working with things. And so you just tell them these basic things, right? They just get so mad.
[44:20] They just get mad. Is it even worth it? Is it worth it? because the problem is with the sort of very fragmented and orbiting Uranus boomers is that even if you were somehow to convince a boomer that there's no such thing as the wage gap, he's going to do a factory reset the next time he's around his friends anyway because are his friends going to remain his friends if he disassembles the concept or the idea or the arguments for... The wage gap between men and women. Is he going to keep his friends if he opposes their fantasies? Nope. Nope. So he's just going to bite his tongue, he's going to forget what you said, and he's going to nod and go along with the wage gap because boomers in general, in general, in general.
[45:33] And boomers don't bond, so ideological conformity is the only thing they have in common. So if they're told that Trump is a bad guy and to hate Trump, especially he's a white male, then they will. They will. They'll do it. And the reason, one of the main reasons they do it is if they don't do it, then they'll be dumped by their friends. And they don't have much relationship with their kids and their grandkids. It's a constant complaint among Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Y. It's a constant complaint is that the boomers don't really spend time with their grandkids. So all they have is their buddies, their golf buddies and their Mimosa buddies and all of that, right? Sigh.
[46:39] So, I mean, I remember chatting with a boomer a couple of years ago, and he was railing against Trump, and I just said, well, tell me, like, what's so bad, right? What's so bad? Oh, he did this, that, and the other. And I'm like, no, I don't think he did. I mean, I'm actually, I know, as I did whole shows on this, right? You know, he called Nazis very fine people. I'm like, no, I'm pretty sure he didn't. I mean, you bring up the transcript, it's like, oh, he fomented insurrection. It's like, no, no, he said, make your voices heard peacefully, right? And just so, but it doesn't matter. It's one of the reasons I'm out of politics. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.
[47:35] How do we get you back on Twitter? you had so many spicy takes i miss you there, well i appreciate the uh words of encouragement so uh general tip as a whole is that if you want someone to do something don't make it about you right i mean if you go to a um you go to a car dealership and the the car salesman says i need you to buy this really expensive car because, I'll get a big bonus would you be like, not good sales I'm not trying to be a nag I appreciate your kind thoughts but, wouldn't it be nice of course if Spain, Portugal and parts of France invested even more into green energy, also known as gangrene energy because you can't get into a hospital dark joke.
[48:40] I had to bite my tongue and dull my shinning, shining, I guess, around my older brother. I didn't want to upset the balance of power. It was always one for you, one for me. Do you know the feeling? I'm not sure. I'm not sure that you should come to me for any advice on when to bite your tongue. So I'm afraid you may have to go elsewhere. If this guy can be able to see the chat recommend looking at output in the chat for my questions if you have a question that I missed just paste it again, it seems the boomers were all about self-gratification in their youth sex, drugs, orgies, poor hygiene well, I mean, of course only a small percentage of the boomers were actually hippies, right, somebody says I serve a lot of boomer customers and one of mine had a beautiful $600,000 more and more house, and he spent his life as a bus driver in New York before retiring with a pension. It amazes me of how thoroughly we've lost the ability for the mediocre to make a good life in America.
[49:52] Yeah. Let me see if I can find this quote. It was good. It was a good quote. It was a good quote, about the bottom quintile have you read it? I really feel like there should be okay.
[50:40] All right whoops typo, let me try that again but without the typo you know doing stuff live works beautifully always never any problems, can you find it Oh, something went wrong. Regenerate.
[51:19] Yeah, so basically it's like, you know, your school is functioned to try and deal with the bottom quintile. And charities are set up to try and deal with the bottom quintile. And policing and courts are all set up to deal with the bottom quintile. They're going to, you know, run your life and you might as well. You might as well just accept this early. And recognize that is just how it is.
[51:56] Yeah i feel like this i don't know why i can't find the uh i can't find the search thing i feel like there's it oh oh wait there it is oh top right okay, it was very well put, and quite bitter, oh yes here we go um maybe the most important thing you learn by attending public school is that we're all at the mercy of the bottom quintile the rules you follow in life will be based on the behavior of the bottom quintile the taxes you pay are to support the bottom quintile the greatest risks to your life and property will come from the bottom quintile the dearth of comfortable public spaces is because you have to allow the bottom quintile to be there our zoning laws had developed for fear of the bottom quintile. Probably best to learn and accept this early.
[52:55] Kind of a fact, right? And this was less the case when I was a kid, because when I was a kid in school, you could do basic, intermediate, and advanced. I was, of course, you know, it's no big whoop for me, because a lot of kids were, most of my friends, but I was put into the advanced courses all the time, because we were smart, and so you were able to figure things out, and you could escape the less intelligent as a whole, that really hasn't happened for decades now. So it's really quite sad. All right, let me get to your questions and comments.
[53:41] Can you provide your thoughts on mitigating social media addiction? More directly, I need to spend less time on social media. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions. Um i mean i'm i've done a lot of social media stuff just over the last couple of weeks waiting for my um my ear issue to resolve um because i haven't really been able to talk too well because it's kind of unpleasant in my ear when i talk so i've been doing some social media browsing some reading and i've actually gotten back to writing i normally dictate but because i'm my voice is still recovering i have been just typing my novel so i've been doing that kind of stuff so you know have hobbies where you just don't have your phone don't have your tablet so you know sports hobbies go for walks conversations have something that is not that you're doing but there's writing or reading or something that is not social media you kind of need to displace it as a whole right do you pay for premium X staff oh yeah.
[54:48] Ba-ba-bum, ba-bum, ba-bum, ba-bum, ba-da-bum. All right. So, wait for some more questions to come in. I will get back to my stored stuff of interest and value. This is interesting, comes out of the very great and brave Dr. Peter A. McCullough. McCullough, named after a cat with a hairball. The Department of Justice launches inquiry into top medical journals over pandemic bias, fraud, and corruption. DOJ letters target prominent members of biopharmaceutical complex over financial conflicts, wrongful retraction, suppression of vaccine safety data. And it's nice to see. Is is is anyone going to be punished uh no uh no no not really uh i'm sure people will be alarmed and maybe they'll lose a couple of nights sleep uh maybe just maybe there'll be a fine or two but um yeah nobody's going to get a seriously punished the punishment is for the plebs. Punishment is not for the elites. All right.
[56:12] John B. Holbein wrote, so for a lot of scientific studies, they will say data is available upon request, right? So they'll give you the data and you can double check their numbers and their math and all of that, right? Among articles stating that data was available upon request, only 17% shared data upon request. Isn't that interesting? Isn't that interesting?
[56:49] Microsoft CEO says AI now writes almost 30% of all new code at the company. Interesting. How many people go to church weekly in America? Survey says about one in five Americans. Cell phone tracker data says it's actually closer to one in 20 Americans. Closer to, who knows what the actual numbers are, but probably close to one in 20 Americans.
[57:29] From Dr. Stella Emanuel. Deaths in America from 1999 to 2025. Suicide, 1.1 million. That seems very high. Suicide, 1.1 million. Overdose, 1.5 million. Heart attacks, 17,800,000. Measles, four. Biggest cause of media hysteria, measles. Why is that? Well, because they want to sell you more vaccines, right? That's not right. It's really great to access this grok thing where you can get some sort of review.
[58:26] All right um see if we've got more questions comments, oh the um, i mean the replication it's more than a crisis in a free market would be a complete collapse of the industry. You know, the replication crisis where people are trying to replicate scientific studies and they just can't. They just can't. From a, oh yeah, according to Kevin Bass, scientists tried replicating 56 studies, only 19% found results consistent with the original papers. And Mike Zirinovich wrote, meanwhile, people will debate PubMed back and forth like it's holy scripture. At some point, and philosophically, we would have known this from the very beginning, there's no way that peer review is science. Peer review is not science.
[59:26] I mean, a peer review is like going to a bunch of priests and saying, is there a God? And saying, well, they all agree that there is, so there must be, right? That's not a philosophical perspective. That's not a philosophical argument. It's not metaphysically and epistemologically, it's not valid to have peer review. It's too subject to pressure. Especially, like, you might have peer review in a complete free market that would have some value, But you sure as Sherlock cannot have peer review when the government's paying all the bills and there's so much politics and money and grant money and control and power. It's ridiculous. And it's embarrassing to say that peer review is how we determine what science is. Oh, it's mad. It's mad. Peer review to science is like your mom's judgment of your paintings when you're five. Oh, they're so beautiful. I'm going to put them up on the fridge.
[1:00:28] Yeah, it's terrible. It's terrible. What do you think of the following line from the show breaking bad and a man a man provides and he does it even when he is not appreciated respected or even loved he simply bears up and he does it because he is a man.
[1:00:52] Well it's just a slave, because he is a man that's tautology right a man is this a man does this why because he's a man. It's like, that's not a definition. It's a tautology. Coke is it. What is it? Coke. Well, A equals A is not a philosophical leap forward because he is a man. The idea that.
[1:01:19] You would let anyone define your gender is real men, right? Real men. Um what was it there was some tweet long ago i'm probably paraphrasing a bit but it was like you know real real men don't use seat belts like yeah well my my brother didn't use a seat belt and went right through the windshield and died he's a real man and women do this all the time a real man wouldn't do this it's like Like, I mean, nobody knows what a man or a woman is, but apparently they know what a real man is now. Oh, my gosh. A man provides. Not appreciated, respected, or even loved. Why? Why? Why would you do that? Why would you provide to people who don't love you? Are you just, what are you, a dre horse? You're just a beaten down old nag a u-shaped horse that has to pull whatever they do because otherwise you're going to get whipped dostoevsky style.
[1:02:35] Um they're also using measles deaths to attack anti-vaxxer rfk jr, oof yeah i mean the amount of evil that could be coming out of the current administration, i mean r robert f kennedy jr was just was he just talking about hhs and child trafficking and stuff it's like the amount of evil that could be coming out of the current administration, is going to completely polarize the country in america it's going to polar not just in america But I think in particular, this is going to come out of the autism exploration. Like, why? Why have the autism rates gone so crazy high? I think the answer to that, I mean, it could be wrong. I'm not an expert, right? It's just my gut, which doesn't mean anything other than it's my gut, right? but.
[1:03:28] The answer as to why there's so much autism is going to be one of the worst things, in history in my view I don't know what the answer is I don't know, I mean of course nobody does that's why they're still looking for it but if they get to an actual answer and I don't think the answer is just more or better diagnosis, I mean was it 26 27 percent of autistic people with autism are like really low functioning like 50 iq or below or they can't go to the bathroom on their own they can't live independently like they just weren't around when i was a kid and i knew enough people with enough families that i would know if they were in some home or something like that so i think i think i would guess it's just a guess, right? Could be wrong. But I think that the answer, I mean, tell me what you guys think, but I think that the answer as to what is the cause of the autism epidemic, I think the answer to that is going to be one of the worst things in history.
[1:04:46] And it is going to polarize the world. Because, you know, I've not heard of the Australian TV show Mr. In-Between. No, I have not. But if I'm looking for a show, I will check it out. Thank you.
[1:05:07] So what's going to happen of course is that some people are going to listen to and accept the answer and other people are just going to reject and avoid the answer as much as possible, and really it's just going to be an absolute bifurcation in society and in the way that COVID was. In the way that COVID was. Or if somebody says, it was strange being in the hospital during the pandemic. The media was talking about bodies piling up in the hallway and the hospital was so quiet. Somebody says, yeah, I was in summer 2021 for surgery. The place was dead quiet, probably because of all the fear mongering. Hospital staff doing choreographed dance routines on tiktok in the middle of the pandemic yes yes hanu says free domain member now i find your work priceless thank you only want to support more thank you thank you i appreciate.
[1:06:21] Yeah, I don't know. I mean, will there be more than one cause to autism? Yeah, probably. But I think that there will be a significant or overwhelming cause, and then there'll be tertiary or minor causes, higher risk and lower risk, I assume. But I think the answer to that will split the planet down the middle. And, you know, maybe that's part of the motivation.
[1:07:10] All right. Let's see what else do I have for you. What else do I have for you? If you have questions, of course, throw them in. Happy to hear. It's interesting that Wikipedia is, they're also sending letters out to Wikipedia saying, you know, you're supposed to be neutral in order to retain your charitable status. I'm not sure how neutral you really are. Again, what does this mean? Heather Hammer is going to come down. Seems unlikely, but. This is from World of Engineering. Engineers feed. Things proven to expand. Lifestyle. Exercise two and a half hours or more a week. Eat healthy. Eat less. Don't smoke. Don't drink too much alcohol.
[1:08:12] Get married. Get rich. Have pets. Live at high altitude. Have lots of sex. 350 orgasms a year is optimal for men. And actually, if you can fit them on one Sunday afternoon, so much the better. TBD for women.
[1:08:32] Yeah Spain, Portugal and France welcome to the last couple of chapters of Atlas Shrugged, now is this one of these things again, I don't know anyone like this so I don't know that this is true but, so So, less than 25% of Americans walk for more than 10 minutes continuously in a typical week. Right? Less than 25% of Americans walk for more than 10 minutes continuously in a typical week. Isn't that wild? What is it? Something just popped up on my phone. I had a day with 30,000 steps. And I think that was just assembling a piece of Ikea furniture but yeah I mean I try to get 10 to 15,000 steps in a day it's one of the reasons I don't do video for my call-ins and stuff is that I want to pace around and walk and all of that right but isn't that wild 10 minutes continuously in a typical week crazy.
[1:09:51] The, um, this wild too. So growth in real GDP per capita, this is the OECD countries, 2015 Q1 to 2024 Q3. So Ireland, 43%, Poland, 40.6%. The United States was 18.2%. The G7 averages 12.7%. New Zealand, 10.5%. And Canada, well, it's above Luxembourg that shrank just a little under 1%. Canada is below Mexico. So Canada's growth in real GDP per capita from 2015 to 2024, right, a decade of the liberals, right? Canada's growth in real GDP per capita was 1.7%. The whole time. 1.7%. I mean, Hungary was almost 30%. Slovenia, 27.2%. Greece, 18.5%. Canada, 1.7%. This is why politics is boring, right? If that doesn't motivate Canadians for a change, then what possibly could, right? It's been a dead decade. A dead decade.
[1:11:12] All right, get back to your questions and comments, otherwise I will inflict more on you. Do do do do all right, i would order some rates be higher in california than other states i presume because there's financial remuneration right, All right. I have not, I danced to the music of time. I've not, let me just, I'll copy that. I danced to the music of time. I mean, I love, I liked Room of the View. The movie, I think, is great. I liked Room of the View, the novel. I actually tried reading it again. I think it was last year or the year before, and it was like, eh, it's too anti-Christian.
[1:12:18] Do you think that autism could be related to the age of the mother? Well, I think that autism probably is related to both the age of the mother and of the father. When you made the awesome Eminem rap song six plus years ago, you mentioned it took you eight minutes. That is mind-blowing. Personally, I would love to hear a new one. You know what? That's interesting. That's interesting. Yeah, I enjoyed doing that. I thought it was fun. I just sat down and penned it and recorded it in one take. I'm not saying it was any kind of musical genius stuff, but it was a lot of fun to make. And the fact that I used my daughter's candy necklace, light-up candy necklace, was fun.
[1:13:05] Yeah, I mean, are vaccines related to autism? I mean, certainly one of the things, two of the things, and correlation is not causation, of course, but it certainly is the case that, vaccines have gone through the roof you know 70, 80 or more and autism has gone through the roof again correlation is not causation so we have to be cautious and let the, let the experts do their work but my gosh can you imagine the amount of pressure, I cannot handle under pressure Can you imagine the amount of pressure that the researchers are going to be under who are trying to find the cause of autism?
[1:13:55] It's wild. They are probably going to be kind of in danger as a whole. You know, professionally, personally, whatever, right? overall bad health has gone through the roof yeah yeah i mean as the population dumbs down obesity goes up right obesity is inversely correlated to iq and this has been known for a long time why does it seem like hollywood is running out of ideas well hollywood has all these rules that they have to follow now in order to be under consideration for an oscar hollywood has to appeal to the world as a whole and the amount of money it costs to make and market a film now is and the hundreds of millions of dollars. So it has to go with known properties and not new stuff as a whole, right? As a whole.
[1:14:50] I have not read Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda. Yeah, I don't do Eastern philosophy. I really don't. I mean, I've tried. Khalil Kaprin. I've tried, but it does nothing for me. It's just self-indulgent hippie bullshit for the most part. And I'm sure there's exceptions. But I'm good old Northwestern European Anglo-Saxon philosophy. Maybe a little bit of Mediterranean stuff if it's older. But I don't do Eastern philosophy. I don't do Chinese philosophy much either. I've read some Lao Tzu and things like that. In fact, I think he's in my History of Philosophers series. Another great series you get. I would say it again. fredomain.com slash donate. And of course, fdrurail.com slash locals. And subscribe.com slash free domain sign up for those you get a 22-part series history of philosophy which is great uh let's see here, have you read a princess of mars or anything else by edgar rice burroughs yeah i read some edgar rice burroughs when i was in my late single digits yeah for sure.
[1:16:10] Since the general health decline in the western world we have changed our diets as someone and the amount it's processed drastically and medications have increased and changed drastically physical activity rates have declined decreased vaccine yeah vaccine schedules have increased yeah yeah it's um i don't know how people go through life sick i mean some people of course It's just, you know, bad luck genetics or whatever, right?
[1:16:33] But, you know, 70%, 75% of health issues are lifestyle choices or the result of lifestyle choices. So I don't know. I mean, again, some people get sick through no fault of their own. I have massive sympathy for that. I don't know how people go through life sick. I just, like, unwell, sick and all of that. All right. All right.
[1:17:03] Do you enjoy Westerns? What is your favourite movie genre? I've never particularly enjoyed Westerns. Yeah, I don't particularly enjoy Westerns. What is it? I watched High Noon with my daughter last year. Unforgiven was okay. To me it was kind of funny that they had a Western talking about masturbation. No, i've never particularly enjoyed uh westerns they are too uh for me predictable and repetitive um, like i've never played red dead redemption or any kind of western game that way so i mean i love the idea of a frontier oh man i was saying this to my daughter the other day like when i lived in dom mills we actually moved three times in the same apartment building as soon as a slightly larger apartment would would open up and i remember being on my balcony and to to the left there were just a bunch of trees. I mean, there was suburbs back there, but it was old suburbs, lots of trees. And I remember fantasizing that my apartment building was at the edge, and all of those trees, it was unexplored frontier. And I would love to dive into unexplored frontiers. Love it, love it. And of course, that was the West, right, and all of that. So...
[1:18:32] All right. Stef says someone, I'm currently facing a situation where my children split time between homes. I do strive to practice peaceful parenting, but their mother and her husband take a more authoritarian and punitive approach. Any advice on how to help the kiddos navigate that environment? The mom operated from a because I said so type point of view, and the husband will mince them apart with questions, no real still manning or empathy in his approach. Yeah, philosophy is about telling the truth and once you're in a divorce situation you can't tell the truth, so i your philosophy i mean you you're i'm afraid you're beyond the reach and help of philosophy that doesn't mean you can't do things better or worse but just as a whole um once you're in a situation where you can't you can't tell your kids well the way that your mom and your stepdad are raising you is not right right that they should not be that aggressive they should not be that authoritarian, they should not be that dismissive, they should be empathetic, they should listen, they should respect you and negotiate with you, right? You can't say that, right? Because if you say that, what happens? Well, your kids go over there and they say, well, dad says this and dad says that, and then you get the call and the, right? And so you're not in a situation, where you can tell the truth.
[1:20:01] So you just have to, I mean, bite your tongue and do the best that you can with the time that you have with them and cross your fingers. I don't know what else really you can do. And I've talked to a lot of divorce people over the years. Doesn't mean my answer is any kind of absolute, of course, right? But, wow.
[1:20:25] That's bad. Do you know that China's GDP is estimated as larger than America's GDP? And America's GDP is larger than all of Europe's GDP, like the 27 member states. The Chinese China's economy is about 1.23 times larger than the US economy and roughly 1.6 times larger than the EU's economy when measured by purchasing power parity. So they're kind of winning at the market, right? Which is weird because they seem to have a bit of a monoculture. It's not what we've been told. I may stream the new Doom. I might stream the new Doom. Doom is the one game I cannot let pass. I'm glad that they only come out once every three or four years because I'll dive in, man. I will dive in. I will lock in, as my daughter says. Locked in And crashing out.
[1:21:48] All right. Other questions, comments? What would a non-repetitive Western be like? Well, asking me to sort of reinvent a genre. People go to Westerns in the same reason that women pick up Harlequin Romances is because there's a certain amount of predictability, right?
[1:22:16] This time, whatever Trump is doing, we don't feel any improvements in the economy. Gas is still expensive. Yeah, sorry, this is to the divorced dad. I mean, I hope that gives you some comfort. Like, you do not have a magic wand that you can waive that gives you control and authority in the situation because of the divorce and all of that. So just do the best you can with the kids. When they get older, you can tell them the truth as best you can or if it's right and appropriate. So, but there's no, um, I hope that gives you some, um, freedom from feeling bad about stuff because you just don't have, you just don't have the sort of authority. And so you just do the best you can, right? Do the best you can with the time you have with the kids and hope that's going to be enough. I'm sure it will be. Uh, so yeah, whatever Trump is doing, we don't feel any improvements to the economy, gas is still expensive. Well, that's because, and I don't know that Trump would do this, or, I mean, this is why I'm not in politics, is what I would do, is I would, you know, make something like the following speech to the population, which is.
[1:23:35] You greedy, greedy bastards, look at all the national debt you've run up, look at all the unfunded liabilities. You have unfunded liabilities that are eight times the size of the entire economy.
[1:23:51] No, bad advice, in my view. Bad advice. Somebody says, sorry, let me just bounce back for a sec. Your kids will respect you more if you're honest and open with them. If the other party calls and complains, you can hang up the phone. No, no, no. Come on. Come on. I mean, there's a whole bunch of legal stuff that's involved in all of this. You can't just hang up the phone. I mean if you you know you piss off your um your ex and her new husband enough things could get very unpleasant so you know it's that's that's i assume i assume you know and i say this with respect and i appreciate your feedback but i assume you've not been in a situation like this but if you have and i've known people like this who've had difficult exes and if they're honest, it has it can have really really negative effects not just emotionally or psychologically or whatever but could be legally right so you're not in a situation of voluntary conversation when you have exes and courts and lawyers and agreements and all of that so, you know what if she gets mad and says oh he's causing parental alienation and i'm going for sole custody i'm not saying she would and i'm no lawyer it's not a legal advice situation but yeah just I'll just tell the truth and everything will be fine I don't think so necessarily.
[1:25:19] So, yeah, the speech would be something like, you know, it's time to pay the bills. Like, you've run up the debt, you've run up the credit cards, and now it's time to pay the bills. And you're going to have to take some sacrifices. You're going to have to tighten your belts. You, you know, boomers, you might be down from three to two cruises a year. You might not be able to go and visit your nephews in Vegas three times a year. Like, you're going to have to tighten your belts. We have to sacrifice. You know, there have been First World War sacrifices. There were sacrifices in the Great Depression, Second World War sacrifices, the young sacrifice for Vietnam, you know, Korea. There's been a lot of sacrifices over the course. And we're out of habit of sacrifices.
[1:26:02] We are indulgent. You are indulgent. I'm part of this as well, I'm sure, if I was in charge, right? But we have lost the capacity for self-sacrifice. and as a result of losing the capacity for self-sacrifice, sacrifice is shifting to the innocent and the young. The innocent and the young who cannot afford housing, who cannot afford kids, who cannot afford a decent education, who cannot afford healthcare. We have shifted because we will not make any sacrifices ourself as the older generation, as the generation who voted these things in and is in charge. We have absolutely let down the next generation through our greed and our vanity. We have not balanced out any solutions.
[1:26:53] We have simply said, what we want is the right thing to do and to help with the consequences. We want to cheer on war. We want to help all the poor. We want all this foreign aid. We want to free health care to this, that, and the other. And we have not paid for it at all.
[1:27:18] And is it fair to demand that the kids pay the bills for your self-indulgence? Should your debts be paid by you? Is it the responsibility of people who are 20 years old that there is the national debt? And unfunded liabilities the size that it is, right? I mean, what is it at now? What is it at? Yeah, almost $37 trillion, right? Almost $37 trillion.
[1:28:15] So unfunded debt and interest what is that 103 trillion does it really matter at this point does it really matter, so you can go to usdebtclot.org for numbers that will scour your soul your very soul I'm telling you, so i would put out a big call for sacrifice it's not the fault of the young can't blame the young we let the schools go to shit we let the infrastructure go to shit, we locked kids at home for a year or more causing you know permanent damage to their, iqs or maybe permanent damage certainly at least temporary so far damage to their iqs and educational attainments we took away the concept of meritocracy and replaced it with feel-good, egalitarianism we didn't fight to retain the values of our civilization but let direct enemies take over the education of the young was a malcolm x quote only a fool will let his enemy educate his children?
[1:29:28] Where's your sacrifice? You know, you're supposed to, as an older person, you're supposed to plant trees whose shade you will never see, so that your children have shelter from the sun. And what have you done? What have you done? Right? Who is responsible for the debt? Who is responsible for the unfunded liabilities? Is it people in their 60s or people in their teens? Take some responsibility. So you're going to have to sacrifice. You know, just as, you know, you want to go out to a party, but you've got a big exam on Monday, so you stay home and you study. You've got to sacrifice. You want to sit and eat cheesecake, but you instead pick up some celery and go to the gym. You've got to sacrifice. You run up a big debt, you've got to live lean, tighten your belt, got to sacrifice, pay off the debt. You've overeaten, you've got to cut back, you've got to sacrifice, you must, you must sacrifice. Because if you don't sacrifice $1, the young have to sacrifice everything, right? If you won't give up some of these crazy pensions, if you won't give up all this, quote, free healthcare, which is all paid for by the young, because you wanted the government to pay for everyone's pension, but you didn't want to pay the taxes necessary for it, so they just pillaged it all and all that's left in the social security vault is a bunch of dusty treasury IOUs.
[1:30:58] Where's your sacrifice? All you've done, like vampires, is pillage the young for the sake of that which is unsustainable, which is your age.
[1:31:15] And if you won't sacrifice anything, why should the young care about you at all? They're not your livestock to be consumed at will. And your greed is in fact killing the birth rate because the young people can't get ahead, they can't get savings, they can't get even apartments sometimes. Like a third of people in their 20s are still living at home. They can't get their life started. They're buried under debt because it turns out You had a whole bunch of propaganda telling them to go to university because university was better when you were younger. You didn't check into it since. So you had all your kids go to university, putting them in debt. They've got no skills. They can't get jobs. You cheered on a system that openly discriminated on the basis of race and sex, while claiming that anti-racism and anti-sexism were your ideals. Who is responsible? Who is responsible for the world that is? People in their 70s or people who are 20? Who's responsible?
[1:32:29] Now, would the boomers make the sacrifices? Almost certainly not. Almost certainly not. But, but, removing the obligation between the generations if it doesn't flow from the top down it can't flow from the bottom up that's like expecting a waterfall to run upwards.
[1:33:02] Somebody says, my mom actually apologized for pushing me to go to college. She sees now how much of a waste it is. Okay. Has she paid back your tuition? How to deal with the anger of seeing all of these truths? Talk to the older people in your life. Talk to the older people in your life. Where are your sacrifices? Who is responsible for the world that is? Who is responsible. It's not the young. Can't be the young. Can't be the young. It has to be the old. You know, somebody who's 75 has been voting, for 55 years or more. Somebody who's 20 may not have voted at all in anything presidential. He may be in between the cycle, right?
[1:34:04] Or she plans to refund your college tuition when she sells the house that's something but I don't understand why doesn't she give you the house that's what I don't understand about boomers, give your kids the house what's the matter with you I mean there's so many boomers out there who were just they seem to be so proud that they're just going to give all their money away to charity, it's repulsive.
[1:34:44] Peacefulparenting.com Very true. Peacefulparenting.com, Would be great if Stef wrote a would be great, sorry, if Stef wrote a step-by-step guide to rebuilding civilization. Well, my novel, The Future, is essential reading for that. That's my utopia. And not an irrational utopia, but just an extrapolation of the voluntary principles we all have in our relationships. You can get it at freedomain.com slash books.
[1:35:33] All right. Somebody says, the house has a reverse mortgage. It's too rural. I don't want to live there. She would let me keep some of the land, but I don't want to live out there. Okay. Well, she could give you the land and you could figure out how to sell it. Give you the property and you could figure out how to sell it. I mean, in general, you know, not to sound, well, whatever, right? But in general, if I had a choice between a male selling something that was competitive and a female selling something that was competitive, I'd probably go a little bit more to the male.
[1:36:13] So as far as the anger goes, talk to people. Talk to the elderly in your life. Right? Look at the world they inherited. Look at the world you're inheriting. And ask them what their responsibility is for that. What is their responsibility? It seems to me quite likely that they're in general going to say, well, we have no responsibility. So they gave you all this responsibility when you were a kid, but now for them, there's no responsibility. All right. All right. Enough. Enough boomer baiting.
[1:37:08] Let's see here. Somebody asked, 2315 people, do you wish people hit on you more or less? 92% of men said they wish they were approached more. But even among women, 69% wish they were hit on more. Shoot your shot, folks. Shoot your shot. Yeah, women want to be hit on more. Oh, but only by the right guys. It's like the guys are the confident guys, right? All right, let's see here. What core competencies are required before it is reasonable for someone to be confident about their own self-efficacy in the world? When should one specialize versus generalized in their life-learning journey to avoid an over-inflated sense of one's capacities. Sorry, do you not, I mean, I mean, are you asking me, how do we measure, how do we measure our value in the world? Well, the two things that matter the most in the world is, love and work if you can get love and work right and of course you know health and all of that right but if you can get love and work right that's about as good as you're going to get, about as good as you're going to get now.
[1:38:36] You are trying to look within. How can I be confident about the value that I bring into the world? Put it out in the fucking marketplace. That's all. Freedepende.com slash donate. Put it out in the marketplace. It's what matters. What can you earn? What are people willing to pay you? It's not introspection. How do I know if my art is good enough? How do I know if my art has value? People give you money for it. I mean, you can come up with existential value, but that's just, you know, ooky-cookie masturbation. What matters is, what are people willing to pay for it? How do I know the value of this old couch? Try and sell it. Seriously, try and sell it. And i was talking to a guy the other day who was you know very very picky right and i'm like okay how many women have approached you over the course of your life right and it may not be that women approach you but you know women put out the signals you asked them out and they say yes right.
[1:39:52] An overinflated sense of one's capacities you just put it out in the market test Now, the market test isn't the only test, I get that, but it's the easiest one, and it's the most objective one. And whenever it comes to judging yourself, you want to put yourself in as objective an arena as humanly possible, right?
[1:40:08] As objective an arena as humanly, because you can talk yourself into or out of anything. Oh, I'm a great philosopher. Oh, I've made bad mistakes. Oh, it's good. Oh, it's bad. Oh, I'm wise. Oh, I'm not. It depends on whether you ate a good or bad potato yesterday and whether you need to pass wind or not. Jesus, I mean, it's all so subjective.
[1:40:31] Am I a good businessman? Well, do people want to buy your product or service? If yes, then probably are, right? How do I know if I'm a good singer? Well, do people pay you to start or stop? I mean, to God's sakes, just go to a karaoke bar and see if you get applause. It's not complicated. Just try. Try stuff. I don't know how much I'm worth as a person. I don't know that either. But you can try and get people to pay you for stuff, and you can try and get people to go on dates with you.
[1:41:18] Right? Should the government support art? No, of course not. Yeah, you judge yourself by objective metrics, right? Am I a fast runner? Time yourself. Right? Do I write good songs? Well, go play at an open mic. Go play at a cafe or something, right? See if people like what you're doing. Put stuff out and, right? What's it? Billie Eilish got her start with something eyes. I can't remember. Angel Eyes or, no, that's Angel Eyes. That's an old song from the Nick Cage movie. It was a very old song from Sinatra. Ocean Eyes. There we go. She just, she and her brother, Phineas, Phineas put together this song. They put it out there and, you know, kind of blew up from there. I mean, Justin Bieber, before they handed him over to all of these predatory rappers. And I did a show many years ago, gosh, probably 10 years ago, showing my deep sympathy for Justin Bieber, because it was pretty easy to see that he was just going to go down a very black path that was going to just wreck him as a human being. And fortunately.
[1:42:41] So, I mean, Justin Bieber just put out songs on YouTube and people liked him. And he's obviously a great singer and great entertainer, or at least he was. I think he's pretty broken now. Rough, man. Rough. Very rough. So, if you have doubts, put them out in the marketplace, right? I thought, I thought I was pretty good at philosophy, particularly taking abstract principles and applying them to people's actual lived lives.
[1:43:27] So what did I do? Did I just sit there and say, well, I think I'm good? No, I put it out in the marketplace and thousands of people have called me over the last 20 years to talk about philosophy, uh bieber yeah it's uh show is 25 25.99 how long ago was that, my god, how long ago can i look that up, 2014. Yeah, so 11 years ago. I said 10. It's 11, right? Yeah. It's rough.
[1:44:22] All right, yeah just you know if if um if you want to be picky right so so this is my advice when it comes to dating so when it comes to dating and this is true for men for women i think it's a lot of men here. So for men, we're like, what do I like? You know, do I find this woman attractive? Is she appealing? Is she sexy? Is she this? And that's fine. Nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with being sexy. If there was, I'd be all wrong. But you have to look at how the market looks at you, right? So you can say, well, I want a job that pays me $10,000 an hour and I only have to work for, you know, 12 hours a week and I get to choose my own job and office. And like, you can say all that, that's fine, whatever, right? But you also have to look at how a potential employer is going to view you, right? How does a potential employer view you? And...
[1:45:26] So when it comes to dating, you want to go out in the world and view yourself from the outside in, right?
[1:45:35] How do the women view me? Am I in demand? Do they want me? Do they like me? Am I appealing? Do I get dates? If not, you got to start being humble and changing stuff. You know if you just storm around saying i want a job that pays me ten thousand dollars an hour and i set all the terms yeah fine whatever right i'm sure some people can get that i mean jack nicholson made like million five million dollars off you know a week's worth on batman or something like that right and you have to look at how the employer views you otherwise vanity uh can really really mess you up right so rather than just saying what do i want in a woman you have to say how do women look to me oh sorry how do i look to women not right sorry not just how do women look to me but how do i look to women right not just what do i want out of a job but what does a potential employer how does he view me and what i'm bringing to the table so and and it's hard You know, when I first started the show, I mean, I spent 80% of my time just promoting it. There was no real social media back then. So I just had to go to like message boards and stuff like that and say, philosophy show, you should check it out. And, you know, I really feel and I felt and still feel like I have a huge amount to offer.
[1:47:04] But I got to put it to the test. Got to put it to the test. How many people want to talk to me? How many views am I getting? How many donations am I getting? I have to measure these things, otherwise I can talk myself, like most people, we can talk ourselves into or out of just about anything.
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[1:47:59] That don't disappear was fantastic oh thank you appreciate that fear of failure can be a real block to success yes that's true but it's an aristotelian mean you also don't want to have no fear of failure because otherwise you just keep going in things that don't work you have to have some fear of failure you can't just erase these things right try not to go i'm not saying you are, but this is general advice. Don't go from one extreme to the other, right? Ah, fear of failure is bad. Well, yes, but no fear of failure can also be bad, right? Feeling pain is bad, yes, but not feeling pain is also really bad, right?
[1:48:57] All right, let's see what we've got here.
[1:49:02] Yeah, I mean, when I was younger, I was always cast in the lead in my university plays, and I was like the best, whatever, right, the best actor in my university, and then I went to theater school. I was kind of middle of the pack, and all of that went, and I was like, I really feel like I could be really great at something. If it's not going to be acting, I'm going to quit. And I remember saying to myself, like, if I'm a really good actor, then I should at least get callbacks for every, and I said, I'm going to do this until I don't get any callback. From an audition, right? Now, I know, again, some people, they keep going and it works out for them, but for a lot of people, they keep going and it really doesn't work out for them at all. So, yeah, I remember when I was younger, I was like, okay, so if I am a really good actor, then I should at least get callbacks. Maybe I don't get the final roles. And I remember the first time that I did an audition, I didn't even get a callback. I'm like, nope, then I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it because I really had, I had a real deep feeling that I could do something really well. I know it sounds odd I just had to keep casting about I really had a deep feeling I knew I could do something really well, wasn't singing I know that was it acting, it was okay it was okay I was decent I mean the theatre school in Canada takes 1% 16 out of 1600 applicants so I got into that so, top 1% of whatever right but that's you know but I and I was a good actor but I just.
[1:50:31] I really felt I could do something better academics, novel writing, poetry business world, coding, sales business management, something I always felt there's something I can do that's really good I don't know what it is and of course there was no career like this like what I'm doing here, there's no career.
[1:50:57] When I was coming up, I mean, I wrote a novel called The God of Atheists, you should really check it out, about a guy who talks on the internet, who does philosophy on the internet. But I wrote that in the 90s, like long before it was even remotely possible to do it. So I guess I programmed myself into the possibility. But for me, I was good at academics. I was a good businessman. I was a good actor, but I wasn't great at these things. I was good. I was good. I was good. You know, I probably could have had a reasonable career as a mid-tier actor. Academics less likely because, although even acting is pretty ideological these days, but it was less likely that I could do that in the academic world because it was really riddled with hard leftists.
[1:52:00] But I really, I really felt there was something out there that I could do really well. And all I had to do was wait for the technology to catch up. And then the moment that it was possible, I jumped, I jumped at it. The moment that it was possible. And I had something of value to say, because I'd really worked things through the manifestos and stuff like that.
[1:52:26] So, if I had not feared failure, I would have had a less exciting career. It certainly has been exciting. I'll say that for sure. But if I had less of a fear of failure, I probably would have continued on with things that I could only be mid at, as opposed to philosophy, which I think I'm very good at. This i mean whether you agree or not i it's it's it's the best that i can do i'm a better at philosophy than i am at acting i'm better at philosophy than i am at academics i'm better at philosophy than i am at novels i'm better at philosophy than i am at poetry or plays or academia or business or like and i was good at those things but and also there was a um a metric for me which is sorry i don't know if this is personal or interesting to you but you know maybe it helps you make decisions too. There was a metric for me as well, which is, I think I'm a really, I think I'm a really good novelist. I think I love writing novels. I love the characters and I'm just in it. I'm in that process again. I'm writing again and I love it. And of course, does the world need another novelist? Does the world need another academic? Does the world need another businessman or software executive or whatever, tech visionary, right? Does the world need these things?
[1:53:50] Sure, yeah, I mean, to some degree. But does the world need a good moral philosopher more than it needs these other things?
[1:53:58] Well, indisputably so. Like, of course, of course.
[1:54:10] I mean, really, it's what the world needs the most is moral philosophy, not these other things. So even if I had been as good or maybe even better at other things, I think I would have settled on this as the most important thing that I could do for the world. Because it's been a long time since we had a really good moral philosopher around, and the world does kind of desperately need it more than it needs another tech guy or another academic guy or whatever, right?
[1:54:35] Somebody says, there's a condition called congenital insensitivity to pain. Patients beat up and destroy their joints. Oh, yeah, for sure. Like Thomas Covenant from the Lord Fowl's Bane series, Stephen R. Donaldson had to do VSE, for sure, Search of Extremities, to make sure he hadn't hurt himself. So, yeah, not being... I remember this when I was a kid, right? There was some, why do we feel pain? Well, imagine you're climbing a tree and bees are stinging your back, but you don't feel anything. Well, the poison overwhelms you, you fall out of the tree and die, right? So you've got to feel pain so that you can do things that are better and safer over time. All right, I think we got to the bottom. All right, listen, guys, thank you so much.
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