0:06 - Welcome to Your Wednesday Night
2:43 - The Hard Questions of Libertarianism
5:41 - The Impact of Technology on Employment
9:30 - Nostalgia for Old Technology
13:10 - The Reality of Obsolescence
14:59 - The Nature of Economic Coercion
19:01 - The Myth of Free Welfare
21:06 - The Perils of Propaganda
23:34 - Embracing Progress and Change
29:14 - Adult Responsibility in a Changing World
31:22 - Comments and Listener Engagement
36:07 - The Wish List Mentality
41:13 - The Dangers of Infinite Resources
45:45 - Understanding Economic Reality
49:29 - Navigating Relationships and Expectations
56:51 - The Illusion of Altruism
1:00:18 - The Consequences of Totalitarianism
1:05:37 - The Effects of Immigration on Society
1:09:09 - The Balance of Freedom and Control
1:13:01 - Closing Thoughts and Future Discussions
In this episode, we dive deep into the intricate relationship between technological advancement and employment, exploring how progress often renders certain skills obsolete while leading to both societal benefits and individual hardships. The conversation begins with a critical examination of the notion that as technology evolves, it removes job opportunities for those who don’t adapt. I address a listener’s comment reflecting a common frustration: the replacement of jobs due to emerging technologies, particularly focusing on the moral underpinnings of dependency on government welfare in such situations.
Throughout the episode, I draw upon personal anecdotes and stark contrasts from past experiences with technology, emphasizing the swift changes from rotary phones to today’s smartphones, and how this shift affects employment landscapes. I challenge listeners to confront the hypocrisy of demanding technological advancement while lamenting the loss of traditional jobs. By recounting my own journey of adapting to new technologies—from my early computing experiences to navigating modern advancements—I underscore the necessity of continual learning in the face of evolving professional environments.
The discussion progresses into the broader implications of a welfare state, positing that a reliance on government support can create an unhealthy dependence on systems that might ultimately stall personal growth and innovation. I suggest that choosing to embrace change, rather than resisting it, is crucial for both individual fulfillment and societal progress. It's a call to acknowledge that every individual choice we make, especially as consumers, contributes to shaping the job market and the economy.
Engaging with the philosophy behind economic realities, I dissect naive views towards capitalism and the dynamics of supply and demand. I emphasize that addressing the fallout from technological advancements is not merely about blaming systems or external forces but recognizing one’s responsibility in navigating an evolving world. As I unpack these themes, I challenge listeners to reflect on their own positions and choices in relation to the rapid pace of innovation that defines our current age.
I wrap up the episode by motivating individuals to take ownership of their professional paths and to actively seek opportunities for growth. The message is clear: adapt or be left behind, and embrace the evolution of technology as a catalyst for both personal and societal advancement.
[0:00] Good evening, good evening. We could do Peterson talking to Michael Saylor.
[0:07] Sailing, take me away. All right, so welcome to your Wednesday night evening. This year of our Socrates, 11th of June, 2025, I am, of course, keen and happy and overjoyed to take your questions and comments. Remember for donors we're putting out over the next couple of days my first conversations with an only fans worker we drill deep into questions and it's really quite something to see the backstory of this kind of situation it's really something to see and i hope that you will check it out which you can of course get by subscribing it's going out to subscribers i don't know if it'll ever make it to the main because it's like well as you could imagine fairly confrontational and spicy, but you can get that at fdrurail.com slash locals or at subscribestorail.com slash free demand. All right.
[1:07] Yes, it is a very interesting and powerful conversation. So I hope that you will check it out. All right. So somebody wrote, Silver Spider wrote, I really wish? Stefan would answer the hard questions on libertarianism.
[1:28] Yes, because Lord knows, over the last 42 years, 41 years, after the last 40 years, let's say, after the last 40 years, no, it's more than that. I got into philosophy when I was about 15, so it's 43 years. So after the last 43 years, over the last 43 years, funnily enough, I've never been asked, apparently, Any tough questions on libertarianism? I've never been confronted in live television or on the Joe Rogan show for being a terrible person and having all this stuff pulled out of context and thrown up on the screen and, oh, what about this thing? Oh, you were bad about this guy. I've never had to deal with any tough questions. Amazing, amazing. I've been one of the most controversial public figures in human history, at least in modern human history, but I've never had to answer any to have questions. It's kind of funny to people's experience. Anyway, so Silver Spider goes on to say, I really wish Stefan would answer the hard questions on libertarianism. Try to convince a person whose job gets replaced by a new technology that going on government welfare is coercion and that he should just learn a new way to survive in the economy or die.
[2:43] Being pushed out of an industry through no fault of your own, is coercion no matter how much UPB you spread on it.
[2:52] Now, obviously, obviously, this is not the...
[2:58] Most high IQ comment I've ever received, but sometimes we have to slum it with the cognitively challenged and try to meet them where they live. And I'm perfectly happy and willing to do that. All right, here we go. So, let us talk about this. So a job that gets replaced by a new technology.
[3:31] It's a little fucking rich honestly when people type on their 21st century lit up keyboards, navigating with their logitech laser mice you know i remember back in the day man you had to unscrew the bottom of the mouse and clean it out from time to time otherwise it just kind it stopped working. It used to drive me nuts with my Atari 520ST that half the time you have to thump the mouse and get it to work. Now these things work on air, clouds, thoughts. It's incredible. So people who are posting on a new platform, rumble.com, a new platform did not exist even a couple of years ago using their super fancy keyboard and mice, maybe even voice dictation. Maybe they talked into their phone and their phone translated it into English. Oh, I bet you they're also staring at a flicker-free flat screen TV. I remember when I was a kid, we had a TV that cost $10.
[4:28] And if you turned it too bright, it got all distorted. So you kind of had to, look at it like it was an old aquarium. And I remember trying to watch Wimbledon, because we were big tennis people back in the day and uh you couldn't you couldn't see you couldn't see anything it's like in the old tvs oh the golfer has hit the ball into a cloudy sky let's just wave the camera around and then oh there it is and you could you couldn't see you couldn't see smack, so i bet she's got a nice flat screen a nice flat screen monitor and my first computer ran at one megahertz well the first computer i bought was an atari 800 i think it ran at one megahertz, and this was player missile graphics and uh it had a cozy 8k of ram which i then later in a very sketchy parking lot interaction bought 32k of rang to bring it up to 40 and with 8k of ram you couldn't even go into graphics 8 with programming which is the highest level of graphics where you had to simulate colors by using alternate lines because the red and the blue went alternate lines on these crappy old TVs.
[5:41] I bet you he's not, I bet you he didn't mail this in to Rumble saying, well, on my 18th century vellum pad, I'm using the ass feather of an ostrich to write you this penmanship of outrage at all the new things in the world. No, he's embracing all the new things in the world. God almighty. People, people, people, this is not directed at you, or even Silver Spider in particular. Get your head out of your asses and look at what you're doing before you start criticizing the world. Just look at what you're doing and you will solve 90% of your philosophical, moral, or economic issues. Are you working on a very old computer? You are not. Are you working on a cathode ray tube monitor? You are not. You're working on a nice digital LED or OLED flat screen. Are you using a typewriter or a keyboard? Is your keyboard PS1 or is it USB?
[6:44] Do you have a 300 board dial-up modem? Back in my day, says Granny, the computers used to talk to each other by screaming over the phone lines. Okay, let's get you to bed.
[7:00] When you try to access the internet does everyone yell that you interrupted their phone call and it sounds like robots being tortured to death in an orgasm orgy nope but you got a nice fast, fiber optic or at least cell data plan right some satellite thing it's super fast right, i remember when it felt like it's my first my first modem was 300 board it was built into a little 386 SX-25 notebook I got from a place called Mighty Max for $1,400. Well, I blew my bank on that one, but I needed it for university. So... Back in the day, it felt like you could type a web page faster than it could download over a 300 board mode. And I remember when a friend of mine showed me his, it went 300 board, then it went to 2400, then I think 4800, then it was 9600, then it was 14.4, and it topped out at 28.8, which I think used some kind of freaky reverse Brazilian butt lift compression algorithms to get more data over the phone lines. And i remember very clearly having a phone line internet oh quick question do you have a victrola.
[8:21] Do you know the phrase put a sock in it which means be quiet so the original victrollas where the needle and the amplification was all built in together they didn't really have volume control so if you wanted less volume from your music you took a sock and you put it in the, big seashell speaker put a sock in it refers to make things quieter because of that, do you still have one of those oh perhaps you hire local musicians to come and perform versions of songs that you like or or have you done the modern business thing because eventually even big business learns right originally there was torrance and there was um napster and uh.
[9:03] The record companies and the movie companies resisted that like crazy, and then eventually the case was made, as it will be with Bitcoin, the case was made that people don't actually want to have songs, they just want access to songs. They don't want to own songs, they just want access to songs. And thus, the great and eternal rip-off of the artist's modern streaming service was created. Do you stream your songs, or do you still have records? Do you still have a CD sleeve?
[9:30] Go ask your grandparents these days. so you like all the new stuff do you still have a rotary dial telephone, oh quick question do you drive stick shift do you know how to drive stick shift do you even know what the hell i'm talking about i bet you don't so you put massive numbers of people out of work because you want new and better stuff man just look at what you're doing do you like new stuff or old stuff do you like faster stuff or slower stuff do you like stuff that's more visually rich or more visually barren my very first computer i ever took home from the down mills collegiate institute was a 2k pet computer with a built-in crt screen that displayed no graphics whatsoever i remember programming missile command using only ascii text.
[10:16] It could not do any graphics when the atari came along and you could do graphics yeah commodore 64 bytes but the atari was cool so and the atari s s20 was great atari 520 st was magnificent. It was the one, the book I wrote my first novel on that. And then I ended up trading it in to get, I traded, I sold it because it was $950 to get a hard drive for it. And I was sick and tired of the floppies always failing because they did. And I put them right on the fridge there with the magnets. They would mysteriously fail. So a friend of mine sold me his 286 computer for 800 bucks. So I made 150 on the transaction overall, but I don't use that computer anymore. I don't. I mean, I do my call-ins on a computer that's eight years old now. I probably need to replace it because the battery is dying like Steve Gutenberg's career. So you all like new stuff. You like the new stuff. You want the shiny new stuff. Well, what about all the workers who were working on the old stuff? What about all the people who made the cathode ray tube big ass Brazilian butt lift monitors. What about then? What about the people who are really good at making rotary dial telephones? What about all the people who were really fantastic and expert and quick at assembling 28.8 modems?
[11:39] Quick question. What about all the people who were experts at running film projectors? I mean, when I was a kid, every now and then, the film would freeze, and then the light would burn through, and just burn through the whole thing. That's all gone. It's all digital now, right? Oh, quick question. What about the local roaming itinerant—I should be able to say that word, shouldn't I? What about the local roaming itinerant actress who used to go from town to town doing morality plays on Loving Jesus? and avoiding hell. What about them? Have they been replaced.
[12:14] By digital streaming services? What about the people who are really good at making VHS tapes? That's all gone. All the people who invested in manufacturing and Betamax VHS, laser discs, and then DVDs, and then Blu-ray. Now that's all gone, man. Don't you care? So I just, when somebody's typing on the very latest technology on a very new website using the latest keyboards, mouse, internet connection, monitor, computer, you name it. And they're like, new technology displaces people. Well, then stop using it. Shut up and stop using it. But if you're going to use it, then don't complain that it displaces people because it's not the technology that's displacing people. It's you. You are displacing people. By choosing new technology, You are rendering people's skills abso-frack-and-lutely obsolete.
[13:10] Every time you upgrade, every time you choose something new, every time you let a prior technology fall by the wayside, like Steve Gutenberg's career, you are wrecking the skills of workers and you are throwing them in the trash heap of history.
[13:33] So look at what you're doing before you criticize the world so he says try to convince a person whose job gets replaced by a new technology which you're using that going on government welfare is coercion and that he should just learn a new way to survive in the economy or die so, Oh, my gosh. It's the strangest thing in the known universe, to me. I'm not saying objectively. It's the strangest thing in the known universe that people get angry at me about basic facts of reality. You know, Stef, I tried to swim like a fish. I put fins on my back. I gulped in air. I drew gills on my neck. And I tried to swim like a fish, Stef. And I almost drowned. That's your fault.
[14:36] You know, people need air to live, Stef. That's your fault. You know, people require productivity in order to consume. Somebody's got to make food in order for you to eat it. And Stef, that's your fault. Or even if we exclude you from the equation, you bald bastard.
[14:59] It's the fault of the system. The system that you advocate for. Because you recognize that in order to consume, you or someone else has to produce. In order for there to be a house, someone has to actually build it. In order for there to be water, somebody's got to provide it. Electricity, same. Because in order to consume, you or someone has to produce. That's a deep intergalactic cosmic unfairness, Stef, that you and your selfish capitalist heart are just inflicting on people. Stop inflicting reality on people. You're oppressing people because they need air and can't swim underwater like gills or mermaids. You bastard. Stef. My third cousin jumped from a high wall, fell, twisted his ankle.
[15:59] I guess under your system, you have to not jump from a high wall. Otherwise, you're going to twist your ankle. You're the one, Stef. It's your system. Gravityism. Gravityism is inflicting gravity on people, Stef. You matter pull bastard. You're oppressing people by having them viciously attracted to great mass, whether we're talking the earth or Kim Kardashian's butt. It is being drawn to these great masses that is oppressive, and it's your system of gravityism, Stef, that is making people fall.
[16:45] Yes, it is a shocking fact that in order to consume, something has to be produced. Why don't houses grow on trees? Well, they kind of do, I guess, in a way. Wood grows on trees, or wood is trees, and you can make a house out of wood, but someone's got to do it, right? Stef, I'll tell you one last thing, man. The basic fact fishalism right fishalism is the vicious doctrine that fish, don't choose to jump out of the water into your fry pan turn themselves over until they're a nice golden brown wait till they cool and then jump into your mouth and then do the chewing for you with their little fins flapping your gums up and down and then they slither down your throat, the fact under fishism that you have to go out. You have to go out with a goddamn line and a hook to bait. And you might not even get any fish, man. Sometimes your big bald head scares them away because they think the moon is crashing into the earth. Big, giant, pink, knee-shaped moon. And they flee to the depths.
[18:06] So the fact that people have to go and fish And get the fish up from the depths, Walk them over to the fry pan, put them in, Debone them, turn them over And then eat them, That's just Fish is a man Under my system They would just teleport into your belly So the fact that you make people go To the lake, to the water, to the sea, And cast their lines and use their nets Just to hope to get fish You bastard, why would you submit People to that, why would you subject people to that Horror, Well, the fish don't jump out of the lake into your pan and into your mouth, and they don't use the little fins to make your gums chew. That's just reality.
[19:02] So he says that if your existing skills turn obsolete, you have to learn new skills or die. You have to find some other way to produce things or you die. Is he laying that upon me or the free market? That's wild.
[19:23] That's wild. Basic fucking facts of biology are now laid at the feet of capitalism as if it's a grave injustice. Yes, it's really quite a shock. You who are clearly in your mom's basement being fed chicken tendies and hamburger helper. Yeah, it is a fact that in order to consume, you have to produce. Yeah, it certainly is true. Resources don't magically teleport into your belly. The water doesn't do it. Any other liquid doesn't do it. Jolt cola doesn't do it. Fish don't do it. Chicken tendies don't do it. If you want chicken tendies, you know, somebody's going to have to have some chickens and then kill some chickens and slice up some chickens and package some chickens and ship it. All of that's going to have to happen. So you have to produce in order to consume, if you don't want to produce and other people don't want to produce for you, you're kind of in trouble. But the fact that human beings require calories and air and water, to lay that at the feet of an economic system is abso-freaking-lutely incomprehensible to me.
[20:43] You know, it's true, I'm half Irish and half German. That's right. Half Irish and half German. But it's the capitalist system that causes me to get sunburned after a winter of no sun. That's sunism.
[21:07] It's just a conspiracy, you know? sunism is the doctrine that causes the sun to give me sunburns just so these evil sunist capitalists can sell me, sunscreen one of the only unlocked goods in stores these days.
[21:35] How do you know when somebody is completely propagandized and hasn't thought about a goddamn thing in their entire innocent smooth-brained life, just think about what you're doing i refuse to be a hypocrite i like new stuff i've had to learn new skills over the course of my life on a regular basis. Yes, yes, yes. I started off, I don't know, I'm going to bore you by going through the list of all of the occupations that I've had over the course of my life, but suffice to say, I've had to learn a lot of new stuff over the course of my life. I mean, even when I was a waiter, stuff went from manual to automated in terms of digital. I had to learn all that sort of stuff, right? I had to learn dangerous new technology to go panning for gold. I, of course, in the computer field, I had to learn a bunch of new skills to be an actor and a writer. And I took Canada's premier writing course and did very well. I had to learn, of course, new technology all the time. When I was a chief technical officer and head of the research and development, I had to learn sales skills. And I had to learn podcasting, I had to look at all of this stuff, right? Public speaking. I took classes in improv and comedy so that I could be a little funny from time to time, I think, perhaps.
[22:56] If you don't want to learn new skills, you can go to some place like Sub-Saharan Africa. Or, here's another thing, if you don't want to learn new skills, you can join the Pygmies. I mean, they'll probably worship you as a knee-high to a grasshopper god for them, but you just go to the pygneys. They've been doing the same shit for 40,000 years. You'll learn how to hunt with a rickety bow, and you'll learn how to climb a tree with rope between your legs, and you'll learn how to get fruit, and that's it, man. You won't have to learn anything new.
[23:34] So it's fine. Oh, you want to stay in the modern economy where things progress and you get better medical treatments and you get better technology and you get better cars and you get safer, you name it, right? Oh, you want all that? Well, then you got to accept a little fucking progress, you know? And progress means obsolescence.
[23:55] Otherwise, we would be doing what I did way back in the day when I wrote my manifesto. You can get that at freedomainnft.com. It's an NFT. See, when I wrote my manifesto, when I was 23, I put an ad out. Anybody who wanted to get it, I would mail it to them, and I mailed it to people, and I had a dozen people I was going back and forth with by mail, arguing and refining the arguments. That's how we did it back in the day. It was not super efficient. Now you can just post it on a forum and get comments.
[24:30] So, when people don't start with the empiricism of what they're actually doing in the world, when people don't start with the empiricism of what they're actually doing, I don't care what they say. I literally, this, where do you even start?
[24:47] Going on government welfare is coercion. Well, yeah, government welfare is coercion, yeah, no question. And you should just learn a new way to survive the economy or die. Like, I'm inflicting death on him if he doesn't produce. Right you can't breathe underwater somebody goes to try and breathe underwater and they die and it's like that's on you Stef it's like well being pushed out of an industry through no fault of your own well and it's just a sophistic language right the people who were really good at making rotary dial telephones were they pushed out of their industry nope nobody pushed them just people didn't want to buy from them. People didn't want to buy from them. It's like if you talk, if you end up gaining 100 pounds, like you go from 200 pounds to 300 pounds, and nobody wants to date you. So I've been pushed out of the dating market. Nope. Just nobody wants to date you. Right? Being pushed out of an industry through no fault of your own.
[25:53] But it's everyone's fault that people are pushed out of industries. Because everybody wants the new stuff nobody has a rotary dial phone ever anymore nobody, you know my aunt does i'm just like in practical terms so if you want to upgrade stuff, and you do i mean i'm talking from the 80s or the 1880s or the 1680s if you want go join the amish they don't have to learn a lot of new skills other than dealing with, regulatory agencies these days. So, through no fault of your own, I have no sympathy for people in decaying industries if they have upgraded their stuff. Hey, quick question. Do you think Benjamin Franklin had access to air conditioning? No. Do you know that, I mean, what about the slave fans, the people who had the big palm fronds and they would fan the emperors and the kings and the queens in the hot climates, right?
[26:57] Where are their jobs? Oh, do you prefer a table fan? Oh, do you prefer air conditioning? So you upgrade. So you've made all of the people who made fans, I mean, there are still people who use fans, of course, but all the people who made fans, well, their jobs was diminished. What about all the people who used to shovel the shit that came out of the ass end of horses and the front end of Gavin Newsom? What about all of those people? They lost their jobs when America and the West switch to cars. Yeah, but everyone wants to upgrade. And when you upgrade, you make other people's skills obsolete. What do you mean through no fault of your own?
[27:37] Go and get leeches instead of medical treatment and then talk to me. I mean, what about all the leech merchants? They all used to, the plague doctors with the leeches, they used to go and attach leeches to people. And I know I'm going to get that email of people saying, well, you know, it's very true that leeches are, in fact, a positive treatment. Yeah, okay. What about all the people who used to write books about the four humors and how the balance of humors is what made you? They don't have any market anymore. Anyway, being pushed out of an industry through no fault of your own. That's a child's perspective, right? So a child's perspective, and I sympathize and understand this with regards to children, a child's perspective is this, that stuff happens to you through no fault of your own, right? I was moved from Ireland to England, to Canada, to Africa, back to Canada. I didn't choose any of that. I didn't choose any of it. So as a kid, stuff just happens to you. As an adult, guess what, sunshine? You make some fucking choices. You make choices. Things don't just happen to you as an adult.
[28:47] Industries don't die like that. They fade. They diminish. You have usually years to learn new skills. Years to learn new skills. And you learned the skills for the existing industry, so you just learned skills for the new industry. What's wrong with that? It's good for the brain. Good for the brain to learn new things. Helps stave off brain decay, I think.
[29:15] So just learn some new shit. I mean, people do it all the time. When I was a kid, my brother used to get so mad at me about this. I had this knack. So you had 13 channels on the TV and you had a dial, but you'd turn, right? And you'd go from channel 11 and you never got all the channels because until cable came along, you just tried to get things with a, I was so annoyed. Here's another skill that I learned. I learned how to get an antenna to pick up particular stations well. And sometimes you'd be touching it and you'd get a clear signal you'd let go of it it would get snowy just hold it i can't hold it for the whole movie anyway so i was pretty good at that but i used to turn the channel i'd go from channel 11 say to channel 4 i'd just go and stop i would go, and my brother always wanted to you're gonna break it stop i just i was very good at that I was very good at that um so.
[30:11] All these skills all the skills people you know I remember when my friend first got a long cable that went to a little pad which you could change channels on by pushing a button magic magic it was the old uh the 70s channel changer was just waving your kid to go do it people learned how to do all of that stuff. They learned how to set up Teledon. They learned how to set up modems. They learned how to log on to the internet. They learned how to use a mouse. People learn new stuff all the time, all the time. It's fine for them to learn new stuff because the only alternative is massive decay and then the eventual collapse of the economy because other economies are going to continue to advance and progress, right? So all the smart people are going to go there and all the dummies are going to get left behind. So if you don't have any progress, right, then the smart people leave to places where there is progress and the dumb people run out of stuff because in order to have stuff you need smart people free domain.com slash donate by the way if you want to consume without producing without trading that's not particularly ideal from a moral standpoint so if you could help out the show free right here on the app or, freedom.com slash donate i really would appreciate it so.
[31:23] All right thank you for your indulgence lord knows i never use too many analogies never, never all right let me just get to your let me just get to your comments.
[31:43] All right let's go let's go.
[31:50] Uh deep questions like do you have to wear a fedora as an atheist or do you have to smoke and drink to be a philosopher because that's the only thing he ever got asked yeah yeah for sure, buggy wick man buggy whip manufacturer yes that's right what was the tongue twisters red lorry yellow lorry red lorry yellow lorry red lorry yellow lorry red lorry yellow lorry remember that my first max is someone had no hard drive you had to switch out discs several times just to run a program oh yeah for sure for sure i remember running ultima 3 pop the disc every time we would die my friend and i would be playing uh does their screen say etch a sketch on the side yeah that's right you still have cds well everyone still has them for sure because reasons but i remember a 33.6 modem oh did it get to 33.6 okay there's a stop there there's a shop in Toronto that sells and repairs typewriters sure yeah I get that I have a stick shift man I remember helping a friend deliver his Porsche in Los Angeles and getting completely stuck in every intersection because that was not great at stick shift at least I was actually pretty good at stick shift because they drove them up north but not a not a not a Porsche.
[33:10] Not salient to Stef's point but i'm happy not to have the crap load of recorded media taking up physical space and my car has the manual transmission right i'm sorry actually that's i think a small hispanic guy who uh changes it for you it's a manual transmission oh, i feel the urge to apologize it but i'm gonna i don't i according to nietzsche don't leave your actions in the lurch, Ah, at school we had 80s era IBM's Apple II. Yes, yes, I remember the Apple II. I never had one. It was way too expensive for me. All right.
[33:52] Like you said, they can't fight reality itself, so they'll pick the next best thing, which is you if you're honest and objective. Yeah. My boombox CD player broke where my omnibus edition of H2G2 by Douglas Adams fell off a high shelf onto it. Still have all of that, including tapes and CDs. Oh, yes. Oh, you spend time putting together the perfect mixtape, which was a complete art in itself. I think high fidelity goes into that. The perfect mixtape was an art in and of itself. And then you'd play it a couple of times, and then you'd hear a terrible crinkling.
[34:31] Like millions of voices cried out and were suddenly silenced the perfect mixtape cried out and were suddenly silenced and then you'd with a fear in your heart you would open the tape deck and you'd pull it out and all of this it had been eaten ah it was horrible it was just when you'd use the pencil to scroll in you oh it was just terrible cut, all right somebody says this is the quote oh what the hell happened there this is the quote, i was looking for okay let's look at the quote that you were looking for sorry to be joe squinty here but i could not find my mid-range glasses i don't need my up-close glasses but i certainly do need my mid-range glasses. All right, what have we got here? What are you saying?
[35:27] Douglas Adams on our reactions to technology over time. I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies, writes Douglas Adams in The Salmon of Doubt. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary, and it's just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you're 15 and 35 is new and exciting and revolutionary, and you'll probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're 35 is against the natural order of things. Yeah, I get that. VR still blows my mind. I don't do it much, but VR certainly does blow my mind for sure.
[36:03] Hmm.
[36:07] All right but nobody has to kill chickens you just get the chickens from the grocery store that was some african leader right all right survival has been a vicious fight since life started so the economic reality illiterate will complain the economic or reality illiterate will complain then someone invents something that will improve survival but will require a new skill set so they will complain more yeah it is uh oh live with staff is the best thank you very much i appreciate that but yeah i mean this is roman's argument which i'm thinking about more and more these days from my novel uh the future which you should definitely check out it's free freedom dot com slash books uh he's basically saying look when you get civilization everybody gets everybody gets soft and removed and detached from reality and it's a case i've made before fiat currency and debt breeds psychosis in people psychosis is a feeling of limitlessness, megalomania psychosis i can fly like you don't recognize any limitations yes i can stay up for four days yes i can write the great novel on the back of a bazooka joe comic with an awl right, what's that old joker hey man somebody in this office has been possessed by an owl who gotcha so.
[37:29] With the government printing money and borrowing, with debt and money printing, people are detached from reality. This is why you have the, well, why don't we just do everything mentality, right? So there's an old line, of course, that you can't have your cake and eat it too. And it took me, when I was a kid, it took me forever to figure out what the hell that meant. You can't have your cake and eat it too, right? So if you eat the cake, you don't have it. If you have the cake, you're not eating it. You can't have your cake and eat it too, sort of basic reality processing.
[37:56] And so when people i mean you can just ask people right i'm sure you know people who were like well the government should spend money on this that or the other right the government should just spend money on this that or the other okay the government should should provide whatever right and it's going to cost a hundred million dollars and then you say okay interesting what should the government cut to pay for that well i just increase taxes well no that's right the laugh of curve is that if you increase taxes too much, you end up with less tax revenue. So, and of course, if you increase taxes, people create fewer jobs, which means there's less taxes to create, blah, blah, blah. So what should the government cut? People get offended. And by people, let's be honest, I mostly mean women, right? Because men are a little bit more practical that way. A little bit. I mean, in terms of like, student debt is like 70, 80% women, right? So there's this psychosis of like reality is a freaking wish list of pathological altruism oh would you like to help the poor oh lovely oh would you like provide free health care to the sick oh lovely oh would you like to provide endless education for everybody who wants it oh lovely oh would you like to subsidize artists oh lovely oh would you like to help people overseas who are very very ill and hungry and strangely have big bellies oh lovely just wish list.
[39:17] It's a it's a wish list it's it's like a kid right i mean i i actually use some of this in my novel the future that when my daughter was little we used to spend some time she was very little we used to design the perfect restaurant the perfect restaurant and i i use some of this for my novel right it's got birds flying around there's there's um the most amazing food that you can think of and we actually detailed all of the dishes and all of that so um and uh the the The waders have wings and fly from place to place. And, you know, like it was just everything that you had, the trees and the limbs and all of that. It was just the coolest thing, right? And there was a playground and we designed the whole playground.
[39:58] And it was cool. Anti-gravity, bounce boots and, you know, just this crazy stuff that we could come up with. And that's a wish list because you're not constrained by any form of reality at all. I remember when I was very little, I don't know, maybe three or four with my brother. Oh, well, what are we going to do with a million pounds? And a million pounds when you're a kid, of course, just infinity money, right? Oh don't buy an island and a jet aircraft and you know just stuff that would cost more than a million pounds i think but it's just a fantasy wish list there's no cost there's no boundaries there's no consideration there's no balances right that there aren't any solutions there are only trade-offs well if you want to spend more on this you have to spend less on this so the fantasy of infinite money makes people psychotic it makes people it it gives people mental illness i genuinely believe that. It makes people addicted to unreality, and it makes them very fucking aggressive. Very aggressive.
[40:49] Because if you say, well, I want to spend a hundred billion or a hundred million on this, well, we're going to cut. People just get offended. They get mad. No, I want to do good things with my narcissistic, psychotic, pathological altruism fantasy checklist. Why won't you let me check things. I want to feel good. It's a drug. It's a drug of unreality. There's no trade-offs.
[41:13] I mean, you want to see this live? You want to see it's pretty easy, pretty easy, pretty terrifying, pretty easy. What you do is you go to your average boomer and say, okay, what are we going to cut to pay for the national debt? Or just raise taxes. No, no, no, that's not a thing. That's not a thing. Taxes are already insanely high in the West. So what can we cut? You know, here's a list of government expenditures. Well, we can't cut Medicaid. Well, we can't cut Medicaid. Well, we can't cut Social Security. We can't cut this we can't cut that we can't cut well what are you going to cut make some tough choices you absolutely fart brain spineless toadies just make some tough choices the boomers never really had to make tough choices because they were sucked into the mind evacuating psychosis of infinite resources and the narcissistic pathological altruism fantasy checklist of virtue signaling well i just want to help everyone who's going to pay for it.
[42:14] There's no reality, right? It makes people mad. And I'm not kidding about this. Like, it makes people insane. Because to think that you can spend forever and run up debts and unfunded liabilities, which in America are closing on $200 trillion, because, like, $205 trillion would be crazy.
[42:42] So anybody who thinks that you can spend and borrow and print forever and ever and that the deck can accumulate no matter what is insane like i'm not kidding about this they're mentally fucked beyond words they no longer understand basic math if someone were to come up to you and say hey you know what i got this cool trick you want to see it's really really neat i can inhale forever. I can inhale until I'm larger than the actual universe. Would you say that person had a couple of screws loose, a few fries short of a happy meal, one wave short of a shipwreck? I'm going slightly mad. Right. Yeah, you would say that. You would say, what do you mean you can inhale forever? That's like impossible. And you certainly can't inhale to be bigger than the universe okay what about debt that's 15 times the size of the economy and and rising and this is musk's point right.
[43:49] People who think that you can borrow and spend forever and ever, amen, and that the borrowing and spending and money printing is rising, not linearly, but exponentially, right? It's not asymptotically because it will cross that final line of fatality, right? Somebody who said they're either morally insane or practically insane, right? So if you were supposed to make $5 million in your business, and you only made $3 million in your business, and somebody high up in your company, the CEO, said, you know what? It's no problem, man. We could just draw money.
[44:38] If you say, what? Do you mean withdraw money from where? No, no, no, no, not withdraw money. No with there. Just draw money. What are you talking about? Well, we got lots of paper. Paper's cheap, right? We got pens. pens are cheap. We'll just draw some money. We'll draw two bills and call them each a million dollars. And then bingo, bango, bongo, we fill their boots, climb the Everest, and we've gotten to $5 million. And they'd be like, and if he'd said this with all seriousness, it's fine. It's fine. We only made $3 million. We get to $5 million. We just take some shit out of the copy machine, write on it, and we're good. I mean, would you consider that a sane person? That's their entire political system.
[45:21] That's their entire political system. And this guy as well, right? I'm not trying to, the guy who posted the comment, it's like, he thinks that it's some bizarre, freaky system that means that in order to consume, that it produces the reality that in order to consume, you have to produce.
[45:45] And he doesn't understand that when he upgrades, he's putting other people's skills.
[45:51] Out of value. He's causing other people's skills to become obsolete. Doesn't even have a clue. So if somebody were to propose a system that said, I want to propose a system whereby human beings become immortal because of the system. And human beings no longer require food, water, and shelter that can survive off wind and sunlight and tadpoles. Now forget the tadpoles, that's too Chinese. Wind and sunlight will be all that powers human beings, nothing will change other than my political system. That would be psychotic. My political system foundationally alters the properties of matter, energy, and biology. I have a system. Well, that's not a system. That's fucking madness. And and this is all over the place right the women who were like well um i am 42 and i want a really high value man and i've had 15 boyfriends before what.
[47:03] It's it's deranged and you know i i sort of say it's crazy it's i mean that genuinely and deeply, people who believe that politics and willpower desire and preference can overcome basic fucking mathematics.
[47:24] Like people, well, you know, I'm planning a long flight. I got my Cessna. I got my sexy stewardess. I'm planning a long flight. I'm going to fly in my little Cessna from Canada to Australia. I'll be like, well, your fuel won't be enough. No, no, I don't need fuel. I've got a system. I got a system. What are you going to have like, what, in-flight refueling? What would even your system? There's no way that your Cessna is going to get from Canada to Australia. And why would you want to? Well, because one totalitarian hellhole to another. Anyway, so I've got a system, man. And it's like, well, what's your system? My system? From forgetting a Cessna from Canada to Australia? My system? How dare you ask me that? What is the matter with you? No, no, tell me your system. My system is this. I want to. That's my system. I want to take a Cessna from Toronto to Auckland. My system is, I want to. I want it. And if you tell me no, you're a racist.
[48:43] My system is, I just really want it. And that's little kids and women, right? All right. Not to make them intellectually equal but all right comments on the riots i know you spoke about this when you did your documentary sunset in the golden state oh yeah i mean it was years ago that i spoke fairly eloquently and went into great detail about the fall the coming fall of california sure, So, people want access to American taxpayers, and they will fight, kill, and die to get it. Sure. They have adapted themselves to live off the taxpayer, and they don't want to not do that anymore. They don't want to find new skills or any kind of productive skills, right?
[49:30] All right. Here we go. Hey, Stef. I struggle to find a quality girlfriend, which is bothering me and making me unhappy. All the self-help advice out there says, if you are not happy without a girlfriend, you will not be happy with a girlfriend either. What? Bullshit. And also, you have to be happy first, and then you can find a girlfriend. I find it valid to feel unhappy about this, since it's a serious problem, and my emotions are trying to make me solve it. What are your thoughts?
[50:04] You know, if you're hungry without eating, you'll also be hungry after eating. If you want water before you have water you'll also want water after you have water it's like no you're unhappy without a girlfriend of course you'll be happy with a girlfriend if she's a quality woman yeah of course you have to be happy first and then you can find a girlfriend nope, nope nope nope no the hunger drives you to hunt it's like saying well you you have to be full, of venison and then you can go and hunt deer no you hunt deer because you're hungry it's not the Best analogy, I guess. But yeah, you go out and get a girlfriend because you're unhappy without one. And you should be unhappy without one because without a girlfriend that graduates to a fiance and then graduates to a wife and then graduates to a mother and then graduates to a grandmother and a great-grandmother and you name it, right? Without that, your biological purpose remains unfulfilled and your entire four billion year lineage dies with you, you selfish bastard. Not you, but everyone in general who doesn't work hard to reproduce.
[51:13] So this weird thing this cart before the horse i don't know i don't understand it, if you want to win a gold medal you have to be as happy as if you already won it and then you can win it it's like no no no you you want to win a gold medal you feel discontented ignores it you you practice and train like crazy and then if you win the gold medal you're happy sure, i get it no i mean saying that you want you deserve the effects of an achievement before the achievement? No. You want a girlfriend? Good for you. You're unhappy without a girlfriend? That's just your ball saying let's make more of us? Great. Photocopy the testes, right?
[51:52] So, no, just keep hunting and keep looking. And I hate this Zen shit where it's like, well, when you least want it, it will happen. It's like, that's not, that's not, that's just a way of, that's like the QAnon shit. It's just a way of making you passive as hell, right? Now, they say this to people struggling with infertility. You know, when you stop worrying about it, it's when it'll happen. It's like, no, it won't. Jesus Christ. You think people weren't worried throughout human history during the Black Death, during World War II? Come on. All right. Free domain member and want and wish to only support more my brother and i were truly aware of your departure from youtube and more i apologize that i did not do more well i appreciate that thank you and i appreciate your support free domain.com slash donate deeply humbly and gratefully accepted thank you so much lloyd uh and thank you so much daughter ben's always a great pleasure i really really do appreciate that slow donation day so if you could help out i really would appreciate it i work pretty hard as you know how can i manage lust there's a girl at the gym who dresses provocatively and i feel tempted to approach her i assume she's not virtuous based on how she dresses though i could be wrong modesty seems rare and i struggle with assuming virtue in most women go talk to her and find out there's nothing like an empirical experiment to find out if you're right or not go talk to her and find out.
[53:13] Mating displays are not the end of the world it's fine to have a mating display shake your tail feather all right so yeah go go just go talk to her go talk to her find out if she's nice or not if you are an atheist you must be a rick and morty fan i don't even is that an animated show i don't know that one thank you seth for the wonderful material i listened to you while painting and going on walks. And you are a gifted speaker.
[53:45] That's a little annoying, to be honest with you. I have worked enormously hard. It's not just a magic gift of the gab. I've worked enormously hard to organize my thoughts, be ready with notes for the shows, to explain things in a way that is engaging and enjoyable and clear-minded and so on. So just saying it's a gift, it's the everything looks like a gift if you don't see the work behind it, right? It's like the 10-year overnight success. Wow, Huey Lewis just came out of nowhere. It's like the guy was doing mouth organ music in Marrakesh for years. Anyway, all right. I confess, though, a dread has been coming over me as I have not lived a virtuous life and have not achieved much at 40, though I make good money and I'm in good shape.
[54:30] Right. So, Jay, I would assume you make good money, donated five bucks. That's fine. Just pointing it out. All right. so maybe it's because you think that that there's this gift right maybe i mean i was a shy kid i was a shy kid man i didn't like talking to people and i really had to work at that coming out of my shell and you know then the world tries to put me back in my shell platform so um what have you done that's not virtuous right but but don't believe in gifts right i mean don't believe in gifts like Freddie Mercury was born with a great singing voice. He barely took any singing lessons, just some choir stuff in his boarding school.
[55:19] So I don't believe in gifts. I mean, Freddie Mercury was playing piano, singing, playing guitar. He came up with the guitar riff for Ogre Battle, believe it or not. I didn't even know that until recently. Not that it's particularly important, but it's interesting.
[55:37] So, but he had been writing songs and singing and playing piano for 20 years before he wrote, maybe 15 years before he wrote, I think he wrote their first hit. Fear me, you lords and lady preachers, I descend upon your earth from the skies. I commend your very soul, you unbelievers. Bring before me what is mine, the seven seas of right. Uh seven seas of right yeah he he wrote that and that was one of their first big hits and then uh killer queen really broke them out i remember seeing them on top of the pops with his rather fae black nail polish back in the day and so yeah and then they got ripped off terribly in the music industry wrote a very ferocious song about it called death and two legs and traded some lawsuits and all of that and uh so yeah i mean 10 year overnight success and even years after they started having success he was still living in some moldy apartment with mary so yeah the gifted thing i don't know i don't really believe in it i really don't believe it i really enjoyed your videos like the fall of rome and modern parallels thank you appreciate it, all right, Yeah, or how much more in taxes will you be giving up to pay for all of this, you ask people. Shocked Pikachu face. What, me? Pay?
[56:52] I love the shocked Pikachu face. The best one is like, wives finding out their husband had cheated after they haven't put out for two years. If you don't get any food at home, at some point you're going to have to go out, right?
[57:06] All right, well, if you sit around watching daytime TV, sipping on boxed wine all day, the only thing you have left is fantasizing that you're some altruist who has it all figured out. Because all those mean men who had jobs didn't want to maintain a relationship with you. Yeah, yeah. We can't cut Social Security even though it would be bankrupt by the time people my age are old enough to benefit from it. Yeah, I mean, there's things you can't touch in the U.S. budget, right? Entitlements, you just can't touch them. I mean, until math does, right? Until math does.
[57:38] I mean, somebody who was gaining huge amounts of weight and the amount of weight they were gaining was increasing every month, who said this is sustainable would be considered insane, right? I'm happy to help everyone when I'm not the one paying for it. Yeah, the outsourcing of conscience and virtue, to the enslaved unborn is Aztec in its nature in human society as it stands. Oh man, this is one of those talking points of contention that turns conservatives into blue-head liberals. How else will we defend the country? Well, you have a welfare state and then you get a leftist president who invites millions of people into your country to feast off the welfare state and then prevents anyone from defending themselves and prevents any expulsions or enforcement of the law. How's that? How's that for protecting the country?
[58:32] Oh dear, what are you going to do? All right. See Zimbabwe or post-World War I Germany or Venezuela today to see hyperinflation at work? Yeah. Yeah. Coffee costs $5 in the morning, costs $50 in the afternoon, and the next morning it's $1,000. You still only earn $7 an hour, yeah, for sure.
[58:53] Because it's the right thing to do. I want to. Yeah, I want to do the right thing with no cost to myself, right? And this is, for me, this is one of the great efficiencies that I really focus on in life. It's a very good efficiency. Do you have a stake in it? Nope. Don't care. Don't care. I want it all and I want it now. Yeah. So people are like, we should help the starving people in Albania. I say, well, go over and help them. I mean, no one's stopping you. Go over and help them. Go over and bring food and organize it and go cook. Like, no, no, no, I don't want to do anything because there's a Sopranos rerun this weekend. I don't want to do anything personally. I just want it to happen. Okay, well then, if you don't want to do anything personally, then donate your own money and, no, no, no, I just want it fixed. I just, I see things on the screen that make me sad and I want those sad things to go away. It's all just about emotional self-manipulation through the enslavement of the next generation. Jimmy says, are you Jimmy Ray? My wife has some hard lefty friends. I want to cut them. But my wife doesn't, as we recently had a heated debate with them about government. What should I do? As my wife has had these friends for a long time. Love your work. Thanks. I mean, you mean like hard lefty, like communists?
[1:00:18] I mean when the communists get power people like you and i are thrown against the wall and shot between the glasses right.
[1:00:30] So, hard leftists, I mean, they get hundreds of millions of people killed. I mean, the death count is higher than Nazis. And would your wife accept you being friends with Nazis, right? Hard leftists have a higher body count even than Nazis, right? So, would you be comfortable, would your wife be comfortable with you showing up with some real, heil hit the types probably not i hope not so the hard leftists are as dangerous to your beliefs as nazis would be to jews and gays and other people that they attacked right so, just try to get her to understand it like they they if they get power they'll they'll kill you or they'll put you in gulags or whatever right, regarding gym girl if you're halfway decent at reading body language just simply asking her how many sets she has left on a piece of equipment can give you enough info to determine if she's amenable to talking to you yeah that's true that's true but it's kind of a boring intro right.
[1:01:47] I expect bitcoin is going to going to go to the moon around the fourth quarter as there will be massive money printing ahead well is is bitcoin gaining value is the old question right is bitcoin gaining value or is our dollars just losing values right, the ccp killed and aborted over 330 million babies and unborn children from 1979 to 2013 in china communism is bad yeah yeah, hey Stef i recently started my business and started getting requests for quotes any tips for someone starting off yeah i don't know joe i i need more more details than that i don't know what that means. All right. Oh, my God, we've hit the bottom of the comments. Comments have been bottomed out. Comments have been bottomed out, says Sean Connery. All right. I'm terrible at imitating people, other than a competent philosopher. Hopefully that imitation works relatively well.
[1:02:54] Uh let me just check this over here on locals did a good show this morning did a good shoe this morning boy that's some low donations man i can only assume i'm not providing much value so tell me how i can provide more value how can i provide more value, yes i know why carny wants to do away with cash the cost to print money is too high much easier if it's all digital hyperinflation. No, they want to do away with cash so they can track and control everything you spend and remove your ability to buy things if you annoy the powers that be, right? This is the central bank digital currency stuff, right? It's the, all technology gets taken over by tyrants, right? And so the blockchain gets taken over by tyrants who want to enforce an even more brutal version of the social credit score than exists in China. And I mean, you know, oh, China's so totalitarian. Yeah, I mean, I get that for sure. And it is, i get that i've been there actually and i did a whole video on hong kong a whole documentary i get that because oh my gosh you see in in china you can't criticize the government or communism it's like yeah and you can't criticize things and groups in america either.
[1:04:13] How fundamentally different is it hard to say hard to say hong kong fight for freedom yes for sure.
[1:04:28] How would china be liberated from communism uh so in general um one of the things that ends totalitarianism is a low birth rate, low birth rate shifts more power to the people, in the same i mean if you i did the speech was it earlier this week or last week which um, where i said that the the black death ended up, increasing the leverage of the workers the serfs because there were fewer of them right so they could start to negotiate for more freedoms and so on so medium wealth produces a dictatorship, for reasons i've gone into before and then the dictatorship, eventually causes lower birth rates and then the lower birth rates cause a shift in power from the elites to the people and then you can do something better.
[1:05:38] There's not as many gruesome accidents here in the u.s oh so you're saying that china has more industrial accidents than america, Yeah, but you don't be, I mean, Zimf, you're far too smart to be a one-variable guy, right? Thank you for the response about being happy without a girlfriend. I just also thought it was BS. Yeah, that is BS. You can't be happy without love, and love is the greatest gift in the world, and so you should pursue it assiduously, avidly.
[1:06:17] So this is one of the reasons why there's a lot of immigration into the West. It's a low birth rate. We'll push back against totalitarianism, and they want to increase government power, so they need to keep the wages down. So you were saying that there are more gruesome accidents in the U.S. Than in China. Okay, I don't know if that's true, but let's say that it is true. Let's say that it is true. Well, what about the gruesome suicide in the U.S. Because the industrial base has been hollowed out? Would that be considered a work-related injury? I think it would. It's a work-less. It's an unemployment-related injury. The sins of despair that strike the underemployed and the unemployed are enormous, deep, and powerful, right? I mean, the fentanyl crisis, the opioid crisis as a whole, drinking, laziness, addictions of every kind, and suicidality, and sexual addiction, impregnation, all of these result from less unemployment or underemployment. Thank you, Durbin's. I appreciate that, again. And so, saying, oh, well, you know, there's more industrial accidents in China. Is like, well, but China has more industry, so there'll be more accidents, and maybe they have a higher rate of industry, but you also have to include the rate of self-injury that comes out of unemployment or underemployment because America has had its industrial base disemboweled, right?
[1:07:45] That's interesting, Stef. However, how would that pan out in the West when we have low birth rates plus mass migration? Well, the mass migration is an effective way of... Right so right there was this woman the i think she was vietnamese or whatever she was sitting in a car doing all of those really annoying hand clicky nail gestures and she was talking about like if you're not upset by watching families get torn apart and people being thrown into windowless vans why can't i just appeal to your selfishness i'm paraphrasing why can't i just appeal to your selfishness and have you understand that the immigrants are here to do the jobs that americans just don't want to do the tough jobs the dangerous stuff the dirty jobs without many benefits right 42 percent of agricultural workers in the fields are are illegal oh she doesn't call them illegal she calls them undocumented uh immigrants which is sort of an oxymoron it's like saying that a guy who doesn't pay his taxes and is an undocumented taxpayer good luck with that right so um.
[1:08:45] Low wages simply prevent automation. That's, I mean, the lowest wage is slavery, and we didn't get the Industrial Revolution until the end of slavery, as I talked about before. So low wages simply, they destroy the negotiating power of the workers, right? Because they keep wages low, they drive wages low. And so they don't want the workers and the people to have much power, because then the workers and the people will start demanding for change that will have to be achieved.
[1:09:10] So they're bringing people in to drive down, I mean, for a lot of reasons, but one of them is to drive down the wages of the workers who exist so they don't have much bargaining or leverage power.
[1:09:26] All right, so let's see here. I says, of course not. I was just joking around a bit. I was more referring to, in spite of all the government in any state that they have going on, there is a huge lack of safety standards and enforcement. Sorry for undermining the seriousness of the subject, and I appreciate your response. Meth epidemic, yeah, for sure. Hi, Stef. I have an 18-month-old boy. Let's hear it for the boy. He's going to the park. He likes going to the park and playing. Sure. I really don't want to take him when I'm done.
[1:10:04] Really don't want to take him when i'm alone with him sorry when my wife comes it's fine and i love it i feel frustrated and intimidated by other people at the park i would i love my son and follow upb and treat my children the best why do i feel like this now my first of all i appreciate the tip you feel frustrated and intimidated by the other people at the park why would you care about the other people at the park i'm i mean this with all affection and curiosity why would you care? I mean, when my daughter and I went to the park, we just played our games.
[1:10:37] I don't know why other people at the park would even show up much in your consciousness, right? It's like saying, well, I want to go to the beach, but there are those seagulls. Like, forget about the seagulls, enjoy the sand of the surf, right? So why is it that other people at the park matter at all? Just go with your son and play your games and come up with your spaceships and your launch pads, right? My daughter and I used to play these, gosh, what were they, chicken games originally because she liked chicken run so she'd be the chicken that i'd have to rescue from the wolf and then we played kitty games then we played dragon games and baby dragon and and i remember the very very very clearly remember the day we were at andrew scenic acres and i very much remember the day when we both realized she was too old for that oh deep in the rear view so and that's fine you want that to happen you you it's bittersweet right you you want them to grow up and then you miss when they were younger that's just life right so why why do you care that there are other people at the park unless they're like i don't know dangerous drug addicts or creepy people with cameras so i'm not sure what you are bothered by if that makes any sense and of course you know freedom.com slash call freedom.com slash call we can do a call in, i did a private call in today the guy might make it public might make it public i'm hoping so because it was really good.
[1:12:00] Somebody says, here is an idea, close the border, shrink labor supply, tariff imports to high heaven, bring jobs back to make things here, pay a living wage. Oh, yes, they try to lock you up for 400 years. Failing that, they try to kill you or kick you out of office again. Maybe that is why they, okay, I don't know what that means. My apologies if I'm not following, but I don't quite know what that means. I mean, whatever the question is, the answer is just more freedom. More, more freedom. More. All right. Any last questions, comments, issues, challenges, problems? I won't be doing Jordan Peterson today. Good Lord, I'm only halfway through that video. Oh, well, we'll do it over time. Oh, I think he's referring to Donald Trump. Oh, okay. Okay. Thank you. And, you know, at this point, I mean, it's nice to see people trying political solutions. Nice to see it. I will not hold my breath, though, for reasons I've talked about before. Going once, going twice. Any other last questions? I'll just give people the chance.
[1:13:01] Oh, why don't politicians do that? Of the above, yes.
[1:13:09] Because, why don't politicians do the right thing? Because they're not beholden to the people, they're beholden to donors, they are beholden to people who can bribe them, or threaten them, right? Can't thank you enough staff freedomain.com slash donate i bet you can i bet you can thank you guys so much for a wonderful chat this evening and i hope you have a lovely day or two and we will speak to you on friday night maybe we do some more jordan peterson stuff there i really enjoy it i've been doing this i've been getting up early it's early morning yesterday i was up for the, And I've been getting up early and doing walkabout chats. It's been really, really nice. So I hope I did another one this morning. And I hope that you will about, I did one about why we self-attack, why people self-attack. So I hope that you will. It's taken a bunch of scattered ideas and compressing them down into one black hole of, it's a black hole, but only light can escape it. It's philosophy. It's the exact opposite of a physical black hole. All right. Thanks, everyone, so much. Have a glorious evening. We'll speak to you Friday, freedomain.com slash donate. If you're listening to this later, I thank you so much. I appreciate your time, care, and attention. And I will talk to you soon. Bye.
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