0:07 - Introduction to the Evening
0:48 - Church and Politics
2:51 - Family Reading Time
3:43 - Digital Sales Challenges
13:18 - Understanding Personal Relationships
18:44 - Capacity for Love
19:47 - Art Appreciation
28:05 - Learning from the Past
35:46 - Guilt in Society
44:47 - Current Events and the News
50:47 - Health and Lifestyle Insights
58:22 - Gnosticism and Mysticism
1:02:58 - The Nature of Truth
1:18:15 - Subjectivity and Free Will
1:24:14 - Professors and the Free Market
In this episode, we dive deep into the complexities of personal relationships, morality, and societal issues through a thought-provoking discussion that touches on various contemporary topics. The evening begins with reflections on the rapid progression of the year and an invitation for listeners to engage with their questions and comments. As conversations unfold, we tackle a significant issue—the lawsuit by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops against former President Trump regarding a funding freeze impacting immigrant and refugee resettlement.
The discussion transitions seamlessly into the exploration of human experiences and philosophical insights. A captivating analogy is drawn, referencing the struggles of parents and their children, especially in the context of emotional responses to differing behavior between sons and daughters. This leads to a broader examination of how societal narratives impact individual perceptions and actions.
We share perspectives on the consumption of media, particularly the growing fascination with police body camera footage, emphasizing the irony in the push for transparency amidst calls for police accountability. This layering of commentary invites listeners to question their viewing habits and the societal implications of such content.
The conversation shifts gears to discuss digital entrepreneurship, tackling the challenges of maintaining a product-driven mindset in the unyielding digital marketplace. We delve into the emotional investment creators feel about their work while emphasizing the necessity of perceiving products through the lens of consumer indifference. This exploration encourages aspiring entrepreneurs to seek value delivery, reminding them of the unpredictable nature of market acceptance.
Further along, we explore the nature of love and capacity for connection in the context of past traumas and familial relationships. The sentiment echoes through various anecdotes illustrating how deeply rooted childhood experiences shape adult interactions. As we address the complexities of these dynamics, we emphasize the importance of understanding that the ability to love is intrinsically linked to one’s moral choices throughout life.
Throughout the episode, we acknowledge modern challenges, including strained political landscapes and shifting societal values, all while maintaining a focus on personal accountability and virtue. We grapple with existential questions surrounding intimacy and personal responsibility, ultimately concluding that genuine love stems from virtue and an unwavering commitment to truth.
Listeners are invited to reflect on their journeys, learn from their pasts, and embrace the intricacies of their personal histories. The episode empowers individuals to rise above societal expectations, urging them to seek virtue as a foundation for healthier relationships and a more meaningful life. As we close, we reiterate the significance of community support and the value of sharing insights for enriching the collective experience of our listeners.
[0:00] Good evening, good evening, everybody. Welcome to the 19th of February, 2025. Hope you're doing well.
[0:08] That was just the year flying by, isn't it? Moving fast. Moving fast. Things so hot. Shorts are so hot, you could cook things in them. All right, so hope you're doing well. Good evening, good evening. Welcome. Welcome, welcome. Happy to take questions, comments, issues, challenges, disagreements, and so. on. And I think everything's going fine from a tech, techie tech standpoint. And hit me up with your questions. And I am all ears while we're waiting for the questions and comments to flow in.
[0:48] The US Conference of Catholic Bishops is suing Trump because Trump has put a funding freeze on the massive amounts of money they were getting for resettling immigrants and refugees. What can you tell? I mean, what can you even say? Somebody wrote today, Jesus spent his time among the mentally ill, the poor, and unemployed, the prostitutes, So in a way, by being on Twitter, we're like Jesus.
[1:24] Jordan Peterson dropping haiku candygram bangers wrote, you're going to encounter pain in life. Make it worthwhile. So if you're going to stub your toe, make sure it's in hot pursuit of a criminal. I love the guy. I really do. I think he's a great guy, but this is just a dvd. You're going to encounter pain in life. Make it worthwhile. Yep, that's going to help me live a moral life, for sure. That's clear as mud. That's clear as mud.
[2:01] Somebody wrote, Despite having been warned, I was not prepared for the fact that when my toddler son cried about not getting his way, I found it almost humorous, remained steadfast, felt no pressure to alter my course, But when my toddler daughter acts likewise, my stomach sinks and I'm compelled to give her whatever her little heart desires. For my sons the fields, for my daughters the fruits of those fields. We read books together as a family, like my wife and my daughter and I. And we've gone through a bunch of books and now we're dipping into the classics. So we're starting Sense and Sensibility, which is a lot of fun. I do not sell free domain merchandise, but I probably should. I probably should.
[2:51] All right. So, uh, yeah, let's get your questions and comments. Any thoughts on the origin of compulsively watching police body cam videos? I've been quite hooked for the last couple of months. Police body cams is one of the most ironically tragic and occasionally funny things in the world, right? Because all of these activists were like, police, police are racist and terrible. And we, we got to have them wear body cams so that we reveal all of this terrible corruption.
[3:23] And how's that going? Oh, turns out there's not really that much corruption. There's some. Stef, if someone... Oh, sorry. So the reason that you watch police body cam videos, I assume that you live in somewhat of a dangerous neighborhood and you need to study the predators. So that's the best way to do it.
[3:44] Somebody wrote, Stef, if someone may make their first prospective, digital sale, pushing relevant philosophy, 10-page document, how do you leverage and scale from after your first sale? Digital has been very hard for me to make any sales. I'm excited, but don't want to lose focus on what matters. How do you juggle relevant slash accuracy while also making even just a few sales?
[4:11] Now, it's hard when you create something, because of course, when you create something, you love it. It's wonderful and beautiful and a treasure. And you know, you've invested, it takes the average novelist, for instance, two years to write a novel. And so when you create something, you love it. And it's hard to put yourself in the mindset of an indifferent consumer, right? Everybody's trying to sell you something all the time right and so the challenge of course is, to put yourself in the mind of somebody who doesn't care about what you're doing doesn't care about your dreams doesn't care about your ambitions doesn't care about your hard work somebody is only looking for the value that you can provide to him or her and that's how i mean And if you want to be humble about what you sell, think of the number of people you turn down every day, every little piece of inbox, every little web ad, every even piece of spam or whatever. You're saying, nope, nope, nope, delete, delete, delete. So and each one of those things is somebody's dream and somebody's passion and they care about it. And you're just like, delete, delete, delete. right? So it's easy to take things personally, but it's kind of solipsistic, almost narcissistic to say, well, I reject a thousand people a day or a hundred people a day or 50 people a day who want to sell me something.
[5:35] I mean, look, it's somebody's dream to have you extend your car's warranty. It's just somebody's mad passionate dream. So you say no to just about everyone and everything all day, right? I mean, the car dealership would love for you to come and buy a car from them every day, right? But you don't. But you don't, right? So you say no to the car dealership every day. You say no to this restaurants in your neighborhood that would desperately love for you to come and eat at the restaurant. And eating at the restaurant might be the difference between the restaurant surviving and the restaurant dying. And, you know, somebody's poured heart and soul into that restaurant and they're desperate. They've experimented with the menu. They chose all of the chairs and all of that. And they Gordon Ramsay'd up the whole decor. And it's their dream. And you just walk past like it ain't no thing, right? So just remember the indifference that you have to just about everyone who's trying to sell to you is frankly the indifference that everyone else has to what you're trying to sell to them. You've got to find a way to make it positive and important and valuable to them. I don't know what the answer to that is, but that's the thing. Don't think I've ever told you how amazing the Free Domain app is, Stef. Well, thank you, Dylan. I appreciate that. FreeDomain.com slash donate to help out the show.
[6:57] Concerning the police arrest camps, I grew up in a major leftist city. That makes a lot of sense. I've luckily moved away at this point, but feel the laws of the whole state closing in. Hey, James. Somebody says, somebody says, I found it so difficult to accept that my parents won't change. Is it finally accepting that they don't love me? Not wanting to believe that my fantasy parents aren't real? I found you inside a stream or three ago that they are desperately hiding from a conscience that is out to get them very good.
[7:35] Well, would you like me to liberate you from guilt, fantasy, and obligation? Hit me with a Y. Hit me with your rhythm stick. Hit me with a Y if you would like to be liberated from guilt and obligation and rank sentimentality. Because that's a fairly important thing in life. to not be manipulated by sentimentality is, in many ways, the absolute essence of virtue. All right. Well, I'll tell you. Well, I'll tell you, baby. Show you a little shoulder and tell you. A little off-the-shoulder number here. So, unfortunately, my arms aren't off-the-shoulder, otherwise I wouldn't be able to applaud. So, the major error that you're making, and I say this with great sympathy because Lord knows I made it for decades too. You say, is it finally accepting that they don't love me?
[8:42] If someone you know is homeless, genuinely broke, not a penny to their name, nothing in their pockets, and you say, I take it very personally that he's not spending any money on me. He's not lending me any money. He's not taking me out for dinner. Why doesn't he buy things for me? Why doesn't he lend me money? Why doesn't he get me a birthday present why doesn't he care about me enough to it doesn't have to be much five dollars four don't four dollars a candy bar i don't care a piece of gum anything i take it very personally that he's not spending any money on me that would be kind of crazy right, that would be kind of crazy, don't take it personally, when broke people don't spend money on you. And don't take it personally when people incapable of love don't love you. It's not about you.
[9:56] I can't believe that this desiccated, mummified pharaoh from 3,000 years ago won't donate any blood to me. Why? Why? I need the blood. Well, because he's the dried up piece of dust and strangely European genetics.
[10:21] It's not that my mother doesn't love me. My mother is incapable of love because that's the price you pay for abusing children. It's not personal to me it's not like she loves other people but just not me, she has nothing in her pockets and she has only a void in her heart a void avoid your conscience and a space void it's not personal, i mean do you think the people who rail against me aren't do you think they hate me No, they don't hate me. I interfere with some practical or material self-interest of theirs. What I say provokes their conscience. It's nothing to do with me. Nothing to do with me. My father didn't not love me. My father couldn't love anyone, in my opinion. it's more than an opinion it's what I saw.
[11:36] Don't take it personally when people who don't have stuff don't give you stuff. Go to a homeless guy who's got no money and ask him to give you money and then say, that guy must hate me, man. He won't give me anything. He's got nothing to give. Nothing. They're empty all they have is manipulation greed consumption and falsehood that's all they have they have nothing to give you they have nothing to offer you they cannot love.
[12:19] That's the price you pay for selfishness is you cannot love that's the price you pay for abusing people and manipulating people and using people and lying to people and gaslighting people and bullying people. You cannot love. It is stripped out of your fucking heart, like a fat pig with a ladle and a little bottle of Haagen-Dazs. Out it comes. That's the price. The price of always needing to be right is you cannot love. The price of not listening to people is you cannot love. The price of harming people, of bullying people, is you cannot love. Look, we all know that there's a price to be paid for doing evil. And no one, not even God, can undo the price you pay for immorality. Nobody.
[13:19] God himself cannot undo the damage cigarettes do to your lungs, which is why people don't pray their way out of lung cancer. Thank you.
[13:38] I do not take it personally when evil people, don't love me. When I put it this way, isn't this clear? I don't take it personally when people without money don't donate to my show. They have no money. They're not donating to anyone else. They have no money.
[14:14] I don't take it personally when somebody, I don't judge someone or condemn someone who was blown up in World War I for not donating their organs now they don't have organs they are dust in the wind, when you are with profoundly selfish people they cannot love It's not that they don't love you. They cannot love anyone. Please, please, please, grind this into your very bones and balls, ovaries and spine. They cannot love anyone. It's not personal to you. Did my mother have wonderful, warm, beautiful, healthy affections towards others? No. Evil was done unto her and she did evil unto others.
[15:13] Love, the capacity to love, is permanently slaughtered through cruelty. Theoretically, there's a redemption arc. I've never really seen it, but theoretically, there's a redemption arc. But the capacity to love is slaughtered through cruelty, and the greater the power disparity, the less you can love afterwards. And there's no greater power disparity than that between parents and children. People who mistreat children cannot love anyone because they have murdered their empathy, they have murdered their kindness, they have murdered their virtue. And what is love? It is an involuntary response to virtue if we're virtuous. So if someone doesn't love you, we'll take that specific example. Someone doesn't love you, there's only a few logical possibilities. Very simple. Very simple. Only a few logical possibilities. If someone doesn't love you, it's either because, they lack the capacity for virtue because they've done too much evil they have the capacity for virtue but they're not exercising it or they are virtuous but you are corrupt.
[16:33] That's really all there is either they're corrupt in which case they cannot love anyone and you're just one of that number, right? Or they are virtuous and you are corrupt. But if you are virtuous and they are virtuous, they will love you.
[16:56] It's not complicated. I mean, virtue can be complicated, but this equation is very simple. If you are virtuous and another person is virtuous, they will have love for you. Now, depends on how close you are, how well they know you. I get all of that, but we're talking parent-child here, right? Now, a child who is not virtuous, a child who is corrupt, cannot be condemned by the parents who raised that child any more than a painter who paints a painting can condemn the painting as if he didn't make it. I understand that parenting is not the sole determining factor in how children progress. There are genetic elements to personality, there are peers, which the parents also choose.
[17:53] But a parent who grows virtue in the child through good instruction, good examples, and good theory and good practice, the child will love the virtue in the parent, and the parent will love the virtue in the child. A husband and wife love each other's virtues. I mean, if you look at this, take a pair like Musk and Trump, right? Elon Musk and Donald Trump. They love each other. And Musk has said he loves Trump. I mean, they're both courageous, both of great intellect and capacity, and both of significant moral purpose and intent.
[18:45] If you are unloved, it's either because somebody has the capacity to love, but you are corrupt, which is not the case here with children and parents, it's never the case, or they are corrupt. If they are corrupt, the price you pay for selfishness and immorality is the capacity to love. In fact, they will hate you. If you are a child who has grown into virtue despite the corruption of the parents, the parents will hate you for your virtues. Sorry, they just will. They'll manipulate you. They might pretend to love you and so on, but they will not love you. They cannot love you because all we can love is virtue. That's all we can love. It's like our bodies are airplanes and only the pilots who are good pilots can love each other.
[19:40] Wow, that's fantastic. They literally can't love at this point. So true. I donate regularly and will continue to do so. Thank you.
[19:48] Another question, I think you have mentioned in the past that you appreciate music. I love music. Are you a fan of art? And if so, what kind of art do you enjoy? I'm not really a fan of art. I mean, I love some of the older art, the Angre and so on. Modigliani and so on. I like some of the older art, but I don't look through pictures of art.
[20:15] Is an internal dialogue more likely to be linked to an internalized system of morals slash ethics? I don't really understand the question, sorry. Then the price of doing evil turns them into a sort of papier-mâché figure. After their soul leaves their body. That's the price. You get material gains and the loss of relationships. Right? What do you want in life? Most people will choose stuff over people. They will choose money over connection. They will. They will be bribed into giving up their soul. They will be bribed into giving up their capacity for love, compassion, passion, feeling, and then they wonder why they're hollowed out skin suits of regret, wandering through life complaining about a lack of meaning. The experience of love is so foundational, so human, so connected, and so beautiful.
[21:25] I can't imagine living without it. I can't imagine what life would look like. You know, this morning, my wife got up shortly before me. She comes out of the bathroom. I jump out of bed, and I hop like a pogo stick to give her a big hug. It is so... It's such a joy to see her. Without that, what is there?
[22:01] The greatest asset is the integrity required for the capacity to love i mean you wouldn't go into business with someone without checking their assets would you no, so you won't get into relationships at least you shouldn't get into relationships or in my view, shouldn't stay in relationships where people don't have virtue and integrity because then all they have left is manipulation and bullying, self-pity, plea, like all of this bullshit, squid, jello, tentacle, acidic undoing of your integrity and connection by constantly manipulating.
[22:54] I, I, I can't do it. I mean, I can't do it. I wouldn't do it. I, I, you couldn't, you couldn't pay me enough to do it.
[23:07] I can't stand, you know, you hear me do these role plays with people. I just did one on the show today. You do these role plays with people and just manipulation and lies and falsehoods and, and gaslighting. And they're just, you can't admit that you're wrong. And people are just constantly, all they do is maneuver. You see this in sort of mainstream media debates. They're just maneuvering, maneuvering, maneuvering. Nobody's being honest. Nobody's interested in the truth. They're just maneuvering, trying to get one over, trying to win. It's vile. It's vile, repulsive. I can't, because there's no connection. I can't do that with people. I can't connect with them. I can't trust them. They're machines of self-righteousness. They're just machines of self-justification i'm right you're wrong this is one of the reasons why i don't particularly miss places like x is just seeing people's machinery of self-righteousness the covering up of bare material predatory vampiric greed with the supposed skin suit of ethical considerations ah it's just gross and it's so obvious and so tiresome, boring it's absolutely boring people who are only manipulators are so predictable and so boring.
[24:33] All right so i hope that helps don't take it personally like i'm really sorry i'm i when i say don't take it personally i'm not saying don't be sad yeah be sad but don't be sad that you weren't loved, be sad that people make shitty choices, sold their souls to the devil and rendered themselves hollow empty shells of potential human beings with no capacity for love and attachment.
[25:02] You know, like some woman with a body count of like, I don't know, 50 guys, no capacity to pair bond anymore. She's damaged and ran through and resentful and it's just the heartbreak is appalling. She sold her capacity to love for lust, bad sex, and scant orgasms. You know, if you want to have great sex, the longer you stay with someone, the better it gets. It's a big benefit of monogamy, you can't undo that you can't fix that in people, women with high body counts almost never get married, and if they do they get divorced almost certainly you can't undo that with people you can't undo the damage they've done now maybe if they have some massive revelation and they go to therapy or they pursue self-knowledge or they find God or whatever, or philosophy, maybe there's a redemption arc.
[26:10] But I don't care for the redemption arc because it's so improbable. And for most people, if you start caring about their redemption, like most of the soulless people, the manipulators, the corrupt, the liars you start caring about their redemption they'll just fuck you over with it oh you care about my redemption oh okay let me dangle my potential redemption in front of you for clout right like all of these porn stars doing the christianity circuit, you can't care about people's redemption arc if they're corrupt because the moment they sense that you care, they'll just use that caring against you to exploit you and pillage you. Can't do it.
[27:04] So somebody says, do you have to debate with yourself if an action is good or not in your head, such as stealing a piece of bread? Or do people without an internal dialogue just know better sometimes? I still don't really understand the question. I don't debate myself whether stealing bread is good or bad. With UPB, I know that it's immoral to steal, right? I just know that. Respect for property rights is universally preferable behavior and violations of property rights. Is immoral. It's not UPP. It's the opposite of UPP. So, I don't need to debate that. So, I'm not sure what you're asking. All right. Question, how to let go of the past? Dwelling over lost opportunities, past mistakes, bad relationships, etc. What's wrong with dwelling on the past? You dwell on the past until you learn from it. And then once you've learned from the past, you are relieved of its burden.
[28:06] It's like people saying to me, how do I get rid of the pain of holding my hand in a fire? Well, you have to take your hand out of the fire. In other words, you have to learn the lesson of being burned, which is stop doing shit that gets you burned.
[28:23] So in every war we have over the nature of the past, there are two sides, the moral side and the corrupt side. So, for instance, if your parents were corrupt and immoral.
[28:40] Then they trained you to do bad things, to be corrupt and immoral yourself while hiding it from you and blaming you for your bad choices, bad decisions. And your parents will work extraordinarily hard to ensure that no virtuous people land in your life. I got to tell you, man, like I learned this when I first began dating the woman who became my wife. It's almost a quarter century ago. Holy shit, bros. And she landed like a comet among the dinosaurs of my history. She's just, I didn't even see it. I didn't even notice it. I didn't quite get it. But everyone sensed, man, she's tough and good. Man, she's moral and honest. And she is beautiful. I couldn't, I couldn't figure out. I mean, she's, she's delightful. She's funny. She's warm. She's friendly. She's, you know, definitely tough, strong. and we'll say what she thinks and feels very directly and we'll judge as she should and she's trained. But I was like, well, she's delightful, right? I have nothing to hide from people who are perceptive, people from good, I mean, scour my soul, go through my phone, I don't care, right? I mean, my conscience is good. It's not perfect, but it's good.
[30:02] So when my wife landed in my life, I remember people like literally stammering around her and and freaked out and and hostile and and you know I had a family member who used to put on these absolutely elaborate spreads and when I brought my wife over when she was still my girlfriend you know he put like a couple of pieces of frozen veggie burger on a plate like that's it I mean it was shocking but I didn't get it. I didn't get it. Just how much her virtue, courage, and honesty frightened the shit out of people. I mean, have you met people like this? I'm like this to some degree. But have you met people like this in your life? Hit me with a why. If you've met people who are just like, nope, don't believe it. Nope, that's not true. Nope, that doesn't make any sense. Nope, that seems pretty corrupt. Nope, that's not right. Like who are just, boom, right? Met people like that? It just messes people up. Now again i i she can you know cross-examine me for what it's worth i'm i do it to myself i'm happy to be cross-examined in fact i welcome it.
[31:28] I have nothing to fear in fact i i find it delightful and and and pleasurable you know like i i wrote about lydia and then i married married lydia from from just poor in terms of honesty and courage. Freedomman.com slash internet. Come on, man, I'm spitting gold. Throw me some gold. Boomerang me some gold. So when you're wrestling with the past, there are you, you desperately want to learn the lessons, the moral lessons of the past in order to stay safe. The people preying upon you don't want you to learn lessons of the past and will obscure, the lessons of the past so that you remain under their control.
[32:21] So, just recognize that, most, if you have, if you come from a corrupt history, most of the people in your past will do almost anything to have you avoid learning the moral lessons of the past which come at their expense and their capacity to exploit you. So don't let go of the past hold on to it until you learn from it and then and only then will it recede listening to you since 2010 what are your thoughts on being called a racist, i mean the the communists said this in the 1940s they said if somebody's interfering with our process we'll call them a nazi we'll call them a racist we'll call them a bigot and we'll publicly smear them and remove their irritating presence from our discourse. I mean, this was like 70 years ago. So people just create negatively charged terms like racist and so on, and then they just attach it to people so that they can be excluded from public discourse. It's not an argument. So it just means that you're interfering with the plans of evildoers, right?
[33:36] Ba-da-da. Somebody says, I put up a video on YouTube last year about your unfair removal from YouTube. The replies I got were pointing to your series on race and IQ. I don't do a series on race and IQ. That's odd. I didn't do a series on race and IQ. I interviewed 17 world experts from all over the political spectrum on the factual reality of race and IQ. I didn't just do a series, like I just pulled things out of my armpit, right? I interviewed the experts because I wanted to make sure that the facts were accurate and cohesive. So I interviewed the experts and let them talk. And somehow it's like, my opinion. You know, like I, some guy interviews Stephen Hawking and it's like, why were you doing a series on physics? It's like, I wasn't doing a series on physics. I was interviewing Stephen Hawking and he was talking about physics. So, I mean, and that's what I was talking about with Dave Rubin, right? It's not me. Don't shoot the messenger, man. So, yeah, people don't like that topic. I understand. I understand.
[35:05] It. All right. Um, well, I just, I don't want people to be blamed for things that aren't their fault. Isn't that reasonable? Right? It's not anyone's fault that different ethnicities, on average, don't judge individuals, but on average tend to have different IQs as a whole. Again, you don't judge individuals, but as a whole. It's nobody's fault. I don't think it's right to blame people for things that aren't their fault.
[35:47] That's not right. But unfortunately, guilt is very profitable in a statist society.
[36:03] All right, sir, we'll try, I'll try third time to get your question. I'm trying to know if people who don't think to themselves inwardly, such as reflect slash introspect, but may have empathy, how likely are they to be exploiters? Such as taking advantage, taking advantage of someone dropping their wallet compared to someone who has a series of plotting decisions and actions in their head structured in language. Oh, so you're saying people without an inner dialogue, are they more or.
[36:33] You have to compare proposed actions to ideal standards. I don't know how you do that without an inner dialogue. Is this the right thing to do? For most people, I've got UPB, so it's sort of a different thing. But I don't know how you can pursue or achieve morality without comparing proposed actions to ideal standards. How close does this proposed action mesh with ideal standards? Now, there are some debates, right? The brutal honesty versus diplomatic politeness, you know, there are some debates about that kind of stuff. But I don't know. I mean, that would be a scientific study. I would imagine that people without any kind of inner dialogue tend to be more conformist and less moral. They tend to be more subject to propaganda because they don't ask what is true. They ask what is safe, what is acceptable, what is perceived to be true. Because that's more empirical. But that would be a scientific study, I assume, or a psychological study where you would divide people who have inner dialogues into those who don't have inner dialogues and you would give them a series of abstract moral questions and see if there were differences in the answers. But I would imagine there would be, but I obviously don't know without the data.
[37:59] Yeah, like a third of people don't have an inner dialogue. They don't have voices. They don't argue with themselves. They don't have other people in there to their conscious knowledge or anything like that. Somebody says, when I question mainstream beliefs, people usually say, I think I know it all. It's impossible to argue with them.
[38:26] Well, then you should stop arguing with them. Yeah, it's like being called anti-vax, anti-science. It's just that they charge up these negative labels and attach them to people, so the mob attacks or veers away. If I had a dime for every time I've heard, don't look at the past, just look ahead, or you ponder too much. Yeah, I had a conversation with a fellow who had a pretty brutal father, and his father said, well, you know, you dwell on the past, and you're unhappy, you don't let things go you don't move on and so on and it's like but this guy got beaten with bamboo sticks, as a kid so it's like okay well if you're supposed to let go of the past not be upset by things and move on then why did why did this guy get punished as a kid, freedom.com slash featured dash interviews yeah for sure we used to have fdrurl.com slash IQ. Do we still have that? FDRURL.com slash IQ.
[39:31] People are easily offended and quick to offend. That is the way I see it. I mean, people aren't really easily offended. They're given mental tricks that allow them to be aggressive and not feel like assholes, right? They're given mental programming that allows them to be aggressive and not feel like abusers. I found your stop being ruled by idiots lecture so helpful, Stef. Thanks for all you do. Thank you for the tip. I very much appreciate that. Yeah, you're overthinking again. Yeah, it's funny how people like they put the word, you're overanalyzing, you're overthinking. It's like the word over is not an argument.
[40:13] All right jimmy says hey hey apple i got a question about voting here in australia elections are coming up soon would you have a problem with an employer demanding his employees to show them who they voted for in an election obviously it would be against the law but as an employer you want to know if your employees are committed to your business and by voting not in the interest of the business could be detrimental to the business thanks, Yeah, I don't think that, I mean, I'm not a big fan of the government or voting as a whole, but no, you should not be asking people how they voted. No, it's private. It's private ballot. I mean, that would be like saying to your employees, I need to see your medical records, right? Could that be good or bad for the business? Yeah, but medical records are private.
[41:02] All right, two-part question. Ooh, a two-for-one-y. How do you personally ground the ideal standards? What the hell does that mean? How do you personally ground the ideal standards? Do you mean prove? I don't know what that means. And how can you propose to someone who may be nihilistic that they should accept such standards as motivating? Well, somebody who's nihilistic still has a standard, which is that nihilism is true and valid. So you can say, okay, well, you accept things are true and valid. Let's explore more. No, no, Stef, seeing medical records by employers has been done. It was called COVID. No, I get that. But I mean, all medical records, right? And that was wrong too, right?
[41:44] Love what you just shared at the joy of being seen if you are living a great life. Nothing to hide and joy to reflect on one's actions. Truly, Stef, cannot thank you enough. Thank you. Do you think with the recent changes in America, it will bring a new life to the West or just have forced all the death of the West. Uh, I don't want to black bill anyone, but of course, you know, if you looked in the early seventies when, you know, or the late sixties, you know, when, when Nixon got in and, and, uh, it looked like it was going to be a new dawn and, uh, it was the house and the Senate and all of that, the white house, all, I think it was all controlled by Republicans. Ah, it's a new dawn. It's a new day. And I'm feeling good.
[42:26] Well, how did that play out, right? How did that play out? Um, I think a lot of it comes down to the elections in Germany, and the French did not make it. The French said, oh, yeah, I see. The French did not make it with Marine Le Pen versus Emmanuel Macron. I did shows on this way back in the day and the friends chose a kind of suicide okay well that's often the case when people are corrupt they have a death impulse right so i think it's i find the news addictive i i didn't i didn't really read much news at least compared to when i was younger over the last couple of years because i was doing politics I was deplatformed and it was all just depressing as shit like it was all just awful and horrible and terrible and like it was just because you had this you know absolute constitution trampling vegetative state a third of his presidency on vacation, zombie fest of a presidency and now I find the news is actually interesting and fun, the right seems to have turned the corner and gained some confidence.
[43:55] And they don't seem to be as susceptible to manipulation anymore.
[44:07] Oh, and I don't know, for those of you who are still interested, I've had more thoughts about going back on X or Twitter, so I don't care if, I don't know if anyone's interested in that or not, but I can see a standard wherein my former demands would not be met, but I would still go back. The demands I made earlier were not met, I would still go back. All right. Nixon was sabotaged by the deep state. Yeah, of course. Yeah, for sure. I mean, Tucker Carlson has a great bit on that, right? What is the best question you have ever been asked? What is true? Somewhat interested in that?
[44:47] Yeah. So my requirements for going back on X were an apologies, a restitution, and significant guarantees that it wouldn't happen again.
[45:09] No, uh, so, uh, if it turns out, I don't know if this data will come out with Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard being in charge of, uh, national security and the FBI and so on. But if it turns out that information comes out, that there was significant state pressure put upon social media companies to de-platform people, maybe myself included, that would be a different matter. Yeah that would be that then then then that would be a different matter then it would not be a personal decision but rather a subjugation to state power, so that would bypass the need for apologies because it would not be you know like if if someone does you harm and it turns out that they you know somebody had a gun to their head that you couldn't see or something, that would be a different matter. All right.
[46:10] Yeah, you think you know it all, says the person claiming to know the inner thoughts within your head. Very true, very true, very true. Yeah, I mean, if you think your girlfriend cheated on you and it turns out she was kidnapped, then you wouldn't need an apology for her, because, like, assuming she did nothing wrong, right, she just got grabbed from someplace, then if it turns out that she was kidnapped, then you wouldn't, you wouldn't demand an apology from her, right, or any kind of restitution, right?
[46:50] All right. I will learn to survive. I love this picture of the sad Asian guy on a plane, and the caption is, when the plane just took off and you hear the doctor behind you say, I found the cure for cancer. Subtle. Very subtle. That's pretty wild. There's a quote here. We believe this breakthrough will allow us to create a truly meaningful quantum computer, not in decades, as some have predicted, but in years. A chip that can fit in the palm of your hand, yet is capable of solving problems that even all the computers on Earth today combined could not. Wouldn't that be wild? Just think of the VR you could get, man.
[47:42] Alex Berenson, for what it's worth, I have a mildly ambivalent relationship with this Twitter feed, but he wrote, I can't obviously evaluate the science, look at the data. I certainly don't have time, although I could probably puzzle it out over time. But he wrote today, a very urgent top Yale scientists have found of T-cell exhaustion. I don't know what is missing there. Found signs of T-cell or found T-cell exhaustion. So top Yale scientists have found of T-cell exhaustion and prolonged spike protein production in some COVID vaccine recipients, with spike levels increasing over time.
[48:29] And then he said about this, this is not a joke, it's as bad as can be. T-cell exhaustion and depletion are, well, they're AIDS. And the finding is from a team led by one of the world's top immunologists. We really need to know how often this is happening. And I've heard some rumblings that there might be reversals in the promotion of the vaxxers under Trump. Somebody, a garbage human, posted one of my 2014 race stats, which is homicide rates by race. And it's currently cooking at 3.1 million views, almost 100 000 likes uh interesting it's nice it's nice and interesting to see stuff i did like, 11 years ago uh popping up and getting views and everyone like wow.
[49:32] All right. I haven't talked about this with Izzy. Please come back to X. It would be so much fun. Yeah, you know, I'm a moral philosopher, right? Not a hedonist. So the fact that it might be fun is not, it's like, please cheat on your wife. It would be so much fun. It's like, I have vows, right? I have vows. So are you going to see what congressional hearings or DOGE might reveal in regards to the government threatening x or twitter well i mean it would be interesting to see if there was kind of end round around the constitution maybe not specific to me but an end run around the constitution the first amendment uh pressuring with governments uh pressuring companies to do x y or z platform or suppress or whatever it is right so and i don't think it was just x or twitter um it could have been any number of social media platforms right, Have you thought about joining Blue Sky? No No.
[50:47] Pardon me, all right What else did I have? Buche marked Buche marked, ah i thought this was really good i thought this was really good i mentioned this on a call in today this is from lucas he said normies think being in shape is expensive but it's actually the reverse not only does food cost much less you're eating less while craving less overpriced snack garbage but life in general gets cheaper it costs four times less to look good you can buy clothes in sizes that fit normal people now so they're cheap and fit better.
[51:30] Most girls will look great with just eye makeup because their skin tone eventually fixes itself. He writes, fully 98% of your health problems just go away with time. So doctors become mostly unnecessary unless you're neurotic or have a genetic condition. A lot of genetic conditions go away too because they were actually just being fat. And again, I don't know whether it's true or not, but it's interesting. Your sleep quality, he writes, goes up because even if you don't technically have sleep apnea while fat, you almost certainly have some level of obesity-related breathing restrictions that cause sub-apneatic sleep disruptions. Now you get better sleep in less time and you get a promotion because you're not a fat confused retard, he says. You don't need weird $8,000 mattresses just to be comfortable sleeping. You don't need a chiro, physio, massages, or any of the other stuff you got from sleeping on the world's most goofy mattress to avoid the 47 hot spots and spinal distortions you had from sleeping while obese. Expensive padded shoes with orthotics aren't necessary to dampen the shock of your enormous body taking steps anymore. Cheap, reliable, fun cars are usable. You can daily a two-door that gets 35 miles per hour, sorry, miles per gallon now, that you're thin enough that the Japanese consider you a human again. You can even fit comfortably in a Prius, now if that's your thing. You don't need the expensive plane tickets because you're not spilling over the armrest anymore.
[52:51] Basic hygiene costs less because you don't need weird excessive scents or 13 levels of body wash to cover up how bad you smell naturally from being obese and eating like trash. There's tons of other stuff, but in general life, just isn't that complicated when you're the size humans are supposed to be. I mean, harsh, yes, absolutely. And it's pretty cheap. I mean, I haven't had a gym membership in years. I mean, I just have a sort of little machine and some weights at home. And again, I'm not some big workout guy, but it's certainly enough to stay strong.
[53:25] So i think that's interesting also you don't need to rebuy clothes like i i can still fit into the same clothes i wore when i was 18 in fact i weigh a little bit less now than i did when i was, 18 this was interesting too why do men seem to struggle more when they catch a cold you know this kind of thing where men have cold and they take to bed and it's just terrible somebody writes, male immune systems tend to use fever rather than inflammation as an early response which makes you feel more exhausted and more likely to rest. The energy cost of fever is greater with larger body mass, but activating targeted immune responses is even more expensive. And somebody wrote, dudes posting their wins, higher testosterone equals suppressed immune response, right? So I think men and women, potentially, if this is true, men and women do experience.
[54:18] Infections and so on, like viral or bacterial, are differently, which I think is interesting and goes to some degree to explain why men have a tough time with colds. Peter Schiff, dare I say the great Peter Schiff, the S&P is not at a record high if priced in real money. In terms of gold, the S&P is worth less than 2.1 ounces.
[54:44] At the start of this century, the year 2000, the S&P was worth 4.85 ounces. So in real terms, the S&P is down 57% over the past 24 years. The nominal gain is all due to inflation, right? And you get this, right? I remember when I first started working in the business world, started making some decent coin, and it just felt impossible to get ahead. There or some bills, some tax, like something. It's just like, you just, you just can't get ahead. You make some more money and then everything gets more expensive. And you, you know, your insurance goes up, your car insurance goes through the roof because they got no fault insurance. And then life insurance goes up and your rent goes up. And it's just like, don't you get this? Like, this is the myth of Sisyphus, you know, rolling the rock up the hill, that the boulder up the hill continually comes back down, that there's this treadmill that you just can't get ahead. It's like these dreams where you're underwater and trying to run and you can't get anywhere, can't decide anything, just everything's in slow motion sickness, everything erodes, everything you put down gets beamed up by space aliens and beamed back to some other house and everything just, entropy and falling apart and you just can't get ahead.
[56:00] Maddening. Thank you, Chris. Maddening.
[56:16] Maddening. I can't hit my protein. I can't. I can't do the protein thing. I just can't get that obsessed. Do you think AI can ever achieve consciousness? I do not. The binary nature of computers is just incompatible with the multicellular synapse firestorm of the human brain. Hi, Stef. Seeing that you did shows recently about Christianity, could you share your thoughts about the encyclical of Pope Paul? The sixth development of peoples following other parts I'm curious about.
[56:55] Yeah, I'm not going to read all that. I mean, I doubt it because, I mean, I was raised Anglican. And so when I talk about the Bible, which I've read cover to cover, I have some context and some way of understanding it. But going through papal encyclicals, encyclicals, encyclicals, riding the pope bike would be sort of negative did you discuss cbs margaret brennan saying the holocaust was caused by the abuse of free speech sad state of mainstream media i mean it's just a talking point i mean the nazis were very hostile to free speech and and so on so, and the weimar republic that gave rise to the nazis was incredibly hostile to free speech so sorry bang bang crash boom bang sorry if you were napping my apologies, somebody says real estate priced in gold is even worse than the S&P I bought my house in 2010 after the bubble and I still lost priced in grams of gold yeah for sure yeah you need a place to live that's right.
[58:04] What are my thoughts on Gnosticism? What are my thoughts on Gnosticism? Gnosticism. I'm not sure I have any particularly deep or important thoughts on Gnosticism.
[58:23] I do not think that I do. Can I double click on that?
[58:37] So, Gnosticism, to me, is pretty close to mysticism. I prefer thinking with regards to external rules that you don't just pull out of your own armpit. Mysticism is, you know, insights, untestable, unreproducible, unscientific, unrational, unempirical, anti-empirical. So i don't uh i don't have any particular respect for people who view their own innards as the most important part of the empirical exploration of truth oh i had a vision man i had a thought i had a feeling i had a it's just lazy it's lazy people who want revelation over the discipline the disciplines of rational thought, people who want that are just lazy, right? Like, again, talking to a caller today, today, man, and he supported his wife for like 11 years. He supported his wife for 11 years.
[59:44] And men, you know, we're supposed to give, we give, we give, we give, right? Ask the girl out, risk rejection, pay for the dates, pay for the trips, pay for more on Valentine's Day, buy her stuff for her birthday that's more expensive usually than the stuff she buys back. And, you know, all of that, it's like men, we give, we give, we give, we pay, we pay, we pay, we lie in the nest, we lie in the bank account. And then right so men pay pay pay work work work support support support and then it's supposed to switch supposed to be a switch a little switcheroo there and the switcheroo is women are supposed to have a bunch of kids and then the work primary work the primary shifts to them so the man proves that he can provide and takes care of the woman and builds the nest buys the house you know whatever right i mean i'd be living in a one-bedroom apartment with the tv on the box it came in and a futon if i wasn't married father right my wife likes a nice place so you know she's made our place really nice and i appreciate it it's not something i would do on my own.
[1:00:50] So men work like crazy and you know create excess value build civilization get nice places throw money like a flaming fire cannon of fiat at women. And then in return, women are supposed to take up and shoulder the burden of having and raising children. Funny story. Women still want all the free shit. They just don't so much want the work that they'd have to do in response, which is the having and raising of children.
[1:01:21] Chivalry is saying to women, you can have children with me because I'm devoted to you. So women still want the devotion and the deferring and the paying, they just don't so much on average want to actually have the children that that's all for. And I think men are getting pretty sick and tired of that. Thanks for the reply, but do you not judge your empirical evidence based off the logical consistency of your interior model? What now? But do you not judge your empirical evidence? Okay, if it's empirical evidence, it's not mine. Empirical evidence is objective. It is facts about the universe and the behavior of matter and energy that come through the medium of the senses. Empirical evidence is factual and independent of consciousness. So it's not my empirical evidence. It's the difference between my favorite color is blue and this is the wavelength of blue.
[1:02:42] It's not my empirical evidence, based off of the logical consistency of your interior model, okay, logic is supposed to determine that which is potentially true or potentially false. If something is illogical or antilogical, it cannot be true.
[1:02:59] Because truth refers to things outside of consciousness, that which can be verified independent of subjective experiences and opinions, which is why there's math and engineering and physics and biology and so on, so we can evaluate things independent of mere unreproducible subjective experience.
[1:03:32] So, logical consistency means in accordance with the laws of logic which we derive from the consistent and non-contradictory behavior of matter. We have logic because the universe is objective, rational, and consistent. It's the only reason we have consciousness and a body that works, is the universe is objective, rational, and consistent. So empirical evidence is receiving the facts about the universe through the evidence of the senses. Logical consistency is to describe things that are true outside of consciousness according to the principles derived, called reason, from the objective properties of matter and energy.
[1:04:27] He says, but precisely the empirical evidence is collected by subjects, no? What do you mean by subjects? Oh, you're trying to sneak something in here. Like a subject is another word for subjective, right? So, are you saying that it requires a human being for the evidence of the senses to enter the mind? Yes, you are correct. It does take a human being with eyes to have the material facts of the universe enter the mind through the windows of the eyes. Yes, that is correct. You do need a human being with eyeballs in order for a human being to collect visual empirical information about the universe. What is that? Is that a big insight? You know, it takes a human being to see things and think about them. Yes, it does. Thank you for your contribution to the blindingly obvious game show. What does this mean? Empirical evidence is collected by subjects now, and therefore it is an amalgamation of subjective agreement. What?
[1:05:52] Okay man get your head out of your own ass just think about the actual world just you know the shit that a fucking 18 year old 18 month old understands a two-year-old understands, okay here's what i want you to do here's what i want you to do i want you to get off your ass tomorrow go down to the seashore with a friend of yours right go stand in the shallows wait for a big giant wave, close your eyes and say I don't believe in the wave, la la la no wave doesn't exist not real la la la no wave no wave no wave what's going to happen boom you're going to get smacked by the wave and thrown on your ass, just try it honestly.
[1:06:48] Things are subjective evidence of the senses is subjective, well then you can't listen to me because you're watching and listening to me that's the evidence of the senses right, so if you doubt this you can try this experiment without even going to the beach close the door and try and walk through the doorway with the door closed. Try and walk through the door. Now, I want you to close your eyes, plug your ears. You can get a nose plug too if you want. And then stand there and absolutely strongly disbelieve in the door. Walk forward.
[1:07:41] It's called object constancy, and you're supposed to learn this at about 16 months of age. Come on, man. If you think that the universe is subjective, you can experiment. You don't need to think about all of this abstract stuff. You don't need to be Gnostic. Just test it. I remember this. I remember as probably about... I was about maybe eight years old, seven or eight years old. And I got an LP, a little 45, 10 cc's, the things we do for love, the things we do for love. And I would listen to it. And I remember being kind of freaked out that it just kept looping at the end, things we do for love. And the needle would be just kind of scratching at the end there. And I remember lying in bed, listening to the song. I didn't really want to get up. And I'm like, you know what? I'm going to lift the needle and I'm going to put, because, you know, this is the big telekinesis 70s shit, right? So I lift the needle and I put it there. This is 73, 1973, right? I lift the needle. I'm going to concentrate. And I tried a whole bunch of times. Nothing happened. Nothing happened.
[1:09:01] Just, you don't need to have all of this abstract language. Just go test your thesis. If you think that reality is subjective, then try to manipulate reality through your subjective mind. Not people, reality, objective empirical reality, right? Can I put my head through the microphone? Oh, wait, let me try again. No, let me try again. No, let me try again, right? And at some point you'll be like, hey, I can't put my head through the microphone. Easy peasy, nice and easy, simple and done. Done and dusted.
[1:09:55] He says, and therefore, it is an amalgamation of subjective agreement. Nope. No, it's not. Go to the beach. Let the wave hit you and your friend. You stand there and disbelieve in the wave and see what happens. This is all eminently testable. You do not need philosophy. You just need honesty. You know you're going to get knocked on your ass by the wave. Well, I just don't disbelieve in it strongly enough. Okay, then that's a non-testable hypothesis. There's no null hypothesis, right? And thus there is a probabilistic agreement as to how many individuals agree upon a set of observations but it is ultimately still your observation, right so are you saying that the sun only exists in the sky because people just believe in it, well then you know stand out there uh in in your bathing suit with no sunscreen and just believe in the sun and see if you get a sunburn it's all eminently testable i don't know why people i don't know why people do this stuff honestly i don't understand it stop yapping and do some fucking science. Just test some stuff.
[1:11:12] Just test some stuff. You believe reality is subjective. Okay. Go prove it. Have it as a hypothesis. You are your own lab. Try. And you will fail. And you know that you will fail. So I don't know why people have beliefs that they never live by. I don't understand I genuinely don't understand that at all, it's like saying I desperately need currency and then picking up a bunch of ancient Zimbabwe trillion dollar bills that nobody will ever accept.
[1:11:50] Why would you ever want to have beliefs that are the direct opposite of everything you do all day, every day? You're literally listening to me talk, saying the senses are inaccurate, and it's just mere mutual agreement and coincidence. Well, how the fuck are you supposed to debate with me? If you think the senses are subjective and unreliable, when you're typing so I can see it with my eyes and listening to me with your ears. Why would you say the senses are unreliable using the senses? I don't understand. Why do people live in their mind the opposite of everything they do during the day? I don't understand. That just seems bizarre to me.
[1:12:45] Can you share about the development of your strength to hold and share truth the way you do takes nearly unimagined strength well i mean to some degree i come by it honestly like my, my family on my mother's side were a bunch of german intellectuals who were all chased around and suppressed during the nazi regime so they were de-platformed in a very serious manner, my one of my ancestors i mean most of my ancestors were intellectuals the shining light in my My ancestor tree is William Molyneux, who was best friends with John Locke, and they were both chased around the Irish countryside by the soldiers of the king because they had questioned some aspect of the divine right of king. So they were deplatformed and he had to flee the country. So, you know, maybe there's some just, we Molyneux and my mother's maiden name was Zickler, right? We Molyneux and the Zicklers, we say stuff and get in trouble.
[1:13:42] Now, why do I say stuff? Because fuck bullshit. I mean, it's really all, philosophy is just down to fuck bullshit. Fuck bullshit. I'm not going to talk bullshit. I'm not going to lie. Lying is what slaves do. I'm not a slave. You can't force me to lie, because that would be to be a slave. Fuck bullshit. Is the honest cry of the free soul. Fuck bullshit. You lie, fuck you. I'm going to tell the truth. I'll get punished for telling the truth. Fuck the punishments. Don't care. Tell the truth. I mean, all the people I admire told the truth, despite attacks, right? Why would you not want to be that which you admired?
[1:14:40] I don't know if it's strength, it's just, I have such bottomless contempt for the squid-beak-faced intellectual parasites that bully you into lying. I just find it repulsive. Now, of course, when I was a kid, I had to lie, right? We all have to lie as children. Even if our parents don't make us lie, we can't tell the truth in school. And you know when you become an adult you you put away childish things right, and being forced to lie as a child to me was this big giant drawn bowstring of fuck bullshit i'm going to tell the truth as an adult because that's how i know i'm an adult as a child i was a bullied slave, as an adult I'll tell the truth because that's not allowed to slaves and I don't want to be a slave my whole fucking life I don't want to can't make me.
[1:15:53] Alright thank you for the tips freedomain.com slash donate let's do another little bit of time according to the anthropic principle, is that the universe has finely tuned constants because the universe is the type that is capable of having conscious perceiving beings such as ourselves. The universe is, has objective laws, and they are finely tuned, which permits us to exist and discover those objective laws. All right, just, you know, you can check your typos. That would be helpful. All right. Is there a semi-midwit 30 to 60 second response to someone who says that there are contradictions in the laws of the universe at the quantum level, do we just tell them to pay bills or eat food at the quantum level? No, quantum contradictions such as they are all cancel themselves out long before you get to sense data. So it doesn't, they don't exist at the sense data level. The contradictions do not exist at the sense data level. So, if they believe that there are contradictions in the laws of the universe, I'd say, show me. No, no, no, they exist at the quantum level. Okay, so they don't exist at the level that we operate as biological human beings. They certainly don't exist at the moral level, because the moral level is all about empirical evidence, right? Proof of crimes and so on, right?
[1:17:16] Evidence. Beyond a reasonable doubt. Proof beyond a reasonable doubt. So, I'd say, oh, the contradictions in the nature of the universe. Show me. oh, I can't show you because there aren't any contradictions at the level which human beings operate. It's like, well, then leave the contradictions to the physicists and the moralists deal with sense data, which is not contradictory. So it doesn't matter. It's irrelevant. All right. So, which is worse? The hitman who kills for cash. Don't care. Already bored. Nobody deals with this. I love your reply, Stefan. I agree, but your statement about revelation almost completely negates the subjective experience. Don't know what that means. For example, if you personally witness that other people do not share your views, yet occupy the same physical world, therefore your subjective qualifier must be important. What? For example, if you personally witness that other people do not share your views, yet occupy the same physical world, but that's because we have free will. We have free will, which means we can choose well or we can choose badly.
[1:18:16] Are you saying that determinism or the quote objectivity or the objectivity physical laws means that everybody must believe the same thing but because people don't believe the same thing, or the same things that reality must be subjective is that is that your argument but we have free will so people can choose well or they can choose badly.
[1:18:42] So people can choose to accept evidence or they can choose to reject evidence people can choose to taste the sweet fruits of conformity or the bitter exciting, extreme sport of integrity, people can choose to empty out their souls by agreeing with idiots or they can choose the capacity of love by living for the truth, right some people smoke, some people quit smoking that doesn't mean that the universe is just a set of dominoes it just means that we have very well known choice if i close my eyes you can't see me says james yeah it really is a.
[1:19:31] So as somebody says every time i see a video of a professor arguing about how life could be an illusion slash simulation i always hope for someone to go up and stomp on their toes a lot of academic nonsense comes from people who have never experienced pain well life is a simulation means that we exist in the minds of another but a professor is a curated house cat of slavery slash domestication who is paid to propagandize people. And if he tells the truth, he'll be ostracized or fired. And you can see this in a wide variety of academics who told the truth over the years and got, you know, fired, right? I mean, J.D. Watson, was it? Watson?
[1:20:15] Of Watson and Crick, the DNA guy. Anyway, James Watson got fired because he talked about race and IQ. And he was one of the premier cancer researchers. In the planet, right? So the good news is that I don't have to care about anybody who calls people racist who gets cancer. It's like, well, that's the price you pay for getting rid of one of the most premier, or at least supporting the ideology that got rid of one of the most premier cancer researchers in the world because he said something that's scientifically true. So you get to die of cancer and I don't care because you contributed the ideology that eliminated one of the greatest cancer researchers in human history. Annoying authority must run in the family yeah maybe.
[1:21:06] I have not heard of these thinkers sorry this is priceless I signed up for rumble premium just to ask you questions well thank you I'm glad for that, I'm with Rand contradictions don't exist in reality if you find a contradiction you need to check your premises yeah I'm that's obviously yeah and she gets there from Aristotle and all of that right, Somebody clip a professor as a curated house cat. Yeah, so professors live in the minds and often the delusions of others, so they're quite compatible with the idea that we live in a curated reality run by demons because they have academic boards, right? My favorite rap song is your Eminem rap that you made over five years ago. John Locke was in that song. Thank you for sharing your lineage. That was, yeah, the Eminem rap that I did to Mark Eminem. I just wrote that in like 10 minutes and recorded it in one take with my daughter's candy necklace flashing and a do-rag on my head. And a do-rag on my head. All right, any other last questions, comments, issues, challenges, problems?
[1:22:24] Problem.
[1:22:31] I like this one. This is from Doge. I think this came out yesterday, two days ago. The treasury access symbol TS is an identification code linking a treasury payment to a budget line item, standard financial process. In the federal government, the TAS, treasury access symbol field was optional for about 4.7 trillion dollars in payments and was often left blank making traceability almost impossible as of saturday this is now a required field increasing insight into where the money is actually going thanks to the u.s treasury for the great work if you got six hundred dollars we want to trace that venmo 4.7 trillion, not so much not so much, i love how uh doge did the una reverse card on irs audits it's gonna be wild to see what comes out of that it really really is gonna be wild question Stef no they're not irritating i don't mind the questions at all yeah the podcast number is 38 55 i think it was more than five years ago i think it was longer than that but yeah somebody put it actually to rap music and all of that so.
[1:24:01] Yeah, professors live in a world of books. They're manipulated. They're slaves to the system and enslave others in their delusions in return for summers off. And Dr.
[1:24:14] Walter Block wrote an article some years ago about how great it is to be a professor. You barely have to work. You make $175,000 a year. You get summers off. You get sabbaticals every couple of years where you can do whatever the hell you want. And it's like, you know, all of that comes with a price, right, Walt? You know all of like if you talk about how great it is the question is why is it so great why is it so great i always find it funny this was one of my arguments this from a while back ago you probably haven't heard it if you've not been around for like 15 years but sort of one of my arguments was when you say well we'll just educate people on free market economics and then they'll love the free market and it's like nope and i put the challenge out to free market professors right people who teach free market economics you know they teach ervon von mises uh bastiat and hayek and friedman and all that right and murray rothbard and so on so these people are they all have phds, in the virtues and values of the free market and i said look i i'm out here in the free market i'm doing a podcast i'm i'm taking donations i'm out here in the free market maybe you know 50 years ago, 40 years ago, you couldn't go out in the free market, it'd be kind of tough, but now you can.
[1:25:29] So you want to prove to people that you believe your values. You want to live your values. What if you have the chance and it's reasonably remotely possible to do so? So I said, y'all just quit. You know, you call me, I will, I will guide you through the process for free. I will help you get set up. I will tell you the technical setup. I will tell you the feed. You can come on my show and promote what you're doing. I will give you an instant audience, but leave the fucking cloistered, bitter shit wound of academia and come out here into the glorious free market you spent your entire fucking career praising.
[1:26:10] Put your balls where your money, where your mouth is. Okay, I may have mixed that analogy a tiny bit, but you get the point. You love the free market. Join us in the free market. I will help you set up, and I offered all of this for free. Business consultation, technical setup, how to spread the word, come on my show, talk about your new podcast. I offered all of this stuff for free. How many academics quit their jobs to join the free market? How many academics who just spent their entire careers praising the free market, how many of them quit the government-protected, amniotic, womb sack of academia to come out into the free market. Zero.
[1:26:57] So they say, well, we just got to educate people on the free market. It's like even people with PhDs in the free market don't want to have anything to do with the free market. They'd rather suck off the government protected titty of academia. So education ain't going to do it. It's one of the reasons why I really worked on peaceful parenting. Oh, education, education ain't going to do it. You can give people, you can give everyone a free market PhD. You can have them work through a PhD in the free market economics, how virtuous and valuable and efficient and great and wonderful it is. And they'll still suck off the infinite government titty and destroy the next generation and discredit the free market by staying as far away from it as humanly possible, even when it's eminently possible. Oh, you know, the free market is what produces quality. Without competition, there's no quality. Oh, well, you should then improve your teaching by coming out into the free market. You'll reach far more people with far more impact. No, I am here to praise the free market, not join it. Are you crazy? I'm here to talk about how moral and efficient it is. I'm not here to be actually moral and efficient by joining the free market. Oh, my God. Crazy.
[1:28:15] Oh, dear, oh, dear. Any last tips? Come on, people. It's been a great show. John danahan did he quit his philosophy gig at columbia university to become the greatest jujitsu grappling coach ever okay but he still didn't do philosophy right, does tom woods count uh yeah maybe yeah maybe yeah no that's a that's a great point and and uh i appreciate that thank you for the correction, All right.
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