0:05 - Welcome to Friday Night Live
5:50 - War in Ukraine: A Complex Discussion
6:58 - A Shift in Political Attitudes
7:47 - Unpacking the Ukrainian War's Background
10:20 - The Nature of Putin's Ambitions
12:45 - The Epstein Documents Dilemma
13:36 - Compromised Individuals and Their Influence
17:09 - The Horrors of Historical Atrocities
18:02 - Politics in the Workplace
18:29 - The Impact of Modern Monetary Theory
21:51 - Navigating Political Conversations
23:51 - The Programming of Outrage
25:26 - Propaganda and Birth Rates
38:33 - Selling Philosophy: An Advertisement for Life
48:05 - The Reality of Personal Branding
1:08:47 - Life's Trials: This Too Shall Pass
1:11:02 - Understanding Intelligence and Limitations
In this episode, I delve into a range of pressing political and social issues, offering my insights on themes surrounding the current geopolitical landscape and the dynamics of societal change. Starting off with reflections on the recent interactions between Vance, Trump, and Zelensky, I share my thoughts on the spectacle of modern politics, highlighting the stark contrasts in leadership styles and the implications of such engagements. I express my disdain for Zelensky's portrayal and the narrative that has emerged around the Ukraine conflict, questioning the historical context often overlooked in mainstream discourse.
As I navigate through the intense implications of ongoing wars, I reflect on the human cost of conflict, particularly in Ukraine, and the narratives being spun by political leaders. My emotional response to the suffering wrought by war is palpable as I draw from personal connections to the region. The historical complexities of Russia’s actions and the influence of Western powers are examined, underlining the avoidability of such tragedies if historical agreements had been respected.
Turning my attention to contemporary issues, I tackle the contentious topic of political correctness and its influence on public discourse surrounding war and social issues. I critique the narratives that emerge when political correctness supersedes honest dialogue, urging listeners to question the underlying motives behind the propagation of these ideas. This leads to a broader exploration of how collectivist ideologies can warp our understanding of critical issues, particularly regarding gender and social behavior.
I shift gears to discuss the implications of the welfare state and its effects on birth rates and societal structures. Through various analogies, I explain how government interventions can inadvertently incentivize certain behaviors while simultaneously undermining the traditional family unit. The cultural shifts that arise in response to this, particularly among educated women, are dissected, emphasizing the tensions between personal fulfillment, societal expectations, and the biological imperatives of child-rearing.
Additionally, our conversations touch on the psychological ramifications of knowledge and truth seeking, as I discuss my own experiences in wrestling with dark aspects of history and contemporary politics. I advocate for a balanced approach to understanding moral complexities without losing sight of one's mental well-being.
Through Q&A segments, I address audience inquiries that raise thoughtful questions about personal values in times of crisis, navigating political conversations in personal spaces, and the role of philosophy in shaping our lives. I emphasize the importance of maintaining one’s integrity and virtue, especially when confronted with the relentless tide of propaganda and public outcry against dissenting views.
Ultimately, the episode serves as a reminder of the value of independent thought in the face of overwhelming ideological pressures, encouraging listeners to cultivate self-awareness and stand firm on their convictions. As I conclude, I express my hope for peace and understanding to prevail amidst the chaos.
[0:00] All right, good evening, everybody. Welcome to your Friday Night Live.
[0:05] Freedomain.com slash donate. Stefan Molyneux, your host, which would make you the parasites. Just kidding. Look at that. I asked for a donation and then insult you. Oh, well, that happens. Thank you for your patience. We had a little bit of a late start tonight for reasons beyond mortal control to do with traffic and idiots on the road. All right. Here we go, here we go. Let's get to your comments, questions, issues, challenges. All right. What do we got here? What do we got? Oh, people just talking about me being late. Fair. Fair. Yeah baby boomers were competent yeah for sure baby boomers were competent just not at maintaining and passing along the torch of humanity thank you kairos i appreciate that and.
[1:15] The call, arru, arru, that's the call of politics for me, arru, the call of politics. Did you watch Vance, Trump, and Zelensky? Did you watch that today?
[1:28] Smoking. You know, whatever you say about Trump, and I guess now Vance and proxy, and Elon Musk by proxy, it sure, thank you, Gagaudio, it is not boring, and it is the kind of stuff, that, I mean, Zelensky is just a snot-nosed comic weasel bag who has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, in my humble opinion. Not that, of course, Russia is entirely innocent, of course, right? But yeah, it is wild to just see some honesty. Zelensky coming, you know, not even in a suit to the highest office of the land. He looked kind of coked up to me though of course what the hell do i know but uh we have been alone i don't go to the people who've given you massive amounts of aid and weaponry and say we've been alone in this war oh my god just wild and there's sort of a debate online about whether he called jd vance a bitch in in ukrainian whether it's just a series of cuss words like god damn it you know or whether he called him a bitch uh either way he seems to be he seems to be kicked out of the white house.
[2:48] And it's going to be interesting to see thank you anthony so yeah it is going to be interesting to see how this plays out but it looks like america bending over and shitting money into the ganges is over.
[3:03] Yeah. Yeah. Everybody, of course, is propagandized to think that history begins five minutes ago. That there was no history, no backdrop, no background to this conflict. Just, you know, Putin just woke up one day and said, hey, I think I'll spend hundreds of thousands of lives invading a country. Yeah, just, you know, there's no history. There's no, anyway.
[3:31] Wild. Wild. But isn't it nice to see some frankness? Isn't it nice to see some frankness? There seemed to be a bit of a veiled threat. Like basically Zelensky seemed to me to be saying, if you don't, give me the money and help me maintain or keep running this war. Well, you're going to, you've got a big ocean, but the conflict basically is going to land. So it's like bad things are going to happen to you. You know, it's a nice, nice, nice little haberdashery you got here. It'd be a shame if it burnt down, but you know, maybe I can protect you from that. But in all seriousness, I mean, uh, my heart broke, uh, and my heart broke. I, I mean, I have a, one of my, one of my first serious girlfriends was Ukrainian and I learned, I guess, from her a fair amount of history. It's funny. My very, very first serious girlfriend was Russian. And then the next one was Ukrainian. Anyway, It's just a, maybe the name Stefan is an Eastern European name, but it really, it broke my heart into like a thousand mosquito-sized pieces when...
[4:44] I mean, the suffering in that war is beyond comprehension. The suffering is beyond comprehension. And what is absolutely an appalling statement is when Zelensky was complaining about being all alone in the war. And then Trump said, if we hadn't funded you, the war would have been over in two weeks. If America hadn't been funding you, the war would be over in two weeks. And just think of, I mean, I've heard, obviously, hundreds of thousands, half a million, I've heard over a million are slaughtered. And of course, the shadows, I know this from my own mother, the shadows cast by war stretch for generations. You engage in a war, you are fucking up the gene pool for three plus generations.
[5:51] And I think that the purpose, in my view, the purpose of supporting the war in Ukraine was to get more people killed. I mean, white Christians do not like tyranny. White Christians tend to be pro-free speech, pro-free markets, pro-Republican Was the purpose of the war to slaughter white Christians, As they stand in the way of what the elites want to do next, You know, sometimes I do wish there was hell. Sometimes I do. It's just absolutely appalling beyond words.
[6:58] Why did you break up with your Russian girlfriend? it. Honestly, we're talking 40 years ago. When did the Democrats become so pro-war? Well, the Democrats became pro-war when the war started to be waged against, their enemies, right? Obviously, the Democrats were against the war in Korea. They were against the war in Vietnam because that was being fought against communists.
[7:47] So, yeah, I mean, the, the, the war, the Ukrainian war was eminently avoidable. I mean, obviously I don't want to go into a big deep history thing. You, you can search on my channel for videos I did years ago about what was going on in Ukraine, which is all the backdrop for this, but, Of course, part of the end of World War II was the dividing of Russia, sorry, the dividing of Germany into East and West Germany. With Berlin, this little enclave of capitalism and a sea of communism. So East and West Germany divided. Now, of course, Germany wanted to reunite. And Russia said, well, you can reunite Germany, but you can't push NATO one inch to the East. Because remember napoleon invaded hitler invaded i mean there's been other instances where europe just russia is and we see this happening even now russia is the whipping boy of europe everything that goes wrong it's the russians it's the russians it's the russians except under communism perhaps but russia has not russia is not without historical precedent to fear.
[9:08] Invasion from the west right and so they said well you can reunite germany but you can't move nato one inch to the to the west to the east sorry one inch to the east one inch towards russia and of course boom boom boom boom boom boom boom they kept moving eastward there was a significant nazi presence in ukraine there were these uh biolabs uh weapons and they were oh it's just i I mean, come on, if you look back upon the Bay of Pigs, right, when the Russian Khrushchev moved the missiles into Cuba, that was absolutely unacceptable. So what is it when you have US-funded bioweapons on the border of Russia, and you're putting in, you're trying to get Ukraine into NATO, and I mean, come on, it's also absolutely unnecessary. Also horrifyingly, absolutely unnecessary.
[10:21] Um, and it does seem to me that Putin wants to reconstitute the Soviet Union. What you think, you think Putin wants to absorb the buffer states in Eastern Europe? I don't see any sign of that. I mean, you know that the Eastern rump of Ukraine is Russian speaking, historically russian was part of russia and that they were bombing the rebels there and a lot of 40 000 women and children died in that and they were begging for help so it's it's complicated look i'm not saying that uh that either side is is is the the prince and and the evil the good and i'm It's complicated, that's all. And we know that the negotiations were scorched, like the negotiations between Ukraine and Russia were sabotaged by the West. And those who have funded the war are responsible for its continuance.
[11:34] And it is a great mystery to me. And I don't think I'll ever truly understand, how people responsible for fomenting war, for blocking peace negotiations, and for funding a side that really can't possibly win, I don't know how they get through the day. I don't know how they sleep at night. They just feel like a very, very, they just feel like very alien kinds of creatures to me because that's not how my brain works at all. I would just be absolutely haunted by the slaughter. And if I get blood on my hands, I wash them off. Other people lick their fucking fingers and smile. It's just a different, it's just a different thing.
[12:46] But I hope that things move towards a peaceful resolution as quickly as possible. Hey, remember I said you weren't going to get the Epstein documents? I said that on Wednesday, right? It was supposed to come out yesterday so I said you weren't, I mean there's no way you're not going to get this stuff no one's going to get prosecuted, the facts aren't going to come out, the FDNY anyway it's not going to happen, sigh.
[13:36] Yeah, it's, uh, we did get them. They were just redacted. Um, no, I think that they were redacted versions of stuff that's been out for a long time. There was a civil case a year ago that got a bunch of documents out and so on. And, uh, you know, the Epstein logs don't matter hugely. It's not terrible. It's fine. Right. So who went to the island and so on, but a lot of that stuff has been fairly well known for a while. But the only thing that matters is not who went to the island. And the only thing that matters is who is subject to compromise, right? Who is subject to this kind of blackmail? That's all. That's all that matters. And thank you, Lloyd. but there is no way that you're going to get that. Sorry, it's not going to happen. I mean, this stuff's long gone. That stuff is in a vault somewhere that is not available to anybody at all. I don't think.
[14:58] Thank you, Jay. So, yeah, I mean, it's, People don't give up. I mean, that's world-shaking leverage, right?
[15:10] And it's fair, yeah, it's fair that a decent portion of people who were associated with Epstein had no idea what he was up to. Yeah, could be, could be. Could be like all the pictures of a bunch of different intellectuals sitting with Epstein, like, I don't know, who knows, right? But what matters is who's on tape, who's recorded but the underage girls, who's on tape but the underage girls. That's all that matters. They have that amount of leverage over. That's all. That's all that matters. You're not going to find that. And it's not going to be released. That's not anywhere. That's not anywhere. Let's not forget the Soviet Union killed many Russians, especially intellectuals. No one kills communists harder than other communists. Bro, what are you talking about? What the fuck are you talking about? You think the Holodomor, which starved children by the millions, you think that the children were communists, And you think that the poor peasants in Ukraine, the farmers, you think that they were all communists and they were being killed for being communists?
[16:23] Don't, don't, just to make a pithy statement, don't shit on the graves of millions of innocents. Come on. Don't do that. No one kills communists harder than other communists. No. The poor victims in Ukraine, they were not, in general, they were not communists. They were starved to death as resistance, and in part for being Christians and all that kind of stuff, right? Because communism and Christianity are natural enemies.
[17:09] Yeah, the Holodomar was insanely horrific, yeah. It is really one of the most appalling and horrifying catastrophes and most evil things that happened in human history. And the fact that almost nobody knows about it is telling, right? It's important. That's not any kind of accident. All right. I'm happy to take any other questions or issues or problems or challenges or whatever is on your mind, I mean if people knew okay let's see here.
[18:02] Oh hey there thank you Morgan I appreciate that Do you think it's best to avoid politics at work completely or just filter heavily? I don't think that there's any profit in work conversations involving politics. I don't see what the benefit would be. And it's a place of business, not a place for a political debate. So I would avoid politics as a whole.
[18:30] Oh so somebody I did a two hour debate with listeners on modern monetary theory from 2021 and, I just don't I mean I don't particularly care how accurate MMT is what I care about is government should not have monopolistic power to control currency that's all.
[19:00] Somebody says, I recently got into a brief conversation about the tragedies of communist societies, and the guy I was talking to had an interesting response. Quote, I think you can come up with a study to prove any point. He did eventually say what he brought it. But when he brought it up later, I don't think hundreds of millions of dead bodies are a study. Hmm. I think you can come up with a study to prove any point. You should ask him about global warming. Does he believe in climate change? Come up with a study to prove any point. And then the idea, of course, that you need a study to figure out that communism, dictatorship, that's immoral, that's evil. The idea you need a study for that. It's like, this serial killer is evil. Oh, really? I'd like to see a source on that. What's your study? So people who demand studies four basic moral questions are just revealing to you their sociopathy, in my view, right? They're just absolutely cold-hearted people. Absolutely cold-hearted people. Thank you, Chris. Absolutely cold-hearted people. Yeah, you have a source on that? Rape is evil. Oh, yeah, I haven't seen a study proving that. You got a source on that? It's like.
[20:25] Yeah oh it's yeah just uh stay stay away from people like that honestly uh in general, oh let's see here Stef do you have any old shows on the mismeasure of man by stephen j gould someone claims it criticizes the race iq thing oh that book has been just so severely i hate to use that phrase debunked because you know everything's debunking debunking but uh yeah I mean, you, you have to look, that was, to me, that was a sheer act of, of propaganda and, uh, he, yeah. So you need to go and just do a search on that debunked and do a look on that. So, uh, it is not, yeah, it's not valid.
[21:10] All right uh talking politics at work and in volunteer groups i'm part of often doesn't end well i've gotten quite good at feeling out who is rational enough to talk without fear of them being petty and causing drama in the workplace due to my thoughts so with regards to you know see you're talking politics they're in a cult right you wouldn't if you were a time traveler, you wouldn't go back to some really primitive religion and start talking to them about quantum mechanics and the nature of physics because you're talking science and they're in a cult.
[21:52] You're talking politics because you think about these things and you have some recent arguments and evidence.
[22:00] They're in a cult. So you would not want to pretend that people who were in a cult can be rational, empirical, objective, and listen, right? And all they're taught, they're taught this, input equals outrage. That's all they're taught. That's all they're programmed with. This particular series of words equals outrage, right? So if you say anything negative about women as a whole or anything critical about women as a whole, or even if there are facts that they don't like about women as a whole, then people get outraged and call you a misogynist. It's just programming, right? If you have questions about the value of mass immigration, you are a, that's input, output is outrage and far-right fascist. They're NPCs. So, you're trying to reason with people. They're programmed to be outrage machines.
[23:22] You're trying to have a conversation. You ever see those clown horns? Like you squeeze the bulb at the end. It makes these sounds. Right? So, you're trying to have a conversation. They're just clown honk. That's all they're doing. It's not a conversation. It's not a debate. At all. So, don't have debates with people who are in cults. You don't play chess with pigeons, even though the pigeons can knock over the pieces, right?
[23:51] So, don't bother. Don't waste your time, don't waste your energy, and don't insult the art of discourse by trying to have reasoned conversations with people who are programmed outrage machines. I mean, you saw this happen to me a zillion times, right? I talk about group differences in IQ and people are like, oh, so you believe that some groups are inferior to others? It's like, nope, don't believe that at all. I don't believe in any group, any race, I don't believe anyone's inferior to anybody else. That's not a term that science or evolution would recognize.
[24:30] Well, the black bear and the polar bear have different colored coats. Are you saying one's inferior to the other no they just adapted to the local circumstances nothing wrong at all perfect it's fine yeah so i it just people are just programmed to respond to things with outrage right they're told there's a wage gap and the reason they're told a wage gap between males and females right the reason they're told there's that there's a wage gap between males and females is so that women resent men, so that the birth rate goes down. Everything is around lowering the birth rate, particularly of intelligent people, right? So when you look at propaganda, propaganda is all focused on lowering the birth rate.
[25:18] And this happens in the manosphere. It happens in feminists, right? So the manosphere is like, oh, this is the face she makes when she's cheating on you.
[25:27] Oh, women are, you can't trust women. you're in love they're in business right she'll she'll what was it some people say she'll bring a date to your funeral like just you can't trust women right so that's just lower the birth rate propaganda crap and the other is uh you know men are misogynist and they don't care about you and they're mansplaining and bossing you around and so on right and so yeah it's just just lower the birth rate stuff it's all you know a lot of leaves one tree trunk right a lot of leaves one tree trunk just about um making sure that men and women don't get along lower the birth rate blah blah right?
[26:02] So, when people are just propagandized and they don't even know it, you know, like the people who were like, oh yeah, Trump called Nazis very fine people, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right? He dumped all the fish food and he told people to inject bleach into the veins, right? So they're just programmed with stuff, right? They don't have any thoughts of their own. they don't have any opinions of their own they're not reasoning with anything and so on, so yeah I mean a.
[26:43] Let's see here. Oh, what do we got here? Ah, I found one conservative friend quoting on leftists from my last gig. I'm grateful. We were the only ones on our team willing to throw a joke as well as to share a laugh, but not an easy climate. Yeah. If asked a reasonable question, then freak out. All right. That's a great way of putting it, Stef. One of the group chats from my volunteer work were just discussing this Trump Zelensky stuff. In his mind, Zelensky won that and stood up to the orange turd while heroically fighting for his country. Come look at some of Zelensky's old dance routines. I mean, come on, man. I'm not saying don't have fun dancing, but it's not a serious person. All right, somebody says my boss is Christian. He's a good man and I like him. One day we were talking politics and I mentioned 9-11. He told me he refuses to look into certain things because it will break his worldview and he can't handle it. I was perplexed. What's wrong with that? I don't, what's wrong with that? What am I missing? What's wrong with that?
[27:55] Are you saying that there's no, there's nothing that you fear to dive into for fear of it being harmful to your mental health? I don't believe that. I don't believe that. I mean, there's stuff that I don't look into for fear of it being harmful to my mental health and happiness and stability. Why? I can't fix it, right? I mean, we've all heard these absolutely grim theories about things, and I'm not even going to get into the details. I'm sure everyone knows what I'm talking about. But, yeah, I mean, I'm not following certain – I don't follow certain rabbit holes. I just – I don't.
[28:44] I know that there's evil in the world. I think I know how to effectively combat it, which is, you know, listen to people, get them out of corrupt relationships if they can't redeem them or reform them. Peaceful parenting, moral clarity, right? But there are things that I don't want to look into because they're just too absolutely dark and murky, right? So there's stuff that's like really, really, really dark. There's not a lot of verification. It's kind of murky, and I don't think it would be a productive use of my time as a whole, and I think it could be unpleasant to just know any of that stuff.
[29:31] So maybe you're made of stronger, sterner stuff than I am. That's fine. I'm certainly not any kind of rock here. but, the idea that yeah, your boss I'm not going to look into 9-11 because, I can't go there, it would make me incredibly depressed, like if you found out some things or whatever, and again, you know there's these rabbit holes and there's no answers, I mean, I did this about 9-11, I mean 15, 17 years ago, I had this whole series of shows, because, you know, we had a lot of truth or assert on the message board, and I was like, the amount of immorality that governments do around the world, you don't need to catch them on one thing. You just know by principle, right? All right. In your estimation, what percentage of the world population are NPCs? My guess is about 85 to 90 percent. Well, I think the baseline would be the people getting vaxxed, and it would go up from there. That was a measure, right? That was a measure.
[30:50] Somebody says, I watched your work about child sexual abuse throughout history. I had to abandon it for my own mind. Yeah, I get that. I don't think that was mine. I think I just read it. I think you're talking about the late Lloyd DeMoss' The Origins of War and Child Abuse, which is important it's an important work though i can completely understand why you would abandon it for the sake of um that right because you can't solve all of that in the world and you you do have to limit i'm sorry i wouldn't say you for me for me for me it's important i have to limit my exposure to evil as a moralist i have to limit my exposure to evil to me it's like uh you're working in a nuclear power plant right and you gotta limit your exposure to radiation.
[31:35] And I'll work with radiation, I have to limit my exposure, right? I got to wear the lead suit, I got to not go too close, I got to limit, I got the timer, I got the Geiger counter, right? And this is an old argument of Nietzsche's, right? To be careful when you wrestle with monsters too long that you do not become a monster yourself. Or the other thing, when you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you, which is about the blowback from evil. So for me, maybe it's different for you. Again, maybe you're making a stoner stuff than I am. That's totally within the realm of possibility, of course, right? But for me, I want to have a loving, happy relationship with my wife, my daughter, my friends, my work. And for me, I just have to limit my exposure to evil. I mean, if you're a surgeon, I assume you don't spend your days off watching the surgery channel, right? I mean, that would not be healthy, right? You need to take a break from contact with evil. Otherwise, it can, I think it can endanger your stability and happiness. And the other thing too, I think is important for me is that as a philosopher, I'm a bit of an advertisement for philosophy, right? I mean, if you come up with a great new diet, you should not be fat, because you are a walking advertisement for the diet.
[33:01] If you've got some great new workout routine, you know, a couple of ropey muscles wouldn't be the end of the world, right?
[33:11] So, as a philosopher, I'm a walking advertisement for philosophy.
[33:21] So, if I am a walking advertisement for philosophy, and yet I have delved too deep, right, like at the bottom of Moria is a bull rug, right, you delve too deep and too quickly. If I stayed in the abyss of evil to the point where I had trouble getting out of bed in the morning, would that help or hinder the spread of philosophy? Well, I think it would hinder it, it would say, oh, so philosophy leads you to these terrible things, right?
[33:57] So, again, I'm just making the case here that you seem to be shocked and surprised, that your boss doesn't want to look into the origins of 9-11. Okay, so let's say he does go down this rabbit hole. Let's say he believes, you know, the jet fuel can't melt steel beams and the, you know, 2000 engineers like, oh, let's see. Okay. So what? So then what? His government did an evil thing. I don't think you need 9-11 for that. I mean, you don't. You don't need any examples. You just know it morally, right? And what would it change? And now he has an obligation in the business world, if that topic comes up as it does, to, uh, it's uncomfortable. How does it benefit him? Oh, but it's the truth. But everything's the truth.
[34:52] I mean, if you learn how to speak Japanese, you can speak Japanese. But how does that benefit you? Right? See, you can't just have the truth. You got to sell the truth. I know this from the business world, right? I created great software. It did sweet fuck all until I got off my ass, got out into the world, and spent two or three weeks a month traveling around to make sure that people knew about my software. Right? I went to sales pitches, didn't request for proposals. I went and gave presentations at conferences. I just did all kinds of great stuff to get the word out there, right? UPB sitting on my shelf isn't going to change anything. It's not enough to have the truth. That's fine. It's good to have the truth, but you got to sell it. And if you don't, evil will sell what they do. Everybody's out there pitching. everybody's out there trying to get everyone to adopt their own particular worldview and perspective ideas and arguments blah blah blah so if you're not out there selling virtue, reason truth facts but if you're not out there doing that you're just seeding the whole conversation to the bad guys because they're pushy as hell when it comes to selling their stuff right.
[36:13] Like either you're selling people health food or other people are giving them drugs like bad drugs like street drugs right.
[36:25] Either you're out there inspiring people to exercise or other people are out there stapling them to a couch. So, so you have to, to, to, to be philosophical, you have to spread philosophy. You have to have a glow. You have to have an enthusiasm. You have to have a clarity. You have to have quality relationships. You have to be reasonably healthy and you have to take care of yourself because you are an advertisement for philosophy.
[36:56] You can't spread virtue just by typing or by reasoning. You have to have a whole body cell, which means, and I talked about, uh, Dr. Roderick long about this many years ago, who at the time was, was to me at least a hundred, 150 pounds overweight. It's like, but you're selling philosophy. So don't be fat. I mean, I'm not, I'm not a skinny guy, right? But you know, pretty healthy. Work out, watch what I eat. I weigh less now than I did when I was in my late teens. So, you know, just be the reason you're selling. And you don't see people with bad teeth in dentist commercials. You don't see people with bad skin in ads for dermatology clinics. You don't see people with bad hair or no hair on the walls of the barber shop. It's all guys with great hair, right?
[37:56] You're in the business of selling things. Oh, but it shouldn't be that way. But it is. You know, it's important to not deny reality. And if you've never bought a diet book with a fat guy on it, you have no right to talk about these things, right? If you've been inspired to work out, like I knew a woman once who put a picture of a skinny woman on her fridge so that when she opened the fridge, wanted to eat something, I want to be like the skinny woman, right?
[38:28] So, you're in the business of selling philosophy, of transferring philosophy.
[38:33] And the way that you do that is if you want to sell something, you got to have something that people want. Right? Arnold Schwarzenegger writes a book on diet and exercise. Why? Because he's got a physique that people want. Right? There's no point. One of his kids was kind of tubby. I don't know if he still is. There's no point that kid doing a diet and exercise book because he's 50 pounds overweight.
[39:05] Come on. Are you going to see women selling makeup who aren't wearing any makeup or who have bad skin? Nope. This is Life 101. If you want people to adopt your beliefs, you got to have something they want. they're not just going to listen to reason and evidence. Everybody knows that it's a basic fact.
[39:35] And these basic facts, people resist, because it's a lot easier to lecture other people than it is to have a great life yourself. But if you want to tell people, hey, I know you believe all these things. They're absolutely kind of really false. And not only they're false and they're immoral. And not only they're moral, but you've been propagandized. And you don't actually think for yourself. Okay, why would people listen to that? And why would they take a leap onto your little wobbly iceberg of facts? Because you got to have something that they want.
[40:07] I think, to some degree, I have a life that sane people would want, right, I came from a bad background, been happily married to a wonderful woman for almost a quarter century, you hear the shows with my daughter, I have a great relationship with my daughter, we love each other very much, and I do meaningful work, I'm healthy, exercise, eat well, have good amounts of energy, look pretty good for a guy pushing 60. Seriously, come on. Not bad. Not bad, right? Because I'm aware. It's not fake. It's real. You know, the guy who wants to sell the diet and exercise program, might go lean and cut and dehydrate a little for the cover photo, right? But his muscles aren't fake. They're real. And what I do in life, my experience, the happiness that I have, it's not fake. It's real.
[41:20] Fail. So before you go talking to people about what you want them to believe and what you think they should know and all the facts that they ignore, if you don't have something they want, you're going to fail. You got to have something they want. Got to have something they want. Come on, we know this, right? And you're the same way. Don't pretend you're above it. Don't pretend you're above it. Don't even try. We're visual creatures, particularly men. Got to have something that you want. Now, if you delve too deep into the ugly world of immorality and you end up kind of depressed and alienated and struggling to get through the day, you've just messed up your capacity to transmit truth, reason, and virtue. that's no good, that's no good and then people can say oh man yeah remember that guy he was really into philosophy he got so depressed he couldn't get out of bed we don't want any of that.
[42:32] Come on, man. Everybody, you know, oh, I just, if people don't want the reason and the arguments, why do I care if they, what do I care if they, but you should care. The spread of virtue is important. The spread of virtue is important and you have to have something that people want. I mean, if you look at Andrew Tate, obviously it's gaudy, low rent, muscles, chicks, and cars display. I get that, right? But he has something that men want. He's, you know, got a confidence. He's got a swagger. He's got the muscles. He's got the money, the Bugattis, right? So he's got something that people want. So look in the mirror and you say, am I a good advertisement for truth, reason, and virtue? Am I? Am i if people didn't know that i was into philosophy am i a good advertisement for truth reason and virtue, do i have reasonable degrees of passion do i have self-control.
[43:48] What is my posture? What is my bearing? Am I kind but firm? Do I have boundaries and compassion? Am I sensitive, sympathetic, but not a pushover? Have I achieved, as best as we can, the pendulum of the Aristotelian mean? Yes. Yes. Good. Good. Then you have something people want. And if you have what they want, they'll listen to what you say. If you don't have what they want, they won't listen. I mean, come on. You're at some dinner party and some guy who weighs 350 pounds is trying to give you some lecture on how to eat well. You're going to roll your eyes. And you should. Life is short. Maybe he's got the very best diet in the known universe. But who cares? He's clearly not smart enough to know that if you're going to lecture people about eating, you shouldn't be obese.
[44:45] Some guy... You know, man, quitting smoking is super important. I know exactly how to do it, effort-free. Oh, man, can I buy my cigarette? Right, I mean, that's just, that's not even good comedy. That's just so bad, right? Just so bad. Like some, you know, 250-pound, half-balding, neck-beard, basement dweller with bad teeth telling you how to pick up girls and be a player? Come on, you've seen, look at the Huberman thing, you know, the muscles and the big beard. I looked like a man, right? Come on, man. Jocko, you know, you gotta have the look. You gotta have the image.
[45:27] It's just a lot easier to lecture people than it is to be someone who has something that they want. Are you someone who has something that people want?
[45:45] I mean, some of you have been around here for years or decades, right? Let me ask you this. Right? And you can be honest, and maybe I'm mistaken. I'm obviously happy to get people's feedback. But would you say that there are aspects of my life that you would want? Aspects of my approach to problems aspects of maybe assertiveness aspects of self-confidence aspects, aspects of maybe some physical strength and health a loving relationship like there are some aspects of my life that you want and listen if I knew you there are some aspects of your life that I would want I get all of that so I'm not like oh praise me right but there are and if I don't have that, right if I don't have any aspects of my life that you want, why would you listen to me? Right? And again, it's mutual. It's mutual. There are things in your life that I would want. Ah.
[47:04] So people are saying, yes, yes, no question. Yes, white pill to relationship, career, physicality, happiness, honesty. You have a beautiful wife, a loving daughter. Yeah. Some, I want all of what you got. Okay. And I appreciate that. And I, you know, I say this with all humility. I've really worked hard to try and get this and to achieve it and to maintain it. So it's a lot of work sometimes, but it's well worthwhile. And again, if you and I were in a room, that'd be aspects of your life that I would want. And we would cross pollinate that way, right? Right. But if I don't have anything you want, why would you listen to what I say? Would you take financial advice from the homeless guy? Even if he seemed perfectly sane, you wouldn't take financial advice from the homeless guy because you wouldn't be able to get over the fact that he was homeless, right? I'm going to tell you how to create real wealth. Just step into my cardboard box and we'll discuss how you can become fantastically wealthy, right?
[48:05] Definitely wouldn't want to live in Canada though. well i did not choose to live in canada but that is where it is so.
[48:22] That's, it's an old saying that I heard. I'm sure you heard it when you were little. And the saying is, I can't hear what you're saying over what you're doing. Right? The sound from what you're doing is drowning out what you're saying. Right? I'm sure you wouldn't go to a dentist with bad teeth. Although there was an old riddle. It was an old riddle about you go to a town and there are only two barbers. Do you go to the barber with the great haircut or the guy with the bad haircut? Well, you got to go to the guy with the bad haircut because he's giving the other guy the haircut. So you go to the guy with the bad haircut because there's only two barbers. So it was a little logic puzzle that a friend of mine's dad, who was an engineer, gave me when I was a kid, which I now remember all of this time. This time lately, right? Would you like to have your, you know, life's work scrubbed from consciousness and still be pretty happy afterwards? Or happier? I'm happier. It's been four and a half years since deplatforming. I'm happier. I'm happy. So.
[49:25] So, I mean, I think I've showed some fair robustness, right? I mean, it shows through cancer or all kinds of stuff, right? All right. All right. And it's not trying to praise myself. I'm just saying this is for you. If you, if you don't have things that people want, don't talk to them about ideas. All right. You ever run into someone who tried to use a personal grooming trait as a substitute for a personality? We hosted a bucket truck safety course last year with an expert who hadn't worked on bucket trucks in 20 years. The trainer was the most boring person I have met since high school, and his entire personality consisted of his ridiculous Hercule Parrault fancy mustache. My boss hated that he paid good money for a walking, breathing PowerPoint. I don't know really that that adds much to the conversation. All right. Uh, I wish I could have had family many reasons. I never had the chance, but my advice is if you can do it, you never had the chance. Were you locked up unjustly? I'm not sure what you mean. You never had the chance. That's, that's a pretty bold statement to make.
[50:37] When I wrestled, the coach recommended a nutritionist who was fat and had bad teeth. I ignored the diet he planned and just ate meat and vegetables and kept the calories out above. The calories in worked great. I'm sure your coach was getting a kickback. Yeah, but facts speak for themselves. Truth doesn't sell, and choosing to ignore these things can be dangerous for everyone else. What do you mean facts speak for themselves? What are you talking about? Facts speak for themselves? No, they don't. that's just a saying so that people don't have to get into the arena of battling evil with reality facts don't speak for themselves.
[51:18] Do you think UPB spoke for itself I mean it's been a moral logical principle since there was the universe do you think it just speaks for itself I don't need to do a thing I don't need to lift a finger I don't need to write a book or do presentations I have debates or anything like that, facts don't speak for themselves, at all but people who don't want to get into fights they put out the facts and say hey man facts facts will facts will speak for themselves it's like no no that's your job i mean if you want to cuck out and then just be honest about it but don't pretend that the facts are going to grow, wings legs and a voice and go chirp their barbaric yawps from the rooftops of the world all right somebody says do do do birth rates go down because women get indoctrinated in school and college, or do educated women naturally have fewer babies because freedom leads to individualism, hobbies, career, and independence, otherwise activities associated with feminism? Why else is there a drop in birth rates in every country that allows women to choose anything other than marriage and childbearing?
[52:19] Well, there certainly is indoctrination, but if intelligent women naturally have fewer babies, we never would have developed intelligence as a species. Please understand this. Just grind this into your testicular region or ovary core, if that's your XXXY inclination. So if intelligent women naturally gravitated throughout our evolution to having fewer children, we never would have an IQ above four. So, we have intelligence as a human characteristic because more intelligent women had children. And the way that this worked throughout human history was very simple.
[53:10] Intelligent women would get wealthier husbands. Wealthier husbands could afford more children, right? So, if you look at the Jewish community, and I talked about this years ago, the Jewish community, the rabbis tend to be the most intelligent and the most educated, and they have the most children. And rabbis do not choose dumb women because intelligent men do not want dumb women to have children with, because you can't have a conversation for 60 years with a dumb person. So, you want an intelligent woman as an intelligent man. Intelligent men have more complex affairs, they have more complex households, they have more complex business dealings, so they need a more intelligent wife to help them manage their lives, because their lives as an intelligent, educated, materially successful guy. And of course, as you know, education, intelligence in particular is highly associated with income. So intelligent guys got intelligent women, because they needed them. Intelligent women got intelligent guys who made more money than less intelligent guys, and therefore the intelligent guys and the intelligent women could have more children, not than the masses as a whole, but per capita, right? So that's how it worked. And that's why we have intelligence. So this thing where, well, gee, smart women don't want to have kids, totally new. It's totally new.
[54:37] Now, of course, yeah, I mean, part of it's propaganda. I get all of that. But the question is, why are people susceptible to propaganda? Why are women susceptible to propaganda.
[55:00] So, I mean, a lot of it comes back down, as so many of these things do, to the IQ discussion, right? So, if women understood, because you know the tale of IQ, right? At the very highest level of IQ, there are almost no women. Now, there are also not that many very low IQ women. They tend to cluster more around the middle of the IQ band, right? So, women are often sold this, well, you'll have this extraordinary life, and you're going to do this amazing stuff. And you're going to argue cases in front of the Supreme Court and be a neurosurgeon and all these kinds, and you're just grandmaster and blah, blah, blah, right? Now, that's just not true for the most part, right? Again, at the highest levels of IQ, there are almost no women, right? And you can get mad at me. I don't care. It's just facts. Getting mad at facts is boring. It's like watching a bird attack. It's reflection in a mirror and thinking it's winning a fight. You're just fighting with yourself and your programming. and I sympathize with that, but I don't care. So, women are led with vanity, and they're told, oh, you have all these wonderful things, but most women don't have careers. Most women, most people don't have these big, exciting, wonderful, grand careers, great careers. They have jobs, and the jobs are probably pretty repetitive, and the jobs are probably pretty boring, and you're not, you know, skirting and shooting along and surfing the foaming edge of human excellence, right?
[56:18] That's not, it's like that Romeo and Shell reunion movie where these women who haven't really accomplished much of anything pretend to be the women who invented the post-it note, right? The sticky post-it note. Jeanine Garofalo, I think sets everyone straight. So it's not, it's not, it's not real. So women are just like, oh, you're going to have this great career, you're going to have wonderful power, boss baby, you're going to be a boss baby, you're going to be Taylor Swift. It's like, no, you're not. Nope. Infinitely more likely to win the lottery than to be as successful as taylor swift, and even taylor swift half of her songs come out of dripping the lemon juice of, bad dating standards into her eyeballs so it's just vanity you'll have this oh you know tippers if you could help out a little bit here we've had 50 bucks on the tip here so far a little bit more, uh at fdr freedom main.com slash donate but yeah if you can help out you can produce you some interesting, good work here.
[57:18] I would appreciate that. Zimf says, thank you for the tip. He says, this has been a great live stream, and I want to thank you again. I really don't believe I'd be alive if it wasn't for coming across your content. I think about that nearly every day. I've been a mess up over the years, but I can't even imagine how dark things would be had I not learned all that you have taught me. Well, I appreciate that. And philosophy saved me. I'm just paying it forward, man i i would be a wretched terrible human being or god help me a politician or a sophist so almost certainly given my language skills so i am very very three uh very uh thrilled that it helps you philosophy saved me i'm trying to pay it forward i do really really do humbly and gratefully and deeply appreciate appreciate that and i'm very happy to hear that congratulations, so
[58:07] The primary reason, this is the case everywhere you go, you find me a place where there's no welfare state and no laws artificially inflating the wages of women, right? That's all I need, right? That's all I need. Show me a place where the birth rate has collapsed. I mean, if you look at Japan, Japan is incredibly feminist. Japan has crazy laws transferring money from men to women.
[58:35] And you look at the 1960s revolution, equal pay for work of equal value, of course, that's a subjective standard and so on. But we abandoned the free market in order to prop up the wages of women. One of the reasons why Doge is so terrifying is that women get artificial wage increases by, well, you can't ask them if they're going to get pregnant. You can't ask them if they're married. You can't ask them if they're going to have, if they're even thinking about babies right so you can't ask any of that uh and and also you um you have to pay them equal even though there's the they work fewer hours right than men in general women work fewer hours than men and then they're also inflated uh with you've got to have 50 percent women so this is artificial demand and also they're inflated because uh women work for the government where they get these massively inflated wages. So women, the way it used to work is intelligent women would trade babies for the wealth of their husband, right? The husband would have wealth because he would be intelligent. So women would trade babies to get access to the wealth of their husband.
[59:38] I mean, just the love and all of that, but sort of bare mechanic. Right now, women get the money without having to provide the babies. Society is very happy to give 90% of its wealth to women, right? Women make 80, 85% of purchasing decisions, certainly around household stuff. Society's thrilled, happy, and overjoyed to give tons and tons of money to women. In return, women are supposed to give society children, you know, so things continue, right? And we don't just end in an orgy of self-indulgence. So that's the deal, right? Now, if a woman wanted an intelligent guy and a wealthy guy, she'd have to give him lots of children. I mean, in general, the way that women got their income was in the provision of children. That's why men have evolved to be so productive. It's why we have this significant 40% upper body strength increase, and we have stronger bones, and we have stronger tendons, and stronger muscles, and this is why more concentration and more endurance. We evolved all of this stuff so that we could give 80% to 90% of the wealth that we create to our women and children. That's why women are weaker, because men do that kind of labor. Now, women do incredibly important and immense labor as well. Raising children is a big, massive, important job. Absolutely. Right?
[1:01:00] So the more intelligent the woman, the more children she'd be expected to produce and bring to adulthood, right? Because again, looking at the Jewish community, the more and the most intelligent of the males have the most children. You can see this, not my making this up. You can look at this, one of the reasons why there's a sort of third point increase per generation, right? So, a woman who wanted the protection of an intelligent man and the extra wealth of an intelligent man would get him in return for having more children because he'd be able to support more children and without birth control, right? So, women got their financial security and comfort in their old age. Women got all of that from providing children. Now, you can agree or disagree, but I'm telling you, that's how it was. And now women get massive excess pay relative to the direct value that they provide and this is true of all men and women in the government service for the most part right so they get massively increased subsidized pay and benefits they get the maternity leaves and they get, welfare free health care old age pensions and also they get which is a relatively new phenomenon they get because they outlive their husbands usually by five to seven years so they also get the life insurance which is considerable.
[1:02:29] And then their children take care of them in their old age if the life insurance isn't enough and they'd have their kids so they want to be part of that right none of this is to say that there's anything good or bad or right or wrong i'm just telling you the mechanics of it so, women used to be women used to win the lottery by having babies now women win the lottery by voting.
[1:02:53] Getting free money like if you got, if you won the lottery five million dollars was deposited in your bank account would you work hard for the rest of your life probably not you'd probably take it easy certainly if you didn't like your job or if your job was difficult and tough and emotionally draining you wouldn't do it right, So when you force transfer, male resources to women, right, and studies have been done on this, men are significant net contributors to the government system and women are massive net withdrawers from the government system. Men contribute about double, right, women withdraw about double. So society and through the state, right, is shoveling massive resources at women.
[1:03:47] Without the requirement that women have children. I mean, if you were a guy and you were your wife and you were raising five kids, would you give a third of your income to the lonely spinster down the road? Well, of course not. She'd have to find her own way because you've got your wife and kids to take care of. So when you shovel money at women through the power of the state, you kill the birth rate. Because it's easier to take money and not have children, than to have children. Having children is hard work. I mean, if you've been a parent, I don't have to tell you this. Having children is hard work. So if you can find me a place where money is not shoveled at women all over the place, affirmative action, equal pay for work of equal value, massive amounts, trillions of dollars being poured into women through bullshit government work. If you can find me a place where the birth rate has collapsed and massive amounts of money are not being funneled towards women, I will revise my thesis. But I've not seen it. Doesn't mean it's not there. Obviously, I haven't studied every country, but that's the way that it is. All right. Bo-doom-boom. Let's see here.
[1:05:04] And thank you again, Simph. I really do appreciate your kind words. All right loved your idiot show hopefully that was a show about idiots all right i want to be uh i want to keep being an idiot and found and set up a therapist i i didn't sorry i didn't want to keep being an idiot uh thanks a lot for the kick in the ass hope to pay you back soon i appreciate that thank you success is the result of good preparation yes women do labor men women have labor. I mean, that's clever, but again, raising kids. Roger Waters said this, the, the, one of the singer and bassist for Pink Floyd, he said, you know, doing a show like The Wall, that's easy, man. Raising a kid, that's hard. Does voting correlate with why, if you are attractive enough to the woman and approach her, you get rewarded? If you're not, you get labeled a creep, possibly shamed. Or if I say at a gym, ban for harassment, if I say at a gym, awful system out there.
[1:06:11] Well, so does voting correlate? I'm not sure. Sorry, I can't quite unpack that one in my mind. Could be my own limitation. So sorry about that. All right. You're right. honored to be acknowledged by Stefan, glad to be a donor. My rabbi has 12 children. His junior rabbi has 12 too. However, rabbis' wives do not attend college and have no careers. In spite of their IQ, they are theologically indoctrinated to be submissive housewives since birth. This is antithetical to the tenants laid in UPB, which I read twice this week. Well, again, I'm not going to get into, you know, my non-deep knowledge of Jewish theology and practices, says, but I would assume that a rabbi who has to know, like, I don't know, four languages and memorize crazy amounts of stuff, right? And so I would assume that a rabbi, as a very intelligent man, wants an intelligent wife. Otherwise, I mean, he just doesn't want a woman who's really dumb because he wants to talk.
[1:07:11] Jew's not averse to chatting, from what I remember. So, yeah, so he's going to want to talk so all of that so no question at the moment just to support the show thank you i appreciate that appreciate that all right what else we got here ah this is follow-up to wednesday, i talked to my boss after the stream this is the guy uh sorry i think it was a woman or a man who has a boss as a five-person company two of the secretaries were corrupt and one of them um kills herself with a 38.
[1:07:53] Uh, okay. Talk to my boss after the stream. We realized we'd been talking at each other, but not to each other. I learned secretary in question had been on a disciplinary plan. He had given her a timeframe to improve her performance or be let go. Also, he had talked to both the boyfriend and her and tried getting them into premarital counseling. Previously, he had asked them directly if they had been sleeping together and they both emphatically said no to his face.
[1:08:14] I'm sorry. I dumped this on the last stream. The last two weeks have been awful. The work has been brutal. Another employee negligently cut themselves with a chainsaw. another quite directly after i've been sick my boss is sick we've had a tire blow out and it's all been in the shadow of that suicide we don't intend to hire corrupt people we both take people as their word until we see otherwise we don't want to deal with this ever again and won't ignore red flags in the future yeah you know uh there's a great phrase uh is it from hamlet yeah when trouble come troubles come not in spies but in battalions and there are times.
[1:08:48] Whether it's coincidence or whether it is bad mindset leads to bad outcomes but there are definitely times in life where it's just this one goddamn thing after another it's an old cartoon i remember seeing as a kid you know two couple of demons running down the street and one guy looks at us one goddamn thing after another and there are times in life where it just feels like you're just lurching like a pinball bing bing bing from crisis to crisis problem to problem and then there are other times where it's fairly smooth sailing but you know they say trouble comes in threes and and all of that and there do uh there does tend to be these kinds of clusters obviously massive sympathy for you your boss and everyone who's suffering in these situations it does feel overwhelming but you know that old it's a bit cheesy but it's important to remember i think you know this old magic ring right the magic ring it makes you happy when you're sad but makes you sad when you're happy and the magic ring people can't figure it out until they lift it up look and in the inscription it says, in the inside it says, this too shall pass. This too shall pass.
[1:09:49] And you'll be out of the woods, out of the chaos, out of the valley of the shadow of darkness and life will improve and it'll be fine for a while. Bad thing will happen. Cluster of bad things will happen. You know, it's just the way that life is because we have a government and dysfunctional people. So, this too shall pass. And I really sympathize with everyone involved. and if of course of course you don't intend to hire corrupt people but intentions don't matter, what matters are results and if there's anything that I've done or anything I can do to help you avoid these kinds of situations again in the future I will consider that time well spent so I appreciate the update thank you very much, All right, let's see here. I was always told that I had above average IQ. So I don't think I'm intelligent. So I think I, sorry, sorry, I'm just reading badly today. Sorry about that. So I think I should probably zoom in the text a little bit. These are old glasses so you don't get the full-on finding Nemo.
[1:10:55] Full-on aquarium eyeballs. All right, let me try this again. I was always told that I had above average IQ. So I think I'm intelligent.
[1:11:02] How do you determine if you are truly smart or whether you have fallen into the midwit trap? How do you determine if you're truly smart? Usually, it's if you take joy in thinking and don't run into limitations. You absolutely want to focus in life on whatever area you have that you enjoy and don't hit limitations. So, I've done a bunch of things, of course, in the past where I've hit my limitations. Philosophy is the one area, I've yet to hit my limitations, and I keep pushing myself and pushing myself, I've yet to hit my limitations. So focus on wherever it is that your nature and your mind and your body work in synchronicity to lift your limitations. Whatever you take pleasure in where you have no limitations, that's what you should be doing. So if everything has limitations, then you're probably not super intelligent, but if you have one area where you don't have limitations, do that.
[1:12:01] Okay, if they can get resources by voting someone to take it, women don't have to settle. So they can hold the double standard. Government will always be there to bail them out, so they can be shallow about men. A midwit isn't defined by being just above average IQ. A midwit uses that little bit of extra processing power to flaunt their assumed superiority and engages in pseudo-intellectualism. Yeah, that's true. Higher q means being too smart for low-paying jobs and too many disabilities for high-paying ones, oh asperger's lousy parenting adhd learning disability and erect back and knees starting as a daily teenager oh that's you okay sorry i thought you meant in general i thought you in general all right well i think i'm sorry there's such a short show tonight believe it or not i have oh i was out doing a bunch of stuff today and i've got more stuff to do tonight i really do apologize for the short show but um also a sunday sunday chatty sunday we're going to on sunday going to start at 1 p.m because i'm going to church all right so i hope you have a great evening uh love you lots if you're listening to this later and you found what i do to be of help freedomain.com slash tonight really would appreciate if you could do it before midnight it's a short month so it can be a little bit brutal on the oil finances but if you could help out. I really, really would appreciate that. Thank you so much, my friends. Lots of love from up here. I'll talk to you soon.
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