Wresting With the Dead:  The Unexamined Life - video Dailymotion

Stefan Molyneux

Chapters  0:00 The Inspiration Behind Wrestling with the Dead Series 0:35 The Rule and Its Consequences 0:57 The Judge on the Pillar 1:13 Observing the World's Descent into Chaos 1:54 Evil's Persistence Despite Philosophical Guidance 2:45 The Truth Behind "Crazy" Concepts 2:58 Embracing the Seemingly Crazy Truths 3:15 Philosophy's Failure in Protecting from Evil 3:58 Reevaluation of Rules Based on Consequences 4:41 The Questioning of Philosophy's Purpose 4:53 Revisiting Socrates' "Unexamined Life" Statement 5:04 Challenging the Value of Self-Examination 5:48 Examining the Lives of Powerful Figures 6:25 Questioning the Value of Self-Reflection 6:55 Examining Lives of Those in Authority 7:18 The Empirical Evidence of Self-Examination 8:20 Reconsidering the Value of Self-Examination 9:15 The Failure of Philosophers to Combat Evil 10:06 Philosophy's Role in Preventing Evil 10:55 Philosophy's Value in Moral Guidance 11:17 Philosophy's Alleged Role in Power Dynamics 12:07 The State's Influence on Philosophy 12:27 Wrestling with the Failure of Philosophy 13:34 Disempowerment through Doubt and Skepticism 14:20 The Paralyzing Effect of Doubt in Society 14:56 The Illusion of Secret Misery in the Powerful 15:22 The Love for Power and its Realities 15:47 Understanding Human Attraction to Power 16:34 Challenging Notions of Misery in Power 16:53 The Subjectivity of Self-Examination 17:43 The Legal System's Treatment of Socrates 18:05 The Lack of Answers in Moral Discourse 18:36 The Illusion of Misery in the Powerful 19:08 Examining Hitler's Unexamined Life 19:57 The Lack of Progress in Self-Examination 20:27 The Impact of Philosophical Pursuits on Society 21:01 Philosophy's Influence on Societal Development 22:02 Uncovering the Scam of Philosophy 22:34 Moral Certainty and Relativism 23:11 The Paralyzing Effect of Epistemological Doubt 24:04 The Impact of Doubt on Society's Defense Systems 24:41 Doubt's Influence on Public Discourse 25:31 The Delegation of Societal Control to the Decisive 26:15 Challenging Notions of Self-Examination  Long Summary  The speaker delves into the significance of their series, "Wrestling with the Dead," presenting a deep intensity and energy behind their work. Drawing inspiration from the movie "No Country for Old Men," a quote regarding the futility of rules that lead to undesirable  outcomes is explored. The focus shifts to the role of philosophers over 5,000 years in combating evil and protecting humanity, highlighting the failures in preventing atrocities like democide and the rising tide of corruption. The speaker questions the effectiveness of philosophical teachings in addressing societal evils and laments the lack of progress in promoting virtue and battling malevolence. The theme of examining life's purpose and the efficacy of philosophical doctrines is scrutinized, challenging the notion that the unexamined life is not worth living.  The discourse examines historical and contemporary examples of individuals who wield power

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00:00 So I will tell you the reasons

00:02 Fundamentally behind my wrestling with the dead series why it's happening why it's so important to me

00:08 Why this so much I don't know if you can feel it this peculiar but deep in

00:12 Intensity and energy behind what it is that I'm doing

00:15 So there's a movie that makes no sense

00:17 but has some great scenes in it and no country for old men by the Coen brothers and in it Tavir Barden plays a

00:23 hit man whose only real crime is his haircut and

00:28 He has a statement which is very sort of deep and powerful

00:32 when he's gonna kill people and

00:35 he says if

00:38 The rule you were following brought you to this of what use was the rule if the rule you were following

00:46 Brought you to this of what use was the rule?

00:50 So I stand and I feel this height

00:55 And rightly wrongly I just tell you my experience you can judge it for yourself, of course, but I feel this height

01:01 I'm on this very tall pillar and

01:04 I'm a judge and the judgment is reason the judgment is not me and

01:09 I look at the assembled throngs of prior philosophers and

01:14 I look at the world that is descending into chaos and evil and

01:21 The job of the philosopher is to protect human beings from evil to identify evil

01:27 to give people the tools to

01:29 Understand it to oppose it to diminish its power and effect right? The purpose of a doctor is to keep you healthy

01:35 To protect you from disease and decay as best you can the job of the philosopher is to protect you from evil

01:42 To keep you from corruption and falsehood as best you can

01:46 for five thousand years

01:49 philosophers have had one job which is to protect humanity from evil and

01:54 We have listened to them and we have followed their rules and we have tried to combat evil yet evil remains

02:00 ascendant in the world

02:03 Democide in the 20th century, which was the murder of

02:06 people by their own governments not even including war as you well know was a quarter of a billion people the

02:13 death count of communism well over a hundred million fascism

02:17 tens of millions

02:19 So it's in terms of the death count. It's getting worse far worse

02:24 so for me what I do and

02:27 I'm I recognize and it doesn't matter to me right the vainglorious aspect of it the megalomaniacal aspect

02:34 I'm gonna judge all the philosophers I get it's crazy, but it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter that you think it's crazy

02:39 I mean relativism the theory of relativity seems crazy right time slows down as you get faster that seems and who cares

02:46 Seems crazy. It doesn't matter if it's true. I

02:48 Mean the fact that the cure for bad speech or hate speech or what it is more is more free speech, right?

02:54 The cure for bad speech is more speech that seems non-intuitive, right?

02:57 But it's still true the fact that the world is round when it looks flat seems crazy doesn't matter

03:05 Doesn't matter that it seems crazy what I'm doing. The question is is it true?

03:09 so we have listened to philosophers for 5,000 years and

03:14 Here's where we are as a species

03:16 Child abuse in many ways is getting worse because of the destruction of the nuclear family

03:21 Massive debt is enslaving the next generation

03:24 Childhood quote education is almost pure

03:27 brain-shredding indoctrination

03:30 Counterfeiting is the coin of the realm in every country in the world

03:35 So this is five thousand years of listening to philosophers who have one job which is to protect us from evil

03:42 And where's evil? So this is why wrestling with the dead is so important to me

03:47 philosophers have given us all these rules these arguments these ideas these perspectives these

03:52 Syllogisms it's given us they've given us all these rules and we try to follow them

03:59 But as the hitman says in no country for all men

04:02 if the rule you followed brought you to this of what use was the rule isn't that the empirical evidence of five five thousand years of

04:12 Philosophy is this

04:14 Where virtue has been allowed to flourish and productivity has been allowed to flourish only to serve evil

04:19 capitalism was allowed

04:22 to flourish in order to provide resources that could be stolen by evildoers and in order to provide collateral through which the

04:29 General population could gorge themselves on the flesh of future generations with massive hysterical

04:34 hyper-moralizing consumption in the here-and-now

04:37 we have followed philosophy and

04:40 Philosophy has brought us to this if we followed philosophy and philosophy has brought us to this of what use was philosophy

04:45 to wit

04:47 Point in case today's wrestling with the dead is Socrates favorite same famous statement to the unexamined life is not worth living

04:53 The unexamined life is not worth living

04:57 Well, isn't that just?

05:00 obviously completely totally and plainly false

05:04 But you think Genghis Khan?

05:08 examined his life and delved into his history and tried to understand his own motivations and dealt with his trauma and his abuse and

05:14 Napoleon did he know?

05:17 yet

05:19 It seems like they very much enjoyed what they did because they kept doing it even when they weren't paid

05:24 I mean if you look at the sort of adults cryptkeeper

05:28 Gerontocracy that runs most Western countries these people could have retired

05:34 Decades ago. I mean they could have retired

05:37 30 40 50 years ago

05:39 at least for politics and would have had more than enough money for the rest of their lives given the

05:43 Skeevy trades that they often do I assume with some level of insider information so they could have not

05:50 They don't have to get up and do this

05:52 Do we think that?

05:55 senior powerful politicians have examined their own lives and

06:02 Understand themselves and have applied Socratic skepticism to their own moral certainties of all of course not

06:09 We're ruled entirely by people

06:11 Who don't examine their own lives?

06:13 Who are swept up in the mammalian Nietzschean will to power and domination and theft that has characterized most of human history

06:22 In almost every place people have ever lived

06:25 The unexamined life is not worth living tell that to the various

06:30 Soft and hard dictators around the world the unexamined life is not worth living tell that

06:35 to the people making a massive amount of fortunes of

06:38 pillaging childhood innocence and happiness for the sake of environmental hysteria

06:42 What about the people who peddle endless lies in the media?

06:47 What about the people who rich and poor who feed off the body politic in the military industrial complex the welfare warfare state?

06:55 the people who run

06:57 various shadowy security organizations or alphabet soup

07:01 Organizations throughout the West the unexamined life. I mean the literally people stops the peace process in

07:08 Ukraine

07:11 Resulting in the slaughter of what half a million people

07:13 Is their life the unexamined life is not worth living. No, no quite the contrary

07:18 I mean if you just look at the empirical evidence and of course Socrates had no shortage of empirical evidence in his day

07:26 About the unexamined life and whether it was worth living

07:29 The unexamined life is not worth living

07:32 my gosh

07:34 the unexamined life is

07:36 The best short-term strategy to acquire resources for your offspring

07:43 because you're not bound down by

07:47 ethical hiccups and concerns and you're not overburdened with empathy and you can

07:52 pillage and

07:55 exploit and

07:56 Destroy and consume at will

07:59 Without interruption without hesitation without end. Well, I mean the end being the mathematics of pillaging which is always a general collapse

08:08 But the predators that live among us

08:11 Do they say? Oh, well, you know, I guess my life isn't worth living because it's unexamined

08:17 The unexamined life is not worth living

08:21 Yet he who increaseth in knowledge also increaseth in sorrow

08:25 The unexamined life is not worth living. I mean it does seem to me quite the opposite that

08:31 the powerful who have not examined their own lives rule over us with an iron fist and

08:37 Obviously consider their life well worth living because they continue to do it even when they don't have to

08:43 Right, whatever a man does after he wins the lottery is what he most wants to do and the people who are into political power

08:49 Will generally hang on to that political power as long as possible and give it up

08:53 Only when dead or some term a bit kicks in or something like that, right?

08:58 So they love doing it even when they've made more than enough money to retire

09:02 Right. I remember John McCain with this big giant tumor coming in and voting in some things like man

09:09 Just spend some time with your grandkids. Like what are you doing? You're dying and you're voting you're being mr. Politics

09:16 Huh? And yet people repeat this as if it's some deep profundity despite all of the empirical evidence of the brutal

09:24 Oligarchical hierarchies of power that grind human being into regular atomic bloody dust

09:30 Every day almost everywhere that human beings exist

09:33 Have you known?

09:36 people who do great evil

09:38 Who repent and reform themselves?

09:41 no, they continue they double down and so on and there's a reason why in Christianity the treasure of

09:47 The persecuted is in heaven because it ain't gonna end in the here and now

09:53 now philosophers

09:55 Have either been

09:57 unwilling

09:59 To end the scourge of evil or to give humanity the tools to oppose the scourge of evil

10:04 They've either been unwilling or unable now if philosophy is unable

10:10 to prevent evil

10:12 then

10:13 It's like a doctor who says or medicine as a whole will be unable to prevent disease. So it's a scam, right?

10:20 It's a scam if you claim that wisdom and knowledge

10:25 Reason equals virtue equals happiness

10:27 But you can't deliver it then it's a scam, right?

10:32 It's like somebody who sells you dousing rods and then says oh this is how you'll find water or you know

10:39 There's six million different scams around the world where people make claims completely unverified

10:44 You know read this morning on X the dodge of band the Japanese government has banned mRNA shots. It's no sorcerer

10:51 It's no reality doesn't appear to be true

10:53 Maybe just say stuff. It's a lie and it's a scam

10:55 So if philosophy is a lie and a scam then people should stop pretending that such a thing as morality

11:00 People should stop pretending that there's such a thing as virtue or can be achieved or whatever right? Because then

11:07 What philosophy is really for if it's not true, right?

11:11 If it can't protect human beings from evil or even to find it we're given the tools to oppose it or prevent it. Hopefully

11:16 then it's a total scam and

11:19 If it's a total scam

11:21 Then what it what it is invented for is to keep the conscientious and the morally sensitive

11:27 from competing with the brutal and the dominant right to keep the empaths from competing with the sociopaths right to keep the

11:34 Quote moral people or the nice people from competing with the immoral people, right?

11:38 So philosophy is then intended to serve the cold-hearted

11:42 red

11:44 fisted grabbers and holders of power

11:47 It's there to prevent opposition

11:49 to those in power, right

11:52 It's there as a tool to subjugate. I

11:54 Mean you can sort of see this with Hobbes famous statement that in a state of nature man's life is solitary poor nasty brutish and short

12:03 Right, so without government, we're all dead from it's just there to serve the state, right?

12:07 Just there to serve the state now Hegel's right

12:11 I mean

12:11 The state is there the world spirit moves through particular governments who have dominance over

12:15 the rest of society when the world spirit chooses to give them dominance over the rest of the world and and so on not a great

12:21 Idea to give Germans as a whole given how efficient and occasionally cold-hearted they can be as a culture

12:27 So yeah the idea that philosophy

12:31 Cannot protect you or the understanding that philosophy historically has not been able to protect people from evil

12:35 Either in the political life or in their personal life. This is a very important understanding to have it's failed

12:42 It's failed the wrestling with the dead is

12:45 Why did you deliver us unto evil?

12:47 Why did you deliver us unto evil?

12:50 either you didn't know what you were doing or

12:54 You colluded with evil and that's why you're promoted. Of course. I mean may there were really great

12:58 maybe there were really great philosophers in the past who didn't collude with evil but

13:02 We don't know of them because they would have vanished and been suppressed and right all of that

13:07 But why why did you deliver us?

13:10 Why is there being a big giant conveyor belt the moralists have set up constructed and hit the accelerate button on that is delivering

13:16 Human beings into the furnace into the furnace of raw power and disassembling us to our component atoms as time goes on

13:22 Why have philosophers delivered us unto evil if we followed their rules and their rules have led us to this world of

13:30 What use were their rules?

13:32 Of what use were their rules?

13:34 The unexamined life is not worth living

13:37 What he's doing then is he's saying well, you should examine your life. You should think about thinking

13:43 you should be skeptical you should be doubtful you should be this and that just

13:46 disempowers people

13:49 in the face of the brutality of

13:51 the decisive souls unburdened by empathy or

13:56 sensitivity or doubt

13:58 Right if you want to beat a really good chess opponent and you can somehow convince that chess opponent opponent

14:04 But there's no such thing as chess or his hand or gravity or the the pieces can arbitrarily change their definition

14:11 there's no such thing as victory and

14:13 He should doubt everything that he sees and does you've paralyzed him and you've eliminated him from the chess competition

14:20 Sowing the seeds of doubt is a way of keeping the morally sensitive from competing

14:25 with decisive brutes that compose

14:29 the majority of those

14:32 Who manage and murder mankind?

14:34 The unexamined life is not worth living

14:37 there are

14:40 serial killers who live to a ripe old age who

14:43 Really really really don't want to get caught and enjoy killing

14:46 It's it fair to say that a serial killer mass murderous life is unexamined. Yes. Is it not worth living?

14:53 Well, no, but secretly he's miserable. You see in it

14:56 And there's no evidence was secretly right some politician who rules and trades and becomes fantastically wealthy and lies and is corrupt

15:03 No, no, no, but secretly they're super unhappy and and and deep down. It's like based on what?

15:10 the fantasy that there's a secret misery in the furnace hearts of the

15:14 Amoral power seekers is what was the evidence?

15:19 Where's the evidence?

15:21 They keep doing what they're doing. They love what they're doing. They don't quit

15:24 You've got politicians in their 80s still continuing. They love doing what they're doing. They enjoy it. They get happy about it

15:31 They get fantastically wealthy. They're famous. They have a lot of power and people love power. Everybody loves power

15:36 I mean moral people love power over themselves through discipline and certainty and virtue and

15:43 Immoral people love power over others through lies and brutality. But yeah people love power

15:48 We didn't get to be the apex predator of the species by not loving power the people love power and they oh no

15:55 But secretly they're addicted and secretly there is lucky. Okay, I understand that

15:59 Now once or twice in my life have managed to confront evil people and see the hellscape that goes on inside

16:05 but

16:07 There's no particular evidence that the people who?

16:11 Gain and achieve power are secretly miserable

16:16 If we judge them by the empiricism of their actions, they like doing what they're doing

16:22 They enjoy it. They return to it. They won't quit even when they're old and

16:27 Could and have more than enough money for ten generations. They keep doing it. No, no, but secretly they're miserable

16:35 No, that's just a that's the curse of a slave, right?

16:38 The slaves curse is to believe that the slave is superior and happy and the master is secretly miserable

16:44 But if the master is secretly miserable

16:47 Why does everybody want to be the master and not the slave?

16:50 The unexamined life is not worth living. What does this mean now?

16:54 Socrates could say the unexamined life is not worth living for me

16:58 The unexamined life is not okay. I prefer the examined life. Okay, then it's a subjective preference

17:04 But to make it some kind of objective statement is so crazy and and absolutely anti-empirical

17:10 I mean Socrates of course lived during the time of mass enslavement

17:13 mass wars and and death and the corruption of the body politic and the

17:18 Subjugation of other cultures and nations and their his own culture and nation. He lived with Miletus

17:25 Oh Miletus you have brought these charges against me for not believing in the gods of the city and corrupting the youth

17:30 But but your life is not worth living Miletus. My life is worth living. Well who lives and who dies?

17:36 Miletus lives and Socrates is killed. Ah, but he lives on forever in our hearts and must he dies

17:43 Socrates examined his own life and

17:46 The legal system was used to destroy him by a man. I mean, this is the sort of famous exchange, right?

17:52 I'm at the beginning of the trial and death Socrates

17:56 Miletus you say that I harm the youth of Athens then you must know very much what improves the youth of Athens because I'm not

18:01 Doing that. So what is it that improves the youth of Adams of Athens, right? Well and Miletus has no answer

18:08 He's no answer. And of course you can see this

18:10 Global warming people who are put in front of competent scientists have no particular answer

18:16 Well, you see but their life is unexamined and therefore it must not be worth living yet. Still they continue

18:22 They do not stop

18:24 they do not question they advance and

18:27 Expand and control and grip and crush and subjugate and steal

18:33 No, but it's not worth living

18:36 It's literally like the zebra running from the lion saying you'll be sorry if you eat me

18:40 No, he won't it'd be damn well satisfied. I

18:44 Remember one of the secretaries in Hitler's sort of final bunker in 1945 in Berlin

18:50 One of his secretaries was you know, when they realized everything was over and I think he announced he was gonna kill himself

18:56 so he wouldn't be taken captive and

18:58 She thought that there would be some important revelation or some no, he just repeated all the same stuff. He'd been saying

19:04 All the same to a paranoid garbage that he'd been saying for decades just there was no change

19:10 No, right. He just was the same at the end of his wretched life as he was throughout his wretched life

19:15 One of the greatest enemies to civilization who's ever ever

19:20 existed

19:21 so

19:23 Nothing changed

19:24 His life was completely unexamined. I mean Hitler was

19:27 Beaten into a coma by his father and blamed everyone and everything else and of course in particular the Jews who harmed him the most

19:35 his father and

19:38 Everyone rushes to external explanations for highly personal abuse

19:41 If he had processed and dealt with child abuse, he would never have wanted to rule and he would have done great good

19:48 to the world rather than the endless evils and the destruction of

19:52 civilization that his actions

19:55 engendered

19:57 There's no

19:59 revelations, there's no

20:01 Examination, there's no progress. I mean I myself have had some deeply evil people in my life

20:09 They don't examine themselves. They don't learn anything. They don't understand anything and yet they continue. Oh, but it's not worth living

20:18 for you

20:19 for you

20:20 but if

20:22 We say well Socrates really liked to examine his life. That was his hobby. That was his preference

20:27 Did it provide us any?

20:30 bulwarks or shields against evil

20:32 Aristotle's eudaimonia

20:36 Pursuit of of excellence in the field of virtue with the highest good and happiness. Okay

20:42 Has that stopped child abuse has that stopped predation has that stopped solved war and debt and enslavement and the theft of?

20:49 counterfeiting

20:51 Through statism. Nope. In fact, it's much larger and worse now

20:55 Much larger and worse now in many ways

21:00 Than in his day. I mean the weapons are bigger the debt is larger

21:05 The monitoring of the citizenship is wider

21:09 The indoctrination is greater in many ways

21:12 Now we better if

21:15 philosophers say and have for 5,000 years

21:17 listen to us will cure you of an illness and the illness gets bigger and worse over 5,000 years and

21:23 I'm aware, of course, you know, there's

21:26 More wider property rights than there were back then but they're going in the wrong direction

21:30 There is a wider

21:33 Human rights as a whole there's more free speech in many ways, although it's going but it's going in the wrong direction, right?

21:38 So this is a brief

21:40 You know 100 150 year

21:42 200 and change for America. It was a

21:46 detour

21:48 which did not take and

21:50 In many illnesses, there is a rallying and recovery before a continuation of the decay

21:55 And it's not so much that philosophers haven't given what they promised. It's that they don't seem to notice

22:02 That's to me where the scam is

22:05 the philosophers don't seem to notice that they haven't provided what they promised the

22:10 identification of protection from and

22:14 Reduction of evil. I

22:17 Mean how many philosophers are saying the 5,000 year journey of philosophy?

22:22 Has not produced its stated goal

22:25 Humanity is not wiser humanity is not more virtuous

22:29 Humanity is not more rational and in many ways is less so

22:34 Relativism is a decay for moral certainty. Even if the moral certainty is based upon

22:40 Unprovable or unproven

22:44 suppositions

22:46 Moral relativism is a decay from moral certainty, which is why those

22:50 Who want to oppose a society?

22:53 Ask questions of the moralists without providing answers to the doubt. That's just a way of paralyzing

23:00 It's fine to say how do you know what you know as long as you provide a methodology for that which I did

23:05 You know 17 years ago in my introduction to philosophy series, which you should definitely check out if you haven't introduction to philosophy series

23:11 It's fine to say to people. How do you know what you know as long as you can provide them an answer?

23:16 But if you simply say to people, how do you know what you know? How do you know what is true?

23:21 How do you know what is good and all of that what is free will without providing an answer?

23:25 you're just paralyzing them and

23:27 paralyzing

23:29 moral certainty and epistemological certainty is how you

23:32 Take down the defenses of a society so that you can take it over

23:37 Which is why people instinctively understood. Why did they vote to put Socrates to death? They instinctively understood

23:46 That the pathological doubt that Socrates was infecting their society with would cause the decay and destruction of their society in relatively short order

23:54 He was a virus

23:57 That did not attack

23:59 the cells

24:01 Did not attack the body it attacked the immune system. I guess the t-cells I so

24:06 pathological relativism subjectivism and

24:09 Epistemological doubt

24:13 it attacks the defense system called certainty particularly moral certainty of the society now a

24:18 Virus that attacks your defense system doesn't now a virus that attacks your immune system

24:25 Doesn't kill you but it lowers the gates for every other virus and bacteria to kill you

24:31 Right a targeting of an air defense system doesn't destroy the country, but it allows if it's successful for the

24:39 planes to come in and destroy the country

24:41 the pathological doubt

24:44 removes

24:46 the most skeptical and the most intelligent and the most curious from public discourse leaving it open to

24:51 the virus of

24:54 pathological certainty

24:55 Doubt in fact the most conscientious. Well, I wouldn't want to say I'm certain about something when I'm not certain about something

25:02 And I guess it's really important to be honest

25:03 And I don't want to say things that aren't true and I don't want to claim a knowledge

25:06 I don't have a bloody bloody bloody bloody blah all of those people you kind of wanted the public discourse

25:11 but people like Descartes

25:13 people like

25:15 Nietzsche people like Hume and

25:18 Kant and so on all the people I've talked about in the history of philosophy Bishop Berkeley

25:23 What do they do?

25:24 They infect people with doubt

25:27 Which does not solve the problem of certainty. It simply

25:32 delegates the running of society that to those who have no doubt and

25:38 Don't care. They don't care. They want power. They want control and it's not a matter of intelligence

25:46 but if

25:48 You are decisive

25:50 You're playing chess with me. You are decisive and I'm not even sure if the chessboard exists who's gonna win the match

25:56 UPB fixes all of that

25:59 My focus on childhood abuse fixes all of that, which is why I'm

26:03 placed outside of society

26:05 Thumping on the dark glass as the horrors unfold within

26:09 For as long as I can watch then I'll stop even doing that

26:12 The unexamined life is not worth living

26:15 Tell that to Caesar tell that to Alexander the Great

26:20 Tell that to

26:22 the rulers of various dictatorships around the world

26:24 Tell that to people running central banks. Oh, no, but the unexamined life is not worth living

26:29 They just stare at you like yeah, okay go go tell the conscientious that and keep them out of her way

26:35 There's people repeat this stuff and I don't know so this is why the wrestling with the dead stuff is really really important to me

26:41 Yeah, we've listened to a bunch of philosophers. We've listened to hundreds if not thousands of philosophers over the course of

26:48 human history and we followed their rules and all their rules got us to where we are now and

26:54 since all their rules and

26:56 questions and skepticism and doubt and syllogisms and reasoning and arguing and debate and right since all of their rules

27:03 Got us to where we are of what use

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