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Philosopher Stefan Molyneux unpacks ego-driven trauma faking connections, childhood neglect's wreckage, Christianity's masculinity erosion and ad psyops to arm you with honest parenting and ethical unbreakable bonds.
Questions:
"Why are most people so quick to protect their ego and so strangely unwilling to fully dissolve the trauma they both received and inflicted?"
"Childhood neglect. Who do you put it down as more damaging than physical abuse? What makes it so insidious in your opinion?"
"Can you talk about intentions, particularly in others, and when we should trust them? How about intuition, which seems closely related."
"Debate: humans are in consciousness, not of consciousness."
"Could you elaborate more on the downfall of masculine traits in Christendom? How it used to be, when it started to change and why, and how it could be put back on track."
"Do you think Trump's actions in Iran can be best explained by bribery, blackmail, deception, or ego-maniacal hubris?"
"A lot of private companies collect data on customers to sell for advertising purposes. Do you think this practice would still occur without the state benefiting from this surveillance as well?"
"When can we expect more peaceful parenting content?"
"What is philosophy? In one sentence."
"What is the definition of morality?"
"What is the most sinister Propaganda push currently, in your opinion?"
0:00:00 The Ego and Truth
0:02:53 The Insidious Nature of Neglect
0:07:51 Understanding Intentions and Trust
0:18:18 The Downfall of Masculine Traits
0:25:36 Solutions Through Freedom
0:28:36 Engaging with Peaceful Parenting
0:29:43 Balancing Conversation Length
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Questions:
"Why are most people so quick to protect their ego and so strangely unwilling to fully dissolve the trauma they both received and inflicted?"
"Childhood neglect. Who do you put it down as more damaging than physical abuse? What makes it so insidious in your opinion?"
"Can you talk about intentions, particularly in others, and when we should trust them? How about intuition, which seems closely related."
"Debate: humans are in consciousness, not of consciousness."
"Could you elaborate more on the downfall of masculine traits in Christendom? How it used to be, when it started to change and why, and how it could be put back on track."
"Do you think Trump's actions in Iran can be best explained by bribery, blackmail, deception, or ego-maniacal hubris?"
"A lot of private companies collect data on customers to sell for advertising purposes. Do you think this practice would still occur without the state benefiting from this surveillance as well?"
"When can we expect more peaceful parenting content?"
"What is philosophy? In one sentence."
"What is the definition of morality?"
"What is the most sinister Propaganda push currently, in your opinion?"
0:00:00 The Ego and Truth
0:02:53 The Insidious Nature of Neglect
0:07:51 Understanding Intentions and Trust
0:18:18 The Downfall of Masculine Traits
0:25:36 Solutions Through Freedom
0:28:36 Engaging with Peaceful Parenting
0:29:43 Balancing Conversation Length
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00:00Hope you're doing well, everybody.
00:01Stephen Mullen, you from Freedom Main.
00:03And questions at the end of, almost the end of March, 2026, from X.
00:12Question.
00:12Why are most people so quick to protect their ego
00:15when so strangely unwilling to fully dissolve the trauma
00:17they both received and inflicted?
00:19A fine question.
00:21And this is, of course, the basic question of why do people choose vanity over truth?
00:27Well, it's one thing I've learned in almost 60 years on the planet.
00:31You can't change your mind without completely disrupting your relationships.
00:36Do people like you for you?
00:38Or do they like you because you agree with them?
00:42Foundational question.
00:44If people like you for you, yourself, your thoughts, your virtues,
00:49your interests, your communication, whatever, sense of humor,
00:51if they like you for you, then they have no problem if you change your mind.
00:56In fact, they would probably not like you as much if you didn't change your mind
00:59when better information came along.
01:03So, most people, though, don't like you,
01:08but they like your agreement with them.
01:11You have shared delusions.
01:13Most people have false identities based upon shared delusions.
01:18Those delusions could be religious.
01:19They could be political.
01:21They could be about the virtue of a dysfunctional family.
01:23They could be about ignoring the elephants in the room.
01:26They could be about any number of things.
01:28Most people, frankly, are barely sentient from a philosophical standpoint.
01:33They don't think for themselves.
01:34They don't reason from first principles.
01:35They don't accept reason and evidence over conformity and delusion.
01:41And so, most people are protecting a false identity by merging with shared delusions.
01:50And so, it's not really their ego that they're protecting.
01:53It's their historical drive to survive.
01:57Tribes fought over delusions.
01:59We're superior.
02:01You're superior.
02:01God has chosen us.
02:02Chosen us.
02:03God has chosen someone else.
02:05So, it's just a bunch of shared delusions.
02:08We're the greatest.
02:09You're the worst.
02:10I mean, this is back to stupid sports ball stuff, right?
02:13You're watching costumes.
02:16Not people.
02:19So, most people had to surrender any particular sense of individuality or thought in order to survive the tribe.
02:28To get the protection of the tribe, right?
02:30The tribe gives you protection in return for the dissolution of your independent thought.
02:35And that's really been the big battle.
02:36So, most people, they just evolved to be machines of compliance in order to reproduce their genes.
02:42They're barely sentient from a philosophical standpoint.
02:44That is just the way of the world.
02:46We're aiming to change that over time.
02:48All right.
02:49Another caller.
02:51Oh, I saw another watcher, listener, reader.
02:54Childhood neglect.
02:56Why do you put it down as more damaging than physical abuse?
02:58What makes it so insidious in your opinion?
03:01Right.
03:01So, for those of you who don't know, it's just my particular rankings.
03:05Lord knows I've had decades of talking to people about childhoods and its effects.
03:10So, hopefully this has some authority.
03:13But of the four types of abuse, from worst to least worst or less worst,
03:23the worst is sexual abuse.
03:26The next worst is neglect.
03:28The next worst is emotional abuse.
03:33The next worst is physical abuse.
03:36Sexual abuse, I'm sure we don't have to get into.
03:38This is just the most horrendous violation of a human being that is possible outside of murder.
03:44The next worst is neglect.
03:48Because if your parents are angry at you, if they yell at you, if they hit you,
03:52if they call you names, if they get outraged by your presence, the gap set, you have an effect on
03:56them.
03:57And you serve some utility to them, which is to discharge the venom of their messed up personalities.
04:03So, at least you're a target and therefore have value to them in a horrible way.
04:08And therefore, they will work to protect you.
04:12And therefore, you have some modicum of security.
04:17It's sort of like if you're a hostage and they're trying to ransom you for $5 million,
04:23but you have to be alive and healthy, then they will keep you relatively healthy because you have value to
04:29them.
04:29And therefore, they're not going to kill you, right?
04:31At least in the short run.
04:35But if you no longer have value as a hostage, let's say,
04:40whoever the hostage takers are trying to get the $5 million from,
04:43that person says, there's no way I'm ever going to pay that $5 million.
04:45I'm not getting one red cent.
04:47It's all over.
04:48Well, then you no longer have any value to the hostage takers.
04:52And therefore, your life is in great peril.
04:55And so, if you don't serve any value to your parents,
05:00even as a punching bag for their irrational anger,
05:04then you go through a catastrophically deep level of anxiety and dissociation.
05:10And you tend to try to make yourself as inconspicuous and non-difficult and non-chafy
05:16and non-resistant and non-individuated as possible.
05:20Well, because if your parents neglect you,
05:23they're kind of signifying that they have no bond with you.
05:26They don't care if you're there or not.
05:28They're indifferent to your existence.
05:31And therefore, you are in grave, great and deep danger.
05:36The greatest danger in many ways,
05:39outside of sexual abuse, of course.
05:41And so, neglect is really terrifying to a child.
05:46But imagine if you're in the woods,
05:50marching around with your dad in the middle of nowhere,
05:53like some Appalachian trail or Algonquin trail,
05:57like really, really deep woods kind of stuff.
05:59Well, imagine if your father is angry with you
06:04and snaps at you to stay close and don't wander off,
06:06but he's angry with you for some reason.
06:08Well, that's alarming,
06:11but at least you're safe from the woods.
06:14If, however, you lay down to rest, you fall asleep,
06:18you wake up and your father has just left
06:21because he kind of forgot you were there.
06:23Now you're in deep doo-doo, right?
06:25I mean, now you're alone in the woods
06:27and you could call out,
06:29but who knows where he's gone and so on, right?
06:32I remember when I was a little, little kid,
06:34maybe three or four years old,
06:35I was in Ireland with my father and he just lost me.
06:39I don't know what happened.
06:40I just remember being in a police station for a long time.
06:43Before he came to get me,
06:45my father was horrifyingly neglectful.
06:48As a father, when I was younger even,
06:52he was playing tennis and let me wander around
06:55the tennis area.
06:57I was, and I ended up crawling into a garden shed
07:01and I, I guess I was thirsty or something
07:04and I saw a can of something and I drank it
07:06and it was weed killer and it was almost fatal.
07:10It was not, not an ideal parenting situation.
07:13I think this is one of the things that
07:15had my mother leave my father,
07:17which, you know, but you know,
07:18I'm sure, I'm sure it was a great game of tennis.
07:20So that matters, right?
07:21So neglect is really terrifying
07:24and recovering from neglect.
07:26See, if your parents are mad at you all the time,
07:28at least they have some emotional connection to you.
07:30You serve some purpose to them.
07:31You have some value, even as a punching bag.
07:34If your parents are indifferent to you,
07:36it's really hard to shake
07:37that feeling that you just don't matter,
07:39that no one's ever going to care,
07:40that you kind of don't exist.
07:42Very, very hard to shake.
07:43And it's harder to get angry at neglect
07:46than it is to get angry at other kinds of abuse.
07:51All right.
07:52Let's see here.
07:53Julia asks,
07:54can you talk about intentions,
07:55particularly in others,
07:56and when we should trust them?
07:58How about intuition,
07:59which seems closely related?
08:01Yeah, I have a deep and abiding hostility
08:04towards claims of intentions.
08:06Claims of intentions
08:07are almost always gaslighting and insults.
08:12So, if someone does something
08:15that is, you know,
08:16kind of objectively annoying,
08:18and you say,
08:20what you did was just annoying,
08:22and they say,
08:23I didn't mean to.
08:24I didn't mean to be annoying.
08:25I didn't mean for any of this to,
08:27then you have a problem, right?
08:30They're putting a real problem in your lap.
08:34Now, if someone says to me,
08:35what you're doing is annoying,
08:37I generally,
08:38I mean, obviously,
08:39I'm not perfect this way,
08:39but, you know,
08:40my general approach is to say,
08:41tell me more.
08:42Tell me more.
08:43Tell me what,
08:43when did you find it annoying?
08:44What did I do?
08:45Blah, blah, blah, right?
08:47I mean,
08:47if I was reading something
08:50on my tablet,
08:51and my daughter was trying
08:52to tell me something,
08:53and my eyes kept wandering back
08:54to what I was reading,
08:56my daughter would say,
08:57that's annoying,
08:58or that's kind of rude.
09:00And I should say,
09:01well, what,
09:02and she said,
09:03I'm trying to talk to you,
09:03and you keep reading something else.
09:06And I would say,
09:07I mean,
09:07I would say,
09:08well, yes,
09:08I'm so sorry.
09:09Let me close this and put this away.
09:11I really apologize.
09:12That was rude.
09:13And, you know,
09:14we would give her the eye contact
09:15and listen better,
09:17because that is kind of rude.
09:19Whereas if I say,
09:20I didn't mean to upset you,
09:21I didn't mean to do this,
09:22I didn't mean to do that.
09:24I'm making a claim
09:25that is actually quite deep,
09:27interesting,
09:28and important.
09:29Because the claim
09:31is that
09:33you have misinterpreted me.
09:36So,
09:37I do something,
09:38you get annoyed,
09:39I say,
09:40I didn't mean to.
09:42Then,
09:43I'm saying to you,
09:44you are misreading me.
09:45Maybe you're a little paranoid,
09:47maybe you're a little jumpy,
09:48maybe you're defensive,
09:49maybe you're taking things too personally,
09:51because you're annoyed
09:51when I had no intention of annoying you.
09:54So,
09:54for example,
09:56if I'm
09:58humming,
09:58or
09:59sort of singing a little,
10:00while I'm doing something in the kitchen,
10:03and let's say,
10:03I don't have this kind of wife,
10:05but let's say I had
10:05a wife
10:07who
10:08was in a bad mood,
10:09maybe she had a bit of a headache,
10:10or something like that,
10:12and
10:12my sort of
10:13singing,
10:14or humming,
10:14or whatever,
10:15I'm not talking full,
10:16like loud singing,
10:17but just,
10:17you know,
10:18whatever it is,
10:20some minor indifferent scatting,
10:22that
10:23she said,
10:24stop singing,
10:25stop humming,
10:26it's really annoying.
10:27I would be a little surprised,
10:28because
10:29humming
10:29is not
10:31something that is objectively annoying,
10:33in general,
10:34right?
10:34You'd have to be in a pretty bad mood
10:36to hear a little
10:37wobbling or humming
10:38as
10:39annoying.
10:41And I would say,
10:42what?
10:42I'm so sorry,
10:43I didn't,
10:43I just didn't even realize
10:45I was really humming,
10:46and tell me what's going on,
10:47and,
10:47you know,
10:48sort of find out
10:48what kind of mood the person's in,
10:49and try and figure out
10:50what's going on.
10:52But,
10:53when I'm asking questions
10:55of people,
10:57there is an implicit
10:59agreement
10:59when you're having
11:00conversations with people,
11:01particularly a philosophical
11:02conversation that's public,
11:04as I will often have
11:05on X,
11:06or other platforms,
11:07sometimes there is
11:09an implicit contract
11:11that people are going to
11:12answer questions.
11:14I mean,
11:14if somebody
11:15wanted to
11:16start a conversation
11:17with me,
11:18and that person
11:20then said,
11:21oh,
11:23or before,
11:24that person said,
11:25no,
11:26I'm not going to answer
11:26any questions,
11:27like,
11:27I'm going to just gaslight,
11:28I'm going to fog,
11:28I'm going to change the topic,
11:29I'm going to move the goalposts,
11:31and so on,
11:31right?
11:32Then I would say,
11:33well,
11:33listen,
11:33I appreciate your honesty
11:35up front,
11:36but I am not going to
11:38engage in the conversation.
11:40I don't want to engage
11:41in a conversation
11:42where you're going to
11:44gaslight,
11:45lie,
11:45misrepresent,
11:46move the goalposts,
11:47fog,
11:48change the topics,
11:48and so on,
11:49right?
11:50So,
11:50to me,
11:51there is an implicit
11:52contract in the conversation.
11:53If I ask a question,
11:55I expect one of two things.
11:57Either somebody says,
11:58I'm not going to answer
11:59that question,
12:00or they answer the question.
12:02But they don't change the topic,
12:03they don't gaslight that,
12:04or whatever it is,
12:05right?
12:06I also have an expectation
12:09that if I'm answering
12:11a question,
12:12that somebody not interrupt me
12:14at least right away,
12:15unless I've misunderstood
12:16the question,
12:18right?
12:18If I've misunderstood
12:19the question,
12:20of course,
12:20they should interrupt me
12:21and correct me on my mis-
12:23because there's no point
12:24in continuing to answer
12:24a question.
12:25That's a misinterpretation.
12:27But if I've understood
12:27the question and I'm
12:28answering it,
12:29then it's rude
12:30to interrupt.
12:31Now,
12:32if someone misrepresents
12:33my position,
12:34then,
12:35or if they're not
12:36answering my question,
12:36I will interrupt
12:37the non-answer
12:38in order to ask
12:39for real answers.
12:40So,
12:40that's a general.
12:41A general implicit
12:42contract,
12:43that's not just true
12:44in my show,
12:47my conversations.
12:47It's kind of true
12:48in life as a whole.
12:49I mean,
12:50if the waitress comes
12:51and says,
12:52what would you like
12:52for dinner?
12:53She's expecting
12:54an answer
12:54that hopefully
12:55is at least somewhat
12:56related to what you
12:57want for dinner.
12:58If you start saying
12:59that you want
12:59world peace,
13:00a unicorn,
13:01and Elle Macpherson
13:03in her prime,
13:04then it's a little
13:05hard for her
13:05to construct a meal
13:06order out of that.
13:08So,
13:08that's kind of
13:08this implicit contract
13:09that you're going to
13:10talk about things
13:11that are relevant
13:11to the conversation
13:13and answer questions.
13:15I mean,
13:15that's why people
13:16like courtroom dramas
13:17is at least you get
13:17to compel an answer
13:18and there's penalties
13:20for lying.
13:21So,
13:22when I'm asking
13:24questions
13:24and people are
13:25dodging
13:26and being defensive
13:27and misrepresenting
13:28and gaslighting
13:29and changing the topic
13:30and moving the goalposts,
13:31it gets annoying.
13:32So,
13:33I say,
13:34I'm annoyed.
13:35What you're doing
13:35is annoying to me.
13:37I'm not saying
13:38you're objectively annoying,
13:39I'm just saying
13:40I'm annoyed.
13:40And the first thing
13:41that most people say
13:42is,
13:43I didn't mean
13:44to be annoying,
13:44I didn't mean
13:45to annoy you,
13:46I'm trying to answer
13:46the questions,
13:47which is an escalation
13:49and an insult
13:51because they're
13:51immediately saying,
13:52Steph,
13:53your being annoyed
13:55is unfair
13:56and unjust,
13:57that you are making
13:58up your annoyance
13:59out of some sort
14:01of paranoia
14:02because I had
14:03no intention
14:04of being annoying,
14:05don't you know?
14:06It was never my intention,
14:07I didn't mean to.
14:09It's another defense
14:10and it is an escalation.
14:12Rather than somebody
14:13saying,
14:14well,
14:14maybe your annoyance
14:16is justified,
14:17let's examine
14:17what I'm doing.
14:19And this is what
14:19passive-aggressive people do.
14:21You ask them a question
14:23and they refuse to answer.
14:25But they don't
14:26clearly refuse to answer,
14:27they just don't answer.
14:28It's like politicians,
14:29you ask them a simple question,
14:30you know,
14:30how are you going to cut
14:31spending and balance the budget?
14:33Well,
14:33spending is very important
14:34and social services
14:35are essential
14:36and blah, blah, blah.
14:37Just don't answer
14:37the question, right?
14:39And it's annoying.
14:41It's annoying.
14:43So,
14:44passive-aggressive people
14:45will always
14:47thwart
14:49communication
14:50and then
14:51say that you're
14:52paranoid for being annoyed.
14:54They get to be innocent
14:55and they paint you
14:56as someone who's
14:57just taking things
14:58personally and,
14:59you know,
15:00I'm trying to answer
15:01the question,
15:01I'm not trying to be annoying.
15:03I'm really trying to,
15:04I'm trying to answer
15:05your question,
15:05I'm not trying to be annoying.
15:07Which is a way of saying
15:08that any annoyance
15:09the other person feels
15:10is irrational
15:11and unjust
15:11and blah, blah, blah, right?
15:12And it's really impossible.
15:14You just can't communicate
15:15with people like that.
15:15You just can't.
15:16They either have to be honest
15:18about not answering
15:19the question
15:19for reasons of anxiety
15:21or fear
15:21or whatever it is.
15:22I mean,
15:23because where do you go?
15:25Where do you go
15:26when somebody's being annoying
15:27by not answering a question?
15:29Just one example.
15:30And then they say
15:31they had absolutely
15:32no intention
15:33of being annoying
15:34to be annoying
15:36and they were desperately
15:37trying to answer the question.
15:38You can't communicate.
15:39There's nothing left.
15:39There's nowhere to go.
15:41So,
15:42intentions to me
15:44are a form
15:45of defensive mysticism.
15:47If somebody
15:47is not answering
15:48the question
15:49and not saying
15:50I'm not going
15:51to answer the question
15:52but only pretending
15:52to answer the question
15:54and you're wasting
15:55a lot of time
15:55trying to
15:56get them to answer
15:57the question
15:58or, you know,
15:59another
16:00common one
16:01in philosophy is
16:02somebody uses a word
16:03that's kind of ambiguous.
16:05Power.
16:05Let's say they use
16:06the word power.
16:07I mean,
16:07power could mean
16:08any number
16:09of things.
16:09It could mean
16:10political power,
16:10it could mean
16:11electrical power,
16:12it could mean
16:12power over yourself,
16:13it could mean
16:14the power to abuse,
16:15it could mean
16:15the power to bribe,
16:17I mean,
16:17it could be anything.
16:18I don't know
16:18what the word power
16:18means in any
16:19particular context.
16:21So, I said,
16:21well, what do you mean
16:22by power
16:22in this context?
16:24And they won't
16:25define their terms.
16:26Or someone says,
16:27well, it's good
16:27to do this.
16:28I said, well,
16:29what do you mean
16:29by good?
16:29Do you mean practical?
16:30Do you mean moral?
16:31Do you mean useful?
16:33Do you mean
16:33it's approved of?
16:35What do you mean
16:35by good?
16:37And they won't
16:38define their terms.
16:40And if somebody
16:41is using a word
16:43and doesn't know
16:44how to define it
16:45in any objective way,
16:47then,
16:47okay, this is back
16:48to Socrates, right?
16:49Somebody says,
16:50justice is,
16:51it's good to do this.
16:53It's just.
16:54This represents justice.
16:55I said,
16:55oh, what's the definition
16:56of justice?
16:57Because if you say,
16:58this falls into category X,
16:59then you need to be able
17:00to define what category X is
17:02and then show how this
17:03applies to it, right?
17:04Mammals are warm-blooded.
17:05This creature is warm-blooded.
17:06Therefore,
17:06this creature is a mammal.
17:07It's kind of,
17:08it's deductive.
17:09It's not even inductive.
17:10Deductive reasoning.
17:11So,
17:13if somebody says,
17:14this is good,
17:14you say,
17:14oh,
17:15what do you mean by good?
17:16And they just go on
17:17some Waffle Burger
17:19rampage of random syllables,
17:21say,
17:21you're not answering the question.
17:22I don't know what the word good is
17:24and how you define it here.
17:26And they go on
17:27enough of Waffle Burger,
17:28they want to answer the question,
17:29they want to move the goalpost,
17:30move the topic,
17:31go on a story,
17:32use an anecdote,
17:32and at some point,
17:34it gets annoying.
17:35And the annoyance is healthy
17:36because they're lying to you
17:38because everybody knows
17:40that they're not answering the question
17:41because they can't answer the question
17:42because they're using words
17:44that they don't understand.
17:46When you believe in things
17:48that you don't understand,
17:49you will suffer.
17:51Superstition ain't the way.
17:54And it's a sophistry
17:56to just use positive-sounding words
17:58or negative-sounding words
17:59rather than reasoning
18:01and understanding things.
18:03So,
18:03intentions are a kind of mysticism
18:05that is used
18:07to avoid accountability
18:08and to
18:09subtly insult someone
18:11for asking you
18:12to be clear
18:13and answer questions.
18:14So,
18:14I would not,
18:16I don't particularly engage
18:17on this.
18:19All right,
18:19could you elaborate more
18:20on the downfall of masculine traits
18:21in Christendom?
18:22How it used to be
18:23when it started to change
18:23and why and how it could be put back
18:26on track?
18:28Well,
18:29Christianity, of course,
18:30did not start off
18:31as a masculine religion.
18:33A masculine religion would be
18:34sort of the Greco-Roman
18:35worship of the gods
18:36and of battle
18:37or something like
18:39the cult of Odin
18:40and sort of other
18:41Northern Scandinavian
18:43or Viking kind of
18:44beliefs
18:45and so on.
18:46So,
18:47the sort of Conan stuff.
18:50So,
18:50Christianity
18:51has started
18:52as
18:53a
18:54fairly
18:55helpless
18:56kind of
18:58religion.
18:59It started
19:00with the virtue
19:01of forgiveness.
19:02Now,
19:02the virtue of forgiveness
19:03is generally
19:05a virtue
19:06claimed by those
19:07who have no
19:07capacity to punish.
19:10if a master
19:11beats his slave,
19:12the slave
19:13cannot punish the master,
19:14cannot retaliate
19:15against the master,
19:16cannot beat the master back
19:18and therefore
19:18the slave
19:19in his thwarted
19:20and frustrated
19:22helplessness
19:23is drawn
19:24toward
19:25a religion
19:26that says
19:27forgiveness
19:27is a virtue
19:28and that
19:29rich people
19:30are bad
19:30and that
19:31if you're the most
19:32humble in this world
19:34you'll be a king
19:34in the next.
19:35These are all
19:36revenge fantasies
19:37that are
19:38harbored
19:39by
19:40people
19:41with no
19:41capacity
19:42to effect
19:43any punishment.
19:44You can't bribe,
19:45you can't threaten,
19:46you can't control,
19:47you won't use violence
19:47or you can't use violence
19:48and so
19:50it started off
19:51and this is a
19:53fairly common observation
19:54I won't claim
19:55any particular
19:56originality here
19:57a slave religion
19:59and
20:00a
20:00master
20:02religion
20:02if you think
20:03of the story
20:04of the woman
20:05who's an adulteress
20:06who's going to be
20:06stoned to death
20:07a master
20:08religion
20:09would say
20:10I will put to death
20:11anyone who starts
20:13throwing the first stone
20:14and
20:15I'm not talking
20:16better or worse
20:17I'm just talking
20:17about the mechanics
20:18of it
20:19I will jail
20:20or punish
20:21or fine
20:21or put to death
20:22anybody who throws
20:24the first stone
20:24or any stone
20:26at this woman
20:27now
20:29that is the
20:29exercise of power
20:31again
20:31I'm not talking
20:32about the morals
20:33just talking about
20:33the mechanics
20:35Christ
20:35on the other hand
20:36said
20:36let he who is
20:37without sin
20:38cast the first stone
20:40appealing to shame
20:41and guilt
20:42and self-reflection
20:43and
20:44conscience
20:44and so on
20:46now we can say
20:47this is right or wrong
20:48good or bad
20:49better or worse
20:49but it is not
20:50the exercise of power
20:51it is the exercise
20:53of
20:53the invocation of guilt
20:55or
20:55it is the exercise
20:56of
20:57the summoning of conscience
20:59and so on
20:59but it is not
21:01the exercise
21:02of power
21:04and the exercise
21:04of power
21:05has traditionally
21:06been masculine
21:07at least
21:08from among the
21:09upper classes
21:10and the exercise
21:11of shame
21:12and guilt
21:12and conscience
21:13and manipulation
21:13and the invocation
21:15of negative emotions
21:16on the part of the other
21:17is more traditionally
21:18feminine
21:19right
21:20so
21:22religion
21:22as a whole
21:24Christianity
21:25in particular
21:26and other religions
21:27as well
21:27but let's talk
21:28more about
21:29Christianity
21:29tends to be
21:30more female coded
21:32because
21:33if you say
21:35love your neighbor
21:36what you're saying
21:38is
21:39that
21:40love with regards
21:42to your neighbor
21:42is essential
21:44and virtuous
21:45whereas
21:46competition and dominance
21:48over your neighbor
21:48is negative
21:49now
21:50women cooperate
21:51and men compete
21:52women cooperate
21:54because
21:54you need
21:55eyes and ears
21:56to help raise your children
21:57and
21:58women really can't
22:00survive without
22:00the approval
22:01of other women
22:02which is why
22:02women tend to be
22:03higher in traits
22:05agreeableness
22:05in the big five
22:06personality traits
22:07and also
22:07as a beautiful thing
22:08this is how
22:08culture gets transmitted
22:10so it's good
22:11we like
22:12we like that
22:13it's good
22:14so
22:15men
22:16compete though
22:17and they compete
22:18we compete
22:19very fiercely
22:20for scarce resources
22:21for high quality
22:22women
22:23to bear our children
22:25for power
22:26dominance
22:27and control
22:27and we compete
22:28in the economic
22:29sphere
22:29in the political
22:30sphere
22:30in the sphere
22:31of academia
22:32in the sphere
22:33of sports
22:35and so on
22:35there's winners
22:36and there are losers
22:36and fierce competition
22:38is the fray
22:38so
22:39love your neighbor
22:40as opposed to
22:41win the battle
22:42win the fight
22:43win the competition
22:44love your neighbor
22:45is female coded
22:46forgiveness
22:47is female coded
22:48because women
22:48do not have the power
22:50this is sort of
22:51forced doctrine
22:51right
22:52women do not have
22:52really the power
22:54and certainly not
22:54in the ancient world
22:55they don't have the power
22:56to enforce their moral will
22:57in the way that men do
22:58high testosterone
23:00high muscularity
23:01high aggression
23:02and so on
23:02right
23:02and so
23:03forgiveness is a virtue
23:05that is most claimed
23:07by those
23:07with no power
23:09to punish
23:10now
23:11after
23:12anti-clerical
23:14methodologies
23:15really
23:16science
23:17reason
23:17free markets
23:19after
23:19anti-clerical
23:21methodologies
23:22showed their
23:23undeniable power
23:24to improve humanity
23:25science
23:25medicine
23:26reason
23:27free markets
23:28have improved
23:28humanity far more
23:30than all of the religions
23:31in the world
23:32combined throughout
23:32all of human history
23:33in any given
23:34five to ten year period
23:35and so
23:37the masculine traits
23:38of reason
23:39objectivity
23:40competition
23:41and
23:42the desire for victory
23:43took over
23:44then
23:45Christianity became
23:47more masculine
23:47it had to
23:48because science
23:49and reason
23:50evidence
23:50and markets
23:51were winning
23:52the battle for
23:54the improvement
23:54of humankind
23:56so
23:57I couldn't decide
23:58that between
23:59humanity
23:59and humankind
24:00I stole that a little
24:01bit
24:01it happens
24:02and
24:03the
24:04massive wealth
24:05created by the
24:06free market
24:07and
24:08the
24:09true
24:09masculine
24:10understanding
24:10of the universe
24:11delivered by
24:12science
24:13and science
24:14is highly competitive
24:15of course
24:15and objective
24:17science
24:18or masculinity
24:19requires the
24:20submergence
24:20of the ego
24:21the suppression
24:22of the ego
24:23whereas
24:24for women
24:25the love your neighbor
24:26stuff
24:26the merging
24:27with the community
24:28it requires
24:29the merging
24:30or blending
24:30of the ego
24:31with others
24:32males
24:33subjugate
24:34their egos
24:34for the purposes
24:35of truth
24:36and victory
24:36women
24:38submerge
24:38their egos
24:39for the sake
24:39of conformity
24:40and support
24:40again
24:41general
24:41general comments
24:42and
24:42it's no moral
24:44analysis
24:44it's just a factual
24:46analysis
24:47but of course
24:48as the world
24:50became wealthier
24:51then
24:52women
24:53began to be
24:54liberated
24:54from the
24:54tasks
24:55and endless
24:56requirements
24:57of
24:58homemaking
24:59and child raising
24:59which was a
25:0016 hour a day
25:01job
25:01at least
25:03and so
25:04women began
25:05to become
25:05more and more
25:06prominent
25:06in politics
25:08in particular
25:08and
25:10they began
25:11to demand
25:11more
25:12again
25:12nothing against
25:14it
25:14certainly
25:14from a
25:15free market
25:15standpoint
25:15but
25:16women
25:17began
25:18to
25:18take
25:19over
25:19the
25:19church
25:19and
25:20as
25:20the
25:21church
25:21became
25:21more
25:22feminized
25:22men
25:23were
25:23driven
25:23further
25:24and
25:24further
25:24away
25:25and
25:26too much
25:27masculinity
25:28is fascism
25:29too much
25:29femininity
25:30is communism
25:31neither are
25:31particularly
25:32great
25:32and it's
25:33the government
25:33that tips
25:34the balance
25:34too far
25:35one way
25:35or the
25:35other
25:35in general
25:37alright
25:38how could
25:39we put
25:39back on
25:39track
25:40well we
25:40just need
25:40more
25:41freedom
25:41whatever
25:41the problem
25:42is
25:42the solution
25:42is more
25:43freedom
25:44Rodney
25:44says
25:45debate
25:45humans
25:45are in
25:46consciousness
25:46not of
25:47consciousness
25:47don't know
25:48what that
25:48means
25:48not sure
25:49I would
25:49care
25:51Waxer
25:51asks
25:51do you
25:51think
25:52Trump's
25:52actions
25:52in Iran
25:52can be
25:53best
25:53explained
25:53by
25:54bribery
25:54blackmail
25:54deception
25:55or
25:55egomaniacal
25:56hubris
25:56why not
25:57all
25:57why not
25:58all
25:59Keo
25:59asks
26:00what is
26:00the
26:00definition
26:00of
26:01morality
26:01logically
26:01consistent
26:02universally
26:02preferable
26:03behavior
26:03essential
26:04philosophy
26:05dot com
26:05is where
26:05you can
26:05get the
26:06free
26:06book
26:06on
26:06that
26:07Vera
26:07asks
26:08a lot
26:09of private
26:09companies
26:10collect data
26:11on customers
26:11to sell
26:11for advertising
26:12purposes
26:12do you
26:13think this
26:13practice
26:13would still
26:14occur
26:14without
26:15the state
26:15benefiting
26:15from this
26:16surveillance
26:16as well
26:17advertising
26:18you know
26:18it gets
26:19a bad
26:19rap
26:20advertising
26:21gets a
26:21bad
26:21rap
26:22so
26:23people
26:23want to
26:23sell
26:23you
26:24stuff
26:25obviously
26:25right
26:25people
26:26want to
26:26sell
26:26you
26:26stuff
26:27and
26:28because
26:29people
26:29want to
26:29sell
26:29you
26:30stuff
26:30they
26:31spend
26:31money
26:31on
26:31advertising
26:32so
26:32that
26:33you
26:33can
26:33become
26:33aware
26:34of
26:34their
26:34products
26:35now
26:36you
26:37don't
26:37want
26:37to
26:38advertise
26:38eyeglasses
26:39to
26:39blind
26:40people
26:41right
26:41and
26:42if you
26:42have to
26:42sell
26:43reading
26:43glasses
26:44you
26:44probably
26:45want to
26:45sell
26:45them
26:45to
26:46older
26:46people
26:47rather
26:47than
26:47younger
26:47people
26:48because
26:48more
26:48older
26:49people
26:49need
26:49reading
26:50glasses
26:51I'm
26:51sorry
26:52I know
26:52this is
26:52blindingly
26:52obvious
26:53so
26:53I'll
26:53get to
26:54the
26:54point
26:54more
26:55quickly
26:55but
26:56advertising
26:57is a
26:57way
26:57to
26:58not
26:59waste
26:59people's
26:59time
27:00right
27:01so
27:01you've
27:01ever
27:01been
27:02a
27:02young
27:02person
27:02like
27:03you're
27:03you're
27:0412
27:04and
27:05you're
27:05home
27:05and
27:05you're
27:06sick
27:06and
27:06your
27:06mom's
27:06gone
27:06to
27:07work
27:07or
27:07whatever
27:07and
27:13that
27:14and
27:14you
27:14know
27:14if
27:15you
27:16need
27:16a
27:16medical
27:16bracelet
27:17if
27:17you're
27:17going
27:17to
27:17fall
27:18and
27:18you
27:19can't
27:19get
27:20up
27:20and
27:20right
27:20well
27:21these
27:21things
27:22don't
27:22matter
27:22to
27:22a
27:2212
27:23year
27:23old
27:23but
27:23of
27:23course
27:24people
27:24home
27:24during
27:24the
27:24day
27:25tend
27:26to
27:26be
27:26older
27:27retirees
27:27and
27:27so
27:28they
27:29have
27:30no
27:30meaning
27:31to
27:31you
27:31no
27:31value
27:32to
27:32no
27:32relevance
27:33to
27:33you
27:34so
27:34advertising
27:36is
27:36a
27:36very
27:37benevolent
27:37process
27:38of
27:39not
27:39wasting
27:40people's
27:40time
27:44then
27:44you
27:44will
27:44get
27:45ads
27:45for
27:45a
27:45new
27:45computer
27:46because
27:46you're
27:46in
27:46the
27:46market
27:47for
27:47a
27:47new
27:47computer
27:48right
27:50if
27:50let's
27:50say
27:51the
27:51advertisers
27:52find
27:52that
27:52you've
27:53bought
27:53a
27:53new
27:53computer
27:54they
27:54will
27:54stop
27:55advertising
27:55a
27:55new
27:55computer
27:56to
27:56you
27:56because
27:56you're
27:56not
27:57about
27:57to
27:57buy
27:57two
27:58so
27:59advertising
28:00is a
28:00way
28:00to
28:01filter
28:02a
28:02message
28:02so
28:03that
28:03it
28:03is
28:03the
28:03most
28:04relevant
28:05to
28:05the
28:05most
28:06needy
28:06people
28:07and
28:07you
28:07don't
28:08waste
28:08time
28:08advertising
28:09new
28:09computers
28:09to
28:09someone
28:10who
28:10has
28:10no
28:10interest
28:10in
28:10a
28:11new
28:11computer
28:11or
28:12has
28:12just
28:12bought
28:12a
28:12new
28:13computer
28:14so
28:14advertising
28:14is
28:15very
28:15healthy
28:15and
28:16helpful
28:16it
28:16saves
28:17everybody's
28:17time
28:18it
28:18saves
28:18everybody's
28:18lives
28:19and
28:19resources
28:19and so
28:19on
28:20so
28:21the
28:21practice
28:21would
28:21occur
28:22because
28:25it's
28:25very
28:25benevolent
28:26and
28:26helpful
28:26if
28:27you've
28:27ever
28:27seen
28:28an
28:28ad
28:28for
28:29something
28:29that
28:29you
28:29really
28:29need
28:30it
28:30can
28:31be
28:31very
28:31helpful
28:32so
28:32if
28:33you
28:34see
28:38parenting
28:38content
28:39just
28:39call
28:40in
28:40ask
28:40questions
28:41I
28:41mean
28:41I
28:41did
28:41write
28:42a
28:42big
28:42giant
28:43book
28:43not
28:43too
28:43long
28:43ago
28:44peaceful
28:44parenting
28:44interviews
28:47and
28:48of
28:48course
28:48if
28:48you
28:48want
28:48more
28:48peaceful
28:49parenting
28:49content
28:50free
28:50domain
28:51dot
28:51com
28:51slash
28:51call
28:52I
28:52mean
28:52don't
28:52be
28:52passive
28:52about
28:53this
28:53show
28:53it's
28:53a
28:53conversation
28:54call
28:54in
28:54and
28:55ask
28:55about
28:55it
28:56what's
28:56the
28:56most
28:56interesting
28:57thing
28:57we
28:57don't
28:58know
28:58about
28:58your
28:58life
28:58story
28:59I
28:59have
28:59to
28:59think
28:59about
28:59that
29:00can
29:01we
29:01have
29:01a
29:01follow
29:01up
29:01conversation
29:02about
29:02Noah's
29:02Ark
29:03interesting
29:03I
29:04will
29:04think
29:04about
29:04that
29:04what
29:05is
29:05philosophy
29:06in
29:06one
29:06sentence
29:07the
29:07pursuit
29:08of
29:10rational
29:10virtues
29:11the
29:12definition
29:12of
29:12pursuit
29:12and
29:13propagation
29:13of
29:14rational
29:14virtues
29:15what
29:15is
29:15most
29:15sinister
29:16propaganda
29:16push
29:16currently
29:17in
29:17your
29:17opinion
29:17depopulation
29:19how
29:20has
29:20having
29:20a
29:20nearly
29:20adult
29:21daughter
29:21changed
29:21or altered
29:22your
29:22views
29:22on
29:22modern
29:22relationships
29:23and
29:23dating
29:23based
29:24on
29:24her
29:24experiences
29:24I
29:25would
29:25not
29:25want
29:25to
29:25talk
29:25on
29:26behalf
29:26of
29:26my
29:26daughter
29:26about
29:27those
29:27experiences
29:27so I'll
29:28leave that
29:28private
29:29why are
29:30you in
29:30Canada
29:31it's not
29:32easy to
29:32leave
29:33and there's
29:33things that
29:34I like
29:35I basically
29:35really liked
29:36your show
29:36but you're
29:37talking more
29:37and more
29:37and more
29:38and it's
29:38getting really
29:39boring
29:39and too
29:39long
29:40please find
29:40a better
29:40balance
29:41so that we
29:41can keep
29:41tuning in
29:42and sending
29:42donations
29:43well I'm
29:44actually talking
29:45less now
29:46by the
29:46by I
29:46mean
29:47for
29:48five years
29:49or so
29:49it was
29:50very hard
29:51to have
29:52listener
29:53conversations
29:54other than
29:55call-in
29:55shows
29:55right
29:55I mean
29:56I couldn't
29:56do live
29:57streams
29:57the technology
29:58on the other
29:59platforms was
30:00really tough
30:00to use
30:01and the
30:02audience was
30:02very small
30:02now I can
30:03go on X
30:04anytime and I
30:04can have
30:05conversations
30:05with people
30:06so most
30:07of my
30:08shows are
30:09conversations
30:09so I'm
30:10not sure
30:11what you
30:11mean
30:13how long
30:13have you
30:14been a
30:14disinfo agent
30:15for the
30:15disinfo agent
30:17for the
30:17communist bloc
30:17I'm guessing
30:18at least 20
30:19years
30:19well I would
30:20say keep
30:21guessing
30:23cannabis
30:23no
30:24very dangerous
30:24very bad
30:25and wrong
30:26what you
30:27make of
30:27near-death
30:27experiences
30:28very interesting
30:29I don't
30:30believe that
30:30they indicate
30:31that consciousness
30:32survives death
30:32why does
30:33Wikipedia work
30:34so hard to
30:34make you seem
30:35like a terrible
30:35person
30:36because
30:37Wikipedia
30:38in my view
30:39is a way
30:39of laundering
30:40falsehoods
30:41to be picked
30:42up by search
30:42engines to
30:43discredit people
30:43so that the
30:44truth doesn't
30:45spread
30:46character
30:46assassination
30:47is a big
30:48improvement
30:49over actual
30:50assassination
30:50which most
30:51philosophers
30:51have been
30:52threatened with
30:52or have had
30:53executed against
30:54threat history
30:54so I hope
30:56this helps
30:56thank you so
30:56much for
30:57these great
30:57questions
30:58don't forget
30:59show schedule
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31:10show I really
31:10would appreciate
31:11that and
31:12we'll talk to
31:12you soon
31:13bye
31:13bye
31:13bye
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