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Philosopher Stefan Molyneux unpacks freedomain.locals.com questions on Poland's safe travels, Ukraine-NATO lies, AI-genetic traps, unborn grief rituals, depopulation media scams and UPB's unbreakable moral science to seize rational command.
0:00:00 Introduction
0:00:40 Travel Safety in Europe
0:01:07 Perspectives on the Ukraine War
0:05:01 The Media's Role in Outrage
0:09:35 The Impact of AI and Genetic Engineering
0:14:15 Coping with Loss
0:16:44 Exploring Depopulation Trends
0:23:00 Ethics and Everyday Manipulation
0:31:14 The Influence of Astrology
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0:00:00 Introduction
0:00:40 Travel Safety in Europe
0:01:07 Perspectives on the Ukraine War
0:05:01 The Media's Role in Outrage
0:09:35 The Impact of AI and Genetic Engineering
0:14:15 Coping with Loss
0:16:44 Exploring Depopulation Trends
0:23:00 Ethics and Everyday Manipulation
0:31:14 The Influence of Astrology
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00:00All right, sorry, this took a little while to get to, my friends.
00:03You had kindly posted questions, and I did record something.
00:07It did not take, like everyone, one in a hundred or one in a two hundred for some reason.
00:13I just got crackles, so whatever.
00:15I think this will take.
00:17So, these are questions from freedomain.locals.com.
00:23Somebody writes, first followed you on Facebook around 2010.
00:25Is Poland still visitable?
00:27Are there any other European countries you would recommend that are safe and normal?
00:30Love your work, by the way.
00:32Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
00:33I think I went to Poland in 2017 to do a documentary, which is nine years ago.
00:39It was fine then.
00:40The borders have remained pretty strong.
00:42And especially if you're traveling with women, and especially if the women are going to be
00:47traveling on their own at any part, like going out to different museums or whatever, then
00:52you just go to the European countries, and you're sought by sexual assault or rape-rapes,
00:57and Poland, I think, has 5% of the rape rates of other countries in Europe.
01:04So, that would be my recommendation.
01:07Greetings, Steph.
01:08What is your take on Putin's special military operation in Ukraine?
01:11How justified or unjustified has it been?
01:13And what do you speculate the region will end up looking like when the war is over?
01:17However, you can do a search at freedomain.com slash donate for the history of my shows on
01:24Ukraine, back to, I think, 2013, 2014, and so on.
01:28And that's more of a history.
01:30To me, it's not overly complicated, which is not to say that it's obvious.
01:35I know that I'm going to just go on a limb and say that the two can coexist.
01:39So, the purpose of the Ukraine war is to get white Christian males killed, and this is
01:47why there was a deal back in the day between the North American Treaty Organization, in
01:54particular, U.S., I think Bill Clinton signed it, 1993, which basically said to Russia, we
02:01want Germany to reunite.
02:03Right now, Russia, of course, having been invaded by Germany in living memory, did not want
02:08Germany to reunite, but NATO said to Russia, we will let Germany reunite, and, well, we
02:15want Germany to reunite, we want you to let that happen, because, of course, East Germany
02:19was under Soviet control for a decade of post-war to the late 80s.
02:25So, we want Germany to reunite, you don't, but if you let us reunite Germany, we promise
02:32NATO will not expand eastward from Germany.
02:35That was the deal, that was the treaty, that was signed.
02:38And then, NATO betrayed Russia in that way.
02:43So, Germany reunited, and NATO kept going eastward until it was right on Russia's doorstep, or
02:52at least that was the goal with Ukraine.
02:55So, I know, was the CIA funding bioweapons labs right on the border of Russia?
03:01I mean, if China was funding bioweapons labs right on the border of America, say, in Mexico,
03:08America would do that, would act, right?
03:12And, of course, the people in the eastern part of Ukraine, I think it's the Donbass region,
03:16they are ethnically Russian, they've been acted against, and there's a strong Nazi party
03:22in Ukraine, and so on.
03:23So, the general purpose of these kinds of wars, this is what happens on the left, right?
03:29The left has very selective outrage regarding coercion, or the use of force.
03:38So, if you are favored by the left, then they will justify and defend your use of force.
03:47So, I mean, we can think of the summer of love riots in 2020, in the middle of a pandemic
03:52based upon, to me, what was largely the hoax of the noble St. George Floyd and his death,
03:58and so on.
03:59And so, if the left likes you, in other words, if you happen to be part of an ethnicity that
04:06votes regularly for the left, like a quarter of Democrat voters are, I think blacks.
04:11So, if you're favored by the left, then they will say about all of your violence that it
04:18is justified outrage based upon moral harm, racism, police brutality.
04:26Same thing happened with Rodney King.
04:28Back in the day, Rodney King was filmed attacking cops, and that the cops had to use force to
04:35subdue him, but the media, of course, only showed the video of the cops restraining him or hitting
04:43him to prevent him from attacking them, and they certainly didn't show the high-speed chase
04:48through residential neighborhoods beforehand.
04:51And so, they fomented riots that cost California billions of dollars, dozens of lives, I think
05:00it was thousands of injuries, just brutal.
05:02And if you're on the left or support the left, then your violence is justified as a cornered
05:10reaction to an intolerable moral situation, racism, police brutality, and so on.
05:16If you are on the right, or at least not supportive of the left, then all of your violence is
05:24terrible
05:24and wrong and bad and immoral and just plain evil.
05:30Understandable violence we have sympathy for versus unprovoked aggression that is evil, right?
05:38And Russia is conservative and Christian, and therefore everything Russia does is evil by
05:44definition.
05:45And so, yeah, the purpose of the war was to provoke Russia into a cornered kind of aggression, and
05:53then to condemn it with this Slava Ukraine and Ghost of Kiev and all of this, you know, put
05:58your flags in the bio and so on.
06:00And of course, because people can't think, they're not taught how to reason, they're not
06:04taught any objective morals, they just conform to whatever the media tells them is right or
06:11is wrong.
06:12If they're told that violent protests over what I believe to be the fentanyl death of a habitual
06:20criminal who held a gun to the pregnant belly of a woman to get money for drugs, that violence
06:27is good, and therefore, and even they said that racism is a worse gorge than the pandemic,
06:33and therefore the riots in the summer of 2020 were good.
06:38But Putin is bad, because, I mean, you can frame most war, right?
06:44Most war is neither good nor evil as a whole.
06:50It is just two political leaders fighting for territory and control.
06:54Most war, not all, but most.
06:56And you can view it, the war, from the perspective of simplistic black and white stuff.
07:03I mean, Russia is a pretty dysfunctional country, 40% of the moms are single moms, alcoholism
07:10is sky high, the birth rate is collapsing, and so on.
07:13So it's a pretty dysfunctional country, it's not any kind of heroic entity, sort of foundationally.
07:22So there's a lot to criticize about in Russia.
07:26And what you can do is you can say, Putin's unprovoked attack upon poor, innocent, virtuous
07:32little Ukraine, and then it's David and Goliath, and it's good and evil, and there's no history,
07:38and everything is just made up on the spot.
07:40And this appeals to ideologues and idiots.
07:45Ideologues are just high IQ idiots.
07:47Whereas if you sort of look at the history and the complexity and the color revolution in
07:52Ukraine, and the push-up of the borders, and the perhaps funded bioweapons labs, and the
07:58Nazi party, and the mistreatment of the Russians in the eastern part of Ukraine, and so on, then
08:04you see it's a complex situation.
08:06But the upshot is that the white Christians are a thorn in the side of those who want to
08:15expand political power.
08:17And in particular, white Christian males.
08:19I'm sure you've seen this map of America, that if only people of color voted, then the
08:26map would be entirely Democrat.
08:27If only white males voted, the map would be almost entirely Republican.
08:32So from the leftist perspective, white males are the enemy.
08:37They support small government, free markets, free speech.
08:40Those are the big, big sins.
08:42Small government, free market, free speech.
08:45That's in general.
08:48And married white women are a pretty close second.
08:53Single white women are overwhelmingly Democrats, so they're fine, which is why the Democrats
08:59promote hostility towards men and try to keep women single.
09:02It's just sowing seeds of unhappiness to grow crops of leftist voting political power.
09:08Women who are single feel raw, nervous, skinless, naked, and unprotected, and therefore run
09:14to a protector, which is the government.
09:16And they prefer security to liberty and so on.
09:20So, yeah, as a whole, the goal is to try to get, try to remove from the world as a
09:27whole
09:27as many people or groups, or I guess in this case genders, who oppose the socialist or communist
09:35expansion of political power, so I think that's what it's all about.
09:38All right, that's my theory.
09:41So, next question.
09:42With the rise of AI-enhanced genetic engineering, do we have to worry as much about digenic trends
09:46in our civilizations, being that potentially soon we can offer genetic enhancements,
09:51wherein these humans will be an amalgamation of the best genes of humans in totality?
09:57Well, that's interesting.
10:00So, the government is about taking resources from the more successful and giving them to
10:06the less successful, taking money from people who make good decisions and giving money to
10:11people who make bad decisions.
10:12And given that good and bad decisions are, in general, higher IQ, or at least have wiser
10:21sources or origins, it generally is taking money from smarter people and giving it to somewhat
10:29less smart people.
10:31So, enhanced genetic engineering, well, I mean, this is assuming that it is available to the
10:39poor.
10:39It is assuming that they can afford it.
10:41It is assuming that the poor want children who are going to be considerably smarter than they
10:47are, and also, and this is not inconsiderable, it is very much against nature to genetically
10:55engineer in this kind of way.
10:58So, people of similar intelligence levels tend to end up together.
11:02People with similar levels of attractiveness tend to end up together.
11:07And there's sort of reasons for that in terms of compatibility and similar worldviews, similar
11:11life experience, and so on.
11:13Um, and, in general, there's a regression to the mean or an advancement to the mean in
11:19that, you know, two parents with an IQ of 130, they'll have a child smarter than average,
11:25but probably not as smart as they are.
11:28And two parents with lower IQs will generally have a kid who's a little smarter than they
11:32are, but not as smart as the average.
11:34You know, it just kind of evens out over time.
11:36This is why you don't have to worry outside of politics of permanent economic dynasties or
11:42bloodlines of infinite wealth and so on.
11:45Because, no matter how much wealth you generate, sooner or later, some dunderhead will come
11:50along and blow it all.
11:51And it's usually sooner rather than later.
11:53They call it shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves in three generations.
11:57Shirt sleeves to fitted ties and suits back to shirt sleeves.
12:00And this happened in my family.
12:01We were aristocracy for almost a thousand years.
12:04And then my grandfather, I drank and sold and random, even though we had historical aristocratic
12:11privilege, I was tossed down to the bottom of society and had to crawl my way back up
12:17as best I could.
12:18So, you know, which gives strengths and weaknesses and all that.
12:21So the big challenge is going to be it's very much not natural.
12:25It certainly happens.
12:26But it's very unusual for less intelligent parents to give birth to a very, very intelligent
12:34child.
12:36I remember reading the biography of some German writer and poet and all around Savant and
12:42his parents were in despair that they could not keep up with him, that he was excellent
12:46at everything, that they couldn't teach him anything.
12:50And it's very frustrating and difficult.
12:51Well, so let's say that you've got parents with an IQ of, say, 90, which is fine.
12:57Again, it's just a, it's like height, right?
12:59Parents with an IQ of 90, and they're able to reliably give birth to kids with an IQ of
13:04140.
13:06Extremely unusual situation.
13:08And without precedent as a widespread phenomenon throughout all of human evolution.
13:14Again, it does happen.
13:16You know, every now and then, parents who are five foot four will give birth to a six foot
13:21eight child, but it's extraordinarily rare.
13:24So, the challenge is going to be, what is it like to be parented by people a couple of
13:30standard deviations lower than you in terms of intelligence?
13:33Now, my mother, of course, emotionally was a mess, but intelligent for sure.
13:38So, I don't know how that's going to be.
13:41It's an interesting phenomenon.
13:43I certainly know that growing up being, or being raised by a woman who was seriously not
13:51wise, you know, full of vanity and hostility and tension and blaming others and making
13:57excuses and manipulative.
13:58So, growing up with someone who was not wise was kind of brutal, to be honest.
14:02It was kind of brutal.
14:04Because you look at the person and you say, okay, I'm eight.
14:07I can make better decisions than this.
14:09I have a more realistic view of the world than you do, and I'm eight or nine or whatever.
14:13It's pretty rough.
14:15All right.
14:16Instead of a somewhat heavy question here, how would you deal with the loss of an unborn
14:20child?
14:21Assuming, you're assuming that never happened.
14:23So, how would I deal with the loss of an unborn child?
14:26I mean, life is a fragile affair, and all the things that need to work together to have
14:33someone survive, to have a sperm and an egg meat to produce an actual human being who survives
14:40to adulthood, it's a whole house of cards.
14:42I mean, a third of pregnancies can end in abortion.
14:47Sorry.
14:48Well, I guess that's true in some places.
14:50But a third of pregnancies can be terminated through miscarriage, which is just the body
14:56rejecting a fetus that is failing to develop or has significant problems or abnormalities
15:01or dies or something like that.
15:03So, it is a regular and recurring risk.
15:09And there's a great deal of sorrow.
15:12And I think that just because the baby wasn't born doesn't mean you shouldn't have a little
15:17funeral, because you need to have a marker in your hearts and minds of someone who failed
15:22to make it, who was a very brief member of the family, and there's a great loss.
15:28And losing, in a sense, what you don't have, like an unborn child, whether you pass it naturally
15:34or you have a DNC or something like that, it is harder in some ways to mourn what you
15:39didn't have.
15:40If you have a beloved father who dies, that's very vivid to you.
15:43So, for me, mourning not having a father in any particularly useful way was tough, because
15:51you're mourning what isn't there.
15:53So, I think it's a view that makes sense that this was a brief member of the family who didn't
16:00make it, and there's a great deal of sorrow, have a little funeral, say some words, sprinkle
16:07some ashes, whatever you need to do, plant a tree, plant a flower, and mourn.
16:13And then, of course, there is an aspect that if the child dies in utero, then it is a kind
16:20of kindness in a way, because if a child with significant genetic issues ends up being born,
16:28that can be all kinds of tragic in the long run.
16:32And, I mean, certainly nature believes it's more tragic, in a sense.
16:37So, we can look and say it's very sad, it's very tragic, but in the long run, it could
16:43be worse.
16:44All right.
16:45What are the most effective means of depopulation currently in effect, besides the big obvious
16:48ones, antinatalism and student debt?
16:51Yeah, I mean, just media.
16:53Just media.
16:55Environmentalism, of course, is a big one.
16:56Don't have kids, because it's bad for the environment.
17:01And I think 10 times more money is spent on the elderly than on the young with the government,
17:05because the elderly vote and the young don't vote or don't vote consistently, or don't vote
17:10enough to make that big a difference.
17:13And so, what happens there is when you pay for the old and tax the young, then what happens
17:23is you are transferring resources from the fertile to the infertile.
17:29And whatever you tax diminishes, fertility, whatever you subsidize, I mean, it's not
17:33like people aren't born old, but you certainly are taxing fertility to pay for infertility,
17:39which is going to drive down the birth rate, so there's that.
17:42Propaganda, of course.
17:44Men are, women are gold digging, blah, blah, blah, or whores, you know, this kind of stuff.
17:49Men are immature and stupid and don't know what they want, and men are just sex-obsessed
17:59and sex-crazed and so on, right?
18:02And women are vain.
18:03So, just putting out propaganda that takes the worst elements of either sex and cranks
18:10it up to try and cover the entire gender, or the entire sex.
18:13That is another one, of course, that's fairly obvious.
18:18Showing movies with unhappy mothers, very key.
18:21So, you see movies, I think it's sort of like Terms of Endearment, where a woman suffers
18:26horribly, dies, of course, and so, and it's all the worse because she's a mother.
18:32And then there are other, was it My Girl or something like that, with the woman who ended
18:38up in Veep, I think it was, but children who die, the sorrow, the horror, the suffering.
18:46So, you are programming women to associate motherhood with children dying and suffering
18:52and so on.
18:54Showing a family life as constantly fractious and fighting and bad and wrong.
19:00So, the Bridges of Madison County, with Clint Eastwood and Meryl Weebstreep, that is, you
19:09know, the men are constantly banging around, the screen door's banging, and they don't
19:13listen, and they're, right?
19:14That's a big thing, too.
19:17And siblings fighting, that's the Terms of Endearment thing, siblings fighting like crazy,
19:23always in combat.
19:24That's a big thing.
19:26Hillbilly elegy, dysfunctional families, children fighting.
19:30And so on, Stand By Me, children dying.
19:34There are two children, of course, who die, the brother, John Cusack, plays them.
19:39And then the boy who dies down by the train tracks, the young man.
19:45And showing lots of bullying, so your children are going to be bullied, it's going to be awful.
19:50And so on, children getting sick, it's going to be expensive and a problem.
19:55And then you show mothers constantly tired and caring for babies.
19:58You always show babies constantly crying and never sort of cooing and having fun with the
20:04mother, which they do from a very early age.
20:07And you show exhaustion and you show stress and you show tension and you show, I remember
20:13a sitcom somewhere back in the day where the woman was saying, you know, I've got kids and
20:18I've got a job and when I'm at work, I want to be at home.
20:21And when I'm at home, I want to be at work and I don't feel settled.
20:23Just, you know, discontent and so on.
20:25Of course, promoting, working, promoting fear of men so that women say, well, I mean,
20:32a man could leave and I'm going to need my own source of income and I'm going to be
20:36broke if he just decides to take off.
20:38And then, and shift for men, of course, most of these sort of modern female stories are
20:43about infidelity, are about infidelity.
20:47You promote single motherhood, right?
20:49That's the Bridget Jones diary, right?
20:52And so, a single motherhood is promoted because it kills the birth rate in the next generation.
21:01So, it's, you know, you've got to be patient with these, with these kinds of things as a
21:06whole and you promote insecurity in love and security in government, right?
21:11So, the man could leave you, but the government will always be there and since women are drawn
21:15to resources as opposed to mere affection, then saying the government will always be here
21:21for you and see, the men scorn you, men leave you, men cheat on you, Gina Davis in The Accidental
21:30Tourist.
21:31Men, men cheat on you, but the government will always be there.
21:34The government will always praise you and say you're a strong, brave, noble, heroic, independent,
21:41feminist, glorious single mother, girl power, girl boss, blah, blah, blah.
21:45So, women can be drawn to flattery over a criticism and women are very sensitive to criticism and
21:52the more that women get praised, the more sensitive and sometimes hysterical they become in the face
21:56of criticism.
21:57And so, the government and the politicians always praise the women and the men might
22:03criticize them.
22:04So, in school, of course, you praise women, you praise the girls and you denigrate the males.
22:11And this programs the girls to look for praise from authority rather than standards from
22:19contemporaries.
22:20That lowers the birth rate as well because then a man who has standards, right, because
22:27women want successful men and successful men become successful because they have strict
22:32standards and personal accountability and they hold others accountable.
22:35That's how you become successful.
22:39And what happens then is women want successful men, successful men try to hold women to some
22:45kind of standards, and then a lot of women will respond to that with anger and say you're
22:50toxic and controlling and a bully and blah, blah, blah.
22:52And then they just run back to whoever praises them, which is the government, the media, and
22:56some other creep who just wants to get in their pants and so on.
22:58All right, this is not an argument against UPB.
23:03You've already proved it eloquently and elegantly many times.
23:05Can UPB function effectively as the dominant ethical framework in a society with groups
23:09that have vastly different average IQ levels?
23:13Yeah, I mean, I do think that UPB is a way, way simpler, okay, let's just take somebody with
23:22a lower IQ.
23:23And remember, IQ is only 80% heritable, which means you have 20% to work with, which is a
23:30lot.
23:30It's a lot to work with, right?
23:34I mean, obviously, 20% of 100 is 20, so that's the difference between 80 and 100.
23:39So, there's a lot with IQ to work with, and in my mind, UPB is the easiest and most comprehensible
23:50moral framework for everyone, which means it significantly benefits the least intelligent,
23:57in the same way that when I first got computers, like you booted them up and you just got a
24:02ready
24:04key with a flashing cursor, and you had to figure out what to do with the computer from there.
24:09And now, you know, you boot up an iPad and you've got a touchscreen and all these steps
24:16it guides you through, you swip and swipe and swish around and so on, you get all of these.
24:19So, you can use computers way easier now because they have an easier user interface.
24:23UPB is the GUI interface for morals.
24:26And the problem, of course, with Christian morals or religious morals is that religious
24:32morals are an argument from authority.
24:36Do it because.
24:37And religious morals have evolved, the more successful religions have evolved a moral set
24:43that appeals to everyone, right?
24:45Which is why you have turn the other cheek and forgive and vengeance and an eye for an eye,
24:52right?
24:52So, if you tend to be more, like, weaker or more forgiving by nature, then you can gravitate
24:57towards the forgiveness part.
24:59If you're more irascible and stern by nature, then you can gravitate towards the eye for an
25:04eye part and so on.
25:05And this is true in almost all religions that have evolved.
25:09They are like disco balls.
25:11They have those little mirrors that can reflect back everyone's personal preferences and you
25:15can find justification for anything you want.
25:18You can find justifications for violence in the Bible.
25:21You can find justifications for peace in the Bible.
25:24You can find justifications for hitting children in the Bible.
25:28At least that's what people think.
25:29And you can find justifications for not hitting children in the Bible.
25:33And so, that is complicated.
25:36And that tends to appeal to people's narcissistic pre-existing personality types and extend them
25:42and expand them to infinity.
25:44So, if you are by nature a sort of angry and vengeful person, and I don't say this with
25:49judgment, just, you know, some people are more like that, then you can find in the Bible
25:53justifications which turn your personal emotional habits and preferences and nature into universal
26:00divine commandments, which means you don't get to temper them very much.
26:03And that's a problem.
26:04So, if you have a highly contradictory argument by authority, that's very confusing, which
26:10is why it is easily used to manipulate people and so on, right?
26:15I mean, you can point to texts in most religions that say, peace be the word and blah, blah,
26:22blah.
26:22And then you can point to other sections where they say, you know, fight, fight, fight.
26:27And that's kind of inevitable, right?
26:29Because if you have peace, peace, peace only, forgive, forgive, forgive only, then aggressive
26:35people don't really get drawn to that religion.
26:38And of course, religion has to appeal to males and females, usually, certainly in a state where
26:43there's more male and female equality, because males create religion and women transmit, sorry,
26:49males create culture and women transmit culture, for the most part.
26:55And which is why women tend to be a little bit less original when it comes to
26:59the creation of culture, with the exception of novels.
27:01Women are fantastic at writing novels, good storytellers, at least modern novels, not so
27:06much in the past, or at least they weren't quite as successful as men in the past.
27:12So, you have to have a religion that appeals to males and females.
27:19Again, if you live in a purely patriarchal culture, then the religion only has to appeal to males,
27:24because they can enforce the religion through violence on the females.
27:27But if you have a more equal religious structure, which Christianity tends to be,
27:33then you have to have a religion that appeals to males and females.
27:36And males tend to be an eye for an eye, and females tend to be forgive and turn the other
27:42cheek, and so on, for obvious reasons of cohesion and physical size and strength and aggression.
27:49So, I would argue that UPB, I've explained it now to a whole bunch of kids, pretty young,
27:55over the years, and I've explained it to people.
27:58And if you're receptive, it's pretty easy to get.
28:00I mean, I explained it to a philosophy professor who was openly hostile towards me,
28:07and he had to accept it within about three to five minutes, because it's that easy to explain.
28:13So, somebody who completely disagrees with you, thinks you're a terrible guy and a bad
28:17reasoner, as this philosophy or logic professor did, came on the show, and I convinced him
28:22of UPB in three to five minutes, once I really started making the case.
28:28So, it is really the simplest and easiest moral system, and therefore, if we're always going
28:34to have less intelligent people, and saying, well, they need religion, is a problem, because
28:39religion can be used to program people to do just about anything.
28:45Religion, Christianity, has been used to attack those opposed to Christianity, and also to
28:51invite them in and subsidize them.
28:53So, unfortunately, Christianity, because it's an argument from authority that is a disco ball
28:58of infinite back and forth and infinite ways of expressing things to appeal to as many people
29:04as possible, it's completely subjective.
29:06All right, um, how can I hold the line against everyday liars and manipulators without sacrificing
29:13my ethics or letting them take advantage of me?
29:15Yeah, you can't, uh, you can't.
29:17Uh, you can't control corruption except through coercion.
29:23And I'm not arguing that you be coercive, but if you have someone who is some sort of pathological
29:28liar in your environment, then you can't control that lying.
29:34You can't, you can't control it, you can't fix it, you can't do anything about it.
29:38Like, if they're really terrible, liars and, and cheats and you name it, then you can take
29:46them to court and, and you can get a judgment or you can get them thrown in prison or whatever
29:50it is, right?
29:51But you can't control corrupt people in your life through words.
29:56Now, what is the old line?
29:57Why are you, why are you quoting laws to men with swords, right?
30:00You can't, you can't talk liars into being better.
30:03You can't bully people into being better.
30:06You can't reason with people who are devoted to corruption.
30:11So as far as holding the line against everyday liars and manipulators, um, you, you can't
30:16because liars and manipulators will always be looking for a way to chisel and achieve
30:20a chance advantage.
30:21You know, there are some type of people, this is a certain type of people.
30:25The moment they hear their rule, they're automatically drawn to find an exception, to, to weasel their
30:29way out of things, to find some fuzzy definition in a contract so that they can get away with
30:35whatever they want.
30:35And you just, you can't do business with people like that.
30:37Like I, I do handshake business or I don't do business.
30:40I do business with people who are, I have an honesty, honor, and integrity, or I don't
30:44do business.
30:46Uh, it's like saying, how can I write a contract so that no one will ever cheat, cheat me?
30:50It's like, well, if people want to cheat you, they'll find a way.
30:52Anyway, the best thing to do is just not be around people like that, but you can't control
30:56them with your will or eloquence or language or whatever, right?
31:00All right.
31:01Somebody says, not a question, but I just wanted to let you know that your video, How Society
31:06Betrays Children, is one of my all-time favorites.
31:08I mirrored it on my channel and I appreciate that.
31:11I will, uh, I will republish that.
31:12I will repost that.
31:14Uh, astrology compatibility, yes or no?
31:16So, I think that there's a little bit of truth to astrology in climates where winter
31:22is very different from summer.
31:24So, in a cold climate, if you're born in the fall, then your first six months, eight
31:31months, whatever, is just indoors and winter and people and all of that.
31:38So, you're probably a little bit more focused on people and a little bit more focused on
31:43conversation.
31:44Probably your language skills develop faster and further and so on.
31:47So, there's certain things, I think, that happen with that.
31:50Let's say that you're born in the early spring and then your first six months are of, you
31:55know, glorious spring and summer and being outdoors and the wilds and the scents and probably
31:59a little bit less conversation and so on.
32:02So, I do think that certain times of year that you're born, especially in warm, cold climates,
32:07is going to have some impact on you.
32:09It's got nothing to do with, of course, the actions and motions of different distance.
32:14What prevents a monopoly?
32:16The free market prevents a monopoly.
32:18And, of course, if you're concerned about preventing monopolies, then you should not
32:22enshrine one through the government in law.
32:25All right.
32:26I hope that helps.
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