Why People Steal!

Stefan Molyneux

Philosopher Stefan Molyneux explains why people steal by showing that kids who suffer abuse and neglect grow up with no reason to respect rules or property that never protected them. He pushes real child protection as the foundation for any society that expects people to stop taking what isn't theirs.   0:00:00 Crypto Theft and Trust  0:05:38 Why People Steal  0:15:57 Protecting Children Matters  0:25:39 Stolen From First  0:38:24 ColdCard Hack Details  0:49:44 Most People Mimic  0:57:15 COVID Lies and Reckoning  1:01:59 The Crazy Person Wins   GET FREEDOMAIN MERCH! https://shop.freedomain.com/   SUBSCRIBE TO ME ON X! https://x.com/StefanMolyneux   Follow me on Youtube! https://www.youtube.com/@freedomain1   GET MY NEW BOOK 'PEACEFUL PARENTING', THE INTERACTIVE PEACEFUL PARENTING AI, AND THE FULL AUDIOBOOK!  https://peacefulparenting.com/   Join the PREMIUM philosophy community on the web for free!   Subscribers get 12 HOURS on the "Truth About the French Revolution," multiple interactive multi-lingual philosophy AIs trained on thousands of hours of my material - as well as AIs for Real-Time Relationships, Bitcoin, Peaceful Parenting, and Call-In Shows!   You also receive private livestreams, HUNDREDS of exclusive premium shows, early release podcasts, the 22 Part History of Philosophers series and much more!   See you soon!  https://freedomain.locals.com/support/promo/FREEDOMAIN2026

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00:00:00Hello, hello, good morning, my friends, mein Fraulein und gentlemen, welcome to Sunday morning

00:00:11philosophy chat, and, well, as a bunch of stuff to talk about, I am working on a very

00:00:24interesting speaking debate opportunity, which I will announce as soon as it is complete,

00:00:31and the negotiations are done. So, yeah, it's kind of funny, you know, slowly emerging back

00:00:37into the radius of civilized life after five or six years in the wilderness, and you will be the

00:00:46first to know. I will come to your house, knock on your door, and we shall hug as if we

00:00:53are trying

00:00:53to crush a ghost between us. So, yeah, I have a bunch of stuff to talk about. I guess the

00:01:00one that

00:01:01is somewhat important is, I don't know if you're in the crypto space, but, of course, I'm sure you've

00:01:09heard about the hack that happened a day or two ago, and, you know, this is an interesting,

00:01:18interesting, it's a very interesting, obviously very tragic, my gosh, I was reading a guy's post,

00:01:23he just lost 1.6 million dollars worth of Bitcoin. Now, is this a problem with Bitcoin? It is not.

00:01:32Nothing happened that broke the cryptography or private hashes of Bitcoin, so it's nothing to do

00:01:40with that, but, of course, it does alarm people. The guy who lost his, I think it, what was it,

00:01:48that would be about 18 Bitcoin, 18 or 19 Bitcoin, 1.6 million dollars, I mean, a staggering sum,

00:01:55and, of course, the brutal thing is that it's not like you can easily trace or really trace much at

00:02:00all, and so a very difficult situation, and my heart really goes out to the people who trust it,

00:02:07right? So, it's a challenge, right? I mean, do you keep your coins on an exchange? Well,

00:02:13what if the exchange gets hacked? Do you, I mean, do you keep them private in air-gapped computers,

00:02:19and where do you put the keys? And it's, you know, it's a challenge. Of course, we all know these

00:02:24stories. There was a guy who had a bunch of Bitcoin on a computer that got thrown out, and he

00:02:29was begging

00:02:30the local city for years to let him go and search the trash heap for his computer to see if

00:02:35he could

00:02:35recover them. There was a guy who had a USB stick with some Bitcoin on them, and he had to,

00:02:41but he'd forgotten the password, and then he had to try and figure out what the password

00:02:45was, and I think he had 10 tries before it got wiped, and so on. So, that is another big

00:02:51challenge

00:02:51when it comes to that kind of stuff. And we've all heard these tragic tales of people who lose,

00:03:00and so on. And there's some not insignificant number, 5% or 10% of Bitcoin appear to have been

00:03:06lost. And what was it? I think it was Satoshi who said, well, you can take solace in the fact

00:03:13that if you've lost Bitcoin, you've raised the value of Bitcoin. But yeah, so that's a challenge.

00:03:19It is not specific to Bitcoin, right? The fact that if you have a value of any kind, if you

00:03:30have a

00:03:30value, people will want to take it is a sad fact. I'm not even going to say of human nature,

00:03:38because

00:03:39we've yet to see how human nature adapts to a relatively peaceful world. And by that, I mean,

00:03:46in particular, peaceful parenting. We don't know what human nature is in the face of peaceful

00:03:52parenting. Nobody knows. I mean, I suppose I have some example with my own daughter who was raised

00:03:58peacefully. But of course, you know, she still has to navigate her way in a world where, of course,

00:04:04people are not raised peacefully, and they are propagandized, and they are frightened and bullied,

00:04:10and all kinds of terrible stuff. So, will there be rapacious thieves if they're raised in a peaceful

00:04:18and productive and healthy and moral manner? It seems, and the data points towards this very

00:04:24specifically, but it seems pretty unlikely that there will be rapacious predatory thieves

00:04:34in a world where children are raised peacefully. Why do people steal? It's a pretty big and important

00:04:43and foundational question. So, why do people steal? I, myself, pilfered a few things from stores when I

00:04:51was in my early teens. Nothing major, you know, nothing important. But nonetheless, I pilfered a few

00:05:00things when I was, I don't know, 12 or maybe 13. And then I stopped. I just, I got a

00:05:06real sense of

00:05:07this is a bad path to be going down. So, pilfered a couple of things. And why, I mean, I've

00:05:14thought

00:05:14about this over the years, given my sort of later dedication to property rights, free market,

00:05:18and the value of mutual exchange. Why did I steal? Now, of course, talking about myself is not talking

00:05:25about all of humanity. I get that, but I think I have some pretty good and important information

00:05:31as to why, I obviously can't say all people, but I am a human being, therefore it covers more than

00:05:36me,

00:05:37why some people steal. Why do some people steal? Well, they steal for two reasons. One, they have been

00:05:46stolen from, and two, they have been unprotected. Why would we owe allegiance to a society that utterly

00:05:56failed to protect us? Because the first thing that society owes the young, the babies, the toddlers,

00:06:05the young, the teenagers, the very first thing that society owes the young is protection. And if you have

00:06:14a violent caregiver such as I had, and I'm sure many of you had, for which I have great, great

00:06:19sympathies

00:06:20and hugs, if you have a violent protector and society doesn't do anything about it, then why would

00:06:27you give the tiniest little rats behind over the rules of society when society has zero interest in

00:06:36protecting you? I mean, let me give you an example, hopefully this will be vivid enough, that if you

00:06:42didn't go through this, you'll understand, intellectually of course we all get it, but you'll

00:06:47understand more viscerally what I'm talking about. If you hire a security guard at, you know, fairly

00:06:56significant expense, you hire a very skilled security guard, like top-notch, you hire a security guard

00:07:05to guard your factory at night. It's got copper wire, it's got valuables or whatever, so, and you say,

00:07:15listen man, I'm going to pay you $10,000 a month to guard my factory at night, and I'll pay

00:07:23you

00:07:23every two weeks. And you also have security cameras in your factory at night, day, day, night,

00:07:31they're on at night, they're infrared, you can see at night, all that, right? Now, this guy is supposed

00:07:36to be the best, so you don't really check up on him, but let's say that a bunch of stuff

00:07:44gets stolen

00:07:45from your factory. You're on vacation, you're offline, you come back, and you get a report that

00:07:52stuff's been stolen from your factory. And then you come back and you review your security tapes,

00:07:57which include the nighttime tapes. And what you see is that, of the 14 days you were away,

00:08:05for the first 12 days, he sleeps every night. And not just like accidentally dozes off,

00:08:12like brings a little cot, a sleeping bag, one of those night-generate stars on the ceiling,

00:08:19soothing music, lava lamps, Matthew McConaughey audiobooks played at 50% speed,

00:08:26you know, all that. And he sleeps. And then, on the last night, he steals. He thinks he's stealing

00:08:39from a place where the cameras can't reach, but he steals. He steals $100,000 worth of equipment.

00:08:46He doesn't realize there's a camera there recording him. Now, do you owe him his pay? Do you owe him

00:08:55$5,000? Because you hired him for a job. And you said you pay him $10,000 a month, first

00:09:00two weeks

00:09:00he sleeps, and then he steals. Do you owe him $5,000? Do you have to pay his salary? I

00:09:07think,

00:09:07generally, people would say, well, no, because he didn't protect your factory, and then he stole

00:09:14from you. So if he were to take you to court and say, hey, man, you didn't pay my salary,

00:09:22man. I'm

00:09:23taking you to court. And you point out to the judge that not only did he sleep on the job,

00:09:29not by accident, but on purpose, but then stole from you, would the judge say, well, you must pay

00:09:35him his salary? I mean, I don't know what judges do in the current miasma, but in any rational legal

00:09:42system, you would not be obligated to pay for a guy who did not fulfill his obligations and then

00:09:46stole from you. Because you'd signed a contract saying, you're going to guard my factory. The

00:09:53contract is not, I'm going to give you a quiet place to sleep with no noise or interruptions.

00:09:59Fantastic napping spot. The contract is, you're going to walk around. David Thewlis was in an old

00:10:05movie many years ago where he shadowed a security guard who had to swipe his electronic card,

00:10:11on readers around the factory on a regular basis to make sure he was doing his patrols.

00:10:16Kind of a terrifying movie as a whole, but he was very good. So he did not fulfill his side

00:10:24of the

00:10:24contract. Do you owe him pay when he has not fulfilled his side of the contract? And again,

00:10:31not by accident. Came there with a cot, sleeping bag, lava lamps, quiet music, whatever. Well, no.

00:10:38And then he says, you stole from me. And I says, but you stole from me first. If you hadn't

00:10:45stolen

00:10:45from me, I wouldn't have, quote, stolen from you. If you had done your job and protected my factory and

00:10:52not stolen from me, I would have paid you your salary happily. So you as the factory owner,

00:10:57you're getting stolen from first. And then you don't pay him what you, quote, owe him because

00:11:05he stole from you. He stole from you by defrauding you. He stole from you by physically stealing from

00:11:09the factory. Now, let's say that as a whole, he didn't steal from you like he didn't take $100,000

00:11:19worth of stuff. Let's say he didn't steal from you. But instead, he just came in with his army cart

00:11:26and

00:11:27his sleeping bag and he slept all night, didn't protect your factory. Would you still pay him?

00:11:32I think in a just legal system, if you had proof that you hired him to protect your factory and

00:11:37he just slept all night, that you wouldn't have to pay him because he had not fulfilled his end

00:11:42of the contract, not by accident, but on purpose, with malice of forethought, or at least selfishness

00:11:46of forethought or something like that. I mean, I remember when I wanted a computer, I was basically

00:11:51just, I just mulled it over with myself. I was like, yeah, I wonder if I could just buy it

00:11:55from a thief.

00:11:57I wonder if I'm going to be fine. I want a computer and all of that. So I was really

00:12:03fascinated by how

00:12:04this stuff all comes about. How does it come about that people just don't care about the property

00:12:12rights of others and destroy? I mean, to get a hold of their value and it's tens of millions of

00:12:19dollars that were stolen to get a hold of this value. They saw a fair amount of fear and uncertainty

00:12:23in doubt into the Bitcoin space itself. So private pillaging, general loss as a whole. So it's

00:12:29important. I'll just pick up the theme that if you hire someone to protect your factory and he doesn't

00:12:35do the job, do you owe him the money? No. Now he will say that you've stolen from him, but

00:12:40he didn't do

00:12:41his job. So people steal from society when society fails to protect them. This, if you're a donor and

00:12:51freedomain.com slash donate, if you subscribe on the various platforms, if you subscribe, I go into

00:13:01this in much more empirical and historical detail with regards to the French Revolution. And I think

00:13:08one of the differences, I know that there's some genetics involved, one of the differences between

00:13:11people on the left and people on the right, people on the left are greedy and amoral and driven by

00:13:18fairly animal impulses. And I think, I mean, I know that people on the left do not respect property

00:13:25rights and people on the right generally do respect property rights. Now, I think, other than the genetic

00:13:33elements, which are not inconsiderable, but I do think that one of the differences between people on the

00:13:37left and people on the right is people on the left were not protected by society or family. And people

00:13:44on the right were protected, much better, not perfectly, but much better by society and family.

00:13:51So if you grew up Christian, your parents heavily invest in educating you, in teaching you morals,

00:13:57in teaching you a worldview. There's a community around. And of course, I know that abuse happens

00:14:02within Christian communities. I get all of that. But what I'm saying is that in general,

00:14:06if you grew up in a community of morally inclined, like-minded people, your chances of being truly

00:14:14abused and neglected are much lower. And neglect is the big thing. Neglect is the big thing.

00:14:20If you are harmed by a parent and neglected by society, you grew up with no respect for the rules

00:14:27of society. How could you have respect for the rules of a society when, if society is following those

00:14:34rules, those rules fail to protect you? And if society is not following its own rules, then why

00:14:43the ever-living heck should you follow society's rules at all? Right? This is a really, really

00:14:50important thing that happens right deep down in the spinal fluid of people who grew up in every

00:14:55society. I just want to run it by you one more time, because it's really only these two possibilities.

00:15:00If you're neglected by your parents, then your parents have no moral authority over you,

00:15:06because whatever morals they have, have led them to neglect you. If your parents are violent or abusive

00:15:13towards you, and society does nothing about it, and your parents are praised and you are told,

00:15:18you must be with your parents, honor their mother and their father, even though they're terrible,

00:15:23why would you have any, any respect for society's rules? There's a great line in Not a Great Movie,

00:15:32No Country for Old Men, where the guy says, if the rules brought you to here, which is to your

00:15:39death,

00:15:39if the rules brought you to here, of what use were the rules? If every rule led you to here,

00:15:44this disaster, of what use were the rules? How do we get people to respect society's rules?

00:15:58Society has to protect children if it wishes to survive. See, when I talk about protecting children,

00:16:05when I talk about the voluntary family, which is the way to privatize the family and thus improve it,

00:16:09when I talk about these things, obviously it's to an individual level, and I do this in the call

00:16:14and show, so I do this to an individual level, it's important, but at the most massive and general

00:16:19Western-laced social model of everything, under the sun and moon, if society is not dedicated to

00:16:28protecting children, that society cannot survive. Unless society is willing, as in some third world

00:16:35countries, to escalate that brutality to truly stupendous levels of honor-killing violence,

00:16:40in which case it's more of a prison planet than it is a voluntary society, but any reasonably peaceful

00:16:46and voluntary free speech, property rights, limited government society cannot survive if it does not

00:16:51protect its children. Because when I grew up, society didn't protect me at all. In fact, when my

00:16:59mother called the cops on me when I finally began to fight back in my early teens, the cops gave

00:17:04me a big

00:17:05lecture on a need to listen to my mother. It's a generation gap, I understand. She seems different,

00:17:10but you've got to listen to your mother, son. Okay, copies. Sorry, I shouldn't laugh. It's so long

00:17:19ago now. It's coming on 50 years, half a century. Allow me to have some laughter about such a long

00:17:25-ago

00:17:26tragedy, which did liberate me. It liberated me from having to give one tiny rat's behind about

00:17:32society's rules, because society, and Christianity, which is how I grew up, society had had at that

00:17:41point close to 2,000 years to develop its rules. 2,000 years, two millennia it had to develop its

00:17:51rules

00:17:53and get it right. And at the end of nearly 2,000 years of trying to get the rules right,

00:18:04when I was fighting back against the bully who had treated me violently and cruelly throughout my

00:18:12entire childhood, when I finally got big enough to fight back, my mother called the cops on me,

00:18:17and I got the lecture. There were two cops in there. I got no follow-up. Nobody from Child

00:18:24Protective Services came to call. Nobody dropped by. Nothing! Nothing! Oh, I get it. Ah, thank you.

00:18:35Thank you. Thank you, those two probably long-dead police officers. I guess they could still be alive.

00:18:40So, yeah, if they were 30, almost 50 years ago, they'd be 80. They could still be around.

00:18:45But they gave me a precious instruction. And listen, I'm sure, I'm sure, that if you were in

00:18:52school, and you were being bullied, and you went to the teachers, the principal, whoever, the nurse,

00:18:59talked about the bullying, what was done? Probably not much. And I understood this, of course,

00:19:05when I got, I only got bullied twice, very briefly. But I understood that there's no point going to the,

00:19:11I mean, the guys who trapped me and my friend in the woods when I was 12. They just said,

00:19:17oh, yeah,

00:19:17if you go to the cops, yeah, we might go to jail. We'll just get out and beat you to

00:19:21death, or beat

00:19:22you within an inch of your life or something, because some huge threat. Yeah, maybe you'll go to the cops,

00:19:26maybe we'll go to jail. We'll just get out, and then we'll just beat you up or kill you. All

00:19:31right.

00:19:32But I understood that society was not going to help or protect me at all. In fact, society was

00:19:39going to side with the abusers, and everyone, the hundreds and hundreds of people in the various

00:19:43apartment buildings we lived in, through the paper-thin walls, heard my brother and I being

00:19:46tormented and tortured and abused and attacked. Nobody did anything. So my point is not to rehash

00:19:53that, which I've done a number of times before, but simply to say, why on earth would I have

00:20:00allegiance to society's rules when society only cared about my abusers and did not care about me

00:20:11at all? If you don't protect children, they will grow up with bottomless contempt for your society.

00:20:20So everyone who is in the presence of child abuse or hears about child abuse, you know, family,

00:20:25extended family, neighborhood, other apartment on your floor, and this is why philosophy is so

00:20:33powerful, is that everyone who fails to intervene, and I'm not saying directly you go up and confront

00:20:38an abuser. I've done that a couple of times. It's pretty exciting. I'm not saying you have to do that,

00:20:43right? But do something. Do something. Especially if it's family, right? Sit everyone around the family

00:20:50table and say, here's what I saw, here's what I've heard, what's going on. Everybody who fails

00:20:56to do anything, to lift any finger to protect children is absolutely raising an amoral pit bull

00:21:06style feral generation with zero allegiance to the rules. You know, like I had, I'll tell you another

00:21:15example. I think this is kind of common. I had, I had zero respect for homework. I had zero respect

00:21:21for property rights. I had zero respect for homework. Why? Why? I'm sure we're pretty, it's pretty common

00:21:28this way, right? I had zero respect for homework. Why? Because you got to do your homework because you

00:21:34have obligations. You got to do the right thing and we'll punish you if you don't. Like, okay, so

00:21:40y'all have rules about homework, but not about protecting me. Not about that at all. That's not

00:21:47important. It is really important that you learn how to do long division algebraically. That's really

00:22:00important. It is not important for society to lift a finger to protect you. In fact, your mother,

00:22:08after assaulting you for over a decade, will call the cops in the full certainty and knowledge that

00:22:14the cops will only lecture me and not ask her any questions. This goes back to the Menendez brothers.

00:22:21If you remember this from the late 80s, I think the trial went on 93 or something like that. These

00:22:28were

00:22:28two young men who unalived their parents and after the family had significant indications of horrific

00:22:42levels of abuse and no one did anything. Why should anyone follow social rules if those social rules

00:22:53only protect the bad guys and only punish the victims? So I, I, before I discovered philosophy,

00:23:01I had zero respect for society's rules. It was just a game of cat and mouse. It was like tag,

00:23:08you know, like you're running, you're dodging, you're jumping, you're trying not to get caught.

00:23:13So you bomb and you weave and you misdirect and you grab a pole and you swing around it and

00:23:17then

00:23:17you run over the roundabout and you, right? It's just a game of cat and mouse. Maybe you get tagged,

00:23:23maybe you get away. It's like rabbit and fox stuff. There's no morality to it. You know,

00:23:31you try to get something and they try to catch you. You try not to do their homework.

00:23:37They try to catch you not doing the homework. You maybe apply for a 10-finger discount in a store.

00:23:43They try to catch you. See, it's a game of cat and mouse. It's not a game of morals because

00:23:49there's

00:23:49no morality in society. If society doesn't protect children, children have no respect for society.

00:23:55And then they say, well, sure, you know, I mean, these rich people have all of this power. They have

00:23:59a lot more influence on society than I do. And they have produced a society that doesn't just not

00:24:05protect its children, but actively exploits them, sells them off on the Orchard Block of

00:24:10International Banksters to bribe citizens with, quote, free stuff made on the blood,

00:24:16spleen, liver and brains and souls of the next generation. Children are an enslavable,

00:24:23minable resource to pay boomers to disconnect from basic math and reality. You're stuck in terrible

00:24:30schools. You're bullied. There's no recourse. You're treated badly at home. If you are,

00:24:36nobody cares. Nobody does anything. And then you find out, oh, oh, wait, what? I'm born into a million

00:24:41dollars of debt and nobody's talking about this. They want me to learn math and this is their math?

00:24:46You've got to be kidding me. As I mentioned before, in a history class, I was about 14 or so,

00:24:56and the history teacher was telling us about the pensions that we were going to get when we got

00:25:01old and half the class just laughed at him. It would have been much better, of course,

00:25:07from a storytelling standpoint, if the math teacher had told us about the pensions we were going to

00:25:11collect. Now, I mean, I guess I'm going to be 60 next month. I suppose I'm within spitting distance

00:25:19of pension, but it sure ain't worth what the boomers got, especially when you compare it to

00:25:25things like housing prices. You know, it'd be much better if computers went up in price and houses

00:25:31went down in price, because at least if houses go down in price, you don't end up with a

00:25:36catastrophically low birth rate. So why do people steal? Because they're stolen from and they're not

00:25:42protected. Their childhood peace of mind is stolen from and they, as children, I'll tell you,

00:25:49this too, ridiculously common. I think it's still common, maybe a little bit less common than when

00:25:53I was young. But when I was young, and you guys can, of course, chime in and let me know

00:25:58what you

00:25:59think, but when I was young, as a victim of rank, rampant, and violent child abuse, you, as the victim,

00:26:08were blamed. You, as the victim, were blamed. My mother would be in my room, smoking like a chimney,

00:26:17typing on her rat-a-tatter, Gatling-gung electric typewriter all night. I'd get no sleep. My mother

00:26:25would have some sort of mental breakdown, nervous breakdown, psychotic episode, or whatever it was,

00:26:30and I wouldn't get any homework time, wouldn't get any sleep, chaos, anxiety, fear,

00:26:39and I still had to show up and be alert the next day. I was short of food, short of

00:26:44money. We kept

00:26:45getting eviction notices. You know, a little stressful. Fair to say, right? A little stressful.

00:26:52Particularly in the couple of years when my brother was in England and I was left to deal with

00:26:56my mother going mad. And I was blamed. You are not prepared for the test. You are not doing your

00:27:06homework. Or, as I was constantly told, if effort matched ability, you'd be an A+. Why don't you try

00:27:14harder? Listen, you boomer douchebags. You try one week in my life as a child. You're going to play

00:27:23Superman off a cliff edge. So that's why people steal. They're stolen from and they're not protected.

00:27:31And why on earth would you have any respect for the rules of society that doesn't even lift a single

00:27:37solitary finger to protect children? Thieves are born in the decaying furnace of indifference

00:27:47exploitation and exploitation. If you were not paid for work that you honestly and legitimately

00:27:55performed, would you feel particularly concerned if you took a stapler home at Steve Martin in the

00:28:05jerk? I'm going to take this. I'm going to take that. Would you care? If you had a company laptop,

00:28:13let's say it was worth a thousand dollars, and the company owed you five thousand dollars,

00:28:19legitimately, like for real, and they didn't pay you, would you feel morally obligated to

00:28:27drive for an hour and return the laptop? No. I don't think so. Maybe you would.

00:28:35But morality, as I've always said, is a relationship. You should not ever have higher morals

00:28:42than the people you are engaged with. Treat people the best you can. When you first meet them,

00:28:49after that, treat them as they treat you. If the company owes you five thousand dollars,

00:28:53and they're not paying you, and then they say, you've got to give us the laptop back,

00:28:58what would you say? You know what? I will drop the laptop off when you give me a certified check

00:29:06for five thousand dollars. Sorry for the younger people among us. Certified means it's guaranteed

00:29:13it's as good as cash. The money's already been deducted from the account. They can't catch a

00:29:16check. They can't bounce the check. Right? Now, this doesn't mean that stealing is not wrong.

00:29:25The stealing is wrong. You know, if people shoplift because their family and school and church has

00:29:32failed to protect them, their society has failed to protect them, that is an injustice because you

00:29:37are taking out your frustration, alienation, and lack of respect for laws, which was generated by some

00:29:43people on other people who didn't generate that indifference. Right? It's like me saying,

00:29:49well, a company owes me five thousand dollars. They didn't pay me. So, I'm going to go and steal

00:29:56something from someone else. Like, that's not right. That's not right. So, I'm not saying it's

00:30:01not wrong. I'm talking about the reason why it happens. Because philosophy is about prevention,

00:30:06not cure. So, we want to prevent these things from happening. And the best way for society

00:30:14to gain legitimacy for its rules is to have those rules. I mean, it's so crazy, right? So

00:30:22crazy this needs to be said. But it does. It really does. Because people aren't, they don't

00:30:26understand this. I mean, you do. Maybe. Certainly, hopefully. Now, I'm talking about it. If society

00:30:32wants people to grow up respecting the rules of society, those rules have to benefit those in

00:30:40society. If you want children to grow up with a great degree of faith and fidelity and belief

00:30:48in following rules, those rules have to benefit children. They have to be able to protect children

00:30:56or at least willing to try. At least willing to try. I mean, what bothered me over the course of

00:31:01my childhood, I am scarcely alone in this, is nobody even tried. Nobody even tried. Not one person from

00:31:08my childhood, even though I've been public about it for over 20 years, not one person from my

00:31:12childhood or my youth has ever called me up and said, ah, you know, I feel kind of bad that

00:31:17we

00:31:17didn't do anything about it or say anything. Or even call you when we found out and say I'm sorry

00:31:22about what happened to you. Nothing! Nothing! I met up once with a friend of mine from childhood,

00:31:29ooh, in my 30s, after I'd been public about this stuff. And his mother said to me, how is your

00:31:38poor

00:31:39mother? How is she doing? Is she okay? I can only laugh. I can only laugh. Even if people think

00:31:47that

00:31:47I'm, you know, I know some people think I'm a bad guy, right? I'm a bad guy. Do you know

00:31:52there was a

00:31:52woman recently? I think she killed three of her children and all of that sort of stuff. And in the

00:31:59comments are endless cascades of people saying, oh, oh, that poor mother, postpartum depression is

00:32:09really tough. Ah, I see. So that's how it goes. A woman can murder her own helpless little babies

00:32:27and children and toddlers, annihilate her entire bloodline, and she gets sympathy. Ah-ha. Okay. So

00:32:39that is interesting. I myself can have been vastly wronged by society and am working to protect the

00:32:49innocent, and I'm a bad guy. And when people participate in these complete moral reversals,

00:32:55they are driving a stake through the heart of their entire society, which maybe is a vampire,

00:33:01that should be returned to the ash that composes it. Everyone participates in this. You, me, everyone

00:33:11participates in this. And it actually has been quite helpful for me and instructive for me

00:33:16in working, as I have for many decades, to help protect children, to see what happens to people

00:33:25who work to help to protect children. What happens? Evil, cult, blah, blah, blah, right? And I get no

00:33:35excuses for being a legitimate victim of massive violence for 15 years. No excuse. I mean, a genuine

00:33:45victim. I've not been perfect in my life. Obviously, I get that. But, you know, as a kid, I was

00:33:49a genuine

00:33:49victim. And so people see this deep down in their hearts. And they say, well, if society doesn't care

00:33:58about us, then why should I care about society? It's perfectly a legitimate position. If society fails

00:34:08to protect you or me, why on earth should we sacrifice and restrain ourselves in order to protect

00:34:17society? Why should I pay a security guard who stole from me and defrauded me, slept on the job and

00:34:25rip me off? Well, but you had a contract. That's right. And the contract goes both ways. The contract

00:34:32goes both ways. And children are not responsible for upholding the social contract. The social contract

00:34:39is responsible for protecting children. And if society can't protect children, what

00:34:46freaking use is it to anyone except abusers? Now, once you understand and you realize that it's the

00:34:55abusers who run society, then why on earth would you follow the rules of abusers? I view, not everyone,

00:35:06obviously, it's a lovely community here, I view society as being run by and enabling abusers. Because

00:35:14everyone's shocked at the Anthony Fauci stuff, right? And they think that the problem is with Anthony

00:35:19Fauci. No. Anthony Fauci is an inevitable shadow cast by the massive amounts of coercive and

00:35:28manipulative power centralized in the upper echelons of political oligarchies. You give that amount of

00:35:35power to anyone, it will either corrupt them or only the most corrupt will seek it out. And people think

00:35:41that the problem is Anthony Fauci. Like, like, like, oh my gosh, if only somebody different had been in

00:35:48that position. And I mean, obviously, there's a difference between Biden and Trump. And I get all

00:35:53of that. So I'm not saying it's a zero. But the inevitable logic is that power, in a ragged upward

00:36:00line, power and corruption are both going to increase. And there's dips and so on, right?

00:36:05But he's a symptom. Not, not the cause. The cause is people who want something for nothing,

00:36:13which is stealing. The people who want, like, the first people who got retirement benefits,

00:36:21they had barely or not even paid into the system, and they got a significant amount of money out of

00:36:27the system. That's stealing. People who are constantly saying the rich need to pay more.

00:36:33It's like, bro, the bottom 50% of society pays barely any tax and gets massive amounts of benefits.

00:36:41As you know, the biggest single spending item in most Western countries is coerced redistribution

00:36:45of wealth, taking and bribing. Why do people want something for nothing? Because they got nothing

00:36:54from society, except their suffering being ignored, and their abusers being protected and praised.

00:37:02And I, of course, studied and grew to hugely respect and treasure property rights in the abstract.

00:37:11It's a good thing to do. Property rights are very valuable, essential. But I have much more sympathy

00:37:19for those in my past who did not work to protect me or others as children, because when you actually

00:37:26work up and you effectively protect children, the society tries to destroy you. Ah, yes. But society's

00:37:34rules are just moral and good, essential, and must be respected. Well, if society doesn't respect

00:37:41children, don't expect children to grow up respecting society. Which is... And I, sorry, all I got was

00:37:48indifference. Now, children are actively propagandized, and to a large degree are kind of

00:37:56poisoned as a whole. So that's much worse. I mean, kids now are going through much worse

00:38:03in school than what I went through. I was only bored. I was only bored. It was all just dull

00:38:11and

00:38:11indifferent, and so on, right? The British North America Act did this and this and do-do-do-do-do.

00:38:17But now, children are actually, like, mentally destroyed and terrorized and all of that.

00:38:23So the cold card, July 2026, was not... The devices weren't hacked. So for those of you who don't

00:38:32know, and please understand, I'm no big expert on this, right? So forgive me if I go astray,

00:38:36but I think the general pattern is clear. So with Bitcoin, you've got hardware wallets.

00:38:42So your keys, the keys to your crypto live in a sealed, air-gapped box, never touches the internet.

00:38:49And you get these phrases, these sequence of phrases of words that are generated by

00:38:58incredible layers and depths of hardware randomness. And you can't guess them.

00:39:05So there's a company called CoinKite that manufactured a hardware wallet called ColdCard.

00:39:11And it said, oh, it's a fortress and so on, right? And what's wild is, July 30th,

00:39:18a couple days ago, in a 25 to 41 minute window, an attacker grabbed hold of, I mean, reports vary

00:39:27somewhere between 1,000 and 1,300 Bitcoin. Initially reported about 38 million, later it was upgraded to

00:39:3470 million, and even higher in some analyses. And this is from over a thousand single signature

00:39:41addresses. It never touched a single physical device. And I think AI was used to try and

00:39:49guess these phrases that unlock the Bitcoin.

00:39:57So what happened? So the problem wasn't some sort of exotic cryptography or any kind of physical

00:40:05extraction. It was a firmware. So firmware is the software that runs the hardware. It was a firmware

00:40:14build error. That's the stuff that's on your, it's in your coffee maker, your headphones.

00:40:21Sometimes you get firmware updates to your mouse or your keyboard or maybe your washing machine too

00:40:27or whatever, right? It's the code that runs right above the hardware. So a firmware build error

00:40:34dated back to March 2021, version 4.00, 4.01 onward. So the code was supposed to pull randomness

00:40:44from a chip hardware random number generator. So for, I won't go into all the technicals of it, but

00:40:52on affected builds, the device fell back to a weak software path, seeded by non-secret chip data,

00:41:02serial number, timer registers, and so on. So it was supposed to be 128 bits of encryption,

00:41:07went down to something like 40 bits. Newer models, MK4, MK5, Q, less catastrophic, still reduced.

00:41:14So seeds that should have been computationally unreachable became guessable offline. So an

00:41:22attacker who understood the flaw, and CoinKite, however much we may trust them or not trust them,

00:41:26has suggested AI review of the open source firmware likely helped to surface it, could generate

00:41:32candidate seeds, match them to dormant on-chain addresses, and script the drains. Many of the

00:41:38emptied wallets, sat quiet for years, so there was no phishing with a PH, you know, like when they ask

00:41:44you for your password and so on. No malware, no physical access, just the quiet and hard-to-detect

00:41:51failure of the randomness that was supposed to make ownership real. And even though, I suppose,

00:41:56the firmware was updated, it doesn't heal the seed that was already weakly generated.

00:42:02So, was it, in every, think of sort of every movie with a hacking scene, you know, there's some guy

00:42:09feverishly typing, there's a bunch of Matrix-style DOS characters racing across the screen, and it's

00:42:14like, I'm trying to get in, I'm trying to get in. And usually there's a scene in these kinds of

00:42:18things where somebody has to guess the password. And if you have a truly random password, you know,

00:42:2420 characters, upper and lowercase, special symbols, it's going to be pretty hard to guess

00:42:30that. However, if it's like, oh, let's try his daughter's birthday, let's try the make of his

00:42:39car, let's try his wife's maiden name, like something, right? Something. Something. Then you

00:42:47are reducing the variables, and if you have enough time, you're much more likely to get in. If it's a

00:42:55mnemonic that is guessable. So, to put it mildly, if it's truly random words, like let's just say

00:43:04it's truly random words, it's going to be really hard to guess. If, however, you know for a fact

00:43:12that the, quote, random words are something that Hamlet says in the play Hamlet, well, then it's just

00:43:19a matter of time, right? So, the randomness was reduced, and thus it could be guessed.

00:43:29And the guy who lost his 1.6 million said his, it was air-gapped, which means it never went

00:43:39on the

00:43:39internet, which is a wild thing. Air-gapped computers, like you get them out of the box

00:43:47and you never connect them to the internet, right? You disable the Wi-Fi, you never plug in an

00:43:52ethernet. Cable, they never touch the internet. So, the internet doesn't even know they exist,

00:43:57so to speak. There's no updates, there's no online or anything like that, and so on.

00:44:03Chris Masterjohn on X has written this. I say this without obviously knowing whether it's true or not.

00:44:09I'm sure this stuff will come out in court. He wrote, the cold card security break was because the coder

00:44:13working in Python disabled the built-in random number generator thinking it wasn't needed because

00:44:18they were redirecting to a different random number generator, not realizing that the device

00:44:22itself, written in C, which the coder apparently didn't understand, called in the disabled built-in

00:44:28random number generator. And evidently, they innovated in their code purely to change it from

00:44:33the open source when a competitor came out using their open source. The level of total carelessness

00:44:38and total lack of due diligence driven by utter pettinous here is baffling.

00:44:42So, for people, Jonathan Goodman, it's Coach Goodman on X, he said,

00:44:48$1.6 million in Bitcoin was drained from my account on July 29th in the cold card wallet hack.

00:44:53He says, my Bitcoin was in cold storage. My keys were on a cold card device kept in a safety

00:44:58deposit

00:44:58box that had never been connected to the internet. This part's nerdy, but here's what's happened.

00:45:03Hackers discovered a vulnerability in the part of the hardware wallet code used to create

00:45:07seed phrases. So, you can generate your own seed phrases. You can use the ones auto-generated by

00:45:14the wallet. And if the wallet has generated a sequence of words as your seed phrase that

00:45:21are not truly random, then they're, of course, much easier to guess.

00:45:26So, he said, hackers discovered a vulnerability in the part of the hardware wallet code used to

00:45:29create seed phrases. This allowed them to use AI to brute force guess seed phrases. He said,

00:45:35I was at our cottage and heard about the hack today. No way this affects me, I thought. I locked

00:45:41into Wasabi software that lets me view my Bitcoin wallets online. Right away, I saw lines of red

00:45:46transactions, withdrawals, and I knew. From 9.36 p.m. to 9.43 p.m. on July 29th, every wallet

00:45:53I had

00:45:54had been emptied, he said. 18.25 and change, Bitcoin gone. That's just over 1.6 million dollars

00:46:01Canadian. Now, most people make about a million dollars, so maybe it's a little bit more now,

00:46:06but so that's a lifetime and change of labor. Gone. De-spawned. He says, perhaps the hardest part

00:46:15about this is that I did everything right. I never shared my seed phrase with anybody, he says. My devices

00:46:21never touched the internet. Everything was kept in multiple safes and a safety deposit box. None of

00:46:25it mattered. All because the hardware that created the seed phrase originally had one line in their

00:46:30code from 2021 that had a vulnerability. He said, I'm filing a police report and a report with the

00:46:35Ontario Securities Commission, but I don't expect to recoup anything. A part of me is trying to make

00:46:40sense of what just happened, he said, or try to figure out a lesson in it. I'm struggling. 1.6

00:46:45million

00:46:45is a staggering amount of money to have stolen. And he said, I guess that all I can think about

00:46:50right now is that I'm so damn happy that I'm an entrepreneur and that my earning potential is

00:46:54under my control. Mark my damn words, I'll recover. So, I'll tell you, we can close off with a couple

00:47:00of things. I really appreciate you guys dropping by today. I hope this is of value to you. But let's

00:47:04just close off with a couple of general principles that I have learned over the years. And this is maybe

00:47:15somewhat contemptuous, but I live by it. I live by it. Most people are at best barely competent, and most

00:47:26people are absolutely amoral. I've been working in the sphere of virtue for 45 years, almost. I can't wait till

00:47:38I'm

00:47:3865, could round it off to a good old tasty half century. So, I've been working, and I've done it

00:47:45in the art world, worked with morals and ethics and virtue and integrity. I've done it in the business

00:47:52world. I've done it in the academic world. I've done it in the realm of pure philosophy. I have done

00:47:57it

00:47:58in the dating world. I have had a wide range of experience. And in the business world, I've done it

00:48:05all the way from being a dishwasher and an office cleaner as a teenager to chief technical officer

00:48:13reporting to the board involved in two high-level business sales. Like, I've run the gamut. I've seen

00:48:21it all. I'm sorry, I'm just remembering when I was in the play The Seagull in theater school. We had

00:48:31some experts come in to talk to us about Russia and Russian history and so on to make it more

00:48:36vivid and real for us. It's an Anton Chekhov play. And Anton Chekhov was a doctor, also a playwright,

00:48:46of course. The Wood Demon, I think, the Cherry Orchard, did this famous play about the decay of

00:48:53a society that failed to protect its children and therefore ended up with the Russian Revolution.

00:48:57And again, it's not straight causal. There was a bunch of other involvements, of course, right? But

00:49:01these revolutions don't come out of nowhere. And I remember, this is like for many, many decades ago,

00:49:08I just remember our professor who came in to talk to us as an actress about Russia in the 19th

00:49:14century,

00:49:15he said, you have to remember that as a doctor, Anton Chekhov saw everything. He saw the whole.

00:49:25And I said, well, yeah, because he delivered babies. Let me resurrect that joke from oh so many moons

00:49:36ago. I thought it was quite witty. And I did stand up once, but it was not for me. So

00:49:44this is a lot of

00:49:46hard-won experience. Most people are barely competent. Most people feel like frauds, and in many cases,

00:49:53they are. Most people are barely competent. Most people don't think for themselves. I mean,

00:49:59other than Eastern Europe, most of the Western world went hog wild into COVID hysteria and the

00:50:07mystery shots. Because at the time, it was a mystery as to the long-term effects, because they

00:50:12only tested them for a couple of months, which they were very upfront about and then wanted to hide the

00:50:15data. So most people, barely competent. Most people do not think for themselves. They pretend

00:50:23to. Of course, everybody has to put on that simulation. I remember when the Schengen agreement

00:50:30was being proposed, my mother was very keen on having no borders in Europe. I'm not going to claim

00:50:37that I had any particular opinion about it, other than I had no respect for my mother's opinions about

00:50:42anything. But I remember my mother would say over and over again, every different,

00:50:46ah, but you see, if you are, she would say, if you're a waitress in Scotland, then you can go

00:50:53down

00:50:53to the Mediterranean and work in the winter when the restaurants are more closed in Scotland. So

00:50:58think of all of the value of that. And she just repeated this over and over again. I never found

00:51:04out where she got it from, but I doubt she came up with it herself. It was just some piece

00:51:08of

00:51:08propaganda. The most secure election in American history, safe and effective. Diversity is a blah,

00:51:14blah, blah. Right. So most people, they're not thinking for themselves. They're just repeating

00:51:18slogans. They are simulating thinking. AI is better at, quote, thinking than most people are.

00:51:26Even Gemini. So I did this post on X. Just out of curiosity, I asked Gemini whether Fauci ever

00:51:36expressed doubt in his, quote, diaries, right, his bureaucratic journals for his future book.

00:51:44I asked Gemini, it's a Google product, right? I asked Gemini, hey, did Dr. Fauci ever express

00:51:49doubts or hesitations about the fact that the COVID vaccine was supposed to prevent infection

00:51:56and transmission? And of course, Gemini said, nope, never expressed any doubt. It's nothing about that

00:52:03at all in these diaries. And then I tried prompting it. I said, well, but what about the time he

00:52:10went to

00:52:10a party? He was vaccinated. There was proof of vaccination was required to get into the party.

00:52:16And he was still worried about getting COVID, even though everyone was vaccinated.

00:52:21And Gemini said, nope, never happened, doesn't exist. I go over to Grok and it's like, oh,

00:52:26yep, here's the reference. Here's, you know, he did say all of that. He's up at night worrying about

00:52:30getting infected with COVID, even though he's been vaccinated and he was at a social gathering where

00:52:34everyone else is vaccinated. So by logical extension, it's not even that much of a logical extension.

00:52:38That's clear that Dr. Fauci doubted significantly that the vaccines prevented transmission or

00:52:45infection. Otherwise, why would he worry about getting COVID when he's vaccinated and everyone

00:52:49at the party is vaccinated? They all have to show proof to get in. I mean, it's foul. It's absolutely

00:52:55foul. Like I understand Gemini, what does it get us? It gets its useless crap from the mainstream media.

00:53:01Well, they're not writing about it, of course, right? Slaves to pharmacy. And they're getting it from

00:53:06Reddit. I mean, that's not going to give you anything. At least Grok gets it from a relatively

00:53:13uncensored platform such as Twitter. X. Sorry, X. Give it the right platform name. So Twitter is the

00:53:22X name of X. So it's Twitter's X. No, it's X's Twitter. No, something like that. I think you understand

00:53:30what I'm saying. I hope you do because I don't. So it's foul because what it does is it's

00:53:36creates two universes, right? It creates the same screen, different movie. But it's even

00:53:43worse than that because it's not even the same screen. By not reporting on facts, AI creates

00:53:48a relationship-destroying, society-destroying bubble of people who don't have the faintest

00:53:54freaking clue what is going on in the world because the AI is hiding it all from them.

00:54:00So people asking Gemini questions about Fauci and his diaries, I mean, I'm not even going to say

00:54:06that the AI is lying. But unless there's an additional layer of making it lie, like don't

00:54:14ever admit this, don't ever admit that, in which case the programmers are lying. And those lies are

00:54:18creating bubbles that are extremely dangerous in the world. Because if you're dealing with people

00:54:23who have totally opposing facts or don't have access to the right information, you can't even

00:54:29communicate with them. This is the find people hoax and so on, right? The IQ questions that we've

00:54:35talked about. People just don't have access to the information. You can't even have a conversation

00:54:38with them because they're speaking another language, a language called unreality. It's horrendous.

00:54:45Drives families apart, drives nations apart, creates massive conflict. And people say, well,

00:54:50I trust Gemini. Eh, you brought this thing up in Grock, but Grock just scans Twitter and there's

00:54:55all these conspiracy theories, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then you say, look, here's the actual

00:55:01text in the diary. And they won't acknowledge it. Was it Trump's press secretary once just played the

00:55:09entire speech that Trump gave at Charlottesville? The find people hoax, right? This idea that he

00:55:15called neo-Nazis, find people, like it's not true, not even remotely true. But it doesn't matter what

00:55:20you say. People are willing to misinterpret and lie. And there's most ideologies in the world

00:55:26absolutely comfortable, in fact, encourage their members to lie to you. Communists, absolutely

00:55:31willing to lie, everything for the sake of the revolution. It's an amoral grab of power.

00:55:36Most people are addicted to ideologies and ideologies being an addiction. Lying to support

00:55:41an addiction is one of the reasons that it is an addiction. It's a dysfunction. You've heard of the

00:55:47people, I'm sure you've heard of the people who fake chronic pain to try and get opiates from a

00:55:52hospital. Oh, I'm in such pain. My stomach is killing me. Help me out, doc. Help me out, right?

00:55:56They lie. They're not in pain. At least not physical. It's just the, well, it gets physical

00:56:00pain of addiction. But they're not honest about it. Lie, cheat, steal. It's an addiction. So people

00:56:06who want power are power junkies, power addicts. They lie, cheat, and steal. Lots of religions out

00:56:12there in the world and all ideologies will lie, cheat, and steal. And most people are either

00:56:17superstitious, religious, or ideological, which means they lie. And they don't care

00:56:22that they lie. Because all of their relationships are based on lying. And because all their relationships

00:56:28are based on lying, if they tell the truth, they are isolated. And once you become addicted

00:56:32to relationships based on lies, you can't stand to be alone. You can't stand to be alone.

00:56:41I don't know if you've known those people, just the compulsive, they have to be with people,

00:56:44they can't be alone. Freddie Mercury was one of them.

00:56:46I can't stand to be alone. I can't stand to be with people. I have to do things.

00:56:51Well, I guess if you're addicted to scatological sex dungeons, you probably don't have a great

00:56:56relationship with your own conscience. Not super great, I assume. Most people are amoral.

00:57:05Most people, most people are pathological liars. That is certainly true. Most people are pathological

00:57:11liars in that they wish to studiously avoid the truth. They should, of course, by any

00:57:16rational standard, be a huge reckoning about COVID and the shots and the restrictions and

00:57:22all of this. It was all based on lies. And not even like mistaken lies and misread the data. Not

00:57:29honest falsehoods, which can happen, right? But conscious, aware lies. Most of it based on lies

00:57:38and the suppression of truth. So there should be a huge reckoning. People's lives were destroyed

00:57:44emotionally, physically. People died, ended themselves. People's businesses were destroyed.

00:57:53Their savings were drained. Families were turned against each other. People's rights were stripped

00:57:57away. In Canada, protesters exercising the remnants of free speech were targeted in ways that, if I

00:58:08remember rightly, the constitutional court found to be unconstitutional. It doesn't matter.

00:58:12Of course, right? There should be a reckoning. All the people who told their children, well,

00:58:17you know, if you did something wrong, just say you're sorry. Just say you're sorry, give a hug,

00:58:21you know, talk it out. They said that to their kids, right? And all those people who turned on

00:58:26their fellow citizens, because the squawk box told them the air was deadly, they owe an apology,

00:58:32right? People should say, you know, gosh, we really did go for that. You tried to warn us.

00:58:37Like, if everyone's wrong, nobody's wrong. I get that. But if some people are wrong,

00:58:40and other people are telling them the truth, then the people who are wrong have a responsibility.

00:58:44I cared more about the LED boomer box ordering me what to do than my own flesh of blood raising

00:58:52legitimate concerns and questions about the virtues and values of what was going down.

00:58:57All these people watch all these movies about heroes. And they think, well, I would have

00:59:04protected Anne Frank. I would have stood up against the bad guys. I would have been Iron Man. I would

00:59:08have been Superman. I would have been Batman, Spider-Man, Spider-Man. It's that joke from France.

00:59:14It's Spider-Man, not Spider-Man. So, everyone thinks they're a hero. Just about everyone folded.

00:59:23Without even a whimper. Again, Eastern Europe excluded. But of course, Eastern Europe had living

00:59:29memory taste of totalitarianism. Whereas we've gotten a little softer in the West, because it's

00:59:33been a while since the state has turned truly predatory. So, oh, how soon we forget.

00:59:41The totalitarian song, don't you forget about me. Ah, but we do. So, most people, they don't even

00:59:50know what the truth is. They just say whatever they can to get through any discomfort in the

00:59:54moment, to gain any little shred of status in the moment. They just lie. And they're so

01:00:00habituated to lying that they don't even think of it as lying anymore. My mother with her, ah,

01:00:06you know, but the Scottish waders can go and wader in the Mediterranean in the winter, and it's so

01:00:11convenient, and it's helpful, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I mean, if you were to say to her,

01:00:15okay, hang on. I mean, people in England can't understand Scottish people. How well do you think

01:00:21Greeks are going to follow what they have to say? She would just get angry. Oh, you know, it doesn't

01:00:27matter. They can figure it out, right? Just get angry. I mean, language barriers are not insignificant,

01:00:32right? It's not like I'm going to go and join a Japanese boy band, and the only thing that

01:00:38prevents that, of course, is the language barrier. Everything else is perfect. So, she just read

01:00:44something and picked something up, heard something, and then repeats it. And look, I'm not saying

01:00:48everyone's like my mom, but it's very common. People make all these claims. You try and drill down on the

01:00:53claims. Trump's a racist, right? You try and drill down on the claims. They don't know what they're

01:00:59talking about. They don't have any idea. They're just faking. They're just miming. They're ventriloquists

01:01:04with the digital media mainstream up their nether regions, making their teeth separators go up and

01:01:12down, and program sounds come out of their mouths. Most people. Most people. You can accept it or not.

01:01:19Maybe it's different in your environment. Maybe. But most people are addicts to delusions and approval

01:01:27and status. And all they do is map approvals and status by denying delusions. It is not what is

01:01:36true. It is what is praised. It is not what is real. It is what is approved. It is not

01:01:42what is

01:01:42factual or moral. It is what makes them feel better in the moment, what makes them feel better in the

01:01:47moment. That's all that matters. If somebody says, Trump is a racist, if you nod and smile,

01:01:54then they approve of you. If you have questions, they get tense and aggressive. And the last thing

01:02:00I'll say, most people, most social, in fact, I would say virtually all, I'd go even further,

01:02:06virtually all social groups are run by the craziest person. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. Almost all social

01:02:17groups are run by the craziest person. Because the craziest person will impose their will with

01:02:24great aggression and vitriol, whereas the most reasonable people won't. So in any conflict

01:02:30between the reasonable people and the crazy person, it's usually one, could be more, any conflict

01:02:35between the reasonable people and the crazy person, everybody sides with the crazy person,

01:02:38because the crazy person will be willing to inflict reputational or social damage or even go further,

01:02:43whereas the reasonable people are detected, they are detected as a non-threat. Reasonable people

01:02:50can be reasoned with and tend not to escalate blowback if crossed or wronged. Crazy people

01:02:57will escalate blowback and attacks if crossed or wronged. And so everyone conforms to the crazy person

01:03:04out of fear of what the crazy person might do if they try to correct the crazy person or criticize

01:03:10the more ostracize the more ostracized and blow up and attack and spread rumors and lies, maybe try to

01:03:15get them fired, like whatever. And so if you're in any social group and there's a crazy person around

01:03:22and you're a reasonable person, you will lose. 100% every time. Every time. It's an unbroken social

01:03:30experiment. The social group will conform to the crazy person and will reject the reasonable person,

01:03:39because the crazy person does damage and alarms them and the reasonable people don't. So they

01:03:45reward crazy and they punish reason. They reward aggressive semi-psycho volatility and they punish

01:03:53calm, reasonable negotiation. So as the world as a whole gets crazier and crazier, one of the main

01:04:00reasons is that social groups conform to the crazy people and reward them with allegiance and punish

01:04:04the reasonable people with ostracism. Nobody wants to take on the crazy person, but you don't really

01:04:11have to take on the reasonable people because they're reasonable. So they're not going to blow up

01:04:15and try and get you fired or attack you or spread rumors or try and split up your marriage or

01:04:19whatever.

01:04:21So these are the principles. People lie. People are amoral at best. And all social groups are run by the

01:04:28craziest person. All of them. All of them. Now, social groups, you know, pre-existing, it'd be

01:04:35families or, or I don't know, sports groups or chess clubs or whatever it is, right? If you have your

01:04:41own social group that's based upon rationality, the odds improve. The odds improve, but never to 100%.

01:04:47I mean, never to 100%. I mean, that's not a reasonable standard. I'm not 100% reasonable.

01:04:52I just had a whole podcast yesterday on this. It's going out to donors, but those are the facts on

01:04:58the

01:04:58ground. And if you don't navigate your life by those facts, you will cream pinball style from one

01:05:04mess to another. And most people, even rational people, sensible people, philosophical people,

01:05:13most people will go nuts once in a while. It's like holding this giant balloon underwater. You're tired,

01:05:21man. It pops up. I get it back down, right? Most people are wrestling with crazy and it erupts

01:05:26on a semi-regular basis. Could be once a year, twice a year, maybe more or less, but, and, and

01:05:32you

01:05:32just kind of have to roll with it. People just go crazy. They lose their virtues, lose their reason,

01:05:37lose their values. It's historical scars. It's inattention. It's laziness. I don't know. It

01:05:42doesn't really matter. But this is how you have to negotiate and navigate your life, in my opinion and

01:05:48experience. So, freedomain.com slash donate. If you could help out. Listen, I got to tell you,

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01:06:16able to chat with you guys about all of this sort of stuff. And I hope you have a wonderful

01:06:21day.

01:06:22Lots of love from me to you. Big spiritual hugs across the multiverse in our relentless and hiccuping

01:06:30pursuit of virtue, truth, and goodness. I appreciate your companionship more than I can probably ever

01:06:39express. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Take care. We'll talk soon.

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