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Stefan Molyneux

Philosopher Stefan Molyneux lays out the road to hell by showing how pushing women into college debt and welfare traps kills marriage and kids while state coercion removes all feedback and responsibility.  Questions:  What challenges will we face in society in the future when some segments of the population have a Neuralink implant and others don’t?  Would you be interested in creating a series or long-form content similar to Andrew Wilson's Debate University but for the purpose of learning how to reason from first principles? Similar to the early white-board videos from FDR?  Define the political Right and Left in the pure abstract without any reference to a particular time or place.  Can you do a podcast/video about decreasing birthrates, decreasing fertility, decreasing sperm count, especially in the wester world? Studies suggest almost no one in the west will be able to have children naturally in 30 years... seems like a serious problem.  Why are most European nations so determined to destroy their history culture and heritage through Middle Eastern migrants…  Can you explain why young men commit suicide generally?  Have you ever watched testimonies of people who have died and went to hell on youtube?  There are a lot where they are revived and are able to share their story.  How would you decide between a guaranteed mediocre life or a slim chance at wild  success?  You advocate against forgiveness without prior repentance from the perpetrator.  Could it be possible that most people just can’t walk between resentment and forgiveness, so in terms of total human suffering it is better just to forgive.  And that in not forgiving, most people jus...  0:00:00 Neuralink and Futures  0:01:47 Debate and First Principles  0:02:16 Right, Left, and State  0:03:19 Fertility and University Debt  0:10:03 Charity Versus Coercion  0:20:29 Suicide and Deathbed Hell  0:32:59 Choose Risk Over Regret  0:35:45 Forgiveness and Walking Away  0:51:33 Fixing Population Decline  0:54:11 Conservatives and Creative Art  0:55:02 National Ontology and Physics  0:56:12 Universe Collision Speculation  0:58:58 Building Rational Friend Circles   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/FREEDOMAIN202

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00:00:00All right, questions from the fine folks on X. And thank you very much for tickling my brain

00:00:07with your syllables and pixels. First question, what challenges will we face in society in the

00:00:13future when some segments of the population have a neural link implant and others don't?

00:00:20Um, I don't know. I don't particularly care. That doesn't mean that you're right to care or wrong

00:00:28to care. I'm just saying I don't particularly care. All I care about is expanding the non-aggression

00:00:33principle and property rights. That's what I care about. Expanding the non-aggression principle,

00:00:39particularly into childhood, is job one and property rights. So there is a neural link

00:00:46implant theory that you could deal with tinnitus, which would be of some benefit to me, to put it

00:00:56great. Neural link as a whole, as far as I understand it, is there not to give people

00:01:00superpowers, but to restore them to a state of normal functioning. So if you get laser eye surgery,

00:01:06it is not to allow you to see through walls or see infrared. It is to allow you to see,

00:01:11you know, like a normal person. That's what it is for. And so returning people to a state of normal

00:01:21functioning is great. You know, people can get out of wheelchairs. People can regain use of their

00:01:26eyes or their arms or something like that. I mean, wouldn't that be wonderful? If it is used to

00:01:31upgrade people, I don't know. I mean, whatever. Nature does that all the time by giving people

00:01:36different height, beauty, intelligence, and so on. So I don't particularly care about it. I think it's

00:01:43fine. I love technology that can help people, and I hope that they keep moving forward with it.

00:01:51All right. Would you be interested in creating a series or long-form content similar to Andrew

00:01:55Wilson's Debate University, but for the purpose of learning how to reason from first principles,

00:01:59similar to the early whiteboard videos from FDR? Well, I have a book, artoftheargument.com.

00:02:05artoftheargument.com. I have a book. You can also get it on Audible.

00:02:09artoftheargument.com. That is my instructions on how to debate and why.

00:02:16Define the political right and left in the pure abstract without any reference to a particular

00:02:21time or place. So the political right is masculinity plus the state, which means masculinity

00:02:28unrestrained by balancing femininity, which is why you get fascism and hyper-masculinity and so on.

00:02:35It tends to subjugate women. It tends to have a hyper-focus on athletics, physical fitness,

00:02:41body aesthetics, and so on. So masculinity is supposed to be balanced by femininity,

00:02:45and femininity is supposed to be balanced by masculinity. When masculinity gains control of

00:02:50the state, you get the far right. When femininity gains control of the state, that is, you know,

00:02:57quote, compassion and niceness and taking care of people's feelings and not upsetting people and so on.

00:03:03And that's fine. That's supposed to be balanced by masculine bluntness. I mean, we're a great team,

00:03:07men and women. When women gain control of the state, then they can enact female nature with

00:03:13no balancing from masculinity, which is why you get this suicidal empathy stuff. So, all right.

00:03:20Can you do a podcast slash video about decreasing birth rates, decreasing fertility, decreasing sperm

00:03:25count, especially in the Western world? Studies suggest almost no one in the West will actually be

00:03:29able to have children naturally in 30 years. Seems like a serious problem. I've heard it both.

00:03:33Was that old line from Psych? I've heard it both ways. So, I've heard that the sperm count stuff

00:03:40is to some degree fabricated and so on. The major issue with having children in the West is

00:03:51educating women and forcing employees to hire them. No problem with women working, of course. It's not a

00:03:57violation of the non-aggression principle for a woman to get a job. I think it's great.

00:04:00But when men are forced and women are forced to hire women, that is with the goal of taking them

00:04:09out of their reproductive years, right? So, what are the powers that be say to women? They say,

00:04:14oh, you can't ever really rely upon a man, although it's far more rational to rely upon a man than

00:04:20it is

00:04:20to rely upon the state because the state can't love you and the state's going to run out of money.

00:04:23So, it's a bad idea to rely on the state. So, they say to women, well, you've got to go

00:04:28to

00:04:28university and we're going to create all of these non-challenging courses to put more and more women

00:04:38into university. We'll lend you a bunch of money, you'll have a bunch of fun, and then we'll tell

00:04:43you that you're never going to get anywhere in life. If you don't go to university, you can't rely

00:04:47upon a man, you've got to get a career. Now, after you graduate from university, of course,

00:04:51you want to get a job. You get a job, you start working at that, you work hard at your

00:04:54job,

00:04:55and, you know, you kind of have an existence. It's a fairly solitary existence. It certainly

00:05:03doesn't build the foundations of a family and kids. And so, as somebody who will continually

00:05:10triumph the non-aggression principle and property rights, nobody should be forced to hire anybody

00:05:17else. Of course. Like, that's not even a question that any sane person would have to think about

00:05:23more than five milliseconds. Forcing men to hire women and forcing women to hire women,

00:05:28it's like forcing women to get married. It's terrible. So, I don't think that the sperm count,

00:05:34like, look into it, research it, and I don't think it's quite as bad as you think it is.

00:05:41So, the more major issue is telling women they have to get educated, and then the education

00:05:47turns out to be largely propaganda and nonsense and foolishness, and then they graduate with a

00:05:53huge amount of debt, right? $50,000, $100,000 could be more. So, then they have to work to pay

00:05:59off the

00:06:00debt, and men in general, like, wise men in general, don't want to marry a woman and take on her

00:06:08debt,

00:06:08right? So, if a woman, let's say she's gone $75,000 into debt to get her degree, well,

00:06:15a wise man who wants to marry a woman and have kids, well, he's inheriting a $75,000 liability,

00:06:23right? And why would a man want to pay a dowry? It's not like she took university courses in how

00:06:33to

00:06:33be a great mom and homemaker, right? That didn't happen. So, she learned about, you know,

00:06:38white males are oppressive, and Western culture is genocidal and patriarchal and colonists and

00:06:47exploitive. So, she learned to hate her culture. She learned to hate, in many ways, white males.

00:06:52So, then, if a man is evaluating a woman, and she comes with $75,000 worth of debt for skills

00:06:58that

00:06:58are actually negative to him, does he want to marry her? Well, no. I mean, I went on a date

00:07:05with a woman

00:07:06once, and she told me that she had $17,000 in credit card debt because her ex apparently used

00:07:12her credit card or something, and I never saw her again. Well, of course. I mean, if we went further

00:07:19forward, and she was struggling with the debt, it's like, let's say that things went further forward,

00:07:24we ended up getting married or whatever. The idea that I would pay off the greedy exploitation of her

00:07:31former boy toy is skin-crawlingly repulsive to me. Like, wouldn't that be horrible? Yes,

00:07:37I'd be happy to flush my precious earnings down the nutsack of your previous exploitive ex.

00:07:44Blech! Like, gross. And since, basically, leftists and Marxists control the universities,

00:07:50if a man takes off... Sorry, if a man takes on a woman's student debt, then he is funneling money

00:07:58to those who want to put him in a gulag, right? You're literally funding money, you're funding

00:08:03and funneling your precious hard-earned money as a man to those who would love to put you in a

00:08:08gulag,

00:08:09and worse. So, no, it's gross. It's gross. So, you just, you raise mistrust of men and women,

00:08:19and then they're in. You've heard this a zillion times, right? Can't rely on a man,

00:08:23and what if he divorces you, and what if he finds a younger woman, what if he trades you in,

00:08:27and you haven't worked for 20 years, you're going to starve, you've got to have your own income,

00:08:30you've got to have your own... So, okay, well, just make... I mean, as if men, I mean,

00:08:36talking about Western men in particular, men all over the world, I think, as a whole,

00:08:40as if men haven't evolved to take care of wives and children. Like, we have not evolved to be

00:08:44providers and protectors, right? So... But, of course, if you train women to be unpleasant and

00:08:49difficult and obstructive and hostile and skeptical and sarcastic and eye-rolling and, you know,

00:08:55then, well, yeah. I mean, if you train women to dislike men, and... Of course, when you say that

00:09:01men are in charge of everything, then women try to become like men, but women, I mean, psychologically,

00:09:06in terms of, like, just imitating... A woman who imitates a man, or tries to imitate a man,

00:09:14I'm not talking about the trans stuff, I'm just talking about women who think that they have to

00:09:19act like men in order to get ahead. They end up with caricatures of manhood, right? I remember this

00:09:25was back in theater school, when men were asked to imitate women, right? It's sort of an acting

00:09:31exercise. When men were asked to imitate women, you know, they flipped their hair a little,

00:09:38they smiled, and so on. They adjusted their boobs, that kind of stuff. It was kind of funny.

00:09:43But when men were asked to imitate women, they burped, they scratched, they, you know, they, they

00:09:50walked around like cavemen, they made guttural sounds, like, they basically turned the men into

00:09:55apes. And it's like, okay, well, that's not particularly elevating, to put it mildly. All right.

00:10:04So, why are most European nations so determined to destroy their history and culture and heritage

00:10:08through blah, blah, blah, right, demographics and so on? Well, it's not, it's not a choice.

00:10:13This is the price you pay for removing things from voluntary mechanisms and putting them into

00:10:24coercive institutions. So, for instance, if you want to take care of the poor, then, of course,

00:10:30you should take care of the poor, you should help people out, you should, you know, I provide

00:10:35tens of thousands of hours of philosophy for free, no ads or anything like that. So, if you want to

00:10:40help

00:10:40people, then you should, by gosh, you should help people. And if you say, well, I want to help people,

00:10:48and therefore the government should, you know, use force to transfer resources from one group to

00:10:55another, from the middle class to the poor, from the wealthy to the poor, then you have taken

00:11:04any social control out of the transfer of resources. Of course, if you give to a charity and the charity

00:11:10turns out to be corrupt or does things that you don't want, then you just, well, what do you do?

00:11:14You stop, well, of course, you stop giving money to that charity and all of that, right? So, so that's

00:11:20what you do. And so, charities have to pursue objectives, right? So, if you have a charity that

00:11:28helps out the poor in your neighborhood or in your town, then they do a good job, they get people

00:11:34off the streets, they get people trained and into jobs, and you help them out, help them get clean

00:11:37from drugs or whatever it is. So, that's a good thing, right? But let's say that, let's sort of

00:11:43take a silly example, right? So, let's say that they start importing a bunch of Nazis, right? I mean,

00:11:50which would go against your belief system and so on, right? Of course, right? So, then, if instead of

00:11:56helping the poor, they're just bringing in a bunch of Nazis to march down Main Street, waving

00:11:59swastikas, then you would withdraw your support and that charity would collapse and the Nazis would

00:12:07not be there, right? Because they paid to come in. So, when you take something from the free market and

00:12:14from volunteerism and you transfer it over to the power of the state, you now have no control over it

00:12:19whatsoever. You have no control over it whatsoever. So, when it comes to taking care of people,

00:12:27Western people, in their wisdom, in their wisdom, they said, well, we don't want to have any control

00:12:33over this. We don't want to have any feedback on this. We want the government to do it, which is

00:12:39basically taking the unearned. Helping people, while immensely rewarding, of course, is also exceedingly

00:12:46difficult. It's very hard to help people. People are not poor because they lack money.

00:12:52Because when you give poor people money, very often they do exceedingly unwise things with that money

00:12:57and then they basically stay poor. I mean, this is why there's a sort of permanent underclass in the

00:13:02welfare state. So, helping people is complicated and the more complicated something is, the more it

00:13:07should be in the free market. I mean, everything should be in the free market, but particularly the

00:13:11most complicated things. I mean, you could say governments can build simple roads, although it really

00:13:15takes forever and it's ridiculously inefficient, but they can do that. But, you know, the more

00:13:19complicated things need to have the coordination, intelligence, creativity, and efficiency of the

00:13:24free market. So, the West, as a whole, in its wisdom, decided to move charity and helping people

00:13:35from the control and feedback of voluntary charity, which you donate to, and move it into the

00:13:44political arena where things are enforced through laws and coercion, right? And this, of course, is

00:13:53wrong. It's wrong practically and it's wrong morally. And people should, if you want to help the poor,

00:14:00you should go help the poor. But what happened was people felt that they were guilty, they were

00:14:03manipulated, and they wanted something for nothing. They wanted to say, well, I'm a kind person because

00:14:08I support these policies and you don't actually care whether it helps the poor or not. And it just

00:14:14became popular. It was popularized, of course, in universities and schools and so on. It just

00:14:18became popular to say, gee, you know, I support the welfare state because I want to help the poor and

00:14:22blah, blah, blah. So then, you know, a half, two-thirds, sometimes three-quarters of the budget is just these

00:14:29income transfers. In countries, people talk about the military budget, which, of course, is big, but

00:14:35it is mostly about transferring money from one group to another through the force and power of law,

00:14:41which means it has passed beyond the control of the citizens and it is now in the control of the

00:14:46government. And once things are in control of the government, almost certainly they will turn in

00:14:52directions you do not want. And unfortunately, the generation, the boomers, right, the generation that

00:14:58made all these decisions, boomers, no, I shouldn't quite say that. I mean, I shouldn't quite say that.

00:15:05So 1945, 1965, this stuff came in, 64, so then 19 or 20 and so on, right? So fairly new

00:15:11and not a big

00:15:11voting block. But let's just say, right, the generation or generations, the greatest generation,

00:15:17the boomers, they got all the benefits of all of this and it is their children and grandchildren who

00:15:23are paying the price. It's their children. So we said, oh, certain groups are underrepresented in

00:15:29these professions, so we're going to force people to hire them and we're going to cause massive legal

00:15:34obstacles if they don't. And then this is now metastasized into, you know, males and whites

00:15:40generally not getting hired. So it's bad. But people are like, oh, well, we want to fix this

00:15:44problem. And then rather than get to the root of the problem and really work to fix it from the

00:15:48ground up and change things for the better in a more permanent way, they just turned it all over

00:15:52to the government, just turned it all over to the government. And then the government does not have

00:15:58any interest in solving the problem, right? Charities have to solve problems in order to get

00:16:03funding. I mean, if there was a charity that said, you know, we're going to deal with these 100

00:16:08homeless people and, you know, at least half of them are going to get into jobs and housing

00:16:12and you donate for that are great. And if they do a good job, you'll, you know, you'll keep donating

00:16:17and so on. And the charity will have to find a way that if they give money to people who

00:16:22are poor,

00:16:23right, they'll have to find a way to avoid the inevitable problem that if you give money to

00:16:29people who are poor, people will stay or become poor in order to get that money. Right? So if you

00:16:35say,

00:16:35oh, gee, well, you know, if you have a, if you have an income of $10,000 a year or

00:16:39less,

00:16:39you know, we'll give you $10,000, well, people with less than $30,000 are going to drop down

00:16:47because they'll get $20,000 without working if they drop down to $10,000, right? And people who

00:16:53are 20, well, you say, oh, well, they won't want to drop down. It's like, well, they will because

00:16:58they drop down to $10,000, they get down $10,000, they're back to $20,000. People who are 30

00:17:02say,

00:17:02well, why would they do it? They're still down $10,000. Yeah, well, but they're up, not having to work.

00:17:07So the problem is, is when you give money to people for being poor, people have an incentive

00:17:11to be poor. Of course, right? This is, so charities need to find a way to solve that problem. It's

00:17:16a

00:17:16very challenging and complex problem, which requires a lot of balancing of incentives and so on,

00:17:21right? And one of the ways they used to do this in the Victorian era when charities were run by

00:17:26the

00:17:26church is that if a woman had a child out of wedlock and the man had promised to marry her,

00:17:31she got

00:17:31pregnant, he just abandoned her, he was a bad guy, there wasn't anything particularly obvious or

00:17:35whatever, right? Then they would give her charity. But if she had another child out of wedlock,

00:17:38they wouldn't. Or if the woman had no direction towards marriage, but had unprotected sex with a

00:17:46guy, coital sex, then, you know, there would be some questions, right? And so when you really want

00:17:52to help the poor, you want the poor to make better decisions, which means that when they make bad

00:17:56decisions, they're going to have to suffer. Some people learn by reason, most people learn by bitter,

00:18:02negative experience. So in order to help the poor, you have to permit the poor to suffer.

00:18:10But then if the poor are suffering, and particularly, you know, women's nature to help plus the state,

00:18:15right? So women's nature to help used to be restrained by men controlling the resources for

00:18:19the most part. So women would want to help and men would say, you know, we can't, like we just,

00:18:23we can't, right? Like the sort of example I've mentioned a bunch of times about, you've got just

00:18:28enough food for your family for the winter, your neighbors who didn't plan come knocking on the

00:18:31door in February, the woman wants to take them in, the man is going to say, I'm sorry, I've done

00:18:34the

00:18:34math, we can't, like we can't, we can't. We can give them lunch, and that's it. And so that used

00:18:40to

00:18:40balance things out, right? So women would want to help others, which is great. And they would remind

00:18:45men of the need to help others, because men can be a bit brutal and meritocratic that way.

00:18:49And that's helpful. But then men would say, you know, I don't think that's a good idea,

00:18:53because of X, Y, and Z. And so this would balance things out. But now that women have gained control

00:18:57of the state, and have really, since they got the franchise, they can indulge their desire to help

00:19:03people without any male restraint, or even any financial restraint, because it's just debt and

00:19:06unfunded liabilities. So how do you help the poor? Well, you've got to give them money, but not so much

00:19:11that you create an incentive to be poor, you've got to balance things out. And if people don't obey the

00:19:15rules, like if it says, you know, we'll give you housing, but you have to get a job. And if

00:19:19they take the

00:19:20housing, but don't get a job, you got to kick them out of the housing. And that's tough, because then

00:19:25they're back out on the street, and people say, Oh, my God, the poor person on the street, want to

00:19:28help

00:19:29them. So people have to suffer in order for people to be helped, right? I mean, if the degree is

00:19:34going

00:19:34to mean anything, people have to fail if they don't work. So it's not just that all of Europe has

00:19:42sort of

00:19:42lost its mind or whatever. What's happened is that they turned over resource transfer to the state,

00:19:48which means they now have zero control over resource transfer. And of course, a lot of the domestic

00:19:53population, even prior to a lot of immigration, became addicted to the welfare state. And therefore, if you

00:19:59try to change the welfare state or move it back to private charity, people will lose their minds and riot.

00:20:04And then that will be bad. It's a bad look. It's a bad look. And this is why you should

00:20:11just follow the

00:20:11non-aggression principle and property rights. And that way, these kinds of things won't happen.

00:20:18And people have decided not to do that. They decided to violate the non-aggression principle.

00:20:21They decided to violate property rights. Two sides of the same coin, right? And the wages of sin

00:20:27are a disaster, right? Here, can you explain why young men commit suicide generally? I cannot.

00:20:35I cannot. Maybe I could do some research and so on. But I would hesitate to put out any kind

00:20:39of

00:20:39hypothesis without doing a lot of research because it is obviously a very volatile and sensitive

00:20:44subject, which I appreciate. So maybe I'll think about it. Have you ever watched testimonies of

00:20:50people who have died and went to hell on YouTube? There are a lot where they are revived and are

00:20:54able

00:20:55to share their story. No, I don't watch testimonies of people who believe they've gone to hell

00:21:02any more than I would watch testimonies of somebody with schizophrenia describing the giant

00:21:08dragon that landed in their yard that morning. I mean, it's an interesting example of a dysfunctional

00:21:15mind. But I would imagine people who die, I think, I have a sort of vague theory that as you're

00:21:24dying,

00:21:25all of your emotional defenses vanish, right? So people who've done wrong, they repress that

00:21:33information, and that repression takes up a lot of energy. And they have to, you know, constantly push

00:21:40stimulus away, their conscience away, their guilt away, and reality away. So they constantly have

00:21:44to do that. And I think when you're dying, you end up no longer having the energy to maintain

00:21:53emotional defenses. Obviously, I have no proof of this, right? But when you're dying,

00:21:59your brain is, you know, struggling as an autonomous organ to maintain its energy. So it's

00:22:04going to remove its energy from where there's no direct necessity for survival and use it for core

00:22:11functionings like, you know, obviously controlling the breathing and heart rate and so on. So I think

00:22:16that your defenses get shut down, or it's possible your defenses get shut down when you were dying,

00:22:22which means that your conscience has full possession of your consciousness. And all the

00:22:28wrongs that you have done, that you have repressed, if you have done them, all the wrongs that you have

00:22:34done and repressed, all the cowardice, the brutality, the meanness, the pettiness, the intimidation,

00:22:39the lying, the, you know, all of the bad things that you've done, when you don't have any emotional

00:22:46or intellectual defenses against them, when the energy that fuels the repression part of your mind

00:22:51collapses, then all of your wrongs come pouring in like a giant tsunami of hot guilt-ridden lava.

00:23:00And this is, I think, what they mean when they say about dying, your life flashes before your eyes,

00:23:07right? Your life flashes before your eyes. And for people who've done a lot of bad things,

00:23:16those bad things, and their, the horror of who they are and what they've done, like, honestly,

00:23:22most people, you know, that famous line, you can't handle the truth, most people can't even

00:23:28remotely handle the truth. All they are is propped up vanity, manipulation, defenses, status, they're just

00:23:36hollowed out. There's nothing in there but hell. And I've pierced this veil a whole bunch of times with

00:23:42people, both in my private life and on the show, and people have heard this kind of stuff. I've pierced

00:23:46through that. And you get to the hell within. Most people are repressing anything true, factual, and

00:23:53actual about their lives. They can't handle the truth. And when the truth, and then they are surrounded

00:24:01by people who, there's this whole deal, right? This whole unconscious deal called, well, we're not going to

00:24:08talk about the truth. We're not going to do the truth. It's not, right? We're not going to do the

00:24:12truth. We're going to stay as far away from the truth as humanly possible, right? And so their whole

00:24:17lives are set up so that they don't hear the truth. And they have this amazing instinct that if the

00:24:23truth

00:24:23comes their way, they instinctively, like a predator-prey relationship, they instinctively sniff

00:24:29the incoming truth and work frantically to attack and destroy the truth teller, right? I mean,

00:24:35I've obviously suffered to this to some degree in my social media career. I was actually just

00:24:42listening to, there was a Howard Jones song I listened to quite repetitively. I think it's off

00:24:47his second album, Button Up and Tighten Your Lip. Button up and tighten your lip. Take care of what you

00:24:53say. Those crazy words you fling from your mouth are going to come back on you one day. And it's

00:25:00almost

00:25:00like a premonition. It's almost like a tunnel through time opened up and I saw my deplatforming

00:25:06when I was a teenager. So most people, and by this, like I mean the vast majority of people in

00:25:14the

00:25:14world, lie to themselves, lie to others, lie about their virtue, lie about their motives, lie about who

00:25:22they are, exaggerate their accomplishments and so on, right? And when the truth comes along, or if the truth

00:25:29is anywhere in the vicinity, they get very alert and very hostile. This is true, say, for a woman in

00:25:39a

00:25:39relationship. If a woman's in a marriage and a higher quality female comes along, the woman in the marriage

00:25:44needs to eliminate from the vicinity the higher quality woman. Because if her boyfriend has access to the

00:25:56higher quality woman, then the boyfriend might raise his standards and leave her. He might say,

00:26:02oh, well, this other woman seems to be more even-tempered. This other woman seems to be more

00:26:06assertive. This other woman seems to be nicer. This other woman seems to be more confident. This other

00:26:10woman seems to be more successful or more pretty or more fertile or whatever it is going to be, right?

00:26:14Whatever the step up is going to be. Now, of course, the girlfriend can't say, oh, I have to get

00:26:22rid of this

00:26:22woman because I'm afraid she's going to raise her standards of what a female should be and then

00:26:26you're going to leave me. She can't say that. She's going to say, oh, you know how stuck up she

00:26:28is.

00:26:29Oh, do you notice how she always flips her hair? Oh, she's such a fake. Oh, do you know she's...

00:26:32And they should just take her out of the vicinity, right? Which is, there's this sorting mechanism,

00:26:36right? Where in terms of quality, right? The minus tens are around the minus tens, the plus tens are

00:26:41around the plus tens, and, you know, all the numbers in between. There's this constant shuffling

00:26:44mechanism and sorting mechanism where people eliminate those below them unless they need them for vanity

00:26:50props, and they eliminate those above them because they're concerned that the higher standards make

00:26:55them feel bad. Some people just, there's this relentless sorting in society as a whole. I mean,

00:27:01I remember a friend of mine many years ago was having trouble with his girlfriend, his living girlfriend,

00:27:08and their trouble was about sex. He wanted more sex, and she was going through a low to no sex

00:27:18time frame. And I remember she was talking to me, and she said, oh, it's so bad. I have to

00:27:29make sure

00:27:29the Victoria Secrets catalog never crossed his vision. The Victoria Secrets catalog never crossed

00:27:38his vision. So she would go to the mailbox, and I mean, I don't think that they themselves

00:27:43were big consumers of the Victoria Secrets catalog. But, you know, back in the day, right, if you

00:27:48move into a place, and the previous owner, they have these subscriptions, which they often don't

00:27:52cancel, and so to handle a beding or whatever it is. So they would get these Victoria Secrets catalog,

00:27:59and she would go to the mailbox, and she would take the Victoria Secrets catalog, and she would stuff

00:28:05them at the bottom of the recycling bin so that he wouldn't see them, because she was concerned

00:28:10that if he sees the Victoria Secrets catalog, that he would get turned on and want to have sex,

00:28:15and they'll have a fight, they'll have a conflict. And for women who are, and this is true for men

00:28:21as well, it's a little bit more common with women, I think, but for women who are having sexual

00:28:27problems with their boyfriend or husband, they want to studiously avoid anything that might turn

00:28:35their boyfriend or husband on, because then he might want to have sex, and then blah, blah, blah,

00:28:39blah, blah, right? So all of those lies, those manipulations, this misdirection, this all this,

00:28:46every time you've escalated out of pettiness, every time you've attacked someone unjustly,

00:28:50or I, or I, right? I mean, I'm not perfect, far from it. So most people have done countless pretty

00:28:59nasty, horrible, negative, petty things in their life. They've been unjust, they've lied about people,

00:29:04they've gossiped, they've attacked people unjustly, they've ghosted people, and so on,

00:29:09right? They've done some pretty terrible, wretched, bad things, and they keep it all suppressed. And

00:29:15they keep it all suppressed so that they don't have to deal with their conscience and change their

00:29:18behavior. But then, when they're dying, the conscience cracks through, the conscience breaks

00:29:23through. And I think this is if you, right, so when people die, they say, I'm going to heaven,

00:29:29or I'm going to hell. Now, if you've lived a good life, I think that you don't actually have that

00:29:34much to, you haven't had that much repressed. And I think if you've lived a good life,

00:29:38one of the benefits is a relatively peaceful end, because there aren't all of these demons

00:29:42of dysfunction on the other side of the wall of conscience that break through when your brain is

00:29:48failing, right? It's like the wall collapses, and the orcs of conscience charge through.

00:29:55So, when people die, and they say, it was hell, I assume, and what is the idea? The idea is

00:30:01that

00:30:02if you do bad things, you will go, if you do bad things, and you don't repent, right? Because if

00:30:07you repent, it means that you accept that you did bad things, and you want to learn from them,

00:30:13and do better, and so on, and so on, right? So, you know, if you cheated on your lover, then

00:30:22you feel bad, you feel terrible, you feel wretched, you go and take your lumps, you recognize how ugly

00:30:27it would be if they cheated on you, and you learn your empathy, and you go through the ringer, right?

00:30:32And then you don't cheat on people again, right? Because it's so bad. If you're selfish, then you

00:30:37recognize, finally, hopefully, the effects that your selfish behavior has on others, and then you

00:30:45make a vow to be better off, and to do better, right? And that may mean a complete rewrite of

00:30:50all

00:30:50your social relationships, and so on. So this idea, of course, that people, when they're dying,

00:30:55they go to heaven or they go to hell, has to do with whether they've learned from their bad deeds

00:31:00and reformed. So I think Christianity or other religious texts that say, when you're dying,

00:31:08you go to hell or you go to heaven, I think comes from a very real place that people who've

00:31:13done wrong

00:31:13in their life. And I don't know what happens to your sense of time when you're dying, right? So,

00:31:20I mean, we've all had these dreams that seem to go on forever. There was a woman in a coma

00:31:24for a

00:31:25relatively short period of time, and she had an entire vision that she'd lived for like, I don't

00:31:29know, seven or 10 or years or whatever, and she'd raised a bunch of kids, and she woke up, and

00:31:32it

00:31:33hadn't even been that long. So I don't know what happens to your sense of time when you're dying,

00:31:37but I assume it distorts considerably. So it could be that when you're dying, there's this rapid fire

00:31:43and feels like hours or days or weeks or maybe even longer. It feels that way, where all the

00:31:52wrongs that you've done come back to haunt you, and you are tormented by the conscience that finally

00:31:57has its full ravaging access to your entire personality without defenses, because the defenses

00:32:04have shut down, because your brain is shutting down. You know, in a spaceship, they'll always

00:32:09turn off the non-essential things, right? You don't turn off gravity, or you don't turn off oxygen,

00:32:14or you turn off the non-essential things, right? So when people are dying, I think that all of their

00:32:22bad deeds go stampeding like bladed hoofed horses across the tender nutsack of their consciousness,

00:32:32and they feel like they're in hell. Whereas people who've lived a pretty good life, I think it's

00:32:38relatively much more peaceful. Oh, there was bright light and ancestors and so on, right? I think it's

00:32:41more peaceful. So when people die, and they come back and they say, oh my god, I went to hell

00:32:48for like

00:32:49two days or a week or, right? And then be, oh my god, there's hell. It's like, well, I don't

00:32:55think

00:32:56there's a physiological explanation. Hopefully that will be proved at some point. All right.

00:33:00How would you decide between a guaranteed mediocre life or a slim chance at wild success?

00:33:06How would you decide between a guaranteed mediocre life, easy live and quiet die, right? From room with

00:33:11a view. Or a slim chance at wild success? Slim chance at wild success. I think do what you're most

00:33:20passionate about that does the most good in the world. Do what you're most passionate about that does

00:33:25the most good in the world. So I don't view these as false dichotomies. And I talked about this last

00:33:30night. Either you have the pain of potential failure or the actuality of failure, should it occur,

00:33:36either you have all of that, or you have the pain of regret. Either if you ask the girl out

00:33:42and she

00:33:43says no, it feels bad. If you don't ask the girl out and she ends up dating someone else, you

00:33:47feel bad

00:33:48for regret. So it's just choose your pain, right? And I think that the pain of rejection and the pain

00:33:52of

00:33:52failure, which is not forever, right? If there's some woman, she's the girl of your dreams, and you don't

00:33:58ask her out, she ends up going out and marrying someone else, that pain of regret lasts the rest of

00:34:03your

00:34:03life off and on, right? Whereas if you ask her out and she says no, that stings, and then it

00:34:07goes away. And you

00:34:08don't have the pain of regret. So avoiding risk is like eating junk food. It feels good in the moment,

00:34:15costs you

00:34:16appallingly in the long run. So I think that's, that's important. That's important. Like before,

00:34:24before I met my wife, I remember there was a woman or two that I was very interested in, and

00:34:30I would

00:34:30sometimes still think about them from time to time. And of course, I haven't really thought about that

00:34:37at all, since I've been now married for like 24 years, and it's a lovely, lovely marriage. But I'm like,

00:34:43oh, I should have, I should have, I should have. But it was tough, because one of the women had

00:34:47a

00:34:48boyfriend and all of that. So I didn't want to pursue that. Anyway, so I think that if, if there's

00:34:53a woman you really think you'd be great with, you're really attracted to her, she thinks she's

00:34:57really wonderful. If you don't ask her out, then you get regret for the rest of your life. And that's

00:35:04bad. Whereas if you do ask her out, and she says no, you get stung, it hurts, it's painful. And

00:35:11then

00:35:11you'll learn something, which is you like someone who doesn't like you back. And that's

00:35:15important, right? So if you like someone who doesn't like you back, it's really important

00:35:18to figure out why. And most times, it's because she's pretty, has a great body, or is just

00:35:25charismatic without virtue and so on. So she's, you know, high status and looks great and has

00:35:29a great laugh and so on. But maybe there's not much substance there. And so if you really

00:35:35like someone who doesn't like you back, that is an opportunity to learn and to grow, right?

00:35:41Right. To learn and to grow. So, all right. Somebody says, you, you, you advocate against

00:35:50forgiveness without prior repentance from the perpetrator. Yes. That means somebody has to

00:35:56repent in order for me to forgive them. Sure. Could it be possible that most people just can't

00:35:59walk between resentment and forgiveness? So in terms of total human suffering, it is better

00:36:03just to forgive. What? Could it be possible? So the could it be possible is kind of a bullshite

00:36:11trick of sophistry, right? Is it possible, right? So let's sort of use this on someone. Let's say

00:36:19that Bob has a successful podcast about masculinity, right? And then someone says, is it possible

00:36:28possible that someone, a man who listens to your podcast might beat his wife, right? Is it possible?

00:36:35Now, if Bob says, no, it's not possible, then that clearly is a cope because he can't know that for

00:36:41sure. He doesn't even know everyone who listens to his podcast, right? So someone says, is it possible,

00:36:47Bob, the man-friendly podcast host, is it possible that one of your, that one or more of your listeners

00:36:54has beaten their girlfriends or wives? Now, Bob is caught, right? Bob is caught. Because what does

00:37:04Bob say? It's a false dichotomy, right? So if Bob says, no, it's not possible, then of course, the

00:37:11person who's asking the question will almost certainly have some fact or information to disprove

00:37:16that. Well, Bob, there's this guy, Joe, and Joe listens to your podcast and Joe beat his wife, so you're

00:37:21wrong about that, right? And then you look like you don't know, or you're clueless, or you're defensive,

00:37:25or whatever, right? Whereas if Bob says, well, yes, it's possible that someone who listens to my

00:37:32podcast about masculinity has beaten his wife. Yeah, it's possible. And I don't do false dichotomies.

00:37:40So if somebody were to say to me, Steph, is it possible that someone who listens to your podcast

00:37:45has committed a crime? I would say, I don't understand the question. I don't understand the

00:37:51question. So no, I just, it's a yes, no. Is it possible, right? I say, no, I still don't understand

00:37:56the question. And I would use an analogy. And I would say, if I was selling a diet book, and

00:38:03somebody

00:38:03asked me, is it possible that someone has read your diet book and not lost weight? It's a question that

00:38:13I don't understand. Because it's a gotcha. Is it possible that someone has read your diet book

00:38:21and not lost weight? Ryan said, well, it's possible. Well, then your diet book can't really be that

00:38:28like, I don't understand the question. So I would return the question. And saying, well, what do you

00:38:37mean by possible? Is it within the realm of physical reality that someone could read my diet book or

00:38:42listened to a masculine positive podcast and either not lose weight or beat his girlfriend?

00:38:49Are you saying, is it physically possible? And if the person says, well, that's what I'm asking,

00:38:53then I would say, I'm not sure why you would need to ask that question. Anything that is physically

00:38:58possible could happen, like by definition. So I don't, the reason I don't understand the question

00:39:03is you're saying, is something that could happen, is something that could happen, could happen. It's a

00:39:11tautology. Is something that is possible, possible. Since it is certainly possible that someone who

00:39:16listens to a podcast beats his girlfriend or someone who reads a diet book doesn't lose weight,

00:39:20since it's physically possible, I don't understand the question. Because if you're saying,

00:39:25is something that is possible, possible, then I don't understand. I don't understand why you would

00:39:32need to ask that question. Because you're asking, if something could happen, could it happen? So I

00:39:38don't understand the question. The answer to the question is embedded in the question. And I'm not

00:39:44sure if the answer to the question is embedded in the question, I'm not sure why you would ask me

00:39:49the

00:39:49question. Either you're manipulative, or you're appallingly stupid. Like, if you don't understand,

00:39:56if you ask, is something, if something is possible, could it have happened? Well, if you don't know that

00:40:03the answer to the question is embedded in the question, either this is a manipulative gotcha

00:40:07question, or you're too stupid to understand that asking if something could happen that's possible to

00:40:13happen, I mean, it's a tautology. You've defined something as possible and saying, is it possible?

00:40:18Yeah. But, but, so I don't, that's why I don't understand the question. Right? I don't understand

00:40:24the question. It's like saying, if I let go of something and it falls, if I let go of something,

00:40:31will it fall? Well, it's kind of a tautology. If you've defined, you let go of something, it falls. So

00:40:36if I let go of something and it falls, if I let go of something and it falls, it's a,

00:40:40so could it be

00:40:41possible that most people just can't walk between resentment and forgiveness? So in terms of total

00:40:45human suffering, it's better to just, just to forgive. Is it possible? Well, is it, is it

00:40:51possible that something that could happen could happen? Yes, I will grant you that.

00:40:57I will. Is it possible? Okay. So, so birds land on tree branches. Is it possible that a bird you

00:41:05haven't seen has landed on a tree branch? It's like, I don't understand the question. You just told me

00:41:10that birds land on tree branches. So is it, and then you're asking, is it possible that birds

00:41:14land on tree branches? Like I don't understand why you're asking the question. You've already told me

00:41:17the answer. Most people just can't walk between resentment and forgiveness. So I don't know. I

00:41:24don't know what any of that means. So, and he goes on to say, and that in not forgiving, most

00:41:30people

00:41:30just become shitey judges. Is it possible? Is it possible that the universe is expanding

00:41:37every second, but everything that we use to measure it is also expanding, and therefore we

00:41:41can't measure the expansion? Is it possible? It's like, well, you just told me it's possible.

00:41:45So why are you asking me if something is possible, if it's possible? And it's a, it's a manipulative or

00:41:52sophist trick, because if somebody says, is it possible? And you say, yes, it's possible.

00:41:59Then they say, well, you can't eliminate it, right? So it could be a thing. And it's a way of

00:42:04driving

00:42:04in the wedge and creating uncertainty. He said, in principle, I'm inclined to agree with your take.

00:42:10Oh, this is gross. It's just, there's a, this is sticky, gooey, slimy, sewage, vomit manipulation.

00:42:19I'll tell you straight up, right? In principle, I'm inclined to agree with your take. It's not a

00:42:23take. I make a rational fracking argument. It's a rational fracking argument with evidence. So if you're

00:42:32going to say, well, it's just a take. You're saying, well, your opinion, your opinion, your

00:42:37argument, your blah, blah, blah. It's like, no, no, he didn't even say argument. I'm inclined to agree

00:42:43with your take. Oh, how generous of you. How nice that you're inclined to agree with my, my little

00:42:49take. He says, in principle, I'm inclined to agree with your take, but I don't know anyone that has

00:42:55escaped resentment without upfront forgiveness. Uh, I don't know anyone. Should be anyone who,

00:43:01right? Anyone that has escaped resentment without upfront forgiveness. Well, that just means that

00:43:06you're surrounded by resentful people. Okay. So you're surrounded by resentful people, but that's

00:43:12your choice. There are people in this world who are incredibly grateful and happy and thankful for

00:43:16every opportunity that comes their way. So if you say everyone around me is just resentful and they

00:43:27have to grit their teeth and will themselves to forgive others because that's the only way to deal with

00:43:30their resentment. So if someone has done you harm and they won't change their behavior and they won't

00:43:38apologize and they won't make restitution or anything like that, then you just, you can solve

00:43:43the problem by not seeing that person. So the forgiveness thing comes out of an inability to not

00:43:52see someone. Right? So, uh, my mother, of course, did me great wrongs as have others. My mother, right? My

00:43:58mother's done me

00:43:59great wrongs and she has never apologized or acknowledged or will never make restitution. In fact, when I would

00:44:07point out that she had done great wrongs, she blamed chronic fatigue, uh, the evil doctors who poisoned her, um,

00:44:14Epstein Barr and that I should have sympathy for all of her suffering and not be so selfish as to

00:44:19blame

00:44:20her for the effects of her mysterious ailments. So I certainly agree that if ostracism or not seeing

00:44:28people is off the table, then if you're going to continue to see people who do you wrong, who never

00:44:34apologize, if you're trapped with them through your own inability to review options, uh, well, yeah, I get

00:44:41that if you're trapped by people and you can't escape them and they're not going to change, you

00:44:45might as well forgive them because why not? Right? Why not? Because if your resentment at the wrongs

00:44:52they've done you can't possibly breed not seeing them, then you have no leverage. You have no leverage.

00:45:00So yeah, uh, you can escape resentment. Like people do you wrong, you resent them. You can escape that

00:45:06resentment by not seeing those people. Oh, shocking. I know. I know. Shocking.

00:45:12If a fire is burning my hand, I have the option of taking my hand out of the fire, right?

00:45:19Out of the

00:45:20fire. But if, let's say, your parents wrong you and they don't apologize, they don't make restitution,

00:45:26they don't admit fault, and they continue to wrong you, though probably less physically and more

00:45:30emotionally or psychologically, let's say that is the case. Well, if you're going to continue to see

00:45:36your parents and they're going to continue to wrong you and deny your reality and so on, then I guess

00:45:41you can just wave this magic wand called forgiveness so that you feel a little better.

00:45:45Okay, but you can escape resentment of the people who do you wrong by no longer hanging out with the

00:45:52people who do you wrong, right? Like I remember I said I had this friend who continually told stories

00:45:57about silly things that I'd done in social gatherings, particularly, we were both single at the time,

00:46:02and particularly with women around, and it's because I was taller and better looking and higher

00:46:05status, so he wanted to put me down so he'd have more access to the females and not feel like

00:46:11he

00:46:11was grabbing some leftovers. So I resented that. So I talked to him about it, and he's like, oh,

00:46:17you just need to have a sense of humor about yourself. It's all in good fun. Don't be so sensitive,

00:46:21blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And so the next time he did it, I just stopped seeing him,

00:46:29right? Now, I wasn't, you know, entirely opposed, like if he called me up and said, hey, you know,

00:46:33you haven't really, we haven't really hung out much lately. What's going on? I remember that

00:46:37conversation we had, and then I think I did it again, so maybe we can talk about that. I'd have

00:46:41called him, right? Whatever, right? But he didn't want me as a high-quality male around, so I get that.

00:46:50So I just stopped seeing him. So I resented him continually talking about things I'd done that

00:46:55were foolish without ever talking about the things I did that were wise. And in general,

00:47:00the things I do that are wise significantly outnumber the things that I do that are foolish.

00:47:05And that was the case even back then. So I was able to escape resentment by not seeing him anymore,

00:47:13right? And I no longer resent him. So easy peasy, right? So he says, on the average, maybe they get

00:47:20taken for some sort of a ride, but their overall life is better. I'm not talking about individual cases

00:47:24here just on balance and overall human suffering levels with the average human and their average

00:47:28human drama slash life. Yeah, okay. I mean, if people are stuck in relationships or have stuck

00:47:38themselves in relationships, should they forgive if the person won't ever admit fault and bringing

00:47:46up the fault? Like, so if you, when I brought up faults that my mother did, she would get angry

00:47:50and crazy and throw things around and all of that. So it was really unpleasant. So I stopped seeing her

00:47:58and it's not, you know, when I stopped seeing people, I'm not, I'm not averse to them coming

00:48:05after me, right? Like if I, if I leave, I'm not averse to people coming after me. I'm not averse

00:48:09to people saying, you know, geez, you know, if a mom had said, you know, the last time you brought

00:48:12up

00:48:12an issue you had with me, I ended up throwing things around and screaming at the top of my lungs.

00:48:16I'm sorry about that. Uh, that was really out of line. Uh, let's, you know, take a deep breath

00:48:20and I'd love to chat with you. Okay. I would have called her. Yeah. Yeah. So when I walk away

00:48:26from

00:48:26people, I'm not averse to having more conversations, but in general, and I'm trying to think of sort

00:48:33of exceptions to this. I don't know that there really are any, maybe they're for you, but I can't

00:48:37think of any for me in general. When I walk away from people, I never hear from them again,

00:48:43which means that I'm obviously, you know, I, I, I talk about things with people and then if they

00:48:48don't change or improve and won't admit any fault and continue to do the behavior, then I'll walk

00:48:53away. And then if they let me walk away and they don't, um, it's not even worth a phone call

00:48:58or

00:48:58anything like that. If they let me walk away, uh, then it was the right thing to do because I

00:49:02don't

00:49:02matter enough to them. So if I walk away and people, uh, I'm not worth a phone call. I'm not,

00:49:08you know, worth anything like that, then, um, okay. I mean, I tell you, man, this is,

00:49:13this was, I won't say it was a rough, I won't say it was rough, but I certainly noticed it.

00:49:17I had a friend 20 years. Yeah. 20, 20 year friendship. Maybe a little, maybe a little more

00:49:24actually, maybe a little more, a little over 20 years. And we did a lot together. We worked

00:49:28together. We traveled together and so on. I gave him jobs when he was down and out. And

00:49:34anyway, so we, we had some problems and I talked to him about the issues and he wouldn't change.

00:49:38He wouldn't this and wouldn't that. And so he called me once. I didn't call him back. And that

00:49:43was it. That was it. Like we used to have this thing where we would go and choose Christmas

00:49:47presents for people we cared about. We'd go sort of downtown, toodle around, pick up some Christmas

00:49:50presents. So he called me and I didn't call him back. And that was it. 20 plus years, immense wound

00:49:58together. Lives. And he called me. I didn't call him back. And he never called again. And

00:50:06we've never spoken since. Isn't that wild? Now, of course, people could say, and I get that. And

00:50:11I've obviously, you know, anything you criticize about me, I'm almost certainly have thought

00:50:16about before. So people can say, well, but you didn't call him back and you were the one

00:50:20who didn't call back, right? Of course. But I mean, I had told him about my issues and I don't

00:50:28like it when you talk about your issues. Like if you have problems with people, you talk

00:50:31about it with them. I don't like it if they then pretend that that conversation never

00:50:34happened. Like, oh, we're going to go downtown and pick up some Christmas presents, blah, blah,

00:50:38blah. No reference to the prior conversation. So if, you know, imagine if you were dying to

00:50:48date some girl and you got her number and you'd gone on a couple of dates and then you called

00:50:53her and she didn't call back, would you just never talk to her again? No, you'd call her

00:50:55back and say, oh, sorry, if you missed my message, I just wanted a blah, blah. You'd

00:50:58call back. You'd be a little persistent, obviously not stalky, but you'd be a little

00:51:01persistent. So it's interesting, right? If you walk away from people, like if you have

00:51:06issues, they don't really change. You walk away from people. If they don't even make a

00:51:10phone call, if they just watch you leave and don't lift a finger, well, it wasn't much

00:51:15there. It wasn't much there. How can you escape damnation? Well, listen to your

00:51:21conscience. When society becomes unraveled, is it due to people forgetting the

00:51:25basics? No, it's our desire for the unearned that has us shift virtue from personal action

00:51:30to political institutions, as I talked about before. How to solve population decline, gender

00:51:36wars and political divide where women are getting more far left and men are getting more far right

00:51:39when the division is being funded by rival countries slash globalists? Well, how to solve

00:51:45population decline? So it's not super complicated. I mean, if you have a public platform like I do,

00:51:54then you talk about the reasons for it and so on and appeal to people's greed for happiness and

00:52:00virtue and comfort and, you know, so on. But the best way to deal with population decline

00:52:06is to get married, to have children and to post about how wonderful it is. That's the best way to

00:52:13deal with population decline. Get married, have children and post about how wonderful it is.

00:52:17Obviously, you know, you can blur out your kids' photos and you probably should because

00:52:21nasty stuff happens in terms of kids' faces being online. But yeah, you get married, you have

00:52:27children and, you know, married life is the best. And, you know, here's our children on Christmas

00:52:31morning and, you know, blur out their faces and all of that. And, you know, just talk about how

00:52:35wonderful it is. I mean, I don't think I've been shy talking about how wonderful married life is and

00:52:39how wonderful being a parent is and all that kind of stuff. So everybody wants these big abstract

00:52:43things like, how can we solve these big giant problems? Well, you know, act, think globally,

00:52:50act locally is an old saying from the environmental movement. So what you want to do is get married,

00:52:56have children and tell everyone how wonderful it is. And also, you know, chide people. You know,

00:53:02if you've got some guy who dates and doesn't settle down, if you've got some guy who dates,

00:53:05he's dated a woman for a year or two or three and it's like, get married, man, like just chide

00:53:09people.

00:53:10You know, like I did this last night with the guy who was dating the Guatemalan woman, right? Just,

00:53:15you can chide people. You can ask them tough questions. All right. Are you friends with

00:53:19Styx? If so, have you checked on him lately? He's gone off the rails lately. Hope he finds

00:53:22some help. Uh, yes, I am not friends with Styx. I'm certainly not in any kind of enemy or anything

00:53:28like that, but I, uh, I sort of have a divide in my life, like before deplatforming and after

00:53:34deplatforming, which was, you know, other than marriage and parenthood, sort of the most significant

00:53:40mid to late adult thing that happened to me. So, uh, the, the people who, uh, sort of,

00:53:46and you use that phrase, reached out, we've reached out, right? So people who reached out,

00:53:49asked me how I was doing, if there's anything I could do, even if it was just like a private

00:53:52conversation or anything like that. Uh, well, he wasn't one of those people. It's not any big

00:53:58criticism. It just wasn't one of those people. So no, I'm not, uh, I'm not friends with him. He does

00:54:03seem to not be doing super well, but, uh, I, I think I offered help to him, but he hasn't

00:54:09taken

00:54:10me up on it. Okay. Um, what do you think of the notion that with some exceptions, conservatives

00:54:14cannot create good art? I don't think that's true. I mean, I'm, I wouldn't say I'm a conservative,

00:54:18but I'm certainly anti-leftist and I've created some absolutely stupendously fantastic art.

00:54:23Really. I mean, freedomain.com slash books, pick up the novels. They're fantastic. And if I ever come

00:54:29across my old place, I published them too. So it's not that conservatives can't create good art.

00:54:34It's that there's no point for conservatives to create good art. So I spent, you know,

00:54:41tens of thousands of hours writing novels and could never get published. I mean, once I got

00:54:45published, but it wasn't a big deal. So I couldn't get published. So what's the point, right? So you,

00:54:49you kind of give up, right? And I will tell you like a couple of times when I had agents,

00:54:54uh, read my

00:54:55books, like the ferocity, the hostility, the rage that came back was really

00:54:59quite astounding, kind of jaw dropping. So it's sort of like if redheaded people are banned

00:55:07from being stock traders, you say, well, why is it you think that redheaded people are bad at stock

00:55:11trading? It's like, cause they're banned from doing it. So there's not much point creating,

00:55:16uh, your, your skills that way. Do you like cats? I do. I do like, do like cats very, very

00:55:23much.

00:55:24All right. Uh, but I'm not a, I'm not a pet person as a whole. So, uh, I like pets.

00:55:29I like

00:55:29visiting pets. My daughter and I will still occasionally go to a cat shelter and all of

00:55:34that, but, uh, having pets, uh, is not quite the same thing. All right. So how do you ground a

00:55:39nation's ontology? Now ontology is the study, the philosophical study of being, of what applies

00:55:46neutrally to everything that is real existence, non-existence, reality, unreality, and so on.

00:55:50So, well, there's no such thing as a nation's ontology because that's like saying, how do

00:55:55you ground the, the physics of Russia or Russia's physics, Russian physics? It's like, well,

00:56:00it's either physics or it's not, it's not Russian physics, right? So I don't know. You'll have to

00:56:04be more specific. If you're talking about culture, that's not ontology. If you're talking about

00:56:08ontology, that's not national. So feel free to send your question back in with some more details.

00:56:13Uh, what are the chances the universe was formed by two colliding universes? Perhaps

00:56:17it was just a fender bender out of how our moon was theoretically formed by a rogue planet colliding

00:56:22with earth. Uh, what are the chances? Oh, I know. I mean, I'm a philosopher, not a physicist.

00:56:28So again, you want to stay away from, is it possible? Questions. Is it possible? Is it possible

00:56:37to jump out of a plane without a parachute and survive without injury? Uh, sure. Uh, I, I suppose so.

00:56:45Like if you fell onto some big giant pillowy tent thing that arrested your fall and lowered you down

00:56:50or whatever, right? So I don't know what the point is of what are the odds, what are the chances,

00:56:56what are the possible? I don't understand what the point is of those questions. Uh, is it possible to

00:57:01jump out of a plane and not get injured? Yes. So what? It's possible, but does that mean you should

00:57:08jump out of a plane without a parachute? Well, no, of course you shouldn't, right? Is it possible

00:57:14that you can be a spendthrift your whole life and then win the lottery right before you retire and

00:57:20then retire in style? Uh, yes. Yeah, it's possible, but so what? No sane person spends everything they

00:57:26make and then plays the lottery in the hopes that they can have a comfortable retirement. Like,

00:57:31is it possible? The question is, will it change your decisions? Will it change your mind? Will it

00:57:38change your decisions? Will it change your actions? Will it change your path in life? So, I mean, let me

00:57:43give you an example. Is it possible that I could make a living? So back in 2005, 2006, when I

00:57:49was

00:57:49considering this stuff, is it possible for me to make some kind of living doing an ad-free philosophy

00:57:57podcast? Yes, it is possible, and therefore I quit my executive career in the software field

00:58:05and became a philosopher online, for the most part, in person, to some degree, online.

00:58:11So is it possible? Yes. Therefore, I will change my behavior, right? Is it possible to jump out of a

00:58:17plane and survive with no injuries? Yes. Does that, is that going to change your behavior at all? Are you

00:58:22then going to say, well, then I'm not going to, I'm not going to do the expense of a parachute?

00:58:27Well, no, I'm still going to have a parachute. So is it possible? Is it possible the universe was

00:58:33formed by two colliding universes? Yeah. I don't know how to gauge or, I mean, I don't know. I mean,

00:58:41if you move enough variables, almost anything's possible, right? So what, what, what were these

00:58:48possibilities or probabilities? How will they change your behavior? Now, if the possibilities or

00:58:53probabilities won't change your behavior, then don't worry about them. They're not important to

00:58:57think about. How do you bring, how do you build a sane friend circle in an insane world? Uh, well,

00:59:04you just got to stick to principles, uh, encourage people to follow rational principles and ostracize

00:59:10them if they don't. Uh, can you dance? If not, what kind of a philosopher are you? I will, in

00:59:14fact,

00:59:15tell you, I can shake a tail feather, man. I was at a friend's wedding a couple months ago,

00:59:20and I busted several moves for like two hours and it was good. There was some really good 80s stuff

00:59:28and, and all of that. And, uh, the, um, don't believe me, just watch song is great to dance to.

00:59:34And so, yes, I can dance. I spent a lot of time in nightclubs and discos and so on when

00:59:42I was a

00:59:42teenager. And I, I even moonwalked. I didn't even learn how to moonwalk at one point. So yes, I can,

00:59:49I can dance. Uh, why are boomers such crappy grandparents? Because boomers were psyoped

00:59:55into selfishness so that they would go for short-term vanity, quote, morality, hedonism,

01:00:02rather than long, long-term survival of their culture so that their culture could be dismantled

01:00:06under them and they wouldn't care. They wouldn't care. So thank you so much for these great questions.

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