Single Moms Versus the WORLD! X/Twitter Livestream

Stefan Molyneux

Philosopher Stefan Molyneux talks about single moms versus the world and how scary stories about men push young women away from marriage and toward the state. He also covers sex differences, the real costs of father absence, pretend play with kids, and why philosophy helps in daily life.  For November 16, check out Digital Social Hour on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@DigitalSocialHour  0:00:00 Cornell Case Thoughts 0:03:39 Men, Women, and Power 0:12:03 Taking Questions Live 0:14:37 Schools as Propaganda 0:16:27 Debate Tactics Exposed 0:19:46 Mystics and Shared Play 0:21:31 Chris Hansen Review 0:24:16 Imagination as Practice 0:34:07 Monsters in Disguise 0:38:11 Debate Reactions 0:39:19 Freedom and Pair Bonding 0:40:35 Fertility Advice 0:41:50 AI and Slavery 0:43:09 The "It Is" Argument 0:47:01 Religion or Secularism 0:49:23 The Schrodinger Feminist 0:55:46 Single Motherhood Costs 1:00:39 Father Absence and Crime 1:07:43 Welfare or Collapse 1:13:44 Dadless Households  Support philosophy! https://freedomain.com/donate/  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

Transcript

00:00:00Good morning, everybody, Stephan Mullen from Freedom Main.

00:00:07Sunday morning, I have myself a tidy, cozy little philosophy chit-chat, and, well, I've

00:00:15been thinking.

00:00:16I suppose since that is the job, it should not come as a massive surprise, but I have

00:00:25been thinking, and it really is about this Cornell case, the Cornell 7 case, where the

00:00:32young men are accused of going choo-choo on the woman.

00:00:37I don't know if it's the woman that everyone's posting about.

00:00:40I don't know if that's been confirmed or not.

00:00:42There seems to be a mismatch in the times that she was at the university, so we're just

00:00:48going to continue to call her Jane.

00:00:51And so a couple of things have been floating around in my head.

00:00:53And I'm just going to spill them all out, and you can tell me if they make any sense

00:01:04to you.

00:01:05So, first and foremost, of course, the government has, and the media, which supports socialism,

00:01:15communism as a whole, the government, which is leftist, even though the Republicans are

00:01:22ostensibly in power, Sarah Huckabee, still put out an ad complaining that young white

00:01:31men were using too many social programs.

00:01:34Now, the number of young white men who are using social programs, about one point, one

00:01:38to three percent, it's about one to three percent, and some of those would be legitimately disabled

00:01:43and so on, right?

00:01:44So, there's very little use of the welfare state by young white men.

00:01:50I don't think it's changed that much, but when I was younger, it was considered a mark

00:01:55of deep shame to go on welfare.

00:01:58It was considered trashy.

00:01:59It was considered, you know, the guy sitting around burping beer farts at two in the afternoon

00:02:04wearing their wife beaters, right?

00:02:05So, it was considered low rent and trashy and embarrassing and cringe and all of that.

00:02:15So, the Republicans don't actually have to get much better, and they can't win the midterms

00:02:21without the young white male vote, and they are not going to pursue the young white male

00:02:29vote, which they should, of course, because the alternatives are so terrible that it's like

00:02:38asking if there are two restaurants in town, and one of them serves straight cow ass with

00:02:44cockroaches, then the other guy just has to be better than that, and he's going to have

00:02:48a good business, right?

00:02:50So, if there's, what was there was an old riddle that I used to hear when I was younger, which

00:02:55is if you go to town and there are two barbers, and one has a really good haircut, and one

00:02:59has

00:02:59a really bad haircut, where do you, where do you go?

00:03:04Well, you go to the one who has a really bad haircut, because he's giving the other barber

00:03:11the haircut.

00:03:12So, he's a good hairdresser, or a good barber, a good barber.

00:03:18My mother, my brother used to get made fun of in the business world sometimes for being

00:03:22a little overly British, and he said, well, when I was going to my stylist, and I remember

00:03:27the CEO once said, you know, most men call that a barber.

00:03:33Funny stuff.

00:03:39So, the government has a vested interest in frightening women, young women, into being

00:03:47single and scared of men, because single women vote like 20% more for Democrats, right?

00:03:54So, the media has a vested urge, a vested image, a vested motive into telling young women,

00:04:03and in particular about white males, that males are these terrible rapists and assaulters and

00:04:12exploiters and so on.

00:04:17So, they will tell young women that, so that young women don't find a man that they want

00:04:22to love.

00:04:23So, they'll say that men are lazy, men exploit them, men are violent, and that they don't

00:04:28want to be a broodmare for children, and they don't want to be, you know, just cooking and

00:04:34cleaning endlessly.

00:04:35And you see these videos promoted usually by the enemies of the West, when a woman is

00:04:40about to put on an engagement ring, and the moment she puts on the engagement ring, all

00:04:44she does is, like, hold screaming babies and scrub toilets and so on.

00:04:47But when she takes it off, she's out having a cool, fun nightlife streaming session with

00:04:52clavicular or something like that.

00:04:56So, women are vulnerable.

00:05:00People, nature, God, whatever you want to say, it's so funny to me that, as a whole,

00:05:05people have this belief that men and women have the same brains, that we're just basically

00:05:10the same brains in different bodies.

00:05:12And this tends to come more from the left than for the right, from the right, because

00:05:16on the right, if they're religious, then they say God has designed men and women to

00:05:20have different skills, abilities, and capacities, and inclinations.

00:05:24But people on the left, who tend to be more atheistic, obviously accept evolution.

00:05:29And if you think of the evolutionary pressures that men and women were subjected to, and

00:05:34we don't have to list them all off here, but we can certainly understand that they were

00:05:38exceedingly different from each other, right?

00:05:41That men were subject to particular evolutionary pressures, and women were subject to extremely

00:05:47different evolutionary pressures.

00:05:50And so, the idea that two creatures subject to extremely different and sometimes opposing

00:05:56evolutionary pressures, but ended up with exactly the same brain, although the brain is,

00:06:01of course, our most expensive organ.

00:06:02It's one in five calories go to the brain when we're awake.

00:06:06It's like three pounds of wetware, but 20% of energy consumption.

00:06:10And so, the idea that our most expensive organ is completely unaffected by millions of years

00:06:17of vastly different evolutionary pressures that men can spray and pray, right?

00:06:23Men can wander through aggressively or charmingly handing out their seed and can move on, whereas

00:06:30women, particularly human females, face the dangers of a pregnancy, of childbirth, of breastfeeding,

00:06:41dangerous being that when you're doing all of that, you can't go and get your own food,

00:06:45so they need providers, they need protectors.

00:06:47The only reason that we were able to develop the large brains that we have is because men

00:06:52were willing to provide for the crazy extended childhood that we have, which is 20 years.

00:06:58It's 20 years until we hit brain maturity as a whole.

00:07:03So, you know, almost 21 years if you count pregnancy.

00:07:08And this goes on and on, over and over, right?

00:07:11Women are designed to deal with babies and toddlers because they start by dealing with

00:07:15babies and toddlers in that they're put in charge, usually, of their younger siblings,

00:07:19starting at the age of 10.

00:07:21And then, you know, they would get pregnant in their late teens, and then they would have

00:07:25a whole series of babies from 20 to 40.

00:07:28Or, you know, you could say 18 to 42, depending on how you stretch it, like so between 20 years

00:07:35and almost a quarter century, and then, of course, by the time they were infertile or their fertility

00:07:41had declined, then they would be taking care of their grandchildren, right?

00:07:46So, and these women are evolved to deal with feelings and relationships because that's what

00:07:53they manage and develop, and that's what they require.

00:07:55And men are evolved to deal with facts, empirical, reality, objective evidence because they're out

00:08:00there dealing with the world and hunting and fishing and farming.

00:08:04And, of course, you know, women did produce some aspects of the food supply and so on,

00:08:07but just vastly different evolutionary pressures.

00:08:12And the idea that you end up with the same brain, despite vastly different evolutionary pressures,

00:08:16is it's so anti-scientific, it makes creationists look like evolutionary biologists who are competent.

00:08:26So, yeah, so in order for government power to grow, women need to feel unprotected because they're

00:08:38going to need a protector.

00:08:39And if they don't have an individual protector, they will move to a government protector.

00:08:47And so, and this is not a theory, this is basic empirical fact that married women tend to vote

00:08:54conservative and single women, particularly at their age, tend to vote liberal, leftist,

00:09:02socialist, communist, because they need protection.

00:09:05Women need protection.

00:09:07And they get it from men or they get it from the state.

00:09:09And the men in the state are in opposition, right?

00:09:13The state is a predator on men as a whole because it provokes wars and then drafts the men.

00:09:20Because it taxes men, men pay twice into the tax system, then they get out of it,

00:09:26and women get twice out, then they pay in.

00:09:28So it's just a massive wealth transfer from men to women, which should happen under the

00:09:32aegis of love and protection and caring and pair bonding and monogamy and so on.

00:09:37Should all happen that way.

00:09:38But if the government, which is the natural enemy in a way of men, if the government and

00:09:48the natural ally of women, right?

00:09:50That's just socialism is hyper femininity and fascism is hyper masculinity.

00:09:58And so to put out these stories about how dangerous and predatory and evil and so on men are

00:10:06is to frighten women and to turn them away.

00:10:11Because remember, the men and the state are in direct competition for the allegiance of

00:10:15women, right?

00:10:17The men and the state are in direct competition for the allegiance of women.

00:10:21And so if you're in competition with some other dude for a woman and you find out he's

00:10:28got some terrible STD, something, I don't know, herpes-like or permanent or something like

00:10:32that, well, you're probably going to tell her.

00:10:35If you find out that he cheated on his last girlfriend, you'll probably tell her because

00:10:41you're in competition with this other dude for the affections of a fair damsel.

00:10:46And so if you come across negative information, you're going to amplify it to her.

00:10:49And if you're really fairly unethical, which is most of human evolution,

00:10:56in evolution, particularly human evolution, ethics are only useful as a tool of deception.

00:11:05So you will make up something negative about that.

00:11:09And this is particularly true for women who are in competition for a man.

00:11:13Somebody wrote the other day that men are killers and women are assassins in the sort of

00:11:17poison and do it sort of more subtly.

00:11:19Not all, obviously, but that is what you'll do.

00:11:24So the government and men are in direct win-lose competition for the allegiance of women.

00:11:32And the media, of course, being a tool of the state, the media is the gossip arm of totalitarianism.

00:11:40And so the media will amplify everything negative about men so that women switch their allegiance

00:11:45to the state and they get the communist dystopia that they yearn for.

00:11:51And communism basically is just a way of making up for individual dysgenics, for individual unfitness.

00:12:00So that's sort of one aspect of it.

00:12:03The other aspect I wanted to let, I'm sorry, let me, it's a live stream.

00:12:06Let me get to the questions.

00:12:08Let me get to the questions.

00:12:12And thank you again.

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00:12:26Did Jay Dyer fall off the internet after the debate?

00:12:30I cannot, I cannot tell you what Jay Dyer has done after the debate.

00:12:43I had a vague thought, but I really wasn't expecting it, that after the debate, he was

00:12:47saying, yeah, I was just being a total douchebag, but that was part of the show.

00:12:51You know, like wrestlers in WWF, they, I mean, they shake hands and crack beers afterwards

00:12:58because it's all, right, but I mean, maybe he took it seriously, I don't know.

00:13:03Please, pretty please, with sugar on it, back up all your stuff on your website in case YouTube

00:13:06goes dark again.

00:13:08Yeah, everything's, everything's backed up.

00:13:12All right.

00:13:16I remember when I was in my, I think it was either late teens or early 20s, there was an

00:13:21ad that used to play about don't drop out of school in the movie theater.

00:13:25Don't drop out of school.

00:13:26Kids, kids, don't drop out of school.

00:13:28And of course, it was a young Japanese girl who's the least likely to drop out of school.

00:13:34Right.

00:13:36All right.

00:13:41Why are so many military members on disability fraud?

00:13:46Because it's available and they're encouraged and they are, you know, I remember when I was

00:13:52on a hike once with a military fellow, it was in the middle of nowhere.

00:13:57We just met him in the middle of nowhere.

00:13:58He happened to know my work and we got into a great conversation.

00:14:00And he was talking about he's only began to hike recently because he was forced to do these

00:14:07crazy marches with endless backpacks and his knees were totally shot.

00:14:11And all they did was give him SSR eyes and painkillers.

00:14:13So some of it is very real.

00:14:21Why do you think birth rates are declining universally, even in strict Islamic conservative places?

00:14:29I've talked about that a bunch of times and I'll mention it sort of here, but I'm not

00:14:32going to go into this at the moment because there's too many people here who've heard it

00:14:36before.

00:14:37Do you think the media and the internet have replaced religion as the propaganda arm of

00:14:41the state?

00:14:42I would say first and foremost, it's education.

00:14:45So, of course, in America, education, government education was put in place to maintain

00:14:52WASP, white Anglo-Saxon Protestant values, because there was this flood of Catholics coming in

00:14:57from Ireland and from Italy and other sort of heavily Catholic places.

00:15:03And they were concerned that their children were going to get swamped by Catholic propaganda

00:15:09or Catholic education.

00:15:11And so what they did was they took over or that there'd be a bifurcated society where there

00:15:16were Catholics and Protestants.

00:15:17And of course, there had been a lot of wars between Catholics and Protestants in the past.

00:15:22So, it was like inviting various hostile tribes from Africa or the Middle East to live cheek

00:15:27by jowl.

00:15:28And so what they did was they said, well, we're going to have to take over government

00:15:31education to make sure that Protestant values are taught.

00:15:34And of course, whenever you let the government take over something, you get a short-term benefit.

00:15:40Obviously, it's like a drug or like a deal with Satan.

00:15:42You get a short-term benefit.

00:15:43And then in the long run, it achieves the opposite of your stated goals.

00:15:47So, the government was put in place to protect the values of white Protestant societies, and

00:15:55then it ended up attacking Christianity and whites as a whole, right?

00:16:00Often.

00:16:10Have you ever been goal-bending and prospecting?

00:16:13Don't lure me in.

00:16:14Don't lure me in.

00:16:17All right.

00:16:20Nowadays, the army doesn't even give you pain pills.

00:16:22They just march you to your death sober.

00:16:24Or, yeah.

00:16:27I'm impressed you were even able to come up with responses to some of Jay's questions.

00:16:32It seemed like you were operating at levels higher than he was.

00:16:35Yeah.

00:16:36Yeah.

00:16:36I mean, what he does is he does, and, you know, it's fine.

00:16:39It's, you know, all's fair in love and war.

00:16:41So, what Jay Dyer does is he fires questions at atheists that are tough to answer, which is

00:16:48a perfectly fair thing to do.

00:16:51But he refuses to allow you to question him back.

00:16:56So, I mean, to the uneducated, to the amateur eye, because he's on the offense and other people

00:17:02are wrestling with really tough questions, and then if the other person starts to answer

00:17:09the tough question, which I was able to do, if other people start to answer the tough questions,

00:17:13he just interrupts them and accuses them of storytelling or to cock fallacy, which is not

00:17:19a fallacy, if you claim to have an answer, to cock is not a fallacy, right?

00:17:24To cock is, if I accuse some other physicist, let's say I'm a physicist, and I accuse another

00:17:29physicist that his fusion in a jar doesn't work, right?

00:17:33And then he says, well, where's your fusion in a jar?

00:17:36Well, it's irrelevant as to whether his works, right?

00:17:38But if I say I have one that works and yours doesn't, he has the right to say, well, show

00:17:43me yours that works, right?

00:17:44And of course, he claims to have an answer as to why we have shared concepts, despite

00:17:50having different brains, and that's because of God.

00:17:52It's magic.

00:17:53Magic is the answer, which is, of course, not an answer.

00:17:56And so it's not a two-cock fallacy to question someone back who claims to have an answer.

00:18:01If I say I have an answer that is true and you have an answer that is false, then I

00:18:07can

00:18:07examine you on your answer, but you can also examine me on my answer, and I should welcome

00:18:10you to do that.

00:18:12So because he's on a very aggressive demand answers, which is fine, but then he interrupts

00:18:19when someone has an answer, and that's where things get bad, and then he also refuses to

00:18:24answer.

00:18:25He never proposed, if I remember rightly, he never did propose during the debate a positive

00:18:29theory as to why we have the same numbers, despite having different brains.

00:18:32I mean, of course, the answer is that the world is full, the universe is full of discrete

00:18:35objects that we can count, and we've evolved to do that.

00:18:38I mean, even as my daughter pointed out in the prep for the debate, even lizards can count

00:18:43because they need to know whether they can attack another lizard or whether there are

00:18:46too many other lizards to attack.

00:18:47So even lizards can count.

00:18:51So, and even ducks can count, I think.

00:18:54I mean, they notice if one of their ducklings goes missing, even if there's 12 or 13.

00:19:05So, and here's the thing, too.

00:19:07I mean, the biggest risk I took in the debate was saying, I don't understand the question.

00:19:12And I didn't understand the question because it was too wide.

00:19:15You know, where do concepts come from is too wide a question.

00:19:18It needs to be more specific.

00:19:20In other words, in what context are you asking?

00:19:22Where do concepts come from?

00:19:22Um, but if the audience didn't, I was really just speaking to the honest people in the

00:19:29audience, because I guarantee you, if we'd frozen the debate and in time and gone to

00:19:35the audience and said, explain to me Jane's, uh, Jay's argument, they wouldn't have explained

00:19:39to me Jay's question and why it's relevant, right?

00:19:43They wouldn't have been able to.

00:19:44So, all right.

00:19:46Um, what are the dangers of dating a woman who is a mystic?

00:19:49I have evidence she's capable of change, but she uses tarot cards because you can't

00:19:54negotiate with women who are mystics because they don't organize their thoughts according

00:20:01to reason and evidence.

00:20:07I like watching you before going to church.

00:20:09Hey, I'll take that.

00:20:09I appreciate that.

00:20:11I will, I will take that with, with gratitude and appreciation.

00:20:15All right.

00:20:16So, second, uh, your philosophy is more actionable.

00:20:23Jay's is more theoretical.

00:20:25I don't accept that dichotomy.

00:20:28I mean, this is the old something that works in theory, but not in practice.

00:20:33If something doesn't work in practice, it doesn't work in theory.

00:20:36If I say I have a great theory as to how a person can fly, like how to design an

00:20:46airplane

00:20:46that the person can pedal.

00:20:48I have a great theory, but then the person pedals it and it crashes and they keep pedaling

00:20:52it and I keep building the same thing over and over again and it keeps crashing.

00:20:56Does it make any sense if I say I have a little pedal airplane that works in theory, but it

00:21:02keeps crashing in practice and never takes off?

00:21:04Does that mean it's great in theory, but bad in practice?

00:21:07No, it means it's bad in theory.

00:21:12All right.

00:21:13Mr. M, best was to continue becoming wise.

00:21:16When I'm old and wise, best was to continue becoming wise after one has started the philosophy

00:21:22journey and is already seeing positive effects.

00:21:25What questions, reflections should I be asking myself?

00:21:27That's a bit too broad a question, if you don't mind.

00:21:31Backroom's movie review.

00:21:33Yeah, I watched the one about Chris Hansen as well, and it's just neurotic attack upon a

00:21:42virtuous man.

00:21:42Chris Hansen is a virtuous man, seems very good-natured, apparently is quite funny, and

00:21:50when evil people don't have an answer, what they do is they project all of their anxiety

00:21:56and insecurity on the good man, and they try to infect him with self-doubt so that he'll

00:22:03stop attacking them or exposing them or showing them.

00:22:08And there was the scene, of course, famous scene at the end, everybody knows the story,

00:22:12where somebody, after themselves, after being exposed as a predator, and the guy was like,

00:22:22well, all I wanted to do was watch musicals together, and then the decoy is singing a song

00:22:28from Rent, which is really one of the gayest musicals I've ever seen, and I've seen some

00:22:33pretty gay musicals.

00:22:35And it's all, you know, it's so sad, you know, that this predator, and then there's

00:22:40the guy in the, what gives you the right, you know, the predator, and what gives you

00:22:47the right?

00:22:48And this is just rhetorical questions, you know, oh, what does give me the right?

00:22:52Maybe I should stop.

00:22:53What gives you the right?

00:22:55And it's like, well, what gives them the right to prey on children?

00:23:01So, yeah, these sort of, it was a really wretched movie.

00:23:04And I, I mean, for God's sakes, turn a light on somewhere.

00:23:07I've never been in hotel rooms that dark, where you flip on a light and you still can't

00:23:10see anything.

00:23:11And so, and, and, you know, seriously, like, screw Robert Pattinson, like, let's not, let's

00:23:22not excuse actors, because he was a producer as well as an actor.

00:23:26Like, seriously, to absolute hell with Robert Pattinson, I'm never, ever going to see anything

00:23:32else with him again.

00:23:35Boycott that intergalactic asshole who is attacking and driving the attack upon people

00:23:46who prey on children in the worst conceivable ways.

00:23:51He wasn't just hired, and of course, you can always say no, you can always say no.

00:23:58And this is a wretchedly corrupt human being.

00:24:02I mean, it was bad enough that he was in Twilight.

00:24:05It was bad enough that he was in the Odyssey.

00:24:07And then to not just act in, but also produce this abomination of a movie is, uh, oof.

00:24:14All right.

00:24:15Wretched.

00:24:16All right.

00:24:16We've got a, a mic on the mic.

00:24:21You are on the air.

00:24:24What's on your mind?

00:24:28Hello, hello.

00:24:30You might need to unmute.

00:24:32Stefan, good morning.

00:24:34Good morning.

00:24:36I had a question on, uh, shared pretend play.

00:24:41And I know you've spoken on this subject before, and I wanted to see if you can give a more,

00:24:47a philosophical, uh, expose on the benefits of shared play, uh, with children.

00:24:55And, uh, I, I, I think I have a philosophy, uh, uh, I have an idea on why some people

00:25:03are

00:25:03better at shared play and why others aren't.

00:25:06Um, but I want to hear your thoughts on the matter.

00:25:09Sure.

00:25:09Can you tell me a bit more of your definition of shared play?

00:25:13So I have two kiddos and growing up, you'd, you know, you'd be sitting at the breakfast

00:25:17table.

00:25:17There'd be a fog going through the mountains and, you know, you'd, you'd, you'd pretend

00:25:21there'd be giants in those, in the, in the fog.

00:25:24And, you know, when you see a kid who knows that you're pretending, but gets that sparkle

00:25:32in their eye and plays along, that's kind of what I'm talking about.

00:25:36And, you know, there's some children that, uh, have that.

00:25:40And then sometimes when you make that attempt with some, uh, somebody else's child, like

00:25:45let's say your niece or nephew, you're on a hike and you pretend you have a caterpillar

00:25:50in your hand, but it's just some fuzzball, fuzzball from a plant.

00:25:54And, uh, you know, when their face turns to you and, uh, maybe, uh, doesn't understand

00:26:01what's going on.

00:26:02I'm just curious where that comes from.

00:26:04So there's two questions and I just want to make sure I'm going to answer things correctly.

00:26:08One is what's the value of imaginative play.

00:26:11And the second is why do other children sometimes resist that from you?

00:26:19Yeah, I, I think so.

00:26:21And I, I wonder if it's vulnerability because if they grew up without the ability to pretend

00:26:26play, they're afraid of having that vulnerability because somebody might make fun of them.

00:26:30And I just curious if that's a benefit to, to have that, um, that state of mind as you

00:26:38grow up and even as you get older to, to have the ability to do that with other people.

00:26:42Sure.

00:26:44Well, it could be that they're not exposed to that kind of creative or imaginative shared

00:26:48play, but I would also imagine that children have a suspicion about being, quote, lied to

00:26:53by strangers or by people who aren't their parents because their parents have told them,

00:26:57you know, uh, other people can be dangerous.

00:26:58And of course, if it's cousins, it's still a family member and so on, but children would

00:27:02have a certain amount of hesitation about engaging in, quote, lying or imaginative play

00:27:09with strangers in the same way that, you know, you, you're going to pick up your kid from

00:27:14somewhere and you say, Hey, uh, come on over, get in the car.

00:27:17You know, that's good.

00:27:18But if it's a stranger, that's bad.

00:27:19Right.

00:27:20So I would imagine that there's a certain amount of caution for that.

00:27:23Uh, that's just baked into childhood mentality or how they've been raised and so on.

00:27:27So that's number one.

00:27:28Number two, well, the question of why we do it.

00:27:32Well, we're not alone in doing it, right?

00:27:35We're not alone in doing it.

00:27:36I mean, I'm sure you've seen the documentaries where the baby lions are pretending to creep

00:27:40up on their parents and they are practicing their hunting and they're practicing and all

00:27:45of that.

00:27:45So a lot of imaginative play is to do with rehearsing for, uh, dangerous or exciting adult

00:27:54situations, right?

00:27:55So what do kids, uh, what do kids say?

00:27:58They say, um, uh, you're, you're the cop.

00:28:01I'm the robber, you know, and you've got to catch me.

00:28:03And of course, if you think of basic things like hide and go seek, well, hide and go seek

00:28:07is about hiding from danger.

00:28:09It's about hiding from, uh, predators, uh, hiding from enemy warriors or, or something

00:28:16like that.

00:28:17Or you could be hiding from dad when he's in a bad mood or mom when she's in a bad

00:28:21mood.

00:28:22So, uh, I think that that imaginative play has to do with preparing children for risky,

00:28:29dangerous or exciting situations in that you have to do a lot of preparation before you

00:28:37are in a dangerous situation.

00:28:39If you want to have any chance of surviving, right?

00:28:41So if you are, uh, there's a lot of play fighting that goes on with boys, uh, and girls sometimes

00:28:48too, but that play fighting is, you know, wrestling and, and so on.

00:28:51Uh, and that's because, uh, throughout most of our evolution, men would be involved in

00:28:56multiple physical fights, right?

00:28:58So, uh, why is it that kids pick up sticks, boys in particular, pick up sticks and immediately

00:29:04start doing sword play?

00:29:05Well, because over the course of your life, it's quite likely that you would be involved

00:29:10in a duel or a war or some sort of combat that would involve swords.

00:29:14And so your instinct is to prepare for it.

00:29:19And so, uh, in general, the way that it worked when I was a kid is you would divide the

00:29:24kids

00:29:25into good guys and bad guys, um, Indians and cowboys, cops and robbers, uh, heroes and

00:29:30villains, uh, heroes and a dragon, uh, good guy, you know, the red shirts and the blue shirts,

00:29:34the blue shirts are bad, the red shirts are good.

00:29:36So you would divide people into the kids into good and bad, or, uh, I write about this in

00:29:40my novel, uh, almost the battle of the gardens.

00:29:44So we would have these very elaborate war games when I was a kid, cause you know, there

00:29:49were lots of kids around.

00:29:50I was at the tail end of the baby boom and there was, we had no money.

00:29:54And so we would create these elaborate ball game, uh, board, um, war games.

00:29:59And, you know, you'd be the Germans and the British, right?

00:30:01The good guys and the bad guys as we were raised with.

00:30:06And that's because those children who did not engage in fantasy combat and fantasy good

00:30:14versus evil were less likely to survive when actual danger came, right?

00:30:19So the kids who never played hide and go seek, if there was a time when you had to hide,

00:30:23which

00:30:25could be as simple as you're in the woods and there's some strange guy or a couple of strange

00:30:29guys, you hide, right?

00:30:30So, or, or, um, a bear is ambling past you, you hide or whatever, right?

00:30:35And so the kids who didn't do fantasy play, the kids who didn't do fantasy combat, fantasy

00:30:41good versus evil.

00:30:42And I don't mean objective good versus evil.

00:30:44I just mean we, our team is good.

00:30:46Their team is bad, which is foundational for tribalism.

00:30:49Those children who did not engage in that kind of fantasy play, those kids who never picked

00:30:53up a stick and pretended to have a sword fight, uh, those kids had a lower likelihood of surviving

00:30:59in the same way that when lion cubs, if it's, if for some reason, a lion cub never practiced

00:31:05hunting, he would have a lower chance of surviving as an adult.

00:31:09So it's just a random thing that sort of popped up, probably had a big evolutionary advantage.

00:31:15And that's why kids engage in it.

00:31:19That's why you engage in it.

00:31:20I'm sure that's why I engage in it.

00:31:22It's a lot of fun.

00:31:23It's very exciting.

00:31:23And it, it reproduces the thrill of fight or flight, right?

00:31:29So the fight is turn and fight, uh, uh, flight is go and hide and it reproduces that thrill.

00:31:36It gets you excited about it.

00:31:37And it teaches you because kids do these games like over and over and over and over and over

00:31:40again.

00:31:41And so it teaches you skills that serve you well.

00:31:45I mean, you know, like in adulthood, I mean, you can actually exercise without moving a muscle.

00:31:50If you only think about moving muscles, your muscles get a little bit stronger, even if

00:31:55you don't actually lift any weights or do any particular exercise.

00:31:58So rehearsal is very, very important.

00:32:02And this is why wolf cubs will practice hunting and, uh, they will practice being in formation

00:32:07and they will do all of it.

00:32:08So then when it, it finally becomes real, then, I mean, no, but then they're very skilled.

00:32:15So I did a debate recently about a guy who said we should bring dueling back, like right

00:32:19shooting pistols at dawn, dueling.

00:32:21Now let's say that over the course of your life, you would be involved in, let's say one

00:32:25or two duels.

00:32:26I think people have two car accidents usually over the course of their life on average.

00:32:29So if you're going to be involved in two duels over the course of your life, then you

00:32:35should spend a huge amount of time practicing for duels.

00:32:38And, and that would be what kids would do and, and that would be encouraged by their

00:32:43parents and so on.

00:32:44And it's not only your life that might be forfeit.

00:32:46Let's say that you have four kids and you get killed in a duel when you're 40, then your

00:32:50kids have a much lower chance of survival.

00:32:52So it's not just your genes, but it's also your offspring's genes.

00:32:55And so that would be something that you would have to practice for because it would likely

00:32:59happen and the results are pretty, pretty bad.

00:33:03Does that make sense?

00:33:04It does.

00:33:05Yeah.

00:33:05That was an interesting conversation.

00:33:06I think it only makes sense.

00:33:09And I know this wasn't the caller's argument.

00:33:11It only makes sense when you believe in a divine intervention.

00:33:14So, you know, you're going to have the gods decide who the winner is in a duel.

00:33:19Cause I agree with you.

00:33:20I think skill does not necessarily, uh, reveal who's right and who's wrong just because of

00:33:26the luck of the draw.

00:33:28Um, but to your comment about, uh, the pretend play, thank you.

00:33:31I think that I didn't think about the practice aspect, you know, sometimes in our, in

00:33:36a conversation, you'll ask, you'll ask a speaker to steel man, the argument.

00:33:41And I think being able to play with ideas in your mind, uh, starting out using your imagination,

00:33:49you know, you're sitting, you see an animal and you play around with the idea of it being

00:33:52able to shape shift.

00:33:53So something like that, it allows your muscles, your brain muscles to entertain ideas in your

00:34:00mind, I think more easily.

00:34:02Um, and I think that's a, probably a good skill to have.

00:34:05So yeah, I, I, I think that makes sense.

00:34:08Well, shape-shifting and, uh, licentropy and things like that or vampirism and so on.

00:34:14And I think what that does or why these myths endure is because in general, the, um, the

00:34:23shape-shifters go from more attractive to less attractive, right?

00:34:27So the vampire goes from, you know, a cool urbane George Hamilton, cocoa butter tan kind

00:34:33of guy to, you know, a feaster on your jugular, that kind of stuff.

00:34:37And the sirens, you know, go from beautiful singers and gorgeous women to those who lure you

00:34:43to your death and so on.

00:34:44And so people need to be trained on the fact that that which is beautiful can be very dangerous.

00:34:54And in fact, sometimes people work in excess to heighten their beauty in order to better

00:35:01exploit people.

00:35:02And so the idea that, uh, a werewolf can go from a reasonably attractive guy to this ravaging

00:35:09monster.

00:35:09I mean, I remember watching, gosh, many years ago, of course.

00:35:12An American werewolf in London, which is like unbelievably, brutally violent.

00:35:16I remember thinking like, wow, that's, that get past the censors as wild.

00:35:20And so it's saying that people can change from being attractive to being exceedingly dangerous.

00:35:28You know, 1% of people are psychopaths, 2% to 4% of people are sociopaths.

00:35:32And so it's the Cylon thing, right?

00:35:35That, that people can appear to be like you, but be inhuman.

00:35:38People can appear decent or reasonable or in your vicinity as far as human characteristics,

00:35:46but they can in fact be human, inhuman monsters, if that makes sense.

00:35:51And so warning people that people can change shape, uh, warning people that people can appear

00:35:57fair, but be foul is a very important thing that you have to look at the virtues, not just

00:36:04the exterior attractiveness and so on.

00:36:07It does.

00:36:08It does.

00:36:09Thank you, Stepan.

00:36:09I appreciate you.

00:36:10You're very welcome.

00:36:11Thank you for a great, uh, great question.

00:36:13I appreciate the questions.

00:36:16All right.

00:36:16Let's get back to your comments and questions here.

00:36:20Bum, bum.

00:36:22Bum, bum.

00:36:25All right.

00:36:31Let's see here.

00:36:34It's disheartening to see how many people actually thought Jay won the debate.

00:36:38The religious are odd creatures.

00:36:39Well, I wouldn't say, sorry to be annoying and you could be totally right, but I would say

00:36:45that it's not exactly shocking because like if I was watching a boxing match or if I was

00:36:55watching a skating, like a figure skating competition, I wouldn't really know how to

00:37:01score it, right?

00:37:02I mean, obviously if the, if somebody falls on their butt in a skating competition, I assume

00:37:07they lose.

00:37:08And if someone gets a knockout, uh, is on the mat to the count of five in a boxing match,

00:37:16then, you know, that person lost.

00:37:18And so if I had stood there, like not being able to answer and freezing up and so on, right?

00:37:22As opposed to, I mean, I was interrupted because I was fluent and had answers, right?

00:37:27And so most people are not skilled or trained in evaluating who wins.

00:37:38Or who loses, who loses a debate.

00:37:40And so they go on what seems to be confidence.

00:37:43They go on dominance, they go on aggression and so on.

00:37:47And so they don't know how to score a debate, so to speak.

00:37:53So they just go on appearance and they go on feelings.

00:37:57So, but they don't know how to evaluate arguments.

00:38:01I mean, out of the argument.com, right?

00:38:04All right.

00:38:06All right.

00:38:12Steph, do you have a feeling that conversation has almost disappeared from public platforms?

00:38:16I don't get that feeling at all.

00:38:18I mean, I got deplatformed and I remember the dark years from 2016 to 2020, where anybody

00:38:24who had anything positive or defended Trump in any way just got harassed and excluded and

00:38:30attacked and threatened and so on.

00:38:33So, no, I don't, I don't think the discourse has disappeared.

00:38:37In fact, it seems to be coming back.

00:38:43All right.

00:38:46Steph, do you think Christians will change their stance on the belief of a God once the government

00:38:51debt comes to you and there is no one to save them, not even God?

00:38:55I, I, I don't think that people who are dedicated to faith have rendered themselves immune to

00:39:00reason and evidence.

00:39:02Faith is a cyst that forms in the mind where reason and evidence cannot penetrate.

00:39:19Do you think privatizing marriage and divorcing it from religion would revive pair bonding?

00:39:25So, a pair bonding can only be revived by an expansion of political and economic freedoms.

00:39:33Whatever the problem is, whatever the problem is in society, the solution is more freedom.

00:39:41Steph's such a good guy, he should have all that was taken from him returned with interest.

00:39:46Well, shoulds, woulds, and coulds, right?

00:39:49If beggars, if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

00:39:54That's something that I was told as a kid.

00:40:03Mr. M, once philosophy has improved, how do you think, how, once, sorry, once philosophy

00:40:10has improved, how you think and respond to situations, what specific questions should

00:40:13you ask yourself to keep developing wisdom and applying philosophy to everyday life?

00:40:19Well, once you fix yourself, right, it's the old mask in the plane, right, and put the

00:40:24mask on yourself and then go help others.

00:40:25So, once you have improved your own thinking to the point where your life is better, then

00:40:29you should try to help others and help society as a whole.

00:40:36Melanie says, hi, my husband and I are trying to start a family, congratulations, but I've

00:40:41been on birth control injection for most of my adult and teen and adult life, but I stopped

00:40:45a little over five months ago.

00:40:47How should I proceed?

00:40:50Well, I don't know what you're asking for.

00:40:52Obviously, I'm not a doctor.

00:40:54I'm a big fan of, you know, if you have fertility questions or fertility issues, my advice would

00:41:00be not just to talk to a GP, but to talk to a fertility specialist so you can get a

00:41:04bunch

00:41:04of tests done, sperm motility and strength and viability and so on for the man's sperm.

00:41:11And you can also get tests for a woman's fertility, something I think, if I remember rightly, it's

00:41:18something called FSH, which is a hormone that is used to stimulate egg growth.

00:41:23And if that hormone is very high, it means your body's having trouble producing eggs.

00:41:27Again, this is all just nonsense, amateur opinion, talk to a specialist.

00:41:31But if you do have concerns about fertility, then go talk to a specialist and it's well

00:41:38worth doing that.

00:41:42Again, this is not my medical advice, but talk to somebody who knows what they're doing.

00:41:46That's my general opinion when it comes to medical questions.

00:41:51Dennis says, hi, Steph.

00:41:52Hi, Dennis.

00:41:53We never had anything like AI.

00:41:55Do you see any historical event or things that can't explain AI or give a better understanding

00:42:02of it?

00:42:02Yeah, I mean, I talked about this, so you can go listen to my show from Wednesday.

00:42:06The end of slavery is the greatest analogy to what's going on with that.

00:42:16All right.

00:42:19I was so good at hide and seek, it was boring.

00:42:22My daughter can fold herself into like three atoms.

00:42:25It's just incredible.

00:42:26And she has a friend who we had to search for 20 minutes.

00:42:29It's not that big a place.

00:42:32Yeah, it's crazy, huh?

00:42:33I mean, everybody has particular talents that are just amazing.

00:42:39Thanks for re-uploading your old videos.

00:42:41I appreciate that.

00:42:42I appreciate that.

00:42:48All right.

00:42:50Sorry, it keeps skipping.

00:42:52Let me get the other chat up here, because this one keeps skipping.

00:42:58Down to the bottom.

00:42:59Oh, can we turn that off?

00:43:05No, apparently that just could be turned off.

00:43:07All right.

00:43:09Jay was a great rhetorist, was great at rhetoric, but a poor didactist.

00:43:17I don't think that interrupting someone who's trying to answer your question is being good

00:43:25at anything.

00:43:27I mean, if I had just come with an air horn, and every time that Jay tried to say something,

00:43:34I just set off the air horn.

00:43:35Does that make me really good?

00:43:36Like, just making noise is not skilled.

00:43:38Now, he is a skilled and smart guy, and I was hoping for more of that.

00:43:45But the is because it just is argument was pretty weak.

00:43:50No, no, it's not.

00:43:52No, it's not.

00:43:54Because everything rests on it is because it just is.

00:43:58In one form or another, everything rests on it is just because, like irreducible primaries,

00:44:03that which is, you know, the inverted pyramid which all knowledge grows from.

00:44:08Everything rests on it is because it just is, right?

00:44:12You know, this is the turtles all the way down, where somebody says, the world rests on

00:44:16an elephant, and the elephant rests on a dolphin, and the dolphin rests on the back

00:44:19of a camel, and then the camel rests on the back of a turtle, and then says, somebody says,

00:44:25well, what is underneath the turtle?

00:44:27And they say, no, it's turtles all the way down.

00:44:30After the camel, it's turtles all the way down, right?

00:44:32There's the problem of infinite regression.

00:44:34All knowledge has to have an irreducible source that it flows from.

00:44:38That is just a fundamental epistemological fact.

00:44:41So the question is, what is the just is that knowledge flows from?

00:44:46And we have two choices, rational, empirical, observable, objectable, measurable, and testable

00:44:52matter, or imaginary magic, right?

00:44:59Because people say, well, if matter had to, if that which is has to be created by something

00:45:04else, then God, who just is, has to be created by a super-god, and a super-god has to

00:45:09be created

00:45:09by a super-super-gob, and it's turtles all the way up.

00:45:12So every single thing that you say is true traces itself down to an irreducible primary

00:45:18that just is.

00:45:19Everything.

00:45:21Otherwise, we'd have no knowledge, no certainty, and no end to the questions, right?

00:45:28So everything that you say has a degree of certainty rests on an irreducible primary,

00:45:35and that is either not just the matter that we can see and test, but the matter we are literally

00:45:40composed of.

00:45:41Like, this is matter.

00:45:43Matter and energy is what's coursing through my mind and my veins.

00:45:46So you have only two choices.

00:45:49You don't get to escape is because it just is.

00:45:53You don't get to escape that.

00:45:54Nobody gets to escape that.

00:45:55That was my point in the debate.

00:45:58So we have two choices, right?

00:46:00We have two choices.

00:46:01Either the matter we are composed of that we can measure across 93 billion years and back

00:46:06almost 15 billion years through time.

00:46:08That is perfectly consistent across 100 billion galaxies and 100 billion stars, and that certainty

00:46:15of matter and energy, which is literally what we're composed of.

00:46:18So we can have that as our is because it just is, or we can say, oh, no, no, that

00:46:25which

00:46:26we're composed of and that which we can measure as absolutely objective, rational, and certain

00:46:30across the entire universe and all throughout history, which our very lives depend upon that

00:46:34certainty and absolutism.

00:46:35We can say, that's not enough.

00:46:37I need to invent a magic ghost that escapes needing to be created.

00:46:42It's not an answer.

00:46:43You can't substitute that which can never be measured and which is self-contradictory to

00:46:48that which is measurable and perfectly consistent.

00:46:50I mean, you can.

00:46:51It's just wrong.

00:46:53You're just wrong.

00:46:57All right.

00:47:01Do you think it's better people be religious in general, as it statistically increases birth

00:47:06rates versus being secular, that universally hallmark for birth rate decline if you had

00:47:12to pick?

00:47:14I don't have to pick, John.

00:47:16I don't do false dichotomies.

00:47:18You know, would you still love me if I was a worm?

00:47:20Like, I don't do false dichotomies.

00:47:22My goal is not to choose between the lesser of two evils.

00:47:25My goal is to promote reason, evidence, virtue, and truth.

00:47:31That is my goal.

00:47:36If I'm a doctor or a researcher and I'm trying to come up with a cure for cancer, and I

00:47:40think

00:47:40I have come up with a cure for cancer in this analogy, right?

00:47:43Obviously, I haven't, but if it's an analogy.

00:47:45And people were to say, well, but you can't get, what if religious people are less likely

00:47:50to take your cure for cancer?

00:47:53Does that make it better or worse?

00:47:54It's like, my goal is to produce a cure for cancer, not to figure out how people take

00:47:58it or accept it or what will happen if they believe it or don't believe in it and so on.

00:48:02It's simply to promote the truth.

00:48:09AI has been around way longer, says someone, than most people realize.

00:48:12It's better now.

00:48:13Just not AGI level yet.

00:48:15Oh, it's getting close though.

00:48:20Would you consider, at some date soon, republishing the story of your enslavement video?

00:48:25I did, maybe six months ago on my ex.

00:48:28Yeah, I could do that again.

00:48:33The sum of arithmetic series of terms can be infinite or have a simple limit.

00:48:41If the question has an answer, then it's not worth asking.

00:48:45I don't really understand what that means.

00:48:47That seems to me quite the opposite of the truth.

00:48:50All right.

00:48:50So, here's something else I wanted to mention.

00:48:54Here's something else I wanted to mention.

00:48:57Oh, wait, another question's coming in.

00:48:58How best to deal with the uncertainty and fear of waiting for your body to wash

00:49:01out the progesterone and get fertile again?

00:49:05I am sorry.

00:49:06I don't know much about the...

00:49:08Oh, because of the birth...

00:49:08Oh, there's the birth control.

00:49:09The birth control issue.

00:49:13Well, I would look up if there's any way to increase the rate at which

00:49:17the progesterone gets washed out of your system.

00:49:21And I do that.

00:49:23All right.

00:49:23So, I wanted to get to me the base and essence.

00:49:27And maybe I'll get to a couple more questions before the end of the morning.

00:49:32But I wanted to get to this, you know, the Schrodinger's feminist, right?

00:49:38The woman in a situation.

00:49:40If it benefits her to claim she's empowered and strong and independent,

00:49:45then she'll do that.

00:49:45If it benefits her to claim that she's a passive agent and a victim

00:49:49that's merely acted upon, she'll choose all of that.

00:49:52And people get very frustrated about this.

00:49:54And I can understand that.

00:49:55I sympathize with that.

00:49:56I understand that.

00:49:57But it's all of this nonsense about, you know,

00:50:02all these things need to be consistent and you've got to pick a lane

00:50:04and you can't have this, the Camille Paglia argument that you can't want

00:50:10freedom and independence without responsibility and so on.

00:50:13None of this really adds up to much, right?

00:50:16It doesn't add up to a hill of beans in this troubled world.

00:50:19It doesn't.

00:50:20And I'll tell you why.

00:50:21So it doesn't matter what standards we demand of young women.

00:50:28And I'm talking from an evolutionary standpoint,

00:50:30not a big statement on ethics or morals or virtues.

00:50:34But we have to look at the limitations of virtues, right?

00:50:36We don't say the virtue,

00:50:39the virtue I possess can dig a ditch without me looking at it,

00:50:42without me doing any work, right?

00:50:43That would be trying to get virtue to do something it can't do.

00:50:47Virtue will make me safe in this world.

00:50:48It's like, no.

00:50:50Conformity makes you safe in the short run.

00:50:52Virtue makes you safe in the long run.

00:50:54So it doesn't, none of this really matters.

00:50:56And I'll tell you why.

00:50:58So when women, young women, get pregnant outside of wedlock,

00:51:04society is held hostage.

00:51:06Basic biological fact.

00:51:07Society is held hostage because now she has a huge blank check

00:51:13that society basically has to write to her.

00:51:15Otherwise, society dies off.

00:51:20In a sense, she has blackmail material on society.

00:51:24So in blackmail material, somebody could say,

00:51:28I know a secret on you that's going to cost you a million dollars.

00:51:31Give me $100,000 and you get to keep 90% of your money, right?

00:51:35So if a woman gets pregnant outside of wedlock,

00:51:41what happens?

00:51:42Well, no man's going to marry her,

00:51:45but she still needs resources.

00:51:46If she doesn't get those resources,

00:51:49her child will become a thief or she will turn feral

00:51:53or she'll become a prostitute.

00:51:54And prostitutes, of course, destabilize marriages,

00:51:57attract criminality, spread diseases.

00:51:59And so when a woman gets pregnant outside of wedlock,

00:52:02she now has society by the balls.

00:52:06A man had her by the balls.

00:52:08Now she has society by the balls

00:52:09because even if she somehow escapes all of that,

00:52:14finds some collective female coven witch arena

00:52:18where they can all work together

00:52:19and watch each other's children while they work

00:52:21and she gets honest work and so on,

00:52:23the children then grow up without a father figure.

00:52:25And particularly boys, but also girls,

00:52:29have significant dysfunctions

00:52:30when they grow up without father figures, right?

00:52:32I mean, boys tend to be aggressive

00:52:34and not respect the rules and violent and so on.

00:52:38And girls tend to be promiscuous

00:52:39and dysfunctional and manipulative

00:52:41because they grow up without a protector.

00:52:43And so they end up with all the characteristics

00:52:46of highly anxious creatures,

00:52:48which for women is early hypersexuality

00:52:53and manipulation.

00:52:53And for boys, it tends to be aggression,

00:52:57violence and a lack of respect

00:52:58for even reasonable social rules.

00:53:02So if a young woman gets pregnant

00:53:07and let's say she gives birth to a criminal,

00:53:14which, you know, she's more likely to do that

00:53:17than to give birth to a honest, upstanding citizen.

00:53:22Also, of course, the children grow up

00:53:25without relationship skills,

00:53:26without knowing relationship skills,

00:53:29which means it's tougher for them

00:53:30to have relationships and maintain relationships,

00:53:32which means it's more likely

00:53:33you're going to get in this cycle

00:53:36of bad relationships, dysfunction,

00:53:38children out of wedlock.

00:53:39It just, like, it gets worse and worse.

00:53:41There's a giant big cone of disaster

00:53:43from that impregnation scenario, right?

00:53:46The winning sperm burrows through the outer shell

00:53:54and there's this massive splash damage radius cone

00:53:57going forward, right?

00:53:59Like, you know, you've got a little light

00:54:00on your cell phone and then it widens out.

00:54:02You get the watery bullseye of a light.

00:54:04I remember that was a great description in fiction.

00:54:09So it starts a little, it cones out,

00:54:12it widens out and so on, right?

00:54:14I mean, the moon is a lot smaller than the earth,

00:54:16but it can cover half the earth

00:54:17in its radiated ghostly light, right?

00:54:24So I just wanted to get a number here.

00:54:26I should have got this before,

00:54:27but that's the joy of looking things up live.

00:54:35So what is the lifetime cost of a lifetime criminal?

00:54:38If the single mother,

00:54:39which is more likely to do,

00:54:41not 100%, obviously, right?

00:54:42But more likely to do.

00:54:46So if you look at the costs

00:54:50of having a criminal,

00:54:54it's millions and millions of dollars.

00:54:57A Canadian trajectory study

00:54:59of serious juvenile offenders

00:55:00followed into adulthood

00:55:01estimated average longitudinal costs

00:55:03of around $5.9 million

00:55:04per person to about age 26,

00:55:07including undetected crime.

00:55:10Ranging from about $3.5 million

00:55:12in a low-rate group

00:55:14to about $17 million

00:55:15in the highest-rate group.

00:55:21So, a 2005 England and Wales analysis,

00:55:24a prolific revolving-door offenders

00:55:26reported individual justice system

00:55:28costs somewhere over £100,000 per year

00:55:30and lifetime figures

00:55:31beyond £1.4 million for some people,

00:55:34with national socioeconomic impact

00:55:36in the billions.

00:55:47So, it's millions of dollars.

00:55:50Cohen and co-authors

00:55:52put lifetime costs of a career criminal

00:55:54about $3.2 to $5.7 million

00:55:56in 2007 dollars.

00:56:02$2.6 to $4.4 million

00:56:05if measured from birth

00:56:06and so on.

00:56:1125% tangible victim costs,

00:56:1350% lost quality of life to victims,

00:56:1520% criminal justice costs,

00:56:16and 5% lost offender productivity.

00:56:19The worst offenders in that framework

00:56:21were estimated as high

00:56:22as about $36 million.

00:56:28So, single mothers,

00:56:30for reasons I've talked about

00:56:31for many, many years,

00:56:32and I say this with no moral judgment,

00:56:35it's just looking at the facts,

00:56:36because we're looking at

00:56:37why it doesn't really matter

00:56:38if we try to hold women

00:56:40to these abstract,

00:56:41consistent moral standards

00:56:42or, you know,

00:56:42whatever it is,

00:56:43consistency standards,

00:56:44it doesn't really matter.

00:56:48because women who have children

00:56:50outside of wedlock,

00:56:51let's say it costs society

00:56:55$5 million,

00:56:55and I would argue

00:56:56that it costs society

00:56:57way more than $5 million

00:56:59because everyone's got to have

00:57:01security systems,

00:57:02alarm systems,

00:57:04they've got to have them

00:57:05in their cars,

00:57:05in their homes,

00:57:06in their offices,

00:57:07and so on,

00:57:08and the amount of time

00:57:09it takes to, you know,

00:57:10somebody steals your wallet,

00:57:11you've got to spend, you know,

00:57:12days and days

00:57:13getting all of your stuff back

00:57:14and getting your ID again

00:57:16and, you know,

00:57:17identity fraud and stress

00:57:18and health,

00:57:18and like,

00:57:19it just goes on and on, right?

00:57:20The costs of criminality

00:57:22are just almost bottomless, right?

00:57:26So, I'm not saying

00:57:27this is conscious,

00:57:28I'm not saying this is

00:57:29plotted or planned

00:57:30or, you know,

00:57:31thin, evil,

00:57:33mustache,

00:57:34twirling,

00:57:35villainy,

00:57:35what I'm saying

00:57:36is that a woman

00:57:38who gets pregnant

00:57:39outside of wedlock

00:57:43is likely to impose

00:57:44a social liability

00:57:46in the millions of dollars.

00:57:49Not 100%, right?

00:57:50Whatever it is, right?

00:57:51But it is highly likely.

00:57:59And let me just look

00:58:01at that quickly.

00:58:11So, single motherhood

00:58:13imposes millions of dollars

00:58:15potentially

00:58:15of higher social costs

00:58:19on the entire country

00:58:22or society

00:58:23or neighborhood

00:58:23or environment

00:58:24that she lives in.

00:58:27That's just a fact.

00:58:30Again,

00:58:31we can say

00:58:32even if it's,

00:58:32you know,

00:58:3320% more likely

00:58:34or something like that,

00:58:35right?

00:58:37But,

00:58:38in generally,

00:58:39it's about 1.5

00:58:40to 2 times

00:58:41for delinquency

00:58:43or incarceration.

00:58:46So, let's just say

00:58:48it's double.

00:58:51There's some studies

00:58:52that are higher,

00:58:53sometimes a little bit

00:58:53lower,

00:58:55but let's just say

00:58:56it's double.

00:58:58And so,

00:59:00if single motherhood

00:59:01means that you're

00:59:01twice as likely

00:59:02to get multi-million dollar

00:59:03costs

00:59:04and immense quality

00:59:05of life,

00:59:06I mean,

00:59:06there's just financial

00:59:07costs, right?

00:59:08I mean,

00:59:09if some guy's

00:59:11a killer,

00:59:12then, of course,

00:59:12there are direct

00:59:13financial costs

00:59:14and so on,

00:59:14but there are also

00:59:15the immense

00:59:16emotional costs

00:59:17to the family,

00:59:18to the neighborhood,

00:59:19to the environment,

00:59:19to the anxiety,

00:59:20to the health.

00:59:21It just goes on

00:59:22and on, right?

00:59:24So,

00:59:31these are just

00:59:32costs that society

00:59:33is held hostage

00:59:34by in some ways

00:59:36if a woman

00:59:37has a child

00:59:38outside of wedlock.

00:59:43Let me just

00:59:44put this in,

00:59:45including the

00:59:46costs of

00:59:53how much

00:59:55more expensive

00:59:58is single motherhood.

01:00:00I have to type

01:00:01past all of these cables.

01:00:02I'm usually

01:00:03a pretty good typist,

01:00:04but not today,

01:00:05Zerg.

01:00:05Not today, Zerg.

01:00:09So,

01:00:10the costs

01:00:10of single motherhood

01:00:11are prodigious.

01:00:13And so,

01:00:14if a woman

01:00:14gets pregnant

01:00:15outside of wedlock,

01:00:16the fewer resources

01:00:17that she has,

01:00:18the more likely

01:00:19her child is

01:00:19to become a criminal.

01:00:21So,

01:00:22you have to give

01:00:23single mothers

01:00:24resources

01:00:26in order to prevent

01:00:28their children

01:00:29from becoming criminals,

01:00:30if that makes sense.

01:00:40either there's

01:00:41a father

01:00:42in the household

01:00:43which reduces

01:00:44criminality

01:00:45for children,

01:00:46and here we're

01:00:47just talking

01:00:47criminality.

01:00:48We're not talking

01:00:49promiscuity.

01:00:50Promiscuity

01:00:51has its own

01:00:52medical and social

01:00:53costs as well.

01:00:55As we can see

01:00:56with the Cornell 7.

01:01:00So,

01:01:02the annual

01:01:03public bill

01:01:04linked to

01:01:05father absence

01:01:06household

01:01:06is in the order

01:01:07of $150 billion

01:01:09or more

01:01:10in federal

01:01:11transfers alone

01:01:12and well above

01:01:13$100 to $150 billion

01:01:14once state

01:01:15local justice

01:01:15and education

01:01:16costs are added.

01:01:18Right?

01:01:19So,

01:01:20$200 to $300

01:01:21billion

01:01:23of direct

01:01:24costs.

01:01:38So,

01:01:39single motherhood

01:01:39is substantially

01:01:40more expensive

01:01:40to the public

01:01:41than two-parent

01:01:41childbearing,

01:01:42both through

01:01:42direct transfers

01:01:43and through

01:01:44later costs

01:01:44such as crime.

01:01:45The gap is large

01:01:46in aggregate

01:01:46and still clear

01:01:47after income

01:01:47is taken into

01:01:48account,

01:01:49but it is not

01:01:49pure causal

01:01:50price tag

01:01:51for single

01:01:51motherhood

01:01:51alone.

01:01:52So,

01:01:54when a woman

01:01:55becomes pregnant

01:01:56outside of wedlock,

01:01:57society has a

01:01:58massive problem

01:01:59on its hands.

01:02:03no man is an

01:02:04island.

01:02:05We are all

01:02:05inextricably

01:02:06linked together.

01:02:07So,

01:02:09the poorer

01:02:10the single

01:02:12mother,

01:02:13I would assume,

01:02:13the more likely

01:02:14her child is

01:02:15to become

01:02:17a criminal.

01:02:21Is it true

01:02:22that the poorer

01:02:24the single

01:02:25mother,

01:02:26the worse

01:02:28the more

01:02:28criminality

01:02:29in her

01:02:30children?

01:02:38So,

01:02:39if,

01:02:39I mean,

01:02:39obviously,

01:02:40if she's living

01:02:40on the streets

01:02:41and if she

01:02:42is having

01:02:43to turn

01:02:44tricks

01:02:44for money

01:02:47and so on,

01:02:47that's going

01:02:48to be

01:02:49worse

01:02:50as a whole.

01:02:57So,

01:02:58among

01:02:59single

01:02:59mother

01:02:59households,

01:03:00lower

01:03:00income

01:03:00and economic

01:03:01stress

01:03:01are linked

01:03:01to higher

01:03:02delinquency

01:03:02in the

01:03:03children.

01:03:05So,

01:03:05obviously,

01:03:06it's

01:03:07complicated.

01:03:08So,

01:03:08the sum is,

01:03:09poorer

01:03:10single mothers

01:03:10do on average

01:03:11have children

01:03:11with higher

01:03:11rates of

01:03:12offending

01:03:12than better

01:03:13off single

01:03:13mothers,

01:03:14mainly through

01:03:14stress supervision

01:03:15and the

01:03:15neighborhood.

01:03:19Two parent

01:03:19poor households

01:03:20still tend

01:03:21to have

01:03:21lower

01:03:21offspring

01:03:21crime

01:03:22rates

01:03:22than

01:03:22single

01:03:22mother

01:03:23households

01:03:23at

01:03:23similar

01:03:23incomes,

01:03:24and parenting

01:03:25quality

01:03:26predicts

01:03:26delinquency

01:03:26inside

01:03:27every

01:03:27income

01:03:28band.

01:03:32So,

01:03:35if,

01:03:36being a

01:03:37single mother

01:03:37and particularly

01:03:37a poor

01:03:38single mother,

01:03:39right,

01:03:39because the

01:03:39double the

01:03:40rates

01:03:41of criminality

01:03:42is for the

01:03:43average of

01:03:44single mothers,

01:03:44what are

01:03:46the

01:03:49children

01:03:51criminal

01:03:52rates

01:03:55rates

01:03:55for

01:03:56the

01:03:57poorest

01:03:58single mothers,

01:03:59right,

01:04:01because

01:04:01they're raising

01:04:03children who

01:04:03are going to

01:04:03be out there

01:04:04in society

01:04:04as adults,

01:04:06often

01:04:07causing havoc,

01:04:08raising mayhem,

01:04:09and committing

01:04:10terrible crimes.

01:04:13So,

01:04:14measured

01:04:14offending

01:04:15or

01:04:15incarceration

01:04:15rates

01:04:16among

01:04:16children

01:04:16for

01:04:16lowest

01:04:17income

01:04:17single

01:04:17mothers,

01:04:18not just

01:04:19overall

01:04:19averages.

01:04:24Yeah,

01:04:24they don't

01:04:25really have

01:04:25that data

01:04:27as a whole.

01:04:35Yeah,

01:04:35it doesn't

01:04:35really have

01:04:36the,

01:04:36uh,

01:04:39yeah,

01:04:40it doesn't

01:04:40really have

01:04:40the data.

01:04:41So,

01:04:44but it's

01:04:45higher,

01:04:45right,

01:04:46so let's

01:04:46say,

01:04:46if a

01:04:48woman gets

01:04:49pregnant

01:04:49outside a

01:04:50wedlock,

01:04:50has no

01:04:50protective

01:04:51provider,

01:04:51and let's

01:04:52say,

01:04:52for some

01:04:52reason,

01:04:52her parents

01:04:53don't take

01:04:53her in,

01:04:54and so

01:04:54on,

01:04:55but even

01:04:55if her

01:04:55parents take

01:04:56her in,

01:04:56that only

01:04:57mitigates

01:04:57the damage

01:04:58to some

01:04:58degree,

01:05:00and a

01:05:01woman who

01:05:01becomes a

01:05:01single

01:05:02mother,

01:05:03then is

01:05:03imposing,

01:05:04potentially,

01:05:05a liability

01:05:06of millions

01:05:06of dollars

01:05:07on society,

01:05:07and what

01:05:08that means

01:05:08is that

01:05:09society is

01:05:09better off

01:05:10giving her

01:05:10a bunch

01:05:11of money

01:05:13than not.

01:05:14I mean,

01:05:16it's true,

01:05:16like,

01:05:17if you

01:05:17just take

01:05:17a single

01:05:17guy,

01:05:18like,

01:05:18a single

01:05:18guy who,

01:05:20you know,

01:05:21falls on

01:05:21hard times,

01:05:22doesn't have

01:05:22any friends,

01:05:22doesn't have

01:05:22any family,

01:05:23ends up

01:05:23homeless,

01:05:24it's true

01:05:24that the

01:05:25homeless guy

01:05:26might steal,

01:05:27he might,

01:05:27you know,

01:05:27whatever,

01:05:28right?

01:05:28but it's

01:05:29not as

01:05:31negative to

01:05:32society from

01:05:32a cost

01:05:33standpoint

01:05:34compared to

01:05:35a woman

01:05:35who has

01:05:38three kids

01:05:38out of

01:05:39wedlock,

01:05:40you know,

01:05:40a baby

01:05:41mama with

01:05:41three kids

01:05:41out of

01:05:42wedlock,

01:05:42no guys

01:05:43around,

01:05:43those three

01:05:44kids are

01:05:44going to

01:05:44grow up,

01:05:45and they're

01:05:45going to

01:05:45cause mayhem

01:05:46often,

01:05:47right,

01:05:47not always,

01:05:47often in

01:05:48the schools,

01:05:49in the

01:05:50playgrounds,

01:05:50in the

01:05:52dating market,

01:05:53at parties,

01:05:54and in

01:05:55terms of

01:05:56criminality

01:05:57and promiscuity,

01:05:58criminality for

01:05:58the men,

01:05:59promiscuity for

01:05:59the women,

01:06:00again,

01:06:00tends to be

01:06:00the state,

01:06:02and so,

01:06:03and the

01:06:04less money

01:06:05that the

01:06:06single mother

01:06:06has,

01:06:07the worse

01:06:07the outcome,

01:06:08if a guy

01:06:09becomes homeless,

01:06:11it's bad,

01:06:12but it's not

01:06:13as bad,

01:06:13because there's

01:06:14only one of

01:06:14him,

01:06:15and there's

01:06:16things that he

01:06:17can do

01:06:17that aren't

01:06:18criminal in

01:06:19order to

01:06:19survive,

01:06:20right,

01:06:22so women

01:06:23have a

01:06:26promissory note

01:06:26or a lien

01:06:27on society,

01:06:28they don't,

01:06:28I mean,

01:06:29this is a

01:06:30harsh way to

01:06:30put it,

01:06:31right,

01:06:31so again,

01:06:32we're not

01:06:32talking everyone

01:06:32and so on,

01:06:33right,

01:06:34but women,

01:06:35in a sense,

01:06:35single mothers

01:06:36don't have

01:06:36children,

01:06:37they have

01:06:37hostages,

01:06:40give me

01:06:41money or

01:06:42society gets

01:06:43it,

01:06:44give me

01:06:45money or

01:06:45my children

01:06:46are much

01:06:46more likely

01:06:47to become

01:06:47criminals and

01:06:48prey on

01:06:48you all,

01:06:51it's like

01:06:52a guy

01:06:52with a

01:06:53growling,

01:06:53snarling,

01:06:54foaming,

01:06:55jawed pitbull

01:06:56saying,

01:06:57give me

01:06:58money or

01:06:58I take

01:06:58the leash

01:06:58off,

01:06:59again,

01:07:00a harsh

01:07:00analogy and

01:07:01so on,

01:07:01but that

01:07:03is the

01:07:04reality of

01:07:05it,

01:07:05right,

01:07:05that's the

01:07:06reality of

01:07:06it,

01:07:10so what

01:07:10is society

01:07:11supposed to

01:07:11do,

01:07:11I mean,

01:07:12of course

01:07:12you can

01:07:12say,

01:07:13ah,

01:07:13yes,

01:07:13well,

01:07:13but you

01:07:13were

01:07:13responsible

01:07:14as a

01:07:14single

01:07:14mother,

01:07:15blah,

01:07:15but if

01:07:16you don't

01:07:16give the

01:07:16single

01:07:16mother

01:07:17money,

01:07:20then two

01:07:21things are

01:07:21occurring,

01:07:22one is that

01:07:22you are punishing

01:07:22the child for

01:07:23something that is

01:07:24not the child's

01:07:24fault,

01:07:25that's number

01:07:25one,

01:07:26and number

01:07:26two,

01:07:28you are

01:07:29raising the

01:07:30odds of

01:07:30having

01:07:32very expensive,

01:07:34dangerous,

01:07:34and damaging

01:07:34criminals in the

01:07:35society,

01:07:36so it

01:07:37kind of

01:07:38doesn't

01:07:38matter,

01:07:39you know,

01:07:40we got to

01:07:40have this

01:07:40consistency

01:07:41and Schroden

01:07:41just feminist

01:07:42and so on,

01:07:43like it

01:07:43doesn't

01:07:43really matter

01:07:44because these

01:07:46are the

01:07:46foundational

01:07:48realities

01:07:48and incentives

01:07:50and risks,

01:07:51rewards,

01:07:51and dangers

01:07:52in the

01:07:52situation,

01:07:53regardless of

01:07:54what we

01:07:54wave our

01:07:54magic consistency

01:07:55wand around

01:07:56and say.

01:08:05either society

01:08:06gives a

01:08:06single mother

01:08:07money or

01:08:10society does

01:08:10very badly.

01:08:15It's like

01:08:16preventive

01:08:16maintenance

01:08:16on a car.

01:08:17You either

01:08:18give the

01:08:19mechanic

01:08:20less money

01:08:20now or

01:08:21you end up

01:08:22with no

01:08:22car later.

01:08:26And again,

01:08:27I say

01:08:28this with

01:08:28no moral

01:08:30standpoint,

01:08:31I'm not

01:08:31condemning,

01:08:32I'm not

01:08:33praising,

01:08:33I'm not

01:08:34defending,

01:08:34I'm simply

01:08:37taking the

01:08:38lid off so

01:08:39you can see

01:08:39the machinery.

01:08:41So it

01:08:41doesn't

01:08:42really matter

01:08:44what we

01:08:45want to

01:08:46impose,

01:08:46the standards

01:08:47that we

01:08:47like,

01:08:48the standards

01:08:48that we

01:08:48don't like,

01:08:49the consistency

01:08:49we might

01:08:50prefer,

01:08:50it doesn't

01:08:51matter.

01:08:54Because

01:08:55it takes

01:08:55so long

01:08:56to raise

01:08:56children and

01:08:57it's so

01:08:57expensive to

01:08:58raise children

01:08:59and because

01:08:59children raise

01:09:00badly and

01:09:01children raised

01:09:02in single

01:09:02mother households

01:09:03have a double

01:09:03likelihood of

01:09:04imposing millions

01:09:05of dollars of

01:09:05social costs,

01:09:07you just got to

01:09:07give them the

01:09:08money.

01:09:14They've got us.

01:09:17They've got us.

01:09:21They've got us.

01:09:23Doesn't matter

01:09:23what we like,

01:09:24doesn't matter

01:09:24what we want,

01:09:25doesn't matter

01:09:25what we

01:09:26prefer,

01:09:27we have to

01:09:27keep ourselves

01:09:29safe and

01:09:30we have to

01:09:30try to

01:09:33not spend

01:09:34all of this

01:09:35crazy money

01:09:35defending

01:09:36ourselves

01:09:36against the

01:09:37criminals.

01:09:38And look,

01:09:38of course,

01:09:39criminals come

01:09:39out of

01:09:40two-parent

01:09:40households and

01:09:42many,

01:09:43many children

01:09:43do not

01:09:44become

01:09:45criminals who

01:09:46come out

01:09:46of single

01:09:47mother households.

01:09:48I mean,

01:09:49I want to be

01:09:49clear on that,

01:09:49right?

01:09:50So we're

01:09:50just zooming

01:09:50out and

01:09:51looking at

01:09:51trends.

01:09:52Is it

01:09:54cheaper and

01:09:55safer for

01:09:55society to

01:09:56give single

01:09:57mothers money

01:09:57or is it

01:09:58more dangerous?

01:09:59That's really

01:09:59all it comes

01:10:00down to.

01:10:01Is it more

01:10:02expensive and

01:10:02more dangerous

01:10:03to withhold

01:10:04resources from

01:10:05single mothers?

01:10:05Yes.

01:10:07Yes.

01:10:08Yes, it is.

01:10:10So what we

01:10:11want, what we

01:10:12would prefer,

01:10:12the rational,

01:10:13abstract consistency

01:10:14and it doesn't

01:10:15really matter.

01:10:16It doesn't really

01:10:17matter because

01:10:18we're not in

01:10:18a situation

01:10:21where morality

01:10:23can prevent

01:10:23anything.

01:10:24Now, of course,

01:10:25we want to say

01:10:25don't have

01:10:25children out of

01:10:26wedlock, get

01:10:27into a stable

01:10:27pair-bonded

01:10:28marriage before

01:10:28you have, we

01:10:28can say all

01:10:29of that, but

01:10:31people don't,

01:10:32obviously, right?

01:10:33Especially now.

01:10:36Now, of course,

01:10:37what happens with

01:10:38the welfare state

01:10:39is we say, well,

01:10:40it's cheaper for

01:10:40us to give money

01:10:42to single mothers

01:10:42than to deal

01:10:43with potential

01:10:44increases in

01:10:44criminality down

01:10:45the road.

01:10:48So we

01:10:49would give

01:10:51single mothers

01:10:52money through

01:10:53the state,

01:10:54through the

01:10:55welfare state,

01:10:55and I mean,

01:10:56it's massive

01:10:57amounts of

01:10:58subsidies on

01:10:59every level.

01:11:01What's it?

01:11:01Americans spend

01:11:01$8 billion a

01:11:02year on

01:11:03door-dashing

01:11:03SNAP benefits.

01:11:06So what we

01:11:07do is we say,

01:11:08well, we're just

01:11:08going to give

01:11:08the single mothers

01:11:09a whole bunch

01:11:10of money,

01:11:12and that way

01:11:13we'll end up

01:11:14with less

01:11:14dysfunction down

01:11:15the road.

01:11:16Fewer criminals,

01:11:16less expense,

01:11:18less danger,

01:11:19and so on,

01:11:19but it doesn't

01:11:20work that way,

01:11:21of course,

01:11:21right, because

01:11:22everything that

01:11:22is based on

01:11:23coercion achieves

01:11:24the opposite

01:11:24of its stated

01:11:25goals, and so

01:11:26what happens,

01:11:26of course,

01:11:27is that we

01:11:28give single

01:11:29moms a whole

01:11:29bunch of

01:11:29money because

01:11:30we want to

01:11:31stay safe and

01:11:32protect their

01:11:32children, and

01:11:33then we end

01:11:34up with more

01:11:34criminality

01:11:35because more

01:11:36people, more

01:11:37women choose to

01:11:37become single

01:11:38mothers, because

01:11:40they can't,

01:11:42because we're

01:11:42paying them to

01:11:43do it.

01:11:43So, in

01:11:44attempting to

01:11:46alleviate

01:11:48something that

01:11:49is negative, we

01:11:50end up increasing

01:11:51it because we're

01:11:51using force,

01:11:52right, so the

01:11:53welfare state

01:11:54makes us more

01:11:56in danger because

01:11:58now many more

01:12:01children being

01:12:01raised by single

01:12:02mothers and the

01:12:03amount of money

01:12:04we're giving them

01:12:04doesn't overcome

01:12:05that.

01:12:07So, that's not

01:12:08great, of course,

01:12:10right, of course.

01:12:11So, that's not

01:12:13significant, and

01:12:14it's even worse

01:12:15than that because

01:12:17it's in the

01:12:18black community, it's

01:12:19at 74% or

01:12:20something like

01:12:20that, and it's

01:12:21certainly higher in

01:12:22the white community

01:12:23than it used to

01:12:23be.

01:12:23It used to be in

01:12:24the low single

01:12:25digits, now it's

01:12:2620-30% in various

01:12:28places.

01:12:28It's lower in the

01:12:30East Asian, what

01:12:31used to be called

01:12:32the Oriental

01:12:32community and so

01:12:33on, but it's

01:12:33still rising.

01:12:35And now, of

01:12:36course, the

01:12:37problem is that we

01:12:38have simply deferred

01:12:39the suffering to

01:12:39some degree because

01:12:41now we have tens of

01:12:43millions of

01:12:44people, hundreds

01:12:45of millions of

01:12:45people around the

01:12:46West, who have

01:12:47adapted their life

01:12:48decisions to the

01:12:49continual flow of

01:12:50money from the

01:12:50welfare state, and

01:12:52the welfare state

01:12:52cannot continue to

01:12:53flow money because

01:12:54it's mathematically

01:12:55impossible, so when

01:12:56the welfare state

01:12:56runs out of money,

01:12:57then all of this,

01:12:58well, we want to

01:12:59keep society safer

01:13:00and we want to

01:13:00reduce our costs

01:13:01of problems,

01:13:02aggression, riots,

01:13:04violence, and

01:13:05criminality, well,

01:13:06that's all going to

01:13:07come to a crashing

01:13:08halt and we're

01:13:10going to end up

01:13:11with, the bill

01:13:14is going to come

01:13:15to you, right, the

01:13:15bill is going to

01:13:16come to you in

01:13:16horrible ways when

01:13:18the government runs

01:13:19out of money, and

01:13:19that doesn't mean

01:13:20that the checks

01:13:20don't come, it

01:13:21just means that

01:13:21they can't really

01:13:22buy much of

01:13:22anything at this

01:13:23point, so.

01:13:25All right, let me

01:13:26just get your last

01:13:26comments and

01:13:27questions, and I

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01:13:38All right, any

01:13:38other last

01:13:41questions, somebody

01:13:42says, I've lived

01:13:43with many felons

01:13:45from prison, says

01:13:46someone, most were

01:13:47brought up with no

01:13:48dads present in the

01:13:49household, yeah, for

01:13:49sure.

01:13:51Ironically, ones

01:13:51brought up with

01:13:52dad were usually

01:13:52better caliber.

01:14:01Somebody says, I

01:14:02was homeless myself

01:14:02seeing refugees got

01:14:03free housing, in

01:14:04meantime, I had to

01:14:05live in city parks,

01:14:06so I'm sorry to

01:14:06hear about that, and

01:14:07I wasn't an addict

01:14:08either, right.

01:14:15Yeah, I talked to

01:14:16a homeless guy in

01:14:17my California

01:14:17documentary, Sunset

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