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Wednesday Night Live 31 July 2024

In this engaging podcast conversation, we explore various societal themes and personal values. Starting with a call for donations, we delve into the controversial topic of nepotism, transitioning to a discussion on charity's societal impact and the balance between personal responsibility and charitable acts. We also tackle gender roles, government corruption, and the consequences of prioritizing free services. Shifting gears, we discuss the importance of truth, integrity, and sacrifice in upholding noble ideals, emphasizing the value of staying true to one's beliefs. Exploring the influence of upbringing on behavior and beliefs, we compare conservative and liberal households and analyze the effects of early attachments. The conversation delves into the complex interplay between personal experiences and societal constructs, highlighting the role of open dialogue and constructive criticism. Lastly, we reflect on personal growth, resilience, and the power of empathy in driving positive change in the world.

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Transcript
00:00:00Good evening, good evening, hope you're doing well.
00:00:03Oh my gosh, it is, pinch punch, last day of the month, we're going to get this out tonight,
00:00:10right James?
00:00:11Get this out tonight!
00:00:1231st of July, 2024.
00:00:15Try to make me happy, I try so hard to make you happy, just try to make me happy.
00:00:21With a donation or two, because it's the end of the month, and when I tally things up at
00:00:24the end of the month, I like my frown to not be upside down.
00:00:28Actually, no, I like my frown to be the right way up.
00:00:31All right, yeah, freedomain.com slash donate to help out the show.
00:00:35Good morning from Perth, ah, future traveler.
00:00:38Bank fees tonight, rent tomorrow night, pay a week next Monday, thank you, I appreciate
00:00:42that.
00:00:43All right, let's get to your commenties.
00:00:46In the same vein as a business referring to themselves as a family, would it similarly
00:00:49be considered a red flag if an employer views hiring an employee as helping them instead
00:00:55of paying somebody who's providing them value?
00:00:59Well, nepotism is...
00:01:03Nepotism is a funny kind of thing.
00:01:06Nepotism is a funny kind of thing.
00:01:07So let's say in some alternate universe, Izzy were at some point, my daughter Izzy, were
00:01:12at some point to take over my show, right?
00:01:16Would that be nepotism?
00:01:19Would that be nepotism?
00:01:22Well, I mean, of course, we've been having conversations about philosophy low these many
00:01:27moons, right?
00:01:29Low these many moons, we've been having all these conversations about philosophy.
00:01:32Would it be crazy for her to take over my show?
00:01:34I don't think she wants to, I don't think she will, but if she ever did, would that
00:01:38be nepotism or would that be efficient, right?
00:01:41A man who raises his son, let's just say, a man who raises his son, the son gets involved
00:01:46in the family business and has been knee-high to a grasshopper since the beginning of time
00:01:50learning about the business, visiting the business, understanding the business, the
00:01:53father talks about the business, right?
00:01:56So then, is it nepotism for the son to take over the business?
00:02:03I don't know.
00:02:04I mean, the actor Peter Fonda is the son of a famous actor who played in The Grapes of
00:02:12Wrath and also in On Golden Pond called Henry Fonda, famously emotional on the screen, famously
00:02:19cold as a father.
00:02:21So is it nepotism for Henry Fonda's son to be an actor?
00:02:30No.
00:02:31What was it, Gwyneth Paltrow, didn't she have Steven Spielberg as her godfather or something?
00:02:37Or if you, of course, you look at Kirk Douglas, him with the dimpled chin and the shortened
00:02:44foreskin, he has a son who was in countless movies, Romancing the Stone, of course, Wall
00:02:53Street.
00:02:54I think he got an Oscar.
00:02:55Michael Douglas played the hard-done-by-sexually-harassed man throughout most of the 80s and 90s.
00:03:03Recently played Liberace, if I remember rightly, though I never saw it, of course.
00:03:06So yeah, I mean, is it nepotism or do they just...
00:03:10All nepotism can do, I mean, for the most part, is get your foot in the door.
00:03:15So I don't know, I don't know.
00:03:20It's fine to me, if somebody wants to try getting their son on board to be the owner,
00:03:25that's fine, right?
00:03:26Nothing particularly wrong with that.
00:03:28Look at the Barrymores, right?
00:03:29I mean, the Barrymores are a sort of John Barrymore all the way down to Drew Barrymore
00:03:33is a famous American acting family where there seems to be a fair amount of talent, although
00:03:36likely Drew Barrymore seems to be about a bunch of semi-fascistic bootlicking of power
00:03:42prostration before the incompetent, but that's perhaps a topic for another time.
00:03:49Helping the employee, I've never found it particularly helpful to try and help people
00:03:55by giving them work.
00:03:57I've never found it particularly helpful.
00:04:00I would view it as a red flag unless that person had been raised with the business and
00:04:05just understood it so well, right?
00:04:09I mean, I remember I worked at a place once where the CEO's daughter did a lot of data
00:04:18management and she just didn't seem to be a data management kind of person.
00:04:22And then I saw her wielding the databases, they were these sort of Microsoft access databases
00:04:27that she wheeled and copied and pasted and transformed and it's like, okay, she knows
00:04:32what she's doing.
00:04:33She's got it, right?
00:04:34So, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Trump's assassination has been, well, first of all, you can't find
00:04:47it anywhere.
00:04:48Now that's been completely memory hauled, which is a pretty wild thing.
00:04:51It's a pretty wild thing, right?
00:04:52To get that memory hauled and wasn't it the case that one of the AIs was referring to
00:04:56it as a fictional event?
00:04:58Crazy, just crazy.
00:05:05Yeah, it certainly is true that the non-white races view racial prioritization as high and
00:05:17whites tend not to view it that way.
00:05:20It's a, I don't know, well, we all know how it's going to play out so it's not much, right?
00:05:25So you're saying what I meant more was that they viewed giving you employment as charity.
00:05:30I would not work for someone who viewed hiring me as giving me charity.
00:05:35I'm just, I don't like charity as a whole.
00:05:38I don't like charity that much as a concept.
00:05:40I consider charity to be a fairly pathetic failure in life as a whole.
00:05:45I mean, I'm sure that there are exceptions, but I mean, who gave me anything, right?
00:05:50I guess I got a couple of loans and grants for undergrad, but I've certainly paid more
00:05:55than that in my tax career.
00:05:57So yeah, I mean, and that wasn't charity.
00:05:59So I am not a big fan of charity as a whole.
00:06:04A charity tends to displace effort.
00:06:07The most people will respond to their circumstances and the more charity there is, then the less
00:06:13responsibility there is.
00:06:14The more that you catch people, the more they'll take risks, right?
00:06:18There is no diminishment of risk.
00:06:22There is only transfer of risk, right?
00:06:25You can't eliminate risk.
00:06:26You can only transfer it in general, right?
00:06:28So you know why women seem to be a little frivolous these days?
00:06:32Well, because they're shielded from the consequences of their choices, right?
00:06:36I mean, if they get pregnant, they can get a morning after pill.
00:06:39They can get a free abortion often.
00:06:40They can get lots of free health care.
00:06:45And if they decide to abort the kid, they can do that.
00:06:47If they decide to keep the kid, then the man is forced to pay or the government pays through
00:06:52welfare and then they get free education, free health care, free dental care.
00:06:56And then if they don't save, they get free retirement money.
00:06:59I mean, just shielding people from their consequences turns them into entitled, bratty, eternal
00:07:06children.
00:07:07This is true for men.
00:07:08It's true for women.
00:07:09It's true for just about everyone.
00:07:10It's just that in society, if we're going to subsidize women, well, I guess that means
00:07:14we're going to have to charge men, which is why men are checking out and a lot of women
00:07:18are becoming somewhat insufferable.
00:07:24So let's see here.
00:07:30Let me get to you.
00:07:34Google won't autocomplete President Donald Trump.
00:07:37Yeah, I think you can get Donald Duck, Ronald Reagan or something like that.
00:07:44Yeah.
00:07:45Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:07:48Just poor is the best lesson about why charity sucks in my opinion.
00:07:51Yeah.
00:07:52Yeah.
00:07:53It's really, really, really tough.
00:07:54The only people who think the government can help people are people who've never actually
00:07:58tried to help anyone directly in their life.
00:08:00Helping people directly in your life is very, very tough and it's really, really looking
00:08:06great.
00:08:07But thank you.
00:08:08I appreciate the tip.
00:08:09I appreciate that.
00:08:10Thank you so much.
00:08:11I'll answer questions either way, but I'll answer them with a slightly bigger smile if
00:08:15there's a tip attached and associated, but not essential.
00:08:18Yeah.
00:08:19So justpoornovel.com.
00:08:20You should listen to that novel.
00:08:23Let's see here.
00:08:24What's my novel?
00:08:25Three.
00:08:26It says, James, that recalls to my mind a job way back in the day.
00:08:32Somebody offered me to work a job on Linux for a 25k salary in early 2000 Northern New
00:08:35Jersey, which is quite a low salary for a developer's job.
00:08:38At the time I'd come from a 40k IT job in Michigan.
00:08:43Actually that's called 40k Warhammer.
00:08:46The guy hiring said, we view working here as a privilege.
00:08:48Yeah, that doesn't pay my rent.
00:08:50I'm not going to give you money, but I'm going to give you a vague sense of infinite mission.
00:08:54How's that for you?
00:08:59In what ways are men frivolous?
00:09:01What are they missing?
00:09:02Thanks.
00:09:03In what ways are men frivolous?
00:09:06Porn and video games, right?
00:09:08Am I missing something here?
00:09:10Porn and video games is what is making men frivolous, right?
00:09:15I just did a call and show today about a guy who's pushing 30 and completely panicking
00:09:20because he's never really been on a date, he's never had a relationship, and he's never
00:09:24had much of a real job.
00:09:28He's kind of panicking.
00:09:29I said to him, and you can hear this when I put it out whenever that happens, but it's
00:09:33like he's in trouble and failing because he keeps taking the easy route, right?
00:09:38Rather than talk to girls, he looked at porn.
00:09:40Rather than achieve things in the real world, he played video games.
00:09:44So, if you take the easy route, life gets way, way, way harder.
00:09:51Life gets way harder if you take the easy route.
00:09:55All right, let me just see questions over here.
00:10:04Socialist Venezuela has transferred risk to voting, wrong.
00:10:07Yeah, I mean, I used to be a bit more negative towards government corruption, but if people
00:10:14are desperate for free stuff and will avoid any virtues, any ethics, right?
00:10:22I mean, it's tough to have a lot of sympathy, say, sometimes for people.
00:10:30When they keep, you know, baby birds, open mouth, wide, wide, feed me, feed me, feed
00:10:35me, they just want free stuff, they don't care about others, they don't care about the
00:10:38next generation, they're just, eat me, eat me, eat me, feed me, feed me, feed me.
00:10:44Then it's kind of tough, you can scrap the eat me part, that was the reverse, I'm being
00:10:48eaten, you're being eaten.
00:10:49But it's kind of tough, you know?
00:10:51I mean, the Christians have a, you know, thou shalt not steal, and then they want to use
00:10:55the power of the state to transfer money everywhere.
00:11:02So when there are so many people who want to get the fruits of corruption, it's kind
00:11:08of tough to blame only the people, like, it's a supply and demand issue.
00:11:13Corruption is a supply and demand issue.
00:11:16And if all we do is focus and say, but the government's so corrupt, it does this, it's
00:11:19like, but there's such a hunger for it, there's such a hunger for it, people just want free
00:11:23stuff, they just want free stuff.
00:11:27And reason, reason, mere reason, mere sweet, deep, powerful reason, cannot compete with
00:11:34free stuff.
00:11:35It just can't happen.
00:11:38Can't compete with free stuff.
00:11:39It's like, you know, if you're into property rights, as I said before, if you're into property
00:11:42rights, and some guy just won a million dollars in the lottery, government lottery, and you
00:11:46say, you really shouldn't cash that in, because it's just going to raise taxes on people,
00:11:49yeah, good luck with that, right?
00:11:52Bribery displaces rationality.
00:11:56Free stuff displaces any arguments for freedom.
00:12:00Free stuff or freedom?
00:12:02That's your only choices.
00:12:03And the more the government can bribe people with free stuff, well, the less anybody will
00:12:10be interested in freedom.
00:12:12Once they can get you to want free stuff, you're too much of a dirtbag to argue for
00:12:19freedom, because everybody thinks they're confronting the evils in the political system
00:12:26when the real evils they need to confront is in themselves.
00:12:33Yeah, like the people, oh, my house has gone up in value.
00:12:38No!
00:12:39Your money has gone down in value.
00:12:40That's it.
00:12:41That's it.
00:12:42So once they can get you to feast on your fellow man, it kills your empathy, it kills
00:12:48your morality, it kills your self-knowledge, it kills your self-awareness, it kills your
00:12:52virtue, it kills your everything, honesty, everything's gone.
00:12:57Once they can lure you into feasting on your fellow man under the guise of virtue, what's
00:13:01left?
00:13:02There's nothing left.
00:13:05Giving up free stuff.
00:13:07You know, people would rather go to war than give up free stuff.
00:13:11That's crazy.
00:13:13People are upset with mass migration and so on.
00:13:15It's like, just turn off the welfare state and it's all solved.
00:13:18Just turn off the welfare state.
00:13:19It's all solved.
00:13:23And to me, if people don't want to turn off the welfare state, then you're going to get
00:13:27people who come to a large degree to take advantage of the welfare state.
00:13:34It's sort of bizarre, right?
00:13:36It's sort of bizarre.
00:13:39It's like scattering hundred dollar bills from a high balcony over a poor neighborhood
00:13:46and then being upset when a hundred percent of the amount returned.
00:13:48Bizarre.
00:13:49It's just bizarre.
00:13:53It's just bizarre.
00:13:57Thank you for the tip.
00:13:58Can't tell you how much your call-ins and how you communicate with abused adults has
00:14:02helped me in my own career.
00:14:03Thanks, Steph.
00:14:04Yeah.
00:14:09Yeah.
00:14:11The Book of Mormon tells the tale of a righteous people who keep covenants, become rich and
00:14:16successful, then they forget their God.
00:14:18Becoming greedy, prideful, arrogant, falter their enemies, become sorrowful, then repent
00:14:21and remember their God, cycle repeats.
00:14:24Well, hard times build capitalists, capitalists build good times, good times build socialists,
00:14:29socialists build hard times.
00:14:31It's this cycle, as always it is this cycle with the state, and you can't have this much
00:14:39political power and not have this cycle.
00:14:45You know, I don't know why, I genuinely don't know why, and I don't think I've ever known
00:14:49why people would rather watch their civilization collapse than listen to reason and evidence.
00:14:59I don't get this fundamentally.
00:15:03To me, it's the actions of crazy people.
00:15:07Like, rather than just have, you know, some admittedly tricky conversations or difficult
00:15:12conversations about state and coercion and resource distribution and counterfeiting and
00:15:18debt and, like, rather than have just difficult conversations about the morals of a society,
00:15:22people would just rather write this damn thing into the ground, like Dr. Strangelove on a bomb.
00:15:34See, here's, I mean, yeah, I'm sort of whirring around in my brain like a helicopter blade
00:15:40here, right?
00:15:41But, I don't know.
00:15:42Why?
00:15:43Why do people, it's like, okay, so sometimes it can be tough to listen to reason and sometimes
00:15:46you've been mistaken.
00:15:50And sometimes you have to change course and sometimes you have to listen and sometimes
00:15:53you've been given bad information, but people just...
00:15:58Why?
00:15:59Why will people not admit fault?
00:16:00I mean, this is more than just political, this is highly personal for me as well, because,
00:16:03you know, lots of people in my youth, lots of people in my childhood and teenage years
00:16:07and twenties, I'm not in touch with them anymore because they just won't listen.
00:16:17Just won't listen.
00:16:20There's some movie, it's a pretty bad Coen Brothers movie about some writer in an apartment
00:16:25and John Goodman is just yelling at, you just don't listen!
00:16:29And it's like, I don't know why, why won't people listen?
00:16:31Why won't...
00:16:33Why won't people listen?
00:16:34I don't understand.
00:16:35Why would they...
00:16:36In order to survive, in order to survive, all you have to do is listen to reason.
00:16:44In order to survive, to flourish, to change, to benefit, all people have to do is listen
00:16:49to reason.
00:16:50And they just won't.
00:16:56Are people doubling down because they can't see a future?
00:16:58No, Douglas, they can't see a future because they're doubling down.
00:17:03Like, why is it that people would rather do anything other than admit they're wrong?
00:17:10This...
00:17:11I don't understand.
00:17:12I don't understand it.
00:17:13Fundamentally, this is a core, incredible frustration of mine.
00:17:17I think this is probably true of all of us who deal in reasoned facts, empiricism and
00:17:23evidence.
00:17:24It's like, what's wrong with being wrong?
00:17:28Most people throughout human history have been utterly wrong.
00:17:32I have been wrong.
00:17:34I'll give you an example.
00:17:35So recently, I put out a call-in show about a woman who was 57 years old and childless.
00:17:42And in it, she talked about having had, I think it was an 18-year-old boyfriend way
00:17:46back in the day when she was 14.
00:17:48And I referred to him as predatory, and somebody wrote a comment under the video, which I will
00:17:54repeat here and say, outside of the general insults whenever I'm wrong about something,
00:18:00he said, I think it was in 2008, the law for underage sex in Canada was changed from
00:18:0814 to 18.
00:18:09This would have occurred before then, and therefore, he was not quite as predatory.
00:18:13It's like, okay, that's fine.
00:18:15I mean, I don't claim to be an expert on the history of Canadian law, right?
00:18:19So I put this out there just as a correction.
00:18:25And I don't feel bad about that.
00:18:27I'm not going to not say anything, because I could be wrong about anything.
00:18:31And I think this is the first factual correction I've had to put out in quite some time.
00:18:34And other than the completely snarky, bitchy, passive-aggressive, girl-guide, stubbed-her-toe
00:18:39tone that the guy said it to me, I appreciate the information, and I appreciate the correction.
00:18:45What's wrong with being wrong?
00:18:48I don't understand it.
00:18:51Because what's the alternative to admitting that you're wrong?
00:18:57Jim says, self-image protection.
00:19:00They feel they're giving up power over reality.
00:19:02They want to fight with people, etc.
00:19:03So many reasons I've seen from people.
00:19:09I don't know.
00:19:10I don't know why people can't admit that they're wrong.
00:19:15It is really the most common dysfunction in the world, I think.
00:19:24It is the most common dysfunction in the world that people just cannot.
00:19:30All right.
00:19:31Joe Rogan seems to have shifted his perspective over the last few years.
00:19:34Do you think he would still hold the same erroneous views he once spouted about you
00:19:38after you were on his show?
00:19:44Well, I obviously can't read Joe Rogan's, quote, mind.
00:19:50But I can tell you this, that when you get that influential, you don't make as many
00:19:55independent decisions as you seem to.
00:20:02So I've mentioned this before, but Joe Rogan had Stephen Tyler from Aerosmith.
00:20:15Right?
00:20:21He had Stephen Tyler from Aerosmith.
00:20:25And Stephen Tyler from Aerosmith once adopted a 16-year-old groupie so that he
00:20:30could take her across state lines, dated her, and got her pregnant.
00:20:35Right?
00:20:37When he was 25 years old.
00:20:41In an article that this woman wrote in 2011 for Lifesign News, she said that
00:20:45when she was 15, she had become friends with an older groupie who was 24.
00:20:49She groomed Holcomb, teaching her to dress provocatively so she could catch a
00:20:52rock star.
00:20:55So it's pretty horrendous.
00:21:01So Tyler contacted Holcomb's mother and got her to sign over guardianship to him.
00:21:08Holcomb did not believe her mother would sign over guardianship to him and remember
00:21:11feeling vulnerable knowing she was his ward.
00:21:15From that point onward, Holcomb belonged to Tyler.
00:21:17She described him as her only hope at that point and became lost in the rock
00:21:20and roll culture of sex and drugs.
00:21:23Anyway, the story is just too appalling.
00:21:26Right?
00:21:28So Joe Rogan, you see, is a big fucking moralist.
00:21:31Right?
00:21:32Because he was just appalled that I would say to people, you don't have to spend
00:21:35time with abusive people.
00:21:36Like, he was just...
00:21:38Joe Rogan was appalled at my behavior, you see, and the fact that I had said to
00:21:43people, you don't have to spend time with abusive people, was just terrible.
00:21:46And I really had to be brought up short and ambushed and all of that with no
00:21:52warning.
00:21:53Right?
00:21:54He was perfectly friendly beforehand and very enthusiastic and then...
00:21:56Right?
00:21:57But then he has Steven Tyler on his show who adopted a child, dated her and got
00:22:05her pregnant.
00:22:11And did Joe Rogan bring any of that up with Steven?
00:22:13Because he's a moralist, you know?
00:22:15He's got to do the right thing.
00:22:17He's got to be the right guy and he's got to be moral.
00:22:28So, as far as what Joe Rogan's thinking is now, I can virtually guarantee you that
00:22:34Joe Rogan has not thought about me in many, many, many years.
00:22:39And if he did, he would just describe talking to me three times as a youthful
00:22:42error because he didn't know better.
00:22:44So, I do not...
00:22:50Joe Rogan, I assume, again, I can't read his mind and it's not like I think about
00:22:55Joe Rogan in any particular way, shape or form, but he made a play for the present
00:23:00and I'm making a play for the future.
00:23:04Right?
00:23:07I am making a play for the future.
00:23:12Look, I mean, let's be frank, and I'm not talking about Joe Rogan, I'm not
00:23:18talking about anyone in particular, I'm just talking in general.
00:23:22There are already so many people who compromise the truth and sell out.
00:23:28Right?
00:23:29I don't need to add to their number.
00:23:33There are so many people who will, in my view, sell their soul in order to get
00:23:40eyeballs, clicks and dollars.
00:23:45I mean, I just don't need... we don't need another one.
00:23:49We don't need one more person who's willing to sell their soul for lucre.
00:23:55There's already so many.
00:23:58There's already so many.
00:24:01Just about everyone.
00:24:02Why?
00:24:03I mean, that's just not my thing.
00:24:05You know, I gave up well over 80% of my income and 95% of my audience to tell
00:24:09the truth.
00:24:10That's my choice.
00:24:11And I'm not even that fussed about anybody who makes a different choice.
00:24:16It's just not my choice.
00:24:18It's not been tempting for me.
00:24:21It's not appealing to me.
00:24:23Because the people I admire were willing to sacrifice the present to enlighten
00:24:28and save the future.
00:24:30You can't save the present if people don't listen to reason.
00:24:33What you do is you lay the foundations of what the facts, truth, reason and
00:24:36evidence show.
00:24:37And then things get worse and worse and worse until you're proven right.
00:24:41And then, usually after you're dead, you are recognized as prescient.
00:24:45Right?
00:24:46You know how this works, right?
00:24:47This is like nothing new in the history of philosophy, right?
00:24:50So, to me, it would be a savage and devilish insult to my potential, conscience,
00:25:08integrity and the love that I have for truth and that people have for me.
00:25:14It would be a massive insult to lie for money and fame.
00:25:25A lot of people can do it.
00:25:26A lot of people are keen to do it.
00:25:29A lot of people are lining up to do it.
00:25:31But it's not me.
00:25:33It's just not me.
00:25:34I don't even consider it any particular kind of nobility on my part.
00:25:42I don't.
00:25:43Honestly, I'm not like, oh gosh, it's so tempting.
00:25:46It's not like carrot cake with a side of Salma Hayek.
00:25:50Right?
00:25:51It's not that for me.
00:25:52It's just not tempting.
00:25:53It's like if somebody offers you a brown furry sandwich, you don't want to eat it.
00:26:01And other people are like, mmm, this brown furry sandwich is the best thing I've ever
00:26:05tasted.
00:26:06Oh, but it turns my stomach.
00:26:10It's repulsive.
00:26:11It's hideous.
00:26:17It's like a well-oiled elderly Margaret Thatcher in a thong.
00:26:20It's not my thing.
00:26:24I almost wish it was and that I could feel stronger and braver and more noble for
00:26:28resisting it.
00:26:29But it ain't even tempting.
00:26:33It's not.
00:26:35It's not.
00:26:39You know, I wish it was.
00:26:41And then I could say, oh, but I had this great, vast, deep and powerful temptation and I have
00:26:47resisted it because of the strength of my virtue and my character.
00:26:54Hello, sir.
00:26:55Would you like to put your dick in a blender?
00:26:57I don't.
00:26:59In fact, it's not even really remotely tempting to me and I'd actually do a lot to not have
00:27:03to put my dick in a blender if that's okay.
00:27:10I mean, I wish.
00:27:11I wish.
00:27:12I wish that it was just this big tempting thing that I had.
00:27:15I wanted to take and I'm tossed and turned and it's not.
00:27:19I don't want it.
00:27:20I don't want it.
00:27:25I don't want it.
00:27:28Other people want it.
00:27:30I don't know why.
00:27:32I don't know why.
00:27:33I don't know why people, especially people who have the FU money, right, that legendary
00:27:38I don't know why people who have the FU money don't tell the truth.
00:27:45Oh, but then they're going to lose their audience.
00:27:46It's like, okay, but what about the people in your life who were supposed to love you
00:27:51and tell you not to sell your soul for money?
00:27:55What about those people?
00:27:56Well, I guess, again, not talking about anyone in particular because I don't know
00:28:02people's private lives.
00:28:08But aren't the people saying to them, you know, we have more than enough money.
00:28:16We have more than enough money.
00:28:19Why don't you tell the truth?
00:28:20It's going to cost you some audience.
00:28:21It might cost you some hassles.
00:28:24But isn't it better to tell the truth?
00:28:26What's all the money for?
00:28:27If it doesn't buy you the freedom to speak your mind, what's the money for?
00:28:32And the money is just a chain.
00:28:34It doesn't liberate you at all.
00:28:35It doesn't liberate you at all.
00:28:37The money is used to muzzle you.
00:28:39It's like they step on your fucking neck and stuff dollar bills down your throat
00:28:43until your soul chokes to death.
00:28:46No.
00:28:47Thank.
00:28:48You.
00:28:50Why not do YouTube part-time and leave the controversial stuff to rumble?
00:28:55Well, I suppose you're new to the conversation.
00:28:58I'm off YouTube and have been for almost half a decade.
00:29:02So, that's a lovely thought.
00:29:05It's just not even remotely possible.
00:29:08Just wanted to mention that.
00:29:11Also wanted to mention too...
00:29:13Too...
00:29:16Just wanted to mention too...
00:29:18That.
00:29:21If you donate at freedomain.com slash donate for the next week or two,
00:29:24maybe a little longer but probably just that long,
00:29:27you get a copy of the French Revolution presentation.
00:29:30That's me, almost 12 hours,
00:29:31completely dismantling and reassembling in the image of truth, reason and virtue
00:29:36the entire history of the French Revolution.
00:29:38It's incredible.
00:29:39It's an incredible presentation.
00:29:40One of my best truths about.
00:29:42So.
00:29:47Yeah, I don't know.
00:29:53Wouldn't you...
00:29:56Wouldn't you think that...
00:29:58All of that money, whoever's making it,
00:30:01and there's lots of people who've made just massive amounts of money.
00:30:05And everyone who knows the truth knows exactly who's lying.
00:30:12Right? About everything.
00:30:16And that's fine.
00:30:17But then don't be somebody who says,
00:30:19well, it's super important to tell the truth.
00:30:21And I'm a moralist.
00:30:22It's like, no, you just, you're paid to shut up.
00:30:24And again, I don't have any particular issue with it.
00:30:28I mean, it seems to be the norm.
00:30:37It seems to be the norm.
00:30:40I mean, the devil, it seems, doesn't even have to finish his offer
00:30:42before people have already signed with their children's blood on the dotted line.
00:30:55So.
00:30:57It's just the way that it is.
00:30:59It's a lack of love, right? Fundamentally, it's a lack of love.
00:31:03And also, what is the good of all of that money if you lose your freedoms?
00:31:06I mean, the money is going to evaporate.
00:31:07It's going to get taken away over various money printing,
00:31:13debt-ridden initiatives by the state, central banking and so on.
00:31:16Like, what's the point of all this money?
00:31:18You know, the horrors of a bad conscience in a mansion can't be overstated.
00:31:31The moral horrors of a bad conscience in a mansion cannot be overstated.
00:31:37And the thing is, too, it's not, I mean, the bad conscience is part of it.
00:31:44The bad conscience is part of it.
00:31:45The problem, though, for me, would also be not just, it's not tempting to me
00:31:50and I know my conscience would be pretty savage with me, as it should be,
00:31:54because, you know, when you moralize towards other people,
00:31:57it's important to have some standards yourself, right?
00:32:00But what would trouble me or bother me the most, I think,
00:32:06would be that if you sell your soul for money,
00:32:11it's all the people you have to end up being surrounded by
00:32:14in order for that deal to work.
00:32:24It's all the people you have to surround yourself with
00:32:29who make that deal work.
00:32:36In other words, you can't have anyone around you who says,
00:32:40you know, I don't think you are following your own rules,
00:32:45I don't think that this is the right thing to do,
00:32:48I don't think that you should be used as an attack dog on anyone who steps out of line,
00:32:53and I'm concerned that the system is paying you that much money,
00:32:56and what are they getting in return?
00:32:59Right?
00:33:04It's all the people that you have to surround yourself with
00:33:10when you sell your soul.
00:33:12You have to surround yourself with people
00:33:14who will never, ever, ever point out that you have sold your soul.
00:33:20No, thank you.
00:33:22Oh, no.
00:33:23I need people around me who are going to keep me on the straight and narrow.
00:33:26I need people around me who are going to call me out if I go astray.
00:33:38And then what you have to do is you have to have people around you
00:33:43who are going to keep you on the straight and narrow.
00:33:46You have to have people around you who then have power over you,
00:33:54because if your public persona is different from your private actions,
00:33:57this is maybe some of the Mr. Beast stuff that's floating around,
00:33:59but if your public persona is different from your private actions,
00:34:02people are going to leak stuff, and it's going to be pretty terrible.
00:34:07Because if you're going to sell your soul, and again,
00:34:09I'm not talking about Mr. Beast here, I'm not talking about anyone in particular,
00:34:12this is a general cycle of life.
00:34:14If you're going to sell your soul,
00:34:16you have to be surrounded by people who've sold their souls,
00:34:20because they're taking the crumbs from the table, right?
00:34:24No, thank you.
00:34:27Now, the idea of being surrounded by amoral people,
00:34:32especially if you're claiming to be more, right?
00:34:45Yeah, that's no good.
00:34:47That's no good.
00:34:51That's no good.
00:34:52And if you are going to tell the truth,
00:34:55you have to recognize that it'll probably be
00:34:59at least half a generation after your death
00:35:02that people will recognize the value of what you did.
00:35:05Like, that's just the deal.
00:35:06That's why you have to navigate according to your conscience,
00:35:10virtue, honor, honesty, and decency,
00:35:13and love.
00:35:14Love.
00:35:15You have to love the future to take the bullets in the present
00:35:17for the salvation you never live to see.
00:35:21Like, you just have to love mankind,
00:35:23you have to love the future,
00:35:24you have to love the truth,
00:35:25you have to love virtue,
00:35:27to the point where you're willing to take bullets in the present,
00:35:30so to speak,
00:35:32in order to save a future you don't get to live to see.
00:35:35Maybe my grandkids will live to see it,
00:35:38but probably my great-great-grandkids.
00:35:40So, that's the deal.
00:35:43That's the deal.
00:35:47In a world built on lies,
00:35:49the only honor the truth can find is in the distant future.
00:36:04So, you know, honestly, people can have the present.
00:36:08I don't particularly want it.
00:36:10I enjoyed it, don't get me wrong,
00:36:11I'm not immune to it,
00:36:12but I enjoyed, you know, surfing at the top of my game
00:36:14and all of that,
00:36:15doing sort of 10 million views, downloads a month,
00:36:17and, you know, whatever, right?
00:36:19I mean, it was fun, it was a wild ride,
00:36:21I'm very, very glad I did it.
00:36:24But I won't shut up to keep it.
00:36:29No, no.
00:36:31Oh, no.
00:36:36I don't exactly get what you mean,
00:36:38because you have a great life right now anyways.
00:36:43I don't understand the question.
00:36:48If everyone understood that you can have a great life
00:36:51while giving up fame, influence, and money for the sake of the truth,
00:36:55then people would already do it.
00:36:56So, why do people not do it?
00:37:02So, I don't understand.
00:37:05I don't understand the question.
00:37:13You know, if you're prominent,
00:37:14then, you know, I assume some fairly creepy people come along
00:37:18and rope and bribe and bully and threaten you into doing what they want.
00:37:23I don't want that.
00:37:27Sorry in the sense that saying the truth takes so much from us.
00:37:31Still don't understand what you're saying.
00:37:33My apologies.
00:37:43All right, let me get to your questions.
00:37:49Tips, of course, are massively welcome.
00:37:54And I really would appreciate your support at freedomain.com
00:37:57slash donate.
00:37:58We few, we happy few.
00:37:59But...
00:38:03See, fall from grace in the world point of view.
00:38:07Yeah, I mean, I think I mentioned that I did a search for myself on Twitter
00:38:11the other day, and it was all the same thing.
00:38:14Hey, where did that guy go?
00:38:15That guy completely vanished.
00:38:16Oh, here's something funny.
00:38:18Do me a favor.
00:38:23Do me...
00:38:27Do me a favor.
00:38:28James, can you post that link?
00:38:29I think, yeah, you sent that to me, right?
00:38:31Post that link that the listener bought for the show.
00:38:34I can't remember which way exactly the word of it at.
00:38:38I think it was.
00:38:39I think it was his.
00:38:41Yeah.
00:38:46All right, I think it was this.
00:38:51No.
00:38:53Yeah, we'll get there.
00:38:54We'll get there.
00:38:55James will post it, I'm sure.
00:38:59Yes, but it doesn't seem to be working.
00:39:04Yeah, I don't think it was that.
00:39:12Yeah, James will pick it up.
00:39:18All right, so...
00:39:23I had a...
00:39:24I think I had a comment that somebody wanted to get to me.
00:39:32And let me just see here.
00:39:37You can, of course...
00:39:39You can...
00:39:41Go to...
00:39:45What is the link, actually?
00:39:46Sorry, James.
00:39:47Give me a link to that, too, right?
00:39:50All right, what is it?
00:39:51Oh, no.
00:39:52Sorry, something else.
00:39:53Wait, wait.
00:39:54No, that's something else, too.
00:39:55All right, let me just mute this.
00:40:01Ah, yes, so you can go to...
00:40:04OneWebsiteOver.com.
00:40:09OneWebsiteOver.com.
00:40:12Because I'm like...
00:40:16I'm just OneWebsiteOver, man.
00:40:17I'm just OneWebsiteOver.
00:40:19So, you can go to...
00:40:20http://onewebsiteover.com
00:40:28OneWebsiteOver.com
00:40:31So, literally, we can say...
00:40:33We're just OneWebsiteOver.
00:40:36Just OneWebsiteOver.
00:40:42And there you go.
00:40:45That's kind of cool.
00:40:47That's kind of cool.
00:40:48OneWebsiteOver.com
00:40:50So, yes, just in case...
00:40:52He's like...
00:40:53He's just OneWebsiteOver.
00:40:55Like, literally, OneWebsiteOver.com
00:40:59That was great.
00:41:01That was great.
00:41:02Who was the hero who did that?
00:41:03Yeah, it's pretty good, right?
00:41:04I can't remember his name.
00:41:05And I don't know if he even wants to be identified,
00:41:07but I just thought it was pretty funny and pretty good.
00:41:10Pretty fine, pretty fine.
00:41:11All right, let's go over here.
00:41:13I'll put it over on Rumble, too,
00:41:14because I thought that was pretty cool.
00:41:20OneWebsiteOver.com
00:41:23That is epic,
00:41:26as my daughter would say.
00:41:29Epic.
00:41:31All right.
00:41:39All right.
00:41:40I'm going to go,
00:41:41since I'm waiting for some questions,
00:41:43I'm going to go
00:41:47to
00:41:50a bookmark or two.
00:41:58Let me ask you this.
00:41:59Somebody says,
00:42:00Am I wrong for lying to my...
00:42:02I'm sorry.
00:42:03Am I wrong for lying about my body count to my boyfriend?
00:42:05I've been dating my boyfriend for six months.
00:42:08Female, 31.
00:42:09Male, 34.
00:42:10Although,
00:42:11it is early,
00:42:12we are taking this relationship seriously
00:42:13and have had conversations that show it may lead to marriage.
00:42:16It has been the best relationship of my life.
00:42:20Where my boyfriend and I first started dating,
00:42:22he told me
00:42:23a woman who is promiscuous
00:42:25is a deal breaker.
00:42:27I told him I wasn't.
00:42:28And I don't believe I am anymore.
00:42:31However,
00:42:32I do have a bit of a past.
00:42:34In high school and in college,
00:42:36I slept around a little recklessly
00:42:37in that
00:42:38eight-year time there were 20 people.
00:42:40Since college,
00:42:4110 years ago,
00:42:42there have been 17 more.
00:42:45I'm at 37,
00:42:48total.
00:42:5037,
00:42:51total.
00:42:52Which puts her in the enormously high risk
00:42:54of divorcing your ass and taking your shit.
00:42:59So,
00:43:01if you're the boyfriend and you find this out,
00:43:04well, first of all,
00:43:05should she tell him?
00:43:06And if you're the boyfriend and you find this out,
00:43:08what would you do?
00:43:11I'll get the,
00:43:15I don't know if I can copy and paste here.
00:43:20Ooh, arcane.
00:43:21All right, so here's the,
00:43:23here's the post.
00:43:24So I thought that was an interesting question.
00:43:28I thought that was an interesting question.
00:43:33Insert line from Clerks.
00:43:34Yes, that's right.
00:43:35That's a grim movie, man.
00:43:39The count is too damn high, he says,
00:43:41with sideburns.
00:43:46It's a funny thing, right?
00:43:51It's a funny thing.
00:43:53It's a funny thing.
00:43:58All right, interesting.
00:44:07Um...
00:44:11Given his stipulations anyway,
00:44:12for marriage relationship,
00:44:13he should know,
00:44:14because she flat out lied,
00:44:15not the body count.
00:44:17If she brings you lasagna at work,
00:44:18she's a cooper.
00:44:19Does this guy even want kids?
00:44:24I mean, it's a dicey thing, right?
00:44:26It's a lie as a foundation for a relationship.
00:44:29If promiscuity is a deal-breaker,
00:44:31everyone would accept that a woman who's 30,
00:44:34who's had 37 sexual partners,
00:44:36is promiscuous.
00:44:40I mean, I don't even know
00:44:41by sort of standards these days,
00:44:43but what do you guys think?
00:44:44Is that, is that promiscuous?
00:44:45Body count of 37 and she was what?
00:44:48She was, what?
00:44:50Body count of 37 and she was what?
00:44:53She was 31 years old?
00:44:55Female, 31.
00:44:56So, what do we got, right?
00:45:00Right?
00:45:0131 minus 18,
00:45:04divided by 37,
00:45:06is a new sexual partner
00:45:09every three months and change,
00:45:12on average.
00:45:14That's gonna burn out your pair bonding.
00:45:17You may have STDs,
00:45:19there may be history of that,
00:45:20although I guess she would have had STDs,
00:45:22she would have told them about that,
00:45:24or maybe she passed along something
00:45:25that's one of these sneaky,
00:45:26burrow-y, luggage,
00:45:27wait-and-see things, right?
00:45:32Yeah.
00:45:37High risk, but depends if she's willing to change
00:45:39slash reform.
00:45:42Anything over 10 is promiscuous, in my opinion.
00:45:45Right.
00:45:48Right, right.
00:45:51It's a tough call, man.
00:45:53Is it really,
00:45:55is it possible
00:45:57to be reformed
00:45:59and still lie about it?
00:46:02Right?
00:46:03Is it possible to be both reformed
00:46:06and lying about it?
00:46:09Right?
00:46:11I don't know.
00:46:17The lying and the not processing and dealing with it
00:46:19are huge problems.
00:46:20Yes, very promiscuous.
00:46:23AIDS, I don't know,
00:46:24that's much of a heterosexual thing.
00:46:26I remember it being touted as something that was coming,
00:46:29but I don't think it ever showed up
00:46:30in the way that it was expected to.
00:46:38Yeah, it's rough, man.
00:46:40It's rough. I wouldn't do it.
00:46:42I wouldn't do it.
00:46:48So this is a pretty wild thing.
00:46:50It's a pretty wild thing.
00:46:52So this woman wrote,
00:46:54she said,
00:46:55I honestly think liberals have some kind of mind parasite.
00:46:57I recently posted in a neighborhood app
00:46:59that I'm seeking to rehome my cat
00:47:01since my fiance is severely allergic
00:47:03and I will be moving in with him.
00:47:05It turns out I'm surrounded by
00:47:07demented liberals.
00:47:09Reading their hateful comments,
00:47:11you would think I was committing a genocide.
00:47:13Several of them were outraged that I
00:47:15could give up my cat for a man
00:47:17and were appalled at how
00:47:19disposable my cat was to me.
00:47:21Mind you, these are the same people
00:47:23who scream about a woman's right to abortion.
00:47:25You want to talk about disposable,
00:47:27how about the way they treat
00:47:28sexual and romantic partners?
00:47:31Several of them insinuated
00:47:33it wouldn't work out with my fiance,
00:47:35and they couldn't wait for me to regret my decision.
00:47:37Don't wonder so many liberal women
00:47:39end up cat ladies,
00:47:40and so many liberal men
00:47:41don't know how to love a woman.
00:47:44Of course I would give up my cat for my man.
00:47:46Are you retarded?
00:47:47My cat can't take care of me when I'm sick.
00:47:49My cat can't comfort me in my struggles
00:47:50and support me in my endeavors.
00:47:52My cat can't give me children.
00:47:55And I will always love a human more than animal,
00:47:57you absolute effing retards.
00:48:00These are just some examples
00:48:01of their deranged messages.
00:48:04I'm trying to rationalize
00:48:05choosing a man over your pet.
00:48:08Good God, what a disposable society we live in.
00:48:10The cat deserved better.
00:48:11Don't get an emotional support animal
00:48:12when the inevitable breakup occurs.
00:48:15It may not even work out with the fiance.
00:48:17If he's telling you to dump the cat,
00:48:18I'd think twice about the fiance.
00:48:20He may dump and dispose of you, too.
00:48:23One day, when something better comes along,
00:48:25so be prepared.
00:48:26Give cat to a good friend
00:48:27whom you may be able to get him back,
00:48:29or at least visit and follow.
00:48:34And somebody wrote,
00:48:36This happened to me
00:48:37when I had my second child
00:48:38who had severe asthma.
00:48:39People literally could not understand
00:48:40why I would favor my daughter's health
00:48:42over the cat.
00:48:47I guess I could put my daughter up for adoption,
00:48:49says one person.
00:48:53Oh, my gosh.
00:48:59Yeah, I, um...
00:49:02I had a thought.
00:49:04I had a thought.
00:49:05I had a thought.
00:49:09I had a thought.
00:49:15So...
00:49:20I had two thoughts today.
00:49:21I'll just talk about one.
00:49:29So, you know how there are these charts
00:49:31about white women over 40
00:49:34and their skyrocketing antidepressant use?
00:49:38Right?
00:49:44And people are just like,
00:49:45Why? Why? Why?
00:49:46And like, you know,
00:49:47half of liberal women
00:49:48have a diagnosed mental health disorder
00:49:50and 80% of them over a certain age.
00:49:52And people are like,
00:49:53Why? Why are they so crazy?
00:49:55And blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:50:00So...
00:50:02Why do you guys think that,
00:50:03particularly in white women,
00:50:05the antidepressant use,
00:50:08mental health issues
00:50:09have just gone through the roof?
00:50:12Oh, why are liberals obsessed with animals?
00:50:14Because there is
00:50:17an inability to negotiate
00:50:20for a lot of people on the left.
00:50:21Happens on the right too,
00:50:22but a little bit more on the left.
00:50:23It's an inability to negotiate.
00:50:25And so animals you don't negotiate with.
00:50:27Human beings you have to negotiate with.
00:50:29So you can get your love from an animal
00:50:30without having to negotiate.
00:50:32But when it comes to negotiation,
00:50:33they're not particularly good at it.
00:50:37So why do you think
00:50:41the liberal women,
00:50:43and white women in particular,
00:50:45over 40,
00:50:46are so dependent on the antidepressants?
00:50:51What are your thoughts?
00:50:56Somebody says,
00:50:57Regarding the lying,
00:50:58why would you want to be with someone
00:50:59who, if they knew the truth,
00:51:00would hate to be with you?
00:51:03Well,
00:51:09men generally have to accept their mistakes.
00:51:11Women get to evade them.
00:51:15Until it's too late.
00:51:17All right.
00:51:28All right.
00:51:29So I think,
00:51:30I'm going to guess,
00:51:31right?
00:51:32And maybe there's some data
00:51:33about this kind of stuff
00:51:34which you guys are aware of
00:51:35or know about.
00:51:37So maybe
00:51:38there's some data about this.
00:51:39But let me ask you this.
00:51:44If you've been around
00:51:46conservative people
00:51:48as a whole,
00:51:51conservative people as a whole
00:51:54not only stay home with their children,
00:51:56but they often also will homeschool.
00:52:02So the people I know
00:52:04who are conservatives,
00:52:06generally the mother stays home
00:52:09at least for the first five years,
00:52:11and they will often homeschool.
00:52:17Now,
00:52:19what was the case
00:52:2140 years ago?
00:52:23So 1984, right?
00:52:25What was the case 40 years ago
00:52:28with liberal women,
00:52:30with women who were democrats,
00:52:31women who were feminists,
00:52:32women who were on the left?
00:52:36What was happening 40 or 50 years ago
00:52:39in liberal households
00:52:40as opposed to conservative households?
00:52:43And again,
00:52:44it could be a little bit more,
00:52:45a little bit less,
00:52:46but...
00:52:47and of course
00:52:48some liberals who stay...
00:52:50they stay home
00:52:51and they homeschool
00:52:52and they're good parents
00:52:53and some conservatives
00:52:54dump their kids in daycare
00:52:55and go to work.
00:52:56So I'm just talking about some trends
00:52:57a little bit.
00:52:59What was going on
00:53:0040 or 50 years ago
00:53:02in the households
00:53:03of parents,
00:53:04new parents,
00:53:06with liberal,
00:53:07feminist,
00:53:08often secular women?
00:53:10Mothers.
00:53:11Parents.
00:53:12Well,
00:53:13the mothers
00:53:14went to work,
00:53:15right?
00:53:18The mothers
00:53:20of the liberal women
00:53:2140 years ago,
00:53:2230 years ago,
00:53:2350 years ago,
00:53:2460 years ago,
00:53:25the mothers went to work
00:53:28either because of
00:53:29ideological reasons
00:53:30or maybe because
00:53:32single motherhood reasons
00:53:33and so on, right?
00:53:36Because
00:53:37women's liberation,
00:53:39feminism,
00:53:40is targeted
00:53:41at
00:53:42non-Christians
00:53:45because Christians
00:53:46already have
00:53:47a model for the family
00:53:48that is
00:53:49the father is the leader,
00:53:51the mother stays home
00:53:52and it's all about
00:53:53transferring values
00:53:54to
00:53:56the children.
00:53:57Christian parents
00:53:58are much more likely
00:53:59to homeschool
00:54:00because
00:54:03the leftists
00:54:04have taken over
00:54:05the school system
00:54:06and they can't transfer
00:54:07their Christian values
00:54:08to their children
00:54:09if their children
00:54:10often into a lot of
00:54:11private schools as well,
00:54:12right?
00:54:21So that
00:54:24I think is really
00:54:25interesting,
00:54:26right?
00:54:29What is going on
00:54:30in these households
00:54:31or what was going on
00:54:32because everyone's
00:54:33looking at the present,
00:54:34oh there's so much
00:54:35propaganda,
00:54:36I get all of that
00:54:37but why does the
00:54:38propaganda work?
00:54:39They're isolating you
00:54:40and how do they isolate you?
00:54:41They make you reject
00:54:42everyone who disagrees
00:54:43with you.
00:54:44Now,
00:54:45how is it possible
00:54:46for you to reject
00:54:47everyone who disagrees
00:54:48with you?
00:54:49You don't have a pair bond.
00:54:50Pair bond says
00:54:51I'm going to listen to you
00:54:52even if it annoys me,
00:54:53I'm going to listen to you
00:54:54even if it hurts,
00:54:55I'm going to listen to you
00:54:56even if you have a big
00:54:57criticism of me,
00:54:58I'm going to listen to you
00:54:59even if it tears my soul in two
00:55:00because I trust you.
00:55:02So,
00:55:04it's not so much
00:55:05what's happening now,
00:55:06I think,
00:55:07or if I had to guess.
00:55:08It's not so much
00:55:09what's happening now
00:55:10that's the issue.
00:55:11It's what happened
00:55:1230, 40, 50 years ago
00:55:15when
00:55:17these kids had
00:55:18liberal parents,
00:55:19leftist parents,
00:55:20feminist parents
00:55:21or single moms
00:55:22who put them in day care,
00:55:23not so much the single moms
00:55:24but the single moms
00:55:25who were like
00:55:26single moms
00:55:27and had a part
00:55:28in their daycare
00:55:29and they had
00:55:30Not so much the single moms, because they would usually just stay home on alimony, maybe
00:55:34child support.
00:55:35Well, not alimony, I guess child support or welfare or whatever.
00:55:40But the professional liberal moms went back to work to smash the patriarchy or whatever
00:55:44nonsense was chiming in their brains, or quote brains at the time.
00:55:49So they went to work and they put their kids into daycare early, early.
00:55:55Because you know, being a mother, right?
00:55:59Being a mother means supporting the patriarchy and being dependent on the man or whatever
00:56:04it is, right?
00:56:07Christian parents of Christian parents have the grandparents who do minor babysitting
00:56:11to say go out and buy groceries or run errands if the kids were sick.
00:56:17It has been my experience that most of the Christian parents I know take deep delight
00:56:21in their children.
00:56:22Because their children are manifestations of God's love and children are a blessing
00:56:26and children are gifts from God.
00:56:29And so there is a great joy for the Christians that I know with regards to parenting.
00:56:40I don't think that's the case with the leftists as much.
00:56:44Children are a burden.
00:56:45Children are basically wards of the state in many ways.
00:56:49Children interfere with the parents' ambitions and so on, right?
00:56:57There's a video that was making the rounds about a woman who was a ballerina and was
00:57:06accepted into Juilliard who takes like 12 people every year.
00:57:10Like my theater school who only takes 16 people every year.
00:57:15And she ended up marrying a billionaire and raising a bunch of kids.
00:57:20Yeah the Christian God is a parent.
00:57:21Yeah that's precisely right Tim, that's a great point, thank you.
00:57:28So what I view when you see these people who have this tension and this hostility and this
00:57:37rigidity, I don't know if you've seen the videos where someone wears a Trump shirt and
00:57:42goes to a Biden-Harris rally and somebody wears a Biden-Harris shirt and goes to a Trump
00:57:48rally, and again could be selectively edited, who knows, but if I had to choose one I would
00:57:53definitely choose to take the leftist t-shirt and go to a conservative rally rather than
00:57:58vice versa.
00:58:01Because there's this hostility, this ability to turn on your fellow citizen for the sake
00:58:07of ideological differences, and the reason for that of course is that you were put into
00:58:10a daycare with hostile, tempestuous, aggressive children and so your peers are dangerous.
00:58:18Why is it that it's so easy to get, it's why you've got to separate people from their parents.
00:58:23Because you're unprotected, your peers are dangerous, so it's easy to turn you later
00:58:26on on your fellow citizens, right?
00:58:32This is why under communism people inform on each other all the time, because they're
00:58:37raised in these collective government daycares where the great danger comes from their peers,
00:58:45right?
00:58:46Danger, peers, peers, danger.
00:58:50So I think that the mental health issues that a lot of leftist women have come from
00:58:55a lack of pair bonding and attachment disorders early on in life as a result of absent parents
00:59:03and daycare.
00:59:15Have you heard of the show The Boys, they're not subtle at all about portraying right leaning
00:59:18people as complete idiots.
00:59:33So it would be interesting to look, to talk to leftists and say, were you in daycare or
00:59:38were you home?
00:59:39You know, to me, I see, what do I see?
00:59:42You know, like these famous, the screaming women, the topless women, the women who are
00:59:46screaming and shrieking and upset and raging and so on.
00:59:49I see extremely traumatized infancies, extremely traumatized infancies.
01:00:01And who do they pair bond with?
01:00:02Well, they pair bond with the state, which is why they view the state as a reasonable
01:00:08substitute for a husband.
01:00:12They pair bond with the state.
01:00:17And when you see the high levels of anxiety and neurosis in the left, I view this as a
01:00:25permanent fight or flight mechanism, right?
01:00:28So to me, it's not so much that they think people on the right are like literally Hitler,
01:00:32I think that they have a constant sense of danger that they don't want to identify.
01:00:38And so it's easy to redirect that sense of danger into something political.
01:00:44Tell me if this makes sense to you.
01:00:47I'm not saying, is it like absolutely true?
01:00:49I'm just saying, does the argument make sense?
01:00:51If you have ever dealt with people, if you've ever dealt with people who are in a permanent
01:00:57state of paranoia or anxiety, boy, are they jumpy and quick to attack.
01:01:02And that's what I see.
01:01:03I just see people very jumpy, very quick to attack and very quick to violence.
01:01:08Well, why?
01:01:11Why would they be jumpy, quick to attack and prone to justifying violence?
01:01:15Because they went through situations of extreme danger.
01:01:21They went through situations of extreme danger in a chronic way as a child.
01:01:24So I see people whose fight and flight mechanism is permanently triggered.
01:01:33Now, propaganda works because you're afraid to contradict people in authority.
01:01:47Now, Christians are more comfortable contradicting people in secular authority because the government
01:01:55killed Jesus and there's always been this tension between secular power and religious
01:02:02ideals.
01:02:10So for the people raised in daycare with insecure attachments, which means they don't feel protected
01:02:18and loved for who they are, and they're exposed to chronic stress conditions, chronic conditions
01:02:26of stress, which whether it's chronic conditions of stress or something else, there is some
01:02:31pretty significant evidence that each month in daycare shaves off a percentage of an IQ
01:02:39point to the point where you can lose four or five percent of a standard deviation.
01:02:47The stress is tough on the intellect, right?
01:02:49If you've ever tried to concentrate when you're really stressed, it's hard to do that.
01:03:01So when you have an insecure attachment, you can't criticize that person, that thing or
01:03:13that institution.
01:03:14Right?
01:03:15I mean, think of being unjustly imprisoned in a concentration camp and it's the whims
01:03:18of the guard that get you whether you get food or water or shelter or health care or
01:03:24warmth or anything, right?
01:03:26Get a blanket in the winter.
01:03:27So you have to go on the whims of the guard.
01:03:29So you've got to be super nice to the guard and you can't criticize the guard in any way.
01:03:34You can't even think badly about the guard because if you've just given one funny look,
01:03:40you won't get a blanket and you'll go two days without rations and you might half starve
01:03:43to death.
01:03:45So you understand the insecure attachment means no criticism.
01:03:51So you have free-floating anxiety, right?
01:03:55Does this make sense?
01:03:56You have free-floating anxiety.
01:03:58You're in danger, but you cannot criticize any of the people who are putting you in danger
01:04:03or causing the danger, right?
01:04:05So you've probably seen in just about every movie ever made, whether it's a courtroom
01:04:14drama, the judge is always noble and right and caring and knowledgeable and assertive
01:04:22and just wonderful all around.
01:04:23You almost never see a truly corrupt judge in any media portrayal because the media companies
01:04:31deal with a lot of lawsuits and have to deal with a lot of judges and so they don't want
01:04:34to bite the hand that could feed them or starve them.
01:04:39So when you have an insecure attachment, you can't displease the person.
01:04:44You have to hide whenever you're upset.
01:04:48You can't say what you want.
01:04:50You can't be assertive.
01:04:51You can't disagree with the person.
01:04:53You can't criticize the person.
01:04:55You can't get mad at the person because that person is in charge of you and it's really
01:05:00tenuous.
01:05:01It's a strong bond when people can make fun of you.
01:05:04It's one of the reasons why men sort of trade these fake insults is to show the strength
01:05:08of their bond, right?
01:05:17Thank you for your tip, token, and JP.
01:05:26So if you are a child whose parents put you in daycare, they're putting you in a situation
01:05:34where they're saying, we can take you or leave you, and if you've seen those heartbreaking
01:05:38videos of the children who seem kind of normal and their parents show up at daycare and the
01:05:42kids burst into tears and run over with their arms up because they've just been so stressed
01:05:46and cortisol levels spike in daycare, I worked in a daycare for years so this I know.
01:05:53And I've done the truth about daycare.
01:05:55I have done it all over the place in the Peaceful Parenting book at peacefulparenting.com.
01:06:02So if you have that insecure attachment, you can't criticize your parents any more than
01:06:08you can criticize, at a more extreme level, the concentration camp guard upon whose whims
01:06:16you live to survive on.
01:06:25So, you've got anger, frustration, fear, and you can't criticize your parents.
01:06:30So you understand how these people are so easily weaponized against, quote, enemies.
01:06:38The reason you're anxious isn't because your parents put you in daycare or neglected you
01:06:41or abused you or ignored you.
01:06:43That's not why you're anxious.
01:06:44Your anxions cause MAGA.
01:06:46That's why you're anxious, right?
01:06:55Your anxiety is not a rational response to significant levels of stress and danger your
01:07:01parents chose to put you in as a child, right?
01:07:07Your anxiety is because Trump's telling everyone to eat bleach or praised neo-Nazis or dumped
01:07:19koi fish into a pond or mocked a disabled reporter or is going to take away your freedoms
01:07:23or is going to end democracy.
01:07:25So all of that free-floating anxiety, which can't attach to its proper object because
01:07:29of the insecure bond, you know, if my daughter's upset with me, she comes to me and says, I'm
01:07:36upset with you.
01:07:38Good, that's what I want.
01:07:42And we try to, I don't, I can't even remember the last time we got to that position because
01:07:46I'm saying, how's it going, anything I can do better, different, anything I'm annoying
01:07:49you with because, you know, she's constantly changing and all of that, right?
01:07:52She's in her mid-teens right now, so it's constantly changing, so gotta adjust as things
01:07:56go on, right?
01:08:04So if you were put in a situation of stress and danger for years and years and years by
01:08:08your parents who then also kind of ignored you and then also frightened you with lurid
01:08:12tales of environmental apocalypses and so on, right?
01:08:16And neo-Nazis under every rock and people who want to take away your rights and your
01:08:20freedoms and we're so stressed and we're so worried and we're so terrified and it just
01:08:23accumulates, generation after generation.
01:08:28Daycare started coming in in force in the 1950s.
01:08:38And so what happens, right, 50s to 80s, 80s to 2010, so we got two, three generations
01:08:45cooking on this stuff, right?
01:08:47And some of these genetics, some of the trauma can be passed down genetically as well at
01:08:50that point.
01:08:53How many people in your life do you have who welcome criticism?
01:08:57They're not just okay with it, they're not just deal with it okay, it's not too bad.
01:09:01How many people in your life welcome criticism?
01:09:09Bomega says, I tried once to approach my father about something I was upset with him about,
01:09:13did not go well.
01:09:14No, it doesn't.
01:09:17It doesn't.
01:09:21It doesn't.
01:09:27John says, I imagined a lot of children of liberal mothers were unwanted accidents, a
01:09:31lot of the contempt for children comes from that.
01:09:34Well, you know, and if you are the son of a single mother who was abandoned or drove
01:09:39away the father, then if you have characteristics that remind her of the absent father, you're
01:09:51shit out of luck when it comes to parental bonding.
01:09:54It was unfair in my family, extremely unfair in my family, and my brother reminded my mother
01:09:59of my father and I reminded my mother of her father who she claimed to love and adore and
01:10:04all of that, and it was just absolutely unfair.
01:10:07Absolutely wrong.
01:10:08Absolutely unfair.
01:10:11What am I always doing?
01:10:12Please tell me where I've gotten wrong.
01:10:14Questions, criticisms, objections, I'm constantly open.
01:10:20People will, I actually found something in an old folder of mine, there's a guy who tore
01:10:24apart UPB or tried to a couple of years ago, I will deal with that.
01:10:27I will have the people criticize me, I'll read it, I'll review it, I'll go through it,
01:10:31I've got a whole section of rebuttals and yeah, I don't want to be wrong.
01:10:35Criticize me.
01:10:37The snarky, passive-aggressive guy who told me about the change in Canada's laws of consent
01:10:412008, great, you know, love to correct it.
01:10:44Don't want to be wrong.
01:10:46Don't want to be wrong.
01:10:50Did you ever have a boss who thanked you, who thanked you, for bringing something to
01:10:57his attention?
01:10:58Oh my gosh, thank you, I almost got that wrong.
01:11:01Woo, good catch, great catch man, good job, thank you.
01:11:06I can't even begin to imagine the children who were falsely blamed and put in time-outs
01:11:19and daycare, who had a worker who was mean to them, it's just terrible, yeah.
01:11:24James said, yeah, I had a similar dynamic, brother and I live with my father and I'm
01:11:27more similar to our mother than my brother is, brother was easily more favoured by my
01:11:30father, yeah.
01:11:32Criticism does not equal just saying you suck.
01:11:35Agreed, yeah, I mean, yes, perhaps I do, but how, and in what way?
01:11:40In the good Kamala Harris way, or the bad vacuum in space way?
01:11:45John, I appreciate your comments over on Rumble, very, very insightful, thank you.
01:11:54No, criticism is, you know, you've deviated from your values a bit, here's what you said,
01:11:58here's what happened, I'm upset with you about this, that, and the other, and yeah, I mean,
01:12:01can be emotional, can be positive, always great.
01:12:05Denise says, oh God, my boss told me to do something, I did it, he told me, I would never
01:12:14tell you to do something like that, and I sent him the email in which he told me to
01:12:17do it, and he then told me, my time is infinitely more valuable than yours, do not waste my
01:12:20time on things like this, right, oh God, I think we've all been there, I think we've
01:12:26all been there, with people who just want to admit that they're wrong.
01:12:35So, you understand how people with free-floating anxiety, who can't criticize their own parents
01:12:44because of the lack of bond, it's easy then to point that tension and that aggression
01:12:51at whoever the propagandists want attacked, right?
01:12:59Which is why, as daycare rates improve, free speech goes down, which is why, when I was
01:13:06a kid, if you disagreed with someone, or he proved you wrong in an argument, or he said
01:13:10something you found offensive, the idea of contacting his boss to get him fired would
01:13:14never have occurred to anyone, like it's so completely foreign and alien to any kind of
01:13:19thinking that was going around when I was growing up, now it's common, now it's common,
01:13:24now it's the default position, I'm going to find where you live and get you fired, right?
01:13:32I think Rob says, I think adulthood is mostly just being surrounded by traumatized people
01:13:35trying to get from other traumatized people what they didn't get in childhood.
01:13:38No, no, that's not it.
01:13:41I mean, that's certainly true, and I'm not trying to disagree with you fundamentally,
01:13:44but the people that I'm talking about are inflicting the trauma that was inflicted upon
01:13:52them on others, right?
01:13:58And if you look at the leftists, who were they attacking?
01:14:02They're attacking the kids with good parental bonds, right, because they're attacking in
01:14:07general conservatives, and conservatives love their children, I think, in more consistent
01:14:13ways, on average, and treasure their children.
01:14:16Children are the gift from God, you work with your children, you teach them, you invest
01:14:19in them, you pray with them, you worship with them, you take them to church, you, you know,
01:14:26the Christian families that I know are better parents than most of the atheists I know.
01:14:35So you understand that there's a tipping point in trauma, right, it's dark, man, it's dark,
01:14:45there's a tipping point in trauma where you then attack the healthy.
01:14:51You attack the healthy.
01:14:53And part of you is, and this is, you know, this is something I talk about, and really
01:14:58you've got to listen to this presentation on the French Revolution, as I go into this,
01:15:07right?
01:15:08The people who were put in daycare are angry at the people who cared for their own children
01:15:13because they feel abandoned and left behind, and it's safer to attack the Christian parents
01:15:18than their own liberal parents because the trauma bond, the insecure attachment, is with
01:15:23their own liberal parents.
01:15:25So it's easier to attack the parents with a strong pair bond rather than the parents
01:15:30with a weak pair bond.
01:15:32I hope this makes sense.
01:15:34It's a sense of being left behind.
01:15:37It's a sense of, you know, if you were friends with people in prison and they managed to
01:15:43escape and they left you behind, you'd be angry, not just at the guards who were still
01:15:47keeping you there, but you'd almost be more angry at the people who escaped and didn't
01:15:52help you and didn't toss you a key and didn't help you out and didn't come back for you.
01:15:57Does that make sense?
01:16:06You're all in the prison together, and a bunch of your friends break out, and they never
01:16:10come back, and they don't even toss you a key, and they don't unlock on their way out,
01:16:16and they don't take you with them.
01:16:18Who are you more mad at?
01:16:20The guards who keep you in or the friends who left you behind?
01:16:26Do you follow?
01:16:32Like you do understand, I'm sure, you do understand that my entire public career has
01:16:43been circling back to help those left behind.
01:16:53I could have been out decades ago, I could have been out among all the healthy, and I
01:16:58could never have circled back, and I could never have taken call-ins, and I could never
01:17:01have said, I'm not leaving the prison while there are still people in here who want to
01:17:07go.
01:17:11I can't leave people behind, mostly because I resented being left behind myself, and also
01:17:19because it's just bad for society.
01:17:21If you leave enough people behind, then they arise en masse as a resentful mob and destroy
01:17:31society.
01:17:37I got out in my 20s, and I'm still the catcher in the rye in my late 50s.
01:17:46Going back, going back, going back, going back, helping and helping and helping and
01:17:55doing whatever I can to help other people get out.
01:18:02That's the gig.
01:18:03I'm not leaving, I am not leaving anyone behind who wants to get out.
01:18:12Because that's what people do, right?
01:18:15They get out and they're like, fuck, I'm gone, I'm never going back, I'm never going back.
01:18:21I understand that, and I'm not bagging on people for that, I get that.
01:18:31But I so vividly and deeply remember what it was like feeling left behind, feeling that
01:18:44everyone was getting out and everyone was moving on, and I was so chained in the deep
01:18:51bottom of nothingness to a barely coherent mad ghost of a mother, trapped in the dungeon
01:19:00while everybody scales the ceilings to get to the light, and everyone's out and everyone's
01:19:06scampering past and whooping and cheering.
01:19:12And every now and then people would stop at the door to the cell and glance in, and they'd
01:19:18be like, hey, good luck with that, and whoop, off we go.
01:19:24And the prison was emptying out, and I felt like I wasn't just stuck at the bottom, but
01:19:29the bottom was sinking even further down.
01:19:36I think that's why the movie Titanic is resonant with a lot of people, because she goes back
01:19:43for Jack, right?
01:19:51And then won't share the raft anyway.
01:19:59But I can't enjoy the sunlight knowing that the pale half-golems that I was once trapped
01:20:13in the lightless and sightless depths below, I can't enjoy it, I can't.
01:20:29So many bodies rolling away, unavenged.
01:20:35So many people left behind in dirty cells, gnawing on half-rinds of old fish, trapped
01:20:44and chained, listening to the sounds of celebrations and fireworks, dances and nooptules up in
01:20:55the bright skylights of northern lights and rainbows and sunbeams and beauty and comets,
01:21:03and we're down, down in the guts of the planet and the depths of history, and the chained
01:21:12empty defenses of NPC madness, stuck, bodies going back a thousand generations, lashed
01:21:22to our legs.
01:21:29And we're down there because we want to save everyone who's chained to us.
01:21:36We can't get through the door with that burden of history, there are too many bodies chained
01:21:39to us to get through a door, so we stay there and we try and talk the people into coming
01:21:44back to life and learning to thirst and yearn for the bright air and the clear skies of
01:21:51the outside world, the above world, the Johnny Top Sides of the planet.
01:22:00And we're down there in this dinner party with the dead, eating dust and pretending
01:22:06it's protein, drinking dust and thinking it's wine, and trying to cajole corpses a thousand
01:22:18years dead into dancing their way out the door, up the stairs, hoping that their empty
01:22:32sockets won't be too hurt by the bright light.
01:22:39Because knowing who to leave behind and who you can bring with you is a delicate fucking
01:22:45project, it's a delicate art, man.
01:22:48Because if you try to save those who will never leave, you just lose yourself and never
01:22:52leave.
01:22:53But if you leave those behind who could be saved, their bodies and their ghosts come
01:23:01with you and haunt you, and then there is no real sunlight because there is nothing
01:23:08but blackness below and you see that with your inner eyes all the time and so there
01:23:12is no actual sunlight.
01:23:17There is only a slightly brighter scalding sunbeam that goes into the dungeon that is
01:23:21your heart, that you remember, that you leave people behind.
01:23:24I won't.
01:23:25I won't do it.
01:23:26I won't do it.
01:23:27I won't do it.
01:23:28I won't do it.
01:23:29I won't do it.
01:23:30I won't do it.
01:23:31I won't do it.
01:23:32I won't do it.
01:23:33I won't do it.
01:23:34I won't do it.
01:23:35I won't do it.
01:23:36I won't do it.
01:23:37I won't do it.
01:23:38I won't do it.
01:23:39I won't do it.
01:23:40I won't do it.
01:23:41I won't do it.
01:23:42I won't do it.
01:23:43I won't do it.
01:23:44I won't do it.
01:23:45I won't do it.
01:23:46I won't do it.
01:23:47I won't do it.
01:23:48I won't do it.
01:23:49I won't do it.
01:23:50I won't do it.
01:23:51I won't do it.
01:23:52I won't do it.
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01:23:54I won't do it.
01:23:55I won't do it.
01:23:56I won't do it.
01:23:57I won't do it.
01:23:58I won't do it.
01:23:59I won't do it.
01:24:00I won't do it.
01:24:01I won't do it.
01:24:02I won't do it.
01:24:03I won't do it.
01:24:04I won't do it.
01:24:05I won't do it.
01:24:06I won't do it.
01:24:07I won't do it.
01:24:08With this incredible conversation, for the first time in human history, none have to
01:24:21be left behind for us to escape.
01:24:29And shouldn't we provide what we were denied?
01:24:31Shouldn't we try to provide to the world what we most wanted and didn't get?
01:24:35I wanted someone to care when I was a kid.
01:24:41I wanted someone to circle back and listen, show some empathy, some care, some concern,
01:24:51but not infantilize me.
01:24:57I wanted someone to treat me as a delicate combination of both wounded and strong.
01:25:09I am wounded, but don't treat me as crippled.
01:25:14I am strong, but don't treat me as unwounded.
01:25:21And it's tough in the world.
01:25:28The other thought I had today was about how, if you look at the horrible falsehoods, incredibly
01:25:36destructive that it really designed to drive to violence people who are unstable, lies
01:25:40about me online, I'm criticized because apparently you're just supposed to forgive child abusers.
01:25:48Because they had bad childhoods and, you know, they abused children, but we've got
01:25:52to have sympathy.
01:25:53And it's like, well, I was a victim of child abuse and nobody gives me, even if I am egregiously
01:25:57wrong and bad and things that I say, why is it the child abusers get endless forgiveness,
01:26:03but I, because of their bad childhoods, but I get no forgiveness, but rather attacked
01:26:06despite the fact that I had a very bad childhood.
01:26:14Rob says, this is what I think about my 15 years as a psychotherapist.
01:26:17Ah, yes, you are going back to save the left behinders, right?
01:26:36Because if you're out, you want to be out.
01:26:43And you see this, of course, all the time in movies, right?
01:26:50They kill the bad wizard and the castle is beginning to collapse and masonry is falling
01:26:54from the ceiling and everything's cracking apart and they have to go back to save someone.
01:26:58Or the Marines, we don't leave anyone behind, even if they're dead.
01:27:04No man left behind.
01:27:07No child left behind was a hundred billion dollar boondoggle back in the day, trying
01:27:14to close IQ gaps in achievement.
01:27:19It is such a common story to go back and not leave people behind, right?
01:27:29It's always the same, right?
01:27:30You said someone gets wounded and somebody props them up and they try to run and move
01:27:34forward.
01:27:35And their leg hurts and what's it all about?
01:27:38What are we always seeing all the time?
01:27:45If you leave enough people behind, all they do is tunnel horizontally under your society
01:27:53and the whole fucking thing collapses.
01:27:58If you leave enough people behind, the resentment, which I understand and I don't even fault
01:28:06people for it, but the rage and resentment, this is one of the reasons why, particularly
01:28:09in a state of society, economic progress causes this unbelievable backlash because people
01:28:15feel left behind.
01:28:20And we can't give money to everyone without making money useless to everyone.
01:28:27So, surely there can be no rational limit on the compassion we can give to the wounded
01:28:35to say, you are wounded and strong.
01:28:40Because that's how we heal.
01:28:45We say, you are wounded and can heal.
01:28:49Because if you're wounded and you can't heal, the doctors can't do much and you go somewhere
01:28:52else, maybe to the morgue, a funeral home.
01:28:57I went to a funeral today.
01:29:08And I'm of the age where the funerals start coming thick as crows.
01:29:16They start to cluster and circle, like vultures, if you're staggering across a desert, the
01:29:24horses begin to circle above you.
01:29:33And because the gathering clouds of gravestones are floating above my time in the generations,
01:29:46you do think about your legacy, you do think about what you're going to leave behind and
01:29:49what your footprints in history are going to be, what will be written on your gravestone.
01:30:04And I think when you have a lot of gifts, and the gift of spontaneous communication
01:30:11is remarkable within me and surprises me almost every time.
01:30:22And the funeral that I was at today had a lot of people.
01:30:35I want what they say about you after you're gone.
01:30:43And what I want, I think, for people to get are what moves me the most and what motivates
01:30:48me the most.
01:30:57It's something like, I don't know exactly how to phrase this, which is unusual for me,
01:31:00but that's where it is.
01:31:01I'm right at the edge of my unconscious and understanding.
01:31:06It is, he found the way out and came back.
01:31:19Yeah.
01:31:24He found the way out and came back.
01:31:33Because the story in Plato's cave is that the philosopher finds the way out of the caves,
01:31:43comes back and they kill him.
01:31:45Now, there's always that risk, and Lord knows that's been promised to me on more than one
01:31:49occasion.
01:31:50But he found the way out and came back.
01:32:05Because I feel like this show is almost like an underground railroad for victims of abuse
01:32:10to get to the light.
01:32:20And since I wanted people to come back, because, you know, it happens, somebody comes along
01:32:29in a generation of trauma and abuse and is less bad, less abusive, less something, and
01:32:34then it changes the whole course of the gene pool, right?
01:32:43And they get out.
01:32:45And they never come back, they just get out.
01:32:52This is a widening divide, rich and poor, functional and dysfunctional.
01:32:55You get out and you never want to go back.
01:32:59And then the problem is that all of the functional, all of the more functional people gather over
01:33:02here and all the less functional people are over there.
01:33:05And anybody who gets out of the less functional sprints to the functional and never goes back.
01:33:09And it just widens.
01:33:12You take all the healthy people out of the messed up people and they never go back.
01:33:18And then the messed up people, the dysfunctional people, the trapped people, the victimized
01:33:24people, the abused people, the broken people look over at the shining city on the hill
01:33:27that has these big giant walls.
01:33:29None shall pass!
01:33:38But that doesn't work in society.
01:33:45It doesn't work with the state in particular because those left behind rage at those who've
01:33:54escaped and never came back.
01:33:59I was around a fair number of functional families when I was a kid.
01:34:04Honestly, it was a real gift for me.
01:34:06I wasn't just trapped in this absolute underworld.
01:34:13I mean, I was on a lot of sports teams, I did tennis, I did water polo, I was on the
01:34:20swim team, I was on the cross-country running team, I played a lot of soccer, volleyball.
01:34:33So I was around the sports kids and a lot of the sports kids have some pretty functional
01:34:36households, man.
01:34:38You know this idea that the jock is mean and the mangy kids and the weak kids are really
01:34:42nice and great?
01:34:43It's usually not the case.
01:34:45Jocks were pretty nice, man.
01:34:47But impatient and didn't circle back, didn't come back, because they're just robustly healthy.
01:34:54So I was around those.
01:34:56Believe it or not, the Dungeons and Dragons kids, a lot of them had some pretty nice households.
01:34:59They really did.
01:35:01The computer kids, a lot of them had some pretty nice households.
01:35:03I was around them.
01:35:05Years and years and years and years and years.
01:35:09Nobody ever asked me once.
01:35:10Everybody knew.
01:35:11Everybody knew.
01:35:12They could see the dysfunction in the household.
01:35:13They witnessed it directly.
01:35:14Nobody ever said anything.
01:35:15Nobody.
01:35:16They were gone, baby.
01:35:19Good fucking luck, kid.
01:35:21We're out.
01:35:22We're in the city on the hill.
01:35:23You're down on Trash Planet.
01:35:26You're underground.
01:35:27We're above ground.
01:35:28Claw your way out, but we're gone and we ain't coming back.
01:35:39And everybody's just scrambling to get away.
01:35:42Get away.
01:35:43Get away.
01:35:44Get away.
01:35:45And then the gap between the functional and the dysfunctional gets wider and wider and
01:35:51wider and then eventually, blowback.
01:35:55Blowback.
01:35:56I have rarely said no to a call-in.
01:36:04Rarely.
01:36:05I've been in call-ins where information comes up that's so shocking, I want to throw the
01:36:20headset off a cliff, but I grit my teeth and I hang in and I hang on.
01:36:34Because if I can soar through those bars ... Well, somebody says, I've tried to go back, but
01:36:49I don't have the talent to truly help.
01:36:50My communication skills just aren't sufficient.
01:36:52I appreciate that.
01:36:53You could be absolutely right.
01:36:55But that's the amazing thing, is that I don't have to go back and scour the dungeons, open
01:37:02the doors, poke my head in, and people drag me in and feast on my corpse.
01:37:09I get tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap.
01:37:16That's what I get.
01:37:19Help me, help me, help me.
01:37:20I want out, I want out, I want out.
01:37:23I know there's something up there.
01:37:24I can hear people moving.
01:37:25I can hear people singing.
01:37:27I can hear the faint sounds of celebrations in amongst the droning NPC lament of those
01:37:34trapped and who trapped me down here.
01:37:37So I get the tap, tap, tap.
01:37:42I get the bat signal.
01:37:52And I can't go down to everybody's circumstances, but I can tell them the path out.
01:37:59To be wounded and to be strong.
01:38:01To be wounded and not fake your strength.
01:38:05To be strong, do not exaggerate your wounds.
01:38:11The pretense of strength is a weakness.
01:38:14Don't make the pretense of weakness a strength.
01:38:19And so I go in and I wrestle with the guards and I wrestle with the larks and I wrestle
01:38:23and I try to talk people out.
01:38:38And I don't know a better way to live for the world.
01:38:47I don't.
01:38:52He got out and came the fuck back.
01:38:53That's all I want on my tombstone, maybe not, but the f-bomb.
01:39:00He got out and could have got away.
01:39:03He was safe and he came back.
01:39:11Because I think that's the one thing that hasn't really been tried.
01:39:23Most people who get out, they're just gone, baby, they're just gone.
01:39:32Black Sword Ridge, yeah, yeah.
01:39:40The father in Tennessee Williams' Glass Menagerie, the telephone salesman who fell in love with
01:39:48long distance.
01:39:49How did anyone ever get out of a coffin without busting a nail?
01:39:53Picture the father.
01:39:55He got out, he never came back.
01:39:58My father got out, never really came back.
01:40:01Other people whose gene pools got out never came back, never even acknowledged that I
01:40:04was in the prison.
01:40:05And I was like, that's really going to piss people off.
01:40:12It's really going to piss people off to be left behind like that and to have the world
01:40:17divided into the haves and the have-nots.
01:40:21And the haves and the have-nots is just empathy.
01:40:25Those who have received empathy and love and compassion and those who have received
01:40:32scalding and scars and whips.
01:40:37Somebody says, people like Stefan throw you a lifeline when you're drowning, people like
01:40:41my father throw you a fucking anchor, yeah, I'm sorry about that, I'm sorry about that.
01:40:50So if you want to do good things in the world and the world keeps going bad, you've got
01:40:55to try something that hasn't been tried before.
01:41:01And I think that they're coming back with the exit map.
01:41:11You're welcome for coming back, it is my pleasure.
01:41:16There's nothing more healing than to provide what you were denied.
01:41:21Nobody came back from me, I know how painful that is, I know how you feel like a lost chained
01:41:25soul in a dungeon that falls to the center of the earth into nothing.
01:41:31Somebody says, you saved me and my family, we talk about you almost every day, you're
01:41:34a real hero to us.
01:41:35Well, I appreciate that, I really do.
01:41:37And I don't mean to minimize the compliment, honestly, I don't feel I could have done it
01:41:43any other way.
01:41:45It's like the money, the dangles, you know, and I've had money, I've had money offered
01:41:49over the years, I've had money offered over the years to do X, Y, or Z, and I'm, no, no.
01:41:57Now we've got an entire world full of people who'll compromise.
01:42:03Why not just have a couple of people who don't?
01:42:07How about, in the giant auction of the human soul, we have a couple of people not for sale?
01:42:15How about that?
01:42:17Just a couple.
01:42:18Doesn't have to be too many, just a couple of people not for sale.
01:42:30And that is, the purpose of philosophy is to save the souls of the self-damned.
01:42:37I can't save the souls of the damned, but I can save the souls of the self-damned by
01:42:42wrestling with the falsehoods that keep them in hell.
01:42:51And that's what makes it all worthwhile.
01:42:54And you guys make it all worthwhile, and I'm genuinely sincere about that.
01:42:58I could not do this project of coming back without people tapping and listening.
01:43:06And especially, like, early on now, it's a bit more established that people early on
01:43:09is like, well, there's nothing like this in the world.
01:43:12This is completely bizarre that philosophy is used in this particular way.
01:43:18That you have self-knowledge plus deep morality combined for the first time that I've known
01:43:25of in human history, mostly because of technology, partly because of me, and has a lot to do
01:43:29with the generosity and kindness of the listeners.
01:43:32Because when I opened up the call-in shows, I got to tell you, I had no idea that it was
01:43:36going to go this particular way.
01:43:38I thought it would give me a lot of debates, some UPB, some property rights, some capitalism
01:43:42versus socialism or whatever, and some great stuff.
01:43:44I enjoy that stuff.
01:43:45There's no problem with that.
01:43:46Economics and all of that.
01:43:48I didn't know that it was going to be this giant portal of hands reaching from dungeons.
01:44:02I didn't know.
01:44:05And then the moment I saw the hands, how do you... you can't walk away from the hands
01:44:09reaching, because I was one of those hands.
01:44:12Philosophy saved me, I'll try to help it save others.
01:44:15And once you see the hands, black and bloody, broken, bruised, the hands reaching through
01:44:23the grates, the hands reaching through the bars, what are you supposed to do?
01:44:26Well, I've got to go catch a movie.
01:44:29Hey, let's go to a disco.
01:44:31It's like you understand that the hands are there, always.
01:44:45Once you see...
01:44:46I don't know why people don't see the hands.
01:44:47I don't know why people don't see the hands and try to help.
01:44:49The hands through the bars.
01:44:50I don't see it.
01:44:51How do people not see it?
01:44:52You're walking down.
01:44:53It's the same world.
01:44:54I keep talking about the upside, like the surface and the dungeon, no, we're all in
01:44:58the same place.
01:44:59That's what the wild thing about it.
01:45:01I use these analogies of distance, but there's no distance at all.
01:45:07You're literally stepping over, hands reaching from floor grates to get to your yacht, because
01:45:24if you're on the surface and there are people a mile underground, it's easy to forget them,
01:45:27but they're everywhere, everywhere you go, always.
01:45:31There are the hands reaching through the bars, the pleas, the cries, the sounds, the need.
01:45:38How do you ignore that?
01:45:39How do people ignore that?
01:45:40I don't know.
01:45:41I don't know, but they do, they do, and then they create a subterranean resentful blowback
01:45:48that takes down their civilization.
01:46:01You know, life just, for me, it just, life gets just so much easier, more pleasant when
01:46:05I just, you know, say let Jesus take the wheel, it's philosophy, let philosophy take the wheel.
01:46:14What does philosophy dictate?
01:46:15I'll do that, because that's new.
01:46:17But philosophy dictates things in the real world to actually be a benefit to people.
01:46:21I'll just do that, I'll just do that.
01:46:24Not that complicated.
01:46:26It can be difficult at times, I'll admit that.
01:46:29Doesn't go the way that I want it to at times, that's fine.
01:46:33Like I know what the hell I'm supposed to be doing, I mean, I'm part of a larger set
01:46:37of forces.
01:46:48But it's just so much easier and better to just say, what does reason and virtue dictate
01:46:57that the world needs?
01:47:00And it's funny, because, you know, I came up in the business world as a marketing and
01:47:03all of that, so I'm like, okay, well, what are people going to tell me what philosophy
01:47:10should do?
01:47:11People are going to tell me, open conversation, open it up, open it up, hope I started talking
01:47:16about my childhood second or third show, just going to open it up, talk honestly.
01:47:21What do people want?
01:47:27And you all have told me for 18 years what you want, and I've done my best, and I think
01:47:31I've done a great job, at least the best job that I can do in trying to provide it.
01:47:38Somebody said, somebody says, I had decided to bring up the physical abuse and neglect
01:47:42from my father during my childhood.
01:47:43He responded with yelling and droned on about how much he has been, how much has been given
01:47:48monetarily when that didn't work, the manipulation, he came at me with a fist not wavering, I
01:47:52said goodbye forever, never felt more free, sad, I really pity him.
01:47:57If people knew how much fun it was to be good, they would not really be tempted by evil.
01:48:02And I'm sorry about that story, but it's almost a relief getting that kind of clarity.
01:48:10For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, yeah.
01:48:14People are like, damn, I'm out, I'm not going back, everyone stuck back there are losers.
01:48:20Okay, welcome to the angry mob of the eternally rejected.
01:48:26Nope.
01:48:27Nope, nope, nope.
01:48:29All right.
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01:50:00Have yourself a glorious evening.
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