Stefan Molyneux
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In this episode, I compare gold's drastic decline in value against Bitcoin, revealing a 99.9% drop since 2011. I discuss insights from the House COVID Committee report that validate my earlier concerns about the pandemic's origins.

I also cover the proposed Dutch exit tax and its implications for international citizenship, alongside soaring housing prices in the U.S. and their impact on younger generations. Finally, I explore Bitcoin's potential as an asset and reflect on the themes of censorship and societal tolerance, linking these issues to broader economic and political dynamics.

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Transcript
00:00Yo, yo, everybody, it's Fem Nolanu, let's do a little tour through social media.
00:08Land from Rajat Soni, one ounce of gold cost 592 Bitcoin in 2011.
00:14Today it cost 0.020688 Bitcoin, a 99.9% loss of value of gold relative to Bitcoin.
00:22That is quite a thousand times increase in the value of Bitcoin relative to gold.
00:27That seems quite important.
00:29From Eric Doherty, the House COVID Committee has released its final report after a two-year
00:32investigation.
00:33Now, for those of you who haven't been around for a while, it was about four years ago I
00:37put out the truth about COVID and Wuhan, the China lab and release and so on, and I got
00:48hammered really hard, a conspiracy theorist, it's all wrong.
00:50So that's the problem with censorship, is that you get hammered for being early and
00:53right but you get no restitution or recognition for being late and when people catch up with
01:00you later, right?
01:01So what are the major findings?
01:02The NIH funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, wild.
01:06The Constitution can't be suspended in times of crisis, well of course, otherwise they
01:10just invent crises to suspend the Constitution.
01:12COVID emerging from a lab leak is not a conspiracy theory.
01:16So that is really quite important.
01:21And the fact that they have not found, they said it comes from pangolins or bats or whatever,
01:25they haven't found any source of this.
01:27So it's not a conspiracy theory, it was a perfectly valid and actually quite accurate
01:31line of inquiry, and you get hammered.
01:35And this is how a society just punishes its truth-tellers over and over again, is you
01:38get hammered for being right and early and get no restitution when everyone else catches
01:42up.
01:43So, good luck with the world.
01:44All right, a Dutch exit tax, it's actually quite common around the world.
01:49The Netherlands proposes a new exit tax for citizens who leave the country.
01:53Income and presumably capital gains to be taxed for five years after leaving the country
01:57expected into effect in 2025.
01:59Yeah, they don't want people to get out.
02:03I mean, this is a great experiment in Europe, the EU, let's have no borders.
02:09And of course, we can see how all of that is working.
02:12James Lavish, oh, Eleanor Lavish from Remove the View, says Bitcoin is, quote, 0.2% right
02:18now at 1% of the total global assets.
02:21Bitcoin is a $9 trillion asset worth about $450,000, at 3% it's worth $1.3 million per
02:27Bitcoin.
02:29Well, that seems quite important.
02:33That's this little graph there, and I'll put the link in the show so you can watch the
02:37whole presentation, but it is very, very interesting.
02:40This hurts me and pains me as a bald guy.
02:44So here are animals and how they look without fur.
02:48It turns into a half-elephant demon beast, a bear.
02:53Chimpanzees, well, you find out how buff they actually are, and they look like something
02:58that's been fashioned from somebody's lower intestines and a testicle sack.
03:02That really is something.
03:03A parrot's absolutely beautiful, look at that, oh God, demon bird, that is your nightmare.
03:10Human sleep destructor.
03:11Raccoons, kind of furry, kind of cute, a little dangerous.
03:14And here they look like rats that have swallowed too much helium and inflated beyond human
03:20proportions.
03:21Fluffy bunnies, oh, so cute and beautiful.
03:24And they look pretty traumatized.
03:27And what is that?
03:28Yeah, a wrinkled forehead with ears.
03:31You take off the, I guess feathers aren't fur, neither are spines.
03:35Horses, majestic and beautiful.
03:37And again, a kind of muscular nightmare fuel.
03:41Owls, yeah, that's not good.
03:44That looks like something that will steal your soul while you wait in line at the DMV.
03:49Oh, I was going over this.
03:51This is from the great Anthony Pompliano.
03:54That is, he is the all-smiling, all-dancing Chad of the Bitcoin universe, a great guy.
04:01Average rent in America was $27 a month in 1938.
04:05New home cost under $4,000.
04:07So a new house was $3,900.
04:08The average income is $1,731.
04:13So a little more than twice the average income was a new house, of course taxes were lower
04:20in general.
04:21But yeah, it really is something how much, and of course my daughter was saying, why
04:27if the house price has gone up so much?
04:29And you know, anytime you have these things, you just need to look at two things, supply
04:33and demand.
04:34The supply of new housing is diminished because of all of the regulations and costs and expenses
04:38of building a new house.
04:41And of course, demand is up.
04:42If you have, you know, a bunch of kids, then they usually start buying their houses, you
04:47know, 30 or so, late 20s, early 30s.
04:50So you've got three decades to build the houses.
04:51But when you have a bunch of adults who come in through immigration, they want houses right
04:55away and they're used to a lower standard of living.
04:57So they'll snap up the houses and live, you know, six, seven people to a house or more.
05:03So yeah, it's really tragic.
05:05And the unfortunate thing, of course, is that most people want to do better than their parents.
05:10And if they feel they're going to do worse than their parents, that discourages them
05:14from having children, which is a big, big problem.
05:16All right.
05:17New car, 860 bucks, average rent, $27 per month.
05:22Going to Harvard University, $4.20 per year, movie ticket, $0.25, gasoline, $0.10 a gallon,
05:30$0.03 for a postage stamp.
05:32Just wild.
05:35Since 2019, 47% of new jobs in Canada were in the government.
05:41It's mostly a fantasy economy up here in the great white north that is sustained through
05:47debt and drained through remittances, which we'll get to later, and government jobs.
05:53Bitcoin for freedom, this is 10 hours ago.
05:55Rumors of Saudi stacking, 48 days until Trump takes office.
05:58Saylor presenting to the Microsoft board.
06:01U.S. states are looking at Bitcoin reserves.
06:03BRICS wants to break free from the U.S. dollars.
06:04Of course, Trump is threatening them with 100% tariffs if they try to do that.
06:08115,000 Bitcoin have been taken off exchanges in the last 30 days.
06:12MicroStrategy is consuming the $135 trillion bond market.
06:17It's interesting because the government has a bunch of Bitcoin from Silk Road,
06:21about 10,000 Bitcoin or something like that, or more, and they've moved them to a new address.
06:25My guess would be that before Trump gets in, the U.S. will start dumping Bitcoin so that
06:30insiders can snap it up at reduced prices.
06:32That would be my guess.
06:33Who knows, right?
06:34Here's my entire business plan.
06:36Fell years ago, never gave up.
06:37I love this tree that fell over and just continued to grow.
06:42Will is everything in life.
06:43Everything else is a footnote.
06:44All right.
06:46Oh, this, I was going to read this to my daughter, because Brain Rot is sort of this young, skibbity
06:51toilet Sigma stuff, and this guy, he's very funny and very witty, and morals are actually
06:57pretty simple.
06:58So simple, in fact, that we put them in stories meant for children hundreds of years ago.
07:01If you don't know the ant and the grasshopper, the story goes like this.
07:05The ant stayed on his Sigma grind set all the way through the happy summer weather while
07:08the grasshopper neat-maxed.
07:10That's not an education, employment, or training.
07:14The grasshopper neat-maxed and tried to blow up on sand clouds.
07:16It's great.
07:17Then when, I actually know what this stuff means, that's, then when winter rolled around,
07:22the ant was prepped and comfy AF while the grasshopper was stuck outside in the cold.
07:27We need equitable access to housing and food for underserved communities, cried the grasshopper.
07:31I'm being systemically oppressed.
07:33But the ant stayed inside and looked out this window.
07:35It's not that deep, bruh, he thought to himself.
07:37A skill issue.
07:38Then the grasshopper presumably died.
07:40The moral is the same as in the Bible.
07:42He who does not work shall not eat.
07:45Whenever morality gets more complicated than that, it's usually a sign that someone's up
07:48to no good and morality is super complicated these days.
07:51If the ant and the grasshopper lived in today's world, the story wouldn't make sense without
07:54a mosquito pushing handout laws through ant congress called No Grasshopper Left Behind
07:58taking 10% off the top for himself and paying news ants to call the worker ant hateful on
08:03ant TV if he complained about the situation.
08:06If you can't write a simple children's story with your morals in it, they're probably not
08:09morals at all.
08:10It's very good.
08:11It's very, very funny and well worth a look.
08:14Did I lose all of that?
08:16Yes, I did.
08:17All right.
08:18So, yeah, it sort of struck me that if the libertarians, I don't think any libertarian
08:22that was, David Gordon did a really bad review of universally preferable behavior.
08:29But if any of the libertarians, particularly the academic libertarians, when I was in contact
08:33with back then when I published UPB like 13 years ago or whatever, if any of the libertarians
08:41had given a review to UPB, it would have enormously helped the theory as a whole.
08:48But they didn't, which, well, history will judge.
08:53It's so much in the rear view for me now.
08:54I'm just happy to have done the work and it will be the future to unearth and spread it.
08:59In July 2010, this is from Bloomberg, Professor Murray Strauss published, I always think of
09:05dancing spaceships at this point, published an article called 30 Years of Denying the
09:08Evidence on Gender Symmetry in Partner Violence, Implications for Prevention and Treatment
09:13that highlighted censorship of the evidence of equal rates of partner violence among the
09:16sexes.
09:18I know this goes without saying, but partner violence cannot be conflated with other forms
09:22of violence such as street crime.
09:24In this thread, I will post screenshots of his summary for each of the seven methods
09:28used to censor that evidence.
09:32It's really, yeah, conceal the evidence and you can look at this in more detail, but female
09:39power through the court system to be victims is so intense that any sort of 50-50 partner
09:45violence statistics have to be buried.
09:48That's just for me.
09:49I love listening to good singers.
09:51The passage from Schopenhauer is so brilliantly brutal.
09:54He writes, we are always living in expectations, expectation of better things, while at the
10:00same time we often repent and long to have the past back again.
10:03We look upon the present as something to be put up with while it lasts and serving only
10:07as the way towards our goal.
10:09Hence most people, if they glance back when they come to the end of their life, will find
10:14that all along they have been living at interim.
10:16They will be surprised to find that the very thing they disregarded and let slip by and
10:20enjoyed was just their life.
10:22That is to say, it was the very thing in the expectation of which they lived.
10:26Of how many a man, may it not be said, that hope made a fool of him until he danced into
10:29the arms of death.
10:31Yeah, so, you know, there's a funny thing that happens when you start getting close
10:38to 60 is that, and I've read this in a number of autobiographies, that your teenage years
10:43start to come back.
10:45Maybe it's like a 40-year, like 40 years ago I was 18, right, so maybe it's a 40-45 year
10:50thing but your teenage years start to come back with more happiness than sometimes you
10:58experienced at the time.
10:59Although, I would say I had a pretty good teenage life.
11:01I mean, I worked hard, I dated, and had great roommates, and was parent-free from 15 onwards
11:07and all of that, so yeah, so enjoy your life.
11:12Don't look back and say, I wish I'd enjoyed it more.
11:14Really, really try to enjoy things at the moment, and even negative things, like even
11:19negative things are worth enjoying as something that helps you enjoy the positive more.
11:26Like if you have a health issue and then it gets resolved, then that is part of how
11:31you enjoy your good health, right?
11:35Canada sends more remittances per capita than almost any nation.
11:40Yes.
11:43You should watch this, I won't do the whole thing.
11:46The fact that Michael Saylor, you know, who I think in the long run is going to outrun
11:52Elon Musk in capital accumulation, the fact that Michael Saylor only gets three minutes
11:57to talk to Microsoft, my god, I mean, take Microsoft Windows three minutes to boot up
12:02sometimes.
12:03Yeah, they're not mentally ill, they're not mentally ill.
12:09Says, my mother, a two-time Trump voter in Florida, has moved closer to us in a safely
12:12blue state.
12:13While I don't know what her vote was in the 2024 presidential election, it wouldn't have
12:17affected the outcome.
12:18I strongly oppose Trump, as do my wife and family who live nearby.
12:22Now, this is just not true, 99% of people just hate who they're told to hate and love
12:29who they're told to love.
12:31That's it, that they can't, they have no standard by which to evaluate things.
12:34All they do is they're usually, you know, physically weak and they simply then have
12:41to go along with the hurt.
12:43And the idea that you would hate someone without knowing great details about their life, the
12:48fact that you would hate someone just because someone tells you that they're hateful or
12:51negative or, you know, I mean, that really is one of the greatest human corruptions of
12:56all time.
12:57And it is the reason why good people often die like dogs in a deep and dark corner.
13:03So the fact that you wouldn't be troubled by, okay, I've been told to hate this person,
13:08why am I told to hate this person?
13:09And what are the actual facts?
13:11They don't think that, it's really, really sad.
13:14Well, and horrifying, right?
13:17I'm troubled by my mother's support of someone I consider morally abhorrent and dangerous.
13:21Especially when she voted in a form of swing state.
13:24Morally abhorrent and dangerous.
13:26No, you don't have any objective morals.
13:29And dangerous is simply something that you've been told, right?
13:34With the results of the 2024 election, my wife and her family directed their understanding,
13:38understandable fury at my mother.
13:39No, maybe you've just been taught to hate your own flesh and blood by propagandists.
13:44My wife's sister said if she voted for Trump again, I'm completely done with her.
13:48I expect that the next time they interact, it will not be pretty, but my mother is a
13:51member of our family and an invaluable caregiver to our children, right?
13:54She's pleasant and kind in daily life and moved far from her home primarily for us and
13:58her grandkids.
13:59And she is my mother after all.
14:00So look at that.
14:02She's a wonderful caregiver, great grandmother, pleasant and kind in daily life.
14:06None of that matters because you've been taught to hate.
14:11And to surrender your reason to propaganda is like voluntarily getting rabies as a dog.
14:17Hydrophobic, like you just become feral.
14:19You are turned into a blind, programmed attack robot with no sense of self or soul.
14:26It is just appalling, right?
14:29Oh, she's wonderful.
14:31She's great.
14:32She loves the grandkids, pleasant and kind, and is moved just to help out with the grandkids.
14:38Your mother, it doesn't matter.
14:39If you're told to hate someone, the fact that they're kind and pleasant and moral and they
14:43make sacrifices for your family and are gentle and kind to your kids doesn't matter.
14:48You are taught to hate them.
14:50You're taught to hate them and hate you well.
14:52And this is barely sentient.
14:54He says, I'm torn.
14:57My wife and her family expect me to book no compromise and to speak out on an issue that
15:00feels existential to them as it does to me.
15:02But because I know that her vote here doesn't make a difference, I have trouble feeling
15:05motivated to admonish her for her past and possibly present support of Trump.
15:10Now, of course, people don't support Trump.
15:13Trump's just some orange guy with a whirlpool blonde hairdo.
15:18It's not support of Trump.
15:19It's particular values that they prefer, a particular approach they like has a lot to
15:23do with wanting the government to be smaller and less intrusion and so on, rule of law.
15:29So people don't just blindly support Trump.
15:33They expect Trump to do positive things in their life.
15:35And of course, the same thing's true of those who support Kamala Harris and so on.
15:39So it's not support of Trump.
15:42If people oppose you politically, it's important to look at what values they're hoping to achieve
15:46through their political support and then see if you can find a way to align on those
15:49values, right?
15:50At the very least, they don't think I should expect them to be anything other than completely
15:54unfiltered with my mother.
15:57I appreciate the sacrifices my mother has made to be near her family and her children.
16:01And her kids love their grandma.
16:03And she is the woman who raised me.
16:04But my wife and her family will be channeling their anger at one of the few Trump voters
16:07they personally know.
16:09And my mother expects me to intervene and speak up for her.
16:12Or to encourage my wife's family to be more civil.
16:14She sees her vote as a personal choice and doesn't seem to believe that she should be
16:17criticized for it.
16:19Ethically, is it wrong for me to hold my tongue or to try to negotiate the peace even though
16:23I agree with the substance of my wife's family's position?
16:26If I try to protect my mother from vitriol, would I be betraying myself and my wife and
16:29her family in order to preserve harmony and childcare?
16:31Or would I be justified in suggesting that we all lay down our arms given that her vote
16:36no longer affects the national outcome?
16:38If I try to completely opt out of having a role in this conflict, am I doing a disservice
16:41to all parties involved?
16:43What do we owe to ourselves and the respective warring sides in a situation such as this?
16:48Yeah, yeah, yep, yep, yep, well, what can I tell you?
16:57I mean, it's tough.
17:01When you get an ideologue in your life, it is very tough.
17:06You can't reason with them.
17:08And a lot of times, of course, it's people who are on the receiving end of government
17:11money just trying to protect the tax farm, right?
17:16President Trump plans to immediately rescind all of the Biden administration's student
17:18loan forgiveness plans once he takes office.
17:20Let's go.
17:22The Gender Studies for Men X account says this is really important to men.
17:26Women owe 80% of student loan debt.
17:29Biden's forgiveness largesse was to take tax money, 80% of which is paid by men, and give
17:33it to women trained in college to hate men by forgiving their student loans.
17:37Yeah, so it used to be that people who didn't plan ahead were kind of wiped out by winter
17:45and cold climates.
17:46And now, people who don't plan ahead, people who get useless, whether Kevin Samuels, I'm
17:53a PhD, right?
17:54The people who get these useless degrees and don't think about, okay, who's going to pay
17:57for it?
17:58How's this going to affect my sexual market value?
18:00What man is going to want to take on $100,000 or $150,000 of debt in order to have kids
18:05with me?
18:06So winter is simply not thinking about debt, and people aren't dying directly, of course,
18:11but it means that their odds of reproducing get considerably lower, and debt is the new
18:18winter.
18:19Now, is this true?
18:22This is pretty wild to me.
18:23I did not know this.
18:24Santiago Pliego says the challenge is that most of US law is behind paywall and copyright.
18:30Seems insane, but it's true.
18:32Thomson and Reuters owns the copyright and has sued the only other company that has a
18:36private and legal copy of the entire corpus of US law.
18:40So this is an AI.
18:42Is it true that a lot of US law is behind paywall?
18:44Yes, a significant amount of US law, particularly federal court records, is behind a paywall.
18:50The PACER system charges fees for access to these records, which has been criticized for
18:53limiting transparency and accessibility.
18:56Isn't that wild?
19:00They should, of course, be an AI model.
19:02They should be an AI model that's trained on law, that you should be able to ask if
19:05you're in compliance or not, and that should be admissible in court.
19:08Because if AI can't figure out the law, how can human beings be subject to it, right?
19:16Yes, whenever people say the word fragile, to me, this is just narcissistic contempt
19:21for people who disagree.
19:22So listen to this.
19:23For him to take their money away and give it back, in all my years, I've never seen
19:29anything as fragile as a MAGA man.
19:34Listen, this is completely shallow and ridiculous.
19:36She can't help her voice.
19:37But I will tell you this.
19:38You know, one of the things that is extremely pleasant about being married to my wife, one
19:43of the many things that's extremely pleasant about being married to my wife, is the fact
19:47that she has a very, very pleasant voice, a lovely voice to listen to.
19:52I personally, you know, it's like nails on a chalkboard, however lovely this woman may
19:55be, and I don't think she is, but I could not spend, you know, 50 years listening to
20:00this voice.
20:01Bracket.
20:02In all my years, I've never seen anything as fragile as a MAGA man.
20:07Not only do they go around worshiping.
20:09So she considers the MAGA man fragile, right?
20:14And she can't be seen on social media without literally cannon-fired globs of clown sex
20:20makeup.
20:22Look at these lips.
20:23Look at the eyeliner, the mascara, the artificial eyelashes, or the pumped-up eyelashes, the
20:28trimmed eyebrows, I assume the dyed hair.
20:31And so she considers Trump voters fragile, but she can't show her real face.
20:38She basically has to turn into this Kabuki Picasso painting of hypersexuality.
20:42An 80-year-old, overweight, unhealthy man who wears more makeup than anyone I've ever met.
20:50So Trump wears more makeup.
20:51I mean, honestly, honestly, how are we supposed to believe that Trump wears more makeup than
20:56anyone I've ever met?
20:58You're literally looking into a camera, which is, you're literally looking at someone who
21:03wears infinitely more makeup than Trump.
21:05I don't even know.
21:06Like, how can you say this?
21:07Lack of self-awareness.
21:08I just, it's truly staggering.
21:09Do these people not have an observing ego that tells them when they're being completely
21:13contradictory and ridiculous?
21:15They take his win as some kind of personal victory for them, when 95% of his voters do
21:21not fall into the tax bracket that will benefit in any way from his presidency.
21:28Yeah, this idea that Trump only cuts taxes for the rich, I mean, it was really under
21:35Biden that trillions of dollars were transferred from the poor and the middle class to the
21:39upper class.
21:41Like, trillions of dollars under COVID transferred from the poor and the middle class to the
21:46upper classes, the very top tier billionaires.
21:49And yeah, I mean, so I don't know.
21:53It's strange to me.
21:54And the idea that, you know, Trump is interested in getting rid of the income tax and relying
22:00on tariffs, which would be amazing for the domestic U.S. economy.
22:04And they just, these are just people, they've been told what to say.
22:09And I don't, all I see in those eyeballs is matrix code.
22:13It's just programming from propagandists to repeat stuff.
22:17They voted for him to take their money away and give it to himself and his rich friends
22:21and they screwed.
22:22Okay.
22:23Trump has lost money in the presidency, right?
22:25I mean, there's a fairly famous chart.
22:27I'm sure you've seen it.
22:28I don't know exactly how accurate it is, but I think it's probably generally fairly accurate,
22:32which is the net worth of people before and after they become president.
22:36And you know, Barack Obama went from very little to like 70 million or whatever it is.
22:41I mean, Nancy Pelosi is through the roof, but obviously just a great stock trader.
22:45But Donald Trump lost money over the course of the presidency.
22:48So the idea that he's just in it to enrich himself, that's just projection.
22:52You know, there's a huge number of people who rely on their status and income with sort
22:58of government regulations and affirmative action and so on.
23:02So yeah, those people don't want a smaller government because then they'll have to compete
23:04in the free market and they may not make as much money.
23:07Aim and holler like it's some kind of victory.
23:09On top of that, Trump allows them for the first time in their life to feel superior
23:13to others.
23:14They know that women's right.
23:16So this woman says, I've never seen anything as fragile and contemptuous as a Trump voter.
23:22And then she says, but you know, Trump voters are just, again, I mean, the lack of self-knowledge
23:27is almost an intergalactic force of nature.
23:30Like there's weak atomic forces and then there are strong atomic forces.
23:33And then there are these people's capacity to dilute themselves.
23:36So she holds Trump voters in infinite contempt.
23:39And she says that, well, Trump voters just like to look down on other people.
23:42I mean, what could you even say?
23:45This is a display of sheer anti-rationality, anti-self-knowledge.
23:51To be taken away, that Latinos will be deported, that under Trump's administration and open
23:57racism towards black people will be far more accepted.
24:01And all of this makes the MAGA men feel good because putting other people down is the only
24:05thing that gives them joy in life.
24:08So she's putting half the country down, more than half the country down.
24:10And she's saying that they only like putting people down.
24:13And those men, this is like the Robert Shaw speech about the USS Indianapolis in the Jaws
24:20movie, you know, lifeless eyes like a doll's eyes.
24:24They have an ego like a fragile toddler and watching other people suffer is the way they
24:29get off.
24:30And of course, they're all really happy right now.
24:33And this is a thing that some women do, men do it too, a little bit more from women, is
24:37that it's a whole lot easier to psychologize, sorry, that's almost close to English, isn't
24:44it?
24:45It's almost infinitely easier to psychologize people than it is to answer their arguments.
24:50Right?
24:51So, I mean, if you want to know the nature of modern femininity, you simply disagree
24:56with women online.
24:57Of course, this is not representative of women as a whole, but all of this, you know,
25:02small penis energy and short man energy and, you know, you can't get laid and like, you
25:09just hate women because they won't date you.
25:11They just like to put people down.
25:13They're just like, I don't know exactly who it is that teaches people to just engage in
25:19really silly psychologizing of other people rather than answering their arguments.
25:25And of course, I'm aware, I just said that, I'm just calling her a hypocrite though, I'm
25:28not sort of saying what her psychological motivations are, but that this idea that you
25:33just, you make up people's motives that diminish them and you've answered their arguments,
25:39you know, oh, well, you know, I mean, Galileo is just advancing the heliocentric model of
25:44the solar system because he's jealous of Ptolemy and he's shorter than him.
25:49And he's just, he's incensed that somebody else is getting more attention than he is.
25:53Shut up, you're just, you're adding anything, you're just subtracting, just subtracting.
25:58All right, I'll do this on a show.
26:02Oh, yeah, this guy, he went from a Viking prince to a guy who has a podcast, I'm going
26:06to be sick.
26:07Yeah, I don't know that that's a particularly great glow up, that guy's got great hair and
26:11he should absolutely keep it long.
26:13Turning into the puffball dandelion head, broccoli mushroom thing is not good.
26:19He was way better off before.
26:21All right, so, yeah, look at this, skiing, yikes, these are treetops, this is how deep
26:26the ski is.
26:28I love skiing, but I may be aging out of it a little bit.
26:31When you get older, what happens is the number of people who have injuries accumulate to
26:35the point where you're like, ooh, risks are significant.
26:41This, I'm just going to, I'm just going to let this play.
26:43This is really weird.
26:44I remember seeing, oh gosh, oh, oh, it'll come back to me, but I remember at a Bitcoin
26:53conference many years ago, somebody made this case and let me just, you just got to listen
26:58to this.
26:59In a nation state, Bitcoin is digital power, it's 350, you know, we can do this slightly
27:03faster, right?
27:04Yeah, why not?
27:08Bitcoin is digital power, it's 350 exahash, that equates to $20 billion worth of computer
27:14equipment, and then you can value the energy, if it's five cents a kilowatt hour, you're
27:17getting to five, six billion dollars a year.
27:19That's what it takes to run a network, but that's not what it takes to attack the network.
27:23If I'm a nation state and I wanted to block every message for the next six hours, I need
27:27to win the next 60 blocks, and that means I need to bring online 3,500 exahash of computer
27:34power.
27:35The problem with that is if I hijacked all of the Google, Amazon, and Microsoft computer
27:39power, I could maybe bring on five exahash.
27:42So you would need 2,000 times as much energy.
27:44That's all the energy on Earth.
27:45It doesn't work, you need three Earths.
27:47What government do you know that would want to spend a decade failing to attack something?
27:51It's much more likely that you'll just flip everybody in that government to support Bitcoin
27:54by the time they finish that.
27:56Andreas Antonopoulos, there we go.
27:58I should remember that, it's a Greek name.
28:00So yeah, he was talking about how impossible it was to hijack Bitcoin, like, what was that,
28:06eight years ago, something like that?
28:09I will do a theory from the theory of natural ethics, I'll have a look at that.
28:12Look at this, at $105,000, Bitcoin overtakes the market cap of Google, sweet, sweet, sweet.
28:22Cutting people off in terms of Bitcoin, sorry, in terms of Trump.
28:29Our biggest weapon right now is cutting people off that voted against your morals.
28:37It's driving them insane.
28:38They're like, I don't understand.
28:39Yeah, they do.
28:40Yeah, they're just feigned outrage because they didn't give a fuck about you.
28:42I see this also coming from the right, so-and-so is in a panic, they're panicking, this is
28:47Caesar's after Biden cut off investigations into foreign and domestic corruption by pardoning
28:54everything that his son did from 2014 onwards, really quite something.
29:02You see this all the time, it's driving them insane, it's driving them crazy.
29:06This is sort of positioning and it's an art view of life, where in art, I talked about
29:11this recently with regards to the great Gatsby, if you like an idea, you'll have a good-looking
29:15person who's confident deliver the message.
29:18If you don't like an idea, you'll have an ugly person deliver the message with great
29:21tension and frustration and emotional angst, and so that's driving them crazy.
29:27It's really painful for them and so on.
29:29Honestly, having people who hate you out of your life or having people who've been propagandized
29:35into hating something that you approve of is a great benefit.
29:40It's a great benefit.
29:41Wait, but they want to make you look like Gatsby, to look like you're the bad person?
29:45Just keep cutting them off, just keep doing it, because all of these people have one thing
29:51in common and it is narcissistic behavior.
29:53See, here we go, immediate psychologizing.
29:56Anyone I disagree with, look at those eyes, eh?
30:00Nothing in there.
30:01Lights are on, nobody home.
30:04So yeah, I mean, just immediate psychologizing.
30:07Don't evaluate anyone's arguments, just describe them negative psychological characteristics
30:12and you are away to the races.
30:14Doesn't generally mean that they're narcissists, it means that they idolize a narcissist and
30:17perform in the same manner that that person performs as.
30:22So just keep cutting people off.
30:23So narcissists hate disagreement, and this guy is saying, those people that want to cut
30:27off for disagreeing with me are narcissists.
30:30Again, this is just absolutely chaotic, no boundaries, pure projection.
30:34Off.
30:35Block them, don't talk to them, coworkers, if you have to talk to them, like business
30:40only.
30:41I mean, there is a lot of pain there, and I do sympathize with that, and so people who
30:47become dependent on the media for their talking points have established entire tentacles of
30:53networks and social interactions based upon shared delusions, and it's really, really
30:58painful.
31:00At some point, you have to ask yourself, or I think everyone has this at some point in
31:04their life, almost everyone does, where you say, do people like me for my own original
31:10thoughts and preferences and perspectives?
31:12Do they like me or do they like the services I provide for them?
31:16If you're a wealthy guy and your wife stays home, you got to look and say, okay, does
31:20she love me or does she love the lifestyle I provide?
31:23A woman who's very attractive has got to say, does my husband love me or does he just love
31:28my attractiveness and how high status I make him look and how other men envy?
31:33Are you loved for yourself and your original thoughts, or are you loved for compliance
31:39with the needs and preferences of others?
31:41Oof, well, you can't be loved for compliance, so that's really tough.
31:48Just because you fit in, it doesn't mean you're in the right place.
31:50That's a great, great little picture of the plates in the grate.
31:56Plate in the grate.
31:57All right, it was 1959, Bertrand Russell has a message to future generations of humans,
32:02if you want to be a free thinker, here's the first principle.
32:04So this is very interesting because I love the fact that all of these old videos, it's
32:08like in the end times, the dead arise from their graves, right, in the sort of end times
32:16of Christianity.
32:18And social media, and in particular, Twitter or X, is a resurrection of the dead and the
32:27gone.
32:28It's a resurrection of the dead and the gone.
32:30So this is a question that Bertrand Russell, there's some film footage somewhere from 1959,
32:34and it is back.
32:35It's like, it's incredible to see all of this old footage, all of these old lives just come
32:40back to life through social media.
32:41It is a resurrection of the dead.
32:44This film were to be looked at by our descendants like a Dead Sea Scroll in a thousand years'
32:48time.
32:49What would you think it's worth telling that generation about the life you've lived and
32:53the lessons you've learned from it?
32:56I should like to say two things, one intellectual and one moral.
33:01The intellectual thing I should want to say to them is this.
33:05When you are studying any matter or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only what are
33:14the facts and what is the truth that the facts bear out.
33:18Never let yourself be diverted either by what you wish to believe or by what you think could
33:24have beneficial social effects if it were believed.
33:27Yeah, so I mean, this is very foundational.
33:29To some degree, it's funny because it's kind of how I was raised, and while I didn't enjoy
33:34boarding school from the age of six to eight, this was very much old school British education.
33:40So I was very much raised to believe, you know, tell the truth though the skies fall,
33:44tell the truth and shame the devil, that the truth shall set you free, and that you had
33:49to resist the boogeyman of imaginary negative effects.
33:54Well, if this is perceived to be true, then negative effects will occur, because that's
33:58just a boogeyman that can be used to chase away any rational thought at all.
34:03Any thought whatsoever can be run through the boogeyman of negative effects, which is
34:06why utilitarianism is a form of censorship, right?
34:09So utilitarianism is we judge an idea not by its truth value, but by its utility and
34:14positive effects on society, but you can just create a scenario wherein there will be negative
34:19effects and then you can censor it, right?
34:21So this is kind of how I was raised.
34:24And you know, one of the things that is different, I mean, my brother went to boarding school,
34:28but he sure as heck became a subjectivist and relativist.
34:31So maybe, I don't know, maybe it was just my, I don't know, I mean, certainly getting
34:36into philosophy at 15 was a huge help.
34:38But this idea that you just look at the truth of things and just, you know, follow reason
34:43wherever reason and evidence leads, and don't be chased away by the hand puppet boogeyman
34:48of negative effects or what you want to be true.
34:52So this was really valuable to me.
34:55And I remember when I was in boarding school, the professor was very, sorry, the headmaster
35:00was very old school, you know, looked like he was a lord in some room in Downton Abbey
35:07or the Crown or something like that.
35:09And there was this just pursue truth.
35:11And it's so much simpler.
35:12It's so much simpler than all of this nonsense about, well, what could be the positive or
35:15negative effects of X, Y, and Z?
35:17Okay.
35:18Well, what about fire?
35:19Well, the fire could burn people, so let's not have fire.
35:22We have magic rocks that produce electricity, but occasionally they get destabilized.
35:27So let's not have them.
35:28It's just negative effects, negative effects.
35:30If you start to focus on negative effects, you simply cannot have any progress in society
35:35as a whole.
35:36You can look only and solely at what are the facts.
35:41That is the intellectual thing that I should wish to say.
35:44The moral thing I should wish to say to them is very simple.
35:47I should say, love is wise, ill-treat is foolish.
35:52Yeah.
35:53Yeah, I mean, so I'm very much with the epistemology here and the metaphysics, but the ethics,
35:59love is wise, hatred is foolish.
36:02But love and hatred are two sides of the same coin.
36:05You know, I can't love people without having negative emotions towards those who do them
36:12harm.
36:17This emasculation of anger or hatred or any sort of negative emotions is really, it leaves
36:27a society with no immune system whatsoever.
36:29You're not allowed to get angry at people, you're not allowed to hate anyone, and therefore
36:33you can't resist anything.
36:35And those of less refined and abstract sentiments, and this tells me this is somebody who lived
36:42his life, and he did, of course Bertrand Brussel did live a life in a very refined and abstract
36:45and academic air.
36:47So the idea that we have these positive emotions that come from morality, we have these negative
36:56emotions that come from the devil or lizard brain or animal nature and so on, and we must
37:00only embrace the positive emotions.
37:02We cannot have the negative emotions, it's like saying, well, I do want all of the parts
37:06of my body that build muscle and keep me healthy, but I don't want any of the parts of my body
37:10that repel negative bacteria or viruses or tumors or whatever that attack me.
37:16It's like, no, no, your body survives on love of healthy cells and anger and contempt, in
37:21a sense, hatred towards dangerous cells.
37:24That's the only way we survive.
37:25So anyway, let's just go back a sec here.
37:30Hatred is foolish.
37:33In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to
37:39tolerate each other.
37:41We have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like.
37:47We can only live together in that way, and if we are to live together and not die together,
37:54we must learn the kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to
38:01the continuation of human life.
38:03Okay, so this goes right back to the paradox of tolerance, right?
38:06It's sort of a well-known philosophical problem, which nobody can solve, because it is unsolvable.
38:12So he's saying, well, we have to be tolerant, and we have to accept that people say things
38:17we don't like and so on.
38:18Okay, all right, so then, and if we don't do that, we are destroyed as a species.
38:23Like it is a world extinction event.
38:26Intolerance is a world extinction event.
38:27Okay, well, then what do we do with people who are intolerant?
38:30Well, you have to love and you have to be tolerant.
38:32Okay, well, what do we do with people who hate and are intolerant?
38:37And will, you know, attack people and set fire to buildings and threaten with bombs
38:41and destruction, public speakers, I mean, you know, I've been subject to some of these
38:45things.
38:46So what do we do with the intolerant?
38:48If the intolerant will cause, according to Bertrand Russell here, if the intolerant will
38:52cause the extinction of life on Earth, are we not allowed to be angry with people who
38:58could end, like, according to his own logic, are we not allowed to be angry or to hate
39:02people who will cause the end and extinction of life on Earth?
39:05Come on.
39:06And this, obviously, this is just a guy who likes saying things that sound good.
39:11And he's far too intelligent a man to not understand the tolerance paradox, right?
39:16That if tolerance is such a virtue, then what do we do with people who are intolerant?
39:20Well, we have to be intolerant of the tolerant in order for tolerance to be enacted as a
39:26virtue.
39:27So, and so the fact that he would say this, this pathetic drivel is really just insulting
39:31to the entire question of philosophy.
39:35All right, we can do this on a show.
39:37And I'll just, I'll stop here, and I'll do one more.
39:40I mentioned this on the show yesterday, that here's the chart, right?
39:43So if you bought $100 worth of Bitcoin every time the media called it dead, you'd have
39:47almost $100 million right now.
39:51If you bought $100 worth of Bitcoin every time the media said it was dead, you'd have
39:57$100 million right now.
39:59So the media, following the media is just staying poor.
40:02It's just staying poor.
40:04Somebody says, I filmed a liberal activist trying to retrieve her iPhone back from the
40:07homeless that possibly stole it.
40:09She's encouraged them to sell anything they steal from rich scum, but that she's nice
40:13and honest and needs it back.
40:18What does she have to say?
40:20Basically, I am not, if you stole it from rich scum, by all means, keep it and sell
40:24it.
40:25But I'm like, yeah, stay out of it.
40:30And I want to say, if you guys come up with my iPhone, I will give you more than, like
40:34I'm an honest person.
40:36Basically, I am not.
40:38So she's going to try and reason with people, because she's been around sort of civilized
40:43men who care about what women feel about and care about.
40:48So she's trying to plea for reason with people who are homeless.
40:53Now, of course, not that all homeless people are irrational, but this idea that you just
40:59plea, this is, people, like their amygdala, their sense of danger is completely defunct.
41:07And of course, the idea that, well, I'm a nice person, but you can steal from the rich
41:10scum, right?
41:12Well, you understand this woman, right?
41:15The fact that she has an iPhone means that she is rich relative to these homeless people,
41:20right?
41:21Who are in a graffiti-filled trash heap of a bus shelter picking their nose, right?
41:26So she is rich scum to these people.
41:28So the idea that I'm going to just deflect these people into stealing from others and
41:34reason with them and say, no, no, no, I'm one of you, I'm on your side, I'm really nice
41:38and honest and all of that, and I need it back and so on, it's wild.
41:44It's wild when people move out of a circle they can manipulate into a circle they simply
41:51cannot manipulate.
41:53This is sort of like when people who grow up kind of spoiled and bratty and they manipulate
41:59their parents into giving them what they want, and then they go to some place, usually if
42:03it's a manual labor job, they go to some place where they can't manipulate things.
42:07And there's this existential panic that kicks in, and you can see this panic, right?
42:11She just wants her phone back, and she's hoping to just reason with people who really can't
42:16be reasoned with.
42:17So anyway, I hope that helps.
42:18I appreciate everyone, your time, care, and attention.
42:21to help out the show.
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42:30So lots of love from up here, guys.
42:31Talk to you soon.
42:32Bye.