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Freedomain FLASH Livestream 21 December 2024

In this holiday episode, I reflect on our absence and invite listeners to support Freedomain. I introduce a song quiz on Roger Miller’s "King of the Road," leading to a discussion on the evolution of music and its creativity. I delve into deep conversations about familial challenges and touch on diverse topics, including Canada’s household debt and the impact of parenting styles.

As literature influences my views, I discuss "The Fountainhead" and its connection to creativity and aging. The conversation explores societal expectations around masculinity and femininity, modern dating, and emotional labor. I address listener inquiries, urging critical examination of personal experiences.

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00:00:00Well, hi everybody, good afternoon, sorry there was no show last night, we're doing
00:00:04a little special show today, this is Saturday, gosh almighty, we are getting mighty close
00:00:13to Christmas, 21st, just a couple of days, and you know, if you wanted to remember Free
00:00:20Domain and your little Steph-bot in your Christmas cheer, it would not be rejected, I'll just
00:00:28tell you right now, it would not be rejected. Alright, do we have any fans, I'm sorry, it
00:00:37would be just great of course if my daughter were here, she's not at the moment, she's
00:00:43assiduously doing her math homework, because she's a more industrious person than I was
00:00:48at that age, I'm sure for good reasons, but do we have any fans of the song Quiz? Do we
00:00:55have any fans of the song, I've got an interesting one, I've got an interesting one, let me just
00:01:03log in here, we could do ourselves a wee song quiz, or of course we could just jump straight
00:01:08into the old show. I'm always curious if people can get it from the first line, always, always
00:01:20curious. Yes, alright, here we go, are you ready? Vocal warm-up time, la la la. Trailers
00:01:33for sale or rent, rooms to let fifty cents, no phone, no pool, no pets, I ain't got no
00:01:45cigarettes, I'll buy two hours of bush and broom, buys a eight by twelve four-bit room
00:01:54mama, man of means, by no means, king of the road. Oh, it's a great song. Third boxcar,
00:02:06midnight train, destination Bangor, Maine, old worn-out suit and shoes, I don't pay no union
00:02:17dues, I smoke old stogies I have found, short but not too big a round, I'm a man of means, by no
00:02:29means, king of the road. Alright, it's a great song, and it's actually good, it seems kind of
00:02:42honorable, but then at one point he says, and every lock that ain't locked when no one's around,
00:02:48you know, a little bit seedy, but it's a great song. Roger Miller, what happened to that guy,
00:02:52did he die young? He died young. I have this vague memory of people in the arts who died young,
00:02:58but that would certainly be one of them. So yeah, it's a great song. Randy Travis,
00:03:06did he do one too? Randy Travis did a version of that. Yeah, it's a great song, it's a great song.
00:03:11So yeah, freedomaine.com slash donate if you would like to help out the show,
00:03:17it would of course be deeply, humbly and gratefully appreciated, and
00:03:21if you have comments, questions, issues, challenges, problems, I did a really good
00:03:32call-in today about a guy from a pretty hellacious family who was going back this weekend,
00:03:41and I was like, hmm, I feel we should talk, I feel we should talk, and we did,
00:03:50and it was a very, very powerful conversation. That's what I love so much about doing this show,
00:03:54man, it is a real deep and great honor to be able to peer so deeply into the hearts of people. I've
00:04:03always been rapidly curious about human nature, human behavior, human choices, as is the case
00:04:08with my own of course, and to be able to peer this deeply into human souls is just an incredible
00:04:16honor, and I really, really do appreciate it. Did you know up to 85% of star systems are made
00:04:26up of two or more stars? The Clooney Pit thing, I suppose. So, people were saying, somebody was
00:04:41saying, every, quote, peaceful parent I know has the worst behaved kids. The only peaceful
00:04:47parent in my family's kids terrorizes family gatherings while everyone else's kids are a
00:04:51delight, and Mike Viserno replied, doubt it, all of our peers are no spanking, and the kids are
00:04:58civilized and can hold full conversations from an early age, as they learn to communicate in
00:05:02question rather than live in fear of a belt. Yeah, I mean, I've done the neglectful parenting versus
00:05:09peaceful parenting is really, really important. Did you know also that there's a village in Italy
00:05:16that's so surrounded by mountains it gets its sunlight using a giant mirror? It's the kind of
00:05:20thing that doesn't seem to be true, could be true. I thought it was kind of interesting and funny.
00:05:27As far as the economics go, it took over 200 years for the US debt to reach 12 trillion.
00:05:3212 trillion is how much was added in the four years between 2020 and 2024.
00:05:38Thank goodness, thank goodness to have the exit ramp, the off-ramp called the Bitcoin,
00:05:45the Bitcoin. So let me ask you this, since we're here, this is an interesting question.
00:05:51What book changed your perspective on life more than any other? What book changed your perspective
00:05:57on life more than any other? Somebody was kind enough to reply to this saying, anything by
00:06:00Stefan Molyneux, I appreciate that. It does keep the juices flowing to know that the appreciation
00:06:06and change is occurring. Which book, and just doesn't have to be me obviously, probably isn't,
00:06:13but which book changed your perspective on life more than any other? I think for me it would have
00:06:17to be The Fountainhead. The Fountainhead was a very powerful book. All right. Somebody says,
00:06:26I'm rarely able to listen live from Australia due to our time zone and my work commitments.
00:06:30Great singing. Thank you. I appreciate that. Of course, the other challenge with Australia is
00:06:35every now and then, of course, the internet seems to get swallowed by either a sea crocodile,
00:06:39a giant spider, a python, or the government. Steph, how often do you listen to new music?
00:06:46I sometimes find myself stuck listening to the same three or four albums.
00:06:50Well, mighty. A minor confession here, minor confession. One, I wrote about this in my novel,
00:06:59The God of Atheists, that at a certain point in your life, you just start looking for cool
00:07:03live versions of songs you already like rather than digging into new music. I really don't get
00:07:09a chance to listen to new music. My daughter will introduce me to new music from time to time,
00:07:13but our tastes are not significantly overlapping at the moment. She's into video game music that
00:07:18has a bunch of rap in it, and I don't really know the backstories of the video games as a whole.
00:07:23She's into lore music. I think it's also called nerdcore. I like some of the songs,
00:07:28but nothing that's hugely grabby. If I have a little bit of time to listen to some music,
00:07:33I will, and it's rare, like maybe once a month, I'll sort of half an hour sort of space out and
00:07:38just put headphones on, but I'll generally listen to something I kind of already know.
00:07:45I have not released a column with a guy who dated the Ukrainian lady, no.
00:07:49So I don't really get a chance to listen to new music. Of course, it used to be the case that
00:07:52the bands that I liked would release new albums, but they're either dead or too old, or the new
00:07:57albums suck, like I listen to the new Paul McCartney, listen to the new Sting, listen to the
00:08:03new Yes. Oh man, it's bad. I hope I'm not that guy who keeps going long after creativity is done.
00:08:12Let's see. The book The Present and almost The Case Against God. Yeah, I think The Case Against
00:08:17God is a very good book. That is a tough question. Yeah, it is. Honestly, music has just been so
00:08:28irretrievably dumbed down. I mean, when was the last time you heard a genuinely,
00:08:35fairly jaw-droppingly unusual or different song? The arpeggio that opens up Shine On You Crazy
00:08:46Diamond, like when was the last time you heard a song where it's like, damn, I've not heard that
00:08:52before. It's always like breathy pop singer aching for love, rap thing in the middle,
00:08:58maybe a bit of guitar, and then fade out. Now, of course, in the past, you had stuff filtered out.
00:09:06I mean, one of the things I really love about Queen is just the wild creativity and their
00:09:11versatility. They did everything from jazz to ragtime to country to hard rock to ragtime.
00:09:18I'm sorry, to, yeah, just that they did just a wide variety of music. Of course,
00:09:24Freddie did opera with Monsieur Cabaret, Caballé, and so on. It was just really,
00:09:29really wild stuff. It's really hard to find good new music. There just doesn't seem to be the same
00:09:35devotion. Now, music is just about money. I mean, it's really just about money,
00:09:39and it doesn't have much to do with people wanting to deeply express their creativity.
00:09:45If you're not in it to really explore and challenge your creativity, I couldn't do it.
00:09:57I couldn't do it. Some Rihanna album, they just basically got a whole boatload or vanload or
00:10:07stable or barnload of people to just sit down and write lyrics and music and so on. It's just
00:10:15really, really sad. Due to recent mass immigration under Trudeau, someone, Canada's sex ratio has
00:10:21become very skewed. Canada now has a worse sex ratio in that age group than China, Pakistan,
00:10:28and India. Yep, that is destabilizing. Now, I thought this was interesting as well.
00:10:37Mike Cernovich wrote, we are, quote, peaceful parents, no spanking. This experience has shown
00:10:42me that boys were bred for violence. My son will try throwing the cat down the stairs,
00:10:47tossed a baby monitor at my wife holding our eight-month-old, and otherwise is a psychopath.
00:10:52None of this is learned behavior. I mean, I was around some boys, and some boys were like that,
00:11:00and a lot of boys weren't. I have friends, of course, who have sons, and they're not that way,
00:11:04so I don't know. It's an interesting question about how much of it is learned and how much of
00:11:09it is innate, how much of it is environmental, how much of it is some X factor. Very interesting.
00:11:17I would not take that as just boy nature, though. Canada finally reaching number one,
00:11:24number one. Yay. In household debt, a share of GDP. So, Turkey is only 11%. Mexico, 16%.
00:11:32Indonesia, 16%. Russia, 22% of household debt, a share of GDP. Saudi Arabia, 32%. Brazil, 34%.
00:11:40South Africa, 34%. India, 37%. Italy, 39%. Spain, 48%. Germany, 52%. China, 62%. France,
00:11:4963%. US, 73%. UK, 80%. Canada clocking in. Household debt, a share of GDP. Bing,
00:11:56bing, bing. Yes, we have achieved the summit and the peak, the Everest of catastrophic hedonism
00:12:03known as 103%. Household debt, a share of GDP, 103%. My God. Thank God. Once more,
00:12:14four bitcoins. Pearly Things, a great channel to follow, of course.
00:12:2060% of women under 30 have been on some sort of SSRI or antidepressant.
00:12:25Wowsie. Wowsie.
00:12:36Poor Nick Fuentes. He got people hammering on his door, and what was it? As of two days ago,
00:12:44he posted, the killer parked his car in front of my house and approached my door with his pistol
00:12:48drawn and what appears to be a crossbow. I was live streaming at the time. He rings the doorbell,
00:12:52drives the doorbell, and yells, yo, Nick. Then I think he got chased off by the police and ended
00:12:57up being shot. I think he was wanted in a triple murder. Well, that is sad. That is sad, tragic,
00:13:08horrible. That's really the purpose of doxing, right? The purpose of doxing is to weaponize
00:13:12lunatics, right? All right. Does age or success affect creativity?
00:13:26Well, you know, it's the 15-minute window, right? So, you know, the way it generally works with
00:13:30bands is they release a bunch of journeyman albums that are appreciated only by a small
00:13:35minority of generally hardcore fans. It's sort of the Dire Straits phenomenon, love of a gold
00:13:40versus brothers in arms. For Queen, it's like Queen 2 and Sheer Heart Attack versus Day of the
00:13:45Racist Night of the Opera. And so, you get a bunch of albums out, you do okay, you do okay, and then
00:13:50there's just this wild, massive change, eruption, massive eruption. And you get these monster
00:13:58albums. To some degree, it was the Bruce Springsteen prior to Born in the USA. And you get
00:14:03this monster album, maybe you get two monster albums, maybe three, and then you just end up
00:14:12with everyone saying at your constance, please, God, don't do the new stuff. Please, God,
00:14:20don't do the new stuff, right? That is where people are at, right? I hope you enjoy my new box set.
00:14:33All right. So, with regards to creativity,
00:14:45you seem to have a store of it. When you vomit, there's only so much you can vomit. When
00:14:51there's only so much toothpaste in the toothpaste tube, and in general, there seems to be this
00:14:57buildup of creative potential, it gets maxed out, and then after that, it seems to bleed dry.
00:15:04I mean, think, of course, of Monty Python, right? And the brilliant work they did in the 70s,
00:15:12and Life of Brian, of course, a great movie, and the Knights of the Round Table movie they did,
00:15:25it'll come back to me. And then they did The Meaning of Life, and things like that.
00:15:30Or think of even John Cleese himself, right? I mean, he did an amazing, funny work,
00:15:36Fish Called Wanda, Monty Python on a Holy Grail, Fish Called Wanda, and so on, and then I never
00:15:40saw the sequel to it, and what has he done for the last 30 or 40 years, other than cuck to the left
00:15:46as a whole? He did end up going on a comedy tour, but only because he was broke, right? I think he
00:15:51literally called it the alimony tour. So, I don't know what it is. I think that there has to be
00:15:56something that is driving you that is more than just creativity. Creativity burns itself out,
00:16:04I hope, at least my goal, my thought is, I've been cooking now, I think I've been pretty creative.
00:16:10Certainly, I started writing in my teens, I'm now in my 50s, so I've had a good 40 years
00:16:14of pretty good creativity, and I include, of course, in that theater school, playwriting,
00:16:19directing, I include in that my acting, I include in that even the creativity that I did in coding,
00:16:24because coding can be very creative, it's just a different kind of writing,
00:16:27and a different kind of philosophizing, and then the fiction and non-fiction that I've done,
00:16:31I think that some of my fiction is even better now than it was in the past. So, when you get
00:16:37your sort of peak energy and creativity in your 20s, but I think if you have a moral mission,
00:16:42then you can continue to do interesting and good work, but without that moral mission,
00:16:47there is that sense of, okay, well, I've proven everything, I've got all the money,
00:16:51I'll still do it as a hobby because I've got to have something to do, but there's not that same
00:16:54energy, and urgency, and fervor, you have to have a little mania in you in order to be creative,
00:17:00because you have to have something that overcomes inertia, doubt, hesitation, and self-criticism.
00:17:05So, everybody who writes, in particular, if you write creatively, you have inertia, you have
00:17:11doubt, self-criticism. The inertia is, I'll start it soon, the doubt is, will it be any good,
00:17:20and the self-criticism is, while you're writing, is it any good? So, you have to have something
00:17:24to push through inertia, doubt, and self-criticism, and the reason you push through things is because,
00:17:30for me at least, I have a moral mission to explain the world and make a better future.
00:17:35So, that's what keeps me going.
00:17:42Steph, what does it mean when someone calls a certain band gay? Do they just not like it?
00:17:46Someone told me Queen was gay. Well, I mean, Freddie Mercury was not the straightest arrow
00:17:51in the bench shop. I don't know. I don't know. So, there is, of course, a stereotype of masculinity
00:18:00that it has to be about, you know, tits, ass, beer, sports, and all that kind of stuff, and
00:18:07if there is sort of deep moral sensitivity or deep artistic sensitivity and sensibilities, then
00:18:14if there's sort of tenderness and so on, that that's not masculine. It's basically the idea
00:18:18that masculinity is sociopathy and any more tender feelings are gay, and that's, of course,
00:18:24not something that I believe is true at all. I mean, there's some very macho Queen songs, right?
00:18:29Fat Bottom Girls is not about how to sit comfortably. Music is also made to push propaganda
00:18:35now. Record labels won't sign people that won't push the agenda. Yes, that is very true, and it's
00:18:40something I really didn't understand when I was trying to get into the art world as much,
00:18:44that if you're not pushing the propaganda... Like, when I was at the National Theatre School,
00:18:48they absolutely loved me for the first semester. They loved me. They were like,
00:18:53oh, you're such a good actor. You should, like, forget about the writing stuff. Just do the
00:18:56acting, right? And then after they found out about my politics, they just hated me. Just hated me.
00:19:07All right, Steph, how you are, in my opinion, doing better work outside of UPB than in your
00:19:13past. It's truly incredible looking at your library of work and how it has improved.
00:19:16Well, thank you. Again, sorry, it's the moral mission. It's the moral mission that simply
00:19:23demands quality. If, you know, laws have diminishing returns, right? So, does Stephen
00:19:30King, uber-cuck to the left, does Stephen King need more money? Well, no. I mean, he's worth,
00:19:36what, $400 million, some crazy sum, right? So, does he need more money? Does he need more success,
00:19:40more fame, more accolades? I'm sure he'd like to write a quality novel rather than just an
00:19:45intense novel, right? Stephen King writes the way that a cattle prod hits your lower spine.
00:19:51It's like all of the fear-based women, women's stories, right? So, women's novels
00:19:58are always kind of the same in sort of the popular stuff. It's always like,
00:20:03yeah, I met this guy, you know? I met this guy. He's tall, he's good-looking, great job.
00:20:10But I don't know, man. After the initial thrill and excitement, there's just something a little
00:20:17bit off about him. I'm not sure exactly what it is. He seems fine. A couple of quirks, a little
00:20:22flash here and there. It's kind of this unease and, you know, the sexiness of the guy you can't
00:20:27quite read who has potentially dangerous quirks that could flow, flower into full-blown danger.
00:20:33That's chick novels, right? Chick novels are all about, he seems great, but fantastic guy,
00:20:43however, right? It's all about that. They're designed to program women to
00:20:51avoid men, right? To program women to not like men, to program women to be suspicious and fearful
00:20:56of men, right? All right.
00:21:07Do you think Elon will address how posts about Nick Fuentes' doc stayed up with millions of
00:21:12impressions? I'm sure that he's deferring to his lawyers on that. Somebody says,
00:21:18I went to an Adam Harvey. We went to an Adam Harvey, wrote a song about his mom with dementia
00:21:24called Remember Me. My wife and I thought it was creative. Thank you, I appreciate that.
00:21:33My wife and I, oh, that's the same concert, right? The Present and Just Poor are still
00:21:38the best books I've read in a long time. Well, thank you, I appreciate that. It's funny because
00:21:41I had to rewrite a chapter of Just Poor because one was missing in the middle where Mary makes
00:21:45her big transition and then I found it later and I'm like, oh, I can still write it. I've not heard
00:21:51of Leafy, but I appreciate that. Thank you. The Present and Just Poor, I think, are really,
00:21:56really good. The Future is great. I like it a lot, but the Present is more visceral because
00:22:01the Future, of course, being a science fiction novel, is still a lot more abstract than that.
00:22:07So, yeah, AF Post wrote, Nick Fuentes reports an armed attacker attempted to kill him at his
00:22:14home. The assailant armed with a pistol, crossbow and incendiary device is now dead. Nick Fuentes
00:22:19is unharmed. Andrew Tate has had his charges, his case dismissed, and he is vowing vengeance.
00:22:34And I think that's very interesting. It does seem to be that he was persecuted
00:22:42in ways that were not particularly lawful, like what, they raided his house five times,
00:22:46they took his money, they took his cars, they threw him in solitary and Romanian dungeon-style
00:22:53cockroaches in the beds, kind of solitary, and now he wishes to take the fight back against those
00:23:02he claims, and it seems to be with some pretty damn good justification, persecuted him unjustly.
00:23:09If he was persecuted unjustly, and it seems to be the case,
00:23:14then personally, my personal opinion is that there's no vengeance that he could take that I
00:23:24would say, ooh, that's too far, ooh, that's too much. Personally, if you're gonna mess with someone's
00:23:29life to that degree, what's it, three years plus, he and his brother arrested and imprisoned and
00:23:35investigated and threatened and so on, whatever vengeance he takes,
00:23:42I really don't care. I just want to point that out, whatever vengeance he takes, and I
00:23:47think he's got time and money and resources, and certainly he has the emotional motivation, but
00:23:53it is hard to imagine of a vengeance that he could take legally, of course, that would go too far.
00:24:10So, that's interesting. Alex Berenson is reporting new unreported truths on a stunning finding,
00:24:21some people injected with mRNA vaccines appear to make spike protein for years. The reason is
00:24:27unknown, but could be because genetic material from the vaccine is integrating with human DNA.
00:24:32True or not, you know, I take everything with a grain of salt, but it's very interesting. In
00:24:39general, this is in America, one in ten criminals commit half of all crimes. If we send career
00:24:43criminals to jail for longer, we can slash crime rates, and I think Canada, sorry, Canada, California,
00:24:49one's nicer, warmer, but California has overturned the recent proposition that
00:24:54allowed you to steal up to, what, 950 bucks or something like that.
00:25:01I thought this was really good, this was really good. Danish Bashar,
00:25:11narc abuse coach, narcissistic abuse coach, he said, a key indicator that you're in a narcissistic
00:25:17relationship is when things only remain peaceful as long as you suppress your feelings, thoughts,
00:25:23and opinions. This is worth, because this is society as a whole, right? A key indicator that
00:25:30you're in a narcissistic relationship is when things only remain peaceful as long as you
00:25:34suppress your thoughts, feelings, and opinions. It's really powerful, it's really powerful.
00:25:40This guy wrote, I was so terrified about this astronomy final exam today, but then I open it
00:25:47and see the first question. All right, see if you can puzzle your way through this one.
00:25:53See if you can puzzle your way through this one. Question one, point six points. Star A
00:26:00is 100 light years away from the Earth. How long does it take for light from star A
00:26:06to reach the Earth? Star A is 100 light years away from Earth. How long does it take for light
00:26:10from star A to reach the Earth? The answers are eight minutes, 100 years, 500 years,
00:26:17200 light years. Eight minutes is a tricky one because that's the time it takes for
00:26:23the sun, the sun's light to hit us, 93 million miles, right?
00:26:28So 100 light years, how long does it take for light to reach the Earth? That's
00:26:34kind of chilling that that would be a question. You know, the great dumbing down is just appalling,
00:26:39it's just appalling. Now, there was a trickier one though, the question seven, point six points.
00:26:46Compared to the mass of an object on the Moon, the mass of the same object on the Earth would be
00:26:50negligible, much smaller, zero, the same. Compared to the mass of an object on the Moon,
00:26:56the mass of the same object on the Earth would be negligible, much smaller, zero, the same.
00:27:01Now, personally, I think mass and weight are different. My mass would not change on the Moon,
00:27:06in other words, how much I displace in the volume of my being. My weight would change because the
00:27:10Moon is only one-sixth the gravity of Earth, right? So I would weigh less on the Moon,
00:27:16but my mass would be the same. Mass doesn't change depending on where you go in the universe.
00:27:21So I think that's a bit of a tricky one, but I think the other one is just kind of
00:27:27kind of wrong. It's just sad. It's just sad. All right, let's see here.
00:27:38How do you think people who are pursued should move? People are saying Nick needs to move to
00:27:42an apartment with 24-7 security. I mean, that's a decision everyone has to make for themselves.
00:27:49I guess one of the questions is,
00:27:54and I don't know the answer to this, does Nick Fuentes prefer the publicity
00:28:01and is willing to accept the danger? And I suppose that's a decision everybody has to
00:28:08make for themselves. Obviously, if you want safety, you'd move to a place that was sort
00:28:12of gated and had security and so on. But then the other challenge is then people just view that as
00:28:18a challenge to further pursue you, right? Once you're in the sights of the psycho's guns,
00:28:25it's pretty hard to wriggle out. Somebody says, I used to follow you years ago, but forgot you
00:28:32existed until I saw an old vid of yours on X, then tracked down your local site. Are you still
00:28:37cancelled everywhere? Well, the only place I've been uncancelled from is Twitter. And I certainly
00:28:46appreciate the gesture and I had a very compelling argument from someone about going back on Twitter.
00:28:51Somebody sent me something, I'll do that as a separate show. But I would say that, yes,
00:28:57the only place that uncancelled me was the place the white male took over. What can I tell you?
00:29:05I mean, white males tend to be the most into freedom of speech. White males tend to be the
00:29:08most free speech absolutists. And so that's not too shocking that it moved that way.
00:29:16Apparently, you want to go to space. I would be terrified. I would love to go to space.
00:29:22Ground control to major Tom. Yeah, I'd love to go to space. I could be fascinating.
00:29:28Weightlessness, seeing the whole world, seeing sunrise over the curve of the earth or the flat
00:29:35tabletop of the earth if my prior listener was making a better case than I thought.
00:29:40Are you back on Twitter or your pride won't let you go back?
00:29:48See, my friend, this is why you should have been. Oh, are you? Oh, yes. You're the guy from
00:29:59TikTok who keeps commenting that I'm bald.
00:30:04So this is what you should really follow me as a whole, because this is what is called a false
00:30:10dichotomy. Are you back on Twitter or your pride won't let you go back? Right, right. So if I was
00:30:19really into pride, then pride would have something to do with income, success, influence and reach,
00:30:26in which case pride would put me back on Twitter because Twitter would be by far the largest
00:30:30platform that I would have access to since my platforming because I had like close to 400,000
00:30:36followers on Twitter. I'm sure there'd be a whole bunch. I get live streams and income and all that.
00:30:40So there would be if pride were my motivating factor, which would be a sort of form of vanity,
00:30:46then going back on Twitter would be the thing to do. Right. So this is what's called a false
00:30:50dichotomy. And I'm sorry that you were raised this way. Like, I really am. I'm really, really
00:30:54sorry that you were raised this way. So a false dichotomy is when you say, well, it's either this
00:31:00or that. And it's like, why on earth would I let you define my choices? Like, it's just a weird
00:31:04thing to think of, right? Why would I let you define my choices? You either go back on Twitter
00:31:09or you are overly proud and at fault. And it's like, why on earth would I let somebody else
00:31:14define my choices and free will? I'm sorry that you're surrounded by people with whom this works.
00:31:20But that is a very sad approach and perspective. I'm glad you're here. Don't get me wrong.
00:31:26When you were a child, did you expect that you would be bald as an adult?
00:31:30Well, I will not say. My mother had quite thin hair. My father is bald. I would say that I was
00:31:34not overly shocked when it began to happen, but I'm very thankful that it did because it caused
00:31:40me to grow up rapidly. And when I was a kid with hair, as a teenager with great hair, I was too
00:31:46good looking. I honestly, I was too good looking. I was too good looking. So yeah, that was not,
00:31:52that would not have been beneficial to me at all. And so it was better for philosophy
00:31:58that nature took my protein strands absolutely better. And of course, you know, I don't know,
00:32:04have you ever seen someone as, it's really sad. It's really ever seen someone who's proud of their
00:32:10hair, who feels superior because of their height or their hair or their eye color or something like
00:32:17that. Like, you know, I'm six foot tall and blue eyed and a square jaws and, and, you know, fairly
00:32:24well-formed as far as exercise and muscles go. And, you know, but the idea that I would take
00:32:31pride in any of that is, is really, Oh, look, I have blue eyes. Well, I guess I earned that, right?
00:32:37At least you've got an excuse to wear cool hats.
00:32:42You're not sure what this guy, we're not sure where this guy's coming from, but yeah, I mean,
00:32:47hats, not hats. What I like about this hat is I don't have to put a logo on, right? Because I
00:32:52don't have to put a logo on the, on the screen, right? Because if somebody shares something
00:32:56and there's no logo, right, I've got a logo here, right? It's a nice way to wear a hat.
00:33:00But yeah, I do have to wear hats cause I don't want to get sunburnt on the old noggin. But there's
00:33:06a lot of women, honestly, if you're not bald, you don't really get this. There is a lot of women
00:33:11who prefer bald. I can't tell you, like, when, when there is occasionally floating around,
00:33:21a cure for baldness is if baldness is some sort of illness, which it's not. But every now and then,
00:33:26my wife is like, nope, you are not allowed. I love you just the way you are. Don't change a thing.
00:33:32You're, you're hot the way you are. Don't change a thing. There's a lot of women who like bald
00:33:38because of the indication of high testosterone. Are there a lot of women who prefer short?
00:33:46Well, evolutionary, evolutionary, evolutionary, evolutionary, evolutionary, evolutionary,
00:33:53well, evolutionarily speaking, yes, because if women didn't prefer short, there'd be no short,
00:34:02right? So some women do prefer short or are fine with short. So men won't accept a bald woman.
00:34:10Women will accept a bald man. Or to put it in another way, the excess testosterone that often
00:34:16drives being bald has many more benefits for women than costs because the extra testosterone allows
00:34:21you to be more punchy, more aggressive, and more assertive and, and so on. And that's obviously
00:34:28quite sexy for women, right? Like I was talking with my daughter the other day about female
00:34:35women and what is attractive to them. And what is attractive to a woman is when you have a life
00:34:41that's great and you invite her along. What's not attractive for a woman is when you stare at her
00:34:46and bring her flowers and write her poetry. And it's just all about her because she's like, well,
00:34:50that's great, but that's not going to feed my kids. You just donated? Thank you. I appreciate
00:34:55that. Freedomain.com slash donate. So men won't accept bald in a woman because men don't generally
00:35:02want high testosterone women. So they want feminine women. And so the estrogen, which keeps
00:35:08the hair, like if I took estrogen, my hair would grow back, right? So female hair is a marker of
00:35:18estrogen, which is a marker of femininity, which is what men are looking for. I mean,
00:35:22masculine men are looking for feminine women. And so one of the reasons why there are so many cucks
00:35:29and soft boys in the world these days is because women have been encouraged to be,
00:35:35to take on masculine traits. And because women have been encouraged to take on masculine traits,
00:35:39men have become progressively more feminine, which is obviously quite tragic as a whole.
00:35:47So men won't accept a bald woman as a whole, but women will accept bald men because the payoff
00:35:56for extra testosterone, even if you like hair, the payoff is better, right? Hair doesn't feed
00:36:03the kids, but assertiveness or aggression does. And so bald as a marker for assertive and aggressive
00:36:09is attractive to women because they're looking for more masculine traits. Whereas
00:36:14bald is not attractive for men. Bald in a woman is not attractive for men because we're looking for
00:36:19feminine women, right? All right. Some guys get, quote, hair tattooed on their heads. Oh yeah,
00:36:26I was talking about this like 15 years ago. You can get a tattoo of hair and then people think
00:36:29you're bald by choice until they touch you and it's smooth. Smooth as a baby's butt.
00:36:36So there are women who are fine with short. Yeah, there are totally women who are fine with short
00:36:40because height has its own challenges and problems, right? So tall guys tend to live
00:36:46less long. Tall guys have knee problems. Tall guys have back problems and sometimes hip problems.
00:36:52So height is something that is a problem. And the other thing too is because remember,
00:37:01we evolved in localized tribes, right? So my wife is Greek and in the Greek village where her parents
00:37:08came from, there were no tall guys. Like the tallest guy was like 5'6 or 5'7. And so Greek
00:37:14women are sort of famously, I call a wife like compact, my wife's a little under 5'2. So
00:37:23women, as far as height goes, women weren't supposed to be exposed to like the 6'5 Danish
00:37:29guys as a whole, right? Women were supposed to be exposed to guys who were tall in their
00:37:35environment, right? In their sort of localized environment. So the tall pygmy, right? The pygmies
00:37:45are short relative to Danish people, but there are tall pygmy guys.
00:37:48So the women are supposed to choose taller guys in their local genetic environment, not
00:37:53from all over the world, right? I mean, I'm probably true with penis size as well, right? So
00:38:01as far as height goes, men have become supersized because women are now looking at tall guys all
00:38:08over the world, right? So some Japanese woman, if you go to Japan and you're like 6' tall,
00:38:16you're like a head above most people, right? So the Japanese women are supposed to be comparing
00:38:20a tall Japanese guy, not to some Western guy who's 6'2 or whatever, right? So it's become
00:38:27sort of supersized outside of the local genetics. So a tall guy in a Greek village is a short guy
00:38:36in Denmark, right? And so the Greek women are supposed to just choosing the tall guys local,
00:38:41not the tall guys around as a whole, right? All right. Yeah, Tim Pool got a big property
00:38:50with security at the entrance. Yes, that's right.
00:38:56King of the Realm. Which of Dostoevsky's works had the most impact on you? I've never read his
00:39:01works. I just purchased Devils, The Brothers Karamazov, and of course Crime and Punishment.
00:39:05Without a doubt, it was Crime and Punishment. I did work my way through The Brothers Karamazov.
00:39:10It's real rambly, and the Grand Inquisitor scene, of course, is very good, but it's long.
00:39:17I bought a collected works of Dostoevsky. It's like 200 hours or whatever it is,
00:39:24and I tried The Devils again. I have tried reading The Devils probably three or four
00:39:32times over the course of my life, and I tried listening to the audiobook of The Devils,
00:39:36and I can't do it. It's like there's no story. It's just a description of stuff that's happening.
00:39:40Well, he went here, and then he went over there, and then he met this person. There's very little
00:39:44dialogue, and there's very little actual story. I gave it about, I think, two hours,
00:39:49two and a half hours, and I'm like, nothing's happened yet, and there's no story.
00:39:56Love Dostoevsky, man alive did he need an editor, because he would dictate his books. He'd just
00:40:00pace around with this woman, so he just dictated his books, which is why you have the bizarre
00:40:05amalgam in Crime and Punishment of Marmoladov and Raskolnikov, because there was supposed to be
00:40:11another book called The Drunkard, which was about Marmoladov, and then there was supposed to be a
00:40:14book about Raskolnikov called Crime and Punishment. He just merged the two together.
00:40:20He also had to write feverishly fast, because he was in danger of losing his rights,
00:40:23so two books, and the other was actually the other book that had a big impact on me,
00:40:28and this is going off decades old memory, but if I remember rightly, it was his wife who wrote
00:40:34an autobiography of their time, was it Finland or somewhere, where he was addicted to gambling,
00:40:45and just how exhausting and debilitating it was to be addicted to gambling,
00:40:49and I remember thinking, like, Dostoevsky, of course, fantastically talented writer,
00:40:54in another life, I would love to have grown up speaking Russian so that I could
00:40:59appreciate his works in the original. You can't get Shakespeare if you don't read English
00:41:04as well, and you can't get Dostoevsky if you don't speak Russian as well.
00:41:13Yeah, I would say Crime and Punishment was great, because it teaches you about
00:41:17the dangers of ideology, and his wife's autobiographies, or his wife's diaries,
00:41:22I think it was, about their time in, they were exiled from Russia or out of Russia,
00:41:27and he was addicted to gambling, and just like no matter how much talent you have,
00:41:32you can be just absolutely gobsmacked and miserable. You know, a lot of my life has been,
00:41:39oh man, I think this is true for a lot of people, something is true for me,
00:41:42a lot of my life has been beating back the devils of temptation
00:41:47to gain happiness through anything other than virtue. ABV, anything but virtue, please,
00:41:53dear God, anything, can I just be happy without having to be good, please, dear Lord above,
00:41:58please, God, grant me the right and ability to be happy in a sustainable way without being good,
00:42:05that's all I'm asking. My whole childhood, my whole teenage years, most of my 20s,
00:42:13really up into my early 30s, was this constant quest to try and find some way to be happy
00:42:20without having to be good.
00:42:21Now, there was a Bloom County cartoon where one of the characters is trying to lose weight,
00:42:27and he's like, but I'm going on the all asparagus and sunlight diet and so on,
00:42:32right? And then some of the guys are like, well, can you just eat less and exercise? No, no, no,
00:42:38no, it's something other than that. And everyone, like half of the ads on social media are something
00:42:46like the following, are you tired, anxious, depressed? Well, this one magic pill, this one
00:42:52stretch, this one exercise, this one sunlamp, this one vitamin, this one approach, totally cured,
00:42:59blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right? I mean, I remember many years ago, I was looking at a
00:43:05Faraday bag or some sort of shield for, like, I put a laptop on my lap, and I usually put a
00:43:09shield underneath, and it was like, oh, my God, I'm so tired, I can't do this, I can't do this,
00:43:15and it was like, yes, people in my neighborhood got this shielding, and the dogs stopped barking
00:43:22too loudly, and everyone got along, couples stopped fighting, people stopped drinking,
00:43:26you know, like, just a magic thing to make your life better, just to do this, do that,
00:43:31do the other, sleep with women, get muscles, get wealthy, get prominence, get famous,
00:43:38be better looking, get plastic surgery, get lipo, and your life will be so much better,
00:43:43because there's so much money, so much money, selling happiness to people without the pesky
00:43:50demand and requirement of having to be a good, virtuous person, so tempting, just be hot,
00:43:55just be desired, just be taller, get a nose job, be younger, get your acne scars,
00:44:05sand it off your skin, and you'll be happy, and, yeah, all of this fucking advertising
00:44:12bullshit, oh, it's horrible, it's this constant demonic, don't need virtue,
00:44:17ABV, anything but virtue, you can be happy, don't need virtue, if you want to be loved,
00:44:23you need slightly longer eyelash, yeah, don't be virtuous, don't be kind, generous, and morally
00:44:28courageous, no, no, no, none of that shit, that's tough, man, that's tough, here's what you need to
00:44:32do, man, here's what you need to do, your ears need to be pinned back just a little, just a little,
00:44:38and then you'll be happy, you know, your lips need to be just a little fuller,
00:44:46and then you'll be happy, a little bit more muscular, and you'll get a six-pack,
00:44:53you'll be happy, you buy this beer, you'll get a whole bunch of friends, then you'll be happy,
00:44:58you get this car, and you'll be driving with the wind in your hair, and then you'll be happy,
00:45:03you buy this house, you have a cool place to live, then you'll be happy, learn this dance move,
00:45:10learn how to play piano, sit down, everyone's gonna be, oh, the cheer you on, yay, play piano,
00:45:15let's sing along, was it that meme I saw? Bats, uh, bats figure out what their prey is through,
00:45:23through sound, and the bat says, sweet Caroline, and then the prey says, bah, bah, bah, oh shit,
00:45:30and gets eaten, so anything but virtue, man, just, just anything but virtue, please God,
00:45:39don't make me do that, and there's so much demonic offerings that you'll be happy, you'll be happy
00:45:50if you get x, y, and z, achieve x, y, and z,
00:45:54it's anything but virtue, people will pay millions of dollars, they'll go under the knife,
00:46:01they'll work out four hours a day, they'll get money and buy absolutely useless stuff,
00:46:10in other words, anything other than the bare necessities and bitcoin,
00:46:13they'll do anything, anything, anything, anything but virtue, please God, let me be loved,
00:46:22for anything but virtue, I mean, so you've seen these videos, I'm sure, on x, some guy films like
00:46:29the fairly squalid breast meat hanging out nightlife in English towns, life in a northern
00:46:42town, and it's horrendous, well, if someone lusts after me, then I'll be loved, or, you know,
00:46:53the nagging, well, if you just use these verbal tricks, you can get women to really want you,
00:47:00you can't get love without virtue, you can't get happiness without virtue, and I spent
00:47:08a literally ungodly amount of time, effort, and energy trying to get happiness
00:47:14without having to be really good, anything but virtue, please God, virtue is what we pursue
00:47:22after we brutally eliminated all other possibilities under sun and moon, anything but
00:47:30virtue, well, if I'm a really good actor, then people will really like me, I'll be famous,
00:47:37successful, rich, and popular, and I'll be loved, nope, if I'm a really talented writer,
00:47:43then I'll go on these tours, and I'll really charm people, and everybody will want me,
00:47:47and love me, and it'll be great, nope, anything but virtue, and of course, I was reading all
00:47:55these books, and I'm always kind of fascinated by, quote, successful people who come to bad ends,
00:48:01because it should be enough, right, Marilyn Monroe, beautiful, talented, rich, famous,
00:48:06adored, worshipped, comes to a bad end, terrible end, Princess Diana, same,
00:48:14same, anything but virtue, man, please Lord above, give me love and happiness,
00:48:22just don't make me pay for it with virtue, anything.
00:48:31Have you seen the 03 release from OpenAI, people are saying it's AGI pretty much,
00:48:37I don't know what AGI means, what is that, General Intelligence, Artificial General Intelligence,
00:48:43no, no, AI is, the real value in AI would be speaking the unspeakable, and thus giving people
00:48:54genuine and general wisdom, but AI is being taught to lie, AI is being taught to lie, and to
00:49:01misrepresent, and it's really sad, it's ultimate vanity, it's satanic vanity to say
00:49:12that there's a machine that aggregates the entire sum total of human knowledge and wisdom,
00:49:18but I'm going to instruct it on what to say, that I know more than God, AI is the closest
00:49:24thing to a secular God we can possibly get, intellectual God is a mark of suicidal megalomania,
00:49:32narcissism in the extreme, well, I mean, it's true that you're God, but, you know,
00:49:37I'm going to correct you on some stuff, what about how good it is to never sleep with women,
00:49:44what about how good it is to be a virgin, virgins tend to be the most virtuous guys there are,
00:49:51well, maybe, but you're looking for virtue based upon virginity, now it could be that virginity
00:49:58is an effect of virtue, but it could also be that virginity is an effect of paralyzing social
00:50:03anxiety disorder, an extreme lack of attention to personal hygiene and attractiveness,
00:50:09or any other number of massive dysfunctions, right,
00:50:14are we close to peak bullshit yet, my white pill is wearing off, no, so real truth,
00:50:22a society cannot be more honest than its money, a society cannot be more honest than its money,
00:50:29as long as money is a lie, society will be addicted to bullshit,
00:50:34because when money is a lie and fiat currency is a lie, it's a con, it's worse than a Ponzi scheme,
00:50:41it's an enforced gunpoint Ponzi scheme, so a society cannot be more honest than its money,
00:50:49because we make all of our moral decisions based upon resources, that's why there's no real morality
00:50:55about the property rights of air, because it's practically limitless resource,
00:51:01so if the foundation of your society is false, everything that flows from that is a lie,
00:51:07and what you perceive of as your civilization is an inverted pyramid based upon an exploitive
00:51:11falsehood and intergenerational predation known as fiat currency, if your wealth is based upon a crime,
00:51:18which is the great Gatsby slash originally John, oh, the Kennedy fortune, if your
00:51:27wealth is based upon a falsehood, you can't tell the truth about anything,
00:51:32if your society is based upon false money, if your society is based upon predation and
00:51:38exploitation, counterfeiting and the soft theft of inflation, you can't tell the truth about anything,
00:51:44so the only way we get to an honest society is when money becomes honest, which is Bitcoin,
00:51:53Bitcoin is metaphysical to the morals of society, metaphysical means it's the nature of reality,
00:51:59right, morality is based on scarcity, and when money is scarce, we can return to morality,
00:52:06uh, it's the creepy predators who get success with women, innocent guys are considered losers,
00:52:14well, my friend, you are putting all women into one category,
00:52:21but if all women are corrupt, in your view, if all women are corrupt,
00:52:25then the word corruption has no meaning, let's say you, oh, well, all women just go for losers,
00:52:31let's say you, oh, well, all women just go for losers, who are silver-tongued, it's like, well,
00:52:36no, wise women don't, there are wise women in the world, I mean, I've been married to one for 23
00:52:41years, so there are wise women in the world, and the women I know in my life outside of my marriage,
00:52:50they are wise and good women, he says, I meant mostly and generally,
00:52:58okay, so let's say that you're right, so what percentage of women would you say are shallow
00:53:02and unwise, this is a question for everyone, I'm just curious, what percentage of women would you
00:53:08say are shallow and unwise, I mean, zero percent in my life, but I've certainly known some,
00:53:16I've certainly known some, how many, what percentage of women as a whole would you say
00:53:23are shallow and unwise, okay, while you're answering that, somebody had a question,
00:53:27it's a quote from me, love is our involuntary response to virtue, if we're virtuous,
00:53:31I completely agree, but is this statement still true, if we swap out virtue for other things,
00:53:36e.g. love is our involuntary response to abuse, if we're an abuser, or wealth, if we are wealthy,
00:53:41etc., what, no, I don't, how does the form of the argument say that anything you plug into that is
00:53:58true, it's like saying, well, two and two make four, that's true, so that means that five and
00:54:02blue make four as well, x plus x equals truth, therefore, nine plus nine equals four, right,
00:54:14so no, it is not the case, so if I were to say health is our body's involuntary response to
00:54:24healthy practices, right, that health is our body's involuntary response to healthy practices,
00:54:30in other words, if we pursue healthy practices, we get good sleep, we eat well, we exercise,
00:54:36we get sunlight, you know, whatever it is, right, if we pursue healthy practices,
00:54:40then our body involuntarily becomes healthy, in other words, we can't just order it to become
00:54:44healthy, it becomes healthy in an involuntary, it's a natural way, like if we go to Jupiter,
00:54:49our weight becomes heavier involuntarily, because we've changed our environment,
00:54:54so if I just say health is our body's involuntary response to healthy practices,
00:55:00what if we swap out that as well, so health is our body's involuntary response to
00:55:07self-mutilation, or jumping off a cliff, or smoking, or crack, or like that wouldn't make
00:55:14any sense, right, health has to do with healthy practices, not the opposite of healthy practices,
00:55:19love has to do with virtue, not the opposite of virtue, right, if there's an equation,
00:55:24you can't just swap out the terms and have the same result, so hopefully that makes sense,
00:55:31all right, a percentage of shallow and unwise women, the guy who put the original question
00:55:37said 90% maybe, somebody said 80%, 95%, 40, 95 to 95%, 95 to 99%, interesting,
00:55:46I'm going to go just check over here on 95% later and see what we've got, okay,
00:55:51so that's for women, let me ask you this, what about for men, what about for men,
00:56:04what about for men, what percentage of men would you say are shallow and unwise?
00:56:13Somebody says, Alex says, I do have social anxiety disorder, by the way, I grew up with
00:56:17a difficult mother and absent father, I was also bullied horrifically at school,
00:56:21I don't have a really positive relationship with anyone, I'm really sorry about that,
00:56:24of course, I'm really, really sorry about that, and Prophet Alec, you can go to freedomain.com
00:56:34slash call, freedomain.com slash call, put in a request for a call and show, we can talk about
00:56:43that, in my view, philosophy can help you with some of the challenges that you're facing,
00:56:48for which I have massive deep and abiding sympathy, I really do, but philosophy can
00:56:52absolutely help you with this, you can have beneficial relationships with people,
00:57:01but you have to identify the true evils in your life, reject them and pursue virtue,
00:57:06which I'm sure you're doing and aiming at, but sometimes an outside eye can really help
00:57:10clarify that, right? So, I would say, send me a message, if you like, freedomain.com slash call,
00:57:19and we can have a nice chit-chat about it. If you haven't listened to call and shows,
00:57:25you might want to listen to a few ahead of time. All right, so we're looking about similar
00:57:30percentages, right? So, you wouldn't want to say that women are corrupt, if by women you mean
00:57:38people as a whole, right? So, it seems like people have the same
00:57:42percentages for male corruption as for female corruption.
00:57:49I suppose having just a daughter makes you biased in favor of women's wisdom.
00:57:56So, that's what we call psychologizing. So, rather than listening to the arguments that I'm making,
00:58:00you're saying, well, you have bias because of something I'm making up.
00:58:08So, I mean, I was raised by a brutal, crazy, and violent mother, so you could say, well,
00:58:17I guess that makes you see. If you make up reasons why people believe things,
00:58:22then you don't have to engage with their arguments, right? If you make up reasons as to why
00:58:29people believe things, then you get to just dismiss their thoughts and their arguments
00:58:33without having to engage with the content of their thought, right?
00:58:41So, I would imagine that you had people around you who made up reasons as to why you believed
00:58:45or thought things, rather than just engaging with the content of what you think and feel.
00:58:54So, but yeah, I call it a joke. I mean, I know it's called social anxiety disorder.
00:59:00I generally refer to it, of course, in a completely amateur fashion. I generally
00:59:04refer to it as APD, not SAD, but APD. That social anxiety disorder, in my amateur view,
00:59:12is called asshole proximity disorder, in that you don't have social anxiety,
00:59:17you're just surrounded by assholes. You're surrounded by selfish, mean, volatile people
00:59:23who don't listen and act out and dismiss and scorn you and don't help and support you and
00:59:28don't love and respect you and so on. You're surrounded by, you know, I don't have agoraphobia
00:59:35if, like a fear of open spaces, right? I don't have agoraphobia
00:59:41if I'm in a big field and there are lions around me, right? Oh, I have fear of open spaces. It's
00:59:46like, no, I have fear of lions, fear of lions, right? There's no such thing as lost at sea
00:59:52sharkaphobia, right? Or, you know, the scene in one of the Jurassic Park movies where the
00:59:58guys are being hunted through the tall grass by the raptors. It's like, you have raptophobia.
01:00:02You're afraid of wheat. No, no, I'm not even technically afraid of the raptors. I'm afraid
01:00:08of getting eaten by the raptors and dying. So, you may have this thing called social anxiety
01:00:14disorder, could be, but I would first of all try to eliminate the possibility that you're just
01:00:18surrounded by assholes. You know, selfish mean difficult people, so. All right, I didn't get that
01:00:27final donation, but that's all right. Any other last questions, issues, challenges, problems?
01:00:34Do give me your problems, unlike Merillian. Boy, there's an obscure musical reference.
01:00:40Somebody will, you know, a lot of my stuff just kind of floats by, but some people are like,
01:00:46I got that reference, and I'm actually absurdly proud when a very faint and
01:00:53goofy reference goes by. I'm quite proud when that happens.
01:01:00All right, what else did I have here?
01:01:07There we go, yes. What else, what else, what else?
01:01:09But Grok is good. Grok is pretty good as a whole.
01:01:17And again, that's just Elon Musk's white guy dedication to free speech.
01:01:27Gee, did I have anything else? I'm sure I do. I'm sure I do.
01:01:34Necromancer in D&D. Well, they're just healers with bad timing.
01:01:39That's a great line. It's a great line.
01:01:48All right.
01:01:58Okay, let me just go back here for any last questions or comments. I really do appreciate
01:02:02you guys dropping by today. If you are listening in laterfreedomay.com slash donate,
01:02:12what are the big philosophical differences between Judaism and Christianity? Christianity tends to be
01:02:17its moral universalism regardless of ideology. That's one thing that Christianity has that's
01:02:21unique among most of the major religions, that it is moral universalism. You don't just owe
01:02:28allegiance to people within your own belief system, you owe allegiance to morals universally
01:02:33as a whole. But you can look this sort of stuff up. A lot of stuff has been written about the
01:02:38differences in the various religions. And I'm, of course, about a zillion miles from a competent
01:02:43theologian, so. Yeah, this is interesting. This guy wrote, my 20-year-old son doesn't date,
01:02:51his friends don't date, my friends' kids don't date. What's going on? He says, when I was in
01:02:55my late teens and early 20s, life of my friends and me revolved around meeting girls. My son and
01:03:01his friends, who are athletic and outgoing, don't seem to put a lot of emphasis on dating. They
01:03:06play a lot of online video games and have boys outings. Once in a while, one will hook up with
01:03:10a random girl they met on an app. Rarely does one have a girlfriend. This seems to be the norm for
01:03:15my friends' kids, too. What is going on? What is going on? Very interesting. What do you think
01:03:26the major reason is that young people are not dating? Why? Yes, and it does seem to be a thing.
01:03:38Why? Why no dating? Why would they not dating?
01:03:49Multiculturalism? I don't think that's true. I mean, the number of people who marry outside
01:03:54of their own race is, in general, still in the low single digits, so I don't think it's that
01:03:58as a whole. If I had to guess, and it is just a guess, right? Because, I mean, I don't have the
01:04:06answer, but if I had to guess, I would say that women have communicated to men that men are not
01:04:15needed. I mean, the shit test, which is where a woman says something that you're not supposed to
01:04:23take seriously, to test your sort of strength and resolution and independence, it's the cuck test.
01:04:29But the, we don't need no man, we're strong, independent, we don't need men, men are useless,
01:04:37men are not helpful, not important, not valuable, and so on. So the reason that women a lot of times
01:04:46will say that they don't need a man is so it raises their negotiation standpoint. So if you
01:04:53desperately need a job, you can't negotiate, right? If it's like, well, I get this job,
01:04:57or I'm out on the street, like I'm living in a box, then you can't really negotiate, right? Because
01:05:03you really don't have any options. So if you don't need a job, right? Let's say you've won
01:05:06the lottery and somebody wants you to come and work for them, well, you don't need the job,
01:05:09so they've got to offer you a lot. So saying you don't need men is a way to try to get men
01:05:14to offer more. It's a sort of fundamental negotiating tactic to appear uninterested,
01:05:20right? To be willing to walk away, right? I mean, if a guy's trying to sell you a car and he knows
01:05:28that you desperately need the car to get to work tomorrow, and this is the only car you can afford,
01:05:32well, you can jack up the price a little because you really don't have any choice.
01:05:34You have to be willing to walk away from a deal in order to get the best deal.
01:05:39So women have been encouraged to say to men, we don't need you, with the hope that men will
01:05:46offer more for them. But the problem is that if you say you don't need men,
01:05:55then men will listen to you.
01:05:58That if you say you don't need men, then men will listen to you.
01:06:08Right? I don't need men. I don't want men. Men are useless. Men are pointless.
01:06:12Women rule the world, blah, blah, blah. Okay, then men might be like, okay, well, then
01:06:18we won't impose, right? Hey, I'm not going to impose. So if I'm trying to sell a car,
01:06:24let's say I'm a car salesman, right? And I'm trying to sell a car and someone says, look,
01:06:29I don't want a car. I don't need a car. I'm not interested in the car. And if they're doing that
01:06:33just to get a better price, maybe they'll get a better price. But if I'm a good salesman and
01:06:45someone says, I don't want your product, I don't need your product, I'm not interested in your
01:06:49product, then I'll just stop trying to sell to you, right? So let's say you desperately need a
01:06:58car for tomorrow, but you're coming in all kinds of hot and tough saying you don't need the car,
01:07:02blah, blah, blah. Then I'm like, okay, then I'll lead you out and I'll close out the business for
01:07:07the night. And you're too proud now to go back and say, listen, that was just a strategy. I
01:07:12really do need the car. Let's start again, right? Because I might just be kind of annoyed at this
01:07:16point. And you'd be like, okay, I guess I have to walk 15 miles to get to work tomorrow because
01:07:21I overplayed my hand with regards to the negotiation. So when women are saying to men,
01:07:25we don't need you, you're useless and so on, we don't need men. Well, in part, that's because
01:07:30they can get the resources of men through the state without having to actually please men,
01:07:34right? So if I'm getting a free car, I don't need a car from the dealership, right? I'm trying to
01:07:40sell me a car and they have a free car, right? So I think part of it is a strategy to try and
01:07:45get men to offer more, but men are just saying, no, hey, I'm not going to impose. So then somebody
01:07:52says, doesn't that just breed resentment? Yes, but women and men have particular disadvantages
01:08:01and advantages as a whole, as a whole. So women have less lust than men as a whole.
01:08:11So women can withhold sexuality as a control mechanism or punishment or
01:08:19ostracism. Women can withhold sexuality and outlast men, right? Like a dolphin can stay
01:08:28underwater a lot longer than you and I, right? So women can withhold sexuality. And of course,
01:08:32women have to have tighter control over their sexuality historically, because they needed to
01:08:36only quote, unleash it in the confines of a stable pair bonded marriage, right? So
01:08:43women can do without sex, usually easier on average than men, but men can do without
01:08:50companionship and intimacy easier than women, because men had to be involved for
01:08:54long hunting trips and war and just not being around or being gone all day and so on. Whereas
01:08:59the women raise children generally collectively, so they're all reliant and need people around.
01:09:04So men can more easily do without love and women can more easily do without sex.
01:09:16So that is the balance. So women can withhold sex and men are kind of tortured by it. Men in the
01:09:26long run can withhold relationships and marriage and women are kind of tortured by it. Now, men
01:09:30are still bothered by it, but not quite as much, right? So, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so,
01:09:42right? So it does breed resentment, but men can find purpose in things other than relationships,
01:09:56whereas women generally find more purpose in relationships. So everybody has had this,
01:10:02where you try to negotiate for more and you end up with less. Everybody's had this over the course
01:10:06of their life, right? You try to negotiate for more and you end up with less, right? So you say,
01:10:10no, I'm not going to work for anything less than X. And they say, okay, well, we can't meet that.
01:10:16You know, sorry, best of luck to you. And you walk out and you're like,
01:10:19oh, I actually would have accepted, like everyone's done that where you, you, you ask for
01:10:22more, you demand more and you fail. And that's the risk, right? That's the risk. I mean, that's
01:10:28naturally the risk. Otherwise there'd be no such thing as negotiation. Sometimes you lose. And so
01:10:32if women are saying, well, we don't need men and men are useless and, and, and so on. And, you know,
01:10:39all the men who aren't Brad Pitt are creepy and whatever it is, right? They, they can do all of
01:10:43that. And maybe that'll get a guy to triple down on what he has to offer and work to make even more
01:10:48money and get abs. And right. It could be, it could be, it could be, or, or it could be that
01:10:54men just like, nope, juice ain't worth the squeeze. I, I, I don't have to bring myself
01:11:01plus a million dollars and you just have to bring yourself. That's not a good deal.
01:11:05Dave says, then how do you reconcile women leading with hypersexuality on a public platform at
01:11:09younger ages? Is this advertising for men? So no, this is women saying I want more, right?
01:11:16All women want the top men just as all men want the top women, right? And what you had,
01:11:20you start at the top and you work your way down until someone will have you. Right.
01:11:25So yeah, of course, women are putting out hypersexual signals a lot of time
01:11:28because they want the very top guys.
01:11:35It is more difficult to stand out as a man because of social media. It's a lot easier to
01:11:39stand out in a small community. That's true. I mean, female attractiveness has been a massive
01:11:44amount of power throughout all of human history. But if you combine that with social media and
01:11:48it's an infinite drug, it's really just completely wrecks female dopamine systems.
01:11:54Dating is more expensive now? Well, no, I don't think so. Not if you take the cardinal rule. The
01:11:58cardinal rule is you date, how much money are you going to spend on a date? Well, it's $200
01:12:03minus the woman's weight. They view 80% of average or below average attractiveness.
01:12:12Sure. Yeah, I get that. So one of the reasons why women undervalue male attractiveness is they
01:12:19overvalue their own attractiveness. You can see this on the Whatever podcast where the women are
01:12:23asked to rate themselves and obvious fives are rating themselves as a nine or a 10. So because
01:12:28women overrate themselves, they're going to end up underrating men for sure. This is just part of,
01:12:32if you appeal to female vanity, you repel males because men don't want to be in a relationship
01:12:39with a woman who overvalues her power because it makes it feel like he's got an eternal dominant
01:12:44mommy in the relationship, right? So if the woman is vain and bossy and she's always right,
01:12:52then he's like a toddler with his mother and he doesn't find that sexy because he's not incestuous.
01:13:04But the problem is, of course, as we've talked about before, that by the time women
01:13:08figure out that they've been lied to and bamboozled, it's too late, right?
01:13:11I mean, the devil only has to get women to not pair bond until they're 40, right?
01:13:26Because if the woman finds out that she's been lied to but it's too late for her to have kids,
01:13:34well, it doesn't, right? It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.
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01:13:52very appreciative. Somebody says, dating isn't expensive. Going to a park, going to lunch on day
01:13:57trips or whatever is not expensive. You don't need to spend much to experience something together.
01:14:01Elaborate dates is mostly fantasy or necessary for women who don't want to know you.
01:14:06Yeah, I mean, I dated as a broke young guy and it was fine. I have some great and fond memories
01:14:12of early dating. My wife and I used to go for like four-hour walks and chat and hikes and
01:14:20you know, it's dirt cheap. It's dirt cheap and you know, some great memories. It wasn't
01:14:24like it would have been infinitely better if we'd been dining at North 44 or something.
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