Stefan Molyneux
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Sunday Morning Live 12 January 2025

In this episode, I analyze luxury beliefs and their role as social signals that detach individuals from manual labor and the working class. I discuss how modern femininity often involves rejecting physical work and contrast my labor background with the luxury lifestyles of some progressives. The conversation expands to the hypocrisy surrounding crime and the wealthy's compassion for criminals, alongside critiques of the welfare state and education systems. Ultimately, I urge listeners to examine their beliefs and recognize the real-world implications, emphasizing personal responsibility and societal awareness for meaningful progress.

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Transcript
00:00:00Good morning, good morning, everybody.
00:00:02It is Stephen Molyneux from Free Domain, 12th of January, 2024.
00:00:09Did a great show this morning on a great verse in Corinthians.
00:00:12Keep those Bible verses coming.
00:00:14It's tapping into something remarkable within me, or possibly without me.
00:00:20So that's very cool, that's very cool.
00:00:23I'm happy to take your questions and comments, of course, this morning.
00:00:27One of the things that I'd like to talk about, because remember, it's all about me, it's
00:00:33me.
00:00:34But I would like to talk about luxury beliefs, but I am absolutely thrilled to hear what
00:00:40it is that you guys want to talk about as well, because this is a live stream, and therefore
00:00:49what you have to offer means the world to me.
00:00:55So if you would like to bring your topics to the fore, I will tee them up.
00:01:02Ooh, look at that, throwing in a little bit of here and there.
00:01:07Golf metaphors.
00:01:08Golf, a game, I've only played a couple of times in my life, and I will tell you, it
00:01:16was not my thing.
00:01:17No, no, not my thing, not my ting at all, not my ting at all, I tell you.
00:01:24In a vaguely Irish accent, all right, I have too many tabs, I always have too many tabs.
00:01:37But you really can't see, you can't see luxury beliefs more at play than California at the
00:01:49moment.
00:01:50I'm not sure anyone's going to learn anything from it at all, but it would be nice if they
00:01:56did, but I'm not holding my breath.
00:02:01Are there more than the seven virtues?
00:02:03It's a good question, I'm not sure what the seven virtues are, I mean, I'm sure I know
00:02:08some of them.
00:02:09But yeah, luxury beliefs, luxury beliefs are very interesting.
00:02:14So most people do not believe what they believe for any reason other than conformity, inertia,
00:02:22and emotion.
00:02:24Conformity, inertia, and emotion.
00:02:30And most people's beliefs these days are founded on attempting as much as possible to distance
00:02:39themselves from the proletariat, from physical labor.
00:02:48So it's status.
00:02:51Most of human behavior, absent philosophy and religion, most of human behavior is status
00:02:57signaling, which is why men, when they meet you, will ask you what you do for a living.
00:03:06And I say, oh no, I engage in petty crime, because, you know, otherwise they might find
00:03:11my Wikipedia page.
00:03:12Just kidding.
00:03:13I tell people what I do, take it or leave it.
00:03:17So obviously I don't engage in petty crime.
00:03:22So when people say to you that reality is subjective, they're saying to you that they
00:03:32don't have to do physical labor.
00:03:37And that's it.
00:03:38All they're signaling is that they can afford to indulge in intellectual bullshit because
00:03:46they don't have to deal with actual material tangible reality.
00:03:49You see, material labor throughout most of human history was for the slaves, or the serfs,
00:03:57or the proletariat, or the low rent, or the lower classes.
00:04:04So when people have beliefs in opposition to material reality, they're saying, they're
00:04:11signaling, I don't have to deal with material reality, which means I don't do manual labor,
00:04:19which means I manipulate people, ideas, arguments for a living.
00:04:24I don't actually have to move boulders and build a pyramid.
00:04:31So when you understand that, you understand what is going on with most people's, in particular,
00:04:41leftist beliefs.
00:04:42So leftist beliefs are luxury beliefs in that it relies upon the people who do actual physical
00:04:50labor in order to support the parasitical intellectual classes that oppose reality.
00:05:00If you don't work in reality, someone else has to work in reality for you.
00:05:05So if you inherit, as my ancestors did, if you inherit a bunch of land with a bunch of
00:05:12serfs, then you can indulge in all kinds of platonic whack-jobbery because other people
00:05:18are supplying you with the food and the shelter.
00:05:23You inherit the land, you inherit the house, and so you can engage in all kind of circle-jerk
00:05:27masturbatory nonsense because other people are forced through your inherited property
00:05:32rights to pay for your nonsense.
00:05:39So luxury beliefs are status.
00:05:41So if you want to see status, the best place to look is women in the modern world.
00:05:48So if you look at women and what is considered fashionable and attractive, what is considered
00:05:56fashionable and attractive is always the furthest thing from physical labor.
00:06:03Do you wear heels?
00:06:04That means you're not doing physical labor.
00:06:07Do you wear gloves, like white gloves?
00:06:09You're not doing physical labor.
00:06:11Do you wear makeup?
00:06:12You're not doing physical labor.
00:06:15Does your hair just sew?
00:06:19That means you're not doing physical labor.
00:06:23Even being super skinny means you're not doing physical labor because when you do physical
00:06:26labor, I don't know if you've ever worked with beefy physical labor types about the
00:06:31meal.
00:06:32Think of the sort of the archetypical shows up in Renaissance fare as a comedy, the washerwoman
00:06:36stereotype.
00:06:37You know, the woman that Winston Smith talks about in 1984, she's beautiful.
00:06:43She's a meter across the hips easily.
00:06:45That's her style of beauty, washerwoman, proletariat, fisherwife, fisherwife, you know, like big
00:06:54beefy bloodshot nose and skin and so on, right?
00:06:59So with women, the more frou-frou they look, the more they're saying, I don't have to do
00:07:10physical labor.
00:07:11I am aristocratic.
00:07:16So I don't have to deal with reality.
00:07:19And I was talking to my daughter.
00:07:21She's planning adulthood, right?
00:07:22She's planning adulthood at the moment because she's 16, right?
00:07:25Makes sense.
00:07:27And so I was talking about me having to go 18 months working up north in, you know, the
00:07:33cold and the heat and the bugs and the, right?
00:07:38And she's like, yeah, but it really grounded you.
00:07:40And it's like, well, that's true, right?
00:07:41So having to do physical labor, much though I disliked it at times from the age of, I
00:07:48mean, I first started doing, it wasn't exactly physical labor, but I was painting plaques
00:07:52at the age of 10 for the silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth the second.
00:07:56And then I got a job when I was 11 at a bookstore, I was assembling the New York times on Sundays
00:08:03and doing other work around the bookstore, which was a job I loved.
00:08:07I loved that job at the bookstore because they could tear off the cover of a book and
00:08:12give me any book for free.
00:08:13I go out with bags of books, read all the way home on the subway.
00:08:16It was like, it was a bus, a subway and a bus to get to that job, which started at
00:08:22eight 30 in the morning on a Sunday.
00:08:23That was not fun.
00:08:30Long nails.
00:08:32And this year that's right at long nails.
00:08:33I don't have to do long painted nails.
00:08:35I don't have to do a physical labor, right?
00:08:44Wearing white, wearing a delicate clothing.
00:08:47I don't have to do a physical labor.
00:08:50And even showing a lot of skin is a status thing.
00:08:55Yeah.
00:08:57Expensive purses.
00:08:58I don't have to do physical labor, right?
00:09:00And I'm a lady of leisure.
00:09:02And even showing a lot of skin means that you have outsourced your physical protection
00:09:06to men as a whole.
00:09:08Huge eyelashes.
00:09:09Yeah, absolutely.
00:09:10It means that you don't have to do.
00:09:11So it's all about a distance from physical labor.
00:09:18So if you understand that, for men, egalitarianism is the equivalent of female makeup.
00:09:27It is a luxury belief paid for by the labor of others.
00:09:30It is a form of status which says, I prey upon others for my survival.
00:09:39I don't have to do any work myself.
00:09:47My question was removed from the comments.
00:09:49I wonder why.
00:09:56So for instance, and this is a point that Mike Cernovich brought up, you know, credit
00:10:01where credit is due is a great guy to follow on X.
00:10:04But if you remember back in the 2020, right, the summer of love with billions of dollars
00:10:12of damage and hundreds of people injured, many people killed in the Black Lives Matter
00:10:17riots in the summer of 2020, which was, I mean, 2020 versus 2024 is a completely different
00:10:26planet.
00:10:27I don't know why the left hasn't gone feral in 2024, but probably because they felt they
00:10:33were going to lose the popular vote, as I predicted.
00:10:36So there were a lot of wealthy people who were saying, well, it's just, it's just property
00:10:45damage.
00:10:46It's just property.
00:10:47It's just property damage.
00:10:48It's only property.
00:10:49It doesn't matter.
00:10:50You know, it's only property.
00:10:51And now these are the same people going online and crying buckets of tears of harm to their
00:10:57mega mansions.
00:10:58It's just property, right?
00:11:02So saying that you don't mind rioting is saying I'm wealthy enough for private security.
00:11:10And you could see people in the California fires saying, I'll pay anyone to be my private
00:11:14fireman and all of that, right?
00:11:16So now property matters and the capacity to do manual labor effectively and efficiently.
00:11:23And I'm not, of course, I'm not reducing firefighting to me a manual labor, but without the manual
00:11:28labor, like somebody actually bringing water out, pointing a hose or bombing, right, without
00:11:32bombing the water, without the actual physical labor, there's no such thing as firefighting.
00:11:40So all the people who said during the Black Lives Matter protests, but it's only property,
00:11:44are saying that they're not affected by it because they're wealthy enough for gated communities,
00:11:54private communities.
00:11:55They're a long way from the poor.
00:11:57It's in the same way, at least in the short run, people who say we should have sympathy
00:12:01for criminals, right?
00:12:02This is a very foundational thing that people say.
00:12:04We should have sympathy for criminals, you know, give them another chance.
00:12:08And I remember, what was it, 60 Minutes or 20-20 or one of those other absolute garbage
00:12:12shows, had some show on many years ago about the sort of California's three strikes law.
00:12:17And then it was like, this poor black guy went to jail forever because he stole a slice
00:12:22of pizza.
00:12:23This was his third strike and all of this sort of stuff.
00:12:27And all they're doing is they're saying that the criminality only affects the petty bourgeois,
00:12:34right, the people who own little stores, the people who own big stores, right, like big
00:12:38chains.
00:12:39They're still local managers, right?
00:12:41So they're saying, look, these people, it doesn't affect me.
00:12:45I mean, I work in the abstract intellectual square, right?
00:12:48Write books and publish on Amazon, they're not gonna be shoplifted.
00:12:51I mean, maybe they'll be copied by China, but that's a whole other matter.
00:12:54So they're saying, well, my labor can't be stolen off a shelf and I'm not subject.
00:13:00I don't have to take the subway.
00:13:03So we should let criminals walk free because it's not anything to do, like, compassion
00:13:11without reason is brutality on others.
00:13:17And so they're saying, well, I can afford these beliefs because they don't affect me.
00:13:22I can afford to have compassion of criminals because I'm in a gated community, I have private
00:13:26security, I'm not running some stupid little store that's gonna get stolen from, I'm not
00:13:31living in a bad neighborhood.
00:13:33So all they're doing is signaling their own status.
00:13:36And signaling your own status towards the negative effect of others is deeply demonic.
00:13:45It's deeply demonic.
00:13:48To let poor people have to contend with endless waves of criminality because you wanna show
00:13:53your status and that you don't have to deal with these issues is demonic, it's monstrous.
00:13:59The real compassion is helping people where it doesn't affect you directly, right?
00:14:05So saying, look, repeat criminals need to be locked up because 90% of crime is committed
00:14:09by like 10% of people.
00:14:11You lock those up and society becomes a paradise.
00:14:13They just proved this factually in El Salvador, which went from one of the highest murder
00:14:17rates to one of the lowest murder rates simply by locking people up and keeping them locked
00:14:20up.
00:14:21I mean, I wish it wasn't the case.
00:14:22I wish that it was easy to reform criminals.
00:14:25But if you've ever looked at like the NPD, like the narcissistic personality disorder
00:14:29brain, it's a different kind of animal, right?
00:14:34Stuff lights up that wouldn't otherwise light up in a healthy brain.
00:14:37Stuff is completely dark.
00:14:39Like a fifth or a quarter of the NPD brain is completely dark.
00:14:44They operate on a different level.
00:14:46What would give you horror gives them joy.
00:14:49What would give you joy gives them horror.
00:14:53Like we refer to criminals as predators.
00:14:56People lied about this with me, right?
00:14:57But we refer to criminals as predators because they hunt people.
00:15:01They are the effect of predators on the domestic population.
00:15:08It's all well and good to say, save the coyotes when you live in a high rise.
00:15:17How about save the coyotes when you have a farm on the frontier where the coyotes can
00:15:25eat your livestock?
00:15:28It's just a way of signaling, right?
00:15:33The real compassion is when you care about people where there's no effect on you.
00:15:40And if you care about the people in poor neighborhoods, the neighborhoods are poor because of criminality.
00:15:49When you care about the people in poor neighborhoods, when you live in a wealthy neighborhood, that's
00:15:54compassion.
00:15:56All the people who say, we must have government schools, we have to have government schools,
00:16:02they're all in expensive neighborhoods with relatively good schools because there's a
00:16:09filter, right?
00:16:10An expensive neighborhood is a filter, high IQ.
00:16:13So they're saying, well, the fact that government schools are absolute trash in poor neighborhoods
00:16:19to the point where, what was it, Waiting for Superman?
00:16:22There are entire documentaries on people desperate to get into charter schools and get their
00:16:25kids some kind of advantage.
00:16:27So saying we need government schools, it's just another zip code bragging, right?
00:16:32I'm in 90210, right?
00:16:34So it's just a form of bragging and saying, well, I can afford to teach my kids privately.
00:16:41I can hire them tutors.
00:16:42I'm in a good neighborhood.
00:16:44So government schools are great.
00:16:46And really, people who advocate for, see, there's a war between rich and poor, right?
00:16:52There's a war between rich and poor with the state.
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00:17:10So there's a war between rich and poor in the free market.
00:17:14In a free market, the rich are constantly tumbling down, like the churn between poor
00:17:20and wealthy is constant.
00:17:23And I experienced this directly.
00:17:24So when I was a broadcast student paying $270 a month for my room and board, and I made
00:17:31room, board was pretty cheap too.
00:17:34I could afford to work for very little money.
00:17:35I could afford to take almost no salary for the first year or two of my entrepreneurial
00:17:39life, whereas rich people with a high burn rate can't.
00:17:42Right?
00:17:43No, I mean, I remember working that the CEO of the company had a very high burn rate.
00:17:48He had kids in university.
00:17:49He had a home to be paid.
00:17:52He had two or three cars.
00:17:54He had a cottage up north.
00:17:56He had to spend a lot of money.
00:17:57It's a high burn rate.
00:17:58I could live on very little.
00:18:00So as far as competition went, the poor, the smart poor can out-compete the smart rich.
00:18:06Now the smart rich have their contacts, which is great, but the smart poor have low overhead
00:18:10so they can charge less.
00:18:11So it is the business of the corrupt wealthy to use the state to sabotage the ambitious
00:18:17poor.
00:18:18And the way they do that, it's multifold, but one of the ways they do that is to advocate
00:18:21for the release of criminals.
00:18:23Criminals get released into poor neighborhoods, screw up the lives of the poor, interfere
00:18:27with their sleep and disrupt their education and disrupt.
00:18:31You want to be an entrepreneur in the poor neighborhood, you're screwed because everybody
00:18:37would just steal your stuff.
00:18:38Right?
00:18:39I mean, I'm sure you've seen these videos of people in poor neighborhoods, you know,
00:18:43they're walking around with a PS5 box and people are like, hey man, I'll buy that from
00:18:47you.
00:18:48And like, no, I don't want to sell it.
00:18:49And they just grab it and run.
00:18:51You can't really be an entrepreneur in a poor neighborhood because the rich people are all
00:18:53advocating for the poor criminals to be released into the poor neighborhood, screws up people's
00:18:57entrepreneurship, screws up their education, screws up their sleep habits because there's
00:19:00this constant yelling and gunfire when they're trying to sleep.
00:19:03And it screws up their exercise because they've got to stay home because it's too dangerous
00:19:07out so they can't go out and play.
00:19:08They can't learn social skills through spontaneous sports organization as I did when I was a
00:19:13kid.
00:19:14I mean, we were poor, but I learned a lot of social skills just going out, being broke
00:19:17with the other poor kids and roaming around, coming up with games and all of that sort
00:19:21of stuff, the stuff that I write about in Almost.
00:19:23You also screw up the poor.
00:19:26As a wealthy person, you screw up the poor by advocating for government schools.
00:19:30You know that the schools are going to be better, much better in your neighborhood and
00:19:33you can have the money to get private tutors and so on.
00:19:36The poor don't have that.
00:19:37The only chance the poor have, most of the poor, the only chance that they have to get
00:19:41out of being poor is to have good education, right?
00:19:49And so by advocating for government schools where the income and the teacher quality is
00:19:54based upon property tax receipts sabotages the poor.
00:20:01Advocating for the welfare state has nothing to do with compassion for the poor.
00:20:04It is how the wealthy class sabotage the poor.
00:20:08So you advocate for the welfare state that takes the farthest out of the homes, which
00:20:13cripples the sons who might compete with you.
00:20:16So most policies advocated by wealthy liberals in particular are there to sabotage the poor
00:20:22so they can't be out-competed because rich people, when they become wealthy, they always
00:20:26want to build fences around their wealth, right?
00:20:29They don't want to lose it because they know that they're going to have not exactly idiot
00:20:33kids, but they're going to have regression to the mean kids, right?
00:20:36So someone's really smart, really entrepreneurial, their kids will be more smart and more entrepreneurial
00:20:40than the average, but much less usually than the parents because there's a regression to
00:20:43the mean.
00:20:45So when you build wealth, you want to keep that wealth and the best way you do that in
00:20:49a state of society is to create barriers to entry, right?
00:20:54So licensing and paperwork and bureaucracy and really complicated tax codes and corporate
00:21:00structures and so you create massive barriers to entry and then you just work as hard as
00:21:05you can to sabotage the poor who are going to out-compete you because there's this churn.
00:21:09There's like the scattershot of brilliance and entrepreneurship goes wide and you get
00:21:14this light landing on smart poor people all the time.
00:21:17I mean, I grew up in fairly grinding poverty and have made a fairly decent go of things
00:21:22in my life, but against a lot of resistance, right?
00:21:27And so the wealthy people, particularly on the left, they're just trying to do what the
00:21:33old aristocrats used to just use the power of the state to get their hereditary lands
00:21:38and their titles and all of that and then kill people, kill people who poached on their
00:21:43land, who hunted, right?
00:21:45Kill people who opposed them or questioned them or opposed them.
00:21:48My ancestor William Molyneux was hiding in barns in Ireland with his best friend John
00:21:52Locke being hunted by the king because he questioned some of the virtue and value of
00:21:56the king's commandments.
00:21:59So the wealthy gaining wealth and then using the power of the state to sabotage the poor
00:22:07who they cannot compete with in the long run is a constant factor.
00:22:10And so yeah, all these luxury beliefs is, and they didn't think that the luxury beliefs
00:22:15would come back to bite them, right?
00:22:18They didn't think that the luxury beliefs, environmentalism is a luxury belief and I
00:22:23don't mean taking care of the environment.
00:22:24We've been doing that since time immemorial, farmers have been rotating their crops and
00:22:29letting their lands lie fallow to protect the long-term value of, I mean, people take
00:22:33care of their cars so that they don't burn out and destroy themselves and so on.
00:22:42But hyper-environmentalism is a way of destroying the opportunities of poorer people, right?
00:22:51A bunch of carbon taxes and diversity also can do some of the same stuff by replacing
00:22:56something other than pure meritocracy.
00:22:58See, in pure meritocracy, the poor will out-compete the wealthy over time because their costs
00:23:05of living are lower, they can undercharge for the goods that the wealthy require.
00:23:09And plus, nothing whets your appetite for success like being a brookie when you're young.
00:23:15And so the young, intelligent, entrepreneurial kids are hungry for success in a way that
00:23:22the offspring of wealthy kids just aren't.
00:23:24Just aren't.
00:23:25I mean, I desperately needed money.
00:23:27I was hungry to work.
00:23:28I had three jobs in high school, late junior high in high school, because I desperately
00:23:32wanted to get ahead, I wanted to date, I wanted to have some money for the things that I wanted
00:23:37to do and I had to pay bills, so I was just hungry.
00:23:40None of my wealthy...
00:23:41And I knew a couple of middle-class and upper-middle-class kids.
00:23:44Actually, most of my friends, yeah, most of my friends from about the age of 13 or 14
00:23:49onwards, this is a benefit of having a brother, is I had some pretty losery friends when my
00:23:54mother was depressed and institutionalized, as you can imagine, but then my brother had
00:23:58some slightly better friends, actually substantially better friends, higher status friends, so
00:24:02I did a certain switcheroo, not 100%, but I had some decent friends, but I moved to...
00:24:08And none of the middle-class and above kids had two jobs, let alone three, right?
00:24:17So I just got more work experience, I ended up making more money, although I had to pay
00:24:22much more because they didn't have to pay their bills, and what can I tell you?
00:24:27Their jobs were luxury jobs, they didn't have to work, they're just going to be less hungry.
00:24:34So sabotaging the poor who can out-compete you is foundational to what is called leftist
00:24:39compassion.
00:24:40It's not compassion, it's just sabotage of the poor.
00:24:48It's just sabotage of the poor.
00:24:53So yeah, all of these luxury beliefs, and then you think, well, I'm going to use these
00:24:58false beliefs, these propagandized beliefs, I'm going to use it to protect my property,
00:25:03that's the big theory, I'm going to use it to protect my property.
00:25:07So the devil always pretends to sell you safety when in fact he's delivering suicide.
00:25:15The devil always pretends to sell you safety when he in fact is delivering suicide, saying,
00:25:21hey, that's not what I ordered, yeah, but that's what you're going to get.
00:25:24A question of immigration is just a question of the welfare state.
00:25:27You could solve the problems of immigration just by giving up the welfare state.
00:25:31People won't give up the welfare state, and so they natter on about immigration and the
00:25:41welfare state in many forms, right?
00:25:42Not just the formal one, but like all of the mass transfer of wealth, from the productive
00:25:47to the unproductive, or the politically connected to the not politically connected.
00:25:50Yeah, so bribing the poor is sabotaging the poor.
00:25:55Luxury beliefs are a state of signaling, and you think, well, I can have all of these luxury
00:25:59beliefs because I don't have to deal with reality.
00:26:02And then something like the California wildfires happen, and suddenly your luxury beliefs,
00:26:08the price of them, right, the price of your beliefs becomes clear over time, right?
00:26:23All right, so I think luxury beliefs are very interesting, and I don't believe any compassion,
00:26:27right?
00:26:28I mean, if society had compassion for the poor, society would have compassion for me.
00:26:32Let's say society thought I was saying some bad or wrong things, but they say, oh, yes,
00:26:36but, you know, he was raised in grinding poverty by a mentally ill and violent mother,
00:26:41and so let's give him some sympathy, right?
00:26:44It's what I said on the debate with those two communists, right, that they sided with
00:26:48multinational corporations against a proletariat guy who dragged himself up by his bootstraps.
00:26:55So they were literally siding with multinational corporations in supporting mighty platforming.
00:26:59They were siding with giant multinational corporations against the proletariat, the
00:27:02worst communists on the planet.
00:27:03But, of course, communism is not about the proletariat, it's just about power, right?
00:27:09We'll sell you, I mean, the communists are the ancient line of demonic santas offering
00:27:13you something for nothing in return for your soul.
00:27:16All right, let's get to your questions and comments.
00:27:19Some more donations would thrill my spirits almost beyond measure.
00:27:22What do we got, 20 bucks so far?
00:27:27Was I making more money as a teenager?
00:27:29Yeah, sometimes it feels that way.
00:27:30I'll be perfectly frank with you.
00:27:33All right, but let's get to your questions.
00:27:35I will attempt to rouse my spirits and get to what you have to say, right?
00:27:41How much of progress is delayed by people being absolutely sure and absolutely wrong?
00:27:46Sure, but absolutely sure and absolutely wrong, being immune to, quote, facts, is a luxury
00:27:53high status perspective.
00:27:55I don't need to deal with facts means I have people who deal with facts for me.
00:28:02I have people who deal with facts for me, right?
00:28:05So for a woman to say, I don't cook and clean is a status symbol, right?
00:28:11It's a status.
00:28:12I don't want to cook and clean, right?
00:28:13Feminism is a status thing, right?
00:28:15I don't have to do manual labor, right?
00:28:18So it's all now, how men show status is sort of a different matter because it's female
00:28:31status that has taken over the world, right?
00:28:34Wokeism is female status displays, compassion without consequences, right?
00:28:41That's female status displays.
00:28:43So men are either doing this sort of hyper-masculinity stuff or they're doing female virtue signaling,
00:28:52right?
00:28:53All right, so let's get to your questions and comments.
00:29:01Self-knowledge or moral philosophy, most people are unconscious propaganda machines.
00:29:05No, I get that.
00:29:06I get that.
00:29:08But aligning yourself with the propaganda of those in power is also a status claim,
00:29:14right?
00:29:17Back in the day, aristocrats would take pride in not knowing anything because it would show
00:29:21they are so rich.
00:29:22Yeah, for sure.
00:29:23For sure, in the past, being pale meant you didn't do manual labor, right?
00:29:29And so women had these horrible lead paint makeup that they would put on to give themselves
00:29:35these pale-ass kabuki faces, right?
00:29:37So that's just another status.
00:29:39I don't have to be outside.
00:29:40I can stay indoors.
00:29:41I'm away.
00:29:42I don't have to work in the hot sun.
00:29:43It's all status, all status, all status.
00:29:52As a woman, says this woman, I find it really crazy how some women can live with those giant
00:29:58two-letter nails.
00:29:59I cut my nails often because the length prevents me from actually doing things.
00:30:02Yeah.
00:30:03Yeah, for sure.
00:30:04For sure.
00:30:05I mean, so when you can deny basic reality, like, I don't know what a male or a female
00:30:09is, right?
00:30:10That's just the scariest thing, saying I don't have to deal with reality, because the only
00:30:13people who have to deal with reality are people who work in the real world, who don't work
00:30:17with spreadsheets and don't work with language and don't work with, like, people who actually
00:30:21do real labor in the real world have real consequences.
00:30:26I mean, any latent or incipient Platonism that I had in my brain was scrubbed out.
00:30:33Thank you, Tyrone, was scrubbed out of my brain by manual labor, right?
00:30:39Manual labor.
00:30:42When I worked up north, as I mentioned before, right?
00:30:45When, thank you Fiona, when I worked up north, I could not make one error.
00:30:57I could not make one error.
00:30:58I could not.
00:31:01You make one error when you get injured, when you are deep in the bush.
00:31:06So if I got injured, somebody would have to carry me back for hours through thick snow
00:31:13to the tent, and then when they got back to the tent, they would have to, depending on
00:31:19the weather, they would have to try and contact a pilot.
00:31:22They would have to get a pilot to fly out, so the pilot would have to be not booked and
00:31:28also there's only a certain amount of flying you can do, so the pilot would have to, then
00:31:31the pilot would have to come out, I would have to get flown, I'd have to get loaded
00:31:35on the plane, I would get flown, bumpy, turbulence, you name it, I'd have to get flown, I'm not
00:31:40sure how, the distance of these pilots, planes were not great, so I might have to get switched
00:31:45to another plane because there was not a hospital in the local town, and I'd have to get to
00:31:49a hospital, it could be two or three days, and a lot of jostling, right?
00:31:55So every time you left the tent, you were taking your life in your hands, well I mean
00:32:00we used jet fuel to heat the tent because it was minus 30, minus 40, so even when you
00:32:05went to sleep, you'd have to make sure you had sufficient ventilation, you'd have to
00:32:08make sure it wasn't too hot, we would wake up in the morning and the stove would be glowing,
00:32:14it would be that hot.
00:32:15We need that level of heat, otherwise, you know, if you get it wrong, either something
00:32:18explodes or something catches fire, and if something, if your tent catches fire, when
00:32:23it's minus 30, minus 40, you're probably dead by the time the plane comes, it's windy as
00:32:28hell out there, you can't get a fire going, you can't stay warm enough, right?
00:32:32So you don't want to be too hot, and if it's too cold, then you might get frostbite or
00:32:38you might die at night, right?
00:32:40So it's a lot of really, really tough manual labor, and I did it for a long time.
00:32:47You simply, if you don't respect reality, like, absolute reality, you're dead.
00:32:53You're dead.
00:32:54I mean, you're working with flamethrowers, working with giant drills, right?
00:33:00I'm still working with a giant drill, okay, never mind.
00:33:03So yeah, so when I see people with all of this platonic nonsense crap, it's just like,
00:33:09okay, you don't live in the real world, you've never done any manual labor, and it's just
00:33:13bullshit, abstract, intellectual, platonic posturing.
00:33:17Oh, I don't touch actual reality, but let me tell you the truth about how society works
00:33:22and what it should do.
00:33:23Bleh!
00:33:24Shut up.
00:33:25Shut up.
00:33:26All right.
00:33:27Oh, guess that word, it's a Boots, it's a brand of Boots, and not the British pharmacy
00:33:35store called Boots.
00:33:37Somebody says, so true, most of my female acquaintances, not friends, call themselves
00:33:41extra and think it's cute, quirky, and high status.
00:33:45All of them are a paycheck away from broke because of things like nails and uggs.
00:33:49Yeah.
00:33:50Well, you know, in general, when men get a windfall, they use it to prop up their family.
00:33:54When women get a windfall, they use it to leave their family.
00:33:58All right.
00:34:00This woman says, I can't stand them either.
00:34:02I hate typing with nails.
00:34:04I always have to cut them.
00:34:07Hi, Steph, I read your book, Against the Gods.
00:34:12Do you have any videos or podcasts on religion as well?
00:34:15So freedomain.com, sorry, go to fdrpodcast.com and do a search.
00:34:21That's the best way to find stuff.
00:34:24Absolutely for real, says this woman.
00:34:26I know one girl who goes as far as posting GoFundMes to help her pay rent slash bills.
00:34:32She got an eviction warning and at the same time buys the newest designs from certain
00:34:35brands which range from $200 to $400 each.
00:34:39Yeah.
00:34:40Yeah.
00:34:41I mean, there's malls are just sad little status cathedrals for vainglorious women,
00:34:50which is of course not to call all women vainglorious, but malls are not about, there's not a lot
00:34:59of books on virtue and child raising in malls, but there is a lot of stupid shit, you know,
00:35:07glitter stuff and phone cases, like phone, the phone case has to tell people who I am.
00:35:14It's like, if you need a phone case to tell people who you are, you want anything.
00:35:19All right.
00:35:21Women starting to flood the free domain.
00:35:22Good sign.
00:35:24Yes.
00:35:26I still feel bad for them.
00:35:27It really sucks to be female.
00:35:28Sometimes you just don't get that.
00:35:30You deserve everything you get feeling.
00:35:33I don't know what that means.
00:35:35Steve welcome, welcome.
00:35:41The new high status may soon be one's own ability to provide those hard material goods
00:35:47for themselves.
00:35:48Self-sustaining is the new rich.
00:35:49Well, yeah, I mean, or crypto Bitcoin in particular, but see, there's a funny thing that all of
00:35:55this status stuff, it's, it only works if you don't name it.
00:36:02Status only works if it's not clearly identified.
00:36:05It's a funny thing, right?
00:36:07Because status is only considered high status if it's not revealed as pathetic, insecure
00:36:12vanity.
00:36:13Right.
00:36:14Pathetic, insecure vanity.
00:36:17And I remember learning this lesson the hard way back in the day on social media, you start
00:36:22talking about, you know, just something as simple as makeup, right?
00:36:28That makeup is, is false advertising.
00:36:32Makeup is a form of sexual harassment in the workplace because makeup makes a woman look
00:36:36like she's just had an orgasm or she's sexually aroused.
00:36:41Makeup would be the equivalent of a male strapping a giant Freddie Mercury wrapped cucumber penis
00:36:48and having it, tenting his legs as he walked around in a meeting, a giant.