Stefan Molyneux
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Matthew 10:22
"And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved."

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Transcript
00:00Good morning everybody. This is Bible Verses. We're going to talk about Matthew 10 22.
00:06Matthew 10 22. And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake, but he that endureth to the
00:14end shall be saved. He that endureth to the end shall be saved. So of course for the theologically
00:25inclined, my name's sake is God, which is synonymous with virtue. For the secular,
00:34for the philosophical, my name's sake here is UPB, rational virtues, objectivity,
00:41Socratic reasoning, and so on. So why do people hate the moralist so much? The moralist who
00:51strives to live his virtues. Why do the corrupt hate the strivers so much? Well if someone were
01:02to say to me, hey man Steph you should have been a ballet dancer or an opera singer. You really
01:09missed your calling. I would find that amusing. I mean it's funny right? I have nowhere near the
01:15voice nor the physiology nor the inclination to do any of those things. So if somebody told me
01:24I missed my calling when I know for a simple fact that such things are not my calling and in fact I
01:31have no capacity to achieve them, I would not be offended. On the other hand, if somebody were to
01:39say to me if I had really failed in life, if I had failed to achieve my potential as I continually
01:48feel and striving and continuing to work to improve my potential. But if somebody had said to me
01:54if I was working as a waiter in my 50s and somebody had said to me you missed your calling,
02:01you're a great thinker and communicator, you should have been more than a waiter.
02:06Oof. Oof. Like I can't even tell you. There are these old videos of a fat guy taking a
02:13cannonball to the belly in slow motion like in a circus and it would be like that. The
02:21coulda woulda shoulda, coulda been more, shoulda been more. That is brutal. I always felt
02:29deep down that I would be a good husband and father. And if I had not achieved marriage
02:38and parenthood because of my own choices, let's say I had chosen to date based solely on looks
02:43and avoided virtue and so on, then if somebody had said to me you missed your calling like you're an
02:51old bachelor, you missed your calling, you would have been a great husband and father. Oof. You
02:58know, there are certain phrases that just cut right through your defenses. You know, as the
03:04old saying goes, like a hot knife through butter. And there are certain phrases that can scold you
03:12with regret for the rest of your days. I mean, a friend of mine when I was younger, very much
03:18into martial arts and was working as a tester in the software field. And he was not particularly
03:30happy with his job. It was okay, but it was far below his potential. Certainly one of the smartest
03:35people I ever knew. And I would tell him if you're really into martial arts, you should open a dojo.
03:44And he's like, oh, but the licensing and the paperwork and the business. It's like,
03:49I understand that. But nonetheless, there are dojos out there. And if you've ever been around
03:56people whose talent is prodigious, I grew up, I was very fortunate to grow up in this with a lot
04:03of really talented people. I had another friend of mine, played guitar, sang really well. And I
04:10was like, man, you should go to coffee shops and sing and play. So he just did like joke songs.
04:17He did a song. He formed a joke band called the Barfig Pigeons. And he did a song called
04:26King Redneck. He lives all alone except for his wife. He's lived all alone for most of his life.
04:34And there was another song they did called Driving the Big White Bus. Driving the Big
04:41White Bus is a reference to holding on to the porcelain edge of a tub when you're throwing up
04:45after being drunk or getting drunk. Driving the big white, driving the big white bus.
04:53But he wouldn't just write songs, play guitar and sing anything that wasn't,
05:01you know, very dark humor, right? It's a little frustrating.
05:07Much better voice than I had, but he wouldn't really do much with it.
05:11Wouldn't commit, wouldn't dig in, wouldn't make it happen. So when you have that kind of potential
05:18and you fail to actualize it based on avoidance and fear, and I honestly, I don't know why people
05:25when I was younger, I don't know why they didn't manifest. I don't know why they didn't manifest,
05:31why they didn't sit down and just try, just really try. I mean, you say, oh,
05:36but there's so many barriers. Yeah, I get, I get there's tons of barriers,
05:40but still people do it. It's hard to make it in the music industry. Yes, it is.
05:46But A, people still do it. And B, you never know what technology is going to be available
05:55in the future, right? You never know what technology is going to be available in the future.
06:00So I strove mightily as an actor, as a playwright, as a director, as a novelist,
06:07as a poet in sort of written and theater capacities. I strove mightily and got amazing
06:15reviews and I think did some great work, but it did not happen. I wrote a great master's thesis
06:24and I remember my thesis advisor was saying, this is really great, you know, and I was like,
06:30hey, maybe you could help me get it published then in a academic journal or magazine, right?
06:37And he just, you know, it's what people do. It's what people do. I shouldn't laugh. I mean,
06:44I can laugh now, but for almost all of my life, there has been the same thing. And I think we
06:54could all recognize this when we look back upon the massive bobsleigh, hair on fire,
07:02pinball slalom race of a career of mine in the public square. It's always kind of the same thing
07:08and it's now entirely predictable. So what happens is people will work with me and they
07:14will privately praise me. But for the most part, when I ask them to really stand by me,
07:23they do that, you know, moonwalk Homer Simpson into the shrubs, off they go. I have despawned,
07:31dematerialized. So that's been a sort of a constant thing when it comes to my work.
07:42Hey, you're fantastic. You're really great. You know, what you do is wonderful. It's amazing.
07:46Oh, great. Maybe you could help me in this public way. Oh no, they just get ghosted, right?
07:52And I mean, it's funny because the only way that I can avoid bitterness is to say, well,
08:00there's something really singular about me. You know, you could say for good or ill or indifferent
08:04or whatever, right? But there's something quite singular about me. Like I used to be frustrated
08:09with how bad my education was and it was terrible, of course. But you can't design a general
08:18population educational approach or curriculum to take into account exceptions like me, right?
08:24I mean, just can't. It would be like trying to design society for people who are, you know,
08:31four foot eight or seven foot four. Like you have to kind of design for the average.
08:36So you have to design your doorframes for people who are within the central hump of a bell curve
08:45of height, right? Super short people find everything too big. Super tall people have
08:50to stoop to enter. So you just kind of have to. So one of the ways that you can avoid
08:56bitterness is to recognize what makes you extraordinary. And again, I put everyone who
09:01listens to this, particularly sort of post-de-platforming, I put everyone who listens
09:05to this in the one percent, top one percent. And I think it's actually more rare than that,
09:11probably one in 10,000, but let's just say top one percent. It's a little easier to talk about.
09:19So society can't design itself for the top one percent. Society can't design an educational
09:24system for the top one percent of intelligence. Houses and cars and everything cannot be designed
09:32for the top one percent of height. It would be like trying to design charity for the top
09:40one percent of income earners. It just really wouldn't make much sense, right?
09:46So I worked for a long time in art and communications,
09:52conversations, like I was having the equivalent of... Sorry, I was just remembering. I was having
09:59the equivalent of calling shows since my teens. I mean, I didn't just step into this out of
10:05nowhere with no sort of history or background. I remember when I went to go and work up north,
10:13I worked in Thunder Bay. And what that means is we would often go out into the bush,
10:17but then we had a base. It was an apartment. An apartment in Thunder Bay, we would bring the stuff
10:24back to. We'd work at a warehouse sometimes. I mean, often we'd be out in the bush, but sometimes
10:28we would be in a warehouse going through things. And so in Thunder Bay, I remember going to a bar.
10:39I would go on a fairly regular basis to a bar. I didn't know anyone in town, and I actually had a
10:48lovely Japanese woman that I lived with, and she had no particular interest in going to bars and
10:55dancing. So I would go on my own and I would chat with people. And I remember talking to a woman
11:03one night. I was talking to a woman one night, and she was complaining about her day with her
11:11mother. And of course, I was starting to go in and be curious about her history, her relationship
11:16with her mother, what was going on. And I just remember she said, she started to turn all
11:22different kinds of colors, and it wasn't just the disco lights, all different kinds of colors.
11:26And she then ended up going to the bar and ordering a lot. She said, I'll be right back.
11:30And she went to the bar and she just drank savagely and didn't come back. And I'm like,
11:35okay, maybe that was a bit too close to the nerve centers. And I also, for some reason,
11:40what I remember, I remember dancing with a girl to the rhythmic song, Would I Lie to You?
11:46And I remember, I remember, for some reason, there was a really great singer. It was a cover band.
11:53Sometimes it was recorded music, sometimes it was live music. And I remember a cover band doing
11:59Everybody Wants to Rule the World, which was originally entitled Everybody Wants to Go to War.
12:03And I just remember the singer was, you know, the welcome to your life, the welcome to,
12:08it was just beautiful, crisp and perfect notes. And I was like, okay, that guy can really sing.
12:13I also remember, sorry, this is a sidelight. I also remember I had a gym membership at
12:20the university, Lakehead, I think it's called Lakehead University. Thunder Bay is fairly well
12:24known for, I think, agriculture and geology, if I remember rightly. So I had a gym membership at
12:29the university, and I would go to exercise, and I was looking for, you know, people to hang with.
12:37And of course, I was in the sauna, chatting with a guy, and we seemed to get along. And I was like,
12:43hey, man, we should really catch a movie or something sometime. And of course, he closed
12:47his towel off and began to edge away because I realized afterwards, of course, it looks like
12:52a gay pickup. And I don't fault him for thinking that. I mean, I did have a British accent, so.
13:00You fruity English bastard. That's some line from, I think, SNL.
13:04I like a martini shake and not stirred, says James Bond to an American bartender. He's like,
13:10yeah, coming right up, you fruity English bastard. That was sort of my nickname sometimes at work.
13:16For the women, you'd be appalled. For men, you understand the humor.
13:20So yeah, I don't know why people don't achieve their potential, but you should strive at it
13:27because you never know what's coming. You never know what's coming down the pipeline. So
13:32my friend with, he's talented in just about everything. Honestly, just talented. It was
13:38absurd, right? To me. I mean, admirable, but absurd. And if he had striven to improve or perfect his
13:48musical stuff, even if he did it on the side, on the weekends or whatever,
13:51then who knows? YouTube came along and I mean, that's how Justin Bieber got his start. Of course,
13:56he would have been older, but he would have been in his thirties, but you never know.
14:00You never know. I prepared all of these abilities. I worked on, prepared, honed,
14:09pursued, and with no idea or hope or thought that this universal communications medium that
14:18allows us to have these conversations would occur. The readiness is all. The readiness
14:25is all. So when podcasting became a thing, and again, I wrote about video casting in a novel
14:33that I wrote, showed up six years. The novel I wrote showed up six years, I think, before
14:39YouTube about video broadcasting. And you just never know. So I just happened to be able to
14:47hit the ground running because for 20 years, I had been rehearsing. I used to rehearse debates in my
14:56car. I enjoyed debating with everyone. I enjoyed telling stories at a dinner table. I enjoyed
15:01making people laugh. I enjoyed making people think. I've always had a rabid curiosity about
15:05people's origin stories. So I've been doing all of this stuff for like 20 years before the medium
15:12hit that allowed me to do what I do. There's an old story about Sam Cooke's brother. Sam Cooke
15:19would be in the backyard practicing singing and performing as a little, little kid. He's saying,
15:25you know, I'm going to be a big star. I'm going to be someone someday that's going to sing to
15:30people. And of course, you know, obviously he had a great voice, I'm sure, even as a kid.
15:34But why do you hit the ground running? Because you've been preparing
15:39forever, right? So, you know, at age of six, Sam Cooke is spending hours and hours practicing
15:45singing and performing. And then he sings at church, he joins a band called the Soul Stirrers,
15:53and he puts away to the races because you have to prepare in life for things. Even if there's no
16:00particular chance that you can achieve it now, you never know what's going to happen
16:08in the future. I mean, for all I know, I could be a philosopher who died 100 years ago,
16:14and I'm just an AI in a matrix. Just kidding, I'm not, right? It's a funny idea.
16:19So you don't know what's coming. You don't know what is coming. You don't know how you're going
16:24to be able to spread your wings. Even if you're caged, you exercise your wings because you never
16:29know. It could be an earthquake, your cage falls and you're out. I was kept away from the general
16:35population as a young man by gatekeepers. And then the gatekeepers, there was 10 years where
16:42there were essentially no real gatekeepers, and the gatekeepers reeled in shock, and then came
16:48back with a vengeance. Now there are gate reducers, but not gate keepers, right? My prominence,
16:55my reach can be reduced, but it can't be eliminated. Which means I speak to fewer people
17:00in the present, but infinitely more in the future. You just don't know what's going to happen.
17:07Prepare, prepare, prepare. I consider it almost a zero chance possibility that I would have
17:16married my wonderful wife if I had not gone to therapy and cleaned up my relationships
17:22in my past. Now, I didn't go to therapy and clean up my relationships with the anticipation of
17:27meeting such a wonderful woman, but the fact that this was all done when I met her meant that we
17:33could meet, date, get engaged, and get married in 11 months. Ah, should have been sooner, but what
17:42the heck. So just spend your life preparing because you never know what is going to open up.
17:49And of course, all the people who said, it's impossible, failed to prepare. And then when the
17:56internet came along, they were not ready. They were not ready. And of course, if I had gotten
18:03what I wanted when I wanted it, I would not be able to do what I do now, right? This, sorry,
18:10right, like, you know what I mean? Sorry, let me maybe be a bit more clear. If I had, let's say,
18:15gotten an acting, directing, writing, novelist, poet career going in my teens and my twenties,
18:23well, I would not have had the freedom to speak as frankly and honestly to the world as I have,
18:33because I, let's say I had become very successful in the arts when I was younger,
18:39then I would have an entire industry around me, you know, like your publicist, your
18:43media relations manager, your agent, your, you know, all of the people around me,
18:47my entire social circle would be based upon all of that fame and ability, and I would be paid
18:56for not telling the truth. I mean, artists used to be paid for telling the truth.
19:00Now artists are paid for lying. So with a comfortable income, with a reasonable degree
19:08of fame, and with a lot of positive feedback from those around me who would have been profiting from
19:12my abilities, would I have been able to tell the frank and important truth that I've told over the
19:18last 20 years? Well, no. No, I would not have. So I didn't get what I wanted when I was younger,
19:26and a direct result of that is the world got what it needed when I got older.
19:31That is hard to understand, but it's a fact, and this is why when something happens in life,
19:37I don't know if it's good or bad. I don't know. I don't know, because I don't know the future.
19:42It may not be what I want in the moment, but of course, you know, I dated women in the past,
19:48and then sometimes I'd be sad if the relationship didn't work out. Not usually, of course,
19:54right? Because you go in with general hopes, right? I'd be upset if the relationship didn't
19:57work out, but I got to meet my wife, right? So it's hard to say. It's really hard to say.
20:04Of course, I did not like losing my hair when I was younger, but it caused me to mature and go
20:10beyond the frivolity of youthful looks and look for qualities of character. So yeah, overall,
20:17it's better. Overall, it's better. I mean, I remember getting scouted for modeling,
20:23and then I remember not going, which of course was, I'm sure, absolutely for the best.
20:31Having talked to a couple of people in the modern modeling world, it is absolutely for the best.
20:36I mean, it's funny because it wasn't even like I didn't go because I chose to. I just
20:41kind of forgot about it, and then slept in, and then just never went back. And wasn't that
20:46so much for the better? It's like my unconscious was like, don't do it. Don't slip into that world.
20:52Don't do it. So, sorry, long-winded, but you know, it's funny because I had this thought about the
21:00singer singing that, welcome to your life. And I was like, that sticks in my brain. For some reason,
21:09I need to discharge it into the world, and then it will give me peace. I don't know why. I don't
21:13know why, but I'm sure I'll figure it out at some point. Okay, so when it comes to virtue,
21:19striving for virtue is really important. So, one of the things that the free market has done
21:25is raise resentment. We are aware of that, right? So, if you sort of think of, I don't know,
21:3315th century England. So, you're born into wealth and privilege, or you're not. And there's very
21:39little movement between the classes. You can't just go and join the aristocracy. I mean, obviously,
21:43there are occasional exceptions, but effectively, it was impossible to change classes. In fact,
21:48you were kind of hardwired and sometimes legally required to go into the same profession that your
21:53father had. If he was a baker, you had to be a baker. If he was a smith, you had to be a smith,
21:59and so on. If he was a farmer, you'd be born into that as a serf, and you'd be a farmer.
22:03So, there was very little opportunity to change your station. So, there was some resentment,
22:08but resentment was pointless because you couldn't change things. And what Nietzsche identified in
22:16the 19th century, where he used the French word ressentiment, which is resentment, which is
22:22when you can change your station, resentment goes through the roof. And this is really sort
22:27of the birth of leftism, right? There really wasn't leftism until there was the Industrial
22:33Revolution, until there was some semblance of the free market. There was not leftism.
22:37So, leftism, and I talked about this in my presentation on the French Revolution,
22:42leftism in many ways is motivated by, A, resentment at having been left behind,
22:49and B, it is a backup strategy for those who choose not to strive and achieve. The backup
22:57strategy being, we're just going to attack those who strive and achieve. So, if you don't gather
23:08together the food necessary to survive winter in a cold climate, if you don't gather together
23:13the food necessary to survive winter in a cold climate, because you're frivolous, you're lazy,
23:19then what happens? Well, what happens is, your backup strategy is to guilt, manipulate,
23:26or rob those who have food. But in order to do that, you have to resent them. And in order to
23:33resent them, you have to imagine that because they planned and worked and have more than you have,
23:37somehow they stole from you, and you're just taking it back. It's a backup strategy for those
23:43who fail to prepare. And it punishes the productive and rewards the indolent.
23:49And therefore, it swells until it breaks the productivity of society, and everyone ends up
23:56with nothing. But at least then, it reduces resentment. So, why is the moralist hated in
24:02particular? Because people can be better. And they know that. They know that deep down.
24:09They know they can be better. I had a friend once who was dating a woman who was very pretty,
24:18but not smart. And she didn't even have that earthy, practical wisdom that sometimes comes
24:24with being less abstractly intelligent. And he's like, Hey, man, what do you think of her?
24:28And I couldn't say she's not smart. I couldn't say she's way smarter than she is. I don't think
24:34it's going to work. And what I did say, I said, I think she seems to lack the level of insight
24:39that you have. Or she seems short on the level of insight that you have. It's the nicest. And then,
24:45you know, you just, this coldness and, you know, there's like, get lost and, you know, anger.
24:51And of course, well, it's funny because they did actually stay together. Well, from what I know.
24:58So why you hate it? If somebody has a beautiful singing voice and they don't do anything with it,
25:06but they love singing and they love music and love performing, but they don't do anything with it.
25:11And they work as a waiter and maybe do a little karaoke where people are like,
25:15Holy crap, man, why the hell are you just a waiter? Make sounds like that. Well,
25:20these are the cowardice of the everyday coalesces into the vengeance of certain syllables later in
25:26life, which is every day you're like, well, I won't, or I'll do it at some point or later or
25:30whatever. And you just sort of delay because of fear, fear of failure, fear of wanting something
25:36too much, like wanting is, it's painful, right? This is sort of a Buddhist thing, right? To want
25:41something is painful. And when you want something, then you are vulnerable to the world, right? The
25:46moment you broadcast your needs into the world, you broadcast your vulnerabilities into the world.
25:51The moment you broadcast your desires, you broadcast massive levers on how to control you,
25:58right? So, you know, the typical thing that the young starry-eyed ingenue wants to be a movie
26:03star and therefore rolls her dangled in front of her so that she could be preyed on financially,
26:08sexually. I mean, Alanis Morissette talks about this when she was a teenager, like a child
26:13in the music industry, just how brutal it was. So the moment you say, I really want something,
26:19it's the moment that people will begin to prey on you, right? I really want to talk about
26:26philosophy to the world. And so, having had that need and that preference, people know that
26:33because I have a need and preference to talk to the world about philosophy, then if they take that
26:38away, that hurts, right? So the moment you have needs, you have vulnerabilities. The moment you
26:45have a great hunger for something, that hunger, people will try to use it to control and bully,
26:51subjugate and use you for their own illicit ends. Yet still, we must strive to be better.
26:57Even saying, I want to be better, I want to improve, and so on. Like, let's say there's
27:02some guy who just keeps sleeping with women. And at some point, he says, let's say in his 20s,
27:09he says, this is pretty terrible. I'm treating women badly. I need to do better. Well, if he's
27:15surrounded by men like him, he'll be called a pussy, a cuck, a simp, like a mama's boy. Like,
27:22he'll just be insulted, right? Pussy whipped. He'll just be insulted. So he has a desire to
27:27be better. And other people will mock and attack his desire to do better. Because they could do
27:35better. If he can do better, so can they. But they want to guard their greed for the material.
27:40They want to guard their dopamine addiction by mocking and attacking anyone who tries to shift
27:45pleasure from the material to the spiritual, from the physical to the moral. And so the
27:53weakness, corruption and tragedy of your personal relationships is revealed if you try to improve.
28:00Yet still, we must try to improve. And it's easy for me to say this, of course,
28:04so I remember the journey as being pretty hellacious, but I did it mostly alone. So
28:10it's sort of a different matter. But looking back, you know, this is a quarter century after
28:14I cleaned up my relationships. And looking back, it's like, A, what was I so bothered about? B,
28:20what's on the other side is so fantastic that if I hadn't cleaned up my relationships,
28:25I would just be so depressed. I mean, it would just be awful. I mean, if I hadn't cleaned up
28:29my relationships, and I was surrounded by people that I, let's say, did not agree with,
28:36morally or practically, let's say my parents, right? And I didn't have a wonderful wife. I
28:41didn't have a great family. I didn't have great friends. But instead, I was going over to my
28:47mother's obsessively paper-filled, cluttered and smoky apartment to have some depressing food.
28:56And my father was dead. And my mother, of course, at this point is, you know, old and
29:01certainly of bad health as most old people. I don't know if she still smokes, but she did for
29:07a long time. So it's probably not great. And that would be my life. I wouldn't have
29:12what I have now. I would have stayed on the Titanic and the Titanic would be going down.
29:18And I would look back and say, and if somebody had said, man, you've been into philosophy for
29:2340 years, and you've never really applied those principles to your personal relationships,
29:26did you ever miss the boat and be like, oh, cannonball to the fat belly ripple, right?
29:32That'd be awful. And somebody can say something like that, like when you've gone down the wrong
29:37path, you can dissociate day by day, right? It's really important to know, right? When you've gone
29:42down the wrong path, you can dissociate and ignore it day by day. But my God, it just takes one
29:47sentence to cleave through all that dissociation. And that's when the gates of hell open up like
29:54beneath you and you fall forever and you fall forever. People falling feel weightless, but
30:00certain words can bring the ground up hard and it wounds, but does not kill them. And then they say,
30:08it was not the falling or my choice to jump that put me in the wheelchair. It was the guy who said
30:13the word ground, which made the ground appear, and he put me in the wheelchair. So if you can be
30:17better, you resent those who strive and work to achieve something better. And then what you do
30:26is you attack them so that you can justify your own failure to strive for improvement morally.
30:33So you attack them, you tear them down, he's vainglorious, he's narcissistic, he thinks he was
30:38so much better than us, he's got sucked in by a cult, right? You just attack them, right?
30:43Attack, attack, attack. I mean, of course, people when I was younger, when I got into objectivism,
30:48which is Aristotelianism plus free market in many ways. When I got into that,
30:55I was just marked and attacked. Randroid and so on, right? Don't think for yourself,
31:00you're just a slave to that ideology and so on, right? I mean, okay. Well, if you've got
31:06a fantastic coach, you do what the coach says. You're not a slave to the coach,
31:09you're just using the coach to achieve what you want, which is excellence in sport. In my case,
31:14it was truth and virtue in philosophy. But objectivism does not deal with your personal
31:21relationships, really. So because you're striving to do better and they feel bad because they're
31:29choosing to chicken out from the striving to do better rather than join you on the journey,
31:34they just mark and attack you to apply negative stimuli and say, well, if we can tear someone
31:40apart who's trying to do better, then we can justify our own goal of not improving, of not
31:46doing better, of not doing better. I mean, if you've ever known people who've gotten a really
31:53good relationship and they seem really happy and they get along well, the resentment, the seethe,
31:58the seething hope and resentment from other people around them can be appalling to watch.
32:03It's a shark feeding frenzy, blood in the water. It's rough, man. It's rough.
32:10And what they do is they just make up all of these, like the resentful people,
32:14they just make up all of these falsehoods, right? Oh, they only get along because he's whipped and
32:19doesn't say anything. Well, they only get along because she was frightened and lonely of growing
32:25old alone, so she just cleaves to him and agrees with everything he says. It's really desperate
32:28and pathetic and sad, like whatever, like just make up stuff. That is just horrible.
32:34So in Matthew 10, 22, and ye shall be hated of all men for the sake of virtue, but he that
32:40endureth to the end shall be saved. Now the end here, I mean, of course, I don't know the original
32:47Aramaic or whatever it is, but the end here is complex. He that endureth to the end. Does that
32:54mean, to me, that would mean the end of bad relationships. He that endureth to the end,
32:59to the end of bad relationships. That's what it means to me. Shall be saved. I think it's worth
33:06striving to help those around you. I mean, philosophy kind of fell into my lap and I
33:12did not earn philosophy. Philosophy, like when I first started reading about it, it just,
33:16there was this electric energy within me and enthusiasm and excitement and joy and fear and
33:22it was just a great rollercoaster and it woke me up. I mean, I really didn't exist much before
33:28philosophy because I did not know how to think. I was, of course, highly traumatized and I was
33:35just reactive. I was just like a leaf on the stream, as we all are without principles,
33:40like a leaf on a stream going where the currents and the wind and the eddies and the tree limbs
33:49take, wobble and push me. So, once I started to manifest through thought, through principles,
33:56it's like mankind without science is at the mercy of nature and human beings without philosophy
34:02are at the mercy of impulses and fight or flight and pain and pleasure. So, it is worth trying to
34:09save people. If you have found a cure for the disease, you try to help those around you who are
34:17stricken with the disease, knowing that they will die slowly and painfully without the cure,
34:22but they think that the cure will cause them to die right away and they deny that they are
34:26diseased. They say, no, no, it's the human condition, man. You're trying to escape the
34:30human. It's human condition is to be confused and frustrated. It's just like life and you can't just
34:35wave it away with ideology. It's just going to cause your suffering to be worse, right? So,
34:39they say that the disease is life. I mean, if we were supposed to, Old Testament style,
34:46live for a thousand years and we died at a hundred, people would say, well, that was a
34:51really short lifespan, right? If you're supposed to live for 80 years and you die at the age of
34:54eight, that's a tragically short lifestyle. You only make it 10%, right? Somebody lives to a
35:00hundred, we say they died at a ripe old age and we will not feel particular sorrow because they
35:05made it that far, right? We'll feel sorrow for losing them, but we won't feel sorrow that their
35:09life was, quote, cut short, right? But somebody like my friend, when I was young, dies at the age
35:15of 10 or 11, well, that's a tragically cut short, right? That's a life tragically cut short. So,
35:22somebody lives to a hundred, we say they lived well, they had a good long life. Somebody dies
35:28at 10, right? So, but if you think that life is suffering, that we're just going to have this
35:33existential angst and so on, then anybody who tries to escape it is lying to themselves,
35:38right? Like somebody who ages, who says, well, I'm supposed to live to a thousand. I don't know
35:44what's happened if I be sick and go to the doctor and says, you know, my joints are creaky and my
35:48back is sore and I don't sleep as well. And something's like, you're just aging. I mean,
35:54you're 80, it's going to happen. Well, I don't feel as strong as I did when I was 20. What's
35:58wrong with me? Do I have chronic fatigue syndrome? Do I have Epstein-Barr? Do I have fibromyalgia?
36:04Bro, you're just aging. I assume all the tests are negative, right? It would be a delusion
36:10to think that aging will have no negative physical effects on your wellbeing. It's
36:14just not going to happen. I mean, if a woman loses her hair at the same rate and pace and age that I
36:21did, that might be a sign of some ill health. But for a man, it's just, you know, usually male
36:28pattern baldness, right? It's just a genetic thing. It comes down from the maternal side,
36:33I think. So because I was striving to escape the unhappiness and dysfunction of my childhood and
36:42in many ways, culture, I was called delusional for wanting that. Reactive, mad, as delusional
36:51as the 80 year old complaining that he doesn't feel like a 20 year old to a doctor because the
36:5480 year old thinks he should live to a thousand and therefore he's still in his extreme youth.
37:00And of course, this is why people don't, actually one exception, the one exception,
37:06but people from my past don't contact me. They don't want to see how it played out. They don't
37:10want to see how it happened. They don't want to see how it worked out. They don't want to see
37:16that, I mean, certainly by my metric, by the metric of philosophy, by any reasonable standard,
37:23it more than paid off. It more than paid off. You know, the guy, I don't know if you've ever
37:29been around people who have really bad habits, but if one of them gives up those bad habits,
37:36man, it can be brutal socially. If you're around a bunch of people who smoke and drink,
37:42and one of them starts living clean, he just going to get mocked. And then when the smokers
37:48and the drinkers are sick and dying in their 50s or 60s, do they want to contact the guy who quit
37:55smoking 30 years ago and now runs marathons and is healthy and whole? No, they do not.
38:01In fact, they will hate him, which is to say they hate their cowardice in the face of their
38:09potential. That's really what it comes down to. They hate their cowardice in the face of their
38:14potential. That's really at the root of it. I mean, people don't hate me. They don't really
38:21know me. They just know lies about me. They don't hate me. I mean, as I said before, I can be a
38:26really nice guy. People like me as a whole. I mean, meet people in the world, meet people in life.
38:30You know, constantly, if I'm playing a racket sport in the summer, I'll chat with people and
38:35they're always like, hey, let's play again, you know, whatever. I mean, people like me as a whole.
38:41And so they only dislike the falsehoods. And the falsehoods are put out in order to keep people
38:50away from their own potential. It really has nothing to do with me as an individual.
38:53It's just that unfortunately, the world profits from dysfunction for the most part. I mean,
39:01will the makeup industry ever push philosophy, right? So can you imagine me being invited to some
39:09big makeup conference and talking about virtue and honesty and love as our involuntary response
39:16to virtue if we're virtuous? Well, no, because if people shift from adornment to virtue,
39:23well, the makeup industry does not do so well now, does it? So the economy is calibrated both
39:31in terms of the state part of the economy, but to a large degree, the private part of the economy.
39:37It is all mostly, again, this is the mall thing, right? There's no philosophy store in the mall,
39:42right? There's only adornment and vanity in the mall. So the entire economy, like trillions of
39:50dollars is all founded upon resistance to philosophy or cheap substitutes for virtue.
39:56You don't have to be moral, you just have to be pretty. You don't need virtue, you just need a
40:01six pack and then you'll be desired and you'll get what you want and you'll be happy. You buy
40:07this new thing, upgrade your car, get a bigger house and you'll be happy, you'll be happy.
40:11And it doesn't really work, of course, right? But it's profitable. Things that don't work morally
40:18are very profitable financially. So I think that's what it's all about, right? This statement, this
40:28quote, this verse, Matthew 10, 22, and you should be hated of all men for my name's sake. Now,
40:36why would you hate the virtuous? Because they are an implicit rebuke to your cowardice in the face
40:42of your own potential. He that endureth to the end shall be saved. Well, what is he saved from?
40:47Of course, you're saved from hell, you get heaven. If you're theological, what are you saved from?
40:53I mean, half the J sixers were turned in by their own family members. You're saved from the
40:58corruption of those around you. You are saved, like if you have a happy marriage, you cannot
41:06long coexist with those with unhappy marriages. You just can't, you just can't.
41:15Because your happiness makes them even more unhappy. And because they have a dysfunctional
41:21marriage, your marital happiness will cause them to turn on each other and blame each other
41:26for their unhappiness, and their marriage will tear apart. And then what? Or they will try to
41:33undermine your marriage to have you join them in their fiery thrones of perpetual misery and
41:39resentment. I don't have people in my life with unhappy relationships, and I have not had people
41:47in my life with unhappy relationships for decades. So I won't do it. I won't do it.
41:53Particularly at my age, it's kind of too late for people to fix stuff really anyway. I mean,
41:57what are you, I'm pushing 60, right? What are you going to do, just go and start another family?
42:01Well, that's going to be a mess in and of itself, right? And an unfair competition, right?
42:07Getting women to be materialistic orients them towards older men. It's a mating strategy from
42:11older men. In the same way, there was a mating strategy from older women, which was this thing
42:16that, oh, when women get older, they just want sex all the time. And that's just dangling sexual
42:22access in front of younger men, right? So yeah, they don't hate you. They hate their cowardice
42:31in the face of their own moral potential. And the fact that I don't listen to people complain about
42:37the world unless they're living moral lives themselves. If people complain about politics,
42:44but are embedded in corrupt relationships, well, I won't listen. I mean, I'm fine to listen
42:51to people about politics if they have happy relationships, but no thanks. So I hope that
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