Stefan Molyneux
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Friday Night Live 7 February 2025

In this episode, I analyze the fallout from the USAID controversy, highlighting the erosion of trust in institutions and a growing cynicism among younger generations towards media narratives seen as propaganda. I discuss how young men challenge societal authority and the potential for youth-led innovation to drive change, while critiquing 'cancel culture' as a response to institutional failures. Drawing from personal experiences, I emphasize the need for deeper critical discourse and encourage listeners to engage with the evolving landscape of the social contract.

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Transcript
00:00:00Well, good evening, everybody. Welcome to your Friday Night Live on the 2nd, 7th,
00:00:06sorry, 7th of February, 2025. God, it feels like such a year, such a
00:00:13science fiction year. Alright, look at that, I got my my armor shirt.
00:00:19Alright, so, in this year of our Lord, we're gonna talk about this. I'm not
00:00:25gonna do politics, but I have no problem, no problem, with political philosophy, my
00:00:32friends, cuz it's a scorcher out there right now. Wait, did you hear that?
00:00:39Did you hear that?
00:00:44A flash, a rumble, and a thunder as if a billion voices cried out in status
00:00:50delusion before being silenced by the data coming from the deep cushions of
00:00:57big balls. The things that I have to say. It's just the news. I'm just reporting on
00:01:03the news. Alright, let's see.
00:01:10Let's see where we are starting from, from the knowledge base. Have you been
00:01:15following, hit me with a Y, if you have been following the USAID scandal coming
00:01:23out at the Department of Government Efficiency?
00:01:32Somebody says they have been pranked from TikTok where the kids have
00:01:35disrespected their mothers in their father's presence. What is the peaceful
00:01:38parenting response when children are being disrespectful for real?
00:01:43Okay, please understand. Disrespectful is a curse word put out by
00:01:50assholes who wouldn't get respected by a desperate dog. You owe me respect. We owe
00:01:57each other as adults, sweet fuck all, SFA. We owe each other, I don't owe you respect,
00:02:03you don't owe me respect. People put out these demands and treat people with
00:02:08dignity and respect. Yeah, how's that been working out for the world as a whole?
00:02:16So, what does it mean to say my daughter treats me with disrespect?
00:02:22What does that mean? Disrespect, in general, is the demand for a moral
00:02:34elevation that the person has not earned.
00:02:39Okay, so the latest, you all know what's been going on with the Department of
00:02:46Government Efficiency, that a bunch of super young, uber brilliant programmers
00:02:53and data analysts have gone swooping in to USAID, which was created by executive
00:03:01order under Kennedy in the 60s and has been, in my view, a giant slush fund of
00:03:07money laundering, misinformation buying, and brain erasing trillions of dollars
00:03:14over the past couple decades.
00:03:18The latest is that a judge is blocking some of the cutbacks. As of a couple of
00:03:23hours ago, Clint Russell on X reported USAID signs removed, 98% of the staff
00:03:29fired, Big Balls was rehired. He was fired, apparently, because in the
00:03:37past he had some ethnocentrism, he said he didn't want to marry outside of his
00:03:42own ethnicity, and he did not like the Civil Rights Act. The Civil Rights Act
00:03:47was the replacement of the original American ideal of equality under the law,
00:03:51equality of opportunity, and it replaced it with equality of outcome. So, it
00:03:55replaced capitalism with socialism in the 60s, and that's why it has to be
00:04:00venerated so much. Now, Musk's commando staff, this is from Paul Farhi, Musk's
00:04:07commando staff includes guys who are 21, 23, 24, and 25. One who is 19 years
00:04:13old, his job title is expert.
00:04:20Isn't that absolutely delightful? Isn't that absolutely delightful?
00:04:27You know, quick question, quick question. When do chess players peak?
00:04:34When are chess players at their most brilliant? Thank you, Lloyd. Thank you,
00:04:40Anthony. When are chess players at their most brilliant? Just out of curiosity.
00:04:47You let me know, you type that in, I'll keep looking for my very uncategorized
00:04:52bookmarks. Oh yeah, Trump's new White House faith leader, a woman named Paula
00:04:58White, believes that wherever she walks is holy ground and screeches
00:05:03autistically and speaks in tongues.
00:05:10Ah, dear, oh dear, oh dear.
00:05:16So, the average age at which chess players achieve grandmaster rank has
00:05:20been decreasing over time and is currently around 20 years old. From 1975
00:05:26to 1979, the average age of a new grandmaster was 30. And 2020 to 2024,
00:05:34the average were 22.8, 2021, average age was 20.9, so it has been decreasing,
00:05:43of course, right? Young men being stoned on drugs, porn, and video games is a way
00:05:50of keeping the necessary change agents out of society.
00:05:54I mean, let me ask you this, I want to be obviously objective and fair, let me
00:05:57ask you this. When you were, say, between 18 and 22 years old, give me a number,
00:06:09when you were between 18 and 22 years old, from minus 10 to plus 10, how
00:06:19skeptical or positive were you towards society? Minus 10 is watch the world
00:06:24burn, plus 10 is society couldn't be improved, our elders have made absolutely
00:06:28perfect and wonderful decisions in the infinite wisdom of their boomerville,
00:06:34their boomerness. Minus 10 to plus 10, how did you feel about society? I will
00:06:42put mine in. There's mine. And it seems like most of the young men here, we've
00:06:50got a minus 10, a minus 10, a plus 2, minus 10, plus 3, plus 3, minus 8, minus
00:06:5510, minus 8. All right. So, there's a couple of teachers, pets, apple polishers,
00:07:00no, I'm just kidding. I mean, it's fine, I'm just right. So, some of you were
00:07:03mildly positive, most of you were virulently negative. So, that makes sense
00:07:09to me. Young men kind of hate society as it is. And that's, of course, because
00:07:17young men are at the most danger from society, because young men get drafted
00:07:23and get their asses blown from here to eternity. So, society is a predator on
00:07:31young men, and young men are skeptical and hostile towards society. So, the
00:07:37fact that Elon Musk, A, identifies talent, and B, unleashes it on something like
00:07:41this, is very powerful. Very powerful, indeed. It's actually good. It's
00:07:51interesting. I won't say I'm nonplussed. It's interesting to see people's, yeah,
00:07:58about a third of you have positive responses to society as young men. You
00:08:04like society, you are positive about society. That's good. That's good. I've
00:08:07got no issue with that. I'm a little surprised, but I'm glad to hear. All
00:08:11right. So, the young men are going into the USAID databases, and they are
00:08:32pulling out the data patterns, and they are aggregating the information,
00:08:36and what they're doing is opening up a portal to this data at a read-only
00:08:42level. They're opening up a portal to this data to other people. According
00:08:48to WikiLeaks, this came out yesterday, USAID was funding over 6,200
00:08:54journalists across 707 media outlets and 279, quote, media NGOs, including
00:09:029 out of the 10 media outlets in Ukraine. My God, let's just go over that again,
00:09:07shall we? Because I'm telling you, this is the end of the social contract in the
00:09:15West. I am not kidding. I am not being hyperbolic. I'm not being hyperbaric
00:09:22because I haven't gone scuba diving. So, this is it for the social contract.
00:09:27USAID, this is according to WikiLeaks from yesterday, USAID was funding over
00:09:326,200 journalists across 707 media outlets and 279, quote, media NGOs,
00:09:39including 9 out of the 10 media outlets in Ukraine.
00:09:52Somebody wrote, TQ762 wrote on February the 5th, I don't know how American
00:09:58Christianity recovers from this, and there's a whole list of all of the
00:10:04recipients of hundreds of thousands to a hundred plus million dollars of,
00:10:14and I'm not going to read them off,
00:10:20but the Christian outlets taking jaw-dropping amounts of money
00:10:27from the state. He says, I don't know how American Christianity recovers from this,
00:10:32and somebody wrote, by healing. Stefan Molyneux was right. Government money poisons everything
00:10:38it touches. Stop feeding the patient poison, and they'll start to heal right away.
00:10:54I mean, this is absolutely wild.
00:10:57Junjigen Engineer from Yukon Gin, Junjigen Engineer by age is BS.
00:11:04Linus Torvalds wrote Linux at 21. Steve Wozniak built Apple. The Apple won at 25.
00:11:10Palmer Luckey created Oculus VR at 20. Vitalik Buterin designed Ethereum at 19.
00:11:16Mark Zuckerberg coded Facebook at 19. Looking back, I realize that 18 to 25 is the peak time.
00:11:28So, there's this myth, this horrible fog that eats into the
00:11:41brainstems of young men in particular are geyser fireworks.
00:11:49I mean, I remember watching Bob Dylan say, like, I can't do what I did when I was young. I just,
00:11:56I can't do it. I can do different things, but I can't do that. He was not busy living, he was busy
00:12:03dying. But the brainstems of young men are fireworks, right?
00:12:12So, the way that the elderly who are sucking out the lifeblood of the young through state coercion,
00:12:22the way that they slander the young, the young men in particular, is to say,
00:12:29well, but you see, you're very inexperienced. You lack wisdom. You've got to be very careful
00:12:36about these things. You caution that you can only get this caution with age.
00:12:40You're just young and headstrong and a hotshot.
00:12:43I remember this in the business world. I was a fairly robust and creative young man,
00:12:56and there was an executive who was telling me,
00:13:02well, you're a young guy, so you want to run down the hill and have sex with the first cow,
00:13:07you see. Whereas I'm an old guy, and I say,
00:13:11let's walk slowly down the hill and have sex with all the cows.
00:13:22Pepper spray is the appropriate response to such creepy stories,
00:13:25and they're not actually that rare in the business world.
00:13:37So, yeah, I mean, I'm sure that was stuff to do with me. Like back in the day, I mean,
00:13:50if you're new to the show, you wouldn't know this, but back in the day, there were these giant
00:13:55graphs of alt-media influences, and I was almost right at the center because I talked to everyone.
00:13:59So, and it would be interesting to see if social media companies, if they were threatened,
00:14:11does that alter my opinion of being de-platformed? Interesting. It's an interesting question,
00:14:20which I will have to mull about should the data come to the forefront.
00:14:30All right. So,
00:14:35when the young get impatient at the vampiric predations of the old,
00:14:41the young are called feckless, inexperienced, immature.
00:14:47So, generally, inexperienced, feckless, impulsive, and immature means uncorrupted.
00:14:54Well, you see, as a young soul still interested in virtue, you have to be aged, like steak,
00:15:02marinated, bribed, steeped in filth until you become filth. And when you are steeped into the
00:15:11filth to the point where you become filth, we will call that maturity. See, apparently, it's just
00:15:20foolish and ridiculous and youthful braggadocio to say,
00:15:24maybe we should have some fucking principles in this life.
00:15:29No, you must balance and be corrupted and eaten by the tiny brain worms of infinite surrender.
00:15:39Because there comes a time, and that time is upon us, my friends.
00:15:44There comes a time when the elder generation gets judged by the young.
00:15:54There is a time, and that time is upon us,
00:15:59when the elder generation gets judged by the young. And USAID
00:16:08is foundational to that process.
00:16:16The social contract is broken because media falsehoods are revealed to be
00:16:22bribes.
00:16:27The manufactured reality based upon the slushy bloody flow of vile and corrupt cash
00:16:37has revealed that society is a lie. See, you can't have a contract
00:16:45in a world where you perceive that there are almost nothing but liars. Only a fool
00:16:52has a contract with a pathological liar or pathological liars as a whole.
00:16:59So when, like the lid has been lifted, right? The lid has been lifted on the rank vile
00:17:05maggoty corruption at the heart of just one. Now they're gonna go. I mean,
00:17:09the real question, the real question is not about USAID. All right, let me ask you.
00:17:17I have my thoughts. What are your thoughts?
00:17:26Uh, people think Vosh received money from USAID via agents posing as fans giving him super chats.
00:17:32Yeah, I mean, that's, I mean, I wouldn't jump to that conclusion. I saw that
00:17:36the allegation that Vosh received money from USAID. I did not see it verified. So
00:17:51so we are in the process of the young judging the old.
00:18:03So this stuff has been going on since the 60s, right?
00:18:10So what is the big Rubicon to cross when it comes to Doge? What is the big Rubicon to cross?
00:18:25Just out of curiosity, what is the biggest
00:18:29data set to dig into when it comes to potential fraud and waste and corruption?
00:18:42We are going to work on getting lower latency for these live streams because I know there's
00:18:46a bit of a delay and work on that. The Fed? I don't think so. I mean, that certainly wouldn't
00:18:52be bad, but I don't think so. Pensions, Social Security, Medicare. Well, there'll be a lot of
00:19:00fraud in there, but fraud, fraud is tough because everybody claims it's not fraud. It's legitimate
00:19:06and you have to have legal proceedings. Well, it's the Pentagon. It's the Pentagon.
00:19:14Didn't the Pentagon recently fail its seventh audit in a row and account for, what, 700 billion dollars?
00:19:27So the young realize that everything that has been fed to them has been filthy lies.
00:19:35The young are really seeing that.
00:19:37The young are really seeing that.
00:19:41The young are really, really seeing that. That everything that has been fed to them is filthy
00:19:46lies and all that they've been taught is an unbelievable cover-up and they will believe
00:19:52nothing that comes out of the twisted mouth of their leprous elders anymore.
00:19:59And there are two kinds of people defending this kind of corruption.
00:20:06Those on the take and idiots.
00:20:13I mean, those on the take, I'm thinking of a name, those on the take are saying,
00:20:20it's just shocking and appalling and people are going to die and blah, blah, blah.
00:20:25So those on the take are going to be really upset at this.
00:20:28But the other people who are really upset
00:20:38are the people who are absolute fucking idiots.
00:20:42Now, absolute idiots, you can tell them because they're emotionally reactive,
00:20:48you can tell them, and also you can tell them because they live in a world of labels, not facts.
00:20:55So, if you name it U.S. aid, well, aid is a positive thing.
00:21:03I mean, if you were sick, wouldn't you want aid?
00:21:06If you were broken and bleeding like the Good Samaritan, wouldn't you want aid from people?
00:21:10Aid is a plus. Aid is good.
00:21:13And therefore, getting rid of U.S. aid is getting rid of helping people.
00:21:20I mean, it's called foreign aid.
00:21:22Foreign aid, don't you want to aid people who are foreign?
00:21:27What was it in, there was, I don't know, a ridiculous amount of money that went to build
00:21:32climate change proof schools in the third world and they had to walk through and like the
00:21:37ceilings had collapsed and the desks were all falling apart and it was all just garbage and
00:21:42trash. Not as bad as high-speed rail in California, but yes, largely and mostly garbage and trash.
00:21:52Ah. It's like the people who say,
00:22:05well, the welfare state is corrupt and bad and traps the poor in poverty.
00:22:09Whoa, slow your roll there, buckaroo.
00:22:14It says, I mean, it literally says welfare in the title.
00:22:20Do you not want people to fare well?
00:22:23Like, do you have trouble reversing those syllables, those morphemes?
00:22:27You don't want people to fare well?
00:22:29You want them to fare badly?
00:22:32Or you want things to be unfair and bad?
00:22:34It's farewell, welfare.
00:22:40It's literally right there in the title.
00:22:44I mean, it's called the Department of Education.
00:22:47Clearly, it educates.
00:22:49So if you don't like the Department of Education, you don't like education.
00:22:53It's literally there in the title.
00:23:00Oh, my gosh.
00:23:02I mean, these are the kind of people, they'll buy any kind of snake oil as long as it has
00:23:06the word cure.
00:23:08It has the word cure in it.
00:23:09It's literally called cure.
00:23:10We don't need to test it.
00:23:12We don't need to test it.
00:23:13The absolute mouth-breathing, low-braid, room-temperature IQ, Neanderthal fracks.
00:23:25The label addicts.
00:23:28You know, this is why the term far-right exists, because if you can convince these
00:23:32absolute morons that, well, it's far-right, oh, bad, far-right, it's far-right, it's
00:23:43bad.
00:23:47I mean, I remember having a debate with someone.
00:23:50Well, misinformation can cost lives.
00:23:53Ideas have real-world consequences that are negative.
00:23:55I'm like, okay, 100 million slaughtered under communism, so we should ban communism,
00:23:59at least not subsidize it in universities, right?
00:24:02You know, the respect-all-viewpoints perspective is absolute genius intellectual sabotage.
00:24:20You know, if you can't compete with the classical orchestra on the other side of town,
00:24:26you're some classical orchestra and you want people to come to your classical orchestra,
00:24:31but you're not very good, then what you do is you pass a law that says, well, you see,
00:24:34on that side of town, they have to accept everyone who applies, okay?
00:24:42So it doesn't matter how good their music is, it's going to sound like shit because
00:24:45they're a bunch of incompetents making cacophony and noise.
00:24:49So, big enough tent, man, let everyone in, let her speak, let's get this feedback.
00:25:01It's a great way to absolutely trash and sabotage your intellectual competition
00:25:06to demand that they have a big tent and everyone gets in.
00:25:15So, yeah, the social contract is done.
00:25:21And you can see this all over X and it's not something I'm just making up.
00:25:25Somebody was saying, well, you shouldn't just express it in
00:25:28hundreds of millions of dollars or billions of dollars or millions of dollars.
00:25:34The average American pays $20,000 in tax a year, so you should divide it in.
00:25:41Well, this program cost 15,000 American tax years.
00:25:48Because they spent $20 million to create a version of Sesame Street in Iran.
00:26:00And they spent $70,000 or $60,000 on creating a DEI musical in Ireland.
00:26:09Ireland!
00:26:11Sorry, it probably has a different accent now.
00:26:19And people are looking at their taxes and saying, I don't want to pay, I want my money back.
00:26:26I've been lied to, pillaged, financially screwed, held down, excavated for money,
00:26:34for lunatic, socialist, corrupt bullshit.
00:26:39And that's what I've been working overtime for.
00:26:41And that's why I couldn't buy my kid a new bicycle.
00:26:44And that's why I have to live in a bad section of town.
00:26:46And that's why I got robbed.
00:26:48And that's why I can't fix my car.
00:27:02Somebody says, many of us are doing simple jobs for overtime pay
00:27:05and can barely afford to get to work.
00:27:08And these people post on Reddit and stay home in their swimming trunks
00:27:11and they want us to be sympathetic to them.
00:27:13Well, you see people put $200,000, $300,000, $400,000 jobs.
00:27:18These non-profits, non-profits.
00:27:20Well, I do believe that the leaders are profiting.
00:27:29If you guys would like to tip a little, I think I'm doing some pretty good work here.
00:27:32I did a lot of research for the show.
00:27:34I think I'm providing some really good value today.
00:27:37So if you guys could tip a little, that would be kind of nice.
00:27:42Otherwise, all I can do is assume it's not particularly valuable or interesting,
00:27:45which is fine if it's not, but that will be what I have to assume.
00:27:56So yeah, the social contract is done.
00:27:58People don't want to pay their taxes.
00:28:00They don't believe their teachers.
00:28:01They don't believe the media.
00:28:02And they recognize that there's nothing organic in their environment.
00:28:05People are waking up to the Truman Show.
00:28:08Have you ever seen that?
00:28:08It's a great movie.
00:28:09It's a Truman Show.
00:28:11So people are waking up to the fact that there's nothing.
00:28:24So people, because people think, wow, you know, this, this woke stuff is everywhere.
00:28:28There must be a whole lot of people who believe in it.
00:28:30And now they're looking that they've been forced to fund corrupt ideas that they loathe.
00:28:36And it's not even that the people in charge desperately want to promote these ideas.
00:28:41They just want to promote anything that's anti-Christian, of course.
00:28:43And they just want to promote ideas that you hate.
00:28:46That's what they want to do.
00:28:47They just want to promote ideas that you hate.
00:28:51Because that's a mark of control, right?
00:28:54It's a mark of control.
00:28:56You know, there are these guys in Dubai who love forcing the most appalling acts upon,
00:29:00particularly, Western women.
00:29:03It's just a form of control, exercise of control.
00:29:11So yeah, social contract is gone.
00:29:18People don't want to pay for all of this nonsense.
00:29:27People are waking up to the fact that what they're surrounded by
00:29:33is criminally inflated, corrupt opinions.
00:29:38Not facts, not truth, not reason, not science, but criminally inflated, corrupt opinions.
00:29:44Masquerading as social consensus.
00:29:47And that they have been living in the mind of a pathological psychotic.
00:29:55That's what they have been doing.
00:29:56They have been living trapped inside the mind.
00:30:01Steph, what do you think happens next when the social contract is broken?
00:30:11Well, I mean, Donald Trump, what is he aiming for?
00:30:13No tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and other things that are beneficial.
00:30:18Well, would you like me to answer what happens next after the social contract is broken?
00:30:23Might be important for you.
00:30:25I throw in my novel as well, you should check this out.
00:30:32The future and the present are two great novels.
00:30:33But I mean, they're all great, but those are important.
00:30:37So, if you can find yourself in a situation where you don't have a job,
00:30:41you don't have a job, you don't have a job,
00:30:43you don't have a job, you don't have a job,
00:30:44you don't have a job, you don't have a job,
00:30:45to two great novels but I mean they're all great but those in particular. Hit me with a why if you
00:30:50would like me to tell you what happens when the social contract is broken as it has been broken
00:30:54since January the 22nd. It's never happened this rapidly before.
00:31:15So societies are kept cohesive through enthusiasm and people are willing to accept imperfections in
00:31:26their societies as long as there is a general perception of enthusiasm
00:31:37for society as a whole. So if you have a doctor and your doctor makes occasional mistakes
00:31:44but works really hard, studies well, is very concerned and consumed with you,
00:31:49your health, you will forgive him his occasional mistakes as we all make mistakes
00:31:53but the trust factor is there. However, and this has certainly happened with people's physicians
00:31:58over COVID and with vaccinations and other things, if you say to yourself, well hang on a second,
00:32:04yeah what is my doctor's real motive here? Like what's really happening with my doctor? I mean
00:32:12my doctor is being paid massive bonuses for every COVID shot they give.
00:32:16Can my doctor really be objective about my shots? Tough call right?
00:32:26Tough call.
00:32:29Um well my teacher says that she wants me to think for myself so if I disagree with her
00:32:34she should enjoy that process. Do you guys remember, do you remember that black day
00:32:42when you really argued with your teachers showing your independence of thought and research?
00:32:48And did you, do you remember what happened when you really disagreed with something the teacher
00:32:55said? I remember fighting with a professor in university, I mean I did it in high school
00:32:59as well but I remember fighting with a professor who was talking about Nixon and the corruption of
00:33:04Nixon and I pointed out of course that JFK was far more corrupt and JFK had actually installed
00:33:10all of the recording devices. No interest, no curiosity, nothing but hostility and what was
00:33:24interesting to me about that was the hostility did not just come, thanks C2 Endorbance, the
00:33:31hostility did not just come from the professor although there was certainly no shortage of that,
00:33:41the hostility came from the students. Whoa whoa whoa there bucko, we're just looking for shit
00:33:49we can regurgitate in the test so we can get on to the next level, that's all. Don't confuse us
00:33:54with your questions and comments and god help me when the subject of McCarthyism came up,
00:34:01oh my god when the subject of McCarthyism came up and I remember saying oh so professor uh the
00:34:09communists who run the media told you that there were no communists in the government that it was
00:34:13all just paranoia. Why would you necessarily accept that? Well I mean just out of curiosity,
00:34:19I mean I get that it's a consensus but you understand I mean it's just basic logic and I
00:34:23shouldn't have used the term basic logic but it is. So if McCarthy was right about there being
00:34:32a lot of communist influence in American society then McCarthy would have been demonized for
00:34:41decades. Now it doesn't mean that everyone's who's demonized for decades is right but that
00:34:45would be the result. If you say oh man there's a lot of communists in the media and in government
00:34:53academia and so on then you would expect a coordinated robust attack to call it all a
00:35:00witch hunt and McCarthyism would then mean an irrational fear of things that don't exist and
00:35:05there are communists in my jam and like that's exactly what you would expect, doesn't prove it
00:35:10but citing scathing attacks upon McCarthy as absolute evidence that there's no communist
00:35:19influence in America is not logical because that's exactly what you would expect if there were
00:35:27excessive communist influences in America. I remember having that debate this was I think
00:35:32because I was in university before the Venona sorry before the um the decrypting of the Soviet
00:35:36cables that absolutely proved that he was much more right than he thought.
00:35:47Yeah rage against the machine they've become so compromised it's more like irritation at
00:35:53the Tonka toy. Well we really want you to think for yourself.
00:36:02I really want you to think for yourself oh um okay here's an example of me uh thinking for myself.
00:36:15Oh yeah don't do that uh don't do that.
00:36:23I mean it's an interesting argument I'm 50 50 on it mostly because I just haven't studied it enough
00:36:31but oh yeah it's so funny when you you see all these people they're just rebels right they're
00:36:37rebels they're really into rebel bands and they're really counterculture right and then you say
00:36:41something that's counterculture you know like that angry girl uh with the tattoos and the
00:36:48plaid skirt who's like punk never means this right it's like oh yeah okay just just tell me what punk
00:36:55never means or always means or has to mean punk means absolute conformity to leftism
00:37:01okay real rebels these days guys wow I'm shocked staggered at the courage
00:37:10I'm anti-bigotry okay what about the bigotry against whites and Christians what
00:37:20I don't know we've got a world where people can just say stuff and feel good
00:37:23and that's the ultimate addiction well that and masturbation culture
00:37:34so yeah people oh we want you to think for yourself and people get mad at you because
00:37:39like man we're just we're just here to write down what the professor says regurgitate it on the exam
00:37:45get her piece of paper and go make some money man don't don't fuck it up with questions don't
00:37:50fuck it up with right bad scene so what happens when the social contract
00:38:08dies as it has over the last week or the vestiges of it so sorry the theory the theory is that this
00:38:13there really hasn't been an election since the early 60s right since uh JFK
00:38:21not unrelated to what happened to JFK uh Roger Stone has a theory that LBJ ordered the hit there
00:38:29are other people who say it has something to do with IPAC but I don't really know I tend to lean
00:38:35more towards Roger Stone's argument but you know there's been this general theory that you've just
00:38:43been voting for I mean this is what I talked about 20 years ago on the show that voting was just like
00:38:50changing the hood ornament on a car and thinking you're changing something fundamental oh look the
00:38:54car has a new hood ornament I'm sure the horsepower has changed I'm sure it's turned from a sedan
00:38:59into a minivan or a drop top no just changing the ornament so you know the general theory is that
00:39:11when you get elected that they you know the the powers that be take you to a shadowy room they
00:39:16show you a different angle of the JFK assassination and then they say
00:39:19you might kind of want to take our suggestion because JFK didn't right
00:39:32so
00:39:39that this is the first election where the people are actually getting what they want
00:39:47in like 60 years
00:39:55is it 35 days until the JFK docs are ordered to be released
00:40:00yeah I mean to hell with that stuff for me if if if the Epstein recordings the tapes the videos
00:40:11if the Epstein and Diddy recordings are not released to the public I don't care
00:40:18because everyone's dead and gone from the 60s in terms of power
00:40:24fortunately not dead and gone from the 60s because I'm born in the 60s
00:40:30uh how about a bald compliment Steph you have possibly the best head shape to become bald with
00:40:3599th percentile a pleasing head shape an icon for baldness yeah it's a good Charlie Brown
00:40:41egg
00:40:50so when the social contract is gone people's enthusiasm for the system evaporates
00:41:03and then it just becomes a game of cat and mouse
00:41:08nobody knows exactly why the Berlin fall the Berlin wall fell right nobody knows exactly
00:41:15what happened Yugoslavia and then the various dominoes that came out of that nobody knows
00:41:19exactly what happened behind the scenes but my general thought is that propaganda can only
00:41:24deny reality for so long this is the best system ever the west is terrible uh and I remember uh
00:41:32my brother having these arguments with my mother it drove her crazy and he'd say well you know
00:41:37maybe maybe the the Berlin wall is to keep people out of the paradise of communism maybe
00:41:47communism is paradise and we're just not allowed to know about it my mother would turn various
00:41:53shades of purple I mean I'm pretty sure she was raped by communists at the end of second world
00:42:02war because everyone from the age of 8 to 80 was in Germany pretty much so she had some objections
00:42:08let's say so the west is terrible communism is the greatest capitalism is predatory there's only
00:42:21a certain amount that property of reality the propaganda can keep at bay right and the more
00:42:29unreal the propaganda the more consistent and ferocious it has to be
00:42:34so what happened in my view in Russia was that people simply stopped believing in the
00:42:43virtues and values despite endless amounts of indoctrination and the virtues and values of
00:42:47communism because there are I know this having been a direct foot soldier if not general in
00:42:55this battle that there are always assaults upon the falsehoods of society and society to survive
00:43:02a corrupt society in particular to survive there has to be pushback and fight backs against
00:43:08those questions comments and criticisms there have to be people willing to fight
00:43:15like crazy to to attack to de-platform to cancel to ostracize to to just to defend that you need
00:43:24the constant and insistent pathologically empty-headed foot soldiers of propaganda
00:43:29in order to maintain belief in a system that clearly is fucked beyond words
00:43:36you can't run an army with only generals you need the foot soldiers
00:43:43so society is constantly crumbling because it's so stuffed to the gills with absolutely ludicrous
00:43:51falsehoods so how do you maintain people's belief in these falsehoods well you bribe and attack you
00:44:01carrot and stick right you bribe them with millions of dollars to repeat falsehoods and
00:44:05then you bribe them to attack and other people will attack anybody who questions these falsehoods
00:44:10when the undeniable evidence has accumulated to the point where the average person no longer believes
00:44:22the falsehoods society is done it's done because society is constantly unraveling and needs to be
00:44:31constantly propped up by propaganda right the real syllable in propaganda is the first one prop it
00:44:38props things up there is an entropy to falsehood the falsehood constantly decays
00:44:46lies constantly decay because they're being eroded at right think of lies as a sandcastle in a light
00:44:54rain right so if you leave a sandcastle all these little turrets and balustrades and windows and so
00:45:01on and you've got the sandcastle and there's a light rain within an hour or two or half a day
00:45:10it's going to be just kind of a saggy sad lump
00:45:17and if the rain continues for a day or two or three it's going to flatten
00:45:20so the falsehoods are the sandcastle and the drizzle the rain is reality
00:45:37so without the constant tending and propping up without somebody constantly out there
00:45:42rebuilding little bits of the castle and right like keeping putting an umbrella over it and
00:45:46making sure it's angled the right way if the wind changes and getting out his little toothpick and
00:45:51doing the windows again and right it's just lies fall apart all the time and they need to be
00:45:59constantly reinforced you don't need propaganda about gravity because it's something we all
00:46:06experience every day but when there's a lie when there's a falsehood you need endless propaganda
00:46:11right now if people stop propping up the propaganda if they stop tending the sandcastle
00:46:23it falls apart it just becomes a shapeless lump and the USAID stuff i mean this was over
00:46:34the decades you know billions to hundreds of billions of dollars all going out for sand castle
00:46:40tenders in the drizzling rain prop it up to keep it up to build it up to keep it protected right
00:46:48now that's gone i mean there's
00:46:51the judges have blocked some of the firings and who knows right but it's kind of gone
00:46:59they move on to the next and the next and the next
00:47:01and what's happening is the suspicions that people had are now being revealed by incontrovertible truths
00:47:14that what people call reality is as fake astroturfed truman world matrix bullshit
00:47:21it's not real it's not real it's curated
00:47:24so when it goes from being cool to defend USAID to being cringe to defend USAID
00:47:39then the umbrellas blow away and the tenders blow away and in this case it's not even a slow decay
00:47:46in this case a tsunami comes in no sand castle it's gone baby gone
00:47:54so what happens is the falsehoods that require hundreds of billions of dollars
00:48:06and massive amounts of bribes and threats the falsehoods fall away
00:48:13and what people always suspected is utterly revealed as absolutely true
00:48:25which means that means that
00:48:29you know friends it's not been easy being out of politics
00:48:34i can hear it calling me the way it used to do i can hear it calling me back home
00:48:44not been easy
00:48:47however i will say this if you strike me down i shall come back no nothing like that
00:48:52but i will say that there are times when the readiness is all there are times when
00:49:01that's kind of a useless statement let me be a bit more clear there are times in human society
00:49:06when a certain aperture opens up a certain the planets align there's a break of the cloud the
00:49:12sunbeam comes down and lights up the way there's a certain coincidence of factors that makes people's
00:49:19mind blitz open even for a very brief amount of time they're disoriented confused bitter angry
00:49:31frustrated fearful and therefore open to reason certainty in corruption
00:49:39keeps philosophy at bay
00:49:49so the way that i look at it is sort of back in the day when i was making my arguments
00:49:55that mccarthyism the fact that joseph mccarthy was being attacked
00:50:00is no proof that he was wrong and could in fact be certain evidence that he was right on the money
00:50:09the analogy that i used is that if a mob guy kills a witness that doesn't mean that the mob
00:50:17guy is innocent the fact that he killed the witness probably means that the witness was
00:50:21going to put him away and the fact that they assassinated so ferociously joseph mccarthy's
00:50:25reputation and put him into an early grave with all that stress and attacks even though he was
00:50:31absolutely beloved by the american people i mean the number of people who lined the streets with
00:50:36joseph mccarthy's funeral parade was second to almost nobody else in american history so
00:50:45but the professor had his authority he was in charge and i didn't have certain proof this is
00:50:50pre-internet now i do occasionally think though that if i had been when the soviet cables were
00:50:57finally decrypted what they call the bonona papers when the soviet cables were finally decrypted
00:51:02and all of the proof came out that mccarthy was right then there's a moment of disorientation
00:51:07and you could actually come in to the professor and say hold the pieces of paper right and say
00:51:13well hang on there's proof now like the soviet cables reference that the people that joseph
00:51:21mccarthy accused of as being communists were in fact communists and spies and betrayers and agents
00:51:26of the kremlin now then there's a moment of disorientation and then because the blinding
00:51:34mindless cow-plotting stupid lowered-eyed jamming through the rain bullshit that people call their
00:51:41thoughts is interrupted by a flash of bewildering light and disorientation and it is that moment
00:51:48that the viper strike of reason can actually land on a piece of brain matter
00:51:56you know like this if you've got some some woman you know she keeps dating
00:52:01absolute assholes she keeps dating absolutely terrible guys
00:52:07it is not when she's overjoyed with happiness and in the full flush of her
00:52:10loin-tingling sexual addiction that you can reason with her it's when this guy turns out
00:52:15to have run up her credit card bills and he's taken off to pick grapes in queensland
00:52:19that that is when in that agony that is when
00:52:32you just might be able to reason with her just maybe just a tiny bit
00:52:42well i really can't wish your buddy matt much of a happy birthday but
00:52:46for what it's worth happy birthday
00:52:50you
00:52:53so hit me with the why
00:52:56if this makes sense i don't want to over explain it don't want to under explain it
00:53:00want to get it just right like goldilocks
00:53:07you're making brilliant points staff makes me think of the novel 1984 the ruling party
00:53:11is propped up by all the people working at the ministry of truth altering the truth
00:53:14yeah mindset follows the dollars
00:53:21and people live in a bribed fantasy of psychotic propaganda
00:53:33now
00:53:33what's happening now is that and this is for the normies right what's happening now well of course
00:53:47they're they're pulling this stuff about well elon musk was not elected and it's like you don't elect
00:53:53the entire uh presidential aides stephen miller and and all you don't elect i mean you elect the
00:53:59president and the president said he was going to unleash musk on the doge so of course you elected
00:54:08the agenda it's not like you elect the president and he does absolutely everything he appoints
00:54:11people right so because you know lord knows that all the alphabet agencies were absolutely
00:54:18they weren't right
00:54:22and it's funny how media outlets taking slush fund government money and now complaining that
00:54:28somehow elon musk does not represent the will of the people like you don't represent
00:54:34the will of the people you represent the will of your fucking backers
00:54:40who elected usaid
00:54:45bernie sanders that ghoul that golem is unconstitutional
00:54:54yeah go buy another fucking house writing books about how bad capitalism
00:54:58you intergalactic douchebag
00:55:07so the young people are uncovering all of the corruption of the older people and the older
00:55:15people are screaming like stuck pigs and all of this corruption is being revealed
00:55:21by people the mainstream media told everyone we're just bad people
00:55:26now again in sales is sort of a basic thing there are people who are never going to buy your product
00:55:31there are people who are going to buy your product no matter what and then there are the people in
00:55:33the middle and that's who you focus on like in politics there are people who are never going to
00:55:36vote for you there are people who are going to vote for you no matter what and you focus on the
00:55:39middle ground right so yeah there are a bunch of wine aunts and single ladies and boomer brain
00:55:47slush absolute retards who are never going to think about anything and all they're doing is
00:55:52who are never going to think about anything and all they're doing is sniffing from one pathetic
00:55:56pile of dopamine and conformity to another can't help them there's no hope for them
00:56:01but there are a few people who are in this uneasy moment of hang on a second
00:56:05what the hell just happened something is not adding up my gut sense is telling me
00:56:11that something doesn't add up
00:56:13now if they get to the pentagon and it seems like they're on their way that's going to be
00:56:28absolutely shocking to people because america like a lot of countries has a reverence for
00:56:34the military and certainly if the military is an honorable institution reverence should be paid
00:56:38in my opinion they're very brave men and women mostly men who actually fight for the country
00:56:43but if people find out that their reverence for the military
00:56:56has been used to exploit and rob them
00:57:02i mean the final part of the social contract that goes
00:57:06there's respect for the martial talents and abilities of the state
00:57:16you know it's kind of i mean biden was planning on hiring what 66 and 66 000 additional irs agents
00:57:26so now apparently the government that wanted to audit the living crap out of americans
00:57:31is really mad that there's some auditing going on like honestly it's just it's too hypocritical for
00:57:37words so you would be absolutely astonished all that has to happen
00:57:50all yeah yeah i mean zelensky is saying he only got a certain portion of the was the adk agents
00:58:00yeah so lensky is saying that he only got a portion of the ukraine money
00:58:12when people realize that the more lives they believe they believe the more they're exploited
00:58:19they will push back at a very instinctual level you know and i remember saying this for years and
00:58:27and people didn't believe me and i i sort of i understand that i have a sort of unique ability
00:58:31and perspective in these things but do you remember me talking about the pendulum it's
00:58:34gonna swing back it's gonna swing back i said you know you can only push on reality so far
00:58:39particularly in the age of the internet it's gonna push back now our goal is to have it not push back
00:58:44to another extreme but have it rest somewhere in the aristotelian middle
00:59:01so so yeah i think where it goes from here is a massive crumbling
00:59:08in the sand castle because people aren't propping it up anymore
00:59:12they just they won't come out against it but they won't rush to defend it and the moment people stop
00:59:18rushing to defend lies the lies crumble ridiculously quickly lies take a massive amount they're very
00:59:26inefficient lies take a massive amount of time and energy to maintain it's really one of the
00:59:35biggest wastes of human resources in the universe
00:59:48wait stef did you just say you have a unique way of seeing things slash perspective but
00:59:53you also say your mind is not unique when the hell did i say my mind is not unique
00:59:58have i i think i've said i've pushed philosophy further than any of the other philosopher in
01:00:03history and i'm also saying i'm not unique oh i solved the problem of secular ethics which has
01:00:08been the goal of philosophy for thousands and thousands of years but i'm not unique
01:00:13when did i ever say my mind is not unique it was a few streams ago okay so give me some context there
01:00:21so give me some context there
01:00:29give me some context
01:00:34my unique thing is because i've absorbed upb i said you were unique and you said not i don't
01:00:42know yeah i'm sorry i don't recall the context so i mean what i'm maybe i don't know i'm not
01:00:48even going to try and guess what i was talking about x number of streams ago but i do have so
01:00:54the uniqueness about me is that i go from abstract principles first and because i created upb i have
01:01:04the greatest and deepest knowledge of the most fundamental abstract principles which is that of
01:01:08morality no listen if if you wanna i'm you don't have to but if you want to dig up what i said i
01:01:14don't want to sound completely contradictory i i think that i am a reflection of everybody's deep
01:01:21and honest mind in that i don't think i'm some freaky unique thing i just say what everyone
01:01:27else is kind of thinking and make a good case for it but yeah i mean i'm not gonna pretend that i'm
01:01:32just like everyone else so no and honestly if you can if you can think of uh if you if anyone can
01:01:39find it and send me the clip in context i would be more than happy to resolve it because i don't
01:01:44want to sound contradictory of course right but it's one thing to say i have a unique way of seeing
01:01:52things another thing to say my mind is not unique now when i say my mind is not unique
01:01:58i mean it takes a certain amount of whatever x factor to come up with upb
01:02:03but it does not take the same amount of x factor to enact upb
01:02:10well you know james maybe you can look upon that um if you if you get a few minutes just look for
01:02:15the word unique in the last couple of okay when was it a couple of live streams ago i'm sure james
01:02:20we've got transcripts so we can look we can look and i'll see if i can sort it out because i mean
01:02:25i don't i don't view myself as unique in that because if i was unique let's say i just unique
01:02:31when it comes to philosophy then call-in shows would not be helpful right like if i had the best
01:02:38singing voice in the known universe then it would be kind of unfair for me to say to people take my
01:02:43singing lessons and you'll sound just like me because i would have a unique voice so because
01:02:48i give a lot of advice i can't view my brain as unique or the principles that i work by
01:02:53untransferable however the capacity to connect these dots and to communicate complex things
01:02:59in a way that's comprehensible like the sandcastle analogy is a perfect way to crystallize
01:03:05how much effort it takes to maintain propaganda
01:03:10so anyway i don't want to get hung up on it when we don't have any quotes
01:03:15but it's interesting it's interesting uh in general if you have criticisms from past shows
01:03:22just be patient go dig them up and give them to me in context so that i can understand
01:03:26what i was talking about because i kind of live in the now all right any other last questions
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01:03:56you
01:04:00well i wouldn't want to say that i was just being humble because that would just
01:04:03false humility is just another form of hypocrisy which is another form of falsehood
01:04:07i have to be honest about my strengths and weaknesses and show some reasonable degree
01:04:10of self-knowledge i think
01:04:19all right i think we are done i really do appreciate everyone's time tonight thank
01:04:22you so much for dropping by i look forward to your thoughts as we go through this very
01:04:27exciting ride when it comes to what's going on politically at the moment you don't get 2024
01:04:34without 2020 and everybody who was upset about that election might reconsider as they see it
01:04:42going forward so have yourself a glorious evening thank you so much my friends lots
01:04:47of love from up here take care i'll talk to you soon bye