To Heck With Boundaries!

Stefan Molyneux

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Transcript

00:00:00 Good evening.

00:00:01 Yes, good evening everybody.

00:00:02 Still have it all in you from free domain.

00:00:07 We are here to chat philosophy on this year of our lark, the 8th of March 2024, 7pm.

00:00:17 Don't forget there's a time switch this weekend.

00:00:20 11 o'clock will probably be 10 o'clock, so I'll be getting up at the crack of noon.

00:00:24 I'll be here to chat with you guys at 11 on Sunday, so I hope you'll join me there as

00:00:31 well.

00:00:32 I told you Bitcoin was going to bounce back.

00:00:36 Anyway, so hair looks great.

00:00:38 Thank you.

00:00:39 I appreciate that.

00:00:41 It's been singled out.

00:00:42 My hair is like a flock of birds being scattered by the hawk called dime.

00:00:49 All right, so let's get to your questions right away.

00:00:53 This show is about you and you alone.

00:00:56 All right.

00:00:57 Somebody says, "I'm making short videos for a client.

00:01:00 I want to tell him that I'll be charging him for any videos that he wants to replace that

00:01:05 I already made short.

00:01:06 I was wondering if I'm doing a good job of setting boundaries or being unreasonable.

00:01:09 How can you tell?"

00:01:13 Making short videos for a client.

00:01:17 I don't understand this.

00:01:18 So you take a long video and you slice it up for your client and then he tells you whether

00:01:22 he likes your slices or not?

00:01:25 Dunno.

00:01:26 I don't know.

00:01:30 I don't know.

00:01:31 But I wouldn't be in that business for very long because AI is pretty good at slicing

00:01:35 and dicing videos up and making shorts out of them.

00:01:38 So I don't really understand the business model.

00:01:42 So if you say, "I'm going to spend three hours making short videos for you and he wants a

00:01:47 bunch replaced," well, I would give him a couple of freebies and see if you can figure

00:01:53 out the patterns and see if he can give you objective standards as to what he wants.

00:01:59 So if you're not doing as good a job as he would like you to do for whatever reason,

00:02:06 then you need to learn what he wants and how and why and then try and fulfill that.

00:02:10 If he keeps moving the goalposts, then he's probably not a productive person to work with.

00:02:13 It's very, very, very, very important, as I've mentioned before in business, you must

00:02:23 fire people who cost you money.

00:02:27 Fire people who cost you money.

00:02:28 Oh, the customer is always right.

00:02:30 Nah, that's for low-level front-end grunts in a big corporation with a giant law department

00:02:35 and government contacts.

00:02:37 You must, must, must fire customers who are losing you money in the long run, right?

00:02:45 Because it'll drive you crazy.

00:02:47 It'll absolutely drive you crazy.

00:02:50 So here we go.

00:02:53 Second question of the night.

00:02:54 "Hey Steph, thanks for being here."

00:02:55 You're welcome.

00:02:56 "I don't really understand boundaries.

00:03:00 My intuition is that if you have to invoke them in a relationship, that is to sign the

00:03:04 relationship as dysfunctional, which is strange because I think property rights are necessary

00:03:07 for a healthy civilization and all property has boundaries.

00:03:11 Do you have boundaries between you and your wife, you and Izzy?"

00:03:16 Yeah.

00:03:19 Boundaries is kind of the modern satanic discourse, like you just can't talk about morals.

00:03:24 So you talk about boundaries because you can't talk about, you know, basic morals.

00:03:32 So what boundaries generally mean is if somebody's being intrusive, you kind of beat them back

00:03:39 over a particular border.

00:03:40 Like if your mom is calling you, I don't know, 15 times a day, you say, "Oh, there's no boundaries

00:03:45 here.

00:03:46 There's no boundaries.

00:03:47 So mom, I'm going to need you to slice that back to three times a day and then maybe to

00:03:50 once a day."

00:03:51 And that's kind of setting up boundaries.

00:03:57 But I had this, I had a call in yesterday with a guy.

00:04:01 Actually one of the very few call in participants, call in people, one of the very few listeners

00:04:10 who've called in, I genuinely got angry at within 15 minutes of starting the conversation

00:04:15 and it actually turned out to be very productive and you can listen to that when it comes out.

00:04:22 But one of the things that I said to him was I said, "Look, you can't win in any conflict

00:04:34 with someone who has no integrity, no empathy, no ethics.

00:04:41 You can't win in any conflict with someone who has no integrity because the people without

00:04:48 integrity will just win at all costs.

00:04:50 They'll change the rules, they'll gaslight you, they'll try to destroy your reputation,

00:04:55 they'll manipulate, they'll spread lies, they'll just cost you money, they'll do anything to

00:05:03 win, just anything to win.

00:05:04 So people without a sense of self-restraint, people without a sense of self-discipline

00:05:09 or virtue or morality or empathy, you can't win any conflict with them because there's

00:05:16 no winning if people just change the rules arbitrarily and the example I gave was can

00:05:20 you win in a chess game if your opponent can change the rules at will?

00:05:31 You cannot.

00:05:32 In fact, it's an insult, it is a genuine insult to chess, to pretend to play chess with people

00:05:40 who don't follow the rules of chess.

00:05:43 You're not playing chess then, you're playing some other nonsense, right?

00:05:45 It's not really a game at all.

00:05:49 I don't have any boundaries with the people in my life because we're moral and sensitive

00:06:01 and empathetic and curious and considerate and thoughtful and so why would I need to

00:06:07 have boundaries?

00:06:12 People care about me, I care about them, why would I need to have boundaries?

00:06:19 My wife, I don't know, she's not like practicing the Macarena on a slab of wood on her side

00:06:28 of the bed at four o'clock in the morning so I gotta say, "Hey, enough Macarena!"

00:06:33 No, I mean she's very thoughtful and I'm thoughtful and so we're sensitive to what

00:06:41 each other needs so I don't, I wouldn't imagine the need to have or enforce boundaries.

00:06:48 I mean that's kind of like you have a, boundaries are like a chain, right?

00:06:53 Like you've got some crazy dog in your backyard and you gotta chain the dog up in the backyard

00:07:01 because he's going to come and bite the children on the back porch if he, you know, like I

00:07:05 don't know what putting people on a leash or setting up boundaries or enforcing boundaries

00:07:10 are like, why would you want people in your life who aren't sensitive and thoughtful and

00:07:14 care about you and wouldn't impose?

00:07:19 You know, I mean with my family it's a lot of like, "Well, what do you want to do?

00:07:23 And where do you want to go for dinner?"

00:07:24 Or what do you, like, you know, it's too much sometimes deferral.

00:07:28 I mean that's definitely something you want to have too much of that rather than the other

00:07:31 thing.

00:07:35 But I don't, I don't, I'm trying to think, I don't have anyone in my life, I don't have

00:07:41 anyone in my life that I would need to enforce boundaries with.

00:07:46 Because how would you enforce boundaries?

00:07:49 So let's say somebody was, I don't know, somebody was calling me 10 times a day or something.

00:07:54 I just wouldn't have that person in my life.

00:07:56 Oh, I just blocked the number or whatever, right?

00:07:58 Not that I've really had to deal with that, but it's a funny thing.

00:08:04 And I know this sounds like magic and kind of, it kind of feels like magic a little bit.

00:08:10 But let me tell you, when you have, this is from another call and show I did this week,

00:08:15 when you have functional people in your life, the non-functional people don't show up anymore.

00:08:25 It's a weird kind of herd instinct.

00:08:28 It's a wild phenomenon.

00:08:30 When you have healthy, happy, positive, moral, productive, functional people in your life,

00:08:36 the crazies don't show up.

00:08:39 It's like, you know, the cross, the holy water.

00:08:43 It's like you sweat holy water or give it off as a vapor around you.

00:08:51 Like when you have crazy, and I know this from, when you have crazy people in your life,

00:08:54 the sane people don't show up.

00:08:55 And when you have sane people in your life, the crazy people don't show up.

00:08:58 It's like they're opposite poles.

00:08:59 Like you know, the magnets, opposing poles, you just can't push them together.

00:09:05 They don't live in the same, it's almost like the same universe.

00:09:08 They don't live in the same universe.

00:09:10 When I was younger, there was nothing but crazy people around.

00:09:13 Cause that was my mom and her life and her friends.

00:09:18 And that was just crazy people everywhere.

00:09:22 Now I don't know where they've gone, but they ain't here.

00:09:28 And crazy people, dysfunctional people, messed up people, immoral people, you know, it's

00:09:35 like that, the vampire thing.

00:09:36 You got to invite them in.

00:09:37 Like you've got to invite them in, come on in.

00:09:39 And it's one or the other.

00:09:41 If you got the crazies, the moral, it's not even, you don't even see them coming and they

00:09:48 avoid you.

00:09:49 Like they're in another universe.

00:09:50 Like I call it this sort of trash planet, like escape from trash planet.

00:09:55 Maybe that's my second title for my autobiography.

00:09:59 First is Fagly British Noises, suggested by my daughter, and the second is Escape from

00:10:03 Trash Planet.

00:10:06 I don't know where the crazy people are anymore.

00:10:09 I don't see them.

00:10:10 I don't interact with them.

00:10:11 I don't deal with them.

00:10:16 So it is a funny thing.

00:10:17 It's a funny thing.

00:10:21 They're just not around.

00:10:24 Thank you for, oh sorry, some thank you, Dorbenz, thank you, Certaintease, great name.

00:10:30 Thank you, Mobius, I appreciate your tips.

00:10:35 Great eyebrow hair.

00:10:37 Arkansas Ditch Caterpillar's about to mate across my brow.

00:10:41 Yeah, the show I did on It's the Same Effing River, my Heraclitus rebuttal, oh, I was really

00:10:50 on fire for that one.

00:10:52 Sometimes all the words just line up in a row in a beautiful, beautiful way.

00:11:01 You can't enforce boundaries.

00:11:04 You can't enforce boundaries because it's just, you have to be hypervigilant.

00:11:07 Oh, you know, and mom, you're calling me too much again.

00:11:10 Oh, you're doing this, oh, you got to push back.

00:11:11 Oh, I told you I didn't want to come out if there was going to be drinking, you know that,

00:11:15 right?

00:11:16 Why?

00:11:17 Why would you want that?

00:11:18 You see, enforcing boundaries is saying to someone, hey, listen, man, I know you don't

00:11:25 have any empathy, but trust me, you can outsource your conscience and your empathy to me.

00:11:31 Like you'll never figure out what I want or what's reasonable or what I like or what is

00:11:34 decent.

00:11:35 I'll just enforce that for you.

00:11:38 So you don't have to have a conscience.

00:11:40 I'll be your conscience.

00:11:42 I'll be your conscience tonight.

00:11:45 Right?

00:11:46 So why would you want to be somebody else's conscience?

00:11:51 It's never going to work.

00:11:53 And all they'll do, you know, whenever you set up boundaries with people who don't have

00:11:57 a conscience, they'll just switch tactics.

00:12:01 They'll just switch tactics.

00:12:04 Mom, I'd really appreciate it if you didn't call me as much.

00:12:09 Oh, oh, oh, okay.

00:12:10 I didn't realize I was being intrusive.

00:12:12 I didn't realize I was being such a bother.

00:12:14 Okay.

00:12:15 Okay.

00:12:16 I'll do what you want.

00:12:17 I'll listen.

00:12:18 I'll be that person.

00:12:19 Um, what does she do then?

00:12:22 She texts you more.

00:12:24 She'll talk to your friends or siblings more or your wife more.

00:12:30 Well, I don't want to bother him, but if you could just ask him this, I would really

00:12:33 appreciate it.

00:12:34 And, and you know, you're just playing whack-a-mole and you'll say that, and then she'll do something

00:12:39 else and then maybe she'll write you long letters or, you know, it's, it's going to

00:12:44 be something.

00:12:46 You can't enforce a conscience in some, because a conscience is an internal state where you

00:12:53 have the ego strength to compare your actions to ideal standards.

00:13:00 Right?

00:13:01 So your conscience to do with the past, like so free will is your ability to compare proposed

00:13:06 actions to ideal standards.

00:13:08 Your conscience is your ability in particular regarding the past to compare your past actions

00:13:12 to ideal standards.

00:13:15 I mean, for me, like, uh, I believe in peaceful parenting.

00:13:18 I advocate peaceful parenting.

00:13:19 I've now been a parent for 15 years and change.

00:13:24 Have I, um, achieved my goal of peaceful parenting?

00:13:33 Yes I have.

00:13:34 Have I been perfect at it?

00:13:36 I don't even, I hate the word perfect because it's, it's just a leverage that's used to

00:13:39 make you feel bad, but no, I've, I've done, I've done a fine job.

00:13:42 I've done a fine job.

00:13:43 It's like saying, what's the show?

00:13:45 Is this show perfect?

00:13:46 It's like, nah, I don't, I don't even care.

00:13:48 It doesn't, it doesn't, it's not a standard that I would ever be, be interested in.

00:13:51 It's just a paralytic standard that other people apply to you, but never themselves

00:13:55 so that you don't outstrip their achievements or make them feel bad because of their lack

00:13:59 of achievement.

00:14:00 So, um, perfectionism is, uh, is just a form of, uh, spiritual poison, but yeah, I have

00:14:07 achieved that.

00:14:08 Uh, have I done right by philosophy in the world?

00:14:12 F yeah.

00:14:13 F yeah.

00:14:14 More than anyone else, I believe because of the focus on childhood.

00:14:18 So yes, I have absolutely done right by philosophy and have moved the discipline forward enormously.

00:14:23 UPP plus childhood plus definitions of love and free will and all of that, that work and

00:14:29 have lasted, have lasted the test of time.

00:14:32 So yes, I'm very, have I been a good husband?

00:14:34 Yeah, I've been good husband.

00:14:35 I've been a good husband.

00:14:38 Um, my wife and I enjoy spending time together.

00:14:42 We love, uh, our evenings out if we can go, if we can get out.

00:14:46 And, um, even if we're just sitting around chatting, it's just lovely.

00:14:49 So yeah, you know, I had to, I had to go and get my, um, uh, you know, you drop your car

00:14:56 in for service.

00:14:57 I have a secondhand car, right?

00:14:58 You drop your car in for service and it's like, you, there's that pause, you know, and

00:15:03 you're like, okay, I guess I'll come back tomorrow.

00:15:06 And so they needed my car for two days.

00:15:07 I had to go back today and it was a fair, fair drive.

00:15:11 And uh, my daughter's like, Hey, I'll come.

00:15:12 I was like, great.

00:15:13 I was in the car.

00:15:14 We, she played me her music.

00:15:15 I played her some of my music, uh, or rather she looked it up in the passenger seat and

00:15:19 we, we, uh, had a little outing.

00:15:21 We had a little fun together and, uh, it was just great.

00:15:24 This is really nice.

00:15:25 So I, uh, so, so if people don't have the capacity to compare themselves to any ideal

00:15:33 standard, they'll just do what they can get away with.

00:15:39 Right.

00:15:40 I mean, they're literally like little kids who just want something out of a cookie jar,

00:15:46 right?

00:15:47 They just want something out of the cookie jar.

00:15:48 I can't remember, we got our ducts, our ducks, ducts, not ducks, our ducts cleaned as you

00:15:55 should from time to time, I believe we got our ducts cleaned.

00:15:59 And of course, uh, what came flying out of my daughter's bedroom was a couple of candy

00:16:03 wrappers, right?

00:16:04 Cause like every little kid, she snuck some candy and she ate some candy and she hit the

00:16:07 candy wrappers.

00:16:08 I mean, that's fine.

00:16:09 She's she eats well and responsibly, but she experimented with that.

00:16:15 So you just do what they can get away with.

00:16:17 Right.

00:16:18 So yeah, it is, um, you, you can't become someone's conscience.

00:16:24 You can't that observing ego, that capacity to evaluate yourself without self abuse, with

00:16:31 curiosity, with a desire to improve your behavior, but without despair.

00:16:36 I mean, that's a bit of a balancing act, right?

00:16:39 So you want a bell curve of self evaluation.

00:16:41 You don't want to be like, well, everything I do is great.

00:16:44 No matter what by definition, right?

00:16:45 That's, I dunno, some sort of narcissistic megalomania or something that I am the good

00:16:51 at the same time.

00:16:53 You don't want to say, oh man, I did this or that or the other again, I'm such an idiot.

00:16:59 Right.

00:17:00 Then cause then that's not having the conscience that's having this self abuse.

00:17:04 Right.

00:17:05 So if you want to get justification and self abuse, you want to get somewhere in the middle

00:17:07 where you say, yeah, I objectively, I could have done that better.

00:17:11 I'm curious as to why.

00:17:13 And I mean, hopefully I've been modeling that kind of stuff in call-in shows for, for these

00:17:17 many years.

00:17:18 So yeah, I don't, I don't do boundaries because if people have empathy, we can have a relationship.

00:17:22 If they don't have empathy, I'm not going to pretend that I can, a couple of things.

00:17:27 I don't pretend I can bear somebody else's child.

00:17:29 I don't pretend I can digest food for everyone.

00:17:32 Other people, I don't imagine that if someone's tired, then I take a nap and they're refreshed.

00:17:39 I just, I don't imagine any of these things.

00:17:41 I don't imagine that I can perform other people's basic bodily functions.

00:17:47 Right.

00:17:48 Oh, you look thirsty.

00:17:49 Let me have some water.

00:17:51 Right.

00:17:52 I don't imagine for a moment that I can perform other people's basic bodily functions.

00:17:57 Conscience is a basic bodily function.

00:17:59 It's a basic part of your brain, it's a basic bodily function.

00:18:05 So I don't, I don't do boundaries.

00:18:10 I mean, when I was younger, of course, I, I, Lord knows I gave it a shot.

00:18:15 I gave it more than one shot.

00:18:16 I gave it considerable amounts of shock, a shot.

00:18:18 But people, they just get sneaky and subversive if they don't have a conscience and you try

00:18:22 to enforce standards.

00:18:23 They just get resentful and sneaky and subversive and you just spend your whole time playing

00:18:27 whack-a-mole and it's really, really boring.

00:18:30 You know, it's the funny thing.

00:18:31 Sort of the foundational thing I would say to you if you're younger is that dysfunctional

00:18:36 people are incredibly boring.

00:18:45 Incredibly boring.

00:18:48 So predictable.

00:18:49 There's no spontaneity.

00:18:51 There's no curiosity.

00:18:52 There's no change.

00:18:53 There's no growth.

00:18:54 There's no roundhog day of stupid shit over and over again until somebody ends up in the

00:18:59 ground.

00:19:00 That's about it.

00:19:01 That's about it.

00:19:02 Just joined, hi there, Rob from South Australia.

00:19:09 Why do you think France is just as wealthy on average as the UK despite a more centrally

00:19:13 planned economy?

00:19:17 There's no country that's wealthy.

00:19:22 Yeah, sorry, are you taking government figures as meaning anything?

00:19:32 Yeah, I don't do voodoo spells and I don't do government statistical data for the most

00:19:43 part.

00:19:44 But every country, every developed nation is a giant black hole of soul and civilization

00:19:56 consuming debt.

00:19:59 They're just black holes masquerading as stars.

00:20:05 It's like some guy who says, "Oh, I retired when I was 35.

00:20:10 I'm retired when I'm 35 and I'm just living in this multi-million dollar mansion with

00:20:14 these expensive cars."

00:20:16 It's just debt.

00:20:17 He owes like $5 million.

00:20:18 There's no hope of paying it off and it's just all an illusion.

00:20:22 You look around, everything you see that's built, it's just an illusion.

00:20:28 It's a fantasy.

00:20:31 It's a fantasy.

00:20:32 It's like the Flintstones cartoons.

00:20:35 They run off the cliff and they're doodle-doodle-doodle.

00:20:36 They just legs pump in the midair before they notice that they're up there and they fall.

00:20:41 Nothing that is around us is real.

00:20:43 It's all historical momentum, pillaging of past intelligence and debt.

00:20:50 All right, usually girls who friend-zone guys have orbiters and have orbiters are the ones

00:21:00 who speak about boundaries the most.

00:21:05 It's really a terrible exploitation for women to friend-zone guys and continue to get re-signed.

00:21:13 It's just a waste of resources, time and attention from their desperation.

00:21:17 Thank you for the support.

00:21:18 I appreciate that.

00:21:21 Going on from your thoughts on morality and integrity, how does a free market deal with

00:21:26 people who do not act in a moral way?

00:21:28 More generally, what do you see as the biggest weaknesses or issues that would arise if we

00:21:33 lived in a true free market?

00:21:37 I don't understand.

00:21:40 Let's take the second part of your question.

00:21:43 What would be the biggest negatives of a peaceful world?

00:21:48 What on earth are you talking about?

00:21:54 All right, Xi, I got this theory.

00:21:56 I'm Mongolian and Genghis Khan is reaping his way across Asia.

00:22:00 I have this theory, Xi, that maybe the women shouldn't be raped en masse as a weapon of

00:22:04 war.

00:22:05 What do you think the biggest downsides would be if the women not being raped as a weapon

00:22:09 of war by Genghis Khan and all of his minions?

00:22:11 What do you think the negatives would be?

00:22:13 What would the problems be of women not being raped on an industrial scale all throughout

00:22:18 Asia?

00:22:20 Or to go with, well, how do you envision people getting together and having children if we

00:22:30 don't use mass rape on an industrial scale to populate the planet?

00:22:36 What are the biggest problems of a free the slaves?

00:22:38 What are the biggest negatives?

00:22:41 Why would I care?

00:22:42 How about we stop using the initiation of force to get what we want?

00:22:48 So again, I don't understand.

00:22:55 So let's say we stop beating our children with rubber hoses and electrical cables.

00:23:00 Let's say we stop beating our children.

00:23:03 What are the downsides of that?

00:23:04 What are the biggest problems that arise out of not beating our children and actually loving

00:23:08 them?

00:23:11 You know, if you decide in your marriage to stop throwing your wife down flights of curved

00:23:15 stairs, what negative impacts do you think that that will have on your marriage if you

00:23:20 decide not to throw your wife down spiral staircases?

00:23:24 I'm sorry, again, I genuinely don't understand what you're talking about.

00:23:30 How does the free market deal with people who do not act in a moral way?

00:23:33 How would I care?

00:23:34 Why on earth would I care?

00:23:37 And how could I possibly know?

00:23:38 We're talking about things hundreds of years in the future.

00:23:44 I'm more interested in the psychology and genuinely interested in the psychology of

00:23:47 why you would ask such a question.

00:23:53 Why would you ask a question that if people aren't forced to interact with each other

00:23:58 at gunpoint, threatened with the state rape gulags of prison, what do you think would

00:24:06 be the negatives or the biggest problems or weaknesses that would arise in a world without

00:24:12 war, intergenerational debt enslavement, mass propaganda, violence against children, and

00:24:18 voluntary and peaceful trade among adults?

00:24:20 What would be the biggest weaknesses or issues?

00:24:24 I'm sorry, I don't understand.

00:24:26 Compared to what?

00:24:28 Compared to what?

00:24:29 So again, I'm certainly happy to hear, but I don't even know what the question is.

00:24:35 It means what's the downside of virtue?

00:24:39 All right.

00:24:42 Somebody says, Dave, I found my functional crowd by going to church recently, so I feel

00:24:47 less need to hang on to the crazy people because loneliness is no longer an issue if they abandon

00:24:50 me.

00:24:51 That's good.

00:24:52 That's right.

00:24:54 How would a free society deal with people whose IQ is so low that they don't have the

00:24:59 ability to compare their behavior to a higher standard?

00:25:02 Would we have to become their conscience as a society?

00:25:06 No, people who would not be able to tell right from wrong would be, I'm sure, incentivized

00:25:13 and institutionalized, right?

00:25:14 I mean, if somebody had...

00:25:17 See here's the problem, right?

00:25:20 So if we say that children could begin to learn morality 18 months, two years, whatever

00:25:26 it is, right?

00:25:27 So let's say that you have an adult male, he's six foot two and 220 pounds, and he has

00:25:34 the brain of a one-year-old, right?

00:25:37 I mean, obviously severely mentally disadvantaged, to put it mildly.

00:25:42 But he has adult strength, he has adult lusts, and so on, right?

00:25:47 And he could not survive on his own, right?

00:25:51 A one-year-old does not have the ability to drive a car, to enter into a contract, to

00:25:57 save money, to have a bank account.

00:25:59 Like none of these things would be possible for somebody of that limited a cognitive state.

00:26:07 So because they wouldn't be able to enter into contracts, nobody would give them contracts,

00:26:13 and therefore the parents would have to take care of them, right?

00:26:16 And you would do this, right?

00:26:17 So you would buy insurance, right?

00:26:19 You would buy insurance before your children were born, and the insurance would be, okay,

00:26:24 well let's say the kid gets meningitis and half the brain gets eaten away or whatever

00:26:27 could happen, right?

00:26:28 Some congenital defect, some issue, some, well, lose oxygen during childbirth, whatever

00:26:32 it is, right?

00:26:33 And then the insurance companies would take care of those people, but nobody would enter

00:26:37 into a contract with a 20-year-old man or woman who had the mental capacity of a one-year-old,

00:26:45 right?

00:26:46 So they wouldn't be able to enter into society because nobody would enter into contracts

00:26:49 with them.

00:26:50 So they would be under the care of their community, they would be under the care of the dispute

00:26:55 resolution organizations, the parents, any number of ways of doing it, but they wouldn't

00:27:00 be out and about.

00:27:01 How could they be, right?

00:27:02 So let's see here.

00:27:06 Jump to recent messages.

00:27:31 So you're saying you are a high-quality person, but other quality people just aren't finding

00:27:34 you.

00:27:35 Well, just be a high-quality person and be willing to be alone as you cross the desert

00:27:41 from Trash Planet to Elysium Fields to the paradise of functional people.

00:27:48 I need to start looking for quality people more actively.

00:27:52 No, just don't be around crappy people and the good people will find you.

00:27:57 All right.

00:27:58 This one says, "Hi, Steph, what are your thoughts on one parent in the middle of a divorce telling

00:28:01 the children that the other parent was behaving in an amoral manner, did not honor the vows,

00:28:07 and that is the reason for the divorce.

00:28:08 They always say that you should not discuss adult issues with children or speak ill of

00:28:11 the other parents."

00:28:12 Yeah, you know who says that?

00:28:16 Bed moms and dads.

00:28:17 "Oh, don't you speak ill of me to the kids."

00:28:19 Well, you can't speak ill of your partner because you chose your partner.

00:28:29 Right?

00:28:30 I mean, let's say that you're the husband and the wife has an affair and I don't know,

00:28:36 some addiction or other and it's just a massive problem and all of that.

00:28:40 Well, you're going to go, I suppose, you're going to go to the kids and you're going to

00:28:46 say, "Gee, your mama, your mama, your mama is really bad."

00:28:54 Right?

00:28:56 Well, you chose her.

00:29:03 Not only did you choose to meet her, date her, get engaged to her, get married to her,

00:29:08 and you gave her children.

00:29:12 You can't ever win at your partner's expense.

00:29:15 So the other parent was behaving in an amoral manner.

00:29:19 Do you think that that gets you off the hook?

00:29:23 It does not.

00:29:24 It does not.

00:29:25 I mean, it's so funny.

00:29:26 Like my mom would trash my dad and you chose him.

00:29:33 My mom was a beautiful woman and slender and she's very witty and she's got a good sense

00:29:40 of humor and at times she used to.

00:29:43 It kind of faded away as the paranoia set in as it tends to.

00:29:48 But if you start putting down the other parent, the kids aren't going to, like if you say,

00:29:56 well, you see, I'm better than your mother because she did all these amoral things.

00:30:01 It's like, dude, you chose her.

00:30:03 You chose her.

00:30:10 See do not discuss adult issues with children.

00:30:14 Now of course you don't discuss adult issues with children, right?

00:30:20 I don't know.

00:30:21 Let's say that the man is suffering from erectile dysfunction or something like that, right?

00:30:28 Hey kids, right?

00:30:30 I mean, you don't obviously discuss adult issues with children unless the adult issues

00:30:36 have a massive impact on the children's lives.

00:30:40 No, no, we're hiding the divorce from the children.

00:30:44 I'm sorry to make me laugh, but can you imagine that?

00:30:46 Honey, our plan is we aren't going to get divorced.

00:30:49 You move out, we'll get the lawyers, we'll split everything.

00:30:52 We'll sell the house, but we're going to hide all of this from the children.

00:30:55 Like how are you going to do that Chris?

00:30:58 With aim bots?

00:30:59 With AI?

00:31:00 How are you going to get a build a robot?

00:31:02 How are you going to hide this from the kids?

00:31:05 Right, you can't.

00:31:07 So the idea of course that you want to discuss, I don't want to discuss the divorce with the

00:31:18 children.

00:31:19 It's like, no, no, you have to discuss the divorce with the children because it's already

00:31:23 affecting the children.

00:31:24 It's already impacted the children.

00:31:26 It's changing the children's entire lives and they have a right to know what happened.

00:31:32 They had a right to know what happened because you're going to have to explain something.

00:31:41 Like there's nothing that you can hide.

00:31:42 Again, I'm not talking about babies or toddlers, right?

00:31:45 But at an appropriate age, which depends on your children's intelligence and maturity,

00:31:50 you're going to have to sit down with the kids and say, we're getting divorced, right?

00:31:59 Now you can say, as some people do, oh, no reason.

00:32:03 No, it's, you know, um, you know, I just, we rolled snake eyes.

00:32:08 I drew the short, I drew the low card when splitting the deck.

00:32:11 You know, we, we rock, paper, scissored and you know, I lost.

00:32:15 So we were getting divorced.

00:32:16 There's no reason that we're still friends.

00:32:17 We love each other.

00:32:19 There's absolutely no reason.

00:32:20 Well that's insane for children.

00:32:22 Like why on earth are you disrupting the kids entire lives if you still love each other

00:32:25 and care about each other and want to get along, right?

00:32:31 If the mom had an affair, again, I mean, I, at what age that's appropriate, I don't know,

00:32:38 but you can say mom fell in love with someone outside the marriage and mom wants to go and

00:32:42 pursue that relationship.

00:32:46 Or you know, dad has a gambling addiction, uh, which he can't kick and I can't live like

00:32:50 this anymore.

00:32:51 Yeah, he is.

00:32:52 I'm sad.

00:32:53 Like it is sad.

00:32:54 He's gambling over his family.

00:32:57 That's really terrible.

00:33:05 So you have to give an explanation.

00:33:09 Otherwise the kids are going to be like, yeah, you can be happy.

00:33:11 You can love each other and you're just going to split and half wreck the lives of the children

00:33:16 for no freaking reason whatsoever.

00:33:18 That's not fair on kids.

00:33:21 And also if you say, well, this is the, this is from Kairos, Oh, but, but, but, but your

00:33:27 mother completely changed.

00:33:29 Well that's so you being defensive, right?

00:33:31 So let's say that the mom's amoral and they divorced because she's doing this terrible

00:33:35 stuff.

00:33:36 And then the father says, well, I'm not to blame.

00:33:40 I'm not to blame because she was wonderful for like 10 years.

00:33:44 And then she just changed.

00:33:47 Magic.

00:33:49 It's a kind of tragic, right?

00:33:52 Is you just changed.

00:33:53 Boom.

00:33:54 Just change.

00:33:55 Well, what does that tell the kids?

00:33:58 Well, you can be together for 10 years and then the other person can just get possessed

00:34:02 by a kind of anti-human demon and wreck your life with no possibility of knowing ahead

00:34:07 of time.

00:34:08 You'll make your children so paranoid they can never fall in love.

00:34:11 There has to be a reason as to why the divorce is happening.

00:34:17 And the reason has to be the fault of the parents.

00:34:20 And you have to communicate to the children, the fault of the parents so that the children

00:34:24 aren't paranoid.

00:34:25 Wow.

00:34:26 She was wonderful, but then she just crazy.

00:34:27 She woke up one day, just a crazy person's like, great.

00:34:28 Now you've just cursed your children to never, ever being able, being able to fall in love.

00:34:37 Great job, everybody.

00:34:40 But just don't get divorced.

00:34:49 Respect your vows.

00:34:53 Be mature, be decent, work it out, fix it.

00:34:57 Do whatever you have to do to fix the relationship.

00:35:00 Well, she doesn't want to anymore.

00:35:02 Okay.

00:35:03 Well, who were you that she doesn't even want to try?

00:35:05 Who were you that you chose someone like that?

00:35:13 Divorce is a massive failure, a colossal catastrophe, and an unrecoverable disaster for your kids.

00:35:30 I mean, I'd say take the L, but it's your kids who mostly take the L. It's one of the

00:35:46 greatest disasters that can possibly happen in your life.

00:35:58 And people who don't do absolutely everything that they conceivably can to keep a marriage

00:36:04 together, I have little more than contempt for.

00:36:19 I mean, really the seeds of me not seeing my parents were sown in their willingness

00:36:23 to put literally the entire planet between them.

00:36:26 We stayed in England and my father was in South Africa.

00:36:29 Why on earth would I ever respect the judgment of people who couldn't even choose a partner

00:36:35 that they loved to be the father of their children and the mother of their children?

00:36:40 Why on earth would I listen to anyone about how to live?

00:36:44 You know, I remember.

00:36:46 Oh, the bitterness.

00:36:48 It just surged within me.

00:36:51 I remember going to visit my father in Africa when I was 16 years old, and he gave me tea

00:37:12 and we had to go somewhere, and the tea was very hot, so I slurped it because I felt this

00:37:17 urgency to finish my tea before we left because he also had a habit of taking me places and

00:37:24 never giving me anything to drink, and I was scarcely used to the white hot African sun.

00:37:35 So I had to get my liquids in.

00:37:38 I remember him taking me hiking, and of course he walked for a living, right?

00:37:42 He was a geologist, and he took me hiking, and we were just hiking up, and I was beat.

00:37:50 I was tired.

00:37:51 I was tired.

00:37:53 And he was walking ahead of me.

00:37:57 He'd be like 10 minutes.

00:37:58 I could just see him way up on the path.

00:37:59 What the fuck?

00:38:00 Did you ever have this thing in life where you're like, "What am I doing here?

00:38:04 Why am I here?

00:38:05 Why am I stuck on the side of this African mountain with this guy hiking 10 minutes ahead

00:38:11 of me when I finally caught up?"

00:38:13 He's like, "I'm really thirsty."

00:38:15 And he's like, "What you want to do is lean down, grab a rock, and you put the rock in

00:38:22 your cheek, and you suck on the rock.

00:38:23 It will produce saliva, and you'll be fine.

00:38:26 You'll be fine."

00:38:28 I'm now inhaling my own saliva rather than you packing a britter.

00:38:33 I'm sorry.

00:38:34 It's just...

00:38:36 Why would you...

00:38:37 I mean, was he trying to impress me?

00:38:39 "Look what a great hiker I am."

00:38:41 He's like, "You hike for a living.

00:38:43 I get it.

00:38:44 Good for you.

00:38:45 I'm stuck in a tiny apartment with a crazy woman that you married.

00:38:51 No car.

00:38:53 And I have to work two or three jobs at times, so not a lot of time for sports.

00:38:58 You work and hike for a living.

00:39:00 Good for you.

00:39:01 I'm kind of stuck doing labor to pay the bills."

00:39:06 Oh no, at this point, my mom was gone.

00:39:10 So yeah, I was working three jobs that time.

00:39:13 So I didn't have a lot of time for hiking and exercise.

00:39:19 So there was that.

00:39:22 So I had to get my liquids in before my dad took me God knows where.

00:39:27 Some drag yourself by the teeth and nails hike across the Kalahari or something.

00:39:34 My father got annoyed.

00:39:36 "Don't slurp your tea.

00:39:38 Don't slurp your tea."

00:39:41 Just this black negativity.

00:39:44 "Don't slurp your tea.

00:39:47 Rude, damn it."

00:39:48 Yes, rude.

00:39:51 Yes, let me see if I can ascend to your lofty standards, dad.

00:39:57 The lofty standards of a guy who hasn't seen his son in five years, who barely pays any

00:40:08 child support.

00:40:14 And the guy who in the fruit of his wisdom, when he was more than twice the age I am now

00:40:18 or was then, chose to marry my mother, give her two children, and then abandon them to

00:40:25 her tender mercies and never once asked me how I was doing.

00:40:31 With the woman he had to flee because she was crazy and violent.

00:40:36 Yes, tell me all about how I should sip my tea.

00:40:41 With no respect, how's this guy going to tell me how to live?

00:40:46 How's my mother going to tell me how to live?

00:40:48 God, it's really sad.

00:40:51 On the plus side, not being told how to live gave me a real blank slate.

00:40:56 You always look at this trauma like it's nothing but negative, nothing but negative, nothing

00:41:00 but net.

00:41:01 No, because I could respect precisely no one in my family on how to live.

00:41:13 All the Christians, my Christian aunts, all the Christians just never quite got round

00:41:18 to asking me how I was doing with my mother.

00:41:22 Nope, nope, nope, nope.

00:41:25 Now they did make sure that I didn't take too much cereal in the morning, that they

00:41:28 made sure of, but they never quite got round to asking me how my sanity was doing being

00:41:33 raised by a woman who ended up in a mental institution.

00:41:36 Never quite got round to that.

00:41:39 I guess they were busy counting cornflakes, hard to say, but never quite got round to

00:41:42 that.

00:41:43 The good news is because I respected no one and nothing when I was growing up.

00:41:50 Did I respect the teachers?

00:41:53 No.

00:41:55 We all get a sense of how deeply immature, hypersensitive, vainglorious, vanity, puffery,

00:42:02 puff adders the teachers are.

00:42:04 So tremulous, so tenuous.

00:42:07 You ask them the wrong thing, you make the wrong suggestion and they just get angry.

00:42:12 Yeah, bullying kids you can force to stay in school, take away a year of their life,

00:42:17 moral heroes, all of you.

00:42:22 I respected no one and nothing growing up, which is the foundation of the beautiful life

00:42:29 I have as an adult.

00:42:32 If you respect no one, unworthy of respect, you then have to develop self-respect and

00:42:37 you can draw your life and what you stand for on a blank slate without a million ghostly

00:42:47 hands moving your highlighter in the direction they want.

00:42:52 Because I had no imprinting, I could imprint on reason.

00:43:00 Because I respected no one growing up, I could develop a system of self-respect that has

00:43:06 served me and carried me forward and up like a tidal wave, like a tsunami.

00:43:16 Always look at the loss of trauma and there is of course loss, I get all of that.

00:43:22 But man, don't forget, don't forget the gains, the opportunities.

00:43:28 You can be who you are.

00:43:30 You can design yourself.

00:43:32 You can think for yourself.

00:43:34 You can live unburdened by confused respect for half-respectful people.

00:43:43 I made nobody in my life that I respected.

00:43:45 I didn't have a teacher, didn't have a relative, didn't have parents, didn't have anyone.

00:43:49 Nobody.

00:43:50 Didn't have grandparents.

00:43:51 Nobody I respected.

00:43:52 I remember when my step-grandmother, my real grandmother, died in the Second World War.

00:43:56 She was bombed on a bombing raid flown by one of my uncles on my father's side.

00:44:00 She was in there, a thousand plane raid over Dresden in 1944.

00:44:05 But I remember my step-grandmother came over and she was terrified of my mother.

00:44:10 When I spilled silver paint on the carpet, she helped me cut out a piece, move it, move

00:44:15 the furniture to cover it up because she was terrified of how my mother would react when

00:44:21 she came home.

00:44:22 Okay, so you're the step-grandmother and you're terrified of my mother.

00:44:28 Don't respect any of this.

00:44:37 So you really do get to draw up your own life charter, your own independence, as long as

00:44:50 you don't mourn the lack of respect you have for the incompetence that may have surrounded

00:44:55 you.

00:44:59 Alright.

00:45:05 Free will is conscience looking forward.

00:45:07 Yeah, I think that's fair.

00:45:18 Steph you have truly done, can you do something out of this world?

00:45:22 From Supertramp Dreamer, you are not a dreamer, you are a doer.

00:45:25 Thank you, appreciate that.

00:45:27 There are times when all the world's asleep.

00:45:33 The questions run too deep for such a simple man.

00:45:37 How would a free society deal with, oh yeah, all that.

00:45:42 This boundaries argument is amazing and I'll be donating as soon as I can.

00:45:45 Thank you, I appreciate that.

00:45:46 I can certainly confirm in my time as a moderator, very repetitive and slimy behavior.

00:45:50 Oh, they're so boring, they're so predictable.

00:45:54 Do you have any techniques to validate empathy in others?

00:45:59 Sure.

00:46:01 Sure.

00:46:03 Sure.

00:46:05 Most people are so busy defending themselves that they can't get out of their own walls.

00:46:13 So the way that I think of it, the Battle of Helm's Deep, was anyone saying, "I think

00:46:17 I'll go for a hike.

00:46:18 I bet you the sunrise over those mountains is going to be beautiful."

00:46:21 No, because they're being besieged, right?

00:46:23 All the orcs in the known universe are pouring down the mountain and trying to get in and

00:46:26 rip them apart.

00:46:28 So when people are being besieged, they can't look at anything other than defense.

00:46:32 And that's a lot of people.

00:46:33 That's most people in the world are just besieged by their own remnants of a bad conscience.

00:46:38 They're besieged by knowing that the karma in the actions they've sown is going to come

00:46:42 back and bite them in the ass, man eater style and not the whole and oats kind, but the Steven

00:46:48 Spielberg kind.

00:46:49 So most people are just waiting for disaster to strike.

00:46:55 They are poised for battle at all times.

00:46:58 And you can see this, right?

00:46:59 You in the politics, right?

00:47:00 You bring up, I don't know, the vaccine or you bring up Trump or something, like they

00:47:03 just seize up.

00:47:04 Most people are poised for battle at a moment's notice.

00:47:07 And so they can't get out of their own walls because all they're doing is defending and

00:47:12 defending is exhausting and defending is aggression, right?

00:47:16 You just want to punch back if you feel under assault all the time.

00:47:20 So people who are rigidly defensive are preparing to strike back.

00:47:25 They're like the head of the snake going back to strike.

00:47:28 So valid empathy and other is curiosity, curiosity, curiosity.

00:47:38 I mean, personally, I love knowing how people take, what makes them take, why they do what

00:47:43 they do.

00:47:44 And I get something new.

00:47:45 I did a really wild dream analysis yesterday.

00:47:48 It's amazing.

00:47:49 Beautiful, beautiful.

00:47:50 This guy who claims to have such a boring life, it is unconscious.

00:47:53 It's like Wagner and Shakespeare together.

00:48:00 So valid empathy in others.

00:48:02 Yeah.

00:48:03 You ask them questions about themselves and you then wait for the questions to come back

00:48:07 about you.

00:48:08 That's all.

00:48:09 That's all.

00:48:10 What is the reason that the government would let Bitcoin happen, gave the ETF blessings,

00:48:19 et cetera?

00:48:20 Why did they just allow the thing they should fear the most to go on?

00:48:25 I don't understand.

00:48:28 I mean, the government, there's no the government, right?

00:48:34 There's people in the government and they know that fear can't last.

00:48:37 So they're looking for a way to store their wealth, right?

00:48:40 There's no way that they can store their wealth if other people don't perceive that store

00:48:43 of wealth as valuable.

00:48:44 So they let Bitcoin happen so that they can jump ship, so they can get to the lifeboat.

00:48:53 So.

00:48:56 All right.

00:49:01 How do we get there?

00:49:04 Peaceful parenting.

00:49:05 Yeah, there's no other way.

00:49:06 All right.

00:49:07 Yeah, and it's funny, people are concerned about the least intelligent people, but what's

00:49:18 going to happen to the less intelligent people in a free society?

00:49:23 It's like, well, I don't know.

00:49:24 How about we don't continually scoop them up like this evil claw and dump them into

00:49:29 the human disassembly meat grinder of eternal warfare, right?

00:49:33 How about we don't just conscript them and have them blown to bits?

00:49:38 Somebody says, "I've been told that a common sign of declining empire is the prevalence

00:49:41 of blood sports.

00:49:42 Do we not see people getting into physical blood sports in this day and age because we

00:49:45 have such plethora of virtual blood sports, film, TV, video games, etc?"

00:49:50 No, blood sports is actually not a sign of a declining empire.

00:49:55 No.

00:49:56 Hedonism and softness, right?

00:49:59 People who are raised with no hard decisions because of debt, and then the edges of their

00:50:07 minds become soft and gooey and dull because they never have to make any tough decisions.

00:50:11 Right?

00:50:12 So in the past, let's say a woman wanted to leave her husband, but she'd be left out with

00:50:16 nothing and lose all of her social circle.

00:50:18 So she had a really tough decision, so she probably wouldn't.

00:50:21 Now she can, right?

00:50:22 The whole court system is set up so that women don't look bad in divorce because women don't

00:50:28 want to look bad in divorce, right?

00:50:30 If the kids end up broke because mom initiated a divorce, well, this is why the court system

00:50:38 is, at least in America, keep the children in the style to which they become accustomed.

00:50:43 Well, why?

00:50:44 They can't possibly, because otherwise they'll get mad at mom, right?

00:50:47 So they have to, the father has to be forced to pay for the mom because most divorces are

00:50:52 initiated by women.

00:50:54 So no, it's, it's a, it's hedonism and it's not having to make difficult decisions.

00:50:58 And then what happens is you get, because people like debt is a mind altering drug.

00:51:05 Like I can't, I can't stress this enough.

00:51:08 Debt, particularly collective debt, institutional debt, national debts is a mind altering drug.

00:51:15 It makes people unbelievably stupid.

00:51:21 Because we became the apex predators of the planet due to harsh scarcity and the need

00:51:28 to overcome it.

00:51:30 You get rid of scarcity, which is what debt does.

00:51:32 You get rid of scarcity.

00:51:35 You turn us from lions to cows, over domesticated, unable to defend themselves.

00:51:44 So no, it's laziness.

00:51:46 It's when anyone comes along with any limitations, like I remember doing my documentary on California,

00:51:50 stood in front of the LA city council and said, how are you going to pay for all of

00:51:53 these promises?

00:51:54 You've got no money to pay for all of these things.

00:51:55 What are you going to cut?

00:51:56 They just get resentful.

00:51:57 They get resentful.

00:51:58 They get mad.

00:51:59 They get upset.

00:52:00 How dare you bring in limitations?

00:52:02 We're in the land of debt.

00:52:05 Debt breeds megalomania.

00:52:06 Debt breeds hedonism and unreality.

00:52:13 Debt is a kind of psychosis that invades the mind and removes from it any sense of rational

00:52:19 limitations and therefore prioritizations.

00:52:22 It dumbs people down enormously because it defers tough decisions, which is a complete

00:52:28 lack of empathy for the future.

00:52:31 It kills empathy.

00:52:32 It kills planning.

00:52:36 It kills balancing costs and benefits.

00:52:40 And everyone who tells the truth becomes the enemy of the psychosis.

00:52:45 If you've ever dealt with somebody who's seriously disturbed, then telling any kind of truth

00:52:49 brings a murderous rage to them and everybody who points out that the system cannot be sustained

00:52:58 and tough decisions need to be made is viewed as abusive.

00:53:03 Reality becomes abusive to those doused in the psychotic delusion of debt.

00:53:08 It's just appalling.

00:53:10 All right, somebody say, "Thanks, Steph, for your description a month or so back regarding

00:53:17 narcissists and how they treat people like a tool.

00:53:21 I am in the later stages of a marriage separation from a woman I consider to be a full-blown

00:53:25 narcissist, worst experience of my life, and three beautiful kids in the mix.

00:53:29 It has been a challenge to protect them in what at times has felt like an impossible

00:53:33 situation.

00:53:34 Your explanation was very helpful to me and you are helping me better to protect the children.

00:53:38 Thank you."

00:53:39 Well, you're welcome.

00:53:40 You're welcome.

00:53:41 You might want to consider why you chose a narcissist to have three children with.

00:53:46 Did you have that thought as a child?

00:53:48 You chose him?

00:53:51 It wasn't conscious, but I just...

00:53:55 There's a quote that I read from, I think I was in my teens, there's a quote that I

00:54:00 read from Jung, just stuck in my head like a splinter in the mind's eye, Alain Dean Foster

00:54:06 style and the quote was, it was just the throwaway comment.

00:54:11 He was talking about a patient of his, a client of his, and Jung was saying, "Well, but of

00:54:18 course her parents were ordinary incompetence, more than half children themselves."

00:54:24 Her parents were just ordinary little incompetence, more than half children themselves.

00:54:34 Do you ever have this thing when you're a kid where you just realize what a house of

00:54:39 cards most adult personalities are built on?

00:54:42 Like they got nothing, no substance, no backup, no resolution.

00:54:53 Crazy.

00:55:06 So did I have a thought as a child, you chose her?

00:55:09 You chose him?

00:55:13 I had instincts as a child, I was not really allowed to have my own thoughts.

00:55:17 Once I got into my teens, it's like, stop complaining about this guy you divorced when

00:55:24 I was five months old.

00:55:26 Like stop, like it's sad.

00:55:32 When people deny responsibility, a bear trap forms on their soul and refuses to let them

00:55:37 move forward.

00:55:38 You can see this, like people that you know, you can see, you can see people, where did

00:55:42 you get stuck?

00:55:43 Where did you get stuck?

00:55:44 Where did you get stuck?

00:55:45 Boom.

00:55:46 You can see some people get stuck at five or 10 or 15 or 20 or whatever.

00:55:49 It's like, where did you get stuck?

00:55:50 Well, you get stuck the moment you start making excuses about your life and stop taking responsibility.

00:55:55 The moment you start blaming others, you get stuck.

00:56:00 And with my parents, it was like, you just get stuck because they wouldn't take responsibility.

00:56:05 We just blamed each other, just kind of instinctively, I just couldn't respect that.

00:56:11 Because of course, you know, you've got all these parents who are telling you to take

00:56:14 responsibility and they won't take responsibility.

00:56:16 So it's just like, it just turned into noise.

00:56:19 Like I just didn't respect, didn't care, didn't, it just, I just got to move on to something

00:56:26 else like this is, this is gross.

00:56:29 All right, what is your colloquial definition for self-abuse?

00:56:35 Yeah, I don't quite understand.

00:56:43 I don't quite understand.

00:56:44 I don't, I mean, I know I've used the term, but if you've listened to call-in shows with

00:56:48 any attentiveness, and I'm not saying you haven't, but maybe you haven't heard these

00:56:51 ones.

00:56:52 Yeah, I don't, I don't really believe in self-abuse.

00:56:57 I don't believe in self-abuse.

00:57:03 I mean, if you, if you kidnap a man's wife and you tell him that he has to film punching

00:57:10 himself in the head as hard as he can in order to have his wife released, and he punches

00:57:15 himself in the head to get his wife released, is that self-abuse?

00:57:19 No.

00:57:20 It's not self-abuse.

00:57:24 He's doing that to get his wife back because he's under a massive threat, right?

00:57:28 He's going to kill his wife or something like that, right?

00:57:32 Does that make sense?

00:57:35 So I don't really believe in self-abuse.

00:57:38 I do accept that people have to harm themselves in order to appease abusive parents.

00:57:43 Sure, yeah, I get that.

00:57:45 I get that.

00:57:46 You know, like if you're being threatened with a gulag, unless you denounce yourself

00:57:50 as a bourgeois, then you denounce yourself as a bourgeois in order to escape the gulag.

00:57:54 Is that self-abuse?

00:57:55 No, you just, you've got a gun to your head, so you, you know, you punch yourself because

00:57:59 you can control how hard you punch yourself, right?

00:58:04 If your parent punches you, they could do more damage, right?

00:58:06 So I don't really believe in self-abuse.

00:58:08 There is some simply the internalized abuse that has to be done to appease sadistic people

00:58:12 in your life when you were younger, if they were there.

00:58:17 Which one do you think personally is better to live in when trying to be a peaceful parent,

00:58:20 the countryside, suburbia, inner city, or city center?

00:58:24 I mean, if you can make it to the countryside, I think that's a good idea as a whole.

00:58:28 Thank you again for the business advice.

00:58:30 I donated on free domain.

00:58:32 Let me check.

00:58:34 I'm sure you did.

00:58:36 All right.

00:58:38 Yes, I'm glad it was helpful.

00:58:44 All right.

00:58:46 Is peaceful parenting possible if, for an extreme example, you're raising a child in

00:58:50 Gaza?

00:58:51 By peaceful parenting, are you specifically meaning the relationship between parents and

00:58:54 child regardless of external factors?

00:58:57 What?

00:58:59 Oh my God.

00:59:03 Oh my God.

00:59:07 I do try not to get weary, but I'll be honest with you guys, it's a little wearying.

00:59:13 Gaza!

00:59:14 Are you in Gaza right now?

00:59:16 Are you?

00:59:18 Is this the same guy?

00:59:19 Let me see here.

00:59:26 How do we get there?

00:59:27 So you're Mr. Theoretical Paralysis Guy, right?

00:59:30 Honestly, you're just the theoretical paralysis guy.

00:59:33 And I say this so that you stop doing this stuff.

00:59:43 You are not in Gaza.

00:59:45 You are not advising parents in Gaza.

00:59:49 You are in the relatively free West where you can support and advocate for peaceful

00:59:54 parenting without throwing theoreticals and the entire conversation down the toilet heading

01:00:00 to the ultra-violent, ultra-collectivist, ultra-fundamentalist Middle East.

01:00:11 What do you need an extreme example?

01:00:13 Go promote peaceful parenting.

01:00:15 Yes, but on Mars.

01:00:18 It's like, we're not on Mars.

01:00:22 You're just raising theoreticals so you don't have to act.

01:00:25 And listen, it's fine.

01:00:26 It's fine.

01:00:27 It's fine.

01:00:28 You don't have to act.

01:00:29 I'm not telling you you have to act, but please stop wasting everyone's time with absurd theoreticals

01:00:32 that mean nothing.

01:00:36 Like we're in an ER, we're doctors in an ER, people come pouring in and you're like, well,

01:00:42 because there was a Klingon who spread an infectious disease in Gaza, it's like, you

01:00:47 know, we got people bleeding out right here and you're just whacking off in the corner

01:00:52 in your theoreticals.

01:00:53 We've got people bleeding out right here.

01:00:55 Every time you paralyze yourself with a theoretical, that's another child who gets hurt in your

01:00:59 environment, in your life.

01:01:00 Now listen, again, you don't have to do a thing.

01:01:02 You don't have to do a thing, but let's not pretend that you're trying to do anything

01:01:06 other than paralyze yourself and others.

01:01:10 Well, what about peaceful parenting on a spaceship when there's cracks in people's helmet and

01:01:16 there is a little figure with no arms and two legs roaming around killing people?

01:01:21 What about then, huh?

01:01:22 Answer me that.

01:01:23 Answer me that theoretical stuff and then maybe I'll think about implementing peaceful

01:01:26 parenting or advocating it.

01:01:27 Come on.

01:01:28 You know people in your own damn life.

01:01:30 You know people in your own damn life who are aggressive parents or putting their kids

01:01:36 in indoctrination centers or neglecting their children or putting their kids in daycare

01:01:41 way too young or, or, or, you know, all of these people, but Gaza, come on.

01:01:48 Just tell me, just be honest.

01:01:49 You don't want to talk about peaceful parenting with the people in your life because it's

01:01:54 scary and I get that.

01:01:55 It is scary and I'm not criticizing you for being afraid at all.

01:01:59 You don't have to do anything, but let's not pretend to do something.

01:02:02 That's all, let's not pretend that you're really interested in peaceful parenting because

01:02:06 Gaza, please.

01:02:12 Divorce is experienced like a death.

01:02:15 It's worse in some ways because you keep paying.

01:02:25 Steph did you see the United States Senator Katie Britt give that speech yesterday?

01:02:29 Why did she do it in such a sultry way?

01:02:31 Hello, haven't been doing politics for over three years.

01:02:35 No, I don't, I don't care.

01:02:38 I don't watch that stuff.

01:02:42 My parents divorced when I was 10 says James and I remember my father coming to tell us

01:02:46 my mother wasn't present.

01:02:47 I can't remember him giving any reasons, but it was really obvious they hated each other.

01:02:51 Nothing about their choices and we kids were just along for the ride.

01:02:54 Yeah.

01:02:55 Did you actually put a rock in your mouth?

01:02:57 Sure.

01:02:58 I was thirsty.

01:03:00 I mean, I was with my father who was supposed to provide for me and I ended up having to

01:03:04 sustain myself and provide for myself and literally suck on my own spit because he wouldn't

01:03:08 give me a sip of water.

01:03:13 It was a powerful scene of Alda dragging his son up the mountain in your book, The God

01:03:16 of Atheists.

01:03:17 Yes, I think so.

01:03:21 Is it better for a child to not form any bond with their biological parents than to form

01:03:25 a bond and then it's broken as a young child?

01:03:27 What are you talking about?

01:03:31 Do you think that a child has an option to not form any bond with the biological parents?

01:03:35 Do you not?

01:03:36 Have you never raised animals?

01:03:37 I mean, do you think it's possible for a child to not bond with biological parents?

01:03:43 Kids don't bond.

01:03:44 I know you're just out of the womb and your instincts are such that the nipple hits here

01:03:48 and you turn your head to get, don't bond.

01:03:50 It's like, yeah, good luck with that.

01:03:51 Right?

01:03:52 The kids are going to do what the kids going to do, what they're programmed to do.

01:03:55 Right?

01:03:56 So the guy with the Gaza thing says, "Parenting is very important with regards to the type

01:04:01 of adult one becomes.

01:04:03 However, I also believe the wider environment also has a huge impact.

01:04:06 I suppose there is a sanctity in the parent-child relationship which will frame the wider environment

01:04:11 too."

01:04:12 Wider environment also has a huge impact?

01:04:15 Again, I don't follow.

01:04:18 As a parent, I mean, if there are not bombs dropping right around you, in the moment,

01:04:24 you can control the wider environment.

01:04:27 Dorbina says, "This resonates.

01:04:32 My parents are divorced.

01:04:33 I remember visiting my father.

01:04:35 He was never excited to see us and just laid around for most of our visits with him.

01:04:38 It felt like we were a bother to him.

01:04:40 Later in life, he would try and guilt me into reconnecting with my mother.

01:04:43 The guilt trip never worked because he had no credibility with me."

01:04:46 Yeah.

01:04:47 That's really, really sad.

01:04:48 That's really sad.

01:04:50 That's really sad.

01:04:51 Yeah, you just get a lot of lectures from people who couldn't run their own lives.

01:04:59 To Steph, "On defensiveness, can you see that in yourself too?

01:05:05 I feel like your response to my question was very defensive as you took it in a way that

01:05:09 I did not mean it, which is also my fault for a badly worded question."

01:05:13 I don't think it was defensive.

01:05:14 I think it was aggressive.

01:05:18 I don't think it was defensive because you weren't insulting me.

01:05:21 You weren't attacking me.

01:05:23 So no, I don't know.

01:05:25 This is going through a very feminine filter, honestly, which is anytime you annoy someone,

01:05:31 they're being defensive.

01:05:32 Right?

01:05:33 I mean, I knew someone when I was growing up who would say pretty horrible things.

01:05:38 You'd get annoyed to be like, "Oh, I guess I hit a nerve.

01:05:40 You must be very defensive."

01:05:41 It's just defensive.

01:05:42 It's just one of these words that it's a hierarchy word.

01:05:45 So you are something I considered foolish.

01:05:47 I pointed out that I considered it foolish.

01:05:50 You felt put down, so now you have to raise yourself above me by calling me defensive

01:05:54 so that I'm reactive and you're in the initiating spot.

01:05:58 I wasn't defensive.

01:05:59 I mean, you weren't attacking me or my beliefs.

01:06:01 You were just doing things that I felt were foolish and distracting.

01:06:06 All right.

01:06:11 I suppose America will win the most from Bitcoin.

01:06:18 You mean the nation state or the people?

01:06:22 Kind of important.

01:06:25 All right.

01:06:31 I mean, if you're a parent and you choose to have, like if you're a person and you choose

01:06:40 to have children in Gaza, then peaceful parenting is not really an option because...

01:06:46 All right.

01:06:50 Imagine if engineers hadn't used Newton's law because it's not quite as exact as the

01:06:54 theory of relativity.

01:06:55 Yeah, that's right.

01:06:56 That's right.

01:06:57 I always hate collectivist arguments and their use of the trolley problem.

01:07:00 Well, I mean, it's a matter of effect, right?

01:07:05 So you can't affect the parenting in Gaza, but you can affect the parenting of the people

01:07:08 around you.

01:07:10 People who leap over doing actual good in the lives they can affect in order to talk

01:07:16 about theoretical goods in lives they will never be able to affect.

01:07:23 Like you've got medicine that can cure sick people around you and you're like, but theoretically,

01:07:27 if I had a different kind of medicine for a different kind of illness in another dimension,

01:07:32 it's like, okay, you don't want to cure the people around you.

01:07:34 I get that.

01:07:35 But let's not pretend it's anything other than that.

01:07:37 You don't want to confront the people around you in their aggressive or neglectful parenting.

01:07:40 I get that.

01:07:41 And I understand that that's a scary thing to do for a lot of people.

01:07:44 Just be honest.

01:07:45 Don't bring up Gaza.

01:07:46 Don't pretend that you've got this big theoretical thing going.

01:07:48 It's just you don't want to help the children around you like, or you do, but you won't.

01:07:55 And you don't want to face that fact in yourself.

01:07:57 Just self-honesty is the important thing, right?

01:08:02 Self-honesty is the important thing.

01:08:06 You could help the people around you by promoting peaceful parenting in the parents, in your

01:08:11 family circle, in your friend circle, wherever, right?

01:08:13 You could help the children around you right here, right now.

01:08:16 But Gaza!

01:08:17 It's not about Gaza.

01:08:19 It's about avoiding the anxiety of helping the children in the social circle and familial

01:08:29 circle that you have.

01:08:31 Right?

01:08:32 So, I mean, again, and I sympathize with that.

01:08:35 But just be honest, right?

01:08:36 Let's not pretend that it's anything to do with Gaza, right?

01:08:39 Nothing to do with Gaza.

01:08:41 Unless you've fixed all the parenting between here and Gaza, and that's just the next thing.

01:08:47 Between here and Gaza, I've improved all the parenting to the point where everyone's a

01:08:50 peaceful parent.

01:08:51 Gaza's the next thing, except you haven't.

01:08:53 So let's not pretend, right?

01:08:58 I heard your show on self-abuse and liked your thought that one cannot self-abuse.

01:09:02 Earlier in the show, at the 20-minute mark, you used the term self-abuse to describe someone

01:09:06 verbally bashing themselves.

01:09:07 I assumed that you were using it in a colloquial way.

01:09:09 Yeah, yeah, for sure.

01:09:10 Yeah, I mean, I can use...

01:09:12 It certainly is harming yourself.

01:09:14 So it is harm to yourself to internalize an abusive parent, but self-abuse is not you

01:09:19 abusing yourself.

01:09:21 It's you appeasing an external abuser by punching yourself.

01:09:25 Right?

01:09:26 So if you have a verbally abusive parent, but you attack yourself first, their attack

01:09:31 will probably be lessened.

01:09:32 But self-abuse is not you deciding to attack yourself out of nowhere, right?

01:09:45 I was asking about Bitcoin because we know that incentives explain behavior.

01:09:48 No, it doesn't explain behavior.

01:09:52 People respond to incentives.

01:09:53 It doesn't explain behavior.

01:09:58 So power-addicted politicians who approve Bitcoin doesn't align with their usual actions.

01:10:03 I can see an argument that they realize they also need a lifeboat.

01:10:08 Why would the rich people want to go from the Titanic to a lifeboat?

01:10:14 That's less comfortable or whatever, right?

01:10:16 It's like, well, because it's sinking.

01:10:18 The Titanic is sinking.

01:10:21 All right.

01:10:28 Trichotillomania.

01:10:29 What is the cause of trichotillomania?

01:10:31 I mean, I don't know, but I did a show, maybe if somebody remembers it, I did a show recently

01:10:39 the last couple of months with a woman whose daughter was suffering from trichotillomania.

01:10:45 And we came to some pretty interesting observations about that.

01:10:49 So you can look that up.

01:10:52 I don't know if it's in the keywords, but if anyone remembers the show, it was with

01:10:54 a mom whose daughter was pulling all her hair out and we did get to some useful stuff.

01:10:59 Yeah.

01:11:00 So the term self-abuse is the self and abuse.

01:11:03 There's no one else in that equation, right?

01:11:07 Like you ever have this, you had an older brother who was kind of a douche.

01:11:12 You probably had this.

01:11:13 Your older brother grabs your hand, makes you hit yourself and says, "Why are you hitting

01:11:16 yourself?"

01:11:17 Right?

01:11:19 That's the encapsulation, right?

01:11:23 People's behavior is often incomprehensible until we understand the aggression they're

01:11:31 subjected to.

01:11:33 I physically hurt myself a lot to stop getting screamed at.

01:11:36 I'm sorry about that.

01:11:37 So it's not self-abuse.

01:11:39 So you say self-abuse, there's abuse and then there's the self.

01:11:42 There's just one person and there's abuse, but that's not how it is.

01:11:45 How it is, is you abuse yourself to appease an external abuser, right?

01:11:55 It's like saying, "Why does somebody just keep walking in the same 10 square circle?"

01:11:58 Right?

01:11:59 Well, if they're in the middle of a field, it doesn't make any sense.

01:12:03 If they're in a prison cell, it does, right?

01:12:05 My teenage daughter is attacking herself.

01:12:07 Thank you so much, James.

01:12:09 That's Free Domain show 5400.

01:12:12 Boy, that's some shows.

01:12:15 5400 and 10 books and 3 documentaries and StephBot.ai and Peaceful Parenting book.

01:12:26 Beauty attracts abusers, if I remember the show, leading to hair pulling to repel abusers.

01:12:31 No, it wasn't that so much.

01:12:35 Beauty does not attract abusers.

01:12:38 Dysfunction attracts abusers and self-attack attracts abusers because that's the problem,

01:12:42 right?

01:12:43 You have to survive being externally attacked as a child and what happens?

01:12:47 Well, as you know, what happens is you end up attracting more abusers who get off on

01:12:53 you doing all of that.

01:12:56 Thank you for the tick.

01:12:57 Dada moose.

01:12:58 Can you do the Fandango?

01:13:01 I am reading the Rumble comments.

01:13:06 All right.

01:13:12 Is Klaus Schwab left or right?

01:13:14 I know you don't do politics per se, but could you make an exception in Klaus Schwab's case?

01:13:18 He is not important.

01:13:19 The people attending Web Forum and Bilderberg are.

01:13:25 Without monetary freedom, there is no freedom.

01:13:31 So it doesn't really matter to me what happens with politics.

01:13:37 What matters to me now is what happens with Bitcoin.

01:13:43 What happens with Bitcoin?

01:13:50 Can you imagine how black pill the world would be without Bitcoin?

01:13:55 It's not a pretty thought.

01:13:57 It's not a very pretty thought.

01:14:00 I think, thank you, Mobius, for the tip.

01:14:04 I think your choice to get out of politics has been great and honestly your content has

01:14:07 been better for it.

01:14:08 I'd still think you should do some truth drive-bys occasionally on Twitter until you get that

01:14:12 account banned again.

01:14:14 Why?

01:14:16 I'm certainly happy to hear the case, but why?

01:14:21 Why would I put myself at risk to circle back to people who can't go one website over?

01:14:29 I mean, this is a genuine question that I have.

01:14:32 I'm absolutely willing to take risks for people I care about, no question.

01:14:43 When I was de-platformed, my website remained the same.

01:14:48 I just went one website over, like in terms of where you could get my videos, where you

01:14:52 could get my forum, and all of that.

01:14:57 Everybody knows this, right?

01:14:58 So I got de-platformed, then it was in a series, a succession of things, everyone could see

01:15:01 it coming, and when I first started getting de-platformed, what did I say?

01:15:05 I said, "Well, you can find me on this platform, this platform, particularly the decentralized

01:15:08 platforms," I said, "You can find me here, here, here, freedomain.com, you can still

01:15:13 go."

01:15:14 And so I told people, "The jaws are closing, the net is closing, the de-spawning is going

01:15:23 to happen, but I'll be right there.

01:15:27 I'll be right there."

01:15:30 Everybody knows where to find me.

01:15:32 I'm easy to find.

01:15:33 Easy to find.

01:15:38 Easy to find.

01:15:43 Everybody who wants to be here is here.

01:15:52 And most people didn't care about what I'm doing enough to go one website over.

01:16:03 Honestly, it's crazy.

01:16:05 It'd be like, I mean, philosophy is the greatest thing, and this is the greatest show.

01:16:11 I absolutely believe that.

01:16:14 I am always striving to improve, always striving to get better.

01:16:18 But reality, philosophy is the greatest thing, and this is the greatest show.

01:16:21 It's the greatest conversation in the history of the world, the greatest conversation there

01:16:24 ever will be in the history of the world.

01:16:27 That is my, and whether you believe it or not, that's my goal, that's my intention,

01:16:31 that's my plan, that's my execution.

01:16:34 Hopefully not that way.

01:16:39 So it'd be like if I said, "The woman of my dreams lives right across the street."

01:16:51 I walk over, I serenade to her, I throw rose petals through her letterbox, I draw hearts

01:16:57 and dioramas and love scenes on the sidewalk.

01:17:02 I call out in barbaric yorps my love for her virtue and heinie, and I wake up every morning,

01:17:12 throw wide my blinds and cast my eyes across my beloved right across the street.

01:17:20 She's what I live for.

01:17:22 She's the greatest woman ever.

01:17:24 I can't wait to make her my bride.

01:17:27 And then, and she sends back letters and poems and likes me too, and there's a real future

01:17:37 there, right?

01:17:38 But then what happens is, for reasons outside the scope of this story, she has to move one

01:17:44 house over.

01:17:46 She's evicted unjustly, unjustly evicted.

01:17:49 She has to move one house over.

01:17:52 And I wake up and I look at her, I throw wide my blinds, I look at her house, it's empty.

01:18:02 My heart sinks, my heart drops, I'm horrified and appalled.

01:18:09 And then I hear a voice, "Yo, hey, Steph, I'm right here, I'm right here."

01:18:13 And I look, she's one house over.

01:18:16 And I stare at her, a thousand-yard stare.

01:18:26 She moved one house over?

01:18:29 She's dead to me, man.

01:18:30 And then I close my grapes and I go on with my life.

01:18:34 That's life.

01:18:35 On my side of things, right?

01:18:37 On my side of things.

01:18:40 She moved one house over, she's dead to me.

01:18:42 Oh, Steph's on a different website, he's dead to me.

01:18:46 So I'm supposed to put literally my life on the line, right?

01:18:49 Bomb threats, death threats, I'm supposed to put my life on the line, but people can't

01:18:52 fucking bookmark a new website.

01:18:55 Beautiful, honestly, beautiful.

01:18:58 Because politics wasn't all that much fun.

01:19:01 I much prefer the novels, these live streams, deep philosophy, dream analysis, helping people

01:19:06 with call-ins.

01:19:07 That's what I like the most.

01:19:09 And people released me from any sense of obligation to help their asses as the political

01:19:16 bear traps close around their ankles, right?

01:19:20 Oh, thank you guys.

01:19:23 Can you imagine?

01:19:24 Or from the woman's standpoint, she's like, oh, this guy loves me.

01:19:27 He sends poems to me.

01:19:29 He serenades me.

01:19:30 But then when I move one house over, now I'm dead to him and he won't, like he won't take

01:19:36 three extra steps to see me?

01:19:39 Well, thank God I found out about that.

01:19:43 Thank God I found out how little I mean to people.

01:19:46 Can you imagine?

01:19:49 Making all of that sacrifice, taking on all that danger.

01:19:52 For people who you go one website over, it's like, oh yeah, whatever happened to that guy?

01:20:02 So you come over to me and you say, hey, you know that woman, she's the love of your life.

01:20:06 You're just talking about her all the time.

01:20:07 You think she's the greatest woman ever and you just want to live together and have kids

01:20:11 and oh my gosh, oh man, how's that going?

01:20:15 I'm like, I don't know.

01:20:17 I don't know what happened.

01:20:19 She just vanished.

01:20:22 What did she tell you?

01:20:23 She was, I mean, she's just one house over and she told you she was going to move one

01:20:26 house over.

01:20:27 She told you she was getting unjustly evicted and she's going to move one house over.

01:20:31 She's like right there.

01:20:32 It's like three extra steps.

01:20:33 And I'm like, yeah, I don't know what I mean.

01:20:38 And she moved when I didn't see her directly across my place.

01:20:41 Like when I opened the blinds in the morning and she's waving at me from some other house,

01:20:45 I'm just like, I don't see her in there.

01:20:47 She's dead to me.

01:20:48 And you're like, you're a little psycho, man.

01:20:51 Like you thought this woman was the greatest thing ever.

01:20:54 She moved one house over and now she's dead to you?

01:21:01 What?

01:21:03 Where's your love?

01:21:05 You know, philosophers, philosophers have been regularly murdered, burned to the stake,

01:21:13 driven into exile, poisoned, killed, harassed, bankrupted.

01:21:20 Throughout history, philosophers have put on, taken on enormous risks to benefit society

01:21:28 as a whole.

01:21:31 We don't ask for the moon.

01:21:33 I'm not asking you to shave your head and join me in the compound of fertile women.

01:21:40 I'm just one website over and people are like, well, you know, that's a lot, man.

01:21:47 That's me going with my mouse.

01:21:49 Oh man, I gotta like bookmark a whole new thing.

01:21:53 I gotta click that button and set up a notification on some new platform.

01:21:58 Oh my God.

01:22:00 I have to wait, I might even have to create a new account.

01:22:04 Oh my God.

01:22:08 It's like the wearying myth of Sisyphus rolling an endless rock uphill.

01:22:14 I gotta go three extra steps to get to the woman I love.

01:22:18 To hell with her, man.

01:22:20 It's way too much work.

01:22:21 Okay, so then you don't love her.

01:22:23 I go to the ends of the earth for the woman I love.

01:22:25 You won't take three extra steps.

01:22:26 Not you.

01:22:27 Obviously you guys are here, which is great.

01:22:28 It's just so you understand, right?

01:22:35 Beautiful.

01:22:40 Beautiful.

01:22:45 It's just so obvious when the cause was when you point these things out.

01:22:51 What the cause was when you point these things out, it went way back to early childhood and

01:22:55 even well into my adulthood.

01:22:56 Are you inspired by Alfred Adler at all?

01:22:58 I am not.

01:23:04 Politics really is boring nowadays.

01:23:07 I almost fell asleep watching the State of the Union yesterday.

01:23:09 Yeah, I mean, politics has largely gone beyond reason, so.

01:23:12 It's not a place for me anymore, right?

01:23:14 I'm a reason guy, I'm a debate guy, so.

01:23:18 That's not a place for me anymore.

01:23:20 No thanks.

01:23:21 And it's funny because, you know, I would still see occasionally that, "Oh yeah, that

01:23:31 Molyneux guy, is he still around?

01:23:33 Is he still producing content?

01:23:35 Wow, I completely forgot about that guy."

01:23:40 Oh, beautiful.

01:23:42 The service that these indifferent, distracted people gave me can never be, I almost feel

01:23:50 like I can never repay the people who fumbled the bookmark.

01:23:58 You put your life at risk.

01:23:59 I'm not going to bookmark some new place.

01:24:04 I mean, come on.

01:24:06 You can only ask so much from me.

01:24:08 I might have to create a new account somewhere.

01:24:11 It's going to take me about 30 seconds.

01:24:15 Oh my gosh.

01:24:16 Beautiful.

01:24:17 Beautiful.

01:24:18 Less than 5% of people followed me to new platforms, right?

01:24:26 Fantastic.

01:24:27 So I'm putting my life on the line for people who can't be bothered to go to a new website.

01:24:36 You understand that's a little, let's just say, that's a tiny bit asymmetric, right?

01:24:42 Oh, that was me.

01:24:44 Sorry.

01:24:45 No, don't apologize.

01:24:46 I am thrilled.

01:24:49 I'm thrilled that that happened.

01:24:52 What was more fun?

01:24:55 Being regularly attacked and threatened or writing a beautiful book about the future

01:24:59 world that we could all aim to live in called My Novel Called The Future or My Novel Called

01:25:03 The Present.

01:25:05 What was more fun for me to do all of that stuff?

01:25:09 Bomb threats, death threats, you know, was it more fun to do that?

01:25:13 Or was it more fun to do this?

01:25:19 And you know, if people had followed me, I would have thought about it or whatever.

01:25:25 Right.

01:25:27 Just for your information, I listened to your podcast on your website for three years before

01:25:30 I signed up to Locals.

01:25:32 When you say signed up, I guess you mean to donate.

01:25:34 Wow.

01:25:35 Three years.

01:25:37 Three years before you donated.

01:25:38 It's a lot of labor you were consuming.

01:25:42 It's a lot of blood, sweat and tears you were consuming.

01:25:46 Well, I'm sure you tip the barista at Starbucks.

01:25:51 So that's important because they're delivering you cream and caffeine and ill health.

01:25:57 But I'm glad you're here.

01:25:58 So yes, it is.

01:26:02 It is fantastic because the girl who thinks that I'm obsessed with her and will do anything

01:26:06 for her and then she moves one house over and I completely ignore her, those people,

01:26:12 those people, I mean, she's liberated from imagining that we have a future, right?

01:26:20 I don't drink Starbucks.

01:26:22 You also don't take analogies, apparently.

01:26:24 All right.

01:26:25 I remember you talking to a guy who would go and binge eat like he was possessed.

01:26:29 I had a similar experience with my wife when she was picking at her fingers.

01:26:33 She can pick them raw.

01:26:34 I asked her why she was picking and she responded that she was just rubbing a dry spot day after

01:26:38 I asked again and she was very apologetic and said she didn't even realize that she

01:26:41 told me that excuse.

01:26:43 How do you find the possessor?

01:26:45 I don't understand that question.

01:26:48 Sorry.

01:26:51 I think the first time I donated was in response to one of those special request emails reminding

01:26:54 me of the importance of the show.

01:26:57 Really?

01:27:00 I mean, again, I appreciate the support and I say this out of care for your soul, not

01:27:04 my income, but do you not get the value of not having commercials or commercial breaks

01:27:15 or sponsors or things like that?

01:27:17 Do you not?

01:27:18 That was like 12 years ago.

01:27:20 Yeah.

01:27:21 I mean, maybe you hadn't been listening for long, but I mean, you know that there's a

01:27:25 lot of podcasts where it's like 10, 15, 20% of it is ads, right?

01:27:33 So let's say, let's say you listen to 100 shows of two hours each, right?

01:27:38 We got 200 hours.

01:27:40 Let's say I did 15%, right?

01:27:44 200 times .15.

01:27:48 So that's 30 hours, right?

01:27:51 That's 30 hours.

01:27:55 I saved you 30 hours of ad time.

01:27:58 100 shows, two hours each, 15% of the shows are ads.

01:28:06 Let's say it's only 10%.

01:28:07 I still, I saved you 20 hours of ads.

01:28:10 What's that worth to you?

01:28:11 It's just 100 shows.

01:28:13 What is it worth to you to have 20 hours of ads, not interrupting some deep and powerful

01:28:18 expose and unraveling of the human soul?

01:28:21 To not have.

01:28:23 Hey, you know, it'd be great if you could buy X, Y, and Z, but now a word from our sponsor.

01:28:30 And I listen, I really, really appreciate the support.

01:28:32 I really, really appreciate the support.

01:28:34 So I'm not trying to diminish that at all.

01:28:36 I'm just saying for those of you as a whole, if I put ads in boy, boy, if I put ads in

01:28:46 people will be like, Oh God, this is unbearable.

01:28:49 And it would be, and there's nothing wrong with ads.

01:28:51 It's a fine business model.

01:28:52 It's just not suitable for this.

01:28:58 And thank you.

01:28:59 My guardian angel for your support.

01:29:01 It really does mean the world to me.

01:29:02 And I really do appreciate that.

01:29:05 But I'm, and this is really just an object lesson for others, not for you, which is like,

01:29:09 you're getting all of this without ads.

01:29:11 So if you're not paying, like I'm saving you dozens and maybe even hundreds of hours of

01:29:16 your life, right?

01:29:18 What's that worth?

01:29:20 I don't like sitting through ads.

01:29:26 Are you concerned that people listen to you because they want to be triggered as a form

01:29:30 of self attacking caused by a verbally abusive childhood?

01:29:34 Sorry for the multiple questions in a row.

01:29:38 Isn't that just concern trolling?

01:29:40 Are you concerned?

01:29:41 Like I just, I don't know what you mean.

01:29:42 I can, I tell the truth as, as, as honestly as I can, as directly as I can, as entertainingly

01:29:48 and engagingly as I can in as comprehensible a fashion as I can, I tell the truth.

01:29:55 But, but how, but, but some people might not be consuming you in good faith.

01:29:59 It's like, I can't control that.

01:30:01 I can control the degree of commitment I have to telling the truth.

01:30:08 After that, it's out of my hands.

01:30:12 So what you're trying to do is you're trying to get me to jump outside of my body and condition

01:30:16 my commitment to the truth based on how people might or might not be consuming my material.

01:30:24 I don't know.

01:30:25 Maybe people have a vague fetish for vague British noises and are whacking off to my

01:30:29 podcast.

01:30:30 I can't control that.

01:30:31 I can control not being as sexually suggestive as possible with the head that I have.

01:30:37 That's about it.

01:30:38 I can keep my shirt on.

01:30:41 So am I concerned how people react to me telling the truth?

01:30:46 I don't know what that would mean.

01:30:48 Are you saying that because people might react in a way that I don't expect, I should not

01:30:52 tell the truth?

01:30:53 I should lie?

01:30:56 I'm not sure.

01:30:57 Again, I don't.

01:30:59 Can my human body ever be abusive to me from a body defect?

01:31:02 I don't know what that means.

01:31:05 I wonder why people say curiosity killed the cat.

01:31:09 Oh, because they have a bad conscience and they don't want to be asked questions.

01:31:14 That's why.

01:31:17 And I always heard the response, curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought him

01:31:21 back.

01:31:22 I found Freedom Inn on YouTube back in the day.

01:31:29 I never understand why Peterson and some other podcasters who I don't listen to anyways do

01:31:33 constant ads.

01:31:34 What do you mean you don't understand?

01:31:37 Because they have enough money.

01:31:39 Oh, so according to your theory, because Elon Musk has a lot of money, you can steal a Tesla?

01:31:51 Is that the theory?

01:31:57 You can steal from people who are wealthy because they have enough money?

01:32:00 So you're like a socialist?

01:32:07 And so, okay, what always gets me is Peter Schiff taking a break from trash-talking Bitcoin

01:32:11 and praising gold to having an ad for his own gold company.

01:32:15 You saved my life, Steph.

01:32:16 When I started listening, I was in need of an example of honesty and logical arguments.

01:32:19 You provided that to me.

01:32:20 Thank you.

01:32:21 Thank you again.

01:32:22 Once again, thank you for your wonderfully kind support.

01:32:26 Hey, keep shilling the donations.

01:32:30 I hate that word, shilling.

01:32:32 I know you're, because it sounds like, it's one of these mnemonic words that sounds like

01:32:36 a shrill.

01:32:37 Shilling the donations.

01:32:38 I'm asking for a reasonable exchange of value.

01:32:42 I'm not shilling the donations.

01:32:44 See, I'm just asking for a reasonable exchange of value.

01:32:47 I'm saving you countless hours of your life by not having ads.

01:32:50 I'm also enhancing the philosophy you can consume because ads would be interrupting

01:32:53 the flow of the argument.

01:32:55 And can you imagine someone's weeping about their child abuse and then in comes an ad

01:32:58 for a VPN company that goes on for a minute or two?

01:33:01 And then you come back and you know, you've lost the thread and what was going on and

01:33:04 right this keeps it constant.

01:33:06 All right.

01:33:09 So it's not shilling.

01:33:12 It took me a very long time to move to sign up.

01:33:14 I don't pay anything as far as Netflix or streaming.

01:33:16 You're the first person I've ever donated to online.

01:33:18 Well, thank you.

01:33:19 I appreciate that.

01:33:21 My first introduction was the story of your enslavement.

01:33:23 Yeah.

01:33:24 And of course they had to make that.

01:33:25 Well, first of all, they made that adults only so it couldn't be shown up in suggestions

01:33:29 because it was too effective and then they just banned the whole channel.

01:33:35 Been watching videos of a Christian fellow doing street debates with Muslims in the UK

01:33:38 so annoying when the ads destroy the flow of the video.

01:33:40 Yeah, it's terrible.

01:33:41 I mean, honestly, can you imagine Socrates in the middle of examining the nature of the

01:33:48 soul or the properties of love or the fundamentals of justice?

01:33:52 Whoa, hang on.

01:33:53 There's a great falafel place that I just need to pitch for for a second here.

01:33:57 They got the best falafels, the chickpeas are fried to perfection.

01:34:00 The pita wraps are incredible.

01:34:02 The sauce is divine.

01:34:04 You know, it keeps my little tum tum going and allows me to fuel for a lot.

01:34:07 He just went on and on like that for a minute or two.

01:34:09 And it's like, OK, so let's get back to the nature of truth and justice.

01:34:12 Again, nothing wrong with ads as a whole, but not here, not here, not here.

01:34:21 Honestly, it would be like for me, it would be like being in the middle of a in the middle

01:34:25 of an orchestral piece.

01:34:26 They ask everyone to pause right, right in the middle of Mozart's Requiem that everyone

01:34:30 pause.

01:34:32 We got to sell some linoleum here.

01:34:40 Is the principle of non-initiation force fundamental to your moral framework?

01:34:44 Assuming it is, how do you integrate the concept of nature initiating force on humanity into

01:34:48 your theory?

01:34:50 So I think this is the fourth or fifth really big, deep and important question that you've

01:34:55 asked.

01:34:56 I appreciate the five bucks, but I think I've already earned it.

01:34:59 All right.

01:35:00 Let's see here.

01:35:01 Peter Sin wasn't a good example.

01:35:10 I really was thinking of Huberman.

01:35:12 Huberman, the whole podcast is about health, but he has tons of ads for supplements.

01:35:19 I don't know who Huberman is, but I will accept that.

01:35:25 I think the ads have a brainwashing effect because they overtake the attention you volunteered.

01:35:30 Yeah.

01:35:31 Well, imagine also I'm in some big debate or something and a lot of the call-in shows

01:35:34 are debates with missing parents.

01:35:37 Thank you for the tip, High Watch locals.

01:35:41 I got introduced to you around the time of the Kathy Newman Jordan Peterson interview

01:35:45 and somehow you got mixed into the algorithm mix at that time.

01:35:48 Speaking of that, I'd love to see you be interviewed by Kathy Newman.

01:35:50 I'd bring popcorn and a giant big gulp of root beer to see that.

01:35:54 Oh, that's funny.

01:35:55 I don't know if she learned that much.

01:35:59 But again, I've learned some stuff from Jordan Peterson.

01:36:04 I've no hate for the man, but man, he is obscure at times.

01:36:10 Man he is obscure at times.

01:36:14 We who wrestle with God.

01:36:19 I don't know.

01:36:20 It's just, I did store a bookmark.

01:36:22 I'd be really surprised if I could find it now because you can't search your own bookmarks

01:36:26 on X.

01:36:28 But I did store something that Jordan Peterson said and it's like he wrote and it's like

01:36:34 I read it like five times.

01:36:35 I don't know what he's saying.

01:36:39 Sam Harris blathering on about a lack of free will while blaming Trump for tsunamis in the

01:36:44 Middle Ages.

01:36:45 Pretty funny.

01:36:46 All right.

01:36:52 Yeah, what was that?

01:36:59 That was a guy who was on Joe Rogan.

01:37:03 Last month Joe, this is from Keith Woods.

01:37:05 Last month Joe Rogan had a prison reform activist, Sheldon Johnson, on to discuss the unfairness

01:37:09 of the US justice system.

01:37:11 And the guy was just recently found with, Johnson was just out after serving a 25 year

01:37:22 jail sentence.

01:37:23 He explained how unfair it was that he was sent to prison for as long as he was and Joe

01:37:25 Rogan agreed that Johnson's story reflects a huge problem of racism in the justice system.

01:37:29 Today Johnson was arrested after police found a severed head and a limbless torso in his

01:37:33 apartment.

01:37:35 The victim's neighbors reported hearing, "Please don't, I have a family," before

01:37:38 hearing two gunshots.

01:37:40 The police found the victim's decapitated head in Johnson's freezer and the limbless

01:37:44 torso in a blue bin in his apartment.

01:37:46 Maybe the problem here isn't systemic racism.

01:37:53 So I wonder if that one's going to stay up because my Jordan Peterson, sorry, my Joe

01:37:58 Rogan shows were all taken off, right?

01:38:00 What was it I saw Snoop Dogg was saying that he got a billion views on Spotify and they

01:38:04 paid him $45,000 for that?

01:38:07 For a billion, not a million, a billion views.

01:38:10 A billion views.

01:38:14 Also there's a study that came out not too long ago that adolescents, especially female

01:38:19 adolescents are happier in poorer nations than wealthier nations.

01:38:22 Isn't that interesting?

01:38:26 I think that's very, very interesting for reasons that are fascinating and deep and

01:38:30 maybe we'll get into them some other time.

01:38:33 All right, let me see if there was, I don't think I'd be able to find this.

01:38:41 Yeah, I'm probably going to, probably going to not, probably not going to find it, but

01:38:48 I'll see if I can dig it up for the next show.

01:38:50 Steph ever listened to Owen Benjamin?

01:38:52 I did a show with him some years ago and we were together in a night for freedom, I think

01:38:55 in 2018, something like that.

01:39:00 Fox Day wrote a book criticizing Peterson for his baffled garble called Jordanetics.

01:39:04 Yes, I read some of that.

01:39:11 All right.

01:39:12 Sorry if you're an enslavement and greatest gift in the universe for the first videos

01:39:18 I watched of yours.

01:39:19 Oh, nice.

01:39:20 I don't listen to Owen Benjamin.

01:39:23 Honestly, I have very little time to consume other people's content.

01:39:26 Just kind of busy.

01:39:28 Agreed, you earned it already, but no answer to my question.

01:39:31 I asked because I'm curious as to how the nature of reality and the facts that one needing

01:39:35 to feed and shelter oneself acts as a coercive force in an ideal free market world.

01:39:41 Sorry?

01:39:43 So you say I've already provided enough value, but then you ask for more value.

01:39:47 I don't understand.

01:39:49 I don't quite understand.

01:39:51 Animals are not covered by the non-aggression principle because it's a moral, it's a moral

01:39:55 principle, right?

01:39:56 It's a moral principle and creatures have to have the ability.

01:40:00 If you'd listened, I don't know if you were here from the beginning, but earlier I talked

01:40:02 about an adult with the brain of a one-year-old baby and this person would not be able to

01:40:09 process morality because they would not have the conceptual ability to compare proposed

01:40:13 actions to ideal standards and therefore morality would not apply to him, neither would liberty.

01:40:20 So animals are not covered by philosophy and morality because animals cannot compare proposed

01:40:27 actions to ideal standards and therefore they are not capable of moral reasoning.

01:40:31 So they don't have language, they don't have morality, they don't have any of that.

01:40:35 So it doesn't mean we can treat animals wantonly cruelly, of course, but yeah.

01:40:41 If you receive value, return value.

01:40:42 I donate to local churches and food banks because they help the local community and

01:40:46 I've utilized their services before.

01:40:48 I've donated to the Calm Parenting Podcast because they help put peaceful parenting into

01:40:51 practice.

01:40:52 I donate to Steph because he saved my soul, my soul, my marriage, and my five kids.

01:40:56 The value of your wisdom is absolutely immeasurable.

01:40:58 It will literally last forever.

01:41:00 Thank you.

01:41:01 I really, really appreciate that.

01:41:02 That's very, very kind.

01:41:03 And it really does mean the world to me that what we're doing here, because this is a collective

01:41:08 show, the live streams, what we're doing here is doing such good in the world and I'm very

01:41:11 humbled and immensely appreciative of what you're saying.

01:41:16 So thank you.

01:41:17 Yeah.

01:41:18 I mean, honestly, this is the greatest thing in the world.

01:41:20 If there was a greater thing in the world, I'd be doing that.

01:41:23 I mean, if it was somebody else was doing a better show, I'd be doing that.

01:41:26 So for me, this is the greatest thing in the world.

01:41:28 And I really, I do appreciate your support in, in, in this way.

01:41:33 It's great.

01:41:35 All right.

01:41:36 I think, um, now listen, if, if you don't have a lot of money, uh, you don't, you don't

01:41:44 have to donate.

01:41:45 Right.

01:41:46 You don't, you don't have to donate.

01:41:47 You can donate by spreading the show around.

01:41:50 If that's too controversial, I understand this, you know, a smidge or two of controversy,

01:41:56 you could just spread the ideas and just spread the ideas.

01:41:59 Just push back.

01:42:00 When people say there's no such thing as truth or no such thing as reason or no such thing

01:42:03 as objectivity, just, just push, use the arguments for my show.

01:42:06 Don't reference me.

01:42:07 That's totally fine.

01:42:08 Just do something to promote philosophy in the world.

01:42:11 That's all.

01:42:12 That's all I'm asking.

01:42:13 Right.

01:42:14 If you don't have a lot of money, that's totally fine.

01:42:17 Please don't donate if you're broke.

01:42:18 Please don't donate if you're broke, but you can do a lot to spread philosophy in the world.

01:42:25 I hope the peaceful parenting book will feature heaps of practical advice and scenarios too.

01:42:29 Uh, yeah, it has, um, pretend dialogues in it as well, but I also put in philis and in,

01:42:35 um, essential philosophy, essential philosophy.com.

01:42:41 Just wait, I'm working hard.

01:42:43 That's fantastic.

01:42:44 Yeah, that's great.

01:42:45 Yeah.

01:42:46 It is not at all required that it's monetary at all.

01:42:48 Right.

01:42:49 Just, just so you understand, right.

01:42:50 If you, if you don't have much money, that's totally fine.

01:42:53 Enjoy the show.

01:42:55 If you are not in a position where you can spread philosophy and you don't have a lot

01:42:58 of money, don't donate, enjoy the show, feel nothing bad, but just make the commitment

01:43:02 I would advise or ask at some point, uh, at some point, uh, do something to promote philosophy.

01:43:10 Uh, Dave says, also perhaps try and stop a parent abusing their child in public.

01:43:19 Should I be upset with myself and not intervening?

01:43:21 You got to trust your gut on that one.

01:43:22 And I don't know the answer to that one.

01:43:24 There are times when I've intervened, there's times when I haven't, because you don't want

01:43:28 to intervene and then have the child get even more beaten.

01:43:31 But again, if the child gets more beaten, you, you, you look what you made, look what

01:43:35 you made someone do.

01:43:36 You were embarrassing me so much that the child could get, could get increasingly aggressed

01:43:40 against.

01:43:41 Uh, but then again, what is it worth for the child that someone stood up and said, what

01:43:45 your parent is doing is wrong?

01:43:47 I don't know.

01:43:48 I don't know.

01:43:49 Mobius says, currently I invest a little every week in silver brass and Mollen Newbux.

01:43:57 Mollen Newbux.

01:43:58 What was it?

01:43:59 Um, I had a, a, um, literature teacher who liked my writing and said, cause you have

01:44:04 a silent ex, we can't call it Mollen Newvy and we'd have to call your writing the quality

01:44:08 of your writing, Stephanesque.

01:44:10 I thought it was very cool.

01:44:11 Stephanesque, which is like Stephanesque choir.

01:44:15 I encountered that on Wednesday and didn't intervene.

01:44:17 Yeah.

01:44:18 It's, it's a tough call.

01:44:19 It's a tough call.

01:44:21 My gut is, is says something like, if I think that the parent has potential and they're

01:44:26 having a really bad day, then I will intervene.

01:44:28 If I think the parent is just chronically psycho, I may not.

01:44:32 So I really have to just trust my gut with that.

01:44:34 And I would suggest that you do the same, just trust your gut.

01:44:38 And there's an amazing amount of information that's down there in the unconscious and it's

01:44:43 really powerful stuff.

01:44:45 So, all right.

01:44:48 Any last questions, comments, issues, challenges, problems.

01:44:51 Don't give me your problems.

01:44:52 That's a great song.

01:44:56 He knows, you know, by Merillian.

01:45:00 I told a stranger mother to stop shouting at her child in a coffee shop and started

01:45:05 treating her child nicer.

01:45:08 I mean, the abusers don't end up happy having abused.

01:45:14 They don't end up as happy people.

01:45:16 I've now seen the big view of life, right?

01:45:18 I've seen the start, the beginning, the end, the Sigma, the Alpha, the Omega, the Zeta.

01:45:22 I've seen the whole arc of people's lives and child abusers end up absolutely miserable.

01:45:27 Why do you think Warren Buffett says Bitcoin is trash and he wouldn't pay $25 for all the

01:45:31 Bitcoin in the world?

01:45:32 What do you mean?

01:45:33 You asking me to read Warren Buffett's mind?

01:45:34 I don't know why the hell he would say such a thing.

01:45:38 I don't know about Warren Buffett, but I will say this.

01:45:40 This I will say.

01:45:42 This I will say.

01:45:46 The people who missed the Bitcoin train, you know, there's just doubling down, right?

01:45:52 People who missed the Bitcoin train.

01:45:53 What is he going to say?

01:45:55 Because Warren Buffett has the reputation, the Oracle of Omaha, right?

01:45:57 The reputation of being one of the greatest investors in the history of the planet.

01:46:01 He's going to lose that reputation if he's like, "Oh yeah, well now Bitcoin is $92,000

01:46:06 and it used to be like a penny and it's been the fastest wealth accumulation in all of

01:46:10 human history."

01:46:11 Totally missed it, right?

01:46:13 So because he's not invested in Bitcoin, again, I can't read his mind, but I can talk about

01:46:17 the cause and effect from an economic standpoint.

01:46:20 So anybody who's not invested in Bitcoin has an incentive to trash Bitcoin, right?

01:46:28 So not to talk about Warren Buffett, because I don't know the guy from Adam really, but

01:46:34 let's talk about a guy named Adam who runs a bunch of hedge funds and they haven't invested

01:46:38 in Bitcoin.

01:46:39 And they've said that Bitcoin is a scam, Bitcoin is, and they've been very confident about

01:46:43 it, very certain.

01:46:44 They haven't said, "You know, it's new technology.

01:46:45 I'm kind of an old fart.

01:46:46 I'm old school.

01:46:47 I don't really get it and I don't have enough young people working for me to understand

01:46:51 it.

01:46:52 So I'm not really going to talk about it because I don't know much about it."

01:46:57 Is it too late to invest in Bitcoin?

01:46:59 Joe, don't ask anyone that question.

01:47:03 Don't ask anyone that question.

01:47:05 You have to make your own decisions in these matters.

01:47:07 You have to make your own decisions in these matters.

01:47:11 So yeah, so there's some guy, he's got a bunch of his clients, his wealthy clients, they're

01:47:17 all invested in stuff that isn't Bitcoin.

01:47:20 Let's say Bitcoin goes to the moon.

01:47:22 You know, I've said this for like, I don't know, forever and ever, amen, that, you know,

01:47:28 I've got in my mind, that's not advice, it's just my own particular thoughts.

01:47:32 Don't do anything based upon what I'm saying, because it's just pulled out of my ass.

01:47:35 But I've always said, you know, I view 750K of Bitcoin as a reasonable thing.

01:47:45 But if you've missed the boat on Bitcoin, let's say Bitcoin does turn out to be a massive

01:47:50 store of value and one of the greatest, the greatest asset ever to be invented by human

01:47:55 beings, because gold wasn't invented but discovered, the greatest asset ever invented by human

01:47:58 beings, what are you going to say to your clients if you're wrong?

01:48:03 Are you going to say, "Now I was totally wrong about Bitcoin, and now that it's, you know,

01:48:07 gone up a zillion fold, they were right and I was wrong."

01:48:11 What are you going to do?

01:48:12 What are you going to say?

01:48:14 So you've warned people away from Bitcoin for 15 years, you've warned people away from

01:48:22 Bitcoin, "It's a scam, it's a nothing, it's a this, it's that," and the evidence keeps

01:48:25 accumulating to the opposite, right?

01:48:26 Keeps gaining in value, there's ETFs, there's reasonable investors, there's intelligent

01:48:30 people doing it, you can buy stuff directly with it, there's the lightning network, the

01:48:33 whole infrastructure's being built up around it, and in the meantime, fiat is the Titanic

01:48:37 sliding off a cliff on the back of the fucking Hindenburg.

01:48:40 And what are you going to do?

01:48:44 Are you going to say, "Yeah, no, sorry, I ended up, I'm not talking about Warren Buffett

01:48:51 because I don't know the guy, but you know, some guy."

01:48:53 What's he going to do?

01:48:54 Is he going to say, "Oh, yeah, it turned out I really didn't understand Bitcoin, I just

01:48:58 trashed it because I wanted to sell you my mutual funds.

01:49:01 Yeah, I just, you know, I didn't really get it, I didn't really understand it, and other

01:49:07 people, and I wanted to sell you what I knew, I didn't want to learn about stuff I didn't

01:49:12 really understand.

01:49:13 That's a lot of work, man, I just want to sell you what I know."

01:49:15 Steph, do you have some show where you made the case for the 750k Bitcoin?

01:49:28 No, because I said it's out of my ass.

01:49:30 It's not a real number, it's purely theoretical based upon a wild ayahuasca-fueled fever dream.

01:49:37 So I mean, I've gone through scenarios in the show where other people have calculated

01:49:41 how you get to a million dollars of Bitcoin, and it's not actually that hard at all.

01:49:47 It's not that hard.

01:49:51 So I don't really follow other cryptos.

01:49:57 I don't really follow other cryptos.

01:50:03 You need a store of value that's recognized as value, and that's Bitcoin at the moment,

01:50:07 for the most part.

01:50:09 And you also need something that's been stress-tested and has real-world applications, and that

01:50:13 is Bitcoin.

01:50:16 So there is a great deal of value in being the first through the gate.

01:50:20 It's like, you know, you build the train tracks, everything has to have that gate, right?

01:50:29 Sorry, people are typing, so I just want to make sure if there are any last questions

01:50:35 or comments or issues.

01:50:36 Thank you guys so much for dropping by tonight.

01:50:37 What a great deal of pleasure it is.

01:50:42 Let's see here, I just want to make sure.

01:50:44 Sorry, oh, the phone died.

01:50:47 Love you to death.

01:50:48 I forgot what my response was going to be, but it was a great response.

01:50:52 Let's see here.

01:50:54 Jordan Peterson cries too often to be taken seriously.

01:51:02 I will do my best to not get addicted to drugs.

01:51:05 What do you think?

01:51:06 Reasonable hope and goal.

01:51:13 All right.

01:51:14 Well, thank you so much for dropping by tonight.

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