STOP WHINING!

Name: STOP WHINING!
Uploaded: 2025-03-05T16:05:07+00:00
Duration: 31 min 26 s
Channel: Stefan Molyneux

00:00You! Hello, hello, Stephen Molyneux from Freedomain. Great questions from the glorious Heaven Sent

00:07listeners at freedomain.com, freedomain.local.com, great community. Somebody says, why are we

00:13here? Why are we here? Well, we are here to promote virtue and to hinder and oppose evil.

00:23We are here to do good and battle evil, because that's the one thing we can do that no other

00:31creature can do in this mortal land. So that's why we are here. Somebody says, I missed the

00:37highest possible calling in my life. It felt like a destiny. My subconscious tried to tell

00:43me using terror, feelings of impending doom, inspiration and synchronicity, old memories,

00:48and I failed to listen. Help! Help! All right. Stop whining. A missed opportunity is an opportunity

00:58to make an opportunity. Let me say this again. A missed opportunity is an opportunity to

01:05make an opportunity, right? So if there's some girl and you chicken out asking her out,

01:13then you go and ask some girl out that you otherwise wouldn't have asked out. If there's

01:19some job that you missed applying to or failed to apply to, go apply to a better job or make

01:26your own job. Missed opportunities I have no patience for. All of life is a missed opportunity.

01:33You can't escape that, the opportunity curse, right? I'm currently doing this show and I'm

01:38not learning how to do the tango or learn kanji or back flips. So everybody misses every

01:47opportunity all the time. You know, when I was a new parent, I spent 10 years not writing

01:52books because I wanted to parent, right? Good stuff. So I had my parenting. I didn't have

01:57my books, right? Oh no, I missed all these opportunities to write books. Man, life is

02:03missed opportunities. Everything you choose to do is everything you didn't do. I chose to study

02:11philosophy rather than learn guitar. I got a guitar. I started to learn guitar, but I decided

02:19philosophy was better. Why? Because the world does not need another guitarist. The world is

02:25in rather desperate need of good philosophy. So all of life is missed opportunities. You are not

02:32lamenting a missed opportunity. You're giving yourself a godforsaken excuse. Oh, I missed my

02:39opportunity. Oh, I am so full of woe and regret. I am like an over clogged with syrup pancake of

02:48sorrow. Ah, shut up. Stop being so dramatic. Calm down. Yeah, you missed an opportunity. Guess what?

02:57That's life. We're always missing opportunities. And if you miss an opportunity, what you do is

03:02you say, hey, I missed that opportunity. I mean, the big thing in life is how to turn something

03:07negative into a positive. Negative shit's going to be flying at you all the time like cannon

03:12propelled trebuchet flying monkeys of vampiric doom. You are going to have constantly negative

03:17shit flying at you. How do you judo that negative shit into great stuff? How do you do it? How do

03:23you do it? That's the big challenge. You can't control all the negative stuff that happens to

03:27you, but you can control what you do with it, right? So, I don't know, 13 years ago, 12 years

03:34ago, whatever the hell it was, I got me some tasty little cancer. Yes, I did. Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

03:42That's some tasty stuff. Now, I managed to not die. Always a plus. And I resolved to exercise

03:50even harder. You know, death, you come at the king, you better not miss or I will fuck you up.

03:56So, I decided, hey, I'm going to lose weight. Hey, I'm going to exercise like crazy. I'm going to

04:01eat well. So, what was going to kill me has actually made me much, much healthier, right?

04:09That which does not kill you makes you stronger if you make it happen. It doesn't happen on its

04:14own. It's not like aging or gravity or being slightly off-key at karaoke. It's not an automatic

04:21thing. So, you don't miss the highest possible calling in your life. You make the highest

04:28possible calling in your life. You missed an opportunity? Great. Make an opportunity so that

04:33your life ends up better than if you had taken that opportunity. You didn't ask some girl out,

04:39she was really pretty. Oh, that's too bad. Well, go and ask a girl out who's a really great,

04:44wonderful and virtuous woman, great mother for your children, great companion for your life,

04:49so that you not asking out the pretty girl turns out with you having a virtuous loving wife

04:53way, way better. All right. What are your thoughts on the classical cynic school,

04:58pros and cons of that type of asceticism? So, the school of cynics, everyone lies,

05:04everyone's a hypocrite, all is vanity and the avoidance of the pursuit of status and material

05:11gains is the ideal. You know, there was one who lived in a giant jar, if I remember rightly.

05:19So, there's an entire school of philosophy where chicken shits claim that they're virtuous,

05:25where chicken shits claim that they're virtuous. So, you can choose not to enter into the battle

05:31of the arena of good and evil. And you know what? To actually do something in the arena of good and

05:37evil, oftentimes, it pays to not live in a jar, not bathe and look ridiculous. Right? A little

05:45bit of grooming, a little bit of money, a little bit of eloquence, learn a little bit of humor,

05:51and a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. A little bit of charm, a little bit of

05:57riz, I can say that because my daughter's not here, so I can dip in a brain rot because it

06:00make gifts or hives when I do. Make things a little easier, a little bit more pleasant

06:07for people to actually absorb values and virtues. So, if you say, well, I hate everyone, everyone's

06:15a lying, hypocritical, XYZ, so I'm going to live in a jar and not bathe and not earn any money and

06:23beg, you are giving people a massive easy excuse to dismiss philosophers as raving lunatics and

06:29pointless pet ants. Don't do that. Just be normal. I mean, I'm such a normie, it's ridiculous, right?

06:39Love my daughter, love my wife, you know, a reasonably productive business career and

06:43entrepreneur, and I'm just, I'm just so normal and natural. No body piercings, no tattoos,

06:49nothing like that, right? So, just be normal. Just be normal, be pleasant, and then people,

06:56like, don't give people an excuse to avoid learning philosophy, right? Oh, if you believe

07:04what I believe, you'll hate everyone, consider everyone a hypocrite, eschew all virtues, values,

07:09wealth, wife, children, and you'll live in a jar and won't bathe. Oh, and going to the dentist is

07:15vanity, too. Okay, excellent. So, you're only going to be able to sell philosophy to other

07:21masochistic, self-hating lunatics. Great job, everybody! All right, can you justify Jesus as a

07:27gatekeeper of the Jungian collective unconsciousness? Collective unconsciousness?

07:31Collective unconscious? I don't know what that means. Tell me more. All right, what's the proper

07:37balance of personal ambition, that is virtuous, and family life, including wage and homework for

07:43the family? Your primary job as a parent is to model the kind of life your children want. I was

07:55just talking about this with a friend of mine the other day. Your job as a parent is to model the

08:00kind of life that your children will grow up wanting. So, for instance, if you spend all of

08:06your time focusing on work and the kids, right, and you ignore your marriage, right, you let your

08:14marriage fall by the wayside, you don't spend much quality time with your husband, your wife, or

08:17whatever, you spend all your time focusing on work and the kids, or whatever, well, then the problem

08:22is that your kids grow up not wanting the marriage that you have. They grow up not wanting the

08:27marriage and the relationship that you have with your wife. That's double plus ungood, because

08:34then they have to invent their own story of what a marriage is, right? They have to invent their

08:40own stuff. So, if your kids grow up not wanting the marriage that you have, then it's like teach

08:48them English and then they have to move to Japan and never speak English again. In other words,

08:53they have to invent an entirely new relationship paradigm that they didn't grow up with. That's not

08:59easy, right? Life on hard mode is when you don't want what your parents have. So, live a life that

09:09is what your kids will grow up to want. Love your wife, have a productive and fulfilling career,

09:15work hard, work well. You are serving your children by going to work as a man, right? Because

09:21you are saying to your daughters you should have a man who's productive enough that the wife can

09:27stay home with the kids. And you're saying to your sons, go work hard for your family. And that

09:33is a beautiful thing, which it is. So, I don't see any particular opposition between work and family

09:43life. But anyway, how would Encapistan build Moreau's hashtag checkmate? That's very funny.

09:49How can therapy help you change that damn profile pic, bro? People are bothered by the oddest thing

09:56in this world. I mean, Steph's okay, but damn, son, that profile pic is driving me crazy.

10:04Well, it's good to have priorities in this world. There's endless cavalcades of bottomless evil

10:11and corruption to focus on. Or, hear me out, you can get really angry at my profile pic. Good,

10:18good priority. At times, it seems philosophical thought is a form of neuroticism. Neuroticism

10:25is built into nature. It's that part of a living organism that realizes if it doesn't engage in a

10:30consciousness that connects itself to survival followed by precise behavior. To assure that

10:35survival, it will perish. What? Okay, let me read that again. It's that part of a living organism

10:42that realizes if it doesn't engage in a consciousness that connects itself to

10:46survival followed by precise behavior. To assure that survival,

10:49it will perish. Yeah, I mean, I mean, you can come up with your own definitions and state them like

10:55they're somehow proven. Establish your premises, establish your definitions. So, are you saying

11:02that, I mean, what, ants engage in behavior to assure their survival? Does that mean ants are

11:07neurotic? Come on, man. Thoughts that goes beyond that. Oh, so it's that part of the, okay. Okay,

11:14so you're saying that that is not neurotic. Sorry, I get confused. That is not neurotic.

11:19So, you're saying thought that goes beyond that is mostly superfluous. But with exception, it

11:23leads to discovery and invention, some of which can become a means of exchange, this further assuring

11:28one's survival. Whether this thought leads to great truth or if it's ever in our scope to

11:33comprehend truth versus quote truths is yet to be seen. We all seem aware that we can argue.

11:39We all seem aware we can deduce more and believe despite the jarring solitude of our life-filled

11:44planet in a barren universe, everything is in our environment and minds to solve all our problems

11:49beyond the marvel of us existing in the first place. I'm sure AI will give us the tools to see

11:53ourselves and beyond ourselves. It seems our belief there is more is always proving quote itself.

12:00The next few decades will be profound in that regard. Well, that is a lovely bag of marmalade

12:06baffled gab. That is a creeping tsunami of spider-legged tumbleweeds to tickle the brain.

12:14I don't know what the living hell any of that adds up to. Okay, here's the thing. If you want

12:19to say something profound, fantastic. I think that's wonderful. So, you're saying, well,

12:25there's thought that is bare survival and more than that could be considered neurotic. However,

12:31more than just thinking about survival can sometimes produce good things.

12:35Yeah, that's deep, man. Whoa. So, overthinking can be bad or good. Thinking about more than

12:45bare survival can be neurotic, but it can also be good. You know, man, a knife can be used

12:55to defend yourself. It can be used to cut food or it can also be used to kill people, man.

13:01So, like a knife is morally ambiguous. That's so deep, man.

13:09You want to say something profound, you know, watch my 17-part introduction to philosophy series.

13:18You want to say something profound, start with the basics, what is real, what is true,

13:22what is good and go from there. But saying that stuff which is superfluous to life can be good

13:30or bad. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, that's such a commonplace, you know. You know, trees

13:37can be fun to climb. So, they can be just there for fun. Trees, you can cut them down and build

13:43a cabin. So, they're there for like utility and shelter, but also trees can just like

13:47fall on you and kill you. So, trees are like a big ambivalent who knows what, you know,

13:51it's really complicated. It's like, you're not saying anything deep. Start again, fail,

13:57start again, start from the basics, build from the bottom up. All right.

14:01Is it completely unreasonable if I keep falling or getting involved with women already in

14:05relationships? On my mind, it makes some sense that the most interesting and attractive women

14:09are quote taken. Why do people put these quotes in like I'm supposed to know what the ever-living

14:13fuck you're talking about? The last guy did this too. What did he say? It seems our belief

14:20there is more. It's always proving quote itself, end quote. Quotes don't explain shit, Jack.

14:28Quotes don't explain shit. I don't know what you mean when you put stuff in quotes.

14:33So, interesting and attractive women are quote taken. What does quote taken mean?

14:38Does that mean they're not taken or they are taken? Quotes do not help. Apparently,

14:43bored and unfaithful, but taken in the end. All right. Maybe after a certain age,

14:48people just cling to loveless relationships. Maybe when I turn 40, they will all be divorced

14:52and I will be like, pass. Turns out I just liked you better when you were just a fling.

14:56All right. If you keep falling or getting involved with women already in relationships,

15:02there's probably a couple of reasons for that. The first is that you prefer the yearning to

15:08the getting, right? You prefer the chase to the catch. Going after women already in relationships,

15:16I get it. If you're going after a single woman, it's 1v20. If you're going after a woman in a

15:20relationship, it's 1v1. Until there's a ring on the finger and the marriage is complete,

15:25to some degree, all's fair in love and war. But if they'll cheat with you, they'll cheat on you.

15:32So, my guess is that you don't really want to get involved in a romantic relationship. Otherwise,

15:38you'd choose women who were available. You just want to chase and pursue and all of that.

15:45So, you want to keep lower quality women in your environment. If you really want to know whether

15:50you deserve a good man or a good woman, you've got to think about how the scalding, laser Mike

15:56Saylor eyes are going to look at the people all around you. Let's say you're surrounded by

16:03the rough-hewn denizens of Trash Planet. Let's just say that around you is just a bunch of

16:09scurvy half-orcs in makeup. Kind of trashy, kind of lazy, kind of druggy, kind of wastrels,

16:15kind of losers. So, if you want a quality person in your life, you don't just have to be a quality

16:21person yourself. By God, that's just not enough. What you actually have to be or have to have

16:27is quality people in your life and in your environment. When I first went out with my

16:34wife, we went out with some old friends of mine, had an absolutely hilarious evening

16:38of jokes and humor and thought. She was like, dang, this guy's got some quality people around.

16:46That's nice, right? So, my guess is that you don't want to date quality people because,

16:55let's say you're a guy here and a quality woman is going to look at your friends and say,

16:59hmm, I don't think so. I'm not spending the next 50 years around these losers,

17:05or they're going to look at your family, right? Something like that. So, I would say

17:09you probably, the people around you don't want the judgments of quality people. Usually,

17:15this is at a family level. If you've got Trash Planet family denizens around

17:19looking like bog demons, then if you've got trashy people around, those trashy people

17:26want you to not have quality people around because the quality people who are around will

17:31look at them and say, you know, they're kind of losers and you're probably better off without

17:34them. So, all right. What is the philosophy of the song, The Logical Song by Supertramp?

17:40When I was young, it seemed the life was so wonderful. Yeah, miracle, it was beautiful,

17:44magical. So, this is the idea that we have all of this wonderful, wild, beautiful imagination

17:50when we're younger, and then we get put into government schools, and Supertramp's got a great

17:56song called School about conformity. You're coming along. And so, the idea is that you have all this

18:05wonderful creativity and then you're put into a school and it's all ground out of you, which is

18:12very true. Yeah, it's very true. You're respectable, presentable, a vegetable. Yeah.

18:20So, it is a condemnation of government schools. It's not a condemnation of learning rational

18:25skills because Supertramp were very skilled musicians. You've got to listen to this live

18:28in Paris album. It's fantastic, right? So, just, you know, keep your kids out of the

18:35brain rot of government schools. All right. What is your best advice on how to talk to small

18:38children about defood, that's family of origin, you separate from family of origin because of

18:43relentless abuse and no apologies, about defood grandparents and aunts. My kids, two and four,

18:48have had a relationship with my parents and my sister before I finally quit contact with them

18:53this year after they tried to actively ruin my marriage. The kids have happy and fun memories

18:57of my family members and occasionally say that they miss them and want to visit them,

19:00although it becomes less and less frequent as time goes. Once during the first month of my

19:05quit contact, I overheard my four-year-old playing with two stuffed animals, pretending

19:09they were grandma and grandpa and that they were dead. She was very natural, neutral, and matter

19:13of fact, in the tone of her voice, no hint of distress or sadness. I've explained to my kids

19:17that my family have done bad things in a manner that they think is understandable for their age

19:20without trying to take away the fun memories they have. I will usually say something like,

19:24I understand that you miss grandma, but she was not very nice to me when I was a child like you

19:27and she made me feel really bad by not listening to me when I was sad, or I know auntie was really

19:33fun to play with, but auntie is jealous and has tried to destroy my relationship with dad,

19:38and sometimes I will just acknowledge their feelings and not say anything more.

19:42I understand that you miss grandma and grandpa, how does it feel to miss them? How do I best

19:45balance this? I don't want to put too much focus on it or transfer my feelings out of my kids,

19:49but I think it's really important that they fully understand why we don't see my family anymore,

19:54and of course why I was not able to fully quit contact with them as soon as they turned 18,

19:58or at least before my kids were born, is a life lesson that caused me a lot of pain,

20:02but that I hope can be of value to them as they grow older, but I don't want to diminish their

20:06feelings, which might be that they genuinely miss my family. I understand that this is a

20:10dilemma caused by my bad choices, and I take full accountability, which is why I'm writing this.

20:15Any advice and thoughts on this would be most helpful. Thank you so much.

20:18Well, you are, you know, I'm really sorry that this happened with your family.

20:25I do sympathize with and understand the desire to get away from toxic people,

20:28and probably for the best, right? But I'm not sure, I don't think what you've done

20:36is to take responsibility for having your kids bond with abusers, right? I mean, that's a really

20:44bad call, man. It's a really bad call for your kids to spend years and years with abusive people,

20:51right? Because now it's really confusing, right? If they had great memories with their grandparents,

20:57but their grandparents tried to destroy your marriage, then you effed up, bro. And I say this,

21:04you know, we all do it, right? I'm not trying to condemn you or anything like that, but you put

21:08your kids in the care, custody, and control and bonding with people who are, based on what you're

21:15saying, obviously you're one side of the story, but generally I side with the adult kids in this

21:21matter. So have you said to your kids, I made a mistake? I made a mistake. I had them in your life

21:31and they were bad people and I knew that, right? Are you owning, and I don't know at what age you'd

21:36tell them this, but probably should be sooner rather than later, because it's your fault and

21:42your responsibility. And I don't say this to make you feel bad, but rather to give you the facts of

21:46the situation and empower you, I think, to have the best communication about it. But it's entirely

21:52upon you that they bonded with bad people. That's entirely on you. It is your job as a mother, as a

21:59father, to provide and protect for your kids. And again, I really sympathize with, I'm not trying to

22:03make you feel bad, but it's also on your spouse, right? So if you're a guy here, then it's also,

22:09and it may even be a little bit more on your wife, and if you're the wife, it may be a little bit more

22:13on the husband, because they're not quite as bonded, obviously not nearly as bonded to the

22:17abusers. And so the question is, why did your spouse allow destructive and abusive people

22:23into your kids' lives? That's the fundamental question you need to ask yourselves. And, you know,

22:29without self-condemnation, without self-attack, and even without self-criticism, other than it was

22:34not wise, because the reason why your kids miss their abusive grandparents, or I get that they

22:41weren't abusive to the kids directly, but the reason why the kids miss their abusive grandparents

22:48is because of you. Because you allowed these beasts into the house to bond with your children.

22:55So you've got to look in the mirror, and you've got to ask your spouse, why did you let this

23:00happen? You knew they were bad to me, why didn't we talk about this? Because it's going to, look,

23:05bad people are going to constantly try and worm their way into your family. You've got to figure

23:08out how to keep yourself safe, right? Let's see, how do somewhat inalterably poor, I have a mental

23:14disability, conservative-leaning white men find dateable white women, especially if they live

23:18in a city? Yeah, I mean, so this is a long question, and the only thing that I can say

23:25is that if you're looking for a needle in a haystack, you sure as hell better have a metal

23:30detector. So live virtuously, be honest, be open, don't shy away from conflict, and be relentlessly

23:38you've got a bunch of things, like you don't want single moms, you don't want tattoos, you don't

23:42want whatever, right? Okay, so you just have to be relentlessly focused upon your standards. Now,

23:50that's good, right? Because it used to be that crazy women or dysfunctional women were harder

23:58to find because they all kind of looked the same. Now they've sorted themselves into clear basket

24:02cases, you know, the blue hairs, the nose rings, and so on. So clear basket cases and women with

24:06some potential. The best way to find women as a whole is to get out there in the world and do

24:12shit. Get out there, do something, be prominent, you know, give a local TED talk, I don't know,

24:17learn guitar and sing at the local cafe, I don't know, do some loud karaoke, volunteer, do something

24:23charitable, just run a podcast, I don't know, anything that is going to get you some prominence

24:30so that women can see you are a cut above everyone else, right? As I mentioned before,

24:35when I first met the woman who's now my wife, and we're doing our 23rd wedding anniversary

24:40soon, but the woman who became my wife, I had just got my first novel published,

24:48so I was someone different and memorable. So just be doing stuff, be doing stuff,

24:53go get poetry readings, like, I don't care, do something that gets you in front of people,

24:57do something that has you stand out from the crowd a little. Being prominent is the easiest way

25:02to find quality partners. All right. Hello. How could philosophy help me? I have many questions

25:10for your thoughts, however, one that is always on my mind and tears at me constantly. How are so

25:15many people able to torture animals? I grew up in the 70s watching public television during a time

25:20when censorship was more lax and feelings or empathy and snowflakes were not a consideration.

25:25There I witnessed as a child tortured lab animals. The attendants were having fun so

25:30brutally torturing baboons to death. I'm sickened constantly every day by how these lab students,

25:35they sounded like college students, laughed and laughed and had so much fun. I cannot tell you

25:39what they did and I've never told anyone and I never will. I also have seen horrible torture

25:44of animals in the Daily Mail UK of dogs, a greyhound in particular. Yeah, Fauci did some

25:49beagle experiments, right? That was lifted and put into a gigantic boiling pot. It tried to get

25:54out but couldn't and was boiled alive. There's some much more graphic torture to dogs shown in

25:59the Daily Mail UK Yulon festival in China. Most of my life I've been involved with spreading the

26:04word through letters and informing some people in conversations if there was a moment that it

26:09actually would fit in. What the hell? Through letters and informing some people in conversation

26:14if there was a moment that it actually would fit in. Doesn't come up much. I've been involved in

26:18Twitter, on Twitter about all this. I'm also now on Instagram trying to spread this information.

26:21I've seen horrible pictures of bears being tortured to death after the teeth pulled out,

26:24blah, blah, blah. All right. Yes, animals. Okay. Talking to me in person, you would never know

26:29that fact. I tried counselling four times over many years. Each therapist left me with more

26:34trauma when I entered the doors. They were so uncomfortable when I said I hated people. People

26:38is generally, not everyone. I like good people and I hate bad people. Okay. Sorry, just gonna

26:44skim a little here. So yeah, I mean, so people torture animals because they themselves were

26:49tortured as children. That's all. People torture animals because those selfsame people were

26:55tortured as children and they have inhabited and become the torturers. They are normalizing it and

27:01children are drawn to that which has the most power, right? That's why little girls are drawn

27:07to Barbie because Barbie has a lot of power, being so pretty and all. And boys are drawn to like

27:13trains and trucks and dinosaurs and spaceships because they have the most power, right?

27:19Superheroes and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. So if you are tortured as a child, then you will

27:27very often identify with the torturer because the torturer has the most power and you're drawn to

27:31that which replicates the most power because that's going to give you your biggest chance of

27:35social and sexual success. So, I mean, we can't protect animals unless we protect children first.

27:40All right, so you should focus on protecting children and then you will protect animals,

27:45but focusing on protecting animals without protecting children first is just plain whack-a-mole.

27:49Like, trust me, whatever you do to fight evil, more evil people are being created every single

27:54moment of every single day through child abuse. Whatever you do to fight evil, there's way more

27:58people being produced than you're able to rescue. As a former white-collar business owner,

28:03could you offer us some insights into why so many white-collar business owners nowadays expect

28:09Swiss Army Knife employees for salaries commensurate with only one of their skills?

28:13I might see a job posting for a senior-level marketing copywriter, but required qualifications

28:16will include social media management, several graphic designs and video editing programs,

28:20coding knowledge, project management software, etc. Below average salary. Oh god, I don't care,

28:25man. Oh, come on, man. If you're tired of employment considerations, start your own company!

28:32God. Oh, employers are so finicky and so picky and so this and so, okay,

28:37then this is a sign. It's a sign from the universe. Go start your own company. Start

28:40your own business. I don't care doing what. Try anything. It doesn't really matter.

28:44Pressure wash. Wash people's cars. Mow lawns. I don't care. Start your own company. It's such

28:50a slave mentality to complain about hiring standards rather than going out and starting

28:54your own company. My god. I started being an entrepreneur in my teens. Mid-teens,

29:00I put up posters all over the place. Hey, I'm a good typist. I got an electric typewriter. I

29:05got a brand new car, Mud Harvester, and I'll sell you the key. So just go. And I was like,

29:11I would type people's stuff. I'd type up your resume. I'd just start something. I was, uh,

29:15just do something. Start something. Just stop being passive and complaining and whining. Oh,

29:20people aren't giving me a chance. Go make your own chances. My god, you listen to the show.

29:24Ugh. All right. You've mentioned that you as a child thought that most other people

29:29were more moral and more reasonable. Then you started to realize they weren't.

29:32Yeah, I don't know about that exactly. How'd you deal with the disappointment when you left

29:35childhood behind and realized the place, the world wasn't the nice place you expected to be?

29:39Yeah, there was a guy who really turned me on to philosophy and Austrian economics. He became

29:44a professor. And my god, he's out there praising pharmaceutical companies for their excellent

29:51products and vaccines. It's like, ugh. Oh god. People can just get bought and sold like

29:57Kabuki masks. Yeah, no, it is. It is disappointing. And the only way to fight disappointment in

30:03corruption is to be more virtuous yourself, right? You turn disappointment into corruption

30:07to a dedication towards your own virtue, right? So this is an old thing. I learned this as a good

30:13Christian choir boy when I was younger. God rest ye merry gentlemen. No. God rest ye merry gentlemen,

30:20let nothing you dismay. So I learned all of this, which is you use the devil's temptations to

30:26produce virtue. If the devil tempts you with greed, then be more generous. If the devil tempts

30:30you with lust, be more celibate. If the devil tempts you with envy, then be more generous in

30:35supporting other's dreams, right? So you take your bitterness at the amorality of the world and turn

30:41it towards your own focus on virtue. If you're surrounded by fat people, that should drive you

30:46to the gym. How do you raise daughters to not be promiscuous Instagram obsessed? Keep them away

30:51from bad peers. Have a clear pair bond with them as a father in particular and mother. Do all of

30:59that wonderful stuff and keep them out of brain rot institutions and you will be good to go.

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