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In this episode, I delve into self-ownership, societal dynamics, and personal responsibility. We discuss "mansplaining," highlighting how it can obscure knowledge gaps, and critique the current political landscape as a battleground of propaganda rather than genuine discourse.

I analyze gender dynamics, comparing financial and sexual exploitation and examining societal expectations that hinder authentic connections. Emphasizing personal accountability, I argue that societal dysfunction originates in individual choices and urge listeners to confront uncomfortable truths.

We briefly explore philosophical arguments for the existence of God, expressing skepticism about claims of divine knowledge. The episode wraps with a critique of the welfare system, framing it as a means for privileged individuals to feel virtuous without real accountability. Ultimately, I call on listeners to embrace responsibility for true societal change.

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00:00Good morning everybody hope you're doing well on this magnificent friday morning of my birthday month.
00:07Freedom dot com slash donate to help out the show i'd really really appreciate it.
00:11Some questions from a variety places you should join the community free domain dot local dot com really great group of people.
00:18Somebody say yes i think when a woman says somebody is mansplaining that it is the same as a man calling a woman a bitch what do you think.
00:27Yes so mansplaining is a term that was invented to hide the appalling ignorance of women on a wide variety of topics.
00:37Women are wonderful and they know a lot about things that men don't know about but in terms of you know politics.
00:44Economics abstract issues and so on women tend to be drawn to an average tons of exceptions but women tend to be drawn more to.
00:52Interpersonal feelings and and relationship based things and so on and that's great i mean it's beautiful aspect of women.
01:00But the reason that mansplaining was invented as a term was so.
01:07Women's ignorance on a variety of topics.
01:12Is hidden from men and.
01:15It's a way of making sure that men don't sort of identify that clearly and so on right so i mean and you can just you don't have to believe me you can just do this experiment.
01:25As a whole in your life ask a man and women a variety of political and economic and other abstract questions and see how they do and you know on average men will do slightly better according to the data men will do actually considerably better in some areas.
01:39So women were given the vote right and and that's great and then of course women were exempted for the draft which is not the kind of equality they're looking for.
01:50And one of the i mean i made this tweet years and years ago which was basically so women will you know you're welcome to the vote do you mind.
01:59Actually studying up on economics and politics and abstract moral issues and law and constitution so you can vote a little more.
02:06It was a little bit more of an informed perspective of the women like no no just the vote is fine thanks as a whole right so.
02:11That's and it's funny you know for to me so for to me i grew up with women explaining masculinity to me all the time you know toxic masculinity male chauvinist pigs patriarchy and so on.
02:24So i grew up with endless hordes of you know tsunami female perspective tell me all about what masculinity was.
02:33Well of course not being bad for the most part so it's a little hard for me to.
02:40The same mansplaining is is bad when fans planning was.
02:44Eighty percent of my entire childhood.
02:47Do you figure you'll ever return to politics i really miss you take so many issues i often wonder what would you have to say about this.
02:53Anyways i've been a fan since twenty eleven and have supported since well thank you i appreciate that.
02:59I've been to books to co-workers etc and they mostly given good reviews sometimes they make comments.
03:03To the effect of us and now we understand why you think the way you do lol that's funny appreciate that.
03:09I don't imagine that's going to be the case to me so my personal perspective and opinion.
03:17Maybe more than an opinion but there's no politics anymore there is propaganda and then there is power.
03:25Right so there's repeated lies.
03:31Half brainwashing and and and violence that is sort of in the realm of politics i mean i got this when i started talking about you know more contentious i guess controversial issues in other words issues that interfere with.
03:43People's pursuit of power and you know but the bomb threats and death threats and and attacks upon the audiences and.
03:50You know when i was giving up you know pretty mild speaking to her over in australia i mean.
03:56The bus is that we had to be in the bus people out of the buses were attacked they tried to tip over the buses they through giant.
04:06Batteries at the bus windows and someone because i wanted to talk about things that i don't know some people didn't quite like.
04:14So that's not a very free speech scenario right and it wasn't like the media got mad at it and wasn't like the police did in my view quite as much as they could have.
04:26So there's not really politics anymore there is propaganda and power and and coercion so.
04:36It's kind of like if this is an extreme example but just to hammer the point home it's kind of like if.
04:46If a guy kidnaps a woman locks in his basement for a year and she finally escapes and then people say hey do you think you'll ever be returning to that relationship is like.
04:56What is the relationship.
04:58I'm about to enter alfred hitchcock's the birds is quite a lot of sounds up there.
05:04Usually it's a case that there's some kind of hawk is going for the eggs of smaller birds who gang together to defend.
05:11Somebody says my wife will be delivering a third child by the end of the month so we'll have three under three just wanted to say thank you from the bottom of my heart former.
05:20Men going their own way CEO former mcdowell ceo well i.
05:25I think that's absolutely wonderful i think that's beautiful and congratulations and.
05:32I i bless the house as best i can and and well done i'm so glad you found love and fatherhood and marriage and a wonderful woman i think that's just great.
05:42I want how to fix women to fix me.
05:47I mean you can get all kinds of complicated and lord knows i've been one two of the course of my career as a public intellectual but.
05:58I don't care what the problem is the solution is less violence and more freedom right whatever the problem is women of this for men of that okay but the solution is.
06:10Do you have less violence in the initiation of the use of force and more freedom of freedom cures.
06:21Almost everything almost everything it is a magic wand it is the healing hand of libertarian jesus so how do you fix women well i mean women have been corrupted by state power.
06:33And the women can use the power of the state to extract resources from the surf class of taxpaying men right women generally pay.
06:40About twice into the tax system women take out about twice from the tax system as they pay in for men they pay in about twice the taxes mother take out so it's a massive transfer of wealth.
06:50Add through the power of politics from men to women and this is corrupted women this has alienated men and.
06:59What's the solution i mean the solution to slavery is freedom.
07:09There's really nothing more or less to it than that.
07:14Have you heard anything about voices in the head being related to too much booze i have not in particular.
07:21I heard about that but i will say that voices in the head tend to be in and it's mine i'm no psychiatrist is just sort of my personal opinion of voices in the head to me are.
07:36You know like you see sometimes these old dinosaur footprints you know from hundreds of millions of years ago on some places in alberta flats of these dinosaur footprints and.
07:48Add to me voices in the head are scar tissue from massive imprinting.
07:56So carving access is a verbal abuse.
08:00Voices in the head are like dinosaur footprints from long ago and impression that got into the mind and heart and i mean i make the case in my book but you should absolutely check out and share it's free peaceful parenting you can get a piece of parenting dot com.
08:15That a verbal abuse is a violation verbal abuse against children is a violation of the non-aggression principle because they are.
08:25Children are trapped and a verbal abuse.
08:29When your brain is forming and you're trapped and the verbal abuses from somebody five times your size with all the power in the universe over you it changes who you are.
08:37Right if you scream into someone's ears and you damage the hearing even though you haven't touched them the sound from your mouth is damaged.
08:47Them physically and you can see them or charge them with the salt.
08:54And a verbal abuse against children damages foundationally who they are and you either end up.
09:01Sinking into the definitions and i guess i am stupid and selfish and whatever it is right you think into that or you end up rebelling against it but you can't have a neutral response to it and so.
09:12I think voices in the head are animated ghosts of prior verbal abuse.
09:20Add that just a resting with which i have been a massive and deep sympathy i'm a big fan of talk therapy for these kinds of things what do you think of philosophy.
09:29What do you think of philosophy or philosophers who attempt to break from previous generations or traditions for one reason or another as an example the enlightenment from the enlightenment era philosophers from the scholastics.
09:43Scholastic philosophers were medieval philosophers who tried to bring.
09:47Aristotelian reason to all questions of faith so one example from scholastic philosophy would be.
09:54I did adam have a belly button right because adam was not born adam was created in the image of god and human beings have belly buttons also known as your first mouth.
10:05So human beings have belly buttons god obviously doesn't have a belly button and was created in the image of god therefore it would seem that adam did not have a belly button.
10:15We are created in the image of adam so where did the belly button come from and those are and you would bring aristotelian or quasi scientific.
10:24I mean by the time bacon came along scholasticism is largely in the rear view but.
10:28You would bring aristotelian reason to bear on questions of theology and you know how many angels can dance on the head of a pin and so on it can can god who's all powerful create an object so heavy that he cannot lift it if you can't create.
10:42An object so heavy he cannot lift it he's not all powerful if you can create.
10:47An object so heavy he can't lift it he's not all powerful because he can't lift something and the enlightenment philosophers got a little exhausted with that and really felt like the use of aristotelian reason.
10:58Regarding questions of theology was around peg versus a square hole it is the wrong tool for the wrong job there is of course a great yearning in people of faith to find rational answers to their faith.
11:12And i completely understand that i sympathize with that for sure and they will say well we want to bring reason to our faith but you only have faith in reason you only believe in reason as the result of faith and the conflict between faith and reason is old and deep and powerful and in general.
11:31What happens is people try to apply rational principles.
11:36To non rational disciplines they make a certain amount of headway and then they run into endless tangles they continue to try to push on cuz it's worth having willpower on a difficult subject it's like it took me more than twenty years to come up with a theory that proved secular ethics so it's okay to keep pushing in a challenge.
11:55So rational principles are applied to non rational disciplines.
12:01Progress is made insurmountable obstacles arise and then what happens is some people keep pushing and other people bail out in in a kind of intellectual horror like this is a hole with no bottom this is a nightmare from which we cannot.
12:17Awaken and the turning of.
12:21Philosophy from the chasing of irrationality.
12:25Do the definitions of impossibility to actual practical solutions in the real world.
12:33It's very very important is that i mean this is one of the reasons why i mean from the very beginning of the show i've asked people and you can hit me up at free domain dot com forward slash call free domain dot com forward slash call.
12:44Let's talk philosophy how can it help your life how can it make your life better how can it improve your relationships with those you love how can it help you find people to love how can it help you live a more more life with greater integrity and happiness and joy.
12:57All of these things very important philosophy is not.
13:01For thought it is not an app for abstractions it is not for irrational disciplines philosophy is for life if dietitian said the most important thing to do is figure out.
13:12How can i can best eat that would be a made up discipline pursuing non real things nutrition is for improving the quality of your life through diet.
13:27Just exercises the improving of your health through movement.
13:32Philosophy is for the improvement of your life through practical application of abstract principles so.
13:41In general there's a seesaw right there's a seesaw so one of the things that people in power do is they try to lure clear thinkers to pursuing.
13:54Endless and impossible mental tasks and that way they're not focusing on the powers that be.
13:59So that there is a constant challenge because you know very very intelligent people are born all the time and very very intelligent people can undo the myths that support the power structures of the world and they can do it actually fairly.
14:12Easily and especially if they're not just good thinkers but excellent communicators and sort of funny and warm and empathetic and good with analogies and so on so they there's a constant problem.
14:23That intelligent people might using the power of their language and do the myths that keep a loft the bullies of power right.
14:34What is in power always claim the moral good of society and then if the moral good of society or the moral good of individuals is defined clearly and objectively then it goes against the moral myths that support those in power.
14:48So there's a constant set of breadcrumbs that are being dropped to lead people into infinite endless dark wood so that they don't challenge.
14:58The lies of those in power right and so they will tell you that philosophy is all of this abstract stuff philosophy is wrestling with these edge problems philosophy is about the trolley problem and the ethics of emergencies and if you gotta save these people from a lifeboat and.
15:15And philosophy is just abstract and it's about the epistemology of language and like all just just absolute crap is absolute nonsensical.
15:25What is the best food for klingons to eat just complete nonsense but what it does is it takes the intelligent out of.
15:34The actual wrestling for the soul of society through moral discussion so that just say oh yeah yeah that there's there's gold in those words just go into those would go into those words man is golden those words.
15:45And then the intelligence and then they'll pay them to do that right this is the route of academia is the elites paying the intelligent to be utterly inconsequential.
15:56And that's leading others right academia is not can i think it's can i.
16:04Gain the approval of someone who has power over me.
16:07Academia is in general training people to serve authority and serve power.
16:15And subject themselves to the opinions of others which is why it doesn't add much value to society in fact it's attracted so if they can get you to believe that.
16:25Your intelligence should be in pursuit of the irrelevant what was that old joke ask wild about the wealthy aristocratic englishman hunting foxes is the unspeakable in hot pursuit of the inedible.
16:39So academia and and all of this nonsense is about just getting intelligent people to go and circle jerk in the forest and think that they're changing the world.
16:49And so intelligent people.
16:53Start to apply their reason to practical real world solutions and then they run you know smack into the blades and and walls of those in power and then they run back to the woods cuz it's kinda scary running into the blades and walls of those in power and so there's this the sea salt where.
17:09People come out from the woods to the town and preach reason and morality and then they start to change things and then they're attacked and lied about an ostracized and slandered and then they like maybe the woods wasn't that bad after all and go back to the woods and the powers that be keep their thing going.
17:28Have you considered coming back to the mainstream to do an interview with keith woods on racial identity.
17:35I know i don't i don't have any particular desire or go i'm absolutely loving what i'm doing.
17:42And the more i focus on what's going on in the world at the moment the last relevance i have for the future and i've said this before but i'm always sort of reminded of.
17:52Mark twain mark twain wrote books that are still red and mark twain also had a weekly column for decades which nobody reads or cares about.
18:02So current events like prominence in the present is invisibility to the future and i have a five hundred year business plan to be somebody whose thoughts are valuable in a couple hundred years or more.
18:15So no i don't have any particular desire to go into into current events or speak with people in the internet.
18:23Is using a man for money the same as using a woman for sex.
18:28Is using a man for money the same as using a woman for sex.
18:34I can see some similarities and the reason why the.
18:39The reason why all of the stuff is gotten messed up is that.
18:45We forget that.
18:48Money the man makes more money has the capacity to create more money.
18:54Then he needs right i mean men who are married with children will spend about ninety percent of their income on their wives and kids so we have developed you know these.
19:03Big analytical brains as men we've developed these big muscles and this is testosterone and this work ethic and we've done all of that so that we can provide for women and.
19:14And children.
19:16And so if a woman says i want your money without providing a family children and being a wife then yes she's exploiting.
19:27Is she hacking into the man's desire to provide resources to a woman for the sake of.
19:33Building a family right so the simping is this right so in the.
19:38In the world of courtship if a woman accepts presents from you if she accepts money from you.
19:44Add that is a sign that she wants to pair bond with you and sleep with you and form a family with you and get married and so on but at least it's a woman who's if you offer a gift to a woman and she says no that's a rejection if you offer a gift to a woman she says oh how lovely i'll put it in prominence on my mantelpiece and look at it every day and you know think about you i mean that's a mating ritual mating signal right.
20:05So it's kind of a hack where it so if there's some woman online and she's asking for money and she's got a low cut top weather and you send her money.
20:14Your brain is confused in your brain things while we keep sending money and yet we don't have a wife and children so for a man he shows an access of.
20:27Resources to show a woman that he can sustain a family.
20:32And kids and that was the deal right.
20:38So yeah using a woman for sex a sex sexual activity is about obviously pleasure and fun and intimacy warmth and love and it is about a pair bonding in order to found a family where the children are best taken care of by a monogamous couple.
20:55So when people are when women are going on dates for men with no intention of founding families that is exploitation if men are having sex with women that they would never consider.
21:06Having a family with them they are using that and it all goes very very badly all right.
21:13The christian era several thinkers have tried to prove or demonstrate the existence of god.
21:18From logic or reason have you examined any of these attempts if so what do you think of them i have examined all i've got a whole history of philosophers series which you can get it free domain dot com slash donate or.
21:28I'll send you to feed this month if you don't have anything at freedom dot com slash donate.
21:33So yes i have looked at a lot of these events sorry these attempts to.
21:39Demonstrate the existence of god from logic or reason but today in general i'm full short.
21:51And the reason that.
21:57It falls short for me is that god is perceived to be a goddess is talked about by religions.
22:07As an entity that you can talk to and an entity that you can have a conversation with that you can pray and get guidance and feedback and wisdom and all these kinds of great and good and wonderful things.
22:20And so if god is a conversation that you can have to gain the benefits of an access to an omniscient mind i mean that's a that's a pretty it's a pretty wild thing to be able to have direct contact with an all-knowing being is like.
22:36It's google to the google google plex you know but without.
22:42The lies manipulation really so if you have access to omniscience then it's very easy to prove.
22:53Right.
22:54I mean if someone comes along to you and says i have direct access to an omniscient mind that would be quite a claim and proving that claim would actually be a fairly easy right because you would ask.
23:09The person what did i dream about last night or what is my earliest memory or what is the price of the stock of apple going to be in.
23:19Fifteen minutes or any what are three major scientific equations that have yet to be discovered what is the proof for the.
23:31Unified field theory or what why do we keep funding superstring theory but there's no evidence for it thirty plus years after i remember reading about superstring theory in my early twenties and is like yep still mostly crap.
23:45And so on right so you would simply ask questions that the person could not have an answer to.
23:53And that would be a calling them out on their claim right and i'm open to just about every claim i mean make make all the claims you want lord knows i make some claims that people find quite outlandish.
24:04I'm absolutely all keen and lovely and let's talk about these claims and you can say to me hey i have psychic abilities i have direct contact with omniscience and so on let's do it.
24:15Let's talk about it.
24:17And the proof of that is fairly simple just give me something that you couldn't know that would be known obviously by definition by the omniscient.
24:26Being you know like if if you were time travel you went back in time with a calculator and you were to say to medieval mathematicians i have a magic box that can do.
24:37Just about any calculation is a scientific calculator something right i have a magic box i can do just about any calculation.
24:44Then i mean they would say.
24:48Show me the box and if you were to say no i'm not gonna show you the box but you can fire at me any question you want right.
24:53And then they would find these questions that you behind some screen or you'd be in a confession booth or someplace where you couldn't be seen.
25:01So they would fire all these questions that you punch them into a calculator and then you would return the answers right away now even though they couldn't see the calculator directly.
25:09They would know that you had some kind of magic box because you were able to.
25:15Provide the answers to all of the calculation problems that they threw at you right so even though they couldn't prove the box directly they could prove the effects of the box that you claimed right now if.
25:29You would go back in time and you didn't have a calculator and you were to say to the medieval mathematicians i have a magic box that can.
25:38Answer any mathematical question including those you don't have an answer to well.
25:46They would then find these questions at you and if you are unable to answer any of these questions.
25:52Then would they spend a lot of time effort and energy trying to prove the logical existence of the box that doesn't exist according to your own claims.
26:00Well he's come back in time he's.
26:05He's told me he has a magic box i can do any mathematical calculations including some i haven't even thought of.
26:11So i peppered him with questions i got nothing back and i'm gonna spend the rest of my life trying to find logical proof of the calculator for which there's no empirical evidence that it exists.
26:21That wouldn't really make any sense to me again i'm sorry if i'm treading on toes i'm sorry if i'm missing something obvious but.
26:31If people say that they have access to omniscience that's fairly easy to establish.
26:39And if they say well it doesn't work that way then i would say no if you say that you pray to an all knowing being.
26:47Who responds to your prayers then you're asking god.
26:51Question was sometimes you ask god the question sometimes the answer is no and it's like.
26:55So what you're saying is that you have access to omniscience however unfortunately.
27:00It never demonstrates any omniscience it only tells you what you already know or gives you some sort of feeling or insight or instinct that but never tells you something explicitly that you don't so how do you know you're not just talking to yourself you're unconscious to whatever.
27:14It's a pretty big claim to say you have a direct pipeline to all knowing the universe right.
27:21I mean you could make the same analogy you know just go back fifty years with i don't know.
27:28Some cell phone that had a magic pipeline to google or something or you know a real search engine and i'd say i have a little magic window that can answer just about any question you ask and then.
27:39They would ask you questions you'd look them up and you get all that you give them all of these results no matter how obscure the question and.
27:46And someone in there but translate things and all of that right it's a wow i guess he does have the magic box i don't need to prove the existence of the magic box because it has been shown by.
27:56Add the questions and answers right.
27:58Alright do you believe certain elites run the west.
28:03The people who in charge of the west the people who run the west the hidden people behind the curtain the free masons the whatever i do believe that there are the certain elites who run the west.
28:17The world is run by one thing and one thing only and it is not certain elites.
28:26Sorry to bust your bubble so.
28:33The world is run by people's avoidance of truth and morality and they agreed for the unarmed that's all.
28:41That's all the world is run by people's refusal to process reality their refusal to think and to be moral and their greed for the unarmed.
28:53If people gave up their greed for the unarmed and thought clearly there wouldn't be any elites that could run anything relatively quickly.
29:02That's all the corruption of the world is not out there the corruption of the world is in every human heart i say this is a guy i have now spent 42 years speaking to the world about reason and evidence.
29:19And people use the magic wand denial hostility rage violence fogging evasion ostracism insults slander lies and abuse in order to avoid the simple fucking fact that two and two make four.
29:37That's all they accept morals in their life they accept morals for their children they just do not accept morals universally.
29:45Because once you accept morals universally your life changes completely.
29:53It really does and there's really no going back in the mind once stretched by a new idea never regained its original shape.
30:01So people are recent with and i've been reasoning with people for 42 years.
30:09And people and you saw this you saw this me doing the agent smith neo battle on social media back in the day on youtube on instagram on twitter and other places.
30:23And you saw it how many people said oh my gosh you know you're absolutely right i've looked at this data and someone like people would get angry at me about the reality of iq and i'd say look.
30:32Don't shoot the messenger here seventeen interviews i did with world renowned experts in the field of iq.
30:38How many people said oh my gosh you know when to watch those interviews and.
30:42Wow they don't do it they don't do it they don't want to think and they don't want to think because thinking interferes with their greed.
30:50Thinking interferes with their greed for the unarmed thinking always does interfere with your greed for the unarmed.
31:01So the boomers wanted the warfare welfare state i mean they wanted more the welfare state and so on to the boomers wanted all of this and they did not want to pay the taxes.
31:12For their moral posturing about how noble and helpful and virtuous they were right helping every refugee known to man you know how are there all of these super wealthy people in dubai.
31:23And and all they do is sit and think about how they can improve the living conditions of the poor white people.
31:29At the back end of the appellations you know that's all they do all the other world but in the west of every poor person is the responsibility of every tax because you know what happens.
31:39Is that sorry but all this background noise you know what happens is that a society becomes wealthy through freedom and then the elites in power take all of those resources and then sell access to the productivity of the economy to everyone in the known universe and so on.
31:54So people want the greed for the under and they want to feel good about helping others but they don't want to.
32:00Actually go and do the difficult and messy and challenging business of actually helping others because.
32:05It's easy to help people in the abstract right it's easy to help people in the abstract.
32:11Helping people in the abstract is just saying well you know i support the taxes that help the poor.
32:20Now i grew up in grinding poverty i know more about the mindset of the poor than just about anybody who votes.
32:29For the welfare state who's not directly poor right like all of these elites the people who are stuck in their high IQ.
32:36A bubble and think that they know anything about the poor.
32:39So people want to feel oh i'm really really helping the poor so i support this welfare state this taxation and so on.
32:46As opposed to actually going into where the poor people are and trying to help them directly right so i feel too bright even for me so.
32:54When you actually go to try and help the poor.
32:58No exceptions of course right but when you actually go to try and help the poor you realize that a lot of times people are actually kind of horrible.
33:07They are lazy they are greedy they are hair trigger a violent impulsive they don't want to think things through they blame everybody else they won't take responsibility and.
33:20They get hostile to anyone who tries to give them any kind of self ownership right so one of the challenges and again there's exceptions of course right one of the challenges with actually helping.
33:28People who are poor is that you say well you have to accept you have some responsibility for your life and you have to start making different decisions in other words.
33:36They have to stop blaming everyone else for their poverty and of course there are structural things and i get all of that but.
33:42Hey you still have to try and convince poor people that they have some responsibility for their lives and they can make better choices and.
33:50Things can become a better for them but they have to take some responsibility and start making better choices.
33:57And you know honestly go go go try that again maybe there's a few people who listen but.
34:06There is a very very large number of people who will get very aggressive and hostile and even dangerous.
34:15If you try to tell them that they have some responsibility for their own life and that their poverty is to some degree the result of their own choices.
34:22So you go to you know the single moms and who's got you know well i.
34:29Have kids with these three different three kids with three different men and they all left me and say why did you choose these.
34:35These men you have some responsibility and matter i mean right i mean they just get really really aggressive add any sense of responsibility so.
34:45Going to actually help people is a very tricky and difficult business where is just shuffling money at them is a way to make you feel like you're doing something which is actually making the things worse right.
34:59So the boomers wanted to feel like they were helping the poor.
35:03Without actually wanting to go in and help the poor i don't have any respect for anyone who talks about helping the poor who hasn't spent time.
35:11Directly among poor people trying to help them with his or her own money like i just.
35:16It's like the people who say well refugees are fine but don't have any in their house it's like it's just nice right it's just nice.
35:23So that that is agreed for the unearned so.
35:28The quote powers that be said to the boomers oh yes there are there are poor people isn't it terrible and sad that they're poor people.
35:37They're poor because you're wealthy give us money will take care of poverty and you don't have to worry your pretty little heads about actually going in and dealing with the poor and talking to the poor and helping the poor.
35:46Right.
35:49And they were like oh great this this gets it off my conscience i get to feel like a good person because i'm troubled by the existence of poor people so they say they're gonna take care of the problem and i don't even have to pay for it that much because it's mostly gonna be funded through that.
36:03The welfare state.
36:05What's not imposed upon people the welfare state was demanded by people so they could feel good about themselves.
36:13Without having to do the difficult and sometimes dangerous work of actually helping the poor.
36:18No.
36:24People want something for nothing they want virtue without strife effort self-knowledge regular discipline danger the spread of virtue the spread of self-ownership.
36:34Is a very dangerous business and i'm not even being allegorical and i hope that i have some credibility when i say this and govern that.
36:43The spread of virtue truth reality reason evidence facts morality self-ownership responsibility the spread of these things is a very dangerous business because there is great profit in pretend helplessness.
36:59Right this is a i think warren farrell quote that.
37:02Weaknesses is pretend strength in a woman's strength is a pretend weakness.
37:07Pretending to be a victim.
37:11Is a prelude to aggression pretending to be a victim is.
37:17Threat in general for the most part i'm not talking about kids who are genuine victims i mean i'm talking about adults who made bad decisions.
37:24So when somebody says it's not my fault they're saying pay me or else i'll attack you if you tell me it is my fault.
37:33Right.
37:35And that deal the expansion of power is driven.
37:42By the demand for the unearned the expansion of power is driven by the demand for the unearned.
37:48And of course there are people in power who will say oh you made a bad decision no problem i'll steal money from the unborn give it to you so you feel better and that's a great temptation to great temptation.
38:01Of course.
38:02Of course.
38:08But.
38:10If people didn't want.
38:13To escape the consequences of their own decisions through violating the rights of others, particularly the unborn is no greater theft than stealing from the unborn that didn't deferred.
38:25Deferred liabilities.
38:29But if people weren't greedy.
38:32For the unearned those in power would have nothing to sell us.
38:36If the boomers say in the nineteen sixties had said when they were told oh there's all these poor people and it's structural and you're wealthy because they're poor and and you're terrible and they're innocent and perfect and wonderful and virtuous and there but for the grace of God go you and right.
38:54If they had said oh yeah you know what i am concerned about the poor yeah i am concerned about the poor so let me roll up my sleeves and go and spend time with the poor.
39:03Let me roll up my sleeves and go and spend time with the poor and then when you go and spend time with poor people you find out quite quickly that the majority of them.
39:13Are poor because they won't take responsibility and because they won't take responsibility they can't learn anything and they keep making bad decisions right i mean this has been said a million times is pretty easy to get out of poverty friends.
39:28Get a job for at least a year finish high school.
39:33Don't get pregnant out of wedlock if you do that the overwhelming odds are that you'll make it to the middle class.
39:40It's not it's not it's not that complicated it's not like you have to become a neurosurgeon you just have to do these three basic things and if you don't do these three basic things then you probably gonna stay poor.
39:52But holding the poor responsible for their own behavior creates a lot of aggression.
40:00And can be dangerous right disarming the self pity of the poor is a very volatile business and i again i say this the great and deep experience so.
40:13You can if you doubt me and that's fine obviously i mean you should not take my experience decades that was you should not take my experience.
40:23Ask gospel of course right just go find the poorest person you know.
40:28Figure out what bad decisions they've made and then hold them accountable and responsible for making those bad decisions so that they can learn and do better just go and do it.
40:37Go and find the most self pitying person you know and try to hold them responsible for their own choices.
40:45You and i know exactly what's gonna happen when you.
40:48Right and massive torrents of verbal abuse hostility hatred self pity.
40:52Reputational destruction trying to get you fired like it's it's tough.
40:57It's tough and i have a lot of sympathy for people who end up in this situation right who are poor and made bad decisions you know after certain amount bad decisions you just.
41:08You're walled up from good decisions because your conscience will just take you to the woodshed right.
41:14So what runs the world is people's great for the honor and what runs for the world is people snapping.
41:21Like lazy fish at everywhere i'm known to man because they pretend there's no hook there.
41:30People don't want to take responsibility for their lives.
41:34Hopefully we can raise a generation of people more comfortable with that with peaceful parenting that's the goal people don't want to take responsibility for their own lives.
41:43And if you can't take responsibility for your own life you have to force someone else to take responsibility for you.
41:52The woman who won't take responsibility for her irresponsible procreative choices has to force other people to pay for her children.
42:00It's very sad.
42:05The man who won't take responsibility for the need to earn a living through voluntary trade in the free market forces other people.
42:13Through theft or violence to pay for his life if you want to take responsibility for yourself you have to force other people to take responsibility for you and that is the root of the dysfunction.
42:24So i don't view these major.
42:29Sinister elites is the foundational drivers of human corruption or decay it is in the choice of every individual.
42:36And i myself one of the biggest one of the biggest quality of life improvements i've had in my life.
42:43Is i do not have people in my life who do not take responsibility for their choices i won't have it i won't have it i won't do it.
42:54If people say i'm poor because i got screwed by the system if people say well you know i got fooled into.
43:04Taking on excessive student loans is like no no you didn't.
43:10You wanted to go to college because college is a lot of fun there's a lot of drinking there's a lot of drugs there's a lot of sex there's not that much work.
43:16College is a place where.
43:21Silky syllables caress you out of the ownership of your own soul.
43:25And it was fun.
43:27And it got you to avoid it got you to avoid getting a job and it was fun so you didn't look into it you didn't look into what are the job opportunities that i could have coming out of.
43:38An artistry degree right i mean you didn't look into these things.
43:43You avoided thinking you avoided taking responsibility and you said yes but i was just a kid it's like well but you can't go to college till eighteen or nineteen.
43:53So if you saying people can't make decisions about their own lives how can they vote and make decisions about other people's lives right so it's all just nonsense.
44:02The only people i will have in my life for people who take a hundred percent self ownership for everything that they do.
44:10Because otherwise they'll pray on me they'll pray on you everybody who.
44:14You can't remove responsibility you can only shift it from one person to another you can't erase it you can't erase responsibility.
44:22And i know if people don't take responsibility they can end up blaming me manipulating me demanding things from me.
44:29Because the self responsibility they shared lands like a ton of bricks on my shoulders and wallet i just don't have people in my life who don't take responsibility for themselves hundred percent hundred percent.
44:42I mean i hope i model that i haven't blamed anyone but myself and my choices for being deplatformed.
44:48Because i didn't want the unearned i wanted to tell the truth i had enough of being forced to lie as a child.
44:58I want to spend the rest of my life doing it for money.
45:03Try this try this in your life try holding people accountable for their choices try holding yourself accountable for your choices.
45:11It's a frightening alarming sometimes dangerous sometimes destabilizing but ultimately absolutely fucking glorious mindset to have so yeah stop blaming the elites.
45:24The supply of corruption exists because of the demand for corruption.
45:32We can't solve the supply side we sure as hell can work on the demand side do not support people who don't take responsibility.
45:41Because if people won't take responsibility don't enable them don't provide them resources time attention and money.
45:49Is there gonna just have to learn by heart experience that we are all responsible for ourselves in this life.
45:55And if you don't want to take responsibility for yourself you are bringing back a web that cracks on the backs of the productive thank you everyone so much freedom dot com slash i look forward to your support hope you have a wonderful day bye.