WHY DO WE THINK ABOUT THE FALL OF ROME?

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00:00 Yeah, well, freedomain.locals.com, you should definitely check it out.
00:03 So, would you like to hear the case for social media and it's related to why men think of
00:09 Rome?
00:11 Why do men think of Rome?
00:12 And what is the case for consuming social media?
00:18 Yes, well, so just for background's sake, a blue shaded background's sake, so just for
00:29 background's sake, there is a general level of estrogen incomprehensibility out there
00:36 on the hinterlands of the interneans these days where some woman asked her husband, "How
00:43 often do you think of the Roman Empire?"
00:47 And he said, like, "Every day."
00:49 And this is absolutely incomprehensible to women.
00:56 Does this make sense?
00:57 I'm not saying do you agree that it's incomprehensible, but you get a sense of, like, why that would
01:02 be just utterly incomprehensible to women?
01:05 That you think of the Roman Empire as a man every day.
01:12 And now, today, on Sunday, we're doing it too.
01:20 So why?
01:21 Why do men think of the Roman Empire?
01:25 Now I personally, obviously it's partly the job, but I personally guarantee you that every
01:30 day I'm thinking about the world and its outcomes.
01:33 Every other day, some old civilization, right?
01:38 So for women, but most women don't understand men, many by choice.
01:48 Well there's understanding and then there's appreciation, right?
01:51 So I don't understand, other than at the most abstract levels, I don't understand how computers
01:59 work.
02:00 I don't understand how cell phones work.
02:01 And again, I know the general gist, but you know, deep down in the metal and bits and
02:04 bolts I don't really understand how it works.
02:07 So I don't understand how computers work, but I appreciate that they work and I appreciate
02:11 the people who make them work, right?
02:14 So there's a difference between not understanding and not appreciating.
02:21 Does that sort of make sense?
02:22 I don't understand how air conditioning works, but I appreciate it.
02:28 I really do.
02:29 I don't really understand, I remember I dated a woman who was an engineer many years ago
02:33 and she said she missed the old cars because in the old cars she could pop the hood and
02:36 figure out what was going on.
02:37 Now it's all a black box.
02:38 She doesn't know.
02:39 She doesn't know.
02:41 So I don't even know, I know cars are controlled explosions and so on, but I don't really know
02:44 how they work.
02:46 I've seen some diagrams, but you know, it's like that old meme of like this guy who goes
02:52 back in time and tells all of the ancient people about electricity and they say, "Oh,
02:57 how does it work?"
02:58 And he says, "I have no idea."
03:02 No idea.
03:04 So the fact that women don't understand why men
03:12 think about the fall of Rome or the Roman Empire is, I mean, I understand that.
03:18 I understand that people don't, I mean, most of what I live in I don't understand.
03:24 Most of everything that happens, I don't really know why or how it happens.
03:29 I mean, there's a few things I'm good at, like everyone.
03:32 I mean, the whole point of a modern economy is division of labor and specialization.
03:38 So I know how a bunch of things work to do with my business and philosophy and so on,
03:42 but most things I don't know.
03:44 I appreciate them, but I don't know.
03:46 I don't know how they work.
03:49 So I don't think I'm alone in that.
03:52 That's just, I think, a general statement of humility and understanding.
03:57 Just because I read an article on how air conditioning works doesn't mean I fundamentally
04:00 understand how it works, like I could build one or repair one or something like that.
04:05 I'm still working on the chips thing.
04:08 So the issue to me is not that women don't understand why men think of the Roman Empire,
04:18 and I'll tell you sort of why we do.
04:19 The issue to me is not that women don't understand why men think of the Roman Empire.
04:23 The issue to me is that they find it baffling, incomprehensible, and useless for men to do
04:32 that.
04:33 Yeah, so I know how to program computers.
04:36 I know like I tallied it up once.
04:39 I had worked in 17 different computer languages.
04:43 So computer programming I know quite well.
04:45 But again, I haven't done core computer programming in quite a long time, so it's probably changed
04:49 quite a lot since then.
04:52 So the problem to me is not that the other sex is incomprehensible.
04:58 There's going to be a certain amount of that.
05:00 The problem is that it's incomprehensible and there's a general principle that that
05:07 which is incomprehensible is bad or useless or a waste of time.
05:12 It's bad or useless or a waste of time.
05:19 My last girlfriend found it weird that I would have spare water.
05:22 Yeah, we follow that, right?
05:25 We follow that.
05:26 That makes sense that if you're a prepper and I strongly suggest you have some food
05:31 around even if just for inflation's sake, women are like, "Why would you need that?
05:37 The grocery store is right down the street."
05:43 So would you like to have the sexes summed up in six words?
05:55 Would you like to have the sexes summed up in six words?
05:58 And when I say this, there will be a burst of illumination in your mind and it will never
06:03 ever go dim again.
06:05 You can just listen for the first six minutes and you're done and you got huge value.
06:09 Not even seven.
06:10 Don't even need seven.
06:16 So are you ready?
06:18 All right.
06:19 Here we go.
06:20 The sexes summed up in six words.
06:23 And if I'm wrong, I'm certainly happy to be told that but this is how I work with things
06:28 and I think it's great.
06:29 So the sexes summed up.
06:32 Women see deeper, men see further.
06:36 Women see deeper, men see further.
06:39 So when you think of the inner life and the world as a whole, women see deeper, they go
06:43 deep into emotions, into the inner life, into relationships, into the minds and hearts of
06:46 other people.
06:48 Men see further through time, over the horizon, across the universe, deep into the heart of
06:54 matter which is not into people.
06:57 Women see deeper, men see further.
06:58 Am I right about this?
06:59 Tell me if I'm wrong.
07:00 If I'm wrong, I'm happy to reformulate but this is how it's worked for me forever.
07:10 Now the problem is that men often don't appreciate women seeing deeper and women don't often
07:18 appreciate men seeing further.
07:20 I got a Pepe Y.
07:24 Nice.
07:25 Correctamundo.
07:26 Right.
07:27 So as a man, do you appreciate that women see deeper?
07:35 Well, not if you're a man with something to hide, you know.
07:38 If you're a man with something to hide, you're like, "Ah, don't."
07:43 For a woman, a woman's irradiating perceptiveness is sort of like going, trying to go through
07:49 the scanner with some sort of heart thing, you know, like the shunt or whatever they
07:55 call it where you just, "Ah, you can't see that.
07:58 It's going to cause my heart to stop."
08:00 So a lot of times when men have something to hide, they're annoyed at a woman's perceptiveness
08:06 or they fear it and so on, right?
08:10 So a lot of men have anxiety around women's perceptiveness.
08:17 Have you – if you have a pacemaker, you can't go through the scanner, right?
08:22 The scanner which is supposed to probe you will cause your heart to explode or I don't
08:25 know.
08:26 I'm not a scientist but something like that, right?
08:27 So does this make sense that a woman's perceptiveness makes a lot of men anxious?
08:37 You've been married to a man for 20 years, I've learned to see further.
08:40 I think he's also learned to see deeper.
08:41 Absolutely, completely and totally right.
08:44 That's exactly right.
08:45 The cross-pollination is how we become wise.
08:47 The cross-pollination is how we become wise and since the rulers don't want us to become
08:50 wise, they keep men and women apart, right?
08:56 Now so men, what do men say about women's seeing deeper, women's seeing deeper?
09:04 What do they say about that to put it down?
09:08 Because men and women put each other down a lot and that's a real shame.
09:11 It's real – I mean this is a fundamental divide and conquer strategy.
09:16 Yeah, just be rational.
09:19 What do you care about what so and so thinks or what so and so said and you can't tell
09:23 an objective story.
09:24 It's all about feelings and all of that, right?
09:27 Navel gazing, it's neurotic, it's – right.
09:32 It's petty.
09:34 It's not about Rome, right?
09:41 Be more like a man.
09:42 Yeah, it's a strange thing, right?
09:44 It's a strange thing.
09:46 For a straight man to want a woman to be more like a man, well, it's kind of odd, right?
09:51 It's kind of odd.
09:52 Right, so there are all these comedians.
09:55 Oh, yes, thank you Edward for the tip.
09:58 Yes, if you could tip, I would hugely, hugely appreciate it.
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10:15 I mean tell me this isn't something that's going to help you in your relationships, right?
10:18 So men kind of hover over the depth of women and they look down there and it's alarming.
10:29 I mean to some degree because we're not equipped for those kinds of depths, we go down there
10:33 and we end up like the Titanic sub-explorers just imploded black hole tin can, right?
10:41 So we hover over women's depth and it's kind of a little alarming, a little incomprehensible.
10:46 We sense its depth and as men we're like, "Oh, if I get sucked into the black hole,
10:51 I can't keep my eyes on the horizon.
10:55 Can't keep watching for what's coming," right?
10:58 So women are scanning for what's coming in relationships and men are scanning for what's
11:04 coming in politics.
11:06 Does this make sense?
11:11 Women are scanning for what's coming in relationships, good and bad, and men are scanning for what's
11:15 coming in politics, good and bad.
11:25 Now from 1 to 10, how stereotypically sexist should I be in the next part?
11:31 Just give me 1 to 10 and remember I have to live with this more than you.
11:36 Oh, the great instigators are at it again.
11:39 Oh, thanks Tom for a 9.9.
11:41 Oh, somebody gave me.
11:43 Oh, yeah.
11:44 Thanks, Jared.
11:45 That makes sense.
11:46 So you have to live with it too.
11:51 All right, so if you're a man and you've read something alarming about politics, and politics
12:00 is society as a whole, it could be the economy, but just the material elements of society
12:07 that are outside of your control that pose some kind of risk, right?
12:10 So if you're a man, have you ever read something that alarms you about politics and kept it
12:17 from your wife or your girlfriend or the women in your life?
12:24 Yes, of course you have.
12:30 Of course you have.
12:33 Yes, everything it seems, right?
12:37 So let me ask you, there's an old joke about, you know, when you want to be honest in relationships,
12:41 but if you're sitting, if you're thinking about Raquel Welsh in a fur bikini and your
12:44 wife says, "Hey, what are you thinking?"
12:46 You say, "I'm thinking about how much my life has been enriched by knowing you."
12:49 Like you don't, you just, so have you read something alarming, you're a little moody
12:54 about it, and your wife says, "Hey, everything all right?"
12:58 And you're like, "No, it's fine.
12:59 It's fine.
13:00 I just, no, it's fine."
13:03 And this can happen in reverse, right?
13:05 This is just a minor trend.
13:06 It can completely happen in reverse.
13:07 But this is the general trend, right?
13:14 Now as they have no comprehension, no, that's not true.
13:21 Come on.
13:22 Come on.
13:23 Come on, man.
13:24 Don't downgrade complementary skills.
13:26 Oh, my gosh.
13:29 I mean, if you're a mechanic and some guy's a dentist and he says, "I'll trade you a clean
13:36 up for an oil change," do you sit there and say, "Oh, he has no comprehension of changing
13:42 oil or filters or checking the brake pads.
13:46 He's got no comprehension of a tune-up.
13:47 He's an idiot."
13:48 It's like, no, he's a dentist.
13:50 So is he going to sit there and say, "Well, he has no idea of what to scrape along the
13:54 gum line to get rid of plaque.
13:57 He's an idiot."
13:58 Come on, man.
13:59 Accept that, don't fall into the petty vanity of thinking that your specialization is the
14:04 only thing.
14:05 Why did they vote leftist then?
14:14 You want to know why?
14:15 You want to know why?
14:16 You want to know why?
14:17 Yes, we'll get to the women thing.
14:28 Let's just talk about this morning.
14:36 That which is most dangerous to men is force.
14:39 That which is most dangerous to women is consequences of bad decisions.
14:45 So that which is most dangerous to men is force.
14:48 You get involved in some violent encounter, some guy beats you up or you beat up some
14:53 guy and then his brothers come and try and take you out.
14:56 So that which is most dangerous to men is force.
14:59 That which is most dangerous to women is, say, pregnancy out of wedlock, is dating the
15:04 wrong man or marrying the wrong man, getting a stalker.
15:08 So what keeps men safe is the non-aggression principle.
15:13 What keeps women safe is the welfare state.
15:18 No, ostracism is equally dangerous for men and women because it's genetic death.
15:28 So men vote to protect life and property, to protect persons and property.
15:35 That's what men vote for.
15:36 Women vote to protect themselves from the consequences of bad decisions.
15:40 I married the wrong guy, I got pregnant out of wedlock.
15:43 Fundamentally those are the two big things.
15:45 I married a guy who doesn't work, I married a guy who's a drunk, I married a guy who's
15:49 violent, I have kids.
15:57 Now what we do as men is we look at the men who vote to protect persons and property and
16:06 we say, "Well, those men are just more rational because persons and property should be protected."
16:13 Right?
16:15 Madness.
16:18 Like men will literally look at other men voting for property rights and the non-aggression
16:22 principle and say, "Well, that makes sense.
16:25 That's rational because persons and property should be protected."
16:28 And then we look at the women who vote for the welfare state and old age pensions and
16:32 socialized medicine and so on.
16:33 "Well, that's crazy.
16:34 That's exploitive."
16:35 Right?
16:36 "But the men are no saner than the women."
16:38 My God, this idea that men are sane and women are crazy.
16:42 Men are sane and men are crazy.
16:43 I mean, tell me, tell me.
16:47 Look at me in the eye.
16:48 Look at me in the eye.
16:49 Tell me.
16:50 Tell me.
16:51 Tell me.
16:52 As a man, you look at other men voting for small government, voting for lower taxes,
17:01 and putting criminals in jail and you say, "Well, that's sensible because men are sensible
17:04 and that all makes sense."
17:11 And you look at women voting for the welfare state, socialized medicine, old age pensions
17:15 and you say, "Well, that's just crazy.
17:18 One is right and one is wrong."
17:25 So come on.
17:26 We've all thought that, right?
17:27 I think as men, right?
17:32 And we look at the women and we say, "Oh, yes, but what the women want violates our
17:36 property rights and our property rights shouldn't be violated."
17:40 So women, when they want stuff, they vote to take away our property.
17:45 We think that this is a valid argument because we grew up without fathers or something
17:54 like that, right?
17:55 For women, it's amoral resource acquisition.
17:58 Okay.
17:59 So, hit me with a why.
18:02 Let's be frank about this, right?
18:03 Hit me with a why if you look at women and you say, "Well, they vote to take away my
18:07 property.
18:08 That's bad.
18:09 I vote to keep my property.
18:10 That's all and good."
18:11 Okay.
18:12 Is it too early to blow your mind?
18:18 It's probably too early to blow your mind, right?
18:29 I did three times already.
18:31 Blow it.
18:32 I'm still in bed.
18:33 Hey, that's my line.
18:36 All right.
18:46 So when you go...
18:47 Oh, no.
18:48 This is going to be too much for you guys.
18:50 It's going to be touch.
18:53 Too much.
18:57 I just had 36 hours of horrible gas fill my head with something else.
19:02 So when you go to women, right, these supposedly irrational women who just take stuff and don't
19:08 think things through, right?
19:09 So you go to women and you say, "You know, we should privatize the healthcare system."
19:12 What do women always say?
19:19 What do the fine ladies always say in general?
19:22 "Yeah, who will take care of my kids?
19:25 What about the poor?
19:26 You just want people to die in the streets.
19:29 But you care about the sick, right?"
19:32 Right.
19:35 So they say, "We need the state to provide healthcare because otherwise healthcare will
19:39 not be provided and it will just be a disaster."
19:43 Right?
19:44 We've all heard of this, right?
19:46 They are wrong.
19:47 Now, that we know that we understand and I accept that, right?
19:52 Okay.
19:53 Here's the mind-blowing part.
19:54 Here's the mind-blowing part.
19:58 And you can try this as a social experiment.
20:00 You really can try this as a social -- and Lord knows I've done it for 40 years, so you
20:03 can try this as a social experiment.
20:04 I'm fully confident.
20:07 So let's say you go to a guy who's more right-wing.
20:12 And you say to that guy, "Healthcare should be privatized."
20:15 You know, he's probably relatively okay with that, right?
20:22 And now you go to that same guy who says, "Well, of course we should privatize the healthcare
20:28 system because it would be more efficient and it would be better and it would be provided
20:32 and it would be sustainable and it won't be debt-based and it will make money off people's
20:35 health rather than their sickness and all these great things."
20:37 Right?
20:38 Now, go to that same guy, oh, that same guy, and say to him, "Not that.
20:52 The provision of healthcare should be privatized."
20:55 Go to him and say, "The protections of life and property should be privatized."
21:01 What's he going to say?
21:04 What's he going to say?
21:15 He's not going to say, "No problem."
21:17 What's he going to say?
21:18 "Well, you can't do that.
21:20 Only the rich will be protected.
21:21 There will be nothing.
21:22 Chaos, violence, civil war.
21:24 It will be a disaster.
21:25 It will be anarchy."
21:29 So you see, when you take away from the state that which women want, they freak out and
21:34 propose all kinds of disaster scenarios.
21:36 When you take away from the state that which the men want, they do exactly the same thing.
21:41 Exactly the same thing, but with less excuse.
21:46 "The private police forces will set up their own government.
21:51 It'll be a takeover.
21:52 It'll be war of all.
21:53 I mean, even Ayn Rand did this."
21:56 "Oh, well, you get two private police agencies and they don't agree on rules and they get
22:00 together, what's going to happen?"
22:01 "War."
22:02 Right?
22:03 "You guys are going to want to differentiate this.
22:05 It won't work.
22:07 You're going to want to differentiate this.
22:08 You're going to say, 'No, no, no, it's different.
22:10 No, it's different.
22:11 Women wanting socialized medicine is very different from men wanting socialized protection
22:15 of property.
22:16 It's totally different."
22:17 "No, men have less excuse for socialized protection of property because they're saying, 'I need
22:22 an agency that violates my property rights in order to protect my property rights.'
22:27 It's beyond retarded."
22:30 It's much more self-contradictory for a man to want state protection of property than
22:34 it is for a woman to want state provision of health care.
22:36 It's much more irrational what the men want.
22:39 Much more irrational.
22:41 "Yeah, it's like a social contract, man."
22:45 "No, it's a -- yeah, yeah, at least women are trading possible things."
22:48 "Yeah, and women say, 'Yes, it's a violation of property rights.'
22:52 Women say, 'Yeah, yeah, I mean, if I want health care, it has to be paid for by taxes.
22:55 People are going to -- yeah, but that's a social contract and I want it and it's fine
22:58 and it's good and the consequences are worth it.'"
23:03 So women aren't being contradictory when they're asking for old age pensions and they're asking
23:06 for socialized health care and they're asking for the welfare state and they're asking for
23:10 palimony and alimony and child support.
23:12 They're not being contradictory.
23:13 They're saying, "Yeah, this violates property rights."
23:15 So what?
23:16 I mean, that's good, right?
23:17 You don't have the experience of men arguing for state protection.
23:23 Well either you're lying, which I don't think you are, or you just haven't talked to many
23:26 people about it.
23:29 You understand?
23:30 So the men are saying, "I need an agency that can violate property rights at will in order
23:35 to protect my property rights.
23:37 I need an agency that could draft me and sent me off to get my face blown off and my lungs
23:43 filled with mustard gas on a whim.
23:45 I need an agency that can enslave me for the war machine in order to protect me from coercion."
23:50 I'm sorry, I don't mean to laugh because it's so grim.
24:04 So you look at men and women, the commonality is that both men and women, both men and women,
24:15 both men and women want what they want socialized.
24:21 There's no difference.
24:30 Cannot agree to this comparison.
24:31 You don't have to apologize.
24:32 If the comparison is invalid, I'm perfectly happy to hear.
24:37 Men tend to ask who will build the roads more often, too, I've noticed.
24:40 Yeah, it could be.
24:42 I'm sure you're right.
24:43 I'm not going to argue with that.
24:45 But yeah, both men and women want their preferences socialized.
24:49 Men want protection of property and persons socialized and women want what they want,
24:56 protection from consequences socialized.
24:59 One is a service, the other is a right.
25:02 Okay, but you're not understanding what I'm saying.
25:06 I'm sorry, you are not understanding what I'm saying.
25:08 If property is a right, then assigning protection of your property to an agency that can violate
25:13 your property at will is contradictory.
25:15 Can we at least understand that?
25:25 We can understand that, right?
25:27 So men look at women and say, "I can't believe that you want other people to pay for what
25:33 you want."
25:35 But men do it with the state as well.
25:36 "I can't believe that you would relinquish your rights to a centralized oligarchical
25:41 agency in order to get what you want."
25:45 Same thing with men.
25:51 Same thing with men.
25:55 Men will socialize, they will want to socialize what they want, which is protection from violence
26:02 and property theft.
26:06 And women, so men will want to socialize what keeps them safe and women will want to socialize
26:10 what keeps them safe.
26:12 And then men will literally look at women and say, "I can't believe that you would want
26:15 to violate my rights for socializing what you want."
26:21 And the women are like, "I'm just doing what you're doing.
26:24 You want protection from violence and theft?
26:28 And so you rely on the state.
26:31 And so when I want protection from what endangers me, suddenly I'm the bad guy?
26:35 Are you kidding me?"
26:38 This is literally like someone from the coal industry saying to someone from the gas industry,
26:44 "I can't believe that you want subsidies and that they're applying for subsidies.
26:49 This is brilliant.
26:50 Nobody has ever pointed this out."
26:51 Yes, and yes.
26:55 I'm not going to argue with you when you're right about me being right.
26:58 I just won't do it.
26:59 Come on, people, give me some love.
27:01 Look what I've done in half an hour.
27:03 Half an hour.
27:04 I've blown your minds four times.
27:06 Come on, give me some sugar.
27:09 Give me a couple of bucks.
27:10 Give me a latte or two.
27:12 I've blown your mind four times in 30 minutes.
27:16 That's a mind blow every eight minutes.
27:24 Come on.
27:26 You know how hard I work for these?
27:28 This month end is going to be a cannonball of tips.
27:31 Thank you.
27:32 I appreciate that.
27:36 Thank you.
27:37 That was awesome.
27:38 Look, I'm just trying to bring men and women back together.
27:41 I'm just trying to bring men and women back together.
27:47 Now let's switch to the ladies.
27:51 Thank you, Ed.
27:52 I appreciate that.
27:53 Let's switch to the ladies.
27:56 So ladies, have you ever kept something that you've seen deeply from your man for some
28:06 reason?
28:07 Something about a relationship, something about a trend, something about something else.
28:12 Have you ever kept something from your man because either he can't handle it or it's
28:18 negative him with no upside or something like that, right?
28:25 So if you have a friend who doesn't particularly like your boyfriend, maybe you don't tell
28:29 him or she has a problem with him or something like that, right?
28:34 Yeah, of course you have.
28:37 Of course you have.
28:38 So ladies, you've seen something that's true and real and valid and maybe important and
28:41 you've kept it from your man.
28:43 And men, you've seen stuff usually in the political realm.
28:45 So the women keep stuff from the personal realm from their men.
28:48 And for women, there's stuff that you see and know and understand in relationships that
28:57 you keep from your man.
29:04 Frida says, "I think Steph's prime directive of promoting peaceful parenting is definitely
29:08 of foremost importance, but geez, bringing men and women back from the propaganda I state
29:13 mutual resentment is a close second."
29:14 Well, they're two are very closely related.
29:16 You can't have peaceful parenting if you're fighting with your spouse.
29:20 The stability of peaceful parenting rests on the stability and happiness of the marriage.
29:26 So I don't view them – they're complementary to, to put it mildly.
29:31 A house divided cannot stand.
29:33 This is true.
29:34 This is true.
29:35 All right.
29:37 Now why do men scan politics?
29:45 And the Roman Empire is scanning politics for reasons I'll get to in a second.
29:48 But why do men scan politics?
29:53 Why do men – well, why do you?
29:56 They call it doom scrolling or whatever, but why do you scan politics?
30:01 Preparing for disasters.
30:04 Looking for threats.
30:05 Yeah, of course, but for what?
30:07 Because what the woman's going to say is, what do women say about a man scanning for
30:10 politics, right?
30:11 What do the women say?
30:12 Oh, I read this crazy law is coming into effect.
30:15 And the women are like, well, you can't do anything about it, so why do you bother?
30:18 Why do you learn about these things?
30:20 To protect our family from coming trouble.
30:22 Yeah, yeah, yeah, but – sorry.
30:24 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
30:25 But how?
30:26 How do you protect your family from coming trouble?
30:27 Because the women say, we can't do anything about it.
30:30 Why would you – right?
30:31 Prepping, yeah, there's some of that, right, for sure.
30:36 Yeah, prepping.
30:39 To prepare.
30:41 So what are the two things that men can do to protect their families in times of political
30:47 disasters?
30:54 To see who not to vote?
30:55 That's – buy Bitcoin.
30:58 Well, you're not wrong about that, Edward, for sure.
31:01 But in general, what are the two things that men do to protect their families in a time
31:05 of social or political chaos?
31:10 Stock up, build up communities, or prepare to flee.
31:13 James, you are on fire, baby.
31:16 You are on fire like Michael Jackson in a Pepsi commercial.
31:19 Yeah, shelter or run, borrow or run, right?
31:22 Hide or flight?
31:23 Well, you can't fight.
31:25 So it's hide or run.
31:28 It's hide or run.
31:30 Now hiding is sort of prepping and making sure that you have a good community and being
31:34 prepared for all of that.
31:36 But what is the number one thing that people, certainly over the last couple of hundred
31:40 years, what is the number one thing that people have done when their societies turn to crap
31:46 on a stick?
31:47 They run.
31:48 I mean, America and Canada and – well, maybe not so much Australia.
31:54 They were kind of driven out.
31:55 But America and Canada in particular are founded by people who ran.
32:02 So when you're studying politics and it's like, oh, man, tsunami of totalitarianism
32:08 is coming, right?
32:13 You run.
32:15 You run.
32:18 Am I wrong?
32:24 As a Westerner, where are you going to run to?
32:27 Oh, Dave.
32:31 Oh, Dave.
32:36 Oh, Dave.
32:44 Where are you going to run to?
32:45 Well, then you're going to have to borrow.
32:49 If you don't think or plan or figure out where you might run to, you're going to have
32:52 to borrow.
32:59 Because if you haven't looked into this at all, what are you going to need?
33:05 Where are you going to go?
33:06 What are your options?
33:07 What are your choices?
33:12 And I don't have much patience for your paralysis.
33:16 I mean, just stare and do nothing.
33:22 That's some childhood doom thing, right?
33:24 That's nothing to do with the rational analysis of what's going on, right?
33:29 What percentage of money ever created in the U.S.?
33:32 What percentage has been created in the last three years?
33:34 What percentage of money ever created in the American economy has been created in the last
33:38 couple of years?
33:41 Eighty percent.
33:46 Eighty percent.
33:47 I mean, this is the official numbers.
33:49 I'm sure it's far worse, right?
33:53 The amount of debt in the U.S. economy is beyond staggering.
33:57 Half the people are paycheck to paycheck.
34:01 My point is the issue doesn't disappear by going to another country.
34:04 You're still a foreigner.
34:07 Sorry, Dave.
34:11 Give me your age range, Dave, because I don't understand this statement at all.
34:16 And you don't have to tell me your actual age.
34:17 Just tell me what decade you're in, please.
34:21 Late 40s?
34:24 Late 40s?
34:25 Dave, are you insane?
34:30 Anybody who's over 35 is a foreigner to the childhood country they grew up in, right?
34:37 You are a foreigner to where you grew up.
34:41 Right now.
34:42 Am I wrong?
34:44 It's unrecognizable.
34:45 It's incomprehensible.
34:49 The country that I grew up in, both in England and in Canada, the country that I grew up
34:53 in is not here.
34:54 What do you mean you'd be a foreigner in some other country?
34:58 You're a foreigner in your own country to some degree in terms of the values you grew
35:01 up with.
35:02 Am I wrong?
35:03 I could be wrong.
35:05 I could be wrong.
35:11 Not to my peers.
35:12 Well, you're just moving the goalpost, Dave.
35:14 You're just moving the goalpost.
35:15 We're talking about countries and you're like, "Well, no, no, no.
35:17 Now I'm talking about my peers, so you're not right."
35:21 So we're talking about fleeing countries and you're like, "Well, but my peers."
35:25 It's like, "Well, don't waste my time."
35:27 Right?
35:28 Don't waste my time with just moving categories.
35:29 That's boring.
35:31 And we're better than that, right?
35:38 So we watch to figure out when you've got to run, if you've got to run.
35:46 And maybe you stay in borough, maybe you lay low, maybe you whatever, right?
35:54 But I mean the world that I grew up in doesn't exist anymore.
36:01 The world that I grew up in is gone.
36:06 I mean maybe you live in a country with more continuity and all of that, but yeah, the
36:11 country that I grew up in is not around anymore mentally in terms of all of that, right?
36:24 So yeah, I mean I think that's important, right?
36:29 I think that's important.
36:36 So I just wanted to point that out.
36:41 So yeah, so men are -- why do we think about the Roman Empire?
36:47 I think I'm getting -- somebody says, "I think I'm getting ready to run to another country.
36:52 I found happiness overseas.
36:53 I wonder if the USA will provoke a hot war with Russia.
36:56 It seems the USA always wanted a war with Russia."
36:57 No, that's not the case.
37:00 They wanted a war with Russia since Russia rejected communism.
37:07 So all right, so men will often hide political concerns from their wives because their wives
37:27 may be overwhelmed and too anxious and it's not time to act in whatever peaceful manner
37:34 you can, right?
37:38 And women will keep things from the man that might be bothersome to the man which they're
37:42 not going to act on or can't do much about, right?
37:48 So ladies, here we go.
37:53 This is your man cave exploration time.
37:58 Here we go.
38:02 Why do men think about the Roman Empire?
38:10 I will tell you using an analogy that you will deeply, deeply understand.
38:20 I want you to imagine that you have a stalker and that stalker comes and goes but is very
38:29 dangerous.
38:31 He's not just a stalker who's like going to hide in your closet and jump out and scare
38:35 you.
38:36 He's like a stalker who might set fire to your house or cut the brake cables in your
38:41 car or -- he's like a really, really not so dangerous stalker, right?
38:49 Now he's in prison, he's out of prison, you go to the police, maybe they help somewhat,
38:57 maybe they don't, but you're always going to live a little bit with one eye over your
39:03 shoulder.
39:04 Now if he's in prison, you're going to relax for a certain amount of time but he's going
39:07 to get out of prison and so on, right?
39:08 So he's just in your orbit, right?
39:16 You got a stalker.
39:17 Now if a man were to say to you, "Why do you think about this stalker?
39:24 I mean you haven't heard from him in months.
39:28 Why do you think about this stalker?
39:29 You haven't heard from him in months or years?"
39:33 But he's out of prison and he's talking about you on social media and then things maybe
39:44 go quiet as you say, right?
39:45 The silence is worse, right?
39:49 So can you ever not think about your stalker?
39:51 Can you ever just go live your life, pretend you don't have a stalker, right?
39:56 Could you do that?
40:01 If women need an analogy and can't get it through logic and math, oh Dan, I bet you
40:10 want the state to protect your rights and property too.
40:13 So something a woman said to me many years ago about parenthood, right?
40:24 Women in general never stop thinking about their kids and their families and it's kind
40:29 of like a dimmer switch that doesn't go off.
40:30 You can turn it down but you can't turn it off.
40:34 You can turn it down but you can't turn it off.
40:37 So if you have a stalker, you can dial it down, right?
40:41 You're in a movie theater and you're probably okay and you can watch the movie but then
40:44 you come out and you just never know, right?
40:51 So what is the stalker for men?
40:57 What is the stalker for men?
41:07 Well in general it's political predation, right?
41:11 It's political predation.
41:13 Political predation is the biggest predator in history, right?
41:18 I mean I've mentioned this before.
41:19 It's called democide.
41:20 You can look it up, D-E-M-O-C-I-D-E, democide that the state in the 20th century outside
41:25 of war murdered a quarter of a billion people.
41:28 Tyrannies, right?
41:30 So you have a predator, a stalker that you follow and you track and you think about continually
41:42 and you look for patterns and you try and figure out where he is or what he might be
41:45 doing because you're trying to figure out how safe you are.
41:51 So for men – so for women the Roman Empire is like, "It was 1,500 years ago the thing
41:58 fell.
41:59 It was thousands of years ago.
42:02 Why would you – " which is like the man saying to the woman, "You haven't heard
42:05 from this.
42:06 You haven't seen this stalker in months or years."
42:12 So you understand that for men the Roman Empire is not in the past.
42:17 The Roman Empire and the fall of Rome is potentially in the not too distant future.
42:28 Women track predators.
42:30 Men track predators.
42:33 Who preys on women?
42:34 Often sexually obsessed men.
42:36 Who preys on men?
42:38 Political predation.
42:39 So we're not thinking about the Roman Empire.
42:42 We're thinking about our families and our protection and our future and we need to understand
42:47 the predation.
42:52 We need to understand the predation.
42:54 Now a key salient aspect of the Roman Empire was deflation of the currency or inflation
43:01 of the currency, deflation of the value of the currency.
43:04 So as you know the denarius went through 90 to 95 percent devaluation over a relatively
43:09 short period of time.
43:14 So we need to keep track of politics and we need to keep track of the money supply because
43:20 that's our lifeblood.
43:25 Like that movie, the play A Raisin in the Sun that I had to read when I was in junior
43:29 high school.
43:30 "That money was made from my daddy's blood."
43:33 Guy runs off with the savings of this black guy.
43:38 So yes, in the same way that the family needs to make sure that mice don't get into the
43:47 grain supply because they eat, leave diseases and poop thus rendering the grain supply inedible,
43:53 you need to keep people from preying on your stuff and who preys on your stuff the most
43:58 is the central bank.
44:03 You know, an inflation rate of 7 percent steals half your stuff in a couple decades.
44:13 So you understand that men think about the Roman Empire and women are like, "Well that's
44:16 the past."
44:17 And men are like, "That's not the past.
44:20 That's the pattern for the present."
44:21 Again, if I'm wrong, tell me I'm wrong, but this is what -- but men have to keep this
44:28 from women because women tend to worry more.
44:33 Right?
44:36 I mean, this is the shield, right?
44:41 This is the shield.
44:44 So women, for women it's like, "Well that's incomprehensible.
44:45 Why on earth would you think about -- how could you possibly think about the Roman Empire?
44:52 It's so long ago.
44:53 It makes no sense.
44:58 It's so in the past.
44:59 It's incomprehensible."
45:00 And do you know why it's incomprehensible?
45:02 Because we've been keeping it from you.
45:05 Because, you know, there's been a lot of money printing and that's going to have an effect
45:11 and that's going to be food for our families.
45:14 So why do women keep their deep stuff from men?
45:16 Two reasons.
45:17 So first of all, women need to know that their men are scanning the horizon.
45:24 Women offload concerns about political predation to men.
45:32 And men offload deep examination of relationships to women.
45:39 I've noticed women in general avoid deep philosophical arguments.
45:42 Well, because women have a higher need to get along with others because they need the
45:47 participation of others to raise children.
45:57 Somebody says, "Because we have not learned anything from the fall, or at least our so-called
46:00 leaders haven't."
46:01 Boy, you really are blaming the victims here, aren't we?
46:07 We've not learned anything from the fall of Rome.
46:09 Boy, history just repeats itself.
46:11 Or if it doesn't repeat itself, it certainly rhymes.
46:13 "Oh, we just don't learn anything.
46:16 Those who do not learn from their history are doomed to repeat it."
46:22 You ever had those thoughts?
46:23 Like, "People are just idiots.
46:24 They refuse to learn from history.
46:25 I can't believe they don't learn."
46:26 Right?
46:27 You ever have those thoughts?
46:28 Yeah.
46:29 I just -- I can't keep blowing your minds.
46:37 Like, I can't.
46:40 Yeah, I can't.
46:44 It's too much, you guys.
46:46 I can barely handle it, and I originate these thoughts.
46:48 I can't.
46:49 I can't.
46:50 I can't.
46:50 I can't.
46:53 I can't.
46:56 I can't.