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00:00Good morning, everybody. Hope you're doing well. It's Stefan Molyneux from Freedomain.
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00:24Women in Power, especially the HR Karens
00:28hellbent on turning every organization into their personal power play fantasy. Not a
00:32particularly brilliant question, but I would value your insight, your thoughts.
00:36Alright. Do not fall into the trap of
00:40disliking women. Do not. Well, and women, of course, don't fall
00:44into the trap of disliking men. Like, you know, you know
00:48for an absolute fact that that's what the government wants, right? What does the government want? The powers
00:52that be, the political entities that run this, that, and the other.
00:56What do they want? They want you to
01:00dislike women. They want the women to dislike men that way. We're at odds with each other. We're
01:04fighting with each other. We're losing respect for each other. And, you know,
01:08we're not having kids. We're not forming foundational families to protect freedoms
01:12and so on. They want you to dislike it. So, what happens
01:16is, you end up in this situation, a lot of times,
01:20where state power
01:24gets infused into female nature, thus corrupting
01:28female nature as power corrupts, and therefore you think that what you're
01:32disliking is female nature. I mean,
01:36it's like somebody pees into your wine and you say
01:40wine is pee. It's like, this is a foundational logical error.
01:44It's just a foundational logical error. If somebody gets shot,
01:48we don't evaluate their health without noticing that they got shot.
01:52If somebody is drugged, let's say that somebody gets roofied and ends up
01:56in a really chaotic situation, they lose all their inhibitions, they yell at people,
02:00they go and punch a security guard or something,
02:04and then they get tested and it turns out somebody
02:08administered against their will some crazy hallucinogenic drug,
02:12we would not evaluate that person's behavior in the absence
02:16of accepting that they had been drugged. And power is a drug.
02:20You understand? You are looking at drugged people when you're looking at the modern world.
02:24Now, normally in the past,
02:28there was a modicum of protection with
02:32a massive amount of exploitation. So you look at the serf, right? You look at the
02:36serf, there was a modicum of protection from the Lord, but there was massive amounts
02:40of enslavement and exploitation. If you look at the modern world
02:44though, because wealth has been generated by the free market or the remnants of the free market,
02:48what's happened is now we don't have
02:52protection really from
02:56violence, we have protection from consequences, from reality, from
03:00choice, from bad decisions, from foolish behaviors, from promiscuity,
03:04from laziness, from a lack of preparation for the future,
03:08from not saving from your time. Now instead of protection from violence,
03:12we have protection from consequences. And when you protect people from
03:16consequences, they act in
03:20ways that seem irrational and frustrating and annoying.
03:24It's sort of like if somebody's playing a video game where there's, you know, that F9
03:28F6 was it? F5 save, F9 load, or whatever it was.
03:32They've got some instant key load and save. So if you play a video
03:36game, and there's a few that have been out there where you have to play as if it's real life,
03:40and if you die, you die, you can't save.
03:44But if you have a game where you can
03:48insta-save, insta-load, you tend to be more
03:52reckless, you tend to be more careless, you tend to go in guns blazing,
03:56you tend to try out all of these various things because you can just save and load.
04:00You are protected from consequences. A, because it's just a video game,
04:04and B, because you can save and load the game. So
04:08right now we're in a situation where women
04:12as a whole, as a voting bloc, and again, tons of exceptions, we're just talking generalities,
04:16but women can vote for protection from consequences, and
04:20consequences are the greatest for women, and therefore their desire
04:24to be protected from consequences, negative consequences, is huge.
04:28So if you're looking at the world that is,
04:32and thinking that, wow, people are just crazy, they're corrupt,
04:36they're bad, they're Karens, they're monsters, then you're not understanding
04:40that they have been drugged.
04:44If you look at something like alcohol, alcohol is a
04:48dis-inhibitor. It's a dis-inhibitor, and when I
04:52was working up north among the people I was working with, there was kind of a joke,
04:56it was called the wolf sex, and the wolf sex is
05:00you go to a bar, you've been in the bush for a long time, you go
05:04to a bar, and you end up sleeping with a woman who is
05:08so homely, so ugly, that when you wake up in the morning,
05:12it's called the wolf sex, right? You'd rather chew your own arm off, because she's got her head resting in your arm,
05:16you'd rather chew your own arm off rather than wake her up, because you want to slip out, right?
05:20So that's a dis-inhibitor. When you have alcohol, it's a dis-inhibitor,
05:24you make decisions you otherwise wouldn't make, you take chances you otherwise wouldn't take,
05:28and you don't really think of consequences, because you're drunk.
05:32So the modern world is roofied
05:36by the bottomless alcohol of state power.
05:40So people are in a state of, they're in a mind
05:44altered state. They are dis-inhibited
05:48because the government flies in, and flushes in,
05:52and sprays money everywhere, and protects people from the consequences of their actions.
05:56So you're not looking at women,
06:00you're looking at human beings as a whole
06:04that are in a mind altered state
06:08of consciousness, where their inhibitions are lowered, because
06:12they have been protected from a lack of consequences, they don't see
06:16consequences, which is why you need morality and virtue and all these,
06:20they don't see consequences, because the consequences don't exist. In fact, what used to be
06:24horrendously negative consequences, such as having a child outside of wedlock, can now
06:28be a massively positive consequence, in that you get free stuff from here to eternity,
06:32and you don't have to work.
06:36To have a child out of wedlock
06:40in the welfare state in the West, gives
06:44women a better lifestyle than being a queen a hundred years ago.
06:48Because she gets all the modern amenities, right? And modern
06:52medicines. So,
06:56just please understand that, and stop looking at
07:00current human behavior, and think it has anything to do
07:04with human nature, right?
07:08It's not human nature,
07:12it's human nature roofied by power.
07:16So, if we look at women,
07:20I mean, women rulers start wars a little bit more,
07:24females commit much more coercion against children and so on,
07:28so, if we look at women, we say, well, there could be a bit of a dictatorial element,
07:32a bit of an aggressive element, a bit of a controlling
07:36element, and an element that is quick to take offense. Okay, so,
07:40why is that? Rather than just condemning it, oh, a female nature,
07:44and this and that, MGTOW, and monk levels, and Eve,
07:48rather say, okay, well, be curious, just be open and be curious about what's going
07:52on in the world, on the planet. So, what's going on? Why
07:56on earth, let this bug go over my camera lens, well, that would make sense, right?
08:00They are attracted to bright, shiny things, and it's daylight,
08:04and I'm bald. So, why is it
08:08that women would have these tendencies?
08:12So, please, please, please remember, women evolved to take care
08:16of a conveyor belt of babies and toddlers. They had two plus
08:20decades of fertility themselves, and at the end of that fertility, their first children
08:24would be having babies, so they just are designed from
08:28the age of their teens onwards to constantly take care of a
08:32conveyor belt of babies and toddlers. And if you've been around people with
08:36big families, you understand that. A lot of people have no families, or just a few
08:40kids, or one kid, but if you've been around people, and a lot of my friends have very
08:44big families, then you understand that women are
08:48just taking care. I have a friend, a good friend, who's
08:52embarking with a new baby when the oldest kid is in
08:56college, right? So, it is just a conveyor belt of
09:00babies and toddlers. Now, how do you deal with babies and toddlers historically
09:04when you have a bunch of them, right? When you have a bunch of them. Well, do you have
09:08to be dictatorial if you have
09:12three children under five?
09:16Do you have to be kind of sharp? Do you have to be dictatorial? Do you have
09:20to be kind of aggressive to keep them safe?
09:24I'm not justifying it morally, I'm talking about this evolutionarily.
09:28Do the children have to be a little scared of you
09:32if there's dangers everywhere? Because remember, you're the hunter-gatherer,
09:36there's dangers everywhere, there are wild animals, you can eat berries that will kill you,
09:40you can get injured, even on farms,
09:44bad things can happen if you go through the wrong fence and get gored by a bull, or
09:48fall down a well, there's dangers everywhere. We didn't live in these
09:52bubble-wrapped McMansions in the suburbs, right? We evolved in a
09:56situation or an environment of significant danger. I mean, honestly,
10:00just think about this. One toddler wanders into a goat paddock and gets
10:04kicked in the head by a goat, or butted by a ram, or something like that,
10:08and then you've got massive injuries, brain damage, concussions,
10:12subdural hematomas, whatever it's going to be. So, you need
10:16to have that level of aggression in order to keep children safe in a dangerous environment
10:20prior to the rise of moral philosophy, so looking at the evolution
10:24of the species. So, yes, women can be sharp. Women developed
10:28a certain amount of verbal aggression, and women developed the capacity
10:32and developed a very strong capacity
10:36to control with language rather than coercion, right? Men generally control
10:40with coercion, women generally control with language, which is why we've got this
10:44stone-policing, woke stuff, as women have gained more and more power
10:48through the state. So,
10:52women need to control
10:56with language, which means they have to be harsh, sharp, and they have to have the ability
11:00to massively and strongly and deeply disapprove
11:04because they're around babies and toddlers. Now, babies and toddlers
11:08are in a symbiotic relationship with the mothers, right? Babies and toddlers.
11:12So, toddlers are in a symbiotic relationship with their mother. They're two sides of the same coin,
11:16they're one flesh. The mother, how have they evolved? How have the
11:20babies and the mothers evolved? Toddlers and mothers have evolved. The mothers have evolved to be
11:24verbally sharp and aggressive, and the toddlers have evolved, or the only toddlers that survived
11:28were those who really, really cared about their mother's disapproval
11:32because when she says, stop, those babies who were like,
11:36you know, to heck with you, mom, I'm going on, they didn't make it statistically,
11:40right? Or they made it less. So, the toddlers have evolved
11:44to care enormously about the mother's sharp tone and disapproval
11:48because they can survive all that. What they can't survive is falling down
11:52a well or getting headbutted by some
11:56big goat, right? So, when the mother says stop, the baby
12:00has to, or the toddler has to stop. My baby's a little young, but toddlers, right?
12:04So, the moment they become ambulatory, and especially boys, right? Especially boys.
12:08To disapprove of boys as opposed to like girls more
12:12is a common facet of motherhood, right? It's that Sarah Silverman commercial,
12:16oh, you've had a son, I'm so sorry, or whatever it is, right? Boys are
12:20stupid, let's throw rocks at them. Boys are just broken girls, all the Warren Farrell
12:24stuff, war on boys. So, and why are
12:28mothers more sharp and disapproving of boys? Because boy
12:32toddlers are more aggressive and exploratory and
12:36will throw themselves into dangers a lot more, right? The boys are climbing trees
12:40while the girls are having tea parties, to take a kind of cliche.
12:44So, the mothers have to be sharper and more aggressive with the boys
12:48which allows the boys to become more aggressive, right? So,
12:52we need a society with aggressive boys, right? To defend, to
12:56hunt, all of these things, right? To wage war if necessary. So, we need a society with
13:00aggressive boys. How do boys become aggressive? They become aggressive
13:04because they're very susceptible to disapproval from their mothers. So, the mothers
13:08become the early warning system, the radar that keeps the boys safe. You're climbing too high, get down.
13:12Don't walk over there, come back here, don't climb that, like
13:16they're just constantly correcting, right? And that allows the boys to go
13:20and explore and be aggressive and they have to listen to their mother. When they're toddlers, when they get older, that's a different matter
13:24but they have to have all that stuff inlaid to begin with. Now,
13:28who transmits culture, right? Who transmits values?
13:32It's the mother. The father transmits skills.
13:36The mother transmits morals. The mother
13:40transmits values which is why, you know, church,
13:44kitchen and children, right? It's the old German
13:48phrase about women, right? So, women transmit values
13:52and the reason for that is that the men are busy when their babies
13:56and toddlers are growing and the morals need to be embedded
14:00in the child's mind by the age of four or five
14:04or it's virtually impossible to do it later. So, the morals
14:08absolutely, completely and totally need to be embedded because empathy develops as 13
14:12systems in the brain that all have to work in coordination to develop empathy, the values
14:16of the tribe and so on, have to be inculcated
14:20in the babies and toddlers. So, by the time the adult males are
14:24teaching the children skills, in particular, they're teaching the children
14:28the males, the hunting and gathering. So, by the time the adult males
14:32are teaching the children skills, it's usually the age of six or seven and by then
14:36the window for language development and moral development and cultural
14:40transmission has largely passed. So, it is up to the mothers
14:44to transmit the values of the culture which is why getting kids
14:48into daycare destroys the values of the culture and also, by the by,
14:52every month that you spend in
14:56daycare, for affluent families, every month the child spends in daycare,
15:00it drops the IQ by 4% of a standard deviation,
15:040.5% of IQ as a whole, 4.7% or something like that
15:08of a standard deviation every month, every month, because
15:12there's less one-on-one interaction, there's less training and so on. This shows up at eight or nine, I don't know if it resolves
15:16later but that's the data for when the kids are young. So, the mothers have to
15:20transmit the values of the tribe, the morals of the tribe and they have to do
15:24that when the children
15:28are immune to reason,
15:32evidence and arguments because they're
15:36babies and toddlers. Now, again, I'm talking
15:40evolution, not talking morally and so on. So, the babies and toddlers
15:44have to be trained on morals before they can be reasoned with.
15:48So, how do you train children on right and wrong before you
15:52can reason with them? Now, maybe the babies and toddlers can be reasoned with but
15:56before peaceful parenting, before the whole ethics of childhood,
16:00women are not philosophers, men are not philosophers in general, so they just
16:04don't have the tools, right?
16:08So, how do the mothers
16:12teach the toddlers about the values of the tribe, the morals of the tribe, the
16:16appropriateness or inappropriate behavior, right and wrong and so on? Well, they do so
16:20through
16:24verbal aggression and emotional punishment, through
16:28emotional withdrawal. The child does something that's wrong and the
16:32parents and the mothers strongly disapprove of that child. The child
16:36panics and then conforms because the child can't survive without the mother.
16:40There's a lot of resources that are needed for a bunch of kids. You don't want to be the kid who's the black sheep
16:44and doesn't conform and is less
16:48savable, right? So,
16:52when the toddlers, particularly the boys, do
16:56something that goes against the emotional grain of the mothers, the mothers will react
17:00with aggression and hostility at times and they will
17:04react with emotional
17:08disapproval, ostracism and withdrawal and that frightens the children into being compliant
17:12with the values of the tribe. There's no way the tribal values prior to
17:16modern philosophy, there's no way the tribal values can be transmitted rationally because the tribal
17:20values aren't rational. It's just tribalism. So, how do
17:24the mothers get the children to accept that which is not rational? They train them through approval,
17:28good job, through disapproval, you're bad, through emotional withdrawal, through
17:32iciness, through manipulation, through verbal aggression and sometimes physical aggression too. They're
17:36training the children by transmitting the values of the tribe to recreate
17:40the values of the tribe, to have the tribal values continue and to view that
17:44tribe as the best and other tribes as bad. How do you transmit tribalism
17:48through aggression against children?
17:52So, if you take that and you combine it with the power of the state,
17:56this is why men tend to be into free speech
18:00and women tend to be into censorship as a whole
18:04because men are out there organizing a hunting party
18:08and if someone sees something wrong but is too frightened to speak up, the whole hunting
18:12party could fail and everything might go really badly. So, speak your mind, it's really important for men
18:16in war, in hunting, in scouting and all
18:20of that. Men need to work together as a team and if you're silenced, that tends to be bad
18:24which is why men tend to be more into free speech. Women tend to be more into censorship
18:28and top-down hierarchy because culture is
18:32censorship. Culture is not rationality, culture is not
18:36philosophy, culture is not syllogisms, culture is
18:40in a sense a kind of prejudice.
18:44If it's actually factual, true, empirical and evidence, then it's
18:48philosophy and science, it's not culture. So, how do you
18:52transmit the irrational to little children? You do it through emotional aggression
18:56and manipulation, through punishment, withdrawal, affection, positive, negative, all that
19:00kind of stuff and that's how culture has been transmitted. And again, I'm not judging any of this,
19:04I'm just telling you how it all evolved.
19:08So, you can't transmit culture
19:12if children have the full right of questioning skepticism and reply.
19:16So, children are full of that question, why, why, why, why, why? Well, we believe
19:20this, well, why? Well, this is true, well, why? Well, prove it. So, you can't have free speech
19:24and transmission of anti-empirical,
19:28anti-rational cultural values at the same time. So, women have to be censorious,
19:32they have to shut down free speech so that they can transmit values and what that means
19:36is that women who were not able to transmit values,
19:40those tribes generally did not survive
19:44because you have to have in tribalism, which is how we evolved,
19:48you have to have my tribe good, your tribe bad.
19:52And that is not foundationally rational, it is something that just has to be
19:56instilled. A prejudice for the in-group has to be
20:00inflicted as a moral absolute. And it's not rational, so you have to do it through
20:04oppression, reward, punishment, ostracism, and so on, disapproval.
20:08So, if you look at this sort of scolding that goes on from women, well, that's inappropriate, well, that's wrong,
20:12well, that's offensive, that's upsetting, you know, the old meme that
20:16one guy's making a joke to the other guy and the other guy finds it hilarious and then
20:20the liberal woman steps in and says, no, you don't, and she's offended on his behalf or something like that.
20:24Well, you understand, that's women's, this is how we survived, this is how we evolved.
20:28Women did a massive service to mankind by doing all of this throughout the course of our
20:32evolution. It's a beautiful thing. It's why we're
20:36here. It's why we got to the top of the food chain. We have men and women to thank for getting to the
20:40top of the food chain, the apex predators. So, women
20:44were responsible for inflicting irrational
20:48absolutist doctrines on naturally skeptical and curious children,
20:52particularly boys. So, they had to escalate aggression,
20:56censoriousness, that's inappropriate, that's wrong, how dare you, that's offensive,
21:00that's upsetting. They had to inflict injurious
21:04ostracism and rejection in order to
21:08transmit the values of the tribe so that the tribe could survive.
21:12In a world where every other tribe is doing this, you have to do it too.
21:16I mean, can you imagine being
21:20on a sports team and not caring if your sports team won
21:24because every sports team wants to win, it's not a moral battle, it doesn't
21:28really matter, and so on. Well, that would be a traitor. And you would then
21:32not play as well and you wouldn't be part of the team and you'd evolve out of that.
21:36That would not be supported in the long run.
21:40So, women's nature to transmit values to
21:44toddlers is to be aggressive and
21:48censorious and finger-wagging and what you would call a Karen.
21:52And that's a beautiful thing when you have good values, good reasons,
21:56and the best thing we can do to make women less censorious is to give them rational values to transmit
22:00to their children so they can ask the question of why should I believe this with empirical and rational
22:04and philosophical answers so they don't have to be aggressive. But that's not happened yet.
22:08I'm working on that, hasn't happened yet. But then saying, well, women are just
22:12Karens and they're censorious and they're against freedom and free speech and they nag
22:16and they're... No, they're following their instinctive drive to reproduce
22:20culture through censorship and through aggression and
22:24through ostracism and emotional attacks and withdrawal
22:28and so on. That's how culture got transmitted. It's how we all evolved.
22:32It's how we got here and women are utterly... Because I love life and I love being a human
22:36being and I love freedom and society. As it stands,
22:40there's still a lot of great stuff in it, right? I mean, for me. Hopefully for you too.
22:44So, I love the fact that women had all of this. It's how we got here and
22:48the best thing we can do for women is to give them good reasons to explain morality
22:52to their children and that way they don't have to be aggressive in the same way
22:56that the free market allows you to be productive rather than to pillage others. Philosophy
23:00allows you to reason with children which will replace aggression over time, which is why
23:04I've been working so hard on PeacefulParenting.com. I hope you'll check it out and share it.
23:08PeacefulParenting.com. There's even a short version there that you can get through in a couple of
23:12hours of the whole book, so there's really no excuse. It's free. It's engaging. It's passionate.
23:16It's audiobook. It's e-book. It's a shortened version. It's about
23:20as easy as I can make it to get a hold of. So, PeacefulParenting.com. I hope
23:24that you will check that out. All right. Well, I will
23:28only go to one question today. I hope that's all right, but I thought it was a big one. Don't hate on the
23:32women. Recognize that they're drugged by power and you're drugged by power and we're all
23:36drugged by power and we've all been have consequences have been
23:40stripped from us through debt and money printing and borrowing and all kinds of
23:44stuff. So, let's have some compassion for each other
23:48because we're all drugged by power and to blame another person when they're drugged
23:52you can slowly wean them off the drug by pointing them out that they are drugged and after that they have some
23:56responsibility, but most people are not even close to that. So, let's have some gentleness and some
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