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"What in your opinion is causing inflation now in the west? Is it similar to antiquity? Printing money?
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"Is there such a thing as 'rights'?"

"Is this really you?"

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"Thoughts on asset allocation towards large cap value or growth stocks."

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00:00Hi everybody, Stephen Molyneux from Free Domain. So I asked for questions, and questions I got.
00:06This is from Facebook. Of course, I appreciate everyone's fantastic questions. There really
00:12aren't bad questions. Hopefully, there also won't be bad answers. So, somebody wrote,
00:18do you think that a politician, say the president of a country, could help to foster a transition
00:23to a stateless society? Well, of course, Xavier Millet is a Rothbardian anarcho-capitalist.
00:29I would argue that, at its most absolute center, the Republicans tend to be minarchists,
00:38who have to contend with a society where people have made bad decisions based upon
00:43the forced redistribution of wealth. So, it's been tried, right? It's been tried.
00:50America was the greatest experiment in the tiniest government known to man. And it took,
00:57arguably, well, I mean, the Whiskey Rebellion happened right away, or fairly soon after
01:02George Washington wrote down farmers for not wanting to pay a whiskey tax. It took about 80
01:06years, maybe, for the American government to break the bonds of the Constitution.
01:12Paper doesn't tend to stop bullets. And so, the experiment of the smallest government in human
01:19history has now become one of the largest governments, or if you count national debt,
01:23the biggest government, and unfunded liabilities, the biggest government in human history.
01:27I think that politicians can reverse things, but people forget, right? There's this cycle.
01:36Freedom begets wealth. Wealth begets inequality. And because of radical egalitarianism,
01:42younger sibling fetishes and obsessions, we want to close the gap of inequality,
01:47which means destroying freedom, which means causing poverty. And then people get sick of
01:52that, so they try to get more freedom, which increases the inequality. We just,
01:56nah, because people don't talk about the basics of how this kind of stuff works.
02:02So, certainly, politicians can make a difference. Millet certainly is making a difference,
02:06although I'm not such a big fan of the Scanning Society minority report stuff. But the guy in El
02:14Salvador has made El Salvador very safe by actually locking up the people who are irredeemably evil.
02:20So, politicians can certainly make a change, but the better they make society,
02:27the more people get anxious about inequality and destroy freedoms for the sake of...
02:34The fantasy that human beings are equal is a very dangerous one. Now, of course,
02:39human beings are equal before the law, and they're equal in terms of rights and so on.
02:42Absolutely. But the idea that everyone can be a great singer, the idea that everyone can be a
02:48great entrepreneur, the idea that everyone could be a great gymnast, or, I mean, if you look at the
02:52reaction times of Formula One drivers, it's completely mental how fast their reaction times
02:57are. That's just hardwired. That's just hardwired. So, we find this is an uncomfortable topic,
03:03right? About 80% of your IQ is genetic by your late teens, and it gets more genetic from there.
03:09Not everyone is equally tall, not everyone has blue eyes, blah, blah, blah. So,
03:14we don't like this inequality stuff. It goes against our ideas of the soul, and it goes
03:18against the idea of the egalitarianism of human nature. And, of course, we're all important in
03:23our own way. We're all very important to those who love us, and those who we love, we're very
03:27important to. But the idea that in a state of freedom, you're going to end up with equality
03:32is really a murderous fantasy. It is an absolutely murderous fantasy. Politicians can stave that off
03:38for a little bit, but until we get to the root cause of that, it's not going to last. It's not
03:44going to last. People have this with dieting. You know, they say, oh, I want to lose weight,
03:49right? And then they say, oh, well, I've been good for a month, so I should have a treat or two. And
03:53then it just falls apart, right? Only a few percentage point of people who lose weight
03:57actually keep it off. So, the solution is, as childhood, why are we conditioned to believe
04:03that violence is essential for the maintenance of order in society? But that's because our parents
04:09and our teachers instruct us, often coercively, that violence is necessary for the maintenance
04:16of order within a family, within a school, and so on. So, violence is necessary for the
04:21maintenance of order, is something that we're taught by, I mean, even priests with the hellfire
04:26and damnation, violence is necessary for the sake of maintaining order, that we are animals,
04:32that must be dominated through brute force, rather than rational souls that need to negotiate and
04:37mediate in peaceful discussion. So, we're taught from day one, almost, that violence is the only
04:45way to keep order. And then, until that is challenged, which is my book, Peaceful Parenting,
04:49at peacefulparenting.com, you should absolutely get a copy of that. It's free, and the Spanish
04:54version is out. If you don't have a lot of time, the shortened version is out. I've made it as
04:59accessible as humanly possible, this audiobook, Moby, EPUB, PDF, you can read it online. I've
05:05tried just about everything to make it as easy to consume as possible. That is the only way forward.
05:10I mean, since human freedom has never been sustainably achieved, the answer must be something
05:15that's never been tried before. I mean, this is a basic thing in life, you understand? It's a basic
05:19thing in life. If you want to try something that humanity has striven for, for as long as we've
05:26known human beings, to have freedom, peace, reason, no war, no intergenerational debts, and so on,
05:33if you want to do something that has never been done before, when everybody's wanted it before,
05:38you have to try an approach that has never been tried before. And the idea of combating
05:43political power through negotiation, reasoning, and peace with children, to raise them to negotiate
05:49rather than to intimidate, that's the only thing that's never been tried before. I am more certain
05:55of it now than I was when I first came up with the thesis decades ago. Experience has certainly
06:00proven me out. So, all right. How do you think the deportation of illegals will go about when
06:08Trump takes office? I mean, endless legal challenges, there'll be people who resist it,
06:12there'll be all of these supposed heroes with their underground railroads to freedom, and
06:16you know, a lot of people without kids will use their paternal and maternal instincts to shield
06:22people, and so on. I mean, it's kind of tough when you look at how hard people went after the
06:29J6s to then say the illegals should be subsidized. You know, it's just tough, right? It's a tough
06:33situation, but it's going to be a real challenge. Who are your favorite fictional characters?
06:39Well, well, well, well. The lead in Ian Forster's novel A Room with a View, I love the movie, and
06:47I like the book, although I read it again recently, and it was much more anti-theistic and
06:52anti-religious than I remember. But he's a wonderful character. John Galt seemed a bit
06:59too plasticky superhero, but I really liked Howard Rourke, of course. I found him to be
07:09very powerful. Of course, the Lord of the Rings, I found the relationship, since I don't have a
07:15great relationship with my own brother, the relationship between Samwise and Frodo was
07:21pretty beautiful. I mean, we all want people in our lives that we can be loyal to and who are
07:24loyal to us, and I have that now, but I didn't have that growing up. So I loved, when I was a
07:30kid, I absolutely loved, I used to collect these chewing gum cards, and I actually, there was a
07:35place I used to go to occasionally where you could buy movie posters, and you could buy the little
07:40stills. They used to put up these stills in movie theaters to try and get you to come to the movie,
07:45stills from the movie, and I picked up a whole bunch. I absolutely loved Christopher Reeve in
07:50Superman. I thought he was just fantastic. I know that's kind of a goofy one, but I did find that.
07:58Who else? Pip in Great Expectations, I found very great. But my favorite fictional characters,
08:05just to be perfectly straight, my favorite fictional characters are the characters in my
08:09own novels. Freedomain.com slash books, if you haven't checked them out, I would really,
08:12really recommend it. They're free, and they're really, really great. All right, if you could
08:17invent one product that you believe would make the government less important, what would you invent?
08:22I know the government is not necessary now, but people believe it is. What product would
08:30make that belief less reasonable? So, you know, I'm a product of my own methodology in a way,
08:35right? So I've talked about social control being ostracism rather than violence, right?
08:41Ostracism is a very, very powerful mechanism for enforcing social conformity to, you know,
08:47hopefully good things, although of course it can enforce conformity to bad things.
08:51Ostracism activates the same pain centers in the brain as physical torture, right? Although,
08:56of course, it is not a violation of the non-aggression principle to ostracize, because,
09:00you know, forced association is a violation of freedom of association.
09:04So ostracism is a very powerful tool of social reinforcement of standards. I, of course,
09:13promoted this in my books, Everyday Anarchy and Practical Anarchy. I've talked about the
09:17against-me argument that it doesn't make much moral sense to be friends with people who want
09:21you thrown into cages for disagreeing with them about how problems should be solved in society
09:26if you want peaceful voluntary solutions as opposed to coercive government solutions if
09:31people want you thrown in jail for advocating peace, then they're probably not your friends,
09:35to put it mildly. So I promoted ostracism as a means of social control, and then, by golly,
09:43was I ever ostracized as a means of social control. It's different because this was not
09:49personal. This was business-wise, and to me, at least, it went against terms of services that I'd
09:53agreed to and that the companies had agreed to with me. But nonetheless, I was willing to sacrifice
09:58my career to show just how powerful ostracism is in terms of social control. So if the question is
10:05a product that you believe would make the government less important, don't break bread
10:08with evildoers. Don't break bread with evildoers, people who look you in the eye and say,
10:16you should be thrown in jail for disagreeing with me. These people are immoral, deeply,
10:23deeply immoral, and they're driving a lot of the great evils in the world,
10:28and ostracizing evildoers is the biggest thing that anyone can do. All right.
10:34I enjoyed your video on inflation in the Roman Empire, the watering down of coins. What is your
10:39opinion? What, in your opinion, is causing inflation now in the West? Is it similar to
10:43antiquity, printing money? Thank you. Yes. So it's the old saying, government is the fiction by which
10:50everyone endeavors to live at the expense of everyone else. So the government, in order to
10:55provide things, the government creates nothing, right? The government doesn't produce goods and
11:01services, and it doesn't generate its own income. It's not invested in anything like that. I mean,
11:06even the German government sold their bitcoins at 57k. So governments, in order to pretend that
11:19they provide value, have to print, borrow, and take. They print, borrow, and take. They print
11:24money, they borrow money, and they take money, right? And that's how they perceive that they
11:30are providing value, right? So if some business got a great reputation because it helped all these
11:40charities out in town, got this great reputation, and then it turns out that all of the money that
11:45they gave to these charities was counterfeit and resulted in inflation and economic destruction,
11:51you wouldn't look at that form of generosity and view it or see it as generosity, right? That
11:55wouldn't be the case. So in order for the government to be perceived as providing value,
12:02it has to auction off the unborn foreign banksters, print a lot of money, take a lot of
12:07money, and then redistribute it, right? So it is the creation of money. The creation of money should
12:17ideally match or go track with the increase in goods and services in an economy. So if the
12:26economy grows, because you want things to be predictable. I don't know if you've ever been
12:29an entrepreneur, but I've been now an entrepreneur for like, gosh, 30 years, and
12:40you want things to be predictable, right? You want things to be predictable.
12:44And so the best way for an economy to be predictable is for goods and services. As they
12:52increase, the economy grows objectively by 5% a year. Ideally, the money supply should grow by 5%
12:57a year. Nobody can handle that power. Nobody can handle the power of typing whatever they want into
13:01their own bank account. Human beings cannot handle power. And those who want control over money
13:06interest rates are some of the most corrupt people on the planet and vainglorious and deranged and
13:12megalomaniacal and so on, right? I mean, just complete fabulous of their own expertise. The
13:16idea that anyone can know how much money should be in the economy and that this is what interest
13:23rates should be and using force for all of that is completely deranged. Bitcoin certainly is the
13:29best solution because it's not open to central manipulation. The most fundamental power is the
13:38power over the money supply and interest rates. That's the most fundamental power. Illegal
13:43counterfeiting and so on, right? That's the most fundamental power because it's generally quite
13:47invisible to people, especially when you have a semi-free market economy because people get mad
13:52at the grocery store, not the central bankers because they don't really understand what's going
13:56on. Not usually one person in a thousand understands the monetary system that we're all
14:01ground to dust under, right? Where they tax your money and then if you try to save your money,
14:06they just tax it through inflation. So yeah, it is an increase in the money supply faster than
14:13the growth of the economy dilutes the value of each dollar, right? I mean, if you have 10 oranges
14:21and 10 dollars, right, 10 single dollar bills and everyone's trading, a dollar is an orange.
14:27An orange is a dollar, right? An orange costs a dollar if you have 10 oranges and 10 dollars.
14:31If you have 20 dollars and 10 oranges, then each orange is two dollars. That's really all it's
14:38about. Next question, correct me if wrong, the moment you stopped covering politics is when
14:43Trump approved a massive spending bill early in his first term. Pretending I wrote this in the
14:49form of a question. It's more of a comment than anything, but I appreciate that. Is there such a
14:53thing as rights? I mean, a thing as in an object or a material thing? No. So human beings have
15:01properties, but we do not have magical rights attached or associated to our being. You can't
15:06x-ray a human being. You can find a skeleton, you can find a spleen, but you can't find rights.
15:11So I go into this in my book, which is free, freedomand.com books, which is universally
15:16preferable behavior, a rational proof of secular ethics. Absolutely so. There's no such thing as
15:22rights, but that's fine. There's no such thing as, quote, logic, right? There's no such thing as the
15:26scientific method. It doesn't exist like a tree. It doesn't mean it's invalid. Numbers don't exist.
15:31The things they represent do exist, right? The number five does not exist, but five discrete
15:35oranges exist. So the fact that something doesn't exist doesn't mean it shouldn't be reasoned out
15:39or isn't valid or anything like that. But no, there is no physical thing as rights. Rights are a claim
15:46that you have against others. There are negative rights. Thou shalt not initiate the use of force
15:51or fraud. There are positive rights, which is you owe me free health care. All positive rights
15:56enslave others. All negative rights have to be justified by logic, and therefore that's the goal
16:01of universally preferable behavior. Is this really you? Ah, the basic question, but yes.
16:10Are women fertile in 2024? You know, I mean, the fertility rates are really crashing,
16:16right? I mean, 1% a year going down, right? Just like testosterone levels for men. I assume that
16:26the answers are inconvenient to those in power, and maybe Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will
16:33take a break from banging most things with half a pulse and get to the bottom of that,
16:37but it's going to be a real battle. I mean, even just to repeal the Immunity to Liability
16:43Vaccine Act of 86 is going to be a battle in a half-frame. Thoughts on asset allocation
16:49towards large-cap value or growth stocks? I'm not a financial advisor, I'm no financial expert,
16:54and so on. I'm just a crypto guy. Will humanity survive until January 20th, 2025? Ah, yes.
17:03Have you considered debating Andrew Wilson? Topic idea, UPB versus Christian ethics?
17:08I like Andrew. Obviously, he's a little harsh, and that's fine. I could be a little sandpaper
17:14on the nuts too, but I think he's doing some interesting work, but it's a theology versus
17:21philosophy is apples and oranges, so the debate would not be hugely productive. I mean, the issue
17:27I have with religious ethics is you can avoid them by becoming an atheist.
17:34It's like if you owe a million dollars, and then you can just sign a checkbox that says,
17:39I don't believe in this debt, and then you no longer owe the million dollars, that would not
17:43be a very stable financial system, right? You could just, I don't believe in this debt, right?
17:47So, if your ethics come from God, then you can not be subject to those ethics anymore
17:55simply by disbelieving in God. UPB closes that loop. You cannot escape universally preferable
18:00behavior for reasons I go into in the book, and unfortunately, the 20th century is, well,
18:06because ethics are around scarcity, and the 20th century, through its massive production,
18:12when governments went off the gold standard, the massive production of debt and unfunded
18:16liabilities means that we loosed the constraints of scarcity, which means that people no longer
18:21had to believe in morality, and therefore, they avoided believing in God. So, I don't like things
18:28that you can will out of existence by not believing in something abstract, right? So,
18:34if you don't believe in God, then you can reject morality as a whole, and UPB closes that off.
18:41Thoughts on UPB aspect of using public shaming as a deterrent for bad behavior in light of all of the
18:47dox woke behavior of the far left. So, public shaming as a deterrent for bad behavior
18:57is tricky, right? Oh, it's a little bright there, isn't it? All right, let's see if we can get my
19:02face out of the shadows a little bit. Sorry, I was not expecting this stuff to come out
19:08in November in Canada, to put it mildly. So, public shaming,
19:12I mean, as long as it doesn't go into libel, slander, as long as it doesn't go into outright
19:22verbal abuse and so on, it's not public shaming to tell the truth, right? So, in the church,
19:27social morality used to be enforced by kicking people out of the church who were wrong. But now,
19:34we have this massive sympathy for the underdog that sort of is this massive tumor in the
19:39reason of the West. Everyone who's an underdog can cry pity and victim, and then women will
19:45lactate and cover them in kisses and men's money. And so, we've lost all of that. And then,
19:52when you don't have ostracism as a means of enforcing social control, you end up with
19:58massive amounts of government force and corruption. How's your health, Stefan Molyneux? Good,
20:02thank you. I used to listen to all of your reports. Then it became difficult to find you.
20:09Ah, yes, when I deleted everything about my physical presence and went to live in the cave
20:21in Mordor. Yes, yes, I remember those days. Yes, when I just completely vanished and went
20:27off the grid. No, wait, no, did any of that happen? No, my website remained the same,
20:32and you could find me by typing into a search engine. Really, it was not that complicated,
20:38it was not that difficult. It became difficult to find you? I mean, come on, just be honest with
20:42me. Say, Stef, I kind of forgot about you. Turns out you weren't that important, and I found your
20:47arguments kind of controversial, so I didn't want to get caught up in that mess. That's fine, but
20:51don't say I was hard to find. I mean, come on, man, you don't need to hire a private dick to
20:58find me. So, you just do it. It didn't become difficult to find me. That's just a lie. It's a
21:04lie. Thank you for the story of your enslavement, one of the best introductions to normies who can
21:08see how awful the political class is. You're welcome. Is what will Trump eventually decide
21:15to do regarding the war in Ukraine beneficial for the country? I don't know what you mean by
21:20beneficial for the country, but what was it, about 650,000 Ukrainian men fled rather than get blown
21:27up by drones for the sake of hanging on to majority Russian districts in a part of the country they
21:32never visited. So, I just want the slaughter to stop. I just want the slaughter to stop.
21:40There's absolutely no need for these horrendous missiles to be put on Russia's doorstep. Russia
21:47has been invaded by the West, I mean, I can think of three times, probably four, and has lost massive
21:55amounts of population, and so on, in the same way that America found it absolutely unacceptable for
22:00Russia, under communism, to put missiles in Cuba, Russia, under Christianity, finds it unacceptable
22:08for NATO to put missiles right on its doorstep. And of course, the Nazi problem in
22:16Ukraine, Eastern Ukraine in particular, was not a small issue, so
22:20that's just, the slaughter is so pointless. And whatever, sorry, I find that, I mean, all war is
22:36all war is agony. And this war is just so, the slaughterhouse, you know, they're drafting
22:51people my age, and it's just, whatever can be done to stop this disassembly of young men,
23:02it needs to be done. It just, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it just, it needs to be done.
23:11So, let's hope, let's hope it can happen. All right, not a question, but I miss the days when
23:14your podcast was less about self-help and more about current issues and events, just a personal
23:19perspective. Yep, I get that, I get that. I mean, I'm still doing philosophy, I'm doing practical
23:24philosophy, right? Politics is not practical philosophy, because you can't achieve anything
23:29based upon your own free will. So, I'm talking to people who can apply philosophy in their actual
23:34life, so it's still philosophy. Are the leftists okay? When can I let them see my joy? Yeah,
23:46people on the right tend to have been subject to physical discipline or spanking and so on.
23:54People on the left tend to have been subject to verbal abuse,
23:58which is why they fight verbally and attack verbally. In other words, people on the right
24:05tend to have been raised by father's influence, people on the left tend to have been raised by
24:09the mother's influence, because mothers fight indirectly through language, which is why people
24:14didn't challenge me, they just aimed for my de-platforming, right? So, it is, people who
24:21grow up with a lot of verbal abuse struggle enormously to achieve and maintain any kind of
24:30stable happiness, because they've internalized their verbal abusers. Spanking you outgrow,
24:35and you don't spank yourself, right? But verbal abuse embeds in your head and becomes
24:40terminate and stay resident, it becomes an auto-running program, and a lot of people verbally
24:45abuse others in order to quiet the inner voices attacking themselves. And so, it is very, very
24:52tough for people who are raised with a lot of verbal abuse, it is very tough for them to be
24:56stably happy, it is very tough for them to escape the language that they were raised with, and they
25:00tend to attack others as a means of relieving the inner torment that they feel. So, they can be a
25:08little bit allergic to and hostile towards joy. Another person writes, I am struggling with gentle
25:15parenting my stepson, do you have any resources and recommendations that can help me? I'm at my
25:19wits end. I'm very sorry about that, that's a very tough thing, you know, after the age of five or so
25:24from what I've read, it's very tough to be a primary disciplinarian to a child, and that just
25:30doesn't mean hitting, of course, just having any kind of authority. So, peacefulparenting.com,
25:36get that book, and also you can look up at fdrpodcast.com, I've done some criticisms recently
25:41on gentle parenting, which I do not find to be compatible with
25:45virtue. All right, some time ago you did a video on the fall of the Roman Empire,
25:49which I consider to be an excellent piece. Could you do a similar video on Palestine and Israel,
25:54covering, say, the last hundred years? I shared the fall of the Roman Empire with friends on
25:58social media multiple times, I really listen to it from time to time, and I have a big,
26:04when I have a big painting job, that allows me the luxury of absorbing lectures. So, yes, I have
26:09done a video on Israel and Palestine, you can find it at fdrpodcast.com. Why do cities always
26:15turn blue once they become very densely populated? So, once you get into a city, you make your
26:22money usually through language, right? You make your money through language that can be manipulated,
26:30right? So, you make your money from sales, you make your money from law, you make your money even
26:33from computer programming. So, you are, in a sense, designing your own physics to profit
26:38when you do manual labor, you work in the country, you're dealing with brute
26:42factual reality that you can't manipulate. So, and of course, people in cities will get
26:50resources from the city by making bad mistakes, you know, single moms run to the government
26:58for welfare, and people who fail run to the government for unemployment insurance,
27:04and people who, you know, sometimes are careless on the job will run for,
27:08and sometimes even defraud, I think, things like disability and so on, right? You can't
27:16nag a tree into getting you more fruit, you have to deal with actual reality. So, you tend to be
27:20kind of based in reality, right? But in cities, you can whine, you can complain, you can borrow,
27:24you can threaten, you can manipulate, and so on. And so, you tend to lose your objective reasoning,
27:31you tend to lose your objective relationship to tangible material, empirical reality,
27:37and so you tend to turn more towards verbal abuse rather than practically working with,
27:43you can't yell at a cow to give you more milk, but you can threaten a rich person to pay more
27:48taxes, right? So, you become, a lot of people become kind of a species that survives on verbal
27:55abuse rather than material production. Are we going to die in World War III, or just the lucky
28:02ones? Yeah, I mean, the number of lions in the sand that the West has blown past to with regards
28:10to Russia has been quite a few, and for whatever reason, I could be completely wrong about this,
28:19I can't picture it. I think the provocation is going to continue, and at some point,
28:26I hope at some point, people are going to say, well, maybe we should, I mean, in this case,
28:30literally stop poking the bear. I think it's just a desperately bad idea. But, you know,
28:35like, why would even people do this as a whole? Like, why would they provoke such
28:40potential planet-ending catastrophes? I assume that they're miserable, I assume that they're
28:46nihilistic, and I assume that they're consumed with hatred for mankind. Why would people be
28:49consumed with hatred for mankind? I would assume it's because they were horribly abused as children,
28:55and no one did anything about it, right? They were horribly abused as children, and no one did
29:00anything about it, and there's this rage that they have in the world that they can't stand the world
29:05that they want the whole world to burn, right? And if you donate, this is November 2024, if you
29:11donate this month, at the end of the month, I'm going to get everyone, I'm going to send you a
29:14link to my 12-hour presentation on the French Revolution, where I go into this being left
29:20behind, the rage against those who are progressing in much more detail. So, all right. When and how
29:25can people hold the people responsible for the strife and suffering in the world accountable
29:30for their actions? Well, you can't. The legal system in the West was designed for a very small
29:36number of criminals, right? Like the 2% of genuine sociopaths or psychopaths. So, this is why it's
29:44expensive, it's time-consuming, there are chains of custody, rules of evidence,
29:49there is prosecutors, defendants, judges, juries, like it's very, very complicated,
29:54because it's hard to get to the truth. People lie about crimes all the time, both the defendants and
29:59the prosecutors. So, it's hard to get to the truth. So, when we had relatively few
30:06truly evil people in society, you could have a complicated legal system. So, the legal system,
30:11modern legal system evolved after, in particular, England had spent 400 years plus just executing
30:18the, like, 1% of the male population every year, just the most evil and gruesome people. I mean,
30:24obviously, there were unjust executions as well. And so, this is one of the reasons why British
30:28people tend to be so icily polite, in that the people who were just the blue-painted savage
30:38Vikings that the, oh, not Vikings, the Celts, the Britons that the Romans encountered, after a
30:45couple of hundred years of just getting rid of, and I'm not recommending this, I'm just saying
30:50this is, like, what happened, right? After a couple of hundred years, you ended up with a relatively
30:55small criminal population, and that allowed you to develop a very complicated legal system to try
30:59and get to the truth. And such a complicated legal system is very easy to overwhelm with
31:03additional criminality. If you get too many criminals, you end up with a system where,
31:07you know, what's it, 2% of people go to trial because everyone else pleas out and so on,
31:11because there's just so many criminals, so. All right, so, what are your thoughts on Bitcoin,
31:17Bitcoin Cash, Gold and Silver as forms of sound money? So, for this, you should look at, it was
31:23about 10 years ago now, I think I did a debate with Peter Schiff, S-C-H-I-F-F, Peter Schiff on
31:28Bitcoin versus gold. I think gold is fine. The economy grows 3% to 4% a year, gold tends to
31:35increase its production, or new gold tends to come into the market rate about 3% a year.
31:40So, it can be good. As you probably know, I spent time, well, close to two years after high school
31:46and then after my first year of university, panning for gold, looking for gold in Northern
31:51Ontario, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. It's quite an exciting time. Let me tell you, it told me a lot
31:55about empirical reality. This is why I don't really trust anyone who's never had a manual
31:58labour job, because it's just abstract nonsense in the head. So, I think Bitcoin is fantastic.
32:05Bitcoin is the off-road to the collapse of the economy. It is an unbelievable gift that one of
32:15the greatest geniuses, and without a doubt in the long run, the guy who's benefited humanity the
32:21most, the eponymous Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin is the off-ramp to social collapse. It is like this
32:30bizarre wormhole that has opened as we've all fallen and bouncing down cliff edges,
32:35and it lands us on a duvet, it lands us on a pillow, it lands us in gentle, deep water,
32:41with wonderful things around us. So, I think Bitcoin was an advancement, absolutely unguessed,
32:50and unthought of, and completely unpredictable. It's an absolutely white swan event that saves
32:56humanity from generic collapse in the usual cycle of history that I sort of referred to earlier.
33:02Bitcoin cash is a nice layer over it. Gold and silver are fine, but they are hard to transport
33:08and expensive to store, and risky and costly. Bitcoin is stored for free. So, I think it's
33:14fantastic. How come you didn't speak out more against the COVID-19 agenda, considering lockdowns,
33:21masks, and booster mandates pose such a threat to the non-aggression principles
33:25and the libertarian values you had spent your life espousing?
33:30So, I mean, that's a fine question. I'm perfectly open to criticisms about
33:36how I handled this. I myself did not get vaccinated, of course, right? I did not get vaccinated,
33:43and let me tell you, I suffered a lot because of it. I suffered a lot because of it. And I'm
33:49not saying I was alone in that, but Canada did go a little nuts that way. And, of course,
33:53so I'm not saying that I took any particular tragedies, but I did suffer a lot for not
33:58getting vaccinated. I said that the lockdowns were bad, and I said that the lockdowns not only
34:06were they violations of the non-aggression principle, but they were going to cause far more harm
34:10than they resolved. I, of course, am absolutely, completely, and totally against
34:17mandated medical procedures. That is a violation of the Nuremberg Code,
34:21which 40 million lives were expended trying to get a hold of. And I said, of course, that there
34:28was no way to know the long-term effects, just this basic logic thing of the vaccines.
34:34And I was against forced masking, although for a while there I thought that masks might at least
34:39prevent you from touching your face, maybe help with transmission, but it doesn't seem to have
34:43been the case. So certainly I was wrong about that, but again, I'm no expert on that. It was
34:47just my particular thought at the time. And I also got into a significant amount of trouble,
34:55which, because I created this presentation, you can see it, and I think now the ex-CDC director
35:02is somewhat in agreement with this. I don't want to say things out of turn if I got that wrong,
35:06I apologize. But I did an entire video called The Case Against China,
35:12which was all of the reasons why it came from a lab.
35:21So I'm not sure what principles I betrayed.
35:25I'm not sure what principles. I took a lot of bullets to not be vaccinated.
35:29And, of course, I can't give people medical advice, like I'm just a podcaster, right? So
35:33you understand that. But I was against the mandates. I was against the lockdowns.
35:40I said it came from... I can't prove it, of course, but the overwhelming evidence,
35:44to me at least, is that it came from a lab in Wuhan. And so I'm not sure what it is you're
35:52referring to, but if there's something that I said that is against the values that I've espoused,
35:57I will certainly be happy to hear it. I'm maybe not happy, but I would certainly accept it,
36:01and I will apologize for where I've deviated from my values. So from what I recall, I did speak out
36:08against these things as a whole, and took a lot of challenges, both personally and professionally,
36:14to expose the truth, as I saw it, regarding the origins of COVID, and did not get vaccinated.
36:20So, yeah, I mean, maybe there's something I'm missing. I'm certainly happy to hear. But
36:24all right, why aren't you back on Twitter, slash x? Because I have never received an apology,
36:33and I've always said this to people, that if you're wronged, you should expect an apology
36:36or restitution or not resume the relationship. What do you think the mental health effects
36:41will be on the modern liberal after the clear-cut majority election results? I see straight-up
36:46narcissism making them hang on to the dominant-slash-false narratives that have been pushed
36:51by the MSM. Yeah, it's really tough, you know, when you believe something so wholeheartedly
36:57that you can't handle an opposing viewpoint, which means you don't really believe it,
37:00you're just conforming, right? So the problem is not the mainstream media. The problem is that
37:05everybody's relationships who are addicted to this nonsense, these lies, this dangerous,
37:09toxic propaganda, people have founded all their relationships on that. So if you start to question
37:15it, then people don't want to do business with you, they don't want to be a friend, they don't
37:19want to invite you to Thanksgiving, you might get divorced, your kids might decide... people just go
37:23along because their relationships are all welded together with the uncertain quicksilver of generic
37:29falsehoods. So it's really tough when reality comes in, when you have to say to your conspiracy
37:35theory friend, hey, you were right, that's really tough, because people don't want to examine the
37:40relationships that rely not upon their virtue, integrity, and truth, and honesty, and courage,
37:46the relationships that rely on you subjugating yourself to propaganda, the relationships that
37:54rely on you being quiet and repeating falsehoods, people don't want to examine that for obvious
38:00reasons. If Biden gets the USA in World War III, will he remain president? I don't know that that
38:07matters usually, if that's the case. Why was abortion such a contentious voting issue? Why
38:12are so many women demanding abortion? There is a world of contraception options, why was it a
38:17campaign issue? So the trading of orgasms for offspring is one of the most demonic deals in
38:27the modern world, and so getting women to pursue sex rather than pair bonding, and children, and
38:35marriage, and security, and support, and protection, and provision, and so on, has been a great deal,
38:41so you can have more sex in the short run by pursuing our selected or pray-and-spray mating
38:48strategies, but you end up with more and better sex in the long run if you get married to someone
38:54you love, and someone who loves you, and you have a great and happy life together, you end up with
38:59wonderful, fantastic sex for the rest of your life, and so it's just short-term gain versus
39:04long-term gain. It's easier and more pleasant for people to eat a piece of chocolate cake than to
39:10make a salad, and so you just get people to trade in short-term, they trade in their long-term
39:17stability and gains for short-term pleasures, that's really an addiction, so turning society
39:22into sex addicts at the expense of the birth rate, at the expense of future happiness, at the expense
39:28of love, and connection, and virtue, and children, and continuation of the line, and so on, has been
39:32a really terrible deal, and abortion as an issue, if women don't have free and easy access to
39:40abortion, they have to be more careful and cautious about the men that they sleep with, and that means
39:46that they have to look for qualities of character rather than hotness, and women have become kind of
39:51addicted to hot guys, and you know, I understand that, not necessarily the hot guys thing, but
39:57that's a strategy, and looking for quality of character over height, hair, and abs is tough.
40:05It means that women have to look for qualities of character, and then they have to ask themselves,
40:12what does a man who is virtuous want from a woman? Well, what a man who is virtuous wants from a
40:18woman is virtue, and therefore, in order to get quality men a virtue, women have to become quality
40:24women a virtue, and that's really tough, that could challenge or undermine friendships, and
40:30family relations, and all this kind of stuff, so it's tough. Everything I want to discuss is banned
40:36by the terms of service. Yeah, you ever see this, you know, whatever you're signed up to, and they're
40:40like, we've updated our terms of service, and I'm like, that's not good, it's never good, right?
40:45No, I guess X did. Are you able to determine a woman's fertility by look alone, and when did you
40:52obtain this ability? Well, no, of course not, right? But men are pretty good at figuring out
40:58how young women are. Of course, I mean, that would be a foundational
41:03procreative skill that you would have to have, right? Because if you marry a woman who looks
41:09young, but it turns out she's like 45, then you're not going to have kids, right, if she thinks she's
41:1330 or 35 or whatever. So we're pretty good at that. I do think that one of the reasons that men
41:18learned how to make women laugh was to see those crow's feet lines around the edge. And,
41:25you know, as a woman ages, and as a man ages too, but I see, of course, notice it more among women,
41:31there's a kind of dusty quality to the skin. Have you ever noticed that? Like, you know,
41:35this sort of peach cheek younger woman, as women age, their skin just gets kind of dusty.
41:42I don't exactly know how to put it. Obviously, some of the collagen and the subcutaneous fat
41:46tends to sort of minimize, especially if the woman stays slender, right? If you're 40 plus,
41:52you either have a good body or a good face. You don't have both, right? Because if you have a
41:56good body, then your face looks older because you have less fat. If you have a nicer, more pleasing
42:01face, then you have a less good figure because you're plumping up the face with fat that is just
42:06distributed around the body. So yeah, it's pretty important. Now, of course, this was solved in the
42:12past by you just married a younger woman, right? But now people are dating and getting married in
42:16their 30s and 40s. So I, of course, can't, but most men have an instinct for this.
42:22Chance of the boomer crats causing World War III to prevent an overdue shift
42:27to the right? Well, I mean, boomers can make the young people pay five times
42:35what they paid for the house, but in return, the young people are going to make boomers pay
42:40100 to 1,000 times what they pay for in Bitcoin. Do you believe COVID and the Vax was a concerted
42:46planned bioweapon attack upon Western nations? If so, by whom? I mean, I know that there's
42:52this rehearsal that happened before COVID and so on. I don't think so. I don't think so. I think
43:00that what happens is there are disasters and people seize upon those disasters to expand their
43:05powers, to make money, to provoke fears and have people turn on each other. So I think that there
43:13are people who are greedy and sadistic and amused by these chaos, but I don't think there was one
43:18big orchestrated plan. I mean, the big question of like, there are people who are arsonists,
43:25there are people who, what was it? There was an old commercial about risk tolerance when it came
43:29to investment and this one guy was like, I like frying bacon in the nude. Okay, that's pretty high
43:35risk tolerance. So there are some people who just get off on extreme danger, right? You got serious
43:41thrill issues, dude, right? That's from Finding Nemo. So there are people who just get a real
43:47thrill out of handling dangerous pathogens and they, I don't know, excited or they get a thrill
43:53out of it. I mean, I had a friend like this, he tragically died in a horrible motorcycle accident
43:57in his late teens, but he would just love driving his bike off walls and it was just like,
44:03like off, you know, it's just crazy, crazy stuff, right? Doing these crazy jumps and
44:07he just got a real thrill out of significant danger and I assume that there are those kind
44:12of people. We shouldn't give them government money and buy weapons labs to play with, of course, right?
44:18But again, I think that like, why would all this gain of function research, right? It's just gain
44:24of death, right? Why was all this gain of function research going on? Again, I go back to some people
44:29just want to watch the world burn. Some people hate the world as a whole and the only way to
44:34begin to ameliorate that is to really try to intervene and take care of children who are
44:40being abused. So, of course, over the course of my public career as a philosopher, I've talked to
44:47publicly thousands of people about their bad childhoods and given immense amounts of sympathy
44:52and compassion and hopefully some moral guidance and strength with regards to next steps in their
44:57lives. I did the rough calc the other day about a billion to a billion and a half less hitting
45:04of children, right? Less smacks upon children as a result of what I'm doing. I hope that you
45:07will share peacefulparenting.com and help people with that. If we provide more sympathy to people
45:13who were abused as children, they'll hate us less and we'll get less of this heinous stuff and
45:17hopefully that's a way of avoiding what otherwise will come and leave us a smudged out charcoal
45:25footnote in the history of the universe to be discovered in the future by races who cared more
45:30for their children. So, I hope that this helps. Thank you so much. Lots of love from up here. If
45:34you appreciate what I'm doing, I would absolutely love and humbly be grateful for your support at
45:38freedomain.com. Bye.
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