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Stefan Molyneux
  • 5/17/2025
Friday Night Live 16 May 2025

This episode explores contemporary issues through personal anecdotes and philosophical discussions. The host engages with listeners on fatherhood, particularly the impact of absent paternal figures on young men’s receptiveness to guidance, illustrated through a coaching experience. The dialogue shifts to a playful discussion on social media and then transitions to serious topics, including economic challenges, cryptocurrency vulnerabilities, and recent Supreme Court rulings on immigration.

Mental health care is critically examined, with reflections on the historical context of mental asylums and the ethical implications of managing severe mental illness in society. The show also addresses societal changes post-COVID-19, contemplating moral accountability and the public’s response to past events. Throughout, the host encourages reflection and dialogue on these complex issues.

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00:00:00Good evening everybody. Welcome to your Friday night live on the 16th of May
00:00:062025. And I hope you're having a great evening and happy to get your questions,
00:00:18comments, issues, challenges, problems. I did try Doom the Dark Ages. Maybe I'll do
00:00:24a wee bit of a live stream this weekend and you can see my 58 year old teenage
00:00:30twitch muscles in full display and array. So I'm happy to try that if people are
00:00:39interested and of course there's been a lot that's been going on in the world
00:00:42over the last couple of days but I am here for you. I am here for you. Whatever
00:00:47you want to talk about I am happy to facilitate. I did a pretty good wee
00:00:53speech today about love and how I developed my theories and philosophies
00:00:59of love and that I did. It was going to be a private call-in show but the guy
00:01:04decided to make it a public call-in show about how to overcome, you know, it's a
00:01:10real problem. It's a real problem particularly for young men who grew up
00:01:16not close to their fathers. The challenge and the problem is, and let me
00:01:23know if you have any of these sorts of issues or problems, the issues of the
00:01:29problems are how coachable are you if you are not close to your father? In
00:01:38particular, could be other things, that's a one of the most typical ones is if
00:01:43you're not close to your father, how coachable are you? Do you resist coaching
00:01:47because this guy has, you know, fairly substantial issues with regards to
00:01:52getting ahead in his career and so on and I tried to give him some coaching
00:01:57and I got the, yeah but, yeah but, it's not going to work because, it's not going to work
00:02:01because. Now, obviously I'm not omniscient but I have created and run a not
00:02:08insignificant number of successful businesses and I'm in my late 50s, this
00:02:14guy is 23 and he's telling me what will and won't work in the business world
00:02:18which of course he's perfectly free to do but none of his, none of his pushback
00:02:25really made any sense from a logical standpoint even by his own admission so
00:02:29are you hostile to being coached? And of course one of the ways in which this
00:02:36shows up is in the actual act of being coached in sports. Are you good at being
00:02:45coached in sports? Alright, let's see here. Oh yes. Sorry, let me get to your, ah, Steve says
00:03:04thanks for all your great work as always Steph, thank you for your tip. Can't make the live stream at the moment due to a time zone change but wanted to ask if you have ever considered supporting some kind of matchmaking facility through free domain. A lot of your callers, listeners seem to struggle with finding other philosophically minded free domain types among the normies and can't think of many better ways of spreading UPP and peace of parenting than through the facilitating of virtuous partnerships. Yeah, there is, gosh does anyone remember what it's called? But somebody did put together a
00:03:34dating site for free domain listeners. Of course I can't recommend it or not recommend it. I haven't really looked at it. But it's a thing.
00:03:45Sopanta says you guys aren't going to believe this. I was walking on a beach earlier today and look at the seashell formation I found. This is off the Comey's Instagram thing, right? Peaceful parenting. Yes, that's right.
00:03:57What does it say underneath that? I think that's just shells. Yeah. Yeah, Comey did, but 86.
00:04:06Donald Trump, was it for 86, 46, 47?
00:04:13Yeah, 86, 47. 86 means to take out or to eliminate. Some people mean, you know, of course, some people will say, oh, no, it's peaceful. It's just the transfer of power. Maybe it's voting him out or maybe it's
00:04:32impeachment or some other sort of legal process. But yeah, it's pretty gross.
00:04:40It's pretty gross.
00:04:42And of course, he said, oh, no, I had no idea. Oh, dimple cheeks. I had no idea. Not even a smidge. Thank you, Matt. I appreciate your support.
00:05:00Oh, say, can you see? All right, so let me get back to your questions and comments.
00:05:04Hey, Steph, did you see Coinbase outsource their IT to the third world to save money?
00:05:09Those workers don't seem so cheap now. Did they? Yeah, did they? I don't know about that.
00:05:15But I mean, it is it is a weak link in all online coin or crypto things or is that somebody can try
00:05:24and talk their way into, oh, I lost my phone. Here's my new number. And then you get your 2FA
00:05:28goes to the new number and someone gets in. It's bad all around. And of course, I think that the
00:05:34government as a whole requires online crypto trading companies to store a lot of customer
00:05:42information based upon, you know, money laundering questions or issues or criminal questions or
00:05:46issues. So there's a lot more there than would be normally in the free market. So yeah, I've
00:05:56read some reports that the data was compromised as of January. And they've, you know, lost a lot
00:06:01more than the 20 mil. So the hackers demanded 20 million. And the head of Coinbase, is it Coinbase?
00:06:06The head of Coinbase said, no, we're going to take 20 million. And we are going to give it to
00:06:16whoever gets these guys arrested, whoever gives us the information that is enough to get these
00:06:20guys arrested. Now, I assume that they're pretty insular, maybe there's a couple of guys working
00:06:25on this, maybe they'll turn on each other, right? And even if one guy turns on another guy, or one
00:06:29guy turns, let's say there's five guys, right? There's 20 million they're hoping to make, each
00:06:32one gets 4 million. But if you turn on your, you turn, you make a deal, you turn people in, maybe
00:06:39you serve a year or two in jail, but then you get the 20 mil. So I assume that his goal is to have the
00:06:48the criminals turning on each other. So
00:06:53Coinbase themselves said the hack was caused on the government side.
00:06:58Is that right? What does that mean, the government side?
00:07:08What does that mean?
00:07:13Just having a look here, I have not heard that aspect of it.
00:07:15Coinbase, this is from yesterday, from bleepingcomputer.com, Coinbase data breach exposes customer info and government IDs.
00:07:25Coinbase, a cryptocurrency exchange with over 100 million customers, has disclosed that cyber
00:07:28criminals working with rogue support agents stole customer data and demanded 20 mil ransom not to
00:07:32publish the stolen information. The company said it would not pay the ransom but would establish a
00:07:3720 million reward fund for any leads that could help find the attackers who coordinated this
00:07:41attack. According to Coinbase, the attackers obtained this customer data with the help of contractors or support staff outside the U.S. who were paid to access internal systems. Coinbase fired the insiders after they were detected while accused accessing systems without authorization but not before they exfiltrated information from those devices.
00:08:11So why would they just fire these people? Why wouldn't they
00:08:18charge them? Well, I guess if it's another country and you know, whatever, right? They maybe don't
00:08:24have that kind of direct control over what happens. Expected losses reach up to 400 million dollars,
00:08:32according to this article.
00:08:35Yeah, well.
00:08:36This idea, and I mean, you talk to anyone who's bought a new house over the last 10 or 20 years
00:08:44in certain places, just talk to them and see what it's been like for them with this new house. What
00:08:49has it been like in terms of build quality? What has it been like in terms of support? What has it
00:08:53been like in terms of
00:08:58the warranty and so on? It's crazy.
00:09:02It is not a good deal. It's something that a guy I knew when I was poor said that his parents
00:09:11said, we're too poor to buy cheap things. You got to buy the best because it's got to last and last
00:09:19and last, right? And yeah, a lot of this stuff
00:09:23has really not worked out and doesn't work out. And I think we all recognize this. I had to send
00:09:31something off to be repaired and I was like 50-50 that it would come back fixed. That's my expectation.
00:09:37At best, at best, maybe, maybe you're going to get 50-50. That's my guesstimate these days.
00:09:43And it actually was repaired, at least so far, right?
00:09:48Yeah, anyway, so, but they said it was this and then they had to do that, which meant it wasn't
00:09:52this, but whatever. It doesn't really matter. It's working now, but yeah, it doesn't, my expectation
00:09:57is things generally aren't going to get fixed and aren't going to work.
00:10:02So, yeah, I think it's crazy. I think it's crazy. I think it's crazy. I think it's crazy.
00:10:06I think it's crazy. I think it's crazy. I think it's crazy. I think it's crazy. I think it's crazy.
00:10:11This, uh, the Supreme Court, this blocking deportations under the Alien Enemies Act,
00:10:25the court has not found it unconstitutional as far as I understand it. It's just that they
00:10:30delivered a blow based upon the lack of notice. 24 hours afforded by the administration.
00:10:34it did not rule on the legality of the use of the alien enemies act on the other hand for the first
00:10:41time ever moody's has downgraded the united states credit rating due to an increase in government
00:10:45debt and simply bitcoin is reporting that bloomberg terminal has switched bitcoin price notation
00:10:52from a hundred thousand to 0.1 million bitcoin has now spent an entire week above a hundred
00:10:59thousand u.s for the first time ever ever ever ever and with regards to bitcoin versus the u.s
00:11:09dollar unusual wales reports on x a u.s household now needs to earn 114 000 annually to afford a
00:11:16median priced home that's up 70.1 percent from 67 000 just six years ago per realtor.com
00:11:25six i mean do you see the pace of this inflation i'm not even convinced bitcoin is going up in
00:11:29value i just think that the dollar is dropping bitwise cio matt hoogan says 95 of all bitcoin
00:11:38is already owned and 95 of investable money doesn't own any bitcoin nice nice
00:11:45uh rumble a great platform of course we're broadcasting on rumble studio here rumble
00:12:01to launch bitcoin payments to their 50 million active users it's a big deal and i'd like to
00:12:07thank rumble for the platform and i'd like to thank them for their commitment to bitcoin as a whole
00:12:15human sperm cells okay that's a bit of a bit of a switch here human sperm cells contain
00:12:23about 37.5 megabytes of data each the average semen load contains nearly 16 terabytes of data
00:12:34so put that in your pipe and smoke it
00:12:39all right gold is a sorry gold is a 22 trillion dollar asset and bitcoin is a two trillion dollar
00:12:50asset it looks like bitcoin is about to make the next leg to 130k to 150k at that point we are in
00:12:57price discovery that's bitcoin archive referencing mike novogratz this is not any recommendation for
00:13:03me to buy or sell i'm just think it's interesting don't take investment advice
00:13:12uh michael burry this is from bar chart on x michael burry the man who predicted 20 for the
00:13:18last two market sell-offs dumped his entire stock portfolio except for one
00:13:24estee lauder now why do you think we obviously don't know
00:13:31why do you think an investor would sell everything except estee lauder
00:13:43i obviously don't know i have a theory i don't know
00:13:46but i have a theory what's your theory why do you think that might be the case
00:13:54oh uh the guy who said it was the government side the hack was caused on the government
00:14:00side he says he misread it so yeah i didn't think that was the case i appreciate that update
00:14:07somebody says even the brand new multi-million dollar mansions that i'm working on are cutting
00:14:10stupid corners it's ridiculous yes it is thank you jimmy jimmy are you jamie ray
00:14:17new trucks under five years old on its third transmission cot transmissions are nightmares
00:14:23across many car companies quality is not jumbo one not jumbo not job number one not sure it's
00:14:27on the list yeah
00:14:32women need more makeup in a recession yeah i think that's right it is a recession proof
00:14:39when the economy hits hard times i mean there's a very bitter i'm not
00:14:43hard times i mean there's a very bitter i'm not saying i agree with it but it's a very bitter
00:14:48meme about you know what what women think they'll do when civilization collapses and it's like
00:14:55catniss from the hunger games you know flying through trees and shooting arrows
00:14:59and uh that that's what they think they do what they'll actually do and it's a bunch of
00:15:03prostitutes on a street corner i don't agree with that it's kind of bitter but i kind of get the
00:15:07sentiment but when the economy gets worse how women aim to become more attractive
00:15:21so it is recession proof
00:15:26hey so nice to see you hi steph i want to ask your thoughts sorry i want to ask about your
00:15:32thoughts on mental asylums you did a very thorough presentation a few years ago on the mental health
00:15:37on mental health and it was excellent thank you you shared about how and why mental asylums
00:15:42disappeared what are your thoughts on them coming back and if there is a philosophical
00:15:46justification for them or is it more of a moral issue or even a financial or government issue or
00:15:51all of the above well one to ten i i i submit to the collective wisdom of the freedom brain
00:16:05the freedom brain freedom brain give me a one to ten how hard should i go in answering this
00:16:11question one to ten and i know a lot of you reflex ten that's fine i just want to know
00:16:18how hard i should go on this i must know what your thoughts are
00:16:26a hundred you have one job to stay in the scale i prefer i propose
00:16:35i actually don't have that job at all i mean i really do so why should you why
00:16:42all right
00:16:43so
00:16:50well i will tell you what i think about asylums and i know a little bit about this i've never
00:17:00been in an asylum other than to visit people my mother and so on but i have
00:17:06done a fair amount of research on them i did of course i've had a bunch of
00:17:09a bunch of shows on mental health at least my sort of philosophical approach to mental health
00:17:17as a whole and i did an entire show on how the hard leftist shut down
00:17:23mental asylums in order to destabilize the community
00:17:29all right let me ask you this let me start off with a question
00:17:33um if you know someone who's gone mad did they ever become sane again if you know someone who's
00:17:45gone mad did they ever come say i remember there was a boy there was a three swans i think it was
00:17:53swans i think it was called let me just double check that
00:17:59it was a book on china
00:18:04wild swans three daughters of china yeah wild swans oh gosh how old is that how old is that book
00:18:15published in 1991 yeah by young chang yeah wild swans three daughters of china
00:18:20yeah and i remember very clearly reading this book when it came out and it had quite an impact
00:18:30on me it's been translated into 13 37 languages and sold over 13 million copies
00:18:35and i remember one of the stories is that her father went mad i can't remember if he was drugged
00:18:43or something like that but oh yeah he was tortured and and all of that and then her father went mad
00:18:53and then her father
00:19:01became sane again let me just see here i want to make i obviously can't get it in the book
00:19:08uh chang's father became a target for the red guards when he mildly but openly criticized mao
00:19:14due to the suffering caused the chinese people by the cultural revolution chang's parents were
00:19:20labeled as capitalist rotors made subjects of public struggle sessions and torture chang
00:19:25recalls that her father deteriorated physically and mentally until his eventual death her father's
00:19:30treatment prompted chang's previous doubts about now to come to the fore
00:19:38yeah
00:19:42and i i remember he went mad i think from torture and
00:19:45other sorts of psychological punishments and then if i remember rightly he became sane sane again
00:19:52yeah no never saying again i obviously i don't know that anybody really knows the ideology
00:20:01of the progress of madness but i've i can't remember a person who went mad who then
00:20:10went unmad i mean i'm sure it could happen right and and this is absolutely anecdotal
00:20:16all right percent of
00:20:25uh insane this is probably a real real scramble here who regained their sanity
00:20:32so
00:20:43yeah i don't think uh i don't think it's been well studied at least i mean i've read i don't
00:20:50even know how many books on this kind of stuff and i've never um what is what is the recovery
00:21:02all right let's see here
00:21:08there is no specific percentage available for how many individuals diagnosed as insane
00:21:13regained their sanity can vary white widely blah blah blah all right let me just try let's rock it
00:21:26let's see
00:21:31do do do
00:21:41oh so there's a general severe mental illness of 2022 study reported that 67 of people
00:21:46with any mental illness including severe forms met criteria for symptomatic recovery meaning they no
00:21:52longer had diagnostic symptoms however only about 10 of those with a history of mental illness met
00:21:58strict thriving criteria high well-being low disability and no symptoms okay okay
00:22:13i think depression can uh can be um can be remediated so
00:22:21so
00:22:25schizophrenia and psychotic disorder studies suggest that about 20 to 33 percent of people
00:22:29with schizophrenia achieve significant symptom reduction or remission with treatment often
00:22:33involving antipsychotics and psychosocial support a 2018 study found that one third of all
00:22:39individuals with serious mental illness including schizophrenia reported remission for at least 12
00:22:43months however full functional recovery returning to work or less or independent living is less
00:22:49common with estimates about 10 to 20 long-term outcomes improve with early intervention
00:22:53and consistent care all right
00:22:58i certainly have not seen it
00:23:02thank you c2 yeah i i have not seen i mean i grew up with
00:23:11a not insignificant number of crazy people around
00:23:19and
00:23:27none of them got better that i can recall
00:23:31none of them got better
00:23:35my father had his mental health challenges to my knowledge really never i mean i don't know i mean
00:23:41i don't know him well enough to give any but certainly never got better to the point where
00:23:45we had like he reconciled reconciled with me or apologized or took responsibility or ownership or
00:23:50anything like that my mother same so
00:23:59when you look at mentally ill people
00:24:06i mean the question is why and and you know we sort of going into the why is
00:24:10not the central question i think that so it has which is
00:24:17when people go nuts
00:24:22are they better in the community or are they better in an institution
00:24:30now of course the goal has been to get them into the community since
00:24:33the 60s and i got endless letters when i put out my show on how asylums turfed everyone out
00:24:41into the street about you know just disaster and and a mess and a complicated you end up
00:24:46with homelessness drug use uh criminality just a whole bunch of non-functional people being
00:24:52put out into society as a whole that's bad for society as a whole i also get that of course
00:24:58mental health and and insanity is weaponized a lot of times
00:25:03i mean we all know the how it worked in soviet russia which is that well soviet
00:25:08russian system is perfect therefore anybody who's not happy or who criticizes it is mentally ill
00:25:12and you put them in an asylum and you give them like i don't know horse tranquilizers and stuff
00:25:16like that so that stuff's very political and pretty negative
00:25:23so
00:25:30i'm sure you also know um one of the reasons why the sort of psychotropic medical model of
00:25:37psychiatry got to the forefront was there was a i think it was a reporter who basically said i hear
00:25:45the words bang and thud and then they were institutionalized and it took them quite a
00:25:49long time to get out and nobody noticed that they were saying like once they got into the
00:25:54institution they just acted completely normally and and so on and that was very humiliating
00:26:00to the psychiatric profession so then the i think the leader of the asylum or the institution said
00:26:10okay come on come on send me i'll find them send me these people i'll find them and then he said
00:26:15okay it's these whatever number of people and it turns out that the nobody was sent so he got that
00:26:20wrong too he got that wrong too so that was pretty bad that was pretty bad
00:26:33so when people lose their minds as a whole again we're talking about a free society
00:26:51we're talking about you know where the incentives are balanced and things aren't
00:26:56crazy and out of whack and political and right so we're talking a sort of free society and i write
00:27:02about this in my novel the future which if you haven't read you should read or listen to it's a
00:27:08great great book you can get it at freedomain.com books it's free and you should really check it
00:27:12out just throw it on it'll it'll grab you it's a great book now um people who are unstable and
00:27:22unbalanced and can't reason and can't control their own emotions should not be in society
00:27:27they should not be in society
00:27:34they're a danger to themselves and others they frighten children and they destabilize
00:27:39things as a whole and they don't get the care that they need in general
00:27:50so
00:27:50turfing people out from the institutions where they're relatively protected and
00:28:00they have some relative stability they have some standard of care they have some
00:28:05community and of course one flew over the cuckoo nest by ken casey and of course the film with
00:28:10louise fletcher and jack nicholson was also a big had a big influence on this as well
00:28:15and the people who are crazy should not be in society should not be roaming around they
00:28:21think they can't manage it they can't handle it they can't um they can't be productive they can't
00:28:28contribute they can't add to society and again i mean we're talking about a free society not the
00:28:35society that is currently exists where mental health is a heavily politicized issue
00:28:39issue but let me just get back to your question and make sure that i answer it
00:28:51yes there is a philosophical justification for them which is it is cruel to put people
00:28:57who can't think in a society based almost entirely on cognition right
00:29:02in the past of course i mean some people who were had real mania or ocd or some sort of fixation
00:29:13they might go into the priesthood or the nunnery or something like that so there was a place
00:29:18for them but
00:29:19but
00:29:24yeah it is not good for society to have crazy people roaming around it's alarming to children
00:29:34i mean i'm sure we've all seen this as a whole it's one of the reasons why people
00:29:38go into these concentric rings of get away from the inner city suburbs right it's that
00:29:42and i'm sure we've all had the situation where we have seen
00:29:51someone be kind of scary and alarming and you don't know how it's going to go
00:29:59you don't know how it's going to go i remember and i mentioned this years ago on the show i
00:30:03remember being maybe 12 or 13 and i was i had a a bird and it was a um a wounded bird that i was
00:30:14sort of feeding and and bringing back to health and i was on the bus with it i was taking it to
00:30:20a friend of mine who had some expertise in how to feed these birds and there was this crazy guy
00:30:26who was interrogating me about the bird and it was it was scary you know he was leaning over
00:30:34long tusk like yellow teeth and roomy eyes and bad beard and it was just
00:30:42it was not it was not good and it was not it was not fun it was not nice it was not positive
00:30:47and i remember somebody finally did say to me just you have to stop talking to him like just
00:30:52you have to like stop engaging with him and stop talking to him which was you know not the worst
00:30:59advice as a whole but that's kind of alarming now of course i'm not saying well i was alarmed as a
00:31:05kid and therefore people should be locked up and so on obviously there should be a whole process
00:31:12and so on and you know what you can work towards rehabilitation and this that and the other
00:31:16but you know people when they whether it's psychological or organic or something when
00:31:21when things really go wrong with their brain uh i i don't see how it's productive or helpful
00:31:26to have them roaming around in society i i think that um asylum should come back and i think that
00:31:35people who um can't control their emotions can't control their thoughts can't control their
00:31:40thoughts can't control their responses and are volatile and dangerous and sometimes aggressive
00:31:45and chaotic and you know can't pay the rent on time and can't pay their bills and look crazy
00:31:51people like let me just give you an example i'll give you an example and i won't get into details
00:31:55about who it is but i'll give you an example okay crazy people they don't go to the dentist
00:32:01right they they don't tend to work out they don't tend to eat uh well i mean if they're out there on
00:32:11their own recognizance they tend to do significant damage to their health as a whole do you see what
00:32:22i'm saying like crazy people don't take care of themselves and then what right you whereas of
00:32:30course if they're in um if they're in an institution then they can get the dental care
00:32:37they need they can meet with nutritionists they can get healthier food right so you don't have
00:32:41people living on you know cigarettes and nescafe powdered coffee and not going to the dentist not
00:32:48exercising and all of the attendant health problems that come out of that
00:32:52people break their brains through addiction all the time it's horrible i mean this is why
00:32:57i've been telling people for 20 years do not go anywhere near
00:33:01weed modern drugs as a whole i mean it's really really really dangerous
00:33:07don't do it uh you know one of these things can fry your mind
00:33:21so they can't take care of themselves
00:33:27they frighten people they're chaotic they can be dangerous
00:33:32and i get the majority of people who are crazy and not violent or dangerous but
00:33:37people who can't control their emotions can escalate very quickly when contradicted
00:33:43have you ever known i met people like this like they're very volatile
00:33:46they can't control their emotions and
00:33:51if you contradict them they tend to get quite aggressive and volatile
00:33:56it's a bad scene it's a bad scene and you need experts
00:34:03you need experts
00:34:16what's the line delineating sanity and insanity anyway
00:34:26ah the abstract addicts ah the addicts of abstractions you know we're you know trying
00:34:32to solve some practical problems here and you're like ah yes but how can i split hairs
00:34:38and derail the conversation i'm sorry i'm just pointing it out right i mean let's just talk
00:34:45about the extremes right people who can function on their own make decent decisions and go to the
00:34:51dentist eat well they can pay their bills like people who can function and people who can't
00:34:55function they can't function they're volatile they can't sleep they're manic they make bad
00:35:01decisions they can't be contradicted they can't control their emotions they can't reason through
00:35:06things say ah but what is the exact line it's like come on man it's like we're trying to solve a
00:35:12health issue and you're like well what is the delineation between health and unhealth
00:35:23doesn't doesn't doesn't add anything to the combo man and i like i get that that's an
00:35:27important question but just not in practical terms of sorting things out
00:35:35we have seen asylums not work under government control and probate probate control which do
00:35:41you believe should be the ones to facilitate these asylums well it should be
00:35:44a voluntary um what i call dros or dispute resolution organizations
00:35:51you know we shouldn't
00:35:57we of course oh private uh sorry um well yeah the private control um
00:36:05um
00:36:10i i i mean private control often was under the auspices of the church which is not philosophical
00:36:18i don't know that we've had you know truly rational science-based private institutions
00:36:22for mental health maybe we have but uh maybe i don't think we've had enough empirical information
00:36:30from truly rational institutions to know how it would work in a free society i don't think so
00:36:37i don't think so so i we have to look at this theoretically i don't think we have
00:36:44empirical facts to compare this to as a whole
00:36:52all right so let me just get back to your questions
00:36:54uh what are your thoughts on taking medication for anxiety i have a small business and sometimes
00:37:04it's really stressful i mean i can't give you any advice on taking medications at all i mean i
00:37:09obviously can't i mean i'm a philosopher i'm not a doctor or psychiatrist and i haven't evaluated
00:37:13you even if i was right those things i haven't evaluated you so i can't give you any advice on
00:37:19taking or not taking medications for anxiety
00:37:26all right
00:37:30let's get back to questions comments issues challenges
00:37:36and and of course the people and i i talk about this um let me see if i can i'm just
00:37:42gonna see if i can get the show uh james james has the night off he can't
00:37:49he cannot help us we are beyond the range of james
00:37:58oh that's a that's a lot hey why is it not sorting there we go
00:38:09yeah i don't think i'll be able to find it
00:38:11but some good good good shows let's see here
00:38:24don't arrange to have me sent to no asylum
00:38:31truth of my sadism was a good show good shows man
00:38:34yeah i don't uh now if anyone can find it um it's the one where i did about um
00:38:47uh how they shut down institutions and turf the people out into the street
00:39:05yeah the glory hole of societal collapse
00:39:11pretty good that's pretty good
00:39:16yeah all right so i will have to um
00:39:21put that in the show notes afterwards i i can uh very easily go down the rabbit hole
00:39:26of trying to find things all right let me skip back here
00:39:35you did one episode that was about three hours long it was excellent the truth about mental
00:39:38health yeah yeah i can do a search for that but this is another one where it was basically the
00:39:44history of how asylums were shut down and the um inhabitants of those asylums were basically
00:39:51just turfed out into society with very little support and it was pretty much a disaster
00:39:57i think i mean you could make the case right
00:40:05all right let me get back to my bookie bookmarks
00:40:14the most dangerous jobs what do you think throw me a couple of throw me a couple of jobs
00:40:22that you think
00:40:28oh yeah yeah somebody says i got through the part where david visited the hospital where
00:40:32the mother and her kids were being treated powerful stuff in the future novel very
00:40:35heartbreaking stuff yeah i mean that's yeah logging that's right key logging
00:40:42yeah logging logging is is pretty bad the logging workers the fatality rate
00:40:49fatal injury rate per 100 000 workers is 82.2 and it's 96 percent men number two is fishing and
00:40:55hunting 75.2 99 percent men roofer is 59 97.1 aircraft pilots 48.1 percent male 94.7 iron and
00:41:05steel workers 36.1 fatal injury rate per 100 000 99 percent male truck driver is 28.8 92.1 percent
00:41:12male refuse and recycling collector is 27.9 injury rate 87.9 percent male underground mining workers
00:41:2126.7 99 percent male construction 22.9 90 percent male electrical power line workers
00:41:3022 fatal injury rate per 100 000 workers 99.3 percent male
00:41:38it's all so tiresome you know just just hearing women complain about their
00:41:43don't break my nails air-conditioned hr comfy chair jobs
00:41:47yeah the joker movie i think that uh did that as a whole
00:42:09all right let's see here what else do i have for you
00:42:17there's a trucker convoy protesting corruption and government abuse in quebec
00:42:22quite interesting hopefully they'll get to keep their bank accounts
00:42:32this is always cheery this is always cheery facts and information chris williamson
00:42:39writes on x adolescence with an iq of 130 were three to five times less likely to have had
00:42:47intercourse than those with average iqs boys with an iq that would qualify for intellectual disability
00:42:53an iq of 60 were still more likely to have had sex than those with a very high iq of 830
00:43:01so you know how not all women not all women
00:43:15but women say oh you know men are just they're just too intimidated by my intelligence and
00:43:19you know men just want a bimbo they just want a dumb girl and all of that uh women in general
00:43:27prefer average to lower intelligence it's all just projection it's all just projection so sad
00:43:42this woman writes a dude dm'd me offering 2k a week for being my sugar daddy obviously i
00:43:47immediately showed my husband the messages i look forward to hearing his counteroffer
00:43:51hahaha nice
00:43:58yeah yeah
00:44:08um anytime someone prompts me to complain about my comfy office job where i program computers
00:44:13i point out that i enjoy it much more than working in the cold or hot on a construction site
00:44:18even if now i have to work out yeah but of course a lot of the manual labor jobs are pretty
00:44:22pretty harsh on the body right they're pretty negative on the body
00:44:29all right hit me with a why if you'd like to talk about something
00:44:34covid related or of course you can throw your questions or issues on other
00:44:40things if you want me to talk about something else
00:44:49hit me with a why if you'd like to talk about something covid related
00:44:53i still find it personally i still find it quite fascinating the whole covered thing
00:44:58the whole covered thing
00:45:01i my mind returns to it at least once every day or two
00:45:17so let's see here
00:45:20um software engineer lost his 150k a year job to ai he's been rejected from 800 jobs
00:45:28and forced to door dash and live in a trailer to make ends meet yeah
00:45:33yeah ai and humanoid robots are only just beginning to make their impact known
00:45:43only just beginning
00:45:45um it's uh it's gonna be absolutely wild how different things are gonna be
00:45:56it's it's it's unimaginable ah you found it okay let me
00:46:05go there what's it called the destruction of america's mental health care system
00:46:12thank you yes the destruction of america's mental health care system i should probably um
00:46:18yeah i should probably remaster that get a transcript because that was really good
00:46:23it's a really good presentation oh yeah it still links to all the places i'm not around for anymore
00:46:29or some all right that's right the destruction of america's mental health care system
00:46:35thank you i appreciate that
00:46:45uh really that often steph i find that surprising why is that
00:46:48what usually comes to your mind about covid that often
00:46:55i find my mind you know if you've ever lost a tooth well i guess we all have as kids right
00:47:01your tongue is drawn to it right you just what's this the ultimate dungeons of dragons curse i
00:47:07curse you to have a piece of popcorn your tongue can find but your finger can't stuck between your
00:47:13teeth uh i i find it absolutely fascinating that people just blank out completely on stuff
00:47:31uh it's it's just gone people don't talk about it people don't review it they don't respond to it
00:47:46fewer and fewer people of course are taking the boosters and the jabs and so on uh i i think that
00:47:52the um i think that the injuries from the covert vax well i mean who knows right i mean
00:48:02various is three percent maybe and it is horrendous i think as a whole i can't prove it i don't that
00:48:10anyone can prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt but all course mortality certainly didn't go down
00:48:15so and the fact that people just like to me the whole covet thing was like
00:48:21a portal to hell opened up and people just worshipped the worst in themselves and others
00:48:29they were slaves to authority they turned on their fellow citizens and
00:48:38this this portal to hell just opened up you know it's one of the reasons why
00:48:45i did not stick with history and it's one of the reasons i got out of politics
00:48:52is what do we learn what do we got the whole example of the 20th century
00:48:58and what do we learn what do we learn almost nothing people are as susceptible to groupthink
00:49:05to turning on their fellow citizens to slavishly obeying those in authority as when the Milgram
00:49:11experiment came about as in the second world war the first world war
00:49:16the franco-prussian conflict western europe or in europe um napoleonic wars
00:49:25the protestant reformation the indulgences like what have we learned
00:49:33what have we learned
00:49:34and i think that's really interesting and it's not interesting because i think obviously i think
00:49:41i can change it i mean hopefully we can change it to some degree within
00:49:44our own lives and the people that we care about but
00:49:54you can't change it in any foundational way i mean even with and i know that's a
00:50:00lot of censorship and so on but even with these amazing technology tools it was still like 90 10
00:50:08it was still 90 10 and the 10 percent of people maybe a little more depending on where you are
00:50:12the 10 percent of people who resisted the propaganda a lot of them did so for reasons
00:50:16not based upon rational philosophy they did this for religious reasons or other kinds of reasons
00:50:20or just i hate being f you i won't do what you tell me right i don't know i don't know
00:50:27i won't do what you tell me right
00:50:45so i'm really just i'm fascinated about how it's just vanished
00:50:52steve kirsch has i think helped to fund a new documentary about vaccine injuries that
00:50:56i'll probably check out
00:51:02but i'm fascinated by how ugly it was how vicious people were
00:51:12how much they were just eager to turn oh he's got someone he's got an extra car in the driveway
00:51:18i'm fascinated you know
00:51:28i'm fascinated and yeah it's sort of like when it would be like if you had shapeshifters you
00:51:35know like the david ikey stuff like if you had shapeshifters and people turned into monsters
00:51:40and then turned back wouldn't you think about that quite quite a quite a lot who am i surrounded by
00:51:46am i surrounded by people without a conscience am i surrounded by people who could just be molded
00:51:50into dangerous weapons against anyone who thinks like that
00:51:56wild
00:51:58so i do i do find it there is very little accountability there is certainly
00:52:21no i mean there haven't been any arrests of people who lied and i know some states are
00:52:27suing pharma companies for misleading advertising which seems to me pretty thin
00:52:32gruel for everything that happened but yeah i read the monsters that you on maple street
00:52:40maple street i think that was originally a short story and i remember reading that
00:52:45and it was obviously a creepy creepy short story
00:52:52i like that people in ancient rome ordering five beers
00:52:55for those of you who can't see i'm just making the v for victory sign from churchill ordering
00:53:02five beers v v is five right i was uh with uh some friends playing trivia at uh at a restaurant
00:53:11and it was like you know it was some big complicated number it's like how do you write
00:53:15this number in roman numerals and it's like i felt like i could do it you know my toxic
00:53:20trait is overconfidence at times but i thought i could do it and i could not i could not
00:53:45yeah the george floyd case yeah i mean even with the coroner's report even
00:53:49with four different camera angles even with you know blood toxicology report right
00:53:56i'm so fascinated by these same things and they're still in my office it's truly unbelievable
00:54:00yeah i mean i think i think what i find fascinating and i'd love to hear
00:54:06your guys thoughts on this i think what i find fascinating is what is it like to be someone
00:54:16who can be switched into turning on your fellow citizens and then just forget it forget that it
00:54:23ever happened ignore it like didn't what are you talking about like not even bring it up like
00:54:30it just it never happened doesn't exist i mean if i had been i mean obviously i'm far from a
00:54:38perfect person but if i had been lured into just turning on my fellow citizens and advocating for
00:54:43lockdowns and and and this and that and the other and you know there were lots of people
00:54:47who were saying oh you can't don't give health care to the unvaccinated and blah blah blah right
00:54:56if i had been
00:54:59lured or tricked into that and then it turned out that i was kind of wrong i mean wouldn't you have
00:55:08a reckoning in your conscience wouldn't you have a dark midnight of the soul and just have a big
00:55:12old reckoning in your conscience but it doesn't exist
00:55:26and i i guess i struggle to find what i have in common with that kind of mindset
00:55:32with people who oh the unvaccinated are bad right so the government is locking everyone down
00:55:44covid didn't do that the unvaccinated certainly didn't do that that was the government that did
00:55:47that so when people just turn on their fellow citizens and you know i mean a lot of people on
00:55:58the left were like yep unvaccinated should be put in camps and yep the unvaccinated should have
00:56:03their children taken away and yep you should absolutely censor anything that's skeptical of
00:56:08the vaccines or lockdowns and like they just were like you know like there's that i don't know it's
00:56:14a semi-famous meme somebody from hogan's heroes i think it is like the the fat nazi who's like
00:56:19could we be the bad guys i mean do people do people thank you c2 do do people
00:56:28do they do they think that do they wonder that do they does it matter to them
00:56:38maybe they're the bad guys but it doesn't seem to happen right
00:56:43they don't seem to think about it it doesn't seem to be of concern to them
00:56:49i don't know
00:56:56if you were tempted into a moral position that quite quickly was revealed as pretty
00:57:04corrupt and indefensible wouldn't you have some wouldn't you have some pause some
00:57:14um concern some worry some you know especially because these are all the parents who are like
00:57:21they say to their kids you know peer pressure don't don't succumb to peer pressure
00:57:34i don't know
00:57:40i'm i'm quite fascinated by what seems to me such a different and alien mindset
00:57:47that i have a tough time figuring out what we have in common if that makes sense
00:57:53if that makes sense
00:58:08all right let me get back to your questions see if there's anything new
00:58:24uh he says uh sapanta says interesting i find that's also why i think of it from time to time
00:58:29maybe i bought bonds every two weeks or so however to a degree i also let myself slip
00:58:33into that hell but instead of inflicting it on others i took advantage of the crisis and
00:58:36took time off work to smoke a lot of weed drink a lot of alcohol and play video games
00:58:40because i was worried and felt unsafe okay well i mean it's not great for you but at least you
00:58:44weren't inflicting it on others right you would think you would but these people have so much
00:58:50emotional emotional what
00:58:56emotional i bet you that was important uh they emotionally dysregulated that the coveted
00:59:03experience just gave them an outlet to express that dysregulation okay i got it i got it
00:59:10the show by the way is 4403 if you go to fdrpodcast.com the show is 4403 the destruction
00:59:15of america's mental health care
00:59:22people's memory reset phenomenon is quite something yeah it really is it really is
00:59:35i mean it did seem like um it did seem like
00:59:42it did seem like the flu did kind of vanish right
00:59:50it did seem that it did seem that for sure and i don't know what that means and i don't know
00:59:56that we'll ever know i mean maybe some people right some people do know but
01:00:03some people think they know but i don't know right yeah it's a very different mindset
01:00:09i mean yeah it's just it's a very different mindset
01:00:15all right well i think i'll stop here i um do appreciate everyone's thoughts and
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