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In this episode, I explore the complexities of female sexual beauty and its evolutionary ties to modern dating dynamics. I discuss the brief window of peak beauty relevant to attracting mates and the pressures women face regarding attractiveness in today's society. Through personal reflections and listener comments, I examine the emotional challenges of seeking genuine connections amid transactional relationships. Additionally, I address the impact of changing social systems on commitment and accountability, inviting listeners to reflect on societal values, personal growth, and the nuances of love in the contemporary landscape.
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In this episode, I explore the complexities of female sexual beauty and its evolutionary ties to modern dating dynamics. I discuss the brief window of peak beauty relevant to attracting mates and the pressures women face regarding attractiveness in today's society. Through personal reflections and listener comments, I examine the emotional challenges of seeking genuine connections amid transactional relationships. Additionally, I address the impact of changing social systems on commitment and accountability, inviting listeners to reflect on societal values, personal growth, and the nuances of love in the contemporary landscape.
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00:00Oh, righty, righty. Good afternoon, everybody. This is Sam Molyneux from Freedomain, and I hope
00:05you're doing well. And I am, of course, happy to take your questions. I put out a tweet. Oh,
00:13is it this morning? Yes, 9.21 a.m. Put out a wee, a wee tweet. And I wrote, peak female sexual
00:22beauty evolved to last for maybe six to 12 months, just enough time to find a husband and start
00:28having babies. Now, single women are trying to stretch that out into their 40s and even 50s,
00:32and society dares to talk about men who don't grow up. Right. Right. And, you know, it's a wild
00:40thing, I suppose. I feel sometimes like the last lonely man on social media who grew up reading
00:47actual books. You know, I mean, I'm old enough that, I mean, we had like no TV, and I lived at
00:55the library. I mean, I just go and read books and read books, and it didn't really even matter to me
00:59what the topic was. You know, I hated being home. The library was quiet and peaceful. There were great
01:04books, comfortable chairs, get your water, go to the bathroom, and I just live in the library.
01:11And I just read and read and read. Now, then, of course, I wrote, I started writing short stories
01:17when I was six years old. I wrote my first novel, or at least half a first novel when I was
01:2111. And I've written, I don't know, like 25 plays, hundreds of poems, I don't know, eight or nine
01:27major novels. And so I, and of course, I studied English literature at York University right here
01:34in Canada. And of course, when you, and again, they were old school, right? So when I studied
01:40English literature, you have to read really carefully. You have to read really carefully,
01:43make sure you understood, understand something, particularly if you're triggered.
01:47That's just a sort of discipline thing that I was used to, which is, if something upsets you,
01:51read it really carefully to make sure you've got it right. There was a really, it's a pretty bad
01:57sitcom, but it had its funny moments when I was a kid, called Three's Company. And the joke,
02:03it became a joke among my sort of friends that it was bad because everything was about a
02:07misunderstanding. Everything was about a misunderstanding. So somebody talking about the size of shoes
02:14in the next room, and it sounds like they're talking about penis size, right? So it's cheap
02:19jokes. And there's nothing wrong with cheap jokes. Lord knows I've made my share over the years. So
02:24I'm not sort of complaining about that. But it was all about misunderstandings. And I guess the lesson
02:28was kind of like, well, if you don't listen carefully, if you jump to conclusions, you know,
02:34bad things are going to happen in your life. So I'm just used to reading carefully. And particularly,
02:39if something upsets me, I'll read it three times to make sure that I understand it.
02:47I mean, if you get a message from your wife saying, and she says, I'm going to a fair,
02:53and you think, oh my God, she's going to go have an affair. And you call the lawyer,
02:56and you start divorce proceedings, and you cut her off, and you block her. And it's like, no,
02:59she's just going to the summer fair. She wants to pick up some butter tarts or something, right?
03:03So jumping to conclusions is a challenge. So it's wild, man. So I wrote peak female sexual beauty
03:11evolved to last for maybe six to 12 months. Now, why do I say six to 12 months? Because I've read
03:17my Victorian novels. In fact, I took an entire course called The Rise of the Novel. When I was
03:22taking my, I didn't finish my English degree, I went to theater school, and then I finished my
03:26undergraduate in history, in part because English was too subjective. Like I was reading something on X,
03:32a guy said that he wrote a poem, and then later, he was taking a test, and they said,
03:38explain the meaning of this poem. And it was his poem. He knew what the meaning was.
03:43And he wrote the meaning down of the poem that he wrote, but I'll say that he wrote it,
03:46and they marked him as he fails. He didn't get the meaning of the poem. Like the guy who wrote the
03:49poem is telling you what the poem's about, but he got failed for that. It's too subjective for me,
03:54and I moved to history back when I thought that history wasn't also rapidly subjective. But anyway,
03:59so I took this whole course on The Rise of the Novel, and through that process, it started in
04:05the 18th century. Daniel Defoe and others were writing, you know, Pamela a little bit later,
04:11and, you know, just the really sort of early Moll Flanders, the early novels. And certainly there was
04:18a pretty short courtship period. There had to be, because people were getting snatched up into
04:22permanent marriages. So if you, you know, you're 18, 19 years old, and let's say you're a young
04:27woman, and you have to figure out who you're going to marry, and you have to figure it out pretty
04:32quickly. It's an auction, right? And it's an auction where everything's being auctioned off
04:37at the same time, and the good stuff is going quickly. So you have to, so sort of nature programmed
04:42peak female sexual beauty evolved to last for maybe six to 12 months, right? So you hit your
04:48beauty as an adult, you're 18, you're 19, six to 12 months, you're married. It's like, boom.
04:54And it's probably not even, I'm actually saying it can take up to a year. Most courtships were
04:59very short, a couple of months max. And I mean, I did this in my Truth About the Wild West
05:05presentation, which you can find at fdrpodcast.com. I was talking about how, I think it was a third
05:10of marriages in the Wild West were shotgun weddings, and they can tell that, of course,
05:14from the date of the wedding and then the date of the birth. So, you know, people got knocked
05:19up, they got married pretty quickly. There was a pretty short courtship period. So peak
05:23female sexual beauty evolved, and we'll just go with six to 12 months, it's a generous estimate.
05:28Why? So you could, you know, moth to a flame, you could attract a man with peak sexual beauty,
05:33and then you start having kids. And you have a whole succession of kids, because remember,
05:38half the kids died before the age of five. So you just have a whole bunch of kids. And I was
05:43writing about this in my early 20s. I wrote a book called Just Poor, which you should really
05:47check out. It's a fantastic book. If I do say so myself, it's a novel set in the 1700s in England.
05:54And I write about a young woman who's very beautiful, and then the obsessive demands of
05:59work and babies scraped that beauty off like an obsessive painter, constantly dissatisfied with what
06:06he does, right? Scrape it off. So I've known all about this stuff for, gosh, I mean, close to 40 years
06:12now. And yeah, that's historically, that's, that's the way it went. You got your, your peak female
06:17beauty. And it was magnificent. I mean, young women and young men are beautiful. You know,
06:23if you, if you see particularly with, with high def now, like you see a young person's face next to
06:30their mother's face, and you didn't notice this so much when it was like heavily Vaseline-lensed
06:35squinto vision, Olivia de Havilland style stuff from the past. But now with, with high def and 4k,
06:40I, man, it's like, it's like looking at a balloon versus the moon, as far as cragginess and all of
06:46that goes. And I'm no different. I did a video, I haven't released it yet. I did a video, I think
06:49it was yesterday or the day before outside. And I'm squinting into the sun. I'm like, oh, welcome
06:54cryptkeeper. Because, you know, I'm pushing 60, right? So I'm getting, I'm getting craggy. I'm getting
07:00mighty craggy. I'm, I'm, I'm relatively youthful until I smile. And then it's like, oh, welcome to death's
07:08door. And that's just the way that it is. That's a pretty good looking young guy, got scouted for
07:12modeling and all kinds of stuff. And it doesn't last though, right? So peak female sexual beauty
07:18evolved to last or maybe six to 12 months, just enough time to find a husband and start having
07:22babies. There's nothing wrong with that historically. Now, what do people, what do people say, right?
07:28Well, Christoph wrote, Botox is one particularly demonic trade-off. Studies have now shown that it
07:34breaks your empathy by preventing you from showing your own emotions or mirroring others.
07:38Because they did a picture of a woman who went through some cosmetic procedures.
07:41And I actually replied, like, can you imagine, imagine what it's like for a baby if your mother
07:44has Botox and she can't mirror your expressions. I mean, that's going to be brutal. A woman wrote,
07:49I honestly thought this was common knowledge. I knew my window was short and stacked the best
07:52quality mate at a young age. Do women actually think they'll be hot forever? What? Right.
07:57And Synod wrote, what? Is this just another poor attempt for older, from older men past their prime
08:05trying to justify lusting after 18 year olds? Because it's getting old. And it's like, it's so
08:10funny, you know, am I past my prime physically? Yes. Right. I actually thought it was younger than it
08:16was. I thought it was in late teens for men, but actually it's sort of 25 to 30. It seems to be peak,
08:20you know, strength and cardio for men. But, you know, I'm like decades past that. Right.
08:28So I don't know. I don't know why. Why is this hard to admit? Am I as good looking now? 58 as I was
08:35when I was 18? Like, of course not. Am I as limber? Am I as strong? Or do I have the same endurance?
08:43No. I mean, I'm, you know, try to work out. I mean, I do work out. I sort of try, but of course,
08:47I'm way past my prime. Intellectually, I think I'm better than ever personally, but you know,
08:51that's not for me to decide perhaps. So this woman, I think it's a woman, she writes six to 12
08:59months. You should elaborate if the logic behind that, even I already, you should elaborate if
09:05the logic behind that, even I already know you are one of those intelligent, narcissistic, sexist
09:09pricks. It's pretty funny, you know, to, to like verbally abuse someone or lacerate them or insult
09:15them and then say, Oh, listen, could you elaborate that for me? That's pretty funny, man.
09:19It's pretty funny. Now the misreading. And again, just learn to read carefully. It's really,
09:26really important. I mean, it'll save your life. It'll save your marriage. It'll save your friendships.
09:30It'll say like, learn to read carefully. Don't go off half cocked. Be like me only ever go off
09:36fully cocked. So peak female sexual beauty evolved to last for maybe six to 12 months, right? So from the
09:44time you're on the dating market for the aristocrats, that would be maybe your debutante ball or from
09:48the time you're really on the dating market until you get married and start having kids. Well,
09:54then it's different, right? You, you get kids, your body stretches out and there's some people
09:59who bounce back, but that's a huge amount of work. So yeah, it evolved to last. Now when I say
10:04peak female sexual beauty evolved to last for maybe six to 12 months, which is your courtship until
10:11you start having babies, I'm not saying that women are only attractive for six to 12 months,
10:17right? Peak is not the whole mountain, right? If you're climbing up Everest, you get to the peak
10:23and then you start climbing down. You're still way above sea level. You're still super above sea
10:28level. You're just not at the peak, right? So the peak is not the only thing. It's not binary.
10:33It's a bell curve, so to speak, right? So when I say it evolved to last for maybe six to 12 months,
10:39that's what it's evolved for. That doesn't mean that you can't be attractive later on in life.
10:44Of course you can, right? But peak, right? Peak. Let's see here. I just, I find these things kind
10:51of, kind of interesting. I don't think nature cares if a woman gets married. That's a human created
10:57thing based on her history. It was likely developed by men and probably for good reasons. Well, it
11:02doesn't matter. It doesn't matter because a woman's peak sexual beauty diminishes when she's pregnant
11:10for other men for obvious, I mean, unless you've got some weird kink, right? For obvious evolutionary
11:14reasons, right? And the obvious evolutionary reasons is men don't want to invest resources
11:19into raising other men's kids, right? Evolutionarily speaking, that didn't work.
11:22Okay. So it doesn't matter. And what, there was a couple of other things. Oh yeah. So Gertrude
11:30writes, six to 12 months? Really? I mean, why not say 30 minutes? It sure doesn't seem like it in real
11:35life to me. I'd say four to five years seems more likely, but it's still a good point. And it's a
11:39fantastic facelift by the way. So again, I'm not saying that women are only attractive for six to 12
11:45months. I'm saying that our peak attractiveness evolved to get a husband and then start having
11:51babies because people have huge amounts of lust and there's no birth control. So you're just going
11:56to have babies and the babies are going to take away your attractiveness, particularly in history,
12:01right? When there wasn't Pilates and gyms and all that kind of stuff, right? And Jackson writes,
12:06six to 12 months to find a husband? Harsh. Nine years seems more reasonable than realistic. 80 to 27
12:11years of age. Now, it's so like the word evolution does not mean five minutes ago. Like what is
12:17people's life and time span when it comes to viewing language? Evolution is way back beyond
12:23human history. Like human history, written history, you know, five, 10,000 years old,
12:27whatever, 5,000 years old, probably closer if you don't count cave paintings or whatever, right?
12:31So I'm talking like hundreds of thousands or millions of years, right? Six to 12 months,
12:37women's window is short, but not that short. Well, again, I don't know why people have
12:42difficulty thinking about the past. I'm not talking about it. And then Amy writes, wait,
12:49what? Six months? So she's hot at 18 and by 18.5, she's old and decrepit? That's a typo,
12:55right? What the fuck? Oh my gosh. Oh, that's funny. So if a man's peak, let's say is 27 years old,
13:06his physical peak is 27 years old, that doesn't mean he's a decrepit old man at 27.5. It just means
13:11that's his peak. Anyway, it's wild. Again, I, this, I feel, I feel sad, like in a way,
13:17like in all seriousness, because this is the result of government schools congenitally unable
13:24to teach people how to think. And can you imagine being in a relationship with someone
13:27where you say something and they just explode because they've misunderstood what you say? Like
13:32this is, it's not about X. It's not about Twitter. It's not about my, my little account. It's not,
13:36I mean, this is a life lesson. This is why I'm spending some time on this life lesson,
13:40please. For the love of all that's holy, do not jump to conclusions and then rush to judgment and
13:46rush to type and all of that kind of stuff. Ah, dear, oh dear. If somebody says, uh, I doubt that
13:55seeing how it takes nine months to bear a child and a couple only bearing one child would create a
13:59population decline. And why don't you, why didn't you say the actual years? Because it's different
14:08in different cultures, right? I don't know. Ah, I also like how people think it's a brilliant
14:15contribution to the debate. Like somebody was telling me, Hey Steph, you should really read
14:20Nietzsche. I'm like, Oh really? I really, I've studied philosophy for 40 years. Who's this Nietzsche
14:26fellow? Is he, is he Scottish? And then people were talking about, well, they talk about Pierce
14:32Brosnan's wife. Well, he's Catholic, right? So he's better for worse. And you also, you don't know
14:38what health issues people are dealing with if they get heavy. Jennifer Love Hewitt recently showed up
14:42looking, you know, a little plump and she's middle-aged. She's had a bunch of kids. And then
14:47what happens is people get triggered when they see a woman who's gained weight, right? And, and,
14:54or if they see someone like Pamela Anderson who shows up with matte makeup, the reason why like
15:00Jamal Warner, the Cosby actor drowned, I think this morning and people, and he's in his fifties,
15:05right? So people don't like the passage of time stuff. And I think that's a really unconscious
15:09thing, right? People, people don't like the passage of time stuff. You know, when you hear
15:14like Pete Townsend and Roger Daltrey and Sting and, you know, they all have hearing issues because
15:20like, you know, they're, you know, kind of all the decrepit, right? And, you know, I'm not putting
15:25myself outside of those, those categories. I'm just saying that when people like Jennifer
15:30Love Hewitt, you remember what she was like when she was young and slender and hot. And now she's
15:35like middle-aged, a little plump. She's had kids. I mean, there's nothing particularly
15:39wrong with that. I have a particular loathing for gaining weight. I gained some weight, I
15:44don't know, about 20 years ago and I'm down about 40 pounds from my peak. And I mean, that's
15:49just my particular horror and there's nothing particularly special about that. It's just,
15:54I try to avoid that as much as possible in part because I want to spend as much time as
15:59possible with my wife and daughter. And also as an older parent, I really can't let myself
16:04go because, you know, I want my, I want to be able to play with my daughter, run with my
16:07daughter, rough house with my daughter when she was younger. And I just have to sort of
16:12be responsible that way. Plus I do feel that I have a pretty good brain for communicating
16:15important stuff and I want to keep that around as long as possible. So I feel a little bit
16:19of sort of responsibility, but yeah, so she's, she's a Jennifer Love Hewitt. What happens is
16:24they look and they say, oh wow, she's gained a lot of weight or whatever it is. Right. And
16:28then it's the passage of time stuff. You know, if you're comfortable with what you've done
16:33with your life, you don't really mind the passage of time. Honestly, I do not mind getting
16:38older. I am very satisfied with what I've done with my life. You know, I started with
16:42a very harsh and downtrodden beginning and I've tried a lot of different things. You
16:48know, I did art, I did academics, I did business, I've done philosophy, podcasting, live speeches,
16:53tours, like you name it. Right. And written a bunch of books and I've done, you know, I've been
16:59a husband, I've been a father, I started businesses and I think I've done pretty well with what
17:04it is that I was given. So I don't mind getting older. I mean, I might mind it when I'm 80,
17:11you know, and you know, things I'm slowing down a little bit. There's no question of
17:14that. You know, my wife and I were just joking the other day, like we didn't use to make
17:18these sounds where we got out of the car after a long drive. Now it's like, oh, actually
17:23that's either me making that sound from my throat or my back making it on my knees or something
17:26like that. But you know, we can still play an hour pick a ball. So it's, you know, it's
17:31not bad as yet. But I think if you're relatively satisfied with what you've achieved in your
17:35life, then you see these time flashes like Jennifer Love Hewitt is now overweight. And
17:40I think you're, you know, okay with it. Yeah. She's had her kids. She had a career. I'm sure
17:44she still has some kind of career now and she's done her thing. And if you're comfortable
17:49with what you've done with your life, the passage of time, I don't think is, is quite as
17:53bad. So let's see. Men taking little blue pills and yet they complain about women's
17:59plastic surgery. Laughable. A bunch of old men with their balls down to their knees thinking
18:03they are young with a little blue pill. That's kind of like a go-to thing. And of course there
18:08are, do you know, the vast majority of men don't have erectile dysfunction into old age.
18:11A lot of times it's, it's health issues. And I think we can have some sympathy for that,
18:16can't we? I think we can have some sympathy for men who have health issues, but still want
18:19to have a sexual relations with their wives. It doesn't seem, but anyway, it's just, it's
18:25just this sort of sad counterattack that goes on. You meant six to 12 years after 18 years
18:32old. Well, yeah. So, so these days, if a woman stays single, takes care of herself, or at
18:38least doesn't have kids, yeah, she could be attractive for sure. For sure. She could be
18:42attractive into her thirties and beyond. And, and very attractive, right? I mean, my wife's
18:48a year younger than I am. She looks great to me. Great. But neither of us would say we look as great
18:53as when we were 20. Of course, right? So, Krabby writes, who cares about prime? A woman can be
19:01beautiful all through her life. No, she can't. No, she can't. I mean, beautiful spiritually. Yeah,
19:10of course. When we lose our looks, we gain in virtues. And since love is fundamentally a
19:15recognition and reciprocation of virtue, when we get older and we lose our looks, but we gain our
19:21virtues, we can end up more in love. And that's a beautiful thing. But no, a woman can, an 80-year-old
19:27woman is not beautiful. An 80-year-old man is not beautiful. It's not complicated. Like you don't see
19:32them in modeling ads. You just don't. And there's no Botox for eggs, right? And, and similarly,
19:44there's no little blue pill for sperm, right? Man's sperm ages, women's eggs die off by the time
19:49she's 40-ish. And the man's sperm deteriorates in quality as he ages and so on, right?
19:55Ah. So no, it's, it's just not being able to read carefully. The woman writes, it's not our fault
20:05you're disgusted by us after 25. So I didn't say that at all. Didn't say that at all. So it's a good
20:12lesson for people, I think, as a whole. Don't jump to conclusions. Read carefully. Listen carefully.
20:19And I suppose as a whole, don't assume the worst in people. I think that's sort of an important
20:24principle in life as a whole. Like just, just don't automatically assume the worst in people.
20:28Now, I'm obviously can be pretty harsh back when it comes to people attacking me online. Yeah. I mean,
20:37I'm a, I'm an attack back kind of guy. I mean, verbally, right? Because I believe in self-defense.
20:43I morally justified it and all of that. So yeah, it's, it's a sad thing. And I do think, of course,
20:49the last thing I mentioned, of course, I'd love to hear from you guys too about this or, you know,
20:53whatever topic is on your mind. But the last thing that I'll mention is that, you know, be really
20:59careful with people who have a lot of regret in their life. Be careful with people who've made
21:05bad decisions and have a lot of regret in their life. They will be very triggered by the passage
21:10of time. When I see people who are middle-aged getting triggered by the passage of time, which
21:15is looking at Jennifer Love Hewitt or me talking about peak attractiveness is when you're young.
21:20You know, people who have regret and particularly the people who have the regret of inaction,
21:26right? So there's, there's two things we regret. I know it's kind of a binary, right? We, we regret
21:30the things that we do and we also regret the things that we don't do. And the people who regret the
21:35things they haven't done. And when you're young, you fear things that you're going to do. And when
21:40you're older, you regret the things you didn't do. And I always, when I was younger, I was like,
21:46I got accepted to the National Theater School in Canada. And I went because I didn't want to sit
21:51there and say, gee, I could have been a big playwright or actor or something like that.
21:54And they only take like one out of a thousand people, right? So one out of 16 or 1600, sorry,
22:00one out of a hundred people. So like 1%. And so I, you know, wanted to go and wanted to give it a try.
22:05It turned out that I don't like the theater world. And the theater world doesn't really like me as a
22:09sort of free market capitalist guy, because they're a bunch of state sucking socialist toadies
22:13for the most part. So if you're around people who have wasted time and listen,
22:21time well wasted is not a bad phrase. There's times like, you know, yesterday I was reading a
22:25book after I did quite a bit of work during the day and I'd like doze for like 20 minutes in the
22:29sunshine. It's really nice. You know, it's time well wasted. And there's nothing wrong with wasting
22:34some time because we can't be productivity machines always. It's like working out 24 hours,
22:39you just get injured, right? So, but the people who've wasted too much time and haven't really
22:45achieved their potential, well, that's rough, man. They will, they will be triggered by the
22:54passage of time. And since the passage of time is inevitable, they will be forever triggered and
22:59they will, they will pull you down, man. All right. So let's get to the real brains of the outfit,
23:05which is not my rambling chatterhead, but you glorious listeners. S. Lewis. I'm thinking of
23:13C.S. Lewis. Maybe that's your shuffleboard acronym. If you want to unmute, I'm all ears, my friend.
23:19Come on, man. Don't make me edit stuff. I'm lazy.
23:24Oh, hey, brother. I didn't see you. I had a phone call.
23:26Yep.
23:27Sorry about that. Got distracted with business.
23:29So where are we at in this conversation? We're still talking about female beauty and
23:34male beauty and age and fertility, aren't we not?
23:37We, this is the call in part. So we are talking about what you want to talk about.
23:41I think we just have got extremely strange social dynamics now, very unnatural ones. And I'm,
23:49I'm still trying to figure out how, how do we tell young men to navigate the distorted mating market?
23:56Like it's a very artificial mating market. When you look at it, historically never have people in
24:02human history had such a broad range of selection as they do today. But before you might've dated
24:09the people in your little village and maybe it was 500 people, you know, so you didn't,
24:14you couldn't chase, you know, Chad's and Becky's, but now with the internet, the entire world is your
24:20dating app. You know what I mean? The whole world is your dating pool now. And it affects,
24:24and it especially pavers women who are always sought it. You know, women have the thing that
24:30men want. So they have men, women have the supply and men have all the demand. So I don't know how
24:36we put the wheels back on the bus. I've thought about it a lot. I mean, well, the big, I think the
24:42biggest distortion in the dating market is the subsidization of sexual access for female dating.
24:50That was expressly forbidden throughout, I mean, just about all of recorded history in most
24:56relatively advanced cultures that you were simply not allowed to subsidize your sexual market value
25:04with sexual access. You had to get married. Sorry, go ahead.
25:09Just to clarify, you're speaking about social welfare systems in this regard?
25:13No, I mean, it just the general, I mean, that's certainly part of it, but just the general acceptance
25:17that women can go and sleep with a bunch of guys, and they then don't know if the guys like them.
25:24And this makes women crazy, right? It makes women crazy. And so women, it's really, it's real torture
25:31for women. And I, you know, I certainly have some sympathy. I have some judgment and blame, but I
25:36certainly have some sympathy, which is if the other girls are putting out, and if you don't put out,
25:42you're probably not going to get dates. It's the same thing with like, if all the girls are showing a lot
25:46of flesh, and you don't show a lot of flesh, you may not get male attention, right? So there used to
25:51be this kind of cabal of women who were like, okay, we're not going to give sexual access without
25:56marriage, or at least some engagement or some serious commitment that's going to have follow-through
26:00and so on. And so for women, women want love, like we all do. Women want love. They want loyalty.
26:07They want devotion. And if you hurl sex at a man, particularly a young man who is, you know, high
26:16in hormones and low in judgment, then he's going to have sex with you. And as a woman, you then get
26:22male attention. But because you throw sex at the man, you don't know if he's there for the sex or for
26:29you, right? Everybody wants to be loved for who they are. And the only people loved for who they are are
26:34babies. Everybody wants to be loved for who they are. And for women, there's this torture in that
26:40they can get men into their lives. But the same mechanism that they use to get men into their
26:44lives a lot, which is sexual access, has them feeling that he's just there for sex. They resent,
26:50they dislike. This is why a lot of high sex relationships like the love bomb in the first
26:55couple of months turns into this arid sexual desert later on because there's too much resentment
27:00and there's too much falsehood, right? Because the man usually has to lie and say,
27:04oh, no, it's not the sex I'm here for. It's your deep spiritual essence and all that. It's all
27:08usually a bunch of nonsense. So I think it's real torture for women. They have almost infinite choice
27:12and they have this bizarre subsidy that is absolutely ahistorical in that they can have
27:18consequence and complications, so to speak, free sex, which so subsidize. It's like the kid who
27:27inherits, you know, $10 million. I mean, he wants to be thought of as a great businessman,
27:31but the $10 million thing will always be kind of hanging over his early career. It's just,
27:35it's way too much subsidy to be sure if you're good at anything, if that makes sense.
27:39No, no, I totally get your point. And I mean, if we look back historically,
27:43if you look at books like, you know, Hester Pern, where she has to wear the A, why did she have to
27:49wear the A? Because all the other women in the village knew that if that behavior was allowed to
27:54continue unabated, it would destroy the sexual value of all the women in the village and therefore
28:00destroy their ability to secure long-term mates by reducing the cost of sex.
28:05You mean if there was a woman who was an adulteress?
28:07Correct. And that is exactly why she was, you know, so, so roundly publicly denounced. It's like
28:14people are like, oh, look how ostracized she was. Yes, that was the entire point. The point was
28:19that the social cost of doing that moved you into the out group and historically being in the out
28:26group meant you might've starved to death because, well, again, right. Because if you couldn't be a
28:31part of the village and you were a woman, that social ostracization was the, was the deterrent.
28:37And the fact that we've somehow decided that we're going to undo all that as some sort of net social
28:43good because let's face it, men, men respond to physical force, right? Like the reason I don't
28:50get into more bar fights, despite some disrespectful jackasses really needing a good square punch in the
28:55mouth is because I don't like jail. And the reason that women didn't cheat in the past was because
29:02they were socially exiled and being socially exiled as a woman in, you know, in pre-modern era.
29:08And let's just set that cutoff day for 1900, right? If you had to go work a farm, a piece of dirt by
29:15yourself as a single mother, you were probably going to starve to death. There was just no way
29:19around it. And so women were socially ostracized to prevent for precisely that mate poaching behavior
29:26that you're talking about. And, and we've decided that because we've got all this modernity and all
29:31these resources, that that's a good thing that we should undo all this. And I'm like, are we nuts?
29:37Did we not learn anything from the last 2000 years of history that the reason these systems evolved
29:42was to prevent the types of problems that we're talking about today? I mean, no, I think that's,
29:48I think that's true. I would add one other, I think, fairly important element, and you can certainly
29:52let me know what you think. I think a pretty important element is societies don't last when
29:58children are raised with uncertain paternity. And so one of the problems with an adulterer was it made
30:06paternity uncertain? And when a man is uncertain of his children, like if he's the father of his
30:12children, he just invests less resources into them. You know, it's the old statement, it's,
30:16it's mama's baby, it's daddy's maybe. And so to maximize male investment into their children,
30:25which is the only way society can sustain itself to maximize a father's investment into his child
30:30meant that he had to have nearly virtual certainty that it was his child. And so an adulteress,
30:37by sleeping with a man she's not married to, is going to produce a child. And if she's sleeping
30:43with more than one man, she doesn't have the man. Or if she's only sleeping with one man,
30:47he may never know that, but he's not going to be as invested. And so single mothers, by having
30:54children without an invested father, are producing, I mean, pretty feral kids a lot of times. And we
31:01can sort of understand that, right? So evolutionarily speaking, if there was father absence,
31:05that meant that you grew up in a, you were growing up in a scarcity-based, violent society,
31:10because the men had either, you know, had to, they'd been killed in war, or they had to engage
31:17in such dangerous hunting that they got killed or injured on a regular basis, or something like
31:22there was some big problem why the men weren't around. And so it programs the young to grow up
31:29with huge amounts of aggression and low, low restraint, no, neofrontal cortex restraint on
31:36impulses. So tend to be impulsive, girls tend to enter into menses earlier, boys tend to be more
31:42violent and aggressive. And that's just nature programming the kids that if the fathers aren't
31:45around, you, you need to be uncivilized, because civilized ain't going to work in a time of war and
31:51scarcity, you need to be aggressive, you need to be violent, you need to be hair trigger,
31:55you need to, you know, take offense and strike first. And you need to, so when you have kids
32:00growing up with uncertain paternity or absent fathers, you are raising an entire coterie,
32:06an entire generation or huge swathes of that generation that don't fit into relatively peaceful,
32:14high-trust societies. And that's one thing that claws down the sort of historical edifices of
32:19civilization pretty, pretty quickly. Oh yeah, no, you can see it. There's a lot of,
32:24I've done a lot of reading on the Roman civilization, because it's one of the largest,
32:28most well-documented civilization failures that we have to really look at, right? I mean,
32:33because there aren't like a lot of examples, extremely successful societies imploding quite
32:38the way they did. And I do know that I've seen historical accounts maybe poorly translated that
32:43indicate that there was a rise in single motherhood, a drop in marriage and an increase in promise,
32:48to do this behavior with the advent of a lot of state social welfare systems.
32:53And it's interesting that the pattern looks almost identical. And so what I'm wondering is,
32:59and maybe it's just something that people don't want to talk about because it makes them more
33:02comfortable, does resource availability for women decouple their sense of like long-term mating
33:11strategy? Oh, there's no question. Yeah, there's no question. There's no question that it does. I mean,
33:16men, we have, you know, 40% greater upper body strength, a stronger work ethic,
33:21a stronger skeletal structure, because we are the workhorses for the family, because we have to
33:25produce, you know, 10 times what we need for ourselves in order to maintain a family. So we
33:31are the workhorses of the world, and the women are the nurturers of the world. But when women can get
33:36resources without men, then men become recreational. And when men become recreational,
33:44there's just less commitment. I mean, think of, again, we sort of mentioned the guy earlier who
33:48inherits $10 million. And so he has a job, but it's kind of recreational. It's not, you know,
33:54he doesn't have to have the job for living, or if he gets fired, he's going to go hungry. Like when I,
34:00I've been paying my own bills since I was 15 years old, and I couldn't afford to get fired,
34:04because like, I couldn't pay rent, I couldn't buy food, okay? It was very, very serious. And so
34:10everything becomes a hobby. The commitment is there, isn't there, right? Now there's this old
34:16country song, take this job and shove it. I ain't working here no more. My woman left and took all
34:21the reasons I've been working for. So yeah, if he doesn't have to pay for a family, he doesn't
34:25really care about the job. Or, you know, there's the old thing, like when Bitcoin pumps, you know,
34:31there will be signs, and it's some boss saying he wants something, and the employer says,
34:35you shut your dirty mouth, like he can talk back to his boss. So he doesn't have to subjugate
34:40himself to work, to ethics, to the requirements of business, to the necessity of an income,
34:45because he's got a bunch of income. And, you know, people, they don't, because they think
34:49welfare is like this big poverty thing, you know, barely enough to, it's like, that's not true, man.
34:54In America, I did a whole show on this many years ago, it's called the Welfare Cliff, which is
34:58for a woman with two kids, I'm trying to think of the inflation now, a woman with two kids gets
35:04welfare benefits that are so high, that she'd have to have a job making well north of $100,000
35:11just to break even. Because if you add up all the benefits that women get in a subsidized housing,
35:16and SNAP, and welfare directly, and rent control, and all of that, and of course, if her kids are
35:25disabled, you know, they've got some ADHD or whatever, she gets a bunch of supplemental income
35:30with regards to that. And I remember many years ago, I was at a park with my daughter,
35:35and I was listening to these two women, literally discussing how to milk the system.
35:40There were these two women, middle of the day, right? And they were like, oh, but if you apply
35:44for this program, okay, you'll lose a little bit here, but boy, you get a huge amount out of that.
35:48And then if you get this program, you can use it to piggyback onto this program. And they were just
35:52going back and forth, like you'd see the Excel spreadsheets whirling around in there, calculating
35:57brains. And the amount of money that gets poured into single moms is truly staggering.
36:04And again, this isn't even counting things like government schools, which are subsidized,
36:08and they're not paying taxes for those, free healthcare, which is subsidized, they're not
36:12paying taxes for those. So you'd have to make, as a single mother of two, if you start making
36:17a little over $100,000 a year, then you're no longer taxed at 100%. And the reason it's called
36:23the welfare cliff is that to get out of welfare, you have to get a job. But if you get a job,
36:29you lose your benefits, and you're effectively being taxed at 100%, or sometimes even more
36:33than 100%, because you lose more benefits than you're making in salary. And then once you
36:38start making north of $100,000, your first $100,000 is taxed at 100%. But after that, you
36:44can start to make a few pennies on the dollar. It's almost impossible to get out of. And the
36:48amount of resources that are being thrown at single mothers with, say, two kids and no dads
36:53is more than, you know, all the aristocracy had access to in many ways in many countries,
37:00because she has access to all of the modern technologies and all of that. So, you know,
37:04would you rather be the king of France in the 15th century, or would you rather be a single
37:08mother in the 21st century? I mean, the choice is simple, and it just makes men recreational and
37:13optional. But of course, men are not optional for the children, just for the mother.
37:17No, no, I totally understand that. Because, you know, and I can say this from personal
37:23experience, is that my dad was murdered when I was a year old. And so my mom went on the
37:30system, right? And so all of her friends were single mothers on the system. So believe you
37:36me, I am intimately familiar with the growth of the welfare system. And mind you, I'm almost
37:4350. So I grew up with it in the seventies and eighties. And the difference between today's
37:49welfare and food assistance and then is just absolutely astounding. Like we used to line
37:54up and go to the food bank and we would get like a box of milk and it would say powdered
37:59milk and it would be like beef in a can to cheese. And it said cheese, you know, and this
38:07is a big, giant box, absolutely ridiculously high quality cheddar that Reagan was making people
38:11get rid of. And back then there wasn't rent assistance and there wasn't all the facilities
38:17there are now. And so my take on modern welfare is essentially this. A group of very psychopathic
38:26licentious men have legislated into place a permanent proxy for prostitution so that they
38:34can sleep around with women who are stuck in this situation. And it certainly would appear
38:40that they vote that way frequently. So there's a class of men in politics who have created
38:45a low quality mating sexual dynamic, maybe even misguidedly to try and prop up the birth
38:52rate, which we know has been a problem since the eighties. I just, honestly, to me, it looks
38:57like they're creating a proxy prostitution market, you know?
39:01Well, they call them, uh, they call them girlfriend farms in the, uh, in the neighborhood,
39:05right? The girlfriend farms is just a bunch of women. I started to hear about your dad,
39:09by the way, I don't want to sort of let that pass unremarked, but, and it's, it's, you know,
39:13the abstractions, you know, I, I posted the other day, like what commandments did the West
39:18break to fall so hard? And I mean, the foundation of one is two really, thou shalt not bear false
39:23witness. We lie about things all the time. And the second is thou shalt not steal. Charity
39:28should be voluntary. All that is compelled other than direct self-defense, all that is compelled
39:34corrupts and charity needs to be voluntary because there needs to be a judgment. And I mean, maybe,
39:41maybe it's men who implemented it. Maybe men dangled it before women, but women sure struck
39:45it a lot of them and vote for it. And it's, it's a, it's a huge issue, right? And then of course you
39:50have the welfare state that's developed for like the local population that ends up being a giant magnet
39:55for people from other countries. And, but by then it's, you know, too embedded in the population
39:59to, to even consider changing. And for me, I'm not sure if this is the case with your mom, but
40:04my own mother has been on welfare for, I mean, ever and ever. Amen. And, you know, one of the
40:10really tragic things about it outside of the general abstract moral principles and the negative effects
40:15it has on the poor is I have no say in my mom's life because she's not worked in decades. And if she
40:27was say dependent upon me, I could have a say, like I could say, well, you need to do this.
40:33You need to do that. You know, maybe get some therapy, you know, I'd have some sway. She'd have
40:38to kind of listen to me in a way. And it's not like I want this big control over her or anything
40:42like that, but I have some really good advice that she doesn't have to listen to. She doesn't
40:47have to listen to it because she's going to get money from the government. So she doesn't need to
40:50change. So she has passed outside of my influence because the government just gives her money and
40:55keeps her rent low and gives her free health care and all of that. So she can just go off
40:59and make, in my view, you know, very bad mistakes and continue to make very bad mistakes. And I have
41:05no say in it because the money is the money is taken from me and given to her without any requirement
41:10for making better decisions. So, sorry, go ahead. No, no, certainly, certainly. And, and, you know,
41:15did you, I don't know, you're in Canada, right? Uh-huh. Okay. So I don't know if you follow our
41:20politics. I'm assuming you do down here in the States. Snap is getting a revamp.
41:25Right now, currently, about what they will allow people to purchase on Snap. There's a
41:29whole lot of people pissing and moaning and crying about it. And personally, my take on
41:33it is, and I've had this discussion with my local representative, by the way, my screen
41:38name is, it's not even close. So it's a word play on CS Lewis. I'm sure you figured that
41:43out already, but yeah, yeah. So I have no like CS Lewis. So I, I had a talk with my local
41:51representative and I said, you know, I said, look at what we're spending on healthcare,
41:56right? Like we can't, we can't afford to keep spending on healthcare. In the United States,
42:00we're spending, I think if the last I looked, and this is 2021 or 2022 numbers. So, and they're
42:05not to the penny, but we're spending nearly $3 trillion a year in federal money. That means
42:10we're going out and taking $3 trillion a year from working citizens and putting it into Medicaid
42:14and Medicare. And then we're spending it back out. And the bulk of it's actually going out
42:18the Medicaid money for the, not for the elderly, but it's actually going to young people, namely
42:22single mothers and children. And so like the 67, 60, 70% of that money is being spent on
42:29treating metabolic disorders, like obesity, asthma. So like there's this huge cluster of illnesses,
42:34right? And they can all be found directly correlated to high glucose intake. So it's people eating
42:41really low quality nutritional items, like, you know, box foods, noodles, rice, you know,
42:48these, these low nutrition, nutrition devoid, high carbohydrate foods are just driving a disease
42:55epidemic in this country. And we're subsidizing it. And then on top of that, our snap money is going
43:02to pay for the exact food that's causing the medical spending. So it's like a double whammy.
43:08And so I started doing a little digging. And so here's what turns out to be the case.
43:14BlackRock manages a tremendous number of, you know, pension funds for the federal and state
43:21governments. And they're heavily invested in the medical industry and the food industry.
43:27And so two of the biggest spenders in the medical and the food industry is the federal government,
43:31SNAP and Medicaid. And so the, the pension funds that they manage are directly benefiting from
43:38the poor nutrition on both the sales side, cheap, high profit, low nutrition, high carb foods,
43:45and the disease side, where we have kids that are loaded full of diseases, ADHD, neurodevelopmental
43:51disorders. And that's before we even account for the ridiculousness of our very untested social
43:58experiment. We're calling mass vaccination. And I said, well, and sorry, I just want to mention
44:02one other thing too, which share it because it's not well proven. It's not like we have a whole state
44:07of kids that's never been vaccinated to AB with. We don't have a, you know what I mean? Outside of
44:12the Amish who they will never include in the data. We don't have good, we don't have like a good gold
44:18standard, you know, nominal group. It's just data. Sorry. I just wanted to mention as well that
44:24the, and they also benefit in that if they're heavily invested in pensions and people, because
44:30of these ailments don't make it to old age, they got a whole lot less pension to pay out. So there's
44:35a profit in that too. Oh yeah, no doubt. No doubt. And, and that's what I was trying to get at. Like,
44:41you know, the, the, the, the, the, the, the maintain backs having the high side effect rate that it does
44:47isn't necessarily bad for actuary tables, for life insurance companies and for health insurance
44:53companies and for, you know, states paying out like ridiculous pensions. I looked at Michigan's
44:59budget four or five years ago and over 50% and it's hard to tell because they, you know, the way
45:05they manipulate numbers over 50% of the state budget is going to pay retired teachers, healthcare and,
45:10and, and pay. And to me, that's just absolutely ridiculous that people are going to be on those
45:14benefits for 25, 30 years. Like why can't someone teach until they're 65? Why do they get to retire?
45:22There's nothing about teaching that is so physically demanding that someone can't do it until they're
45:26seven. It's absolutely amazing. No, but I think, I think teaching is becoming progressively more
45:32unpleasant as IQ drops and as behavioral problems increase. I think that, you know, the, the fear that,
45:38that we all had as, as kids have negative consequences and teachers seems to be kind of evaporating. I
45:43mean, I mean, and, and I think also the older teachers are probably, some of them are quite
45:48repulsed by the contents of the new curriculum, particularly the highly sexualized stuff that
45:54is all just kinds of creepy stuff to talk about with, with kids. But all right, listen, I got
45:59another caller. Really appreciate your call. I'm sorry again about your dad and I guess keep on raising
46:04the awareness of these issues. They sound super important to me. Have a good one, man.
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46:49these. All right. Going once, going twice, my friends. Could have just a little tidy little dip in,
46:56talk about these issues. But yeah, dopamine is a big problem. I think dopamine addiction is a big
47:02problem. These days, men get it sometimes from porn. They get it from video games and other things.
47:06But I think women get it from male attention. And women wanting male attention is a beautiful thing.
47:13It's kind of why we're all here. So that's lovely. But it can definitely last too long. And I think it
47:19stretches and stresses women's systems out to get constant bombardments of male attention and the old
47:26phrase sort of sliding into the DMs, right? Constant male attention, constant male lust and thirst.
47:32They call it thirst in the online world. The men are thirsty. Like the woman is a tall,
47:37cool glass of water. And it's a lot, man. It's a lot of lust. It's a lot of attention. It's a lot of
47:43options. And I think it does fry the dopamine receptors after a while. Like, in a sense, the whole
47:50modern world is this massive, giant experiment of, okay, just how much stimulation can the human brain
47:57conceivably handle? And it's a pretty wild thing to see. How much? And with the answers, we don't know yet,
48:06but it's not looking good. It's not particularly looking good. The options. So when I was, I guess,
48:12younger, you just, I remember maybe once or twice a year, and I always remember it was on ITV, once or twice a
48:19year, they would play a James Bond movie. A James Bond movie. Back in the, it was Sean Connery a little
48:26bit, the Roger Moore days. Back in the Roger Moore days. I still remember going to a movie theater in
48:30England to watch a Roger Moore, James Bond movie. And he was like, the height was completely
48:37disproportionate to the head. And it wasn't just because I was short. But I remember there would be
48:41a movie and the whole country would shut down because everybody loved the James Bond movie.
48:46And the fact that they were playing, like, that's what you watched, right? You'd, it's, hey, man,
48:51Friday nights, you know, it's the James Bond movie. And we'd, we'd sort of sit there, my family would
48:55sit there in the bed and watch it on our grainy 12 inch black and white TV with the ripples, the
49:02ripples, the old cathode ray tube ripples. And it was great. It was a great time. But now, of course,
49:07you can scroll endlessly through five different social medias, five different media streaming
49:12platforms and still not find anything you want to see. It's, um, because it could be something
49:16better. It could be something better. Or you try it for three minutes and don't give it much of a
49:19chance. But all right. T.S. See, we've gone from C.S. Lewis to T.S. Elliott. T.S., what is on your
49:27mind? Oh, he's come and gone. But I think that was an error on X's part. Hang on a second.
49:34All right. I think you're on. Do you need to unmute? T.S., T.S., are you here? All right. Well,
49:41I'll just have to keep going because I'm not sure if he's having some technical issues or what.
49:45But yeah, options, options, options. He booted up YouTube and is like in infinity. I never heard
49:51back from them, by the way. Had a pretty, pretty strong, pretty strong petition at Team YouTube,
49:57at Team YouTube on X. Never got a response from them about a yay or an nay, which is a shame.
50:04I think that they owe me a channel back. I think that the things that they believe about me are not true.
50:09I've got tons of counter evidence for all of the things. Eugenics. Can you imagine me as a
50:14voluntarist wanting a completely peaceful and free society? Talking about eugenics,
50:20the government programs designed to have people have children or have people not have children,
50:26forced sterilizations. I mean, it's pretty simple. Is it a violation of the non-aggression
50:30principle or not? Like, no matter what the problem is, the solution is more freedom.
50:34Once you get that basic principle, a couple of basic principles. You know,
50:39let's do a couple of basic principles because, you know, it's philosophy. A couple of basic
50:43principles are good. Two from economics, right? Very, very important. All human desires are infinite.
50:50All resources are finite. That's a very sort of basic principle. Number one. Number two,
50:56there is no efficient way for resources to be created or transferred in society without the price
51:04system. You can't do it. No such thing as central planning. No such thing as the commissar of how
51:10much wheat you need in the next five years. There is only the price system. There is no other way to
51:15do it. The price system gives you an immediate amount of near infinite knowledge about supply
51:20and demand. The price system, like, let's say the price of gold goes up a lot. Well, some people are
51:26going to start selling off grandma's jewelry that no central planner even knows really exists.
51:33And the beauty of the price system is honestly, like, you know, you see those aerial drone shows
51:39from China where it's like an entire floating Chinese dragon going through the sky. That's nothing
51:45compared to the coordination and beauty of the price system. Oh, amazing. I mean, just a simple
51:50example, right? Well, you're short of widgets. Therefore, the price of widgets goes up.
51:56Therefore, people have more incentive to produce widgets. Oh, there's too many widgets. Well,
52:00the price of widgets is going to go down. People are going to repurpose things to other uses.
52:06Oh, we've got cars. Okay, we don't need the horse and carriage so much. So people will shift
52:10their resources away from horse and carriages and towards cars. Beautiful. Honestly, if you get this
52:16incredible cosmic dance of incredibly nuanced, rippling, sparkly information shooting all over
52:23the place, simply because of a free market and the price system, it's absolutely beautiful. It is
52:33operatic. It is Van Gogh in terms of satisfying needs, wants, and desires. Amazing. The price system
52:41is one of the most glorious aspects of human society. And every time you mess with the price
52:47system, with subsidies, taxes, tariffs, paper requirements, licenses, like every time you mess
52:53with the price system, you just take a hammer blow to human wealth, productivity, and the satisfaction
53:00of wants. All resources are finite. All human desires are infinite. And there's no conceivably
53:09better way to have the spontaneous self-organization of society operate on a material basis than the free
53:16market and the price system. It's beautiful. It's absolutely glorious. Well, I will stop here. I
53:23really appreciate it. We just had a nice little cozy hour of chats. And I'm sorry for the people who
53:28wanted to talk some technical issues. I think X works pretty well. Yesterday, I tried to start a
53:34space twice and it didn't work. So I had to start it on the flight. But that's great. I mean, the fact
53:40that we can do this is pretty remarkable to me because when I was last on X like a half a decade ago,
53:45this wasn't happening, my friends. So thanks everyone so much for a lovely chat. I look forward to your
53:51feedback as a whole. You can always email me. Host, H-O-S-T, host at freedomain.com. That's host like the
54:00emcee of a show rather than host as in the heavenly fleshly body of Christ manifest as a wafer. So host
54:07at freedomain.com. You can, of course, visit my site at freedomain.com and freedomain.com slash donate to help
54:12out the show. I will see you guys tomorrow night for a video live stream. Get to see my gorgeous,
54:17speckled ostrich egg ever head. Looking way better than it did at 18. Just kidding. Have
54:22yourself a glorious afternoon, everyone. Lots of love from up here. I'll talk to you soon. Bye.
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