5330 HOW TO DIE FROM PRAISE - Locals Questions
Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux
Stefan Molyneux
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🗓️ 11 December 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Hello Stefan. Ive recently become fascinated with the life and death of writer Robert E Howard (the creator of Conan the Barbarian, Solomon Kane and other such characters).
He was a very talented writer but had a very troubled relationship with his parents, especially his mom, which led him to take his own life at the age of thirty.
This inner pain seemed to have fueled his creativety and as an aspiring author myself I wonder, how can that inner darkness best be harnessed for that task?
I recently got heat in the instagram's crunchy home birth community after saying it's wrong to make little children watch while their mom is butt naked giving birth to her baby. I personally think all kinds of nakedness and sexual energy should be kept away from kids, but the women started opposing me saying things like "then why are the kids looking so happy watching it?" or "why would it be traumatising? That's where the kids came out themselves too?" and "we should normalise birthing for kids so they're not afraid to have kids themselves" under a video of a 3-year-old staring his moms butt and streched out bloody vagina
In a recent episode you referenced your “complicated relationship” with the word “selfish.” In my youth I stood by the Objectivist definition as completely positive- the pursuit of rational long-term self-interest. But life experience made me back away from that, because selfish people are so difficult to have relationships with. I never reassessed my definition of the word- but have you arrived at some all-encompassing definition of what it means to be selfish?
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| 0:00.0 | All right, great local questions and let's dig straight in. |
| 0:05.7 | This is late November 2023. |
| 0:08.7 | Hello, Steph! |
| 0:10.1 | I've recently become fascinated |
| 0:11.2 | with the life and death of writer Robert E. Howard, the creator of Conan, the Barbarian, Solomon Kane, and other such characters. |
| 0:17.0 | He was a very talented writer, but had a very troubled relationship with his parents, especially his mom, which led him to take his own life at the age of 30. |
| 0:24.6 | This inner pain seemed to have fueled his creativity and as an aspiring author myself |
| 0:29.2 | I wonder how can that inner darkness best be harnessed for that task? |
| 0:34.3 | So he was an interesting character, grew up, turn of the last century. |
| 0:40.3 | His father was a traveling doctor, his mother was a homemaker, his mother cared for relatives all the time, |
| 0:47.5 | sick and ailing relatives and through that she contracted tuberculosis which plagued her for decades and then eventually she died from tuberculosis |
| 0:56.1 | he was 30 years old and he then ended up taking his own life he shot himself in a car. Now he was never hugely |
| 1:05.6 | successful in his life. I think his maximum earnings in modern terms would be |
| 1:10.7 | about 40,000 dollars but of course since then he's become quite the |
| 1:15.1 | icon now he hated bullies and he was in one town when there was an oil boom and of |
| 1:21.2 | course people came swarming and vice crimes went through the roof |
| 1:25.5 | the roads were destroyed people fought all the time there was drunkenness so he kind of hated |
| 1:30.8 | that kind of stuff of course the oil boom so one of the reasons why his family moved around when he was |
| 1:36.1 | younger now his mother had an absolute belief in her sons in Robley Howard's literary capacities. |
| 1:47.0 | Now, he had, of course, a remarkable mind. |
| 1:49.4 | He was able to memorize long stretches of poetry simply by reading the poems a few times and just a really |
| 1:55.0 | remarkable mind. But his mother was the person who believed in him now. This a dangerous thing man it's a dangerous thing |
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