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Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

5379 Where the Wild Things Are! Locals Questions Answered

Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux

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4.72.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we analyze Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are" and explore themes of discipline, power, and the importance of rules. We discuss Max's sociopathic behavior, the role of media manipulation, and the fear of social rejection. We also examine the significance of prioritizing love over material possessions and the evaluation of claims. With thought-provoking analyses and personal stories, this episode provides valuable insights to consider.

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0:00.0

Good morning everybody, hope you're doing well.

0:02.0

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0:12.9

All right.

0:13.9

Freedom, would love a take on where the wild things are?

0:16.4

By Maurice Sendak.

0:17.9

It was read to me when I was in early elementary school

0:19.8

and something prompted me to go read it again.

0:22.4

I thought this is a little boy raging

0:24.0

about father absence and a mother not enforcing her punishments. I feel something

0:27.8

is important about the fact that one of the wild things is drawn with human feet and

0:31.1

the only human picture the little boy Max has never shown with his

0:33.7

human feet.

0:34.7

Well, I did get that recommendation many years ago.

0:38.9

I guess it's a pretty old movie band now, right?

0:41.3

So the story is very typical. There's no father mentioned of course, right? And the story is basically that there's a kid who's wearing a wolf suit and breaks things and makes mischief and is cruel to animals.

0:55.8

So these are all signs of budding sociopathy.

0:59.1

And his mother called him wild thing.

1:01.9

So she's not imposing any discipline or rules or contact or

1:05.4

feedback or intimacy or play and Max said I'll eat you up so now he's talking

1:11.2

about you know cannibalism for his mother and so on.

1:13.4

So he is budding sociopately, I would assume.

1:16.5

And then he has a dream, obviously it's the night, a forest grows,

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