5406 The Truth About Sadism! - Part 2
Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux
Stefan Molyneux
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🗓️ 16 February 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
How Common Are Sadists?
https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-09/how-common-are-sadists/
Full series: https://rss.com/podcasts/sadism/
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Brief Summary
In part two of this episode, we explore the prevalence of sadistic tendencies in society, examining evidence from experiments, popular culture, and societal dynamics. We discuss the relationship between cruelty and sadism, the manipulation of pain and pleasure in the modern world, the development of false selves, and the cycle of humiliation and retaliation. We also touch on the addiction to justification for cruel behavior and the importance of empathy in breaking the cycle of violence. We invite feedback and appreciate any support through donations. Thank you for listening.
Chapters
0:00:00 The prevalence of sadism in society
0:01:41 Cruelty and sadism in various aspects of life
0:03:28 The role of pain and pleasure in our behavior
0:05:32 Programming and exploitation of pleasure signals
0:08:07 The impact of societal changes on our emotions and behavior
0:09:49 Conforming to Tribal Expectations for Protection
0:14:21 Humiliation Breeds Cruelty and Exploitation
0:16:34 Overcoming Natural Instincts and Training into Cruelty
0:20:02 From reactive abuse to gaining value from abuse.
0:23:17 Sadism as a shield against vulnerability and inadequacy.
0:29:40 The Cycle of Abuse and Humiliation Begins
0:31:08 Blaming and Humiliating the Broken for Being Broken
0:33:35 Escalation of Attacks and the French Revolution Story
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Truth about Sadis in part two, how common are Sadis? |
| 0:02.4 | I'll put the link to this. |
| 0:03.9 | In the show notes, there was an experiment done 2013, |
| 0:08.4 | where people were given the choice to kill bugs in and that had cute names and all of that like |
| 0:17.5 | muffin and Tutsi and so on and about 27% of them volunteered to kill these live gill bugs and another 27% |
| 0:27.5 | volunteered to assist the experiment with killing the bugs. Obviously it's a proxy |
| 0:32.0 | it's not perfect but of course if you think about all of the people who love |
| 0:36.3 | horror movies, all of the people think of the popularity of |
| 0:40.6 | Stephen King novels and vampire novels and other things with |
| 0:45.5 | statistic elements if you think about the popularity of 50 Shades of Grey or |
| 0:49.4 | even aspects of Iron Ranch novels and so on. I mean we're looking at a population with pretty |
| 0:55.5 | significant levels of cruelty embedded in it. I assume also that the pursuit of |
| 1:00.9 | BDSM nightclubs, lifestyles, and pornography and so on is not insignificant. |
| 1:08.2 | So it's not a tiny percentage of people at all. |
| 1:12.1 | It's not a tiny percentage of people at all. It's not a tiny percentage of people at all. |
| 1:14.0 | There is even a certain amount of just cruelty and sadism. You think sort of class warfare, |
| 1:18.0 | racial hostilities and so on. I think of the people who are saying, |
| 1:22.0 | oh, the riches need to pay their fair share, |
| 1:24.2 | this amount of aggression and desire to punish others and all of that kind of stuff. |
| 1:28.3 | The de-platforming, the cancel culture, all of these has elements of of sadism the dark tried |
| 1:33.9 | personalities common to the troll people anyone who's spent time online and I know |
| 1:39.2 | it's a sort of feltering self filtering thing but if you spend time online achieved any prominence or |
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