5410 The Truth About Sadism! - Part 6
Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux
Stefan Molyneux
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🗓️ 16 February 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Brief Summary
In this part of our conversation, we explore the origins and dysfunction of sadism, discussing its relevance to tribalism and the challenges men face in balancing aggression and emotional availability. We also touch upon the role of pornography and its influence on our perception of aggression and affection. Reflecting on history and power structures, we consider the connection between pursuit of money and declining support for parents. We invite feedback and support for further discussions on this topic.
Chapters
0:00:00 The Origins and Dysfunction of Sadism
0:03:10 Sadism in Evolution and the Duality of Life
0:06:57 The Natural Balance of Affection and Cruelty in Predators
0:10:26 Human Beings: The Apex Predators with Duality of Kindness and Cruelty
0:12:24 Exploring the Dichotomy of Cruelty and Affection
0:13:03 Siblings' Cruelty and Unity against Outsiders
0:19:32 The Tricky Balance of Aggression and Affection
0:22:49 Affection for Offspring and Cruelty to Others
0:25:47 Sadism as a Central Goal: Motivation and Risks
0:28:16 Enslavement and the Thirst for Cruelty
0:34:29 Sadism as a Tool for Maintaining Control
0:41:24 Cruelty within families and kindness towards outsiders
0:47:58 The reversal of the cruelty-kindness metric in modern families
0:50:48 The Impact of Observation on Behavior
0:52:02 The Relationship Between Power and Cruelty
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right, so we've done a fair amount of the details work on Sadism. |
| 0:04.6 | This is part six where I'm going to talk about why it arose, |
| 0:09.8 | why the wiring is there, and how it goes wrong. |
| 0:13.2 | They say itism can only be thought of as a dysfunction if the circumstances |
| 0:19.7 | through which it arose no longer apply. |
| 0:23.0 | Does it make sense? |
| 0:23.7 | Like something's dysfunctional. |
| 0:25.8 | I mean, I'm not talking moral here, I'm just talking dysfunctional. |
| 0:28.7 | So something is dysfunctional only if the circumstances that cause it to arise no longer apply, right? |
| 0:39.0 | So if you are subservient to those in authority as a child that can have positive adaptive benefits, |
| 0:47.6 | sort of why it developed. |
| 0:49.0 | However, a subservience to authority alone when you are an adult is probably adaptive, right? |
| 0:56.8 | So being reliant upon one person say for your survival is appropriate as a baby, but then believing that only one person can ever |
| 1:05.5 | make you happy over the course of your life can be, can make you kind of obsessive as an adult, |
| 1:10.9 | the one itest thing only she can blah blah, right? |
| 1:15.2 | So a tribalism is necessary for survival in the primitives era, |
| 1:20.4 | primitive eras of our species. |
| 1:22.4 | A tribalism has significant problems now because tribalism |
| 1:29.9 | is largely abstracted conceptual and therefore very open to manipulation. |
| 1:34.5 | So if you live in a tribe of 60 or 70 or 80 other people, |
| 1:38.1 | those are sort of very real ties. |
| 1:39.8 | You can evaluate everyone and the sense of tribalism is empirical. However if your |
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