5471 I Was a Drug Dealer! Freedomain Call In
Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux
Stefan Molyneux
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2024
⏱️ 172 minutes
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Summary
Now for the bad stuff, I have found myself in a perpetual cycle of disconnection towards most of society. I definitely have a hard time hoping for any kind of good future. I have certain addictions that I struggle with that I’m not proud of. I have a brother who used to be my best friend and business partner who now won’t talk to me at all and hasn’t even met his nephew (my baby). My career and business plans have all grinded to a halt due to external conditions that I can’t control.
I really struggle with how I view life and what I enjoy. To put it simply and directly, I feel I’m still very immature and I feel completely unmotivated to try hard in life despite the fact I have a a beautiful sweet son.
I have deep seemingly unresolvable issues with family members that I think eat away at my joy and I can’t help but feel I’m watching our government system rob and abuse hardworking people to such a degree it feels like it almost pays not to work. It hurts because I struggle with addiction and deep cynicism towards normal life and I feel that makes me a time bomb of a problem for my son and his development. I don’t know what I’m going to tell him or what I’m guiding him to.
I feel just as selfish and dopamine driven as when I was 17 while I feel the world is worse then ever.
I know part of this weird feeling comes from some existential issues I’ve had from LSD use in my younger years paired with being raised in a heavy Christian cult where everyone spoke in tongues.
I feel like everyone around me has some kind of psychosis and it makes me feel very lonely.
I keep wishing I could have some kind of resolution with my family but I don’t see how.
If I had to pick one issue I could really use your help with in the midst of that pile of complaints, I would say drug addiction. Why am I the way I am? Why is it I feel like I’ve lost resolve.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, so we're in, once you hit me with your questions, |
| 0:02.6 | and we'll see what we can get done. |
| 0:04.1 | Okay. |
| 0:05.8 | Yeah, so you got my very long-winded message, |
| 0:12.2 | and it's hard because there's so many details to it and I've listened to |
| 0:19.7 | so many of your calls and I feel like my situation really is pretty unique even though I feel like |
| 0:28.4 | you've had everything under the sun because I feel like I've been homeschooled I really grew up in my you know since |
| 0:39.7 | like 19 I've listened to your work and you encouraged a lot of how I viewed the world. |
| 0:47.8 | But nonetheless I guess it for a long time I just felt like I was impervious to a lot of the stuff with my family and a lot of it like you've always said people generally become less crazy when they get older but I don't think that was the case with my family. |
| 1:07.0 | And people become less crazy as they I mean I think there's certain extreme |
| 1:11.7 | personality types that like criminals tend to age out of crime and borderline personality disorders tend to get a little less crazy, but yeah that's more at the extremes, anyway so go ahead right so um |
| 1:26.1 | basically I felt like my life was in a really good spot I was doing really well in |
| 1:31.5 | business with my other brother who we were homeschooled together and you know I have my Christian parents who are pretty extreme in that but it never really I felt like it never really phased me that much because I always did very well monetarily and then eventually |
| 1:50.0 | I've found a wife, a partner, and me and my brother and all of these people we rented out our house |
| 1:58.4 | to and everyone were living together and things kind of went off the rails because my brother |
| 2:08.7 | really did not like my partner and frankly your brother sorry your brother did not like your partner yes okay |
| 2:20.8 | I'm I'm not sure why that's such a huge deal but I'm certain yeah I just do you want to just read me the the message you send because I feel if we're starting halfway through I don't |
| 2:29.7 | Like those who might listen to this don't really have the background |
| 2:32.8 | Right so Like those who might listen to this don't really have the background. |
| 2:39.8 | Right, so, um, yeah, I'll let me pull it up. |
| 2:42.4 | Yeah, it's tough to start in the middle. |
| 2:49.0 | So I said, hey, Stephan, I've listened to your show on and off for about six years. I've implemented many things you taught me about parenting, philosophy in my life. |
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