5500 'The Present' - Stefan Molyneux in Conversation with Dr Duke Pesta
Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux
Stefan Molyneux
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🗓️ 15 May 2024
⏱️ 81 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Dr. Duke show. |
| 0:06.3 | Hi, everybody. I'm Dr. Duke, and I'm joined today with one of my favorite guests. I really |
| 0:11.9 | don't get to talk to him as much as I would like. He's eminently busy himself, but our |
| 0:17.6 | conversations usually go on for a long time, and they delve fairly deep. |
| 0:22.6 | And so I'm really grateful to have you back. |
| 0:24.6 | This is Stefan Molyneux, and I know you have a great following that keeps growing. |
| 0:29.9 | What I admire you most about you is that you are a commentator, you're a personality. |
| 0:38.9 | But you are first and foremost always you are a philosopher. And I certainly, I'm a 30-year university professor, |
| 0:46.2 | and I don't meet people who are philosophers. I don't meet people in the philosophy department |
| 0:51.9 | at universities who are philosophers. So to have somebody |
| 0:55.5 | who can put logic and truth and the pursuit of truth above politics and venality and selfishness, |
| 1:06.0 | it's a pleasure to speak with you. So good to be back with you. Oh, thanks. I appreciate that. |
| 1:11.4 | Great to be back again. We should try and schedule these more often, but we'll take what we can at the |
| 1:15.4 | moment. Yes, sir. I'm all for that. And so we're here today to talk about your new book and the |
| 1:21.5 | arc that got you here. The title of the book is called The Present. And this is the blurb for the book. |
| 1:29.9 | The present is a powerful new novel by philosopher Stefan Molyneux. As society slides into the |
| 1:35.8 | abyss of moral paralysis and economic collapse, a reporter finds herself drawn to a man she was |
| 1:42.3 | trained to despise almost too late finally she |
| 1:45.3 | tells the truth about the evil forces undermining the world and faces brutal |
| 1:50.9 | blowback for showing the slightest sympathy for the underdogs of society for I got to |
| 1:57.4 | tell you the very first thing when I read that I thought of that hideous strength by C.S. Lewis, written in the 1940s, a book that is apocalyptic, a book that is talking about civilizational collapse, and a book that really does bring out a theological and spiritual argument that was much needed in the 40s and is much needed today. |
| 2:23.5 | And so talk about these issues wherever you want to begin. |
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