5556 The Truth About Hedonism!

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Stefan Molyneux

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🗓️ 4 July 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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The lecture explores hedonism, focusing on prioritizing short-term pleasure over long-term consequences. It discusses the connection between hedonism and the prey mentality, societal manipulation, the impact of absent fathers, raising children in unpredictable environments, and the link between child abuse and distorted rules leading to hedonistic behaviors. The speaker encourages reflection on the relationship between rules, hedonism, and individual actions.

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0:00.0	And while you from Freedom Main hope you're doing well.
0:02.2	I don't have my gorgeous audio setup here, but we'll find a way to survive.
0:07.1	I wanted to get these thoughts down about hedonism.
0:10.4	Hedonism.
0:11.7	Now, it's both very fun and not fun to talk about hedonism.
0:15.1	Hedonism is organizing your life according to the short-term pleasure principle.
0:20.9	Do what feels good in the moment and drink today, forget the hangover, enjoy
0:26.8	your drugs today, forget about the brain rot, and enjoy your promiscuity today, forget about the SDDs, unwanted pregnancy, sexual assault allegations, and or, well, actually, and for sure, destruction of your potential capacity for solid pair bonding.
0:46.3	So pleasure today and to heck with tomorrow.
0:50.8	And of course it is clearly both seductive and satanic, right? So there's an entire
0:57.3	industry of have fun today forget tomorrow, right? Because that produces the kind of chaos and
1:03.2	disorganization and mess in society as a whole
1:07.3	that, you know, allows for the expansion of political power.
1:11.2	So the sort of demonic impulse of enjoy today.
1:17.4	Enjoy today that anybody who can't enjoy today is a highly repressed anal type A kill joy can't relax can't have fun you
1:28.5	know chill chill is the new thing right chill man chill it's, chill. It's like, well, why?
1:33.9	Isn't there not stuff to be angry and upset about in life?
1:36.3	No, chill, right?
1:38.9	So, a heatenism is the opposite of just anger.
1:44.0	A just anger is when you're outraged at violations of persons and or property
1:50.0	and you are angry at the people who are violating it.
1:52.9	And Hedonism says, forget it.
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