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Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

5972 Why We Are Dying!

Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux

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🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The lecture examines societal dynamics through property rights, scarcity, and abundance within statist systems, contrasting them with free societies. The speaker highlights the transition from hunting to agriculture, which formalizes property rights and fosters productivity and wealth. He discusses the emergence of societal stratification and its moral implications, emphasizing that unresolved wealth disparities can incite conflict. The impact of sophistry on rational thought is noted as a barrier to progress. Ultimately, the lecture advocates for a return to foundational truths about property rights to address modern inequities and promote equity.

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0:00.0

All right, it's time for the all explanation of things. This is a theory I've been working on for a

0:07.0

while that will have everything come into horrible focus and traumatic sense. So we can sort of

0:15.9

understand where we are in history, how we got here, what's going on, and where it's heading.

0:22.6

And thank you, of course, for the time and resources to be able to put all of this together

0:28.4

in my mind and communicate it to the world, freedomain.com slash donate, to help out the show,

0:35.4

to help out philosophy in the world, free domaincom, so that's your night. Thank you.

0:38.5

All right.

0:39.8

So, this is all applying to a statist society.

0:45.4

This is not something that applies to a free society.

0:48.5

So this is not the human condition.

0:51.4

This is not the inevitable physics of history.

0:55.1

This is nothing like that. This is not the inevitable physics of history. This is nothing like that.

1:04.4

This is how things work in a centralized, oligarchical, coercive society, a society, but that at its center.

1:11.1

So, unfortunately, truth breeds delusion.

1:15.3

And this is one of the central problems of philosophy.

1:19.5

Oh, one of the central problems of philosophy is really supposed to find a way to overcome.

1:23.6

Truth breeds delusion.

1:32.3

Now, truth arrives out of scarcity, and then the truth that is derived from scarcity breeds abundance. Abundance breeds delusion. Delusion breeds evil and evil destroys abundance.

1:45.6

So, and there's a case that's made for this in my novel, The Future, by Roman, the aptly named

1:53.6

Roman.

1:54.5

So, it's very subtle.

1:57.1

So you can go and check out that novel.

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