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Stefan Molyneux

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🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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In this Flash X Space from 5 October 2025, Stefan Molyneux humorously begins by discussing his relaxed state before exploring the complexities of India's caste system and colonialism. He critiques environmental responsibility among major polluters, favoring free-market solutions. The conversation touches on ancestry, identity, and the impact of colonial legacies on Latin American politics. Molyneux also shares concern for Jordan Peterson, reflecting on societal pressures. Throughout, he inspires critical thought and a pursuit of truth.

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0:00.0	so I'm sorry. Oh my gosh. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I just, oh, I'm just lying here with my pants on my head.
0:16.0	And I wanted to talk philosophy. So I have a few minutes until my next thing, and I just wanted to drop
0:22.0	by and say hi to everyone, and thank you all for showing your interest in philosophy.
0:27.7	Oh, this Indian threads, which sort of erupted when our good friend Elon Musk retweeted one of my tweets
0:39.7	about how, you know, if you go to, if people come from, let's say, overseas, it become
0:46.1	British, then people who are British goes to go to India, and therefore they were Indian,
0:51.3	therefore there's no colonialism, they were just Indians suppressing themselves. And this really has become, it's a wild education.
0:57.0	I remember back, back of the day in my sort of former incarnation on X, getting into some of this and, you know, pointing out that, what was it?
1:07.5	It was like some, I can't remember the number, but it was some crazy number of infanticide of females in India and anyway. And listen, I mean, there's definitely, look,
1:16.6	obviously some brilliant Indians in mathematics and science, amazing stuff, and so on. But
1:22.8	somebody was saying that the caste system, which is a very sort of rigid class system,
1:28.7	brutally enforced. The caste system in India is 3,000 years old, give or take, right?
1:36.7	And now somebody's telling me that white people imposed the car system on India.
1:42.9	Ariens imposed the car system. I. Ariens imposed the car system.
1:45.3	I'm sorry.
1:46.2	And the reason, like, there's nothing funny about the car system.
1:49.5	Honestly, it's not that.
1:51.2	And I don't mean to sound cold and callous about the suffering of the untouchables and the Dalits and so on.
1:56.0	But to simply have this perspective that, A, you know, the Indians will say,
2:04.1	but your ancestors were squatting in caves when ours ancestors were building a great civilization.
2:09.8	It's like, oh, okay, you know, I mean, the British came late civilization after being conquered by the Romans, the French, the Vikings,
2:22.0	each other. I made jokes in a presentation from like over 10 years ago that the British was so
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