6161 The Machinery that Killed my Mother Twitter/X Space

Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux

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🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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In this Flash X Space from 30 October 2025, philosopher Stefan Molyneux recounts his challenging childhood marked by neglect and systemic failures in welfare systems. He highlights the lack of support from social services and educators, arguing these institutions often exacerbate dependency. Engaging with callers, Molyneux calls for societal reflection on indifference and urges listeners to advocate for meaningful change to combat cycles of neglect.

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0:00.0	All right. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, everybody. Hope you doing well. Stefan Malineu from
0:06.0	Freedomain.com slash donate to help out the show. We'd greatly appreciate it. And I'm going to have a
0:11.3	wee bit of a ramble. Happy to take questions in a few. But I'm going to have a wee bit of a ramble.
0:19.6	I posted some time ago,
0:21.7	somebody said that my mother was in prison on X,
0:23.9	and I said, no, she wasn't in prison.
0:25.3	She was institutionalized for a time.
0:27.9	And I would go visit her.
0:31.4	And, you know, one of the things that was sort of a turning point for me
0:35.4	in sort of my evolution of thought.
0:38.9	You know, when you come to realizations
0:42.0	that are very different or in fact,
0:44.1	sometimes really the opposite of what society generally believes,
0:48.5	you have to kind of check and make sure you're not just,
0:50.8	I have to, I shouldn't say for you,
0:52.3	I have to check and make sure it's not just some sort of psychological reaction formation.
0:58.5	So I kind of hated the welfare state.
1:02.1	I grew up in a very poor neighborhood among welfare people.
1:06.2	And this is in England and in Canada.
1:10.2	That's sort of the two major places that I lived.
1:12.9	I lived in England.
1:14.0	I was born in Ireland, but grew up in England until I was 11,
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