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Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

6297 DON'T BE DEMORALIZED!

Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux

Freedom, Politics, Objectivism, Freedomainradio, Anarchy, Democrat, Liberal, Republican, Libertarian, News & Politics, Joe-rogan, Objectivist, Atheism, Philosophy, Atheist, Conservative, Pacifism

4.72.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2026

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

On the 11 February 2026 Wednesday Night Live show, Stefan Molyneux discusses demoralization, comparing it to a leaf drifting toward a waterfall. He points out problems with cultural distractions, media manipulation, and the decline in family values, while pushing people to consider their own choices and what matters most. He advocates for a group effort to foster resilience amid growing societal despair.

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0:00.0

Hi, everybody. This is to Van Molineau from Free Domain, and we've got our Wednesday night live

0:05.8

cooking away. Hope you're doing well. So I've really been thinking about this demoralization stuff.

0:18.0

Demoralization. So what is demoralization? Demoralization is to make you feel like you're caught in a

0:25.1

piece of giant machinery that's just going to disassemble you, your culture, your hope, your future,

0:30.1

your country, whatever. And there's nothing you can do, this sort of slow hypnotic slide into disaster.

0:36.9

Like you are a leaf on a stream being carried down the river to a waterfall of impending doom.

0:43.2

And there's nothing you can do.

0:44.9

And it's all hopeless and it's all pointless.

0:47.8

Give up, don't try.

0:49.2

Retreat to hedonism, stimulate your dopamine with sex, porn, video games, drugs, distraction, Netflix and

0:57.4

Chill, whatever.

0:59.2

Get game, play uselessly, don't think of marriage, don't think of kids.

1:04.7

It is a seduction to have you do nothing while the tapestry woven for you to protect you by your ancestors is a shredded,

1:18.7

set on fire, and destroyed. Demoralization. Demoralization is inflicted in schools. It is inflicted by the media. It is inflicted by academia, higher education. It is everywhere, all over the place, no matter what. But primarily, primarily, primarily, primarily, primarily, primarily, primarily, demoralization is inflicted by your fellow man.

1:50.0

You know, that those CNN addicted aunts and uncles or grandparents or whatever,

1:55.9

what they do is they, well, it's just like this.

1:58.4

Well, it's just like that.

1:59.4

Well, it's just like the other.

2:00.5

Well, you know, Donald Trump is in the Epstein files and he's a blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,

2:05.3

when, of course, I mean, I was reporting on this way back in the day.

2:11.8

Back in 2015, like 11 years ago, I was reporting that Donald Trump kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago because

2:20.8

Epstein hit on a 14-year-old, a 15-year-old, a 16-year-old.

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