The Tom Wood Show, Episode 1807, prepared a set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

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at checkout. Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here. Anthony Samarov, we continue. Today, I want to get into

the therapy angle of what Anthony does because I think he has some interesting psychological insights

and among them we'll be talking about, for one thing, why maybe there are so few libertarians or

what it is about a particular person that makes it likely that person become a libertarian. What makes

people become libertarians? What makes somebody take on a series of ideas that are frankly despised

by almost everybody? I mean, there has to be some explanation why some people go down this road

and others don't. Now, you could say, well, it's just because the force of the arguments are

just overwhelming, but how come they don't overwhelm everybody? That's really the question that

I want to get answered. But there's a lot more here because a lot of people, and I think I want to

talk about this first, we think about freedom in terms of politics and freedom from the state.

And I think from a libertarian perspective, that is the correct way to think about it. So the

definitions aren't wrong here. But I think nevertheless, when we think about freedom colloquially,

we often think of freedom as simply living freely, living the kind of life you want to live

without annoying constraints, whether political or otherwise. And I think a lot of libertarians,

if they're being honest with themselves, will find that the things they really struggled with in

their lives have nothing to do with the state. And they may not be external things at all.

Having set it up that way, let's turn things over to Anthony Samarov. Anthony, welcome back.

Thank you for having me. Anthony Samarov, we continue here. Now, today, we're going to talk about

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