Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Question 1: [2:26] – First person account of anti- Stefan Molyneux and Lauren Southern protests in Auckland, New Zealand following the cancelled and de-platformed event. Question 2: [50:04] - "After learning about the fall of Rome, I have put a lot of thought into how we can solve the problem of the ever-expanding state, and one of the solution that keep coming back to me is the same answer the people of old had, Feudalism. It seems to me that going back to using a set of reciprocal legal and military obligations to replace a centralized state not only would decentralize power but could also create a government that does not violate the non-aggression principle as all parties must agree to a contract beforehand. What are your thoughts on a system like this?"Question 3: [55:11] – “I am dating someone from a different culture and religious perspectives and I believe he can be a good life partner. We are both looking to settle down and I already met his mom. My family however are not approval of him given the cultural and religious differences and they are also concern about his past. They think I'm naive and I am making a wrong choice. I wanted to talk about this with Stefan and get his perspective to see whether I am missing something in my approach.”Question 4: [1:38:55] – “I am in a happy, long term relationship with a wonderful partner. We have built a great life together and share life goals in common. However, we diverge on the idea of marriage. I feel that it's important to have a proper marriage in place to create security, but my partner feels strongly that legal marriage means that we are inviting the state into our relationship, and that this would create a power imbalance in the relationship in my favor. He prefers that we stay unmarried but committed as if we were married. My father agrees with him and urges us NOT to get married. Please help me puzzle this out and understand the philosophical implications, so that my man and I can both get what we need.”Your support is essential to Freedomain Radio, which is 100% funded by viewers like you. Please support the show by making a one time donation or signing up for a monthly recurring donation at: http://www.freedomainradio.com/donate

The last several weeks have been some of the most challenging in the history of Freedomain Radio - and it only got even worse in the last 24 hours. Stefan Molyneux discusses the challenges of the last few weeks including receiving two random YouTube guidelines strikes - putting his account on the verge of deletion. Your support is essential to Freedomain Radio, which is 100% funded by viewers like you. Please support the show by making a one time donation or signing up for a monthly recurring donation at: http://www.freedomainradio.com/donate

On May 2nd, 2013, Stefan Molyneux announced his cancer diagnosis to the world and on August 13th, 2018 he walked out of his final five year cancer checkup with a resounding "all clear." Stefan explains how this "life changing" experience has forever impacted him and what can be learned from a brush with possible death.Flashback: A Personal Message From Stefan Molyneuxhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwmr1elnxjgYour support is essential to Freedomain Radio, which is 100% funded by viewers like you. Please support the show by making a one time donation or signing up for a monthly recurring donation at: http://www.freedomainradio.com/donate

On July 22nd, 2018, Stefan Molyneux spoke in Perth, Australia on the dangers of irrational certainty, the most "conservative" culture, the myth of the noble savage, understanding the culture of the Indigenous Australians before the arrival of British settlers and the necessary end of collective guilt.Your support is essential to Freedomain Radio, which is 100% funded by viewers like you. Please support the show by making a one time donation or signing up for a monthly recurring donation at: http://www.freedomainradio.com/donate

"Not since 1860 have the Democrats so fanatically refused to accept the result of a free election. That year, their target was Lincoln. They smeared him. They went to war to defeat him. In the end, they assassinated him. Now the target of the Democrats is President Trump and his supporters. The Left calls them racists, white supremacists and fascists. These charges are used to justify driving Trump from office and discrediting the right "by any means necessary.""But which is the party of the slave plantation? Which is the party that invented white supremacy? Which is the party that praised fascist dictators and shaped their genocidal policies and was in turn praised by them? Moreover, which is the party of racism today? Is fascism now institutionally embodied on the right or on the left?""Through stunning historical recreations and a searching examination of fascism and white supremacy, Death of a Nation cuts through progressive big lies to expose hidden history and explosive truths. Lincoln united his party and saved America from the Democrats for the first time. Can Trump—and we—come together and save America for the second time?"Dinesh D'Souza is a multiple time best-selling author and filmmaker. His latest documentary “Death of a Nation” and the companion book “Death of a Nation: Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party” are now available in both theaters and retailers. Book: http://www.fdrurl.com/death-nation-bookMovie: http://www.deathofanationmovie.comWebsite: http://www.dineshdsouza.comTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/dineshdsouzaYour support is essential to Freedomain Radio, which is 100% funded by viewers like you. Please support the show by making a one time donation or signing up for a monthly recurring donation at: http://www.freedomainradio.com/donate

Recently Stefan Molyneux and Lauren Southern were deplatformed in New Zealand ahead of their sold out event - censoring their planned speeches and giving the hecklers veto power over their free speech. While powerful forces don't want you to hear Stefan Molyneux's speech - he is now making it available for free online. Your support is essential to Freedomain Radio, which is 100% funded by viewers like you. Please support the show by making a one time donation or signing up for a monthly recurring donation at: http://www.freedomainradio.com/donate

Stefan Molyneux and Lauren Southern speak with an Australian Journalist about their Australian tour - and almost immediately the question decent into absurd race-baiting. Watch Molyneux and Southern reasonably answer unreasonable questions and leave the journalist increasingly befuddled as the interview progresses.Your support is essential to Freedomain Radio, which is 100% funded by viewers like you. Please support the show by making a one time donation or signing up for a monthly recurring donation at: http://www.freedomainradio.com/donate

Question 1: [1:42] - “I'm a big fan of the peaceful parenting principles you advocate. I had a rather unhappy childhood myself. I was able to grow out of the misery and get my life on track. Now happily married, and we are expecting our 5th child any day now. We are part of a growing homeschool co-op with parents who just can't bear the thought of sending their lovingly nurtured children to the sardine factory called public school. At the same time they have to grow out of the "peaceful bubble" that my wife and I provide and deal with the real world in which they have to choose their friends wisely, choose their lifestyle, set and attain their goals, and so forth. When children grow up in an honest and safe environment, will they recognize dishonest or untrustworthy people when they grow up? How can you best prepare them for the complexity of real life?”Question 2: [53:13] – “Over the years, I have felt a deep sense of meaninglessness within myself, which has led to me adopting many different philosophies and lifestyle pursuits in order to attain a sense of self-worth. Recently, it has been harder for me to move past these feelings, and I can feel myself slipping into a deeply nihilistic worldview. How do I move past my childhood insecurities, and my low self-worth and recognize that I can in fact provide meaning to a meaningless world?”Question 3: [1:53:41] – “I’ve heard you advocate for a society in which coercive force is universally forbidden and people orient themselves using free-market principles. When presented with this idea, much like everyone else, my tendency is to try to make assumptions about what that would mean and how it would play out, but I hear you say that we can’t do that because nobody knows, and what’s more, you don’t care. As long as everyone is acting voluntarily then whatever happens is, essentially, right. In principle I don’t disagree with that, but I believe that we know both intuitively and based on history at least how the first moments will play out. We know this from witnessing revolutions throughout history and, more anecdotally, from watching tv shows like Survivor or The Walking Dead: 1) The majority of the people will look for a leader to follow. 2) A small minority will vie for power and look for a group to lead. 3) The remainder will go find a patch of land and insist that everyone else leave them alone.”“If we know (based on my assertion) that most people will try to form a leadership, either by leading or by following, isn’t it safe to assume that a government of some kind will naturally emerge? how do you avoid the paradoxical notion that coercion would be required to get a group of people to adhere to the idea of a society free of coercion?”Question 4: [2:13:37] - “You, Stefan, keep talking on your show how God is impossible to logically prove. You advocate faith to Christians, yet faith is an exercise in willpower and you know that willpower isn’t sustainable. We also can’t use reason and faith at the same time. As you said once, human is halfway between God and animal, so let’s see how we can move closer to God and further from animal. Science transforms our environment, ethics transforms relationships, but metaphysics transforms our self. My claim to defend is, I have found a way to access God via the objective definition and bodily senses. I am not the first, but I am best able to explain it, as a philosopher of metaphysics. In effect, this is a method to hard-wire a person for reward of pleasure from ethics or philosophy. Philosophy becomes an instinct, instead of a verbal discipline. The exertion of will becomes the ease of habit. Let’s make philosophy as rewarding to people as possible. Why do you say that God can’t be logically proven? I think I just did that and that it’s better than advocating for faith, so would you hear it?“Your support is essential to Freedomain Radio, which is 100% funded by viewers like you. Please support the show by making a one time donation or signing up for a monthly recurring donation at: http://www.freedomainradio.com/donate

The President Donald Trump hostile mainstream media has finally gotten their wish as Alex Jones and Infowars were banned from YouTube, iTunes, Spotify and a host of other distribution platforms. Under the guise of 'hate speech" one of the most prominent alternative media voices in the world has been removed from public view on major platforms - prompting a fierce debate about the power of social media companies in modern times. Your support is essential to Freedomain Radio, which is 100% funded by viewers like you. Please support the show by making a one time donation or signing up for a monthly recurring donation at: http://www.freedomainradio.com/donate

While on the Australian portion of the Stefan Molyneux and Lauren Southern LIVE! tour, Stefan and Lauren sat down with New Zealand's Sunday TVNZ program for an interview. While Sunday TVNZ only published laughingly brief snippets of the long-form discussion - you now have the opportunity to watch the entire interview that they really don't want you to see!Your support is essential to Freedomain Radio, which is 100% funded by viewers like you. Please support the show by making a one time donation or signing up for a monthly recurring donation at: http://www.freedomainradio.com/donate

Your support is essential to Freedomain Radio, which is 100% funded by viewers like you. Please support the show by making a one time donation or signing up for a monthly recurring donation at: http://www.freedomainradio.com/donate

After completing five events in Australia, Stefan Molyneux and Lauren Southern went to New Zealand for an August 3rd event in Auckland - but due to circumstances beyond their control, things went terribly awry and the event was canceled. Your support is essential to Freedomain Radio, which is 100% funded by viewers like you. Please support the show by making a one time donation or signing up for a monthly recurring donation at: http://www.freedomainradio.com/donate

"Tracing postmodernism from its roots in Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant to their development in thinkers such as Michel Foucault and Richard Rorty, philosopher Stephen Hicks provides a provocative account of why postmodernism has been the most vigorous intellectual movement of the late 20th century. Why do skeptical and relativistic arguments have such power in the contemporary intellectual world? Why do they have that power in the humanities but not in the sciences? Why has a significant portion of the political Left - the same Left that traditionally promoted reason, science, equality for all, and optimism - now switched to themes of anti-reason, anti-science, double standards, and cynicism? Explaining Postmodernism is intellectual history with a polemical twist, providing fresh insights into the debates underlying the furor over political correctness, multiculturalism, and the future of liberal democracy."Stephen Hicks is the Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University and the Executive Director of the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. He is the author of several books on philosophy, entrepreneurship, ethics and postmodernism including “Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault.”Website: http://www.stephenhicks.orgCenter for Ethics and Entrepreneurship: http://www.ethicsandentrepreneurship.orgTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/SRCHicksYour support is essential to Freedomain Radio, which is 100% funded by viewers like you. Please support the show by making a one time donation or signing up for a monthly recurring donation at: http://www.freedomainradio.com/donate

Question 1: [1:22] – “I have been with my ‘husband’ for a little over 8 years. He had property before we met and brought me in to develop and build a house. He owns everything, paid cash as we went. My name isn't on anything and we are not married even though I changed my last name. I am now the only income earner. He refuses to marry me because I don't have the same interests he does and has made this imaginary mark I must achieve before he feels safe to take the leap. What he wants is for me to go back into an infatuation state and treat him like I can't get enough sex from him. He has always wanted other women and we have had threesomes, I like girls too but not as much as he does. This began most of the issues. How do I reconcile the inadequacy he makes me feel to fulfill his wishes?”Question 2: [1:56:41] – “What are the parameters of an appropriate and/or healthy relationship between employer and employee? I've recently experienced a traumatic event--a fire in the workplace. I was the only one working at this time, so none of my coworkers were around to experience what I experienced. Nonetheless, I'm pretty sure my coworkers and my boss could imagine the emotional roller-coaster of dealing with the fire itself, and the guilt that comes with nearly destroying an entire building. I believe that the other employees, my boss included, have the capacity to feel and exhibit empathy. However, they did not exhibit empathy. Although I've gotten plenty of moral support from family and friends (for which I'm very grateful), I'm appalled at the complete and utter lack of empathy exhibited by my boss and coworkers. Should I be appalled? Should I have expected empathy, or the behavior thereof, in the first place?”Question 3: [2:45:51] – "’A Streetcar Named Desire’ and ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ are two stories that are often looked at as being sexist or as exposing the patriarchy that has kept women down these many years. I have a different take on these stories that I would like Stefan's thoughts on. I think a facet of these stories, is that they are a warning to women. Not so much about patriarchy, but about toxic femininity and what realities might await those women that revel in it. Why are these stories predominantly framed as sexist, while a story like ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ is seen as sexy?”Your support is essential to Freedomain Radio, which is 100% funded by viewers like you. Please support the show by making a one time donation or signing up for a monthly recurring donation at: http://www.freedomainradio.com/donate

While he is often referred to as a "conservative," Stefan Molyneux constantly pushed back against the application of incorrect labels to "define" his political perspective and philosophical understandings.Your support is essential to Freedomain Radio, which is 100% funded by viewers like you. Please support the show by making a one time donation or signing up for a monthly recurring donation at: http://www.freedomainradio.com/donate