 Is altruism a form of insanity on understandable error? Why are those two the only alternatives? I don't think it's insanity, right? Insanity means there's something wrong, right? It truly is biology. You know, there's something your mind is not functioning at all. It is something that is an error, but it's not just a mistake. It's an error that people accept and then evade in order to keep hold of. But that's not insanity. It's pleasing because it's what everybody else wants you to be. It's pleasing because God looks down on you and thinks it's good. I mean, is religion insanity an understandable error? It's an error or a product of evasion, or in some cases I guess it could be insanity. But I think a lot of it is what is the alternative to being an altruist? How many of us would be non-altruists if not for an event? I mean, I wouldn't be. I might be a cynic. I probably would be a cynic because I don't think I could have. I think at the end I would have come to a conclusion that altruism doesn't make any sense. But what would that have left me with? What's the alternative to altruism? Cynicism. There is no values. There's no truth. You just do whatever, right? So I think most people don't know there's an alternative. Even if they've read Iran, they don't understand that there's an alternative. So I think most people are committing an innocent error in that they don't really know. And that's why they're not consistent altruists. See them, right? Because they know that's bad. What we need today, what I call the new intellectual, would be any man or woman who is willing to think. Meaning, any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, wins, or mystic revelations. Any man or woman who values his life and who does not want to give in to today's cult of despair, cynicism, and impotence, and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist broads. All right, before we go on, reminder, please like the show. We've got 163 live listeners right now. 30 likes. That should be at least 100. I figure at least 100 of you actually like the show. Maybe they're like 60 of the Matthews out there who hate it. But at least the people who like it, you know, I want to see a thumbs up. There you go. Start liking it. I want to see that go to 100. All it takes is a click of a click of a thing, whether you're looking at this, and you know, the likes matter. It's not an issue of my ego. It's an issue of the algorithm. The more you like something, the more the algorithm likes it. So, you know, and if you don't like the show, give it a thumbs down. Let's see your actual views being reflected in the likes. But if you like it, don't just sit there, help get the show promoted. Of course, you should also share and you can support the show at your own book show dot com slash support on Patreon or subscribe star or locals and show your support for all, for the work, for the value, hopefully you're receiving from this. And of course, don't forget, if you're not a subscriber, even if you even if you just come here to troll, or even if you're here like Matthew to defend Marx, then you should subscribe because that way you'll know when to show up. You'll know what shows are on when they're on. You'll get notified. So, yes, like, share, subscribe, support, like, share, subscribe, support. There you go. Easy. Do one, all of those, please.