 How you guys doing? Thank you for coming. Thank you for coming. Thank you. Am I Mike's? Am I Mike's? Yeah, all right, so thanks for coming to the workshop. They said, you know, do you want to do a speech and I said Well, yeah, it's actually been almost a year since I've been out in front of a crowd because there's been protests and Antifa and all this kind of stuff. So there's been a lot of deep platforming So I've kind of adapted. It's all of a lot of suppression on YouTube of my channel and stuff like that So I've kind of adapted by going out into the world more But I can't do speeches other than with these kinds of tough guys because a lot of pushback. So actually I've been doing documentaries. I went to Hong Kong not too long ago I wanted to know what was going on there because it really does seem kind of fascinating kind of real battle between Free markets and socialism or communism. So we went I went out with the guy who made the movie hoaxed I don't know if you've ever seen hoaxed, but Mike Cernovich production is really really good movie You can get it at hoaxedmovie.com. We went out to Hong Kong and can I go forward and backwards just out of curiosity. Yeah, okay I like to stay out of focus because it makes me look younger. So if I mess around with the autofocus Oh, yeah, yeah, okay That's right So yeah, so we went out to to Hong Kong We interviewed I interviewed the guy who wrote their constitution a bunch of politicians and business people and so on Then we went down to a protest Man, these are some tough guys down there because they're facing like these seriously fascistic Hong Kong police which have a lot of influence from China and It's wild, you know, they they try to create these makeshift barriers On the street So they'll rip up stuff like the railings and so on they'll rip it up and as soon as someone starts doing that It's called the umbrella movement partly because umbrella keeps the tear gas at bay And when someone starts ripping something up to fight against the incursion of the police military vehicles a bunch of people go and open Their umbrellas because there are security cameras everywhere and this way they can't see who's Doing it and these guys are seriously brave except it had actually the girliest implement I've ever seen it was walking down towards where the police were with the with the protesters and they had little children's inflatable rafts and I'm like As far as weapons of war I've not seen that one. Let's say now. It's a shield Right because you can you can put tape on it and you could strap it to so then when the bricks start flying You've got at least some kind of shield, right? so we went right down to the end and It's funny you have you guys been in big crowds when there's like a real something going on That's like this is collective consciousness like people just thought you know those birds when they swarm and all of that They're all kind of moving there's this kind of like people suddenly stop moving one way and nobody knows exactly why and then there's another tide that goes we're right down to the end and Then they unleashed all the tear gas on the protesters and that's anyone ever been Tear gas. It's a little later in my presentation. So you'll If you don't get emotional I'll just tear gas you so look at the passion look at the passion in their faces But yeah sprinting with tear gas I mean it's really it you know it gets your attention right and and That that is really quite so we're still working on the documentary should be out sort of middle of next month But I hope to explain it before they get swallowed up by the Chinese juggernaut, but So going out and doing that kind of stuff is a lot of fun But I sort of miss interacting with people about philosophy, right? So I do this call-and-show I have for like 15 years So when they said you want to do like a workshop, I'm like hell's yeah because if we can talk philosophy or how philosophy can help you and It's not just me staring at a camera in a studio. I mean I contact and all of that I mean that's way better because it drives me crazy when I do all these calls And I don't want to put people on video because a lot of them are dealing with sort of very sensitive issues So the idea of actually being able to see the people I'm talking to it's like absolutely Yeah, so these doors fortunately locked from the outside. So you can't leave that's just you know I appreciate you coming and I appreciate you staying although the first was a choice the second really isn't so thank you For all of that, but so the way we can start is you know if there's something I don't know if you've listened to my show before know the kind of approach that I take but it's you know Philosophical and I'm not afraid of personal issues because to me philosophy is something that should help you in your daily life You know, it's great to talk about free will and how do you validate the senses and how do you know the nature of reality? And are we living in a simulation and that's great stuff and I you know It's just a foundation, but does that really help you in your day-to-day life? And I don't know that it does hugely. I think it may have a big effect sort of long-term So the way that I really like to work with philosophy is These kinds of principles should be able to help you in your day-to-day life. It's great to understand nutrition You know, I know at a men's conference when I'm at lunch and everyone's like, so what's your diet? What do you what are you okay? What do you bench and what's your diet? But you know because because we want the abstract principles not to be like masculinity and femininity But also does it help you work out does it help you maintain your weight doesn't keep you healthy? It's the same thing with philosophy and abstract principles are great But it really can hit the rubber can hit the road in your life And so if anybody has like a yearning burning what we're going to do is you guys are off-camera Because I said it's all about me No because you know you want some privacy and all that so your voice will be on but the camera will be on me So if you have for if anybody hopefully you do otherwise It's gonna be two hours if me doing a I don't know a soft you routine or something Which you really don't want to see but if you have Something that's going on in your life that you think philosophy might help with I will be happy to bring That to bear but so I guess the first question is Does anybody have? questions Yeah, so why don't you take a mic and we'll we'll talk about it Do you have a joke you'd like to share with the entire class? Sorry? I'm just being I'm being my my third grade teacher, right? Did you bring enough gum for everyone? Are any of your enemies in the room at the moment because we can cage match like totally Fuck it. We can cage match Grab a pen stab like a bitch man Sorry, you wanted to Sorry on and on and off. No, I didn't get that sec off. I don't Just glitched for me there. It's like an example So I think one of my questions or comments are out of two is Just how philosophy and logic has at least me growing up wasn't really Special education to some words supposedly Supposed to be given some form or another. It's it's not With the opposite really right. It's not non philosophical anti philosophical. It's anti philosophical, right? So, you know, I guess now that I'm a little older. I Started reading right? I've actually done a little more work in that realm because I know that's that's one of my weaknesses So can you recommend some like Kind of like a guide or roadmap that'll You know help me and as well as if I end up having a family and having the kids You know how to impart that because I mean Or the foreseeable future. I don't see that Going back to where no, we're not turning it around quite yet. Yeah. Yeah. No, that's that's a great a great question. So We can talk about the reasoning I got a whole series of free books on the on the web free domain calm The books are all all free except for the art of the argument because I wanted to get that on Amazon on audible and I had to charge for it But so I obviously I'd recommend my own books, you know I mean play-dose dialogues are fantastic for getting started, but that stuff try and stay away from the Germans They'll just pretzel your brain till you can't know which way is up But Nietzsche is great as a thought provoker. He's more of an aphorist Like so Nietzsche will say really really cool things like give a man a Why and he can bear almost any how right if you have enough of a purpose you'll find a way to get there It's that philosophy. I'm not sure it's fortune cookie stuff It's thought-provoking or he said he said something I was remembered. He said vanity is the fear of appearing original It's kind of true, right because Vane means that you want to look good to other people But other people usually look at originality like it's some sort of airborne virus that's going to strip you of your testicles, right? So Vanities so thought-provoking stuff, but not necessarily of great utility in your in your daily life so Shopping hour. Well, I don't know for the men's rights guys I should recommend shopping hour for his view on women and so on but shopping hour in terms of Pessimism is very important because we all have to wrestle with nihilism, right? We all have to wrestle with nihilism particularly right after we realized just how much we've been fucking lied to in life We all have to wrestle, you know, some people call it the red pill rage with regards to male-female issues but we've got the truth reason and evidence we get pretty pissed and Reading people like shop and how who are more negative can help you process that although It's not where you want to stay, right? You know what I mean? That way you want to stay It's like chemo, you know go to chemo stop going to chemo, right? And go and deal with the negativity and then find a way to move on I'm a big fan of iron Rand very digestible philosophy very thought-provoking and an incredible writer You know you all this cliches about oh, you know, she couldn't do great characters and so on. It's like dude I mean it's stylized. It's romanticism. It's not kitchen sink drama. It's not Supposed to replicate life. It's supposed to give you something to aim for rather than hold up a mirror to reality It's like saying, you know in Shakespeare. Nobody's that poetic is like yeah, I know Oh the other thing too, which really pisses me off. This is a total by-the-by. I'm sorry about that My whole life, you know in if you guys have read Fountainhead out of Shrugged and so in it There is some pretty rough sex scenes right where the women are like no no no fine fine fine No, no, no fine. And so like my whole time is like oh, this is like rape culture and it's the rapes in these movies And this is terrible and terrible and terrible and this is why no, but women should ever read I ran It's like then along comes 50 shades of gray and I'm like, oh You gotta be kidding me You get it right cuz it's like oh this is like and it's like oh what did he just not have a helicopter? If Howard rock had a helicopter he'd be fine Jesus anyway so I Think a lot of that stuff is really really good to start with as far as for me and I think Emotional motivation is more important than intellectual focus because if you have this is if you give a man a Why he can bear almost anyhow? Why do you focus? Well for me a lot of it had to do with real anger real anger at Not just the human birthright But more specifically the masculine birthright that I was stripped of because men are really really good at arguing and debating and Processing reality right because we build the shield the shelter of civilization which keeps the women and the children are safe You know, there's this old line from the godfather where he says, you know Women like men can't afford to make mistakes women and children can afford to make mistakes But men can't and there's I think there's a sort of glean of truth in that So if for me it was like holy shit. I've really really been lied to and And the greatest power and musculature of my intellect Was not just a trophy that was turned against me I was supposed to argue against myself against reality against reason against evidence against facts and So we are really castrated mentally in a very gynocentric educational system, right? I mean When I was a kid single mom Daycare female teachers at primary school female teachers I did go to boarding school, which is more masculine for a couple of years when I was six to eight But you know for the most part it's just like women women women authority authority authority And I remember when people first telling me about the patriarchy. It's like how what now? Patriarchy like I didn't know any real fathers around when I was growing up and all the teachers were women of the day I've worked in a daycare when I was a teenager is all females except for me So this whole patriarchy thing to seem kind of crazy So once you get angry an anger is a really really great emotion It's really powerful. It's your body's immune system, right? Like you you know AIDS is when your immune system doesn't recognize a foreign virus as far as I understand it doesn't fight back against it It's not AIDS that kills you it's all the so anger male anger has been demonized as something destructive But it's not You know you get angry at cold you you build a house Right you get angry at having a walk everywhere you build a road You know anger is very very important very healthy shipping demonized like it's just destructive But that's that's rage. That's totally different, right? That's that's very very different like there's times when your body's immune system will attack yourself Right and that's that's rage right you want your body's immune system You want it to be functional so you can't be without anger that's unhealthy You don't want it to attack yourself and your values you this way the shop and how stuff is kind of toxic You don't want it to be rage, but you want that healthy anger So that you can push back against that which is trying to destroy you not to the point where you destroy yourself Obviously, that's the rage part But that anger is really important once you realize How much has been robbed of you and how much has you've been lied to? We're pretty good at focused anger as men and and that gets us through to a destination, right? I mean Fuck the wolf who's trying to eat your family like sorry man You know we're both mammals, but it's you or me, right? And so that that anger I think is really important now Of course again when you say anger is good or whatever people think you just sit in a bit of rage at a corner You know like meatloaf design denied dessert or something But it's not that really sorry just that's an older reference for people people think why would a piece of food be allowed? I just listened to bad out of hell the other night while I was working on something Dear God, I'm telling you that music can beat the shit out of modern music. It really can it's like a bike again hitting a tutu gang Anyway, it's killer. It's killing just get into that music. I mean that that guy's childhood too. Holy shit Do you know you about the meatloaf childhood? Holy crap So he grew up in the Texas Texas kid right not a small kid his father Beat him like through him through plate glass windows downstairs and his father Meatloaf's father this will actually make sense in a sec, but meatloaf's father came at him with a knife and meatloaf was a big boy right and put his father in hospital and then left barefoot in his mid-teens left home and Yeah, he's had some he's had some challenges for sure right but That anger is really really important. It's Something that when you harness it it gives you incredible repulsion If it if it's absent from you you're inert if it's too present like this Aristotelian mean is really really important for men More so I think than for women right so Aristotelian mean is you want something that's a balance between two right? So what what do you call an excess of courage? Foolhardiness is some more of the technical term like you know fools rush in where angels fear to tread, right? so an excess of Courage is like I'm going over the First World War trench into the German machine gun that's right You're like Gallipoli down to nothing right and so an excess of of courage is Is a vice it's dangerous right and a deficiency of courage is called Cowardice right in which case you don't take on necessary fights and you get people to walk all over you right? So you don't want to be a bully, but you don't want to be a victim You want to be assertive not aggressive and that is a tough balance to find and this is something Aristotle said like 2,500 years ago. He said any idiot can get angry You know any idiot and we see this all the time a road rage and you know people screaming at security guys Anyone can get angry to get angry at the right time in the right proportion about the right issues and express it in the right way that's hard that's hard and We have been taught to shy away from our anger because it's toxic masculinity and it's destructive and somehow it's gonna make babies Explode in the womb or something like that, which is more female narcissism and abortion, but anyway so I think that the to me the anger has been very very Healthy and very very helpful and if we can really embrace that and use it for us You know what a border is around a country, but boundaries in a relationship And if you don't because we've been so emasculated with regards to anger our countries are open for the taking which is catastrophic for us So that that I can tell you are the books and so on but if you like you want to reclaim What was taken from you like get angry at the people who took something from you and fight to get it back It's like if somebody stole your father's wealth and you didn't get your inheritance You'd be pretty mad and you'd fight to get it back and you should and that's the same thing with our reasoning and all of that It's really been stripped from us So and that's to some degree because we have a whole education system that can't stand even the remotest moral scrutiny you know we have an educational system that's paid for by forced coercive taxes and Often in many countries children are forced to go there or you're certainly forced to pay for it Even if you don't have kids or even if like me you homeschool So we have an entire educational system based upon pointing guns at people to get what you want And then we go to that educational system and they say well don't push anyone You can't you can't take stuff without permission you've got a respect property rights. It's like who pays your salary The gun yeah, so I mean it's so compromised that you can't even look at it without your brain You know it's like the mom like they did this real-time study a couple of years ago on on they We're trying to study how parents interacted with their children and what they regularly heard was this