Stefan Molyneux
Stefan Molyneux
Stefan Basil Molyneuxis an Irish-born Canadian blogger. Molyneux's areas of interest include anarcho-capitalism, atheism, secular ethics, right-libertarianism, cryptocurrencies, and familial relationships. He is a self-published author and has spoken at libertarian conferences and on podcasts. Molyneux formerly worked in the software industry...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth24 September 1966
CountryCanada
spiritual mean comfort
Spiritual means religion without any rules. It's all the comfort of fictitious friends with none of their demands.
traps
We can only avoid the traps we can see.
tyranny dictatorship exhausting
It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others.
gun government evil-people
If the majority is moral then why do they need to be ruled by a group of people who are power hungry and gun hungry and probably not quite so good? And evil people want two things: they want something for nothing, and to escape the consequences of their actions, which is pretty much the definition of what government is.
political limits political-power
To limit money is to limit political power.
believe adoption peaceful
There is going to be enormous amounts of resistance to the adoption of bitcoin, but I really believe that it's about the most peaceful revolution that we can have in this world.
accepted accumulation rejected
The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered.
government rivers giants
The government is a giant logjam in the eternal river of human potential.
believe past thinking
You look back in time to when there was slavery and you think 'how did people even remotely believe that this was a good idea?'.It's incomprehensible for us to think of what the mindset was 100 or 200 years ago. I hope to make the present as incomprehensible to the future as the past is to us.
years lasts billions
We have won the time lottery of the last 4 billion years.
believe doe bows
The least Anararchic person in that conversation is the person saying 'you can't be an anarchist if you believe in god.' Because that's not an argument, it's just a statement. Why would somebody accept that? Because they either bow to your authority or they are afraid of your aggression. That's threatening to be another kind of ruler. Does that make any sense?
would-be downloads shows
Trust is everything. If I didn't have trust, there would be no downloads, no show, and no business.
way emotion certainty
One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.
purpose offensive obscure
The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive