What happened to Stefan Molyneux?

Kind of a weird thing to be shocked about with that screen name. This has been par for the course for the last 25 years for people making their living through libertarianism.
 
says he seeks truth where ever that leads

maybe he is ahead of the mainstream version of truth...

Why not call into his show and just 'splain him?
 
Stefan Moleneux philosophy vs Stefan Moleneux in politics look very different.

He is a very conservative individual and is for law and order.

I think a lot of libertarians and anarchists couple of years back were shocked in horror when he gave an example how people would be controlled in anarchist society. They were saying his vision is worse than what we have now. I read through that and I personally liked his view.

What I am noticing there are a lot of naive people who think that they can have what they want without sacrifice. You want no police overreach? Then how are you going to provide the same level of security? Don't want security? Well there are a lot of people that do. How are you going to deal with them? Are you going to fight them? Is that worth it? People just do not take extra steps to go through all the consequences.

So an anarchist that is practical and is engaged in political action does not necessarily have to be liberal pussy. He may be a conservative down to earth guy. He may prefer police patrols in bad areas if asked about what needs to be done right this minute. He may prefer peaceful child rearing for the long term.
 
Stefan Moleneux philosophy vs Stefan Moleneux in politics look very different.

He is a very conservative individual and is for law and order.

I think a lot of libertarians and anarchists couple of years back were shocked in horror when he gave an example how people would be controlled in anarchist society. They were saying his vision is worse than what we have now. I read through that and I personally liked his view.

What I am noticing there are a lot of naive people who think that they can have what they want without sacrifice. You want no police overreach? Then how are you going to provide the same level of security? Don't want security? Well there are a lot of people that do. How are you going to deal with them? Are you going to fight them? Is that worth it? People just do not take extra steps to go through all the consequences.

So an anarchist that is practical and is engaged in political action does not necessarily have to be liberal pussy. He may be a conservative down to earth guy. He may prefer police patrols in bad areas if asked about what needs to be done right this minute. He may prefer peaceful child rearing for the long term.

You are not describing a anarchist, you seem to be confused or are having a severe case of cognitive dissonance.
 
he's going into a deep depression because of that weird mouth thing going on.

can't blame him.
 
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It's hard to boil down 50+ hours worth of podcasts into a single post.. but..

Essentially his old view was that we had a lot of time and what we needed to focus on to have a more free society was peaceful parenting - parenting that focuses on shaping your children by providing reason, evidence and a sense of empathy in their decisions rather than molding them through violence.

But now with the immigrant crisis in Europe, and what is happening in the US with the free fall toward socialism he thinks we may end up losing the war if we don't step up.

You will want to watch some of his presentations on r vs. K mating strategies, this is really important in understanding the current societal family dynamic. But essentially Europeans had a largely K based mating strategy where there was a lot of investment into children, and cultures that come from closer to the equator tend to be predispositioned for r mating strategies which have far less investment in children. But r vs. K mating strategies can be inborn, they can also change due to environmental factors where they become programmed epigenenitcally, and it can also be influenced mentally through experiences and discussion with others. It's really a fascinating topic, I recommend you dig into some of his videos about it.

Welfare societies promote r mating strategies not only by providing 'infinite resources' (enough grass to survive), but also by creating single parent households. So we are already sliding down the slippery slope into an r dominated society, and now we have a government subsidized program called "immigration" that is bringing predominantly r cultures on a large scale.

His fear is that our country will be overwhelmed with socialist voters, brought in by the socialist system, and that the K mating strategy will continue a vast decline along with the last of our freedoms.

He isn't racist - he doesn't hate brown people - he just sees how the system is bringing down society with this multi-pronged attack and is trying to throw a wrench in it before we are too far gone.

He has guests on who discuss race and IQ, and claims that the data seems to point to different races (or whatever you want to call what most people refer to as races, or in some cases cultures) have different IQs. Is this racist? I don't think so, I don't think facts can be racist. But if these different groups have different IQs, and IQ is tied to income, then it would be reasonable to expect some groups to do better economically than others. However, the current leftist narrative, and what most blacks and latinos are told is that the reason why they are suffering economically is due to white racism. This turns whites into scapegoats, when in fact, asians and Ashkenazi Jews have higher IQs and higher incomes. So if we can recognize this dynamic, these communities can begin to focus on what they can do to better themselves, because currently they believe that as long as whites are racist they will never be able to come up. They focus on wealth distribution because they believe they deserve it for the way white people are.

He believes we need to all recognize the values that bring people prosperity, liberty and stable societies. Throwing people of European descent under the bus does the opposite because it was Europeans who ended slavery around the globe and helped fight for the concepts of religious, economic and personal liberty that resulted in the prosperity we have seen in the last couple hundred years or so.

Did you know that Muslims had tens of millions of black slaves, who they castrated? Why is it that white people get all the flack for slavery when it was a worldwide phenomenon that white people went out and fought and died for to help end?

He has also done some pretty good videos on how things like western imperialism have been way overly demonized that are worth checking out.

He is still an anarchist, he is just using this nationalism thing as self defense against what he believes in an eminent attack.
 
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If you've listened to his shows from the very beginning like I have, you've heard a certain kind of person frankly share his development (and sometimes deterioration) through dealing with a difficult upbringing, professional transitions, emergence into fatherhood, health adversity, etc.

He's a very interesting commentator and, just like anybody, an individual with his own affinities and proclivities. He mistakenly believes that his observations have universal applicability, even when his convictions and principles morph from one POV to another from year to year. As a result, he's never had ironclad credibility except among the most credulous. But alienated INTJ's like me can at least build a certain empathy for his concerns.

At the moment (as dannno notes), Stef is promoting what he has determined to be a desperately necessary pragmatic step to save the world. However, I think he's misreading himself. What we've been hearing is the diary of a guy with a simple and intense man-crush for the Orange One. No more, no less.
 
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