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Unabashed libertarian motivation - a THANK YOU from the future for all freedom activists! A speech by Stefan Molyneux, host of Freedomain Radio - www.freedomainradio.com So one of the things that I've felt my whole life is that - gratitude from the culture that we live in can sometimes be a little -- short, you know, and one of the things that I think is that we are all philosophers. Everybody who works from first principles, everyone who talks about nonviolence, we all are philosophers - and the one thing that's very true about philosophers is that they don't get a lot of 'sugar,' they don't get a lot of love in their own time. It's true - well OK, except for you, absolutely -- you're handing it out like candy and that's nice! But we don't get a lot of that juice, don't get a lot of that love. Socrates got some hemlock, Spinoza was kicked out of his -- everywhere... I mean - Ayn Rand, even now after being right for sixty years in a row, she still gets spat on by the main culture, so it is hard! Wouldn't you say? I mean look, we've all faced it, you've all had difficulties at work, you've had difficulties in your relationships because of your commitment to ideals. That's a hard thing to live with. So -- the one place that I go, when I sort of need to feel replenished and strengthened -- I mean we have each other, for those of you who have people around (this is the beautiful thing about what's happening here) - but I kind of go into the future in my mind, because I think <b>...</b> |
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