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Michael Malice

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“Because they are feeling powerless in their lives. And they see someone who they perceive as higher status and more powerful than them, or even not appear. And they through their words cause a reaction in this person so they feel like they are in a very literal sense making a difference on earth and they matter in a very dark way. It's disturbing. This is not, I mean, it's unfortunate that that term trolling is used for that as opposed to what Andy Kaufman does, as opposed to what I do. It really is a sinister thing. And it's something I'm not at all a fan of or defending.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, because what happens is a lot of low status people, this is their one mechanism through sadism, they feel empowered, and then they can hide behind, well, I'm just joking.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Looking for weak people. And you are there to denigrate them just for them being weak or in some way inferior to you. That is the wrong approach. I am best on the counter punch. A lot of times people come to me and they'll be like, I hope you die. You're ugly, you're disgusting. And there's this great quote from Billy Idol, which I'm going to mangle where he sometimes the effect of, I love it when people are rude to me, then I get stopped pretending to be nice. Then you start fights. Now it's a chance for me to finish it and make an example of this person, but that's very, very different from I'm going to go around and humiliate people for the sake of doing it, in my view. And I can see how one would lead to the other.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He came out in his audience and he goes, You know, my wife died a few years ago. Every time I look at my daughter Sarah's eyes, I can see my wife. Sarah, come out here. Let's do a duet. And Sarah's like 11, sits on his lap. They start singing duet. Her voice cracks. He smacks her across the face. What the hell are you doing? You're making ass out in front of these people. She starts crying. The audience is booing. It goes, don't boo or you're just going to make her cry more. Ends. This wasn't his daughter, it wasn't even a child, it was an actress. This was all set up. He's exploiting their love of children in order to force them to be performers. That is trolling. No one is actually getting hurt. It's a humorous, though twisted exchange. If you go online.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't know about easily. Let me give you an example of where Trolling came from. The original troll was Andy Kaufman. He was on the show taxi. He was a performance artist, not a standard comedian. And this is a Quintessential example of trolling. He had a character where he was basically like a lounge singer. He had these glasses on and just a terrible singer and so on and so forth. And he denied it was him. And he came out, and I'm blanking on the guy's name. I can't believe it. Tony Clifton. Wow.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I disagree with that. That's not a good thing. If you are there just to hurt innocent people, you are a horrible human being.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Like the tough question I go, what if guys get turned on? And on their website, it even has a rule like do not fear the erection, right? Because it's going to be a natural consequence of physical proximity. And the point she goes, she said this, I think about this all the time. People will take as much space as you let them. It is incumbent on each of us to set our own boundaries. We all have to learn when to say no. You're making me uncomfortable. If someone doesn't respect your right to have your boundary to be uncomfortable, this person is not your friend. Now they can say, I don't understand. Like, why is this okay? Why is that not? Let me know you better so I'm respectful of you. But if they roll their eyes and they're like, get over, I'm going to do what I want. This person is not interested in knowing you as a human being.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“An aggression, let me speak to that, which I think you're picking up on. I had a friend named Martha, excuse me, she ran something called Cuddle Parties, which people laughed at about a lot back in the day. And the premise of the cuddle party is everyone got together and cuddled, right? And it's like, aha. Then you stop to think about it and you realize physical context is extremely important. And a lot of people don't have it. And if this is a mechanism of people getting that, it actually is going to have profound positive psychological consequences. So after she explained it, I'm like, okay, we laughed at this because it's weird. And now that I think about this, it's wonderful. And I asked her about like,”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Like you voluntarily agree to those rules. The point is if someone comes in who's not who no one invited to game night and are telling you no, when you play Monopoly, you have to get money when you land in free parking or you don't. It's like, who are you? We're having our own fun and you smell.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Damaged people out there. And there are damaged people who revel in being damaged. And they are damaged people who desperately, desperately, desperately want to be well, who desperately want to be happy, who desperately want to find joy. So if I can be the one, and as arrogant as this sounds, I'll own it who does give them that fun and to tell them it doesn't have to be like you thought like it could be it's going to hurt it's gonna suck but it's still a magical adventure and you're gonna be okay because you've been through worse like that if that could be my message i would own it all day long”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know what I'm on my quotes is, and I think about this every day, and I mean it with every fiber of my being, we're born knowing that life is a magical adventure and it takes them years to train us to think otherwise. And I think that Willy Wonka approach, it's a very camus approach. It's something I believe with every fiber of my being, I try to spread that as much as possible. I think it is very sad. I'm not being sarcastic. It comes off as condescending. I mean it at face value. It's very sad how many people are not receptive to that. And I think a lot of that function how they were raised. And I could have very easily with my upbringing have not maintained that perspective. And there's a lot of, I have a lot of friends in recovery, like AA. And they have an expression, not my circus, not my monkeys, right? That you can't really take on other people's problems on your own at a certain point. They have to do the work themselves because you can only do so much externally. And there are a lot of very...”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think This is real love. It's not ironic love. I love watching it, and I'm sure you do too. I love watching a quality mind at work because when someone has a quality mind, they're often not self-aware. I catch this on myself of how it operates. And then when other people see it, they're like, oh my God, this is so beautiful because there's such an innocence to it.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A good question. How would you show it to me? Because I think something has to be falsifiable if you're going to make a claim, right? So what would it?”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Smart the average person is, then realize 50%. If you walk around and see who's out there, these people are very kind, they are of value, they deserve to be treated with respect. They deserve to be secure in their person. They deserve to feel safe and to have love. But the expectation that they should have any sort of semblance of power over me or my life is as nonsensical as asking Lassie to be my accountant.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Sure, you can't expect that. Saying a cow's a cow isn't a slur. It's not saying you hate cows. Cows, or even let's take the example I always use with good reason is dogs. Okay. I always say to study how human beings operate. Watch Caesar Milan because human beings and dogs have co-evolved. Our minds have both evolved in parallel tracks to communicate with each other. Dogs can be vicious. Dogs for the most part are great. Wonderful, but you can't expect the dog to understand certain concepts. It's not an, and now most people are offended. Are you saying I'm like a dog? If you're a dog person like I am, this is actually a huge compliment. Most dogs are better than most people. But to get the idea that this is something that is basically your peer is nonsensical. Now, of course, this sounds arrogant and elitist and so on and so forth. And I'm perfectly happy with that, but it is very hard to persuade me or anyone that if you walk, George Carlin has that joke, think.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Cows certainly, bulls, because they could do a lot of damage. They could trample things. They could attack you. Cows are like, how much do they weigh like 4,000 pounds?”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You are one of the great minds of our generation. You are telling me that any of these people can do anything close to the work you do.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Have you ever had gone to CVS or Dwayne Reid and your bill, how much you owe them is $6, and you give them a $10 bill in a single and watch the look on their face? You watch them void their bowels and panic because you give them $11 on a $6 bill. This is not a mind capable or interested in thoughts and ideas and learning.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm more than happy when people are preemptively dismissing me because then I don't have to waste time engaging with them. Because those people would be of no use to me. When I was on Tim Pool recently, Tim Pool's show, Tim Pool is known for his little hat. I got a propeller beanie motorized and it was just spinning the whole two hours, 1950s thing. The point being I wore it. Because there's lots of people who would say, I can't take seriously someone who wears a hat like that. And my point being, if you are the kind of person who takes your cues based on someone's wardrobe as opposed to the content of your ideas, you're of no use to me as an ally. So I'd be more than happy you preemptively abort rather than waste our breath trying to.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The state, the So, anything that lessens its sway on people, anything that delegitimizes it is good. I run an article a few years ago about how wonderful it is that Trump is regardless such a buffoon because it's very, very useful to have a commander-in-chief who's regarded as a clown because it's going to take a lot to get him to convince your kids to go overseas and start killing people and making widows and orphans, as well as those kids coming home in caskets. Whereas if someone is regarded with prestige and they're like, oh, we need to send your kid overseas. Oh, absolutely. I mean, this guy's great. So that is a very healthy thing where people are skeptical of the state.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, the mob has much less power on anarchy because under anarchism, every individual is fully empowered. You wouldn't have gun restrictions. You would have people creating communities based on shared values. They would be much more collegial. They'd be much more kind as opposed to when you're forcing people to be together in a polity when they don't have things in common. It's like having a bad roommate. If you're forced to liquid jails, if you're forced to be locked in a room,”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The power of the mob is a very serious concern. Gustave LeBon wrote a book in the 1890s called The Crowd, and this was one of the most important books I've written because it influenced both Mussolini and Hitler and Stalin. And they all talked about it. And he made the point that under crowd psychology, enlynching is another example of this. None of those individuals or very few would ever dream of doing these acts. But when they're all together and you lose that sense of self, you become the ant, and you lose that sense of individually, you're capable of doing things that in another context, you'd be like, I should kill myself. I'm a monster.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“FDR and Harry Truman were shaking hands with and taking photos with and was being sold to us as Uncle Joe. You know, he's just like you and me. So when you have a decentralized information network as opposed to having three media networks, it is a lot easier for information that doesn't fit what would be the corporate American narrative to reach the populations. And it would be a more effective for democracy because they're in a much better position to be informed. Now, you're right. It also means, well, if everyone has a mic, that means every crazy person and with their wacky views. And at a certain point, yeah, it has to become, then there's another level, which is then the people have to be self-enforcing. And you see that on social media all the time where someone says this, the other person's jumps in.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because of decentralization. So the darker side of human nature is an extreme concern. Anyone who says it's going to go away is absurd and fallacious. I think that's a non-starter when people say that everyone's going to be good. Human beings are basically animals. We're capable of great beauty and kindness. We're capable of just complete cruel and what we would call inhumanity. But we see it on a daily basis even today. And what's interesting is the corporate press won't even tell you the darkest aspects because that's too upsetting to people. So they'll tell you about atrocities and horrors, but only to a point. And then when you actually do the homework, you're like, oh, it's so much worse than like that thing about Stalin, right? So we know in a broad sense that Stalin was a dictator. We know that he killed a lot of people, but it takes work to learn about the Holodomor. It takes work to learn about what those literal tortures were and that this is the person who later”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, we don't need to try to. Anarchy isn't like a country, right? It's like saying, well, if anarchy works, how can we have never had an anarchist government, right? So anarchism is a relationship and language is an example of this. It's a worldwide anarchic system. You and I have an anarchist relationship. There's almost no circumstances we'd be calling the police on each other.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Every criticism of anarchism is in fact a description. Well, the strongest criticisms of anarchism are in fact descriptions of the status quo. Your concern is under anarchism propaganda would spread and people would be taught the wrong ideas unlike the status quo.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Okay, let's suppose Hitler ran Twitter. Let's take this thought experiment seriously. Literally, what could he do? So the only tweets are going to be about how much the juice suck, right? Okay, fine. Okay, all the cool people are leaving.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In a state society, I'm an evil person, I'm a sociopath, I'm the head of the US government. Which of these are you more concerned with? It's like night and day. So you would have far more decentralized military. You would have far more decentralized security forces. And they would be much more subject to feedback from the market. If you have an issue with Macy's or any store with a sweater, look at that transaction. If you have an issue with the state hiring a lawyer costs more than a surgeon to even access the mechanism for dispute is going to be exorbitant and price poor people out of the market for conflict resolution immediately. So right away you have something that's extremely regressive. And even though this is touted as some great equalizer, it's quite the opposite.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's easily get more power, more dangerous to have a government in place. First of all, sociopaths went over their charm and for their warmth. Here's the two situations. In a free society, I'm a sociopath. I'm an evil person. The head of Macy's.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We would never in a million years think of this. That's not how our minds work. So when you're talking about states and people where you don't have ease of exit, where you are forced to be under the auspices of Nefarious outcomes, whereas if you have the option to leave as a client or customer, that would have a strongly limiting effect on how a business and what it can get away with.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Wrong they were. And this was the purge. You know, Stalin is trying to, you know, killing lots of people left and right, and his henchmen barrier had the quote, find me the man and I'll find you the crime. They would accuse someone and they would torture him until he talked and confessed and then he had to turn people in. And they took this guy in like begin the year, I think it was 3638. He was head of Ukraine. By May, he's arrested. And they take him to the Lublanca, the basement in the Red Square where they're torturing people. And they did the works on him. And he was a good Soviet and he stood up. Who knows what they did to him? He didn't talk. So they said, okay, one moment. They brought his teenage daughter in, raped her in front of him. He talked. So when we talk about corruption,”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Talk, yes, and let's talk about corruption, and I made this point on Rogan, you and I, again, the Russian background, we realize that when it comes to corruption, America is very naive. Corruption, they think is, oh, I got my brother a job and he's getting money on the table. When we're talking about like state corruption, things that are done in totalitarian states and even to some extent in America, like Jeffrey Epstein, Jerlaine Maxwell, things that Stalin did, things that Hitler did, you know, when the CIA was torturing people at Gitmo, they had to borrow KGB manuals because they didn't know how to torture correctly because they never thought of these things. It's very hard for us to get into the mindset of someone who's like a child predator, someone who let me give you an example from my forthcoming book. There was a guy who was the head of Ukraine in the 30s. I forget his name. Now these old Soviets, they were tough. I mean, Stalin, I mean steel. You know, they pride themselves in their cruelty and how strong.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's not as my big a concern as mass incarceration as the fact that the police can steal more money than burglars can. The fact that innocent people can be killed with no consequences, the fact that war can be waged and with no consequences for those who waged it, the fact that so many men and women are being murdered overseas and here and the people who are guiding these are regarded as heroic.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Allah is something that is unchosen. A rule is something. If I go to my pool, I sign up to be a member of a pool on the wall lists certain things. It's like, you know, certain number of people in the pool, no peeing in here. Good luck enforcing that one. And so on and so forth.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Also, language and syntax and jargon immediately you size people up if you use if you say vertebral, I know you're a doctor because that's how they pronounce it, the spinal column. I'm sure in your field, there's certain jargon right away. You can know if this person's one of us or not. I mean, it's infinite. I mean, I don't need to tell you anyway. It's an emoji. Yes, there's so much there to study with language, it's fascinating”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And you have to have an official definition and an official dictionary. And none of that happened. And I think anyone, even if they don't agree with my politics or my worldview, cannot deny that the creation of language is one of humanity's most miraculous, beautiful achievements.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Know what the most beautiful example of anarchism is that is just beyond beautiful when you stop to think about it. I'm not being tongue-in-cheek. Language. Infinite languages, language, the things that language can be used for bring tears to people's eyes quite literally. It's also used for basic things. No one is forcing us. We speak two languages each at least. No one's forcing us to use English. No one's forcing us to use this dialect of English. It's a way. And despite there being so many different languages, lingua franca merge, the language that everyone is Latin. Even in North Korea, they refer to the fish and the different animals by the Latin scientific. No one decided this. Sure, there's an organization that sets a binomial nomenclature, but there's no gun to anyone's head referring to CMOF as a Pegasus species. And when you think about how amazing language is, and in some other contexts would say, like, well, you need to have a world government and they're deciding which is the verbs.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But they view, and they're right because the ants' life is very ephemeral and cheap, that it's more important to continue this mass population that one individual ant live. Like bees are another even better example. The honeybee, when they sting, they only sting once and they die. And they do it gladly because it's like, okay, this community is much more important than me. And they're right.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, they don't. Ants are very big on altruism in the sense of self sacrifice. They do not think the individual matters. They routinely kill themselves for the sake of the hive in the community.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So I would absolutely want someone to provide for my security. I would absolutely want someone to negotiate with me for foreign powers, something like that. That does not mean it has to be predicated and what lots of other people who I do not know, and if I do knew them probably would not respect, think about. It's of no moral relevance to me. Nor I”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's what they do. That's their trick And this is one of the useful things, by the way, like this total sidebar. If people ask me for advice, I always tell them if you're going to raise your kids, raise them bilingual. Because I was trilingual by the time I was six, and that teaches you to think in concepts. Whereas if you only know one language, you fall for things like this because using authority in the sense of a policeman and someone is authority in physics, it's the same word conceptually they're extremely different. But if you're only thinking in one language, your brain is going to equate the two. And that's a trap that people who only speak one language have.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, then democracy or government. So it's only curing one major, major life-threatening problem, but in no sense is it a utopia.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The only people who describe anarchism as utopia are its critics. If I told you right now, and I wish I could say this factually, that I have a cure for cancer, that would not make us utopia. That would still probably be expensive. We would still have many other diseases. However, we would be fundamentally healthier, happier, and better off all of us.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You understand that no one signed these documents and no one agreed to it. As Lysander Spooner pointed out over 150 years ago, the Constitution or the Social Contract, if anything, is only binding to the signatories. And even then, they're all long dead. So it's this fallacy that somehow because I'm in a physical place, I have agreed, even though I'm screaming at you in a face that I don't agree to be subordinate to some. Imaginary, invisible monster that was created 250 years ago. And this idea of like, if you don't like it, you have to move. That's not what freedom means. Freedom means I do what I want, not what you want. So if you don't like it, you move.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, right. And so that's number one. Number two is it doesn't make sense that if I don't want someone to represent me, that because that person is popular, that they are now in a position to. So having representation and having citizenship based on geography is a pre-landline technology in a post-cell phone world. There's no reason why I have to, just because we're physically between two oceans, we all have to be represented by the same people. Whereas I can very easily have my security be under someone and switch it as easily as cell phone providers.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In four years and so on. First of all, the fact that I have to be under the thumb of somebody four years makes no sense. There's no other relationship that's like this, including a marriage. You can leave any other relationship at any time, number one. Number two is”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Can you imagine if you have an attorney? You're like, Oh, you can't have the attorney you want, you're gonna have this guy who you absolutely hate who you share no values with. Why?”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But the point being, this was an emergency. This is World War I. I talked about Sen Tim Pool show was very dangerous because it gave a lot of evil people some very useful information about what the country put up with and what they can get away with under wartime. And this set the model for things like the New Deal and the other things of that nature. It is undeniable in your scientist, so you understand this perfectly well, that this lockdown gave some very nefarious people some very valid data about how much people will put up with under pressures from the state.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, that's not true. So Cuomo de Blasio, they had a lot of disagreements over this month, and this was actually a source of great interest and tension. De Blasia wanted, at one point, was talking about quarantining people in their homes. Cuom was like, you're crazy. Same thing with the schools, same thing with the gyms. And there were other such examples.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, we also need to talk about consequences or Cuomo and de Blasio because if politicians respond to incentives and the incentives are there for them to be extremely conservative. Because if you have to choose, as Cuomo said in a press conference between a thousand people dying and a thousand people losing their business, it's not a hard choice. And he's right. But at a certain point, it's like, all right, you're losing both. You're losing, not losing, you're making these decisions and not having consequences for it. And you're going to do it again the next time. So we need to make sure you're a little scared. And I don't know what that would mean.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source