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Yaron Brook

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“And you think we're going to crash. No, I think he's an extraordinary interviewer because of all those things. He makes you feel visible and he does, but he also comes across as really earnest. The questions are really Questions that you seem really interested in that you really want answers to It doesn't come across as canned, or I prepared my three book project.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, this is what happens when people are free. When people are free and individualistic, it's the exact opposite of what people believe. The more collectivist we are, the less free we are, the nastier we are to one another. Individualists who are pursuing their own happiness are incredibly kind, friendly, and supportive people.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm in the book? Yes. All right. Well, now I have to read his book because I'm in it. My presented positively or negatively. Oh, okay, good. Lex is not so sure. I like that he goes.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And as you admire each other, and love at the end of the day is a response to value. If you stop undermining your own value, The person who loves you will stop or will stop loving you or love you less. If you love yourself less, you have to say, I love you, you have to be able to say the I. You have to be somebody. You have to know yourself. You have to have value. And so love is a profound emotional response to value.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's about him choosing mediocrity and nothingness over love. So pursuing your values is so crucial. So don't sacrifice. That doesn't mean that if you want to eat Chinese and she want to eat Italian, you don't once in a while eat Italian on that day, right? That's silly, right? That's not a sacrifice, not in the sense in which we're talking about. You know, it doesn't mean don't compromise. It doesn't mean don't compromise on the day-to-day stuff. It means don't compromise our moral values. You don't compromise on the big stuff. And you never sacrifice. And that way you have a relationship that's built as equal.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Anna Karenina, he gives up the love of his life. Oh, is that what it is? The amazing girl, he has an affair with her outside of marriage, taints her, is married to the stupid, but she gives him the prestige and everything.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's not if you're giving money now expecting a bigger return in the future, that's not a sacrifice. That's an investment. That's why we have two concepts for that. And the same is true, you know, if my wife is ill and I'm in, you know, I've got a whole relationship build around what I'm giving. It's not that I'm not getting anything back. When I'm getting back is that she is recovering, right? Is that she is She's still alive or whatever it is that I'm keeping that's the value that I'm getting in return. If I'm not getting that, why am I doing it? Because I signed a contract a long time ago. So it's not a sacrifice. Children are not sacrificed. If I don't go to the movies because I stay with my home with my kids, it's because I love my kids more than I love going to the movies. And if I love going to the movies more than I love staying with the kids, then get a babysitter or don't have kids, which is the better approach.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't know him personally. No. Jordan Peterson, I said. I didn't call him Jordan. He uses in his talks as sometimes he uses it as just as I described it, and he's supportive of that, like the sacrifice Jesus made, right? And sometimes he uses it as his investment”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I get sick of it. She'd get sick of it. It would never last. It has to be in give and take constantly in different ways, right? Different values. It's not a monetary exchange, but it's constantly you're giving and you're receiving and you're giving. And that's got to be in balance. And I know a lot of relationship where that gets out of bounds. And one party feels like they're giving all the time the sacrificing. They're giving more than the receiving in a sense. And it's over, right? So now people use the word sacrifice, like Jordan Peterson. Sometimes he uses it both ways, right? That's the problem people use it.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And that's a good relationship, absolutely. Now, sacrifice is the giving of a value and expecting either nothing or something less in return. You don't do that in a love relationship. A love relationship is a sense a trait. You're constantly trading. You're not trading materially, but you're trading spiritually. Imagine if I only gave my wife, if I gave spiritually and materially, only in one direction.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Am I wrong? No, absolutely. It feeds off of each other. It's synergetic. It's completely synergetic. The problem that people have, I think, where they get into challenges is when they view them as opposites, right? Work or family. Well, if you don't work the family, finance the family, but more than that. Why is your wife going to love you, right? What are the virtues that you're bringing? If you don't maximize your own potential, if you don't live the best life that you can live, what is it to love? And if she doesn't do the same thing, why do you love her? So you don't get this conflict between work and, you know, how do I have a balanced life? Of course, you have a balanced life. You balance it based on your values and it's never going to be the same. The balance, you know, the time you spend at working with family when you're young or when you have little kids or when they're grown up is all going to be different. It's going to depend on your priorities at the”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And here's something very unpopular and not sexy. This is why people probably unfollow me. Read well, you'll tell me why after this read, read, read because you're not always going to have access to those experts. And I'm not just talking about self-help books. I'm not even talking about self-help books. Read the world's literature. I mean, literature presents you with all the different characters. You know, read Dostoevsky. Read Hugo, right? Read all these authors that have taken time to really create characters and put them in situations that maybe you will never face those exact situations, but you'll face similar situations. And they play it out for you. You'll see what the consequences are. Great literature is a real tool for building your soul, great art generally, literature, because it's more conceptual.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Figure out what your values are and try to apply your reason, your rational thought on getting those values. And we talked about early on in the show, in the interview, we talked about integrating your emotions with your cognition. I think that's crucial because you don't want to be fighting your emotions as you move towards these things. You don't want your emotions to be barriers to your own success. You want them to be cheerleaders, right? To cheer on when good things happen and to be negative emotions when it's justified that they're negative. So work on integrating your soul. So creating your own soul, that's the real challenge.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And learn from that failure. And that's the other thing. Think about what you're doing, why you're succeeding, why you're failing, and keep improving. Keep working on it because it's not just going to happen like this. Nobody is Francisco to take a character out of Atlas Shrug, who succeeds at everything first try, right? We all need to fail a few times. We all need to, but what have you got to lose? Every second is never going to be back? I mean, these are all cliches, but they're all true cliches. So think.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Think it through what kind of people, for example, if you want ambitious, excited, maybe you should move to Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas, right? If you want to be around Artsy people, I mean, you go to Hollywood, maybe you should go to New York, you know, I don't know, but figure out what kind of life you want to live, what kind of people you want to hang out, what kind of woman you want to spend your life with, what kind of romantic relationship you want to have. Figure that out and go and do it. Don't sit around. Life is not.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Is a great model for all of us. It's a great story to have in your head, in your mind, when you encounter challenging choices that you might make. And then spend the time, and this is, you know, I don't think I ever did this when I was young. I don't think people do this, but spend the time thinking about what your values really are. What do you love doing? What makes you going? What gets you excited? How can I make a living at this? How can I do this and live through this? And then, you know, think about what kind of life you want, what kind of, I don't know, what kind of people you want to hang out with. Don't just let life just happen to you.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, I agree with all of that. And I like the line Ayn Rand's line about man is a self-made soul is a creature of a self-made soul is huge. And it's something most people don't realize. And it's something that modern intellectuals undermine. I mean, even somebody like Sam Harris, when you keep telling people they don't have free will, then you don't have a self-made soul. Because what is self-made? There is no self, according to Sam, right? He meditates and he sees that he doesn't have a self. You're undermining the ability of people to take control over their own lives and make the kind of choices that are necessary to create the kind of moral character that is necessary for them to be successful. So I'd encourage people to go read Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged because put aside the politics, put aside even aspects of the philosophy, focus on these models. These are, you know, how do”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Don't Particularly not in the world that we live in today that's so wealthy, and so many, we all have so many opportunities right now.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, you don't have to be a CEO to lift your max and to live with the integrity and to live a great life. I know people who, because they joined Amazon or whatever, have just made a life for themselves, an amazing life for themselves, and have done great work at Amazon, let's say, and then have lived a great life because of the opportunity that created for them. I think there are more good people out there. But yes, one of the saddest things of growing up is even when you're a teenager and looking at adults and noticing how few of them actually live. I mean, really alive in a sense of living their values and enjoying their life. And you start with your parents and you look across the people. Everybody lives such mediocre lives.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And this is why people go through middle life crisis. Midlife crisis is a crisis where you suddenly realize I didn't do it. I didn't live up to my standards. I didn't live up to my youthful idealism. I compromised and I sold out. But I also would warn you about Silicon Valley. Yeah, I think at the top, very few of them stick to it. And partially it's the political pressure is unbearable. I mean, how would you? How can you? It would require to be a hero and very few of them are. But there were a lot of people who do really well at all kinds of levels in technology, who little startups. And this is the point Michael was making. You don't have to be the best.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And people violate the integrity even without stealing, just little things about how they treat other people, how they treat themselves, the values they're pursued. They don't go after the profession they really wanted to. They compromise in ways that they shouldn't with their spouse or with their mothers or whatever. They look the other way when they see justice authority.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He decided he wants to write comedy, right? So he might have been a better mathematician than either comedian, but that's his values. That's his goals. That's what he wants to do. And hopefully he'll be really, really good at that. And he'll be incredibly successful at it materially in every other sense. But that's what you pursue. It's really being true to yourself in a deep sense. And if you are true to yourself, yeah, you'll leave the world a better place. But that's not the essence. The essence is you. No, focus on you. Focus on making your life the best life that it can be. And if you do that, you'll make the world a better place almost by definition. You'll impact people”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You've moved the needle in a secessist should not be relative. So that goes back to secondhandedness Success is not being better than other people. Success is not being the best. Success is maximizing your potential, whatever that is. And look, I know people, I have a son who could be a really good engineer, a really good mathematician, really good scientist.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They left to build a better place, but they didn't live their potential. Or they died feeling guilty about it. A million different things. So there's so many productive people. I mean, think about all the innovators and the technologists and the businessmen who leave the world a better place by a big shot, but are never happy, never happy in their own souls, in their own life. And to me, that's what counts. And if you're going to be happy, your leaves are better world.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, to me, leaving the world a better place, yeah. I mean, that's not what drives me. What drives me is, I mean, what I think drives people, I think, just live a good life. And good life means a life you're happy living. And part of that is the impact you have on the world. But it's, you know, so many people live, wasted lives, live mediocre lives, live conventional lives. Maybe they even leave the world a better place, but they didn't really...”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, without the so I want to give a talk on who is John Gold and who is John Galt in a sense, as anybody who takes their own life seriously, anybody who's willing to really live fully their own life, use their mind in pursuit of their rational values and pursue their happiness fully, uncompromisingly with no compromise and sticking to their integrity. Anybody can be John Galton in that sense.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's not quite the same, but it's somewhat. But if you're blind and suddenly can see. Yeah. I mean, it's just stunning. And how do we form our concepts? How do we think? We have to get information from reality, right? We interact with reality through our senses, and that's how we become conceptual beings. And you deny an element of that from a human being. That is horrible.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, yeah, yeah, way, way over the top, you know, even whenever atlas shrug, I was good, nobody really talks like this. No, they do.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And they're in the engine room, and it's traveling through. And the way she's describing Dagny, and it's almost like Dagney's having sex with the machine, right? It's so powerful emotionally their success. The fact that they did it. Everybody told him it was impossible. And the train is going really fast. And that whole vibe to it, it's all about passion. It's all about success. And it's all about the success of their minds and nobody else matters.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Had fun, he really enjoyed the sex, right? But he thinks it's animalistic and he thinks it's a sign of his depravity and he thinks, and here he is, this woman he loves and he adores her. And he can't, yeah, and he can't connect the two. He can't connect the sex with the love. Is the scene where they're taking the first train ride across John Gold Bridge.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That Lilin Reed is amazingly very powerful figure. Powerful figure. And I think Reardon is too. And what I love about Riordan is his evolution, right? He's so flawed. He's a hero who's completely flawed. And it drives me nuts when people say her characters are cartoonish, they never change, there's no emotion. Really? Did you read the same book I did? Because if you take Riordan and he's struggling and he's trying to deal with Lillian and his family and all this stuff and we know family members like this, right? I mean, we're leeches and parasites, but he's excusing them because that's what he's supposed to do. And then as he evolves to fully realize what's going on, that evolution is difficult. It's hard. The scene after he has sex with Dagne, of course, he gives a speech, but the speech is such a good speech in terms of conveying his mind-body split, right? He thinks he really...”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We need to be talking about more. Absolutely, absolutely. And it's sad there are more movies that are anti Soviet, which tells you a lot about the view of the intelligentsia. It's a great idea. It just was badly implemented. And no, it's a rotten idea. It's an evil idea. And it was implemented exactly how it has to be implemented. There's no alternative.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And illustrating exactly that. The scenes in Ukraine during the famine. Oh, your heart, I mean, it just crushing. And it shifts to black and white. It's very, very well made aesthetically. So highly recommend it.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, I highly recommend the movie because it's very well done. Okay. It's very well directed. It's beautifully made. It's stunningly...”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, if you take the example of Sharia law, which was mentioned earlier, if you have a little community within my world, right, that imposes Sharia law. If it starts mutilating little girls, sure, then you impose your low on it, right? You impose the law on it because it's an issue of protecting individual rights. If they want to treat women have to cover up and the women are okay with that, that's fine. If the woman wants to leave but is not allowed to leave, that's where my government would step in and allow her, prevent them from using force against her. And that's it, right? Now, I think it's more complicated than that, right? Because I think there are complex issue property rights often where it's not going to be easy for you guys to resolve, and particularly if you interact with people outside of your community.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“All of that, there has to be a standard, and that's what I think a proper government provides. So David Friedman uses in some of his talks about private law, he uses Sharia law in Somalia as an example. Look, legal systems evolve privately, independent. Yeah, authoritarian ones, ones that don't respect the rights of women at all.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, absolutely. And circumstances matter, standards of proof and standards of evidence. All of that, there has to be consequence.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't think it happens at a market level. I don't think there's a market innovation for MODA. Somebody has to figure out what those standards are, but they will evolve as we gain more knowledge.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, what's interesting relating to this is that one of the ways Ayn Rand proposed raising revenue for the government because she was against, was let's say we have a contract. We could just have it arbitrated without government interfering. But if we wanted to access the courts of the government as a final authority, we would pay. And that's how governments would raise some of the funds would be raised that way. So this definitely value to having this innovation and the public space. But I don't believe that is the case with murder. I don't believe that is the case with violent crime. And it's funny you bring up Sharia because David Friedman, when he gives...”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Wouldn't it be wonderful if we lived in a world where rights protecting laws are superfluous? But the reality is usually that somebody violates them by accident or intentionally, and that you need some mechanism. Now, if you guys can resolve that dispute without getting involved, fine. But if you guys land up. Not resolving, there is another authority that will help you resolve it.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, a government that protects individual rights properly is a government that leaves you alone to live your life as you see fit, even if you live your life in a way that I don't approve of, that I don't think is right. I mean, that's the whole point, right? The only thing you can do is Try to enforce arbitrary laws that you come up with on me”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If they really believe in what they think, then they should be advocates for capitalism. Because under capitalism, under my system of government, capitalist government, right? They could go and start a commune. They can live in communists. They can live to each according to his needs from each according to his ability. All they want and live their pathetic, miserable lives that way. And the government would never intervene because the whole view of capitalism is freedom is we leave the way alone, right? As long as you're not violating my rights, as long as you're not taking my property, as long as you're not engaging with so in that sense, yeah, you and Lex can form your own thing. I don't believe in compulsory taxes anyway. So you and Lex can do your own thing, never pay taxes. As long as you're not violing the laws and the laws are very limited, right? Because they're only there to protect individuals. So as long as you're not violating somebody else's property rights or inflicting force on anybody else, you're peaceful. You can do what you want.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He's so good at needling and getting you off topic that way. He's really effective at it. I always say when I debate communists, I always say to them, you mean Yeah, maybe Lex. Maybe I should do that. Comrade, I love you. That if they really believe.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Sure. That's all I'm saying. Sure. And I think other people confronted her with the ideas of anarchy. I don't think Rothbard was the only one. Correct, Reich Charles as well. Yeah, Reich Charles certainly did. And she rejected them and she rejected them because she had, and whether you agree with her or not, she had a thought out position about why you needed to have this particular structure in place so that markets and human freedom could exist.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To establish real freedom and the way she defines freedom, which is very different than Rothbard, and the way she defines government, to say then that her opposition to anarchy is because of, I think, is just an arbitrary statement. And I don't see why psychology would enter it. Now, maybe the tone in which he responded to an answer might have been motivated by that, something like that, but given the amount of thought she gave to the role of government in human society and why government was needed and why you needed laws in order to be free that freedom didn't proceed. You needed a right hierarchy. Given at least the respect that this was... She might have been wrong, right? But she had a particular theory that rejected anarchy. And the thought anarchy was wrong.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't think any of her grudges entered into philosophical statements, at least not that I can tell. And I don't see, and given the centrality Ayn Rand gave, and to the role of government, to the existence of government, to the need for government.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's as silly as to say Rothbard came up with his theory of anarchy because he was pissed off at Ayn Rand and wanted to write something. I don't know.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Emotions of violence. He throws me off with this stuff. That's the problem. He's very, very good. No facts are truth. Distortions and arbitrary statements because your statement about Rothbard is an arbitrary statement that has no cognitive standing. And therefore, I can dismiss it. So I'm not doing like this because I want to cognitive status distract. The fact that she disliked Rothbard doesn't mean that everything he said she was going to dismiss because she disliked it.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If it's England and the United States, it's probably not going to matter that much, right? But if it's Iran and the United States, then the factor we're sitting next to each other makes a huge difference. Massive difference, and the fact is that, and Ayn Rand, I think, would be the first acknowledged, and this is why she was so opposed to anarchy.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The governing authority is other legal systems in England and the United States, which have to be synchronized pretty well”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source