I Interview Pete Gerlach

The Death of Reason

"People have not the ability to critically thing. People are born with the ability to critically think. People are punished for critical thinking. When you bring criticial thinking to people what you are doing is you are evoking all the punishments they received as children for true critical thinking. So if they were reaised religions, they have questions and they ask those quesitons and they are attacked and mocked and humilated and punished for having those questions. A child who is hit by a mom when the mom says dn't hit has some critical questions to ask of that mother. These are all questions that children that want to ask their parents. I know this for a fact because my daughter is continually asking me these kinds of questions. She is curious about my level of inegrity with the values I put forward. So when I say we don't use aggression to get what we want she is constantly scanning to see if I'm using aggression. She is trying to find out if I have integrity or if I'm just using rules to control her. All hypocrisy results in brutality because the hypocrisy that doesn't enforce itself through hypocrisy doesn't last." - Stefan Molyneux