In the time it took me to watch 24 of your vids, I saw your subscribers go from 377,777 to 377,985. Thank you for doing these. Thank you for bringing my faith back in the internet that wants to learn.
This is basically what my past year (or something like that) has been about. I'm very, very good at justifying things to myself and others, I can easily convince people that I know exactly what's going on and that I've thought about my choices very well. When you get down to it, though, a lot of my choices are intuitive. I reason things away and I become a very convincing, fake person. I act like the person I think I should be, not the one I am. But I value honesty very much and I'm very interested in knowing who I really am. I often notice it when I justify my feelings now and I go looking for the real reason, only then things become incessantly vague. I get now why people don't normally do that. My days have become long threads of trying to be honest with myself and I try to call myself on it when I'm not. I'm partly so proud that I can do that but it's not something that has got a finish line, and it's also kind of a restless state of being. I'm not sure it will make me more honest in general, though I hope it will, and so often there are things without a real reason and I get stuck trying to figure one out. Well whatever this is sort of mind vomit. Thanks for reading anyway :)
i didn't try very hard in school either and i got around very well. i also joked about the teacher thing. Now in university i feel like i lost that ability to enjoy my work and not fret too much about it. now its a constant fight and i want my relaxed and enthusiastic self back.
It's funny. I had this as "master arguer" in the script, but it was too hard to say, so I went with a hard-consonant word instead. Little did I know...
3:29 Actually, I've mostly observed the opposite effect in my life. I often find that, when my gut feeling pulls me one way, the "logical" part of my mind will start arguing for the other side, at least until my gut feeling changes, at which point it switches sides. Maybe its an aversion that I have to going with intuition, which is, in fact, its own kind of intuition - in other words, a gut feeling against going with gut feelings. Of course, this has only really happened with "big" decisions, which I tend to think about a lot, so the hundreds of tiny decisions I make every day, and hardly even notice, are probably still ruled by intuition.
Nerdwriter, I hope you can produce more videos more often. I really enjoy them and find a lot of them to be really thought provoking. But I will continue rewatching older videos in the mean time
I'm always glad to see that you aren't afraid to talk about real things. I think a lot of people tend to talk about the trivial, but you seem to be able to walk the line of discussing both trivial and more "real" subjects.
thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! You have basically summarized my philosophy of life in one youtube video. And yes, reading Plato when I was young got me started I think. People always said I was likable because, like you, I found it was easy to adapt my interactions with different people to work positively with them. I was happy, and so were they.
I had this... Acquaintance who did the exactly same as described in the beginning - dissuaded me from consecutive schools I was going to attend. He went even further on, bragging, how difficult it was for him to adapt, being such a "bright student". Needless to say, this is the kind of people pertaining a static worldview, scared of changes.
Whenever I see a new Vlog in my feed, I pull it up immediately and am always stunned there's >10,000 views. I promise you attention will come if you keep doing these.
I would disagree that people are reality. I think there's a bit more than us, there is that which is external to humanity (the entire physical world). Even the concept of reality implies that it is at the very least, external to the individual. Our perception of reality perhaps is fluid, and peoples thoughts certainly are; beyond that though, I would say there is external abstract, yet constant truth (simply, that truth which is not empirical).
I agree that the vast share of human interactions *are* driven by intuition justified ever-so-quickly after the fact by "reason". However, I think the thoughtful student of life, works through reason, to ever-hone those intuitions and root out flaws in the model that drives those intuitions. This is the root of wisdom...reality is fluid but there is a predictability to it if. If you've spent your life figuring out those patterns, you're going to respond better than someone who hasn't.
Although we would all love to count ourselves in the first party, that is to have people hate us for pursuing truth, I can honestly say I live out the other. There are parts of me I hide and others I reveal to keep my reputation in tact. We all do. It's humanity's great game of hide and seek truth.
I've thought about this, but from a different perspective. People are trapped in their own minds. When you are a baby you don't even consider there might be other minds out there. Eventually we learn the physical reality is constant, more or less, but social reality is much more flexible because other minds carry different realities. Also, I believe some people are more easily manipulated and some more independent. I'm sure some kids would get eaten up by their anxiety of a harder world!
I think if you started a book club that would be awesome. I find it is a great way to connect with your audience and I would love to read quality books alongside you
I appreciate your inclusion of Johnathan Haidt's work. While I have loved your video essays over the years even though I could sense that we were politically opposed, I've always appreciated your willingness to give the other side a fair shake. I would love to see you make a video expounding on Haidt's research on the differences between the intuitive moral sentiments of Democrats, Republicans, and Librarians, respectively-and what these differences mean for the future of US politics.
haha come on man, you're both giftet and smarter than the average person (and probably work harder too at this point), this is why you didn't need to work hard throughout your school life. but I get your drift though.
Since you recommend a lot of books you should create an Amazon affiliate account and post links to it in your videos, that'd encourage people to actually take action and buy the books you recommend that interest them and you'd get a small percentage of it.
i know it sounds weird but i am so taken aback with this because I have subconsciously noticed all of this too but I never really put it into thought...? if u get what I mean? and the moment I watched the video I realized this is what that feeling was
just because people are inconsistent does not mean that reality is. Reality is an absolute, and so are the laws of nature. F=ma is not up to human convention. It is an absolute.
yeah you instantly go against someone when they say you're wrong, but the rational person argues for their case. And when the arguments are out in the open, they are open to objective testing. Are the premise's true or false? Do they reach their conclusion with no logical errors? Postmodernists make a mountain out of a molehill with regards to objectivity.
Reality is fluid, people are only a part of that reality. Perhaps the dominating part of reality is yourself. As Kierkegaard argued "Self is a relation that relates itself to itself." Would you think Evan that the ability to 'haggle' with yourself, possess high level of self efficacy that, the ability to change your own perception, that that would be the way to get the most out of life?
Great video once again, I'm in what would be senior year in the US and the whole 'next year will be harder' thing has been said to me many times in many ways, I haven't experienced this in a similar way to that of which you have described. I was wondering why you think that people say this, do they think its simply true or is a retrospective analysis when you have more 'years' to compare other 'years' with make you more inclined to say this?
What do the rules of society and our own perceptions have to do with reality? Our perceptions of reality are not the same as the actual reality, nor can they ever be. The reality is not fluid, but our perceptions and rules and the way we think, are.
How do you know reality is not fluid? The only way we have to perceive it is through our five senses, which are easily fooled. We can only see reality through the distorted lens of our minds, even while observing scientific data.
@jrh2957 Have you watched the video? The video is framed that way. It doesn't claim that reality is actually fluid,, but that for all effects and purposes(regarding humans, of course),, it is.
i watch all your videos and i like the little details, like Gloucon resting his arm on plato's shoulder. I have to ask, Do you have another Novella in the works becasue Big City was great!
This seems less "Reality Is Fluid" and more "How To Be An Effective Machiavellian". "I learned what the teachers, the grade-givers wanted" "The manipulation of people is the manipulation of reality"
Hello :D I just dropped by to say you have very insightful and philosophical videos. I was just wondering if you could explain more in depth about studying the teacher? Much thanks!
I'd certainly prefer to be vile and cruel and appear good and just rather than the alternative...because, if everyone in the world perceived you as a saint, such you become. Yet, realistically, such philosophising ignores reality. There is no way cruelty towards everyone would be praised, universally. That is not the way the world works. Not everyone perceives the world the same, so there can be no universal mandate on this issue. Cruelty is frowned upon, and is thus avoided by the good citizen.
What about the cost that our mind pays in order to be a liar. Isn't that important too. Doesn't that factor into the equation ? Keating, in the fountainhead comes to mind. Yeah, sure he is socially successful but at the cost of his happiness. Like Macbeth, won't we kill sleep ?
Manipulation doesn't always harm people if you are manipulating someone to help someone, something for the better and your heart is in the right place. Manipulation, denotatively is a neutral word. Only in connotation with society today is it negative. No?
In the time it took me to watch 24 of your vids, I saw your subscribers go from 377,777 to 377,985. Thank you for doing these. Thank you for bringing my faith back in the internet that wants to learn.
This is basically what my past year (or something like that) has been about. I'm very, very good at justifying things to myself and others, I can easily convince people that I know exactly what's going on and that I've thought about my choices very well. When you get down to it, though, a lot of my choices are intuitive. I reason things away and I become a very convincing, fake person. I act like the person I think I should be, not the one I am. But I value honesty very much and I'm very interested in knowing who I really am. I often notice it when I justify my feelings now and I go looking for the real reason, only then things become incessantly vague. I get now why people don't normally do that. My days have become long threads of trying to be honest with myself and I try to call myself on it when I'm not. I'm partly so proud that I can do that but it's not something that has got a finish line, and it's also kind of a restless state of being. I'm not sure it will make me more honest in general, though I hope it will, and so often there are things without a real reason and I get stuck trying to figure one out. Well whatever this is sort of mind vomit. Thanks for reading anyway :)
And do you know what harms people... manipulation... SUBSCRIBE
i didn't try very hard in school either and i got around very well. i also joked about the teacher thing. Now in university i feel like i lost that ability to enjoy my work and not fret too much about it. now its a constant fight and i want my relaxed and enthusiastic self back.
It's funny. I had this as "master arguer" in the script, but it was too hard to say, so I went with a hard-consonant word instead. Little did I know...
3:29
Actually, I've mostly observed the opposite effect in my life. I often find that, when my gut feeling pulls me one way, the "logical" part of my mind will start arguing for the other side, at least until my gut feeling changes, at which point it switches sides. Maybe its an aversion that I have to going with intuition, which is, in fact, its own kind of intuition - in other words, a gut feeling against going with gut feelings.
Of course, this has only really happened with "big" decisions, which I tend to think about a lot, so the hundreds of tiny decisions I make every day, and hardly even notice, are probably still ruled by intuition.
"...like a good little bitch..." I'M SCREAMING I STARTED CHOKING ON MY PEPSI I CAN'T
Lol that was funny
Beth Lenz you might've choked because you were drinking a Pepsi.
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this is honestly the best channel i am subscribed to right now, honestly
03:03 well that was unexpected haha xD
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Nerdwriter, I hope you can produce more videos more often. I really enjoy them and find a lot of them to be really thought provoking. But I will continue rewatching older videos in the mean time
I think during middle and high school, I was psychoanalyzing, like, myself, instead of my teachers.
I'm always glad to see that you aren't afraid to talk about real things. I think a lot of people tend to talk about the trivial, but you seem to be able to walk the line of discussing both trivial and more "real" subjects.
This guy is smart as fuck what the fuck
thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! You have basically summarized my philosophy of life in one youtube video. And yes, reading Plato when I was young got me started I think. People always said I was likable because, like you, I found it was easy to adapt my interactions with different people to work positively with them. I was happy, and so were they.
this was a deeply insightful theme to reflect on; without break, you entice and impress your audience more and more. thanks for the wonderful vlog!
What is play-dough republic? Sounds fun!
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I had this... Acquaintance who did the exactly same as described in the beginning - dissuaded me from consecutive schools I was going to attend. He went even further on, bragging, how difficult it was for him to adapt, being such a "bright student".
Needless to say, this is the kind of people pertaining a static worldview, scared of changes.
1) I love you.
2) I'd love you more if you started including the transcripts for your videos in the description.
3) Thank you for existing.
Whenever I see a new Vlog in my feed, I pull it up immediately and am always stunned there's >10,000 views. I promise you attention will come if you keep doing these.
I got through school the exact same way. Watching your videos seem to justify my life. Freaking awesome man.
i always get so excited whenever i see your new videos in my feed :)
I would disagree that people are reality. I think there's a bit more than us, there is that which is external to humanity (the entire physical world). Even the concept of reality implies that it is at the very least, external to the individual. Our perception of reality perhaps is fluid, and peoples thoughts certainly are; beyond that though, I would say there is external abstract, yet constant truth (simply, that truth which is not empirical).
2 points. For the full 10 points you have to guess the album name.
Your videos make my week better. A lot better. Never stop. Please.
Greetings from Ireland! Big fan of your channel, one of few we check actively for new content. Keep it up man, you're on to a winner!
I look forward to your videos every week. Thank you.
Evan, I read your book. I just wanted to tell you how much I loved it, it was amazing.
Your eloquence brings pleasure to my ears. Thank you.
i'm always blown away by the quality of your vlogs! keep up the great work :)
*"Socrates is a master-debater..."*
Did anyone else get that joke?
My god🤣
fellow philadelphian here
I agree that the vast share of human interactions *are* driven by intuition justified ever-so-quickly after the fact by "reason". However, I think the thoughtful student of life, works through reason, to ever-hone those intuitions and root out flaws in the model that drives those intuitions. This is the root of wisdom...reality is fluid but there is a predictability to it if. If you've spent your life figuring out those patterns, you're going to respond better than someone who hasn't.
You seem pretty well educated to me. And I agree with your final conclusion, which I would put this way: we are born with empathy.
Although we would all love to count ourselves in the first party, that is to have people hate us for pursuing truth, I can honestly say I live out the other. There are parts of me I hide and others I reveal to keep my reputation in tact. We all do. It's humanity's great game of hide and seek truth.
I've thought about this, but from a different perspective. People are trapped in their own minds. When you are a baby you don't even consider there might be other minds out there. Eventually we learn the physical reality is constant, more or less, but social reality is much more flexible because other minds carry different realities. Also, I believe some people are more easily manipulated and some more independent. I'm sure some kids would get eaten up by their anxiety of a harder world!
I loved this! One of my favorite videos to date.
Great vlog.. Seems very aligned with Confirmation Biases.
I think if you started a book club that would be awesome. I find it is a great way to connect with your audience and I would love to read quality books alongside you
I appreciate your inclusion of Johnathan Haidt's work. While I have loved your video essays over the years even though I could sense that we were politically opposed, I've always appreciated your willingness to give the other side a fair shake. I would love to see you make a video expounding on Haidt's research on the differences between the intuitive moral sentiments of Democrats, Republicans, and Librarians, respectively-and what these differences mean for the future of US politics.
love your videos. subscribed to youTube just because of this series!
will probably pick that book up once it gets released in paperback (here in Canada)
Glaucon had America pinned. But not all reality.
10 points!
How was your pure maths? Interested to see how you analysed the teacher to get better grades in a calculus exam
Answering for the teacher this is the thing that made me pass all my grades...
And you can have your free time...
Nota mental: realidad basada en las interrelaciones personales = Percepción temporal diferentes en Poblaciones con distintas lengua nativa.
You should read Gladwelll: Outliers, Blink etc. great introspective look on the why.
haha come on man, you're both giftet and smarter than the average person (and probably work harder too at this point), this is why you didn't need to work hard throughout your school life. but I get your drift though.
"Glaucon, like a good little bitch..." is by far be the greatest line
Also, Plato wrote the book and liked Socrates so he just made it that everyone else ended up acknowledged how great Socrates was.
Since you recommend a lot of books you should create an Amazon affiliate account and post links to it in your videos, that'd encourage people to actually take action and buy the books you recommend that interest them and you'd get a small percentage of it.
i know it sounds weird but i am so taken aback with this because I have subconsciously noticed all of this too but I never really put it into thought...? if u get what I mean? and the moment I watched the video I realized this is what that feeling was
LOVE THIS!
All my reasoning goes toward vindicating my procrastination.
just because people are inconsistent does not mean that reality is. Reality is an absolute, and so are the laws of nature. F=ma is not up to human convention. It is an absolute.
Howcome every bloody time I click pause an ad pops up? This is too much youtube!
Awesome vids.....keep them coming!
Damn, I wish I saw this while I was still in high school.
The first part about them being wrong is a similarity that I, but I AM gifted...
yeah you instantly go against someone when they say you're wrong, but the rational person argues for their case. And when the arguments are out in the open, they are open to objective testing. Are the premise's true or false? Do they reach their conclusion with no logical errors? Postmodernists make a mountain out of a molehill with regards to objectivity.
Watched this video quite a few times annndddd just now noticed the "like a good little bitch" line lol
i really enjoy your videos. have you ever considered a podcast? i think you have a very unique perspective and 5 minutes is simply a tease.
If reality and truth is fluid.
Then reality can die I walk on its corpse.
Reality is fluid, people are only a part of that reality. Perhaps the dominating part of reality is yourself. As Kierkegaard argued "Self is a relation that relates itself to itself." Would you think Evan that the ability to 'haggle' with yourself, possess high level of self efficacy that, the ability to change your own perception, that that would be the way to get the most out of life?
Really eye opening, thanks
Great video, although I'd dispute that definition of reality.
Really enjoyed it. Great info
Go Suns! I don't know if I can finish the video.
Fantastic video.
Great video once again, I'm in what would be senior year in the US and the whole 'next year will be harder' thing has been said to me many times in many ways, I haven't experienced this in a similar way to that of which you have described. I was wondering why you think that people say this, do they think its simply true or is a retrospective analysis when you have more 'years' to compare other 'years' with make you more inclined to say this?
What do the rules of society and our own perceptions have to do with reality? Our perceptions of reality are not the same as the actual reality, nor can they ever be. The reality is not fluid, but our perceptions and rules and the way we think, are.
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He never really differentiated it, but I'd think for the sake of the message he was trying to give it's a good foundation.
How do you know reality is not fluid? The only way we have to perceive it is through our five senses, which are easily fooled. We can only see reality through the distorted lens of our minds, even while observing scientific data.
Meraxes we have not witnessed laws of physics change yet.
People are also meant to settle.
@jrh2957 Have you watched the video? The video is framed that way. It doesn't claim that reality is actually fluid,, but that for all effects and purposes(regarding humans, of course),, it is.
bro ur good, want to hear about ur undergrad/postgrad to see how u became u. Fan
Watson: What are American high schools?
Sherlock: Elementary, my dear Watson.
Dude, you are awesome.
Is it disadvantageous then to train yourself to sniff out the harbingers of prejudice and become adept at truth seeking?
i watch all your videos and i like the little details, like Gloucon resting his arm on plato's shoulder. I have to ask, Do you have another Novella in the works becasue Big City was great!
Should we fight against this rationality ? This video gave closure aswell as open up a list of unanswered questions : (
Love ur vids dude
You really seem to be hitting a good stride with these last few vlogs, keep up the good work man
also what songs do you use in the background?
Thanks, had a similar thought, did a random google search and found your youtube channel
wow, you're so much better at this kind of thinking than my philosophy professor. Can you just come teach my class?
I think Loki said it best; Humans are made to be ruled.
This seems less "Reality Is Fluid" and more "How To Be An Effective Machiavellian".
"I learned what the teachers, the grade-givers wanted"
"The manipulation of people is the manipulation of reality"
Hello :D
I just dropped by to say you have very insightful and philosophical videos.
I was just wondering if you could explain more in depth about studying the teacher?
Much thanks!
love the record
3:10 I had to play back to make sure I didn't hear what I thought I did XD
I'd certainly prefer to be vile and cruel and appear good and just rather than the alternative...because, if everyone in the world perceived you as a saint, such you become. Yet, realistically, such philosophising ignores reality. There is no way cruelty towards everyone would be praised, universally. That is not the way the world works. Not everyone perceives the world the same, so there can be no universal mandate on this issue. Cruelty is frowned upon, and is thus avoided by the good citizen.
You are very wise, and wordy =)
i know this was an amazing video when i'm left utterly confused
There is one author I know of who has defined an exceptional moral principle, and her name is Ayn Rand. Look her up.
What about the cost that our mind pays in order to be a liar. Isn't that important too. Doesn't that factor into the equation ? Keating, in the fountainhead comes to mind. Yeah, sure he is socially successful but at the cost of his happiness. Like Macbeth, won't we kill sleep ?
great stuff.
You are a gift to us from God 👌🏻♥️
AWESOME VIDEO
Manipulation doesn't always harm people if you are manipulating someone to help someone, something for the better and your heart is in the right place. Manipulation, denotatively is a neutral word. Only in connotation with society today is it negative. No?
03:02 lmao!