Viktor Frankl: Youngsters need challenges
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- "Instead of ideals and challenges, young people are being pampered" - and have to deal with the consequences. In 1979 Viktor Frankl discusses the psychological dangers of under-challenge and reductionistic indoctrination on U.S. campuses.
"Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until they are 75"
This is very true.
I'd go so far as to say LOTS of people.
@@SJM6791 🥺
"I was 10 years old when I was born
I was 20 when I died
At 30 I realized I had died
When I was 40, I knew I was dead
I was 50 years old when I began to hold my funeral speech
At 60 I was a renowned speaker
With 70 years I spoke about life
With 80 I spoke of love
At 90 I speak about the future
With 100 years I let myself rejuvenate."
Lyrics: Joe Zawinul ! Song: Success (listen here on yt !) GREAT ballad . . .
Jesus said, “Let the dead bury the dead.” I think that’s what he meant.
I red his book in prison, saved my life.
Which book..b.t.w..read**
dassuccessismyshadow, “Man’s search for meaning”
@@SergeyOboroc The compelling part was his description of going through the prison camp and his conclusions on the meaning of life that he developed as a result. What gives life meaning are love, work and handling life's inevitable suffering with dignity (which some adapt to their own experience as "making one's own choices.") It is one of the best things I have read.
I'm listening to the audiobook on TH-cam as I cannot get hold of the book. It's getting me through the Coronavirus quarantine.
I'm a simple man. I read a person has been in prison, I upvote.
"[Young] people today, they are not over-demanded, they are under-demanded!" Well, this was certainly true of my school days taking place at that time. In high school I got passing grades I didn't quite earn because I was articulate and could show that I'd picked up 60-70% of the required ideas through class discussion but I never did any work.
While this was good for me in one sense because I had ADD and they didn't know how to deal effectively with that at the time, on the other hand, it was enervating as well. I didn't go to my high school graduation ceremony in part because I didn't feel I'd earned it.
Today's kids are in the opposite predicament: they are way over-worked but the work isn't usually imbued with meaning for them. Having a demanding environment isn't enough in and of itself.
UNRELATED POINT: Talk shows used to be about intelligent conversation. Even on commercial stations. I miss that.
His philosophy is so great that he is against both educational methods.
People in the West live so free they creat hurdles and problems just to feel a feeling of victory to overcome them.
These people are easily used as meat-tools for those who want Identity-Politics or other agendas, because identity is the easiest tool to talk about for uneducated people because they think it’s skin-deep and they think they speak for a lot without knowing they only speak for themselves.
Overcome racism where there is no real racism (go to Africa, tribes get executed by other tribes for merely existing, they’ve been at war for hundreds of years), overcome government oppression (really in the West? Where citizens that escaped authoritarian nations run to? Oppressed, really? Go to China.)
This is it what I was thinking by own perspective, we dont have challenges in life anymore, there is no survival, because we left any harmful to justify our needs for survival, so it made up the base of modern society, ever wondered why childs always make stupid things what parents deny to them, why peoples going towards whats not right?
Our consumerist society wants us pacified, asleep, in debt, in fear, consuming, not questioning - so we are alienated from our true selves, taking the lazy route out. Medicated, depressed, dependent, addicted. And all for what? Cos we don't want stress, and to challenge ourselves, cos we fear failure. Failure, is doing nothing. Trying will always free you and teach you more. Seek out challenges and endure suffering. You will be reborn.
I DID so mate ! And you know what: The meaning of my life utterly exploded ! (I do very satisfying fine arts now)
In my view point, I fear consciousness with all their weight, doesn’t let me think Clarify, I am always stuck in the past and the future. My shadow scares me, I can be the devil himself. Most of the time I prefer to take my fucking pill.
Like someone else already pointed out, title is misrepresenting Frankl's message here. Youngsters are not spoiled, they are deprived. Malnourishment of the soul.
It’s not misrepresenting at all
Deprived because they feel the world owes them something because they are spoiled.
@@margaretmcgarry7796 Yes it is, in the classical Frankl sense of a call to action. The title of this video is just that of an observer and spectator. On the other hand, what Frankl is alluding to, id STOP SPOILING THE CHILDREN. It's easy to frame the title in a way that takes responsibility away from those that created the conditions for the problem in the first place isn't it?
@@Kyoto99952 Right and wrong. Frankl is not blaming the children for being spoilt like the title tries to allude to, He is saying.."STOP CREATING CONDITIONS THAT SPOIL THE CHILDREN AND ACTUALLY CREATE ENVIRONMENTS OF GROWTH AND CHALLENGE"
Emil,
youngsters are SPOILED with MATERIALISM - NO one can’t Deny THAT 🤦♀️
This man has transcended much of life’s suffering. Without meaning is a first step into confusion & even depression. Victor is a deep thinker. We’d do well to listen.
Wow, he expresses my thoughts on modern living so well. People are under-demanded
🙌 👏 🙏 🤝 👍-> underchallenged -> overchallenged. . . a mad bad sad society with 2 utterly extremes and almost n o t h i n g in between . . . can such a "society" survive ? What do you think my friends ?
@@seyfert8820 No easy job to do ! I think we are an utterly dualistic (insane) society without a broad range of skills. I mean, many folks only have 1 job their whole life, and more than 85 % HATE their jobs ! And with HATE in your sensitive body & mind, you absolutely CAN´T LOVE ! That´s why we are in such a mess . . . so we desperately need communities, where the folks are constantly in a VERY positive FLOW (sic!) . . . . well, now . . . . for a real broadening up, I recommend for you tor read books of -> Vic Frankl, Eric Fromm, Mihaly Cszikszentmihalyi (Flow !) Maslow, Osho, Nietzsche, Jan Willem van de Wetering (ZEN !) and Robert Anton Wilson. You won´t regret that mate !
Very serious talk really. True respect for this man . He identified an existential crisis occurring especially in young people 40-50 years ago. Just imagine what might be the condition today ,it's shocking even to imagine
I was thinking the same about nowadays. It’s much much worse today.
This is so good. "Man cannot stand a meaningless existence." CG Jung Of the 3 Viennese examples of Freud's Pleasure Principe, Adler's Power Principal and Victor's "Will to Meaning" principal...all are important but I think Frankl's is central. It has more in common with Jung. Jung's concept of individuation (as far as I understand it) is largely based upon seeking meaning and wholeness and the discovering the myth of one's unique life. Not to parrot another life but discover your own true self, integrating elements of your unsavory parts of your own unconscious and ,if you are a man, integrating the feminine (anima). Conversely, if you are a woman, integrating the masculine (animus). Also follows Lao Tzu's "Tao" middle way system balancing the yin and the yang navigating the middle pass between the twin peaks of danger and opportunity. Cosmic universal timeless principals that are not bound by space and time. God Bless Victor Frankl. May his soul rest in eternal peace.
I liked the intersexes integration concepts: a man without nurturing and kind traits is just a selfish animal; a woman who doesn't control herself emotionally, is just a repulsive human being.. (Is that what you meant?)
Very interesting...I find these psychiatrists in a way give a western translation to concepts that have always been known in the east (and were known to ancient Greek until Plato and Aristotle kinda distracted attention from Parmenides and Heraklitos)...basically, the principle of non-dualism (advaita vedanta) in the ancient Indian Vedas, and the Tao in China....if you listen for example to Alan Watts, I feel you find a more compelling, purely spiritual but funnily so more practical way of explaining WHY there is this "will to meaning" and this unconscious need to integrate and go beyond duality (masculine feminine, but also positive/negative, and most importantly ego vs rest of the world). If you realize that we are all God, that the soul (atma) is the same as the Universal Consciousness/God/Universe (Bhraman)...then all is crystal clear (but of course, it's not by reading or listening to this universal truth that it sinks in...it sinks in only by EXPERIENCING, by feeling it). God bless you all.
@@ManuelCocco Beautiful commentary. You are on to something. In many ways Eastern patterns of being are well advanced down the path.
Brilliant take on the intersection of those Philosophies! I could not have said it better. Thanks for sharing your insight.
Hey, that's the philosophy of Winnie the Pooh!
1.16 "The un-heard cry for meaning: You scarcely will find any reference to what is the most fundamental and basic concern of man: neither pleasure nor happiness, nor power or prestige, but originally and basically his wish, his desire, to find and fulfill a meaning in his life, or for that matter, in each single life situation confronting him. And if there is a meaning to fulfill, if he is aware, if he becomes cognoscente of such a meaning, then he is ready to suffer sacrifices, he is ready to undergo tensions, stress and so forth, without any harm being done to his health. But if there is no meaning available, if there is no meaning available in his visual field, then he takes his life."
his first three books ( culminating with logo therapy, theory and practice ) are life changing. his life story is profound.
"its not how you plan. Its how you take action with in time "
Man who find a light in deepest and darkest time. Listening to him help me adjust my life. Now we find ourself in disparity and mental breakdown. It's crucial for us to stay positive. So, Folks Stay strong and Stay positive.
This answers everything. This answer why I feel amazing working for 10 hours straight, and in weekends my depression kicks back. Nobody has asked me or my friends to do demanding stuff, they told us the most destructive phrase we could hear “do what you want”. And know we are waisting our lives with gap years and studying things we will never use
The problem is, that the standard-family is doomed. So we´re all desperately craving for o t h e r, alternative, new, fresh meanings in our life . . .
Forgot this one : I wish you all the best Diana for the future !!!
Does this here ring a bell for you:
"I wanted milk from my mother's breast and only got the bottle.
I wanted loving, tender parents and was only ever given toys.
I wanted to talk and was only given a book.
I wanted to think for myself and was only given foreign "knowledge".
I wanted genuine happiness and got crude money instead.
I wanted wonderful, fulfilling love and all I got was morality.
I wanted freedom and all I got was a car - as an incentive to work.
I wanted deep meaning and got a career.
I wanted more time and got just one more job.
I wanted real friends and got social media.
I wanted real communication and got a cell phone
I wanted a dear girlfriend and got a calculating bitch
I wanted hope and got fear.
I just want to live so right!"
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"I wanted milk from my mother's breast and only got the bottle.
I wanted loving, tender parents and was only ever given toys.
I wanted to talk and was only given a book.
I wanted to think for myself and was only given foreign "knowledge".
I wanted genuine happiness and got crude money instead.
I wanted wonderful, fulfilling love and all I got was morality.
I wanted freedom and all I got was a car - as an incentive to work.
I wanted deep meaning and got a career.
I wanted more time and got just one more job.
I wanted real friends and got social media.
I wanted real communication and got a cell phone
I wanted a dear girlfriend and got a calculating bitch
I wanted hope and got fear.
I just want to live so right!"
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Lights joint. Enjoys life
"We are living in a society"
- Viktor Frankl
I caught that too lmao.
This man’s foresight so long ago regarding pampered youth is astonishing! He is talking about 2023!
Wow this is needed watching for young and old in our world today. I have suffered from depression throughout my life and Victor's words of wisdom to get through my life. Thank you Victor.
People need to hear this today!
Same goes for older people in retirement years. I find sitting around doing nothing, not working, and even pursuing pleasure completely meaningless and unfulfilling. And yet I seem to be in the extreme minority with that mentality.
To find the meaning of life, an individual must have purpose. Modern Society or even the educational institutions does not cater to guiding people towards finding a purpose.
This is wild. He said life is more stressful now than it was in Auschwitz. I am sure he could never imagine it would get so bad in current modern day society
unbelievable . . .
Big citys are just concentration camps in disguise, thats why they want 15 minute citys now, and end ALL physical money. sugar coated concentration camps. slavery.
@@badtuber1654 - . . . . so utterly true mate. The FIRST appearance of a city, where people "live" above and below each other (stress of severe density !!) should´ve been a CLEARLY sign od severe OVERpopulation ! Even the Hopi andes the Swiss only have 2 floors : Below are the youngsters, and above the (silent!) silver agers -> no stress at all !
@@AL_THOMAS_777 Before citys ppl all lived in the country in nature and space.. they traded that for living in a small cubicle, full of sound and factory polution near a poor paying job, to buy useless things. like TV's. To further indoctrinate them into corporate slaves.
I didn’t like that comparison with Auschwitz… would someone in Auschwitz wish that other people (like modern youngsters) experience something similar?
The Auschwitz should never be repeated and this has to be the primary goal of the humanity of all the consequent times
Wow! The notion of challenge and difficulty for meaning is counterintuitive but so true. This notion will change my life. I will now go through as many challenges willfully because I know that it creates happiness in the long term.
All so true. Necessity is the mother of invention. It doesn't help to have everything at your fingertips.
Your comment don't make sense
Plato rules.
This is such an important message. Thank you for sharing!
I seen the true tear and emotion in sir hounrable victors eyes while he was speaking most fundamental basic need meaning in life
Every one should read Frankles book Man’s search of meaning ! Thank you for sharing this interview with us .
Lovely Man....So Wise and have golden concepts.....
1:51 I agree. For Man a Meaning is most important. Hence generally most men(from civilized cultured societies) reform and become responsible mostly right after having the first child.
This is also the reason men join military or navy. Where they receive martial training and are challenged and given purposes through rise in ranks, also receive free medical care if they get injured.
And this is also the reason, why unemployed commit SLOWLY (sic !) suicide . . .
*_0:17_**_ We are living in a society_*
Serenity Now!
Man, Seinfeld is a goldmine
The meme
Brilliant man. I have to reread his book after watching this.
And let me you if you want to be with me.. 😂😂😂😂😂
I read his book when I was in the concentration camps. Saved my life.
How? How? How? He wrote the book after WW2.
@@fullmetaltheorist I meant the camps in the 1800's.
Hold up
fully agree suffering and repressions make individuals and nations strong ,we balochs are having firsthand experience of this.
I must say, i felt deceived by the title of this video clip. Not in one message of the whole dialogue did Frankl say the younger generation is spoilled, however they feel an existencial vacuum of not being challanged enough because people are too afraid to challenge them. A more appropriate title would perhaps be the youth feel existencial vacuum or something in that context.none the less, thank you for posting this clip!
At the end of the video he speaks about the youth
He said they are pampered. Semantics.
The problems of 'Helicopter parents', and single parents or both of 'em working, where children 'raise themselves', often in digital cocoons, probably don't help either. Then by the time they're old enough to find a job or have some 'goals', they have no patience with the 'Real World' to begin with. There's a good reason why there's a ton of books on 'How To Manage Millennials'.
„Случајно" пронашао твој коментар овде.. Јел би ми мало детаљније појаснила тај вакуум у младима?
хвала унапред :)
@@makimare5942 Может быть, вам просто нужно поработать над своим «английским» ;-p
“ The Courage To Be” by Tillich.
Of course there are places in this world where young people are challenged to the opposite extreme. Take South-Korea, where teenage and young adult suicide numbers are staggering because of the academic challenges and social pressures these teenagers are placed under.. Of course you gotta have challenges, but the challenge has to be meaningful. towards something tangible. you gotta understand what for your are being challenged. if the challenge comes with the system your born into, and exists only to uphold the system itself, then what good is it for?
It makes me sad that our children are smiling so much when young and so unhappy when they finish school. Something is wrong.
What’s not to be happy about adulthood? Every individual from 18 till death has a social obligation at threat of a gun to hand over minimum 60% of their income through taxation inorder to fund pedo drug addicted politicians and multinational corporations who build bombs……
This is a great, mind-blowing, eye-opening, and thought-provoking clip. Thank you for sharing.
Old people decided that youngsters need more challenge and now I’m can’t afford a house😂 fk them all
I agree with his views on pampered childhood.
Amazingly simple but astonishingly wise!
Hard times create strong men.
Strong men create good times.
Good times create weak men.
Weak men create hard times.
Ahem and women ;D
Living fire begets cold, impotent ash - Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
Well put! Did you make that up?
@@isaacmathews4693 It's originally from G. Michael Hopf, former US marine.
@@KidMillions Great quote!
Thank You . . .
He is spot on.
Thank you.
great message. On a lighter note, It made me remember the survivor episode of curb your enthusiasm!
"I was 10 years old when I was born
I was 20 when I died
At 30 I realized I had died
When I was 40, I knew I was dead
I was 50 years old when I began to hold my funeral speech
At 60 I was a renowned speaker
With 70 years I spoke about life
With 80 I spoke of love
At 90 I speak about the future
With 100 years I let myself rejuvenate."
Lyrics: Joe Zawinul ! Song: Success (listen here on yt !) GREAT ballad . . .
I love this man!!
Great words
Thanks
0:19-0:22 Absolutely true.
This is still so relevant today Rest in Power Viktor
🙌 👏 🙏 🤝 👍 he is a precious gem of humanity, like Nelson Mandela, brother . . .
So powerful🙏
Thats the shere power of INTELLIGENCE !
Just as relevant today!
I have learnt to be self reliant because I was for various reasons a social outcast. Materialism was only one aspect of my problems.
Great truths here!
Spot on
Excellence withers without an adversary.
without having strong ideals first, there is no way anyone can stand any serious challenges
My favourite author my favourite Book man search for meaning ❤️❤️❤️
Reading Man's search for meaning now. excellent
Strange; I had not heard of Frankl. I like him.
Now more than ever
Viktor Frankil provides the basis for the treatment of pandemic depression
Well said.
Anyway !!
Very much true becuse of parents over protectiveness towards children making them insane.
YES mate ! And much too often they are also VERY aggressive demanding perfectionists - and destroy the children further more . . .I´ve seen that especially in germany . . . and in switzerland it must be u t t e r l y mad: If you do not wash your car, you find a memo on the windscreen "WASH YOUR CAR" ! !
"People today are under-demanded, not over-demanded." lmao
notes:
- human's basic desire is his desire for meaning.
- a human w meaning is basically impenetrable. they can go through any sorts of challenges and pain if they are equipped with meaning
- no stress = no challenges = cowardice
- young people need ideals and challenges- personal examples so that they may find meaning.
People are better when they are pushed to excel.
I am unsure about this, as far as I can see stuff just happens, coincidences occur and there is no point asking for ‘Meaning’, though events may have implications which are worth thinking about.If my life has meaning I’m darned if I know what it is and I seem to get by OK
Genau!
Can someone please advise where to get those spectacle frames?
We live in a society
Isn't/can't drug addiction be considered a form of suicide?
Drugs, Overeating and any other addiction is effectively a slow suicide.
All addictions are suicide, things should be in balanced
I'm a Muslim and I liked his book his knowledge
Alot of his word was written in our Quran but I didn't see nor understand until I read his book, thanks and RIP ❤️
How is that so? In the muslim holy book there is a constant appeal to believe in some outside force, this man here have gone through hell alone and no one helped him but himself and that is the core message in his great book.
@@IN-Factory No he was a believing jew. Watch his interview with an American priest on God
You are quite right. All holy books are difficult to fathom even in our lifetime. The interpreted versions that we read can also carry the bias by the interpreter. As you have said listening to those who had actually gone thro crisis or reading them will make us understand our own holy books better.
@Abdalelah Almalki - "What the THINKER thinks, the PROVER proves. Because the human brain, like other animal brains, acts as an electro-colloidal computer, not a solid state computer, it follows the same laws as other animal brains. That is, the programs get into the brain, as electro-chemical bonds, in discrete quantum stages.'' some of these stages are: genetic imperatives, imprints, conditioning, learning.''
@@BowlerTheHatGuy "What the THINKER thinks, the PROVER proves" ABSOLUTELY ! The people only hear, what they WANT to hear !
So true my god
I will just add my bit because maybe
Worship of shiney things is modem life
I am past that phase now I live in the router
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Anyone has the link or the title of the full interview?
I have the full interview in my channel
@@Shiro642 Thanks a lot for that !
Wow. Imagine what he would say about the new generation of youngsters in the US.
That's why I don't think he's saying anything new or enlightening. He is commenting on the people who are now grandparents who criticize the youth in the same exact way. Every generation says this about the youth 🙄
Noetic Films, your titles are not relevant to the messages, but thanks for uploading
unfortunately everyone knows these messages and they have been circulating everywhere throughout time in books and videos. However, only tragic times forces the individual to make the necessary changes in order to survive. The point of life is to make it simpler overtime in order to for the future generation to have an easier time and not the other way around.
He completely missed the point. It is all about finding meaning. No matter how easy it is, will not change how one fells on the inside. For any the most easy task, need a reason to be completed. Even an easy life needs to find a reason to live. A man with a why can conquer any how.
Meaning helps you sleep at night. Makes you able to greet the sun. Meaningless. All human experience sum equals zero. Dao seems like grasping air but lets you resolve existencial quandaries by letting go of meaningless pursuits. I believe in the pursuit of science for understanding fundamentals. Knowing the mechanisms and the processes will leave you wanting.
How old are you?
We are all the same age. We started at creation.
I was very badly abused, in marriage, I could not leave my children, and this was back then, whenthe kaos did not hekp you, and then I found -Victor -Frankl
A meaning like “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori” ?
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JK, yes you are right, that’s it.
This is the title a poem by Wilfred Owen, who died in WWI at the age of 24. He was British. This poem is a must read for English poetry in most high schools and Eng. Lit 101. It’s about the senseless horrors of war. It’s a quote from Ovid, and it means : “It is sweet and proper to die for one’s nation.” Good reads.
And lets not kid ourselves that demanding for them to be exploited in some un to ideological ventures of others is particularly good or meaningful.
I understand what he is saying, but I don't think adults in society today need to impose their idea of challenge on young people. Life is challenging enough. Adults could guide youth through the process of awareness more. That children in Austria ask their teacher about suicide, being as their basic needs are met by a welfare state, is a sign of evolution and certainly not a negative byproduct of the welfare state. It's time that we rise on the hierarchy of needs and evolve into understanding and mastering our own minds. It is natural for adolescents to confuse their changing ego with death itself, but unlike indigenous cultures, we don't normalize or guide them through that process in modern society. A large percentage of people question the meaning of their participation in an economy and job market that suppresses their growth, diminishes and exploits them, reproduces and amplifies privilege, and is altogether disrespectful if not abusive. A lot has changed since this video was filmed - the Internet, Covid, anti-establishment politics that undermine the integrity of systems and truth itself. The quest for meaning remains, but the context values life and self actualization less. Those in power are often less evolved than those who serve them and their visions. And, in the US, the idea of welfare even existing is a big joke. Basically, our challenges are overwhelming, beyond hope of fixing. Much is crumbling, even though there is a lot of new being created. It's all disintegrated, and that's the stage we're in right now. Very stressful.
I admire a lot about Victor Frankl, but this thought about the youth has been there since Socrates. Ever consider that the older generation may be judgemental, envious, partly responsible for indulging the youth, unattuned and missing the boat in terms of helping the youth with their personal and critical development?
As I get older, just turned 24 lol, I definitely feel myself being envious of the youth, why do you think that is?
@@actualsnow345 Envious of a group which is jabbed 12 times til 16 ?
NEVER E V E R . . .
"The rich suffer because of their riches; the poor suffer because of their poverty".
I do not think that either prosperity or the welfare state can provide meaning in life. You can only do that for yourself.
True but there is a need for a fair society that offers all its citizens the opportunity and support needed to feel secure enough to take the opportunity to fully contribute. My understanding is that without basic social capital (which requires everyone to pay their taxes including the wealthy) this equality of opportunity cannot arise. That is why Denmark is often seen as one of the happiest countries because where you are born does not dictate the role you will plays in society whether that be an artist or a entrepreneur or a bureaucrat, whatever gives you meaning without doing harm to another you have the opportunity whether you choose to take that opportunity should be up to you.
@@JamesSmith-kt3bi I agree
SUPA'!THANKS.
BTW PhaQue ALL
He who has a why can bear almost any how ;)
100 % Frederick NIETZSCHE !!
"A new meaning of life, thats what we all need!" (F. N.)
Superhero
Evidently, Viktor's unconscious reasoning is compelling him to misidentify the cause of his problem.
Viktor isn't noticing that the holocaust was predicated on children confronted by the superstitious ideals and challenges imposed on them by the previous generation.
Viktor is hiding the social conditions that caused his identity because the social conditions that caused his identity also caused the holocaust.
Suffering as a way-of-being begins in infancy as the child learns from their parental figure's example to not respond to what people are dealing with and really care about. The child learns from their "socialized" parental figure's example to avoid a conscious focus of attention on what is actually happening. This pattern of behavior is a vicious circle passed on from generation to generation as a strategy to avoid the pain of rejection, and yet this pattern of behavior is the source of rejection.
Victor E Frankl's work provides an example of a void of a conscious look at the process by which he developed a point of view that excludes innate human interpretations, feedback, and data; And did so in reaction to the example of his parents and community.
But there are no real demands left. The major wars have been won, the lands have been conquered, religion is dead, technology already surpasses our functional needs to a level of providing entertainment, specialist fields have already been mastered.
Of course there is always more room for advancement but it is millimetres. Our crisis of meaning does not come from lack of challenge, it has come from over mastery of our environment and ourselves, to the sad conclusion that there are no real fulfilling challenges left
The crazy thing is that even that we know so much and it is a lot there is a lot we don't know. And even more stuff that we don't even know we don't know. The questions of life and universe are almost infinite yet somehow there is no more joy to seek them out for ourselves. We have just ended up becoming reliant on the pleasures of the modern consumerist world.
The reason why there were incredibly low suicide rates in Aushwitz and Dachau was that they were all the same, enduring the same fate, they were all dressed the same, equally hungry and slept in the same condition. There were no competition and no one felt they are better or worse than others so no one felt like he/she is less then others an incapable of achieving some goal. No one had sex or beautiful wife or nice house and car. No one felt special, they were all in dire conditions but they were together in the same shit.
@Hernan Cortes No
@Hernan Cortes think, don't be so superficial
@Hernan Cortes think
@Hernan Cortes narcissistic wound can be deadly
@Hernan Cortes try psychology, it won't hurt, I promise.
God
Misleading thumbnail.
Asian parents have in the meantime out students into the other extreme of putting pressure
Unless we change it ourselves nothing will change because the owners of the system need us to depend on them and be slaves.