It is a strong natural urge which comes with its own unthinking 'get out of any responsibility' clause. It invokes a child's feelings to remain 'special'.
@@M-S_4321A certain feeling of "specialness" might however be considered a prerequisite for doing anything which does not submit to compliance with the majority.
@@JesseP.Watson Acknowledged, but haven't all the adult authorities been telling children for the past 3 decades that they should all celebrate being special? Participation trophies homogenized normality.
@@M-S_4321 Yes, indeed they have. I suppose, well, where one ends and another begins is a difficult question. For the intelligent with a lot to offer a certain amount of elevation may be a good thing, if tempered with discipline, for the other, perhaps not. Big discussion that though. I'd say the defining point is discipline... someone who feels special and sets out to prove it with disciplined practice of this or that can grow to be a powerhouse... someone who thinks themselves special just for existing and has no route to refine skills is likely going the opposite direction. ...I just mean to say someone believing themselves special to some degree is not necessarily a negative thing... the guy who walks into a burning building to save the kid may do so in part because of that belief etc.
The solution is NOT abolishing all technology greater than fire, subsistence agriculture, bows/arrows, spears, pottery. No anarcho-primitivism, please. The solution is regaining mastery over technology, tempered by the necessary moral values and wisdom so as to (greatly) limit the damage that we do. Without industrial technology and beyond, we are doomed to die off as a one-planet species. We need a balance between our technological and our moral development.
@mirceazaharia2094 We all know the solution is to leave all Moral questions to the divine wisdom of the Church and Magesterium. Worked for over 1000 years until a fat German was worried he farted too much and wanted to shag a nun.
@@mirceazaharia2094I’m not totally on board with anarcho-primitivism, but I think the argument that the species would go extinct without industrial technology is incorrect. The species survived for hundreds of thousands of years without it, and the benefits of technology come with massive increases in systemic risk.
Yes and how ineffective Ted must've been to write this manifesto from which they're now reading. So ineffective. And don't concern yourself with technology and industrialization, the very thesis of Ted's work. He's clearly just wrong on that.
This is for all of the galactic-level smooth brains of the corpo-rats, media and government that will inevitably try to pin some blame on The Podcast Of The Lotus Eaters.
The difference between a normal, healthy person feeling inferior and these narcissists is that, ome feels humbled in the presence of someone better than them. The narcissist feels threatened
As someone who goes to high school in an all girls school full of leftists, this is true. As the stress of the final year of high school gets to some students, I've had some not very nice things said to me due to being 'smart'. Assumed it was a similar issue. They must've felt threatened despite my humble composure. Had a student who's a hard core leftist who praises politicians on the cusp of being communists tell me to 'shut the fuck up' when trying to be positive about our next test in one of our English classes, because 'you're smarter than everyone you don't get to talk'. Everyone around us looked shocked but I couldn't help but smile, she got so angry. I just laughed and told her at least my other English class appreciate and praise my smarts. She didn't like that but I felt like it. She has complained before that she's really dropped off this year. She now takes it out on other people because she's an emotional wreck.
indoctrination plays the critical role. It goes like this. Get a bunch social introverts, paraiahs, mentally ill, easy to convince people. Teenagers and Kids being the easiest: demoralize them, tell them society hates them, create an identity around them, ad then tell them they are better. Promise equality. You got your footsoldiers. Your Red Guard.
I respect the ones that actually stick with their beliefs, even if I disagree with them. The vast majority just unthinkingly parrots talking points and tows the party line to be seen as a good person and lacks meaning or purpose in the absence of religion.
I've found that the few that have true convictions are usually respectful when you talk to them and willing to have a civilized discussion. The people that repeat other's talking points meltdown when confronted with an opposing view.
I think fatherlessness plays a major role. The lack of a stronger, more capable figure who is benign, teaches and enables personal growth through early life is probably a root cause of their fear of strength and success
That is most peculiar as my father was as they say, a little to the left of Chairman Moa, having been born in WW1 and served in WW2 and seen all the bad things done by those in power (ie the rich). He hated the 4x2s and although he fought against him, had time for some of Adolf's ideas. He despised Americans due to their arrogance in general but had time for any decent, honest working class person.
@QuesadillaQuest808 Always look on the bright side, be prepared to take chances, be honest and always treat others how you would wish them to treat you until they prove unworthy.
But that's looking at things the wrong way around. left wing people don't become so flawed by having left wing beliefs, they are flawed people and so left wing beliefs appeal to them.
Every time I hear a Conservative say they're glad they're not a Liberal I wonder if they realise they have no idea about what they're supposed to be conserving
@@illegalopinions4082 Today conseravtimism mostly means rejection of socialism. But in a sense you're right. Socialism unchecked leeds to poverty, starvation and millions of deaths. So it's logical that conservatives want to prevent that and rather have the status qou.
@Kulumuli See, this is what I mean. Simply saying you are against something is completely meaningless. What are you promoting? What principles are you standing on? What ideas and practices are you _conserving._ Conservatism is supposed to be conserving Liberalism because Liberalism is the political application of Christianity, which is the thread that ties the entirety of Western civilisation together. The fact neither of you know that and are happy blindly rejecting Socialism without having any frame of reference of what should and shouldn't be is just sad.
The idea of "low self esteem" also factors in. I've known many lefties, most of them would say they have LSE, which is a lie on their part and a misconception on the part of society at large. These people, in actuality, have very HIGH self regard. They think they're smarter, more interesting, and more moral than the average normie or conservative. The depression and anger that they experience is because they're actually inferior at most things, or inferior at most things that society cares about. They tend to be incompetent, but have a self-perception of HIGH competence, and are depressed and angry because they aren't getting the respect and admiration they feel they deserve. Hence, leftism.
The two always go together. I think being self-absorbed is the underlying problem, and self-loathing and self-aggrandizing are just different subconscious tactics within that frame. When you're self-focused it's easy to jump between hating yourself and hating society (implicitly saying you are better than the rest of society). Shifting blame away (self-righteous leftism) is a coping mechanism but it always seems to shift back eventually (self-loathing).
@@stan1050Weird thing to say.... how many do you know, because my experience is that most I've met are actually pretty based, despite their addiction (I've known quite a few in my time), and most were at least as smart as me (higher end of the average part of the scale), though quite a few of the dumber ones still exhibit better wisdom than a typical left wing, university graduate. Many are in their condition because of childhood trauma (typically sexual) and the strongest painkillers are what numbs that traumas pain. Only a couple I've met actually fit the OP's description of a leftist, and they were female (not the only females though).
12:00 I saw in another video comment section that their are two types of men that modern 'feminists' think about. Men they approve of, and Men they want to sleep with. Very rarely do those two intersect.
I think it's actually pretty common for people to despise the type of people they're attracted to. How many women do you find morally reprehensible yet physically attractive? There's also the simple principle of "you hate what you can't have". The only people this doesn't apply to are extremely high status, especially in modern times where no one owns anything and people have very limited social connections.
I graduated from a South African university in 2004 and perceived a slight leaning to the Left but it was nowhere near as overt as it is now. I chose to do nearly all the undergraduate courses in history as elective subjects (for a science degree) out of personal curiosity. I'm very glad I did because the history lecturers at that time were distinctly centrist even though the government at the time was clearly Communist in all but name. I learned a great deal from those lecturers but I also remember some of the arguments between students that were obviously politicised and viewed the course material through their politically tinted lenses all the time, and it was exactly as Kaczynski describes here - a distinct double standard of criticism or praise depending on the political leanings of whatever country or government was the subject of discussion. Thank you Lotus Eaters, I will now add Ted Kaczynski to the list of books I need to purchase for my reading room (that I will decorate similarly to your studio here).
I just ended my association with a "friend" that's a leftist. He was essentially preaching his nonsense oppinions and when someone dared to emit the most tepid of pushbacks, he would start shouting insults. It's kind of my fault I tolerated his attitude for years, but I wanted to try and make our friendship work, for the sake of past good times. I confronted him about this this week, asked him to review his attitude, shared my concerns and fears. Instead of an apology, I got a paragraph long "No, U". I have no remorse cutting ties, I actually tried, he never did. These people are truly without empathy and narcissists.
Logic and morals are tools unknown to a leftist. I once described them like Chimpanzees pushing buttons on a machine and kind of getting to a point of knowing what button to press to get something. Butt not the least understanding what the machine ( logic ) is...
@@jean-sebastienmatte2358 Rather than defective, I choose to see them as as profoundly irresponsible and immature. They have some of that seed of destructive rebellious temper tantrum that their daddy was never there to beat out of them. Kind of like the fallen angel Lucifer, in a way.
@@jean-sebastienmatte2358 They call themselves compassionate, yet seem to despise people who are the most similar to them while yearning to be adored by people who are wildly different to them. That's not compassion as I understand it.
@@sameoldshit77 Those "worker ant bluecollar proles" you are arrogantly sneering at are the crux and foundation of our society, and we'd be much worse off without them. They've earned their pride. Idk how many times I have to explain this to people, leftists in particular, being condescending is not a substitute for an argument.
As a cardboard slinging nerd, I always love playing people who are better than I am, because I can learn to play better and winning is more satisfying than crushing another player with less developed skill.
The issue with technology today is that its no longer just for achieiving needs its for wants and excess profit. AI for example isnt necessery for humans, its deaired by corportations and military for making money by removing other human beings.
I have to disagree with Ted on the point of technology making life less fulfilling. At least on a personal level. In my case I'd argue that technology has helped me undertake many fulfilling projects because with the internet I could easily find various tutorials and guides in various different fields of arts and crafts. I have then proceeded to use the knowledge gained from them to make a lot of things by myself which all felt very fulfilling when completed. Suppose I had not have any access to the internet instead. I'd still do some arts and crafts, but every project would be intensly discouraging due to a lot of failed results and having to go in completely blind and ignorant. So in my opinion, it's not technology that makes life less fulfilling. It's how you use it. Just the other day I marinated and cooked some beef steaks to absolute perfection, for example. I could do this because the internet allowed me to study the intricacies of frying time (when you cook steaks, mere seconds can mean the difference between a medium steak and a well done steak). I could have attempted it on my own without any guidance of course. But that would've involved quite a few ruined steaks, which would've been both expensive and discouraging. Also using this guidance doesn't mean I follow it to the letter. The marinade for example is my own mix by now. I just took inspiration from one in a recipe but then added spices and alcoholic beverages of my own choosing. If more people used technology this way, instead of just being passive, scrolling consumers of social media, I think their quality of life would improve rather than diminish
Very true. It also used to be the case that in order to gain any knowledge one had to jump through a whole load of arbitrary hoops which usually existed as trade protection or as a function of egotism.
@@davethebrahman9870 Yes exactly. It's not like you could just up and become an apprentice with a craftsman of whatever happens to interest you that month on a whim in the past. But with the internet in your pocket you can start learning and picking up new skills at the click of a button. I have countless examples of this that doesn't just involve cooking. For example, i'm not an auto mechanic. But when the breaks and coil springs on my car failed inspection and needed to be replaced. I didn't go to an auto shop to get scammed out of a huge amount of money. I ordered the parts that needed to be replaced online and got to work by myself, using tutorials on youtube for how to do the replacement. Saved me a lot of money and also felt good to fix something with my own two hands instead of just "paying some guy" to do it for me. And from the lessons learned doing this, i now feel comfortable replacing other parts too, without any tutorials. DIY can really flourish if you use the internet the right way.
It may work that way for you, but what about the 4 million + young women in the US alone with an OnlyFans account, whoring themselves virtually for money?
These leftists need to be encouraged to do something for themselves and realize they have their own power to improve their own lives. The moment they realize they're not victims and have real power, I expect they let go of their foolishness in a sense of having been conned for years.
You can try. I do, when I get the opportunity. On rare occasions, you break through. Most don't *want* to try. You can't convince them to improve their own lives if they lack an internal motivation. They just want to ruin things because they're angry. They could improve their own lives, but this would start with an admission that their current premise and outlook is wrong. This, to them, is unpalatable. "Is my unfulfilling life a product of my choices? No, it's clearly somebody else's fault." One hell of a drug it seems....
So I should probably be a leftist by temperament but I am not because I take responsibility for my own failings and don't resent the success of others. Interesting.
At 11:23 and so far, as I've often thought, everything that has been said of a leftist is true of me. I have always recognized that I was programmed to be a leftist, but that my brain had been corrupted somewhere along the way by something called the truth, and reality; I saw things I was never meant to see and I learned and realized how wrong I was.
This discussion is spot on. It’s interesting how we fall into political preference based on psychological predisposition at times. Fascinating and engaging.
The industrial age brought about running water, showers, sinks, and above all and MOST importantly... toilets. I don't care about anything else. I don't care about psychological damage to the masses or physical damage to the environment... I'm not giving up my toilet. I've never pooped on the ground. Ever. Not even the few times I've been camping.
I am ashamed to admit I share many of the leftist traits (minus extreme openness) but instead of internalizing the world’s inherent cruelty and lashing out because of it I decided to harden myself to it.
There is the younger sibling education theory. In the case of families a single child looks to the parents but a second child has their older unexperienced siblings. As a general rule the second sibling is more of a trouble maker, having learned immature traits.
Reduction in time as a resource. Without shared labor their will be a greater total labor (domestic and economic). Easy is offloading light duty in age based family hierarchy. Children are little savages. The dynamic does change in larger families with close relationships and responsibility. Age difference plays only a small role unless significantly higher. Could also argue that single motherhood with many children and no standalone male role model could be considered in impression.
A faux-library, undoubtedly, from the conspicuous similarity of the books and the fact he's reading from a tablet. Kaczynski would've equally hated this ilk.
Turning the envy or the risk of envy into hope, if not aspiration, is done through humility and earnest modesty, which huge part of current Western civilisation has not been sufficiently taught to do. I daresay even that envy and hope stem from same source; the want to have something ephemeral for yourself, some skill or behaviour or viewpoint that is better than your own current standpoint or a better version of yourself seen through someone else. When it's driving someone too much towards envy or haven't learned how to transform envy into hope, it makes the person sick of want and venomously competitive, whereas driving on inspiration is the direction that leads towards hope. The sickness of want and inspiration are of the same energy, it is just the direction that is inverse.
I think it is true that deep internal stresses lead people to want to change the world in order to reduce their internal pain. This is called malignant narcissism.
I don't think it is technology per se that is the problem. It is that we haven't updated our culture in a way to manage the change. We used to have pretty strict rules about marriage and sexuality because it is both a powerful drive and a consequential one that affects everything else. We have institutions like marriage, taboos against things like incest and pre-marital sex and on and on because everything depends on raising the next generation, not getting a debilitating disease, etc. Maybe in the very long term we will have a culture that puts controls on social media and how we live our lives such as being terminally online having direct social stigma, or having to fulfill certain obligations that mitigate the effect of modern industrial society.
Yeah, it's a bit more difficult to see with culture, because it's too easy to say "this IS the culture" (which I suppose technically true), but our social development seriously struggles to keep up with tech in a way that prevents problems. It's a lot easier to spot when you take a look at law, which has utterly failed to keep up with tech. Latest example I can think of is AI and copyright ownership, but even before that, a known one is software EULAs being completely ridiculous and unenforceable, yet still existing
Key to this discussion is that there's not (or shouldn't be) a lot of standards anyway. There's only like 5 or 10 that I can think of. It's not like a billion bylaws and rules that you need to neurotically peruse over.
Thank you. Also, reading the comments is helpful. I am going onto social media to try to give advice at the moment. I rent, and have rented accommodation for 25 years without many problems. We have a housing crisis, so I want to put real information out there, and not just let shelter put their website up and that’s as much help as people are going to get. Woman after woman just wants to screech at me. Not men. And I notice this a lot in different areas of life. I noted it as a teenager. Women just want to screech and say how evil I am. They have no interest in looking in the mirror. They want an amazing life without putting in the hard work. They want money without working. They want to be loved while being a nasty piece of work. They want to be amazing without reading a book. There does seem to be a clear personality difference between men and women, obviously, plus as Helen Dale said on your show recently, between straight and gay women. Gay women are like men. We tend to be more get up and go, read, listen to experts to improve ourselves. Straight women just don’t want to listen. They are awesome as they are, but no one else has realised it yet. They want to be awesome but instead of putting in the work, sit in their mess, lazy, unattractive in personality and lonely. It’s sad. But I do see a particular personality. And these women all want the government to come and save them. They have no interest in saving themselves. They want the government to step in and give them what they think they deserve. When men do this, yes, they are male feminists. Unattractive in every way and so use feminism etc as their way of getting a woman to be attracted to them. We have some lazy people in this world and I am not sure what the answer is. Of course we want everyone to succeed and pull themselves up so that they can be amazing, but a large percentage of people simply do not want to.
I had an obcervation similar to what is was talk here, about how movies always have the weak, socialy deficient nerd as the hero, and the strong and social jock as the villian.
Former leftist here. One thing that really defines the leftist mindset is an unassailable sense that you are always right... About everything. Everyone who disagrees with you must be wrong because if they understood the facts they wouldn't be disagreeing with you; they clearly just didn't understand what you did and it was infuriating. You hold onto bad ideas by refusing to look at new information. I could have picked up any number of books that would have shattered my world view, I just had no interest in doing so. Why spend your time reading wrong answers when you already have the right ones 🙄. If you think that sounds extremely arrogant, you'd be right, but: How much time have you spent reading the works of the flat Earthers? You don't, because someone already explained to you why they're wrong, you thought that explanation was valid, and you've only got limited hours in the day that you'd rather spend doing something else. I have the SJW's to thank for knocking me out of the leftist orbit. When it all kicked off in 2014-2015, my leftist friends started treating me like s*** for the sole reason that I was white and male. It didn't matter that I was a socialist: To my own friends I was now scum. That was around the time Jordan Peterson had his video defending free speech at U of T and the people who were screeching at him looked and sounded like the people who were screeching at me. I followed events there and then watched all of his Maps of Meaning series. It threw into question the edgelord Hitchens-like interpretation I had of the bible. At the same time I got into economics and realised that all of the problems I had with Capitalism weren't even Capitalism, I learned that the current West much more closely resembled National Socialism; and yet we were being told that more socialism was the solution. Realising I was massively wrong both about God and the structure of society knocked me down quite a few pegs. One of the big messages of the bible is to maintain our humility and it's something I've been working on to undo the time I spent on that path. Now when I meet someone who disagrees with me, I try to assume that they may understand something that I don't.
while I'm not religuous, you had an interesting journey, and you are right, The "Capitalism" does resemble National Socialism, because what is now woke ideology, was built with part of that in it. It's a mixture of four different Socialisms.
I get where they're coming from in distrusting government, but with Flat Earthers I don't need to read their arguments for a very practical reason: I've literally commissioned satellite ground stations before, so I've hand aligned recievers with a power meter to find particular satellites in the sky; I can see their signal. I've also worked on radars where you can see the curve of the Earth as you lose ground clutter a couple hundred k's out. The only Flat Earthers I've actually met didn't really make arguments; they were religious fundamentalists, so their position was simply that every word in Genesis is literal and cannot be challenged. I actually have read some of their blogs out of interest to see what they're arguing and it's mostly a religious conviction with a pile of post-hoc reasoning to reinforce it. The most common belief seems to be that governments made up science and space exploration to delude people into disbelieving God's word. They tend to believe that government and human institutions are satanic so any knowledge that comes from them isn't to be trusted. I guess you'd say that government created a simulacrum of the 'real world' and tried to impose it on the population to separate them from God... So really as with most bad ideas: It's just gnosticism recycled over again.
@@AidanCampbell-u3s you make an interesting point when you bring up Gnosticism again. Tikhistory and James Lindsay have been doing very well in finding evidence that the Postmodernists (and by extension marxists and wokeness) have been subverting and re-using Gnosticism, however the Flat Eathers and those deep into classic 'conspiracy theories', for lack of better term, have subverted and demoralized themselves into becoming ideologically indoctrinated that they are right, with some similarities to the left. Now, we disagree on the existence of Gods (I just believe this universe/ dimension is all we got and want to live life to the best we can, and preserve for the next generation), I gotta say I respext your path towards a better set of beliefs, which I have come to respect Christanity as since i'm now a Classical Liberal Conservative. I just am not a fan of fundamentalists. The thing the fundamentalists don't realize is they too, have similar issues as the marxists/ gnostics, and I do agree there is a Gnostic ideology influencing the world, though differently, I just think that it's post-modernists and Marxists, and several different factions of them, distorting what's true and false. Mostly thanks to Herbert Marcuse and Paulo Freire.
Ideologues in general are convinced they're always right, left wing, right wing, there is nothing humble about believing you have the one true revealed set of ideas.
Take a human, add ideology secular or religious in nature and watch them basically act the same, religious fundies are no different to leftoid commies.
This podcast with two extremely domesticated men sitting with their legs crossed on leather chairs and a wood paneled set curbing their speech with legalistic disclaimers? Nah.
The biggest argument in favor of astrological signs having an effect on you I've ever heard comes from my wife. A baby born in May, who spends his first few months in bright warm light is going to develop differently than a child born in November who's first impressions on the world are the opposite. What those specific traits may be, I couldn't say. And it could even be that the first season we see is less important as the second, once we're a few months old and start remembering. But either way, people born in the same month would share that sort of trait.
“Personality types are often genetic”-this is the truth that was abandoned over the latter half of the 20th century. Recognizing this truth also brings one to Race realism
I've tried talking to a (now ex) friend about this. He's a science teacher and, not only did he help me map out the prejudices inherent in education through his robotic rebuttals, his actual final response was 'durr, science!' Too many Facebook memes and so much indoctrination that he couldn't even question the facts or hold a contrary opinion in his head while discussing it. Someone I still consider to be smart.
We may know that genetic groups differ in more ways than just looks. The difficult question is what we actually do about that information. There are certainly many terrible ways it can go, as the 20th century showed us. We have a sort of collective PTSD over our discovery of genetics and evolution and we're unwilling to realistically look at it again.
I think there is a distinction in the uk at least between older leftists and new age leftist. The older leftists actually genuinely seemed concerned about the working class, and the majority of them although not all were not interested in dismantling the system but wanted to be part of it. Its without doubt we have a lot to thank them for. I for one value having legal protections at work, holiday pay, maternity pay, better access to education, and chances to move up on the social scale (All be it the latter was more so thanks to the industrial revolution). Also maybe this is not solely thanks to old leftists but there is merit in having some legal protection for minorities (I don't agree with hate speech crimes) but protections to not allow employees or landlords to discriminate based on race, gender, class or religion are again something i value. The leftists now seem to have gone of the scale. They now seem to hate everything about the system and see a problem with it in general. It's not about being part of it in a fair way its about dismantling it and starting again, it's essentially french revolution year 0 philosophy. Now obviously there were leftists already that believed in the new age stuff but again mainly in the uk the old leftists were not year 0 revolutionaries. The working class were largely still patriotic and proud of our country, they were normally socially conservative, they were normally royalists etc. Now it's been taken over by middle class people.
I knew an old leftist who was enraged when he read that workers were rejecting socialism because they were doing all right in the US as it was. His ideology mattered, not workers' well being.
Does anybody have any suggestions for me as to groups I can join who are actually standing up against this stuff? I'm tired of just listening/watching it happen and hoping it gets better. Our government obviously isn't doing anything about it. I'm not talking about far right groups or anything like that. I'm pretty centrist and just want the madness to stop, not to add to it. I used to actually be pretty extremely far left, but got out just before it went mad. So traditional leftism. When I say far left I mean I was the second in command of a no named group in Australia who organised peaceful public protests and rallies against corporate corruption within government. But like I said, once I saw our group being hijacked from within by neo-leftists I got out and moved back to the UK. Ironically it seems like the new "left" are pushing for more corruption and control so its tragic to me that they took over our genuinely good faith and well meaning movement and turned it into a propaganda machine that is pushing exactly what we tried so hard to rally against. I find it hard to believe that happened just by chance.
Jolly Heretic Dutton enjoys discussing taboo subjects of genetics and personality. I heard about the tedpill because it was argued that the industrial revolution allowed the genetically sick to live longer and then create even more genetically sick people. The Idiocracy might not happen if there was no industrialization.
I honestly don't understand why people think that other people can be changed, or that everyone can be molded into a certain mode of behavior. If you can't change someone, just find a mental place in which you are comfortable with that person. If you can't adapt, you should be cognisant and realize that you need to loosen up your relationship with that person, keep your distance until you can find a way to adapt. Adaptation is what everyone has to do when faced with uncomfortable situations.
Any relationship that is a 'one-way street' is an unhealthy relationship, so you should more than keep your distance, you should get right out of that cul-de-sac. Depends who that person is though; if close family, then yeah, your advice is somewhat valid. If not - get rid and seek out people who are less 'high maintenance'.
@@sunnyjim1355 Depends how you define "one way street". If you have to become a door mat to get along with a person, then yeah, avoid them. On the other hand, if I think a person should be avoided because they don't allow me to be my "maximum free self", then rethinking my outlook might be healthier.
I thought this'd be an interview with the AIDS Skrillex. :( I have seen neither greasy hair nor pockmarked hide of him since 2016. I want to know if he still works at Lucky's and if he still hates WYITE MAILZZ....
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The urge to feel superior without actually doing anything.
Exactly. Lazy narcissism. Same as Marx.
It is a strong natural urge which comes with its own unthinking 'get out of any responsibility' clause. It invokes a child's feelings to remain 'special'.
@@M-S_4321A certain feeling of "specialness" might however be considered a prerequisite for doing anything which does not submit to compliance with the majority.
@@JesseP.Watson Acknowledged, but haven't all the adult authorities been telling children for the past 3 decades that they should all celebrate being special? Participation trophies homogenized normality.
@@M-S_4321 Yes, indeed they have. I suppose, well, where one ends and another begins is a difficult question. For the intelligent with a lot to offer a certain amount of elevation may be a good thing, if tempered with discipline, for the other, perhaps not. Big discussion that though. I'd say the defining point is discipline... someone who feels special and sets out to prove it with disciplined practice of this or that can grow to be a powerhouse... someone who thinks themselves special just for existing and has no route to refine skills is likely going the opposite direction. ...I just mean to say someone believing themselves special to some degree is not necessarily a negative thing... the guy who walks into a burning building to save the kid may do so in part because of that belief etc.
Ted Kaczynski, a.k.a. the Unabomber, presents a pretty astute description in his manifesto. Way ahead of his time.
As a subject of mk ultra, he probably was well aware of the internet, and was trying to warn us
The solution is NOT abolishing all technology greater than fire, subsistence agriculture, bows/arrows, spears, pottery. No anarcho-primitivism, please.
The solution is regaining mastery over technology, tempered by the necessary moral values and wisdom so as to (greatly) limit the damage that we do.
Without industrial technology and beyond, we are doomed to die off as a one-planet species. We need a balance between our technological and our moral development.
@@mirceazaharia2094 'A one-planet species'
lmao.
@mirceazaharia2094 We all know the solution is to leave all Moral questions to the divine wisdom of the Church and Magesterium. Worked for over 1000 years until a fat German was worried he farted too much and wanted to shag a nun.
@@mirceazaharia2094I’m not totally on board with anarcho-primitivism, but I think the argument that the species would go extinct without industrial technology is incorrect. The species survived for hundreds of thousands of years without it, and the benefits of technology come with massive increases in systemic risk.
Thank you Carl for clarifying that Lotus Eaters doesn't support terrorism, I would have never know otherwise!
CYA and CMA are absolutely required in the current legalistic deliberate-bad-faith-interpretation world, unfortunately.
Yes and how ineffective Ted must've been to write this manifesto from which they're now reading. So ineffective.
And don't concern yourself with technology and industrialization, the very thesis of Ted's work. He's clearly just wrong on that.
_puts away copper wiring and fertilizer in disappointment_
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This is for all of the galactic-level smooth brains of the corpo-rats, media and government that will inevitably try to pin some blame on The Podcast Of The Lotus Eaters.
The difference between a normal, healthy person feeling inferior and these narcissists is that, ome feels humbled in the presence of someone better than them. The narcissist feels threatened
As someone who goes to high school in an all girls school full of leftists, this is true. As the stress of the final year of high school gets to some students, I've had some not very nice things said to me due to being 'smart'. Assumed it was a similar issue. They must've felt threatened despite my humble composure. Had a student who's a hard core leftist who praises politicians on the cusp of being communists tell me to 'shut the fuck up' when trying to be positive about our next test in one of our English classes, because 'you're smarter than everyone you don't get to talk'. Everyone around us looked shocked but I couldn't help but smile, she got so angry. I just laughed and told her at least my other English class appreciate and praise my smarts. She didn't like that but I felt like it. She has complained before that she's really dropped off this year. She now takes it out on other people because she's an emotional wreck.
@Emma-zt6tb "They hate you 'cause they ain't you."
- It's the phenomenon of _Ressentiment_ , everywhere now.
I think indoctrination plays a role. Being forced fed dogma from a young age must play some part
all of society is heavily indoctrinated
indoctrination plays the critical role. It goes like this. Get a bunch social introverts, paraiahs, mentally ill, easy to convince people. Teenagers and Kids being the easiest: demoralize them, tell them society hates them, create an identity around them, ad then tell them they are better. Promise equality. You got your footsoldiers. Your Red Guard.
hmm, needs a fireplace in the background
Too much carbon... they would get raided by the Green Shirts.
They're just not "right "in the head.
*_I see what you did there ..._*
Super clever, to bad its not going to save you from them
We need an emoji for that 🥁
“I have not been doing any extracurricular bombing” - good to hear that!
"All my bombings are strictly curricular"
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I respect the ones that actually stick with their beliefs, even if I disagree with them. The vast majority just unthinkingly parrots talking points and tows the party line to be seen as a good person and lacks meaning or purpose in the absence of religion.
I've found that the few that have true convictions are usually respectful when you talk to them and willing to have a civilized discussion. The people that repeat other's talking points meltdown when confronted with an opposing view.
Except many of their beliefs contradict their other beliefs - and reality. Leftism requires doublethink.
I think fatherlessness plays a major role. The lack of a stronger, more capable figure who is benign, teaches and enables personal growth through early life is probably a root cause of their fear of strength and success
That is most peculiar as my father was as they say, a little to the left of Chairman Moa, having been born in WW1 and served in WW2 and seen all the bad things done by those in power (ie the rich). He hated the 4x2s and although he fought against him, had time for some of Adolf's ideas. He despised Americans due to their arrogance in general but had time for any decent, honest working class person.
@QuesadillaQuest808 Always look on the bright side, be prepared to take chances, be honest and always treat others how you would wish them to treat you until they prove unworthy.
The more I learn about leftist psychology the more thankful I am that I ended up conservative instead of liberal.
But that's looking at things the wrong way around. left wing people don't become so flawed by having left wing beliefs, they are flawed people and so left wing beliefs appeal to them.
Every time I hear a Conservative say they're glad they're not a Liberal I wonder if they realise they have no idea about what they're supposed to be conserving
@@illegalopinions4082 Today conseravtimism mostly means rejection of socialism.
But in a sense you're right. Socialism unchecked leeds to poverty, starvation and millions of deaths. So it's logical that conservatives want to prevent that and rather have the status qou.
@Kulumuli See, this is what I mean. Simply saying you are against something is completely meaningless. What are you promoting? What principles are you standing on? What ideas and practices are you _conserving._
Conservatism is supposed to be conserving Liberalism because Liberalism is the political application of Christianity, which is the thread that ties the entirety of Western civilisation together. The fact neither of you know that and are happy blindly rejecting Socialism without having any frame of reference of what should and shouldn't be is just sad.
Yeah it's a pure rejection of every social norm of the modern world. Very hard to do, but very rewarding.
The idea of "low self esteem" also factors in. I've known many lefties, most of them would say they have LSE, which is a lie on their part and a misconception on the part of society at large. These people, in actuality, have very HIGH self regard. They think they're smarter, more interesting, and more moral than the average normie or conservative. The depression and anger that they experience is because they're actually inferior at most things, or inferior at most things that society cares about. They tend to be incompetent, but have a self-perception of HIGH competence, and are depressed and angry because they aren't getting the respect and admiration they feel they deserve. Hence, leftism.
Maybe. I do think they have low self esteem but the very high self regard you explain sounds like compensating narcissistic cope.
The two always go together. I think being self-absorbed is the underlying problem, and self-loathing and self-aggrandizing are just different subconscious tactics within that frame. When you're self-focused it's easy to jump between hating yourself and hating society (implicitly saying you are better than the rest of society). Shifting blame away (self-righteous leftism) is a coping mechanism but it always seems to shift back eventually (self-loathing).
Notice this with heroin addicts also.
@@stan1050Weird thing to say.... how many do you know, because my experience is that most I've met are actually pretty based, despite their addiction (I've known quite a few in my time), and most were at least as smart as me (higher end of the average part of the scale), though quite a few of the dumber ones still exhibit better wisdom than a typical left wing, university graduate.
Many are in their condition because of childhood trauma (typically sexual) and the strongest painkillers are what numbs that traumas pain.
Only a couple I've met actually fit the OP's description of a leftist, and they were female (not the only females though).
I think you're right. Leftists are always incredibly confident but unable to demonstrate any reason for that confidence. So they're actually arrogant.
I might have been a leftist but for my parents’ hard work. And some small amount of personal agency of course.
Uncle Ted was prophetic in his writings
Standards are good, but we now live in a world where the vast majority of people don't meet the standards.
I love the very British cozy atmosphere of that room.
12:00 I saw in another video comment section that their are two types of men that modern 'feminists' think about. Men they approve of, and Men they want to sleep with. Very rarely do those two intersect.
I think it's actually pretty common for people to despise the type of people they're attracted to. How many women do you find morally reprehensible yet physically attractive?
There's also the simple principle of "you hate what you can't have". The only people this doesn't apply to are extremely high status, especially in modern times where no one owns anything and people have very limited social connections.
I graduated from a South African university in 2004 and perceived a slight leaning to the Left but it was nowhere near as overt as it is now. I chose to do nearly all the undergraduate courses in history as elective subjects (for a science degree) out of personal curiosity. I'm very glad I did because the history lecturers at that time were distinctly centrist even though the government at the time was clearly Communist in all but name. I learned a great deal from those lecturers but I also remember some of the arguments between students that were obviously politicised and viewed the course material through their politically tinted lenses all the time, and it was exactly as Kaczynski describes here - a distinct double standard of criticism or praise depending on the political leanings of whatever country or government was the subject of discussion.
Thank you Lotus Eaters, I will now add Ted Kaczynski to the list of books I need to purchase for my reading room (that I will decorate similarly to your studio here).
A complete lack of logic, morals, and tolerance.
I just ended my association with a "friend" that's a leftist. He was essentially preaching his nonsense oppinions and when someone dared to emit the most tepid of pushbacks, he would start shouting insults. It's kind of my fault I tolerated his attitude for years, but I wanted to try and make our friendship work, for the sake of past good times. I confronted him about this this week, asked him to review his attitude, shared my concerns and fears. Instead of an apology, I got a paragraph long "No, U". I have no remorse cutting ties, I actually tried, he never did.
These people are truly without empathy and narcissists.
Logic and morals are tools unknown to a leftist. I once described them like Chimpanzees pushing buttons on a machine and kind of getting to a point of knowing what button to press to get something. Butt not the least understanding what the machine ( logic ) is...
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Rather than defective, I choose to see them as as profoundly irresponsible and immature.
They have some of that seed of destructive rebellious temper tantrum that their daddy was never there to beat out of them.
Kind of like the fallen angel Lucifer, in a way.
@@jean-sebastienmatte2358 They call themselves compassionate, yet seem to despise people who are the most similar to them while yearning to be adored by people who are wildly different to them. That's not compassion as I understand it.
@@Tommo77ful Oikophobia is one hell of a drug.
I work twelve hours as day as a CNC machinist in a hardcore industrial environment. I fucking love it.
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@@sameoldshit77 Those "worker ant bluecollar proles" you are arrogantly sneering at are the crux and foundation of our society, and we'd be much worse off without them. They've earned their pride.
Idk how many times I have to explain this to people, leftists in particular, being condescending is not a substitute for an argument.
@@bokunopiccololinkstard
Ayn Rand got a lot wrong but she got this right.
As a cardboard slinging nerd, I always love playing people who are better than I am, because I can learn to play better and winning is more satisfying than crushing another player with less developed skill.
good ol' 'aids skrillex'
The issue with technology today is that its no longer just for achieiving needs its for wants and excess profit. AI for example isnt necessery for humans, its deaired by corportations and military for making money by removing other human beings.
I have to disagree with Ted on the point of technology making life less fulfilling. At least on a personal level.
In my case I'd argue that technology has helped me undertake many fulfilling projects because with the internet I could easily find various tutorials and guides in various different fields of arts and crafts. I have then proceeded to use the knowledge gained from them to make a lot of things by myself which all felt very fulfilling when completed.
Suppose I had not have any access to the internet instead. I'd still do some arts and crafts, but every project would be intensly discouraging due to a lot of failed results and having to go in completely blind and ignorant.
So in my opinion, it's not technology that makes life less fulfilling. It's how you use it.
Just the other day I marinated and cooked some beef steaks to absolute perfection, for example.
I could do this because the internet allowed me to study the intricacies of frying time (when you cook steaks, mere seconds can mean the difference between a medium steak and a well done steak).
I could have attempted it on my own without any guidance of course.
But that would've involved quite a few ruined steaks, which would've been both expensive and discouraging.
Also using this guidance doesn't mean I follow it to the letter. The marinade for example is my own mix by now. I just took inspiration from one in a recipe but then added spices and alcoholic beverages of my own choosing.
If more people used technology this way, instead of just being passive, scrolling consumers of social media, I think their quality of life would improve rather than diminish
Very true. It also used to be the case that in order to gain any knowledge one had to jump through a whole load of arbitrary hoops which usually existed as trade protection or as a function of egotism.
@@davethebrahman9870 Yes exactly.
It's not like you could just up and become an apprentice with a craftsman of whatever happens to interest you that month on a whim in the past.
But with the internet in your pocket you can start learning and picking up new skills at the click of a button.
I have countless examples of this that doesn't just involve cooking.
For example, i'm not an auto mechanic.
But when the breaks and coil springs on my car failed inspection and needed to be replaced. I didn't go to an auto shop to get scammed out of a huge amount of money. I ordered the parts that needed to be replaced online and got to work by myself, using tutorials on youtube for how to do the replacement.
Saved me a lot of money and also felt good to fix something with my own two hands instead of just "paying some guy" to do it for me.
And from the lessons learned doing this, i now feel comfortable replacing other parts too, without any tutorials.
DIY can really flourish if you use the internet the right way.
It may work that way for you, but what about the 4 million + young women in the US alone with an OnlyFans account, whoring themselves virtually for money?
@@possiblepilotdeviation5791These aren't real people
Ted wasn't crazy, he was ahead of the curve.
These leftists need to be encouraged to do something for themselves and realize they have their own power to improve their own lives. The moment they realize they're not victims and have real power, I expect they let go of their foolishness in a sense of having been conned for years.
"It’s Easier To Fool People Than To Convince Them That They’ve Been Fooled"
You can try. I do, when I get the opportunity. On rare occasions, you break through.
Most don't *want* to try. You can't convince them to improve their own lives if they lack an internal motivation.
They just want to ruin things because they're angry. They could improve their own lives, but this would start with an admission that their current premise and outlook is wrong.
This, to them, is unpalatable.
"Is my unfulfilling life a product of my choices? No, it's clearly somebody else's fault." One hell of a drug it seems....
I listened to his manifesto as a joke and my jaw dropped when he started ripping apart leftists
His read on the personality that is the bedrock of modern leftism is surprisingly Nietzchian.
The best start of the video.
"Don't commit terrorism... BUT!"
So I should probably be a leftist by temperament but I am not because I take responsibility for my own failings and don't resent the success of others. Interesting.
"obviously we dont support terrorism"
best opening line
According to this I'm a radicalised leftist apparently >_>
i have this audio book.
man, i replayed that section so many times just for laughs.. if it were a physical record, there would be a valley in the disk
At 11:23 and so far, as I've often thought, everything that has been said of a leftist is true of me. I have always recognized that I was programmed to be a leftist, but that my brain had been corrupted somewhere along the way by something called the truth, and reality; I saw things I was never meant to see and I learned and realized how wrong I was.
This discussion is spot on. It’s interesting how we fall into political preference based on psychological predisposition at times. Fascinating and engaging.
How many of us would have remained leftists if not for the Internet? I think these things swing both ways.
Industrialization absolutely relieves suffering
Under the right circumstances and applied properly, yes.
Lemme consult my experts ...
No, it doesn't.
long-term, material suffering is reduced
short-term, it makes it much worse
The industrial age brought about running water, showers, sinks, and above all and MOST importantly... toilets. I don't care about anything else. I don't care about psychological damage to the masses or physical damage to the environment... I'm not giving up my toilet. I've never pooped on the ground. Ever. Not even the few times I've been camping.
Leftists WANTS To RUIN IT,like fuck technological progress and logistics because it's actually BASED.
Kaczynski's buttlerian jihad isn't at all the worst idea I've heard lately.
I am ashamed to admit I share many of the leftist traits (minus extreme openness) but instead of internalizing the world’s inherent cruelty and lashing out because of it I decided to harden myself to it.
Perhaps openness makes it harder differentiate between what is relevant and important to your own life as well.
There is the younger sibling education theory. In the case of families a single child looks to the parents but a second child has their older unexperienced siblings. As a general rule the second sibling is more of a trouble maker, having learned immature traits.
And parents often go easier on their younger children.
Reduction in time as a resource. Without shared labor their will be a greater total labor (domestic and economic). Easy is offloading light duty in age based family hierarchy. Children are little savages.
The dynamic does change in larger families with close relationships and responsibility. Age difference plays only a small role unless significantly higher.
Could also argue that single motherhood with many children and no standalone male role model could be considered in impression.
Is the background a green screen or are they genuinely sitting in a plush library that they built?
it's england. Stuff like that just spontaneously manifests if you sit still long enough.
@@DG-mk7kd *England. And clearly, you're not from there.
@@sphtpfhorbrains3592guess england doesnt get humor.
A faux-library, undoubtedly, from the conspicuous similarity of the books and the fact he's reading from a tablet.
Kaczynski would've equally hated this ilk.
I'm pretty sure they built that set
Ted's preamble aged well. Solution was a bit off...probably wasn't his final solution.
I think anakin explained this concept quite well
aids skrillex, a blast from the past..
One of my alltime faves. It's such a fitting name
Turning the envy or the risk of envy into hope, if not aspiration, is done through humility and earnest modesty, which huge part of current Western civilisation has not been sufficiently taught to do. I daresay even that envy and hope stem from same source; the want to have something ephemeral for yourself, some skill or behaviour or viewpoint that is better than your own current standpoint or a better version of yourself seen through someone else. When it's driving someone too much towards envy or haven't learned how to transform envy into hope, it makes the person sick of want and venomously competitive, whereas driving on inspiration is the direction that leads towards hope. The sickness of want and inspiration are of the same energy, it is just the direction that is inverse.
I think it is true that deep internal stresses lead people to want to change the world in order to reduce their internal pain. This is called malignant narcissism.
AIDS Skrillex and Carl the Cuck are on the Mount Rushmore of memes.
My wife bought me his books for Christmas. I was really confused until I began to read them.
I never knew Ted hated leftists and devoted multiple chapters of his book to riffing on them (all I know are the memes).
This is a great segment. It's cleared up a few things that I've been thinking about for years.
I think it has something to do with prolonged thumb-sucking as a child.
Mental health issues.
I don't think it is technology per se that is the problem. It is that we haven't updated our culture in a way to manage the change. We used to have pretty strict rules about marriage and sexuality because it is both a powerful drive and a consequential one that affects everything else. We have institutions like marriage, taboos against things like incest and pre-marital sex and on and on because everything depends on raising the next generation, not getting a debilitating disease, etc.
Maybe in the very long term we will have a culture that puts controls on social media and how we live our lives such as being terminally online having direct social stigma, or having to fulfill certain obligations that mitigate the effect of modern industrial society.
Yeah, it's a bit more difficult to see with culture, because it's too easy to say "this IS the culture" (which I suppose technically true), but our social development seriously struggles to keep up with tech in a way that prevents problems. It's a lot easier to spot when you take a look at law, which has utterly failed to keep up with tech. Latest example I can think of is AI and copyright ownership, but even before that, a known one is software EULAs being completely ridiculous and unenforceable, yet still existing
"You're a white male" 😂remember that guy.
Aids skrillex
Key to this discussion is that there's not (or shouldn't be) a lot of standards anyway. There's only like 5 or 10 that I can think of. It's not like a billion bylaws and rules that you need to neurotically peruse over.
The reason political correctness exists is to gatekeep. It's a set of rules to keep out competition.
These people are naked to anyone with even the most unrefined capacity for pattern-recognition, in all times, in all places.
Thank you. Also, reading the comments is helpful.
I am going onto social media to try to give advice at the moment. I rent, and have rented accommodation for 25 years without many problems. We have a housing crisis, so I want to put real information out there, and not just let shelter put their website up and that’s as much help as people are going to get.
Woman after woman just wants to screech at me. Not men. And I notice this a lot in different areas of life. I noted it as a teenager. Women just want to screech and say how evil I am. They have no interest in looking in the mirror. They want an amazing life without putting in the hard work. They want money without working. They want to be loved while being a nasty piece of work. They want to be amazing without reading a book.
There does seem to be a clear personality difference between men and women, obviously, plus as Helen Dale said on your show recently, between straight and gay women. Gay women are like men. We tend to be more get up and go, read, listen to experts to improve ourselves.
Straight women just don’t want to listen. They are awesome as they are, but no one else has realised it yet. They want to be awesome but instead of putting in the work, sit in their mess, lazy, unattractive in personality and lonely.
It’s sad. But I do see a particular personality. And these women all want the government to come and save them. They have no interest in saving themselves. They want the government to step in and give them what they think they deserve.
When men do this, yes, they are male feminists. Unattractive in every way and so use feminism etc as their way of getting a woman to be attracted to them.
We have some lazy people in this world and I am not sure what the answer is. Of course we want everyone to succeed and pull themselves up so that they can be amazing, but a large percentage of people simply do not want to.
Lesbians are just as if not more insufferable than regular women. You're also statistically more abusive.
I had an obcervation similar to what is was talk here, about how movies always have the weak, socialy deficient nerd as the hero, and the strong and social jock as the villian.
Uncle Ted was a very smart man.
Asking them what is a woman
Former leftist here. One thing that really defines the leftist mindset is an unassailable sense that you are always right... About everything. Everyone who disagrees with you must be wrong because if they understood the facts they wouldn't be disagreeing with you; they clearly just didn't understand what you did and it was infuriating.
You hold onto bad ideas by refusing to look at new information. I could have picked up any number of books that would have shattered my world view, I just had no interest in doing so. Why spend your time reading wrong answers when you already have the right ones 🙄. If you think that sounds extremely arrogant, you'd be right, but: How much time have you spent reading the works of the flat Earthers? You don't, because someone already explained to you why they're wrong, you thought that explanation was valid, and you've only got limited hours in the day that you'd rather spend doing something else.
I have the SJW's to thank for knocking me out of the leftist orbit. When it all kicked off in 2014-2015, my leftist friends started treating me like s*** for the sole reason that I was white and male. It didn't matter that I was a socialist: To my own friends I was now scum. That was around the time Jordan Peterson had his video defending free speech at U of T and the people who were screeching at him looked and sounded like the people who were screeching at me. I followed events there and then watched all of his Maps of Meaning series. It threw into question the edgelord Hitchens-like interpretation I had of the bible. At the same time I got into economics and realised that all of the problems I had with Capitalism weren't even Capitalism, I learned that the current West much more closely resembled National Socialism; and yet we were being told that more socialism was the solution.
Realising I was massively wrong both about God and the structure of society knocked me down quite a few pegs.
One of the big messages of the bible is to maintain our humility and it's something I've been working on to undo the time I spent on that path. Now when I meet someone who disagrees with me, I try to assume that they may understand something that I don't.
while I'm not religuous, you had an interesting journey, and you are right, The "Capitalism" does resemble National Socialism, because what is now woke ideology, was built with part of that in it. It's a mixture of four different Socialisms.
Even the flat earthers?
I get where they're coming from in distrusting government, but with Flat Earthers I don't need to read their arguments for a very practical reason: I've literally commissioned satellite ground stations before, so I've hand aligned recievers with a power meter to find particular satellites in the sky; I can see their signal. I've also worked on radars where you can see the curve of the Earth as you lose ground clutter a couple hundred k's out. The only Flat Earthers I've actually met didn't really make arguments; they were religious fundamentalists, so their position was simply that every word in Genesis is literal and cannot be challenged. I actually have read some of their blogs out of interest to see what they're arguing and it's mostly a religious conviction with a pile of post-hoc reasoning to reinforce it. The most common belief seems to be that governments made up science and space exploration to delude people into disbelieving God's word. They tend to believe that government and human institutions are satanic so any knowledge that comes from them isn't to be trusted. I guess you'd say that government created a simulacrum of the 'real world' and tried to impose it on the population to separate them from God... So really as with most bad ideas: It's just gnosticism recycled over again.
@@AidanCampbell-u3s you make an interesting point when you bring up Gnosticism again. Tikhistory and James Lindsay have been doing very well in finding evidence that the Postmodernists (and by extension marxists and wokeness) have been subverting and re-using Gnosticism, however the Flat Eathers and those deep into classic 'conspiracy theories', for lack of better term, have subverted and demoralized themselves into becoming ideologically indoctrinated that they are right, with some similarities to the left.
Now, we disagree on the existence of Gods (I just believe this universe/ dimension is all we got and want to live life to the best we can, and preserve for the next generation), I gotta say I respext your path towards a better set of beliefs, which I have come to respect Christanity as since i'm now a Classical Liberal Conservative. I just am not a fan of fundamentalists.
The thing the fundamentalists don't realize is they too, have similar issues as the marxists/ gnostics, and I do agree there is a Gnostic ideology influencing the world, though differently, I just think that it's post-modernists and Marxists, and several different factions of them, distorting what's true and false. Mostly thanks to Herbert Marcuse and Paulo Freire.
Ideologues in general are convinced they're always right, left wing, right wing, there is nothing humble about believing you have the one true revealed set of ideas.
Didn't expect to see that Skrillex Antifa guy from 2016 again.
1. Take a human
2. Remove personal autonomy
3. Remove deductive reasoning
4. Add 2 cups of narcissism
5. Add 4 tablespoons of anxiety
Heat and serve
Take a human, add ideology secular or religious in nature and watch them basically act the same, religious fundies are no different to leftoid commies.
Paul Kingsnorth hast a very deep and elaborate take on the influence of "the machine".
Low testosterone, high estrogen.
This podcast with two extremely domesticated men sitting with their legs crossed on leather chairs and a wood paneled set curbing their speech with legalistic disclaimers? Nah.
I'm not interested in what makes a leftist; I only care about what _un_ -makes a leftist.
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Helicopters
You know its gonna be a banger video when they hit you with the "We do not support terrorism." at the very start.
Did this really open with the line "Obviously we don't support terrorism, but..."? Haha I love it!
Carl "You're a White Male" the C__k. Havent seen that specimen in a while, I wonder what happened to him
The biggest argument in favor of astrological signs having an effect on you I've ever heard comes from my wife. A baby born in May, who spends his first few months in bright warm light is going to develop differently than a child born in November who's first impressions on the world are the opposite. What those specific traits may be, I couldn't say. And it could even be that the first season we see is less important as the second, once we're a few months old and start remembering. But either way, people born in the same month would share that sort of trait.
Still pseudoscience.
@@sunnyjim1355 as it exists where people make predictions, I would agree. But science can't explain everything. Especially when it comes to people.
I wonder, if Josh and Carl have watched or heard of Edward Dutton
“Personality types are often genetic”-this is the truth that was abandoned over the latter half of the 20th century. Recognizing this truth also brings one to Race realism
I've tried talking to a (now ex) friend about this. He's a science teacher and, not only did he help me map out the prejudices inherent in education through his robotic rebuttals, his actual final response was 'durr, science!'
Too many Facebook memes and so much indoctrination that he couldn't even question the facts or hold a contrary opinion in his head while discussing it.
Someone I still consider to be smart.
We may know that genetic groups differ in more ways than just looks. The difficult question is what we actually do about that information. There are certainly many terrible ways it can go, as the 20th century showed us. We have a sort of collective PTSD over our discovery of genetics and evolution and we're unwilling to realistically look at it again.
Obviously. Just look at black crime stats. Same shit everywhere they are.
I think there is a distinction in the uk at least between older leftists and new age leftist. The older leftists actually genuinely seemed concerned about the working class, and the majority of them although not all were not interested in dismantling the system but wanted to be part of it. Its without doubt we have a lot to thank them for. I for one value having legal protections at work, holiday pay, maternity pay, better access to education, and chances to move up on the social scale (All be it the latter was more so thanks to the industrial revolution). Also maybe this is not solely thanks to old leftists but there is merit in having some legal protection for minorities (I don't agree with hate speech crimes) but protections to not allow employees or landlords to discriminate based on race, gender, class or religion are again something i value. The leftists now seem to have gone of the scale. They now seem to hate everything about the system and see a problem with it in general. It's not about being part of it in a fair way its about dismantling it and starting again, it's essentially french revolution year 0 philosophy. Now obviously there were leftists already that believed in the new age stuff but again mainly in the uk the old leftists were not year 0 revolutionaries. The working class were largely still patriotic and proud of our country, they were normally socially conservative, they were normally royalists etc. Now it's been taken over by middle class people.
I knew an old leftist who was enraged when he read that workers were rejecting socialism because they were doing all right in the US as it was. His ideology mattered, not workers' well being.
A lobotomy?
He was a MK Ultra victim was'nt he ??!
We don't harass these people enough. I stand by that statement and YOU SHOULD TOO.
I feel like the first 5 seconds of this are going in Lotus Eaters out of context lol
Uncle Ted knew exactly what was up
Does anybody have any suggestions for me as to groups I can join who are actually standing up against this stuff? I'm tired of just listening/watching it happen and hoping it gets better. Our government obviously isn't doing anything about it. I'm not talking about far right groups or anything like that. I'm pretty centrist and just want the madness to stop, not to add to it. I used to actually be pretty extremely far left, but got out just before it went mad. So traditional leftism. When I say far left I mean I was the second in command of a no named group in Australia who organised peaceful public protests and rallies against corporate corruption within government. But like I said, once I saw our group being hijacked from within by neo-leftists I got out and moved back to the UK. Ironically it seems like the new "left" are pushing for more corruption and control so its tragic to me that they took over our genuinely good faith and well meaning movement and turned it into a propaganda machine that is pushing exactly what we tried so hard to rally against. I find it hard to believe that happened just by chance.
A few years to year Zero !
Pol Pot will turn in his grave.
Is this the new studio?! Or is this just the study of Benjamin Manor?
It's part of the new studio
@@themeangene nice! Lots better than those harsh purple backgrounds
AY UP LOTUS EATERS
No "Extracurricular" bombing Josh hmmmm??
But, but...what about line going up😢?
I wonder what great minds of a hundred years ago would think if they saw the TikTok videos of today...
Jolly Heretic Dutton enjoys discussing taboo subjects of genetics and personality. I heard about the tedpill because it was argued that the industrial revolution allowed the genetically sick to live longer and then create even more genetically sick people. The Idiocracy might not happen if there was no industrialization.
AIDS SKRILLEX! It's been so long...
I honestly don't understand why people think that other people can be changed, or that everyone can be molded into a certain mode of behavior. If you can't change someone, just find a mental place in which you are comfortable with that person. If you can't adapt, you should be cognisant and realize that you need to loosen up your relationship with that person, keep your distance until you can find a way to adapt. Adaptation is what everyone has to do when faced with uncomfortable situations.
Any relationship that is a 'one-way street' is an unhealthy relationship, so you should more than keep your distance, you should get right out of that cul-de-sac. Depends who that person is though; if close family, then yeah, your advice is somewhat valid. If not - get rid and seek out people who are less 'high maintenance'.
@@sunnyjim1355 Depends how you define "one way street". If you have to become a door mat to get along with a person, then yeah, avoid them.
On the other hand, if I think a person should be avoided because they don't allow me to be my "maximum free self", then rethinking my outlook might be healthier.
Aids Skrillex....haven't seen that ace for while.
I really loved this talk. But Carl, wearing a blazer with jeans just hurts my eyes.
ESL here so i dont know if blazer is right. still painfull
ironically this whole video is about needing to feel like your opponent is inferior. 'Most people need to look in the mirror' true indeed
Yankees gonna Yankee.
What makes a leftist you ask, well the pink hair, clown glasses and nose bolt, is usually a heads up for me.
Why am I getting weird fasho vids from the USA
Kaczynski's diagnoses of modern society and leftism are extremely accurate. His prescriptions for society, however, not so much.
I thought this'd be an interview with the AIDS Skrillex. :( I have seen neither greasy hair nor pockmarked hide of him since 2016. I want to know if he still works at Lucky's and if he still hates WYITE MAILZZ....
Aside from the murders, I have to say Ted Kaczynski was pretty based.
Who did he murder?
@@dangerouswitch1066Hugh Scrutton, a computer store owner. Thomas Mosser, an executive at a PR firm. Gilbert Murray, president of the California Forestry Association. He also injured 23 others, often leaving them permanently maimed.
@@dangerouswitch1066 You have access to the internet. Look it up.
@@araaraaura1887that's BASED