Mankind has forgotten his place in nature and that he is a part of nature, thus he has lost sight of his own true human nature. (We are the only animal that has to pay to live on this planet)
A proper name for what we as a species would likely be named by something on the outside of us looking in. It's hard for most people to look at what they do or what they are apart of. People are so good at justifying their own behavior, remaining blind to their own true actions. Being once married to a Covert Sociopath with sadistic and murderous intentions and behaviors, I have less optimism for their "healing." Sociopaths usually see that as weakness or vulnerability. Something they avoid at all costs. But they will exploit anyone who they reach out to, and then falls for aiding to help in their "healing" lol. I'm sure some on the low end of the spectrum can and do well to heal. I sure as hell don't, but I wish I had the answer. " There's too many men Too many people Making too many problems And not much love to go around It is a land of confusion"
To be fair, every being on the planet has to pay for living. Many of them with their life, many pay by giving up their comfort. Humans make the other creatures pay a bit more.
You can be more or less ethical on the scale but with the way the world is designed no one gets to be a saint. Suffering and cruelty on some level are inescapable. You also don't necessarily get 'points' for being vegan or antinatalist. Like, cool if you are those things I guess but the world remains a crappy place overall. I disagree with the self-loathing mentality many assume, it's not a solution. You have to wonder why does this world try so hard to make you detest yourself & others? Why do we have to feel guilty for merely existing? You could almost say there has been a large scale attack on the human soul in recent years. Record cases of depression & s___des, and for what? Many are thrust into terrible circumstances from birth where the hope of ever lifting oneself out of that pit is rather dim. We need to figure out a way to "graduate" from this place for good, as I don't believe there is a way to fundamentally fix it... the road towards genuine improvement is narrow and solitary...
Well said, one thing that really dismays me however is that everyone has retirement portfolios that are heavily invested in predatory multi national corporations that are the driving force behind the degradation of all that is decent and righteous. And when their proverbial house of cards falls down companies are rewarded with bailouts, thus the little people's retirement funds remain (tenuously) in tact, thus the politicians retain their power. Of course the sociopathic populace cries about "crooked banks and corporations" while their investments are tied up in the very same institutions.
It's so hard. So many people have been told that they are the problem over and over, that they believe their removal would improve anything. Healing is hard
I agree completely, daniel. our world, as it is, puts the sickest among us in the highest positions of power and influence and everyone else just follows the leader not realizing how sick the world really is.
It all operates as if it is a soul farm for suffering and misery huh? The lifting of the veil in this cycle is revealing this to more and more individuals at a rapidly increasing pace. I think this has happened countless cycles.
@@gstreetgames2530 I believe that is exactly what it is-most movies, music and a lot of pop culture in general is an energy harvesting mechanism from what I can gather. Keep people distracted and you can herd them in certain directions.. away from finding themselves and really living their dreams.
@@gstreetgames2530I think that's a good metaphor for capitalism, but I don't think there's legitimate proof that this planet really is a soul farm. I think it's more likely that, as humans have always done, we see our circumstances and try to explain it by invoking and projecting our observations and experience onto a supernatural canvas/gods/fundemantal settings of reality. We feel trapped, lifeless and as someone is harvesting our energy - seems to me like our current economic and political system. Just that it's not hyperdimensional archons draining you, it's 90 year old owners of everything you depend on if you're trapped in a modern society with no way to exit it and live more freely. I can't be sure either way, but to me personally, this view makes more sense.
@@carl8568 Indeed Carl, it is all distraction and attention management through fear among other things. The rat race is another huge aspect of it, keeping people paying to live and obsessed with survival, all while always 'dreaming' of being wealthy. The energy humanity gives off is either farmed directly, or it is at the very least used to build and maintain the playground for the parasites at the top of the pyramid.
Maybe not in the west but in other countries,espcially poorer countries,colonised countries who have been bearing the brunt of much of the wests indulgence and greed and not benefitted from some of the most basic developments and who still do not have things like water and many of the most basic utilities and services that many in the west take for granted,although there has always been a marginalised communities excluded from much of this "wealth". I mean most "indigenous communitites have known and been saying this for years,mainly about our complete devaluation of nature as nothing more than a resource to make money with. Its only that more "white"people who have been protected in many ways from certain revages of capitalism and who are now feeling more and more effected and realising their own indoctrination and trauma and are finally catching up with what other communitites have said for decades,probably centuries.
@@upendasana7857Wth dude, that's outragous wrong. "White" people as you put it are the first to have been ravaged and traumatised by capitalism. Wth in what world do you live? Hollywood? Don't you know European history at least a Little bit? Do they only show you the crowns and picket fences and money bills in your country? Wake up man, the West is NOT doing good. Social status is not an indication of wellbeing, as much as world domination does not bring happiness and right the wrongs of your past. I live in the "West" and this is not Utopia. People are fd up and miserable and fake. Come see us sometimes, yeah? 😅
We were good till we were hunter-gatherers. The moment farming was invented, the ego of 'ownership', family, clan & mindless-reproduction began. Thats why older societies had Shamans that tried to keep things natural.
Daniel, you are always on the side of children, and I see animals to be a lot like children in relationship to adult humans: helpless, innocent and frequently abused. I am curious about your attitude towards animals. I doubt such a kind soul as yourself would choose take part in animal abuse or exploitation, and I would imagine you would avoid that as much as possible. Thanks for another great video!
@@Mia-bh5eb Yes, but I was wondering on a more general scale if he partakes in their abuse and exploitation by eating them, or if his care is only towards animals he has had direct contact with.
Thank you Daniel, from Italy, totally resonating with this self-reflection. I also try my best, and deeply believe my only useful contribution is to keep on trying heal my trauma. Its true our specie is creepy, few days ago here in Italy the news were talking about: a girl raped in Sicily by a group of 18 years old, a bear with cubs in a natural park, not doing anything dangerous, killed by an illegal hunter (now tge cubs are alone in nature, who know how they will survive), mountains in Tuscany exploited since centuries for alabaster, for luxury market.... all this and much more slapped me in the face... I was only able to post my prayer, for everybody to read, sounded like this: dear Life Im so sorry and I apologize from the deep of my Heart for what my specie is doing Thank you as always for sharing your inner investigations. Its always very inspiring!
I am convinced that the root for all the wars going on in the world lies within us. That's why I'm also a firm believer that - I'm getting weird looks from friends for saying that - there is a Hitler in all of us. Just study Hitler's upbringing, his artistic interest and how he was at the right place at the right time to find people who like what he was saying. Jung even predicted the rise of the Nazi regimen. All the illness and ailments stars within. I think the best we can do is to stop searching outside and to be everyday a bit more calm, peaceful and less judgemental. Ultimately whateverr happens to us as a species is just nature taking its course and sometimes it takes a long time for it to restore balance. We humans are out of balance. That's all. And when things are out of balance all sorts of weird things are happening. All of which are necessary to restore balance. Healing trauma and being mindful is a good way to restore balanced because you allow things to follow their natural rhythm.
Yess! That is one way. It remindes me of something Terence McKenna used to talk about, this idea of the healer being someone who healed themselves, and who have to heal others in order to remain healed. I love that.
Well spoken, Daniel. For a moment there I was holding my breath as you were describing how relatively meaningless our contributions are. I would say don't forget every time you have vegan bologna you spare an innocent pig unspeakable suffering. Perhaps a drop in the ocean in the grand scheme of things but definitely more than a splash for the pig. For every child that wasn't needlessly conceived in desolation - a short and brutal lifetime omitted. I would be surprised if a fraction of people had the guts to look humanity right in the eye. I have oftentimes entertained the thought that we're actually in Hell.
though animals and plants are killed to grow the annual crops used to make fake meat and it's a highly processed industrial product. if anything the pastured animal feeding on perennial grasses, or the pig eating scraps, or the chicken eating slugs/insects is more benign. The problem is with industrial farming in its current form and industrial meat production is particularly bad, confining animals and feeding them industral grain from mono-crops. Can't get away from killing to get food in one way or another and it is part of nature. Nature can be very brutal actually.
For most of my life I bought the narrative that people were basically good, love would fix everything and strove to hang onto that paradigm despite copious evidence to the contrary all around me. A brief stint with a malignant narcissist in my later years brought about a 180° view change. Watching global wide behaviors and situations for the last several years it looks like humans are deteriorating not elevating, circling the drain or heading for a cliff. One benefit I see occasionally out of that is a level of humility for some that might be a starting point for introspection. We can hope.
Cruel people rise to the top and then influence our entire culture. That's why I think it's so important for people to think for themselves and question everything they're taught. Humans don't have sharp teeth like other meat eaters. By nature we're probably much more gentle but famine and natural disasters traumatized us and created parents who started traumatizing their children, and the cycle of abuse continues.
We can’t change the world but we can better consciously, do good to ourselves and to the ones that crosses our path, neighbors and community. Once my sociologist teacher said: “Evil is minority, they just make more noise”(trauma, bad) Good is majority. Unfortunately we are born in a system that is sick and we can only make our circles healthier and then that can expand as more people heal. Good video! Thank you! 🙏🏼🌟
These are things I've been mulling over for a while, I kind of came to the same conclusion that the best I can really do is try to improve myself, be kind to others, and limit any damage I may cause/contribute to via my participation in this globalized economy.
Your too humble.....all your videos are popular and you are seeing the world how many of us now see it. So don't stop. The wizard of Oz has been revealed to be just a weak fallible human being hiding behind the curtain.
I think we are suffering BPD right now as a species. The conflicting polarised messages we are receiving within the same and differing sectors (politics, psychology, spirituality even)… if you’re at any way tuned into the collective consciousness and wanting to learn it is completely valid that we are walking wounded and fragmented to hell being pulled in so many directions. Thanks for your work Daniel ❤
I would label us as more psychopathic that sociopathic but I guess that’s splitting hairs. I’ve thought of this since I was a child. I was pretty heavily abused by my family but also by the outside world. The point is, I don’t think that some psychological trauma ever heals fully. An analogy would be if someone was to lose their legs. Their body may heal from that event but they’ll never walk on their own again. Similar things happen to humans psyche after a traumatic event. We may be able to ethically move on after a traumatic event but we will never be that same person again.
@@MrTittybutt no NPD is not being a sociopath, NPD with being a sociopath paired up with micovalisum ( yeah i know i screw up the spelling on that, no need to point it out) Well all 3 create the dark triad. Narcissism is a diffent beast and is so over used in like the past 5 years people have forgotten the meaning But sociopaths are not cluster B either. Not in the old dsm5 or the newer DSM5TR as per say but its part of ASPD and thats cluster B
"If the history of humanity were the clinical case history of a single human being, the diagnosis would have to be: chronic paranoid delusions, a pathological propensity to commit murder and acts of extreme violence and cruelty against his perceived “enemies”-his own unconsciousness projected outward. Criminally insane, with a few brief lucid intervals." - Eckhart Tolle, "A New Earth"
And also, I really appreciate you, Daniel you say things that need to be said that most people are afraid to say. I love your videos, and I love what you give back.
I totally agree and I think that society can't change, just the individual can by taking responsability of his own inner growth and by trying healing his own traumas. I'm on my path since long time. I felt so alone until I found your channel. Thanks for your work. It really helps. Cheers from Italy👋👋
Omg. I have explained this to someone because of all of the pretend behavior amongst us humans and the punishment given to those who tell the truth and won’t fall in line with the script. I listened to a girl explaining her sociopathy and I realize it’s a survival technique. These videos are some of the most honest dialogue I’ve ever heard.
The obvious reason behind this is that sociopaths tend to be narcissistic, and thus competitive, and thus be more seen than "normal" people. The other reason for this is that a chain breaks at its weakest link, as people say, and thus, if you have a few major evil sociopaths, everyone else looks at them, sees them succeed and just gives up. The other other reason for this is that we tend to give power to sociopaths. I remember watching another video about this, I'll link it if i find it again. Overall, it doesn't seem like most people (even those who aren't sociopathic) really truly do value being treating others well.
Thanks Daniel from the bottom of my heart as a 21 year old navigating such heavy, burdensome and difficult topics as you address. As much as I'd like to say I can just take these problems on headstrong, the complexity and difficulty and nuance of navigating anything in the realm of psychotherapy, childhood trauma, and parental issues means that your videos give me some frame of mind with which to approach these problems, and these I see aplenty. At the same time your videos really help me find what I want in life and who I really am. 🍻
gosh daniel, this was so stimulating to me. i'm so excited by it. i've got so many thoughts. i hope i can do them justice. humanity. i mean, what could be more important, more and profound than really looking at us, really being honest about ourselves and who we are and how things really are. you say we are sociopaths and i agree, i've never heard that said before and it's inredibly harsh but that's the path of knowledge - we only take in facts we are capable of taking in. it's horrific to realise that you've been exploitative and cruel and selfish. but it's true! and it's not just this horrible thing, it's who you are, there is a whole cosmos around it, why you are that way, your history, the context you live in, your body, the millions of years of genetics, physics, everything is connected to it. and one big thought i had watching your video was - what people really need is a way to look at these things, they need to know how to look, how to shine a light, how to handle the immense emotions that will arise. you can't just tell someone they are a sociopath (i'm not criticising you here), you need to give them a framework for how to think about it, to give them the entire context. because that is what i think this all amounts to, our minds being covered up because it's so painful all the things we can see, our minds are simply too immense, too large, too powerful. our brains exploded, we're literally a microsecond after this huge explosion where we took over the planet, we suddenly had all this power, power of perception. and we're trying to find a way of handling it, not of what we can do but of what we can see. how do we look at all of this? just imagine trying to take it all in, i find it totally overwhelming. and yet that is the task at hand, we need to shine a light into every corner, we need to integrate so much, an integrate it into our bodies, not in this disconnected mental way of the old thinkers as if we weren't feeling things (probably just super rich people who manage to not feel the agony and terror that so many feel). god, the absolute horror of history. how are we going to look at it unflinchingly? our hearts, our poor hearts ... and i want to believe that this will happen. i've seen how people slowly digest things, how progress is made in insignificant ways, how something as small as buying a comfy chair can add up, all these little things add up. and even though parts of our minds are shut off from any engagement, because of trauma, and are thus shut off from any progress, we all find ways to move forward in the spaces we do have, which potentially gets us to the points where we feel strong enough and safe enough to start opening up those little packets walled off from hurt. isn't this what we are all doing? doesn't everyone look out at every moment and try to decide as a collective of body and mind - what's the move, what is the right move here? the idea that we're somehow totally lost, totally unable to move forward, makes no sense - just look at people's faces, everyone is there, everyone is going through things, engaging with things, even if they are missing a lot, which we all are, they are there, they are engaging, feeling and thinking at the same time, trying to figure out what the hell is going on and what to do about it. anyway. thank you for the video. i hope you might consider that we are getting there, we can't help but get there, we are all trying, trying and making progress, even if we are lost and destructive. stay well.
I feel like we share a similar brain because I have been thinking this for a long time. Great title for a video! Your channel is very underrated, and I get why.
I’ll kill myself if I can get the courage. They say the hardest part about needing help is asking for it. That’s not true, it’s the fact that there is no help. No one’s going to swoop in and save you.
Daniel, we're in the ''everyone's a judge-jury-executioner'' stage of our ''healing'' I thought I'd point it out for those sociopaths who cannot see themselves, yet. :) x
Daniel, If everyone self reflected and changed a small part of their own behavior, there would be a shift in the collective. It’s hard to work on yourself and people live with regret.
You have been thru so very much that all the work you have done has given you one of the purest hearts I have seen in a very, very, very long time. You have learned to honestly love yourself and that has enabled you to love others without having it destroy you. You’ve learned to forgive yourself and because of the empathy you feel for yourself it has allowed you to forgive others because you desire freedom more than fear et al. You also have a clear conscience that doesn't get to torment you and you know peace. You've worked very, very hard for a very, very long time. You've been broken and shattered, then rebuilt a new in love not rejection, hate, abandonment and misery. i just need you to know how extremely proud I am of you Vickie
this exactly what i've observed on my own. In general, a one to one interaction is most of the times pleasent; but for one to many, it's like interacting with hienas. The group seems to feedback its collective traumas to generate people who do damage to any outside the group.
At least once per video I find myself mumbling or thinking “I love you Daniel.” I just appreciate you so much. Thank you for nourishing my soul the last few years. You’re a true friend to the sociopathic species, myself included.
I don't identify as a sociopath, but I definitely can relate to how a person can become so absorbed into their career and identity of being successful to justify just about anything. I was fortunate to have really good support of family and friends, but many people I know were not so lucky and their behavior was reckless and transparent and no doubt clinically sociopathic. These were good people trying to be something they weren't because of underlying trauma, especially that overjection and talent unrecognized.
Thank you, you are mindblowing to me and i wish you are aware of how much healing and goodness you are bringing to peaple who are open to your knowledge
Ur titles n topics r sooo appealing n diverse, some may say ur words r grim or depressing (cus most ppl dono how to reflect or contemplate som real/heavy issues), but as any true artist must simply b themselves n practice their art space how they see it n show it off to the world, well congrats cus ur doin just that. I totally see this aspect of sociopathy in humanity as a whol n i too believ healing is possible.
Thanks Daniel, I love your content. I especially love this one because I agree. I’m a 39 year old gay man. In some ways I feel so young, but I also feel so old, and like it wouldn’t even matter if I died. My Mom would miss me, and my grandma. But I don’t think many others would. I have distant relatives who I once considered my allies. But they’re all heteronormative homophobic folk, and they like to make fun of me behind my back. They are small minded, lower frequency vibrating primates. You’re a great person. I wish I knew you in the real world.
Every time I hear about a suicide I'm traumatized. I understand that many of us want to end the pain I believe we need to find ways to mitigate our pain in the world and inside ourselves. I agree with your analysis about humanity as an organism that is sociopathic. I have a really hard time being part of it and being in it right now. I also know that as a species and individually we can heal. We have the potential to use our power for good or for evil and many of us are choosing it for evil or just have lost the drive.
You are spot on. We are a sociopath, always been. That's what's praised rewarded in our current society. That's what gets you ahead. There is a study that most CEOs are sociopaths. Sociopaths are worshiped (Bezos, Musk, Jobs, etc.). At the same time, when you try to heal, you become an outcast. People don't connect to you anymore because they don't understand you aspirations. You find less and less spaces that welcome you and are designed for a healing mind. You best bet is finding you kind, other healing people, support each other and be there for each other.
Humanity is a sociopath! ha! I love when you say something controversial and follow up by saying uh!!! I love your brave ideas and theories...They show courage and a healthy intellect that can still apply healthy critical thinking: something that is really rare these days! Thank you for your contribution Daniel
Regarding land use and exploitation, while that's true on the vast majority of human activity and history, it's not everything. Specifically the topic of permaculture gains more track recently about using the natural resources in a more balanced and less abusive way. It has more emphasis on sustainability, growth, resiliency and rewilding rather than (short term) efficiency and pure production. Like the urban food forests or community gardens popping up recently in many places (there's one in NYC at an abandon rail somewhere). Like there's beauty in every person, there's hope for humanity to truly grow and heal as a species. On the one hand there's so much pollution while on the other growing initiatives of regulation and preservation. The problem is that the majority of society is still sociopathic, which means the healthy parts are small kernels that have an uphill battle. Not impossible but indeed difficult and long to carry through.
Dear Daniel, I am an introvert, a THINKER, like you, I have chosen to delve deep into the psychic of my self and others in society. Your essay on psychopathy is spot on in my opinion. Those of us who seek truth and harmony shall move on to another space in time and where we are together with loving people with whom we can relate to and love to our fullest extent. will every one be invited to this new world, I don't know we will see. Captain Ward D.C.
Thank You, Daniel ❤❤❤ I joined your Patreon again, I appreciate you so much. Everyone that can please stop giving to corporations. McDonald’s, Walmart, Buckstar… etc Let’s give to ourselves, close friends, and families instead! Don’t give a dime when asked to do so by large cooperations or on manipulating TV commercials asking you to carry the weight of the world. Just a thought ❤❤❤ Peace and Love 🤍🤍🤍
I think antisocial behavior and psychopathy and sociopathy are solvable problems. Its just that we don't always know how. In the wild we reward and enable toxic behaviors and sociopathy and to be honest even healthy people today have hard time with mental health. Let alone people who have been told the world is cruel in their early stages of childhood. On interpersonal level we have usually emotional connection, but when it comes to international relations and business and anything of systemic nature, the emotions are taken out of equation and it shows.
Agree for the most part, but we need more of the practical how to's on how to heal ourselves. Nothing else is gonna get us out this mess quicker. And honestly I'm only concerned with healing my own trauma than saving the world at this point.
An Italian philosopher of science who specializes in popularizing the science of evolution says that according to biological classification homo sapiens is an invasive species: ”An invasive species is an organism that is not indigenous, or native, to a particular area. Invasive species can cause great economic and environmental harm to the new area. To be invasive, a species must adapt to the new area easily. It must reproduce quickly. It must harm property, the economy, or the native plants and animals of the region. An invasive species reduces biodiversity of the invaded area through overpopulation and exploitative unrestricted use of resources.” That's who we are, just another invasive species.
Hi Daniel, thank you for your wisdom. I’m an autistic person who works in law enforcement and who loves the natural world. I share your concerns. It’s my feeling we are only hurting ourselves, and if humanity disappeared tomorrow the natural world would once again flourish. It amazes me how giving and compassionate Mother Nature is. But I feel this natural compassion makes us as a species blind with conceit. I hope humanity wakes up before it’s too late.
My college professor took his own life and another student found him. I do not know the reason. I have 2 life threatening autoimmune illnesses and if I was the one who found him in the office that day, it could have caused me a flare of the illnesses so severe that I could have passed away too. The ''no one will care or be traumatized if I do it'' mentality is wrong, you have no idea who will be affected and to what degree. Of course someone can say ''I will do it and I don't care about anyone else'', but that's a pretty messed up mentality coming from someone who claims that they do it to save the planet, isn't it?
Compassion is a superpower! Free Will is an illusion and so bigotry against anyone is actually self-hatred. If you lack empathy for farmed animals, you lack it for yourself too. All oppression is interconnected. Oppression thrives off isolation. Solidarity for all victims of injustice makes us strong. AnimalRights are an extension of, not in competition with HumanRights. "The elevation of 'people' over 'animals' constructs a category of sentient living beings without rights. “As long as that category exists, the process of 'dehumanization' will continue to be deployed to push one or another group of people into it". -Pattrice Jones, AfterShock Confronting Trauma in a Violent World Be Vegan.
It's the attempts to reason that this is in any way just or fair or rational. That's what bothers me. People want to feel good while stepping on others. They want to pretend that they don't do it, that they're doing what they can, all while the silk road comes to their door. It's hard to imagine that humanity will ever be satisfied in its expanding conquest of the material world.
Hi Daniel, you read Derrick Jenson's " A Language Older than Words"? “I had broken the most basic commandment of our culture: Thou shalt pretend there is nothing wrong.” ― Derrick Jensen, A Language Older Than Words
It all boils down to life being stressful. People act in stupid ways because life is stressful. We constantly want an escape from reality and we’ll happily poison ourselves and the planet in order to escape reality. Having kids is great if you do it with the right person. If you do it with the wrong person, god bless you.
I concur. I am busted from life, my mom left the family when I was 7. ( for my dads bf). I was called home from school told, your b**** mother has walked out. If you don’t like it pack your bag and get the f *** out. Then my bro was sent away, at twelve to a half way house.( he’s in prison still). My older sister died, ( was murdered) my sister a year older than me died. My dad was all I had. I have still got a bag packed. I became codependent. Got very psychotic. Still can’t handle the truth. I hate this life. The culture does not meet the needs of the people it’s not your friend. I have spent every cent I made working as a registered nurse, to figure out the maze of my losses. Disorganized attachment is painful. BPD, anxiety, depression Yeah Daniel I agree. Gues my folks had no clue, I had a future.
You are l think almost unique in the way you deconstruct the neodemonology that characterises all social disfunction as the outcome of an irredeemably evil agent. I'm not naive. I know that there are some very dangerous people out there but they are few. I hope.
Summed up a lot of my thoughts in this one. If I could give my younger self some advice it would of been knuckle down and own 5-10 years of your life in this hectic, distracting time to be alive. Find yourself, (I think for most ego slowly declines as we get older) and once we find our true selves I think generosity would come naturally to us in our own special ways. Just look at Daniel and his library of videos. And is probably helping more people now then he ever could of 1on1....when your sole purpose is to make this world a better place. Welder Luke who dgaf
100% agree with all you've said here. Unfortunately if the love of my life...who ive been with for 6 years...wanted to have children. I don't know. Unless we adopt. We would both be wounded to part ways on our relationship...but I don't want to repeat the trauma of having a bitter resentful parent.
Listen dont care about ur videos being popular or not, it will come to those who it arrives to, meaning u help those who actually need it, thank u, thank u for being on my youtube, thank you for mastering your self and share others how to actually FIX themselfs. I am so absolutely tired and exhausted of developing things in the present such as a false self, negative emotions, resentment for my self so on so on, but i dont actually give a fuck because that is only made from the things in my outerworld, MY outer world iS SHITTT, trying to stay honest in a world full of lies, trying to love in a world full of hate, trying to be my self for once? In a world full of monsters, im tired but it wont get fucking near to me any fucking more man
I'm one of those that says sociopaths need to be removed from society. Depending on what crimes they've committed, they'd have the option of jail (although jails should be more humane) or rehabilitation centers where they can work on healing, in a healthy environment where they can eat healthy food, no unnecessary rules, enjoy the sunshine, and discuss their issues with a good therapist. Child molesters, rapists and serial killers need to be kept away for everyone else's sake, and definitely shouldn't be able to reproduce. I don't believe all the hard core criminal types can develop a conscience or empathy, but certainly a lot of people diagnosed as Sociopath can, and ALL of them can at least improve. Love the video, great topic : D
A question I have is lf we are all traumatized how is it that some of us fight extremely hard to resist causing harm to others while some others don't? What do you make of repeat offenders? serial killers? politicians?? children molesters?There are people I know personally who are very bright and very aware of their own trauma and the pain they are likely to cause others by engaging in certain behaviors but still gleefully do it while carefully trying to avoid getting caught. What about these people?
He hasn’t met or interacted with those people in adulthood personally, consistently, I gather. What do you think? I think they think it’s weak for people to want to heal on their own terms, without their input of harm. They want to see if they can immortalize themselves in the victim’s storyline because they’re so detached from the possibility of life after death bringing ultimate justice
If the mental care and justice systems could reflect into "why these people became sociopaths" then maybe they could realise some painful truths about the role they also play into creating these behaviours and maybe then could create an environment that would support healing instead of punishment or institutionalisation.
Of course there needs to be a spectrum of experience between good and bad, but do you think it’s possible to move the slider on the bad side more towards the middle? For example ending wars? Do you think it's possibleko live in a world of peace? A heaven on earth type of thing? I imagine it would look like harmonious relationships between all people, sharing of resources, a societal focus on people rather than profits, equal rights for all, no group deserving different treatment than others, understanding and compassion instead of judgement and condemnation, acceptance instead of rejection and ostracization, encouragement instead of coercion or demonization etc
Just because someone "loves" you doesn't mean you should live for them. If people can't connect in a meaningful way while you're alive and need them, then what's the use of them "loving" the person (which gets expressed when the person is dead)? People sometimes reach out for help only to be ignored and dismissed, no one takes their pain seriously, and if they end up dead - "if only they'd said something"... I understand you started the argument with suicide being the only means of not contributing to the damage that's done to the planet, but I don't think anyone would actually seriously consider killing themselves for that very reason, it's purely theoretical. When people do commit suicide it is because they suffer and see no way out. Not doing it because it would traumatise others is, again, speaking quite crudely, putting someone's needs ahead of your own and suffering for someone else's sake. Which is more trauma. I'm not for suicide, but I don't think causing others pain should be *the* reason not to do it.
Suicide is a right of bodily autonomy. Without suicide, we can be forced to endure that which is beyond comprehension -- from chronic pain, to terminal illness, or a torturous life.
There is also an interesting blog post in Mad in America titled The Suicide Police: Harm Disguised As Help, speaking about the issues we mentioned here, including misunderstanding suicidal people, marginalisation and assigning them motives they don't have (which is even reflected in the language, as "commit" suggests a crime), it's basically something that's been called suicidism (by analogy to ableism, sexism, etc.) and their inability to get help from mental health professionals
4:00 that's the road to your own destruction. Taking responsibility for what you did not cause. You're being guilt tripped, gaslit, manipulated. For years I ran in circles of groups of people that researched all sorts of aspects of 'society.' Truthers, conspiracy theorists. Call them what you will. Most are simply driven by empathy and the desire to fix things. Better things, fight evil. And there is only one conclusion on my opinion: the 'system' is set up to be this way. It's not disfunctional, it's doing exactly what it's suppost to do. And you cannot change it. That path leads you to mental ruin. It's like joining the most evil corporation, starting at the bottom. To change it from the inside out. You will fail. You'll get nowwhere near a shotcaller position. That is how 'society' is set up too. You cannot change it. Most people don't even participate, good thing too, becauase that's not how it works. Your actions have zero impact. But feel free to take responsibility. I know it's well meant. But you're probably not even part of it. Let alone responsible. It's a waste of your life.
Being treated like a doormat is one way to turn someone into a "thing", after which you can justify any form of treatment. The fight for validity isn't worth our energy. Find what works for you as best you can and leave the rest to squabble over the scraps.
Perhaps it would be worthwhile to ponder this idea from the perspectives of capital and the family unit. There has to be something about these things, arguably the most consequential parts of our society, that drive the behavior exhibited by the whole. If investors weren't running from the inflation boogeyman, for example, what would that mean? If we didn't have nuclear families, what would that look like? It sure seems like parts of society have split off from itself and are festering just like for the struggling individual. The allure of endless highs and riches, only to discover later that what was pushed down to achieve those benefits comes due...
Well, there's the psychological aspect and looking at one's and other's self, for us to feel good and healthy, and I guess be healthy. Having toyed a bit with evolutionary algorithms, thinking about game theory and what not... Nature is brutal, and we came from nature, some other species could also try to ravage it's environments if they could, but we got the brains and hands for it. That doesn't mean that we have to play the brutal rules of the nature, it's our choice, but I guess one needs to navigate this brutality in a way one feels good about themselves. One could say that being social and cooperative is also an advantageous trait for humans, and I guess that's why we are not 100% sociopathic. But unfortunately from game theoretic perspective sometimes it's more advantageous to be an asshole (try to look into evolution of trust on search engines). And I think if a there's a way in nature to have an advantage over one another, something by random chance might try to do so, even it's not a moral thing to do. But again while we might be defined by nature, we also define ourselves and make our own decisions during our lives (assuming free will exists), so it's a question of personal choice (or society pushing for good behavior, or general mental health). I think we as society. are facing a choice - either be less selfish and cooperate (and make sure we survive the climate change, or tackle it somehow for example), or let's go with the tragedy of the commons and race to the bottom chasing ours selfishness. But it's also true that maybe common folk don't have much to say here and we can only live our lives trying to be happy with choices we make, trying perhaps to heal to be a better people to others, just for the sake of it.
I am part of a community that sees Earth as a Soul Trap\Lure. This is a bad place made by a bad creator for a bad reason... Accepting this actually makes life more enjoyable or at least less overwhelming.
Psychiatrists ask if you have suicidal or homicidal ideationns but they never ask do you feel safe and is someone hurting you for a reason.
great point
THIS! 👆
They care about the symptoms, not what caused them.
@@BL-sd2qw so they can medicate you and disregard the violence 😳
@@laraparks7018 Exactly.
Mankind has forgotten his place in nature and that he is a part of nature, thus he has lost sight of his own true human nature.
(We are the only animal that has to pay to live on this planet)
A proper name for what we as a species would likely be named by something on the outside of us looking in. It's hard for most people to look at what they do or what they are apart of.
People are so good at justifying their own behavior, remaining blind to their own true actions. Being once married to a Covert Sociopath with sadistic and murderous intentions and behaviors, I have less optimism for their "healing." Sociopaths usually see that as weakness or vulnerability. Something they avoid at all costs. But they will exploit anyone who they reach out to, and then falls for aiding to help in their "healing" lol. I'm sure some on the low end of the spectrum can and do well to heal. I sure as hell don't, but I wish I had the answer.
" There's too many men
Too many people
Making too many problems
And not much love to go around
It is a land of confusion"
To be fair, every being on the planet has to pay for living.
Many of them with their life, many pay by giving up their comfort. Humans make the other creatures pay a bit more.
You can be more or less ethical on the scale but with the way the world is designed no one gets to be a saint. Suffering and cruelty on some level are inescapable. You also don't necessarily get 'points' for being vegan or antinatalist. Like, cool if you are those things I guess but the world remains a crappy place overall. I disagree with the self-loathing mentality many assume, it's not a solution. You have to wonder why does this world try so hard to make you detest yourself & others? Why do we have to feel guilty for merely existing? You could almost say there has been a large scale attack on the human soul in recent years. Record cases of depression & s___des, and for what? Many are thrust into terrible circumstances from birth where the hope of ever lifting oneself out of that pit is rather dim. We need to figure out a way to "graduate" from this place for good, as I don't believe there is a way to fundamentally fix it... the road towards genuine improvement is narrow and solitary...
Well said, one thing that really dismays me however is that everyone has retirement portfolios that are heavily invested in predatory multi national corporations that are the driving force behind the degradation of all that is decent and righteous. And when their proverbial house of cards falls down companies are rewarded with bailouts, thus the little people's retirement funds remain (tenuously) in tact, thus the politicians retain their power. Of course the sociopathic populace cries about "crooked banks and corporations" while their investments are tied up in the very same institutions.
It's so hard. So many people have been told that they are the problem over and over, that they believe their removal would improve anything. Healing is hard
Any good we do contributes to the greater good, and that's the best that we can do.
Narrow and solitary.
People are over socialized. Just look at how anti social "social media" is.
Philosophy->relationship to the truth->emotional maturity->inner significance->impossible to manipulate
I agree completely, daniel. our world, as it is, puts the sickest among us in the highest positions of power and influence and everyone else just follows the leader not realizing how sick the world really is.
It all operates as if it is a soul farm for suffering and misery huh? The lifting of the veil in this cycle is revealing this to more and more individuals at a rapidly increasing pace. I think this has happened countless cycles.
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I believe that is exactly what it is-most movies, music and a lot of pop culture in general is an energy harvesting mechanism from what I can gather. Keep people distracted and you can herd them in certain directions.. away from finding themselves and really living their dreams.
@@gstreetgames2530I think that's a good metaphor for capitalism, but I don't think there's legitimate proof that this planet really is a soul farm. I think it's more likely that, as humans have always done, we see our circumstances and try to explain it by invoking and projecting our observations and experience onto a supernatural canvas/gods/fundemantal settings of reality. We feel trapped, lifeless and as someone is harvesting our energy - seems to me like our current economic and political system. Just that it's not hyperdimensional archons draining you, it's 90 year old owners of everything you depend on if you're trapped in a modern society with no way to exit it and live more freely. I can't be sure either way, but to me personally, this view makes more sense.
@@carl8568 Indeed Carl, it is all distraction and attention management through fear among other things. The rat race is another huge aspect of it, keeping people paying to live and obsessed with survival, all while always 'dreaming' of being wealthy. The energy humanity gives off is either farmed directly, or it is at the very least used to build and maintain the playground for the parasites at the top of the pyramid.
Ive never seen a person that has so interesting and reasonable thoughts like Daniel
I've met some but not many
Maybe not in the west but in other countries,espcially poorer countries,colonised countries who have been bearing the brunt of much of the wests indulgence and greed and not benefitted from some of the most basic developments and who still do not have things like water and many of the most basic utilities and services that many in the west take for granted,although there has always been a marginalised communities excluded from much of this "wealth".
I mean most "indigenous communitites have known and been saying this for years,mainly about our complete devaluation of nature as nothing more than a resource to make money with.
Its only that more "white"people who have been protected in many ways from certain revages of capitalism and who are now feeling more and more effected and realising their own indoctrination and trauma and are finally catching up with what other communitites have said for decades,probably centuries.
Everything he says makes sense... that's how you know he doesn't belong here. 😅
@@upendasana7857Wth dude, that's outragous wrong. "White" people as you put it are the first to have been ravaged and traumatised by capitalism. Wth in what world do you live? Hollywood? Don't you know European history at least a Little bit? Do they only show you the crowns and picket fences and money bills in your country? Wake up man, the West is NOT doing good. Social status is not an indication of wellbeing, as much as world domination does not bring happiness and right the wrongs of your past. I live in the "West" and this is not Utopia. People are fd up and miserable and fake. Come see us sometimes, yeah? 😅
We were good till we were hunter-gatherers.
The moment farming was invented, the ego of 'ownership', family, clan & mindless-reproduction began.
Thats why older societies had Shamans that tried to keep things natural.
Daniel, you are always on the side of children, and I see animals to be a lot like children in relationship to adult humans: helpless, innocent and frequently abused.
I am curious about your attitude towards animals. I doubt such a kind soul as yourself would choose take part in animal abuse or exploitation, and I would imagine you would avoid that as much as possible.
Thanks for another great video!
He talks about having a pet duck that he loved as a child in a different video
and he also talked about collecting butterflies and trying to bring them home with him but the ants got to them @@Mia-bh5eb
@@Mia-bh5eb Yes, but I was wondering on a more general scale if he partakes in their abuse and exploitation by eating them, or if his care is only towards animals he has had direct contact with.
My mom is sociopath,she just literally hates me out of her own perspective about herself.
You have nailed it. Explains humanity well.
Thank you Daniel, from Italy, totally resonating with this self-reflection. I also try my best, and deeply believe my only useful contribution is to keep on trying heal my trauma. Its true our specie is creepy, few days ago here in Italy the news were talking about: a girl raped in Sicily by a group of 18 years old, a bear with cubs in a natural park, not doing anything dangerous, killed by an illegal hunter (now tge cubs are alone in nature, who know how they will survive), mountains in Tuscany exploited since centuries for alabaster, for luxury market.... all this and much more slapped me in the face... I was only able to post my prayer, for everybody to read, sounded like this: dear Life Im so sorry and I apologize from the deep of my Heart for what my specie is doing
Thank you as always for sharing your inner investigations. Its always very inspiring!
I am convinced that the root for all the wars going on in the world lies within us. That's why I'm also a firm believer that - I'm getting weird looks from friends for saying that - there is a Hitler in all of us. Just study Hitler's upbringing, his artistic interest and how he was at the right place at the right time to find people who like what he was saying. Jung even predicted the rise of the Nazi regimen. All the illness and ailments stars within. I think the best we can do is to stop searching outside and to be everyday a bit more calm, peaceful and less judgemental. Ultimately whateverr happens to us as a species is just nature taking its course and sometimes it takes a long time for it to restore balance. We humans are out of balance. That's all. And when things are out of balance all sorts of weird things are happening. All of which are necessary to restore balance. Healing trauma and being mindful is a good way to restore balanced because you allow things to follow their natural rhythm.
I share your thoughts and understand your feelings very well. I also write from Italy and I wish you the best.
This brought me to tears.
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I'm from Italy too and I totally agree with you. Glad that some italian people follow Daniel's videos.
I agree. "Humanity is a sociopath" is a phrase i will use now and quote you.
Yess! That is one way. It remindes me of something Terence McKenna used to talk about, this idea of the healer being someone who healed themselves, and who have to heal others in order to remain healed. I love that.
Well spoken, Daniel. For a moment there I was holding my breath as you were describing how relatively meaningless our contributions are. I would say don't forget every time you have vegan bologna you spare an innocent pig unspeakable suffering. Perhaps a drop in the ocean in the grand scheme of things but definitely more than a splash for the pig.
For every child that wasn't needlessly conceived in desolation - a short and brutal lifetime omitted.
I would be surprised if a fraction of people had the guts to look humanity right in the eye. I have oftentimes entertained the thought that we're actually in Hell.
though animals and plants are killed to grow the annual crops used to make fake meat and it's a highly processed industrial product.
if anything the pastured animal feeding on perennial grasses, or the pig eating scraps, or the chicken eating slugs/insects is more benign. The problem is with industrial farming in its current form and industrial meat production is particularly bad, confining animals and feeding them industral grain from mono-crops.
Can't get away from killing to get food in one way or another and it is part of nature. Nature can be very brutal actually.
For most of my life I bought the narrative that people were basically good, love would fix everything and strove to hang onto that paradigm despite copious evidence to the contrary all around me. A brief stint with a malignant narcissist in my later years brought about a 180° view change. Watching global wide behaviors and situations for the last several years it looks like humans are deteriorating not elevating, circling the drain or heading for a cliff. One benefit I see occasionally out of that is a level of humility for some that might be a starting point for introspection. We can hope.
Cruel people rise to the top and then influence our entire culture. That's why I think it's so important for people to think for themselves and question everything they're taught.
Humans don't have sharp teeth like other meat eaters. By nature we're probably much more gentle but famine and natural disasters traumatized us and created parents who started traumatizing their children, and the cycle of abuse continues.
Who taught that to you. Why did you hold on to that.
We can’t change the world but we can better consciously, do good to ourselves and to the ones that crosses our path, neighbors and community.
Once my sociologist teacher said: “Evil is minority, they just make more noise”(trauma, bad)
Good is majority. Unfortunately we are born in a system that is sick and we can only make our circles healthier and then that can expand as more people heal.
Good video! Thank you! 🙏🏼🌟
These are things I've been mulling over for a while, I kind of came to the same conclusion that the best I can really do is try to improve myself, be kind to others, and limit any damage I may cause/contribute to via my participation in this globalized economy.
Your too humble.....all your videos are popular and you are seeing the world how many of us now see it. So don't stop. The wizard of Oz has been revealed to be just a weak fallible human being hiding behind the curtain.
I think we are suffering BPD right now as a species. The conflicting polarised messages we are receiving within the same and differing sectors (politics, psychology, spirituality even)… if you’re at any way tuned into the collective consciousness and wanting to learn it is completely valid that we are walking wounded and fragmented to hell being pulled in so many directions. Thanks for your work Daniel ❤
Incredibly nuanced and strong, subtle and wise. Further thing-ifying people who have been gone totally numb helps no one.
I would label us as more psychopathic that sociopathic but I guess that’s splitting hairs.
I’ve thought of this since I was a child. I was pretty heavily abused by my family but also by the outside world.
The point is, I don’t think that some psychological trauma ever heals fully. An analogy would be if someone was to lose their legs. Their body may heal from that event but they’ll never walk on their own again.
Similar things happen to humans psyche after a traumatic event. We may be able to ethically move on after a traumatic event but we will never be that same person again.
I prefer the term narcissistic. All 3 terms are in the same "cluster B" grouping I think.
@@MrTittybutt no NPD is not being a sociopath, NPD with being a sociopath paired up with micovalisum ( yeah i know i screw up the spelling on that, no need to point it out)
Well all 3 create the dark triad.
Narcissism is a diffent beast and is so over used in like the past 5 years people have forgotten the meaning
But sociopaths are not cluster B either.
Not in the old dsm5 or the newer DSM5TR as per say but its part of ASPD and thats cluster B
Agreed about the analogy of losing one's legs. Trauma nevers heals fully and if it does come close it takes a lot of factors to do that
Probably all of the above & then some!
"If the history of humanity were the clinical case history of a single human being, the diagnosis would have to be: chronic paranoid delusions, a pathological propensity to commit murder and acts of extreme violence and cruelty against his perceived “enemies”-his own unconsciousness projected outward. Criminally insane, with a few brief lucid intervals." - Eckhart Tolle, "A New Earth"
Tolle is narcissistic sociopath
And also, I really appreciate you, Daniel you say things that need to be said that most people are afraid to say. I love your videos, and I love what you give back.
I totally agree and I think that society can't change, just the individual can by taking responsability of his own inner growth and by trying healing his own traumas. I'm on my path since long time. I felt so alone until I found your channel. Thanks for your work. It really helps. Cheers from Italy👋👋
Omg. I have explained this to someone because of all of the pretend behavior amongst us humans and the punishment given to those who tell the truth and won’t fall in line with the script.
I listened to a girl explaining her sociopathy and I realize it’s a survival technique.
These videos are some of the most honest dialogue I’ve ever heard.
The obvious reason behind this is that sociopaths tend to be narcissistic, and thus competitive, and thus be more seen than "normal" people.
The other reason for this is that a chain breaks at its weakest link, as people say, and thus, if you have a few major evil sociopaths, everyone else looks at them, sees them succeed and just gives up.
The other other reason for this is that we tend to give power to sociopaths. I remember watching another video about this, I'll link it if i find it again.
Overall, it doesn't seem like most people (even those who aren't sociopathic) really truly do value being treating others well.
Thanks Daniel from the bottom of my heart as a 21 year old navigating such heavy, burdensome and difficult topics as you address. As much as I'd like to say I can just take these problems on headstrong, the complexity and difficulty and nuance of navigating anything in the realm of psychotherapy, childhood trauma, and parental issues means that your videos give me some frame of mind with which to approach these problems, and these I see aplenty. At the same time your videos really help me find what I want in life and who I really am. 🍻
gosh daniel, this was so stimulating to me. i'm so excited by it.
i've got so many thoughts. i hope i can do them justice.
humanity. i mean, what could be more important, more and
profound than really looking at us, really being honest about
ourselves and who we are and how things really are. you say
we are sociopaths and i agree, i've never heard that said
before and it's inredibly harsh but that's the path of
knowledge - we only take in facts we are capable of taking
in. it's horrific to realise that you've been exploitative
and cruel and selfish. but it's true! and it's not just this
horrible thing, it's who you are, there is a whole cosmos
around it, why you are that way, your history, the context
you live in, your body, the millions of years of genetics,
physics, everything is connected to it.
and one big thought i had watching your video was - what
people really need is a way to look at these things, they
need to know how to look, how to shine a light, how to handle
the immense emotions that will arise. you can't just tell
someone they are a sociopath (i'm not criticising you here),
you need to give them a framework for how to think about it,
to give them the entire context. because that is what i think
this all amounts to, our minds being covered up because it's
so painful all the things we can see, our minds are simply
too immense, too large, too powerful. our brains exploded,
we're literally a microsecond after this huge explosion where
we took over the planet, we suddenly had all this power,
power of perception. and we're trying to find a way of
handling it, not of what we can do but of what we can see.
how do we look at all of this? just imagine trying to take
it all in, i find it totally overwhelming. and yet that is
the task at hand, we need to shine a light into every corner,
we need to integrate so much, an integrate it into our
bodies, not in this disconnected mental way of the old
thinkers as if we weren't feeling things (probably just
super rich people who manage to not feel the agony and
terror that so many feel). god, the absolute horror of
history. how are we going to look at it unflinchingly? our
hearts, our poor hearts ...
and i want to believe that this will happen. i've seen how
people slowly digest things, how progress is made in
insignificant ways, how something as small as buying a
comfy chair can add up, all these little things add up.
and even though parts of our minds are shut off from any
engagement, because of trauma, and are thus shut off from
any progress, we all find ways to move forward in the spaces
we do have, which potentially gets us to the points where
we feel strong enough and safe enough to start opening up
those little packets walled off from hurt. isn't this what
we are all doing? doesn't everyone look out at every moment
and try to decide as a collective of body and mind - what's
the move, what is the right move here? the idea that we're
somehow totally lost, totally unable to move forward, makes
no sense - just look at people's faces, everyone is there,
everyone is going through things, engaging with things,
even if they are missing a lot, which we all are, they are
there, they are engaging, feeling and thinking at the same
time, trying to figure out what the hell is going on and
what to do about it.
anyway. thank you for the video. i hope you might consider
that we are getting there, we can't help but get there,
we are all trying, trying and making progress, even if we
are lost and destructive.
stay well.
I am so grateful for your presence in my life.
I feel like we share a similar brain because I have been thinking this for a long time. Great title for a video! Your channel is very underrated, and I get why.
Thank you again, Daniel, so well said as always. I appreciate you so much
im currently at 3rd year of my study in psychology.I want to thank you for that enormous food for thought that you continiously giving us!!
I’ll kill myself if I can get the courage. They say the hardest part about needing help is asking for it. That’s not true, it’s the fact that there is no help. No one’s going to swoop in and save you.
i think you may like to look at this video to see Daniel’s perspective.
you can heal.
be well
Daniel, we're in the ''everyone's a judge-jury-executioner'' stage of our ''healing'' I thought I'd point it out for those sociopaths who cannot see themselves, yet. :) x
Nature would agree with these messages lol.
Daniel,
If everyone self reflected and changed a small part of their own behavior, there would be a shift in the collective.
It’s hard to work on yourself and people live with regret.
You have been thru so very much that all the work you have done has given you one of the purest hearts I have seen in a very, very, very long time. You have learned to honestly love yourself and that has enabled you to love others without having it destroy you. You’ve learned to forgive yourself and because of the empathy you feel for yourself it has allowed you to forgive others because you desire freedom more than fear et al. You also have a clear conscience that doesn't get to torment you and you know peace. You've worked very, very hard for a very, very long time. You've been broken and shattered, then rebuilt a new in love not rejection, hate, abandonment and misery. i just need you to know how extremely proud I am of you
Vickie
this exactly what i've observed on my own. In general, a one to one interaction is most of the times pleasent; but for one to many, it's like interacting with hienas. The group seems to feedback its collective traumas to generate people who do damage to any outside the group.
At least once per video I find myself mumbling or thinking “I love you Daniel.” I just appreciate you so much. Thank you for nourishing my soul the last few years. You’re a true friend to the sociopathic species, myself included.
Outstanding video, Daniel! One of your best. Thank you.
Thanks for your videos
I don't identify as a sociopath, but I definitely can relate to how a person can become so absorbed into their career and identity of being successful to justify just about anything. I was fortunate to have really good support of family and friends, but many people I know were not so lucky and their behavior was reckless and transparent and no doubt clinically sociopathic. These were good people trying to be something they weren't because of underlying trauma, especially that overjection and talent unrecognized.
Thank you, you are mindblowing to me and i wish you are aware of how much healing and goodness you are bringing to peaple who are open to your knowledge
Daniel , everything that u discuss here , is popular for me.
U're a great help.
Ur titles n topics r sooo appealing n diverse, some may say ur words r grim or depressing (cus most ppl dono how to reflect or contemplate som real/heavy issues), but as any true artist must simply b themselves n practice their art space how they see it n show it off to the world, well congrats cus ur doin just that. I totally see this aspect of sociopathy in humanity as a whol n i too believ healing is possible.
A new video! Yes! Always refreshing to hear new content from you, Daniel
Thanks Daniel, I love your content. I especially love this one because I agree.
I’m a 39 year old gay man. In some ways I feel so young, but I also feel so old, and like it wouldn’t even matter if I died. My Mom would miss me, and my grandma. But I don’t think many others would. I have distant relatives who I once considered my allies. But they’re all heteronormative homophobic folk, and they like to make fun of me behind my back. They are small minded, lower frequency vibrating primates.
You’re a great person. I wish I knew you in the real world.
Every time I hear about a suicide I'm traumatized. I understand that many of us want to end the pain I believe we need to find ways to mitigate our pain in the world and inside ourselves. I agree with your analysis about humanity as an organism that is sociopathic. I have a really hard time being part of it and being in it right now. I also know that as a species and individually we can heal. We have the potential to use our power for good or for evil and many of us are choosing it for evil or just have lost the drive.
Thank you Daniel.
You are spot on. We are a sociopath, always been. That's what's praised rewarded in our current society. That's what gets you ahead. There is a study that most CEOs are sociopaths. Sociopaths are worshiped (Bezos, Musk, Jobs, etc.). At the same time, when you try to heal, you become an outcast. People don't connect to you anymore because they don't understand you aspirations. You find less and less spaces that welcome you and are designed for a healing mind. You best bet is finding you kind, other healing people, support each other and be there for each other.
❤ your thoughtfulness and realizations, ideas! 🙏 for spending your ressources on sharing them.
very important message. Thank you Daniel
Humanity is a sociopath! ha! I love when you say something controversial and follow up by saying uh!!! I love your brave ideas and theories...They show courage and a healthy intellect that can still apply healthy critical thinking: something that is really rare these days! Thank you for your contribution Daniel
Regarding land use and exploitation, while that's true on the vast majority of human activity and history, it's not everything. Specifically the topic of permaculture gains more track recently about using the natural resources in a more balanced and less abusive way. It has more emphasis on sustainability, growth, resiliency and rewilding rather than (short term) efficiency and pure production. Like the urban food forests or community gardens popping up recently in many places (there's one in NYC at an abandon rail somewhere).
Like there's beauty in every person, there's hope for humanity to truly grow and heal as a species. On the one hand there's so much pollution while on the other growing initiatives of regulation and preservation.
The problem is that the majority of society is still sociopathic, which means the healthy parts are small kernels that have an uphill battle. Not impossible but indeed difficult and long to carry through.
Dear Daniel, I am an introvert, a THINKER, like you, I have chosen to delve deep into the psychic of my self and others in society. Your essay on psychopathy is spot on in my opinion. Those of us who seek truth and harmony shall move on to another space in time and where we are together with loving people with whom we can relate to and love to our fullest extent. will every one be invited to this new world, I don't know we will see. Captain Ward D.C.
Well, it is so sad. If you say we can heal, let's do i! We'll do it together and you will help all of us! Thank you for your videos!
Thank You, Daniel
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I joined your Patreon again, I appreciate you so much.
Everyone that can please stop giving to corporations.
McDonald’s, Walmart, Buckstar… etc
Let’s give to ourselves, close friends, and families instead!
Don’t give a dime when asked to do so by large cooperations or on manipulating TV commercials asking you to carry the weight of the world.
Just a thought ❤❤❤
Peace and Love 🤍🤍🤍
Thanks for the content
I think antisocial behavior and psychopathy and sociopathy are solvable problems. Its just that we don't always know how.
In the wild we reward and enable toxic behaviors and sociopathy and to be honest even healthy people today have hard time with mental health. Let alone people who have been told the world is cruel in their early stages of childhood. On interpersonal level we have usually emotional connection, but when it comes to international relations and business and anything of systemic nature, the emotions are taken out of equation and it shows.
Wow! Good stuff!
American culture suggests to be highly individuated and yet its nearly impossible to be yourself.
You are an awesome therapist you should do lectures and be a consultant/specialist for these terrible community mental health places. Amen! 🙏
Agree for the most part, but we need more of the practical how to's on how to heal ourselves. Nothing else is gonna get us out this mess quicker. And honestly I'm only concerned with healing my own trauma than saving the world at this point.
It's nice to hear the devastating impact of the civilizing mission succinctly criticized and know that others can see the glaringly obvious problem.
Hi Daniel - Serious question, where do you get your shirts? I'd like to get some.
Thrift shops…
@@dmackler58 Mackler thwarts me again!!
Thanks for your courage!
An Italian philosopher of science who specializes in popularizing the science of evolution says that according to biological classification homo sapiens is an invasive species: ”An invasive species is an organism that is not indigenous, or native, to a particular area. Invasive species can cause great economic and environmental harm to the new area. To be invasive, a species must adapt to the new area easily. It must reproduce quickly. It must harm property, the economy, or the native plants and animals of the region. An invasive species reduces biodiversity of the invaded area through overpopulation and exploitative unrestricted use of resources.”
That's who we are, just another invasive species.
Hi Daniel, thank you for your wisdom. I’m an autistic person who works in law enforcement and who loves the natural world. I share your concerns. It’s my feeling we are only hurting ourselves, and if humanity disappeared tomorrow the natural world would once again flourish. It amazes me how giving and compassionate Mother Nature is. But I feel this natural compassion makes us as a species blind with conceit. I hope humanity wakes up before it’s too late.
I'm turning more into a gnostic Shopenhauer day-by-day.
Oh, I think this is my fave of all your videos!!!!
your too real man, may the universe bless u
I missed these videos
My college professor took his own life and another student found him. I do not know the reason. I have 2 life threatening autoimmune illnesses and if I was the one who found him in the office that day, it could have caused me a flare of the illnesses so severe that I could have passed away too. The ''no one will care or be traumatized if I do it'' mentality is wrong, you have no idea who will be affected and to what degree. Of course someone can say ''I will do it and I don't care about anyone else'', but that's a pretty messed up mentality coming from someone who claims that they do it to save the planet, isn't it?
You have a brilliant mind thank you for saying what I’m thinking ❤❤❤
Compassion is a superpower! Free Will is an illusion and so bigotry against anyone is actually self-hatred.
If you lack empathy for farmed animals, you lack it for yourself too.
All oppression is interconnected. Oppression thrives off isolation.
Solidarity for all victims of injustice makes us strong.
AnimalRights are an extension of, not in competition with HumanRights.
"The elevation of 'people' over 'animals' constructs a category of sentient living beings without rights.
“As long as that category exists,
the process of 'dehumanization' will continue to be deployed to push one or another group of people into it".
-Pattrice Jones, AfterShock Confronting Trauma in a Violent World
Be Vegan.
Hi Daniel, what are your thougts ln C.G. Jung and his analytical psychology? Greetings from Germany
Not just our species - nearly all species are self serving
There is a grain of truth in that
It's the attempts to reason that this is in any way just or fair or rational. That's what bothers me.
People want to feel good while stepping on others. They want to pretend that they don't do it, that they're doing what they can, all while the silk road comes to their door.
It's hard to imagine that humanity will ever be satisfied in its expanding conquest of the material world.
Hi Daniel, you read Derrick Jenson's " A Language Older than Words"?
“I had broken the most basic commandment of our culture: Thou shalt pretend there is nothing wrong.”
― Derrick Jensen, A Language Older Than Words
It all boils down to life being stressful. People act in stupid ways because life is stressful. We constantly want an escape from reality and we’ll happily poison ourselves and the planet in order to escape reality. Having kids is great if you do it with the right person. If you do it with the wrong person, god bless you.
I concur.
I am busted from life, my mom left the family when I was 7. ( for my dads bf). I was called home from school told, your b**** mother has walked out. If you don’t like it pack your bag and get the f *** out. Then my bro was sent away, at twelve to a half way house.( he’s in prison still). My older sister died, ( was murdered) my sister a year older than me died. My dad was all I had. I have still got a bag packed. I became codependent. Got very psychotic. Still can’t handle the truth. I hate this life.
The culture does not meet the needs of the people it’s not your friend. I have spent every cent I made working as a registered nurse, to figure out the maze of my losses.
Disorganized attachment is painful. BPD, anxiety, depression
Yeah Daniel I agree. Gues my folks had no clue, I had a future.
Thank you for what you do Daniel
You are l think almost unique in the way you deconstruct the neodemonology that characterises all social disfunction as the outcome of an irredeemably evil agent. I'm not naive. I know that there are some very dangerous people out there but they are few. I hope.
U.G.krishnamurti_no freewill no thoughts you can call your own.
Summed up a lot of my thoughts in this one.
If I could give my younger self some advice it would of been knuckle down and own 5-10 years of your life in this hectic, distracting time to be alive. Find yourself, (I think for most ego slowly declines as we get older) and once we find our true selves I think generosity would come naturally to us in our own special ways. Just look at Daniel and his library of videos. And is probably helping more people now then he ever could of 1on1....when your sole purpose is to make this world a better place. Welder Luke who dgaf
100% agree with all you've said here. Unfortunately if the love of my life...who ive been with for 6 years...wanted to have children. I don't know. Unless we adopt. We would both be wounded to part ways on our relationship...but I don't want to repeat the trauma of having a bitter resentful parent.
Listen dont care about ur videos being popular or not, it will come to those who it arrives to, meaning u help those who actually need it, thank u, thank u for being on my youtube, thank you for mastering your self and share others how to actually FIX themselfs. I am so absolutely tired and exhausted of developing things in the present such as a false self, negative emotions, resentment for my self so on so on, but i dont actually give a fuck because that is only made from the things in my outerworld, MY outer world iS SHITTT, trying to stay honest in a world full of lies, trying to love in a world full of hate, trying to be my self for once? In a world full of monsters, im tired but it wont get fucking near to me any fucking more man
Did I write this?!?! Thanks for expressing my own thoughts.
I'm one of those that says sociopaths need to be removed from society. Depending on what crimes they've committed, they'd have the option of jail (although jails should be more humane) or rehabilitation centers where they can work on healing, in a healthy environment where they can eat healthy food, no unnecessary rules, enjoy the sunshine, and discuss their issues with a good therapist.
Child molesters, rapists and serial killers need to be kept away for everyone else's sake, and definitely shouldn't be able to reproduce.
I don't believe all the hard core criminal types can develop a conscience or empathy, but certainly a lot of people diagnosed as Sociopath can, and ALL of them can at least improve.
Love the video, great topic : D
Living a vegan life is the least we can do.. a great start!
And have about 95% of humanity left to go
0:08 seconds in and I knew I was going to love this video.
A question I have is lf we are all traumatized how is it that some of us fight extremely hard to resist causing harm to others while some others don't? What do you make of repeat offenders? serial killers? politicians?? children molesters?There are people I know personally who are very bright and very aware of their own trauma and the pain they are likely to cause others by engaging in certain behaviors but still gleefully do it while carefully trying to avoid getting caught. What about these people?
He hasn’t met or interacted with those people in adulthood personally, consistently, I gather. What do you think? I think they think it’s weak for people to want to heal on their own terms, without their input of harm. They want to see if they can immortalize themselves in the victim’s storyline because they’re so detached from the possibility of life after death bringing ultimate justice
If the mental care and justice systems could reflect into "why these people became sociopaths" then maybe they could realise some painful truths about the role they also play into creating these behaviours and maybe then could create an environment that would support healing instead of punishment or institutionalisation.
Of course there needs to be a spectrum of experience between good and bad, but do you think it’s possible to move the slider on the bad side more towards the middle? For example ending wars?
Do you think it's possibleko live in a world of peace? A heaven on earth type of thing? I imagine it would look like harmonious relationships between all people, sharing of resources, a societal focus on people rather than profits, equal rights for all, no group deserving different treatment than others, understanding and compassion instead of judgement and condemnation, acceptance instead of rejection and ostracization, encouragement instead of coercion or demonization etc
Just because someone "loves" you doesn't mean you should live for them. If people can't connect in a meaningful way while you're alive and need them, then what's the use of them "loving" the person (which gets expressed when the person is dead)? People sometimes reach out for help only to be ignored and dismissed, no one takes their pain seriously, and if they end up dead - "if only they'd said something"... I understand you started the argument with suicide being the only means of not contributing to the damage that's done to the planet, but I don't think anyone would actually seriously consider killing themselves for that very reason, it's purely theoretical. When people do commit suicide it is because they suffer and see no way out. Not doing it because it would traumatise others is, again, speaking quite crudely, putting someone's needs ahead of your own and suffering for someone else's sake. Which is more trauma. I'm not for suicide, but I don't think causing others pain should be *the* reason not to do it.
This slaps say it louder for those in the back
are you insisting there be some moral exceptions for suicide ?
Suicide is a right of bodily autonomy. Without suicide, we can be forced to endure that which is beyond comprehension -- from chronic pain, to terminal illness, or a torturous life.
@@stocke46 What do you mean by moral exceptions? Exceptions to what?
There is also an interesting blog post in Mad in America titled The Suicide Police: Harm Disguised As Help, speaking about the issues we mentioned here, including misunderstanding suicidal people, marginalisation and assigning them motives they don't have (which is even reflected in the language, as "commit" suggests a crime), it's basically something that's been called suicidism (by analogy to ableism, sexism, etc.) and their inability to get help from mental health professionals
4:00 that's the road to your own destruction. Taking responsibility for what you did not cause. You're being guilt tripped, gaslit, manipulated.
For years I ran in circles of groups of people that researched all sorts of aspects of 'society.' Truthers, conspiracy theorists. Call them what you will.
Most are simply driven by empathy and the desire to fix things. Better things, fight evil.
And there is only one conclusion on my opinion: the 'system' is set up to be this way. It's not disfunctional, it's doing exactly what it's suppost to do. And you cannot change it.
That path leads you to mental ruin.
It's like joining the most evil corporation, starting at the bottom. To change it from the inside out. You will fail. You'll get nowwhere near a shotcaller position.
That is how 'society' is set up too. You cannot change it. Most people don't even participate, good thing too, becauase that's not how it works. Your actions have zero impact.
But feel free to take responsibility. I know it's well meant. But you're probably not even part of it. Let alone responsible. It's a waste of your life.
If you look at sin and our fallen state and being on death row for that, our 'human nature' all makes sense.
Are you referring to the Christian interpretation of the Genesis story?
no I am referring to common sense@@goodwillambassador4102
sad but... accurate
The only way the world will love me is that i sit down and shut up. Forcing things makes it worse. Sheesh!
Being treated like a doormat is one way to turn someone into a "thing", after which you can justify any form of treatment. The fight for validity isn't worth our energy. Find what works for you as best you can and leave the rest to squabble over the scraps.
Perhaps it would be worthwhile to ponder this idea from the perspectives of capital and the family unit. There has to be something about these things, arguably the most consequential parts of our society, that drive the behavior exhibited by the whole. If investors weren't running from the inflation boogeyman, for example, what would that mean? If we didn't have nuclear families, what would that look like? It sure seems like parts of society have split off from itself and are festering just like for the struggling individual. The allure of endless highs and riches, only to discover later that what was pushed down to achieve those benefits comes due...
I get it
Well, there's the psychological aspect and looking at one's and other's self, for us to feel good and healthy, and I guess be healthy. Having toyed a bit with evolutionary algorithms, thinking about game theory and what not... Nature is brutal, and we came from nature, some other species could also try to ravage it's environments if they could, but we got the brains and hands for it. That doesn't mean that we have to play the brutal rules of the nature, it's our choice, but I guess one needs to navigate this brutality in a way one feels good about themselves. One could say that being social and cooperative is also an advantageous trait for humans, and I guess that's why we are not 100% sociopathic. But unfortunately from game theoretic perspective sometimes it's more advantageous to be an asshole (try to look into evolution of trust on search engines). And I think if a there's a way in nature to have an advantage over one another, something by random chance might try to do so, even it's not a moral thing to do. But again while we might be defined by nature, we also define ourselves and make our own decisions during our lives (assuming free will exists), so it's a question of personal choice (or society pushing for good behavior, or general mental health).
I think we as society. are facing a choice - either be less selfish and cooperate (and make sure we survive the climate change, or tackle it somehow for example), or let's go with the tragedy of the commons and race to the bottom chasing ours selfishness. But it's also true that maybe common folk don't have much to say here and we can only live our lives trying to be happy with choices we make, trying perhaps to heal to be a better people to others, just for the sake of it.
I am part of a community that sees Earth as a Soul Trap\Lure.
This is a bad place made by a bad creator for a bad reason...
Accepting this actually makes life more enjoyable or at least less overwhelming.