New from his philosophy channel, this is a voice over style… good or bad? hard coded subtitles are nice but a bit too small.. (rewatched this video later and the music and visuals seem a bit disjointed from the message… felt like the visuals were trying to create a sort of psychedelic trip type of feel? And a bit too much stock market type visuals, not fully matching the message)
There is a psyop agenda to make us feel “weak and sick” - here’s why
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From my journal playing with 1ness, 2ness and 3ness… I’d reframe this argument that we’ve lost touch w/ oneness.. non-duality.. or the essence of life force… and we’ve also lost touch w/ joys and collective comfort of community/society/culture…. so we’re bingeing with consumption and luxury to compensate for lack of spiritual direct experience (1ness), and also lack of larger purpose and meaning in community (3ness)…
Pointing out the problem as society, economics, or whatever… is staying in the 2ness mindset… does it really get you out of the trap?
Two dark revelations I had about the world we live in now that gave me anxiety.
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Watching this now, Richard says he’s had insomnia for 6 days, and revisiting past relationships and maybe sharing some surprising insights with these recent investigations??
so instead of two people coming together to form an institution
you had two idiots clacking together like pebbles
yes i was an idiot, she was an idiot, we were solipsistic
we were self-centered, we were lost in some delusion of some ill-defined fantasy of what a relationship could be
and neither of us had really done the work or made the commitments to
What is your family? collection of idiots
What is your culture? a collection of idiots
Where’s the refuge here? there is none
there’s only idiots piled on idiots piled on idiots
and i’m part of this idiot chain system
Loving his insights on mass idiocy of the world… though a bit surprising that he only just figured this out recently?? really…. 2nd part dived into honesty, basic freedom to rant ‘say things suck’, and despair as agent of change.
my excerpt summary of 2nd half:
The KEY to AUTHENTICITY | Say what SUCKS & Embrace DESPAIR as a catalyst for CHANGE
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It’s a key component of overcoming codependency to tell yourself when things suck
and codependency trains us to put up with everything,
it’s the perfect state right now of nietzsche’s slave morality, modern culture is just pure slave morality.
You’re not born a fully formed human, you have to find your authenticity!
If you despair you’re sane but if you’re conforming and the conformity leads you to somewhere bad then you must stop.
The despair is the thing that switches that light on, that says it’s time to stop.
Don’t run from despair, embrace the despair and say okay what is this, that’s where change comes from, not from hope.
Despair is a thousand times more powerful as an agent of change, as a catalyst for real, authentic, non-cosmetic, non-performative, non-ego wank, virtue signaling change.
When you feel despair it can be an alarm system warning that you are not living your purpose.
Find purpose and be driven by despair into action and into being a better person.
Peak Narcissism Achieved: “if everyone is a narcissist, nobody is a narcissist!” Just let it go.
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So what I’m saying is these models that we have, they are just models.
They work kind of, but it’s not like psychologists are doing an amazing job of making people better right now.
It’s not like the world is full of joyful, happy, switched on bright eyed, critically thinking, emotionally regulated people getting on with good, strong lives and enjoying themselves in the time they have on earth, is it?
But there are plenty of people who are paying psychologists or who have paid psychologists who really just didn’t get any better.
And you know what happens? They walk away and they blame it on themselves because psychology encourages you to think in terms of the individual and it’s a mistake and it’s a counter scientific mistake.
We are tribal creatures, we exist inside of cultures.
There’s been numerous experiments done by psychologists that show the what people do in any environment even if they’re total strangers massively impacts your behavior, massively impacts your thinking and massively impacts the way you feel internally hugely because we’re tribal creatures.
So the idea that we’re gonna keep it on this individualistic level, again, it’s dangerous. It’s false, it’s fraudulent.
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Things that appeal to your intellectual vanity, they’re okay. It’s not like you’re doing anything dangerous by doing that, but it’s not real learning and you’re not making any progress doing that.
You’re basically having your ego stroked and it’s actually encouraging narcissism.
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Let’s stay out of why, psychology loves why.
You know what why gives you when you ask why I feel bad?
It just creates stories.
And if you feel bad and ask why questions, you’re gonna create a whole load of sad stories.
Your story counts, you deserve to be heard, whatever happened happened, and you should explore that with another adult. I think that’s a healthy thing to do once, maybe twice.
You don’t sit there and practice that over and over again.
It’s a misunderstanding of what human beings are.
We are machine-like creatures that repeat. That which we are conditioned to do, we will continue doing. That which we are in the habit pattern of doing, we will continue doing.
If you go once a week to tell your therapist a load of why stories of why you’re sad and why your life doesn’t work and then after 10 years you go hey, I don’t know why I didn’t get better,
I would say well, what did you practice doing? What are you practicing doing? What are you conditioning yourself to do?
Terrible things happen to people all the time, but the correct response to that I would suggest is not practicing sad stories around why that thing happened.
So you’re just gonna live a sad life. You’re creating more of the same thing.
That which you focus on is gonna grow stronger.
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If you’re in a hole, you don’t get out the hole by walking around in the hole, saying hole, hole, hole, hole, hole.
How big is the hole? It’s two by two. How deep is the hole? It’s up to my waist.
How long has the hole been there for? As long as I can remember, hole, hole, hole.
Get out the fucking hole! Get out, dig your way out.
Do something, but it must be you.
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I don’t see much use in focusing on the problems and splitting them up all different ways.
I think it makes us feel good, it makes us feel like we’re in control, it appeals to our intellectual vanity.
And basically what it is it’s a coping mechanism, we’re intellectualizing problems that really…
That can’t be dealt with here. (pointing to head) They have to be dealt with here. (pointing to heart)
We’re moving around our grief, we’re moving around our loss.
Be easier to just own the emotions, have the emotional literacy, grieve for what’s been lost and then move on.