Well I see what he's getting at, but then I searched up his life story and...his death was kinda pathetic. Toke their own life crying about soul of natuon and simping for monarch, so having a brain to determine what is noble is as important as the zeal for the noble cause
I learned along the way to say no to women who make me responsible for their happiness. Of course I would still treat her with love, but her happiness is her responsibility. It can't work in the long run unless both people believe that. At least that's what I think.
@@halionextra 😂it’s funny until you realise you’re degrading the most valuable experience you will ever have ever just to appease someone else views or feelings
Mishima probably never imagined that decades later these interviews would be translated and seen around the world. I, too, had thought that Yukio Mishima's presence would remain confined to Japan. It is a world apart.
I cannot express just how much I hate that the core structure of modern human society is solely reliant on a made up concept created by some farmer 10,000 years ago, in an age prior to ethics, education, or philosophy, likely as a means of exploiting his fellow villagers. The fact that the end all, be all of life for a modern human is money is so fucking stupid, and I don’t know how we let it get to this point. Perhaps by the time we had the leisure time to think our societal structure through, the (key word) concept of money was already too deeply ingrained into the psyches of those living by it. I hate money, I feel like I’m throwing my life away working for it, I hate that the only option I have for success is to depend on it, and I can’t wait to see the eternally tortured soul of the man whose burning in hell for tricking us all into depending on it when I get there. All I want is to live in and alongside the nature I grew up with, as a part of it, but to do that I need millions of dollars to buy the couple hundred acres of land I’d need to adequately separate myself from this fucked up joke of a society. Don’t even get me started on the fact that every square millimeter of land on this planet is *owned* by someone and if you do ANYTHING on it, you are a criminal. Our leaders don’t care though, because what’s unjust and harmful to the average joe benefits them. The entirety of humanity has been collectively scammed out of their happiness, and we are powerless to change it.
Purpose comes from within you, your heart will lead the way through its passion to express itself....but then there are tons and tons and tons of things today to deter and distract you from your hearts desires.
This guy is describing dying for a machine that doesn't care about you and you're all lapping it up lmao. Go fight in Ukraine then you lot if you want to die for something so badly. That option is always there.
Maybe we've gotten too safe. We don't fear natural predators anymore because we've tamed and caged even the strongest of animals, we've developed cures for so many previously fatal illnesses, we can predict natural disasters and take shelters to protect ourselves from them as necessary, and we've even moved past the age of daily wars between human nations - not to say that wars don't happen today, but they're way rarer than they used to be in previous eras. To feel like we're truly alive, we must also always be close to death. These two concepts are two sides of the same coin, so we can't have one without the other. Maybe that's why we don't really feel alive anymore - it's because we have nothing to fear, and we know about that very well. All we need to do is climb the corporate ladder, go to work and earn our wages, pay for taxes and insurance costs and bills and groceries, settle down and send our children to school. All the while entertaining ourselves and distracting ourselves away from the general feeling of meaninglessness with social media and the Internet. Maybe the fact that humanity has become so globalized is our downfall. In the early days, people lived in small groups like tribes. Everyone had a purpose in those small groups: the elders acted as advisors, the men hunted and fought and protected, the women gathered and nursed and cared for the children, and the children carried the burden of being the next generation. But now, with social media and globalization, our small tribes have turned into giant international groups - competition is much higher from a social aspect when compared to the tribal life, so the average person must work that much harder to get the world to notice them. We don't have a sense of purpose anymore. Everyone's expendable, the same. Our increasing loss of faith maybe has something to do with it as well. It doesn't necessarily have to be religion, but without something to believe in - we loss any sense of meaning and purpose for existing. To distract ourselves from this nihilism - we partake in hedonism: drinking, smoking, engaging in casual sex just to feel something, following petty celebrity drama and scrolling mindlessly through the Internet, posting pics of ourselves on social media to get likes from total strangers just so that we can feel noticed. And maybe this nihilistic, beliefless modern age can't be changed by us. Maybe it's just a natural transitionary period in our species - where we learn to shed outdated beliefs like religion and move onto the futuristic times of technology and digital supremacy. One thing's for sure: Gen Z and Alpha won't be changing these times, but maybe it'll be Gen Beta, or maybe even the one after that. I don't necessarily support communism, but it's clear that the meaninglessness that we suffer from today is caused by the consequences of late-stage capitalism. Money means everything these days. But, despite knowing all this, I'm not able to change the great tides of society, and neither can most other normal people. Maybe the millionaires and billionaires could - but even they are expendable and part of the greater system. Well, besides that, there's also probably the fact that they're all selfish greedy bastards looking out only for themselves - but maybe that's not a trait limited to just them. Everyone is selfish, after all.
and then society punishes and applies pressure to you when you start trying to live a life that is in accordance with your meaning and noble cause. yet it will always be worth it no matter the pushback
He has a point. But hes also limited to the age and society he grew up in. This is why i love Berserk as a natural evolution & answer to this soul searching question. If you know, you know.
Imagine thinking this is sage wisdom coming from this fucking bozo. He tried to convince JSDF troops to coup the government and failed so badly he committed seppuku. He was a fan of despots and denied Japanese war crimes, everything he says here is just in service of his political beliefs.
I find this reasoning short sighted. How can you happily live and die for anything now if making life easier for others deprives them of the chance to live and die for something themselves, thus making their lives meaningless in your eyes?
Sounds pretty but is kinda nonsense. You can look forward to tomorrow without any bullshit "noble causes". Life is inherently fun, fulfilling and joyful - all you need to do is avoid doing stupid shit, stay true to yourself.
Our lives have become so stale that we create problems under the guise of a just cause so we can feel important again. The humble are the ones that go on without a cause or calling
Mishima was a bit too hard set on this idea in my opinion. He knew his coup would fail and planned his seppuku beforehand. While it's good to fight for a cause, I believe as the world has become more civil, violent causes are less necessary. one can find other causes worth putting their blood, sweat, and tears into. Family, society, freedom, medicine, art, etc. He was a great writer as well but he lived with this intensity and died with honorable commitment to his principles. Respectable, but not recommendable for others.
One by one, people you never got close to but in a time of need started interacting with constantly tire of you. Quickly, you tire of yourself as well.
This video is true, but thankfully there is an answer. Christ makes this meaningless life meaningful; so that whether we die in a hospital bed, or on a burning stake, or in a ditch, or at sea, if we lived our life to love the one who died for us, and tell all people of this glorious love, of the way out of hell, to be at peace with God, it was worth it.
The overwhelming darkness we face down demands of us courage greater than any generation before. We cannot falter and believe for a second that the sacrifices of the past, leading us to this moment, were for nothing.
