We need to remove the welfare system and alimony and child support now and remove personal income tax under 400k and remove homestead property tax under a certain amount per area.. remove lobbyists AKA bribes and kickbacks and have civics classes and testing yearly for school and politicians.. and hold politicians accountable and the government and media as well . Remove all unconstitutional laws and regulations and limitations now..
Men pay most of the taxes and provide for the lazy people and the government now wants only to indoctrination centers for slave men but now rip family apart and make them give away Thier children or pay for children not Thier and give women everything
Great video! Had me reminiscing the days long gone, when defining a "woman" was not controversial. I had philosophy, sociology and anthropology for 2 years at varsity. The summary of it all can easily be read and understood within a week by just reading whatever Solomon wrote, including Ecclesiastes if you don't think he wrote that. Solzhenitsyn and Dostoevsky have wonderful takes, but when real life hits and you realize that the majority of people are far more captivated by a lady shaking her oil injected behind on a tik video than anything the greats mulled over for thousands of hours, that's when it all feels like a waste of time. I personally struggled with Nietzsche's take on St Paul, it all made more sense years later when I got my hands on the Charles Chiniquy 50 years in catholic church book. Do you publicly share what you've read, like goodreads for instance? I'd love to see that.
The Rites of Passage by Arnold Van Gennep is a great book that talks of rituals. I think a big reason I don’t feel ‘empty’ is my love of history. My own culture and cultures I visit. Also the fact I practice music very eclectically (I’m a guitarist, pianist and operatic tenor) it lets me feel a great interconnectedness to the past and current musicians also and I make sure to study the history as well as just the music. In Muay Thai, we have the Wai Kru which is the ritual dance before a fight and sometimes before a lesson also.
I can't stand Peterson. His arguments are all weasely Straw Man arguments. I don't think I've ever seen him "Steel Man" anyone else's argument. How f*cking idiotic is "it doesn't matter if it's true"?
It's an illusion, I can't imagine life felt more meaningful while having to work in a coal mine in the 1980s or in a tannery in the 1800s or in a workhouse. Life has been unbearable and meaningless this whole time, infact the reality is we are living in the most bearable period that our ancestor could only ever dream of.
Ritual or routine is important to create peace and togetherness, Jordan Peterson calls this a religious practice which may include congregating at a church to partake in a communal activity as much as it may include a tidy towns meeting .When Nietzsche said God is dead , he meant we have lost our sense of community and togetherness and giving , people need to be part of a community, unfortunately people have turned to woke ideologies . Nietzsche's overman is an antidote to falling for bad ideologies by being able to recognise them. "Just because we are herd animals doesn't mean we should run over the cliff " .
I have read CS Lewis. While he is certainly (or was) a smart guy and a very educated one, his proclamations on Christianity and especially his “Trilemma” left me absolutely unimpressed. We all have biases and blind spots, but Lewis had one the size of Jupiter. Back to his famous trilemma, how could such a smart guy not consider that “Jesus was God, insane or liar” can be easily given a corollary of “mistaken”, or “deluded”. It’s not like we are lacking for deluded smart people these days. Take as an example (not of smart people, but not clinically mad either) Trump supporters that believe he never lost the 2020 elections, that he is still in charge, and that Biden is a puppet president.
Hi. I’m curious. Are you vegan yet? Why or why not? Did you know that nobody has ever debated an ethical vegan and won? Vegans always win because the other person always ends up in a contradiction regarding the sentience of animals and people with cognitive disabilities - unless he-she thinks it okay to kill and eat those humans.
There is more than shame. There is also responsibility, duty and love. All those things can chain you down very tightly. But at least at some point those chains were put on willingly.
Thank you for this video!! It is so good to find such a video about Western culture that presents similar ideas to that of the Confucian political theories. I have posted couple of videos explaining how Confucian scholars over the centuries developed a political theory about how to govern a society by Ritual and Music both appeal to human emotions in addition to rational persuasion. Thank you again for such a wonderful video!!
Hear! Hear! I think you’ve found the dragons lair. Let’s bury the monster! I was thinking today , that pop culture has all these seemingly economic rationales , which excises all ritual from the arts. Even the performers are so separate from the audience , that the cult of the individuals lets no light in. I don’t think it is economic concerns and efficiency that are behind the Degredation of the arts. I believe it is intrigue , coming from very high on the social scale , to create a peasant mass psychology. Basically , denying the richness and luxuries of great art , by simply withdrawing funding for it. Take bands , for instance. There are almost no bands that are popular anymore. Reasons given for this , are that it is cheaper and more profitable , for the music industry to promote shallow , canned pop stars. But this isn’t true. Bands were very , very lucrative. So what is the real reason there are no more bands? I should think , it is because great and artistic bands bring people together , in a ritualistic sense and the current ruling parties would rather divide people than unite them. Or perhaps I’m just mad. Any thoughts?
When I look at rabid fans at a football game, all dressed in the color of the team, I see people immersed in ritual, and yet, at the same time, they are participants in an economic transaction. They are part of a transient but passionate community, and have to pay dearly to enter the stadium. A very thin line between a community and a crowd.
“There’s no such thing as society.” Our sense of community has been intentionally destroyed by our governments because it makes us easier to control. Western governments, terrified of socialism, have intentionally made us see ourselves as nothing but individuals in competition with each other.
The section discussing how marriage can be a community reminds me of a song by Bring Me the Horizon that describes creating a cult, the band later discusses in interviews that the song is actually about marriage.
Yes, meaning is the only way to escape the nihilism of modern life. May I suggest the works of Viktor Frankl an Austrian psychologist who managed to survive the Nazi concentration camps and later create the school of Logotherapy. The first book would be "Man's search for meaning"
Have definitely felt this lately, and have a great family and house, but deep down there is a slightly creeping dread I can’t put my finger on and it feels desultory.
I am 70, moved to Taiwan many years ago, married 35 years, 3 kids, only rituals are BBQ at Mid-Autumn Festival and secular celebration at Chinese New Year. My life absolutely does not feel empty in the slightest.
Modern life feels empty of meaning because more and more people realize that there isn't any. There is no overarching theme, there is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Isn't even a point in creating your own values. Life just is. Until it isn't.
I haven't read Nietzsche, but I've long noticed the anti-human nature of religion. The very idea that a person shouldn't fight for this world, but simply endure, obeying the leadership (one god in heaven, one emperor on earth, etc.) is disgusting. That's why I have a negative attitude towards the idea that atheists should support a religious worldview in society.
I am 60 and I can tell you that in the not too distant past. People maintained face-to-face relationships with their neighbours. There wasn't a lack of meaning and the shops including supermarkets where closed on Sundays. |I can still remember in the 70s and a good bit into the 80s coming home from an early morning trip to the public swimming baths on Sundays and finding my town centre dead. The only shop opened was one newsagent and they closed at 12.00pm. We of course didn't have the Internet, but you never miss what you have never known. People in the past seem to get by just fine with landlines and public phones. Speaking of ritual. I belonged to a Girl's organisation which required church attendance every week. The churches were far busier than they are today. There was a very definite sense of meaning, community spirit in the past it is not simply people looking back through rose coloured glasses. We felt excited about life and the future appeared rosy. Can anyone say that today. unemployment was far lower in the 70s. It wasn't until until the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979 that we first saw sky-high youth unemployment. Two generations of British people have known only unemployment, poor job security and stagnant wages. So please don't dismiss all of the above as the poorly remembered ramblings of an old woman. Things really were far better 50 years ago. All technology has done is turn us into isolated atomised dependent supine half-wits!
My ritual is metal concerts. Everyone is so involved in the music and mosh pit that it feels as though the distance between strangers closes somewhat, and most people are extremely friendly.
My husband and I yard sale and we pick up items to practice charity with. We buy non expired food from estate sales (most of it is tossed out) and pokemon cards in bulk. We make goodie bags out of the cards and a candy to give away on Halloween. We do these things to combat this exact problem. Charity is good for the human soul.
My time with psychedelics and then some actual lived experience I have just come to the conclusion that truth is alive. An always moving point, an ever-unfolding reality and awareness of. God is always living, changing. Life is always changing. The only things that don't change are dead.
