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I had a friend who loved the LOTR books, they influenced him in his life like the gods influenced the Greeks. When the Peter Jackson movies came out he refused to even watch the trailers, on principle. These days the LOTR still lives inside his imagination, meanwhile I'm stuck with Elijah Wood and muppets like Galadriel-from-marketing.
You can also see this in the rising trend of home gardening in Gen Y and Z and the increasing use of "dumb phones". Like you said, one of the massive miscalculations of the system is assuming that the average person can remain in a state of panicked outrage in perpetuity. Eventually many of us have found a way to step back and realize that the game is unwinnable and that the only way to win is not to play. We are like scarecrows who refuse to stand up anymore.
in 2020 got rid of my phone, went just over a year without one. Needed one for work so have a flip phone. Moved out of town in 2021 to very rural area, have big garden, got some chickens this spring! I am Gen X don't forget about us (haha joke intended).
@@justadude4826 parallel economy is the escape. If people boycotted the esg companies (any woke companies) and preferred the parallel economy products we could win. Cultural Marxism has to also be declared a religion. Listen to James Lyndsay's gnostic series. (new discourses) these two strategies. People have to understand western marxism is a religion. The lack of a God makes people think it's modern or scientific to believe in teh world religion of wokeness.
@@justadude4826 the escape will come with a critical mass walking away. Plus, ALL Fiat Currency/ Fractional Reserve Banking systems have failed all through history.
If labour is withdrawn from the market, the price of goods and services will go up.....thus making the cost of living even more unaffordable Your suggestion is well intentioned, but destructive
It's depressing how unabashedly left-wing my old friends are on FB. They literally call people with my views a fascist. But they don't realise that's me.
Im in my mid 30s, and I've seen and read a lot. Ive changed my perspective. Its shocking to me how all of my old friends from around highschool still have that late 2000s Daily Show outlook on life and politics. Really? They dont pay any attention.
@@bertbargo7162the slant left is pretty disturbing. I’m new to the politics game and I’m curious as to how the right let them gain as much ground as they have over the past few decades? Their capture of many institutions is shocking to me
It's funny, I feel the same way about conservatives. I grew up in a rural conservative town, and was fairly center right for a number of years, but as far as I can see the majority of Americas real problems are a result of conservatism, and the nearly sub-human ghouls who make up our republican politicians. Even if the republican voters are largely sane or fine, our politicians seem to either be lunatics or Millionaires who are blatantly trying to use their power to make more money. So over the years I've drifted left and now am firmly a leftist (I'm 27) and it's shocking to me that anyone who actually cares about politics and what's best for the citizen can consistently vote conservative. I know nothing I say will ever change your mind, but what value do you see in conservatism?
Post lockdown, people are more aware of the importance of Happiness. Most People have come to a conclusion that their employer just sees them as just a number
I saw the writing on the wall about 8 years ago. Took me a while but I got out of a 70hr per week job, sold up & left my very diverse (and rapidly diversifying more every day) high crime city in England and made it to a very quiet and isolated spot where everyone looks similar to me. Guess what? Zero crime. Took me a while to get used to leaving the keys in the car overnight and the doors/windows unlocked. Before all the "white flight"ers chime in.. just do it. However you can. Folk like us have no business in a modern day british city. Refuse to partake and let them have the scraps.
25 years ago I had a similar realization, moved to a small town far away from my home. People near my home had never heard of the place. Even those who'd travelled the USA. But fast forward 25 years and that town has become a crazed "woke" place with vacuous but competitive people having moved here in droves, turning it into a stressed out place. 25 years ago it was tranquil and I left house unlocked, truck unlocked all the time. Today? Nope. No sir. With "gentrification" has come crime, petty theft being prominent. Anything laying around can walk away of its own volition, apparently.
I like the idea that you can escape, but every small town in the Anglosphere is being flooded with foreigners while normies allow schools and churches to brainwash their kids. It's only a matter of time before there's nowhere left to run. Then what?
If your street is full of dog crap then the answer wasn't to move, it was to stop letting them do it in your street. Running away just brings your problems to other people door step. I'm sure your money is as good as any one else's and you can live where ever you can afford but trust me......your not as welcome as you think there.
That "crunch" as you described it is coming very quickly. Army recruitment and young men working is down drastically and you can see the freakout via the constant media articles about it. The regime seems to be quietly dialing back their woke nonsense little by little in the hopes of remoralizing young men but the damage is already done in my opinion.
It's actually the biggest white pill I've seen in a while. I've been saying for years that white men need to check out from this system and stop feeding our vital labor into it, keeping it alive so it can continue this genocidal process. The next big step after white men stop slaving away for the system is for us to exchange fiat currency for alternative currencies and precious materials. Hell, data is its own sort of currency these days. We can back each other up and build a parallel, or rather perpendicular system. The dollars the oligarchs print only have value because we act like they do. It won't be easy getting people to priotize saving the white race in the long run over immediate individual gain, but white men have already been heavily disincentivized from engaging in the rat race. I've never really had a strong desire for wealth and material things, so it is easy for me to pass up on the late stage capitalist system. I think I'm not alone in feeling that way, in fact it seems like more white men feel fed up with society at large than the handful that actually like the status quo. Those guys that do love this shallow, consumerist culture typically strike me as narcissists and sociopaths, like Andrew Tate, or just kind of shallow, vapid, uninteresting people...and they're mostly either leftists or non-white. Most of the people that seem to actually like this society are women and gay or crossdressing men and black men. This is definitely the most luxurious time to be a black person. It's also basically the worst time to be a white man. So it makes sense. White women are typically unhappy in general these days, but they fail to connect why they feel disaffected with the conditions of their society at large, which they predominantly support. But yeah, white men are the main catalysts for change, so we may still be able to turn things around.
UK Germ In order for Maerxism to 'work' society and the family unit must first be destroyed: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VdsSIWh_VkQ.html (Better on 1.5x speed)
It's not just the woke propaganda tbh. That's obviously a facet to the Hydra, but it's one of the smaller, less deadly heads. The largest and most vicious of which (imo) is the state of relations between young men and young women. We must remember that, for the most part, young men's investment, engagement, blood sweat & tears into "the system" throughout history was reliant on the guarantee (or at least, the promise/prospect) of said young men being able to obtain a romantic partner / wife as a result. It was always a sort of trade off - learn skills, work hard, be a man of morals/virtues, and you'll be rewarded. This is not the case nowadays. Indeed, if a system shows itself to not improve a young man's sexual/romantic prospects by him engaging in it, or moreover, actively works against his prospects (e.g. the modern socioculture of the West and its ideas about masculinity, MeToo, feminism, etc), then alot young men simply aren't going to see much reason to dedicate their time, resources and energy in supporting, progressing and protecting that system. At least, beyond ensuring their own direct needs are met. Until there is a great healing / sealing of the rift between young men and young women, I do not see how we can reverse the damage that has been done, and "remoralise" young men into taking on the mantle of society's innovators, upholders and protectors. After, young men are told daily that they're toxic, women don't need them, the issues in the world and throughout history are a result of their behaviour (particularly if they're white), and so on. Indeed, what are young men investing in and protecting if they pour their blood, sweat & tears into the current system? Gen Z girls who'll never make decent wives, let alone mothers? Pink haired feminists who despise men with a burning passion? Immigrant men from Uganda and Pakistan who get propped-up in free accommodation by the taxpayer? It's all nonsense, and even young normie men know it.
I think the general political lull and "homestead" trend is a result of the fact that there is no actionable solutions. Once you've gone down the pipe line, read the books, theorized, consumed endless livestreams, talking heads, and superchat reads; you come to the realization that you have no say or ability to change anything. All of what is happening will continue (or end) independent of yourself or one's preferred online sphere. The best you can do is unplug and enjoy what you have left; the knowledge you now have floating in the background. The normie feels this acutely post-covid without the ideological journey required.
It's an era where a good old fashioned revolution seems all but impossible, so people switch off. The system seems like it's forever, or at least immune from internal dissent, so the only present solution is to try your best to avoid it as much as possible. I wish it wasn't this way. I wish politics was what it promises itself to be, that is, a great big game where anyone can win and it's all up to chance. However, if politics is a game, it's the most rigged game I've ever seen.
'Unplug and enjoy what you have left'. That alone is the main reason why the world is deteriorated to the point that it is now. I may not be setting a example since i am making this comment, but nobody who cares for their country and the world as a whole will simply just take breadcrumbs because there's nothing else. If people want that steak, they have to fight for it and not whine about it.
Indeed, the a recognises this despite not being 'red-pilled' in the way that those in our circles might be. This manifests in either 2 paths / outcomes; they either 1) "pull out" of the system aka 'Great Turning Away' as Morgoth puts it (can see this on TikTok / social media with trends such as cottage-core, 'slow living', 'choosing the soft life', digital nomads, full-time travelling/backpacking, etc). Or 2) they numb themselves with materialism, consumerism, and faux-celeb/success identity - aka The Deano archetype. Both are a sort of coping mechanism for the realities of our postmodern, neoliberal, GDP-focused socio-political systems...they're merely two sides to the same coin.
@@Pete-eb3vo As I said above, revolution seems impossible and that is due to the pervasive soft totalitarianism of the state and the fact that the normies are scared of any difficulty whatsoever.
I recently decided to abandon corporate science just after getting my PhD to take up my family's business. Sick of being despised by the people I work for and only hired reluctantly because there wasn't a diversity hire quick to hand.
Smart move. As middle management, we now just toss resumes we think are white men. They go right in the garbage. We will hire white people when we absolutely cannot hire one of the sacred classes-- and that often means 18 months of looking.
@@xenophon5354 I always knew it was never about “meritocracy”, it was about power and maintaining it on racial lines. At every cost. I hope they were able to find that “diversity hire” and they are doing just well. Good luck on the family business.
GBNews's comments section is basically the dissident right 5 years ago but with much greater numbers. Normal people are definitely starting to twig that the vast majority of our problems are very very real and very very serious. They might not have all the correct takes and tend to get things half right but by god, they are starting to get animated. I just hope they don't get exhausted as fast as we did. A certain level of naivety hopefully is enough to keep the black pill from finding them too quickly.
Same with the Fox news comment section. They still hold some conservative inc ideas, but I was pretty shocked perusing the comment section and seeing what they were saying. I think our ideas do percolate. It's just frustrating how slow it is.
Having paid into the system from the age of 15, I dropped out when I turned 50 just prior to Covid. Not that I could afford to or retired early, anything but, but I became completely burnt out. Since then I now claim everything I can from the system; it started with Universal credit and now I'm on long term sick with depression. A few years ago I would have been ashamed for doing what I'm doing ( playing the system in a calculated manner) but fcuk that, why pay into a system that despises you? I paid 36 years stamp in doing that. Bigger fool me.
@@wavell14 It is not OPs fault that govt has decided to welsh on the social contract. Its the same in the states, theyve taken out SS since I started working at 16. No opt out. "Bankrupt" just in time for when I could use it. Yes, I have my own retirement, its the principle, taking money under false pretences.
I like that comment. Feck 'em. If I can live on what I already have then why bother with the unenviable chore of doing some turd job for turd money? There's more to life than that.
Thumbnail captures my mood most of the time now. I'm mid 20s and this is pretty much where I'm at. Leaving my 9-5 job, have more time and less money. I'm studying nutrition in the meantime, have an allotment. I'm sick to death of materalistic crap, the media, society as a whole. No point in merely 'existing'. I want to live more in the real world, not on a computer for 8 hours a day.
@@Hero_Of_Old my brother came to stay with my family for a week during COVID to meet our son and he worked from the spare bedroom. It was so strange to see how he basically works in the same environment as me despite (supposedly) having a completely different progression and industry. Just flipping between Teams, Outlook, Salesforce, and spreadsheets. It’s not that easy to just do what morgoth is saying but it does get harder as youre older. My advice (not that you’re asking for it): don’t fall for the comforts this corporate life provides- it gets tougher to leave as you get older and more dependent on it and especially as your career “progresses”
My aunt works as a consultant for the local government to reduce energy consumption via fossil fuels and natural gas by 2030. Always a raging lefty who came up to me and told me I was right about everything. She is starting to read the wrting on the wall. Bittersweet but its nice to reconnect with old family. She is living rurally looking for new work as we speak.
There's an old saying, "people go mad in herds, but regain sanity one-by-one." It explains the cyclic swings of mass "culture." Why it takes longer to regain a sane perspective. And denial rests at the heart of the delay.
@@seanoneil277 lockdown was the catalyst we needed regain our sanity. Funny really when you consider its implementation was designed to instill the opposite effect.
I quit my Electrical Engineering job last year. I'm tired of working myself to death for little pay in a country that openly hates me. Let it all crash and burn!
Honestly, do you really think that walking away will fix anything? Considering how much influence the disease has over the world as a whole, what makes you think that it won't chase after you? Standing up for your communities and the world as a whole against NWO evil is the only way that this world can get better.
I love seeing people around me growing to agree with me and becoming localists - i work in construction in the countryside so my clients are members of my community, they know my grandpa, everyone knows everyone, you can get immersed in the experience of your people that goes back generations. Hard physicalwork gets much lighter when you feel the sun and the breeze, and see beauty around. My region is ethnically different than rest of the country and it's awesome to see people rediscover their identity.
I turned away about 5 years ago. I have very little money, my life experiences have shrunk to basic everyday stuff. Can't say I'm happier but there's definitely increasing moments of simple joys. I've never been a trendy workaholic money and social chasing slave which many respected influencers seem to be. We can't do it all. I'm not ashamed of the dull mundane life person I've become. It's much more humane on so many levels. It' really is ok not to get embroiled, triggered and dragged along
Time is more precious than money, as long as you can cover your overheads and eat healthily. I did so much more with less money years ago. So much cultural stuff is still free and much of the smaller places are not tainted by the racist Communists. Soon they will run out of money. We keep our powder dry until then. 😉
No joke, but since cut my work and income, I get pleasure now from staring at the leaves and branches of trees, and watching the activity of birds in my garden.
I can survive on less money than some of my friends can. And I've always been fine with my own company for long periods. Books can be bought for a staggeringly inconsequential financial outlay and libraries are still there. If your own life is a bit tedious, books are still the best way to see what it is like to be somebody else for a bit. A good novel gives you the consciousness of a life lived from the inside. To be someone else moving through time in a society...sometimes over a long period of time. And who doesn't need escapism of that nature? Going to the pub is another form of escapism but I'm going less often now. The demise of being able to request songs all day in the pub has made me less likely to spend all day in certain local pubs. And the playlists in pubs now are eminently excremental. But I shall endure.
I’m 19 and got my first full time job a year ago and it didn’t take me long to realize that one of the worst forms of slavery and scams ever adopted by society is that of debt/consumer slavery and the utter disconnection from the way humans are naturally supposed to live that modern industrial society pushes upon us. I’m not going to live my life as a synthetic bugman working a job I hate so I can buy shit I don’t need. I’m going to deny modern society and live as God intended me to live and have a truly authentic human experience.
Good luck, it won't be easy. Start by giving up your smartphone. Go back to a 3G phone. That alone is a good starting place. Work from there. Unplug the cables connecting you to the system one by one.
First time on your channel, mate. I'm a retired pipe-fitter from St. Louis. Really mind blowing how pervasive all this nonsense, indeed how cock-eyed this insane asylum they're preparing for us. That being said, I'm very impressed with your plain common sense. You have won a subscriber. Cheers from the fly-over, Deplorable Kingdom!
Welcome Thomas and you will find that Morgoth is a real diamond in the dirt, when it comes to discussing and perhaps educating large numbers of folk, who are curious or dissatisfied with how the world works since say WW2.
That little garden thing is great. I've always had a decent sized property, but I've never done anything with it. With all the craziness going on, me and my buddies decided to finally start a garden. It's more or less a farm now with peppers, tomatoes, eggplant, corn, cucumbers, beans, blueberries, limes, lemons, and so many herbs. I even accidentally started growing pumpkins in my compost bin. Every day I go out and do my chores, and I feel better than I've ever felt. I'm only 25, and I know a lot of people my age who are feeling and doing the same things. Hopefully, this could be the beginning of a better future.
Another banger morgoth. My uncle started doing off grid homesteading over 20 years ago. Everybody thought he was nuts back then, but now he seems like a prophet. I've showed him a couple of your videos and he really likes them.
Morgoth, just so you know, you've been perhaps the only person I've followed online who has steadily earned my respect. It's not about the "takes", not the hot-button opinions or "current-thing" reactions. You have this quiet, worldly wisdom that I wish more people in our spheres demonstrated, a kind of down to earth attitude that happens to perfectly embody a sort of Evolian Ride the Tiger mentality. I really appreciate your work. Much love from the tortured lands of Armenia.
I'm increasingly and inexorably drawn to nature as the answer to all of modernity's torments. Just being in nature reveals our own nature and we exist in a state of revelation. I've spent an inordinate amount of time staring at the flowers in my garden this year and wondering at their wisdom, especially the annuals. They lie inert in the earth all winter, but never forget how to create their lovely displays at the appointed time. Our season in the sun cometh!
From my top floor flat, I stare into the intermingled tree canopies, the leaves twinkling in the breeze. The air passing through them sound like waves upon the beach. In moments like these, I'm alive. Free from consta-anxiety, the sabotage, the hustle. Nature is a cure. Which is why I find myself jealous of natures creatures, for they live in reality, yet in comparison I am a lost opportunity in a lost world where madness and money rule over the soul and all it's capable of.
Ah this made me realise why I never cared for facebook. My family I could always contact on phone, and I was a loner growing up, and my ex classmates hold no interest for me.
Excellent stuff as always. I’m one of those who willingly took a huge financial hit so as to escape the 9-5 (in my case a London-based PR agency enamoured of DE&I). Can barely afford my rent each month but you know what? Never been happier.
Spot on. My father made a decent middle class living for himself here in the US. He’s now retired and caring for my mother and recently he’s really begun exploring the option of owning livestock and self sustaining to some degree. This is a person who’s always been a bit of a “red pilled” country guy but the recent change has been fairly dramatic. I think the last few years have pushed A LOT of people who were skeptical of society into embracing a more dissident attitude.
I can't speak for your Dad obviously, I've always been sort of "red pilled" and skeptical of the things being pushed on us, into prepping a little bit but I always thought the pendulum would swing back so to speak. In my mind we were always one election away from returning to something great. Then the last 5 or 6 years happened and I gave up on that.
Insightful stuff. I’ve seen similar things happening here in Asia. In China, young graduates are “laying flat” (Tang ping in Chinese) and turning away from careers to pursue their interests. These kids will take a temp job, earn enough to travel and then head off, or loiter at home doing their thing until the money runs out. They’ll then seek another temp job. I’m currently in Hong Kong, where increasing numbers are getting off the career treadmill. Some are developing small holdings to grow crops (yes, there are green areas here). The same happens in Malaysia and, to a lesser extent, in Singapore, as folks reject life as drones in whatever industry is assigned to them by education.
Everyone whose paying attention can see something is brewing. When will it boil over? Who knows. But we can all hear the lid of the pot shaking. I did something similar lately, might be the end of my work, but id rather find something else to do with my life than live in a concrete hole that's about to be burned and plundered in whats coming.
Early 30s male, worked for 10 years in a highly competitive desk job. Finally plucked up the courage to make a change. Have halved my working hours, now work a 3 day week & spend the remainder at my own discretion. Less money but more happy.
Thanks for the video morgoth, interesting as always. I'm in college and last semester I took an internship. Typical 9-5 affair, I always thought I'd like it a lot more than the kind of thing my dad did (being a doctor, he spent a lot of time on call and had very strange hours), but I did not. The constant grind wore me down, living for the weekend but when the weekend came I was too exhausted to do anything besides "consume" media. Most of the time I'd end up pissing my time away. Your podcast with The Woodlander from a while back, as well as other people on youtube like Luke Smith, showed me that there is another way. I'm glad I learned about this stuff as early as I have, it may very well have saved me from becoming a part of the suicide demographics down the line.
I've opted out. 32 old, built a sweet van setup. Work when I want to. Hit the gym all the time. I'm basically retired lol. It's great! 40 hrs a week is insanity.
@@Itsmemario24 Custom welding. I've got my own welding trailer and tools. I'm branching into selling gems and jewelry. That's my end goal. Welding even though it's good is getting old.
What's funny is that blockchain, the technology that was supposed to free us from central banking, is the same technology that they are going to use to enslave us.
I'm trying to turn away but where I live (Australia) they've made it impossibly expensive to live even rurally. Every house, every suburb, every piece of land and natural resource being snapped up immediately by overseas 'investors' and millionaire holidaymakers...
Brendan O'Connell (see his channel on here) believes Western Australia will be one of THE places elites eventually settle. Notice all 'crown' countries/colonies (Canada, NZ & Aus) all suffered to the max through the NuFlu nonsense
Not even just that. I live down on South Coast NSW. I just got a letter from the government. My new land valuation came in triple what it was 3 years ago. The whole off-grid/homesteading idea does not work. The state wants it pound of flesh, and they WILL get it. Waiting for my new rates notice. Already over $3k a year for next to no actual service. This is how they are going to squash people. Bureaucracy. Which is very much the Australian way. Banality of evil. Next will come the mandates to meet pointless green ratings. But that's OK. Blackrock et al will be waiting to offer to buy your home and make sure you get back in to the serf class.
What a load of shit. You said they've made it impossible to live RURALLY then said "every suburb." Let me guess, you want to live 30 mins from Sydney or Melbourne CBD? Move to South Australia, Western Australia or the territory and you can get a huge block of land and a house for under $200k. You are blessed to live in Australia, it is NOTHING like the situation being spoken about in this video - an Englishman who has emigrated to Australia
I was in a higher rate tax job , loads of hours , 12 hour shifts night and day , working every day of the year , I had 2 christmas days off and 1 New Year’s Eve in 9 years but was stuck there because it paid well and I was in a loop . Lockdown came and I realised paying 55% tax and NI on all money over the basic rate left me with just 45% and was not worth it so changed jobs . The other reason was , however hard I worked or put myself out , working for a large company meant any progression career wise was closed to me because I had no box to tick , I am a straight white indigenous male . I now earn much less , do less hours and have my weekends off , I would do much less if I could afford it . 13 years to retirement and counting the days.
Diversity and inclusion laws, lack of marriage and family building prospects, massive migratory crisis and lack of corporate investment in their workers are influencing massive shifts in the working habits of young workers, especially young men. The question I have isn't if this is bad but is society ready for such a shift?
" The question I have isn't if this is bad but is society ready for such a shift?" Are you sure your question isn't about whether it's bad? Seems a creepy bolshie way to suggest otherwise, if not.
In order for Maerxism to 'work' society and the family unit must first be destroyed: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VdsSIWh_VkQ.html (Better on 1.5x speed)
@@doug4974 I wish that made even the slightest sense. Mind reading of others, and projection of my thoughts onto others, are not my game. Maybe you misunderstood me.
A society of oil and water will naturally separate. A separation in this context means that there is no society, it's core cohesion is nonexistent. This was done on purpose to divide us against ourselves and destroy our societies without a typical war. Good thing God exists and His Kingdom is not of this world.
@@athejbaka7084 You dont need much wealth. Consider full-time remote/van living. Dont follow the stupid RU-vid memes and you'll find that RV/camp living is freeing and inexpensive
9-5, Monday to Friday is a slave existence. Imagine giving 5 out of every 7 days to a faceless company and getting a measly two days off, a life where by far the most of your days belong to someone/something else. It's also very interesting how siblings can be so different from each other. I have 1 brother who is a 'normie' and another who reads Evola. XD
It looks like that on the face of it, but it is far far worse. You are working Monday to Wednesday for the state. But if you're a good little worker, you get to keep what you earn on Thursday and Friday.
I was forced out of work by the 💉💉 mandates so I don’t know if I would have joined this ‘turning away’ that seems to be happening if that hadn’t happened to me. I’m kind of glad it did happen because I feel my eyes have been opened to a whole new way of living that just feels right somehow. I sometimes think that I’m probably living as my Grandfather did and I try to channel his spirit when I’m in the veggie patch as he was a great gardener and I’m definitely just a learner compared to him. If you ever make it to NZ Morgoth I’ll trade you free accommodation for some of that “donkey work” 😆 Take care.
My siblings and I have been in the thick of the same phase. It’s a course correction back to a rooted reality that we all simultaneously feel is necessary. Having kids changes you too.
Also id like to hear Morgoth’s opinion on the stuff ‘Al i son Mc Dow ell’ is streaming about on RU-vid, not quite “our guy” but from what i see she’s exposing the plans the technocracy are implementing irl & virtually, i think maybe the smurt people in our sphere could springboard off her stuff🤞🏻
@@moosefootloose truly amazing how many times i think of someone i haven’t seen or even heard from in years & 💥 phone ring’s or doorbell dong’s & there they are😮💨
I went to a family get together the other day meeting uncles aunts and cousins who are my own age who I have not spoken to in ten years which is mostly down to me not going to family get togethers any more which is something I regret, started talking to one of my cousins who was my best friend as a kid and into our early 20s but then we went out separate ways out into the world, talking to him now it was a nice surprise to see there is still some kind bond there and with all my family members listening to there experiences and views on life with all of us being in our 40s
I'm happy for you. Here's hoping we're starting back to the mindset of those who could live in a village and deal with a lot of repetition with mundane lives and bonds with others in one's locale...but who also had the quiet power to build a cathedral over centuries. I think we've needed that for a long time: if things don't change quickly, it always seems to become a fight, but perhaps we need to relearn how to appreciate making things better as a series of projects that span generations, linking past, present, and future.
I walked away from the corporate world in 2015 when I realised that it was no longer a meritocracy. Emigrated from the U.K. and started my own publishing and consulting business abroad.
With you there. Left academia for same reason plus the corruption, fakery and worship of government and corporations. Going to emigrate to start on own projects- as far away from state interference as possible away from city living- and be in touch with the real world.
It stopped being a meritocracy in the 1990s. The ability to see this, among those entering the workplace, wasn't all that clear during the next 20 years. But it's pretty clear now.
I'm 43 years old and somehow I've managed to save a bit of a nest egg. I have it invested in income producing assets as a retirement strategy. But I'm to the point where I can no longer stomach watching my government squander and steal the money I pay in income taxes. So I'm convince the only way I can live with myself is to retire early and live the kind of life you are talking about. And so deprive the government of the last (and most productive) earning years. It's going to deprive me as much as the government, but this is the choice they've forced on me as a productive member of society. When you know you can't win, the only correct action is not to play the game.
The 'dark mystique' of Tolkien stemmed in large part from the fact that Tolkien's work had an in built barrier to entry, namely that you had to read a 1/2 million words of dense somewhat archaic prose. That barrier was removed by PJ. Where once one had an entirely personal picture inside ones imagination derived from merely written words there now lays all the images pre imagined. Gandalf is now inseparable from Ian McKellan in the minds of many, if not most people. Tolkien is now a 'franchise', and with that final corporate labeling, the magic is dead. Tolkien writes about this phenomena in his letters. It is a sad thing.
True. Although Ian Mckellen is amazing as Gandalf. "The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what it has become, has overwhelmed me. The commercialization has reduced the aesthetic and philosophical impact of the creation to nothing. There is only one solution for me: to turn my head away"
@@Hero_Of_Old Sure. The casting is almost perfect. But now there will be whole generations that cannot read Gandalf withOUT seeing Sir Ian. That is the shame. Not because of Ian's almost perfect portrayal was bad, but because it was so Good. In many cases PJ's visualisation will override the modern readers own imagination. The 'dark mystique was never meant to be seen in Hi Rez IMax for the art of the cinematographer is more akin to a Sorcerer Illusionist than a Wizard, in Tolkienian terms
@@LordEriolTolkienTrue. Its sad in some ways as well because it gives a wrong impression of Tolkien. When these normies dive into the books, they're completely confused by characters like Tom Bombadil, and can't understand how there's no 'magic system'. They want it to be Marvel. "WhY cAnT gAndAlf usE hIs MagIc to Fix It ALl" " ThE EaGleS aRe a PloT hOle"
Growing up in the delightfully diverse eastend of London, LOTRs was my solice. I would get to "Well, I'm back" and start again. I did that about 10 times as an 11-12 year old.
@@Hero_Of_Old Old Tom makes the plot too complicated. I hated the PJ films initially because of his omissions and blatent changes. But as I've come to understand film, I realise most of his changes made sense. The ring had no effect on Old Tom, and that skews the narrative of the films.
There's a book from the 90's with a thesis very similar to yours, called "Beyond Civilization". Here's a couple passages that echo what you're saying: "If the plane is in trouble, you don’t shoot the pilot, you grab a parachute and jump. To overthrow the hierarchy is pointless; we just want to leave it behind. As everyone knows (especially revolutionaries), hierarchy maintains formidable defenses against attack from the lower orders. It has none, however, against abandonment. This is in part because it can imagine revolution, but it can’t imagine abandonment. But even if it could imagine abandonment, it couldn’t defend against it, because abandonment isn’t an attack, it’s just a discontinuance of support. It’s almost impossible to prevent people from doing nothing (which is what discontinuing support amounts to). But won’t the powers that be try to prevent people from doing nothing? I can imagine them trying (but I honestly need help imagining them succeeding). (...) 200 Years Into the Future Gradually the economic balance of power shifts between “civilization” and the surrounding “beyond civilization.” More and more people are seeing that they can trade off a plenitude of things they don’t deeply want (power, social status, and supposed conveniences, amenities, and luxuries) for things they really do deeply want (security, meaningful work, more leisure, and social equality-all products of the tribal way of life). “The economy,” no longer tied to an ever-expanding market, will become an increasingly local affair as global and national corporations gradually lose their reason for being. Civilization will be left behind not by a sudden collapse, but by gradually becoming obsolete."
There is no moral argument against it. Any attempt to attack the philosophy of abandonment is simply authoritarian. The only problem is where? No matter where you abandon yourself in Britain you would be evicted for daring to not take part in a degradating society. Caves iare just about the only place they wouldn't come for you.. pretty sad.
I don't know if things will be quite as rosy as you describe this transition to be , as a zoomer who had parents a bit behind the technological curve by dint of being from a 3rd world country , looking at my peers in the current job market (in the first world) , the selection for applicants are partially filtered out by comparing their online foot print , this mean atleast for me they have a hard time pinning down any of my digital footprint since i don't have an account that links my face and real name ie instgram , snapchat , facebook , what this causes in essence is abit of a harder time for me to get a job (a soft form of force to make my self more visible to the all seeing eye), other examples include digitalising your currency (something Rushi sunak has expressed interest in - they can code in what amounts to be an use by date or else the money is useless) a softer form of this exist in the credit/debt card you have since at the whim of the corporations - think Mastercard ,visa they can cut your ability to spend money very easily and they have demonstrated this ability on some high profile people already ) - what im getting at is that there are ways to force people to become dependent on the state / civilisation and the decoupling of this maybe far more bloody then you make it out to be because there are only a precious few that are willing and happy to give up the power they hold and I doubt any of them are at the head of states / corporations .
I feel legislation, especially in the public sector, is driving people out of their jobs. I have a sister (psych nurse) who has taken early retirement, living on a strict budget. And a best mate who is leaving a cushy gov job (currently on sick leave, he couldn’t care less). Both felt crushed by political interference. The ‘woke’ bureaucracy is eating itself.
i got rid of Facebook a few years ago. Beyond the high school or college yearbook aspect of it, it became pretty toxic and useless. I was amazed at how opposite I had become from all my so-called friends. It's better to focus on family, faith and gardens in my opinion.
i walk my dogs around the original inspiration for middle earth place called moseley bog in birmingham and tolkeins house is just down the road from my place
Everyone should be doing some kind of homesteading if able. Even if you start out very small scale. The other day I learned that you can grow potatoes underneath hay (great if you want to make use of rocky soil). I hope you continue making videos, even if they are only every few months. Your voice reminds me that I should play more Geordie folk songs. Cheers.
Glad to hear you mention Paul Kingsnorth. He's the perfect example of the middle aged man "dropping out" and living off grid. He's a great writer on the things you talk about in this video.
In America and never really cared about immigration all that much until I went on disability and lost my home, so I had to look into section 8, but there are literally no openings.. The vast majority of the section 8 apartments in my small Ohio town are filled with recent mexican immigrants, who don't even speak English. It took my step mom's disabled veteran dad over 2 years to get help with a home, yet all these random Mexican immigrants get help like it's nothing? We need to help our own before flooding ourselves with the rest of the world.
It could be that people are getting disenfranchised and tired of what they subconsciously know to be an erroneous path - ie.humanity moving further and further away from nature and contact with the land.
I haven't seen the Lord of the Rings movies in well over ten years now because of the reasons you mention. I prefer to form my own images when reading the books -- at least the films aren't fresh in my memory. I also looked away as soon as you flashed that dark dwarf woman or whatever on the screen here, LOL. Can't be allowing that into my mind.
The movies got me into Tolkien and I LOVE THEM. However, I love to dive into Tolkiens material and look at all the art outside of the movies. Pre and Post movies. Its all wonderful.
I’m an ASOIAF fan (cringe, I know) and I’m really glad I read those books before seeing any media. Wasn’t the same for Tolkien but I hope to some day read the Hobbit to my son.
Facebook never took my fancy because it just seemed like an excuse to nosey Parker into other peoples lives and thus become show off’s who were forever trying to ‘one up’ each other with their holidays, home extensions and fascinating jobs etc., etc. It was a place for posers and try hard’s to fake out each other….and have affairs with their old school crush as you mentioned. I didn’t have a great life and wasn’t interested in the people who had helped make my life shit back at school so I felt no pull towards it. I actually prefer anonymity because I can shoot from the lip without having to worry about it affecting my real life or the people around me and funnily enough I speak more of my actual truth through my avatar than I can ever risk saying in real life. Not saying that’s a good thing mind you… 😅
My favorite thing to do as a 24 year old dude is to take care of my garden. Water and cut the dead branches off my trees, collect fruits and veggies, work the soil and plant new trees/flowers. My biggest dream is to have that as the only work in my life and not spend my youth in a fucking office for 8 hours a day.
It's pretty peaceful outside all that. It's like the online world is a different world. People say shit they wouldn't ever say in person. Once in a while it bleads over from the people that are immersed in it.
Although normies won't admit it or even discuss it they know they were conned with the jab. I'm very interested to watch my very normie, very safe, very wealthy family members completely refusing to follow government guidelines about anything now. I've been offered land to help me build a business and in private discussions they've said some very non PC things to me. Its good to have you back. For those still stuck in the grind they don't have time or energy to read.
Exactly howI've been for the past few years. I quit a computer job at home to work a more physical job, haven't had alcohol in over 2 years, started drawing again (rejecting digital stuff) and just finishing up my third book, exercising more and probably best shape I've ever been in. Couldn't care less about social media any more and tuning out from the news of the day a little more with every passing day. Life is way better, much closer to the person I used to be. the real me. I think you hit the nail on the head here and although a lot of people are not there yet, they feel it. cheers
Great vid good sir, always a pleasure. Before the whole social media thing , I was pretty heavy invested in forum pages and groups, most were connected to hobbies and for a time - they were a decent, fun community where I met and made genuine friends ( who I then met in person) However once the Facebook thing really got up to speed that all changed as people spent less time on the forums and more on FB. Recently I've noticed a small revival of people using the old forums more. The general cancerous nature of Twitter, FB and the rest has got to much for folks ( me included) and they are going back to a format which works and isn't poisonous- much like the blog thing. Interesting stuff indeed. All the best mate, keep it going.
There are very few commentators whose voice and delivery is as important as the message. Even rarer are those whose content is essential and profound. Morgoth is one of that select band.
Really hitting the nail on the head with facebook... I got off facebook in 2017, I noticed I had hundreds and hundreds of "friends", many people I used to spend alot of time with and have memories with, but are we really friends? I haven't seen or talked to you in years, we're always online at the same time but saying nothing.... I deleted my account and decided I was going to give all my time and attention to people physically present in my life.
I’m trying to figure a way out of it as well. 2 years into the engineering world and everything is a bullshit race to the bottom. Crappy pay, 9-5 would be dream hours, and just overall decay of the systems we use and the product we are forced to push out. It’s exhausting, soulless, thankless work. Finding the out is hard but will be worth it in the end. Too tired from it to even have hobbies and interests. End up zoning out for an hour or two before bed. Workout for the sake of maintaining physical health. Highly support the walking away. Thank you for the video. Listening to it while I’m working
When I wasn’t allowed to attend concerts and shows due to my unvaccinated state, we had jam sessions with our own instruments and it was more fun than any concert I ever attended.
Ruminating on this theme earlier, wondering if the world had left me behind, but really its like a train that has switched points too often, the rails now heading in a bizarre direction and I'm simply not going that way so I hopped off it.
Pretty black pilled myself on society and civilization, I decided to let go of it all and just enjoy my life and raise my kids. I don't watch the news or consume pop culture, all I do is play board games with the kids, plan fishing trips and try to live as independent as i can from the system - couldn't be happier. Plan is to pay of sell up and move away from the suburbs build a self-sufficient home.
It's the best that can be done right now. The most important thing is raising children and keeping them sane and away from the mental and physical harm pushed on them.
@@folksurvival that is literally it, raising them to be normal is an enormous task. Have a mate who is in a similar situation and we are literally talking about arrange marrying a young children because they might be the last normal people left the way things are going. Guess we are going back to arrange marriages.
I've been calling it antisocial media for years. I was over Facebook when it started becoming the main stream go to, when all the mainstream media and your local police force started having a FB profile it lost its novelty for me. It only got worse and then the political correctness started and the bannings ect. I missed all that drama and I don't regret it either.
Its all averts now every other post on me feed is an ad, I only check in to it occasionally now in case I want to hit up an old friend, but its probably better to make new ones I think
