The Myth of Individualism

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@00Platypus00 5 месяцев назад

Even after decades immersed in a system that rewards individualism, egotistical behavior and greed, both materially and morally, we have undeniable examples of empathy and cooperation. Imagine what we could achieve with a better system...

@Generic_Phantom 5 месяцев назад

Is it possible to participate in individualism and be kind and empathetic?

@axelblack1799 5 месяцев назад

@@Generic_Phantomit’s possible individually, not societally

@00Platypus00 5 месяцев назад

@@Generic_Phantom I'm sorry, but "participate in individualism" seems contradictory to me

@Generic_Phantom 5 месяцев назад

@@axelblack1799 isn't that what matters?

@Generic_Phantom 5 месяцев назад

@@00Platypus00 Ah I now see how my poor choice of words effectively destroys my argument.

@mallorieudischas8063 5 месяцев назад

I think it’s important to know the difference between individualism and individuality. There are always gonna be individuals and personal identities. But individualism is believing each individual is their own island.

@mirac8803 4 месяца назад

"Everyone being their own island" is just another expression of being individual in my opinion.. everyone is a universe of their own with all their beliefs, motivations and so on, however, at the same time we are all connected in the one grand universe. And each connection, each friendship for example, creates another universe which only those involved in it truly understand

@Jay.Taylor 4 месяца назад

@@mirac8803You're right, but there's still a very thin differentiation. If you're an island, you're an island, true and honest. Yes, all of those things you mentioned are included, but so are all other material and organizational aspects as well. True unity, built upon community and cooperation, cannot be created in an island society dynamic.

@bananaveg7373 5 месяцев назад

nothing interests me more than seeing the brain attempt to explain itself

@LuNa_097 5 месяцев назад

i feel like you'd fail captchas

@re11ik96 5 месяцев назад

It's interesting how people try to seperate and isolate brain as an entity distinct from the universe. I think it is much more complex than that, we all are temporal nodes of an interacting system with each component influencing the other to some non-zero degree, of course in causal order. Trying to insert some kind of hard seperation between the brain and the rest of the system is the crux of individualism.

@SueWhootBoneWhoot 5 месяцев назад

😂. Just like bacon is an atoms way to be tasty.

@alefmagnum207 5 месяцев назад

@@LuNa_097 What??...

@Thryllos 5 месяцев назад

@@alefmagnum207 I think he means that the OP sounds like an alien or bot by the sentence he made

@jackdaniels4975 5 месяцев назад

This whole video sums up my entire issue with motivation, there's no reason. I simply don't want material gain, I can only motivate for other people's sake. Yet I have no community or family or anything to work for. There's nothing to care for but yourself. It's not worth the rest of my pathetic life to be stuck in a society that explicitly rewards egomaniacs and psychos, acts as if generational wealth isn't an issue, and crushes any hope for normal people. At least under the old monarchies I'd still have a village. Now I have nothing. They've taken everything I could have possibly wanted, so their numbers can get bigger. Psychopathy.

@robertlind186 Месяц назад

Regardless of if your current philosophy is correct or even logical, focus more on the results. If you’re feeling useless and poor, change your ideas and mind. I’d rather half a self admittedly flawed mental framework that yields results that whatever you have.

@veryinterestingwow 5 месяцев назад

me who is socially isolated and discovered "myself", found out i suck

@totonow6955 5 месяцев назад

❤

@BoofGalls 5 месяцев назад

Nah, cringe opinion

@smartsmartie7142 5 месяцев назад

Look deeper, we all had an innocent childhood. Don't define yourself just by the state you are in now, the past and future look different

@lukyluk_py 5 месяцев назад

@@BoofGalls ?

@williamrelue 5 месяцев назад

I think that is an empowering revelation, because it means you have become aware of the pain that is necessary to change.

@haidiwu7968 2 месяца назад

Born too late to have faith in the American dream, born too early to be a teen tiktok star, born just in time to hit a workout to fill the void of loneliness while listening to a Sisyphus55 episode on the myth of individualism through noise cancelling headphones

@Havre_Chithra Месяц назад

The very notion of an "I" entails both a "not I" and a "we". The I is preceeded and necessitated by the "not I" or "Other". The "Other" is vassel through which "I" comes into being. To be an individual is to negate the "Other" which is the very foundation upon which "I" depends... thus, to be an individual is ultimately to seek the annihilation and negation of the "other" and consequently "I".

@khaledalem3163 5 месяцев назад

I see a sisyphus 55 video I immediately click its simple youre that good 🤩

@pablomontoya9160 5 месяцев назад

Is it just me or do y'all remember watching this video months ago. The thumbnail feels like ive seen it before. I may be mad tripping tho lol

@ZzzyaxTheCuber 5 месяцев назад

As the great philosopher Corey Taylor once said “I am a world before I am a man”

@youngcalisthenics 5 месяцев назад

"Philosopher"... I suppose so.

@maca2237 4 месяца назад

I tried to do a phisics homework and I raged so hard at not knowing how to do it that I almost broke my hand by punching the book, plus there is alot more stupid shit I have to do, and it angers and frustrates me.

@R0291-l1l 5 месяцев назад

99% of my bad mental health would be fixed if I still had access to a thriving community (in real life, not online)

@garfeld280 5 месяцев назад

you should play cruelty squad and discuss the philosophy in the game, i think it resonates a lot with your channel and this video specifically

@riverrunpastadamandsteve 4 месяца назад

04:31 sleeper cell code word activation

@ID82005 4 месяца назад

Theres only one thing i can say: Real.

@nena4299 4 месяца назад

"everything is connected" serial lain experiments reference??

@nuddlesoups4814 5 месяцев назад

Awesome vid!! Would love to see your reupload of "on beauty" it was my favorite. The script was so old though, doubt u still have it. All love to you still man ❤️❤️

@IapitusMcHeimer 5 месяцев назад

You do a fine job of explaining problems with individualism, but fail to address the problems with collectivism. Ill leave a longer more indepth critique later

@fionn32 4 месяца назад

@Sisyphus55 Ironically, Funghi and Trees do in fact rely on other organisms. They have a symbiotic relationship with each other!

@thebboywaya 5 месяцев назад

Time to dive into The Unique and it’s Property but Max Stirner

@thebboywaya 5 месяцев назад

Again*

@bilalmahmood5674 5 месяцев назад

Alright fine ill do shrooms

@GS42SCHOPAWE 5 месяцев назад

I’ve done it many times it’s life changing

@java9637 5 месяцев назад

It reminded me Достоевский and I agree with you

@williamrelue 5 месяцев назад

How does one quantify individualism? 12:13 this sounds like “we have killed god”.

@tran_genetics 4 месяца назад

my guy! fungi are heterotrophs!!! and autotrophs rely on other organisms for sustanence

@AmanoJack 4 месяца назад

Keep thinking. I'll be back to check your progress in a few years.

@Hollowed2wiz 5 месяцев назад

It's weird, I feel like you've posted this video before, many months ago. Maybe I'm just trippin'

@stardanrex 5 месяцев назад

burry me slowly

@sselmer 5 месяцев назад

great video but where are these psychedelic guitar tracks from?

@Mo-or3so 5 месяцев назад

I’m tripping or is this video a re-upload? Great content nonetheless

@janhokas8482 4 месяца назад

Is this reposted? Please I need to know it

@borlgiy 5 месяцев назад

Copying someone is not being exactly what the "copied" is, do y'all, you all and yous thinks that the people on top wanted to find out what each and every individialistic things that everyone held. (Unrelated) Peace.

@NerdJoshua 4 месяца назад

Don't encourage this. This will lead to technocracy.

@TastefulGorilla 4 месяца назад

Don't threaten me with a good time.

@Tobias-fl3nb 4 месяца назад

8:58 its easy bro just get abducted like me lmfao

@turtleanton6539 3 месяца назад

Indeed😮

@swedebug2889 5 месяцев назад

Terrence McKenna ❤

@eggmoe23 4 месяца назад

Spread this video like the plague

@S.T.A.L.K.E.R.-Strelok 5 месяцев назад

leave it to Sisyphus55 to be the first to use the monkey neuron activation illustration in the correct topic and context lmao

@ivanlrodriguez 5 месяцев назад

absolute memelord genius move

@ivanlrodriguez 5 месяцев назад

my neurons surely activated

@thespiritofhoxhawell4413 4 месяца назад

Hey Marked One what rhe hell

@S.T.A.L.K.E.R.-Strelok 4 месяца назад

@@thespiritofhoxhawell4413 get out of here Stalker

@JmKrokY 4 месяца назад

🗿

@AlanisCastellanos 5 месяцев назад

the problem is when one WANTS to bond, but fails to do so. Its reassuring to dig our hole and decorate it to feel less lonely

@subatenome 4 месяца назад

Yes, I believe our current society is poorly equipped to help the most insecure and/or neurodivergent individuals feel part of a community.

@prapanthebachelorette6803 4 месяца назад

Exactly

@hikappree 4 месяца назад

One less lonely hole! 🎶🎶

@daikucoffee5316 4 месяца назад

@@subatenomeWhat does that even mean?

@ackdor 4 месяца назад

is this from the video or damn you are an artist with words

@hanto144 5 месяцев назад

HOW TF IS HE ALWAYS IN THE RIGHT MOMENT. i was having an existencial crisis about how boring and not special i'm really am, and how i'm constantly bombarded by the individualist myth around media, and i left feeling empty and frustrated because this is just like a power struggle

@theadhdviking8218 5 месяцев назад

Same

@garfeld280 5 месяцев назад

@@theadhdviking8218 i giggled at this

@LookitsMarino 4 месяца назад

The matrix bro /s

@inakoto 5 месяцев назад

The part about how everything changed after the pandemic is so true, I cannot stress this enough. It really feels like everyone just became mad after covid hit and now we're just trying to regain meaning.

@Nemoknowsnothing 5 месяцев назад

I think a lot of people, you included, had for the first time a chance to experience actual societal abuse and the time and energy to actually see it And it had been by design, I remember reading that one if the main proponents of the American lawn used as a pro for that "A man that has to mow a lawn doesn't have time to read the communist manifesto" or something to that effect. But trust me, it has always been as crazy.

@Dave.O 5 месяцев назад

I wonder if COVID, even asymptomatic cases, messed up our brains ability to cooperate. Although it was mostlikely the isolation.

@inakoto 5 месяцев назад

@@Nemoknowsnothing You have a point. It's definitely been crazy before, we just didn't have the time to rot away in our houses all day to see through it.

@inakoto 5 месяцев назад

@@Dave.O Oh yeah, definitely, it's usually referred to as brainfog and definitely screwed our brains up in a lot of ways.

@TheRedneckjim 5 месяцев назад

Yep, it was a time of government abuse that also created mass psychosis.

@ryuken347 5 месяцев назад

the most ironic part of individualism is that it needs the existense of the "other" to exist, but there is a catch that nobody likes to be an "individual" so they usually try to find people like them to feel less alone... it's a tragic irony that infected us all.

@thomervin7450 5 месяцев назад

Everything that ends in -ism is an incomplete ideology. Individualism, communism, egoism, collectivism, etc.

@theintrovertedaspie9095 20 дней назад

Humans are social animals after all. We are hardwired to bond and connect with others as part of our physiological wellbeing being.

@muddymushrooms 5 месяцев назад

okay I know this isn't really relevant but fungi are heterotrophic, they get their energy by breaking down other organisms, especially dead and decaying organisms and are more closely related to animals than plants

@DuckTheFinn 5 месяцев назад

And trees dont get carbon dioxide and water out of nowhere. Everything depends on something else which makes distinction between the two useless

@arianafox4944 5 месяцев назад

Yeah fungi are heterotrophs

@arthurcezariooliveira2921 4 месяца назад

I paused the video to search for this comment

@fraserwilson249 4 месяца назад

@@DuckTheFinn The distinction is that plants do not require other organisms to live, they can survive off of purely abiotic resources, those being sunlight, CO2, oxygen, water, and minerals found in the soil. Everything else lives off of other organisms in some way. So you could have a world of plants but no animals, but not a world of animals but no plants.

@nathansos8480 3 месяца назад

Thanks. Didn’t need that, but thanks. I know that it was irrelevant, and that I didn’t want to hear that, but not because I didn’t care, but because I knew. But, thanks, anyway. Don’t take that the wrong way. Ok?

@omarqasirov8754 5 месяцев назад

I admit that part of the draw of individualism (for me) is the insecurity that I won't be accepted by the group. It's safer to be on my own and isolated than to be around people who will find out my flaws and exploit them or use them against me, not to mention the groups that just don't want me around because of something inherent to who I am.

@philforge4240 5 месяцев назад

I know Im just a person on the internet, but the only way to learn to like people is to mildly interact with others to figure out who to trust. From there you reinforce connections with good people and drop bad people, whatever good and bad may be for you. I know it’s hard but I believe in you.

@hegaliandialectics4289 5 месяцев назад

I would just like to say that I used to also hold this fear. Until I realized often instead of people seeing and using your flaws or insecurities against you. They just don’t care at all. I think a lot of social anxiety is rooted in a narcissism. Which is okay. But it’s usually really easy to sniff out the bad actors and figure out pretty quickly who you enjoy being around and who you don’t. Ofc protect yourself but without giving the people around you at least a baseline level of trust, you will never really get to truly interact with another human.

@mornotafi 5 месяцев назад

Individualism is not about being alone

@IronhandedLayman 4 месяца назад

Casting social anxiety as mostly narcissism really denigrates social anxiety and misses the major accepted causes of such a disorder, such as genetics, brain structure, and learned behavior from negative social interactions in the past. That last one also speaks to the OPs argument: if you’ve ever been in a situation (or more likely more than one) where you have been singled out for ridicule, bullying, or other abuse, a common (and to my mind understandable) reaction is to self-isolate, reflect, and self-realize. It may also to be to develop a defense mechanism. And in addition someone in that situation may not develop the social skills to suss out the sus people around them, but may instead take the easier route and leave the defenses up for as long as possible.

@hegaliandialectics4289 4 месяца назад

@@IronhandedLayman Let me clear. I’m not literally calling social anxiety narcissism. Just that there is validity to the idea that in reality people do not care. People are so wrapped up in the tangle of their lives our silly brains make up insane scenarios or hold onto past traumas in every attempt to prevent healthy social interaction. And ofc it does right thats the brains job. To imprint traumas and unpleasant experiences and ensure we don’t have to experience them again. My point was more this is a fair and relatable way to think and view social interaction. Especially if one has been bullied or worse. But its not really an effective or healthy way to deal with those feelings. It literally does not work. You can only develop the social skills the “gut” to sniff out malicious people by slowly putting yourself in vulnerable positions of trust with others. You start small no one puts it all on the line with a stranger. You develop these skills by just brute forcing it all. And it’s exhausting and demoralizing and frustrating. But god damn if there isn’t any other healthy options. Rot in loneliness forever unable to make meaningful connections. Or experience other people for all they have to offer. I think one thing that helped me get the ball rolling was shedding this metaphorical narcissism my brain had created to ensure I remained isolated with the walls up. Once you realize people really don’t give a shit unless you have built rapport with them. You are freed from a lot of that anxiety.

@OLDMANWAFFLES 5 месяцев назад

I feel like even more so after the Covid-19 Pandemic, we’ve become a lot more isolated (not just physically either), detached from each-other emotionally, and more individualistic, yet we still yearn for that tribal sensation through clawing for internet/social media validation. All I see is hatred towards one another and a lack of humanity or very little empathy for other human beings. I wish we could get some empathy and compassion flushed back into us as a people.

@totonow6955 5 месяцев назад

I agree and feel it too. Lately I have seen the kindness and closeness in the protesting college campus groups especially in knowing that they are well organized, prepared and have observable coordination en masse. They have used their priveldge as a good model.

@the_expidition427 5 месяцев назад

@@totonow6955 It is not movements that are well organized and insignificantly prepared. It's loney people looking to be along for the ride for men of action and slogans those that don't apologize

@totonow6955 5 месяцев назад

@@the_expidition427 Go back and take an (other) look at the actual dialectic of Hegel...try the podcast why theory. If this comment doesn't make sense to you, let me know. I believe Nietzche would agree with me dear. - from an old

@BecuzARealOne 5 месяцев назад

“We have lost the reason to live, for the sake of being alive.”

@nikita1351 5 месяцев назад

Finally a re-upload, I was scouring the internet for this one

@Femonk100 5 месяцев назад

Ok so I wasn’t going crazy thinking this was a reupload. Good. It’s a good video so I’m glad I could find it again

@almond5284 5 месяцев назад

I KNEW IT. Thanks for the confirmation.

@youngcalisthenics 5 месяцев назад

Yeesh, thought i was going nuts 😂

@123sheag 5 месяцев назад

everything is affected by an infinite number of things, some having larger effects. We are both individualistic and communal to different degrees depending on the context.

@dietsmoke 5 месяцев назад

yes! we are not either or but rather both. theres always nuance

@mirac8803 4 месяца назад

Yep

@Muhluri 5 месяцев назад

The more I look at my life, the more I realise that every aspect of my life is influenced by other people. My intelligence is a result of my good teachers and the fact they were supportive. My interest in computers only exists cause my dad chose to buy me one when I was 4 years old. The way I speak was influenced by the TV shows I watched as a kid. My health is based on the food my parents cooked for me

@muborakrustamova9753 5 месяцев назад

When it comes to intelligence... there have been thousands even million people or accumulation of their work

@Muhluri 5 месяцев назад

@@muborakrustamova9753 so true. At some point in history someone thought it was a good idea for us to wash our hand 😂

@SueWhootBoneWhoot 5 месяцев назад

Me me me me me

@muborakrustamova9753 5 месяцев назад

@@Muhluri and got sent to psychiatric hospital for it 😅

@MCart1215 5 месяцев назад

Yes and it all links back to a lack of free will. Think about how lucky you've had it, then consider the poor, the imprisoned, the ostracised - they're just expressing their poor environments. We are literally just a mouthpiece for our environment, we are our environment expressing itself.

@joaotoscani2605 4 месяца назад

Im not sure but it seems like he is using a lot of strawmen. The multiple meanings of "individualism" are used at the same time. The word is the same but you can't use as if it had the same meaning. Physical individualism, political individualism and philosophical individualism are 3 different things

@robertlind186 Месяц назад

Yeah it feel like a great deal of his videos just hop from idea to idea and throw in a quote here and there. Like at the end this video had nothing substantial to say. We aren’t rocks in space, but we aren’t a hive mind of fungus.

@Gaurav-pq2ug 5 месяцев назад

00:13 The illusion of individualism and the interconnectedness of all beings. 02:45 Interbeing through interpersonal neurobiology 05:10 Lockdowns made us realize our interconnectedness in the global community. 07:36 Isolation and individualism hinder authentic self-realization 10:06 Excessive individualism leads to increased depression and reduced life satisfaction 12:34 Individualism vs. interconnectedness and capitalism vs. socialism explained. 14:54 Fischer promoted acid communism as a response to mandatory neoliberal individualism. 17:14 Psilocybin promotes empathy, creativity, and nature connection 19:18 Recognizing our interconnected existence.

@beeflumps 4 месяца назад

Thanks for this. There were so many topics and they were so dense.

@DoctorIglooman 4 месяца назад

4:31 among us

@MiloMiloMilo 5 месяцев назад

so what im hearing is... eat the rich, and use their money to host psychadelic community-based festivals where people can brainstorm how to better the world and what humanity should collectively work on next

@realx0 5 месяцев назад

yes!!!! Psychedelic festivals !!!

@pickle380 5 месяцев назад

or just do it right now, money is isolating

@jackdaniels4975 5 месяцев назад

@@pickle380being homeless is isolating

@pickle380 5 месяцев назад

@@jackdaniels4975 I get that. My point is that we shouldn't wait until we think we have enough resources to start creating community, that's all.

@Generic_Phantom 5 месяцев назад

YES!!! Well just eat the rich part. How dare they have more money than me??

@173_nora7 5 месяцев назад

Love this (havent seen it yet)

@Generic_Phantom 5 месяцев назад

Edit the comment once you've seen it.

@millalaure 5 месяцев назад

Same

@Generic_Phantom 5 месяцев назад

Have you seen it yet?

@isaiaharmstrong1799 4 месяца назад

Good sir, Have you seen it yet?!?

@all_matters-dm1jw 3 месяца назад

She has not seen it yet

@smigless6154 5 месяцев назад

It looks like a lot of people in the comments are mistaking what you are saying. So I will attempt to clarify, we are individuals, we have our own wants and desires and are mostly (if not completely) in control of our bodies. We as individuals require to be together and work together, learn to get along and build communities. Individualism is the idea that we can be self reliant and not need others. This rediculous notion is easily countered with hundreds of years of history, we humans only do well because we are in groups. Do not forget, we are still individuals though, we are no hive mind. You are still your own person with thoughts, emotions, and desires. Just don't forget you need to learn how to work with others and get along with the people around you.

@RMoore713ify 5 месяцев назад

Interesting that you used anti-vaccine people at the beginning to say that we don't have bodily autonomy but you didn't use abortion as an example.

@dylaann 5 месяцев назад

"Hatred burns empathy, but does not kill it," -psychologist Jamil Zaki in _The War for Kindness_

@ThefamousZozo 5 месяцев назад

I feel like this missrepresents libertarian philosophy a little. You can be a very community-oriented libertarian, understanding the connectedness of all beings and actions. You can understand that things like free will and individual agency might be illusions and still argue that society is better off if we act as if they are facts. Libertarianism is more about consent than individualism. Atomization and Isolation might not be a result of an economic system as I can imagine a "fully automated space communism" with highly isolated individuals just being served so fully by machines, that they do not need to interact much with humans. And it seems that when we are not forced by a feeling of necessity to interact, that we do so less and less. Maybe we can understand that community is it's own good, or we might have to find an artificial necessity of community as abundance seems to erode it.

@cakexo7756 5 месяцев назад

Lowkey this video was eye opening. Idk but this video explained a lot, what I find wrong with myself, my own hyper indiviualism has shot me in the foot

@Kiwi.an_bean 5 месяцев назад

I think isolation is very useful if done mindfully as it helps give space to oneself to recharge/realise and analyse things. This is very important for someone whos trying to be "authentic" but everything should be done in moderation. Excessive isolation can lead to a lose grip on reality and relate-ness with those around us or with events happening around us. Being a heterotrophic organisms we notably depend on our surroundings so being in touch with the surroundings is plausibly an imp aspect in the process of being "authentic". Excessive practice of almost anything can inturn lead to the feeling of depression/frustration/etc when one is foced to come on terms with reality by any means as the perception one may have can hugely differ with the one that actually exits(generally). Hence, I think, isolation is a tool that requires good self control and judgement. Interacting with the surroundings and indulging in the experience is also an imp aspect of authenticity as what one learns/gains from it; its unique to each individual, this yeilds many other useful tools like empathy, humbleness, sympathy, etc and when all of this is combined a good balanced rough sketch of oneself can be drawn.

@beeflumps 4 месяца назад

I've recently taken up meditation. And lately I've felt like the swirling noise I experience all day has quieted a bit. I'm less afraid of strangers and will be more willing to strike up a conversation randomly. So yes, I totally agree that isolation can help bring us together.

@gamingchickenstudios 5 месяцев назад

I have been watching this channel for over 6 years now and i have to say : Your content has really improved over the years a im glad to see that you are getting the recognition you deserve.

@chops_chops 5 месяцев назад

This is the best one yet for me personally

@almond5284 5 месяцев назад

Funny because this is a re-upload

@almond5284 5 месяцев назад

Though tbh it's still true, Sisyphus really do be getting better at pushing his boulder

@Lemon-yh6xg 5 месяцев назад

This video essay was well articulated and well put together.. but I don't see how any of this discredits or refutes the concept of individualism. These concepts aren't mutually exclusive. I like to analogize that every man and every woman is a star - wholly self-sufficient unto themselves but without the gravitational pull of those around us, we would be thrown off course.

@josephsteinmann9172 4 месяца назад

One MUST imagine sisyphus 55 monetized 😅

@ExtraPlanar 5 месяцев назад

Glad to have been awake at 4am to see this just after it uploaded

@pinna9391 5 месяцев назад

how, in this ideology, am i supposed to motivate myself to do things that i want to do, but know that they will be hard? isnt this way of thinking anti productive? i know it is, but i simply cant bother to think like that, i have things that i want to get done and me and the people around me feel very happy that i care to put effort into these things. i face every aspect of my life that requires effort as work, and i live to put out effort and do work. i couldn't be happier by beeing focused on my frankenstein self and by listening to others advices in how to be better. its the only reason i wake up and go to sleep with a smile, knowing that tomorrow ill have to improve on something

@BGWee Месяц назад

Acid communism is super dumb. Sure, it’s very fun to chill with your closest friends doing psychedelics and you will absolutely feel like you’ve found the purpose of life in that moment, but life is just more complex than that. You need a *balance* between these perspectives, something which philosophy is typically lacking. So yes, enjoy the fleeting moments of youth and fun with your friends. Be creative, dance, stay up till the early hours. But also you simply have to take responsibility for something. While we are not atomised individuals, our individual skills, career and family undeniably matter - and they would matter under any economic system, too. This balance should just be blindingly obvious to anyone who has lived a life, and the debate should be what balance to strike - because there will always be individuals who are falling too far on either side.

@TopMusicChartsChannel 5 месяцев назад

I agree with most of the video but i disagree with the villianization of 'people that want to escape to another planet'. You have to realize that no one will be able to achieve that goal within their lifetimes today to the point of it being better than life on earth. The idea behind it is that we know Earth won't last forever. Eventually we will have to create the technology that allows us to teraform and transport to other planets.

@calmwithtayxo 2 месяца назад

i disagree that you have to be isolated to be an individual. it depends on how you perceive it. you can be a creative and expressive individual apart of a group if you know how to have empathy and collaborate. we are naturally individuals, born into our own brains and bodies despite our dependence on external factors for nourishment, safety, support, and survival. i think these two things can co-exist if we look deeply into what each side is saying.

@davidh2550 5 месяцев назад

I say this with the upmost respect for opposing opinions . I don’t associate being an antivaxer with being hesitant and skeptical, at first, toward the Covid-19 vaccine. I’ve taken a ton of vaccines but I was definitely hesitant toward the “streamlined” vaccine used to “treat” c-19. Being labeled an antivaxer for that is absurd. In fact I only took the first of the two bc it knocked me on my ass with the worst flu symptoms I’ve ever felt and literally feared I might die. I have a strong immune system and am pretty sure I’d already made contact and built up antibodies to it I wore a mask. I social distanced. I was considerate of other’s immunity but there was something INCREDIBLY sketch going on w this pandemic, Fauci, the media, and the political status quo of that time, that greatly merited suspicion imho.

@rere5020 5 месяцев назад

I disagree we are all individual beings but we are also all connected to that I agree. Being a separate entity is not an illusion knowing that we all have influence on each other is also not an illusion. Your arguments go a bit too far in my opinion you can't just make everyone connected because you think that's the right path. You can't force anyone to be connected because that's not love that's tyranny if you require everyone to do the same just because you think it's right. Sure we all should as humanity accept, interact, respect each other more. It can't be forced just because it's right, it must occur naturally. If someone wants to be connected cool if someone doesn't cool. I think it's all about balance, we must accept we are not alone and just by living we have influence on everything, but we must accept we are all authentic individuals with our own uniqueness and specific needs and views. All must be honored the self and environment around the self and other individual beings and their uniqueness. I think your arguments lean bit too much in a direction where you take away individual's autonomy and rights if all of your arguments were to be a political reality right now. Everyone is a person with their own feelings, you are too and that's important to recognize, it's real, it's important other people aren't npcs they are people as complex as you. Nevertheless recognize also that you are not just a part of a system but a person that matters individually. You should recognize again that too, you live in some system some environment and you have influence on it and it has influence on you and on others also. Other people also have influence on the system, environment, on you and you have influence on them too. It's all interchangeable, good that you recognize this. I think though you put too little value on individualism, however you have a good point that as humanity we might care about each other too little.

@percivalyracanth1528 5 месяцев назад

...but if you say we must laugh at the right's declarations of identity- and body-ownership as absurd, then of course you do realize that means we must laugh at (quasi-)leftist identity- and body-ownership. Both concepts are equally absurd and deserve mockery, but you seem to refuse to step that far.

@ViVeriVniversvmVivusVici 5 месяцев назад

Does anyone remember which channel Sisyphus 55 went on a live stream for a debate and was obliterated?

@imaginater5238 5 месяцев назад

ben shapiro could debate with a neurotic awkward climate scientist and wipe the floor with him, but that doesn't change the fact that he's wrong on the science. oration skills, especially in a stressful setting like a debate, are no litmus test for the legitimacy of ideas.

@ViVeriVniversvmVivusVici 5 месяцев назад

@@imaginater5238 wtf are you talking about? The only thing you're doing here is questioning my level of discernment. If you don't know/don't remember then keep on stepping. We all know Shapiro is a sophist.

@Jackyboi887 5 месяцев назад

Biology nerd here . . . I hate to break it to you, but fungi are heterotrophs, not autotrophs. They gain nutrients by breaking down other organisms, much like animals. They may look more plant-like from our perspective, but they are in fact both more biologically similar to and more closely related to animals than plants. Sorry if I come off as a pedant lol, but I've caught you make the same mistake in two videos now

@cruddycameraman1486 5 месяцев назад

Is this not a re-upload?

@mornotafi 5 месяцев назад

People on this thread bruv smh .... Individualism is not about being alone !

@GL887 5 месяцев назад

The amount of community in religious groups makes me happy.Well,usually on video/in images,seeing religious communities praying in a group brings me joy,seeing humanity unified.I wouldn't consider myself a Christian like my family (or at all,for now) but I love the message of 'we are members of one body'. Ofc,not all is subjectively good in certain religions:corruption,greed,discrimination,but I do prefer something close to it rather than hyper-individualised sense of conscience where everything seems to be based on hedonism. See how majority of religious teaching emphasise not being tempted to desires and being selfless?

@mornotafi 4 месяца назад

🤦

@GL887 4 месяца назад

@@mornotafi What?Did I sound cultish?Weird?If you really only replied with an emoji as a knee-jerk reaction,fair,but if I said something questionable point it out.But if u just want a post an emoji,then fine.

@legalfictionnaturalfact3969 3 месяца назад

SOMEONE DIDN'T LOOK UP INDIVIDUALISM IN THE DICTIONARY.

@DrRESHES 5 месяцев назад

I'm still waiting when you get to the point of being past the "problem", but since there's new video every now and then, i guess you can't take off your tiara of a drama queen.

@DisgruntledPeasant 5 месяцев назад

Where is the drama? The solution is to move away from individualistic thinking and embrace the fact that you are deeply interconnected with everyone else.

@TheDevNell 4 месяца назад

If anyone who wants to claim ownership of anything about themselves should be laughed at, where does that leave women who want reproductive rights and body autonomy?

@miacalibr 4 месяца назад

A good example of mirror neurons firing is how when you said "...among us." I snapped to attention.

@cristine5421 2 месяца назад

😭😭😭

@all_matters-dm1jw 3 месяца назад

I don't understand anything, but I love your vids.

@ildabarsegian628 5 месяцев назад

As a current nursing student what I learned recently: we must ensure that we are physically, mentally, and SPIRITUALLY well in order to live a healthy and happy life.

@joshariel7116 5 месяцев назад

Actually trees and fungi are also interdependent (even though some are technically considered autotrophs). Check the paper: Mycorrhizal networks: Mechanisms, Ecology and Modelling or better yet read Suzanne Simard's book: Finding the Mother Tree

@raimuEight 5 месяцев назад

Great explanation! I'm starting to notice the interconnection of everything more and more, by way of science, Buddhism, and psychology. What you can discover in isolation is extremely limited compared to what you can find outside of it. Being in my first relationship has exposed a lot of blind-spots I've had towards myself, but I see it as an opportunity to work on them. I always learn something from your videos, and come away interested in new topics! And now I want to try acid...

@maidenofpristineeyes Месяц назад

"I have no personality, so I have to cope the constant feeling of being empty by making a video to explain why there is a strict connection between human environment and the self" welcome back Hegel

@LookitsMarino 4 месяца назад

The popularity that is coming back into the mainstream with mushrooms leaves me hopeful that it will lead to some revolution. It feels and looks like a lot of people microdose, more so than ever.

@StaticCollapse 4 месяца назад

It's crazy to me how people don't see the various forms of collectivism being hijacked for individualist gains, and not seeing the collectivism within their own biology that functions to make them live and breathe another day. Imagine if humans, with respect to individualism and peoples uniqueness, utilized collectivism for the benefit of everyone.

@CapitalKnowledge. 5 месяцев назад

individualism is not a myth. the smallest minority is the individual, our goal as a society is to protect the rights of the individual. anyone who tries to convince you otherwise is trying to supplant your rights and is not to be trusted.

@DisgruntledPeasant 5 месяцев назад

No man is an island.

@muharremrevani3895 3 месяца назад

Community is a vampire that sucks the value from her members and demands total allegiance to herself and her ideals.

@notmyrealname7634 4 месяца назад

yeah i gotta be honest brother, the love will save us line is repeated in the human brain a lot in history because it intuitively feels good and right. it is a meme in the original sense of that word, a powerful one many religions and ideologies are founded on. it also, frankly, is one of those many "common sense" tropes that just isn't true. there is not strong evidence for this at all, nor did you really even attempt to cite any. it's all about what "could" happen, it always is pitched that way. but conceivable does not equal probable or even possible. my bet on what will change the world, is technological acceleration eliminating most socially necessary labor. sci-fi has a better track record of predicting the future than political writers, philosophers and religious leaders. that's because for the entire era scifi has existed for, science and technology are the actual root of societal changes. if a hippie communist world comes to pass, it will not be because love swept over the world. it will be because technological advancement liberated the world from toil, disease, ignorance, etc.

@sophiaisabelle01 5 месяцев назад

There's no such thing as originality. Everything's inspired by someone or something and takes all the characteristics for a more cohesive form.

@jaughnekow 5 месяцев назад

Authenticity is a publicity stunt that is marketed to generate profits.

@00Platypus00 5 месяцев назад

Chul Han is truly one of the most important contemporary authors. Amazing work.

@AntiJovian 5 месяцев назад

The podcast Philosophize This has a great episode on his work. Agreed he's an amazingly concise but piercing philosopher.

@fy7589 4 месяца назад

Zizek's point is true as long as things we eat are manufactured. However we still have the option and freedom to mostly select what we eat or drink. A person can entirely start a new life in a rural area where every food is unprocessed and fresh, whereas we were left with no other choice than getting vaccinated and even in some cases only the biontech's vaccine was being accepted. Not getting vaccinated was not an option for many people who had careers or needed the money for survival. That isn't the same freedom of choice with what you're able to eat is it?

@lasharael 2 месяца назад

It turns out that trees and fungi are not autotrophs at all. They depend on complex ecological networks (both physically present networks during their lifetimes and through time from generation to generation) to supply them with water, nutrients, reproductive opportunities, and so forth. Trees, for instance, often rely on symbiotic relationships with soil dwelling fungal colonies in order to take up water and break down soil matter into usable nutrients. The fungi receive sugars and other nutrients they can't make themselves from the trees. The fungi have even been found to move water to struggling trees in order to support them, and it appears that the donor trees may play an active role in facilitating this transfer. This is a big part of why very large trees in old growth forests die when the smaller trees around them are harvested. The ecological network they count on for survival has been destroyed.

@Glue_Stick98 Месяц назад

@@lasharael philosophers aren't strong in biology lol. But I did like the animated dancing mushrooms 🍄

@maxmurphyxyz 5 месяцев назад

it’s just neoliberalism. it’s always neoliberalism.

@hueyvon2417 5 месяцев назад

Maybe its the optimist in me, but I feel like I see the rising generation waking up to this line of thinking faster and more frequently. The seeds of love are being planted, and a platform like the internet is helping that example spread like wildfire. gives me a lot of hope for the next few years

@silverswordstudios7334 5 месяцев назад

Though some of these arguments make a good case for interdependence as a healthy means of cultivating meaningful relationships--in contrast to extreme independence--I don't think they make individualism out to be a myth on the experiental level. One can recognize the practical and valuable necessity of stronger bonds (both personal and communal) while holding to a basis of strong self identity as the bedrock which makes these bonds meaningful in the first place.

@lilacmckenna 5 месяцев назад

oh my god i’m so glad you reuploaded this, it was my favourite ever video of yours and one of my favourites on the whole platform

@ChadOHara98 5 месяцев назад

This is fundamentally misinformed. In the final analysis, we need to recognize the reality of personal responsibility and free will. Although we live deeply interconnected lives, the relationships we have are defined by our individual actions. Not everything is about money. God doesn't care about how much money you make.

@ChadOHara98 5 месяцев назад

There is only one God

@ArtisticLayman 5 месяцев назад

You do realize that you are laying down the groundwork for the concept of the State as defined by Fascism, right?

@chekhososlanian1942 5 месяцев назад

Yes, are people so simple minded to not see, that this kind of ideas are a ground work for a totalitarian social order?

@9000ck 5 месяцев назад

Hey, don't get down on the fungi and plants - they are incredibly interconnected.

@caosed4991 5 месяцев назад

yess finally... a video that feels like what sisyphus55 videos felt like. But instead of the depressing themes, there is optimism and hope, an ideological evolution that mirrors mine.

@dhwardani 5 месяцев назад

One trip on psychedelics makes you think you understand the universe, and see a deeper fabric that was always in front of you. 10 trips on psychedelics makes you believe change is possible in society, to see what you see. 200 hundred trips on psychedelics makes you realize the world will continue to spin, and humans will continue this impossible task to explain their own reality without ever considering uniting as a single planet.