There is actually a lawsuit against the mayor of Washington DC, I believe. The mayor allowed BLM slogans to be painted on the street and renamed the area around the White House to something BLM related. What’s interesting is the lawsuit charges a violation of the first amendment under the establishment clause (the freedom of religion, which forbids the government creation or explicit endorsement of a religion). They are claiming that the recent protests, and specifically the things that Eric describes (like the kneeling, and repeating back things that are confession like) are hallmarks of a religion (essentially a form of Secular Humanism). I’m not sure I agree with a violation, but the similarities are there and it’s a fascinating take on this behavior.
@@waterfaucet9926 hilarious given he presided over the defeat of the literal Nazi's and their allies. 😂 He was a piece of shit personally by some accounts, but you can't discount what he contributed to the defeat of true fascists
I believe it's completely fine and can actually be beautiful to submit to another of your own volition (for example to your spouse or children). Of course it depends on what one means exactly by "bowing" or "submitting". However, being coerced to submit and actually kneel to someone is entirely different. You'd really have to bend the meaning beyond the breaking point for this to be acceptable.
I see that we have not yet been acquainted. I am General Zod. Your ruler. Yes, today begins a new order. Your lands, your possessions, your very lives, will gladly be given in tribute to me. In return for your obedience you will enjoy my generous protection. In other words, you will be allowed to live.
This reminds me of a quote from Denis Leary - “ Life sucks, get a helmet“ Just because someone had a harder time growing up or has a harder time with their life now than I do, does not give you the right to demand that I prostrate myself before you. I will never bend the knee.
@@mrdavemo excellent critical thinking! Read Andre Malraux's novel La Condition Humaine which teaches us that each person in any large group has her/his own motivations. www.newyorker.com/magazine/1954/11/06/the-human-condition
@@mrdavemo its called propaganda, we have been doing it for centuries usually controlled by the ruling elite of the day, fair rarely comes into the equation based on the history
"Mea Culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa"...Having grown up Catholic, have regurgitated those words many times. Now, that I am a thinking adult, I say...if the shoe does not fit, don't wear it. Guilt is a trip not worth taking.
But what do you do when the guilt phenomenon has become your environment? When you can’t shop amazon without seeing black lives matter at the top of the screen. When personalities you’ve followed for a long time feel like they need to weigh in on the subject of racism as a preemptive measure to prevent themselves from ever being labeled racist in the future? When a star quarterback is publicly shamed because he said he is proud of his grandfathers for fighting for this great country in the Second World War, and thus he has to walk back these statements. Does this insanity have an expiration date? It reminds me of Stalins purges, where everyone was under suspicion. So to prevent oneself from ever being arrested on the street or in the middle of the night in one’s home and hauled off to Siberia you would make public displays of affection to the party so that your neighbors and everyone else could see and hear your absolute devotion. It’s a sort of social groveling.
@@tomcat8662 "When a star quarterback is publicly shamed because he said he is proud of his grandfathers for fighting for this great country in the Second World War" Can you detail how exactly that he was shamed for this reference? Thx.
I feel responsibility only for my own actions. Feeling responsibility for the actions of others outside the sphere of one’s influence is a common cognitive distortion or a more serious mental illness. At best it’s a nonproductive waste of one’s imagination. This also hold true for imagining others should engage in this kind of mental virtue signaling. 🤦♂️
It's also a tactic that people use in abusive relationships. The tactic is to hold you down until you give in and take blame for something you didn't actually do.
Do be mindful of the possibility however that trough mechanisms/pathways unknown to you, your direct actions may have unforeseen consequences down the line.
Gewreid You probably want to make that more clear adding that forewarned consequences can only be intentional in production and then scream it in the faces of progressives or as they’re now called G.I.P.C. (Good Intentions Paving Company)
“A modest amount of responsibility is worth a great deal more than an oppressive amount-and a self-extinguishing amount-of performative guilt meant to convey that you’re willing to destroy your own dignity at the drop of a hat because you do understand that other people have had things in life worse than you”
Ryan Burson but what if shaming just leads to war instead of being a viable alternative to it? Suppose shame tends to polarize people rather than unify them. It creates a negative identity rather than focus on concrete mistakes and restitution.
I completely agree with your point about where we swing past notions of equality into the realm of racial superiority-- and it's incredibly dangerous to let our society play about there NO MATTER WHAT RACE IS PLAYING IT. As for the "shame fetish" as you call it, that's an interesting observation. There could be an underlying fetishistic aspect to this excess shame carrying for some, but I hazard to guess that the real problem is that the people who are really getting into bearing shame probably have both a combination of high trait agreeableness and cowardice. They don't know themselves well enough and/or they're too spineless to stand on their own values, so they look to others to tell them what they should be feeling and doing.
Yeah, for now I'm not very supportive of the fetish theory (though, it might hold water for a tiny few activists). I believe there are SOME who are not good people, but bullies. They get off on telling people what to do and having them do it. It's a power trip. And religion/spirituality (even if secular) may be THE most effective way to get a large group of people to disband with their real thinking selves and become a blob of followers, chanting etc. on command. It's important to note that they do NOT want 'equality'. Equality is old hat. They want EQUITY. So, if you believe white people are a massively privileged upper-class, having them kneel is balancing things out a little bit. It's cringeworthy, downright creepy, and certainly won't fix policing. But they seem very convinced they're on the "right side of history", as opposed to horribly misguided.
Eric, I have been following you on multiple platforms since stumbling upon you on The JRE, first by yourself. I have studied your points, your approach, your references, etc. I appreciate and value your outlooks, even when not agreeing with the from time to time, you put your outlooks in a constructive and non-offensive manner. You are highly educated and have great human perspectives. Even when a topic maybe be uber complex you are very good at "translating" to a lay perspective to allow me to understand it. From science to social topic. I just had to note from this topic, especially, that I hope your verse can continue to grow and be heard from a larger audience day to day. Thank you for your time, and I hope that I can follow in your footsteps on many levels. Top of the morning to you fine sir.
Beautiful use of physical analogy Mr. Weinstein; The liquid that is societal tension has absolutely been super-saturated with thermal energy, and all it took was a nucleation event to initiate a rapid liquid to gas phase transition. You painted my mind with vivid explosion of images. Thank you, always love hearing your perspective.
@@Ghosteh36 - it just means he's from 'Unexamined Privilege' *Wellesley U.* Actually it's funny that we have access to Eric and people are unwilling to do so little to participate.
Eric, I don’t know how to say- actually, I do know how to say it but it’s not worth articulating beyond just saying- thank you for the words, the language and the knowledge. It has been such a gift listening and watching everything you share. You’ve overwhelmed every sensory aspect of myself in waves of academia, language and knowledge, I just love it
I just love your thought process. I first came across you on The TOE channel and I enjoyed your no nonsense, logical approach to things. You are a breath of fresh air that's desperately needed because our noses are below the quicksand. I kneel before God and God only. I refuse to kneel before any man or woman that represents God or anything else. We are not equals if one is made to kneel before another.
Eric! I’m loving these 1000 step videos. What you say resonates with what I know in my heart and mind, even though I feel like most people have given up on the presupposition that all humans are created equal. Back to basics.
Eric, I don't even know where we are. I totally get what you're saying. It's this weird game is being played. But it's just right out in the open. And you are spot on if you go back and look at the videos from evergreen, it's a childlike, though bizarre, game that is being played. The participants are willingly doing it.
As Eric put it, they are the “fetishistic accomplice.” They “weirdly get off” on succumbing to the mob. It’s akin to bdsm. With moral arousal rather than physical.
I was listening to NPR today, and i heard something that made me spit out my drink. They were discussing the economy, and unemployment, and the interviewer said: "white and Hispanic unemployment has gone down, but Asian and black unemployment has not. What do you think the reason is for this?" The interviewee answered: "Yes, like you said, there is a huge disparity between white and black unemployment. And this shows, even in economic downturns, we see systemic racism." My jaw was on the floor. I know that much of the media is slanted and has pushed agendas for decades... but this was so blatant, and on another level.
Love the way he discusses the overall problem with terms such as "super saturated environment" and "nucleating event." Seems so poetic in a geeky science kind of way.
Eric please, more of this! Absolutely loved your take on this, you’ve articulated something that I was feeling but had difficulty pinpointing. Always looking forward to your content! Cheers
I never had Instagram, always hated Twitter, and deleted Facebook over a a year ago after ten years of algorithm induced turmoil there. Jaron Lanier is correct, social media is bad for your mental health.
I have been using the term "age of shame" since I heard Zoe Redhead (of Summerhill School) talk about how kids in the 70s had no problems bathing naked together (much less obsess about their clothes). It is uncanny and everywhere, they obsession not to trigger negative feedback, become more and more invisible, show less and less of yourself, have less and less of a self. Also, the distinction between shame and guilt is useful, please consider not using the terms interchangeably. Also, thank you for not trying to want to get me down on my knees.
As a woman I don't want special treatment, I also want the long project but it may be impossible. As Douglas said, just as the train is pulling in the station......
But its not about special treatment though. Its about wanting to be safe from police brutality. You woudn't call it special treatment to not get shot in the back or asphyxiated to death would you?
@John Rayne - my one aunt whose family lost their farm in Prussia & lost three family members to the Russians reasonably did wonder 'how long must we (Germany) keep paying?' Like the Claims Conference, something that appeared to have clearly fair & noble intentions can start to look like a shakedown or become something it wasn't intended to be. There's no one-size-fits-all for reparations, and injustice will result. Africans in America, thats even far less clear cut to sort out than WWII Germany. Freedom (if/when it exists) means nobody is at fault for the situation they were born in, there's no inherited debt just as there's no chattel slavery.
@John Rayne I would grant you the hypocritical status of that statement if he has also said Germany should continue financially supporting Israel for past grievances. I don't think he has commented either way on the matter so far.
John Rayne it seems that you are filling in the blanks for him on nuanced positions he hasn’t discussed in this one conversation and then patting yourself on the back for owning him.
I’m thoroughly enjoying listening to you. I love thought provoking conversation. I agree with you and of course, have plenty to say on this issue and others on the global stage. Nothing is new under the sun.
There will always be outlier actions on both extremes. Eric, you are very gifted in communication skills. This is the place I will focus my attention at, being inclined for all parties to go off script and share empathy, kindness and respect. Let's shine a light on these cases of protecting one another and self correcting action like isolating looters by the crowd or police breaking ranks to assist someone hurting.
Yes the phones are big part of this moment of virtue signaling abasement, I was commenting yesterday on these whole phone based selfie culture and virtue signaling yesterday on The Distibutist's stream.
This is what I said yesterday in response to The Distributist, so yes something is the air the gemeinschaft: "...It does leave out one thing though, which is what changed in 2012. And that would be I argue the iPhone and Android phones becoming mainstream. Yes they had been around since 2010 but really only became mainstream in 2012. This opened up the internet to everyone and was the last death blow to elite geek culture. If also led to the two incredibly destructive social trends, quick easy selfie virtue signaling, look at me I am so cool at Occupy type social media posts, and easy simple can whoring and Tindr sluttery which accelerated hypergamy. Yes folks the iPhone and cheap Android phones literally destroyed western civilization. I would also add that the alt-right is often equally guilty of "look at my cute white family," substance free selfie based virtue signaling."
@@XanarchistBlogspot Yep, this is exactly what I've believed for years. I originally thought of it as a kind of joke, but with Facebook it became obvious. But this worries me in that computers - supposedly 'tools', are not as independent as we think. Some level of knowledge is required to be pragmatic and understanding of their use, otherwise they can steadily overwhelm, confuse and control the user, somewhat indifferently to the intentions of the software creator. With simple to use interfaces, this effect has been enhanced as devices become more networked (more possibilities, more side effects). But sadly, easy to use interfaces for convenience do not provide understanding, at all. This 'collective shame' is just hiding the complexity of the world's problems: economic, ecological, philosophical etc. in an attempt to show a response which is doing something to appease the problem, but does nothing or little to provide new processes or opportunities for those that request it. It's like we're stuck talking about illusions, while the underlying world continues to be transformed and detached from our well-intentions.
When society reaches a certain level of comfort ease prosperity and privilege we are missing the struggle we have evolved for we require a certain level of existential angst. Our woke angry brethren are offering this...we need atonement for suffering. Religion offered this in the form of original sin. With the abandonment of religion we have filled the void with the cult of woke...we hve found new Gods complete with original sin...
Interesting point. I'd not thought of it that way. But I think I disagree. I think you're right about needing the struggle we're evolved for and that we're missing it but I understand the struggle you speak of to be more about physical toil resulting real tangible solutions to primary human needs such as community / company, warmth, shelter, food and water. I think this actually makes human beings deeply satisfied. I don't think human beings have an intrinsic need for shame / atonement. I think the historical role of organised religion is about control of the masses, partially through appealing to human beings' need for hope and togetherness but also through fear, oppression and power. It's not about some intrinsic need for existential angst. If you get rid of religion then it creates a vacuum for other methods of control and power to seep in, that's all.
I'm glad you brought this out. I could not put my finger on why I was reacting so viscerally at seeing public officials kneeling. AND I agree with you that we could kneel TOGETHER over some of this stuff. Before God. The fetish aspect is also something to explore. Thought provoking for sure.
we know that people lack feeling purpose, part of the reason being lacking a father figure that archatypically gives us our story... and if kneeling is an act of subservience, is it that people are looking for something to be subservient to? Noting how the woke culture is engaging in cult like behaviour would suggest that lack of religiosity is an issue. I think that the 'founding atheists' such as Dawkins, are typically older people to have thought of Atheism as a concept and refined it for broader consumption, and when the 'Founding Atheists' came to this conclusion that there is no traditional God and that religion is able to be explained away and replaced with science (explaining something doesnt remove its meaning, pain is just chemicals but knowing that doesnt stop me feeling pain), what resulted was the generation that exceeds the 'founding atheists' who grew up atheistically and because of this, they were not imparted with the same sense of basic good human values found in religion, but 'founding atheists' were exposed to them when they were younger so it doesnt effetc them. So by growing up devoid of religiosity (being the easy go-to moral set that your country is generally founded on), skews your sense of how to have values and therefore must find your own, especially when fatherlyness is being attacked in the culture.... As Neitzche said, with the death of god, people need to make their own values. And he noted that we are absolutely terrible at that, and it seems to end up with people resorting to Totalitarian/Utopian politics since they are the highest form of tangible authority... it probably falls more to the Left extreme towards Communism, since in order to get to the Right extreme you have to go through all the regular Religiosity and it seems to act like a filter which prevents many people going too crazy in the Right direction... We need masculinity. We need to stop being bogged down by overwhelming negative news and instead focus more locally and immidetly. Social media makes us think on a world stage and its apparent the human mind cant process it effectively, even by making it clear cut black and white with no nuance its still unbearable.... i dont know, thinking out loud, hope this helps other's thought processing
Well done, Eric. Keep riding that Light, it resonates well with yourself and those that are pausing and waiting for some oxygen. Your friendship with Mr. Thiel resonates well also. That's how my friends and I vie for truth and dignity. I find it odd that his candle is lit in over in the noisy section of the White House, considering, well, just listen to the man talk.... he's had a responsible upbringing and articulates awesome. I live in Nova Scotia, where we are struggling to get to the surface too, but we are such close neighbours that we have the same types of clashes between the brethren. It's refreshing to listen to such Podcasters like yourselves who actually sound closer to the Canadian riffing that we do over a beer or at the dinner party. I find it sad to hear the money sucking the life out of our society. Thanks and Keep Talking.
I really want to see the second part of this but signing up for another social media account is not a price that I'm willing to pay. I'd rather give you the cash in my wallet..
Yeah, they are holding my account hostage in exchange for a phone number. I've had that account for years and years , but suddenly they want my phone number. Not sure why this made me so angry!! I won't be joining him at insta or jre at spotify... etc. I think he does the instagram because he can interact better...... but I thought there was a way to do that on youtube as well.. maybe he will figure that out ;) 👍
"The word Narcissus means narcosis, numbness, a drug; and Narcissus was drugged into thinking that that image outside himself was somebody else. Narcissus did not fall in love with his own image, he thought it was somebody else. And the same with us, in our technology, gadgetry, gimmickry and so on, we don’t think that is merely a part of our own physical organism extended out there, we’re like Narcissus, completely numb. Now when we put out a new part of ourselves, extend a new part of ourselves by technology into the environment, we protect ourselves by numbing that area. The more I looked at this the more I had difficulty explaining why people ignored it." - Marshall McLuhan
"The word Narcissus means narcosis, numbness, a drug; and Narcissus was drugged into thinking that that image outside himself was somebody else. Narcissus did not fall in love with his own image, he thought it was somebody else.'' This is a new idea to me. Where does it come from?
Thank you , for your well thought out, reasoned words... i would be proud to kneel with you...Early on, I realized that my Black Brothers, who know me and love me, do not expect me to kneel before them and they know I love and respect them and do not expect them to EVER KNEEL before me, besides it makes it more difficult for us to embrace......I am not their Aly...they are not mine, We are Brothers
Could not agree with you more Mr Eric. I am from South Africa where apartheid and inequality is deeply imbedded in our society. It is absolutely fascinating how people conform to a story line that they have not questioned or fully understand.
You Eric are a voice of reason in a sea of madness, there are too few people like you for the words you say to have any effect. The crowds are governed by their emotions and I see little hope of this ever changing
"Equality" in general is impossible and not even desirable. Equality under the law is something we must try to approximate as best we can. However, even this sense of equality is impossible to actually achieve. A more intelligent person will be more able to navigate the byzantine legal system, a gullible person will hire the wrong lawyer, etc.. Equal opportunity is also impossible as there is so much variation in human talent and ability. Far too many people are lost in pursuit of Equality.
Money Luser ... I don’t get it! I’m first generation immigrant. It’s never been about pursuit of equality. I was taught to pursue greatness in whatever I do, it’s served me well. I don’t think equality exists, now Equal opportunity does! That’s the greatness of America!
Think of it this way: “equality of opportunity” is one thing. A good thing to strive for. Whereas, any expectation of “equality of outcome” is nonsense. And not just nonsense, very dangerous nonsense.
""I will kneel with you if we are both so moved, but if you ask me to kneel before you, then you have you killed any chance of us being equal," - E R Weinstein " - Jim Ewok
""I will kneel with you if we are both so moved, but if you ask me to kneel before you, then you have killed any chance of us being equal," - E R Weinstein " - Jim Ewok - Wayne Gretzky - Michael Scott
You're missing the last part which is collective white guilt based upon decades of anti white propaganda. But I don't take away anything else you said. Beautifully put.
God I don’t usually comment but I feel it’s kind of insulting to Eric and his whole concept of non-binary for you to all be galloping to rush to this conclusion. This was one outlying example amidst current events. Eric is talking about a fetishism at a societal level and if he gets called Racist and they try to cancel him, its because of y’all. This is why people can’t question things nowadays because when they do, people who cant think for themselves latch onto their statments as validation for their own ideas. To be clear Eric in No way shape or form attempted to validate the views you guys are espousing and I’m not being a liberal I actually consider myself a republican. You all sound racist AF. The rest of civilization Eric included can agree most black people dont want to opress white people. The fetish that is a problem here is white peoples, that’s what he’s described. White people fetishizing shame. I don’t know how you weren’t tracking that.
Regarding the fetishistic desire to shamed by the masses --- Dostoevsky predicted this as a symptom of nihilism, and he examined this psychology in incredible depth. Check out the titular Underground Man, Stavrogin from Demons, Dimitri from Brothers Karamazov.
Point taken; However, Could it have been Conservatism dressed up as Progressivism ? Especially regarding the majority of those advocating , leading and still in key places and critical positions.
@@JD-fk4qq Eric and his brother and the other guys in this IDW are the conservatives disguised as libs. Sam harris and the 2 Weinstein bros claim they are like the lefties who the lefties left behind. If so, what left policy do they support? They atttack the left from the RIGHT always. On every issue ao far. To be fair there are only a few supposed issues they talk about. Anyone complaining about SJWs is an SJW. These "thinkers" are conservatives in disguise. Im not even sure they're aware, but most likely they are.
I just stumbled across you and was listening with interest while wondering, 'Why does he seem so familiar?' Then you mentioned your brother. Thank you for your thoughts. I will be listening further.
A Christian Perspective: When Jesus knelt before His disciples to wash their feet, He did so voluntarily and of His free will, not coercion and not out of shame. It was Love in Service, not Bondage to Shame. The obscene video the other day of a BLM young guy telling a nurse to bow and apologize is an entirely different concept and context. Now if someone chooses to wash another's feet, it could be a worthy act "if" ( big IF ) they do NOT discriminate based on color/religion/sex/ethnicity. But...we live in dramatically narcissistic times.
This kneeling is one part of it. It's infuriating. But is it really representative? For me the bigger issue is a lack of platform to discuss this at any sane level. I know where I can go to hear dissenting voices, and particular people who genuinely and deeply and actively believe that All Lives Matter. For me the worst part of this is that the overwhelming mainstream public narrative is *Discrimination is Equality*
My white, virtue signaling daughter freaked out, screamed and disowned me and told me to take my "white privelege" and shove it up my ass when I told her that I feel ALL loves matter. It's a very sad time in America and even sadder in my own home.
@@laureldevine They've even got you pointing out your daughter's race relative to her beliefs. As if it mattered. The narrative is shifting toward "Racism is a virus like COVID-19". But identitarianism is the virus, and educational institutions have been innoculating the youth.
My favorite was a well written Drew Brees defense of why he doesn't kneel during the anthem, only to be undone by "He don't know no better" (I kid you not,) Drew Brees immediately apologized, and it felt like a punch to the gut of everybody who supported Drew. Drew Knees is his new nickname.
@@jes7574 i guess i should clarify what i mean by apologies. i mean apologies as in ideological 180's. nyt having a meltdown over an oped and a few of the vox guys doing about-faces away from their leftist convictions. though, as they are journalists, im skeptical as to their motivations, but if sincere, its pretty remarkable.
In our current system very few lives matter. Humanity could find temporary purpose in cleaning the earth and creating a sustainable planet but working together is not our strength. Eric matters though❤
It’s so good to hear some rational thought around these recent events. I’ve been slowly going insane looking for anybody who can speak rationally and not just parrot the same woke arguments as everybody else.
Gonna go WAAAY out in left field here and say: Nice to see you outside and getting some exercise, buddy. It's good for the soul, mind, and body! 😁👍🏻 Keep up the great work. You're a bright light in darkness.
Nope. I will not be kneeling at the feet of another human. I don't do so for a diety. If I can't pass one to the left and back with you instead of apologizing for my existence and how it oppresses a race, dude, I hate to tell you but I've worked hard, experienced racism, been completely unfairly ticketed, charged and prosecuted, had unfair sh#t happen to me. I'm not racist, but I owe nobody anything but polite courtesy to see if a respect can be accomplished.
No, this is a creepier form of virtue-signalling with a sado-masochistic twist. It's pure bullying. If you don't stand up to a bully you are a coward lacking in dignity.
Eric, I find it impossible to listen to anyone else on the left because of disingenuous talking points. I'm glad I found you because you actually take a nuanced view of things and it's really refreshing.
The TyDale cut "We Must Fight - President Reagan (Long Version)" of Reagan's "A Time for Choosing" speech is a perfect encapsulation of the correct response to the utter madness we are facing.
We've replaced religion with ideology.
Religion never left technically, it just took another form.
Yep when you kill God with facts and science then you are left with the headless religious impulse that turns into a kind of demon.
Read how "Richard Dawkins got pwned,", clearly explains progressivism as a religion
Some weird anti-scientific ideas in this thread. 😅
There is actually a lawsuit against the mayor of Washington DC, I believe. The mayor allowed BLM slogans to be painted on the street and renamed the area around the White House to something BLM related. What’s interesting is the lawsuit charges a violation of the first amendment under the establishment clause (the freedom of religion, which forbids the government creation or explicit endorsement of a religion). They are claiming that the recent protests, and specifically the things that Eric describes (like the kneeling, and repeating back things that are confession like) are hallmarks of a religion (essentially a form of Secular Humanism). I’m not sure I agree with a violation, but the similarities are there and it’s a fascinating take on this behavior.
I don’t feel guilty at all. I haven’t asked anyone to bow to me nor do I feel compelled to bow to anyone else.
Concur.
Good for you.
I REFUSE TO.
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@Joseph Gallagher ?
Winston Churchill. “A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”
I like to typically not quote genocidal war criminals.
dumsaint I think you should try it. It's an excellent way to trigger meltdowns in snowflakes.
According to graffiti sprayed on his statue over the weekend, Churchill was a fascist...so, there’s that.
@@waterfaucet9926 hilarious given he presided over the defeat of the literal Nazi's and their allies. 😂
He was a piece of shit personally by some accounts, but you can't discount what he contributed to the defeat of true fascists
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I’d rather die on my feet than live on my knees. Never bow to any other.
You can bow out of respect, it doesn't have to be submissive. Demanding someone go on their knees, absolutely though.
I believe it's completely fine and can actually be beautiful to submit to another of your own volition (for example to your spouse or children). Of course it depends on what one means exactly by "bowing" or "submitting". However, being coerced to submit and actually kneel to someone is entirely different. You'd really have to bend the meaning beyond the breaking point for this to be acceptable.
Its easy to shout that at the wind while having a john wayne inspired daydream
I see that we have not yet been acquainted. I am General Zod. Your ruler. Yes, today begins a new order. Your lands, your possessions, your very lives, will gladly be given in tribute to me. In return for your obedience you will enjoy my generous protection. In other words, you will be allowed to live.
@@Ghosteh36 bow in respect of what or whom?
This reminds me of a quote from Denis Leary - “ Life sucks, get a helmet“
Just because someone had a harder time growing up or has a harder time with their life now than I do, does not give you the right to demand that I prostrate myself before you. I will never bend the knee.
No Cure For Cancer!!!!! We don’t need less drugs, we need more drugs. He was on point for that show/CD.
The real kicker is that the person that is willing to kneel for anyone asking is the person getting off on it the most.
It's like self-flagellation by proxy... Or masochist beaten by a sadist or something...
Authoritarian personalities, straight out of _Escape From Freedom_ - Fromm was right about the sado-masochistic nature of mass political movements.
It's a turn on for them like being tortured during S&M.
Ollie W - nice generalization. Useful.
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I'm with you Eric.. Remain the voice of reason, bro. Love you dude.
The “movement” is not about equality, it’s about power.
Do you think it's fair to summarize the actions of millions of people into a single motivation?
@@mrdavemo excellent critical thinking! Read Andre Malraux's novel La Condition Humaine which teaches us that each person in any large group has her/his own motivations. www.newyorker.com/magazine/1954/11/06/the-human-condition
And narcissism for many.. the “look at me I’m one of the good guys because I called out (fill in the blank injustice)”
@@mrdavemo its called propaganda, we have been doing it for centuries usually controlled by the ruling elite of the day, fair rarely comes into the equation based on the history
I guess some are more equal than others...
Amazing how Eric gets to the root and branch of so many matters. Always being humbled by this man.
I've though about the same as since I saw world leaders letting a young kid yell at them at the UN.
Mr. Thong Song ... Yah... What the hell was that!🤨
"Mea Culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa"...Having grown up Catholic, have regurgitated those words many times. Now, that I am a thinking adult, I say...if the shoe does not fit, don't wear it. Guilt is a trip not worth taking.
marti jadd ...yup!
@@springchickena1 shut up fanatic
But what do you do when the guilt phenomenon has become your environment? When you can’t shop amazon without seeing black lives matter at the top of the screen. When personalities you’ve followed for a long time feel like they need to weigh in on the subject of racism as a preemptive measure to prevent themselves from ever being labeled racist in the future? When a star quarterback is publicly shamed because he said he is proud of his grandfathers for fighting for this great country in the Second World War, and thus he has to walk back these statements. Does this insanity have an expiration date? It reminds me of Stalins purges, where everyone was under suspicion. So to prevent oneself from ever being arrested on the street or in the middle of the night in one’s home and hauled off to Siberia you would make public displays of affection to the party so that your neighbors and everyone else could see and hear your absolute devotion. It’s a sort of social groveling.
@@tomcat8662 "When a star quarterback is publicly shamed because he said he is proud of his grandfathers for fighting for this great country in the Second World War" Can you detail how exactly that he was shamed for this reference? Thx.
Yes. Ditto. Kneeling in Mass. Original Sin.
I super appreciate you, Dr. Weinstein. Thanks to you and Bret & Heather for all of your efforts lately.
Same! Rare voices of sanity in the battle between stupid right wing pandemic deniers, and stupid left wing rioters.
"You can't pursue equality and groveling at the same time", well put!
I feel responsibility only for my own actions.
Feeling responsibility for the actions of others outside the sphere of one’s influence is a common cognitive distortion or a more serious mental illness.
At best it’s a nonproductive waste of one’s imagination.
This also hold true for imagining others should engage in this kind of mental virtue signaling.
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Amen, Karl
It's also a tactic that people use in abusive relationships. The tactic is to hold you down until you give in and take blame for something you didn't actually do.
Do be mindful of the possibility however that trough mechanisms/pathways unknown to you, your direct actions may have unforeseen consequences down the line.
@@gewreid5946 Which would be his OWN actions. Stop with the garldygoop psychobabble.
Gewreid
You probably want to make that more clear adding that forewarned consequences can only be intentional in production and then scream it in the faces of progressives or as they’re now called G.I.P.C. (Good Intentions Paving Company)
If you demand that people bow at the feet of your ideals, you will undo any of the actual good those ideals might possess.
My attempt at a summation.
I read something better. "Making yourself feel taller by making someone else bend the knee".
tl;dr "F U"
Hmm, this reminds me of that story, of the golden cow... Damn Peterson's right, there is so much usefully in these stories
sounds like a cope coming out of pride
hehehehehehe ahh boy, knee slapping gold
These are deeply pathological people.
I guess it a kind of logic.
"the others" I totally get it.
Thanks yeah, kinda discovered that yesterday. It's a problem for sure.
@@springchickena1 it really seems to be a symptom of privilege, at least the social media element. Others have jobs and need to pay rent.
Who, exactly are the people that are pathological?
“A modest amount of responsibility is worth a great deal more than an oppressive amount-and a self-extinguishing amount-of performative guilt meant to convey that you’re willing to destroy your own dignity at the drop of a hat because you do understand that other people have had things in life worse than you”
Thank you for having the bravery to be honest and remaining nuanced while the rest of the world throws a monumental temper tantrum.
Been listening to you and your brother today - thank you, thank you. Much love to you and yours and like minded
“Shame fetish” wow, that is SPOT ON.
Can we declare a war on shaming? That's two fetishes for the price of one.
Shame on shaming!
^ Extra twisty freaky politics.
Haven't seen the whole video but here's a hot take: Shaming is preferable to actual war. Talking generally of course.
@@ryan94mustang totally agree. I was making a clumsy commentary on the fetish to declare war on everything... drugs, viruses, poverty.....
@@sva9550 No doubt. I should've measured your sarchasm better.
Ryan Burson but what if shaming just leads to war instead of being a viable alternative to it? Suppose shame tends to polarize people rather than unify them. It creates a negative identity rather than focus on concrete mistakes and restitution.
I completely agree with your point about where we swing past notions of equality into the realm of racial superiority-- and it's incredibly dangerous to let our society play about there NO MATTER WHAT RACE IS PLAYING IT. As for the "shame fetish" as you call it, that's an interesting observation. There could be an underlying fetishistic aspect to this excess shame carrying for some, but I hazard to guess that the real problem is that the people who are really getting into bearing shame probably have both a combination of high trait agreeableness and cowardice. They don't know themselves well enough and/or they're too spineless to stand on their own values, so they look to others to tell them what they should be feeling and doing.
Jay Lehman - that's the most ridiculous assertion I've ever heard in my life...
Yeah, for now I'm not very supportive of the fetish theory (though, it might hold water for a tiny few activists). I believe there are SOME who are not good people, but bullies. They get off on telling people what to do and having them do it. It's a power trip. And religion/spirituality (even if secular) may be THE most effective way to get a large group of people to disband with their real thinking selves and become a blob of followers, chanting etc. on command.
It's important to note that they do NOT want 'equality'. Equality is old hat. They want EQUITY. So, if you believe white people are a massively privileged upper-class, having them kneel is balancing things out a little bit. It's cringeworthy, downright creepy, and certainly won't fix policing. But they seem very convinced they're on the "right side of history", as opposed to horribly misguided.
Eric, I have been following you on multiple platforms since stumbling upon you on The JRE, first by yourself. I have studied your points, your approach, your references, etc. I appreciate and value your outlooks, even when not agreeing with the from time to time, you put your outlooks in a constructive and non-offensive manner. You are highly educated and have great human perspectives. Even when a topic maybe be uber complex you are very good at "translating" to a lay perspective to allow me to understand it. From science to social topic. I just had to note from this topic, especially, that I hope your verse can continue to grow and be heard from a larger audience day to day. Thank you for your time, and I hope that I can follow in your footsteps on many levels. Top of the morning to you fine sir.
Beautiful use of physical analogy Mr. Weinstein; The liquid that is societal tension has absolutely been super-saturated with thermal energy, and all it took was a nucleation event to initiate a rapid liquid to gas phase transition. You painted my mind with vivid explosion of images. Thank you, always love hearing your perspective.
I'm not dealing with instagram
@@springchickena1 what is your comment supposed to mean?
@@Ghosteh36 - it just means he's from 'Unexamined Privilege' *Wellesley U.*
Actually it's funny that we have access to Eric and people are unwilling to do so little to participate.
We feel shame in large part due to media’s shaming-framing
BustaJaun... if the shoe doesn’t fit, don’t put it on!
Who's we? I don't feel any shame. I haven't done anything to feel shameful about.
Eric, I don’t know how to say- actually, I do know how to say it but it’s not worth articulating beyond just saying- thank you for the words, the language and the knowledge. It has been such a gift listening and watching everything you share. You’ve overwhelmed every sensory aspect of myself in waves of academia, language and knowledge, I just love it
I just love your thought process. I first came across you on The TOE channel and I enjoyed your no nonsense, logical approach to things. You are a breath of fresh air that's desperately needed because our noses are below the quicksand.
I kneel before God and God only. I refuse to kneel before any man or woman that represents God or anything else.
We are not equals if one is made to kneel before another.
Level headed and well articulated thoughts, thank you Eric.
I am with you in this experiment to be responsible caring and reasonable. Thx
I'm doing my best to live this way. Honestly, I have little else to offer.
K Jones... it’s a lot, together we will make a difference for our grandchildren...and I don’t have any yet!
Eric! I’m loving these 1000 step videos. What you say resonates with what I know in my heart and mind, even though I feel like most people have given up on the presupposition that all humans are created equal. Back to basics.
Eric. You are apart of the signal amongst all the noise. Sincerely, thank you.
Eric, I don't even know where we are. I totally get what you're saying. It's this weird game is being played. But it's just right out in the open. And you are spot on if you go back and look at the videos from evergreen, it's a childlike, though bizarre, game that is being played. The participants are willingly doing it.
As Eric put it, they are the “fetishistic accomplice.” They “weirdly get off” on succumbing to the mob. It’s akin to bdsm. With moral arousal rather than physical.
Thomas Daddono - “Moral arousal,” I like that.
It’s just neo-Marxism. The same group mass delusion is being played out like the Bolshevik revolution.
I was listening to NPR today, and i heard something that made me spit out my drink. They were discussing the economy, and unemployment, and the interviewer said: "white and Hispanic unemployment has gone down, but Asian and black unemployment has not. What do you think the reason is for this?"
The interviewee answered: "Yes, like you said, there is a huge disparity between white and black unemployment. And this shows, even in economic downturns, we see systemic racism."
My jaw was on the floor. I know that much of the media is slanted and has pushed agendas for decades... but this was so blatant, and on another level.
Love the way he discusses the overall problem with terms such as "super saturated environment" and "nucleating event." Seems so poetic in a geeky science kind of way.
All of this is earlily reminiscent of the red guard during the cultural revolution in China.
Cult Revolution, to be short.
Eric please, more of this! Absolutely loved your take on this, you’ve articulated something that I was feeling but had difficulty pinpointing. Always looking forward to your content! Cheers
Love your insights, Eric. Please keep them coming!
I don’t have Instagram! God damn it. Once again being pressured to have a social media. Which i have NONE!
Keep up the good fight
Don't give in...
Me neither..i don't even get instagram
I never had Instagram, always hated Twitter, and deleted Facebook over a a year ago after ten years of algorithm induced turmoil there. Jaron Lanier is correct, social media is bad for your mental health.
Your virtue signalling isn't required here. Either get Instagram or don't.
PS - UA-cam is social media.
A selfie stick WOULD be ridiculous. What you need is a quad copter drone that circles around you a la John Woo
Mobile Gimbal not selfie stick. Love my OSMO3. Should be easier to read comment while walking. www.dji.com/osmo-mobile-3.
I think John Woo's busy directing the riots.
Austin Mccollum i feel like you may have seen “dronversations” by Reggie Watts. If not please google!
@@JohnAmatulli - those are the shiz. Mini versions of moviemaking technology!
They make those that automatically film you and follow your movements and it fits in your back pocket.
Thank you for being a voice of reason.
Super great man... new "CONTENT" about this conversation which has be come redundant over past few days. thanks.
I have been using the term "age of shame" since I heard Zoe Redhead (of Summerhill School) talk about how kids in the 70s had no problems bathing naked together (much less obsess about their clothes). It is uncanny and everywhere, they obsession not to trigger negative feedback, become more and more invisible, show less and less of yourself, have less and less of a self.
Also, the distinction between shame and guilt is useful, please consider not using the terms interchangeably.
Also, thank you for not trying to want to get me down on my knees.
As a woman I don't want special treatment, I also want the long project but it may be impossible. As Douglas said, just as the train is pulling in the station......
But its not about special treatment though. Its about wanting to be safe from police brutality. You woudn't call it special treatment to not get shot in the back or asphyxiated to death would you?
Eric...Excellent way to look at it. I needed that! Thanks👌
I was literally having this conversation with my Parents last night after dinner...Thank you for articulating this so well, Eric.
Well done. I don't do social media. So I'll miss the next part on instagram.
Ditto .. I don't have IG, Twitter, or FB on my phone .. Unfortunate as I was looking forward to hearing Eric's opinion
If we get Eric’s ok maybe someone could download and upload them to an Eric Weinstein IG Live Stream Channel?
@@TheMemesofDestruction - that is a the Spirit of socjalizm comrade!
DIY
I stopped them as well, my accounts are still there but I don’t have them on my phone.
@@TheMemesofDestruction thats a great idea .. we need ppl like him and Jordan Peterson right now more then ever .. discuss the issues throughly first
Your point about getting a German to kneel is so illistrative of how screwed up this current situation is...
@John Rayne ^ now that is what I call a valid point
@John Rayne - my one aunt whose family lost their farm in Prussia & lost three family members to the Russians reasonably did wonder 'how long must we (Germany) keep paying?' Like the Claims Conference, something that appeared to have clearly fair & noble intentions can start to look like a shakedown or become something it wasn't intended to be.
There's no one-size-fits-all for reparations, and injustice will result. Africans in America, thats even far less clear cut to sort out than WWII Germany. Freedom (if/when it exists) means nobody is at fault for the situation they were born in, there's no inherited debt just as there's no chattel slavery.
@John Rayne I would grant you the hypocritical status of that statement if he has also said Germany should continue financially supporting Israel for past grievances. I don't think he has commented either way on the matter so far.
John Rayne it seems that you are filling in the blanks for him on nuanced positions he hasn’t discussed in this one conversation and then patting yourself on the back for owning him.
I’m thoroughly enjoying listening to you. I love thought provoking conversation. I agree with you and of course, have plenty to say on this issue and others on the global stage. Nothing is new under the sun.
There will always be outlier actions on both extremes. Eric, you are very gifted in communication skills. This is the place I will focus my attention at, being inclined for all parties to go off script and share empathy, kindness and respect. Let's shine a light on these cases of protecting one another and self correcting action like isolating looters by the crowd or police breaking ranks to assist someone hurting.
Yes the phones are big part of this moment of virtue signaling abasement, I was commenting yesterday on these whole phone based selfie culture and virtue signaling yesterday on The Distibutist's stream.
This is what I said yesterday in response to The Distributist, so yes something is the air the gemeinschaft:
"...It does leave out one thing though, which is what changed in 2012. And that would be I argue the iPhone and Android phones becoming mainstream. Yes they had been around since 2010 but really only became mainstream in 2012. This opened up the internet to everyone and was the last death blow to elite geek culture. If also led to the two incredibly destructive social trends, quick easy selfie virtue signaling, look at me I am so cool at Occupy type social media posts, and easy simple can whoring and Tindr sluttery which accelerated hypergamy. Yes folks the iPhone and cheap Android phones literally destroyed western civilization.
I would also add that the alt-right is often equally guilty of "look at my cute white family," substance free selfie based virtue signaling."
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@@robertknapp6721 Did you actually have something to say? :-) I don't see a response.
@@XanarchistBlogspot Yep, this is exactly what I've believed for years. I originally thought of it as a kind of joke, but with Facebook it became obvious.
But this worries me in that computers - supposedly 'tools', are not as independent as we think.
Some level of knowledge is required to be pragmatic and understanding of their use, otherwise they can steadily overwhelm, confuse and control the user, somewhat indifferently to the intentions of the software creator.
With simple to use interfaces, this effect has been enhanced as devices become more networked (more possibilities, more side effects).
But sadly, easy to use interfaces for convenience do not provide understanding, at all.
This 'collective shame' is just hiding the complexity of the world's problems: economic, ecological, philosophical etc. in an attempt to show a response which is doing something to appease the problem, but does nothing or little to provide new processes or opportunities for those that request it.
It's like we're stuck talking about illusions, while the underlying world continues to be transformed and detached from our well-intentions.
Just deleted Instagram 😬. Would love to hear the rest though
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I'm about to
Then download Instagram. How is this complicated?
Thank you again Eric.You are a Sane voice in this world that seems to be crumbling before our eyes.
"dignity is trading at a deep discount" -- spot on
When society reaches a certain level of comfort ease prosperity and privilege we are missing the struggle we have evolved for we require a certain level of existential angst. Our woke angry brethren are offering this...we need atonement for suffering. Religion offered this in the form of original sin. With the abandonment of religion we have filled the void with the cult of woke...we hve found new Gods complete with original sin...
what do u think original sin is. wut is ur take away from it. u think it is only christian story
Interesting pov
Interesting point. I'd not thought of it that way. But I think I disagree. I think you're right about needing the struggle we're evolved for and that we're missing it but I understand the struggle you speak of to be more about physical toil resulting real tangible solutions to primary human needs such as community / company, warmth, shelter, food and water. I think this actually makes human beings deeply satisfied. I don't think human beings have an intrinsic need for shame / atonement. I think the historical role of organised religion is about control of the masses, partially through appealing to human beings' need for hope and togetherness but also through fear, oppression and power. It's not about some intrinsic need for existential angst. If you get rid of religion then it creates a vacuum for other methods of control and power to seep in, that's all.
Xerxes: kneel before me
Leonidas : now that's gonna be a problem.
I love this man, the sense maker thinking people need.
I'm glad you brought this out. I could not put my finger on why I was reacting so viscerally at seeing public officials kneeling. AND I agree with you that we could kneel TOGETHER over some of this stuff. Before God. The fetish aspect is also something to explore. Thought provoking for sure.
we know that people lack feeling purpose, part of the reason being lacking a father figure that archatypically gives us our story... and if kneeling is an act of subservience, is it that people are looking for something to be subservient to?
Noting how the woke culture is engaging in cult like behaviour would suggest that lack of religiosity is an issue. I think that the 'founding atheists' such as Dawkins, are typically older people to have thought of Atheism as a concept and refined it for broader consumption, and when the 'Founding Atheists' came to this conclusion that there is no traditional God and that religion is able to be explained away and replaced with science (explaining something doesnt remove its meaning, pain is just chemicals but knowing that doesnt stop me feeling pain), what resulted was the generation that exceeds the 'founding atheists' who grew up atheistically and because of this, they were not imparted with the same sense of basic good human values found in religion, but 'founding atheists' were exposed to them when they were younger so it doesnt effetc them. So by growing up devoid of religiosity (being the easy go-to moral set that your country is generally founded on), skews your sense of how to have values and therefore must find your own, especially when fatherlyness is being attacked in the culture....
As Neitzche said, with the death of god, people need to make their own values. And he noted that we are absolutely terrible at that, and it seems to end up with people resorting to Totalitarian/Utopian politics since they are the highest form of tangible authority... it probably falls more to the Left extreme towards Communism, since in order to get to the Right extreme you have to go through all the regular Religiosity and it seems to act like a filter which prevents many people going too crazy in the Right direction...
We need masculinity. We need to stop being bogged down by overwhelming negative news and instead focus more locally and immidetly. Social media makes us think on a world stage and its apparent the human mind cant process it effectively, even by making it clear cut black and white with no nuance its still unbearable....
i dont know, thinking out loud, hope this helps other's thought processing
booperdee2 .... good one!!
As an atheist, i agree with everything written here.
You make some good points.
Is that you Jordan Peterson?
nice.
Great thoughts like always Eric
Well done, Eric. Keep riding that Light, it resonates well with yourself and those that are pausing and waiting for some oxygen. Your friendship with Mr. Thiel resonates well also. That's how my friends and I vie for truth and dignity. I find it odd that his candle is lit in over in the noisy section of the White House, considering, well, just listen to the man talk.... he's had a responsible upbringing and articulates awesome. I live in Nova Scotia, where we are struggling to get to the surface too, but we are such close neighbours that we have the same types of clashes between the brethren. It's refreshing to listen to such Podcasters like yourselves who actually sound closer to the Canadian riffing that we do over a beer or at the dinner party. I find it sad to hear the money sucking the life out of our society. Thanks and Keep Talking.
Wow, super articulate and original idea. Nice breath of fresh air. Thanks Eric!
I really want to see the second part of this but signing up for another social media account is not a price that I'm willing to pay.
I'd rather give you the cash in my wallet..
Yeah, they are holding my account hostage in exchange for a phone number. I've had that account for years and years , but suddenly they want my phone number. Not sure why this made me so angry!! I won't be joining him at insta or jre at spotify... etc. I think he does the instagram because he can interact better...... but I thought there was a way to do that on youtube as well.. maybe he will figure that out ;) 👍
Justin Edwards...spot on!
K Jones... I’m going to give Spotify a shot. This Monopoly Google/UA-cam have can only be broken with our support.
@@snafuagain5268 I already had spotify for like a decade so it's no problem for me.
@@springchickena1 Check your ignorance.
"The word Narcissus means narcosis, numbness, a drug; and Narcissus was drugged into thinking that that image outside himself was somebody else. Narcissus did not fall in love with his own image, he thought it was somebody else. And the same with us, in our technology, gadgetry, gimmickry and so on, we don’t think that is merely a part of our own physical organism extended out there, we’re like Narcissus, completely numb. Now when we put out a new part of ourselves, extend a new part of ourselves by technology into the environment, we protect ourselves by numbing that area. The more I looked at this the more I had difficulty explaining why people ignored it." - Marshall McLuhan
"The word Narcissus means narcosis, numbness, a drug; and Narcissus was drugged into thinking that that image outside himself was somebody else. Narcissus did not fall in love with his own image, he thought it was somebody else.''
This is a new idea to me. Where does it come from?
@@renzo6490 From Chapter 4 of Marshall McLuhan's book "Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man". An essential read, highly recommend it.
So grateful for this oasis of sanity......thank you Eric.
Thank you
, for your well thought out, reasoned words... i would be proud to kneel with you...Early on, I realized that my Black Brothers, who know me and love me, do not expect me to kneel before them and they know I love and respect them and do not expect them to EVER KNEEL before me, besides it makes it more difficult for us to embrace......I am not their Aly...they are not mine, We are Brothers
Could not agree with you more Mr Eric. I am from South Africa where apartheid and inequality is deeply imbedded in our society.
It is absolutely fascinating how people conform to a story line that they have not questioned or fully understand.
How is apartheid embedded in our society?
Shady-Smacx apartheid or systemic racism is the same thing😉
Hot take: Evergreen's president was a sub.
I liked it, then I laughed again when I saw it again. Please accept this comment as a token of my appreciation.
I kinda got that vibe too
100%
That's a hot take? I thought that was obvious.
What do you mean?
You Eric are a voice of reason in a sea of madness, there are too few people like you for the words you say to have any effect. The crowds are governed by their emotions and I see little hope of this ever changing
You are a seriously profound thinker my friend. Thank you for that!
"Equality" in general is impossible and not even desirable. Equality under the law is something we must try to approximate as best we can. However, even this sense of equality is impossible to actually achieve. A more intelligent person will be more able to navigate the byzantine legal system, a gullible person will hire the wrong lawyer, etc.. Equal opportunity is also impossible as there is so much variation in human talent and ability. Far too many people are lost in pursuit of Equality.
Money Luser ... I don’t get it! I’m first generation immigrant. It’s never been about pursuit of equality. I was taught to pursue greatness in whatever I do, it’s served me well. I don’t think equality exists, now Equal opportunity does! That’s the greatness of America!
If people are equal, they are not free.... and if they are free, they will not be equal. Just the way it is.
Think of it this way: “equality of opportunity” is one thing. A good thing to strive for.
Whereas, any expectation of “equality of outcome” is nonsense. And not just nonsense, very dangerous nonsense.
I mean even in physics.
The condition where we would have an equal distribution of energy everywhere is the death of the universe.
@@im_aleey Good point.
""I will kneel with you if we are both so moved, but if you ask me to kneel before you, then you have you killed any chance of us being equal," - E R Weinstein " - Jim Ewok
""I will kneel with you if we are both so moved, but if you ask me to kneel before you, then you have killed any chance of us being equal," - E R Weinstein " - Jim Ewok - Wayne Gretzky - Michael Scott
@@jagpro91 -Romanes eunt domus- Romani ite domum
The only thing we hate more than the Romans is the people's front of Judea.
@@mikepaulus4766 _Judean Peoples' Front_ , Reg. _We're_ the People's front of Judea
@@jaewok5G Splitter!
This was a great 10+minutes of my time! Thank you. I'm saving this video.
I agree with you and I try to be responsible everyday with everyone. I do not owe anyone anything.
You're missing the last part which is collective white guilt based upon decades of anti white propaganda. But I don't take away anything else you said. Beautifully put.
Is it time to start calling Palestinians humans?
@Neil Mo - apartheid
...Epstein didn't kill himself
God I don’t usually comment but I feel it’s kind of insulting to Eric and his whole concept of non-binary for you to all be galloping to rush to this conclusion. This was one outlying example amidst current events. Eric is talking about a fetishism at a societal level and if he gets called Racist and they try to cancel him, its because of y’all. This is why people can’t question things nowadays because when they do, people who cant think for themselves latch onto their statments as validation for their own ideas.
To be clear Eric in No way shape or form attempted to validate the views you guys are espousing and I’m not being a liberal I actually consider myself a republican. You all sound racist AF. The rest of civilization Eric included can agree most black people dont want to opress white people. The fetish that is a problem here is white peoples, that’s what he’s described. White people fetishizing shame. I don’t know how you weren’t tracking that.
Dillon Nelson thank goodness you are here to be his interpreter and tell is what is the outlier vs norm in our own experiences.
Love this eric, i deleted instagram so just keep posting these
Thank you for these!!
Thank you for your time and efforts.
Regarding the fetishistic desire to shamed by the masses --- Dostoevsky predicted this as a symptom of nihilism, and he examined this psychology in incredible depth. Check out the titular Underground Man, Stavrogin from Demons, Dimitri from Brothers Karamazov.
Chris C ... Hank you for another good name!✌️
Progressivism has so far extended its stay as a political movement that it is self-extinguishing.
Yeah.. my thoughts exactly..
Its too late for 'equality' that's now racist in 'equity' world.
Point taken; However, Could it have been Conservatism dressed up as Progressivism ?
Especially regarding the majority of those advocating , leading and still in key places and critical positions.
@@JD-fk4qq Eric and his brother and the other guys in this IDW are the conservatives disguised as libs. Sam harris and the 2 Weinstein bros claim they are like the lefties who the lefties left behind. If so, what left policy do they support? They atttack the left from the RIGHT always. On every issue ao far. To be fair there are only a few supposed issues they talk about. Anyone complaining about SJWs is an SJW. These "thinkers" are conservatives in disguise. Im not even sure they're aware, but most likely they are.
@@sgtshard8280 I would really like to hear Eric's response to this opinion. I find myself teetering on this view at times myself.
Always grateful to hear your perspective.
Yes Eric, when the energies of the Id are not directed toward a higher power they implode in a confabulation of narcissism.
i wish everybody could hear this
His deep intellect would resonate with the masses
Even if they could, they might not listen
As an Eastern European I just cannot fathom how disturbed parts of Americans have become. It’s disgusting to look at.
I’m curious, which parts do you mean?
Thank you brilliantly said!!
I just stumbled across you and was listening with interest while wondering, 'Why does he seem so familiar?' Then you mentioned your brother. Thank you for your thoughts. I will be listening further.
A Christian Perspective: When Jesus knelt before His disciples to wash their feet, He did so voluntarily and of His free will, not coercion and not out of shame. It was Love in Service, not Bondage to Shame. The obscene video the other day of a BLM young guy telling a nurse to bow and apologize is an entirely different concept and context. Now if someone chooses to wash another's feet, it could be a worthy act "if" ( big IF ) they do NOT discriminate based on color/religion/sex/ethnicity. But...we live in dramatically narcissistic times.
This kneeling is one part of it. It's infuriating. But is it really representative? For me the bigger issue is a lack of platform to discuss this at any sane level. I know where I can go to hear dissenting voices, and particular people who genuinely and deeply and actively believe that All Lives Matter. For me the worst part of this is that the overwhelming mainstream public narrative is *Discrimination is Equality*
My white, virtue signaling daughter freaked out, screamed and disowned me and told me to take my "white privelege" and shove it up my ass when I told her that I feel ALL loves matter. It's a very sad time in America and even sadder in my own home.
@@laureldevine They've even got you pointing out your daughter's race relative to her beliefs. As if it mattered. The narrative is shifting toward "Racism is a virus like COVID-19". But identitarianism is the virus, and educational institutions have been innoculating the youth.
Appreciate you making these vids and your podcasts Eric .
Brilliant.. Big Love and Hugs from Shropshire uk
Eric, what's going on right now is utterly nauseating, agreed. It makes me sick to my stomach too.
Quite a few media twitteratti doing apologies today.
Please tell me more.
My favorite was a well written Drew Brees defense of why he doesn't kneel during the anthem, only to be undone by "He don't know no better" (I kid you not,)
Drew Brees immediately apologized, and it felt like a punch to the gut of everybody who supported Drew. Drew Knees is his new nickname.
@@jes7574 i guess i should clarify what i mean by apologies. i mean apologies as in ideological 180's. nyt having a meltdown over an oped and a few of the vox guys doing about-faces away from their leftist convictions.
though, as they are journalists, im skeptical as to their motivations, but if sincere, its pretty remarkable.
@@springchickena1 check your privilege
We need you and those who stick up for reason now more than ever.
What a HERO look likes in real life...Big Thanks to all the Courageous Leaders with the Balls to keep Speaking the Truth
The only people that make sense talk in such a way, it’s hard make sense of it
In our current system very few lives matter. Humanity could find temporary purpose in cleaning the earth and creating a sustainable planet but working together is not our strength. Eric matters though❤
It’s so good to hear some rational thought around these recent events. I’ve been slowly going insane looking for anybody who can speak rationally and not just parrot the same woke arguments as everybody else.
Gonna go WAAAY out in left field here and say: Nice to see you outside and getting some exercise, buddy. It's good for the soul, mind, and body! 😁👍🏻
Keep up the great work. You're a bright light in darkness.
Nope. I will not be kneeling at the feet of another human. I don't do so for a diety. If I can't pass one to the left and back with you instead of apologizing for my existence and how it oppresses a race, dude, I hate to tell you but I've worked hard, experienced racism, been completely unfairly ticketed, charged and prosecuted, had unfair sh#t happen to me. I'm not racist, but I owe nobody anything but polite courtesy to see if a respect can be accomplished.
No, this is a creepier form of virtue-signalling with a sado-masochistic twist. It's pure bullying. If you don't stand up to a bully you are a coward lacking in dignity.
Mary Hudson ... nice point!
Eric, I find it impossible to listen to anyone else on the left because of disingenuous talking points. I'm glad I found you because you actually take a nuanced view of things and it's really refreshing.
The TyDale cut "We Must Fight - President Reagan (Long Version)" of Reagan's "A Time for Choosing" speech is a perfect encapsulation of the correct response to the utter madness we are facing.