The Lie About Human Nature That's Making Us Miserable | Dr. Gabor Mate
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- Опубліковано 6 тра 2023
- Are our society's values based on selfishness, competition, and materialism creating a culture that is out of sync with our true human nature, causing widespread suffering and unhappiness?
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I feel fine. I've beat the "I want." But i hurt because I see what's going on, and I know it can be better.
Totally agree. Thank you
❤thank you for your amazing content❤
exactly the way i feel. Thank you very much.
The truth, anthropologically, is that we are both (1) and (3). We have instincts for both behaviors which manifest based on the situation. There is nothing wrong with either set of impulses, only created environment which rewards (1) while punishing (3).
YES!!
Can't find the video The Story of the Chinese Farmer on your channel on UA-cam. Or was it taken down by copyright holders of Alan Watts' recordings or something like that?
Yes, that is exactly what happened.
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Oh. What a shame.
_“There’s no concept of romantic love in North Korea. If you don’t know the words, that means you don’t understand the concept, and therefore you don’t even realize that concept is even a possibility? The word ‘love’ has only one meaning: love for the Dear Leader. If you have never practiced critical thinking, then you simply see what you’re told to see. If you don’t know you’re a slave, if you don’t know you’re isolated or oppressed, how do you fight to be free?”_ - *Yeonmi Park*
_"I want to make a complaint against my parents. I want adults to listen to me. I want adults who can't raise kids not to have any. What will I remember? Violence, insults or beatings, hit with chains, pipes, or a belt? The kindest words I heard were get out son of a whore! Bug off, piece of garbage! Life is a pile of shit. Not worth more than my shoe. I live in hell here. I burn like rotting meat. Life is a bitch. I thought we'd become good people, loved by all. But God doesn't want that for us. He'd rather we be washrags for others. The child you're carrying will be like I am."_ - *Zain Al Rafeea, Age 11*
_"Humans, to me, are on the whole the ultimate form of lackadaisicalness. They would rather wait for the ultimate & inevitable collapse of an already corrupt society, & put their faith in God or Politicians to save them, than to try for building a better system now using our combined knowledge on a purely corporeal level."_
_"There is no such thing as "Democracy" when the only two options pits everyone against each other."_
_"To be judgemental is to search for a reason to hate. Therefore I would avoid those who are judgemental; in their quest to look for the worst, they shall never see you at your best."_
_"If by now, you are aware of animals in captivity & their behavior in such an environment, you would have noticed them walking up - & down in repetition. Some even bang their heads against the walls. This is called Psychosis. Without Drugs or Alcohol. Reality has destroyed them. Make no mistake; we exhibit the same symptoms. The only difference is the stretch of path to our offices, factories, & shops, & the fact that we bury our heads in the sand."_
_"At the risk of sounding brusque there is nothing I detest more than small talk. Ask me something compelling; interesting. Why would anyone even think that I would be fascinated to any degree with their ability to posture their wealth, advertise their family, tout their singular skill & project their feelings onto others? They talk of nothing. I find it difficult to identify with people who predictably talk of nothing!"_
_"If one is hated within a family, all the views of that person is despised also. Regardless of its validity. Therefore I have never understood the importance of family."_
_"Debt is a covert word for “gambling”. To take out a loan with the presumptuous intent to pay it back is like spinning the roulette at the casino. The outcomes of both scenarios are always unknown. Yet people are enslaved to risk their families, homes, & lives to take part in something that has been proven to be addictive, unhealthy, & reckless. Whenever one gambles, one shall eventually loose. And yet it is the law. So it is logical to conclude that the current system is not only inherently flawed, but deliberately harmful to our species on the whole."_
_"Psychologists are dangerous people for evading the truth in order to coerce malleable individuals into capitulating to the current corrupt system. Instead of educating them to comprehend nature & their environment through methodological observations, they insist on concentrating solely on each individual’s emotional shortcomings."_
_"The reason why people are discouraged from changing profession every year with financial insecurity is because the majority population would become generalists & gain an overview of the dangerous levels of incompetence instilled in the way we operate this violent society just to keep a few in power."_
_"Boys show anger & hate because they feel they should be both capable & responsible for solving their own problems. I pierce through the crap society puts there & see the same scared boy as though I were looking in the mirror. The damage done by hatred shall always come back to haunt you the moment you try to build a different life. It cannot be done alone. So the next time you see an angry kid, know that he is desperately trying to prove to you that he is in control. The greatest fear a man can experience - is a loss of control."_
_"People struggle to breathe every day. They are enslaved, coerced, stunted & threatened by the state to keep destroying the planet in the name of greed-driven madness. I consider "Depression" an honest affliction. It’s those with their heads in the sand who have no "Mental Health"._
_"I used to like Martial Arts. Not anymore. Not since realising that the violence was always the only aspect Hollywood wanted to see; never the Philosophy behind it that teaches discipline through love, Taoism, Knowledge (Truism) & tolerance."_
_"Intelligent people do not strive to control others. I will be accused of having no ambition, of being rebellious, seditious, worthless, brainless, gutless, etc. However, I am thankfully intelligent enough to know of a million other ways to enjoy the gift of life other than ruling the Galaxy!"_
_"I must say now that I am not surprised the younger generation are disconnected from society. I'd bury my head in drugs, porn, & escapism when the only alternative is to prostrate & contribute towards a self-destructive regime of partisan separation, dumb-founded opposition, obtuse racism, & gluttonous denial"._
Still with me? =D Your attention span impresses me greatly!
My favorite comment on youtube ever. Thank you, incredibly validating and helpful to another weary warrior unable to not see the truth. ☯️🌎
@@jennystone421 Naaawww you READ it?! Thank you! 🙂 If you are weary, it means that you have been brave enough to fight for a saner & more perspicacious world. I respect that greatly. 💚🌎🖖
The third premise is definitely the truth, combined with second one.
We are inherently good but tragically easy to corrupt and manipulate with.
Yes. Our society, our capitalist culture - tramples on us and makes us suffer. Austerity is murder...slow and painful.
We live in a completely unnatural society. This promotes mental illness and suffering 😢
Another Amazing video of Dr. Mate ... Beautifully stated. 🙏🌈❤️
And WHY is it like this? It is like this because it greatly benefits that tiny percentage of psychopaths at the very tippy top of the of the wealth distribution pyramid, while disenfranchising everyone else. As a society, we need to stop idolizing those people. Stop trying to be like them. Stop allowing them to define what's important. Stop letting them off the hook when they do savage, atrocious things in the pursuit of ever greater wealth. They live life without consequences, but we could change that.
You have hit the nail on the head. It is the animal nature to compete, yet it has clear purposes to do so. Humans act like animals without those purposes and are, therefore, degraded without knowing it. All is relative and the two keys are: "We are what we know and what we do with what we know." and that can be an infinite soup!
I've said it many times.
If the Parasite Class would only leave us be we would be happy, healthy and great caretakers of our planet.
Right on. In fact, what you describe is almost a rewording of the Christian view of human nature. The Christian view says that human nature was created by God to be good, to be social, to be loving, to be in harmony with nature and with ourselves, and with God (as seen in Genesis 1-2), and that when humans reject God’s plan for human nature, we get the opposite of these things: human evil, hatred and oppression, isolation, and exploitation of nature. Lots of preachers and theologians have been saying what you’ve said for at least 2000 years: that we are miserable because we are rebelling against the way we were made to be. Anyway, thanks for recognizing and articulating this basic idea in your own words. Peace.