The Destruction of Purpose & Retrieving Lost Hope: The Crisis of Meaning
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- Опубліковано 1 чер 2024
- These are my own opinions // This video contains some speculation
"Total Recovery Is Possible"
#philosophy #motivation #analysis
[00:00] - Premise & Education
[01:32] - Lockdowns & Nihilism
[02:49] - Tradition & Religion
[03:31] - Distractions Over Development
[04:11] - The Allure of Fame
[06:03] - NEETs & Doomers
[07:32] - Information Overload & Echo Chambers
[09:28] - Isolation vs. Solitude
[10:32] - Lack of Shadow Work
[11:17] - The Collective Shadow
[12:01] - The Last Man
[13:28] - Analysis Paralysis
[14:05] - Lack of Trust
[15:38] - Materialism & Envy
[16:05] - Hating The Idea of Effort
[16:35] - Happiness Through Effort
[18:16] - Addiction
[19:26] - Genetics & Potential (The Lie of Equality)
[21:08] - Freedom & Commitment (Individualism & Responsibility)
[22:02] - Exploitation of The Crisis of Meaning
[22:32] - Hope
[23:32] - The Silver Lining - Розваги
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“Don’t take the internet too seriously.” Should be put on a plaque for the world to see. Probably one of the best ways of explaining how I feel like I’ve survived. Also a line of wisdom that should be adopted by everyone.
To put it simply, I agree. Wish we had more plaques like that which we could find more easily... simply being allowed to be alive and valid is so needlessly over-complicated by stuff, with more work than we really, TRULY(yes, emotions can create a false sense of needing things when you don't, but also simultaneously, emotions do tell you stuff that is important which makes things complicated, as telling the difference between the two is not something we're born with, coupling with the fact that misinformation exists) need to do CONSTANTLY for upkeep most of the time, again, putting my words simple cause even I can't understand half the junk I type - due to severe OCD over clarifying everything I say in tons of note documents of mine.
@@land3021 What are you on about? He was talking about internet use.
@@land3021stop posting
Taking the internet seriously is too vague. I like the “don’t get mad at the internet” dogma.
Another hood classic by Glitch Poachers
Seeing how frugal and stale our currant system is, if feels like the only option for someone my age 26, college educated; is to either drop out of society or push 110% into the norm. There is no exploration of yourself now, figuring out what you want to do has even become some commodified identity to be bought and sold via the “college experience”. It feels like people my age are just trying to do anything they can to survive and it’s creating a lot of good little worker drones for the syndicate of corporations that run America. There is no decentralized capitalist economy anymore shaping human independence i.e. mom and pop stores. It’s all Amazon, Walmart, and tech companies now. We live in John Locke’s nightmare not his dream. The isolation and destruction of our current environment and economy is enough to drive anyone into madness if u don’t sit at the top of it. It’s time for serious and dramatic change.
Try or drop out. Same as ever.
@@WiseOwl_1408 It's not.
Hands down one of the best videos of all time in terms of criticizing modern day culture/internet culture while also being hopeful for the future. It's hard to strike that balance but well done!
Your best video yet, I wish more people would let themselves explore more ideas. But lets be honest, people who NEED to see this video will actively avoid it. We live in a society indeed.
I agree
i think the word "tribalism" will be used alot more since conversations just turn to threats a lot faster then actually trying to discuss the actual issues
Tribalism is live and well. To learn who controls you understand who you can’t criticize. America is a juice puppet state and you can’t be critical in the slightest of them. Just stating facts here brotha
Yes, and It's called "Typal" now fyi.
@@wombatwarrior87 no, tribalism
For real. It's actually disturbing how people jump to the worst conclusion/hyperbole they can when it comes to the slightest disagreement. I've been noticing it like crazy recently
This honestly reminds me of the fact that there is a disconnect between Gen X; Gen Z; and millienienals (etc.). Like you either belong to a group or you are an outsider but this new generation has been ripped apart from this, as cringe has been weaponized so efficiently so effectively that this new gen has no personality they try to belong yet wander and cling to random trends, corporate memes tiktoking. This couldnt be worse as the period we live is similar to interwar (between ww1 and ww2) politics.
Unstable politics and the mix of ready to go lost young men is quite a deadly cocktail. But its not all gloom and doom, the change that can come about could either be a good change or something new for us to experience.
I like the drama content a lot but…
This content is definitely more personally meaningful. I really enjoyed this.
I want to point a thing out for people who think 2 years is nothing, you’re partly right, to a 30 or 40 year old 2 years is nothing, but to a teen in their formative years 2 years can be make or break, we fully form who we are from 14-18, thats half of all those years.
In my area, just schools where closed for awhile..Kids weren't locked in their own houses...They could still go to other people's houses, communicate with friends online, and do all kinds of things..I don't agree with the lockdowns, but unless the kid already had issues or bad parents, that was nothing
@@shelbyblackmore-mg4nv and If they have issues or bad parents, who cares, right?
It's really good to see that you are genuinely giving out decent life advice so people with truly open minds can change themselves for the better, and maybe see the world in a different light.
This gets DEEP! I mean, I already knew of concepts like Jung's Persona & Shadow Self (and yes, that IS where the video game franchise got its ideas from), but you really explore it in detail here!
That's an absolutely accurate statement. Being good at a skill, having knowledge in a field, being a reliable worker. These are not neccesary skills for success, they aren't even in the conversation of what you need to be famous and massively successful.
For that, you need to be very confident, have absolutely no shame whatsoever, and be constantly observing people to manipulate them.
love the hollow knight music choice, really fits the tone
im not saying religion is the ultimate answer but most of the people ive seen who are happy in life are religious. clearly its doing something right
Religious people are happy but not healthy: religion gives people easy answers to extremely complicated questions. However, in doing so, religious people are prevented from really thinking about these questions, which are extremely important.
It's easy to be happy if you're being spoonfed. It's a lot better to (learn how to) cook your own food.
@cultreader9751 Plenty of religious people are healthy!
@@cultreader9751 This might be the best retort to religion I've seen.
Like they always say: "Ignorance is bliss"
@@HAWKEYESOLO You're simply swapping 1 comforting lie for another then.
@@cultreader9751
This is a classic fallacy of thinking that religious people are idiots who don’t think and take things at face value, and that they’re incapable of scientific writing.
Both are untrue, in each religion there are entire fields of study critically analyzing their religious scriptures, their culture, and their history.
Most scientists today are religious, that was true historically aswell.
This isnt to say non-religious people arent scientists but its to correct the notion of “religion = dumb”
Glitch poachers try not be based (impossible challenge)
(Sweats nervously)
Bro, your channel is so underrated you deserve more attention stg
This video was great already and then the SMT3: Nocturne music started. Love your channel
Didn't even see this in my sub feed because the thumbnail blends right in with the background of youtube dark theme
dang, I'm noticing now that it looks quite dim depending on what kind of screen you're looking at it on. Just altered it a lil
This was an absolute BANGER. Great to see u tackle big issues.
LETS GO MAN I LOVE YOUR STUFF THANKS!
I have to say been watching for a few months and this is by far your best work, very cool Mr. Glitch
Great video, as always! :)
I'll have to watch this in a bit, but I think before I do I will post my own perspective on this topic, and see if anything changes once I do end up watching this.
I derive my meaning from perfect truth, truth that can not be denied. Cogito ergo sum, I exist, but more than that I know what I exist as. I am a thinker, a decider, a chooser. I create value judgements and can alter reality to accord with my will. I have the power to choose my own future. I choose the concepts, values, the laws to which I am beholden, justified by a "rightness" which has convinced me, that I have consented to.
It is my belief that there exists an objective morality based upon perfect truths that can not be denied. I wish to follow in the footsteps of descarte and discover this system. I do not know the nature of this system and that frightens me. It may be that such a system is incompatible with free will. However, right now, this challenge inspires me and drives me. It gives me a reason to get up every day and work and toil. Maybe these perfect truths that are impossible to rationally deny will give you something to hold on to as well
I don't subscribe to your second paragraph (I don't believe in any kind of objective morality), but I do think there is value in pursuing one's own values and interests. I'm an ethical egoist, essentially.
@Glitch Poachers
Thank you for your video. We ended up reaching similar conclusions regarding individualality and freedom.
I do have a very important question for you however. You justified why people should carve their own path by appealing to health and happiness. What would you say to the nihilist who says "Why is it good to be healthy and happy?". Why is the pleasure gained from hard work and self respect/ pride more valid than the more bodily pleasures gained from drugs, social media, video games, and other addictions?
As an ethical egoist, how do you rationalise changing your mind? If today you say "X is good" and tomorrow you say "X is bad", then is X good or bad? If the goodness or badness of X changed with your opinion, then the only thing that gives X it's value is whether you believe it. And if belief alone is what gives value, then it matters not what you believe, only that you believe.
If this is the case, then why ever change your mind? If there is no reason to believe in one thing over another then why choose to act at all? Why not just choose to believe that doing nothing is good? And if you can not convince yourself to do nothing then what is that force compelling you to act and why do you defer to it?
Egoism is still fundamentally nihilistic to me, it gives no reason to believe, just that belief is good. The only difference between it and nihilism is that for some reason you have defined yourself as good. Why is that?
This is a borderline hedonistic answer, but as someone who has spent plenty of time being unhealthy and overly indulgent, long term goals and aspirations are far more fulfilling and less guilt ridden, personally. Pleasure just doesn't compare to fulfilment. It's not a pretty answer, but it's one that makes sense to me.
Your answer makes complete sense, and I would be lying if I said I didn't feel the same way. From my own personal experience, the first time I did something difficult that nobody asked me to do was such a profound experience. Funnily enough, it was a youtube video. I wrote a script, taught myself to edit and put in so much work. It took months and months, but it was something I could happily do for months and months. I think it was because it was the first time in my life I was doing something that nobody has asked me to do. In the end it only got like 160 views, but after I had done it I had such a profound feeling of joy and pride.
Finally I had something I could point to that I was entirely responsible for.
You are right when you say that this sense of pride and accomplishment is on another higher level than hedonism. It is intuitive to us as humans, and it isn't petty. There is something there that gives this fulfillment more power and I'm not sure what it is. I've got a feeling it has something to do with agency or freedom or self mastery.
Thats what I think the difference between isolation and solitude is too. You choose to live in solitude, but you are forced into isolation. Or maybe that's just my own philosophy colouring the terms.
I hope that you feel proud of your videos mate. They're fantastic :)
Just thanks for the self reflection ❤
Well thought out video that center around finding your purpose in a society. People often don’t realize that there is no meaning to life, once you realize this you can open yourself to a world of possibilities.
Love the longer format
great work brother.
most of the commenters on your channel dont like to hear it, and thats fine, for years i would probably have agreed with them... but there is no ideology or identity that is going to redeem history and restore meaning to our lives except for our shared identity in christ. anyway, if this is considered a commentary video, you are the only commentary youtuber i enjoy, glitch. thanks for the vid.
Religion provides nothing that people can't provide themselves if they are mentally strong enough to do so.
Have you not heard? God is dead, soon you will have to acknowledge the truth and stop burying your head in the sand. Just because we have yet to find an answer does not mean it does not exist.
Truth is real, objectivity is real, we just need to disccover it.
@@lara6489If God is dead, truth is dead. If God is dead, we have no objective standard (this is why many atheists are relativist). Through acknowledging God’s existence, we come closer to understanding the truth.
@@lara6489God can’t die dummy
some rather important lessons need to be learned since the pandemic and i'm glad to see someone discussing them is such an honest manner. knowing what meaning we have to bring to the world and not constantly focus on the excesses of influences, not all but alot of whom are vapid. Its important to note as they became especially famous during then.
Amazing stuff.
Always appreciate the time and effort you put into these. I do feel at times I'm in an echo chamber when I watch your content because of how I'm already thinking/believing the same things - despite the fact that these aren't extremes in any sense and are clearly meant to cause self reflection as oppose to coercing others into conclusive narratives.
But then I think about the fact that I'm not taking the time to carefully write, edit, create, compile clips, and produce content for many too see and hopefully engage in some discourse for the purpose of exploration and advancement of one's self. Guess I don't got that dog in me...
In regards to myself in the discussion of "purpose," I've always been someone who has struggled with maintaining focus or drive within my existence because the purpose I deem necessary for myself to feel fulfilled is strife with grandeur. I've created a narrative within myself through years of misguided criticism, extreme expectations, triviality, and a lot more that isn't appropriate for a UA-cam comment. This culminates in me feeling a responsibility to do not just good or great but a revolutionary amount of output into the world. I created expectations, that would be considered extreme for even the most powerful and influential people in the world, for myself to accomplish - despite having absolute 0 faith in my capacity to do so. I don't believe it's in my power, I don't believe I have the drive/stamina to do so and continue doing so, and even if I were to do it: it would never be good enough. The end result being a cycle of shutting down whenever something positive is occurring in my life due to a radical notion that "I am destined to fail, so why bother?" I struggle with maintaining progress no matter the quantity or quality because I am so certain that it is just delaying the inevitable failure that is soon to follow. I am constantly seeking out negative aspects in my own performance and reinforcing the narrative that even at my best it would never be enough to make a dent in my own pursuits - let alone the world as a whole.
There's a lot more to unpack with all that but that's just barely scraping the surface and this ain't my therapists office. I am just curious to see whether or not other people feel as though they aren't struggling to seek or find a sense of purpose, but rather accomplish theirs.
Hopefully one day this vid gets the magical algorithm treatment and finds itself in random peoples recommended.
Great work
I know videos like these dont get as many veiws
But they're appreciated 100 times more
Great work
Keep it up man
It’s definitely nice to see a fresh and new vid btw I hope you eventually make that mouse oz vid
Had an unexpected existentially imbalanced week, this video helped bring me back to my normal so thank you
as soon as you mentioned nihilism, I was like "he's gotta mention neetch at somepoint right?"
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The Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne soundtrack is really atmospheric.
I appreciate the timestamps
10:12 Hey, hey people
Sseth here
Great video.
Huge video thanks man
Love the 'confession booth overlay' at 1:35
Thank you
Another great video from my favourite poached eggy. Keep up the great work my man
what a beautiful video
Unless you consider UA-cam social media. I have 0 social media apps on my phone. And as nice as it has been to be able to live without it. I have had some weird interactions with people when they discover I don’t have any social media. It’s like I’m an alien to some people. 👽
My favorite way to connect to people is showing them stuff I like so when people have tik tok but not UA-cam I'm like 😵💫
Thanks for such insightful content on the modern age Glitch
Subbing bc of how good your last 2 videos are
This video was very well done! A fine addition that really makes it point across and a lot of the things in this video is true in my eyes
Not to be that guys but this also plays into a video I made about purpose to some extent. So it’s really nice to see a video with a connection to that
Love the loop hero music
How the hell does this have under 10k views? Everyone needs to watch this
Great Video. Although I cannot relate entirely, due to being in the UK, but there is a similar feeling happening here, with rising costs, the pandemic, political issues and the like; I feel there is almost an epidemic for lowered empathy and continued apathy to situations.
Just recently there was a stabbing nearby in my city, people have barely even talked about it, sure, it's been on the news and the like but I've never heard anyone in my city talk of it out loud or anything. If you ask people about these things (What do you think of this? or how do you think this happened?) People will either try and steer the conversation away, even if the conversation was originally about such topic.
With the rising issues there is a country-wide feeling of hopelessness growing each day, with our news almost consistently grim there seems to be almost no hope for anything, whether that be job wise or social wise. [which, isn't true but, many people do feel this way]
People refuse to talk about these things which worries me, with a growing naivety in our more sheltered youth there's more of a chance for these people to go towards distractions and ignore these topics once they find out about them, wanting to stay in a bubble rather than having these difficult conversations.
I could just be rambling though lol + missing the point of the video. :^)
The UK is such a nightmare dystopia even moreso than the US is rn, you're all cramped on that small island, at least in the US you can sort of escape the chaos by travelling across the country.
It seems the issue with bad stories in entertainment stems in part from this larger issue. We can’t even escape anymore
I just love Jesus.
Yer the goat dude. Here when you were small, laughing when yer the biggest
I think that the state of society's contentedness with mediocrity as a reflection "the last man" is exacerbated by a culture that perpetuates consumerism. With success often portrayed in media and entertainment as your belongings rather than your attributes and competency, many people try to use comfort and pleasure through materialism as a substitute for self actualization and greater meaning
Thus spoke Zarathustra
Philosophy Poachers. Me likey.
This was better than I expected.
@@cultreader9751 I agree. Definitely puts some things into perspective, mainly when it comes to leisure (solitude was the word used in the video). In terms of free time, I got a lot right now, but that's gonna change in a few months.
real
What is the song at the end of the video?
Hollow Knight - Dirtmouth
The west is saved
It's the Adds, they grind down our ability to make reliable decisions
I wish more people would read about marshall mcluhan's ideas.
Wish my country gave easy A's. Had to repeat my final year because I didnt get at least 60% on my second language finals, a language which no one outside of my country even speaks.
13:29 Literally Chidi from The Good Place.
W vid
Real
The pandemic really fucked me up I gained weight got super lax found loopholes in all the online schooling to basically do nothing and it’s made me unproductive and I lack immense motivation
For me the most prominent origin of my helplessness comes from i suppose mnowing too much. I grew up poor, and this last year even though I got a good paying job and have been making more money than ever so much stuff has happened (with family, health etc) im in the same spot i was a year ago. Im technically fine. But its like im just starting out. I generally disagree that responsibility gives us purpose. I suppose for some people it can, who dont know what they would be doing with their time if they didnt have responsibilities. I know what mine is, i want to make art. All kinds, music, films, clothes. I want to read. Those things are not reliable sources of income. I was never in the position to go to college and accrue debt for something i have to be lucky to get a job in. I thought for a long time im smarter than my parents and i wont make their same mistakes. But i didnt realize that you can do everything right and still end up stressed out, and out of money. And no money means no stability and no time to do the things i am passionate about.
I guess what is so truly depressing is i feel like its not irrational to see that the only time someone is truly not worried about a large financial expense is when theyre so rich they dont know whats in their bank account. I am nihilistic because i know i will be worried about my family for the rest of my life. A broken windshield, a car accident, and a roof replacement will leave you tired and done with it all and then you have to go to work and do it all again just so i might have enough energy to read a book this year ( i havent read a book or finished a video game since covid when i actually had the time and energy) I guess what i really want is give me the quick solution to never feeling financially stable- but just being okay with it.
Also im tired so ignore rambling / typos
I forgot this in my original post but I don't think control is as big of a thing as we think it is. We have control over what we do and everything else is just happening to us.
You feel in control when things go your way. But in reality you can only suggest the movement of reality.
I personally don't have any affiliation with religion and consider myself an absurdist. For most of my life I was obsessed with control and very much was paralyzed by decision.
It took so long and finally I'm out of that pattern of thinking, realizing I don't have hardly any control over what happens. Just what my next step is. But that leads me to my depressive pov I have rn. I guess for a while I thought if I make enough money that would be the cushion for any unfortunate occurrences in life. But the positions that make that kind of money are near unattainable. So I'm forced to come to terms with the fact that sort of all I've ever wanted and worked hard towards is just not a real goal. (not having to worry about money ((in general for big things like surgery or missing work cause I get sick and use all my sick time)) I truly don't know how to look positively at the rest of my life when i know that in one month of bad luck I could be just as scared and unstable as I was as a kid in my parents house.
I suggest checking out chapter 8 of Robert Greene's The Laws of Human Nature, which focuses on Anton Chekhov's background, a Russian playwright.
There's a small summary on fourminutebooks under Lesson 1, but it really doesn't do the full story justice.
too many children have been pushed through too many grades even before the pandemic, just letting them lag behind everyone else more and more while they're stuck at square one until graduation
15:10 do abuse survivors not come to mind?
u gotta up the brightness of the thumbnail it looks too dark. ❤❤❤
🙏🙏
I think you are my Ryan Holiday
Pig ups for the DSP clip *snort*
My username is the answer
I don't know what i want.
Christ is King ☦️ God bless everyone suffering.
The last man sounds based asf
i cant stand ppl who smack their mouth when they speak, the last man segment almost killed me
Why are you using the word narcissism in this context? What does that word even mean?
The fact that these things are becoming problems on a societal scale is hilarious to me, simply because we seem to overcomplicate rather simple issues
I'm speaking from experience, but I feel like you're ignoring other aspects that effects people's education and motivation like trauma caused by abuse. I haven't seen any of your videos talk about this and it really shouldn't be overlooked.
This seems like ai generated. Get better at videos
Sorry bro, but this ain't your best work. Keep pushing though!
Cheeky little sseth cameo
real