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Nietzsche thought that as long as he abhorred weakness, he could not be weak himself. This is a textbook defense mechanism. We despise in others what we despise in ourselves.
The older I get and the more I self reflect, the more I realize that all of my moral failings are rooted in some kind of personal weakness, and therefore those weaknesses are my responsibility to overcome.
@@Heaven351because adversity builds character. Without being challenged you never bother to improve yourself and fortify your best qualities to serve you as best as can be expected when you next step on a Lego as you traverse the Road of Life. L But I eat my own shit soooooooooooooooooooo
Weakness is indeed bad. If you have a job, you can see how the in-group treats the weakest person at your place of employment. He gets the shit jobs, passed over for the better jobs, and slandered to keep him in his place. I see it, but I have a sense of justice about my personality, and I help these people any time I can. I also punish the aggressors when appropriate. It's a fine line to walk and can be dangerous. I think it's better for a low social status person to save his money and start a business, it's the only way they will succeed in life. People are generally mean to one another and having solid social skills allows a person to negotiate the social domain. Without those skills life will be very difficult.
A very common criticism of Nietzsche is that he is a 'weak' man himself. But, regardless of this 'weakness', he managed to power through it and create such lasting and positively influential works of philosophy that are actually worth studying and learning from. I think that's very strong.
Precisely. He SAW his own weakness and ADMITTED to them and strived to overcome them. Wether or not he succeeded is irrelevant, the struggle against our own weakness is a worthy goal in and of itself.
Well, yeah. In his autobiography he explains that he is indeed a weak man, and that he HATES being weak, and that he believes we should ALL hate being weak. That is the core of his philosophy.
Man he took part in the WW1, walked for 10 hours a day. He was sick but tried to overcome his illness. He asked questions that no one had asked before. It's not even about asking these questions. No one has even conceptualized these questions and approaches to certain things.
@@user-xn2wg2oe7ssounds like 'weakness' is still at core praxeological, and hence actions as such could not be labelled weak or otherwise, but how those actions are valued relative to one's praxeological aims under particular prevailing conditions
The answer to that conundrum is in the wisdom of picking the battles that play into your strengths, and to avoid the battles that exploit your weaknesses.
What makes a person truly strong is the ability to be flexible. The strength of flexibility is that a person can afford weakness, but it does not gain dominance over him, as he can afford strength without becoming dependent on it. Real power comes from the harmony of heart and mind.
@@gabrielckc Nietzsche is the ultimate cope, he's largely failed at dating for obvious reasons (not being attractive), hence to soothe his wounded ego he needed a philosophy where he is the best male archetype, this uberman sh*t.
@@CaptainCoook oh no, Nietzsche didnt think of himself as ubermensch, he didnt think any one of us could be an ubermenach, besides few glimpses when we overcame ourselves when in the darkest pits of our life, and that we humans were to the future true ubermensch what the apes are to us
This made me realize that I was subconciously doing exactly what Nietzsche outlined about weak people... It's crazy how much we can learn about ourselves by studying these philosophers.
Philosophy is essentially the science of thinking. It should be one of the fundamental skills people learn. Without it the brain is like a tool everyone forgot how to use.
@@thedoomslayer5863neuroscience is the study of how the brain affects. NOT philosophy. But keep trying to make clever comments Good lord dude. Do you really think high performers all around the globe are philosophy students?
@@minedantaken1684 because people act, take action, initiate and walk outside the beaten path. Have you differentiated between physical, and emotional, pain?
I don't remember where I read this, but there was someone commenting on their experience as a prison guard, and they ended it by stating something to the effect of: "only the strong can choose to be good or evil". I think this statement while not exactly the same as Nietzche's echoes a similar point.
It is in fact actually something that Nietzsche directly talks about in multiple different ways across a number of works. But more broadly he says that only those that have to strength to Grapple with their own will are actually capable of exercising Free Will and making free choice. By a certain kind of definition, among other things, Nature's ubermensch is precisely a kind of being that has so freed himself from both pity and weakness that he is able to make free choices and define his values. not as a kind of revenge or even as a way to make himself feel better in the world but as a kind of childlike play.
@@Laotzu.Goldbug This actually makes me realize a thought I had for so many years. Because of my inability to do certain things and such I had to make certain choices in a deterministic way, so in a way by being weak I didn't have 100% free will...,
Reminds me also of a quote from somewhere I can't remember: "it's better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener in a war" or something to that effect.
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Depends why you dodge it. I always hated high school, for good reason. Could have learned more had I a better vision & attitude. But the instinct of resisting the herd conformity is a healthy one.
I hated homework because it felt like a waste of time. I always passed my tests without ever studying if I already covered it in class, and school felt unnecessarily lethargic and slow. I ended up skipping senior year and getting a High School Equivalency diploma (not a GED; HSE is literally the same as if I graduated High School) within a month. Granted, this wouldn't work for everyone. My knowledge retention is higher than average and I tended to learn ahead of my grade. But it goes to show that the school system it too restricting and non-adaptive.
@@jonathanoriley8260 Same, I quit high school a semester early went snowboarding & took community college classes upon return completing my credits almost overnight & skipped graduation. When I finally chose to attend college at age 24, for myself I studied hard as I could for 5 years straight to better myself. Mostly I was making up for lost time as an adult for what I should have learned in high school but didn’t. Most of it wasn’t even an option at the time & I wasn’t mature enough to care.
It's also at the core of the psychological mechanisms of Christianity, which is an apocalyptic death cult at its core. In fact, today's Left looks very much like early Christianity including its intolerance of anything but its own social formulae. This is still part of Christianity which is why we need philosophy to sort it out.
Which is why he was a pathetic excuse of an human being driven solely by revenge. But then again, I guess he can't even be considered human with those ears and pale skin.
I am just 15 and I started reading psychology and philosophy and I absolutely love your Channel since I speak french as a first language and What you say is simplified so overall I love your channel keep it up man
Criticizing others for showing genuine interest and uplifting others in their endeavours? You sir, are weak. (This criticism does not help me either in that regard) @@greghoward3573
Great to start at an early age! You'll be glad to have that interest in your last year of high school! (It's usually impossible for professors to meaningfully explain all the subjects on the national programme)
The term Neizche didnt have in his day is "Cry bully". Pity in the Neizchian sense is more akin to being a cry bully. Its a perfect term bc it explains the persons tactic in merely two words. They're being aggressive and antagonistic towards someone in order to gain something they value...but they're doing it by pretending to be the victim
No, like the "Palestinians". Israel IS a victim: a victim of a world overtaken by slave morality, by suicidal empathy for devils (unable to see their evil), that is holding their hands behind their back as they're being terrorized and slaughtered by an _actually_ genocidal (INTENTION!) group of barbarians. But altruism (slave morality) dictates that the weaker must be left alone, protected even... EVEN IF THEY'RE WICKED! Because altruism/slace morality is a morality BY the wicked! By the losers, by the criminals, by the impotent, by the incompetent, by the insecure. Israel is a *tiny* oasis of _civilization_ in the middle of a desert in every sense, especially a desert of virtue and pro-life philosophy.
From time to time we're all weak. But there's a huge difference between states of weakness we find ourselves in and the condition of weakness we put ourselves into. One is an accident of life, and the other is near suicidal pathology.
@@mark4asp and we are now constructing groups to reinforce such destructive attitudes, like the fat acceptance movements. We are truly living in a time of weakness, be safe out there lads.
The Death of Stalin is a brilliant film. However, Malenkov survived to be 87 when he finally passed away. And perhaps staying alive as long as posdible was Malenkov's true will.
Another paradox or irony; Malenkov kept himself alive by being weak. No enemies = no existential threat. We're passengers, or mere observers, in our own lives. But what is the purpose of life? Is it to stay alive or to make our (positive) contribution to the world?
Hate and destruction are classical manifestations of envy. What do petulant kids do when another kid refuses to let them play with their toys? They break them, that way the other kid can't play with them either. That's exactly what you see full grown adults doing online; if they can't be the famous/rich/important person they want to be, then they celebrate any chance to turn attitudes against other people who are famous/rich/successful because if they can't have that adoration and recognition, no one can.
Starkes Video! Ich fand es manchmal wirklich mühselig, mich durch Nietzsches Schriften durchzuarbeiten und hatte deswegen viele seiner Werke oft unvollendet gelassen. Du hast seine Theorien in diesem Video so genial zusammengefasst und mir hier wirklich viele gute Denkanstöße gegeben. Danke!!
Vielleicht ist es auch einfacher, ein potentiell etwa kryptischer Philosoph wie Nietzsche zu verstehen, wenn man eine Übersetzung seiner Werken liest? Ich sag es als keiner Deutsch Muttersprachler, weil auch wenn man eine ausgezeichnete Übersetzung hat, handelt es sich um eine zumindest teilweise Deutung, denn der Übersetzer muss manchmal bestimmten Konzepten wegen der Asymmetrie zwischen sprachen umformulieren
Ah thank you! That is very kind of you! They do take a while but luckily I absolutely love making them (I did have to cut down to one every four days as opposed to twice per week though, as I was burning out slightly)
@@unsolicitedadvice9198 I seriously respect you taking the time for yourself to avoid burnout and enjoy life as well. You're a fantastic creator and a true gift to the platform.
@@unsolicitedadvice9198okay forgive me if this is insane. Was your channel name always UnsolicitedAdvice?? I feel like I'm going crazy in a Mandela Effect or something because I just don't remember really ever connecting that name to your channel in my mind. 🤣 I've been watching for months! Could I really have never analyzed your channel name for this long? If so, your videos are just THAT enthralling! 💪
Haha! It has always had that name, though at points I have thought about just changing it to my name. I've grown rather fond of the name though - I feel it sets the right tone for 30 minutes of rambling that no one asked me to produce
@@rinkohorowitz Power is an illusion, a shadow on the wall. Let's delve into power, you see someones true self when you get them angry. For example, you have purple hair. I assume you're not right in the head. Race comes from the biosphere, the terrestrial area that race had grown up in. Racial traits are infact adaptations. These are concrete facts. I assume they'll offend you. It's not the power in THE truth here, but my hate for you leftist everywhere I go. Which my hate is my hate, it is my illusion. It's called self control and restraint. Again, racial traits. I have high self control and restraint, but also fury. Why? A mix of gaelic (celt) and Northman (as in viking). I also have about 15-25% native. Which is actually from china. Speaking of china, My great grandmother was full blood Chinese, yet it's barely visible in me. Why? Illusion. It's dormant. It's controlled. The very basis for my body is an illusion. Is it powerful? Who knows? That's purely subjective perspective.
@@bomcstoots1Power in whatever context is the capability to change things. Either you can, or you can't - it's not an illusion. You can't be peaceful and moral, without the capability for war. Thinking you're peaceful when you're just weak is the illusion.
A quote i read but don't remember who's from really resonated with me thinking about weakness in the Nietzsce's sense: "There is no shame in being weak, shame comes from remaning weak". Strenght is not an innate quality, is something one must strive to obtain every day and consciounsly excercise in each moment. Great video as usual, you're really nourishing my hunger for knowledge of a field i had no real formal education in.
I am reminded of a famous quotation that sticks with me, on someone projecting power they do not have, "If a man must say 'I am the king', then he is no king."
Nietzsche didn't hate weak people per se. What he hated was the triumph of slave morality, which he describes as originating in Israel and the early Christianity of Rome. As just one example, he sees the Christian concept of Hell as a revenge fantasy of an underground slave cult that hated Roman Emperors. He saw Chrisitianity as a cult of weakness which sucked the blood out of the Roman Empire.
How is Christianity a cult of weakness? A cult of weakness doesn't become the world's leading religion, a cult of weakness doesn't preach spiritual strength and asceticism. Only strong people can truly be Christians
Brother the strongest Empiwr is Bisantyne Empier, so you need to build your case stronger. The core of Bisantyne empier is religion, Ortodox cristianity.. and belive me as a Serb without religion we would be destroyed easily.. Maybe we dont have that greedy characteristic but we have will to be free stronger then fear of that. Read more and read different
well, at least the *initiation* of violence comes from weakness. if you fight back with violence, then you are within your rights so far as you serve justice and send a clear message. indeed, the colonizer is weak. the king is weak. the pope is weak. the emperor is weak. all of them need support by huge groups of people to stay alive as such. it is the individual who does his own damned work instead of enslaving others to do it, who creates and innovates instead of stealing credit, who speaks truth in the face of lies... SHE is the one who is strong. she is often poor, misunderstood, overlooked, and underestimated. that last one is actually a boon, as anyone who understands the art of war can see. :) we must remove the ruling bloodlines from power, and then the strong will be compensated fairly, *everyone's* lives will be a thousand times better as a result.
@@legalfictionnaturalfact3969 You will simply change the ones in power with people we do not know will be better or worse - might doesn't necessarily mean right, as you seem to imply. This, however, has already happened; kingdoms are gone or have almost no power whatsoever, and I wonder, are democracies any better? Although I assume you might be refering to our technocratic overlords, with how the world is run today, unlike the times where you could point at the king and its benefactors as the culprits of the current state of affairs, today that is much, much harder to know who they are. And how many they are. Also weird that you're using she for someone unspecified instead of he or they, I'm not sure if that's supposed to mean something or you just like to be quirky like that.
Great video. Taught me more in 20 mins than my self reflection with alcohol and drinking for past two years, not to mention school teachings. Keep up the good work
Resentful use of morality. Yeah, we're seeing a lot of that these days. A lot of societal discourse went bad when a genuine desire for justice turned into resentment. And in Nietzsche's take on pity I see an arrow pointing to our societies' tendency towards infantilization. I want people to be autonomous individuals, as much as that's possible for a human to be, and however much I consider it desirable to help people in need, there is a point where that means telling them "deal with it".
"desire for justice turned into resentment"....resentment is a perfectly reasonable feeling for a victim to have. no prob there. maybe you are trying to police those you see as rocking the boat. when the irony is that YOU are a SLAVE on that very boat. you are no higher.
I want a beautiful & healthy society. Most people when left to their own devices will choose mediocrity. So I’m for imposing standards on the herd that make them better.
@@bryanutility9609 "imposing". that's your problem. you don't get to IMPOSE anything. you may convince and persuade. force is unacceptable, and only makes the problem worse anyway.
Dude inspired generations of punkasses thinkin they know something you dont, annoyed at the sight of you because of unresolved trauma they cant do shit about on account of their active avoidance of learning anything.
but if you do that now, he will then not like you again because you were just following herd mentality and not doing something for your own sake and desire and Will to power. So scratch that.
I am so glad you brought up the NICE guy syndrome. I see it happening, all the time. It's better to be good (standard to ourselves) and honest ,than nice. There is a saying, believe in nothing, fall for everything. I was so weak, in my younger years, due to a narcissistic family system-- which I put to rest. I believe weakness is very harmful to the weak. Independence is something people need to strive for more. However, I see something dishonest about embracing your pain. Having said that, I have only now heard of Nietzsche's work.
It's bs. Nice guys aka beta, often unattractive guys with dreams for love don't act that way. That's the shot gun approach of men who at times get women but often have poor verbal wooing skills and lash out when they get called out.
*Eloquent well thought out philosophical idea* BUT *perfectly loogical counterpoint to that idea* I find this funny but also the structure of your prose is engaging. Because as soon as you say something and I agree with it, you throw a left hook and I have to rethink which of the two sides you’ve presented I actually agree with. Or if I agree with them at all.
It is done so effortlessly that i forget but then it suddenly clicked to me that you present these topics in such a vivid manner with words that i feel like i need to get other stuff done before i fully get into any of the videos... kinda like having a movie to watch there's a bit of commitment to it which i like.
well I guess that's relative. maybe I missed out on too much before this vid dropped but philosophical talk on undefined "evil" is kinda sus intellectually etc. to give some points... strong tiger can do a lot of damage and therefore cause suffering... or a strong person like Guts in Berserk may have a very strong will to survive and fight but that will just prolong his suffering in unimaginable ways.
I think this is a generalization. A lot of people suffer from atrophy today because they're disenfranchised from the system that they are powerless to change. From a psychology standpoint it's pretty standard practice for people to behave in this manner when they're rendered powerless by the system. Your psyche must adapt to the new reality.
but thats the thing, they arent powerless to change anything. Get enough people together you can change anything. People are weak to change it though. It incurs risk and sacrifice, many, small amd large
True, but who will change their atrophy for them? If you want the system to do the change for you, you are just giving them more control to decide over your lives. Do something
@@shiina29 You're a fool who is just emulating this because you think it's cool. What he is doing is speaking truth to power, an extremely brave thing to do. Not seeking pity.
Nieztche is quite the interesting figure. Because he would claim "How can anyway possibly generalize things when they only know their own subjective view on life" and then proceeded to say "These guys are wrong because suffering is good actually". Thereby making an absolute statement, that is actually relative and subjective just like the ones he criticized.
It's being self aware. Him saying it's wrong doesn't mean that he also doesn't know that he does it as well. It's just unavoidable. So take what he says with a grain of salt. There's nuance in everything
@xavierzabie8184 nietzsche doesn’t believe in subjectivism in the way it’s understood today. Micheal Tanner’s introduction from Beyond Good and Evil does a great job of describing his perspectivism, which can be misinterpreted as being the same thing. I think rather what he’s getting at is that there are objective facts about the world, but that we form opinions about the world as we survey it, thus distorting our perspective, or claim to be able to survey the world without forming opinions about it, and then claim to come to an “objective” opinion about it after surveying it, which I don’t believe is possible. it’s not a coincidence that the first essay in Beyond Good and Evil is WWE smackdown vs RAW battle Royale of nietzsche barbecuing people for lacking “intellectual hygiene”, he’s calling people out for not being forthcoming out their perspectivism and how their pre-existing wills shape their beliefs into a form that is more palatable to them. if you’re interested in this distinction I think you’d really enjoy beyond good and evil, it’s a great read. also makes you realise the courage of Nietzsche’s own worldview, he believes in values that escape him personally, but does not waver in aspiring to them anyway. To me that takes heart and is admirable, which is why I personally value his perspective more than others, he’s a lot more intellectually hygienic
I suppose that's why he is known as more of a poet. However, we gotta give him a break. The science of his time gave him Darwinism as probably the single most concerning idea he grappled with, and as we all know, in the savage struggle for existence, which no one can simply choose not to be thrown into, logical consistency is not the main focus, just the ebb and flow of power and the feel of it. And since we can hardly choose anyway, he tried to give the world a new goal, or rather he gave a name to what may have been the "goal" all along: the Overhuman (Ubermensch).
If we define weakness not as a moral issue, but as an existential issue, it is truly the root of desperation. So much envy, ressentiment, and cruelty were originated by existential weakness. By existential weakness, I mean the incapacity to give personal meaning to existence itself. Living passively, spitting hate over what we don't have.
A lot of it boils down to defining what "strength" is. And that is precisely why using words "strong" and "weak", especially in modern socioeconomical discourse, does not seem to be a good idea, since most people, when they hear "strength", they almost automatically see darwinian "being fittest" - mistakenly in this case, taking into account the nietzschean view on "strength".
@@minedantaken1684 I think he was intelligent and wise, but lacked the "strength" he admired in his writings. Much of his work seems to me an idolization to this kind of strength and a self loathing for his weakness (just my personal opinion do).
Great video. I've been walking the lonely path of philosophy and Buddhism for about 15 years. At 33, I've noticed that many philosophers(from different backgrounds and ethics) share their views or mentally cross the same paths. I often say this: Science, Buddhism, Psychology, and Philosophy saved my life.
Dude this video was soo insightful, I have been harboring similar ideals, your explanation of Nietzsche philosophy really hit home. Definitely going to learn more about him.
Regarding the "nice guy" example...I have to subtly disagree with the analysis here. I saw a very good explanation of the whole phenomenon of rejection, which goes as follows: Suppose there is a girls you're strongly attracted to, you believe she's wonderful, and believe you'd be "great together" - but she turns you down. There are two possibilities 1. She was indeed wonderful - but you don't match her. She's right to reject you as there's something lacking in you which you have to go away and work on. 2. She wasn't wonderful - you only think so. The chances are you've ignored her values - or the absence of them - and filled in the gaps where her moraility should be with visions of ripe breasts and soft lips. Either way, you need to go away and work on yourself to some extent - because if it's situation (2), you're succumbing to the "halo effect", i.e. thinking good looking girls are angels. What you then need to do is take a step back, and dispassionately look at the men she DOES go for. If she ends up in a series of toxic, dysfunctional relationships, then it's situation (2) - and you're chasing the wrong women. You need to work on that first of all. If, on the other hand, she ends up with someone who makes her very happy, then you can at least console yourself with the fact that whatever's wrong with you, it's not your mechanism for choosing women. Which means you need to work on your morality and values. This is similar to the notion in the video - but the difference is that you should not assume that what IS attractive to her is necessarily desirable for you to emulate. You need to know what sort of mistake you made - either in judging her value, or judging your own.
No, to pity someone means that you acknowledge their suffering for what it is. What would be wrong is if you try to justify their suffering as something irrelevant without even trying to understand what brought this situation in the first place. The key is to always be understanding because being understanding means you will not shy away from the whole truth.
@@DJWESG1 powerful, powerless, we are both human and neither is perfect. We are meant to live with each other and help each other. Looking at people from only that lense will cause us to forget what matter in the end.
as someone who used to indulge in their own weakness, I can say this part of mr. Nietzsche's philosophy was a revelation for me to pursue my own will to power and it is for this reason, i am not a nihilist today Great video! Definitely revisiting this one in future
i once heard an older gentleman make the argument that to truly be a good man you have to be strong, so that you have the ability to protect those you love. always resonated with me
The longer I listen to this channel the more I realize how many ideas I unknowingly share with Nietzsche. The book I’ve been thinking about writing has many themes reflecting Nietzsche’s ideas of the value of power, morality, and life.
Nietzsche had a serious problem with women as he did say that a woman did not have a soul and was a cow at best. Even my philosophy professor agreed with this and thought of him as in the closet.
I also think, ironically, this may have stemmed from his lack of romantic success. I want to write a blog post about it at some point. Even though Nietzsche had such an insight into the way people react resentfully when their wills are thwarted, that still didn't mean he himself did not fall into the same trap.
@@unsolicitedadvice9198 That "lack of romantic success" was a consequence. Nietzche's own sick personality has been the cause. Every man who identifies with FN should think twice about his own mental health.
I’d agree with him… so I guess I’m just a bitter angry weak man frustrated by lack of access to holes. That’s the only way you could possibly come to that conclusion. It’s not pattern recognition or anything like that there’s just something wrong with me. Got it.
Great video. Highlighting the link between weakness and trustworthiness is interesting. It reminds me of Peter Pettigrew in Harry Potter. I watched a video the other day about how his betrayal of everyone he knew came from his weakness and fear. He sided with whoever was strongest and most powerful, ultimately leading him to serve Voldemort, essentially reducing himself to a pawn an nothing more, simply to ensure survival. Nietzsche's rejection of nihilism is honestly fascinating to me. In a sense he's logically wrong because the entropic nature of the universe is very clear to us at this point, however his philosophy does seem to be a better basis for finding purpose and meaning within life, and therefore making life more fulfilling.
Life has a positive trajectory toward meaning and order. Nihilists and other ideologically possessed will always survive worse and/or remove themselves - thus they are against reality and logic of life. Whatever you believe, you are right, and beliefs have serious consequences.
@@edheldude I was more meaning scientifically it's very clear that the universe is moving toward equalization and heat-death. Barring the oscillating universe theory, it'll eventually end with everything in space being cold and dead, and even later with everything absorbed into black holes. Even with the oscillating universe theory absolutely everything would be destroyed with every big-bang, so all we do in this iteration of the universe would be meaningless in the next. So logically nothing in life has a lasting purpose. It's all temporary, which can be demotivating for anyone who wants to achieve something with their life, because their efforts are eventually undone. In terms of purpose the human mind clearly developed a drive for long lasting purpose well before we had any ability to foresee the extremely distant future. However, I think even the bible mentions (in Ecclesiastes, which is all about nihilism) the idea that all you build could be destroyed in a day by the guy that comes along to take your place when you die. Basically, I think the secret to finding purpose is to accept that any benefit your actions will have will be temporary and limited, but that they'll have value to the people they affect within that time frame. When the heat death of the universe comes it won't matter if you enslaved 10,000 children to make a throne for yourself out of coal that they had to mine by hand, or if you solved world hunger and united the world into a perfect utopia, but it'd matter to the children if they suffer and it'd matter to the fed and safe people in the utopia.
A few days ago I had an argument/discussion with a follower of Buddhism. I had stated Krishna was a Life Positive philosopher while Buddha was a life negative philosopher. Krishna embraces all. Buddha doesn’t. Buddha realised there is suffering in this world and attained enlightenment and blessed us with the same in which he advocated a sort of maintaining distance from the life. Then there’s a strong insistence on non-violence. So my question was, if an invader tries to rampage and kill, if I listen to Buddha, I would probably let it happen while trying to reason with the Barbarians. However, Krishna would advise me to pick up the weapons and fight. That it’s my Dharma to fight in this situation and even if I die following my Dharma, it’s great. Also, if someone were to try to kill Buddha, I would not hesitate to pick up the weapon and save Buddha from the attacker. Knowing very well that both Buddha and Krishna have pointed out the transient nature of the body, Krishna would ask me to protect someone like Buddha, while Buddha himself may not think so.
Don't believe anyone, think what's best for you. Satyagraha. satyagraha, concept introduced in the early 20th century by Mahatma Gandhi to designate a determined but nonviolent resistance to evil. Gandhi's satyagraha became a major tool in the Indian struggle against British imperialism and has since been adopted by protest groups in other countries.
So refreshing to hear about Nietzsche as I thought I interpreted as the way I did when I was studying it. I remember having a very tough time understanding the text as if it had so many nuances that you had to do mental gymnastics to understand. I’ve always thought that what Nietzsche analyzed was not about being an Alpha red pilled brute but rather an analytical commentary of strengths and weaknesses and their role in the making the character of a person. That true strength lied in truthfully and unabashedly pursuing what you desired and that true weakness lies in moral duplicity and their interplay with traditional definitions with strength and weakness.
While it is true there's no virtue in weakness, and that weakness is a liability. It's very unrealistic for people to think that there aren't going to be a decent percentage of the population that consists of weak people. Nature is a balance nature is duality. Weakness exists just as strength exists. I do think that weakness in and of itself can be a bad thing and a lot of instances, there are those in society with no malicious intent that are weak.
I don't think it's so much about believing that you can make weakness disappear, but rather being willing to identify it and own it so that you can move beyond it. the problem is not in that you or other people are weak but but when you pretend that the weakest doesn't exist or even worse that the weakness is actually a strength. in a way it's no different than someone with a serious drug or alcohol addiction. Yes it's not good to be a drug addict or an alcoholic, but it's even worse to be one and to refuse to acknowledge that you are. at least once you identify your failing you can start to address it and correct it and strengthen yourself, and you can also stop tricking yourself into bad choices that come when you suppress that part of yourself but it's still influences your actions.
My goodness, your videos almost always leave me feeling comprehensively personally attacked by all these philosophers!! How did they know me so well, centuries before my birth?!
I think on a fundamental, personal level, I can agree with his view, I can see the danger and the influence of the people that is deemed weak, and the necessity of finding the internal strength to overcome your own weaknesses. His definition of weaknesses, both by external and internal, make senses and that does give a leeway to identify who is weak and who is not. I probably should read his work in more detail in order to know more about his interpretation of the nuances and the in between of all categories, which has to be equally important as the distinct categories of people
I have found this to be absolutely true. Avoid weakness by being prepared to know which decisions will be critical, pre-deciding as many as possible, and sticking to your decision with as many as possible.
You can't predict what decisions you will be forced to make. And blindly sticking to a predetermined set of ethics is dangerous and can lead you to make some harmful decisions. You need to know when to be strong and when to be flexible or else you will break.
Having seen this video and earlier the one you suggested at 29:29 i think that Fredrick is closer to right than any other philosopher. I think that regardless of circumstance or anything else it is a persons responsibility to do the best for themselves. Even if you have no legs and live in the top story of a building with no elevator, if the building goes up in flames you need to try to save yourself. I think that we as humans need to stop relying on a "dominant other" to provde for us and do it ourselves to the best of out ability. Not to say community is bad or as a vote for anarchy, going back to my example of someone with no legs i dont think anyone expects them to hunt boars and feed the village but i still think they have a responsibility to do for themselves as much as possible. The same as someone with a less noticeable disability such as mental illness. Hot takes i know not to mention on hell of a tangent. Great video dude keep it up.
I have much more negative feelings about what Nietzsche has said (according to this video). Firstly, I think that unal1ving yourself is a perfectly legitimate choice in a number of circumstances. Secondly, your claims that people "need to do" this or that feels like patronising nonsense. The same goes for the claim "it is a person's responsibility to do the best for themselves". Why do you not say that this can be a smart thing to do, why do you seem to insinuate some metaphysical duty to do this? I, for my part, don't believe in metaphysical duties, I believe in deciding what is the best course of action for a given person XY in view of goals YZ on the basis of case analyses. The truth that I can find in Nietzsche's ideas is their applicability to some amount of such cases, their usefulness in application. I can and should always ask myself when I feel that things are not going my way: am I relying on a "dominant other" in some way and am I harming myself in doing this? In some cases, such reflection might unconver possibilities of change and imprivement. At the same time, framing reliance on others as inherently bad is extremely limiting: If a community works together well, then relying on others is crucial to maximizing the overall efficiency of this community. Every individual will benefit greatly from a functioning system of labour division, for example. Division of labour and knowledge cements and perpetuates dependency on others in a society and is, at the same time, the only way for civilization to achive great things and to progress. This is so obvious that I have to ask: if Nietzsche was not intending his ideas to refer to the division of labour and knowledge in societies, what situations are his ideas supposed to be applicable to exactly?? Lastly, labelling any group of people as "weak" and blaming them for the wrongs of society is fascistoid thinking.
@@IceQueenaliasIQFirstly, nobody cares what you think. Second, nobody cares what it feels like to you. Please, don't tell the guy it "seems to insinuate some metaphysical duty" and then go rumbling about how you don't believe in metaphysical duties", noone asked, really. Being as strong and as independent as posible doesn't mean you must stop dividing labour and do everything yourself, you know. Lastly, when did he say anything about a group being weak? If anything he said a person without legs can be strong, lmao. You are projecting harder than an artillery battery. Also fascistoid? Lmao, how many societies other than in the last few decades have seen weakness as anything other than undesirable? If you think the communists did appreciate weakness you haven't met the average russian.
@@IceQueenaliasIQ You are misrepresenting what @loregaming3634 said regarding community. They never claimed that reliance on others was inherently bad.
Having an immune system for dysfunction is not a weakness. It's the opposite. As long as that system is calibrated properly and can identify the pathogens, what is good and what is bad correctly.
You use Nietzsche's philosophy to illustrate a situation of victim and victimizer, he himself would consider that as coming from weakness. Nothing more contemporary than dissolving an entire philosophy in positivism. Anyway you do a great work
But he lost his mind and became a victim. He had hatred of weak poeple, because he was insecure. Only other weak people go after weaker people than themselves.
Could you recommend some books on rejecting and destroying any type of weakness in journey of facing challenges especially 20s and 30s to stay optimistic...
What makes you think books will give you what you seek? Strength comes from action and self reflecting on said action, there's so much words can teach you if you are not familiar with the dimension you want to learn about.
Hi, I don't think I will have one specific book, but what I thought of right now are Wim Hof teachings, how he is showing the way how to govern himself through discipline and cold. Obviously this doesn't have to be good for everyone, but maybe some of his philosophy can inspire to create own way to hinder weaknesses.
@@mrgooodod3179 If you are weak physicaly go to the gym, do calisthenics, join a martial arts club. If you are weak socially, expose yourself more. If you are weak willed, find thing that will take a bit of effort and do them... After your successes and failures reflect on them and maybe then read about it. You only have so much time and wasting it reading about things is a great way to forever suck at them.
I came to this same conclusion after years of pessimism. I was always told growing up to pursue my dreams, but I never had these "dreams" people talked about. I couldnt convince myself to pursue anything because of doubts of the outcomes or reasoning my way out of caring about things cause the juice wouldnt be worth the squeeze. So there I sat, doing much of nothing and wondering to myself, what is worth the suffering of life? Truth is, you can't really find what is worth living for until you START LOOKING. I realized that pessimism isn't going to get me anywhere and if im going to go anywhere, do anything, achieve anything, then I had to start by moving myself and maintaining momentum. Treat the pessimistic thoughts like gnats on a hike, swat them to the side and keep going, dwelling on how annoying they are isnt going to help you.
A channel with quality and frequent uploads? In 2024? Actually insane! Sidenote: would it be possible for you to put the names of the works/books referenced in the description of your videos? I want to read them but i forget the names of the works frequently
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The nice guy video you link to is age restricted
Christ spoke of the meek inheriting the earth. Nietzsche spoke of the will to power. He went mad for whatever reason.
i not own a cell or system likewise,
befooling
"BEGGERS HAVE NO CHOICE"
Nietzsche thought that as long as he abhorred weakness, he could not be weak himself. This is a textbook defense mechanism. We despise in others what we despise in ourselves.
The Nice guy problem gets better addressed by BassFfz.
The older I get and the more I self reflect, the more I realize that all of my moral failings are rooted in some kind of personal weakness, and therefore those weaknesses are my responsibility to overcome.
admitting this is a sign of strong personality.
This is the way.
You have morals?
Weak.
The older I get the less I masterbate.
That's the way
" whatever weakens you physically , mentally or spiritually , immediately reject it at once as poison"
- Swami Vivekananda
This can go very wrong, many things do that to you temporerary but are beneficial in the long run
@@masticloxpoker1006 what ? Can you elaborate ? How is the quote wrong ?
@@Heaven351because adversity builds character. Without being challenged you never bother to improve yourself and fortify your best qualities to serve you as best as can be expected when you next step on a Lego as you traverse the Road of Life. L
But I eat my own shit soooooooooooooooooooo
@@TwoSoulsOneCup That's what the quote is about . Learn and leave
Weakness is indeed bad. If you have a job, you can see how the in-group treats the weakest person at your place of employment. He gets the shit jobs, passed over for the better jobs, and slandered to keep him in his place. I see it, but I have a sense of justice about my personality, and I help these people any time I can. I also punish the aggressors when appropriate. It's a fine line to walk and can be dangerous. I think it's better for a low social status person to save his money and start a business, it's the only way they will succeed in life. People are generally mean to one another and having solid social skills allows a person to negotiate the social domain. Without those skills life will be very difficult.
A very common criticism of Nietzsche is that he is a 'weak' man himself. But, regardless of this 'weakness', he managed to power through it and create such lasting and positively influential works of philosophy that are actually worth studying and learning from. I think that's very strong.
Ad personam isn't proper way of criticism.
Precisely. He SAW his own weakness and ADMITTED to them and strived to overcome them. Wether or not he succeeded is irrelevant, the struggle against our own weakness is a worthy goal in and of itself.
@@hansolo2797 it is if you are not a midwitt and you do it properly.
Well, yeah. In his autobiography he explains that he is indeed a weak man, and that he HATES being weak, and that he believes we should ALL hate being weak. That is the core of his philosophy.
Man he took part in the WW1, walked for 10 hours a day. He was sick but tried to overcome his illness. He asked questions that no one had asked before. It's not even about asking these questions. No one has even conceptualized these questions and approaches to certain things.
Remember every strong person has a weak spot or a weak moment of life it's how you prevail that defines your strength.
Thank you
@@user-xn2wg2oe7ssounds like 'weakness' is still at core praxeological, and hence actions as such could not be labelled weak or otherwise, but how those actions are valued relative to one's praxeological aims under particular prevailing conditions
Getting knocked down isn't a failure.
It's not getting back up.
The answer to that conundrum is in the wisdom of picking the battles that play into your strengths, and to avoid the battles that exploit your weaknesses.
thats cope
What makes a person truly strong is the ability to be flexible. The strength of flexibility is that a person can afford weakness, but it does not gain dominance over him, as he can afford strength without becoming dependent on it. Real power comes from the harmony of heart and mind.
"This, according to Nietzsche, is just cope" Unsolicited Advice 2024
summed up the entire video
Nice guys finish last lmao nice guys the last to know
@@gabrielckc Nietzsche is the ultimate cope, he's largely failed at dating for obvious reasons (not being attractive), hence to soothe his wounded ego he needed a philosophy where he is the best male archetype, this uberman sh*t.
@@CaptainCoook when does he say he is the ubermensch? You sound too dim to properly assess the ideas
@@CaptainCoook oh no, Nietzsche didnt think of himself as ubermensch, he didnt think any one of us could be an ubermenach, besides few glimpses when we overcame ourselves when in the darkest pits of our life, and that we humans were to the future true ubermensch what the apes are to us
This made me realize that I was subconciously doing exactly what Nietzsche outlined about weak people... It's crazy how much we can learn about ourselves by studying these philosophers.
Can’t find love ???
Philosophy is essentially the science of thinking. It should be one of the fundamental skills people learn. Without it the brain is like a tool everyone forgot how to use.
@@dustintacohands1107are you mad???
@@woofy9977 nah
@@thedoomslayer5863neuroscience is the study of how the brain affects. NOT philosophy.
But keep trying to make clever comments
Good lord dude.
Do you really think high performers all around the globe are philosophy students?
"All cruelty springs from weakness."
Ever tasted pain?
@@manubisheI pay a woman twice a month for it
@@manubishe have u ever been inside of the new masterpiece?
@@manubishewhy do You think people inflict pain?
@@minedantaken1684 because people act, take action, initiate and walk outside the beaten path.
Have you differentiated between physical, and emotional, pain?
I don't remember where I read this, but there was someone commenting on their experience as a prison guard, and they ended it by stating something to the effect of: "only the strong can choose to be good or evil". I think this statement while not exactly the same as Nietzche's echoes a similar point.
It is in fact actually something that Nietzsche directly talks about in multiple different ways across a number of works. But more broadly he says that only those that have to strength to Grapple with their own will are actually capable of exercising Free Will and making free choice.
By a certain kind of definition, among other things, Nature's ubermensch is precisely a kind of being that has so freed himself from both pity and weakness that he is able to make free choices and define his values. not as a kind of revenge or even as a way to make himself feel better in the world but as a kind of childlike play.
@@Laotzu.Goldbug
This actually makes me realize a thought I had for so many years. Because of my inability to do certain things and such I had to make certain choices in a deterministic way, so in a way by being weak I didn't have 100% free will...,
@@reinertgregal1130so like how you can drive perfectly, but a drunk person crashing into you, can cause you to be paralyzed waist down.
Reminds me also of a quote from somewhere I can't remember: "it's better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener in a war" or something to that effect.
@@talkingtakotaco8611nice
Wow : This is one time that "The Algorithm" really found content that is challenging for my mind, besides the scientific content that I usually study. Great stuff.
Study? I bet
I agree that me dodging my homework, results in Nietzche's hate for me too
Depends why you dodge it. I always hated high school, for good reason. Could have learned more had I a better vision & attitude. But the instinct of resisting the herd conformity is a healthy one.
Not necessarily. You putting homework behind, or in the back burner is most likely due to plain laziness.
@@sylviaowega3839it's crazy how elementary - high-school teaches you like 4 years worth of knowledge... Such a waste.
I hated homework because it felt like a waste of time. I always passed my tests without ever studying if I already covered it in class, and school felt unnecessarily lethargic and slow. I ended up skipping senior year and getting a High School Equivalency diploma (not a GED; HSE is literally the same as if I graduated High School) within a month.
Granted, this wouldn't work for everyone. My knowledge retention is higher than average and I tended to learn ahead of my grade. But it goes to show that the school system it too restricting and non-adaptive.
@@jonathanoriley8260 Same, I quit high school a semester early went snowboarding & took community college classes upon return completing my credits almost overnight & skipped graduation.
When I finally chose to attend college at age 24, for myself I studied hard as I could for 5 years straight to better myself. Mostly I was making up for lost time as an adult for what I should have learned in high school but didn’t. Most of it wasn’t even an option at the time & I wasn’t mature enough to care.
Never have I recognized the current social state as Nietzsche‘s idea of weakness. Extremely interesting video, thank you.
Check out his master-slave morality. You'll see the connection.
God is dead, and we killed him.
It's also at the core of the psychological mechanisms of Christianity, which is an apocalyptic death cult at its core. In fact, today's Left looks very much like early Christianity including its intolerance of anything but its own social formulae. This is still part of Christianity which is why we need philosophy to sort it out.
Look up 'splitting' in terms of psychology. Nietzsche had a profound impact on the field of psychology that kind of gets overlooked sometimes.
You never recognized a bunch of people are creating genders to validate themselves and society supporting it coming off as weak?
"The weak, always strive to become weaker"
~ Magus
Which is why he was a pathetic excuse of an human being driven solely by revenge. But then again, I guess he can't even be considered human with those ears and pale skin.
Don’t put random commas where they don’t belong
Which is why Magus, obsessed with his revenge, was weak and couldn't change anything by himself.
We wuz kangz and shiet
@@1Thir13teen3 I know lol. It reads like a command with that comma there. 'the weak, always strive to become weaker!'
Really NEEDED this today to hold MYSELF accountable. Good day.
I am just 15 and I started reading psychology and philosophy and I absolutely love your Channel since I speak french as a first language and What you say is simplified so overall I love your channel keep it up man
Weak
Criticizing others for showing genuine interest and uplifting others in their endeavours? You sir, are weak.
(This criticism does not help me either in that regard)
@@greghoward3573
Great to start at an early age! You'll be glad to have that interest in your last year of high school! (It's usually impossible for professors to meaningfully explain all the subjects on the national programme)
The term Neizche didnt have in his day is "Cry bully". Pity in the Neizchian sense is more akin to being a cry bully. Its a perfect term bc it explains the persons tactic in merely two words. They're being aggressive and antagonistic towards someone in order to gain something they value...but they're doing it by pretending to be the victim
Great observation.
Like Israel. Classic example.
No, like the "Palestinians". Israel IS a victim: a victim of a world overtaken by slave morality, by suicidal empathy for devils (unable to see their evil), that is holding their hands behind their back as they're being terrorized and slaughtered by an _actually_ genocidal (INTENTION!) group of barbarians. But altruism (slave morality) dictates that the weaker must be left alone, protected even... EVEN IF THEY'RE WICKED! Because altruism/slace morality is a morality BY the wicked! By the losers, by the criminals, by the impotent, by the incompetent, by the insecure.
Israel is a *tiny* oasis of _civilization_ in the middle of a desert in every sense, especially a desert of virtue and pro-life philosophy.
"Mista, should I call you mista? Why are you weak...... You are weak"
~ Nietzsche
😂 I got it.
Why should be someone be weak
@@cringe_male7588 ...you are Gay.
Wish he could have interviewed Nietzsche.
@@PeteL-u1d would probably be less confused compared to the LGBTQ nonsense 💀
This video could change one’s life when seen at the right time. It is the right time for me. Thank you.
I wish I saw this 15 years ago before I ruined my life.
You would hardly believe how timely this presentation is for me. Thanks.
Being weak is okay, but you need to bounce back and become stronger ever again.
From time to time we're all weak. But there's a huge difference between states of weakness we find ourselves in and the condition of weakness we put ourselves into. One is an accident of life, and the other is near suicidal pathology.
@@mark4asp and we are now constructing groups to reinforce such destructive attitudes, like the fat acceptance movements. We are truly living in a time of weakness, be safe out there lads.
The Death of Stalin is a brilliant film. However, Malenkov survived to be 87 when he finally passed away. And perhaps staying alive as long as posdible was Malenkov's true will.
Great film and excellent observation.
Maybe he inspired that Bee Gees song...?
Another paradox or irony; Malenkov kept himself alive by being weak. No enemies = no existential threat. We're passengers, or mere observers, in our own lives. But what is the purpose of life? Is it to stay alive or to make our (positive) contribution to the world?
Based take
Can't be as based, I declare you a resentful weakling.
Fk up mate. "Take" is basically used as a synonym for opinion. Imagine complimenting people on an opinion. You're a moron mate.
I think the internet is a good example of people devaluing the thing they aspire to but can't have. Such as Twitter.
😂😂
Brugh are u talkin' shit onto Elund son?! I will not stan for this.
And the same people like you putting twitter on a high pedestal now but then used to shit on the same platform before elon owned it.
Hate and destruction are classical manifestations of envy. What do petulant kids do when another kid refuses to let them play with their toys? They break them, that way the other kid can't play with them either. That's exactly what you see full grown adults doing online; if they can't be the famous/rich/important person they want to be, then they celebrate any chance to turn attitudes against other people who are famous/rich/successful because if they can't have that adoration and recognition, no one can.
Weak people with weak friends are afraid of free speech. It exposes the're weak ideas..
Learning that Nietzsche was chronically ill makes so much make sense and enhances how much I relate to his philosophy as a disabled person
Starkes Video! Ich fand es manchmal wirklich mühselig, mich durch Nietzsches Schriften durchzuarbeiten und hatte deswegen viele seiner Werke oft unvollendet gelassen. Du hast seine Theorien in diesem Video so genial zusammengefasst und mir hier wirklich viele gute Denkanstöße gegeben. Danke!!
Vielleicht ist es auch einfacher, ein potentiell etwa kryptischer Philosoph wie Nietzsche zu verstehen, wenn man eine Übersetzung seiner Werken liest? Ich sag es als keiner Deutsch Muttersprachler, weil auch wenn man eine ausgezeichnete Übersetzung hat, handelt es sich um eine zumindest teilweise Deutung, denn der Übersetzer muss manchmal bestimmten Konzepten wegen der Asymmetrie zwischen sprachen umformulieren
Your videos are incredibly insightful. Even more impressive is your upload schedule considering you need to meet a clear quality standard.
Ah thank you! That is very kind of you! They do take a while but luckily I absolutely love making them (I did have to cut down to one every four days as opposed to twice per week though, as I was burning out slightly)
@@unsolicitedadvice9198 I seriously respect you taking the time for yourself to avoid burnout and enjoy life as well. You're a fantastic creator and a true gift to the platform.
@@unsolicitedadvice9198You kinda attack & target men a lot, in your vids. I like it
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@@alexmason3190 I think this material caters to men.
Babe wake up, Unsolicited Advice just dropped a new video
Haha - thank you for the vote of confidence!
@@unsolicitedadvice9198okay forgive me if this is insane.
Was your channel name always UnsolicitedAdvice?? I feel like I'm going crazy in a Mandela Effect or something because I just don't remember really ever connecting that name to your channel in my mind. 🤣 I've been watching for months! Could I really have never analyzed your channel name for this long? If so, your videos are just THAT enthralling! 💪
Haha! It has always had that name, though at points I have thought about just changing it to my name. I've grown rather fond of the name though - I feel it sets the right tone for 30 minutes of rambling that no one asked me to produce
Yessir
I really like his British accent ❤
It's weakness that corrupts, not power
Power corrupts weak people.
@@rinkohorowitz Power is an illusion, a shadow on the wall. Let's delve into power, you see someones true self when you get them angry.
For example, you have purple hair. I assume you're not right in the head. Race comes from the biosphere, the terrestrial area that race had grown up in. Racial traits are infact adaptations. These are concrete facts. I assume they'll offend you. It's not the power in THE truth here, but my hate for you leftist everywhere I go. Which my hate is my hate, it is my illusion. It's called self control and restraint. Again, racial traits. I have high self control and restraint, but also fury. Why? A mix of gaelic (celt) and Northman (as in viking). I also have about 15-25% native. Which is actually from china. Speaking of china, My great grandmother was full blood Chinese, yet it's barely visible in me. Why? Illusion. It's dormant. It's controlled. The very basis for my body is an illusion. Is it powerful? Who knows? That's purely subjective perspective.
Power is an illusion. What's perfect power for you is useless for me
@@bomcstoots1 Power can
be an illusion within a system but the concept itself is not illusory it actually can be quite literally real.
@@bomcstoots1Power in whatever context is the capability to change things. Either you can, or you can't - it's not an illusion.
You can't be peaceful and moral, without the capability for war. Thinking you're peaceful when you're just weak is the illusion.
A quote i read but don't remember who's from really resonated with me thinking about weakness in the Nietzsce's sense: "There is no shame in being weak, shame comes from remaning weak". Strenght is not an innate quality, is something one must strive to obtain every day and consciounsly excercise in each moment.
Great video as usual, you're really nourishing my hunger for knowledge of a field i had no real formal education in.
I am reminded of a famous quotation that sticks with me, on someone projecting power they do not have, "If a man must say 'I am the king', then he is no king."
But when I bellow out, I AM LORD GARTH!, it makes me feel WONDERFUL.
This is a quote from game of thrones. Tywin Lannister showing his weak grandson Geoffrey what power really looks like.
As an English learner, your videos are very educational and informative. They help me discover new words and increase my Vocab.
Keep up the good work
Abbreviating like a pro
Nietzsche didn't hate weak people per se. What he hated was the triumph of slave morality, which he describes as originating in Israel and the early Christianity of Rome. As just one example, he sees the Christian concept of Hell as a revenge fantasy of an underground slave cult that hated Roman Emperors. He saw Chrisitianity as a cult of weakness which sucked the blood out of the Roman Empire.
How is Christianity a cult of weakness? A cult of weakness doesn't become the world's leading religion, a cult of weakness doesn't preach spiritual strength and asceticism. Only strong people can truly be Christians
Nietzsche knows better now, lol.
@@MaximilianonMarsBy wishing Nietzsche to be in hell you are proving his revenge fantasy point
Brother the strongest Empiwr is Bisantyne Empier, so you need to build your case stronger. The core of Bisantyne empier is religion, Ortodox cristianity.. and belive me as a Serb without religion we would be destroyed easily..
Maybe we dont have that greedy characteristic but we have will to be free stronger then fear of that. Read more and read different
@@fortitude1208Opa evo nekog našeg ovdje
All violence comes from weakness - seneca
well, at least the *initiation* of violence comes from weakness. if you fight back with violence, then you are within your rights so far as you serve justice and send a clear message.
indeed, the colonizer is weak. the king is weak. the pope is weak. the emperor is weak. all of them need support by huge groups of people to stay alive as such. it is the individual who does his own damned work instead of enslaving others to do it, who creates and innovates instead of stealing credit, who speaks truth in the face of lies... SHE is the one who is strong. she is often poor, misunderstood, overlooked, and underestimated. that last one is actually a boon, as anyone who understands the art of war can see. :)
we must remove the ruling bloodlines from power, and then the strong will be compensated fairly, *everyone's* lives will be a thousand times better as a result.
Aye blame the frkkin gazelle. Dafaq he is so weak chewin on that cud peacfully inciting the lion with his behaviour
@@legalfictionnaturalfact3969
You will simply change the ones in power with people we do not know will be better or worse - might doesn't necessarily mean right, as you seem to imply. This, however, has already happened; kingdoms are gone or have almost no power whatsoever, and I wonder, are democracies any better? Although I assume you might be refering to our technocratic overlords, with how the world is run today, unlike the times where you could point at the king and its benefactors as the culprits of the current state of affairs, today that is much, much harder to know who they are. And how many they are.
Also weird that you're using she for someone unspecified instead of he or they, I'm not sure if that's supposed to mean something or you just like to be quirky like that.
Seneca was weak
@@legalfictionnaturalfact3969This is complete nonsense. An initiation of violence does not mean one is weak.
Great video. Taught me more in 20 mins than my self reflection with alcohol and drinking for past two years, not to mention school teachings. Keep up the good work
I just can't tell you how much your presentations mean to me. They add real joy to my life. Thank you so much.
Resentful use of morality. Yeah, we're seeing a lot of that these days. A lot of societal discourse went bad when a genuine desire for justice turned into resentment. And in Nietzsche's take on pity I see an arrow pointing to our societies' tendency towards infantilization. I want people to be autonomous individuals, as much as that's possible for a human to be, and however much I consider it desirable to help people in need, there is a point where that means telling them "deal with it".
"desire for justice turned into resentment"....resentment is a perfectly reasonable feeling for a victim to have. no prob there. maybe you are trying to police those you see as rocking the boat. when the irony is that YOU are a SLAVE on that very boat. you are no higher.
I want a beautiful & healthy society. Most people when left to their own devices will choose mediocrity. So I’m for imposing standards on the herd that make them better.
@@bryanutility9609 "imposing". that's your problem. you don't get to IMPOSE anything. you may convince and persuade. force is unacceptable, and only makes the problem worse anyway.
BLM, feminist, LGBT, their “justice” is revenge
@@legalfictionnaturalfact3969 on the contrary we have force imposed upon us everyday as a people. Its one of the only constants of history.
don't know what i did to piss off Nietzsche
Breathe... That's pretty much all it takes
Dude inspired generations of punkasses thinkin they know something you dont, annoyed at the sight of you because of unresolved trauma they cant do shit about on account of their active avoidance of learning anything.
go to the gym and bench press more than your weight and Nietzsche will be happy.
but if you do that now, he will then not like you again because you were just following herd mentality and not doing something for your own sake and desire and Will to power. So scratch that.
@@grapenut6094no, u
I always learn about 10 new words each video, what a truly extensive vocabulary use you display, astonishing!
I am impressed by your videos. The way you express and explain grabs my attention 100%. Fantastic.
I like how all this information is given without much bias. Now I can learn it and decide for myself what or if I want to do anything with it
You weak.
I am so glad you brought up the NICE guy syndrome. I see it happening, all the time. It's better to be good (standard to ourselves) and honest ,than nice. There is a saying, believe in nothing, fall for everything. I was so weak, in my younger years, due to a narcissistic family system-- which I put to rest. I believe weakness is very harmful to the weak. Independence is something people need to strive for more. However, I see something dishonest about embracing your pain. Having said that, I have only now heard of Nietzsche's work.
It's bs. Nice guys aka beta, often unattractive guys with dreams for love don't act that way. That's the shot gun approach of men who at times get women but often have poor verbal wooing skills and lash out when they get called out.
I really enjoy hearing your interpretation of Nietzsche.
*Eloquent well thought out philosophical idea* BUT *perfectly loogical counterpoint to that idea*
I find this funny but also the structure of your prose is engaging. Because as soon as you say something and I agree with it, you throw a left hook and I have to rethink which of the two sides you’ve presented I actually agree with. Or if I agree with them at all.
The Coin of it all!
But I agree!
Vag of holding is another word for bag of holding. Lol
It is done so effortlessly that i forget but then it suddenly clicked to me that you present these topics in such a vivid manner with words that i feel like i need to get other stuff done before i fully get into any of the videos... kinda like having a movie to watch there's a bit of commitment to it which i like.
Because morality is so counterintuitive! Said the man with a big moustache before he got punched in the mouth.
We all have our weaknesses. And it's not that weakness causes suffering or evil, it allows it.
well I guess that's relative. maybe I missed out on too much before this vid dropped but philosophical talk on undefined "evil" is kinda sus intellectually etc.
to give some points... strong tiger can do a lot of damage and therefore cause suffering... or a strong person like Guts in Berserk may have a very strong will to survive and fight but that will just prolong his suffering in unimaginable ways.
No? It is the self-denial of that weakness and the resentment and antagonism that engenders that facilitates evil.
I love this guy. I wish people spoke like this more often.
I think this is a generalization. A lot of people suffer from atrophy today because they're disenfranchised from the system that they are powerless to change. From a psychology standpoint it's pretty standard practice for people to behave in this manner when they're rendered powerless by the system. Your psyche must adapt to the new reality.
Learned helplessness is the result of constant abuse which cannot be escaped
but thats the thing, they arent powerless to change anything. Get enough people together you can change anything. People are weak to change it though. It incurs risk and sacrifice, many, small amd large
They are powerless to change. But no one are powerless to leave. Let you pick the one fits for you and let the system compete each other.
True, but who will change their atrophy for them? If you want the system to do the change for you, you are just giving them more control to decide over your lives. Do something
No, you definitely have the power to fight until you are in the ground for anything
He hated weakness because he hated himself projecting it on to others , the hate of his weakness. Its simple
I am just so happy that this UA-cam channel exists, this is such excellence. 10/10 would overcome weakness again.
my love for this channel is immeasurable
Weak
I’m surrounded by weak people. It’s exhausting. Victim and power hierarchy is tired. Love this video! Thank you! 😊
Society is saturated with that pathetic mindset.
Why are you here begging for pity?
You seem weak too, why you cry about it?
@@shiina29 You're a fool who is just emulating this because you think it's cool.
What he is doing is speaking truth to power, an extremely brave thing to do.
Not seeking pity.
Weakness attract weakness , what comes around goes around 🤣🤣
Nieztche is quite the interesting figure. Because he would claim "How can anyway possibly generalize things when they only know their own subjective view on life" and then proceeded to say "These guys are wrong because suffering is good actually". Thereby making an absolute statement, that is actually relative and subjective just like the ones he criticized.
I also feel that the will to power is such generalisation.
It's being self aware. Him saying it's wrong doesn't mean that he also doesn't know that he does it as well. It's just unavoidable. So take what he says with a grain of salt. There's nuance in everything
@xavierzabie8184 nietzsche doesn’t believe in subjectivism in the way it’s understood today. Micheal Tanner’s introduction from Beyond Good and Evil does a great job of describing his perspectivism, which can be misinterpreted as being the same thing. I think rather what he’s getting at is that there are objective facts about the world, but that we form opinions about the world as we survey it, thus distorting our perspective, or claim to be able to survey the world without forming opinions about it, and then claim to come to an “objective” opinion about it after surveying it, which I don’t believe is possible. it’s not a coincidence that the first essay in Beyond Good and Evil is WWE smackdown vs RAW battle Royale of nietzsche barbecuing people for lacking “intellectual hygiene”, he’s calling people out for not being forthcoming out their perspectivism and how their pre-existing wills shape their beliefs into a form that is more palatable to them. if you’re interested in this distinction I think you’d really enjoy beyond good and evil, it’s a great read. also makes you realise the courage of Nietzsche’s own worldview, he believes in values that escape him personally, but does not waver in aspiring to them anyway. To me that takes heart and is admirable, which is why I personally value his perspective more than others, he’s a lot more intellectually hygienic
@@MrStick287self awareness and actualization.
Instead of self absorbed and dismissive of others lived experiences.
I suppose that's why he is known as more of a poet. However, we gotta give him a break. The science of his time gave him Darwinism as probably the single most concerning idea he grappled with, and as we all know, in the savage struggle for existence, which no one can simply choose not to be thrown into, logical consistency is not the main focus, just the ebb and flow of power and the feel of it.
And since we can hardly choose anyway, he tried to give the world a new goal, or rather he gave a name to what may have been the "goal" all along: the Overhuman (Ubermensch).
The weak is morally flexible, syphocant, hypocrite , envious , jealous,bitter, spiteful and perfidious.
You can be sorry that someone left you, and still be happy they're happy
Bad = The Ability For Moral Aptitude.
Evil = The Removal Of Conflation
I loved this breakdown.
Every year i have a radically different opinion of nietzsche.
Coment section full with strong wise people 😂😂😂😂
Sigma here and accounted for.
Wow man you're so sigma 😎🗿🗿🍷 literly the Patric Beteman😎😎😎@@handsomedude7644
You did a great job synthesizing a lot of Nietzsche’s works into one cohesive video. Great job
All evil stems from weakness.
Insecurity, envy and hate all stem from the weak.
The strong are indifferent.
"Weakness is the inability to point out a failure, in both others' and ourselves"
-Me
I don't appreciate the personal attack.
So Nietzsche's response to "life sucks" is "womp womp"
yes, this is the correct translation from Nietzsche to Brainrot
Irony is that only person that needs to do such a thing is the one who actually thinks life sucks
Weakness corrupts, absolute weakness corrupts absolute
If we define weakness not as a moral issue, but as an existential issue, it is truly the root of desperation.
So much envy, ressentiment, and cruelty were originated by existential weakness.
By existential weakness, I mean the incapacity to give personal meaning to existence itself.
Living passively, spitting hate over what we don't have.
A lot of it boils down to defining what "strength" is. And that is precisely why using words "strong" and "weak", especially in modern socioeconomical discourse, does not seem to be a good idea, since most people, when they hear "strength", they almost automatically see darwinian "being fittest" - mistakenly in this case, taking into account the nietzschean view on "strength".
Existence is suffering, Jerry...
-Mr. Meseeks
Got it, I need to go to the Gym and read Nietzche Between sets
Hope you're a power lifter.
The path of the Ubermensche.
@@mesolithicman164 fr
Uberbased
It is a start
Ironically Nietzsche himself was not a particulary strong man.
Syphilis agrees!
Depends on what kind of strength we're talking about, I think
he was strong
@minedantaken1684
intellektually very much so, otherwise not really
@@minedantaken1684 I think he was intelligent and wise, but lacked the "strength" he admired in his writings. Much of his work seems to me an idolization to this kind of strength and a self loathing for his weakness (just my personal opinion do).
Great video. I've been walking the lonely path of philosophy and Buddhism for about 15 years. At 33, I've noticed that many philosophers(from different backgrounds and ethics) share their views or mentally cross the same paths. I often say this: Science, Buddhism, Psychology, and Philosophy saved my life.
Dude this video was soo insightful, I have been harboring similar ideals, your explanation of Nietzsche philosophy really hit home. Definitely going to learn more about him.
Regarding the "nice guy" example...I have to subtly disagree with the analysis here.
I saw a very good explanation of the whole phenomenon of rejection, which goes as follows:
Suppose there is a girls you're strongly attracted to, you believe she's wonderful, and believe you'd be "great together" - but she turns you down. There are two possibilities
1. She was indeed wonderful - but you don't match her. She's right to reject you as there's something lacking in you which you have to go away and work on.
2. She wasn't wonderful - you only think so. The chances are you've ignored her values - or the absence of them - and filled in the gaps where her moraility should be with visions of ripe breasts and soft lips.
Either way, you need to go away and work on yourself to some extent - because if it's situation (2), you're succumbing to the "halo effect", i.e. thinking good looking girls are angels.
What you then need to do is take a step back, and dispassionately look at the men she DOES go for.
If she ends up in a series of toxic, dysfunctional relationships, then it's situation (2) - and you're chasing the wrong women. You need to work on that first of all.
If, on the other hand, she ends up with someone who makes her very happy, then you can at least console yourself with the fact that whatever's wrong with you, it's not your mechanism for choosing women. Which means you need to work on your morality and values.
This is similar to the notion in the video - but the difference is that you should not assume that what IS attractive to her is necessarily desirable for you to emulate. You need to know what sort of mistake you made - either in judging her value, or judging your own.
good point
Is it wrong to pity those who are truly powerless to change their circumstances?
No, to pity someone means that you acknowledge their suffering for what it is.
What would be wrong is if you try to justify their suffering as something irrelevant without even trying to understand what brought this situation in the first place.
The key is to always be understanding because being understanding means you will not shy away from the whole truth.
I don't think so.
Have compassion and charity, not pity.
May as well, we powerless ppl pity the powerful in a similar disdain.
@@DJWESG1 powerful, powerless, we are both human and neither is perfect.
We are meant to live with each other and help each other. Looking at people from only that lense will cause us to forget what matter in the end.
as someone who used to indulge in their own weakness, I can say this part of mr. Nietzsche's philosophy was a revelation for me to pursue my own will to power and it is for this reason, i am not a nihilist today
Great video! Definitely revisiting this one in future
i once heard an older gentleman make the argument that to truly be a good man you have to be strong, so that you have the ability to protect those you love. always resonated with me
The longer I listen to this channel the more I realize how many ideas I unknowingly share with Nietzsche. The book I’ve been thinking about writing has many themes reflecting Nietzsche’s ideas of the value of power, morality, and life.
Nietzsche had a serious problem with women as he did say that a woman did not have a soul and was a cow at best. Even my philosophy professor agreed with this and thought of him as in the closet.
I also think, ironically, this may have stemmed from his lack of romantic success. I want to write a blog post about it at some point. Even though Nietzsche had such an insight into the way people react resentfully when their wills are thwarted, that still didn't mean he himself did not fall into the same trap.
@@unsolicitedadvice9198 Oh, He fell in it so hard, it's honestly kinda poetic! All the more interesting too
@@unsolicitedadvice9198 That "lack of romantic success" was a consequence. Nietzche's own sick personality has been the cause.
Every man who identifies with FN should think twice about his own mental health.
I’d agree with him… so I guess I’m just a bitter angry weak man frustrated by lack of access to holes. That’s the only way you could possibly come to that conclusion.
It’s not pattern recognition or anything like that there’s just something wrong with me.
Got it.
The first women he ever had sex with, a prostitute, gave him syphilis
I like your accent .very clear
Thank you!
@@unsolicitedadvice9198you’re welcome!
Great video. Highlighting the link between weakness and trustworthiness is interesting. It reminds me of Peter Pettigrew in Harry Potter. I watched a video the other day about how his betrayal of everyone he knew came from his weakness and fear. He sided with whoever was strongest and most powerful, ultimately leading him to serve Voldemort, essentially reducing himself to a pawn an nothing more, simply to ensure survival.
Nietzsche's rejection of nihilism is honestly fascinating to me. In a sense he's logically wrong because the entropic nature of the universe is very clear to us at this point, however his philosophy does seem to be a better basis for finding purpose and meaning within life, and therefore making life more fulfilling.
Life has a positive trajectory toward meaning and order. Nihilists and other ideologically possessed will always survive worse and/or remove themselves - thus they are against reality and logic of life.
Whatever you believe, you are right, and beliefs have serious consequences.
@@edheldude I was more meaning scientifically it's very clear that the universe is moving toward equalization and heat-death. Barring the oscillating universe theory, it'll eventually end with everything in space being cold and dead, and even later with everything absorbed into black holes. Even with the oscillating universe theory absolutely everything would be destroyed with every big-bang, so all we do in this iteration of the universe would be meaningless in the next.
So logically nothing in life has a lasting purpose. It's all temporary, which can be demotivating for anyone who wants to achieve something with their life, because their efforts are eventually undone.
In terms of purpose the human mind clearly developed a drive for long lasting purpose well before we had any ability to foresee the extremely distant future. However, I think even the bible mentions (in Ecclesiastes, which is all about nihilism) the idea that all you build could be destroyed in a day by the guy that comes along to take your place when you die.
Basically, I think the secret to finding purpose is to accept that any benefit your actions will have will be temporary and limited, but that they'll have value to the people they affect within that time frame.
When the heat death of the universe comes it won't matter if you enslaved 10,000 children to make a throne for yourself out of coal that they had to mine by hand, or if you solved world hunger and united the world into a perfect utopia, but it'd matter to the children if they suffer and it'd matter to the fed and safe people in the utopia.
Harry Potter lol
It is truly incredible how profoundly intelligent you are. Thank you for your videos.
Bro I am from India.. Can you cover Upanishad's phylosophy.. That is a hidden gem
Absolute beautiful writings
@@sylviaowega3839 I know.. That thing is pure philosophy.. But it is a religious scripture so not many people talk about it
@@weirdnamewithb Sorry but I didn't get it..
Absolutely crap literature which talks about caste hegemony, you are a Brahmin who wants to spread his tentacles
Isn't Aacharya Prashant already talking about it on a mass level?
A few days ago I had an argument/discussion with a follower of Buddhism. I had stated Krishna was a Life Positive philosopher while Buddha was a life negative philosopher. Krishna embraces all. Buddha doesn’t. Buddha realised there is suffering in this world and attained enlightenment and blessed us with the same in which he advocated a sort of maintaining distance from the life. Then there’s a strong insistence on non-violence. So my question was, if an invader tries to rampage and kill, if I listen to Buddha, I would probably let it happen while trying to reason with the Barbarians. However, Krishna would advise me to pick up the weapons and fight. That it’s my Dharma to fight in this situation and even if I die following my Dharma, it’s great. Also, if someone were to try to kill Buddha, I would not hesitate to pick up the weapon and save Buddha from the attacker. Knowing very well that both Buddha and Krishna have pointed out the transient nature of the body, Krishna would ask me to protect someone like Buddha, while Buddha himself may not think so.
Don't believe anyone, think what's best for you.
Satyagraha. satyagraha, concept introduced in the early 20th century by Mahatma Gandhi to designate a determined but nonviolent resistance to evil. Gandhi's satyagraha became a major tool in the Indian struggle against British imperialism and has since been adopted by protest groups in other countries.
It's smart to do your own closed captions 👍
No it's not, I cannot watch the videos because of them, I can only listen. It's like a karaoke video essay with the captions 🤷🏻♂️
"Amor fati"-love of fate-pronunciation: emphasize the instead of the .
So refreshing to hear about Nietzsche as I thought I interpreted as the way I did when I was studying it. I remember having a very tough time understanding the text as if it had so many nuances that you had to do mental gymnastics to understand.
I’ve always thought that what Nietzsche analyzed was not about being an Alpha red pilled brute but rather an analytical commentary of strengths and weaknesses and their role in the making the character of a person. That true strength lied in truthfully and unabashedly pursuing what you desired and that true weakness lies in moral duplicity and their interplay with traditional definitions with strength and weakness.
While it is true there's no virtue in weakness, and that weakness is a liability. It's very unrealistic for people to think that there aren't going to be a decent percentage of the population that consists of weak people. Nature is a balance nature is duality. Weakness exists just as strength exists. I do think that weakness in and of itself can be a bad thing and a lot of instances, there are those in society with no malicious intent that are weak.
I don't think it's so much about believing that you can make weakness disappear, but rather being willing to identify it and own it so that you can move beyond it. the problem is not in that you or other people are weak but but when you pretend that the weakest doesn't exist or even worse that the weakness is actually a strength. in a way it's no different than someone with a serious drug or alcohol addiction. Yes it's not good to be a drug addict or an alcoholic, but it's even worse to be one and to refuse to acknowledge that you are. at least once you identify your failing you can start to address it and correct it and strengthen yourself, and you can also stop tricking yourself into bad choices that come when you suppress that part of yourself but it's still influences your actions.
Well I felt like he argued against accepting weakness as “this is how I am” instead of working on it and improving.
My goodness, your videos almost always leave me feeling comprehensively personally attacked by all these philosophers!! How did they know me so well, centuries before my birth?!
An absolute masterclass of an analysis and video. Subscribed and I’m about to binge the rest!
I think on a fundamental, personal level, I can agree with his view, I can see the danger and the influence of the people that is deemed weak, and the necessity of finding the internal strength to overcome your own weaknesses. His definition of weaknesses, both by external and internal, make senses and that does give a leeway to identify who is weak and who is not. I probably should read his work in more detail in order to know more about his interpretation of the nuances and the in between of all categories, which has to be equally important as the distinct categories of people
I have found this to be absolutely true. Avoid weakness by being prepared to know which decisions will be critical, pre-deciding as many as possible, and sticking to your decision with as many as possible.
You can't predict what decisions you will be forced to make. And blindly sticking to a predetermined set of ethics is dangerous and can lead you to make some harmful decisions. You need to know when to be strong and when to be flexible or else you will break.
overthinking?
Having seen this video and earlier the one you suggested at 29:29 i think that Fredrick is closer to right than any other philosopher. I think that regardless of circumstance or anything else it is a persons responsibility to do the best for themselves.
Even if you have no legs and live in the top story of a building with no elevator, if the building goes up in flames you need to try to save yourself.
I think that we as humans need to stop relying on a "dominant other" to provde for us and do it ourselves to the best of out ability. Not to say community is bad or as a vote for anarchy, going back to my example of someone with no legs i dont think anyone expects them to hunt boars and feed the village but i still think they have a responsibility to do for themselves as much as possible. The same as someone with a less noticeable disability such as mental illness.
Hot takes i know not to mention on hell of a tangent. Great video dude keep it up.
I have much more negative feelings about what Nietzsche has said (according to this video).
Firstly, I think that unal1ving yourself is a perfectly legitimate choice in a number of circumstances.
Secondly, your claims that people "need to do" this or that feels like patronising nonsense. The same goes for the claim "it is a person's responsibility to do the best for themselves". Why do you not say that this can be a smart thing to do, why do you seem to insinuate some metaphysical duty to do this?
I, for my part, don't believe in metaphysical duties, I believe in deciding what is the best course of action for a given person XY in view of goals YZ on the basis of case analyses. The truth that I can find in Nietzsche's ideas is their applicability to some amount of such cases, their usefulness in application. I can and should always ask myself when I feel that things are not going my way: am I relying on a "dominant other" in some way and am I harming myself in doing this? In some cases, such reflection might unconver possibilities of change and imprivement.
At the same time, framing reliance on others as inherently bad is extremely limiting: If a community works together well, then relying on others is crucial to maximizing the overall efficiency of this community. Every individual will benefit greatly from a functioning system of labour division, for example. Division of labour and knowledge cements and perpetuates dependency on others in a society and is, at the same time, the only way for civilization to achive great things and to progress.
This is so obvious that I have to ask: if Nietzsche was not intending his ideas to refer to the division of labour and knowledge in societies, what situations are his ideas supposed to be applicable to exactly??
Lastly, labelling any group of people as "weak" and blaming them for the wrongs of society is fascistoid thinking.
@@IceQueenaliasIQFirstly, nobody cares what you think.
Second, nobody cares what it feels like to you. Please, don't tell the guy it "seems to insinuate some metaphysical duty" and then go rumbling about how you don't believe in metaphysical duties", noone asked, really.
Being as strong and as independent as posible doesn't mean you must stop dividing labour and do everything yourself, you know.
Lastly, when did he say anything about a group being weak? If anything he said a person without legs can be strong, lmao. You are projecting harder than an artillery battery.
Also fascistoid? Lmao, how many societies other than in the last few decades have seen weakness as anything other than undesirable? If you think the communists did appreciate weakness you haven't met the average russian.
@@IceQueenaliasIQ Weak cope
@@IceQueenaliasIQ You are misrepresenting what @loregaming3634 said regarding community. They never claimed that reliance on others was inherently bad.
I've always hated weakness, it truly repulses me at a spiritual level.
Sounds like a weakness
@@liamthomas2014 I don't think you know the meaning of "weakness"
Having an immune system for dysfunction is not a weakness. It's the opposite.
As long as that system is calibrated properly and can identify the pathogens, what is good and what is bad correctly.
7:54 If only Nietzsche could have seen "woke" culture, i.e. "a dissatisfying whinging mass".
Doing the right thing despite ur urges is not weakness but strength..
Thanks for informing us that discipline/willpower to follow a plan is a strength. That's enlightening. /s
Me: ''I did not hit her, i did not. Oh Hi Schopes'' Schopenhauer: '' I did not push her down a flight of stairs, I did not. She had it coming''
@Westcoastrocksduh Been there, done that, got booked. We even had Beckenbauer and the Greeks still won.
You use Nietzsche's philosophy to illustrate a situation of victim and victimizer, he himself would consider that as coming from weakness. Nothing more contemporary than dissolving an entire philosophy in positivism. Anyway you do a great work
But he lost his mind and became a victim. He had hatred of weak poeple, because he was insecure. Only other weak people go after weaker people than themselves.
Could you recommend some books on rejecting and destroying any type of weakness in journey of facing challenges especially 20s and 30s to stay optimistic...
What makes you think books will give you what you seek? Strength comes from action and self reflecting on said action, there's so much words can teach you if you are not familiar with the dimension you want to learn about.
Yes, but every person has unique path to go through, so maybe it's good to recommend something, maybe it will help.
Hi, I don't think I will have one specific book, but what I thought of right now are Wim Hof teachings, how he is showing the way how to govern himself through discipline and cold. Obviously this doesn't have to be good for everyone, but maybe some of his philosophy can inspire to create own way to hinder weaknesses.
@@evelioguaperasso wt actions do I need to do to be strong? Going a solo adventure?
@@mrgooodod3179 If you are weak physicaly go to the gym, do calisthenics, join a martial arts club. If you are weak socially, expose yourself more. If you are weak willed, find thing that will take a bit of effort and do them... After your successes and failures reflect on them and maybe then read about it. You only have so much time and wasting it reading about things is a great way to forever suck at them.
I came to this same conclusion after years of pessimism. I was always told growing up to pursue my dreams, but I never had these "dreams" people talked about. I couldnt convince myself to pursue anything because of doubts of the outcomes or reasoning my way out of caring about things cause the juice wouldnt be worth the squeeze. So there I sat, doing much of nothing and wondering to myself, what is worth the suffering of life? Truth is, you can't really find what is worth living for until you START LOOKING. I realized that pessimism isn't going to get me anywhere and if im going to go anywhere, do anything, achieve anything, then I had to start by moving myself and maintaining momentum. Treat the pessimistic thoughts like gnats on a hike, swat them to the side and keep going, dwelling on how annoying they are isnt going to help you.
Neema Parvini's Populist Delusion helped me see this - but you did a great job explaining it in depth
A channel with quality and frequent uploads? In 2024? Actually insane!
Sidenote: would it be possible for you to put the names of the works/books referenced in the description of your videos? I want to read them but i forget the names of the works frequently