The Addict in Us All: How Smartphones are Creating a Population of Addicts
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In this video we explore a behavioral addiction which has become an epidemic in our time; that being the addiction to the triad of smart phones, the internet, and social media.
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nice video m8.
Academy of Ideas Could you please send the name of the authors of the paintings or the name of the paintings themselves used in this video and some others related to people either writing or working on their desks? (I find them very inspiring).
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Not sure if you are much into music but there is a song called Disillusioned by A Perfect Circle that talks about this problem, the video of the song is a modern allegory of the cave.
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Thanks for this video! Now I have a better idea on how to create my app!
Smartphones are like the ultimate pacifier for so called adults. Boredom is the well of action and creativity.
Old Toby Advocate for a 33.5%-45% Tax hike on Smart Phones and it will curtail Smartphone Purchasing.
Well said
Many adults use them like that with their children too.... I've never owned a smart phone and won't.
AND kids
@@vokalstudion "A smartphone can put you in a state of mind " Of mind control.
Don't forget CZcams addiction.
Travel with Camera i used to watch youtube for about 6 hours a day, then i turned off watch history, now i only watch my yt subscriptions
VeryFriendlyPerson Yes, but the discerning individual can bypass the bull crap and utilize quality content productively.
None of this Logan Paul shit.
Yeah i've learned lots of stuff on this site, and not only that but it has also lead me to seek knowledge elsewhere. For example a channel like this one might mention a book that peaks my interest, making me order it and read it.
I think it depends on how you use it. For me, CZcams has replaced the library, the place I used to go to self educate. Of course, one can spend all ones viewing time watching funny cat videos and the like. It’s a personal choice. It surely has to be better than tv, (something I have not watched for many years now) particularly if you disable or skip the ads. Recently, I was at a relative’s house and I had to endure a tv for the whole time I was there and I found the content pretty shocking. I can’t imagine what it does to the mind if one spends hours a day in front of it. Using one’s leisure time in a productive way is very rewarding. Play an instrument, paint or draw, build something - and make sure the phone is off!
CZcams is actually my main addiction now. It's fucking terrible.
When I see a bus or train full of people all looking at their phones I feel like I am in the twilight zone.
To me, they remind me of Pod People
It's weird when your not attached to your device.
We are in the twilight zone! satans zone , this is not the way the creator intended things ,satan and his cohorts have corrupted mankind and manipulated all of Yah's creation! HALLELUYAH,amein.
@@markdemell3717 😆
I was at qt the other day getting gas, and when I walked into the station to pay, everyone in line just about was on phones not interacting with each other or paying attention. It was like a zombie movie scene.
As a therapist, I see screen addiction as the saddest and most underestimated cause of dispear and illnesses. More than 8 people out out of 10 I see, suffer from screen addiction and do have their health and happiness coming back LIKE MAGIC, when they stop following tv series, cinema, smartphone messages and screens activities.
Should we watch cinema ??
I've never owned a smartphone. I think that's actually a blessing.
I’m assuming by that comment your using a computer? Correct?
I’m realizing this was a comment made two years ago
@@fuzzball5552 yeah lol. I now own a smart phone
@@OP-vx2qy bruh
@@OP-vx2qy nooo, throw it away :D
In my neighborhood, almost nobody walks their dog.
They’re glued to their smartphones while they allow
their dogs to accompany them.
They are so transfixed to their phone that it’s as if
they barely realize that their dog exists.
Well cuff Ur hands & tighten Ur fingers. Maybe try 2slow the pressure.
Lots of folks treat thier kids like that as well.
Cheap Thrill,
I’ve noticed.
Poor kids.
They do the same with their children.
This is terribly sad.
My years without any phone at all were magnificent, and I would spend at least 3 hours a day out with my dog.
My heart breaks in the UK seeing how totally consumed people have become with smartphones, and how bizarrely they (often don't) relate to their dogs.
Some of my friends come over and they stare at their phones the whole time they re here. And we re 32. I joked once, but not really, telling them "no cellphones tonight" and they said very seriusly they wouldnt come.
Ahhh....wouldn't they? So what difference would that make?
I don't think they're really friends.
Take them up on it.
They don't know what else to do...
At the dinner table too...social interaction time
Life is empty when looking at a device, its depressing
Yes
Yup
I believe the smart phone robs one of many encounters. Your life is an experience. You are allotted measured time, it cost nothing. Spend it how you like. When your times up, if you could offer the price of the world, it wouldn't buy you one minute. We are losing the common touch. The human touch. Cold with no empathy, nor sympathy. I always wondered if a machine could be designed to replicate man in intelligence and image. Sadly, man kneels to the machine as if to become one. Nature will find balance. Were not worthy for what we eat. We'll eat each other, ha ha. You dont accept nor believe that. Ha ha
Offset your time on your phone with a rewarding spiritual practise ! When I find my life becoming negative and depressing I chant "Nam myoho renge kyo" until I feel better and refreshed . I could not spend as much time on the phone otherwise .
I'm addicted to it because I'm lonely :/.
The sad fact is that i enjoyed using the device I'm addicted to in order to learn about how much I'm addicted.
lmao, addictionception!
Knowledge aqcuisition is another addiction too, easy to get caught up in. But it amounts to nothing if we don't apply it to our lives
Chris S exactly
The irony
lolol... I will admit I'm addicted to researching information but that's about it.... And I can only do it at certain times... But I'd rather do that then watch Tel Lies Vision..... The rabbit hole is never ending
There’s nothing wrong with using your cellphone, laptop or any other device to research. Back in the day when books were mainstream, they were the only source of information available and people who read them a lot were ridiculed as “bookworms” . The same is happening but with cellphones. It’s just boomer ranting at this point
Social media needs to be viewed the same way that we view food and diet. It isnt inherently bad but it can be if all you consume is garbage and you consume a steady diet.
I try to limit myself to educational, longer form content and podcasts. I try to stay away from the pointless twitter wars. This has worked for me.
No it's inherently bad
Which is why I have a flip-phone and ditched Facebook over a year ago.
Walter Roberts I bet you'd credit that as one of the best decisions you've ever made too.
Stay solid.
Well, solid is the state of all the people who are alive..
I'm going to be doing the same when my contract is up. I'm excited.
Respect
A real TROOPER!!!! (L)
Focus and discipline
spiral out I would replace discipline with practice.
Insightful Daily. Transcending thought
Practice is a disciplinary exercise.
Yep. With those comes freedom.
@@trapped_monkey except that discipline involves willpower, which is probably limited, instead, avoid distractions in order to focus
Alex Wilson
Your sentence doesn’t make any sense.
Thank you. Very intriguing video.
Hey Its the Critically Thinking Babe of the Internet!
Haha two of my favourite content makers! This is awesome.
reallygraceful love ur channel
👌
Better than the doomer nonsense you push, gracefully.
I can't watch truthstream or reallygraceful anymore. You know why???
After the purge, you two remained.
The only ones that were left running were controlled opposition.
Their messages are designed to break down hope, and spread doom throughout mildly INTELLIGENT, CARING, CONCERNED CITIZENS.
ive deleted all social media a year ago and got rid of my smartphone this summer.
the changes are amazing, even tho it is really hard to convince others of your idea. i think it was rather easy for me as i have overcome an addiction before (excessive gaming) and have multiple friends who are addicted to a diverse range of substances, so i am familiar with the signs of addiction and how to combat it. this is not applicable tho to the vast majority of the population, so i do not judge anyone. still, i can recommend it a 100% to go smartphone free. it clears up your mind like magic and just makes you an overall better person. i cant put it into words how much more creative ive gotten and how much my attention span has increased.
I don't do "social media" shit. I would rather use the smartphone for useful, informative things. However, that time needs be kept tona limit.
An alcoholic who stops drinking by getting rid of his friends who drink and avoids bars is still an alcoholic. Smartphones have saved countless lives. Keep your smartphone. Fight the addiction.
Don't forget CZcams is also social media
Lukas Stock, hi! Creative in what and improve how? Thx. Also, how much time per day now (on PC? Mac?) vs. when u had smartphone? Hope for feedback, ty
My smartphone broke down last summer. I still haven't replaced it. I've spent about £120 on books since then, I bought a dozen of them only, but some of them are quite 'chunky' (Thomas Piketty, Shoshanna Zuboff on Surveillance Capitalism) and I've spent hundreds of hours reading them. I'm not sure I will buy a smartphone again.
I feel the fact that we live in a time of instant gratification, causes boredom in itself. Not much effort is required of most things anynore.
And that is sad, because it prevents people from becoming what they might have been.
Some things, as self education/thinking, requires effort, but is not largely encouraged nor individually desired. Laziness and lack of self-esteem play a great role in people's boredom, and in that, materialistic science and logic (which are completely out of date and contradicted everyday) are largely responsible for thinking and philosophical lazinesses. Ultimate laziness is relying on "experts affirmations" which don't teach how everything or subject can be viewed in different ways, and why everything depends on your own ethics and personal and creative imagination.
Spot on timing with this video. Watching my nephews spend literal hours upon hours on their tablets playing games is so concerning. They do not care for conversation or even outdoor activities
This is why reading needs to come back
Yes, i really agree with that.
Corrupt Crooked why do you feel the need to attack someone? Insecure much? Psycho.
Corrupt Crooked
Sure, now people read more _tweets,_ _memes,_ and other garbage than ever.
@Corrupt Crooked Just out of curiosity. Is there a citation to back your claim?
And i read books on my phone 😌🤦
The worlds greatest learning tool, never before has man had access to so much information and knowledge.
Yes the I-phone is addictive but in watching videos which teach me more than I could have ever learned in 100 years of living without it.
We must pursue knowledge not to use the cell/ I-phone for foolish activities.
Yes and no. That is: Beware of infotainment. A more subtle way of wasting life. Knowledge is only real when it can be applied. Generally, we only learn things superficially from videos. Real knowledge requires a kind of dedication that we often use our phones to escape from. Wether by watching realityshows or informative videos about something.
@@Niekoue yeah, some kids always say that they learn more by a 5min CZcams video than in school, and that they could have become doctors or astronauts had only those videos were available sooner
I also use my phone to educate myself,NO social media, except u-tube
But even those who have mastered the ability to focus and study are largely preparing their talents to produce work that saps the attention and potential of others. The creme de la creme of coders, marketeers, computer engineers, game designers and data scientists have all worked hard in their fields only to proliferate these superficial life-eating products
because there is no moral standard, money = good/right
And they will look back at their creations and weep into their silk pillowcase
Mostly because that is what the gen pop is seeking and demanding. The demand for these things must first drop.
Whatever the people wants can be sold. And whatever can be sold, will be sold.
Ironically I am addicted to this channel
As an introvert, disabled and enduring a pandemic, I use my phone to keep in touch with my 75 yr old mom who lives hundreds of kms away and touch base with my six kids while learning history, psychology and sciences. It keeps me sane to have a busy, learning mind.
You're not alone.
These are legitimate needs. But we know to put em aside for people and more important things. We not do want to hide out in them. Our reward system, is capable of addicting us to many, many things. The harmful effects, call em side effects, we don't want too. Moderation to be worked at.
I'm addicted to Academy of Ideas!
But, what about becoming an addict of knowledge...
A Wikipediholic, wikiholic, Wikipediaholic, Wikipath, wikiaddict, or wikimaniac is someone who suffers from Wikipediholism, or obsession (addiction in some cases) with Wikipedia or other wikis.
~ Wikipedia
Knowledge is worthless without action
godhead Not true. Knowledge can be used to strentghten oneself in state of mind. The lose meaning of ”action” you are talking about is lack luster. Should knowledge be used to gain some instrumental worth like money? Or what is the real meaning of knowledge? Knowledge for me is becoming the best possible human being i can become, to understand this world and its inhabitants.
Mannen 61 no, I think knowledge must be used for earning money.
Mannen 61 You're a moron. What you said are actions.
You can use your addictive nature in a positive way.
I would love for you to give me an example of this ☺️
I feel like you should write a book. Not necessarily on this but something like this or like on your channel because you have a lot to give.
Slayer Mayer I think I remember that he did write a book. Something about war or something.
Nah this is working. There are already too many books for me to read them all but there aren't too many quality CZcams accounts yet
I think his video making skills are just as beneficial as a book would be
Get this. My husband and I were at the zoo recently and were blown away at the vast number of people walking while checking their phones. Even while resting in the food court they were glued to their phones. But, just last week we visited the Noah's Ark park in Kentucky. The place is huge, much larger than the zoo we visited, and, practically everyone there was a spiritual person with an interest in biblical accounts. While at the ark park we noticed that NO ONE was on their phone, not one. Even in the dining room. While eating, people were talking to each other, laughing, having a great time; not a phone in sight. It was like a throwback to the past. It was nice...
Watched this on a phone. Just saying.
QualeQualeson exactly. I think being hooked on social media likes is the most detrimental aspect of technology.
I think you didn't get the point
😂😂😂🤔🤔🤔😭😭😭
Well, wouldn't you rather have used a laptop or other computer? I would.
Irony, eh?
7:06
I think It’s not that we are giving up our lives in order to stare at our screens, rather, I think it is a desire to live _multiple lives_ at once while recognizing how unlikely and sometimes impractical it would be for us to do all that we really wanted to do in our own life. From the trending vids on YT, to your favorite celebs on twitter, to your family on Facebook, to your ex on Instagram.... it all stems, in some small way from a desire to _insert_ ourselves into a life we are not living or not a part of in the capacity we desire.
We are all just living vicariously.
It will make you sad the next time you pass someone with the classic “bent neck”, staring at the device in his hand, to know he is escaping his own reality in order to be in another’s... even if only for a moment😕
I think this is a good and more sympathetic approach to how people get addicted to phones
& who would thought U could just pretend Ur living sum1 else's life. Or lose Urself n2 Ur own reality derived from Ur own f*cked up head via lack of an imagination.
Love your thoughts on this!👏
I've seen this topic covered before, but from what I have seen, to me, this is the best presentation yet. Very well done.
Technology is magic to anyone who uses it uncritical. - Eric Davis
AOI! Thank you so much for your videos!! you're a godsend! your voice is so easy to understand, not boring at all, your videos are simple and not distracting from the point and even thought provoking, almost all of your videos touch on a subject I'm interested in! you're a huge influence in my life and i appreciate it.
Unfortunately, YT subscriptions are only another way of exposing us to novelty. This way we end up with more than 1,000 videos "to watch", and constant feeling that we're missing something.
Thank you for the video, very observant and informative. By seeing the mechanisms of addiction, we can consciously fight it.
These videos are so profound. I highly recommend this to anyone who's interested and concerned with the human condition
I think we warned a long time ago “...Don’t eat of the tree of Knowledge.”
Once and because we know, we can do volontary and conscious choices. Even sometimes, do bad ones...May the people making wrong choices have the force to rectify their bahevior, and understand THEY THEMSELVES AND ONLY, in learning self-discipline, have the power to make their life wonderful...or make their life a true nightmare. As a therapist, I see screen addiction as the saddest and most underestimated cause of dispear and illnesses. More than 8 people out out of 10 I see, suffer from screen addiction and do have their health and happiness coming back when they stop following tv series, cinema and screens.
@@richardjehl1455
…because it can be used to mislead, “…man is a liar.” 🤥
We fall in love with our own words and use it to justify our view of ourselves.
‘I must be smart, just look at the words I wrote’…
Which I believe is the justification we use to follow Henry Kissinger.
The ideas you discuss, the quality and the story of your videos are converting this channel in my favorite of all youtube
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What my eyes or the world?
are you referring to the size of your comment?
lool u guys killed this guy hahaha.
Truer words never spoken.
@@Abraxis86 As the world goes to shit, your eyes will age and worsen too, so you won't notice it as much, luckily! 😀 Silverish lining in the shit cloud.
Moderation in everything is important without going to either extreme.
Conclusion, parents please limit children's smart phone use
A few of your vids I've seen and I must conclude that the pictures you are using are not only adequate to the subjects but are very nice to look at.
I shared this in an online Facebook AA meeting with 70,000 members! It's so contradictory it's insane.
Absolutely outstanding and correct. I am very glad to hear what some of us have known/thought, expressed so eloquently.
A major part of the cellphone addiction is the increase in dopamine levels while fixed on the screen.
For acquiring knowledge and wisdom these videos are the tops. Thank you for sharing them.
I went into a packed restaurant looking for a booth. That was several years ago. Every single person, w/ the exception of employees; was on their phones. Infants, toddlers, teenagers: all the way up the ladder. Since I hate the damn things I was rather shocked! Sincerely Mr. 72 years too late.
Needed this. Thanks.
"Something as simple as watching a television program." An ironic think to say given what television does to our brain.
Your content is GOLD!! Keep it up ❤
This is the best and most important channel on CZcams.
Meanwhile, I am on the internet binge watching Academy of Ideas with my smartphone.
Only excessive use.
Have you ever studied the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein? He is a hell of a thinker up there with Nietszche and Williams James.
I would love if you did a video about his philosophy.
BTW great work as usual. Keep going!
Thank you always ! Your videos have helped me out in so many ways.
Incredible video. THIS is your talent. Thank you so much for these
Is my addiction tricking me into watching these videos to feel like I'm in control of my own behavior? Oh look academy of ideas made a smartphone episode weeeeeee
I'm not addicted to CZcams. I only watch 3 hours worth a day😭
I muti-task and therefore do not feel guilty ha!
Easy to justify watching when there is so much usefull information, DIY, Lectures.. etc
I watch YT for 30-60 mins a day. :) I have a built in app usage limiter on my iPad and I only ignore the limit (30 mins) when I'm watching something interesting.
Lol 9 hours a day at least for me. I’m 19 and it’s likely been like this for the past 5-6 years :(
@@AleadaA one of us few... Great stuff
Commenting before I watch this.....
I love your work and believe that you deserve much more recognition. While the topics you explore are fantastic to some of us, most won't care to understand philosophy.
I'm glad you've slightly shifted the focus/adapted to a type content which is more accessible to a wider, general audience (at least that's what the title tells me).
This, is the right direction when it comes to reaching a larger subscriber base.
Keep up the good work, hope this channel grows :)
This opened my eyes! Thanks 🙏
This is why I have no social media, they are truly a waste of precious time and thought.
@@SCORP1ONF1RE rekt
nah, they have memes and funny things that cure depression. leave my addictions alone :P
One of my favorite so far on this channel
These videos are a breath of fresh air. Its great to see that people are waking up to these issues that are plagueing modern society
What about the enriching time we spend on our phones such as learning a new skill observing/listening to art or intellectual conversations or videos like this one? Balance is the key that most lack.
learning about mars while you have an unexplored backyard is asinine.
Guy Harrison bitch iv been in my backyard for years tho.
So you are saying, you can actually remember the content of this video next week?
That different from addiction
No phones are not meant for that. I would say, most cheep phones must be given out for free. The money people earn through addicting other people is just too much.
I see my phone as a commercial wallpaper and nothing else. People must not pay for it. Because, *the phone user becomes the "product" to marketing the moment he/she buys it*
for god's sake facebook and instagram needs to be banned from the internet
How about you ban yourself
Brilliant. Censorship is the answer. Why can't the government step in and tell us what we should and shouldn't do, and then punish us if we are unlike the majority. How did we overlook this?
Let's hack it! 😈
Well in that case we should ban the internet itself. 99% of internet products share the same goal: they want to hook the users and get them engaged as much as possible.
Yet another excellent-content video from AoI.
I discovered this channel very recently, very happy with it.
Subscribed!
For a few months now, I've just been saving every video you guys upload into my philosophy playlist.
The irony is that up until two months ago, I would go hike out into the woods and meditate and journal on a daily basis... now I'm progressively doing that less and less, instead watching YT videos about nature, spirituality, freedom and self improvement.
The fact that I am noticing this is perhaps my only saving grace. It's not too late to nip it in the bud, fortunately...
So, this is a challenge for me because I learned how to craft soap and start a business...from countless hours of internet research. I think it's really social media that has that impact more than anything else, but I use the internet to learn new things. I learned the trade of macrame and soap making and handcrafting from the internet. I think I am addicted to the access I have. I have social media, but only for my business page. I still feel like it's all a bit obsessive though. Could something like what I've done be compared to an online university or is that just as bad lol
This channel and this information is so valuable. Balance is essential. I still do not own a cell phone and I am young. It blows people's minds away whenever I tell them. My husband never had one either until his brother bought him one for our wedding present (seriously). Now he is a mindless robot and we haven't had a decent, in-depth conversation in such a long time. He is like everyone else, I can definitely see a change in him and so many people around me. Co-workers staring away when they are supposed to be working etc....
Great videos dude been watching all of them.
44 thumbs down were people listening in the background while browsing Instagram 😍
House of Beloved lol
It's a paradox. I've thought about this a bit, and came to the conclusion that, if you are disciplined with social media, it is a positive. Watching educational and challenging content, like this channel, where you can come away each day and think "I've learned something new about a subject that interests me, or had ideas challenged", is useful. Only using facebook or twitter to subscribe to hobby groups, or positive things like travel vlogs, that have a link to real world, are also useful. And the algorithm then filters for you more of this content. But it takes conscious effort that it can suck you into passivity and irrelevance, if you allow it.
I don't think you are completely wrong in what you say. I would like to offer a slightly different perspective. It may be better psychologically and socially (socially in the broadest societal sense. [I'm sure there is a better word for this but I am dead tired at the moment]) to find this same information that stirs our soul in a bookstore for example. It takes more effort physically so we get exercise, it also may require we speak to one or more people which stimulates possible connection-oh wow the bookstore worker is cute, maybe I will ask her out or even if we just have a stimulating conversation about the subject I am seeking more information on. In my ideal world, this would happen more often where others would overhear our conversation and join in, perhaps form a book club or some such group activity. The ease which we can summon information at our fingertips at all times slowly breaks down these social bonds, a sense of community. Not to mention the necessity of getting up and out the door for exercise and fresh air.
Also the fact that this information is available at all times weakens our sense of wonder, the need to go out and explore or even just to sit and think unencumbered by our ever present devices. I am old enough to recall a time where our primary source of information-television (pre cable TV to be more precise) would go off the air at night. If you couldn't sleep for example, you were almost forced to just be with yourself, have a think or a walk outside.
I really fear for the future of our species.
Amazinnnnng . This channel keeps it so real. Awesome information .
I love the thought provoking videos on philosophy and science. Hope u keep making content.
Mastery by Robert Greene is a great book in terms of "becoming a genius".
Serious Question for you:
Does this include listening to quality take like this?
J D I hope so
I literally just finished a meditation session, and all through it I was getting notifications and this entire subject dawned on me then I decided to check youtube and saw this. Amazing.
I was a heroin addict for 23yrs i know a thing or two about addiction and ppl will do anything for that little dopamine hit and i do mean anything. The brain is wired to seek comfort and pleasure to balance out the existential bad in the world trying to create am emotional equilibrium. Smartphones, drugs, exercise or anything done to excess to you or someone else's detriment is addiction
Sometimes I intentionally place my phone or tablet away while watching a tv program, and the time spent becomes so much more satisfying.
The compulsion to check notifications, or simply google anything that comes to mind, is real.
You're avoiding looking at screens to watch a bigger screen, in other words
@@thehydromancer5843 the point is looking at one thing at a time ☺️
If I could go back in time to any date, I would go back and wipe out the internet. The most destructive force in human history.
I disagree. The internet is not destructive, the way we use it is. We are emotionally and intellectually immature critters occupying adult bodies. The solution is for us to learn how to reach adulthood, not to abolish the internet.
I'd disagree. Internet's one of human's greatest inventions, for if we don't have Internet, we won't be able to watch videos from this channel. Internet is like a double-edged sword. Use the internet to improve yourself, not lose yourself.
Only depends on personal use. What is harm in watching educational videos?
you got the internet and corporate agenda mixed up. The internets purpose at first was to create a communication system that the government could not have a say over. Not only do we have its intended purpose but we have also contradicted it as well. Think of a group of bohemians in their own little group away from the masses talking about things most of the masses would not understand or have an opinion on. That is what the internet was meant to be and ironically still is.
The internet it's an amazing human achievement, it's true that also people uses it in destructive ways. But u are not looking only at the bad shit right? Also I think you may be a dumbass...🤔
man , your videos are blessings from the sky !
If I find myself going on my smart phone with no intention, I find myself wandering with no direction, and getting sucked into every addictive trap out there. To break this cycle, I have a goal and a time limit.
I'm still using a flip phone. It makes and receives phone calls, that's all I need.
5:18 "Normality should not be confused with mental health." O, if only this were more widely recognized!
I love your channel! Keep up the good work.
Yeah, can relate. My mind and work has been degrading the more i use it, i know i should lessen it, but i have been putting it off. This video is a welcome slap of reality
Aphorism: "Among portable telephone users, there is this tendency to be on top of their calls as if expecting one from a great benefactor."
I love ideas
The problem is CZcams is full of them 😂
Choose a learning path, and you'll find one day that the best ideas are your own, the ones coming from your sacred and inner inspiration. Everything will be learned through this inspiration, through how it inspires you to analyse, judge and see things. These ideas will allow not only to express yourself and find the creator of everything inside you, but also to discover universal paths between individuals, paths respecting each one's point of views and divinity.
thanks for your service! you're part of the revolution of whatever it is we will look back on 200 years from now
Very nicely put
My problem is "comment section" addiction. 🤕
. Comments' reading is time consuming, yet I consider many comments far better than videos' watching: more concise, more straight to the point, more funny, especially the diatribes on world's affairs and politics.
The feelings, the cravings and aspirations of humanity are touching. Uneasiness about the struggle of life wants company, such company is in the comment session, it interlinks like-minded people by dispelling the clouds of solitude. Not to mention the amazing creativity in the usage of of personal attacks: the endless inundation of insults. Hilarious indeed.
my man, I feel you
For me it's an addiction to finding new knowledge. New ideas that move me forward. Books, TV, my smart phones. Whatever it takes. I agree that smart phones are a very disturbing phenomenon.
I'm an information junkie. Even as a little boy I'd read books Mom told me not to read. Sometimes I overdose and have to lay off for a bit like I did a couple of weeks ago.
You do a great service! Keep up the professional video's.
The Pleasure Center... I'm always so amazed at how conceptual our abilities and inner workings seem.
I'm let down by how so many people who want to comment on this problem of social media addiction do so so horribly.
You just have to change what you do with the phone.
We could have an app that helps us be our best.
Yes marketing psychology is used on us with the Bible and with news to suit what is best for the oligarchy but the many poor people have to have a sense of responsibility to think and act under their own volition instead of live for entertainment.
All the old terrible behaviors about rape and slavery etc are alive and well but they are shielded in the sophistication of mind control psychology used in academia to teach us what to think instead of how to appeared to be consumer minions of a corporate world disorder.
there never has been any welcoming wagon for free humanity it's always had a boot stomping on it.
Although I think that the Zionists finally have enough control to make their apocalyptic endgames for natural humanity a possibility within my lifetime at 43 years old.
focus on creating a worldwide folk cooperative that takes the place of corporate government where were able to show real world results for our interface with technology.
Man one question, I was wondering what you opinions on Jordan Peterson were. You both talk a lot about similar authors and philosophers like (Jung, Nietszche, William James)
Do find him a interesting thinker or do you regard him only as a pseudointelectual with not much to say?
@Ben Smalley The term pseudointellectual shouldn't be mutually exclusive to involvement and reputation in academia. Such an argument claiming otherwise is logically fallacious in that it is an appeal to authority/credentials or something logically similar to it. According to dictionary.com, a pseudointellectual is one who exhibits "intellectual pretensions (i.e. claims made) that have no basis in sound scholarship". By this definition, we can say that intellectual dishonesty is a hallmark of pseudointellectualism since it "has no basis in sound scholarship". Of course, that is not to say that someone who is intellectual dishonest is automatically a pseudointellectual. Rather, it is the continued practice of intellectual dishonesty, be it conscious or not, that makes one a pseudointellectual.
Through all of this, I'm not trying to imply that Jordan Peterson is a pseudointellectual but rather isn't the greatest of intellectuals. To be fair, the man does have plenty of great ideas and dialogues, but he still engages in intellectual dishonesty in some of the same venues in a consistent manner. The example I know the most about is Jordan Peterson's claims regarding truth. In it, he gives his own definitions of truth. Correct me if I'm wrong, but his version of truth is called metaphorical truth? I'll just stick with it. Anyway, while not inherently intellectually dishonest or logically flawed, it can become convoluted and hard to understand if the concept is not explained well enough. Unfortunately, Peterson does this quite a bit. In Sam Harris' podcast with Peterson, after Harris presses him on the matter, Peterson gives the definition that metaphorical truth is "that which serves life or brings human prosperity" (like the passing of one's genes). Conversely, the type of truth that most people ascribe to is realism, i.e. that which has been proven or can be proven to be true. In other words, if something is true in the realist definition of things, then it is a fact. For example, the claim that the black mamba is one of the most poisonous snake on Earth is true in both forms of truth. In the realist sense, scientists have proven the black mamba is one of the most poisonous snakes by comparing it to the venom of other snakes. In the metaphorical sense, knowing that a set volume of black mamba venom can kill many people is true since that would allow for human prosperity (like the passing of one's genes) by being even more wary of black mambas than of less venomous snakes.
Here's where my problems start to arise: Peterson tends to equivocate metaphorical truth with realist truth, oftentimes implicitly. In the same podcast, Sam Harris gives an example whereby knowing your wife had an affair which eventually caused you to commit suicide. In the realist sense, the knowledge of the affair is true because it has been demonstrated to be a fact. However, in the metaphorical sense, the knowledge of the affair is false because the suicide brings the opposite of human prosperity. However still, if the knowledge of the affair caused you to divorce your wife and marry another person in which the marriage was happier, then this knowledge would be true metaphorically since it brought human prosperity. Therefore, the metaphorical truth value of the knowledge of the affair is contingent on your reaction and is thus volatile while the realist truth value is not. Because of this, metaphorical truth cannot be the same as realist truth. As a result, Peterson's conflation of the two is by necessity a logical fallacy of false equivocation.
This false equivocation happens a lot whenever he talks about religion or the supernatural, he and will often use this to skirt around questions levied on him. Other times, he will appeal to metaphorical truth, something that doesn't directly answer the question but rather sidesteps it. In one instance, when asked if he was a Christian, a literal-minded one or not, he makes the appeal that there are many types of truth other than the literal and even those that supersede it in value. This is an example of the latter case, and only until the other person presses him on the matter did he give a more concrete answer. Be it the former or latter case, both of these are intellectually dishonest.
This sort of false equivocation manifests in other forms as well. In one lecture - I really can't remember which - he talks about the neuroscience of the mind, giving statistics about such and such psychological phenomena, and then he transitions to talking about some facet of Jungian psychology in the same manner, this time explaining in detail about this Jungian concept and possibly about how it relates to the statistic he brought up. In this context, he gives the Jungian psychology the same merit as the studies preceding it in the lecture, implicitly equivocating the two in terms of authority, especially since he did not explain nor even imply that Carl Jung's ideas are now largely discredited in the field of psychology. Do note that this type of psychology he was talking about was different than the type of psychology Peterson specializes in, which is clinical psychology.
Long story short, Jordan Peterson uses false equivocation A LOT, which is an intellectually dishonest tactic.
Excellent. Spot on!
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Addicted in learning. It just happens that CZcams is one of the source.
i am so addicted to information like this it takes up too much of my time
Really intresting video. Thank you guys for making such videos i am a huge fan of them. You guys are changing people/me in a very positive way with your ideas.