Nietzsche and Psychology: How To Become Who You Are
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In this video we shed light on what it means to “become who you are”, and in the process, explore some of Nietzsche’s fascinating psychological insights.
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It's hard to be yourself when you spend your entire childhood being brainwashed into believing that you can't even think for yourself.
Heck Yeah With out words “Listen Louder” makes this action. That is hard to see because of thinking of words when listening. I would like see what I’m saying. You can slow down the words in the upper right hand. I’ve seen this Connection of people two years ago. Try listen louder like walking it’s not about the words. Let me know
Heck Yeah or that your stupid and don’t think properly enough and don’t do things right. I took my toxic parent out of my life happily after she threw me on the street for not taking her side when my parents broke up.. I had a 3 week old and didn’t get my paycheque (family business) because she thought she could force me to never see my dad ( in order to make him feel bad)
As I begin to go back in time. Befor the lies in the why, When i ask all the time. Everything is new wanting to know more and I ask and ask and asked. I till I stopped becouse I did not know anything any more. And I could feel it. Working on it make me cry thinking it’s bad. Is why I did not want to try to feel bad. Idk fast as soon as I would feel any thing I said idk so fast for so long. My mom and dad and every body told me words To help they sound the same put in different ways Made me think Why do did they lie to me. So I did not have to go through what they did thinking The feeling of learning is bad
If you have a will to wonder, then what they tell you will not stop you from learning.
Yes, unfortunately adulthood is plagued with forgetting what you were taught.
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” -Jung
@@optimisticandpessimistic4785 I have felt that I can not either. But I see this as folly. If you say you can’t then I suppose we can’t but if you can then…why can’t you if you don’t mind me asking ?
@@clericknight7304 The flow of the river cannot be changed by the desires of a droplet. More specifically, political ideology is based not on truth of philosophy but on effectiveness of social outcome. If you try to argue on behalf of the truth in such an environment with a balanced perspective, you'll find that both sides hate you
The privilege of a lifetime is to reach for and become more than we are.
@@jek__ I hate you
The capitalist privilege of a lifetime is to be privileged, and to acquire as much power and toys, people and things, as you can before you die, because you will delude yourself into thinking that you are a god, and that you will never die. And you’ll be wrong.
"Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it’s a feather bed." ----Terence McKenna
@@calebsteimle I wish you the joyous discovery that you are incorrect here. It's an issue whose answers are at least not so cut-and-dried. Point is, whose life are we living? The more of life's days that we make our own, the more we have truly lived. Whatever the cost, it's better than the "safe" false happiness of human sheep.
@@calebsteimle I know what I'm talking about because I've lived and paid the price for spirited creative independence. For all the pain and sacrifices, no one and nothing can ever touch my daily joys and their lasting fruits. You, meanwhile, can read more Nietzsche to learn that insults are not an argument.
Caleb Steimle dude are you ok. Your nihilism will get you nothing but more nihilism. Do some pushups and go for a run then go risk being uncomfortable around other people. Life is to short.
@@calebsteimle Say something of value before you attempt to strip the value from someone else.
Matthew Becker I did say something of value. I told the truth. Which is what people need.
Nearly 2 million have watched this video about Nietzsche. My faith in humanity is somewhat improved.
i am hopeful with you, and yet a realist - i think half of them would have wanted to confirm that as per their current perspective and understanding, Nietzsche is just an existential nihilist, like they label Bukowski as a drunkard.
then for the remaining 50%, it would have dragged up enough moral dread to let this be, and not open the pandora's box, coz, ofc, the one who did, couldn't save himself, so really what is it worth anyway? have 10 sports cars and be happy for fucks sake.
but i tell you i understand this - as a guy who was exploring this 150yrs ago, the scale of loneliness he was bound to feel is unfathomable. our generation simply sees insta and fb posts and judges someone's life and work in less than 20seconds.
I'm here at my lowest faith in humanity
🙌 👏 🙏 🤝 👍
@@illusion7929 Glass half empty kind of guy, huh?
@@jek__ Regardless of what kind of guy he is, what he says is true.
The Viking philosophy about happiness. 'It's important to develop a Myth about yourself then live to fulfill that Myth'.
Dayum that's good
It is only similar to what Nietzsche was saying *if* it talked of uncovering that Myth, rather than instilling it from an external agent or conscious will. Without leaving anything else behind. Purging doesn't bring harmony. It is merely the drying up of one's drives that could've been mastered towards the organising idea.
It is good to be the hero in you own story, even if other heroes take part, it is good to live up to that standard!
Old Wisdom love it
I am definitely about to adopt this quote!!
I love being part of a community on CZcams that seeks to answer fundamental questions of humanity.
I'm sorry for this humanity you are under.
We love you too friend.
I agree and disagree. I depends on your goal in life. I think there should be an integration of the solitude and the chaos of outside stimulus. You will never realize until you put in practise what you realized in the mind.
Me too , I find this so intriguing. I also love Alan watts.
see also Yuri Noah Harrari
"The inner self does not exists. To search for it is to create it, pilling back one layer forces you to create the next, and when you leave, it all vanishes, only to be recreated later. The reason we can look to our inner self is not to find it, it is to create it."
my grandma
Joni Ray thats called stream of thoughts on finding the real meaning of oneself a constant effort , and there is no endgame or final conclusions
@Nero Redivivus Well, I imagine my grandma got it from some were.
Well our grandma must've read Jung
I like Nietzsche very much and I agree with him intellectually, but I profoundly disagree with him espiritually.
Inner self does exist, its like a void initially, an unique void to each individual and throughout your life you find perfect pieces to fill your void, pieces that don't fit fails to add to the recipe. Some people have just filled more of their individual puzzle than others.
"Doesn't look like anything to me." I think like Nietzsche. Exploring that maze means admitting who you are and who you didn't become and who you still want to be. Everything dark will surface and the struggle to define the lesson you wish to take away requires hitting a few dead ends or wrong turns.
Like it 👍
Doesn't Bernard say those same words when it is revealed he is a Host too? in Season one?
Becoming who you are requires experience. And solitude. Peace in solitude. Comfort in quiet
Just be cautious that you don’t “require” an excess of solitude, peace and comfort it’s been my experience there is no abundance of those luxuries in any life I have known, so I would like to know where you go to gain that experience and since I believe I am not alone in this thought you may be suggesting that we will never become who we are even though we are
@Nero Redivivus i think that goes back to the quantum physics idea where rhe psrticles act differently when someone else is in the room and each person or lack of one or more thereof has an entirely differsnt reality play out 🥴
Took me to be in solitude to realise this
Arthur Schoppenhaur would have been proud
@@furryz666 well too much of any good thing can become a bad thing.so we assume he knew that before enacting his solitude as he said "comfort in quiet",once it becomes uncomfortable I assume he would stop.
I'm Japanese. I am wondering if you could possible add subtitles in English to these videos. I'm good at reading but bad at listening in English. Subtitles will make me understand more deeply.
@Masterrorder Seconded. The auto-generated English captions for this are quite accurate.
Read the Nietzsche texts quoted.
Arigato
Just read Berserk thats basically Nietzsche
@@matthewleonardi247 are you serious?
"A voluntary descent into the inner foundations of one's mind could engender temporary, or in rare cases, permanent madness"
This is literal truth, not just a metaphorical one.
Of course, a lot of knowledge in our minds is probably not best known. After figuring out how much your mind has fooled you throughout your life, you become paranoid to what is real or not, hence, madness
How very true it is.
The foundations of one's mind or the foundations of civilization? What is meant by "the inner foundations of one's mind"?
@@arcanewarrior863 This is where the world generally(weak ego or corrupted ego) are behind classic eastern buddhism in its "mental strength" (honest ego or uncorrupted ego) traditions. In those classic philosophies, the apprentices were trained to not let any change or negative surprise or drug intake trip for that sake disturb the mind's balance/stability.
@@arcanewarrior863 absolutely right. I'm still in the madness, 3+ years after confronting a part of myself I was ashamed of. I'm making progress, integrating my whole self, but it's hard and often harrowing due to hallucinations and delusions of my worst fears
The more you fill yourself with pleasantries and comfort, the more the other you(instinct) comes to dislike you. The conscious you. You are only half yourself, unworthy of the other half.
Wow...love it!
Great line
That surely hit way too close to home
Thanks for that
I needed to hear this more than I was even aware. Thank you.
Incredible. It's so annoying how so many people nowadays write Nietzsche off as some life-hating "crazy nihilist."
There's a big difference between Nietzsche and Nihilists, Nietzsche is intelligent and understands good structure in life, Nihilists don't use their brain and have no structure in life, if anything, they're opposites.
That isn't true. He tried to fight nihilism but failed horribly. His philosophy is oddly enough the road to unhappiness.
BlackSkullHeart What do you have against Nietzsche?, you seem like a very motivated individual to prove him wrong.
Santiago Martinez I see him as the perfect example of the ivory tower philosopher who is out of touch with the real world. Anyone versed in human psychology can see that.
Hello again buddy. I see you keep saying things against Nietzsche that he "missed the mark" and his claims are "disproved by Eastern Philosophy/Psychology" yet you give no examples or actual arguments against him, and make non-sequiturs. You can't expect for people to take your position seriously when you throw stuff like that on the wall to see what sticks.
Whether one is Christian or not, I truly believe everybody ought to read Kierkegaard and Nietzsche at some point in their life. The ability for these men to describe exactly how you feel is insane.
Mike Sexton No, I was thinking more along the lines of The Sickness Unto Death, Fear and Trembling, and Works of Love, but I do enjoy Either/Or quite a bit. Kierkegaard is my favorite philosopher so all of his works are dear to me. His Present Age On The Death Of Rebellion is definitely one you should read if you have not already.
Can one understand Kierkegaard if one has virtually no knowledge of Biblical verses? Or would his work be difficult to interpret?
+Emilia I feel the same way, luckily I read some of it while I was still "searching" so I didn't get that feeing back then, but I always do now when I try to read philosophy and they mix superstition and religion into it.
+Daniel Galun +Emilia What about it feels so uncomfortable? I think it is logically a very personal reading experience for you, but how do you interpret ideas about superstition and religion now? I can't imagine what that would feel like for somebody who was once religious and is not anymore..
...How I agree with you. Especially Kierkegaard (for myself too) : reading him was discovering something beyond a theorical point of view ; it found a sensible area within me. I think the magic happened for me also because of his apparently humble position towards his "teaching" (edification).
Wow, this explanation and all that is inadvertantly how i got through depression from 12 to now. Knowing i wasn't me I was working towards becoming me really kept me going and realising that what i am now is not the final product.
"You" are finished when the body dies.
"The psyche of a small minority of individuals, in comparison with that of the overwhelming mass, is constituted by both greater depths and a higher degree of turmoil. To ensure they are not torn asunder by the contradictions, conflicts, and abysses within, such individuals are driven inward to explore and impose order on their psyche - fashioning and sculpting themselves into a 'harmonious totality'."
That's why i love this channel!
beautifully said
"Supposing I have the key to your chains, why should your lock and my lock be the same?" that's artful
Shelby Davis Hes throwing you the key as he drowns in madness thinking that he has sacrificed hes sanity for the rest of us, weather you its the key to your chains depends on how far your willing to go into the rabbit hole.
That one hit like a freight train.
your face is artful
further...
Sure is.
Suppose you dont have the keys but i have the Fob.
It's hard to argue with these kinds of ideas when you find them at play, exactly as they were described, within yourself.
tell me about it..
I cannot describe the feeling that these ideas, which I found to be so profoundly personal, are being described by someone who lived more than 100 years ago, as if in my own words. Words that I myself could not find, though.
Athenathe SheWolf true
Collective unconscious :O?
I would say that it is based on the fact that we are all human, and are driven by more or less the same neural structures which somehow lead to these desires and behaviours and thoughts. I guess we just don't know how we go from synapse to 'loneliness' yet. Do we want to know? :)
Basically follow your instincts, listen to your inner self, try not to get distracted by trivia and slowly over time discover your own truth; like the peeling of an onion. Brilliant video by the way 👍
I have to laugh at the question "why should I follow the psychological insights of a person who went mad?"
He spent himself doing the heavy lifting of the initial groundbreaking.
You gain from the substantial progress that he made, and take it your own way from there.
Its pretty rude really that they would just write-off everything he said for something outside of his control, but I suppose it was just how they viewed mental illness at the time.
They were terrified of many things that he wrote (his philosophy) so it’s there way of writing him off.
@@crysstoll1191 some people get it, most people don’t... you obviously do 🙌
@@kingkonglji 👍🏼
Well, he has not only influenced Freud etc. but also Hiltler...
The Minotaur of the conscience is real. Anyone who has truly explored themselves know what Nietzsche is saying is true. One can lose themselves within their own maze.
Hathor
@@Sebastian-fo4ud Can you elaborate on how you went deeper my friend? Psychedelics?
@@Sebastian-fo4ud Yeah, im guessing some of the insights you can gain from these experiences are too big of a burden for 1 person to bear alone.
@@JinroTheCorpse Maan, i understand what you guys are writing about, i have gained some similar insights as well altough, not in the way you have. I am 21 as well, and when i was younger I used to fall asleep to Alan Watts lectures which made me realize that we are all just different manifestations of the same conscioussness experiencing itself. I also recommend meditation to clear you heads of any unwanted thoughts, it makes my life a lot better. I also limit these topics in conversation, and I guess I am lucky to not have seen as much as you have cause i can have a normal life. I personally am very eager to experiment more with psychedelics, altough I think you may have been overloaded with the information instead of having it been dripfed by them.
Yep. I went deep once. I tried telling myself over and over that I wanted to see hallucinations. I was bored and took reality for granted.
I didn't see hallucinations but woo boy be careful what you tell yourself kids, because hairs stood up on the back of my neck for weeks on end and I felt blood curdling fear every time I was alone because my senses heightened because I suspected a dark hand was gonna snatch me from behind. Not even hoodies or my favorite activities could help me feel better. Sometimes I still have moments where I feel the void, because I didn't go all the way across the finish line, so I'm still sane, just with irrational bouts of intense fear that I keep to myself.
Be nice to yourself. Appreciate your mental health!
I felt overwhelmed when you described Nietzsche's views on history, it resonated with me so much. I adore history and feel so connected to it, and I feel that our civilization not connecting with the past is a prime source of many problems today. History isn't a boring list of dates and facts, it is the long story of mankind, a story we are a part of. Realizing this makes history and indeed one's own life more interesting and fulfilling.
Yes but the past is influenced by the patriarchy. Today people are more concerned about rights, sex, pleasure, hedonism and materialism. People oppose religion because they think the morality religion imposes on people is wrong. The modern day personal ethos combined with an elementary understanding of science replaced religion in the minds of the individual. Despite mental health rates sky rocketing and male sexlessness, female promiscuity now permanent and a general sense of madness that now constitutes the normal; The death of God is the greatest time to be alive in the history of man. Men today are complacent because the ego is sufficient playing video games to fulfill drives/instincts of the man of the bygone era's. Women can and do strive to work, out number men in college and only need men for their sperm though a sperm bank is a better option for certain women; Woman have transcended the chains of her past mothers. In the west man and woman can live on the backs of the state, gone are the days where babies die of starvation, men go off to war and women die whilst giving child birth. Today is an era of near utopia where a man can choose his route in life with ease when compared to past men. If a man wants to go to college, he will be given a chance, if he wants to be a garbage man then that is not impossible, if he strives to become an accountant his chances are there, if he wants to live his life on welfare and study philosophy all day then that is possible too.
I think fully removing the opinion of 'woman' and her effects on the collective and henceforth your self in the life of a man is the key to happiness and individuation. Back then men 'fought the dragon' and today in the modern world man needs to 'fight the dragon within is psyche' of which will be made difficult in a society designed so much in an attempt to protect women's interest and influence men to 'work'. As women continue to work more then the tax dollars they make can be used to subsidize men. I see a future being built on the blood, sweat and tears of women everywhere.
Art of war colonial mindset
"In our dream...the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our
molding hand.We shall not try to make these people or any of their
children into philosophers or men of learning or of science. We are not
to raise up from among them authors, orators, poets, or men of letters.
We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians. Nor will
we cherish even the humbler ambition to raise up from among them
lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we now
have ample supply..For the task that we set before ourselves is a very
simple as well as a very beautiful one: to train these people as we find
them for a perfectly ideal life just where they are..an idyllic life under
the skies and within the horizon, however narrow, where they first open
their eyes."
(The Country School of Tomorrow, Frederick Taylor Gates)
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Inside an unused well in the Indian Jungle , there were two lame frogs.
They thought that the dark well and the small round blue sky they saw on top was the cosmos. Till one day during unusually heavy rains, the water level of this well came up and both jumped out on to terra firma.
Excited they hopped along till they saw two child animals playing football. Immediately one of the frogs cried that the ball was manufactured by his great grandfather and established ownership over it.
The hopped along and wherever they went they gave cock and bull croaking stories of how their ancestors literally invented, discovered , built and made everything in the jungle.
They were so shrewd and slimy in their approach that very soon even the King lion was made to believe that the deep jungle belonged to these frogs, and lived in psychological subjugation.
Blah Blah -- Every fruit tree was planted by our ancestors, every lake was dug by our ancestors ---- Blah Blah -
These two frogs are the equivalent of German Friedrich Max Muller, and Englishman Thomas Babington Macaulay.
Macaulay under instructions from the Vatican and told Max Muller how to subvert and hijack world history.
In one single master stoke he gave the credit of every ancient Indian vedic work in language, Science, Mathematics , Astronomy etc.to the blonde blue eyed Christian white man.
The white master race had NOT invented or discovered anything till they came to India, other than what they grabbed from the Arabs which also arab learn from India.As soon the immoral white invader came to India they learnt Sanskrit, stole our intellectual rights patented it in their names and destroyed the originals ( or kept it back after injecting POISON into the originals ).
Why should a Master learn the language of a slave ?
Bible considers that the cosmos is a few thousand years old. Western historians have been trying to date Rig Veda to 1500 BC ( instead of 5000 BC ) because as per Bible the creation happened in 4004 BC at 9 AM on 23rd October.
*Naturally you cannot have a book written before the creation of cosmos , right ?*
So they burn all library of world , rewrite world history and prove that before 4004 bc there is nothing happned call it mythology .
Bishop Ussher had declared it as the date of creation. The Holy Bible says that the human race began with Adam and Eve.
(All nonsense )
Jesus Was never Exist
Jesus is fictional character
Plz see this video....
czcams.com/video/QTmZlckcwMY/video.html
And Vatican has been pressurising all and sundry to disprove Vedic literature that stated in 5000 BC in writing, that the cosmos is 15 billion years old and that the mind and consciousness has to be factored in. Well the advent of quantum physics has proved Bible and Max Mueller wrong.
Fake history is weapon of white invaders even they hijack all world history to hide there crime over humanity and with fraud history humans blame over each other and quarrel .
Non violent and vegetarian Indian has never attacked any other country till now-- and as a result invaders murdered 90 million Hindus. ,Burn priceless Library and distort Vedic civilization
These vulgar white invaders robbed us blind in 250 years , converting India from the richest on the planet to the poorest. They stole our knowledge and patented it in their names.
WHY DID THEY LEARN OUR LANGUAGE SANSKRIT
WHY DID THEY STEAL PART 2 ( BRAHMANAS ) AND PART 3 ( ARANYAKAS ) OF OUR VEDAS ? ( THESE TWO SECTIONS CONTAINED BASIS OF SCIENCE AND MATH )
Now they want to make fun of our poverty and ignorance?
Not any more !
These immoral people never expected an Internet age , right ?
They thought they could control the media, the historians and peer reviewed magazines and control everything , right?
Wrong !
For more Click link below .....
ajitvadakayil.blogspot.com/2011/01/mother-of-all-civilisations-saraswati.html?m=1।।।।।
When I met my biological mother for the first time, she warned me that we were directly related to the Nietzsche family and that debilitating mental illnesses ran in our blood. Even before I knew this, my greatest source of impotent suffering is "why?" or "who am I?". I think maybe he's right that this is passed down. I'm only now, at 29, beginning to compensate for all of the years I lost to illness. I'm glad I can listen to this now, and I feel a certain familiarity in these ideas.
You are saying syphilisis isn't passed down to calm him of worries about his mental health as if you didn't just start the sentence with, neitzche went mad
Wha?
Interesting. What is your relation to him?
@@richardpchaseii5084 That's a myth, there's no evidence he had syphilis, and tons he didn't, it's now considered most likely he had brain cancer
Yeah and I'm a direct desendant of Dostoevsky. A pleasure to meet you.
1. Directly observe oneself = strengthen the mental power to explore the psyche
2. Research on your past and origin = familiarize oneself with different parts of the mind (persona, drives, impulses, wounds, mem'ries...etc)
3. Combining and harmonizing the 'abundance of contrary drives and impulses' TO CREATE ONESELF like a SCULPTOR.
Oh man, that just summed up my healing journey to the T. I did the exact steps mentioned above.
So technically, I solved his last question:
Our locks might be different in details, but they will be unlocked in pretty much same way. So yeah, my key cannot help you, but as I can create THE KEY for me. So do you.
The universe continously give us raw materials all our life. It is up to us to make our life out of it. That's how we become who we are: GOD. We create ourselves.
And trust me, unless you come to that conclusion, I bet you still have a lot of healing to do.
Thank you for your notes,it helped me.I believe that the chains became part of him and he part of the chains.i also believe within us we have an animal-divine nature,the unification of these 2 is in higher level than god
I had chills when you read out that your lock and my lock may not be the same. It even goes to show how most people who help the masses suffer alone.
. . . n o t the masses, they just do it for their PEERS ! 4 sure . . .
This just made me feel less alone in being who I am.
crazy
With Jesus, you are never alone.
You mean rightly crazy?
@@jcisking9622 what are you even doing here? 🤣🤣🤣
You're never alone bro. We have many hands holding all up, and pointing the way. Have faith ❤
The truth is coming like a tidal wave to the people 💪❤
I just came back to this after reading a bunch of his essays, three out of four parts of Zarathustra and Ecce Homo and I only now realize how well a lot of Nietzsche's depth is reflected in this introduction already. Thanks for the amazing work!
"If you want to get to the peak, you ought/to climb without giving it too much thought." Nietzsche, "The Gay Science"
@Ricci Hardow In fact The Bible is a compendium of delusions (that's why its avatar Zionist Israel has to wall itself in against reality). Will hold onto hope that Life's real wonders find you.
@@37Dionysos tell us what you have against Israel bro
@@ahk9838 Ancient or modern? Psychotic narcissism, mainly: willful self-delusions that issue in ethnic cleansing and genocide.
(apart from that you are probably a nice guy, but somewhat bewildered.. Not the only one though)
@@ahk9838 Just did! Plus the apartheid.
Had to pause a few times to let things sink in because some of the things this man said just hit way too close to home- in a good way. I've been depressed for quite some time now (since attending college) and I feel this "organizing idea" biting at me everyday, but what bothers me the most is how we all so obviously ignore ourselves in favor of following concepts and ideas that are not our own. I feel trapped in a maze that, I feel, we all share, but won't mention in fear of being ridiculed (?) or seen as different (?). I know I'm not the first, the last, nor the only person that struggles with my own mind and trying to figure out what this 'thing' is that is missing in me- or at least that I feel is missing. It's like we play this game with each other-- "who can be what they're not and look cool doing it? Who can make the most money and have the most sex and be the most selfish?"
Money is nothing; why the hell do we devote our lives to chasing it if we have all we need and more? We know damn well that TOMORROW or RIGHT NOW we can make sure everyone can eat, have a home, and live together with no issues, yet we keep chasing 'things'. Why do we allow ourselves to ignore issues and those who need our help, and instead opt into a life of facades and perpetual routine? Collective insanity it must be.
Why is it so hard for people to love unconditionally and share? I guarantee that 9 out of 10 people with a camera to their face will say they want exactly that; love, but will not give it when shown the opportunity. We have a day devoted to MLK who had the common sense to simply tell people what we already knew- color means jack shit. We love him so much, but not enough to live out his words.
Am I thinking too much? Is it really so easy to just live; turn your brain off, live through your phone and let a government of in-your-face corruption shape your lifestyle? To just work everyday and collect brand names in hopes of...something?
There's something here, right? There's something to gain from life, right? There's a point to this pain, right?
Honestly, I don't think we'll ever know. We just waste so much potential.
Dogs N Hogs
Your comment is quite triggering for me. Thoughts like what you mentioned would sometimes suddenly attack me. I'd question a lot of norms and why people do what they do. Those thoughts would turn into suicidal thoughts because I can't find sense in everything. Like humans are fools to enjoy living in this nonsense world. Damn. Anyway, I'm kinda glad I'm not the only one who thinks this way.
You just described my thinking patterns since my senior year in High School till now, 2nd year in Law school (Imagine!!!!). Multiple psychologists diagnosed me with depression because I have the same thoughts, I see the futility of our current existence, we live for instant gratification with this virus like narcissistic mentality that has been largely peddled by the advent of liberalism as the guiding ideology for nation states, which are the highest form of social organisation we have had as humans. Liberalism is inherently individualistic hence it fosters the capitalistic reality we find ourselves in, this inherent obsession with ME without realizing that the affirmation of ones humanity only happens in the presence of others, my ancestors called this UBUNTU and it was the guiding philosophy of the Bantu people in pre colonial Africa. I believe if one's mind is pre occupied with such questions then that must be the organizing idea at play, tuning other inferior elements of your brain to its frequency and in this case highlighting how since you have the analytical prowess to dissect reality for what it is, you should use that to change the fate of humankind, if you feel like the world is messed up, contribute towards making it not messed up, that is your destiny! Anyway that is my 2 cents on that, its good to know I am also not the only "depressed" being out there. Nietzsche was out of this world, a mad man indeed.
Thanks for sharing, man
you should read on the shortness of life by seneca it's a good book that talks about the traps of life and why aren't living a purposeful life.
We are trying to fit Infinity-into-finite. Through our mind.
Life is a mathematical equation constantly trying to (re)solve itself. That's what music does. That's why we like music.
We are stuck at "being", instead of "Becoming".
But..How to be-come?
This is my innate instinct :
(Always has been)
-As long as you don't choose...
All remains possible.
Well, what a complete conundrum I create for myself.
Life feels like something is standing on your back.
It's like being trapped in..
A cube / box= body..?
The Imprisonment of matter
Creates Confinement
Restriction. suppressed -potentiality/ can only see out a sliver size hole, from the very limited angle of density.
All we can really do is speculate. But we need meaning to BE-come.
*The greatest existential paradox*
14:17- I'm so sorry no one had the key to your chains good sir. The few who dared to go into those deep woods, and the fewer that returned, we are forever in your debt. What you brought back is invaluable. A moment of silence for all the fools, dreamers, geniuses, and visionaries who dove into the unknown, as well as to the many that never returned.
"Who knows where they will lead us, that's why they need us." - Ode of the Dreamer.
Most people are too afraid of these videos. I get a little anxious before clicking on these because I know I'm going to learn something about my self or find out about an action I must take.
That video has certainly not just changed my mind about Nietzsche's thought, which I had a really superficial look, but was really important for my current moment of life. Thanks a lot for this rigorous and so well done job. I just love all the videos os Academy of Ideas.
I definitely see how Carl Jung was inspired by Nietzsche.
I'm naturally drawn to both of them (started reading Nietzsche when I was 12 and was introduced to Jung about 6 years ago) so it could be true. Their ideas on morality seem to be symbiotic, Nietzsche questions authority (What is good or evil? Master/slave theory) while Jung explores the symbols of culture that, of course, are there to emit authority. I wasted alot of my time on Lacan, who only seems to repeat Nietzsche's words in a formula so they seem as if they were his own. Derrida however must be a spiritual successor to Jung and Nietzsche because he talks about the same things in a deconstructive manner: he believes in ghosts, described the power of words and how they can shift meaning depending on context. If you've never heard of him I highly recommend watching him talk or read some introductions on him. As a young child he was very inspiring to me and made me understand various styles of comedy.
And how Jung and Neitzsche have affected Jordan Peterson
Simeon Cannalte lol Peterson
Jordan "atheists are all nihilistic murderers but it's ok cause you are not an atheist" Peterson
and how Nietzsche was inspired by wisdom going back ages and ages. (since this concept of a organizing idea is analogous to the concept of heaven)
I like to add something in addition to the last quote:
Wright brothers failed several times before they invented airplane. But did anyone say we should not learn from them how to make an airplane because they themselves had done it wrong several times?
It's obvious that when someone explores a new area he gets lost several times before he finds the correct path.
That is the Hero's journey. :-)!
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What a wonderful thought
You are a gift my friend. The way you break down complex philosophical/psychological concepts is great. Thankyou
This hit me in depths I was NOT prepared for. THANK YOU!!!
He basically says "you are so complex that you will never know who you really are because you have so many facets that are sub-conscious, etc."
That was a truly inane observation.
@MastersMasterson precisely.
@MastersMasterson held back by primitive systems of our psyche that can't be grasped by our conscious.
@MastersMasterson A sentient, multifaceted organism calling itself simple? Hahaha
Rainbow Snake His argument holds true... We are too simple to understand ourselves completely.
You know its Nietzsche when a 15 minute video already summarizing and helping to break it down for you takes almost an hour to get through lol
grahamyodude what do you mean? The thing with Nietzsche is, that he wrote in a style that was very accessible. He wrote more like a novelist than a traditional philosopher. That's one of the things that made him great.
I get you. The mind of a modern man needs time to "digest" his ideas.
I remember the time I started reading "Thus Spake Zarasthustra". And I had to close the book after each and every goddamn paragraph to take time and think about what I read and digest that idea.
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Thanks. When contemplating this subject, I'm always reminded of that episode of Star Trek (the original series - or 'TOS'), wherein Capt. Kirk goes through the transporter and is split into two distinct personalities, or 'halves'. One is caring, feeling a need to do the right thing, to see to everyone's needs without hurting anyone. The other is vindictive, power-hungry, and angry, only ever thinking of what he wants at that moment. But the 'good' Kirk (if that's what he really is!?) has trouble making decisions; he can't seem to bear taking any risks that might injure or kill someone, and so he becomes ineffective as a leader and a man. The resolution of this now-famous conundrum is (naturally) to put both of 'him' back through the transporter, and reintegrate them into one whole person. Of course, real life isn't so simple. One must, as Maynard says, go digging for one's shadow; not because it lies ever buried, but rather because it *_hides._* It lies *_to_* us. It doesn't want to be dragged out into the open. It would much prefer to remain a sort of hidden puppet master. It is selfish, but it is also fearful & jealous, even of its own 'better angel'. In the end, what one must do is almost to weld to two together; to create a sort of amalgam, or alloy - not all light, nor all shadow, but neither merely some grey ghost of what we used to be. The end product (when done rightly) is a new being entirely, a complex creature of many hues & facets. In this healthy blending, one can look oneself in the eye (so to speak) and accept who & what they are, warts & all. It is interesting to me that a precious gem is often identified by its flaws. tavi.
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Fascinating! How do I dig for my shadow? How do I weld the two together?
@@tildetjernberg8994 Big, big questions! We are taught by society to control ourselves rather rigidly. Don't do this; don't say that... *_don't even think it!_* There's a reason why horror movies are so popular. It's the same reason actors so often remark that it's much more fun to play the baddie. Because: that's us. We're the real monsters. We know it in our subconscious selves, but we're not allowed to admit it or express it. So we simply project it outside of ourselves, where we can examine it at will - all the while acting, saying, thinking, & feeling that it isn't us. I hate to put it this way (so don't @ me, folks!), but... like Dr. Phil says: *_you've got to own it._* Recognize that there's a part of you that could do things you wouldn't like. Hell, we've all said or done hurtful, spiteful, angry things. Look: that little cartoon devil is going to stay on your shoulder no matter how fast you run. Ignoring it makes it worse. So turn & look it in the eye. tavi.
@@richarddeese1991 Exactly 💯 . I personally achieved all of this without having to read anything. When ypu observe yourself more you will see you can completely ignore everything around you. You have been with yourself for so long but how many times have to tried to look yourself clearly in the mirror tried to remember your actions all of them good or bad. We all have good and evil inside ourselves and sometimes they are even interwined it goes alot deeper than that as everybody has suffered differently in life. Just accept yourself and make remarks about yourself try to correct those remarks slowly and try to change things around yourself.
This is a particularly brilliant study/uncovering of his that shows how most evidently fractured he was as a human, how a state of disarray was probably constant with him at times, but also how regardless of his seemingly evident deficiencies and affinity to be at any time dealing with types of mental demons or weights slowing him he actually set out to use ALL of those burdens as some kind of mental training ground so that he could rope all of those heavy stones and enemies within and drag them intentionally through his chosen path after he allowed them to wear himself down in a purposeful masochistic way just to prove that he was going to gain even greater mental fortitude and clarity by taking the hardest path he could make and also prove to others that when determination is so strong there is no need to worry about torments of your past, you cant leave them behind anyway so pull them as weight and let them build you even stronger. He's a real savage with that mindset. His mental vision and focus must have been like a laser beam and to know as much as he discovered with mountains in his way must have been a type of strength which never faded and gave him special clarity and assurance that his goal was always going to be reached.
Like an ant assassin bug that wears its ants as armor (and camo) as it continues through the forest
The silence after each of your videos always gets to me.
Rotted listen to the silence
Thinking Møde
oui oui What does that mean
I got chills at the end of this video.
Rotted ; Nietsche wouldn't have minded I am sure ; we know his feelings about the demos .
Understand this is no easy task. The ego is built up and shaped to keep you from losing your mind since the day you are born. Breaking this down takes countless years of meditation and insight that many dont have the luxury of obtaining. Psychedelics can help shortcut this task but be warned you are traveling down a path that can not be turned back from, if you go into these experiences not prepared they can do more harm than good.
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@@Dan-sn5wv and? Even if he is, which is a radical assumption you have no proof of, he's giving people a fair warning about the depths of your psyche, which can be explored by psychedelics.
@@ramsesabreu1870 Uh huh. It's just bullshit drugs that don't even need to be mentioned. I mean it's Psychedelic promotion at best and a shitty ass warning at its worst. Psychedlics are a short cut to years of meditation? How many people have attained lasting enlightening to the levels of a tibetian monk who has meditatied for years? None. All I see are smelly ass hippies or recreational druggies who work 9 - 5 to make a living use this trash. No spiritual teacher with a level of respect ever encourages psychedlic and shitty drug use. Stop being a drug apologist.
@@Dan-sn5wv ayahuasca, under the right conditions with a good shaman does work. However used wrongly doesnt do any good
This is easy to understand when you ride horses. Directing the animal power with your will-being a respected leader-owning your own power and being responsible for it-leads you to understand what life is all about. Switching to cars has made us think we’re owning our power, but it’s only our conscious power, leaving out the animal in us that strike us at any time.
Hmmm🤔 it sounds true
I love that last quote and anyone who offhandedly dismisses the perspectives of others is a closed minded fool.
The multidimensional model resonates with my own understanding. I feel like when we smoke salvia it breaks apart these different aspects and allows us to view them individually, rotating between them.
"There are no psychological phenomena, there is psychological interpretation of phenomena."
Now were gettin deep.... :-)
Aren't the variety of "psychological interpretations" psychological phenomena on itself?
a priori and a posteriori
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@fynes leigh your my favorite kind of person, telling everyone they know nothing and calling them know it all while you add mountains to the discussion, none of which was asked for or needed, your projection is so string, so obvious, that id wager you your "insight" is nothing more that frontal lobe contained information, you can go nowhere beyond repeating the same things over and over in different ways, none of which are unique at all. tiny problem. How come your a mouse? nobody and nothing, nothing more than a projector pushing your own fears onto everything around you?
Ya know? everything you said only applies to you, know one else.
Sometimes the people who have most intensely fallen victim to some ill fate know best how one can stay away from it. You cannot ultimately understand things when you haven't been through them.
My 8th grade science teacher instilled in me that,”always ask why in science. When you stop asking why, you will only learn what the uninterested masses learn”.
It’s amazing that I understand every information in your video. Thank you
Some people have celebrity crushes. I have a philosopher crush on Nietzsche.
Whatevelyn you must be the coolest.
You must need help or are into necrophilia
Have you grown a feral Nietzsche mustache yet?
@@jaikee9477 You can't claim to have a crush on Nietzsche without having grown a feral Nietzsche 'stache. Obviously a poseur.
You must be better than most of us 😘
So many of Nietzsche's ideas have modern neuroscientific foundation nowadays that it's actually truly agonising to realise how analytical and insightful this man was.
Exactly! Science backs this. What's missing is someone to expand on his ideas, support them scientifically, then use that to wake up the masses. I think he was wrong about certain things and underestimated 'the masses', but perhaps I'm more idealistic than he ever could be.
Great video! Thanks for sharing
Thank you I found you as soon as quarantine began I'm digging the enlightened view point
The dude even went into "multiplicity". I got these different "me's" in my head, and we all agree there's an "I" that guides us all. You even spoke of what we'd call "the inner world" when you mentioned the analogy of how the inner mind works, describing it to some city. Also the "layers of oneself" is totally a thing.
I remember this weird experience where I traveled through a portal in my mind to another part of my mind. And this entire experience was just a daydream - all in my mind. I was in my "Inner World". The mind that large. If there's one playground I want to play in, it's my mind. I still kinda wonder why I'm like this. But that ending was amazing.
I feel completely broken. But that should kinda be so given the split-will of ourselves. But to say that I've ever told someone to "not be themselves" would be false. If anything, people often tell me "I have a good personality", or "I that person who allowed them to be themselves". I guess I'm doing something to be doing unconscious things like that for other people.
I like this Nietzsche person. Especially with where they go. Yes, yes, go deep into the mind. So deep that you realize there's a part of you that alludes you. It's an illusion. You can never observe it in any way, yet there is a force that drives you that clearly comes from a source. How interesting is oneself. How interesting indeed.
That last quote, man. "Your chains… My chains...why should they be the same?"
That tore me wide open. Thank you!
That final quote really hits home
These videos have been instrumental to my personal growth. Thank you!
It's like conversation is being held between what is being said in the video and my soul and I am just a mere frightened spectator
seriously some of the best content on youtube. thanks so much
Thanks for your videos, really enjoying them
Thank you so much for putting together this excellent video.
Ironic. He could save others from madness , but not himself
he never saved anyone, if anything people killed themselves/or others because they were inspired by his nihilistic shit.
that is hardly an argument but i would say i know more than an average Joe, 5 years of philosophy weren't totally useless i guess
Yes.
Ludwig Vonn needs to get woke because he obviously lost his mind in his own ideals upon how he views himself
@@ludwigvonn9889 Syphilis get your brain, or do you have no actual argument?
I got about 10% of the video
At least you're honest. That puts you ahead of most... ;-)
Yeah these videos need a few rewatches. For me at least. Most of these ideas seem so cool but go over my head. maybe its the vocabulary.
Faceless I find these videos complex to digest most times tbh. But the knowledge def is fascinating
check out the video about the "herd" for answers
Me too...
Prolly gonna listen 9 more times
Thank you for posting this ✨
This is my favorite of all your discussions.
Life doesn't grant much for the brilliant of mind. This earth thrives on simplicity. No wonder he succumbed to mental illness. He would've been isolated and lonely in his advanced state of being 😪
@Sir Jare agree with you. To know so much but do nothing with it but drive yourself crazy. Some of the people in psych wards will tell you the same thing.
@@brunetyannick1174 you have an impressive state of knowledge. I would like to know how you understand the inner mind of this philosopher and whether his torment was self imposed and psychological, or due solely to a disease.
BRUNET Yannick pretty sure it was actually brain cancer. The syphillis rumor was spread by his rivals.
@@fast6232 ah well, I read the siphylis story in a preface of «le gai savoir» and found it plausible at the time, but your version sounds just as good if not better.
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Amazing. Thank you guys so much for putting this videos together.. exactly what I need right now!
Thanks for this video!
Thank you Marisa ! This was a blissful experience ! 🥰
That quote at the end... *Slow claps*
I’m kind of upset that I don’t understand why the last quote was Eerie...Maybe I’m just tired
Did you get it though? My interpretation seems to cause the presenter to backfire.
Does someone have a good breakdown of that quote? I'm not sure if I fully get it
it means that the importance of someone's story of how he/she became who he/she is, cannot be measured by how significant it is in the opinion of others. Its importance is on how you see it for yourself.
meaning, some people may not even think of exploring some paths just because only few or even none takes that route, but if you think it is worth it, then it might be worth it - who knows?
so what, if a person won't be able to help millions of other people? If he/she has the "key" to your freedom (key may refer to opening up your consciousness or will give you purpose in life), his/her existence is more important than to a person who is famous and has left his/her "legacy".
This is orgasmic. Just orgasmic. Ideas, thoughts and observations I made myself, I see in his quotes, I found a partner for life in a dead man.
The ending was perfection. And answered the precisely the question I had. It could also be said he never found his way through the labyrinth or as some call the abyss.
This is a very interesting and useful piece. Drawing together elements from the writings of Nietzsche from a wide range of his written works. The transcript was extremely useful I particularly like the use of source materials and quotes. Thank you very much.
whoah.... what a way to end a video with a quote that penetrates so deeply into the soul...
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thus spake Zarathustra.
God is dead.
@@rakshitdesai1920 i killed him
#111 & #22
@@sebuktegin4403 no, we killed him
Levente Czelnai how shall we wash away the blood ;-:
The ending was just what I needed to hear!!!THANK YOU!!!
That last quote was amazing!!
I like these lectures brah, been trying to wrap my head around his books for a while now.
Drop the brah and you might just get there ;p
Bruh
Thank you so much for this. I found myself thinking I have missed a great opportunity for my own self-development by refusing to read Nietzsche's work.
You have managed, in just a few short minutes, to give me answers to questions I have been trying to answer all my life, (well at least the vast majority of my 54 years in this incarnation).
I hope you are making a living from teaching. I envy your clarity of thought and your ability to make complex ideas accessible 😊
Love your channel! Thank you 🙏
I really enjoy your videos and the big scheme of your intentions through them.
Love the videos, dude. Listening to these remind me how much I really enjoy philosophy.
As I see it, One must discover the inauthentic and fallaciously approximated values and beliefs that one is conditioned to accept.
Once these are pinpointed, one must go through a process of 'self-annihilation', or nihilism; coming through that process and emerging as a human being with authentic, naturally true and uncompromising values. This requires resisting the urge to follow the herd, to please one's parents and so forth, to forge ahead as a true representative of the composition of human nature, to use a Nietzschean dichotomy; to embrace both the Dionysian and the Apollonian, that is, not to live solely in ones head, criticizing, analyzing and classifying everything as a means to exist, but rather embracing those darker, more carnal, visceral and vital parts of ourselves that Judeo-Christian philosophy would have us deny through asceticism and self-denial, which is the essence of Nietzsche's criticism of Platonic-Judeo-Christian values and traditions.
Once one has shaken off the weak and lie filled basis of who we are, then one may forge ahead as a true being, embracing all parts of their nature, denying none.
This is the post-nihilism stage, and from there Nietzsche would have us (or nudge us) toward an idea of expressing our new nature through artistic expression, whatever that may be, to beautify one's existence, to treat oneself as a work of art.
This path is only, however, for a select few, who do not wish to follow the herd, and Nietzsche says: ''The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.'
Finally, I have learned that one cannot bullet point Nietzsche's tenet's of philosophy; I have witnessed violent disagreements between academics as to what Nietzsche is really saying, or intimating.
Nietzsche was the superlative philosopher, perhaps along with Socrates and Dostoevsky, in urging one to think for oneself, that this was a great strength and great celebratory discernment between philosophy and Directive, or prescriptive blueprints for living.
Nietzsche gave us the hints, the sign posts, the directions and the aphorisms to inspire us, but in no way did he want us to blindly and robotically follow anyone or anything without critical thought.
this was awesome to read and I learned a lot! Thanks Kiowhatta C
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Very good comment indeed. Thank you for writing it!
Well said, you hit it right on the nail
Thank you for your clear and succinct formulation. It clarifies and puts names to the struggles, darkness and process I'm going through for the last 12 years. What started as the letting go of a Big Love, ended up with being stripped back to the core(?) of my being. I've felt naked, vulnerable and absolutely frightened during parts of it as I wasn't aware that I was going through this deconstruction. My curiosity in philosophy has given me some guide posts to keep climbing this mountain as I'm slowly approaching the top. Your summary was a big 'A-ha' moment.
Yes! This a hundred times. You articulated it so well, thank you
I love this. Thank you for making and sharing
Well thought out, I really enjoyed this !
11:18 is the essence of Carl Jung's Aion. It's scary the power of this man's clarity and depth, that he is able to touch on a subject that Carl Jung didn't even fashion yet. They are both terrifying psychological monsters.
please keep doing videos about nietzsche, you're doing a great job! congrats!
Excellent. Very nice work. Thank you.
This channel helps ignite my spirit fire. So awesome. So grateful.
This reminded me of an idea I read once but can't remember where, it was something along the lines of: whatever you choose to do in life, try to end up proud of the person you become by doing it.
"How can someone who can't save himself save others?" It's called sacrifice.
What's the art piece on your profile pic? I see it everywhere and it's beautiful
@@cheggiethegreat It's 'Wanderer above the Sea of Fog' by Caspar David Friedrich
@@toscamulder5614 Thank you!
EXACTLY
It's amazing how good we often are at giving good advice but not being able to apply it to ourselves. I think that's because we think there is hope for others but not for us. Although I see my personal life as almost done, I see that I can help other people with my insights, wisdom etc. That's my message to anyone thinking of suicide. Don't take your own life. Live it for others, but I also say, get angry and deal with who/what has made you feel this way.
Amazing content.
Guenon, talking about the Tradition, said that instinct is the sense through which you can perceive the metaphysical.
These are so good. Thank you so much!
Myself and I are never alone. We often tell him what to do but he doesn't always listen.
I need to listen to my family's voice. I havent called forever
I just discovered this channel and.. I'm subscribed 😊. I think this needs to reach more people, esp in this day and age. I love digging deep into topics such as these. Psycho analysis, reflection, philosophy etc.
Many people don't know this about me. If I were to say these things to my past friends, I know they'd get bored and I'd submit to what they'd rather talk about instead haha. Feed me knowledge and dive in with meee
@Thorgest I sure have. Some ppl just don't ride the same wave as me.
Wow, this was really good. Thanks for posting.
Bro....... thank you for your work. It helps.
I didn’t know Nietzsche had a profound intuition about the primitive human. I see now a profound inspiration for Jung in Nietzsche.
Live like the person you pretend to be on a first date.
Priroda priroda priroda zakon.
hah good one!
So...paranoid, self-conscious and uncertain ;)
@@BlacklightPropaganda its not pretending if its your true self.
a wolf in sheeps clothing. no. Focus on becoming like Jesus. PERFECT
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