The Decadents | The Enemy Explained 2
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- Words cannot describe how much sorrow I feel for the poorest people in western society. Completely letdown, both socially, and economically, large swaths of society today are left to rot in a state that I like to refer to as "decadence".
In this episode of The Enemy Explained, I'll be explaining the psychological mindset of decadency, how it came to be, and what could be done to lift people out of such physical, mental, and spiritual poverty.
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Just basically laid out exactly why I care so much about certain topics. Most of my peers respond with "why does it matter?" or "Why do you care what people do?". Already, they have succumbed to the collective nihilism spawned by neoliberalism.
Rampant individualism has provided people in the western world with the illusion that freedom is the ultimate virtue, and thus, if everyone is just left to their own devices, everything will work out in the end. Naturally, this isn’t the case, especially in times of economic consolidation.
A large and ever increasing slice of the population cannot just be allowed to linger in pitiful conditions and expect no wider consequences. Western leaders are so divorced from their actions that they don’t understand the consequences of them.
Sadly, from what I can see, this intellectually lazy libertarian fantasy is also commonplace amongst the average person as well, so perhaps, at least for now, we have the leaders we deserve.
My response is: Can anything *be* done?
I am not a Doomer, I just don't have an answer.
@@TheNamelessScholarOfficial I feel the same way. I couldn't be a doomer either because like this channel there are people that feel it and know that something is wrong here, something insidious. It's not anything we would ever see on TV.
@@TheNamelessScholarOfficial The people that do care are vastly outnumbered by the people that don't care. All we can do is try our best to get enough people to care to make change.
@@WeegeeSlayer123 Foward escape then? Form communities of people caring.
I don't know a single friend or family member from my generation who has a child with the person they are married to. I know women who cry on social media about how hard it is to raise a child as a single mom, and yet they didn't try and work things out with the father of the child (if they even know how it is), and when they are dating someone new, they either use the guy for money and resources or they can't give enough attention because the child takes priority, so the guy dumps them.
Traditional roles existed because they worked, but now people think they know better, and so they are quickly learning, that it is a cruel and lonely world when you don't have someone to help you in life.
A large issue is that the meaning of marriage in modern western society has been largely forgotten.
The 1960’s brought both the introduction of no fault divorce, which removed the “til death due us part” part of marriage, as well as the hippie social norms that followed, which ceased it to be a gatekeeper to reproduction. Ultimately, both devolving marriage into what it is today: an empty event, devoid of most meaning.
Marriage is now often treated as this day of raw celebration, whereby people declare their love for one another publicly, and can get drunk, eat cake, and dance. But ultimately, marriage is not just pomp with no circumstance, it is intended to be a lifelong financial contract and a declaration of family creation as an insurance policy for the next generation.
The only true way to return meaning to marriage, and by proxy fix the family unit, is the reversal of the damage caused in the 1960’s: reiterating a certain permanence to marriage, and an en masse acceptance of the dangerous consequences of rampant recreational intercourse.
Until these reversals are done en masse, societal decay in the western world will only continue, whereby everyone suffers as a result.
Where do you live? I live in the Upper Midwest and know tons of people in their 20s getting married and having children. There are, of course, many children born out of wedlock as well, but it is far from a cultural norm. And there are also a lot of people who are divorced, but most people seem to at least try to start a family the right way. Perhaps it is much worse in other regions of the US. Places like NYC and LA are so far removed from my everyday life that they are like foreign countries to me.
@Nick Pavia I am in the UK. The gov pretty much bails women out of every bad decision when it comes to having kids.
@@nophone9311 Ah, makes sense. Sorry to hear that things in your country have gotten so bad. Single motherhood is definitely not something that most women in the US want, although it is becoming more and more common. Most single mothers that I know have to work a ton, and they rely a lot on family to help with their kids. It is definitely still seen by most women as a situation to be avoided.
It's a cruel world no matter how you slice it. The Stoics were right that you can't fight fate, some people are meant to be happy and others not.
I realized that hip hop is the music of decadence.
MODERN hip hop. Originally hip hop was very socially conscious. Remember "fight the power?" But it was hijacked by the bourgeoisie. A genre of positive social change that spoke to the underclass, warped into one that merely creates more of them.
As an Atlanta native, I wouldn't use the skyline of Atlanta at 2:45 as a beacon of human accomplishment 😂 Keep up the good work brother ☝️
I've been attempting to describe something very similar. I say: Society now rewards social status and thus people pursue social status, at the expense of those around them. They pursue social status, over merit, because if they were to compete on merit and competence, they have none to speak of. By depriving those with merit, desire for competence and self improvement, and no desire for status or wealth, of their natural competition, they demoralize anyone with the capacity to do good, because they will never be allowed to achieve, as they would then become a threat to the status seekers.
Does it even matter? Social skills are just one of many skills, all of which are mostly predetermined by a genetic caste system of nature called talent. There's nothing anyone can do to help those who are permanently unfortunate, any attempt at doing so only creates even more problems and usually turns into victim blaming.
Humans are status-seeking creatures except in the past people gained status in more meaningful ways.
Bugger I’m decadent. Gonna have to work on it.
Quite possibly the most depressing thing I've ever seen was when I taught HS chemistry last year. There was this one girl who spent every second of class playing on his phone, yapping with her bf, cussing me out, etc...
One time I confronted her about her behavior in class, and she said this:
"Mr. Noivern, if we want to to throw our lives away, how's it any of your business?"
I rank this as THE most depressing thing I've ever heard anybody say. This is decadence incarnate.
First, always a good day when Hexagon spreads the right word
23:00 Penaulty. Penalty for misspelling. Death.
I genuinely love your videos. Laid out well, not preachy, nicely edited. Plus you have a good voice.
13:52 - The Rotherham situation is a thing that would make every sane person's blood boil.
The police not only refused to intervene for many years, they actively were protecting the gangs, such as arresting the parents of abused children when they attempted to take law into their own hands.
And I'm sure that the situation got so bad not because "the victims being poor".
Same. The most disgusting mark of shame on the British government and civilization for allowing it to happen. Can't even state the obvious fact regarding the perps now because of hate crime laws. I would've taken the law into my own hands too, and probably would have gone too far after faced with how they responded.
I unfortunately had to visit San Francisco this weekend and it was a total eye opener to how horrible the homeless population is there. Most if not all were also in the zombie like state you mentioned in the video called "the dope fiend lean".
The "dope fiend lean" is when a person has severe respiratory depression from excessive heroin use. Users "nod out" by an automatic reaction that forces a conscious user under the influence to involuntarily fall asleep. If someone is standing when this occurs, they are basically falling asleep while awake. What causes them to be hunched over instead of just falling is because they are still semi-conscious. This causes the person to exert enough force to remain standing.
Truly a depressing site and people just turn a blind eye to it all there. Bright lights and fancy buildings all surrounded by the lowest of the low. Praying for the healing of the west.
Awesome video as always Alex 🔥
It's bin a minet I hope life has bin treating you well lately alex your osum stay safe have a great week.
i'm downloading and cataloguing these videos so i can play them for my kid in order before letting him has a phone or leave the house. this is gold !
PLEASE make a video on those methods. I thing it would make a very entertaining video. I will also be forwarding your videos to all of my friends and family members, as they are very educational!
Not a socialist or a collectivist in the larger sense, but I do believe you to be intelligent, knowledgeable, and mostly on the right track. Regardless of any disagreements we might have, I believe you are right. This is an existential threat and we need to come together to overcome it or we will all burn together.
Yes. I'd pick this current society over north korea or a gulag any day. I'm not a socialist in the slightest as socialist countries replace their bourgeoisie with a new bourgeoisie that it much harder to get rid of, namely a murderous totalitarianthe regime. But the guy makes sense. Normal people need to stand up to this bullshit and take back the democracy to the people's hands where it belongs.
We're going to burn either way, don't fan the flames
Wow, you said this will be a depressing episode, but I did not know how it would be like this. One of my favorite videos of yours so far, you hit every point on the nail from the characteristics to the causes and the solutions. I love all of your videos, but so far I haven't agreed more with you on any other.
I really can't praise you less for such informative videos. keep it up. Always
I've been really digging these past few videos, they've definitely hit a new high for the channel to me, I always make sure to share them with friends, they're definitely topics that should be discussed way more in our society. Keep up the good shit, Alex. 👍
Great video Alex 🔥🔥
Decadence is when humans act on insticts closely related to our "animal" ancestors. To act like the evolved beings we are its necessary to act on reason, before emotions or desires.
Plato was right all along.
Plato was still a servant of the devil I mean nature, even if he admitted that things such as the soul exist.
You could just ban the use of Narcan by emergency responders and 50%+ of the problem would be taken care of right there.
Man this is the First Video wher the warning it's gona be Depression man this episodes realy got me your Videos really improved a really good and sad video
Minor addendum, you're never "fully cured" from addiction you learn the underlying root causes for your addiction and work to understand and overcome them you gain the understanding that your life is better now and your self control grows as well but the side effects and symptoms don't completely leave you. I've been sober from painkillers for 13 years now and I've spent a lot of time helping others such as the homeless and the disillusioned vets who turn to drugs and alcohol to ignore their problems as they go through the difficult process of getting clean. You can get clean and sober and stay that way but addiction leaves it's mark on you that will never fully go away. Thinking of addiction as an all or nothing situation works to hurt people going through rehabilitation as they come to think of it as "I still have cravings and withdrawals it must mean I'm not making any progress maybe I'm a lost cause" and instead of being able to see their progress they feel defeated.
if the third threat is who I think it is, part three will be the most interesting part.
In the bible, bourgeoisie is called "the flesh".
Allow me to take a stab at guessing your next topic: Consumers?
While I cannot subscribe to your line of thinking or your conclusions, you've given me something to chew on.
Very good channel.
Found your channel the other day. Probably watched 10 of your videos so far. At first I thought you'd be filled with nonsense and a raging liberal based off appearances alone. You've got high quality information here, and I've definitely learned things watching them. This video only having 5.5k views is a crime against humanity.
This should have more views. Good job, keep it up
You speaking 1000% facts
18:00 is that don't be cruel by Elvis Presley. (I also live in the UK, Scotland)
In summary, the belief of an arrogant rich person that they are the creator of the poor is rooted in a combination of economic power, historical context, psychological self-perception, and social narratives. This belief not only distorts the reality of poverty but also perpetuates inequality by reinforcing the status quo
what you call "decadence" is at least similar to what economists call "time preference".
Is that music at the end from the menu in Mass Effect?
Alex, you should be the Minister of Public Information for a Nationalist party. You'd do very well. This explains the problem very clearly.
Why is this not a PSA /after school special?
this society makes me wish there was an outer heaven-like place for me to join. contribute to a place above all this crap
My guy these need to be seen by more people!!
Plz use more click bait thumbnails and titles BUT KEEP the QUALITY content we love.
Really appreciate that you haven't put any religious thing in the few techniques that could be done, that way, we can like the video without adding "but...". And, at 22:57 I think there is a "crime" missing in the first line
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Good video, keep it up.
I feel sad listening to this.
The only thing I'd disagree upon is abolishing private education. Of course, if we're talking not about Britain - maybe, that's a big problem there. But in my country less then 1% studies in private schools, and the state is intervowen with borgeois into true oligarchy, even cleptocracy. So no state education to braiwash our nation, in my particular case. After all, my country had fallen into different decadence, after the ideological wasteland of Soviet Union dissolved.
Cracking video, and rings true, though blaming individualism is just creating another scape goat.
Why would people want to be farmers? Being a farmer sucks😅 never heard about this phenomenon. But I have heard many that want to flee from society. Unfortunately as you said.. there is nowhere to flee.
Park Hill flats in Sheffield have had a face-lift and have been gentrified... Still a grim place to live up there.
i thought he was going to talk about the jake gylenhall giant spider mixed with fight club movie.
Redittors/breadtubers. Gotta be.
Honestly, it's not just those two (although I argue that both Redditors and Breadtubers technically starts the influencing spheres to even supported by both NGOs of both-profits and non-profit sectors of specific neoliberal stripes), but of internet streamers, contentious video essayists and social media influencers in general, those who pertains to uphold values, only to bend it to their whim the moment they got a lot of wealth and social clouts among other kinds of tractions from it
And worse of all, some of these are often less visible and varies in different abstractions and forms according to each influencers' desires (much like of Trailokya division works in Buddhism), each influencers are pretty much stands like gods in Buddhism, they enact pretentions of authorities, replacement of father-figures while often juxtapose dialectic authorities based of what they think is right without enacting any good actions asides from at most lousy demonstrations, internet beefs and petty dramas on the more leftist side, whereas on the more rightist side, it's mostly heralded by the more "libertarian right" influencers which also shifts according to their own desires, although being even more honest at being selfish, equally progressive yet financially conservative, both liberal left and libertarian right intersects in both strands of Neoconservatism and Neoliberalism under increasingly more individualistic issues, less of constructive collective problem-solving, then shoves all the weights and carriages to mostly individuals, this is why you'll see youtubers in general are focusing so much at petty dramas, exposing individuals and doing toxic behaviours for either egotism to downright internet-money leeching self-centeredness
These individualistic influencers on the internet (and even on television back in the 80s to early 2000s) are lacking cultural standards on how to judge good from bad, have little concerns for the less fortunate (even demonising them if they could use it as their rhetorical ammunitions), neo-tribalism in the sense that it's using football mentality at picking political parties, jumbles in between whose the best or lesser evil of all legacy medias, internet tech giants being uphold to little credence with increasingly more complicated patchworks of regulations that eventually law firms of multinational corporations can find loopholes to rapes the poor and downtrodden further, it is systematic beyond just capitalism, it's materialism, individualism, cynicism and selective apathy muddled in one and squaring those whose powerless to be easily shoved into specific ghetto alleys among these chavs, it's the outmost terribly stagnating to declining types of the current systems that now fuelled further by political correctness, Critical Race Theory, intersectionality, etc that if you're even poor, once you talk something insensitive, then not even a lick of percentage chance supports are provided for you
Hence it's ultimately being manufactured fatalism and nihilism at it's worst, broken people are robbed the chances to be fixed, mended and rejuvenated into productive and generative members of society, only for such selective neglects and stigmas bites them once these poor broken people snaps and done even worse crimes, sometimes, it's not just the rich and elites that are fault, but also the way society at large are easily swayed due to them being lacking critical thinking over what they've done and being dishonest about it, thinking "personal responsibilities" being their easy card to get out, then once controversies subjected to them, they change masks and pretend to the authorities that they uphold virtues (despite they're not), blatant hypocrisies, which further giving even more layers of shields to the social and financial elites and their influencer cronies
@@ohamatchhams I'm going to have to give this a lot more time to digest once I'm done wage slaving this week. Thanks for for the three course meal of a response to my low effort comment!
22:32 Well here my first major disagreement the problem as a policy this doesn't actually solve the problem of ghettos it just causes ghettos to be moved. gentrification doesn't solve social problems like unfortunately at all.
I consider your videos as public service.
Awesome video. Unfettered, rapid, globalization certainly led to the Rotherham sexual assault epidemic.
Only had two problems with the video
First, the idea of abolishing private education. I would like to still have the choice of how my children will be educated
Second, the idea that we either unite as a species or go extinct. Humanity has never, and will never unite under a single human identity, people are just too different for that to happen, nor will we go extinct, although mass death is a possibility
That last part treaded dengerously close to the historical determinism that marked progressive ideologies, most notably marxism
Sorry, but blaming individualism for what is happening now is way off base. What we are experiencing now is both extreme individualism and extreme collectivism. That's why collective guilt is such a huge aspect of modern culture. Individualism and collectivism are both highly flawed and need to be balanced against each other. Otherwise, you end up with the worst atrocities in human history.
Correct, if anything it’s extreme collectivism that has caused many of these issues
@@cs91635 I think that collectivism is causing many of the worst issues, but extreme individualism is still causing some issues as well. Too many people only care about what makes them feel good and "as long as it's not hurting anybody" they are okay with it. The problem is, they are only going by direct harm such as punching someone as their yardstick for what counts as "hurting someone".
This is what needs to be done, and you should start, teach people how to make their own Cultures, Tribes and Races. It's not that hard, all people need to do is make a list of the types of:
1. Architecture they Like
2. Diet they like
3. Fashion they like
4. Plants, Trees and Animals they like(to maintain a specific ecosystem tailored to their tribe)
5. Music and Instruments they like
6. They should construct a language
7. Sports and Fitness regimen they like
8. Philosophies they like(Morals are just shared likes and dislikes made Holy and Unholy, Laws are just likes and dislikes made mandatory)
9. etc.
Then, they should all open a shared bank, put about 20-30 percent or more, use that money to relocate to the same area, buy equipment to produce goods they need for themselves then only in group breed(so the evolve into a distinct genetic line and race)
Not that hard. Collectivism + Creativity = Cultural Engineering and Racial Engineering this is where high EQ + high IQ takes you...
Economics and Wealth isn't about money its about peoples ability to gather resources or produce resources they need to keep their culture going and giving away the excess or what you don't use(example if your tribe only wears silver but their mines also produce gold they don't use or need, they can give it away to a culture that does wear gold) and this is done if you have a Tribal Custom or Cultural Tradition which gives structure to what should be used and produced and what shouldn't be, this stops waste and pollution.
People should start to see that Cults, Secret Societies, Cabals, Cultures, Subcultures, Tribes, Ethnicities and Religions are all the same thing. Gods and Goddesses are just personifications of the collective consciousness and culture of a specific group.
Culture is a Collective Art Project and Race is the result...
The Philosophies of the Intelligent are: Collectivism, Familialism, Tribalism, Communitarianism, Ethnocentrism(as people in group breed till they become a new race), Ethnopluralism(each Tribe being allowed to stay in their own territories) and Sectarianism(think of how the Amish and Mennonites gather all decenters and help them get set up in a different area with a culture based on their specific likes and dislikes)
Only thing, birth rates would have to be controlled and limited so population doesn't exceed good produced or people become so numerous they become strangers and each Sub Tribe or Sect must maintain the same overall Tribal Customs so they don't evolve into completely different groups where they forget they are cousins and start fighting each other.
Men are supposed tp become Patriarchs and make their personal habits and philosophy into a family tradition which gives women and children the structure and direction they need..
If you want to live in North Korea, go live in North Korea.
All you proposed situations sound like insane authoritarian measures. This is the problem with collectivists you’ll trample on individual rights and freedoms in the name of the greater good. The problem with this is that as you yourself pointed out our leaders often sell us out and or are incompetent so the amount of devastation they could bring is insane. This kind of thinking is what lead to all great genocides and famines from Hitler to Mao.
Hyperbolic much? There's no nuance with you people.
Why should a group of people abide by the rules of a society which excludes them from the benefits of said society?
that makes a human human？
we tell storys，some，maybe most of them labeld with a name
we live this storys and share them and create new
some animals get to understand some storys but creating and sharing？even crows struggle with that
The death *penaulty* really? Is English your 2nd language?
Will the bourjois ever be free of the proletariat?!
23:00, Are you INSANE ? DEATH PENALTY ? the guilty will not be punished,Too much risk for too low reward
Humans don't have tails.
Do I win five pounds?
P.S. Most wealthiest? It doesn't get any more better than that :D
most people are either cowards or are unaware of these issues, so i highly doubt people will fight back and create change.
things will just get worse whilst the rich boomer families get even richer
Ive recently begun to realise how lucky I’ve been to actually have grown up with parents who are together and actually love each other. Almost all my friends and people I know have parents that aren’t together, or don’t even have dads at all.
Also, if your reading this Alex, I’ve been interested in the Quran for many years and have finally begun reading it, and I have a question. What does shirk actually mean? Most definitions have been rather confusing.
@@lengendaryleo3578 Thanks, I've been more and more interested in Islam after I visited relatives in Malaysia, and visited many Mosques. It's amazing how people of all backgrounds are brought together, I will definitely look into it further.
I think you missed an opportunity to correctly use the word “bastards” in this video.
What do you identify yourself politically? Somewhere on the left or right wing spectrum?
Based on this video, very far-left
@@crystalvulpine2314 Doesn't seem like it, look at his video The Disposables The enemies explained 3
@@danpaz9485 That doesn't sound like it leans one way or the other. But part 2 is radically collectivist, which is extremely far-left.
@@crystalvulpine2314 U must be trolling, he claims that disposibles are irreligious, childless folks with little to no property that is capitalism still persists, that they willingly do it on purpose to fuck people over as if it isn't because religion and being a parent comes with its own struggles and conflict if you're a woman, lgbtq or a minority. He isn't far left, hes a social conservative whos using left wing ideas, particularly Marxist theory to justify discrimination against poor people, athiests and childfree folks, as if capitalists like to support those folks, they already have been trying to use/support the status quo with poverty, religion, traditional family ideas and gender roles to control people/prevent people from organising to rise against the capitalists. I don't think you know what you're talking about in terms of this guy's political stance, while I don't disagree the possibility that people can adopt ideas from an entirely different ideology and still be considered leftist, its obvious that hes using these ideas to reinforce his own ideals of why capitalism is here and who we should be blaming.
Monkeys evolved to adapt to the enviroment, while humans adapt the enviroment to fit his needs. Therefore humans evolved to adapt the enviroment, and thats why whe are smart.