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  • lol he has no clue what he's talking about during this whole video

  • tbh TJ scares me a little, but i listen and process wat he says anyways cuz hes got rlly good points. lol

  • I love TJ. Love 90% of the things he says, and have every single one of his videos. That 10% is mainly uneducated misunderstanding. Unfortunatley, TJ's obvious inteligence is often guided by his emotions, hate and anger, not logic and knowledge. His double standards are unbelieveable.

  • Every single comment: "TAA criticized something I believe. Therefore, he doesn't understand it!"

  • @holycow818181 Wrong, because he isn't criticizing what I believe. He isn't actually criticizing individualism at all. What he's critical of is closer to anarcho-primitivism. You and he don't understand what either of these words mean because you couldn't spend five minutes on Wiki-fucking-pedia to inform yourselves before you mindlessly circlejerked your misinformed stance on the subject off of each other.

  • This video is one giant strawman. You don't even pretend to have a clue what individualism is. Could you at least have looked up the word "individualism" before you took the time to make a video trying to bash it? You look like a complete moron.

  • @IJUSTLOVETURTLES Individualism is an offshoot of conservative thinking/framing. It has many decent tenets, and also has many dangerous ideas that deserve to be mocked. This video mocks some of those. Don't be such a pussy about it. Your little ideology is not the end-all-be-all--it's just another way of living that's good in moderation.

  • @tstruss912 Please give an example of which dangerous tenet of individualism he's mocking. Also, I'm not saying I'm hugely into individualism; I just recognize that TJ has no fucking idea what he's talking about in this video.

  • We have a few people in Sweden who are extreme 'off griders'.

  • the net froze at 0:12 .. mother of god

  • I hope he didn't mean it, otherwise, he doesn't know shit about anarchism, individualism or communism because he manifests everything he said on that and this shows tht he doesnt blvin it???

  • You are annoying

  • Oh and TJ. We need you ;P

  • I've never heard the term individualist. From what I saw in the video.. he means something like a minimalist.

  • @mumenschantz Using obscure references that don't relate to what you're arguing about is the best way to get your point across.

  • @mumenschantz You have the authority to constitute what is and isn't a horrible joke. You are god.

  • @mumenschantz You were there. You took part in humans not taking part in big tribes. This is a 100% true fact.

  • @mumenschantz Oh yeah, I forgot that I said democracy kept me safe. In fact, I didn't realize I even mentioned Democracy. Since democracy is the only political ideology.

  • @mumenschantz Yeah, human societies have just had all those things you mentioned throughout all recorded history. But CERTAINLY not all the time. And to address your obvious sarcasm in your second comment; why? Why would you claim that it's already been proven false, then say something that makes it seem like it wouldn't be false. That's not even clever sarcasm, it just looks like you made a mistake in reasoning.

  • Everyone wants to be an individual, nobody wants to be average....yet everyone wants to be viewed as normal....WOAH@!

  • @mumenschantz Well if 2 billion christians can be wrong....

  • Individualist =/= Hipsters

  • Ahhh yess yess I love the smack talk!. GIVE IT TO HIM, TJ!  *fap fap fap fap fap fap *

  • In the simplest terms our society consists of, and was founded upon, individual rights purely so blowhards such as yourself have the freedom of speech and expression..many different forms of collectivism where the rights of the group outweigh those of the individual, coincidentally one form is a theocracy...uh oh... You see in a society where your rights, whatever they maybe, are discussed, voted upon and then determined either by a minority or majority you have already lost. Confusing ?

  • HAHAHA "I'm here to piss you off again!"

  • wait wait what you basically said is all social species are social... i agree with everything you said apart from that

  • You are way too literal.

  • "AHA YES WE ARE SUPERIOR!"

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  • NO!

    

  • I'm scared...

  • individual doesn't automatically mean self reliant, everyone has there own thoughts, just like you, i defiantly agree that people think it makes them better, it doesn't, it just makes you another shit floating around in the sewer.

  • You've just dissected a good many of the Tea Pary members, many Ron Paul and other Libertarians that are "rugged individualists fighting for liberty", and scores of anarchists and Libertarians.

  • well we are born dependent to society. Not much choice there

  • i depend on manufacturers for the parts i select to put in ny pc, yes i am a tech nerd....

  • it would be hilarious without swearing and screaming

  • @forest0aa Well he made some great points, and that's really what matters.

  • How can over 400 fucking cretins dislike this video?

  • @MondaysHurtMe Coz they're in denial.

  • Isnt a machine an assortment of individual components??

  • in a society one cannot stop being a cog in the machinery if one wants the profits. If you live in the woods making your own things and get hurt and know you need medical care won't you want to pay your medical fee for yourself with what money you live outside of society outside the community no friends just you! individualists are stupid. We need anarchy somewhere on this planet for a scientific study and see how fast there will be society forming.

  • If I built my house, or made my clothes, or did this stuff, it wouldn't be as good as the ones I have, nor do I have the tools or skills to do it. I wasn't born knowing this.

  • im an individualist in minecraft...

  • "I will define individualists as 'people who think for themselves.'" -TAA

  • @RedSkiesAwaitUs buffalo penises ARE made of wood, atlease while I'm around.

  • this seems allot more like winge week

  • The closest people I can think of being individualists would be the family of canibals who lived in a cave and kidnapped and ate tourists in the Scottish Highlands.

  • Collectivists suck more.

  • @PolitcalIslam what? Why?

  • @WonderfulDenmark It just does.

  • I don't think this person understands what individualism is. Individualism is not survivalism or escapism nor is it a nuance of either. Individualism simply holds that people should be free to make their own decisions for themselves (instead of the collective action motivated by force) and ought to be self-reliant. And he also doesn't seem to understand money either, seeing as he thinks one is not being self-reliant when one trades with others using money.

  • @TheMoriMaster you're right about your definition. but i think he made the video to show how stupid these people are who subscribe to this and other idealogies, or what they they think it is, then go around the place boasting about how amazing and superior it is, while not putting any of the ideals into practice.

  • @DoMiNoRiX I fail to see how attacking a strawman of individualism is supposed to be seen as such. Firstly, it is never suggested that this is the case, regardless of the satirical nature of the video. Second, if that were true. then he is doing the same by making such an overly pompous criticism like this. Also, in regards to your final clause, if he is poking fun at individualists for not upholding the ideals of his strawman of individualism, then this entire point falls apart.

  • @TheMoriMaster He is right about the last part of what you said. There is no such thing as self-reliance. No matter what, everyone is always relying on something. Making trades and taking a paycheck relies on the well-being of an economy which in turn relies on the presence of resources, the means to utilize them, the labor of people, and an appropriately applied government. Self-reliance is a delusion.

  • @Nathan173AB That is not what is meant when the term is invoked. Self-reliance means taking responsibility for yourself, your problems, and your actions. It does not mean living without human contact or interaction as you imply and argue against. The Individualist position has nothing to do with what that. It isn't relevant to anything. Nobody says that people aren't affected by the world around them nor do they say that it's possible to escape that through any means (Except possibly death).

  • @TheMoriMaster I love the Amazing Atheist, but I think you're right

  • @TheMoriMaster Well, I believe that TJ was talking about people who claim that "they're individuals and they are not a part of the system", who as well don't know what an individual is.

    But yes, individuals and hippies are not the same, I agree with you on that point.

  • @TheMoriMaster He was referring to people who claim to be individualists, he understands what it is, but that doesn't mean that the majority of people who claim to be one ARE one. Also, you're the one who doesn't seem to understand individualism, as it, quote (And yes, I got this from Wikipedia, before you even ask) "opposes most external interference upon one's own interests, whether by society, family or any other group or institution" and using money is not very self-reliant...

  • @TheMoriMaster He's talking about the radicals.

  • I wish Ayn Rand were alive to see this. 

  • 4:22 My favourite moment of TJ's. The passion.

  • I used to be a rugged individualist like you...but then I broke my leg and the hospital fixed my knee.

  • New drinking game: drink a shot whenever TJ says "fuck".

  • @AtheistGamer4 I counted 43. You'd be dead by the end of one fucking video. lol.

  • fucking fuckitty fuck

  • Honey badgers are individualist.

  • I feel sorry for his neighbours haha

  • lol, awesome rant

  • shut the fuck up cunt

  • I'd say I'm somewhere between a primativist and a progressionist(if that's even a fucking word, which I doubt, but whatever)

    I'd love to come home from a shitty job in the office to a mud hut I built myself and walk around in handmade leather, sheepskin and natural dyed clothes with a sword strapped to my side and a motherfucking fridge-freezer next to my amazing wood fire and rough wood desk with my fucking macbook.

    In fact I fully intend to live like this one day.

  • O.K. so day 4 was fuckin epic... couple of gripes with days 2 & 3 but I'm thoroughly looking forward to day 5.

  • I agree with all of these. holy shit.

  • I loved the "NO" part.

  • @SixFootTallMidget

    But if someone continue to wrongs you or the community, yes, you should definitely be allowed to defend yourself. Hopefully, the person can be helped somehow. However, if we fix the environment people grow up in, that will be rare.

  • @SixFootTallMidget

    Most of the violence in this world is caused by people with power and those who are willing to accept it. As for the other part,the idiots as you said, we need to ask ourselves why they do what they do. Why do people steal? Well, most people are a product of their environment (in that case probably poverty) more than anything else (even genes in many if not most instances). Instead of trying to correct people, we should try to correct the environment.

  • @SixFootTallMidget

    Nowhere. The government has no real basis for legitimate authority. The only defense of the legitimacy of the government is the social contract, which is just a stupid concept, since it was never agreed to by both parties (me and the government).

  • @SixFootTallMidget

    Anarchy is moral because government is force. Governments, no matter how they are elected or established, democratically or not, in essence force their will upon others. If you don't comply with the rules of the government, you're going away for some time. I ask you, who said I agreed to comply to these rules? What if I don't want to be governed? Where does the right of governments to force me to obey come from?

  • @SixFootTallMidget

    I suppose you are familiar with John Hobbes? Hobbes said that human beings are savage if no one rules over them and therefor they need a government, which operates under a social contract with civilians. The problem is 1) social contracts are bullshit and 2) we have governments and human beings are still savage, if anything governments have been the cause for more war, death, famine, genocide, torture and coercion than other humans could ever do.

  • his impression of individualists remind me of threw it on the ground

  • I'd like to be a individualist. But i'd rather help people.

  • eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeNO!­

  • I remember when you were an Individualist and a Libertarian, TJ.

  • @TheAssesKicker I knew he was a Libertarian, but when was he an individualist?

  • @aPandorasboxofmusic Search for a video called "I'm A Bigot, Not A Racist" and skip to 13:16. You're welcome.

  • I fucking love this guy. Thought provoking.

  • "Did you fuckin stalk that motherfucker *smack* and kill that mother fucker?? NO!"

  • I'm sorry but when did all anarchists become anarcho-primitivists? I'm an anarchist and I find anarcho-primitivists laughable.

  • @SSTTEEAALLTTHH Anarchism is just as equally laughable.

  • @mikerules999

    Anarchism is the the only moral and logical choice.

  • Actually I am an individualist because I live in a forest with no internet and I eat leaves everyday while drinking tree sap.

  • Yup your still a moron. Let me explain it to you . Being indep and free means I may work with the system and I may chose not to. I pay for such things in real world wealth that I produce. Ergo you and the system can root and die and I will continue long after. Why because they want what I produce. So you will die along with the rest as we live on and rise above. What a sick stupid small mind.

  • @Edgrot *you're*

  • I listen to this video again after watching the lonely island "threw it on the ground" I think this video has become one of my personal favourites.

  • I built this computer out of buffalo penises and wood... Checkmate atheist!

  • @RedSkiesAwaitUs but you didn't create your own internet, did you? checkmate! xxD

  • @RedSkiesAwaitUs I made my laptop out of cheese whiz and pubic hair out of my FACE!. My FACE. You know where pubic comes from?. Well, it doesn't come from my FACE.

  • He hates cops AND Anarchy?

  • I called my teatcher dumb ones when she used the word "anarchy" in the wrong way, then i realised that everyone fucking one does. And i can't hate everyone because they use one little word(quite an important word for me though) wrong. If people agree with my ideas when i talk to them, but they think im a wild igonart bastard when i tell them what i call myself, perhaps i should not call myself things before i know that people know what i think.

  • I FUCKING HATE ANARCHY RETARDS

  • 00:52 NAUWH!

  • I saw this video and THREW IT ON THE GROUND!

  • I think you miss the point of individualism. Yes, we do live in a society because we benefit from trade and cooperation, but when someone else labors to produce the food that I'm going to eat, I don't take it from him for free; I exchange with him the value of the labor which I produced through my own effort, so neither of us is in debt to the other.

    As such, the individualist exists through his own effort by trading his effort with other individualists.

  • @shamgar001 Who are you fooling? That basically describes what the working class in almost every country. That's what humans do anyways with the money they get from their job. They use their money to feed themselves by either going to restaurants or super markets.

    Individualism my ass.

  • @iHarveyLOL How does that negate my point?

  • My friends dad knew someone who made his own clothes, built his own house and hunted/gathered his own food with makeshift weaponry. Apparently he said he'd rather be a part of the system.

  • I threw it on the ground

  • 77,777 views

  • I'm sit down on chair manufactured in fuckin' Taiwan !

  • its funny to learn that a word (anarchy) which comes from 'without rulers' actually mean not relying or consulting anyone and that all this time i'v been reading emma goldman i had it all wrong even when she talked about the importance of a strong society in anarchism.....................­........yeah awk moment..........

  • You completley contradict your earlier video "Fuck theistic Evolutionists" on yourTheamazingterroja channel (i know they're not affliterated with you but it is you).

    at 9:30 you say "i am coining a term, amazing atheism." and go on to say that that means you "Mr rugged fucking individualist as much as you possibly can be. "but that's what i am, and that's what my channel name means from now on.""

    Now you said "i hate rugged ass individualists". can you elaborate as to why you changed your mind?

  • @TehSxc18yearOld it is you as in you earlier than this video, it was posted 2 years earlier)

  • and anarchism exists on the internet

  • yeah, since when is it that anarchism is no help from anyone, it is just that you don't have people stealing from you using the justification of being the government

  • so your not an anarchist 

  • Proba-fucking-ly is my new word of the month!

  • Anarchy doesn't exist. It's an impossible ideal, just like socialism and communism. These ideals can possibly exist, but they are only transitional and fragile *TEMPORARY* states of being in a society, inevitably followed by its next stage which usually includes someone taking over after the people are disarmed of their wits and are uncoordinated to prevent it. Anyone who disagrees has the right to their opinion, and they'll continue confusing matters of fact with those of opinion ad nauseum.

  • Whoever told this guy that anarchism was about being in the woods alone needs to be shoot.

  • The question is: does your reliance on other people come with everyone's consent? Or is their reliance forcefully offered to you through government force?

  • does this faggot ever take a breath?

  • @DeadIslandTrailers just out of curiosity...what makes you call him a faggot? just out of curiosity. Thanks

  • This title should really be named "Individualists" with quotes, because really you're talking about isolationists...

  • probafuckingly! best word

  • fuck all these fake ass blogers

    this guy is one of the realest motherfuckers on the planet.

    right after George Carlin & Bill Hicks (which are not on this planet anymore

  • Awww... I'm so disappointed on your video, I was looking forward to share it on my Facebook. You got individualists all wrong! Totally agree that what you're describing are also individualists: the right-libertarian kind. An individualist is the one who is unwilling to scratch someone else's back but are willing to get someone to scratch theirs, or submit someone by paying them. Participating in society doesn't make you a non-individualist. Being a communitarianist does, without money involved.

  • @eljodedor73 So your kind of individualist is the abusive asshole who exploits others and gives nothing back and that's apparently left-wing.

  • TJ! your so fluffy I'm going to die!!!!

  • he does have a point there. but i think there is something to be said about the way that a lot of people use the word "individualist". true, when people say the extreme "im not just another cog in the machine!" they are wrong to the extreme. but some people are individualistic from certain parts of society. generally there is one popular belief, and people who do not believe the same thing believe they are at least sort of individualistic from the common belief but i see what hes saying for sure

  • /round of applause/

  • How do you assemble a DVD. . .?

  • This video managed to piss me off in the most amazing way possible. Fucking awesome.

  • TJ you PISSED ME OFF! and you know what it's about fucking time, if the entertainer hasn't pissed you off he ain't an entertainer. great video you douchebag! thumbs up.

  • iv'e been telling people this for years. But you man said it muuuch better

  • TJ im pretty sure these people mean they dont agree with the government and arnt part of any particular fad (goth or rock or pop or whatever)

    you get mad at things justly because they need fixing but this isnt one of these things its not a big deal, lighten up bud u cant get angry at EVERYTHING you see give yourself a break.

  • Yea some R more independent than others, but no1 can survive just by themselves. What gets me R the 'survivalists' who can't wrap their mind around the fact survival ultimately might mean being part of a community & sharing your assets with others. Sometimes sharing equitably, sometimes not.

  • thank you, you are amazing

  • @xGaydolfShitlerx Quit bitching kid, everyone's got there opinions so deal with it and fuck off with the petty insults its really diminishes any assumption that you have any fucking intellect what so ever. "FUCK YOU FATSO".. Yeah, way to get your point across. You must be one of those people that are bent on the idea of individualism T.J. was talking about although your insults were about as generic as it gets lol.. FAIL. Get over yourself man, that incoherent nonsense is pretty pathetic.

  • You sir, are a genius. Simply, a genius.

  • no, but we throw shit on the ground.

  • I cannot stop laughing because up until watching this I thought I was one of these guys.

  • i likeded the part where he was angry

  • the "NO!" part had me dying

  • @BillKiernan Yeah, me too. It's so damn stupid.

  • I love your videos, but that last part was traumatic. xD

  • bravo sir, bravo...

  • is the movie amazing on youtube by TJ?

  • LOL, when I had recently posted loads of comments, the code it asked me to write down was 'biblemisi' and, ironically, I was watching TheAmazingAtheist.

  • HEY!

    just letting you know, there are multitudes of "NON PRIMITIVE" societies living in this "modern age" today that are hunters and gatherers and DO NOT have hierarchies and underlings and everything else you're spewing on about. they are called bands and live quite peacefully. i know some people are over the top about being individualists, but most of their arguments encircle anti-materialistic lives that modern society cherishes. don't make such broad assumptions or youll be just as ignorant.

  • DUDE! If you start believing in God, I will officially marry you!

  • @0squishymonster0 Why only if he believes in God?

  • @0squishymonster0 If he believed he wouldn't be as smart or as cool...

  • The communism in nature bit reminded me of Watership Down. :)

  • bravo bravo

  • I don't believe in the concept of an individualist that was just discussed, I think people should think for themselves and embrace who they are as an individual and still find their way of contributing to society, not to pretend that they could successfully leave humanity while they are still very much a part of it...

  • TJ,

    I'm a Christian but I agree with 90% of what you say and this is by far my favorite video. Love your shit man.

  • fuck allstate

  • "here to piss us off again"? LOL. Yup, you are the only fat, ignorant spoiled angry little American who comes on you tube yelling at everyone because your failures are too hard to take.

  • @jordanjcm I smell internet tough guy with bad case of unwarranted self importance.

  • @RavenholmHunter So, If I made a "hate" video instead of a "hate" comment, then I could say what ever I want.? Otherwise I am just an internet Troll? Is that how your thinking works? : (Hate video's good. Hate comments bad ) LOL At least you balanced it out with your warrented, important comment. Thank you.

    I feel the guy in the video has a case of unwarrented, self importance. You feel that way about me. I get the feeling you might have the same problem. No?

  • @jordanjcm Actually, people that make hate videos put some effort in those. I don't mind hate comments at all, I actually like when trolls cause massive shitstorms. But on YouTube, its just retarded. Thank you for your time chap.

  • @RavenholmHunter Trolls cause massive shitstorms ? Yikes! Maybe turn off your computer, go outside and get some air.  P.S. I don't think you are retarded at all. Trolls are just bored. You like to troll the trolls and I don't think it's retarded at all. Just take a break once in a while.

  • @jordanjcm Cool story brotato

  • @jordanjcm What?

  • @jordanjcm Has he ever denied being a fat guy on youtube?

    haha, you're the ignorant one, buddy. He always classes himself as a fat guy yelling on youtube. Cunt.

  • @MegaShaaf ROFL So you are crying because I called him fat. He IS fat. I am also FAT. LOL Thanks for calling me a Cunt. (they say you are what you eat)

    P.S. I am just a fat guy yelling on youtube. I am just to poor to buy a cam. I a very sad now. : (

  • @jordanjcm He is fat. I'm fat. If almost everyone weighed like, 6 pounds, you'd be fat.

  • @GameMasterShania ( If almost everyone weighed like, 6 pounds, you'd be fat ? ) Sorry I don't know what that means.

  • @jordanjcm Fat means overweight, which is comparitve