The Revolution Begins In Your Mind

Some thoughts on the "revolutionary" mindset.

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• libertarian
• revolution
• anarchism
• liberty
• child
• psychology
• authority
• abuse
• happiness

[Shezmu]

Point of clarification: are you saying that people who know why millions of people are dying around the world and how to prevent these death and are trying their hardest to teach the world how to prevent these deaths who get saddened on the thought that these preventable deaths will likely not end in their lifetimes have something mentally wrong with them?

[XOmniverse]

I'm saying if it makes you incapable of living a happy life because you're so focused on it, then yes, something is mentally wrong with you. That's not a moral judgment so much as a realization.

[FatGermanBastard]

The word "rational" only means that an action is efficient to achieve a goal. Since without intrinsicism goals are subjective no such thing as objective rationality can exist. Pursuing happiness is only rational if happiness is your subjective goal. You might as well have other goals such as integrity or sacrifice.

Ayn Rand's philosophy is an ideology that prohibits you from considering these values as goal. It is therefore an ideal which makes you less free. You are tied to her ideology.

[XOmniverse]

You're talking to yourself, btw. I figured I'd let you know since you've left more than one comment about a topic I already said I didn't want to discuss with you.

[FatGermanBastard]

Yeah sometimes I think you, Rose and Aaron are basically pragmatists in the sense that you don't care what is true as long as believing in it makes life bearable. If that's your choice: So be it.

[XOmniverse]

I think I've made a solid case for my ethical claims already in past videos. I think this comment is intended to belittle me because, for whatever reason, you desperately want a perpetual argument about ethics.

Maybe you'll find some other channel to argue with people on.

[vonPeterhof]

(cont.) slew the dragon and now rules as a "dragon-lite". When the knight reveals the truth the people immediately pledge allegiance to him. Then he realises that even though the dragon is gone he is still alive in their minds due to centuries of propaganda which led them to believe that they will not survive without a dragon-like ruler. He sees that his work is far from over, because in order to truly free them he has to slay the dragon within each of them, or get them to do it themselves.

[vonPeterhof]

In Russian we have a saying - "slay the dragon within you". It comes from a perestroika-era film, in which a wandering knight slays an oppressive dragon who had ruled a kingdom for 400 years, with his subjects thoroughly brainwashed (it is implied that the dragon is a human, who convinced the others that he is a dragon). As soon as the dragon dies the people go into a violent frenzy, and when the knight comes back a year later he finds out that the dragon's favourite mayor claimed that he...

[krustyegg]

such a big subject: but yes basically to enjoy happiness "the now." One needs to remove all that prevents this occuring from bad realtionships to guilt to unrealistic desires. and so on. I would recommed starting with eastern philosophy and a change in perspective, then it is possible to start the process of "I squared." Intellegence looking at intelligence as robert anton wilson calls it!

[cellardoor01]

Woah I just realized you got bleeped and censored on here. Weird.

[mwhistley]

THINK ABOUT THE NEXT GENERATION

[asleeperj]

I think your projecting your own problems.

[asleeperj]

Libertarianism is the philosophy for the common man.

[glopur0]

I think your genius my friend. (Luke Clayborn Hopper spreaking)

[vonPeterhof]

So I agree that getting rid of the state will not fix all problems immediately. What Im not sure about is whether its better to go about helping people slay the dragon within themselves while the actual dragon is alive, or to get rid of the state first and then go about trying to reform people. Would the disappearance of the state make it easier or harder to convince people that the state is unnecessary? Or should we just be content that the dragon within us is dead and not worry about others?

[stealthswimmer]

"The reason we have these authoritarian institutions is because we're f*cked up"

Agreed. I think the reason support for the state and its prevalence is because lots of people prefer to have the state. Usually personal preferences are neither good nor bad...just preferences, but when it comes to the support of a state or authoritarianism, that IS a bad preference because it's preferring the evil of using coercion against others to impose your preferences.