 What's up to all my poetry lovers out there? It's your boy Ian and I'm here today to talk about the origins of the sad boy and the sad girl and their relation to Rainer Marie Rilke, the great German poet. So how is everybody doing today? Do you guys know what a sad boy or a sad girl is? It really is the evolution of the emo goth and indie kids and seen kids from you know the 2007 to 2013 era is that's transition now it's the new term is sad boy and sad girl and the dress the mannerisms the music they've all changed they've been a little bit muted and now it's more widespread that there are a ton of sad boys and sad girls out there teenage depression teenage suicide all these different things have been increasing and especially over the last two or three years and depression has become an identity but depression and this new thing we could link it though to self-isolated consciousness right that these people of these kids and adults are literate right they're smart but they are they have the leisure time and the emotional and artistic capacity to dive into the layers of their consciousness and their soul and instead of individuating out of that instead they hunker down in that persona and inflate their superego within that and then you know and that creates a ton of problems obviously and if they are teenagers there's a ton of people around them who are like what the hell is happening and because they aren't literate and have no emotional skills and probably have been helping these people repress them helping their kids repress themselves they immediately seek out a diagnosis medication all these other things instead of trying to you know solve it through other means and then that just continues to cycle more sad boys are also and sad girls are also known because of this persona we've talked about this so many times before to project and try to fix that problem their depression with the beloved right and this is a term real co really brought out into modern literature a beloved a transcendental signifier but through all the human being and then they fail because then they realize and that's why they're so sad is that after they kind of have some sexual pleasure and release so oh i don't like you anymore who are you i don't want to feel emotions and you know this this is a huge problem right now for especially people under the age of 35 of all the artis man case all the suffering artists out here all the misunderstood people who are creating havoc in the relationship world and real co was the first one to do that and he was like he is the og at so many levels and as we go through this you guys are gonna i was i had my mind blown yesterday because i'm also working on a much more serious presentation though i will be releasing tomorrow called rilke's creative genius the 100 year anniversary and you know because in 19 February 1922 rilke finished the sonnet's to orpheus and the dweeno allergies in one month and that is the ultimate fetish and fantasy of all the sad boys and sad girls out there that over a two week period over a three week period they're going to finish two monumental works that are going to elevate them into public consciousness and they will finally be understood and they will have money and everything else that they want and they will have an impact for a ton of time because they are too lazy and too depressed and too sad to actually put the work in for three decades to produce two works out of that good so they just want to finish it in two weeks right and rilke really i mean rilke didn't maybe mean to do this but that's what happened so let's talk about some of the origin stories first of all in his book sonnet's to orpheus he uses orpheus you know the so quick backstory orpheus you know greek figure he's not a god he marries ira dice and he plays the liar and he can tame wild beasts and move men's hearts he marries ira dice she gets bitten by a snake gets sent to hell or to the underworld orpheus travels down there and uses his liar to tame cerberus and he gets down there and he plays some songs for hades about his longing and grief over ira dice is ira dis is death and they say all right you can you can take her but you have to walk up all the way back up to the top and you can't look back at her and when he gets the very top when he finally steps out of the underworld he looks back and she's still in the underworld and he looks back and then you know she gets swept back into the underworld and then he has a bunch of longing and grief and he starts going around and playing the saddest music people have ever heard and it makes them depressed so he'll go around town to town and he plays music that makes people depressed oh wait has has that ever been that like mentioned before that this character because of loss and love and because of hardship is um playing music that makes people depressed and rilke if you're looking at his life brought orpheus back he really popularized it and modernized it again and this has had a huge artistic impact on the poetry world so but orpheus understood that death is a compliment to life that this escapes the kind of the christian world view that when we die we go to even a better place we go to heaven rilke understood about the duality of life and death so he is also an under he was an underappreciated artist right um and a prick to his family he spent all his family savings he left his wife when his daughter was really young and he just didn't do that like okay you you're gonna leave your family okay maybe you want to pursue this artistic vision but he would ask them for money and cheat them out of stuff and be kind of a jerk to them and be abusive very typical right i know so many people out there and so many sad boys and they're probably from mostly guys really from ages 20 to 40 and they are these artists right mostly writers but i know some artists like actual artists artists and they have they are they have these addictions they think because you know other artists do drugs or drink alcohol they have to do that they have never released anything after a decade long of work they don't believe in marketing they all they believe is that they are going to slowly work pitch work away at their work and one day it's going to make them famous and they streamline odd jobs or like leech on to people leech on to people in relationships to help string them along and if we look at rilke's life that's what he was kind of doing he was leaching off of people he was um being a prick to his family and to other people and that you know that is the kind of the problem with the artist man k thing that has happened that's why i really appreciate the author tom robbins tom robbins is really really one of the only authors out there and i have a book review on the channel um on his book still life with woodpecker all of his books do not have the suffering artists or characters in it all of his books have like these really elevated characters who are happy and do all these things and there is none of that artistic artist man k bs in there because we love that strife we love the struggle of the artist man k because we feel like that too a lot of us feel misunderstood and have had trauma and stuff in regards to being an artist or a writer or even just a critical thinker in this illiterate world so of course though if we're looking at all this rilke was a fascist and he's thought that fascism can heal the world and for like okay so if we're looking at incels and sad boys a lot of them have been um call themselves red pilled right and they think that um they are the uber match that they are so if we go down here um they are nicha fans right they think that a bunch of a couple strong people in society can't or that's all that's all that's necessary right and this actually connects to the time of rilke because as we talked about in my book recent book review on ps uspensky's the psychology of man's possible evolution at that time people were really interested in nicha including um dictators and stuff that you know the dictators of world war two and they thought that a couple of us do occultism or through just being smart or through power know what the hell is going on and everyone else doesn't the mass is already logical the masses don't know what's happening so that's why it could heal the world that these authority figures these really strong people can do that and rilke through his support behind musolini before he died and so it's like this i think has a very similar tone to a lot of these artists our t-span case now that i know are very radical in their politics and they are honestly bernie sander fans or bernie sanders guy bernie bros or trump bros you know and it's very interesting that most of the time being a poet right being an artist like for me you transcend all that when you understand poetry and emotions you see how politics aren't real and how screwed up how screwed up it all is and you don't really it it's very hard to take a political side when you don't really when you can transcend all barriers but rilke got caught into the fascism trap and like i said a lot of sad boys and sad girls get are like of today have been caught in the bernie sanders trap or the donald trump trap and you might be like well why is that a trap because the only solution is an education solution everything else is abandoned until almost all human beings or at least enough human beings have woken up and become nonviolent educated and can spread you know charity and love to other people the world will always suck there will always be problems there will always be um the swing ebbs and flows in politics and problems and dictators or people abusing power the only solution to end suffering is that every single human needs to become educated enough to at least become nonviolent and a lot of these so if you a trump or bernie bro they are saying this guy will fix that that's the problem bernie will fix all this he will turn this away he will turn this country into a swedish place or trump will you know do whatever he's going to do and that is a huge problem because that as we're seeing now because we're seeing the pendulum swing it's swinging and if you know things maybe go as planned it might swing back into another populist direction in america we've been functioning in populism basically since barack obama was elected and now we've thought that we've stabilized but now with all the tumultuousness of what happened with um in the last two years with the pandemic and now with the ukraine that it's swinging back the other way and who knows what's going to happen that we're going to call instead of fixing our own problems and instead of trying to educate others we're going to call upon leaders and other people to do that for us and that has as we've seen in history always creates problems so rilka sorry for the political rant hopefully a lot of you guys have stayed with me here rilka also believed that art over everything you must change your life that every single artistic work that art must change your life to be a real artist you must change your whole life and that's why he left his kids and his family and rilka is a success story because you know if we're looking at it okay he actually did he wrote magnificent works he wrote the sonostorphism the dwindle allergies and the book of the hours and all these other crazy poems he actually had the he actually had it he actually like was the person but i know so many people who leave destroy their family and destroy relationships and destroy their own life to chase some dumb dream and they are not even putting in the work they're not living they're not walking the walk and rilka walked the walk that's what we can say that the whole time he was trying to produce poems he was trying to do this and after decades of work and decades of agonizing pain because of at least a decade of agonizing pain because of ailments he produced these works so he really had that mentality but a lot of these guys a lot of sad boys have this mentality and this comes back down to selfishness they have this very selfish mentality but they never produce anything they never actually do anything with that it's really sad also it's really funny that he loves the book the decline of the west which is the ultimate um if we're looking at like people who um more on the right they love that book they love talking about this the collapse of the western civilization and the western civilizations values and once again if we go back to the education solution who cares about what certain civilization doesn't exist all this is just a facade what we need to be focusing on is creating nonviolent and human beings who can communicate their emotions and not react to those and once we can get there then we can move on to curing cancer and doing all these other things and um infrastructure plans what does all that mean when we can't even when a lot of people like I was talking to some guy like two weeks ago and he I felt like it was a very he's he's a professor so I was talking to a professor two weeks ago and you know in a candid you know conversation social conversation and I was talking about this and then I and then he was kind of giving me some weird looks so I was like hey man if someone came up to you and like said like the worst possible thing to you like we were like if I told you right now like I said something really mean about your family and you and about your kids what would you do and he's like I'd beat your ass and after we had the conversation about the only solution is and I was like why do you care about what I think why does that matter these are just I'm just making sounds out of my mouth and you're going to react and hurt me because of that you haven't how are we supposed to like I said even professors you know people who are educated like we are supposed to solve this problem in kindergarten keep your hands yourself but we haven't solved this problem because we make excuses for people we make excuses for violence and then we send people to prisons where it's a criminal university instead of actually healing their problems instead of actually trying to rehabilitate them and teaching this we just make them more violent they live in a stressful and crappy place which keeps them in base consciousness it's a freaking problem man but a lot of this is a such a big thing right like people on the right talk about the collapse of western civilization it's not that hard to you know reimagine society it's not that hard to reimagine institutions okay slide number two so sad boy so he was a rilke was a hypocritical elitist rilke believed that and if we see down here he hated the city he hated poor people he thought that they were dumb and really had a kind of lower view of them but he also thought so he had this elite view of society and how he was supposed to live but then he also hated rich people because he thought they weren't embodying those the values that elitist should that the people at the top should the superman or superwoman should be and he also was the support of the rush we'll talk about that a second but that's kind of an odd view right that poor people suck and also rich people suck that is the ultimate woe is being depressed sad boy view that like there's always something better that and you really see this so I should have mentioned this early but like most sad boys are just really dumb and don't know what's happening just to be honest right but there's also this breed of sad boys that are very logical right they're atheists a lot of the time or like you know believe you know they they're um they're very logical they're very smart they're very they're pretty well read and they kind of come to this viewpoint that like the world sucks we can't change it so we have to do it through logic we have to do it through incremental changes and like like I was saying earlier most of the time they're socialists or libertarians that's kind of the two camps that they fall in and what you know most socialists and libertarians have a very elitist view that like we can solve these problems that like you know if we implement these plans and get rid of the these institutions x y and z will happen or or or you know if we do more control on socialism side with we have a few smart people in here and structure they structure society in a certain way things will function better it's just really but then they believe though and the reason they believe though the people in power now that the elitists now are crappy right that they suck and that we need a re-augmentation of those people once again another correlation the most sad boys and these types is that they are low level occultists that they aren't usually religious but they aren't probably atheists a lot of the time they're like into spirituality and most of the time that's a front to you know get you know pick up some chicks or some dudes or something or to heal a little bit of trauma but they're usually like low level occultists or like low level spirit spirit spiritists and you know it's so funny because like i was making this presentation and i was reading about rilke i read a whole book about a biography of rilke and i was like oh my god like this guy sounds like the ultimate incel the ultimate um modern sad boy and if you look at his impact and about you know learning the internalization of the soul and the internal layers of the soul that's what sad boys talk about that they are more than just what they are that there's this sad nature to them so rilke was a low level occultist he was dabbling in the occult dabbling in these things and most of the time it's when i've seen that sad boys the god the emo people you saw this like a lot of emo people they have pentagrams or sadanists or whatever they call themselves they are into the occult or these things and that's because they believe in the transmit they understand the transmutation of energy they understand their emotions enough to understand that by mindset these things can transmute and that's you know and that's but they never transcend out of that low level occultism out of selfishness into selflessness because real cultists understand that when one suffers we all suffer and if someone is suffering out there then that's impacting you on a spiritual level so that you must create you must use spiritual energy god whatever the whatever to turn yourself into a beacon of light into a human who can create change who can help that's what i'm doing that's what i've done with my 13 years of studying and practicing the occult and spirituality that i am trying to use that power not to make myself better so that i can help others and as you've seen this is my 11th year in financial poverty you know and a lot of other things that that has an impact in me very well but it has helped a lot of other people and that's my goal that look at this channel i'm releasing courses for free i don't eventually there'll be monetary stuff but monetized content but i believe in the free free model that it if you understand what's happening you need to do whatever you can to stop it so i don't need to go into a tangent he also believes in sexual supremacy he believes that poor people should not understand the mat that there was a travesty that poor people understood the magic of sex that you know sex is so great that it's so sad that poor people under could understand and because they can't they can't understand it they can feel it but he thought they couldn't understand it he also believed in phallic supremacy of the man and how phallic energy is what creates the world and logic and light which you know is a very kind of sexist point of view which once again kind of goes back to the sad boy and sad girl that they use their sex they sexually exploit people all the time i've seen this happen to so many people have watched guys do it i've watched people i know have it done to them that these sad depressed people because they're in top with their emotions because okay so you're you're let's talk about this from a female point of view you you're a female and you are in touch with your emotions let's say and then there's this group of guys out there there's like that we have the jocks right that you know just bunch of douches okay they're out we then have the ambitious guys right we okay then we have like just the day jobbers right the guys who just want to you know um work nine to five come home drink beer play video games all right and not in tune with their emotions they're out then we have like the super ambitious guys all right okay they're educated they're cool but they don't really have time they don't have the presence that they want all right then there's obviously the really cool people the people who are like them who are in touch with their emotions and want to connect and love but those people are those guys are far and few between and then there's the sad boys the sad boys want to talk they are in touch with their emotions they want to get to know you but they have all these freaking problems and they're as we call a fixer upper right um as i um men and women honestly but i would say you know not to generalize but women i would say more like a fixer upper project and um these guys are this fixer upper project and they think that they don't understand that these guys don't give an f about them they don't care they're just viewing they they they view these girls as these this beacon of healing but then when they don't get healed when they're sad boy sad boy sad boyness isn't healed then they lash out on these girls and um physically abuse them emotionally abuse them verbally abuse them it's actually a really sad thing and i talk about this more in my um relationship cycles video which i just released yesterday so um rilka also believed in poetic supremacy that he was channeling that in those three weeks when he wrote the dwindel allergies in the saunas dorfius that he was channeling this poetic energy from god and that he brought it down and that he was granted that energy it was his and you know i believe that on some level that we need to tap into the ether and bring it down but i don't believe that it's mine i believe that everyone can tap into that so rilka also has this i am the one mentality i'm the one artist and that um like i said that um fuels this selfishness that we've seen this whole time like if we look at this whole presentation unappreciated artists and prick selfish fastish selfish art over everything selfish loves you know these weird books selfish um niche selfish hypocritical leaders selfish occultism low-level guilt and selfishness hates the city being selfish not trying to help those people um phallic supremacy selfish poetic supremacy selfish and then of course the radical politics that rilka was into fashion but he was also in the leftism he supported the russian revolution he supported a bunch of other leftist movements and it's actually kind of funny that once he died the left kind of threw him out because of his elitism and um his his journey you know him being german that they actually threw him out but he was radical in the politics and we talked about this before with the burning bros and the trump bros that these people usually the sad boys of today are usually um radical into politics so rilka helped establish art the internal art the sad depressed art that we have now because that's what orpheus you know at some level is and you know um i think in the dweeno elegy he says that if we could see an angel for what they are if we could see life for what it is we would die that we couldn't handle that um same with politics people who think they know what's happening in the world they seen the poverty they know these things they think that if everyone saw this everyone had the emotions that they would that they would understand but all you have to do is elect me and do this and the lobbying and blah blah blah for us to fix that instead of fixing individuals we are trying to fix systems individuals are the only way to fix our world one by one person by person through online scalable education that reaches everyone in the world through the internet is how we are going to save the world so i just thought it was really funny that um rilka and here's a photo of rilka and his wife that he ended up believing i um she's not very happy man she's not looking very happy with him so i just really wanted to make that comparison that i don't know let me know if you there is someone else out there who embodied this mentality especially early on pre-1950 more so than rilka of this archetype that we're seeing now with the sad boy and the sad girl mentality these depressed the depressed army of people out there now let me know who let me know what artists you know um because obviously in once media started once the tv came out that started escalating more once you know the the medium visual mediums but like in terms of poets and writers and i think rilka was the first earlier adopter of this because he was a suffering artist he had physical pain he had mental pain he had emotional pain he had family trauma he had you know trauma with having to leave his kids um being an underappreciated artist there was a lot happening and he really channeled and did a lot with that but he also embodied some of the negative malignant physical or um emotional traits so let me know what you guys think subscribe to the channel if you guys enjoyed this video i'm going to be breaking down a bunch of other authors i didn't really mean to make this a psychological breakdown but i'm excited i'm going to do this this is some other people too i had a good time and thanks for watching