How to Become a Monster | Nietzsche

[@WeltgeistYT]

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[@rlotttva3489]

This quote reflects the psychological risk of confronting evil or darkness-both externally and within oneself. "He who fights with monsters" warns that engaging with malevolence, whether through trauma, curiosity, or necessity, can subtly transform a person, conditioning their psyche to adopt the very traits they oppose. This transformation often stems from repeated exposure or immersion in negative thoughts or actions, leading to either desensitization or assimilation. The "abyss" symbolizes the unknown depths of the psyche, where darker aspects of the self reside. Gaze too long into it, and it begins to reflect back a distorted image of oneself. This is a metaphor for self-reflection turned obsessive: when one dwells on harmful thoughts or unresolved trauma, those thoughts risk becoming internalized, shaping actions and identity over time. The abyss can also represent the enigmatic workings of the mind-those gaps in understanding the "how" and "why" behind human behavior. Engaging too deeply with this unknown can create a dialogue within the self, where one's perception shifts, influenced by the very darkness they sought to comprehend. i hope, otherwise I missed the entire fucking point

[@Kieran-p9x]

That's it

[@yhnah1329]

Based

[@LocalSrpt]

the gaps started making sense...they cracked wide into pathways

[@inexistent3rdchimera673]

thank you chatgpt

[@mariusloveless7880]

@@inexistent3rdchimera673 yep, if you're not nuanced enough to catch it via the structure ...always look for the line spacers where commas should be lol "Mind-those gaps.." dead give away its just an AI response

[@willb295]

Are my eyes deceiving me? A one hour video by Weltgeist??? Let me get my snacks and Nietzsche plushie

[@Vampyr_000]

I see a Soy Jack reading this

[@liltick102]

Essentialsalts (ignore the name) is probably a channel you’d adore

[@willb295]

@ I already follow him 😭

[@WeltgeistYT]

We did a podcast episode together too

[@liltick102]

@ I’m still bookmarked in that one - I adore both your channels 💙💙

[@Daniel-j6l]

I absolutely love the long form content. Often times, these kinds of subjects need a lot of fleshing out, and this video did an incredible job.

[@WeltgeistYT]

Great to hear!

[@DashsChannel]

Studying Nietzsche since 2021 or so has taught me so much about myself, and also helps me with battling my OCD and autism. I've meditated on my own inner demons and how they probably arose, and now I'm doing the same with my values and views, and how they formed as well. It has been an absurdly enlightening experience and I shed so much light on trying to understand my own questioning of things no one else seems to question. Like why are values like "truth" and "equality" seen as unassailably moral, and their antitheses as the ultimate evil. Truth and equality are obviously good things, but only when they directly benefit and help real people. I always questioned why so many people are assholes and even sadists in the name of Truth and Equality in their most abstract forms, and are only seen as heroes because they hurt people who are on the side of "Ignorance" and "Inequality," not because they help people on the side of Truth and Equality. I read Geneology of Morals in 2022 and never before have I felt so validated. That experience has been a net positive on my outlook on life.

[@Kolya-333]

You dont have austism or ocd, you manifest that you do by diagnosing yourself. You can just as easily tell yourself you don't have ocd and autism and start healing

[@the.deadpoet]

​Are you writing from personal experience? @egokilla1063

[@piggerGg]

You type I, me and my with narcissistic frequency.

[@DashsChannel]

@@piggerGg I take that as a huge complement. Have a great day

[@Ammarsafwan7]

@@piggerGg The fact that you could tell someone is a narcissist or not caught my eyes,truly amazing.

[@itchyrichy]

Wow this is one of the best videos I’ve watched in a while. Big props to you Weltgeist 👍🏽

[@WeltgeistYT]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@helmeteye]

I can tell you from personal experience that when the abyss stares back it is terrifying. For instance, have you ever thought you might have actually died from something you've done and you're in a hell where everything just repeats, until you realize? You can't think your way out of the problem, because there is no way to know, no proof.

[@oal8430]

I know that these personal weird paranoias hit hard but nowadays such a hypothetical horror feels clearly just that: weird intellectual paranoia. Still: There are enough abyses for everyone. 😁

[@lemurpotatoes7988]

You're supposed to embrace that.

[@grb1969]

Grieve an continue deeper.

[@thadtuiol1717]

Bring it on

[@psychonaut689]

You think. therefore you know that you are.

[@psychonaut689]

Thanks for going into this one Weltgeist. I never fully understood this one from Nietzsche. The abyss is the self looking back at itself? The fear of looking into nothingness. The fear of one's own annihilation I suppose... when you question yourself too much, what is left?

[@WeltgeistYT]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Ztrading1]

Question- what should be the balance between criticing yourself constructively and reflecting upon things and being proud of your accomplishments letting it big up your ego?

[@ibaili]

@@Ztrading1 im not sure if there is a balance between those two things as I dont think they are mutually exclusive. If you find something youre doing that you dont like, work on changing it. It doesnt have to bruise your ego and infact it should empower you since you know that youre just trying to become your best you. Dont let your head get too big for your shoulders and always look for ways to improve

[@SouthpawJoe]

​@@ibaili 2... Disappointed Nietzsche noises

[@ibaili]

@@SouthpawJoe i dont get it

[@Devon686]

Loved the video! I was actually thinking about this quote a lot recently after listening to an audiobook called "he who fights with monsters" so your timing was perfect.

[@WeltgeistYT]

Interesting!

[@mystiverse]

This is perhaps the most thorough and informative explanation of Nietzsche's ideas I've ever seen. Fantastic work!

[@WeltgeistYT]

Thank you!

[@yapper_jay]

This is actually a very helpful video since a character, from a book I’m writing, his whole defining thing is “if the abyss stares back, what if I leapt into it?” I want to explore this as he lives, grows and dies so having a better interpretation of the quote will definitely help with how I write him as he gets older.

[@lukefrombk]

Weltgeist is back!

[@ChristianSt97]

this is going to be a certified philosophy classic!

[@Dhrrhee3e11a76]

Damn, son, where'd you find the abyss?

[@Thatkidyoukindaknow]

Holy shit someone who made a philosophy video that ACTUALLY READ THE PHILOSOPHY BOOK. I wish I could subscribe twice

[@yairmannoo7803]

I stared at the abyss of mirrors it fits me inside as I see my reflection consciously changing and believing on my new self.

[@pedrambabaie1178]

This was amazing. One of, if not the best Video analysis I‘ve seen from Nietzsche. Please keep it up🔥

[@GalaxyBrain88]

Just found this channel today with this being my first video. Bravo sir... Such a good video essay! I look forward to watching more.

[@WeltgeistYT]

Welcome aboard!

[@user-wk2dn2pv4c]

Only 25 minutes in but that was an amazing breakdown of a large amount of history and theology, essentially the entire foundation of “modern” man with his platonic mindset

[@lior6222]

Thank you for this video! For long I tried to understand this quote and this must be the most detailed explanation of it, a detailed yet understandable explanation. A true masterpiece of a video!

[@kevinbeck8836]

Another fantastic explication of Nietzsche’s thought. Thank you for all of your hard work making these videos

[@WeltgeistYT]

Glad you like them!

[@thescythian321]

Great work. We are the masses at the tightrope walker's show by default, for someone to take the time to unpack Nietzsche so we are snapped out of our brain fog is a service to humanity. The world is enriched.

[@WeltgeistYT]

Thank you

[@psychonaut689]

The Greeks' love for Odysseus is no mystery; he was Greek and he found a way to win.

[@michaelcarnevale5620]

Ya tbh this seems like the natural answer

[@michaelcarnevale5620]

The simplest and best answer

[@ryanb8076]

Yes, all of philiosophy is an attemtp to derive meaning from the simple fact we are pre-programmed biological machines that react to stimuli in accordance to the DNA that makes us. The only thing that matters to anyone, whether they admit it or not, is the preservation of one's reality they've constructed for themselves, period. Anyone who tells you different is a liar. Now move on from philosophy and start creating instead of consuming.

[@CallMeEzekiel]

This is going to be good

[@thenew4559]

No, it’s going to be evil!

[@BerserkerErik]

Great vid, I enjoy the longer formats alot.

[@patf-u8x]

Fantastic video Weltgeist, really well done, thanks for this

[@WeltgeistYT]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@Endymion766]

Thanks!

[@WeltgeistYT]

Thank you!!

[@VladtheDragon-v4c]

Depth and profundity are hand in hand because it's the depth which things arise out of, the trunk off which the branches manifest in their own shape but are inexorably tied to the same source. It can be interpreted in many ways because it manifests in many ways.

[@RussellGi]

When the videos title says Weltgeist X Nietzsche - you know this is gonna be beyond good!

[@ryanrohn4561]

...and beyond evil also😅!!

[@alfaisaac024]

😂

[@la8076]

Oh mein gott einen new banger video von weltgeist jaaaa

[@ethereal54323]

Wonderful video. Thanks for putting in the work to produce vids like this. First rate.

[@bjornnno]

Its an honor to comment on a video like this. Excuse my overfladic focus but you deserve 10 mill subscribers

[@robertkimera5632]

Thanks!

[@WeltgeistYT]

Much appreciated!

[@МиколаЗубчик-з9в]

I didn't know that Miura Kentaro ("Berserk") was so inspired by Nietzsche. The Lost Children ark is basically about the same. We should face our own battles and not escape reality to look for some fairy tales. I like to see the same motives in philosophy and fiction

[@Boulos-cb2un]

“I am the darkest of dark” “I am the blackness of the abyss” “Shadows fear my name”

[@DashsChannel]

I'm the tallest of mountains I am the roughest of waves I'm the toughest of terrors I am the darkest of days

[@alexandergerolumatos9933]

Be hot as Ice and cold as fire

[@philyeary8809]

Be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.

[@RepostRillford]

Been studying psychology and philosophy and struggling to grapple and balance the 2 and this answered questions i didn’t know needed to be asked, continue on your path and thank you for your efforts. I hope this comment fuels you to continue what your doing (even if you are doing it for the chase of power and power over others 😉😂)

[@francescodepau1274]

Christmas came early!

[@tylerluchene6844]

"If he's so smart how come he's dead?" -homer simpson.

[@ashraf2652]

There's something so dark or this feeling it creates in me about being tamed by external modalities. I can't place why i feel this, but a tamed animal.....is a tragedy and when others try to do the same to me - i feel as if they are trying to gut my freedom. I mist fight back and keep doing so, getting comfortable will only further thier cause. They being everyone trying to impose thier ideals morals and beliefs on me.

[@TheSupremeSussy]

>”Be evil.” >”No not like that!” >”Resist urges.” >”No not like that!” Genius, this Frederick guy.

[@JoeyDelMuro]

I’m only 15 minutes in and my first time watching your channel. I just wanna say you earned my sub!

[@WeltgeistYT]

Welcome aboard!

[@AbhishekBarla-m1s]

thank you , this video gave me answers i was searching currently

[@QuitebrokeN]

i see these psychology videos ranging 15 to 30 mins, but one entire hour? bros trynna create Dexter

[@RobertJohnson_Zeppo]

Fine video. It's a shame that I could not, in good conscience, share it with others, due to the excessive ad breaks.

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Why not get KZbin premium or remind yourself the ad breaks is a different way of supporting a creator?

[@dekz8]

life is one who got divided into two, and for all of its existence, all it searches for, is reuniting with the other, and which ever form, it will use its capacity, howerever it is capable, to reunite with that other. indefinetly.

[@cracklingsoda]

There couldn't be a better thumbnail for this vid!

[@RamonRuizG]

So, now we can see exactly where Jung took the Shadow concept. The approach to "the abyss" was already defined by Nietzsche.

[@ProTechGamerz]

Both truth and untruth, good and evil, are true and real. It is only perception of these opposites that gives them any meaning or reality. The laws of the universe do not see that any of them are right or wrong, they all just are.

[@Elschan]

Watching this reminds me a lot of Postmodernism. Maybe one could say Nietzsche was a precursor to it?

[@BelreiVideos]

Sounds a lot like Yin Yang, to be completely oneself, one must embrace both parts of himself, the part that can do evil and the other good instead of suppressing one side for the other. Both sides have to be in harmony. Eastern Philosophy seemed to have quite a bit figured out

[@thepassionate3335]

Mostly all ancient cultures. The story of the white wolf and black wolf comes to mind

[@chrisray6385]

How about becoming a being. Conceptuallizing the ideal followed by the attempt of becoming it. This has carried the achievements of civilization to the present. One could say that our shortcomings are directly tied to our cuurent onging inability to shed the lies we hold. The abiguity of what is true or false is the source of untold time and energy wasted Decisions over solutions to existential problems must contain a higher level of truth than falsehood or extiction is tomorrow's problem.

[@esoteric_hustler]

Thank you man!

[@jasonsomers8224]

Δει ημας ιδειν εν ημιν τα απολυοντα αλλ ουκ αυτα απολυομεν. We must behold within ourselves the things that destroy without destroying them. (I am still in the process of learning Koine, but the wording of this sentence was so cool I had to try to make it. If anyone knows better how to convey this in Koine I would love guidance)

[@Physicslover1879]

Sir Plzz make a video about what was Nietzche's stand on Aristotle 👍

[@aubreyleonae4108]

This ought to be good as I became that which I hated and fought to destroy. Now look... I fight to destroy myself.

[@kaskafirst]

Make videos on schopenhauer influences please

[@ezreality]

Another great podcast, thank you...

[@WeltgeistYT]

Thanks for listening

[@TaiNguyen-in6xy]

Wake up, babe! Welgeist blessed us with a new vid!

[@Aeonian3699]

i really sat and watched this whole video

[@solidkurt8784]

Is Achilles truely a "fair fighter" if he cannot be wounded?

[@thenthtinkerer7635]

No, and in a way that collapses the concept of fairness, as Nietzsche would be pleased to hear. I suppose that's what you were getting at.

[@elinope4745]

I stared into the abyss so long that the abyss became me.

[@rodolfodirack1246]

Well explained. Thanks!

[@eliseohernandez8741]

The best way to do is jump in there but all it’s going to do is show you that it’s only an abyss.

[@johnysimps1191]

I have no idea how i ended up on the philosophy algorithm but i love it here 😂

[@rocknrollerme]

Thank you for this absolutely brilliant video, Weltgeist. Bra Fucking Vo.

[@franzwilde89]

What is your other channel? And what’s the name of your podcast?

[@roymillers6730]

I sometimes think these big-brain philosophers make up nonsense to have a laugh while we're trying to understand what they are talking about, albeit maniacal, it's also true. Here is one to think about: "Was it the apple before the tree, or the tree before the apple"

[@LeoRobillard-d4x]

Bringing the State of Nature into the commune sounds stressful as hell, Nietche; but your hearts in the right place. Temper Mankind to perfection. Way too many 'fragiles' on this ol' fraggle rock. Work: in physics, measure of energy transfer that occurs when an object is moved over a distance by an external force (My Will) at least part of which is applied in the direction of the displacement. (My Victim). He's telling us to put in the work! W = fd I swiped that from Encyclopedia Britannica btw. Didn't have my Funk and Wagnels on me.

[@slimegmi]

Thank you so much

[@nomadman5288]

No. I don't think all behaviors can be reduced to displays of so-called power. For Nietzsche, power was about self-overcoming, not manipulating or controlling others, so how could it be that helping someone is holding power over them? The very thought that you're holding power over them is born of weakness, according to his own beliefs, How is it then that holding something over others be seen "power" when it does not come from what is strong, but rather what is weak and in need of some external cause to validate them? This would contradict the whole concept that Nietzsche had about power and self-overcoming. Now, if we are talking about a "sense of power," that's a different matter because the sense of and the actuality of are not the same thing, just as one's sense of winning is not the same as when one knows they have won.

[@thenthtinkerer7635]

I think all that was meant by that example of helping others is that, when exploring "the abyss" (aka the "innards" consisting of conventional "evil", out of which and in opposition of, has been built the edifice of morality), one may find that it can _often_ (not always, maybe not even most of the time, but still) be due to a want to exercise power over the external world in general. And of course, if it's "bad" in a Nietzschean sense to feel too securely "in possession of truth" then this would have to be overcome. I am not confident I understand this stuff properly... I'm almost sure I might somehow not manage to add anything of substance when I'm done here. But I will add one last thing anyway: if Nietzsche is so against "concepts" and pure "Being", emphasizing "Becoming", then maybe this conceptual division of "others" and "self" also breaks down or becomes merely utilitarian, even (or specially) for the "Ubermensch" or approximations of it (at risk of platonism, which is perhaps not entirely avoidable unless we forgo language or the use of words for purposes beyond deception/manipulation/confusion).

[@lilmanq7746]

what’s the summary of this?

[@PhilosophyPlayground91]

Totally agree, we should value human values over money

[@Soul-o3l2x]

Good video thank you

[@omaiorcornodewesteros4748]

I love your channel

[@AhrenGothard]

Yup! Another Classic

[@g.benoit5114]

It means something along the lines of: To properly battle one's Enemy, one must know one's Enemy, and so one must learn all one can about one's Enemy. In this endeavor, one becomes, in many ways, one's Enemy. Your enemy becomes a significant part of you; you become so much more like your enemy. And this applies not only to battling enemies, but to many kinds of endeavors.

[@dionmcgee5610]

First and foremost, you must know yourself. Through that self knowledge you will perceive others more clearly. Without it all the studying you do wii avail but little.

[@wadejameskennedy4495]

thank you

[@SootyPhoenix]

Psychographic. Oops, apparently that's already a word. Aww, my latest attempt to invent a new word has failed.

[@_Wubalem_]

I mean what can I say, in the true Nietzschian way, THANK YOU! ❤‍🔥

[@nasrinvahidi5515]

Very nice. Thank you ❤❤❤❤

[@Autolykos38]

Very interesting video.

[@Z16us]

An hour passed like it was nothing ❤

[@crazycolbs6476]

Does anyone know the artwork used for the thumbnail?

[@kurtchandler4588]

Lucifer - Franz Von Stuck

[@thenthtinkerer7635]

@@kurtchandler4588 Thank you

[@alexsanderpereiradasilvafo8277]

With subtitles! Ok! I like read letters! Is more understandable!

[@Kabir_atheist007]

The tag monsters is just by society the real worth of living is when you live what you truly are

[@LowOnSolipsism]

Thanks

[@hnevko]

And suddenly a music appears in my head - t-t-tt-ttuuun tututu ttttn--tttntttn- ttttntntnn-tn-t-tttt - oh, I see, you cant hear that from the text! Well, Baldurs Gate of course! So sayeth the Wise Alaundo!

[@deardaughter]

What's the shot from 0:37 from?

[@Psycho-Ssnake]

"Cave of nebula" is all I could find.

[@deardaughter]

@ thank you big dawg

[@nothinghalo8]

Do you think Nietzsche believed that the origin of "slave morality" began with the ancient Greek philosophers like Socrates and Plato, whose distaste for the Homeric myths fueled their pursuit for objective truth? Or do you think that Nietzsche believed that "slave morality originated more from Judeo-Christian morality?

[@BerserkerErik]

I think he said that Nietzsche believed Plato and Socrates to be the kind of catalysts for christian morality. At 17:00 for example.

[@thenew4559]

As Nietzsche said, Christianity is the platonism of the masses. Christianity (and Judaism too, see Gnostic Informant’s channel for that) took heavy inspiration from Hellenic philosophy and religion. It continued this emerging idealist worldview of the Platonists, but also in many ways also refined and perfected it.

[@RealRoknRollr3108]

I will have to watch this at least twice but its time well spent

[@lionsoultribe]

But even a real greek, will only recognize a tree as a tree through projecting the "treeness" into the tree. He just was not aware of doing so. What Plato introduced was a world behind the world. That itself is a foundation for spirituality and later psychology...

[@Zetetic_Wes]

“All warfare is deception.” Sun Tzu

[@pierrelabounty9917]

As a Christian he echos Christian true morality from within not from without by external coercion. Kierkegaard the same on this.

[@AnonymousWatcher37]

Any videos analyzing Eastern, specifically Chinese Philosophy?

[@WeltgeistYT]

Not really my forte

[@Drakkar7]

I think that this idea that Plato was a fundamentally new thing is questionable. Plato took ideas from pre-Socratics like Pythagoras and Parmenides. Also, some scholars argue that Platonism was a continuation and refinement of very ancient religious traditions found in the great river valley civilisations such as the Indus Valley, Sumeria and Egypt. Plato studied in Egypt if I am not mistaken.

[@sashamugs]

Nothing is new under the sun but some things present themselves as the perfect or at least most famous culmination of their inspirations

[@jacobjorgenson9285]

O one is new u see the sun, but new directions are formed

[@bigpp6502]

anyone know what the painting in the thumbnail is called?

[@jayfng123]

Become the monster. Master being just that. Then learn to control it. Recipe for sucess.

[@juliannopmo8019]

Halfway through, wondering if this should be a warning or a manual

[@altingashi3927]

I mean, he talks about abstaining from pleasure, and yet took morphine and meth every day

[@iamthelaw9369]

They were medicinal

[@nftscreenshooter]

@@iamthelaw9369 He said to abstain from sexual intercourse, but he continued to have sex with prostitutes, possibly even contracting syphilis from one of them. Nietzsche was too weak of a man to stick to his own idea of übermench.

[@winedown9441]

Morphine and meth were actually used for medical purposes back then it isn't the same as today's what we call drugs

[@omaiorcornodewesteros4748]

Weltgeist, i want to translate Mainländer's oeuvre to my native language, portuguese. I can already read spanish, french and english, so that will definetly help. Besides studying german, what should i do to complete this task?

[@WeltgeistYT]

Lots of Schopenhauer and Kant

[@elzbietawales]

Dont you think, that we shall rule beyond....... If not we shall help others too...... Beyond that we should see the thruth