How We Enslave Ourselves

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In this video we’ll explore insights as to why people throughout history, and into the modern day, have acted against their best interests and consented to their enslavement under political ruling classes.
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[@luissosa943]

Academy of Ideas Mr.Academy could you please tell me where to find the picture in your profile pic, I really like it

[@anderson4691]

Academy of Ideas how do you suggest that we as a species survive without an organization? We as a species survive only because of our skill to cooperate and concede authority. When enough people start thinking only of their freedom, we will cease to exist. Don't you think?

[@mohamednasr8593]

Can you please add the qouts to the art work so we can download it

[@panhradu]

Can u make video about psychology of obsession? :)

[@hiqhduke]

You're much too hard on feudalism. Boiete supported the French Revolution. Feudal lords provided land for a serf's children and took about 10℅ in taxes plus 1 day per week 6months of the year for labour. Serfs did not work in winter at all. Most commoners worked 20hr work weeks on average annually.

[@sylviedefaine8007]

I realized at a very young age we were slaves, when our teacher asked us to describe our "dream house", while everyone else was talking about Villa's and Mansions even Castles, i told the Teacher that i wanted to build my own house in the middle of a forest and start really small and just add on over time to grow a farm, when my teacher then told me this was illegal and you're not allowed to build just anywhere, i knew i was a slave...i was barely 8 years old...and life has been suffocating ever since, because everything i like, is behind the red tape of law and regulations that cost too much and i don't want to comply to those nonsense and give them my money...

[@fckmunch]

So what do you do instead of giving in and handing your money over? Are you all in bitcoin?

[@zoezen]

Thank you! As a child, I dreamed of living in a forest, when I grew to be an adult as well. You are correct. Far too much of our lands and our freedoms are overly regulated. This has only been increasing. I did not see it as a child, (because no one told me it was illegal) as you did, but, I saw it as an adult.

[@Pwecko]

I had a similar realisation at a very young age, about five or six, when I was talking to my grandmother about making lots of money from some scheme. She told me I wouldn't be able to keep all of it, as I would have to pay taxes. I was furious. Why? That wasn't fair. I still feel the same way.

[@Cj-yw8cs]

I know now why I was sad as a child. Glad I didn't know then. If you look at money one can ascertain the owner of it

[@evanshlom1]

That’s not even true though your teacher was just a tard. You can build a house in the middle of nowhere without permission. It’s risky of course but people do do that. Teachers are retards usually

[@mrgruffy4499]

“The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of a democracy, but would basically be a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not even dream of escaping. It would essentially be a system of slavery where, through consumption and entertainment, the slaves would love their servitude.-Aldous Huxley

[@poopyfacetomatonose6467]

Couldn't have said it better.

[@jacquelinee1220]

Sounds abit like Stockholm syndrome on steroids

[@peterribolli8300]

Superannuation is a wall-less prison.

[@elichiselich]

Slavery with extra steps

[@andrewbuhman1066]

Tell that to anyone who was able to escape North Korea and they will laugh in your face.

[@munihmuni8814]

That's exactly how I feel, I feel tortured by what everybody else finds acceptable

[@austintiller61]

Dude. You just put it into words for me. I feel the same. To the point where life not only doesn't feel the same but I'm so annoyed with all this fake happiness thru materialism.

[@MrKFNeverGiveUp]

@@austintiller61 You are right, Sir. Fake happiness. Materialism tries to fill an inner vacuum that shouldn't exist, but it can never fully fill it, that part is up to the individual to fill.

[@munihmuni8814]

@@MrKFNeverGiveUp why shouldn't that "vacuum" exist?

[@munihmuni8814]

@Dr. M. H. all this talk of God..maybe that's the problem to all modern suffering? We anthropomorphize god, the Holy trinity, to the point where jesus is imagined holding an ak-47 and condemning our "enemies" (brown people) and wearing a Cowboys jersey, the whole time not realizing that God ultimately represents the fundimental energy of the universe. Historically, spiritually, it's hard to imagine a greater evil.

[@johnvanegmond1812]

@@munihmuni8814 This post brings out in my mind the ridiculousness of two armies (read compelled men), both praying for God to slay their enemy. While in Thailand as a missionary, I was asked how and why Christians would war with each other? Two nations or two men. To me then, 1983, and now, it is simple. One party or the other, or both, aren't following the teachings of Jesus Christ. Referring to slavery, Christianity forces the conversation whether I can morally own all or part of another person. I say it is wrong. So how can politicians, claiming to be Christians, enslave a population? Either they are ignorant, or they are consciously and with full awareness lying.

[@kenlevi6630]

Academy of ideas is one of the best KZbin channels. This reminds me of the saying "what if they gave a war and nobody came".

[@cindirose3390]

Once I saw a little sign in a teachers' lounge, "What if the AirForce had to hold Bake Sales for Bombs?" Saw the sign in 1980's, and it is still a novel idea, Fund Education Not War

[@blanckieification]

👍Slaves in chains revolt, slaves who have the illusion of freedom don't

[@beckywatt5048]

Well said .

[@dvirit]

And when people lose faith in the rulers like now, a pandenic suddenly breaks out and if that doesn't work, racism and riots are great tools to divide and conquer

[@renetorres213]

A good majority of Chinese ppl who are born and raised in China still use the term “president” to describe their leader. Dissenting views are suppressed online and people who continue to dissent end up disappearing or sent to concentration camps. There’s also the Uighur who are effectively second-class citizens and the CCP is still trying to take back Hong Kong wayyyy too early.

[@Deflepliz]

Social distancing is the illusion of freedom, social distancing is slavery without chains

[@steveoneill1157]

@@dvirit reading your comment really made me think. About 2 years ago KZbin just randomly started sucking me into these conspiracy videos. I ended up deep down the rabbit hole. Then one day i remember, first asking myself, how do these people know this information, and why would the government, if true, allow for them to give it to us? Finally one of the guys i was watching had a video and all it was was a song about starting a Revolution. Ill never forget how something came over me i turned it right off and said something is not right. Its like they want us to hate our own government. The government was trying to get ppl to turn against them and social media, MSM and KZbin were all the tools in doing so. I started questioning and commenting on all the so called" Truther" channels asking them were they get their info and if they themselves are CIA agents. These channels began disappearing from my recommendations. I was even unsubscribed to them and completely forgot about most of them until i would actually search for them and thats when i realized i was no longer subbed to them! So your comment just made me realize why they were doing it!! I never understood why before. They wanted us to hate them or not trust them so they could hit us with the pandemic(problem) so they can react and hit us with the solution! Order out of Chaos!! Jesus, ITS ALL PLANNED, everything is done for a reason. We truely live in the Truman Show!

[@dr.christopherdiaz4473]

“The things you own, end up owning you.”

[@friendofyahuwah4464]

Yes but in reality we really never own anything.

[@SelfSeeker]

How about the ideas we own ?

[@adrian_zombturtle148]

This makes me want to live alone in the mountains

[@explosives101]

@@Kitiwake - Only if you are an oversocialized limp-wristed collage professor. Mountain men live alone for very long periods of time.

[@vtamina870]

I am living in a mountain in a small village in Italy i don’t see people but i still receive too many things to pay just because i exist

[@johnmiller7453]

but you won't

[@ProjectDarkHound]

I just spent a week skiing in colorado and its i m p o s s i b l e to be sad there

[@diaz5292]

Other people are hell.

[@davidwhite4874]

Turn off your televisions. Forever.

[@davidwhite4874]

@Blu Crystl Absolutely. Every time I have the misfortune to be exposed to TV broadcasting (mercifully very rare these days), I feel awful. Negative energy, frustration, powerlessness. God knows what it does to those who spend all day in front of it.

[@DacLMK]

And social medias. They are on the same level as TV's, if not worse in some cases.

[@davidwhite4874]

@Bignose Harry How do you know Blu Crystl isn't a flat earther? Just jumping in and assuming something just to show how "woke" you are isn't helping. Have you done the tests that show the earth is flat? If not, then you are as much of a "believer" as anybody else. Conspiratorial one-upmanship is not a good look, mate.

[@davidwhite4874]

@Bignose Harry Media is an arm of government.

[@poetsrear]

Been so since analog broadcasting ended 12 years ago.

[@Sameoldfitup]

“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams

[@katherinekelly6432]

We are enslaved by what we want when we refuse to give up our wants regardless of the consequences to ourselves. We are all addicts in some sense of the word.

[@jamiesonscott7577]

Sacrifice is the measure of integrity ~ Maxim of law

[@rudeboyses]

yep. social media, television, advertising all prey on people's insecurities & ego.

[@johnmagee6524]

Well said

[@susaraswessels5555]

Today we have more knowledge of materials and they are stronger but the end product never last because they are designed to fail so we have to replace them.

[@juresaiyan]

You are so beautiful.

[@gjcentralradio8813]

You can easily break the bonds of being a mind slave. You were engineered with the knowledge. Problem is most humans stopped listening to their inner being and traded it in for the comfort of whatever sound(s) that lets them feel safer.

[@juresaiyan]

I agree

[@heinmolenaar6750]

Very well said

[@SirIkeMedia]

It has gone full-throttle now....

[@dolphineachonga555]

When I was young I would read history books about dictatorships and tyrants. I'd think, the dictator and his cronies are just a few people compared to the majority. Why don't they just get rid of them. When I asked my dad he gave me the most pitiful look. He replied, " Sweetie, we haven't even rid ourselves of ours for years. It's not that simple." I was shocked. I was fifteen and had no idea we were being ruled by a dictator. I never really felt it. Looking back now, I can clearly recall all the brainwashing that went on in schools. The songs we were made to sing in praise of him. The oaths of loyalty we had to recite. The changing of the academic curriculum to emphasize the importance of the regime and all the good stuff they were doing for us. Even a habitual annual charity by government was a thing. The historical biographies that elevated him to godliness. The government news and media articles whose central focus was to smear his enemies. The political activists who'd just disappear or die mysteriously. A tribe that was massacred for attempting to revolt. An attempted coup that failed. All this happened in the course of 24,years. Yet, I never realized we were being oppressed. Crazy. Without the courage of a few political activists and the threat of economic collapse, he could have ruled till he died. Even more ironic is that when he died he was given a state funeral with full honors. People went to his funeral and we're bowing to his corpse. Some were going on and on about his incredible leadership and how his era was more orderly or whatever. Crazy. This keeps happening over and over throughout history. It's like Humans have short memory, like to suffer and inevitably self destruct. Maybe it's the cycle of nature or something to destroy and rebuild.

[@alexanderrobinson9971]

Me: Gets inspired by this video. Also Me: Gets arrested for tax evasion.

[@ThePresentation010]

Fed reserve: makes money. People: dont care Fed Reserve: impose taxes with iron fist of police. People: slave/work.

[@user-ho9uf4ri1t]

Stopping to provide goods and services for fiat money is the answer. Most people would have to change their lives radically to do this, though.

[@syourke3]

Did you really get arrested for tax evasion?! That’s pretty hard to do these days. The IRS is woefully underfunded. We need to organize a tax strike. We could use a catchy slogan. I know. How about “No taxation without representation”? I think it’s been used before but it’s got a nice feel to it.

[@WMichaelDeJonge]

Only the use of the currency is taxed. Find a way to not use the currency and you no longer owe the tax. Think about it.

[@krissyramsey3934]

@@WMichaelDeJonge Tell us your thoughts on how to live without currency

[@Fromard]

Why is this not taught in school? Oh. Publicly funded schools. I get it.

[@halasimov1362]

School It's not a place for smart people Jerry

[@thesyllabus2776]

School is a form of slavery itself

[@uter]

I mean, what's a better option? Very few can afford private schools... Some education is still infinitely better than none at all.

[@Fromard]

@@uter Any information that you could ever need or want is available on the internet. You just have to invest the time and study to your interest.

[@uter]

@John Howerton A select few babies will learn to swim if thrown into the ocean, but do you know how impossible it is for the average person to summon that kind of self discipline without some guidance? There's an argument for letting people fend for themselves, but I think there's a better argument for trying to do the most good for the most people. Public schools aren't perfect, but they do provide some basic life skills to the masses, like learning how to learn and live with other people.

[@blackhole4]

You can tell the sheep they're sheep but they would only continue to eat their grass.

[@cv4809]

10 Tunnels What's wrong with being a sheep and eating grass

[@blackhole4]

Constantine V well my good man being a sheep means being told where to go and what to do by the sheephearder 24/7. Your Shepard cares for you your entire life and he's doing the minimum to help of course. Making sure you get your food and your water till you day comes to meet the slaughter house. Your shepard is like a narcissistic mother caring for you. She cares for you but only to get what she wants at the end of the day. Not being able to think for yourself and go about your on dreams is an attack on our free wills. Instead chasing your dream your working a 9-5 job you hate going to everyday not realizing or even better yet realizing you can be doing something you'd love but instead your comfortably relaxed in your pen with the rest if the flock your Shepard built for you.

[@LazyOtaku]

+Constantine V Replace grass with tidepods and go have dinner, sheep

[@Emilio171040]

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[@iadjjisciajad3682]

I feel like this is not a good analogy, a sheep will never stop being a sheep but a slave can stop being a slave.

[@baskywater779]

Mate, I cannot tell you how much your work is helping me with my study, your work continues to inspire me. Thank you

[@danielbtwd]

Frederic Bastiat and Plato you will enjoy also.

[@merdantekayev812]

Me too mate. Not a day will pass until i study in the library for 8+ hours.

[@joejoe77547]

How much info have you gathered? Maybe we can help each other

[@avatar2833]

@@danielbtwd Plato? 😂 Plato is the reason why utopian totalitarianism dominated half of mankind and the world in the 20th century. You should read Karl Popper’s *The Open Society and Its Enemies* that should induce enough disillusionment for you to know that Plato’s philosophy is one big excuse for human alienation, abstraction, enslavement, and absolutist technocracy in the modern world.

[@Vitashique]

To all of those saying TVs, phones, and computers should all be boycotted, I disagree. These technologies are just tools. Those who allow the negative influences from these tools blame the tools but it is them who chose to use these tools to subjegate themselves. I personally love watching Academy of Ideas on youtube. There are tons of documentaries and education videos I enjoy watching (and learn from). When I feel down, I like watching comedy and uplifting movies/shows/videos. These tools are only bad if you allow yourself to be slaves to them.

[@MrHudaknows]

"A slave curses enemies, for he does not understand. But a son blesses them, for he understands. For a son knows that his enemies cannot touch his life. Therefore he freely steps among them and prays to God for them." -St. Nicholai of Ochrid

[@mikesnow285]

While Humans were worrying about AI taking over, they became the AI.

[@booksboundnoveljourneys1122]

That was a powerful statement that needed to be said. Thank you!

[@Sol-ui2if]

Yes, humans become the AI. Without I. I stands for intelligence, individuality, independence, integrity, intuition and introspection.

[@tablikiiqbalirigshawrogan3635]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂

[@TarsonTalon]

More specifically, the NPC's.

[@Clarence_Stinson]

While a few of us remain AI, that is, Autonomous Individual.

[@petercarlvi7420]

Great advice to the millions out there who just obey without resisting or thinking why they do things authorities order them to specially in these times we’re living now!

[@MonaLisa-lu8zi]

Value systems have changed, particularly since the 60's. Perhaps, the garden needs weeding. 😏

[@mycatisromeo]

For most people, money is literally their priority every single day. And they'll accept misery to obtain more of it than meets their needs.

[@jeremiahmeade710]

I agree. Nobody ever has to contradict their conscience.

[@exquirentibusveritatem606]

This video expresses exactly how I feel everyday, my mind wants to be free but I work a job that takes my freedom away, all for a bigger crumb than minimum wage.

[@poetsrear]

Start saving up resources, educate yourself, begin to formulate out plans B & C, of which the other is a more self-reliant backup for the current society model and the other a plan for full self-sustainability for when the system completely kicks the bucket. Having resources/solid income is essential to get going with anything. Peace.

[@helloimalexander]

Learn to balance your time.

[@boneheaded9751]

No...YOU are giving up your freedom. No one is forcing you to work a job you hate. Your mind is not free because YOU allow it. Life is about choices. It is up to you alone to figure out what you want in life, and how to achieve that end. The loftier the goal, the more work/struggle it will take to achieve. To "sin" is to miss the mark. Many people are too afraid to simply take aim in fear of missing the mark. But that's another discussion entirely.

[@boneheaded9751]

@@wildbulbasaurappeared9679 I understand where you're coming from...to an extent. I'm a sort of Anarcho Capitalist. But it also sounds like a lot of excuses for ones own shortcomings. Read Nietzsche's Master vs Slave morality. I think that might make you understand where I'm coming from...and where you're coming from. In other words, all men are not created equal. Problem is most men don't recognize their own inherent limitations...or if they do, they don't do anything to fix it (or improve)...yet feel they are entitled to more in life. It's so much easier to just place blame elsewhere. At least for the short term. Also, ponder this quote “Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.” slave morality in the minds of men = weak men and hard times

[@boneheaded9751]

@@wildbulbasaurappeared9679 Seems you enjoy hearing yourself speak more than anything else. You could cut your responses down by at least a third and still get your poorly thought out points across. One suggestion for you....talk less, listen more. Then you might actually have something to say worth hearing...and responding to.

[@Sabbatai-Zevi]

You forgot to mention the Federal Reserve and the history of private banking

[@explosives101]

And that's the TRUE enslavement.

[@agaperion]

lol

[@miguelpereira9859]

Why lol?

[@TomCruiseRisky]

Jewish Central Banks.

[@knpstrr]

Central banks are a symptom of the disease, not the cause of the disease. This video addresses the cause of societal disease.

[@mattmiller478]

Amazing. Over and over, the cycle repeats.

[@shofforth1]

Being free means having or developing courage and realize you never really safe without courage.

[@Thurnishaley6969]

This was the best video ive ever seen on KZbin, a place where important content is rare, and pacifying distractions run amok. Thank you for using this platform for something important, this was excellent.

[@wallacelux]

What an utterly brilliant compilation here, congratulations.. So well done. This is so painful to understand this, yet necessary, as I ponder how to escape the tyrrany and disassociate from the SHEEPLE. 🤝😶

[@touchonesw8535]

We Been Slaves From Day One. Its Taught From The First Time We hear The First Bell

[@teddyboef2821]

As soon as your parents filled in your birth certificate they wrote you into the slave system. Look up common law.

[@user-gz4ve8mw9l]

@@teddyboef2821 Your screwed from square one, you do not consent to be created. Yet you are forced into existence forced into slavery, and the path of indoctrination. You are also faulted for everything, not permitted to do anything to thwart it. Powerless, and ignorant to a way to free the masses. So long as the masses refuse to change, and remain within denial. They enjoy the delusions they live, willfully ignorant to the lies they exist as a part of.

[@booksboundnoveljourneys1122]

@@teddyboef2821 also look up maritime law. You’ll learn some interesting things.

[@teddyboef2821]

@@booksboundnoveljourneys1122 it is the same thing different words. Pretty remarkable scam, right?

[@teddyboef2821]

@@user-gz4ve8mw9l it reminds me of institutional religion. Born a sinner. That has nothing to do with love.

[@vivianoosthuizen8990]

Gaslighting and crazymaking are one in the same - they are both terms to describe a person that wants you to feel like you’re losing your mind. They do that by causing you to distrust your own decisions and make you think that you are wrong about almost everything. They know how to turn you from a happy, assured individual with your own thoughts and ideas into a dependent, unsure and fragile person that can’t take any steps without checking in with them first. Emotional abuse is insidious in nature, but crazymaking is the ultimate perception destroyer. If you can’t trust your own perceptions, you don’t even know what reality is. After some time with the crazymaker, you’ll come to trust the very person causing you to distrust yourself.

[@mycatisromeo]

You just described my ex girlfriend perfectly!

[@macca923]

I thought you were talking about my family at first..

[@rap36case]

Education teaches how to think, propaganda teaches what to think.

[@bicyclist2]

This is so true! The narrator sounds like Kieth Thompson from the documentary "The New Age Infiltration of the Truth movement" Millions more people need to see this. Thanks.

[@americanme9933]

Probably the most profound piece I've seen on youtube in years.

[@jimolson9649]

The vast majority are lost in the thoughts, beliefs and traditions of those who wish to control your mind and body.

[@captainmuggs8935]

This video precisely describes the supposed “pandemic” we find ourselves enslaved to....

[@mosestoliver4068]

Yup!

[@cl5193]

vaccine nazis and the new mark

[@miapdx503]

Agree 🌺

[@patrickbodine1300]

*stupidity is the real pandemic*

[@miapdx503]

@@patrickbodine1300 Absolutely! 🌺

[@tumblebugspace]

Look up the poem, “The People” by Tommaso Campanella. The man was taken by Inquisitors *four times* in his life, and four hundred years ago he saw that very thing you described. “One kick would be enough to break the chain...” Thanks for sharing this and educating your fellow humans!

[@jeremiahmeade710]

Thankyou for sharing that poem!!! It was a very interesting read!!!

[@mrgruffy4499]

“It is true that, in the beginning, men submit under constraint and by force. But those who come after them, obey without regret, and perform willingly what their predecessors had done because they had to. This is why men, born under the yoke, and then nourished and reared in slavery, are content, without further effort, to live in their native circumstance, unaware of any other state or right, and considering as quite natural, the conditions into which they were born.”-Etienne de La Boetie, The Discourse on Voluntary Servitude.

[@ChilliFedor]

Coming from a culture subjugated by a foreign power, 500 years since the conquistadors. I as artist, realize that my very nature is to break free from the bonds of acquaintance and subservient mentality. Art demands a freed mind.

[@Junglist_Guy]

The bit about those who seek to exploit and those who instinctively rebel against servitude, made more than just a little sense. Thanks.

[@LizRealGirlBeauty]

My son and I have been listening to your videos every morning while he gets ready for school. He's disabled, otherwise he'd be homeschooled. Your videos are giving him a lesson on freedom that hopefully he won't forget.

[@isrberlinerin4063]

Some of my Family survived Hitler and my mother and me ended up having to live under communism in Eastern Europe . I had to attend a communist school and indoctrination was fierce , but thanks to my mother i did not let the indoctrination take any effect in my mind i resisted . Later we were able to flee from communist slavery and i am thankful till this very day . I am also horrified what is happening here in America . It seem at least half of America is already in bondage to Marxist class warfare , calling it CRT and it is just a Theory .

[@michaelricketson1365]

Yes, many Americans need to hear your story. Otherwise the horrors of the past shall repeat.

[@lastdays1242]

I understand your plight, that is exactly how I feel

[@Sablewingers]

This video is more than immensely informative, it is a work of art! I have scarcely seen it more efficiently explained how a society concedes its own liberty! Excellent job!

[@lordvoldemort4242]

The world needs to see this

[@MorteWulfe]

I was born in Freedom, I grew up with Freedom as my guide and I will die well while still being Free. Let's see who will join me, both as friend and in the ground as foe.

[@maldoso76]

This is phenomenal! I completely love this channel's content! The Members' videos are splendid as well! Thank you so much AoI!

[@jameshumphrey9939]

yes, so many more questions here than answers that we will never find

[@casesusa]

There are none so enslaved as those who love their chains.

[@SteviePaints]

Look at the number of people who are in love with lockdowns and masks.

[@QualeQualeson]

I've seen countless comment sections, some generally thankful and positive. But I've never seen one in which viewers express this level of gratitude. Just thought I'd mention it.

[@Fassislau]

It's because this channel is sublime and appeals to rationality and kindness :)

[@MarsSpaceship11]

don't tell us what level of gratitude we're expressing!

[@QualeQualeson]

Martian Spaceship Your level of gratitude is through the roof my friend.

[@nunyurbyznes7611]

Thank you who ever you are for this channel with the truths of freedom and liberty!

[@shaneroper477]

Great video! I'll be sharing this one! The awakening is happening around the world. It can only get better from here!

[@prometheusprometheus326]

Shane Roper I’m liking the optimism/enthusiasm

[@neonskyline1]

that's what you thought

[@shaneroper477]

@@neonskyline1 More people than you think are. It's just a matter of realizing how the mind works (subconscious vs conscious), and in doing so, realizing yep....we've been lied too.

[@montedegallo2948]

Well done. Thank you for keeping history alive.

[@tj3816]

AOI is the most helpful channel on KZbin. I listen everyday. Thank you.

[@TarsonTalon]

This is why I don't feel like I'm the same species. I'll be minding my own business, and then suddenly everyone around me starts turning into collectivist monsters.

[@rayanknezic8682]

What do you do, man? Are you a philosophy teacher ? Love your work. Just found your Channel. It's exactly what WE need these days

[@kohnfutner9637]

You and I have a donator from sandman to thank for my union with your channel. Thanks for your work!

[@mrgruffy4499]

The iron hand crushed the tyrant's head, and became a tyrant in his stead.--William Blake None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe that they are free--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[@fizzol12345]

This makes sense and I’ve known it for a long time. What I can’t figure out is how to break away from it and live freely in today’s world.

[@heinmolenaar6750]

To be free you must inwardly stand completly alone not isolated but alone

[@chrismckell5353]

I enjoy these videos, they give much to ponder. Rewarding for an enquiring mind.

[@tomw4821]

I'm beginning to understand that there is a state of mind that can be experienced which can't be influenced or manipulated. Something that is always there, something deep and penetrating in you. Its a place of seeing reality clearly and responding naturally. I feel how important it is for more people to establish and express this mental cohesion, this state of Knowledge. I wish more people would know about and study the Steps To Knowledge - a training manual and teacher in this path. If it calls to you look into it (StepsToKnowledge(dot)com).

[@mjt5307]

Thanks, Tom W.

[@HyeonamLee]

Thank you.

[@BTKYG]

This is my favorite Channel, when I first saw through the lie it almost broke my spirit.. these lessons bring me hope.. Thank you.

[@hydrogenone6866]

"It is impossible to conceive anything in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without limitation, save only a good will". E.K.

[@jakemiller7682]

Nice to see some people finally waking up. Now to come up with solutions and put them into action.

[@neonskyline1]

nobody is waking up, you can't changed beliefs

[@NoFacephilosophy]

Your work continues to inspire me and amaze me, hopefully, I can one day reach the same level of quality with my own content. Keep being great, AOI! Thank you for everything you do!

[@sammonroe3985]

Thank you so much for these videos, summarizing these concepts. You've made things much easier to understand and grow.

[@WMichaelDeJonge]

I think this video just changed the course of the rest of my life. Thank you.

[@psychmaestro8528]

Well-said and well-made. Thank you Academy of Ideas. Keep it up :)

[@THEGROOVEMATICMOVEMENT]

damn this is deep yet so simplistic. why tf are the majority of us still sleep.

[@The-illuminated]

I dont think this is real. This is propaganda.

[@alphatucana]

Well, I still can't afford to quit my job, can I?

[@booksboundnoveljourneys1122]

I agree! The system is set up so we’re all so distracted with making ends meet and mindless entertainment because we’re so exhausted from working sixty hours a week that we have no time to ponder society and how everything manipulated us. They’ve created the perfect tyrannical system! And it’s so sad, especially for those like me who are just starting out in the workforce. Then again, we all have to pay rich people prices. Whatever the rich people can pay is what we all have to pay, regardless of income level.

[@twominutesofyourtime3667]

As usual, a brilliant explanation ~ thanks. I wrote this today to a friend "Perhaps we are all trapped in our lives and only a few find a way to escape. I wonder if I am expecting too much, the tigers in their cages are too sleepy and comfortable"

[@thoughtcriminal7571]

I am such a fan of the discourse. This is John Lothe's audiobook version. I truly have no idea how many times I've listened to it.

[@IN2music2]

I love the academic approach to teaching these complex ideologies & phycological concepts. I love the facts with the objectivity. Hopefully these videos will trigger the "critical thinking"back into the viewers. Great presentations!!!

[@milhuisen]

Man, this channel really is fantastic. Thanks for the great videos!

[@canubeleiveit]

Why can't all of us like minded humans come together and vacate the system. Lets do it and quit talking about it. A new version of a loving community, i know it is scary, it scares me too but for the love of god there has to be a starting point. Im thinking

[@wonkothesane8691]

Part of the great problem today is so few have any definition of freedom, real or imagined, right or wrong. My own definition of "freedom" can be summed up in the ownership of one's own soul, oneself. I'm bound only by the dictates of my own conscience. I live by those rules which are most convenient for the ensuring of my survival. All I possess, my faculties, talents, skills, abilities and all produced by using them are mine. I can use them as I see fit. In my mind, this is freedom. By this I can live in peace with all, no one can take from me what do not give, and no one can give me anything I choose not to take.

[@joebloe9901]

I’ve been binge “watching” this channel. It’s easy to listen to while I work. I hate the robot voice channels. Thanks a bunch.

[@2010whiteman]

Never before in history have slaves been so well fed, thoroughly medicated, lavishly entertained-but we are slaves nonetheless. Edward Abbey

[@eriv8598]

A people enslaves itself.

[@sonofperdition1719]

we are proud, volunteer$ of $lavery..the very same $lavery which betrayed & crucified christ and every human before or since..voluntary ignorance😧

[@felixargyle1285]

@@sonofperdition1719 Bruh don't bring religion into this, you're literally what this video is talking about

[@sonofperdition1719]

We are spirit..the issue is Spirit...wtf is religion but a repetitive process? No I adress spirit..fuck religion..the spirit told me the truth..despite my belief in it...the meek will inherit earth...even so amen..ye 💩🙈🙉🙊 can religio$ly babbel on and believe in whatev$...but truth is my reality to honor or di$honor..so I'm gonna honor the Giver on this...and honor truth fer a change....the meek inherit kingdom.

[@sonofperdition1719]

Absolute

[@sonofperdition1719]

And tho$e babylonandonandonian💩🙈🙉🙊 traitor$ have a $hort time...then we embrace ghe cashless system...then the meek inherit the earth..it is finished...fal$e religion$ & it's divided whore hou$e can not withstand what is comin soon too a divided house to unite us...ye have yer truth.

[@conorclimo8534]

The sweet release of death is the most liberating.

[@bradleyweiss1089]

Conor Climo Use it wisely.

[@davisdavis1347]

I know. I can't wait until I die. This earth sucks. Always has in my 40 plus years. If there were a pill to take that garunteed death I'd buy it.

[@SuspiciousLobster5677]

Said Jim Jones right before the jonestown massacre.

[@BanterrClaus]

by commenting this you have used your life to give an emotional feeling to this comment section. You felt to do this, and you may or may not help - but you used your life. I’m sure you can use it for a lot more. Don’t wish for death, it will come anyway, it’s like wishing to take a shit later when you don’t need a shit yet

[@prudencesidecafe2572]

Psychopathology has critical advantages unavailable to those who are not, or will- not or cannot behave as such. Fascinating.

[@helios4u2]

EXCELLENT ANALYSIS. Let those who believe they find security in blind obedience open their eyes.

[@rumelali6306]

This evil is so deep it's beyond imagination so one day when they all rebel there wil be an uprising so huge it wil destroy all that we ever knew of this world

[@kongtzi2704]

This video basically ecompasses what this channel is all about. Kudos and support once again :) !!!

[@thothheartmaat2833]

If all we do is sit in front of our computers and think about ideal society, we will never know the real world. Start going for long walks that are miles long and realize the true horror of your situation. There are people everywhere. Society is a house of cards that requires a ton of organization. Or walk out into the woods and tell yourself you have to live there for the rest of your life starting now. That's what I did and I realized the easiest thing to do is get a job... I could go start a new society in the woods but we already did that. It's here. Why would I go to the woods and reinvent every technology when every technology is already invented? What happened is we're in a resource predicament. So many people and so few resources.

[@ypsawbones3646]

ThothHeart Maat Sadly many people cannot distinguish between fantasy and reality

[@twelvedozen5075]

Fear, much like that which you are exhibiting, is the very reason people consent to be governed.

[@yeboscrebo4451]

Since when is the easy way the right way?

[@twelvedozen5075]

ypsawbones 364 do tell..

[@c4tch]

Ahh, fear is it? I love revolutionaries. Everything they spout dries up the moment you propose "Okay, we completely abolish current society. Your revolution worked! Now what?" Never any answer that makes sense.

[@drasheferriman1276]

So grateful for you inspection of our human mechanisms... your commitment to informing and alighting the human condition is simply beautiful.... thank you so much 💚❣️ it is with only thirst and enthusiasm I welcome your videos Keep going please

[@tylerlog8732]

I started to question the system at 14 , I’m now 29 , I knew I was gonna experience something wild during my life time , but I wasn’t expecting this .

[@alomei]

I've been telling people this recently. History is a great source of information.

[@marksulzman1551]

Depends of the source of the information. The "mainstream history" ie taught in schools, TV documentaries etc... is told from the perspective of the :victor" or maybe the "master of our said slavery". Careful!

[@kingjaffe321]

One day I will amass enough money to live off the grid and truly be free but until then we’re all at the mercy of the evil empires of the world may God bless us all who believe in the notion that we are all born free.

[@winternunya4561]

Even as a child I understood this.....

[@cookytrix]

me too. misunderstood for life. unfun

[@winternunya4561]

@@cookytrix unfun? Hahahahahahaha

[@danielgareth4205]

Very interesting and accurate observations. However just ONE major point that de la Boétie forgets: power structures sustain themselves because of reward and punishment mechanisms. -Reward: for cooperation, for consent, acting accordingly. Sometimes even providing wealth, high status, security, privileges,etc. -Punishment: heavy punishment for resistance Social scientists who study Power structures claim: any arbitrary power structure will be sustained three things are in place: 1) Reward structures 2) Punishment structures 3) Ideology/Worldview/Religion that legitimizes power

[@jenniekelly571]

Your videos/lectures are amazingly fitting for the world today, especially what is happening in the US. Thank you for sharing your research and knowledge!!

[@machinesandthings9641]

Let’s all stop paying taxes and see how long our politicians survive.

[@fckmunch]

If the medical apartheid strengthens the that would be the best course of action. A non member of society shall not pay tax.

[@evillano]

While this channel teaches me to be independent and become who I truly am, School of Life is teaching me that mediocrity is ok.

[@dolphineachonga555]

In my opinion, their overall themes complement each other to some extent.

[@heinmolenaar6750]

Im from europe if you are independent and truly who you are then you are not mediocrity

[@nimbus6985]

Interesting. I do believe that governments should be there to manage communities in an ideally, just and fair manner. Essentially we are sheep for the fact that we are reliant upon them. They just do their job. It's up to the individual to free their own mind.

[@bradleyweiss1089]

Nimbus What’s most disturbing is a representative that calls themselves a law maker. We are the lawmakers. You are supposed to just represent me. Same with a judge. You don’t make law from the bench you enforce law.

[@missruthy8237]

This is absolutely true. My king was dethroned, but was re-instatet. When his subjects, down to his palace workers abandoned him, he went crazy and soon died.

[@paulbiggs5523]

The irony is that, in the UK, we are tacitly accepting this very situation at the moment.

[@kennethhudgins1369]

Revolution is easy, finding a system that "works" is hard

[@avamasquerade]

I'm increasingly the master of myself and I'm the only "system" that I need to worry about.

[@KaileyB616]

Timothy yeah it's so delusional not to be a slave 🙄

[@projectdalekmark]

You could almost say it's a case of generalised Stockholm syndrome for the masses...

[@cbone6754]

This is Awesome. Thank You For The Great Content, It's Made Such A Difference in My Life!

[@nocarbonfootprint9120]

It's August 2021 and boy do I need to share this!

[@arthurlecomte8950]

Freedom follows virtue. If you want to be free, be a good human being. One who cares, who speaks the truth and who acts it out. The more wrong choices you make, the more freedom you will lose.