What is the 'Meaning Crisis' really? | Escape the THOUGHT REGIME

[@Taliessin70]

Next level stuff Scott. You've gone from being another talking head on YT - albeit a very fine one - interviewing x, y and z, to punching at a much more rarified and compelling level. This is the kind of step change those Nietzschean artists you mention need, and hopefully will, make. Well done again. Your recent vids make so many other big names on YT and Substack look like chattering popinjays.

[@ScottMannion]

cheers mate, say this on twitter so i can retweet it!

[@BarryJohn2211]

Genuinely important content. Thankyou.

[@JHimminy]

“Don’t become food for the moon.” Gurdjieff

[@Thekeninger]

What you said, Scott, reminds me a lot of the teachings and ideas promoted by Gurdjieff. Gurdjieff claimed that most people live in a state of automatism, in a 'sleep', unaware of their thoughts, actions, and emotions. The awakening he spoke of involves developing mindfulness and self-remembering - that is, awareness of one’s own presence and action in every moment. I’m curious what you think about his teachings.

[@JHimminy]

He seems to have a connection to orthodox Christianity and early church fathers. Though I’m not knowledgeable enough about either G or OC to say with certainty.

[@forlaw3625]

Hey Scott! Paul Joseph Watson has been a fav of mine for years! It's TIME for a restoration of the Anglosphere! booyaaaah

[@milliebays1801]

So good

[@555KL]

The bit at 32:40 about the Dionysian, Nietzsche and madness etc. is particularly insightful. Friedrich Hölderlin is another instructive example of unconscious possession (which we would now clinically diagnose as schizophrenia)

[@555KL]

One of Hölderlin’s friends said in 1836: “In his case, it was his craze for out-and-out paganism that turned his mind. And all his thoughts stop at a certain point round which he turns and turns. It's like pigeons flying round the weathercock on the roof. They go round and round the whole time, until they drop for want of strength. Believe me, that's what sent him mad.”

[@ScottMannion]

you get it, friend

[@Arms07]

I subbed awhile ago after you talked with PJW and haven't had time to listen but this was really good weekend brain food thanks Scott.

[@SarahTSkinner]

Thank you

[@gerardlabeouf6075]

fantastic video! I would also say your insights on phenomenology would be of great help of everyone, that would like to start husserl, because he is very very blurry in words and explanation, but to somehow that had a phenomenological experience it would make sense and would distill that blur quite easily .

[@forlaw3625]

Speaking of "being"; "am" is the English form of "to be", to exist. There is a reason the Bible quotes God referring to Himself as "The Great I AM That I AM"! As we veered from God, of course we fell into a crisis of being!

[@uteretrum6320]

Ntastic stuff

[@travismitchell210]

This one went over my head. Probably understood about 25% of these concepts... recommended study? I know Nietzche, but don't understand the virginal energy, how Christianity fixes the issues mentioned, or the symbolism. New to the channel as well so I'm sure that doesn't help.

[@ScottMannion]

Heidegger, Valentin Tomberg, Rudolf Steiner. Most importantly: the practice of initiation as described in other videos. Understanding/wisdom is far more than the propositional modern concept and is something earned and granted from above.

[@forlaw3625]

​@@ScottMannion The Word makes that clear!

[@ContraMundum-c5f]

Scott at 24:13 is there a link there to Christ's story of the birds and the lilies of the field?

[@briansimerl4014]

We need to return to primitive instincts to clear away the illusions. Conan needs to smash the screen mirrors of the Evil Wizard. It's long overdue.