why is the modern world so evil?

[@Sisyphus55]

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[@cliptomaniac2562]

I started reading Denial of Death. After the first few pages it crystallizes for me. I am going to die. Fear and weakness prevents me from picking it up again but I’m glad it ends well

[@callmeuriah.5433]

@@cliptomaniac2562 So he read a book that won a pulitzer prize. It was about death. It didn't help; he saw himself in it. And he was disturbed at the conclusions that it lead to, but he couldn't say what, because the author was dead, too. And, so, though he made fun of us, he has now become one of us. --the ballad of costa concordia (the reason I read that book)

[@atomictraveller]

for one obvious reason. a bunch of boys with the name m, a, s, o, n, s, and a bunch of suckers who won't ever do anything about it huh hey see ya in w3st p4pu4 for the last sixty three years of unconsciousness all you amazing genius heroes.

[@worldadventuretravel]

This is interesting and well-presented. I featured your video, "The Revolution Will Not Be Livestreamed," as part of several references I connected in my article, "How the Victorian Era Persists in Our Modern Psyche, Palestine, and the “Moral Imperative” of Revolt---- Is resistance to oppression fundamental human nature, or a rare anomaly among the lunatic fringe?" (on Medium, linked). The article begins and ends with Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning" in a number of ways as I explore human tendencies of resistance and compliance-- and the capos of the concentration camps that Frankl recounts. In "Wages of Rebellion--The Moral Imperative of Revolt" by Chris Hedges, he speaks of a similar inherent dignity and meaning in resistance to oppression that I found also in Frankls' work. When everything seems pointless, CAN we derive meaning through solidarity and common purpose, and is there the political will to do so? Let's see. medium.com/@adventuresinthefreeworld/how-the-victorian-era-persists-in-our-modern-psyche-palestine-and-the-moral-imperative-of-d1600cf68ca9

[@ReverendDr.Thomas]

@@callmeuriah.5433 "why is the modern world so evil?" Beause it is populated with Silly Socialist Shills, Sinful SLAVE.

[@thirday8421]

"There is no Good or Evil, there is only Balenciaga and those too weak to seek it." -Balencimort

[@nguyen-vuluu3150]

balenciaga pilled

[@yggdrasil2]

Hate to be a super-nerd, but that was actually Quirrel.

[@alexanderkloiber333]

@@yggdrasil2 If I’m not mistaken, it was Quirell in the first book, but Voldermord, growing out of the back of Quirell‘s head, who said it in the movie. There is, as far as I’m aware, no rule by which book canon overwrites movie canon, even there are some elitist doorkeepers who act like it works that way.

[@yggdrasil2]

@@alexanderkloiber333 Sorry, didn't mean to sound elitist, I guess I simply have read/listened to the book more times than I've seen the movies so I have some difficulty remembering the events of the latter ones.

[@alexanderkloiber333]

@@yggdrasil2 Don’t worry about it, my cosmic tree loving friend.

[@ostrich1235]

last time i was this early sisyphus was still pushing his boulder

[@toyotaprius79]

I was early enough when he gave us the secret of fire

[@alex12397]

wrong guy toyota but i get what you mean

[@brandonbennett3082]

nah sisyphus is ALWAYS pushing his boulder

[@diogenes5079]

@@brandonbennett3082one must imagine Sisyphus pushing a rock up a hill for like a really long time

[@Chrys4l1s]

​@@diogenes5079he's still pushing it

[@snakeater_Oli]

i've always tried ever since i was a kid to bring love instead of hate to the ones around me. But with the passing of time and constant events and confrontations it's difficult not to despair when it looks like evil always triumphs. So it''s really meaningful to ear words, like James Baldwin at the end, to remember why i should keep moving and have empathy to my fellow Man.

[@Abhishek17_knight]

U keep going man. U are not alone. We are in this together. (I am happy u exist too coz i feel like u as well sometimes.)

[@Paraselene_Tao]

James Baldwin is a wonderful person, and I plan to take some time to read and listen to his work. It seems like everything I've heard or read from him has been something solidly good.

[@Hanna-jq2dk]

Dont dish it out. If you can't take it. If you roll with shiz you will be acknowledged as being so.

[@SrinivasChenji]

I will keep trying along with you man

[@Samyukthavinay]

'ear'?

[@noahhysi8622]

"I think this idea of fear being behind evil should only further encourage us to view love as the only true saviour." - Ben

[@gurin3702]

I guess evil often comes from one's own weakness, a way to fill a void that one may never be able to fill by putting others down?

[@Juliebear122]

It sure does

[@ÁstriðrArsinte]

That kinda' sounds like narcisism.

[@nineveh17]

yup@@ÁstriðrArsinte

[@Jozzuh1]

@@ÁstriðrArsintenarcissism is kinda evil 😭

[@edasayg5774]

@user-ub7fb1uy8n reminds me of dorian gray. He has done so many bad things, but he never had the courage to look to the painting of himself. And when he finally did, he didn't see a human but a monstrous, distorted being.

[@lavalambchops]

"You don't have enemies. The truth is, that nobody has them. Nobody in this entire world deserves to get hurt." - Thors Snorresson

[@atomictraveller]

hmm, "you don't have a mile deep gold deposit in yagamo where your peoples souls go when they die, you've got sixty three years of genocide and a complete media blackout worse than the one for oj and the MK trials" - ya like it like that?

[@Nykandros]

I won't have enemies once they've all been defeated. Conflict is inevitable, those who avoid this fact leave themselves vulnerable to subjugation by those who embrace it.

[@bugjams]

​@@Nykandros Continuing to perpetuate the cycle. Everyone ultimately values themselves more than others. This is why there will always be conflict.

[@atomictraveller]

@@Nykandrosthose who believe conflict is inevitable usually end up insisting on it at some point. ha comma ha.

[@Shizkeb]

Ok but I want to have enemies for no reason, I’m not joking or alone on this. There are a lot of people who do this, succeed AND are happy. If they are happy and I am suffering then I am doing something wrong.

[@PaperySloth]

As long as the fear of death exists, evil people will be close behind.

[@arcticpossi_schw1siantuntija42]

selfish people who cause harm and neglect others' wellbeing exist every real person is more complicated than classic disney villains evil people are only possible in fiction

[@letsreadtextbook1687]

I... have to disagree. I think if people have much less fear of death, 'evil people' would be much more common or at least more open, maybe not even considering murder as _too_ evil.

[@prophecyrat2965]

Recckless self destruction dose not care for death, it onvites it and takes seeks it out. It is the hate of life, the fear of living in a world where we are not the mostpowerful creatures, that is evil.

[@enumaelish9193]

​@@arcticpossi_schw1siantuntija42I dunno about that boss. Pretty sure if I came across Child Eating Jim the child eating serial rapist and murderer I would be 200% justified in classifying him as evil.

[@TheCompleteMental]

That's not the proximate cause. Proximate cause being the direct and more recent. Fear of death may get the ball rolling, but empathy allows you to see and feel that for other people as well. Therefor, you could easily fear death and not commit evil.

[@verac3105]

my English class was talking about this topic. 'what does it mean to be human?' people treat animals less because they're not human, so why do we treat other humans less? they're human, but we sometimes label others as 'non-human' because of some evil things they do. humans just want excuses to make themselves better in life and in feeling

[@colbyboucher6391]

Here's what I've started thinking: Humans are practically supernatural. No one can really explain WTF our conscious experience is. Somehow, the universe accidentally came up with some funky alchemy which led to creatures that can experience, imagine and create. Earth might not be the only place where this has happened, but it might as well be. So at the very least... that's sacred. Regardless of whatever suffering it causes, even the suffering is sacred. Human experience is too unique to let it just fade away. If anything I'm starting to feel like creative exercise is almost a moral obligation. I think this is something most people implicitly recognize, but I typically haven't, and without it it's pretty hard to not argue for the Benevolent World Exploder of negative utilitarianism.

[@verac3105]

@@colbyboucher6391 yesss, I agree! I think animals have what we have on a smaller scale. it's just sad how we use our 'conscience' to have an excuse of doing horrible stuff to beings who have less of it.

[@taistelusammakko5088]

@@colbyboucher6391 do you have any evidence that human conscious is practically supernatural?

[@elmaschimba963]

@@colbyboucher6391that’s probably 20 light years away far from the truth. I think the answers of the existence of this world and it’s evil are beyond people’s comprehension or imagination

[@elmaschimba963]

Unless when you die some will probably be able to comprehend the truth

[@RedIria]

When I read his book (The Denial of Death) for the first time in 2020 during COVID, it was the most coherent theory of motivation I have ever read and I immediately dove into other related work (The Worm at The Core) and research that was done. And I highly resonated with the creation of art relieving underlying fear.

[@mrboobiesrider9212]

WOW, I did the exact same thing.. I wonder how many people read the two books in 2020

[@blizzard1198]

​@@mrboobiesrider9212 did it before 2020 , I know I'm cool.

[@javierriosgonzalez6495]

Same here!

[@nycgweed]

I tried to read but it was difficult 😮 maybe I will try again

[@85BlahBlah]

I’m especially curious about the idea of the creation of art as a response. Does the Denial of Death address this idea or are there other books which discuss this more? Thanks.

[@fauxkoff367]

I try to be as good as I can be (unselfish) but its a poor metaphor to say you should listen to the angel on your shoulder. Because like you said, the supposed devil is also part of your human being. So instead of beating myself up when I get there (usually for what therapists describe as H.A.L.T.; hungry angry lonely or tired) I accept that this another part of me, my weakness and I try to make amends through humility of my human condition with anyone I might lash out on. And when I am refreshed and healthy I extend that much kindness and patience to those who might act out in the same.

[@timisontube]

I think that’s great and what must be done .

[@haydenalcorn8754]

Due to John Immoral, CEO of Evil.

[@yagomizuma2275]

Islam and Christianity: yes

[@yagomizuma2275]

And Zoroastrianism

[@JangaLangaBanga]

What's so wild is that we- viewers of this video- could encounter each other out in the world without knowing it, and have a pointless exchange that leaves us both offended and hateful of each other. Watching this video doesn't change us, we're emotional creatures and quick to be pulled into moments of conflict. Maybe just try and be kind to just the next person who makes you angry, even if we're only mindful of it once before reverting and forgetting.

[@bigcheese2128]

Well said but don’t let me catch you out here though

[@quantumblur_3145]

Your statement could replace this video with any other common human experience

[@kerritarian4945]

you don't need that far, even in this comment section it could happens

[@CoperXYZ]

I’ma get yo ass if u make me angry Janga

[@ilmariforsnas]

Thank you Sisyphus... "If your adversary wins the argument about truth, you die." ... Such is the frailty of ideas. But there are many spiritual paths which tell you can go beyond the mind, beyond ideas to a pure experience itself. I recommend looking up Steps to Knowledge, which feels like a very real pathway for this.

[@malcopowder]

That james baldwin quote really summed up everything. Love/empathy is the solution but the system and the fear and other distractions it produces prevent us from expressing that love, from seeing the humanity/ourselves in everyone else

[@yggdrasil2]

"You should only know how much tyrants fear the people they oppress." - Albus Dumbledore

[@eliaricca8060]

Your writing and editing is just on another level, it's so nice stuff like this actually exist

[@callmeuriah.5433]

Another fucking banger. All of the Becker stuff reminded me of the master slave section of the phenomenology of spirit. This othering of people as evil is the mechanism that allows for us to understand ourselves as good, or for Helgel, as simply being. I have also found this to be true in the version of christianity I was raised on: both the sinner and the false believer are what makes "us" holy through our recognition and condemnation of them. The only response to this dilemma must be love for the other; the other is the only way that I can feel myself to be good. The logical next step is to move beyond condemnation and towards a radical acceptance wherein both self and the other recognize each other with respect and move to create a world wherein we can both exist with security and peace.

[@misery_of_mika]

I love this takeaway

[@soursopmcgee8682]

Unfortunately that goes against the laws of nature

[@creatancremanova7097]

lol, and why is this a banger?

[@callmeuriah.5433]

@@creatancremanova7097 Because it goes hard, has the whole squad bumping.

[@5hydroxyT]

I agree, i think where we stumble is actually on the self-acceptance part - after all, isn't what we condemn in others the exact thing we condemn in ourselves?

[@absolute6422]

It really is incredible to see the progress in your channels video production. Not only are your words filled with wisdom, but your visuals are so unique and enticing that it makes for a complete viewing experience. Keep up the great work :)

[@loopiloop]

In my book, evil is anything that threatens the finity of myself and others for personal gain. Those who opt to live at the expense of others when given the choice

[@noahkai7]

sisyphus i recently discovered your channel around a month ago i was going through a breakup and your videos have just made it that much easier thank you. ❤

[@creativepop8196]

I've been curious about the disturbing films iceberg lately. Having no strength in actually watching them, I decided to just read their plots on Wikipedia. It disgusted me. All of them. I kept thinking how humans can be this torturous, heartless, and downright evil. Then, somehow, Sisyphus dropped another video literally on the right time again

[@almond5284]

I swear he's haunting our minds, hunting for his next essay topic

[@bugjams]

People can be evil, but the media makes you feel so much worse than you should. The media pushes stories of evil human acts in your face every day, when in reality at least 10,000x more good things happen a day than bad things. But those good things don't make headlines unless they're exceptionally good. The truth is that real evil and cruelty is rarer than kindness, and usually happens as a result of someone else's cruelty. Be nice to the next person who's rude to you, and maybe you can end one of these smaller cycles.

[@OniWa-u6n]

The most powerful way to fight evil is to realize you, yourself, are not good. When you constantly realize and accept this, it leads you to keep working at BEING good, learning what being good is. Our problem is we've been so "positive" oriented, we just assume we're "good people". Look how hard we work to go to school, get training, get a good job, work hard, blah, blah, blah. As long as its something material, we think its great to keep learning and advancing and "improving ourselves". When it comes to our character, we're encouraged to believe we're already wonderful, we are "good people". Unless we land in jail for drunk driving and killing someone (even then we blame our circumstances, "I didn't mean it, it was the alcohol, they shouldn't have been crossing the street" etc.) We're proud of seeing our limits for material success and taking every opportunity to take stock of our situation, learn more skills and work harder to "get ahead". But our character? How we treat our family, our friends, our fellow man? Pfffft! "Who has time for THAT?" So we become materially successful, evil people. Realizing we aren't good by default, that it is something we have to learn, to work at, to fix in ourselves, on an ongoing basis is the only way to stop being evil. Evil isn't just doing something destructive, its also just doing nothing, noticing nothing but your own desires, ignoring the needs and suffering around you and just always thinking of what YOU want for YOU. We aren't inherently good, we have to work at it. Our selfish society doesn't want us to do that-it runs on money and power and needs millions of materialistic, mindless worker bees to keep that system going. We promote competition over cooperation, taking instead of giving, self interest over interest in others. We choose to be evil by not working on being kind, thoughtful of others, and putting money above everything.

[@dylancohen3273]

This video is actually really helpful for me write now. I'm writing an essay about The Iliad and for my main thesis I said that "Achilles emerges as a champion of love" and I kinda forgot what I meant when I first wrote it, but now I remember. Thank you.

[@Vanity0666]

I recommend also reading The Aenid from Virgil if you have the opportunity, it's corrollary to Iliad

[@stephenanthony5923]

Disproportionate fear of death produces evil actions. I perceive that death may be inevitable but excessive anxiety and fear of death is not.

[@hailey_holmez]

The idea that death is something to be feared is what seems to keep this all going. If we cannot accept that confronting others beliefs will inadvertently cause the death of some of our beliefs (thus a death of self) we become aggressive to any other “combative” formation. I think this stems from a bigger issue of believing that our personal semantics of our reality apply to the rest of the world rather than the other way around. So because we find identity in our semantics we leave room for opportunity to have more conflict in realms where it doesn’t suit us. The idea that my moral semantics is applicable to all situations involving others has caused me so much pain. I hated others for what they said and instead of taking them where they were, I played a fighting contest to be right. The reality of things is that me holding my identity to those beliefs is what prevented me from showing up and being the help the other person needed. There is a reason for each person to be on every side, and we “win” by accepting that rather than fighting for our “team”.

[@James-qu8rz]

Note to self- when I die, remind myself that this is my life now.

[@nhlcbj]

“Evil is evil…Lesser, greater, middling, it’s all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I’m not a pious hermit. I haven’t done only good in my life. But if I’m to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.” - Geralt of Rivia Andrzej Sapkowski, The Witcher: The Last Wish

[@giovannironchi5332]

Evil is determined as that which is opposite to our preferences to live and avoidance of suffering. Without our preferences there would be no good and evil, only facts to which no value would be attached

[@Juliebear122]

As someone who has experienced evil done to me, this gives me some perspective. Without giving value to these things they are just mere facts and it feels weirdly comforting and accepting

[@jasonmoss-qk8oh]

if you think there's no evil then you don't know very much

[@giovannironchi5332]

@@jasonmoss-qk8oh Hi, I think there is such thing as 'evil' as I think there Is such thing as 'down': I'm Just saying that in order to define evil you need that the parties involved have a sense of preference as to define down you need the gravitational field (or something that give you a preferred direction)

[@Vanity0666]

​@@giovannironchi5332both of these things are relative

[@2ezTimmy]

It's through understanding your own darkness you find your light. So simply said, yet it is the hardest thing to do

[@codystuckey5785]

happy to see you posting again sisyphus, hope life’s treating you well.

[@almond5284]

Evil can never be prevented, but it can always be cured or accounted for. To commit to any kind of "final eradication" of it is a fool's errand. But to commit to engaging with it and gently assimilating it into our societal whole is where the true progress happens. It must be cared for, consciously and diligently, just like anything else. Then we may someday find the balance we so desperately crave.

[@Drekromancer]

Achieving broad, social enlightenment through the loving integration of the shadow on a massive scale? Brilliant take. Thanks for sharing. ♥️

[@quantumblur_3145]

Isn't there constant friction that'd make such an endeavor fruitless? Every minute, new people begin fearing their bodies and the mortality they represent, the shunning of the shadow will always be an instinctive drive

[@apatheticxmindsetx3549]

How do you cure something like pedophiles? Wouldn't they be associated with evil?

[@almond5284]

@@quantumblur_3145 It is only fruitless if we aim to forever defeat the entire notion of evil. It is not something that can be solved in a traditional sense, but in another sense it can be solved with conscious manual attention and care. It is never guaranteeable.

[@marsship921]

Well, from what I understood evil is only or own minds interpretating things that endangers us and makes us remember our finitude. That produces evil. So by losing the fear of death and living life as you want, does takes away all evil. At least to one person. Instead of having fear as the motivation to live, this person would have love as it's motivation.

[@MiScusi69]

This is one of your best videos! I've always found ethics and existentialism to be two very different branches of philosophy, but you clearly proved me wrong with this video! Kudos!

[@razortongue9000]

I've been taught by every authority figure in my world since I was a child that I am evil, so insignificance is the greatest virtue I can possess and the greatest comfort I can seek. The sweet and inevitable embrace of death and oblivion is my perpetual safety blanket and snuggly, reassuring teddy bear.

[@Astroqualia]

Those gaslighting fucks are the real evil.

[@ianb.2575]

You're an abuse victim, dawg

[@elihyland4781]

so friendship was the real treasure AND it’s the answer?! HELLLLLL YEAHHHH

[@Golden284-fan]

This is the philosopher's version of I'm 14 and this is deep. "Dude if you think about everything we do is like driven by our fear of death. Bro maybe if we all just loved each other there would be no more war".

[@Sofiaode18]

I like the concepts that this channel brings but in practice the presentation is word salad. I don’t think there’s a grander “evil” in most people. Fear does lead people to behave negatively towards others, but the leap towards “fear of death” is a gross oversimplification. I think a more interesting framing for this title is how socializing in this day and age feels devoid of genuine emotions.

[@Skoom_the]

@@Sofiaode18 you too I don't care because Rock and stone!

[@asteroidalassassin6949]

It appears foolish because it's dancing around the true answer and that is faith in God. Faith that God will provide for you and bring justice for you, faith in Gods mercy.

[@sneakerbabeful]

​@@asteroidalassassin6949 And what if we're unable to believe in God?

[@elliotsangestevez]

excellent video. loved the baldwin at the end. liberation truly is at least in some way a liberation from fear!

[@DanielSprouse]

if someone hates or complains about the world they're in, they are always the last to know that they are complaining about the life that they themselves concocted.

[@Dan-ud8hz]

"Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. It's that part of every man that finds all kinds of ugliness so attractive....it's that part of an imbecile that punishes and vilifies and makes war gladly.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

[@CuervoMathew]

Ultimately suffering comes from desire and ignorance. Desire to be inmortal, to be a hero, to be bigger than life. Desire to success. And ignorance that if you just see life for what it is, every moment being a opportunity to experience a beautiful world, to love, to create, to learn and improve yourself, to have a virtuous life

[@zahradelprey]

There is an unspeakable amount of evil and t3rror going around in the world right now and people are turning a deaf ear and a blind eye😢😢😢

[@lukeonuke]

People mostly only care when it impacts them, when its some country far away, away from sight is far from mind

[@yaegs]

Evil comes through evolution of intelligence

[@hamaybe]

Fear leads to panic; panic leads to pain; pain leads to anger; anger leads to hate - Danny Nedelko by IDLES

[@anonymousbosch9265]

I reject the initial loaded assumption that the modern world is evil of even worse than any time in antiquity, it has its problems but we live in the safest most prosperous time in history for the largest amount of people on the planet

[@tormunnvii3317]

By “Love” you can only mean universal love, as the counteragent to fear. I not only disagree that universal love would be too much to ask for the average person, but also that the counterpoint to fear is not love at all, it is wisdom. It is more accurate to speak of the overcoming of ignorance as being the antidote to fear, and that is achieved through the recognition of three things; Impermanence, Determinism, and Universal Incompleteness.

[@Vanity0666]

We out here on Dukkha

[@burdchrome3993]

Sisphus, I still don't know how you do it with these timings. Currently taking a philosophy class this year and having a pretty good time with it. One question that I decided to ask my professor during office hours yesterday pertained to why evil still persists giving conflicts that are ongoing in the world at the moment and why it makes it hard for me to believe that a God exists. Of course, I gained a lot chatting with my prof but I can't help but chuckle that this dropped just a day after. Good stuff man!

[@Astroqualia]

God does exist, our existence on earth isn't for God's benefit - its a training wheels learning experience for us, like a shallow end of a pool to learn to swim. When you look at an anthill or a battle of insects, does your heart literally break when one of the insects are rent in half or brutally ended by the other, or do you find it mildly interesting and barely bat an eye? The perspective of an omnipotent creator is leagues above our own, much like the example given above. A good secular example that doesn't reference a religion for God's existence, would be, the complexity of DNA and how it is tightly assembled would clearly point to a creator, as much as it would be unreasonable that a 2012 Honda Civic has a factory/human designer that crafted it, and over time, didnt just magically spawn into existence from random natural phenomenon.

[@DANCEGARAGEPUNK]

The lack of Love ( Evil ) is taught ! & is a result of Teaching Greed rather than Kindness ! !

[@alexandriaorcld6365]

thanks for this video, glad to see you doing your thing. take care of yourself, sisyphus.

[@esotericbeep5923]

Halloween was the best possible time to post this video about fear and its implications on evil

[@michaelchen2718]

11:37 ayyyyy I love to see the Ionesco quote!

[@Dan-dy8zp]

Wanting to live isn't the source of evil. Death and suffering is the evil, not our fear of it.

[@notjaller]

it is my hope this we are the last generations to suffer like we are That we've seen the worst of the worst and being so widely informed we will break the cycle of mistreat, at least for a single generation

[@richdiana3663]

It's not evil that gave us human overshoot. It's our greed and ignorance that is destroying the biosphere.

[@spaszek195362]

thanks ben. this is a great video. you’re doing great. thank you for uploading

[@ark4ngelVal]

dont know if you read comments but I just want to say that often when you post these videos they genuinely make a positive impact on my life and the ay that I look at the world because I lack both the patience and time to read or explore the ideas of these thinkers myself. I really appreciate that you make these videos and I wish there were more channels making really well put together and comfy breakdowns of really interesting ideas like this in the way that you do. Thanks for making videos man I really appreciate your channel.

[@kiyosato442]

sisyphus why did you delete the "thank you for leaving me" video. That was one of my favorites of all time!

[@Messenger_5]

They say give a finger they will take the hand.

[@outyaworld]

Monsters in our world don't have guilt

[@Sirrajj]

We often act on our primitive wild momentary impulses and spend rest of the time regretting doing that, it would not seem like but it's very hard choosing *not to* that's why evil has always prevailed

[@DANCEGARAGEPUNK]

The loud music not only spoils the video, it masks the ads : )

[@zacharysylvester1624]

These always arrive at the right time

[@connorguerrero1366]

your videos always get me thinking, about thoughts and ideas that i already believe and think about everyday, just not as fully fleshed out as you explain them in these. thank you for triggering the parts of my brain to ponder.

[@ponchothe]

Great job Sisyphus! Made my day with this one.

[@arisaga822]

I don’t think people these days are any more evil - it’s just more on display / easy to see

[@SelfPoisonBand]

In the 1800s, people were being accused of being witches, where your entire village or town come out to watch you get burned alive or beheaded. What you mean its more on display now? Lol we live in the most peaceful time in History. Its much harder to tell who is deceiving you these days. We act like times are getting worse and worse but if you actually look at the rate of crime globally annual, you will find that crime has been infact dropping, and fear mongering has increased. News, tv, social media, all pushing fear outlets, which in turn makes the herd masses listen obey and fear to appease their oppressors. There is far less crime this day in age than like... Ever. You can go to a grocery store without being called a heretic and get beheaded... People now have become more deceptive because of the internet, creating this split in human lives that have never existed before. People used to get sacrificed to God's and murdered as virgins, people used to be slaves on a mass level... I really don't agree with your statement because the world is far safer today than any other point in history since humans have established society.

[@taistelusammakko5088]

I think its incredibly funny how people think modern times are some super evil times. We are living a time of everlasting peace if compared to something like 18th century. People used to get publicly tortured for fucks sake. People who say modern times are evil only ever have lived during modern times in comfy western world and then have the audacity to think we are more evil

[@marsship921]

That was never the discussion

[@Thomas-xd4cx]

This is such an overused dogma - "WELL WE ALWAYS HAD CRAZY PEOPLE BUT INTERNET JUST SHOWS YOU MORE" NO. Back in the day, you would get into trouble with basically everyone around you if you did anything out of the ordinary. You were kept in check and punished if you wanted to go out there and act all special (which is just plain narcissistic behavior, to always try and make yourself the center of attention). Furthermore, this thirst for attention many now crave brings us to the next problem: they will all fall over each other to do more and more wild stuff. It's like opening Pandora's Box; a vicious cycle ensues where the yardline will forever get moved further because if someone else did it, it's not special anymore; "We got to be more wild". These days, people are so pre-occupied with themselves that they don't do checking. In villages, mostly the ones tucked away, you don't see anything like this - they're all kept in check by each other. City folk would call that "oppression", we call what they have "degenerate degeneration". That's what's really going on.

[@farinshore8900]

Because we elect corrupt politicians and don't question their policies.

[@dropyourself]

I love how liberals won't admit that their system is just undemocratic. Maybe vote harder and they'll stop nuking children, oh wait, you tried that and it only worked after 2 decades.

[@rorysimpson8716]

I sat there rapt as you suddenly dropped what was in my view one of the worst ad placements of all time. You get us all in on some hard sell concepts, laying the foundations and while we're preparing ourselves for the depressing and true gut punch that is to follow, you *smite* the momentum. I'm sure the rest of the vid will be great, and congratulations on some very fine work, but dang dude, that was some weaponized editing.

[@DANCEGARAGEPUNK]

One word - KINDNESS : ) Stop teaching greed ! Instead teach KINDNESS : ) LOVE is GOD is LOVE !

[@streamandtell724]

its good to see you back, i hope your doing better, happy haloween.

[@oldreprobate2748]

Incredibly difficult to love the oppressors, and what they do without subjugating oneself to them. But then, that masochistic.

[@circa_dia_n3301]

the world has always contained deeply unfair, cruel, and evil aspects that are rooted in the nature of reality itself; it's nothing new, and it's not just that way for human beings either, it's that way for all living things

[@HarrenTonderen]

"Madness birth madness, thoughts birth questions. Those with no questions birth madness." - Percival Enistravski

[@Skoom_the]

Quotes are very unnecessary "Rock and stone!!" - Karl

[@tamajack8179]

Great video, as per usual. Just had a thought while watching, though: do you think you could include the names of the major people that you are drawing from in the title of the video? That may not work for some of your videos where you draw upon a lot of thinkers, but for this one I think including Ernest Becker somewhere in the title could help draw in some people who are specifically looking for an interpretation of their work

[@quantumblur_3145]

I feel like that'd commodity it and attract people who whack it to marble busts of Greek philosophers

[@tamajack8179]

@@quantumblur_3145 What? I don't understand what you mean by commodify; this is youtube, it's already commodified by its hosting here. Also, greek bust philosophers pretty much actively avoid any philosophy post 19th century. Look at any channel that covers philosophy from 1968-onwards in good faith and you will probably find only leftists (think plasticpills, overthink podcast, or Epoch Philosophy). These channels don't have trouble keeping the greek busts out, probably because their explanations and interpretations of this kind of philosophy is thorough enough to either change people's minds or repel people with closed minds

[@ericraululyeetusdelyeetus5028]

@@quantumblur_3145 What?? How??

[@quantumblur_3145]

@@ericraululyeetusdelyeetus5028 people who watch philosophy content just to feel smart

[@qjames0077]

Yin and Yang, in my opinion We wouldn't know what good is without evil

[@violetselene244]

🥱

[@26diesel37]

@@violetselene244 How does it feel to be a woman?

[@tylerbowshier7970]

Love the James Baldwin at the end

[@fooraapkotjakker8131]

Evil is a concept made in our minds to comprehend the duality of life

[@beasmarty]

"And do you know this evil man by sight?" "No, but I have seen what they do" "And in seeing them, you become one of them- what you take into your hands, you take into your heart"

[@martin2289]

It may not be the root of evil, but a fundamental lack of empathy for others must surely be fairly proximate to its source.

[@eksbocks9438]

Because we have to share it with people who couldn't care less about us.

[@psychedelicartistry]

One trait I've noticed in evil people is that they don't think they're evil or even capable of evil. They can be completely neurotic and think they're fine. I have people like this in my family. It's very interesting to watch. The key to overcoming people like this is to feel sorry for them for their lack of self-awareness. We are all capable of great evil, and until we can admit that to ourselves, it will control our lives, and, as Carl Jung said, we will call it destiny.

[@Sisypoos]

Genuinely one of the best videos you've ever made dude, had my ass staring at the screen 5 minutes after the vid ended

[@B4az17]

The Prophet Muhammad Once Said - “If the son of Adam (Us Humans) were given a valley full of gold, he would love to have a second one; and if he were given the second one, he would love to have a third, for nothing fills the belly of Adam's son except dust.”.

[@Veto2090]

@@B4az17 which is funny because Muhammad spent his life stealing gardens

[@CyaniteProducer]

Yep, humans are never satisfied. We need to learn how to be happy with the things we already have, and learn how to keep our peace even when they are taken away.

[@amanofnoreputation2164]

"You're on a path in the woods. And at the end of that path is a cabin. And in the basement of that cabin is a princess. You're here to slay her. If you don't, it will be the End of The World." -- "This is a love story."

[@bigbannana9088]

Bruh you just said the movie cabin in the woods? Though in order to save the world the virgin has to kill the drug addiction to save the world.

[@pineapplepotato6985]

The music in ur videos is top shelf, chef’s kiss.

[@thehypest6118]

My whole life is just adverts and false promises of greener grass

[@bigbannana9088]

And it will continue being like that. Universe is one big scam.

[@violettracey]

If other humans and creatures are sentient and/or experience emotions like happiness and pain, purposefully causing others pain could be considered the definition of evil. I think the idea that we care about good and evil because it is a way of holding to something bigger than or that will last past our death is interesting. I think it is true to a large extent. I would at least like to think though that some people don’t want to hurt others because they care about others.

[@DioZandro]

pretty much you can't have good if you don't have evil, and vice versa I like to think of the Yin and Yang" in Chinese philosophy Different doesn't equate to good or bad but signifies uniqueness

[@unspkblfish]

Because I said so

[@Chrys4l1s]

Thanks for saying so ig, it gave us this vid

[@davidyemm7910]

It's always been this way. We've just never been so bombarded by a social media reminding us.

[@ProNice]

Thank you for this video. As always, eternally relevant, and thus always a hot topic! Love and courage are - sadly - hard to obtain. Love alone is not enough. Courage alone is not enough. Both must be there in equal proportions. Love - also - is hard to define and capture. Do you have an opinion on love? I found it incredibly hard to pin down since it's a broad term that is at times contradictory. I know you made a video on: "love without attachment", "how we think of love is messed up", and "How To Fall In Love" but I think the love you mentioned here is more far-reaching.

[@Manticorn]

I used to smoke weed. I came to all these same conclusions when I smoked. I considered writing a book about it, but I also figured someone else probably already did. And eventually I was proven right on that when I discovered the wikipedia article about Terror Management Theory.

[@horsethi3f]

Evil is simply the lack of empathy.

[@OmegaFalcon]

Man, I once had faith that this kind of thinking would eventually be the adopted by the majority. I lost that faith

[@Hydrahandle7]

We must have love in the world .

[@MirrorminD1989]

@@Hydrahandle7 THIS👆

[@iainnbreedt4831]

Babe wake up! Sisyphus is back!

[@jessicapatton2688]

You know what has me sad, almost any pure looking think has an ulterior dark underside to it. Like the front of holiness of the catholic religion’s child molestation. It really feels like there is nothing pure here except endless suffering. I feel like I’m already in hell and hopefully this world is as close to it as I have to come.

[@Gentlecolt]

It's been a cruel world ever since evolution was kickstarted.

[@CookieMonster-dy5xq]

I agree that humans have been playing a cruel game for centuries.

[@CIA871]

This made me think of that billionaire, Bryan Johnson, who is spending millions and millions of dollars to try to slow down/reverse his aging. He selfishly wastes so much money on a fruitless endeavor, yet he doesn't do that because he is evil, but because he is afraid.

[@terrysteichen873]

We’ve been slaughtering each other since the beginning

[@wstyn]

i appreciate you and your existence, thank you for these creative videos talking about everything on my mind.

[@HowlingMan369]

We are and always have been the monsters that we fear...