The Coming Psychological Black Death

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Bibliography:
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor
Lost Connections by Johann Hari
Stolen Focus by Johann Hari
The Happiness Hypothesis by John Haidt
The Coddling of the American Mind by John Haidt
The Culture of Narcissism by Lasch
The Master and His Emissary by McGhilChrist
Forgotten Truth by Houston Smith
Evil by Baumeister
Trauma and the Soul by Kalsched
The Inner World of Trauma by Kalsched
The True Believer by Eric Hoffer
Envy by Helmut Schoeck
The Knowledge Machine by Strevens
The Web of Meaning by Jeremy Lent
Seculosity by David Zahl
The World's Religions by Huston Smith
Strange Rites by Burton
Lineages of Modernity by Todd Immanuel
The Past is a Future Country by Edward Dutton
Spiteful Mutants by Edward Dutton
The Lonely Crowd by David Riesman
Empty Planet by Darrell Bricker
Disunited Nations by Peter Zeihan
Secular Cycles by Peter Turchin by David Hackett Fischer

[@WhatifAltHist]

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[@alansokelisatruehero8520]

I'm not sure how this video will trigger woke lefties but we know it's coming. Keep up the good work, it is so refreshing having a unique voice and someone with the courage to tackle very complex and/or controversial topics. WhatIFaltHIs thank you for making thought provoking content for the deeper thinkers of the world. the woke mind virus and the infected are terrified of this channel, i think it's the logic and references used that infuriated the woke since it reminds them of how unscientific their arguments are like critical race theory during BLM riots and gender theory are trend. Not knowing the definition of racism and what is a woman is are prime examples of thinking oneself into stupidity such as the left has donej

[@mrblack5368]

Can you do a video in the future on what a proper ruling class is and how can it be reinvigorated.

[@GG_1318]

neat

[@diegoyanesholtz212]

I do think that the mental health crisis goes hand and hand with education. Fix education you fix part of the problem. The other part is the mating and dating crisis. The educational system s bias towards women. And only favors women and I feel it is made by women for women.

[@shzarmai]

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[@cloudy_days2321]

Imagine a parent teaching their child that they can fly and then being shocked when the child jumps off a roof and falls to their death. Our current society is the child and we just found the ladder.

[@apreviousseagle836]

Perfect analogy

[@elyksteeley1181]

Funny story actually, I watched Pinocchio when I was little and there's a scene where Jiminy cricket jumps off a desk and floats down to the floor using his little umbrella as a parachute. Dumb little me thought because he could do it I could fly too. I stacked a stool on top of a wooden chair and tried to jump off holding an umbrella and well.....that was my first broken arm 😅

[@Xairos84]

​@@elyksteeley1181I used to do that with my bunk bed! 😂 Edit: Also tried to use hangers as a bow and arrow

[@asherdie]

Girls can be boys, boys can be furries and men can have babies, welcome to our brave new world.

[@justinhart2831]

What does the analogy stand for in particular? Are you just referring to the trans thing or are there other things that flying stands for here?

[@mitsukairi]

we aren’t scared of working hard, were scared of working for nothing

[@Joseph10153]

So true

[@ottomcannick7698]

Society's willingness to accept mediocrity and apathy would argue otherwise.

[@grzegorzbrzeczyszykiewic3338]

@@ottomcannick7698I think that comes directly from the fact that a lot of work what we do these days feels pointless , and that’s because it often literally is

[@THETURKISHKEBAB1]

I found myself saying this today to a family member. Putting in all this effort for to end up in the same or worse situation than if you didn't at all.

[@ottomcannick7698]

@grzegorzbrzeczyszykiewic3338 I'm blessed with a job that makes people's loves easier/safer. I know the impact of my work. So I don't feel that my efforts are wasted. The lack of acknowledgment from the higher-ups is annoying, but that can be righted with the acceptance that they, too, have their own life and their own issues. Keep up the grind folks, it does get better in it's own way.

[@1216Rocker]

Who else out here raw doggin’ life? No meds, no doctors, no therapists, just fuggin sending it!

[@thenightwatchman1598]

fuck psychiatry. homeopathy actually cures you.

[@purplepurple8179]

Its working for me haha. ROCK!!!!!

[@Markpaul9]

Just coffee ☕️

[@TruthIsLikePoetry]

I healed myself from crippling anxiety, depression and an “incurable” arthritic autoimmune disease that took my health by age 20. Society as it’s constructed makes people sick. The solution I’ve found, is to be antisocial. Live your life for you and to help others that want what you offer. Spiritual progress or the search for it healed my mind and body as much as the functional healing did.

[@Excalibur2]

Add in no social media, and I'm on it. I think a lot of these hardships are caused by comparison to others.

[@NoQuarterNoMercy1]

I used to think that people working a 40 hour work week cannot complain about being overworked because if you were to live off-grid and out of society, you’d have to work all day every day growing food, farming, hunting, collecting water, etc. We work less today for what we have than any other time in history by far. However, I think a 40 hour work week in a cubicle as a nameless cog is far more mentally draining than 80 hours a week working your own land and thus you are more overworked. It’s not all about the physicality of your work but the fulfillment that work provides you.

[@oneperson5760]

It wouldn't take nearly so many hours. I work my own land. There is a seasonality to tasks. some things you have to do every say, like feeding animals, but many other times, you're just sort of passively watching plants grow, especially if you have perennial plants like an orchard of fruit trees or a vineyard. There are long work days when you have to till or plant or harvest, but most days have plenty of spare time. Plants and animals tend to be okay untended for hours, as long as you've set up your infrastructure right.

[@dddux]

@@oneperson5760 It is a far less stressful way of life. 😉

[@joshmiller9783]

Thats objectively wrong bro... i work 3 days a week and pay others to cook for me, i play video games in my off time, i enjoy my time not working all day everyday... i know you for a fact have never chopped wood for a half winter in a weekend lol... you ever stay up late to catch a coon eating yer chickens then have to get up and work in a few hours?

[@drlisp123]

We work more and own less than a midievel peasant

[@jeffreystewart9809]

​@@oneperson5760 this. I love living off the land. Its definitely a slower pace to life.

[@claytonkramer7234]

“The line between good and evil runs not through states, nor between classes, not between political parties either, - but right through every human heart.” - A. Solzhenitsyn

[@ottomanpapyrus9365]

We struggle not against the rulers, against the authorities, against flesh, We wrestle the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

[@tomtom1003]

Doesn’t this come from Viktor Frankl?

[@swampfaye]

Russians don't fear good and evil. That's the problem. They are nihlists.

[@gmw3083]

That line is the middle path. Few find it....

[@jfo1740]

@@tomtom1003 According to the Google, absolutely not, but there is quite an ironic twist in your mixup.

[@Dapryor]

“Our society behaves like a suicidally depressed person” That is so well put!

[@The_Custos]

I think he is confusing the world with soft Americans.

[@Hotshot2k4]

@@The_Custos Nah, he's just wrong across the board. It's not Americans either.

[@ryv2484]

⁠@@Hotshot2k4As an American I think that analogy really hits the nail on the head. What on earth is making you come to any other conclusion?

[@PolishBehemoth]

@@The_Custos It could easily be soft westerners across the board- most europeans and australians (who literaly had forced torture camps during covid). So try not to get too bunched up over the terminology.

[@PolishBehemoth]

@@Hotshot2k4 NO, YOU are wrong. Americans are getting depressed at record rates. Relationships in general are down. Whats that statistic? Something like 70% of young guys are single and only like 35% of girls in the same group? I forget the numbers.

[@Littlegoatpaws]

H. P. Lovecraft, a man who suffered a great deal form mental illness, wrote extensively in his fictions that as humanity progressed in unlocking the secrets of the universe while the old social mores and rules decayed, it would begin to slip into collective madness. He personified it as ancient and primal cosmic horrors in the form of twisted villains, monsters, and demonic gods exploding onto the landscape of human reality, but really I think he may have been onto something.

[@wyopaul6866]

That's an amazing insight. I have read Lovecraft and never made that connection.

[@thenightwatchman1598]

too bad he was a raging genocidal asshole.

[@CETGale]

Good take.... Deep....

[@joshisdriven]

*boots up Bloodborne

[@CookedAF2]

Bro was also a real life 40 year old virgin who hated Jewish people but lost his virginity to a Jewish women...!!!

[@sweetsue6177]

“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

[@brindlekintales]

Wise words indeed, thank you.

[@alonsolaw8380]

Witches are still up to no good

[@alonsolaw8380]

We're living in a material world.

[@alonsolaw8380]

There is good and evil

[@alonsolaw8380]

No God, no society

[@midgemong_]

Best thing to do is have kids and raise them right. It took a hundred years to decline to this state and it'll take longer to get us out. It's generational as much as it's societal.

[@MB_Biggie_Cheese]

If us men can find women who want to have kids with us :/

[@pimpmoney909]

Every woman you jizz in has contraception tho nowadays. Fuck the matriarchy we live in.

[@greeneggsandhamsamiam6154]

​@Strategic_Pizza there are some out there. I've seen em. You just have really look

[@shzarmai]

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[@MB_Biggie_Cheese]

@@greeneggsandhamsamiam6154 Idk where anymore man. I’m not bad looking.

[@DeSuenner]

A few years ago I was told there was a pandemic and I thought to myself: "strange thing, I always thought I would see and feel it if there is a pandemic, but the only way I can tell there is a pandemic is media output". About a year later I saw and felt a mental helth pandemic happening but the media kept silent, this is going on ever since.

[@SartorialisticSavage65]

Same. I was telling the CEO of my factory around the same time as you, that although I've struggled with my mental health pretty much my entire life, I've been seeing symptoms all around me and that it was worrying me.

[@jameswilkerson4412]

You can’t necessarily “see and hear” that there’s a pandemic because it’s not in your town yet, but spreading quickly through gatherings, shopping, etc.

[@dakota9821]

You're dumb.@@jameswilkerson4412

[@DeSuenner]

@@jameswilkerson4412 I'm just saying If there is a pandemic, people don't want to go outside, there would be no need to enforce strange laws for 3 or so years.

[@bb5242]

Had the media not been so alarmist, I don't think most people would have even known there was a "pandemic"--it was hyped to the max to demoralize people

[@selfaccountable3464]

Whatifalthist - I am 47 years old - double your age. I wish I had teachers in high school and college that understood the world and communicated the things you are communicating. This is some of the best stuff on KZbin.

[@JLo83]

He's HEAVILY biased and wildly speculative. Find a different hero cause this guy is shilling for the right and definitely skews facts.

[@jamesoneill8901]

Objective analysis shows the Left to be a death cult. He points out major issues with the Right in the video. Leftie can never take criticism though.

[@liberalismisahatecrime4385]

@@JLo83 Nothing in the left's ideology is fact based, you're not on the side of history and you're not the good guys.

[@jfo1740]

​@@JLo83 Speculation is the entire point, but in any case your framing reveals your own bias. Let me guess, you think that reality is simply what the left says it is?

[@100percentSNAFU]

​@@JLo83I certainly wouldn't consider Rudyard to be a "right wing shill" by any means. His views are quite moderate, maybe slightly right leaning. Yes, he may appear to be far right when viewed from the far left, but any relatively moderate person is going to relate to much of what he says. I'm not saying I agree with it all, or that he is any kind of authority on the matter (really, who is?), but his content is at the very least interesting and asks some questions many others are afraid to address. I don't have to agree with it completely to be intrigued by it.

[@benderbendingrodriguez2647]

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." ~ Soren Kierkegaard

[@AMcG-hf6yx]

Avenoir

[@roostermaind6413]

Look into Alex Hormozi's "Solomon Method" In short: instead of journaling start chatting with a made-up version of your older wiser and accomplished self where you ask for their advice and perspective. Usually, they're gonna tell you to stop fixating on all the meaningless bullshit that seems so important to you in the moment and calmly work on the bigger picture. It ain't perfect but it's a damn great way of living under that constraint of the human condition.

[@homelesspyro995]

It's unbelievable how difficult it feels nowadays to try to socialize with others. Constantly worried about saying something someone might consider "wrong", and not wanting to be made fun of for saying a certain thing. It's not even about being "canceled' or whatever. It's about losing someone you love, the potential of your life being ruined based on the manipulation of a lie, and how fucked up everything is and everyone knows it. I honestly think we're too far ahead into stupidity and negativity, it's overwhelming and consuming us daily. And it won't stop. It's too powerful now.

[@captainalex157]

the solution is to not care what others think of you bro. I actually like to make jokes about the wokies when meeting new people, great way to filter out the loonies.

[@ottomanpapyrus9365]

get fired then@@captainalex157

[@drloganistan2392]

I do agree. Learn to respect human values, and everyone individually. I am myself, and others can be themselves.

[@86Corvus]

For the past 10-20 years people have given into stupidity and irrationality. I think antiintellectualism is the result of many things. Mainly a clash of ignorant wrong ideas such as religion with truth, the psyops of russia and china against the west and truth having the objectibe of demoralization of societies and a fall in the quality of education.

[@jibberism9910]

I don't give a hoot what some shmuck thinks is "wrong". My advice: let them censor themselves if they must. Not you. It can stop by refocusing. Not on us, but what's being done to us.

[@cro-magnoncarol4017]

"When somebody says evil doesn't exist they don' t actually believe it, they're just trying to confuse you so you can't resist their evil..." I'm stealing that quote

[@colewilliams9432]

And why would anyone think that evil doesn't exist? If evil doesn't exist then good doesn't exist, since you can't have one without the other. But no one ever says that good doesn't exist

[@APsGTG]

@@colewilliams9432only demons would like to believe evil doesn’t exist so they wouldn’t have to think of themselves as evil.

[@nickhartman6372]

In other words: gaslighting.

[@MaryIrons-tx2dy]

Me too

[@Excalibur2]

​@@colewilliams9432 saying that something is objectively evil is a cop out. It's a cowards way to pretend that one human is different from another, dehumanize them in the process. Imagine saying it about an enemy, suddenly you can justify anything you want to do to them. Imagine saying it about the Germans, suddenly you can say "I am different, I would never do that" and in turn have no fear of going down the same path.

[@Tinfoilhat311]

Clearly, society has lost any resemblance to morality. I'm 60 years old, and in the last 20 years, society has decayed to a level unimaginable to me. I honestly do not think it will recover until it destroys itself first.

[@zwatwashdc]

Imagine those men dying on the beaches to protect our future. Sheesh.

[@dog-ez2nu]

@@zwatwashdc I thought the men dying on the beaches were fighting Hitler not gay people but ok.

[@ph318]

​@@zwatwashdcwhat is there to fight for? The Western worlds future has been given away to foreigners to fulfill some globalist multicultural fantasy.

[@ph318]

​@@dog-ez2nuWe'd be better off now if we had helped him instead of destroying his empire.

[@no01sman]

@@ph318woah woah woah slow down there partner you got too much dip on your chip 😂🤣

[@neverlayup]

My kids often do not want to go out and do things. I don't give them an option. We WILL go out and do things as a family. They will be pushed and will have to overcome things as kids. They will be put in uncomfortable positions. Hopefully they will be able to think and overcome these obstacles. Already I get comments on how mature and strong and free thinking my children are. This is somewhat rare as far as Canadian kids I suppose.

[@DiMacky24]

I was diagnosed with manic depression. The cure was forgiving those who hurt me, finding God, working out, being mindful of what I eat, and not turning down opportunities to socialize while also refusing to spend any time with nihilists. Today I have a wonderful church, friends and family that live nearby, and a priest who I can tell anything I am struggling with and he will help me through it, free of charge. That all said, I do also take vitamin D in the winter and ashwagandha for stress, but I was taking these before along with antidepressants and they weren't enough.

[@oe8631]

all religion is a cult and your god isnt real. good to have a community though, and church is good for that. sad that a lot of people have to believe in absolute nonsense in order to create that though. football/soccer serves the same function for many people as well.

[@TheGloopOfMobius]

I’m glad you’ve overcame your troubles and became a better and healthier person for it

[@bikesrcool_1958]

I believe a secular culture with moral relativism and No God to forgive people and redeem them is a dangerous, sad society. One that has no reason to value anything good nor anything bad. A constant grey area. That’s nothing I want to be a part of.

[@iangregory9763]

Very based brother. You’re an inspiration.

[@Comedy-Goat]

Just be grateful you didn't grow up in urban decay, trailer park, 3rd world country or have a painfully debilitating disease. Once I remember this fact can only contribute to your own personal happiness

[@manniking233]

The tool that gave us our civilization (the mind) becoming the one unraveling us this time in a way we literally couldn't think to respond to would be just cruel...

[@iandick1364]

Nature isn't nice. It can be beautiful but not nice.

[@merafirewing6591]

​@@iandick1364 sometimes reality can be a very cruel mistress.

[@Mrdark7199]

@@iandick1364 Id take the tyranny of nature over the tyranny of man any day.

[@MrMustang13]

Christianity gave us our civilization. Our intellect is a gift from God which we tend to use for mostly lesser things than improving our world.

[@phil3751]

@@MrMustang13 Positive mindset, respect bro, this life is a fiery crucible to forge us into men worthy of Gods deliverance

[@fb2827]

I study psychology and have recently formed a "self help group" since 3 of my best friends are questioning all their lifes recently, have a lack of motivation to continue our studies and feel lonely in there daily life, while another one is diagnosed with clinical depression. That's the state of affairs in Germany right now

[@Tschoii90]

Muss.

[@ecojom8104]

from uk, sounds normal with my mates here, nihilism and lack of motivation to want to do anything rules daily life

[@joso7228]

ever since the pubs closed life has been dour

[@fb2827]

@@ecojom8104 I should have mentioned that we all study the same thing, like plage doctors dying from the black death themselves

[@fb2827]

@@Tschoii90 🫡

[@LarryXLR]

"Being happy is not cool in our society." Wow is that the truth. We thrive on our own misery and the misery of others on this big floating space rock.

[@Mamba-Kush]

That rock and space, are also a lie.

[@LynetteTheMadScientist]

Boy howdy there’s nothing that makes a miserable people angrier than a happy person. Thankfully I’m a contrarian

[@claviceps_giles5177]

I’m an anthropologist by education and how society engineers psychological suffering has fascinated me for years. This is so well thought out and well-presented. Subscribed!

[@pinchebruha405]

This guys videos are so well thought it blows my mind how young he is, his insights are jaw dropping!

[@dddux]

It is pretty good, yes. I also enjoyed the whole video thoroughly, but I'm not agreeing with about 20-30 percent that I think is mostly influenced by his American upbringing and terrible schooling. We in Europe are just better educated overall. Schools are very important and they've been failing Americans for half a century or more. It is the extreme capitalism, too, No social policies and demonising communism. Some ideas from communism are really good.

[@debravictoria7452]

Look up Bolshivism. Read about Stalin. Find videos with warnings from ex KGB, Uri Bezmenov (may have misspelled his name). He was trying to warn us since the 1980s. There's a plan in place that has been progressing since at least then. Capitalism has not existed here for quite a while. The praising of communism is part of the plan to complete the world order that the "elites" want. A two class society. The haves (them) and the have nots (everybody else). They will use technology to control everyone and everything. They have said that they can now hack a human and free will is a thing of the past. Also,You will own nothing and be happy. They will deny your access to anything they want, including food. All based on arbitrary rules that they make up on the fly and interpret how they want. I imagine it may work like trying to follow y t guidelines. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Social credit scores will determine what privileges they grant.

[@TurkishToprak]

@@dddux no their aren't, gtfo here with commie propaganda also no one takes you seriously when you bring up how much better educated Europeans are, lol ive lived there and its pure copium lol now if you said asia i would agree...

[@sumguyontheinternet8873]

@@dddux Which social policies

[@laurenm7898]

as a girl the jealousy and self insecurity is actually destructible . even my most beautiful, smart, caring friends hate themselves because of social media and overconsumption. makes me so sad

[@musashiwebb]

It sounds like you're aware enough to live a life beyond the negative influences of social media. I think that's a great way to help your friends/loved ones who can not do so on their own. Be the Light they can move with/transform into. Best of luck to you on your own Journey. 🙏

[@dr.strangelove5708]

I know this sounds severe and perhaps impractical but being an older gen person I would just put the thing away for awhile like a week. I myself still use a desktop I been using them since the 90's and feel no need to have a machine tethered to me everyplace I go.

[@kaoskronostyche9939]

Oh, come on. Women hate themselves and all other women and their babies (murder one million per year) and their children (mutilate them for the trans agenda) and hate all men the very people keeping you from freezing and starving in the dark. Social media has NOTHING to do with it. Women hate themselves and always have. You wamens spend Billions spent on changing your hair, changing your face with clown makeup, taking all that offensive hair from your bodies, wearing undergarment superstructures to deceive us about your shape, wearing high-heels which mutilate your feet to show off your calves and ass. No one who loves and respects themselves would go to this much trouble to hide their true self behind grease paint, beauty filters and chemical wastes spread all over your bodies. But womens cannot and will not be responsible for their own lives or feelings or flaws and do something but whine and blame someone else ... like social media. NO woman has ever stood accountable for the insane wretches wamens are and the evil they spread.

[@quietmousse]

We desperately need to ban women from social media and having cell phones. Many women suffer serious difficulties from remote competition and social media is literally killing them, deaths of despair through the roof

[@dddux]

@@dr.strangelove5708 Hello. I'm the one who is guilty of being a gamer in Spectrum-C64-Amiga-Atari times. Interestignly I stopped being a gamer since I went PC but now I'm revisiting all those fun PS1 PS2 PS3 WII... titles. Gaming is like free weed. lol

[@soppybottomboys1195]

You're 100% right. I'm 35, and my nephew (13) came over, and was just sitting on the couch looking depressed tried to get him go to the Renaissance festival, and it took him all day to work up on going the next day.

[@4TheWinQuinn]

Soppybottomboys?.. jeeze dude what a name 🤨😬

[@soppybottomboys1195]

@4TheWinQuinn its from the movie. Oh brother, where are thou. They have a group named soggybottomboys so I switched thr gg to pp

[@specialknees6798]

Iiiiiiii am a maaann of constant sorrooooow, I’ve seen trouuuuuuuble all my dayyyys

[@matthewbrown9796]

I'm a 29 year old man. I was working 3 jobs to support my wife and 2 kids. I dropped down to 40 hours a week and we had to sell our house as a result. I understand why men struggle with their mental health when even working 3 jobs doesn't mean getting ahead at times. I understand why they want things to change fundamentally.

[@takumifujiwara4503]

Now imagine that instead of your wife and kids, after a whole day at work you would be going back to an empty and tight apartment (which you only rent, not own) and have to live as an atomized person without any people who loves you and without friends. That's how many young men are living today. I am really suprised that society is in any way still somehow functioning right now. But anyway, my huge respect to you for being a father in this hard times. I hope that your kids will grow up to be a healthy and fulfilled (because that's what really brings happiness) people

[@josec.6394]

That's me. I own a house, and I'm relatively well off, but at the end of the day, it's empty when I get back from work. No children or wife to greet me, no girlfriend either. I'm so starved for affection and love that if things don't get better soon, I don't really have a reason to keep going. So it would be a rational thing to end it all (why live when the most basic human necessity, after food and water, is denied to you?)

[@Francisco-Danconia]

​@@josec.6394I'm really sorry to hear both of your accounts... I know very clearly what it's like to want real true love as well. Hell, my last marriage had me feeling just as alone at night in my bed next to someone, than I felt when I was single... It took me a long time to get to a place where I was mentally healthy enough just having my family, and didn't desperately need a partner to live life with. Then like magic, I met the love of my life. It is all very complex, and each of us is going through different parts of our journey, and I don't know where anyone else is at... I also felt like checking out. I do believe each person has the right to make that decision if they choose to do so, but I also know more than ever that emotion clouds rational judgement so severely it's crazy. This might sound ridiculous, but my suggestion is to get out of debt as fast as you can, stay out of it, and make the smartest choices you can to have as much freedom as you can. It takes a world of burden off of you. If you are out of shape, stop eating garbage and start working out. How you look matters to others and you. If you are gross the odds of finding someone go WAAAYY down. So you have to change that. The hard thing about being depressed, is that it effects you in a way that perpetuates exactly your current condition... You have to fight it, and hold onto any little victory you can claim. You absolutely must take 100% accountability for everything in your life. It's the only way to start making decisions that will actually move you to a position of controlling it. Like I said I don't know your position, but there are just undeniable fundamental things you must do. Learn who you are and why you do the shit you do/don't do, and cut the damaging parts of your behavior out. There ARE wonderful women out there, but you have to wade through what feels like an endless sea of idiots to find her. But you'll never keep her if you aren't the right person, or at least noticably on your way to being that man. Good luck

[@abelardadebayor5642]

3 jobs? thats 17h per day, monday to sunday

[@matthewbrown9796]

@abelardadebayor5642 40 hours 9-5. 36 hours over 12 hour overnight shifts Friday-Sun. Contractor position 5-12 hours weekly after my 9-5 with the average being about 9 hours a week

[@AnnacolleenEtters]

I was in/out of therapy, until I realized, talking about trauma over, and over, is like picking at a sore, over and over. The drugs they gave, slowly brought on suicidal ideation. Evil does exist, since the rebellion that took place in Heaven

[@APsGTG]

Try EMDR therapy

[@richardbigouette3651]

I had the exact same issue with therapy and depression pills. It may not work for you the way it did me, but find a friend or lover you can lean on and tell yourself f-it I'll get over it. It never fully goes away, but I've learned to control it over the years.

[@dethkon]

In psychoanalysis this is called “repetition compulsion,” a component of Thanatos (aka “The Death Drive”).

[@dethkon]

Serious question: if they were in heaven why did they decide to rebel? I thought that in heaven everybody got everything they wanted?? I don’t understand the logic of the rebels/insurrectionaries.

[@rainyvideos3684]

@@dethkon Because Satan was envious of god and tried to usurp his position. IE Jealousy.

[@BarrettCharlebois]

I like this channel because it balances out the overly PC bubble I find myself in. Seemingly impossible to have both sides of a debate in public anymore, virtue signalling is unhinged lately it’s so frustrating

[@Trutheynesky]

He does his best, who could ask for more? He needs someone helping him do his content that can steel man the leftist opinions. That’d be balance. I doubt he could stomach having that person working with him though. He gets triggered a lot from the shitty lefties.

[@grugnotice7746]

Rudyard is very PC, sitting his butt right in "the center" from 5-10 years ago, which would be considered extreme far left by any democrat from the 90's.

[@BorkDoggo]

I definitely find this entertaining although I don't really put any confidence whatsoever in predictions of the future, let alone this guy's predictions.

[@Mr.Ambrose_Dyer_Armitage_Esq.]

Rudyard still espouses modern misunderstandings on race, equality, female rights, and democracy. I like a lot of what he says but, suffer no delusion, he's still what Morpheus would call a "blue-pill". He approaches the fringes of the Overton Window but, I don't believe he's ever crossed it.

[@profet1385]

I recommend watching some opposing critiques of this channel tho. And also thinking for yourself always goes a long way

[@DragonsAndDragons777]

WhatIfAltHist and Academy of Ideas both uploading within a few hours of each other? That's grand!

[@RayAugMac]

😭

[@alansokelisatruehero8520]

i gotta check out academy of ideas now, thanks

[@Confederate-hj2dc]

I thought the same thing, like "hell yeah more content!"

[@shzarmai]

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[@jimmyjones8676]

@@alansokelisatruehero8520 He's a bit of a tryhard but he's alright.

[@madamebutterfly851]

Emdr trained therapist here. Glad it to hear it saved your life, in my work its been more valuable than talk therapy in terms of clients regaining control over their trauma. I wish it more accessible to everyone.

[@velociraptor3313]

I'm twenty five years old, I'm single and content with life. No matter what happens we will push forward with courage and confidence. I spend most of my time walking my dog, listening to classical music, opera, 1930s, 40s, 80s music, marching music. I love classical art, classical literature, history and mythology. I don't listen to the media, I just focus on what's important like family, friends and living a good humble life and at some point meeting a lovely lady and starting a family of my own. I think the important thing is to keep calm and carry on, find a balance between technology and the natural world, have good morals values, don't let politics or emotions cloud your judgment and always look at things with an objective and rational view. Feel free to agree or disagree but I thought I'd offer my thoughts on the matter, don't let mental illness or depression get you down. Maybe find a therapist or try something different or find new and exciting hobbies or maybe don't listen to the media all the time, enjoy the beauty of nature and classical art. Broaden your horizons, get a dog to help you and to love, go outside and meet new people.

[@dindu7240]

Good for you, never capitulate to this broken world brother

[@jimmyware511]

I am also a 25-year-old trying to make it in this fallen world. I am spiritual but do not go to church. I would like to have a family, but can't afford it, and I have no idea how to get a wife. I am objectively a below average guy so it's depressing thinking about finding a wife. I have very very little to offer a woman at this point in my life.

[@thenightwatchman1598]

shoud have saved that speel for your myspace page.

[@jimmyware511]

myspace was before my time, bud lol@@thenightwatchman1598

[@Antonio18677]

Incredible!! I am 25 as well and feel the same way 100% you are a smart man most people our age are completely brainwashed or ignorant about these issues and subjects.

[@datwasty64]

Man, it is quite ironic and reality shattering for me to hear about hikikomoris, as someone who grew up watching anime I am well acquainted with the "NEET and Hikikomori" terms as it is (or was) something adressed often on a great variety of genres in anime, I never understood why someone would choose to isolate themselfs of society and do nothing all day, yet to my surprise I am currently one of those "NEETS/Hikikomoris", it feels so unreal to look back on my early years and try to understand how I came to be who I am today on both an individual and collective perspective. Just to say, all of this was just a little vent.

[@Hector-bj3ls]

I find it interesting as I've gone the other way while watching everyone around me go backwards. No one else actually cares about specifically. Everyone thinks only about themselves. I don't even know if the rest of you are even there. All I have to go on are my sense 🧠and how do I know they're true? Demons are angler fish that use words to lure in Humans.

[@bossdog1480]

If you do nothing you don't exist.

[@foehammer8702]

Well, the good thing is, you have control. You can choose a different path.

[@mastadorian]

Every day is an opportunity. Just as it was a gradual shift to who you are today, a gradual shift to who you want to be is just as possible. Finding even small ways to help others might useful in giving yourself a sense of responsibility, purpose, and agency. Helped me.

[@shanejones578]

Bro I don’t want to be but I keep getting shafted by society in every way there IS nothing else I can do because I try every fuckin day and it literally does not matter

[@briitash]

Honestly the idea of living through the end of humanity sounds incredible when you consider all the possible generations in human history that you could have been born into.

[@mikeishome69]

Every generation thinks they are living in the "End Times". At least for the last few thousand years

[@incurableromantic4006]

I admire your "glass half full" attitude.

[@siamihari8717]

Watching the Pheonix die is Darkly amusing. But I still dread the coming conflaguration before the rebirth.

[@mrmoneyhacks5480]

It's just the end of our current society, which will birth a new society (for those who survive). Most humans live through (or die from) something like this in their lifetime.

[@nfbconnect]

😂😂😂😂

[@justinrivard1635]

The only pandemic I’ve seen over the last decade, is narcissism. This won’t go away until we address it for what it is. Instead of lumping it into the mental health category. We need to approach it as a personality health issue.

[@MachineMan-mj4gj]

"You're not sick, you're not a victim, you're just an asshole with a shitty personality." Based.

[@oakson3045]

M. Scott Peck wrote a book called People Of The Lie that speaks to this, I highly suggest it.

[@spencer9892]

Not sure of exactly what you mean, it is described as a personality disorder. "NPD"

[@Thefloorsspeakyiddish]

I completely agree, but I think the narcissists need to be policed and ostracized by everyone, as part of a group effort. They act the way they do with impunity because they face no significant consequences. If they ended up being treated as lepers, I think they may make an effort to change

[@justinrivard1635]

@@spencer9892I mean there should be a separate category for personality disorders. Currently it is falling under mental health. And is consuming resources from those who truly have mental health issues. Under the current model the treatment has no effect on personality disorders. That’s why the problem continues I grow.

[@kehansx]

Only 25 people died in Salem witch trial; 19 people had been hanged, 5 people died in custody, and one man was pressed beneath heavy stones until he died. During the European witch burning craze, the best estimates are between 35,000 to 50,000 people were executed.

[@connorperrett9559]

During the entirety of Southern lynchings only about 4000 people were lynched in almost a century of culturally accepted lynchings.

[@ph318]

​@@connorperrett9559and look, they still can't function in our societies and use these events as excuses.

[@MSHNKTRL]

yeah bro, 25 is Rookie Numbers.

[@ob9609]

At least we didnt have to deal with witches for awhile

[@KARKATELCESARENVIADODESA-pv4yd]

90% of those deaths were in protestant Germany

[@thefolder3086]

If depression is so widespread that the population decrease rate and societal response literally borders the Black Death, this will probably be the worst time to live in in history. At least people who caught the plague got it quick and they didn’t always have a terrible life beforehand. Edit:so many people are posting depressing stuff in the reply so I’ll share what I beliebe, and use to go through this. In times of apocalypse, it’s better to die in battle than die immediatly. There’s a reason people read about zombie stories where the Mc fight them, not die immediatly to them. You can’t carve your setting but you carve your story, how you react with it. How other perceive you doesn’t even matter, bc there’s no “chad looking” person in this decadence, and if there is it’s likely they just ride the crowd. imagine if you can re read a cosmic book recording your life, how would you write the story next? That’s what you should do. There is a value to struggle. Sure, physical achievements have values, but the stuff that matters more is how one fight struggle. With no struggle and sadness happiness and achievement is meaningless. Climbing an infinite mountain is good, bc you know you are getting higher, and there’s always more mountain to climb. The world won’t be perfect but it can be better. Don’t worry if others won’t remember your name. Nobody knows who invented the wheel, but every time we drive a car it reminds all of us that the wheel was invented. One will forever live through how they impact history, even if ever so slightly. Keep doing your thing, you all means a lot. I would also give all of you guys a hug as well🫂, we csn support each other here 😄 (My biggest fear is complete authoritarianism, it’s not likely but it can happen. Where whether through culture or law one is forced to have no choice. Cancel culture is leading to that already where rebelling means very little and the consequences to not conforming is severe . It’s a culture so not tied t9 a few elites who can die. That makes life less meaningful bc you can’t choose what to do so you aren’t really climbing your mountain. But, a culture that bad would be mass opposed anyway and all my fellow who is willing to die in battle will help bring it down. )

[@patrickbritton4082]

Statements like that just proved how *** **** stupid people like you have become. if you had any idea how horrible life was back then You would thank your almighty gods that your mom and dad met when they did.

[@patrickbritton4082]

"they didn’t always have a terrible life beforehand." RETARD. their lives were dogshit. MORON.

[@brandonmoses895]

Im already feeling the depression,man everything just seems so pointless even when i get little blimps of motivation i end up feeling like shit even when i accomplish things.

[@madmanvarietyshow9605]

My only hope isn't that it doesn't happen, because it will, it's that the after effects of it will be the same as the Black Death. A better tomorrow for the survivors.

[@hektoerdonovan2121]

​@@brandonmoses895As someone on the right, I will point out that having purpose, responsibility and ideals for yourself to struggle toward is what makes many people fulfilled. Note I said fulfilled and not happy. Thats what you really need. My .02.

[@157dixon]

It's religion and community. I've never been happier than when I was around families with similar beliefs and sharing food and experiences

[@kram9863]

Antinatalism is also economic. I'm 23 I work a full time job and if i didn't have roommates i literally would not be able to afford rent+utilities+insurance+student loans. If i can't afford to take care of my basic needs how in hell am i gonna take care of kids?

[@charging7]

Said any guy ever at your age. Life is hard and men in particular have it harder than women. Don't believe me? Conscription is for men only.

[@RealSteveLarry]

Insurance and student loans are worthless, cut those out and learn to chop wood and work blue collar jobs in mills. The two things stated are are what started alot of this nonsense.

[@yoitsjonmac188]

Right, there's too many people at the bottom.

[@brindlekintales]

Right. Besides which, it's cruel and selfish to bring new kids into this world.

[@shamicentertainment1262]

@@brindlekintalesno it’s not. You could literally say the same thing for 99.9% of human history

[@unclechappy9074]

I’m combat veteran, my PTSD was debilitative for close to 15 years. I got talk therapy to work, CPT, and exposure therapy. That got me to the point where you seem to be, based on your descriptions. I went on, and did the yoga program at the Sattva yoga Academy, it taught me how to get control over my physical symptoms again. It’s possible to gain control of your body back. It’s a physical practice.

[@jameswilkerson4412]

Do they have a YT channel?

[@slayer4501]

​@@jameswilkerson4412🤦‍♂️ you clearly need to re read that paragraph

[@troydavis1]

Physical practice is the key. People forget that mind and body are one. We overestimate the mind part. We can calm the mind best with physical practices.

[@MrFranklitalien]

vipassana is great also, glad you found something that works. thank you for sharing :)

[@milansalle1345]

exposure therapy? What did that look like?

[@Grymbaldknight]

I'm glad you used a Warhammer image in your thumbnail. I actually think that one of the reasons 40k is so popular today is that it presents religion as plausible and even useful to a generation of autistic shut-ins. It argues that human emotions are reflected in another dimension, and that the energy from those emotions coalesce into sentient beings (gods and daemons) which try to influence people by breaking through into the material world. Faith and courage can repel or strengthen them because faith and courage are emotions. Sure, it's pure fantasy, but it's a fantasy which _makes sense,_ and which provides a metaphysical framework to explain and defeat evil.

[@kyodairiker]

It's beautiful to see a fan of 40k to be so articulate instead of most fans which only know it through memes and misinformation on it.

[@thewildcardperson]

beutifly said ive been thinking about this as well I beleve 40k will be one of those art pieces predicting reality like simpsons or more the art imprinting itself on the collective physche and human beings will play it out in reality I guarantee a mechanicus and cult of man will be a real thing with differnt names in the near future

[@jimmyjones8676]

Slow cooking a new chaos god to hold onto a crumbling empire is of questionable value. Edit:Typos

[@pedrokantor3997]

Also because the franchise in many ways is a giant black pill. A complete rejection of Gene Rodenberry's optimism and an embrace of all that can go wrong. It's relatable in this day and age.

[@Deridus]

Uh.... Been playing 40k since Necromunda was new. I just play it because I enjoy wiping out entire armies and proving either superior doctrines or hillariously karmic defeats are just a roll of the dice. BUT there is one hill I will fight on: Women cannot be Astartes, even if the original deity was a woman.

[@DrJack55]

I love generational charts that skip over Gen X. Forgotten generation indeed

[@antpoo]

That’s the best way to be. Fly under the radar. Stay in the middle, don’t take either side, but maintain a more neutral stance. Let the two giant generations fight it out.

[@dddux]

@@antpoo lol that's how I gen-erally feel indeed.being into computers since elementary school.

[@timmyjimmy7413]

​@@antpooBro explained the ruling classs as well.

[@areuarealman7269]

That's ok gen x had nirvana and pagers . Remember that bs ?

[@jojolafrite90]

@@areuarealman7269 Nirvana was BS? Shut up.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Finding a religion has changed my life and now I look around and see broken, lost, lonely people filling our society. To think we can build a human society without faith is childish. Were we really naïve enough to think religion served no purpose?

[@otakuon]

Even atheists have faith....but most lack the moral codes and values that are supposed to come with it.

[@bananewane1402]

I can understand the purpose religion served, but I don’t think I can be religious. I don’t believe the universe has a sentient creator, and as much as that idea may be comforting to believe I can’t force myself to believe something. Religious texts aren’t sufficient evidence. A lack of scientific knowledge around the very beginning of the universe isn’t sufficient evidence for me either. So I can’t believe.

[@malachor5ve]

​@bananewane1402 Religion isn't the only way. I believe in making the world a little better in my own small way. Whether it's with sharing and creating uplifting art, being friendly and decent to people, being a good partner and friend, etc. Coincidentally, most religions behave very similarly, but again you don't have to be religious to have a positive impact on the people and world around you

[@josiaphus]

@@bananewane1402congratulations. You’re part of the problem

[@bananewane1402]

@@josiaphus again, I can’t force myself to believe in something. I can only pretend to believe. If God was real, He would be able to tell that my belief was fake anyway.

[@petermarko8534]

The concept "demons in the psyche" is something I've been dying for someone to put into words. Thank you!

[@robertmarley8852]

You either walk with God .....or you walk with Mammon

[@veronica-mew]

Damn, as a 24-year-old depressed & anxious ex-Christian, you may have convinced me to go back to church. I never stopped believing in God, but I did stop believing in religion and reading my Bible. I've been stuck in this rut where my mental state gets real bad and I coerce myself out of it through other (ie: unhealthy) means. Then, when said unhealthy habits stop working, I crash back down to the depths. The last time I felt I was okay was when I read my Bible everyday and went to Bible study. I had community and a text that, while I never fully believed it all, kept me sane in a way. I'd rather be religious with Jesus on my mind all the time than extremely depressed with cyclical thoughts of self-deletion.

[@splashnskillz37]

doesn't necessaraly need to be church just have a place and community you can belong, and if don't fit in at the first one, keep trying till you get it, persistance is the key to victory (as long as you try many distinct ways)

[@ludwigvonmises1]

Church and the discipline of practicing faith with a community has transformed my life. I had to stop listening to our dominant society

[@nocapbussin]

You don't find God in Church. You find God through contemplation. Going back to church won't cure anxiety, facing your anxiety with the faith and conviction you gain from within will cure your anxiety.

[@LNR65]

Definitely read your Bible and pray again but going back to church might disappoint you…

[@bigthoughts2644]

These prior comments all have good things in them. What might help is there are chuck missler videos. The ones about our society are chilling as they are 30 years old. But also know that I am here for you. Just comment and i'll respond to you. I'm here for you.

[@Crossbow1712]

I was always troubled by Jung’s Aion where he predicted humans would no longer suffer from material disasters, but rather psychological disasters. This never made sense to me until you explained it. Thank you.

[@thatguy22441]

Ours (humans) is a species born in adversity and conflict. Now that we've mastered survival, we become our worst enemy in the absence of struggle.

[@chrisbiro1]

Our culture does not hate itself. We are being told to hate ourselves. There is a huge difference.

[@Tehstampede]

Depression when you're poor is very different from depression when you're rich. Melancholy over a girl hits a lot different when you also have to decide between keeping the lights on or eating for a week. The internet in general and social media in specific has made it much worse, to be fair. It's a challenge to be satisfied with what you have when you see some rich dipshit's kid pouring champagne all over expensive escorts and Instagram models on a yacht somewhere in the Mediterranean sea.

[@Saltyahole]

That’s why you can’t lose yourself in comparisons. Someone is always going to have more than you. Also, people aren’t going to put their problems on social media (well, some do)

[@wynnschaible]

And what was Holden Caulfield (required reading in the 60s) but a rich dipshit's kid?

[@nagillim7915]

That's whyi cam off instagram. Envy does nothing to improve your situation or hurt the people you envy. It just traps you. It's like hate in that regard. Hate doesn't achieve anything positive. It rarely harms the hated more than it harms the hater.

[@User-54631]

Be the best version of yourself

[@nagillim7915]

​​@@Jbp-tbsh- this fantasy that people last century had things so much better doesn't stand up to much scrutiny. I was born in 79 and being poor in the 80s meant not being able to afford to buy toilet paper or have central heating in your house and sitting in candle light some nights because you couldn't afford money for the electric meter. It meant waking up with ice inside the windows and your breath frosting in the air in your bedroom in winter. And in my grandparents' generation it meant not having a bathroom in the house and just an outside toilet. My generation was the first to be pretty much guaranteed a college education (even if we had to pay for it). When my mum was 16 she had to go out and get a job training to be a butcher. She was 18 when i was born and for the first 4 years of my life we lived in a flat that had black mould around the edges of the ceiling and sometimes all she could feed me was bread and sugar because there was nothing else in the cupboards. For the first 8 years of my life corned beef and potatoes was something i thought of as a food for special occasions. Generally all we had was tins of beans, tins of spaghetti and tomato soup (to this day just the smell of tomato soup makes me want to vomit). And that's in a first world country. It wasn't until the mid-90s that my mum could afford to stock the fridge and freezer (we didn't even have a freezer in the 80s because we couldn't afford a continuous electricity supply) or buy fresh cuts of meat from a butcher or supermarket. Big supermarket chains weren't even really a thing in the area until i was 10 or 11. Heck, my mum didn't even have a central heating system fitted until after 2000. She had to make do with a coal fireplace in one room as the sole heating fornthe entire house.

[@mdandrews]

I’m a social studies teacher currently and I can see this writing on the wall. It’s gonna hit the fan. I feel the pull of wanting to do nothing and just waste away too, this job is soul crushing and it’s hard to see much hope in the future, with this generation of kids exhibiting even worse tendencies than my own (25m)

[@LukeLongboneOfficial]

Being a good teacher is one of the most noble callings a person can endeavor. I tried to teach public school a couldn’t handle the centrally planned curriculum that destroys actual teaching. Most teachers I’ve personally interacted with are simply going through the motions. I couldn’t accept doing that myself, so I quit and found different work.

[@mdandrews]

@@LukeLongboneOfficial yeah, that’s pretty much exactly right. I really don’t “teach” much. I barely manage to control about 150 teenagers that have absolutely no self control, no delayed gratification, and are years behind academically. It’s a real struggle. I don’t know how much longer I can do it, no reasonable and responsible adult deserves to have to deal with this, but also it’s absolutely critical that people do the job otherwise it will only get worse and worse. I don’t think I’m that guy though, I’m so tired.

[@josephkelly6681]

@@mdandrews Black?

[@ashleigherwin1133]

I'm a teacher as well, except I teach English. I got into teaching because I wanted to work with teens and help them develop critical thinking skills. I got a swift kick of reality when I actually started teaching, though. I teach virtually this year (thank God), but last year when I was in-person, I was more of a prison warden than a teacher. Public school is a complete joke nowadays.

[@leandersearle5094]

@@josephkelly6681 Unfortunately, it applies to everyone. Think of your own quickness to post that, how your social circles have encouraged that as an immediate response, and then that there's a proportionately high degree of introspection in your social circles. And then remember that these are kids, who will blithely run out in front of cars for lack of fear, and who don't really think properly. Then stack social media designed to kill/immiserate them on top of that. Unfortunately for us all, this cannot simply be reduced to race.

[@CyroCZc]

I'm so glad someone is finally drawing attention to this. I've been thinking this was going to a far bigger problem than people realize for several years now. Thank you for highlighting it because its one of the most serious things working against all of us that almost no one is taking about to the level of danger it comes with. I wish I had more to add but I'm still watching. Loving these long videos and your point of view though and on the off chance you see this, THANK YOU!

[@louisesumrell6331]

Zen Buddhism saved me. I'll never be anywhere near perfect, but I'm no longer completely out of control and I have many moments of pure joy.

[@alanmalcheski8882]

plain old theravada buddhism is all you need.

[@nickdoyle434]

Well said ! ​@@alanmalcheski8882

[@Francisco-Danconia]

It's a process, and each step is integral to the next. So really, it's already all perfect. Everything is necessary, and nothing that exists is out of place, including mistake making humans.

[@louisesumrell6331]

@alanmalcheski8882 whatever works for you 🙏

[@Markpaul9]

Mahayana buddhism is the best! But Zen I consider an easier path, potentially more natural path

[@Patson20]

Over reliance on drugs and therapy are seriously damaging society. Through sheer greed weve convinced people that giving hard drugs and hormones (BC pill ect)to kids is not only healthy but beneficial for minor behavioral problem. I cant even count the number of kids i know on Ritalin, which is essentially meth, or on mood stabilizers at 10 that we have no idea how they work. When i was a child i had organizational fixations( later discovered to be asbergers) and was diagnosed as OCD. My doctor predcribed me psychological medication....at 9 years old. Of course as a 9 year old that medication that wasnt needed after all of course started fucking with my head causing a lack of attention ect. So when i was 11 i was diagnosed with ADHD and given ritalin. Which of course fucked up my mood and caused mania and crashes. Which caused me to be diagnosed as bipolar at 13 fucking years old. Which led me to be given anti psychotics and mood stabilizers and caused massive weight gain ballooning me to 400lbs. At 16 i was at the worst mental health of my life, extreme depression suicidal ideation violent thoughts. Finally at 18 once puberty started being controlled i decided enough was enough i wanted to see what being off my prescription felt like and started weaning off. After three weeks of chaos my head was finally clear. I felt great, no longer had mania or depression, no more ticks or organization fixations, no more anger. 10 years later ive never felt better, never been healtheir and ive passed several psych tests with no issues and work constantly in high stress dangerous situations with no issues. I had to deal with obesity and 10 years of suffering because some PHD decided i needed to be drugged up rather than investigate the problem. 10 years of drug induced suffering because a doctor misdiagnosed autism.

[@juniorjames7076]

A portion of our population has a vested interest (- financially, socially, politically, etc.) in our society having zero morals or scruples. You cannot profitably sell drugs (pharmaceuticals and illegal), sex, and useless tech/commodities to a society with moral discipline and faith. They would go broke. Debauchery keeps the economy afloat.

[@jaredthehawk3870]

My own youth and childhood was identical to yours. At one point, I was on at least 7 different forms of medication at once. During elementary school, I was being prescribed dexadrine. You know, something that was being given to troops in Vietnam. It gets better. In late elementary school, I was on Risperdal and Zoloft at the same time. Yeah, to say that I have a massive distrust of modern psychiatry is an understatement.

[@Patson20]

@jaredthehawk3870 I was on both Risperdal and zoloft myself, now in law enforcement I deal with people who actually need medication fairly regularly. To add to to the distrust it's almost impossible to get these people a bed or treatment. All the remaining psych hospitals only will hold them and treat them if they have good insurance to milk, and being severely mentally ill of course they don't have it. So they just get kicked out after a few days worse off than they were going in, because now they are coming off their prescriptions. I've been getting my degree in psych the last few years, and so far I've found that despite how far up their own ass modern psychology is that therapy and treatment hasn't advanced much past Freud and asylums.

[@jameswilkerson4412]

So you were autistic, not ADHD or bipolar?

[@andoriannationalist3738]

They aren’t looking out for us. They didn’t drug you to help you do better. They drugged you so you’d do better for society. Everything we do isn’t for us or humanity even. It’s for ever more efficiency. Ever more profit. This society is sick .

[@RealMajora]

Whatever happens will pass in a couple decades. Don't succumb to doomerism.

[@WiseOwl_1408]

This channel and it's viewers are lost causes

[@incurableromantic4006]

You sure? After Rome fell, it was well over a millennium before Europe started to reach comparable levels of prosperity and stability. And of course - that wouldn't have comforted a far-sighted Roman much since practically nothing was left of their culture.

[@RealMajora]

I am not in Europe, nor am I a Roman.@@incurableromantic4006

[@scorpixel1866]

​​@@incurableromantic4006The late Roman Empire was a terrible place to live in, IXth century serfs had genuinely superior living conditions than the median Roman citizen. The dark ages were far shorter than what Renaissance historians claimed they were, and would be better defined as an era with very few written records, as organised states collapsed in size, yet the rural areas mostly witnessed drastically reduced taxes.

[@shzarmai]

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[@psoltan]

This channel is ALWAYS interesting. The only thing I would add is that, IMHO, the thing that led to the greatest breakdown in mental health was the lack of a "stay at home" parent. Since both parents need to work to make it in the US, children are being raised by people with mixed motivations. Parents may not be perfect but they generally want to give their kids the tools and knowledge to do well in society with no other objective or goal in mind. When kids are raised by the Internet or people with mixed objectives, they are weaker for it. They are always pushed to side with a viewpoint without anyone reinforcing their ability to rise above the chatter and chart their own course. If your primary feeling of acceptance comes from "likes" on the Internet then you are totally screwed.

[@wynnschaible]

My business has over the years taken me more into the poorer black areas of my city. And there is only ONE group that has prevented the crash into total anarchistic animality: the grandmothers!

[@psoltan]

@@wynnschaible Yep. That counts as a "stay at home" parent/grandparent

[@wynnschaible]

@@psoltanFar be it from me (being one) to discount the influence of grandparents in any way, but to count it as the same as a stay at home parent (preferably mom) is an abuse of statistics. Although there are cultures in Africa where mom does not become the primary childraiser until the third kid.

[@killingtimeitself]

It's the lack of proper integration, we keep removing things kids previously had access to, and then continually push it to the age of adulthood, which now, when you reach, dumps on you like a pallet of bricks. Last time i checked the definition of preparation being completely blindsided is not preparation. It's not parents, it how we as a society raise our children.

[@wynnschaible]

@@killingtimeitself Helicopter parenting is a big problem. But so are neighborhoods without un-adult-used kid-available spaces. Not to speak of geographical compartmentalization so extreme that the kid has to be driven everywhere. No, this doesn't apply in our cities but there you've got a safety problem.

[@jasperslaggathor4451]

Great video! I find it funny that these discussions get labeled as negative or being black pilled, but realistically it’s just discussing the human condition truthfully without ego. Keep up the good work!

[@Walterdecarvalh0100]

I thank God I'm mentally stable. A little bit lonely at times but nothing like most people.

[@roderickcortez138]

Wish I could be you.

[@ataraxia7439]

I think you’re right that a sort of psychological hygiene is important on levels beyond an individual person. You can’t expect most ppl to just behave and think correctly when all of their peers and culture are encouraging them otherwise. We need to help ppl know how to recognize and resist bad ideas as well as nurture larger environments conducive to better mental health. It’s not a fix all but I really think more people being pushed by circumstance to spend time face to face with others in a context that’s caring and respectful would lead to more people being kind and grounded to others.

[@jimmyjones8676]

The problem is anyone with the will and knowhow to social engineer on that scale has probably got other priorities.

[@ataraxia7439]

@@jimmyjones8676To an extent for sure sadly. I don't know if there's any real solution to that anytime soon if ever but I do think we are more active in contributing to what kind of environment of ideas and attitudes others are exposed to more than we realize. I know personally I used to share and amplify ideas I wish I hadn't.

[@jimmyjones8676]

@@ataraxia7439 It's not that we can't change, it's that any attempt at change will be hijacked by people with their own interests.

[@NotAffiliated]

*THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WHAT YOU DO* Holy crap brother! Keep making videos on this topic! If we are all going mad, then the more people can know about this stuff, the better we can fight it! This video has been INCREDIBLY HELPFUL TO ME! All the effort you put into these is very much appreciated.

[@fleshdrone1998]

You speak things that have been on my mind (and a lot of other people's minds) for years, and you're a very gifted speaker. Materials like this give me a chance to rearrange my thoughts and often help me through struggles, so thank you

[@InfiniteDesign91]

Another thing for men's mental health. It's hard to have a really stable mental health when you know your wife can legally divorce any time for no reason and take half of your wealth, and possibly your kids. It's very hard to preserve family wealth in a system like that.

[@Joseph-XRP]

Don't get married or have kids, problem solved.

[@InfiniteDesign91]

@@Joseph-XRP That is a workaround, not a solution. Mass immigration is there because of the low birthrate.

[@Joseph-XRP]

Mass immigration is not due to low birthrate. You have low birthrate because having a child is expensive. You have mass immigration because politicians want to fulfill their agenda.@@InfiniteDesign91

[@drawster00]

Dont marry the wrong woman for yourself. Not meant as a bash, if your partner and you dont share core ideologies, then you might fall into that trap you explained. Almost scared of your own wife, your wife's toxic femininity. If you share values, you wont run into this issue as you know your place as a man, and she as a woman. Do whatever freaky stuff you want within your relationship, trust me I do myself, but never fear your partner to that degree of losing family connection. If it is already lost, godspeed on saving or abandoning. Either will be a journey.

[@la6136]

Why do men have this victim mentality? Your wife could be thinking the same thing. He can divorce me, leave me for another woman at any time and take half of my wealth PLUS be stuck being a single mom. You only think about it from your perspective but don't think that the woman is thinking the same thing.

[@MrBenMcLean]

"If wealth caused happiness then celebrities would be the happiest people in the world but we all know that's not true" -- Hollywood used to help keep this a secret by keeping celebrities private lives as private as possible. You'd see actors in the movies and you'd maybe hear from them at the Academy Awards but that's all. Very little contact so that a mystique was created around the actors personality which made them seem larger than life. It was possible to seriously believe wealth caused happiness in such a society.

[@GullfaxiTh]

Fame ain't Happiness.

[@baldlikeaneagle]

Religion is salvation. Nihilism wont save anyone.

[@AYTM1200]

True.

[@soldierofmisortune4413]

You missed an important factor in your assessment. Past societies were insulated, isolated into tiny pockets where ideas & behaviors could grow unchecked, mostly free from outside influence. Today's society is an amalgamation of international, & even global, influences & scrutiny. The crazies no longer have the asylums to themselves. Now, for the first time in human history, the crazies & the sane are broadly mixed together via the Internet & international media. They observe, criticize, judge, & influence one another openly online. This will have a major impact on the outcome versus societies of the past. Especially as the sane, out of desperation, become more & more bold to voice criticism & condemnation of the insanity. That's starting to happen now, your video is an example. If mental illness is socially influenced, & I believe you are correct in that, then so is mental wellness. Right now the crazies are the loudest, their mental illness goes largely unchecked so it deepens & spreads. As the voice & volume of sanity increases it too will gain influence. The best thing we can do as a society is to be MORE open & voiceful with support of sane, societally healthy behavior. Openly challenge, criticize, & condemn unhealthy behavior. Give the crazies reason to question their beliefs. Above all, let them know their behaviors & actions are NOT socially acceptable. That is the way. In the end the greater influence will win.

[@AceAM264]

Underrated comment.

[@brindlekintales]

> Right now the crazies are the loudest Those goddamn MAGAts.

[@jeremyfirth]

A good analogy to traditional demons are addictions. You establish a ritualistic behavior tied to reducing anxiety. It helps you relax at first. Then, something happens to you that makes you anxious, and without thinking, you pick up the ritualized behavior to reduce your anxiety. You don't even thinking about stopping yourself. Over time, once this pattern starts interfering in your life in a significant way and you start to create space between the impulse and the ritualized behavior pattern, you realize you are not in as much control of yourself as you'd like. So you could say that an addiction is a demon, because it is distracting you from who you want to be. The addiction takes over without you thinking about it and it takes incredible effort to break out of an addiction.

[@sanniepstein4835]

Addiction, aside from the physical part, seems to be a way to step out of time. Even though they are physically addicted and should crave any nicotine available, smokers want their own brand of their own form of tobacco. They want a moment that feels exactly like every other moment they spent smoking.

[@justinhart2831]

That thought makes me incredibly anxious

[@jimbarino2]

Or, of course, demons are real spiritual beings and have real effects on people.

[@justinhart2831]

@@jimbarino2 no way to prove a negative, and I wouldnt want to tell you what to believe if I could -- but I don't see how viewing demons as real does anything to help anyone.

[@jimbarino2]

@@justinhart2831 It helps because there are real ways that, for instance, the Catholic church has for dealing with demons. Your statement presupposes that demons are just figments of the imagination, and assumes that seeing them as real is just silly. But if they are real, then treating them as such is just good sense.

[@anonymoose9315]

My wife has severe undiagnosed OCD. She is an older Millenial, a few years older than myself. She refuses to get help and I blame her parents for this. I have talked to her parents and her mother recognizes the issue but doesn’t see how bad it is since my wife is skilled at hiding the worst parts. Our kids are constantly shepherded to event to event to keep a structured day. This I agree with make them not be able to live without structure when they are older.

[@sanniepstein4835]

Or it might train them to create structure. Kids raised like wild animals have to reinvent the wheel in so many ways it gets them down. Any given approach can help or hurt; it depends on the person and context.

[@AK-hi7mg]

Dude is out here lamenting about that he has a good wife .😂

[@anonymoose9315]

@@AK-hi7mg I’m lamenting her crippling OCD which I have left out accept for a single comment, I am not lamenting a good mother. You don’t know me or my wife. OCD is a severe mental illness that can devastate a person’s life and of those around them.

[@Comedy-Goat]

Every woman has OCD when compared to a man

[@Comedy-Goat]

​@@AK-hi7mgor a wife at all

[@turkmusik]

You report that "90% of Gen Z has anxiety." This is incorrect. The graph you reference has Gen Z views on whether anxiety is problem in their communities. This has only a slight relationship to whether they "have" anxiety.

[@swish6143]

Thanks for highlighting this.

[@Excalibur2]

One of many issues with the video

[@reasonwarrior]

This couldn't be more spot-on or timely in relation to a recent trip I had to an average American city. Shouting and banging at all hours of the night in the hotel, multiple attempts to get into my room by people apparently incapable of reading a room number, endless drag racing on the street outside until 5 am, ranting and raving lunatics threatening themselves and others in a local park, the mindless drones at a local university tour spouting diversity and inclusion drivel while rattling off ridiculous land acknowledgements, the homeless dodging high speed traffic as they shuffled across the highway. If one takes a moment to step outside themselves and their modern brain that has normalized all this, it becomes readily apparent as to just how insane our society really is. There was madness all around me that seemingly nobody noticed, but everyone was reacting to.

[@amo757]

You just described Norfolk, VA.

[@dominiquesmith5734]

@@amo757you navy?

[@amo757]

@@dominiquesmith5734 yes

[@dominiquesmith5734]

@@amo757 noooooo. Im navy and im going there

[@dominiquesmith5734]

@@amo757 i dont like that description😔🙏

[@nashanderson6755]

This channel is quietly the most informative channel on KZbin right now. Keep up the good work brother.

[@victorianreactionary1875]

I almost completely agree Rudyard. Up until 5 months ago, I only had some very basic anxiety occasionally and also have been suffering from constant Derealization/Depersonalization for 7 years. It’s never let up, but I learned to live with it. I went out to live my dreams just 5 months ago and had massive panic attacks and became a Hypochondriac and reality questioner over night. Literally, over night. I fell asleep and woke up the next day with intrusive thoughts, intensive fear over dying and disease, and thought I had rabies for a while. Which then switched to cancer, then locked in syndrome, etc etc. I used to be full of life and the daredevil. Always willing to affirm life and kick its ass. Out of nowhere, I developed these issues. The point is, that everyone has a cracking point. I don’t know why I cracked, but I can tell you right now I don’t think I would be if I lived in a healthy time. I’m only 22, I just pray that my anxiety doesn’t last like my derealization has. Just always remember life is a gift, never ever be suicidal because you’ll be dead soon enough anyways. You have all of eternity to be gone, and only such a beautiful short amount of time on this wonderful rock. Love one another, be humble, and find the Lord. God bless to anyone who might take the time to read this.

[@SartorialisticSavage65]

God bless you too. Derealization is a bitch brother

[@krzysztofsaa2997]

Damn, I do not even understand what you are talking about..... Derealization? WTF?

[@gctechs]

Please explain what does "Derealization/Depersonalization" and " I went out to live my dreams" mean.

[@ethank.3201]

Love you too bro. I have had crippling OCD that has really ruined the last 2 years of my life. Every waking morning, every lonely night, just thinking and thinking and thinking. It has effected grades, work, social life, family, everything. Life is all you have. Life is all there is. You gotta live with it. I always tell myself “Just be”. Be mindful. Be conscious of your desires and your thoughts. You are not your thoughts. You are not your feelings. As a 20 year old, this keeps me going every day. It works for me (most of the time), so it might work for you. Let me know your thoughts.

[@TheRmbomo]

@@gctechs Descriptions vary, but derealization is generally the persistent feeling that the world is less than 'real', like one is permanently in a dream world. Depersonalization is similar applied to oneself, feeling like one is just an observer watching a body in their place move around.

[@Laughing.Lion.]

I went to school for Psychology. It was really the only subject that I ever excelled at. I didn't complete my degree because I couldn't afford it. One of my professors through my years of study paid me compliment saying that I had a PHD level of understanding. So as a Christmas present I received the DSM-5. I sat down with my professor after class and we excitedly started pouring over the material. Our excitement turned to sorrow rather quickly. I still help out my younger friends with their psych homework for fun. It's sad to see what they don't even teach anymore. Many of the questions on their quizzes and exams aren't even psychological in nature, but rather political. In addition Jungian psychology is rapidly becoming ignored and replaced with Marxist ideologies. Good video. Like your analysis.

[@CrewComedy]

Just curious. Do you think Jung’s viewpoint on psychology is the most truthful one? I just wanna find out more on this kind of thing.

[@Laughing.Lion.]

@@CrewComedy I don't know about most truthful, given the clinical side of psychology and the specialists who've worked solely from that perspective, but in my opinion, Wundt and Freud made the ingot, Jung was the blacksmith who made the ingot into so much more. His works are, in the very least, worth the read. I hope that answers your question.

[@MisterZimbabwe]

Yeah you wanna know WHY we're seeing Marxist shit show up more and more often? Because capitalism is failing to make good on its promises to people now. Today's adults and young adults work harder for less compensation than their parents and grand parents by a huge margin. Everything is rapidly becoming unaffordable. Nothing substantial is being done about the climate crisis that has already spiralled beyond worst case estimates and we will be LUCKY if we can roll out some miracle carbon capture technology THIS YEAR just to keep global temperatures AT 2.5c by 2060 (at 2.5c, I should remind you, we're looking at regular wet bulb events and a 60% loss of arable land for growing food. The borders of wealthy nations are going to look like a zombie apocalypse with all the refugees being gunned down by machine gun nests). And what little these adults stand to inherit from their boomer parents and grand parents is rapidly being sucked away by the overpriced and under regulated medical-pharmacological industry as the aging boomers require more and more healthcare to extend their lives and deal with the failings of their aging biology. And let's not forget how school has become exorbitantly expensive. In order to get a job that pays 60k a year you need a 200k degree that will not guarantee you even get a job in your chosen field. Nevermind that it is a common business practice to demand industry veteran levels of experience for entry level positions assuming the companies in question aren't just fake posting those job ads to keep the government off their back, with zero intention to hire anyone because they already abuse immigrant worker status visas or straight up illegal aliens to do their labor for them. Jungian psychology ain't gonna pay anyone's out of control rent. Is it really a surprise popular sentiment is now turning against the system that betrayed them and support for a theoretical system that promises redistribution of wealth?

[@castirondude]

You're better positioned to help people as a friend or neighbor because if you're licensed you will be pressured to do all sorts of things that are counterproductive at best.

[@mikey92362]

My story is similar. I did finish my degree in communications because it was the quickest and cheapest once I figured out a path to graduation. I didn't care so much for psychology, but I went crazy for sociology and economics. It's always been my passion. I have a knack for understanding societal relationships, opportunity costs, economic motivations, and foreseeing unintended consequences. And yeah, it's tragic to be able to see what's coming when others have no clue what they're doing to us all in the name of good.

[@karnubawax]

A history teacher of mine once said, "If you're a steel-worker in PA and an economic downturn hits... you can take all the personal responsibility you want to. You're still losing your job." If there's one thing that we Americans are astoundingly accomplished at, it is blaming the individual for society's problems.

[@georgerlopez1984]

Lost two brothers in less than a year, one to drugs, the other to suicide. My eyes have def opened to whats going on today.

[@arfarfarf256]

My condolences, man. So sorry.

[@MyronT3]

I'm sorry for your losses. I lose a brother to drugs recently. More people need to talk about this

[@filipmilosavljevic8316]

I am sorry for your loss. An ex-friend had one of his brothers commit too and it destroyedd him forever. I hope you're able to cope with it well. Stay strong. As a psych student trust me when I tell you you're right, there's a silent epidemic even outside the West and another issue not present in this vid is the totally abysmal state of psychiatry where doctors who haven't done any inner work on themselves just prescribe meds and set you off home without even having empathy. I'ts far from being the only issue but for example - if the doctor for that friend's brother actually believed the kid and his intention, things would have been different today. I've also experienced such cases myself and it's certanly a contributing factor that's not mentioned because psychiatry uses it's status as a medical field to shield itself from criticism. Not until the 1700s did Felippe Pinell take away the chains of the people with demons from institutions that couldn't look at their own practices - and now we have the same issue repeated, just involving a lack of empathy which ironically would mean a lot to people by itself, since now that people are preoccupied with survival they have even less tolerance for the pain of another. Daniel Mackler (a ex psychotherapist - you can find him on youtube) mentioned that the fact that he actually cared for and listened t o people was more or less half of the reason why they were able to solve their issues and end suffering - we simply live in a desentisized world and are so used to talking about mental health and narcissism all around us that when we actually encounter the real deal we just do nothing, and these people are left to their own devices in a lot of cases. Just my 2 cents.

[@miriamwells35]

So sorry

[@nagillim7915]

As a person who has suffered from depression and anxiety for the best part of 30 years, i totally agree that the problem isn't entirely internal and is in part a reflection of our place in the world. I can trace all my depression and anxiety issues to self worth issues and those self worth issues stem from the fact that for my entire adult life i have been living out other people's expectations at the expense of my own satisfaction in life. And now that i'm halfway through my working life i look back at my history and see nothing valuable. And when i look forward at my work future i also see nothing valuable. And i'm now at that age where families fragment chasing their own individual happiness and here am i left worthless and miserable because i did what was expected of me instead of what made me happy. And i'm still doing what was expected of me even though no one else is. And so you can add envy to the depression and anxiety, which leads to guilt, which leads to more self-recrimination and therefore more depression and anxiety. As my gran told me before she died, "life is shit."

[@rico14]

It’s never too late to seek a more fulfilling life. Don’t give up. Even though not everything plays out the way we want to. We can still bring light to the world 👍🏽

[@brutalgump9365]

you have to be careful with Nihilism

[@kw2519]

Absurdism resolved a lot of that for me, I’m 40.

[@martinbenz8275]

Bro just accurately diagnosed modern society with suicidal depression, banger

[@Personaless]

Funnily enough, Jung being one of the pioneers of psychology made it explicit that his works were primarily personal, even if he attempted a scientific endeavor. "Thank god I am Jung and not a Jungian" is a quote ignored by most of his followers, and few went to actually pressure test his work in a clinical settings. You may enjoy the channel Jung to Live by, it delves often into the weakness of modern talk therapy and the reductionism of academic psychology as a field.

[@heyhoe168]

J.Peterson does not look like a representative of declining academic field to me.

[@CausticSpace]

@@heyhoe168 rent free

[@benc2779]

@@heyhoe168 do you mean the Jordan Peterson that was forced to undergo “social media training” by his peers at the college of psychologists in an attempt to keep him in line? Seems the actions of a declining academic field to me.

[@denofpigs2575]

​@@sw3783Yeah. He applied shamanistic views to psychology and parapsychology. What of it?

[@denofpigs2575]

@@sw3783 And what exactly is there to disclose? I'm really not following.

[@laststand6420]

One of the biggest reasons I am a Christian, is the good Christians I know. I would look at a person like my grandfather and think, "That man is different, higher, better than most of humanity... I want what he has." And of course evil. I will never accept as truth the lie that evil does not exist.

[@zephaniahdejene1746]

Same

[@Miami1991]

I hope any future Christian or person who is deciding to go back into a relationship with god I recommend to look into Orthodoxy . Avoid Protestant or mega churches please . Orthodoxy is beautiful

[@khata1169]

I pray that all may come to the one Holy Catholic Church and be fed full of spiritual food and not of materialist filth.

[@davidburnett5049]

I grew up in a missionary Baptist church that said they read the Bible and believed it. They were not better people. They weren't trash but they weren't sacred or superior either. Just people. You are mistaken. It isn't the religion making them good. They are making the religion seem good because they are already good.

[@laststand6420]

@@davidburnett5049 I cannot speak for others, their reasons are known only to themselves and God. I do know this, without God, and specifically Christ, I would be a human being that might possibly rank among the worst in history. Perhaps you underestimate human capacity for evil, and the Power of Christ to contain that capacity.

[@samizdatbroadcasts7654]

Turns out killing God has consequences. Who'd have guessed?

[@greyhallow31]

This video has genuinely managed to rattle me and give me a mild existential crisis while I contemplate my own life and society. Thanks.

[@VARVIS_]

Its demonic invasion

[@SartorialisticSavage65]

I mean I would think all of us have some of these thoughts already lol

[@baber6070]

I took this video as a call to fix my existential dread/ anxiety, and try my best to raise a family and lift others out of their existential dread. Strive to become normie through extensive and deliberate reasoning.

[@baber6070]

Great tips for mental health: Find an outdoor hobby, work out and watch one piece

[@Markpaul9]

BASED

[@kevincronk7981]

I'm 18 and can corroborate what Rudyard is saying about Gen Z. I went to a halloween party and after about 15 minutes there got too stressed out by trying to talk to people and left. That's partially just me being bad at socializing, but I doubt that this behavior is nearly as uncommon as it should be in a functioning society.

[@Joseph-XRP]

Just learn how to make money. Money is the most important thing in this world. Without it you will STARVE!

[@Joseph-XRP]

@willrivers1819 nope!

[@samuelparisi6401]

​@@Joseph-XRPspoken like someone who's struggling to make money

[@KopitioBozynski]

@sr-oj9ev That's kinda the problem though. Why is the majority of socializing nothing more than shallow, pointless babble?

[@kevincronk7981]

@firstnamelastname-os5ro ah yes that has so much to do with social skills

[@Mallard942]

Thank you, I have felt so alone in my perspective on psychology ever since before university, I couldn't work in the field because of how broken it all was, it felt like being a priest in a fallen church. I was ruthlessly hounded for not accepting the gender ideology, and when I defended myself by explaining how the hypothesis of affirmative care makes no sense, I was called a bigot, over an over again.

[@wynnschaible]

and early Christians were called Atheists! Stay strong! (and I have lost a kid and grandchild over this %^&* evil nonsense.

[@AdlerMow]

No to be rude or command your life or something, but are you into some incredibly liberal place like California? I'm not american, but I won't want to live in a place like this, I would get out as soon as possible. I want to live in a place were people are less radicalized, as to view me as an individual first, before calling me a bigot before even knowing me, because they fit me into a mold, like republican, hunter, gun nut, etc. I also would no feel right in a place of religious fanatics as to be viewed as a drughead, abortionist or sjw. I'm a libertarian, I'm an individual and I have an opinion, I won't fill some narrow minded group.

[@user-dj6lj1dl1c]

"gender ideology" 🤡

[@jimmyware511]

A Christians greatest calling is to be a beacon of light in a fallen world.

[@jaspermay5813]

@@user-dj6lj1dl1c ""gender ideology" 🤡" 🤡

[@Sienna6164]

As someone with Autism, OCD, and ADHD, I can conferm. Coddling them will only destroy them. It’s important for parents to understand their children’s mental illness, but they can’t coddle them. They must teach them to grow beyond them and adjust to life. Also, I think you dress well WhatifAltHistory

[@nickhartman6372]

Your mental "disorders" do not define you.

[@Sizifus]

Dr. K often approached this point, that the psychological well-being of a person has to come both from the individual and collective levels. Self help only goes so far, for a person to be psychologically fulfilled, someone has to take some responsibility for him/her. The culture of today is very much enthralled with the idea of individualism, so the idea of being responsible for another human's well-being is not something that seems compatible for many of folk. For the betterment of society, that has to change, but the tricky thing is, you cannot force people into taking responsibility for another, it has to be culturally encouraged, not forced. How to achieve that is probably one of the greatest challenges our society faces at the moment.

[@noahokayama3825]

Bro I’m 32:00 minutes in and still haven’t heard a take that’s wrong, and you’ve given a TON of potentially controversial- yet fully backed assertions. I deeply appreciate the boldness, and even more, the maturity to harness it properly by going over it to make sure you haven’t gone too far/not far enough. You are awesome bro.

[@moisesjimenez4391]

I second this statement. I have never heard a Whatifalthist take that I would contend or criticize. He seems to really see things for what they are

[@nickolasbrown3342]

He has some takes that have flaws. Keep in mind, you can't spot flaws in a person's argument unless you are very familiar with the specific topic being mentioned upon. For instance, in basically all of his videos, he shits on today's art being trash when the reality is that more high quality art is being produced than ever before - but he chooses to focus on the trash art that is also produced in abundance and hung on museum walls. Rudyard is flawed like anyone else, but his takes remain quite insightful, even if something is bent here and there.

[@nickolasbrown3342]

If you pay close attention across his videos, you'll actually find he contradicts himself sometimes :p Alas, the plight of a content creator!

[@prussianacid]

The only part of a Whatifalthist/rudyard video that I can contend with is how a few of his points are worded in a way that people who aren't fully with him and are willing to think about what he is saying would try and push his statements away.

[@Interrobang212]

​@@prussianacidyeah he does very little, if anything to persuade opposition.

[@jamesonmaylif8009]

As an older Gen Z (23), I’m married and have children. I’m deeply religious, and although I have largely cut ties with my own family (by their choice, not mine) I am very close with my in-laws. It makes me sad to see how everyone my age is struggling so hard with nihilism and loneliness. None of my friends are religious, most of them have never had a relationship, and of the ones that are in relationships they don’t want children and don’t believe in marriage. Our society is clearly very deeply sick. “It’s a sickness of the mind. And where sickness thrives, bad things will follow.” - J.R.R Tolkien I always make sure my children know that the world, in it’s current state; simply wants to hurt them. It wants them sterile, alone, and subjugated. But the people doing this will grow old and die some day. And when that happens, they and their children will inherit the world that comes after. When that time comes, they will have the chance to make a better world in it’s place. “For we do not do battle against flesh and blood. We do battle against the principalities and powers of darkness, and against the spiritual forces of evil in heavenly places.” - Ephesians Chapter 6 Verse 12.

[@obiwankenobi6871]

Bro gets it God bless man ☦️ hope you’re doing great in the future!

[@DrakusLuthos]

Married and a father at 23? Damn, well done. I'm 23 as well, and only a couple of my friends have stable relationships; I've never had a relationship before. So truly, well bloody done. Congratulations, man.

[@Flesh_Wizard]

Married and a father at 23? How tf?

[@michaelwangenstein8434]

I did the same as him and I am 22. We are all going to make it. I feel like on an objective level I was dealt a hand that virtually guaranteed my eternal loneliness. If it weren’t for what I believe was God literally intervening in my life I believe that would be the case now. Keep sight of what matters, trust God, Strive for peace but if violence comes respond accordingly. Always Remember that if you are here on Earth then thank God that you are blessed with being able to experience his creation and all of its boons, if you die then you get to meet the creator who allowed you to experience the gift of life in the first place. Know this and life can never defeat you.

[@jamesonmaylif8009]

@@Flesh_Wizard Pretty much just make sure that you’re dating for marriage, and make sure it’s clear right away that that’s what you’re doing. I was very lucky that I found a woman who’s parents were blue-collar so she didn’t care that I was blue-collar, and who’s parents married young so she understood the benefits of having children young. Not everyone will be lucky, but of course it’s not all down to luck either it’s also down to hard work as well. Best of luck!

[@dolly7639]

There is a kind of talk therapy called Interpersonal Psychotherapy that works to reconnect people in their relationships, and teach people to think creatively and less about themselves. It's very effective.

[@andrewspam]

If you want better mental health, get the hell off “social media”. Stop worrying about what people will say. Refuse to participate in their delusion.

[@tianming4964]

I'm 24, and the points you made about Gen Z being super messed up mentally are 100% true. Every person I know in my age group has anxiety and/or depression or something else, and I lost one of my best friends to suicide last year because of it. She struggled with since childhood, as did another one of my friends, and their parents put them on meds and therapy before they'd even become teenagers which only made things worse. I was raised by a single mom who fits the definition of a helicopter parent imo, but even then, she's the least overprotective out of all of my friends' parents. My friends are all in our 20s, and yet their parents still have such tight controls over their lives. One of my friends is only allowed to go out once a week to hang out with us. Another one of my friends isn't allowed to hang out one on one with me since I'm a guy and she's a girl (even though I'm gay). Another of my friends gets a phone call at least once from her mom or grandparents every time we go out to make sure she's okay, and her parents freak out if she's back home after 11PM and will stay up for her to come back. Another one of my friends isn't allowed to use Discord or make friends with people he doesn't know online. And like I said, none of us are kids or even teenagers. We're all in our 20s and yet their parents still treat them like they're children. It's crazy.

[@libertatemadvocatus1797]

There's been a trend of people infantilizing adults for a long time. I remember that in the 90s people would say, "You're almost an adult now" to people who were 15 and 16. I heard that a lot growing up. I now see people say, "You're still basically a child" to people in their mid-20s. Now, there was still a lot of the type of behavior you describe (overprotective and overbearing parents), but there was still a sense that your teens were basically preparing you for adulthood, but now your 20s are basically another version of your late teens.

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[@yakovleitner]

as a (former) far-leftist millenial male, I agree with you. I turned to spirituality started learning martial arts and trying to form social groups. not an easy job though. I still believe in values I was looking for in my political views, but I realized that politics do not contain the values I was looking for.

[@abby42525]

Great example of why you shouldn’t let your politics become your identity (unless you’re actually running for office).

[@100percentSNAFU]

One great thing about reaching your 40's is you no longer give a crap what other people think. Does wonders for your mental well being when you never worry about "fitting in" or impressing others. Outside of my own family, my customers are about the only people i actually care about what opinion they have because i want them to be happy with my service and come back so i continue to be employed in a job i like. Most of my former "friends" can pound sand. If they don't like my political views, my general beliefs, or my warped sense of humor, too bad. I kept the handful of good ones around. Other than them its just family and work. Sounds boring, but it does clear the mind quite a bit.

[@jimjohnson724]

Yup, I wish I had the mentality I have now than the one I had in my 20s-30s

[@justinhart2831]

If I take your advice and stop caring what other people think. I'd run the risk of not caring what *you* thought, and if I lived my life in a way you disapprove of, I'd obviously be part of the problem. So of course then I have to care what other people think in order to care what you think and make sure I do the right thing. But if I care what others think, I'm obviously back to being affected by whether completely different strangers on the internet think I'm a bigot for disagreeing with them; I clearly can't be worried about that. So then I go back to not caring what others think, and I'm back to possibly disagreeing with you and the cycle continues.

[@chrisc7265]

I've never worried about fitting in, so I'm not one to talk but humans need a functioning society they believe in, and from which they can accept moral judgement and course correct this whole thing where moral people are just disconnecting from society because it's so far gone is not at all sustainable

[@xANTHQNY]

@@justinhart2831 You alone decide what is right using the info available to you, his advice is just new info to add to the stack, you still have to make the decision yourself. What people think does not come into the equation when deciding what the right thing to do is. What you SHOULD do, yeah then you have to take others opinions (like that of the police) into account. But what's RIGHT is immutable.

[@justinhart2831]

@@xANTHQNY That sounds like a reasonable way to look at it. I'm just so tired of feeling like I'm the only person on earth who doesn't have complete moral clarity about every issue, and feeling like I'm scum because of it.

[@chalkiemap]

I’ve been a fan for a while. Thanks for all the videos you’ve made!

[@NoscoperLoaf]

I am both horrified and excited at the same time about what the future will bring

[@incurableromantic4006]

I'm merely horrified. But I'm gonna stick around just to spite the people who want me gone.

[@DaniG.German883]

@@incurableromantic4006good man

[@shzarmai]

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[@chico9805]

I'm very excited, as things must get worse before they get better.

[@jimmyjones8676]

@@chico9805 Rome reformed into something even worse than the dying republic. I think we're heading for the same.

[@Joe-Przybranowski]

The fact that 'evil' does not exist does not justify someone who breaks the norms of a society.

[@musashiwebb]

This is one of the most valuable videos you have produced, and you have a lot of high-quality content. I'll watch it a few more times. Thank you kindly.

[@biersch]

On being mocked for anything and everything, the great philosopher Richard Sanchez once said, "Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer"

[@paulreid5746]

This is one of your best videos. I have been watching you for years, and I am a 23 year old Gen Z male in Law School. I can corroborate EVERYTHING you have said in this to the letter. Even amongst supposedly successful, attractive, and even well-off young people, there is massive depression and nihilism to the point where people are shocked and pleasantly surprised if you even talk to them in a kind manner. I have seen friends and family destroyed by failed therapy and abuse of supposed solutions, and almost everyone I know has SOMETHING wrong with them, or is lying to act like they don't. I do fear the coming years for the myriad of reasons you mentioned in this video, though I am thankful you make such analytical, and real content, hopefully it help spread a more positive message to young people who listen.

[@chrisdarby2233]

How can the BAR be an American institution? B ritish A ccredidation R egistry That's what the acronym stands for...and this is a serious question, I'm not trying to pick a fight or disparage you..I want to know WHY all lawyers fail to address this...if it's British, then it's not an American institution....what say you?

[@insertnamehere7947]

​@@chrisdarby2233The American legal system is based on British Common Law.

[@paulreid5746]

@@chrisdarby2233 U.S law is a mixture of British Common law, (where we source our law originally, for better or worse) then judge - made and legislature made law that came since. Statutory law, which is law drafted by the legislature is all American made law. Some British legal decisions past a certain point can be seen as potentially persuasive and influence decisions here in the U.S, but generally they are separate institutions, outside of the shared common point of our law being rooted in late 1700s English law.

[@grimkahn3775]

Not me though, I'm perfectly fine and normal. No hidden depths whatsoever. I'm just a happy goober. Trust.

[@kw2519]

Sounds like you just havnt gotten the scope of experience to understand what’s really transpiring. I felt a similar way at that age. Except I wasn’t allowed to express it. I’ve found over the years that absurdism makes the most sense for a happy existence. At 40, I’m incredibly content and fulfilled in life because I’ve embraced the chaotic nature of the universe. Without the bad, the good isn’t that good.

[@brentharrington9235]

Very well done. The "most people have no clue who they are" segment on psychology was spot on. You can witness this endless internal struggle individually and collectively, and more so on the political left. There's a confusion that exists there between many folks ego's and their true identity. They think their facade is them and spend so much psychological energy curating and grooming their ego, not understanding why their self is in a constant state of distress and disarray. The freedom they desire is in the integration of their ego and self, the acceptance of the imperfectness, not in the attempt to maintain a "pure, clean mind".

[@rambultruesdell3412]

When the electrical power stops, 90% will be gone after 90 days ...

[@Easy-Eight]

Fact. Cold, hard, fact.

[@AmirSatt]

Africans with no electricity:

[@ph318]

​@@AmirSattAfricans eating food donations from the west :

[@stephansmith3570]

yeah, I always thought that the EMP commission's time line that it would take a year for 90% of people in America to die after the power grid suffered a catastrophic failure was rediculous. No way. I think 90% in 90 days is right. Much quicker if the power grid goes out from a very high voltage EMP. Every city and forest would burn and most of the small towns and individual homes as well.

[@Wofly-me3pq]

I did not know you have PTSD. As someone with PTSD myself and went through a huge journey in life, I found it interested how we came to the same understanding of how the brain works in terms of sub-personalities and 'demonic possession. Very strange. Maybe the journey to resolve the trauma gains you that understanding.

[@luizmonad777]

I have mild PTSD from deadlines because of my job and university, I can fell my hearth racing and my thoughts spiraling when the time's getting short (I don't have any clocks now, its fine). My sympathies to you guys.

[@datboi9994]

@@luizmonad777 that's not ptsd dumbass you're just stressed like a normal person everyone does that

[@SirSomnolent]

You're both gay

[@SpiderMan-du1jf]

I remember this news story about a teacher that was fired because dhe had an OF account, and shes making more well off now as solely a OF model. My take away from that, we are at a point as a society were we value pornstars more than nurses and people that teach our children. Damn

[@dank90]

Supply and demand. What do ya wanna do

[@MrParlam]

​@@dank90if so then let me drug deal without persecution. I know lots of potential clients that would happily buy drugs from me

[@jimmyware511]

Make OF illegal@@dank90

[@robertmarley8852]

We value self deprivation....that's the problem

[@HeathenHammer80]

The scientific method is only a problem if you’re not using it correctly. It isn’t flawless, but it has gotten us pretty damned far. You wouldn’t have the tools to make this video without it and we would still be living in the dark ages without it. It is still the best thing going to explain our world.

[@motopolak]

Not familiar with this channel but had to comment to say this is very well presented. Seemed a bit dry at first, but it flowed excellently considering the density of material and various examples. Was also surprised to hear you’re in your early 20s… you are wise for your years. Will be sharing this with a few people!

[@timharris6809]

Well done! Many in my Boomer generation find it hard to understand why the younger generations can't just "get over it". But you did not grow up with the faith and societal values we did. The time is definitely right for a spiritual revival. It is our only hope.

[@Fridaey13txhOktober]

They are pu ssi fi ed to the extreme.

[@Fridaey13txhOktober]

Younger generations ARE weak. And part of the answer is to stop being so damn weak and pathetic. The way "faith" or "spirituality" is being sold as a hand-wave solution to the current set of problems is precisely part of why it isn't one. It's an excuse not to think and figure things out.

[@dr.strangelove5708]

Not all us were i was way ahead of my time, I think it is because you had better access to information than we did, also our private lives were not so public due to the expense of digital technology at the time.

[@saeyabor]

The Boomers got to grow up with it, and basically destroyed it because they got told "no" by it a few times in their 20s.