In the movie “The Killing Fields”, Sydney’s daughter reports him to the authorities for having planted tomatoes behind their tent, an activity that was not allowed.
"How is it possible that intelligent people can be so stupid". I learned long ago that a Higher degree does NOT make a person intelligent. I've met plenty of Idiots with fancy degrees and plenty of smart people without any. Incredible lecture.
I must say, the summarion of this speech under the title is very clear. I wish more people would take the time to precis their video contents like that.
In answer to the first question: the parent or parents, first of all, must inform themselves about the matter. What are rhe treatments involved? Who is doing it? What are the long term outcomes? Many people are not informed and it then comes across as an opinion.
This is the price we pay for a few generations of psychology students who were not allowed to read Freud, Klein, Lacan, or even Winnicot. The same thing happened to sociology and history earlier... Let's become and stay attentive...
People constantly hungry for the presence of other people shouldn't be the norm. How are you supposed to focus on developing or using any skills of any kind with someone always looking over your shoulder or chattering in the background, gross. People being prone to loneliness is the problem not being alone from time to time.
😮 My brain hurts but… wow and ok. And I’ll get the book and think for myself about it. Of course assuming you’re already dead… well, isn’t that mass formation too? Although I agree that there are things for which I’m willing to die (my kids come to mind). The biggest thing I took from this was to fight against it with the opposite of the tools of the mass - honesty, kindness, attention… so far I tend to get angry with my family for their buy in to this mass formation. How can I stop being so angry?! It’s without fail - they do or say something ridiculous and my immediate overpowering response is anger… “NO trans women are NOT women!” I yelled with no control at all. To my shame. I didn’t know he was considering himself trans at the time. 😞
He is right on some of his remarks but so, so wrong on others. Every person on the planet has an "ideology" a way of seeing the World. He just assumes that his is the correct one without explaining what it is. His apparent fear of the "masses" and lack of mention of US Christian fundamentalists, McCarthyism and reference to the Talmud are red flags. Nazism and Stalinism had totally different historical roots and historical development. Nazism was defeated by arms - the Soviets themselves exposed Stalinism. Hegel was concerned with alienation - the inability to related to the dominant social ideology. I could go on and on but Desmet is little more than a Right Wing libertarian. Individuals can't beat fascism - only organised opposition can.
Some people are loners, that doesn't mean that they feel lonely. Introverts prefer solitude. It helps them to self-regulate. Loneliness can be harmful only for extroverts and codependent people.
Yes that’s true. I’d say some, even very limited, connection to humans or animals is important for most people. I met someone who knew that their best life would be spent in solitude, away from all people most of the time and praying. all varieties of human experience is valid and important.
And some people would do the world a favour by staying in solitude away from othe people ...... Gavin Newsom, Bill Gates, Soros, Ursula Von Der Lyon, the entire Bilderberg group and WEF foundation members 😉
"Loneliness can be harmful only for extroverts and codependent people." That's NOT true at all. Second, there's loneliness and loneliness. Loneliness as in being left alone to recharge in own peace and quiet, and here introverts need significantly more time. I remember once speaking to to an extrovert friend (and I'm an introvert), and said, 'do you you know like after a busy weekend out you need like some time to rest alone' I've been meaning like 3 days or something. She said, 'yeah... for like 3 hours'. It's loneliness in a sense of being left alone, on one's own, to recharge. And the second loneliness is being left alone in a negative sense: being desolated, forgotten, abandoned, lonely, without any supportive friend to turn to. That's not the loneliness that will recharge you, that's the loneliness that will pull you down into dark and sad places. Everyone needs _some_ time alone - depending on individual makeup, some people need less, some significantly more. But also even introverts are actually _not_ asocial people. Just because one is an introvert doesn't mean one doesn't like the company at all, or having friends and spending some time with them. Someone to relate to, to talk to, etc. If someone excessively _isolates_ then it's perhaps a sign of mental illness, not a trait like introversion.
I read/heard somewhere that what we describe as introversion is often a trauma response and this feels true for me: yes I need a long time to recharge but that’s because often being around others feels uncomfortable/unsafe even if there’s some pleasure in it. And that’s something I learnt early in life
Regarding the last question about which is more worrisome (woke vs MAGA) I can not agree with him. He doesn't live in America. We are awaiting with dread what may be ahead of us. There is something sick about having to fight on both fronts, with "woke" ideas and MAGA actions. I fear the MAGA actions will be more destructive to our world. As Ezra Klein wrote today, "now is the Time of Monsters."
I'm from Belgium as Mattias Desmet. Make no mistake: most of what he says is close to the truth but he is an ultra right wing and infantile dangerously reactionary thinker. He is never helpful in any cause or conversation.
He addresses that he has been vilified and attacked. And he is anti totalitarianism. I didn't hear him say anything evil. Everything he says makes sense if you've participated in academia and lived in a totalitarian regime
Nothing, it is a liberal canard they constantly like to bring up and whine about. Muslims were indiscriminately conquering, r*ping, killing and subjugating non-muslims in Middle-East en masse and few Christians tried to put a stop to it and they failed.
Interesting to hear the destinction between authoritarian and totalitarian. Easy to lose sight of the important distonction.
Why haven’t I heard of Matthias Desmet before? He should be on every podcast! I’m going to seek out his books now.
This was one of the most worthwhile lectures I have seen in years. Thank-you for posting it!
This man needs to be interviewed by everyone in the heterodox interview sphere
I know next to nothing about psychology, but I thought this guy was brilliant.
One of my favorite talks
Laura Becker. Respect ~
In the movie “The Killing Fields”, Sydney’s daughter reports him to the authorities for having planted tomatoes behind their tent, an activity that was not allowed.
Great talk. Non native speaker and fantastic understanding of language.
As always with this amazing thinker, I'll have to listen to it twice. Thank you for this opportinity. 💛
A dictator will tell you you're not funny.
A totalitarian will tell what funny is.
Excellent speech 👏👏
wonderfully eloquent and intelligent, top notch!
"How is it possible that intelligent people can be so stupid". I learned long ago that a Higher degree does NOT make a person intelligent. I've met plenty of Idiots with fancy degrees and plenty of smart people without any. Incredible lecture.
I recently heard someone say that the cleverer you are, the easier it is to fool yourself.
I once heard that the more intelligent people are the easier they find arguments for even the most absurd assertions.
Great talk. I'm sold on the book now.
That was so enlightening. Thank you very much.
This is an epic lecture Thank-you❤
Shortly after the height of the V I listen to him talked about this which explained so much
I must say, the summarion of this speech under the title is very clear. I wish more people would take the time to precis their video contents like that.
They voice of reason.
Excellent work
In answer to the first question: the parent or parents, first of all, must inform themselves about the matter. What are rhe treatments involved? Who is doing it? What are the long term outcomes? Many people are not informed and it then comes across as an opinion.
This is the price we pay for a few generations of psychology students who were not allowed to read Freud, Klein, Lacan, or even Winnicot. The same thing happened to sociology and history earlier... Let's become and stay attentive...
People constantly hungry for the presence of other people shouldn't be the norm. How are you supposed to focus on developing or using any skills of any kind with someone always looking over your shoulder or chattering in the background, gross. People being prone to loneliness is the problem not being alone from time to time.
Moot, they're on their devices.
😮 My brain hurts but… wow and ok. And I’ll get the book and think for myself about it. Of course assuming you’re already dead… well, isn’t that mass formation too? Although I agree that there are things for which I’m willing to die (my kids come to mind). The biggest thing I took from this was to fight against it with the opposite of the tools of the mass - honesty, kindness, attention… so far I tend to get angry with my family for their buy in to this mass formation. How can I stop being so angry?! It’s without fail - they do or say something ridiculous and my immediate overpowering response is anger… “NO trans women are NOT women!” I yelled with no control at all. To my shame. I didn’t know he was considering himself trans at the time. 😞
Sorry I am supicious of this man. What do you mean the book was banned? Not using it in a course, isnt being banned.
He is right on some of his remarks but so, so wrong on others. Every person on the planet has an "ideology" a way of seeing the World. He just assumes that his is the correct one without explaining what it is. His apparent fear of the "masses" and lack of mention of US Christian fundamentalists, McCarthyism and reference to the Talmud are red flags. Nazism and Stalinism had totally different historical roots and historical development. Nazism was defeated by arms - the Soviets themselves exposed Stalinism. Hegel was concerned with alienation - the inability to related to the dominant social ideology. I could go on and on but Desmet is little more than a Right Wing libertarian. Individuals can't beat fascism - only organised opposition can.
Some people are loners, that doesn't mean that they feel lonely. Introverts prefer solitude. It helps them to self-regulate. Loneliness can be harmful only for extroverts and codependent people.
Yes that’s true. I’d say some, even very limited, connection to humans or animals is important for most people. I met someone who knew that their best life would be spent in solitude, away from all people most of the time and praying. all varieties of human experience is valid and important.
And some people would do the world a favour by staying in solitude away from othe people ...... Gavin Newsom, Bill Gates, Soros, Ursula Von Der Lyon, the entire Bilderberg group and WEF foundation members 😉
"Loneliness can be harmful only for extroverts and codependent people."
That's NOT true at all.
Second, there's loneliness and loneliness. Loneliness as in being left alone to recharge in own peace and quiet, and here introverts need significantly more time. I remember once speaking to to an extrovert friend (and I'm an introvert), and said, 'do you you know like after a busy weekend out you need like some time to rest alone' I've been meaning like 3 days or something. She said, 'yeah... for like 3 hours'. It's loneliness in a sense of being left alone, on one's own, to recharge.
And the second loneliness is being left alone in a negative sense: being desolated, forgotten, abandoned, lonely, without any supportive friend to turn to. That's not the loneliness that will recharge you, that's the loneliness that will pull you down into dark and sad places.
Everyone needs _some_ time alone - depending on individual makeup, some people need less, some significantly more.
But also even introverts are actually _not_ asocial people. Just because one is an introvert doesn't mean one doesn't like the company at all, or having friends and spending some time with them. Someone to relate to, to talk to, etc.
If someone excessively _isolates_ then it's perhaps a sign of mental illness, not a trait like introversion.
I read/heard somewhere that what we describe as introversion is often a trauma response and this feels true for me: yes I need a long time to recharge but that’s because often being around others feels uncomfortable/unsafe even if there’s some pleasure in it. And that’s something I learnt early in life
And societies keep pushing for ways of producing extroverts and codependents because they're so hungry to be lead by someone and to move together.
Are we living in a simulation? 🐿
Stimulation.
I’d love to listen to this presentation, but the heavy accent is giving me a headache.
How many languages are you totally fluent in? He’s perfectly easy to understand
Like your comment.
Regarding the last question about which is more worrisome (woke vs MAGA) I can not agree with him. He doesn't live in America. We are awaiting with dread what may be ahead of us. There is something sick about having to fight on both fronts, with "woke" ideas and MAGA actions. I fear the MAGA actions will be more destructive to our world. As Ezra Klein wrote today, "now is the Time of Monsters."
Is there something from his term in 2016-20 that supports your fears?
@@shannonsayshiIt was complete chaos all the time. I lost my job because of him.
I thought he was going to do stand up comedy..
and so he describes his own symptoms...
Can you explain what you mean?
@@AndyJarmanNo.
Lots of great videos on Genspect. This isn’t one of them. Mostly BS. Everything he says could equally apply to the right.
Is there a left-right relevance? I do not understand what you mean. What does his talk have to do with politics?
Quote Hegal, get called Right Wing. Seriously what does it even mean to be Right Wing to you?
You are currently suffering mass formation psychosis.
Are you serious!? 😆
I'm from Belgium as Mattias Desmet. Make no mistake: most of what he says is close to the truth but he is an ultra right wing and infantile dangerously reactionary thinker. He is never helpful in any cause or conversation.
Right Wing has lost all meaning you all think RFK Jr is Right Wing too because anyone that criticized Covid was labeled right wing.
Any instances in what he presented or his historical experience?
So he's right but because you don't like that he doesn't agree with your brand of politics, he is wrong.
What brilliant thinking.
He addresses that he has been vilified and attacked. And he is anti totalitarianism. I didn't hear him say anything evil. Everything he says makes sense if you've participated in academia and lived in a totalitarian regime
"Ultra right wing" as in "promoting Christianity exclusively and being against homosexual relationship" ?
What was wrong with the Crusades?
Nothing, it is a liberal canard they constantly like to bring up and whine about. Muslims were indiscriminately conquering, r*ping, killing and subjugating non-muslims in Middle-East en masse and few Christians tried to put a stop to it and they failed.
Yeah, wondered about that too. The crusades were a reaction against the conquests by the clearly totalitarian "religion of peace".