The Myth of Individualism
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Even after decades immersed in a system that rewards individualism, egotistical behavior and greed, both materially and morally, we have undeniable examples of empathy and cooperation. Imagine what we could achieve with a better system...
Is it possible to participate in individualism and be kind and empathetic?
@@Generic_Phantomit’s possible individually, not societally
@@Generic_Phantom I'm sorry, but "participate in individualism" seems contradictory to me
@@axelblack1799 isn't that what matters?
@@00Platypus00 Ah I now see how my poor choice of words effectively destroys my argument.
nothing interests me more than seeing the brain attempt to explain itself
i feel like you'd fail captchas
It's interesting how people try to seperate and isolate brain as an entity distinct from the universe. I think it is much more complex than that, we all are temporal nodes of an interacting system with each component influencing the other to some non-zero degree, of course in causal order.
Trying to insert some kind of hard seperation between the brain and the rest of the system is the crux of individualism.
😂. Just like bacon is an atoms way to be tasty.
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What??...
@@alefmagnum207 I think he means that the OP sounds like an alien or bot by the sentence he made
the problem is when one WANTS to bond, but fails to do so. Its reassuring to dig our hole and decorate it to feel less lonely
Yes, I believe our current society is poorly equipped to help the most insecure and/or neurodivergent individuals feel part of a community.
Exactly
One less lonely hole! 🎶🎶
@@subatenomeWhat does that even mean?
is this from the video or damn you are an artist with words
leave it to Sisyphus55 to be the first to use the monkey neuron activation illustration in the correct topic and context lmao
absolute memelord genius move
my neurons surely activated
Hey Marked One what rhe hell
@@thespiritofhoxhawell4413 get out of here Stalker
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I think it’s important to know the difference between individualism and individuality. There are always gonna be individuals and personal identities. But individualism is believing each individual is their own island.
"Everyone being their own island" is just another expression of being individual in my opinion.. everyone is a universe of their own with all their beliefs, motivations and so on, however, at the same time we are all connected in the one grand universe.
And each connection, each friendship for example, creates another universe which only those involved in it truly understand
@@mirac8803You're right, but there's still a very thin differentiation. If you're an island, you're an island, true and honest. Yes, all of those things you mentioned are included, but so are all other material and organizational aspects as well. True unity, built upon community and cooperation, cannot be created in an island society dynamic.
HOW TF IS HE ALWAYS IN THE RIGHT MOMENT.
i was having an existencial crisis about how boring and not special i'm really am, and how i'm constantly bombarded by the individualist myth around media, and i left feeling empty and frustrated because this is just like a power struggle
Same
@@theadhdviking8218 i giggled at this
The matrix bro
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The part about how everything changed after the pandemic is so true, I cannot stress this enough. It really feels like everyone just became mad after covid hit and now we're just trying to regain meaning.
I think a lot of people, you included, had for the first time a chance to experience actual societal abuse and the time and energy to actually see it
And it had been by design, I remember reading that one if the main proponents of the American lawn used as a pro for that "A man that has to mow a lawn doesn't have time to read the communist manifesto" or something to that effect.
But trust me, it has always been as crazy.
I wonder if COVID, even asymptomatic cases, messed up our brains ability to cooperate. Although it was mostlikely the isolation.
@@ksrknwht300klls You have a point. It's definitely been crazy before, we just didn't have the time to rot away in our houses all day to see through it.
@@Dave.O Oh yeah, definitely, it's usually referred to as brainfog and definitely screwed our brains up in a lot of ways.
Yep, it was a time of government abuse that also created mass psychosis.
the most ironic part of individualism is that it needs the existense of the "other" to exist, but there is a catch that nobody likes to be an "individual" so they usually try to find people like them to feel less alone... it's a tragic irony that infected us all.
Everything that ends in -ism is an incomplete ideology. Individualism, communism, egoism, collectivism, etc.
I admit that part of the draw of individualism (for me) is the insecurity that I won't be accepted by the group. It's safer to be on my own and isolated than to be around people who will find out my flaws and exploit them or use them against me, not to mention the groups that just don't want me around because of something inherent to who I am.
I know Im just a person on the internet, but the only way to learn to like people is to mildly interact with others to figure out who to trust. From there you reinforce connections with good people and drop bad people, whatever good and bad may be for you. I know it’s hard but I believe in you.
I would just like to say that I used to also hold this fear. Until I realized often instead of people seeing and using your flaws or insecurities against you. They just don’t care at all. I think a lot of social anxiety is rooted in a narcissism. Which is okay. But it’s usually really easy to sniff out the bad actors and figure out pretty quickly who you enjoy being around and who you don’t. Ofc protect yourself but without giving the people around you at least a baseline level of trust, you will never really get to truly interact with another human.
Individualism is not about being alone
Casting social anxiety as mostly narcissism really denigrates social anxiety and misses the major accepted causes of such a disorder, such as genetics, brain structure, and learned behavior from negative social interactions in the past. That last one also speaks to the OPs argument: if you’ve ever been in a situation (or more likely more than one) where you have been singled out for ridicule, bullying, or other abuse, a common (and to my mind understandable) reaction is to self-isolate, reflect, and self-realize. It may also to be to develop a defense mechanism. And in addition someone in that situation may not develop the social skills to suss out the sus people around them, but may instead take the easier route and leave the defenses up for as long as possible.
@@IronhandedLayman Let me clear. I’m not literally calling social anxiety narcissism. Just that there is validity to the idea that in reality people do not care. People are so wrapped up in the tangle of their lives our silly brains make up insane scenarios or hold onto past traumas in every attempt to prevent healthy social interaction. And ofc it does right thats the brains job. To imprint traumas and unpleasant experiences and ensure we don’t have to experience them again. My point was more this is a fair and relatable way to think and view social interaction. Especially if one has been bullied or worse. But its not really an effective or healthy way to deal with those feelings. It literally does not work. You can only develop the social skills the “gut” to sniff out malicious people by slowly putting yourself in vulnerable positions of trust with others. You start small no one puts it all on the line with a stranger. You develop these skills by just brute forcing it all. And it’s exhausting and demoralizing and frustrating. But god damn if there isn’t any other healthy options. Rot in loneliness forever unable to make meaningful connections. Or experience other people for all they have to offer. I think one thing that helped me get the ball rolling was shedding this metaphorical narcissism my brain had created to ensure I remained isolated with the walls up. Once you realize people really don’t give a shit unless you have built rapport with them. You are freed from a lot of that anxiety.
Finally a re-upload, I was scouring the internet for this one
Ok so I wasn’t going crazy thinking this was a reupload. Good. It’s a good video so I’m glad I could find it again
I KNEW IT. Thanks for the confirmation.
Yeesh, thought i was going nuts 😂
okay I know this isn't really relevant but fungi are heterotrophic, they get their energy by breaking down other organisms, especially dead and decaying organisms and are more closely related to animals than plants
And trees dont get carbon dioxide and water out of nowhere. Everything depends on something else which makes distinction between the two useless
Yeah fungi are heterotrophs
I paused the video to search for this comment
@@DuckTheFinn The distinction is that plants do not require other organisms to live, they can survive off of purely abiotic resources, those being sunlight, CO2, oxygen, water, and minerals found in the soil. Everything else lives off of other organisms in some way. So you could have a world of plants but no animals, but not a world of animals but no plants.
Thanks. Didn’t need that, but thanks. I know that it was irrelevant, and that I didn’t want to hear that, but not because I didn’t care, but because I knew. But, thanks, anyway. Don’t take that the wrong way. Ok?
"Hatred burns empathy, but does not kill it," -psychologist Jamil Zaki in _The War for Kindness_
I feel like even more so after the Covid-19 Pandemic, we’ve become a lot more isolated (not just physically either), detached from each-other emotionally, and more individualistic, yet we still yearn for that tribal sensation through clawing for internet/social media validation. All I see is hatred towards one another and a lack of humanity or very little empathy for other human beings. I wish we could get some empathy and compassion flushed back into us as a people.
I agree and feel it too. Lately I have seen the kindness and closeness in the protesting college campus groups especially in knowing that they are well organized, prepared and have observable coordination en masse. They have used their priveldge as a good model.
@@totonow6955 It is not movements that are well organized and insignificantly prepared. It's loney people looking to be along for the ride for men of action and slogans those that don't apologize
@@the_expidition427 Go back and take an (other) look at the actual dialectic of Hegel...try the podcast why theory. If this comment doesn't make sense to you, let me know. I believe Nietzche would agree with me dear. - from an old
“We have lost the reason to live, for the sake of being alive.”
The more I look at my life, the more I realise that every aspect of my life is influenced by other people.
My intelligence is a result of my good teachers and the fact they were supportive.
My interest in computers only exists cause my dad chose to buy me one when I was 4 years old.
The way I speak was influenced by the TV shows I watched as a kid.
My health is based on the food my parents cooked for me
When it comes to intelligence... there have been thousands even million people or accumulation of their work
@@muborakrustamova9753 so true. At some point in history someone thought it was a good idea for us to wash our hand 😂
Me me me me me
@@Muhluri and got sent to psychiatric hospital for it 😅
Yes and it all links back to a lack of free will. Think about how lucky you've had it, then consider the poor, the imprisoned, the ostracised - they're just expressing their poor environments. We are literally just a mouthpiece for our environment, we are our environment expressing itself.
Love this (havent seen it yet)
Edit the comment once you've seen it.
Same
Have you seen it yet?
It's been 3hrs have you seen it yet?
Good sir, Have you seen it yet?!?
everything is affected by an infinite number of things, some having larger effects. We are both individualistic and communal to different degrees depending on the context.
yes! we are not either or but rather both. theres always nuance
Yep
This whole video sums up my entire issue with motivation, there's no reason. I simply don't want material gain, I can only motivate for other people's sake. Yet I have no community or family or anything to work for. There's nothing to care for but yourself. It's not worth the rest of my pathetic life to be stuck in a society that explicitly rewards egomaniacs and psychos, acts as if generational wealth isn't an issue, and crushes any hope for normal people.
At least under the old monarchies I'd still have a village. Now I have nothing. They've taken everything I could have possibly wanted, so their numbers can get bigger. Psychopathy.
A good example of mirror neurons firing is how when you said "...among us." I snapped to attention.
Lowkey this video was eye opening. Idk but this video explained a lot, what I find wrong with myself, my own hyper indiviualism has shot me in the foot
Glad to have been awake at 4am to see this just after it uploaded
I have been watching this channel for over 6 years now and i have to say : Your content has really improved over the years a im glad to see that you are getting the recognition you deserve.
This is the best one yet for me personally
Funny because this is a re-upload
Though tbh it's still true, Sisyphus really do be getting better at pushing his boulder
One MUST imagine sisyphus 55 monetized 😅
me who is socially isolated and discovered "myself", found out i suck
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Nah, cringe opinion
Look deeper, we all had an innocent childhood. Don't define yourself just by the state you are in now, the past and future look different
@@BoofGalls ?
I think that is an empowering revelation, because it means you have become aware of the pain that is necessary to change.
oh my god i’m so glad you reuploaded this, it was my favourite ever video of yours and one of my favourites on the whole platform
Thank you for putting in the time and energy to put out videos like this. You really help me collect my thoughts and put them into a more clear perspective. Lots of the things you speak about are like thoughts I have daily but fragmented. You put it all together in a completely cohesive way that helps move my personal narrative forward rather than letting my thoughts sit and go wild
Love the video. The importance of community is something that I have begun to realize myself while in college. Like you said in a previous video, nothing will get better if we don't go out into the world striving to make a change.
I think isolation is very useful if done mindfully as it helps give space to oneself to recharge/realise and analyse things. This is very important for someone whos trying to be "authentic" but everything should be done in moderation. Excessive isolation can lead to a lose grip on reality and relate-ness with those around us or with events happening around us. Being a heterotrophic organisms we notably depend on our surroundings so being in touch with the surroundings is plausibly an imp aspect in the process of being "authentic". Excessive practice of almost anything can inturn lead to the feeling of depression/frustration/etc when one is foced to come on terms with reality by any means as the perception one may have can hugely differ with the one that actually exits(generally). Hence, I think, isolation is a tool that requires good self control and judgement. Interacting with the surroundings and indulging in the experience is also an imp aspect of authenticity as what one learns/gains from it; its unique to each individual, this yeilds many other useful tools like empathy, humbleness, sympathy, etc and when all of this is combined a good balanced rough sketch of oneself can be drawn.
I've recently taken up meditation. And lately I've felt like the swirling noise I experience all day has quieted a bit. I'm less afraid of strangers and will be more willing to strike up a conversation randomly.
So yes, I totally agree that isolation can help bring us together.
Really good work. One of your best videos yet! Thank for you sharing ❤
This one of the greatest videos I’ve ever seen in my life. Thank you
00:13 The illusion of individualism and the interconnectedness of all beings.
02:45 Interbeing through interpersonal neurobiology
05:10 Lockdowns made us realize our interconnectedness in the global community.
07:36 Isolation and individualism hinder authentic self-realization
10:06 Excessive individualism leads to increased depression and reduced life satisfaction
12:34 Individualism vs. interconnectedness and capitalism vs. socialism explained.
14:54 Fischer promoted acid communism as a response to mandatory neoliberal individualism.
17:14 Psilocybin promotes empathy, creativity, and nature connection
19:18 Recognizing our interconnected existence.
Thanks for this. There were so many topics and they were so dense.
4:31 among us
The amount of community in religious groups makes me happy.Well,usually on video/in images,seeing religious communities praying in a group brings me joy,seeing humanity unified.I wouldn't consider myself a Christian like my family (or at all,for now) but I love the message of 'we are members of one body'.
Ofc,not all is subjectively good in certain religions:corruption,greed,discrimination,but I do prefer something close to it rather than hyper-individualised sense of conscience where everything seems to be based on hedonism.
See how majority of religious teaching emphasise not being tempted to desires and being selfless?
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@@mornotafi What?Did I sound cultish?Weird?If you really only replied with an emoji as a knee-jerk reaction,fair,but if I said something questionable point it out.But if u just want a post an emoji,then fine.
Great explanation! I'm starting to notice the interconnection of everything more and more, by way of science, Buddhism, and psychology. What you can discover in isolation is extremely limited compared to what you can find outside of it. Being in my first relationship has exposed a lot of blind-spots I've had towards myself, but I see it as an opportunity to work on them. I always learn something from your videos, and come away interested in new topics! And now I want to try acid...
yess finally... a video that feels like what sisyphus55 videos felt like. But instead of the depressing themes, there is optimism and hope, an ideological evolution that mirrors mine.
Ayoooo I'm really glad you reuploaded this one, this was one of my favorite videos of yours and just in general, I tried to show it to a bunch of people and immediately noticed when the video was gone
so what im hearing is... eat the rich, and use their money to host psychadelic community-based festivals where people can brainstorm how to better the world and what humanity should collectively work on next
yes!!!! Psychedelic festivals !!!
or just do it right now, money is isolating
@@pickle380being homeless is isolating
@@jackdaniels4975 I get that. My point is that we shouldn't wait until we think we have enough resources to start creating community, that's all.
YES!!! Well just eat the rich part. How dare they have more money than me??
As a current nursing student what I learned recently: we must ensure that we are physically, mentally, and SPIRITUALLY well in order to live a healthy and happy life.
Amazing& interesting video, thank you!
how, in this ideology, am i supposed to motivate myself to do things that i want to do, but know that they will be hard? isnt this way of thinking anti productive? i know it is, but i simply cant bother to think like that, i have things that i want to get done and me and the people around me feel very happy that i care to put effort into these things. i face every aspect of my life that requires effort as work, and i live to put out effort and do work. i couldn't be happier by beeing focused on my frankenstein self and by listening to others advices in how to be better. its the only reason i wake up and go to sleep with a smile, knowing that tomorrow ill have to improve on something
Always a great video. Thanks. I shared to my FB page.
These videos really help convey just how useful philosophy can be sometimes, I’ve become interested in this sense of connection many cultures end up discovering one way or another. Finishing my intro to philosophy class in college, you motivated me to start, I’m going for at least a minor in PHI. Thanks man! Thanks for planting the seed!
Really enjoy what you share. Thanks a lot.
I honestly feel bad for people trapped in this mode of thinking. Good luck to you all. Ill be praying for you.
It looks like a lot of people in the comments are mistaking what you are saying. So I will attempt to clarify, we are individuals, we have our own wants and desires and are mostly (if not completely) in control of our bodies. We as individuals require to be together and work together, learn to get along and build communities. Individualism is the idea that we can be self reliant and not need others. This rediculous notion is easily countered with hundreds of years of history, we humans only do well because we are in groups. Do not forget, we are still individuals though, we are no hive mind.
You are still your own person with thoughts, emotions, and desires. Just don't forget you need to learn how to work with others and get along with the people around you.
God bless the day RUclips recommended your channel. The best contents I came across after more than 10 years being on this platform. Thank you, really.
This brought back memories and feelings from when I had ketamine infusion therapy and I felt myself traveling through the universe and scaled up and down in space to see how we are all just a small piece of a larger organism that is the universe.
Does anyone remember which channel Sisyphus 55 went on a live stream for a debate and was obliterated?
ben shapiro could debate with a neurotic awkward climate scientist and wipe the floor with him, but that doesn't change the fact that he's wrong on the science. oration skills, especially in a stressful setting like a debate, are no litmus test for the legitimacy of ideas.
@@imaginater5238 wtf are you talking about? The only thing you're doing here is questioning my level of discernment. If you don't know/don't remember then keep on stepping. We all know Shapiro is a sophist.
Love your content, quality is high!
love it (have watched all)
Appreciate ya. Thanks for sharing.
how are many of your videos so well timed with what's happening in my life?! everything must well and truly, be connected.......
1000% your best video yet
The popularity that is coming back into the mainstream with mushrooms leaves me hopeful that it will lead to some revolution. It feels and looks like a lot of people microdose, more so than ever.
Bro our views are converging. Been watching for awhile. Thank you.
i really loved this video. i hope it will set at least one person on the path to trying psychedelics, i think they’re very good
I see a sisyphus 55 video I immediately click its simple youre that good 🤩
Chul Han is truly one of the most important contemporary authors. Amazing work.
The podcast Philosophize This has a great episode on his work. Agreed he's an amazingly concise but piercing philosopher.
sigh another video that will probably apply to some aspect of my life. have yet to listen, will update when finished
It’s a good day when sisyphus 55 posts a new video
Yunno what I had a happiness resurgence just recently thanks tooooo….. visiting my sister in her town and observing her ways and her cute friends’ ways!! They are different from mine, and I was very relieved things could be done and lived differently, and I remembered that I was a happy teen contemplating, actively engaging with and learning from that which is not me from nature to the people around me (outside of my family’s ways)!!! Soooo refreshing to open up to shit you are not responsible for and you can just accept
Invite the foreign and that which is different, and leave your ego-self alone!! Let it bathe in otherness!! It really is a key for happiness, I swear I hadn’t been feeling so spontaneous and joyous in years. Then I took « rest » by self-isolating at home this weekend and it went back down real quick lmao stop doing that, self-isolation. But now I know !! I really do think that the self and stuff was a necessary evil to keep us alive and procreating among others from our species but was never meant to be examinâtes so much from all the angles and how you can optimize. It doesn’t make sense, introverts or extroverts we are social beings and meant to evolve alongside each other!!
And yes rituals. Gotta invent new ones since we’ve lost ‘em all. They’re very much anchoring. Thanks for the video
Absolute banger
This is so awesome
im so glad you made a video about this. i recently read a book called together: the power of human connection in a sometimes lonely world by Dr Vivek Murthy. it was a great read and it really opened my eyes about how important interperonal connections are. i think everyone could read the book and take at least something from reading it. reading that book really just made me think "i wish more people would understand this" so i love to see a creator like you touch on the subject as i really trust your judgement and knowlege and youre spreading the message through a more political lense to get to a different type of audience. it is so important to value interconnection so im glad youre sharing this
Cool cool man. Gave me a different framework to view individualism
It's crazy to me how people don't see the various forms of collectivism being hijacked for individualist gains, and not seeing the collectivism within their own biology that functions to make them live and breathe another day. Imagine if humans, with respect to individualism and peoples uniqueness, utilized collectivism for the benefit of everyone.
This is (to me) still your best work
Congratulation !
8:33 i absolutely didn't expect tyler1 and slavoj zizek in this, i do really am like you Sisyphus
I hope this moves the people it needs too, im tired of living in such a sad state of the world. I want this to change for all of us.
cool to see this was reuploaded
Happy Birthday to me 🎉 Thank you for the coincidental alignment of your upload schedule with my life
What a great video!
Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.
Can you help with the reliable source I would really appreciate it. Many people talk about mushrooms and psychedelics but nobody talks about where to get them. Very hard to get a reliable source here in Australia. Really need!
Yes, dr.porass. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
I wish they were readily available in my place.
Microdosing was my next plan of care for my husband. He is 59 & has so many mental health issues plus probable CTE & a TBI that left him in a coma 8 days. It's too late now I had to get a TPO as he's 6'6 300+ pound homicidal maniac.
He's constantly talking about killing someone.
He's violent. Anyone reading this
Familiar w/ BPD know if it is common for an obsession with violence.
Is he on instagram?
Yes he is dr.porass.
Awesome vid!! Would love to see your reupload of "on beauty" it was my favorite. The script was so old though, doubt u still have it. All love to you still man ❤️❤️
I tried to do a phisics homework and I raged so hard at not knowing how to do it that I almost broke my hand by punching the book, plus there is alot more stupid shit I have to do, and it angers and frustrates me.
you should play cruelty squad and discuss the philosophy in the game, i think it resonates a lot with your channel and this video specifically
Thanks!
I say this with the upmost respect for opposing opinions .
I don’t associate being an antivaxer with being hesitant and skeptical, at first, toward the Covid-19 vaccine.
I’ve taken a ton of vaccines but I was definitely hesitant toward the “streamlined” vaccine used to “treat” c-19. Being labeled an antivaxer for that is absurd.
In fact I only took the first of the two bc it knocked me on my ass with the worst flu symptoms I’ve ever felt and literally feared I might die. I have a strong immune system and am pretty sure I’d already made contact and built up antibodies to it
I wore a mask. I social distanced. I was considerate of other’s immunity but there was something INCREDIBLY sketch going on w this pandemic, Fauci, the media, and the political status quo of that time, that greatly merited suspicion imho.
If anyone who wants to claim ownership of anything about themselves should be laughed at, where does that leave women who want reproductive rights and body autonomy?
This is probably your best vid yet ❤❤❤ Great length too, no offense but I like your vids
I pass on almost all near hour long videos and over
Mr. Sisyphus could you do a video on how to change? How to be a better person?
Great video! Should be seen by more! Comment for the algorithm!
great video!
I think a great way of reimagining "ritual" is to look at what is being done globally which is meaningful, collective, and regular, and withiut need for a specific spiritual pov. Protests, housing rebellion squats, left spaces like pubs that regularly bring in good punk bands, deportation resistance, etc. Being dirrectly involved in these things help build a sense of collective and individual meaning. Especially things like housing rebellion squatting, as that requires really being in community. Working through issues, giving space, etc.
This video made me go and watch the life aquatic... the music sounds so much like mark mothersbaugh!!!! i love!!
Community is everything, humans need it
I'm so sick of it all, but I'm so excited by it
I don't understand anything, but I love your vids.
It's fascinating how the pandemic has highlighted our interconnectedness and the concept of interbeing. Understanding that we're part of a collective "we" can indeed spark hope for a more unified and sustainable future! 🌍
The current times are brutal man. I long for community, friends, and loved ones, yet it feels like I'm on a path that will only end in isolation and it feels like I can't change that.
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ok I’m just replying to boost comments and uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Ben, this is beautiful work. I wish Derek from Veritasium and you collaborate on something. That'd blow minds
We are all interconnected, but we are not all one! We are all separate beings, who need each other to survive thrive and be happy!
Maybe its the optimist in me, but I feel like I see the rising generation waking up to this line of thinking faster and more frequently. The seeds of love are being planted, and a platform like the internet is helping that example spread like wildfire. gives me a lot of hope for the next few years
there is a union needed here. The interconnectedness is needed, no man can save himself from drowning. But also, there’s a theme that all of us know about interconnection that we all dread but is the reason why we like to promote individualism. Responsibility to one another. The interconnection cannot truly happen without that. You can’t say you love someone and just have fuzzy feelings. It’s action, words, time, and duty. This is something none of us want because it’s hard and not thrilling. to be my brother’s keeper. No, I don’t think being involved in everyone’s lives to be how WE want it is the way to go, but simply understanding that we are connected is strong enough for us to realize the Golden’s ultimate severity: “treat others how you would be treated.” This removes pride, complaint, apathy, and rigid class systems. If the bottom affects the top, then we must take care of the bottom and the bottom must take care of the top. We are different and the same. A hand can’t be a foot but it can work together not by focusing on their individual personalities, but by focusing on others, the divine, nature. In short, the real world.
I love your videos.
This video essay was well articulated and well put together.. but I don't see how any of this discredits or refutes the concept of individualism. These concepts aren't mutually exclusive. I like to analogize that every man and every woman is a star - wholly self-sufficient unto themselves but without the gravitational pull of those around us, we would be thrown off course.
Nice video!
I think, in order to be one's ideal self, one must first dismiss any notions of the self being an independent entity from those around them, and the world itself.
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Great video
I live in a dorm room with a neighbor who likes to play really loud music at 2 in the morning when I need to get up early the next day. I am reminded of how separate and individualized we are every time he does this. Just because we rely on and influence each other does not mean that we are not individuals. I am interested to hear what others have to say about this
“and so the idea that I am alone,or the idea that I am an individual, is actually, interestingly enough,you're already not. It's false. It's a distortion. 'Cause you're the thing and the observers simultaneously meeting together, and that creates the illusion of self.” -Clancy (Duncan) from the show ‘The Midnight Gospel’