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Watch "Psych! How Psychology is Hurting You (and Society)" on YouTube & Transcripts & RJ Shaw often critiques the shifting moral frameworks in Western society, analyzing how modern public discourse relies more on "canceling," public shaming, and tribal ostracism (resembling a shame culture) rather than focusing on objective Truth, repentance, and internal guilt

Hey, how you doing? This is R.J., so you're going to have to bear with me today because I have such a fascinating topic that I had trouble trying to pick
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which part of it to cover. I started off thinking that I was going to talk about how to use shame to actually destroy your progressive leftist narrative. And
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then I thought, no, maybe I should focus on the real difference between shame and guild cultures and go in that vein. And then I thought to myself, well, the
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really root problem, I think, is to compare and contrast the old guilt way of thinking and the new shame way of
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thinking. And really, what is the driving force, one of the main driving forces for that new shame culture that
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we have around us today, that neopagan shame culture, it's psychology. So, I thought, okay, I'll focus on that. I'm
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going to touch on all of those things, but I'm going to focus on that. And I already know, you probably know better than I do, that this is going to be a long video. Sorry for anybody who's new,
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but I'm chucking you into the deep end today. Well, actually, no, I'm not sorry because these days, to paraphrase Judge Dread, it's all the deep end. So, I
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might sound a little bit muddled to begin with, but I'll give you my basic way of thinking about this, which is how I entered into this topic. So, I was doing a live stream on Wednesday with
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John's Longbox, as I usually do, and one of my subscribers talked about building a hero that is someone who is racked
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with guilt. And I started to talk about my normal spiel of the difference between a guilt culture and a shame culture. And then someone from John's
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audience, because we simoc cast on both channels, said, "Yes, but shame can be useful." And that's one of the things that I've never really picked up on and
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talked about. Yes, shame can be extremely useful. Now, if you live in a guilt culture, which you should if you want to defend Western civilization,
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especially if you're Christian and you follow what you believe, you live in a guilt culture. You don't use shame on yourself. But you use it to shame the
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people who are trying to destroy Christianity and Western civilization.
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Why? Because they live in a shame culture. And the great thing about the difference is that if you live in a guilt culture, the people from the shame
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culture can't shame you. Why? because you internalize the rules based on reality and their ideas have no effect.
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But if you live in a guilt culture, you can shame the people in the shame culture because you can enter into their systems and use them against them. This,
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by the way, is why so many governments around the world today are trying to get rid of free speech, are trying to push speech laws, hate speech, etc. You're
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going to hurt someone's feelings. What they're basically saying is you can challenge the shame culture narrative.
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You can shame people and you're not allowed to do that because we are the people in control. We can only shame you. You can't shame us. Which is
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basically trying to say, you guilt culture people, we're trying to take away the mechanism you have to destroy what we've built. So from there, I
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started to think about the distinctions between shame culture and guilt culture.
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Now, the distinctions I use are the ones that are taken from classical antiquity.
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If you want a book to go read to try and figure out this entire thing, I guess the best one would be er Dodd's the Greeks and the irrational which
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basically describes the ancient and medieval ways of looking at shame culture and guilt culture. Guilt culture is one where you internalize rules that
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are based on reality. And when you do something wrong, the person who points their finger at you to tell you you've done something wrong and must change is
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you yourself because you've internalized those rules. Again, those rules which should be based upon reality, which then
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should be objective. But a shame culture is a subjective society where you can get away with anything you desire to do
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as long as you don't get caught. Because the point is that when you get caught, other people will point the finger at you and say, "We are shaming you because
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you are acting outside of the systems that we have set up." And therefore, shame is a mechanism whereby you are
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restricted from using those systems until you repent. Now, that's the academic way of looking at the distinction between those two things.
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Again, based on classical antiquity and continues on into the middle ages. But there is a different way of looking at
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it which people tend to use today. And that's the psychological way of looking at the difference between guilt and shame. And psychologists would say that
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the difference is guilt is saying I've done something wrong. Shame is saying I am wrong. And while that definition may
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have some kind of merit to it, the place where people tend to go with that estimation of the difference between
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shame and guilt is so far off of the mark that it makes the entire thing useless. So I'm going to pick on
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somebody today and it's just because he's going to be the avatar for psychology that I'm going to talk about.
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I think his name is Dr. K. He has a over a million subscribers. It's under the name of Good Gaming or something like
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that. GG. Anyways, he talks to a lot of young people, gamers, and he tries to help them get their lives back on track.
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And he's an actual doctor, psychologist, I do believe. Now, again, like I said, I'm not focusing on him because I'm trying to destroy his arguments using
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him as the avatar of what these psychological people are saying today.
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If I was doing this video 5 years ago, I'd be picking on, I don't know, Jordan Peterson. Now, from the beginning of my channel, which is about 10 years ago, in a different format, I've been delving
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into the ideas of the psychological because what I studied was history, classics, philosophy, political theory, which is basically covering the
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motivations of people throughout history and how they think and the transmutation and transmitting of ideas and how they
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go through human nature, all that kind of stuff. And I focused mostly on the classical, bringing it up to the modern as best I could through the things that
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I studied. But the psychological way of looking at things is much different. I never took that in university because I think psychology is bunk. And basically
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this video is going to explain that entire thing. But the thing was it's good to at the very least know thine enemy. So from the very beginning of my
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channel, I started to look into psychological things and how they affect people's way of thinking. Why? Because a lot of these people that I covered their
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podcasts and stuff like that, they all would say, "I am in some kind of therapy for X, Y, and Z." And I would say, "Okay, I want to understand what this
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person means by these things. They're using specific terms, special words. I want to understand that." So I started to look into it. And the more and more I
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looked into the psychological, I could see connections to the ancient ways of thinking and to ideas of virtue etc. But there always was something that
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fundamentally irked me and I'm going to get into that point today which is the fundamental reason why psychology doesn't work and is destroying our current society. And that's the thing.
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You see, if you listen to a lot of political and culture war things, which I'm assuming if you're listening to my
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voice, you do, you'll hear a lot of new sounding words that basically your quote unquote progressives use. It is the new
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standard rules of engagement within our society. So basically what they've done
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over the last we'll say 40 years is they've taken psychological speak and brought it into the mainstream. Why?
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Because most of these people are in therapy to begin with and this is how they understand things. So basically their therapy sessions are bleeding into
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the rest of reality and they're using that speech which the doctor has applied to them in a layman's term way to try to explain to other people how society they
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see works. So it is the takeover within our society of parts of language by this
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basic psycho babble. And what parts of our society are they trying to take over? Well, they're trying to supplant
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the language around the use of things like good and evil, right and wrong, virtue and vice. They want to replace
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all of that with psycho babble. And this is not something which is surprising once I think about it. Why? Because
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psychology is based upon thinkers well like Freud and what's one Jordan Peterson always goes on about with the shadow self I can't remember his name
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but they're basically channeling Christian heresies ancient Christian heresies likenosticism and maniacism
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that's basically what psychology is based upon and what people are trying to do today is take one step backwards even
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from that into neopaganism and of course all the things that I talked about the difference between good and evil right and wrong virtue and place. They're all
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based on an orthodox understanding of Christianity which in itself was using even more ancient ideas within classical
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antiquity of Greece and Rome. Now those ideas in Greece and Rome never came to fruition except for in the minds of very
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attuned and spectacular thinkers like let's say Plato, Aristotle etc. It wasn't communal, it wasn't societal but within Christianity it became societal.
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But anyway, here's the thing that happens when I listen to somebody like Dr. K. And there's so many of those people out there on the internet.
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Doesn't matter if they're life coaches or somebody selling you some kind of psychologicalbased product or a psychologist themselves or a
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psychiatrist. It doesn't matter. They're all basically basing it on the exact same thing. They will talk to someone and say, "Well, you see, the reason why
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you're not healthy is because of these actions that you are committing. And you are committing these actions not because you yourself are actually choosing them.
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It's because you're reacting to something within your past as something within your childhood. Let's say a
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trauma, abuse, some kind of religious intolerance that you were taught." All of these things are controlling the way
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that you think and causing you to act in a way which is self-destructive which therefore does not make you fulfilled and your life is going nowhere. So
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basically these ideas this programming that was given to you as a child is causing you shame which is therefore
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producing bad ends when you try to interact with society.
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Now, they then go on to talk about how to get rid of that shame, and I'll get into that in a minute. But they
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fundamentally miss one very specific point, and they skip it for a good reason because it destroys everything
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that they speak about. And that specific point is, why do you feel that shame to begin with? Now, I know I just said that it's because of X, Y, and Z. it's
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because of trauma in your childhood or abuse or intolerance that you were taught or something like that. But no, no, no, much deeper than that. Why?
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Because they would take that point and say from this point we will tell you there's nothing to be ashamed of. You
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shouldn't feel that way. You need to get rid of that shame and then we'll prosper. But I would say using the ways
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of thinking that our society is based on classical antiquity, Christianity, both
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classical and medieval, is to say, "No, I'm sorry. The reason why they feel that shame is because they are wrong."
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Whereas a psychologist would say, "No, no, no. You're not wrong. You've just been prompted to this shame to think that you're wrong, to feel that you're wrong." I would say, "No, no, you're
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wrong. The reason why you feel wrong and you feel ashamed is basically pointing to a flaw in your character because you
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are wrong. There is something fundamentally wrong with you. You have chosen it. Whereas the psychologist would take the stance of no you see you
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have basically what is a logical accidental connection between two things which is to say there's a concept and
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you have ideas which interact with that concept in your mind. That is the accidental connection and it is through
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that accidental connection that you feel shame. Therefore, we will reprogram that connection so that those two things do
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not connect in your mind. Which is another way of saying that society does not necessarily want you to make that
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connection. It wants you to make a different set of connections so that you do not feel shame for X, Y, and Z. And
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therefore when you accept the societal norms instead of your norms for the logical accidental connection between
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that thought and that way of expressing that thought in let's say a feeling an action a word once you've replaced it
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with the societal norm then you can engage within the societal systems which will allow you to then become happy.
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This is a pure shame system dynamic and it is bringing you back into the
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neopagan shame system. I on the other hand and let's say Christian culture, western culture, what it is based on the
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guilt culture would say none of that is true. It's not connected to reality in any way. What you need to do is move back to the fundamental connection of
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your actions with reality, which is your choices through the will. To see why those choices do not connect with reality in a way that produces good
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results, which is to say, you need to act in a virtuous way because that allows you to connect make that connection with things that work out for
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you. and therefore rectify that point of connection between you and reality, which is to say to fix your character
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flaw because there's something wrong with you. So the basic way that we should think about it in a guilt culture
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is to say you're making a fundamental mistake within your connection of your ideas and your actions that flow from
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those ideas through your will with reality itself. Whereas the psychological way of thinking of it is
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that you're making an accidental logical accidental mistake in connecting two
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different ideas which have been set up by society which you should not connect together. You see the difference? So I
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want to go really deep into this and see if I can explain it much much deeper. So let's go back to the beginning. In the
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beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Okay, we're going back to Genesis here. And for those people who keep on saying about Christianity, blah
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blah blah. Yeah, we live in a Christian culture. If you want to preserve, you want to go see my last week's video. If you want to preserve Western civilization, if that's why you're here
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in any way, shape, or form, you want to preserve a Christian culture. It's based upon Christian ideas. You can see them as precise descriptions of actual
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reality, which then add or super add other things to it. I don't care. But that's what you're trying to preserve.
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So, we're going back to Genesis. God creates. So you got to look at the whole creation story and how it affects everything moving up from that point.
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The point is God is the only principle of existence in this story in this situation. In the Christian way of
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thinking there is only one principle of existence. It is God. God is being itself. That is the only being that
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actually existed forever and ever. Then God speaks into existence what we see around us today. All the rest of being,
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all the rest of creation only exists because first of all, he created it out of nothing. That's important and
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sustains its being at every moment through his will. Now, there's a whole lot wrapped up in that which connects to so many other ideas. The first being
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that I talked about when I would look at someone, let's say, was sitting in Dr.
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K's chair and he would say, "Well, there's nothing wrong with you. You just feel shame." I would look at them and say, "Yeah, there's something wrong with you." Yeah, you have a character flaw.
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Now, to say that entails something very specific. There's a duality in Christianity, mostly a duality that
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people misunderstand because they connected with ideas of Eastern mysticism duality. It's not that kind of duality. It's not the duality of ying
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and yang, of heaven and earth, of two sides of a coin. Not at all. It is the duality that there is right and wrong, but that right and wrong exist in a very specific way. Not two sides of a coin.
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There is only one principle of existence and that is God. He is the only thing that exists as pure being. And therefore evil does not actually exist as a being.
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Evil exists as a state of turning away from pure being. It is an act of the will to turn away from the state of actual being and try to embrace what?
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Try to embrace some other principle that exists that has reality to it that has being to it. No. to try to embrace what you fundamentally came from, which is
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nothingness. By the way, you want to know why the left is a death cult? This is why. So, here's the thing. What does that mean? That means that even you're
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looking in this system. Even the devil and demons that exist within this system of Christianity, even their being is
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good. Okay? Because again, go back to Genesis. God creates this, God creates that. Then after he creates everything, he sits back and says it is good. So
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everything that's taken literally by the way everything that he creates which is everything is good. So even the being of demons and the devil themselves is good.
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It is again their actions their will their choice to turn away from the principle of goodness itself. The principle of being itself which is evil.
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Evil itself is first off the turning away from that principle of good and existence and being but then becomes
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hardened by a repetitive a habitual turning away from that principle of being and goodness which is what a vice
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is. So that's where you thread the needle where you take the psychological definition of shame and guilt and say
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well technically it's right but people use it completely wrong. When I would say to the person sitting in Dr. K's chair, "Yeah, there's something wrong
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with you." Where Dr. K would say, there's nothing wrong with you. You just feel shame. I would look at them and say, "No, there's something wrong with you. You have a character flaw." Now,
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I'm not saying your being is wrong. I'm not saying you're evil because all being is good. I'm saying there is something
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wrong with you because you have a character flaw, because you're making poor decisions, because you're exercising the will in a way which is
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not in accord with reality, i.e. not virtuous. But in order to get to that point, let's talk about the will because
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again it is the turning away, the willful turning away from the principle of the good. So we got to dive deep into this idea of the will and it's
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fundamentally important to understanding what's going on around us today because the idea of the will, the idea of the
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will was changed within the mind of western society by Augustine of Hippo in the 4th century. He was working off of
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400 years of Christianity before him where this idea was percolating and was the basis of the Christianity that was
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in its infancy. And he said no no no this ancient way of looking at the will is wrong. The correct way of looking at the will is that you are the author of
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your actions and you have to take responsibility for every last iota of it. Because when God created you out of
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nothing and gave you being which is fundamentally good, he also gave you a free will which is the image of him and
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it is that will which is completely free for you to choose to turn towards ultimate being and goodness or to turn
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away from it towards nothingness. That is your choice. By the way, the more mechanical way of thinking about the will itself that Augustine goes through
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is what do you place your love on? That is what an act of the will is. I place my love on X thing and then in order to
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embrace that thing which I have placed my love on because I want to embrace what I love. I move myself from where I am towards the thing I have placed my
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love on. That movement is the act of the will. And we do that in opposite directions as well. Which is to say I look at this thing I know it will
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destroy what I love. Therefore I will myself to move away from it. Now this is different. As I said, the idea of this
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idea of will was percolating through ancient pagan culture up until the emergence of Christianity, but it was only the highly specialized, highly
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intelligent people who actually would implement it within their lives. It wasn't societal. So, the societal way of looking at it in the shame culture of
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ancient Greece and Rome was to say, "No, you didn't have any real free will. You had some free will, but it's basically
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the difference between I'm going to be able to choose between, I don't know, crunchy peanut butter and smooth peanut butter, not where my life is going to
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go. Why? Because there are larger controlling forces of the universe, larger deities that would control what
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you would choose and how those choices would play out. forces like Moira, a fate, destiny, lot, doom, all of these
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things, a whole pantheon of them besides the gods themselves, which also helped control that. A lot of these ideas are based upon something like the Iliad.
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Okay, you have the story of Aas or Ajax.
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He was basically a demigod, but on the battlefield, he wounded an actual god and the god said, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, no, hold on a second here. You are not
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allowed to do that. It is not within your destiny, your lot in life, your Moira to wound an actual god. Therefore,
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they sent down madness upon him. Same with the horses, the horses of uh who was it? Of Achilles, if I do believe, I remember correctly, the horses of
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Achilles were part divine. And I think it was when Achilles friend Patrick died, the horses began to speak to
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lament Patrick. And again, the gods went, "No, no, no, you are not allowed to speak." and then struck them dumb
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because it is those larger deities, those larger controlling forces that say, "Sure, you have some agency, a little bit here and there, but
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ultimately we're going to control what you do." This is the ancient way of seeing the will. And this is also the current neopagan psychological way of
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looking at the will because again, these people are trying to destroy Western civilization which is built upon Christianity. So they need to destroy Christianity as well and not just
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destroy Christianity but to destroy even the ancient ideas the the exceptional ancient ideas that were leading up to
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these ideas of Christianity. So the ideas of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle etc etc. Now let's take a sidetrack for a
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second and ask the question why? Well the why is because they basically want to be selfish. That's what it comes down to. Both the Christian and the
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exceptional classical way of looking at humanity is to say that you must bow yourself to the truth. In Christianity,
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it's expressed in sin. All sins emerge from the sin of pride. Pride is the mother of all sin. You can't commit any
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other sin without first committing the sin of pride. Pride is saying that my choice is better informed than the choice that is made by the truth itself.
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And again, go back to ancient culture.
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This is best expressed by Plato in I think book I don't know five of the laws I think where he says there is an evil
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great above all others which most men have implanted in their souls and which each one of them excuses within himself and makes no effort to avoid. It is the
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evil indicated in the saying that every man is by nature a lover of himself and that it is right for him to be so. And
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that makes him a bad judge of what is just and good and noble because he deems himself bound always to value what is
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his own above what is true. Now that's a very important point to stop on for a second. What is true? You see let's go
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back to logic and reason for a second and virtue as well. This is the fundamental point of the way of thinking that built western civilization coming
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from ancient antiquity through Christianity. It is to say that we need to use our reason in a logical way to
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build up what is right to choose what is right to do what is right to exercise our will in a correct way. How do you do that? Well, fundamentally you do that by
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recognizing first and foremost that you exist within a reality and that reality is objective and it precedes you and you
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must work in accord with it in order to accomplish things. This is the system set up both by the ancients and then
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most notably by people like Augustine of Pippo, Thomas Aquinus, major thinkers of Christianity. It is the system of heroism I'm always talking about. It is the system of you must be virtuous. Why?
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How? First of all, you're virtuous by engaging right reason. That's a preerequisite for virtue itself. You
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must take your reason and put it in accord with reality. So you're acknowledging that reality exists. It
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exists objectively and that you need to conform with it and conform your reason to it. And from there you can crack into
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the very first of the virtues which is prudence which is to say correct decisionmaking which is to say you make
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decisions based upon rational understanding of reality as it exists.
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And that prudence allows you to build up the other virtues. And those virtues themselves act in a mechanical way, which is to say, one of the definitions
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of virtue is the ability to accomplish your ends. The power to accomplish your ends. And when it talks about ends, it
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means larger ends of the end of your existence, what it is there for, what you are trying to fulfill. But you can
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also use it again to fulfill smaller ends to build up to that larger virtue.
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And that's the only real power that you have because it's based upon choice. You see, that's the difference between right reason and bringing it into prudence.
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It's correct decisionmaking. That's an act of the will. An act of the will which is completely free and you are
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free to choose virtue or vice. But there are limitations. You have to recognize those limitations. What limitations you
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have, what power you have is the act of the will itself. But again, you can build on that by magnifying the acts of
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the will with being in accord with reality. And that accord is again virtue. But where does this neopagan
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shame culture come from? And what is the mechanism whereby it tries to convince you that you have power? Well, I have to say sorry to my friend John, but it all
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comes from Daycarts. I know there are other people behind him which are the roots of his thinking. Aam and John Scotas and other people, but it's really
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Daycart's fault. Although that being said, he was trained by Jesuits.
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Unfortunately, and as much respect as I have for Ignatius of Leola, at this point, I don't know whether the creation of the Jesuits is more a bad thing or a
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good thing. But anyway, the ability of the Jesuits to contemplate heretical ideas to Christianity to see if this
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would be has gone a little bit too far and even in Daycart's time had gone a little bit too far. And so their student Daycarts starts to believe all of these
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subjective ideas. Like my friend John likes to say, Daycarts come up with his ideas based upon dreams which is what?
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Subjectivity. So what is Daycart's main point and how does it destroy our civilization? It is I think therefore I
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am which is basically to say that you cannot know that anything besides your own thoughts exist. Now let's overlook
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for a minute that that is completely illogical. Well, because to even make the distinction to begin with between you and your thoughts and to separate
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your thoughts into sections, between I and my own thoughts takes a duality which exists outside of I think,
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therefore I am. But anyway, the basic concept of I think therefore I am goes right back to that Platonic greatest
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sinner who is making himself the center of reality. And by the way is expressed again within those ancient Christian
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heresies ofnosticism and maniacism which basically say that all the world outside of you and your soul is evil. Reject it.
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Have the special knowledge to reject it.
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But anyway go back to Daycarts. Daycarts is saying you see the only thing that you can know actually exists is your own mind. Now you can use suppositions to
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suppose that other things outside of you exist but you can never know they actually exist. So it's all basically
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just a thought experiment game as to whether they exist or not. So basically he's saying you should create a system
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of logic which is reasoning about reason based upon I think therefore I am which is to say that everything is simply an
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interconnected set of ideas that you don't know if they actually exist. But they seem to coincide, so you might as well play the game. Whereas ancient logic and reason is saying, "No, no, no.
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You connect your words to actual reality that exists prior to you. We know that it exists. We can feel that it exists
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through our senses. We can determine what parts are accidental and what parts are not through the examination of said
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and therefore actually connect our thinking to reality based on reality." Daycart is saying, "No, all of that is
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straw. All of that is fantasy because all you have is the fantasy in your own mind. It's basically the Lovecraftian
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idea, you know, the Cthulhu universe idea of the elder Elder God, which basically all of reality is just this
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dream that he is having as he floats out in some kind of existence. That's basically what he's trying to create.
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You yourself are that ultimate God.
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You're just dreaming all of the universe and everything into existence. You don't know whether or not it actually exists.
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You give it only reality in so far as you make logical accidental connections between those things, which is to say
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connections between ideas and thoughts, words, feelings, etc. And again, to answer the question, why did liberals
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say run with this idea? Well, they ran with this idea because it allows them to exempt themselves from everything that
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flows from existence being preceded me, which therefore means I have to act in a certain moral and virtuous way in order
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to actually accomplish any ends. They're saying no, no, I want to be completely selfish. Therefore, let's choose this this fantasy. Everything is just a
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bundle of logical accidental connections. There is no basis in reality. All that really I know exists is me. Therefore, I should be the center
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of the entire universe and can be selfish. So, let's bring this whole thing once again back to guilt culture, shame culture, and why psychology
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doesn't work. Once again, guilt culture is based upon the idea that I internalize a set of objective norms of
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right and wrong. Those objective norms of right and wrong come from the fact that existence, reality existed before
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me. It is greater than me. It has a certain set of rules. Rules that are based on a logical and rational
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expression which I can understand through my interaction with reality and then translate that into virtue which
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allows me through my acts of the will to accomplish my ends to have the power to do things which makes my reality better
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which is say my connection with reality and my existence within that reality better. But the psychological way of
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looking at it, the leftist way of looking at it, the liberal way of looking at it, the neopagan way of looking at it is to embrace arts, is to
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embrace the idea that nothing exists beyond me. Everything else is just a system of logical accidental connections. And how is this connected
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to shame culture? Well, it's to say that since I don't know anything but I exist because of my own thoughts, I can
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suppose these other things exist, but they exist only as logical accidental connections. That is to say, once again, connections in the mind, subjective
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connections between what I think exists and words that I have for it or feelings that I have for it, etc., etc. So that
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bleeds into the idea that everything outside of yourself is not reality, is not based on reality. It's based upon a
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series of political connections, which is to say again a larger set of these logical connective ideas of accident.
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There are systems of power that exist or you can suppose exist outside of you
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through these connections and you must work within those systems of power through the pre-established connections
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in order to actually produce what is essentially a series of thoughts which work out for you because again you don't even know that you exist or your body
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exists. So how this is expressed within physical reality of the leftist, the liberal, the doctor of psychology is to
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go back to that pagan system, that pagan shame culture. But I'm getting a little bit ahead of myself. So we'll say that the leftist liberal way of looking at
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things and dealing with things and the psychological way of dealing with things are basically two branches off of the same trunk. Let's deal with the leftist
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liberal way of looking at it first. So basically through the ideas which branch themselves off of Daycarts and I think
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therefore I am they were able to build up a system where they can be completely selfish and appear to be the ones in the
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right instead of as is historically seen through western culture the ones who are choosing nothing but evil. So that's
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their system and they build up a system of society that reflects that so they can be selfish. But they have a problem.
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The problem is that normal everyday people now being disconnected from reality because again that disconnect
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needs to be put in there in order for them to be selfish. That disconnect from reality is now stopping their ability to
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connect to reality to have actual power which is virtue and accomplish any actual things which is causing their
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lives to fall apart and things to get worse and worse. So what is the leftist liberal solution to this entire thing?
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Well, it is to promote the system of shame. So again, what they're doing is destroying the fundamental idea of the
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will being completely free. Because people are saying, well, my will is not working out according to what is actually good. Things are not turning
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out well for me when I make choices. Why is that? If I have a completely free will, what's going on? Well, what's going on is they've disconnected you
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from your ability to use your will in accord with reality. Therefore, they're saying, well, obviously that definition
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of the will is therefore not correct. We must go back to an older version of the will. An older version of the will is
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the pagan way of looking at the will, which is to say that there are these larger forces, these godlike pantheon of forces which actually control your will.
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Sure, you have a little bit of agency here and there, but it's not going to be enough to actually make a difference.
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And this part of the pantheon for the leftist liberal is to say these controlling gods are the gods of racism,
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of patriarchy, of whiteness, of systemic oppression. And of course, you have the larger gods of feminism and
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environmentalism. And you have the king of the gods, which is liberalism itself.
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So people in control of the systems of power in this direction which would be politicians and to a lesser extent
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political philosophers and professors etc. They're basically saying we are the high priests for this new pantheon of
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gods which controls your life which affects your will and your ability to actually conduct anything which will
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allow you to have any good results in your life. And you the normal everyday person can have no direct connection to
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these gods. You cannot directly appeal to them. You cannot appease them in any way. Why? Because you do not have the
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ability to control the systems whereby those gods are appeased. Those systems
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are again built upon logical accidental connections of things. The connections of ideas to certain feelings, words,
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actions. But these political people, political actors are in control of, let's just keep it to words for a second. They are the ones in control of
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the words of power. They are the ones who say, "If we call you a racist, then that destroys your entire life. We call
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you a misogynist, you're done. We say you're acting according to whiteness, you will be shamed into bowing the knee
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before us." So basically, they're saying we're in control of those logical accidental connections. Therefore, we
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are the high priests that connect you as a peon to those higher gods that allow you to exercise your will in any way
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that can result in something good for you. Why? Because everything is just a part of this large accidental system of
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connections. There is no reality to connect to. Everything is within these political systems we have set up. You
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must access them through us. We redefine words in order to help you or hurt you.
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And we do so through shame. Again, there's no connection to reality.
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There's no objectivity in order to base yourself on guilt. You must accept this system of shame. And in order to pay to
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play, in order to get into these systems, you must obey. And for the psychologist, it's basically the exact same system, the system I described a
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few minutes ago, which in you go to the doctor, the psychologist, who is also a type of high priest, and you say to them, "My life is not working out. I
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don't understand why." Now, your life isn't working out because you're not being virtuous. You have a character flaw, and you fail at confronting
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reality in order to change that character flaw. But they'll ignore all of that. The doctor will say to you, "Let's look at why your life is
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failing." Obviously, it's failing because you're not making the right connections with these accidental connections. You have set up or it has
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been set up for you by the lesser demigods of trauma, abuse, religious indifference, intolerance, etc. And I
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say that with disdain, purposefully, even the trauma and abuse. Why? Because if you take the definitions of trauma and abuse that psychologists set down
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within their manuals, basically it's saying that 75% of everybody who lives in the world undergoes childhood trauma
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at the bare minimum. So if it's the norm, it's not the exception that makes you special that exempts you from the rules. It's just life. Deal with it. But
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anyway, again, back to Dr. K. Someone comes in, a gamer comes in and says, "My life is directionless. I don't know what I'm doing. I'm having these thoughts of
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ending myself etc etc. Why do I feel so empty? Dr. K would say well because you feel shame. You think you are wrong
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because of these preexisting set of logical accidental connections between ideas and how you feel. Now they say you
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should not feel ashamed which is another way of saying let's break that logical connection that has been set up for you or you set up or set up by these
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controlling forces these larger demigods evil ones in this case we'll break those and reinstitute the logical accidental
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connections of our society which is the logical accidental connections of liberalism and once you reset according
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to the liberal way of thinking where again it is concentrated completely on you because what are you thinking when you're going to a psychologist? How do I
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be happy? How do I feel fulfilled? And what do they say? You need to regain your power. Take back your power. They don't say, "Let's see how you can be
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righteous. Let's see how you can be virtuous. Let's see how you can defeat your character flaws." No, no, no. It's how do you take back your power? How do
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you exercise that power in order to feel better? In order to be happy, which is just an ephemeral state to begin with, happiness itself. It's based upon happen
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stance in the guilt way of looking at it. In my estimation, what you are looking for is joy, not happiness. But
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again, you go to this doctor, Dr. K, and say this, that, and the other thing, and he'll say, "Okay, let's reset those logical accidental connections." You got
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to break the ones that you have that are based on trauma, that are based on these pre-existing code that is written into you as a child and re-establish
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the norms of society so that you can interact with the power dynamics of the
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interaction of those logical connections within society in order to feel happy, in order to accomplish something. So,
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while it's one step removed from the basic political principles of liberalism that is expressed within politics and
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the ideologies around us today, don't care if they're liberal or conservative, it's still based upon the same fundamental set of ideas. The set of
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ideas that says health equals selfishness. Health equals you taking back your power. Health equals personal
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fulfillment. And far be it from these psychological doctors to say we're trying to get rid of shame within this person, it's really not what they're
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doing. What they're doing, whether they know it or not, based upon the system that they work within, is to simply reset the dynamics of shame so that you
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can act within the worldly principles that govern the dynamics of shame. And this is of course why the whole thing is
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based around talking and talking and talking. Why? Because again talking is words connected through a logical
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accidental connection to ideas within your mind and you must reset some of those connections. Whereas let's say
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you're a medieval and you go to a priest and say why are these things not working out for me? Help me out here. The priest would say well first of all go to
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confession. Second of all do holy things. Get off your backside. Engage with reality in a virtuous way. And that
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would include again say going to confession, confessing your sins to whoever that involves an examination of conscience. Conscience, which is to say
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two Latin words meaning re-examination of what is. You take your actions. You say, "I think this will work out well for me." You do it. It doesn't work out
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well for you. It produces an evil set of outcomes. You say, "I feel guilty because I did that. I must re-examine."
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Conscience, conscient re-examination of the series of actions I engaged and the thoughts that preceded
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them that connect to reality and how things went wrong. I reset according to virtue and I try again and I reset if
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things go wrong according to virtue and I try again and I reset according to virtue and I try again and again and again. Or to put it another way, you live in reality and you work with it.
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You live within the objective and I use that word for its double meaning as in objectivity and you trying to accomplish
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something according to an objective. You do not as modern culture would teach you through either politics or psychology
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depend upon the fantasy which is to say you have no real connection with reality. It's all a system of
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fantastical ideas dancing around within your own mind that you have to readjust because that will lead to nothing but
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despair. And that's the really well almost comical thing between this entire thing. Why this system has arisen, this neopaganism with the high priests of
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politicians and the low priests of psychologists being the mediary between you and the pantheon of gods of
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whiteness, racism, sexism, misogyny, systemic oppression. etc etc. These pantheon of gods which controls the
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systems of power that set up your society that can bar you from engaging with those systems of power and
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therefore being happy which is what a system of shame is. Why this system has arisen is because it's the easy path.
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The path to selfishness is always the easy path. But the guilt-based system is the hard path. It is the path of thorns and briars. It is the path set out.
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Again, go back to biblical paraphrasing.
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Glory in your suffering because suffering leads to endurance. Endurance builds character. Character will lead to
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the spirit. The spirit will not disappoint. So the objective system of a guilt culture based upon internalizing
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rules of reality is one wherein you recognize you're going to suffer. In the short term, you're going to suffer, but in the long term, you will gain joy.
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Whereas the shame system is the exact opposite. The shame system, the system of subjectivity and of selfishness is
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one that says, "Be happy." That ephemeral state of happen stance. Be happy in the here and now by doing this
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and ignore the fact that in the long run you will do nothing but suffer. And that is the choice of all people in the
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modern world. The choice between virtue and vice.
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So if I've given you anything new to think about, hit like. Hit the shield in the lower right hand corner of your screen to subscribe and leave me a comment. Tell me what you think about
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all of this. All right, I'll see you all later. Bye.

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