The Truth About Hedonism!

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The lecture explores hedonism, focusing on prioritizing short-term pleasure over long-term consequences. It discusses the connection between hedonism and the prey mentality, societal manipulation, the impact of absent fathers, raising children in unpredictable environments, and the link between child abuse and distorted rules leading to hedonistic behaviors. The speaker encourages reflection on the relationship between rules, hedonism, and individual actions.

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Transcript
00:00Emily from Freedom Aid, hope you're doing well. I don't have my gorgeous audio set up here, but we'll find a way to survive.
00:07I wanted to get these thoughts down about hedonism.
00:10Hedonism. Now, it's both very fun and not fun to talk about hedonism.
00:15Hedonism is organizing your life according to the short-term pleasure principle.
00:21Do what feels good in the moment, and drink today, forget the hangover, enjoy your drugs today, forget about the brain rot.
00:29And enjoy your promiscuity today, forget about the STDs, unwanted pregnancies, sexual assault allegations,
00:38and, or, well, actually, and for sure, destruction of your potential capacity for solid pair bonding.
00:46So, pleasure today, and to heck with tomorrow.
00:50And, of course, it is clearly both seductive and satanic, right?
00:56So, there's an entire industry of have fun today, forget tomorrow, right?
01:01Because that produces the kind of chaos and disorganization and mess in society as a whole that, you know, allows for the expansion of political power.
01:11So, the sort of demonic impulse of enjoy today, enjoy today, that anybody who can't enjoy today is a highly repressed, anal, type A, kill joy, can't relax, can't have fun, you know, chill.
01:29Chill is the new thing, right? Chill, man, chill.
01:32It's like, well, why? Isn't there not stuff to be angry and upset about in life?
01:36No, chill, right?
01:38So, hedonism is the opposite of just anger.
01:44Just anger is when you're outraged at violations of persons and or property, and you are angry at the people who are violating it.
01:52And hedonism says, forget it, you know, it's not a big deal, right?
01:57Don't worry about encroaches upon your rights and principles and values and virtues.
02:02The important thing is to have fun.
02:04So, hedonism, of course, arises from the destruction of long-term thinking, of a long-term timeframe.
02:13The obvious example of what we would call hedonism or would seem to be hedonistic, but which is perfectly rational, is the condemned prisoner's last meal, right?
02:25The condemned prisoner's last meal.
02:27I don't know what it would be for you, but my last meal, I don't know.
02:32I mean, it would be probably some juicy plump shrimp seafood pasta with Alfredo sauce and garlic toast with butter and carrot cake.
02:46All things that would be a good 2,000 or 2,500 calories, which I could not possibly sustain on any regular basis.
02:56I actually just weighed myself for the first time in a while, 188 pounds, and I've been doing some heavy muscle work lately, so I think the fat is even down more, so that's good.
03:05We're getting there. I'd like to get down to 180, but anyway.
03:08So, hedonism is, it's your last meal.
03:12What are you going to eat?
03:13Well, you're going to eat whatever tastes the best because there literally is no tomorrow, right?
03:18There is no tomorrow, right?
03:20What's the old joke about, like, why do they put alcohol swabs on the injection site of a fatal injection?
03:26It's like, what are they, concerned you're going to get an infection?
03:28But, of course, the answer is that if there's a last-minute reprieve or if you survive the injection for some reason, then you can't get an infection.
03:36So, it's the last meal scenario, right?
03:40It's the last meal scenario.
03:42Why would you worry?
03:44You don't brush your teeth after your last meal.
03:47You don't exercise the day before your destruction, and so on, right?
03:53So, hedonism.
03:54So, the way that you shrink people's time preferences to the here and now is you raise them in a constant sense of unease and danger.
04:06So, it is our selected to feel uneasy, right?
04:09The prey species.
04:11The prey species always feel uneasy, right?
04:14You know, when you have kids, right?
04:16Every kid, myself included, right?
04:18Every kid, myself included, has fantasy that animals in the wild will see how special, kind, and precious you are and will come and eat out of your hand
04:31because they just trust you and they love you and they want to do right by you and they sense your sensitive soul and all kinds of good, juicy, and wonderful things.
04:43And so, that's the fantasy, right?
04:47That is the fantasy that all of these wonderful things are going to happen because you are just so special and precious and the animals will understand that and beautiful things will occur, right?
05:01So, that is because we only want the prey species to eat out of our hands, right?
05:08We only want the prey species to be eating out of our hands because if it's not a prey species, it's a predator species and it probably won't eat out of our hands.
05:19It will, in fact, eat our hands, right?
05:23So, we don't like, hey, I got a big hunk of meat.
05:27It would be super cool if a bear would eat that out of my hand.
05:30Like, we don't.
05:31We don't want that, right?
05:33That's not a thing.
05:34So, we are hoping that a prey species will trust us, will like us, will love us because we're just wonderful and everybody has this, right?
05:43Everybody has this fantasy when you're kids.
05:46And, you know, trying to get something to feed out of your hand is interesting, right?
05:50So, to—and prey species, of course, have a constant sense of unease and danger, right?
05:56It's inevitable, right?
05:57They should.
05:58They're right, right?
06:00When we have our ducks out, when we have our ducks out and an airplane goes by, they cock their heads to the sky, right?
06:09They cock their heads to the sky because they are frightened that the airplane is a hawk or an eagle or something that's going to, you know, rip their fluffy little heads off.
06:21So, prey species are constantly nervous and they have no time preference.
06:26Sorry, the time preference is very short, short time preference.
06:29There's no investment in their young because they don't have to train their young to eat and reproduce.
06:34Like, rabbits don't need to train their young to eat and reproduce.
06:37That's all instinctual and so on, right?
06:39I mean, ducklings will follow their ducks, the duck mothers, but the duck mothers don't teach them anything, right?
06:47They don't instruct them in anything, right?
06:49I mean, I saw a video the other day of two cranes, as you know, it was Florida or something, right?
06:54So, two cranes that were teaching their baby crane how to fly.
07:00I mean, maybe there's a little bit of mimicking and so on, but it's not like how lions play with their cubs to teach them how to hunt and spring and all of that, right?
07:13So, and ducks that are raised in isolation, the males learn how to mate and the females learn how to submit.
07:21It's instinctual.
07:22They're not taught how to do that.
07:23They learn that independent of being taught.
07:25So, prey species don't invest in their young.
07:29Prey species grow up with a constant sense of unease and danger.
07:34And prey species have very short time preferences.
07:39So, of course, if you want to prey on human beings, you try to turn them into the prey mindset, right?
07:44Human beings are both predator and prey, right?
07:48You understand that.
07:49So, we both hunt and we are hunted, right?
07:51So, there are lots of things that will eat human beings or bears and sharks and tigers and lions and all other kinds of creatures will eat human beings and I guess the worms when we're all done with our bodies.
08:02But that is a basic reality of life that we are both predator and prey.
08:11And what that means is that we can go both ways.
08:13And, of course, the greatest predator of human beings is other human beings, right?
08:18Attack, war, enslave, rape, subjugate, exploit, that kind of stuff, right?
08:22So, of course, the purpose of power is to trigger the prey mentality in human beings.
08:30And the prey mentality is designed to survive, right?
08:34A significant proportion of human beings, at least half in many ancient empires and sometimes much higher.
08:40A significant proportion of human beings were slaves and they only survived by adopting a prey mentality, right?
08:48Because they were preyed upon by the slave owners, sometimes within their own race, sometimes other races and so on, right?
08:53So, if you want to gain power over human beings, the best thing that you can do is raise children in a constant sense of unease and danger, right?
09:04Which is why, you know, you have this racial animosity, why you have global warming or climate change at the end of the world stuff.
09:12You raise children and also this is why it's very important to drive fathers out of the home, right?
09:18If you drive fathers out of the home, you end up with our selected prey mentality human beings.
09:23And that's because, of course, fathers are there designed to provide and protect.
09:28And when there's fathers absent, that is a signal that the children are in danger.
09:33Why? Because they are.
09:35Father absence is highly correlated with massive increases in child abuse, particularly sexual abuse.
09:41So, you are more abused in the absence of a father.
09:45And so, to drive fathers out of the home is foundational to expanding political power.
09:50Children are then raised in a situation of unease and danger.
09:54And the dangers have to be ideological because there's not scarcity danger, right?
09:59We're not out of food.
10:00In fact, the poorer you are, generally, the fatter you tend to be these days, right?
10:04So, scarcity is not the danger.
10:06And so, the danger has to be existential.
10:08It has to be danger of propaganda, right?
10:11That you're going to get attacked.
10:12You're going to get de-platformed.
10:14You're going to get – the world is going to end.
10:17You're guilty for your gender or your race or your sex or your race or something like this.
10:21It's just race and the fathers are absent.
10:24Female-dominated societies raise uneasy children as a whole, right?
10:28Because of reasons.
10:29I've sort of gone into this a million times before.
10:31I won't repeat myself.
10:32Well, at least not this time.
10:34So, you have to get dads out of the home and you have to program children to be uneasy all the time.
10:41So, yeah, provoking in-group, out-group tensions and programming them with the end-of-the-world anxiety and that kind of stuff.
10:47That's essential, right, for this kind of stuff.
10:51So, what you need is to provoke our selected prey-based behavior and that shortens the timeframe of the mindset, right?
11:02So, the mindset then becomes short-term pleasures.
11:05Rabbits, there's no point deferring pleasure, right?
11:08If you're hungry, you eat.
11:10If you're horny, you mate, right?
11:14Screwing rabbits is kind of a cliché, right?
11:17So, hedonism results from prey-selected mindset, which results from specific familial structures and ideological existential dangers programmed into the minds of children.
11:33You are in the process of turning human beings from dominant to submissive, right, from K-selected to R-selected.
11:44If you don't know what these terms mean, look at my immortal presentation, Gene Wars, three parts, G-E-N-E Wars, Gene Wars.
11:51So, and you can see this in left versus right.
11:55Left is generally R-selected, right is K-selected.
11:58The left doesn't invest in their kids other than propaganda, which is investing in political power, and the right does invest in their kids.
12:05The left constantly feels like a prey species while using it to dominate, right, the cry-bully stuff.
12:11The K-selected in modern society, which actually are in fact prey, generally have K-selected mentalities and ideas.
12:19So, and of course, the whole purpose of heaven is, well, I shouldn't say the sole purpose.
12:25A significant purpose of heaven, the concept of heaven and God's rewards, is to have you stretch, to be as K-selected and as dominant as possible by stretching your time preferences to infinity, right?
12:37The shorter the time preference, the more the prey mentality, right?
12:41So, it's a basic issue.
12:42So, hedonism is do what thou wilt, though it harm no others, although though it harm no others generally doesn't ever really kick in.
12:50But it's do what you want in the moment with no time preference that results from being a prey species.
12:57And the reason we know this, at least allegorically, is if you look at the example of the guy with his last meal, right?
13:04His last meal before dying, before being murdered or being killed or being executed, right?
13:09His last meal is whatever he wants to eat regardless of the future because he is in fact the ultimate prey species, which is he is confined and he's going to be killed, right?
13:21That's an ultimate prey species, right?
13:23He's caged and he's going to be killed.
13:26So, he's the ultimate prey and his time preference is zero.
13:28He has no time preferences whatsoever.
13:30He'll just eat whatever feels good.
13:32In fact, he probably would like to eat.
13:34Why not shoot up heroin?
13:35Why not do whatever you want, right?
13:36Because you're going to be killed the next day or that night.
13:38So, you're the ultimate prey species.
13:40And therefore, the more you dial up the prey species, the more you dial down time preferences.
13:45So, another way, of course, that families serve political power and the interests of the parents in the moment by turning children into a prey species is by constantly changing rules and constantly attacking them while blaming them, of course.
14:03So, when you abuse children and change the rules and it's the moodiness of the parents and the children can't plan, they can't protect themselves.
14:12Like everybody knows, if you've had a volatile parent, your punishment is called some kind of justice, but it utterly depends upon the mood of the parent, right?
14:24If your parent is in a good mood, you can get away with just about anything.
14:28If your parent is in a bad mood, you can't get away with anything.
14:31In fact, stuff will just be invented.
14:32And there's this meme of this woman in a drinking wine staring angrily into space saying, well, I want one more glass of wine and I'm going to go and pick a fight with my husband, right?
14:41If she's in a bad mood and she wants to discharge probably sexual frustration through interpersonal aggression.
14:47So, if you grow up in a situation of like the abuse in childhood, sorry, the abuse in childhood is not the abuse of children, it's the abuse of rules.
14:57This is an old objectivist argument, which is that a tyranny is not harsh rules.
15:04A tyranny is no rules.
15:06A tyranny is not the inflicting of harsh punishments for harsh rules.
15:13It is no rules.
15:14It depends on the mood.
15:15It depends.
15:16You can sort of see this taking its unholy flower at the West these days, right?
15:20So, the way that you create prey mentality in children is you treat them to random dangers.
15:27So, for instance, when a rabbit is in its warren, right, it's deep in its burrow, it can relax because there's virtually no creatures that can get in and harm it, right?
15:38Certainly, once the rabbit is deep underground, it's safer than the birds, right?
15:43The birds aren't going to burrow in and eat the rabbit, right?
15:47If they hear the fox digging, they have lots of warning and so on, so they can relax to some degree, right?
15:54So, the way that you create the ultimate prey species is you make sure that you raise children in a situation where they cannot protect themselves and they cannot rely on the protection of any objective rules.
16:10They cannot rely.
16:11Now, when I was in boarding school, the rules were harsh, but they weren't random, right?
16:18I mean, well, I shouldn't say that.
16:20I felt a little random, I suppose, because I got beaten with a cane by climbing over a fence to get a ball back that we had kicked over and there was nobody there to get me the ball back, right?
16:32So, I wasn't aware that that was a rule.
16:36I knew that maybe it wasn't totally great, but I didn't know that I could not climb.
16:41This was actually into the site area of the sanatorium.
16:45The sanatorium, because there were, I don't know, 500, 600 boys and equal number of girls, there's always a kid who was ill.
16:51And so, you had a couple of beds in a fairly decent-sized house, a mansion, I assume.
16:56It's used for other things, but it's called the sanatorium because there was always some kid who needed medical care and medical treatment, medical help.
17:03So, I climbed up to get the football, soccer ball, I guess, soccer ball, and I was ratted on by some snot-nosed son of a bitch, and then I got caned.
17:12But I didn't know that the result of climbing the fence was to be caned.
17:15I was like, it wasn't ideal, but I knew it probably was frowned upon, but I didn't know I'd get caned, right?
17:21And I don't remember going over all the rules.
17:24Of course, I was six, maybe they did, but I don't remember them.
17:26And I don't remember climbing, it was sort of like an iron railing, and I don't remember climbing that thinking like, well, if I get caught, I'll be caned.
17:34I didn't even know that at all, right?
17:36And so, that rule felt random to me because I was not at all aware of it.
17:41And, you know, maybe when you're six, ignorance of the law is no excuse.
17:45You know, just maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe ignorance of the law is no excuse.
17:51In that situation, that would be nice, right?
17:54So, that was a real thing and a real issue.
17:59So, then, when you are growing up in a situation of random rules, of no rules, of random punishments, then you're in a truly prey species because there aren't rules.
18:10The predator-prey relationship, there are no rules.
18:12There are no rules that you have to follow.
18:14You don't have to give a warning, right?
18:16The hawk just drops from the sky and tears off the head of the rabbit, right?
18:22And, in fact, the hawk wants to hide.
18:24The hawk wants to not be visible, all this kind of stuff, right?
18:27Oh, I just realized that I may, in fact, not be using the microphone of the phone, but instead the car.
18:33Anyway, we'll figure it out.
18:34Maybe this sounds absolutely terrible, but the idea is I wanted to get down anyway.
18:38So, the real abuse is the abuse of the rules, not the abuse of the child.
18:45If the child has strict rules and, in conformity with those rules, can be certain to escape punishment, then the child is not being raised as a prey species.
18:58So, you think this is a Spartan thing, right?
19:00Sparta is, well, you've got to get up at five in the morning.
19:03You've got to do your exercises.
19:05You've got to do this.
19:06You've got to do that.
19:07And if you do all of that, you won't get punished.
19:09So, there's predictability and certainty.
19:13And people confuse the Spartan thing with abuse.
19:17Now, of course, the punishments are harsh and the rules are, you know, obviously fairly strict, but there is, in general, utter predictability.
19:27That lack of predictability is what produces the prey species and what produces the hedonism that political power so desperately needs in order to maintain its grip on the throat of humanity.
19:41So, the effects of child abuse is not the punishments or the beatings or even the yellings that you experienced.
19:51The true effects of child abuse are the destruction of rules within your mind.
19:58When the rules are destroyed, the hedonism emerges.
20:02And you destroy the rules by claiming their objective and applying them subjectively.
20:07You claim that they're objective, which is supposed to make them, quote, fair, but then what you do is you apply them harshly, brutally, and randomly.
20:19Now, that's really, really important and really, really essential.
20:24If you can do that, then you produce the hedonism, and the hedonism is also the destruction of the rules.
20:32Because your rules are pleasure, but hedonism over time destroys pleasure.
20:36And therefore, you are following a rule that is destroyed in the following, right?
20:41We all know that promiscuity loses its pleasures, drug abuse loses its pleasures, alcoholism loses its pleasures and becomes pain.
20:49And so, because the rule you're following destroys itself in the act of following it, you are continuing the destruction of rules through hedonism, and it is just wretched all around.
21:00So, that's really, really important.
21:02What is your relationship to rules, right?
21:04And we can see people's relationship to rules in their responses to UBB.
21:08So, I hope this helps.
21:09Hope this makes sense.
21:10Love to know what you think.
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