weywey3318
Physics is one of, maybe the most, math heavy sciences out there. Because of this, what you spend most of your time learning about in physics is not direct knowledge about physical reality, but the models that consistently predict it.
So, physics is not teaching anyone about what the universe is. It is, more than anything, a predictive science about what your instrument's output will be, given a set of inputs. Draw your own conclusions from there.
A mistake I made when I was younger was assuming that when I studied math, I was studying some fundamental part of the universe. Mathematics, logic, rely on a set of assumptions called axioms. All math can show you is if my axioms are true, then xyz is also true. The same thing is happening in physics. Physics is just a model for understanding things.
Einstein added to this model in meaningful ways and many of the most important inventions in our lives were created by using those models. If I have any critique of the video relating to science, I'd say it makes Einstein's theory of relativity sound more scary than it is. It's interesting that these models were added during a relivistic age, but that's about it. It's a side note, and Einstein's models are also incredibly powerful predictive tools. And they are certainly not the best tools as those have yet to be discovered.
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Logoguy7
26: 00 The West shifted from a holistic, spiritual worldview to a particularistic, materialistic one. From Descartes came blank slatism, social constructionism, non-essentialism, postpositivism, postmodernism, etc.
Ancient and medieval peoples used science as a method of understanding reality, whereas modernists use science to not just understand, but to changeand ultimatelycontrol reality.
The reason is because they hate God, nature and nature's laws.
Since they (materialists/rationalists/humanists, i. e, the Illuminati) recognised that oppressive political institutions were just man-made before Christians did, they used that fact to achieve freedom from those same institutions hence the wars and revolutions of the 18th-and 19th-century. In doing so, they have effectively subdued the entire world.
Modernists have taken the whole everything man-made is a social construct, and therefore unnatural to its ultimate conclusion. Just because we can change our social environments, and even the physical environment to an extent, doesn't mean there is no objective reality.
This whole madness that has become our modern world will eventually end, because you cannot change reality. The sooner they understand that, the sooner there will be peace and concord again.
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Goodyliciousness
You guys, leave Ruddy alone and let him make his videos and vent his frustrations. It's people like you that give him ish and make fun of him and try to bully him and everything that make him feel this way and be all cynical and nihilistic. Try being understanding and just listening and not judging or making fun. I'll agree that he needs to learn to not let other people, their actions and what they think about him bother him or affect him but he's still young and angsty so just let him get it out. He's a smart young person and it will all click for him one day and he can let go of the anger and just accept the world for what it is. Plus, it's interesting to hear someone's real thoughts and opinions on things somewhat unfiltered. It's also pretty brave, IMO, to record your thoughts/feelings and put it out there for everyone to see and hear. You just can't let the trolls get to ya, Rudyard, man. When they know it bothers you and you respond and confirm that then that just makes their day and they've won. You gotta be able to lean into the jokes, sometimes, and be ok with making fun of yourself or just owning stuff. Who cares what everyone else thinks, ESPECIALLY people on the internet whom you will probably never meet in your life.
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joshuamihalow6054
Hey man - you know that when you spark off certain claims one after another about how reality fits together, it would go down much smoother if you get more specific - for example specific nouns that point to real material’ examples, etc. And yes, Even when you are speaking specifically about the realm of the non-material, too.
Because like it or not, you are in the business of communicating. And since very few, almost none of the viewers watching this is going to actually be psychic and read your mind, you are gonna have to be stuck actually fully explaining yourself.
Otherwise it’s all wishy washy declarations about reality, proof and exploration - which you word in a very open-ended, yet prescriptive way.
How to get out of our addiction of our own rationalizations we’ve built our lives around.
Sounds like homework bro based on Hoe Math’s HOW BE SMARTER IN DEEPER DIMENSIONS’ own declaration-treatise.
Cherry on top though was next sentence as you flip your Don Johnson white suit jacket over your shoulder and say:
Some of you might arrive there in time, and I gotta tell you - looking back from the other side - this shit is fantastic in its own right!
TCHUSS
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CrystaTiBoha
50% children or more being mentally fked should be the number one crisis being addressed in a society with sane adults. Not being so is an indictment of how fked us adults are with nihilism, apathy, burnout, despondence, stresses of basic survival, or outright hate or envy of our fellow man. Your numbers were just major depression; but anxiety, eating disorders, PTSD, obesity, trans, abortion, single parent households mean that the entire future of the US is being slaughtered on an industrial scale. If there's a future it's in the kids, but if there's no level of suffering in children that triggers mercy and panic in the parents. The wages of sin is death.
Psychology won't solve this. 1) people functionally incorporate religion into modern life, 2) develop institutions and traditions around online life and contact. Can societies survive centuries with online dating, doxxing, only fans, girls on social media all the time, and boys on porn all the time We don't know but probably not; certainly not without generations of insight and traditions around how to use these new possibilities.
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jannyjt2034
26: 50. Speaking of lies. Even the terms capitalism and democracy are used incorrectly in the modern era. Capitalism is a Marxist term for free trade and free market in the free market not all exchange of goods are material (i. e. capital. Some are time, energy, honor, etc depending on what one finds valuable. Marxist reduced all transactions into materialism so that we only think of money not the other values and talents of people. Though money is an objective measure of success is not the only thing that runs a company or motivates a person.
Similarly, democracy has been turned into government rather than a process of governing. There is no such thing as democracies but there is a process of counting everyone's opinion on a matter. For example, saying using the democratic process is meaningless because democracy is a process. We should say simply, using democracy. This is not to control speech but to show that the pride of modernity has even confused our meaning of words.
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whatifalthist
The blank slate is the notion of the Masters behind Plato's cave. Which is to say, it is the lie behind all lies. The thread even of the social fabric.
If you master the art of formation, you become the architect of reality.
the dripply d balding little buddy rascals are just as empowered by technology. perhaps more so.
Most do not understand the hardships of the forest. They do not have a use for willpower nor are willing to suffer to acquire strength.
The few Masters, and the buds, are not so opposed as to make used of one another. And so it is.
All virtues, have opposite sin. All tools can be used for evil.
What they forget, and as they focus inward feasting (as you say on the body populi. They forget that outside the cave life proceeds, and the forest and it's rule by conquest dissolves all boundaries and infests all places.
Unless sufficient wardens are produced. And enough to fend it off.
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johnphamlore8073
Nice video. But what if I told you a hypothesis much more simple and horrifying that can be explained in a few sentences. History is what happens when societies determine there are too many young men. Try to think about World War 1 and World War 2 for example from the perspective of a dispassionate extraterrestrial. One will immediately notice that it was the aftermath of World War 2 that propelled Europe and Japan into some version of modernity, despite the massive loss of life, especially among young men. One will notice the mass warfare erupted in Europe almost immediately when the United States started restricting immigration. Might I suggest the self-organizing thought is a collective realization there are too many young men, and then what to do to reduce their number
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whatifalthist
Look a blue pill! Yummy and sweet, wait! Blue is BS! I better keep digging! Look a red pill! Ooh it’s kinda bitter. I just need to dig a little further, wait! I’m in a big hole. Everything is BS.
I’m 24 and have never been married, never had a full career, never actually fought in a war, never sacrificed for anything but I’m certain that everything is BS. Why
I’ve read a lot of books. And I repeat them. Kind of like chat gpt, with more errors in translation.
Oh man, what a big hole.
But I know I should never ever just go outside and live life and appreciate what I havenopewe need a civil war or something to remind ourselves that what we already had mattered.
Keep digging I guess.
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whatifalthist
So the main problems with science are:
1) TAG - its underlying assumptions that make it work where a Christian (catholic god. It worked it well enough that people largely dropped the original justification, but that leaves a backdoor for pernicious justifications to slide in.
2) BIg Data - nowadays we work largely by Big Data (large amounts of data usually used to make predictions and then checking the predictions accuracy. This is not science. It is additional justification for a scientific hypothesis, but real science is done through isolating a single variable and directly testing outcomes. We basically use models and big data like black magic to do useful work without a lot of justification
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thegunslinger8806
I'm so happy Rudyard has finally gotten to the point where he understands the mechanics of the great game of life we play. Not only has he gotten the mechanics but he's proudly shouted to the world in video form that the echoes of history, right down to the very mating choices and migrational patterns our ancestors chose millennia ago affect who we are today.
I came to this conclusion myself in college during the long nights conversing with friends and my father as well as reading and putting history into context in order to understand how we got to this point where the bureaucracy has penned in humanity into a corner in order to avoid accepting it's irrelevancy in the very near future.
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jaydee121
You're doing excellent work, but you missed your own blind spot. Religious beliefs are nearly as old as our species and have been the MOST tested hypothesis. In fact, most of science has been the pursuit of the divine, starting with the conclusion the divine exists and working back from that point. Despite this heavy favoritism for this tradition the conclusion has resulted in, by the most charitable sense, a silence that speaks louder than words. At worst an outright proof against the theory as a whole. No other theory has run such a low probability margin without being labeled as false. I hope this doesn't get you down and you have a great day independent of knowledge of the world. Take care.
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AngelfromGenX
I've always lived in the big picture. The really BIG picture. I never felt connected to the people around me. They feel petty, but I enjoy what I can relate to. I'm a 57 yo professional loner. The kind who chooses to work graveyard shifts because there's less people around. It's a miracle I ever married and had kids, but I couldn't have done it without them being so exceptional. They gave me the head space for it. My sons are now 34 & 30 and we have the most wonderful conversations. My husband of 35 years, and me, can even live in a motor home for years at a time on the road without a fight. At home we have big personal orbits but still feel indelibly connected and read each other's minds.
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weywey3318
Honestly, I think maybe involving science so heavily in your critique of modern society might weaken your argument quite a bit. Granted science is a big part of modern society, but at the same time, the peer review process and reproducible experimental results is an awfully big beast to slay. Science has given people some incredible benefits and I think your analysis of it just diluted your central thesis.
Could the scientific method, having had such an enormous impact on the world, be part of the reason for it social ailments I think this sounds more believable than science being another victim of those social ailments as laid out in your video.
Interesting video though.
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LillyTamlin
Completely agree as always.
When you look at old religions, it's like they each have a part of the truth. Atheists, ironically, prove the existence of a higher power.
My view is we are all just 1 consciousness pretending to be many, individuated things. A bit like Duplikate (from Invincible) or Naruto's shadow clones. Which means the meaning of life is to experience that which cannot be foreseen. This requires more and more complexity. This also means we are all responsible for bad things happening, especially when we willingly refuse to see the obvious outcomes. We are all trillions of minds, so obviously we can't predict everything. Which is the point.
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jamesedwards. 1069
Decades ago I read Suicide of the West by James Burnham and I thought he was brilliant because he so accurately described the libtard paradigm. But what he wrote seemed to go over people heads, even when I tried to explain it to them, even what I thought were plain, simple, self-evident things like what Skid Row was about. If you can do the traditional job of the intellectual and make his insight accessible to the general population you'll be saving the world, in my view.
Though I notice that James Burnham doesn't appear on the bibliography you list here. I think Burnham is way more worthy of mentioning than Hawking and Russell, for example.
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nco_gets_it
as long as resources are finite but appetites are not, there will be war. As long as resources are finite but appetite for free things, welfare will be a lie. As long as resources are finite, but there is endless demand for health care it will be endlessly unaffordable regardless whether the government taxes you to pay or you just pay. As long as people think that there are solutions to any actual problem rather than merely trade offs, cultures will clash.
In other words, the only reality--the one the progressive movement refuses to see---is that reality is constrained and any ideology that seeks an unconstrained vision must fail.
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Greg-xs5py
Wrong! MMT does not say that you can print infinite money, it recognizes that you would get inflation. And it is definitely not the central economic theory. MMT states that countries that print their own currency can never go bankrupt except due to self inflicted wounds. It acknowledges that hyperinflation occurred in only a few cases, and what drives inflation is not necessarily the amount of currency that the government prints but the availability of goods and services. So if suddenly everyone decides to be a plumber, it’s going to be hard to print enough money for the cost of hiring a plumber to go up.
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liquid47
I think my main thing is why is the fall back always God, it comes off to me as adding another limit, like saying there's no 5th dimension because we can barely grasp the 4th, you argue for the spiritual but limit it to that, why can we go no further then that
No matter who you are or what side you're on if you claim to know the ending or the limits, you both have made an assertion beyond your knowledge.
The human brain can not envision infinity thus we always fall back to a limit.
I just find it weird the argument that there's more then the ocean's surface then only making it as deep as a puddle.
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jasonleighty4470
Faulty premises. Every Marxist, structuralist, and post-modern academic paper is based on one or more of them. The papers use high language to inflate their intellectual worth. Sound reasoning makes the ideas seem scientific, but said reasoning is based on a series of faulty premises. Whenever you read academic papers in the liberal arts be sure to search for and identify the faulty premise that everything is built on. Also, identify meaningless fluff language designed to obscure meaning, manipulate definitions, and make the paper sound more deeply intellectual than it is.
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