They are not just morally illiterate. They are morally bankrupt. How anyone can stand by and be deaf, dumb and blind to pure evil being committed on your watch is utterly disgusting.

@rexnemorensis8154

3 ай бұрын

In the case of people like Yuval Harari and the WEF, I would say that they lack the moral dimension entirely, ie. psychopathy.

@EdT.-xt6yv

3 ай бұрын

Only on the 4th rock-Y planet from our SUN,,,

I am a bookseller .When Noah Harari published his book Sapiens I remember arguing with another bookseller about his moral bankruptcy . He called me an anti Semite. Enough said

@ludekz.773

3 ай бұрын

Everybody is an antisemite these days

People are not being taught how to think but what to think.

@SC-gw8np

2 ай бұрын

I don't think one can be taught how to think. One either can think or can't.

I suppose we can only dream of the sort of tidal wave of interest in the wisdom of the ancients such as occurred in what we call the humanism of the Italian Renaissance of the 15th century which was ‘not just an antiquarian scholarly obsession but a pragmatic initiative for forging a new society, more learned and more virtuous’ as one historian put it

@sechernbiw3321

3 ай бұрын

My impression is that kind of pragmatic initiative occurred when and where it did because it appeared it might be absolutely necessary to have a chance of maintaining the independence of the Italian city states against one another, against the Pope and against the great powers beyond the Alps. It's no coincidence that the wisdom of the ancients also developed originally in similarly precarious city states. Once those tiny desperate states set the trend and showed they could punch well above their weight as as result of how they had transformed their societies and cultures, that set the trend and forced the larger powers to compete to catch up. If something similar were to occur in today's world, it would probably start somewhere like Singapore, Israel, UAE or Qatar, somewhere balanced on a knife's edge with a tiny and precious population, a lot of cash, and paranoia about larger potentially hostile neighbors on all sides. Another possibility is that an equally small and paranoid faction of a precarious aristocracy sets the trend in order to justify and make possible its continued rule over a much larger population that greatly values prosperity and stability but has little hope or expectation of any increase in political freedoms. In either case, much of the world might slowly get dragged along trying to compete and catch up with the more competent and successful innovators, once they realized they were falling dangerously behind or felt the sting of a major humiliation at the hands of a society which was much smaller or perceived by them as somehow inferior. Analogously, much of the impulse for the modernization and industrialization of China and Japan came from a feeling of having been humiliated by the industrialized modern Western nations, whether by the so-called 'Century of Humiliation' in China or the humiliation of Commodore Perry's Expedition into Edo harbor. A large-scale revival of humanism would likely only spread widely if it gave some crucial advantage to the societies which adopted it, especially since humanism can be destabilizing if it awakens idealistic desires for political reform in a formerly complacent population which lacks the realism, experience and shrewdness to skillfully carry out or reap major benefit from the political reform and power it demands. For that reason, even if a revival of the humanism of virtue gave major advantages to small societies facing constant existential threats, the revival still might not spread or not spread well to larger and more secure societies whose citizens can afford to just play with the ideas irresponsibly on a shallow level instead of using the ideas along with discipline, long-term dedication and intellectual rigor in order to painstakingly develop virtue. Virtue is difficult and punishing to develop, and most people will refuse to develop virtue unless they fear that they absolutely have to in order to survive. The few that want to develop virtue for its own sake without needing to do so are generally deeply spiritual or possessed by some dream or vision which drives them, but unless their societies are forced to make use of them, they are likely to be marginalized and ignored if they try to directly promote virtue widely. It is much easier to rule over and dominate pleasure-addled consumers with the attention span of a goldfish than to rule over and dominate virtuous, consistent, patient, disciplined and responsible citizens. Any already-successful politician would have to be insane to develop the virtue of the citizens, unless that politician feared getting murdered, bankrupted or exiled personally as a result of the actions of a hostile state or political faction which only the politician's own citizens could protect the politician from.

The endless cycle of idea and action Endless invention, endless experiment Brings knowledge of motion but not of stillness Knowledge of words and ignorance of the word All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance All our ignorance brings us nearer to death But nearness to death no nearer to God T.S. Elliot

Very interesting! This leads me to conclude that, as technology gradually killed tradition and religion, the countries that kept a strong traditional Church, are better equipped to deal with this problem, i.e., countries with Orthodox religion.

@EdT.-xt6yv

3 ай бұрын

We need to deconstruct both traditions & theo a little more?

Just put it on my reading list.

This indeed is the most conspicuous feature of the modern period: need for ceaseless agitation, for unending change, and for ever-increasing speed, matching the speed with which events themselves succeed one another. It is dispersion in multiplicity, and in a multiplicity that is no longer unified by consciousness of any higher principle; in daily life, as in scientific ideas, it is analysis driven to an extreme, endless subdivision, a veritable disintegration of human activity in all the orders in which this can still be exercised; hence the inaptitude for synthesis and the incapacity for any sort of concentration that is so striking in the eyes of Easterners. These are the natural and inevitable results of an ever more pronounced materialization, for matter is essentially multiplicity and division, and this-be it said in passing-is why all that proceeds from matter can beget only strife and all manner of conflicts between peoples as between individuals. The deeper one sinks into matter, the more the elements of division and opposition gain force and scope; and, contrariwise, the more one rises toward pure spirituality, the nearer one approaches that unity which can only be fully realized by consciousness of universal principles. What is most remarkable is that movement and change are actually prized for their own sake, and not in view of any end to which they may lead; this is a direct result of the absorption of all human faculties in outward action who’s necessarily fleeting character has just been demonstrated. Here again we have dispersion, viewed from a different angle and at a more advanced stage: it could be described as a tendency toward instantaneity, having for its limit a state of pure disequilibrium, which, were it possible, would coincide with the final dissolution of this world; and this too is one of the clearest signs that the final phase of the Kali Yuga is at hand. - René Guénon , CRISIS OF THE MODERN WORLD, Chapter 3. Knowledge and Action

Always thought provoking Michael. Thanks!

Interesting points. There is definitely a need for teaching logic and reason in every school at every grade level, particularly as AI and social media make it more difficult to discern fact from fiction.

@BinaryDood

3 ай бұрын

Kids close to finishing highschool or beginning college already employ a "why would I invest in learning anything if AI is gonna do it better than me" mindset. Scary to think what we will make ourselves into in the near future.

This was gold. Thank you.

That is an attractive way to think and it is certainly more likely to bring contentment into one's life and into the lives of those around us. However, having worked among those so-called cognitive elites for over 30 years (as a software engineer in finance and insurance) I have not found them to be more morally bankrupt than people in general. Indeed I have mostly found them to be decent and honest people, always happy to lend a hand. Having retired from that field now and being exposed to the general run of humanity, I must say I miss that decency that my colleagues often exhibited. I have personally not found it to be the case that those whose education has been confined to technical matters necessarily suffer from moral illiteracy or debasement. I cannot say the same for the managerial class however: those worthies always seemed to inhabit a realm which I always regarded as debased and certainly corrosive to anything good in a man.

Fortunately for myself , I don’t need any of your recommendations , I inherited all my moral understanding from my parents and their parents before them , as will my children …..

@skank2906

3 ай бұрын

That is tradition right there.

The rise of the technocrat has seen to a decline in the ethical and moral standards of governments around the world. For a technocrat every human interaction is a scientific numbers game, achievable goals are only theoretical probabilities with cost projections, and outcomes are numerical expectations of success weighted against the costs of the collateral damage from unintended consequences. People as individual human beings never enter into their equations, only their individual weightings in specific categories can be tabulated in the big picture calculation for everything. So if the algorithm demands that a million people units must be reduced to poverty in order for ten million people units to maintain their standard of living, the calculus is clear for the technocrat, a million people units must be moved into the impoverished column to balance their equations regardless of how cold and uncaring it might be in the face of more humane and creative options to maintain that standard for all eleven million people units.

didn't know you were a bitcoiner, Michael 🤘 sovereign individual led me to bitcoin

More information but less freedom of speech and thought

Outstanding, as always

Wonderfull chanel. Just what i was looking for.

The other sciences seek to understand reality, computer science seeks to replace it. It's too new a field, coming after modernism where every field furthered itself away from the shared pond of commonality they used to share. Hence there's no thing like ethics in tech. See how silicon valley types despise the humanities, but not necessarily biologists, mathematicians or physicists. Those fields are old enough to have a history which crosses with the humanities.

As we build systems on top of previous systems, we loose sight of problems with the first cultural operating system (language). What should happen is recognition of the inadequacy of a linear language system to mediate multidimensional problems in a multidimensional world. If we build multidimensionalism into language we would create a better foundation for LLM’s, crypto’s, governance,etc etc etc.

who even deemed these people elites? where was the vote? we have this weird thing going on where people who have a narrow expertise are for some reason treated as sages on topics beyond their domain. eff that. stop listening to people who are out of their game.

Of course, it should be said that the technological classes, whether morally aware or not, are often complicit in activities which lead to horrible outcomes for others. I sense that this failing has more to do with being part of a hierarchy in general terms and not specifically because of their focussed technical backgrounds where moral education is lacking. The hierarchy of compliance one inhabits can override even the strongest moral compass.

@MaryC-co8fm

3 ай бұрын

Yes. Group think.

Hey Michael, how much do you find yourself thinking through a Hegelian lens? I'm reading Marx and his critique of the Young Hegelians at the moment. I wonder if you have any thoughts regarding these *young Hegelians* or perhaps, Hegelians of the Right? How much have these thinkers influenced your thought (if at all)?

I have this fantasy about science: a gayly bright hubby having non-artificial high.. wife mad kicks him "go make your brilliance make money and authority". science is born.

immoral is using an unrelated image for your video, as click bait?

@millerman

3 ай бұрын

Most of my viewers can put 2 and 2 together

"violence of taxation" lol. I guess anyone should be free to opt out of society and state. As long as society and state exist, people will be put under limitations to their freedom, isn't the whole point of society/state to limit freedoms of people and restrict what would be defined as "anti-social" behaviour by those in power to define anti-social behaviour, be it the monarch or church or majority. And just an irrelevant question, i am curious, what is your religious stance and what of that of your parents? How to put it.... your sophistry gives a certain kind of familiar vibes.

@millerman

3 ай бұрын

Read the book if there's something you didn't understand about why they think violence, tax, and microprocessors are related to the themes of individual sovereignty and the information age.

The idea that a liberal education is essential to develop for the future was what I was told when I applied to University of Chicago in the 1980s. It was the key reason I went there. This is not some amazing insight from a single book but the reason d'etre of all Liberal Arts universities.

@millerman

3 ай бұрын

Yes but you were told it by a University whereas my video explains that you can find it in a book written on another topic for another audience. It's an amazing insight for people who are already in tge crypto world (broadly speaking) but not yet in the "University of Chicago" (or MillermanSchool.com) world where these ideas are more familiar. Cheers

@BobHooker

3 ай бұрын

@@millerman well there are other sources of this very old insight.