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@comiccid1

Ай бұрын

I think many philosophers would despise the "self-help" industry and lifestyle.

@nate2064

Ай бұрын

I think about how Jordan Peterson says that you should make yourself happy and content before trying to solve world problems. And I think about how people who claim to be happy all the time are people like Jordan Peterson and I realize I don’t have the ability to wait for my own happiness to fix the world.

@asmith587

Ай бұрын

Not the best example. Jordan Peterson is famously an unhappy person who battles with depression, some of it diet related.

@WisecrackEDU

Ай бұрын

@@comiccid1 agreed.

@Johntrapolta117

Ай бұрын

🤡

Joke's on them, I was already miserable *before* I woke up

@WisecrackEDU

Ай бұрын

GOT EM

@ChrisSmith-tu9bu

Ай бұрын

@@WisecrackEDU LMFAO

@vanessamaldonado5877

Ай бұрын

I mean most ppl are forced to "woke up" by the reality we live in, as a brown person I cannot ignore the extreme difference in treatment of latino and brown muslim immigrants compared to the white European Ukranians who were welcomed with open arms and no restrictions whatsoever, I have family members trying to get their citizenship for years while others,(mostly white, mostly affluent) get theirs in no time, or the difference in treatment from police, and dont get me started on Israel/Palestine, is the world that forces us to recognize there is a lot of messed up shit going on.

@marthadonnapurrrr

Ай бұрын

@@vanessamaldonado5877exactly

@javojavojavojavo

Ай бұрын

​@@vanessamaldonado5877 I was forced to "wake up" about the failures of society because of anxiety and depression, loneliness. I have to think of alternative ideas for alternative futures to have hope.

I mean, being aware of human nature is a bit depressing.

@ChrisSmith-tu9bu

Ай бұрын

Well there are MANY SIDES to human nature but UNFORTUNATELY A LOT of the more evil sociopaths are on top manipulating everything but there's an inherent beauty to humanity as well...The pain makes the beauty even more poignant and breathtaking.. People are amazing creatures and there are moments of divinity so many people exude throughout their lives

@toneloke454

Ай бұрын

lol being woke polar is the opposite of that.

@toyotaprius79

Ай бұрын

THERE IT IS AGAIN THAT FUNNY FEELING

@ImYourS3npai

Ай бұрын

It doesn't have to be. The trick is to be emotionally detached and look at it from psychological, biological, physiological, and sociological standpoints. Human beings are just organic machines, even animals at the most basic. If you just try not to identify, then there's no emotional currency.

@Bojoschannel

Ай бұрын

That's a very conservative view

This isn't surprising. When you "wake up" and realize how corrupt our politicians are and how bad the economy is who wouldn't be depressed. There's a reason why the saying goes "ignorance is bliss".

@edstringer1138

Ай бұрын

Umm the "woke "are the uninformed leftist who don't see the world but believe the propaganda

@ChrisSmith-tu9bu

Ай бұрын

EXACTLY! Whats really informative is in the 80's during the Reagan era the banks and corporations started taking all the way over so now these hyper greedy evil sociopaths created a system where to survive you might have to be hyper focused on being as selfish as they are ..So of course they would like to demonize and PUNISH empathy since they themselves hate it so dearly because its antithetical to their existence

@cmohr6998

Ай бұрын

Yes but that’s not what the term “woke” means. Woke people are the most ignorant among us, willfully blind to reality.

@amefuraggamuffin

Ай бұрын

The issue is that republicans believe those same things and they arent woke. Personally I believe rightwingers are just as miserable, but they just say that the left is miserable because they see us "complaining" all the time and they see that as ungrateful and pathetic behaviour. meanwhile they see everything thats going wrong and they say "if you dont like it, leave" like that somehow makes them more mature and happier with how bad their lives are

@stomachegg041

Ай бұрын

Who wouldnt be depressed? Billions of people around the world who care more about getting through their day than sitting around doing shit.

Looking behind the curtain and seeing how the meat is made leads to sadness.

Who would have know that not shutting your heart out to the suffering of others might make you sad sometime.

@MCSorry

Ай бұрын

Empathy is bad!!!! I hate empathy!!!!

@toneloke454

Ай бұрын

Glazing all over your own face about how much you care about "injustice" (hard air quotes) is peak woke delusion and narcissism

@ChrisSmith-tu9bu

Ай бұрын

Lol great point

@ChrisSmith-tu9bu

Ай бұрын

@@MCSorry Said like a true 'Merican lol

@methylphosphatePOET

Ай бұрын

It's just that there can never be a utopian society free from injustice. So ultimately, you're just choosing to be depressed for no tangible reason, and teaching your children to pass on that same depressive kind of thinking into the distant future.

The Philosopher that would be the best at self help is Mr. ChumbaWamba. He said "I get knocked down, but I get up again. You are never going to keep me down". Words to live by.

@WisecrackEDU

Ай бұрын

That band ruled.

@JanuarySnowstorm

Ай бұрын

Wasn't that song about drinking too much all the time?

@EntertheGam3

Ай бұрын

Pissin the night away

@yourfriendlyinternetmeatshield

Ай бұрын

They certainly "had a few drinks to cope"

“I’m right and you’re dead.” might be the funniest quote I’ve ever heard from a PhD lmao😂

@WisecrackEDU

Ай бұрын

I'm sad I didn't use it at my PhD defense.

@nyanuwu4209

Ай бұрын

@@WisecrackEDU No worries. I recorded that segment of the video and shall endeavor to play it at funerals of people who are wrong.

@yourfriendlyinternetmeatshield

Ай бұрын

@@nyanuwu4209 that's amazing.

You can't make drugs out of ideas, but you CAN make ideas out of drugs. They might not be great, but they will seem to be at the time!

@LuluTheCorgi

10 күн бұрын

Shulgin created okebty if drugs out of ideas, wrote two whole books about it

Being aware of and caring about injustice isn't going to make you happier. Denialism is a potent drug.

@stevechance150

Ай бұрын

Ignorance is bliss.

@brentandrew2419

Ай бұрын

A lot of it isn't really caring about "injustice" though, it's self aggrandizing under the delusion that you're somehow a force for good which makes people miserable. Cognitive dissonance is even more potent.

@toneloke454

Ай бұрын

Glazing all over your own face about how much you care about "injustice" (hard air quotes) is peak woke delusion.

@antarchy1

Ай бұрын

@@brentandrew2419 If people do good things for selfish reasons they still did something good.

@ChrisSmith-tu9bu

Ай бұрын

I mean there's books dissecting the difference between being happy versus being an effective person. Maybe its because we are self-aware...to a point... descendents of stars but to me our ultimate goal has always been awareness and we hope to find joy and peace while seeking awareness... Maybe Peace just comes with acceptance of our plight wether we experience joy in that journey or not

Other people that were killed for challenging the status quo: Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm.X, Abraham Lincoln, a ton of whistleblowers, Jesus, Freedom Riders, Lucifer, Fred Hampton, the scholars of Ohara, etc

@WisecrackEDU

Ай бұрын

lots of very smart and good people on that list.

@TheGoldenDunsparce

Ай бұрын

@@WisecrackEDU 'cept for Lucifer of course lol

@camilosouza7835

Ай бұрын

ohara is being avenged at least

@derekrequiem4359

Ай бұрын

thousands/millions of slaves who tried to rebel, etc.

@sun-noir

Ай бұрын

Lucifer is literally a lightbringer​@@TheGoldenDunsparce

Just to note, we can't all be diogenes... sometimes you need a baseline level of satisfaction (things like food and shelter) before you can pursue happiness. When I was homeless I got to spend a lot of time in the library (seattle public library is pretty nice, btw) and got to do a lot of reading. I didn't get to reap any benefit from that "enlightenment" (being very generous to myself here) until I finally had a place to live again and didn't worry about where my next meal was coming from. (fun fact: even after a decade of being housed, I *still* worry about my next meal and if I'll still have my apartment tomorrow... not because I'm at-risk, just because I still got a fuckton of trauma and a lack of faith in society's desire to protect any of its members.)

@WisecrackEDU

Ай бұрын

This is very real. Thanks a ton for sharing, and hoping that you never have to be back in that position.

@NomastiAfricanWarlord

Ай бұрын

Never rely on society to protect you. Family and friends may help you, but society as a whole will abandon you the moment you become more a problem than an asset.

@stevechance150

Ай бұрын

@@NomastiAfricanWarlord "Never rely on a capitalistic society to protect you". I fixed that for you.

@dustind4694

Ай бұрын

Maslow organizing it into a hierarchy pisses off the anarchist in me, but he was also not wrong about the need for the basics.

@thelordakira

Ай бұрын

@@stevechance150 you think a socialist one will,,, wake up.

The depressed feelings come from the anger of feeling powerless to effect positive changes because change means progress and progress is the great equalizer...can't have that😒

This seems to parallel the debate between “do I go for a high-paying career, or a career where I love what I do?” I had so many people tell me I was an idiot for pursuing a career in public music education, but I love my job and I’m happy, even if my “satisfaction” due to consumption isn’t as high as it might have been if I had become a lawyer.

@WisecrackEDU

Ай бұрын

Public music education is so incredibly important. Thank you for your service!

That's why i believe in learning and listening, AND practicing laughter and joy... so there is a balance to emotions and not an atrophy to them

I really liked this video, but there’s an implication here that being woke or being a leftist translates directly to deep thinking, reflection, and engagement with philosophy. As someone who does consider myself more on the left, I disagree with this implication.

@WisecrackEDU

Ай бұрын

Yeah I see what you're saying. I think the connection is that the study in question said that the "woke = misery" correlation was higher in scholars and students from the humanities, so I think the connection we made is that the methodology of many fields in the humanities and social sciences is marked by that type of critical social engagement, and that often that leads to various perspectives associated with leftism.

@maxpower8429

29 күн бұрын

@@WisecrackEDUwell your an idiot, so that’s a logical connection. “Ppl on the left are deep thinkers” is your take😂 are you really jerking yourself off that hard

@MrFrenchyge

23 күн бұрын

I thought the same thing while watching - why is all the questioning presumed to be happening on the left? But the last sentence in the video made it all clear - "heaven". The idea of heaven as the place where one obtains true happiness means that there's no reason to question or seek happiness here on earth. Those who are waiting for their reward in heaven are taught to endure the inherent suffering of earth in the most satisfying way they can.

@maxpower8429

23 күн бұрын

@@MrFrenchyge no the left is just deep thinkers and inherently smart, while anyone else is dumb and selfish. Has nothing to do with anything negative with the left obviously.

Man I really hate what the internet did to this word. I was using for years only to find out that one day it became a slur.

@TheAllSeeingEye2468

Ай бұрын

And in such a short time too

@TheBackyardChemist

Ай бұрын

yeah I had the same experience with retarded

@LuisSierra42

Ай бұрын

@@TheAllSeeingEye2468 Just like "incel"

@jamesconnolly5164

Ай бұрын

That's an interesting take. If someone calls antiwhites by their very own term (but without affection in your tone when you say it), then it's a slur. If you kick someone over and over again, and then that person still calls you by your first name, only he doesn't feel warm and fuzzy when saying it, somehow this is immoral.

@innageorgievadoychinova578

Ай бұрын

The internet makes the demonizing of ideas and movements easy. Just look at what happened to feminism. Once a strong social movement for equality, now a meme, see a trend? The technology has evolved but our mentalities haven't. Few centuries ago we would grab the pitchforks and chase off ''undesirable individuals'', nowadays we get in heated online arguments with strangers, we've traded the pitchforks for the keyboard. However, until we shake off our medieval minds we won't really move as a species no matter how fancy our pitchforks get. Human history is a wheel that keeps turning and Capitalism is nothing short of the Feudal system 2.0 If we wish to change our course in history, we need to change the way we think and the way we act. To do the one thing we've never truly been able to - put the collective before the individual. Act with solidarity and selflessness instead of our innate cruelty and selfishness. Nobody can force you to take a job you don't want, nobody can force you to act unethical, however you can be put in circumstances that demand such things of you. It is then when we are put to the test as a specie, will we band and demand better circumstances for all or are we going to take the crumbs that are tossed to us and try to save ourselves individually? We've been doing the latter for our entire existence, yet I for one doubt we'll ever get to see the former truly come to be, at least not within our lifetimes. The internet is a big tool for the propagation of ideas, if we all start to propagate better ideas then perhaps one day we'd be able to correct our course.

A miserable person in a broken system is more likely to change it than someone of ignorant bliss

@nyanuwu4209

Ай бұрын

You would think but here we are, nobody changing anything because they all have some excuse to roll over and just take it.

@connyslayer4661

Ай бұрын

That's true , if the miserable person takes action to create better situations to improve the system. Having a perfect utopia is nearly impossible but working towards fixing it and making it a better place will bring you alot of pain but also clarity to pursue the true natural happiness and satisfaction we desired. That is how you gain great things with the pain you go through. It's natural to feel sad or depressed after acknowledging situations but we should be glad we know harsh realities so we can work towards a better future.

@josephshahady8308

Ай бұрын

@@nyanuwu4209you should try activism

@benthomas9776

Ай бұрын

But a miserable person surrounded by people living in ignorant bliss won't be able to generate the political capital necessary to change the system.

I don’t know. I’m much more miserable about the fact that we still have Reaganomics ruining our economy at this current time.

@stevechance150

Ай бұрын

We just need to give trickle down another forty years to kick in, then it will really start trickling. (Sarcasm).

@Shichard2006

Ай бұрын

Interesting that modern homelessness began with Reaganomics. Republicans had the Reagan Revolution, and are flexing hard on the country right now, when do the people get their revolution? Why do we tolerate crowds of disenfranchised while billionaires sit on gold toilets and dream of supervillany?

@toneloke454

Ай бұрын

yeah im sure you think about that all day while you're eating your avocado toast and tweeting on your iPhone 15 while wearing your dock martins and complaining that there's nothing to watch on the 20 streaming services you pay for as you puff your thc vape pen. you should be sure to clean your face off after blowing all over it.

@62cky4powerthirst

Ай бұрын

@@toneloke454 God, it's like you made the perfect personification of a boomer.

@stevechance150

Ай бұрын

@@62cky4powerthirst I was literally thinking "OK Boomer".

That’s why I stopped watching the news and worrying about human nature a long time ago. I’ve never been happier.

"as intelligence goes up, happiness often goes down". lisa simpson was in her bag when she dropped this quote on the world. ignorance is bliss.

@WisecrackEDU

Ай бұрын

Lisa wasn't playing around.

@10hawell

Ай бұрын

Said midwit who chooses stupid things like compassion instead of going full Machiavelli on their own heart and consciously choosing ignorance.

@davedavidson8892

Ай бұрын

There was a paper in 2013 within the Psychological Medicine journal that found people a positive correlation between IQ and happiness. doi: 10.1017/S0033291712002139.

To quote Zack de la Rocha ""If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face." Confronting problems is often an unpleasant experience, but ignoring them only makes everything worse in the long run.

@stevecinneide8183

18 күн бұрын

that has been singer from the 90s is as ignorant as those Afghans who surrendered to the Taliban.

Truth is the only way to go. Even if it costs me companionship. I'd rather be lonely than lied to.

@connyslayer4661

Ай бұрын

Highly agreed! Truth is actually real satisfaction as it brings clarity and honest image of the bigger picture. I'd rather have honesty, directness, face harsh reality rather than be lied to, manipulated, and suffer disingenuousness. When It comes to companionship, either be alone and enlightened or always make bonds with people that have honesty, clarity and pursue the truth. Honesty over everything.

@mje1984x

28 күн бұрын

found the retarded loser that can't maintain a relationship. good job, chimptits.

One of the most "No shit sherlock" studies of all time 😂 "People aware that reality sucks are sad. People blissfully/willfully ignorant think everything is fine."

@stevecinneide8183

18 күн бұрын

except it's not reality but yogamaya telling leftist idiots that evil white men spend every waking second trying to oppress queer gender non-conforming Muslim vegans.

@squibbelsmcjohnson

18 күн бұрын

But you dont have to be a lefty..its just lefties especially far left are fighting 10 battles at once, name it and it likely will trigger them ....I could never imagine living that way

@Hack_The_Planet_

12 күн бұрын

You aren’t aware, you’re terminally online and your whole perspective is skewed based on flawed data culling and intentional incitement.

@Piensamalyacertaras

10 күн бұрын

AMLO?

@Lejeron

6 күн бұрын

Being conservative doesn’t equal being ignorant. As a conservative, i have differing beliefs of everything, you sound exactly like someone who is on the opposite political spectrum, whom you’d expect to be ”ignorant” simply because they align or are politically right winged. You can very well enjoy life, which is what many conservatives do by having stout beliefs, morals, faith, stability, self control, exercise and abstaining from substances unlike many left wingers, who are depraved, depressed, bored, nihilistic and pessimistic about life. You cant as a human want to change everything about yourself, stay in your lane as nature intended it.

There's a reason biting the fruit of knowledge resulted in an expulsion from paradise. Only the ignorant can live there.

@sabersin7694

Ай бұрын

Child the edgy emo trend died 10 years ago.

@gdutfulkbhh7537

Ай бұрын

That book with the talking snake at the beginning? C'mon... Harry Potter is garbage.

@hiteshkumar4728

Ай бұрын

The fruit of knowledge is the fruit of knowledge of "good" and "evil". In the natural state, there is only innocence, which can only be said to transcend both good and evil; it is different from ignorance. Innocence is pure; ignorance is polluted. Innocence brings perfection to acts; ignorance causes mistakes. Prior to eating the fruit, Adam and Eve roamed naked, because there is nothing inherently wrong with it; but after eating the fruit, they became self-conscious and the duality began. This self-consciousness, this duality, is what obscures, or what causes ignorance of, your true natural state of absolute innocence, free of wants of any kind, beyond the pairs of knowledge and ignorance. Wanting anything means the problem of good and evil begins, because one begins to consider if one's own or other's desires are "good" or "evil".

@stevecinneide8183

18 күн бұрын

you're mistaking the DNC with Eden.......

Im not woke and im miserable

I haven't begun the video yet. But I'd venture the answer is because left wingers are more aware of the worlds issues, corruption and the lack of progress we are making as a species.

@Love-eg2vf

Ай бұрын

They might be aware, but they often come to wholly erroneous conclusions. As someone whose parents fled an Islamic country, and who understands those societies with a much more nuanced understanding than a western leftist, I spent years trying to have rational discussions with [very intelligent] leftists that went nowhere. Their blind spot is that intelligence itself doesn’t protect against ego, and after years of trying, I realized that there were many facts leftists could not accept because acceptance of said facts were threatening to their egos (as tolerant, anti-racist, etc). Ironically, there is an implicit prejudice to their bias. Their unconscious bias is that these cultural differences would automatically mean that those societies are inferior (i.e. compared to western societies) so they would just refuse to accept those facts. Meanwhile I would be arguing that those differences do not equate to inferiority, but that they were still problematic.

@jthom0027

Ай бұрын

@@Love-eg2vf Sounds like you are talking more about liberals than actual leftists. Liberals are just right wingers that want to be seen as higher class.

@BM1982.V2

Ай бұрын

​​@@Love-eg2vfthat doesn't make sense. Everyone I know on the left finds Islamic societies very right wing authoritarian. But that's on a macro scale. I think maybe your confusion is more on the micro scale. Even though Islamic societies tend to be authoritarian religious theocracies that doesn't mean individual muslims are bad people. Leftists tend to be able to separate out individuals from the whole. Even though I don't agree with Islamic society I don't think they should be b0mbed and I think individuals should have rights. If an individual Muslim hates gay people or the subjugation of women then I hate that individual person but there are many good Muslims as well. It's the same with any religion or group, I hate Christianity as well but I don't hate Christians unless they use Christianity to spew hate and bigotry. Muslims, same idea, hate the group but not necessarily the individuals within the group. I could say the same thing about conservatives, hate the movement but don't hate the individuals within it unless they use their ideology for hateful bigotry.

I often find Schopenhauer consoling, and the fact that Seneca was forced by a paranoid Nero to end his life. "What need is there to weep over parts of life, the whole of it calls for tears."

"They call us cynical as they do it to themselves."

NGL, yeh. The more I learned about the state of the world, how it worked, the problems it faces and the fat load of nothing being done about it... I can honestly say a part of me has died. And thats the truth, actually. I don't know what hurts more actually, my sorrow at the truth, or the joy I see in others grounded in lies. I envy them a lot. I get very lonely in my ivory tower. Especially when the few times I wander down from it, I can't help but share what I've learned, the terrible things going on, only to be rejected for it. I have the truth, and my sincerity, and I have no one. Watching the world burn, alone. Sucks.

@WisecrackEDU

Ай бұрын

We feel you friend.

@satyasyasatyasya5746

Ай бұрын

@@WisecrackEDU Well, not quite. Some of y'all got lovers, family, kids and stuff. End of the world with the fam isn't so bad. Alas, I am as I said, utterly, suffocatingly, alone. I guess there's always bridges...

@ChrisSmith-tu9bu

Ай бұрын

Hey guy the fact youre having this discussion with like minded people on KZread shows you're not alone. Bad people who thrive off of ignorance and darkness WANT you to FEEL alone and would fight to keep wise people apart but I don't think there's as much blissful ignorance as you believe. Just people playing that part because they don't know what else to do. Nothing gets fixed in a tower and we slowly come together while evil people fight to divide us, but we are communal creatures so they're fighting back a tide

@satyasyasatyasya5746

Ай бұрын

@@ChrisSmith-tu9bu Sadly, I'm at the point where internet people just aren't enough. I'm physically alone, every day. Year in, year out. So with only my thoughts and the latest catastrophically awful news about the world, I'm just so tired :/

@redgreen2453

Ай бұрын

@@satyasyasatyasya5746you’re me. And I don’t have any advice for you because to be 100% brutally honest I’m about 3 months away from ending it myself so just, I feel ya. I’m not like the other guys who say I feel ya and then go back to living a life infinitely closer to what you long for than you’ve ever been, I really feel ya.

Leftists are depressed because of empathy. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

@BranniganCarter

Ай бұрын

Or because they spend too much time online yelling at people on the internet about things they can’t change. Leftists don’t have monopolies on empathy.

@ISamAtlas

Ай бұрын

im an empath 💅

@sabersin7694

Ай бұрын

Don't make me laugh, leftists are not empathetic. They're really just sympathetic, and they engage in what I call ego stroking by acting morally righteous. Do not confuse empathy and sympathy.

@queztocoaxial

Ай бұрын

@@ISamAtlas Please don't despair. It will be okay

@Whoischrislewis

Ай бұрын

Empathy 😂

When you spend more time thinking about the problems in the world, you're going to care more about those problems and carry that weight. Some people are good at turning off the part of their brain that pays attention to it all.

One thing I learned from my Buddhist studies is to focus on things that I can change and not on matters that I can’t. While I can certainly help the homeless in my community, it helps nobody if I’m constantly in misery because poverty exists. I become the root of my own suffering. And it never hurts to have a healthy skeptical position on gender theory, critical theory, and intersectional feminism because these were all developed by people who are literally paid to speculate rather than actively attempting to solve the problems they address.

@alsuvarnadvipadanargentum1743

Ай бұрын

You mean to say “supposed to address” here? In your 2nd paragraph I mean

@williampowell3378

Ай бұрын

Yeah

@LuluTheCorgi

10 күн бұрын

i think i know myself better than you do maybe dont be skeptical of my existence lol

The bread at restaurants is only a scam at buffets and places that don't let you take leftovers home. You're paying for a full entree whether you eat it in one sitting or two, so eat the free bread while you've got it.

@bea4156

Ай бұрын

THANK YOU! 💯💯

@essbee1641

Ай бұрын

Exactly! When he said that, I was thinking “you think I’m gonna let some bread stop me from eating my whole meal, lol.“

@PoeticPoppa

Ай бұрын

Exactly. That gives me lunch the next day! Eat the bread to fill up, only eat like 1/3 to half of the meal, take the rest home, boom. Lunch problem solved.

Dude. I like the bread better, and I can take the other stuff home. Fill up on bread. It's free sustenance.

@SageWon-1aussie

Ай бұрын

And, seriously, who doesn't like circuses?

I know he's joking about winning the argument against his uncle because his uncle died...but that actually IS how arguments are won.

Bump for the algorithm for engagement

Honestly you guys teaching me philosophy through modern lenses helps me come up with my own ways to think about life differently and leading a happier life. So today my philosopher that helps my life is wisecrack and Michael burns.

That 13 years of school is about 65% baby sitting 25% Social conditioning and about 10% the pursuit and the support of the pursuit of knowledge. It's probably part of the reason why so many Freshman college students have such a hard time

Marcus Aurelius is pretty based Tho my favorite is for lao tseu's the art of war, and the miyamoto musashi's the book of the 5 rings : Maybe not the textbook of the pursue lf happiness, it's at least the best way to keep doom and misery outside of your house. Once you can prevent problems before they arrive, deal with them when they occur, and keep a clear mind on where the priority should be, you are closer to ataraxia than bliss.

@thelordakira

Ай бұрын

I can see psychology understanding a lot of issues in people, but not how to really deal with it. Stoicism might help more people.

Are you serving woke ideology or is woke ideology serving you?

Slartibartfast: "I'd far rather be happy than right any day." Arthur: "And are you?" Slartibartfast: "No. That's where it all falls down of course."

It's simple red pill vs. blue pill debate. You can be asleep to the ugly realities and problems of the world and be blissfully ignorant, or you can be an adult and live knowing that the world is a garbage place and only getting worse. You'll be miserable, but at least you'll have the tools and the wherewithal to be part of a potential solution rather than part of the problem like conservatives are. The big problem with leftists is that they don't have the power or resources that liberals do, which is unfortunate because liberals are half-asleep to the problems and far less competent in fixing/dealing with them.

@johnnysupreme5718

Ай бұрын

"The big problem with leftists is that they don't have the power or resources that liberals do, which is unfortunate because liberals are half-asleep to the problems and far less competent in fixing/dealing with them." The big problem with Leftists and Liberals is that they have all the power in society and now the ones that aren't absurdly rich can't accept that they have no place of priviledge in the world they built. It's the classic tragedy of getting everything you want and not getting anything you need.

@meroshango9603

Ай бұрын

Woke and left is not equal to be intelligent Also it don’t mean to have empathy It don’t mean to be open, they are just open with the ideas they want Leftis don’t mean they want a better world

@anselmopat4985

Ай бұрын

The idea that people who aren’t cynical and find optimism hope and happiness are all “blissfully ignorant” is simply delusional Many people are just good at the thing called balanced and despite all the ugly realities ( some that they live THEMSELVES ) they still manage to find a bit of time to focus or try to create some positivity around them. Being laser focused on the worst things happening while also having this “doomsday” mindset not only won’t bring any solution ( because hopeless people aren’t good fighters against any system ) but it will only accomplish the task of making you miserable

@BM1982.V2

Ай бұрын

Leftists are horrible at organizing. They don't think in hierarchal ways so following a leader just doesn't appeal to the left for the most part. Look at right wing protests vs left wing ones. Right wing protests are highly organized with clear leaders that everyone follows. Left wing protests have no structure, there may be a few within that do have some leadership qualities but they aren't as hierarchal and become a little more chaotic rather than organized. Your spot on with liberals too. What did MLK say, something like, there's nothing more dangerous to progress than the white moderate liberal. They stifle progress to the point where we don't move forward as a society and they have no interests in doing so. It's all status quo, maybe a few tweaks around the edges but nothing fundamentally changes under liberal leaders, while conservative leaders pull us backwards. But liberals are sure willing to try to appeal to leftists during elections, they just don't follow through after they get their vote.

@Kira1Lawliet

Ай бұрын

@@BM1982.V2 Everything you've said is unfortunately true. Right-wing protests are always funded and organized by moneyed interests, and conservatives are more inclined to obey an authority figure. Sadly, everything that makes leftists right also makes them weak. It's a frustrating problem. But it would be fixable if "leftism" wasn't filtered to young people through liberal education. Liberals teach kids that things like protests and boycotts are civilized ways of combating unjust authority, when those NEVER work in real life. It also teaches kids that countries like the Soviet Union and China are Communist countries when they aren't in any way but name, which leads young leftists to wrongfully idolize them and their methodologies when they become old enough to learn how their teachers have lied to them about other things regarding American history. It's a hopeless mess.

I'm firmly on the left, and I consider myself to be a pretty happy person. Maybe "content" is a more apt description, or perhaps privileged. I know a lot about a great number of crappy and terrible things - I mean, after all, we have one of them running for president - but I just don't let them get me down. That's because I recognize that I neither caused those things, nor do I have a direct or indirect way of addressing many of them, outside of contributing charities, which I try to do when I can. _It does not help anyone if I spend my time being sad about the tragedies and injustices of the world._ It's enough to learn, listen, try to understand, and seek solutions where possible and at least not get in the way or contribute to making things worse where it's not. I can't save the world by myself, I can only do what I can do, so there's no reason for me to try to carry the burden of all of the world's problems on my shoulders. So I watch, and I listen, and I live mindfully as I strive to help bring about a more fair and compassionate and equitable world in the ways that I can.

@foolishlyfoolhardy6004

Ай бұрын

Yeah, this is the path I've decided to go down also, I'm tired of misery. Can't continue to worry about the things I can't do anything about.

@williampowell3378

Ай бұрын

And not only that, but many “Do Gooder” organizations go on to be part of the problem.

@anselmopat4985

Ай бұрын

This the answer!

There’s also space here to think about people with little privilege who had been taught that their situation is their fault because of some moral failing when in reality it’s the system working as intended. Learning that these things aren’t their fault might give them a sense of relief. I know it comforting for me and my friends as we struggle to stay housed and fed, and we aren’t even considered that close to the most poor in our society (since I have internet and a phone and the time to watch this video). Hey we may not be able to afford insurance and medication this month but at least I know I’m not a bad person. It’s me being in a rough spot in this cruel system. Does it generally make us killjoys at a party? Maybe. But beforehand we were blaming ourselves for all this, and now at least we have some camaraderie in the knowledge that we’re doing our best with the consumer software we’re indoctrinated into

Ok, but, the more I fill up before my dish comes, the more leftovers I get to take home.

@WisecrackEDU

Ай бұрын

okay that's a fair point.

Turns out giving a fuck in a world that profits off of human suffering is hard.

Just gonna file this under, "No Shit!"

The New York Post isn't fit to use to line a bird cage, much less read as a news source.

"To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease."

We’re all going to suffer regardless so might as well know what’s going on before you don’t exist again. “Do it or don’t do it-you will regret both.” -Soren Kierkegaard 😇

I guess another way to put it is “ignorance really is bliss”

He who increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow

The tale of knowledge being a burden is as old is as old as history. The lesson learned in the story of Adam and Eve is that ignorance is LITERAL bliss, and knowledge is pain and suffering.

It's the complete opposite. Leftist ideology attracts people with personality types that are predisposed to depression, i.e. people with external loci of control who think the system is against them and they are powerless against it. People who think they can do something about their own life are less predisposed to depression and they coincidentally are more right wing because of it. Read Haidt on the subject. Being left or right wing is just a personality type.

@dalekrenegade2596

Ай бұрын

So better educated people tend to be leftists good to know.

Thank you for helping put a name to the phenomenon I've been experiencing for a few years. People always want to know why I'm such a happy person despite what they percieve as a miserable situation, it is because I have shifted my desires to be in line with new pursuits that don't involve consumer based achievement. The more I understand the world I live in, the better I feel. Your content is awesome Wisecrack, keep up the great work!

Woke, broke and miserable! Vote for us! 😂😂😂😂

Ignorance is bliss

@50eurocent90

Ай бұрын

its not about ignorance. You guys have political views in the place of personality

@BlueBeetle1939

Ай бұрын

@@50eurocent90 idk who "you guys" but id love to hear what you think my politics are

Ignorance is bliss!

@ParoArtPixie

Ай бұрын

This is a dangerous belief, yes but pure bliss is impossible

@toneloke454

Ай бұрын

sure is, you should stop living in it

@stevechance150

Ай бұрын

When your survey subjects are all first year Psychology students (most of whom majored in psych because they think they'll be able to analyze themselves, for free), you are going to be surveying some clinically depressed people.

I deliver pizza for a living, and while i know people who see it as a dead-end job, i take joy in being someone people are always happy to see. There's a joy in bringing others happiness.

Aren't there studies that liberals are more open-minded? Meaning, they're more open to hearing other perspectives? If I don't listen to other people, I can just stay in my own bubble and just focus on my own misery. But if I start listening to other people, I have to be confronted with other people's misery as well.

@HappyCat1111

Ай бұрын

I think generally you are correct, that most left-leaning ppl are openminded. There are so many angles to examine with this subject. The awareness of the world and suffering of others, levels of social inequality and injustice, and other social issues can be incredibly depressing. But also we need to consider human behavior, full of competition and habituation. It’s a doozy of a topic! Keep an open mind, be kind to others, and try to look for some good things. Otherwise we may all end up doing hemlock shots out of depression. Cheers, mate!

@sushmitaraodesaraju6330

Ай бұрын

But sharing our miseries fosters togetherness. Staying miserable by yourself keeps you isolated. So I guess what you need to decide is, would you rather face the misery of life alone or with a community by your side?

@nyanuwu4209

Ай бұрын

Liberals are just as close-minded, only on a different end of the spectrum. It's the nicer end for sure but the minds aren't much more open. They have their ideas and they cling to them as cultists just the same.

@connyslayer4661

Ай бұрын

Well said actually. Regardless of your political leanings, being open minded is always a great trait and wanting to understand different perspectives. You can share your rise and downfalls with your happiness and sadness with people with critical thinking to get a more educated view of the world. It's a very important thing to utilize well.

@gbibim

Ай бұрын

That’s funny. I had a very different experience than the other people commenting. The majority of liberals I met were not that open minded. Not only that I feel that they’ve become even less open minded in the last 10 years or so. Which is ironic since liberals are usually the ones that in theory value that.

Oh, look. A NY Post article. That can't be biased...

@twiztidsidfreak13

Ай бұрын

oh look a right winger who is a racist sexist, they can't be biased

@JamiHeart

Ай бұрын

Hahahahaaaa...I was thinking the same thing!

@twiztidsidfreak13

Ай бұрын

@@JamiHeart Yeah, like Breitbart is legit right LOL

"Haha Granpa. I'm right and you're dead." As a German, I can very much relate to this statement.

Learning must be uncomfortable. It requires replacing previously (mis)understood assumptions with new ones, or complicating them.

this assumes that leftists are super geniuses...

People who are "woke" tend to be progressive. Progressives tend to have more empathy. Empathetic people tend to feel other people's pain.

@hotarukaleidos

5 күн бұрын

I wonder what's the definition of empathy here...

@abstract5249

5 күн бұрын

@@hotarukaleidos None that you would understand. Ohhhhh!

Already miserable people seeking more misery to continue the circle of their own suffering and blaming their "superior intellects" instead of taking responsibility of their own lives: "We're like philosophers of old."

I just love how that gazelle evaded the lion. Top notch

10:47 my man working hard with a gun by his side. 😂

@WisecrackEDU

Ай бұрын

clearly his office does not have an HR department.

@CaseyTheBrash

Ай бұрын

I came here to ask about this one! Heh.

Today's Fact: In 1997, a man in Colorado was struck by lightning and survived, only to be struck by lightning again six years later and also survive.

@CosmicNinja360

Ай бұрын

That fact is not fun

@sreyangovender3404

Ай бұрын

Who the hell cares?

@Reed5016

Ай бұрын

@@sreyangovender3404If you don’t care, move on and ignore. Some of us do care.

@kosmosXcannon

Ай бұрын

That's nothing compared to Roy C. Sullivan. He survived getting struck 7 times. Guy probably had both the best and worst luck imaginable.

@seattlekarim964

Ай бұрын

He's well grounded

I really like the distinction between "happiness" and "satisfaction". Great points, Michael!

Camus and absurdism is the only one that I think makes you feel better, reducing it to nothing matters so you get to make meaning in whatever you want. for me this lets me know everyone is equally right since we're all equally meaningless. :D

As long as we don't get so woke, we can't dream we will be fine

@WisecrackEDU

Ай бұрын

Good point, can't lose the ability to dream.

@vanessamaldonado5877

Ай бұрын

Im trying to understand this past the at face-value nature of this comment but I cant find any other interpretation, given "woke" originally was meant to be defined as "aware of social injustice" as coined by Jazzists talking about the seggregated Jim Crow south, in that regard being more aware doesnt impede us from dreaming about a better future, in fact is necessary to fully understand the system at play and what is required to change it.

@raven-sf3di

Ай бұрын

One man's dream is another man's nightmare, so I guess a leftists dream is to make nightmares for others

@bjkm1996

15 күн бұрын

@@vanessamaldonado5877 We shouldn't let our awareness of injustice make us so jaded that we can't dream of/work toward a better future.

@vanessamaldonado5877

15 күн бұрын

@@bjkm1996 But that isnt "wokeness" thats just nihilism, there is literally no possible way of being "too woke", given the original context of simply meaning aware of injustice, are there people who get overwhelmed by all the shit that is wrong in this world? yes, but that doesnt stem from the awareness but from the feeling of being impotent to really make a difference, and thats how you drift towards nihilism.

Hate to be a loser but can we do more film media driven wisecrack the latest shit just got me depresssed

@monstersock980

Ай бұрын

Need more deep or dumb

@WisecrackEDU

Ай бұрын

fingers crossed we're launching a feed this summer to fully focus on film/tv analysis. we want it just as much as you do, I promise.

@phantasmalwolf2996

Ай бұрын

I’m with you on this one, I could do with hearing the philosophy of some of my favorite films, shows, literature, and of certain creative individuals, like that Alan Moore video which was done a few years back. These latest vids do have me kinda bummed out.

0:06 woke people arent getting enough sleep.

This channel is one of the few bits of media I consume that makes me feel more sane instead of less sane, and I just wanted to say that I greatly appreciate that you guys do. Much love ❤️

Not nearly as miserable as anyone who considers themself "anti-woke". Imagine being able to lose all your shit over black mermaids.

@pllpsy665

Ай бұрын

That is nothing compared to having a fit because M&Ms are just not that freaking hot anymore.

@phantompie1569

Ай бұрын

​@pllpsy665 but i wanna bang the green m&m

@waleuska

Ай бұрын

@@HymenBreaker4 I doubt people get piss off when it happens a few times. But when it happens again and again and they purposely do it. Yeah people are going to get angry. Like you would if someone said you name wrong on purpose.

@jeremoople

Ай бұрын

@@HymenBreaker4 You saw that one "it's ma'am!" video and based your entire perception of trans people around it

@derekrequiem4359

Ай бұрын

"Leftists get offended so easily! 😂😂😂" "WHY FOOTBALL MAN NO STAND UP???? 😠😠😠😡😡😡"

Woke absolutely equals misery. It seeks to destroy absolutely anything that is good or fun so all you are left with is misery.

Ignorance is not bliss. The pain that comes with knowledge is much better than the experience of being unaware

There is no greater happiness then the discovery of truth. Once found, it then must be practice and shared.My question is: can one teach the blind to see, or must the blind learn to see themselves? Thanks

As someone who identefies left wing from basically all my life (and also as someone who has just watched until the 2:09 mark at the moment of writing this comment), a quote comes to mind. "In a world of madness, the sane one seems to be the mad one". No, we are not happy. We see the world for how it is. We see all the injustice, the inbalance. We see all of the potential for a much better society, and we are crushed when we see that the majority do not seem to see it as well and therefore prefer to be stuck in their narrow ways. But we are also the ones who *actually* chose the red pill, despite some douchebags on the conservative manosphere would like you to belive. We are the ones that are truly redpilled and awake to the real world. And we are trying to free you. Because it is worth it. So... Is it true that we are unhappy and depressed? Probably. I know I am at least. Does that mean that I would change it for the peace of closing my eyes again? No, never.

@MaxIronsThird

Ай бұрын

utopia is not a thing, and like most people in power, wokeism is just another way to control people, so the powerful get what they want.

"Haha, Grandpa. I'm right and you're dead." ~ Michael Burns

@WisecrackEDU

Ай бұрын

Don't tell him I said that.

"Those who are most disappointed with the world have the strongest motivation to change it." - Someone wise, idk

The worst part of the backwards thinking family members is that I cannot for the life of me get a coherent worldview out of them. So many of their beliefs are overgeneralizations or completely false. They're the type that support Israel 100%, and I swear to God my whole family believes our military/police budgets are dangerously low, which is literally insane.

Arthur Schopenhauer would make the best self-help Guru.

The smarter you are, the unhappier you will be. Why? Because the smarter you are, the more you know about the world. The world and life is shit. The more you see through the comfortable lies of the dim, the less happy you will be.

@WrottJackson

Ай бұрын

Not necessarily. People in real life tend to consider me to be smart and I learn more about the world everyday. That doesn’t depress me though, it’s depressing but I don’t let it affect me. Everyone knows the world is a terrible place sometimes but true intelligence isn’t pessimism. Neither is blind optimism. You have to find a healthy balance, that’s what truly smart people do. It’s easy to just say “the world sucks and life is unfair” but you only ever notice the bad things because there are good things to contrast them. You can’t have light without darkness.

@ChrisSmith-tu9bu

Ай бұрын

Its not that grim friend there's layers to this. The human struggle has an inherent beauty to it. We have a shared unconsciousness and a pull towards each other that mimics what older poets would call the divine. Don't let Dark people and forces convince you darkness is all there is .. Without pain there is no pleasure and without struggle there is no achievement... without peril there is no bravery...

@redgreen2453

Ай бұрын

⁠@@ChrisSmith-tu9bu I got beat up a bunch growing up and now I live in isolation because I’m too scared to so much as talk to people yet I’m soul crushingly lonely. I. Would. Glady. Give up all the pleasure in my life if it meant the pain would go away with it. The pain is much much worse than the pleasure is good. For some of us it is that grim

@redgreen2453

Ай бұрын

@@WrottJacksonfor some of us the world is a terrible place all the time. I fundamentally reject the idea that you couldn’t experience pleasure without pain but if that is true, I’d rather just not have either.

@thepikminbrawler1746

Ай бұрын

Or, you realize that evolution has caused humans to be heavily biased towards negative stimuli and when you actually account for that in your thinking, you realize that most of what you have to overcome, is yourself, not the world around you. The world really isn’t that grim, you just choose to see it that way, and then claim it’s because you’re smarter.

Great video as always guys. Thanks for all your hard work Wisecrack.

*Broadly gestures at everything* “I mean take a look!”

lived with a woke roommate and I get it... Having to be so self critical and watchful of every little thing is taxing and I eventually got so annoyed about having to watch my language or what media I can consume that I just left. Honestly, I'm progressive when it comes to economics and I'm all for human empathy, but there's a limit. I'm not gonna sacrifice my mental health to not offend every person for every little thing because there's a frick tonne of problems in this world and I'm supposed to care about every single one of them? Look, i'd rather focus on one or two issues I really care about (I work in the sustainability field) and actually do useful stuff to make the world better. edit: Like all things in life, I think being woke (informed, sensitive, whatever) needs to be balanced out.

Left = Depressed Right = Angry and Afraid

@emanym

Ай бұрын

Centrist = Angry, Afraid, and Depressed 😮😅😢

@stevenboelke6661

Ай бұрын

The left's angry too, and must be unified in their anger. Organize. Unionize. It's the only way forward.

@nyanuwu4209

Ай бұрын

@@emanym Makes sense. Being surrounded by cults in absolute denial of being cults is angering, frightening and depressing.

@djlmfaoivan

Ай бұрын

Lol the dark side and the light ish

@connyslayer4661

Ай бұрын

Agreed. Pretty accurate although, I think both have a mix of those three and more. Lol.

If ignorance is bliss, then awareness is pain.

Friends don't let friend do cross-fit. . . it's a cult.

I remember Cypher from The Matrix. As I grow older, I side more with him.

I had a boss in the Navy who told me: 'It takes about 10 atta boys to make up for 1 awe fuck.' He was pointing out human nature and how people focus on the bad moment. The mistakes. What remains in your mind is the oopsie daisies, not the routine or good that occurs regularly. If woke folks are depressed, it might help to humble yourself, and give thanks for what blessings exist in their lives.

If you look at the world around you and only see problems that need fixing then yeah. You'll become neurotic. If you take the world as it is and try to make the best of it, you'll be happier

@twiztidsidfreak13

Ай бұрын

So, take the racist sexist homophobic world the way it is huh? If the founding fathers did that we would still be a part of England. You fucking moron!

@ahickey

Ай бұрын

@@twiztidsidfreak13 😞 Here try this instead: @jarrettadams4102 It is easy to see the world as it is when as it is benefits you. Unfortunately, there are others how are systematically seen as less than, or worst. There are people living today, that when asked, will gladly tout that some people should not even be considered human. So, yes, you could " take the world as it is " and continue living ( what I can only assume is ) a privileged and sheltered life.... or ..... attempt to have an empathic view on someone who does not look like you.... that does not share your same values.... that just wants to be treated like a human being...

There’s really no better way than to describe wisecrack other than reporting for the people

Being woke makes people miserable... It definitely couldn't be that being miserable could make ya woke... Riiiight.

I think anyone who engages in political topics regardless of what political party that they affiliate with is going to be miserable if they are not careful. I've never really seen what anyone means about being "woke". It's just another silly sounding GOP catchphrase. 🤷‍♀️

If you're gonna go all PC principal on people then yes it will. But beign respectful on a normal level will not make you miserable

@twiztidsidfreak13

Ай бұрын

tell others to be respectful. like women a woman wants an abortion, respect her RIGHT to do so! THAT is woke! Letting women make choices for their own bodies!

@MaxIronsThird

Ай бұрын

@@twiztidsidfreak13 wat

@twiztidsidfreak13

Ай бұрын

@@MaxIronsThird It's WHAT, learn to spell

@thelordakira

Ай бұрын

@@twiztidsidfreak13 That is progressive, not woke, big diff

@twiztidsidfreak13

Ай бұрын

@@thelordakira no, its the same thing, you just don't want to admit it anything the right says is "woke" is in fact not right wingers have bastardized that word trying to remove any real meaning so they can just use it randomly, but some of us know what it really means. Woke is admitting that legally black people had less rights and freedoms than white people. Woke is admitting that racism is built into American law, because it is. Woke is admitting that women have had the right to have a credit card till 1974! THAT is woke! Not the bullshit you people spew! By the way, most of the world isn't white isn't male and isn't christian! So it's ok for media to depict reality where there are gay and black people all over! You people wouldn't know what progression is because republicans are literally going off 1700s laws and "morals"! You people are literally trying to install an unelected dictator! Shut the fuck up!

I think "The Newsroom" said it best. "You know why people hate liberals? They lose. If liberals are so @#$&ing smart how come they lose so god damn always!?"