Comments by "Michael Nurse" (@michaelnurse9089) on "Academy of Ideas" channel.

  1. You are wrong. That the system is not foisted upon us. We are part of the building of these systems, either through action or inaction. Non-narcissists are 90% of the population, we have the power (over time) to change the systems but most of us are happier to drink beer and watch Netflix than fight for better systems.
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  2. The West: Brave New World with a subtle threat of if things don't work out we switch to 1984. China: 1984 with a subtle promise of if things work out we might add in a little Brave New World.
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  3. You normally meet them as your boss, your spouse or your parent(s) which makes distancing difficult or impossible, at least in the short term.
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  4. Yup. The video fails in this respect. When the father is a psychopath, a sociopath or a narcissist - the only objective for all others involved is to GTFO.
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  5. Even non-corporate businesses. I worked for a series of 'self made millionaires' whose self worship was a torrent wider than the Amazon.
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  6. For some, acting like men means beating the kid to an inch of their life for blocking the tv. You need to be really specific about what you mean by that, as traditionally many men were hunters or warriors, and it was simply better to keep kids away from them, as many social animals (rats) and primitive societies do/did.
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  7.  @illusion466  Lol - well spotted.
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  8. That is only half the problem. Living in a house with mentally ill people transfers PTSD to the children - the symptoms usually only emerge in adulthood.
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  9. If you child is disrupting the class they can force him. Maybe not by prying open his mouth with a screwdriver, but by gently telling you to take him to a doctor to get it sorted out or they will 'recommend' a correctional juvenile school (aka prison for kids).
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  10. Sitting on a couch is often unhelpful for many, because the general expectation is that someone else will do the heavy lifting towards fixing the problem.
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  11. For close on a hundred years the Waldorf School movement has been acting as living proof that doing away with these mechanistic paradigms of public school education is not just a pipe dream but a functioning reality.
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  12.  @azaleaslightsage1271  Yup. My dad an everchanging circle of sycophants around him and when I refused to attend his funeral they started socially attacking me and my family.
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  13. Viktor Frankl showed, after being in a WW2 concentration camp, that self actualization can be achieved when the lower levels like food and security are missing. Of course, this seems to be limited to individuals who are already somewhat advanced with this process, and not to everyone universally.
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  14. Sometimes it is not out there, but right in your home.
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  15. According to me, someone seeking to prove their self worth to themselves would be "Ceaser, or whatever else God wills".
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  16. Same, but late improvement is irrelevant as the real damage is done at a young age, most of which you cannot even remember. I can't but wonder whether the alternative would have been better or worse, I suppose it depends on a great many specifics.
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  17. Your viewpoint is greatly influenced by where you live. I live in a country with enormous liberty, mostly because of failed implementation of law and order, and as such enough individuals use the available 'liberty from the state' to murder, steal, rape and pillage that the country is sliding towards failure and ordinary people mostly live in perpetual fear. Liberty is a fine thing, but it does not belong in the realm of the state, but rather in the realm of culture. The state's proper job is actually equality - to treat every citizen equally and fairly. It is overstepping this role that the state becomes oppressive - resulting in the inevitable laments for more liberty.
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  18. Thank you for saying that. We kept both our children at home while working (office work) and it was challenging to the extreme. Friends dumped theirs at daycare and couldn't understand what we were talking about. My one friend's child spent so much time at daycare she developed an accent specific to a certain racial group.
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  19.  @quinnadam3024  What if he used background videos of cats doing parkour ? /s
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  20. His art transcends just art...it is a portal to the world of spirit.
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  21. An absorber can hardly be called an individual. A better word would be a sponge. Many true individuals do exist, though - and most are not in the public eye.
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  22. The whole idea of the 'ownership of ideas' is a pointless discussion to begin with. Even so called original thinkers borrow so heavily on the ideas of others they are all too often just adding a cherry to a cake baked by others.
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  23. As a preparation do the following each and every day. 1. Constantly search for the truth, long after others would have lost interest. 2. Never lose control to emotions, while still 'feeling them' to their full extent. 3. Once you commit to something never stop trying to complete it unless you acknowledge your motivation to do so was based on a mistruth. Any progress will become permanently part of your being.
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  24. I understand this is a psychology/philosophy channel and not a spiritual one, yet it is somewhat disappointing that the writings of Rudolf Steiner, the German Mystic of the 20th Century are skipped over here. In particular as the represent a clean break from the somewhat offhand opinions of others toward the madness. From the book summary: "Steiner met Nietzsche's work in 1889. At once fascinated by Nietzsche's style and repelled by certain pathological aspects of his consciousness, Steiner recognized Nietzsche's spiritual preeminence as a "fighter for freedom." Six years later, as a result of meeting Nietzsche's sister, Steiner encountered the dying philosopher himself. Thereafter, he spent several weeks in the Nietzsche archives. The result was this book, an essential stepping stone toward an understanding of [western spirituality]." https://www.amazon.com/Friedrich-Nietzsche-Fighter-Rudolf-Steiner/dp/0893450332 (regrettable out of print and now hellishly expensive). In his later writings +- 1923/1924 Steiner makes it clear that when he 'looked into Nietzsche's soul using purely spiritual methods' he saw that the man's spirit had vacated the body and another spirit (of a dubious nature) had entered into it. This happened increasingly, but by the time "The Antichrist" was written it was no longer the spirit of Nietzsche holding the pen. He indicated that what drove him mad was that his spirit was one that could not accept a purely materialistic conception of the World, but at the same time was unable to follow the ancient paths of spirituality (i.e. the Philosopher's Stone) but needed to find his own way from materialism to spirituality via chiefly materialistic thought (his philosophy) but was unable to effectively bridge the gap, causing him deep internal pain. It should be noted that Steiner also wrote a book to bridge this same gap using philosophy as the tool, published as A Philosophy of Freedom.
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  25. If you work very hard at it - you are master of what you do. The worldly outcomes of those actions are at at best half under your control. (edit : a word)
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  26. They will come for you too in the end - and you will be quite alone. You have to be part of society and the resistance against its ever resurgent evils.
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  27. A lot has to do with feeling safe. If a single parent make the child feel safe about wider life then one is enough. Normally the father does this but the mother can fill the role if she knows how. Speaking from personal observation here.
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  28. I don't think it is so clear cut. There are parts of the internet where free and informed debate takes place. Sure they are harder to find and you have to dodge the recommendation engines to find them - but they exist.
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  29. Nietzsche's sister wrote Will to Power after his death, presumably from his writings when his sanity was highly questionable. She needed money. It is not a reputable source for quoting Nietzsche.
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  30. credit score = 1984
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  31. Any subject matter on procrastination is hard to digest for us. Damn, I should be working and not looking at Youtube comments!
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  32. Genuine spiritual teachers disagree. The problem with drugs as an entryway into the spirit World is two fold. 1. You are not prepared to understand what you see and unlike the physical world there are no auto-correctional measures - you become a delusional seer of sorts. 2. The drugs basically introduce you to a part of the spirit world that exists only inside your body. You think you have discovered the Wisdom of the Cosmos and what you have really only discovered is the wisdom of your liver(i.e. the lower spirit who manages it). There are no shortcuts to spirit - follow a proper path by respectable teachers.
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  33. All of it.
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  34. Someone once said: " 'One does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.'" Note that He did not say "One can live without bread and needs only the Word of God". Just as one should not accept slavery willingly, there is the opposite risk that throwing off the yoke also means destroying that which provides your livelihood, even if it is 'stolen from you'. It is for this reason that normally every bloody uprising soon gives rise to a nation just as willing to be enslaved as the previous one, in order that they might 'buy bread', pay their mortgage and send their children to school. Rather than strive towards drastic revolution it is recommended one try to bring balance and curtailment to national power through progressive and gradual approaches rather than destructive ones. Of course, this requires a significantly high level of general consciousness in the voting public, something that is many places today is sorely lacking.
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  35. Now the GOP is a lover with Ayn Rand. Another mess.
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  36. Spot on. 1984 is more like China. The West will never become like that - too many Snowdens running around in the West.
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  37. Research shows that teaching reading and writing too young arrests self development of creativity.
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  38. George Orwell was also a supporter of communism - just not in its Soviet form.
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  39. Joe Biden. Donald Trump. They both smell like it to me.
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  40. In your other videos the pictures change much slower and I prefer that.
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  41. The romantic itself means a certain vision of somethng that is not founded in reality. You would have thought that that alone would be warning enough.
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  42. You should not have noticed anything because you should be using the UBlock Origin plugin.
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  43. TV is bringing them up.
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  44. Internet is actually far easier to control than the printing press because it relies on having a single network that can be targeted by the powerful. This is why the internet is now completely censored in China. The Edward Snowden revelations showed the serious effort is being exerted in the West to achieve something similar.
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  45. I disagree with the the ending argument of the video that the struggle is between control and freedom. Rather, I would frame it that the struggle is to find a balance between too much control and too much freedom. Having lived in a country which oscillated from complete control to complete freedom during my lifetime I can comment from first hand experience that too much freedom (and a lack of control) quickly creates a free-for-all society of warlords, thieves and opportunists - one in which ordinary people suffer just as much as under the iron boot of authoritarianism.
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  46. I think the essay is spot on about Rome but misses some important points about modern economics. Modern central banks are not inflationary but seek to balance inflation with another problem, shrinking the economy. It is difficult to do because there a couple of years of tail on your actions and seeing the future is hard. However, the creation of money through billions of loans to the politically connected is a system that must find an alternative.
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  47. You will listen to damn JBP whether you want to or not.
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  48. The individuality that resides inside a human body places a heavy weight on it. Any substance or activity that reduces the individuality makes the body feel good. Alcohol, mj, opiates, television, devices, excessive sport, most music etc.
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  49. Propaganda and censorship - tools of all narcissistic regimes since time began.
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  50. Narcissist to the right of me. Psychopaths to the left. Stuck in the middle with you.
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