It's Time To Play A Smarter Opponent (EGO) Revolver - Guy Ritchie
2020 ж. 9 Сәу.
21 204 Рет қаралды
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Revolver is my favorite movie and legit changed my life ❤💘
Dude, as a neuroscientist and a lover of this movie (I think it’s very likely my favorite, but top 3 for sure), this is an absolutely great analysis to the central point of the movie. Just a small comment: we (neuro people) hate the expression “reptilian brain”. Plus I think that ego is actually more about the basal ganglia (where dopamine goes to party, like lord John) highjacking the amígdala (Macha) and then you have Brocas area (Avi) finding patterns in everything, when there’s actually not really all that patterns. And the movie explores this amazingly. I have many theories of who is what. Avi is intellect and Zach is intuition (notice the opposites A vs Z) and they’re fighting for your attention, represented as Jake Green (green the exact middle of the visual spectrum, as in we are born always neutral). I have some other theories about other characters. But yeah, it is an absolute blast of creativity from Guy and Luc. It really pains me to see so many conspiracy theories taking this movie as their own. But I really appreciated your analysis. Let me know if you want to talk more. Cheers.
"Sorter" is an interesting 'character' isn't he? Has a tendency to push his glasses - and he's a really Good assassin ...lol ...(EDIT: but, what was he doing at the moment of his demise, i wonder?) .........Is Avi intellect? Or just "Clever"? Or, perhaps he may simply be "purer" than "Sorter" ?? Alpha and Zulu ..Alpha et Omega perhaps? Right Time, Right Place maybe? "We didn't do this because we like you. We did this because ... ... ... "
Do you believe in free will? If so how?
Dude, as an intraday commodity trader your explanation makes a lot of sense. Also one of my top 3 favorite movies. Disagree on your theory of no patterns; everything is fractal and runs parallels in our reality. In my business, it's the difference between being profitable or not. Random walk theory is a crock of poo.
Macha isn't the ego? Jake says: "Macha would eat a yard of his own shit before look bad in public."
Thank you for this comment !
The problem with trying to become better is that the ego also decides what is good and therefore the direction of better.
What is a problem?
@@trueetiquette The problem is that "good" and "bad" are not absolutes.
Says who?
almost all of my enemies where imaginations of ego
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I restrained myself from writing a smart comment.
I needed this. Great video brother. I liked and subscribed. Gonna be sure to run through all your videos. Greatly appreciated the message.
Best movie ever made!
A’mazin “Be the observer” -JLP
Well done! Bravo 👏
nice work. I loved this movie
Great video. Thank you 🙏🏽
Genuine question: have you read Michal A SInger's = The Untethered Soul? It's pretty much the sequel to revolver, if you have, wanted to hear your thoughts, as it lays out step by step on how to deal with the voice inside your head.
I found this video helpful, especially your deep insight about fast pleasure long pain
Thank you for that explanation.x
One of the best explanations of the movie!
Revolver: best movie ever!
This was an incredible explanation. I really enjoyed it. Please keep posting about tactics to "Just Do It"
Experience "How the doing"
Beautiful
Just Wow 😳
Used to patrol outside the perimeter 3RDMARDIVHQ Hue-Phu Bai then RVN during TET '68. On one occasion my silhouette must have caught moon light sec's later a sniper round whizzed past my left ear. It was only later I learned it is impossible to view your own demise in a simulation. Put another way with, or without simulation a "future projection" is a thinking distortion...an illusion.
thank you so much
My favourite movie
Your video is excellent, however i missed the "If you try to destroy him to save them, they'll destroy you to save him, man you have to admire the oppenent elegance !" part.
How avant garde!
Wow, nice video
I just start the video but just saying it didn’t go under the radar for me this is one of my favourite films
I really like that you made a video attempting to explain this movie. Though, you and I both know that liking it is a manifestation of ego. My ego wants to believe it has utilitarian reasons for taking pleasure in it but let's be honest it identifies as something of an enlightened mind having caught onto this concept and feels a certain comradery with any apparent 'like minds'. It fascinates me how ego can co-opt any denial of it or struggling against it as we see with so many self-proclaimed gurus. It is really that beautiful. I would like to suggest to you that while the amygdala plays a role in fight or flight response, it cannot in itself explain the thought process that goes with ego. It can't explain the rationalizations and self-reflections. For that we need to look closer at the neural correlates of consciousness and self-reflection which is basically a whole-brain activity. But to keep things simple I think we could say that the emotional activity of the brain tends to direct the rest of the brain towards a goal. Selectively access memory or employing the neo-cortex to justify it's goals in the context of social demands. A huge part of this is the construction and maintenance of a self-image. A lot of animals have amygdalas but only human beings obsess over themselves and drive themselves into the depths of insanity. I think it's useful to look at the patterns of thought associated with this activity. Things like logical fallacies and self-regulation strategies. How prone we are to confabulation in our thought processes when it comes to giving ego what it wants. Or cognitive abnormalities like the fundamental attribution error whereby more weight is given to ego during decision-making processes when the results are positive versus when the results are negative. Perhaps the most important factor in all this, I think, is how ego takes advantage of social categories and events to gain social advantage. Baumrind's optimal distinctiveness theory I think best describes the selection process for determining one's own identity in the context of a society. While Gaufman and Burke's dramaturgical analyses provide a lot of insight into the self-presentation strategies people use within the social drama. We can also benefit from an understanding of philosophical conundrums like the homunculus fallacy and cartesian dualism. The absolute impossibility of dualism consistent with a mode of interaction. The impossibility of a will that exists without cause or interaction with a causal world. The absolute dependence of explanation on causality and that the absence of causality is the absence of explanation. As it stands the irrational byproducts of the ego-driven mind form the basis of our social systems and are hard-coded into our fundamental principles of justice. Philosophers and scientists working hard to prove that randomness exists in the brain or that there is some way that the ego can be in control over chemical processes. Absolute impossibilities being foisted as logical proofs to justify the existence of ego. And ego deserves a broader definition than just a survival instinct. I think the translation to 'self' best describes what it truly is. It is the constant formation, maintenance and reflection on oneself as a persistent entity infused with a primitive value system and survival instinct.
There are some Philosophers who MAY point at the possibility - that the Principal, as described in Revolver and much discussed more broadly, is One* Principle of an (certain "Level" of,) Energy found IN Nature, that "Falls in Love with itself" ... Revolver appears to lean upon Kabbalah / Qabalah heavily (ref Yehuda Berg) ... For mySelf, i gravitated towards The Hermetic Philosphers ... .... "When the opponent is Questioned (an opposite POV offered, particularly on some devout belief or ideal or etc etc (investment) ), their intelligence is questioned (Humiliation)" and indeed can it not, with Honesty, FEEL as if hurtful as someone threatening One's very existence when this happens? The tendency is then to THINK the being offering such opposition is now an opponent (Sam Gold's environment of control) ... ... and this is because a very real and very Good aspect of ego, as presented - is perhaps adequately described (?) as "will to Live" or in this example the desire inside that "i'm right i'm right i'm right" .... Rule 3 - there is NO external opponent!!! ... and yet Ego also - is not purely an opponent - As Above, So Below .... For those interested in the Reality; Philosopher, Scientist, Human Being; Perhaps it may suffice merely to suggest MAYBE consider (*always* contest for dogma!!) Energy is so, so curious about Form! ... * EDIT: amended the Principle to One Principle
@@PhYz1098 There is no ego because there is no free will. All existence is related to each other. So our true identity is the whole universe and everything it is, does, and will do. The ego illusion is that we are only our living bodies, but the universe goes on before and after our life so the death we fear is not real death. So there is no need to fear it. Life goes on beyond our body. That's the Buddhist secret. The realisation that there is no death.
@@julioviloria3289 What's rule 2 of any Game? [Revolver 1995] ... Was it not Choice to write the commentary above? You ....Or Universal Knowledge flowing through You? Ego in Sense of self-identity for example? Choice as active principle in (ANY(!)) Direction e.g. words composed 'upon a page'? Is / Is not ! ~ One may only Learn such implications via Experience, or how else might One determine Genuinely what is and what is not? [Avi - Rooftop Scene - Revolver 1995] "Well that's how the saying goes Mr. Green but, where does it stop? Where does this game stop?" ~ In the central point of this movie there is an elevator involved ... An elevator; Inside, a complete Mirror. Jake Sees part of himself. "i" ...If he did not See this ...how could he ever change it? "If you change what controls you. You will change the Rules on what you can control" "Can One fill a full cup?" (Buddhist phrase) For many (not necessarily yourself tho,Julio, ;) In this Game, the intellect is as wax.
Brilliant work! your explanation is amazing. Thanks aton!
Very insightful, how do you develop mastery of a skill without the ego and what role does confidence play or is confidence ego on steroids???
Confidence doesn't exist.
@@KrisVic91 Semantics! ... One Might also 'name' confidence, "Trust." Or perhaps further, Trust in (already) Being! ~ Ergo, "confidence" describes an effect / affect in [active]* principle. : To extend the intention ~> Real confidence (in Reality) is not NEEDING any. *Edit - [active]
@@PhYz1098 Yeah. Maybe. So what it mean to state, he or she is a confident person.
@@KrisVic91 in a Sense (!) of not NEEDING to be afraid, yes perhaps ??? What remains in an absence of Fear? In Revolver Avi asks, "What's the last thing you ever want to do, Jake?" What is the Nature of Fear?
ego is a confidence killer
10:41 Yeah facts, need to be put before hand, since you can start smoking the same way, with just do it. Is it bad, is it good, and then when you start asking how am I going to do this, you cut off your ego, or, in other words, make it reason with you, and calm down.
Survival . Play a smarter opponent inside your own head.
While your explanation of the ego is very good and easy to understand its incomplete. Human consciousness (cons&chess) can be divided into 3 sections: 1. It 2. Ego 3. Super-Ego The it is your instincts and its the first part that your consciousness develops (prebirth). The ego starts developing as soon as you are born and, at first the it will program it. That is what you describe and you do it perfectly. At the age of reason, so when you start thinking consciously though the superego will start to develop. It is your set of believes and concept about things and its going to influence your ego massively. Probably even more so than the it. And the superego is, in fact the key to deal with your ego because you can change your believes consciously. Check out Sigmund Freuds "structural model of the psyche" for more detail on this. Edit: i like the idea that Zack represents the it and Avi represents the superego. Its not a perfect fit so i am really not sure if thats how its meant to be understood but as i said i like the idea of it.
@@ianian9078 ok. Thank you. Need to check out Jungs theorie then.
Your ego saying revolver is a great movie.
Nice video,beautiful explanation and awesome movie in terms of meaning. It just makes me happy that nowadays we have real knowledge that explains what's ego, what's or who is a real me and how to come out from this game without losing. To know more everyone can watch international online conference with scientists and specialists "Life after Death. Fiction and Facts"
it is devil
Ego is primitive social survival mechanism. As not to get beaten by the tribe. It needs to be mastered. Coming of age rituals were meant for that.
@@KrisVic91 It keeps telling you that. Not even remotely true. The goal is to grow up and shed the fear - reproducing and survival gets more rational after that. More people die because their ego does not let them admit, they made bad decision.
Yeah. Dont fight and defeat your ego. Change it. Question the believes it has. Define the person that you wanna be. Then ditch the believes that seem counterproductive and ingrain the ones the person you wanna be has. Over time your ego will adjust and change and eventually be more of a partner than an enemy. Sure the process continious throughout your life but once you got rid of the ancient bullshit in there its just small adjustments and you will know exactly how to handle them. The rough times are when you do it first as you have a long road ahead of you and no practical experience on how to even do that.
"Ancient bullshit" lol
@@ItzSJbro Ancient meaning "stuff from your early childhood" just to be clear.
@@joethesheep4675 Ok, I would counter argue that not everyone has egos like Mr Macha
@@ItzSJbro I dont see how this counters anything i said but sure. Also: movies exegerate to get a point across. Its kinda hard to tell something in 2 hours time AND make it entertaining without exegeration, you know.
@@joethesheep4675 Your point stands, Guy Ritchie did exaggerate and messed up the storyline but what I really mean is wealthy people and especially those in power do have egos but not everyone around the world, I think people these days have better things to do than just focusing on the ego, live and be simple
Or, you can take pills.
If the ego is real it doesn't matter, it probably only seems like it does, this guy is trying to rationalize answer that aren't there.
Chill out.. if you didnt enjoy go about your day.
Perception.
Thus ego talk is more of society control than the truth
You can defeat your "enemy" with their own enemy. Ego. Pretty simple.
This video said the ego is a super ahole because he can't beat food, which nowadays is just a form of legalized crack.
This is a shameles attempt of social engineering, thank God nobody actually watch this video
It's more like the playbook of social engineering exposed. In plain view. Yet few will have the capacity to see it. The past few years have demonstrated just exactly how control is easily accessible by defeating people with their own ego. Everything is fractal.
The film went unnoticed because it was awful and probably a scam
Sure Ron. As we can clearly see it has been an amazing scam since 2005 as it has dominated the world ever since. You can go back to whatever hate driven platform you enjoy and leave everyone alone. Take care.