Nietzsche's Warning: The Decline of Humanity
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In this video we peel back the layers of Nietzsche's theory of decadence to reveal the chilling truth behind the unraveling of civilizations. Join us as we delve into Nietzsche's profound insights on the decline of cultures, exploring the hidden forces driving humanity towards self-destruction. Brace yourself for a thought-provoking journey into the heart of Nietzsche's psychology of decadence.
1. Introduction: 00:00
2. Origins of the Soul: 01:32
3. Decadence: 07:51
4. Civilizational Decay: 17:49
5. Creative Self-Destruction: 26:12
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'Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.' - G.K. Chesterton
Transwomen are women
Not sure if it's forgetting or more so arrogance that those things are no longer needed honestly.
...and the obvious thing eveyone is forgetting in this case is christianity. More than a millenium of christian tradition cannot just be replaced. It lays at the foundation of culture, moral values, state organization, hierarchy etc.
@@ReaverSenpai Political malfeasance creating conditions to perpetuate the state of Parable of Nightmares? "Since it was terror and disturbance and instability and doubt and division, many illusions were at work among them, and vain ignorance, like they were deep in sleep and found themselves in nightmares. Either they’re running somewhere, or unable to run away from someone; or they’re fighting, or being beaten; or they’ve fallen from heights, or fly through the air without wings. Sometimes, too, it’s like someone is killing them, even though no one’s chasing them; or they themselves are killing those around them, covered in their blood."
Like we no longer know what the difference between a Man and a Woman is. 1:00
We're approaching the crescendo. I've had enough of this apathetic technological dystopia. Hopefully I can make it to see what's going to emerge on the other side.
Unless you're going to live for at least a few centuries I wouldn't hold out much hope. I get the feeling most of us will die of old age before anything really interesting happens.
@@bro4539the us will be wiped out
I want to built a hut in the woods.
If I have the ability the choose my brothers or atleast some good friends for life, I will choose these 3 men in this comment.
People seem to be waking up to what Jews have been up to for the last 100 years, so that’s a plus.
He is describing entropy in the human realm
A stupendous intellect, a psychological genius in his attempt to explain modern man to himself.
I It all started with the first tree we chopped down. And that was the Tree Of Knowledge.
No it was the “Tree of Life”, the “Tree of Knowledge” leads to ignorance knowing everything about nothing rather than wisdom knowing nothing about everything.
@@imuppot2289 There is something suspicious about trees and humans. Could it be, that we all at one time lived in them?
@@user-ho4nw5sf3w We are all baby Oaks. 🙏🆘❤️
We are so f....d
Thanks for this video . Decadence makes it difficult for a culture to change for the better good .
Carl Jung treated him and personally considered him "mad." I'm not sure if he was or wasn't but it's interesting.
Were all Mad 😊
Nietzsche, projecting his mid-life crisis; genius is a hell of a drug.
Life the soul is quite simple , it's the environmental, social dynamics and eduction that can kill ones life force and soul , which enivitably derives to " Degradation "
Outstanding! Really excellent stuff.. lots of good fodder for thought here 🧐😄
Very well done. Thank you for the amazing content
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for your fantastic videos
The war in “ourselves” is manufactured in some extent by the ideologies impressed upon us at a young age. Christianity makes a person feel bad about themselves. “Thou Shalt Not” But I think if you flip and we’re to teach that following the Ten Commandment will lead to feeling good about yourself it doesn’t create the same kind of inner turmoil in a person as they go through life learning from their mistakes I think when children are taught to feel shame about their sexual urges is where the first inner conflict begins, which is why puberty is when innocence begins to diminish. Then as a person gets closer to adulthood societal expectations put one at war with one self
Christianity ruins so many lives. It only promotes self hatred.
divine unity before government / democracy
Very Interesting and Productive -To Know …….🌞
It is bound to happen. Prosperity ripens the principle of decay. It is natural and inevitable.
If we're talking about decay of civilization, Spengler has much more flashed out theory.
I figure it's always been like this... We haven't changed much since 1700; cell phones aint shit.
yup, way too many don't realize that
Super interesting and well spoken. Downloaded. Shared. Subbed. Many thanks from Australia.. keep em coming
Gotta leave when the time is right
High standard take. Been wonderig about this for years.
Nietzsche was one super intelligent s.o.b.
No he wasn’t he was simply ignorant of societal norms and could therefore see clearly. We all have this ability, we simply have to let go of “comfort”.
He was surgical in describing the human condition
Thank You very Much ……..🌞
Superb. After reading nearly all of Nietzsche in 1876-79 I embarked on a journey of ten years covering 34 states, living in 5, and 8 countries, to try to fully grasp what he meant by "the advent of nihilism" and the more time went on the more fully did I come to appreciate the gravity and prescience of what he meant! “What I relate is the history of the next two centuries. I describe what is coming, what can no longer come differently: the advent of nihilism! Nihilism stands at the door: whence comes this uncanniest of all guests? 1. Point of departure: it is an error to consider 'social distress' or 'physiological degeneration' or, worse, corruption, as the cause of nihilism. Ours is the most decent and compassionate age. Distress, whether of the soul, body, or intellect, cannot of itself give birth to nihilism (i.e., the radical repudiation of value, meaning, and desirability). Such distress always permits a variety of interpretations. Rather: it is in one particular interpretation, the Christian-moral one, that nihilism is rooted. 2. The end of Christianity-at the hands of its own morality (which cannot be replaced), which turns against the Christian God (the sense of truthfulness, developed highly by Christianity, is nauseated by the falseness and mendaciousness of all Christian interpretations of the world and of history; rebound from 'God is truth' to the fanatical faith 'All is false'; a Buddhism of inaction). 3. Skepticism regarding morality is what is decisive. The end of the moral interpretation of the world, which no longer has any sanction after it has tried to escape into some beyond, leads to nihilism. 'Everything lacks meaning' (the untenability of one interpretation of the world, upon which a tremendous amount of energy has been lavished, awakens the suspicion that all interpretations of the world are false). Buddhistic tendency, a kind of yearning for Nothing. (Indian Buddhism is not the culmination of a thoroughly moralistic development; its nihilism is therefore full of morality that is not overcome: existence as punishment, existence construed as error, error thus as a punishment- is a moral valuation.) 4. Philosophical attempts to overcome the 'moral God' (Hegel, pantheism). Overcoming popular ideals: the sage; the saint; the poet. The antagonism of 'true' and 'beautiful' and 'good'." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche (1888)
Nietzsche's comments on nihilism are highly prescient. I come from a highly religious background and I have found what he has to say about Christianity and nihilism is spot on.
@@TheMachiavellians Me too, although his elucidation of christian psychology and the origin of morality in the need to ounish, in the Genealogy of Morals, I think is a bit over the top.
@@James-ll3jb That part of his philosophy applies to monasticism more than some other forms. Christianity is a very broad term for a variety of practices. Nietzsche's critique of Christianity tries to cover most of them. Many people criticize him for contradicting himself but in reality it is the subject that is a contradiction. I just read a biography of Martin Luther and Nietzsche's comments in the Genealogy seem to apply very well to figures like Luther. The ascetics punished themselves very severely for their impulses. I think there is something deeply pathological about that.
@@TheMachiavellians Agreed.
N. Schop,'s metaphysics are a philosophical result of Kant's turn to transcendental ontology, hence thoroughly " formalistuc" metaphysics of both, using generalist vague terms like "force" " will" as a replacement fir actual philosophical cosmology.
The "transcendental ontology" you are referring to is a development in metaphysics. Truth and being are bound together so you can't speak of the former without commenting on the latter. Hence Schopenhauer's cosmic will which Nietzsche borrows.
@@TheMachiavellians transcendental aesthetic ontology something about just eat between nexus points
Suppressing instincts vs. Succumbing to self-destructive tendencies
Balance 🧘♂️
It is amazing which keywords Nietzsche used. I believe if he had knowledge from today with Quantum Superposition and Game Theory everything would not sound that dark as it is one possiblity out of many.
Good change only comes through suffering of some kind. Prosperity eventually leads to suffering. It’s a cycle!
"their most profound desire is that the war they are should come to an end" damn bro
This is why self transformation requires self sacrifice
people are not war though
@@ryad1281 if you watch the video, it’s referring to how people in a decadent society are usually born of mixed cultures with competing and opposing values. Because of this opposition, their identity becomes a “war” of cultural values according to Nietzche’s ideas
This war within oneself is a reason why self-sacrifice is necessary for self-transcendence and rebirth
what are you trying to say ?
Addiction is a daily struggle of the mind and emotions
There's a portion of us born without empathy. They view life like a game and seek power positions. Politics and police forces are full of them. However this condition isn't catchy.
Born without empathy or just money corrupted once a neutral human ? That's the real question.
Nietzsche, the successor to Schaupenhauer. I love reading both.
ditto!
„Ich lehre euch den Übermenschen. Der Mensch ist Etwas, das überwinden werden soll. Was habt ihr gethan, ihn zu überwinden?“
The ' logos'
War inside my head
I see this as a reason for celebration. Celebration meaning that there's nothing holding us back anymore, there's nothing worth fighting for, struggling for achieving. In other words, we're free. But free for what? Free to wander I'd say. I see nomadism as the only authentic and active answer to decadence. Nomadism. To set feet on the road and never stop unless there's something worth stopping for. And I'll close my thesis with Achilles' choice: 'Better a brief life, full of action and shine, than a long, but empty life.'
I like that.
This is so good
Agree. 1st video from this channel and I smashed that subscribe
Nietzsche seems to get it until the very end. Humans live life like a parabola not like and ever increasing exponential function. Even that is over simplifying it as every stimulus in your life changes the variables of existence. But for example, he said it was decay when the French aristocracy gave up their powers. This negates the ability of humans to recognize Their own demise which is the true humbling of the soul. A naive scholar would assume that you will can continue forever when it is obvious that is not the case in this mortal form.
I LOOVVE your work and feel you are by more than a little the best Nietzsche scholar on YT-but I have to somewhat disagree with some of the sentiments of this video- The conclusion makes it sound like Nietzsche condemned this internal struggle of drives and affects. Yet in his own words “War is the father of all good things”, the metaphor of the bow’s tension-concepts practically lifted from his closest ancestor philosopher, Heraclitus. Most importantly, the rest of BGE 200 has the typical Nietzschean twist of stating that it is precisiely in such ages of “mixed races” and cultures that seed greater types like Caesar, Alcibiades and Da Vinci, for whom this integral struggle is “one more charm and incentive of life”, who master, self outwit this “war” inside themselves. Two of these figures existed in antiquity and one in its renaissance. Perhaps the idea is that even “stronger ages” are destined for degeneration, and these three merely “gave birth to the dancing star” of secretly decadent epochs. Yet this would feel counter to Nietzsche’s Heraclitean DNA, and to the “Great Health” that thrives on over coming the Great Sickness. But would very much (and respectfully) like to hear your thoughts on such.
Where are these philosophers of the future?
Read Sri Aurobindo the Ideal of Human Unity: Freedom and Self - Determination,
If we had not gotten rid of our unconscionable drives, would we still be “ human?”From my readings of , I assume I would not like him personally at all.
Signs point to YES!
I'm afraid no longer do these powerful souls exist in the individual.
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Riesamme, mene, mene, huono tekele, ei versojani. Riesamme, menkää, menkää , huonot tekeleet, ei versojamme. INRIX
The greatest example of dark side of progress is WH40k universe. Especially Eldar race.
re pivot earness and towards the growth of data ---- at stay viable not competitiveness at stay reliable instead of by means of warrant as to assist others sincerely the time has come for 4IR ---- KBE will surpassed all long drawn out fatigue indeed care and without doubt i.e SE ----
Nietzsche had a profound insight! Unfortunately, he also found it perplexing, which shoe was for which foot?
This can be coded and dog whistled so easily. You’re doing great service
Anyone with that mustache is not the full quid.
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What do you get when philosophy lags science and technology? BOOM, and not in a good way. Science and technology ends up in the hands of adults with child minds* (currently all adult humans). *from the perspective of Broader Survival.
I didnt know i learned Nietzsche before learning about him
Incredible how close AH was to realizing Nietzsches vision
Gotterdammerung ... is comin' at ya, babe ! Comin' fer yer luv ❤ ! LOL Hand it to those Germans for such hip, multisyllabic words ! 😂😅😊
Remember World Party's tune from '86 : You're Gonna Pay Tomorrow ? ' Avarice and greed, will throw you into that burning 🔥 sea' Hmmm ... hmmm - or the songs from the Crash Test Dummies '92. Oh yes ! 😊
Im very annoyed by hearing the word "posit" from every single KZheadr. The same thing happened with the word "adnauseaum" fuck
cope
Nietzsche was a fine one talk about "decadence", being an influence for Nazis Germany as he was, and an influence for aristocrats and fascists, as he continues to be. Fascists can see decadence all around them, except for their own.
Nietzsche never excluded himself when discussing decadence. Every modern human being is decadent, some are just more decadent than others. As for the Nazis lets not forget that antisemitism was the official position of the Catholic church for over a thousand years and is central to Christianity. Even the Protestant Reformation was highly antisemitic. The Nazis needed no help from Nietzsche and distorted his works to justify their desire for revenge like the Christians did with Jewish texts before them.
@@TheMachiavellians Actually, you are wrong. Firstly, you are ignoring the ant-goyism in Judaism which is consistent. A persistent effort has been made to undermine the Church. What is central to Christianity is the love of your enemies and love of your neighbour and of God as exemplified and enacted by the self sacrifice of Chirst in the Passion.
How are fascists decadent? Fash guys like Coreneliu Codreanu are some of the most best example of will to power
@@andrewphilip3308 lol. Anti goyism…hahaha please explain genuis
Didn't Nietzche's following of innate jibes lead him into aquiring syphilis and dying an incoherent wreck in a mental institution? He's a genius, no question about it; however, following his line of thinking is not much better than seeking counsel from the local drunk. I'm sure most of us that are watching this video are enervated beings of much reduced will, who will not be made one iota better as it's probably a symptom of decadence, too.
Nietzsche has many opinions that he states as objective facts that are not. In my opinion anyway. My view of reason vs instinct is opposite to his.
Humanity? Europe did fell but the rest of the world was doing fine, still is. Specifically Christian Europe fell in the ww1 with the abolishment of 3 mayor Christian Empires at the same time. And let's not forget the fourth, the Greek Empire, which was supposed to be revived from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire but that didn't happen. The simple fact that everyone is talking about the fall of "the civilization" or "the west" and refusing to state that they are obviously talking about Christian world, tells you all you need to know about why it fell.
Yeah the rest of the world is doing just great.
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Nietzsche seems like a Yogi. Hinduism is about looking inward within oneself with profoundness as the future. Hinduism is the science and technology of wellbeing. Hindusim is not a belief system. Hinduism does not have submission. Hinduism does not have commandments.
Well I love your subject matter and take… sadly I can’t focus on the subject matter because of your voice, just dosent work for me
So one of the philosophers that helped pioneer the idea that God is dead, is appalled that humanity is doomed to fall into decadence?? Hmmm, interesting.........
Maybe he saw the future, we’re we are now, under the control of Marxists, remember their philosophy is redemption through sin.
Didn’t he say ‘God is dead, and we have killed Him?’
But God.
Decadence wasnt just decay, but also the space in which the arts could flourish. He considers the decadent age of Greece the same period in which the arts and philosophies flourished.
Decay is necessary for development true. However when Nietzsche speaks of the golden era of Greece he's referring to the Classical period. Nietzsche thought the Greeks were able to hold off decadence during the classical era. The Hellenistic period was very decadent and Nietzsche was quite critical of that time. Socrates was a sign of what was to come.
@@TheMachiavellians He cared most for Pre-Socratic Greece and the days of his forefather, Heraclitus. "Socrates was a sign of what was to come." Indeed!
@@TheMachiavellians I didnt say he thought that was golden age, but the age after the society "relaxes" it begins to create other things, although this is also the beginning of the end. Its more complicated than just good or bad. When certain plants flower you know they are near death. For example, Nietzsche did consider Rome "unflowered", stating that what should have gone into the flower stayed in the stem. In other words, Rome kept expanding militarily and technically but not too much culturally. Rome's decadence didnt create the beauty that might have justified its existence in the eyes of Nietzsche.
He believed Pre-Socratic Greece was the Golden age by the time Aristophanes, Euripides and Socrates, get onto the scene, strength, warmth, beauty, and goodwill are replaced by reason and dialectic. Rationalising things by the Socratic method like, Plato his pupil who Nietzsche never forgave- while talking everyone else into the ground.
@@user-fd8fe9hk9q I appreciate you expanding your original comment.
There is no decline, really. We live about as well as we ever did. Better than we lived for 99.99% of the time we've been on this planet - including Nietzsche's time. We have antibiotics and air conditioning, among other things that make life objectively better. No one has any good reason to believe we could do much better than we're already doing, frankly. You have nothing and no one to point to in history to make the claim. So how do you justify resonating with this, folks? Lol. Just a resentful nature? A miserable individual? Yeah, that's just _you._ "Civilization" is doing fine.
You don’t really get this do you?🤪🤣
@@Fireneedsair I think I do. You know, you don't have to actually _agree_ with Nietzsche, lol. It's okay for you to have your own point of view. I shared mine. I'm totally authorized to do that. But you know, we can talk about Nietzsche. I've been fascinated with him and his position among continental philosophers for decades. You don't have to agree with any of them, either. You seem to think if I understood Nietzsche that i would agree with him. Lol.
@@RichardLucas so you don’t think comfort leads to decadence?
@@Fireneedsair I think "decadence" needs to be unpacked. It's just a word. "Ambition" is a word we all assume means something good, but it's a gloss for feelings of social inadequacy, which are entirely subjective. One is the highest moral and aesthetic authority in their own lives. Some people hate that. They can't refute it, but we've seen that people are slow to give up error. Admitting the full truth of our moral condition is scary because it means giving up a tool in our instinctive war-making kit.
I feel Nietzche's ideology is narcissistic and void of any humanity, based of course on some value of humanity but only from a fragile sense of a fractured mentality of looking inwards at his own morality.
He always shits all over everything
Or end of 3rd kind of chimpanzee living tribal form of life and territorial behaviour, and beginning of true civilisation
Hear this word which I take up against you, a lamentation, O house of Israel. Amos 5:1 Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well-favored harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts. Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will show the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame. And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and will set thee as a gazingstock. Nahum 3:4-6 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations. And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations. Ezekiel 5:8 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth. Therefore hath the Lord watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the Lord our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice. Daniel 9:13-14
Save your sermons for the proper subject. This isn't it Reverend.
@@lynnfisher3037 Dead wrong, this is more relevant than you can think. But, if you're listening to Nietzsche I don't suppose you do much of that
He’s done said he will not be mocked. Every age of history tries it. Respect and fear of the proper and only God would be welcome, but you know we live in a new day so none of that is relevant and we’re smarter than the generations that built the world, sure. Whatever you want to tell yourself that makes you FEEL better……..thanks for using the word sir! IT IS WRITTEN.
Perplexing as it is for Nietzshce to celebrate instinct, he seems to slander the most important one that has contributed most to our success as a species as a "herd instinct".
... a Poor Philosophy in regards to the practical use of the Fruits of Knowledge, Science and Innovations through the Lack of Wisdom and Non- Meritocracy ..
Godless gibberish. This is the sort of nonsense you get when you reject God and believe that you actually have wisdom without the source of truth guiding your mind.
You should know how to pronounce Nietzsche.
Crap AI voice
Strong men make easy times, easy times make weak men, weak men make hard times, hard times make strong men,...............
AI narration bleh dislike
Yeah, it has that boring, disembodied American mid-west drone about it. I can't stand it.
A very basic understanding of human drives. Such an outdated and ill developed awareness of the human pschy
An arrogant poser
Nietzsche considered the great Socrates (and Jesus Christ, for that matter) to be "decadent," because Nietzsche thought that the human WILL should be considered supreme. Truth be known, Nietzsche suffered from the most common of human delusions - the biblical "original sin," truth be known - which is SELFISHNESS. And he didn't understand that the biblical "satan" (the devil, the serpent, the beast, the prince and god of this world) is actually the selfish human EGO. Nietzsche was (unknowingly) a satanist. So, how unsurprising it is that he eventually went insane. And how unfortunate that so many intellectuals follow his path. The biblical prophet Elijah has returned, as prophesied, and testifies.
You’ll never get it.
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Ah yes, another "him going mentally sick = sign of him being wrong" warrior. And just how many more bilbical prophecies have to turn out wrong for you people to let go of them? Btw. Satan in Christian rethoric was never a metaphor for a human trait but actual autonomous being. You pulling this out of air is just another example of slave morality glorifying humility.
@@Reality-Distortionhe died alone with no wife or kids, worse of all his views of the world reflect his lack of a father and the lack of knowledge to transform himself into what he saw was a great man. You taking his words literally and not seeing his foundation is also evident in how u read the bible literally. Its naive. You want someone wise to learn from? Go learn from Jung, he was actually initiated and didnt debate surface level shadows
@@AerXIII 1. His manner of death discredits exactly nothing about his ideas. Nothing more than argumentum ad personam. True fact of the matter is that we don't have any viable evidence for true causes of his breakdown. But of course it wouldn't stop people who disapprove of him from some funny stories akin to "he released Antichrist and received God's punishment". 2. Knowledge extrapolated from one's deficiencies doesn't need to be any less valid, so I don't know what his lack of father has to do with it. Just look at religions in general, either all or almost all religions people engaged with throughout history were false but it didn't stop them from forming moral codes and societies thanks to them. Also not everyone wants wife and kids, so stop scratching for leverage. 3. Who's words am I taking literally? The person's above? It's his own assertion - "is *actually* the human EGO". He is making more metaphorical routes than church itself. It's people like him who feel the need to include even more mental gymnastics because vision of Satan as traditional religion presents it didn't align with his preferences. 4. I've been learning from Jung for last 2-3 years, thank you very much for your advice.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Decadence... literally tje beleif that there exists a place in recent history when life was purer, better, more beneficial, more vital.