The Modern Struggle - Naval Ravikant

[Music] most of modern life all our diseases are diseases of abundance not diseases of scarcity right old times I may have starved I'm you know old times if I got sugar that was a wonderful thing I should have eaten all the sugar to get my hands on if I got in a piece of news or gossip that was interesting data that would have helped my life and move me forward if I'd gotten some brief amount of entertainment whether through video games or magazines or whatever that would have been good now it's all diseases of abundance

we are overexposed to everything the human brain is not designed to absorb all the world's breaking news 24/7 emergencies injected straight into your skull with clickbait headline news if you pay attention to that stuff even if you're well-meaning even if you're sound of mind and body it will eventually drive you insane this is goes back to Clockwork Orange where he's you know has his eyes open does forced to watch the news but I think that's what's happening right now because these are addictive right a twitter facebook Instagram these are weaponized you have social statisticians and

scientists and researchers on people in lab coats literally best minds of our generation figuring out how to addicted to the news yes and if you fall for it if you get addicted your brain will get destroyed and I think this is the modern struggle like the modern struggle so the ancient struggle used to be the tribal struggle you had your tribe of friends and family you had your religion you had your country you had your loyalty your internationality at least you had meaning and support but now you would struggle against other tribes modern life were

so free everything's become atomized we stand alone you live in your apartment alone you live in your house alone and your parents don't live nearby your friends don't live nearby you don't have any tribal meaning you don't believe in religion anymore you don't believe in country anymore it's fine you got a lot of freedoms fantastic but now when they come to attack you you're alone and you can resist so how do they attack you it's all well-meaning I don't fault capitalism I love capitalism but look at how it happens social media they've massaged all the

mechanisms too addictive like a Skinner pigeon or a rat who's just gonna click click-click-click can't put the phone down the food they've taken sugar and they've weaponized it they've put it into all these different forms and varieties that you can't resist eating drugs right they've taken pharmaceuticals and plants and they've synthesized them they've grown them in such a way that you can't you get addicted you can't put them down porn right if you're a young male if you wander on the internet it'll like SAP away your libido and you're not going out in real life

Society anymore because you've got this incredibly stimulating stuff coming at you videogames another way to dig people so you have this you have entire large factories of people that are working to addicted to these things and you stand alone so the modern struggle as an individual is learning how to resist these things in the first place drawing your own boundaries and there's no one there to help you if you like the after-school animations please support us on patreon every little bit helps and your donation will help keep this channel running thanks for watching and please

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