[Music] as I stated in my previous video the internet doesn't create new behaviors it merely amplifies that which is already present now sometimes it doesn't seem that way but when you think about it all these behaviors we can observe go back to some route some baseline behavior that you could observe easily without the internet in decades prior even centuries prior now one of the things that's been extremely negative that's been exacerbated to an extreme when it comes to online content is shall we say the sin of Pride now obviously I'm no Christian I don't believe
in the metaphysics of Christianity and there are other things about Christianity that I think are frankly fatuous however I do think that Christianity got one or two things right now youve probably heard of the seven deadly sins it originally started with eight a Christian thinker in the late 2 early the 3rd Century called tulan came up with them originally but over the ensuing centuries they were refined and generally speaking the interpretation over the centuries is that pride of these seven deadly sins is the worst one from the Greek hiia to the Latin superia and then
to the various vulgar languages including English you say Pride now in the Christian context pride is really really bad because it's essentially Anonymous with the Devil with Satan because Satan's Chief sin is his pride and his Defiance of God so pride in the Christian context is associated with Defiance of God's will because as a good Christian you are supposed to be subordinate to God and so pride is the worst of the sins because you are asserting yourself to be of like stature or even above God in certain respects now that bit I think is irrelevant
since I don't adhere to the metaphysics of Christianity but I do think pride and excessive Pride to be very specific is a huge problem pride and its correlate ego prevent you from self-correction in many cases and if you look at the landscape of YouTube especially when it comes to our favorite topic Guru ISM and the many experts out there who are trying to give you life advice and it's not just them it's many many different types of cont creators you'll see that there is a consistent thread with all of them they all have very big
egos they're all very prideful and they all always know better than everybody else now part of the reason for this is that the ecosystem of YouTube is in some sense inherently harmful in this regard which is to say this is not a platform where you can have normal discussion things just naturally become polarized and the requirement for self-reflection personal development and self-correction is conceding when you've been wrong or conceding when there's still much to be learned but if you make that admission if you show what's viewed in the eyes of the public this kind of
weakness in air quotes then you typically lose support and So What YouTube and the internet in general does is that it teaches people to dig in their heels even further into hyper entrenched positions on all manner of things and to again pridefully assert your ego in the face of opposition part of it is a tribal team mentality that we've observed many times that's the obvious aspect but the other part is the fact that a lot of people on YouTube in particular receive empowerment by the fact that they have a lot of followers remember in the
previous video I talked about parasocial relationships well it's often the case that the parasocial relationship is not a one-way street but the people who are the objects of agulation of reverence they receive massive boost their egos which subsequently lead them to thinking that they are Gods upon Earth I mean a bit hyperbolic but there is this two-way street and so what's happened in the ecosystem of the the internet very specifically YouTube is that you're rewarded for being excessively prideful for showing a massive ego for not backing down even if you're wrong and I think it's
so extreme that you could probably find people that could argue and would argue that 2 plus 2 equal 5 and not back down from that position simply because it would damage their brand name they have a lot of followers and they're really convinced that what they have to say as content producers is de facto correct because of the feedback loop I've just described lots of followers the embellishment the enhancement of ego and pride and so they're really convinced of themselves but why is this a bad thing well the problem is we human beings we human
apes are very very fallible animals we make mistakes all the time and when you have a public platform like YouTube and the broader internet what's rewarded is doubling down on your position because ultimately this is a fear loss of status right and not recounting and not readjusting what you might have believed or what you've done you see this time and again people making massive mistakes and digging in their heels and saying I'm still right or my product is still good despite all the criticism it might be receiving these sorts of instances and although I'm not
a fan of the word toxic because it's overused in certain circles as you can imagine it does create a toxic environment a very destructive environment now a lot of these gurus whether they're explicitly in the manosphere or not they are looked up to by many men young men specifically and I'm of the view that if you view yourself as a teacher as many of these guys do as wise men leading other men as they prer to do then you have to have a flexibility in mind to concede when you're wrong and to course correct sometime
otherwise you're just a cult leader and in fact bathrob man AKA Hamza has referred to himself as a cult leader this is not the type of guidance that young men need they need experience they need wisdom but they also need the flexibility of Mind of the individual in question to acknowledge that maybe I was wrong about this or that the advice that they're doing out isn't some Universal Panacea to address all the problems that young men are facing now this is obviously Wishful thing because at the end of the day most of these guys are
simply trying to exploit young men they're not here to help young men quite the opposite so moving in a direction that would suggest more humility more course correction with a genuine attempt to understand young men at the individual level that's probably not going to happen it's bad enough that this problem of ego and pride so infuses the manosphere or man your adjacent areas it's even worse that this is a universal basically wherever you look online or on YouTube you will see the sin of Pride being committed again and again and again content creators become infallible
in their own eyes because even when they know they're wrong about something they will double down at the end of the day we all a bunch of stupid Apes myself included stuck on a mud Rock hurtling about a tiny tiny tiny Speck of space in the Galaxy I think that fact coupled with the fact that throughout our lives we make mistake after mistake after mistake should be enough to Warrant some self-reflection and an attempt to jettison these egos that we've amassed should be enough for some self-reflection and enable us to jettison the pride and egos
that we all have to some degree for the sake of the betterment of all but that is not how the internet works it's not how YouTube works and so we're stuck in the situation which is yet another reason why Guru ISM should be rejected whatever you might think they're promising especially if you're a young man I guarantee you they will give you essentially nothing they will buk you out of your money they'll rip you off and they certainly don't care about you look I'm going to be honest I don't have answers not really none of
us really has answers I'm just trying to understand this mess of existence just like you are and I'm no better than you I'm just a dude who is lucky enough to be given a voice that a few people listen to occasionally that doesn't make me special or better or different I just locked out and if you find the things I have to say helpful or even insightful then I'm pleased about that but would never claim that I'm particularly insightful again I'm just a guy I'm just a dude but then again so is every other content
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