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Varg Rambling on About Civilization Again.
Let's talk a little bit about civilization itself is it a good thing? Is it a bad thing? Well, let's find out.
Some of you might remember me from the old YouTube channel where I talked up against civilization and the negative effects of civilization. For example, the auto-domestication that is a natural result of both agriculture and civilization. I also made a video about how the writing system itself is negative, degenerative, detrimental for our ability to remember. Of course, I got a little flack for that because people think writing is progress and so forth, but the truth is that it has a negative effect on our ability to remember. This is where I have to modify my view, because overall the peoples who write down things are able to accumulate more knowledge. Because there's a limit still to how much you can remember. But there's no limit basically to how much you can write down and therefore make use of it.[1]And in this day and age we basically have access to the accumulated knowledge of mankind with a click of a mouse.[2]So of course today you as a human being are able to find out a lot more and the knowledge basis that you stand on, to put it metaphorically, enables you to reach up very high, so to speak.
But let's talk a little bit about the some negative consequences of auto-domestication. The jaw shrinks the brain shrinks, the skeleton becomes more frail and so forth. But at the same time if you compare for example a dog to a wolf, the wolf has less courage than the dog.[3]The dog has been selected for its courage and loyalty and it will fight to the death for its owner most of the time. So auto-domestication might have some negative effects but it also has some positive effects. I just gave that example but there are other things too.
Another thing we have to take into consideration here is that, okay, maybe you don't like civilization, maybe living in a less civilized world would have been better. But the problem but the problem is that the genie is out of the box, so to speak. If we collapse this civilization, we're not going to return to a barbarian society. We are not going to get rid of civilization, we are just going to start over again. And no matter how much I might dislike this, no matter how much I don't want it or whatever, this is going to happen and we have to relate to those facts. And if you take the current civilization for example, it is of course utterly destructive and it doesn't have a positive end no matter how you see it. This is going down the drains. The people who should have power they don't want it the people who want power they shouldn't have power. And the system itself rewards corruption, egotism, cruelty, ruthlessness, dishonesty and so forth, and therefore these people the people who possess those "abilities" or other flaws are the ones that rise up into power positions. And the problem here is that everyone wants a collapse, right? But what everyone also has to understand is that their model of a better world it's probably not going to be that afterwards. We're probably just going to make the same mistakes again and again and again like we tend to do, we human beings. So I have a little bit negative future for mankind.
I'm not very optimistic but at the same time there are game changers in this because nobody really expected, for example, AI to just appear like this and to be that good. I know most people hate AI and that's understandable but it is a revolutionary technology And maybe it will change something here.[4]And if you look further ahead, maybe something else will show up as well and become a game changer. This is of course like people who pray to god or something because they hope that some divine power will intervene. So it's not a solution it's not realistic, but it's a hope that we can cling to if nothing else. To keep going.
Anyhow, I think we should try to find a model that works and a model that would work differently because, okay, we're stuck with civilization not getting rid of it, and it has positive effects. And in the long run, barbarism is not going to save us when the sun dies, but a civilization might.[5]And one way to find a better model is, of course, to look at the model we have now and consider what works, what doesn't work, and what in this model do we really, really need to get rid of for there to be any hope for the next model. Thanks for watching.
Let's talk a little bit about civilization itself is it a good thing? Is it a bad thing? Well, let's find out.
Some of you might remember me from the old YouTube channel where I talked up against civilization and the negative effects of civilization. For example, the auto-domestication that is a natural result of both agriculture and civilization. I also made a video about how the writing system itself is negative, degenerative, detrimental for our ability to remember. Of course, I got a little flack for that because people think writing is progress and so forth, but the truth is that it has a negative effect on our ability to remember. This is where I have to modify my view, because overall the peoples who write down things are able to accumulate more knowledge. Because there's a limit still to how much you can remember. But there's no limit basically to how much you can write down and therefore make use of it.[1]And in this day and age we basically have access to the accumulated knowledge of mankind with a click of a mouse.[2]So of course today you as a human being are able to find out a lot more and the knowledge basis that you stand on, to put it metaphorically, enables you to reach up very high, so to speak.
But let's talk a little bit about the some negative consequences of auto-domestication. The jaw shrinks the brain shrinks, the skeleton becomes more frail and so forth. But at the same time if you compare for example a dog to a wolf, the wolf has less courage than the dog.[3]The dog has been selected for its courage and loyalty and it will fight to the death for its owner most of the time. So auto-domestication might have some negative effects but it also has some positive effects. I just gave that example but there are other things too.
Another thing we have to take into consideration here is that, okay, maybe you don't like civilization, maybe living in a less civilized world would have been better. But the problem but the problem is that the genie is out of the box, so to speak. If we collapse this civilization, we're not going to return to a barbarian society. We are not going to get rid of civilization, we are just going to start over again. And no matter how much I might dislike this, no matter how much I don't want it or whatever, this is going to happen and we have to relate to those facts. And if you take the current civilization for example, it is of course utterly destructive and it doesn't have a positive end no matter how you see it. This is going down the drains. The people who should have power they don't want it the people who want power they shouldn't have power. And the system itself rewards corruption, egotism, cruelty, ruthlessness, dishonesty and so forth, and therefore these people the people who possess those "abilities" or other flaws are the ones that rise up into power positions. And the problem here is that everyone wants a collapse, right? But what everyone also has to understand is that their model of a better world it's probably not going to be that afterwards. We're probably just going to make the same mistakes again and again and again like we tend to do, we human beings. So I have a little bit negative future for mankind.
I'm not very optimistic but at the same time there are game changers in this because nobody really expected, for example, AI to just appear like this and to be that good. I know most people hate AI and that's understandable but it is a revolutionary technology And maybe it will change something here.[4]And if you look further ahead, maybe something else will show up as well and become a game changer. This is of course like people who pray to god or something because they hope that some divine power will intervene. So it's not a solution it's not realistic, but it's a hope that we can cling to if nothing else. To keep going.
Anyhow, I think we should try to find a model that works and a model that would work differently because, okay, we're stuck with civilization not getting rid of it, and it has positive effects. And in the long run, barbarism is not going to save us when the sun dies, but a civilization might.[5]And one way to find a better model is, of course, to look at the model we have now and consider what works, what doesn't work, and what in this model do we really, really need to get rid of for there to be any hope for the next model. Thanks for watching.
- There is no limit to how much you can LOOK UP in books.
- And most or us ignore that, and instead use the Internet to watch p*rn,
write silly comments on social media, play games, and make
cringe memes. - A wolf is more likely to flee danger, defend itself, and react based on
survival instincts rather than personal loyalty. Wolves make TERRIBLE
guard animals. - The DUMB will become EVEN DUMBER because of it, and the smart,
EVEN SMARTER, that is for sure. - IF the Sun dies.