The Meaning of Life
Video info
Transcription
| Description | #Purpose #MeaningOfLife |
| Collections | VisualMust watchBiology |
| Uploaded | 2025-12-21 |
About the Meaning of Life (no less)
So who am I? I'm Varg, right? An individual human being. But as an individual human being, I'm kind of meaningless. If I have a family, though, I am a part of something bigger than me, something that can last in theory forever. I live on in my children and in their children and so forth. So all of a sudden, life has new meaning. I'm not just an individual with a beginning and an end. I'm part of something that can exist and has existed for a very, very long time.
But, you know, some of us are childless, and whether we are childless voluntarily or not, we don't leave a biological heritage in that sense. However, we are very much alike the people around us. Others who look like us, right? And biologically speaking, we're basically the same. And what this, in effect, means is that you can actually live on in, let's call it the extended family as well, in your people, in your race.
So even if you have no family, no direct lineage from you, you still have a meaning. You still belong somewhere, and you can still contribute in a meaningful way. For example, if I have no children, but my brother has children, I can help him raise his children, protect them and so forth, educate them. And it will benefit me in the long run because we are the same blood. If my race survives, I survive because I'm part of it. If my family survives,[1] I'll survive. But even if my family doesn't, I'll still survive it because my race survives.
And if I think of myself as an individual, then all of this becomes meaningless, including my life, because what am I living for? Whenever I see some documentary on YouTube or something, and I see some guys who... "they built this really cool survival place in the desert" and so forth, and who are they? Well, they're two old brothers. So then I start asking myself the question, who cares if they... why would even they care if they survive or not? They're leaving nothing. They're just two old men. They'll die there and nothing will be left. So they are survivalists in this life. They want to live as long as possible. What's the point?
If you, on the other hand, see your existence as part of something else: the family, the people, the race, the species.[2] Everything you do has meaning and you can contribute in a positive way as an individual. A life has meaning. You do something today because you want to influence the existence of your family,[3] etc, etc. Life has new meaning. So if you manage to make people think of themselves as individuals only, with no connections elsewhere, they lose meaning and they lose hope, and they might as well just lay down and die because nothing matters. But if they are a part of something, if you make them think of themselves as part of something. And when you, in fact, realize that they ARE part of something, everything they do becomes meaningful. And they understand themselves, that they can contribute in a positive way[4] to something that is more important than their own individual self.
If you want to be difficult, you can call this a socialist idea. But it's basic biology. We are biological creatures, and we want to promote our genes because those are those are the things that survive physically, in reality, the genes.
You don't just exist in this life. You exist for the future. And any flaw that you have today can be worked with and removed for future generations. And this means that you can look at life as a continual process of self improvement. And by self improving, you improve your "unit" you belong to, and you belong to other units, like I said, family, people, race, species.
So as I see it, we as individuals have purpose[5] only as part of something else. And if you think of yourselves as part of something bigger than just you, you will contribute positively. Because what you do to improve your future will help others as well. Biologically speaking, it will help the family.[6] If you remove something that is bad in you, it will help the people and the race and the species. So I think it's a very positive worldview where you see yourself as part of something bigger than you. And you do your best to improve that unit or those units.
So who am I? I'm Varg, right? An individual human being. But as an individual human being, I'm kind of meaningless. If I have a family, though, I am a part of something bigger than me, something that can last in theory forever. I live on in my children and in their children and so forth. So all of a sudden, life has new meaning. I'm not just an individual with a beginning and an end. I'm part of something that can exist and has existed for a very, very long time.
But, you know, some of us are childless, and whether we are childless voluntarily or not, we don't leave a biological heritage in that sense. However, we are very much alike the people around us. Others who look like us, right? And biologically speaking, we're basically the same. And what this, in effect, means is that you can actually live on in, let's call it the extended family as well, in your people, in your race.
So even if you have no family, no direct lineage from you, you still have a meaning. You still belong somewhere, and you can still contribute in a meaningful way. For example, if I have no children, but my brother has children, I can help him raise his children, protect them and so forth, educate them. And it will benefit me in the long run because we are the same blood. If my race survives, I survive because I'm part of it. If my family survives,[1] I'll survive. But even if my family doesn't, I'll still survive it because my race survives.
And if I think of myself as an individual, then all of this becomes meaningless, including my life, because what am I living for? Whenever I see some documentary on YouTube or something, and I see some guys who... "they built this really cool survival place in the desert" and so forth, and who are they? Well, they're two old brothers. So then I start asking myself the question, who cares if they... why would even they care if they survive or not? They're leaving nothing. They're just two old men. They'll die there and nothing will be left. So they are survivalists in this life. They want to live as long as possible. What's the point?
If you, on the other hand, see your existence as part of something else: the family, the people, the race, the species.[2] Everything you do has meaning and you can contribute in a positive way as an individual. A life has meaning. You do something today because you want to influence the existence of your family,[3] etc, etc. Life has new meaning. So if you manage to make people think of themselves as individuals only, with no connections elsewhere, they lose meaning and they lose hope, and they might as well just lay down and die because nothing matters. But if they are a part of something, if you make them think of themselves as part of something. And when you, in fact, realize that they ARE part of something, everything they do becomes meaningful. And they understand themselves, that they can contribute in a positive way[4] to something that is more important than their own individual self.
If you want to be difficult, you can call this a socialist idea. But it's basic biology. We are biological creatures, and we want to promote our genes because those are those are the things that survive physically, in reality, the genes.
You don't just exist in this life. You exist for the future. And any flaw that you have today can be worked with and removed for future generations. And this means that you can look at life as a continual process of self improvement. And by self improving, you improve your "unit" you belong to, and you belong to other units, like I said, family, people, race, species.
So as I see it, we as individuals have purpose[5] only as part of something else. And if you think of yourselves as part of something bigger than just you, you will contribute positively. Because what you do to improve your future will help others as well. Biologically speaking, it will help the family.[6] If you remove something that is bad in you, it will help the people and the race and the species. So I think it's a very positive worldview where you see yourself as part of something bigger than you. And you do your best to improve that unit or those units.
- The closer the "unit", the more of me survives in it.
- For Europeans: "homo neanderthalensis".
- FUTURE existence.
- Biology > Religious delusions.
- Purpose. But also OBLIGATIONS.
- Would your ancestors approve of your actions today?
Of what you think, and do, in life?