The lecture explores hedonism, focusing on prioritizing short-term pleasure over long-term consequences. It discusses the connection between hedonism and the prey mentality, societal manipulation, the impact of absent fathers, raising children in unpredictable environments, and the link between child abuse and distorted rules leading to hedonistic behaviors. The speaker encourages reflection on the relationship between rules, hedonism, and individual actions.Join the PREMIUM philosophy community on the web for free!NOW AVAILABLE FOR SUBSCRIBERS: MY NEW BOOK 'PEACEFUL PARENTING' - AND THE INTERACTIVE PEACEFUL PARENTING AI AND AUDIOBOOK!Also get the Truth About the French Revolution, the interactive multi-lingual philosophy AI trained on thousands of hours of my material, private livestreams, premium call in shows, the 22 Part History of Philosophers series and much more!See you soon!https://freedomain.locals.com/support/promo/UPB2022
I don't have my gorgeous audio set up here, but we'll find a way to survive.
I wanted to get these thoughts down about hedonism.
Hedonism.
Now, it's both very fun and not fun to talk about hedonism.
Hedonism is organizing your life according to the short term pleasure principle.
Do what feels good in the moment and drink today.
Forget the hangover.
Enjoy your drugs today.
Forget about the brain rot.
And enjoy your promiscuity today, forget about the STDs, unwanted pregnancies, sexual assault allegations, and, or, well, actually, and for sure, destruction of your potential capacity for solid pair bonding.
So, pleasure today, and to heck with tomorrow.
And, of course, it is clearly both seductive and satanic, right?
So, there's an entire industry of
Have fun today, forget tomorrow, right?
Because that produces the kind of chaos and disorganization and mess in society as a whole.
That, you know, allows for the expansion of political power.
So the sort of demonic impulse of enjoy today, enjoy today that anybody who can't enjoy today is a highly repressed anal.
Type A, kill joy, can't relax, can't have fun, you know, chill.
Chill is the new thing, right?
Chill, man, chill.
It's like, well, why?
Isn't there not stuff to be angry and upset about in life?
No, chill, right?
So, hedonism is the opposite of just anger.
Just anger is when you're outraged at violations of persons and or property, and you are angry at the people who are violating it.
And hedonism says,
Forget it.
You know, it's not a big deal, right?
Don't worry about encroaches upon your rights and principles and values and virtues.
The important thing is to have fun.
So hedonism of course arises from the destruction of long-term thinking of a long term timeframe.
The obvious example of what we would call hedonism or would seem to be hedonistic, but which is perfectly rational is the condemned prisoners last meal.
Right, the condemned prisoner's last meal.
I don't know what it would be for you, but my last meal?
I don't know.
I mean, it would be probably some juicy plump shrimp seafood pasta with Alfredo sauce and garlic bread with garlic toast with butter and carrot cake and all things that would be a good 2,000 or 2,500 calories, which I could not possibly
It's a stain on any regular basis.
I actually just weighed myself for the first time in a while, 188 pounds.
And I've been doing some heavy muscle work lately.
So I think the fat is even down more.
So that's good.
We're getting there.
I like to get down to 180, but anyway.
So hedonism is it's your last meal.
What are you going to eat?
Well, you're going to eat whatever tastes the best because there literally is no tomorrow, right?
There is no tomorrow, right?
It's like, what's the old joke about like, why do they put alcohol swabs
On the injection site of a fatal injection.
It's like, what are they concerned?
You're going to get an infection.
But of course the answer is that if there's a last minute reprieve, or if you survive the, the, the injection for some reason, then you can't get an infection.
So, so it's the last meal scenario, right?
It's the last meal scenario.
Why would you worry?
You know, you don't, you don't brush your teeth after your last meal.
You don't exercise the day before your destruction and so on.
Right.
So, uh, hedonism.
So the way that you shrink people's time preferences to the here and now is you raise them in a constant sense of unease and danger.
Are you just right?
So it is, are selected to feel uneasy, right?
The prey species, the prey species always feel uneasy, right?
You know, when you have kids, right?
Every, every kid, myself included, right?
Every kid, myself included had or has.
Fantasy that animals in the wild will see how special, kind, and precious you are, and will come and eat out of your hand because they just trust you, and they love you, and they want to do right by you, and they sense your sensitive soul, and all kinds of good, juicy, and wonderful things.
And so that's the fantasy, right?
That is the, uh, that is the fantasy.
That all of these wonderful things are going to happen because you are just so special and precious and the animals will understand that and beautiful things will, will occur.
Right?
So that is because we only want the prey species to eat out of our hands, right?
That's all.
We only want the prey species to be eating out of our hands because if it's not a prey species, it's a predator species.
And it probably won't eat out of our hands.
It will in fact, eat our hands.
Right?
So we don't, we don't like, Hey, I got a big, I got a big hunk of meat.
It would be super cool if a bear would eat that out of my hand.
Like we don't, we don't want that.
Right.
That's not a thing.
So we are hoping that a prey species will trust us.
We'll like us.
We'll love us because we're just wonderful.
And, and everybody has this, right?
Everybody has this.
It's fantasy when you're kids and, you know, trying to get something to feed out of your hand is, is interesting, right?
So to, to, and prey species, of course, have a constant sense of unease and danger, right?
It's inevitable, right?
Constant, then that they should, they're right, right?
When we have our ducks out, when we have our ducks out and then airplane goes by, they cock their heads to the sky, right?
They cock their heads to the sky because they are
Frightened that the airplane is a hawk or an eagle or something that's gonna, you know, rip their fluffy little heads off.
So prey species are constantly nervous and they have no time preference.
Sorry.
The time preference is very short, short time preference.
The there's no investment in their young cause they don't have to train their young to eat and reproduce.
Like rabbits don't need to train their young to eat and reproduce.
That's all instinctual and so on.
Right.
I mean, ducklings will follow their ducks, the duck mothers.
But the duck mothers don't teach them anything.
Right.
They don't instruct them in anything.
Right.
I mean, I saw a video the other day of two cranes, as you know, it was Florida or something.
Right.
So two cranes that were teaching their baby crane how to fly.
I mean, maybe there's a little bit of mimicking and so on, but it's not like how lions play with their cubs to teach them how to hunt and, and spring and, and all of that.
Right.
So, and, and ducks that are raised in isolation, they learn, the males learn how to mate and the females learn how to submit.
It's instinctual.
They're not taught how to do that.
They learn that independent of being taught.
So prey species don't invest in their young.
Prey species grow up with a constant sense of unease and danger and prey species have very short time preferences.
So of course, if you want to prey on human beings, you try to turn them into
The prey mindset, right?
Human beings are both predator and prey, right?
You understand that?
So we both hunt and we are hunted, right?
So we, there are lots of things that will eat human beings or bears and, and sharks and tigers and lions and all other kinds of creatures will eat human beings.
And I guess the worms when we're all done with our bodies, but that is a basic reality of life that
We are both predator and prey.
And what that means is that we can go both ways.
And of course the greatest predator of human beings is other human beings, right?
Attack, war, enslave, rape, subjugate, exploit, that kind of stuff.
Right?
So of course the purpose of power is to trigger the prey mentality in human beings.
And the prey mentality is designed to survive, right?
A significant proportion of human beings.
At least half in many ancient empires and sometimes much higher, a significant proportion of human beings, a significant portion of human beings were slaves and they only survived by adopting a prey mentality, right?
Because they were preyed upon by the slave owners, sometimes within their own race, sometimes other races and so on.
Right?
So if you want to gain power over human beings, the best thing that you can do is raise children in a constant sense of unease and danger, right?
Which is why, you know, you have this.
Racial animosity, why you have a global warming or climate change at the end of the world stuff.
You raise children.
And also this is why it's very important to drive fathers out of the home, right?
If you drive fathers out of the home, you end up with our selected prey mentality, human beings.
And that's because of course, fathers are there designed to provide and protect.
And when there's fathers absent, that is a signal that the children are in danger.
Why?
Because they are.
Father absence is highly correlated with massive increases in child abuse, particularly sexual abuse.
So you are more abused in the absence of a father.
And so to drive fathers out of the home is foundational to expanding political power raises children and then race in a situation of unease and danger.
And the dangers have to be ideological because there's not scarcity danger, right?
We're not out of food.
In fact, the poor you are generally the fatter you tend to be these days, right?
So scarcity.
It's not, not the danger.
And so the danger has to be existential.
It has to be danger of propaganda, right?
That you're going to get attacked.
You're going to get deplatformed.
You're going to get, the world is going to end and you're guilty for your gender or your race or your sex or your race or something like that.
It's just race and that fathers are absent and right.
Female dominated societies raise uneasy children as a whole, right?
Because of reasons I've sort of gone into this a million times before.
I won't repeat myself.
Well, at least not this time.
So.
You have to get dads out of the home and you have to program children to be uneasy all the time.
Uh, so yeah, provoking in-group out-group tensions and programming them with the end of the world, anxiety and that kind of stuff.
That's essential, right?
For, for this, this kind of stuff.
So what you need is to provoke our selected prey based behavior, and that shortens the timeframe of the mindset, right?
So the mindset then.
Becomes short-term pleasures.
Rabbits, there's no point deferring pleasure, right?
If you're hungry, you eat, you eat.
If you, uh, if you're horny, you mate, right?
And this is, you know, screwing like rabbits is kind of a cliche, right?
So hedonism results from prey selected mindset, which results from specific familial structures and ideological existential dangers programmed into the minds of children.
You are.
In the process of turning human beings from dominant to submissive, right?
From K selected to R selected.
And if you don't know what these terms means, look at my immortal presentation, gene wars, three parts, G N E wars, gene wars.
So, and you can see this in left versus right, left is generally R selected, right is K selected.
The left doesn't invest in their kids other than propaganda.
Which is investing in political power and the right does invest in their kids.
The left constantly feels like a prey species while using it to dominate, right?
The cry bully stuff at the.
The K selected in modern society, which actually are in fact, prey generally have K selected mentalities and ideas.
So, and of course the whole purpose of heaven is, well, I shouldn't say the sole purpose, a significant purpose of heaven, the concept of heaven and God's rewards is to have you stretch
To, to be as case selected and as dominant as possible by stretching your time preferences to infinity, right?
The shorter the time preference, the more the prey mentality, right?
So that's the basic issue.
So hedonism is do what thou wilt, thou would harm no others.
Although thou would harm no others generally doesn't ever really kick in, but it's do what you want in the moment with no time preference that results from being a prey species.
And the reason we know this.
At least allegorically is if you look at the example of the guy with his last meal, right?
His last meal before dying, before, before being murdered or being killed or being executed, right?
His last meal is whatever he wants to eat, regardless of the future, because he is in fact the ultimate prey species, which is he is confined and he's going to be killed, right?
That's an ultimate prey species, right?
He's cage and.
He's going to be killed.
So he's the ultimate prey and his time preference is zero.
He has no time preferences whatsoever.
He'll just eat whatever feels good.
In fact, he'd probably would like to meet.
Why not shoot up heroin?
Why not do whatever you want, right?
Cause you're going to be killed the next day or that night.
So you're the ultimate prey species.
And therefore his, the more, the more you dial up the prey species, the more you dial down the time preferences.
So another way, of course, that families serve political power and the interests of the parents in the moment.
By turning children into a prey species is by constantly changing rules and constantly attacking them while blaming them, of course.
So when you abuse children and change the rules and it's the moodiness of the parents and the children can't plan, they can't protect themselves.
Like everybody knows, if you've had a volatile parent, your punishment is called some kind of justice, but it utterly depends upon
The mood of the parent, right?
If your parent is in a good mood, you can get away with just about anything.
If your parent is in a bad mood, you can't get away with anything.
In fact, stuff will just be invented.
And there's this meme of this woman in a drinking wine, staring angrily into space saying, well, I want one more glass of wine and I'm going to go and pick a fight with my husband, right?
If she's in a bad mood and she wants to discharge probably sexual frustration through interpersonal aggression.
So if you grow up in a situation of like the abuse in childhood, sorry, the abuse in childhood is not the abuse of children.
It's the abuse of rules.
This is an old objectivist argument, which is that a tyranny is not harsh rules.
A tyranny is no rules.
A tyranny is not the, is not the infliction, inflicting of harsh punishments for harsh rules.
It is no rules.
It depends on the mood.
It depends because sort of see this taking its unholy flower at the West these days.
Right.
So the way that you create prey mentality in children is you treat them to random dangers.
So for instance, when a, when a rabbit is in its Warren, right, it's deep in its burrow.
It can relax because you know, there's virtually no creatures that can get in and harm it.
Right.
Certainly once the rabbit is deep underground.
Uh, it's, it's safer in the birds, right?
The birds aren't gonna burrow in and eat the rabbit, right?
It's, you know, as foxes, if they hear the fox digging, they can, they have lots of warning and so on.
So they can relax to some degree, right?
So the way that you create the ultimate prey species is you make sure that you raise children in a situation where they cannot protect themselves and they cannot rely on the protection of any objective rules.
They cannot rely.
Now, when I was in boarding school, the, the rules were harsh, but they weren't random.
Right.
I mean, I mean, well, I shouldn't say that I felt a little random, I suppose, because I got beaten with a cane by climbing over a fence to get a ball back that we had kicked over and there was nobody there to, to get me the ball back.
Right.
So.
I didn't, I wasn't aware that that was a rule.
I knew that there, you know, maybe it wasn't totally great, but I didn't know that I could not climb it.
This was actually into the site area of the sanatorium, the sanatorium, because there were, I don't know, five, 600 boys and equal number of girls.
There's always a kid who was ill.
And so you had a couple of beds in a fairly decent sized house mansion.
I assume it's used for other things, but it's called the sanatorium because there was always some kid who needed medical care and medical treatment, medical help.
So I climbed up to get the football, soccer ball, I guess, soccer ball.
And I was ratted on by some snot-nosed son of a bitch.
And then I got caned, but I didn't know that the result of climbing the fence was to be caned.
I was like, it wasn't ideal, but I knew it probably was frowned upon, but I didn't know I'd get caned.
Right.
So, and I don't remember the going over all the rules.
Of course I was six, maybe they did, but I don't remember them.
And I don't remember climbing the, it was sort of an eye on railing.
And I don't remember climbing that thinking like, well, if I get caught, I'll be caged.
I don't have, I didn't even know that at all.
Right.
And so that rule felt random to me because I was not at all aware of it.
And you know, maybe when you're six, ignorance of the law is no excuse.
You know, just, just maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe ignorance of the law is no excuse.
In that situation, that would be nice.
Right.
So that was a real thing and a real issue.
So then when you are growing up in a situation of random rules, of no rules, of random punishments, then you're in a truly prey species because there aren't rules.
The predator-prey relationship, there are no rules.
There are no rules that you have to follow.
You don't have to give a warning, right?
You don't, the hawk just drops from the sky and tears off the head of the rabbit, right?
And there's no, and in fact, the hawk wants to hide, the hawk wants to not be visible, all this kind of stuff, right?
Oh, I just realized it.
I may in fact not be using the microphone of the phone, but instead the car.
Anyway, we'll figure it out.
Maybe this sounds absolutely terrible, but the idea is I wanted to get down.
So the real abuse is the abuse of the rules, not the abuse of the child.
If the child has strict rules and in conformity with those rules can be certain to escape punishment, then the child is not being raised as a prey species.
So you think this is a Spartan thing, right?
Sparta is when you've got to get up at five in the morning, you've got to do your exercises, you've got to do this, you've got to do that.
And if you do all of that, you won't get punished.
So there's predictability and certainty.
And people confuse the Spartan thing with abuse.
Now, of course, the punishments are harsh and the rules are, you know, obviously fairly, fairly strict, but there is, in general, utter predictability.
Utter predictability.
That lack of predictability is what produces the prey species and what produces the hedonism that political power so desperately needs in order to maintain its grip on the throat of humanity.
So the effects of child abuse is not the punishments or the beatings or even the yellings that you experienced.
The true effects of child abuse are the destruction of rules within your mind.
When the rules are destroyed, the hedonism emerges, and you destroy the rules by claiming their objective and applying them subjectively.
You claim that they're objective, which is supposed to make them, quote, fair, but then what you do is you apply them harshly, brutally, and randomly.
Now that's really, really important and really, really essential.
If you can do that, then you produce the hedonism
And the hedonism is also the destruction of the rules.
Because your rules are pleasure, but hedonism over time destroys pleasure.
And therefore you are following a rule that is destroyed in the following, right?
We all know that the promiscuity loses its pleasures.
Drug abuse loses its pleasures.
Alcoholism loses its pleasures and becomes pain.
And so because the rule you're following destroys itself in the act of following it, you are continuing the destruction of rules through hedonism.
And it is just wretched all around.
So that's really, really important.
What is your relationship to rules, right?
What is your, and we can see people's relationship to rules in their responses to UBB.
