Leo D.M.J. Aurini - February 11, 2015


The Cure to Social Justice is Self Respect


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The cure to social justice is self-respect. The root cause of social justice? Self-esteem. The cure to the social justice movement? Self-respect! In this video, I explain why this is the only solution.

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00:00:00.000 The cure to social justice is self-respect.
00:00:09.000 Now this video is somewhat of a follow-up to my last video, but it's also a video asking
00:00:17.440 a question that I myself have received a number of times, that I've seen asked in many other
00:00:22.860 places.
00:00:24.540 What is the solution to these woes that ail us?
00:00:28.640 What are we supposed to do about the left, about the social justice movement, about these
00:00:33.600 destructive, narcissistic forces that are running rampant in our society?
00:00:38.540 Well, to make a long story short, the only solution is an individual solution.
00:00:46.180 And in this video, I'm going to explain why.
00:00:48.500 Now, it'd be worth revisiting what exactly social justice is. 0.99
00:00:54.960 Now, social justice, of course, it started off as intellectual laziness with John Rawls
00:01:01.420 in his book on justice.
00:01:03.780 And it achieved its zenith in the modern day thanks to the self-esteem movement.
00:01:08.920 Now, what Rawls explored in his book was this approach to justice.
00:01:15.380 Instead of trying to come up with equitable laws, mathematical laws, going back to property,
00:01:21.120 who owns what, who was harmed, how much, how can we recompensate the person that was injured
00:01:28.160 in a just and fair manner.
00:01:29.820 Instead of all of that, Rawls proposes the very simple analysis, let's look at arbitrary
00:01:37.220 demographics, race, sex, income bracket, township, etc.
00:01:44.280 Let's look at the, let's draw these lines through the sand and see if there's disproportionate
00:01:52.520 punishment arriving at certain groups.
00:01:55.260 Now, of course, a demographer can break a population down into whatever groups they
00:02:02.800 want and find whatever perceived harms they want.
00:02:06.960 And so this analysis is just intellectual laziness.
00:02:10.980 It appears like you're doing something.
00:02:12.700 You can write reams and reams on this stuff.
00:02:15.200 But at the end of the day, it all signifies nothing.
00:02:18.640 It doesn't answer questions.
00:02:20.080 It doesn't answer, is this actually justice?
00:02:22.720 It's just tables upon tables of meaningless numbers that get us nowhere.
00:02:28.660 But you can look like you're part of the intelligentsia by doing it without having to do any real research
00:02:35.760 or any soul searching or any of the other things that academians used to do in centuries past.
00:02:43.960 But it wasn't until the self-esteem movement became big, this whole it's okay to cry generation,
00:02:51.500 everybody gets a trophy generation, whatever you feel is true, that all of this really started
00:02:59.100 to come together into the social justice movement.
00:03:03.900 To really sum this up, to really explain that the core of social justice is individual insanity,
00:03:11.280 the core of leftism is individual sanity, let me tell you about, well, it's an idea for a book I had
00:03:19.460 that I probably will write as soon as I have a desk again, that is essentially a mix of,
00:03:27.180 it's going to be part The Prince and part The Screwtape Letters, very satirical and brutally analytical
00:03:37.560 at the same time, with the working title right now, Lying for Fun and Profit.
00:03:45.180 Now, the premise of this book is that most people are sinners and they love being sinners.
00:03:54.820 Now, by sin, of course, we're going back to the original meaning of that term, which means missing the mark,
00:04:01.900 falling short, not getting a bullseye, not getting exactly what you want.
00:04:06.880 So if you're going to be a liar for fun and profit, if you're going to profit off of the sins of other people,
00:04:12.540 well, what sort of sins, what sort of ways do people fall short? 0.97
00:04:18.360 You know, are you fat and that makes you feel bad?
00:04:23.400 Well, then that's, we need some less fat shaming and more fat acceptance. 0.98
00:04:28.300 You know, are you bad with women? 1.00
00:04:30.020 Well, you know, don't learn game, don't try and improve yourself as a man.
00:04:33.040 You know, no, it's, the girls will come around, you know, they're going after the bad boys right now, 0.97
00:04:37.900 but, you know, they'll, they'll come around, they'll like you eventually, just be keeping, keep being a nice guy.
00:04:43.000 You're just a nice guy. 0.64
00:04:44.720 Do you, do you regret having sex? 1.00
00:04:48.180 Well, clearly you were manipulated by somebody else and forced to have sex through brainwashing, so it's rape. 1.00
00:04:54.140 Are you an economic failure? 1.00
00:04:56.260 Well, no, it's not your fault, it's somebody else holding you down.
00:05:00.040 You're being oppressed.
00:05:01.640 You know, are you socially awkward?
00:05:04.100 Well, no, you're not the one with the problem.
00:05:06.680 It's society that has a problem.
00:05:08.340 You're a special, unique snowflake.
00:05:10.680 So on and so on and so on.
00:05:13.180 See, what you do is you take all of these flaws that people have and you rationalize the flaws for them.
00:05:19.460 You turn them into heroes for being flawed.
00:05:22.220 Instead of celebrating overcoming your failures, you know, instead of, you know, you don't have any money,
00:05:28.580 get a job, work harder, or get an education or something like that.
00:05:32.480 You know, you're bad with women, learn game, get interested. 1.00
00:05:34.680 Maybe you're not that interesting.
00:05:36.420 Maybe women don't like you because you're not interesting. 1.00
00:05:39.180 You regret having sex, well, then maybe you should learn from that experience 0.88
00:05:43.080 and not put yourself in a situation where you have sex with somebody that you regret.
00:05:48.540 You know, maybe you shouldn't get blackout drunk at a frat party.
00:05:51.960 You know, all of these are challenging.
00:05:54.080 All of those attack the esteem, the ego of the individual.
00:05:58.600 Instead, you want to bloat the individual, the ego.
00:06:01.360 Bloat the ego.
00:06:02.840 Tell them they're special.
00:06:04.000 They're a snowflake.
00:06:05.840 You know, you're just a nice guy.
00:06:07.740 It's the world that's wrong, not you.
00:06:12.640 And so you feed into these sins.
00:06:14.340 Everything that they've done, that they feel bad about, you tell them,
00:06:17.960 oh, don't feel bad about that.
00:06:19.740 Feel good about that.
00:06:21.960 And right there, you've got the social justice movement.
00:06:26.160 It is the self-esteem movement.
00:06:28.920 This idea that I have a right, I have a right, a human right to feel good about myself.
00:06:36.200 To feel high self-esteem at all times.
00:06:40.620 And quite frankly, the solution to this, the opposite of self-esteem, is self-respect.
00:06:50.280 You know, the two words are used very interchangeably nowadays,
00:06:53.280 but self-respect means looking back upon yourself.
00:06:56.260 It means, like, respecting.
00:06:58.900 Having a spectacle, a point of view.
00:07:02.220 Looking back upon who you are and what you've accomplished,
00:07:05.160 and knowing who you are by those accomplishments.
00:07:09.200 You know, if you've spent your entire life just sitting at home, playing video games,
00:07:13.620 then you really don't have much to respect on.
00:07:17.480 You don't really know much about yourself.
00:07:19.880 You know, if you've been sitting around on welfare,
00:07:22.420 taking the easy path your whole time, you have nothing to respect.
00:07:27.160 You know, you have a lot to esteem, obviously.
00:07:30.040 Because self-esteem is all about rationalizing failures.
00:07:32.520 But you have nothing to respect.
00:07:35.960 So, the solution to social justice, the opposite of social justice,
00:07:41.620 is improving yourself.
00:07:44.540 Is admitting when you failed.
00:07:46.580 And it is, in fact, failing.
00:07:49.100 It's moving forward, trying new things,
00:07:51.580 and failing and trying to get better.
00:07:54.160 And admitting your failures.
00:07:57.000 You know, Vox Dei and John C. Wright have been writing about this recently.
00:08:00.820 In fact, you know, I was trying to put this video together before they even wrote any of this,
00:08:07.740 but they put it so perfectly that I need to paraphrase from them.
00:08:11.240 You know, what's the difference between us and a social justice warrior?
00:08:15.720 It's really not that much.
00:08:20.340 You know, we're all flawed human beings.
00:08:23.600 We all, you know, are embarrassed about something, ashamed of something.
00:08:28.680 Except we admit it to ourselves.
00:08:31.240 That's the difference.
00:08:31.880 It's the tiniest little difference.
00:08:33.800 That we admit to ourselves that we're flawed human beings.
00:08:38.640 And rather than running from shame, as the social justice warriors do,
00:08:44.760 we punch through the shame into self-improvement.
00:08:50.360 You know, if I did something that made me feel ashamed,
00:08:53.220 then I will go and try and give restitution to anybody I harmed,
00:08:58.560 and I'm going to try not to do anything like that again.
00:09:01.920 As opposed to rationalizing it and reveling in your shame,
00:09:06.460 which is the self-esteem solution, which is the social justice solution.
00:09:11.660 So admitting our own faults.
00:09:13.340 That's the difference between us and them.
00:09:15.440 And it's by admitting our own faults that we improve as people.
00:09:19.280 And ultimately, that is how we fight against this whole thing.
00:09:24.720 Now, you know, maybe at this point you're saying,
00:09:26.900 well, yeah, this is wonderful advice for living a happy life,
00:09:30.740 but what does this have to do with defeating the left,
00:09:33.740 with defeating the social justice warriors?
00:09:38.400 Well, what else does it have to do?
00:09:41.140 What else?
00:09:43.540 You know, like living a good life is the argument.
00:09:48.460 There's a quote I heard a while back saying that, you know, karma,
00:09:55.280 karma exists and it works on a societal level.
00:10:00.740 Not an individual level, a societal level.
00:10:04.700 That when you have societies that are overcome with depravity,
00:10:10.420 self-indulgence, and every other kind of sin,
00:10:14.280 that eventually those societies get their comeuppance.
00:10:18.560 You know, like it or not.
00:10:19.900 It's a societal force.
00:10:22.260 That's what karma is.
00:10:23.120 And so, by you living a better life,
00:10:28.160 by you improving yourself,
00:10:30.620 by you not adopting these comforting, easy lies,
00:10:35.880 but always seeking self-betterment,
00:10:38.720 you right there are acting to oppose this karma,
00:10:42.420 to ensure a better future.
00:10:45.000 You know, this is why the Christians say, 0.99
00:10:48.700 you know, you are the salt of the earth.
00:10:52.380 You are the preservative.
00:10:54.500 You are the bit that preserves the things that are good in the earth.
00:10:58.500 Merely by existing.
00:11:00.380 Merely by you existing and being a good person,
00:11:03.440 you are preserving that goodness,
00:11:05.900 by rejecting the easy lies.
00:11:07.600 And the second point about this is,
00:11:13.320 living a good life,
00:11:15.960 living virtuously,
00:11:17.800 you know, attaining wisdom,
00:11:20.300 these are not movements.
00:11:23.620 In fact, the whole problem
00:11:25.640 with the 20th century
00:11:27.740 and the 21st century so far
00:11:30.040 has been movements.
00:11:33.720 You know, to quote John C. Wright,
00:11:35.180 the thing about heresies,
00:11:37.600 is that they are always very simple.
00:11:41.940 You know, we have this very complex
00:11:45.080 body of philosophy,
00:11:47.300 body of law,
00:11:48.180 body of theology.
00:11:51.000 Civilization is really complex.
00:11:53.140 Being a good person is really complex.
00:11:55.680 And there's no simple answers.
00:11:58.060 Again, the answer,
00:11:59.160 you're bad meeting women? 0.99
00:12:01.340 Well, I do not have a magic pill I can sell you.
00:12:04.180 I do not have a single pickup line
00:12:06.780 that I can sell you.
00:12:09.180 You know, instead you'll have to learn
00:12:10.300 to approach women,
00:12:11.500 to talk to them.
00:12:12.260 You'll have to become interesting.
00:12:14.200 You'll have to read books.
00:12:15.700 You'll have to get an interesting job.
00:12:18.980 You know, you'll have to get some money.
00:12:21.920 These are the things that you have to do
00:12:23.280 to be good with women.
00:12:24.240 The easy solution is just be yourself. 0.98
00:12:28.640 You know, crawl inside your narcissistic shell 0.90
00:12:30.680 and just be yourself. 0.84
00:12:33.120 And then blame reality.
00:12:34.900 Go all Elliot Roger because you can't get laid. 0.96
00:12:39.080 No, the real solution is complex.
00:12:41.720 And the thing about social movements
00:12:46.480 is that they are never complex.
00:12:50.720 They're all about catchphrases and slogans.
00:12:55.860 And see, we need to be better
00:12:58.600 than catchphrases and slogans.
00:13:01.940 We need to be complex
00:13:04.480 if we're going to fight
00:13:06.620 the social justice movement.
00:13:07.780 I think really the fight against,
00:13:12.820 the fight is against movements in general.
00:13:16.300 Leftism, social justice, you know,
00:13:18.300 these are just the latest labels
00:13:19.700 for the psychotic, destructive movements
00:13:22.420 that have been plaguing us really
00:13:24.160 for the past few centuries,
00:13:25.620 ever since monarchy started to fall apart.
00:13:30.700 And at the end of the day,
00:13:32.860 you know, not only is living
00:13:35.340 a rich and interesting life
00:13:36.980 the best way to fight
00:13:38.780 against this simplistic nonsense,
00:13:42.140 it's also the best way to live your life.
00:13:46.680 We've only got one shot on this planet.
00:13:50.160 You know, you've got
00:13:50.940 60 to 100 years,
00:13:54.340 somewhere around there,
00:13:56.000 to make mistakes,
00:13:57.640 to better yourself,
00:13:58.540 to enjoy yourself.
00:14:01.660 And yeah, right now,
00:14:03.200 there's a lot of problems.
00:14:04.940 You know, we could go on about problems.
00:14:07.640 You know, the divorce rate's 50%,
00:14:09.520 the economy is going down the tubes,
00:14:13.160 politics has become nothing
00:14:16.480 but this theater show.
00:14:19.380 We could go on and on and on about that.
00:14:23.380 But at the same time,
00:14:25.100 we are some of the most lucky,
00:14:29.320 well-educated,
00:14:30.640 well-fed people that have ever existed.
00:14:35.900 There are a lot of challenges out there right now.
00:14:38.720 But forget about the politics.
00:14:39.980 Forget about the negativity.
00:14:41.360 That is the reality.
00:14:42.400 Look at the real world.
00:14:44.620 You know, we are not the social justice movement.
00:14:46.400 We do not make excuses for ourselves.
00:14:48.740 Look at the real world,
00:14:49.900 make an accurate assessment of the real world,
00:14:53.100 and then ask yourself,
00:14:54.900 where do I fit into this?
00:15:00.020 Where can I carve out
00:15:02.320 a little space for myself
00:15:04.420 that will make me happy?
00:15:06.620 You know, a bit of property,
00:15:09.400 or maybe traveling all over
00:15:11.640 in different rental properties.
00:15:13.920 You know, do you want a few playmates
00:15:16.200 that you allow to move into your home with you?
00:15:18.960 Do you want to go solo?
00:15:21.160 Do you want to make a bunch of money?
00:15:22.600 Do you want to just keep yourself safe?
00:15:25.220 Like, yes, you're not going to get
00:15:26.360 a career with the company
00:15:27.700 and a loyal and indifferent wife. 0.99
00:15:31.440 You know, it's, yes, that, that is gone.
00:15:33.980 We have all been lied to.
00:15:35.120 We need to get over the lies.
00:15:38.600 But it is also,
00:15:41.360 it is one of the best times to be alive.
00:15:44.560 I mean, thank God they still let us drive cars
00:15:47.000 and smoke cigarettes.
00:15:48.720 You know, I don't know what the future will be like,
00:15:50.620 but right now we can drive cars
00:15:52.840 and we can smoke cigarettes.
00:15:55.240 And there's a lot of possibility out there.
00:16:00.660 And by embracing that,
00:16:02.260 by living a good life,
00:16:04.620 indirectly you accumulate capital,
00:16:08.640 whether it be social capital
00:16:10.260 or financial capital,
00:16:12.000 you become more powerful.
00:16:16.560 One thing that we are really seeing
00:16:17.720 in the social justice movement 0.98
00:16:18.780 is it is a very small minority of losers. 0.94
00:16:23.840 And when you're in a position 0.82
00:16:25.520 of having financial capital,
00:16:28.080 of having social capital,
00:16:29.560 then you can confidently speak
00:16:31.200 against these people.
00:16:33.900 You know, you can call out other heresies.
00:16:36.000 Maybe not today, maybe in 20 years.
00:16:38.360 Maybe it will be a whole new heresy,
00:16:39.940 a whole new bit of nonsense 0.82
00:16:41.200 that they're trying to spread.
00:16:44.620 And we do have to participate
00:16:46.260 somewhat politically.
00:16:49.500 You know, the solution is not
00:16:51.160 just to sit poolside
00:16:53.080 and have a...
00:16:55.680 You know, I don't think anybody wants that.
00:16:58.620 You know, the solution is not to give up
00:17:00.500 and spend your next 10 years,
00:17:03.400 you know,
00:17:04.360 taming the dragon
00:17:05.120 and then dying with a throat full of vomit 0.79
00:17:08.060 in an alley somewhere.
00:17:10.600 That's not the solution either.
00:17:12.460 The solution is not giving up.
00:17:13.460 The solution is finding
00:17:14.740 a smart way to live
00:17:16.520 that is in accordance with your values
00:17:19.180 and being very, very certain,
00:17:22.840 very disciplined
00:17:23.560 and making sure you are not deluding yourself.
00:17:26.860 You are not allowing yourself
00:17:28.900 to indulge in insanity
00:17:30.540 and that you're creating
00:17:34.420 a positive karmic contribution
00:17:37.500 to the world.
00:17:40.180 The cure to social justice, folks,
00:17:42.820 is living a life
00:17:44.320 that gives you self-respect.
00:17:47.160 Irini out.
00:17:58.900 Dr.
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