postyX - Modern Day Serfdom

00:00:00.260 Friedrich Nietzsche had posed this question over a century ago.

00:00:05.860 Why do we follow the crowd, even when it leads us astray, or we know it's going to result in poor outcomes?

00:00:13.340 Why is it so hard to think and act for ourselves?

00:00:18.640 I am of the opinion that this attitude that has kind of persisted, probably for over a century maybe,

00:00:27.360 is the reason why we are now leading ourselves or have led ourselves into a post-national kind of serfdom.

00:00:34.980 And there's three terms we're going to kind of progressively talk about.

00:00:39.660 Number one is obviously the Friedrich Nietzsche's thoughts on individualism and herd mentality.

00:00:47.140 And then we're going to transition into the post-national state that we are now in here in Canada,

00:00:54.360 and at least most of the Western countries, especially crown countries, UK and Australia primarily.

00:01:01.600 And then we're going to talk about the serfdom that this has led to,

00:01:05.540 and how we can relate to what actual serfdom was back in feudal times to what is going on now.

00:01:13.020 So Nietzsche saw society as dominated by what he called the herd mentality.

00:01:23.520 So obviously you probably know what this means, but in that view, he felt that most people conform,

00:01:28.820 not out of reason or morality, but out of fear.

00:01:33.640 So they're not doing it because they logically think that's the right choice,

00:01:37.080 but their fear of rejection, which is a huge thing in society.

00:01:41.340 I mean, it persists, especially now in the social media era, more so than ever.

00:01:46.920 So the fear is, you know, a fear of standing alone, a fear of being different.

00:01:51.500 One of his quotes was,

00:01:52.920 the individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

00:01:57.440 So that is very pertinent to what is going on and what has been going on.

00:02:01.940 It's very tough.

00:02:02.780 I mean, there's a Dr. Seuss quote, and, you know, as childish as that may be,

00:02:07.340 it says, you know, why fit in when you were born to stand out?

00:02:11.100 And this is the thing, right?

00:02:12.640 Like, it's a nice quote and all that, but at the end of the day, people are afraid to stand out.

00:02:17.640 And this is why, you know, we are in this perpetual cycle of basically nothingness,

00:02:23.140 NPCs just constantly, you know, things are just well enough as they are.

00:02:28.260 Nietzsche also believed that the moral systems, especially those influenced by religion,

00:02:31.980 often reflect values of the weak, not the strong.

00:02:35.620 He called this the slave morality, values like humility, meekness, and conformity

00:02:40.480 that obviously serve the herd. 0.97

00:02:43.340 He challenged the idea that being good means obeying.

00:02:46.420 In fact, he saw morality as a tool of control,

00:02:49.720 a way for the herd to shame the strong and silence the independent.

00:02:54.280 We saw no bigger example of this than during COVID. 0.99

00:02:57.700 I bring this up constantly because I don't think I will ever, ever forgive the shit that went on during COVID 0.96

00:03:04.020 and what they did to us, this whole psychological experiment. 0.97

00:03:07.240 But this was huge.

00:03:08.620 I mean, we all know, like, how many of us lost our social media accounts, 0.98

00:03:12.560 how many of us got called into their boss's office because they shared memes about masks that were kind of funny and shit. 0.91

00:03:19.060 So I think we all, on the right anyways, have had this experience. 0.93

00:03:23.160 So we all know all about the herd mentality and not fitting in.

00:03:28.440 He proposed, so he didn't stop at criticism, though.

00:03:30.480 He did propose a vision of the uvermensch, the overman,

00:03:34.300 a symbol of the individual who creates their own values and rises above the herd.

00:03:38.540 And again, I am one of these people that believe these are the only men,

00:03:45.160 and it needs to be men, that will lead us to this, what needs to be done,

00:03:50.860 whether it's a revolution, whether it's, you know, a total new, I don't even know,

00:03:56.780 I don't even want to get into trouble saying stuff, but you get what I'm saying.

00:03:59.460 In his mind, the uvermensch is not arrogant or selfish, but courageous,

00:04:05.360 willing to walk alone, willing to face uncertainty, and willing to live authentically.

00:04:11.660 He challenged us to break free from the herd mentality, to question received wisdom,

00:04:15.640 forge our own path, and become something greater than we are.

00:04:19.080 So this is where Nietzsche, he never really, I don't even want to know if it was something he wanted to solve,

00:04:24.780 but he was very interested in this whole mentality of, you know, following the crowd and the herd thing.

00:04:30.100 And I always will go back to the fact that it's easier, right?

00:04:34.200 Humans, unfortunately, have, whether it's been evolutionary or whatever,

00:04:38.560 as the Industrial Revolution started, humans obviously got more or less reliant on themselves

00:04:43.920 and, you know, more reliant on external things like machinery and stuff like that.

00:04:47.860 And I think it's all kind of part of a bigger, you know, we've just become lazy, right?

00:04:52.660 Like, it's just easy, the path of least resistance, right?

00:04:56.180 We've evolved from, you know, humans that had to hunt and gather and, you know, 0.95

00:05:01.020 fight for our food and get our food where we can just sit on our asses and have it delivered to us.

00:05:04.520 So there's really no incentive to stand up, to rock the boat, to, you know, be that one person.

00:05:10.320 And it takes somebody with a really strong, deep moral convictions, I guess you could say,

00:05:17.440 that override that, you know, desire to be lazy and procrastinate.

00:05:21.520 So 10 years ago, Justin Trudeau, who is no longer the Prime Minister of Canada, did an interview.

00:05:28.540 It was in 2015, in December, shortly after he was elected.

00:05:32.740 And a lot of people missed this interview, or at least this clip in the interview,

00:05:36.620 because I guess people were riding on the high of free marijuana and,

00:05:40.720 oh my God, look, we have a good-looking Prime Minister.

00:05:42.840 How hot is he? And that kind of fucking bullshit. 1.00

00:05:45.640 But he said something that, again, it's very important now when you look back on it, 1.00

00:05:52.520 which is the case in many things, but he talked about a post-national state.

00:05:56.240 He said, Canada doesn't have an identity, doesn't have a cultural identity,

00:06:01.320 and we are going to be the first post-national state.

00:06:04.900 Well, what is a post-national state, right?

00:06:07.140 People are like, okay, that doesn't sound too bad.

00:06:09.860 But what a post-national state is, is basically one step on the path to being a global citizen.

00:06:16.820 The goal here is that they want everybody to be a citizen of the world,

00:06:21.960 and then a citizen of their country second, or however you want to put it.

00:06:25.940 So nationality doesn't matter.

00:06:27.720 You don't have to immigrate to anywhere.

00:06:30.600 You can go anywhere you want.

00:06:31.760 No one belongs anywhere.

00:06:32.800 No one has a home, basically.

00:06:34.460 Of course, the Jews will have a home. 0.99

00:06:36.220 We all know that.

00:06:36.960 But anyways.

00:06:38.160 So that's a post-national state in a nutshell.

00:06:41.020 It's a global economy.

00:06:42.280 Who does it benefit?

00:06:43.160 It really only benefits the elites, and this is why they are pushing for it more.

00:06:46.860 When you don't have to worry about labor laws that cross borders or countries,

00:06:50.480 you don't have to worry about financial benefits or pay or conditions or all this kind of stuff.

00:06:59.780 If you can just bring somebody over without any kind of paperwork or red tape

00:07:04.260 or anything like that, and they're already doing it here.

00:07:06.920 I mean, we've seen it in Canada and, I mean, Australia, too, and the UK.

00:07:10.960 The UK started a bit before us, but we're probably all in some form of stage,

00:07:16.040 one stage or another of a post-national state where it's unrecognizable anymore.

00:07:21.640 It goes back to that question that we always ask, right?

00:07:24.220 What is a Canadian?

00:07:25.260 Which most people, especially people that aren't ethnically Canadian or white, can't answer.

00:07:32.700 And the reason they can't answer this is because they're not Canadian. 0.51

00:07:36.440 There was a study done or, I guess, a survey done in the UK where they asked the Muslim population,

00:07:43.300 do they identify as being English or British first or Muslim first?

00:07:47.840 And three quarters of them, 75%, said they identify as being Muslim first.

00:07:54.040 So you can't have a post-national state and then, and maybe, I don't know,

00:07:59.440 maybe this is what they want, people not to have any kind of loyalty to any nation.

00:08:03.880 But that's, you know, the post-national state, that's where we're headed in.

00:08:06.760 I'm sure you can see it if you look around, if you want to open your eyes and see.

00:08:11.800 We're already pretty much there.

00:08:13.460 So now that we're getting to the post-national state, right, we're almost there.

00:08:17.440 Well, what does that lead to after?

00:08:19.200 Well, that leads to a form of modern-day serfdom. 0.69

00:08:23.500 Now, serfdom is different than slavery in the sense that it's, you can't be,

00:08:29.820 like, you're not being bought and sold to other people.

00:08:33.160 But that's really the only difference, right?

00:08:35.320 You know, serfdom in the historical sense, you know, meant that they were tied to the land.

00:08:39.640 So, like, a serf couldn't legally leave the land without the Lord's permission.

00:08:43.860 Couldn't sell or transfer the land.

00:08:46.160 They had to work the land for a certain number of days of week, or number of days per week,

00:08:51.480 in addition to farming their own plots of land.

00:08:54.800 So, but, like I said, they weren't slaves because they couldn't be bought and sold.

00:08:58.240 And they lacked basic freedoms.

00:09:00.540 Or, sorry, they didn't lack basic freedoms.

00:09:02.240 They had their basic freedoms, but they had very limited rights.

00:09:05.560 And it was something that was passed on hereditary.

00:09:08.560 So, the difference, I guess, now, well, serfdom was a form of social and economic dependency, right?

00:09:16.640 So, if you look at what we have now, they're trying to turn us into economically dependent.

00:09:22.740 I mean, that was the whole thing with the UBI and all that kind of stuff.

00:09:26.300 And then, once you're economically dependent, you're obviously socially dependent as well.

00:09:30.740 Serfs were not considered property.

00:09:32.520 Same thing here.

00:09:33.220 We're not technically considered property, but we're not free citizens either.

00:09:36.800 We are tax slaves.

00:09:38.960 We get very little for the disgusting amount of taxes that we pay.

00:09:44.060 Serfs lived under a rigid hierarchy.

00:09:46.100 Well, we're getting there too.

00:09:47.840 Our speech is being limited.

00:09:48.900 We can't say certain things.

00:09:50.500 In these countries, you know, expressing a political opinion is now against the law.

00:09:55.180 So, how is that any different than, you know, serfdom back then?

00:09:58.340 Just, we have more modern technology, I guess you could say.

00:10:01.320 So, if we compare serfdom to modern labor and tax systems, there is some, you know, some correlation, some parallels.

00:10:09.780 There is some contrast.

00:10:10.720 But, again, you have to look at the time, right?

00:10:12.200 The time that's, you know, we're in a much different time than serfdom, 0.58

00:10:15.020 which supposedly ended, I think, in the 15th century.

00:10:19.840 Now, serfs couldn't leave the land without permission.

00:10:22.520 Modern day workers, you can choose where to live within, you know, your legal thing, your borders, I guess you could say,

00:10:27.960 unless you're an immigrant coming to Canada and you can basically just walk across

00:10:30.720 and it doesn't really matter where you lived or where you came from.

00:10:33.240 You don't even have to bring your past information with you.

00:10:35.400 They'll give you a new identity.

00:10:39.380 Serfs didn't own the land back then.

00:10:42.000 However, modern day workers don't really own the land either.

00:10:45.020 So, even when you pay off a mortgage to the bank, you still, that land is still owned.

00:10:49.940 You're still paying tax on the property.

00:10:52.640 So, you're still paying property tax.

00:10:53.920 So, really, is that land yours?

00:10:55.140 You shouldn't have to pay tax on it.

00:10:56.720 So, you're paying somebody for the use of the land, which is what a tax is.

00:11:00.140 So, really, you don't own the land.

00:11:01.620 So, modern day workers still don't really own the land either.

00:11:06.380 But it's just, you know, worked out in a different way to seem like that.

00:11:09.860 And that's the whole thing, right?

00:11:11.060 Now, it's the illusion of freedom.

00:11:12.680 We all have the illusion of freedom.

00:11:14.420 Now, obligation to authority, serfs owed taxes or services in kind.

00:11:20.760 Modern day citizens, same thing.

00:11:22.020 Pay taxes legally required.

00:11:24.320 But, theoretically, tied to representation.

00:11:26.640 Now, this is funny because we really shouldn't be taxed.

00:11:29.980 It's illegal in that sense that you can't be taxed without representation, right?

00:11:34.700 And we don't have representation here.

00:11:37.020 Other groups, you know, these immigrant groups and these, you know, diverse groups and all that stuff, they have representation.

00:11:43.800 But as a white Canadian or a white Australian or a white American British citizen, you do not have representation because that is racist.

00:11:52.460 Now, they say serfs didn't have, you know, they had very limited legal rights.

00:11:56.260 They say now citizens have, you know, in modern day we have legal rights and protections.

00:12:01.500 That's not really true unless you live in the U.S. 0.81

00:12:03.640 We, the Canada and the U.K. and Australia, Australia doesn't even have like a, what do you call it, a rights and freedoms, a charter of rights and freedoms or a, you know, constitution.

00:12:16.080 Canada has a very flimsy charter of rights and freedoms which can be overridden at any time with the notwithstanding clause.

00:12:23.260 And the U.K. has something similar but not really ironclad like the U.S.

00:12:29.480 Now, social mobility, obviously, again, we're able to, and they do want to increase this.

00:12:34.220 They want to make it so that we can be global citizens, right?

00:12:37.360 But it's funny because like nobody wants to go to these third world shitholes because they're that, like we live in these great countries. 0.52

00:12:45.680 White people have created these countries for us to live in us because this is how we want to live. 0.99

00:12:50.820 We've worked hard to do that.

00:12:51.880 But these countries or these people from these countries don't have that same incentive, don't have that same drive, don't have the same forethought or even the word in their language of maintenance.

00:13:00.980 So they don't understand upkeep of a society.

00:13:04.620 So they come here and destroy the society that they invade. 0.85

00:13:07.700 And that's exactly what they are.

00:13:09.040 They're invaders. 0.62

00:13:09.680 So it's just like a foreign insect or a foreign, you know, animal, they become inventive on society.

00:13:15.880 So basically a little short summary.

00:13:18.800 I'm just, you know, verbal diarrhea.

00:13:21.600 Again, I started thinking about this and how it compares to, you know, medieval times because I was reading.

00:13:27.800 I think I told I talked about this already.

00:13:30.280 I was reading the book History of Civilizations and it talks about, you know, obviously the different civilizations.

00:13:37.220 And last night we were chatting and I was, you know, saying about the fourth turning and some people don't believe in that.

00:13:43.240 But I do think that maybe that's not going to be the exact way it goes down.

00:13:47.120 But every society will fail when the people become, you know, into they kind of get forced into serfdom. 0.98

00:13:56.920 It can't let people, even though you're breaking the will of the people, there will still be those few strong men.

00:14:03.260 And going back to Nietzsche's point, eventually a person can only handle so much.

00:14:09.740 Now, yes, there is exceptions to the rule of people who just live as serfs the rest of their life.

00:14:13.800 But most people, the will to survive will override the, you know, desire to fit in eventually.

00:14:21.880 This is my hope.

00:14:22.800 I don't know.

00:14:23.180 Society has changed so much since then and we've been so indoctrinated.

00:14:26.200 But I really do truly believe that it may take a bit of time, but people will do it.

00:14:32.560 I mean, you know, the more they push, I think the more we're going to push back.

postyX - May 24, 2025

Modern Day Serfdom

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