The Golden One - May 01, 2020


Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter. Slave Morality and Self-Improvement


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10 minutes

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Word count

1,488

Sentence count

118

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8

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4

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Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter are very different from each other, but are they better than each other? Is Harry Potter a hero because he is a victim? Or because he has magical powers that he uses for good?

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00:00:00.000 Hello lads! I'm checking in from Mirkwood in Middle-earth with some profound knowledge.
00:00:09.000 Okay, perhaps not really, but I wanted to talk a bit about Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter.
00:00:16.000 And before I begin to completely bash Harry Potter...
00:00:21.000 Nah, I'm joking. I will not. Just a bit.
00:00:25.000 I will admit that when I was a child I immensely enjoyed the books.
00:00:30.000 So, thank you very much for many hours of joy, J.K. Rowling.
00:00:36.000 I never really liked the films though, but that's not the primary point of the discussion at hand.
00:00:46.000 Basically, you can say that you have two different kind of guys.
00:00:50.000 You have guys who prefer Lord of the Rings, such as myself.
00:00:54.000 And I view Lord of the Rings as a very important work.
00:01:00.000 Sort of like the Iliad and Odyssey were for the Greeks back in the day.
00:01:04.000 For modern westerners we have Lord of the Rings.
00:01:08.000 And I'm very happy that I grew up with it and, you know, came of age when the films came out, etc.
00:01:14.000 Anyway, before I begin to elaborate on the films or the books, I would like to briefly perhaps introduce you, if you aren't already familiar, with the concept of slave morality that good old Friedrich Nietzsche talks about.
00:01:30.000 He talks about slave morality and master morality, and they are opposite to each other.
00:01:36.000 And master morality is the true morality.
00:01:40.000 The morality I subscribe to, which I realize, which I understand is the true good.
00:01:47.000 And I will talk about this when I make my How I Got Red Pilled video, because it has very much to do with it.
00:01:53.000 Slave morality is the modern morality we have in the west. 0.99
00:01:57.000 And that is basically, the more downtrodden you are, the gooder you are, the more good you are, the more downtrodden you are.
00:02:07.000 So you have someone who is weak, he is good.
00:02:09.000 He is poor, he is good.
00:02:11.000 He is infirm, he is good.
00:02:12.000 He is unhealthy, he is good.
00:02:14.000 He is obese, he is good. 0.82
00:02:16.000 He is a victim, he is good.
00:02:20.000 And also, in slave morality, if you have someone who is beautiful, he is bad.
00:02:25.000 Strong, bad.
00:02:27.000 Wealthy, bad.
00:02:28.000 Healthy, bad.
00:02:30.000 Popular, bad.
00:02:31.000 In the majority, bad.
00:02:33.000 And of course, if you are a minority, you are good.
00:02:36.000 And if you look on Harry Potter, from the perspective of slave morality, it makes sense that he is a hero, 0.89
00:02:45.000 because he starts off his journey basically being as downtrodden as you can be.
00:02:51.000 Lives with his mother's sister's family.
00:02:54.000 Lives under the stairs in a very not all too spacious accommodation, so to speak.
00:03:03.000 So he has that moral advantage for the people who subscribe to slave morality. 0.89
00:03:11.000 And all of a sudden, he gets magical powers that he uses for good.
00:03:18.000 And this sort of slave morality, it doesn't only appear in Harry Potter.
00:03:23.000 It's quite common if you look at a Hollywood film depicting an American high school drama.
00:03:31.000 You have the weak, nerdy guy, he is the good guy.
00:03:36.000 And then you have the athletic jock, he is the bad guy. 0.76
00:03:41.000 And the weak nerd always gets the girl, because she understands how good he is and how mean the athletic jock is.
00:03:50.000 And I can say this, and again I will explain this in more detail in my red pilling video, but the opposite is true.
00:03:57.000 The athletic jock is the nice guy.
00:04:00.000 The downtrodden, weak nerd is the bad guy.
00:04:04.000 I can say this with seven years experience in the Immaterium, I can say this to be true.
00:04:12.000 It's not, it's the downtrodden that is the bad guy.
00:04:16.000 It's not the well-adjusted guy who is the bad guy.
00:04:19.000 If you doubt me, you might come to the same enlightenment someday.
00:04:23.000 You have a similar thing in Spider-Man. 0.95
00:04:25.000 You're a nerdy, frail, weak guy, suddenly gets magical powers.
00:04:30.000 And here's the thing, magical powers aren't real. 0.98
00:04:34.000 So therefore, in a self-improvement perspective, these films are quite silly. 0.84
00:04:41.000 And then you say, oh, isn't Lord of the Rings or Batman silly? 0.54
00:04:45.000 No, they aren't, because they don't contain the same sort of superpowers.
00:04:49.000 Frodo, the main hero, or Sam, the main heroes of Lord of the Rings, they are just hobbits.
00:04:58.000 But they go after it anyway, to the best of their abilities.
00:05:02.000 They use friendship, loyalty, love for their homeland.
00:05:06.000 They use these things as superpowers instead, which it can be.
00:05:11.000 You know, loyalty and friendship, super important.
00:05:13.000 So a reason I like Lord of the Rings more then, from a philosophical or just regular self-improvement perspective,
00:05:22.000 is that Harry Potter is someone special.
00:05:26.000 He's a chosen individual.
00:05:28.000 He can do a lot of things because of his magic powers.
00:05:31.000 And most guys aren't special.
00:05:35.000 They don't have any superpowers they can call upon.
00:05:38.000 But most guys can become heroes if they subscribe to certain ideals.
00:05:44.000 Such as the ideals of the Fellowship of the Ring.
00:05:48.000 The ideals of Frodo and Sam.
00:05:50.000 You know, they fight for their homeland because they don't want to see the Shire being overrun by orcs and whatnot.
00:05:58.000 They're extremely loyal to each other as well.
00:06:01.000 The entire Fellowship, you know, they have that sense of brotherhood.
00:06:05.000 And as Bronze Age Pervert points out all the time, you know, brotherhoods is what needs to be formed. 0.70
00:06:14.000 I talk about it in my book as well, Mänrebunds.
00:06:16.000 Many guys talk about Mänrebunds.
00:06:18.000 That's the way forward.
00:06:20.000 You know, you have this intense friendship between men.
00:06:25.000 And you go out on a quest together to save the world.
00:06:29.000 And I mean, Lord of the Rings, it is a quite good metaphor for what is going on in the West.
00:06:35.000 You know, we don't have any epic pitched battles or sieges.
00:06:41.000 But still, we see our homelands being threatened.
00:06:45.000 And we do what we can do.
00:06:48.000 And all guys, you know, you can believe that you are weak and not so powerful.
00:06:56.000 But you can still achieve heroism by at least trying to do something.
00:07:01.000 Such as Frodo and Sam.
00:07:03.000 And that's what makes them more heroic and more admirable rather than Harry Potter who, you know, have this...
00:07:12.000 Who has these superpowers.
00:07:14.000 Then, of course, in terms of aesthetics and everything, it's cooler with glorious elves and Rohan, etc.
00:07:23.000 But that's not the main point of this video. 0.57
00:07:26.000 The main point is just, it's a bit silly to subscribe to a slave morality. 0.63
00:07:30.000 It's a bit silly for guys to live downtrodden and hope for something to happen.
00:07:40.000 And we can talk about this on a larger scale as well.
00:07:43.000 You know, you have a really bad position in life.
00:07:45.000 And instead of trying to improve that position, you're just hoping for things to take a turn for the worse.
00:07:51.000 So that your time will be to stay on top.
00:07:54.000 If you aren't actively trying to stay on top now,
00:07:57.000 What do you think your chances are when the time of chaos comes?
00:08:03.000 You need to be strong now, so you can be strong in perhaps a power vacuum.
00:08:08.000 So, instead of being like Harry Potter, you know, being downtrodden in life, hoping for some salvation.
00:08:15.000 You should be like Sam and Frodo.
00:08:18.000 You know, it doesn't matter if the whole world is against you and you fight against much more powerful forces.
00:08:23.000 You still have to face them head on and get after it.
00:08:27.000 That's the life-affirming attitude.
00:08:31.000 That's the glorious pill.
00:08:33.000 It's not the black pill where you just give up and think, oh, the world is so mean to me.
00:08:38.000 You know, the world might be mean, just as it is in Lord of Drinks, but then you have to fight back.
00:08:43.000 So anyway, that was just a little forest log rambling.
00:08:50.000 I wanted to have my forest walk and I thought to elaborate on these things.
00:08:54.000 Of course, much more can be said about both of Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings,
00:09:00.000 but main point looking at it from a self-improvement perspective,
00:09:05.000 which, you know, I want to have the focus on this channel to be.
00:09:08.000 Self-improvement is how you approach adversity.
00:09:12.000 Do you approach it in a hithumos, life-affirming manner as it's being taught in Lord of the Rings?
00:09:19.000 Or will you wait for a miracle to happen so that you'll have superpowers and can get back at the world?
00:09:26.000 So anyway, thank you for watching and have a great rest of your day.
00:09:30.000 XXO BOOM!
00:09:32.000 Lastly, I would like to recommend the YouTube channel Asha Logos.
00:09:36.000 It was a good friend who encouraged me to send some subscribers his way.
00:09:42.000 So if you haven't already checked out his channel, head over there and tell him I sent you.
00:09:49.000 And tell him I sent you on the behest of a good friend.
00:09:53.000 So now, thank you for watching.
00:09:55.000 XXO BOOM!
00:09:57.000 To be continued...