The Golden One - March 16, 2024


Stoicism Has To Go!?


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Does Stoicism have to go? Is it time for Stoicism to take the backseat to rational logic and reason in order to save the world? Is Marcus Aurelius the greatest emperor of ancient Rome, or is he the worst?

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00:00:00.360 Does Stoicism have to go?
00:00:03.440 Perhaps it's a bit of a clickbait-y title, but it's an important topic, so therefore
00:00:08.520 I have to clickbait, so that as many young Haithumos men as possible will hear my profound 0.98
00:00:16.680 teaching in this fine video.
00:00:19.400 So essentially, no, Stoicism does not have to go, but it has to take the back seat, so
00:00:25.320 to speak.
00:00:26.320 It should never be the primary philosophy of anyone today.
00:00:30.880 And let's first and foremost talk a bit about Marcus Aurelius, a great man, no doubt, but
00:00:36.420 definitely not one of the best emperors Rome had.
00:00:41.000 His life's work consisted of guarding the wrong border.
00:00:44.760 He guarded the border to the north.
00:00:47.260 He should have guarded it to the south and east, because as I've noted in demigod mentality, 1.00
00:00:52.720 I noted on X yesterday that the Rome that the great Alaric, the Goth, he sacked in 410 AD.
00:01:02.360 It was not the same Rome, bioculturally speaking, as the great and glorious Rome that conquered
00:01:09.720 much of the known world, because of a substantial migration, migrations over the centuries from
00:01:17.600 south and east.
00:01:19.600 So Marcus Aurelius, he guarded the border in the north against Germanic tribes.
00:01:24.240 And yeah, in retrospect, it was the wrong border to guard.
00:01:27.460 But anyway, this is not the main topic at hand.
00:01:31.120 I just wanted to talk a bit about Marcus Aurelius, because that's the man, the emperor, perhaps
00:01:37.700 you associate with Stoicism.
00:01:40.160 And the most important decision of his life, to give the crown to Commodus, and you all 0.72
00:01:47.120 know that Commodus was a bit of a disaster.
00:01:50.280 Perhaps you watched Gladiator, it's not a super historically accurate film, but it has
00:01:55.160 that right, at least, that Marcus Aurelius, he was a stable enough emperor.
00:02:01.260 And Commodus was a bit of a, yeah, again, a bit of a disaster, if we're being honest here.
00:02:07.180 So perhaps the most important decision of his life, of his reign, he made a completely
00:02:12.720 catastrophic decision.
00:02:14.340 Now anyway, what does this have to do with saving European civilization in the current
00:02:20.560 year?
00:02:21.560 Yes, it's simply the following, that Stoicism, it can be seen as a method of mental self-defense.
00:02:31.260 It's something you need when you're on the back foot.
00:02:34.600 And this brings us into, I've seen an accusation against me, a few months ago, on Instagram,
00:02:41.600 there was an account who said I have lost my way, because I post about magic and mysticism
00:02:48.720 and the like.
00:02:49.980 Now it's actually of utmost importance that I post about these things, because that has
00:02:54.840 brought me to some new insights, and this is also why I wanted to make this video.
00:03:00.600 Talking about Stoicism, talking about the power of belief, talking about magic.
00:03:05.540 So what is magic, you might ask?
00:03:07.600 Magic is essentially that you create reality first in your own mind.
00:03:12.400 And your mindset then shapes your perspective on the world and what you can do and you cannot
00:03:18.100 do.
00:03:19.100 And when you have a rational logic mindset, you see that it's over, the West has fallen,
00:03:25.100 it's over, you can't change anything, because it goes against our logic to think that we
00:03:31.380 can do anything about it.
00:03:33.100 And then you accept that, and then you use Stoicism as a cope, saying that I can't influence anything
00:03:39.620 anyway, so therefore I will just stoically accept the destruction of my civilization,
00:03:46.100 and then you don't do anything about it.
00:03:49.200 You can argue that it's a misinterpretation of Stoicism, but it's a quite easy one to make,
00:03:53.680 so it's better to just be abundantly clear with the fact that Stoicism is something you
00:03:59.240 have, again, in the back seat, on the side.
00:04:02.200 It's a defensive technique.
00:04:03.620 It's not an offensive technique.
00:04:05.360 And right now we don't need a Marcus Aurelius, we really don't need a Marcus Aurelius.
00:04:10.840 We need an Augustus, we need a Caesar, we need a Tradian, we need a Scipio Africanus, 1.00
00:04:17.180 we need a Napoleon, an Alexander, and all of these guys, they didn't have Stoicism as their
00:04:23.880 highest ideal.
00:04:25.120 Their highest ideal was a supreme belief in themselves, a God-given destiny that was theirs
00:04:33.460 to fulfill.
00:04:35.280 Napoleon should not, logically speaking, have been able to conquer basically all of the
00:04:39.720 known world.
00:04:40.720 Napoleon, logically speaking, he should not have been able to commence the great, epic,
00:04:47.600 heroic journey of his life.
00:04:49.100 But he did, because he believed in something greater than just logic.
00:04:53.600 So that is the difference between a, let's say, magical mindset versus a rational mindset.
00:05:01.620 So that is what I mean by magic, by the way, it's a power of belief.
00:05:05.060 Now, when you hear the term power of belief, you might think it's some hippie nonsense, but
00:05:09.380 now we're talking about the greatest men throughout history.
00:05:13.140 That is their mindset.
00:05:14.660 And what we need today, in order to save European civilization, it's absolutely not someone who
00:05:19.420 just takes it all the time.
00:05:21.100 It's not someone who is on the back foot.
00:05:22.420 So you have to ask yourself, my young disciple now, I'm reaching a few potential Napoleons
00:05:29.100 in my audience now.
00:05:30.100 So, I don't want you to feel like you're on your back foot.
00:05:33.980 I want you to determine, via magic then, via your mindset, that you are on the offensive,
00:05:39.480 that you are on the make, so to speak.
00:05:42.300 You're not on the back foot, you're not seeing your civilization crumbling, you're seeing an
00:05:46.240 opportunity to achieve glory by saving said civilization.
00:05:51.960 Now to use another example, you have two guys going up in an MMA ring that will fight
00:05:56.820 against each other.
00:05:58.420 One guy is focused on not losing, he's focused on his defense.
00:06:03.180 The other guy is focused solely on winning, he's focused on implementing his own will in
00:06:08.380 the ring, in the octagon.
00:06:11.280 Who will win of these two guys?
00:06:13.380 Yes, most likely the guy who comes in to win, who's focused on his own performance and what
00:06:18.120 he can do.
00:06:19.180 And the guy who's focused on not losing, he will probably lose.
00:06:22.140 So it's all about magic mindset.
00:06:24.620 I know, again, many guys, they don't like when I use the term magic, but it's the best
00:06:30.240 term to describe what I mean.
00:06:32.900 So in order to save the West today then, we need someone who is not on the back foot,
00:06:38.440 who doesn't go stoically accepting the destruction of a civilization.
00:06:45.540 So we need less rational thought, because emotions, they will always conquer rational thought.
00:06:53.220 So yeah, it's actually the opposite of what Ben Shapiro says.
00:06:56.840 Ben Shapiro is wrong in many ways.
00:06:59.840 And he says that facts don't care about your feelings.
00:07:02.540 But it's also the opposite, that feelings don't care about facts.
00:07:05.580 And feelings, they triumph over facts, because no one is passionate about facts and logic.
00:07:11.340 But many people are indeed passionate about their feelings, emotions.
00:07:16.960 So if I introduce myself as a sensitive poet, it's because it's better to be a sensitive
00:07:21.420 poet than a cold, calculating stoic who doesn't care, who just takes it all the time.
00:07:28.520 So view it in that sense.
00:07:29.640 You shouldn't discard stoicism.
00:07:31.580 You should still have it as a method of self-defense, of mental self-defense.
00:07:35.580 I've used it successfully over the years myself, but I never let it take the front, because
00:07:42.060 then you're always on the defensive, you're always on the back foot.
00:07:46.340 So instead you have to have that mentality of conquest.
00:07:49.900 And for the young Napoleons among you listening to this, keep this in mind. 0.95
00:07:55.080 Whenever you listen to someone, it becomes a reality, what you believe.
00:07:58.080 So you can listen to these black pillars, who are using bad magic, by the way, because 1.00
00:08:02.900 they are reinforcing the world view.
00:08:05.460 They are reinforcing your perception of the world, saying it's over.
00:08:09.420 So then you have to listen to me, saying we're back.
00:08:12.500 So you can think of it in that you have two spirits inside of you.
00:08:16.740 One saying it's over, one saying it's back.
00:08:19.340 Who is right?
00:08:20.340 Yes, the one you listen to.
00:08:21.840 So always keep that in mind, that the reality of your mind, it comes first.
00:08:26.860 And then that will be reflected upon the actual reality.
00:08:30.640 So you can create a good outcome in your life, via first thinking it in your mind.
00:08:35.860 Again, magic.
00:08:37.220 Now to best understand this, you can just read a lot of historical accounts, read history
00:08:42.240 books, and then you will get these teachings, these teachings of overcoming hard circumstances,
00:08:50.420 of doing the impossible.
00:08:52.920 And then you will see that, in many cases, had they just accepted their fate, yeah, then
00:09:00.680 they would have not gone anywhere.
00:09:02.640 But many of these great conquerors, they still had that divine drive within them.
00:09:07.360 Babur Khan, one of my favorite stories.
00:09:10.700 He took Samarkand, the city of his dream, three times.
00:09:15.200 And then he got ousted, so then he invaded India instead, and founded a great empire and
00:09:20.080 dynasty there.
00:09:21.880 Because he still had that unshakable belief in himself.
00:09:26.160 And because he believed, he could achieve.
00:09:28.440 Again, this sounds like hippie nonsense, you hear in some sort of inspirational talk, but
00:09:34.600 the more you actually study it via, it can be these mysticism books or it can be history
00:09:39.360 books.
00:09:40.360 It doesn't really matter.
00:09:41.360 It's the same thing.
00:09:42.360 It's about overcoming things that you should logically not be able to overcome.
00:09:47.220 And also, we don't even need to consult the history books to see a good example of this.
00:09:52.040 We can see the great man, Bukele, in El Salvador, who has decimated the criminal gangs who previously
00:10:02.080 tormented the population.
00:10:03.960 He did it.
00:10:04.760 And now others can see, yes, it was actually possible.
00:10:07.980 So it's easier the more people who do it.
00:10:10.680 Same thing with certain athletic performances.
00:10:14.220 After Mount Everest was summited the first time, then you saw a lot of other guys and
00:10:20.560 girls, they also got to summit it because they saw that it was possible indeed.
00:10:25.220 But it's always this first individual who does it.
00:10:29.200 Glory to him.
00:10:30.200 So glory to Bukele in El Salvador and hopefully rest of South America, Latin America will follow. 1.00
00:10:36.080 And then of course we'll have, perhaps in Europe also, good leaders with love for justice
00:10:42.180 and their own people who can remedy the situation at hand.
00:10:46.240 And then lastly, you have to ask yourself where you are mentally.
00:10:48.660 And you have to realize that where you are mentally, it influences basically everything
00:10:53.320 you do in life.
00:10:54.660 So if you are mentally on your back foot, yeah, then your life will be worse in basically
00:11:00.660 every way than, as opposed to if you are on the offensive, if you see yourself as a force
00:11:06.100 of nature, going forth, conquering.
00:11:09.320 So when I say upwards and onwards, this is what I mean, that we go forward.
00:11:12.980 We have that mentality of things, that we can actually do things.
00:11:16.740 And we never listen to these black pillars saying that it's over. 0.80
00:11:20.340 We always say that we're back.
00:11:22.800 So anyway, good stuff, good stuff.
00:11:24.840 Do read Demigod Mentality, do read Dauntless, and we'll see you in the next video. 0.90
00:11:29.220 So boom.
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