The Golden One - March 16, 2024


Stoicism Has To Go!？


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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
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,
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
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,
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
00:11:29.220 So boom.
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