The Golden One - October 08, 2018


Trash Talking and Insulting vs Traditional Honour Culture

Topics
be respectful to others
Hosted by
Marcus Follin
Mentioned
Khabib Connor Visby
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Episode Stats


Length

5 minutes

Words per minute

163.73

Word count

899

Sentence count

74


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In this episode, I talk about the difference between the modern internet culture and the old-fashioned Scandinavian honor culture, and why it is important to be respectful towards others. I also give my opinion on whether or not it is a good idea to be rude on the internet.

Transcript

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00:00:00.280 Greetings, this is a follow-up to the video I made yesterday regarding Khabib and Connor and their behavior.
00:00:06.920 And I forgot to mention something extremely important and something that I thought to elaborate more on.
00:00:12.520 And that is the kind of trash talk culture, the internet culture of insulting versus a more traditionalist honor culture.
00:00:20.660 And let me tell you something I actually learned during this very summer when I was in Visby.
00:00:25.280 And a professor in history told me the following, that honor culture obviously was extremely potent in Viking Age Scandinavia.
00:00:35.220 So if you look at Sweden today, this is not representative of what our true nature is.
00:00:40.720 So anyway, honor culture was huge back in the day and in Visby they had actually laws saying that if you got insulted three times and you didn't retaliate, you got expelled.
00:00:51.100 So the city council would actually expel you from Visby and Gotland if you did not retaliate, if someone insulted you three times.
00:01:01.180 So it was expected of you to retaliate if someone insulted you and if you insulted someone, that also meant that you were ready to go toe-to-toe with him unto death.
00:01:11.600 So that is the traditionalist or traditional Swedish Scandinavian Viking way of handling insults, etc.
00:01:19.920 And obviously something I see today, especially in the internet culture, I obviously love the internet.
00:01:25.740 You can attain so much wisdom from the internet.
00:01:28.560 But something I really don't like with internet culture is the casual insult and rudeness that many people have.
00:01:37.040 And let me just say this, that an armed society is a polite society.
00:01:41.440 Why is that?
00:01:42.060 Yes, because if everyone is high capacity and can show you the error of your ways when you're rude, yes, then people will be less inclined to be rude.
00:01:51.180 Now obviously if there are no consequences of your words, then people are more inclined to be rude.
00:01:56.960 And extremely important also to realize is that words have meaning, words have power.
00:02:01.900 Words are more powerful than fists, for example.
00:02:05.320 Much more powerful, especially in this day and age.
00:02:07.520 Thinking that you can get away with saying certain things and saying, oh, it's just words.
00:02:13.380 That is not a legitimate excuse.
00:02:15.540 And here's the thing.
00:02:16.880 If you are in a situation where there is no camera, no witnesses and no police, it is up to you to stand up for what you say.
00:02:25.900 So therefore it might not be a good idea to insult random people because you don't know the capacity of the other guy.
00:02:33.000 So the best advice, and this is obvious to anyone who's been with me for a long time because I've been promoting honor culture for a very long time.
00:02:41.920 But if you're a new guy, if you're a younger guy and you are into this sort of insult culture, trash talking, and perhaps you do that in the physical realm as well and you do it on the internet, just a heads up, a warning.
00:02:55.780 Some words of advice from me here is that drop this immediately.
00:03:00.460 You never know one day you will say something, you will say the wrong thing to the wrong guy at the wrong time.
00:03:06.300 And then that can have catastrophic consequences and then you can't say, oh, you know what, it was just a joke, it was just words.
00:03:12.920 You can't hide behind these things, you have to take responsibility for your actions and words are actions.
00:03:19.520 And everyone probably knows this yourself, words hurt more than fists, for example.
00:03:24.820 Especially if you train MMA several times a week and you spar a lot.
00:03:28.580 It doesn't matter if you get punched or if you experience pain every once in a while.
00:03:33.840 Physical pain is not as bad as mental pain.
00:03:37.340 Therefore, words have a lot of power and words can hurt.
00:03:41.100 Therefore, you have to be able to back up if you are going to use words aggressively.
00:03:45.720 So anyway, point being is that do not insult people.
00:03:48.880 That is not a good idea and you have to be able to back up your words if you do choose to insult someone.
00:03:54.300 And also you can't say it's just words because it isn't just words.
00:03:58.140 That is a falsehood that you need to drop immediately.
00:04:02.020 So, to conclude, be respectful to others, at least those who deserve respect.
00:04:06.220 Then obviously there are people who are truly horrendous people, such as the mainstream politicians of Western Europe at the moment.
00:04:14.300 Yeah, they are truly horrendous people who enact grotesque crimes against their own population.
00:04:19.660 Therefore, yeah, it's legitimate to say that they are not good people.
00:04:23.980 But, generally speaking, be polite, be respectful towards other people.
00:04:28.860 And then obviously if someone insults you and you can retaliate, yeah, retaliate.
00:04:33.960 There is nothing wrong with that because you will retaliate.
00:04:36.300 If someone comes up and punches you, yeah, you will punch back.
00:04:38.920 If someone says some insult to you or to someone you care about, yeah, you can retaliate there too.
00:04:45.380 It's absolutely legitimate to do so.
00:04:47.820 You should never turn the other cheek.
00:04:49.200 That is a falsehood that is not in tune with our nature.
00:04:54.580 So, that's all I have to say about that.
00:04:56.940 So, be respectful.
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