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