Understanding Modern Civilization

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A man who snuffs out his emotion becomes a robot. A man who does not develop his mind becomes an animal. Balance must be achieved.

"The duality of of the autistic masculine and the hysteric feminine." You hit the nail on the head with that one! I've never heard anyone describe modern civilisation so accuratley.

Duuude, the modern HR department being this paradigms version of the clergy is soooo true

When visiting my family in Switzerland, I spent most of my time with them at their place, which was all beautiful, heavy wood architecture hundreds of years old, with all the buildings nearby made of that same style. Yet, when we went into the center of the town to the grocery store, we were shocked to find a square, bare, concrete block with no windows. Easy to forget the shifts we have made with globalization and the like.

You should do an April fools video that covers the history and influence of Mongolian heavy metal

The “We can be cursed togetherrr” part killed me 😂

Kid, you are awesome! I'm in my early 40s, as are my friends, and we all love your videos. These are highly illuminating, and it gives me hope there are young guys like you out there! Keep these videos coming. Outstanding!

My family is from California but I grew up in the heart of Cajun country in the region called Acadiana. In terms of California, my family is very aware of its cultural and heritage being very German and Celtic. My mother’s maiden name is Zentmyer, and that side of the family is very proud of its German roots. We still practice the more Germanic inheritance system where the oldest son gets most of if not all the inheritance and family heirlooms. That’s why it was such a massive and huge deal when my great grandfather gave me his first naval saber instead of my grandfather. Due to the fact that my grandfather had no sons, and the firstborn son of my great uncle being very “modern,” I, as the traditional and heritage aware great grandson have gotten heirlooms I otherwise shouldn’t have. On my father’s side, my grandfather plans on giving all the important family heirlooms to my dad and mom as the firstborn and most appreciative of the family history. My great Grandfathers service weapons will go to my dad with the M1 Garand and captured Arisaka rifle already being passed down. The rifle has a chrysanthemum etching still on it which is a big deal. Watching this video helped crystallize why I’ve seen in my family. In both sides the first born are still traditional and and we are aware of our heritage and family history to the point we almost venerate it. While my cousins aunts and uncles are all very contemporary and modernist, not being as aware or even caring about our history or traditions.

28:29 as a Greek, I have to say that's very accurate. Western historiography makes it feel like we went extinct after Plato and Aristotle and all 👀

Bloody hell!!! I have watched this guy for years and he has mentioned Angola for the first time with a really clear description 👌🏾

I love this channel because Rudyard is so earnest. It is great to hear someone passionate about these topics who isn't overly cynical or trying to seem hip. I like the conversational style

Yup. I have to watch this twice or thrice to understand and soak in fully. And I am an engineer who watches 24/48hr long videos for certain projects in a stretch. Yet, the amount of ideas and the things I want to write down are way too many. Never in my life have I been more...in a state of trance than this video. So many 'oh damn, this makes sense', it really really...explains so many things that I always pondered about. Amazing work. Never stop. God bless.

It’s kind of crazy how much your videos have changed my worldview. Before, I was just you run of the mill republican, I’d vote red for anyone, but (it’s kind of hard to explain) your videos changed my views of reality in some fundamental way, and I stopped believing in the illusions I was surrounded by. I think it was your neutrality, up to that point I had been so used to everything being biased towards one group or another. Then again, watching your videos may just make me feel smart about myself lol.

5:27 Part 1 What is modern civilization? 15:40 Part 2 The origins of modernity 39:28 Part 3 The logic of modernity 50:34 Part 4 The secret religion 1:06:31 Part 5 The end of modernity

I get what you mean about world cities. I grew up right outside of DC and have always been completely used to everyone else being immigrants from literally everywhere but the US (name a country, 80% chance I've known people from there at some point). I'm a Freshman in college now and the students at my college are mostly from rural areas of the state and it's a huge culture shock, despite how technically we're both from Virginia. I have more in common with the immigrants from other parts of the world than with the people from the same state as me. However, the fact that it's people from all over the world, not people from NYC, London, and Dubai, makes me doubt that it's so much that these cities are just islands of a different culture as opposed to places where this different culture, which does exist everywhere, is concentrated.

I fell into a similar Gnostic trap with Jung. I became infatuated with his work, leaving Christianity as I knew it. I found it so fascinating, especially the way that he would speak about things. It wasn’t until a year after Jungian analysis that I encountered the true, Gnostic element of his work: the introduction of Satan into the Godhead (turning the trinity into the “quaternary”), which he saw as a necessary step in the evolution of our understanding of Christianity. He has a similar theme in “Answer to Job”, where he speculates that God will incarnate his “evil” side as the Anti-Christ in this new age. I immediately realized I had gone amiss, and was a practicing Gnostic. I’m still dealing with the repercussions to this day. I had always known God was absolutely good, and hearing this shattered my world. I’ve since returned to Christianity, although I find it a massive struggle after being imbued with Jungian psychology for so many years. Of course, there is some truth in Jung (projection, shadow, etc.), but the “path of individuation” is never ending and essentially a new-age, Neo-Pagan Gnosticism. Jung interestingly had visions of himself being the “crucified Christ”, and his “soul”, personified as Philemon, urged him to be the prophet of a new religion. I did not know this either, and all his work has become dubious at best. I think Freud was right when he criticized Jung’s archetypal psychology as a “return to animism”, which Jung most likely would have enjoyed. Christianity is so special because salvation comes first and foremost, and that we need to step away from evil, not “integrate it”. Once you accept Christ, you watch Him change who you are as a person through the Holy Spirit. He is the “spring of salvation”, a spring that heals from the inside out once a sip is taken in. Christ is He who stretches out the ouroboros and crushes its head. Perhaps the ouroboros is better understand as a symbol of our perpetual folly, engagement with sin, and it’s repetitive nature throughout civilization, until Christ returns as King and ends the story once and for all, only to begin a new one full of beauty and grace, devoid of sin. The ouroboros is a serpent, after all. Wisdom is better than all knowledge. The Gnostics mistake the former for the latter.

i had an art teacher who said we’re doing all we can to eliminate our humanity. i thought it odd at the time. now i get it i substitute teach in LA, they’re spending millions to modernize schools. i have a visceral reaction when i walk from the 1920s buildings to the new ones what was an open, airy building that had windows you could open is now a hermetically sealed box with tinted windows, multiple identical floors, and sterile classrooms something feels empty in modern buildings, no matter how sleek they make them

Reject skyscraper, return to gothic cathedral.

Wow. I have to watch this again. You’re right. It’s blown my mind. I’m an agent of post modernity by trade, I’m socially engineering a companies culture, mind set, view of the world, to make the machine move faster, consistently, and maximise profit. I’m destroying the previous company society and culture by reengineering the entire structure, breaking long established traditions and ways of being, eliminating exceptions, and disguising it all under the cloud of progress. I’m driving concepts of individualism, Development of the self, picking winners and losers using questionable scientific and behavioural science data amassed since world war 2, creating management decisions based on autistic data. And what’s really made me sit up and pay attention is that I’m really, really good at it. I’m the penultimate outcome of the elites post war GenZ. No values, no religion, fully believe in and practice the deindustrialisation model you presented, I see everyone as equal, don’t recognise difference in culture, religion etc, because my entire world view is a socially engineered construct (like the matrix) and underneath it all there’s nothing. No family, no history, no religion nothingness. So I find myself asking, am I happy, and more importantly do I even know what happiness is. Shit this is deep….. I wonder what the Kardashians are up to these days 😉