Richard Stanley
Well-Known Member
The following video is an interview by Tom Bilyeu of best-selling author Mark Manson, whose name I had only been vaguely aware until watching this. In starting this, only because I have watched some other Bilyeu interviews, I felt I was going to reject the premise, but I was pleasantly surprised. I thought this was going to be like typical self-improvement BS, but this guy is the opposite of that, like an anti-guru guru of sorts.
Manson's premise is that (similar to psychoanalysis IMO) one needs to recognize that their personal identity (and therefore --> Group Identity IMO) is a messy lifetime accumulation of narratives, some true and some untrue, about what you have come to 'believe' about yourself (and therefore your Identity associates IMO). Therefore, people who sense that they need to make some hopefully positive changes in their inner life, must be willing to challenge their entire belief system, down into the bedrock core to find the layers of BS that is causing them to value the wrong things over better things, thus leading them to bad outcomes for themselves and others.
To my initial misgiving, they discuss that a typical self-improvement program is likely to lead you to amplify your negative attributes, if you do not first go through this rigorous examination of your fabricated, layered belief system and values. As such, Manson does not tell his audience what to believe or not believe, but rather that they had better start their personal journey by resetting their foundational belief system before going on from there to rebuild the larger framework. This is basically what Postflaviana is all about, that is, examining all the BS historical and other narratives in our lives, from which we can see why "the winner's write history" (and fabricate our literal and mind slave religions).
For instance, a typical American 'patriot' thinks he is all about Freedom and that which flows from that, but ironically he or she is really a mind slave to his hidden patrons, the quiet remnants of Euro-patrician society left here after the (fake) Revolution. The "more things change, the more they stay the same". When a Roman aristocratic "patrone" manumitted a slave, that now freedman was still expected to remain loyal and true to his patrone's wishes, else risk returning to slave status. Now the system is more subtle ... and insidious. The red or blue patriots think there is a big difference between (elite besties) Hillary and Donald, but this is extremely superficial, as are the two political parties of note. It's all driven by bad narratives layered deceitfully and programmatically onto our respective Identities.
Think the way out was such as libertarianism, like I had, well, as we've seen this was another false flag of the Euro-monarchists [sic] who 'paradoxically' sponsored today's NeoLiberalism and it's attendant financial disasters. But it's only a paradox if one doesn't thoroughly examine the underlying motivations.
Manson's premise is that (similar to psychoanalysis IMO) one needs to recognize that their personal identity (and therefore --> Group Identity IMO) is a messy lifetime accumulation of narratives, some true and some untrue, about what you have come to 'believe' about yourself (and therefore your Identity associates IMO). Therefore, people who sense that they need to make some hopefully positive changes in their inner life, must be willing to challenge their entire belief system, down into the bedrock core to find the layers of BS that is causing them to value the wrong things over better things, thus leading them to bad outcomes for themselves and others.
To my initial misgiving, they discuss that a typical self-improvement program is likely to lead you to amplify your negative attributes, if you do not first go through this rigorous examination of your fabricated, layered belief system and values. As such, Manson does not tell his audience what to believe or not believe, but rather that they had better start their personal journey by resetting their foundational belief system before going on from there to rebuild the larger framework. This is basically what Postflaviana is all about, that is, examining all the BS historical and other narratives in our lives, from which we can see why "the winner's write history" (and fabricate our literal and mind slave religions).
For instance, a typical American 'patriot' thinks he is all about Freedom and that which flows from that, but ironically he or she is really a mind slave to his hidden patrons, the quiet remnants of Euro-patrician society left here after the (fake) Revolution. The "more things change, the more they stay the same". When a Roman aristocratic "patrone" manumitted a slave, that now freedman was still expected to remain loyal and true to his patrone's wishes, else risk returning to slave status. Now the system is more subtle ... and insidious. The red or blue patriots think there is a big difference between (elite besties) Hillary and Donald, but this is extremely superficial, as are the two political parties of note. It's all driven by bad narratives layered deceitfully and programmatically onto our respective Identities.
Think the way out was such as libertarianism, like I had, well, as we've seen this was another false flag of the Euro-monarchists [sic] who 'paradoxically' sponsored today's NeoLiberalism and it's attendant financial disasters. But it's only a paradox if one doesn't thoroughly examine the underlying motivations.