Video summary
The video argues that constant exposure to the internet and social media algorithms fundamentally alters human perception, regardless of whether an individual agrees with or dislikes the content they encounter. The speaker illustrates this phenomenon by comparing online consumption to a real-life scenario where one visits a cafe daily near two vegans who constantly discuss their ideology; even if you despise veganism and argue against it internally every day, simply hearing these repeated values creates a permanent fixture in your mind that distorts how you process the world. This effect is magnified exponentially on the internet, which serves as an endless buffet of conflicting ideologies, conspiracy theories, and niche perspectives that clutter consciousness and prevent clear thinking.
The core mechanism described is not necessarily about being successfully convinced to change one's beliefs, but rather about the normalization of foreign ideas through sheer repetition. The speaker notes that even people who vehemently oppose certain systems or ideologies often remain "beholden" to them because they are constantly defending themselves against imaginary opponents in their own heads, such as arguing with fictional vegans or DEI proponents. This state of perpetual defense keeps these external values active within one's consciousness, creating a form of spiritual confusion where the mind becomes cluttered and unable to focus on reality. The system does not need to win an argument; it only needs to expose users repeatedly enough that those ideas become part of their internal landscape, making them difficult to ignore or dismiss completely.
Furthermore, this digital saturation leads to a radical shift in how people view history, society, and even spirituality, often defaulting to materialistic or atheistic frameworks regardless of personal religious affiliation. The speaker points out that media consumption reinforces these skewed perspectives by presenting historical figures as conflicted or skeptical rather than holding firm convictions, thereby eroding the ability to see things from a traditional or spiritual standpoint. This confusion is likened to intrusive thoughts in psychology; it is not just about having bad ideas but about losing clarity and feeling helpless amidst a barrage of agitprop that challenges one's worldview without offering any grounding connection to reality.
Ultimately, the conclusion emphasizes that avoiding this mental clutter requires stepping away from the internet system entirely rather than trying to filter out specific ideologies while remaining plugged in. The speaker encourages viewers to recognize that even resisting these ideas does not remove their influence if one remains constantly connected and exposed to them. True clarity comes from disconnecting enough for the mind to settle, allowing individuals to regain a stable relationship with reality free from the confusion of imaginary debates and normalized alternative worldviews imposed by algorithms. By reducing this exposure, people can restore their ability to think straight without being distracted by permanent fixtures in their brains that they never explicitly chose but are forced to contend with daily.
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If you constantly go on the internet and
expose yourself to things that you don't
like, you shouldn't do that. And those
things affect you. What do I mean by
that? Um, I think one thing that I
notice the more time I spend off of the
internet is just how great the effect of
the internet is on people. Uh, because
if if you spend time away from the
internet for any amount of time, you're
going to realize that everyone around
you is drifting in this weird direction.
and there's nothing in the real world
that motivates it. There's something in
their social media algorithms that
motivate it. Now, let me give you a
little example, okay? And this applies
perhaps especially for those people who
think of themselves as individual
thinkers, non-conformist kind of uh
anti-establishment thinkers. I I have my
own political opinions, social opinions.
I don't believe what they tell me.
Nonetheless, merely being plugged into
that system is something that affects
you in ways you probably don't realize.
Let me give you a little example. Uh
suppose in real life, you know, not not
using a phone, but in real life, uh you
had to go to a cafe every single day.
And at this cafe, you go and you you
take a sip or you do whatever. Just
you're just hanging out alone. And every
day at that cafe, there are two guys at
the table nearby. And they are both
vegans. And these two vegans are always
talking about their veganism. They're
talking about vegan foods. They're
talking about the morality of consuming
animals. Uh they're talking about, "Oh,
I don't have leather belts." They're
talking about all this kind of stuff.
This is not an example specifically
about veganism, but this happens every
single day. You hear them do this. Now,
maybe you are you don't like vegans. You
don't think about them. You you don't
you don't care. Maybe you you think the
the supposed morality of veganism is
stupid. it's self-refuting or who who
cares? It doesn't matter. But
nonetheless, in exposing yourself to
these people every single day, you see
the inner workings of their mind, you
see their values. You see how those
values work. And as time goes on, you
create this identity for those people,
for that ideology in your head. And that
is now a permanent fixture of your
brain. That's now a permanent part of
how you process the world. And it
affects everything. Like once once you
you have your sip of tea or whatever and
you go back home, you walk home, you
drive home, whatever, you're thinking
about those vegans, now they are a part
of your mindset. Even if you are you're
in your head, you're arguing against
them. Maybe you have great arguments.
Maybe you you're totally owning them in
in the debate in your head. It doesn't
matter. But now they are a part of your
mind. They're a part of your
consciousness. They are a part of uh
they are a distraction permanently in
your brain.
Now this is take this example and
multiply it a hundfold and that is
basically what it's like to be a normie
or actually even an abnormie on the
internet because that is what the
internet does to you. It doesn't just
throw veganism or something like that in
your head. It throws all the possible
scops in the world and it puts them on
your plate. It gives you all these
different alternative ideologies. uh it
gives you all these different
perspectives. uh it gives you this this
this you know way of looking at the
world where no matter what your way of
looking at the world is even if you are
a vegan and you're you're you're
listening to other people it doesn't
matter what example it is you your your
mind is now cluttered your mind is
confused you can't focus on things you
you you have arguments in your head you
have um your the values that you have
you know that they are not shared by
other people and this is this is what uh
social media, technology, all these kind
of things are doing to us. They are
making it where you know we have these
imaginary people in our heads and we
can't think straight and uh you know and
just to be clear this is actually how
you get the values of the system. Um if
the system can put in front of you let's
say there's a social let's say uh
Twitter or whatever whatever social
media site is run by a vegan. Okay, the
vegan doesn't need to convince you. He
needs to expose you to things over and
over and over and over and over again.
And that by itself affects the way you
think. That by itself gives you a place
in your brain where it normalizes a
certain idea. Right? So that that's
actually how it works. Even if they're
upsetting you while doing it, you know,
and and and when I see people who are
very plugged into the um internet, what
are they thinking about? They're
thinking about the new race hoax djour,
you know. They're thinking about the new
um I don't know, the new current thing,
you know, and in real life, you're not
going to see the current thing. It's not
it's not going to exist, you know. I'm
not just talking about the woods out
here. I'm talking about, you know, even
even people you run into in real life, a
lot of times if they bring up this uh
stuff from the internet, it's kind of
queer. It's kind of weird for them to do
that. Um, but nonetheless, like you you
you are really I I think a lot of people
kind of let's say conservab boomers,
let's put it that way. A lot of people
they don't like the way the system
works. They don't like the ideology of
the system, but they are just as
beholden to it. They are just as
beholden to it because they are always
on the defensive. They're always arguing
with those imaginary vegans in their
head. They're always arguing with those
um uh DEI people in their head. They
they care so much about this stuff they
won't stop talking about it. It's like
everything is I don't know that's the
kind of stuff that's where they really
get you. It's not even now they can
convince people. They convince many many
people and and that that convincing
doesn't come from them coming and
arguing something to your face. It comes
from constant exposure, constant
confusion of of your worldview uh or any
any semblance any relationship to
reality. they can just put it in your
face over and over and over again. And
many people entirely yield. But even
those people who put that in their
brain, they let it be a fixture in their
brain and they argue against it. That is
almost just as bad. That's almost just
as bad. Um, and this is really when you
look when you look at people of the
past, you realize just how radically
different they looked at things than how
we look at things. Like let's say people
in the west now the default uh way of
looking at the world is atheism. Even
people who are religious they default to
a kind of atheistic way of looking at
history and society. And whenever
they're talking even to religious people
they speak about all history as being
this merely materialistic humanistic uh
no spiritual nature to to anything.
Right? Be why do why did they do that?
Well, they do that because every time
they turn on the system, not only do
they hear a atheistic way of looking at
things, but even, you know, they they'll
turn on a movie and um when uh pe people
like them are presented and they're
presented not just in a bad way, that's
not really what I'm getting at, but
they're presented as conflicted. They
all have skepticism and doubt and all
this kind of stuff. Now, this isn't just
about religion. This is about
everything. And this is really
ultimately it it is a confusion that's
in the mind of all people regardless of
what they believe regardless of uh even
if they have wrong ideas even they are
confused you know I I remember reading
um there's a really good book my priest
recommended it uh it was who is it Tito
Kleander's way of the aesthetics okay
fantastic book for any orthodox
Christian um but there's a a part in
that book where he talks about you know
kind of demonic effects of uh on people.
You know, some sometimes people think of
um oh uh a demon might put a bad thought
in my head. I might have a bad intrusive
thought that comes from nowhere, right?
But sometimes you have multiple bad
thoughts or sometimes multiple good
thoughts. And it's not even the content
of the thoughts that is dangerous. It
actually sometimes is just a mere
confusion. It's the mere confusion of
what's going a kind of helplessness
where you don't even know what to do and
that is that is like a really good summ
and in that case you know he says just
cross yourself just say just give it to
God let's say um and do the best you can
uh but the confusion itself is something
that's dangerous and that's something
for people to bear in mind and I I
encourage people to not expose
themselves to things that it's it's not
about Let's say it's not about ideology.
It's not about about being convinced of
X, Y, or Z. It's really about a state
that people have when they are plugged
into the system. They're they're
constant constantly being fed agit prop.
They're can constantly being fed some
niche position or or whatever. It just
causes confusion, uh spiritual
confusion. And um I don't know it's not
pretty to look at and it it doesn't uh
there are some people I will say who
might have wrong ideas about things and
I hope that they are corrected but um a
lot of times that correction doesn't
even come from confusion. It does even
if even if there are good things in that
confusion that's that's kind of my point
here. So that's it. Thank you.