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So building on top of Wagner and Schopenhauer is Friedrich Nietzsche, okay? Who is considered one of the greatest German philosophers of all time, okay? And he makes certain corrections to the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the music of Wagner, all right? Here are the three major differences between Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. You can see that Schopenhauer, he's a pessimistic Plato, okay? Whereas Nietzsche, he's an optimistic Aristotle. So Nietzsche's main complaint is this. Okay, Schopenhauer's conception is the source of everything is desire. And from desire, desire manifests itself in physical bodies in order to obtain what it wants, okay? And that's true, that makes sense. And then Schopenhauer's solution is that we must deny this desire, okay? We must negate this desire and then we will bring peace to the world. So for Nietzsche, this is confusing because, wait a minute here. The desire, the will manifests itself in physical bodies. 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Alright, so let's read a passage from The Genealogy of Morals, which is his most famous book. We can no longer conceal from ourselves precisely what this will, under the direction of the aesthetic ideal, expresses, which is hatred of anything human, animal, or material, abhorrence of the senses of reason itself, fear of happiness and beauty, the desire to escape from all illusion, change, growth, death, wishing even from desire itself. All this means, let us have the courage to confront it, a wish for oblivion, an aversion to life, a reputation of everything vital to existence, but it is and remains a will, to say at the end that which I said at the beginning, men will desire oblivion rather than not desire at all.", "word_count": 170, "timed_chunks": [ { "id": "seg-0045-chunk-001", "start": 2794.5, "end": 2795.5, "text": "Does that make sense, guys?", "word_count": 5 }, { "id": "seg-0045-chunk-002", "start": 2796.2, "end": 2798.24, "text": "Are you guys following this?", "word_count": 5 }, { "id": "seg-0045-chunk-003", "start": 2798.68, "end": 2802.42, "text": "Alright, so let's look at a couple passages from Nietzsche,", "word_count": 10 }, { "id": "seg-0045-chunk-004", "start": 2802.54, "end": 2805.38, "text": "okay? 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It's really a question of how we manifest our desire. In today's society, in the Christian Buddhist worldview, it's important to negate our desire. But when we negate our desire, we negate what our desire could lead us to, which is truth and beauty, and creativity and progress and innovation, okay? And when we negate ourselves, we're not returning back to unity, we are only embracing oblivion, okay? That's the problem with Christianity. It's turning us into slaves. That's a problem with modernity. That's a problem with society. We are all being forced to become slaves, okay? Does that make sense? All right, let's go on. To call the taming of an animal improving it sounds to ears almost like a joke. He who knows what goes on in menageries doubts very much whether an animal is improved in such places. 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That's what school is. So there's nothing wrong with what Nietzsche is saying, okay? This is a good metaphor to capture the essence of modernity, okay? Society, education, it's all meant to degrade your capacity to think for yourself in order to make you more obedient to power, okay? All right. So if you take Schopenhauer, Wagner, and Nietzsche together and combine them, what you get is a rejection of Christianity and a return to paganism, okay? So let's look at the differences. In the Christian worldview, there is a God. If there's a God, there is a framework of good and evil. So you must do good and you must avoid evil, okay? But in the pagan worldview, there is no God. There's many gods, but the gods themselves have no power over fate. 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This is really important because the Nazi party is an extreme right -wing workers party, right? So the army orders Hitler to kill all their leaders and that's what happened. This is called the Night of the Long Knives, the brown shirts. The extreme right -wing was eliminated by the army. So now the Nazi party and the army are now symbiotic, okay? They rely on each other. From now on, the Nazi party will ensure total unity of will at home through suppression of people, okay? And the army will now go march and conquer the world. Doesn't make sense, guys. That's the plan. All right. So Adolf Hitler is the perfect man for the job assigned to him by the army because he is a fantastic speaker, okay? He's very charismatic. 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One is either the hammer or the anvil. We confess that it is our purpose to prepare the German people, again, for the role of the hammer, okay? So he's saying we must unite as a people. We must have unity of will if we are to triumph against our enemies. All right. Nothing is possible unless one will commands, a will which has to be obeyed by others, beginning at the top and ending only at the very bottom. This is the expression of an authoritarian state, not of a weak, babbling democracy of an authoritarian state where everyone is proud to obey, because he knows, I will likewise be obeyed when I must take command, all right? Hitler is not being a dictator. He is trying to create unity of will. He is the leader. 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In the course of my life, I have very often been a prophet, and I have usually been ridiculed for it. During the time of my struggle for power, it was in the first instance the Jewish race which only received my prophecies with laughter when I said that I would one day take over the leadership of the state, and with it, that of the whole nation, and that I would then, among many other things, settle the Jewish problem. Their laughter was uproarious, but I think that for some time, now they have been laughing on the other side of their face. Today, I will once more be a prophet. 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So, we don't actually have any concrete evidence for the Holocaust, okay? So, one piece of evidence for the Holocaust is this speech by Hitler. But I want to explain what he is saying here, okay? What he's saying is, we, the German nation, want to be left alone. We want to be united. We want to be unified. But the capitalists and the communists all seek to undermine us. And who are the communists and who are the capitalists? The Jews, okay? It's the Jews who are a metaphor for a national elite group of individuals who are conspiring to undermine the vitality and the strength of the German nation. All right, so that's what he's saying here. 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As a national socialist and as a German soldier, I enter upon the struggle of a restored heart. My whole life has been nothing but one struggle for my people, for its restoration and for Germany. There was only one watchword for that struggle, faith in this people, one word I've never learned, and that is surrender, okay? So, he's telling the people, we're going to fight this war again. Why did we lose World War I? Because we didn't have faith. We surrendered. If we all came together and we fought to the very better end, we would have prevailed against our enemies, okay? It is quite unimportant whether we ourselves live, but it's essential that our people shall live, that Germany shall live. The sacrifice that is amended of us is not greater than the sacrifice that many generations have made. 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So, this is unity of will. We reject reality. Reality does not matter, because we impose our will on reality. As long as we have faith, as long as we have unity of will, we will triumph, okay? Alright, so, let's go back to the beginning. We were talking about Kaliningrad, right? It is one of the greatest injustices in human history that Konigsberg, which was, for the longest time, the cradle of human civilization, the epicenter of the Enlightenment, it is now completely destroyed, okay? 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So today we will do Germany and thus conclude our discussion of the four great civilizations that are fighting for global dominance. We previously did Britain, America. Tuesday we did Russia. Today w..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0002", "segment_id": "seg-0002", "start": 80.732, "end": 157.32, "time_label": "1:20", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "The green is Russia. It's the largest country in the world. Over here are the Baltic nations. And over here is a place called Kaliningrad. It's actually Russian. So the question then is, how did this come to pass? How w..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0003", "segment_id": "seg-0003", "start": 157.32, "end": 247.72, "time_label": "2:37", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And the rationale was that Prussia is a militaristic society that is hell -bent on world domination. And by eliminating Prussia, we can now bring peace to the world. 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This is really important to understand. 1920s, all these bankers..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0055", "segment_id": "seg-0055", "start": 3388.7, "end": 3446.09, "time_label": "56:28", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So the first step for Hitler in order to assume power is something called the Night of the Long Knives, okay? This is really important because the Nazi party is an extreme right -wing workers party, right? So the army o..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0056", "segment_id": "seg-0056", "start": 3446.09, "end": 3527.82, "time_label": "57:26", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "to listen to his voice so you can appreciate how powerful his speech is, his voice is. What his speeches do is they create unity of will in Germany, okay? 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