https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaAgfAGapD4
If you constantly go on the internet and expose yourself to things that you don’t like, you shouldn’t do that. 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 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 motivates it.
Now, let me give you a little example, okay? This applies perhaps especially for those people who think of themselves as individual thinkers, non-conformist, kind of uh, anti-establishment thinkers. 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 using a phone, but in real life, uh, you had to go to a cafe every single day. At this cafe, you go and you take a sip or you do whatever. You’re just hanging out alone.
Every day at that cafe, there are two guys at the table nearby. They are both vegans. 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 don’t like vegans. You don’t think about them. You don’t care. Maybe you think the supposed morality of veganism is stupid, it’s self-refuting, or 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. As time goes on, you create this identity for those people, for that ideology in your head. 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. Once 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 in your head you’re arguing against them, maybe you have great arguments. Maybe you’re totally owning them 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 distraction permanently in your brain.
Now, take this example and multiply it a hundredfold, 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 scopes in the world and puts them on your plate. It gives you all these different alternative ideologies. Uh, it gives you all these different perspectives. It gives you this 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 listening to other people, it doesn’t matter what example it is. Your mind is now cluttered, your mind is confused. You can’t focus on things. You have arguments in your head. You know that the values you have are not shared by other people, and this is what social media, technology, and all these kinds of things are doing to us. They are making it so we have these imaginary people in our heads, and we can’t think straight.
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 media site 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 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’s actually how it works. Even if they’re upsetting you while doing it, you know, when I see people who are very plugged into the internet, what are they thinking about? They’re thinking about the new race hoax du jour. You know, they’re thinking about the new, um, I don’t know, the new current thing. You know, in real life, you’re not going to see the current thing. It’s not going to exist.
I’m not just talking about the woods out here. I’m talking about, you know, even people you run into in real life. A lot of times, if they bring up this stuff from the internet, it’s kind of queer. It’s kind of weird for them to do that. Um, but nonetheless, a lot of people, let’s say conservaboomers, 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, DEI people in their head. 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 really gets you. It’s not even that they can convince people. They convince many, many people, and that convincing doesn’t come from them coming and arguing something to your face. It comes from constant exposure, constant confusion of your worldview, or any semblance of a relationship to reality. They can just put it in your face over and over again. Many people entirely yield. But even those people who put that in their brain, they let it be a fixture in their brain and argue against it. That is almost just as bad.
Um, 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 way of looking at the world is atheism. Even people who are religious default to a kind of atheistic way of looking at history and society. Whenever they’re talking, even to religious people, they speak about all history as being this merely materialistic, humanistic, uh, no spiritual nature to anything. Right? Why do they do that? Well, they do that because every time they turn on the system, not only do they hear an atheistic way of looking at things, but even, you know, they’ll turn on a movie, and when people like them are presented, they’re presented not just in a bad way, but 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. Ultimately, it is a confusion that’s in the mind of all people, regardless of what they believe, regardless of even if they have wrong ideas. Even they are confused. You know, I remember reading, um, there’s a really good book my priest recommended. It was Tito Kleander’s “Way of the Aesthetics.” Okay, fantastic book for any Orthodox Christian. But there’s a part in that book where he talks about the kind of demonic effects on people. You know, sometimes people think, oh, 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.
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 on, a kind of helplessness where you don’t even know what to do. That is like a really good summary. 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. But the confusion itself is something that’s dangerous, and that’s something for people to bear in mind. I encourage people to not expose themselves to things. It’s not about ideology. It’s not 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 constantly being fed agitprop. They’re constantly being fed some niche position or whatever. It just causes confusion, uh, spiritual confusion.
And, um, I don’t know, it’s not pretty to look at, and it doesn’t—there are some people, I will say, who might have wrong ideas about things, and I hope that they are corrected. But a lot of times that correction doesn’t even come from confusion. Even if there are good things in that confusion, that’s kind of my point here. So that’s it. Thank you.
@pepika-core - 2025-06-08 11:03:12
hes still wandering.+337
@sierra.mike.atomic8177 - 2025-06-10 11:03:12
This reminds me of this story: A senior monk and a junior monk were traveling together. At one point, they came to a river with a strong current. As the monks were preparing to cross the river, they saw a very young and beautiful woman also attempting to cross. The young woman asked if they could help her cross to the other side. The two monks glanced at one another because they had taken vows not to touch a woman. Then, without a word, the older monk picked up the woman, carried her across the river, placed her gently on the other side, and carried on his journey. The younger monk couldn’t believe what had just happened. After rejoining his companion, he was speechless, and an hour passed without a word between them. Two more hours passed, then three, finally the younger monk could contain himself any longer, and blurted out “As monks, we are not permitted a woman, how could you then carry that woman on your shoulders?” The older monk looked at him and replied, “Brother, I set her down on the other side of the river, why are you still carrying her?”+113
@halycon8125 - 2025-06-08 11:03:12
It reminds me of the proverb of "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil." It gets mocked as a proverb of willful ignorance, but its implication is far deeper when one understands the pest-like (even egregore) nature of evil.+166
@targetprime7 - 2025-06-08 11:03:12
Be careful what you listen to and consoom. You might think that it’s not affecting you, but your soul listens to and is affected by everything you let into your eyes and ears. Great video, Luke!+189
@kevinjackson4933 - 2025-06-08 11:03:12
In a sense, 'breaking out of the matrix' and being based and red-pilled has become its own matrix. The algorithmic silos will find a way to turn you into an NPC no matter how you approach it.+133
@AhmedNasser-tj2fb - 2025-06-08 11:03:12
I'm not brainwashed. I wash my brain myself.+379
@ichi1082 - 2025-06-08 11:03:12
I listen to Luke Smith every day, his ramlings affect me. You could say they now permanently live in my mind, rent free.+87
@jeremyfirth - 2025-06-08 11:03:12
A wise priest once said "The outrage you feel is the spell. That's the spell that is being cast on you."+24
@LittleMushroomGuy - 2025-06-08 11:03:12
Kierkegaard talked about this, even if you decide to do everything in opposite you are still just mirroring yourself to the thing you hate or dislike, even a mirrored reflection is still a reflection.+21
@nzagorsky - 2025-06-08 11:03:12
That's how propaganda works by the way. You don't have to believe in it, you just have to be immersed in it and it works wonders.+98
@FUZASHIII - 2025-06-08 11:03:12
Luke is my favorite anti brainwashing homeless podcaster 🙏+209
@Jimson-wx8uq - 2025-06-08 11:03:12
I could have missed the entire trans saga without the internet.+137
@DullasRedoubt - 2025-06-08 11:03:12
The Entire West is just one big Entertainment Complex. Taking this vantage point, you get the sobering view that you can't put too much stock in any one person on the Internet.+93
@simonedeiana2696 - 2025-06-09 11:03:12
This is literally how ads work. People think they're immune to them, but in reality simply being exposed constantly to a product (even though you might hate it) makes you actually consider it+9
@cherubin7th - 2025-06-08 11:03:12
I noticed how it starts to make people unable to move forward in life. Like they know what they should do but this issues are making them emotional unwell and they struggle to learn etc.+32
@RoofusRoof19 - 2025-06-08 11:03:12
Moral of the story is not let people rent free in your brain+61
@crystalseth97 - 2025-06-08 11:03:12
Evil system breeds ignorance by twisting and condemning the truth.+47
@Yunes948 - 2025-06-08 11:03:12
Homeless 14th century saint had enough of getting rage baited by CIA and aliens+69
@ponternal - 2025-06-10 11:03:12
Anger is addicting. Spend any amount of time online and this will become pretty clear.+10
@deersakamoto2167 - 2025-06-08 11:03:12
In the café I entered, there were two guys with beards discussing Bitcoin and Arch Linux, so I left+43
@alexxx4434 - 2025-06-08 11:03:12
Eternal Wanderer+25
@meanmole3212 - 2025-06-08 11:03:12
to religious and spiritual enlightenment+6
@MrFirefox - 2025-06-08 11:03:12
Its AI generated, those woods dont exist. Its why he can wander endlessly.+9
@justin-zk3cz - 2025-06-08 11:03:12
@MrFirefox the backwoods+9
@Row_of_E - 2025-06-08 11:03:12
Wandering and wondering+4
@PhilippBlum - 2025-06-08 11:03:12
And he always will :D+2
@Hopeofmen - 2025-06-08 11:03:12
Not wandering, he's following Christ :)+6
@BigTendyT - 2025-06-08 11:03:12
based pfp+2
@billpoole8541 - 2025-06-08 11:03:12
"Not all who wander are lost"+6
@airknytt - 2025-06-08 11:03:12
😂+1
@buff8995 - 2025-06-08 11:03:13
You're still thinking of lain?+1
@hhjhj393 - 2025-06-08 11:03:13
Based wandering Jew enjoying nature while Aryan slogs sit in bureaucratic office buildings trying to maintain their dominance.+2
@misterkefir - 2025-06-08 11:03:13
Based peripatetic.+1
@LatchoLaiban - 2025-06-09 11:03:13
In the woods near you 😳+1
@louisthethird8081 - 2025-06-10 11:03:13
Stop making stupid jokes and actually try to follow his wisdom+2
@Dawg2000 - 2025-06-10 11:03:13
I heard some people call him the wanderer.+1
@tovrobi5097 - 2025-06-13 11:03:13
Moral of the story: don't wait to say when something is bothering you.+8
@RahulKumar-fr7vj - 2025-06-14 11:03:13
said by Osho+2
@ChellSneed - 2025-06-08 11:03:13
Well said.+3
@infeliximpius - 2025-06-08 11:03:13
Don't confuse the virtue of prudence with the vice of ignorance+17
@vpx23 - 2025-06-08 11:03:13
Evil is an infectious disease. See "KINGDOM - Animated Short Film" by IN-SHADOW.+2
@HyperboreanAnchovy44 - 2025-06-10 11:03:13
Very true, this is why in ancient and pre industrial societies certain crimes were delt with quietly. They knew simply exposing people to evil was bad even if you were punishing it.+2
@jamesarthurkimbell - 2025-06-11 11:03:13
Whenever I scroll by one of those three-hour video essays about why the latest Star Wars is bad, I think, or hope, that one day they’re gonna learn to just skip it+1
@hypnoz7871 - 2025-06-08 11:03:14
Replace "soul" with "brain".+10
@harveywj87 - 2025-06-08 11:03:14
"Psyche" translates to "soul". Refers to the vital principle or mind rather than just the body part. Even material science has found that our perception of the world is affected by and includes other parts of our body - the whole nervous system, endocrine system, etc. With that in mind, "soul" might be more accurate and encompassing even if you reject a metaphysical reality.+29
@a71895bzbbe - 2025-06-08 11:03:14
like what+1
@hhjhj393 - 2025-06-08 11:03:14
No one is immune to propaganda.+2
@misterkefir - 2025-06-08 11:03:14
True, true.. I wish I knew this sooner, tbh.+2
@miojao-r7r - 2025-06-10 11:03:14
@harveywj87 Except that "soul" means something metaphysical by definition. Yes, our perception is not only done by the brain, but saying that "your soul listens" is even more wrong.+1
@ChristopherDistrobution - 2025-06-10 11:03:14
I was journaling about this yesterday. I realized I had a real issue with all those massive amounts of YouTube videos I would watch when I was younger. I would lie to myself and give myself the excuse that "oh I can just consumer this and spit out the bones. I'm just watching this." But that really isn't the case. I was watching it for a rush. I wanted to be included on what everyone else was in on. And even if I didn't agree with what it was, if it were disgusting or immoral, I wouldn't want to miss out on what everyone else was into. More than that, I was intrigued by the vibe, content, or nature of those videos. I just consumed. It was a sort of rebellion. Now I was raised in a terribly legalistic fundamental baptist environment, so my compass of what was really problematic, and what may have been a non-issue was damaged. Nonetheless I watched things I shouldn't have. Even more, all these things, the shows, the movies, the music videos, the video games, and the smutty content I knew I shouldn't have engaged with period were all created by people who really hated God and created content from that worldview. Even if the story wasn't so bad, the content and spin on it was so bad that it was useless. So in essence, I was right that "well its just a story and I can watch this and spit out the bones." If what I was consuming was mere ominous-cautionary tales or non-politically correct comedy, that may have been fine (not at the hours I watched though). But that wasn't it. ALL OF IT was pointed it. NONE OF IT was neutral. The majority of it just dark and Godless. I had no need to engage with it and I realize it now. Lord have mercy.+2
@harveywj87 - 2025-06-10 11:03:14
@miojao-r7r you are right, in the same sense that saying "the mind/psyche listens to" would be incorrect. You would be completely right if the word "soul" only had a metaphysical definition. As it is, "psyche" and "mind" are also synonyms to soul - so unless the mind or the psyche is also something metaphysical by definition then we are talking past each other with separate definitions+1
@Hiromandt - 2025-06-14 11:03:14
@miojao-r7r Consciousness is metaphysical. Your materialist worldview was debunked more than a century ago by quantum mechanics experiments.+1
@Laotzu.Goldbug - 2025-06-09 11:03:14
In theory you are correct but in practice it's more a misunderstanding of things. it's the inevitable trap of contrarianism just being another paradigm of dogmatism in contrast to conformity. Kind of like the "left-right" political dichotomy spectrum is false and misleading, so too is the "conformist" vs "freethinker". They don't represent the two opposite poles of reality but just a dichotomy on one axis in a world of great multiplicities. The only real Pursuit is truth and wisdom. sometimes that means thinking for yourself and being Critical™, other times it means acknowledging the deep understanding and wisdom of tradition, your civilization and yes society at large. Or more simply sometimes it means trusting yourself and other times it means being wise enough to know that you can't completely trust yourself. this requires intelligence and wisdom, but also discipline, humility, strength, and innate good character. I know it's a bit of a meme (okay A LOT of a meme) but there's a reason why "based" and "red pill" are related but ultimately different things, representing respectively people who have innate character towards truth and wisdom and strength, and those who merely have access to more true information. Ideally you need to have both come and that is the only way to actual freedom. But if you could only choose one or the other, even though sometimes they end up being annoying or even dangerous useful idiots for the enemy, I think most people understand that they would far rather spend time with someone who is "based". Or to put another way, a lot of the people who have become red pill, or at least think they are red pill, may have learned some new facts and shifted their intellectual worldview but they have not at all changed as people. Their character has remained static, and an all likelihood low quality. they are still as much followers, dogmatists, trapped by their own flaws and everything else, they are just now following a new pied piper. Or to put it yet another way, they have mistaken their mere acquisition of some new information for a development of virtue, when they really haven't done anything virtuous, at least not yet. So not only are they refusing to grow and develop but they have diluted themselves into thinking that they already have which makes that even harder. I don't know if I can give an exact mathematical breakdown but the end result of being an NPC probably has as its main cause (75%?) A person being of low character and only as a minor cause (25%?) Someone not having access to the accurate information (being blue pilled"). That's exactly why, even if it seems an oxymoron at first, you can obviously have red pill NPCs, because the failure was never in their head but always in their souls.+13
@philalethes216 - 2025-06-09 11:03:14
If it’s not quiet where you are you’re still in the matrix+1
@samplename6292 - 2025-06-10 11:03:14
Yeah, algorithm doesn't care as long as you're clicking and consooming. I wonder if "based" will become the new "punk" - seemingly anti-establishment but, in reality, quite profitable?+3
@jsedge2473 - 2025-06-13 11:03:14
This is nothing new, it's just the universe. Even if you go out in the middle of the nowhere you are being "siloed" by your environment forcing you to act a certain way.+1
@protogionlastname6003 - 2025-06-15 11:03:14
I swear to God I've seen people who was rebelling so much against LGBT and whatever current scarecrows are that if you observe patiently you could see them turning into slaves of their own crusade in real time+1
@gooniesfan7911 - 2025-06-15 11:03:14
In this world not of it.+1
@StariZec - 2025-06-08 11:03:15
😄👏+6
@adrianclaridge570 - 2025-06-08 11:03:15
Luke's argument is based off a false premise anyway. He is assuming we even have brains.+28
@ZeroRelevance - 2025-06-08 11:03:15
@adrianclaridge570 So true+4
@kvdrr - 2025-06-09 11:03:15
lysergiaaaaa+1
@NastyWicked - 2025-06-09 11:03:15
yte pipo dun seazon dey brain+4
@MidlifeRenaissanceMan - 2025-06-10 11:03:15
Descartes never realised that people who don’t think also exist+1
@MidlifeRenaissanceMan - 2025-06-10 11:03:15
I’m not brain washed. My mind is way to dirty+1
@pinpon17 - 2025-06-08 11:03:15
Luke Smith afects my mind, i can only think straight, ortodox even.+9
@Dawg2000 - 2025-06-10 11:03:15
He literally lives rent free In your mind forest+1
@bradgreen2570 - 2025-06-14 11:03:16
This video is actually a great exemple.+2
@drumitar - 2025-06-08 11:03:16
@SeeingBagels your missing the point, everything is propaganda and you dont even know it.+12
@areyoutheregoditsmedave - 2025-06-08 11:03:16
even the medium is propaganda. thats the whole point.+9
@alexhichamk6630 - 2025-06-08 11:03:16
Who is the one for u with a house?!+4
@PhilippBlum - 2025-06-08 11:03:16
alone that thing being homeless, right. How people judge so hard and are scared of other people. Those who know+1
@williamgable2297 - 2025-06-08 11:03:16
Luke is living rent free, just like the vegans in my head+17
@milkman6218 - 2025-06-08 11:03:16
I wouldn't call him anti brainwashing, he's doing the exact same thing he's preaching about in the video.+2
@hhjhj393 - 2025-06-08 11:03:16
@milkman6218 True he does the same stuff in his vids. Everyone has something to sell you, and it's insanely hard to process all information in a rational way. Luke obviously has a slant and bias he is peddling too. It just shows that humans are tribal and not rational, it takes an intense amount of focus and energy to remain rational.+1
@generic_user444 - 2025-06-08 11:03:16
cute pfp+4
@spriggylotus4476 - 2025-06-09 11:03:16
@hhjhj393 Is there anything wrong with having a bias if you're right? I don't think so.+2
@myassisahead - 2025-06-08 11:03:16
code word vegan lol+14
@MrFirefox - 2025-06-08 11:03:16
Little by little it bleeds into reality. Then into schools. Into your workspaces. Everywhere. Slowly you would notice anyways. On individual levels too+59
@virgil3836 - 2025-06-08 11:03:16
@MrFirefox to a point where coworkers start to sound like they were grown in a petri dish by the nwo+27
@enclaveofdoom - 2025-06-08 11:03:16
you'd have noticed it is happening in schools. So yeah you would not have.+27
@hgriff14 - 2025-06-08 11:03:16
i live in nc and its basically a completely different universe when i see that nonsense 😂+3
@MrD3000 - 2025-06-08 11:03:16
Damn, son. How wonderful that would have been.+1
@calholli - 2025-06-08 11:03:16
Nah.. I still remember it being around in school in the 90's. I've seen videos of people talking about it in the 60's. It has always been around.+2
@valiantviktor - 2025-06-08 11:03:16
@calholli Pedantically speaking, you are correct. But it hasn't been at this level of popularity and acceptance before, and that's what really matters.+8
@j03y__ - 2025-06-09 11:03:16
Restrooms sgns+1
@youcefsiouda - 2025-06-09 11:03:17
The troon shall pass 🚂🚂🚂+2
@hgriff14 - 2025-06-08 11:03:17
there’s some people on the internet that are good and honest but i watch mainly people building things or crafting things so im not into the real “influencer” content so idk+12
@MidlifeRenaissanceMan - 2025-06-10 11:03:17
The entire west is one big interactive advertisement with buy now+5
@JohnDoe-nq5pk - 2025-06-10 11:03:17
Every culture is a big entertainment complex, the west is just modern and refined to date+1
@kylefarrell25 - 2025-06-08 11:03:17
One side is all forgiving, but you have to accept their false realities full-throated to be accepted. The "right" side lives closer to reality but offers no form of redemption outside of a church. They're both cults trying to recruit. There is no good answer.+8
@SuperRetroBoy64 - 2025-06-09 11:03:17
@kylefarrell25 "Right" is too broad a brush. There are plenty of weird online gremlin cults with right-wing politics and non-Christian beliefs. But yes, broadly speaking, right wing politics offer little community if you're not a Christian.+2
@crossbow7398 - 2025-06-09 11:03:17
@ShameinYouBand Uncle T isn't goint to help. Uncle T says go live like a caveman. If you'd already practiced what he preaches, you wouldn't be able to write this. Also they all like larping as cavemen up until the very second they get a serious health complication. Uncle T was good at pointing out some of todays problems, but people aren't going to live according to his ultimate solution. We all like to be safe from starvation, and to not die or become a cripple from health issues that are healable today.+1
@johngower2208 - 2025-06-08 11:03:17
How do I collect the rent from them if they are there?+16
@PhilippBlum - 2025-06-08 11:03:17
Yep. Indeed. Indeed. Indeed. Remove yourself from some people and double down on others. Those who know+2
@spaghettiking653 - 2025-06-08 11:03:17
@johngower2208 Unfortunately, you might just have to evict them, since they refuse to pay :)+7
@calholli - 2025-06-08 11:03:17
This is a non issue. It's easy to disengage.+3
@starc. - 2025-06-08 11:03:18
not all truth is true so its not all its cracked out to be+1
@darrniess - 2025-06-09 11:03:18
@starc. ¿What? That is some 1984 shit.+2
@starc. - 2025-06-09 11:03:18
@darrniess its two different words so is it going to mean exactly same ?+1
@darrniess - 2025-06-10 11:03:18
@starc. "do not believe your lying eyes"+4
@starc. - 2025-06-11 11:03:18
@darrniess yes something like that, your eyes your truth different to your true (insert random noun)+1
@parkerstroh6586 - 2025-06-08 11:03:18
Pfft you believe in the CIA?+4
@cloudy1723 - 2025-06-10 11:03:18
Sounds like what happened to terry until they finally pulled the rug under him+4
@LivermooreJesse965ud - 2025-06-09 11:03:18
Fake and gay they were definitely talking about XMR+1
@Nov1706 - 2025-06-08 11:03:19
Basically, "And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."+13
@SleepySmileFactory - 2025-06-08 11:03:19
One thing a lot of people don't take heed of because they are desperate to be seen and heard is that there are people gathering and watching over your data online and these things can get people in a lot of trouble. It is a good time to be silent and listen. Nobody worthwhile is going to acknowledge your angst. We're literally living in a time of physical and spiritual warfare.+8
@remsee1608 - 2025-06-08 11:03:19
The algorithms are more addictive than any drug I’ve done+43
@S460-v2q - 2025-06-08 11:03:19
I had a similar idea long time ago that if I, for example, read good books, even if I don't remember the whole book, I would have exposed myself to something great, great characters, great plot and so on, that could improve me in some subconscious way. In similar vein, being simply exposed to bad media (such as the one that is in most cases shown on social media) will have a bad effect on me, even if I don't feel/understand it.+14
@hineko_ - 2025-06-08 11:03:19
There was a book "Tactical Reality Dictionary" by Konrad Becker about social control, which said the same thing - "To decode a message means to internalize it". If you understand something and it causes your reaction, its gonna live rent free in your head and affect your actions. So here's your answer why HloboGomo pushes all those insanities. As the front of social perception being moved forward through the exposure of society to more and more bizarre stuff, all the previous things that seemed bizarre before now turn to normalcy because people were made to experience them over and over.+7
@NerdistRay - 2025-06-08 11:03:19
Hey man, hope you're doing good. Love your videos and all the things you taught me. Not just linux, minimalist software, etc. Appreciate these kinds of walking in the woods talking about your thoughts videos as well. And yeah, about the thing you're talking about. The Exposure Effect is very real. The people, ideas, content that you are exposed to can and will influence you in some way.+16
@SuperRetroBoy64 - 2025-06-09 11:03:19
Your enemy is always willing to recruit you in a moment of weakness.+5
@meanmole3212 - 2025-06-08 11:03:19
Only expose yourself to the meta information of information provided by Priest Luke of Chopswood, and then reflect.+34
@BuziCigany88 - 2025-06-08 11:03:19
I cant be brainwashed if i only use ai to think for me+41
@zimtage1744 - 2025-06-08 11:03:19
During the lockdowns I tuned off all media and went about my life. No TV, no internet, and that thing that had everybody upset. It never happened.+11
@greymarketscholar - 2025-06-08 11:03:19
It seems that one of the purposes of agitprop is to make you so exhausted that you give up and go into "I just want to grill" mode. Over the years I've seen a lot of really plugged in guys just get tired and go back to being normies. I think it's good to occasionally go back and make yourself mad, but the key is to then funnel that energy into something that moves things in the right direction.+10
@NoTime360 - 2025-06-08 11:03:19
I find political commentators, even if they are on "your side", achieve this by talking about what the other side is doing and planting their ideas in your head even if its with a disapproving commentary.+25
@abcrane - 2025-06-09 11:03:19
Important topic. Here’s my thought on a solution : 1.Be aware of WHY you need or desire to know any fact, process, or idea. 2.get informed through reliable sources 3. Focus your ATTENTION on Solutions rather than obsessing on the problem In other words move from knowing thoroughly to acting effectively.+3
@crossbow7398 - 2025-06-09 11:03:19
Mental influence by constant exposure. Surely [thing 1] is normal while [thing 2] is undesired, everyone thinks in these ways so it must be right. And these things are talked about constantly, so surely it is right that I need to give them space in my head at all. "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society" - Mark Vonnegut+3
@SeanzatChimalley_MMA - 2025-06-10 11:03:19
This is the goal of The Daily Wire+5
@budstep7361 - 2025-06-08 11:03:19
Four things exist: Your actions, Your words, Your thoughts, and Your senses. Use these tools appropriately+4
@blitzkrieg2928 - 2025-06-08 11:03:19
It s amusing how escapism shifted from going online to escape the bs irl to going outside to do it+20
@bobdole27 - 2025-06-08 11:03:19
Only way to really "win" is to disengage honestly.+4
@aksarubehc - 2025-06-08 11:03:19
The only way to win is not to play+18
@MKx01 - 2025-06-08 11:03:19
the art of not giving a fuck about vegans+22
@p4trickb4tem4n - 2025-06-08 11:03:19
that has absolutely nothing to do with the point of this video+2
@MeUser-f3x - 2025-06-09 11:03:19
@p4trickb4tem4n Are you going to elaborate? Wait, are you trying to put ideas in our head like the point of this video?+2
@p4trickb4tem4n - 2025-06-09 11:03:19
@MeUser-f3x meds asap+1
@Nov1706 - 2025-06-09 11:03:19
@p4trickb4tem4n You have no real point, or you would explain like has been asked.+3
@p4trickb4tem4n - 2025-06-09 11:03:19
@Nov1706 I didn't think it was related because I thought you were like talking about really deep water or something but I just asked chatGPT what the context of the quote is and I realized that you're right, what that guy called nietzche or whatever was saying when he made that quote is basically the same as what this video is saying, I always thought this quote was just something meaningless that people on the internet liked parroting+1
@Nov1706 - 2025-06-09 11:03:19
@p4trickb4tem4n Not trying to be rude or dunk on you too hard, but this interaction was a great encapsulation of the modern times we live in. Keep an open mind. Keep improving. And never lose that ability to admit when you're wrong.+4
@kylefarrell25 - 2025-06-08 11:03:19
I was on my old phone maybe half the time I'm on this one. I think the tech got better because it's definitely not the quality of the content that's improved. We haven't been allowed to know much about what the screens are doing to us, and what I do "know" is from obviously biased sources.+2
@meanmole3212 - 2025-06-08 11:03:20
@grok is this true?+31
@Mrspeedwell - 2025-06-10 11:03:20
I spilt coffee over my car radio. Best accident ever.+1
@darrniess - 2025-06-09 11:03:20
What is this hole "planting ideas" even means? I don't see any point to this video.+1
@AffectedArea - 2025-06-15 11:03:20
That was a tactic the media used in the 90s to introduce the unacceptable. Introduce it as a subject of debate, introduce it softly/'neutrally' or even with a little skepticism, while giving it a national platform.+1
@youcefsiouda - 2025-06-09 11:03:20
Because the internet is like a pocket version of the entire world 🌎+2
@cloudy1723 - 2025-06-10 11:03:20
@youcefsiouda and it’s not the full story+3
@calholli - 2025-06-08 11:03:21
Preach.. bravo. That's what I said. Disengage+3
@darrniess - 2025-06-09 11:03:21
Congratulations, you got psy-opped.+1
@calholli - 2025-06-09 11:03:21
@darrniess We are the psy-op.. and you fell right into our trap.+1
@soundpalette2438 - 2025-06-08 11:03:21
the art of missing the point of the video+9
@hgriff14 - 2025-06-08 11:03:21
why even worry about them enough to not care?+4
@MKx01 - 2025-06-08 11:03:21
@hgriff14 level 2 dont caring: uncaring about uncaring+3
@calholli - 2025-06-08 11:03:21
Disengage. I'm too busy doing other things to even give it my focus.+1
@Etherchannel - 2025-06-08 11:03:21
If he made this video 5 or more years ago I would agree. Unfortunately, I think we have reached a point where social media has collided with reality.+8
@i.t.2238 - 2025-06-08 11:03:21
I fear I don't have the luxury of distancing myself from bad things I don't like.. not anytime soon.+11
@weidiocrow - 2025-06-08 11:03:21
It's like people don't believe anything, but they're constantly thinking about what other people believe and why it's materially incorrect, NOT why THEY BELIEVE it's wrong. Institutions call it 'Negative Identity', but I think of it as 'Enemy Identity', in that you think of yourself by whatever your ideological enemy is not, and if the enemy is some amalgam on social media, it makes you pretty malleable.+7
@notiashvili - 2025-06-08 11:03:21
I am plugged into Luke Smith. He lives rent free in my head+5
@vulonkaaz - 2025-06-08 11:03:21
lately my philosophy as been something like "if you fight you lose" when there is something bad the only good way to "fight" it is to ignore and not interact with it at all when you actually fight you're letting it ruin your life+4
@connorhodgert2747 - 2025-06-08 11:03:21
Basically, don’t get addicted to your own emotions like outrage, negativity, etc+4
@gitarmats - 2025-06-08 11:03:21
Watching unaboomer videos until he’s living rent free in my head.+10
@m7med.a7mmd - 2025-06-09 11:03:21
Hello Luke , peace be upon you. This is the first time I’m commenting on your videos. You talked about a very important point that few people discuss. There is a book called Muqaddimah by Ibn Khaldun, an Arab Muslim author who passed away long ago in 1406 AD. Mark Zuckerberg actually used this book when building Facebook. It’s an extremely powerful book that talks about how to control society, and it has existed for over 700 years. Thank you for the clean content you provide.+2
@KartikKKalia - 2025-06-08 11:03:21
I won numerous debates against communist and vegans in my head while I was failing in college.+12
@purpledragon88 - 2025-06-08 11:03:21
That's the economy of attention. Attention is a form of nourishment and part of collective human experience is the the world of ideas. We nourish both ourselves and the ideas when we pay attention to them and that's how they grow both within our minds and the world. That's why, preferably, nourish the good "food for thought" that you would like to be prevalent in the world that your children will be growing up in.+6
@jameslee899 - 2025-06-09 11:03:21
Before the internet, a Canadian horror director, David Cronenberg, made reference to this theme in his 1983 film Videodrome. (Fantastic Film to watch) Essentially, constant mass media consumption has devastating effects on the mass population. Being constantly exposed to various thoughts, opinions, and reactions, can alter someone’s brain physically and psychologically. This can lead to altered perceptions of reality which then can lead to mass identity crisis. Fast Forward to 2025, and 24/7 exposure to this has created a chaotic, desensitized, and confused population without feeling that they’re in any control of their lives. Why should someone in one part of a country be exposed to tragedy to another part of an unrelated country where it has no impact on that person. Why should someone’s emotions be exploited or manipulated ? Why should our emotions be drained to care about something that has zero relativity in our lives ?!+6
@ZedX-hj8mx - 2025-06-08 11:03:21
Excellent point! Choose your mind food carefully+2
@DatPuz - 2025-06-11 11:03:21
Damn, this is spot on. I wonder where this is going to lead us. Even if I unplug, I still live in the world everyone else is plugged into.+1
@andrewkosenko2757 - 2025-06-08 11:03:21
Bro is traversing through the woods to the source of truth+25
@GreatestAudioBooks - 2025-06-08 11:03:21
👏yes spot on, Luke. at minimum:🚫BLOCK all garbage peddlers. -Would I invite them into my home? So why am I inviting their presence into my living space? - Why am I granting them permanent residency inside my mind? -Why am I offering their evil presence to inhabit me, consume my energy, and take possession of me?+2
@ltxr9973 - 2025-06-08 11:03:21
I've been noticing this when living together with people. No matter how much they disagreed with some of my opinions, at some point I had repeated them so often that they basically became assumed true and became part of the foundation of any discussion.+3
@joseph-f4u7h - 2025-06-08 11:03:21
I’ve come to a similar conclusion, I’m in the process of convincing my university I’m a Mennonite so I don’t have to ever use a computer again. The modern internet is unusable to anyone who has the habit of opening YouTube or Twitter or any social media at all. Deliberating on what to do with my smart phone. I’m tired of feeling sick in the head and I’m certain it’s my online habits behind it+3
@checkmate5338 - 2025-06-08 11:03:21
I'm Muslim, and i agree with a lot of what you say. People tend to subconsciously adopt the ideological frameworks of their culture without realizing it. Like progressive thinking, where you think that past generations were all ignorant and backwards, and the current generation got it right. (until our children grow up and critique us the same way).+9
@dungeon_architect - 2025-06-08 11:03:21
This has been going on for much longer than social media. Alasdair MacIntyre was basically saying the same thing in After Virtue, written in the 80s+4
@Baiyu83 - 2025-06-08 11:03:21
On the other hand, by that logic, there can be similar distractions in real life, only to a lesser extent...+2
@derek123wil0 - 2025-06-08 11:03:22
I don't think that's the point+2
@toobskuiks116 - 2025-06-08 11:03:22
That's actually the Ascetic practice when a bad thought comes into one's mind. Ignore it, don't fight it.+2
@AffectedArea - 2025-06-15 11:03:22
Uncle Ted in your head+1
@derek123wil0 - 2025-06-08 11:03:22
I usually watch communists debate against the vegans+3
@PIatosGoonCave - 2025-06-09 11:03:23
Long live the new flesh.+2
@johnpapa8554 - 2025-06-08 11:03:23
DMT perhaps?+1
@alexxx4434 - 2025-06-08 11:03:23
It is confirmed, Luke is a Stalker wandering through the Zone towards the Monolith+6
@dungeon_architect - 2025-06-08 11:03:23
6:24 this is what Foucault called episteme+4
@stacksmasherninja7266 - 2025-06-08 11:03:23
I have agreed with this man 100% for the first time in my history of watching this channel. You're absolutely spot on, Luke.+1
@hhjhj393 - 2025-06-08 11:03:23
This is basically, "no one is immune to propaganda".+9
@BigMunchGSC - 2025-06-09 11:03:23
A wise man once said "CONFUSION OF DA HIGHEST ORDA" and I think this is beautiful+1
@slipy955 - 2025-06-08 11:03:23
Don't mind me, just watching Luke gradually turn into Max Stirner+2
@Duefist - 2025-06-08 11:03:23
its their way of controlling the overton window. these are the controversies and conversations that are acceptable+4
@enjoful - 2025-06-10 11:03:23
The café was basically the first social media and lead to the french revolution+2
@robkam643400 - 2025-06-13 11:03:23
'Cross yourself and give it to God.' Exactly what I've found. Pray without ceasing!+1
@laterskater6341 - 2025-06-08 11:03:23
People are now capable of living double lives. Online life and real life.+4
@lhays117 - 2025-06-15 11:03:23
As a vegan atheist, I can’t argue with any of the points made in this video. Well stated. 👍+1
@MilquetoastQT - 2025-06-11 11:03:23
I was arguing with wrong people long before I had the internet. People are the problem. It's theological.+1
@Taychud8 - 2025-06-09 11:03:23
"you are totally owning them in the debate in your head; it doesn't matter" 😔+1
@Marcosilva0000 - 2025-06-08 11:03:24
Let me give you a little example+12
@mrnmedia-o4e - 2025-06-08 11:03:24
Very interesting way of looking at things, appreciate you sharing this. I always caught this, sometimes I still fall prey to it but I am getting more perspicacious in avoiding this.+1
@JDStone20 - 2025-06-08 11:03:24
I have internet brain. I could/did speak pretty much the same language as my 14yo niece, and I am 51yo. That just isn't natural+5
@PIatosGoonCave - 2025-06-08 11:03:24
It’s a strange game, in which the only winning move is not to play.+2
@usernnammee12345ffghjjjjjjjk - 2025-06-08 11:03:24
The value of opting out is exponential+2
@Laotzu.Goldbug - 2025-06-09 11:03:24
Attention is energy and energy is life force. Do not give the demons a piece of your soul. At the end of the day they don't like you correcting them, or proving them wrong, or even defeating them, but they absolutely despise you ignoring them. Of course you cannot ignore a genuine threat, and for that reason the demons will always have some element of power, but you can definitely ignore them much more successfully from a position of strength.+1
@elliesuckz - 2025-06-08 11:03:24
The greatest relief god gives is his love, the realest of loves…of course he gives us everything else but to me his love, it feels so deeply satisfying. Sometimes I feel so small but I remember he understands me. Such a powerful being understanding me? My struggles? It’s almost funny but it’s true. He makes me feel not important like other Christians tend to say (which is not bad either) but he makes me feel sane…in a way nothing else can. In the midst of my challenges, unwanted feelings that are not my own, external people, stuff I see…his promises of both happiness here and eternal life up there fill me with joy. In those weak moments, I realize I already have everything I need. The goal is not heaven anymore. That’s where I’ll be yes but the goal…is to do as he pleases because the more I do as he pleases…the more he’ll show me who i really am. Before this world’s brainwashing…. People always like to make the “point” that religion is just another zogchow cope….it’s beautiful how even that, the idea that we’re forced to do these things within our religion…god even thought of that, he refuted it within his gospel. God is calling you but it’s up to you to either say yes or now. Marked on your temple while the devil…he wants you in hell, marking both your hand and your temple, whether you like it or not and realizing that….is true freedom.+1
@elliesuckz - 2025-06-08 11:03:24
Like even in the Bible how he calls us his bride…the body…like sometimes I read the Bible and it’s so personal and beautiful. Like a mother promising his child something with all her heart.+1
@useruser6240 - 2025-06-08 11:03:24
well, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger...that confusion and constant fight in head it is what keeps me in check! Atleast works on me, so I actually want those things to occupy my head bc it is important to constantly reminded how things can change like flipping a dime and also keep me in route!+1
@JanitorialSrvcs - 2025-06-08 11:03:24
Just stumbled upon this channel when I needed it most, hope to some day join you on a walk out there+1
@Neversink11 - 2025-06-08 11:03:24
Luke cultivating the new Priest-class.+2
@jegga9199 - 2025-06-08 11:03:24
Jesus is the only mediator between God and humans, and there is nothing you can do to earn salvation, only faith.+3
@lithe.susurrous661 - 2025-06-08 11:03:24
Chronic discord online is not good, but doesn't steel sharpen steel? I believe one of the reasons Christians lost so many people is because in decades past they had no answers to public atheist antagonists. Christians became too passive. Not just morally but also intellectually.+2
@drelephanttube - 2025-06-11 11:03:24
Love your thought-provoking videos dude.+1
@CopeAscetic - 2025-06-08 11:03:24
Holy Based+25
@5up5up - 2025-06-08 11:03:24
i 100% agree is there a book i can read about this? psyops is everywhere and nobody talks about it it's infuriating+10
@MilquetoastQT - 2025-06-11 11:03:24
The problem is that algorithms force you to view things you don't like. No amount of curating fixes it because these sites have agendas.+1
@Maxx-k1e - 2025-06-08 11:03:24
I think I can achieve prosperity through endless layers of confusion, I just let myself to go deeper sometimes just to understand (it may sound random, yes it is) anyways Luke nice video it hit me hard thanks+1
@enignevroom - 2025-06-09 11:03:24
Wow; what an interesting idea! One of the best rants yet!+1
@anasouardini - 2025-06-08 11:03:24
The more time Luke spends away from internet, the more he knows about it!!+1
@GurtGobain - 2025-06-08 11:03:24
I've noticed this in all my wife's friends since Reddit went completely mainstream and they all started using it 2 or 3 years ago. Now they all have crazy far-left beliefs and are doing insane stuff like actively seeking out drag storytime hours to take their kids to.+14
@ChellSneed - 2025-06-08 11:03:24
God bless you مبارك اخي الحبيب+2
@hiperborean82 - 2025-06-08 11:03:24
Thank you Luke!+1
@BlueSquareInWhiteCircle - 2025-06-08 11:03:24
We are an extension of our environment and the influence between involved parties goes both ways. How many voices and how strong the voices are matter. Haha I was gonna say this reminded me about the book skin in the game but I see you have it listed on your website!+1
@unkn0wn_416 - 2025-06-08 11:03:24
This is true specially as a person with 0 social media accounts but a lurker of it. While I advocate not using these, I feel like a hypocrite when I use Nitter to see things that make me angry or even I agree with. The time has come to turn off the hive mind machinery.+2
@parkerstroh6586 - 2025-06-08 11:03:24
Not realising this until now - I have family members who don’t spend a lot of time online and they are a very good tether to reality+1
@livenotbylies - 2025-06-08 11:03:24
My priest always says that veganism is a cult. He is right (of course)+2
@saganawski - 2025-06-08 11:03:24
Wow. Such a nail on the head. I find myself struggling with this very issue today+1
@mattias99475 - 2025-06-08 11:03:24
To all this add how more severely socially exposed persons are getting their dopamine D4 receptors stimulated by adrenaline from discussing increasingly obscene topics. I wish some historian could [would] connect the dots and prove how a poor diet not delivering the required dopamin ultimately have led to historic civilizations' demise.+7
@jamesevans2507 - 2025-06-08 11:03:24
you didn't even have enough time to watch the video in order to know if it was based or not+20
@yukiruquqeqequqe7565 - 2025-06-08 11:03:24
new base just dropped+4
@CopeAscetic - 2025-06-08 11:03:24
@jamesevans2507 it's Luke, m8+4
@anima94 - 2025-06-08 11:03:24
@jamesevans2507 He was correct tho+4
@Zaytoven1313 - 2025-06-08 11:03:25
Commenting for book recs too+2
@derek123wil0 - 2025-06-08 11:03:25
Stare too long at the abyss and it stares back+2
@Zaytoven1313 - 2025-06-08 11:03:25
@_________________404 that has nothing to do with the topic+1
@anima94 - 2025-06-08 11:03:25
find some reason to move, it is almost assured your wife will think the same way if all her friends think that way+17
@glowiak3430 - 2025-06-08 11:03:25
2:45 Very true, not only about the internet. The education system is torture.+5
@ObtecularPk - 2025-06-08 11:03:25
"living in your head rent free," as they say.+1
@AnirudhTammireddy - 2025-06-08 11:03:25
A weird and long way to say "rent free" is bad.+4
@Artezia - 2025-06-17 10:03:25
Confusion is a product of unquestioned beliefs+1
@kylefarrell25 - 2025-06-08 11:03:25
The point of a psyop is to create confusion.+2
@CeoLogJM - 2025-06-08 11:03:25
The reason people are atheists isn't because atheists dominate media(though they do), the reason is that religious perception is entirely different when modern technology is involved, today even religious people perceive their religion as some rationalistic thing first, they talk about how much religious people are better off materially and socially. Most people in the past didn't think twice about praying, their father told them to do it and that's that.+18
@basedfigure - 2025-06-09 11:03:25
I wish it were about knowledge and fulfilling technologically in how we interface with it, in the puristic sense, but it's been hogtied and reduced down to mere sensation seeking, and validation seeking with the confused part in us, that was compromised a long time ago. The content is not what we should seek to push on there en masse. A big asteroid hitting earth would probably fix these issues, or a mass boycotting of most of the currently available tech and tools, but since neither are going to happen then it's a matter of just tapping out of the bad parts of it.+2
@Ionlyuseffmpeg - 2025-06-09 11:03:25
" Those who study evil ... are studied BY evil ! "+1
@alrightsquinky7798 - 2025-06-08 11:03:25
I wonder how many uploads we’re gonna get before Luke finally finds his way back to his car?+1
@0000xFFFF - 2025-06-08 11:03:25
keep the wisdom coming, I really like these videos+1
@hapshaughnessy7964 - 2025-06-08 11:03:25
One of my mottos for the Internet: stay away from the crazy+1
@champfisk5613 - 2025-06-08 11:03:25
I can tell you one thing, you’re the inspiration for that distrotube dude and definitely his idol 😂+1
@jimc.goodfellas - 2025-06-08 11:03:25
Another cheery message from the Forest Wanderer+1
@SiegfireDotcom - 2025-06-08 11:03:25
My priest had us read Way of the Ascetics this past lent. Thank you for sharing your thoughts!+1
@jsmith108 - 2025-06-08 11:03:25
We are blessed luke is back+1
@jacksonhurst2419 - 2025-06-09 11:03:25
Unironically had this thought about reading books when I was a kid+1
@L.S.videos - 2025-06-08 11:03:25
Thats some real shit. Something I needed to hear in a while.+2
@bazejnowak909 - 2025-06-08 11:03:25
My mind? buckbroken+4
@derickasamani5730 - 2025-06-09 11:03:25
Much love from Accra, Ghana+1
@GhostofTradition - 2025-06-08 11:03:25
Psychologically, Exposure to negative things can cause intrusive thoughts, intrusive thoughts to the extreme cause OCD+1
@PhilippBlum - 2025-06-08 11:03:26
I find that so hilarious when people look for all these outlets which are just another way of doing religion or a cult. Those who know this is the glory new social media world.+2
@crossbow7398 - 2025-06-09 11:03:26
Never read. I have never read a book, I can't read.+1
@Jjj21574 - 2025-06-10 11:03:26
I’m not sure I fully agree. It’s a powerful thought, but there is a way to armor yourself to this. Consciousness really cures bad influences. For the normies though, yes, this is basically like the boomer dad effect as you said. But I think we can evolve defenses to this. There is a moral effort required though… Will you undertake it? That is what I’d ask. Not worth becoming hopeless over things like this because there have always been bad things. One of the Stoic principles I’ve garnered in criticism of the Epicureans is that the Stoic does not need to leave this world to practice good, meanwhile it is the Epicurean’s idea of good to isolate oneself in the garden from all bad influence for good. Who would you be? Values come down to this. Should you exit the world or should you enter the world with consciousness and self mastery to influence things? Food for thought Luke. Hope you are well.+1
@stanley.777 - 2025-06-10 11:03:26
“Apostasy is permitted by God; do not be tempted to stop it with your feeble hand… Distance yourself, and preserve yourself from it; and that will be sufficient for you. Know the spirit of the times; study it, so that you may avoid its influence as much as possible.” -Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov "the Orthodox Christian is protected against deception by the very knowledge that such deception not only exists, but is everywhere, including within himself. [Saint] Bishop Ignatius [Brianchaninov] writes: “We are all in deception. The knowledge of this is the greatest preventative against deception. It is the greatest deception to acknowledge oneself to be free of deception.”" -Father Seraphim (Rose) of Platina of Blessed Memory, "Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future". I recommend his lecture "Living the Orthodox Worldview", an audio recording exists on the internet (and YouTube)+1
@mkworkgroupis1739 - 2025-06-09 11:03:26
Immerse yourself in the timeless good. Learn about your true culture, your folkway, Embrace the gods and culture of your ancestors, learn what your people have lost once you were deracinated. Focus on what you and you people are and were before empire defeated you (a long time ago) The erosion of you as a people group started a long time ago. now you're an "Individual". Only read wholesome books and truly well intended movies that you know are nourishing. Shut all else out. Then you will form a core of goodness that is line with you're people genes. from there you go forward.+1
@hineko_ - 2025-06-08 11:03:26
I can't wonder like that around my forest. The mosquitoes would eat me alive+1
@x10dc90 - 2025-06-09 11:03:26
You should check out How to Operate your Brain by Timothy Leary if you haven't already; it emphasizes the idea that what you see on the media is being made real by your attention and that we must instead create our own realities based on our own thinking.+2
@RippDrive - 2025-06-08 11:03:26
I didn't notice how deep of a hole I was in until I stopped digging.+1
@muellerhans - 2025-06-09 11:03:26
During this vid I argued against Luke that I'm not arguing with people in my head.+1
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 - 2025-06-08 11:03:26
Dang, I feel attacked. You've got my last 20 years of life figured out as the internet soul trapped me in one endless psyop and turned me into a 4chan creature.+6
@pizzamaster4212 - 2025-06-08 11:03:26
4:50 This is the worst, especially when I was in college. It's funny how me being the person who is anti social online has an edge in conversation because the latest meme or thing isn't in the back of my head.+3
@steamer2k319 - 2025-06-08 11:03:26
I think it's less about online vs. offline. There are plenty of idiots and shysters on both sides of that coin. It's more so about who you give your time and attention to, irrespective of the medium. If you visit a public / populated forum or venue (on- or off-line), beware the culture (in addition to the individuals) that you give your time to.+1
@lessekler9804 - 2025-06-08 11:03:26
Whatever you oppose, you also give energy to, and begets a dialectic. The system deliberately props up false heels, who are just powerless distractions and false heros, who are only contain dissidence and maintain the status quo to divide, confuse and control. We only can get off this timeline if we shut out the circus of Slop, do away with the entirety of the Post-War Paradigm and that requires unrelenting focus on where actual power resides in the system. (It's not vegans.) p.s.: I really dig Mr. Smith's Rasputinmaxxing arc lately.+1
@whitemakesright2177 - 2025-06-12 11:03:26
This is an important insight.+1
@MILLIONDOLLARPOVERTY - 2025-06-08 11:03:26
My brain is red 40 and white monster+2
@spaceghost0813 - 2025-06-08 11:03:26
Default Runscape Mental Outlaw deepfake has been living rent free in my head for years now 😢+1
@huljaxful - 2025-06-08 11:03:26
You're thinking about those vegans. Karen Walker: honey, what's this? What's happening?+1
@marawannwh - 2025-06-10 11:03:26
Read The Saturated Self and No Sense of Place.+2
@littlesaigon1042 - 2025-06-08 11:03:26
In a slightly roundabout way, it seems similar to the Reddit-ification of knowledge and hobbies which is also really bad for people. Like now if somebody is interested in thing X, they are instructed to go on Reddit and learning all the discourse on X, why its better than thing Y, and all the right and wrong attitudes with which to approach X. Soon they’re more of a petty tyrant of their hobby than they are a hobbyist. What was once a genuine interest devolves into a cloud of opinions. Gotta forge your own path+2
@InfoDisco - 2025-06-08 11:03:26
Great video! Marshall Mcluhan is one of the most unsung and underappreciated thinkers on this topic. If the medium is the message, then what is the message of shortform content? I refuse to engage with it.+1
@mahor1221 - 2025-06-08 11:03:26
Thank you for the video+1
@william_02 - 2025-06-10 11:03:26
The medium is the message.+1
@philalethes216 - 2025-06-09 11:03:27
If you need a course on that you’re ngmi+1
@wellwellwellllew - 2025-06-08 11:03:27
you shouldn't be allowed around schools smh+2
@Pink_Noodle - 2025-06-08 11:03:27
Your metamorphosis is nearly complete. Once you understand how history rather than linear progress is cycles, you can dig into the long seasons to understand how our world actually works. It will recontextualize everything.+1
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 - 2025-06-08 11:03:27
@wellwellwellllew Don't worry, I broke free of the /b/ /new/ /news/ /pol/ prison into /fit/ and have 4 kids.+1
@hgriff14 - 2025-06-08 11:03:27
exactly+1
@THNKKY - 2025-06-08 11:03:28
I’ve been thinking that myself. Is it more aging, becoming a father, “the current times”, or the tradcon boomers I work with dragging me rightward.+1
@joel-dorne - 2025-06-15 11:03:28
We're all eating from the tree of knowledge or good and evil. <- The Internet.+1
@meaningofreason - 2025-06-11 11:03:28
Well said Luke.+1
@totelostoudromou4387 - 2025-06-08 11:03:28
"Come and Luke", sequel of "Come and see" .+1
@TheBigBazzy - 2025-06-08 11:03:28
I also came to this conclusion. To use your example, I find the anti-vegan people just as annoying as the vegan advocates. Anyone trying to push their ideals onto others has a sickness internally that they are unaware of. The best approach is to ignore and blind yourself to both sides. Even posting this was a waste of my energy and yours in reading it. But we are having an overall positive effect by thinking of this. Thanks Luke.+1
@helicoptermode - 2025-06-08 11:03:28
It's only true when you're a passive listener. Imaginary resistance is imaginary. If you're in the same space with vegans and silently tolerating their discourse while holding the opposite outlook - you're yielding, thus, you don't deserve to have your own opinion.+1
@bishalnaik2011 - 2025-06-08 11:03:28
Lots of thought 1. "An idea worm" , from Legion+1
@hgriff14 - 2025-06-08 11:03:28
4:46 i usually don’t know what the current thing is until 5 current things have happened. if you want to know how to make moccasins out of an elk or what plants to pick on a hike to make a nice tea i got you though. i remember someone asking me what i thought about a current thing once and i had no idea what they were talking about 😂+1
@Ultrajamz - 2025-06-08 11:03:28
yep and cable tv crud still too+2
@toasterbotnet - 2025-06-09 11:03:28
Nah man, I like to broaden my horizon. Internet is perfect for that+1
@m_ndbender - 2025-06-10 11:03:28
This is clearly why I should remove KDE Plasma and install dwm+1
@ZappyOh - 2025-06-08 11:03:28
State of confusion awakens a need for guidance. Devil hopes you come to him. The good seed will come to God.+1
@ebeneZr - 2025-06-08 11:03:28
He’s so caught up in this illusion of staying away from technology when it’s not even a big deal, he’s just way overthinking it so hard. He’s literally predisposed to all this internet meme shit for so long it’s his whole identity and he can’t stand it so he acts like a cool guy in the woods+5
@KainiaKaria - 2025-06-08 11:03:28
If you don’t like what you see then turn the knob lest you by raging against the machine you therefore rage for it.+1
@chbrules - 2025-06-08 11:03:28
What about viewing the world from a RMS point of view? 🐧+2
@alanwong4767 - 2025-06-08 11:03:28
in anticipation of the upcoming Pentecost feast, recall BABEL = CONFUSION only Christ can show us the way to defeat the inner Babylon+1
@nemesis9410 - 2025-06-12 11:03:28
The dome on this guy 🤯+1
@摷 - 2025-06-08 11:03:28
Don't worry, I only watch propaganda that I like.+2
@AlwaysAudacity - 2025-06-08 11:03:28
Sounds like Soros' theory of reflexivity.+2
@MilquetoastQT - 2025-06-11 11:03:28
Rothbard wrote best about the philosophers and the deceits they perpetuate.+1
@al-kimiya6962 - 2025-06-09 11:03:29
Please never stop making these videos.+1
@mattiamarchesini3387 - 2025-06-08 11:03:29
Luke is just lost in the woods at this point and trying to get out. That's why he returned to YouTube+2
@adamsawyer1763 - 2025-06-11 11:03:29
I'm lucky - my memory is utter rubbish. Nothing becomes a permanent part of my mind 😂+1
@erebustheone - 2025-06-09 11:03:29
Hi man i'm happy that you are ok.+1
@ghost-of-teyvat - 2025-06-09 11:03:29
true… I recently stopped watching the news and avoiding any political content on YouTube+1
@zjardynliera-hood5609 - 2025-06-10 11:03:29
I got the wildest ad for this video😂+1
@vladimirleninputin - 2025-06-08 11:03:29
On westers christianity ; in Denmark 60-70% priest are none believers (statistic) , in church i experience a female priest lecture about dinosaurs and how the world in millions of years old .+2
@Raccoonov - 2025-06-08 11:03:29
Luke is so based ❤+1
@lukethekuya - 2025-06-08 11:03:29
We call it as being obsessed.+9
@Pancakesmm - 2025-06-09 11:03:29
Word.+1
@PigeonPost-t9s - 2025-06-08 11:03:29
bro's getting a little too deep into meta-dialectics (so am I). Luke, it is good & noble to be aware of & bring to attention the forces that drag our energy & attention, especially the exploitation & containment of-&-through virtual/soft reactionary/anti-reactionary-reactionary politics, but you're also becoming part of the "psyop". just dead-drop the intel once, & dip. it's the game you lose once you think of it. jokes aside, it is all about Engagement, agnostic of the Context. but now many of us must & will think of your rationalization when we encounter these shiny objects (engagement-farming tricks), & then we, by accident, have an Opinion.+3
@mescellaneous - 2025-06-08 11:03:29
you have said the actual truth+1
@oniondesu9633 - 2025-06-16 11:03:29
Yup, just have to look at the trans stuff. No matter how outraged society seems by them, there was far less of them before they entered the minds of the population.+1
@zeevdrifter2707 - 2025-06-08 11:03:29
living rent free in their mind.+1
@nmuyg1063 - 2025-06-08 11:03:29
I don't like to wash my brain because it hurts :(+2
@Clintboyd - 2025-06-08 11:03:29
Good word.+1
@robertweeb-nc1wf - 2025-06-16 11:03:29
The part about debating people in your head is the history of my life in the last 8 years and so. It's mostly useless and a lot of the time it's distracting, but it's hard to stop doing it after gaining the habit, even after long periods of staying away from the more political side of the internet.+1
@undefineNull - 2025-06-08 11:03:29
The Book - The Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth by Tito Colliander+1
@mst153 - 2025-06-08 11:03:29
Luke, what do you think a good line to draw may be? I think there are some obvious things that one should not do, like browsing a site like Vox, but what about debates and dialogues, like the Dennett versus Searle article you posted? I'm torn because I think that dialogue is very iilluminating but I think a dialogue format is especially dangerous in this realm becaues the format invites the imaginary argument in your head.+1
@BR0KK85 - 2025-06-08 11:03:29
Spitin thruth in the woods😅 Yes you are right !+1
@Hansen87 - 2025-06-08 11:03:29
Denmark has Catholic Churches?+1
@Eddengarthian - 2025-06-08 11:03:29
It's my favorite philippino soyteen!+5
@rav6324 - 2025-06-08 11:03:29
onionsbaby+3
@dvnk6971 - 2025-06-08 11:03:29
there's no 'o in real life...+2
@jacksonstenger - 2025-06-08 11:03:30
So glad you’re back, watching these resets my brain and clears out all the bs from current events and social media melodramatic shenanigans+3
@bampoe8670 - 2025-06-08 11:03:30
Yup, this is why I stopped using twitter+1
@redactedmane - 2025-06-14 11:03:30
People long ago, throughout history....their thought process ...was...different....than people nowadays. :face-red-droopy-eyes:#captObvious+1
@tindomieru - 2025-06-08 11:03:30
What's so bad about learning and understanding others' belief systems and values as an independent thinker? Should an independent thinker ignore certain people/ideologies/ideas just because they are soy-ish and/or pushed by the system? Can't the system inject their ideologies in certain truths so that people won't be able to reject those infected truths?+20
@jupitereffect - 2025-06-13 11:03:30
What about the utility of knowing what’s going on in the society around you, even in the woods you’re not immune, situational awareness etc. you will be better prepared to keep yourself and your family safe? What’s the right balance? Thanks.+1
@skooma4dd1c7 - 2025-06-08 11:03:30
This knowledge is power. Thank you, Luke.+5
@bobparker6922 - 2025-06-12 11:03:30
IT DOESN'T MATTER+1
@gatopebre4970 - 2025-06-14 11:03:30
rent free!+2
@porky1118 - 2025-06-08 11:03:30
6:00 I also feel like Radio is just as bad. You let in some background noise. And you didn't even decide about the background noise yourself. When I want to listen to music, I usually download audio files. And I choose what I listen to. Or I write the program to choose for me myself. Okay, YouTube might be close to TV, since I often just click what seems interesting. I don't really choose myself what to watch, just like people who watch TV. I decided to mark the bell in this case, but in the end I don't only watch what I planned in advance, which is usually better.+1
@boppinggamer8571 - 2025-06-08 11:03:30
Damn, I just realized how the names of suckless programs are suckless themselves.+1
@Endless_sea_ - 2025-06-08 11:03:30
Hate to say it but as smart as these insights are, its still in the swirling pool of brainrot. You have to completley leave the cult of the internet, news, current events, and live life outside it all. And soon after youll realize its an artifical layer when the noise is all gone.+2
@motofan91 - 2025-06-12 11:03:30
I generally agree with this, you are the sum total of your thoughts, and even negation is presence. But does it lead to a reformulation of an argument for deplatforming/limiting speech? That some ideas by their nature are toxic and should be removed from public discourse even for the purposes of critiquing? If not, is it fair to ask the average person to rely on personal virtue and discipline alone to avoid these memetic hazards, given the highly refined addictive and limbically stimulating properties of this content, and their total ubiquity in our everyday lives? I don’t know either. My best guess where to start is to remove the incentives. We need to reform the ad/attention model of the internet economy and break up the monopolies that have enclosed our cultural and intellectual commons. When our attention is the product everything becomes a race to the bottom of our brain stem.+1
@ahboogle - 2025-06-11 11:03:30
this is why I stopped going on reddit+1
@werwar27 - 2025-06-08 11:03:30
on a lot of sites you see ragebait being shared all the time. I simply ignore it. people obsess over the things they dont like, its annoying+1
@coconaut - 2025-06-08 11:03:30
Doesn’t that happen naturally matter what? My normie friend is not on the internet, and he watches tv and movies and no idea about what’s happening in the world. This internet life is rough in the brain but ignorance feels like it’s worse.+1
@explodingcamera - 2025-06-09 11:03:30
Let's go, the vegan psyop is working! Love that it's living rent free in more and more people's heads that's the goal :)+1
@soanvig - 2025-06-08 11:03:30
After seeing all these videos I can say one thing: Luke should move to a region with prettier forests. This is bunch of long sticks dunked into sand.+2
@homerpimpson9855 - 2025-06-08 11:03:30
Please publish The Golden Legend Mr Luke Smith+1
@MonsterGirlEnjoyer - 2025-06-08 11:03:30
What if my algorithm is established around self-improvement, individualism and potentially bombing govt bulding ???+1
@alie8899 - 2025-06-08 11:03:30
You don't understand luke, I do my own research 😎+2
@OthorgonalOctroon - 2025-06-08 11:03:30
maybe some OCD or cognitive dissonance resulting from his delusional worldview. having formerly been a hardcore christian myself I can relate with having a need to not be exposed to 'evil', though now I am confident in myself and can listen to, and even take from value systems contrary to my own without it being a big deal.+7
@zherox434 - 2025-06-08 11:03:30
i think he was trying to explain his point from a pragmative perspective, to live ur live you dont need to be thinking in the "extreme case" of certains things and what the rest of the ppl opinions of that extreme case. For example , u are being exposed to veganism and see the conflic that ppl on the internet with/against it , u have already created an ideology about it while u may have never met a vegan guy in ur live. i think thats what luke is trying to say, but idk+1
@OthorgonalOctroon - 2025-06-08 11:03:30
@zherox434 you can do that while still understanding different worldviews other than your own.+3
@aguilarraliuga1777 - 2025-06-08 11:03:30
@OthorgonalOctroon can you really? Why else would the subliminal messaging and other messages be needed. Your just giving ground+1
@MatataGP - 2025-06-08 11:03:30
@OthorgonalOctroon This. Exposing yourself to differente ideas is not where the harm lies, but instead in having this exposition hijacked. I agree with Luke that using the internet nowdays is mostly negative and ther's basically only slop in the mainstream platforms, but I think that's an argument in favor of avoiding these mainstream platforms instead of a argument against exposing yourself to different ideas For example, I use YouTube, but I disabled recomendations entirely, don't use the front page and am able to disable/enable comments, this way I only receive in information I want, even if the entire platform is mostly comprised of slop and bots It is still a compromise so as to not be entirely disconnected from the world, but I think there's a balance that has to be struck in avoiding rogue ideas and taking in useful information+8
@superkill749 - 2025-06-08 11:03:30
Being knowledgeable is not the same as being repeatedly exposed to something through happenings. At some point you'll turn the ideas you're constantly exposed to and pondering about into some sort of idol. Whether it's love or hate is irrelevant, it will become a mental framework of yours when it should not be and it will affect everything about you. This can happen in real life too but on the internet the effect is basically times 1000 because of the very nature of medium, the repetition, the viral nature, the competitive character that will organically (or not) curate an idea towards so that it posesses you, or just group psychology. I've seen so many people in my surroundings basically get oneshotted by ideas because of social media whereas they didn't with TV alone. It's become an obvious thing to witness for people who have been on the internet for far longer and have been through that before. At some point even real life will tempt you into making an idol out of something, maybe even because while you're not exposed to the internet yourself, someone in your entourage is and this can definitly have the same effect on you. Thats where Christ comes in. God should be your measure of all things instead of race, gender, science, knowledge, politics, nutrition, rationality or whatever.+4
@xviii5780 - 2025-06-08 11:03:30
@superkill749 "oneshotted" by what ideas? And how did it show?+1
@lastplusfirst - 2025-06-08 11:03:30
The difference is in the focus and intention. Are you deliberately and curiously exploring the beliefs of others? or has that been hijacked by an algorithm that shows you 500 malformed arguments from 25 different worldviews+3
@OthorgonalOctroon - 2025-06-08 11:03:30
@lastplusfirst if the arguments are malformed, then my hearing them would only serve to prejudice me against their origin worldview. a waste of my time perhaps but no real effect after I log off.+1
@superkill749 - 2025-06-08 11:03:30
@xviii5780 Israel-Palestine war, zionism, politics in general.+1
@jebreggie4225 - 2025-06-08 11:03:30
Most people arent actually independent thinkers including people who say theyre independent thinkers+5
@OthorgonalOctroon - 2025-06-08 11:03:30
@jebreggie4225 true, but the actually independent thinkers understand other worldviews. otherwise you are an outgrowth of the culture you grew up in, as dependent as you can possibly be.+1
@voskresenie- - 2025-06-08 11:03:30
There's nothing wrong with it except that it's not possible. No one is truly an independent thinker, no matter how much they pride themselves on being one. Yes, it's a matter of degree, but still, the most independent thinker in the world today is more likely to, say, become a train than the most gullible, hiveminded individual 100 years ago.+1
@soanvig - 2025-06-08 11:03:30
Yes, I know this is pine forest which also happens to grow in sandy areas. But you have to admit it has no charm. Unless you admire desolation vibe+3
@Mrspeedwell - 2025-06-10 11:03:31
A lot of it is intellectual entertainment. I have this brain that craves stimuli and the internet provides such a wide and deep variety. I mean what am I meant to do? Sit and contemplate my navel? What makes humans different is that survival is taken care of. What to do with all the spare time? What to do with the void, the endless meaningless nothingness?+1
@N-A762 - 2025-06-08 11:03:31
Hey Luke, I was wondering will we see Not Related again?+1
@brett.c1649 - 2025-06-09 11:03:31
Thx+1
@tmsxd1 - 2025-06-08 11:03:31
cabin tour when+2
@Barbastruzzolo - 2025-06-08 11:03:31
Spirit of confusion is real+1
@burnytech - 2025-06-09 11:03:31
based+1
@trstensvold - 2025-06-08 11:03:31
No wonder I am/feel so confused+1
@drumitar - 2025-06-08 11:03:31
i like social media, i like being constantly challenged with different ideas.+2
@AnomymAnonym - 2025-06-08 11:03:31
so only adopt mainstream views in other words... is he a fed?+2
@segefjord - 2025-06-13 11:03:31
Thanks for brainwashing me about brainwashing Luke.+1
@tanura5830 - 2025-06-08 11:03:31
100 percent+1
@Programmer1098 - 2025-06-11 11:03:31
Lenin is back+1
@Mbeluba - 2025-06-09 11:03:31
Listening to conversations is bloat+1
@wasumyon - 2025-06-08 11:03:31
If I didn't hate what I hated I would have never discovered Christ. The paths of God are mysterious and winding.+3
@karjiolo - 2025-06-09 11:03:31
Is Luke and orthodox now? What did I miss?+1
@e36hardcore - 2025-06-08 11:03:31
A good example, but you told about new waves “popular” ideas, I mean veganism is popular last years, but for example- I’m from 80’s and i started being vegan when I was 18, so it’s half my life of more. And it’s not was a popular in my times) and of course not popular in Ukraine, where I’m from. So, I mean for me - it’s way of life, and it’s better Combined with the Orthodoxy’s. Think about it bro. God bless you🙏+1
@korbpw - 2025-06-08 11:03:31
I think you should expose yourself to the things that make you uncomfortable sometimes+1
@rubickscube4510 - 2025-06-08 11:03:31
Will Luke ever find his way home?+1
@Tawhe3d - 2025-06-08 11:03:31
What you’re talking about is called waswasa. You should be able distinguish the difference between angelic thoughts, waswasa, conscious thoughts & when god is inspiring you.+1
@oneman78 - 2025-06-12 11:03:31
party time!+1
@DonFeedtehTroll - 2025-06-08 11:03:31
The problem is that most people on social media have such poorly thought out arguments that it isn't even worth your time getting challenged by it.+7
@What-ez6im - 2025-06-08 11:03:32
you are afraid of exposure to different ideologies because you are afraid that your ideology is wrong. if you have true belief no amount of exposure will allow you to change your mind. although all perspectives have some truth to them. If you build your philosphy from the base then you should have no issue. Dogmatic thinking leads to corruption through exposure. Principled thinking is steadfast in its ideology. but yes any exposure to any idea will get you thinking about those ideas. it is still up to you to dismiss those ideas. Plus you get some empathization for how to approach those types of people, and teach them the real truth.+13
@BurninVinyl - 2025-06-08 11:03:32
8:11 It's called vexation.+1
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👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻+1
@TheScipioniCircle - 2025-06-08 11:03:32
Why can’t he reach home?🥺+1
@MrFirefox - 2025-06-08 11:03:32
Media fixation on Elon and Donald+2
@Taglia1997x - 2025-06-08 11:03:32
When OpenBSD video?+1
@alanwong4767 - 2025-06-08 11:03:32
St Porphyrios, my patron Saint, teaches to look to Christ and focus all on Divine Love Important points about allowing cringe to live RENT FREE and getting trapped in MIND PRISON of fake and grey NARRATIVE LOOPS and stupid arguments with imagination, mental constructs etc, прелесть ！+1
@seamusoblainn - 2025-06-08 11:03:32
Modernity is a Chinese knot+1
@sophiatheodores7985 - 2025-06-08 11:03:32
new camera?+1
@FelixTuxen67 - 2025-06-14 11:03:32
Omg I'm vegan. I'm your imaginary foe! I'm.right here. Sup+1
@ninimouss - 2025-06-11 11:03:32
They dont have vegans in USA? 😂 Like, Vegans only exist on the web there??+1
@alback - 2025-06-08 11:03:32
Serious question, in that case one should not watch even your content and sit through the adds? Not hating, I’m totally fed up with the internet, but I’m listening to opinions from faces on the internet, in most cases half of the world away from me. I really think one should just quit, and discard opinions even from “our guys”.+1
@dr33n - 2025-06-08 11:03:32
So... no more 4chan? :(+1
@oongieboongie - 2025-06-08 11:03:32
Good content l+1
@əöü - 2025-06-08 11:03:32
is this AI generated?+1
@mcshadowj - 2025-06-08 11:03:32
Thanks Luke, I’ll stop watching all your stuff I disagree with!+1
@porky1118 - 2025-06-08 11:03:32
4:44 I'm pretty annoyed by the "current thing" people. But I'm even more annoyed by the people opposed to the current thing. Being opposed to mainstream is an important part of their identity now. They repost stuff from people they don't like and comment on how stupid this is. They are the one making these people big in the first place. Nobody would care about thees people if the people making fun of them wouldn't share them so much. They cause me to think about things I don't like or don't care about.+1
@zil6470 - 2025-06-10 11:03:32
👍+1
@PhilippBlum - 2025-06-08 11:03:32
Those who know know ;)+1
@Domi2gud - 2025-06-08 11:03:32
If you don't have all of the information, then how can you know you're fighting for the right thing? Intel is also extremely profitable and staying an ignorant peasant doesn't allow for a very pleasant life.+2
@OthorgonalOctroon - 2025-06-08 11:03:32
very well said. I know from other areas that the more you are afraid of something the more you think about it, which is probably where Luke is coming from here. yet I have no fear of marxist philosophy or christian orthodoxy or whatever so I have no need to think about those things unless it's actually relevant, even though I have mental models of them.+5
@johnstamos5948 - 2025-06-08 11:03:32
Or maybe it's a waste of time. I deleted social media off my phone (I guess YouTube is an exception) but when I went back to delete an account, I was immediately bombarded by insanity. People are constantly baiting for views, and I know I'm susceptible to rage bait especially. So instead of dealing with real people in real life, I'm thinking of something idiotic intended to piss me off+2
@AdvBrasi - 2025-06-08 11:03:32
Its not just about being convinced, but normalizing degenerated ideas.+2
@M_CFV - 2025-06-08 11:03:32
Both controlled. The black eye club makes it obvious+4
@T-Bone-4lif - 2025-06-08 11:03:32
That's my father, always talking about Trump and Putin. It drains his soul, and for what. It's not like he can do something about it and we don't even live close to their countries+4
@MrFirefox - 2025-06-08 11:03:32
@T-Bone-4lif XD yeh. I say something chuddy to my dad and hes like "yeh but like what about putin and big business and FOTM rich white man"+4
@username65585 - 2025-06-08 11:03:32
Is that different from the Gordian knot?+1
@seamusoblainn - 2025-06-08 11:03:32
@username65585 * Chinese finger 😂 puzzle+1
@seamusoblainn - 2025-06-08 11:03:32
Ill leave the comment unedit haha+1
@calholli - 2025-06-08 11:03:33
This isn't true for me.. It's easy to disengage and move on to things that deserve my focus. You don't have to interact.. and you certainly don't have to think about it ever again. There are too many things that I like to focus on, rather than ever thinking about things that I disagree with. I couldn't care less about others thoughts, beliefs or discussions. Let people live their own lives and I'll go live the way I want and not even have a second thought about you.+1
@nmuyg1063 - 2025-06-08 11:03:33
Luke, we need a collab with @TheGoldenOne !!+4
@scythiandude9495 - 2025-06-08 11:03:33
Is his head getting bigger?+1
@Khoukharev - 2025-06-08 11:03:33
I’m confused 😂 Isn’t exposure for a new ideas necessary for thinking? And then once you thought it through you are no longer confused and don’t actively spend mental bandwidth on it? You might want to limit the number of things you are processing at the same time, but you still need some amount of that for your thinking to evolve to a better one.+1
@HYPERBOWLER - 2025-06-08 11:03:33
This is my sissyhypno.+1
@calholli - 2025-06-08 11:03:33
What's twitter?+1
@rav6324 - 2025-06-08 11:03:33
Are you trying to brainwash me with this video?+2
@wrenchproductions - 2025-06-08 11:03:33
What's your ideology?+1
@OmegaMusicYT - 2025-06-09 11:03:33
linux nerd discovers diversity of thought and tolerance, labels it as "confusing"+2
@spaycee9082 - 2025-06-08 11:03:33
Humans categorize things naturally internet didn’t change that before then cults and religious groups have been doing that forever. Also huge assumptions going on you saying you know their thoughts without actually knowing them or interacting with them+2
@nikolaivanis4144 - 2025-06-17 00:03:33
AI generated.+1
@algirdongas1 - 2025-06-08 11:03:33
Regarding your overall position in the video, I would sum it up as "obscurantism". I do tend to agree that the media (including internet algos) aggressively push certain often harmful ideologies and viewpoints on the populace, maliciously so... Christianity, in the past was also, maliciously pushed on the populace, sometimes at sword or gunpoint, other times by deliberately keeping the people in the dark. However, having to shield yourself and your people from knowledge belies a certain fragility and weakness of your own ideology and worldview. It's interesting how some simple observations of nature and deductions thereof could so severely undermine the Christian worldview during the Renaissance... Because it's wasn't grounded in reality. Speaking of the history of the term "Atheism". The Romans first used it to refer to Christians, because were denying the gods....+2
@NastyWicked - 2025-06-09 11:03:33
jewllywood pushing atheism in muh media? no wai!+1
@zerovoid-with.numbers - 2025-06-08 11:03:33
knowledge = evil+1
@gravitascascade5798 - 2025-06-08 11:03:33
There's a good point in here somewhere, about keeping certain detachment and not getting obsessed, but it's too cartoonishly put to be taken at face value. The internet is real life. There's no separation, though online people more easily admit to certain things. Ignore real life at your peril.+1
@KentKorihisa - 2025-06-08 11:03:33
People who rant about woke and dei stuff at this point are the biggest losers in the world in my book. Although then social media tempts me to rant about them back and the cycle continues lol+7
@AwkwardSegway95 - 2025-06-08 11:03:33
100%+1
@TerryBenefict - 2025-06-08 11:03:33
each word more useless than the next+2
@concretoamargo - 2025-06-08 11:03:33
Knowledge is weakness.+4
@1toneboy - 2025-06-08 11:03:33
Forget ‘Think different’. Use Fasc OS- Think based.+2
@meanmole3212 - 2025-06-08 11:03:33
💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯+1
@zerovoid-with.numbers - 2025-06-08 11:03:33
see you got it wrong. you don't need new ideas. the bible has all the ideas that you would ever need.+1
@anima94 - 2025-06-08 11:03:33
I think it's more about the constant exposure to it, you didn't go that vegan cafe once but you go all the time. In the same video he talks about reading a book - the most direct way of exposing yourself to new ideas, that's not much of an issue (unless you binge multiple without reflection I suppose?)+1
@Khoukharev - 2025-06-08 11:03:33
@anima94 I mean books are great at exposing people to new ideas and reflecting on them, but direct communication online is just another way to do that. As for the constant exposure — if you have already thought through the arguments presented it has very light mental burden. If you already reached the conclusion that 1+1=2 no amount of exposure to 1+1=something else would move you or take space in your head (unless they state that the operation is in a different numeral system, say, binary). It might lead you to a different train of thought - which biases could lead them to think that way or why education fails, but that’s you, not them.+1
@crossbow7398 - 2025-06-09 11:03:34
An open mind is like a fortress with it's gate vnbarred and vngvarded.+3
@MrFirefox - 2025-06-08 11:03:34
You fell for the same trap+10
@spaghettiking653 - 2025-06-08 11:03:34
What a ridiculous load of obscurantism.+6
@Diogenes-96 - 2025-06-09 11:03:35
I have decided I am a Luke Smith hater+1
@ChanceHarold8216 - 2025-06-08 11:03:35
You’re brainwashed dr Phil+1
@darrniess - 2025-06-09 11:03:35
"just give up" another L take from Luke.+1
@champfisk5613 - 2025-06-08 11:03:35
This dude actually makes sense, the internet mainly places like twitter is a cesspool for thought+1
@Kirmo13 - 2025-06-08 11:03:35
I'm first in line for Luke Smith's cult+3
@porky1118 - 2025-06-08 11:03:35
5:20 Some libertarians are just like that. One guy likes to post that taxes are theft. Yeah, that's probably true. But I don't want to be reminded of taxes all the time. I'd rather want to live a life where I just don't have to care about taxes, preferably because I don't pay them and nodoby cares.+1
@calholli - 2025-06-08 11:03:35
Bro thinks we have thoughts. lol+1
@KartikKKalia - 2025-06-08 11:03:35
this is yt+1
@StevensVidz - 2025-06-09 11:03:35
I use the internet for comical relief+2
@kalenghil5702 - 2025-06-08 11:03:35
Спасибо тебе за контент, АLukeсандр Дугин+2
@lasyr5579 - 2025-06-08 11:03:35
read hegel+1
@NexusR7 - 2025-06-08 11:03:35
The Lion doesn't concern itself with other's opinions+3
@fourthworldz1854 - 2025-06-08 11:03:35
0:04 bro is doing the goatis laugh 😂+2
@SauliusKva - 2025-06-09 11:03:35
Marge+1
@gatorrade1680 - 2025-06-08 11:03:35
I'm not a vegan. I'm a carnivore who eats the rich. Their meat is so tender and clean.+3
@mhuruuk - 2025-06-08 11:03:35
This is well described in Gilles Deleuze's Schizophrenia and Capitalism+1
@bundesdavid - 2025-06-09 11:03:35
You go outside with an unwashed brain?+1
@user-rg9co7dk2r - 2025-06-08 11:03:35
What? So don't engage with ideas, just assume my current stance is right?+2
@mylittlecancer - 2025-06-08 11:03:35
My nigga Luke ain’t gon lie you are binging. Your uploading too much I don’t even care what you say anymore because there is no sense of scarcity in this channel like scraping little bit of knowledge off each month or something. You should have never started uploading again and close the chapter. Now you are just a bad sequel lmao. Anything you say rn could be implied by your lack of uploads. Your done my nigga.+3
@lindboknifeandtool - 2025-06-08 11:03:35
“Don’t recommend this channel” and the like actually help. Lots of shit I see makes me have contempt for humanity. I have to not assume most people are in other words worthless.+2
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 - 2025-06-08 11:03:35
Dumb zoomer trope.+2
@NexusR7 - 2025-06-08 11:03:35
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 i knew you were going to read my reply like a good boy+6
@MrFirefox - 2025-06-08 11:03:35
Veganism mentioned too. Hes hiding something. Collab time? 😂+3
@bacalhau_seco - 2025-06-08 11:03:35
goofy+4
@alexwr - 2025-06-08 11:03:36
There's a big difference with engaging with ideas and constant exposure to those ideas. A bit of sun is good for you, but if you stay out in it you're going to get roasted alive.+5
@aguilarraliuga1777 - 2025-06-08 11:03:36
These are prerecorded I think, you can’t go from snow to bright greenery+2
@mistahsusan2650 - 2025-06-08 11:03:36
changing your account location, pausing/purging your history and "liked" playlists, also have effect on what shows up in your various feeds+1
@MilquetoastQT - 2025-06-11 11:03:36
"Don't recommend channel" actually doesn't work. Saw a Daily Show reel. Clicked "Don't recommend channel." Got the official channel the very next day.+1
@mistahsusan2650 - 2025-06-11 11:03:36
@MilquetoastQT it won't work on channels intentionally promoted by YT/google+1
@starc. - 2025-06-08 11:03:37
no we are not, thats not how it works and no it doesn't effect everything else we do, thats conflating programming and simple information and noisuled (spelt backward) with washing+1
@matthewsiahaan1312 - 2025-06-08 11:03:37
6:51 Reject “Science,” embrace Dogma+1
@RemotHuman - 2025-06-09 11:03:37
Yeah I probably shouldn’t watch you lol+1
@Shakalkg - 2025-06-08 11:03:37
rent free+2
@utikayrtorrentor3323 - 2025-06-08 11:03:37
first+1
@ericfromeng - 2025-06-08 11:03:37
*speaks as if enlightened about brainwashing *is religious+2
@albertoderfisch1580 - 2025-06-08 11:03:37
> things we hate and resist ...but but.. i love u 🥺+1
@XfStef - 2025-06-08 11:03:37
Just open up a 12 hour Orthodox Chant...+1
@jorionedwards - 2025-06-08 11:03:37
Another L take. While I agree you shouldn't actively seek out things you hate, shutting out all opposition is a recipe for you to be stuck in the same mindset. You call it confusion? I call it being fluid - Having principals, but still being open minded.+3
@partypat2375 - 2025-06-08 11:03:37
Just convert to veganism already. I can tell it's bothering you!+1
@Lockjaw95 - 2025-06-08 11:03:37
I liked it better when you talked about Linux. Please cool it with this pseudo-philosophical slop+5
@0xD90F39DFAE - 2025-06-09 11:03:37
he came back, but he came back cringe+1
@tristancole8158 - 2025-06-08 11:03:37
God designed you to be vegan. Genesis 1:29. Repent and return to peace if you want life.+1
@starc. - 2025-06-08 11:03:37
just because i know about apples doesn't mean i have to think about them, i, as in my own self can choose not to think thoughts mentally with the mind about that, especially when not caring about apples makes it easier automatically not thinking about those things that dont matter to the self+1
@starc. - 2025-06-08 11:03:37
that was a good point about how everything is set up is for a specific impression but that doesnt mean one cannot escape and see past the tricks, by way of every word being a program everyone is a programmer of the process that is their mind, most aren't good programmers, quite often they let others do it for them such as the disrespect of discussing washing with the religious+1
@MilquetoastQT - 2025-06-11 11:03:37
"Does God exist? Or not? How about I entertain both ideas." 😂+1
@meanmole3212 - 2025-06-08 11:03:37
Quite the opposite. Linux philosophy was the gateway, we are now ascending.+12
@MrFirefox - 2025-06-08 11:03:37
Linux sisters getting uppity 😩🥀+5
@JohnFreakazoid - 2025-06-08 11:03:37
Dilate.+3
@MilquetoastQT - 2025-06-11 11:03:37
@Lockjaw95 Respond so I can mute you.+1
@kannanretro - 2025-06-08 11:03:38
Genesis 9:3 Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.+4
@alexwr - 2025-06-08 11:03:38
What about when God gives them animal skins to wear in Genesis 3:21? Or in Genesis 9:3 when he says "anything that lives and moves will be food for you"? Or when he commanded animal sacrifices as a temporary covering of sin, as seen in Leviticus and many other places? Or when he gives a list of the animals the Israelites CAN eat in Deuteronomy 14:4-6? Or when he gives the Israelites the Passover, using the blood of a lamb on the door frame? Or when Jesus feeds the 5000 with bread and fish? You are at liberty to not eat meat if you so desire, but there is nothing within scripture that dictates to us that we should be vegan. If God explicitly didn't want us to eat meat then He sure did a really bad job of telling us. Considering Jesus also cooked fish, do forgive me if I do not take your call to repentance for eating meat and fish seriously in the slightest.+2
@tristancole8158 - 2025-06-08 11:03:38
@alexwr Everyone who has studied the Bible knows what fish represent in the Gospels. And that God instituted fallen laws that allowed mankind to be evil. Actually He did that IN GENESIS 9:3. In the Noahic covenant. “All of your desires are evil from youth, but I will not end you.”+1
@BlueSquareInWhiteCircle - 2025-06-08 11:03:38
@tristancole8158 So you're a marcionist or some form of dualist ?+1
@tristancole8158 - 2025-06-08 11:03:38
@BlueSquareInWhiteCircle I’m Catholic. Man won’t stop suffering until we stop “spreading fear and dread over the world,” as Genesis 9:2 puts it.+1
@BlueSquareInWhiteCircle - 2025-06-08 11:03:38
@tristancole8158 YT deleted my comment... Genesis 9:3-6, 1 Corinthians 8. It's commendable of you to be vegan, I'm also vegan but it's not a mandate by Christ nor God in Scripture. One could speculate ontologically it's something pre-fall and for the new creation in the resurrection but that's about it.+1
@tristancole8158 - 2025-06-08 11:03:38
@BlueSquareInWhiteCircle Peace is the mandate of the Prince of Peace. Genesis 9:3 was preceded by God instituting the fallen law and allowing man to be evil. And Corinthians 8 is great. “Love builds up.” That’s just beautiful.+1