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Josh Barnett

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“He does. He had a hell of a beard, a decent portrait. I mean, he looks like the kind of guy, I wouldn't want to meet him in a dark alley, but thankfully I don't think he was much of a fighter. But in any case, I mean, not the anarchists, they're more hot for Max Sterner. People like to think that Nietzsche borrowed a lot from Stirner, and my argument is, one, you don't have any real evidence for that. And two, bullshit. You know, I mean,”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But I'm not going to say that Marxism or practic, you can find any forbidden book and it could have something good in it.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I will agree with you. And Marx is as bitter as they come too. But, you know, a bitterness in and of itself doesn't make why I hate Marxism comes from, you know, the whole The entirety of the thing, but”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“How would they behave? It would be absolute. They would hate each other so bad. And, you know, this isn't for me to even poison the well on Marx as like, oh, his personality sucks. There's lots of people whose personality sucks. That doesn't mean they can't make.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, people are like this. They're like that. Look at how capitalism does it. I mean, he, of course, assigns a lot of really ridiculous economic principles in practice and also assumes that everybody who makes any profit from anything is somehow stealing it, really assigns a negative moral aspect to him. And then it's like, oh, yeah, but then eventually communism will happen. No one will act that way anymore. And you're like, whoa, hold on. You just said that people are all, are you saying it's all due to capitalism or it's innate? It's just... It's a fundamental misunderstanding, and it's like, hey Look at you. You're like a notorious, like, anti Semitic, angry, like just absolute curmudgeon of a human being who seems to be really not all that fun to be around. Marx? Yeah. And then it's just like”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Possibly. I mean, the anarchists tend to think, no, everyone will be accountable. They will when have you seen this happen in real life? You know, I mean, people aren't even accountable in their revolutions at half the time. So you aren't looking at the way people really are. It's like Marx is like,”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Correct. But also at the root of that is freedom, right? And as far as I can tell, I've been banging this around in my head. It's like for every one unit of freedom, you need two units of accountability. And if you don't have that, what you end up with is... Human self interest. We're not even going to get into evil. Human self interest Sabotaging other things, even not in a sense to be malicious.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right. I'm not even using the word fair because I might think it's fair to me. You might think, ha, well, I mean, that was actually, I think what he thought was unfair to him and it's more fair to me. And then someone in a third observer goes, oh, man, you should have, you should not have paid that for that. You should have paid this. And it's like, well, you know what? It works for me without.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And it preys on us. And so as you want this, you look at Look at an anarchist kind of mindset, right? And so you just like there's no, there is no overarching state to create any kind of structure, right? And so if you have that unfettered capitalism aspect with it, and before I say anything particularly damning about unfettered capitalism, I'm a massive capitalist because I view capitalism essentially as what it boils down to these arguments to people too. They start giving me all these extra definitions about capitalism like, no, no, this is obviously some sort of theory you're taking from other shit, but that doesn't describe capitalism. Capitalism is the ability for us to create whatever we want, you know, create our thoughts, ideas, physical things, and trade them freely amongst each other in ways that we find acceptable.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's not the majority of people, but I would say a good amount of folks are thinking, well, if I post this photo and I put this little blurb in there, I bet I can get this much cachet out of it in this sense. And I'm not even, and this isn't just a reference to like butt picks and stuff like that because clearly obviously people understand that are inborn sexual nature is easy to manipulate. I mean, that's pretty obvious.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Could be bots or actual people. Bots are one thing, but I mean, there are literal people out there that will create something, create GoFundMe's for tragedies that never didn't really or events that didn't happen or any number of things. Okay, I mean, burn their own house down and then say, you know, we were attacked. And then it comes down, oh, you did it to yourself because you wanted money and empathy and this, that, and the. You wanted all this emotional wealth, let's say, this emotional coin as well as actual if possible. You wanted to leverage it in some way”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Distinctively in all the full forms. Right now, okay, now whether it be a woman or a man, but especially with even the social push on this concept of empathy, which of course it gets to the point where it loses any meaning anymore. Like people use the word empathy absolutely incorrectly all the time, and they don't even understand what you're really asking of people. But let's just take it as we're using empathy in the correct sense and you're taking on the emotional content of the thing itself. Now you open that up to thousands of people, maybe hundreds of thousands of people all across the world that you will never meet, that you will never know, that you're not even getting an actual true representation most of the time of who these people are, you're meeting persona.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Simplifying what I think is that women may be more in tune with picking up on the unsaid. Like they might be better at seeing physical cues, inflection in tone, like different, like they may be far more sensitive to these things, which to me would make sense because dealing with children that can't communicate.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Which would need to be developed because this is dealing with tech that brings things, ways of approaching being that we are not naturally programmed to be able to handle appropriately. even more it's even more detrimental to women than men because I think Women have a more natural proclivity towards group association and more group-oriented thinking and patterning. And now, and with also coupled with. Seemingly more sensitivity towards human states. So I feel like women, like the classic idea is like, oh, you know, women are psychic. They have a sixth sense and what have you. And I think that's just a. A way of”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Man, I don't know that one. I mean, my general sense, and maybe this is the Nietzschean part of me, is that, yeah, it would take, maybe not even just defining it specifically as revolution. Maybe it would just take just total calamity to get people to stop being shitty, to not stop being a lesser version of themselves, to stop thinking more about things from The paradigm that we exist in now, where we're giving so much value to stuff that isn't really all that valuable, where we're so concerned about And I don't just mean whether we get them or not, but that, oh man, maybe we should take this off of our platform because this is too destabilizing to people. And it's like, because once you exceed Dumbar's number, I think it's actually without having the right faculties.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And that's what we can see. I mean, I would say less anarchy, more. Study James Burnham, you know, or Anybody that wants to talk about the managerial problem and the managerial”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Even older than that. I mean, do you think the Assyrians didn't have a state of some sort? Of course they did. How do you increase your empire if you don't actually have a place to start from?”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When you think about it, it is supposed to have consideration to tribe, right? So if people think that we're not tribes, well, you're not really thinking very deeply. We're all tribes of a sort. And everybody likes to use the word tribalism and this idea of this antagonistic concept. And while sure, tribalism can be antagonistic. Tribalism can also be a positive thing. Or I could say it just seems to be a natural thing. People, they create their groups of one sort or another. And so when you have, well, when you think about where when nation states really started to become a thing, and I don't mean even the more modern looking variants that we could think back of and say the 19th century or something like that.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Eventually, a state people want something to go like, okay, who's taking care of this and who's taking care of that? And how do we create some sort of protocol for this? Like, okay, well, when it's not Bob, when is it Susie? When is it whatever? I mean, like, how do we, you know, it's got to get done if we want this thing to become bigger, if we want all of our plumbing to work right, if we want, it's just, I'm sorry, a state's going to happen. A state is also.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Scale again, right? So if you want to have your anarchist utopia, well, we'll even call it utopia, your anarchist creation here. At certain scale, I'm sure it's doable. But as it scales, as the scale increases, it's completely untenable. And a state will emerge. A state will always emerge. Because even people always think of states as like people rubbing their hands and smoking cigars in back rooms. And just out of nowhere coming around and just like, oh, we're going to create this big centralized thing so that we can tell everybody what to do and we can be in charge. I mean, I know that there are people like that that exist, that they would like to do things of that nature and that they see the use of power as something to be used more for their personal gains first, which again, self-interest in human beings.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Mean laissez-faire completely deregulated. Yeah. Well, what it will agree, it'll end up in one, it'll end up in if you're anti-globalist. It's going to be that. It's going to be globalist 100% because it has no pure capitalism, has no consideration for your native users or of any sort.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, they do. I mean, I'm not going to sit here and shit talk and caps. Although I also used to get into the conversations with... With an ANCOM, anarcho-communist, a good friend of mine, and he would bring up this stuff. And I'm like, Yeah, cool, man. I'm down with anarchy. You ain't gonna like it. What do you mean? I go, because I'm going to take all, I'm going to gather all kinds of people together. I'm going to make this, I'm going to get the strongest together. I'm going to take your shit. Okay.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Violence is an absolute. It is in every person. It is a part of every interaction. It is a part of every law, everything. And I'm not, by the way, not an ANCAP. So don't even hit your wagon to me on that one.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, watch animals get into fights on any of these sort of documentary stuff. You'll see an intense short and then dispersal. You'll see as soon as one feels like, oh, things have switched just enough, the boom, the bear or whatever it is takes off. It's like, I'm not, I'm done with this. Because if you can get out of there with just some scars and what have you, okay. You lose an eye. Nah, it's not as good. You really get hurt bad and get infected. You're done. Know so there's a serious risk to be that can come with these sort of things yet. I believe that we are inherently born for at least aspects of and use of violence. And so at the end of the day, we need these things not just to not just survive each other, but they're a part of being able to hunt and other things.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Getting lamed when you need every aspect of your physical and athletic faculties to survive because is it going to be the, this isn't the first and it's definitely not going to be the last, especially if you're the slowest one. Know it's a Lyric from a clutch song. Don't go for the fat ones, just go for the slow ones.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A big risk. So I know that we live in this place with healthcare, or you might be in a place with nationalized healthcare, whatever, right? There's band-aids, there's penicillin, there's all that kind of stuff. But that's not the normal way of things, you know?”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, so you start off with absolute skills in the sense of absolute offense and defense in the taking or preserving of life, like full-on at its purest form of self defense and self-preservation. And then you extrapolate part of that in that all animals train in violence. play usually degenerates into some sort of soft violence so be it cats when they're kittens and puppies and all everything learns how to kill how to fight not that you know just that that Very little time fighting because if you were actually alpha, you don't get into fights. There's no need to. And if Probably getting into any large amount of fights is probably because you're being shitty at being an alpha and now people are tired of you being in charge. And yet in the animal world, and it would be the same for human beings at that base beginning level of violence.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Getting someone on their back. Okay, as you're trying to get up, you're getting hit with a rock or stabbed or what have you, set on fire. Who knows? Generally, these conflicts are not just isolated to one-on-one. If it's four on two, your buddy that was with you back to back, now he's on his back. What do you think? And now it's going to be one-on-one while three go on one. And then you go, you elevate this to armored combat, right? And it's, boom, put them on the ground. Oh, crap. It's hard to get up. Well, while you're struggling to get up, stab, you know, that's where jiu-jitsu's concepts come from with all they're leveraging and off balancing is, oh man, if I end up in this situation in tight close quarters combat, yes, we could fight it out with swords and knives and what have you, but it's way easier if the first thing I can do is foot sweep you onto your back and then pull my knife and just go stick.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It is actually different when you think about it across the landscape. I don't think radically different, but distill slightly different in that if you think of wrestling as being derived from combat, right? So, well, it is combat sports, but more lethal combat getting somebody off their feet and onto their back is about as lethal a place for the person on bottom could be in general. I mean, don't come at me with your talks about your fucking worm guards and blah, blah, blah and whatever spider barren. Okay, get out of here with that. We're not talking about you in this highly regimented sporting environment. We're talking about general All the body hair, none of the waxing human beings, so um.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“One of the standard positions because one, it's one of the easiest ways to actually get up, but two, it's because you cannot be on your back. If you're on your back, you're getting pinned Back exposure or being pinned is pretty much the universal wrestling thing. One, taking the guy from their feet to the floor, and two, pinning them. As you go from like, was it Cornish wrestling, Turkish oil wrestling, Mongolian, sumo, Indian, well, they'll call it Pelwani, it's also called Kushti Jiu Jitsu, Judo, so many of them is there's a Isambo, even if it doesn't end the match, it's still like one of the most important aspects of the competition itself across. Every style.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Would say the easiest way for us to talk about and give an overview of what catch is in the simplest terms is Think of collegiate wrestling with submissions. That is essentially what catch is. And it's not surprising because collegiate wrestling is actually derived from catches, catch can. It's just that over time, certain aspects were removed from the competition structure so that they became null elements, things that were discarded. But it's funny that you can take a high level amateur collegiate types and you can show them a move and then add a little bit to it and go, oh, well, hey, that was just like what we already do here, but except, oh, I didn't know you could take it all the way to this point or, you know, things of that nature, especially when it comes to professional wrestling, like teaching people like, no, I know you're just using this for in a show, but this is actually a real move. And here's how it really feels.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Moves, I just readiscover them. But yet, gotch and Billy Robinson also would understand that if someone's not carrying the torch, it'll go out. Now, that doesn't mean fire can't be rekindled. It just means that that torch no longer is lighting the way on this knowledge. And so it's important to be. An individual, even on an individual level, to be a repository for aspects of knowledge.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, it doesn't. Unless you preserve it. I mean, it's like all things if you do not preserve them, if you do not make efforts, you know, so many of my, it just really brings to mind right off the top of my head, all my so many friends of mine that are Jewish, you know, they're basically secular, but yet through even the secular aspect of just keeping the traditions alive, it's like, well, you could always pick a book and read about it clearly. It's called the Torah. But if you don't put these things into action, if you don't make them a part of your consciousness, maybe even the subconsciousness just through repetition, they will die. They will become simply something that exists somewhere until you find it again. And Carl Gottz used to say something. He would say that.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is a long time coming, actually. Everybody, you have no idea. Like, how many times through messaging and missing each other over the years, this is ridiculous. This is a long time coming. You don't realize how special this is for us.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Although already always comes to me and goes, Oh, that was so great. I didn't know you've been on Joe Rogan. I go, This is like my fifth time, dude.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Designer art statue. Are you going to go? Well, you can't really sell it on the art markets where people were really going to pay for it. So are you going to become an underground art dealer with your one piece of cause art?”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's definitely a lot more than just that. I'm just saying that given a chance, it's like, okay, boom, the lights are off, the grid is down, we've hacked into the whole system, turned into an 80s movie. And you have the ability to go get a hold of whatever it is that you think is most important. And what do we do? And I say we, as in, you know, including all of us, we grab a TV. We attack it. We break into a sneaker storm Melrose. We do. It's just like we still giant cause statues where the value of that is completely market driven. Like it's just a piece of polypropylene or whatever butyl. And, you know, it's cool. I'm a big fan of art. But it's like, you know, I can't eat that. And at the end of the day, man, you're sitting there with your like, what'd you do today, honey? What'd you get? You know, man, we were able to, you know, oh, I got this.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We're less willing to commit violence. Oh, I would say over Netflix, but we are willing to commit violence over Netflix, over everything associated with Netflix, over televisions, over sneakers, over, you know, I mean, when we look at a good, I mean, the majority of the stuff that came with the riots, I mean, it was used car dealerships. Targets. I mean, and then you look and it's like, well, okay, what are people, what do they got to, what are they so hell-bent to get out of this whole thing? I'm even talking about the ideological elements or anything like that. Just like, okay, something's going on, boom, looting, whatever. What are you going to You'll have AOC say, Oh, people needing bread. I didn't see a single loaf of bread. I saw televisions and poetry, Josh. But to me, it is poetry in a sense because you get to see”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's also a necessity for it's animalistic, but it's also either you do it or you don't share that water or if that water is of such a limited capability or such a limited amount, then you will have to murder to have that water.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What happens when we see calamity or people go on hard times? The things that they value, what do people go to an argument about the cost of things that are luxury items generally and not necessity items? You know, we get into fights about things that are at the end of the day not necessities to us. People are so concerned about Netflix and the internet. Personally, I'm very concerned about the internet because I look at it as my own little personal library of Alexandria in my pocket. That's what I love about it. And the ability to have a tool as effective as it is, even though I'm in a constant battle, to not let that tool become a vice or to become something that actually brings me to a lower state.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, it has costs for sure. But when you think of how you look at the, well, we'll just deal with the first world of the West. You look at the The pathway of Western civilization and its growth. And then you look at how technology injected into it over time, how it magnifies. What is it, the capacitor, and then so on, it goes further and further. And as the internet and technology, especially on the electronic side of things, start increasing in capability, it massively outpaces even our necessity for it at times. It becomes plant obsolescence happens quicker and over and over and over again. Wealth increases, increases, increase and increases in terms of the things that we're able to acquire, right? I mean, I've seen homeless people with smartphones, you know, so we're living in the most Wealth laden, luxury laden age of Of humanity yet.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Not how human beings normally live. This is all built upon stuff on Is built on concept, on idea, and some of it's built on just, well, this is the paradigm, so this is what you do. Human beings need food, they need water. To survive. They need shelter from the elements. And they need certain skills to perpetuate these things and be able to pass them down so that they can end up in this gap where you have to relearn things. Because if it's lost, then that time before you can get it back again is going to be dark ages of sorts, you know, or it's going to be highly detrimental to your group because not knowing how to fish, not knowing how to hunt, not knowing how to even clean and cook the game once you have it could be lethal.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I think that there's a lot of rationality behind this argument. In some ways, I agree, and in a lot of ways I see it as. Missing the point of how this experiment has been playing out across time. When you look at what, for one, it's like define resources as humans would define it or wealth even. And so you can say, well, you know, an iPhone's a resource, the internet's a resource, water obviously is a resource, but if we weigh them, What is more important to human beings water, internet, or iPhones? It's water, right? So if we look at resources, if we start with what do human beings need to live, I mean, actually live. Not live here in this bullshit fantasy creation extension of our own ingenuity and, you know, a prison of our own creation and also a paradise of our own creation. But this is.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If they orient themselves to be secure enough, because it does come to security insecurity in one way or the other, either brought on by the unknown, brought on by an actual threat, brought on by even their own, as we would use the word insecurity in that their own insecurity within their own capabilities, their own belief in themselves, all these things can change things from being compassionate and what have you to at least at the very least, maybe not evil, but self-interest driven to the point of A negative results for those that aren't. You know what I mean?”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Scale, yes. So when we're dealing with a small tribe. When you meet another tribe, maybe. There's other factors that are going into that. Let's say you scale up. And so Your 150 has exceeded their 150, and like you start to get to a certain point where you can't really be close enough to someone down the line of that next, like that 150s, 150, 150, and they just now all of a sudden become some guy, whatever. And when it comes to some guy, once it starts hitting scale, I don't know that it's capable. People can be as magnanimous to a stranger as to the known.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Scale Scale and also from subjective to the environment around them. And I don't even mean environment just in the sake of physical environment nature, right? Like nature is constantly trying to murder you. Well, it's not really trying. It's just nature's being nature. The universe is the universe. And at times it takes you out. Not with any particular compunction or prejudice, it just oops, you know, sorry, there's no more dodos. My bad.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I don't. I feel like I also feel like there's the issue of scale too. Like Nassim Taleb likes to talk about how he views the way he interacts with groups in terms of scale. What is this thing about like at the familial level? I'm a communist and then at the civic level I'm a Republican or something and at this other level. And then it goes on at the widest level. He's a libertarian or something of that nature, you know.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Somewhat, yeah, I think that a lot of this stuff is just derived from a biological perspective. I feel like these things are innate within us.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Written examples of human behavior and psychology at the furthest that we can look into it from man's hand to whatever the medium is, cuneiform or whatever. But as you do that, and then let's say going from Mesopotamia to India to Europe and just going from all these places as disparate as they may seem, as many different cultures and ethnicities and religions and how the religions will vary quite a bit from monotheist to polytheist and so on and so forth. But then just seeing how there's all the through lines. And of course Campbell, he did this much earlier than me thinking about it. But I think that by Looking at things that way and starting to This time, this people getting overly POMO about it is just a really idiotic. Postmod”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think that there are some. I actually do believe that there are some universals. I'm not Kantian in any way, but I do think that there are some universals. And the thing that actually brought me to even the concept of that was Jung. So, you know, Jung's concept of the collective unconsciousness and then taking that thought and then applying it to looking through history. And the most varied history you can find. So I would say probably religion is your earliest one that you can get for written history or”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source