Groups Search for Consensus, Individuals Search for Truth
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Naval Ravikant
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🗓️ 24 March 2020
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Even smart people go along with society's lies.
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| 0:00.0 | Truth is very fought over. When we say truth, the biggest problem we're going to run into |
| 0:06.2 | is that what society wants for you is not what's always good for you. Society is the largest |
| 0:13.1 | group and group search for consensus, individual search for truth. It is not acceptable for society |
| 0:19.9 | to tell you the truth and many things. There are many things society throws at all day long that |
| 0:24.0 | if you are smart and critical thinking person that you disbelief, but you're forced to go along |
| 0:28.5 | with it even though deep down, you know it's not true. Money isn't going to make you happy. That's |
| 0:33.7 | a society truth. That's not an individual truth. Look at all the individuals trying to make money, |
| 0:38.4 | deep down. They know that yes, money will get rid of a lot of sources of unhappiness and at least |
| 0:42.8 | put it to the point where happiness is then under my control. It's my choice as opposed to being |
| 0:47.6 | inflicted upon me externally. That is just one of a billion lie society tells you. Another lie |
| 0:52.6 | society tells you is that you send your kids to school for education. No, they get an hour day of |
| 0:57.0 | education. They get indoctrination. They get taught at the speed of the slowest student. They get |
| 1:02.4 | taught mostly subjects that are irrelevant or obsolete. Education is a combination of a small bit |
| 1:07.6 | of education, a large dose of socialization, a large dose of compliance training, a massive dose |
| 1:13.9 | of babysitting, which is helpful for parents who can't take care of the kids at home. Also, it keeps |
| 1:19.1 | young troublemakers off the streets, especially at the teenage level who might be going out and |
| 1:23.1 | committing crime and causing problems or getting in trouble. So, school does a lot of things, |
| 1:27.5 | but education is just a very tiny piece of it as all the home schooling stats clearly show. |
| 1:31.7 | And even the unschooling stats are starting to show. Society does not just tell you things that |
| 1:36.4 | are false. It programs you to beat yourself up when you cross one of these boundaries, when you |
| 1:41.6 | transgress against society's truths. A classic example of that is guilt. Guilt is society's voice |
| 1:47.6 | speaking in your head. Guilt is society programming you so effectively that you are your own warden. |
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