Dark Arts Are Tempting

i actually have a friend or an old friend who killed someone and he said honestly and this is a little bit dark but he said it was awesome huh right i mean he said it was and this was a bad person they've been in a fight i mean you know like um but yeah he said it was there was something and i mean this guy's obviously pretty affected you know he's probably he's kind of caught up in the dark arts if you will you know he's more you know if you were watching harry potter he's more like slithering than he is like gryffindor you know right but he um yeah he said there was something well it's not like there's no pleasure in mayhem and destruction right right it's just perhaps something that should be replaced by a better pleasure a better pleasure and i think that that's gonna watch it if there's no if there is no meat to the temptation it would be irrelevant the darks the dark places that people go are very tempting yeah and it's even more complicated than that because naive people aren't better than people who are looking at the darkness right and so you know the naive people think oh well everyone should be naive in these little boxes and all protected and you know the people who pop outside of that and engage a bit with the darker things they think well you naive people you're just naive it's like yeah naive first cynical second wise third you want to get through cynicism and darkness to wisdom as fast as you possibly can and you should know that that's a place to go right just like you were saying a minute ago it's like you need to have you need to know that there are places to go from where you are yeah they're always on and they have to be real and not naive you know think well why should i be good it's like well maybe you shouldn't if good is just naive but you know people really good people aren't naive they're tough as they're tough as they can possibly be and they've seen things and then they decide to become good it's steadfast i mean you have to you have to i'm realizing that i have to daily show up for myself if i want my life to be what i want it to be right it is a battle and not only that but it's like you have to um you have to have some sort of a plan when i used to be a little bit more aimless i was just like oh i want things to be good it wasn't enough no no because things don't know how to just be good this is true all by left to themselves things go from bad to worse things yeah things will go out of town things like yeah yes as entropy yeah like leave your house alone for a year yeah see what happens oh it's way better it's like no it's not it has black mold everywhere right and the vandalism moved in there's graffiti everywhere and yeah there's squirrels on a pentagram like things have gotten out of hand i think good is more powerful than evil and i say that lightly man i studied evil for like 30 years yeah man you're like yeah you've been in the dark arts yeah well that in the clinical practice you know so i've looked at the darkest things i could find and some of them i barely recovered from and you still believe that and you still believe that good more i believe more than more than i did before i believe that our capacity to transcend evil is far more powerful than evil even though evil is no bloody joke well that gave us world war ii it gave us the gulag archipelago and the horrors of the soviet union communist china and cambodia and it's like the horrible tortures that went along with that the mass slaughter the malevolence and the lies all of that it's like yeah man that's dark the light is brighter than the dark is dark wow and that's something man because the dark is plenty dark the darkness issue it did surprise me because like when when i wrote maps of meaning which as as i said was my first book i started writing that in 1985 and i i picked the worst problem i could think of to solve the worst thing and it had to do with what happened in auschwitz there was something that happened in auschwitz it was a variety of this problem so people were packed into cattle cars and shipped to auschwitz and that was rough man like they were packed into the cattle car so if it was winter the people around the edges froze to death right they froze and if it was summer the people in the middle died because they got too hot right it was horrible right it was horrible and then they were taken to these concentration camps right and then the concentration camps of course had the had the gas chambers yes i've been to visit and one of oh yes but yeah i've seen them right and so one of the things the guards used to do is they take the prisoners off the cars and it's not like they hadn't already been tortured quite nicely and were already headed for death and so it's already pretty much as bad as it could get but oh no that wasn't bad enough so one of the tricks the guards used to play was they'd get the prisoners who could still more or less move to carry a sack of wet salt from one side of the compound to the other it's like when you think well that's not so bad it's like yeah it's bad those were the size of cities this was a major journey and it was a 100 pound sack of wet salt and especially when you're poor you're hurting yeah yeah but then they would have them carry it back you see that's the little twist there it's like well it's one thing if you're a guard and this and the damn salt needs to be moved and you're just the slave owner whip and the whip but at least the salt has to be moved the wall has to be built there's something in it something something in it carry that there and now carry it back it's like okay so that wasn't the question i was trying to solve the question is what would i have to be like to do that and enjoy it right because the people there are people who did that and they were people and they enjoyed it and there were a lot of them right and there were a lot of them yes and they weren't so different from you than you think wow so that's the thing that i was trying to figure out i was like what the hell's at the bottom of that well that's that was the darkest places i could find to look there's this story this is a story of king arthur and the knights of the round table so they're off to look for the holy grail which is the the container of the redeeming substance so it's it's value itself it's the ultimate value well they don't know where to go look for the holy it's the it's the cup that held christ's blood from the cross or maybe the cup that he drank at the last year it was an indiana jones yeah that's right of course and then the holy grail is a very very old idea and it it stands for the ultimate value where do you go to look for the ultimate value well the answer in in the story of king arthur and the holy grail is all the knights are around a round table because they're all equal they all decide to go off and look for the round table so they all go look at the forest and each knight looks and sees where the forest looks darkest to him and that's where he starts it's like yes that's wisdom and i learned that also from carl jung he derived a dictum from alchemy institution inventor which means that which you most need to find will be found where you least want to look right but what's so interesting and this i didn't expect this is that if you peer into the darkest dark you find the brightest light and i never expected that but that's what happened i thought oh this is horrible horrible even beyond what i could comprehend and but but the light that can overcome that that exists the light that can overcome that exists it's actually real and i think the instinct that we have that manifests itself within us as meaning which is what you feel for example when you listen to music that you really love you feel that sense of intrinsic meaning that meaning is a guide to the light and try i don't mean i mean metaphorically right i mean religiously but i also mean biologically right in reality that sense of meaning is the guide to the light that overcomes the darkness and the darkness is dark it's really dark but that means the light is that means the light has to be that much brighter and it is i really believe that i love that and yeah and you and just since you've gone there it's like it's so um real man it just seems so real when you say it for some reason because you've done the work you've seen you know you've tried to start at that darkest spot and then to still say that that's the thing because if that's not the story though then there is no story it's like that has to be the story that we go that it ends in posit that it ends that it goes upward that otherwise there's no there's nothing if that's not the story yeah well that's a very good way of looking at it that's i think that's so who would ever choose nothing it's a it's just such a pointless there's no it's mephistopheles it's it's it's satan's it's satan's dictum that things are so terrible that it would be better if there was nothing at all yeah that's rude there's a whole line of german literature speculative literature that was that was that was laid out by a man named gurtha who wrote a play called faust about a man who sold his soul to the devil for knowledge and mephistopheles features in faust he's the tempter he's he's satan himself and his credo is life is so terrible it would be better if it was replaced by nothing it's an apar it's an apocalyptic desire you're like neil armstrong of the dark moon you know hope you enjoyed that video and you can watch another and you can watch this one you can watch this one different options different choices some guy just brings you one option not this guy two options watch one this one or this one

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Published: Wed Feb 03 2021