[of] course the question, then is well exactly what do you mean by properly and of course that's the fundamental issue

So I'm going to walk through that little bit

So I'm gonna and I've also got an offer to make to any millennials that are willing to watch this so

This was triggered in [part] by something I read recently by Jonathan hate and Jonathan haidt is the professor of ethical leadership at the nyu

Stern school of business, and he's been a very astute

Commentator recently on some of the political battles that have been going on in the social sciences

[noting] for example that there is very little political diversity in the views of social scientists and perhaps even less on

the part of the people in the humanities

And hate recently wrote something which all all what are you linked to in the and the description of this video?

Where he claimed that universities have to decide between Social justice and truth and on the side of truth he puts

Philosopher call named John Stuart Mill an English Philosopher who said

He who knows only his side of the case knows little of that

His reasons may be good and no one may have been able to refute them

But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side if he does not

Does not so much as know what they are he has no ground for preferring either opinion

And then he juxtaposes

John Stuart Mill with Karl Marx who said the Philosopher's have only interpreted the world in various ways the point is to [change] it

He considers Marx the Patron Saint of Social justice

University which is oriented around changing the world in part by overthrowing power structures and privilege

It sees political diversity as an obstacle to action

male on the other hand according to hate is the Patron saint [of] what he calls truth you which sees truth as a

Process in which flawed individuals challenge each other's biased and incomplete reasoning and in the process all become smarter

Hate points out the truth university dies when it becomes intellectually uniform or politically, orthodox

So I guess this video is in part my call along with Jonathan haidt for young people to join

Truth universe versity, but there's a problem with that because the university is where the truth is being sought

That's the university, but there's a problem

and that is that young people want to change the world and it's part of what Piaget the

developmental psychologist piaget called the Messianic stage and there's some real utility in that because we're social creatures and

As we construct ourselves and formulate ourselves and bring our own character into being predicated on our on our

biological

Platform our biological being we also simultaneously have to integrate

Adjust to integrate with and negotiate with Society which sometimes needs to be changed

The structure of [Society] has to be preserved

But it has to be [updated] and proved as it moves forward and so part of the problem is how to update and improve it

without

doing [that] so rapidly that you destroy everything of any value, so

The problem I have with the marxist perspective, and I've had this problem with it for a long time

Is that I don't think [that] you should trust people whose primary goal?

when when

when they're attempting to change the world for the better is to change other people and you can tell who those people are because they're

always blaming other people and they're looking for victims they're looking for perpetrators and victims and then they're going off to stop the

perpetrators, and I think that's wrong because as

Alexander solzhenitsyn said he's a great Russian writer who helped bring down the soviet union

He said the line between good and Evil runs down every every [humans] heart

So that so the real battle as far as I'm concerned

And I think this goes along with the true tradition in [which] John stuart mill is is firmly placed in is that?

to overcome Tyranny and malevolence and

Chaos and Nihilism and the Desire to bring everything to a halt you have to repair the fissures

And-And-and the rift that's in your own soul, basically and that means that you have to confront

the the Evil that lives in your own heart

and there's a there's a statement from the new testament [that] I think is very much apropos with regards to this particular idea and

this is

This is part of the sermon on the mount which is a central text in in western in the western tradition

I would say [obviously] central to Christianity but central to everything that western civilization has built and so christ says to his followers

Why be holdest thou?

the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye or

How wilt thou say to thy brother let me pull out the mote out of thine eye and behold a beam is in [thine] own

eye thou hypocrite first cast out [the] beam out of thine own eye and then

Shalt thou see clearly to cast the mote out of thy brother's eye

Well, I like that quote because it places the responsibility

For change at every level of being on the individual and obviously the individual interacts with society

But the idea here is that unless the individual straightens out his or her [own] soul

There's no possibility that the impact the individual can have on society can be anything, but [buts] a harmful in proportion to the harm

That's still in the soul. These are important [things] to know they're vitally important things to know

So okay, so but then we're faced with the conundrum that young people also want to change the world

but that's no problem because I [think] you can bring you could bring truth university together with the desire to

to make real change, but change

Change change has to start [at] the right place

so I'm going to tell you how I [think] you should change yourself so that you can change the world and

So that the world that you bring into being will be a better world and all the worst one

Remember remember you need to know about this that the world that the followers of Marx brought into being in the 20th century

Killed more than a hundred million people say in China and russia. [I] mean the soviet Union and [in] places like Cambodia and Vietnam

The world certainly changed as a consequence of Marxist doctrine

But it didn't [change] in in a good direction and of course the Marxist doctrine is

Making itself heard in a massive way across the west again now so all right

So what should you do about that? Well? Here's an idea?

The first thing you have to do is orient yourself now

You probably have all watched pinocchio and pinocchio is about how a marionette someone who's whose strings are being pulled by Forces Beyond his comprehension

[that's] the situation of the undeveloped individual

Geppetto who's a Benevolent father so a benevolent?

Symbol a symbol of benevolent culture makes a puppet his son

and then wishes on a star now a star is something that glitters up in the sky and it's and it's associated with the

Transcendent and Beyond and the divine and you know if you look up in the night, [sky]

And it's very dark [you] get a feeling of awe it's because you're confronting your soul

so to speak your individual soul is confronting the cosmos and you can feel a relationship between you and and and

and the totality so looking up into the sky is like a religious experience if it's a starry sky and

to wish upon a star is to find in a light that orient's you like the North star and

To pick a highest goal to pick the highest goal

You can conceive of and so that's what geppetto does he raises his eyes above his

his Day-To-day concerns and tries to establish a relationship with the highest of all possible values and

And and he has the most profound of wishes and the most profound of wishes is that the puppet that he's created

Could become a genuine individual genuinely fully fully developed human being and that's what you can wish for [yourself]

That's you can wish and and and and aim for that in yourself

and then

You see that's how you deal [with] the suffering that's attendant on life because life is suffering and because life is very hard and people

Get sick, and they become mentally ill and and and there's malevolence in the world

And there's tragedy and so life is very very hard

and if

you're not properly oriented with regards to life the fact that it's hard and the fact that it's full of suffering can can warp and

twist and Bend you until you become murderous and resentful and and

even go Beyond murderous and resentment to wish for for genocide and evil even to wish for [the] destruction of everything and

So you have to learn [how] to strengthen yourself as an individual [so] that you can bear?

the

Burden of being without becoming corrupt you have to decide that that is what you're aiming [for] is that you want to become [a] fully

developed human being and stop being a

Pathetic Marionette whose strings are being pulled by Horrible Forces behind the scenes

So I would say to wish on a stars to Aim at the highest good in the question, then is well

What what is the good?

well

We can answer that in two ways

We could say that the good is the opposite of evil

And I can tell you what evil is evil

is the conscious desire to produce suffering where suffering is not necessary and so if you read about

What happened in the NaZi Concentration?

camps for example or in the in the Russian concentration camps during the soviet time of the soviet union

you'll get a good flow favor for what constitutes evil and evil is the desire to exploit the vulnerability of other people to

self-consciously exploit the

Vulnerability of other people and to elevate their suffering beyond their or anyone's ability to tolerate and so the good is the opposite of that

Whatever the opposite of that is the good is harder to get a handle on but here's one hint

and I got this from reading jean Piaget partly who's a developmental pSychologist and

Piaget talked about the

Equilibrated state and in equilibrated state is like a game the children play

Where every child wants to play the game you have a little social group?

And that's the children's play group and any of us the individuals within it those are the individual children and the structure is the game

and it's a good game if everyone wants to play it and

And piaget noted that a game like that will outperform a game that people have to be terrorized to play because it doesn't entail it

doesn't require any enforcement cost and so I've sort of developed the idea of [nil] equilibrated state to think that if

If you're aiming at the good, then you want what's good for you?

And I mean good [for] you as if you were taking care of yourself, and we're good to yourself

We were treating yourself like someone you loved

That was good for you in a way that [would] also be good for your family, and then it would be good for you

And your family in a way that was also good for society and then it would be

Good for you, and your family and society in a way that would [be] good for the world

And then it would be good now

And it would be good next week and the week after and a year from now and is long into the future [as] you can

See, so the good is something that's equilibrate across multiple levels of being in multiple time frames simultaneously

And it isn't necessarily that you know what that is going to be at any given moment, but you can orient yourself

So that's the state that you [want] to exist in and I can tell you

As far [as] I [can] tell when you exist in that state

even moment by Moment

Your life is imbued with a sense of meaning and that sense of meaning can help you transcend

Suffering the Philosopher Nietzsche said he who has a why

Can Bear [anyhow] he who has a why?

Can bear [anyhow] and so Nietzsche's idea was that if there was purpose in your life of sufficient grandeur that?

not only could the suffering in life be a

but maybe it even be

appreciated like it could be that you're willing to bear the burden of being because of

the

Exciting things that you can do with being the things you can build and the things that you can bring about and that might be

The highest imaginable state of being and that's that's a form of paradise, but it's not a paradise that you attain by transforming others

It's a paradise that you attain by transforming yourself

and

That's a very difficult thing to do and it's a very frightening thing to do because it means that you're you're

Retooling your soul, and that's that's a job for a real

That's the job for a forthright and honorable person and it's an exciting enough

Task so that it will keep you occupied for the rest of your life

and then magical things will happen to you well your

While you're doing it, and the world will arrange itself around you in the most wonderful way in a musical way

So that every part of what you're experiencing plays off

against every other part in a manner that has meaning

embedded in every aspect of it and you experience that by the way you experience that when you listen to a piece of [music] that

You love music represents that and that's why people it's why music

Nourishes the soul why it's the highest form of art at least in my opinion. So you have to live your life as if

Being is a symphony, and you're playing you're playing your instrumental part

Once you are it yourself. Then you have an [obligation]

I would say an obligation to the development of your soul to speak the truth you have to be oriented properly though

Because the truth is is something that

Exists in service to an ideal an ideal of sorts then you can imagine that you could use your [language] two ways you can use

your language to manipulate the world and

To extract from it what you want, so for example

Maybe you go out on a date with someone and you decide that the end goal of the date is to