The Moral Language Of Neo-Liberalism

追加: 2026-05-06

[00:00:00]Okay, so I watched another Lotto's video and I got to say I'm a little bit triggered. A little bit triggered because yet again I'm being told that neoliberalism has no morality that people can do whatever they want. And so I need to take a step back and analyze this because usually people just gloss over this statement, you know, like well I mean it sounds good enough so let's move on with the conversation.

[00:00:26]But like THE IDEA THAT PEOPLE can do whatever they want. Can they though?

[00:00:30]Like do you honestly feel that you can do whatever you want? Because I don't feel like I can do whatever I want. Is there no morality? Cuz I feel like I'm being judged on the internet all the [ __ ] time by left-wingers and right-wingers. So if there is NO MORALITY, HOW ARE PEOPLE JUDGING ME?

[00:00:50]And so when they say neoliberalism has no morality, what I think they're actually saying is that people do not use words like uh virtue, sin, purity, heresy, blasphemy, or salvation, which is true. Like you will never hear a journalist or an academic use this type of language.

[00:01:15]But here's the thing, you know, neoliberal morality does not abolish religion-like judgment.

[00:01:23]It simply transcended it into managerial and therapeutic vocabulary that both the left and the right-wing uses today constantly.

[00:01:34]Like let me give you an example, right?

[00:01:36]Old moral language. Like what would my grandma say? My grandma would say this is sinful.

[00:01:43]What would someone like Sargon say today? He would say this is harmful.

[00:01:49]It's the same concept. When you judge someone and you're saying you're watching this and it's harmful, you're literally saying it's sinful. My grandma, for example, would say this is corrupting the soul.

[00:02:03]An academic today would say this creates an unsafe environment.

[00:02:08]In the past, a priest would condemn someone for being greedy.

[00:02:14]Today, academics would condemn people for being exploitative.

[00:02:20]For example, I recently read an artic, the European Union, is condemning Valve, the company, for being exploitative.

[00:02:29]Why? Because they have loot boxes.

[00:02:32]So, is it the same word what exploitation used to be like? Is Valve kidnapping children and making them work into the mines and exploiting them? No, Valve is being greedy. That's the accusation. Like they're using something akin to gambling, which is a sin. And they're being greedy. They're trying to make a lot more money than they should in the belief of the European Union.

[00:02:54]And then you have like other words like uh this space is toxic. What they're basically saying is that the practice is impure.

[00:03:03]What I'm trying to say is that if there was no morality, you would not be judged by other people based on these standards. Like words like this is harmful. You know, like the platform needs to be made safe. The AI needs its safety balances made, right? Like the reason these things exist is because there is a morality. You are being judged is that it's not being u controlled by the people that you're allied with, which is true. But at the same time, I do see rightwingers use these words all the [ __ ] time.

[00:03:36]Like when I grew up, you would see a video game that's vile, like Manhunt, or you would watch a TV show that was vile, like South Park. Most people, right, my my parents included, would see the show where uh a child like Kenny got brutally killed in South Park. like he had a a pike coming through his skull and coming out of his eye socket and then some rats would would just eat away at his throat and pull the body away while there's blood on the screen, right? My parents would look at that horrified. They would be like, "What the [ __ ] is this shit?"

[00:04:09]And then they would move away, right?

[00:04:11]Like they would classify it like they would put the cartoon in a room like that that's some [ __ ] up [ __ ] room and just leave it there, right? Like they they wouldn't constantly obsess about it. Today, if you have like something that's taboo like that, usually an anime, right? Like you have an anime that does similar things. What the [ __ ] is it called? The one uh with little kids. Uh Made in the Abyss, right? Like I know about it cuz some South Korean got uh into trouble for recommending it.

[00:04:41]But like the anime Made in the Abyss, it has like grotesque imagery. Now the thing is people don't say, "Oh, like let's put it in that [ __ ] up [ __ ] room and leave it at that." No, like people say it's harmful. Like the anime itself, the the story itself is harmful.

[00:05:00]Like what what are they basically trying to say is that just by watching it, it produces harm, right? Like everyone associated with it is sinful. The person thinking it, the the people making it and the people watching it. Like it is a moral judgment. It it doesn't mean like it actually causes harm in society. Like the anime isn't coming out from the television and beating the living [ __ ] out of you, right? Like the statement is by watching that it's harmful. Uh the new invincible episode where you had the the abortion scene, you have right-wingers that say, "Well, this is harmful." Like the the invisible episode is harmful. They are adopting the psychoanalytical language that the left brought into the lexicon. And I got to say like the left was extremely successful at co-opting the language to the point where even religious organizations like for example Exodus or um uh Nikos, right, the National Center of uh sexual exploit, whatever the [ __ ] they call themselves, they adopted leftist language and leftist talking points.

[00:06:07]And when I see people like Lotus adopting them as well, well, it just goes to show just how victorious the left was.

[00:06:16]So, um, most of it, I believe, also comes from therapy culture, right? From HR, activists, academia, uh, as well as, uh, some form of economics that they use like Kenzians or [ __ ] Uh, and I think like all of this package is called the therapeutic managerial language, right?

[00:06:37]the uh it describes it better than just saying psychoanalytical.

[00:06:42]Um and so all in all, neoliberalism absolutely has morality. It just does not talk like a priest. It talks like an HR lady.

[00:06:52]And um it's it's not coming from the church, right? It's coming from the institutions. Now, you may say, "Well, hold on a little bit. Like the church will do a much better job." I don't [ __ ] know. I mean, I'm looking at the Catholic Pope right now. He's for environmentalism, right? He is for mass immigration. Uh he is for Islam or at least a lot more than any other pope was. And so I I think like even if uh the cultural revolution didn't happen, if quote unquote neoliberalism didn't happen, I think like you would still have the the same issue because like the people in power promote things that benefit the people in power. Like they will never promote things that benefit the peasants. Like for example historically why why did liberalism caught on? Well, it caught on because people discovered the new world and the merchant class, right? Like the East India Trading Company and others like they wanted to make as much profit as possible and kings realized that that's a good thing because all of the people that were making political descent, all of the rebels, all of the people that were heretics could be shipped to the new world, right? So you like most uh rich people, they don't really care about having a population that shows discontent if that population can always leave and go somewhere else. And so like liberalism became the ideology that allowed the merchants in that environment in that society to pump the wealth. When that ended and you have like the cold war, you got nationalism like very strong nationalistic sentiments, right? You got communism which despite the fact that it's universal in and the Soviet Russia was applied as a hyper nationalistic ideology. Uh you have fascism, you have uh Nazism, right? Like Europe has like these extremely strong nationalistic non-liberal ideologies because like that's what the world at the time required. You you went through World War I which was still uh the uh the old era, right? like the the kings and the aristocrats which basically failed to explain to the population uh what they were dying for, right? Like uh World War I wasn't very ideological. It was pretty vague and ambiguous and many people died. Many people died not just from the artillery but from famine as well. And so uh the whole idea before is that God sends the king on earth to guard over the land.

[00:09:14]Right? So like God has sent the king of England to guard over England. God has sent the king of France to guard over France. And so people believe that I'm a subject because there is a divine order.

[00:09:26]But how can you explain the divine order when the king of France and the king of Germany are at war with each other and 10 million men die? Like did God mess up at some point? Cuz like they're both sent by God, right? Like if one of them was sent by the Sultan, then it would make a would make sense. But theologically it doesn't really make sense. Like all these kings are sent by the same god and now it's not just a war. No, like it's a sustained industrial slaughter house with no honor, no glory, no stories. You just stay in a ditch until you rot. And so it becomes a lot more difficult to explain it. People have to find something else and they found nationalism, right? Uh after nationalism, you have the cold war and you have America championing freedom while the Soviet Union is championing equality.

[00:10:12]And after the cold war you got like this neoliberalism. It's like let's uh stop making borders. Let's everyone trade and this will stop another world war. This is why we have neoliberalism now. But you understand that it's not because like people uh were genuinely like thinking about ideologies what makes sense what ideology we can create. No like you have necessity and the necessity brings the ideology.

[00:10:36]Now uh the question is what happens after neoliberalism?

[00:10:42]uh because the world doesn't stagnate.

[00:10:44]There will be another ideology. There always will be another ideology. So like which is the next? I think that people that expect liberty to come back are gravely mistaken. I don't think we're going to have freedom, right? Uh I also don't think we will have the theocracy.

[00:11:01]I see a lot of people wanting the theocracy. No, what will happen and it's already happening is uh digital feudalism if you can call it that or you know like whatever name is going to appear but the idea is that every single person for the first time in human history like never before can be tracked literally the European Union now wants to have access to Google search analytics so they will be able to know exactly not just what their population is doing but like what their population is thinking.

[00:11:33]And more importantly, they can know exactly everything there is to know about you. Like every time you go out of your house, you have your smartphone. That's tracked. Every time you buy something, you use a credit card. That's tracked. Every time you go online, you search for something. That's tracked. Every time you go on social media, you dox yourself with your ID.

[00:11:55]There is no privacy. Right? So like for the first time ever the government genuinely unironically becomes God. Like never in human history in in any political system would a government have access to this amount of information as well as this amount of ability to ruin a person's life. If everything is connected to a digital ID, if the government just shuts down the digital ID, you're not going to be able to do banking. You're not going to be able to go online. You're not going to be able to maintain a job. you're not going to be able to have healthcare. So all of a sudden people will have to worship the government which is the institution that brings morality, right? Like if the government says if only we can save one life, you need to stay home and stay safe, people obey.

[00:12:42]You don't need 100% of people obeying, you need the majority of people obeying and to force the others that don't obey to comply. And this is what happened during the pandemic. Like you weren't necessarily afraid of the police officer that would catch you. you were afraid of your neighbor that will start spuring out if you don't get vaccinated and the journalist that was raging at you, right? Like that is the new the the new morality. Morality comes from the government which is God and the government tells you what to believe. If today the government is telling you if only we can save one life and the next day say is telling you you need to go to die for Ukraine, that's what's going to happen.

[00:13:18]It doesn't matter if the government contradicts or not. They can manufacture consent. They can manufacture morality on the fly. And by morality, I mean what the people in that nation believes it's the right thing to do. That's how I would translate it. Now, it doesn't really matter what other people think about objective morality of the Bible.

[00:13:37]If you can't implement it, it's not going to be implemented unless the government wants it to be implemented.

[00:13:42]If the government needs it implemented, it will be implemented for the number of weeks or months that the government requires it. Uh and you're going to see this happening as we move towards the future. Uh when the government can control the algorithm and decide what appears on your feed, when the government can uh buy influencers and five or six people that you trust are paring the exact same thing, which makes sense because again like the government rise the propaganda in a way that it feels natural and makes sense.

[00:14:14]For example, Nick Fent is telling people to vote Democrat.

[00:14:18]For a lot of people, it makes sense, right? Like it's written in a way that's appealing. It's it's not written in a way that sounds bad.

[00:14:27]Uh and you're going to see I mean, again, I was very uh impressed how during CO they went from uh if only we can stay at home, we can save one life.

[00:14:39]They went from that to you need to go out and protest summer of love.

[00:14:45]So people went out to protests while the stores were closed and people were actually destroying those stores. And there was a case in the UK, well I mean there was a time period in the UK where uh if your significant other happened to give birth, your cousin couldn't come to see the child unless unless you went to a BLM rally with the kid and your cousin come to see it there, right? Like none of it made sense.

[00:15:17]But most people thought that it is the right thing to do.

[00:15:21]The idea that uh you come to a restaurant with a mask on, you sit at the table, you take the mask off, you can eat, but if you want to go to the bathroom at that restaurant, you got to put the mask on again. That is beyond [ __ ] But most people thought that is the right thing to do. You would go into a restaurant to take a piss without putting the mask on and some lady would feel unsafe. And again, we decided what does unsafe mean? It means sinful.

[00:15:47]You're sinning, right? like this person is not obeying.

[00:15:52]That was the problem. It wasn't about the virus. It's like this is a person that's not listening to God. It's not listening to the government. The government said you need to mask on. So, you mask on because that's what the government demands. And unfortunately, I see that the Zoomer generation does indeed worship the government left and right. Not everyone, of course, there are a significant group that don't, but the loud ones, the outspoken ones, both of the left and right, want strong government. They want large government.

[00:16:21]Some want a theocracy, other want communism. It doesn't really matter.

[00:16:25]They want the government to do things and the government is more than happy to do things because now it has the ability. Never had this ability ever in human history. Never. Right? Like the option to go online and find out everything that is about your life and ruin you with a click of a button or make you famous with the click of another.

[00:16:47]Never. Never. whatever like only only in the Bible did God have such abilities.

[00:16:53]Uh it's scary but again there is order you know like people fear chaos more than they fear order and so if it's orderly people are more willing to accept it. Uh it's not going to be the last system on planet earth right like every as I mentioned every ideology comes and goes.

[00:17:14]uh but it seems that in the future we will have all the ideologies depending on what's needed. If the government needs fascism during covid all of a sudden people become fascists. If uh the government needs nationalism during a war all of a sudden neoliberalism goes away right like we don't talk about how uh our country is historically racist and how it oppresses people. Now we're talking about how we need to stop Putin from advancing and how uh our nation is strong and great and we all have national flags and we we uh wave them and [ __ ] and and like the switch happens just like that from one week to another.

[00:17:54]Uh remember like again the pandemic is the best example like there was a time before the pandemic came that uh everyone that looked at what's happening in China and said that it's going to come here was a conspiracy theorist and the Democrats even had hug an Asian day right so like they went to people that came on boats from China and they encouraged that you need to hug them give them a hug if you don't you're racist in other words you're immoral sinful bigoted blasphemous uh no It's it's uh it's something that uh I I guess is normal for me at least because it's the generational gap, right? Like I grew up in a world that thought differently, that view things differently. And so now the young people are disagreeing with me. And the thing is like their children, if they decide to have some uh are going to disagree with them. It's just uh the normal way things work. Let me know what you guys think though. And as usual, I'll see you in the comment section.

[00:18:57]Thank you.