The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 428 - Narcissism Disguised As Enlightenment

Episode Date: February 19, 2020

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Welcome to the show, everybody. I trust you're all excited for the Democratic debate tonight. I know that I am. I actually am excited for it this time, to be honest. This time anyway, I am. And for one thing, I'm looking forward to the spectacle of a Democratic debate featuring not one but two billionaires, two billionaires. Two billionaires. Actually, I'm not sure if Steyer made the cut this time around. I hope that he did. Because either way, there are two billionaires in the field vying for the Democratic nomination. So you got two billionaires, a bunch of millionaires, a bunch of white people. And that's it, right? Basically, the Democratic field looks exactly like the kind of party that the Democrats accuse the Republicans of being. And that's great. I do expect tonight for just a very brief preview that the phrase, buying the election, the accusation of buying the election will be uttered quite a bit. All of the mere millionaires on stage will valiantly stand up against the billionaire or billionaires and accuse them of buying the election. But keep in mind, as the millionaires complain about the billionaire buying the election, that they aren't upset about elections being bought per se. They have no problem with that. It's just they're upset about,

they're upset about somebody buying an election with their own money. That's the issue. For Sanders and Warren, of course, their preferred method is to buy the election, by bribing voters with other people's money. So they want to use your money to bribe the voters, and that's their issue. Bloomberg, at least, has the decency to bribe folks with his own money. And that's the thing that I think offends the Warrens and the Sanders of the world.

So remember that tonight. Nobody has ever attempted to buy an election as brazenly as especially Bernie Sanders is attempting to buy it. by promising free everything basically. It's just that, again, he's using your money to do it. The idea that somebody would use their own money to do anything is very offensive to Bernie Sanders. So I'm sure we'll hear a lot about that tonight.

Okay, enough about the debate for now. I want to talk about narcissism, a not unrelated topic, to be sure. And that's going to be the theme of the show today, or at least of the first couple of things that we talk about. I believe that narcissism is the great plague of modern society, and since our society is so into narcissists and has so constructed itself around narcissism, it has also come up with many names and labels and ways of discussing narcissism to make it seem noble or brave or bold, right? Now, I think it may help to begin with a definition. I don't always trust websites like psychology today, but in this case, I think I think,

psychology today provides a pretty good description of what narcissism is. Here's what the site says. Narcissism is characterized by it says a hunger for appreciation or admiration, a sense of specialness, and a desire to be the center of attention, and an expectation of special treatment reflecting perceived higher status. Okay, so that's narcissism. Now here's a great example of it, in my view. There's this video that's gone viral online. It's a video of somebody, a woman, I think, I could be wrong, performing a bit of poetry about her struggles with trying to get her haircut as a, quote, non-binary person. And this is being hailed as, like I said, noble, brave, bold, beautiful. But really, I could just not imagine a better illustration of narcissism. In fact,

it would not be an exaggeration to say that this poem that I'll play for you right now is perhaps the most powerful poem about narcissism that I've ever heard. So without further ado, here it is. Watch this. I need a haircut. So option one is the salon. That womanly world of perfumed femininity, with which I feel like I have little affinity. Or option two is the barbers, which isn't much better since this voice.

and these swells in my chest make me feel like an infiltrator. But, barbers or salon when I get to the chair. Before we can even touch on my hair, there's this question which hangs there unuttered and awkward. They made all the more awkward when they say, I know this is awkward. And through the mirror they ask if I'm a boy or a girl. Am I trans? I'm my gay and I don't know what to say.

sometimes I pick my labels to make other people feel okay but it's never enough to say where I'd like to be trimmed or shaved they need to know my sex how else can they charge the appropriate rate I'm sure you've seen the signs jench trim five quid women's trim nine it doesn't matter how I define anyway when the hair on our heads charged by what's between our legs and as usual there always seems to be a higher price to pay for those who are female you see what you saw there that's not a problem about being non-binary, mostly because there's no such thing as being non-binary. That doesn't exist.

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Again, that's vincereoWatches.com. All right. So you saw the video, the poem. And this is the kind of thing that these days we're supposed to approach with hushed reverence and say, shh, everyone, listen, she's talking about her lived experience. This is profound and meaningful when really almost everybody is rolling their eyes, at least internally.

Maybe not externally because they think they're not allowed to. They think that's not the right. That's a terrible and bigoted reaction. It's not. It's the right reaction. Let's talk about why. First of all, this person says that her identity, as complex and fascinating and poetic as it is, just can't be described by or contained by the labels male or female. That's not enough.

She needs something other than that. Well, no, she doesn't, because nobody is other than that. You're either male or female. In her case, female, I think. Now, you can be a female who prefers short hair and baggy clothes. That's fine. That is absolutely nothing to do with your status as male or female. If you're a female with different fashion sense and aesthetic sensibilities from most other females,

then you're just a female with different fashion senses and aesthetic sensibilities from most other females. That's it. It's not complicated. We don't need a whole new category to describe you. You're still a female. Just a female. and that's fine. It really is. Or you're a male, and that's fine too. Everybody is one or the other. It is indeed a binary system. That's what a binary system is, where everyone or everything in the system is one thing or another. And that's how it is for members of the human species. It is definitely a binary system. There is no third sex. It doesn't exist. Now, there are people of either sex, a small minority, who suffer from deformities or abnormalities, but those are deformities and abnormalities within the the binary. And the whole way we know that they are deformities or abnormalities is because they are

within the binary. But some people have convinced themselves that these so-called traditional labels, these standard categories are just too small, too shallow, too boring, too routine to contain them, to contain them and their enormity. They're just so interesting and so deep and so amazing. and incredible and different and manifold and nuanced. You heard it in the clip. The rest of the world, almost everyone else, can satisfy themselves with these labels, but not me. No, I'm just different.

I'm something else entirely. I'm not like them. I'm not like you. Not like anyone. I have, what was that on psychology today, I have a sense of specialness and a desire to be the center of attention. That's what it is.

And then she makes this whole long thing out of choosing who is going to cut her hair. You know, even claiming that the barber or stylist will ask her if she's gay or trans, which first of all, I guarantee that doesn't happen. Okay, you're not going to sit down at the barbershop. So you gay? Is that gay person? Yeah.

I've never been asked that personally. I really doubt that she's ever been asked that at the barbers, because it's totally irrelevant. It's also irrelevant what sex you are. They're not going to ask you that either. What makes female hair more expensive is not that it's female, but that generally there's more of it. And women want more done to it. And so if you're going to cut female hair, it takes longer. It requires more skill and talent and training.

And so it's more expensive. But if you're okay with just getting a three on the sides and a little off the top, like the kind of thing that men ask for when they sit down at the barber, then you're going to get the same prices. It's that simple. You see, nobody really gives a damn. That's the thing. This person is imagining a scenario where the whole world is hanging on the edge of its seat, wanting to know what she'll do. What kind of haircut is she going to get? But nobody gives a damn. That's the thing. Just get over yourself. That's the answer most of the time when you see this stuff. I'm non-binary. No, just get over yourself. Get over yourself. And, you know, get the kind of cut you want and shut up about it. That's it.

Nobody cares. This is a realization that we could all benefit from, something that we all need to keep in mind, I think. Even those of us who are not necessarily inclined to write slam poetry about our experiences at the barbershop, we could still bear this in mind, too. And that is that when it comes down to it, almost nobody actually cares what we're doing 99% of the time. 99% of the time, the feeling that we have of being judged or watched or whatever is an illusion. Nobody is judging because nobody cares. And even the ones who are judging, which does happen sometimes, they don't really care that much.

They're going to forget about it 10 seconds later. They're not going to go about their day thinking about you. So when you walk into a room and you think, oh, no, what are people going to think about me and what I'm doing and what I feel and what. I say, what are people going to think? The answer is almost nothing. They're going to think almost nothing about it because they're just as absorbed in their own ego as you are in yours. I'm not sure if that's much of a comfort. It certainly isn't, doesn't tell us anything great about the nature of humanity, but that's the way it is. It's the truth. Okay. All right.

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she was, I think, talking to a culinary union yesterday, trying her best to pander. And you know, sometimes it goes off the rails when Elizabeth Warren tries to pander because she's trying to approximate what normal people say. And it doesn't always work out because she's got a little bit of a robotic Hillary Clinton thing going on with her. And so this is what she came up with, watch. Yes, when you need something. cleaned, call a woman. That's actually what she said. And as a husband, you know, it's not very often I agree with Elizabeth Warren, or I have the inclination to shout amen. But as a husband, I do. I have to

say amen to that. Yes, ma'am, I totally agree. And that is generally my strategy as well. My wife's not a big fan of that being my strategy, but hey, now I have the endorsement of Elizabeth Warren. Elizabeth Warren said, you want it done, you got to call a woman. That's the, that's the enlightened thing to do. I just never realized, I guess, that Elizabeth Warren is a trad wife. So that's the headline here. Personally, I really hope she gives a speech

sometime at like a subway restaurant. If you need a sandwich made, call a woman. Good stuff from Elizabeth Warren. Okay, so I'm going to, moving on here. I wanted to defend Jake Paul for a minute. Defend him against narcissists because that's the theme today, of course. Jake Paul, famous YouTuber, or the kids tell me,

got himself in trouble on Monday because he tweeted about anxiety. And what we know about things like anxiety and depression is that if you're going to wade into these waters and say anything at all about these subjects, it better be something that adheres very strictly to modern Orthodox thinking on these subjects. because if not, you're going to have a whole bunch of narcissists jumping down your throat telling you that you aren't qualified to talk about these things, implying that they are somehow,

never explaining why they are, but you're not qualified they are, and they're going to let you know it. Well, Jake Paul didn't realize this, so he said in a tweet, which I believe has since been deleted, he said, remember, anxiety is created by you. Sometimes you've got to let life play out and remind yourself to be happy and that the answers will come. chill your mind out, go for a walk, talk to a friend. That was the tweet. It's been deleted. I don't know if he's apologized yet. Probably will if he hasn't yet, I imagine. And it provoked thousands of snide, condescending, angry reactions from people basically going, you don't know anything about anxiety the way that I've experienced it. I'm an anxiety expert. Your thoughts

are so shallow, you fool. If only you were as deep and interesting and tortured a soul is me, then you'd realize all of your thoughts about anxiety are wrong because they're not like mine. Newsweek has compiled some tweets reacting to the Jake Paul tweet, which, because this is how news is reported these days, I'm not going to read any of them, it doesn't really matter. The point is that, you know, people are angry that he said this about anxiety. But first of all, I think it's relevant to point out that he's exactly right. And the point that he's making is unavoidably demonstrably true, no matter what explanation you prefer for anxiety, because no matter what, it is something generated by the brain, right, by the mind.

It doesn't mean it's your fault, but it is generated by the self. I mean, what other option would there be? If anxiety is not created by you, then who is it created by? The only other option I could think of is some kind of spiritual warfare thing where you're blaming it on the devil. Now, I believe in spiritual warfare, and even I don't think that, the brain makes anxiety. And your brain is your brain. It's not your neighbor Jim's brain. It's in your head.

And so it is technically true to say that anxiety is created by you. That's not the same thing as blaming you. It's not an insult either. And yet, it also doesn't tell the whole story. But that's why the best reaction to a statement like this is either to ignore it, if you want, or to add to it, to respond to have a conversation. Isn't that what everyone always says we should be doing? Have a conversation about mental health in America and so what we were always told to have this conversation.

But we can't because all anyone is ever looking to do is compete over who has suffered the most psychologically and who therefore is most suited to issue decrees on the subject. I mean, the last thing we could do is have a conversation about it. And anyone who's got any kind of platform and has made the mistake of just sort of sharing some thoughts on something like depression or anxiety has learned this. No, no, no, no, we can't have a conversation about this. You're kidding me? This is the last thing we could talk about.

Because people take it very personally if you don't say exactly what they think you should say. people are people are very protective of their anxiety and their depression and if you dare say anything that is not 100% what they want you to say they are going to lose their minds over that's the way it goes but there is nonetheless a lot of truth to what jake paul said of course um of course anxiety is self-generated in whatever way in some way you know that's of course the case and of Of course, taking a walk and relaxing can help. Of course it can. It can help anybody. No matter how severe your anxiety is. And I say that as somebody who has a lot of anxiety. Does that give me special permission or special credentials to talk about this? Is this a competition? Am I saying,

I have more anxiety than you, so you have to listen to me? No. It's not special. All humans have anxiety, and a lot of it. It is an essential aspect of the human condition. It is inseparable from our existence as people. Anxiety comes, I think, at bottom from the fact that we are mortal beings, we are aware of our mortality, we are aware of time, we are aware of the past and the future, and that we are situated always somewhat precariously at the nexus of those two points. anxiety comes from wanting and not having, from having and fearing that you'll lose what you have, from fears of things you know about and things you don't know about, from disappointment and regret and guilt, and et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

Anxiety comes from a lot of things, and it mixes together into an unholy stew in your mind. That's what anxiety is. Now, before you claim, oh, no, that's just regular anxiety. You don't know what it's like to have irregular anxiety. Clinical anxiety like me. You don't know what that's like. Well, how in the hell could you possibly know that your anxiety is more serious or worse or whatever

than anybody else's? All these assumptions people make. How in the hell could you possibly know that Jake Paul's experience of anxiety is less instructive, less severe, less valuable, or whatever than yours? You know, I'll tell you, you can't. You just can't.

I mean, you have no idea what you're talking about because you can't be inside someone else's mind. You have absolutely no idea what's going on inside there. All you can assume is that when it comes to something like anxiety, everyone basically knows where you're coming from because you're a person and so are they. To assume anything else is by definition narcissism. But there are a lot of narcissists who take a weird kind of pride

in their real or imagined mental conditions believing that it makes them special and more interesting and deeper and more troubled than everybody else. And I'm really tired of it. I honestly am. Everyone has the right to talk about anxiety. Everyone has experience with it. Your assumption that your experience is different is just that, an assumption. And a bad one, a narcissistic one. Depression is the same thing.

You know, that's another thing that comes with being human. which isn't to diminish it. Lots of things come with being human that are still nonetheless significant. So this is not reductive, but we have to get to a point where we could just talk about these things and people can share their thoughts and be honest and go out on a limb by simply giving their perspective without everyone else getting ready to fall down on their fainting couches about it. If the person's perspective on the human condition doesn't exactly align with their own. One of the dumbest and most dangerous things we've done, I think, as a culture, is to medicalize the human condition and then to decree that certain people are the

experts, the scientific experts on the subject, the subject of being human. So much so that everyone else has to defer to them, even though we're all human. and there's no reason really to think that these so-called experts are somehow more expertly human than anybody else. So when Jake Paul said this about anxiety, and I've gotten this many times myself when I've talked about these sorts of issues, a lot of the responses were, you're not a psychiatrist, where's your psychiatric degree? Well, first of all, everyone's saying that none of them are psychiatrists either. so yet they feel perfectly suited to pontificate all they want because they believe that their experience is so much more relevant than everyone else's

because they're narcissists. But in any case, who says that psychiatrists have some especially true or valuable insight into something as basic and human as anxiety? Now, I'm not saying they have no insight into it, but who's to say that they're experts? Who appointed them experts? I mean, what? So psychiatrists have solved anxiety?

Thousands of years of human civilization, of people writing and thinking and talking about anxiety. Psychiatrists came along in 50 years, they solved it. Yep, they're experts. They got it. Listen to them. You know, I would have an easier time deferring to certain philosophers on the issue of anxiety than I would psychiatrists. At least they understand the philosophers do what kind of issue they're dealing with. At least they aren't materialists and minimalist trying to reduce every damn thing to a matter of neurological chemistry.

You know, Kierkegaard, I would consider maybe something of an expert on anxiety. But that's only because I've read what he said about it. And it seems to me that he really did have a great insight into it. You know, this is not an appeal to authority. It's more I've read what he says. And to me, it seems like it. makes sense. By the way, here's here's Kierkegaard on anxiety. Kierkegaard says, anxiety may be compared with dizziness. He whose eyes happen to look down the yawning abyss becomes dizzy.

But what is the reason for this? It's just as much in his own eye as in the abyss. For suppose he had not looked down. Hence, anxiety is the dizziness of freedom, which emerges when the spirit wants to posit the synthesis and freedom looks down into its own possibility, laying hold of its finiteness to support itself. Freedom succumbs to dizziness. Now, I understand about 60% of that, okay? Kick regard is a little bit difficult to understand. But what I take from that is anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

That it's sort of this tension between us being finite beings and yet having seemingly infinite freedom. Now, there's an idea. Maybe it's true, maybe it isn't. But to me, this seems much closer to the truth than any reductive, medicalized rhetoric you get from psychiatrists. But then again, you know, I'm only judging Kierkegaard's thoughts on anxiety based on my own experience with it, which is the only thing that anyone can do, psychiatrists included. I just wish that psychiatrists would admit that much of what they do is actually philosophy.

They are making judgments about the human condition. More than that, they are judging not only how a person is and what a person is, but how a person ought to be. And that is a philosophical judgment all the way through. One, we're free to take our leave. But the problem is that we just trust it implicitly. And we don't recognize it as a philosophical judgment. So we've got the psychiatric community making all of these declarations

about, well, this is the right amount of a certain personality trait people are supposed to have, and this is the right amount of something like depression or anxiety. And if it goes beyond this totally arbitrary line that we've drawn and that we couldn't possibly explain why we drew it there, but we did, if it goes beyond that, that's a problem. Now it's a medical condition. Or something like attention, you know, there's a certain amount of attention that a child is supposed to be able to pay, you know, in school. And if, if, and so here's the line of attention that we've just drawn in the ether, in, in magically in there. And if they're below that line, then they have a

deficit of attention. And that's abnormal and now it's a disease. Says who? Where are you getting this from? According to who exactly? I mean, you've decided that when it comes to ADHD, that, um, kids are supposed to, to be this certain way and are supposed to, you're supposed to have this amount of attention? Who says they're supposed to be that? I mean, you find a kid that is not as able to pay attention. Who's to say he's not supposed to be that way? I'm not saying he is supposed to be that way. I'm just saying, how did you decide he's not? Or you find some people that are more inclined to anxiety than others. And we say, well, no, they're not supposed to be that way. Says who? I mean, maybe you're right. Maybe they're not supposed to. I mean, what are we

comparing it to? We've come up with this idea of the sort of normal neurological person that we're all comparing ourselves to, but who is that person? You see, who were we comparing ourselves to? I have too much anxiety. Well, maybe you do, but too much as opposed to what? Where's the line? Where's the level? Where is the perfect brain that we're matching our brains up against and saying, oh, no, our chemistry doesn't quite mix with that. And so, you know, we need to fiddle with these chemicals and these chemicals to make it the perfect brain. It's just basic questions that nobody seems to ask. And we just say, we just, we have, we have handed the human condition over to the psychiatric industry and said, yep, yep, it's their

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Okay, finally, researchers in Belgium did a study, and they are now claiming that insect butter tastes like real butter, and nobody can tell the difference. They fed, and this is real, I promise, they fed people cake made from the fat of black soldier fly larvae, and they said that Nobody could tell that it was from little baby flies. And so it's all good. Let's just get our butter from flies now. Why not? Now, let me say this.

First of all, I've put my money where my mouth is on this very show. And I have eaten insects on the show. And I can tell you that don't buy into the hype of all the stuff you're hearing about, no, insects taste. Insects taste exactly as you would expect insects to taste. if you were blindfolded and someone gave you an insect and you would know that it's an insect, not just based on the texture either, but it just, whatever you think, if you think, well, what do insects taste like?

Just imagine it. It tastes like that. Exactly what you're thinking. That's what it tastes like. Second, general point here. We really need to stop calling non-dairy things butter and milk and cream. Okay? If it's not made with actual dairy, then it's not butter.

It's not milk. It's not cream. So forget about insects for a minute. There is no such thing as almond milk. There's no such thing as coconut milk. Those are all lies. That is false advertising. Just because it's white and it comes in a carton doesn't make it milk.

Nor does it taste like milk. And in my whole life, you know, every time, and I usually fall for it, that's why I get at a certain point, I start taking it personally. Because every time someone says, oh, no, no. Hey, you got to try this. You have to try X. It tastes just like Y. Whatever it is, every time I try it, and it doesn't taste at all like why. That's the case for all the non-dairy fake milk, doesn't taste like milk, turkey bacon doesn't taste like real bacon, veggie burgers don't taste at all like real burgers. Insect cake doesn't taste like real cake, I assume. All of these impostors offend me on a moral level as well as a culinary one.

So my message is, have the courage to be what you are and to embrace it. If you're a jug of coconut drippings, which is what coconut milk really is, then that's what you should call yourself. If you're a pack of flavorless turkey strips, call yourself that, not bacon. If you're insect goop, then call yourself insect goop, not butter. Let's all have the courage to be who we are. This is literally the speech that I give every time I go to the grocery store. I stand in the milk aisle and I give this pep talk to the coconut milk.

It's at the point now where they just call the police every time I walk in the door. It's a whole thing. Anyway, that's my inspirational message for the day. Hope you guys have a great day. Enjoy the debate tonight. We'll talk about it tomorrow. Godspeed. If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe.

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