"Whenever you hear anybody say 'epistemological', ok? And trying to sound smart, know that they never studied philosophy ant they never studied epistemology, ok?" epistemological (adjective) epis·​te·​mo·​log·​i·​cal | \ i-ˌpi-stə-mə-ˈlä-ji-kəl \ Definition of epistemological: of, relating to, or based on epistemology : relating to the study of the nature, origin, and limits of human knowledge: the epistemological problem Source: Merriam Webster

Mike Tyson said it best. 'Everyone has a plan till they get punched in the face'.

Oh brother Gonzalo....my father would have gone nuts with happiness upon seeing your take on philosophy......he only had grade 3 education.....i am in my eighties and i remember like yesterday his lectures to me as early as my teenage years on many of the points you raised........(and i cannot remember what i ate a few days ago).......may God keep you and protect you and may the winds always be at your back

A wise coach taught me this When you practice always play full speed When it's time to play full speed don't practice Never confuse the two

This video was so much better than having to read the whole PHD

Basically it's just a form of denial. Denial comes in two ways: disbelief or arrogance. Disbelief can be countered by facts, but there is no remedy against arrogance. It can't be refuted and it can't be unlearnt. It can only be destoyed by humiliation..

Awesome! widely observed among "economists" and in the "medical experts" during the "pandemic"

You'll learn something new everyday, listening to the wise Gonzalo!

“Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.” -- Richard Feynmann, Nobel Prize physicist

Epistemic viciousness: a way for people who huff their own farts, to understand the effects of huffing one's own farts.

I wonder which word best describes my feeling towards you Gonzalo Lira and what comes to my mind is 'love'. Strange on the one hand, but on the other hand I understand how grateful I am for you sharing your love. It is a 'strange' word and perhaps it will become clearer when it comes to connectedness. Unconditional love in sharing the best insights. Sharing 'truths'. Selfless. Free and yet stimulating. Truly coaching for those who want to receive it. In form it is knowledge and experience, but in energy it is 'just' love. Thank you.

Gillian Russell: "Epistemic viciousness guys" Me: "What's that?" Gillian Russell: "Living in your own bubble, afraid of dealing with reality" Me: "Uh oh, I am one of them"

Gonzalo, as you discussed this I thought about Jake Sullivan. Awhile ago I read about him on Wiki and elsewhere, and found his extensive, extreme academic background puzzling. He was the very creme of the crop in academia, but I also saw a man grooming himself to have enormous power and make cold, compassionless life & death decisions about others. Straight from school, Sullivan dropped into high security level, political power jobs. He learned all this theory and works with Nuland and the Kagans and Blinken, and they thought their theories on destroying an entire nation (Russia) would be easy, and audaciously have plans for China next. That other monster, Klaus Schwab, "you will have nothing and be happy", has that same mindset of epistemic viciousness. These are the Misery Makers.

You have been spot on concerning the Ukraine conflict and American sociology concerning our rampant Federal Government coruption as well as our academic coruption that is the feeder system to the State Department. THANK YOU.

Very, very good input, Gonzalo. This helps again a bit to understand this incredible hybris we are facing presently.

You described the western society so nicely and clearly. You're absolutely right. 💜💙💚💛🧡

It's crazy I'm so addicted watching Coach redpill... Keep up the good work and stay safe

Gonzalo man I love you I've been in a pissy shit mood because of this internal dispute with my sister who suffers from a terrible form of this epistemic viciousness and you have made my day and made me smile God bless you man and your family

The Art of War is taught at Westpoint but NEVER put into practice nor understood of their enemies.

Gonzalo - You've nailed it again! Our society is fragile, dangerously so, and I hate the way our lives are being screwed up by these so called 'experts'. When oh when will things return to normal?

Thanks Gonzalo, great commentary as usual. Seeing how things are playing out geopolitically, it is now easier to understand how tragedies like WW1 and WW2 started. People think it cant happen now, that contemporary culture is different, yet current events are showing otherwise. We are literally only 1 misstep away from WW3.

This is pretty much the most important subject there is. I never went to University but discovered Taleb (and Popper) in trying to understand the markets. His writing completely transformed my thinking, but at the same time, it created a barrier with others. The entire world seems to be under a trance or a delusion. In fields such as medicine where there are multiple complex nonlinear systems, the "Unknown Unknowns" likely dwarf the knowns, and yet doctors pretend they know 95% of what's going on. It doesn't matter whether people are highly intelligent and highly educated (Bernays pointed this out) or whether they're conspiracy theory spouting factory workers (where I work), people intentionally refuse to see reality. No amount of reasoning will sway them. I've never argued as much as I have since Covid began and yet I've gotten through to no one. I recently created a prototypical thought experiment argument to try to understand this. Let's say I live in a residential neighbourhood of single family dwellings and one house gets a squirrel living in the attic. The mayor and city hall respond by passing a law for the house to be burned down to deal with the squirrel. Now the house is burning down and I'm watching this with the rest of the neighbours. If I say this makes no sense! There are other ways of dealing with a squirrel infestation, I'll get responses like; but my cousin nearly got bit buy a squirrel when we were kids and she developed cancer in her 40s and passed away, or; but I hated the shade of off white they painted the trim, or; but it's winter and the heat feels wonderful. I’m trying to get agreement on a specific idea and all I get in response is avoidance of the central issue. They can make this stuff up forever and if you explain what they’re doing they’ll just make up more of it. And scientists and experts are no different. Taleb says chemistry is the only real science in that they actually do know what they think they know. But it's not that chemists are better people but rather, because the variance of the variables of the stuff they work with is so low they don't have to resort to sophisticated statistical techniques to make sense of their data. You can download his newish book The Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails for free from his website. A great trick Taleb uses in trying to figure out if a field or discipline knows what they are doing is to look at the past. Did you know that it was the official policy of American and Canadian doctors in the 60s and 70s that women should not breast feed? Or that American doctors strongly recommended that people smoke in the 50s even though it had been shown to cause cancer in 1951? Did you know that medical doctors initiated, planned and orchestrated the holocaust? That they were tried after the war and most were executed? That they were carrying out horrific experiments on their own citizens for at least 20 years prior to the onset of the war? That they began by killing their own disabled adults before turning to disabled children and eventually the poor? That Eugenics was a worldwide scientifically accepted theory? And don’t start with the, “that was the past.” There was enough medical idiocy promoted just last year, outside of Covid, to keep a reporter busy for a lifetime. Look into the Alzheimer’s drug the FDA passed last year that has negative efficacy and costs a fortune. If mandated, this one drug would bankrupt Medicare. We’re in a shitstorm of big brains running amok. How medical doctors can be so stupid when they are so intelligent and well educated is beyond belief. I’m just an Electrician yet when talking about Covid I’ve completely destroyed every doctor to the point that they resort to spouting inane anecdotes. Anecdotes are not science! They should know that! And don’t trust Taleb. His stories about how he made his fortune buying way out of the money puts and just waiting for a black swan event to make him rich would never work. There’s way too much skew to do that profitably. And he was the big guy promoting masks. He said people wearing masks would reduce transmission by 99%. It’s been known for at least 40 years that viruses are transmitted via aerosols, the stuff that fogs up your glasses when you want to wipe off the smudges. Masks do nothing for that and the only studies that show that are scientific fraud. I looked up Taleb a couple weeks ago to see how he was walking back his mask theory. He isn’t. Now he says the only reason the pandemic has been defeated is because of vaccination (that would be the experimental gene therapy that failed miserably in clinical trials). He thinks something should be done with anti-gene therapy-ers. What a con artist. He must not read anything about this himself and just take the advice of medical experts he knows who never bothered to read down into the appendices of the studies. This was where they put the bad news. There’s bad news and even more bad logic. The pandemic is amongst the vaccinated now. There are variants that infect only the vaccinated and others that infect only the boosted. Look at Portugal. 95% vaccinated and 30% boosted and their Covid death rate is near an all time high. South Africa has almost no vaccinated and almost no Covid deaths. Practice has destroyed theory but the world is run by experts who are clowns.

Interesting pov. Basically seeking knowledge outside of your own bubble. Like many of your viewers, who seek knowledge and truth by watching the widest variety of opinions possible.

The idea of “fragility” also extended to our immune system. The Covid vaccine provides temp protection while keeping the body in a fragile state dependent on further vaccines. Allowing a healthy body, without co morbidities to grapple with the Omicron variants makes the body stronger and better able to deal with future SARS viruses. Might we say that the government Covid responses fostered future fragility?

You nailed it about people who want to say something but don't. It is creating the situation.

Gonzalo, this is one of your best videos.

I think a lot of us are very aware of this phenomenon without exactly having the words for it, so I appreciate your giving us some very concise and accurate words to describe it. 🙂

Wow... Day by day I hear back so many of my thoughts - in an organized way from you... Currently - besides reading the news, and getting more n more desperate on the future of Europe (I've grown up and live in a big hope of becoming and being European) - I spend most of my time trying to figure out my possible actions for the future... what should I do.... how should I contribute... how to return to a meaningful life.... And this question will deeply touch many of us, western people... How to overcome on blaming others.... or blaming the situation... or whatever... and actually grow up, and change something... contribute... live for... or die for.... I guess the challenge for the upcoming "leadership" (and all of the society) will be is to regain connection to people, connection to reality.... build new level of treaties based on trust, and mutual understanding.... I know, it's too idealistic, but still, because of all the thing you explain here, it's more n more impossible to reach peace on a "fake" disconnected basis... I know, have to start small.... I'm graceful for my family, and my teachers.... I can think back of them, their life....

I had to listen to this one more time (4x today). Simply AMAZING! I can now discuss something I knew about, but could not explain about my surrounding. Thank you Gonzalo! Great channel!

Gonzalo Lira, The quotation, " In theory there is no difference in theory and practice, but in practice there is", is by Yogi Berra..

The power of your strength is in your Heart. You have a heart or you don't. Russians have a heart, subsequently strength and no fear. Like it or not Russian people will always win.

Gonzalo, I saw this video of yours, and took on board some of it. Having watched it again today, it blew my mind as to what you were trying to get across to the world. Coach I hope I can call you that, you are wise beyond belief. It truly was a revelation to me at least as to what is happening ( in the context ) of events occurring currently.

Gonzalo Lira, you are the intelligent post I await. Fearless in the heart of the madness. Color me impressed.

Man I tried that Karate crap in school in the 80’s too….got my ass kicked 🤣….love you man, thanks for the content 👌

Yeah, been going through the same. Training karate for 6 years and got beat up in the army by a wrestler. Threw the belt and gi away.... all until I found Brazilian Jiu-jitsu... now that's another story ... I'm in my fifties and can probably beat 80% of the population .. haha Every combat sport that isn't "pressure tested" is not an efficient marshal art. It's just ballet. Only karate dude I know that could beat the shit out of you is Wonderboy. It seems like UFC and Joe Rogan revolutionised marshal arts... In politics - the US have been living in Epistemic Visousness in the past 30 years - and their "empire" got shattered by a Judo expert - Putin.

I heard that line. "The theory is that there's no difference between theory and practice." A distinct difference is, theory is thinking about it, and practice is actually doing it. For example: Was talking to a very accomplished working musician the other day and he said, "I don't know much theory, I play what sounds good." He plays circles around me while I dazzle him with music theory.

I haven't heard about that theory but I expirenced it, I've lived in that buble for 30 years, probably more. There is a freedom of speech until you start to speak differently from the usual. Politics, food, lifestyle, health...blabla, so many bubbles. You are so right.

So funny Gonzalo, the Karate master example is totally on the point! Good job on the subject! :) You can see this at every field nowadays.

The first teacher said towards when he sensed the end approaching: "All I know is that I know nothing". The moment knowledge becomes carved in stone it starts losing relevance. Knowledge is perishable.

Living in a bubble, by it's very definition means you have set your limitations and ignore what doesn't fit in it.

Thanks, mr. Gonzalo. That makes total sense. We see what’s happening but can’t quite put a right word on it. When someone like you voices it, I go “that’s it!”

For those of you who do not know who Norman Finkelstein is, he is someone who also received his Ph.D. from Princeton. However, he wasn't like 99% of people out there who will shy away from whatever they need to shy away from in order to protect their careers, their standing amongst their peers and their bosses. Princeton didn't want to award him his Ph.D. because Finkelstein's solid Ph.D thesis had exposed and embarrassed the American intellectual establishment. Look him up if you want the particulars. Finkelstein was warned (by a mentor who became a friend) that he would make permanent and active enemies if he went through with his doctoral thesis. He went through with it anyway. Something Finkelstein was never granted was Tenure.

This is exactly what Bruce Lee taught. A mixture of techniques. What ever it takes to win.

One of his best videos is this one. Insightful

Super !!! Video!!! Nailed it !!! Put into words what we've thinking for a long time...If you keep your head in a toilet all you ever smell is 💩.. Your life has given you a wonderful generalist education .... Something system oriented people rarely ever see..

Same principle for most Politicians in the US and Europe. There's trouble coming.

Americans are getting stronger. Twenty years ago, it took two people to carry $50 worth of groceries. Today, A 5-year-old can do it.

Excellent video. American society is authoritarian 100%. Each level of an institution/firm/entity etc. must brown nose if they want to survive. Each level must also tend to the concerns of the level above it while simultaneously passing the buck to the level below. The net result is no one is accountable, no one is effective, and everyone says what the higher ups want to hear. All this happens while our manufactured culture pounds into our heads how exceptional and freedom loving we are. Collapse will come, and then the giant sucking sound of the power vacuum.

This is one of the most important concepts one should come across. Thanks for the explanation. It was clear and now I understand more about whats happening around me

"Epistemic" usually means "related to knowledge", "Epistemological" usually means "related to the study or theory of knowledge".

Not enough views , not enough likes for one of most important videos from Gonzalo!!!! Maybe somebody else is talking more eloquently about this somewhere else but Gonzalo nailed it in les than 20 minutes. Maybe Im to old but look at " Demolition man" movie from the 90ties😁 Thank you Gonzalo great vid with coffee🤣🤣👍❤

Gonzalo that was absoleutly brilliant! The way you explained this concept has made so many missing pieces of the puzzle fall into place. Now i have ay least some clues as to why so many societies have gone utterly insane! Thankyou.

This is a truly brilliant analysis of the Western world today. Thanks Gonzalo

0:20 "my sharona" was the knack. actually far from a one-hit wonder, the whole debut album was pretty good.

As a Russian I fully understand what Gonzalo Lira is saying and it is something we have learned for several centuries and was ingrained into our culture and ways of living and studying and working. Only 1 American general in WW II learned it from us and adapted it to his great success because he has first hand experiences in the field just as much as he has learned from his military school.

This is probably one of your most important videos. You are hitting the nail right on the head there, sir.

About halfway through my life, I began to realize that everything I was ever interested in was outside the paradigm. And that's because all the answers are there, the heavy answers, truth, reality and such. Focusing on trying to solve your problem within the paradigm can get you into the "epistemic viciousness" bubble (bad name), and also make you very dull.

I totally agree with your intro of applicability of martial arts. Even in China, the “land of Kung-Fu” there were people who picked up MMA and with moderate experience could beat the hell out of even Kung-Fu masters that perfected their arts for decades - in seconds. Typed it while watching, but you said that further in the video - just leaving the comment to support the channel 🙂

Hilarious! You did hit the nail on the head and gave me good laugh!

Absolutely agree with this. My original intent of getting into academia and research was to change the way business was being conducted. from my own personal POV, i wasn't happy that business nowadays do more to exploit, rather than to serve, society. Anyway, that notion of peer review, and finding out about how research grants works etc etc, got me to rethink that aim. seeing how new and more 'novel' ideas really just die at the seed level because it challenges the norm. as that wonderful term you just laid out for us. Thank you for your continued videos!

Always a pleasure to listen to your thoughts. Thanks for sharing them.

I learned something new every day listening to you Gonzalo. Stay safe God bless you brother 🙏. Saludos desde Colombia 🇨🇴

The words "Epistemic Viciousness" is an example of Epistemic Viciousness. You have to study philosophy to know what the words mean, but you don't even need to read a single philosophy work to understand the concept. But without those words and a degree, you are not taken seriously.

In business management it is a term: "think outside the box". Big thanks for your video, love`t!

Brilliant, Totally Awesome insightful into our current ideology of political and economic theory! Remarkable that I just happened upon your channel in YTs strange algorithmic brain. Watched most of your videos in one setting. Please keep up the excellent work!! You are a very courageous Soul.

I can accept that a lot of this is going on in the western nations, but at the level of the true power, the banking system, they know exactly what is happening and what they are doing I'm quite sure. We're at the end of the worlds monetary system and the collapse of it and the return to a gold standard will be devastating.

Epistemic Viciousness, a.k.a. drinking one's own koolaid.

Nicely fleshed out presentation. Thank you.

It fits in with what Andrei Martyanov talks about with battle plans and the feedback loops that guide those battle plans

Brilliant analysis. Remind me of my former workplace which is a matter of time will collapse. Your Karate story also reminds me of the so call best karate master being beaten by a newby with less experience.

Morning, Gonzalo. Thank you for making me laugh, to start the morning . Your expression , your fierce looking eyes, ha ha ha. U should have used those eyes at those 8 heavy armed Police...ha ha ha...they would have fled.

My Sharona is one of those songs that gets stuck in my head instantly once I think about it. Thanks, Gonzalo. 😅

For me, you brilliantly pointed out the crux of the West problem... As you so eloquently showed, not only regarding the Ukraine special military operation... 👍 👍 Jiddu Krishnamurti has made a brilliant detailed analysis of this ''epistemic viciousness''. But I suspect that his depiction of the specific epistemic viciousness of national identification, having been wrongly understood, have helped the flourishing of the western globalism madness. For me there can be a healthy globalism if it is implemented within the respect of nationalism and civilizational cultures. National point of view has its place. It's like the crew members on a boat. Everyone has its usefulness, has a unique point of view necessary, or at least useful, to get the boat to the harbor. ''Freedom from the Known'' is a very good summary of J. Krishnamurti's works. ------------- Edit Krishnamurti doesn't use the phrase ''epistemic viciousness'', but a great part of his thinking revolves around this concept point of view.

Very interesting, thanks for posting 💜

Looks like Coach decided to show off all his grey t shirts today (by just casually throwing them on the back of the chair). So as to dispel any rumours of him just owning the one, as some had implied

Hey coach, these days you i see you smile a lot..so we really hope you are happy.

Brilliant insight, G-man! Thank you.

It was a shock to me, after reading Antifragile, in which Nassim Nicholas Taleb extols the antifragility of the human immune system (designed to function best by being exposed to challenges), to find that upon the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, Taleb became the epitome of fearfulness, lockdown promotion and anything but antifragility, judging by his Twitter feed.

You’re right. In another world we describe tactics as theory until proven in battle. In other words, everything is shit until you take it to the streets And when you do, any fancy, tricky good optics stuff - doesn’t work. It’s a street fight. Basics work.

This is a gem, right here. Thank you, Gonzalo!

Hi Gonzalo, this is probably your most important video to date. It explains what is happening in the west.

The Latin phrase "post hoc ergo propter hoc" means "after this, therefore that." The fallacy is generally referred to by the shorter phrase, "post hoc." Examples: "Every time that rooster crows, the sun comes up. That rooster must be a God!"

i can tell you that Russia in general become very anti-fragile. we've bred out weakness last few generations, generally speaking. interestingly, Russian rap battles (it's a big thing, but it's the real 90s rap with philosophy/deep lyrics, not mumble or whatever it is now) provide a good insight into a typical Russian youth, i'd suggest you check it out if you are interested in our society.

the "key" to understand this rigidity setting in and ruling thinking is :"what is their true motivation?". They're doing what they do for "status", they actually seek maintain or improve their social status/ranking, locked in a loop of dependancy

Very good Gonzalo, never to old to learn something so perishable and durable at once.

“Einstein is a fuzzy haired crackpot whose theories have no basis in reality.” - Nikola Tesla. He understood epistemic viciousness. Great episode by the way Gonzalo.

As I learned in budo taijutsu... tae kwon do and many others are just "sports" with rules. In real life, there are no rules. When one trains with rules, they can easily develop poor habits during a real fight with no rules.

Man you're on 🔥 - thank you for continuing to post these vids

Never fails to see you making coffee. I really enjoy watching and hearing you show, I think you are a credible journalist that provides unbiased news. Thanks from Canada! Keep up the good work!

As one 20th century philosopher once said: Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth!

The core of this is, that there are 3 main philosophical systems / civilizations on this planet: 1) western (euro atlantic) 2) eastern (asian) - those are known, but there is another one, which is totally different 3) russian (slavic) And this is why even best western analytics, philosophers, top journalists totally fail, when they are trying to apply western system of thinking at Russia, or especially at Putin. But funny fact is, that people with really good common sense understand russian way of thinking. Because it is completely based on this. If you have head full of western philosophy garbage or konfucius trash, you can barely realize, what is going on there.

Very deep insight, Coach.

Gonzo this morning 'coffee talk' is one of your best. Thank you.

Wittgenstein was onto that ( “epistemic viciousness” relating to philosophy) decades ago. He died in 1951…

My Sharona >> The Knack

Thank You! This brought better clarity to my ruminations on the cultural crisis at hand. I'm reminded of the eternal wisdom "Pride goeth before a fall" Epistemic Viciousness being a kind of collective social articulation of that basic truth... I believe it was Cesar that had a lieutenant constantly reminding him that he was just a man and would die as he was engulfed by adoring crowds of people looking to him for salvation. We have been deeply foolish in indulging pride without restraint without even an attempt to restrain it..

Thank you, Gonzalo.

Epistemological is a real word but it refers to the philosophy (study) of knowledge, whereas "epistemic" refers to knowledge itself. Epistemic: how do you know this? Epistemological: how does anyone know anything?

Absolutely brilliant. In my field it is permaculture “food forests” (karate) vs syntropic agroforestry (mma)

Another belter, thanks Gonzalo.