Speaker 1: He gave her the world, and she shattered it. A man,
Speaker 1: heart broken and betrayed, sits in silent agony. How many
Speaker 1: men have lived this story, worshiping a woman, believing love
Speaker 1: to be pure magic, only to watch their dreams crumble.
Speaker 1: How many warnings must go unheeded. One man did warn
Speaker 1: us almost two hundred years ago. His name was Arthur Schopenhauer,
Speaker 1: and he tried to reveal a truth most refused to see.
Speaker 1: Schopenhauer warned men about the illusions of love and the
Speaker 1: nature of women, but his words fell on deaf ears.
Speaker 1: To day, we will finally listen. Romantic love. We are
Speaker 1: told its life's greatest treasure. From boyhood, men have fed
Speaker 1: on tales of knights and princesses, soulmates, and happily ever after,
Speaker 1: we dive in head first, hearts on fire, convinced that
Speaker 1: this woman before us is an angel who will complete
Speaker 1: our life. Love songs, movies, and poems glorify it endlessly.
Speaker 1: When we're not in love, we're chasing it. When we
Speaker 1: are in love, we're consumed by it. When we lose love,
Speaker 1: we fall apart. It dominates our conversations and dreams. How
Speaker 1: could something that feels so grand be a lie. Schopenhauer
Speaker 1: asked the same question in his time. Why all this noise,
Speaker 1: Why all this crowding anguish and want? Why should such
Speaker 1: a trifle create so much disturbance, He mused to the
Speaker 1: love struck man, heartbreak seems like the end of the world.
Speaker 1: To the outside observer, it might look like much ado
Speaker 1: about nothing, a trifle. But Schopenhauer answers emphatically, it is
Speaker 1: not a trifle at all. In truth, the stakes of
Speaker 1: love are the highest in human life. The dramas of love,
Speaker 1: the ecstasy, the jealousy, the despair, are so intense because
Speaker 1: something far deeper is on the line. Every love affair,
Speaker 1: whether comic or tragic, has an ultimate aim, more important
Speaker 1: than all other aims in human life. That aim is
Speaker 1: life itself, the continuation of the human race. This is
Speaker 1: why love can feel like heaven or hell. It's why
Speaker 1: men have moved mountains, written epics, and even waged wars
Speaker 1: for love. Schopenhauer dryly notes that the welfare of whole
Speaker 1: nations has sometimes been sacrificed to the caprices of love.
Speaker 1: We sense unconsciously that something profound hangs in the balance.
Speaker 1: But what to find the answer, Schopenhaower pierces the romantic
Speaker 1: veil and exposes the hidden force behind our passions. Schopenhauer's
Speaker 1: philosophy gives us a shockingly candid explanation of romantic love.
Speaker 1: Beneath all the poetry and sweetness, love is a biologically
Speaker 1: driven trick. According to Schopenhauer, every creature is driven by
Speaker 1: an irrational, unrelenting force. He calls the will to life,
Speaker 1: an instinctual will to survive and reproduce. This will doesn't
Speaker 1: care about art, justice, or even individual happiness. It only
Speaker 1: cares about life continuing itself, and it will drive us
Speaker 1: blindly to that end. In Schopenhauer's words, romantic love is
Speaker 1: the puppet of the will to life. We think our
Speaker 1: love is a personal, sacred feeling, but in reality it's
Speaker 1: entirely based on the desire to reproduce and propagate the species.
Speaker 1: Love is nature's bait, a sweet illusion to ensure we
Speaker 1: fulfill our biological mission. Reproduction is the ultimate purpose of
Speaker 1: every organism and its strongest instinct. Schopenhower writes, So when
Speaker 1: you fall madly in love, when you obsess over her
Speaker 1: above all else, it's not a cosmic destiny at work.
Speaker 1: It's your instincts sizing up a good potential mother for
Speaker 1: your children. As harsh as it sounds, Nature doesn't give
Speaker 1: a damn about your happily ever after. It only wants
Speaker 1: the next generation. Schopenhauer paints a striking picture the individual
Speaker 1: versus the species. The genius of the species is at
Speaker 1: continual warfare with the genius of the individual. He says,
Speaker 1: it will destroy your personal happiness without hesitation to carry
Speaker 1: out its ends. Think about that, the very force that
Speaker 1: makes you feel so happy in love will just as
Speaker 1: soon ruin you if it serves the larger purpose. All
Speaker 1: those promises of forever Nature will break them the moment
Speaker 1: they're no longer needed. In this war, all is fair,
Speaker 1: even deception. Schopenhauer reveals the secret Nature achieves its aims
Speaker 1: by illusion. Nature attains her ends by implanting in the
Speaker 1: individual a certain illusion, by which something that is only
Speaker 1: advantageous to the species seems to be advantageous to himself.
Speaker 1: This illusion is instinct, he writes, in plain terms, we
Speaker 1: are tricked into chasing what the species needs, thinking it's
Speaker 1: what we need. We believe we seek personal joy and love,
Speaker 1: but really we're unwittingly serving the immortal life force of
Speaker 1: nature at our own expense. It's a brutal realization that
Speaker 1: dizzying romance, its soul stirring love that made you feel
Speaker 1: on top of the world. It was never about your happiness.
Speaker 1: It was nature's ploy to get you to bind yourself
Speaker 1: to a woman and create new life. And once that
Speaker 1: goal is achieved, the curtain often falls. The illusion necessarily
Speaker 1: vanishes directly once the end of the species has been attained.
Speaker 1: Note Schopenhauer, how many couples have felt this, the passion
Speaker 1: fading after a child is born, the relationship straining under
Speaker 1: the weight of reality. The devil's laughter is heard after
Speaker 1: the act of love, as Schopenhau equips, in that moment
Speaker 1: of post romantic clarity, we often feel a strange emptiness
Speaker 1: or sadness. Science even names this post coital tristes, the
Speaker 1: sadness after sex, and it happens to men more often
Speaker 1: than women. Schopenhauer would say, it's no mystery, it's the
Speaker 1: will momentarily letting you glimpse the truth of your condition.
Speaker 1: You have served Nature's purpose, and now you wonder what
Speaker 1: was I thinking? The bliss was brief the aftermath sobering.
Speaker 1: If love is an illusion nature uses, what about women themselves.
Speaker 1: Schopenhauer's view here is unapologetically blunt, even controversial. He saw
Speaker 1: women as the instrument of nature's will, designed to entice
Speaker 1: and ensnare men for the sake of reproduction. It's not
Speaker 1: a flattering picture, but remember his aim was to reveal
Speaker 1: uncomfortable truths. Schopenhauer observes that nature arms each creature for
Speaker 1: its role. For women, Nature's strategy is a striking effect.
Speaker 1: He writes that young women are endowed for just a
Speaker 1: few short years with an abundance of beauty and fullness
Speaker 1: of charm at the expense of the rest of their lives.
Speaker 1: Why so that during those peak years they can ensnare
Speaker 1: the fantasy of a man to such a degree that
Speaker 1: he is driven to commit to her for life. A
Speaker 1: man under the spell of a young woman's beauty will
Speaker 1: rush into taking care of her for a lifetime, signing
Speaker 1: himself up to provide and protect. Schopenhauer coldly notes this
Speaker 1: is a step that no man would take if he
Speaker 1: calmly considered it rationally, no man in his right mind
Speaker 1: would volunteer to bear the heavy burdens of a family
Speaker 1: and marriage if he only considered the matter. Yet countless
Speaker 1: men do because they are not considering it. They are entranced.
Speaker 1: Nature has cast the spell well, and once the deed
Speaker 1: is done, nature economizes. Just as a feemal ant after
Speaker 1: mating sheds her wings, which are now not only useless
Speaker 1: but would be dangerous to her task of breeding, so
Speaker 1: does a woman often lose her youthful beauty after producing
Speaker 1: a child or two. That blossom of charm fades. In
Speaker 1: Schopenhauer's era, it was often remarked how a woman's looks
Speaker 1: decline post pregnancy. The very allure that captivated him was temporary,
Speaker 1: just long enough to secure a partner and procreate. What
Speaker 1: seemed to a man as eternal beauty was, in Schopenhauer's eyes,
Speaker 1: a calculated bait with an expiration date. Nature needed her
Speaker 1: to attract you. It doesn't need her to stay gorgeous
Speaker 1: after the children arrive. This sounds terribly cynical, as if
Speaker 1: women intend to deceive, but Schopenhauer is not exactly blaming
Speaker 1: individual women. He's exposing the biological program they themselves are
Speaker 1: subject to. In his view, women are wired differently from
Speaker 1: men for a reason. Their lives, from anatomy to psychology,
Speaker 1: are shaped by the imperative of child bearing and rearing.
Speaker 1: One need only look at a woman's shape to see
Speaker 1: she isn't built for great physical or mental labour, he wrote.
Speaker 1: She pays the debt of life by what she suffers childbirth,
Speaker 1: care for children, and submission to a man. Thus nature
Speaker 1: made her fitting to nurture the young. Women are adapted
Speaker 1: to be nurses and educators of early childhood, and for
Speaker 1: that very reason, they themselves are childish, foolish, and short sighted,
Speaker 1: in a word, big children all their lives. This provocative
Speaker 1: claim means that women, in Schopenhauer's eyes, think and behave
Speaker 1: more like children, living in the moment, focusing on trivialities
Speaker 1: and not engaging in abstract or long term thinking. They
Speaker 1: always see only what is near at hand, cling to
Speaker 1: the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality,
Speaker 1: and prefer trifling matters to the most important, He says
Speaker 1: of women. Men, by contrast, mature later, but develop stronger reasoning,
Speaker 1: pondering past and future, building principles and long range goals.
Speaker 1: What happens then, when a rational man falls in love,
Speaker 1: he loses his reason, the will's illusion overwhelms him. Schopenhauer
Speaker 1: notes that women usually remain more practical and sober in judgment.
Speaker 1: They see a man for what he is, with an
Speaker 1: eye to how he can serve their needs. But a
Speaker 1: man in love often cannot see clearly at all. Women
Speaker 1: see nothing beyond what is really there, while we men,
Speaker 1: if our passions are roused, slightly exaggerate and add to
Speaker 1: our imagination. Schopenhauer remarks, the man projects virtues onto the woman.
Speaker 1: He idealizes her into a goddess. He might overlook her flaws,
Speaker 1: overrate her qualities, and fool himself that she is different
Speaker 1: from all others, perfect and pure. He is effectively under
Speaker 1: a spell. Meanwhile, the woman, guided by practicality or instinct,
Speaker 1: may simply be securing a mate who can provide for
Speaker 1: her and her future children. To Schopenhauer, the man lives
Speaker 1: in a beautiful dream, the woman perhaps in a more
Speaker 1: grounded reality. This imbalance sets the stage for great disappointment.
Speaker 1: Schopenhauer goes even further in describing the character of women
Speaker 1: as shaped by nature's ends. Since women are the weaker
Speaker 1: sex physically, he argues, nature equip them not with strength
Speaker 1: or fairness, but with cunning. Nature has not destined them
Speaker 1: to depend on strength but on cunning, hence their instinctive
Speaker 1: craftiness and irrepressible tendency to lie. He writes, a harsh
Speaker 1: indictment ineradicable tendency to lie. In Schopenhauer's view, women instinctively
Speaker 1: use deception to secure advice vantages, much like a creature
Speaker 1: using camouflage. It's not that every woman consciously plots. Rather,
Speaker 1: nature uses the woman's wiles to achieve its goals. On
Speaker 1: the other hand, men endowed with stronger reason developed a
Speaker 1: greater sense of justice, honor, and principled behavior. Men expect
Speaker 1: agreements to be kept, sacrifices to be repaid, loyalty to
Speaker 1: be mutual. Those are male assumptions born of thinking in
Speaker 1: abstract principles. Schopenhauer believed women do not share this same
Speaker 1: moral earnestness because their role did not require it for survival. Thus,
Speaker 1: he famously wrote, the fundamental fault of woman's character is
Speaker 1: the lack of a sense of justice, truth, honor, fairness.
Speaker 1: These may be bent or discarded by a woman when
Speaker 1: her instincts or interests dictate, says Schopenhauer, whether we agree
Speaker 1: or not, can sider what this means. For a man
Speaker 1: deeply invested in romantic ideals, he expects his beloved to
Speaker 1: be an angel of loyalty and virtue. As he imagines her,
Speaker 1: he cannot fathom that she might deceive him, leave him,
Speaker 1: or use him. After all, he would never do that
Speaker 1: to her right And yet how often do we see
Speaker 1: men shocked by infidelity, or by a spouse's coldness in divorce,
Speaker 1: or by gold digging manipulations. To Schopenhauer, the tragedy is
Speaker 1: almost predictable. The man let his guard down under the
Speaker 1: illusion of love, forgetting that nature, not sentiment, rules the game.
Speaker 1: The woman, consciously or not, follows nature's script attract secure resources, protection,
Speaker 1: insure survival, and if that means feigning extra affection or
Speaker 1: breaking a promise when it no longer benefits her, so
Speaker 1: be it. The naive man is left devastated, thinking I
Speaker 1: never thought she could do this. He feels utterly betrayed
Speaker 1: because he projected his own ideals onto her, ignoring the
Speaker 1: reality of her nature. This is the dark picture Schopenhauer paints.
Speaker 1: It is not pretty or polite, it's downright brutal. Yet
Speaker 1: as he would argue, it is reality unmasked, and seeing
Speaker 1: reality clearly is ultimately better than living in a comforting
Speaker 1: lie if one knows what to do with the truth.
Speaker 1: Given this philosophy, it's no surprise that men fall into
Speaker 1: trap after trap when it comes to women and love.
Speaker 1: Let's shine a light on these psychological snares and how
Speaker 1: Schopenhauer's insight can help spring them. Idolizing women, men often
Speaker 1: put women on a pedestal, adoring them as flawless goddesses.
Speaker 1: Under love's intoxicating effect, a man exaggerates a woman's virtues
Speaker 1: and ignores her flaws. He convinces himself she's not like
Speaker 1: the others, She's perfect. This idealzation is a trap. He
Speaker 1: is not loving a real person anymore, but an illusion
Speaker 1: of his own making. When reality emerges, he is crushed.
Speaker 1: Schopenhauer's warning, see her as a human, not an angel.
Speaker 1: Recognize this tendency to project perfection as a delusion of
Speaker 1: your passion, mental blindness, losing rationality. Love is often called
Speaker 1: blind for a reason. Schopenhauer compares its effect to a drug.
Speaker 1: It clouds your judgment and suspends your intellect. A normally
Speaker 1: sensible man can make wildly irrational choices under the sway
Speaker 1: of romance, marrying hastily, abandoning responsibilities, trusting someone he barely knows.
Speaker 1: This madness is nature's way of pushing you forward. Schopenhauer's warning.
Speaker 1: Understand that when you're madly in love, you're literally not
Speaker 1: thinking straight. Important decisions should wait until you can think clearly,
Speaker 1: lest you chain yourself to a misas sacrificing self and purpose.
Speaker 1: Men frequently sacrifice their own ambitions, friendships, and even dignity
Speaker 1: to maintain a woman's affection. You might change your life's
Speaker 1: course to fit her needs, give up hobbies, pour out money,
Speaker 1: all in the name of love. While compromises part of
Speaker 1: any relationship, losing yourself entirely is a grave trap. Nature
Speaker 1: doesn't care if you fulfill your dreams. It cares that
Speaker 1: you provide for its dreams the children Schopenhauer's warning, do
Speaker 1: not surrender everything to the illusion. A man must retain
Speaker 1: his sense of self and purpose beyond the relationship, or
Speaker 1: he may have nothing when the illusion fades. Believing in
Speaker 1: the myth of equal devotion, a man often assumes that
Speaker 1: the love he gives will be returned in kind. If
Speaker 1: I am faithful, loving, and sacrifice for her, she will
Speaker 1: do the same for me. But if Schopenhaur is right,
Speaker 1: men and women love differently. He may love with an
Speaker 1: idealistic devotion, while she loves more practically guided by what
Speaker 1: is advantageous to her and potential offspring. When circumstances change,
Speaker 1: say he loses status or she finds a better provider,
Speaker 1: her feelings may change as well. The man who believed
Speaker 1: in unconditional love is left heartbroken, asking how could she
Speaker 1: do this? Schopenhauer's warning, don't assume the other side loves
Speaker 1: with the same philosophical loyalty you might. Her instincts can
Speaker 1: override sentiment in plain terms, be realistic. Love can be genuine,
Speaker 1: but it's often conditional, chasing beauty, ignoring its ephemeral nature.
Speaker 1: Men are notoriously susceptible to visual beauty. Many have walked
Speaker 1: into ruin following a pretty face. Schopenhauer starkly reminds us
Speaker 1: that beauty is a wasting asset, nature's temporary trap. A
Speaker 1: man who marries only because a woman is stunning will
Speaker 1: later lament as beauty unavoidably fades. If there was nothing deeper,
Speaker 1: what remains. Yet Nature counts on the fact that in
Speaker 1: youth spring desire overwhelms foresight Schopenhauer's warning, Enjoy beauty, but
Speaker 1: do not be enslaved by it. Know that a lifelong
Speaker 1: commitment based purely on a fleeting attribute is a bargain
Speaker 1: your bound to regret. Look beyond the surface, or be
Speaker 1: prepared for disillusionment when age has its way emotional dependency.
Speaker 1: Perhaps the most painful trap is making a woman the
Speaker 1: sole center of your happiness. Men can fall into thinking
Speaker 1: that without her, I am nothing. This total emotional dependence
Speaker 1: is catastrophic. When that relationship ends, the man finds himself
Speaker 1: utterly lost. His confidence, social life, and mental stability may crumble. Schopenhauer,
Speaker 1: a profound pessimist about finding true happiness in the world,
Speaker 1: would say no person should stake their entire will to
Speaker 1: live on another. Schopenhauer's warning, love, but don't lose yourself.
Speaker 1: Retain independence of mind and heart. If your entire world
Speaker 1: revolves around her, the day she exits, and one way
Speaker 1: or another, given mortality or change, everyone exits, your world collapses.
Speaker 1: Nature might want you to feel like you can't live
Speaker 1: without her. That keeps you in the game, but you
Speaker 1: can live on, and you must be prepared to these traps.
Speaker 1: Ensnare even the best of us. They all share one
Speaker 1: root illusion, illusions about who she is, what love will
Speaker 1: do for you, and who you become under love's spell.
Speaker 1: Schopenhauer's philosophy tears down these illusions mercilessly. It shows love
Speaker 1: not as we wish it to be, but as it is,
Speaker 1: and with that knowledge comes a power if you choose
Speaker 1: to use it. Men, this is a lot to take in.
Speaker 1: It's deeply unset. You might feel anger, denial, or sadness
Speaker 1: hearing these things. Schopenhauer's intent wasn't to make you hate women,
Speaker 1: nor is this video's intent, but to open your eyes.
Speaker 1: Think of it like yanking someone out of a pleasant
Speaker 1: dream because the house is on fire. The dream was lovely,
Speaker 1: but reality must be faced to avoid disaster. What now
Speaker 1: should one then? Avoid women, avoid love, and live in
Speaker 1: cynical isolation. Schopenhauer himself chose a life of bachelorhood and
Speaker 1: intellectual pursuit, wary of entanglements. He even admired those who
Speaker 1: renounced worldly desires altogether, monks sages as truly wise. But
Speaker 1: you must find your own path. The purpose of this
Speaker 1: philosophical wake up call is not necessarily to tell you
Speaker 1: not to love. It is to ensure that you love
Speaker 1: or not love with a clear mind, see the truth,
Speaker 1: then decide how to act. The sobering, empowering truth is this.
Speaker 1: Romantic love is not a divine magic that will complete you.
Speaker 1: It is a powerful natural instinct that can just as
Speaker 1: easily destroy you if you are ignorant of its nature.
Speaker 1: Women are neither goddesses nor pure evil. They are human
Speaker 1: beings driven by natural imperatives, just as men are. Your
Speaker 1: happiness is not their priority. It is nature's priority that
Speaker 1: is often at work. Once you grasp this, you can
Speaker 1: approach relationships and life with a new mindset clarity, no
Speaker 1: more blind idolization. You see your partner as a flawed,
Speaker 1: real person. You understand your own intense feelings as part
Speaker 1: of an instinctual drive, which helps you keep a level
Speaker 1: head even when you feel passion boundaries. You can love
Speaker 1: someone and share your life, but you won't abandon your
Speaker 1: self respect or life goals. You won't let the relationship
Speaker 1: consume your identity or rationality caution. You will be careful
Speaker 1: about commitments, marriage, children. These are serious life altering matters.
Speaker 1: Don't be led into them solely by surging emotions or
Speaker 1: social pressure. Consider them with open eyes. Is this what
Speaker 1: I truly want or what my biology slash society is
Speaker 1: pushing me to want? Resilience. If love ends or a
Speaker 1: woman betrays you, you will hurt, but you will not
Speaker 1: be utterly shocked. As if the universe imploded, you will
Speaker 1: recognize it as part of the human condition. You can
Speaker 1: pick up the pieces and rebuild wiser, now not fooled
Speaker 1: twice by the same illusion purpose. Beyond chasing women, free
Speaker 1: from the constant obsession of needing love to behole, you
Speaker 1: might find more time and energy for other pursuits, creative projects, friendships,
Speaker 1: personal growth, even spiritual exploration. He channeled his end energy
Speaker 1: into those as they were more reliable sources of meaning
Speaker 1: than the chase of romance. Schopenhauer's ultimate message is one
Speaker 1: of awakening. It is as if he's shaking men by
Speaker 1: the shoulders and saying, look around, you see things as
Speaker 1: they are. Don't be a slave to a game you
Speaker 1: don't even realize is being played. Yes, the truth is cold.
Speaker 1: Yes it stings to admit that what we cherished might
Speaker 1: be a grand evolutionary con but there is also a
Speaker 1: strange freedom in it. If love is a game nature plays,
Speaker 1: you can learn the rules, you can choose how or
Speaker 1: if you will play. You might still choose to marry
Speaker 1: and have children, but you'll do so fully aware of
Speaker 1: what it entails, eyes open to the sacrifices and the
Speaker 1: fact that you are fulfilling a natural drive, not living
Speaker 1: a fairy tale. Or you might choose a different route,
Speaker 1: perhaps relationships without the legal bindings or periods of celibacy
Speaker 1: to focus on other things, or a partnership but with
Speaker 1: a mutual understand free of illusion. The point is, once awakened,
Speaker 1: you are no longer blindly led by a carrot on
Speaker 1: a stick. You can steer your own life. Schopenhauer's philosophy
Speaker 1: is often labeled pessimistic. Indeed, he believed that by seeing
Speaker 1: through life's illusions, including love, we can attain a kind
Speaker 1: of philosophical peace, not a happiness exactly, but a relief,
Speaker 1: like a man who steps out of a foolish charade.
Speaker 1: He doesn't promise a rosy alternative, but he does free
Speaker 1: you from false hopes that lead to pain, and perhaps
Speaker 1: that freedom is the first step toward finding real meaning
Speaker 1: and contentment built on truth rather than deception. At the
Speaker 1: end of this journey, we return to our heartbroken man,
Speaker 1: or perhaps your own heart. If you've been through the
Speaker 1: ringer of love, you now have a choice. Will you
Speaker 1: continue to live in the comfortable dream, repeating the cycle
Speaker 1: of infatuation and despair, letting nature ye thank your chain,
Speaker 1: or will you heed the warning that Schopenhauer gave and
Speaker 1: break free of the spell men. Schopenhauer warned us loudly
Speaker 1: and clearly, do not let it fall on deaf ears again.
Speaker 1: The next time you find yourself mesmerized by a beautiful
Speaker 1: face or a surge of passion, remember these words. Remember
Speaker 1: that something ancient and impersonal is working within you. Pause
Speaker 1: and let clear reason have a say alongside your heart.
Speaker 1: Protect yourself from the snares set in your path. This
Speaker 1: doesn't mean you cannot love, but love knowingly, love without delusion.
Speaker 1: If you choose to engage in romance, do so as
Speaker 1: an awake player of the game, not a blind pawn.
Speaker 1: And if you choose to walk away from the game,
Speaker 1: let it be out of strength and wisdom, not bitterness.
Speaker 1: In the end, Schopenhauer offered brutal clarity as a gift
Speaker 1: to help us see. It's a gift soaked in cynicism,
Speaker 1: yet it can save a man from ruin. It can
Speaker 1: transform heartache into insight. The truth will set you free,
Speaker 1: but first it will shock you. Wake up, brothers. See
Speaker 1: women for what they are, wonderful and flawed, mortals driven
Speaker 1: by nature, not magical creatures. See love for what it is,
Speaker 1: intense and real in feeling, but ultimately a means to
Speaker 1: an end for nature. And most importantly, see yourself not
Speaker 1: as a love sick fool at the mercy of biological drives,
Speaker 1: but as a man who can rise above them with understanding.
Speaker 1: Arthur Schopenhauer sounded the alarm in his time, and few listened.
Speaker 1: They dismissed him as a crank, a misogynist, a joyless pessimist.
Speaker 1: But look around now, broken families, disillusioned men, confusion and
Speaker 1: pain everywhere from failed romances. His words ring truer than ever.
Speaker 1: We ignore them at our peril. The elude usion is powerful. Yes,
Speaker 1: now you have the antidote, the knowledge, the brutal truth
Speaker 1: that cuts through the haze. The rest is up to you.
Speaker 1: Will you be led by nature's nose ring, or will
Speaker 1: you take the reins of your own destiny? The final,
Speaker 1: sobering thought, Schopenhauer leaves us. If men truly acted with
Speaker 1: clear reason instead of illusion, would the human race even continue?
Speaker 1: He thought, probably not. Perhaps it's too much to ask
Speaker 1: men to renounce the illusion entirely. Nature's pull is strong.
Speaker 1: But even if we don't all become ascetics, we can
Speaker 1: be wiser. Let Schopenhauer's voice be the one in your
Speaker 1: head that whispers the truth when you need it. It's
Speaker 1: a trick, steady yourself. Let his clarity be your armor
Speaker 1: against foolish choices and emotional ruin. In that way, his
Speaker 1: warning finally will not fall on deaf ears. Men, you
Speaker 1: have been warned. Now awaken and choose your path with
Speaker 1: eyes open. Will you heed the warning or will nature's
Speaker 1: siren song lull you back to sleep? The choice and
Speaker 1: its consequences are yours.