January 21, 2025 • 9 mins
Curious about the mind behind the mic? This episode is your gateway to understanding the motivations that drive my work, which seeks to challenge the perception that our world lacks meaning and purpose. I offer heartfelt gratitude to those who've joined the journey so far and extend an invitation to learn more about my story on the Uzlaga Saga podcast. By fostering continuous learning and maintaining an openness to being wrong, I aim to inspire others to contribute positively to our society. Tune in to discover the profound purpose behind the Forbidden Knowledge podcast and see how history's echoes can illuminate our path forward.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome to the Forbidden Knowledge podcast.
My name is Nathaniel Hoitmacherand I am the show's host.
Today, we're going to be goingover something a little
different.
Today, I'm going to beintroducing myself, why I do
what I do, the point of my workand that kind of stuff, and just
(00:20):
basically giving you a shortidea of who I am and what to
expect from this YouTube channelas a whole, or the podcast as a
whole, depending upon whereyou're deciding to listen or
watch this.
So I am somebody who is ascholar.
I have studied the topics thatI've been doing with starting
(00:41):
way back in college.
I got a degree in history fromthe University of Santa Cruz and
I graduated in 2013.
And since that time period,I've continued to study more
history, philosophy, cultsciences and traditions, various
different aspects of mythology,and the ultimate goal behind
(01:06):
everything that I'm doing is totry to learn the mistakes of the
past and trying to make it sothat way I don't replicate them
on a personal level and make itso way the cycles of history
continue with me on a personallevel, but also the opposite
(01:29):
Making it so it doesn't happenoutwardly as well, and trying to
teach these various differentideas and lessons to other
people.
An example of how this playsout is if you study one
civilization and you study thereasons why it worked well
versus why it eventually fell,and then you compare this to
(01:53):
tons of other civilizations,dozens upon dozens upon dozens
of them, and you see the samereoccurring patterns over and
over and over again andunderstand that, okay, if this
particular element is alwaysthere when it's negative, um,
then meaning it leads tosomething that is going to lead
to the downfall of society, orcorruption of society, or the
(02:16):
destruction of society, thenclearly and it's there every
time the civilization collapsedand every time you study with it
, then this is clearly somethingthat should not be done and I,
on a personal level, should alsonot participate in it or add to
that misery that's going tolead to chaos and destruction
for everybody else around me,and it's the same thing for all
(02:38):
the good parts of it too.
Meaning that, ok, and everytime a civilization is thriving,
then if this keeps popping up,every time this is negative,
this is positive thing is alsomissing, then you know for
(03:05):
certain that this is somethingthat cannot be let go of.
Um.
Now, to be clear, this is notspeaking as a notion of I know
it all, because I don't.
It's not possible.
There's too much history foranybody to sift through.
You could spend a thousandlifetimes doing the work that
I'm doing and you will neverknow everything that there is to
(03:27):
know.
You could have a million peopleworking on this for a thousand
lifetimes and I doubt that theywould know everything.
But the point is to try toprogress humanity forward in
such a way that we can learnfrom our mistakes and not make
the same mistakes over and overagain.
And I can flat out tell youright now that we are doing
everything that we should not bedoing if we want to maintain
(03:50):
any semblance of a good society.
We are very much on a path ofdeterioration.
I'll leave it at that for thetime being.
Now that doesn't mean thatthere isn't hope, that there
isn't ways of getting forwardwith it.
It's very clear on what needs tobe done with these things and
that's why I am doing what I amdoing.
(04:11):
I am doing it because I lovestudying these topics.
I love the personal developmentthat comes from it.
It has changed me deeply as aperson, for what is going on?
My entire worldview, haschanged the way I behave and
interact with people has changed, and I try not to make it so
that way.
I do any of the things that arenegative and only focused on the
(04:32):
things that I know are going tobe beneficial to society and
adding to the good aspects of it.
I also want to be very clearthat this does not detract from
cultural values, so to speak,meaning that there are areas
that it doesn't matter that youcan do that and it's not going
to impact the culture one way oranother, and so this is not an
(04:56):
idea of destroying all culturesand everybody behaving and doing
the same thing.
It's more about making it sothat way we don't do the things
that are going to harm eachother, and make it so that way
every culture can coexistpeacefully, rather than making
(05:16):
it so that way we constantlyhave to do what we have recorded
in history over and, over andover again.
I also don't look at thingslike Pompeii as an example.
What I mean by that is thatPompeii was destroyed out of
something that had nothing to dowith their choices.
(05:37):
It was because of a chalcosmicevent that happened happened in
this case of volcano going offand destroying them, so that
doesn't help us in any way,shape or form, because we have
no control over these situations.
I've only interested in what wehave control and or influence
over as individuals and aspecies as a whole, and and my
(06:00):
studies into this have beenconstantly challenged and I've
constantly had to admit I waswrong and wrong and wrong, over
and over and over again in orderto get to where I am, and I
will continuously do so for therest of my life.
But I have found that thereason why some of these stories
exist forever, meaning themyths and legends and that kind
of stuff is they point to much,much deeper stuff with it uh,
(06:24):
the history.
I used to back up that kind ofthings with it, and I think a
good way of summing this up isthat we live in a world that has
no meaning, no purpose, none ofthat other stuff, because of
the stories that we tell eachother and that have been become
the paradigm of ourselves and,and especially in the western
(06:45):
world, and it's just not true wealso have, where we have, no
values of anything whatsoever.
You have a phone, let's say asmartphone what?
Three years, 36, maybe fouryears, you throw it out.
It's worthless, even though youloved it at first.
(07:10):
We have no value.
We value nothing.
And because we value nothing,we're on a road of deterioration
instead of appreciation.
We're on a road of thingsdeclining rather than things
getting better with it.
And if we as a species can cometo the conclusion that we need
to share certain values and makeit so that way, the more and
(07:35):
more of us are behaving that way, then that's the case.
For that, then we should um themilgram experiment, which is
the one where they go and theytest people.
You know where they tune knobson the side of it in order to
make it so.
They electrocute person in theother room, but it turns out to
(07:55):
be recording rather than notwith it.
You know it shows that peoplewere willing to listen to
authority for authority's sake.
But that's only part of theexperiment.
That's not the only part that'sgoing on there.
They'll go all the way toharming each other, harming the
other person on the other side,and even all the way up to
potentially killing them.
It's just a recording.
(08:17):
There's not actually anythingthere.
But when there's an example ofsomebody who refuses to do that,
as soon as the participant saysI don't consent, I'm not want
to be part of this experimentanymore, that there's nothing I
want to be part of it.
Then it turns out that a lot ofother people will stop and
(08:38):
around 75 percent of them ifeverybody serves me correctly
will not go to where they harm.
They will end it right then andthere, once they see an example
.
So courage is absolutelynecessary in order to make it so
.
That way we can change theworld and think things
differently, and more peopleneed to stand up for it.
Hence why I'm putting my workout there.
(08:58):
I'm trying to be an example ofthings that can change and make
it so that people don't thinkthat this is the only way that
it has to be.
And with that I will finish offhere.
This is just supposed to be ashort little thing in order to
get people to know me a littlebit better.
If you want to know way moreabout me, I encourage you to
(09:20):
check out a podcast episode onsomething called the Uzlaga Saga
the link will be to that downin the description where I am
given a little more than an hourto talk about myself and how
other people question me on thatparticular podcast that are
friends of mine, and you can getto learn me on an even deeper
level.
I want to thank you all fortuning in and I hope you get
(09:42):
something from this andunderstand kind of the point of
the channel as a whole.
Thank you and have a great day.
Hello and welcome to the Forbidden Knowledge podcast.
My name is Nathaniel Hoitmacherand I am the show's host.
Today, we're going to be goingover something a little
different.
Today, I'm going to beintroducing myself, why I do
what I do, the point of my workand that kind of stuff, and just
(00:20):
basically giving you a shortidea of who I am and what to
expect from this YouTube channelas a whole, or the podcast as a
whole, depending upon whereyou're deciding to listen or
watch this.
So I am somebody who is ascholar.
I have studied the topics thatI've been doing with starting
(00:41):
way back in college.
I got a degree in history fromthe University of Santa Cruz and
I graduated in 2013.
And since that time period,I've continued to study more
history, philosophy, cultsciences and traditions, various
different aspects of mythology,and the ultimate goal behind
(01:06):
everything that I'm doing is totry to learn the mistakes of the
past and trying to make it sothat way I don't replicate them
on a personal level and make itso way the cycles of history
continue with me on a personallevel, but also the opposite
(01:29):
Making it so it doesn't happenoutwardly as well, and trying to
teach these various differentideas and lessons to other
people.
An example of how this playsout is if you study one
civilization and you study thereasons why it worked well
versus why it eventually fell,and then you compare this to
(01:53):
tons of other civilizations,dozens upon dozens upon dozens
of them, and you see the samereoccurring patterns over and
over and over again andunderstand that, okay, if this
particular element is alwaysthere when it's negative, um,
then meaning it leads tosomething that is going to lead
to the downfall of society, orcorruption of society, or the
(02:16):
destruction of society, thenclearly and it's there every
time the civilization collapsedand every time you study with it
, then this is clearly somethingthat should not be done and I,
on a personal level, should alsonot participate in it or add to
that misery that's going tolead to chaos and destruction
for everybody else around me,and it's the same thing for all
(02:38):
the good parts of it too.
Meaning that, ok, and everytime a civilization is thriving,
then if this keeps popping up,every time this is negative,
this is positive thing is alsomissing, then you know for
(03:05):
certain that this is somethingthat cannot be let go of.
Um.
Now, to be clear, this is notspeaking as a notion of I know
it all, because I don't.
It's not possible.
There's too much history foranybody to sift through.
You could spend a thousandlifetimes doing the work that
I'm doing and you will neverknow everything that there is to
(03:27):
know.
You could have a million peopleworking on this for a thousand
lifetimes and I doubt that theywould know everything.
But the point is to try toprogress humanity forward in
such a way that we can learnfrom our mistakes and not make
the same mistakes over and overagain.
And I can flat out tell youright now that we are doing
everything that we should not bedoing if we want to maintain
(03:50):
any semblance of a good society.
We are very much on a path ofdeterioration.
I'll leave it at that for thetime being.
Now that doesn't mean thatthere isn't hope, that there
isn't ways of getting forwardwith it.
It's very clear on what needs tobe done with these things and
that's why I am doing what I amdoing.
(04:11):
I am doing it because I lovestudying these topics.
I love the personal developmentthat comes from it.
It has changed me deeply as aperson, for what is going on?
My entire worldview, haschanged the way I behave and
interact with people has changed, and I try not to make it so
that way.
I do any of the things that arenegative and only focused on the
(04:32):
things that I know are going tobe beneficial to society and
adding to the good aspects of it.
I also want to be very clearthat this does not detract from
cultural values, so to speak,meaning that there are areas
that it doesn't matter that youcan do that and it's not going
to impact the culture one way oranother, and so this is not an
(04:56):
idea of destroying all culturesand everybody behaving and doing
the same thing.
It's more about making it sothat way we don't do the things
that are going to harm eachother, and make it so that way
every culture can coexistpeacefully, rather than making
(05:16):
it so that way we constantlyhave to do what we have recorded
in history over and, over andover again.
I also don't look at thingslike Pompeii as an example.
What I mean by that is thatPompeii was destroyed out of
something that had nothing to dowith their choices.
(05:37):
It was because of a chalcosmicevent that happened happened in
this case of volcano going offand destroying them, so that
doesn't help us in any way,shape or form, because we have
no control over these situations.
I've only interested in what wehave control and or influence
over as individuals and aspecies as a whole, and and my
(06:00):
studies into this have beenconstantly challenged and I've
constantly had to admit I waswrong and wrong and wrong, over
and over and over again in orderto get to where I am, and I
will continuously do so for therest of my life.
But I have found that thereason why some of these stories
exist forever, meaning themyths and legends and that kind
of stuff is they point to much,much deeper stuff with it uh,
(06:24):
the history.
I used to back up that kind ofthings with it, and I think a
good way of summing this up isthat we live in a world that has
no meaning, no purpose, none ofthat other stuff, because of
the stories that we tell eachother and that have been become
the paradigm of ourselves and,and especially in the western
(06:45):
world, and it's just not true wealso have, where we have, no
values of anything whatsoever.
You have a phone, let's say asmartphone what?
Three years, 36, maybe fouryears, you throw it out.
It's worthless, even though youloved it at first.
(07:10):
We have no value.
We value nothing.
And because we value nothing,we're on a road of deterioration
instead of appreciation.
We're on a road of thingsdeclining rather than things
getting better with it.
And if we as a species can cometo the conclusion that we need
to share certain values and makeit so that way, the more and
(07:35):
more of us are behaving that way, then that's the case.
For that, then we should um themilgram experiment, which is
the one where they go and theytest people.
You know where they tune knobson the side of it in order to
make it so.
They electrocute person in theother room, but it turns out to
(07:55):
be recording rather than notwith it.
You know it shows that peoplewere willing to listen to
authority for authority's sake.
But that's only part of theexperiment.
That's not the only part that'sgoing on there.
They'll go all the way toharming each other, harming the
other person on the other side,and even all the way up to
potentially killing them.
It's just a recording.
(08:17):
There's not actually anythingthere.
But when there's an example ofsomebody who refuses to do that,
as soon as the participant saysI don't consent, I'm not want
to be part of this experimentanymore, that there's nothing I
want to be part of it.
Then it turns out that a lot ofother people will stop and
(08:38):
around 75 percent of them ifeverybody serves me correctly
will not go to where they harm.
They will end it right then andthere, once they see an example
.
So courage is absolutelynecessary in order to make it so
.
That way we can change theworld and think things
differently, and more peopleneed to stand up for it.
Hence why I'm putting my workout there.
(08:58):
I'm trying to be an example ofthings that can change and make
it so that people don't thinkthat this is the only way that
it has to be.
And with that I will finish offhere.
This is just supposed to be ashort little thing in order to
get people to know me a littlebit better.
If you want to know way moreabout me, I encourage you to
(09:20):
check out a podcast episode onsomething called the Uzlaga Saga
the link will be to that downin the description where I am
given a little more than an hourto talk about myself and how
other people question me on thatparticular podcast that are
friends of mine, and you can getto learn me on an even deeper
level.
I want to thank you all fortuning in and I hope you get
(09:42):
something from this andunderstand kind of the point of
the channel as a whole.
Thank you and have a great day.
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