I'm 2:40 in and he invents the word "prescriptionize" instead of using the perfectly useful "prescribe". My gut is telling me this is likely to be a bullshit self-help lecture.
I concur, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.
The whole talk's been stretched out, muddied, and fed through several thesauri.
My gullible brain thinks that he has something valuable to say and that requires more efforts from my side to extract that.
I feel same from reading his books too like.
I don't really take issue with the content, but there's not much of it and he's not very efficient at communicating it.
Examples: When trying to say "don't let the means become an end" he uses the 5-dollar word "intermediary", which typically means a person, instead of the simple "means". He says "my speech is fraught with peril" instead of "If you don't listen carefully you might misunderstand". He says "the solution isn't the solution, the problem is the solution" instead of "There is no arbitrary solution that's applicable to all problems".
He's really just paraphrasing common aphorisms with bigger words or wrapping them in koan-like phrasing. I think that's why he sounds appealing. He's telling us what we already know, but in grandiose terms.