School of Life: A Deeply Bad Self Help Channel | Big Joel
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Amazing Alain de Botton impression 900/10 please don't ban me
I checked this comment just to see if you mentioned the plant. It was um... quite distracting for me.
Nice Alain de Botton impression. It's good, it's good, it's great pls no ban.
nice sheet background, joel
You are so naturally funny its just hilarious! LOVE you
He's kinda got that Victorian-style logic of "Everyone who disagrees with me has a psychological issue that I made up just now."
“Feminism? I think you mean... HYSTERIA!!!”
@@doubtful_seer Unfortunately, Carl (Sargon) already labeled feminism as a "mental illness." :(
Cuz it shows all the symptoms
Oh heck, you're right! I hadn't realised quite what it was until I saw this comment, but I'm getting some real big Freud vibes from this dude: projecting weird made up conditions onto everyone else, and then smugly smiling to himself like he's cracked some deep truth.
this is almost more of a post-freudian 1920s thing. victorians believed more in physical issues, and they rarely talked about mental disorders from what i've read.
modernism hours
imagine saying to your friend something like "I dunno, I thought James Cameron's Avatar was ok, I sort of enjoyed it," and then your friend tries to tell you that you're a victim of trauma.
If the comment was about the Shyamalan Avatar, the response would be appropriate though IMO
@@BarnabyWalters no it wouldn't. Liking Avatar couldn't be a plausible result of trauma. Liking Dragonball evolution after watching Avatar is. Avatar is not the result of trauma, it's always the cause.
@loveutill theendoftimes read my comment.
@loveutill theendoftimes u know its a joke right, loveutill
“Aww did the smurfs scare you as a kid as a kid and as a result, you grew to distrust and fear blue pigmented beings?”
That the Soviet period in Russia was "Devoid of art" is a statement in contrast with reality. Also this argument acts as if Russian culture started in 1992 or that Arabian culture started with the discovery of oil.
I'm still laughing about how he said that Russia "famously has bad art tastes." Like has the never heard of St. Basils cathedral?
@@maybeh-letsplaysmore3697 or russian literature... cinema... fuckin music? jesus christ
The idea that russians like decadence because of socialism is also silly
Looking at thier gingerbread churches and palaces...
Bely laugh.
Also, it's not like the U.S. absolutely set the standard of Brutalist Architecture. Or visions of opulence that we then chastise others for employing.
I personally like Brutalist Architecture because... idk, I had trauma, or I just have bad taste.
"We should prepare kids more for how shitty adult life is"
What if we tried making adult life less shitty tho? That's something we could fix, as a society.
Exactly
Nah that would take actual work from my part, I prefer to sit all day telling other parents how they should raise their children.
Alain have a problem: He spent too much time eating from the trashcan. In fact, he spent so much time that by now he feast exclusively upon what he finds on the trashcan. The trashcan, of course, is ideology. In this case: neoliberalism.
If you want to see what your brain on “end of history” looks like, check his videos. Of course he cannot consider change, because that’s the only conclusion when you think that what’s out there is as natural as photosynthesis, the water cycle and the food chain. Except, ironically, even those can be disrupted by human interaction. But god forgive if you suggest socioeconomic change. You want to end with poor art and garbage cupcakes? Because that’s how you end up with poor art and garbage cupcakes.
Don't be stupid... Mediocre minds
But if we helped each other and society was fixed, then who would need to buy self-help books?
So sad that every middle-aged christian mom with a "Live, Laugh, Love" vinyl wall decal has experienced extreme aesthetic-based trauma
that is in fact objectively true
I blame the creepy bleeding jesus statues.
"Do you want to know where I got those posters?"
should start a charity or telethon.
@@shytendeakatamanoir9740 hahaha
Its true, my entire family died in a war and now I like Adam Sandler movies
hate when that happens
You poor thing :(
@@nekozombie ugh same 🙄
"life under capitalism is miserable and alienating, but at least cupcake have sprinkle" - Alain de Botton, probably
"Red symbolizes independence" and "socialism leads to bland conformity" are amusing assertions to make in close proximity.
Sprinkles have always been the tool of the petite bourgeoisie!
Hundreds & Thousands is the true socialist cupcake topping🖖
@@timothymclean - Obviously the answer here is to put cupcake sprinkles in the cranberry juice to compliment the very much not at all bland kids menu fish sticks.
if they don't have bread, they shall eat sprinkle cupcakes!
@@timothymclean socialism does lead to bland conformity. I grew up in the Sowiet Union. You would not find such conformity even in the god damn neoliberal hellhole that is the USA. Now you could argue that Sowiet Union was state capitalist but essentially every socialist nation devolves into state capitalism is an issue.
I know bread tubers who are 90% western people who are disaffected by corporatism and will disagree with me, but Id rather live in the USA than ever spending a day in the Sowiet Union again. And this is during the 80ies where life was largely static in the Union and cold war died down a bit.
When people make fun of you for ordering fish sticks and cranberry juice so you have to make a video about how it's actually part of your sophisticated 5D Chess seduction game
assuming that every school of life video is a direct response by alain de botton to events in his life instantly makes them hilarious
@@skootties It's also the only way to make them make sense.
Don't you hate it when you have to eat fish while also having a UTI
@@ellazenzen8735 maybe the UTI makes your privates smell fishy?
poor guy, he must've been traumatized into having bad taste
Bruh socialism is when my privately owned cake shop is run poorly.
The essence of Socialism is boring and shitty cupcakes, after all.
@@martins.4240 -Cark Marks
No socialism is when there are women in video games
Guys, guys, guys… socialism is *obviously* when a privately owned business makes a decision about what you’re allowed to do and say on their premises. At that point, it’s down-right anarchy
Bruh, socialism is taxes, which explains why the privately owned cupcake-manufacturer can't afford sprinkles.
"sprinkles are a bourgeoisie plot" -karl marx
@@easonkamander7348 *Cars Marx [runs very fast in Russia's general direction]
@@serse8455 Car Marxqueen
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Das Kupkakital
Coral Markenson
I’m cracking up. Imagine if under PTSD in the DSM they listed “bad taste” somewhere between the hyper-vigilance and night terrors. I have PTSD so I’m just picturing the doctor that diagnosed me telling me I have “bad taste” 😂
PTSD is now diagnosed by showing the patient different pieces of art and asking them what they like more.
Weirdly enough I know someone like this irl, I went "I don't like photo-realist paintings" and their first response was, "Oh, that's probably because of sexual trauma" no?? I just much prefer hyper-saturated colors and impressionism??? what
got diagnosed with bad taste disorder after i told my psych i watch anime
@@BriAngel476 I mean, that one's accurate.
@@peterprime2140 Alain will probably point out that the Japanese were traumatized by the atomic bomb and that's why tentacle hentai exist...
Everyone with bad tastes has suffered trauma? Dang, I can’t believe every Ben Shapiro fan has gone through such horrible trauma.
Yeah, the trauma of hearing his voice.
The trauma of being unable to make their wives wet
i am
in awe of how funny and smart this is
I don't even like Ben that was a stretch. I'd rather talk about bro country fans irreversible problems. There might be an actual case there
I've been through much more trauma then most. I'm talking about decades of true (diagnosed cptsd and ptsd) trauma. So I must have the worst taste. I really like Joel's content. This means Joel's content is really bad taste. Which means that if you are reading this, because you like his content too, you must have been badly traumatised. Joel must like his own content right? Because it's his. Is Joel trauma?
“Socialism is when cupcakes are boring” sounds like a satire of capitalism
It sounds EXACTLY like the “Communism is when no iPhone” meme.
no sprinkles for socialists lmao
the capitalism stand should've had 1 dude doing none of the work and then eating over 70% of the cupcakes :P
@@whysocurious7366 and not paying sales tax either
honestly, did Vonnegut ghostwrite that? Was it cribbed from an early draft of Harrison Bergeron that was scrapped for being too on-the-nose?
@@cuckmulligan7602 I had to look up "Harrison Bergeron" - Vonnegut.
The plot summary reminded me of Ayn Rand's "Anthem". An extremely bizarre AU that bares little resemblance to this world.
Regarding people writing self-help books not being qualified to write them: I work as a ghostwriter, and we get dozens of orders for self-help books every month. These books rarely come with super detailed outlines, and the people publishing these books don't have any real qualifications; half the time they are published under a made-up name anyway. For the most part, we are expected to fill them in ourselves and do our own research, usually just by looking for relevant articles online. I've written at least 10 self-help books in my time at my company, and I can guarantee you I wasn't qualified to write ANY of them in the way you'd expect someone to be. I don't have a psychology or sociology degree or anything. Hell, I don't even have my life together. Half the time I was writing advice like "go to bed early and get enough rest to increase your productivity" while staying up until 5 am to finish an order I'd procrastinated for two weeks. In short, yeah, I definitely believe that many people shy away from self-help books because of the abundance of underqualified writers spitting out the same 10 common sense tips you can find in any other book and muddying the market, and probably not because of... emotional education being viewed as undignified, or whatever School of Life was trying to claim there.
And yet they were probably all better than 12 lobsters for life. And that was written by an actual professional.
Somebody exorcise this person
I’m an editor and I was going to post something similar. 😅 Also, if it was so simple to break down how to be effective and rich and happy, either everyone would be masters at it by the time they’re middle aged because it would be the most important thing, OR it would not be allowed to be written about by the masters of the universe that unlocked the code. *That’s* some fodder for conspiracy theorists.
There are some topics that are useful to read about (I found The Art of Conversation really useful for example, as an introvert). But once you’ve read one or two self-help books, even in the categories that are useful to read about, you’ve basically read them all, and a lot of times there are situation-dependent issues holding people back. Or they need actual therapy to progress, and all the “meditate and stay hydrated,” sections in SH books won’t be enough! It’s a Band-Aid on a gunshot wound!
Bugs the crap out of me that SH has at least 5x the shelf space as poetry. 🤦🏻♀️
@@AmaraJordanMusic Funny that SH has more shelf space than poetry, when engaging with art objects would be more useful in terms of channeling whatever they want "help".
@@tocatafugue Such a shame that all the traumatized people reading self-help books have such bad taste in art according to School of Life then lmao
I'm weird. I'm a weirdo. Have you ever seen me without this stupid cranberry juice? That's weird.
Damn you, I got flashbacks from this 😩😤
extremely underrated comment
Clearly, the writers of Riverdale suffered some sort or trauma in the past to write such a line! 😪
I don't ~fit in~ and I don't want to fit in.
Here's some free relationship advice;
If you see a date as a fight to 'win them over to your side'... don't go on dates, get actual help.
oh that thing about school of life selling you on depression is very real to me. i remember feeling very validated by school of life at my worst mental health in high school, and was ready to be defensive of it when you posted your first video. but you’ve been very right and i’m glad you’re helping to dismantle this channel.
Weirdly, My experience was completely different, in which my depressed periods caused me to really hate the channel. I was honestly so elated when Joel ripped into it.
me too!
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same here. I cringe at the memory of suggesting their videos to my friends & partner at the time
agreed, depression brain will latch onto any data which confirms its "life is miserable" theory
“Socialist cupcake” sounds like something Jordan Peterson would call me.
I mean if I were to make a bet on it I'd say it's more likely than not that he's said that phrase at some point.
uWu Call me your little socialist cupcake, Daddy Peterson uwu
Lol I'm not sure if he would use it as a pet name or an insult. I would assume both
it reminded me more of the way Obama described his crushes in college lmfao
@jmalcolmg123 Denounce Stalin though
back in the day, at my worst moments with OCD, depression, and trauma symptoms, i would go to school of life. i went there to wallow in my own self hatred. i found your channel through your “gods not dead” series and have been watching ever since.
when you uploaded the first SoL video, i got unreasonably defensive, but liking your content so much, i watched it anyways. it kind of forced me to step outside of myself and realize how id been using those videos as a destructive coping mechanism. so i unsubscribed, and ever since ive been bringing my issues to my therapist instead of digging myself deeper on the internet.
what im trying to say is; thank you, big joel.
I hope you're doing well now.
"School of life" can't help you in your very specific and unique life. That's what you, your loved ones and your therapist can do.
Much love Nadal❤
@@hayk3000 wow... this is such a sweet reply i don’t know what to say. thank you, much love to you as well. may your kind heart take you far in life ❤️
I used to do the same when I was seriously depressed lol.
SoL is extremely odd because the very general thesis of their videos aren’t necessarily wrong. They to have one or two good points even in a bad video, but the way everything’s told and explained as if the narrator was severely projecting onto people and situations that he very obviously knew nothing about, is what makes it so useless at the end of the day.
Bless you, I'm glad things are looking up for you.
I am glad that you are recovering, and I hope that your mental health continues to improve. I have my own list of channels which I found whilst severely depressed years ago (I only just heard of the School of Life from Joel's videos); thankfully, I was able to overcome my depression and take great pleasure in leaving said channels.
Saying that Saudi and Russia have some sort of art deficiency is literally claiming that those countries don't have any artwork or culture of their own.
I feel like he did very little research. He’s just like ‘this is what I’ve seen in western media about these cultures. Must be true!’
And Russia is sort of famous for channeling cultural trauma into... Russian literature?
Also the reasoning other than communism behind saying that Saudi Arabia was art deprived being that they live in a vast, empty desert 💀. As if art just doesn’t exist in the desert for some reason even if there are people there
@@Kindlywaterbear Also saying that russia lacks good art because of communism implies either Russians started making art in the 1920s despite existing for over a thousand years prior or that the Soviets traveled back in time to destroy all the great pre-communist art.
The racism of the “aesthetic trauma” claim ohhhhhmygoshhhhhhh
it’s that western saviourism
It hurts.
"eking out an existence in the desert"
:|
Yeah, thats what I was thinking. It almost seemed eugenics-y because he implied that there is a "right" way for the human experience to happen
Right? Like holy shit I'm glad I wasn't the only one who found that incredibly fucking racist. The countries they showed as examples literally have nothing wrong with their architecture or anything. I'm Russian and I was just fucking bewildered
As someone who’s had depression, your take is totally correct that the bunny story essentially fully validates the lies that depression makes you tell yourself.
Idk mate, I personally haven’t suffered from depression to my knowledge and I thought that video was actually pretty uplifting, in that it helped put personal problems in perspective and realise your life isn’t supposed to conform to the unrealistic expectations put on us by popular culture. I haven’t seen many other videos from the School of Life, from this video it seems like they’re not very good, but that one really spoke to me.
@@iancrawley3815 I have bipolar which is different from depression but any mental illness can be debilitating on someones overall happiness and perspective on life. it honestly just depends, if you just have extreme self hatred like I do and you cannot recognize your own hard work or achievements regardless of how much you apply yourself or of the praise you might receive. Your life will feel meaningless no matter what you experience so knowing that you lived “an average life” at least for me would be really upsetting because it’s reaffirming how worthless I feel inside by pointing out that I may have not done anything meaningful even if it wasn’t important or special. It could even be a simple thing like fulfilling a hobby. It makes me feel forgettable. Not really because I lived “ a simple life” but rather because I’m not really seen as an individual just someone who existed. I hope that put things into perspective
@@zr5581 that’s totally fair, I guess it depends on your point of view. I thought the video was quite helpful but maybe the fact that I don’t suffer from a mental illness means I can’t understand how harmful it is to someone with such a mindset.
@Probably Maybe I’m not Ian, but kinda I think. There is a sense of comfort in believing that even when parts of your life feel pretty bad, most people go through tough times as well. If you feel worse than others, comparing yourself to others and thinking they’re the same can feel validating.
I still don’t like the bunny video though, that bunny had issues he should’ve been encouraged to address and work through. That stuff, even if normal, shouldn’t be normalized imo.
@Probably Maybe I feel like you guys are acting as though thinking like this and actually taking proactive steps to addressing your issues are mutually exclusive. But they’re not. You can take some form of comfort in realising that you aren’t particularly unique in your problems and that many are just an integral part of being human, while also doing your utmost best to resolve them. In fact, I would argue that adopting this mindset actually helps you get better because it stops you from agonising over how unfortunate you perceive yourself to be, when in reality there is so much more suffering in the world people have to deal it.
I’m so traumatized.... my taste is just... so bad ... now....
Oop I’m traumatized guess I like heavy metal & brutalist architecture how.
@@reneebear3641these jokes arent funny. My trauma is very real and very intense. Sometimes, i relive it so vividly that i even go home and start raving to machin3gir1 music whilst scrolling through dada art on google.
@@lazarcupic Even for a non-trauma person, these jokes just don't cut it comedically.
Dude! This is not funny! I'm still listening to 6ix9ine because my mom fell down the stairs...
shout out to all us people living in deserts who were traumatized by sand and rocks. our artistic taste will never go beyond darude
you're a maniac for letting that leaf graze your hair for 20 minutes.. respect
Oml, that was so irritating to watch… @.@
Capitalism in a nutshell:
"You can do anything! You can be anything if you work hard enough! Nothing is stopping you under capitalism!"
*5 sec. later*
"You're depressed? Well.. did you ever consider maybe your expectations are too high? You've got to be realistic after all. I don't think you were believing in yourself hard enough."
More like: I have all the money so you don't have to
And you’ll never be able to find meaningful work that you enjoy doing, so perhaps you just need to manage your expectations because everyone else’s life is as shit as yours.
(But capitalism is still great, obviously.)
@@dissonantdreams After being told for the first twenty or so years of your life to "find your passion and do what you love!"
“Russia has gaudy art because of a reaction to the years of communism”
*stares in the entire concept of the Faberge egg*
Communism is when art I don't personally like exists
gaudy? seriously? have this guy ever seen the shit capitalism has churned out? XD
Yeah, not like our gorgeous western art where when we’re not turning everything into the same minimalist hellscape we slap gold on it.
I am traumatized in Russia and I have great taste. Checkmate atheists.
"The purpose of art is to promote Communism"
"The purpose of art is to produce profit"
Both Shithead Statements. But one from a former head of state in Russia.
If you don't like Big Joel, it's because you are traumatized as a child.
Damn, guess I don’t like Big Joel anymore.
@@swsamp8397 if p implies q, q doesn't necessarily imply p
One more readily hates Big Joel because... equal outcome or... utilitarian or... whatever, Socialism I guess
@@yonyosef uh nah, obviously I can judge the universe with only math
@@theblandcharlie822 ?
As someone with depression, that video about “how the world really is” really felt like a lot of the downward spiralling thoughts I’ve had. And it’s important to remind people that life isn’t “just like that”. It’s not fundamentally cruel nor fundamentally kind. And good things do exist. I fear for the safety of whoever thinks that’s normal, because it’s not.
Life is meaningless so do fun things because nobody is going to stop you. If you want cake on Wednesday, eat cake on Wednesday. if you want to paint your entire house bubblegum pink paint your entire house bubble gum pink. Life has no meaning, so it’s up to us to give it one. So why don’t we make ourselves as happy as possible?
@@wren_. Exactly! If we’re gonna be here, might as well make the best of it for ourselves.
@@wren_.now THAT is proper nihilism
Yeah, as someone with a history depression it seems like thought patterns you should have learned to recognize before you assume you're fit to give other people life advice. Like this guy needs therapy 😅
@@wren_.That is a REALLY bad philosophy to hold. The best you can do is not experiencing as much happiness as possible, no. The best you can do in life is being alive. Suffering isn't bad, if you aren't so focused on the societal expectation of "the search for happiness", you can easily realise suffering is beautiful too. Experiencing beuty is what gives one the most enjoyment, and the more beautiful something is, the more joy it brings us. Tell me, why do we enjoy tragedy so much? The greeks considered it the highest form of art. If this is true, why can't we appreciate it in life too? Tragedy and suffering are beautiful too.
And i don't say this from the perspective of a shielded person. No, oh boy not at all.
Bruh imagine ordering fish sticks in a date and she immediately assumes youve been traumatized into having bad taste
Certified bruh moment
bruh
is that pasqualos dad
@@good2goism Yeah, it is!
Did some one say... fish-dicks?
I'm sorry, an 'ETERNITY OF EKING OUT A LIVING, in the BARREN DESERTS of Saudi Arabia'!? lol maybe he should read up on the history of the Arabian peninsula
It's common knowledge that the Arabian Peninsula's premier cottage industry for thousands of years was the production and supply of commercial-grade sand for playground sandboxes.
This man has legit never heard of Mesopotamia or "The Fertile Crescent." Or the Ummayads. Or the Abbasids. Like Jesus father-fucking Christ, I know life can't be accurately depicted by a game, but just like watch someone stream CK2-3 or EU4 for like 30 minutes and you'd learn that this statement is utter poppycock.
To my knowledge it is accurate - the coastal towns saw limited prosperity with trade but the states & empires that governed them focused more on the Levant region and Egypt. Both before and after the Caliphate the region was very poor (despite mostly being left to their own devices by imperial rulers), until finally they discovered oil.
I think it's funny how he said it doesnt matter how much education you give people, it wont change their art tastes, then proceeds to not know the history of the region he is criticizing
Coastal areas have always had some modicum of normalcy due to trade and fishing, but central arabia was definitely a barren nightmare. I say this as someone who lives there right now. It would not be as good as it is now if it weren't for the Saud's allegiance to it. The land here has no redeeming qualities; there's no oil, barely any water, barely any agriculture, and a shortage of animals.
Old arabian poetry reflects this too. Many scholars(this claim is substantiated by the curriculum taught here) claim that poetry was depressing and graphic because their lives were in a wasteland with zero prosperity
School of Life: “Life in a capital centric society obsessed with productivity and monetary gain is unnecessarily stressful and damaging to the majority of workers”
Also School of Life: “Communism is when building ugly 🤬 and cupcake yucky 🤢🤮”
school of life is like that person whose like "both sides (politics) are dumb I don't identify with either and will critique anything" except school of life has nothing of value to commentate on politics so they just pander incoherently. they wanna be that edgy centrist who isn't afraid to critique something, but school of life has nothing to say. I don't understand how they have so many subscribers.
@@slightlyoffensivedadjokes I was briefly a fan of some of their videos about 6 years ago for the artistic value. There is a certain appeal to emotion if you're already predisposed to what they're saying.
Capitalist have a better quality of life after they industrialize while commies, well they never stop industrializing.
You can't deny that soviet architecture is notoriously bland, bleak and often oppressive.
@@princevesperal okay but that's not the point I don't necessarily disagree w you when it comes to the soviets specifically but that's besides the point the point is that they argue contradicting things from video to video, like they can't commit to an opinion and as a whole it comes out all wishy washy
You, an avid consumer of school of life:
- I'll have the fish sticks from the children's menu and a cranberry juice.
Your date, also an avid consumer of the school of life:
- I sholdn't judge his bad taste, it's probably due to some sort of trauma..
"Saudi Arabian decor is gaudy and tasteless because their society has lived in scarcity for so long, so they feel they have to compensate for their lack of wealth in the past."
*Shows interior of Trump tower penthouse*
*monkey side-glancing meme*
What a cringe moment. Should have been "us-aligned elite minority has taste similar to their western backers"
Do you like cupcakes with sprinkles or were you traumatized as a child?
Sprinkles are reactionary and we need to reject them!
My issue with self help books is like. Often they individualise societal problems and put responsibility on the workers rather than on a society that needs to be better
Well they are SELF help books, after all ;) Most are geared toward adjusting one's own outlook and perception, since that is the only thing truly in our control to change. Societal progression is something that is not so easily in our control, and exists in a separate swim-lane from self progression, in my opinion
@@dennyfader7559 The issue is that they naturally act as if the ONLY issue is found in the self.
Which is why they talk as if they can make people successful and happy no matter what
@@noahkarpinski1824 Not the ones I've read, but I've gone through maybe 3 or 4 tops, so I'll refrain from opposing your own personal experiences with those that you've read
Honestly, being someone whos read several self help books (and admittedly likes a few) even I recognize this. It's disgusting. This is why my "self-help" section of my personal library is small. Besides, most of these self-help authors are usually American and pro-capitalist, especially Christian self-help books, obviously.
>Often they individualise societal problems and put responsibility on the workers rather than on a society that needs to be better.
Uh, yeah. It's called self help for a reason. There are books about economics, society and politics for those who want them.
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WHY TF DOES ONE OF THE BOOKS HAVE TIDDIES I’M SCREAMING
Big tiddy book girlfriend
Because they have to make sure that this is 100% heterosexual by giving something tits to signify woman
😂
the books can't be gay
I always thought it was spelled "titties" but I like the dd's better 💀
“Cranberry juice: The deep red drink would be a symbol of independence”
*Also of having a UTI*
Just wait till she sees your mandiper when you bring her over to your parents home after the date. She will appreciate your recourcefulness for sure
Hi Joel. Thank you for helping me in a very deep and real way. I'll be honest, I'm someone who often stumbles onto a School of Life video and enjoys them and then starts marathoning through many of them. I just realised through this video that you've made and the one you made on it before, (I watched them both today for the first time) that I only watch these videos when I'm already sad and am suffering from anxiety. The soothing British voice lulls me into a sense of comfort while the very common conclusion of "something in your childhood is to be blamed" makes me sad as well as relieved.
I recently was bingeing these videos, especially the one about relationships and emotional intelligence and I just spiralled into an anxiety attack. I was hyperventilating and crying. I now realise its because the videos actually just echo the depressing thoughts in such a factual manner that there is no option but to accept life is meant to be meaningless and sad and we have no control over it. These videos you've made helped me recognise this pattern, of how I seek these videos out when I'm sad and how they don't offer anything profound, but just make me fall deeper into despair.
THANK YOU!!! You've helped me a lot!
You did it all yourself Sreoshi, you're only gonna get better and better from now on
I hope things improve for you
But that's right isn't it? Life IS supposed to be meaningless and sad
@@isabellamorris7902 Life isn't "supposed" to be anything, in the same way that air or water aren't "supposed" to be anything. Your meaning in life is whatever you choose.
@@isabellamorris7902 it's odd. Your comment disproves itself. If life is supposed to be "Sad" I think that implies a meaning, even if it's one you sent necessarily happy with. But either way, I believe that meaning is something WE apply to life.
It's so strange seeing how this guy actually seems to think that his personal perception of reality _is_ reality. The high production value, namely the script, voice acting, and animation, all lend non-existent credibility to his videos, reminiscent of a TedED video or something similar. The problem is that once you look past all the fancy words... nothing is there. The bigger problem is that he doesn't even realize it.
YES. I eradicated these videos from my life years ago.
It's probably because of his trauma.
School of life is a side hustle. Botton's day job is giving expensive talks to corporate events. Before that, maybe 20 years ago, he was fairly interesting. Dumbing stuff down for rich people all the time must take a toll on you.
damn thought you meant big BABY YODA joel at first
Yes, all of this. I watched these in awe of his brilliant insights for a few months. Then when I started reading his community posts, like having zero stimulus other than the actual content, I realized he was a fucking asshole. It read like the musings of a very intelligent sociopathic dictator, bent on convincing people of his own reality. The last straw was when he said "If your partner asks the question 'why do you love me?' a good answer is 'I love you for the sad child inside of you.'" So fucking much WHAT? Like not even gonna address how a person asking that question is obviously severely insecure and no matter what you say they will probably twist it to be negative somehow? No, let's give you some creepy fucking canned answers to give so your partner shuts up and you don't have to deal with their annoying crap.
as a russian, I absolutely died at his explanation of why *the entirety of russia* has shitty fashion, like babe what?
As if Russia doesn't have any diversity
No drip?!🥺
Username checks out ;)
Do we think Alain looks at St Basil’s Cathedral and thinks “HORRIBLE! They didn’t even get the towers all the same height and didn’t paint it beige! Maybe if this architect’s parents had loved him he would have learned how to square off those turrets!”
@@clsismanno bc that was built before communism, it doesn’t count
Cranberry juice communicates: "My grandma says it'll help with my UTI" also "I'm working towards passing my pre employment drug test "
Damn people use their own pee?
Whoa what
It is the best juice
@@dragonslaya16 I drink it first to filter it. :)
@@General12th So that's what 'triple distilled' means...
love how he blames socialism for russian "bad taste" immediately after drawing what looks like a representation of the winter palace. like, i got news for you buddy....
"It was so bad, the Russians got preemptive trauma from it." - Alain, probably
he was drawing what is clearly a gaudy mansion... but your understanding of architecture is clearly as limited as your understanding of taste. Context and intent matter: an imperial palace serves a purpose, it has a context and a history of constructive and artistic techniques. An imitation palace for a person who has a purely material understanding of their role in society can be clearly explained in negative ways once you dissect it from a sociological perspective.
@@Abcflc No, see, they weren't drawing the thing *I* like- they were drawing the thing that *looks like* what I like and is meant to espouse the exact same concepts, but they're totally not the same!!!!!!
Unless you mean to tell me that palaces serve any purpose other than *showing off* and being ultra fancy for the benefit of the most powerful people in the nation.
Fun fact: you can enjoy the aesthetics of something while still despising the surrounding context. I was blown away by the grandeur of the Mohegan Sun casino but I still find it abhorrent that all this artistry is being used to window dress a money siphon for marks.
Lol it helps when he knows nothing about anything, because then he can make anything fit his narrative
@@Abcflc what is the difference between an imperial palace and an imitation palace? Both are made by burgeouis dickheads who wants to show up all their wealth. And in the context of saudi Arabia (which has some of most beautiful,well regulated pilgrimage sites in the whole damn world btw) every big building they've made is made by big rich guys who pretty much owns everything. The "purely material understanding of their role in the society" is translated into their purely ideal understanding of their role in the society as they are seen as great, generous religious rich men who is idolized by the masses as their noble feudal lords(and recurring theme in middle eastern history)
Also, idgaf who this french guy thinks he is,but he has to be fucking blind to think that saudi Arabia,or any country with a considerable amount of muslim population,has bad taste in architecture. Arabs wrote the book on architecture which europeans ripped pages of. Ask anyone with a basic understanding of architecture about the mosque of Medina, or any mosques in Saudi.
As someone who has suffered from severe bouts of depression numerous times in their life, the whole Bunny video was literally how I felt in my last major depressive episode. Literally. Nothing was worth it, everything was hopeless... I truly don't think that's a rather normal approach to life and certainly, we would all be jumping off bridges en masse if it were true.
My last bout of depression lasted about three years and was so dire I was basically a shell of my former self, with my entire identity stripped.
Life isn't that way, at all-and it shouldn't ever have to be.
That nihilism isn't so lovely to spread around- we all deserve to find some fulfillment and happiness- and we all can. With some good coping mechanisms (therapy) and the ability to connect with others.
Yeah, it was very relatable to my thoughts whilst having depression. How were you able to get better?
@@finalsloth872 not op, but for me it took medication (fluoxetine). The medication restored my baseline 'willpower' to functional levels. I was able to go and engage in behaviour and habits which improve your mental health. Relationships are key, too. You need to be able to talk to someone; be it a friend, partner, family member or therapist - internal conflicts caused me a great deal of mental anguish, and depression was almost how my brain coped with that.
I'd start with medication though. It worked within a week for me, i've heard it doesn't work for everyone but i'd recommend trying it. I'm off it now after just over a year of taking it, so it doesn't even have to be a permanent solution.
shouldnt have to be, and shouldnt be paraded as normal
but lets not pretend there wasnt a huge increase of people feeling that way ever since the pandemic started. hate it when my family tells me "no one else is struggling mentally! whats your problem?" when theyre supposed to be my support system because i dont even have friends during all this
@@mow_cat I'm sorry you're going through that. It certainly doesn't help when your feelings are invalidated either. Please accept an e-hug from a stranger!
There certainly isn't anything wrong with you if you're struggling through a worldwide pandemic, where isolation runs rampant.
I'm so so sorry. Things will get better- there is always a light at the end of the tunnel. You've got this.
Yes! His videos feel like a projection of depressive thoughts disguised as philosophy.
What a sad, sad man. For someone who claims that people disagree with him because they’re projecting their bad experiences, Alain de Botton sure projects a LOT.
Imax in human form.
my friend’s self-help/self-improvement/hustle culture obsessed ex boyfriend used to order cranberry juice everywhere he went and now i’m wondering if it was because of the school of life
You mean the deep red colour of the juice didn't make it clear it was a choice that indicated independence?!
"I like minions unironically"
"who hurt you?'
That is perfect. Thank you for that addition to the comments lol
That one is actually true tho. People who like minions are clinically damaged
No that one's actually valid tho
Imagine having this hatred
@@pietro4622 Don't have to
That bad tastes one literally sounds like a parody of snobbery, the sort of thing the snooty character from a British sitcom would say 😂
Some real fraiser crane shit
My new favorite version of “socialism is when no iPhone” is “socialism is when boring cupcake”. Why does school of life seem like the neoliberal version of a Jordan Peterson?
Peterson isn't neoliberal?
Peterson is a joke
Beacuse it is xd
@@kostajovanovic3711 read that part over again.
My favorite take is "Communism is when big building"
If someone ordered children's fish fingers and cranberry juice, I'd peg them right at the table.
LMAO
I can absolutely see me ordering fish fingers in a restaurant. Not cranberry juice though.
😳
*frantically orders entire box of fish sticks and a carton of cranberry juice*
Ngl the weird mind games stuff is obviously cringe, but if the person legitimately just enjoyed the kids’ fish sticks that would be kinda cute.
-Decent working conditions
OR
-Sprinkles on cupcakes
Hmm...
Capitalism really rustles my jimmies.
There is no need to be upset.
Food dye is a weapon of the bourgeois
How about trying the best of both?
Communism is when no sprinkles
Yes waiter, could I please get fish sticks off the kids menu and a cup of cranberry juice? Yes I’m an alpha male thank you for asking.
Edit: nowadays the term would be “”sigma male””, gotta get with the times.
My girl went to the bathroom an hour ago. Can I order the soup too? When she walks back and sees me eating alphagettis, I'll have won her over for sure.
Nothing wrong with fish sticks.
@@fluffynator6222 lol yeah man true .. but first impressions the girl really gonna be like "oo cant wait to see what fishsticks over here is packin!!!"
@@fluffynator6222 nothing wrong with ordering them bc you like them, everything wrong with ordering them because ur parasocial e-daddy said it's alpha
God, school of life is like someone gave Freud an animator and told him how smart he was every day
Freud struggled to perform basic tasks like putting toothpaste on his toothbrush, and he completely relied on his wife to be his full-time servant.
I haven't seen a School of Life video about castration anxiety and penis envy, or one where he talks about killing your father and fuck your mother and vice versa. Maybe they're there and I haven't realised it.
@@nejdalej I wasn't referencing those specific theories, more referencing the fact that freud is infamous in the psychology community for being like "I have no evidence to base this claim on except like one case study and I ~think~ it is true so it must be true"
@@sweetestpotato4392 that tracks.
Me: goes out wearing a bee movie t-shirt*
School of life: "You wear that because you have trauma!!"
Me: "Well i do but... :"(
All valid points.
Having watched many "School of Life" videos, two things stick out to me:
1. They seem to be pointed at people who are insecure and possibly broken inside. Besides describing normal thoughts and worries, they are sometimes shown magnified into horrendous proportions and then the video focusses on how bad that can be for some people. They seem to operate on the premise that everyone needs therapy, whether they know it or not. That seems a bit self-serving.
2. The only great redeeming quality I have found is the tone of how people should deal with others. Always, ALWAYS, there is a great emphasis on coming from a position of kindness and love when dealing with anyone in any situation. I cannot find fault with that, no matter how condescending the video may seem.
Establishing the narrative that people can be ranked and deemed worse than yourself is wrong. At its extreme this idea, that is present among many, ends in nazi ideology
"they have bad taste"
*Limo passes by and drops two people looking fresh as fuck*
@@abuasmaa9067 this the type of dude that's been wearing the same cut of suit since the 90s and still think he's not fashion impaired
@@abuasmaa9067? He absolutely is
The "trauma = bad art" take is so weird given that the bad take I'm used to hearing is that "True Art requires suffering".
The number of great artists with tragic and depressing lives is long enough that people who know nothing about art could easily rattle off a few examples.
His comment about Russia and Saudi Arabia is just basically him trying to justify his racism through bad logic
The beauty of racism is, that it doesn't need to be founded in anything remotely resembling reality. Just have a couple of bad experiences and blame your own misery on others and Mein Kampf writes itself.
@@polarisator9892 your take is as brilliant as it is true.
Omg Russia has always traditionally had a very intricate and theatrical aesthetic style, it didn't start after the Soviet era, that's the most small-minded view of the country possible.
@@mikubrot there is some pretty good Soviet music, but a lot of artists were stifled by the state, especially under Stalin. Dmitri Shostakovich is a great case study of this. The RUclipsr Tantacrul has a great video on it.
@@damienm.9677 symphony 5 slaps so hard though
@Microinsurgent Warzone Soviet art was cornered by their censorship, so sowiet artists musicians, managed to work around those restrictions and censorship.
@@damienm.9677 Schostakowich had a bunch of musical protest in his music too. He is my favorite domestic russian composer. His Fugue and 7th symphony is the prime example of fight against censorship and agression
But communism is when big building!
something this video has done for me, is that whenever I have a very irrational intrusive thought I pretend like it was a thought from the guy who runs school of life. and then it's way easier for me to be like "what?? That doesn't make any sense. I don't even understand how you got there." And like, sometimes I just stop worrying about it. Nice.
A trauma? For supposedly having "bad taste"? That's so laughable, I don't even know how to react to that.
This kind of reasoning tends to come from a special mental complex, in which being afraid to have no worth ( from being seen as "wrong") makes him incorrectly conclude that it's safer to pretend his beliefs are facts, than it is to do some genuine research about the subjectivity of taste.
This guy has never heard the phrase "One man's trash is another man's treasure." Standards differ because people differ to some degree or another. How something that simple cannot be grasped is beyond me, but we live in an age where people overthink in order to make a living.
Have they ever considered that being raised around bad taste may cause trauma, instead of the converse?
Alain de Botton reminds me of that one kid in high school who didn’t have any friends and every time you tried to talk to him he would correct your grammar and never make eye contact.
That kid was me 😭
I’m being called out
Damn man why you gotta hit me where it hurts
The kid who everyone thinks is autistic, but isn't. And is actually deeply ableist.
@@NathanGatten As a neurodivergent person, yeah he definitely gives off them ableist vibes
The most frustrating thing about School of Life’s videos is that in most of them, there is some small or tiny idea that I can agree with. However it’s suffocated by so much warped and bizarre reasoning or explanation that it transforms the whole point into utter nonsense.
I did hear it’s common to use nuggets of truth to sell people on exaggerations, lies, and wild, badly supported conclusions.
me: "Eh, judging someone based solely on their food order seems silly."
date: "Fish fingers from the children's menu, and a cranberry juice, please."
me: *grabbing my coat and running for the door* "I've just escape axe murder by a psychopath."
I like to imagine that at some point in the past, Alain went on a date and ordered the kids Fishsticks, a glass of Cranberry Juice and the most elegent dessert available, and he is now desperetly trying to justify his choice
The only thing i know about alain de botton is that in my c2 cambridge english test i had to translate a review of one of his books and it was absolutely tearing it to SHREDS
God now I wish you'd saved it. I wanna see how angry the reviewer got
That sounds awesome.
why show the true depth of your personality through interaction and dialog when you can fake depth through fishsticks and cranberry juice??
@Microinsurgent Warzone That is an obscenely-generous interpretation; you must be one of those nice people who make TOTALLY HEALTHY people uncomfortable.
The end is just him justifying ordering chicken tendies on a first date. Honestly, ordering chicken tenders on a first date is one Hell of a power move.
It actually shows inadequacy and laziness towards the partner.
@@georgetanner9381 Oh, my mistake. Two orders of chicken tendies. :)
@@mikifauns yess!!
What if in my first date I ask for a Tlacoyo? Is that better or worse than chicken tenders?
i just dont understand all the comments about fish sticks and chicken tendies and stuff, is it wrong to order that on a first date? why??
Wow it's almost like a lay person shouldn't be masquerading as a professional
"This art sucks!"
"Who hurt you as a child?"
Maybe his father punished him severely
Actually, I have bad taste because I'm gay and like to have fun.
omg same
It's called aestheticism, /Alain/.
*life-changing comment // life-threatening comment*
I have horrific taste because I like seeing hell in a middle aged woman’s eyes.
me
I swear people will think anything said in an English accent is smart
The racist undertones in that first video were pretty exquisite, I may just order some fish sticks to compliment it.
like the Saudi guy was well dressed, where was his bad taste?
it made me think of contrapoints video “opulence”
@@kiharapata I guess Alain doesn’t like things covered in gold. In which case I guess he thinks Versailles is a travesty and that Linderhoff is the absolute worst (google it, the whole thing covered in gold, so, so much gold leaf, and it is MAGNIFICENT!).
Undertones? That was quite explicitly the tone
"they have spent an eternity EEKING out a living in the deserts of saudi arabia :(" wait.. uh.. theres just so many things wrong with that statement. what is the trauma of americans then? just also capitalism lmaooo?
“constantly feeling like a failure and being depressed aren’t great motivators” this uhhhhhh, sure explains why I never get shit done.
Someone has mildly different taste
Everyone:
School of Life: **TRAUMA**
I don't hate self-help books because the very idea of emotional education is appalling to me. I hate self-help books because I read some when I needed help and they all failed to educate me emotionally. Yes, feeling more positive about my life _would_ make me feel less depressed, and I'd get more stuff done if I felt more motivated. What other stunning insights will you provide? I should avoid reading things I know will annoy me so I don't get angry? I should remember a rain coat when it's rainy? All toasters toast toast?
Never could get into those kinda books, as you say they just seem to say the same thing: if you dont want to feel X, then stop doing the thing that makes you X.
You should remember this:
London is the capital of Great Britain.
*whispers* a toaster toasts bread
Incidentally, one of the only self-help books I actually found helpful was Jeffrey Schwartz's "The Brain Lock", about healing/un-wiring OCD. Many others... no.
@@tendingourgarden I believe that is because few self helps books really come from people who have applied their theories to more than just themselves or people who have actually devoted a significant part of their life researching, talking to people, helping people etc. Unlike schwartz .. self styled 'motivational gurus' are no experts, just experts at temporarily changing your state making you think that change will be permanent. Most self books just berate you for not doing / being better or temporarily motivate you with rousing speech but dont change anything fundamentally. This is because in my opinion many self books still make the mistake of thinking that if they motivate you, you will change. Change is so much more complex than motivation alone, one book that I'm finding actually helpful that does acknowledge is called 'atomic habits'. There are a few self help books in my opinion that are genuinely great most of these have are written by experts in the field who have really deeply devoted time to the subject or who dont toe the usual line of their colleagues and have dedicated their life to learning about x subject and so become true experts in it like the self compassion researcher kristen neff etc.
As someone with depression who recently started therapy that bunny video reminds me of how I thought before I started antidepressants and is a very unhealthy way of thinking
That statement about Saudi Arabia is pretty racist and historically ignorant.
On one hand, it's true that life in a desert is inherently less pleasant than an otherwise-equivalent life in flood plains or highlands or whatever. On the other hand, that doesn't make it automatically unpleasant until modern technology imperializes its way in there to let people pretend they aren't in a desert.
A lot of stupid arguments rely on interpreting obvious statements in ways that fall apart if you poke them with a stick, but which look sound as long as you leave them alone.
@@timothymclean but it's irrelevant. Living in a desert isn't a requirement for being gaudy. See: palace of Versailles, every monarchy ever.
Hard agree, and on Russia as well.
Like, Russians having no idea about how to be classy? Excuse me?
@@nicoladugar2929 Yhea, people like alon don’t seem to notice that the most gaudy stuff comes from obscene wealth, not CuLtUrE.
@@timothymclean Because all of Saudi Arabia is a desert, right?
“russia has a bad taste” hmmmmmm i have never heard that? like? what? russia’s architecture is gorgeous??? and famous for it???
Hell even their weapons have style.
Well, when I tasted Russia, it was all grainy and sandy and earthy and generally pretty bad. I spat it back out immediately. I also think there was a worm in it.
To be fair, America tastes the exact same.
@@void8617 my soil science professor would like a word with you.
(no seriously, i had an exam questions that was like "when might licking a soil sample help you identify it?")
Confession: I confused Alain de Botton with Anthony Bourdain and thought everyone was pouring out fake pity when he died, so I'll see myself out.
His videos really remind me of when I was a teenager in the early 2000s going onto a bunch of Atheism forums where everyone took turns fighting tooth and nail to defend whatever Shower Thought they had about the world that day. The smug tone, the complete lack of any kind of evidence or even clear signs of critical thinking, the framing of this stuff would have really spoken to me when I was 17 and depressed and I am sure would have really impressed all my friends at lunch time at school when I incompetently paraphrased it [and they weren't listening anyway].
In the example with cupcakes, they seem to miss one crucual point most of "capitalist thinkers" usually miss:
- Workers and Consumers are not two different entities. Those are two different roles in economic transactions played by the same entities.
Like you don get some people to only work in the factories and never buy or consume anything, and other people to only consume and never work.
Yeah sure your job sucks and you're probably miserable but hey look at all this shiny shit you can consoome
Also, is he really going to say with a straight face that having weaker protections for workers and profit-driven bosses calling all the shots with improve the quality of the end product?!? As if none of us have ever been told to hurry it up and cut some corners because we're just here to make money, not to do work we can be proud of. My sister went from a talented and enthusiastic beginning cake decorator to totally burned-out and not even wanting to look at a cake because she was forced to grind out quick, shoddy, boring cake decorations instead of being allowed to learn more skills, practice her craft, and make genuinely beautiful cakes for the joy of the craft. Good quality cake decorating didn't leave enough money for the Kroger CEO, I guess.
More like School of Cynicism masquerading as stoicism.
Here is my School of Life video: "Why working at night is better"
Thesis: Working during the day is bad because it reminds you of bad times you had during your childhood of being awake at night while you associate night with good times because you rested as a kid so your brain is more active at night. People force you to work during the day because they are sheep. Women prefer men who work during the night because it's sexier and less conventional. Also arabs with ugly art probably work during the day or something.
And women like those men because they would only see their father at night when they were kids and ofc they have a deep desire to have sex with their own father, who doesn't?
That last bit was the icing on the cake! See what I did there?
considering the way I dress and decorate, there's must be some pretty heavy trauma I'm surpressing.
The funniest thing about the first video you talk about, is that for a person to want to go around telling people why their trauma causes them to have "bad taste", that person was most likely traumatized for never being good enough....
Ah yes “School of life” or as I like to call it “School of pathologizing everything”
A Big Joel video?
it’s 23 minutes long?
and it’s about that school of life guy?
time to make the popcorn :]
He's Alain de Poshtwat
Butter popcorn or sweet corn?
@@kendomyers butter all the way! sometimes I do like sweet but 90% of the time it’s butter
@@spartida3850
^^
Im a sweet man meself
I like the Big Joel community, comment section has actually been pleasant
Alright actual thing to order on a first date: Something with pickles in it. Immediately learn if they will fulfill the role of eating the pickle you don’t want or if they will give you the pickle because they don’t like them. All real relationships are founded on pickles.
Solid advice
@@Fairly-odd-kel Hey girl, can you eat this pickle? I didn't know they put them in these.
@@sleep3417 Well eating a pickle is a lot of commitment tbh
one time on like a 2nd date i offered the guy the pickle from my order and he was like, unsure, and i was unsure, and it was so awkward.
@@vhs3760 It's a big step to take, but if you were meant to be, he would have eaten the pickle.
Tne irony of a bad taste video on The School of Life channel... "If you like The School of Life, it's because you're compensating for past trauma, duh!"
The bad taste video has colonialist energy and I'm not gonna elaborate on that lol
absolutely true he completely dismisses these cultures with thousands of years of artistic history as just tramatized bad taste. thats offensive
Has extreme ignorance energy tbh, I don't think this guy knows how to talk about any culture other than his own when it seems like he struggles understanding even what's around him. I mean there's something to be said about the poverty after the collapse of the USSR playing into modern tastes but it's atleast more complex than what he says.
@@daltonbedore8396 for real, how can you call an entire country’s style of architecture as gauche??? Like what?? How dare he honestly.
Edit: I mean I feel like you could use “gauche” as a neutral term, it’s just that he doesn’t.
It's a version of looking down on the nouveau riches and splendour without "class", but it's only locating them in the non-west.
@@anava7030 and conveniently ignoring rococo which is western and the gaudiest most over the top style out there.
Self-help is an extremely important genre. We need more high-quality well-researched self-help books. But most self-help is unscientific and filled with bad ideas, bad bootstrapping ideology, platitudes, or highly idiosyncratic theories which may have worked for the author but will hardly work for anyone else.
Meditations of marcus aurelius. Not scientific, but literally the only one you need
that bunny video gets under my skin because it basically argues we should be content, know our place as a burdened cog in capitalism. it's exactly what the ruling class wants: for us to accept this shitty society, that improvements are futile and that wanting better things will just cause you pain. what we should do is forget the possibility of better things so we don't know how bad we really have it. never attempt change. just be obedient workers
This just comes across as super racist. This idea that "country likes different art than me so therfore they are traumatized by their culture" is genuinely disgusting.
Yeah, that’s some western imperialist bullshit.
Super woke take except for the fact that the "different art" enjoyed by the countries in question happens to be kitschy western tat designed to flaunt wealth in the most obtrusive possible way. Regardless of where you live, there's something wrong with you if you think money = class.
@@lukeo5908 the problem here is you're assuming that that stereotype is universally correct, without any proof. Both Russia and Saudi Arabia/the Middle East have their own histories, traditions and modern artists that create beautiful works of art, calligraphy, and architecture. So, while that stereotype may be true for some people, and it is, it remains an example of Western racism and conceit.Your assumption that that stereotype is true is rooted in that. It's like someone from another country looking at the tastes of Trump and some other wealthy individuals with gaudy tastes and assuming that all Americans, or all wealthy Americans, have that type of objectively shitty taste--even of taste is a subjective matter.
You can’t be racist towards a country. Canadians may dislike Americans, that doesn’t make them racist.
You can be racist towards... a race.
Get it together, rotund gamer.
@@SKa-tt9nm I was actually talking about culture. If you notice the quotes are from the logic of the original video, not my own point of view. But perhaps o should have been more clear. I don't necessarily agree with your perspective, but you're welcome to argue your point.
This also hits close to home for me, because I have a somewhat childish taste, so for a lot of people I must be mentally unstable or immature (or not a fully developed adult??) :/
... I just like plushies, pastel and glitter, pls leave me alone :'(
Honestly, that would be a good parameter for a date. Hand them a plushy. The fluffiest you got, or just your favourite.
If they don't hug it, squee to it or generally demonstrate happiness, nope the f*ck out.
Defender of the Basic.
College Humor.
Check it out.
I would respect your opinion but you like glitter.
School of Life: For when your already crippling depression just isn't enough.
i am obsessed with the fact that the plant to the right is just gently touching Joel's head
It's sad how someone could be so bad at trying to help.
rt if your bad taste is rooted in your deep seated fear of abandonment
"Russia and Saudi Arabia are known for-"
Me: Their beautiful architecture and fine arts :D
"Having bad taste in art."
Me: :0
Covering everything in gold and carpets?
@@adorabell4253 true, the colors of the saint basil cathedral arent paint they are literally carpets
@@PalitoSelvatico Gold Carpets!
But alas, Mr. Botton was right. For I have PTSD and when I look upon St Basil's cathedral, I see a 500 year old marvel of a non western culture that erected a colorful beauty inconceivable to western European artists of the same age. But woe I now know it is all but gold carpets and Bad Art.
@@adorabell4253 Saudi arabia know for their fine arts ? Lmao are you from a parallel universe ?