Bullshit Education and American Psycho
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- most of this video was written at school
Disclaimer: I'm a shortsighted person, I kind of wanted to highlight my shortsightedness in this video because that's how stuff makes me feel. I should have been more specific about "the solution to these problems," but there's so little funding that nobody can be accommodated for in public education. These problems manifest a lot differently for different kinds of people, it could be too much work and stress as opposed to my boredom. I also think I sound really pretentious in this video and probably shouldn't have cut out the part where I say "by the way I'm not trying to be an asshole about this."
I felt this way in high school (if anyone says you should "move schools", I went to one of the "best-nationally" STEM high schools), and so did most people I knew there. College wastes much less of your time: an average schedule holds about 3hrs of lecture each day (maybe half of which is worth optionally attending), plus about 2hrs of assignments (if you spread work evenly). I make up the rest of a 30hr week reading, mostly related to my studies, which interest me. This is for someone pursuing two majors considered difficult at a decent state university.
There seems to exist a law of Nature: Pursuing a goal only seems difficult and worthwhile in the long run when the motivation comes from within you. This is much easier to do when you're not under 8-hour-daily supervision from peons.
excellent work! I'd love to see an update with your solution to the problem, or how you feel after graduating/in college.
One thing that keeps me excited about education is college, its open ended nature seems like a much better format for learning and time management stuff. Most of the solutions I've thought about for highschool just make it more like college
Your scripting and presentation are insane for a high schooler, hope to see more of your videos.
I was in a similar situation in high school. I’ve worked a lot of cool jobs over the years that I loved and now that I’m a high school teacher, I’ve been looking back to figure out what makes school difficult for students who have unique abilities or potential. The shortest answer is that you are in a cohort spending all their time *preparing* to participate in the work of making society better, but you and many of your peers are ready to just get to the part where you *contribute* to making society better. Now’s the time to go to your counselors, teachers, and admin to say that you’d like to do internships, capstones, work-studies, or even dual-enrolling in college classes. You’ve got the chops and the drive, why wait around to go at the same pace as everyone else? The world needs what you have to offer as soon as possible, so come on out here and help us fix the real problems, my dude.
Unfortunately the options you've listed are rarely available at schools in developing countries...
@@azatshakenov195 True, the context of my suggestion was primarily informed by the public education system in the United States. However, I do know of some incredible work being done in other countries whose education systems are set up differently. For example, I know organizations like FUNDAEC in Colombia, Kimanya-Ngeyo Foundation in Uganda, Inshindo Foundation in Zambia, and Fondation Erfan-Connaissance in the DRC are doing amazing work in rural health, agricultural science, and small business development even when there is hardly any infrastructure in place. I guess that would mean that, for students in regions like those, these opportunities may look less like "dual-enrolling in college classes" or "internships" and more like apprenticeships, starting your own small business, or even partnering with non-governmental organizations to improve your town or city.
underrated as hell, I'm a middle schooler myself and I have ADHD, this feeling is all too familiar. Keep going, and when people find you, you're gonna pop off.
I'm just a stray traveller on the waves of the algorithm but dude this video slams
How's it going?
@@bernardcornellisvanmeijere4375 pretty good 😎
@@PillarofGarbage גבר היקר!
I'm honestly jealous of how articulate you are! I'm in high school, too, and you put into words everything I feel about school right now. I finish my assignments early, and spend the second half of my day just killing time. It's soul-draining to sit around for hours on end in a glaringly bright classroom and an uncomfortable desk. Here's to hoping things get better in college!
All these moments lost in time like tears in rain. I felt the hurt in your voice at the end. No one will save you but you will survive and save yourself. Live long and prosper bud. You will be the master of your own destiny again soon.
Holy, the quality of this video is astonishing, let alone what you're actually presenting. Keep up the good work
Very well made video! Love the way how you presend things and change subjects. Hope your channel grows because its VERY underrated!
for someone who has just a few subscribers and seems to be young, like still going to highschool this video was pretty provesional done! nice editing, writing, voice over, liked everything a lot! if you keep this quality up, you'll reach places, high places!
I relate to what you said about feeling powerless and that nothing matters against this massive system we're in, I'm a high schooler and frankly the only solution I can think of to this is to have big ambitions and try to become powerful enough to change things, because I doubt the people who are currently up there will ever do anything about it, if I fail, oh well at least I tried
THIS VIDEO IS GREAT, I may be biased here because you just spoke my mind out. But damn the quality and the way you present is soo good.
How does this man only have
I like the interpretations of AP in this. I always saw it as how Bateman's murders were an attempt to stand out, since he was exactly like everyone around him to the point were everyone would mistake everyone for someone else (Which you could even say that's how he managed to pull it off).
Amen to that. Even before having to get up at 5:30 AM (same time as me), and even without the intense "crashes" you talked about, this still feels like a perfect description of my experiences and attitude as a schoolkid.
I've felt like this about school, life and pointless/empty occupations since elementary school. The waking up at 5:30 AM; the often ignored fact that most of what's taught doesn't amount to more than busywork; the "choice" between 7-ish years of school and no professional future; all while knowing that if pick the wrong occupation, it's going to be like this forever.
Well, at least you get a Master's in recognizing how you _don't_ want to spend your life.
IS YOUR PFP THE APE FROM THE HOLY MOUNTAIN????
nice bro. great quality for a small youtuber, you have the presentation of a yter with 100,000 to 1,000,000 subs range. i am also a zoomer and i got my ass kicked in high school. Hours and hours of easy mundane worksheets, packets, powerpoints, etc. I wouldnt say this applies to everyone but for me school is probably the worst possible environment for actually learning
Very well made. I don't usually tell a channel I subbed but this was a thought-provoking video in a vast sea of malarky. Keep growing!
Amazing video, I was thinking you were somekind of 1 million subs youtuber, but I got suprised seeing you have only 500 followers, deserves alot more atention, keep it up.
The last part though 🤌🤌🫀🔪🩸🚬⛓️🪓🔫📌📈📈💸💷🥿📼💋
I can relate to you in some regard. As a child, I had no care for school and had zero interest in it. I basically only was graduated through classes because they didn't want me to redo a grade, and I was also among other mentally deficient children. Once I got to high school, I decided to try, and then I got A's in all my classes basically. I had work done early, beneficial as I never had to do homework and got everything done at school. With extra time I had, I walked around the mountaint trails around my school, which led to me getting over some of my stamina problems in regards to asthma.
All I'll say is this: if you don't care about school, yet it's easy for you, then don't make it your highest priority.
Throughout and without school I've worked on a map of human history, planned all the clothes I will buy for the rest of my life and wrote thousands of notes on all kinds of topics (I think I'm over 6,000 at this point, haven't checked in a while). These personal projects are my passion and my highest priority. I will be returning to college again (I was taking college classes while I was in high school because they snuck me in), and while I will certainly bring effort in regards to succeeding, that class will simply be another side topic for me. The prospect of getting a degree is simply a fun challenge to me; I do it not for any reason in regards to money, status or notoriety. This mentality is why I don't question the value of school; if school simply occupies as much space in your brain as you value it, what's the purpose blaming it for its limitations? It is led by people whose idea of value isn't the same as yours, and you're better off maximising that which you value and wish to aspire for.
I believe you had some good insight and many young gifted ADD/ADHD kids (especially males) feel as if they are being cheated throughout education. Some crucial things need to be fixed, like increasing attention span and boredom, but boredom is a state of mind. There is an endless slew of information online and you can learn and do many things in our current circumstances for little to no cost.
I think your arguments for the "bureaucratic man upstairs" controlling everything are based on faulty premise that doesn't accept any responsibility for any actions or circumstances. School may seem pointless, but school can help you learn many things if you learn how to play the game. Creating the most out of every circumstance you have is the best way to go. You can only be bored if you allow yourself to be bored. I understand your frustration with the man upstairs and the "lack of doing anything," but sometimes the only reason things are bad is because the people itself that the system is structured around are bad. If you aren't around a group of driven individuals or a strong household, then you'll never be motivated. You won't be able to see motivation.
You have a bright mind and I think the only thing you lack are years and experience. Keep trying to experience life and join clubs and groups, maybe even a local church, that can help you in your journey. I would advise finding an older church-going male to meet with to get advice from. Stay self-motivated and good job. This was a good quick watch.
EDIT:
The inclusion of CRT was unrelated and off-topic. Delete it please it had nothing to do with the video
really well produced and mostly great analysis, my only problem is that it came to an childish-gullible conclusion
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@@briskman8368 😐
AP Lang grader would give a 0/6
I resonate with this quite a bit. I have always hated school because it felt like a waste of time. Finished work in middle and elementary school months before the year ended, and maintained a perfect GPA my first year of high school without ever studying or otherwise putting effort in. COVID started towards the end of my freshman year, and as it was being made clear that it would continue into my sophomore year, I ended up taking the SAT and getting my GED. I took the rest of my sophomore and all of my junior year off to audition for conservatories (I’m a classical musician) and got into my top choice with a full ride. I am now attending a year early during what would have been my senior year. I did get lucky, but to whoever is reading this, know that you do have control over your future. Often when someone tells you you can’t do something, you might try it out and find that you can. Great video
This video is amazing, being in school I can say I’ve thought the exact things you described. This channel really deserves more attention.
Hey man, I really enjoyed this video and I‘ve decided to subscribe to you. Not much more to say, just excited to see what else you put out in the future
I’m 36, and this feeling took me to a crazy life completely outside the beurocratic world of normalcy. Been back for a few years and now am trying to learn the whole, job, bills thing, everything is just a lesson man. Great piece of content 👍🏼
Been a while since i’ve seen a really good video essay like this one. Very underrated channel
"They just haven't noticed it yet. And I'm sure they'll fix it soon." It's a nice thought. It really is.
man, tbh this kinda goes on and on in your life, i'm in college and still feel like this sometimes, great vid, keep up
American pshycho uses a stand in fore corporate greed,American pshycho a meaning at it's very core is a commentry at inherent violence of corporate greed,Christian bales movie roles are very carefully picked,and he has a preference fore stories that big deep in human nature.
came for the title, stayed for godspeed you black emperor
The game of life is like chess, except you spawn with only the king, and the enemy has all the pieces, and is also the smartest chess ai ever.
life is nightmare mode
I've been thru this a lot, thru high school and college. Honestly there's no immediate solution. Wait until you start getting into Philosophy, and not just surface level Phil quotes and memorable movie quotes, I'm taking about going deep into the theories from Ancient Greek, Chinese, Japanese, Buddhist, Christian, Islamic, Judaic, to closer modern day European Philosophy. Then you will have a better understanding of the world and the way to express your thoughts better, and probably have more questions after the fact. Good luck and God speed.
I know that a lot of other comments have already expressed the same point, but I want to reiterate that this is a fantastic video. You definitely have a talent for weaving a narrative and I hope you continue to use that talent to create things. Good luck with all your future endeavors!
I thought, i could never put these thoughts into worlds, yet you did, beautiful
3:26... no... no no no no no... the flash backs man... all those days I started and ended with minecraft, before going to and leaving school... i wanna build cringy shit in minecraft and think its badass again, the diamond huts, freaking out over endermen, starting tnt with a diamond hoe, the far lands, failing at summoning herobrine, watching SkyDoesMinecraft's living with slenderbrine series and PopularMMO's lucky block battles with Jen. Dont Mine at Night, Take back the Night, Hunger Games from bajan canadian, technoblade, dumb friends in my basement building dumbass houses and killing each other in every way possible, getting pissed and yelling at each other in real life whenever we took diamonds from each other... fuck adulting bro, i wanna grow up to be a kid again
Good video! Regarding 4:52, I think that's plausibly a delirious episode. I've had one half a decade ago due to extreme chronic sleep deprivation. But I didn't have any qualia of existentialism, just intrigued reflection instead, as I'm quite interested by altered states of mind. I think it's incredibly healthy that you are channeling this frustration into (video) essays. This way there can be actual societal change, as those with the capacity to articulate their words such as yourself are those that pave the way for people to even think about these things in a clear way. Regarding high school, don't worry, it gets better. I've had a quite bad experience with high school, but university or alternatively getting a job is leagues better. My disillusionment however has worsened my relationship to university and my lack of attention in high school as well as the complete rebellion against it has left me with academic regrets of insufficient mathematics and chemistry education, though those are the only two.
I go to one of the best high schools in America and it's the same. Most of my bad grades are due to me not doing homework because I wasted so much time in school doing nothing. I started sitting into my friends classes just to fill up my day while I wait for the next class to roll around so I can sleep through that before I'm let out. If I had control over my schedule I would cut out so much. My math teacher is such a joke that I just do whatever I want and ignore him if he says to get off my phone and I exclusively learn from the homework and tutoring because he doesn't explain anything. He just gives us work and tells us to figure it out.
Great video, but my best advice is to find something, anything that gives you intrinsic pleasure. Most jobs, school are bullshit, but if you enjoy the actual work minus the externalities it won't be too bad.
I stumble upon your video by chance. I think you are becoming more and more aware of how corrupted the world really is, and I give you a little advice:
Don't think yourself superior to the one still blind to this depressing system.
If you are hoping for a better future, then that future must be the future where people who you despise the most may thrive and live, as long as they don't harm the others.
You, too, still have many unfair biases based on your limited experience, and you are not aware of yourself enough to realize them. Be curious and opened minded.
It is not easy to fix the system that benefit the few in power. But if you have a strong connection to your community, it won't feel as hopeless as you feel now.
If you have a lot of free time in school, I think it is time to think about the future. Not to alarm you, but even if you have a master degree, most people in the USA still has a hard time finding a job that pay above the poverty rate. It is hard to own a house without pre-existing wealth.
Goodbye, and I hope you grow up strong.
For such a small channel, its really good to see such high production value. Good job. What stuff are you running/using?
I record on a Blue Yeti and use Davinci Resolve for everything, but I also have a nice space to record (underneath a blanket) that provides good sound dampening (as well as a compressor and noise gate)
Bro, just do some cool shit if you are so bored at school lmao.
Check out if you want but just make sure you have a tenable long term plan in mind. Use that time to think about where you’re heading long term.
He's doing a cool thing right at this moment by creating content lol.
Also, that “person” doesn’t exist, the structure is entirely self sustaining. Anyone who enters the halls of power with the intent to change it will quickly face the inevitable reality that it changes you more than you change it.
Real politics is praxis, and whilst engaging with the mainstream policial establishment isn’t exactly a “waste of time”, it’s an errand few are truly prepared for, worse yet, it’s an errand that draws good people with good skills that could be much better deployed elsewhere.
There are much more political actions with much greater depth of impact you can carry out than the illusory act of ticking a box every four years for red or blue.
Process your grief but give yourself a framework to do it with so you can start thinking creatively.
Yo what I didn't even realise you got only 200 subs, I got a feeling that you're really gonna blow up soon.
Amazing editing
Fabulous soundtrack
You’re my new fave! I’m 67 and I sound and talk very much like you. I have no idea what the implications are there…what a fucking conversation you and I could have. More…I’m watching.
What you are describing is the truth behind your captivity and you are the only person who seems to get this film for the most part. It's not about masculinity, sigma male, or an attack on modernity. He has recently became self aware and is becoming self actualized and the film is the mental breakdown it causes.
The matrix is real
But it's not what you think it is
Hearig about yor drab school days makes me appreciate the school I went to. Though also helped by the fact I was educated in a three tier secondary school. It definetively isn't an ideal system, but it makes it easier for curriculum and teachers to be tuned to the individual skills of the pupil.
As for your predicament, the establiseh system isn't at all designed to take the pupils feedback into account. I'd suggest to continue to educate yourself outside the system. Gather some peers and maybe augment your school days yourself. Depending on the teacher they might even be d'accord with you doing other stuf, as long as you manag your exams just fine.
As for me, I'm atm at a verry interesting place education wise. I'm doing an internship with integrated academic education specific for the job. The way the school teaches has been changing evry time I went there for the past year and a half. At the moment we have a project we have to complete and present afterwards. The aim is to get the project done, if we want to, we can go into workshops to get some inputs specific to a project ajacend topic and to get our questions in with someone who has the info we need.
Getting a fun education is highly dependant on how self-reliant and how motivated you are.
Good Luck, you'll figure something out.
You need to find purpose. That's hard without religion. Distracting yourself can only go so far; once you're on your deathbed, regret will settle. Find purpose.
The last line before the skit was the best. "And I'm sure they'll fix it soon"
America isn't capitalist, we're corporatist. "Too big to fail" would exist in a capitalist society
The definition of capitalism is the existence of private property, nothing else.
⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠Uh oh, individual thoughts detected⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠
Get back in line immediately sir. Deploying sigma male larp meme protocol to counter any thought detected.
I'm so glad I went to a charter school
Love the video, excellent presentation and editing!
I remember years ago in a family gathering, my father took a look at his phone, someone sent him a meme on whatsapp. it was a picture of winnie the pooh and someone else. the bear asked "what day is it?" and the other one said "Tuesday" to which pooh replied with "f*ck".
my father laughed after a second, and so did I after looking at his screen. he was confused as to why would I laugh, he said it was a joke only workers would get.
so yeah, that realization that the education system has it's similarities with the workforce is not very surprising.
great video you deserve more subs than this, your editing and recording skills are amazing
That’s why the best attitude to move through life with is to expect nothing in return and to make the changes you need, yourself. Nobody is going to do that for you. Not the faceless being at the top that you describe. To them you don’t exist anyway. Like a microbe, you can never stop moving, and in doing so, you can build your immediate reality into something that is more meaningful to you. You know what that’s like already. You can always just go bake some bread.
10/10 music taste
Why is a high schooler producing high quality videos than 25 year olds
Damn this was fresh as hell
no, this wont ever be fixed. this will go on forever and forever...
this person has to exist, because in part, its you. thank you
Cool video! I don't really know how to feel about it, so uh... Here is a like, nonetheless!!! : )
This was a great video; I subscribed right after watching it.
You've got my vote.
bro thinks he's him
don't worry i added a bit after the outro to address this
I love American Psycho as a satire and clicked on this video immediately, I’m 15 seconds in and have no idea if it’s gonna dog on the movie lmao, edit: 6:17 you forgot about the gay theory, murder is like sex and him admitting to his lawyer is like coming out but people deny him, there’s a vid about it by Orowen and I think you should watch it!
RIP MF DOOM
I'm curious to know what the average teaching process is like. I know you said it was just schoolwork, but, like, what is it?
How does the teacher introduce the subject, (attempt to) teach the subject, ask questions (do they even do that?), and what you the schoolwork be about?
The initial reason I started work on this video was because one of my amazing teachers suddenly resigned, leaving me with a relatively tiny daily workload as the substitutes had nothing to provide us (it was a history class and they mostly just came in to give us the standard American history spiel). The situation has improved slightly since I started writing the video a few months ago but I had 2-3 classes out of 7 a day that weren't a complete waste of my time, either not giving me any work or giving so little I was just sitting around at least 70% of it. I don't think the things I was and am being taught are pointless for the most part, just that it's provided to me incredibly slowly and painfully.
@Cpicy Cool! I ask because I didn't study high school in the U.S., and since a huge chunk of my family are teachers, I'm intrigued about what teachers can do to engage or disengage their students.
@@alexandredesouza3692 The best teacher I've ever had gave an assignment or two every week and spent all class lecturing, that's what kept me engaged.
Duuudee, great work you got here!
man do i relate with this video
Holy shit the quality of video man
what do you use to render these visuals?
Hey did you know that my point of view is very similar and I’ve also been spending 10 hours a day trying to not fall asleep in school (boredom hits different) and I’ve came to the conclusion that schools have a list of things in order (the first one is the most influential)
1 keeping kids somewhere to free up their parents to actually work .
2 teachings us about some stuff and morals.
As a conclusion schools first priority is to free up their parents that in turn have a enough time to work somewhere.
yo bro, capitalism creates capital through exponential growth, meaning that every laborer works exactly twice as hard as what is necessary to break even. The length of a school day relative tot he actual "learning" performed is to train you for that, to get used to spending Twice as much time on a series of tasks / to perform twice as many tasks as is needed without questioning it.
Whats the song at 0:53? I thinks it's and MF DOOM instrumental but can't remember the name
Zatar from Vol. 1 of Special Herbs
@@cpicy tx, great music choise
Hits hard
I go to school for the social aspect, do you not?
Just wait till college lol
great stuff
if theres one thing to do at school when you are not working, its doing something other than school you think will make the best use of that time. I mean, certain students realise that you can finish school work quick and dirty and they do that and do what they want with the time they save and is what ur doing rn lol :>
good work keep it up
Any movie that has high interpretability lacks thematic depth. These two components of a story exist on the opposite sides of a spectrum. In other words, the more ways you can interpret a story the less meaningful it is i.e. the less thematic depth that story has. You are misinterpreting the American psycho movie and you're not providing any evidence from the movie to support your interpretation.
The fact that different interpretations of the American psycho movie exist suggests that it lacks thematic depth. The term "thematic depth" suggests that a movie provides a well-reasoned argument to support one or more of its themes, but you use the word "thematic depth" to say something I don't understand? Do you even understand what you're saying? I certainly don't and it's not because I'm unfamiliar with either the movie or David Graeber's work.
This is a low quality video with a catchy title and an interesting premise. Please put more thought into your videos, and please use evidence from the movie (not from sources outside of the movie) to support your interpretation of the movie. You did not establish with clear logic and sound evidence that the American Psycho movie is about how Bateman's loss of agency is making him miserable. EVIDENCE MATTERS. Where is the evidence in the movie to support your argument?
American Psycho is a poorly written movie and that's why it has a "million" different interpretations. The novel might be a poorly written novel, but I haven't read the novel to say with confidence whether that's really the case. Perhaps the novel has a more definite meaning, but you didn't bother to find out. Instead, you just connected material that's wholly unrelated to both the movie and the novel and then just asserted that there was some connection between the movie and the Bullshit Jobs book without any evidence whastoever.
Why can't anyone reach the conclusion that if X movie or novel is ambiguous, it's because X movie or novel is a poorly thought out work of fiction? If you write a thesis paper on any subject at school, you will get a low grade, probably a D or even an E or an F, for writing a thesis with a highly ambiguous conclusion and arguments that are confusing and can contradict each other. But when a work of fiction is ambiguous we all say it's a masterpiece as if it's worth an A+. I think there's something wrong with the human species.
You prioritize expressing your political perspective over making a cogent argument. That's why I'm not going to subscribe to your channel. Your channel is a waste of potential.
Exactly what I was thinking. This was a coersion of the mind through being "smart" and being "sigma."
lacked a lot of structure but had potential
Cool story but I don’t get it are you a HS student or working a 9-5 at a soulless corporate job?
could be both "most of this video was written at school"
450 subs nice
Video!
yeah :)
Preach
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good shit
Good work kiddo. Keep up the critical thinking. The world needs people like us.
CPicy, you are a great channel and have gained a new sub. BTW, do you have a discord server?
Bro spent 5 minutes complaining about how hard school is for him because it's boring. Jesus Christ, wait 'til this guy has to get a job...
Who does bro think he is.
This video is legit the mindset of that one guy who thinks he's smarter then everyone else, and tries to find deeper meaning; just finish your school work kid: the class isn't designed for the average student, it's designed for the slowest student. If you really want more work just self educate.
Claiming that classes are designed for the slowest student isn't true, I know people who can barely pass a single class. There are too many people who aren't being paced correctly, either too fast or too slow.
Also I think your mindset of "I entirely agree that a problem exists and I think you should stop complaining" is a primary driving factor for suffering in the modern world