Thank you for appealing to wholesomeness. I think people often feel too embarrassed to do the right thing, because the degenerate culture says that's uncool.
Appealing to the wholesome should not be as easy as to put on a sincere face, however. This struck me the hardest when I listened to "This is water" by David Foster Wallace, where he says wholesome, matter-of-fact things, but he had to justify them and be specific.
Yeah, it's a real kick when you realize that by "cool," society means things like sodomy, debt, murdering your children in the womb, cutting your tee-tee off. So "cool."
[Verse 1: Richard Stallman] Well, I wrote this song for the Linux youth I wanna teach kids the FSF truth If you wanna reach those Zoomers on the web Then you gotta teach 'em how to pipe to grep So I gave my sermon a Unix kick My fonts are fly, my terminal's sick My Thinkpad runs GNU and it keeps running better That's 'cause Stallman's a trendsetter Woo! [Verse 2: Brodie Robertson] He's a DE-changer, window arranger browses his files real fast; uses ranger Wanna run Arch? scripts to remove any danger And he has a podcast doesn't use word, LaTek's more his style Ain't touched windows in a fairly long while All the other MCs, I wish them well But if you support MS you can go to hell Now I' ma pass the mic to the unaboomer himself Got more than 300 books up on that shelf Get ready, y'all don't know what y'all dealing with Take it away, Luke Smith! [Verse 3: Luke "Boomer" Smith] gEnToO iS aMaZiNg iT's ThE oRiGiNaL G And it was sent to Earth to elucidate the way that PCs should be (What?) (Epic Pranked, zoomer, hahahahaha) Like if another MC says, "Linux is for freaks! You're a half-baked Luser and your GUIs are weak!" I don't get mad but I do critique Sometimes you can't just turn the other cheek My software's free (as in free speech, not free beer!!!!!!!!), while window's is kinda sad /Boot is a Gig and doesn't need a flag I do exude a little Boomer swag And I'm proud to be an Arch User! [Verse 4: All Together Now] Arch is the way! Get the weather with curl every day! Let the AUR shove these updates down your throat like-"AeECHGHHHH *COUGH* *COUGH* *INHALE*"-onomatopoeia! Wanna write scripts? don't use bash...use zsh! [Verse 5: Luke "Boomer" Smith] If you do drugs and you think you're cool You need to hang out with the right guys in school! Put those drugs in a garbage can Stand up tall, you're a Linux man! Of the terminal, I am a big fan except when it comes to using the find co- [Sudden Interruption: Richard Stallman] Yo Luke I'mma tell ya this only once more so listen and pay heed or you'll find your X60 dismantled on the floor FSF is GOD, if you understand you better nod Windows is snake oil, fishier than cod after DOS they ran to Windows, MS made me go bulimic, srsly, I mean it I only ate steak, felt kinda hypoglycemic vim sucks- use emacs! you better nurture the seeds I've sown! I'll see to it that its features are the best you've ever know [Holy #!/bin/python3! epic comeback!: Luke "Boomer" Smith] Ayy Stallman, what's your problem? If watching my videos annoys you just click "X", and stop then Seriously the sheer nerves you have what's wrong? someone remove the "/porn" from your PATH? Bison are uninteresting, penguins are clever, why do you insist that emacs is better? your lack of vim proves that you always manage to achieve new lows If I see you again, I'mma take gcc to Microsoft and convince em to make GNU+Windows Boomer out
*mic drop* *Luke has made a good impression on the zoomers, they now have well-developed morals and advanced technical knowledge of dwm and dmenu* [Final words: Brodie Robertson] RIP Linux TORvalds 1991-2020
P.S. gedit the best editor P.P.S. actually, it's nano
Gen X here. We were lied to for a long, long time. We went the wrong way and we are guilty. There's plenty of blame to go around. I regret so much. You needed to make this video - it's time to turn the tide. This video hits deep. You have a friend you never met up here in Canada, God Bless you Brother.
Please don't think this guy speaks for all Gen X. I for one, welcome our new degenerate Zoomer overlords, and hope to be one of the first against the wall when they eventually take control (as is their birthright). May they end my suffering with minimum inconvenience to all parties.
@@SiisKolkytEuroo Boomers. Popular culture. Above all, the people demonstrated in the books of Edward Bernays, Edward Mandell House, Walter Lippman, Stanley Monteith and Bill Clinton's mentor, Carroll Quigley.
I was also born between 1961 and 1981. I used to look around at my idiots my parents' generation had raised and wonder just what sort of morons my generation would raise. Boy, didn't we just prove that we could destroy lives and ruin things every bit as thoroughly as any Boomer ever born?
The way people admire you and consider you a role model, and the fact that you take it seriously and strive to give an example... I'm telling you man, you're a hero.
This video hits really hard, I made quite a few poor choices in my teen years that messed with my mental state quite severely and took years to overcome and I've felt like I could use that to help children who don't have a positive mentor figure in their life to help them not go down the same road as me or one worse than mine. I was already debating volunteering with organizations in my local community once the lockdown and social distancing guidelines are over, but this video made me pull up a search of local organizations where I can do something to positively influence younger people and set them on a good path. Thanks for the inspiration.
I'm the same age as Luke, and it really is crazy to think back to how much we were bombarded with "if you think tv/movies/music/video games has any affect on people's behavior you must be a religious nut". On places like r*ddit you still see this sentiment never mind that 9/10 of what people were warning of in the late 90s early 2000s has become more "normal" or socially accepted. It really is some bizarre double-think phenomenon where you must ignore all of your own observations of the developments in your surroundings and just repeat the "official stance" or be shunned.
get out of the city, build and maintain relationships (with friends, with neighbors), find a good girl, marry and have kids. own land, learn skills. grow food and take care of animals, have a well. the world is beautiful and life is good
@@ヴァリ-z3e Either you are bad at baiting or just undearge newfriend. Whichever is the case - please lurk more before posting and embarassing yourself even further.
@@ba-a-a Option 2 it is. No I was being entirely serious. You See How Things Are- tell us about it (in front of an audience of 22k, remember), have your account deleted for defying The Man, and then remake it like nothing happened. Because nothing did. They aren't retroactively going to have assassins are they?
Im not a christian but I actually agree entirely. Even most of the truy depraved hedonists of rome before Christianization would have been appalled at the way people treat relationships today.
You have absolutely no idea what the Romans were up to before and after Christianity. That being said Christianity didn't make Rome more moral, it was a major part of what started to tear the empire apart
@@brokenlegs8431 Not per se, christianity wasn't what really caused the breakup, the empire was already on its way out the time christianity arrived. Hell, I'd go so far to say that Rome was already bleeding to death either after Aurelian died or the Tetrarchy broke apart. As for christianity, it was already here to stay and Constantine's conversion wasn't the problem, it was Theodosius' degenerate zealotry that pretty much fucked the west.
I've literally had the exact same thoughts. I feel horrible for the things I've done and how I might have influenced my friends and brother. Great video, dude. Stay safe out there. 🙏🏽
Kinda offtopic, but the background made me extremely jealous of your place, i hope i also manage to move to a place like this. I couldn't stand constantly hearing car engines and/or lawnmowers for the rest of my life. Ultra-Fast internet is not as important as the modern world has us believing, even occasionally loading updates for a few hours is no big deal if you can schedule it to your liking.
You are the reason I switched to vim + latex from overleaf and I almost missed my submission deadline, but now I look cool at least, thank you Uncle Luke!
One of the most important videos I've watched. Especially now with me meeting new people I realised how important it is to hold on my high moral standards. I didn't get this video initially because I didn't believe in things such as taking drugs in middle school, but know as I've met such people casually talking about it as if it's the norm, this video really clicked with me. Congrats Luke, you taught a Zoomer a very good lesson!
I remember when I was going through my far-right escapades where I was explaining why I do not respect bantu people, my nephew overheard it and started spewing alt-right lines in school and got him in trouble. I never talked to him about it either, kek.
Agreed. There's no age restriction in media in general, but especially online. Anybody who makes the choice to be a public personality has their own part in shaping what is acceptable in the minds of the younger people in their audience, whether they like it or not. Put something on adult sites, or make it so you need to log in - a fourth grader with an iPhone will still be able to find absolutely anything if they choose. Everybody needs to know that any time you do something publicly, kids will see and you will be a model. In an era where media is often so pornified or amoral, it's all the more important to model good behavior.
I just got baptized this weekend into the Orthodox Church and it was the happiest day of my life. the online community we're in that sees all this horrible stuff in the world everyday was unironically kind of helpful to me somehow. I found God after like 8 or 9 years atheism after getting that demonic influence HAS to be involved with stuff like jeffrey ep stein etc.. Once you realize that you're on the fasttrack to turning your life around imo.
Haha dude at the risk of sounding like a Stan you remind me so much of myself. This was a great video, we are the product of a generation raised by TV and we're just starting to wake up from our brainwashed induced stupor, we must think of the babies
This is a great video. We need to be the best role models we can be to help raise the next generation right. Accepting personal responsibility is the most important thing in growing up and becoming your own person. If we start a dialogue on these topics, we can help others to lead better, more fulfilling lives.
Luke is right. There is absolutely no reason to do the degenerate things that the media wants you to do. We are responsible for setting a good example to those younger than us. I can speak from personal experience that drug use only worsens your problems. I can understand someone using a cannabis based salve to treat rheumatoid arthritis but getting high doesn't help. Its only by the grace of God that I've got a family and a decent career. My life could've gone sideways and I'm extremely blessed that it didn't. I just want younger guys (and girls) to understand that its important to live your life by principles. As a Christian, I get mine from the bible. I would absolutely love if everyone were to give their lives to Jesus Christ but I know that won't happen. Just don't fall for the lies of this world.
Appreciate the video, Luke. I teach middle school and I need to be better at getting these types of messages to my students. Would love if you could do more videos on teaching, both the tech and your ideas for reaching the zoomers. We are really being steered toward using a lot of Google Classroom and Zoom, and I’m starting to hate it. It makes me want to go all analog next year...and get a cabin in the woods!
I think I mostly agree on what you said and you did well making a vid like that. I think we need public figures that promote creativity, research and knowledge. But, since I've seen this subtly promoted on other vids of yours as well, I feel like I need to say a few things. Being religious or going to the church isn't necessary for developing morals and ethics. A person that thinks critically can in most cases determine what is moral and what isn't. Being restricted by a set of rules that somehow represent the absolute goodness is not a way of life I would like to go by and I don't believe it's pedagogical or constructive for humanity. After all, morality is neither property nor a creation of Christianity. I think that being a good person has nothing to do with religion (if that were the case, Christianity and the others have failed miserably) but rather the environment in which someone grew up and his/her personality and his/her willingness to accept new ideas and change. Religion enforces its ideas through fear and this is something I'm really against. I 'm not saying I'm against everything it represents, I'm just saying that you don't need a guide to be good. You can be good by just by being good :)
The entire issue is that people are being sold this delusion of: "Be rational and 'think for yourself' and live life and learn on your own terms," and then they end up wasting their lives and at most learned what we should've just told them in the first place. In most cases, people are to arrogant to admit that their libidos were the wrong guide. This is the exact recipe of breaking everyone that has gotten us here.
@@LukeSmithxyz I don't think I can agree on that. People who constantly make bad decisions clearly lack critical thinking, i.e. they lack the ability to think of the consequences of their actions and how these will influence their life and the lives of the others around them. This happens either because they acted somewhat impulsively or they did a bad estimation (or none at all) on the outcome. Religion or not i think people who act like that will eventually make some bad decisions. Being a degenerate is not only a result of a person being "bad" but a consequence of many things. Yeah well some people are douches by nature but these people aren't the norm. For me it is not a "religion vs no religion" thing but rather "knowledge and constant self development/improvement vs ignorance and laziness". The last two lead to various non desirable outcomes. The willingness to change for the better is a major factor for developing as a human. Also, one last thing I have to say is that we're generalizing a lot and these things aren't absolute.
@@LukeSmithxyz that sounds more like lack of good parenting than lack of religion. I don't see why one would need to believe supernatural nonsense to know what's right and what's not.
Nope; I know Hyde well. He was 100% serious about this - indeed it is a problem. Edit: Using my up votes for good: let's all the non-lefties on the same distro and hold the lines >> Void ;)
@@DonYuJuana It is the same old person wanting to relate. "I'm really funny when I'm high - professional comedians like Hyde must agree with me..." Hyde: "I do not agree."
Honestly, I agree with what you're saying. I'm fifteen, I know kids who started vaping at ages from around thirteen to fifteen, I have to go to school with them but I honestly feel like I have almost no respect for most of the people I learn with. I don't think I have a say about relationships, because I don't really understand them fully, but I do feel like there's a lot of truth behind what you're saying. It just feels tough finding people who relate to me in that opinion, all I can say is "I don't care, do whatever you want. It's your body.", but I feel like I genuinely don't enjoy the fact that it happens. You make good videos, if you're reading this. I've been lurking here for a while, good content about tech and general life related stuff.
Well, that was a surprising video. Being as old as you, living in Canada and being on the far left side of politics, I'm just blown away how much I can agree and disagree with your views of the world. I remember that in one of your old videos you said something like "don't engage with SJWs, you're losing your time" (correct me if I'm wrong). I can understand that. Some views are irreconcilable and activism make many people closed to discussion with the other side (and I'm talking about my fellow leftists). But I would really to a have a real discussion with you (or people sharing your views); I'm confident bridges can be built.
I remember me and a bunch of my friends obsessed with "hitting rock bottom". I can't say I regret everything but clearly don't want to fall into that thought patternt again.
good video. People are so impressionable. I also had those views, feeling of not being influenced. I was 100% wrong, and my life is crap now, because of taking those influences to their limits.
i was trying to type a wall here but my english could't keep up, so i will just say Luke i think you're a good example to me and it makes me try to be a good example to others. thank
I'm guilty as well, my first comment was going to be 'Friends don't let friends use Windows' when honestly this was a pretty heavy talk - brother suffering and friends using heroin? Not a joke. Use of jokes and sarcasm is so prevalent now, you don't get real talk as much anymore..culture, media and people joke when uncomfortable. Thank you for this video, Luke.
Maybe I'm just the most boring person on the planet, but I never once even considered doing any form of drug. It just seams like its so incredibly obvious its gonna fuck you up for life and nothing else. At least with something like gambling theres a chance of success, so I get why people do that, but drugs are like jumping out the window without any idea of the consequences.
This is so true. Love the Chad Bible thumbnail btw. I made a few stupid decisions at college because I convinced myself that I shouldn't be so "uptight". After making those I regret them and I realize that it's time to make better decisions and be more outspoken about the fact that there are right decisions and wrong decisions. Morals aren't relative and to imply so is to be intentionally closing your eyes. When Luke says "You know what's degenerate" it's really easy to play dumb, but deep down we do know what is and isn't degenerate because morals aren't relative. There is absolute truth out there. Thank you Luke!
Don't smoke weed eat it, and stick with high CBD strains at either 1:1 ratio or higher. Either take it for legit medical reasons, meditation, or moderately consume it like alcohol if you plan to relax or have fun with it. It's more intense than coffee but better than alcohol. God bless Luke, thank you for the righteous message!
Thinking that I will probably have to find marriage material in the zoomer generation kinda scares me, to me honest. It's my only real concern, because society is doomed no matter what at this point. But I guess there are also benefits, since as the bad zoomers keep getting worse, the good ones may end up becoming easier to recognize. And there won't be a whole lot of competition since I keep getting better and everyone else keeps getting worse astoundingly quickly. So I guess it will be fine.
Why do people are always blame the young for all the world's problems? These problems has been manufactured by adults. It was the boomers, GenX and millennials who did that.
@@crusaderACR Not using RUclips anymore, for the most part. Odysee is the biggest thing that I regularly post on. Haven't made progress on actual life goals because of all the insanity caused by the world government in the last few years, but maybe I'll be able to this year. What I said in that post isn't a concern anymore, though. I'm in a better mental state than maybe ever because I made friends and that's kinda enough for my life to have actual purpose.
You'll find one. Not everyone is the same. I am gen Z as well. I don't think my generation is bad, it's just a little different. Never judge people for their generation.
Great video. I've thought about this myself and the conclusion I came to was kids don't have any experienced mentors. They're shoved into a community segregated by age and they pretty much just form their own dominance hierarchy. They have no experienced mentors who can guide them and who they can believe when they say don't make the same mistakes as me. I truly believe schools segregated by age are the root of this problem. Maybe if schools taught and enforced high moral standards it would work but idk.
The bigger problem is that people enforce the mentality that youth is automatically innocence. They think kids don't have in ate worldly instincts of their own. They lie cover up the world to children rather than say it like it is. Believe it or not, children were less innocent before TV and Internet. The idea of childhood being a sanctuary from worldly evil is a 18th century invention. Kids back then were exposed and trained to worldly things. You had boys whom were familiar with alcohol and cigars at age ten. They saw animals mating and death. They saw brawlers every night. Putting innocence as an inherent value onto children isn't good. Children don't need innocence, they need guidance. Why is society only concerned about the young while excusing the sins of the elders?
The part where you talk about influencing your brother with words that you didn't deeply feel were true is addressed in this book called the Four Agreements. Its like a self commitment to being sincere. : "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom is a self-help book by bestselling author Don Miguel Ruiz with Janet Mills. The book offers a code of conduct based on ancient Toltec wisdom that advocates freedom from self-limiting beliefs that may cause suffering and limitation in a person's life."
@moxy He can try, but kids don't internalize anything even if you're their father when you don't explain anything. They will only remember you talking something about weed.
moxy This is not really what is being discussed by Kiškis here (they were talking about explaining why something is bad to the person to whom you are trying to a good example), but about what you are saying, no, he can’t. Having a PhD alone isn’t enough of a justification for anything. Look up argumentum ad verecundiam.
I didn't do a lot of bad stuff in school, I was mostly a good kid, though a bit rebellious at times, but it's still interesting to see how my little brother interpreted my life from hearing about it over the dinner table (since we didn't go to the same school at the same time, except for the last few years of primary school). What I saw as not a big deal, he saw as a bigger deal, though luckily it wasn't anything that lead to him making bad decisions.
I think the problems you're calling out are very important. It seems to me that spending long periods of time in long-form discussion is a very effective way to develop agency over mainstream messaging and toxic, conditioned thought patterns. So instead of focusing our energy on saying the right thing less often, let's focus our energy on spending a lot of time considering the situation.
Hard to find anything to disagree about here (except the part on porn :D). I am not conservative or religious but I respect you and I listen to your views when they pop into my recommended videos.
imagine seeing a child on street rapping about shell script and the abolishment of roads
I'm imagining him doing it in that high-pitched soy dev voice he does
Please God make it so 🙏🏾
all my homies sudo
Now grep this homie...
You've inspired me to bully Linux users if their package count's too high.
:(
@@vvawarc more than 690 is to much
cant' do much about that on my gentoo install.
yes only 945 Packages but i guess its not my final packages number...
especially if their ~/ is a trash collector
ls -A | wc -l : 12
Luke "I used to freestyle rap" Smith
right! you cant just run over that statement like he used to plant fucking legums
Freestyle rap... Ok.
Luke "Shebang" Smith
Plot twist: it was in latin
No shame in that… unless it was in Python.
Young Luke confesses to hang out with Windows users.
1:24 ayy that's a cat just like in Minecraft
Thank you for appealing to wholesomeness. I think people often feel too embarrassed to do the right thing, because the degenerate culture says that's uncool.
Appealing to the wholesome should not be as easy as to put on a sincere face, however. This struck me the hardest when I listened to "This is water" by David Foster Wallace, where he says wholesome, matter-of-fact things, but he had to justify them and be specific.
Yeah, it's a real kick when you realize that by "cool," society means things like sodomy, debt, murdering your children in the womb, cutting your tee-tee off. So "cool."
[Verse 1: Richard Stallman]
Well, I wrote this song for the Linux youth
I wanna teach kids the FSF truth
If you wanna reach those Zoomers on the web
Then you gotta teach 'em how to pipe to grep
So I gave my sermon a Unix kick
My fonts are fly, my terminal's sick
My Thinkpad runs GNU and it keeps running better
That's 'cause Stallman's a trendsetter
Woo!
[Verse 2: Brodie Robertson]
He's a DE-changer, window arranger
browses his files real fast; uses ranger
Wanna run Arch? scripts to remove any danger
And he has a podcast
doesn't use word, LaTek's more his style
Ain't touched windows in a fairly long while
All the other MCs, I wish them well
But if you support MS you can go to hell
Now I' ma pass the mic to the unaboomer himself
Got more than 300 books up on that shelf
Get ready, y'all don't know what y'all dealing with
Take it away, Luke Smith!
[Verse 3: Luke "Boomer" Smith]
gEnToO iS aMaZiNg
iT's ThE oRiGiNaL G
And it was sent to Earth to elucidate the way that PCs should be (What?)
(Epic Pranked, zoomer, hahahahaha)
Like if another MC says, "Linux is for freaks!
You're a half-baked Luser and your GUIs are weak!"
I don't get mad but I do critique
Sometimes you can't just turn the other cheek
My software's free (as in free speech, not free beer!!!!!!!!), while window's is kinda sad
/Boot is a Gig and doesn't need a flag
I do exude a little Boomer swag
And I'm proud to be an Arch User!
[Verse 4: All Together Now]
Arch is the way!
Get the weather with curl every day!
Let the AUR shove these updates down your throat like-"AeECHGHHHH *COUGH* *COUGH* *INHALE*"-onomatopoeia!
Wanna write scripts?
don't use bash...use zsh!
[Verse 5: Luke "Boomer" Smith]
If you do drugs and you think you're cool
You need to hang out with the right guys in school!
Put those drugs in a garbage can
Stand up tall, you're a Linux man!
Of the terminal, I am a big fan
except when it comes to using the find co-
[Sudden Interruption: Richard Stallman]
Yo Luke I'mma tell ya this only once more
so listen and pay heed or you'll find your X60 dismantled on the floor
FSF is GOD, if you understand you better nod
Windows is snake oil, fishier than cod
after DOS they ran to Windows, MS made me go bulimic, srsly, I mean it
I only ate steak, felt kinda hypoglycemic
vim sucks- use emacs! you better nurture the seeds I've sown!
I'll see to it that its features are the best you've ever know
[Holy #!/bin/python3! epic comeback!: Luke "Boomer" Smith]
Ayy Stallman, what's your problem?
If watching my videos annoys you just click "X", and stop then
Seriously the sheer nerves you have
what's wrong? someone remove the "/porn" from your PATH?
Bison are uninteresting, penguins are clever,
why do you insist that emacs is better?
your lack of vim proves that you always manage to achieve new lows
If I see you again, I'mma take gcc to Microsoft and convince em to make GNU+Windows
Boomer out
*mic drop*
*Luke has made a good impression on the zoomers, they now have well-developed morals and advanced technical knowledge of dwm and dmenu*
[Final words: Brodie Robertson]
RIP Linux TORvalds
1991-2020
P.S.
gedit the best editor
P.P.S.
actually, it's nano
epic
Beautiful
bruh what zammn, youre such a legend
GNU+Windows... 😂😂😂😂
the amount of effort that went into writing this comment amazes me
Gen X here. We were lied to for a long, long time. We went the wrong way and we are guilty. There's plenty of blame to go around. I regret so much. You needed to make this video - it's time to turn the tide. This video hits deep. You have a friend you never met up here in Canada, God Bless you Brother.
lied to by whom?
Please don't think this guy speaks for all Gen X. I for one, welcome our new degenerate Zoomer overlords, and hope to be one of the first against the wall when they eventually take control (as is their birthright). May they end my suffering with minimum inconvenience to all parties.
@@hrhcrab Why wait? Johnny Mandell said "suicide is painless". Of course, if I believed that I would have pulled the trigger as a teenager.
@@SiisKolkytEuroo Boomers. Popular culture. Above all, the people demonstrated in the books of Edward Bernays, Edward Mandell House, Walter Lippman, Stanley Monteith and Bill Clinton's mentor, Carroll Quigley.
I was also born between 1961 and 1981. I used to look around at my idiots my parents' generation had raised and wonder just what sort of morons my generation would raise. Boy, didn't we just prove that we could destroy lives and ruin things every bit as thoroughly as any Boomer ever born?
imagining Luke spitting straight fire freestyle :0
Luke, please give us some Latin verses!!!!!
I imagine he raps in shell scripts
@@Ashkimbo shebangers
sike that's the wrong number
Linux Linguist in Da Hizzouse!
"Don't do anything in general degenerate." Basically don't do anything Hank Hill wouldn't do
*The furry has entered your comment*
dangit bobby
I bully people if they have more than 40 files in home directory
The way people admire you and consider you a role model, and the fact that you take it seriously and strive to give an example... I'm telling you man, you're a hero.
This video hits really hard, I made quite a few poor choices in my teen years that messed with my mental state quite severely and took years to overcome and I've felt like I could use that to help children who don't have a positive mentor figure in their life to help them not go down the same road as me or one worse than mine. I was already debating volunteering with organizations in my local community once the lockdown and social distancing guidelines are over, but this video made me pull up a search of local organizations where I can do something to positively influence younger people and set them on a good path. Thanks for the inspiration.
Proto-Indo-European freestyle when?
Luke's latin rap album when?
His Spanish accent is quite neat too
I'm the same age as Luke, and it really is crazy to think back to how much we were bombarded with "if you think tv/movies/music/video games has any affect on people's behavior you must be a religious nut". On places like r*ddit you still see this sentiment never mind that 9/10 of what people were warning of in the late 90s early 2000s has become more "normal" or socially accepted. It really is some bizarre double-think phenomenon where you must ignore all of your own observations of the developments in your surroundings and just repeat the "official stance" or be shunned.
You should do a video on what kids should do instead of degeneracy. "Clean the room" advice doesn't really work when the whole house is on fire.
Except this would be bannable offence. Welcome to 2020.
get out of the city, build and maintain relationships (with friends, with neighbors), find a good girl, marry and have kids. own land, learn skills. grow food and take care of animals, have a well. the world is beautiful and life is good
@@ba-a-a Your account's not valuable why don't you tell us about it?
You're not complaining just to complain, are you?
@@ヴァリ-z3e Either you are bad at baiting or just undearge newfriend. Whichever is the case - please lurk more before posting and embarassing yourself even further.
@@ba-a-a Option 2 it is.
No I was being entirely serious. You See How Things Are- tell us about it (in front of an audience of 22k, remember), have your account deleted for defying The Man, and then remake it like nothing happened. Because nothing did.
They aren't retroactively going to have assassins are they?
skipping lunch and "freestyle" "rap"? sounds pretty edgy, luke.
Luke Smith: Linux guru, freestyle rapper, moral authority.
shows how much you took away from this
Im not a christian but I actually agree entirely. Even most of the truy depraved hedonists of rome before Christianization would have been appalled at the way people treat relationships today.
Probably not considering how truly depraved they were. But your larger point is valid.
You have absolutely no idea what the Romans were up to before and after Christianity. That being said Christianity didn't make Rome more moral, it was a major part of what started to tear the empire apart
You should be Christian if you want to be saved from the consequences of your sins
@@brokenlegs8431 Not per se, christianity wasn't what really caused the breakup, the empire was already on its way out the time christianity arrived. Hell, I'd go so far to say that Rome was already bleeding to death either after Aurelian died or the Tetrarchy broke apart.
As for christianity, it was already here to stay and Constantine's conversion wasn't the problem, it was Theodosius' degenerate zealotry that pretty much fucked the west.
Challenge: Use "concupiscence" in a sentence.
Luke Smith: *starts recording*
Elevate you mind by eliminating meme English words, such as "Zoomers" "Cringe" et caetera, and start using unusual words like "concupiscent".
Oldfart here. Luke is 100% correct, and I sincerely hope he makes a difference to some younger folks lives. Ask me how I know.. :)
How do you know, grandpa coomer?
Gramps, tell us how you know.
I am a 17 year old from Nepal and Luke has really impacted my life and perception of life.
@@spacewad8745 11 ko board kurira ho?
This is now my favorite parenting channel.
I've literally had the exact same thoughts. I feel horrible for the things I've done and how I might have influenced my friends and brother. Great video, dude. Stay safe out there. 🙏🏽
That is so true. I often feel like you live in another dimension. These viewpoints so help to make sense of what the skeez really is happening around.
Kinda offtopic, but the background made me extremely jealous of your place, i hope i also manage to move to a place like this. I couldn't stand constantly hearing car engines and/or lawnmowers for the rest of my life. Ultra-Fast internet is not as important as the modern world has us believing, even occasionally loading updates for a few hours is no big deal if you can schedule it to your liking.
We're gonna need more freestyle in this channel from now on
I'm 20 and you influenced me into being paranoid online
Why is that?
@@Avo7977 its a joke
thank you Luke for introducing me to the cabin in the woods lifestyle!
You are the reason I switched to vim + latex from overleaf and I almost missed my submission deadline, but now I look cool at least, thank you Uncle Luke!
One of the most important videos I've watched. Especially now with me meeting new people I realised how important it is to hold on my high moral standards. I didn't get this video initially because I didn't believe in things such as taking drugs in middle school, but know as I've met such people casually talking about it as if it's the norm, this video really clicked with me.
Congrats Luke, you taught a Zoomer a very good lesson!
I remember when I was going through my far-right escapades where I was explaining why I do not respect bantu people, my nephew overheard it and started spewing alt-right lines in school and got him in trouble. I never talked to him about it either, kek.
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Agreed.
There's no age restriction in media in general, but especially online.
Anybody who makes the choice to be a public personality has their own part in shaping what is acceptable in the minds of the younger people in their audience, whether they like it or not. Put something on adult sites, or make it so you need to log in - a fourth grader with an iPhone will still be able to find absolutely anything if they choose.
Everybody needs to know that any time you do something publicly, kids will see and you will be a model. In an era where media is often so pornified or amoral, it's all the more important to model good behavior.
It is not really rare for Sam to 'break character', if you look at the stuff behind his paywall he is basically a self help guru
@Orkhiss Sam probably tells better advice than what our culture or media is saying
@Orkhiss Why do you say that?
@Orkhiss I can't see a commen you've made where you elaborated, maybe YT deleted it
@@mineis3andhalfinches865 if you look to Sam Hyde or even movies/tv shows ("our media") for advice you are beyond help
I just got baptized this weekend into the Orthodox Church and it was the happiest day of my life. the online community we're in that sees all this horrible stuff in the world everyday was unironically kind of helpful to me somehow. I found God after like 8 or 9 years atheism after getting that demonic influence HAS to be involved with stuff like jeffrey ep stein etc.. Once you realize that you're on the fasttrack to turning your life around imo.
Luke in 16: haha I listen to rap, smoke and do edgy stuff
Luke now: I have my own land, house, YT channel and based political views
Life goals haha
@@muydale I hope not
@Finger Uke (Stephanie) Pieces of the western classical cannon written for a noble's court still technically count as commercially published.
Haha dude at the risk of sounding like a Stan you remind me so much of myself. This was a great video, we are the product of a generation raised by TV and we're just starting to wake up from our brainwashed induced stupor, we must think of the babies
Thank you Luke for this post ,just pray when feel something bad specially for your parents and kids
This is a great video. We need to be the best role models we can be to help raise the next generation right. Accepting personal responsibility is the most important thing in growing up and becoming your own person. If we start a dialogue on these topics, we can help others to lead better, more fulfilling lives.
Pretty glad my mother instructed me not to drink, regardless of the example my dad may have otherwise made on me.
Luke is right. There is absolutely no reason to do the degenerate things that the media wants you to do. We are responsible for setting a good example to those younger than us.
I can speak from personal experience that drug use only worsens your problems. I can understand someone using a cannabis based salve to treat rheumatoid arthritis but getting high doesn't help.
Its only by the grace of God that I've got a family and a decent career. My life could've gone sideways and I'm extremely blessed that it didn't.
I just want younger guys (and girls) to understand that its important to live your life by principles. As a Christian, I get mine from the bible. I would absolutely love if everyone were to give their lives to Jesus Christ but I know that won't happen.
Just don't fall for the lies of this world.
Appreciate the video, Luke. I teach middle school and I need to be better at getting these types of messages to my students.
Would love if you could do more videos on teaching, both the tech and your ideas for reaching the zoomers. We are really being steered toward using a lot of Google Classroom and Zoom, and I’m starting to hate it. It makes me want to go all analog next year...and get a cabin in the woods!
I think I mostly agree on what you said and you did well making a vid like that. I think we need public figures that promote creativity, research and knowledge. But, since I've seen this subtly promoted on other vids of yours as well, I feel like I need to say a few things. Being religious or going to the church isn't necessary for developing morals and ethics. A person that thinks critically can in most cases determine what is moral and what isn't. Being restricted by a set of rules that somehow represent the absolute goodness is not a way of life I would like to go by and I don't believe it's pedagogical or constructive for humanity. After all, morality is neither property nor a creation of Christianity. I think that being a good person has nothing to do with religion (if that were the case, Christianity and the others have failed miserably) but rather the environment in which someone grew up and his/her personality and his/her willingness to accept new ideas and change. Religion enforces its ideas through fear and this is something I'm really against. I 'm not saying I'm against everything it represents, I'm just saying that you don't need a guide to be good. You can be good by just by being good :)
The entire issue is that people are being sold this delusion of: "Be rational and 'think for yourself' and live life and learn on your own terms," and then they end up wasting their lives and at most learned what we should've just told them in the first place. In most cases, people are to arrogant to admit that their libidos were the wrong guide. This is the exact recipe of breaking everyone that has gotten us here.
@@LukeSmithxyz I don't think I can agree on that. People who constantly make bad decisions clearly lack critical thinking, i.e. they lack the ability to think of the consequences of their actions and how these will influence their life and the lives of the others around them. This happens either because they acted somewhat impulsively or they did a bad estimation (or none at all) on the outcome. Religion or not i think people who act like that will eventually make some bad decisions.
Being a degenerate is not only a result of a person being "bad" but a consequence of many things. Yeah well some people are douches by nature but these people aren't the norm. For me it is not a "religion vs no religion" thing but rather "knowledge and constant self development/improvement vs ignorance and laziness". The last two lead to various non desirable outcomes. The willingness to change for the better is a major factor for developing as a human.
Also, one last thing I have to say is that we're generalizing a lot and these things aren't absolute.
@@LukeSmithxyz that sounds more like lack of good parenting than lack of religion. I don't see why one would need to believe supernatural nonsense to know what's right and what's not.
@@recarsion Cringe
@@NitBeanTheMachine care to elaborate?
Videos like these are the reason why I love watching your channel. Basic moral guidance is really hard to come by nowadays.
then read cicero
@@JK-pi6ji "A room without books is like a body without a soil."
@@donny484 specifically de officiis
Interesting to talk about inspiration, as you are actually inspiring me on starting a little plantation.
Somehow I never imagined you freestyling.
Nope; I know Hyde well. He was 100% serious about this - indeed it is a problem.
Edit: Using my up votes for good: let's all the non-lefties on the same distro and hold the lines >> Void ;)
Where does the weed stuff even come from? He has only ever been derisive about it, and constantly morally high grounds about it.
@@DonYuJuana It is the same old person wanting to relate. "I'm really funny when I'm high - professional comedians like Hyde must agree with me..." Hyde: "I do not agree."
If you know him well is he unironically a white nationalist? He's still quite popular with that crowd.
@@Tb0n3 I heard the name Tb0n3 was popular on a pro-Hitler message board. Perhaps you should change your name and delete your account.
@@Tb0n3 Still aspiring for New York Times, "Blockhead" Joe?
Thanks for making this video, Luke.
LUKE HAS A CAT
LUKE HAS A CAT
He asked "Is that a cat?", and lives out in a field in the middle of nowhere, so it might just be a wild cat.
This cat was actually in his house in his previous video
@@kot3405 kot ID get
Honestly, I agree with what you're saying. I'm fifteen, I know kids who started vaping at ages from around thirteen to fifteen, I have to go to school with them but I honestly feel like I have almost no respect for most of the people I learn with. I don't think I have a say about relationships, because I don't really understand them fully, but I do feel like there's a lot of truth behind what you're saying.
It just feels tough finding people who relate to me in that opinion, all I can say is "I don't care, do whatever you want. It's your body.", but I feel like I genuinely don't enjoy the fact that it happens.
You make good videos, if you're reading this. I've been lurking here for a while, good content about tech and general life related stuff.
You'd be surprised about how vulgar kids were long before the Internet. And alt of people are vaping in their fifties.
You’re so based I love it.
Luke “Trad” Smith.
Well, that was a surprising video. Being as old as you, living in Canada and being on the far left side of politics, I'm just blown away how much I can agree and disagree with your views of the world. I remember that in one of your old videos you said something like "don't engage with SJWs, you're losing your time" (correct me if I'm wrong). I can understand that. Some views are irreconcilable and activism make many people closed to discussion with the other side (and I'm talking about my fellow leftists). But I would really to a have a real discussion with you (or people sharing your views); I'm confident bridges can be built.
Is communism a meme or do you think it's actually possible?
@@TotalNigelFargothDeath sweet old meme
@@anuragstutorials9484 based
I remember me and a bunch of my friends obsessed with "hitting rock bottom". I can't say I regret everything but clearly don't want to fall into that thought patternt again.
good video. People are so impressionable. I also had those views, feeling of not being influenced. I was 100% wrong, and my life is crap now, because of taking those influences to their limits.
i was trying to type a wall here but my english could't keep up, so i will just say Luke i think you're a good example to me and it makes me try to be a good example to others. thank
Your videos have inspired me to start freestyle rapping, thanks Luke!
Regretfull battle hardened Boomer rants about Morality, this gonna be my favorite Story Arc in the Luke Smith Anime.
thanks, dad
Thanks for inspiring me to smoke weed, Luke!
I'm guilty as well, my first comment was going to be 'Friends don't let friends use Windows' when honestly this was a pretty heavy talk - brother suffering and friends using heroin? Not a joke. Use of jokes and sarcasm is so prevalent now, you don't get real talk as much anymore..culture, media and people joke when uncomfortable. Thank you for this video, Luke.
Thank you Luke, listening to your "not related" series makes me want to smoke weed
Maybe I'm just the most boring person on the planet, but I never once even considered doing any form of drug. It just seams like its so incredibly obvious its gonna fuck you up for life and nothing else. At least with something like gambling theres a chance of success, so I get why people do that, but drugs are like jumping out the window without any idea of the consequences.
This is so true. Love the Chad Bible thumbnail btw.
I made a few stupid decisions at college because I convinced myself that I shouldn't be so "uptight".
After making those I regret them and I realize that it's time to make better decisions and be more outspoken about the fact that there are right decisions and wrong decisions. Morals aren't relative and to imply so is to be intentionally closing your eyes.
When Luke says "You know what's degenerate" it's really easy to play dumb, but deep down we do know what is and isn't degenerate because morals aren't relative. There is absolute truth out there.
Thank you Luke!
"but deep down we do know what is and isn't degenerate because morals aren't relative."
This is simply false.
absolutely my friend! Truth exists.. lies are invented.
GOKOP yeah, it makes me cringe to read that part of the comment
Great message Luke. New sub because of it.
Freestyle about arch linux and i will go to church every Sunday not even kidding
I smoked 1 weed and now I run arch
is cating into grep degenerate?
yes
Don't smoke weed eat it, and stick with high CBD strains at either 1:1 ratio or higher. Either take it for legit medical reasons, meditation, or moderately consume it like alcohol if you plan to relax or have fun with it. It's more intense than coffee but better than alcohol.
God bless Luke, thank you for the righteous message!
Don't take weed at all, you dumb fuck. I'm not even sure if this is comment is serious...
Hello Luke, Can you talk about Vim vs Neovim?
neovim > vim
ed > ex > vi > vim > neovim
@Yang ni
Thinking that I will probably have to find marriage material in the zoomer generation kinda scares me, to me honest. It's my only real concern, because society is doomed no matter what at this point. But I guess there are also benefits, since as the bad zoomers keep getting worse, the good ones may end up becoming easier to recognize. And there won't be a whole lot of competition since I keep getting better and everyone else keeps getting worse astoundingly quickly. So I guess it will be fine.
Why do people are always blame the young for all the world's problems? These problems has been manufactured by adults. It was the boomers, GenX and millennials who did that.
How's it going nowadays for you
@@crusaderACR Not using RUclips anymore, for the most part. Odysee is the biggest thing that I regularly post on. Haven't made progress on actual life goals because of all the insanity caused by the world government in the last few years, but maybe I'll be able to this year. What I said in that post isn't a concern anymore, though. I'm in a better mental state than maybe ever because I made friends and that's kinda enough for my life to have actual purpose.
You'll find one.
Not everyone is the same. I am gen Z as well. I don't think my generation is bad, it's just a little different.
Never judge people for their generation.
That's a nice lawn
I'll be waiting for that EP
Great video. I've thought about this myself and the conclusion I came to was kids don't have any experienced mentors. They're shoved into a community segregated by age and they pretty much just form their own dominance hierarchy. They have no experienced mentors who can guide them and who they can believe when they say don't make the same mistakes as me. I truly believe schools segregated by age are the root of this problem. Maybe if schools taught and enforced high moral standards it would work but idk.
The bigger problem is that people enforce the mentality that youth is automatically innocence. They think kids don't have in ate worldly instincts of their own. They lie cover up the world to children rather than say it like it is.
Believe it or not, children were less innocent before TV and Internet. The idea of childhood being a sanctuary from worldly evil is a 18th century invention. Kids back then were exposed and trained to worldly things. You had boys whom were familiar with alcohol and cigars at age ten. They saw animals mating and death. They saw brawlers every night.
Putting innocence as an inherent value onto children isn't good.
Children don't need innocence, they need guidance.
Why is society only concerned about the young while excusing the sins of the elders?
Bust some sick rhymes for us Luke!
Now I wanna hear Luke freestyle during lunch break
These videos are fascinating. The follow up will be interesting.
pater noster, ne nos inducas in quo non est approbata per FSF
amen
i would say quae instead of quo, acc neutrum plural?
This is a very wholesome video with a deeply profound message.
strange, I also hung out with stoners, freestyle rapped, live in Florida, never smoked , and use GNU/Linux as my main OS.
The part where you talk about influencing your brother with words that you didn't deeply feel were true is addressed in this book called the Four Agreements. Its like a self commitment to being sincere. :
"The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom is a self-help book by bestselling author Don Miguel Ruiz with Janet Mills. The book offers a code of conduct based on ancient Toltec wisdom that advocates freedom from self-limiting beliefs that may cause suffering and limitation in a person's life."
Yes! When you put something out there, you unintentionally set a standard!
I’m addicted to Vim because of you 😪
i wanted to thank you for inspiring me to use windows. thank you so much!
thankx papa smith for such great advice
That cat looks like it could take down a deer.
Please upload a free style
I don’t know why I’m just now finding this video, but it’s your most important one.
Memes aside, you're a good guy. I wish you and your family well.
You shouldn't just say bad thing is bad, explain why it's bad.
@moxy He can try, but kids don't internalize anything even if you're their father when you don't explain anything. They will only remember you talking something about weed.
moxy This is not really what is being discussed by Kiškis here (they were talking about explaining why something is bad to the person to whom you are trying to a good example), but about what you are saying, no, he can’t. Having a PhD alone isn’t enough of a justification for anything. Look up argumentum ad verecundiam.
moxy Well, you never know
moxy Besides, I have already talked to people who say that seriously, I can’t always assume it’s a joke even in channels where memes rule.
Zoomer here, just wanted to say I really enjoy your videos
1:22 kitty!
I didn't do a lot of bad stuff in school, I was mostly a good kid, though a bit rebellious at times, but it's still interesting to see how my little brother interpreted my life from hearing about it over the dinner table (since we didn't go to the same school at the same time, except for the last few years of primary school). What I saw as not a big deal, he saw as a bigger deal, though luckily it wasn't anything that lead to him making bad decisions.
I think the problems you're calling out are very important. It seems to me that spending long periods of time in long-form discussion is a very effective way to develop agency over mainstream messaging and toxic, conditioned thought patterns. So instead of focusing our energy on saying the right thing less often, let's focus our energy on spending a lot of time considering the situation.
"Sam Hyde never breaks character ever"
What do you mean "breaks character"?
You'll never stop me from cooming Luke
Wait so you are telling me that using windows 10 *might* be okay‽
Thanks Luke! You inspired me to eat more vegetables.
I really wish I had grown up around influences that said "yes, there are moral standards, actually".
Hard to find anything to disagree about here (except the part on porn :D). I am not conservative or religious but I respect you and I listen to your views when they pop into my recommended videos.
@@reggiestickleback7794 lol
Its really hard to start praying again even if you recovered your faith just because you feel embarrassed to do it infront of your family.