It's not the disagreement that is the problem for me, I'm completely fine with people disagreeing with me. It's the fact that I can't voice my opinions irl without fear of my entire life being cancelled into oblivion.
I feel the same, the only time I voice my opinion now is when I can back it up with predictive evidence. People get more curious about your opinion when they feel you have information they might want.
@@IFYOUWANTITGOGETIT I'd still be careful. I have witnessed situations where people would pretend to agree with someone (when presented with sufficient contr-argument) just to run to HR afterwards to tell them all about it. Bottom line is that it doesn't matter if you're wrong or right, if your opinion is agains the common narrative - you're still fck'd.
those people are crazy but you are just a bitch lol. acting as if you are anything worth cancelling. if you are afraid of the "consequences" of saying what you "believe", that will never be on anyone but you. talk your shit or dont falsely believe cancel culture is actually a thing.
My elderly mother wouldn't know how to get online if her life depended on it, yet she has become just as brainwashed and ideological via legacy media. People are determined to look to an authority figure to lead them in what they hope is a positive direction. If you can make people afraid AND seem like you know how to navigate the darkness, the masses will obey and eagerly defend you. When some EMP attack brings down the internet, people will not snap out of their trance and be reasonable again, they'll just follow whoever says "I know how this happened and what to do."
This is exactly true. Legacy media has adopted all the worst behaviours of internet culture to try to compete with what's online. Society has been so thoroughly poisoned by it all, it wouldn't change if you took the internet away. Exactly true about people looking for someone who claims to have all the answers and throws fear around also. This is true of the left and the right, just in different ways.
True ! "Dysfunctional" is the description of a society present in all Civilisations, before their fall. The French Kingdom before their Revolution, the Ottoman Empire, Austrian Empire before becoming the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire itself, the Spanish empire, etc. History is there to learn from past mistakes ... with other words: A People/Culture/Country that doesn't know its Past, doesn't deserve a Future.
@sixtyinsix I think of civilization like a car engine. When it is small and simple, it runs great and for a long time. When it's gets too big, too powerful, too complicated, you end up with all kinds of problems and breakdowns.
Over the years my use of the internet has increased as I've gotten older. I tend to find less satisfaction with people in the real world and find those who share my values online.
How come you find less satisfaction with real world conversations? In my opinion a good conversation (even with someone you don't agree with) is tremendously more valuable then exchanging some text messages on the internet. Find some friends/relatives who you can connect with!
@@St63420 The idea that hiding is an option shows how naive bith of you are. Do you know how much money it costs to find an individual using private investigators? It's about 500 USD. If you use the internet and are slightly savvy, it's free.
Feels more like 1984 with thoughtcrime, new-think, double-think, rewriting of history, and the telescreen (literally a screen that also watches you) all explicitly manifesting. Then there is the coming true of certain quotes like 'children will spy on their parents', and ‘It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.’ Note that in terms of Orthodoxy we have simply switched from heavily and totally enforcing Christian and religious orthodoxy with totalitarian left orthodoxy, and how is it achieved? Through semiotical manipulation of established ideas, historical events, and above all Evolutionary psychology which is dismissed as socialisation.
@@mattrovis-hermann9194your telescreen fits in your pocket so O'Brien can hear us better. He'll be at our doors sometime soon just for having this exchange.
I don't agree with your point. The controllers work 24/7 to encourage us to hate each other. As long as they control the printing of money, a revolution is going to be challenging. Be well.
@@NoMoreTalkingghuge advantage is a relative term, advantage when compared to what? And it’s also not clear to me that more knowledge can be assumed to be a good thing, what is the consequence of more knowledge
Its simple. The Internet pulled down the old, burlap curtain. Now, the powers are trying to build it back, but they are not being fully successful. It is mostly a weapon against the illusions we have been being fed for millenials. Its still used this way. We're finding out in real time, for example, that federal agencies are lying about real world events. Its sunshine that can disinfect the shadows, but the shadows are fighting back.
@@neverbeganforme how is it a disadvantage? 99% of guys are jerking off and addicted to social. The whole goal to life is the play the game and be the best you can be. You can’t play the game and be the best if you don’t understand all the rules even if the rules might hurt your emotional feelings. Most men are weak and hang on to pussy for dear life and throw everything else away for it. Their effort, time, money, focus, attention, respect etc. Most men are addicted to it looking at girls online, and on top of that you got idiot streamer luring them in the wrong direction, and other influencers. If you’re black pill like me with r discipline you realize it is a huge advantage. I’m in the best shape I’ve ever been in and it’s only getting better, because the information given online. I know all the best training regimens etc. if I need to learn how to fix a flat tire I can. Let the other people kill themself’s on social media if you’re anything like me you don’t go on it and use safari, or RUclips for knowledge purposes only. Not only are you smart enough to use it to get even smarter, but you got other people getter dumber, and weaker.
It's just the resurfacing of the aristocracy. It's the default setting for humanity. And it's cyclical. So, there _is_ a going back, just not in our lifetime. Our lives came at the end of a golden era, not the beginning or the middle.
Millonials and Gen z and probably even alpha are not going to have it easy. We will be around for the time where we have to pickup all the shattered pieces of the end of that era so the next one can start a new
@@aaronrodgers9202 What annoys me is that all this could’ve been prevented. Yes, cycles happen. But the severity of how bad this one is….and the relatively quick pace it took for the good times to end….. is entirely society’s fault.
You only need to care in so far as you are a part of this society. The further you can extract yourself from it, the less you need to care. And that extraction is somewhat challenging.
Well, that sentiment has been becoming the norm for a while for a reason. You're not a revolutionary snowflake with transcendental thoughts. You're a slave like the rest of us to the events that shape us
The real choice is how long do we want to live in a dying, reach out and touch analog world, that is getting smaller by the day, and when do we totally embrace the coming, mostly here, digital matrix. I remember my rambunctious childhood in the late 70's to early 80's and then look at my grandchildren, overweight, isolated and vegging out on their electronic devices, and don't even know or even care to know the neighborhood kids, a tear comes to my eye for how much good has been lost in this 'so-called' digital revolution.
Karen's and Ken's have created this as well. Things that were once mischievous is now a felony. Post 9/11, sub contracting safety is far more valuable than freedom. Excessive bxxtlicking of authorities just for taking a job. People looking to them for every single fix in the world. Well the fix is going to be can't-do, instead of a positive result. These are some of the many things to blame as well. Not just the internet.
@@imagoodlistener2730 I agree, we have lost a lot. 'Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty or safety' -Benjamin Franklin We were warned.
@@kurt2022 I can dig it. I like the old sayings and history. Most are not taught any of that today. It's sad. It's so easy to maintain rather than destroy and rebuild. Whatever. I'm just along for the ride. I'm so glad I didn't subject any future lineage to what's here or what is to come. I never wanted to start ever story with, "Back in the day, you used to be able to do this."... Insert a life long memory and experience here.
Many of your generation lament the current Zeitgeist but did nothing to counter it. Not saying that's your case in specific since I have nothing to base myself off, but the point is that: how often, if ever, have people from the same generation as yours ever asked themselves "what am I doing to make sure that my descendants will have a better life than myself?" - we know the answer for a fact, not because they are evil but because they honestly didn't really care or ever thought of that. It is for that very reason that a later "lamenting" when looking at their grandchildren comes off as arrogant to say the least. Until the very end of their lives they are still striving for that pretend game of virtue signalling and "divine-like" self image. It's ego incarnate in a generation, again, not born of malice but of indifference. If anyone reading this is still sceptical or ignorant of what I am talking about, merely look at the Zeitgest of the 70s and 80s; look at what the youngsters were doing and what their parents were (not) doing. Maybe you're the exception, it matters not, but the whole history is there, already happened, and cannot be retroactively changed.
I agree with the split happening around 2013. The doomsayers were technically right about the world ending thanks to the Mayan calendar: the old world everyone grew up in was killed off to make way for the one we have now.
Brother! Relatively no one believes it happened. I pinpoint the date of Occupy Wall St. That is when the elite used every apparatus (money, media, lawfare, torture) against us. The let them eat cake moment whispered in a dark room, but with full fury upon the masses. Racial division spiked in media mentions. Ever since the system and society has continued to degrade (reality). We will all come to terms with the "Great Awakening" as what we thought was our actual reality disintegrates into a reality more like the reality in the movie The Matrix.
I’m pretty positive that our biggest weakness is that we, as humans, forget we are still wild animals who just happened to win natures genetic lottery with regards to self awareness. Anyone else?
I grew up a child with no internet. The outside world, the woods and based personal interactions were/are real to me. When the online world became super reality, I was hooked like every other. I struggle to give the outside world enough attention. My yard must be mowed.
I had a little incident with my aunt the other day. She commented on people staring at their phone all the time.... while starting at a TV. I didn't comment of course but it did make me think. Most conversations tend to be opinion based and when it's in person there is this pressure to confirm, conformity by proximity. And a lot of the "conversation" that takes place is more about massaging the other person to your point of view. With the Internet now, you have access to people you don't need to win over to your side but also you have counter evidence to a lot of the opinions people hold at your fingertips, literally. This effect, conformity by proximity, is something exploited by a lot of people in workplaces, political rallies and so on. Often by those with "riz", blessed with halo effect or similar advantages. The Internet bypasses this, throw in filters and all and you got something disrupting the normal order.
That the main reason it really isn't worth "conversing", if you can call it that, with the average person IRL. You go there expecting a conversation but all you get is someone demanding their ego to be massaged or else "get out of here".
It’s interesting how with the modern internet we have access to vast amounts of information, far more than at any other time in history. And yet knowledge still eludes most of us.
There’s a lot of (let’s just say, “not smart”) people in this world who….despite having access to essentially all of humanity’s knowledge……will only seek out and accept information that confirms their pre-existing biases and worldview, instead of analyzing all sides of the info and then reaching most logical conclusion. They’d rather wallow in ignorance and delusion than ever admit or accept that their beliefs and opinions about the world are wrong. This is what happens when you attach your identity to frivolous ideas.
That's because the amount of information is so great and added to that a bunch of noise/garbage information that you end up invariably with what you mentioned. Nothing new under the sun and this is by design by the way, not accidental.
There is no middle ground in these current years, you’re ether on one side or the enemy. People who used to be in the middle have been forced into a side or just leaving society entirely. There is nothing to be done that can fix this problem any time soon
lol it’s been so much worse than this in the past and we persevered.. things aren’t nearly as bad today as many of you think. Stop watching doomer content
Great video! I’m 46 and just today I was thinking how much of my free time I spend on podcasts,RUclips and browsing but thankfully no social media accounts or streaming services. It’s really scary thinking how much worse it’s going to get as these younger generations get older and get in positions of power and influence. For them a world without the internet is like me thinking of a world without cars. It’s almost unfathomable.
I found it increasingly more difficult to make friends ever since the 2016 election. A lot of people lost a lot of friends and then 20/20 made that even worse
The big problem is that instead of making us better critical thinkers and bringing us together, the internet has made us more desensitized and polarized. Having so much information at our fingertips has made us 1) outsource our thinking to a machine, and if we don’t use it we lose it. 2) have so much contradictory information, so there is more disinformation making us less informed instead of information making us more knowledgeable 3) dig into one side of the information given and hold directly opposing views to those who received the opposite information. Also, this all affect communication with the other side. This is why modern debates are functionally useless. Nobody goes in and admits their view or information was wrong. They each point to their own sources, studies, and examples that directly contradict one another, but that each side still claims is entirely correct when that cannot be the case by definition. This leads to more polarization and you get a positive feedback loop.
"This is why modern debates are functionally useless." debates are only useful when you have an audience to persuade that have no skin in the game. You are not persuading your enemy on the other side. Thats right... your ENEMY. Its the people who got no strong opinion in the matter that you want to bring to your side.
Objective reality the person acknowledges on their own should settle a debate, but: 4) delusion rather than admit error. For example a day before the fateful debate I asked a few people for direct confirmation, "So, you really see no sign of senility or any cognitive decline." But these people are now speaking like that man does not exist. They're dancing around something they realized by their own observation. And I'm not gonna press their egos.
I would say Humanity deserves and needs to fully be engulfed in the Apocalypse, by nature doing its thing for being so completely removed from anything, completely out of touch and completely losing the plot to put it lightly but that would only be the half truth. Truth is it was rigged right off the bat, everything comes down to biology/DNA etc, we all came with a blueprint into this world. Conclusion: Clownworld Clownfiesta. Tragedy or comedy? It's all a joke.
That's a harsher division than urban vs. rural, true. Another dichotomy attached to these is of subculture vs. neighbourhood. I mean interacting only with people in your trade, social class, gender, club, etc. Not... ah dammit: _Sesame Street: People in Your Neighborhood with Bob_ almost made my cry for a better time when "a grocer is a person in your neighbourhood ... a person who you meet each day" and "a doctor is a person in your neighbourhood, in your neighbourhood".
@@pong9000 Yeah, thats a fair observation also. I guess my point was that humanity being split in two was probably the norm/default state. Industrialised/non-industrialised was the biggest example that occurred to me. To my mind that is far more stark than the online/offline dichotomy....however the difference is that in the industrialised/non industrialised example it was a case of never the twain shall meet. It referred to people in different countries. The online/offline dichotomy could be people living next door to one another.
There was a time when the "Internet" was known as the "Arpanet" and you needed a very expensive business/government/home computer system to access any part of it, and it was used mostly by the government and/or big business to stay in touch with it's employees around the globe. There were no selfies, no OF, no travel vlogs, only printed communication on a screen. Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
Yeah everybody was so hopeful that the world would end in 2012 like the Mayan calendar said, so that when it DIDN'T end and they still had to go DO stuff they started trying to bring about the end themselves
I was kinda shocked to hear that young people are losing peripheral vision from staring into the damned screens during their brain development. Scary stuff.
@@jackthetech5105Yes, I do remember being taught that in my history classes in Ohio when I was growing up. But the teachers didn’t do a good job of tying the conflict to a wider global conflict. They tended to focus on the war as an eventual step lurching toward the American Revolution.
@@Krelian4400exactly. I never got the “sit back and watch the world burn” type of dudes. How is this entertainment? It’s a snuff film for chrissakes, and it’s expanding to us.
Being 60, lived in several countries, end of Cold War and lived in some conflicts , There has never been anything as monumental as the internet ( or mobile internet) and now ai internet. I agree completely. Nothing like it ever. Probably detrimental but what can you do .
I'm glad I lived the change in what common folks call being tall, was there when it was 5'10 and all up to 6'3...I'm also glad I lived through the age of the internet, from its infancy on obscure forums to social medias of now...gen alpha are into some true battlefield of sexual selection, last it was like this was 11000 years ago according to archeological studies. It all points at things being in a grand cycle.
When the automobile was invented, there was no going back to using the horse and cart for transportation and cargo. With the invention of recorded sound, gone were the days when the sole option people had for listening to music was to attend concerts. The ceaseless march of time...
Exactly. It boggles my mind how there are some in this community who complain about the internet and social media. If it wasn’t for modern technology, you’d be alone and left to rot in complete isolation…..just like all the sub5s and outcasts in the 90s. Modern technology has its flaws but at least we can all communicate with each other
@@mindgames7411 "It boggles my mind how there are some in this community who complain about the internet and social media. " stop lying. The question on whether the internet was ultimately a good or bad thing has no concrete answer at the moment. There is a case for both. It boggles my mind that you only seem to see the good in the internet and not complain about the life altering detriments that it has brought.
@@mindgames7411 Those men would be directing their attention towards something else, most likely something that the government deems as "bad" (hopefully you get what I'm implying here). It's not a harmful tool per se but it's being using as a pacification and "bread and circus" tool.
I think we agree gentlemen. For our personal use, it's mostly beneficial and makes it easier to be content with a simple lifestyle. But for our Western civilization as a whole, it doesn't look too bright.
The sad thing is, if that's what's needed to end humanity, a lot of species that are blameless will go too. But you're probably right. Short of an asteroid, I don't see anything else that will end this madness.
This is essentially pre-war time, if you analyze many societies before a big war happened, there was always despair and division, this is not different, we have now wars happening around us in different continents and soon maybe China-US breaks out because of Taiwan, then we are all gonna feel it.
Yeah and the fall of great civilizations like Rome aka in this time America. Just like Rome will be rotted from within making it weak. First moral standards thrown out and debauchery erode the whole society then the foundation falls apart which is exactly what we are seeing play out here in America
Everyone keeps talking about a war, but if you remember what Bill Cooper said, the real wars are silent and it’s happening right under our nose. We know about it of course, but the vast majority of men don’t. They’re content with being duped because of the bread and circus thing.
(1) In the year 2002 I brought a 16mb memory card for a hand held PC (2) The computer was a Cassiopeia A-11...(With 4mb of ram) (3) Currently using an old 2017 Sony phone from 2017 (4) I want you to keep in mind that now you can get micro SD cards with a terabyte plus storage on them (5) The negative future projection may not be as bad as you suggest (6) It's a bit like how previous generations said "TV rots your brain" (7) Granted...but TV can also be used to educate. (8) I like the idea that people in families can look out into other areas..."If they so choose" (9) Similar to how one might have grown up in the 1980s (10) One might have been surrounded by anti interlectuals (11) But found stimulation watching MacGyver 🤔🙃 (12) Technology is a two way street (13) The way websites are designed can deeply influence how people interact with them. (14) If you wish to help the alpha generation...then design better websites.
Ive seen the whole thing, being 50. The internet was always a good thing, if you wanted to study, to be informed, to know more about the world, history, etc. It was too good to be true. What has destroyed the internet, and utterly destroyed society as we know it, is Social Media.
Same age as you and early adopter of home computers. Yes, for years I tried to turn skeptical older people on to the internet. I felt it a healthier alternative to television. They protested that communicating "just by text" was inferior to speaking on telephone and hearing a real voice, or "I can get that from the newspaper." I tried to get them into forums, Wikipedia, using Google to search things. I promoted webmail explaining they don't really need to pay an internet provider extra for each email address or use a particular modem to download the mail. It was all so creaky for years. Then the smartphones, and social media; suddenly half the Baby Boomers became screen fiends.
@@CRM-114 I disagree entirely. But it's subjective of course. I could have access to cliff notes, essays, interpretations, recommendations, etc.. Definitely it was one big step forward, at least for a few years.
I wonder if the differing realities weren't always there and the internet merely threw everyone together into a mass that naturally separated out into its component parts once the novelty of the technology faded. For most of human history, the majority of people spent their entire lives in their own communities, so it mattered little to a man who never traveled a hundred miles from the place he was born if people living a thousand miles away disagreed on something as fundamental as what happens to people when they die. Perhaps we just aren't designed to think globally.
@@mindgames7411 Of course. It’s not a new phenomenon. The scale of it is more impactful now since there have been so many innovations in the distribution side of ideas. Education and enlightenment comes with hidden costs.
Alcohol is one of the easiest drinks to make. All you need is fruit, water, and time, and we've been making it for thousands of years. How many times throughout our history have entire generations been born with fetal alcohol syndrome? What would it be like to be the one kid in your whole village or city to not have this disability?
The neurological aspect is vastly understated. When you know enough, it begins to look awfully like a deliberate anti-evolutionary move. An electronic straitjacket, for body, mind, and soul.
It feels to me as if you're making the assertion that as communication increases, connection DECREASES, in the sense of the speed at which we're communicating makes us talk past one another instead of talk TO one another. At least that's my view, and I don't disagree with it if it is what you're asserting, Stardusk.
I mean that is essentially what I have observed to have happened on FaceBook and other social media platforms to a lesser degree (like Reddit). The only people left on FaceBook at present are essentially the narcissists who post several times a day - everyone else who was normal and would, at most, post once every couple of days or once a week or whenever (you know when something maybe actually *interesting* may have happened) well they have all but stopped visiting FaceBook or at least posting on there. Drowned out by all the obnoxious people who post non-stop about bullshit. Other sites like Reddit have encouraged fragmentation of communities into (almost literal) echo chambers. And the arbitrary politically correct and government/corporate approved messaging and controls have caused so much censorship that we even have to use stupid terms like "unalive" in RUclips videos and even in chat rooms or comments. So yeah - there are way too many people just talking over each other and not as many people actually listening.
You're right. It's trivialization of communication which then leads to it becoming less meaningful. In times of yore you had to sent letters and wait weeks or even months to get a reply - if your letter was ever delivered. Nowadays you have access to anyone in your circle at any given time at the palm of your hands. This also ties in with the "Attention Economics" if you've ever heard about that.
Personally, my first litmus test is whether people interpret the Bible literally. I can tell so much about a person (gullibility, education, adaptability, curiosity) with that information.
Right.. I agree. If you cant tell the Bible is just a guidebook on how people SHOULD lead a morally good life and instead find it literal you might need help. Everyone likes a story that's why it was made into one with the theme being how humans should behave to be a decent person
@@malicant123 exactly. I don't even entertain the contradictions or inconsistencies of the story in the Bible because there is no point it is a story. Sure alot of it is based in historical reality with real people in it but like any good story and idea you want people to follow it must be embellished to compel people to follow its message
@@aaronrodgers9202 "how people should lead a moral life" Leviticus 25: 44 - 46 and remember the LAW (Mosaic Law). handed down from the God of Abraham. will Not change until heaven and earth pass away. Matthew 5: 18
@@jesseleighgordon If truth leads to despair would you shy away from it? Granted, Stardusk is known for being more on the negative side to some degree, he's not completely off mark.
This generation is watching all the, "real" interactions from the past and even has the choice to be selective about it. Makes you wonder if they will get so bored of watching things of the past over and over again that they revolt
I don't think it's that case at all. I was born in mid 80s and never got online until 2015. My whole life I was apolitical because my whole family would lie about every little thing (aka "gaslighting") even the most trivial every day things. They'd steal or destroy things of yours and then accuse you of stealing or destroying their things. Just non stop lies; and when it wasn't overt daily such activities, it was perpetual preaching of the gospel of the democratic party. So I was acutely disgusted by politics all together from an early age; it was just overt charlatan and hypocrisy in your face all day every day, so I simply learned to ignore it (you can't fight back as they call you delusional and try to force mental health programs upon you). It's nothing new to me; it has ALWAYS been this way. Then you read the gospels and it essentially says just this; enemies in own family/home. Nothing we can do but be generous and forgive/turn blind eye to the "monkey business". And just nod your head and smile when they preach their "politic". But yes since internet I found all humanity seems to only have surface views of most every thing. There is no discernable depth across the board; just automation and people set in their ways.
I’m a 99 zoomer and had this convo before with older ppl saying I don’t know life without internet. Not true, we didn’t have iPhones until highschool, people weren’t terminally online until we were almost adults, the next gen is born into a terminally online world
I make it a point of getting my boys out into the real world and touching grass. We go to the park, play in the creek, ride bikes, etc. Sure, they watch RUclips here and there, but I'm making a conscious choice to go against the flow. I would love nothing more than to have my kids not addicted to screens and function in the real world like I did growing up. It is possible!
not possible. I was born in the 90s when the internet was in its infancy. Going out and playing was my entire childhood for the first 20 years of my life. Now that I am in my 30s, the screen has taken over most of it. If it is not possible back when the internet was not big and I was always "touching grass", then it wont be possible today when kids have smartphones from when they are born.
@@lostvayne9146 I think it's extreme to say it's impossible. It all comes down to your personal choice. choosing to spend time eating dinner at the table with your family instead of eating in front of the TV. choosing to not let your kids have a mobile device at a young age. choosing solitude over noise. choosing to take a hike in the woods instead of scrolling on your phone. it all comes down to choosing to live a different life and not choosing the thing that offers the most convenience. I'm genuinely curious, I'm not trying to give you a hard time but what do you mean when you say the screen has taken over for you? are you talking work? or is it just being addicted to the screen in your free time too?
I did this with my kids, too. They were very receptive, until the teen years came, and then all bets are off. They are headed for the screens, and there is little you can do about it. Unless you are looking for a fight every day. It is an exhausting battle to fight.
Yes, it's possible, but you're a minority, that becomes smaller every day. Even if your kids grow like that, most of their peers will not. That's the world that awaits them.
None of this will matter when the power goes out. But it will matter a lot after the power goes out. Why? Because there are 753 Million competing theories on the internet about what electrical power is, how best to turn it back on, or if electricity is even a real thing.
I can't wait for when Thinking-Ape starts realizing that ET's are real. I've been having contact experiences for over a year and it's been nerve-racking and life-changing. Now I'm an awake starseed doing my small part for humanity's Great Awakening. 👽❤🌏
I think new decent souls are at risk of being claimed by transhumanism, old souls won't easily go along even if they are born into the future grid...being pureblood or not is also a major factor in regards to what type of humans are in the works...you know tablets and smart devices emit harmful carcinogens and bunch of other invisible health hazards, not brightest parents if the smart device is "babysitter".
Older listener and I miss the old millennium...I miss dystopia being hypothetical and conjectureal and not nearly as lame as our dystopia has turned out to be.
Thanks for the reminder that the adolescent brain feels much more acutely the tugs and pulls of social peer pressure and emotional extremes in general. That’s the only possible justification for this censorship on social media, the impact on adolescents.
Just throw it all away, and grow your own food on a property somewhere cheap. Use commonality to unlock the bonus of a happy ending🎉 Happy Future, everyone!
Small correction. It appears that “officially” the Zoomers demographic end at birth year of 2012, not 2010 or other, meaning the Alpha demographic begins at birth year 2013. So, you have the Boomers (1945-1964), GenX (1965-1979), Millennials (GenY) 1980-1996), Zoomers (Gen Z) 1997-2012, and Alpha (2013-whenever). The beginning or ending year for the each generation may have some dispute/debate. However, the above is generally accepted. One might argue wrongly or at least without completion, the difference between first-half GenX (1965-1972) and second-half GenX (1973-1979) are often quite vast, first-half growing up in the 1970s versus second-half growing up in the 1980s. Second-half GenX at least had the infancy of the internet or home computers in their formative years, at least by college, we’re as the first-half GenX did not.
There's no "officiality" for those things. They are merely tools of rhetoric to facilitate discourse. You're nit-picking at something so minor and insignificant it's somewhat sad. I'm not chastising you or anything, just giving you a heads up. Cheers.
Does anybody know any discord servers or other places where can discuss red / blue/black pill theory? I have some some solutions to some of these problems I want to discuss it with like minded people And of course zero friends IRL
I agree overall but oppose using the word 'facts'. There are things that are true and things that are not. Things that are not true, are not facts, even if the person thinks they're true. Wrong is wrong. Facts are facts. Nuance exists but doesn't change that initial statement, it actually helps to solidify if something is true or false. Many are stuck in a fairy tale narrative. Often a viewpoint they prefer to believe. But make-belief can't last forever without consequence. It doesn't change what is or why something is. Over time a false narrative will develop cracks which result in more and more hostility towards those pointing at those cracks. Some only want to find out the actual truth, good or bad. Reality exists, there isn't a possibility of two realities, but there are multiple perspectives. Ever notice when watching two people arguing, often they both have valid points, but both are also wrong in other aspects? Yeah, this is why people need to stop sticking to belief and actually think about what is reality. The ability to see where you've messed up is essential. Rethinking based upon new information, is essential. Believing something simply because it's what you want to believe, helps no one, including yourself. Never outsource your thinking to the point where it becomes habit and locks you into someone else's narrative. Question things you like as much as things you don't.
The internet was intended to make the world a smaller place where people from around the world could communicate, find common ground and coexist peacefully. The reality is much more stark. The people of the world find out more about each other’s culture, politics, religions and cultures and find that they hate and despise each other even more than they did pre-internet.
It's not the disagreement that is the problem for me, I'm completely fine with people disagreeing with me. It's the fact that I can't voice my opinions irl without fear of my entire life being cancelled into oblivion.
We've lost freedom of speech. That should be HUGE news, but the fact has been quietly swept under the rug.
I feel the same, the only time I voice my opinion now is when I can back it up with predictive evidence. People get more curious about your opinion when they feel you have information they might want.
So fucking true
@@IFYOUWANTITGOGETIT I'd still be careful. I have witnessed situations where people would pretend to agree with someone (when presented with sufficient contr-argument) just to run to HR afterwards to tell them all about it. Bottom line is that it doesn't matter if you're wrong or right, if your opinion is agains the common narrative - you're still fck'd.
those people are crazy but you are just a bitch lol. acting as if you are anything worth cancelling. if you are afraid of the "consequences" of saying what you "believe", that will never be on anyone but you. talk your shit or dont falsely believe cancel culture is actually a thing.
My elderly mother wouldn't know how to get online if her life depended on it, yet she has become just as brainwashed and ideological via legacy media. People are determined to look to an authority figure to lead them in what they hope is a positive direction. If you can make people afraid AND seem like you know how to navigate the darkness, the masses will obey and eagerly defend you. When some EMP attack brings down the internet, people will not snap out of their trance and be reasonable again, they'll just follow whoever says "I know how this happened and what to do."
"If you can make people afraid AND seem like you know how to navigate the darkness, the masses will obey and eagerly defend you. "
covid.
This is exactly true. Legacy media has adopted all the worst behaviours of internet culture to try to compete with what's online. Society has been so thoroughly poisoned by it all, it wouldn't change if you took the internet away. Exactly true about people looking for someone who claims to have all the answers and throws fear around also. This is true of the left and the right, just in different ways.
Stockholm Syndrome, because the majority of people don't want to govern themselves, Why? They don't want to be responsible for their own actions.
@@deathandrebirth-y8x Austrian Painter!!!! 😥😥👀👀👀👀
@@deathandrebirth-y8x better win this time
The time we all are living in isn't special.
It's dysfunctional.
It’s just another chapter of life’s endless dysfunction and pointlessness. None of it changes the fundamental pointlessness of our struggles.
True !
"Dysfunctional" is the description of a society present in all Civilisations, before their fall.
The French Kingdom before their Revolution, the Ottoman Empire, Austrian Empire before becoming the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire itself, the Spanish empire, etc.
History is there to learn from past mistakes ... with other words:
A People/Culture/Country that doesn't know its Past, doesn't deserve a Future.
If by special u mean mentally challenged and plagued with mental conditions then it is special indeed
It's especially dysfunctional
@sixtyinsix I think of civilization like a car engine. When it is small and simple, it runs great and for a long time. When it's gets too big, too powerful, too complicated, you end up with all kinds of problems and breakdowns.
Over the years my use of the internet has increased as I've gotten older.
I tend to find less satisfaction with people in the real world and find those who share my values online.
Same for me
Same
That’s most people. Even the younger generation.
How come you find less satisfaction with real world conversations? In my opinion a good conversation (even with someone you don't agree with) is tremendously more valuable then exchanging some text messages on the internet. Find some friends/relatives who you can connect with!
@@bramvandinteren People dont get along now more than ever. I can go on and on but its unbearable to speak with IRL people
I'm turning 50 in less than a month and have no idea how to deal with this chaos anymore except to hide from it.
@St63420
That's not true. You can hide, but eventually, the consequences of not fighting catch up to you when the conflict comes to your door.
@@St63420
They would be your government. If you receive mail at an address, then they know where you live. If you hide at home, you aren't hidden.
@@St63420
The idea that hiding is an option shows how naive bith of you are.
Do you know how much money it costs to find an individual using private investigators? It's about 500 USD.
If you use the internet and are slightly savvy, it's free.
There is no place to hide from this dumpster fire called society. Stand and fight the monsters
There is no place to hide from this dumpster fire called society. Stand and fight the monsters
We are living the genesis of Idiocracy.
Feels more like 1984 with thoughtcrime, new-think, double-think, rewriting of history, and the telescreen (literally a screen that also watches you) all explicitly manifesting. Then there is the coming true of certain quotes like 'children will spy on their parents', and ‘It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.’ Note that in terms of Orthodoxy we have simply switched from heavily and totally enforcing Christian and religious orthodoxy with totalitarian left orthodoxy, and how is it achieved? Through semiotical manipulation of established ideas, historical events, and above all Evolutionary psychology which is dismissed as socialisation.
@@mattrovis-hermann9194your telescreen fits in your pocket so O'Brien can hear us better. He'll be at our doors sometime soon just for having this exchange.
We haven't seen anything yet trust me. It will get wayyyy worse
@@mattrovis-hermann9194or Brave New World.
It started in 2001
The only thing splitting in 2 are Stacies legs for Chad
She lives rent free in your head.
Stop worshipping women and live your fucking life.
Brootal
Stacey is a dumb hoe. Talk to her for a few minutes and she shouldn't interest you anymore.
Stacy, Becky, etc, etc, etc.
stacy this chad that
The division in the internet shows that unity was always an illusion, and our fractured realities highlight the futility of seeking connection.
I don't agree with your point. The controllers work 24/7 to encourage us to hate each other. As long as they control the printing of money, a revolution is going to be challenging. Be well.
Human psyche in itself is not tangible, but that doesn't mean that this split wasn't orchestrated.
Ye
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It shows that those with power want a weakened and divided populous to prevent a future uprising but they're just making the bear angrier.
The Human Mouse Utopian Experiment
Yup. Just getting into stage 4... the last one.
Universe 25. The beautiful ones. Homos. The mothers who refuse to care for the young.
The greatest weapon forged against man was the Internet.
Relationship wise it’s a huge downfall, but knowledge wise it’s a huge advantage.
@@NoMoreTalkingghuge advantage is a relative term, advantage when compared to what? And it’s also not clear to me that more knowledge can be assumed to be a good thing, what is the consequence of more knowledge
Its simple. The Internet pulled down the old, burlap curtain. Now, the powers are trying to build it back, but they are not being fully successful. It is mostly a weapon against the illusions we have been being fed for millenials.
Its still used this way. We're finding out in real time, for example, that federal agencies are lying about real world events. Its sunshine that can disinfect the shadows, but the shadows are fighting back.
@@NoMoreTalkingghow is it an advantage when another guy think it’s also an advantage? It’s a mistake all around.
@@neverbeganforme how is it a disadvantage? 99% of guys are jerking off and addicted to social. The whole goal to life is the play the game and be the best you can be. You can’t play the game and be the best if you don’t understand all the rules even if the rules might hurt your emotional feelings. Most men are weak and hang on to pussy for dear life and throw everything else away for it. Their effort, time, money, focus, attention, respect etc. Most men are addicted to it looking at girls online, and on top of that you got idiot streamer luring them in the wrong direction, and other influencers. If you’re black pill like me with r discipline you realize it is a huge advantage. I’m in the best shape I’ve ever been in and it’s only getting better, because the information given online. I know all the best training regimens etc. if I need to learn how to fix a flat tire I can. Let the other people kill themself’s on social media if you’re anything like me you don’t go on it and use safari, or RUclips for knowledge purposes only. Not only are you smart enough to use it to get even smarter, but you got other people getter dumber, and weaker.
make real life worth participation, Problem Solved.
@@ninjanax5902 Are you going to get rid of all the hr departments and dei initiatives?
if you think it isn't already then you aren't looking close enough
It's just the resurfacing of the aristocracy. It's the default setting for humanity. And it's cyclical. So, there _is_ a going back, just not in our lifetime. Our lives came at the end of a golden era, not the beginning or the middle.
So true. People in the "dark ages" payed 10% in taxes. Now look what we pay. And they say those people were slaves. Then what are we?
Millonials and Gen z and probably even alpha are not going to have it easy. We will be around for the time where we have to pickup all the shattered pieces of the end of that era so the next one can start a new
@@aaronrodgers9202 Sucks to be a Millenial.
It really sucks knowing that this could've been a golden era of human development but rather, we entered our own dark age.
@@aaronrodgers9202 What annoys me is that all this could’ve been prevented. Yes, cycles happen. But the severity of how bad this one is….and the relatively quick pace it took for the good times to end….. is entirely society’s fault.
i fail to see why i should care about what happens to this society 🤔🤔
You only need to care in so far as you are a part of this society. The further you can extract yourself from it, the less you need to care. And that extraction is somewhat challenging.
@@LeGwiP72live rural. Be police or fireman. Have wife stay home and homeschool.
FTW
Uh because you live in it
Well, that sentiment has been becoming the norm for a while for a reason. You're not a revolutionary snowflake with transcendental thoughts. You're a slave like the rest of us to the events that shape us
@@WilcoxNotreallythere Doesn't exist anymore, that's a pipe dream, even in rural areas.
The real choice is how long do we want to live in a dying, reach out and touch analog world, that is getting smaller by the day, and when do we totally embrace the coming, mostly here, digital matrix. I remember my rambunctious childhood in the late 70's to early 80's and then look at my grandchildren, overweight, isolated and vegging out on their electronic devices, and don't even know or even care to know the neighborhood kids, a tear comes to my eye for how much good has been lost in this 'so-called' digital revolution.
Karen's and Ken's have created this as well.
Things that were once mischievous is now a felony.
Post 9/11, sub contracting safety is far more valuable than freedom.
Excessive bxxtlicking of authorities just for taking a job. People looking to them for every single fix in the world. Well the fix is going to be can't-do, instead of a positive result.
These are some of the many things to blame as well. Not just the internet.
@@imagoodlistener2730 I agree, we have lost a lot. 'Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty or safety' -Benjamin Franklin We were warned.
@@kurt2022 I can dig it. I like the old sayings and history. Most are not taught any of that today. It's sad. It's so easy to maintain rather than destroy and rebuild. Whatever. I'm just along for the ride. I'm so glad I didn't subject any future lineage to what's here or what is to come. I never wanted to start ever story with, "Back in the day, you used to be able to do this."... Insert a life long memory and experience here.
If you think right now is bad, just wait until the internet becomes even more sterilized and monitored.
And let’s not even mention AI girlfriends
Many of your generation lament the current Zeitgeist but did nothing to counter it. Not saying that's your case in specific since I have nothing to base myself off, but the point is that: how often, if ever, have people from the same generation as yours ever asked themselves "what am I doing to make sure that my descendants will have a better life than myself?" - we know the answer for a fact, not because they are evil but because they honestly didn't really care or ever thought of that.
It is for that very reason that a later "lamenting" when looking at their grandchildren comes off as arrogant to say the least. Until the very end of their lives they are still striving for that pretend game of virtue signalling and "divine-like" self image. It's ego incarnate in a generation, again, not born of malice but of indifference. If anyone reading this is still sceptical or ignorant of what I am talking about, merely look at the Zeitgest of the 70s and 80s; look at what the youngsters were doing and what their parents were (not) doing.
Maybe you're the exception, it matters not, but the whole history is there, already happened, and cannot be retroactively changed.
Unabomber was right
If only he hadn't turned to crime, that "manifesto" of his would have won him a Pulitzer.
@@artawhirlerreally? It was always going to go that way. The uni bomber and Charles Manson were groomed by the alphabet agencies.
@@artawhirlerHe said he did the crimes to highlight his manifesto .
@@sickpuppy575 People who aren't murder minded towards techbros are just going to write him off as crazy.
Whatifslthist made a video on that
WW1 was also called "the war to end all wars"
Ironic
It's like we're living in a soon to be dead status quo, with those attached to it desperately trying to keep it alive, by putting it on life support.
I agree with the split happening around 2013. The doomsayers were technically right about the world ending thanks to the Mayan calendar: the old world everyone grew up in was killed off to make way for the one we have now.
Brother! Relatively no one believes it happened. I pinpoint the date of Occupy Wall St. That is when the elite used every apparatus (money, media, lawfare, torture) against us. The let them eat cake moment whispered in a dark room, but with full fury upon the masses. Racial division spiked in media mentions. Ever since the system and society has continued to degrade (reality). We will all come to terms with the "Great Awakening" as what we thought was our actual reality disintegrates into a reality more like the reality in the movie The Matrix.
I’m pretty positive that our biggest weakness is that we, as humans, forget we are still wild animals who just happened to win natures genetic lottery with regards to self awareness. Anyone else?
Exactly we haven’t EVOLVED beyond being hunter-gatherers. Which is why modern hunter gatherer societies are the happiest in the world.
@@joeschmo4646 real shit!
I grew up a child with no internet. The outside world, the woods and based personal interactions were/are real to me. When the online world became super reality, I was hooked like every other. I struggle to give the outside world enough attention. My yard must be mowed.
Why mowed? Kills half the wildlife and biodiversity
I had a little incident with my aunt the other day. She commented on people staring at their phone all the time.... while starting at a TV. I didn't comment of course but it did make me think. Most conversations tend to be opinion based and when it's in person there is this pressure to confirm, conformity by proximity. And a lot of the "conversation" that takes place is more about massaging the other person to your point of view. With the Internet now, you have access to people you don't need to win over to your side but also you have counter evidence to a lot of the opinions people hold at your fingertips, literally.
This effect, conformity by proximity, is something exploited by a lot of people in workplaces, political rallies and so on. Often by those with "riz", blessed with halo effect or similar advantages. The Internet bypasses this, throw in filters and all and you got something disrupting the normal order.
That the main reason it really isn't worth "conversing", if you can call it that, with the average person IRL. You go there expecting a conversation but all you get is someone demanding their ego to be massaged or else "get out of here".
Very insightful comment, this very well might be the reason the counter culture has been able to come up so strongly
It’s interesting how with the modern internet we have access to vast amounts of information, far more than at any other time in history. And yet knowledge still eludes most of us.
There is a gulf between data and wisdom, it widens at a great pace.
There’s a lot of (let’s just say, “not smart”) people in this world who….despite having access to essentially all of humanity’s knowledge……will only seek out and accept information that confirms their pre-existing biases and worldview, instead of analyzing all sides of the info and then reaching most logical conclusion.
They’d rather wallow in ignorance and delusion than ever admit or accept that their beliefs and opinions about the world are wrong.
This is what happens when you attach your identity to frivolous ideas.
That's because the amount of information is so great and added to that a bunch of noise/garbage information that you end up invariably with what you mentioned. Nothing new under the sun and this is by design by the way, not accidental.
That's because our own government is pumping out dis/misinformation at breakneck speed. They're stalling or running defense for something.
That's because our own government is pumping out dis/misinformation at breakneck speed. They're stalling or running defense for something.
Metal Gear Solid 2, paraphrased. “America (and by extension the world) will go out not with a bang, but a whimper.”
Polluting the online sphere with our trivial matters seems to be the pollution kojima team predicted yes.
We're already cooked, but nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care.
Originally from "The Hollow Men", T.S. Elliot. Amazing poem IMO.
*FISSION MAILED*
*TURN OFF THE CONSOLE*
@@Jonathan-Shadow I like scizors. 67!
Speaking of being split in two, I really should get more fiber.
The real cultural divide
Just bend over. The government will split you in two no problem.
It just had to be 2 absolute things humanity js splitting into. But I'm hearing this one out..
Ummm .. fiber goes in at the other end, dude. 🤦♀️
There are two types of people: Those who intake adiquite fiber, and those who have hemorrhoids.
There is no middle ground in these current years, you’re ether on one side or the enemy. People who used to be in the middle have been forced into a side or just leaving society entirely. There is nothing to be done that can fix this problem any time soon
very depressing. There will be no recovery.
Meh. Trajectory has been abysmal for half a century.
lol it’s been so much worse than this in the past and we persevered.. things aren’t nearly as bad today as many of you think. Stop watching doomer content
Great video! I’m 46 and just today I was thinking how much of my free time I spend on podcasts,RUclips and browsing but thankfully no social media accounts or streaming services. It’s really scary thinking how much worse it’s going to get as these younger generations get older and get in positions of power and influence. For them a world without the internet is like me thinking of a world without cars. It’s almost unfathomable.
I found it increasingly more difficult to make friends ever since the 2016 election. A lot of people lost a lot of friends and then 20/20 made that even worse
The big problem is that instead of making us better critical thinkers and bringing us together, the internet has made us more desensitized and polarized.
Having so much information at our fingertips has made us
1) outsource our thinking to a machine, and if we don’t use it we lose it.
2) have so much contradictory information, so there is more disinformation making us less informed instead of information making us more knowledgeable
3) dig into one side of the information given and hold directly opposing views to those who received the opposite information.
Also, this all affect communication with the other side. This is why modern debates are functionally useless. Nobody goes in and admits their view or information was wrong. They each point to their own sources, studies, and examples that directly contradict one another, but that each side still claims is entirely correct when that cannot be the case by definition. This leads to more polarization and you get a positive feedback loop.
"This is why modern debates are functionally useless."
debates are only useful when you have an audience to persuade that have no skin in the game. You are not persuading your enemy on the other side. Thats right... your ENEMY.
Its the people who got no strong opinion in the matter that you want to bring to your side.
Objective reality the person acknowledges on their own should settle a debate, but:
4) delusion rather than admit error.
For example a day before the fateful debate I asked a few people for direct confirmation, "So, you really see no sign of senility or any cognitive decline." But these people are now speaking like that man does not exist. They're dancing around something they realized by their own observation. And I'm not gonna press their egos.
I would say Humanity deserves and needs to fully be engulfed in the Apocalypse, by nature doing its thing for being so completely removed from anything, completely out of touch and completely losing the plot to put it lightly but that would only be the half truth. Truth is it was rigged right off the bat, everything comes down to biology/DNA etc, we all came with a blueprint into this world. Conclusion: Clownworld Clownfiesta. Tragedy or comedy? It's all a joke.
A world like that is one that tear itself apart. People will not be kind to one another. It's going to keep getting worse
Prior to the internet the dichotomy was people in the industrialised world/those not in the industrialised world.
That's a harsher division than urban vs. rural, true. Another dichotomy attached to these is of subculture vs. neighbourhood. I mean interacting only with people in your trade, social class, gender, club, etc. Not... ah dammit:
_Sesame Street: People in Your Neighborhood with Bob_ almost made my cry for a better time when "a grocer is a person in your neighbourhood ... a person who you meet each day" and "a doctor is a person in your neighbourhood, in your neighbourhood".
@@pong9000 Yeah, thats a fair observation also.
I guess my point was that humanity being split in two was probably the norm/default state. Industrialised/non-industrialised was the biggest example that occurred to me. To my mind that is far more stark than the online/offline dichotomy....however the difference is that in the industrialised/non industrialised example it was a case of never the twain shall meet. It referred to people in different countries. The online/offline dichotomy could be people living next door to one another.
There was a time when the "Internet" was known as the "Arpanet" and you needed a very expensive business/government/home computer system to access any part of it, and it was used mostly by the government and/or big business to stay in touch with it's employees around the globe. There were no selfies, no OF, no travel vlogs, only printed communication on a screen. Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
When foids infested the internet everything went to shiet.
The end of the internet was 1994. Also known as Eternal September (google it). That is when regular folk got online and ruined it for the rest of us.
R.I.P. Dbdr 2021-2024
What? Did he delete his channel?
@@sonicleaves late, but he privated all his videos
Just think... There are still people alive who grew up before television.
since 2012 life is dead everything is ugly.
Look up "Obama allowed propaganda on USA citizens"
2012. . . It happened.
Good time's in 2012 😁
@@ashj_2088 The best era of everything was 90 and 2000.
Yeah everybody was so hopeful that the world would end in 2012 like the Mayan calendar said, so that when it DIDN'T end and they still had to go DO stuff they started trying to bring about the end themselves
Nah it was still banger, but the final nail in the coffin imho was around 2016-2020, thats when the world became the clownfiesta to the maxx.
IMO, We are living in the prelude to WWIII
As it's been said, history may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme.
Make sure to have old time jazz on your player of choice.
All by the design btw.
I was kinda shocked to hear that young people are losing peripheral vision from staring into the damned screens during their brain development. Scary stuff.
Churchill actually thought the Seven Years War was our first world war.
It’s called World War Zero
It's referred to as the French & Indian war in the States.
And yes, it would seem so.
@@jackthetech5105Yes, I do remember being taught that in my history classes in Ohio when I was growing up. But the teachers didn’t do a good job of tying the conflict to a wider global conflict. They tended to focus on the war as an eventual step lurching toward the American Revolution.
He was beholden to his (((financiers))) who paid off his debt. I don't trust anything that traitor said.
It did blood a young George Washington and made him see that the British were the problem, not the solution.
Just grab your popcorn.
There might not even be popcorn if sh@t hits the fan
It's not even that entertaining anymore.
@@malicant123 That's what force multipliers, aka long-range hole punchers are for.
@@malicant123 oh please they have a couple million doors to "kick in" before getting to me
@@Krelian4400exactly. I never got the “sit back and watch the world burn” type of dudes. How is this entertainment? It’s a snuff film for chrissakes, and it’s expanding to us.
Being 60, lived in several countries, end of Cold War and lived in some conflicts , There has never been anything as monumental as the internet ( or mobile internet) and now ai internet. I agree completely. Nothing like it ever. Probably detrimental but what can you do .
Just wait till meta has got 4K VR headsets - people won't even take the things off their face.
I'm glad I lived the change in what common folks call being tall, was there when it was 5'10 and all up to 6'3...I'm also glad I lived through the age of the internet, from its infancy on obscure forums to social medias of now...gen alpha are into some true battlefield of sexual selection, last it was like this was 11000 years ago according to archeological studies. It all points at things being in a grand cycle.
The new swastika arm patch has a rainbow background.
i simply cannot accept my reality as it currently stands, it is in an unacceptable condition on a fundamental level
When the automobile was invented, there was no going back to using the horse and cart for transportation and cargo. With the invention of recorded sound, gone were the days when the sole option people had for listening to music was to attend concerts. The ceaseless march of time...
The technological revolution and its consequences has been a disaster for mankind.
We are a few steps away from the movie Wall-E
Although "overstimulated" at times, I'm really grateful for being always online.
Exactly. It boggles my mind how there are some in this community who complain about the internet and social media.
If it wasn’t for modern technology, you’d be alone and left to rot in complete isolation…..just like all the sub5s and outcasts in the 90s.
Modern technology has its flaws but at least we can all communicate with each other
@@mindgames7411 "It boggles my mind how there are some in this community who complain about the internet and social media. "
stop lying. The question on whether the internet was ultimately a good or bad thing has no concrete answer at the moment. There is a case for both. It boggles my mind that you only seem to see the good in the internet and not complain about the life altering detriments that it has brought.
@@mindgames7411 Those men would be directing their attention towards something else, most likely something that the government deems as "bad" (hopefully you get what I'm implying here). It's not a harmful tool per se but it's being using as a pacification and "bread and circus" tool.
I think we agree gentlemen. For our personal use, it's mostly beneficial and makes it easier to be content with a simple lifestyle. But for our Western civilization as a whole, it doesn't look too bright.
@@mindgames7411 who are you trying to fool?
I hope the asteroid wins..
The sad thing is, if that's what's needed to end humanity, a lot of species that are blameless will go too. But you're probably right. Short of an asteroid, I don't see anything else that will end this madness.
If you hate yourself that much I guess.
@@RealistRatRace Oh bugger off with your posturing.
You and others thinking like this are just scumbags to me like this.
@@darkzeroprojects4245 I dislike this unfair, cruel, selfish world, and I’m not too fond of you either.
@@PessimistPirate that's your problem, not mine.
I hate it too but I'm not wishing genocide over it, so bugger off with your posturing.
the powers that be will use this to their advantage.
Divide and conquer, that's what they always do.
The whole world is rigged for them by design, not much to do.
This is essentially pre-war time, if you analyze many societies before a big war happened, there was always despair and division, this is not different, we have now wars happening around us in different continents and soon maybe China-US breaks out because of Taiwan, then we are all gonna feel it.
Yeah and the fall of great civilizations like Rome aka in this time America. Just like Rome will be rotted from within making it weak. First moral standards thrown out and debauchery erode the whole society then the foundation falls apart which is exactly what we are seeing play out here in America
Politics is prelude to war.
We're already feeling it regardless. The sense of scarcity is constantly propped up and enforced despite anything. 1984-esque scenario.
Winter is coming, buddy boyos.
Everyone keeps talking about a war, but if you remember what Bill Cooper said, the real wars are silent and it’s happening right under our nose. We know about it of course, but the vast majority of men don’t. They’re content with being duped because of the bread and circus thing.
(1) In the year 2002 I brought a 16mb memory card for a hand held PC
(2) The computer was a Cassiopeia A-11...(With 4mb of ram)
(3) Currently using an old 2017 Sony phone from 2017
(4) I want you to keep in mind that now you can get micro SD cards with a terabyte plus storage on them
(5) The negative future projection may not be as bad as you suggest
(6) It's a bit like how previous generations said "TV rots your brain"
(7) Granted...but TV can also be used to educate.
(8) I like the idea that people in families can look out into other areas..."If they so choose"
(9) Similar to how one might have grown up in the 1980s
(10) One might have been surrounded by anti interlectuals
(11) But found stimulation watching MacGyver 🤔🙃
(12) Technology is a two way street
(13) The way websites are designed can deeply influence how people interact with them.
(14) If you wish to help the alpha generation...then design better websites.
Jim Carrey - ( cable guy ) "Somebody has to kill the babysitter"
Ive seen the whole thing, being 50. The internet was always a good thing, if you wanted to study, to be informed, to know more about the world, history, etc. It was too good to be true. What has destroyed the internet, and utterly destroyed society as we know it, is Social Media.
The internet was never good for studies. It could never compete with books in that area.
@@CRM-114 You actually joking right?
Same age as you and early adopter of home computers. Yes, for years I tried to turn skeptical older people on to the internet. I felt it a healthier alternative to television. They protested that communicating "just by text" was inferior to speaking on telephone and hearing a real voice, or "I can get that from the newspaper." I tried to get them into forums, Wikipedia, using Google to search things. I promoted webmail explaining they don't really need to pay an internet provider extra for each email address or use a particular modem to download the mail. It was all so creaky for years. Then the smartphones, and social media; suddenly half the Baby Boomers became screen fiends.
@@CRM-114 I disagree entirely. But it's subjective of course. I could have access to cliff notes, essays, interpretations, recommendations, etc.. Definitely it was one big step forward, at least for a few years.
@@adamg6711 Why would I? What you can read or watch on the internet doesn't even begin to compare to the great works humanity has produced in books.
I wonder if the differing realities weren't always there and the internet merely threw everyone together into a mass that naturally separated out into its component parts once the novelty of the technology faded. For most of human history, the majority of people spent their entire lives in their own communities, so it mattered little to a man who never traveled a hundred miles from the place he was born if people living a thousand miles away disagreed on something as fundamental as what happens to people when they die. Perhaps we just aren't designed to think globally.
Humanity has always been "split in two"
More like spit into too many
I would argue that this is true but a young person’s opinions were more influenced by family and locality historically rather than mass opinions.
@@jamm_affinity Not entirely. New ideas would always driving a wedge between people in the past.
Look no further than the French Revolution
@@mindgames7411 Of course. It’s not a new phenomenon. The scale of it is more impactful now since there have been so many innovations in the distribution side of ideas. Education and enlightenment comes with hidden costs.
not as much as now. There was ignorance to the world. Now there is not.
You’d think that the ability to connect would bring people together but it’s just the opposite.
Unprecedented times, do you know where we are headed?
War
Stagnation
The collapse of the empire. Another one bites the dust. Western civilization is done for and there will be no coming back after that.
Theocracy
Demon era
Alcohol is one of the easiest drinks to make. All you need is fruit, water, and time, and we've been making it for thousands of years. How many times throughout our history have entire generations been born with fetal alcohol syndrome? What would it be like to be the one kid in your whole village or city to not have this disability?
chadlite status
People living their entire lives online was inevitable. And it's only going to grow from here.
New frontier of mankind
The neurological aspect is vastly understated.
When you know enough, it begins to look awfully like a deliberate anti-evolutionary move. An electronic straitjacket, for body, mind, and soul.
Like the thumbnail. Very Videodrome.
The Eloi and the Morlocks.
Thanks for voicing mine and a lot of peoples thoughts. Take care.
Cultural speciation is a great expression.
We've always been tribals pretending otherwise.
Why would people agree on most things?
"May you live in interesting times"
It feels to me as if you're making the assertion that as communication increases, connection DECREASES, in the sense of the speed at which we're communicating makes us talk past one another instead of talk TO one another.
At least that's my view, and I don't disagree with it if it is what you're asserting, Stardusk.
This is what I understood also.
I mean that is essentially what I have observed to have happened on FaceBook and other social media platforms to a lesser degree (like Reddit). The only people left on FaceBook at present are essentially the narcissists who post several times a day - everyone else who was normal and would, at most, post once every couple of days or once a week or whenever (you know when something maybe actually *interesting* may have happened) well they have all but stopped visiting FaceBook or at least posting on there. Drowned out by all the obnoxious people who post non-stop about bullshit. Other sites like Reddit have encouraged fragmentation of communities into (almost literal) echo chambers. And the arbitrary politically correct and government/corporate approved messaging and controls have caused so much censorship that we even have to use stupid terms like "unalive" in RUclips videos and even in chat rooms or comments. So yeah - there are way too many people just talking over each other and not as many people actually listening.
You're right. It's trivialization of communication which then leads to it becoming less meaningful. In times of yore you had to sent letters and wait weeks or even months to get a reply - if your letter was ever delivered. Nowadays you have access to anyone in your circle at any given time at the palm of your hands. This also ties in with the "Attention Economics" if you've ever heard about that.
I tried clicking on “save to watch later” and guess what….. there was no option to do that.
That’s a first
That's because even the RUclips Algorithm knows that we're running out of time. 😅
Personally, my first litmus test is whether people interpret the Bible literally. I can tell so much about a person (gullibility, education, adaptability, curiosity) with that information.
You'd be surprised how educated some of these people are, but gullible and inadaptable definitely still apply.
Right.. I agree. If you cant tell the Bible is just a guidebook on how people SHOULD lead a morally good life and instead find it literal you might need help. Everyone likes a story that's why it was made into one with the theme being how humans should behave to be a decent person
@@ErraticMagicsoh I’m aware. They learn the language of science in order to twist it to manipulate scientifically illiterate people.
@@malicant123 exactly. I don't even entertain the contradictions or inconsistencies of the story in the Bible because there is no point it is a story. Sure alot of it is based in historical reality with real people in it but like any good story and idea you want people to follow it must be embellished to compel people to follow its message
@@aaronrodgers9202 "how people should lead a moral life" Leviticus 25: 44 - 46
and remember the LAW (Mosaic Law). handed down from the God of Abraham. will Not change
until heaven and earth pass away. Matthew 5: 18
90s TV series had an episode about society divided amongst those with access to Internet and those who don't....
I was terminally online before it was cool
We have the Eloi and the morlocks
An insightful video. The tech divide between millennials and boomers is already large. The divide between alphas and boomers must be staggering.
this channel starting to appear to ride the wave of despair content as it's fashionable
StarDusk has always been like this
@@gunsarrus7836 I thought his driver was truth. I was foolish
@@jesseleighgordon He's always been on the negative side of the truth
@@jesseleighgordon If truth leads to despair would you shy away from it? Granted, Stardusk is known for being more on the negative side to some degree, he's not completely off mark.
4:00 - NO, no, and no. The facts don't change, the facts are the facts. You can just have different beliefs, or knowledge. Not different facts.
Hey brother Stardusk your video (are you a repairman?) Is no longer available. Cant find it anywhere. It is one of my favorite videos.
This generation is watching all the, "real" interactions from the past and even has the choice to be selective about it. Makes you wonder if they will get so bored of watching things of the past over and over again that they revolt
I don't think it's that case at all. I was born in mid 80s and never got online until 2015.
My whole life I was apolitical because my whole family would lie about every little thing (aka "gaslighting") even the most trivial every day things. They'd steal or destroy things of yours and then accuse you of stealing or destroying their things. Just non stop lies; and when it wasn't overt daily such activities, it was perpetual preaching of the gospel of the democratic party. So I was acutely disgusted by politics all together from an early age; it was just overt charlatan and hypocrisy in your face all day every day, so I simply learned to ignore it (you can't fight back as they call you delusional and try to force mental health programs upon you).
It's nothing new to me; it has ALWAYS been this way. Then you read the gospels and it essentially says just this; enemies in own family/home. Nothing we can do but be generous and forgive/turn blind eye to the "monkey business". And just nod your head and smile when they preach their "politic".
But yes since internet I found all humanity seems to only have surface views of most every thing. There is no discernable depth across the board; just automation and people set in their ways.
So what is the solution?
I’m a 99 zoomer and had this convo before with older ppl saying I don’t know life without internet. Not true, we didn’t have iPhones until highschool, people weren’t terminally online until we were almost adults, the next gen is born into a terminally online world
Everyone is concerned about Alpha Gen now, zoomers are a bit out of the microscope now. Skibidi toilet.
Who knew all along that Zoomers were going to be Malcom in the middle?
@neverbeganforme homelander
@@itaintobeezy he knows everything
@neverbeganforme Jeremy fragrance brother
Absolutely brilliant video and sadly very true, this is why i tune in to you, thanks, you keep me sane.
I make it a point of getting my boys out into the real world and touching grass. We go to the park, play in the creek, ride bikes, etc. Sure, they watch RUclips here and there, but I'm making a conscious choice to go against the flow. I would love nothing more than to have my kids not addicted to screens and function in the real world like I did growing up. It is possible!
not possible. I was born in the 90s when the internet was in its infancy. Going out and playing was my entire childhood for the first 20 years of my life.
Now that I am in my 30s, the screen has taken over most of it. If it is not possible back when the internet was not big and I was always "touching grass", then it wont be possible today when kids have smartphones from when they are born.
@@lostvayne9146 I think it's extreme to say it's impossible. It all comes down to your personal choice. choosing to spend time eating dinner at the table with your family instead of eating in front of the TV. choosing to not let your kids have a mobile device at a young age. choosing solitude over noise. choosing to take a hike in the woods instead of scrolling on your phone. it all comes down to choosing to live a different life and not choosing the thing that offers the most convenience.
I'm genuinely curious, I'm not trying to give you a hard time but what do you mean when you say the screen has taken over for you? are you talking work? or is it just being addicted to the screen in your free time too?
I did this with my kids, too. They were very receptive, until the teen years came, and then all bets are off. They are headed for the screens, and there is little you can do about it. Unless you are looking for a fight every day. It is an exhausting battle to fight.
@@Mattrino101everything wants convenience, even birds flock to feeders in place of scavenging bugs and seeds
Yes, it's possible, but you're a minority, that becomes smaller every day. Even if your kids grow like that, most of their peers will not. That's the world that awaits them.
None of this will matter when the power goes out.
But it will matter a lot after the power goes out.
Why? Because there are 753 Million competing theories on the internet about what electrical power is, how best to turn it back on, or if electricity is even a real thing.
Humanity will be the first species to go extinct because it just seemed like a really cool idea.
stardusk sounding like uncle ted again. this was the uplifting message I needed to start my day
I can't wait for when Thinking-Ape starts realizing that ET's are real. I've been having contact experiences for over a year and it's been nerve-racking and life-changing. Now I'm an awake starseed doing my small part for humanity's Great Awakening. 👽❤🌏
Let the chips fall where they may.
Wouldn't be the first time
I think new decent souls are at risk of being claimed by transhumanism, old souls won't easily go along even if they are born into the future grid...being pureblood or not is also a major factor in regards to what type of humans are in the works...you know tablets and smart devices emit harmful carcinogens and bunch of other invisible health hazards, not brightest parents if the smart device is "babysitter".
Older listener and I miss the old millennium...I miss dystopia being hypothetical and conjectureal and not nearly as lame as our dystopia has turned out to be.
Thanks for the reminder that the adolescent brain feels much more acutely the tugs and pulls of social peer pressure and emotional extremes in general. That’s the only possible justification for this censorship on social media, the impact on adolescents.
Just throw it all away, and grow your own food on a property somewhere cheap. Use commonality to unlock the bonus of a happy ending🎉 Happy Future, everyone!
The morlocks and the eloi?
It's only a matter of time before a type of online "cult" pops up.
Yea and when it does, it will spread like wildfire, so interesting to think about
divide & conquer.
Small correction. It appears that “officially” the Zoomers demographic end at birth year of 2012, not 2010 or other, meaning the Alpha demographic begins at birth year 2013. So, you have the Boomers (1945-1964), GenX (1965-1979), Millennials (GenY) 1980-1996), Zoomers (Gen Z) 1997-2012, and Alpha (2013-whenever). The beginning or ending year for the each generation may have some dispute/debate. However, the above is generally accepted. One might argue wrongly or at least without completion, the difference between first-half GenX (1965-1972) and second-half GenX (1973-1979) are often quite vast, first-half growing up in the 1970s versus second-half growing up in the 1980s. Second-half GenX at least had the infancy of the internet or home computers in their formative years, at least by college, we’re as the first-half GenX did not.
There's no "officiality" for those things. They are merely tools of rhetoric to facilitate discourse. You're nit-picking at something so minor and insignificant it's somewhat sad. I'm not chastising you or anything, just giving you a heads up. Cheers.
Does anybody know any discord servers or other places where can discuss red / blue/black pill theory?
I have some some solutions to some of these problems I want to discuss it with like minded people
And of course zero friends IRL
I agree overall but oppose using the word 'facts'. There are things that are true and things that are not. Things that are not true, are not facts, even if the person thinks they're true. Wrong is wrong. Facts are facts. Nuance exists but doesn't change that initial statement, it actually helps to solidify if something is true or false. Many are stuck in a fairy tale narrative. Often a viewpoint they prefer to believe. But make-belief can't last forever without consequence. It doesn't change what is or why something is. Over time a false narrative will develop cracks which result in more and more hostility towards those pointing at those cracks.
Some only want to find out the actual truth, good or bad. Reality exists, there isn't a possibility of two realities, but there are multiple perspectives. Ever notice when watching two people arguing, often they both have valid points, but both are also wrong in other aspects? Yeah, this is why people need to stop sticking to belief and actually think about what is reality. The ability to see where you've messed up is essential. Rethinking based upon new information, is essential. Believing something simply because it's what you want to believe, helps no one, including yourself. Never outsource your thinking to the point where it becomes habit and locks you into someone else's narrative. Question things you like as much as things you don't.
Funny you mention starting over, all throughout history isn't that what happens!
The internet was intended to make the world a smaller place where people from around the world could communicate, find common ground and coexist peacefully. The reality is much more stark. The people of the world find out more about each other’s culture, politics, religions and cultures and find that they hate and despise each other even more than they did pre-internet.