Games, Schools, and Worlds Designed for Violence
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2019
- They walk out under the branches of hopelessness
They think of this world welcoming
the bodies of their sons.
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Arronmunroe, Time Crisis Arcade: • Time Crisis arcade 1cc...
LopMusic1, Red Dead Redemption 2 Sunrise: • Red Dead Redemption 2 ...
The Mad Rush to Bulletproof American Schools: slate.com/business/2019/08/sc...
How UT architecture restricts activism: courses.jilliansayre.net/files...
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Were Brutalist Buildings on College Campuses Really Designed to Thwart Student Riots?: slate.com/human-interest/2013...
13 On Your Side- Fruitport High School: • Fruitport designs $48M...
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University of Texas Austin Tour: • University of Texas Au...
On the Humanist Ethic Behind Brutalism: www.spiked-online.com/2016/02...
Games shown: Gears of War, Red Dead Redemption II, Max Payne 3, Vanquish, Minecraft, Uncharted 4, The Evil Within, Battlefield 4, Spec Ops: The Line, Time Crisis, Control
Music used: Red Dead Redemption II (Fleeting Joy, Outlaws from the West, Icarus and Friend, The Wheel), Max Payne 3 (DEAD, Painkiller), Sunset (Dancing in the Sand), Uncharted 2 (Bustin’ Chops) 
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Re Mora Ha. Nice joke.
Wait, you serious?
This was deep, thank you
kinda click bait but ight
While being a good solution I think that building shooter proof schools isn't addressing a more fundamental problem, which is "Why are those shooters doing what they do? What can be done to prevent that?". Let's say somebody wants to commit some harm, maybe kill some people, by making the school more safe that doesn't mean that there can't a "parking lot shooter".
Man watching any of your videos while on a sativa just makes it more thrilling and creepy and my search for answers more pressing
"We're hiring an architect to design our new elementary school. What are you qualifications?"
"I made five custom counter strike maps"
"You're hired"
Lol
oh man if only getting a job was that easy, fmpone would be making millions right now
@@klevmeister1g definitely
Cache has generous amounts of cover
Even an APC for god's sake
@@shardinhand1243 north Korea
Remember how in a Sims update students weren't allowed to leave even when there was a meteor going to kill them all?
*We all laughed at that.*
"Mrs. Gutter, why is it getting bright?"
@@orange993 more like "duhartete muhbaffe en ganoosh"
@@FortNite-fb5wm omg, took me some time to understand
@@-kurogane- I had to look at my comment and think too, I confused myself. I forgot I wrote this
Kurogane Ti_Ignition I don’t get it
i attend high school at a district with a recent history of gun violence and this is spot on. i dont know a single kid who feels safer being constsntly followed, watched and scrutinized, with security around every corner. we dont feel protected, we feel policed.
That's the goal. Get the populace use to being violated by the government on a daily basis. Government has no fear of a lone gunman. what they do fear are people with free spirits.
They put people in school specifically to draw away attention from themselves
And then if we get gun control, it's all superficial like "Assault weapon bans" etc. Just pure security theater.
A student at our school killed himself in the bathrooms. No one even found him until lunch the next day. I can't ever express the kind of chill you feel when you know someone in your school had a bag of guns, shot himself in the bathroom, and the scene was so gorey that the bathroom had to be rennovated--but no one even knew. It's fucking awful. Turning the school into military zones won't save lives, it'll just result in our children growing up in fear.
How did no one heared the gun shot ? I imagine the horror, indeed 🙁
what the actual f*ck? That's awful. How is this even allowed to happen
@@donpollo3154idk he made the choice. Ask him. Certainly nothing was stopping him and nothing was to live for.
that's horrible, did his parents not wonder why he didn't come home??
Maybe then American kids will learn a measly 1% of the fear their country taught children in all those countless countries you bombed.
Teacher: "If there is an Active Shooter Situation, hide in this *hidden* closet."
Shooter: "Thanks. I'll keep that in mind."
That’s what I always joke
I couldn't make that joke in a country with tight gun control. Or the metric system probably. Idk the joke.
@@suprafluid3661 the student is a shooter
@@suprafluid3661 actually look up China and mass stabbings targeting children. lol oops
@@fishsmell2570 Damit their at it again. Outsmarted me yet again.
"Videogames promote violence"
**Spends millions of dollars creating a prison to keep depressed and abused children from lashing out, while ignoring the causes of it all**
Cap
@nice try167 lemme just... use this real gun with real knockback and real consequenses which I have learned to use in a videogame without basically any feedback on what a real gun feels like
I’ve seen you around RUclips a lot. You’re not very pleasant. Are you a troll?
Okay, boomer.
@@mangooverlord2014
Imagine expecting the truth to be pleasant..
The saddest part about this video, is that you can watch any day of the year hell probably even a decade from now and still say "wow, I thought this video was about today's incident but it was made __ years ago".
Yeah
Wa ssuprised when he said in 2019
This is still the case sadly.
Yeah, it's been nearly half a decade since he made it
Watching in 2023, didn't see the upload time and genuinely thought it was uploaded this year. Fucking depressing dude
You mentioning how brutaliam feels like a bunker and the school policing itself reminds me of something my sibling said: "Of course school feels like a prison, they're built by the same architects." It's chilling.
Here in my country schools literally have bars on windows
Im not sure why because they started getting it when i was in my very early teens im not sure if some student killed himself but i can say that looking at bars on windows everyday when i was still on school was not cool
@@valletas most schools in my country do have bars on windows, but its mostly to protect from football kids from shooting the ball through the windows.
@@valletas We don't have bars on windows here, but all windows are very narrow and rotate open making it really hard to squeeze yourself through. At least, that's how it is until the 3rd floor. After that, it's nets and bars and railings. Sure wonder why so much care is taken in preventing a student from defenestrating themselves instead of... helping their mental health.
@@quan-uo5ws here in my country we dont have open fields on schools
All stadiums are "caged" if thats make sense so the ball wont go anywhere
@@nerd_nato564 well because the only way to improve mental health for students is to radically reform the school system, and that isnt happening soon.
There's a difference between "it's safe here, child" and "you *will* be safe here, child"
oh god
That’s possible for literally everywhere
Facts are nowhere is “safe”
I just realized, the reason why there's no US school shooting in the past 6 months is because all school were closed due to covid-19 and they are studying from home.
to think that a viral outbreak actually saved the kids from dying.
@@KoeSeer got a point there
can't do a mass shooting if there's no mass to shoot
@AlexX there's more death with the virus, but doesn't it sucks more that kids kill other kids (mostly because schools doesn't handle bullying well, and guns too)
then they get pissed of when kids make counterstrike maps out of their military grade highschool
XD
"With all due respect principal Johnson, the cover placement is stellar on the school's blueprints, you were asking for it"
Shit, they should charge money as consultants for testing the design.
i actually played that map lol it was banger my guy cs 1.6 was the bomb
So you don't like the safety of the schools? You a School shooter??
"impact-resistant glass"? Doors of public places are made of glass for a reason. That way if it's dangerous to be inside the building, like during a fire, and the door is locked or jammed, you can just break through them. Impact resistant means that throwing a chair at it won't be enough to break through to get out. Now imagine if there's a shooter in the building.....
Now put a moat and a barbed wire fence around it, and make it only have a few entrances and exits.
Things are made of glass because it's transparent, if glass is made to be unbreakable then it slides open.
@@ussliberty109 Now put a guard tower in the center... oh wait, that's a prison
I mean, to be fair, you can just have the windows be openable, like emergency fire exit windows. You don’t actually HAVE to smash them to escape through them.
@@ussliberty109 now all we need is to position staff in certain places, add a few metal detectors and oh shit that's a prison
Every time there is a major shooting, and my feed has friends or family talking about how we need to turn out schools into fortresses, I come back to this essay.
I prefer to see them turn into fortresses than strip away more rights. Taking them away IS NOT going to stop them, plus, you'd have a huge resentful law abiding owners in the tens of millions that will get violent.
@@20mcnuggets b-but- m-mah rights!! every 20 year old should be able to own 50 guns otherwise i-its not f-fweedom1!!!!
@@20mcnuggets I felt safe at home, and not at school. At home, every able bodied adult has a weapon they are trained and comfortable with using. I would argue to the contrary, if everyone's armed, any shooting will be stopped quickly and violently, limiting the shooter's potential harm. We don't need a friggin military base, we need people ready and willing to defend those unable to defend themselves.
@@b0rt119 WTF?
In my opinion guns are not the problem.
@@ernie4795 Neither do I, but it's ridiculous when people try to shove down my throat the idea that every toddler should be able to get a gun without a single issue
The problem isn't the guns, it's mental health of the american society that causes these kids to do what they do, but have fun convincing those people that mental health exists (it's an impossible task)
It was never about the guns, it's about the shitty parents and classmates that cause these guys to go rogue
It's just that if everybody and their mother didn't have guns in the first place, they probably wouldnt even think about getting one
I'm really not a conspiracy theorist but the problems lies way deeper than guns and mental health, it's something with the american society as a whole. Maybe armstrong was right?
When your school district is so paranoid that you have old ass textbooks but brand new metal detectors
The textbooks are so outdated
They couldve used the renovations as an excuse to modernize the education system. More ingrained with technology with less need to buy textbooks every year.
Who are we kidding given the way police treat black people it’s a matter of time before an inner city school Massacre has a higher student body count from the cops than the shooter
lmao
My school has geography textbooks from a time where Yugoslavia was still a thing
"Wouldn't it be better to care about students health and help them with their psychological problems?"
"Nah to much work"
Nah caring about students would mean placing their needs above the school administrators' and they wouldn't want that.
How do you do that?
Nobody wants to talk that much, ita easier to pay someone to imagine fortification
"let's just install an E D U C A T I O N A L E N T R Y P A N O P C T I C O N instead. Problem solved.
Wouldn’t be better to change gun laws?
Sometimes there's some European,
Looking at US schools,
And speaking to themselves in horror:
"What the fuck ".
Today it's me. AGAIN.
For years I was going to school with folding knife in my pocket and I was actually using it on hallways... to make myself sandwitch from buns I bought on way to school, to peel mandarine, to cut apple for me and my friend, to help maintence guy open door which was sealed by some students with isolation tape just because. Some teachers did ask me "why do I have a knife anyway" and when I listed things like above I never got anything worse than "...ok? Just be carefull during breakes. Many kids run on hallways and might accidentally fall on it". That's it. At my last ~2 years at my 12yrs school some teachers even sometimes asked me to borrow them my knife for something without even asking if I have it because I always had. And I sometimes had screwdriver.
The only two things my school did have was cameras on hallways (that usually wasn't even working) and main doors opened by person in reception, and it wasn't even security person during day. Just some random lady or guy who would let you in and out (if they knew your face and they knew EVERYONES faces) anytime you wanted - no matter time, no matter if it's breake or during classes. The only time through 12 years when someone were checking our backpack was when some idiot thought that smoking weed in school toilet is good idea so they were searching for some weed in backpacks. Thats it. They didn't even asked why I carry knife to school.
US schools are dystopian nightmare.
as an american, they really are. when my dad was a kid he brought a bottle of aspirin to keep in his locker so he didnt have to ask the nurse for some when he had a headache. he brought a bb gun to school so him and his buddy could go to the side yard and shoot cans at recess. at my school they called a lockdown bc a kid was smoking pot behind the gym and you could get suspended for having aspirin in your backpack (bc its a 'drug'). if you had a knife god help you, you were expelled on the spot. meanwhile my gym class taught us to use a compound bow.
As a Canadian, yeah, my school experience was quite a lot more chill. I went to a small town private school where probably 30% of the students were children of local farmers, so I can only imagine how many knives were in that building every day. The front doors were never locked during school hours, though some of the side entrances stayed most of the time. I remember one instance of a high school student complaining about a headache, and the teacher said something along the lines of "well, i'm not allowed to give you the ibuprofen that's in the top drawer of my desk." And gave a little wink. Heck, I made a literally cannon as a history project and fired it in the soccer field. Though, the principal DID tell me afterward that he wasn't sure what was happening and considered putting the school into lockdown when I fired it, AND that was the last time weapon builds were allowed as history projects...
@@reaganharder1480I’m also Canadian, but I go to a city private school (it’s literally downtown and next to a busy road) but it’s the same thing. Country wide, we’ve never worried about having knives or whatever in the building, for whatever you need then for, I can’t imagine a country who in which you’re scared of others at school.
I'm in US suburbs and you could probably do the same at the high school I just left.
Incredibly glad my school is safe
I come back here every time there's a shooting, a little sadder each time.
The difference between a fire extinguisher and safe zone red tape is that the fire extinguisher is a device of empowerment. It gives us the ability to fight back against a force of nature.
Creating cover and marking it on the floor conveys a sense of helplessnes. You hide behind the wall and hope the shooter goes away.
(And no, this is not saying we should put items for proactive defenses against shooters into schools. While mass shootings are clearly planned, most crimes - including murder - are not, and most suicide victims choose the most convenient tool. Filling an area full of tired, overstressed people with weapons intended to kill is a terrible idea.)
what's not is rehabilitating said tired, overstressed people. Money's not even the issue, it's the douchebags who use the money
Imagine a kid is trying to escape school, but then all the doors shut closed and red lights start blaring.
Its a horror movie w no escape
INTRUDER ALERT! A RED SPY IS IN THE BASE!
Don't worry, the "quiet kid" doesn't have to imagine. He's already trapped in hell for 40 hours a week with no recourse. He's experiencing it already.
*SLAYER HAS ENTERED THE FACILITY*
@@ChrisShapiro It can be hard to say who has it worse. Females are subject to far more social forces. Girls can be absolutely awful to each other because they know words and opinions govern girls' lives most. The abuse girls place on each other socially is hard to watch
On the flip side, no one really cares what happens to boys. They can suffer and descend into the Abyss without anyone really batting an eye, even though it's obvious and known. We're expendable.
Different kinds of hell, and no one im schools cares at all, and uphold a system that makes it worse. Best part of lockdowns was having them shutdown.
There's something uniquely depressing about seeing a bunch of mostly clueless children stack chairs up against a door to defend themselves from some imaginary future gunman
one more depressing thought, that imaginary gunman might not be so fake in the future
I can imagine that being raised in such an environment with such principles and rules either makes one paranoid and afraid of the world around them, or they actually take an interest in testing the system and become the very same thing themselves. Kind of like that DARE program which aimed to stop kids from doing drugs. It only made more kids do drugs because they became curious about it since that was all they had heard of. Turns out, the more you advertise something, the more people are going to want to try it.
@Hououin Kyouma This exactly
@Hououin Kyouma El Psy Congroo
And they are only barracading out fellow students
As a European, watching this feels so alien and bizarre. My school has literally none of this, nothing remotely violent ever happened there.
If you can do something to help. Things are definitely getting dire over here. Cheers from USA
@@sierrrrrrrra Aye, everything's starting to go to shit
Well, here’s my theory-
Americans lack trust and honesty - at least the average ones.
As an American in high school, I speak from experience - people find every possible unexploited loophole, will break rules for the sake of it, and try to selfishly entertain themselves often at the expense of others.
I also think that the biggest issue is the culture of death we have here. Guns are almost worshipped and are used to kill others here. The government, of course, has to regulate because otherwise there is enourmous destruction. However, in a lot of European countries, you can have a full automatic gun - because while it is occasionally used maliciously, it’s not enough to warrant a law banning them. The media also give WAY to much attention to what are in essence terrorists, and kids (mentally stable or not) are constantly exposed to violence, with the M on ESRB or 18 on Pegi being regulated to a suggestion. Same applies to most movies. And this leads to fundamental problem no. 3: people here enjoy violence more than art. You can notice that as movies and video games get more violent, the story/gameplay get more shallow. A lot of stories can be violent by nature (I.e., the Bible and Quran) but have actual meaning. Things like Fortnite, the perfect example of violence for violence, do not.
Just my 2 cents.
@@thenerdy0boist955 Yeah, you certainly have some points there as I see it
@@thenerdy0boist955 you had me until you went schizo and started talking about fortnite
This explains a really odd feeling I used to get when I was in school in the U.S. They always felt like a great place to have a paintball game. It’s such a terrible thought with the amount of gun violence in schools but it’s just so true.
Yo that’d actually be sick though
People now: “uggghh school is like prison!”
People in the future: “oh wow, this prison is just like my old school!”
people in the past was already comparing schools to prisons, Foucault is famous for it.
Joseph Clark wtf do you mean in the future school is prison the food forced servitude and labor forced obedience the showers the cliques (similar to prison gangs) look at the signs and it was worse before teachers were legally authorized to beat you into obedience
@@onixtv4034 don't drop the soap
@@honquewastaken2298 pfft- no.
I mean they both
1. Serve the same food
2. Prepare for intense weapon damage
3. Hold teaching sessions
Schools should also have platforms at different elevations and a rocket launcher pickup in the middle.
It shouldn’t be funny but the idea of a bunch of kids rocket jumping around school fragging each other is very funny to me.
@@BLIGHTROT666 Tf2 headass bois flying through the hallways
@Maciej Królikowski This is a bucket
Rovire Jams
My God...
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I saw bulletproof backpacks being sold in a Staples in preparation for the new school year and nearly burst into tears right then and there.
pause, one question. What in the fuck is staples doing selling glorified ballistics vests?
@@bruhzy2139 - It’s for kids to hide behind during the abundant amount of school shootings that US school kids have been experiencing near constantly. Parents can’t send their children to school with an actual bulletproof vest. This is the next best thing. Devastating
@@JMBAD_art ah yes, sidestepping the problem completely. this will cause no future problems
My school had a lockdown song.
"Lockdown, lockdown. Let's all hide. Lock the doors. Stay inside. Crouch on down. Don't make a sound, do not cry, or you'll be found. Lockdown, lockdown."
We had to have lessons about the kind of threats. Minor violence against staff was the worst, thankfully, but we had police officers in the school. The police officers had tazers, and other weapons that can be used to stun. I know where every size of person should hide. Smaller people hide in corners, larger ones under the teacher's desk or in closets... what I'm saying here isthat I've been Practicing active intruder drills for so long, that I can sing a song about hiding and being silent.
What the actual fuck... they made a song?
This is the most terrifying thing I've heard all year
if I read this in a dyatopian novel id think it was too blatantly heavy-handed to suspend my disbelief.
Sorry if this comes off as offensive in any way, but do you realise how fucking disturbing that is?! I'm half tempted to throw up after reading the lyrics. It's beyond dystopian
This somewhat reminds me of a hat song at my old school that people would sing if they weren’t wearing their hats. But this is just messed up
Students are the ones most likely to become shooters, so most of the security crap won't matter. How about schools pay more attention to our mental health?
never would happen in our capital country
no no no that wouldn't help us with OUR agenda. a few people dying here and there is no big deal. what we need to do is use these people dying as a way to strike fear in the living so they are willing to come to us for security.
Simon Michelson
Small problem, the kid tends to like to conserve ammo so they use semiautomatic
@@simonmichelson8188 By removing the gun the nutty will just move to knives then pipes then bats and to there fists. Removing a wepon will make the pray an easier target they will not have any thing to defend themselves with. the nutty will just look on the black market or use a new wepon. Its the brain not the object.
@1small fish My dad and I were wondering about that a few years ago. He worked for a long time as a therapist, the agency he worked for was state funded. They would work with students, as well as adults. eventually the state cut funding. 3 years in a row the funding was cut, a lot of mental health workers lost hours, patients, and many just lost their jobs altogether. I have my own ideas about what would help to solve the problems with mass shooters, and preventing that from happening. I think that making mental health services worse is definitely not a step in the right direction, though. whenever I hear people act like mental health does not matter as much as trying this or that solution, I tend to respond with something like "ok then, lets get rid of all of the mental health services and then try your solution and see how that goes."
"Helping students with mental health issues would reduce the amount of shootings in schools."
"But what if we turned the schools into Counter Strike maps?"
"Yeah let's do that instead."
Helping mental health would be a lot cheaper too
Literally my teachers tell me to report bullying. So I reported this girl for literally bullying me and none of the teachers believed me.
you can try your best doing that but then again, maybe it wont be enough
Mental illness only accounts for about 8 percent of mass attacks.
@@Nuhbuddys It depends on the semantics with which you talk about the subject. Some might argue that planning a shooting bye itself is proof of a mental illness .
But I get your point,
In fifth grade, our school went on lockdown due to an issue regarding custody. We hid in the gym with a curtain drawn across the floor to hide us from view. Every time I saw the shoes of one of our teachers walk past, I thought I was going to die. I'm a senior in high school now and I still mentally catalogue every room in the school based on where I'd hide and how likely I'd be to survive. That shit sticks with you.
Id always thought how fun it would be to do a school wide hide-and-seek game. Perhaps that was a thought unconsciously spurred by the architecture as well
What do you mean "an issue regarding custody"?
I'm in highschool now.
My middle school was one of the many schools designed this way, the outside had gates similar to that of a prison and you can only enter or leave if the teacher entered either a pass or used a card. Inside the halls there are cameras lining the ceiling and it wasn't uncommon to see an officer or two patrolling said halls like they were prison guards and we were prisoners.
The classrooms were placed in a way similar to jail cells and the teachers had separate bathrooms in between the walls that was well hidden and would have plenty of cover if there really was a shoot out.
Now that I think about it the cafeteria was exactly like a prison cafeteria. The table placement, the two separate large rooms for the kids in different grades, the teacher that kept an eye on all of us with a mic in hand. My highschool's cafeteria isn't much different, the amount of exits regarding stares, the twisting hallways, the lined rooms, hell rooms with hidden rooms, the guards that roam the halls and are actually armed.
God damn.
Horrific. Testament to why parents raising children today should really consider homeschooling even if it requires taking an income hit. I did back in the early 2000's right before the internet hit big. I don't regret it. with today's societal culture I would do it again without any hesitation. My prayer is that you are well and haven't internalized your experiences and associated them with learning overall.
@@saintnick4035 bad news, they're making homeschool shit too
God damn. Cant people let kids be kids? Playgrounds? Running though the hall? Hanging out with friends in the cafeteria? Kids really got to deal with armed guards roaming the halls and constant surveillance because adults dont want stricter gun laws like every other country? What bull crap
Never in my 16 years in school, from elementary to university, have I ever seen a cop. "Active shooter drills" sounds like a dystopian joke, but it's reality now. What the fuck...
@@Ebb0Productions It’s not even a very recent thing. I’m going into my second year of high school and have been doing shooter drills since preschool when I was four.
I learned to ride a bike, draw between the lines, the alphabet, left and right, and the best place to hide from a shooter. Y’know, the basics.
...They've put a moat around a school? Do they expect the shooter to bring medieval siege equipment or something?
2 things
First that is fucking hilarious to think about. Fucking dude just has a catapult yeeting boulders at the school.
2nd, the purpose of a moat is abuse a thought process used by humans See, most humanss go for the easiest route possible. Path of least as it goes. With the moat, the purpose isn't to allout stop someone, but to make them go through the front entrance, where they have more eyes. If the moat is just a big hole, it's very hard to get across. If it's full of water, well now you have to deal with being soaking wet, which will be very suspicious, and with weapons, ammo, and other equipment, would be very difficult to cross. The whole point is to deter people to go through the front, where people have more eyes
@@rowmaster6894 they should have used barbed wire in that case (you could even put electric barbed wire if you are THAT paranoid), more effective and less costly.
Here in south america, stagnant still water makes for breeding grounds to all kinds of terrible insects, don't quote me on this but I think building moats would exacerbate that problem.
And also most shooters are students anyway so they'll be inside
YES!
@@Max_McGamer It's an elementary school
Honestly when i was younger we had "intruder drills" and i never even thought it would be about another student. In my mind it was always like "oh some dangerous dude broke out of prison and is rampaging across the county".
They just never really told us about it till high school
If we're around the same age, I don't think that was the motivation until we were in high-school. Or school system does more and more hard lock-down drills every-time there's a shooting. Since the shooting in North Florida (a similar school to ours), our school has quadrupled the police presence afaik, installed a new security system, and has doubled the rate that we do drills... and with it the number of fake and/or intervened threats has increased too. Just this week, there was a fake bomb threat. Yesterday, there was noticeably fewer people hanging out in the hallways.
Yeah, that's exactly how it was for me
I thought the same, Beggo. Although, Drills were extremely rare. This is probably because I lived in a pretty small town, so everyone was at least acquainted with each other, so shooters had a lot less reason to shoot the school. Even the weird quiet kids have at least a small circle of 1-2 friends. Also, a lot of people turn to drugs or alcohol at my high school. They're too high or drunk to attempt that stuff.
Yeah but now days little children have phones far too early. Some probably know.
That's what they told us too. Never really considered the idea that a student could do those things
I grew up on the edge of the city. My first eight or so years though were spent in a world of knights and castles, and forests or wandering our small town with my sister. There was no policing of my life. My parents wanted to know generally where I was and I needed to have my school and chores done (homeschool), but after that I was free to wander. As i went into my teenage years my legs got longer and I wanted to find new places to explore. So I wandered farther afield learning and explored the length of the creek exploring fields and neighborhoods. Then I went off to college, enter locks everywhere, cameras, police presence that wasn't my friendly next door neighbor, and people that stayed within the lines. So I rebelled silently, learning to pick locks, circumvent gates, dodge people and cameras, and learn the holes in this controlled environment. Because I felt trapped and I worry that most haven't known freedom so they can't see that it still lingers above, below, and in the quiet places. If I had to describe America in one word I would say Freedom, it is our ideal. What happens when we lose that? What happens when any person loses belief in their own autonomy?
I graduated highschool in 2020 (which obviously sucked for various reasons) but by far the worst part? My very last day of school. I was in PE. I dont even remember what period it was. All of a sudden a lockdown was announced over the intercom. There was confusion at first, but the teachers acted quick and herded all 3 classes in the gym at the time (so maybe ~120 kids) under and behind the bleachers. We were there for two hours. The police came and searched everywhere. I remember trying so hard to stay perfectly still, so my backpack wouldnt rustle. I remember some kids talking and how pissed i was at them. People cried. I was so terrified i thought i would faint. I texted my family and tried to explain what was happening but i was afraid the light of my phone would give us away. Eventually it was announced to be “all clear”. I didnt want to leave hiding but so many people got up i did anyway. We went home that day without knowing it was the last day. School got canceled because of covid the next morning. That afternoon we watched a movie. I think it was the wheel of time? There was a scene of these kids running away from a storm and hiding in a hollow tree. I suddenly started hyperventilating and sobbing. All i could say was “theyre hiding.” My mom held me and we all cried.
We found out 3 months later it was a false alarm.
I remember my dad telling me a story of when he and my mother travelled to Egypt. They were visiting a set of ruins that was really popular among tourists, and after turning one corner my dad stopped. He told my mom that the whole space was set up like a shooting gallery in a video game. He pointed out to her where enemies would unload from busses, and where you as the player would stand behind cover to gun them down.
A few weeks later, a couple of gunmen slaughtered dozens of tourists as they arrived by the bus load in that exact same spot.
0_0
Holy shit - guessing it was the Luxor massacre? Because that does look like a video game level...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxor_massacre?
(Dark humor)
Plot twist: It was him lmao
Sadly, the player wasn't there to gun the enemies down
a good ambush point is a good smbush point anywhere.
but its the extaction method that marks the difference between random thugs and special operators
*kid gets to school early and tries to wait for class
YOU CANNOT REST WHILE ENEMIES ARE NEARBY
*You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby.*
Is that why I never sleep at home?
꧁mooneatsworms꧂ deep
꧁mooneatsworms꧂ that’s so dep i cri 😭😭😭😭😭👊👊👊
@@charmyzard noo i was about to say that
That brief cut to Sandy Hook before the renovations was absolutely shocking. That one second shot really perfectly delivered the point that schools are built like prisons when they could easily not be
coming back to this video only a day after the Ulvada shooting. It's alarming to remember that its been three years and yet all of these things still ring true.
"I genuinely think they had the best intentions when designing the school."
>Plays a Max Payne 3 song notorious for having a soundclip of Max's dead infant's cries looping in the background.
What the fuck
Nah, the guy that built my school also built prisons
Yeah, I loved it!
Dr. Spog Zallagi Oh god 🤣
Can you please give some context?
Snake: Colonel, I've entered the educational entry panopticon.
Colonel: good, don't set off the smoke cannons
that sentence is fucking forbidden
I got here from a Metal Gear Solid video by Dunkey of all people
MY SIDES
Goodness gracious... It doesn't even sound ironic anymore.
Kept you waiting huh?
My high school has curved halls to limit lines of sight and has metal doors that come down to trap a potential shooter. I've heard rumor that it is a recycled prison design, I wouldn't be surprised. Everyone says it feels like prison, and not in the ugh school way, its dark and has several levels with halls jutting out so classes are only in clusters of 4 or 5 rather then one big hall with all the classes. To get to the cafeteria takes 7 minutes from some classes. Where rows of lockers end the wall juts out creating a spot to hide behind and doors are positioned in ways you cannot see into the room. We will do all this to increase the chance of someone surviving a traumatic event when we could easily stop it in the first place.
I love this video, I just hate how timeless it is
How timeless it is? It's been 2 fucking years. Are you a child?
Oh. Shit. I thought this was recent, turns out it’s already 3 years old.
You really think this will all be just as bad 50 years from now? Thats sad
Schools in germany: take an old building, put some chairs and a chalkboard in it. Done.
Schoola in america: we need a few megatons of reinforced concrete and hire a game designer to make it the hardest shooter that can be a school.
yea im from Australia and these video is nuts to me
@paper tastes like cardboard I hope germany doesn't seem cool because of how cheaply we handle schools :D
JonnesTT true. Schools here are a joke for the most part.
I want to leave America when I’m older because everyone seems to hate it here. Idk what should I do? Where could I go?
I love how the way you describe German schools is a pretty accurate depiction of the school I'm attending.
Coming to school be like:
"You are now entering a PvP zone."
Fast travel has been disabled temporarily
@@mist3325 Autosaving....
Signs outside America: Slow down, school zone
Signs in America: Watch out, school zone
You can't sleep with enemies nearby (lol).
"PvP has been enabled"
In 2002, my high school (which had around 2000 students in attendance) made the highly controversial decision to install around a half-dozen security cameras in busy places like the cafeteria and library. The cameras would only be visible from the principal's office and only record on an 8 hour loop, but even so many parents felt this was an unreasonable intrusion into their children's privacy - "students shouldn't feel like they're under surveillance at a place of learning". How times have changed.
Here we are. Back again in 2022. And people want schools even more "secure" now. Man traps, one way entries and exits, more metal, more weapons.
And yet they won't go after this two things that start mass sh00t1ngs in the first place: Guns and mental health
Fun thing: this kills MORE students by not letting them escape.....
“The healthy human mind doesn't wake up in the morning thinking this is its last day on Earth.”
But I think that's a luxury not a curse
if so we live in a nation of the mad
It doesn't?
I think it the opposite. If not for those who feared death we would have no safety
Cpt. Price
Changing the map, doesn't change the way a game is played, it just changes the playstyle. Fixing the issues that lead to the game are the only viable solution.
The problem isn't gonna be fixed, how else are they supposed to control us then ?
I'm guessing you mean the problem, not the solution, well how about gun control and more mental health programs
@@Nymiaz I'm f*cking regarded lmfao, yes, the problem, absolutely, mental health, IMO, is still not taken seriously enough all around the world, as for gun control, idk, where im from you can buy anything short of a grenade launcher/RPG without a license so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@МЭF15ТØFДL V3ЯↁЦИЅНДЄL any suggestions then?
@@Nymiaz Stop forcing kids to go and stop punishing kids for being victimized by bullies. You're creating inescapable hell scapes so destructive that the quiet kid will commit mass murder to simply escape them
My school shooting experience wasn't all that traumatic since nobody died. From what I remember a few shots were fired in the main office but nobody got hit and the gunman got talked out of actually killing anybody before anything happened.
I do however remember on that day when we were being offloaded from busses after some hours of waiting because of a bomb threat that meant we needed to take a bit of a detour to get to the busses by cutting through somebody's yard the first thing when we hopped off the bus to see our parents were news stations shoving cameras in everyone's faces.
I of course recognize the importance of covering these events but I mean literally I think the news people were closer to the bus than our parents. It almost feels like they treat it like a juicy story not that people can't have interest in these events and curiosity but it just rubs me the wrong way.
From what I recall the guy had mental health issues and hadn't taken his meds.He wasn't a student. Fortunately , though unstable he was stable enough and still had some sense of morality left to not go through with it. I have no doubt he was failed by our system and it never would have occurred had he had additional mental health assistance and you know didn't have access to a fucking gun whilst clearly mentally unstable and needing medication to deal with it.
“My school shooting experience wasn’t all that traumatic since nobody died”… I want every politician and senator in the US to hear those exact words. I’m European but the very idea that you could have a “school shooter experience” and for that to “not be that traumatic” is utterly dystopian. I cannot put into words how that makes me feel.
I keep coming back to this video, that’s how I know it truly matters
"Designed for Violence" sounds like the name of a Borderlands skill tree.
Or an achievement for a sandbox game after designing a map specifically for PvP
LMAO THAT'S SO ACCURATE
Yoo it’s gill bates owner of sicromoft
It’s almost like the Jedi mind tricks album violent by design
Or a deathcore band.
"you'd rather be safe right?"
no id rather schools take a harder look at why kids start shooting each other instead of slapping a general label of "oh they're just insane" and never putting responsibility into their mental health or intervening when the parents do not
well they do that for private schools at least but not public ones
Private schools tend to be bad at understanding already existing mental conditions and do not protect the students who are not as mentally strong as the public schools in my experience. I have seen first hand what the negligence leads to, including seeing someone i know get expelled after making a hit-list. He was weak mentally and the others caught on. they enjoyed his reaction as they picked on him relentlessly, even in front of teachers. He would make violent gestures or jab them with a pen pretending to stab them and kids would laugh or yell at him. He wasn't the best at social interactions but if one did not pester him, he would leave you alone or even be nice to you. Instead the band of kids who are seen as popular relentlessly harassed him and doubled down by joking about him shooting up the school. When he was caught with a hit-list and expelled, Everyone laughed. They didn't even care that they almost bred a school shooter. They almost broke this kid so bad that he could have taken lives... student's lives. They could have pushed this poor kid over the edge and some could have lost their lives because of it. Kids aren't taught to recognize kids who aren't as socially skilled as them and to protect them. Instead they see them as a tool of sick pleasure. Then teachers don't know who is screwing around with each-other and who is actually getting bullied. the problem isn't the guns, its a lack of proper education on how to treat people who may be a little different.
@@30dollarnightvision14 Most teachers seem to know who bullies who... They just don't care. Especially when the bullies are in the schools sports system, specifically football.
Schools do not care about your mental health.
Barkly Bowers You can’t buy military firearms... Duh...
Barkly Bowers Have you ever bought a firearm?
Designing a school to be "shooter resistant" is like applying a badge to a sawn off limb instead of applying a tourniquet to the bleeding stump. It's the wrong solution, applied to the symptoms rather than the cause.
Shooter resistant buildings won't stop school shootings, or probably even lower their kill counts substantially. In fact for all we know, such spaces may even increase the likelihood of a shooting thanks to that additional element of game. Things like improved health care for students, scaled down media coverage that doesn't plaster the shooters' face and motive all over TV for the next 3 years and legislation regarding safe storage of firearms though, probably would.
But in the politically radicalized 3rd world country with a Gucci bag that America is these days, solving the root causes of issues appears to not be a priority when one can posture and powerplay instead.
When I was 4 years old, I asked my grandma about why she asked to put iron grids all over her house and she told me the truth: the days were changing and violence was increasing in the neighborhood. She replied after saying that, in the future, things could be better again, it was just a matter of time.
Well, it never happened, not until now. She left this world 4 years later, and things just got even worse, years later, at the point that it was necessary to sell the house because my family and I were victims of robbery (with guns) in front of it. To live there was to actually build a prison for yourself to be "safe". I understood this and other considered "mature" things since I was a young kid and, literally, everybody here just knows why some buildings/houses/etc. are "like that". It's on the DNA of the brazilian people already and it really sucks, but guess what, the majority of the people are used to it. We feel "safe" when we are being watched, it's not a paranoia, we literally don't care, we welcome that because other people can "protect" us this way. Technically, Brazil had recently a politic of disarmament (though not for the criminals because, you know) and now is slowly in a process to try to become like USA in this aspect. We can all guess that the consequences would not be great, because the real problem is being ignored for decades, the same as there, although we have different causes for it.
It's nice to see another point of view + the analysis of games that, in thesis, make the shooters doing those tragic inccidents (it's the fault of the bullying and the toxic society as a whole to be honest), but it's like, seeing a realisation that only occured now to an adult in comparision to understand implicity this practically since you are born. Childhood gets a whole new meaning when we are faced with mature things since the beggining, thus proving that maturity is not simply related to aging process (and it has a whole different aspects of it). I'm happy that your society is more carefree in some aspects than mine's, but sad that those practices, almost everywhere at least here in the whole continent of the Americas, are getting more and more common and advanced. When we will have the courage to effectively change?
Re-designing school to become fortresses seems like the ultimate example of "treating the symptom, not the cause."
Not even appropriate treatment of the symptoms, this is like treating bipolar symptoms with a lobotomy so you don't experience the euphoria or the mental rock bottom just blah.
Amazing comment, I have been looking for somebody to speak so much truth.
America in a nutshell. They got 20 years left tops
@@KeshAndrew i am going to outlive you
@@svmwasthesheet1971 ???
I feel sad knowing, that there are no attempts to take care of students and help them, but instead just except a schoolshooting.
Yea the best way to prevent something like this is to focus primarily on the people.
Create a society where people can't understand each other, say they are divided by groups, make them feel unsafe with different people, then solve the prime aspects of human group management and the rest you know how it ends, right?
Take on account the kind of kids who actually become school shooters.
Taking care of that kind of kids would need for some... pillars of US culture to be removed completely.
@@therealyaddayaddaman7353 Hollywood would be enough, that human created hell is a freak machine!
@@hbtm2951 Nope, eliminating hollywood wouldn't make a dent in the cultural basis of this.... hell, if I'm reading you right, elmininating what you want to eliminate from US culture would only make the problem a lot worse.
¿what needs to change? the way lots of parents raise their children in the US, they are the one teaching their kids jewels like "when frustrated... use violence!!" and "13yo girls should be held accountable over the urges both their peers and GROWN MEN feel when they see their shoulders"
It really sucks that world events have gone in such a way that I'm not just coming back to this video because I'm on a Jacob Geller binge but because now it is, unfortunately, more relevant than ever.
I come back to this video every time there’s a new tragedy in the US. My heart is with the victims.
Damn, you must be like half the view count
Never thought the saying "Schools are just kid prisons." would have been taken literally.
Captain Underpants was ahead of its time
Prisons from which all patents may, and most parents can, release them at any time.
It was never metaphorical. When the citizen says "Schools are designed like prisons and school shootings are becoming a problem." They mean, "Your methods of education are arcane and unethical, therefore we should do things fundamentally differently." What the government hears is: "Your child prisons are operating below peak efficiency and require improvement."
@@zapazap uh... are you sure? because getting out of school means lasting effects on your ENTIRE LIFE THEREAFTER. good luck finding a proper job.
@@ponponpatapon9670 I believe the article was referring to the mass industrial form of schooling prevalent in public schooling, rather than schooling (education) itself. Homeschooling (and even some alternatives to the traditional model like Montessori) need not be as prison.
Cheers.
Consider:
An active shooter in a school is likely a student.
Students will be familiar with their school's layout and active shooter procedures. They will know all the places the school has been designed with cover in mind, they will know what the sight-lines are like. They will know the nooks to hide in, they'll know where the cameras are.
You know who wont know those things, who wont know exactly where to look and where to hide?
The first responders.
I thought about this literally all the time in school. "If the shooter is the kid in the drill next to me, how will the paramedics know to look in the hidden supply closet where we all hide?"
A thought not at all conducive to comfort when there are more cops than usual on campus
I'm not surprised they didn't think this through.
And how fucked is that, to be trained that any one of your classmates around you is a possible threat? That you could be a threat?
Fuck. I never thought about that
The responsible move would be to provide plans to police and emergency response units. Which is what I imagine is done.
As other people have mentioned, it really messes with me just how difficult it is to get out of the school building. One of my high school friends transferred from a school that had bars on the windows. In my school (bad neighborhood, lotta gang fights, plus paranoia about school shootings), you could only enter or exit the building by a few main doors that were heavily monitored. Same for cafeterias. The cafeterias were built decades ago with 3 or 4 sets of double doors, but only one was open, watched by a security guard. You had to scan your ID (verifying your name, face, and schedule) to get into lunch. That meant 10 minutes in line to get into the cafeteria, then 10 or 15 more if you got hot lunch before you could actually eat. That left no room for harmless rule-breaking, like skipping class to eat lunch with your friends if they had a different lunch period. People would often be late to class just cuz it took so long to get out of the one cafeteria door they left unlocked. It was nothing like this when my parents and grandparents went to school. Yes, my parents also had metal detectors at school and police on campus, but none of the sense of being locked in. None of the sense of your identity and person constantly being monitored. I worry about kids growing up i the shadow of so much violence and control.
Seeing all these outcries for armed guards at school right now is just a grim reminder that fear and anxiety take precedence when it come to responding to tragedy.
It really does get to you when the metal detectors start rolling in. It's weird to think that kids of the future will think of it like they do homework or studying. We have police officers in our hallways, I have to wear a photo ID to get into school, and this week I'll have to let my backpack be pilfrered through and go through a metal detector. Does this help me? I don't feel safer, I feel scared. What if the police think I'm dangerous? During lunch I usually just hangout in the bathroom because I'm not hungry. I've had teachers drag me out and force me to go to lunch. Now I have to deal with the possibility that some police man is going to think of that as suspicious. I have a gift that I want to bring to my friend, she had to go to a hospital because she tried to kill herself. And now I have to let some police officer touch that gift, to rip it open, to move it around and see everything in it. It's violating. The anxiety that goes through me when I think about how I could get arrested at school for causing too much trouble. It's happened before, kids thrown to the ground or put in hand cuffs for acting out, for talking back, for acting like a kid. I don't feel safe, I feel scared.
Same thing for me but no metal detector tho
Well, to be fair, in the world outside of school there are already police patrols, and as an adult you’re expected to carry a form of identification on you. If anything the police presence would make me feel safer knowing there are first responders on site. Not minutes away when seconds matter. I’m sorry to hear that they tore open the packaging on the gift to your friend. Finding a balance between privacy and security is tough. Try to think of it in the way that the police are just doing their job. I know they might seem scary, but I’d venture to say that most of them are there with your guys’ best interest at heart. I’m sure a lot of them have children of their own they’d want protected, just like you and your friends.
Welcome to the hell Orwell warned us about.
You made such a good statement, as if you were writing an SA, like, damn, so poetic. But you are right and school's have to take criticism such as this.
@@sublime.spaceranger ACAB. Cops are just enforcers of the law, and the law is designed to protect capital. Never trust a cop
This is like putting a bandaid on a broken skull
It could prevent some blood to drip OUT of the head, you know.
This is irony ^
Ice pack on internal bleeding
@@MurriciTerceiro that is a good point actually, if it were a normal cut or something wouldn't the ice pack help freeze the blood and close up the cut?
@@redcrewmate764 it could, but not in a way that this would be enough to heal the person
@@Avery_37 the school nurse 🤚😭
The mf school nurse I cant
Goddamn, as a Canadian it's always so messed up hearing how different it is, a few hours drive away.
I legitimately couldn't imagine how stressful it must be for kids to have to think about potentially being shot by someone just for no fault of their own. We had intruder drills maybe twice, which were taken seriously, but that was over the 13 years of schooling (k-12).
I really hope things get better for my neighbours down south. Truly.
Thank you. I respect your country and appreciate learning about Canada. I'd love to visit someday! There's so many places in Canada I'd like to go... but yeah things are getting bad here, we need help. Cheers!
Yeah, where I live, school shootings are rare due to tightly-knitted communities. The closest thing we had was a kid threatening my school as a "joke." All charges were dropped. I don't know. It's a shitshow down here. We need some help.
It's been the same goddamn theme since '99, but nobody seems to give a flying fuck.
I'm tired
Please send help, things are not getting better
It's things like this that make me think about how the first thing people who first join my online school go on and on about is how friendly and kind everyone and everything feels. I've been an online student my whole life, but the second-hand horror I've always had follow me from the rest of my american peers is haunting. I can't stop thinking about just what the people who join my online school are running from- the bullying, the violence, the constant fear. Why are people still scrutinizing and questioning how more kids grow up to be anxious when they clearly aren't listening to the very same kids when they get home from this hellscape? Maybe if you didn't treat scared kids as school shooters, they wouldn't become school shooters
The only silver lining is that one day, when these schools go out of business, the abandoned buildings will make GREAT paintball/lasertag arenas
Don't forget airsoft
Or prisons.
That's fucked up but actually brilliant
I think about this daily.
@@platinumchromee3191 I've always wanted to play airsoft in a school.
"Investing on programs to help Kids with mental health issues?"
School: "Nah"
"Building a f*cking pvp map in real life?"
Schools: *"YES"*
They couldn't help mental health without removing the system entirely, why risk people waking up?
@@betaplain297 if you can't help with mental health because of the system then we should get rid of that system
@@leoneabbachio7820 yasss
And that kids is the power of spending other people's money [aka taxes]!
God this is just depressing
Had to come back to this after Uvalde.
When I was in high school a few years back, I remember talking with my friends at the lunch tables in the morning. To stop school shooters, everyone was forced to gather in the cafeteria before class- unless you had permission to go, or had a morning club, or managed to sneak up the stairs by the entrance while the teacher wasn't looking- there weren't any actual checks of who was or wasn't there. The cafeteria didn't have doors, it was connected directly to the main hall. There were a couple of police officers but most of them looked as half-asleep as the rest of us.
So there me and my friends were, talking, since there wasn't much else to do. We had joked that this whole system was a terrible idea, that if there was a school shooter we'd be fish in a barrel, just waiting to die. We weren't wrong, it was something we just knew. I never really thought about how that affected me, starting every school day like that
I remember in middle school, not but a year or so after Columbine, some kids thought it'd be a great prank to accuse me of claiming I'd come to school and start shooting people.
No defense.
Expelled from the school several hours later, forced to go to an "alternative school" for several years with kids who were about 100x more likely to actually bring a gun to school.
What an excellent childhood.
But for real though. I'm not joking in any way. This really happened. The extreme if not almost ridiculous amount of paranoia back in the very early 2000's was ridiculous. But. Here I am. A socially misshapen adult with a mundane social life, still haunted by years of having the shit kicked out of him and reminded for years on end about that one time "you were gonna go kill everybody." Spent almost a year in a psychiatric hospital at one point because of this shit.
As far as I'm concerned, modern schools are fucking prisons designed to beat you into the good little worker Plutocracy wants you to be. You shove a bunch of mentally malnourished kids together and evil things happen. And I CANNOT overstate that I don't use the word "evil" casually.
Those kids who claimed I'd kill people? Two are dead, drug overdoses. One is a convicted pedophile. One is in jail for vehicular manslaughter and several DUI.
Guess I turned out pretty okay.
Have a good day you person, whomever you are. Keep on, keeping on. You'll make it my friend.
Its almost like they felt the need to project all of the evil things that they were and more in order to deflect any suspicions on their part. Wish you the best man, that sounds horrible.
"Mentally malnourished" That expression captures pretty well what is wrong with the systems.
I come from Germany, which was actually the birth place of modern schools. Catholics took children from the streets and put them into rooms, where amateurs would entertain the kids with loose knowledge. German schools got militarised and demilitarised three times. The first time during the early 20th century, to fit into the empirical Germany. The third time during the peak of the cold war, where fallout drills were done. And the second time was after the takeover of the Nazis. They made the children play with tanks and grenades and implemented systemic racism in the schools design. Hitler said in a speech German children were supposed to become soulless violent monsters. Ironically he did not need to change a lot about the schools to achieve that.
Schools are militarist in nature. With their square rooms. With teachers, who command classes like generals. Who can make the students sing, be silent, laugh, speak, cry and piss their pants, because "You were able to use the toilets during the break".
That sounds awful, genuinely hope youre doing good and staying safe
how do you know they *died* sir
Still know people from school back then. Word spreads.
Is nobody gonna talk about how the smoke filling the hallways would only protect the shooter, they are just shooting at the hallway, people need to identify where the shooter is.
yeah and they could run towards the shooter without knowing
its just going to get smoke in everyones eyes rather than stop anything those running away would have a 50% chance of being safe or not and that would be far better than the shooter being able to see you
Its an intimidation tactic for if the shooter is asthmatic
@@jakedebarr9675 if the shooter is asthmatic how could they get prepared in a bathroom full of vape clouds lol
@@alexanderbrady3189 I mean I go to the bathroom in school and I'm fine. It's just like hitting fast travel for the hospital. Get out of school, have free choccy milk, it's fun.
nothing like being reminded you can die at any moment
As a non-American (I'm French), this is fricking crazy to me. I won't look at schools the same way now, but I know that here it's not the same. We have some of these "lockdown drills" but we don't have any cameras, bulletproof windows, "panopticon", ...
And schools wonder why so many kids are depressed nowadays.
And they say "you don't know what depression is you're too young"
@@Ok-dn2cs also they leave kids to hell and don't trigger lock
Fred k everyone is sad, not depressed. Different things.
They don't wonder
They dismiss.
They don't wonder they know and they don't care I have no idea what there agenda is but it's not friendly to the human race.
When you realize people are more willing to build entire structures to accomodate violence instead of actually working towards a better education system, the very thing that causes all of this to happen in the first place
Cheaper?
Knowing how high ranking people act that's probably it, they're too lazy and want to spend as little money as possible to solve something
To me it isn't intelligence that's the issue but rather the way it's taught. School shouldn't be so structured in a way that makes someone feel bad for not knowing something, or for restricting them to sit down and listen to someone else talk for hours on end. It should be lively and engaging. Instead of slaving away at work, both at school and away from it, missing life just so you could prove to a system that you "know the material", you should be encouraged to experiment and see what works and be more creative. Everyone remembers hating school, I don't know why nobody has done anything about it yet.
Loansome and you know, bullying
@Boring Name The social aspect and climate of education is definitely the problem, along with the education system itself still carrying the jock/nerd titles into highschool.
Aside from that, the grading system has been shown to not work for everyone, and intelligence isn't a factor in that.
Why do i say it like that?
Because i've lived through it myself. I have mild-autism combined with a reading disorder not much unlike dyslexia, and both have only been diagnosed after i quit college and had to battle my way through highschool, along with an IQ of something like 140. (disharmonic profile, so you can't really say i've got one single IQ score, but several different ones for different aspects of what makes up an IQ score, some as low as 121, another as high as 163.)
All my life i used to hear "you're just lazy, you don't want to, you're intelligent enough, why don't you just learn?".
Education is paced incorrectly for a scary number of people.
You're punished for not learning something quickly, and you're not for immediately forgetting it afterwards.
Grades are the only thing that matters, actually remembering the material you're taught for more than a month doesn't.
This fact, along with excessive bullying and picking on the 'weird kid' (for instance someone with a reading disorder and autism), leads to violence in the caliber we see today.
In Europe, here, we don't have easy access to guns, so when people like that 'weird kid' want to lash out at the world, you're not gonna get a mass shooting.
You're gonna get an angry kid hurling a stool at his biggest bully so hard that his upper leg snaps right in two, and one of it's legs punctures his hip.
That guy will still be hospitalized, but the rest of the school is fine.
Because you've got access to weapons with the destructive potential of an AR15 semi auto rifle, or a Glock 18 pistol, or even just a .22lr pistol, you need to take more precautions when it comes to mental health of your students, and that is EXACTLY the area that is mostly ignored.
There's nowhere for these kids to run to.
There's no way to help them, there's no way to stop the bullying, and in the meanwhile, you're DISCOURAGING beating the other guy up.
What the fuck.
BECAUSE you're discouraging violence, you're not fixing the problem, you're supressing it.
You're telling a river to stop flowing and place a closed dam along it's path.
One day, that dam is going to burst.
And all of you will ask "where did we go wrong?" like the blind chickens you are.
Stop popularizing school shootings by covering them.
Stop giving these kids the idea that shooting up a school will get them to be famous, turn them into the monsters they want to be.
Stop ignoring the problems these children face, and step in. Get them talking with a psychologist, NOT A SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGIST, an off site one, where they feel safe.
Start caring about the mental health of your students, even if they just have someone to talk to, someone to vent their anger to, that is enough for most.
Even after all these years, it's what i needed most.
Just to be able to talk to someone about the issues i face in my daily life.
Some of these kids have no one.
They're not mentally ill... They're alone.
Be there for them, just allow them to open up.
I grew up about half an hour away from dandy hook. I remember getting out of high-school and not hearing anything about what happened. I went to a friend's house and my father called me. I still remember what he told me about sandy hook. He then said under his breathe "there's some sick people out there." It still echos in my mind every time I think about that day. Fast forward a year or so. I had heard they demolished the school. The town of sandy hook used to be vibrant and full of life. But even now visiting there is still depressing and bleak like the town lost all hope after that day. The school was then rebuilt in a different location. Nice to see it was rebuilt but the pain is still there. The building looks so full of life but under that thin veil of life lies a dark paranoia of tragedy that is palpable. It will never be the same.
I didn't know adding this video to my watch later three weeks ago would have such relavance today.........
Note: this is not a video about how “video games cause violence” or anything of the sort
@Ivan Ivanovich Ivanovosky Democrats have been saying the same thing since the early 90s. I think it's the one thing both parties potentially agree on. It doesn't change that both parties are wrong that video games cause violence. They don't.
But you won't find a politician stating that the home life of a kid can cause more violence through parent apathy and abandonment then outside stimuli. The parents are the voters after all.
@@Fickji Not _since_ the 90s. _In_ the 90s. Video games causing violence was no longer anyone's position, until that changed just a few months ago.
Democrats weren't involved in that change.
Actually video games do cause violence but only in the sense that the military pays for war games to encourage people to join the military. Why do you think there is a new call of duty every year?
@@doctorrussia the military is not filled with people who play call of duty. The stereotypical call of duty player is very much NOT the kind of person the military is looking for. Not in capacity to obey orders, to cooperate in teamwork, to keep their mouth shut, to maintain their weapons, to communicate in cipher, not in any way.
@@doctorrussia Literally every study about the correlation of violence and video games disproves this. *Video games do not cause violence*. Say it with me. Anyone willing to go and gun down a group of innocent people dont need video games to make them do it. Anyway the faulty argument your side loves is "This person did this therefore a link" How many serial killers had a admiration for something art related? Is every artist now on a path to becoming a serial killer now??? You people are almost as annoying as the anti-vaxxers...
This is peak America: Don’t solve the problem, address the symptoms and make the people affected by it feel as shitty as possible in the process.
Shame they can’t do what we did in the uk after the first and only school shooting by outlawing specific guns and hard to access licenses
America the Wimpy and Petulant.
@@potatopotawto1412 What is crime?
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It only took a matter of time before this became the problem we had to deal with. Not something simple, but something so deep rooted that any real solution would take years of world altering change. We can have therapists, but they will not solve the mental health crisis. They won't. You want to solve the problem? Find the source of all these children growing up in terrible situations. This is what we're dealing with. Fixing the world so it's not divided, fixing it so people aren't constantly miserable and on edge, it won't take just providing therapists, or any other small throwaway answer. This is one of the biggest problems we could be faced with, and it's about time we shake ourselves or of this dizzying and sickening spiral to our deaths.
I'm German. In Germany, round about 100 years ago, militarism was on the rise. This was the time right before WWI, when Germany had been shortly unifies under one Emperor (Kaiser) and for the first time in over 100 years the economy was growing. The military as a factor of unification was part of nearly every part of existance. There was a culture around parades, uniforms and people who had served recieves special treatment. (For the general vibe: Watch the new "all quiet on the Western front" movue. especially the scenes in the German Mainland). Famously the architects of the military-buildings were contracted to build other buildings of the state like prisons or schools. Up to this day, traditional German schools look like barracks. There is even a quote of the famous poet and writer Erich Käster: "Whatever you try to build in this country, the result ist barracks". This video reminds me a lot of this period in my history.
Amazing video, Jacob. You're probably not gonna read this but I genuinely adore the way you tie different subjects together into one cohesive video without it feeling awkward or forced
when you literally just fight symptoms instead of the cause
@Pönk I know you're just baiting but thats an incredibly dark thought that some people have. they say things like that, not even realizing that they're calling for execution of people who are just different and misunderstood.
@@stickyrick1939 That's not really what people stand for man, but the kids are fucking stupid sometimes, I was stupid too. It's the teachers job to make sure they don't fuck over some kid because he has mental health issues, not just let him shoot up the school and then upgrade the school's anti shooter defenses afterwards.
Good practice for covid😂😭
The usual treatment for common cold is to relieve symptom.
just ban all guns so that the government would be in complete control
Back in High School, I remember writing a paper, where at the end we had to present it to the Principal. I had written about the changes the school was bringing to 'combat' against school shooters. What I had written, and said to the Principal, mentioned the anxiety of having a system put in place, such as bullet resistant entry doors, school shooter specific alarms, as well as increasing the cameras, simply made students feel more uncomfortable. The response, as one can imagine, was 'there is no choice in the matter'. I honestly feel like educators could care less about how they make the students feel, even if it does impact our education.
Or maybe he's just like you... being forced to abide by these godawful rules. Must be hard to be a Principal while your underpaid as hell.
You kids could also stop bullying each other into shooting up the damn school
Ever think of that?
@@elgatochurro Exactly. The world right now is filled with thots and just straight up horrible people.
@@DrWalterBennett fix it then, don't be a horrible person and spread those values.
@@elgatochurro 1. No way for me to really fix that
2. Not a horrible person, try to be as nice as I possibly can
3. I spread those values, but in this horrible society where trying to be nice or wholesome = Cringe if your not some sort of Celebrity or something. The only people that understand this stuff are my fellow nerd friends, which is basically the good side of the Internet.
Just looking at that school I felt depressed, there was only one place in my school that didn't feel like you should be trapped. That was the cafeteria, trapped in the middle of the school but lit up with natural light and warm wood, the heart of the school was the only inviting place whilst everything else was a feast of bleakness seeping into your mind as a place of depression and potential tragedies.
Why do schools feel like this.
I remember in middle school how scared I would get during lockdown drills. I always had the sickening feeling that they weren’t drills- and I think one of my most memorable moments in school was when I was squeezing my best friend’s hand like we were about to die as they tried to comfort me. I still can’t describe the fear I get as a high schooler when we have drills.
America: putting a whole new spin on the term "surviving school"
We have reach peak bullshitery
Well at least we're allowed to talk about it. China silences the mass stabbings happening in their schools. Typically committed by middle age low wage workers taking revenge on wealthy citizens who are depending on their children to care for them in their later year.
@@OspreyKnight lol
OspreyKnight this just in, US tells everyone their shit
Amerika, russia, china and north korea and the whole east are everything that's wrong with this world
Ironic that so many of these government officials calling for more heavily fortified schools criticize video games for making this extremely violent, gun-crazy culture, while at the same time basically turning schools into video game inspired arenas for shooters to romp around in.
Nothing stops doomguy; no bulletproof glass, no wall.
@@kommentator1157 i don't know if you intended it to be but this comment is fucking terrifying
Ah yes we can only react any other prevention measures too hard, thank fully the NRA will be sponsoring a school near you.
@@mooncrime4998 luckily doomguy killed his commanding officer for ordering him to kill civilians, so he would be the one keeping you safe, if that eases the terror of that comment for you at all
I'm worried that shooters will take this as a challenge, like "Can I clear all the hideouts and shoot up the safe rooms? It's like a video game level. How fun!" This thought alone is nauseating...
I love how this video seems more determined to raise important questions than to answer any. I'm tired of seeing video essays that present themselves as an end to a process rather than the start, without really justifying said presentation. Great work!
Having flashbacks to when my high school got an entirely new campus, and every morning I heard my parents complaining about how it looked like a prison from the outside (lots of boxy concrete, tall lampposts, and basically no landscaping). It was nicer on the inside, but still built with violence in mind (except for one strip of classrooms that had regular glass on 1-2 walls and conference rooms that had 3 glass walls)
I like how even in the educational budget, America still finds a way to make most of it defense spending
Only in America
At least the building can be repurposed as a fort when it comes to it
Prime place to go if zombies are ever a thing.
Wouldn't it be easier to just ban guns?
Yes it would
@@ratrat9769 yes actually since you can be arrested for a felony meaning that at least while they're in custody their ability to commit crime is lessened.
The point at the end about generational gaps in thinking is interesting - when I hear previous generations talk about their childhood/school experience, its always so carefree - filled with all sorts of partying, mischief, lawbreaking, stupidity, etc. You talk to kids now-a-days, they're all struggling to to study hard, keep their heads down, and just make it through life, terrified of failure of any kind
Do you mean the old days when going to and from school meant going uphill both ways?
@Space Bound Damn I wanna talk to someone like you
i was in an large school built in brutalist soviet architecture. This ingrateful tone isnt ok. Security and safety is great, these kids have it way better with a safe school and the only people having problem are braindead millenial dipshits trying to make everything a negative.
@@zapazap I'm sorry but there's nothing harsh about doing some extra exercise. Also studies have shown that giving children that extra Independence to walk home from school and vice versa actually is great for them developmentally, and helps build self-esteem. I agree there were a lot of other problematic things going on for children at the time, but they at least had the rest of the day after 3:00 p.m. or approximately that time. There were some homework, but most of a child's stress would be related to family or societal issues, not school. We now live in a world where a child most definitely has stress from school, and put on top of that family struggles, anxiety, and societal pressures.
@@otakumangastudios3617 The 'going uphill both ways' is a rather old joke.
Safety isnt walking into a building to have your bag upturned by a badged stranger. Its when you can walk into a building, see a stranger holding a bag and you dont see a problem with it
I live in Argentina, where in the 70's a US-funded military coup terrorized the population dissapearing more thant 30.000 persons and found the most resistance among the university students of that time.
Today, that episode of our history is remembered with grief or solemnitude, and a slogan grew up around it "Nunca más", "Nevermore".
In my university, a free, public 100% goverment founded university, it is ilegal for anyone in a cop uniform to come inside, even though it is common to see non-students roaming the halls for a variety of reasons, begging for charity among them.
I don't have tools to analyze the architecture of my faculty, though it is clearly panoptical because it is a repurposed military building where students and protester where held, tortured and killed.
There are no campuses here, the different faculties have different buildings spread in different parts of the city, and each of them look quite different (because they where built and modified in very different times), even though they all belong to the National University of La Plata. But that normative applies to all.
I just think it is an... interesting contrast. Open and systematic violence against rebelious students and profesors have shaped the space and normatives in really different direction.
Latinamerican universities really value anti-authority. Not only Argentina, but Brazil, Mexico, Bolivia and more, the Autonomous ideal is sacred.
Universities here are a huge political environment. If you've seen the UBA School of Exact Sciences (Facultad de Exactas) from inside you'll know what I mean. In fact, it wouldn't be crazy to assume that university students are the most politically active sector of the population.
I don't know much about architecture, but I wouldn't say the School of Engineering (Facultad de Ingeniería) is designed like a prison or "for violence". The building clearly has its years, and thus when it needed to be expanded, they threw classrooms and labs wherever they saw fit. The layout is very confusing for new students and outsiders, that's for sure. As for the non-students part, this building is pretty much open to the public as long as you have an ID card on you. I remember going to see one of my uncle's classes there at 14 years old and they let me in no problem.
I guess what I'm getting at is that, when violence in educational facilities isn't prevalent, the design mentality and social mentality shift dramatically. To the point where it doesn't seem concievable that a violent altercation can happen in the halls of the building. However, this brings about other "issues" like student protests and heavy political activism, which harm the potential funcion of the building as a place of learning.
@@m0n5a80 how is "extreme political activism" bad
@@EduardoFlores-bt4fo That's why I said "issues" in quotes. Political activism isn't inherently bad. It's when it meddles in the educational aspect of universities that it, in my opinion, becomes bad. Things like, harrasing students and forcing them to join protests or political parties, refusing to teach or help students that don't share ones political views, etc. Those to me have no place in any educational facility, whether public or private.
Of course that is just my opinion, it may not be the same for everyone, but that's pretty much how I see it.
Schools with that much fire cover are gonna have couples making out in every corner
Hey atleast someone will make love not war.
Hey, at least they're not fucking going at it in the middle of tHE FU *_CKING HALLWAY! MOVE YOU BRAINDEAD MASS OF TISSUE! IF YOU WANT TO KNOCK OUT A FAT ONE THROUGH EACH OTHER'S PANTS, YOU CAN GO OUTSIDE!_*
If you couldn't tell, I'm still pissed at couples for making out and causing traffic problems in the hallways. Seriously, at least get out of the way.
@@metroplexprime9901 Couples made out in your hallways?
@@zafranorbian757 yep. Not as often as I made it seem, but it was annoying every time. I did play it up a bit for satire, but still annoying.
@@metroplexprime9901 I think most of our couples left the school grounds or wen´t to the forresty area for that.
When schools need to be designed like high security prisons, you can tell that the whole system is horribly, horribly broken.
As a German, this all sounds so scary. We had zero cameras or bullet-proof windows. Because we don't live in constant fear of people running around with guns all the time. These US schools teach children to live in fear. Or to accept violence as the standard. It seems like these schools designs encourage students to become shooters. And gives them good hiding spots, too.
The situation over here is really sad. Teachers don't care about the students' mental health, only their paycheck. We aren't taught about how to treat each other, we're just told to 'be nice' or 'love your neighbor as you love yourself.' And the staff just sit on their asses and say 'oh we just send him to counseling, then he will learn to act right.' The depressed kids aren't reasoned with, they're just sent to the principal's office, which reinforces the belief that nobody cares about them.
Yeah, the US school system is broken. God bless America, am I right?
@@mykl1673 Disheartening :(
Yes I hate the way most teachers deal with mental health and issues similar although I don’t think they get paid enough to be a therapist and an educator so I think it kind of just proves how deep the education systems flawed
In Our school(in germany)the whole building is just a big open space because no one has to fear atacks
@BTIsaac Omg I get called a communist all the time only because Im from slovakia(post communistic country). Its really fucked up how america just basically treats the syptoms and not the cause of the problem.
The way you started the essay by describing characteristics you'd see in a shooting video game only to reveal you're describing a school is such a great hook
I was in a shooting threat in 2020 at my high school. Nobody got hurt. Some idiot thought it would be a good idea to bring his airsoft gun to school to impress his girlfriend or something.
It was at the end of the school day, a bit after 3 PM. I remember it vividly, with a strong morbid fondness I must admit. It was one of the most exciting moments of my youth. I love to tell the story. I had just written a test in my social studies class, finishing early, my teacher allowed me to go to my locker and grab my bag so I could leave immediately once the bell rang. And so I did. I walked out as the bell was still ringing, nonethewiser to what was about to go down. I got onto my bus, happy to see I was the first one there and as such got my preferred seating spot. I opened a game on my phone to wait for my friends to arrive. But then 10 minutes passed and I noticed I was the only one on the bus. Two men, I don't know if they were teachers or bus drivers or parents exactly, were talking. One of them said there was some sort of "situation" going on inside and they kept the kids in.
I got off the bus to ask him questions. I walked down the strangely empty sidewalk in front of the school, normally at this time of day it was a thick mass of high schoolers rushing into buses and cars. I noticed a police car, with no driver in it, parked by the side of the school. Then, a police car parked next to me, and an officer jumped out, cocked his shotgun right in front of me as he ran into the school at a full sprint. I nearly fell from the jump of shock when he jumped out of the police car. Then I heard a friend of mine from another class, named Adam, calling to me from the end of the street. He yelled "we gotta get on that bus now", in reference to a bus going to the train station nearby, as the schoolbuses were completely empty other at this point and not going anywhere. I got on the bus with him as I simply wanted to get away from the school as fast as possible.
The next day my friend showed me a photo of a police officer covered in full militarized armor from head to toe, next to the front doors of the school, with the school's name above it.
Me and my friend met two slightly older kids on the bus there. They had snuck out of class a few minutes before the bell to share a cigarette. We talked with them and overall we had a shockingly lighthearted tone, as if this were some kind of edgy joke. We did not know what was really happening. As far as we knew, we had just escaped the next Columbine by shear luck. But it was funny, almost exciting. It was so novel, and yet it felt like it had almost been "hyped up" for me, by all the news media talking about shootings at high schools. We joked about how we were getting the authentic high school experience, which included things such as losing one's virginity, smoking your first cigarette, going to prom, and of course, experiencing an active school shooting threat.
I got home around 4 PM, nobody was there except my dog for the first twenty minutes. I recorded a video of me going about my normal routine when I get him, feeding my dog, letting him outside, grabbing a snack, while singing the chorus to "pumped up kicks". I kinda posted it in the back of my mind as a sort of sick alibi. My friends, who were still trapped inside their classrooms not knowing what was going on, messaged me, commenting on the video. Joking about how somebody's kahoot game got a little too out of hand, etc.
The next day we came to school like nothing happened. It was an intense atmosphere. I walked down the hallways the next morning talking to my friend and girlfriend, both of whom were inside the school at the time.
It seems after the first twenty minutes, everyone gave up on the lockdown procedures they had been made to practice. Everyone was on their phones, having quiet whispered conversations. Some classes even had kids walking around, listening through the doors. Some people thought it was an unannounced drill at first, but after thirty minutes of so, everyone knew this was for real. Kids took videos, made tiktoks. I then looked down the main hallway, filled with lockers, at least 100 kids in easy shooting range. I, in my edgy teenage attitude, looked at my best friend and said "there's easily 100 people in this hallway. I can look up in how long the next bus will come to the bus stop right behind these doors, so I could time it to give me three minutes or so to do it. Chopper holds 180 bullets, and can be easily modded to shoot automatically. That would unload it in about 1 minute. Everyone would be dead. I would put the weapon into a trenchcoat or large bag, and walk out. Get onto the bus before the police even arrived."
My point wasn't to be a psychopath, it was to point out that a very well planned school shooting would leave us all fucked. My locker was in that hallway and went to it every morning.
When you walk in the doors of a school and your health bar appears
*You cannot fast travel when enemies are nearby.*
better stock up some health packs and potions of bullet resistance III
Welp, guess it’s time to sign up for online school
*E1M1 plays*
Why do I see a Raid bar?
Imagine having your custom Counter-Strike map become a school
Edit: I have no idea how this stupid comment that I probably came up with in 15 seconds got so many likes but thanks. It’s been cool watching this go from 10+ likes to over 20,000.
Once a guy made his school into a gmod map, which I think was or could be used for shooting games.
@@xpok3947 it was cs:source
If I'm not mistaken, the sandy hook shooters used doom to see what it would be like to shoot up their school by making the map in doom
@@noahferny2644 It was Columbine, the Sandy Hook shooter knew someone who worked at the school.
@@noahferny2644 iirc thats a myth, while the columbine shooters were fans of doom and one of them did make doom wads, one based on the school was never actually found
I was in Ft. Hood TX in the 2010-2012 period. A number of school shootings happened. My school was one of them and it was insane. Students didnt know what to do other than run and hide, teachers were pulling kids into classrooms in blind panic, and the worst part was for the first couple minutes no one knew what was happening. I was walking to class with my friend, a surge of students can running toward us, I looked to my right to ask her a question and she was gone. Not even a second later I was yanked into a dark room with 30 others and told to sit and be quiet. We had covered the window, grouped desks together and shoved ourselves as far back against a wall as possible. Ive never been apart of something like that again but i gotta say the change after was suffocating. We had IDs with our names, faces, school number, and were even color coded for your grade. We had soldiers positioned at entrances who would walk around the school, they even began to implement a new type of lock in doors but i moved before those were installed. I can understand safety but at the same time, I dont think many of us felt safe anymore.