We are Already in the Dystopia

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  • @SargonofAkkad
    @SargonofAkkad  หลายเดือนก่อน +241

    Get Islander #2 before it is gone forever: shop.lotuseaters.com/

    • @TheRealPaul_Morphy
      @TheRealPaul_Morphy หลายเดือนก่อน +47

      This is the first Sargon video I've been recommended in the last 4 years. I've actually changed into a completely different person since the last time I watched you. My mom and sister died, I grew up and got a truck driving job, and now I'm a full fledge adult without an ounce of teen angst in me.
      I wish you well. Thanks for being the only voice of logical reasoning in my late teens.

    • @JJShurte
      @JJShurte หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Is it possible to get a list of the articles within this magazine?

    • @Masterofparsnips
      @Masterofparsnips หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      Just waiting for mine to arrive.

    • @jerredhamann5646
      @jerredhamann5646 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Most of these things were decisions made by private corperations chasing profit u are a commodity. Being poor is hell i wouldnt want to force a kid to go to college and trade school 3 or 4 four times all so they can escape their rustbelt shit dump and make the same ammount of money a drop out that got a job at the gm plant made in my grandfathers generation.Finally the streets have never been safe when my dad was an adult in 88 there were literally running gunfights in the streets of most us cities due to the crack war

    • @mfmageiwatch
      @mfmageiwatch หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @SargonofAkkad why isn't there a pdf version to avoid high shipping fees? 😢

  • @ElGreenGhost
    @ElGreenGhost หลายเดือนก่อน +3402

    I know we're fucked when Sargon shows back up in my algorithm

    • @PRH123
      @PRH123 หลายเดือนก่อน +191

      Same thing happened to me today as well, probably been years since I watched one of his videos, and today this one appears. Someone was tinkering with algorithms today I suppose :)

    • @blackhawk_1317
      @blackhawk_1317 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

      Same

    • @ajvonline
      @ajvonline หลายเดือนก่อน +50

      Yup. Same here. Things that make you go, hmmm...

    • @PRH123
      @PRH123 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      @@ajvonline would be a good time to queue the x-files music :)

    • @zippermonster9596
      @zippermonster9596 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Fo real!!

  • @ShowerCurtain1
    @ShowerCurtain1 หลายเดือนก่อน +2211

    I remember visiting in Cuba over a decade ago and seeing the old Spanish architecture and saying "man why don't we make buildings like this anymore". My brother who was with me and is a business major said with complete confidence: "Because it's a bad investment. It costs too much and doesn't return any profit to make buildings like that".
    That left a deep impression on me, and was the first time in my life it truly clicked in my head that something was deeply wrong with out society.

    • @EdiTheDon
      @EdiTheDon หลายเดือนก่อน

      Beauty is always a bad investment, to our psychopathic "betters".

    • @adrenjones9301
      @adrenjones9301 หลายเดือนก่อน +266

      Back in the day when the rich flaunted their wealth in a way that made them culturally immortal.
      Which of today's super rich will be remembered in a few hundred years?

    • @wimschmied3800
      @wimschmied3800 หลายเดือนก่อน +150

      Ironically, it's actually cheaper to build in older architecture styles than modern buildings.

    • @Hope_Boat
      @Hope_Boat หลายเดือนก่อน +82

      That's no the true answer though. The answer is because we don't build our own houses. They are stadardized.

    • @rishnix
      @rishnix หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      @@adrenjones9301 Probably quite a few, but all for negative reasons.

  • @tonycooke8545
    @tonycooke8545 หลายเดือนก่อน +3102

    HOW DARE YOU notice the change.
    The party told you to reject the evidence of your own eyes and ears.
    It was their final, most essential command.
    George Orwell 1984.

    • @GaryGeezer-l2s
      @GaryGeezer-l2s หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      Makes me cringe so hard when people quote 1984

    • @SommersetStriker
      @SommersetStriker หลายเดือนก่อน +147

      ​@@GaryGeezer-l2sWhy?

    • @GaryGeezer-l2s
      @GaryGeezer-l2s หลายเดือนก่อน +43

      @@SommersetStriker it's so overused by both sides of the political spectrum. It screams of someone who has no thoughts or personality of their own.

    • @kaizokujimbei143
      @kaizokujimbei143 หลายเดือนก่อน +198

      @@SommersetStriker He roots for Big Brother.

    • @SommersetStriker
      @SommersetStriker หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      @@GaryGeezer-l2s That's an interesting perspective

  • @Isahiyella
    @Isahiyella หลายเดือนก่อน +332

    I was sitting outside on my front porch last week smoking a cigarette, when suddenly, I heard loud screaming as if someone were being murdered. Then, I realized it sounded like children screaming. For a moment, I was alarmed, my adrenaline started to spike. My initial thoughts were, what should I do? Wait around to see if I hear it again, or immediately run to the sound, or arm myself first and then run to it? At that moment I realized what I was hearing was the sound of kids playing. I thought to myself, My God, what has happened to the world when the first thought you have when hearing children play is that they're in distress?
    I then realized that even though I am close to a middle school and a high school, I had not heard the voices of children in a very long time. I can't recall seeing any of them playing in the streets, riding a bicycle or congregating with friends in my recent memory. When I say recent memory I mean in years, maybe a decade, or longer. When was the last time you heard a child playing with their friends, organically? Not in the confines of a playground or mall, but out in the streets of their own volition?

    • @KevinOLeathlobair-u6t
      @KevinOLeathlobair-u6t 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I noticed quickly the difference between the generations.. in the late 2000s and early 2010s I noticed the young people didn’t congregate like my generation did.. I graduated high school in 2000. The progression of abandoned behaviors that were important to our development is blaringly obvious today.. and the consequences are everywhere you look.. we have been lied to and guided here for the exact purpose of destroying it all.. the subversion of our history, religion, and families.. our identities all connects and is seen now and understood by tens of millions of us.. however many more are needed to stop this totalitarian take over by the global establishment.. if it even possible at this point. The indoctrination and propaganda have been incredibly successful for the establishment.. regardless the resistance among the patriots not only in America but across the Western world will be forced to stand their ground and push back.. it is impossible for things to not go kinetic really.

    • @RazorFriendly
      @RazorFriendly 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +15

      You're not alone. I moved from Denver back to my home town in the Midwest, to my old neighborhood in a medium-sized city. It's near the high school that I went to, and it used to be alive with other kids, especially on bikes. I've been wondering lately why the only people I see on bikes are homeless drug addicts. They're everywhere, and there's garbage everywhere. This neighborhood has beautiful parks and green spaces that have either been taken over by the homeless, or targeted for venues that would pave them over and attract crime. I thought it would be an improvement from Denver, but in reality, in five years it will be like Denver, and it's a city about half the size of Denver. But it's a purple city in a red state, that is quickly turning blue, and is following the same trajectory as all blue cities.

    • @Isahiyella
      @Isahiyella 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      @@RazorFriendly Exactly the same thing here, small suburb of Knoxville TN. Amazing how you describe your experience and how it mirrors my community. Homeless men riding around on bikes. I saw one getting arrested just the other day outside of the middle school as I was driving by, no idea what was going on there but I assume he gets arrested often. A literal shootout at the entrance to one of the neighborhoods next door to mine over a drug deal using fake money a couple of years ago. Last summer, one of the homeless bike riders overdosed and died in the bathroom of a kid centric splashpad/park down the road from me. And just this week, a 15 year old kid stabbed a 13 year old girl to death on one of the trails between my subdivision. Shit is grim.

    • @goodmorningsundaymorning4533
      @goodmorningsundaymorning4533 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      Man you're right 🤔 I can't think of the last time I heard or saw children outside playing. Or a group on their bikes. I grew up in the 80s and we were out every single day. We'd meet up with the neighborhood kids. Haven't seen that in decades.

    • @Isahiyella
      @Isahiyella 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@goodmorningsundaymorning4533 Its surreal bro

  • @TheClintonio
    @TheClintonio หลายเดือนก่อน +3890

    Hearing the origin of Utopia makes me never want to use the term positively again.

    • @enoughothis
      @enoughothis หลายเดือนก่อน +585

      Utopia is actually a dystopia by any definition of the word

    • @JM-vp8zc
      @JM-vp8zc หลายเดือนก่อน +317

      It was never intended to be a positive. More deliberately used a homophone of eutopia, “good place,” to make that very point.

    • @antonikudlicki1100
      @antonikudlicki1100 หลายเดือนก่อน +220

      Utopia originally was a shitpost Thomas More made out of boredom in his camp, having travelled Canal La Manche to see the French king, who got late to the meeting. Thomas More was killed for not foresaking catholicism despite his country's interests. I like that saint, he's my saint patron in fact - his life points out the thin red line between being a patriotic catholic and enabling state tyranny through misguided nationalism

    • @Harmonic_shift
      @Harmonic_shift หลายเดือนก่อน +101

      Wait until you learn what the origin of sophisticated is lmao

    • @greensmurf221
      @greensmurf221 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Never was

  • @bodhimantra7688
    @bodhimantra7688 หลายเดือนก่อน +1630

    "Being well adjusted to a profoundly sick society is no measure of health" - Krishna Murti

    • @DeadpoolX9
      @DeadpoolX9 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      Amen

    • @curtiskretzer8898
      @curtiskretzer8898 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      What's the 'measure of health" for the maladjusted?🤠

    • @marcanton5357
      @marcanton5357 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Jews.

    • @ShaunSilk-ew7cy
      @ShaunSilk-ew7cy หลายเดือนก่อน +31

      His name is Krishnamurti, at least that's his surname, his first name was Jiddu. Jiddu Krishnamurti.

    • @lukeludwig1055
      @lukeludwig1055 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      @curtislretzer8898 contentment, and the absence of anxiety.

  • @vladdorunga9367
    @vladdorunga9367 หลายเดือนก่อน +1720

    Speaking of replacement migration: the same people saying we need young people from the third world as workers are the same ones telling us that more than half of today's workers will be obsolete because of robots / automatisation in the next 20 years.

    • @ciarancosgrave
      @ciarancosgrave หลายเดือนก่อน +72

      Yes. Good point.

    • @elliottgaal9774
      @elliottgaal9774 หลายเดือนก่อน +72

      They seem to forget that those youths have next to no knowledge on how to maintain the lavish lifestyle our 'betters' want.

    • @qoph1988
      @qoph1988 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They never gave a shit about any of the economic arguments, those were always bad faith. They just hate their own kind and want to punish them

    • @LetterSignedBy51SpiesWasA-Coup
      @LetterSignedBy51SpiesWasA-Coup หลายเดือนก่อน +48

      ​@DewiSant-o3yyour example is one of prosperous people spreading prosperity. That's different from unprosperous people migrating to more prosperous places.

    • @clone3_7
      @clone3_7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@LetterSignedBy51SpiesWasA-Coup Spreading prosperity "haha" they pretty much overtake a place and take most benefits, they also ruin others to do this initially.

  • @posthardcoresinger
    @posthardcoresinger หลายเดือนก่อน +591

    This shit is so prevalent within dating. Nobody is interested in building something that makes them want to sacrifice. It's all me me me, entertain me, pay me etc. Nothing do to with mutual growth. Honestly fucking disgusting how we waste our lives.

    • @Friggsdottir
      @Friggsdottir หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Not all of us do

    • @sn0wchyld
      @sn0wchyld หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Given that sentiment - how old are you? Just wondering if its prevelant among my own age (30's) or mainly yonger?

    • @420rogerz
      @420rogerz หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      im 38 and its real bad. Only hope is an older chick whos not insane.

    • @posthardcoresinger
      @posthardcoresinger หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@sn0wchyld 35, but I mostly look to date women somewhere around 25. I have to if I want to plan ahead for maybe a year of dating, two years of building a marriage and travelling together figuring out where w want to live, then kids when ready.
      There might be less crazy women in the older brackets (or not IDK, my generation is nuts too) but that's not on the table for me unless she's just completely exceptional and it happens by chance.

    • @sn0wchyld
      @sn0wchyld หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@posthardcoresinger feel for you mate... I'm a couple of years older (38) but been with the current squeeze since my early 20s... so haven't dated in a LONG time, hence the curiosity what's changed.
      If I was in your shoes I'd be looking a bit older, but I get the reasoning. You can travel with kids too... my parents did that lots. Maybe just make sure she's not nutts and go from there? :D best of luck.

  • @RobertLutece909
    @RobertLutece909 หลายเดือนก่อน +1689

    That "Happiest Childless Millennial On Earth" picture is nightmare fuel.

    • @troubleclliff
      @troubleclliff หลายเดือนก่อน +161

      It's the epitome of everything that's wrong and everything we don't want to become.

    • @martinricardo4503
      @martinricardo4503 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

      Childless. Really? I am shocked.

    • @CWCvilleCop
      @CWCvilleCop หลายเดือนก่อน +91

      This picture could be studied in future history classes.

    • @jwardTLS
      @jwardTLS หลายเดือนก่อน +99

      couldn't agree more. As one of the oldest millennials (41 years old now) and having 2 kids ages 17 and 14, that picture is just so depressing for me to see. The people I personally know aren't quite that obtuse but I will say probably 80% of people 30-40 that i know who are married do not have kids and never will. It's crazy. My wife has 3 siblings and all of them are around 40 years old and will never have kids at this point. They all own houses, travel constantly and just consume. What people never stop to realize about consumption is that you always need more. That's part of the definition. There is nothing consistent and savory in these peoples' lives, which pushes them to ponder meaning.

    • @basilbaby7678
      @basilbaby7678 หลายเดือนก่อน +85

      I just watched a video where a Millennial was seriously asking where all “trick or treaters” are.
      It’s not due to the candy supply…

  • @Lastindependentthinker
    @Lastindependentthinker หลายเดือนก่อน +445

    Welcome to Animal Farm. Where YOU are the livestock.

    • @jessicalacasse6205
      @jessicalacasse6205 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      the reason eve was thrown out of heaven ...

    • @davidripley2916
      @davidripley2916 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      . . . No I'm not ! Baaaaa! 🐑

    • @KarlSnarks
      @KarlSnarks หลายเดือนก่อน

      You do know Orwell was a socialist right?

    • @oblonghas
      @oblonghas หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      It is a farm, undoubtedly

    • @elizabethwinsor-strumpetqueen
      @elizabethwinsor-strumpetqueen หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@davidripley2916 baa baaa!

  • @kirkdean4116
    @kirkdean4116 หลายเดือนก่อน +2080

    Carl never stop uploading here please.

    • @internetuser969
      @internetuser969 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      It's his only way of remaining relevant 😂

    • @WiseOwl_1408
      @WiseOwl_1408 หลายเดือนก่อน +80

      ​@@internetuser969you know the lotus eaters exist right?

    • @MaxG-jk8ty
      @MaxG-jk8ty หลายเดือนก่อน +44

      ​@@kaoskronostyche9939You won't be missed.

    • @JacobBite
      @JacobBite หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@kaoskronostyche9939 traitors first

    • @jamesmandahl444
      @jamesmandahl444 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @KlabauterManiac
      I know this type. The kind of snark and whine can only come from karens and homosexuals. white progressives that live amongst whites, have one or two colored pet friends, and is totally detached from current year existence.
      They are NOT okay with what you guys are posting. Be better!

  • @SammEater
    @SammEater หลายเดือนก่อน +108

    I think the worst part is when you try to explain this to someone and they just go: "It just your nostalgia talking. Things are better than in your era"

    • @neotronextrem
      @neotronextrem 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      The people don't even believe those arguments themselves. They just can't imagine how the world could be more beautiful so they assume it can't be. They've also sort of given up. Life is easy if you believe we're doing everything right.

    • @kosio0808
      @kosio0808 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      The great irony is that this statement always has some validity. If you compare all the opportunities, security, conveniences, health and technological breakthroughs that are available for the average person today compared to anyone else in previous eras is unprecedented. But the human condition being what it is only seeking personal gains, exploitation and influence over others inevitably creates all that mess. I guess we have a lot of evolving to do.

    • @Gardenia-jm7nx
      @Gardenia-jm7nx 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Yeah its so annoying, I'm not kidding when I say things used to be better in some ways

  • @bobcatgaze
    @bobcatgaze หลายเดือนก่อน +651

    Yknow that feeling when you're walking in the forest and you suddenly realize that for the birds have stopped chirping and everything has been silent for a few minutes now? Yeah, its like that.

    • @kellyt5341
      @kellyt5341 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Great perspective

    • @qoph1988
      @qoph1988 หลายเดือนก่อน +68

      Yeah but you're not walking through a forest. You can't even get to a forest legally. Every single space you inhabit has been designed to look like you're inside of an airport.

    • @kellyt5341
      @kellyt5341 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

      @@qoph1988 I live on 150 acres that my house is built on. 20 acres are cleared out for the house and yard. The other 130 acres are thick wooded acres. My husband made some trails through it for dirt bikes/all terrain vehicles/snow mobiles. But I mostly walk threw them. I carry a hand gun and a knife because we have bear/wolves/coyote/raccoon. I only got close to a bear once in the 15 yrs, it was on the dirt bike and I slammed on the brakes, took a sharp right threw the thorn bushes (face and arms shredded) and speed out of there. My woods made that same quiet feeling (could hear a pin drop) before a tornado went above us and landed 4 miles on the next town.

    • @trevorstevenson4038
      @trevorstevenson4038 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hahaha this is amazing! Great analogy

    • @pawelabrams
      @pawelabrams หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      ​@@qoph1988 man, where do you live? I have an open access forest like half a mile away, my whole city is surrounded by forest on two sides.

  • @apolloparker4963
    @apolloparker4963 หลายเดือนก่อน +741

    I'm 24 and everyone around me is simply just clocked out. Ever since COVID it's like we got shifted into this grey area of the old world. No one can find good jobs. No one can find someone decent to be in a relationship with. No one can find somewhere to live. No one knows what to do anymore. We are ignored by older generations at every turn. There is not much left to look forward to. I am not depressed, but man it's enticing to just throw everything away, grab some tarp, and head for the woods.

    • @simonestreeter1518
      @simonestreeter1518 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

      As one from the 'older generations', I could say to you that it is we who are being ignored by the younger generations.

    • @bearrett50kal17
      @bearrett50kal17 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@simonestreeter1518 you reap what you sow

    • @apolloparker4963
      @apolloparker4963 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@simonestreeter1518 Tell your generation to start paying livable wages instead of importing immigrants to pay pennies on the dollar. Tell your generation to stay out of our dating market and to stop buying OnlyFans. Tell your generation to stop buying up residential areas, skyrocketing the prices, then offering ludicrous rent.

    • @dkkurtz
      @dkkurtz หลายเดือนก่อน +46

      @@simonestreeter1518 Maybe listen again starting at 8:53

    • @simonestreeter1518
      @simonestreeter1518 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      @@dkkurtz It applies to the OP. Knowledge from experience doesn't trickle up.

  • @nebula0024
    @nebula0024 หลายเดือนก่อน +699

    "But we never question the nature of therapy itself, which is to train people who know they are living an unnatural and unhealthy lifestyle to accept this fate, and not fight against it".
    This is SO painfully accurate. Tried it myself for a while (several months), and this is exactly what was pushed on me. Yeah, not doing that again. 😅

    • @carsonhunt4642
      @carsonhunt4642 หลายเดือนก่อน +78

      Precisely. I’ve always viewed therapy as a way to gaslight yourself into accepting playing the modern social games. Nothing wrong with that, but just must admit it’s not natural and your urge against it was. But if want to play , then may as well train better ? Something like that

    • @josedorsaith5261
      @josedorsaith5261 หลายเดือนก่อน +103

      Noticed that after reading the DSM. All of the disgnosic criteria for mood disorders focus on attitudes/behaviours. Not one mention of the environment

    • @josedorsaith5261
      @josedorsaith5261 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@carsonhunt4642
      "Nothing wrong with that"
      The suicide rate proves otherwise. It's not healthy or normal

    • @Jester375
      @Jester375 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

      @@josedorsaith5261 Yeah. Great point. It is also why they change so much with each version - the diagnosis changes with the norms.

    • @liammeech3702
      @liammeech3702 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      You had a bad therapist then. Therapy is not supposed to be for the long term really, unless you're dealing with PTSD or something.

  • @cleverduck3921
    @cleverduck3921 หลายเดือนก่อน +179

    In regards to why McDonalds and Pizza Huts, and other fast food restaurants changed the branded, themed architectural styles of their buildings to something more brutalist and generic is more to do with technical reasons of how these businesses operate. McDonalds is not a restaurant company. It is a real estate company, that makes the majority of its money by leasing the properties that it owns to small business franchise holders, and enforcing brand standards and corporate directives through those leasing agreements. What McDonalds and Pizza Hut found during the 90s, when many of these franchisees were closing down their locations, either because they weren't profitable anymore, or the owners had reached retirement age, and didn't have anyone to hand the reigns over to, is that the themed buildings with distinctive architecture were not easy to unload in the real estate markets. Those buildings sat vacant and unused for most of the 90s and 2000s, until the price dropped on them enough that someone wanting to open a chiropractic clinic, or insurance office could afford to buy the property and renovate it to their needs.
    The new style McDonalds and Pizza Huts, or whatever other of your favorite franchise are depressing, generic, and brutalist, but they're easier to offload when the market changes, and the franchise shuts down.
    And I'm not saying that's a good thing, or desirable to society as a whole, just that that is the actual, technical reason why buildings are trending this way.

    • @johnnykeys1978
      @johnnykeys1978 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

      Ah. So... greed. Yes, that's what I thought.

    • @JakesFavorites
      @JakesFavorites หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      That's right! I do remember a heavily dilapidated Pizza Hut that lay abandoned for several years because no one would buy the land and it was very unfeasible to redo the building to NOT be a Pizza Hut. They were designed in a time where the businessmen thought they were immortalizing themselves, that Pizza Hut would live forever. That meme of them being a fallen empire is true.

    • @TheBanjoShowOfficial
      @TheBanjoShowOfficial หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Exactly proving his point- efficiency

    • @420rogerz
      @420rogerz หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      again efficiency overpowering functionality... it might be easier to resell the building but it comes at a cost.

    • @Anaax
      @Anaax หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      This whole video is just a bunch of vague nonsense and fear-mongering. The fact that he tried to use McDonalds as evidence of there being a dystopia is hilarious.

  • @chance_ondriezek99
    @chance_ondriezek99 หลายเดือนก่อน +1303

    I think that claim became undeniable when communism became treated as if it were a harmless, mainstream ideology.

    • @malicekerendu3574
      @malicekerendu3574 หลายเดือนก่อน +105

      And separated from it's related ideologies (nat soc and fash)

    • @bustavonnutz
      @bustavonnutz หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@malicekerendu3574All started by sorting all socialist ideologies into "left" or "right" when they are all leftwing.

    • @storm___
      @storm___ หลายเดือนก่อน +49

      ​@@malicekerendu3574here we go with the madeup nonsense that was never true in the first place and even at the time was laughed at.

    • @gfdnnfnfgnfgn
      @gfdnnfnfgnfgn หลายเดือนก่อน +91

      Bad guys won ww1 and ww2

    • @JC-em4tx
      @JC-em4tx หลายเดือนก่อน +58

      ​@storm___ all three of those ideologies descend from or are inspired from Marx's writings, no? Did not proponents of both those ideologies write positively of Marxism and put their own twist on it?

  • @malsypright
    @malsypright หลายเดือนก่อน +1910

    Utopia sounds like a place I'd crawl under barbed wire to get away from

    • @carsonianthegreat4672
      @carsonianthegreat4672 หลายเดือนก่อน +88

      That was St. Thomas More’s whole point

    • @Novusod
      @Novusod หลายเดือนก่อน +141

      There is no place to crawl away from. The entire Earth has become a prison planet.

    • @chaot8290
      @chaot8290 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      @@Novusod if you find yourself in a utopia you always can turn it in a dystopia.

    • @TubeOnRichard
      @TubeOnRichard หลายเดือนก่อน +57

      That is the dream, if only there was barbwire to crawl under - and somewhere else to go.....

    • @KopperNeoman
      @KopperNeoman หลายเดือนก่อน +51

      @@Novusod Hopelessness is the Enemy's bread and butter, for he cannot assail the Man from whom Hope springs.

  • @whitemagus2000
    @whitemagus2000 หลายเดือนก่อน +1089

    I work in Portland Oregon so I have lots of lefty friends and coworkers. I've asked many, "weren't things better in the 90s? Weren't things chill and you could do and say whatever you wanted?" They all say, yes, those were better times. ALL OF THEM. They all say yes. They I ask, "well maybe we should return to 90s policies and laws..." They then respond, "oh no, that wouldn't be progressive at all". Again. ALL OF THEM. Every single one responds basically the same way.
    They all know that America was greater in the 90s, but none can say it. They all must say that America was never great and the emperor's clothes are magnificent. It's sad to see them ALL living a lie and every day speaking what they know to be false.

    • @StevenCovey-ct3sx
      @StevenCovey-ct3sx หลายเดือนก่อน

      Please leave Portland. It’s toxic being around such people.

    • @mirceazaharia2094
      @mirceazaharia2094 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

      "Progress is the realisation of Utopias."
      -Oscar Wilde
      Having watched this video, tell me if their image of "progress" is something that any sane human being should want?

    • @Xplora213
      @Xplora213 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

      You should switch the call to action… what was the point of the progress if they are now just as caged as when they were in the 80s? They have traded one oppressor for another.

    • @jarlbalgruuf7701
      @jarlbalgruuf7701 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

      Something in the water in Portland

    • @zf436
      @zf436 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

      imagine thinking the 90s was great and and wasn't just a necessary stepping stone to get where we are now.

  • @skyeparker1333
    @skyeparker1333 หลายเดือนก่อน +61

    The video unironically ending with a commercial is just the cherry on top

    • @penta_novae
      @penta_novae หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Glad I'm not the only one disgusted by this. Carl never changes. Always in it for himself, for the money.

    • @420rogerz
      @420rogerz หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      @@penta_novaeI mean do you expect him to do these videos for free, for your viewing pleasure? Also the closing ad is the easiest one to just close.

    • @RealDevastatia
      @RealDevastatia 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      To top it off, the magazine he mentioned isn't even listed in the shop.

    • @hahathatisfunnybro
      @hahathatisfunnybro 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Exactly that pissed me off so much.
      That part of the video is where he was supposed to add a little positivity or suggest a solution of some kind. He does promise that, but its behind a paywall…
      Thats how you can tell he only made this video to play on the negative outlook of doom scrollers. I actually thought he was better than that because most videos like this that try to play on your emotions to get clicks, usually come of as conspiracy nonsense quoting 1984 the whole time and ramping up the negativity to the max for maximum attention in the algorithm. This video didn’t come off as like that, until he put the ‘action plan for a solution’ in a fking online magazine.

    • @peighnesshonourchign9164
      @peighnesshonourchign9164 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      People still say "unironically"?

  • @nicksam5518
    @nicksam5518 หลายเดือนก่อน +420

    The focus on productivity and efficiency results in the soulkilller. Modern buildings and art alone screams this. Older homes and buildings LOOK SO MUCH BETTER.

    • @Iscobroooooo
      @Iscobroooooo หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      You understand the people who built most those were slaves correct ? The ultimate form of productivity and efficiency

    • @JamesJones-pz9uo
      @JamesJones-pz9uo หลายเดือนก่อน +57

      ​@@Iscobroooooo we're all slaves. We just don't think we are

    • @ml-fishing1341
      @ml-fishing1341 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      @@Iscobrooooooold homes were built by which slaves and where.

    • @lawbird5803
      @lawbird5803 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      it's jews.

    • @Evil-Rod-Farva
      @Evil-Rod-Farva หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Iscobroooooothis. I had to keep reminding myself of this while walking Rome and the Vatican.
      It’s easy to make beautiful shit when the person doing it can’t say no.

  • @8BitNaptime
    @8BitNaptime หลายเดือนก่อน +394

    I just went to McDonald's, and there were two homeless guys loudly discussing their various scabs and skin problems while people right next to them were glued to watching digital feces on their phones...

    • @MegaCharlie11
      @MegaCharlie11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Bet you were there to solve all the worlds problems and get the healthy option while not enjoying some digital pink eye. Uh huh....

    • @carlhartwell7978
      @carlhartwell7978 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      🤪

    • @redpillnibbler4423
      @redpillnibbler4423 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      ‘digital faeces’ - brilliant 🤣

    • @anderander5662
      @anderander5662 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@redpillnibbler4423 You must be British with that extra letter in feces but I agree 100%

    • @NicholasCampbell-c8y
      @NicholasCampbell-c8y หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      A typical 2pm at your local Mickey D's

  • @jane---489
    @jane---489 หลายเดือนก่อน +1845

    *_"We are already in the Dystopia" - Yes Sargon, we know ..._*

    • @85justsomedude
      @85justsomedude หลายเดือนก่อน +75

      I mean no shit , right? Guy on here acting like he discovered oxygen

    • @jane---489
      @jane---489 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

      @@85justsomedude
      *_Oh kook, a salty, sour little sociopath ..._*

    • @dryciderz
      @dryciderz หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Lol

    • @Dude0000
      @Dude0000 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

      13:06 This ‘short’ from Bald & Bankrupt’s video with the ‘sex worker’ walking along with the socialistic slogans, and multicultural icons in the background, moving past, as though on a conveyor belt, is Oscar nomination worthy.
      The contradictions revealed in that short clip could not have been scripted. It must have been a stroke of serendipity, possibly seeing the opportunity right before he did it, but certainly not planned before he left his hotel room that day, or anytime before that.
      A true iconic work of art.

    • @georgeorwell8501
      @georgeorwell8501 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      I, for one, am enjoying our low-budget cyber dystopia.
      The wifi speeds are phenomenal.

  • @kaybeiz
    @kaybeiz หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    Thank you for calling out therapy for what is. 🙏 The purpose of therapy: "to train people who know that they are living an unhealthy and unnatural lifestyle, to accept this fate, and not fight against it."

    • @XDamainI
      @XDamainI 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Why is that a bad thing though? Accepting your reality and what you cannot change is not a bad thing. You can still vote, you can still advocate, you can participate in a higher level to bring about the change on your external factors but you cannot do that until you at least control your response to it down to a manageable level.

  • @doscassette871
    @doscassette871 หลายเดือนก่อน +724

    "You best start believing in Cyberpunk Dystopias Miss Turner, you're in ONE!"

    • @TheRyujinLP
      @TheRyujinLP หลายเดือนก่อน +59

      I knew someone back in 2013 who ran a GURPS Cyberpunk game and he opened it up a speech with describing the (at the time) modern world, the things going on, how dystopic things were getting, and ending it, "So you want to play Cyberpunk Choomba? You're already living it."

    • @rustyshackleford1062
      @rustyshackleford1062 หลายเดือนก่อน +63

      All the corpo-croney politicking, none of the sci-fi bodymod 2a to go alongside it though.

    • @Swagbastian
      @Swagbastian หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I was thinking of making an edit with this exact line

    • @doscassette871
      @doscassette871 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      @@rustyshackleford1062 Be the change you want to see.

    • @DawidEstishort
      @DawidEstishort หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      Except it's a boring one. At least hurry up and give us cool body augumentations and realistic AI girfriends already.

  • @SimioCaos101Monkey
    @SimioCaos101Monkey หลายเดือนก่อน +971

    Like TIKhistory said: "All the deaths of communism didn't happen because it failed. It worked as intended."

    • @Skeloperch
      @Skeloperch หลายเดือนก่อน

      TIKhistory's name is mud on this side of the internet because he points out how commies and Nazis are de facto rather similar and had only minor disagreements. Him pointing out that Nazism is left wing wins him no friends among the leftwingers nor the maligned rightwingers who believe they are actually Nazis because the media said so. Hitler apologia on the right is a result of people constantly being demonized by the media as literally the SS for wanting border controls so they mistakenly believe Adolf and the 'zis were based.

    • @handroids1981
      @handroids1981 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

      Absolute baller quote.

    • @amalekedomite
      @amalekedomite หลายเดือนก่อน

      Whoa there, cool it with the anti-semitism, bucko!

    • @Mlreau
      @Mlreau หลายเดือนก่อน

      Jewish Communism f... all to do with Marxism. Thatcher supported Pol Pot. Starmer is pure Thatcherism.

    • @marcanton5357
      @marcanton5357 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Jews.

  • @rhythmdroid
    @rhythmdroid หลายเดือนก่อน +470

    Dystopia is a genre of art that only flourishes when people still have a seed of hope for the future in them. It’s serves as a warning and as entertainment - it says “we COULD go there, but don’t worry, we won’t”
    That’s no longer the sentiment amongst the average creative person.

    • @TomOwen-w1j
      @TomOwen-w1j หลายเดือนก่อน +41

      yeah people stopped writing those books because at some point, non-fiction just doesn't appeal to the masses

    • @teatowel11
      @teatowel11 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

      Yes, when the distopia is distant and abstract and you have something better it induces fear and intrigue and is engaging.
      When distopian seems inevitable, the genre just fills you with dread.

    • @alexcarter8807
      @alexcarter8807 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

      Dystopia was an escape, a sort of "what if?". It's a lot less amusing when you feel you might be in it. In the 1930s in the US, "Musicals" were huge. The old Busby Berkeley ones with tons of dancers, Shirley Temple movies (we called her Shirley Pimple haha) things like that. They were escapes. War movies got big after WWII.

    • @SammEater
      @SammEater หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      It is why our culture gave up on hope. Compare the Star Trek from our parents era to current day Star Trek. Nothing but nihilistic pr0n written by the worst people in society.

    • @jemmah4723
      @jemmah4723 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I think you’ve hit the nail on the head there

  • @JJ-si4qh
    @JJ-si4qh หลายเดือนก่อน +47

    It feels like the dystopia is on purpose. There is no way this isn’t intentional

    • @Huey_Freeman357
      @Huey_Freeman357 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Exactly, all by design.

    • @redpillnibbler4423
      @redpillnibbler4423 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I’d never have guessed 🤔

    • @musicat3243
      @musicat3243 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      An utopia for some a dystopia for many

    • @Spacemonkeymojo
      @Spacemonkeymojo 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      We all know who is orchestrating all of this.

    • @cottoncandykawaii2673
      @cottoncandykawaii2673 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      the tiny hats hate all non tiny hats and see us as slaves

  • @pizzatopsy8656
    @pizzatopsy8656 หลายเดือนก่อน +655

    The future was supposed to be shinny and chrome….and instead we got Gray blocks and Desaturated colors. We live in Demolition Man

    • @ドリフト180X
      @ドリフト180X หลายเดือนก่อน +64

      Gray and square, sounds like both Soviet and current Russia. Bleak.

    • @ba3725
      @ba3725 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Cyberpunk

    • @basilbaby7678
      @basilbaby7678 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      1984, Brave New World, Atlas Shrugged, etc… I think we’re careening towards THX…imo…

    • @marcusbullock630
      @marcusbullock630 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@basilbaby7678 *the country is now deaf*

    • @VioletDeathRei
      @VioletDeathRei หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      ​@@ba3725Cyberpunk is an interesting one what is the dystopia?
      The poor and unfortunate are not being cared for well the powerful and elite horde everything for themselves.
      So in other words the same as every single moment of human history from the past until now including the present day.
      So basically everything is normal save they can treat far more conditions, and heal way more wounds, and for the most part people are fairly free to make their own mistakes.

  • @rogueraven7603
    @rogueraven7603 หลายเดือนก่อน +397

    The Nobel prize is a good example. Originally intended to reward people for their contributions to humanity now it’s used to guide humanity as it were. The subtle shifts that add up.

    • @AleXoEx0
      @AleXoEx0 หลายเดือนก่อน +65

      The people who win all the prizes are in the same tribe as those that decide it, what a surprise!

    • @BeBoppin2000
      @BeBoppin2000 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ​@@AleXoEx0I guess your tribe just can't measure up.

    • @uptoolate2793
      @uptoolate2793 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

      ​@@BeBoppin2000yeah, that's not it.

    • @skurinski
      @skurinski หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@BeBoppin2000gladywouldnt eant to measure up to war mongerers like Obummer who won the nobel peace prize

    • @DickGoesonya
      @DickGoesonya หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Name the year the last person to receive that prize for actual peace
      Betty Williams Ireland 1976.

  • @REALjohnmosesbrowning
    @REALjohnmosesbrowning หลายเดือนก่อน +368

    I'm from the central valley of California. I have spent a lot of time in the city of Riga in Latvia- a truly old-world city with medieval origins. The first time I went to the old city it blew my mind. It was the first time in my life that I actually truly enjoyed being in a city. The building are mostly from the 17th and 18th century, with brick-paved streets and beautiful, vibrant paint schemes on the walls and decorative sculptures and artwork adorning every corner. It made me realize how truly shit most modern urban centers are. I'm used to beige strip malls, no plants for shade, drug abuse and vagrancy in plain sight everywhere you go, and gaudy advertising clogging up every single artifice of the place I call home. It is astonishing how much difference it made.

    • @ironclad4451
      @ironclad4451 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

      modern design is garbage, it has lost any distinct style, it has neither the brute efficiency of structures made purely for strength or function, NOR the beauty of structures made to bring joy.
      we have sacrificed everything, on the altar of budget.
      *weeps in giant dwarven castle city*

    • @TheMetalValkyrie
      @TheMetalValkyrie หลายเดือนก่อน

      its all to cage the populace instead of liberate us, the beige cage and death of what they fear, the spirit

    • @eeleye733
      @eeleye733 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      I used to live in Augsburg and i had a similar experience there. Every day i couldnt wait to get out and just walk around. I've wanted to go to riga for a long time. And maribor, slovenia. Instead, i rot in missouri..

    • @ananda_miaoyin
      @ananda_miaoyin หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      Cali here, too.
      If you ever get the chance, check out Salisbury in England. It is a medieval city. Absolutely bitchin. There is a car park at the King George Mall because you cannot drive in the city. It is a warren of bad ass stone; makes you feel like King Arthur is going to walk around the corner with a bunch of knights.
      The cathedral is the most impressive piece of architecture I have ever seen anywhere on Earth and it has the Magna Carta in it.
      THE Magna Carta.....dude.

    • @Maridun50
      @Maridun50 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I've visited Tallinn - a truly medieval little city with beautiful buildings from the 14. and 15. centuries.
      Lovely.

  • @wan3416
    @wan3416 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    We moved even further out from a massive city in 2022. I commute 1-1.5hrs each way so we can live in a smaller town, on land, with wholesome neighbors. Our town is big on the local high schools and word of mouth are the prevailing ways to grow your local business. Neighbors talk to one another and we look out for each others’ kids.

    • @YouTubeCensorsReality
      @YouTubeCensorsReality 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I never understood these types of comments. Is this just to make others feel like shit while they're stuck? Just comes off as arrogant like you're just rubbing it in people's face. Really tasteless.

    • @lidmc796
      @lidmc796 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      What you on about? You're stuck because of that shitty attitude​@@TH-camCensorsReality

  • @SolidNeodark
    @SolidNeodark หลายเดือนก่อน +492

    Whenever we talk about how much worse things have gotten in the past decades, there's always a leftie on the internet who brainlessly attributes our criticisms of modernity to "rose-colored glasses" or "nostalgia", even if we provide them with solid data. Ultimately, it's an unending cycle of "things are changing, but it's for the better" followed by "nothing has changed, it was always this bad, or worse."

    • @elLooto
      @elLooto หลายเดือนก่อน +82

      the base premise of progressivism is that yesterday was worse than today, and tomorrow will be better than today, as a natural phenomenon.

    • @Mummymunmuggy
      @Mummymunmuggy หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Very well put. It's a tennis game of rationalizing why things are no good.

    • @garethbattersby
      @garethbattersby หลายเดือนก่อน +56

      Ive even had them now claiming old photographs of the 70s and 80s with clean streets, happy British populations, thriving high streets and markets at AI images.
      They remind me of flat Earthers, you can explain to them in detail why theyre wrong, you can show them phonographic evidence, even have people who were there to tell them how it was... and theyll still reject it as a trick.
      But I think thats the saddest part, because I genuinely think they know life right now is bad, but they would rather live in a lie than think theyve been robbed of something, that theyve missed out.
      Theyve always lived in the cage, and so have you so stop lying

    • @marcanton5357
      @marcanton5357 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Jews.

    • @zantas-handle
      @zantas-handle หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Disappointingly, the anti-nostalgia argument isn't what it used to be :)

  • @trajanfidelis
    @trajanfidelis หลายเดือนก่อน +190

    Fight back or lose everything. It's nearing a point of no return.

    • @joesomebody3365
      @joesomebody3365 หลายเดือนก่อน

      There's no "point of no return", the system collapses when it reaches anything nearing that point.
      Instead teach people to fight against it, and be ready to rebuild when the current corrupt edifice falls to pieces.

    • @samuel5591
      @samuel5591 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

      All well and good to say but how?
      How do you fight back when every single government, corporation and institute is already corrupted, or complicit?

    • @MrChrisRP
      @MrChrisRP หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@samuel5591 Let them know just how foul and disgusing mind-control gubernare mentis is.

    • @Zanuka
      @Zanuka หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@samuel5591 imo, at the very least one can try having children with a like minded person, instilling your values, tradition and culture onto your children, taking care of them and your family. As for the bigger picture I don't know.

    • @KopperNeoman
      @KopperNeoman หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@samuel5591 I choose to put my faith in He who is stronger than Death, myself.

  • @agm5424
    @agm5424 หลายเดือนก่อน +182

    Utopias are just Dystopians where the protagonist doesn't understand the mess he or she is in.

  • @ianonymous3803
    @ianonymous3803 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    Both definitions are horrendous. Unfortunately, the psychos in control just will not leave people alone.

  • @dagdamor1
    @dagdamor1 หลายเดือนก่อน +391

    I'm just saying, I drive through Los Angeles on the semi-regular, so I get a front row seat to most of the city looking worse than how they portrayed Detroit in Robocop.

    • @JaimeG88
      @JaimeG88 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

      Diversity = Strength

    • @thelastofus2872
      @thelastofus2872 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@JaimeG88diversity = division and weakness, stop serving koolaid.

    • @Alex-me3yn
      @Alex-me3yn หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      i did not grow up far from kensington avenue, which is probably the worst area of the country it doesnt even look first world in most sections

    • @keldsports8337
      @keldsports8337 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      I’d buy that for a dollar!

    • @toms3664
      @toms3664 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ​@@JaimeG88Yes. Diversity = Wealth also.

  • @TheColonelKlink
    @TheColonelKlink หลายเดือนก่อน +256

    Create the problem. Present yourself as the solution to the problem. Government.

    • @MrChrisRP
      @MrChrisRP หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      The word LITERALLY means "mind-control." "Gubernare mentis"

    • @KopperNeoman
      @KopperNeoman หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      It makes Americans mad to say this: but this was the entire point of 1776.

    • @marcanton5357
      @marcanton5357 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Jews.

    • @shanedpain7734
      @shanedpain7734 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hegelian Dialect. Problem-Reaction-Solution.
      They don’t even solve the problems they create, they use the guise of security/protection to extort monies, exactly how Organised Crime works.

    • @Simonsimon-fy3hq
      @Simonsimon-fy3hq หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’”
      President Ronald Reagan.

  • @carlkermode899
    @carlkermode899 หลายเดือนก่อน +237

    The irony of ending such an eloquent speech with another advertisement for another product is not lost on me.

    • @Lienhardismus
      @Lienhardismus หลายเดือนก่อน +48

      kind of degrades the whole message

    • @zantas-handle
      @zantas-handle หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      @@Lienhardismus Why would you say that my friend? Does an argument only deserve merit if it isn't promoted or sold? Do we have to live on fresh air to be 'good'? I wonder what you think?

    • @Lienhardismus
      @Lienhardismus หลายเดือนก่อน +38

      ​@@zantas-handle no we do not, but it makes it appear more sincere
      otherwise it might be suspected that the message is just used as a vehicle to make a sell
      or fish for symphathy to make a sell more likely
      but i do not think Sargon is doing this
      but if i wouldnt know Sargon i might think he is
      it throws the motivation into question

    • @zantas-handle
      @zantas-handle หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@Lienhardismus Ah, OK - right, I see where you're coming from, thanks.

    • @elliottbaker201
      @elliottbaker201 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      Making a buck ain't bad, every man works for a buck.

  • @EastCoastMan603
    @EastCoastMan603 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I can’t believe you articulated this in a video the same time a lot of us are thinking this. “Economic zones need to be maintained”. F that. God Bless.

  • @SunTzu176
    @SunTzu176 หลายเดือนก่อน +310

    We are trapped in the belly of a great and terrible machine, and the machine is bleeding to death.

    • @Jeremy-ho3vi
      @Jeremy-ho3vi หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Can I drink Coffee with you?

    • @ThePaintballer1994
      @ThePaintballer1994 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      @@Jeremy-ho3vime too. Quote goes hard.

    • @shayaannegit6066
      @shayaannegit6066 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      That's from East Hastings right?

    • @1x93cm
      @1x93cm หลายเดือนก่อน

      MORE MEAT FOR THE BARBIE!

    • @PrebleStreetRecords
      @PrebleStreetRecords หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Goodspeed you anonymous commenter….

  • @henryasselin123
    @henryasselin123 หลายเดือนก่อน +110

    I was thinking this the other day. We're already in it folks

  • @Justice-ian
    @Justice-ian หลายเดือนก่อน +139

    I disagree with the idea that making public spaces about children is a sign of mature adults who realize the world isn't about them. The "fun" children's entertainment you depict is a recent invention of ridiculous adults, actively teaching children that the world *does* revolve around _them_ , and did not exist _anywhere_ until a few decades ago. Until _very_ recently, "child's play" was *always* about pretending to be adults (cowboys, Robin Hood) or playing at adult activities (tea parties, "Swallows and Amazons", Huck and Jim) in preparation for adulthood.

    • @stevenvater2681
      @stevenvater2681 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      Your post hit a very important point on the head. I'm old and boy you are absolutely correct on child's play.

    • @Justice-ian
      @Justice-ian หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@stevenvater2681 Thanks! If being "old" means not being a part of today's nonsense, I gladly accept being old.

    • @PrinceoftheVioletFlame
      @PrinceoftheVioletFlame หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      When I was a child .... being a child meant learning how to be an adult. Everything was about preparation for adult hood including children cartoons
      now a days childhood is about never growing up. And we are seeing the effects to this day with adults that are still children.

    • @Roikat
      @Roikat หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Also, there’s a factual error in the video in claiming that McDonald’s all used to have “play spaces”. That was actually a rarity. Most McDonald’s restaurants have been sterile uninviting places since I can remember, which is obviously longer than Sargon remembers.

    • @Numantino312
      @Numantino312 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      in terms of kids time/kids space versus same for adults, and because it's october,
      halloween used to be a kids' thing, and "halloween parties" among adults were rare. in 2020s, you won't find a nighttime street thronged with dozens of kids about. tho you'll probably find a "halloween party".
      also, people who decorated for halloween did so in last week of october, not last week of september.

  • @nin9249
    @nin9249 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Ive known it was coming my whole life and witnessed the many tendrils of destruction. I have protested , negotiated, been ostracised, arrested, mocked and intimidated for trying to point out to humans what was happening. Im now 48.

  • @TurtleChad1
    @TurtleChad1 หลายเดือนก่อน +596

    _"You will own nothing, and you will be happy."_

    • @klausschwabshubris
      @klausschwabshubris หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Indeed.

    • @joshheinink
      @joshheinink หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      Well im not

    • @UnhingedJessie
      @UnhingedJessie หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      Still waiting for the "happy" part, Turt. 2024, will get back to you in a decade or so.

    • @CleverGirlAAH
      @CleverGirlAAH หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      @@UnhingedJessie It's not meant for you. It's meant for your children to be educated that they're happy.

    • @klausschwabshubris
      @klausschwabshubris หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      @@CleverGirlAAH I would change (educated) to (programmed) personally.

  • @Noperare
    @Noperare หลายเดือนก่อน +83

    Reminds me CD Project, creators of Cyberpunk 2077, came to Los Angeles and find out real LA is worse than Night City, which was meant to be a dystopian LA. The class difference between the millionaire celebrities in their gated communities and the average joe that has to walk on streets covered in human feces and heroin needles beats any Cyberpunk "class struggle".

    • @jakeschwartz2514
      @jakeschwartz2514 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I agree to an extent, because la is still part of a, for now, ordered nation vis a vi the united states where as night city is a corpo anarchist state where they make the rules 100% and is the very definition of a failed state and society. But yes, LA has the clearest view of a dystopian environment within America, chicago would also be one

  • @kitsimmonds.344
    @kitsimmonds.344 หลายเดือนก่อน +148

    Sigh, I've been warning my friends and family about slipping into a miserable surveillance state for the past 20 years. I was dismissed by most as a far right conspiracy theorist, that said things are worse now than I could have imagined when I started banging on about immigration and the power of the state. Will close my mouth now in case I get arrested for dissent of some kind. Edited due to predictive text tricking me....

    • @gerhardswanepoel3493
      @gerhardswanepoel3493 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That you can use the term "conspiracy theory" to magically escape guilt or scrutiny is part of the problem. The English language has been infiltrated by foreign concepts not native to it.

    • @Krysnha
      @Krysnha หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      I live in latin america, and when latin america is becoming better and better than the west you know is done

    • @gfdnnfnfgnfgn
      @gfdnnfnfgnfgn หลายเดือนก่อน

      Stop cucking, organize and destroy. Read siege

    • @joesomebody3365
      @joesomebody3365 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      @@Krysnha That's great, but make sure you learn from our mistakes. There are tyrants in every land and amongst every people.

    • @Krysnha
      @Krysnha หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@joesomebody3365 I know the lesson the problem is that the people surrouding me and in mi nation tipical latin america, they want everithing for free and do nothing for it, they dont give chances to the youth and when the youth loss everithing they vote left, latin america is doom to that, Argentina is excpetion because they touch bottom, what i dont know is when things get better, wont return to the same, that only time will tell

  •  25 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    _“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest”_ *- Matthew 11:28*

  • @casbyness
    @casbyness หลายเดือนก่อน +231

    Back in my first year at university, there was a grand old corridor very close by to my student room on campus.
    Panelled woodwork, busts of famous historical figures mounted on display columns, valuable paintings on the walls. Lots of classy browns, golds, and silvers in the general colour scheme. Students and visitors loved the place, and the idea of causing any harm to it or the valuable items it held wasn't even considered.
    Then the new college 'Fire Marshal' arrived. Unfortunately, it's incredibly difficult to argue against people who compaign for more safety and security. These are seemingly concrete concepts that appear to be inherently good, with the broad counterpoint being the much more nebulous and abstract concepts of freedom, quality of life, human happiness, etc. Why would you not want to make a place more safe? Do you WANT people to die? Are you willing to take that risk?
    So - into the grand old corridor came the fire extinguishers, the rubber-sealed safety doors, the fire-resistant paint, efficiently applied and neatly spaced out at perfectly routine intervals. Out went the more valuable decorations. And then the slightly less valuable ones. And then all the paintings. And then all the wood panelling and antique display stands. And then everything else that didn't have a purpose or ergonomic value. What is the "point" of hanging a painting on a wall, anyway? Isn't it JUST an unnecessary fire risk? What is this "art" you speak of, human?
    Over the course of one year, all the things that made the corridor a great space to pass through or wander around were gone. It became a drab, featureless, extremely safe and hopelessly boring area to inhabit. The baby was well and truly thrown out with the bathwater, all in the name of fire safety, risk management, and greater efficiency. In short, the corridor was destroyed in the name of preserving the corridor. This was because someone was specifically hired and paid to examine things from an inhuman perspective that valuable items and places should not be examined from. At least, not without oversight from a human perspective that is tasked with balancing the efficient, safe, and concrete against the much more crucial but considerably more abstract notions of beauty, meaning, and happiness. Back when King Charles was still a Prince, the wisest thing he ever said was (paraphrasing) "Human intuition is absolutely necessary. If you cast aside intuition and rely solely on efficient empirical testing for everything, then every test you conduct will be a test to destruction. You HAVE to simply 'know' when the balloon is big enough, or every balloon you try to blow up will burst."
    There is a punchline to this story, of sorts. You see, the college Fire Marshal also lived on campus, in a room at the bottom of an old college staircase, adorned with wood panelling, ornate decorations like busts and statues, nice looking stonework, a few antique paintings, etc. Did the Fire Marshal prescribe the same changes to his living area that he did to the grand corridor on the other side of the college? Did he recommend to college senior management that - in the name of safety - all the nice things be removed from his staircase, replaced with fire doors, fire extinguishers, grey fire resistant paint, etc?
    No, of course he didn't. The Fire Marshal wanted the place where HE lived to look nice. So he could show it off to visitors, and feel good about himself when he left for work each morning. He only ruined the parts of the college that he had no direct stake in. He only viewed the world from a natural human perspective when it was HIS human wants and needs on the line. Everywhere else was fair game for destruction in the name of efficiency and safety, EXCEPT where those things threatened HIS happiness.

    • @samuel5591
      @samuel5591 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

      So why did nobody repeatedly raise the issue of his area being a massive fire risk? One of the best ways to defeat something is to use it's own rules against it.

    • @Guardsmen4
      @Guardsmen4 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      i would have complained every day that area near him was massive fire risk

    • @rishnix
      @rishnix หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      That's a terrible punchline. I was expecting you to tell us that the fire safety guy's home caught on fire.

    • @vintagesteel
      @vintagesteel หลายเดือนก่อน +29

      Beautifully written comment. It seems that we have a 'fire marshal' appointed in every position of authority these days. Everywhere from education to the government to the private sector and everywhere in between. They're all heartless and insufferable.

    • @casbyness
      @casbyness หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@vintagesteel Yep. The aliens and robots we've put in charge don't understand why things like pubs or pets exist. Such things have no value from the top-down model of worker drone civilisation.

  • @Dude0000
    @Dude0000 หลายเดือนก่อน +80

    13:06 This ‘short’ from Bald & Bankrupt’s video with the ‘sex worker’ walking along with the socialistic slogans, and multicultural icons in the background, moving past, as though on a conveyor belt, is Oscar nomination worthy.
    The contradictions revealed in that short clip could not have been scripted. It must have been a stroke of serendipity, possibly seeing the opportunity right before he did it, but certainly not planned before he left his hotel room that day, or anytime before that.
    An truly iconic work of art, and that’s without the sound, with the contrast of her reality compared to what the establishment sees as her reality set alongside each other is quite astonishing, actually.

    • @DEadSpaCE211
      @DEadSpaCE211 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This is the future of the UK. They'll be entire areas with young girls working. We've already let 1000s of children get raped. Yet somehow the feminists haven't done anything about it and in fact want more diversity. I already see so many young working class girls here in the North East dress like prostitutes and there only 13.

    • @Robert-yk2lk
      @Robert-yk2lk หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      What the video title? I want to see

    • @LilyGazou
      @LilyGazou หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Robert-yk2lkchannel is Bald and Bankrupt

  • @dereklamb4945
    @dereklamb4945 หลายเดือนก่อน +73

    I honestly feel like the internet and cell phones have to be banished completely for society to begin to heal.

    • @honkhonk8009
      @honkhonk8009 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Yea true. Too mayn excuses to do stuff remotely, rather than in person.
      Its gone too far.

    • @Friggsdottir
      @Friggsdottir หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Pandoras box

    • @marken816
      @marken816 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I have thought about this. In a way, you are correct.
      But imagine how bad it can get if people don't have internet access to know and revize what actually is happening around the globe.

    • @desislavchi
      @desislavchi หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@marken816 you dont need to know whats happening around the globe, it doesnt affect you and you moslty cant do anything about it.

    • @pokermitten9795
      @pokermitten9795 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That would be sending us back to the dark ages in a much more visceral way than the fear mongering the left does about republicans.

  • @SomeGuy-hr5og
    @SomeGuy-hr5og หลายเดือนก่อน +215

    I'm early so I'll post a cliche: Utopia, Dystopia, same thing.

    • @ZombieLogic101
      @ZombieLogic101 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      One's just more comfortable for different classes of folks...

    • @salsamancer
      @salsamancer หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      That's the first point he makes, you didn't even watch before commenting 😆

    • @SomeGuy-hr5og
      @SomeGuy-hr5og หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@salsamancer Did you even read the first part of my comment? lol

    • @itayshani3614
      @itayshani3614 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If only it was a sensible cliche.

  • @Astorath_the_Grim
    @Astorath_the_Grim หลายเดือนก่อน +139

    You better start believing in a cyberpunk dystopia because you're living in one.

    • @TheFatalcrest
      @TheFatalcrest หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      😂 darn we are in the early generations of it, no cool cyberbodies or full on revolution for us

    • @Astorath_the_Grim
      @Astorath_the_Grim หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      ​@TheFatalcrest I don't think we are gonna get those. Well the plebs at least.

    • @roman8197
      @roman8197 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      a cyberpunk dystopia would be preferable to this

    • @panzer00
      @panzer00 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​​@roman8197 We already live in one. Look at the technology available and who controls it? Corporations.
      Look at the influence Corporations have on society. Everyone consumes their products, their tv shows, their movies, their video games, their everything.
      We are not free.

    • @biwnzixebrxb4786
      @biwnzixebrxb4786 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No no no, that title belongs to 2020 Hong Kong. You just aren’t cyberpunk enough.

  • @b.a.m.5078
    @b.a.m.5078 หลายเดือนก่อน +496

    Bring back Pizza Hut nationalism.

    • @mupty
      @mupty หลายเดือนก่อน +62

      I imagine younger generations thinking the Pizza Hut name was just a metaphor and not because the restaurant was literally shaped like huts.

    • @bruceyawen6160
      @bruceyawen6160 หลายเดือนก่อน +59

      We must secure the existence of our franchise buildings and a future for deep dish pizzas

    • @maxis2k
      @maxis2k หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      I've actually seen a number of new classic sit in Pizza Huts opening on the west coast of the USA. They do exist. But for how long...

    • @MatthewVanston
      @MatthewVanston หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Regina supreme!!!

    • @giantent763
      @giantent763 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@bruceyawen6160 Need 2 more words.

  • @Katrina-mx2sf
    @Katrina-mx2sf 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    My mom died last November. I miss her. She used to say we need a benevolent dictator.

  • @johndoh795
    @johndoh795 หลายเดือนก่อน +104

    All the good dystopias start out with the protagonist seeing everything as normal.
    But yeah... Been in them for a while.

  • @UnhingedJessie
    @UnhingedJessie หลายเดือนก่อน +281

    Dystopia is just another word for hell.

    • @MG-me7iw
      @MG-me7iw หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      No, that is just basic New Jersey.

    • @panzer00
      @panzer00 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hell is a mindset, a lifestyle. The woke literally lives in a Hell of their own creation but they blame everyone else for it while actively trying to force us to live there with them.
      If only there was a philosophy that steered us away from that life...

    • @entropybear5847
      @entropybear5847 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Hell would be warmer, so in a certain way it'd be a step up.

    • @Max-ep5ir
      @Max-ep5ir หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Hopefully, Utopia will become one as well.

    • @PeenieLinguine
      @PeenieLinguine หลายเดือนก่อน

      That is New York propaganda. New jersey isn't as bad as that dumpsterfire of a state ​@@MG-me7iw

  • @dannyboywhaa3146
    @dannyboywhaa3146 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    Moved to little village on Isle of Wight 6 months ago - we had a 6 month old baby, move had been planned couple of years prior, took a while to sell house etc etc... there was just no way we were going to raise our child/family in a city! We were in a very affluent part of one of the nicer cities as well, with excellent schools. Managed to put some dosh away as well due to difference in house prices between two areas - absolute no brainier! No regrets - people are so friendly here, never dreamed I’d have such nice neighbours! It’s such a relief, I can’t even begin to describe it!

    • @cherryseptember8697
      @cherryseptember8697 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Fantastic to hear that. I wish you much happiness and a good family life in your village. Hope things are positive for your child.

    • @dannyboywhaa3146
      @dannyboywhaa3146 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@cherryseptember8697 thank you 👍

    • @LilyGazou
      @LilyGazou หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I hope it doesn’t get invaded. Like so many peaceful small towns in the US

    • @wolfalshehri6200
      @wolfalshehri6200 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Enjoy it! You have made a tough but right decision... that kid will thank you for it

  • @gavinvick3592
    @gavinvick3592 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    We’ve always asked “can we do it” and never “should we do it”

  • @cleitondecarvalho431
    @cleitondecarvalho431 หลายเดือนก่อน +91

    I've been telling this for 15 years now, my country, Brazil, is a hell of place to survive. There is no serious consequences for murderers etc.

    • @kojeta3200
      @kojeta3200 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      Also Brazilian here. A cada dia que passa eu simplesmente não consigo nem acreditar que essa merda de país é real. Uma nação completamente desprovida de educação, que frequentemente esquece de sua própria cultura, valores e história, totalmente destruída pelo crime, violência, medo, desigualdade social, corrupção e apego à pobreza. É um país aonde pisar nos outros e levar vantagem em qualquer situação é considerado o normal, enquanto ajudar o próximo ou tentar conquistar um bom futuro para si mesmo é estranho.
      Não vou ser 100% pessimista e dizer que o Brasil não tem salvação... mas, se tem, ainda vai demorar MUITO pra chegar

    • @cleitondecarvalho431
      @cleitondecarvalho431 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@kojeta3200 disseste tudo :(

    • @luizmonad777
      @luizmonad777 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@kojeta3200 bring back Dom Pietro.

    • @mudra5114
      @mudra5114 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Dude, living in Brazil beats living in India, by a mile, EVEN IF crime rates in India are quite low. Trust me on this.

    • @iBullyDemons
      @iBullyDemons หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sounds like you're free to take retribution on the people responsible for it then.

  • @binaryflat
    @binaryflat หลายเดือนก่อน +52

    I have been an avid naturalist all of my life, and I notice nature is not what it used to be. Years ago I could observe a single Milkweed plant, and it had a microcosm of insects on it. It had bees, wasps, beetles, true bugs, and butterflies, all doing their thing. Now I can walk by a whole colony of Milkweed, and see only one bee, or butterfly. I mention this to folks and get no response. The pests like ticks, chiggers, and mosquitoes seem to be legion, however.

    • @flowersofthefield340
      @flowersofthefield340 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ✅️✅️✅️
      A dieing world ...... ☠️............ Do you know the real reason why ?

    • @kerim.peardon5551
      @kerim.peardon5551 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I will say that I'm seeing more bugs where I live. This summer, I have actually gotten bug splats on my windshield again. It's still not like it was in the 80's, but it's more than it's been in a really long time.
      On a completely unrelated note, my state, starting back in May, outlawed the spraying of aerosols into the sky to modify the weather. Oddly enough, all those "contrails" that planes were making that held together like clouds and did not dissipate are no longer seen in the skies. Now, contrails from planes dissipate pretty quickly, as one would expect from something that's mere water vapor.

    • @binaryflat
      @binaryflat หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@kerim.peardon5551 Wow that is great! It’s funny how the government still denies that they are doing that, but it is obvious they are. Hopefully they will be banned everywhere. The past couple of days they haven’t sprayed here.

    • @binaryflat
      @binaryflat หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@kerim.peardon5551 They keep deleting my reply. I’m glad they banned them where you are. I wish that was worldwide.

    • @binaryflat
      @binaryflat หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@kerim.peardon5551 Even with the ban, they deny that they exist.

  • @jiggycalzone8585
    @jiggycalzone8585 หลายเดือนก่อน +357

    Goebbels can only wish he had come up with such a brilliant covering up of propaganda as "fighting misinformation"

    • @robbiesantos7677
      @robbiesantos7677 หลายเดือนก่อน +96

      The people putting us in the dystopia are the same guys he tried to remove from his society.

    • @JaimeG88
      @JaimeG88 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@robbiesantos7677DELET THIS

    • @rucker69
      @rucker69 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      @@robbiesantos7677 ffs stop it. Soo tedious.

    • @idolaficionado7631
      @idolaficionado7631 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@rucker69 Too true for your virgin ears?

    • @Nylon_riot
      @Nylon_riot หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      The same people invented it. Do you think the Notsees sucked it out of their thumbs? It was bought off American advertising agencies.

  • @outtheredude
    @outtheredude 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I recently revisited the 1999-2001 UK television series 'Spaced'. When it first came out, It was made by people my age who wanted something out there that represented them, that were just like me in all our varied pop-culture infused colourful craziness, and it was the world of 25 year old young adult me.
    25 years later, at 50, I find myself mourning the loss of everything that drove us to engage in the world and with each other. The former excitement of the prospect of younger voices joining our chorus as they too came of age, transforming our song into a bright new future we could all be a part of, throttled at birth.
    It's all gone, leaving nothing but a grey corporate prison world that only the elite gets to live beyond it all. The rest of us don't exist in their world, except as an inconvenience to be ultimately replaced with robots.
    So we have all been reduced to living as robots, to minimally serve their interests for a time as interchangeable cogs in their machine until the robots they're building are finally ready to replace us.

  • @RolandDelacroix
    @RolandDelacroix หลายเดือนก่อน +219

    I can't even explain to my kids how great and free America was when I was their age, because they wouldn't even believe it.

    • @MrPolandball
      @MrPolandball หลายเดือนก่อน

      Probably because your generation destroyed this country by keep voting for same corrupt politicians 10 times in row

    • @PrebleStreetRecords
      @PrebleStreetRecords หลายเดือนก่อน +41

      I’m around Carl’s age, and while I don’t have as rosy a picture of the past (living in an American city in the 80s/90s), it’s still shocking.
      When I tell my younger friends and coworkers about my experiences as a teenager, it’s like describing a fantasy novel to them.
      “What do you mean you lived in a downtown apartment for $300/mo, lived fairly well off a trade skill job, and spent almost all of your free time with friends?”

    • @GimbalLocksOnly
      @GimbalLocksOnly หลายเดือนก่อน +32

      Gonna have to burst your bubble but america wasnt free or great during your childhood either. Its been bad since before ww2. It just wasnt as obvious.

    • @KlaustheViking
      @KlaustheViking หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@PrebleStreetRecords My grandmother told me around the mid 50’s, making around $5,400 a year was doing well… ouch

    • @Adamantos-Elean
      @Adamantos-Elean หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      @@GimbalLocksOnly I has gotten much much worse. I've seen it with my own eyes across a large swathe of the country.

  • @DjDeadpig
    @DjDeadpig หลายเดือนก่อน +194

    We truly have fallen. We lost the islands and at this rate, we may as well just expect Labour gives the Falklands to Argentina. At least Milei would care for them more after we sold away our sovereignty and our land.
    The sun now truly sets on the once empire now commonwealth.

    • @everyonesfavoritesejong
      @everyonesfavoritesejong หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sounds great yep please do it that would be awesome I'd forgive Britain for everything they did

    • @john236613
      @john236613 หลายเดือนก่อน

      As an American, we brought it on ourselves when we allowed the crazies to have, not only a say, but a larger say than the majority. They actively fight against the best interests of our people in the hopes of destabilizing our countries and implementing their "perfect" government. A government which will inevitably be used to oppress the masses in the name of maintaining power over them. Communism/Socialism never has, and never will work.

    • @josedorsaith5261
      @josedorsaith5261 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      "We"
      Are you English?

    • @willemdalebout3725
      @willemdalebout3725 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Just out of curiosity, what makes those islands so important to the British?

    • @DjDeadpig
      @DjDeadpig หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Yes, Yes I am.

  • @mr.whitechristmas280
    @mr.whitechristmas280 หลายเดือนก่อน +104

    It should be also mentioned that More chose “Utopia” as a deliberate pun on “Eutopia”, which would’ve meant “Good place.” More knew that what he was envisioning was impossible.

    • @scroogemcduckismyspiritanimal
      @scroogemcduckismyspiritanimal หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I think he knew it was more than just impossible, that it would in fact *not* be the Good Place

    • @artawhirler
      @artawhirler หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      We start studying Greek just so we can read a little Homer, and we wind up learning more than we really wanted to know. 😅

    • @pollyparrot8759
      @pollyparrot8759 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Impossible for humans to live in and retain their humanity ? Yes but impossible to live in if "our masters" force it upon us via draconian punishments for non-compliance? No what do you think the 15 minute city concept and the "you will own nothing and be happy" actually mean .... Utopia/Dystopia is the apparent goal of a certain super rich sector of society, for us but not for them. Davos is a worrying place for ordinary mortals.

  • @OhRaez
    @OhRaez หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    8:52 Being 24 years old and forming more into my "adult" self, I have realized this slowly but surely. It's a philosophy that reigns very true. Not to be altruistic or self-sacrificial, but to care for your loved ones is one of the defining parts of life.

  • @flanflanjp_
    @flanflanjp_ หลายเดือนก่อน +37

    Sargon fails to ask the questions of who are the masters, and then why do they do this to us. Why do they hate us? What drives them to seek the utter destruction of our way of life and ability to lead?

    • @zantas-handle
      @zantas-handle หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      That's the nature of evil, sadly. It seeks to destroy.

    • @commisaryarreck3974
      @commisaryarreck3974 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      ​@@zantas-handle
      In every nation but their own....

    • @trevorstevenson4038
      @trevorstevenson4038 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The elites are selfish.
      Believe they are better by blood and by culture.
      They now have the access to technologies that will replace the general populace.
      They want us all gone so they can enjoy the riches of the natural world.

    • @cvangemon1307
      @cvangemon1307 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You know you can't mention (((them))) on youtube.

    • @oneofthelastsurvivingdoges8832
      @oneofthelastsurvivingdoges8832 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Cup of juice aye?

  • @AndrewPhillipsTech
    @AndrewPhillipsTech หลายเดือนก่อน +45

    It's funny you showed a picture of McDonalds in Basingstoke.. I grew up there.. we used to goto it first thing in the morning on Xmas eve to get breakfast before shopping.. it was so wholesome and sweet..
    I re-visited recently.. it now has security guards.. and nobody in it grew up in that town.. probably not even the country.. not one.

    • @MrVibrating
      @MrVibrating หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      Thirty years ago working-class minimum wage jobs at least meant you'd have colleagues you could relate to, build friendships and social circles. In the decades since, it's meant being the only English person on the payroll. Company policy requires employees to only converse in English, yet that's long gone out the window; they just chatter all day in their own tongue, blaring out ethnic pop on their smartphones while dodging any work if not actively making and leaving a big mess (because there's working hard and then there's working _smart,_ right?). They have a cultural aversion to using the litter bins conveniently spaced everywhere, knowing muggins will soon be along to pick up after them. Literally half the job is just cleaning up behind them. And of course customers see - and pay the price - in the dropped standards, killing repeat business and brand loyalty. It's a terminal decline, and it's affecting businesses throughout the economy, yet question the false equivalences of cultural relativism at your peril.. From my perspective here on the shop floor, the great replacement already happened, back under New Labour..

    • @FakeHeroFang
      @FakeHeroFang หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Barely even see kids working places like this around where I live, because they have to compete for retail/fast food jobs with the flood of immigrants we're letting into the country. Downright shameful.

  • @snakeplisken2123
    @snakeplisken2123 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

    I hate modern restrooms you have to fight robots just to get a squirt of soap and the faucet never sprays enough for both hands and it takes minutes to get enough paper towels to dry off.

    • @account-now-closed
      @account-now-closed หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Paper towels? Most I've seen have hand dryers

    • @jessesdomain444
      @jessesdomain444 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@account-now-closedhand dryers that take a decade to dry your hands....

    • @kerim.peardon5551
      @kerim.peardon5551 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@jessesdomain444 My mother HATES dryers. She says they just suck dust up off the floor and blow it on your hands.

    • @snakeplisken2123
      @snakeplisken2123 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@kerim.peardon5551 I’ve heard of the ghost in the machine, but that’s the Jew in the machine.

    • @DCM8828
      @DCM8828 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

      The hand dryers are deafeningly loud as well. I just leave & let evaporation work.

  • @aucourant9998
    @aucourant9998 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    That was a really well written piece. Thank you.

  • @defiance514
    @defiance514 หลายเดือนก่อน +186

    “humans in the 21st century inherited a vast array of advanced and advancing technologies developed in the 100 years prior. However, the powerful humans decided to apply almost all of those advances toward studying and applying methods by which they might have better and better asserted control over individuals. They built such massive structures requiring such massive amounts of energy inputs that the supply of such fuels was diminished rapidly over the course of just a few generations, leading to a total collapse of not only the attempted control mechanisms, but that of all the contemporary progress of that era.”

    • @michaeldavid6832
      @michaeldavid6832 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Scarcity is a ficiton designed by those who control plentiful resources. You think DeBeers cornered the diamond market to make diamonds seem plentiful?

    • @j.c.denton2060
      @j.c.denton2060 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We, like the Roman Empire, have not been destroyed by ourselves but by the psychopathy and greed of our ruling class. We had the opportunity to colonize space and instead we spent it on wars for is-r@el and intelligence gathering agencies.

    • @lordsheogorath3377
      @lordsheogorath3377 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

      The Dark Age of the 2000s has already begun. We have lost so much knowledge, history, institutions, and culture that we will never get back. It will take 1000 years to recover from the last 100.

    • @JaimeG88
      @JaimeG88 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@lordsheogorath3377what? You don't want transgendered mulatto grandchildren??

    • @pocztmistrzztczewa
      @pocztmistrzztczewa หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Sauce?

  • @NGC-gu6dz
    @NGC-gu6dz หลายเดือนก่อน +100

    The managerial class has lost their mandate from heaven.

    • @mirceazaharia2094
      @mirceazaharia2094 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

      They never had it to begin with.
      They lost any Noblesse Oblige a long time ago.

    • @oompalumpus699
      @oompalumpus699 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Then we will eventually witness a fight that can rival the casualties of the battles in Ancient China.

    • @marcanton5357
      @marcanton5357 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Jews.

    • @goctexas1444
      @goctexas1444 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      They have abandoned their noble obligee

  • @MrLolguy93
    @MrLolguy93 หลายเดือนก่อน +99

    Eastern Europe : "First time?"

    • @ganymedekaramazenes9273
      @ganymedekaramazenes9273 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      China -"ditto"

    • @Ahandleofrum
      @Ahandleofrum หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Eastern Europe has been getting steadily better since the 90s.

    • @fabianustertius6460
      @fabianustertius6460 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@Ahandleofrum nice joke

    • @missk1697
      @missk1697 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      ​@@AhandleofrumLmfao I wish

    • @Ahandleofrum
      @Ahandleofrum หลายเดือนก่อน

      @salzaniclegend4129 TBH I haven't been there since early 90s. Are the store shelves still empty? I've seen some pictures from relatives who visited, seems alright.

  • @Disorder2312
    @Disorder2312 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    So true, and you can add so much more, it's just really hard. There is no more relief in sight. No more service for humans. It's only about serving the system, which in turn oppresses you.

  • @Dayz3O6
    @Dayz3O6 หลายเดือนก่อน +49

    Anarcho-Tyranny, I remembered seeing the movie Purge and thinking the concept is absurd.

    • @father042
      @father042 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Sam Francis was a prophet

    • @rustyshackleford1062
      @rustyshackleford1062 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I took thought it was absurd until the mostly peaceful riots happened and killed 50 people and injured 1000s, then the most violent insurrection happened and one person died and half a dozen were injured. The rioters who injured 1000s got million dollar payouts and then 1000s that were present at insurrection but didn't hurt anyone all got 3 year average jail sentences. Anarcho-tyranny is terrifyingly effective at terrorizing a populace into compliance, and I fear it's simply the new normal at this point after effectively being rolled out in the US, Canada, Brazil, UK, EU et al.

    • @Armameteus
      @Armameteus หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      It _is_ absurd. Unfortunately, we happen to be living in an increasingly absurd world.

    • @DigitalApex
      @DigitalApex หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Because it is. Loads of people have described how catastrophic it would be for society if it actually happened. It genuinely wouldn't fix anything. In fact, it'd make current things worse. Mostly economically.

  • @MuhammedMuhammed-xd7qo
    @MuhammedMuhammed-xd7qo หลายเดือนก่อน +56

    It's not that the yearning for dystopian fiction has dried up, it's that corporations have totally seized control of media, and the gatekeepers they employ at the basic level of, say, book publishers are mostly privileged women who not only willingly enforce corporate ideals but also have a natural disinclination toward themes like dystopia...unless it's filtered through a lens of sex among the privileged class, like the handmaid's tale.

    • @drlca6601
      @drlca6601 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Well said.

    • @nas8326
      @nas8326 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Men masquerading as women*

    • @mudra5114
      @mudra5114 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Corporations run the media but the media is Left winged Marxist. That is the irony.

    • @bubstacrini8851
      @bubstacrini8851 หลายเดือนก่อน

      the Handmaid's Tale is near a half century old and might not be published today

    • @Oecobius33
      @Oecobius33 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@bubstacrini8851 Something that copies off the currently-running and widely-consumed TV series of it certainly would, since that's what most people think of when they hear the title.

  • @bananas1220
    @bananas1220 หลายเดือนก่อน +66

    I've been saying we're living in a nightmare dystopia for years. It really is becoming intolerable. I don't see any future for myself anymore

    • @JaimeG88
      @JaimeG88 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Do an internet search for "William Pierce thoughts on accepting responsibility." Hopefully this will help your depression.

    • @mirceazaharia2094
      @mirceazaharia2094 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@JaimeG88
      Brilliant suggestion.
      That man was a genius.

    • @tow-rn2qy
      @tow-rn2qy หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@JaimeG88I did an internet search on him the media has branded him as a silly 1940s German person.
      Is he really or is he just falsely accused of being one? Cause the media is “special”

    • @MrChrisRP
      @MrChrisRP หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Lot's of very good people have been waiting for you to wake up. And so on, down the line...

    • @botaku6949
      @botaku6949 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Go outside and take a walk

  • @LibbyB622
    @LibbyB622 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    "Terminating our own family line becomes our only way out of this prison without walls."
    WOW. That is profound. I have never heard it summed up so perfectly.

    • @robertgoughnour9328
      @robertgoughnour9328 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Its the rapture. Only not how we believe we would witness it.

  • @CorundumDevil
    @CorundumDevil หลายเดือนก่อน +54

    _"I am the animal simply existing, waiting for nothing but when it finally dies."_

    • @elLooto
      @elLooto หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Most peoples lives can be summed up in two phases:
      Waiting For Santa Clause,
      and when they finally work out that Santa isn't coming,
      Waiting for Rigor Mortis.
      There is a third phase of existence, Chasing Opportunity but most people avoid it because, paraphrasing Henry Ford, it arrives wearing overalls and looks like hard work.

    • @CorundumDevil
      @CorundumDevil หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @elLooto I can think of someone else who enjoyed paraphrasing Henry Ford. Coincidentally, they encouraged hard labor at gunpoint.
      EDIT: Sorry, not trying to come at you, but something about how you phrased hard work as synonymous with fulfillment of the soul came across as... extremely foreboding, and it activated my fight-or-flight response.

    • @elLooto
      @elLooto หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@CorundumDevil Dont worry mate. Lots of people have a visceral response to the idea of hard work. ;)
      I didnt say "work hard for someone else" I meant "work hard for yourself, and the things that matter to you."
      People say "Working hard does not guarantee success," which is true, but forget to ask the opposite question "Can I expect to succeed if I work less hard?"
      Lets consider, as a high profile example, the aftermath of a sportsball grand final: We can look at the at the losing team, which is the example that hard work doesnt guarantee success. OTOH the most evident thing is the sheer joy of success, of achieving ones life goals, and ask yourself if these guys would have got there if they didnt train every day, and didnt do those extra effort plays under extreme fatigue during the game, didnt hold each other to a higher standard and all that stuff.
      Hard work isnt synonymous with fulfillment, but it is a requirement for it.
      The Ford quote is just an observation that many people consider the opportunity before them 'beneath them' or 'not the kind of work I want to do' or they see how much work is involved and think 'thats too hard.'
      This is why (I believe) most people dont want to own their own business: deep down they know that its a lot of hard work with no guarantee of a paycheck (financial safety), and they may have to do things that make them uncomfortable, like soliciting work (ie sales) or writing government compliance reports. A lot of these people also justify this to themselves by saying things like 'Im not a greedy capitalist pig' to elevate their laziness or cowardice to a position of moral superiority, often denigrating the results and effort (that they are unwilling to put in themselves) of others to 'luck'.

    • @raynen8353
      @raynen8353 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@CorundumDevilare you talking about the good guys back in WW2?

    • @giantent763
      @giantent763 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@CorundumDevil Hard labor at gunpoint? You must be talking about the Soviets. Or the Allies after the war when they took German *SLAVES*. Oh, they didn't teach that part in middle school though.

  • @mro2352
    @mro2352 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    The worst thing that happened was the corporate cultural shift from long term from sustainable long term growth to short term shareholder value. I’m not a communist but I hope the culture shifts but I done expect it will.

    • @NOYB1776
      @NOYB1776 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We are living in corporatization and communism combined. Corporations, are in perfect comparison to communism. This is not capitalism, free market, or free at all.
      There is no aspect of our lives that government and corporations that they want to control. They want to control, track, and spy on you continuously. We are not living in a system that persuades the masses.

    • @PRH123
      @PRH123 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      True, but not a cultural shift. It was the opening of the floodgates of corruption that began under Reagan. The controls and oversight of banks, investment and business that had kept everything stable and the country prosperous for fifty years began to be dismantled. So called value based investing which led to the first tech stock crash, was a serious crime only a couple of decades earlier. There’s not going to be any culture shift as you call it, without restoring those instruments of regulation that worked in the past.

    • @mro2352
      @mro2352 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@PRH123​​⁠I’d argue that instead the cultural shift happened in the 60s and 70s. The culture from that time was free love and hedonistic pleasure at the cost of the society. If you value only yourself as a culture what do you think will happen when they get old enough to start to get to positions of middle management. The boomers as a whole are THE most hedonistic and selfish generation to that point.

    • @M_CFV
      @M_CFV หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@PRH123 "began under reagan" yeah, no. The federal reserve, and the abolishing of the gold standard, is what caused it. Long before Reagan.

    • @PRH123
      @PRH123 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@M_CFV the original post referred to the shift from sustainable growth, to short term shareholder value, and that was a shift that began with Reagan’s term in office, and the deregulation that his administration pushed
      That particular phenomenon was not related to the gold standard or the creation of the fed. It was driven by the neo laissez faire ideals that drove deregulation that began to dismantle controls on financial markets and banking (that had been in place since the 30’s), amongst other things.

  • @sniperrecon676
    @sniperrecon676 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

    An industrial society is one that puts efficiency above all else, including human happiness or even existence. Jacques Ellul was correct

    • @ruuman
      @ruuman หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's the thing, nothing works anymore, it's the opposite of efficient, bloated government, a million forms and regulations to do anything. Everything is over budget and late or just broken.
      This is a full technocracy functioning on its own BS!

    • @NOYB1776
      @NOYB1776 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Uncle Ted was even more correct.

    • @PebbleLove
      @PebbleLove หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@NOYB1776of course the Chrsitian is anti-technology and pro-state. Live up to the expectations

  • @cann-e2q
    @cann-e2q หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    EXCELLENT video. I'm 67, and it's literally like a dark cloud has descended on humanity, and nothing can lift it. Whether or not it was an illusion, at least we experienced the hope of real fun, of accomplishment, of working toward something, owning a home, traveling the world, etc. Now, it seems bleak, and that's only going to get worse, imo.

  • @frishter
    @frishter หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    To be fair, you could argue that a fast food place that is designed to be inviting to children is also dystopic. But yeah, it goes beyond that.

    • @FakeHeroFang
      @FakeHeroFang หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      At least being bright and inviting shows that they're trying to make it welcoming for families, however fake it may be. Now they don't even do that, their establishments look extremely cold, corporate and impersonal. They know you'll show up anyways, so they don't have to play pretend anymore.

    • @rishnix
      @rishnix หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@FakeHeroFang More and more of them don't even have an indoor eating area. They want you to use a drive through. Just get your food and get out. Go eat your slop and be miserable somewhere else. You already paid for the food, so unless you're buying more, they don't want to see you.
      It is a bleak and anti-human practice.

    • @kerim.peardon5551
      @kerim.peardon5551 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Back when they had play places, they probably still had fries with only 3 ingredients. Now, American fries have 17 ingredients.
      McDonald's food wasn't the same back then.

  • @Boskov01
    @Boskov01 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    It is interesting that the term "Utopia" means "No place" which is oddly correct as "No place" can ever truly become a utopia. Utopia would require mankind not be human. It would require we act against our own nature. The only time mankind ever had a utopia was back at the Garden of Eden, but mankind messed it up despite utopia being handed to them. So a utopia cannot be created by man at all. We've seen time and again where a utopia has been attempted, but it has always failed and become dystopian before falling completely apart. If the goal of a utopia is to attempt to create the perfect society, then right away it is flawed as perfection is unattainable by the standards of man. The Seven Deadly Sins of greed, lust, gluttony, envy, sloth, anger, and pride, present in every human being, will always thwart such attempts at perfection by causing the holes and cracks of a utopia to be exploited by the corrupt, and no amount of closing such holes will help, if anything such attempts to close the holes will make the problems worse.
    So Utopia is just that, a fantasy. It exists in "no place." Because it is like perfection: impossible to attain or exist.

    • @mirceazaharia2094
      @mirceazaharia2094 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Eudaimonia is arguably the only "Utopia" that we could conceivably achieve as humans. Look it up.

  • @tehguybro
    @tehguybro หลายเดือนก่อน +77

    Hey Sragon. As a South African, I feel like I'm watching the Western world follow the footsteps of us Southern African colonisers.

    • @orionxtc1119
      @orionxtc1119 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      Where Europeans settled in South Africa, virtually NO humans existed...blacks from futher north colonised South Africa

    • @gerhardvaneeden5615
      @gerhardvaneeden5615 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I'm also South African, although not currently living there. I'm not seeing your parallels...can you elaborate, please?

    • @amariner5
      @amariner5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      My Rhodians friends were ahead of the curve.
      They could never please the "global community"

    • @tehguybro
      @tehguybro หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@orionxtc1119 Indeed.
      They did try to use ancient pottery found nestled in northern provinces to back up the claim that they were settled here, but there are far more follow-up questions to be asked about the pot.
      Thought mind you, I did write "Southern African Colonists" to specify all the southern countries collectively.

    • @tehguybro
      @tehguybro หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@gerhardvaneeden5615 I was referring specifically to the push of Equalitarian, not egalitarian, rights within the Southern Countries which ended with the overtaking and eventual degradation within urban society and the cities.
      There are differences, of course, but one example of similarities are the façade of human rights overtaking quality of life for the local citizens has been an issue since Apartheid ended and the borders were flung wide open.
      I could discuss more, but the pretense of my point was that these outward Western colonies were a precursor to events that would eventually hit the Western world at large but 20 years later.

  • @stan4d1969
    @stan4d1969 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    As they say, America isn't a country, it's a business.

  • @user-tm8jt2py3d
    @user-tm8jt2py3d หลายเดือนก่อน +109

    I was mostly liberal 10 years ago. Now I'm seeing the vital benefits of a Nationalistic state with a focus on Social health.

    • @Captain_Insano_nomercy
      @Captain_Insano_nomercy หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Same here

    • @masongreen1371
      @masongreen1371 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      Oh no…You almost said the forbidden words. 👀🤔

    • @MrChrisRP
      @MrChrisRP หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      Money is not the root of all evil. They lied to you. It's statism.

    • @skurinski
      @skurinski หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      This is why China is the best

    • @Xplora213
      @Xplora213 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      My good OP, progressive values make more sense when they are anchored in the context of conservative tradition. If you assume British National Identity and Pride, then tweaking it a little makes sense. But abandoning that presumption makes it much harder to understand.

  • @TheSleepLes
    @TheSleepLes หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Fixation on ‘growth’ and a cult of greed brought us to this place.

  • @arandompasserby7940
    @arandompasserby7940 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Regarding the point you mentioned about therapy - as someone who had therapy and it was useless, I always struggled to competently express why it was I hated it and why it was so useless. But then one day, I came across an article talking about why the people of Rwanda threw out Western therapists after the Rwandan Genocide.
    *"When in Rwanda, interviewing women raising children born of r*pe for another book, Solomon mentioned his experience in Senegal to a Rwandan man who ran an organisation helping these women. The Rwandan told Solomon they had similar ceremonies in his country and that the disconnect between the western and traditional approaches to treating mental health had caused problems in the immediate aftermath of the genocide. 'Westerners were optimistically hoping they could heal what had gone wrong,' says Solomon. 'But people who hadn’t been through the genocide couldn’t understand how bad it was and their attempts to reframe everything were somewhere between offensive and ludicrous. The Rwandan felt that the aid workers were intrusive and re-traumatising people by dragging them back through their stories.'
    "As the Rwandan, paraphrased by Solomon, puts it: 'Their practice did not involve being outside in the sun where you begin to feel better. There was no music or drumming to get your blood flowing again. There was no sense that everyone had taken the day off so that the entire community could come together to try to lift you up and bring you back to joy. Instead they would take people one at a time into these dingy little rooms and have them sit around for an hour or so and talk about bad things that had happened to them. We had to ask them to leave.' "*
    Those two paragraphs really opened my eyes. Thank you, unnamed Rwandan man running an organization to help women who have been subjected to something so horrible - though our worlds may be very different, I thank you for helping me make sense of what is wrong with mine.

  • @thefitnerd5116
    @thefitnerd5116 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    When a studio apartment can cost over $2,000 and be considered a luxury apartment, that should have been the moment everyone went “Hey, this ain’t right.” Or the fact that people are also being charged over $1,000 to rent what is basically a glorified closet with no windows. Utilities not included, of course.

  • @ravencrestmedia
    @ravencrestmedia หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    Bring back more of this content. This is the Sargon I know and respect so much. Not to say your newsdesk coverage was poor, quite the contrary. I just like this format better.

  • @terrylandess6072
    @terrylandess6072 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    The internet has stunted creativity and replaced that with repurpose. This is a natural response to an unlimited proliferation of subject matter available for perusal, comparison and 'inspiration' for those with a kinder outlook on the race for popularity. Rare are the times I can experience anything that I haven't already in part or whole during the past.

  • @Marcus-xb7le
    @Marcus-xb7le หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    I used to read and watch a lot of sci-fi that falls in the dystopia category. But I have stopped because it just makes me feel like crap. Now it's pure fantasy all the way.

    • @StevieZala
      @StevieZala หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Same here, I opened the DVD cupboard to get out of myself the other day, then gave up. Rollerball, Soylent Green, The Prisoner (The classic show), A Clockwork Orange are but a few examples. I sighed and shut the door again 😊

    • @CharlieFoxtrot
      @CharlieFoxtrot หลายเดือนก่อน

      well now you deal with pure fantasy today even, you'll have plenty of people who decide they're magically the opposite gender (or even not one at all or even at any given time) and everything is all roses, and the corpos and glowies tell you everything is ok and you must applaud the bravery of mental illness and self-mutilation

    • @beanmeupscotty
      @beanmeupscotty หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I stopped caring for the dystopia genre once I realized that I already feel enough disgust/anger/sadness towards my own society. No need to continue seeking that out in fiction.

  • @JimmyBeanKreme
    @JimmyBeanKreme 29 วันที่ผ่านมา +14

    You realize we actually are in a dystopia when you realize this video is ai generated...

    • @zipperl3
      @zipperl3 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      sounds fitting
      lost, estranged individuals clinging to garbage Benjamin getting views from said individuals by appealing to anger

  • @SouthernGothicYT
    @SouthernGothicYT หลายเดือนก่อน +72

    For some time now I've considered writing a dystopian piece that mirrors our era, but a key part I want to make sure gets stressed is the slow creep/seemingly out of nowhere ways of a dystopia forming. I want the protagonist to see the world they once knew turn rotten and they aren't entirely sure why until their eyes are forced open

    • @jiggycalzone8585
      @jiggycalzone8585 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      Don't forget the truly staggering plurality of people under its very boot ignoring, dismissing or even championing it

    • @christopherbravo1813
      @christopherbravo1813 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I think C.S. Lewis once wrote a book like that.

    • @SouthernGothicYT
      @SouthernGothicYT หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@christopherbravo1813 and probably did it better than I ever could

    • @Krysnha
      @Krysnha หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I am writting a story that angels try to not so much save but figth the best it can to make dystopa a bit better, another idea i will write sometime is how weack the dystopia are, that those burocrats rich and elite think they have all power but how weack are, as well what is happening in the UK, how little people want to figth and they replace people like cogs and not think the people they bring dont give a crap about the people they sacrifice, so is done, is over, if we are invaded by aliens we wont figth as heroes many will just give up

    • @elLooto
      @elLooto หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      A book like that has already been written, although it could use a tighter edit. _Atlas Shrugged_ is about the path to dystopia.

  • @fulminatus6241
    @fulminatus6241 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    That bald and bankrupt video where that girl
    You showed walked up to speak to him made me cry. She was obviously an addict.

  • @mjc1970
    @mjc1970 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This was well thought out. I like it. I am the cause of most of this dystopian places. As the saying goes: there’s no such thing as traffic. You ARE traffic. But the lessons are always learnt by not necessarily what you hear, but what you know and then hear it clearly. Well done.

  • @16m49x3
    @16m49x3 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    There's one thing though. Japan.
    Japan is in many ways built around children. Walk around the parks or national monuments and you will see children with their school, or friends or parents playing. Childhood in Japan seem to be magical. However as soon as people finish high school, that all goes away. As an adult people work day and night to uphold the status quo driving themselves to suicide, depression and childlessness.
    We cannot have a society solely for children either. I don't know how to fix this, I somehow think cities are causing much of this.

    • @kratozaku
      @kratozaku หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You can not not have cities though. The centralization of services is using economies of scale. And cities have many many advantages over countryside. Many people would hate living outside or very far of a city - so yeah the civilization and culture changed dramatically compared to old Sargon here.
      When he was a child - the time he venerates - there were other problems... And i bet there were other doomers like Sargon which preach Apocalypse just around the corner due to civilizational decay. It's just change... and not everything is gloom and doom.... And Sargon doesn't help. Instead of being rational and helping building a healthy worldview - he's posed to infect everyone with his misery...

    • @16m49x3
      @16m49x3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@kratozaku
      That's stupid. Go to every western capital and you will find that they are all the same. They push the same politics and the same talking points.
      They have the same foreign people, with the same anti social problems.
      IThey all try to make life as difficult as possible for anyone that do not live in their pod and bike to work. It's so incredibly frustrating.

    • @AlexVanderGriend
      @AlexVanderGriend หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      its like that in America too. Everything is about the family school church and kids. if you have no family you are disqualified from many activities and treated as a leper
      imagine its all for something we all constantly lose; innocence

    • @ChaunceyGardener
      @ChaunceyGardener หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      In cities kids are taught to be afraid of strangers and other constant threats so they feel safe only under constant surveillance and never learn to sort out their problem themselves.

    • @16m49x3
      @16m49x3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@AlexVanderGriend
      Nono, you don't understand, if you are a man in Japan it doesn't matter if you have kids. You are still at work 24/7
      Most women have it better, but women are also slowly becoming workaholics