I get you, but maybe if more people had been introduced to those topics, such as Orwell… would we be kicking and screaming at the masses to stop ushering in dystopia?
“Cyberpunk was a warning, not an aspiration” - Mike Pondsmith, creator of Cyberpunk franchise. Dystopia will be full of neon lights and advertisements, prosperity for the few is not prosperity, don't let national GDP or hi-tech toys fool you.
@@Nevirate When corporations tried to appropriate anti-capitalism, they omitted any socialist undertone. In a way, they're trying to tell us that there's no alternative to capitalism.
@@mickeyg7219 Mike Pondsmith seemed very enthusiastic about Cyperpunk 2077, the game that ended up embodying the worst aspects of the AAA game industry both from a customer perspective who were manipulated and the workers who crunched insane hours to be able to release the game during the holiday season. Turns out the highly profit driven video game industry isn't exactly the best medium to deliver the message of Cyperpunk. Though I guess you can also argue it proved his point in the most meta way possible.
there is it's called Monopoly For Millenials It literally says "Forget rent, you can't afford it anyway" and has spots on the board like "Friends Couch" and "Parents Basement" You run around on the board not owning anything, but you can GO TO JAIL lol
Today, I had just learned about someone I know committing suicide because they couldn't afford insurance for assistance with mental health. Imagine seeing someone on the verge of suicide and telling them they can't get help because they're poor.
@TH-cam Sucks Does everyone have access? What is the level of care? What services are provided? I mean, your comment sounds like Ebenezer Scrooge...."aren't there poor houses?"
The ACA isn't the help we were told it would be. Yes, the government will help you get medical insurance if you don't make enough money.... EXCEPT, if your income is too low, you do NOT qualify for help!
@TH-cam Sucks Are you-... Are you okay?? You get treated for free? Are you joking or are you legit stupid?? It costs money to even USE AN AMBULANCE in the US. You think healthcare is free there??
It was depressing to see how the recent transfer of a famous football player in my country had a more extensive news segment than the segment about the recent IPCC report. Made me realize beyond a doubt that we are absolutely fucked
@Bernardo Ferreira ill give the other guy an answer as to why that is, since its more fitting on his reply. but what i wanna ask ya, are daily events still sufficiently covered or just brushed over with no practical information?
@@patglennon9671 Yes most of the time its free or at least I just get reimbursed for parts. Each situation is different so it really just depends on the circumstances. I started doing it about 10 years ago when an older lady I knew from Walmart told me her power kept turning off and it was the middle of winter and her landlord wouldn't do a damn thing about it and she couldn't find a handyman who knew how to fix the issue. It was an easy fix for me just because I knew what I was looking for. Something about that incident made me realize this something I should do more often.
The reason we like dystopian fiction is because they show someone, or a group of people, usually from the 'working class' surviving, and often overturning whoever is in charge. We want to believe we could survive anything (we all imagine ourselves as the protagonists, not the billions of people who die), while maintaining human connections of love and friendship.
The worst part about our current dystopia is that it's incredibly dull and hardly exciting. We have entered an age of unprecedented disenchantment and lack of initiative, it's like our leaders want us to be bored out of our skulls.
Desertpiercer. That's kind of a cool name. Also dystopian movies do look like they have a better outcome to an extent. I mean, none of them really look like they're fighting against water scarcity.
my prediction is that we manage to live trought climate change , that is because a company manages to make gene editing for the cheap , and so they promise green fields of genetically modified crops and modest livings as farm hand ... what they don't tell you is that they have a phosoporus budget and if you're in too big of a debt your phosphorus will get harvested ... but yeah honestly we'll probably see all of them ...
What scares me the most is how owning a house on medium income is nothing but a dream for me. In my area I just saw a $110,000 house sell for $200,000. It was less than 1000 sq feet, single story, had no basement. I weep for the generations to come after mine.
Try living in Sydney, Australia. A house like that would go for 1.2 million (about 900K USD), on the outskirts of the city. More, if it had more than 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom and a single car parking spot.
@@JadeEverduske Townhouses/condos. Why have/build a single house for one person/family, when you can fit so many more people in the same space? Bye bye owning a house.
@@nwatson2773One of my personal favorites is, "Yes, we have one party here. But so does America. Except, with typical extravagance, they have two of them!" Attributed to Julius Nyerere, the first president of Tanzania.
An interesting thing about this quote According to Quote Investigator: The following statement was about the ruler of Russia and not the United States. The original French is followed by an English rendering:[ref] 1841, Histoire des Progrès de la Civilisation en Europe by Hippolyte Roux-Ferrand, Volume 6, Quote Page 72, Chez L. Hachette. (Google Books full view) link [/ref] … il fit passer son pays sans transition de la barbarie à la décadence, de l’enfance à la caducité. … he made his country pass without transition from barbarism to decadence, from childhood to decay. 1841 book “Histoire des Progrès de la Civilisation en Europe” (“History of the Progress of Civilization in Europe”) by Hippolyte Roux-Ferrand. I recommend you to research it if you want.
If it makes you feel any better, most of this will probably backfire. One of these ships will explode and although the media reaction will be shock and sadness, the real reaction will be glee and satisfaction.
@@selalewow As someone who is very very interested in the space industry, and has spent a long time looking at Jeff, Richard's and Musk's plans, i feel that i need to point out that during hte time of the moon landings, puplic interest was key as Nasa was funded by taxes, so any failed missions was a massive hit to them. Whereas now the rockets are privately run, so the dont even have to succeed to continue, think Musk's many crashed starships and falcons, before he very recently, stacked the largest orbital rocket in boca chica
@@selalewow if that's the case then I pity you, you envy other peoples success and celebrate when they fail, what the billionaires are doing is going to benefit all of us (also bare in mind that musk lives a less lavish lifestyle than most c list celebrities) so basically saying you would smile at their deaths is kinda disgusting
@@Grr33nie couldn’t have said it better seeing his/their/her comment honestly scared me. Big problem with some of the comments in this video and on it. SMH we are so divided.
We do have fun cars of different designs. They're just not widely used like they are in the movies. The cyberpunk esthetic itself has always seemed to be like a bunch of posers, kids trying to act tough.
The people coming to America from Europe definitely know how dystopian it already is. I had to spend few months for business there few times of the last few years. It was scary. I don’t they get how much scary it is. The amount of homeless people. The amount of obese people. Extremely old people working. The education. The isolation. The car dependency. I had good insurance and it was so difficult to first get an appointment and second to get there, that I simply decided to take the odds and not buy my insulin medicine for the few weeks. Then I came home and got the medicine in a matter of two hours, whole month worth for about 5$
I find my brother kinda dumb he lives in arguably one of the best countries yet he tries everything to move to the us because “cars” or “money” or “girls” he idolized this country and he acts like it is a utopia, he claims people have free healthcare and that america barely has any taxes even tho he should know that aint true It sickens me how america manages to keep a good image in capitalist countries simply because its a powerful country Yeah was kinda off topic but i had to rant about it real quick
@@banned2911 No worries I am glad you found a place to rant and I helped! I kind of get you, my husband also sometimes wants us to move there, at least temporarily, and I'm am vehemently against it. And the thing is , he knows, he does know how bad it is - but he thinks it is worth it to relocate through work and save up some money for an apartment down-payment, then come back here. And I'm like... dude... I am not ready to live in that horrible place for 2-3 years and then come back here (or go anywhere) and make a baby and go through the process of buying an apartment on top of it. I'm 32, all I want is a little bit of peace. I am so sorry for your brother, but, you know, maybe the best way to figure it out is through experience? When nothing else helps.
@@hypatiakovalevskayasklodow9195 I was responding to you. Since a few other countries are worse in terms of obesity, there is really no point in mentioning it about the USA.
A friend of mine recently expressed how she doesn’t like political/activist people because we always seem bitter about how things are. Couldn’t argue with her because she’s right. But I can’t imagine living in this country and being so blinded by distractions that other people’s suffering doesn’t even cross my mind. Maybe I am bitter, but isn’t it warranted?
Maybe people have enough on their own plate to stop and worry about others. Depression is a very real thing you know, the last person a depressed or even a stressed person wants is to see more suffering everywhere. I do the same, I avoid looking too much into politics and other negative media because I already have enough stress on my plate to deal with.
i can tell she's using it in a vapid way, but we do the movement a disservice if we don't take care of ourselves and our mental health. also, there is so much suffering, malice and stupidity, that you sort of have to pick your battles on what to focus on. and, at the end of the day, if your lucky enough to have a sort of okay job/apartment/S.O/family and dog, it's not a bad thing to have a life outside of the madhouse. the focus on, maybe not distractions, but having hobbies and a social life are key to be sane enough not to constantly get burnt out. so many haven't figured out that lesson. because they care so much, they feel guilty and a little bit panicky if they aren't doing too much to help the cause and the world. it actually helps the work itself to take a moment to breath and recover.
@@ethanstump that is very well said. In a lot of these comments, they say something along the lines of "hardly anyone realizes this problem even exists because they are blinded by media, their own wealth, their selfishness, etc." when in reality they don't know it exists because they are not God and don't know everything. I didn't know about the fires in Greece, but that wasn't because I am wealthy or that it didn't affect me, it was because I can't possibly know everything. Also, bad things happen all the time and will never go away because all people are sinful creatures (including me) and our sin will always lead to pain and suffering unless we acknowledge our sins and repent.
The Nevada law to allow corporations to run their own cities is straight out of Octavia Butler's novel "Parable of the Sower", one of the first modern dystopian novels
@Elijah Ellington the problem, IMO, is the ruling elites keep the serfs divided, using their propaganda media. the result is the serfs are fighting each other over "pick your disagreement topic". using this simple, yet effective, "divide and conquer strategy", the ruling elites effectively neutralize and weaken the serfs. if the serfs united, they could shutdown the entire country, though I expect the ruling elites would use police and military who would "only follow orders" against the people. as long as the serfs are divided, and their attention is not focused on the ruling elites, it's business as usual. IMO
I remember critics saying that movie was too preachy with its messages on healthcare and inequality...like of course it was, it was a fucking warning smh.
They won't escape. Not unless long-term space expeditions are made possible. As things are, they need dozens upon hundreds of workers keeping them alive on the ground.
@@zoomzoom3950 Exactly this, look at how fast the wealth inequality movement got hijacked to be solely about race and unfortunately many activists happily gobble it up proving beyond any doubt that they are indeed useful idiots for the rich just as Stalin called them.
Rewatching this now and remembering how I digested it a year ago, my understanding of what you’re really getting at took a long and skeptical time before it was clear, and in the end I realized your agenda and the way I honestly feel inside are such the same. Thank you, thank you for being objective and impartial.
Can confirm. I work as a night janitor at a hospital, a lot of us have been working with no time off because we are so short staffed... They sent out an email saying they are giving everyone a bonus except for general services. I guess after all their talk about being "all in it together" only applied when they needed us to work harder without complaining.
Everyone EXCEPT for general services gets a bonus? This is ridiculous. Don't pretend that we're all in this together if you do not want to give your general services a decent wage and you are not really on their side! What happened to common human decency and empathy and humans treating other humans like humans? If asking nicely doesn't help, you might want to do Joker stuff from that 2019 movie to show the rich what the true consequences of their mistreatment of you really are to them.
“Parable of the Sower” by Octavia Butler is by far the most scarily accurate science fiction book I’ve read. She nails the climate disaster, corporate techno feudalism of America and general collapse of the state to a TEE
I know! Just read it myself. She totally captured what's unfolding today: the continued erosion of workers' rights/human rights, to even the resurgence of racism and the walled enclaves for protection or elitist segregation. A mind-blowing, yet hauntingly familiar read (I'm sure the Germans have a word for déjà vu like this...). I so want my Star Trek future, but looks much more like this is where we're headed. Much luck 🖖😎
@@erinmcdonald7781 resurgence of racism? It never left! Its just that more people (mainly white people) FINALLY actually started listening to us after the massive protests of last year. But make no mistake, it's ALWAYS been here and has ALWAYS been bad. It just changed forms from what it was in the past.
Yea, I finished this a few months ago and it’s so accurate. She nails the wildfires, drought, the rich going to space, and the lack of worker protections
She literally predicted trump in that book, even the MAGA slogan. I read it soon after trump was elected and I felt like it was some sort of fucked up prophecy or joke
I was an essential worker, was given a 3$/hr raise at the start of the pandemic, my boss decided that being able to run the store with one person instead of five was worth docking my pay back to pre pandemic levels. When I left he was speaking with every manager "We should give raises to the people we want to keep around". Okay, you don't think that my ability to run your store by myself is worth anything? Good luck.
@c dollar no your just an NPC that has never held a job and probably holds up traffic with a banner. Demanding people fix world problems so you dont have too. Claiming they are "raising awareness" but all they are really doing is nothing but being an annoyance to everyone. Just like you are doing. Whats the deal? It seems to be, that in 2021 if someone is are arrogant online and acts entitled to everything, they are usually an American!
@@v8matey Real men provide for others, real men run their own businesses. NPC's help build REAL mens dreams. c dollar is another self-employed/employer type that mocks the stupidity of the common man, which is you. You live in a dystopia to create my utopia because you are not consciously developed.. (NPC) You are institutionally trained into a mould unlike those who were allowed to express themselves and had freedom as children. We saw the dystopia you were unaware of, and we created beauty within hell at our own expense, and got NPC's to continue turning the gears.
During the height of the pandemic waiting in line to get into a store with empty shelves I jokingly said "This reminds of a 1970s scifi movie set in a dystopian future." Not realizing how on target my joke was. If Soylent Green shows up on the shelf at my WalMart, I'm going off grid.
@@telomettotittettori8218 Capitalism is on its last miles: if you compare it to a Monopoly game, we're at the stage where there's only two players left - the other players hopelessly hop around the board paying rent. For capitalism to work, you need sane competition and merit: Nowadays the 1% was already born priviledged and just got richer by liquidating assets. Capitalism may have made occidental people materially comfortable, but it killed them inside. As for the lack of communistic success in the US, Steinbeck said that Americans, far from seeing themselves as exploited proletariat, rather see themselves as temporarly embarassed millionaires.
@@telomettotittettori8218 funny how that website rarely cites sources for its claims, if ever. Its not like that website is carefully crafted propaganda paid for by the estonian government. Read some actual history books lol
As a Filipino, I used to think going to the US was a cool thing to do, but as these issues get pointed out to me time and time again, it's becoming more of a thing I should avoid now. And yes, as most people here have said, the US isn't becoming a dystopia because it already is. How unfortunate it is that the wealthy and powerful will destroy the world they live in and the people that work for them to feed their unsatiable desire for more. And the worst part is that the US will actively suppress countries that actually have a shot at making the world a better place. What a sad reality
Yup, same here. I'd rather move to an EU country now than the US. If I'm going to be taxed ridiculously high, I want to get guaranteed maternity leave and good health insurance
@@othinus Bit of advice, also avoid the UK. Our government is hell bent on emulating the US and it's getting worse with every year. We're nowhere near as bad as the US, but we sure are trying.
the fact that the US healthcare system, not necessarily the quality of care mind you, is the worst in the entire world out of all developed countries is absolutely insane. big changes need to happen.
Even the quality of care arguement doesn't always hold up for the average citizen. Sure it does if you have very good health insurance, or can afford the extra expenses but generally the US healthcare system has slightly worse outcomes than other systems. The UK's NHS for example outperforms the US system in the majority of measured healthcare outcomes such as heart disease, infant mortality, death in childbirth etc. The US is slightly better in overall cancer care but not by much, and the UK also has a higher life expectancy. This is all done with a system that actually costs the average UK taxpayer less than the US systems costs the average US taxpayer, and where the UK system covers everyone whereas the the US system has almost 20% of the population having no access to healthcare.
The United States has the best doctors, the best technology, and the best facilities, that's a fact. Read history, we had great and affordable healthcare in the US up until government got involved.
I lost my job and had to leave my home because of covid, the only reason I'm not homeless is because of the generosity of a friend. But now I'm stuck with a debt and bills I can't repay, and because I can't pay for my phone bill, getting another job has become an uphill battle. I was always struggling to get by and now I'm pretty much at rock bottom and battling with thoughts of suicide daily. And I hear and see stories of others like me, and yet people treat us like we're less than human. I fucking hate this country so fucking much...
Please don't give up. There is always a way out, you just have to keep going. There are still good people out there who will throw you a lifeline, just keep going.
It WILL get better. For now maybe put some of your free time into joining local socialist groups and doing what you can to make a difference. Not only will it give your life newfound purpose but you will make a lot of great new friends and even find new resources to help you out.
@@101BlackRaven, damn. That business missed out on a tax write off for donating dollars worth of product to a halfway house or similar. Unfortunately. You got to pick the brains of these employers to get get them to help others to their own benefit.
@@101BlackRaven There are potential legal liabilities to the business if something happens. If that food wasn't considered safe to eat anymore. Or someone has an allergy. Lots of small things that have small probabilities but would have a high cost if something did happen. It's unfortunate but somewhat understandable.
I don't normally comment on videos but I don't know what to do. The world as a whole is a shitshow. I used to have dreams of being a musician or an audio engineer, but now I don't care. There's no point anymore. Say I do make it and become a professional musician, I then get shoved head first into the evil corporate machine, seeing the worst parts of humanity possible. I don't even care about making a living anymore because we're all going to die soon. I'm tired of being a slave and I'm tired of the disillusionment. We live in a super villain's nation. It's all a farce. I know everybody knows this but I can't escape the thought, and it's eating away at me. I don't know what to do
You have to trust in Jesus. Everything that's happening is written in the book of Revelation in the Bible. Yes. The world as we know it is going to end, BUT Jesus comes back to completely renew it and will punish the wicked. Things are not falling apart, they are falling into place! God bless you.
@@beatrixbrennan1545 For the people who have to suffer at the hands of this corrupt system, why would this be written in some book? I don't think that cheers people up to think that every shitty thing that happened in their life was planned.
I became homeless in 2020, and I consider myself fortunate, as I was able to get involved with a program that helped put me in an apartment. I feel guilt every day that I left behind people that deserved the same help. I often feel I don't deserve what I have. I have a job now and work to pay for my own expenses but I always always live with the fear of becoming homeless again. I never feel safe.
my parents kicked me out and i couchsurfed until i ended up dating somebody i couchsurfed with. i feel so guilty and like i'm still mooching every day even though i have a job and pay part of the rent and etc
@@lostbattalion1485that's how they want you to feel. Don't feel bad about getting enough just to get by while billionaires don't give a fuck about anyone below them.
Something I wish you touched on is America's car-centric urban planning. It is to the point that most Americans need cars to live, enriching powerful car companies. This is a dystopia within itself, and definitely compliments the points you made in your video.
Urban areas have usually good mass transit. Post WW2, the auto companies bribed CA officials to be car centric. Lots of cities you have to drive a few blocks/
The piece you put at the end about ways to make an individual difference in the face of overwhelming indifference was fantastic. You should add that part into all your videos. I hear so many lament (or excuse) that there is nothing "we" can do to make a difference and nothing will change. I hope that your message at the end f this video teaches some that, yes, there is a way YOU can make a difference. Thank you
There's no way to make a difference. Do you really think corporations will let us overthrow them? They have all the power. They'll replace us with AI and then cull us
Science-fiction has historically been a way for authors to make commentary on CURRENT issues in a futuristic setting. These dystopian science-fiction stories are just a commentary on current issues in the world.
But they (the writers) would typically turn the issues up to full blast to make the criticism bitingly sharp, instead we find that the world adjusted to match.
Frankenstein is a metaphor for the scientists that worked making weapons of mass destruction and capitalism itself as uncontrollable destructive monster that it has become. Aldous Huxley presented a future feudal kind of stratification of society or system of casts like the Indian society in a futuristic setting. Rey Bradbury showed the extreme hate the corporate class has for knowledge as a threat to their domination as a class. So many representations of the trend the wealthy is taking in their belief are an unaccountable class. And the pretension to perpetuate their position of power.
@@theresedavis2526 Still didn't answer my question. By what justification should he have not spent his wealth which he, by no means, stole or pilfered? Nor did he use magic powers to hypnotize the people to give him their wealth. He was born to a well-off but not affluent household and by his wits and effort, he has risen to this point. The people have voluntarily and after due consideration given their wealth to him in exchange for some services(which the people objectively value more than their money). Small profits from a large number of people add up to large profits. Moreover, you seem to be the kind of person who has envy and resentment for the rich rather than real sympathy for the poor. And if you don't like him getting rich, don't buy from Amazon. Don't let yourself get tempted by those deals and offers. Don't watch those useless shows on Amazon prime. Instead of buying make-up, designer clothes, and handbags, donate that money to homeless people. Lead by example, rather than being a complete hypocrite throwing witless sarcasm at strangers on the internet!
@@dwaipayanroychowdhury7035 I don't patronize Amazon in any way, I don't purchase designer apparel, and I by no means envy a class of people who have lost touch with their souls and what matters most in life. I do have sympathy and empathy for the poor, which is more than you do! You seem to regard them as an infestation! I do donate to the poor... both goods and money....and I don't deduct it from my taxes! It's a gift, not a loan! Not everyone is as shallow and materialistic as you and your wealthy idols. Your presumption of my character shows your ignorance and your prejudice.
For some reason seeing bezos in a cowboy hat bugged me even more than seeing him in a rocket. One it looks bad on him and two cowboys work harder than anyone else while this guy does nothing at all.
@@steliostoulis1875 Most mega corporations of today could have their CEO's and shareholders abducted by aliens overnight, and they'd be perfectly fine. I mean, starting a business with a small loan of 200K $ that is basically taking something that already exists and say "but what if online" isn't the hardest job in the world. Bezos is capitalist aristocracy, nothing more nothing less, same as Musk and virtually 99% of all billionaires of today.
CEO of a medium/small business is difficult. CEO of a large business is kind of difficult but mistakes are allowed. CEO of a global monopoly is a cakewalk because it basically runs itself.
I hope we run lots of protests for justice in the 2020s to save our country from late-stage capitalism and general lack of empathy. It all started with Darnella Frazier catching Derek Chauvin's brutality on camera. The protests for injustice against George Floyd was one of many to come. August 25, 2021, 7:24pm
My mom used to make me list three things I liked about the US whenever politics came up because I was always so (rightfully) negative. I don't know that "being grateful" applies to our situation.
I can think of three Good healthcare (if you can pay for it) Gun rights We aren't technically slaves We aren't living in North Korea or some other third world country. It is, however tiny of a chance, to get a house. Just probably not gonna happen. Yeah I'm happy I'm living here but Europe is doing better
@@pilotbug6100gun rights is a double edged sword. You could be shot and killed by anyone, at any point, for any reason. We're the only country with both mass shootings and people getting shot for things like parking spaces.
When I was in high school in Ohio I watched the documentary Sicko. Moore's failings aside, that movie convinced me that the US was already collapsing and if I had any self preservation I needed to get out pronto. This November marks my tenth year living comfortably in Czechia (Socialist, post-Soviet nation) with free health care, heart medication (for a disease that would certainly have killed me had I stayed in the US) that costs $15 every three months, and a job with reasonable hours and 32 vacation days a year. It took me a long, long time to get over the shock of how good people in a 'poor' nation have compared to the US.
I want 2 do the same for years as well. I barely just turned 18. And I always try 2 convice my family leave. I think Germany is a good place 2 settle. I hope I can make it out in time. May I ask, as a fellow former-American what preparations you took 2 leave the country? I'm curious, any people you left behind?
Boomers deny the problem altogether. Gen X are indifferent because they are heading towards retirement and therefore don't want to risk changing the status quo. Millennials are downtrodden and gaslighted into thinking it's a personal fault. Hopefully Gen Z will develop some resilience because they are growing up knowing they there are big problems on the horizon.
Me: *"YOU MONSTERS!* Just because you are the richest does not put you above empathy, remorse, or the law. This is what you get for not treating others the way you want to be treated, unless you liked having others treat you badly in return." *gunshot back*
@Kira (sigh) I hope some rich people are not THAT egotistical to get men with guns. I am sure there are some ways you can get rich quick without losing your humanity, if you know how to provide a good service and business for everyone while treating your workers and consumers well. Just look up Dan Price for a good example that already exists. September 23, 2021, 2:29pm
I was driving on interstate 30 in Dallas Tx last night. I have never seen so many people speeding well over 100 mph in heavy traffic. Street racing and insane aggressive driving. No police anywhere. It feels as if people have given up on the idea of being a good citizens. I was doing 70, the speed limit and was passed by vehicles doing close to double that.
hijacking this to let people know the cops on venice beach were responding call about a gun. Not evicting homeless at gun point. Fact check everything guys don't trust anything anyone says.
I totally agree and consider going into the woods as my only solace but my negative sister almost ruined that because she has a penchant for watching creepy videos and had planned to tell me. So I told her not to and she flipped the switch on me.
That Nevada law is the last straw. Once corps can carve out literal fiefdoms, we will have officially returned to feudalism, with a corresponding loss of human rights and due process. It's just like the world in Continuum, and that is terrifying.
@@missk1697 Very true. There were some people that like the Empire because it was efficient. You see, boys. Everybody thinks they want freedom, but what they really want is order. When they realize that, they're gonna welcome us back with open arms. To the Empire! Valin Hess
@@missk1697 yeah in the story they stopped using clones for their wars , and generally speaking seemed to be against slavery , wich was done before and afther in the republic ... but yeah no gov in star wars was good , there where no good guys in it , just politicians who where out for their own agenda , some have better pr
When i grew up in Western Europe, America still represented the future. The biggest buildings, the newest technology, newest ideas, etc,etc. 4 decades later and America's represents 'decline, working poor, and self destructive ideologies.
The way you described the way corporations have hindered progress our sheep's-clothing husk of a government... That was excellent. Thank you for the video. Knowing you're not alone is valuable; not only hearing your words, knowing you feel the same way, but also I have to assume the vast majority of my fellow Second Thought subscribers share these thoughts and feelings, as well.
It really is, sometimes I wonder what the reason for all this is. All the pain, oppression, abuse, fear, hate, gluttony, greed, ect. I think at 28 I've come to understand that I'll never fully understand it all, is our reality deterministic? Is this all planned? What and why do we do this to ourselves if all things in this reality come from the same place? Is the reason why we always want more regardless of station and always feel incomplete because we are just a shattered thing remembering and longing for the perfection of oneness that our conscious minds aren't currently perceiving? Or is it deep within us as creatures of "Something" feeding off each other in despair at the coming end of all things? Those questions can't be fully answered, too much of it is based on perspective, and I feel the same way about the future of humanity. Are we going down the wrong path just because we fear the people in power? Are we even able to live in a utopia? Does humanity not time and time again appear to improve from the pressure it cooks itself in? I have a history degree and I often ask the question of what did the average people think about back then, and I think they thought of the same thing we do, that ancient philosophers or even religious men might not of had the same collective human scientific knowledge as we do now, but they still had the same reality concepts we have now... maybe just a little fantastical haha. I know some people would find this as defeatist, but I think instead of worrying about these things, we should live in the now, enjoy the time we do have, improve the world around us by being better to one another, and hopefully as the sun sets on our lives in this generation, we can see the rays of another dawn rising for the next. Or embrace the love we have for one another in that final bit of light, like life, things end, and even if I live to see the fall of man, I won't look on it with sadness and regret, but love and compassion for the time I got to spend with each and everything that I was offered in this world. I've gone through losing my parent, to foster care, to homelessness, to head in the clouds working man that refuses to have children, but through it all, I love life, and I love everyone in it.
I'd argue that, if anything, the dystopia has been around for a while, really. We just 'refused to believe' until now. There's a reason, for example, cyberpunk was made in the 80s ;)
Yeah, I lived through the 80's and we had great music and all...but the living sucked. AND you never knew when some moron would launch the nukes. Good times.
The whole situation reminds me of that quote from Futurama: "It's an emergency, sir." "Comeback when it's a catastrophe." We don't know how bad something really is until it gets ridiculously worse, like with climate change. People expect dystopias to be obvious, but they're not always. Then again, like people in fictional dystopias, there are usually enough people living under authoritarian governments such as Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Imperialist Japan during WW2, and ancient Rome that live and lived as if nothing is or was wrong with the system or their society.
I've been trying to put exactly what you just presented into words for over a year now. Seriously! Great job my friend! I'm glad there are people out there like you spreading the word. I really believe people turn a blind eye to what's going on. I believe we are at a critical turning point if we turn left now we can change things... If we continue forward we are doomed and there is NO tunring back. Its amazing that we survived this long and within the last 100 years we have destroyed everything!
It is pretty sad. I've been telling my friends lately to pray to our lord Jesus Christ so the people hurt by the floods in Germany, the fires in Greece and America (and I heard Syberia), the wars all over, the hate, and everything bad, will finally disappear! I can tell it's working as things are getting calmer now, but I will still pray so Jesus will know all about this! Keep your heads up everyone as Jesus will fix all of this soon! Jesus bless all of you. :-)
The last 100 years have seen the greatest expansion of wealth, food security, and poverty alleviation in the history of our species. We’ve created machines that can take us to other planets and have created medicines to cure the most sophisticated diseases. There’s not much wrong with what’s going on right now. Political shifts occur in every nation and for the US were in our 7th or 8th political shift. This is all normal and happens within every country. There is no “we are doomed” the US is probably in the best position to deal with what’s coming in the future from de-globalization, rapidly aging populations (specifically in Europe and east Asia), and the coming shift to a multi-polar world.
@@IpSyCo You don't own your own brain. Like Carlin said, you have owners. They've trained you to think this way from birth, in schooling, culture, media, & religion. So you ignore a couple obscene wealth transfers to exploit crises in the last 12 yrs, monopolies, widespread war, deprivation of healthcare, prison enslavement, climate catastrophe, etc. Frame as if the machine's working. The machine doesn't give a fuck about you, it will move on to the next cog, which humans aren't.
@@bernman23 Those owners disgust me. It will never, ever be okay that they pretend to care about us and make life unaffordable for everyone. August 14, 2021, 2:24pm
@@Omega_Prime7 There's no credit that needs to be due, that's just a random quote by random person, which I also disagreed with and that's why I changed the wording. I think people don't really care how much stuff you have as much they care what you've achieved, I know a lot of millionaires that don't impress me and I know people who aren't millionaires who impress me way more due to their actions.
If i understand correctly, Musk is sending an advertisement which is tiny and impossible to see from earth. Sadly in the near future companies will probably find a way to launch huge billboards into space despite it being illegal in the U.S.
@@rumfordc Yeah, probably by people living in cages in crowded cities. Meanwhile, some of us are actually planting trees, regenerating the soil, helping the environment, and producing much less waste and garbage when compared to these peeps. Just sayin'.
@@lamsmiley1944 Huh? And when there is a fire who do you think are the first line of defense against it??? Hint: NOT the guys living in concrete cages in cities.
I’m in a Canadian town where like 10 years ago when I was growing up, any temperature above 30 degrees (Celsius) was uncommon and considered a terrible day. The rare 40+ degree day that happened once every year or two was considered horrible and nobody went outside because of the heat. This summer... this summer... every day has been well into the 30s and I have lost track of how many 40 degree days we have had. I can see the haze from the fires that are hundreds of kilometres away. The sun is red during the day. There have been raging wildfires in every major province. The climate is getting really bad.
This slow slide further and further towards dystopia is really depressing... like the climate is collapsing and covid is spiking and everything is going wrong but all I can do is go to work every day and try and fail not to panic about it. We need some radical change.
That's the issue. If we as humans chose to logically freeze the economy and deal with the pandemic, it woulda been handled already. But we gotta profit. So we work through it and doom ourselves, all so our corporate overlords can make some short term green.
I'm a little happy knowing I'm not the only one drowning in fear for what's happening and what is about to happen. I find it remarkable you can still get out of bed and work. But I'm sure you're trying your best to not collapse at all, and I respect that.
“Is USA becoming a dystopia” At this point i bet in 200 years in the future if things in USA do get better they would probably make a movie based on 21st century USA and label it As an dystopian movie/documentary
I watched the matrix many years back but the more i mature the more i realize it wasn't just a science fiction movie it was based on something real the man who created it is a genius
What's even more catastrophic about the IPCC report is that this is a conservative estimate. 190 countries had to sign off on this. So they had to move it towards the low end of the spectrum to get more countries to sign off on it. In reality, it's probably much worse.
Note how one of the only optimistic fictional universes, Star Trek, went through several genocides, wars, and crises before settling on the pseudo-communist utopia of the federation.
@@visceratrocar it’s weird. They clearly wanted the enlightened post scarcity utopia, but the show runners clearly had no idea how to build an economic system. So we’re left with more of a philosophical stance than anything resembling economics.
I always saw the economy of old Trek's Federation as something like this: The goverment provides housing, food (usually in the form of replicated food I guess) and healthcare for ALL its citizens ,but if you wanted certain luxuries like entertainment and real unreplicated food you have to actually get a job and pay taxes to maintain them
@@hithere5553 It's clear they wanted that idea as a setting, but never focused on the economic of it. They clearly were focused on making TV shows with sci-fi conflicts each episode.
I dont recall that there was never any mention of voting in Star Trek. There definitely was a feeling that there was a permanent political class, and that policy was not something any citizen had any say in. Even DS9 (the most political ST) did not have any feeling of citizen influence in policy.
Here in Finland nurses are asking for a rise in their salary because they have been taken off from their vacations and made to work almoust 24h days since from start of covid. You know what their bosses gave them? Printed "thanks for your job" notes. Im not even kidding. Result? We need now 3000 doctors/nurses because of that shit
Bro, you not only make a very clear point, but you also connect it to a non offensive story that I think many people would agree on. It is a nice piece of storytelling, it is just interesting to watch, not only informative.
The homeless people need to be armed. If a revolution does ever happen we should take some inspiration from Georges Sorel of the glorification of violence while taking the rest from Lenin and Marx.
@@elijahlees8655 Didn't the Soviet Union arm every citizen? 1 Rifle, 1 Stripper Clip. When the one holding the rifle falls you pick it up and move forward.
After listening to George Carlin's Amercian Dream bit. He was right and it sounded more like a warning than actual comedy. "Its called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it"
as an immigrant I would say that saying is false considering even now the US has given me and many ore better opportunities then before. The thing is, is that even if it isn't gone, it is becoming harder.
He’s been warning people for years but it was the 90’s everyone was doing all right and were asleep and those few who were aware were called conspiracy theorists nutjobs
Blue is especially wild because when you dig into the resumes of the folks within their management, you find that they’re MBAs who’s entire careers are as managers. It’s absolutely mind boggling to think that people signing off on rocket designs and systems can have zero experience in things they’re approving.
"Nevada has proposed allowing corporations to set up their own cities with their own governments, giving your work full control over your everyday life" It seems that once again, what is old is new again, as we bring back company towns from the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Corporations and the rich learned from their mistakes and fought to always regain their power. We sat in comfort thinking we have defeated them every time any small measure is passed that isn't 100% in their favor.
They are one Ruling Class, using two inter-dependent corporations - because that's all the DNC & GOP are - to impose an absolute, Military-Industrial, Dictatorship of Capital, and keep the masses immiserated, until they can cut our numbers down to a size that they can manage.
Humans this day are mere resources and market for corporations. We consume therefore we are. It’s incredible hard to convince people around me to let go consumerism or billionaire life style aspiration. They don’t see (or refuse) any limitations of our economy system despite learning about triple bottom lines in university!
First of all obviously there are limitations in our economy. However, the reason you are able to watch this video is due to aspiration. The technological advancements made around the globe are due to consumerism and the pursuit of capitol along with the betterment of humanity. If you agree with ads on TH-cam videos or are at least ok with them which you obviously do because you are watching this video then in part you are still supporting billionaire lifestyle. I do agree with you though that a LOT of companies do not care about the betterment of humanity and just care about profits.
I hear the word " Human resource" now a days and corporates are taking the word literally...I mean they are using human beings without even caring about there wellbeing.
@@dokatafrinz1349 its because thats how the capitalistic system operates. there needs to be consumption, and to grow more needs to be consumed, so artificially more consumption will be synthesized. new artificial "needs" are made. such as diseases which are caused by the toxic society we live in, we create medicine to help mend disease that shouldnt be there in the first place. we are so caught in consumerism because it mends the tremendous amount of pain we are all in. its a nasty circle.
@@cyborgchimpy that’s not the “capitalistic system”, that’s just human beings. We require resources to live, and those resources require time and effort to distribute, that’s all the “capitalistic system” is. Curing consumerism is a matter of addressing the human condition, not the economic system.
I hate how the world has gone, when I was younger I thought things wouldn't be like this until I was really old, or not even in my lifetime. But it's exponentially getting worse and worse, right now. Scared to see what things will be like in another few months. Non-existence would be a welcome respite. Being alive in this time period, I feel like humans have devolved so much that it's essentially created hell on earth. We're all living in hell now.
The Golden Age is already over, now is the time of rapid decadence and rot, then comes the age of strife. If the forces of good and justice prevail there will be a Silver Age. If not...
I'm 17, and the thought of being an adult in the current state that we're in fucking terrifies me. I have little to no hope that I will be able to have a stable job AND be able enjoy my life with my family and friends. I don't want to slave away for minimum wage, but I also don't want to do nothing in my life. Yea I want to work, but I don't want to work every single day of my life and barley make enough money to survive off of. I don't have money for college, so it's not like I can get a higher education. This is all so fucking stressful.
😭 That's depressing and horrible! I do not want being a good person to be pointless. I want to fix this with the help of other good people who care, even if we have to turn back time to do it. We have to help the less fortunate and _make every evil corporation that run this government suffer every single consequence that they have coming to them._ They are the ones who deserve Hell, not us. August 14, 2021, 2:22pm
@@zackaryjackson5466 Ditto. If you have free will, make this world better so it isn't "profit always wins." I dislike the Final Destination films because death always wins and it is an unstoppable evil force of nature that will not let you live a full life. I am worried that the corporations who run our government have become as powerful as Death from Final Destination or Christian DeVille from Corporate, an evil monster fulfilling its cosmic design. The Lorax taught me "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." Maybe nothing will get better even if we DO care, but taking that chance is better than doing nothing. At least then we can hold our heads high. I hate living in a one-sided give-take relationship with the government that takes everything from us and only gives to the richest people. We must find a way to hold corruption accountable, redistribute the military funds, and get everyone to fight climate change by banning fossil fuels and bankrupting Exxon. August 14, 2021, 2:27pm
When they gate stargazing to only the rich who can afford a space telescope, after they pull some agenda 21/hunger games shit where no one is allowed to turn to the wilderness to cleanse the tyranny and filth of corporate bribed corrupt cities from thier minds and bodies, let alone see nice things anymore
If I see an ad just sitting in the sky constantly, right above my head I will become a professional protester too. I’m done, I’m getting close to exploding
Communists would say violent revolution is the only way. Peaceful change is pointless and a waste of time and resources. We do need a major overhaul. Theres no doubt. But socialism and communism (which is the goal of socialism) is not the answer. We need to alter capitalism. Perhaps introduce more socialist type checks and balances. The system needs balance. And right now we dont have it.
I think about the sci fi trope of traveling back in time to kill Hitler. Seems most people have no problem with that considering the human suffering that would be prevented. In the future perhaps there will be fiction about going back in time to kill Bezos and CEOs that lead to the nightmare world future people will live in.
Peaceful protest shows how much you've learn to be sacred of this world, perfect example of the cartel, When the rich got richer the all took the initiative only to survive not to gain power like the politicians
Being subtle never worked before, so...HEY, EVERYONE! START CARING ABOUT THE WORLD AROUND YOU! Take the power away from corporations corrupting the government into only caring about them and not us.
You are talking about 10 million people dead if we oppose corporations and force them to pay taxes... you really want that much blood on your hands? That is basically the population of a state like Ohio, btw... it's better if corporations help wipe all of human existence in the universe... the cosmos will be better for it.
@@teacake6941 You already gave up. I pity you. It takes a lot of less powerful people to have strength in numbers. It is not a guarantee that we won't win, if we actually care to *do something right from the bottom up.* Corruption is not unbeatable. Corporations wiping out all of human existence is not inevitable. 10 million people dead won't even be my fault, it will be their fault for not listening to the needs of the many and being too obstinent. August 14, 2021, 6:25pm
@@teacake6941 That is just your defeatist opinion. Try and prove to me that this is a fact set in stone and the people who run said corporations corrupting our government or vice-versa are really that psychotic and unchangeable.
When I see all the injustice, inequality, anger and violence around, not to mention all the power grabbing, corruption and greed . The only thing I can come up with is love. If you think about it, only love can prevail because that is our true nature. Find me one person who wants to suffer and in that you will find love.
@@maribelsantander201 Seriously what would you do if you inherited one like years ago? My half sister inherited a home from my grandma $300,000 mortgage paid off! Yet she lives with us because she doesn't want to pay off her taxes every month she has a job but only pays my mom and that's sometimes $100 a month. Ugh I'm sorry about my comment.
@Maribel Santander it is not collectivism 😵, it's service economy (almost the extreme, but in the other direction) Colectivism: all for one, and one for all Service Economy: all for one, and none for all 🥴👌
Displaying ads in space make me more sick. Imagine if you can't go anywhere in the world without seeing an advertisement in the night sky blocking the stars by light pollution. LA had a blackout once and had hundreds of people call 911 because they thought the night sky was an alien invasion, but it was just stars. Truly terrifying.
Actually those money doesn't just vanish right? The 5.5b goes somewhere, and me who work in tech would think it somehow made it to professionals who design and manufactures the parts that enabled this. True that 5.5b could have been used to help a lot of people, but then again a lot of involved party also earned that chunk of 5.5b?
people in Europ always see US as dystopia. Imagine beeing poor and you have to pay health care by yourself. Ore having not many rights on work and so on
@@retingo7940 With all the vices of China and USA aside, China beats the USA in poverty rate, education, and healthcare. Our weak democracy is failing us so badly that we are losing to an authoritarian country. We need to be more like Canada or the Norwegian countries.
That is why it is your hero's duty, and my hero's duty, to rise humanity anew before Earth is gone for good. You have to care about making a positive change.
I know sometimes people say we should be more grateful in good faith. But you have to understand when it comes to Reagan and the modern neo-libs who we now know should have never been welcomed the decency to be in a position of power. They ALWAYS say this exact same thing. And it's never a codeword for "you should smile a little more" or whatever y'all want from us, but always a codeword for "obey us or you are not welcome into my land. Obey us or you're an enemy, a communist, a person without feeling, who would like nothing more to be ungrateful for the sake of ungratefulness. Your feelings don't matter as long as they aren't directed towards the cause of the country. Critique is selfishness, ungratefullness, unfriendliness. Your self is nothing as long as you don't do what I want you to do."
I was afraid of that, too. Every time Second Thoughts unleashed a video going more into the devastating news of the uncessecary cruelty of unfair American systems, whether it be expensive healthcare or the housing crisis or COVID causing things to go to heck or the military budget, it made me a little more sad inside to feel...uncared for. Like Reagan and the modern Neo-liberals who decide that their needs are either the only ones that matter, or they matter more than ours. It seriously disgusts me, more than the obvious things of inherent selfishness or corruption in changing the rules to benefit the rich, that bad work ethic is encouraged in corrupt workplaces when it comes to police or hospitals, and that the corrupt government who makes housing, education and healthcare unaffordable has no respect for the constitution. They are too self-centered to provide for the common defense and promote the general welfare. August 14, 2021, 2:54am
I hate Stressed Eric because that is a dystopia (in the UK, not the US) where almost every character's only purpose is to make Eric's life miserable in different ways and the only variety in the show's "comedy" is what type of useless or jerkish person the Perfects, Paul Power, Maria, or Allison Steadman are. The worst of them all is Liz, Eric's ex-wife. Her voice is painful and whiny to listen to, and every time Eric objects to her ignoring his family for her own petty goals, she calls *him* selfish. She thinks *Eric* is the selfish one, and he can not see things from *her* perspective. That is why Liz is my most hated Stressed Eric character, and she is one of the most despicable non-villain characters in any sort of media I have seen. August 14, 2021, 2:58am
@@Adamkalb1 you have the right to change jobs. If your employer doesn't contribute to your healthcare then find one that does. You don't have to be a barista all your life.
not only an economic one, but a social one, where the US has started blaming different groups of the working class for the issues it faces instead of putting the blame where it belongs, government failings
This is the cyberpunk timeline. soon enough, all human relationships will be strictly transactional. Death and enslavement will become of all who fall slightly behind in the system.
Visited Spain a few short years ago. "That used to be us" might apply. It was interesting to see a functioning society with great infrastructure, great art, and people who weren't rushing to get everywhere they went. The subway system is great. High speed rail even better. I'm sure they have their problems (there were protests there too), but at least they can agree enough to make sure that the essentials are taken care of.
Its the difference between about 300 million people. Spain is a relatively sparsely populated country that is particularly homogenous racially. They have a shared culture and so can agree on things more easily, the US... has way too many people and way too many different groups that disagree with each other. Makes things a lot harder to get done.
@@hurotiz That does make things easier when people share a similar belief system and ancestry. Still, people do tend to view the grass as greener on the other side. I was in love with Switzerland when I visited this year because it was so beautiful and clean unlike this dumpster fire, but it's also very expensive and hard to make friends over there. Pluses and minuses to everything.
@@hurotiz You are so unbelievably wrong. Spain has 3 times the population density of the USA, and is significantly more diverse, with numerous groups in extreme disagreement. I lived in Barcelona through the recent Catalan independence movement, which saw some of the most polarised politics I've ever observed. And I promise you, very few Basque and Catalan people would agree to having a shared culture. Not to mention, culture has no relevance to the cost of healthcare or environmental polices, both of which are infinitely superior to that of the USA. Spain isn't even close to the best example out there anyway, other European countries do things far better. The problem the USA has is an absolute dependence on corporations to fund the country's politics, and politicians that care only about the companies that fund them. European countries have similar problems, but they pale in comparison to the USA.
@@Bryzerse thank you for schooling my ignorance. It’s true that corporations fund much of our politics but it isn’t a one side thing. Politicians on both sides are taking money behind the table in order to enrich themselves and vote for what’s best for business and not for the average citizen. In comparison to our politics, I would still say that Spain is far more agreeable than we are. We have 50 different states that all have different needs and have different problems. Our 2 political parties have divided the country so bad that the past 20 years have just been one side doing something and the other side tearing it down. Nothing gets done. Every state argues with every other state and very few politicians are doing anything that actually benefits the people at all. It’s very frustrating to witness.
Dystopian movies were meant as a warning, instead they're seen as inevitable and useless to fight against which of course hastens their inevitability. Perception is reality and where attention goes, energy flows.
I used to love satire and dystopian themes. I don't anymore. Can't escape into fiction when it isn't fiction anymore.
Same dude, I wanted an apocalypse so I could go wild, but now its happening and I've got empathy and shit
I get you, but maybe if more people had been introduced to those topics, such as Orwell… would we be kicking and screaming at the masses to stop ushering in dystopia?
@@justinTime077 Orwell is like, a requirement in reading courses, at least in the American south.
@@justinTime077 Unless I'm misunderstanding you on this
Its more like watching the future now and its just scary to see where we are heading its no longer thought provoking
“Cyberpunk was a warning, not an aspiration” - Mike Pondsmith, creator of Cyberpunk franchise. Dystopia will be full of neon lights and advertisements, prosperity for the few is not prosperity, don't let national GDP or hi-tech toys fool you.
What’s funny is that the game itself showed us not to trust corporations, while also showing CDPR are willing to rob their customers.
@@Nevirate
When corporations tried to appropriate anti-capitalism, they omitted any socialist undertone. In a way, they're trying to tell us that there's no alternative to capitalism.
Lol imagine using video games to describe a literal climate dystopia
@@mickeyg7219 Mike Pondsmith seemed very enthusiastic about Cyperpunk 2077, the game that ended up embodying the worst aspects of the AAA game industry both from a customer perspective who were manipulated and the workers who crunched insane hours to be able to release the game during the holiday season. Turns out the highly profit driven video game industry isn't exactly the best medium to deliver the message of Cyperpunk. Though I guess you can also argue it proved his point in the most meta way possible.
The CIA and Corporate Interests run the world.
there should be a monopoly game specifically suited to our generation, where you can't buy any property, you just run around the board paying rent
there is
it's called Monopoly For Millenials
It literally says "Forget rent, you can't afford it anyway" and has spots on the board like "Friends Couch" and "Parents Basement"
You run around on the board not owning anything, but you can GO TO JAIL lol
Did they introduce 21,074 new regulations and rules. Like the modern world does too.
Regulations help stop innovation and inventions
@@ZackAngelMusic is there a spot that says "You bought weed instead of paying rent, but you can stay if you sleep with the rent-collector?"
Thats actually the point of monopoly, it was created by a socialist to show the futility of capitalism.
@@ZackAngelMusic No UBI when you pass go?
Today, I had just learned about someone I know committing suicide because they couldn't afford insurance for assistance with mental health.
Imagine seeing someone on the verge of suicide and telling them they can't get help because they're poor.
@@youtubesucks1499 Yeah, there are. Volunteer ones. But we're in America, and it's not free by default.
@TH-cam Sucks
Does everyone have access?
What is the level of care?
What services are provided?
I mean, your comment sounds like Ebenezer Scrooge...."aren't there poor houses?"
The ACA isn't the help we were told it would be.
Yes, the government will help you get medical insurance if you don't make enough money....
EXCEPT, if your income is too low, you do NOT qualify for help!
@TH-cam Sucks Are you-...
Are you okay??
You get treated for free? Are you joking or are you legit stupid??
It costs money to even USE AN AMBULANCE in the US. You think healthcare is free there??
@TH-cam Sucks ok, we can't have conversation if you're living in a fantasy land
The news, at least in my country, doesn't even say a thing about climate change. It's just "Greece is burning. It's terrible. Now on to sports."
where are you from if you want to share?
It was depressing to see how the recent transfer of a famous football player in my country had a more extensive news segment than the segment about the recent IPCC report. Made me realize beyond a doubt that we are absolutely fucked
don't wanna miss that important sport
οπως το διαβαζα ειπα «και στην ελλαδαα το ιδιο» μετα διαβασα το υπολοιπο😂🥲
@Bernardo Ferreira ill give the other guy an answer as to why that is, since its more fitting on his reply. but what i wanna ask ya, are daily events still sufficiently covered or just brushed over with no practical information?
As an electrician I personally do a lot of side work in low income areas so people living in poverty can at least have working electricity.
I am glad to know you Gabriel, even as on an ironic medium your .Empathy is a trait of real life heros.
You know something funny. I'm also taking up a trade as an electrician just to help out around the house with bills and possibly my own place soon.
You’re doing the Lord’s work. We thank you
For free?
@@patglennon9671 Yes most of the time its free or at least I just get reimbursed for parts. Each situation is different so it really just depends on the circumstances.
I started doing it about 10 years ago when an older lady I knew from Walmart told me her power kept turning off and it was the middle of winter and her landlord wouldn't do a damn thing about it and she couldn't find a handyman who knew how to fix the issue. It was an easy fix for me just because I knew what I was looking for.
Something about that incident made me realize this something I should do more often.
The reason we like dystopian fiction is because they show someone, or a group of people, usually from the 'working class' surviving, and often overturning whoever is in charge. We want to believe we could survive anything (we all imagine ourselves as the protagonists, not the billions of people who die), while maintaining human connections of love and friendship.
The sad part is if something like these fiction happens in reallife (which part of it is happening kind of ) the rich are the ones that survive
TRUTH
That is infact why I read so much of it. It feels good when someone down and out outlives all of the people from a higher starting point.
Basically. Nobody likes a sad ending right?
Nailed it
The worst part about our current dystopia is that it's incredibly dull and hardly exciting. We have entered an age of unprecedented disenchantment and lack of initiative, it's like our leaders want us to be bored out of our skulls.
Yes ! It's so freaking boring and depressing. I miss the feeling the US had during the early 2010s and before.
That's exactly right. Boredom, disenchantment, and desensitization in a populace means the populace can turn a blind eye to the truth.
Blackrock already sounds like a company from a dystopian movie.
Yes I always thought the same
@@cobinasaur they hold stocks for google. Whats wrong about that?
blackrock sounds like a supervillain company
If you go far enough down and read the small print, it says “Weyland Yutani.”
You can imagine the boardroom full of all the VPs abasing themselves before the oily black monolith that demands daily human sacrifice.
In 2021, a lot of dystopian movies suddenly look like a good outcome. But right now, we might end up somewhere between Mad Max and Snowpiercer.
Desertpiercer. That's kind of a cool name. Also dystopian movies do look like they have a better outcome to an extent. I mean, none of them really look like they're fighting against water scarcity.
More like a cyberpunk society. Think Robocop, Judge Dredd or Akira.
..or the sand.
my prediction is that we manage to live trought climate change , that is because a company manages to make gene editing for the cheap , and so they promise green fields of genetically modified crops and modest livings as farm hand ...
what they don't tell you is that they have a phosoporus budget and if you're in too big of a debt your phosphorus will get harvested ...
but yeah honestly we'll probably see all of them ...
We're about to find out what the "solar" in solarpunk really means.
What scares me the most is how owning a house on medium income is nothing but a dream for me. In my area I just saw a $110,000 house sell for $200,000. It was less than 1000 sq feet, single story, had no basement. I weep for the generations to come after mine.
Try living in Sydney, Australia. A house like that would go for 1.2 million (about 900K USD), on the outskirts of the city. More, if it had more than 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom and a single car parking spot.
We will be alright. That which cannot go on will not continue
Guess who's buying those houses
@@Francesco-cj3oi Whales
ich property managers is my guess
@@JadeEverduske Townhouses/condos. Why have/build a single house for one person/family, when you can fit so many more people in the same space? Bye bye owning a house.
“America went from barbarism to decadence without knowing civilization”
- Oscar Wilde
It's a country of vicious immigrants, far more vicious than the UK, the country they were trying to get away from.
Best Quote I have read about the US!
@@nwatson2773One of my personal favorites is, "Yes, we have one party here. But so does America. Except, with typical extravagance, they have two of them!" Attributed to Julius Nyerere, the first president of Tanzania.
An interesting thing about this quote
According to Quote Investigator: The following statement was about the ruler of Russia and not the United States. The original French is followed by an English rendering:[ref] 1841, Histoire des Progrès de la Civilisation en Europe by Hippolyte Roux-Ferrand, Volume 6, Quote Page 72, Chez L. Hachette. (Google Books full view) link [/ref]
… il fit passer son pays sans transition de la barbarie à la décadence, de l’enfance à la caducité.
… he made his country pass without transition from barbarism to decadence, from childhood to decay.
1841 book “Histoire des Progrès de la Civilisation en Europe” (“History of the Progress of Civilization in Europe”) by Hippolyte Roux-Ferrand.
I recommend you to research it if you want.
@@arthurmarcil6787
Perhaps there are parallelisms in history that can be applied to different nations, hence Mark Twain’s reference.
“As far above the poor people as he could possibly get” That would be one of the funniest lines in a long time. If it weren’t so sad.
If it makes you feel any better, most of this will probably backfire. One of these ships will explode and although the media reaction will be shock and sadness, the real reaction will be glee and satisfaction.
@@selalewow As someone who is very very interested in the space industry, and has spent a long time looking at Jeff, Richard's and Musk's plans, i feel that i need to point out that during hte time of the moon landings, puplic interest was key as Nasa was funded by taxes, so any failed missions was a massive hit to them. Whereas now the rockets are privately run, so the dont even have to succeed to continue, think Musk's many crashed starships and falcons, before he very recently, stacked the largest orbital rocket in boca chica
@@Grr33nie But my point was if a few billionaires and entitles elites die in a fiery explosion the rest of us will feel more smug than sad.
@@selalewow if that's the case then I pity you, you envy other peoples success and celebrate when they fail, what the billionaires are doing is going to benefit all of us (also bare in mind that musk lives a less lavish lifestyle than most c list celebrities) so basically saying you would smile at their deaths is kinda disgusting
@@Grr33nie couldn’t have said it better seeing his/their/her comment honestly scared me. Big problem with some of the comments in this video and on it. SMH we are so divided.
And corporations love it, when we say "it's the government's fault". It takes corporations off the hook
Ha ha ha...no, it is both the corporation's AND the government's fault. Both sides are on the hook with me.
@@Adamkalb1 they are basically the same. As Marx said, the State is nothing but a committee for managing the common affairs of the bourgeoisie
@@Adamkalb1 yup and then politics is a simialr action and freakin people refuse to understand
Corporatations are tied to the presidency too a dang shame
When one has their hands in the pockets of the other, they're both to blame in my eye.
“We just don’t have flying cars and cyberpunk aesthetics” Damn, why would we adopt everything and leave out the best parts?
I mean, flying cars are so inefficient it's ridiculous, while half of the cyberpunk aesthetics is perpetual night...
don't give 'em ideas D:
cybertruck is coming! xD
For cyberpunk to happen, a times square would have to be built everywhere. Not likely
who are you guys replying to?
We do have fun cars of different designs. They're just not widely used like they are in the movies. The cyberpunk esthetic itself has always seemed to be like a bunch of posers, kids trying to act tough.
The people coming to America from Europe definitely know how dystopian it already is. I had to spend few months for business there few times of the last few years. It was scary. I don’t they get how much scary it is. The amount of homeless people. The amount of obese people. Extremely old people working. The education. The isolation. The car dependency. I had good insurance and it was so difficult to first get an appointment and second to get there, that I simply decided to take the odds and not buy my insulin medicine for the few weeks. Then I came home and got the medicine in a matter of two hours, whole month worth for about 5$
I find my brother kinda dumb he lives in arguably one of the best countries yet he tries everything to move to the us because “cars” or “money” or “girls” he idolized this country and he acts like it is a utopia, he claims people have free healthcare and that america barely has any taxes even tho he should know that aint true
It sickens me how america manages to keep a good image in capitalist countries simply because its a powerful country
Yeah was kinda off topic but i had to rant about it real quick
@@banned2911 No worries I am glad you found a place to rant and I helped! I kind of get you, my husband also sometimes wants us to move there, at least temporarily, and I'm am vehemently against it. And the thing is , he knows, he does know how bad it is - but he thinks it is worth it to relocate through work and save up some money for an apartment down-payment, then come back here. And I'm like... dude... I am not ready to live in that horrible place for 2-3 years and then come back here (or go anywhere) and make a baby and go through the process of buying an apartment on top of it. I'm 32, all I want is a little bit of peace.
I am so sorry for your brother, but, you know, maybe the best way to figure it out is through experience? When nothing else helps.
Actually the US is not the most obese country in the world. But it is pretty bad.
@@kennethlee4894 I never wrote that the US is not the most obese country in the world, did you mean to reply to some other comment?
@@hypatiakovalevskayasklodow9195 I was responding to you. Since a few other countries are worse in terms of obesity, there is really no point in mentioning it about the USA.
A friend of mine recently expressed how she doesn’t like political/activist people because we always seem bitter about how things are. Couldn’t argue with her because she’s right. But I can’t imagine living in this country and being so blinded by distractions that other people’s suffering doesn’t even cross my mind. Maybe I am bitter, but isn’t it warranted?
Maybe people have enough on their own plate to stop and worry about others. Depression is a very real thing you know, the last person a depressed or even a stressed person wants is to see more suffering everywhere.
I do the same, I avoid looking too much into politics and other negative media because I already have enough stress on my plate to deal with.
i can tell she's using it in a vapid way, but we do the movement a disservice if we don't take care of ourselves and our mental health. also, there is so much suffering, malice and stupidity, that you sort of have to pick your battles on what to focus on. and, at the end of the day, if your lucky enough to have a sort of okay job/apartment/S.O/family and dog, it's not a bad thing to have a life outside of the madhouse. the focus on, maybe not distractions, but having hobbies and a social life are key to be sane enough not to constantly get burnt out. so many haven't figured out that lesson. because they care so much, they feel guilty and a little bit panicky if they aren't doing too much to help the cause and the world. it actually helps the work itself to take a moment to breath and recover.
You should exit America, America is doomed
@@ethanstump that is very well said. In a lot of these comments, they say something along the lines of "hardly anyone realizes this problem even exists because they are blinded by media, their own wealth, their selfishness, etc." when in reality they don't know it exists because they are not God and don't know everything. I didn't know about the fires in Greece, but that wasn't because I am wealthy or that it didn't affect me, it was because I can't possibly know everything. Also, bad things happen all the time and will never go away because all people are sinful creatures (including me) and our sin will always lead to pain and suffering unless we acknowledge our sins and repent.
Dystopia begins with myopia.
The Nevada law to allow corporations to run their own cities is straight out of Octavia Butler's novel "Parable of the Sower", one of the first modern dystopian novels
The future brave new world needs its deltas, gammas and epsilons.
Seems there are many ready, willing and eager volunteers.
Wasn't there legislation and labor Union movements against company towns?
@@bcase5328 You load 16 tons, what do you get?
@@Roadiedave I was thinking that exact thing
There was also a similar idea in Snow Crash
The elites trying to escape a planet that they’ve destroyed was predicted in the movie, Elysium, starring Matt Damon.
I'm planning my escape from the USA, in case the future zombie hordes get to my location however unlikely.
@Elijah Ellington the problem, IMO, is the ruling elites keep the serfs divided, using their propaganda media.
the result is the serfs are fighting each other over "pick your disagreement topic".
using this simple, yet effective, "divide and conquer strategy", the ruling elites effectively neutralize and weaken the serfs.
if the serfs united, they could shutdown the entire country, though I expect the ruling elites would use police and military who would "only follow orders" against the people.
as long as the serfs are divided, and their attention is not focused on the ruling elites, it's business as usual.
IMO
I remember critics saying that movie was too preachy with its messages on healthcare and inequality...like of course it was, it was a fucking warning smh.
They won't escape. Not unless long-term space expeditions are made possible. As things are, they need dozens upon hundreds of workers keeping them alive on the ground.
@@zoomzoom3950 Exactly this, look at how fast the wealth inequality movement got hijacked to be solely about race and unfortunately many activists happily gobble it up proving beyond any doubt that they are indeed useful idiots for the rich just as Stalin called them.
Rewatching this now and remembering how I digested it a year ago, my understanding of what you’re really getting at took a long and skeptical time before it was clear, and in the end I realized your agenda and the way I honestly feel inside are such the same. Thank you, thank you for being objective and impartial.
Can confirm. I work as a night janitor at a hospital, a lot of us have been working with no time off because we are so short staffed... They sent out an email saying they are giving everyone a bonus except for general services. I guess after all their talk about being "all in it together" only applied when they needed us to work harder without complaining.
you should complain thats total bullshit
That’s fucking dumb. I’m going through similar things at Walmart. So many folks are so blind as to how shitty the corporation really is.
that sucks brother!!!!
Everyone EXCEPT for general services gets a bonus? This is ridiculous. Don't pretend that we're all in this together if you do not want to give your general services a decent wage and you are not really on their side! What happened to common human decency and empathy and humans treating other humans like humans? If asking nicely doesn't help, you might want to do Joker stuff from that 2019 movie to show the rich what the true consequences of their mistreatment of you really are to them.
Same in my industry. We have been short staffed for months now. Many people here are forced to work 50-60 hours a week.
“Parable of the Sower” by Octavia Butler is by far the most scarily accurate science fiction book I’ve read. She nails the climate disaster, corporate techno feudalism of America and general collapse of the state to a TEE
In that guess I don't have to read the book, I just wait for the movie (which will be a documentary made by ant-people)
I know! Just read it myself. She totally captured what's unfolding today: the continued erosion of workers' rights/human rights, to even the resurgence of racism and the walled enclaves for protection or elitist segregation. A mind-blowing, yet hauntingly familiar read (I'm sure the Germans have a word for déjà vu like this...).
I so want my Star Trek future, but looks much more like this is where we're headed.
Much luck 🖖😎
@@erinmcdonald7781 resurgence of racism? It never left! Its just that more people (mainly white people) FINALLY actually started listening to us after the massive protests of last year.
But make no mistake, it's ALWAYS been here and has ALWAYS been bad. It just changed forms from what it was in the past.
Yea, I finished this a few months ago and it’s so accurate. She nails the wildfires, drought, the rich going to space, and the lack of worker protections
She literally predicted trump in that book, even the MAGA slogan. I read it soon after trump was elected and I felt like it was some sort of fucked up prophecy or joke
I was an essential worker, was given a 3$/hr raise at the start of the pandemic, my boss decided that being able to run the store with one person instead of five was worth docking my pay back to pre pandemic levels.
When I left he was speaking with every manager "We should give raises to the people we want to keep around". Okay, you don't think that my ability to run your store by myself is worth anything? Good luck.
@Rambo Killsgoogle damn does that boot taste good???
I’m so sorry. Our lives are a game to them. You will be SO much better out of the hands of people who see your worth in such a dim light.
@c dollar no your just an NPC that has never held a job and probably holds up traffic with a banner. Demanding people fix world problems so you dont have too.
Claiming they are "raising awareness" but all they are really doing is nothing but being an annoyance to everyone. Just like you are doing.
Whats the deal? It seems to be, that in 2021 if someone is are arrogant online and acts entitled to everything, they are usually an American!
@@v8matey Real men provide for others, real men run their own businesses. NPC's help build REAL mens dreams. c dollar is another self-employed/employer type that mocks the stupidity of the common man, which is you. You live in a dystopia to create my utopia because you are not consciously developed.. (NPC) You are institutionally trained into a mould unlike those who were allowed to express themselves and had freedom as children. We saw the dystopia you were unaware of, and we created beauty within hell at our own expense, and got NPC's to continue turning the gears.
@@PatrolTard are you okay?
During the height of the pandemic waiting in line to get into a store with empty shelves I jokingly said "This reminds of a 1970s scifi movie set in a dystopian future." Not realizing how on target my joke was. If Soylent Green shows up on the shelf at my WalMart, I'm going off grid.
It’s never been a question of whether or not it is a dystopia, only ever how long it will take for people to notice
Cheap beer, lottery tickets and sport news shall prevent people from noticing.
@@martinportelance138 TH-cam will probably take just as much attention as well.
@@telomettotittettori8218 Capitalism is on its last miles: if you compare it to a Monopoly game, we're at the stage where there's only two players left - the other players hopelessly hop around the board paying rent. For capitalism to work, you need sane competition and merit: Nowadays the 1% was already born priviledged and just got richer by liquidating assets. Capitalism may have made occidental people materially comfortable, but it killed them inside. As for the lack of communistic success in the US, Steinbeck said that Americans, far from seeing themselves as exploited proletariat, rather see themselves as temporarly embarassed millionaires.
@@telomettotittettori8218 funny how that website rarely cites sources for its claims, if ever. Its not like that website is carefully crafted propaganda paid for by the estonian government. Read some actual history books lol
the power of denial overrides our better judgement...
As a Filipino, I used to think going to the US was a cool thing to do, but as these issues get pointed out to me time and time again, it's becoming more of a thing I should avoid now. And yes, as most people here have said, the US isn't becoming a dystopia because it already is. How unfortunate it is that the wealthy and powerful will destroy the world they live in and the people that work for them to feed their unsatiable desire for more.
And the worst part is that the US will actively suppress countries that actually have a shot at making the world a better place. What a sad reality
Same here. Now I would rather go to an EU country or the United Kingdom instead of the US.
Cheers from Laguna. ⛑️🍻🇵🇭
Not just suppress, but also vilify any one nation, movement or person that would dare say anything contrary to the status quo.
Yup, same here. I'd rather move to an EU country now than the US. If I'm going to be taxed ridiculously high, I want to get guaranteed maternity leave and good health insurance
@@othinus Bit of advice, also avoid the UK. Our government is hell bent on emulating the US and it's getting worse with every year.
We're nowhere near as bad as the US, but we sure are trying.
@@madnecessity THIS. We are literally the only developed nation without universal maternity leave. Most of our taxes goes to the military budget
the fact that the US healthcare system, not necessarily the quality of care mind you, is the worst in the entire world out of all developed countries is absolutely insane. big changes need to happen.
The US is not a developed country so you can't compare them to others
Even the quality of care arguement doesn't always hold up for the average citizen. Sure it does if you have very good health insurance, or can afford the extra expenses but generally the US healthcare system has slightly worse outcomes than other systems. The UK's NHS for example outperforms the US system in the majority of measured healthcare outcomes such as heart disease, infant mortality, death in childbirth etc. The US is slightly better in overall cancer care but not by much, and the UK also has a higher life expectancy. This is all done with a system that actually costs the average UK taxpayer less than the US systems costs the average US taxpayer, and where the UK system covers everyone whereas the the US system has almost 20% of the population having no access to healthcare.
@@jayo3074 elaborate please
The United States has the best doctors, the best technology, and the best facilities, that's a fact. Read history, we had great and affordable healthcare in the US up until government got involved.
@@Lexman00 yep, this is true
This is not a question. It's not a debate. This is a dystopia.
"War is where the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other." - Niko Belic
I thought this quote was by one of the captains from the movie Troy.
Not a gta quote 😂
@@Unconventionaldiaries yes it is
Gta 4 quote Niko Bellic
Quoting GTA 4 a man of culture I see
I lost my job and had to leave my home because of covid, the only reason I'm not homeless is because of the generosity of a friend. But now I'm stuck with a debt and bills I can't repay, and because I can't pay for my phone bill, getting another job has become an uphill battle. I was always struggling to get by and now I'm pretty much at rock bottom and battling with thoughts of suicide daily. And I hear and see stories of others like me, and yet people treat us like we're less than human. I fucking hate this country so fucking much...
So sorry to hear that, I pray you are able to push through 🙏
Do you have constant access to internet? I can direct you to a site where I make a bit of extra cash online. It pays for my phone bill.
Please don't give up. There is always a way out, you just have to keep going. There are still good people out there who will throw you a lifeline, just keep going.
It WILL get better. For now maybe put some of your free time into joining local socialist groups and doing what you can to make a difference. Not only will it give your life newfound purpose but you will make a lot of great new friends and even find new resources to help you out.
@@TheMan-ug9ixMind sending that my way? For a friend of a friend.
The warehouse I work at has stopped letting us employees drink the water bottles from the broken, unsellable cases. That should say enough imo.
and then they probably just send them to a landfill, instead of doing anything useful with them
So ass backwards, if anything its salvaging company assets and resources and taking care of its workforce.
@@melelconquistador I got fired for saving unsold food and giving it away to homeless people. AND THIS WAS A SMALL BUSINESS!
@@101BlackRaven, damn. That business missed out on a tax write off for donating dollars worth of product to a halfway house or similar.
Unfortunately. You got to pick the brains of these employers to get get them to help others to their own benefit.
@@101BlackRaven There are potential legal liabilities to the business if something happens. If that food wasn't considered safe to eat anymore. Or someone has an allergy. Lots of small things that have small probabilities but would have a high cost if something did happen. It's unfortunate but somewhat understandable.
I don't normally comment on videos but I don't know what to do. The world as a whole is a shitshow. I used to have dreams of being a musician or an audio engineer, but now I don't care. There's no point anymore. Say I do make it and become a professional musician, I then get shoved head first into the evil corporate machine, seeing the worst parts of humanity possible. I don't even care about making a living anymore because we're all going to die soon. I'm tired of being a slave and I'm tired of the disillusionment. We live in a super villain's nation. It's all a farce. I know everybody knows this but I can't escape the thought, and it's eating away at me. I don't know what to do
You have to trust in Jesus. Everything that's happening is written in the book of Revelation in the Bible. Yes. The world as we know it is going to end, BUT Jesus comes back to completely renew it and will punish the wicked. Things are not falling apart, they are falling into place! God bless you.
@@beatrixbrennan1545 For the people who have to suffer at the hands of this corrupt system, why would this be written in some book? I don't think that cheers people up to think that every shitty thing that happened in their life was planned.
When profit is put before people, dystopia is inevitable.
The Deep State believes they can keep their profits if they ruin the world.
@@beatlejuice7755 There is no "deep state"...
The forces destroying America are very visible, the biggest one being Corporatism...
@@davidhollenshead4892 So like a Deep State? 😐
Tis a more complicated and interesting history than that!
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@@Fridaey13txhOktober Awesome video. It's sad that the entire governments around the world, including the CIA are all complacent in this.
I became homeless in 2020, and I consider myself fortunate, as I was able to get involved with a program that helped put me in an apartment. I feel guilt every day that I left behind people that deserved the same help. I often feel I don't deserve what I have. I have a job now and work to pay for my own expenses but I always always live with the fear of becoming homeless again. I never feel safe.
Glad you made it out. The impression I have is that the help given to the homeless here in America is pathetic on average.
my parents kicked me out and i couchsurfed until i ended up dating somebody i couchsurfed with. i feel so guilty and like i'm still mooching every day even though i have a job and pay part of the rent and etc
@@lostbattalion1485that's how they want you to feel. Don't feel bad about getting enough just to get by while billionaires don't give a fuck about anyone below them.
@@lostbattalion1485don't feel that way dude it happens.
Same. Ssvf/shallow subsidy
Something I wish you touched on is America's car-centric urban planning. It is to the point that most Americans need cars to live, enriching powerful car companies. This is a dystopia within itself, and definitely compliments the points you made in your video.
Urban areas have usually good mass transit. Post WW2, the auto companies bribed CA officials to be car centric. Lots of cities you have to drive a few blocks/
c'mon, I don't like American suburb planning, but abundance of old cars on the market makes them cheap as dirt.
That topic is extensively covered by the channel Not Just Bikes.
Wait until you hear some of these same car companies are charging a subscription fee for acceleration
This is insane dystopian nightmare fuel
@@tabo01 I disagree that even urban areas have good mass transit. It's either late, dirty(once sat in homeless persons pee), or slow.
The piece you put at the end about ways to make an individual difference in the face of overwhelming indifference was fantastic.
You should add that part into all your videos.
I hear so many lament (or excuse) that there is nothing "we" can do to make a difference and nothing will change.
I hope that your message at the end f this video teaches some that, yes, there is a way YOU can make a difference.
Thank you
Search . ' America Is a Mafia State Run by Democrats & Republicans . '
This needs to be seen!
There's no way to make a difference. Do you really think corporations will let us overthrow them? They have all the power. They'll replace us with AI and then cull us
Science-fiction has historically been a way for authors to make commentary on CURRENT issues in a futuristic setting. These dystopian science-fiction stories are just a commentary on current issues in the world.
"A representation of the current problems..."
Hahahaha!
But they (the writers) would typically turn the issues up to full blast to make the criticism bitingly sharp, instead we find that the world adjusted to match.
@@kevinjheath They didn't turn the problems up, we just were able to see them because it was a movie.
This is soft sci fi. With less emphasis on the science and more on the characters. A lot of people atleast in books, prefer hard sci fi
Frankenstein is a metaphor for the scientists that worked making weapons of mass destruction and capitalism itself as uncontrollable destructive monster that it has become. Aldous Huxley presented a future feudal kind of stratification of society or system of casts like the Indian society in a futuristic setting. Rey Bradbury showed the extreme hate the corporate class has for knowledge as a threat to their domination as a class. So many representations of the trend the wealthy is taking in their belief are an unaccountable class. And the pretension to perpetuate their position of power.
"Jeff Bezos spent 5.5 Billion Dollars to spend 11 minutes as far above the poor people as he could get"
He IS poor! His only wealth lies with his money. He's poor in everything else.
Why shouldn't he?
@@dwaipayanroychowdhury7035 Why didn't you join him? That way decent humanity could've breathed fresh air for 11 minutes.
@@theresedavis2526 Still didn't answer my question. By what justification should he have not spent his wealth which he, by no means, stole or pilfered? Nor did he use magic powers to hypnotize the people to give him their wealth.
He was born to a well-off but not affluent household and by his wits and effort, he has risen to this point.
The people have voluntarily and after due consideration given their wealth to him in exchange for some services(which the people objectively value more than their money). Small profits from a large number of people add up to large profits.
Moreover, you seem to be the kind of person who has envy and resentment for the rich rather than real sympathy for the poor. And if you don't like him getting rich, don't buy from Amazon. Don't let yourself get tempted by those deals and offers. Don't watch those useless shows on Amazon prime. Instead of buying make-up, designer clothes, and handbags, donate that money to homeless people. Lead by example, rather than being a complete hypocrite throwing witless sarcasm at strangers on the internet!
@@dwaipayanroychowdhury7035 I don't patronize Amazon in any way, I don't purchase designer apparel, and I by no means envy a class of people who have lost touch with their souls and what matters most in life. I do have sympathy and empathy for the poor, which is more than you do! You seem to regard them as an infestation! I do donate to the poor...
both goods and money....and I don't deduct it from my taxes! It's a gift, not a loan! Not everyone is as shallow and materialistic as you and your wealthy idols. Your presumption of my character shows your ignorance and your prejudice.
This just made me cry. Sometimes we forget how serious things are until they are put infront of our face.
I'm honestly scared for the future*
29 trillion in national debt plus another 50 odd trillion in pledges is rather serious. The Climate Delusion is just a sideshow.
Yeah. I realized something was wrong 18 freaking months ago. Pretty obvious actually
This video didn't make me cry. I was too busy being angry
people will remain be poor in socialist society also
With America's work obsession people don't even know what nice things are like having fun, taking up a hobby, growing plants or making art.
Slaves do not get to have a quality of life. Now back to work. The US in a nutshell
"They call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it."
-George Carlin
yes
Nightmares are dreams too
It used to be real
"When you're born in the world, you're given a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you're given a front row seat."
@@Ashton-san more like part of the cast
For some reason seeing bezos in a cowboy hat bugged me even more than seeing him in a rocket. One it looks bad on him and two cowboys work harder than anyone else while this guy does nothing at all.
Yeah bro being CEO is the easiest job evr amiright
@@steliostoulis1875 well they run and make the decisions for the company which makes me think they're not paying a cent at all
@@steliostoulis1875 When you are at Bezo's level of CEO and all the microtasking is done for you... yeah, it's a pretty fucking easy job.
@@steliostoulis1875 Most mega corporations of today could have their CEO's and shareholders abducted by aliens overnight, and they'd be perfectly fine.
I mean, starting a business with a small loan of 200K $ that is basically taking something that already exists and say "but what if online" isn't the hardest job in the world.
Bezos is capitalist aristocracy, nothing more nothing less, same as Musk and virtually 99% of all billionaires of today.
CEO of a medium/small business is difficult. CEO of a large business is kind of difficult but mistakes are allowed. CEO of a global monopoly is a cakewalk because it basically runs itself.
We are becoming more aware. The pandemic really opened a lot of people's eyes to the injustices
So they spend more on Amazon and watch more Netflix. Definitely opened the eyes :)))
@@Shadowwalker1717 if our governments were fascists, only white people would survive. Learn your history mate
I hope we run lots of protests for justice in the 2020s to save our country from late-stage capitalism and general lack of empathy. It all started with Darnella Frazier catching Derek Chauvin's brutality on camera. The protests for injustice against George Floyd was one of many to come. August 25, 2021, 7:24pm
injustice? you mean the freedom to kill off the old that's vulnerable to the virus? you morons now has blood on your hands
@@mmoarchives2542 Everybody told them to get vaccinated there fault they didn't.
My mom used to make me list three things I liked about the US whenever politics came up because I was always so (rightfully) negative. I don't know that "being grateful" applies to our situation.
Collective narcissism is the true religion of the USA, if people refused to be subservient pawns the oligarchy would fall.
I can think of three
Good healthcare (if you can pay for it)
Gun rights
We aren't technically slaves
We aren't living in North Korea or some other third world country.
It is, however tiny of a chance, to get a house. Just probably not gonna happen.
Yeah I'm happy I'm living here but Europe is doing better
@@pilotbug6100gun rights is a double edged sword. You could be shot and killed by anyone, at any point, for any reason. We're the only country with both mass shootings and people getting shot for things like parking spaces.
When I was in high school in Ohio I watched the documentary Sicko. Moore's failings aside, that movie convinced me that the US was already collapsing and if I had any self preservation I needed to get out pronto. This November marks my tenth year living comfortably in Czechia (Socialist, post-Soviet nation) with free health care, heart medication (for a disease that would certainly have killed me had I stayed in the US) that costs $15 every three months, and a job with reasonable hours and 32 vacation days a year. It took me a long, long time to get over the shock of how good people in a 'poor' nation have compared to the US.
I should move. The US is full of scum. Sad but true
I want 2 do the same for years as well. I barely just turned 18. And I always try 2 convice my family leave. I think Germany is a good place 2 settle. I hope I can make it out in time.
May I ask, as a fellow former-American what preparations you took 2 leave the country? I'm curious, any people you left behind?
I've heard finland is pretty good
@@miguellinares6208 but "to" is such an easy word to spell...
Let’s not forget how easy it is to lie online
being a kid in this time period is terrifying, knowing what is going on and being unable to do anything about it is the worst feeling in the world
Let us meme together while we still can, fellow young person
Same it's fucked up but at least we have video games get away out of this horrible reality we are living in
Boomers deny the problem altogether. Gen X are indifferent because they are heading towards retirement and therefore don't want to risk changing the status quo. Millennials are downtrodden and gaslighted into thinking it's a personal fault. Hopefully Gen Z will develop some resilience because they are growing up knowing they there are big problems on the horizon.
“The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.”
― Herodotus
There is plenty you can do about it
Working Class: "Wait, the US is a dystopia?"
The 1%: "Always has been"
*gunshot*
Me: *"YOU MONSTERS!* Just because you are the richest does not put you above empathy, remorse, or the law. This is what you get for not treating others the way you want to be treated, unless you liked having others treat you badly in return."
*gunshot back*
@Kira (sigh) I hope some rich people are not THAT egotistical to get men with guns. I am sure there are some ways you can get rich quick without losing your humanity, if you know how to provide a good service and business for everyone while treating your workers and consumers well. Just look up Dan Price for a good example that already exists. September 23, 2021, 2:29pm
nothing personal kid
@@ToddHowar.d I think that is what Lyle Tiberius Rourke said to Milo Thatch in the climax of Atlantis: The Lost Empire. He was really scary.
In all seriousness, Fallout (and especially New Vegas) is some Really Good Dystopian Fiction
I was driving on interstate 30 in Dallas Tx last night. I have never seen so many people speeding well over 100 mph in heavy traffic. Street racing and insane aggressive driving. No police anywhere. It feels as if people have given up on the idea of being a good citizens. I was doing 70, the speed limit and was passed by vehicles doing close to double that.
"When the rich wage war; it's the poor who die" - Linkin Park
when the elephants fight the grass suffers
@Siss Derella eff that, they know what they've done. No excuses. Off with their heads!
Basically what happens
another is
"when the rich rob the poor it's called business..
when the poor fight back its called violence"
@@itsacycle9260 nien, franz! Get ze flamenwerfer!
space billboards physically hurt my heart. the stars are the only slice of peace we have on this wickedly ruled rock.
futurama
actually Elon's project of space advertising is not giant billboards but tiny cubesats not even visible from earth
hijacking this to let people know the cops on venice beach were responding call about a gun. Not evicting homeless at gun point. Fact check everything guys don't trust anything anyone says.
I totally agree and consider going into the woods as my only solace but my negative sister almost ruined that because she has a penchant for watching creepy videos and had planned to tell me. So I told her not to and she flipped the switch on me.
yep, that would go wayy too far. it's getting fucking ridiculous
That Nevada law is the last straw. Once corps can carve out literal fiefdoms, we will have officially returned to feudalism, with a corresponding loss of human rights and due process. It's just like the world in Continuum, and that is terrifying.
I hope we don't go in that direction
@White Kings88 true, the world they lived in seemed forever, the world we live in is temporary.
IS it a law? Or is it a proposal?
Who has the source report ...?
Just like Snow Crash
They're making modern day coal company towns.
Thanks!
The U.S. seems determined to go down the dark path of "Star War's Empire" than embrace the light of "Star Trek's Federation".
Even the Galactic Empire wasn’t this oblivious to its social problems…
Empire was much better
@@missk1697 Very true. There were some people that like the Empire because it was efficient.
You see, boys. Everybody thinks they want freedom, but what they really want is order. When they realize that, they're gonna welcome us back with open arms. To the Empire!
Valin Hess
"Might makes right" vs. "inspiration by example"
@@missk1697 yeah in the story they stopped using clones for their wars , and generally speaking seemed to be against slavery , wich was done before and afther in the republic ...
but yeah no gov in star wars was good , there where no good guys in it , just politicians who where out for their own agenda , some have better pr
When i grew up in Western Europe, America still represented the future. The biggest buildings, the newest technology, newest ideas, etc,etc.
4 decades later and America's represents 'decline, working poor, and self destructive ideologies.
That's how it goes. When you reach the top, the only way you can take is down.
@@hemidas Yes good point., It's a bit like waht they say about the English Empire. 'The first become the Worst' .
Don't trust the CIA
@@beatlejuice7755 Thanks for the warning ;)
@@geobloxmodels1186 Is life really that much better in the EU? That can't be true, can it?
The way you described the way corporations have hindered progress our sheep's-clothing husk of a government... That was excellent. Thank you for the video. Knowing you're not alone is valuable; not only hearing your words, knowing you feel the same way, but also I have to assume the vast majority of my fellow Second Thought subscribers share these thoughts and feelings, as well.
@@bicheiroparadoxo4894 please don’t interact with him, he’s a known troll who also is boot licking capitalism
Fox, if you found the information about corporations interesting, I think you'll appreciate this even more:
th-cam.com/video/zpQYsk-8dWg/w-d-xo.html
@@fearfx1 at least you’re not as bad as they yuri guy.
It really is, sometimes I wonder what the reason for all this is. All the pain, oppression, abuse, fear, hate, gluttony, greed, ect. I think at 28 I've come to understand that I'll never fully understand it all, is our reality deterministic? Is this all planned? What and why do we do this to ourselves if all things in this reality come from the same place? Is the reason why we always want more regardless of station and always feel incomplete because we are just a shattered thing remembering and longing for the perfection of oneness that our conscious minds aren't currently perceiving? Or is it deep within us as creatures of "Something" feeding off each other in despair at the coming end of all things?
Those questions can't be fully answered, too much of it is based on perspective, and I feel the same way about the future of humanity. Are we going down the wrong path just because we fear the people in power? Are we even able to live in a utopia? Does humanity not time and time again appear to improve from the pressure it cooks itself in? I have a history degree and I often ask the question of what did the average people think about back then, and I think they thought of the same thing we do, that ancient philosophers or even religious men might not of had the same collective human scientific knowledge as we do now, but they still had the same reality concepts we have now... maybe just a little fantastical haha.
I know some people would find this as defeatist, but I think instead of worrying about these things, we should live in the now, enjoy the time we do have, improve the world around us by being better to one another, and hopefully as the sun sets on our lives in this generation, we can see the rays of another dawn rising for the next. Or embrace the love we have for one another in that final bit of light, like life, things end, and even if I live to see the fall of man, I won't look on it with sadness and regret, but love and compassion for the time I got to spend with each and everything that I was offered in this world. I've gone through losing my parent, to foster care, to homelessness, to head in the clouds working man that refuses to have children, but through it all, I love life, and I love everyone in it.
I'd argue that, if anything, the dystopia has been around for a while, really. We just 'refused to believe' until now.
There's a reason, for example, cyberpunk was made in the 80s ;)
Yeah, I lived through the 80's and we had great music and all...but the living sucked. AND you never knew when some moron would launch the nukes. Good times.
exactly
The whole situation reminds me of that quote from Futurama:
"It's an emergency, sir."
"Comeback when it's a catastrophe."
We don't know how bad something really is until it gets ridiculously worse, like with climate change. People expect dystopias to be obvious, but they're not always. Then again, like people in fictional dystopias, there are usually enough people living under authoritarian governments such as Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Imperialist Japan during WW2, and ancient Rome that live and lived as if nothing is or was wrong with the system or their society.
that's because dystopia can be more dystopia
I've been trying to put exactly what you just presented into words for over a year now. Seriously!
Great job my friend! I'm glad there are people out there like you spreading the word.
I really believe people turn a blind eye to what's going on. I believe we are at a critical turning point if we turn left now we can change things... If we continue forward we are doomed and there is NO tunring back. Its amazing that we survived this long and within the last 100 years we have destroyed everything!
It is pretty sad. I've been telling my friends lately to pray to our lord Jesus Christ so the people hurt by the floods in Germany, the fires in Greece and America (and I heard Syberia), the wars all over, the hate, and everything bad, will finally disappear! I can tell it's working as things are getting calmer now, but I will still pray so Jesus will know all about this! Keep your heads up everyone as Jesus will fix all of this soon! Jesus bless all of you. :-)
The last 100 years have seen the greatest expansion of wealth, food security, and poverty alleviation in the history of our species. We’ve created machines that can take us to other planets and have created medicines to cure the most sophisticated diseases. There’s not much wrong with what’s going on right now. Political shifts occur in every nation and for the US were in our 7th or 8th political shift. This is all normal and happens within every country. There is no “we are doomed” the US is probably in the best position to deal with what’s coming in the future from de-globalization, rapidly aging populations (specifically in Europe and east Asia), and the coming shift to a multi-polar world.
@@IpSyCo You don't own your own brain. Like Carlin said, you have owners. They've trained you to think this way from birth, in schooling, culture, media, & religion. So you ignore a couple obscene wealth transfers to exploit crises in the last 12 yrs, monopolies, widespread war, deprivation of healthcare, prison enslavement, climate catastrophe, etc. Frame as if the machine's working. The machine doesn't give a fuck about you, it will move on to the next cog, which humans aren't.
"We?" You and I have not done it. Other people abusing their power have destroyed everything.
@@bernman23 Those owners disgust me. It will never, ever be okay that they pretend to care about us and make life unaffordable for everyone. August 14, 2021, 2:24pm
"Life is just a race to see who can die with the most stuff."
Deep af
Most achievements, not stuff.
True as f@ck.
@@MobileAura .no no no give credit where its due its stuff
@@Omega_Prime7 There's no credit that needs to be due, that's just a random quote by random person, which I also disagreed with and that's why I changed the wording.
I think people don't really care how much stuff you have as much they care what you've achieved, I know a lot of millionaires that don't impress me and I know people who aren't millionaires who impress me way more due to their actions.
Just wanna say, I appreciate your work here. Not many people are saying what your saying. Keep speaking the truth. I stand with ya
As minor as it is, I don't want Space Billboards. Night skies are always pretty to look at. I don't want Ads plaguing it.
light pollution is bad enough
@Jing Bot Same.
If i understand correctly, Musk is sending an advertisement which is tiny and impossible to see from earth. Sadly in the near future companies will probably find a way to launch huge billboards into space despite it being illegal in the U.S.
I was furious about that elon musk skynet thing
It's not minor at all. Space belongs to everyone and noone. That has already been abused
That cabin in the woods sounds better each and every day...
channels like this will say you shouldn't be allowed to live in that cabin because you pose a threat to the environment.
@@rumfordc Yeah, probably by people living in cages in crowded cities. Meanwhile, some of us are actually planting trees, regenerating the soil, helping the environment, and producing much less waste and garbage when compared to these peeps. Just sayin'.
Until there is a fire…
The Canadian-Woods for example...
@@lamsmiley1944 Huh? And when there is a fire who do you think are the first line of defense against it???
Hint: NOT the guys living in concrete cages in cities.
I’m in a Canadian town where like 10 years ago when I was growing up, any temperature above 30 degrees (Celsius) was uncommon and considered a terrible day. The rare 40+ degree day that happened once every year or two was considered horrible and nobody went outside because of the heat.
This summer... this summer... every day has been well into the 30s and I have lost track of how many 40 degree days we have had. I can see the haze from the fires that are hundreds of kilometres away. The sun is red during the day. There have been raging wildfires in every major province. The climate is getting really bad.
Climate is also a big probleme in belgium people in the french part of belgium have a big flood probleme
The Earth magnetic axis is shifting. Which is great.
@@Fridaey13txhOktober it's always a convenient excuse when you you don't have to take any action yourself.
Sorry for the smoke.. the droughts in my home state California hasn’t been kind to her forests
Climate already is really bad. It verges on apocalyptic, and it won't be long before we fall headfirst into it.
MATT DAMON'S series INCORPORATED was so good at showing the future that it was probably low key banned by corporations...
Oh my god. I've never even heard of it!!
Wow hot take, guy!
Ooh what'd you watch it on?
Elysium
I miss that show
This slow slide further and further towards dystopia is really depressing... like the climate is collapsing and covid is spiking and everything is going wrong but all I can do is go to work every day and try and fail not to panic about it. We need some radical change.
Is it really even a slow slide anymore though?
That's the issue.
If we as humans chose to logically freeze the economy and deal with the pandemic, it woulda been handled already.
But we gotta profit. So we work through it and doom ourselves, all so our corporate overlords can make some short term green.
That's not radical change. That's exactly why it won't change.
I'm a little happy knowing I'm not the only one drowning in fear for what's happening and what is about to happen. I find it remarkable you can still get out of bed and work. But I'm sure you're trying your best to not collapse at all, and I respect that.
@@veganarchistcommunist3051 no, it is anything but slow. It is a full steam ahead crazy train to complete species extinction.
“Is USA becoming a dystopia”
At this point i bet in 200 years in the future if things in USA do get better they would probably make a movie based on 21st century USA and label it As an dystopian movie/documentary
neoliberalism has become orwellian capitalism
First I wanna see the movie of how the hell the US got better.
@@Deode-d4h Socialism is becoming more popular
@@Deode-d4h don’t think u would be alive then 😔
Assuming “civilized” society survives another 200 years…
I watched the matrix many years back but the more i mature the more i realize it wasn't just a science fiction movie it was based on something real the man who created it is a genius
I thought it was created by a woman?
@@jordanmchighlander9365 whatever
To the person above me, yes it was
What's even more catastrophic about the IPCC report is that this is a conservative estimate. 190 countries had to sign off on this. So they had to move it towards the low end of the spectrum to get more countries to sign off on it. In reality, it's probably much worse.
A whole lot of "it's happening faster than expected" going around.
Note how one of the only optimistic fictional universes, Star Trek, went through several genocides, wars, and crises before settling on the pseudo-communist utopia of the federation.
@@visceratrocar it’s weird. They clearly wanted the enlightened post scarcity utopia, but the show runners clearly had no idea how to build an economic system. So we’re left with more of a philosophical stance than anything resembling economics.
I always saw the economy of old Trek's Federation as something like this:
The goverment provides housing, food (usually in the form of replicated food I guess) and healthcare for ALL its citizens ,but if you wanted certain luxuries like entertainment and real unreplicated food you have to actually get a job and pay taxes to maintain them
DS9's "Past Tense" (S3 E11/12) gives great insight into this. Poor Julian was so confused at how humans could've been so stupid lol.
@@hithere5553 It's clear they wanted that idea as a setting, but never focused on the economic of it. They clearly were focused on making TV shows with sci-fi conflicts each episode.
I dont recall that there was never any mention of voting in Star Trek. There definitely was a feeling that there was a permanent political class, and that policy was not something any citizen had any say in. Even DS9 (the most political ST) did not have any feeling of citizen influence in policy.
Here in Finland nurses are asking for a rise in their salary because they have been taken off from their vacations and made to work almoust 24h days since from start of covid. You know what their bosses gave them? Printed "thanks for your job" notes. Im not even kidding. Result? We need now 3000 doctors/nurses because of that shit
Not just the US it’s the entire world now I guess
@@ungusbungus2486 or at least most of it
@@ungusbungus2486 at least most other countries don't have a large portion of the population defending companies when they pull stuff like that
I thought Finland was a civilized country
@@matthewmorel3758 yeah it isn't, it's a capitalist one
Bro, you not only make a very clear point, but you also connect it to a non offensive story that I think many people would agree on. It is a nice piece of storytelling, it is just interesting to watch, not only informative.
Homeless people : Well at least we can't get evicted.
US government : Now I am gonna do what's called pro gamer move.
Put them in jail?
Economic Depression, Plague, Famine, War...
The homeless people need to be armed. If a revolution does ever happen we should take some inspiration from Georges Sorel of the glorification of violence while taking the rest from Lenin and Marx.
@@elijahlees8655 +1
@@elijahlees8655 Didn't the Soviet Union arm every citizen? 1 Rifle, 1 Stripper Clip. When the one holding the rifle falls you pick it up and move forward.
I mean, as much as I hated Tom Clancy's politics and all that, his geopolitical apocalypse porn was like a prophecy of potential future timelines.
The Division hit close to home if you played it recently.
Would you please talk like a human?
@@wogelson That's your main concern.
@@thuglifeinc4894 That game has nothing to do with Clancy - he died long before it was even conceived.
@@FrankCastle-tq9bz My point still stands though.
After listening to George Carlin's Amercian Dream bit. He was right and it sounded more like a warning than actual comedy.
"Its called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it"
It was a warning.
as an immigrant I would say that saying is false considering even now the US has given me and many ore better opportunities then before. The thing is, is that even if it isn't gone, it is becoming harder.
He’s been warning people for years but it was the 90’s everyone was doing all right and were asleep and those few who were aware were called conspiracy theorists nutjobs
Blue is especially wild because when you dig into the resumes of the folks within their management, you find that they’re MBAs who’s entire careers are as managers. It’s absolutely mind boggling to think that people signing off on rocket designs and systems can have zero experience in things they’re approving.
"Nevada has proposed allowing corporations to set up their own cities with their own governments, giving your work full control over your everyday life" It seems that once again, what is old is new again, as we bring back company towns from the late 19th and early 20th centuries
History always repeats. Such is the nature of humanity.
Corporations and the rich learned from their mistakes and fought to always regain their power. We sat in comfort thinking we have defeated them every time any small measure is passed that isn't 100% in their favor.
Did Lenin REALLY do a good job or did he just take over [/ward]
@Jing Bot Agreed 1000%.
Biggest take away from this video:
Both parties are pro-war and anti-environment, but with different mascots
Republicans deny, Democrats deflect.
One sees the problem, talks about it, and doesn't do anything
The other sees the problem, act like it's smoke and mirrors, and doesn't do anything.
Democrats and republicans are really the same party. They say some things, but do others.
They are one Ruling Class, using two inter-dependent corporations - because that's all the DNC & GOP are - to impose an absolute, Military-Industrial, Dictatorship of Capital, and keep the masses immiserated, until they can cut our numbers down to a size that they can manage.
There’s a difference between FDR Democrats and Corporate Democrats
Humans this day are mere resources and market for corporations. We consume therefore we are. It’s incredible hard to convince people around me to let go consumerism or billionaire life style aspiration. They don’t see (or refuse) any limitations of our economy system despite learning about triple bottom lines in university!
First of all obviously there are limitations in our economy. However, the reason you are able to watch this video is due to aspiration. The technological advancements made around the globe are due to consumerism and the pursuit of capitol along with the betterment of humanity. If you agree with ads on TH-cam videos or are at least ok with them which you obviously do because you are watching this video then in part you are still supporting billionaire lifestyle. I do agree with you though that a LOT of companies do not care about the betterment of humanity and just care about profits.
I hear the word " Human resource" now a days and corporates are taking the word literally...I mean they are using human beings without even caring about there wellbeing.
but yet, we use their device they sell, the clothes they sell, the food they sell, mostly 90% everything. that just my assumption, prove me wrong.
@@dokatafrinz1349 its because thats how the capitalistic system operates. there needs to be consumption, and to grow more needs to be consumed, so artificially more consumption will be synthesized. new artificial "needs" are made. such as diseases which are caused by the toxic society we live in, we create medicine to help mend disease that shouldnt be there in the first place.
we are so caught in consumerism because it mends the tremendous amount of pain we are all in. its a nasty circle.
@@cyborgchimpy that’s not the “capitalistic system”, that’s just human beings. We require resources to live, and those resources require time and effort to distribute, that’s all the “capitalistic system” is. Curing consumerism is a matter of addressing the human condition, not the economic system.
Hi. Person from 2024 here. We're in a dystopia.
I hate how the world has gone, when I was younger I thought things wouldn't be like this until I was really old, or not even in my lifetime. But it's exponentially getting worse and worse, right now. Scared to see what things will be like in another few months. Non-existence would be a welcome respite. Being alive in this time period, I feel like humans have devolved so much that it's essentially created hell on earth. We're all living in hell now.
The Golden Age is already over, now is the time of rapid decadence and rot, then comes the age of strife. If the forces of good and justice prevail there will be a Silver Age. If not...
Don’t lose hope bro!!!!
I'm 17, and the thought of being an adult in the current state that we're in fucking terrifies me. I have little to no hope that I will be able to have a stable job AND be able enjoy my life with my family and friends. I don't want to slave away for minimum wage, but I also don't want to do nothing in my life. Yea I want to work, but I don't want to work every single day of my life and barley make enough money to survive off of. I don't have money for college, so it's not like I can get a higher education. This is all so fucking stressful.
😭 That's depressing and horrible! I do not want being a good person to be pointless. I want to fix this with the help of other good people who care, even if we have to turn back time to do it. We have to help the less fortunate and _make every evil corporation that run this government suffer every single consequence that they have coming to them._ They are the ones who deserve Hell, not us. August 14, 2021, 2:22pm
@@zackaryjackson5466 Ditto. If you have free will, make this world better so it isn't "profit always wins." I dislike the Final Destination films because death always wins and it is an unstoppable evil force of nature that will not let you live a full life. I am worried that the corporations who run our government have become as powerful as Death from Final Destination or Christian DeVille from Corporate, an evil monster fulfilling its cosmic design. The Lorax taught me "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." Maybe nothing will get better even if we DO care, but taking that chance is better than doing nothing. At least then we can hold our heads high. I hate living in a one-sided give-take relationship with the government that takes everything from us and only gives to the richest people. We must find a way to hold corruption accountable, redistribute the military funds, and get everyone to fight climate change by banning fossil fuels and bankrupting Exxon. August 14, 2021, 2:27pm
When I can't escape light pollution because there's ads in the sky I will fucking throw my life away to riot professionally
When they gate stargazing to only the rich who can afford a space telescope, after they pull some agenda 21/hunger games shit where no one is allowed to turn to the wilderness to cleanse the tyranny and filth of corporate bribed corrupt cities from thier minds and bodies, let alone see nice things anymore
Same
If I see an ad just sitting in the sky constantly, right above my head I will become a professional protester too. I’m done, I’m getting close to exploding
I’m about ready to start doing that regardless
@@andreja9425 facts lol hit me up if you ever wanna form some sort of angry group
Peaceful change is the most effective kind. However when peaceful change is impossible, violent change becomes inevitable.
Communists would say violent revolution is the only way. Peaceful change is pointless and a waste of time and resources.
We do need a major overhaul. Theres no doubt. But socialism and communism (which is the goal of socialism) is not the answer. We need to alter capitalism. Perhaps introduce more socialist type checks and balances. The system needs balance. And right now we dont have it.
@@ghostrider2664 you need to get out of that ancient boomer mindset and expand the idea that there’s more than 3 systems of governing socioeconomics.
I think about the sci fi trope of traveling back in time to kill Hitler. Seems most people have no problem with that considering the human suffering that would be prevented.
In the future perhaps there will be fiction about going back in time to kill Bezos and CEOs that lead to the nightmare world future people will live in.
Peaceful protest shows how much you've learn to be sacred of this world, perfect example of the cartel, When the rich got richer the all took the initiative only to survive not to gain power like the politicians
@@erikbuchanan4648 Cyberpunk was a warning ⚠️
The sad thing about all of this is people want it to be a dystopia.
Man, it's depressing to see how little the human race combined are actually willing to do to stop the bleak future we are heading towards
Don't stop caring! All things God wants you to do are possible, especially stopping the bleak future we are heading towards.
Being subtle never worked before, so...HEY, EVERYONE! START CARING ABOUT THE WORLD AROUND YOU! Take the power away from corporations corrupting the government into only caring about them and not us.
You are talking about 10 million people dead if we oppose corporations and force them to pay taxes... you really want that much blood on your hands? That is basically the population of a state like Ohio, btw... it's better if corporations help wipe all of human existence in the universe... the cosmos will be better for it.
@@teacake6941 You already gave up. I pity you. It takes a lot of less powerful people to have strength in numbers. It is not a guarantee that we won't win, if we actually care to *do something right from the bottom up.* Corruption is not unbeatable. Corporations wiping out all of human existence is not inevitable. 10 million people dead won't even be my fault, it will be their fault for not listening to the needs of the many and being too obstinent. August 14, 2021, 6:25pm
@@teacake6941 That is just your defeatist opinion. Try and prove to me that this is a fact set in stone and the people who run said corporations corrupting our government or vice-versa are really that psychotic and unchangeable.
"We've become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy."
~Jimmy Carter - 2015
(39th president of the United States)
He's not wrong.
This is such a good topic! Thank you for posting again every Friday!
Thanks for watching!
When I see all the injustice, inequality, anger and violence around, not to mention all the power grabbing, corruption and greed . The only thing I can come up with is love. If you think about it, only love can prevail because that is our true nature. Find me one person who wants to suffer and in that you will find love.
bravo, that touched my heart
"You'll own nothing, and you'll be happy"
- World Economic Forum
Luckily I don't own a home. Let's see how the collectivism advocates will like losing their houses they worked 20 years to pay for...
Yeah the technocrats are flirting with an idea of socialist-corpo-feudalism.
@@maribelsantander201 Seriously what would you do if you inherited one like years ago? My half sister inherited a home from my grandma $300,000 mortgage paid off! Yet she lives with us because she doesn't want to pay off her taxes every month she has a job but only pays my mom and that's sometimes $100 a month. Ugh I'm sorry about my comment.
@@maribelsantander201 Bold assumption they have a home to loose.
@Maribel Santander it is not collectivism 😵, it's service economy (almost the extreme, but in the other direction)
Colectivism: all for one, and one for all
Service Economy: all for one, and none for all 🥴👌
“If you’ve been living under a rock” is no excuse to not know about climate change. The rock is already on fire.
Word!!! Not to forget Covid, especially in its early stages: All over the news, sanitizers, people rushing for TP, many people had masks indoors.
@@clarkbruce_exmuslim The rock has been infected and is wearing a mask to prevent spreading it to other rocks and people under them.
_"Listen, the rock's temperature has changed before"_
lol
@@pebblepod30 what
The joy ride to space really gets under my skin. I was sorry to hear that they made it back.
Displaying ads in space make me more sick. Imagine if you can't go anywhere in the world without seeing an advertisement in the night sky blocking the stars by light pollution. LA had a blackout once and had hundreds of people call 911 because they thought the night sky was an alien invasion, but it was just stars. Truly terrifying.
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Actually those money doesn't just vanish right? The 5.5b goes somewhere, and me who work in tech would think it somehow made it to professionals who design and manufactures the parts that enabled this. True that 5.5b could have been used to help a lot of people, but then again a lot of involved party also earned that chunk of 5.5b?
jealousy lol
@@tonysopranooo1yeah, rich people can do all that but the average person has to work multiple jobs to make ends meet. Jealousy is justified here
people in Europ always see US as dystopia. Imagine beeing poor and you have to pay health care by yourself. Ore having not many rights on work and so on
The question should be "Is the US making the world a dystopia"?
But the answer is the same.
China too
@@retingo7940 With all the vices of China and USA aside, China beats the USA in poverty rate, education, and healthcare. Our weak democracy is failing us so badly that we are losing to an authoritarian country. We need to be more like Canada or the Norwegian countries.
@@Ascend777 norwegian countries?
@@irenduin2686 i think he means the countries like Sweden Finland and Norway
@@retingo7940 Yes, indeed.
Born too late to explore the earth
Born too early to explore the universe
Born just in time to witness humanity’s fall from grace
Sad reality
That is why it is your hero's duty, and my hero's duty, to rise humanity anew before Earth is gone for good. You have to care about making a positive change.
Good for your
You watch your country becoming cyberpunk
I watch my country becoming fucking fallout 4
Well said
With how the world is looking, I doubt even the rich would be able to explore the universe in the future.
I know sometimes people say we should be more grateful in good faith. But you have to understand when it comes to Reagan and the modern neo-libs who we now know should have never been welcomed the decency to be in a position of power. They ALWAYS say this exact same thing. And it's never a codeword for "you should smile a little more" or whatever y'all want from us, but always a codeword for "obey us or you are not welcome into my land. Obey us or you're an enemy, a communist, a person without feeling, who would like nothing more to be ungrateful for the sake of ungratefulness. Your feelings don't matter as long as they aren't directed towards the cause of the country. Critique is selfishness, ungratefullness, unfriendliness. Your self is nothing as long as you don't do what I want you to do."
Usually the people that tell you to be grateful have more than you ever will in your life
I was afraid of that, too. Every time Second Thoughts unleashed a video going more into the devastating news of the uncessecary cruelty of unfair American systems, whether it be expensive healthcare or the housing crisis or COVID causing things to go to heck or the military budget, it made me a little more sad inside to feel...uncared for. Like Reagan and the modern Neo-liberals who decide that their needs are either the only ones that matter, or they matter more than ours. It seriously disgusts me, more than the obvious things of inherent selfishness or corruption in changing the rules to benefit the rich, that bad work ethic is encouraged in corrupt workplaces when it comes to police or hospitals, and that the corrupt government who makes housing, education and healthcare unaffordable has no respect for the constitution. They are too self-centered to provide for the common defense and promote the general welfare. August 14, 2021, 2:54am
I hate Stressed Eric because that is a dystopia (in the UK, not the US) where almost every character's only purpose is to make Eric's life miserable in different ways and the only variety in the show's "comedy" is what type of useless or jerkish person the Perfects, Paul Power, Maria, or Allison Steadman are. The worst of them all is Liz, Eric's ex-wife. Her voice is painful and whiny to listen to, and every time Eric objects to her ignoring his family for her own petty goals, she calls *him* selfish. She thinks *Eric* is the selfish one, and he can not see things from *her* perspective. That is why Liz is my most hated Stressed Eric character, and she is one of the most despicable non-villain characters in any sort of media I have seen. August 14, 2021, 2:58am
@@Adamkalb1 let me guess, an episode from SpongeBob is next? Ridiculous
@@Adamkalb1 you have the right to change jobs. If your employer doesn't contribute to your healthcare then find one that does. You don't have to be a barista all your life.
not only an economic one, but a social one, where the US has started blaming different groups of the working class for the issues it faces instead of putting the blame where it belongs, government failings
This is the cyberpunk timeline. soon enough, all human relationships will be strictly transactional. Death and enslavement will become of all who fall slightly behind in the system.
All human interactions are already transactional....
OK, keep it real here. These "cyberpunk" world views are still far fetched in imaginary technology.
@Bruzzh 2121 I wasn't even talking about the sexual ones.
Everything is about profit now. Don't trust the CIA.
@@trigger8221 we are keeping it real tho, you can only be 100% sure if the government opens there doors 😊
This video just told me what I already knew, and it's depressing as hell.
@@telomettotittettori8218 Damn this is the lamest bot ever
They aren’t facts though
Only if you live with eyes closed.
Visited Spain a few short years ago. "That used to be us" might apply. It was interesting to see a functioning society with great infrastructure, great art, and people who weren't rushing to get everywhere they went. The subway system is great. High speed rail even better. I'm sure they have their problems (there were protests there too), but at least they can agree enough to make sure that the essentials are taken care of.
Same with italy when I went I didn’t want to come back but I have a business to run
Its the difference between about 300 million people. Spain is a relatively sparsely populated country that is particularly homogenous racially. They have a shared culture and so can agree on things more easily, the US... has way too many people and way too many different groups that disagree with each other. Makes things a lot harder to get done.
@@hurotiz That does make things easier when people share a similar belief system and ancestry. Still, people do tend to view the grass as greener on the other side. I was in love with Switzerland when I visited this year because it was so beautiful and clean unlike this dumpster fire, but it's also very expensive and hard to make friends over there. Pluses and minuses to everything.
@@hurotiz You are so unbelievably wrong. Spain has 3 times the population density of the USA, and is significantly more diverse, with numerous groups in extreme disagreement.
I lived in Barcelona through the recent Catalan independence movement, which saw some of the most polarised politics I've ever observed. And I promise you, very few Basque and Catalan people would agree to having a shared culture. Not to mention, culture has no relevance to the cost of healthcare or environmental polices, both of which are infinitely superior to that of the USA.
Spain isn't even close to the best example out there anyway, other European countries do things far better. The problem the USA has is an absolute dependence on corporations to fund the country's politics, and politicians that care only about the companies that fund them. European countries have similar problems, but they pale in comparison to the USA.
@@Bryzerse thank you for schooling my ignorance. It’s true that corporations fund much of our politics but it isn’t a one side thing. Politicians on both sides are taking money behind the table in order to enrich themselves and vote for what’s best for business and not for the average citizen. In comparison to our politics, I would still say that Spain is far more agreeable than we are. We have 50 different states that all have different needs and have different problems. Our 2 political parties have divided the country so bad that the past 20 years have just been one side doing something and the other side tearing it down. Nothing gets done. Every state argues with every other state and very few politicians are doing anything that actually benefits the people at all. It’s very frustrating to witness.
that call to action at the end was incredible! thank you so much for spreading the word! ❤
This video addresses the root of my depression.
Dystopian movies were meant as a warning, instead they're seen as inevitable and useless to fight against which of course hastens their inevitability. Perception is reality and where attention goes, energy flows.
There is always hope. One always has a choice. Some are lost in despair. But not all of us.
Solidarity. Equanimity.