I feel you. Dropped cable 12 years ago. Dropped social media and online gaming (except youtube) 10 years ago. Dropped 99% of all gaming 5 years ago. Dropped all streaming 2 years ago (except for black friday hulu deals). Dropped google, apple, Microsoft one year ago. Leave my phone at home to visit doctor. If someone asks my number, I look up the businesses number and give them that. Now it is pretty much RSS feeds, books, and pods for interesting info. I am much more interested in reality, but very few people exist here.
I recall when I got my first internet connection in 1997 and talking to people in other countries seemed like magic. Now, simply holding a conversation with someone in the same room for more than 30minutes, without their tracking brick making an appearance, is the new magic.
I’ve been in tech for 25 years and have never fully embraced it. I grew up in the 80’s and have always felt more drawn to the analog world. That was an adventure
The worlds in the shitter brother... the younger generations don't see it, because they've never known anything else BUT cultural rot. Living with any kind of purpose, is a relic of the past it seems.
Back in the mid 1980's I was watching 60 Minutes and they interviewed Lee Iacocca, he was sitting next to a computer and said technology was going to make our lives so much easier. I beg to differ, technology has made life so damned complicated it's nauseating to say the least. I hate technology and will soon walk away from all of it.
We hit peak technology making life easier where it was a well balanced mix between online and meatspace around 2007. Everything after that only made things worse and worse..
Everyone from that generation thinks that cause their entire lives all they witnessed was constant technological progress that actually did make life much easier (with fewer dehumanizing downsides). In the mid 80's a computer was basically like a modern typewriter so of course they thought that...
I don't even hate the technology but what people are doing with it. I am constantly learning from the internet to an extent I could never have dreamt of when I was a child. I also put that knowledge into practice. Meanwhile, it seems like most people are wasting their lives in digital degeneracy while the powerful few are building technical gulags to gain a stranglehold over us.
I feel the same way…and I do the same thing too…watch my 25 year old movies/games,and go out in nature and relax and listen to the calmness and silence,as much as I can…because it ain’t long before some noise comes along and distracts your peace
I'm 46, and I was a UI / UX Designer for about 20 years. I still am, but i've been out of work for a year and IDK if I honestly wanna go back to that shit. Subscription based pricing, the lukewarm bs of everything and how everything is the same fucking thing is so damn discouraging.
As a Gen X, this is why I love Gen Z. They are like an echo of Gen X. They don't give AF about corporate BS. They refuse to lose themselves and their hobbies to a career promise. And, they were born with technology so a lot of them like my kids like to turn it off to escape being tracked every where they go.
Man I went to study in university computer science but the same kind of disillusionment hit me quite hard. I just couldn't rationalize me finding my purpose out of it so I quit.
In my 30's and also working in tech. Once my job is done I prefer to have as little tech interaction as possible. My PC has gone from video games and memes to a tool I use for my profession to get the work done as quickly as possible.
I'm also in my thirties and work as a digital illustrator. All I want to do is go outside and get as far away from my computer as I can when work is done. I'm pretty sure my 40s is going to be none stop travel. I hate being stuck inside now.
Spot on. Hang in there man. Things will get harder before they get better, but I have faith more and more people are waking up to this. I guess we'll see. It's a Brave New World.
I'm at the tail end of Gen X and am grateful to belong to the last generation that got to experience the analogue world. Gen X's also appear, from my experience, to be the only generation that generally see's and understand's the deliberate and sadistic re-engineering of society. What a time to be alive!
You speak the truth. Basically the same age as you. The world is almost unrecognizable from what it once was. Technology was supposed to complement our lives, but has driven people further apart. The human connection, or feeling connected is actually diminished. It's comforting to know that I am not the only person feeling exactly the way you do.
Don’t lose hope. One day this will all blow over and the cycle will start again. Just keep doing what makes you happy and don’t give a flying fuck what others do.
Something I agree with more than almost anything else is something Orson Welles said right before he died: "I hate almost everything in the modern world."
@@TheFoolOnTheHill_ Everything he warned about over 30 years ago is exactly what happened. He even lived in the middle of the forest but they still came after him. What chance do we have when they're planning to build 15 minute cities in every single country & the entirety of Japan is going full virtual through Society 5.0.
The advent of digital technology started as tools that benefited our society. But once the company grows bigger, they are inevitably kidnapped by the ruthless pursuit of profit.
Yes, and you can't ring a company and speak to a human being - it's an automated endless multiple choice option or a bloody robot voice at the other end.
We're in a place where technology is obsoleting people right now faster than it's creating abundance, which means we're getting a bit of Hunger Games / Snowpiercer / Platform flavor.
I think many of us are awakening from this illusion or dream that we were sold as kids. There's more urgent matters at hand, can you feel your soul begging to be free?
You are speaking directly to my soul. I'm 22 and i've seen the transition from more ordinary social life with cellphones to smartphones completely all in elementary school. Smartphones really took hold of us at 2015 when I went to 7th grade
@@forestreflection2066 Who hurt us? The pill. No Fault Divorce. Roe v Wade. Getting off the gold standard. Smart phones. Tinder. War on Sniffles. Which of those do you eagerly support?
First iphone came out in 2007 I believe but back then I was still rocking phones like Nokia or Sony Ericson. I didn't really delve into the Smartphone arena until the end of 2012 when the Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini released.
I’m trying to put my phone down more and get outside like we used to. Unfortunately newspapers and magazines are a thing of the past and I like to read the news in the morning so it’s usually the phone
Got a 4x4 off rd converted camping van which can go off grid for months at a time, to the middle of nowhere where people don't know exists. I'm ready man, ready for whatever chaos deepens our hearts. A PLAN B - if civilization keeps this trajectory all may need to get back to real basics which may be a good grounding for humanity. But the cost will be suffering for many who are not prepared for a life "without", and miss the dynamic that show how to live from within to out again. The bigger picture...... it's evolution running it's courses!
People have become so ignorant, they don't even respond to text, via the various applications, not even putting their finger on the screen for a simple emoji 😮 I only know a few survivors that still have a soul in there 🙏💖
@@_TOD33 it’s a process, you have to consider my livelihood is, and for the time being will continue to be, tied to the digital space. It’s probably impossible to reject 100% of all the crap but, I’m in a much better place than 5 years ago.
@@_TOD33 “cold quitting” imho does not work, what I think works for pushing out undesired habits is substituting them with new habits, hopefully these new habits are healthier than the old ones. Regarding the doom & gloom I’m in a similar spot, the thing is I think this is not a time to be oblivious to reality and just “be happy”, then again I try to get something out of it and not just dwell on that mental space. I’ll provide two examples, 5 years ago I started studying economics, history and monetary systems, I became depressed with my findings but quickly I decided to take advantage of this knowledge. Thanks to that, not only my savings are not getting REKT, I learned to make them grow. The second example is I’m regurgitating all the “doomer mental space” feelings into music and planning to create a net label to publish tapes/vinyls filled with dark, dreamy, obscure stuff. All I say is don’t let the demons win. I’m not a religious person but, I believe there’s an almost divine part on all of us when we are born and there’s always something/someone trying to destroy it or take a piece for themselves, our duty is to protect it and make it grow, only by doing so we can be in harmony. Take care mate.
...while the world around me descends in digital chaos & madness... Hi ! I'm Manfred The time you were born, i was about 15 (59 now). I really understand your mood. It's cold and "beeping" everywhere out there, all checking your value for their own "plans/needs". Can you imagine what time/Zeitgeist we had in the 70's ? Everything seemed to get better and better. Then, mid-80s, they began to "optimize" our lacquer factory, though we made tons of plus that time; it ruined the human factor we all were fed by, but didn't know. It was like in the air we breathed, so normal,...now, 4 decades later, i can't recognize the world anymore. Where have all the humans gone. Where do all these robots come from ? I seeked God since i was 13, in 2005 i found him. Maybe too religious for you; i hate religion and churches mostly, but this was something very personal. Give it a try, before becoming a Black Hole in these dark, pitch-black times... 59 year old man
The digital age was cool when it was only trying to entertain me. When it was trying to track my every move I told it to take a hike! The digital age fundamentally changed around 2006-2007 and it has never recovered since. I still operate as though I never left 2006. I only have e-mail, use a VOIP phone and have never EVER owned a smart phone. I have a server rack that runs a custom firewall to keep out all the nonsense from my house and only use linux.
All of our work within this system, back through time, has been to build our own prison. It's a sad irony, but it is a necessary one. What ought to be is inevitable. This state of existence which ought NOT be must first pass. It is only by the individual that this lesson can be grasped. Free will meets the material world within the individual. It is the individual that must choose between what ought to be and what ought not be. We each have varying time spans to choose, but this lesson is coming to a close globally. The closer we get, the more that the temporary coerces us to join in it's passing. Stand strong bro, it's time is short. Eternity will soon be filled with knowing better.
Same with music and movies. I collect music on MP3 and try to own all songs I like. Here is the breakdown by decade: Rock and Roll 4567 songs 1950s 68 songs 1960s 1216 1970s 1401 1980s 1056 1990s 595 2000s 180 2010s 43 2020s 23
I even went to order my usual contact lenses for pick up at my eye doctor and they want me to create an account on some website now so they get delivered to my house. ANOTHER password. So annoying.
This is true. Im 46. Habing been present before tech. I wish I could to back on time sometimes. Some of my old friends feel 5h4 same and we are reconnecting and doing things 3e used to enjoy together. Listening to musclic, playing card games, watching movies, cookong out. Swimming. Things in the real world.
Hey RM, another well dictated and incisive monologue about the modern condition. To change things up, you should do some video essays about the small things you mention at the very end of this one, things you still cherish and enjoy, despite the madness of the world (ie. nature walks, playing retro games). What about these activities remains wholesome for you? Why do you find yourself revisiting them? What meaning and inner nourishment do they provide which you find lacking elsewhere? Perhaps documenting such cherished small things will provide you a humble means to combat the larger negative trends you've brought attention to here. To quote Albert Camus: "The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
I just wanted to tell you that there are indeed sane and genuine loving people out there. They are just hiding from all this crap in the world right now so it seems that no one is left.
This guy makes an exciting apocalyptic dystopian adventure seem depressing. Challenging the system is more exhilarating now than ever before and discovering reality beyond the matrix is mind-blowing.
as much as i can sympathize with this pov, and wax nostalgic about the good ole days, pre-smartphone and pre-internet, i definitely dont miss many things from that era. for example, i remember countless hours were spent waiting around, bored out of our minds, during those times. waiting in long lines everywhere, waiting for a ride, waiting at a meet-up spot for your buddies to arrive, waiting to reunite with someone who got lost in a crowded area, waiting for your turn to use the payphone. of course, waiting still happens today, just not nearly as often, and when it does happen, we have our phones to distract and entertain us. sure, it's a lonelier world, where we're all disconnected from each other, but violent crime is actually way down compared to the 80's and 90's. i dunno, i guess i see trade-offs everywhere. it's not that bad. if you don't like it, you're free to unplug from the digital noise. just leave the phone off or at home, or get a flipphone.
I've always appreciated Alan's comment to Dillinger in TRON about having an abacus at home. I'm another tech person who took a few steps back from the latest digital trends. It's madness out there. P.S. You owe it to yourself to check out the series Cobra Kai.
Every 6 months you have to replace the systems and apps you setup 6 months ago with new 'better' ones that are even worse than the ones you still didn't get working from 6 months ago... The 1980's were great!!
Hey man. I feel your pain. I feel the same way. The digital age seemed to have just made it easier for our bad drives to grow while doing barely anything good. But there's a way out of this. You have to be the change you want to be and become a role model for others. There's no other way. Lot of people wish for a savior to come into their life, but if everyone does that, there won't be anyone left to be that savior. For me that meant doing few things. I replaced my smartphone time with an ereader. I began learning creative things such as trying to play the piano and watercolor painting. I tried helping other people around me. There's an old lady i help to hold groceries for whenever I meet her. I decided to value life, no matter how big or small. I try to not harm any insects and put them outside instead of squashing them if i catch them in my room. Some of these actions might seem silly, but the truth is that if we want a better world it has to start somewhere. And we can sit and complain about the issues of the world, but who's going to solve them if we do? Hell, even if we had ability to solve the world problems, i don't think we would cause we are ignorant. All of what we see as problems were created because once someone thought he was doing the right thing. I'm not under any illusion though that the world will be much different a year from now because of my actions. Or for that matter, 15 years from now. Nor do i expect a reward for this. But change has to start somewhere, and if you really start noticing the suffering that ignorance causes, you start wanting to end it. At least in yourself. Maybe once that happens we can start doing things the right way. Either way we have to put down the first step if things are about to change.
I feel this. I wish I could sit down and talk to someone like you in person. Do you happen to be in Central Texas and would you be interested in meeting a stranger from the internet?
Something weird happened the other day. I was talking to a colleague of mine about the pros and cons electric bikes (bicycles to be exact) while I had my phone on me. When I got home and looked on my social media, I was flooded with ads for e-bikes. However, I had never looked for them on the internet, because I had never intended to buy one. There might be a rational explanation somehow, but I haven't found it. It really feels as if phones are eavesdropping. This wasn't the first time something like this has happened to me.
100% of modern western thinking would prefer to have a beautiful house over a beautiful soul. It's mostly due to ignorance, since the majority of people have never met a beautiful soul (a nice person doesn't count). However, a beautiful object is instantly appreciable; all of it's qualities and merits are inherent to its face. It's hard to measure the value of someones soul, since it's properties and effects on the world are not immediatley visible or understood. It's gravitas is not intrinsic to it's form; and you have to touch it to know it.
"It's hard to measure the value of someone's soul" that's because you don't measure it like material things of this world like money, feet, inches, lbs., etc. Try not to assume you know everything about the West. Especially 100%. Generalizing a mass population as if everyone in it is the same is what has been wrong with this world.
Man the fight club quote and the red mage icon. You and me on the same wave length. I'm only 45 seconds in, but I think I know where ur going. I don't think humans were meant to have "technology" We are meant to be one with nature and live simple lives. We weren't meant to go to college and get high paying jobs either. We have just been told these things and have essentially been brain washed.
Good to know I’m not the only one who sees the new digital person totally unrecognizable , can’t believe this is happening. I’m 44 as well . I have never had any social media and I have not forgotten how life used to be. Also why is there magenta everywhere I look
I am still dismayed that supermarkets got rid of their checkouts with staff on them and changed it to self checkouts, now they've even changed it where you scan your own items as you walk around the store using either a hand scanner or you mobile phone. Everything is going downhill. Used to be able to have conversation or laugh with the checkout person as they scanned and you bagged but now it's a lonely shop.
GOOD. Not everyone craves constant human interaction. They're better off stocking the shelf so I can get the stuff I want and go. Self checkout is me being able to mind my own business without having to deal with an unnecessary middleman.
@@kinglukethe7th524 A person on a full checkout can scan items through faster than anyone can do on a self checkout, FACT and whilst they're sliding an item over the laser you're already packing the previous item they scanned through. If you wanna get out fast you don't need to talk to the checkout person but it would still be faster than self checkout. Also there's not always a self checkout available and you're stood waiting for a slow mo member of public scanning there own items instead of a professional checkout staff getting the person through faster. Your reality is reversed.
We don't need all these apps or streaming services. It's a filling the void problem. If it's not physical and I don't own it I'm not interested. Rather have like fifty good movies on disc I paid for once than a pile of rental slop.
I work corporate IT and I feel this completely. I get out a lot disc golfing and travelling but mostly solo. The world seems far worse than 30 years ago
it's stupid. why give a deal just cuz someone uses an app? why not give the deal no matter what? it's because they are selling your data that's all it's about now.
Sounds like you might need to unplug for a while. If you can manage it go camping for a week and leave your tech at home. Bare feet in the dirt brother, it will 'ground' you for real...
42 here. Scotland. I agree with a lot of your points. As a fan of the cyberpunk genre since i was young, back in the 90s, I expected it to get like this. But with a lot more VR and whatnot. Try not to let it get you down man. A lot of your points are only issues if people let them be. Excluding the cost of everything and degrading services, of course. I dissable all possible tracing and telemetry on any device i get. Don't bother with digital assistants. Etc. Society has been becoming more hysterical of late though. No room for nuance or live and let live. Itll turn around though.
Once upon a time I worked for the Big Blue Computer Company. I had to write my own benchmarks since I never saw the word in their documentation. You must distinguish the technology from the people manipulating it for the money. Part of the problem is the dumb consumers. Years ago I asked a PhD economist to explain how an automobile engine worked. He couldn't even start. But he drove a white SUV. Ask an economist for the data on the annual depreciation of automobiles since Sputnik. See what is wrong with the economy? High technology society run by techno-dummies.
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I feel you. Dropped cable 12 years ago. Dropped social media and online gaming (except youtube) 10 years ago. Dropped 99% of all gaming 5 years ago. Dropped all streaming 2 years ago (except for black friday hulu deals). Dropped google, apple, Microsoft one year ago. Leave my phone at home to visit doctor. If someone asks my number, I look up the businesses number and give them that. Now it is pretty much RSS feeds, books, and pods for interesting info.
I am much more interested in reality, but very few people exist here.
I will always remember this line in The Matrix (1999) "We simulated the year 1999 because it was the peak of your civilization"...
The Matrix directors are trans jewish brothers. Their people are creating this dystopian man-made pseudo-reality which we passionately hate.
And I always remember private Hicks 'We are an elevator to hell, going down'
Looking back it sure seems that way...
For real.
It was......
I recall when I got my first internet connection in 1997 and talking to people in other countries seemed like magic. Now, simply holding a conversation with someone in the same room for more than 30minutes, without their tracking brick making an appearance, is the new magic.
Not even doctors want to face you when you talk to them in person, they'd rather talk out the side of their mouth while reading their computer screen.
"Tracking Brick". That is genius. I am going to begin using that with your permission.
@@ThursdayLaneNumber1Fan Glad you like it. You don't need my permission but absolutely no problem.
Lol good point
Very good point.
"The 20th century was the peak of organic humanity."
How many people died in the wars of the 20th Century?
I’ve been in tech for 25 years and have never fully embraced it. I grew up in the 80’s and have always felt more drawn to the analog world. That was an adventure
The devil is in the digital.....
The days when you could state your opinions online are over. The internet is now policed heavily and you can have no privacy whatsoever.
The worlds in the shitter brother... the younger generations don't see it, because they've never known anything else BUT cultural rot. Living with any kind of purpose, is a relic of the past it seems.
Be the change you want to see.
Some of us do...
trust me we know, it's the boomers who don't know
I get it, man, I get it… I pretend it’s the early 90s all the time, haha.
Back in the mid 1980's I was watching 60 Minutes and they interviewed Lee Iacocca, he was sitting next to a computer and said technology was going to make our lives so much easier. I beg to differ, technology has made life so damned complicated it's nauseating to say the least. I hate technology and will soon walk away from all of it.
Can I come? LoL
Do not just walk away, but if needed start bashing the cameras down or other new surveillance tech.
We hit peak technology making life easier where it was a well balanced mix between online and meatspace around 2007. Everything after that only made things worse and worse..
Everyone from that generation thinks that cause their entire lives all they witnessed was constant technological progress that actually did make life much easier (with fewer dehumanizing downsides). In the mid 80's a computer was basically like a modern typewriter so of course they thought that...
Living before internet and cell phones was much more peaceful
I quit my high paying IT job at a large and famous multinational in 2016 with the same disgust. I am 48 now. Welcome to the club.
I found myself thinking the exact same thing. Nearly word for word. I also work in tech, I gradually came to hate it, especially in very recent years.
Same here. I’m learning to do carpentry…
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@@kirillholt2329 Leave this jewish created matrix. They will pay tenfold for everything evil they've done to us.
I don't even hate the technology but what people are doing with it.
I am constantly learning from the internet to an extent I could never have dreamt of when I was a child. I also put that knowledge into practice.
Meanwhile, it seems like most people are wasting their lives in digital degeneracy while the powerful few are building technical gulags to gain a stranglehold over us.
I feel the same way…and I do the same thing too…watch my 25 year old movies/games,and go out in nature and relax and listen to the calmness and silence,as much as I can…because it ain’t long before some noise comes along and distracts your peace
Man spits truth and I agree 💯 with him .
I was disillusioned in my 20's and I have been proven right.
I'm 46, and I was a UI / UX Designer for about 20 years. I still am, but i've been out of work for a year and IDK if I honestly wanna go back to that shit. Subscription based pricing, the lukewarm bs of everything and how everything is the same fucking thing is so damn discouraging.
As a Gen X, this is why I love Gen Z. They are like an echo of Gen X. They don't give AF about corporate BS. They refuse to lose themselves and their hobbies to a career promise. And, they were born with technology so a lot of them like my kids like to turn it off to escape being tracked every where they go.
Truth bombs .. love it brother
Man I went to study in university computer science but the same kind of disillusionment hit me quite hard. I just couldn't rationalize me finding my purpose out of it so I quit.
CNC machinist I don't give a fck about looking at a screen anymore its not productive in the long term for us.
Our civilization has already passed its peak
In my 30's and also working in tech. Once my job is done I prefer to have as little tech interaction as possible. My PC has gone from video games and memes to a tool I use for my profession to get the work done as quickly as possible.
I'm also in my thirties and work as a digital illustrator. All I want to do is go outside and get as far away from my computer as I can when work is done. I'm pretty sure my 40s is going to be none stop travel. I hate being stuck inside now.
I watch these first thing in the morning to get myself hyped for the workday. I think I’m ready now.
Imagine if families regularly maintained central media libraries. You could trade with other families for library access and cut out the corporations.
Spot on. Hang in there man. Things will get harder before they get better, but I have faith more and more people are waking up to this. I guess we'll see. It's a Brave New World.
its terrifying how quickly most of humanity have become excess. or maybe everyone is just now realizing it
Excellent video. We all have to "hang in there"...nothing else we really can do. I will say it is better to be awake to it then to be one of "them".
Totally agree! Even the music industry has gone to shit!!!!
I feel exactly the same. Thank you for sharing. Happy to be a new subscriber.
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100%. I want to go back to the 80s.
Aquanet and tetherball....yeah. I can still see the high watermark of that glorious tide...
Back when Terence McKenna came in a tape boxed set.
Back to the Super Nintendo
1880's😅
@@AllenHarris-u5o that would be even better
I'm at the tail end of Gen X and am grateful to belong to the last generation that got to experience the analogue world. Gen X's also appear, from my experience, to be the only generation that generally see's and understand's the deliberate and sadistic re-engineering of society. What a time to be alive!
I am 44 myself and now everything requires a monthly subscription. What happened to buy the product and being able to use it.
You speak the truth. Basically the same age as you. The world is almost unrecognizable from what it once was. Technology was supposed to complement our lives, but has driven people further apart. The human connection, or feeling connected is actually diminished. It's comforting to know that I am not the only person feeling exactly the way you do.
Don’t lose hope. One day this will all blow over and the cycle will start again. Just keep doing what makes you happy and don’t give a flying fuck what others do.
This is true.I mean you can consider it for 3-8sec but then refocus on what you're doing. If they betray you then you owe them nothing.
Something I agree with more than almost anything else is something Orson Welles said right before he died: "I hate almost everything in the modern world."
lol, hard to disagree there.
Ted K was a prophet.
Great man and great methods! 😂 *Gets put on list*
He was a luddite who could only see the negatives
Uncle Ted.
@@TheFoolOnTheHill_ Everything he warned about over 30 years ago is exactly what happened. He even lived in the middle of the forest but they still came after him. What chance do we have when they're planning to build 15 minute cities in every single country & the entirety of Japan is going full virtual through Society 5.0.
Ha, I thought this, but wasn't ballsy enough to type it out.
there is far too much complexity in our lives now
Ted was right
You have a perfect voice for a documentary.
Spot on, I feel you- thanks for sharing that with the world.. We're here to divert that tragic trajectory
Yoooooo it's dope seeing you here man. Your channel is great and definitely diverting the tragic trajectory! Peace!!
@@sigmalaflare haha, yes!! great to see you here too and grateful for the respect!
The advent of digital technology started as tools that benefited our society. But once the company grows bigger, they are inevitably kidnapped by the ruthless pursuit of profit.
Yes, and you can't ring a company and speak to a human being - it's an automated endless multiple choice option or a bloody robot voice at the other end.
We're in a place where technology is obsoleting people right now faster than it's creating abundance, which means we're getting a bit of Hunger Games / Snowpiercer / Platform flavor.
Me too brother im about one more email sign up away from setting this phone on fire, selling eveyrhing i own and hitting the trails on my horse
Do it
I think many of us are awakening from this illusion or dream that we were sold as kids. There's more urgent matters at hand, can you feel your soul begging to be free?
You are speaking directly to my soul. I'm 22 and i've seen the transition from more ordinary social life with cellphones to smartphones completely all in elementary school. Smartphones really took hold of us at 2015 when I went to 7th grade
You’re right. But smartphones took over a little earlier than 2015. I got my first iPhone in 2012 I believe and I was a “latecomer”.
And it was mostly driven by arrogant women insisting men they dated carry them.
Who hurt you?
@@forestreflection2066 Who hurt us? The pill. No Fault Divorce. Roe v Wade. Getting off the gold standard. Smart phones. Tinder. War on Sniffles. Which of those do you eagerly support?
First iphone came out in 2007 I believe but back then I was still rocking phones like Nokia or Sony Ericson. I didn't really delve into the Smartphone arena until the end of 2012 when the Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini released.
I’m trying to put my phone down more and get outside like we used to. Unfortunately newspapers and magazines are a thing of the past and I like to read the news in the morning so it’s usually the phone
Unfortunately, school & work require your I Phone 📱 😂
I’m sure you earn a great living with your profession. However you hit the nail on the head with your heart felt commentary.
Got a 4x4 off rd converted camping van which can go off grid for months at a time, to the middle of nowhere where people don't know exists. I'm ready man, ready for whatever chaos deepens our hearts. A PLAN B - if civilization keeps this trajectory all may need to get back to real basics which may be a good grounding for humanity. But the cost will be suffering for many who are not prepared for a life "without", and miss the dynamic that show how to live from within to out again. The bigger picture...... it's evolution running it's courses!
People have become so ignorant, they don't even respond to text, via the various applications, not even putting their finger on the screen for a simple emoji 😮
I only know a few survivors that still have a soul in there 🙏💖
Well spoken your so right about the Madness 💯🕵️♂️
Same here. I’ve decided to reject all that crap, no compromises. We’ll see where it leads me…
@@_TOD33 it’s a process, you have to consider my livelihood is, and for the time being will continue to be, tied to the digital space. It’s probably impossible to reject 100% of all the crap but, I’m in a much better place than 5 years ago.
@@_TOD33 “cold quitting” imho does not work, what I think works for pushing out undesired habits is substituting them with new habits, hopefully these new habits are healthier than the old ones. Regarding the doom & gloom I’m in a similar spot, the thing is I think this is not a time to be oblivious to reality and just “be happy”, then again I try to get something out of it and not just dwell on that mental space. I’ll provide two examples, 5 years ago I started studying economics, history and monetary systems, I became depressed with my findings but quickly I decided to take advantage of this knowledge. Thanks to that, not only my savings are not getting REKT, I learned to make them grow. The second example is I’m regurgitating all the “doomer mental space” feelings into music and planning to create a net label to publish tapes/vinyls filled with dark, dreamy, obscure stuff.
All I say is don’t let the demons win.
I’m not a religious person but, I believe there’s an almost divine part on all of us when we are born and there’s always something/someone trying to destroy it or take a piece for themselves, our duty is to protect it and make it grow, only by doing so we can be in harmony.
Take care mate.
0:03 WHAT A MOVIE!!!! 😂😂😂.... with a strong message 😥😥
...while the world around me descends in digital chaos & madness...
Hi !
I'm Manfred
The time you were born, i was about 15 (59 now).
I really understand your mood. It's cold and "beeping" everywhere out there, all checking your value for their own "plans/needs".
Can you imagine what time/Zeitgeist we had in the 70's ? Everything seemed to get better and better. Then, mid-80s, they began to "optimize" our lacquer factory, though we made tons of plus that time; it ruined the human factor we all were fed by, but didn't know. It was like in the air we breathed, so normal,...now, 4 decades later, i can't recognize the world anymore. Where have all the humans gone. Where do all these robots come from ?
I seeked God since i was 13, in 2005 i found him. Maybe too religious for you; i hate religion and churches mostly, but this was something very personal.
Give it a try, before becoming a Black Hole in these dark, pitch-black times...
59 year old man
I can't be offended or see anything offensive for one simple reason: Growing up I had to hold the flashlight for my Dad, enough said.
Good Memory
POST humanism.
Pencil time
Singularity
The digital age was cool when it was only trying to entertain me.
When it was trying to track my every move I told it to take a hike!
The digital age fundamentally changed around 2006-2007 and it has never recovered since.
I still operate as though I never left 2006.
I only have e-mail, use a VOIP phone and have never EVER owned a smart phone.
I have a server rack that runs a custom firewall to keep out all the nonsense from my house and only use linux.
All of our work within this system, back through time, has been to build our own prison. It's a sad irony, but it is a necessary one. What ought to be is inevitable. This state of existence which ought NOT be must first pass. It is only by the individual that this lesson can be grasped. Free will meets the material world within the individual. It is the individual that must choose between what ought to be and what ought not be. We each have varying time spans to choose, but this lesson is coming to a close globally. The closer we get, the more that the temporary coerces us to join in it's passing. Stand strong bro, it's time is short. Eternity will soon be filled with knowing better.
Yes sir. Just playing 30 years old videogames too. Gabriel Knight at the moment. So good.
modern games don't even teach you about norleans voodoo
Gabriel Knight, is probably the best game ever. I'm still hoping we get a GK4 someday, since Jane Jensen is actively trying to make it happen.
Same with music and movies. I collect music on MP3 and try to own all songs I like. Here is the breakdown by decade:
Rock and Roll 4567 songs
1950s 68 songs
1960s 1216
1970s 1401
1980s 1056
1990s 595
2000s 180
2010s 43
2020s 23
Leisure Suit Larry Represent!
I even went to order my usual contact lenses for pick up at my eye doctor and they want me to create an account on some website now so they get delivered to my house. ANOTHER password. So annoying.
All the please donate please round up please sign up please tip prompts on checkout screens now. Yeesh.
oh yeh!!!! I am watching this after enjoing my Street Fighter on emulator offline. Next goal is to buy a cd player and cds
Eternal aliveness appearing as dualistic form is the universe's technological application for experiencing itself.
So true. I only use apps if they serve me. And it's important to look up from the screen now and then...
This is true. Im 46. Habing been present before tech. I wish I could to back on time sometimes. Some of my old friends feel 5h4 same and we are reconnecting and doing things 3e used to enjoy together. Listening to musclic, playing card games, watching movies, cookong out. Swimming. Things in the real world.
Hey RM, another well dictated and incisive monologue about the modern condition. To change things up, you should do some video essays about the small things you mention at the very end of this one, things you still cherish and enjoy, despite the madness of the world (ie. nature walks, playing retro games). What about these activities remains wholesome for you? Why do you find yourself revisiting them? What meaning and inner nourishment do they provide which you find lacking elsewhere? Perhaps documenting such cherished small things will provide you a humble means to combat the larger negative trends you've brought attention to here.
To quote Albert Camus: "The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
I just wanted to tell you that there are indeed sane and genuine loving people out there. They are just hiding from all this crap in the world right now so it seems that no one is left.
This guy makes an exciting apocalyptic dystopian adventure seem depressing. Challenging the system is more exhilarating now than ever before and discovering reality beyond the matrix is mind-blowing.
How to ruin a perfectly exciting dystopian wasteland. Add David.
I feel exactly the same way , It's sad and beyond crazy that this Is what we've come to and It Isn't some noghtmare we're gonna wake up from.
You’re not wrong mate ☹️
I’m 51 & looking forward to Holograms
I want my Bladerunner 2049 Hotty ❤
🤣
We have succumbed to divide and conquer.
Gotta get back to playing DK 64. I hate leaving games half finished. 😄
I finished that game 10 years after I got it
Never got an i pod or any smart phone. Never liked how big they are. Always stayed to be a desktop user and the old nokia mobile.
as much as i can sympathize with this pov, and wax nostalgic about the good ole days, pre-smartphone and pre-internet, i definitely dont miss many things from that era. for example, i remember countless hours were spent waiting around, bored out of our minds, during those times. waiting in long lines everywhere, waiting for a ride, waiting at a meet-up spot for your buddies to arrive, waiting to reunite with someone who got lost in a crowded area, waiting for your turn to use the payphone. of course, waiting still happens today, just not nearly as often, and when it does happen, we have our phones to distract and entertain us. sure, it's a lonelier world, where we're all disconnected from each other, but violent crime is actually way down compared to the 80's and 90's. i dunno, i guess i see trade-offs everywhere. it's not that bad. if you don't like it, you're free to unplug from the digital noise. just leave the phone off or at home, or get a flipphone.
I've always appreciated Alan's comment to Dillinger in TRON about having an abacus at home. I'm another tech person who took a few steps back from the latest digital trends. It's madness out there.
P.S. You owe it to yourself to check out the series Cobra Kai.
Im with you pall. Find more people around you that feel the same and unplug.
All true.... Also True : It is only going to get worse as madness compounds over time.
Every 6 months you have to replace the systems and apps you setup 6 months ago with new 'better' ones that are even worse than the ones you still didn't get working from 6 months ago...
The 1980's were great!!
Bloatware.
Hey man. I feel your pain. I feel the same way. The digital age seemed to have just made it easier for our bad drives to grow while doing barely anything good.
But there's a way out of this. You have to be the change you want to be and become a role model for others. There's no other way. Lot of people wish for a savior to come into their life, but if everyone does that, there won't be anyone left to be that savior.
For me that meant doing few things. I replaced my smartphone time with an ereader. I began learning creative things such as trying to play the piano and watercolor painting. I tried helping other people around me. There's an old lady i help to hold groceries for whenever I meet her. I decided to value life, no matter how big or small. I try to not harm any insects and put them outside instead of squashing them if i catch them in my room.
Some of these actions might seem silly, but the truth is that if we want a better world it has to start somewhere. And we can sit and complain about the issues of the world, but who's going to solve them if we do? Hell, even if we had ability to solve the world problems, i don't think we would cause we are ignorant. All of what we see as problems were created because once someone thought he was doing the right thing.
I'm not under any illusion though that the world will be much different a year from now because of my actions. Or for that matter, 15 years from now. Nor do i expect a reward for this. But change has to start somewhere, and if you really start noticing the suffering that ignorance causes, you start wanting to end it. At least in yourself.
Maybe once that happens we can start doing things the right way. Either way we have to put down the first step if things are about to change.
@@YTguySmithy-lk6go I'm pretty sure what I said was polar opposite of nihilistic.
I feel this. I wish I could sit down and talk to someone like you in person. Do you happen to be in Central Texas and would you be interested in meeting a stranger from the internet?
No one has the right to say that these little actions are silly : if it's harmless and makes sense to you then it's all that matters.
@@jp1135 I am sorry, but no. I live half a globe away from Texas.
I'm only happy when it rains
Something weird happened the other day. I was talking to a colleague of mine about the pros and cons electric bikes (bicycles to be exact) while I had my phone on me. When I got home and looked on my social media, I was flooded with ads for e-bikes. However, I had never looked for them on the internet, because I had never intended to buy one. There might be a rational explanation somehow, but I haven't found it. It really feels as if phones are eavesdropping. This wasn't the first time something like this has happened to me.
You JUST noticed???
@@lreeher Like I said, I noticed before. But I'm still in denial about it. BTW I never use a voice assistant like Siri or Alexa.
I've had that happen just THINKING about certain things. Very creepy.
@@belle6219 It doesn't surprise me....
@@belle6219 Your phone can track where you have been. Might have something to do with that.
100% of modern western thinking would prefer to have a beautiful house over a beautiful soul.
It's mostly due to ignorance, since the majority of people have never met a beautiful soul (a nice person doesn't count).
However, a beautiful object is instantly appreciable; all of it's qualities and merits are inherent to its face.
It's hard to measure the value of someones soul, since it's properties and effects on the world are not immediatley visible or understood. It's gravitas is not intrinsic to it's form; and you have to touch it to know it.
"It's hard to measure the value of someone's soul" that's because you don't measure it like material things of this world like money, feet, inches, lbs., etc. Try not to assume you know everything about the West. Especially 100%. Generalizing a mass population as if everyone in it is the same is what has been wrong with this world.
beautiful comment
I NEVER EVEN KNEW THE CONCEPT OF A BEAUTIFUL SOUL UNTIL NOW>
Man the fight club quote and the red mage icon. You and me on the same wave length. I'm only 45 seconds in, but I think I know where ur going. I don't think humans were meant to have "technology" We are meant to be one with nature and live simple lives. We weren't meant to go to college and get high paying jobs either. We have just been told these things and have essentially been brain washed.
Good to know I’m not the only one who sees the new digital person totally unrecognizable , can’t believe this is happening. I’m 44 as well . I have never had any social media and I have not forgotten how life used to be. Also why is there magenta everywhere I look
Well Said Bro 💯😎
Get some sunlight in there dude!
I am still dismayed that supermarkets got rid of their checkouts with staff on them and changed it to self checkouts, now they've even changed it where you scan your own items as you walk around the store using either a hand scanner or you mobile phone. Everything is going downhill. Used to be able to have conversation or laugh with the checkout person as they scanned and you bagged but now it's a lonely shop.
GOOD. Not everyone craves constant human interaction. They're better off stocking the shelf so I can get the stuff I want and go. Self checkout is me being able to mind my own business without having to deal with an unnecessary middleman.
@@kinglukethe7th524 A person on a full checkout can scan items through faster than anyone can do on a self checkout, FACT and whilst they're sliding an item over the laser you're already packing the previous item they scanned through. If you wanna get out fast you don't need to talk to the checkout person but it would still be faster than self checkout. Also there's not always a self checkout available and you're stood waiting for a slow mo member of public scanning there own items instead of a professional checkout staff getting the person through faster. Your reality is reversed.
bro stating facts - chaos levels in workplace are at alll time highs never before seen
We don't need all these apps or streaming services. It's a filling the void problem. If it's not physical and I don't own it I'm not interested. Rather have like fifty good movies on disc I paid for once than a pile of rental slop.
You need to do some voice over work. Your deep tone and William Shatner cadence is killing me lol
@@Fernando_616lol shatner, thanks for the laugh. I have been to Riverside Iowa, always thought of bill (Capt kirks birthplace) when I'd drive by.
I work corporate IT and I feel this completely. I get out a lot disc golfing and travelling but mostly solo. The world seems far worse than 30 years ago
Disc golf used to be so popular, I remember seeing people playing all the time at the park late 2000s where I was
Fine insights..
Excellent video.
_Not only this but I still don't have any rocket trousers._
And I won't get any because they're banning oil.
Remember sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me? What happened to that???
it's stupid. why give a deal just cuz someone uses an app? why not give the deal no matter what? it's because they are selling your data that's all it's about now.
Sounds like you might need to unplug for a while. If you can manage it go camping for a week and leave your tech at home. Bare feet in the dirt brother, it will 'ground' you for real...
“Just take more Soma”
10000% agree
42 here. Scotland. I agree with a lot of your points. As a fan of the cyberpunk genre since i was young, back in the 90s, I expected it to get like this. But with a lot more VR and whatnot.
Try not to let it get you down man. A lot of your points are only issues if people let them be.
Excluding the cost of everything and degrading services, of course.
I dissable all possible tracing and telemetry on any device i get. Don't bother with digital assistants. Etc.
Society has been becoming more hysterical of late though. No room for nuance or live and let live. Itll turn around though.
Once upon a time I worked for the Big Blue Computer Company. I had to write my own benchmarks since I never saw the word in their documentation.
You must distinguish the technology from the people manipulating it for the money. Part of the problem is the dumb consumers. Years ago I asked a PhD economist to explain how an automobile engine worked. He couldn't even start. But he drove a white SUV.
Ask an economist for the data on the annual depreciation of automobiles since Sputnik. See what is wrong with the economy?
High technology society run by techno-dummies.
I wish we can talk to people around the world and people in person.
I've been feeling the same way