Is Tech Making Young Men Dumb And Right-Wing?
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Caller is another young person who gives me hope. Perfect call.
Meestah's hopeful; noice.
*he's just as brainwashed as me
amen.
It seemed set up
@@augustwest8863so a young person who can understand the world and express himself better than the vast bulk of his contemporaries sounds like a set-up to you?
You need to get out more pal.
I firmly believe tik tok street interview channels interviewing drunk college girls outside of bars has probably gotten more young men into red pill content than a million Andrew Tates could. They ask like 100+ people a night if they have cheated on their boyfriend and then edit a 3 minute video of the wildest responses and post it online where millions of insecure and impressionable teenagers see it.
They also treat clearly sarcastic answers as completely brazenly honest ones, which further kills media literacy in young people
Honestly younger ppl are way more educated than they were 30 years ago. The difference is those who are not informed are way more brain broken now.
Or you could say, younger people are more brainwashed by the rockerfella foundation, they only tell you what they want you to know, how many young people today know how to bake their own bread? less than 1% we couldn't surivie anything! This generation is egotistical and delusional, look around and all you'll see are fat, weak emotional men, emasculated men, poisoned by plastic, hormones out of wack, call me xer or xim!! At least the traditionalists had order, they understood the most valuable thing, children, they're the future, our generation is cutting their genitals off. it's called mass-psychosis, the left has lost it's mind.
Which means that either a bigger fraction of young people are well-educated, or just as many young people are equipped with knowledge and education that used to be limited to higher ed, but the few who are willfully ignorant are merely further divorced from reality. It sounds to me like both ends are growing more pronounced.
It isolates kids who are already loners and have no friends in real life. They use the Internet as a place for friendships and find them in very dark places. This isn't a new problem with the Internet. It's ALWAYS been the biggest problem.
But ALL of our kids were isolated loners during covid, so it sucked in a ton of kids.
@@salex3873 You're probably right, I mean how much monitoring of internet usage can you possibly do at the end of the day especially with teenagers who you want and need to give some level of privacy as it is appropriate for their development...? When the entire family is stuck at home for months on end... I can definitely see that
i tried very very hard not to spy, not to intervene. I certainly skipped past porn. But it does help to see a rabbit hole before they get too far in. (no the govt did not take down the world trade center sorta stuff) @@OscarLangleySoryu
And it will only continue to make them even more isolated, since adopting these redpill beliefs will make them feel more resentful and ostracized. Plus they will become even more difficult to become properly socially ingrained, which causes a positive feedback loop (not morally positive, but generatively positive) of frustration-consumption-frustration.
Not _always_ always. There was a time before there were dark places recruiting on the Internet. Certainly prior to the advent of Eternal September, possibly for a short while afterward. But I will admit this is a bit of an academic point by now.
Caller sounds like a really good kid
He is a really good kid.
Me, 29, in my oldest granny voice: “what a nice young man 👵”
Finally calling Tim Pool what he is. A groomer.
Yep. It's almost always projection.
Who is he grooming?
Their followers. Duh. Pay attention to what is going on in the world around you.@@firefly9838
Yep
@@firefly9838 Teenage boys into the right wing. He wants to open a coffee shop/skate board park that shows Saturday morning cartoons. He is trying to make music. He's admitted it.
Absolutely the far right is targeting boys. My 3 boys got interested in weight lifting during the pandemic. It seemed wholesome. Now i find myself fact checking on a daily basis. Yesterday i had to explain exactly why i thought joe rogan was far right.
Well thats silly... Joe Rogan is center right now. Far right would be a Nazi. He is no Nazi. He is just like a normal conservative.
Get them into better fitness influencers? Someone sane like William Tennyson, BarStarzz or the Bioneer even Arm Chair Violence is pretty left leaning, even though they cover martial arts.
Technology isn't the cause of those issues though. The cause is capitalism.
thanks. i will try. i appreciate it!@@Pistolita221
@@jennyanydots2389 why are you going on a personal crusade of leaving mean spirited (and more importantly, highly inaccurate) critiques of Emma Vigeland? Your comment history makes it look like she stole your boyfriend or something lmao
I’m a 22 year old male and it’s pretty miserable interacting with a lot of men my age. An alarming number of them seem to be too far gone on the right wing victim culture train. Many of them have been influenced by a lot of the hyper-masculine right wing online culture and it feels like it’s came out of no where in the last couple of years. I still have a lot of hope for my generation, but it makes me uneasy how big this group of people has gotten and seems to be growing.
There are good young adults your age! I know some in my local DSA. Do your best to be a good example among them. 😅
Stuff I hear on the subways here would curl your hair. Here in Uber Liberal NYC I hear stuff from the under 35 talking on my commute and lemme tell ya, this won't be completely solved by demographic shifts.
It's pretty astonishing how many people never grew out of the edgy idubbbz 2016 phase (idubbbz himself also grew out of it too lol). A lot of male friend circles are still vehemently toxic and right wing despite society seeming more progressive now. It's sad. @@miguelvelez7221
I'm 48, my mom is 78. I only really use TH-cam & fb, as far as social media goes. Mom only uses TH-cam, but never comments or reads comments.
Mom used to be Catholic & conservative republican. She swirched up & voted for Obama & has voted for dems ever since, then finally officially switched parties. She also dropped religion. She was prolife (real prolife, not forced birth), but now if very prochoice. She's also pro Palestine. I'm so proud to be her daughter!!
That kind of evolution is always encouraging to hear
Senior citizens are a very large part of the audience here as you can see by most of the replies in chat. The 65+ group probably outnumbers the 35 and below group by a wide margin.
*Yeah I'd say its capitalism. When I was a young man I felt that I was being kept out of the job market by older people, that standards were insanely high and that you needed to jump through hoops get get work because you were competing against people with experience. Getting good well paying work seemed to be the key to marriage, housing and everything else. You could do a simple job at low wages but that wouldn't help you leave your parent's house. I remember being quite bitter about this and this is where I would say that I would be influenced by Tate but ....he looks like a scammer.
know how you get a leg up on people looking for a job?
education... literally having a piece of paper saying you've completed a set of goals to say you have certian skills will put you above those who dont...
and theres a saying "bullshit baffles brains but brains catches on"
so if you're actually smart you will go far, and the whole "do what you love and the money comes" is real people are just greedy and want the money first.
@@butwhytharumyou know what got 99% of my friends in debt their entire lives… that same little piece of paper.
@@_B.C_ their entire lives? like 10 years? out of how many? maybe tell them to stop trying to out shine one another on social media and pay off their debt.
@@butwhytharum some of them approaching 20 years out of high school.
I’ll be sure to speak down to them for you though 😉 👍
@@_B.C_ i tell my friends that chose shitty careers that they did exactly that when they bitch about how much they make. and if they're taking vacations all the time i go well no wonder your still in debt.
Excellent video! I'm a 25 year old woman and I almsot got fully sucked into the Gamergate/Reddit incel rabbit hole in high school. I went from watching Nintendo videos, death metal music videos, Rick & Morty clips, and dank memes (remember those All Star by Smash Mouth videos?) to watching "anti-SJW" content made by reactionaries like the Quartering and Sargon of Akkad. I literally thought that feminists and LGBT people were "ruining" Star Wars and gaming. I also got so obsessed with meme culture that I joined a hate forum that doxxes and harasses autistic people and trans people just because I thought that Tumblr and furry bashing was cool "for the memes."
Nearly 10 years after Gamergate and I fear that it's coming back. From the incelfluencers like Andrew Tate to the backlash against the live action Snow White movie to the GOP's attack on furries (which originated as an edgelord dudebro meme on 4chan to mock fandoms like furries, emos, Steven Universe fans etc) to nerd icon Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, we are this close to a more dangerous and more hateful version of Gamergate. And as someone who lived through watching hate memes on the daily and being harassed by so-called geeks for being a woman and autistic during Gamergate, I NEVER want to live through that again.
LOL
Smash Mouth actually had low key deep lyrics.
Fortunately, many people have gotten out of the gamer/video life and moved on to do something useful.
@@maxpowers123 typical boomer bashing hobbies
@@danvaccariello439On my way to New Jersey
I taught high school for a while and the number of high school boys quoting Tate was really depressing.
One of the things that I've noticed about America is that intellectualism in art isn't as prevalent anymore. If you look at some movies and T.V. shows from back in the day, or even talk shows, there's a sort of intelligence and knowledgeability that people had back then that doesn't seem to be present today.
When capitalism tells you it's ok to think only about yourself and that only you matter, you're eventually going to be convinced that you know all the answers even when you have no insight at all into any particular topic and you come across to people who even know a little as entirely ignorant and overconfident.
The irony of this post lol
"All you need in this life is ignorance and absolute confidence in ones ignorance; than success is sure" - Mark Twain - kinda.. Of course being someone who bullies, sees violence as normal, enjoys and who is naturally good at it and getting away with it helps too.
Yes, im sure personal greed, selfishness, hatred, indignant ignorance, and overconfidence weren't flawed characteristics of human nature that existed in equal measure until capitalism ensued. Sorry, but economic structures of any kind don't create and perpetuate your individual moral compass, exacerbate personal ignorance, or "tell you" things. They plainly and simply dictate the parameters for which you as an individual can, and are able to consume.
Crazy part is if you just look up workout videos, the algorithm thinks your some sort of incel and you get bombarded with alt right thing, like fresh and fit, the pearly things , etc…
9:22 "Edgy Athiest at the time". I can relate. Also, alternate time-line Emma wouldn't be in her basement. She would broadcasting from a compound, having sushi for lunch, and playing poker at night. 😉
sushi and poker with da girlsch
@@OscarLangleySoryu Here's an idea for a nightmare blunt rotation: Bizarro-verse-right-wing-Emma, Candace Owens, Brett Cooper, and Abby Shapiro.
I was an avid 4chan user way back when. I remeber the shift in tone happeningly dramtically around the time moot sold it.
it did effect me. It filled my head with sickness that made a lonely kid feel even more alone.
I jumped ship during gamergate. I couldnt stomach it anymore. But the media bubbles that exist now didnt exist then
Ngl, now I want to see Emma playing the character of her alternate, edgy atheist, centrist arc, for a comedic bit or something, at some point
Such a bright and articulate young man. As an ageing british cynic it warms my heart.
Consultant industry has ruined the political economy.
There was a study conducted by a consultant that confirms this.
Not only young men. My father used to be a very open minded, liberal person. He is now an utter far right nutter. Can’t bear to visit home anymore.
Sometimes we need to be more tolerant of people who are different and have different opinions than we do. It's easy to be tolerant of like-minded people. The real test is to be tolerant of those we disagree with. Some can pass the test and some can't.
@@maxpowers123ah yes, we just need to be more tolerant of those who want us dead for being gay
@@maxpowers123You are going to tell their father that?
@@sisuguillam5109 Why not tell everyone that? There's enough intolerance to go around.
@@maxpowers123 You need to be tolerant of people who are different, sure - people who are born different from your norms. No problem. But I do not have to be tolerant of intolerable opinions and ideas. In short, I do not have to tolerate the perniciousness of evil.
Sludge for profit is 100% right. Whatever will make a quick buck, no matter the consequences. No thoughts about sustainability or conservation, just consumption and profit-seeking. I despise it, the incessant greed and love for money. The root of all evil is the lust for wealth. There is nothing wrong with being wealthy, but to put your own want for excess above the basic needs of others is pure evil through and through. I'm glad young people like this caller exist, we need more people with good hearts and level heads.
“Dumb and right wing” is tautological.
Is it making them dumb? Yes
Is it making them right wing? Also yes.
It’s pretty descriptive as far as I’m concerned
What is a woman?
No, I disagree, you can be dumb without being right wing.
perfect example of the stupidity of the right ty for that!@@Leviathan762-zh4lq
@@Leviathan762-zh4lq Your comment reminds me of what Douglas Adams said: “In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.” - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Nope, being terminally online just made me aware of all the injustices, corruption, deceit of the world around me. It turned me from a normie lib to a Socialist that’ll fiercely fight for the Freedom for everyone to Live and Prosper until the day I die 😁
yes. I agree i am WAY more knowledgeable about that stuff.
But since lib/progressive/socialist sites are funded by the site and their viewers they cannot compete with the far right sites funded by the 1%. Crowder bitched about a 50 million dollar contract. We can't compete.
Me being terminally online made me far right 😂
You were just very lucky, most people aren’t
@@Leviathan762-zh4lqterminally lonely
@@augustwest8863 not really
no it's parents who are out to brunch
Parents on their devices, or out somewhere else, while the kids are raised by the other kids and violent predators amongst them.
I am explicitly teaching about the tech issues in my Gen Ed course at Temple University. I stay away from the political stuff, at least explicitly, because it is an easy way to shut down students, and so many of them are already apathetic, unwilling to even speak in class, or, for a few of the men, unable to even keep their phones put away even though I EXPLICITLY forbade their usage during class, telling my students that they have to be present in mind as well as body. It's only a 50 minute class and some cannot do it. They are so addicted.
Many of my students press back and explain that they are quite capable of multitasking and succeeding with their divided attention., which science shows is simply not true.
They are receptive to the notion of loneliness and disconnection, but also think that "parents just don't understand" them. It is really complex. It would be amazing (though sadly not worth your time) if one of you sat in on the course because of what you are discussing. Too often the Bill Mahers and such of the world- Caitlin Flanagan, too- make these broad sweeping judgments about college students without actually spending time on college campuses and it is so annoying (you are NOT doing that, let me say for the record)
Also, having gone to college in the Boston area, I am WELL familiar with that "STAH" Market over the highway. Such a crazy building!
I’m a young man and thankfully tech has made me left-wing… and dumb
Based on
At some point, the predictions for the influence of the internet would be that it was going to make us smarter due to the extraordinary amount of information available within seconds. The reality is that people searched for things they were interested in, regardless of whether any findings were true or not.
Critical thinking is the key component to making society better.
I see this with my boys (ages 15 and 9). My older is big into NFL, and during the Super Bowl he was getting visibly upset every time they showed Taylor Swift. He has nothing against her dating Kelce, but he was in this football fan bubble on the internet that was very anti-Swiftie, and it was rubbing off on him. I fear that those voices are grooming teens to get them in the Tim Pool/Quartering style right wing hate-sphere. I'm into D&D and I see it with dudes my age as well. The Gamergate thing wasn't confined to the video game fanbase. It was big in a certain segment of the tabletop RPG online community as well. They really know how to merge interest in sports, gaming, music, movies into hate towards women, LGBTQ+ community, racial and ethnic minorities, etc. I'm doing my best to combat it, and often just pointing it out is enough. But I need to keep informed of what they're seeing and hearing on the internet in order to discuss it with them regularly.
Technology isn't the problem here though. Tech is a tool, nothing more. A tool that reactionaries have taken massive advantage of to spread their garbage far and wide, which is not helped by the algorithms that constantly push this crap to the front page because engagement ensures profit, but it is still just a tool. Technology is not the cause of these deep seated issues, capitalism is.
Idk about that, if he's at best just annoyed at his focus being taken away from the game I don't think there's anything wrong with that. Basketball fans hate it when sports reporting news talks too much about random celebs during the game. But they're your kids, so you'd know better what he feels and watches.
@greatwhitesufi I hope that's all it is, but my feeling is that he wouldn't have cared if he wasn't hearing people on Discord talk about how the SB was going to focus on Swift for a week before the game.
This. Me being a woman, I was surprised that I ended up believing the incel and Gamergate bullshit. I became involved in several "dank meme" moments like the McDonalds Szechuan Sauce incident and shitposting on Reddit about how smart I am because I watch Rick and Morty and listen to Radiohead blah blah blah that type of neckbeard shit but this led me to join Kiwi Farms because I thought that people making fun of furries and Tumblr SJWs was funny at the time (and became the biggest regret of my life, I hardly even posted on that site). I went from watching Chadtronic and Vinesauce to watching Rucka Rucka Ali and Filthy Frank to watching shit like Nerdrotic and Ethan Van Sciver in a matter of days. Thinking about my teenage years makes me sick to this day. But in the end I learned that it was a toxic mindset and I quickly got out at the same speed as how I got in. And seeing how Elon Musk turned out years later and the allegations against Justin Roiland, it all makes sense now.
Im 40 and every time I hear someone younger say they remember pre internet and it wasn’t a thing in the early 2000’s Im like no the internet existed you just didn’t have it because you were a child and apparently lived under a rock. I got my first new computer with a 56k modem and AOL in 96 at 13 years old.
Same with my bro. He works in IT all over Europe now introducing open data. He would tell you internet wasn't like it is now at all. His biggest fear are 'tablet-kids', he compares gen Alpha to something out of science fiction.
@@M0oranshi I also heard someone the other day say cell phones weren’t a thing in the late 90’s and It drives me nuts basically everyone in high school got in trouble because we all had Nokia 5110s with the customized faceplates and the snake game I got mine at 15.
It’s not the medium, it’s the message that’s the problem. Right wing extremism is promoted throughout American media, political life and education system. I wish young people all the best and hope they succeed where the previous generations have failed.
Can relate to the caller's experience, was going down the Ben Shapiro alt right rabbithole in middle school cuz of the "Destroying Libtards" gateway. Thank Christ I grew a brain.
We were once told that ubiquitous access to the internet will eliminate the need to accumulate factual knowledge ... how's that working out in the age of ubiquitous disinformation? 🤯
Um, yes. Gamer-gate was at the beginnings of that.
At some point around the mid 2000's nerds went from being intellectuals to straight up brain dead.
I blame memes, let's play videos, Reddit, and the show Rick and Morty for that lol
When nerds became cool and geek culture became the norm.
@@XIGuyIX They're weren't nerds, they were geeks. More science/less funko pops.
Definitely geeks, not nerds.
Check out those tech channels and tell me they aren't nerds. They will argue about the minute details of cuda cores, lighting physics and Vram buffers, but then allow those massive companies with gpu's named 'samurai edge cool dude blast gamer x' charge them a gpu for 5000. Meanwhile those tech channel hosts will say things like "it's a good a deal".
Caller: "I didn't really grow up with a phone"
Caller literally 2 seconds later: "So I was on my phone in middle school..."
when you are 20, the difference between when you were 10 and you were 15 is a whole eternity. Caller said exactly what he felt. As a kid, he didn't have a phone. In middle school, he didn't consider himself a kid anymore. That's completely normal.
I didn’t have a phone until I was in high school. I didn’t have a smart phone until I was in my 20s.
I grew up with a phone…attached to the wall at home.
@@joshuaDstarkscongratulations!! Do you want a cookie? Does little baby boy want a fucking cookie?
@@joshuaDstarks I didn't have a mobile phone until the end of university. Actually, the first time I carried a mobile phone with me at all was the day of my final exam, when my mum gave me hers so I could call her "right away when I had the results". Guess who called on that phone in the middle of the oral exam? :P
"I didn't really grow up with a phone" meant the caller did not advance mentally or mature due to having a phone. Had the caller not had a phone, he would have grown up much faster and be much wiser.
"By the beautiful Star Market right over the highway" 😂 IYKYK
I'm glad I looked it up! It's cool as hell!
Short answer: yes. And you can add misogynistic, homophobic, and racist to stupid and right-wing but, wait: those categories are all part and parcel of being stupid and right wing, so never mind.
The first comment on this video being some wierdo bot account is just too perfect.
with an ass photo? I'm so fucking sick of the ass photos.
I drive by that Star Market all the time near my work.
Byron Berstein (Reckful) did a video 11 years ago about the 'Most unfair game' and I think what he hits on in that video speaks to the alienation that many young men feel in society which is a recipe that causes them to try to find guidance from clowns like Tate.
One of these days we're gonna have to have a talk about thinking atheism is "cringey".
I definitely lost opportunities due to playing world of warcraft in college. I turned out okay but i didnt get the grades i was capable of
If you believe in things that you don't understand, you will suffer.
'Superstition everywhere' sadly even people born before the internet don't get that either.
its not tech making youth daft.. its the way media is being distorted
There is no individual solution to a socio-economic problem.
All of the social media platforms encourage right wing content far more than left wing content. Sensationalism and conspiracies drives more engagement. We have a world of knowledge at our fingertips and people don't want to take the time to find good sources. They just want to be entertained
I've worked in a uni library for longer than the caller has been alive. There are studies on the effect of the internet in general on youth, but for the longest time, it was stuck behind an insane paywall. I would encourage anyone listening to seek out legitimate open source peer reviewed resources. I can say that most uni/college libraries have a subject guide to those sources, and how to evaluate them objectively. As a non US person, the funding for public school is so gross there. Here, it goes by population, not postal (zip) code.
I think it's making plenty of young men and young women dumb and right wing. Many of the youth are unfortunately being dumbed down because of the de-funding of education.
When I was young they blamed television.
Yes. The texhnilogy these influencers use makes it easy for brainwashing. Back in my grandpa day a cult needed word of mouth andnreal charisma!
Yep, hence the crazy cults and ott religious I-cons.
So great to hear such well informed and politically aware young folks. A ray of light.
What a really nice guy, his parents have done a good job. I’m hopeful because of the young. A note though, I’m a white 76 year old British woman. I always agree with Emma, always. I don’t listen to mainstream media any more, trust me I miss the BBC. We’re not all right wing imbeciles. We all need to keep the faith. Just you young people out there don’t go right on your journey through life. It appears to happen, but maybe social media will help avoid this. Oh that young man warms the cockles of my heart. This has made my day.
Michael continues to make a difference ❤
Still such a shame he left us
Absolutely. These social media sites are like technocratic countries where people don’t find the need to engage outside of them, as their engagements in social media surpasses any engagement in their real lives.
Technology isn't the root cause of any of that though. Capitalism is.
I always wondered who lived in that Star Market over the highway
The internet of old was vastly better than the scam and ad filled garbage pile we have now.
How do you get to call into MR?
High school teacher here: yes.
Thank you for your service, but unironically.
No, technology is not the problem here. The root cause of these issues is capitalism.
Emma - Can you please add some context to your comment at the end of this video concerning The Young Turks and the Cenk Uygur and Sam Harris debate? I completely understand the reference to Bill Maher, but wasn't sure what you were implying with the first part of that comment. Thank you!
I think we hate TYT now... I don't know
How does that make sense? Didn't Emma work with them? I really hope we're not supporting "all or nothing" types of collaboration and views. We'll never get anywhere with that.@@albertaguilar1059
You actually don't have to say dumb, right wing describes it perfectly, the dumb is assumed.
"Tech" is absolutely not doing this.
My kid is very into "tech" and is very far left.
Parents are the ones to hold accountable.
And that goes both ways - right and left.
And if parents don't pay any attention to their children, they are going to lean towards their friends' views.
Loved this video. It really makes me wonder if the majority report should try to do more to pull in younger viewers. I'm 37 and I can definitely relate to everything that was discussed in this video. It's concerning that the right is attempting to pull in more young people who feel isolated and forgotten. I know how hard it was for me to grow up and I can't even imagine what it's like for kids today. My hope is that younger people haven't lost hope for a brighter future and most will naturally gravitate towards the left.
The MR has a lot of senior citizens and grand parents viewing as they relate to the channel and since they are retired, they have free time to view the channel. The MR does need to freshen up the set and background to appeal to younger audiences. The 18-35 age group goes for appearance over anything else. Look at Coffeezilla's dynamic background. It is one of the best and draws in a much wider audience even though some of the younger viewers don't really understand some of the stuff he talks about.
I’m a tech progressive, in a community loaded mostly with tech progressives. I think right wingers are using tech to recruit, but tech itself isn’t switching people over. A great many of us want UBI and for Automation to shift towards public utility. And when AI is capable of networking, we wanna crowd source things in that direction, away from late stage capitalism.
There's no such thing as a tech progressive. While you might identify ideologically with the left, the ICT infrastructure is the ultimate manifestation of a capirtalist extractive economy. You can make all the claims about democratizing information that you want, but the cloud still depends on massive outlays of capital and land acquisiiton, not to mention the minerals required to make the devices.
@@whowantstorunforpresident5531 Everything relies on massive outlays of capital... we have a capitalist system... the tech itself isn't the root of that problem in the slightest. As far as 'the minerals required to make the devices' goes, how is that any worse than any other resources used for literally anything...?
@@OscarLangleySoryu OP literally stated tech progressives can steer us "away" from capitalism, which is nonsense, precisely because tech - specifically these mass communication/surveillance technologies - are a feature of the capitalist system. And as far as the minerals, it is not that it is any different, it is just more of the same. Much more, actually. And, in many ways, worse because they are used for completely unecessary applications like the Apple Vision Pro and all the other mass consumer prodiucts nobody really needs.
Well from my anecdotal experience all the programmers I've met r "centrist" or libertarian. Never met a progressive one, but I do know a progressive electrical engineer
This just shows that the right has a better message
I remember when I used to fight pop-up ads instead of fascists on the internet. Ah, the good old days...
I receive my information by way of wisdom, memory, and having spent seven decades on this rock, the old adage of "garbage in , garbage out " seems particularly apt these days.
I worry about the algorithmic siloing of individuals… it is already happening. These feedback loops have no guardrails, so people are led into these intellectual cocoons requiring no critical thought.
Black Muslim here, I support Nick Fuentes
A 35 year old does not remember the pre-internet 😅
I do at 36
I wanna say yes to the title in terms of the tech industry at large
I also believe our built environment plays a big factor into how not only young kids but also older folks are trapped at home in suburbs with stroads being hostile to anyone outside of a car.
Shout out to the Newton Star Market over the Mass Pike
As a sixty five year old, I have both hope and despair in the future. We or at least you all will see what happens. Keep up the good work. 😇
As far as ‘dumber’, let’s not forget public school. I live in mn, which is supposedly one of the best educated states in the country. Literally 40% of students can’t read at grade level. Forty. Percent. 😬😬😬
Growing up without smartphones and social media was wonderful. I feel absolutely terrible for kids growing up today.
MAN has that dude ever got DSL. And I ain't talkin' bout his internet connection.
I had an hour long debate wit my college advisor about accelerationism. It started with us talking aboutthe oculus glasses and i had the same perspective as the caller.
I like to use ready player one as a example but my college prof literally argued that "the "stacks" were ok because the virtual world had everything people wanted" i was legit flabbergasted.
Shoutout to the caller, sounds like a bright young man🙏🏾
Some of us viewers of your show are in our 60's Emma 😀 It hurt to type that 😉😂
"Centrist Pivot" would be a fantastic name for some shoegaze or odd-ambient band.
Wasn’t there just a study exploring how younger people overall get more progressive because women are becoming more progressive while young men are more and more conservative… incidentally it was a topic on Maher‘s overtime 😂
Here's why that I'd, women are being more catered to and told to never take responsibility for anything and men are told that their terrible for existing. Then again, that's been going on since I was in high school in 2001.
@@Violent_Wolfen sure, because being told we’re responsible for being s****** assaulted by men, and men’s behavior is somehow our fault, is totally US being absolved of all responsibility. Right. It was our fault because we dressed a certain way, of course! And having less control over politics, media, and pop culture than men is also is being “catered to.” Being taken less seriously by doctors, and having medicine barely study our bodies properly, instead using male bodies as the default regardless of the danger this puts women in, is also us being “catered to,” hm? I could go on. Nobody’s saying you’re terrible for being born male, people are simply starting to hold men accountable for your actions, and you’re not used to that. So it feels like oppression. Even having a 50/50 split between male and female characters in a movie will have men screeing “WE’RE BEING REPLACED!” The fragility.
Yes. Women are waking up to the fact that most men do not see us as equals. And men are doubling down on it, because they’re so used to privilege, that women wanting equality feels like oppression to them. Men being held accountable for their actions, instead of getting to blame women for their own behaviour, feels to them like “women evading accountability.” It’s often projection.
I'll be 49 on May 4th. So, when I was younger, I remember just get information from Newspapers, Magazines, Books, libraries, local TV, VHF and UHF channels, and eventually cable.
Why aren't we romanticizing 'the internet of old'? It WAS literally better.
What a great call : )
You guys make me feel sane thank you all at MR
Also lol Emma and me got something in common... Dang boomer azz parents not understanding Gaza haha.
But for some strange reason it has had the opposite effect on young women
Because they already knew what was going on. Men , we are so used to being the status qou and being catered too, we are living in denial. We don’t worry about rape , gratuitous sexual advances, low grade to violent harassment.
@@peterthegreat996 👆absolutely
I work at Chipotle. I am semi retired Sam's age. I work with a lot of kids. The GM is 25 the crew between 14- 22 one lady in her 60s. I find what I need most is an interpreter. Lol. But I always keep in mind what my parents use to tell me and my sister's music was weird or crude and our friends were same as above. I remember thinking this is the real actual generation gap. Right in front of me. Now fir a secont time in my life except it's from the opposite point of view, Never will I be a fuddy duddy. Thanks for being a young voice of reason and composure. It goes a long way to restore my confidence in future generations. Good luck young man.
Chipotle food is very good. The only thing I would change is not charging extra for the chips. Other comparable priced places like Moe's gives you chips without an additional charge.
@@maxpowers123 they are cheep bro. Like super cheep. No rases, poor conditions, largely underdeveloped crew. Child labor issues, wadge theft, very low hours. I might consider it a slow motion train wreck. We currently have an investigation going on at my place for a couple and and an other person getting sick from likely undercooked or bad product. Let's just say you are encouraged to use everything. Including day befor leftovers of protein. Just a thought.
@@mikeseymour1792 It's not just the fast food establishments with questionable food and conditions. I remember a five star restaurant getting closed down by the health dept/inspectors for several violations serious enough to close them down until everything was fixed. Gordon Ramsey would have had a good rant over that if it was a Hell's Kitchen episode.
That Apple vision pro looks ridiculous how did it make it to market? 😮😊
It looks like the Ready Player One headset
@@adrenalinflowI think, because of how tech spaces have people who do not have media or irony literacy, that's kind of the point
three trillion dollar market capitalization.
Michael’s work lives on!
Short answer: yes.
If anything the algorithm makes some people stupid!
I've seen teenage males emboldened to be horrendously misogynistic and verbally abusive in public here in the UK, like I never thought I'd see. 😕
The mainstream is advocating female sexual immorality as the key to undoing the female oppression of history. Except young men and boys to be on their worst behavior when there is not a single faction of the left with a single shred of resistance to the encouragement of sexual immorality in women.
That and their whiny narcissistic sense of entitlement.
Tech has actually enlightened lots of folks & has allowed you to learn a broad multitude of things from within the palm of yr hands or seat at a desk.
Good call!
Left is best!
Thanks!
So Oldy here. I grew up in the 60s so have seen vast changes but I've managed to keep up with most. What I feel empathy for is the Younger generations as they are now facing a Lack of time. We were lucky we had time to wait and think through what we saw on TV or heard on Radio in our Family Bubble then the next day discuss it with our Peers armed with out families take on events. Now it's the Individual being shown Advertising 24/7 and access to endless Media, News Entertainment etc and immediately sharing that with their peer group which will be a defined bubble by the time they are in their teens. So no Filters, No time for Critical Thinking and because there is TOO much information thrown at people they become tribal to try and make sense of their world. Stupidity and Immaturity Rate and that is clearly shown in MSM/Cable and on the Net. Advertising is everything and everyone has to perform to be noticed. Children can have a Phone from a young age for Safety but not an Internet connected one until they are in their teens and they have been taught to critically think through what they are seeing. They can go on a Computer at home to do Schoolwork with hopefully some type of Parental Filter. Advertising is Given too much access and Creedence. It's simply has only two tricks Indoctrination and Annoyance. Limit Advertising and give People time to think.
Yes, social media is arguably doing more harm than good, unfortunately, but hopefully I am wrong about this...
Social media may be but you do realize the right winger on all media is to blame more then just social media.
Social media isn't the cause of this harm though. That is capitalism.
@@margotpreston This is true too.
@@gamervox1707 neoliberalism's co-opting of progressive causes whilst promoting business ontology has been a lethal wound upon left-wing discourse in general...
@@margotpreston capitalism/neoliberalism, plausibly the root cause of the issues with social media, no one would be surprised at that....
The caller totally tracks with my own kids about the same age "finding" re: Shapiro et al.
I was on an enlightened centrist arc become finding the MR lol