Reviewing Ben Shapiro's Garbage Short Story Collection

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  • @UnicornofWar
    @UnicornofWar 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1490

    Why would Ben Shapiro write and release such horrific fiction?
    The answer is simple: "I though the money would enough."

    • @ingnewton
      @ingnewton 4 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      This comment would enough

    • @tvremote9394
      @tvremote9394 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      I don't upvote a lot of comments, but I would do it multiple times if I could for this one

    • @ICantRecognizeCelebrities
      @ICantRecognizeCelebrities 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@ingnewton That's what you thik

    • @BimLanders
      @BimLanders 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I legit lol'ed

    • @OneEyeShadow
      @OneEyeShadow 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Isn't he a failed Hollywood writer or something? He probably just likes doing it and is lucky that he has an audience that isn't too picky as long as his themes are conservative value affirming. Also money.

  • @choo-choo4922
    @choo-choo4922 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2177

    Ben's idea of socialist utopia:
    >work meaningless job
    >be isolated from others because everything feels impermanent
    >be oppressed by police
    >suffer through monotonous culture
    >be forced to think you are happy (or act like it)
    >diversity is punished
    >be subject to social Darwinist societal engineering
    Almost like Ben thinks America is a socialist utopia.

    • @HeadGodoftheGodCouncil
      @HeadGodoftheGodCouncil 4 ปีที่แล้ว +228

      The Irony here is:
      *>be oppressed by police* is what the right does, they want a more militarized police..

    • @adeer87
      @adeer87 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      Choo-Choo
      You’re completely right, but on the other hand, your pfp is going to give me nightmares.

    • @AlteredNova04
      @AlteredNova04 4 ปีที่แล้ว +180

      For real, this absurd dishonest "parody" of a Socialist Utopia is basically an only slightly exaggerated description of living as a lower class minority in modern capitalist America.

    • @quorryraphael9980
      @quorryraphael9980 4 ปีที่แล้ว +96

      @@AlteredNova04 don't you get it? Benny's saying a socialist Utopia is where everyone is living as a minority in the United States. He truly has a magnificent brain, that he keeps in an oversized magic 8 ball and shakes to get ideas for his stories.

    • @raycearcher5794
      @raycearcher5794 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Winston already loved Big Brother. As a result he didn't have much going on. Then everybody got hydrogen bombed.

  • @CoryMck
    @CoryMck 4 ปีที่แล้ว +707

    Britney spears was still a teenager herself in the 90s. *A miniature Britney Spears is a preteen.*

    • @UwU-xk5cx
      @UwU-xk5cx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Ohh shut

    • @josh-oo
      @josh-oo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +115

      Married to a college student six months later. Sounds like Ben's got some dark desires.

    • @CoryMck
      @CoryMck 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      @@josh-oo bench appearo couldn't have any desires darker than Ecru, he doesn't respect black people and he can't even admit that rap is music.
      P.s. I can say that, I'm black, don't @ me.

    • @josh-oo
      @josh-oo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@CoryMck That was a decent response. Got a mild chuckle outta me.

    • @TheEnoEtile
      @TheEnoEtile 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@CoryMck @

  • @hamzasr6501
    @hamzasr6501 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1339

    who else isnt surprised the only female characters aren't characters (or people) at all but instead plot devices for the male characters 😐

    • @hamzasr6501
      @hamzasr6501 4 ปีที่แล้ว +161

      shows how ben views women but you'd only need to listen to him speak for about 5 seconds to know what a misogynist he is

    • @ICantRecognizeCelebrities
      @ICantRecognizeCelebrities 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      @@hamzasr6501 He's very disdainful of feminism.

    • @verybarebones
      @verybarebones 4 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      I am shocked, do you hear? Shocked.

    • @benjaminkiaunis
      @benjaminkiaunis 4 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      @@soumilroy A doctor you say? I don't believe li'l Benny has ever mentioned that, ever. Not once.

    • @yltraviole
      @yltraviole 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Exactly what I was thinking.

  • @SarahZ
    @SarahZ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +302

    Watching this video and gradually realizing plot point by plot point that the second story was an abortion metaphor is a trip

    • @JoseBird
      @JoseBird  3 ปีที่แล้ว +103

      I still remember the chat during the premiere. Just a series of people going "Oh nooooo"

    • @SarahZ
      @SarahZ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      @@JoseBird i got to 'the whale asks the doctor to kill him' and the abject horror dawned on me

  • @briangriffin5359
    @briangriffin5359 4 ปีที่แล้ว +768

    He writes like someone who has only ever watched t.v.

    • @luna-p
      @luna-p 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Spot on

    • @adeer87
      @adeer87 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Nailed it.

    • @VeryHotBantman
      @VeryHotBantman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      I feel personally attacked....

    • @exploderwrestlingpodcast2721
      @exploderwrestlingpodcast2721 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Don't blame this on TV, he's also a religious zealot asshole who idolizes right wing assholes.

    • @kazaddum2448
      @kazaddum2448 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Which is hilarious considering the jobs of his parents.

  • @cataptromantia6831
    @cataptromantia6831 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1056

    Omg Ben Shapiro has a vore fetish.

    • @adeer87
      @adeer87 4 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      Nurse With A Curse
      *deviantArt has entered the chat*

    • @leepinlepin
      @leepinlepin 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Yes.....yes he does.

    • @TTTristan1
      @TTTristan1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      I've only listened to the first story in the video and now I'm terrified.
      *EDIT* : So vore = abortion. I didnt expect any less.

    • @danatronics9039
      @danatronics9039 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      owo

    • @Hayden_Cat
      @Hayden_Cat 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      UwU

  • @n.l.g.6401
    @n.l.g.6401 4 ปีที่แล้ว +374

    One thing I don't understand is how "equal rights and access to resources" translates to "we must make everyone exactly the same." This isn't the first time I've seen that particular batshit take appear in an anti-socialist short story, and it flabbergasts me every time.

    • @normtrooper4392
      @normtrooper4392 4 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      Conservatives have to do a lot to justify how they don't care about people, and think being selfish should be everyone's core philosophy despite what they preach about family and community. To them, everyone must be an island with power deciding the pecking order

    • @verybarebones
      @verybarebones 4 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      Because rights and resources, in their mind, are linked to "deserving" them through specific traits rather than about simply being a human being.

    • @dinosaysrawr
      @dinosaysrawr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Vonnegut and Rod Serling have managed to pull of compelling stories about equality taken to absurd extremes. Others, not so much.

    • @TheSongwritingCat
      @TheSongwritingCat 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Because they want to buy into a fallacy that even in a utopia without corruption where resources can be evenly divided, it will somehow lead to greater poverty. Basically, income inequality is not the result of an unfair system that enables the greed of a small percentage of the population but an inevitability because there is simply not enough food, wealth, etc. to go around. So really, who cares how we organize it? And similarly, success is determined by genetics and real racial and gender differences and not a history of systemic oppression or any kind of context like that so there's no point in trying to remedy any of it because you'd have to breed the "smart" out of "some" people to put everyone on the same level.

    • @devonmunn5728
      @devonmunn5728 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It is funny because that's what bigots want so it's projection

  • @adkeysimarie6822
    @adkeysimarie6822 4 ปีที่แล้ว +962

    This man can NOT write. Who lied to him? And also the last story is literally Brave New World and that's plagarism.

    • @nergregga
      @nergregga 4 ปีที่แล้ว +133

      I don't think he listens to anyone's opinion but his own. After all we are just poor losers who could never reach his level of supreme destroyer of college students.

    • @trafalgarla
      @trafalgarla 4 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      The second story is probably heavily "inspired" by Judith Jarvis Thompson's violinist argument too

    • @no_peace
      @no_peace 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      I was gonna say
      We've all read brave new world Ben

    • @sholem_bond
      @sholem_bond 4 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      I'm offended on Aldous Huxley's behalf.

    • @Gripen1974
      @Gripen1974 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      i say it is the Chinese knock of of Aldos Huxleys Brave New World, you know the dollar store version.

  • @fulcrumthebrave5715
    @fulcrumthebrave5715 4 ปีที่แล้ว +478

    I can just imagine Ben Shapiro constantly going "and let's say" while writing these books.

    • @fruitygarlic3601
      @fruitygarlic3601 4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      And let's say, for the sake of the metaphor, he vores him...

    • @eliasbischoff176
      @eliasbischoff176 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Maybe that's why the stories were so poorly written. There actually was an editor, but they were preoccupied with crossing out the 897 "let's say"s in the stories

    • @redblaze8700
      @redblaze8700 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Let’s say, hypothetically, he though the stories would be good 😆

  • @ILikedGooglePlus
    @ILikedGooglePlus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +403

    I keep giving up on my dream of being a writer because I think I'll never be good enough to get anything published. But thanks Ben Sharpie, I've never felt so good about my stories

    • @TheEnoEtile
      @TheEnoEtile 4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      Real note just keep writing. It's the only way to improve. There's probably writers work shops and classes at the local community college or online you can take to help you improve too. The best way to become a writer is to write.

    • @angelasmith5019
      @angelasmith5019 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      If that doesn’t last anymore I recommend 50 shades of grey. I don’t write but at least I have the confidence now that I can’t do worse....

    • @adeer87
      @adeer87 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Also, consider listening to long reviews of Onision’s terrible novels. Your confidence will be infinitely boosted. This I swear.

    • @KaiHenningsen
      @KaiHenningsen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@angelasmith5019 Wasn't that the one that was a fan-fiction of Twilight, which in turn is often thought to be a fan-fic of some part of the Buffy-verse?

    • @adeer87
      @adeer87 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ryne green
      If I have to know, then you have to know. I don’t want to suffer alone.

  • @louisrusso8799
    @louisrusso8799 4 ปีที่แล้ว +479

    I’m gonna sleep well tonight knowing my 12 year old sister is a better writer than Ben Shapiro

    • @jacob7649
      @jacob7649 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      So she writes better then you lol

    • @brippadedp4188
      @brippadedp4188 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      @@jacob7649 than not then

    • @RipTheJackR
      @RipTheJackR 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      You just had to attack his wife, classless. She's a doctor, you know?

    • @jacob7649
      @jacob7649 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@brippadedp4188 hey kid if the autocorrect says its then than its then you dumb caboose

    • @brippadedp4188
      @brippadedp4188 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@jacob7649 i literally never insulted you in my comment, just pointed out a common mistake. No need to be so rude about it. Get a life and go take a nap asshole

  • @Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat
    @Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat 4 ปีที่แล้ว +382

    Why do I feel like the mother who is nothing more than a burden on her family and has no characterization says a lot about ben's views on women?

    • @jacob7649
      @jacob7649 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's just a story

    • @mgg7756
      @mgg7756 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      His wife is a doctor

    • @elvingearmasterirma7241
      @elvingearmasterirma7241 4 ปีที่แล้ว +101

      @@jacob7649 Writer and artist here
      Youd be surprised how much can be revealed about the author through their work. Especially if its a repeat thing.
      Or he is just a really really REALLY shitty writer. Honestly with Benny boy, it can be either, or both....
      Its probably both.

    • @anenemystand5582
      @anenemystand5582 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@elvingearmasterirma7241 yes let us psychoanalyze the angry gnome.

    • @paulelkin3531
      @paulelkin3531 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @@anenemystand5582 That's horrific. Why would ever say such a vile thing about gnomes?

  • @komrookmetmy465
    @komrookmetmy465 4 ปีที่แล้ว +437

    Shapiro's thought process is just a weird amalgam of Ayn Rand philosophy, Old Testament fundamentalism, and intense sexual frustration.

    • @OneEyeShadow
      @OneEyeShadow 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      But his wife's a doctor.

    • @thebrutusmars
      @thebrutusmars 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Flo
      I don’t believe you. He would’ve told me!

    • @suezuccati304
      @suezuccati304 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      The way he overly describes muscular tall and sweaty men and never gives any description for any female character (seriously, we barely get hair color descriptions), just tickles me a bit too much to say he's a self loathing repressed gay guy

    • @redblaze8700
      @redblaze8700 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      He wants to say that he loves AOC, but his conservative programming won’t allow it 😆

    • @TheDarthbinky
      @TheDarthbinky 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      "and never gives any description for any female character (seriously, we barely get hair color descriptions)"
      Hey now, he did describe that one girl as a miniature Britney Spears!

  • @MCain-ky2yv
    @MCain-ky2yv 4 ปีที่แล้ว +556

    "Tommy responds by turning into a character from an Ayn Rand novel"
    god save us all

    • @jeffengel2607
      @jeffengel2607 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      It does make sense of leaving mom to die in a fire - she's a parasite and he's nobly selfish.

    • @Fluffkitscripts
      @Fluffkitscripts 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      God save us all

    • @tompatterson1548
      @tompatterson1548 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      There is a reason why I haven't read Rand. It's just bad writing.

  • @reuteratwork8983
    @reuteratwork8983 4 ปีที่แล้ว +534

    K, so the "What's Fair" thing is really just a slap-in-the-face insult to farmers, isn't it? I mean, he straight up says that Tom is a miserable failure who's done nothing w/ his life -- but he also says that Tom has been running the farm, while Jim just tinkers in the barn -- so, he's saying that running a farm [successfully, obviously -- otherwise, there would've been mention of how the farm was failing] is "nothing"...that caring for an aging, infirm parent is "nothing" -- y'know, I thought those rightwingers are all gung-ho on the farmers of America, how they're the "real Americans", & deserve respect -- & I thought rightwingers promoted family values, like taking care of your parents when they get old -- guess I was mistaken...

    • @TheDanishGuyReviews
      @TheDanishGuyReviews 4 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      I think they're more gung-ho on the money the farms bring in. And l'm guessing family values is a way for them to keep people in line, somehow.

    • @justinhille8151
      @justinhille8151 4 ปีที่แล้ว +90

      Sounds to me like Jim was completely dependent on Tom and Emmy. They ran the farm by themselves and allowed him to be able to spend all his time on his plow. I don't see how Jim was taking care of Tom in this case, I'd say it was the other way around.

    • @reuteratwork8983
      @reuteratwork8983 4 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      @@justinhille8151 - Yes, exactly -- Shapiro is a moron, who doesn't even realize that his story presents the opposite concept of what he thinks it does -- he also thinks that people who lose beachfront property due to rising oceans can just sell their underwater houses & move -- he has pure mush for brains...

    • @reuteratwork8983
      @reuteratwork8983 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@TheDanishGuyReviews - I was being facetious -- I know that it's all a bunch of empty rightwing virtue-signaling -- lip service to values that they don't actually hold -- like how they howl about the deficit, until they get a chance to explode it by passing huge tax breaks for the wealthy, & then they're all, like, "Deficits? So what" -- but then, after they pass the tax breaks & explode the deficit, they wait a little while, & then want to point to the deficit as a reason why they absolutely, positively, must must must cut social services!!! They are absolutely disgusting creatures...

    • @justinhille8151
      @justinhille8151 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@reuteratwork8983 I wonder if he's actually that stupid or just pandering to his audience. It's still a fact that he went to Harvard. His answer on beachfront property makes so little sense I just can't believe he would actually buy into it.

  • @369TurtleMan
    @369TurtleMan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +215

    Kemp knows the tumor is deadly because his wife is a doctor.

    • @JunoAuerWatson
      @JunoAuerWatson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Kemp however does not know that vaginas can get wet. Unless of course a yeast infection is involved.

    • @fairsaa7975
      @fairsaa7975 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@JunoAuerWatson "My wives P word is perfectly dry"

  • @wiseguymotionpictures1416
    @wiseguymotionpictures1416 4 ปีที่แล้ว +238

    If only Ben’s wife was a doctor, she could have told him that cauterizing with acid wasn’t possible. I imagine in real life if we had the technology to shrink humans down to the size of mites to shoot them to death, we’d be just as capable of starting with the robots. We’ve had AI in one form or another for a long time, still working on the shrink ray.

    • @frenchguitarguy1091
      @frenchguitarguy1091 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      If we want to be really pedantic we can point out that shrinking humans to that size would result in them instantly freezing to death as the smaller size lowers the bodys natural heat production- as shrinking exponentially decreases the overall volume- conversely supersizing an animal would actually make it overheat and possibly explode.

    • @Sam-lr9oi
      @Sam-lr9oi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@frenchguitarguy1091 also as explained in that one episode of DS9, all the air molecules are still the same size and would be way too big to work with tiny organs, but maybe that's what the "Halos" were for in Bens book. so then they just slowly suffocate instead of immediately dying due to being tiny

    • @Cubannerd
      @Cubannerd 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I think his wife is a doctor. XD

    • @crimsonlanceman7882
      @crimsonlanceman7882 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I have a shrink ray right here, I'll let you try it out, but you have to buy me a McDonalds vegan sandvich.

    • @wiseguymotionpictures1416
      @wiseguymotionpictures1416 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Sam-lr9oi but tiny things also have respiratory systems that don’t explode don’t they? Where’s an expert on microorganisms when you need one?

  • @byronnotbryon8605
    @byronnotbryon8605 4 ปีที่แล้ว +270

    Is it me or does Shapiro seem to like men dominating each other.

    • @adeer87
      @adeer87 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      ByronnotBryon
      ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

    • @celticcomrade9957
      @celticcomrade9957 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      ByronnotBryon These books are basically an insight into his disturbed mind lol

    • @peterprime2140
      @peterprime2140 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I mean, same.

    • @pulpil10
      @pulpil10 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I think he has a woman mindet

    • @useroffline9999
      @useroffline9999 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Ben is lowkey sugar gay

  • @bsol510
    @bsol510 4 ปีที่แล้ว +372

    Why is Ben’s fictional writing always so homoerotic?

    • @adeer87
      @adeer87 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      *Why is no one talking about the mouthfeel?*

    • @verybarebones
      @verybarebones 4 ปีที่แล้ว +126

      It's the inevitable consequence when women arent allowed to be people. All the spicy character interactions happen between men.

    • @Mish844
      @Mish844 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Comparing it to conservative work of fiction in my country I'm seeing a theme - poorly thought, poorly written, and unmasking how silly their imagination about left wing is.

    • @PancakemonsterFO4
      @PancakemonsterFO4 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @Filthy acts at a reasonable price goinc for the good ol brojoy, ay? No homo tho

    • @iz2333
      @iz2333 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Ben caught the big gey

  • @zakkizer2490
    @zakkizer2490 4 ปีที่แล้ว +430

    So not only is Ben a bad writer, but he's also incredibly derivative. Rip-offs of East of Eden, Fantastic Voyage and Ayn Rand's Anthem with Ben's garbage politics crammed into them (or more so, in the case of the latter)

    • @apuffin9545
      @apuffin9545 4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      Who would've thought a conservative would be uncreative.

    • @zakkizer2490
      @zakkizer2490 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      A Puffin if you’re gonna do nothing but preach to your audience, at least come up with something original

    • @firetarrasque4667
      @firetarrasque4667 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @Kylem I take offense to that.
      Ben is a regressive, not a conservative. He is worse.

    • @Painocus
      @Painocus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      And Anthem was already a rip-off of Zamyatin's We. For people who claim to value capitalism and individual ingenuity like Ben and Rand, they seem to be ripping off a socialist a whole lot.

    • @PancakemonsterFO4
      @PancakemonsterFO4 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      But, but *Abortion*

  • @CandGoods
    @CandGoods 4 ปีที่แล้ว +293

    "From the Pit" just sounds like Ben writing about his vore fetish.

    • @sebicmiel4221
      @sebicmiel4221 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @Toori Baba
      What makes you think she's a leftist?

    • @puppable
      @puppable 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @Toori Baba you know how to pick your fights, don't you

    • @OneEyeShadow
      @OneEyeShadow 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @Toori Baba pretty sure Ben is right wing.

    • @AVGgrendelmain
      @AVGgrendelmain 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I agree. Perhaps I need to lift my mind from the gutter but this just seems like micro vore to me.

    • @xXKris_DreemurrXx
      @xXKris_DreemurrXx 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@AVGgrendelmain I think the fact that he loses his fucking clothes while inside the stomach is a dead giveaway💀

  • @embasorangiratina36
    @embasorangiratina36 4 ปีที่แล้ว +208

    Here's the summary of this book:
    1st story: Cain and Able ripoff.
    2nd story: The story of Jonah meets the High Priestess battle.
    3rd story: Anthem x meth lab Logan's run.

    • @embasorangiratina36
      @embasorangiratina36 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @Antiochus YES! IT IS!

    • @JackgarPrime
      @JackgarPrime 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      You made that last one sound way more intersting than it actually is.

    • @zoushaomenohu
      @zoushaomenohu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      3rd story also has a BAD understanding of Kurt Vonnegut's short story, Harrison Bergeron.

  • @wolight
    @wolight 4 ปีที่แล้ว +164

    This collection of word salad illustrates the contradiction inherent in modern right-wing thought: You and only you are responsible for how your life turns out, but there's also a Natural Order of the world that cannot be acted against

    • @meowkki4322
      @meowkki4322 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Thus is the mental gymnastics used to justify systematic oppression

    • @lisazoria2709
      @lisazoria2709 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Yeah, I can't get over the inherent hypocrisy, it's so blind.

    • @MrMarinus18
      @MrMarinus18 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's not modern. That contradiction was present in the gilded age of the late 19th century. It just was completely discredited in the great depression. So "Neo-liberalism" really is just an attempt to revive that discredited ideology.

    • @Chrisfb-oo9mr
      @Chrisfb-oo9mr 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's just naturalism, but somehow worse

  • @KOLN555
    @KOLN555 4 ปีที่แล้ว +221

    Utopia: or Brave New World if it were written for the illiterate inhabitants of Brave New World

    • @Marvos79
      @Marvos79 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      It's closer to a ripoff of the Giver. Down to the non existence of mountains and the guy meeting the architect of society. Even finding out about the world of the past. It's a blatant ripoff. Except the Giver is interesting and thought provoking

    • @davilaelian
      @davilaelian 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@Marvos79 it’s almost like Ben Shapiro read the giver in 6th grade, forgot absolutely everything that made it good, and decided to rewrite it.

  • @GanguroKonata
    @GanguroKonata 4 ปีที่แล้ว +429

    No
    Mountains
    In
    Socialism

    • @reuteratwork8983
      @reuteratwork8983 4 ปีที่แล้ว +101

      Right, because mountains can elevate one person above another, get it? Do you get it? It's really deep & insightful, but do you get it? No mountains, no valleys, in socialist utopia, because that can put some people higher or lower than each other -- & that's not allowed!!!! Get it?! Do you get it?! DO YOU GET IT?!?!
      & they live in A BUBBLE!!! Get it?! Do ya?!?! Ben put a lot of thought into this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @charliedawson4877
      @charliedawson4877 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      You just don't get it, man.

    • @malikanthony1149
      @malikanthony1149 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Reuter Atwork Hierarchy makes me hard

    • @johannageisel5390
      @johannageisel5390 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@malikanthony1149 Are you a granite mountain?

    • @NimhLabs
      @NimhLabs 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Welcome to Night Vale

  • @bimbowithadegree420
    @bimbowithadegree420 4 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    Things i will ever understand about Ben Shapiro:
    1) He believes in small government yet believes they should have authority to mess with people's body and whether or not they can love each other;
    2) he is meant to only care about the *facts* yet can't make any fact based argument against abortion and gay marriage (no ben, using your religion is not using facts its using arbitrary *feelings* and morals codes)
    3) he doesn't believe that any discrimination could ever exist in the West, aside from anti-semitism because that is supposedly everywhere, unlike say racism or sexism.
    4) he is taken as an authority on politics and policy, WITH NO BACKGROUND IN THESE AREAS. Ben studied *law* at univeristy, not politics, not international relations, not even sociology. Why is he taken as an authority?

    • @SorowFame
      @SorowFame 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      You have to understand that by “facts don’t care about your feelings” he’s not including himself in that “your”. Facts definitely care about his feelings.

    • @LineOfThy
      @LineOfThy หลายเดือนก่อน

      he has a total of 0 losses on his record because he only targets inexperienced people and loves talking over others.
      See it doesn't matter if you make sense or not as long as you sound smart and people want to believe you.

    • @heywoodjablome5380
      @heywoodjablome5380 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@LineOfThySo to debating what Andrew Tate was to kickboxing?

    • @danbongard3226
      @danbongard3226 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Ben Shapiro "believes in small government" only inasmuch as there are a limited number of things he wants the government to do. "Force his social and religious beliefs onto everybody else" is on that short list.
      He absolutely does not believe in the small government of classical liberalism, i.e. a government that leaves people free to pursue their own happiness and goals.

  • @adeer87
    @adeer87 4 ปีที่แล้ว +358

    Please make this reading-terrible-books thing a series. I love this trash.
    Edit: “The pain is starting to feel good.”
    José I don’t want to kinkshame, but reading Shapiro’s writing is one kind of masochism that I cannot condone.
    Edit edit: *I t h o u g h t h e m o n e y w o u l d e n o u g h*

    • @themusicaljunkie37
      @themusicaljunkie37 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I say aye for that

    • @andylawlzz
      @andylawlzz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Though*

    • @rexappleby4731
      @rexappleby4731 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Check out Jenny Nicholson, she's hilarious and reads awful books too and she's vaguely left wing.

    • @Lexivor
      @Lexivor 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Also check out 372 Pages We'll Never Get Back, a bad book podcast with Mike Nelson from MST3K.

    • @adeer87
      @adeer87 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Lexivor
      I’ll check that out! Thanks!
      Rex Appleby
      Jenny is awesome, that reminds me that I still need to watch her Joker review...

  • @andyhoov
    @andyhoov 4 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    I'm not even finished, but I have to jump in here. The second story is clearly about a rich man literally consuming his worker and when faced with the opportunity to save that worker through something that is only a minor inconvenience for himself, he'd rather let the worker suffer and die. In his strange, roundabout way of trying to make an abortion metaphor, Shapiro actually made a story that reads much more coherently as a leftist parable. Hell, we can even throw in there how the worker is only in this situation because he driven by economic necessity to fight an utterly pointless war that only benefits the whims of the Whale. PLUS, his position is obviously at risk of being lost to automation.
    And that first story presents plenty of other issues. From the sounds of it, their mother probably would have benefited from a stronger social welfare system that could have provided the family better financial and medical support. Also, let's not forget how the "dumb" brother was screwed over by the exploitative college sports system in the US. Essentially, he was injured while performing a job meant to generate profit from the school and is then punished for it by the loss of scholarships. Once again, this story could easily be written from a leftist perspective without much alteration.

    • @Zaprozhan
      @Zaprozhan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Well said! As another commentator said, Ben, being the author, still cannot generate a scenario where his ideology is correct.

    • @OneEyeShadow
      @OneEyeShadow 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I'm almost wondering whether Ben has secretly changed his political believes but can't admit to it because it would be financial and social suicide for him. Who knows?

  • @BretGammons
    @BretGammons 4 ปีที่แล้ว +106

    On Thursdays, he goes out and looks at the stars. On Tuesdays, he hooks up with a random woman. And on Wednesdays, he wears pink.

    • @reuteratwork8983
      @reuteratwork8983 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      On Thursdays, he walks up & down his street, kicking the tires of all the parked cars. On Fridays, he spins in place till he feels like he's going to throw up.
      But he doesn't.

    • @MarjaCamargo
      @MarjaCamargo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I was hoping José would make the “on Wednesday, he wears pink” joke. Glad someone did it.

    • @reuteratwork8983
      @reuteratwork8983 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Well, crap -- I thought we were just being random here -- not up on my "Mean Girls" memes -- I'll just go now... :(

    • @davidspears4550
      @davidspears4550 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      On Wednesdays he goes shopping and has buttered scones for tea.

    • @reuteratwork8983
      @reuteratwork8983 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@davidspears4550 - Ahh! A MP reference! Now, *that* , I get! Which goes right back to wearing pink -- because then he puts on women's clothing, & hangs around in bars!

  • @222sundae
    @222sundae 4 ปีที่แล้ว +80

    "Socialism makes everyone into a blank character" doesn't even give the character a name

  • @kupotenshi
    @kupotenshi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +125

    Ben Shapiro probably thinks creative writing/english majors are useless while he writes at the level of 13 year old fangirls on wattpad

    • @unbearablysmug2437
      @unbearablysmug2437 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Dude, that is such an awful thing to say about Fangirls fanfics, they don't even compare

    • @kupotenshi
      @kupotenshi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@unbearablysmug2437 you're right, 13 year old fangirls have more creativity than benny boy

    • @atanvardecunambiel8917
      @atanvardecunambiel8917 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Don’t do “Kidnapped by One Direction” like that!

    • @AVGgrendelmain
      @AVGgrendelmain 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Hey, at least the Wattpad fangirls aren’t producing bizarre abortion metaphors.

    • @DeepForestRex
      @DeepForestRex 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It might not even be an exaggeration to say that most fanfics I’ve read were better written

  • @CFilmer
    @CFilmer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    Unsurprisingly, the only female characters in his stories are wifes and love interests of the male characters.

    • @soundlessorc8O8
      @soundlessorc8O8 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Or just a massive burden on every other character

  • @iainhansen1047
    @iainhansen1047 4 ปีที่แล้ว +210

    As somebody who spends way to much time reading Fanfiction, bens book reads like a really bad Fanfiction written by a 16 year old with way to high of an opinion of his own writing.

    • @KiraDaBeastNY
      @KiraDaBeastNY 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      To be fair, as someone who consumes a lot of fanfiction myself, some fanfiction is absurdly good for being made by hobbyists. But yeah holy shit this stuff is so fucking bad. At least it hasn't gotten to an Onision book's level, that shit is like My Immortal on steroids.

    • @quohime1824
      @quohime1824 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Most fanfiction I consume reads better than this lmao

    • @ICantRecognizeCelebrities
      @ICantRecognizeCelebrities 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      You can always tell which characters are the self-inserts.

    • @adeer87
      @adeer87 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      True. Although bad fanfictions by actual children are more creative than Ben’s. Most of those kids aren’t plagiarizing the Bible.

    • @jacob7649
      @jacob7649 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lol then you pussy boys haven't read onision books yet

  • @suzysquidink
    @suzysquidink 4 ปีที่แล้ว +106

    Think I got the formula down:
    (A long sentence that runs on way too long for it's own good oh god) + (A blissfully medium length sentence) + (2 X EDGY SHORT SENTENCES WOAH) = the Shapiro paragraph

    • @normtrooper4392
      @normtrooper4392 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      You forgot the spelling error that adds a odd twist at the end

    • @thebrutusmars
      @thebrutusmars 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Emilio Singh
      You forgot the spelling air or that adds a twister, the end.**
      Fixed that for you

  • @jackpollard550
    @jackpollard550 4 ปีที่แล้ว +290

    “What’s Fair is the BEST story in this book.”
    Me, with trepidation and fear: ‘You’re only making it worse for yourself!’ ‘Making it worse, how could it get any worse!?’

    • @jackpollard550
      @jackpollard550 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      “This story is about abortion.”
      FUCK OFF. FUCK OFF WITH THIS UTTER NONSENSE; WHO TOLD SHAPIRO HE COULD WRITE? WHO WAS THE GODDAMN FOOL WHO TAUGHT THIS HELIUM-VOICED BASTARD ENGLISH? FUCK.

    • @jackpollard550
      @jackpollard550 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      OH YES. What a TERRIBLE world Socialistic policies will create, where people can eat and don’t have to worry about starving, and the Old Testament - a book infamous for depicting mass murder, slavery, and sexism as holy and righteous things - is forgotten about.

    • @elvingearmasterirma7241
      @elvingearmasterirma7241 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      At first I wanted to soothe you but oh god I got to that part and now I just want to sit with you and share the rage and frustration that part invokes in me
      I dont know who told Benny boy he could write, but they deserve to be fined for inflicting this horror upon this undeserving world.

    • @anfearaerach
      @anfearaerach 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      JEHOVA JEHOVA

  • @ianstratton
    @ianstratton 4 ปีที่แล้ว +165

    I'm surprised Ben didn't reveal the architect of the socialist utopia's name to be "Karl"....

  • @chromaticfrog7407
    @chromaticfrog7407 4 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    no wonder he never sold that TV pilot.

  • @verybarebones
    @verybarebones 4 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    "Each IQ point represented a massive difference in outcome" it..... doesn't... thats not how they work at all...
    Also if everyone is poor, what standard are you using to measure poverty?!

  • @davidpictures6809
    @davidpictures6809 4 ปีที่แล้ว +146

    Ben sharpio destroys your sanity with lies, and strawmen!

    • @yaboi3178
      @yaboi3178 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Shen ANNIHILATES my TH-cam feed with FACTS and COCK'AND'BALL TORTURE

  • @greenakutabi
    @greenakutabi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    A story where a character espouses free will and then discovers religion, a construct in which you are literally told what morality is instead of discovering for yourself is pretty blind.

  • @kolonarulez5222
    @kolonarulez5222 4 ปีที่แล้ว +151

    The last story is like a nazi read The Giver and Anthem then wrote a fan fiction combining the two.

    • @josephsmith2682
      @josephsmith2682 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      That's what I was thinking. Maybe a little Harrison Bergeron in there too

  • @verti2790
    @verti2790 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    i literally cannot get over the extent to which that last story is just the giver (racism remix). lois lowry, please sue this man

  • @nickmccabe2327
    @nickmccabe2327 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    "When I turned back to introduce Em, she was looking at him. They were married six months later."
    So why did Em marry Jim? I'm thinking it was mind control.

    • @Zaprozhan
      @Zaprozhan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Darn LIberal mind control! Allowing women to determine who they will mate with!

  • @DustyMusician
    @DustyMusician 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Ben Shapiro’s collection of short stories, featuring:
    -Tain and Jabel
    -Vore Mpreg Fanfic
    and
    -1984 but like... bad.

  • @Azelanne
    @Azelanne 4 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    That last story has a kind of Russian Sleep Experiment, I'm-14-and-this-is-deep creepypasta vibe, huh

  • @asgarzigel
    @asgarzigel 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    The dust mite story started with a ridiculous premise and somehow got more insane by the second. Anyway, thank you for exposing me to Ben Shapiro's "I want to get vored by a rich daddy" fetish, this was vital information I definitely need to know.

  • @angel-gu8co
    @angel-gu8co 4 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    "miniature britney spears" britney spears *is* the miniature britney spears wtf, that's so gross

    • @adeer87
      @adeer87 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      angel
      It’s kind of creepy.

    • @xxnekonekox
      @xxnekonekox 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Ben Shapiro is a small guy and he needs an even smaller woman to feel validated

    • @moeszyslak3097
      @moeszyslak3097 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      my brain malfunctioned on this line and I couldn't stop thinking about a britney themed miniature horse

  • @billybadass8690
    @billybadass8690 4 ปีที่แล้ว +295

    Imagine plagiarizing The Bible lmao
    Also, the second story sounds a lot like Osmosis Jones

    • @TurbopropPuppy
      @TurbopropPuppy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      don't have to imagine plagiarizing the Bible, just look at Joseph Smith

    • @ahotdamn
      @ahotdamn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      And the third story sounds like a rip off of the Giver. Even down to the old man with books

    • @Kaanfight
      @Kaanfight 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Oh god don’t make me associate Osmosis Jones with this trash. That show didn’t die for this!

    • @PancakemonsterFO4
      @PancakemonsterFO4 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@ahotdamn oh god, he's literally ripping off one of the most well known books in youth literature, i guess the Matrix would have been too obvious and also the mentor figure is black we can't have that in our story now can we?

    • @tarvoc746
      @tarvoc746 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Honestly, there's a lot wrong with what Shapiro produced here, but I can't be mad at him for _that._ One of my own first stories was a rendition of the Book of Job in the context of a fantasy world I was developing. I wanted to try out the implications and ramifications of my own world-building, but I did write it as a genuine short story, not just as an experiment. Adapting material from the Bible isn't even too uncommon in literature, even in "big" literature. Just like the Homerian myths, quite a few of the stories in the Bible simply *are* timeless.

  • @merbst
    @merbst 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    "Why not just write a story that has a better premise?" Uhh the answer is 2 words in the title of the video! "Ben Shapiro"

  • @quirkyblackenby
    @quirkyblackenby 4 ปีที่แล้ว +186

    Did Ben really just tell the story of Cain and Abel like it was brand new and no one would notice?
    Also did Ben use ipecac to represent the abortion pill some people take? You vomit from both but I wonder if Ben knows that vomiting isn’t what aborts the fetus. That’s just a side effect.

    • @adeer87
      @adeer87 4 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      Chinta K
      No you vomit up the fetus, everyone knows that.

    • @briangriffin5359
      @briangriffin5359 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      Exactly. The baby is in the belly. What did you think?

    • @TheEnoEtile
      @TheEnoEtile 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Its more like Cain and Able filtered through Atlas Shrugged. Which is a painful sentence to write.

    • @deesmith4800
      @deesmith4800 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@TheEnoEtile I hope that you are never in a situation that causes you to repeat that sentence

    • @TheEnoEtile
      @TheEnoEtile 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@deesmith4800 I mean I want to say I agree but I do enjoy these deconstructions of Shapiro's "work."

  • @briham86
    @briham86 4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    Just a reminder, Shapiro is the editor in chief of The Daily Wire and former editor at large for Breitbart News. This awful mistake-riddled, clumsy, clichéd writing was made by a guy who calls himself an EDITOR. Remember that next time a right-winger claims capitalism only rewards the deserving and that giving handouts to unqualified people is a terrible idea.

    • @SorowFame
      @SorowFame 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      To be fair Hollywood did reject his scripts and going by this it sure as fuck wasn’t because he’s conservative

    • @tinfoilslacks3750
      @tinfoilslacks3750 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I mean, Ben Shapiro is pretty positive proof that giving undeserved handouts to incompetents *is* a bad idea, considering it's how he got anywhere.

    • @LineOfThy
      @LineOfThy หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@SorowFame probably because his scripts are so painfully unsubtle

  • @exploderwrestlingpodcast2721
    @exploderwrestlingpodcast2721 4 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    Tag line for the second story:
    "It's like Ant-Man...but it sucks."

    • @maxthepaladin2147
      @maxthepaladin2147 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      All three stories are an example of "like x, but it sucks":
      -Cain and Able
      -Ant-man
      -Brave New World

  • @mochithepooh5368
    @mochithepooh5368 4 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    It's like watching an alien trying to write an adventure novel but never actually read adventure novel, instead the alien only read the Bible.

    • @Fluffkitscripts
      @Fluffkitscripts 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      And tHen the JESUS jump kicked the SATAN and saved the girl before the CHOPPA exploded

    • @emilyrln
      @emilyrln 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Fluffkitscripts That sounds more entertaining than BS's bs.

    • @star-miubin
      @star-miubin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      To be fair the Bible does have a lot of action involved. And I am talking Game of Thrones style war and bloodshed.

  • @BinaBecker
    @BinaBecker 4 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    This is not the complete works of Ben Shapiro's fiction. This is just three shitty stories. The rest is everything he says.

    • @soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342
      @soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Does he have any facts?
      Seriously serious question lol.

    • @useroffline9999
      @useroffline9999 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Soyborne. Born, made, and undone by the soy. Every sentence of his begins as “hypothetically” or “let’s just say”
      So noooooope

    • @orion3237
      @orion3237 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@useroffline9999 Fear the old soy

  • @amosaylesworth5128
    @amosaylesworth5128 4 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    In my years of life I have never seen a good piece of conservative or even right wing art

    • @seal6565
      @seal6565 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Outa8mate the nazis had some good artists in it fetishizing volks mysticism and HP Lovecraft was a xenophobic cunt. A lot of human expressions can make for good art, it’s not a matter of weather they’re literal human garbage or not, there is appeal in the expression of human thoughts and emotions. Bapiro is just bad at self expression.

    • @deri101
      @deri101 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Stravinsky was a known fascist, an amazing composer and a huge inspiration (musically) for John Williams. But that's literally the only fascist artist I know and enjoy.

    • @seal6565
      @seal6565 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      deri101 to me what makes some right wingers good artists is their honesty, they are vile human beings but they do not cloak it, all their unfounded fears, ignorance and aggression can be astonishing to entertain. However for Benny boi, the essence of his beliefs and political leanings are hidden behind a superficial sense of self-grandeur and a limited exposure to society and all of its cultural products. If Ben would just write a book about a scifi utopia where all his ideals are actually personified, then we’d have something worth reading but I don’t think Benny himself has his ideals figured out or is capable of expressing them in an impersonal manner.

    • @johnsinclair4621
      @johnsinclair4621 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Outa8mate Ernst Jünger is a good read. Fascists liked him very much. Although he himself did not like them.

    • @useroffline9999
      @useroffline9999 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      deri101 I didn’t even know that, but I hate Stravinsky music regardless 🤷🏽‍♀️

  • @matthewgagnon9426
    @matthewgagnon9426 4 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    So Ben has a vore fetish.

  • @merbst
    @merbst 4 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    From the perspective of a guy who studies automated text generation by machine learning methods, this is interesting, because Ben Shapiro is a robot, albiet an obsolete model.

    • @felman87
      @felman87 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      That...makes a lot of sense actually. Ben is a robot who has just been fed random conservative, libertarian points. Then his creators peddle it as intelligent to the audience. It's not creative, instead relying on cliches and repackaging existing stories into worse ones by combining elements that don't mix, similar to what Snyder did with Batman V Superman. Logically, it relies on if ____ then ____ statements, similar to Ben relying on "ok, let's suppose _____". Don't forget that this robot needs a wife. Don't want people to think its a bachelor, lest conservative women pine for it or men think it's gay. Ok, he's married and wife is...oh, Doctor. That way he can use her occupation to stand as an authority figure in regards to abortion. Does she need to be anything else? Fuck no! We only have so much space for information and we want to make sure this is filled with our talking points. Keep info on wife no larger than 1kb. Brilliant! Ok, we're set.

  • @GanguroKonata
    @GanguroKonata 4 ปีที่แล้ว +151

    Also, I was too busy memeing in chat but that whole abortion story...
    Ben,.my guy. The person inside of him has already been born, aged into adulthood and established a life. Being such a big brain boi you have to know the difference.

    • @sarcomeresarecool
      @sarcomeresarecool 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Additionally he can?? Live independently, and has been for decades? Unlike, I don't know, a... fetus?

    • @jonathanjoestarwithpluck4930
      @jonathanjoestarwithpluck4930 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Plus this Whale guy doesn’t have to carry the main character for 9 months of his life, and as a result he won’t lose out on any job opportunities, nor potentially go into debt by keeping him. Also as we can see from the story, removing the protagonist safely wouldn’t have killed the Whale, in fact it seemed like he could’ve just crawled out of his mouth if he let him, AKA the Whale didn’t have to worry about any negative health effects or death, which many mothers do.
      So yeah, outside the most superficial understanding of abortion ever, this story has absolutely zero parallels to the actual issue.

    • @yltraviole
      @yltraviole 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Also, getting Kemp out safely would not require a nine month intensive incubation period, a painful and dangerous birthing process, or even affect the Whale's life significantly after Kemp had gotten out. Like, there's no reason why Kemp couldn't grow to an inch or so, and climb out of the esophagus safely, without harming the Whale. Or, stay in the protective bubble and wait until you get shat out. The Whale has no good reason for wanting to kill Kemp, except "abortion metaphor". Honestly, until Jose revealed that sentence, the only theme that I could uncover was "rich people are assholes".

    • @PancakemonsterFO4
      @PancakemonsterFO4 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@yltraviole or “the Rich eat the Poor“

    • @justingutierrez233
      @justingutierrez233 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@yltraviole this isn't true. Kemp was actively hurting the whale or attempting to. The whale had every right to want him out or dead (in self defense) . Which is actually a common and valid pro choice position I might add. So even with shapiro's BS framing here. The whale isn't being immoral at all. Shapiro just dishonestly frames it as murder when it clearly is not

  • @tarvoc746
    @tarvoc746 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Ben Shapiro, first story: "Your father was right to favor your brother over you, because your brother comes up with plans that might make him millions (but probably won't), while you only care for mundane things, like keeping your family's farm going, or saving your mother from death."
    Ben Shapiro, second story: "Abortion is wrong because you hired your fetus to fight dust mites."
    Ben Shapiro, third story: "Socialism is wrong because racism."
    ...One of the greatest minds of the contemporary Right, ladies and gentlemen!

  • @paddington19
    @paddington19 4 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    I can’t tell if the grammar in the first story is supposed to bad bc “farmers stupid” or just bc ben doesn’t proof read

    • @TheEnoEtile
      @TheEnoEtile 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      The answer is yes

    • @noahvance6160
      @noahvance6160 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Given that he literally wrote in the regular prose the line "I though the money would enough," I think we can assume it's most-likely the latter.

  • @legionofyuri
    @legionofyuri 4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    That sound-based weapon is probably a euphemism for propaganda and how the main character became immune to it and its effects once the conditioning was gone.

    • @hektivity6410
      @hektivity6410 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      We have weapons which utilize sound to produce a concusive or debilitating force.
      No amount of conditioning makes someone immune to a frequency capable of melting the eardrums.

    • @randomperson3526
      @randomperson3526 ปีที่แล้ว

      Also would a sound-based weapon work? Sound travels in all directions, which would also kill the person holding the gun and people close to the gun.

    • @legionofyuri
      @legionofyuri ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@randomperson3526 yeah, there are already functional sound-based crowd control weapons that use directed sound energy to pick out specific targets in large groups of people.

    • @randomperson3526
      @randomperson3526 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@legionofyuri That’s interesting, how is the sound focused on the target?

    • @legionofyuri
      @legionofyuri ปีที่แล้ว

      @@randomperson3526 i am not smart enough to explain how the physics work but you'll get some interesting results just by searching LRAD or sound cannons in general right here on youtube.

  • @pee-ray5760
    @pee-ray5760 4 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    So... the second story... I guess having to rely on billionaires to provide a pension and a decent wage is not the best way to go about it... that fighting for billionaires is dangerous and the free market doesn't provide safer solutions quickly enough and AI will eventually replace even the better paid work.
    Comrade Shortpiro is woke AF.

    • @riflebusters1
      @riflebusters1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      uphold marxism leninism shapiroism

  • @mist3279
    @mist3279 4 ปีที่แล้ว +178

    It's like you are hurting yourself for our pleasure man.
    Sincerely:
    - The gun was Life

    • @paddywall8531
      @paddywall8531 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It was alive!!!

    • @jaojao1768
      @jaojao1768 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I though the money would enough

    • @mist3279
      @mist3279 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The ulcer, it's the only chaaaance.

  • @callumsunderling835
    @callumsunderling835 4 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    Does Ben have a huge crush of Britney spears? He's mentioned her atleast once in two different books

    • @deesmith4800
      @deesmith4800 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Either that or his pop cultural references are very limited

    • @Sarcasmitron
      @Sarcasmitron 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      As an expert in Ben Shapiro studies, the answer to this question is yes. And he has written multiple angry screeds about how much of a whore she is and how she's corrupting the "culture" and how disgusted he was when he watched her kiss Madonna that one time on the VMAs.

    • @Zaprozhan
      @Zaprozhan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Sarcasmitron I think Ben is still in the "dipping pigtails in inkwells" stage of infatuation with Ms. Spears.

    • @resm-oe9ji
      @resm-oe9ji 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      This reminds me of Thunderf00t and his obsession with Anita Sarkeesian, or Geeks + Gamers with Brie Larson, or pretty much any reactionary and women who disagree with them. They just have to obsess over everything these women ever do for some reason.

  • @jjmblue7
    @jjmblue7 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    "It's just an adorably pathetic gesture of a tiny man." ...We're still talking about the character in the story and not Ben's attempt to write a fictional narrative, right?

  • @an_alienwashere
    @an_alienwashere 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Blue jay DESTROYS Ben Shapiro with FACTS and LOGIC

  • @dascommissar5264
    @dascommissar5264 4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    Shapiro isn’t even wrong. You need to make sense to be wrong.

  • @DarkRelm22
    @DarkRelm22 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    You can hear Ben Shapiro in his writing, there is literally no way to separate the author from the writing.

  • @yeeaaaaaahhhhhhh1654
    @yeeaaaaaahhhhhhh1654 4 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    Haily's Comet: The Capitalist Comet

  • @Novur
    @Novur 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    "I know writers who use subtext, and they're all cowards."

  • @magellanicraincloud
    @magellanicraincloud 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Clearly a minor nitpick but if my brother was given a watch and I was given a knife... He'd be jealous of me.

  • @liamwilkinson9732
    @liamwilkinson9732 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I'm surprised the brother didn't say a hoe was the murder weapon. Would've been very symbolic of his views on women as both passive objects but also agitating subjects of degenerency

  • @Ubermensch9240
    @Ubermensch9240 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    I still can't believe we can't get this on TV Tropes' So Bad It's Horrible page. :C

  • @thebrutusmars
    @thebrutusmars 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Ben googling “synonyms for ‘choice’” so he isn’t technically saying “my body, my choice”

  • @movementman9777
    @movementman9777 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Ben Shapiro’s books are like those I Survived books except they’re full of propaganda.

    • @stealthtigerasmr5353
      @stealthtigerasmr5353 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I liked the I survived books there at least interesting for a 10 year old

  • @Aedrion-
    @Aedrion- ปีที่แล้ว +5

    You know. This is inspiring to me.
    I have so many ideas swimming in my head that I wish to put to paper, but I always fear I won't do them justice, or that what is fantastical in my mind, would be cringe in writing.
    But if Ben Shapiro can put out schlock *this* horrendously bad without shame - and with so many typos - then why should I feel hesitant to at least try? Right?
    Thank you, Ben, for putting the bar so low!

  • @mantlemoky5744
    @mantlemoky5744 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    As (unfortunately) a US southerner, I am personally offended by the way Ben wrote that first story

    • @ramisgoogleacc702
      @ramisgoogleacc702 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Lizardfish Dont say unfortunately. Liberal Classism as tricked even the most seemingly progressive leftists into viewing all Southern workers as being backwards and illiterate and inherently reactionary. You aren’t inherently any such thing. Left wing theory helps people like u the most. Be proud of the working class battle you fight and the leftist work in unionizing and labor rights that working class southerners did. Dont let the reactionary portion of your people define u.

    • @normtrooper4392
      @normtrooper4392 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@ramisgoogleacc702 southerns are the people who got tricked by the nonsense of conservatism the most. They're the poor people who get dumped on by the corporates who propagandise to them. Some of them are god awful, but generally, they can be good people who would really benefit from class consciousness

    • @mantlemoky5744
      @mantlemoky5744 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Ramis Google acc it’s the people more than anything. Especially in my super conservative and (generally) pretty racist Texas town. I get what you’re saying though

  • @HerculeDevantrien
    @HerculeDevantrien 4 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    Ben Shapiro writing a story about people being reduced to the size of ants...
    I feel like I'm missing a joke here.

    • @useroffline9999
      @useroffline9999 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Hercule Devantrien He’s compensating for something, hmmm?

  • @KennyFrierson
    @KennyFrierson 4 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    This is some high level cringe

  • @christianjones1889
    @christianjones1889 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Actual text: "...it closes around my [waist]. I'm trapped, the clicking sounds of the mites closer and closer."
    What I heard: "Step-dust mite, what are you doing?"

  • @robinvik1
    @robinvik1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The sci-fi story reeks of "I have to have three stories to call it a collection, and the deadline is tomorrow!"

  • @guyguy7634
    @guyguy7634 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I think that whole welfare stab party was at how when people look to Nordic countries as a model economy, conservatives will usually reply, “but everyone thinks the same and everyone is practically the same, have different people who don’t agree on issues means it will never work.” Also they will say something like since Denmark is a small country of so only small nations with small populations can pay for welfare. The problem with this line of thinking is, 1) social democracy only works because people are the same, meaning the same race and way of thinking, therefore people from other places would ruin it. Though people might say and think they are being pragmatical and not racist, you can see where this leads to. Also the idea that only small populations can be provided for means large nations like the US can’t have measured of redistribution. Which doesn’t make sense because if you have more people paying into the system and those who are ultra rich pay more, then why can’t you have social services?
    Ben Shapiro is a hack!

  • @vilentman111
    @vilentman111 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    “I though the money would enough”
    Shapiro walked so Shakespeare could run

  • @ThejollyFrenchman
    @ThejollyFrenchman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    "He gets a hunting knife". Gee, I wonder if he's going to stab his brother with it.
    "He meets a girl" . Gee, I wonder if she's going to run away with his brother.
    If you can see exactly where a plot point is going the moment it's introduced, maybe it isn't a great plot point.
    Edit: Turns out his girlfriend didn't run away with the brother, she just married him and started living on the farm. Still, the point is she bangs the brother.

  • @wireless3186
    @wireless3186 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I think the best part about the first story is that Jim’s plow doesn’t work. Jim being in the right rests entirely on his ability to make them money with the plow, and it doesn’t even work.

  • @TimbahOnToast
    @TimbahOnToast 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    ayyy he's back with the literary critique. we need to make a conservative book club meet-up

  • @RadTrashed
    @RadTrashed 4 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    Damn Ben Shapiro really is fashy that last story was... oof.

    • @marcusatiusvirilis7723
      @marcusatiusvirilis7723 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      fashy?

    • @johnsinclair4621
      @johnsinclair4621 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Marcus Atius Virilis „kind of fascist“

    • @johnsinclair4621
      @johnsinclair4621 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @tiglath pileser if he is a liberal, why is this last story a slanderous attack on everything liberals actually like? Not that this a fair representation of what they want society to be.
      The only thing liberal about Shapiro is his belief that the institutions of the state should be neutral. It is only in this regard that he differs from such outright integralist conservative figures as Ahmari.

  • @AnaledEel
    @AnaledEel 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I desperately want Ben Shapiro to stop “writing,” but these reviews are so good, it’s almost worth it that he tries. 💕

  • @tropezando
    @tropezando 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Heck yeah, bedtime stories!
    *settles in*
    *has disturbing bench appearo nightmares*

  • @trafalgarla
    @trafalgarla 4 ปีที่แล้ว +118

    That first story is like the stupid man's violinist argument

    • @farhananwar3186
      @farhananwar3186 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Panurge *second

    • @trafalgarla
      @trafalgarla 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@farhananwar3186 Yeah I guess I accidentally skipped the first story somehow.

    • @juliusbeutler7090
      @juliusbeutler7090 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@trafalgarla
      Whats the violinist argument?

    • @OrionJA
      @OrionJA 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@juliusbeutler7090 PhilosophyTube made a video about abortion in which he discusses a hypothetical scenario in which a famous violinist needs repeated blood transufisions for a year to survive, so a deranged fan kidnaps someone and forces him to give blood.

    • @davidclawson4733
      @davidclawson4733 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@OrionJA I really wish "The Human Centipede Argument" was the one used to morally justify abortion.

  • @Advent3546
    @Advent3546 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    3:08 It's a beautiful thing to have Ben Shapiro refer to anyone as miniature

  • @exquisitecorpse4917
    @exquisitecorpse4917 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Why did Shapiro write these stories??
    He though the money would enough

  • @rebeccalubera146
    @rebeccalubera146 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    i was super confused abt that second story bc a soldier fighting a pointless war being literally consumed by an uncaring rich dude sounds a lot like a capitalism war allegory that ben shapiro would be Very not into

  • @razieldumas
    @razieldumas 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    10 years ago: We remember it so you don't have to!
    Present: We read/watch white nationalist propaganda so you don't have to!
    Not that I'm complaining, mind you. Just weird how things have evolved. Weird in a way that I enjoy.

  • @garydeforve5055
    @garydeforve5055 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    You have to read them really, really fast to really get their true greatness.

    • @billythorpinson4012
      @billythorpinson4012 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      And you have to add "hypothetically" or "let's say" as an introduction to every sentence.

  • @TooFatTooFurious
    @TooFatTooFurious 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Let me get this straight: so in order to create a metaphor, that proves that abortion is bad, Ben Shapiro had to:
    1. Make the person doing the metaphoric abortion a wealthy old white dude (the kinda person Ben usually sides with)
    2. Make up a garbage sci-fi setting in which a person being "aborted" is also an adult white dude.
    3. Come up with a really stupid way in which one dude gets inside of the other dude (sounds very homoerotic when you put it that way)
    4. Come up with some dumb story reasons as to why a wealthy dude would desperately want to kill someone.
    Holy crap, Ben should get an Olympic gold medal for these mental gymnastics.

  • @LezbeOswald
    @LezbeOswald 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    in Ben's "socialist utopia" everyone is poor. does he mean, literally every single person? as in...there's no upper class? so what makes them poor then? wouldn't the value of the dollar just increase to help offset the fact that there's no upper class controlling the wealth? or is only the architect rich, in which case this "socialist utopia" is really a world in which the majority of people own even less wealth than a small percentage of people?
    either Ben doesn't understand how money works, or he invented capitalism.

  • @JohnSmith-uk6wh
    @JohnSmith-uk6wh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    "From The Pit" is just Ben's way of coping with how short he is

  • @mousebreaker1000
    @mousebreaker1000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    The abortion twist was legit hilarious