Leo D.M.J. Aurini - January 13, 2013


A Generation Wasted

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Leo D.M.J. Aurini
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Episode Stats


Length

11 minutes

Words per minute

120.59

Word count

1,421

Sentence count

154

Harmful content

Misogyny

9

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Toxicity

27

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Hate speech

9

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Summary

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In this episode, I talk about how the modern world is full of people who have no idea what they're supposed to be doing with their life and how they should be doing it. I also talk about the dangers of being a nerd and how you should have been taught to be a nerd in high school.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 You know, I stare out at this world and I see the best of a generation wasted.
00:00:08.000 Let's start with high school. It's as good a place as any.
00:00:14.000 So you go into high school. You follow all the rules. You're a bright kid.
00:00:20.000 You do what you're supposed to do. And you get labeled, what?
00:00:24.000 A geek. A nerd. You get picked on. You have no access to women. 1.00
00:00:30.000 Women ignore you. Treat you like scum. 1.00
00:00:36.000 But you know, now let's look at the bullies. Let's look at the jocks that were picking on you. 1.00
00:00:41.000 How's the narrative go? That these guys, what, 15 years later you wander into a grocery store?
00:00:47.000 And they're packing your groceries for you? Is that how the world works?
00:00:51.000 Fight? Hatred? That's what justifies getting picked on in high school?
00:00:56.000 Or is it that the inmates are running the asylum?
00:01:01.000 That a bunch of children, of teenagers, were responsible for creating the social order?
00:01:10.000 You're telling me there is no sane adult that could have come in and offered guidance to any of these people?
00:01:16.000 And that the expectation of the geek is pain and suffering?
00:01:22.000 While the jock doesn't accomplish anything with his life, but he bags groceries the entire time?
00:01:28.000 Yeah, yeah. That's how a healthy society works. 0.53
00:01:31.000 So you graduate high school. What then? Maybe you join the army.
00:01:40.000 You join it for queen and country, the most patriotic and noble of motivations.
00:01:46.000 What happens then? You get to see an orphanage hit by a remote drone.
00:01:53.000 You go overseas. You put your soft little body between the warmth of home and the horrors of war.
00:02:00.000 And what do you get?
00:02:02.000 You wind up in a war with no victory condition. A perpetual war with a native population that doesn't want you there for damn good reason. 1.00
00:02:15.000 Is there any wonder that we have so many cases of PTSD coming out of these nonsense wars?
00:02:22.000 Thanks for serving your country. Here's a crutch.
00:02:29.000 Or maybe you don't go to war. Maybe you don't join the military. Maybe you go to university.
00:02:34.000 And what do you find there?
00:02:37.000 Five thousand, ten thousand, twenty thousand dollars for tuition?
00:02:41.000 It doesn't matter. You're not getting an education at the end of the day.
00:02:45.000 The university bubble is about to pop. You are paying for your professor.
00:02:51.000 Some elite person that doesn't write books that anyone wants to read, and yet somehow affords one of the fanciest houses in town.
00:03:02.000 You are paying for their lifestyle, and you come out of it with no job prospects.
00:03:09.000 So you graduate university. You took your degree in whatever you were told to get the degree in.
00:03:23.000 Whatever your high school counselor, that responsible, responsible adult told you to get.
00:03:30.000 And what do you find in the modern workplace?
00:03:32.000 Well, what you find is that small business entrepreneurship has been all but banned.
00:03:41.000 There are so many taxes, so many regulations.
00:03:44.000 Can you afford health care for your employees?
00:03:47.000 That you're not going to start your own business.
00:03:50.000 You're going to go work for somebody else.
00:03:52.000 And that's somebody else. More and more, it's the corporation.
00:03:56.000 The same corporation that pays for the regulators.
00:04:00.000 The regulators that shut down small businesses.
00:04:03.000 While the politicians laugh all the way to the bank.
00:04:07.000 So you're working for the corporation now.
00:04:09.000 And what do you find about this job?
00:04:13.000 Is your competence rewarded?
00:04:15.000 Is your brilliance or your innovation or your work ethic rewarded at the corporation?
00:04:23.000 Of course not.
00:04:25.000 See, if you did your job well, you'd threaten your superiors.
00:04:30.000 And the CEO, he doesn't care.
00:04:34.000 He's just waiting for the day to ship all those jobs overseas so we can get slave labor to do them.
00:04:41.000 And the only reason he hasn't already is because of those superiors who have contracts
00:04:46.000 and who could sue him if he shuts down the local branch.
00:04:50.000 So you keep your head down.
00:04:52.000 You try not to upset your superior. 0.87
00:04:55.000 You are a good little worker monkey doing a pointless job that should have been taken over by computers years ago.
00:05:03.000 And how does that leave you at the end of the day? 0.73
00:05:07.000 How do you feel knowing that you did something pointless all day? 0.99
00:05:15.000 And that you might get smacked on the ass for not doing it pointlessly enough? 0.99
00:05:21.000 Oh, you try and go to the gym. 1.00
00:05:25.000 You try and read.
00:05:26.000 You try and do something in your spare time.
00:05:28.000 But what do you really do?
00:05:30.000 You come home. 0.98
00:05:32.000 You look at some internet porn. 0.96
00:05:33.000 You play video games all night. 1.00
00:05:35.000 And then, and then, on those two and a half days, on the weekend, you go out to the club and you find a slut to fuck. 1.00
00:05:44.000 You want a wife. 1.00
00:05:47.000 You want a partner. 1.00
00:05:49.000 What you get is a slut. 1.00
00:05:52.000 And you know, let's not forget the ladies in all of this at all. 1.00
00:05:58.000 Because I see the most beautiful and brilliant women constantly measuring themselves up against this fake plastic celluloid coming out of Hollywood. 1.00
00:06:11.000 Always feeling inadequate.
00:06:16.000 And the most venal and callow of women? 1.00
00:06:19.000 Well, they flaunt it like they got it.
00:06:27.000 So ladies, they go into the university. 0.99
00:06:29.000 Because that's what they're all supposed to do.
00:06:31.000 And they're not supposed to find a husband. 1.00
00:06:33.000 Because we all know how horrible those things are.
00:06:35.000 And how horrible it is to have children.
00:06:38.000 They're told that they can have children up until their 50s by the mainstream media, only to find out at the age of 35 that they're infernal. 0.99
00:06:51.000 And even if, even if they see through this bullshit, even if they realize that they're 20, 25 and want to find a husband, who are they going to marry? 0.97
00:07:05.000 Where are the men? 0.99
00:07:07.000 We've done such a great job destroying men.
00:07:10.000 The closest facsimile is that guy sweating stress bullets in the cubicle next to her.
00:07:18.000 Who can barely support himself, let alone support a family.
00:07:28.000 Every generation is progressively more poor than the generation before it.
00:07:34.000 Despite our iPods, despite our technology, we can't afford a family.
00:07:40.000 We can't afford children. 0.94
00:07:42.000 All we can afford is this noisy, shiny crap that distracts us so that we can go back to our useless jobs and work. 0.98
00:07:51.000 And you wonder why we're pissed off. 0.98
00:08:02.000 Some of us.
00:08:04.000 Those few lucky and brilliant geniuses go to Silicon Valley, invent something brand new and revolutionary, and they make a mint off it.
00:08:15.000 And good for them.
00:08:17.000 Everybody used to live like that 150 years ago. 0.99
00:08:22.000 How can we be so wealthy and yet so goddamn poor? 0.91
00:08:28.000 The Great War was an interesting thing. 0.99
00:08:38.000 It was an utterly pointless European war.
00:08:41.000 But it was interesting in that technology fought that war, not men.
00:08:48.000 Men suffered in trenches full of icy water and rats.
00:08:56.000 Men suffered bleeding, dying in no man's land.
00:09:02.000 But men didn't fight that war.
00:09:05.000 The howitzers did.
00:09:07.000 It was a war waged by technology in which men died.
00:09:21.000 And we find ourselves in a very, very similar era now.
00:09:26.000 Except the technology is nothing so crude and mean as a howitzer.
00:09:33.000 It's a machine gun.
00:09:35.000 No.
00:09:38.000 Our technology is the corporation.
00:09:41.000 Our technology is marketing.
00:09:44.000 It is mental manipulation.
00:09:46.000 It's the constant lies that we are fed about what will make us happy when all it does is make us miserable.
00:09:58.000 The label on the box says freedom, but the contents are license.
00:10:05.000 Go ahead. 0.99
00:10:06.000 Have as much free sex as you want. 0.99
00:10:09.000 Have some new designer drugs.
00:10:10.000 But if you want fulfillment in life, if you actually want to drive the human species forward, you want the freedom to do that, sorry, it's not available.
00:10:23.000 Meanwhile, the very people that brought us onto this planet, the very people that we thought were going to raise us and turned us into a bunch of latchkey kids and daycare kids,
00:10:35.000 they're upset because they're not getting their retirement.
00:10:45.000 This is a sick, broken world.
00:10:50.000 And we are all beginning to notice it.
00:10:53.000 And we are all beginning to get very, very pissed off.
00:10:58.000 But ultimately, we are the ones that are going to fix this.
00:11:09.000 My brothers and sisters, the future belongs to us.
00:11:15.000 It's up to us to fix this sick, sick society that we find ourselves in.
00:11:31.000 Do what's right and we will prevail.
00:11:33.000 We've been through dark times before our species.
00:11:38.000 And I know we have it in it.
00:11:41.000 To survive this one.
00:11:45.000 Rini out. 0.97