A Generation Wasted
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Summary
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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You know, I stare out at this world and I see the best of a generation wasted.
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Let's start with high school. It's as good a place as any.
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So you go into high school. You follow all the rules. You're a bright kid.
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You do what you're supposed to do. And you get labeled, what?
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A geek. A nerd. You get picked on. You have no access to women.
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But you know, now let's look at the bullies. Let's look at the jocks that were picking on you.
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How's the narrative go? That these guys, what, 15 years later you wander into a grocery store?
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And they're packing your groceries for you? Is that how the world works?
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Fight? Hatred? That's what justifies getting picked on in high school?
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Or is it that the inmates are running the asylum?
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That a bunch of children, of teenagers, were responsible for creating the social order?
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You're telling me there is no sane adult that could have come in and offered guidance to any of these people?
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And that the expectation of the geek is pain and suffering?
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While the jock doesn't accomplish anything with his life, but he bags groceries the entire time?
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Yeah, yeah. That's how a healthy society works.
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So you graduate high school. What then? Maybe you join the army.
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You join it for queen and country, the most patriotic and noble of motivations.
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What happens then? You get to see an orphanage hit by a remote drone.
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You go overseas. You put your soft little body between the warmth of home and the horrors of war.
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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.
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Is there any wonder that we have so many cases of PTSD coming out of these nonsense wars?
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Thanks for serving your country. Here's a crutch.
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Or maybe you don't go to war. Maybe you don't join the military. Maybe you go to university.
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Five thousand, ten thousand, twenty thousand dollars for tuition?
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It doesn't matter. You're not getting an education at the end of the day.
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The university bubble is about to pop. You are paying for your professor.
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Some elite person that doesn't write books that anyone wants to read, and yet somehow affords one of the fanciest houses in town.
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You are paying for their lifestyle, and you come out of it with no job prospects.
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So you graduate university. You took your degree in whatever you were told to get the degree in.
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Whatever your high school counselor, that responsible, responsible adult told you to get.
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Well, what you find is that small business entrepreneurship has been all but banned.
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That you're not going to start your own business.
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And that's somebody else. More and more, it's the corporation.
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The same corporation that pays for the regulators.
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The regulators that shut down small businesses.
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While the politicians laugh all the way to the bank.
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Is your brilliance or your innovation or your work ethic rewarded at the corporation?
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See, if you did your job well, you'd threaten your superiors.
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He's just waiting for the day to ship all those jobs overseas so we can get slave labor to do them.
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And the only reason he hasn't already is because of those superiors who have contracts
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and who could sue him if he shuts down the local branch.
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You are a good little worker monkey doing a pointless job that should have been taken over by computers years ago.
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And how does that leave you at the end of the day?
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How do you feel knowing that you did something pointless all day?
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And that you might get smacked on the ass for not doing it pointlessly enough?
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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.
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And you know, let's not forget the ladies in all of this at all.
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Because I see the most beautiful and brilliant women constantly measuring themselves up against this fake plastic celluloid coming out of Hollywood.
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Because that's what they're all supposed to do.
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Because we all know how horrible those things are.
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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.
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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?
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The closest facsimile is that guy sweating stress bullets in the cubicle next to her.
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Who can barely support himself, let alone support a family.
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Every generation is progressively more poor than the generation before it.
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Despite our iPods, despite our technology, we can't afford a family.
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All we can afford is this noisy, shiny crap that distracts us so that we can go back to our useless jobs and work.
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Those few lucky and brilliant geniuses go to Silicon Valley, invent something brand new and revolutionary, and they make a mint off it.
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Everybody used to live like that 150 years ago.
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How can we be so wealthy and yet so goddamn poor?
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But it was interesting in that technology fought that war, not men.
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Men suffered in trenches full of icy water and rats.
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It was a war waged by technology in which men died.
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And we find ourselves in a very, very similar era now.
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Except the technology is nothing so crude and mean as a howitzer.
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It's the constant lies that we are fed about what will make us happy when all it does is make us miserable.
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The label on the box says freedom, but the contents are license.
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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.
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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,
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they're upset because they're not getting their retirement.
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And we are all beginning to get very, very pissed off.
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But ultimately, we are the ones that are going to fix this.
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My brothers and sisters, the future belongs to us.
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It's up to us to fix this sick, sick society that we find ourselves in.
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We've been through dark times before our species.