Matt Walsh Reacts To Anti-Capitalist TikToks
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Summary
In this episode, I discuss a viral video on Tik TokTok by a woman who wants more free time, but hates the thing that gives her that amount of free time: work. She's wrong about a lot of things, but she's not wrong about many other things.
Transcript
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Corporations shouldn't be allowed to make these decisions on their own.
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This wouldn't happen if there were centralized control over all these big corporations.
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Are you suggesting a communist form of government in Texas?
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We have a viral video from somebody on TikTok which is being shared primarily by people on the
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right who primarily find this person to be stupid and her opinions worthless and that's generally
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the way that it works with these TikTok videos of course and very often the people are stupid
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and their opinions are effectively worthless but in this case I think that there's a little bit more
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to be said about it so let's first watch the clip.
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All I can ever think about is the fact that this is not the way that life is supposed to be.
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The whole working your life away just to have a little bit of money, a little bit of free time
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to do things that you actually enjoy. It's such a waste of life and the older generation will be
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the first to call my generation lazy for saying things like that not realizing that they're
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just a b**** to capitalism and they're brainwashed. It's all nothing but a capitalist hellscape that
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sucks the life out of everyone. I just hate all of this. I hate my ancestors. I hate everything that
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has happened throughout history to get us to this point.
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Okay well she uh gets a few things wrong here just a few starting most importantly with the very
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common misconception that that happiness means having a lot of free time to do what you want.
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You can't always get what you want. If that was true then virtually no one who ever lived on earth
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up until the industrial age at least was happy because free time as she conceives it is an
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extremely modern phenomenon. We think of free time as time without any kind of work at all.
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Time dedicated to total and complete leisure. That's free time to us. Free time is sitting on the couch
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for hours ordering food on door dash relaxing in a very sedentary position but historically unless you
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were like a pharaoh or a roman emperor or something that kind of leisure that kind of free time was not
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on the menu. Indeed this kind of free time is an invention of our modern western capitalist system.
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She wants free time but she hates the thing that gives her free time. She's also wrong of course in
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her hatred of our ancestors. To hate your own ancestors it's to be a branch that curses the
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roots of the tree that you're attached to. You would not have your existence at all without your
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ancestors. You would have neither the positives nor the negatives. You would have nothing and be
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nothing and as it happens in the case of this girl and all the rest of us we can thank our ancestors for
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many more positives than negatives as we already established all the things that she has and
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supposedly likes and wants more of. Free time, leisure, etc. She only has because of the work,
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innovation, and sacrifice of the ancestors whose graves she now spits on. I'll spit on your grave,
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grandma. And most of the things that she doesn't want and complains about, work, hardship, she would
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have that no matter what choices her ancestors made given that these are fundamental realities of human
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existence. But she's not wrong about everything. He's kidding, right? She makes the point and it's a profound one.
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That many people in modern society are effectively helpless. They cannot do anything for themselves.
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They have no skills. They have no capacity to be self-sufficient. And even those who are most
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skilled and most self-sufficient still rely heavily on giant institutions and corporations
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to provide them with so many things. And while this is all happening, we've also become more
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isolated, less community focused. We don't even, many of us know our neighbors who live next door. The
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social experience has migrated online into our phones behind the screen where we can connect with people,
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but that connection is always limited by the technology that facilitates it and nothing
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feels exactly real. Hello, I'm here. Oh, hi. She seems to have noticed all of this,
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and it's good that she's noticed it. But the next step for anyone who notices this problem
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is to do something about it. You can develop skills. You can learn to care for yourself to a great
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extent. You can even form families and communities. All of this is possible. Modern society offers
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a certain way to live, a way that's easy but empty. And we can take it up on that offer or not.
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You don't have to be miserable or alone or helpless. It's not a requirement. It's an item on the menu.
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The others just take discipline and effort, which is a price that many people, including this girl,
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at this point, don't want to pay. And that is why she is still, ultimately, unfortunately today,
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It's sick and twisted that I have to work just to survive, just to live my life for basic
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necessities. Like, I don't want to work until the day I die just to eat and sleep. Basic human
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necessities, it shouldn't be controversial. Free housing, free healthcare shouldn't be a pipe dream.
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And I know a lot of people are going to be like, oh, you should be doing this or that. No. Like,
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what if I don't want to be rich? What if I want to achieve ? I still have to work until the day I die
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just to live? Just to survive? And I don't want to be told that I'm ungrateful, that I should be
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happy to have a job where it's taking up 40 hours of my week. 40 hours of my week? People that
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complain about a 40-hour-a-week job, they blow my mind. Do you know how lucky you are? I know he said,
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I don't want to be told that I should be grateful. Well, you should be grateful, you brat. I can't even
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like conceive of only doing 40 hours of work in a week. Okay, so we have again, a young man who appears
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to be well-fed, appears to be living in some kind of comfortable shelter, presumably a house or an
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apartment, and who is obviously blessed with any number of luxuries, like a phone, internet
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connection, we can assume copious amounts of hair products. He has all of this, and yet doesn't
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believe that work should be a requirement to maintain it. It's sick and twisted that he should
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have to work just to live, let alone to afford his hair conditioner. As I've often said in response to
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these kinds of disturbingly common complaints from his generation, b***ing about the fact that you have to
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work is like b***ing about the fact that you have to breathe. You might as well make a video whining
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like, you're telling me I have to breathe every second of the day just to live? Exhale, inhale,
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exhale, inhale all the time just to live? What if I don't want to breathe? What if I want to live at
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the bottom of the ocean like a starfish? For doing absolutely nothing longer than anyone else,
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Patrick, this trophy's for you! Why should breathing be a requirement? This is sick and twisted. It'd be a lot
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easier if we didn't have to do any of that. It'd be easier if we could exist as immortal,
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indestructible supermen who need nothing and want nothing and can do anything without expending
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any energy at all. That would be nice, but that is not how things are or will ever be.
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It doesn't work that way. We've talked about Mr. Hair and why he cannot have what he wants. He cannot
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have the sort of existence that he feels entitled to. But let's not allow that to distract us from a more
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important point. As a young man, you shouldn't want to not work. You shouldn't want to coast
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through life. He says he doesn't want to achieve anything. And in that lack of ambition and that
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mentality, he is joined, unfortunately, by many in his generation. But it is a deeply depraved
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mentality. It is not natural. It is not normal. Or at least it shouldn't be. As a young man, you should
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have big dreams and goals. You should have designs on like conquering the world. You may lack wisdom
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and experience, but you should not lack for ambition. I mean, that's the one thing you should
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not lack for. We got an entire generation addicted to phones practically from birth. And as a result,
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we destroyed for many of them any hope that they might become successful. And along with that,
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we destroyed civilization as well. But the good news is the aliens are just going to vaporize us anyway.
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So, in the meantime, however, Mr. Hare is canceled. Well, have you ever worked with dreads before?
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This is what you do. In the ice. We got you. And we finish it.