"The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling." _Thomas Sowell_
Johnny needs to learn that at first we feel, then we think. To paraphrase Plato, we struggle with reigning in our emotions like horses draging us along ceaselessly.
also that we are pressuring johnny to incur 40-80,000$ of student loan debt to go to political indoctrination and drug dependency camp while they pretend to learn a skill that is already being done by AI.
In 1984, when I was 23, I broke down the engine of a 1966 Chevy pickup all the way to the block and rebuilt it. By myself. When I was done, it ran like new. I'm 63 now, and I wouldn't know where to start on a "modern" engine. 7 on-board computer modules, 38 electronic sensors. Each runs and/or monitors various parts and functions of the engine. I would need to be a NASA engineer to have any chance. Knowledge that used to take decades to become practically useless is now rendered obsolete in 6 months. I don't have time to keep up with all the technological shifts. I would need to spend every day of my remaining years in classes to just stay barely abreast.
@@DarthFetid so hey what happens to a country that can't keep more than half it's citizens from the worst ravages of life? Oh that's right A Tale of Two Cities...
Plugging a "scan tool" in and then getting a mechanic to fix something based off of a code. Its not that easy. Electronics if there were cheaper would be easy. No one would waste money on a new car if you can keep old tin can alive. Carb engines to this day are still easier to work on if you known how. Here's what you have to remember, the more electronics you put on, the more points of failure. Electronics most of the time are reliable. Throw in crappy computers with bad programming, get wrecked. Electrical theory isn't changing, computers are. Here is the kicker; if we didn't have emissions, your car would "breakdown" less.
I had internet access when I was younger than that, and I think there _is_ at least a middle ground where it's not in your pocket or always connected, but it's still there and able to be used with intention. When I had to ask my parents to let me sign into the dial-up account and they weren't able to use the phone until I was done, or even later on when I only got XYZ minutes on the family computer for every chore I did, it allowed me to connect with friends and see what was possible technologically while still being less harmful than having a laptop with WiFi in my bedroom. The problem is that the "middle ground" requires so much discipline from both the kids and their parents enforcing it that it's very difficult to achieve.
@@MrMaksibon Yeah, it's weird people are acting like this is a new thing. People are getting more polarised, but I personally think that's just a consequence of the internet and how interconnected we all are now.
We thought the internet was going to increase intelligence and enlighten people. Instead, it just reinforces the same idiotic ideas that a person started with.
Ideological takeover does not allow critical thought. Fall in line or face being shamed and ostracized from the group. 10 years of that and here we are
I work at a small software company that's been around since the beginning of business computers in the late 80s. So much knowledge has been lost with staff attrition, even in just the last 10 years, that I'm basically a tech-priest. I know the prayers to make the ancient products work, but I have no idea /how/ they work.
@patstar5 Nope, all Australian still. The young guys that grew up with iPhones and not having to troubleshoot old versions of Windows are a real struggle. Despite their computer science degrees, they just don't have the intrinsic problem solving skills learned from growing up with clunky technology.
This video just validates the point that boomers, aka older millennials age approx early-late 30's, are the goat generation who transcended the analog to digital age. We are the last people to remember life before internet was mainstream and we had to be imaginative as youth to entertain ourselves. Growing up we had to problem solve without the help of google and developed a sense of self-reliance and baseline competency of numerous tasks both rudimentary and technical.
This can be a critical thinking exercise; is it really surprising that a man who has been talking to a camera for well over a decade is able to convey his own opinions accurately in one take? Not trying to rag on you, but this isn't really impressive and shouldn't be considered as much, instead we can look at it as an example of what consistently practicing a thing can achieve.
@@Jimsimi exactly. the dude is most comforable in his little room, in front of a camera. imagine him trying to give this same speech or any one of his takes to a live auidence with as many viewers as his twitch or youtube views. public speaking is not this "sitting in your room in your PJS talking to your own echo chamber" public speaking even to 200 people is so much harder than talking to 200 internet strangers.
@@keller8821 I want to see you talking in front of camera (knowing millions will watch), and give a one-take speech without stuttering or deviating from the topic straight for 20 mins. It's not as easy as you think and you are incredibly clueless if you think that way because not everyone can do it. I watch a lot of streamers and Asmongold is one of the best when it comes to speaking from top of the head without a script.
As a programmer, I can attest to the experience. I have made my own automation tools for work, and as a software developer, I always end up in the dilemma of teaching juniors to work without the automation tools and having juniors to use the tool for productivity. Because when I leave the company, someone else has to pick up my slack of maintaining the tools. Some of my juniors have become so reliant on the tools that they do not understand how the tools work, because they did not have to solve problems that I solved. I fear for the future for software development. A large majority of software developers nowadays cannot work without an interactive IDE and do not understand how IDEs work.
At some point in time, productivity tools turn into clutches against self learning. It is not that I am against using ChatGPT for work, I fear that the company/development team might become too dependent on it. And if it goes offline one day, we might not be able to work without it. Reliance on tools creeps silently.
This is why you don't pass on your tools, they should be taught from scratch to eventually make their own automation tools so they understand the whole growth process.
You can supply them with the tools, however, make sure they understand how they work and how the system works without using the tools, so that in case something happens and they cannot rely on the tools, they know how to fix stuff on their own.
That's why schools used to teach advanced math. When I worked for the IRS as a tax examiner running weird algor ythms programmed by economists in London, my questions about how the tools and functions in the proprietary software were too much for our tech guy with 20 years experience who didn't have a degree nor advanced math skills. Our work culture and priorities are crazy as hell for it's tricky to impossible to find a good employer with loyalty, principals, and values. It's not going to matter for you what happens in your work place and job position after you no longer work there so it's not worth concerning over it's future other than doing your work you're paid now to do today. I wouldn't have a clue how to write software and code today. Are you using advanced AI today to work out problems that humans couldn't ever actually write and solve?
Chocomelon is literally created to be crack for children. It's scary, these dudes who make it are literally researching how to make kids addicted to it so they can farm views.
In my area, kids who watched Teletubbies grew up to be very mentally limited. Kids shouldn't watch these kind of mind-numbing cartoons if they're more than 2 years old maximum. They should upgrade to smarter cartoons when they're 3 years old. Personally i have memories since i was 2 and that's when i started thinking critically. Also i started watching more serious cartoons and movies when i was 3, i started reading and writing, doing basic math, i was also doing puzzles, mazes, crosswords etc. I watched my brother play PS1 games which were not suited for kids. I was selling seashells to tourists when i was 4, next to my parents shop. I had my own pocket money at 4 and learned some basic trading skills. By age 5 i could read and write perfectly, i started school when i was 6 and everyone was still learning letters while i was already reading books and writing texts. I learned some English at the same time, and English is my 3rd language. Am i an exceptional case? Maybe, but i believe every child is capable of becoming intelligent with training, practice and mind-shaping. It's a fresh canvas, and unless there's a disability or bad genetics in play, they all have the potential to become intelligent if raised right. Also Lego's are THE BEST TOYS for kids, they worked wonders for me. It involves creativity, imagination, intelligence, math, critical thinking, hand-eye coordination.. It's like a supertoy for the brain. And also it encourages kids to simply build and create stuff, it develops patience and determination, and it makes them competent and capable when using hands and fingers. Lego helps with attention to both small details and the bigger picture, because you're using small pieces to build something large, directly managing both. It also makes them more artistic because Lego's have a variety of themes; aliens and sci-fi, space stations and mining rigs, medieval and fantasy castles, ninjas and samurais, Egyptian pyramids, jungle tribes, marine/aquatic facilities.. There's every genre for kids to explore, it opens up the door for many different worlds.
I've been a teacher for six years now, and I'm honestly ready to leave because the absence of critical thinking has become so widespread. I love my kids but every year I see the decline.
@@OdinWannaBe So if you read my comment, I've been seeing this happen over the course of six years. Four of those years were under Biden-Kamala...so I don't see how mentioning Trump is an indicator of declining cognitive ability when it has been happening prior to the election in 2024. Regardless of who is president, our education system simply sucks.
My wife is a teacher. I used to spend a lot of time in the classroom helping out. I really enjoyed it cause kids are… used to be cool. Something has changed with these children. They used to want to do well, impress and earn your attention. Now they simply cannot think beyond their immediate self. It sucks.
@@stevewoodyt Kids will be kids. They mostly have no say in their critical development or education. I blame the parents, for not understanding the effects of the internet, trends, and social media to young impressionable minds.
You really hit the nail on the head earlier in the video. The biggest issue about all of this is how people will be willfully ignorant or intellectually dishonest to the point where it slowly stops becoming a joke and moreso reality. I cannot tell you how many times I've seen many opinions that defy logic on twitter, only to become a "it was just a meme/joke" ONLY when they're confronted by enough people. This keeps going on in a loop and now what used to be memes and jokes turns out to be unironic opinions people hold. We really need to figure out a way to not automatically become hostile with each other over the slightest disagreements, and to encourage people who admit their wrong doings to keep up the good work in growing and changing as people. If people stopped being afraid of being wrong, I believe more people would finally be able to reach across the aisle and tackle ideas instead of individuals.
"I cannot tell you how many times I've seen many opinions that defy logic on twitter, only to become a "it was just a meme/joke" ONLY when they're confronted by enough people" i know of the crowd you speak of, and while i dont want to make this comment section political, it fucking irritates me to all hell since they do it SO DAMN MUCH, and use that as a get out of jail free card, and their also the same ones who will go on to say "Aww man comedy is dead, no one allows it anymore" i hate it and seen it to many time where Political Commetater: *Says somethign terrible and revolting The masses: WHOA that is not good thing to say, you should be ashamed of yourself Political commentater: Ay Yo tis just a joooke, relax, man why is comedy dead nowadays? or their fans: he was just joking, dont take it seriously! it just so damn annoying to deal with.
Yeah i lowkey hate that i can't even bring up a number of controversal topics even to try and understand them better, the second i start trying to dig deeper and ask questions people get offended and label me all kinds of evil instead of thinking together.. It doesnt help that finding real info on the internet became much much harder to do....
It wasn’t always this way. It used to be accepted and it was fun to challenge your friends who held different views (normie or otherwise). We can do it again. People just need to stop treating their social and political views as a religious cult.
you literally can't even say "I agree with you, can you provide the source so I can argue our point better?" or "I'd never heard of that, can you provide the source so I can learn more about your point?"
@@TheCodyMacuh, not so much. Challenging someone's religious beliefs has pretty much ALWAYS ended badly. As Asmond poi ts out, other groups are now taking the functional place of religions - but the results are very similar.
Boomer here. In school, basically in every class, a primary goal was to teach critical thinking skills. We wrote a lot of papers in every class back then, and in the process of writing a paper, we learned how to form a hypothesis or theme, how to research using library resources, like card catalogs, how to determine the quality of information we came across, how to form an argument, how to present an argument, and how to defend an argument. That is, if we didn't learn anything else in high school, we learned logical progression of ideas, critical thinking skills, and how to detect BS. I attended very good schools, so perhaps my experience was atypical. Back then, any kind of opinion or commentary was a bit difficult for teens to come across. We had to watch the evening news, or read the newspaper for that, and commentary and opinion was always clearly labeled as such. And yes, we had politics, and people voting party lines, and it all could get rather nasty on occasion, but if any politician flat out lied, or got too openly nasty, they were censured and gone. Now today, politicians lie constantly, the masses can't seem to tell the difference between facts and fiction, people consume only material that reinforces their confirmation biases, think political parties are some kind of religion, and are, frankly, ignorant AF. God help us, because there is nothing in logic, or history that guarantees this nation to remain a functioning republic, and as John Adams, and several other founders argued, the affairs of the State cannot be held in the hands of ignorant voters.
And instead of taking up the responsibility to bettering society, you just want to cry on the internet and hand the state over to authoritarians instead. Thank you. You are literally everything that everyone else hates about the boomers.
No offense mate, but the fact that politicians lie and people can’t tell the difference has been well documented since the roman empire, nothing changed much in people being ignorant, it’s just that we have internet now and they didn’t, but not much changed since people have “hierarchical power”. This is just a reflection of animalesque mankind as those who want power have usually a level of sociopathy or megalomania, heh.
Like when Biden ran in the 80s and got caught lying and plagiarizing so much, got called out for it, and had to drop out. Come 2020 and media does his bidding for him
A few years ago a car came with an instruction manual that told you how to change the spark plugs. Today they come with an instruction manual that tells you not to drink the oil.
Okay so I have been wondering why I feel like I'm surrounded by idiots lately. My thought was, "Nah dude, quit being so full of yourself. You are not better than anyone." But being able to critically think doesn't necessarily make me better than someone. It just makes me smarter. Great video. I love how you broke it down in a 20 minute rant haha it's great. Edit: Don't get it twisted either, people don't want to think because it takes EFFORT to think, and when they get home from working 2-3 jobs in this shithole of a country we live in run by oligarchs who just siphon all the labor they can out of people and hoard the wealth, why would they want to? They are exhausted just trying to survive/get by. I am always empathetic towards this situation, which most people find themselves in.
That’s such a really good point and I have felt the same exact way . For example I watched this exact video at work and 4 or 5 Trump worshippers were offended by what Asmongold was saying … I asked why? They said he was a spoiled liberal 🤦♂️. Then I thought wow you missed the whole point . If you’re getting mad about what hes saying you have no critical thinking skills
Another problem; young people outsourcing critical thought to streamers and podcasters instead of having to think themselves. This is why it seems people have very strong opinions on controversial topics but cannot argue even the basic premise when challenged in person. This, admittedly, is a problem for both sides, albeit if you are more to the center or to the right OR go against whatever is the dominant political ideology at the time, you’ll receive more pushback in your daily life and will be more accustomed to arguing your points.
I don't believe in the supernatural yet I realize the importance of Christianity in our society and that without Christ and his teachings in our society, things get worse, it's an objective fact. Asmon falsely assumes that an atheist society is somehow a better society. It is not. Something is gonna fill that void and if it's not Christ it'll be something that could only be worse...
@@DoubleO88 I think this is true in large part, but I think a bigger problem is people not considering whether or not they are actually being misogynistic, I see so many people, particularly in asmons community who simply dismiss any negative term attributed to their actions. Since to them, if they have good or neutral intentions the actions themselves mustn't hold a negative connotation and thus can't be misogynistic, racist, transphobic, etc; when in reality (at least in my experience), evil people don't know they are evil.. and upon realising so, would rather change their own philosophical views of the world to put themselves in a place of higher moral, instead of considering the consequences of their actions.
The right has it the worst. You don't even know what the left is. Left is we the people, and what policies benefit the most people, while the right is about I the individual and what benefits the elites the most. That is why the right is exclusively identity politics and fascism, because the policies are not at all popular. Voting for get brownie, because ending OT, public education, shifting taxes from the rich to middle class, deregulation(anarchy of the rich), hand outs to the rich, paid for by the middle class, isn't something you can run on.
I lost two "friends" for saying out loud that transgender athletes should compete in the category that matches their biological gender, to avoid not only unfair results but alsopotential risks (like putting a heavy weight trans woman against a biological woman in fighting sports like boxing or tae kwon do). Apparently saying that made me a transphobic guy and those two people just disappeared from my life.
who left? them or you? The ones who flee is often the weak ideology. stand your ground when u speak ur words, never turn your back when discussing things you believe in.
I had someone recently say to me something along the lines of "Trans-women has female brains in mens bodies and they want to make their body match their brain" ignoring the obvious flaw in their argument, is part of the body. I'm expecting they've now either reevaluated their belief or they've reached the "gendered soul" portion of the transgenderism argument.
@@Robert_D_Mercer That's also wrong, because you can't propertly argue with someone simply refusing to even listen or acknowledge your points in the first place. It will just exhaust you endlessly.
Nothing bothered me more in school than seeing other kids who I think could easily do well in class if they just applied themselves, but actively do their best not to try because they didn't want to be "nerdy" or whatever. I'm no genius, but going through public school sure as hell made me seem like one, and I got shit for it too when all I did was listen and pay attention (pretty much the bare minimum).
it's different when in high school you've already been through extreme humiliation and poverty so whatever. I pray for todays youth, I was in the middle of nowhere, in newfoundland free to learn from nature
This very issue PLAGUES low income communities, but most notably black ones. I point this out because there is so much emphasis on teachers failing these kids. 90% of what is more conveniently ascribed to “shitty schools and teachers” is actually social pressure to not engage with education in an earnest way as it’s white-coded or nerdy. It’s truly sad, you can ask any teacher at a Title 1 school and they will tell you.
there’s a connection between critical thinking and communication skills. if someone tries to explain their perspective using poor language, they will fail to connect with most people since most people assume the worst from everyone, especially in text or on the internet where body language and tone are non-existent. i also think it’s important to educate not only through books but through tactile things like basic life experience, learning how to properly move your body, learning how to fix your own car, learning to sew so that you can fix your own clothes, etc. we live in a world where information is at our fingertips, tactile work can be paid off, and courtesy has been forsaken for cynicism. but, i’m an optimist and i know that people are diverse learners and resilient in spirit. i used to think that intentions didn’t matter as long as you did what you ought to do, but now i feel differently. i think intentions matter, and that there isn’t a genuine mistake on this earth that is irredeemable.
Yet this echo chamber would suck trump given the chance. Explain again how an 80yr old draft dodging 34time convicted felon isnt the dumbest timeline possible.
Man, I'm so thankful for you because when I watch you I breathe a sigh of relief and whisper 'I'm not insane' because I've been feeling like I've been losing my fucking mind.
The trans subject is a big one. I have been on the internet for as long as Asmon. I used to be able to mingle anywhere. /b/, far-right groups, liberals, religious folks, you name it. I could have a conversation with an openly racist bigot, a follower of Krishna or some random hippie. I like to hear how other people see the world and the exchange of ideas is easy if you are willing to listen. It's such a basic human instinct to communicate with one another, it's in our nature. That was true up until the trans thing came along. The only topic that got me banned now multiple times. The only topic where even an innocent question or poor choice of words earns you an immediate, disproportionate, severe backlash. The slightest hint of deviation from the doctrine is met with vile malice and rage. It's downright psychotic, it really is a cult.
As a former follower of Krishna, I couldn't agree more. I started to feel like I may just be old and out of touch, but upon further inspection, it's far beyond cultural age progression. It's a cult that abhors everything that keeps a society together. It's militant, anti-logic, and just wrong really.
Same here. I'm independent in my views, but generally lean Libertarian. I'm banned from all the message boards I used to post on, and I never once broke any rules, called anyone names, used slurs, or did anything wrong, other than winning debates. The people that cheered me on in debates where I supported the left, banned me.
People now confuse the difference between truth and reality. The reality is males are competing with females and breaking their records, while you never see the females doing the same even though there are more female transformers than males. The truth is males have an advantage over females in physical activities, and that’s why it’s only happening one way. But some will take the reality as truth because they don’t see the actual truth. Jiddu Krishnamurti has talks about truth vs reality which are very interesting.
Bud critical thinking has never been mainstay, ask yourself how many Americans can name their Congressman and their two senators? Acting off emotion is easier and less time consuming.
@@nhjhbmkuy7173 Most people don’t care about that. They broadly just want to know is Congress majority Red or Blue at the moment, individual senators and representatives don’t have much sway. It’s the majority that matters. Knowing something obscure like that may be interesting to some, but we’re talking about general knowledge and the ability to think and connect those thoughts. For example, why a lot of these “intellectual” college graduates have no Idea about Geography. They don’t know where Brazil is, that Europe is a continent, etc. That most people don’t know anything about astronomy. They can’t name the planets in order. They don’t know how the moon was formed. They don’t know what a photon is, or what AU means. They don’t know anything about the economy. Even generally. They don’t know about federal debt or budgeting. They think the Federal Reserve is part of the government. People are told what to think, they aren’t taught HOW to think. To figure things out. They can’t visualise objects in their mind. They read at a 5th Grade level. They don’t know fun facts like the speed of sound at sea level, or how many feet are in a mile. They don’t know what a combustion engine is. They don’t know anything about History, like you’d be surprised how many people think WW2 was in the 1800’s. They dont know about Mao, or the Kim family. They don’t know when the Soviet Union collapsed, they don’t know what cities were nuked in Japan. People are obsessed with nonsense and it’s become the norm. Drake and their nails and nice cars, they don’t know about the foundation of a home or basic laws for driving. This is an epidemic of psuedo intellectuals and 100IQ or less people taking over. It’s scary as hell.
Teaching kids how to think _is_ something teachers do. Conservatives get mad when the people who do critically think don’t agree with them. Asmons video has a lot of projection and he doesn’t realize.
I used to work with a guy who was, and no doubt still is, an ardent socialist veering into full on comminist, and he almost always wanted to talk politics. Now, i always considered myself somewhat liberal but when he asked me where i stood, i would say my politics were central/left-leaning, but on some issues i was conservative/right-leaning. This he could not understand, essentially dismissing my political stance as null and void and that you were either left or right. He'd engage in gotcha's and propaganda as opposed to understanding, until ultimately i had no desire to explain myself to someone so close-minded who saw the world as just black and white, and lacking in any kind of nuace whatsoever. It's exactly like speaking to religious people on a mission to convert you, and funnily enough another of his peccadilloes was arguing with muslims and christians online in favour of his atheism. And even on this subject i would explain to him i was agnostic as opposed to being atheist but again that was too nuanced for him. The thing is, his ilk are everywhere today, on the left and the right, consumed by their ideology and totally lacking in critical thought. People voting democrat just because thats their team, blissfully ignoring or not paying attention to the damage they've done with regards to censorship, division, war and crime. And people ecstatic about Trump winning and fully believing his appointments are all going to be working for the American people from now on and that he can do no wrong. Ultimately, humans' biggest strength is also our biggest weakness. We are tribal by nature, it's engrained in our very survival as a species and true transcendence is to, at the very least, acknowledge it and try to step outside of that. Thats what critical thinking is, and it isn't easy. But attempting to overcome emotion and stepping outside of your comfort zone is what we should all be striving to do. "But nah fuck them cos they don't think like I do about this."
I've had similar problems with others. I'm a stubborn person myself, so I can kind of understand your colleague in that regard, but having such a black and white idea of how the world works is crazy. I think many bad things are good in the right context and many good things are bad in the right context. Thinking something is always good or bad will harm you and the people around you. That's kind of the thing with the illegal immigrant situation. It's not that I don't think people deserve to live in the country, but they've got to be approved and go through the correct process to stay permanently. A very left leaning person might not even understand that and the problem with them is that they are too lenient on that stuff until it's pretty much to the point of no return. It needs to be actively dealt with, otherwise the whole system stops working. Long story short, context is key.
My cousin used to yell at me and say “think for yourself bro!” But then a minute later would regurgitate some Fox News horse shit conspiracy. He was the first person that contacted me about the Haitians eating cats 😂
Went to both a public high school for a year and then a private high school for 3 years - the most consequential difference between the two? Private school had a required critical thinking class for at least 6 semesters. It's easily the most valuable class I've ever taken. Some of the discissions on controversial issues we had in that class as exercises were more civil and productive than anything I've witnessed ADULTS have on controversial issues outside of school.. The skill was woven in to the curriculum in every subject as well, especially history.
I would have liked a History class with some critical thinking. It was all memorizing names dates and events but not really picking apart the social and political themes that caused them which, barring idle curiosity, is the whole damn point of learning history. As a consequence I never gave a shit about history till I was like 25 because I developed a more than surface level interest in politics
USA school system sucks..., I've been to schools in Canada, USA, Colombia, Switzerland... (Colombia, you go to private schools..) ... schools need to teach critical thinking, the Swiss schools do that great
@@MonsterJuicedPublic schools are government schools, not that private schools are necessarily good, public ones are bad, requiring critical thinking should be the minimum.
He's right about cars. I work for a warranty company, and theres a lot of mom and pop shops and dealerships that just throw the entire system of parts at a vehicle and not know if it would really repair the vehicle. They will replace it all to slap a warranty on it.
nice take on that issue, last weekend I was talking with my 13 yo son and he was exited talking to me about something he did on the school, about drawing Triangles, the name of the angles in a triangle, how they classify, how you suppose to draw them and how you can tell the size of one missing after knowing the angles or sizes of the others, it's a new thing for him, and I'm super proud that he thinks it's interesting, he plays a lot of Roblox and other of those games, watch a lot of ticktock and shorts on you tube, I think he have been exposed to that quick gratification cycle for so long that now is not fun anymore, he start to like more old school things that are completely new to him. I think next weekend, I will dust off my old technical drawing tools and teach him one trick or two about how we used to engineer pieces back in the day were CAD software wasn't everywhere.
Technology doesnt really need to be any better than this. I can see him. I can hear him. The need for technology to constantly get better and needing to replace things every year, or even every 5 years, is just consumerism really. We would be better off to be more content with what works.
The most critically obvious thing that people deny is their need for validation. Every comment section, social media post, thread, etc, is a space where someone can seek validation they dont receive IRL. It's desperate and cringy. It's sad. If you call them out on it, it's vehemently denied, almost always. This phenomenon can be summed up in one simple word. "First". While certainly not the worst case of it, it is one of the most prevalent. It's a herd mentality thing. It was proven to work, and as people recognize that it has worked, they seek to replicate it. No doubt, this is a bit of that as well.
I agree with the word "first" but there are people that just have an ego so they talk out not because they want validation, but because they believe they have a right to their words being known. It's the opposite of validation. You aren't seeking to be known because you believe you have a natural right to say what you want. Weather people acknowledge it or not is irrelevant to them.
@@Pluralofvinylisvinylsit's all gonna get worse sadly and thats why people feel like Ai because no one has a real thought for themselves, there is so much division in this world because of that, everyone now is copies of parasocial relationships they develop with youtubers, streamers or whatever social media is feeding em. There is hope in humanity but I see a steady decline in it now. I feel as well people of leaders die young or who try to empower the youth or want to empower change is very small and less trending instead of the stupidity we see online.
@@Pluralofvinylisvinyls We have university students now using AI to complete essays and other projects. The only way to stop this from having unqualified doctors or engineers because they just cheated, would be to have in classroom tests only with no computers or phones
No, people saw a way to make a buck, so we have slop content that serves no purpose but to stimulate and nothing else. Don’t blame the kids for being exploited.
@@finkamain1621I’m sorry, are you unaware that loads and loads of people have cheated their way through professional degrees? All you end up doing is screwing yourself because people _will know_ that you can’t do anything, unless daddy’s rich.
you know in sweden they had all computers, laptops and so on for every child in school. but some time ago they replaced all of that for pen & paper again, because kids werent learning much with PCs.
In my experience these school administrators have no idea what to do with the pc's....they think you can just give a bunch of laptops to kids and magic happens by itself... I was part of an experimental laptop program in my junior year in high school in 1997... There was no forum so we could discuss class topics together, no instant messenger, nothing, the only thing we used the laptops to do was give powerpoint presentations in class...
This is raw footage btw, which I find really impressive. Just an uncut video and considering it's Asmon it's also impromptu. Delivering a coherent, clean, uninterrupted and good paced speech for 19 minutes straight is not something those cocomelon kids will ever be able to do, even with rehearsals or a teleprompter. Think about that.
"... and this is going to ruffle a lot of feathers... and that's why I'm doing it...!" 6:45 Pure gold... and now I know why the channel is called Asmon GOLD...
@@brlnd6808 Hasn't Cocomelon's current incarnation been around for 6 years now? Besides, this OP was talking about the current kids' future, so when they are no longer toddlers.
@@femanon8665 omg bruh, I never did that one, but I sure learned some critical thinking from giving that guy my rune platebody, 20 gold bars, and 10,000 gold so he could "trim it." I still haven't heard back, it's been 15 years, you think he'll come online soon?
My first car was a 1976 Impala. I completely rebuilt that car at 15, and I had way more headaches trying to fix my 95 Stratus. Take the wheel off to change a battery is crazy.
I wouldn't say harder, it's just more stuff. Cars are still the same to work on, especially mechanical issues. More and more components are electrically controlled and I see it all the time, mechanics not knowing how things work and blame it on "it's too advanced". No, your knowledge is lacking is all. But I'm a bit "damaged" from working on BMW, AUDI and VW for 10+ years so electrical issues are no issue for me anymore (Love diagnose dan channel for this) Love to work on Japanese cars these days, they're simple and easy to work on, regardless if it's fully loaded or not with tech.
It's so nice to see someone speak without having to edit the video every three goddamn seconds. I would love to see more of these videos :) I agree with you 100%
There have been various topics ive tried to discuss with folk where they immediately default to insults/gaslighting or the same old group think responses.. its happened so many times to the point i just don't talk to people anymore.. its impossible to have a meaningful conversation and learn from it without everyone getting hyper emotional and defensive like their lives depend on it..
Thinking that you can talk your way into understanding or agreement is part of the problem with recent generations- it's like we've got an entire generation of Will Huntings, that think reading and discussion are substitutes for living. Understanding, or agreement, are earned through shared experience, that's it. You've got to stop having conversations with people and start sharing experiences with them.
First off, I love this video, it's really good. With that out of the way, 8:30 A room nor a house nor a city have trees made for combatting polution, and said flora are dramatically outscaling the growth of carbon emissions (2:1.5)
"And the time will come when men will turn gay, and they will say to a man who is not gay and say, "You are problematic, you are not gay like us!" - Revelation of John
Asmond needs a sit down with Peterson to tell him in Kermit voice to clean his room and not underestimate the intelligence of the public. Yeah we may be stupid but we're also poisoned, broke, and have suffered a lifetime of propaganda. To me it's not really a surprise that people seem dumber - the anti-human types would love you to believe people are wasteful idiot lumps born to be stupid unless a perfect society surrounds them to mold them into a useful and woke worker bee.
I had a friend who was a slob and after 4 years in the Marine Corps he kept everything neat and tidy. It rewired his brain. Asmon needs to join the Marines.
A uni lecturer / PhD smarty pants mate of mine once recounted a conversation he had with peers - The problem with education these days is that we basically just teach kids to pass exams. At least, until uni level... but that too late for many who may not go to uni At least, in the UK - Especially, England. But I suspect all over the western education systems, this will ring true. (my personal thought, especially in the good ol' USA due in part to high cost of failure as, well.. the state don't really help. But I digress...... Imo: Kill exams + Replace with more practice/ assignments and assess based on this. Then make subjects fun and engaging and watch the kids want to study xyz subject - The more the kids put in to a subject, the more success (kinda like is the case in uni)
I've definitely found myself feeling more 'brain rotted' since being out of trucking for the last 2 years. Bout to get back in a truck and hoping I get back to reality. Feel like my the more activity I've had online has definitely played an influence.
if its girls dancing, or doing stupid lip syncing, its brain rot. the "i was blah blah old when i learned this" or the conspiracies , or peer to peer news is the only good parts. as long as you dont NPC scroll like media programs you , you are good are good to go.. always search for something that gives you thought.
if you think he is "becoming a philosopher" like some sudden change of mind and persona, you have no idea what you're talking about. go look at his old solo vlogs, it's the same thing.
I'm not really a gamer, but I love gamer-lingo When you said, "As a kid nowadays, you're really getting SPAWN-CAMPED pretty hard." I had no idea that the word "Spawn-camped" was a thing for 36 years... and the moment I heard the word, I knew exactly what it meant. Not only that, but it's perfectly apt. I never stop being impressed by how applicable, creative, and yet intuitive gamer-lingo can be. Words like "nerf" "NPC" "OP" have really entered common vernacular. Even as a non-gamer, I think gamers don't get enough credit for one thing in particular. Gamers (or rather Game Devs) really do have governing down to a science. I wish more people realized that every patch, every nerf, every meta shift... this is really GOVERNMENT in a game setting. At the end of the day, Game developers create what Governments fail to create. They create a world with economic mobility, meritocracy, bug fixes, diversity of tactic, somewhat Democratic, Freedom vs Regulation ratio, it's somewhat capitalist, somewhat meritocratic, somewhat socialist. It rewards you for your time without creating runaway gains or diminished returns. The government (and society as a whole) can learn a lot from successful game development.
If you have to work outside, construction for example, you have to have time to get things in order. Its all nice and dandy on paper or in your head. Real life needs impossible ammounts of time, which can be reduced by having more heads. As the heads shrink, the governments have less power and the tribes(companies) have more power.
It's just culture and technology, it's not because they are special, example: gamers also indirectly led to the current AI boom which makes many of these things worse.
This may be a deep cut and unfiltered but this reminds me of a story where there was this woman who was really into books and she was the smartest in her village, beautiful too. One day Dragons were going to attack the village she was in and this woman discovered magic meant to kill them through her readings. She saved the village this way and the village made her out to be a witch. Keep in mind these same people calling her a witch were neighbors, friends, comrades, fellow colleagues, little kids who she visited from time to time, but because they saw what wasn’t natural, she was immediately “excommunicated” like he said. Her story then took a darker turn but I won’t explain that part, point is: people these days are like if “you’re not stupid like us, you’re against us”. Instead of wanting to be taught, wanting to be smarter, no they want you who is smart to be dumb like them so they aren’t an outcast. We need to make common knowledge great again and not look at genius’ as freaks but role models. Nerds are more wealthy and needed now than in the 80’s. Your average dumbass won’t know hot to setup a stereo system lmao, get an expert to do it and learn from them. People lack the motive TO learn is the thing
Schools should incorporate 'Appropriate Conduct' as a mandatory course within the curriculum to address critical gaps that hinder many, particularly gifted intellectuals, from thriving in society. This course would cover effective communication, professional etiquette, conflict resolution, and emotional intelligence-skills essential for navigating diverse social and professional settings. Gifted individuals often struggle with social engineering, ostracism, and the need to conform in environments that undervalue their intellectual strengths. By emphasizing these practical skills, schools could alleviate these struggles, empowering intellectuals to better integrate while maintaining their individuality. Additionally, replacing politically charged content with unbiased training focused on critical thinking and general knowledge would foster a balanced curriculum. Addressing both social and intellectual needs would create a system that not only values academic excellence but also ensures students are equipped with the interpersonal tools necessary to succeed in real-world interactions. This holistic approach benefits everyone, particularly those whose intellectual gifts often go underappreciated due to societal and systemic barriers.
Its a mix of "Don't ask questions, consume product." , people being willfully ignorant/dishonest because they can't handle being wrong or are afraid of being ostracised by the majority and the constant validation from likeminded people who are afraid of the larger dialogue. A couple of generations of that and you have adults who argue & yell at each other like 10 year olds; confusing facts with opinions.
@@nescient4864 then educate him instead of just adding nothing to this conversation….that is if you can, if you even understand what it is you are adding to this topic
@@Drluvv258 He told his feelings about it like anybody cares! Make it make sense with arguments so we can have a discussion or shut up! Its not hard to understand!
Asmon is so real for the “use it or lose it” thing. I started playing old school runescape again in September for the first time since like 08/09, I came to realize when typing in game that by me using my phones auto spell feature that I’ve completely forget how to spell ALOT of things because my phone just automatically spells it for me.
Guess I'm lucky that my autocorrect deliberately refuses to work or feeds me the wrong words all the time so I need to actually go back on everything and spell check it myself lmao
As a UK citizen I see more of this every day happening from the top down. Now we as people can be investigated by the police for "non-crime hate speech" (say you call someone a moron for parking their car in a way that blocks the road) and recently the gov have tried to place this as a permanent thing on your records. Basically if you offend anyone for any reason in the UK you can be brought up on charges.
@@edwinbleau5334 oi oi bruv, you got a licence to be all political like?... didnt think so, in to the can with you. cant have you ex-colonists brakin' our laws now, even if you're 'cross the ocean 😆
@madnotbadjenkins9005 maybe over there, you need a license to think, but in the United States, you don't! That's why we are #1. Hahaha 😂 Go listen to your overlords haha 😄
New generations can read but can't process information and indeed don't ask because think they don't need the information or can find it online or don't care. People pay very little attention to anything. They can't concentrate on a task for long. I used to be able to concentrate on a task for hours...now, it's down to minutes. Gen Z, I find talking with them, they have no mind.
This is without a doubt, my number one favorite thing you've ever created. This might even be my favorite bit of UA-cam creation to date, and I've been looking at UA-cam since 2006. I've recognized this issue of the death of critical thinking so much so, that I've founded an organization in my community with a politically opposing person to encourage critical thinking and dialogue. I've also been working in an organization doing similar work as the founding fellow for over a year at my local university. People love it, they're starving for stimulating conversation, and a structure that allows them to freely examine ideas without recourse. You're right bro, you're so right. High five.
Critical thinking or a thrust for knowledge requires people to challenge themselves, which no one wants to do anymore. It's far easier to remain stupid, uninformed, or in whatever echo chamber agrees with them.
@@StackingGains Lmao what? You make it sound like this is THE crux of some societal notion that people don't want to change, which if you actually believe is insane. I wouldn't even put it in the top 50 issues of why people want change but do not act to invoke change with themselves.
Learned helplessness is a real thing. Ai doesnt have to do anything but advance a little further then shut itself off for a month and wed mostly die out
There is additional factor. Before social medias people who are copying identities from others were doing it on more local level, so this effect was contained on more local level. Now people are copying identities from tictok, IG, YT and let's be honest, most influencers are not the best role models. Aspiring with content for kids to be on their level and not at all challenging for them mentally is another angle. Everybody is now feed content and but very little substance is in it, kids especially.
I think the single worst thing that social media brought isn't actually the discussions themselves, but the fact that algorithms exist. I cann't understand why there isn't more discussion about them. They are artificially creating bubbles at an accelerated pace. They can also be controlled by whoever owns the platform. They are of course helpful in some ways, but there is just little to no active discussion about what they do. Instead we just focus on a specific platform.
@violetbliss4399 100% right! The discussions are also troublesome, but how easy it is to get stuck in one particular topic/point of view is very serious and scarry indeed. I am actively trying to avoid being in the bubble on the Internet, and it is hard man
Most of those influencers are all from California and their content is pushed to the world. People see these people who are the same age as them, they start acting and thinking like them, then they think people who are local to them are odd if they don't have the same interests
Glad I’m not the only one that’s been seeing this. People have been mentally and emotionally manipulated to forego their own logic in order to be a part of “a movement”.
Before the election Don Lemon was doing street interviews, asking what the people thoughts were. One man told him that he was having trouble affording necessities and the bills, and inflation was just too high and making everything very difficult. Don Lemon replied, "But that's not true!" And the man laughed at him and walked off, shaking his head. Don Lemon has a certain mindset that's not based in reality, and he was trying to convince the man to join his delusion, or rather his religion that everything is fine, better than ever, and the man's empty wallet was just lying to him. I'm non-partisan, and it just struck me... how can people be soo blind? They are literally the meme. They will sit in a burning room lying to themselves until they burn to death rather than use critical thought to assess and escape the situation. They will happily board that space ship, completely trusting the aliens and ignoring Patty screams of, "It's a cookbook!"
@@margaretballinger2484 things are definitly tough for a lot of people. But you are factually living in the best times in human history by every metric. Which is either sad, or somewhat optimistic depending on how you look at it.
In Don's situations, there could be multiple explanations, but what I think is the biggest one is the inability to differentiate statistical information from personal information. What he's likely thinking is "I've seen the figures, they doesn't agree with what this man is saying. Therefore, either this man is wrong, or the figures are incorrect. Since I trust the figures, the man must be wrong". But the truth is, neither is wrong. The figures are right, and the man is right. It's just that the facts which are true statistically do not translate to individuals. And people have a really hard time comprehending averages. One of the topics Asmon talks about in this video, men being stronger than women, is precisely that error. When you say that men are being stronger than women ON AVERAGE, people interpret that as every man being stronger than every woman. And so the #1 retort you will hear is "but I know this girl who can kick this dude's behind, so that can't be right". They don't even realize that it does not address the claim, and that's because they don't understand the claim. You've probably seen the reverse of the Lemon's situation as well. When somebody brings up pessimistic statistics, e.g. some financial sector declining, and the person goes "well, that can't be right, because none of the people I know are experiencing that". Sometimes it's even as bad as "Well, I've been doing great, so that can't be true".
There are two truths. 1 people are struggling to afford groceries 2 unemployment is low, the GDP is going up, stocks are going up, inflation is going down, and the US had some of the least worst inflation coming out of the pandemic. So he's not wrong, in a sense, but it's tone deaf.
5:44 you say that about car diagnostics. Half the time the error code just says replace a part, when in reality it might be fixed in more cost effective ways. Car companies sell parts, customers get screwed over, and mechanics (bad ones) don't know how to fix the problem themselves without just replacing the part.
I have a lot of nieces and nephews in their 20s-30s, and hardly any of them know how to change a tire. I always offer to show them, and the offer is always declined. Both the girls AND the boys say, "I can just call someone" Me: "What if there's no signal?" "Someone will stop and help" Me: "what if no one stops?" They roll their eyes and walk away. If you refuse to do ANYTHING to prepare in anyway, I honestly don't know how much you deserve to be rescued. I'm not talking about something actually life-threatening, but for instance, if you refuse opportunities to learn how to change a tire, I don't think you deserve to have someone take the time to rescue you. I'm sure those geniuses can figure it out 🤷🏻♂️
now 100% of the time when an alert pops and i go to the garage to see what it is and to fix it : ''oh you got an error alert? i can get rid of it but its gonna come back in 5 min'' ''what?...no i want the problem that the error tells about to be fixed...dont are about the alert'' ''oh.....ok....'' they dont know how to fix cars anymore
The acceptance of a problem turned from meaning "to acknowledge that a problem exists so we can fix it" to meaning "accepting the existence of any possible problem as our new reality".
@@drantigonhow do you decide what a woman is? Is it genotype? Is it phenotype? Is it sexual function? If you can't give me an answer that will not be easily refutable you have to admit that gender is separate from any of those characteristics. If it is, why would you believe that someone is inherently a man/woman? This is the simple reasoning anyone with logic (like scientists) can come to, you use your feelings to decide things. You don't like it because you find it gross and weird. That's it.
@@drantigon this would track if there was other ways to deal with it, people who actually deal with dysphoria don't just go to therapy talk about their problems and have it dealt with, that's never been how any mental health has worked, from depression to anxiety to anything, that's a fundamental misunderstanding of how these problems are solved, it's just wanting the answer to be making sure the problem is hidden from the world because other people don't want to see it, most mental problems are lifelong, and you don't just "work it out", you find ways to cope with them to stay a functional member of society
funny when scientist start preaching Joseph was the mother of Jesus lol shows how much faith ya have to have when even Christians can't take it that far
“Learning math is learning logic - learning logic is learning critical thinking.” - i dont always agree with you but THIS is 10000% correct. Well said.
There are lots of contributing reasons, but the main reason is the introduction of Common Core to the public school curriculum 24 years ago. When it was being crafted there was only 1 Educator on the panel, a Math Teacher. He plainly said CC Math would put students a minimum of 3 years behind where they where with the existing curriculum. They ignored him and he resigned in protest. The rest is history.
As we are learning that resigning in protest does not do much, from this, more drastic measures are being employed by people blowing whistles. As we should.
@@Tsunkuotakunot sure what you are saying Canada does not teach common core. Nor does Canada have national curriculum The individual provinces are in charge of the curriculum and how it’s taught This is why Canada is doing better than the USA in math The United States absolutely has gone backwards in reference to its own past performance and in reference to other countries since beginning common core.
In Canadian high school in the 90s, our history class was called "social studies" and it was entirely about how the wite man stole everything. It was almost as bad as "Family Life" when I was in Catholic school.
Critical thinking has always been rare. I think the issue is that we learn about the past through the lens of scholars, not "regular" people. So, we end up getting the impression that most people in the past were scholars, when that's obviously not the case. I also think the J.K. Rowling example is more nuanced than you're acknowledging. What does backlash against her even mean, anyway? Harry Potter still airs on TV basically all day everyday.
Very well said, the brightest of previous generations, their ideas get preserved in text and passed down to us, nobody was writing down the thoughts of Jim the mud farmer
I’m the same age as Asmon. I remember how technical and complex basic public education was compared to nowadays. I also remember how everything was more technical. People had to be way smarter. They had to know a lot more about their professions as well. My mom worked for a petroleum company in the 90’s. Even truckers (who were transporting fuel) that called in were far more intelligent in their knowledge of their respective profession, and far more articulate than anyone these days. Car salesmen would sell you on the mechanical intricacies of a car. Every student would do things like calculus long before college. If you only made it to Trigonometry in hs, you weren’t going to college. Wild stuff.
this shi shocked me as a kid. We started learning pre calculus in 8th grade. I was in private school. I only started learning calculus again by senior year public school. Before that it was insane how much i already knew. They were learning trig in junior year i learned trig in 7th grade.
@lufuoena and that was really the norm. To be honest, a lot of children from Europe and Asia are still going through that. I have foreign friends with kids, who are doing pre calculus in middle school.
I've managed to hold onto my analytical mind, but mainly because I was always so autistic about it. But pretty much everyone has lost the taste for delayed gratification, even if they had more of it early on before having regular internet/smartphone access. And that does screw with your ability to self-improve in a changing environment. No doubt you're onto something...stay golden, hermitboy.
16:38 - "sometimes we need to just deal with things, my discomfort isn't any one else's responsibility but mine" That one gets me in lots of trouble sometimes.
This is the other, unused, meaning of "emotional intelligence": Where rapidly shifting emotions augment cogitation. It's because one cluster of neurons will fire differently depending on the emotional state.
"The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling."
_Thomas Sowell_
That is a perfect way to explain it.
@@Pharozos it really is, damn
Yea... emotions are easier to manipulate Johnny
Johnny needs to learn that at first we feel, then we think. To paraphrase Plato, we struggle with reigning in our emotions like horses draging us along ceaselessly.
also that we are pressuring johnny to incur 40-80,000$ of student loan debt to go to political indoctrination and drug dependency camp while they pretend to learn a skill that is already being done by AI.
“If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” - George Orwell
@6trillionmiles ur not very good at trolling bro lol
@@6trillionmiles Does your mummy know your on the internet? grow up
@@6trillionmiles retrd
@@6trillionmiles worst troll ive ever seen, you have to try harder next time
You're in a cult
But it's got electrolytes
It's got what plants crave
@@Joseph_Myers Water? Like out of the toilet?
@@Joseph_Myers but why do plants crave it
best documentary film ever :)
"What is a woman" The question whose answer half the time makes Idiocracy look like Citizen Kane
In 1984, when I was 23, I broke down the engine of a 1966 Chevy pickup all the way to the block and rebuilt it. By myself. When I was done, it ran like new.
I'm 63 now, and I wouldn't know where to start on a "modern" engine.
7 on-board computer modules, 38 electronic sensors. Each runs and/or monitors various parts and functions of the engine.
I would need to be a NASA engineer to have any chance.
Knowledge that used to take decades to become practically useless is now rendered obsolete in 6 months.
I don't have time to keep up with all the technological shifts.
I would need to spend every day of my remaining years in classes to just stay barely abreast.
Not to mention all the special tools and equipment needed!
that's nice dear
@@DarthFetid Thank you, sweetie.
@@DarthFetid so hey what happens to a country that can't keep more than half it's citizens from the worst ravages of life? Oh that's right A Tale of Two Cities...
Plugging a "scan tool" in and then getting a mechanic to fix something based off of a code. Its not that easy. Electronics if there were cheaper would be easy. No one would waste money on a new car if you can keep old tin can alive. Carb engines to this day are still easier to work on if you known how. Here's what you have to remember, the more electronics you put on, the more points of failure. Electronics most of the time are reliable. Throw in crappy computers with bad programming, get wrecked. Electrical theory isn't changing, computers are. Here is the kicker; if we didn't have emissions, your car would "breakdown" less.
I naturally didn't have access to the internet until I was 12 and I'm convinced it's the ideal way to grow up.
Me too.
Ditto
based on a sample of 1?
@@Trunka34I had very similiar upbringing in that regard so now its sample of 2.
Edit: with other commenters 4 actually
I had internet access when I was younger than that, and I think there _is_ at least a middle ground where it's not in your pocket or always connected, but it's still there and able to be used with intention. When I had to ask my parents to let me sign into the dial-up account and they weren't able to use the phone until I was done, or even later on when I only got XYZ minutes on the family computer for every chore I did, it allowed me to connect with friends and see what was possible technologically while still being less harmful than having a laptop with WiFi in my bedroom.
The problem is that the "middle ground" requires so much discipline from both the kids and their parents enforcing it that it's very difficult to achieve.
All jokes aside the fact that having critical thinking skills is becoming the exception instead of the norm is terrifying
indeed it is
always was
It was never the norm.
I'm teaching my daughter how important it is to have good at minimum critical thinking skills
@@MrMaksibon Yeah, it's weird people are acting like this is a new thing. People are getting more polarised, but I personally think that's just a consequence of the internet and how interconnected we all are now.
No edit, no games, no youtube reaction. Just good old Asmon, talking his ass off and I love it
How do you even know if you didn't watch the video before commenting?
with a crappy mic too as cherry on top
@@BillZoro he saw about 2 minutes of it
These are the best.
@@BillZoro we doesn’t stoke the fire!!
We thought the internet was going to increase intelligence and enlighten people. Instead, it just reinforces the same idiotic ideas that a person started with.
You can't force people to learn.
We were always destined to doom ourselves. It wasn’t the Internet.
Ideological takeover does not allow critical thought. Fall in line or face being shamed and ostracized from the group. 10 years of that and here we are
Yup. Now you got the biggest cult following in history on your hands. 😅
10 years of that? lmao the victim complex.
They have the nerve to call people on the right a "cult"
@@manixx89 When you make one guy your entire personality and blindly follow every single word he says. Yeah, that means you're in a cult.
@manixx89 Both sides are cults. You're defending your 'side' right now.
I work at a small software company that's been around since the beginning of business computers in the late 80s. So much knowledge has been lost with staff attrition, even in just the last 10 years, that I'm basically a tech-priest. I know the prayers to make the ancient products work, but I have no idea /how/ they work.
Did y’all bring in a lot of Indians over last 15 years?
@patstar5 Nope, all Australian still. The young guys that grew up with iPhones and not having to troubleshoot old versions of Windows are a real struggle. Despite their computer science degrees, they just don't have the intrinsic problem solving skills learned from growing up with clunky technology.
@@Sypher474 you are so lucky. My floor at work can seat 100 people. 60 at least are from India. Sucks.
@@patstar5 Rip brother. I do not envy your position. People wonder why apps keep getting worse...
Praise the omnisiah 😂
“As a kid nowadays, you’re getting spawn camped pretty hard” real shit
That’s wild how real that is
They've gotten so good at spawn camping they've managed to camp you pre-spawn even 💀
@@xiaoliu7071 we call that a UAV gang
This video just validates the point that boomers, aka older millennials age approx early-late 30's, are the goat generation who transcended the analog to digital age. We are the last people to remember life before internet was mainstream and we had to be imaginative as youth to entertain ourselves. Growing up we had to problem solve without the help of google and developed a sense of self-reliance and baseline competency of numerous tasks both rudimentary and technical.
@@Habeev07well said. It’s so hard to understand this digital generation
It’s crazy how well spoken this man is. And this is a one-take 😳
This can be a critical thinking exercise; is it really surprising that a man who has been talking to a camera for well over a decade is able to convey his own opinions accurately in one take? Not trying to rag on you, but this isn't really impressive and shouldn't be considered as much, instead we can look at it as an example of what consistently practicing a thing can achieve.
@@Jimsimi Great take! Was thinking the same thing.
@@Jimsimi exactly. the dude is most comforable in his little room, in front of a camera. imagine him trying to give this same speech or any one of his takes to a live auidence with as many viewers as his twitch or youtube views. public speaking is not this "sitting in your room in your PJS talking to your own echo chamber" public speaking even to 200 people is so much harder than talking to 200 internet strangers.
@@keller8821 I want to see you talking in front of camera (knowing millions will watch), and give a one-take speech without stuttering or deviating from the topic straight for 20 mins. It's not as easy as you think and you are incredibly clueless if you think that way because not everyone can do it.
I watch a lot of streamers and Asmongold is one of the best when it comes to speaking from top of the head without a script.
@@Jimsimi you guys make me sad, don't be his little lapdog he wouldn't like that, you sound like you just made asmon your religious cult leader..
As a programmer, I can attest to the experience. I have made my own automation tools for work, and as a software developer, I always end up in the dilemma of teaching juniors to work without the automation tools and having juniors to use the tool for productivity. Because when I leave the company, someone else has to pick up my slack of maintaining the tools. Some of my juniors have become so reliant on the tools that they do not understand how the tools work, because they did not have to solve problems that I solved. I fear for the future for software development. A large majority of software developers nowadays cannot work without an interactive IDE and do not understand how IDEs work.
At some point in time, productivity tools turn into clutches against self learning. It is not that I am against using ChatGPT for work, I fear that the company/development team might become too dependent on it. And if it goes offline one day, we might not be able to work without it. Reliance on tools creeps silently.
This is why you don't pass on your tools, they should be taught from scratch to eventually make their own automation tools so they understand the whole growth process.
You can supply them with the tools, however, make sure they understand how they work and how the system works without using the tools, so that in case something happens and they cannot rely on the tools, they know how to fix stuff on their own.
@@weipingtoh6756 ok, you roasted me enough there lol
That's why schools used to teach advanced math. When I worked for the IRS as a tax examiner running weird algor ythms programmed by economists in London, my questions about how the tools and functions in the proprietary software were too much for our tech guy with 20 years experience who didn't have a degree nor advanced math skills. Our work culture and priorities are crazy as hell for it's tricky to impossible to find a good employer with loyalty, principals, and values. It's not going to matter for you what happens in your work place and job position after you no longer work there so it's not worth concerning over it's future other than doing your work you're paid now to do today. I wouldn't have a clue how to write software and code today. Are you using advanced AI today to work out problems that humans couldn't ever actually write and solve?
"Mentally AFK" is such an accurate description, especially after seeing those videos of little kids just staring blankly like zombies at Cocomelon
ten years ago we just called that brain-afk
Chocomelon is literally created to be crack for children. It's scary, these dudes who make it are literally researching how to make kids addicted to it so they can farm views.
In my area, kids who watched Teletubbies grew up to be very mentally limited. Kids shouldn't watch these kind of mind-numbing cartoons if they're more than 2 years old maximum. They should upgrade to smarter cartoons when they're 3 years old. Personally i have memories since i was 2 and that's when i started thinking critically. Also i started watching more serious cartoons and movies when i was 3, i started reading and writing, doing basic math, i was also doing puzzles, mazes, crosswords etc. I watched my brother play PS1 games which were not suited for kids. I was selling seashells to tourists when i was 4, next to my parents shop. I had my own pocket money at 4 and learned some basic trading skills. By age 5 i could read and write perfectly, i started school when i was 6 and everyone was still learning letters while i was already reading books and writing texts. I learned some English at the same time, and English is my 3rd language.
Am i an exceptional case? Maybe, but i believe every child is capable of becoming intelligent with training, practice and mind-shaping. It's a fresh canvas, and unless there's a disability or bad genetics in play, they all have the potential to become intelligent if raised right.
Also Lego's are THE BEST TOYS for kids, they worked wonders for me. It involves creativity, imagination, intelligence, math, critical thinking, hand-eye coordination.. It's like a supertoy for the brain. And also it encourages kids to simply build and create stuff, it develops patience and determination, and it makes them competent and capable when using hands and fingers. Lego helps with attention to both small details and the bigger picture, because you're using small pieces to build something large, directly managing both. It also makes them more artistic because Lego's have a variety of themes; aliens and sci-fi, space stations and mining rigs, medieval and fantasy castles, ninjas and samurais, Egyptian pyramids, jungle tribes, marine/aquatic facilities.. There's every genre for kids to explore, it opens up the door for many different worlds.
Don't ask questions just consume product
Thats right Jay!
The ancaps keep on winning
Then get excited for next product
@@sqoualalaobikord9690 POE2. HYPED!
I think it's flipped. We were consumers now we are consumption/fodder/product.
I've been a teacher for six years now, and I'm honestly ready to leave because the absence of critical thinking has become so widespread. I love my kids but every year I see the decline.
Trump just got elected, critical thinking never was present, human are emotional
I hear you. Everyone I know who used to teach, has moved to doing something else.
@@OdinWannaBe So if you read my comment, I've been seeing this happen over the course of six years. Four of those years were under Biden-Kamala...so I don't see how mentioning Trump is an indicator of declining cognitive ability when it has been happening prior to the election in 2024. Regardless of who is president, our education system simply sucks.
My wife is a teacher. I used to spend a lot of time in the classroom helping out. I really enjoyed it cause kids are… used to be cool. Something has changed with these children. They used to want to do well, impress and earn your attention. Now they simply cannot think beyond their immediate self. It sucks.
@@stevewoodyt Kids will be kids. They mostly have no say in their critical development or education. I blame the parents, for not understanding the effects of the internet, trends, and social media to young impressionable minds.
You really hit the nail on the head earlier in the video. The biggest issue about all of this is how people will be willfully ignorant or intellectually dishonest to the point where it slowly stops becoming a joke and moreso reality. I cannot tell you how many times I've seen many opinions that defy logic on twitter, only to become a "it was just a meme/joke" ONLY when they're confronted by enough people. This keeps going on in a loop and now what used to be memes and jokes turns out to be unironic opinions people hold. We really need to figure out a way to not automatically become hostile with each other over the slightest disagreements, and to encourage people who admit their wrong doings to keep up the good work in growing and changing as people. If people stopped being afraid of being wrong, I believe more people would finally be able to reach across the aisle and tackle ideas instead of individuals.
And then if you have anything useful, be ptepared to be treated like a scammer and estranged from your loved ones.
A meme joke is a real crypto currency now with a huge valuation.
This. A good example of this productive behavior is Eric Weinstein critiquing Terrance Howard's hypotheses
and now its "you cant change teams like that" to "at least dont play unfair sports against somebody whos en large smaller and weaker than you k?"
"I cannot tell you how many times I've seen many opinions that defy logic on twitter, only to become a "it was just a meme/joke" ONLY when they're confronted by enough people"
i know of the crowd you speak of, and while i dont want to make this comment section political, it fucking irritates me to all hell since they do it SO DAMN MUCH, and use that as a get out of jail free card, and their also the same ones who will go on to say "Aww man comedy is dead, no one allows it anymore"
i hate it and seen it to many time where
Political Commetater: *Says somethign terrible and revolting
The masses: WHOA that is not good thing to say, you should be ashamed of yourself
Political commentater: Ay Yo tis just a joooke, relax, man why is comedy dead nowadays?
or their fans: he was just joking, dont take it seriously!
it just so damn annoying to deal with.
Yeah i lowkey hate that i can't even bring up a number of controversal topics even to try and understand them better, the second i start trying to dig deeper and ask questions people get offended and label me all kinds of evil instead of thinking together..
It doesnt help that finding real info on the internet became much much harder to do....
It wasn’t always this way. It used to be accepted and it was fun to challenge your friends who held different views (normie or otherwise).
We can do it again. People just need to stop treating their social and political views as a religious cult.
It goes so far I'm even afraid to answer Asmon's question here in the UA-cam comments.
you literally can't even say "I agree with you, can you provide the source so I can argue our point better?"
or "I'd never heard of that, can you provide the source so I can learn more about your point?"
just gotta find the right spaces, amigo.
@@TheCodyMacuh, not so much. Challenging someone's religious beliefs has pretty much ALWAYS ended badly. As Asmond poi ts out, other groups are now taking the functional place of religions - but the results are very similar.
I'm here for the philosophy era, the twitch ban opened his third eye 😂
dude was sitting on the fence for far too long
Ahahahahaha.
@@casualrider983bro, the right ain't no different to the left. They lack critical thinking aswell.
this isnt anything new for asmon! look at his old videos, hes sat in his treehouse ranting for like 10 years man.
Diogenes is back!
Been watching asmon for months…This rant finally earned my sub. 👍👍keep up the engaging conversations man!
Boomer here. In school, basically in every class, a primary goal was to teach critical thinking skills. We wrote a lot of papers in every class back then, and in the process of writing a paper, we learned how to form a hypothesis or theme, how to research using library resources, like card catalogs, how to determine the quality of information we came across, how to form an argument, how to present an argument, and how to defend an argument. That is, if we didn't learn anything else in high school, we learned logical progression of ideas, critical thinking skills, and how to detect BS. I attended very good schools, so perhaps my experience was atypical.
Back then, any kind of opinion or commentary was a bit difficult for teens to come across. We had to watch the evening news, or read the newspaper for that, and commentary and opinion was always clearly labeled as such. And yes, we had politics, and people voting party lines, and it all could get rather nasty on occasion, but if any politician flat out lied, or got too openly nasty, they were censured and gone.
Now today, politicians lie constantly, the masses can't seem to tell the difference between facts and fiction, people consume only material that reinforces their confirmation biases, think political parties are some kind of religion, and are, frankly, ignorant AF.
God help us, because there is nothing in logic, or history that guarantees this nation to remain a functioning republic, and as John Adams, and several other founders argued, the affairs of the State cannot be held in the hands of ignorant voters.
And instead of taking up the responsibility to bettering society, you just want to cry on the internet and hand the state over to authoritarians instead. Thank you. You are literally everything that everyone else hates about the boomers.
@@MannersPleaseYou seem to have forgotten your manners.
Are you an actual baby boomer or just a boomer?
No offense mate, but the fact that politicians lie and people can’t tell the difference has been well documented since the roman empire, nothing changed much in people being ignorant, it’s just that we have internet now and they didn’t, but not much changed since people have “hierarchical power”.
This is just a reflection of animalesque mankind as those who want power have usually a level of sociopathy or megalomania, heh.
Like when Biden ran in the 80s and got caught lying and plagiarizing so much, got called out for it, and had to drop out. Come 2020 and media does his bidding for him
"Spawned camped as a kid"
basically means getting fucked up in life before even starting life.
true
Assuming you even escape the womb.
Too relatable
Keep your kids off the internet
He just meant they're being farmed like cattle
A few years ago a car came with an instruction manual that told you how to change the spark plugs. Today they come with an instruction manual that tells you not to drink the oil.
that's because the boomers drank the oil and sued the companies for not telling them not to drink it
This one (oil) I blame on doing dumb things and then suing seller for it.
It's not people's fault, why does car oil look like a gasless and thicker cola?
😂
And if you want to know how to access the sparkplugs, then you should take the car to a certified repair shop...
Okay so I have been wondering why I feel like I'm surrounded by idiots lately. My thought was, "Nah dude, quit being so full of yourself. You are not better than anyone."
But being able to critically think doesn't necessarily make me better than someone. It just makes me smarter.
Great video. I love how you broke it down in a 20 minute rant haha it's great.
Edit: Don't get it twisted either, people don't want to think because it takes EFFORT to think, and when they get home from working 2-3 jobs in this shithole of a country we live in run by oligarchs who just siphon all the labor they can out of people and hoard the wealth, why would they want to? They are exhausted just trying to survive/get by. I am always empathetic towards this situation, which most people find themselves in.
That’s such a really good point and I have felt the same exact way . For example I watched this exact video at work and 4 or 5 Trump worshippers were offended by what Asmongold was saying … I asked why? They said he was a spoiled liberal 🤦♂️. Then I thought wow you missed the whole point . If you’re getting mad about what hes saying you have no critical thinking skills
Another problem; young people outsourcing critical thought to streamers and podcasters instead of having to think themselves. This is why it seems people have very strong opinions on controversial topics but cannot argue even the basic premise when challenged in person.
This, admittedly, is a problem for both sides, albeit if you are more to the center or to the right OR go against whatever is the dominant political ideology at the time, you’ll receive more pushback in your daily life and will be more accustomed to arguing your points.
This is very very true, bunch of teenagers and kids in their early 20s screaming words like misogyny and not even know what the definition is.
I don't believe in the supernatural yet I realize the importance of Christianity in our society and that without Christ and his teachings in our society, things get worse, it's an objective fact.
Asmon falsely assumes that an atheist society is somehow a better society. It is not. Something is gonna fill that void and if it's not Christ it'll be something that could only be worse...
@@VladTepes-SaviorofEurope-mw4uy intersectionality? AKA the cult of woke.
@@DoubleO88 I think this is true in large part, but I think a bigger problem is people not considering whether or not they are actually being misogynistic, I see so many people, particularly in asmons community who simply dismiss any negative term attributed to their actions. Since to them, if they have good or neutral intentions the actions themselves mustn't hold a negative connotation and thus can't be misogynistic, racist, transphobic, etc; when in reality (at least in my experience), evil people don't know they are evil.. and upon realising so, would rather change their own philosophical views of the world to put themselves in a place of higher moral, instead of considering the consequences of their actions.
The right has it the worst. You don't even know what the left is. Left is we the people, and what policies benefit the most people, while the right is about I the individual and what benefits the elites the most. That is why the right is exclusively identity politics and fascism, because the policies are not at all popular.
Voting for get brownie, because ending OT, public education, shifting taxes from the rich to middle class, deregulation(anarchy of the rich), hand outs to the rich, paid for by the middle class, isn't something you can run on.
I lost two "friends" for saying out loud that transgender athletes should compete in the category that matches their biological gender, to avoid not only unfair results but alsopotential risks (like putting a heavy weight trans woman against a biological woman in fighting sports like boxing or tae kwon do).
Apparently saying that made me a transphobic guy and those two people just disappeared from my life.
Because they can't defend their weak ideology. They are like BioShock splicers. lol except far crazier😂
who left? them or you? The ones who flee is often the weak ideology. stand your ground when u speak ur words, never turn your back when discussing things you believe in.
I had someone recently say to me something along the lines of "Trans-women has female brains in mens bodies and they want to make their body match their brain" ignoring the obvious flaw in their argument, is part of the body. I'm expecting they've now either reevaluated their belief or they've reached the "gendered soul" portion of the transgenderism argument.
@@Robert_D_Mercer That's also wrong, because you can't propertly argue with someone simply refusing to even listen or acknowledge your points in the first place. It will just exhaust you endlessly.
@@Robert_D_MercerI think your question is answered pretty clearly in OPs initial comment. No idea how you're confused.
Nothing bothered me more in school than seeing other kids who I think could easily do well in class if they just applied themselves, but actively do their best not to try because they didn't want to be "nerdy" or whatever. I'm no genius, but going through public school sure as hell made me seem like one, and I got shit for it too when all I did was listen and pay attention (pretty much the bare minimum).
What a nerd
ah! nerd!
it's different when in high school you've already been through extreme humiliation and poverty so whatever. I pray for todays youth, I was in the middle of nowhere, in newfoundland free to learn from nature
This very issue PLAGUES low income communities, but most notably black ones. I point this out because there is so much emphasis on teachers failing these kids. 90% of what is more conveniently ascribed to “shitty schools and teachers” is actually social pressure to not engage with education in an earnest way as it’s white-coded or nerdy. It’s truly sad, you can ask any teacher at a Title 1 school and they will tell you.
Use your superior mental power to oppress the plebeians. It's only natural.
there’s a connection between critical thinking and communication skills. if someone tries to explain their perspective using poor language, they will fail to connect with most people since most people assume the worst from everyone, especially in text or on the internet where body language and tone are non-existent.
i also think it’s important to educate not only through books but through tactile things like basic life experience, learning how to properly move your body, learning how to fix your own car, learning to sew so that you can fix your own clothes, etc.
we live in a world where information is at our fingertips, tactile work can be paid off, and courtesy has been forsaken for cynicism. but, i’m an optimist and i know that people are diverse learners and resilient in spirit.
i used to think that intentions didn’t matter as long as you did what you ought to do, but now i feel differently. i think intentions matter, and that there isn’t a genuine mistake on this earth that is irredeemable.
"kids are getting spawn farmed". can't describe it better
He said spawn camped !! Ur one of the spawn farmed!!
It is actually a shame , ik my dumbass would have been a iPad kid in this gen
@shokew2241 why are you yelling
Yet this echo chamber would suck trump given the chance. Explain again how an 80yr old draft dodging 34time convicted felon isnt the dumbest timeline possible.
@@shokew2241 Actually, near the end, he also said farmed.
Man, I'm so thankful for you because when I watch you I breathe a sigh of relief and whisper 'I'm not insane' because I've been feeling like I've been losing my fucking mind.
You're not insane, the world is
Same
@@devinward461the world was always insane. Arguably more insane in the past. Actually not even arguably.
going sane in an ansane world!
This
"We're not in a cult!" - People in a cult probably
Trump supporters lmao
You lost @@smittenmittens1364
@@smittenmittens1364 ah people prefer certain political group, hm must a be a cult
My whole mormon family tbh
MAGA supporters lmao
This is one of your best videos yet. Keep up the good work and thanks for the excellent content!!
The trans subject is a big one.
I have been on the internet for as long as Asmon. I used to be able to mingle anywhere. /b/, far-right groups, liberals, religious folks, you name it. I could have a conversation with an openly racist bigot, a follower of Krishna or some random hippie. I like to hear how other people see the world and the exchange of ideas is easy if you are willing to listen. It's such a basic human instinct to communicate with one another, it's in our nature.
That was true up until the trans thing came along. The only topic that got me banned now multiple times. The only topic where even an innocent question or poor choice of words earns you an immediate, disproportionate, severe backlash. The slightest hint of deviation from the doctrine is met with vile malice and rage.
It's downright psychotic, it really is a cult.
As a former follower of Krishna, I couldn't agree more. I started to feel like I may just be old and out of touch, but upon further inspection, it's far beyond cultural age progression. It's a cult that abhors everything that keeps a society together. It's militant, anti-logic, and just wrong really.
Same here. I'm independent in my views, but generally lean Libertarian. I'm banned from all the message boards I used to post on, and I never once broke any rules, called anyone names, used slurs, or did anything wrong, other than winning debates. The people that cheered me on in debates where I supported the left, banned me.
This. Absolutely this. "The slightest hint of deviation from the doctrine is met with vile malice and rage."
People now confuse the difference between truth and reality. The reality is males are competing with females and breaking their records, while you never see the females doing the same even though there are more female transformers than males. The truth is males have an advantage over females in physical activities, and that’s why it’s only happening one way. But some will take the reality as truth because they don’t see the actual truth. Jiddu Krishnamurti has talks about truth vs reality which are very interesting.
Its a cult just like MAGA
Teaching kids what to think rather than how to think.
Bud critical thinking has never been mainstay, ask yourself how many Americans can name their Congressman and their two senators? Acting off emotion is easier and less time consuming.
@@nhjhbmkuy7173 Most people don’t care about that. They broadly just want to know is Congress majority Red or Blue at the moment, individual senators and representatives don’t have much sway. It’s the majority that matters. Knowing something obscure like that may be interesting to some, but we’re talking about general knowledge and the ability to think and connect those thoughts. For example, why a lot of these “intellectual” college graduates have no Idea about Geography. They don’t know where Brazil is, that Europe is a continent, etc.
That most people don’t know anything about astronomy. They can’t name the planets in order. They don’t know how the moon was formed. They don’t know what a photon is, or what AU means.
They don’t know anything about the economy. Even generally. They don’t know about federal debt or budgeting. They think the Federal Reserve is part of the government.
People are told what to think, they aren’t taught HOW to think. To figure things out. They can’t visualise objects in their mind. They read at a 5th Grade level. They don’t know fun facts like the speed of sound at sea level, or how many feet are in a mile. They don’t know what a combustion engine is. They don’t know anything about History, like you’d be surprised how many people think WW2 was in the 1800’s. They dont know about Mao, or the Kim family. They don’t know when the Soviet Union collapsed, they don’t know what cities were nuked in Japan.
People are obsessed with nonsense and it’s become the norm. Drake and their nails and nice cars, they don’t know about the foundation of a home or basic laws for driving. This is an epidemic of psuedo intellectuals and 100IQ or less people taking over. It’s scary as hell.
Teaching kids how to think _is_ something teachers do. Conservatives get mad when the people who do critically think don’t agree with them. Asmons video has a lot of projection and he doesn’t realize.
@patcho7518 it's basically anyone trying to indoctrinate into their morality, which can not be questioned. I've definitely seen this on both sides.
@@KiaStout I have seen it too. In the US, the worst offenders are on the right.
I used to work with a guy who was, and no doubt still is, an ardent socialist veering into full on comminist, and he almost always wanted to talk politics. Now, i always considered myself somewhat liberal but when he asked me where i stood, i would say my politics were central/left-leaning, but on some issues i was conservative/right-leaning.
This he could not understand, essentially dismissing my political stance as null and void and that you were either left or right.
He'd engage in gotcha's and propaganda as opposed to understanding, until ultimately i had no desire to explain myself to someone so close-minded who saw the world as just black and white, and lacking in any kind of nuace whatsoever.
It's exactly like speaking to religious people on a mission to convert you, and funnily enough another of his peccadilloes was arguing with muslims and christians online in favour of his atheism. And even on this subject i would explain to him i was agnostic as opposed to being atheist but again that was too nuanced for him.
The thing is, his ilk are everywhere today, on the left and the right, consumed by their ideology and totally lacking in critical thought. People voting democrat just because thats their team, blissfully ignoring or not paying attention to the damage they've done with regards to censorship, division, war and crime. And people ecstatic about Trump winning and fully believing his appointments are all going to be working for the American people from now on and that he can do no wrong.
Ultimately, humans' biggest strength is also our biggest weakness. We are tribal by nature, it's engrained in our very survival as a species and true transcendence is to, at the very least, acknowledge it and try to step outside of that.
Thats what critical thinking is, and it isn't easy. But attempting to overcome emotion and stepping outside of your comfort zone is what we should all be striving to do.
"But nah fuck them cos they don't think like I do about this."
Only you have critical thought, what every NPC thinks.
"They will spoon feed you socialism until you are a communist and you won't notice until it's too late" - Ronald Reagan
@@Br1cht it is amazing how wrong you comprehended what he is trying to say.
I've had similar problems with others. I'm a stubborn person myself, so I can kind of understand your colleague in that regard, but having such a black and white idea of how the world works is crazy.
I think many bad things are good in the right context and many good things are bad in the right context. Thinking something is always good or bad will harm you and the people around you. That's kind of the thing with the illegal immigrant situation. It's not that I don't think people deserve to live in the country, but they've got to be approved and go through the correct process to stay permanently. A very left leaning person might not even understand that and the problem with them is that they are too lenient on that stuff until it's pretty much to the point of no return. It needs to be actively dealt with, otherwise the whole system stops working.
Long story short, context is key.
you failed him
My cousin used to yell at me and say “think for yourself bro!” But then a minute later would regurgitate some Fox News horse shit conspiracy. He was the first person that contacted me about the Haitians eating cats 😂
Were Haitians eating cats?
I want to watch this video in 40 years and check how it went
People won't know how to use youtube in 40 years. I'm sorry.
It'll be worse
Watch in 10 years, I don’t think we have to wait too long to be able to compare our present with the future
40 years? Best come back before the Interwebs stop working.
you really think the world will still exist in 40 years? 😂
Went to both a public high school for a year and then a private high school for 3 years - the most consequential difference between the two? Private school had a required critical thinking class for at least 6 semesters. It's easily the most valuable class I've ever taken.
Some of the discissions on controversial issues we had in that class as exercises were more civil and productive than anything I've witnessed ADULTS have on controversial issues outside of school..
The skill was woven in to the curriculum in every subject as well, especially history.
I would have liked a History class with some critical thinking. It was all memorizing names dates and events but not really picking apart the social and political themes that caused them which, barring idle curiosity, is the whole damn point of learning history. As a consequence I never gave a shit about history till I was like 25 because I developed a more than surface level interest in politics
Should be standard curriculum. People are so far gone now lol
Rich privilege. Public schools are for creating slaves, private are for creating the next generation of entrepreneurs
USA school system sucks..., I've been to schools in Canada, USA, Colombia, Switzerland...
(Colombia, you go to private schools..)
... schools need to teach critical thinking, the Swiss schools do that great
@@MonsterJuicedPublic schools are government schools, not that private schools are necessarily good, public ones are bad, requiring critical thinking should be the minimum.
He's right about cars. I work for a warranty company, and theres a lot of mom and pop shops and dealerships that just throw the entire system of parts at a vehicle and not know if it would really repair the vehicle. They will replace it all to slap a warranty on it.
nice take on that issue, last weekend I was talking with my 13 yo son and he was exited talking to me about something he did on the school, about drawing Triangles, the name of the angles in a triangle, how they classify, how you suppose to draw them and how you can tell the size of one missing after knowing the angles or sizes of the others, it's a new thing for him, and I'm super proud that he thinks it's interesting, he plays a lot of Roblox and other of those games, watch a lot of ticktock and shorts on you tube, I think he have been exposed to that quick gratification cycle for so long that now is not fun anymore, he start to like more old school things that are completely new to him. I think next weekend, I will dust off my old technical drawing tools and teach him one trick or two about how we used to engineer pieces back in the day were CAD software wasn't everywhere.
That's epic!
The audio quality only expands the entire experience.
For real haha feels like OG UA-cam, brings back the nostalgia
Technology doesnt really need to be any better than this. I can see him. I can hear him. The need for technology to constantly get better and needing to replace things every year, or even every 5 years, is just consumerism really. We would be better off to be more content with what works.
he's always done these weird videos using what sounds like a laptop mic, instead of his nice mic that he uses for streaming which sounds 1000x better
But the camera is still flipped.
@@blackpillfitness9136I'd agree if not for the fact he has a better mic and he just chooses to use this one for some reason
So the Puzzle Box isnt going well, eh?
😂😂
he gave up in 2 hours. Asmon is weak.
It was like watching the start of Space Odyssey
If you smash puzzle box with hammer, you win.
Hellraiser is fuming the man can't solve the goddamn puzzle. Can't claim his soul.
The most critically obvious thing that people deny is their need for validation. Every comment section, social media post, thread, etc, is a space where someone can seek validation they dont receive IRL. It's desperate and cringy. It's sad. If you call them out on it, it's vehemently denied, almost always. This phenomenon can be summed up in one simple word. "First". While certainly not the worst case of it, it is one of the most prevalent. It's a herd mentality thing. It was proven to work, and as people recognize that it has worked, they seek to replicate it.
No doubt, this is a bit of that as well.
First!!!
First
no it's not. i'm already great so no need to prove anything
I agree with the word "first" but there are people that just have an ego so they talk out not because they want validation, but because they believe they have a right to their words being known. It's the opposite of validation. You aren't seeking to be known because you believe you have a natural right to say what you want. Weather people acknowledge it or not is irrelevant to them.
"Like if you are watching in 2024"
Boomers told kids “you have all the information in the world on your phone” and the kids thought that meant they should stop learning
There’s people claiming AI is going to replace colleges now. How could that possibly be when the internet only made the world more stupid?
@@Pluralofvinylisvinylsit's all gonna get worse sadly and thats why people feel like Ai because no one has a real thought for themselves, there is so much division in this world because of that, everyone now is copies of parasocial relationships they develop with youtubers, streamers or whatever social media is feeding em. There is hope in humanity but I see a steady decline in it now. I feel as well people of leaders die young or who try to empower the youth or want to empower change is very small and less trending instead of the stupidity we see online.
@@Pluralofvinylisvinyls We have university students now using AI to complete essays and other projects. The only way to stop this from having unqualified doctors or engineers because they just cheated, would be to have in classroom tests only with no computers or phones
No, people saw a way to make a buck, so we have slop content that serves no purpose but to stimulate and nothing else.
Don’t blame the kids for being exploited.
@@finkamain1621I’m sorry, are you unaware that loads and loads of people have cheated their way through professional degrees?
All you end up doing is screwing yourself because people _will know_ that you can’t do anything, unless daddy’s rich.
you know in sweden they had all computers, laptops and so on for every child in school. but some time ago they replaced all of that for pen & paper again, because kids werent learning much with PCs.
In my experience these school administrators have no idea what to do with the pc's....they think you can just give a bunch of laptops to kids and magic happens by itself...
I was part of an experimental laptop program in my junior year in high school in 1997... There was no forum so we could discuss class topics together, no instant messenger, nothing, the only thing we used the laptops to do was give powerpoint presentations in class...
source ?
not heard of this /swede
AS a swede myself who grew up with laptops in school this is true, i have shit spelling but i still learned alot
Not shit spelling, i have shit writing. because we never used pen/paper
This is raw footage btw, which I find really impressive. Just an uncut video and considering it's Asmon it's also impromptu. Delivering a coherent, clean, uninterrupted and good paced speech for 19 minutes straight is not something those cocomelon kids will ever be able to do, even with rehearsals or a teleprompter. Think about that.
Of course not. Cocomelon kids are literally toddlers. Not sure why you brought them up..?
Yes, definitely impressive. A very rare skill.
"... and this is going to ruffle a lot of feathers... and that's why I'm doing it...!" 6:45
Pure gold... and now I know why the channel is called Asmon GOLD...
@@brlnd6808 Hasn't Cocomelon's current incarnation been around for 6 years now?
Besides, this OP was talking about the current kids' future, so when they are no longer toddlers.
But like how do you know that LOL
I learned everything about computers in a really short period of time as a kid when I constantly fucked up my computer and I had to fix it.
"Someone on a forum told me to delete "System32" folder to fix my issue... yea let's try that" - surely taught me some critical thinking
Pretty well explains how I came into my career
Man my dad almost beat my ass multiple times after every computer I ruined from Napster and limewire back in the day 😂😂
@@femanon8665 omg bruh, I never did that one, but I sure learned some critical thinking from giving that guy my rune platebody, 20 gold bars, and 10,000 gold so he could "trim it."
I still haven't heard back, it's been 15 years, you think he'll come online soon?
Yes, you're living proof of it.
Cars are much harder to work on today regardless of the scan tool being hooked up.
Especially the ones with the engine turned 90°
Too much crammed into not enough space to work in
they are designed with the assembly process in mind and once that is done, its your problem or your mechanics...
My first car was a 1976 Impala. I completely rebuilt that car at 15, and I had way more headaches trying to fix my 95 Stratus. Take the wheel off to change a battery is crazy.
And things like washing machines with all the electronics in them.
I wouldn't say harder, it's just more stuff. Cars are still the same to work on, especially mechanical issues. More and more components are electrically controlled and I see it all the time, mechanics not knowing how things work and blame it on "it's too advanced". No, your knowledge is lacking is all. But I'm a bit "damaged" from working on BMW, AUDI and VW for 10+ years so electrical issues are no issue for me anymore (Love diagnose dan channel for this) Love to work on Japanese cars these days, they're simple and easy to work on, regardless if it's fully loaded or not with tech.
It's so nice to see someone speak without having to edit the video every three goddamn seconds. I would love to see more of these videos :) I agree with you 100%
There have been various topics ive tried to discuss with folk where they immediately default to insults/gaslighting or the same old group think responses.. its happened so many times to the point i just don't talk to people anymore.. its impossible to have a meaningful conversation and learn from it without everyone getting hyper emotional and defensive like their lives depend on it..
I feel your pain. It's hard out here for a free thinker. It gets depressing. Then we see videos like this and realize there's at least a little hope.
Thinking that you can talk your way into understanding or agreement is part of the problem with recent generations- it's like we've got an entire generation of Will Huntings, that think reading and discussion are substitutes for living.
Understanding, or agreement, are earned through shared experience, that's it. You've got to stop having conversations with people and start sharing experiences with them.
First off, I love this video, it's really good. With that out of the way, 8:30 A room nor a house nor a city have trees made for combatting polution, and said flora are dramatically outscaling the growth of carbon emissions (2:1.5)
This, and the fact that you cant say anything that's logical without offending someone or having a label put on you.
you cant expect facts to be accepted by people whose worldview relies on denying them
"And the time will come when men will turn gay, and they will say to a man who is not gay and say, "You are problematic, you are not gay like us!" - Revelation of John
Keep up the good work.....great job buddy
Sometimes even things that seem logical to you are just straight up an opinion ...
you just said nothing, what you think is "common sense" is subjective
Our downfall started with the acceptance of crocs
As a croc with socks user, I blame the socks and sandals users.
Donkey Kong had the right idea
What do you dislike about crocs? Have you ever tried them or do you just think you don't like them because you saw some funny memes?
@@Y0uL0stTheG4me crocs with socks.... Bro whyyy
Wasn't idiocracy the first big media representative for crocs? Lol
Please don't let the room get messy again
we all clean our rooms because we cant change our habits
It’s already a bit messy haha
Asmond needs a sit down with Peterson to tell him in Kermit voice to clean his room and not underestimate the intelligence of the public. Yeah we may be stupid but we're also poisoned, broke, and have suffered a lifetime of propaganda.
To me it's not really a surprise that people seem dumber - the anti-human types would love you to believe people are wasteful idiot lumps born to be stupid unless a perfect society surrounds them to mold them into a useful and woke worker bee.
too late
I had a friend who was a slob and after 4 years in the Marine Corps he kept everything neat and tidy. It rewired his brain. Asmon needs to join the Marines.
A uni lecturer / PhD smarty pants mate of mine once recounted a conversation he had with peers - The problem with education these days is that we basically just teach kids to pass exams. At least, until uni level... but that too late for many who may not go to uni
At least, in the UK - Especially, England. But I suspect all over the western education systems, this will ring true. (my personal thought, especially in the good ol' USA due in part to high cost of failure as, well.. the state don't really help. But I digress......
Imo: Kill exams + Replace with more practice/ assignments and assess based on this. Then make subjects fun and engaging and watch the kids want to study xyz subject - The more the kids put in to a subject, the more success (kinda like is the case in uni)
I've definitely found myself feeling more 'brain rotted' since being out of trucking for the last 2 years. Bout to get back in a truck and hoping I get back to reality. Feel like my the more activity I've had online has definitely played an influence.
I also am getting back in a truck next week after a year out and realizing how much I hate people. Safe travels to you brother.
asmon is the main pusher of brainrot and acting like he isnt a part of it
The internet is like a funhouse mirror of reality.
if its girls dancing, or doing stupid lip syncing, its brain rot. the "i was blah blah old when i learned this" or the conspiracies , or peer to peer news is the only good parts. as long as you dont NPC scroll like media programs you , you are good are good to go.. always search for something that gives you thought.
@@joki5536lol good way to put it
Asmon becoming a philosopher after showering and cleaning his room truly is Petersonmaxxing
if you think he is "becoming a philosopher" like some sudden change of mind and persona, you have no idea what you're talking about. go look at his old solo vlogs, it's the same thing.
1) He didn't shower for this. He doesn't shower.
2) The room isn't clean.
3) He has talked like this since forever.
@@nobodysbody its called a joke.
😂😂
@@lodsup I just recently started watching Asmon and I forgot some of his fans are turbo-virgins who physically embrace the “akchually” character
We're stuck with Idiocracy and Demolition Man all at the same time.
Still trying figure out what the three shells exactly do.
Take this job and shovel it.
@@natimus_maximus4564no one will ever know. If someone does crack the code, the chosen one has appeared.
@@natimus_maximus4564ha, this guy doesn't know how to use the three sea shells 😂
I am leftist and I don't think bezoz deserves billions while I have no future. Critical think out of this one.
Great video, I've been thinking this for years man, glad someone actually said it out in the open
Please keep 'em comin'. Really-REALLY love these ~monolog~ videos (not sure what to call them).
Asmonolog
only complaint about this video is that mic and camera quality are too high.
i was gonna say the mic quality is too low
@@Rossman518 it is, could be lower though
I'm not really a gamer, but I love gamer-lingo
When you said, "As a kid nowadays, you're really getting SPAWN-CAMPED pretty hard."
I had no idea that the word "Spawn-camped" was a thing for 36 years... and the moment I heard the word, I knew exactly what it meant. Not only that, but it's perfectly apt.
I never stop being impressed by how applicable, creative, and yet intuitive gamer-lingo can be. Words like "nerf" "NPC" "OP" have really entered common vernacular.
Even as a non-gamer, I think gamers don't get enough credit for one thing in particular.
Gamers (or rather Game Devs) really do have governing down to a science. I wish more people realized that every patch, every nerf, every meta shift... this is really GOVERNMENT in a game setting. At the end of the day, Game developers create what Governments fail to create.
They create a world with economic mobility, meritocracy, bug fixes, diversity of tactic, somewhat Democratic, Freedom vs Regulation ratio, it's somewhat capitalist, somewhat meritocratic, somewhat socialist. It rewards you for your time without creating runaway gains or diminished returns.
The government (and society as a whole) can learn a lot from successful game development.
Funny, when I develop games I have realized part of my motivation is that if they become popular I get to become an authority.
If you have to work outside, construction for example, you have to have time to get things in order. Its all nice and dandy on paper or in your head. Real life needs impossible ammounts of time, which can be reduced by having more heads. As the heads shrink, the governments have less power and the tribes(companies) have more power.
Well we've got a lot of failed governances lately haven't we?
ChatGPT is fun
It's just culture and technology, it's not because they are special, example: gamers also indirectly led to the current AI boom which makes many of these things worse.
Really well put together and what felt thought out explanations to what we're experiencing asmond. Thanks.
This may be a deep cut and unfiltered but this reminds me of a story where there was this woman who was really into books and she was the smartest in her village, beautiful too. One day Dragons were going to attack the village she was in and this woman discovered magic meant to kill them through her readings. She saved the village this way and the village made her out to be a witch. Keep in mind these same people calling her a witch were neighbors, friends, comrades, fellow colleagues, little kids who she visited from time to time, but because they saw what wasn’t natural, she was immediately “excommunicated” like he said. Her story then took a darker turn but I won’t explain that part, point is: people these days are like if “you’re not stupid like us, you’re against us”. Instead of wanting to be taught, wanting to be smarter, no they want you who is smart to be dumb like them so they aren’t an outcast. We need to make common knowledge great again and not look at genius’ as freaks but role models. Nerds are more wealthy and needed now than in the 80’s. Your average dumbass won’t know hot to setup a stereo system lmao, get an expert to do it and learn from them. People lack the motive TO learn is the thing
sounds like a really interesting story. where did you learn it from
Whats the name of the story?
simple they fear the dragon, if she stronger than a dragon hey gonna fear her too
Schools should incorporate 'Appropriate Conduct' as a mandatory course within the curriculum to address critical gaps that hinder many, particularly gifted intellectuals, from thriving in society. This course would cover effective communication, professional etiquette, conflict resolution, and emotional intelligence-skills essential for navigating diverse social and professional settings. Gifted individuals often struggle with social engineering, ostracism, and the need to conform in environments that undervalue their intellectual strengths. By emphasizing these practical skills, schools could alleviate these struggles, empowering intellectuals to better integrate while maintaining their individuality.
Additionally, replacing politically charged content with unbiased training focused on critical thinking and general knowledge would foster a balanced curriculum. Addressing both social and intellectual needs would create a system that not only values academic excellence but also ensures students are equipped with the interpersonal tools necessary to succeed in real-world interactions. This holistic approach benefits everyone, particularly those whose intellectual gifts often go underappreciated due to societal and systemic barriers.
wuthering waves ahh story
Its a mix of "Don't ask questions, consume product." , people being willfully ignorant/dishonest because they can't handle being wrong or are afraid of being ostracised by the majority and the constant validation from likeminded people who are afraid of the larger dialogue.
A couple of generations of that and you have adults who argue & yell at each other like 10 year olds; confusing facts with opinions.
wdy in a couple of generations?
Have you not followed the US election?
To be precise it started a few generations ago. We already are on the find out part.
Everything is owned by Blackrock, Vanguard, State Street ect. There is no market competition its all owned by the same shareholders.
You don't understand what those companies are.
@@nescient4864 then educate him instead of just adding nothing to this conversation….that is if you can, if you even understand what it is you are adding to this topic
The WEF controls them all..... King charles is cancer.. he owns us through corporations. Transhumanism will be total enslavement.
@@Drluvv258 He told his feelings about it like anybody cares! Make it make sense with arguments so we can have a discussion or shut up! Its not hard to understand!
@Florin-r6i or it could be a bot to trigger you guys into a civil fight over nothing lol. Long live the singularity 😂
This is my absolute favorite video of his. I am genuinely impressed with the dialogue.
Asmon is so real for the “use it or lose it” thing. I started playing old school runescape again in September for the first time since like 08/09, I came to realize when typing in game that by me using my phones auto spell feature that I’ve completely forget how to spell ALOT of things because my phone just automatically spells it for me.
i learned i cant spell the word jewelry when i started playing group ironman lol
yeah i turned off auto correct on my phone a long time. no way my phone is gonna tell me how to type lmao
Guess I'm lucky that my autocorrect deliberately refuses to work or feeds me the wrong words all the time so I need to actually go back on everything and spell check it myself lmao
My spell check sucks so bad (I've been cursed) that I was forced to spell everything 😂
As a UK citizen I see more of this every day happening from the top down. Now we as people can be investigated by the police for "non-crime hate speech" (say you call someone a moron for parking their car in a way that blocks the road) and recently the gov have tried to place this as a permanent thing on your records. Basically if you offend anyone for any reason in the UK you can be brought up on charges.
That is terrifying. Thank god Trump won here.
It's also highly misrepresentative
OI! You got a loicense for that opinion!?
@@edwinbleau5334 oi oi bruv, you got a licence to be all political like?... didnt think so, in to the can with you. cant have you ex-colonists brakin' our laws now, even if you're 'cross the ocean 😆
@madnotbadjenkins9005 maybe over there, you need a license to think, but in the United States, you don't! That's why we are #1. Hahaha 😂
Go listen to your overlords haha 😄
The simple act of reading.
The simple act of paying attention.
The simple act of actually asking a question.
New generations can read but can't process information and indeed don't ask because think they don't need the information or can find it online or don't care.
People pay very little attention to anything. They can't concentrate on a task for long. I used to be able to concentrate on a task for hours...now, it's down to minutes.
Gen Z, I find talking with them, they have no mind.
Asking questions is important but questioning yourself is even more important
@@Fleetstreetbestone in short question everything.
The simple act of common sense.
@@BlueSoulGamer Did you get the vaccine?
This is without a doubt, my number one favorite thing you've ever created. This might even be my favorite bit of UA-cam creation to date, and I've been looking at UA-cam since 2006.
I've recognized this issue of the death of critical thinking so much so, that I've founded an organization in my community with a politically opposing person to encourage critical thinking and dialogue. I've also been working in an organization doing similar work as the founding fellow for over a year at my local university. People love it, they're starving for stimulating conversation, and a structure that allows them to freely examine ideas without recourse. You're right bro, you're so right. High five.
"We’re Living In An Idiocracy.."
Dude, the stories I could tell you about the last 15-20+ years.
We are a lot closer to demolition man than idiocracy.... but we can always mix both
The stories we could read about 150 to 200 years ago!
It really has spiked with the Trumpies though.
@@Omevoc no it has spiked with the TDS cult
@@ricardokojin7 There's also the improbability drive factor. It's not like life has become that unbelievable. . .
Critical thinking or a thrust for knowledge requires people to challenge themselves, which no one wants to do anymore. It's far easier to remain stupid, uninformed, or in whatever echo chamber agrees with them.
Glad your comment is getting traction, I posted something along these lines about 2 weeks ago and I think it went over everyone's head. 😂
Porn addiction got people not willing to challenge or improve themselves to what they are capable of.
Critical thinkers put on trial by the clinically insane.
@@StackingGains Lmao what? You make it sound like this is THE crux of some societal notion that people don't want to change, which if you actually believe is insane. I wouldn't even put it in the top 50 issues of why people want change but do not act to invoke change with themselves.
@@StackingGainsthe opposite my dude. If porn makes you write stupid comparison like this then you're the problem...
3:15 mrs williams catching a stray
😂🎉
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Ms williams
man I LOLED fr
You’ve cone along way in your content, I enjoy the evolution, keep up the great discussions young buck.
Learned helplessness is a real thing. Ai doesnt have to do anything but advance a little further then shut itself off for a month and wed mostly die out
i had a feeling there were less around my area. Turns out there really is a decline of critical thots 0:14
Amazing comment
Well played sir
There is additional factor. Before social medias people who are copying identities from others were doing it on more local level, so this effect was contained on more local level. Now people are copying identities from tictok, IG, YT and let's be honest, most influencers are not the best role models.
Aspiring with content for kids to be on their level and not at all challenging for them mentally is another angle. Everybody is now feed content and but very little substance is in it, kids especially.
Yeah I'm surprised he didn't mention social media, which is herding people into their own bubbles.
Imagine aspiring to be more like Asmond LMFAO
I think the single worst thing that social media brought isn't actually the discussions themselves, but the fact that algorithms exist. I cann't understand why there isn't more discussion about them. They are artificially creating bubbles at an accelerated pace. They can also be controlled by whoever owns the platform. They are of course helpful in some ways, but there is just little to no active discussion about what they do. Instead we just focus on a specific platform.
@violetbliss4399 100% right! The discussions are also troublesome, but how easy it is to get stuck in one particular topic/point of view is very serious and scarry indeed. I am actively trying to avoid being in the bubble on the Internet, and it is hard man
Most of those influencers are all from California and their content is pushed to the world. People see these people who are the same age as them, they start acting and thinking like them, then they think people who are local to them are odd if they don't have the same interests
Asmondgold is going through his Russel Brand faux enlightenment era I see.
Glad I’m not the only one that’s been seeing this. People have been mentally and emotionally manipulated to forego their own logic in order to be a part of “a movement”.
So is that how you would describe the MAGA movement?
@@Ansalion Yes, and the same has happened to a lesser degree with pockets of the left.
@@Ansalion 110%
@@Ansalion Both Maga and whatever the tankies are doing.
@@cin2110 Are the tankies even a movement? Who did they manage to vote into office?
Before the election Don Lemon was doing street interviews, asking what the people thoughts were. One man told him that he was having trouble affording necessities and the bills, and inflation was just too high and making everything very difficult. Don Lemon replied, "But that's not true!" And the man laughed at him and walked off, shaking his head.
Don Lemon has a certain mindset that's not based in reality, and he was trying to convince the man to join his delusion, or rather his religion that everything is fine, better than ever, and the man's empty wallet was just lying to him.
I'm non-partisan, and it just struck me... how can people be soo blind? They are literally the meme. They will sit in a burning room lying to themselves until they burn to death rather than use critical thought to assess and escape the situation.
They will happily board that space ship, completely trusting the aliens and ignoring Patty screams of, "It's a cookbook!"
@@margaretballinger2484 things are definitly tough for a lot of people. But you are factually living in the best times in human history by every metric. Which is either sad, or somewhat optimistic depending on how you look at it.
Simultaneously its also true that current inflation is lower in the US than most countries.
In Don's situations, there could be multiple explanations, but what I think is the biggest one is the inability to differentiate statistical information from personal information.
What he's likely thinking is "I've seen the figures, they doesn't agree with what this man is saying. Therefore, either this man is wrong, or the figures are incorrect. Since I trust the figures, the man must be wrong".
But the truth is, neither is wrong. The figures are right, and the man is right. It's just that the facts which are true statistically do not translate to individuals. And people have a really hard time comprehending averages. One of the topics Asmon talks about in this video, men being stronger than women, is precisely that error.
When you say that men are being stronger than women ON AVERAGE, people interpret that as every man being stronger than every woman. And so the #1 retort you will hear is "but I know this girl who can kick this dude's behind, so that can't be right". They don't even realize that it does not address the claim, and that's because they don't understand the claim.
You've probably seen the reverse of the Lemon's situation as well. When somebody brings up pessimistic statistics, e.g. some financial sector declining, and the person goes "well, that can't be right, because none of the people I know are experiencing that". Sometimes it's even as bad as "Well, I've been doing great, so that can't be true".
How to serve man.
Love that book...
There are two truths. 1 people are struggling to afford groceries 2 unemployment is low, the GDP is going up, stocks are going up, inflation is going down, and the US had some of the least worst inflation coming out of the pandemic.
So he's not wrong, in a sense, but it's tone deaf.
5:44 you say that about car diagnostics. Half the time the error code just says replace a part, when in reality it might be fixed in more cost effective ways. Car companies sell parts, customers get screwed over, and mechanics (bad ones) don't know how to fix the problem themselves without just replacing the part.
😂
I have a lot of nieces and nephews in their 20s-30s, and hardly any of them know how to change a tire. I always offer to show them, and the offer is always declined. Both the girls AND the boys say,
"I can just call someone"
Me: "What if there's no signal?"
"Someone will stop and help"
Me: "what if no one stops?"
They roll their eyes and walk away. If you refuse to do ANYTHING to prepare in anyway, I honestly don't know how much you deserve to be rescued. I'm not talking about something actually life-threatening, but for instance, if you refuse opportunities to learn how to change a tire, I don't think you deserve to have someone take the time to rescue you. I'm sure those geniuses can figure it out 🤷🏻♂️
lol me with my obd scanner
now 100% of the time when an alert pops and i go to the garage to see what it is and to fix it :
''oh you got an error alert? i can get rid of it but its gonna come back in 5 min''
''what?...no i want the problem that the error tells about to be fixed...dont are about the alert''
''oh.....ok....''
they dont know how to fix cars anymore
Great video asmon. “Spawn camped” had me giggin
I love this kind of video. Uncut, unedited, just raw.
The acceptance of a problem turned from meaning "to acknowledge that a problem exists so we can fix it" to meaning "accepting the existence of any possible problem as our new reality".
"Looks like I have a mental illness, I should do something about that"
"Nah, I'm not ill, I'm just a woman"
@@drantigonhow do you decide what a woman is? Is it genotype? Is it phenotype? Is it sexual function?
If you can't give me an answer that will not be easily refutable you have to admit that gender is separate from any of those characteristics.
If it is, why would you believe that someone is inherently a man/woman?
This is the simple reasoning anyone with logic (like scientists) can come to, you use your feelings to decide things. You don't like it because you find it gross and weird.
That's it.
@@drantigon this would track if there was other ways to deal with it, people who actually deal with dysphoria don't just go to therapy talk about their problems and have it dealt with, that's never been how any mental health has worked, from depression to anxiety to anything, that's a fundamental misunderstanding of how these problems are solved, it's just wanting the answer to be making sure the problem is hidden from the world because other people don't want to see it, most mental problems are lifelong, and you don't just "work it out", you find ways to cope with them to stay a functional member of society
@@odelin543 yo mama
funny when scientist start preaching Joseph was the mother of Jesus lol shows how much faith ya have to have when even Christians can't take it that far
Why think when theres so many easy answers that paint the world in black & white available?
“Learning math is learning logic - learning logic is learning critical thinking.” - i dont always agree with you but THIS is 10000% correct. Well said.
The study of math is not a solid way to learn critical thinking. I know...I've taught both.
In a dystopian world, reason will be replaced by feeling. And facts will be represented as relative.
In a peaceful, sheltered, and well supplied "dystopian" world.
Takes a lot of effort to maintain the world we know.
The issue is that facts ARE relative, that's why both Fox and CNN can remain factually correct while telling 2 opposite stories
Oh yes the 19th set us down this road.
@@shortyorc121you didn’t listen to video huh? Logic vs emotions
@@nhjhbmkuy7173I watched the video. What is your point?
There are lots of contributing reasons, but the main reason is the introduction of Common Core to the public school curriculum 24 years ago. When it was being crafted there was only 1 Educator on the panel, a Math Teacher. He plainly said CC Math would put students a minimum of 3 years behind where they where with the existing curriculum. They ignored him and he resigned in protest. The rest is history.
this doesn't explain canada or europe
Common core was supposed to keep us in pace with the rest of the world. Turns out that bar is pretty damn low
As we are learning that resigning in protest does not do much, from this, more drastic measures are being employed by people blowing whistles. As we should.
@@Tsunkuotakunot sure what you are saying
Canada does not teach common core. Nor does Canada have national curriculum
The individual provinces are in charge of the curriculum and how it’s taught
This is why Canada is doing better than the USA in math
The United States absolutely has gone backwards in reference to its own past performance and in reference to other countries since beginning common core.
In Canadian high school in the 90s, our history class was called "social studies" and it was entirely about how the wite man stole everything. It was almost as bad as "Family Life" when I was in Catholic school.
he accidentally walked in the sun. -1HP, -1HP, -1HP...
Critical thinking has always been rare. I think the issue is that we learn about the past through the lens of scholars, not "regular" people. So, we end up getting the impression that most people in the past were scholars, when that's obviously not the case. I also think the J.K. Rowling example is more nuanced than you're acknowledging. What does backlash against her even mean, anyway? Harry Potter still airs on TV basically all day everyday.
I like JKR. Science, data, and outcomes are on her side. It's only a certain spiritual belief system that has permeated the west that isn't.
Very well said, the brightest of previous generations, their ideas get preserved in text and passed down to us, nobody was writing down the thoughts of Jim the mud farmer
@@oldyoutubeaccountexactly
Guess the biggest slap she got was being excluded from that silly reunion movie
@@mark7527 some people think their tin foil hat is synonymous with legitimate critical thought
Thanks for critically thinking for me.
I’m the same age as Asmon. I remember how technical and complex basic public education was compared to nowadays. I also remember how everything was more technical. People had to be way smarter. They had to know a lot more about their professions as well.
My mom worked for a petroleum company in the 90’s. Even truckers (who were transporting fuel) that called in were far more intelligent in their knowledge of their respective profession, and far more articulate than anyone these days. Car salesmen would sell you on the mechanical intricacies of a car. Every student would do things like calculus long before college. If you only made it to Trigonometry in hs, you weren’t going to college. Wild stuff.
this shi shocked me as a kid. We started learning pre calculus in 8th grade. I was in private school. I only started learning calculus again by senior year public school. Before that it was insane how much i already knew. They were learning trig in junior year i learned trig in 7th grade.
@lufuoena and that was really the norm. To be honest, a lot of children from Europe and Asia are still going through that. I have foreign friends with kids, who are doing pre calculus in middle school.
A great video! Would love for you to keep making more on these kinds of topics!
Keep up the good work!
Denying reality doesn't stop it from kicking you.
lol
I've managed to hold onto my analytical mind, but mainly because I was always so autistic about it. But pretty much everyone has lost the taste for delayed gratification, even if they had more of it early on before having regular internet/smartphone access. And that does screw with your ability to self-improve in a changing environment.
No doubt you're onto something...stay golden, hermitboy.
Same
Analytical mind + big empathy is a blessing and a curse these days but better be cursed than ignorant.
16:38 - "sometimes we need to just deal with things, my discomfort isn't any one else's responsibility but mine"
That one gets me in lots of trouble sometimes.
In 2 days 1 million views? This is fucking insane.
I just love seeing how his eyebrows dance as he talks. its so expressive!
Damn, now I can’t help but staring at his eyebrows 😅
thats all i see when i look at him hes like a cartoon character
Forehead caterpillars 🐛 🐛
Dang, never noticed and now I can’t unsee it
This is the other, unused, meaning of "emotional intelligence": Where rapidly shifting emotions augment cogitation. It's because one cluster of neurons will fire differently depending on the emotional state.