Yep….we’re not teaching about the past to pin blame on countries and shame the people living there, it’s so we can avoid similar situations from happening again.
Some governments around the world intentionally censor and erase parts of history so that the people will not question them and to protect their reputation as being a capable (competent) government that serves the people.
well, the problem with that is although you're correct, the past is also WHY it gets repeated. we should learn about the past, yes, but people will use it as a way to inspire their more dangerous ideas and reiterate it into the present. i mean, antisemitism still exists (and keeps getting gradually worse to the point that we had to warn my jewish friend to not be so open about his religion on a college campus because of unfortunate situaitons---my campus is more left-leaning btw) despite us learning how awful hitler was.
Lolll I say it all the time, but that's usually my catchphrase for 'I'm too tired to go into this right now.' I work in a highly conservative field and it's a lot to take on the burden of explaining and introducing and providing context every time. But it's worth the introspection. There's something to be said about keeping a friendship if no one has the energy to dive deep.
or when they say "glad for you or sorry that happened" as if they had to comment in the first place. its fine to not want to read something (as an avid reader, i still sometimes dont want to read long comments), but dont *express* that you'd rather be disrespectful than just scroll.
@@ghostinyourcloset I think that's just a joke or trolling in most cases. I ain't even think of saying that but looking at it now that's the exact type of thing I would say if I read a long comment, precisely because of how dumb it sounds, I find the irony of these situations really funny.
99.9% of the time when a take is labeled as woke, people just don’t want to critically think and see where the person is coming from. it just makes them uncomfortable and not want to reflect and have conversations with themselves/others around them
This is just not true. The word is 100% misused, but actual "woke" media becoming more prevalent is 100% a problem. So is hardcore red pill shit, its two sides of the same coin.
@@georgia_amoorefan I’m a teacher, and when I’ve gotten kids a book that’s less than 200 pages, the first thing they usually comment is that “This is a HUGE book”, and the first question they usually ask is, “Is there a movie for this?”
For example fascism doesnt just suddenly one day happen, its a process that takes time and could be unnoticed by inattentive people. Its like putting frogs in boiling water, they realize too late whats happening
I just had the pleasure of having a conversation with someone who claimed, prescriptively, that there are more important things to worry about than politics, because “if you attend to your mental health, everything else will fall into place”. Sometimes, I’m not sure what people think the word politics refers to.
The shepherd is responsible for the lost sheep, we must hold ourselves accountable. Sometimes the only patience we have is for ourselves. This is a great video and take, I hope this young man is cultivated and grows to be a shining example to us all. This take is simply brilliant
There’s this one friend in my class who whenever I start getting into a “heated” discussion or debate, she always is like “guys calm down it’s not that deep, chill” which just makes me feel like “girlll we are in CURRENT EVENTS class can we talk about this?” Idk I hate it when people do that
@@idrabohm3678 Well to be fair, we're still in highschool and my school doesn't let you pick your own courses (exept afternoon electives). I go to a Christian school, so the class is kind of talking about like current events and what do we do about it as Christians (essentially)
The internet has made a lot of us into assholes, specifically because a lot of us have just learned to say whatever the fuck we want, without the consequence of getting punched in the mouth for it.
I agree. And there’s a sense of entitlement people were taught to have which leads to lack of empathy. I am glad there are some spaces that are more balanced and involve a bunch of people yelling at each other. The internet needs more balance though.
Can I be woke for a second... people leaving "raw" or "no lube, no protection" or "i know it's pink" or "all day" type of comments on social media doesn't seat right with me, it's sexual harassment and people are normalizing this harmful behavior, just say someone is beautiful instead of saying the most. PLEASE STOP IT
oh absolutely. it’s disturbing how comfortable people are 😬 if you wouldn’t go up to that person and say it to their face, don’t say it in their comment section/online.
@@niftythegoblin unfortunately yes 😞 there are definitely people who just do not care either way, but there are also definitely people online that think that just because they aren’t saying it to someone in person it means that it’s okay
It makes me so sad how anti-intellectualism and alt right ideas have made there way into the youth and even my own generation. The other day I asked a guy to stop lifting up the table I was using to write on, (might I add I’m in HIGHSCHOOL!!!) and I received the comment, “this WOMAN is talking back to me!”
I still cannot fully understand how did American right manage to become mainstream and trendy. I started watching political/social UA-cam starting 2015-2016 and those ideas are not new. The right have been saying the same things decades ago but back then everyone, including gen Z, laughed at them. Somehow the Republican Party which usually doesn’t even understand how the Internet works managed to win the algorithm and make their videos go viral, pushing them to the mainstream. If people hear something often enough, they will normalise it in their heads . This is what the right wing has done, somehow convincing the same Gen Z that were with us together even 5-8 years ago that trauma, emotional needs, feelings, racial sensitivity are all BS. I still don’t get how the right went from being freaks, fringe minority whom almost no one watched and just laughed at to being mainstream. This needs to studied
@@chriscortez2036algorithms. Yes. Daily wire learned technology and understood how to beat the algorithm. Or maybe even people who own social media were interested in helping their agenda (for lower taxes)
@@Jukestar I wouldn't date an immature brat, no wonder why people are leaving jerks like that. Maybe they should learn to treat people how they want to be treated
The internet 25 years ago was a publicly funded space that the private sector deemed unprofitable. Now people use 3 or 4 platforms that are products, not THE internet, just those sites, that are designed to be addictive and push anger inducing bullshit to keep people hooked for the sake of more engagement to sell more ads. Stuff like this should be regulated but also there's the indie web and getting real hobbies that aren't scrolling 3 hours straight wich is a great counter to it all
There were plenty of weirdos and racists. White Supremacists were very early adopters of the technology and utilized chat rooms and domains to recruit and spread propaganda. How do you think we got here?
OMG so do I . I made so many friends around the world. I can also honestly say that I spent all day and night online back then and never ONCE had a bad experience. Considering all that I was doing that is completely unheard of today. That was the time before mass online harassment and people genuinely engaged with others. I was telling my kids the other day how they had a site called MySpace where I could meet and befriend anyone in the world no even famous people (because the ones on MySpace were actually themselves. And you could email any random person anywhere to start a conversation about their expertise. This was fundamental for changing my life because it was being able to communicate with professors from all manner of Ivy League colleges and universities that pushed me to seek higher education and absolutely improved my ability to critically think....now adays you can't email anyone and expect a response and any given day someone will be so nasty or stupid in any given online space. It was much better when the web was mostly full of intellectual or curious people
Seems like a lot of Gen Z men are high -functioning sociopaths. To not care about people’s feelings AT ALL is not intellectual. It’s a characteristic of either a psychopath or sociopath- a mentally healthy “normal” person has empathy. Lack of empathy is a sign of serious condition. But they are proud of the fact that they don’t care about anyone’s feelings. Until their own ego is hurt and they turn into crybabies. So apparently their own feelings matter and they deserve compassion and understanding. But not everyone else. Social media has cooked their brains. I think social media is the biggest factor. They were kids when they started using it. Their brain never developed normally bc of it. Maybe they actually have brain damage and their frontal lobe is underdeveloped from all that time online as kids and teens.
I saw a reel on Instagram a while ago where someone released their pet goldfish and it immediately got eaten by another fish. As I’m doing my masters in environmental science right now, I took that as an opportunity to leave a comment with a bit of info about goldfish being invasive and how you should never release a pet into the wild. The comments I got in response were vitriolic and honestly just mean. Like I didn’t think it was a hot take to mention a best practice for preventing introduction of invasive species but here we are. People were mad that I included my degree in the comment. I wasn’t trying to brag, I really just wanted to show that I have some credibility on that subject.
That sucks, one of my fav parts of videos is going to the comments sections to read what people with experience have to say about it. And yeah goldfish are invasive and you should say it louder for the back bc way too many people think releasing pets in general into the wild will have 0 impact to the local ecosystem
it sucks cuz i can't go around the internet and chill anymore, i miss seeing cool comments and nice polite interactions... people are unnecessarily mad.
I’ve seen a few threads like that. I don’t know why people go to such great lengths to justify abusing their pets or harming the environment… Once someone on one of those threads told me “We’ve already messed up the environment so much that it doesn’t matter if we release an invasive species.” Like bro, that is how one messes up the environment.
My mom (in her 60's) is the type of person that is okay with living in ignorant bliss, which can be frustrating when I try to educate myself and she says something like "why are you stressing yourself out for no reason?" because I'd so much rather be passively stressed but know how to be prepared than be happy right up until shit hits the proverbial fan.
You both found different ways to be self-sabotaging. The trick is to develop the kind of mentality that allows you to care deeply but without stressing about things. Ironically, the less you worry, the more you'll be able to act about important things. But right now you're mistaking worrying for caring.
@@Kriliska I know it comes from a place of care, and I get the point she's trying to make, but it just doesn't work for me personally. And like I mentioned, it's a passive stress, meaning the fear that comes with the knowledge is there but I'm not actively sending myself down spirals of panic, if that makes sense.
my mom is similar. she likes to believe that everyone ultimately wants to be kind to others, so whenever an atrocity happens, she ignores it or just tries to think about it for as little as possible. this gets frustrating, because I constantly have to tell her about how people like profiting from the suffering of others and she just akts like I'm talking about some story I made up
@@callnight1441 yeah it's tough. Especially when she's helped people for free her whole life, but is surprised when those same people won't do free labour in exchange, and I've tried telling her being nice shouldn't come with expectations but here we are.
Things aren't 'woke', all of these things that are considered 'woke' weren't considered crazy thoughts or takes in the past few years. The internet has made people too comfortable
Woke was never crazy takes TF. It's literally a term that comes from AAVE to mean "knowledgeable in the structures of white supremacy and willing to fight it". Stay woke literally just means stay updated on information regarding the structures of white supremacy and stay ready to resist it in any way necessary. It was originally a dog whistle for black activists fighting injustice, it had nothing to do with actual takes really. How does a 22 year old know this, but most people don't? Then again, I was brought up politically by the people who said stay woke, before it was appropriated by white conservatives.
We’re in an amazingly swift rightwing backlash within the longer saga. Not only can saying something normal from 1975 or 1995 make you a far left woke radical, apparently so can saying something normal from a couple years ago. The Overton window is being dragged so fast it’s leaving ruts in the ground.
@@empresscrafts689This too, I remember a few years back I was using the word woke and branding myself proudly from being it but now I feel like the common mass hears "woke" and they go "omg extremist sybau" or some wacky tik tok comment like that. Generally speaking I just don't really and have never gotten how we got to this point, it was a GOAL to be woke, it meant intelligence, it used to be branded as somebody that is open minded, open mindedness was something that was seen as "positive" now it's just seen as propaganda. Like what in the hell is going on with the world? I know this has been happening for a few years now, people like asmongold and other dumbfuck streamers that normalized "woke propaganda" have literally ruined the whole meaning for generations, and we all know all THEY want is for the patriarchy to just go hurr durr. Crazy stuff man idk.
they’ll ruin their lives with the loneliness and lack of social skill leaving us only with the empathetic ones to reproduce with therefore breeding out undesirable traits 🎉
@@MissRedZeldaWe have quite the thick one here. Its admirable, I wish I had that level of thickness to cover for the head injuries I'll get in the future...
Everyone thinks AI is so brilliant for pulling together the data sets of previous humans thoughts, but how will we ever go forward if we’re only going to use AI’s recycled thoughts
The ai isn't even really taking previous thoughts and smashing them together. It is looking for a pattern in the sentences and categories of words and creating a text that is most likely to answer the question without a care for accuracy It doesn't even understand the data or understands what it's putting out, it's just recreating a pattern.
Even a world where AI can put all previous human thought together, potentially for the benefit of mankind... should be understood as a dystopia. ...because among the applications are those that will not be used for the benefit of mankind.
It’s actually scary. I graduated college in 2023 A person on the class after me 2024 literally said to my face “I feel like everyone uses AI to write” Me and my friend had to flame this person, like how do you not see what you just said as insane. That person is now a high school teacher and coach
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."-Isaac Asimov 1980.
I'm a masters student in essentially college and college students, and we are scared. AI is ruining people's brains. We are tasked with deciding on what is okay and not okay with AI. What is the line. Students are so fucking stupid now. Even faculty are using it for their work. Like chatGPT is being used in full faculty publication and they aren't even deleting the like "this is a generation from ChatGPT" paragraph. I tried ONE time to use chat GPT to compare two lists. It's task was to pull universities that appeared on both lists. It failed immediately and missed 2 from the 9 present on both lists. If it's going to fail just as much if not more than humans, why are we letting it throat punch an iceberg with every search? All I need is some food and water, provided by the eat, and some sleep, provided by me, to think and compare lists. Do we really have to kill the planet because people don't want to think any more.
Yeah, AI is only useful for making templates for things YOU (not the AI) are writing. Or asking it to help you make a paragraph YOU wrote flow better. And even then, you have to check the work as well.
@sylokthedefiled7650 literally. AI is a great tool to say make a resume template. Because AI is scanning those resumes you still need to fill it in. It's so frustrating. Why are we so addicted to convince we don't even want to think? I tried that one time to do the lists while I was sleep deprived and still did a better job at maybe 50% brain.
right, so just fyi if you want chatgpt to compare two lists, you are asking slightly the wrong question instead, ask it to write code that compares the lists. It's not perfect at code, but it's decent and at least you are asking a language model a language question. PS: fishes can't climb trees, haha win for hoomans. 🐟🌴
@AZTECMAN yeah fuck the planet up beyond repair but it will only work if you ask it just right. FYI for you, I did that just to humor you, still fucked it up. Fuck I hate you AI groupies
Nothing pisses me off more than the amount of braindead cunts in my classes using ai instead of just reading two pages out of an easy book to study. Its hilarious how they screech "How can you tell bro" and you turn around and their illiterate and write like a 3 year old🤣
I've deleted majority of my social medias because of just how beyond cruel people are for no reason. During the pandemic one of my closest people and one of the kindest, strongest human beings passed away. So many people were saying the most vile things to her and harrassing us mourning after she passed. Because it was c*vid we werent allowed to mourn. I was called overdramatic, bullied into hospital, and told she deserved her death because she was open about being immune-compromised. That's it. She never said or did anything against anyone. And whenever I talk about this trauma it is swept under the rug with "it was a really hard time for everyone." Like that somehow excuses all the abuse. This experience has fundamentally changed my view of people and made me avoid everything internet for so long. Even in person, because she passed of the disease she did, people act like we didn't lose one of the most incredible people I've ever met. That's a huge loss of someone with empathy and a massive population of people without. And I'm not the only person with this same story.
Christ- that's fucking horrible, I'm so dissapointed in people. Like- yes, everyone was going through it during that time but it doesn't make deaths any less tragic and it doesn't mean we should've been more non chalant about it whenever someone did die. I bet that if any of those people had the same happen to someone in their life, they wouldn't shrug it off like that. I'm so sorry that happened to you, nobody deserves to have their traumas and pain dismissed like that.
Fucking disgusting what you and your friend went through. My heart is with her. Disabled health person here, I learned I was AFTER Covid. Yet I never said anything like that even when I thought I was in normative range. It’s just UGH. GROSS
That's so fucking shitty and I'm sorry for your loss. No matter the circumstances, people have friends and families that care for them. Any loss is extremely difficult and the fact that people couldn't be empathetic about such a significant event in your life scares me...
For those who should've given it to you but did not: I give you my deepest sympathy for the loss of your friend. From how you describe her, she sounds like she was a wonderful person, and you cared for her dearly. I'm sorry so many failed to acknowledge your grief or her loss. Neither of you deserved that.
My parents' main thing while raising me was to make sure I was intelligent, wise, open minded, and possessed such skills like critcal thinking and analysis. One thing I've noticed growing up was when kids would get bullied for being "nerds" when they actually enjoyed things like learning or critical analysis. Like um, aren't we literally in school TO LEARN?! We need these "nerds" to progress as a people, and not just in fields like STEM but also in history, language arts, and media. Why are you looking down on them? This even ties into how either kids don't realize or aren't told why they're being asked stuff in lessons like "why are the curtains blue" and bash on those lessons. Like overall, it's not about the curtains being blue, it's what figuring out the reasons they could be teaches your brain to look past the surface level and come up with multiple solutions. Knowledge is power. That phrase exists for a reason, not just to be some cool one-liner. When knowledge is erased or limited, it prevents the people from having that power, and oppressors know that. That's why they ban books, apps, media, and news outlets. When the people don't have the skills to realize why, that allows for them to be taken advantage of and be unable to reliably fight back.
YES YES YES. This is why anti-intellectualism is so dangerous. We have literal Hollywood productions like Idiocracy and I,Robot that show us in color picture why it’s dangerous to TAKE AWAY OUR OWN AGENCY and let robots and systems decide our lives!!!
My husband is an anti intellectual. He always says I look on the depressing side of things. He always tells me it's not that deep and to stop trying to find the bad things. I don't though. I love learning and can't help but notice patterns. It's very frustrating
Just because you notice patterns doesn’t mean you’re not seeing the bad side only. When there’s a bad there’s always a good paired with it, to ignore that is, in my opinion, self detrimental.
@phchik Don’t give relationship advice unless you personally know this person or are a licensed therapist. The BIGGEST problem with anti-intellectualism and online discourse is everyone thinking they’re armchair experts on topics they have no business discussing.
“It’s not that deep” it is that deep sometimes though😭. Like some ppl be saying “it’s not that deep” to everything the world could be ending and they’d say “it’s not that deep”
@ I can understand most of the time if things really aren’t that serious, but when it comes to talking about the literal economic and global state of the world that can literally affect the earth for centuries and even possibly cause mass extinction then yea, it is that serious. And then when shit hits the fan ppl wanna act surprised and confused as if they weren’t the same ones that were saying “it’s not that deep” when ppl were tryna warn them
You said it perfectly. SOMETIMES. Ik some people that try to overanalyze and critique EVERYTHING and link it to some greater event. It's like listening to an Alex bale theory except they think they're right and are dead serious. Certain things I understand that they are that deep. But trying to connect something that is so blatantly surface level and shallow to some horrible event or ideology is just stupid and then you have Others that will back that shit up and consume just for the sake of FEELING intellectual like they're saying something despite overall saying NOTHING. And it doesn't happen everyday but damn does it happen as fuck of a lot. Theres a lot of pushback in intellectualism right now no doubt, but there's just as much of a problem with fake intellectualism as well and wish people talked about that because that honestly is just as dangerous as anti-intellectualisam.
One strain of anti-intellectualism that particularly annoys me is when people *do* have theories about the connections between things and reasons for whatever they're experiencing, they *absolutely refuse* to consider anything with even a whiff of academic rigour in favour of just making intuitive connections between things. Conspiracy theorists, basically.
I will never forget getting harassed online, and one of the “criticisms” about me was that I use big words to make people feel stupid And that highlights the source of the anti-intellectual hate. No one likes feeling dumb, and apparently it’s easier to lash out and call them “elitist” than use that as motivation to learn
From my experience, anti-intellectualism comes from two different places- people who are frustrated/envious/spiteful of those with education opportunities, looking for a scapegoat to blame, and people in power who seek to suppress any dissent against them. Ironically, the latter, the actual “elites,” manipulate the former into silencing anyone that questions their authority. Ever wonder why many conspiracy theories target poor and/or marginalized groups, and not anyone actually in power?
That's true but you and everyone else needs to remember literally the first thing we learned in English. "Who is your audience" Because they are telling us the average America can only read at a 6th grade level. So if your intent is to communicate with the masses, the public, the common man. You shouldn't be using uncommon words. Big or small. And I know yall wanna bitch about anti-intellectal but just don't. That doesn't make sense in this moment or historicaly. There have always been people who are undereducated and or illiterate. And how can you expect diffrent when everyone knows our schooling system is unfair. Many schools are underfunded, and students are under served. Plus I can't mention how many time I've heard "Grandma had to drop out of school at 3rd grade, 5th grade. The got married had Mom or Dad...." Yall dont know that means Grandma can't read? This is about Gen z so let's focus on today. Bottom line communication is about the audience understanding you. So you should so you should speak to them at a level they understand. If you cannot do that. Then stfu you are just as bad as them because what good is you having knowledge you can't share?. Because if yall wanna be up on your white horse then what you should be do is tell people what the word means or use Different words. Or stop talking to those people. Cuz your ass ain't helping them and they damn sure ain't helping themselves.
@TychoKingdom The commentor wasn't on the ground talking to working-class communities. They were online. People can literally look up words on Google. That's what I do all the time because I'm not an English teacher nor an intellectual. English isn't even my first language. Also, you seem to assume a lot about people. You assumed so much from a short comment. Then, you went on to say they should stfu and that they're just as bad as "them". Maybe you're more elitist than you think.
@@TychoKingdomthat's really motivational and really cute for us people with small vocab but I feel like this might be kinda hostile towards who you're intending that comment for Maybe you could be explained it kinder than saying they're on their white horse flexing on people cuz that person might jus wanna articulate their points better and people respond really harshly to that instead of asking politely y'know? Am sorry but yea that's really considerate of you
Not too long ago, I was sitting in front of my teacher and we were in a debate about something mentioned in the PowerPoint, it wasn’t like heated or anything, we were both talking about our perspectives and listening to the other person but the people behind me started just yelling out ‘OMG JUST LET IT GOOOOO WHO CARESSSSS ITS NOT EVEN THAT DEEPPPPP’ and I was just like… 1) IM NOT EVEN TALKING TO U and 2) were not arguing or anything we’re literally just talking chill out. So it’s not even just online, it’s offline now as well.
I used to hate this in school as well. A lot of people don't like full-bodied discussion and will write it off as "not that deep" so often and even get upset with you for it. It's almost sad.
To be fair this happened all the time in the 90's from when I was in school. A bunch of hormone bombs who aren't there by choice are going to be often disengaged
It's so frustrating that everyone thinks everything is an argument now. I can't count the number of times I thought I was having a valuable conversation with someone and was told I was being combative or realizing suddenly "Oh, this person thinks we are in an argument."
@ I KNOWWWW! I feel like people think that if you have a different view from them, you are automatically arguing??? What happened to talking about our opinions and listening to the other person??? Even if we don’t agree with them.
@@britsaunders2151 I FEEL THIS! Like, I'll literally just calmly and politely disagree and be met with an emotional reaction seemingly out of nowhere. Like... I thought we were just chatting but apparently something went wrong! This is also exacerbated by me being autistic and apparently having both RBF and my tone apparently reading as aggressive when I get excited or put energy into my voice. And I LOVE discussions and debates, especially with competent partners, so I have a hard time recognising when people take it the wrong way
As someone who works in education, I am so annoyed when a kid that can barely spell somehow rights a full page essay with no mistake. Like, I know this is ai because your using words you don't know the meaning of.
unfortunately thats how the school system works. it's much better for a kid to get a good grade on something they didn't do than a bad grade on something they did do bc grades are worth more than knowledge now.
@@haroldcampbell3337that is what we call a mistake, a human error if you will. Now you know that comment was from an actual human no one really proof reads a UA-cam comment.
having knowledge of the shitty things in the world around us make it very hard to hold your tongue because being “woke” has basically become equated with being the party pooper 😭 like debbie downer from the old SNL skit
they always go after the thinkers first. its waaay easier to do nefarious things when there's no one left to question and critically think about what's going on. in a way, the general public thought-controls itself, deeming any sort of questioning as 'thinking too hard' or "too woke". it reminds me of George Orwell's 1984, where people are considered criminals if they don't just swallow everything that's fed to them. the more I become politically aware, the more relevant 1984 becomes in my mind. the book burning, the rewriting of history, the discouragement of critical thought, the poor, uneducated, distracted masses. our world is starting to resemble 1984, or really any dystopian work, way too much. I recommend anyone who hasn’t read 1984 to read it, because it seems that's where we're headed. to be woke is to be conscious
to be fair and maybe give you a little hope, no dystopian fiction is based purely on prediction, it's things the author is actively seeing. So if he saw it all the way back then, it's nothing new, and means we will always have the opportunity to fight
@@aff77141the problem it’s that it’s not only Orwell’s future, but also Margaret Atwood’s and Huxley’s. It’s all coming true, shit got hipersticionazied.
i love 1984 and have been thinking the same thing. the amount of propaganda people willingly eat up is astounding, especially falling into a combative mindframe and blindly cheering one leader and party.
@aff77141 yeah I agree. it's nothing new, and art imitates life. I was just trying to make a point that if the stuff of dystopian fiction, which can be an exaggeration or representation of past or present real-world conditions, is becoming part of our reality, then we better take things seriously. I also agree that we should fight for better conditions, but before we can do that, a significant number of people have to wake up to the fact that the horrors of the past and of fiction can happen again, and some things suggest that they are happening
I think that's why they are targeting vestiges of our free educational systems. I'm so disheartened this is happening, and people are supporting it, esp broke ppl
that's exactly what they want. uneducated people tend to cling on promises that seem good on the surface level like "cheaper gas and groceries" not understanding that's not how it works
The Dept. of Education doesn't make curriculums or anything. States run their schools. That being said, it does some important administrative things. So I doubt it gets shut down.
No, wanting equality for all humans isnt too anything to anyone but the hateful, and the hateful should not be respected or tolerated. And the word woke is used by fools and fools alone.
@RyanPayne-s1r im done. No. Im not going to tolerate hatred. I can tolerate ignorance. But not hatred, its not pigheaded to reject and ostracize the rejection and ostricization of other people for the way they were born. Stop defending hatred. You dont actually know anything about the people you spread hatred about. You dont know the truth at all, trans people are infinitely more natural than a gender binary, because now basic science tells us that sex is a spectrum, from more xy chromosomal expression to more xx chromosomal expression, trans people are more real than hating trans people for not conforming to the lie of the gender binary, anti woke grifters are science denialists. "Wokeness" is about uniting the working class by rejecting the atomization that the hateful enact every day.
My entire home flooded in Hurricane Helene and a very misinformed video of it went viral on TikTok and I only found out when I started received death threats. No concern for climate change. No concern for physics. No concern for human life. I hate this place.
i am so confused, i grew up in an environment where you had to be intellectual and study, you couldnt be emotional or youd just be a lesser human, and now the same people hate on science because it prove a few things they didnt like.
I would argue true intelligence is using healthy emotion and logic together to see the whole picture of anything. I wonder if this is a culture thing. I live in Canada and we were definitely taught both to varying degrees. I also feel the internet deeply affected people's ability to have and process both healthy emotions and value information.
The thing is that being emotional and irracional is seen as a woman thing. And anything femenine loke compasion, pacience and honesty is emotional. But lashing out, being cruel and indiferente is deemed asintelectual and manly. Ironicaly the using emotion as the opposite of reason is what upholds anti-intelectualism. Because is an arbitrary idea used as a fact.
I like science but I don't like it when they mess with mythological creatures or cool stuff, it makes everything more boring, if the scientific explanation or what is discovered is not cool, then there is no need to say it. There is no need to ruin the cool stuff. Honestly, it's the only shit I don't like about science (I know it sounds stupid, but it's funny to say it). Why can't I believe that a giant mythological creature exists in the depths of the water?, because deep-sea animals are tend to be small?, nah, i don't care. Though they are still cool, they may be small but they are cool.
People who complain others are “too woke” are usually Bill Maher types who can’t fathom why younger people don’t find them funny or relevant. Two Simpsons memes rolled into one.
No there are definitely people who are too "woke" the term yall stole from Black people and basterdized. Usually people that are too woke are the people who don't actually know enough or anything about the movement they claim they are a part of. the people who get very loud in defense of groups they are not apart of and they are so offended by everything that they tend to perpetuate racism and other isms themselves. I mean don't act like you can't think of people who fit this description and a whole lot more on the list that I'm not going to write. And again. If you have never seen anybody "Too Woke" it's you. Don't make your movement your personality. Don't make someone else's movement your personality. Be a person 1st. A person who just happens to have to fight for their rights and the rights of others. And READ. Learn how to read and understand words and numbers(statistics) in context. And that will keep you from being TOO WOKE. Because then you will be educated and helpful. I mean I can still see this going wrong, but it's not my job to fix people.
Gen X watcher here, and I recall doing research in books with "foot notes" or finding a title or an article that provided a loose thread to investigate. Pulling at those threads sometimes led to a completely different thesis. If Google is summarizing the articles and providing bullet points "deem important" you will miss the opportunity to discover and follow a new line of thought. This is a sad and expensive trade-off for expediency.
The issue is that it HAD to come about. More things = less time to spend on individual things Less time to spend on individual things = less attention to detail It’s a product of its environment.
i'm a late gen x/early millennial, and i work with several teenagers. one day last week, one of those teenagers used the R-word very flippantly (i forget the context of the conversation; he may have actually been referring to himself and the way he felt in the moment of whatever he was discussing). there were a couple of other teenagers with us, and i calmly asked him to please not use that word. he looked at me funny and asked why, and i held my temper and said "because i asked you not to. it's offensive." and he just kinda shrugged and said okay and the moment was over. a few days later, i was working a shift without him but with one of the other kids who had been there, and i asked him if that word was now considered acceptable to use, and he said "yeah for the most part." this kid is more compassionate than the other, so i explained to him why it offended me, and he seemed to understand. we work with a gentleman who has down's syndrome, and i told him that the first kid wouldn't use the word around that man, right? and he said "yeah you're probably right." so he got my point. it's just so sad to me that this word is back into everyday conversation. how did this happen?
Some right-wing influencers have convinced many young people now that being disrespectful/selfish/anti-intellectual/vice-signaling is how you "win" in society. Trump is proof of that in a way.
They did rug pull us with that one because it was taught in high-school psychology as just being the opposite of genius in terms of iq score. But I guess so many people misused it. Weird that psycho and sociopath are still OK but I don't make the rules
I don’t think it ever really went away to be honest. I know some people who use it and I think it comes from a general ableist attitude. I imagine the internal subconscious operating like, “Sure, I wouldn’t call someone with Down syndrome that word, but I do think lesser of them and think the r-word is apt to use as an insult.” People are mean today, partly because they don’t have trust in many people or institutions anymore. So I think they’re also not willing to learn more than what feels like common sense, but common sense is shaped by society and is biased in many ways. So a low-educated population depending on their own idea of common sense is promoting anti-intellectualism and reactionary instincts. It scares me how the decline in trust has totally put us off track to address climate change disasters and our ability to care for our neighbors.
0:19 my neurodivergent brain said…she’s still got two apples because if she “took it away” means that she still has to apples they’re just not in the place where they usually all. Now if you said she ate one apple or gave away an apple to a friend or tossed it out, then that would mean she has one apple.
😂 same. I overthought it for a second. It's just 2-1=1. That's why when people ask me test questions like that a reframe it back to them to make sure. But then they sometimes feel like I'm talking down to them lol
@JunipersLog the opposite, that is a perfectly ok way of seeing it. Breaking something down to try to get to the true meaning is the spirit of intellectualism
That was my first thought as well! Luckily he rephrased the problem soon after because I was getting ready for it to be a trick question. This miscommunication is why test questions and syllabi should be edited after writing and better yet peer reviewed, but also why sometimes it really is important to "show your work." 2-1=_ has a clear answer because mathematical notation is a mini-language where everyone who learns it agrees what the symbols say and what the blanks require. "She has two apples out and put one away, so how many does she have?" uses plain language which prompts the answerer to convert the words into mathematical notation, but since it is plain language it is also open to loop-holes, misunderstandings, and harmful assumptions. The harmful assumption here would be the question writer solidly believing that when someone puts an object away, they no longer "have" it in the same sense as when they held the object in hand. The question answerer who thinks like you and me comes to the words with a different assumption: that apple is still in her inventory so she absolutely "has" it. Forgive my ramble. Your comment made me want to share thoughts on teaching methodology. : )
I hate how the term “woke” has been taken and used to refer to anything progressive. My black gen x parents were so confused seeing politicians talk about wokeness and how we need to get rid of them. Cuz to them they thought they were talking about getting rid of black people.
RIGHT?! The word woke has been around for decades and popularized again in Redbone by Childish Gambino basically meaning to stay educated and aware of social issues. Now people (especially far right leaning white people) use it as a form of anti progressiveness and bigotry 🤦🏾♂️
I had a great college professor last semester, but my only gripe with them is that they would make these little handouts or practice questions and when we would go over them, they would say this first thing every time “I actually don’t know the answers to this, I haven’t read it yet because I had an AI generate these questions an hour ago” 👁️👄👁️ so yes, the student always loses! And I never used those AI handouts, just stuck with the textbook!!
That's insa😢. I wonder how they grade. I used to spend hours lesson planning for elementary school students. I couldn't imagine the lack of due diligence
as a gen alpha (2010) so almost gen z, i am not stupid BUT school sucks arse. i can think very well but ngl some of my class mates have no common sense.
That’s awful but don’t lose hope, i’m a gen z girl but i felt like that in my class too so my advice is spend more time learning skills and less time socialising w them. School system is created to keep people stupid so we can become slaves and at your age i was dumb as a fish, don’t make that mistake and learn lucrative skills as soon as possible. I personally love languages and electronics. Unfortunately the world isn’t gonna get better so i keep telling myself not to have kids lol.
I really can't understand my classmates at all it feels like it's all the same person All the boys act like horny gangster wannabes and the girls are honestly normal except when they're breaking people's ribs and sending them to another country so they can get better medical help but also they both humped the furniture.. ive seen way too many people hump the tables and chairs-- I'm scared of messing with those people if you are in my class please don't
You can use school to your advantage, as both a platform and forum to practice and hone your skills. But if you just coast, it might just serve as a pipeline into wage slavery. With the upcoming administration, that slippery slope will become even more steep. College(depending on your major and your college's resources) offers more, but the rules remain basically the same. You have to engage with your own education. Even though the system is set up one way, you can still utilize that experience as a training ground for dialectical materialism and an exchange/comparison of ideas. Always ask yourself, what is the sentiment BEHIND what this person is trying to argue? Who in history has asked similar arguments, and for what? Who benefits from this discourse and what is their end goals? What have their goals been in the past? Does this remind you of any other historical events? What is the logical conclusion to this person's worldview? Does it benefit all, or only a few? How so? What logical fallacies are happening right now? Etc. stay curious and use the Socratic method. Be warned, it may annoy some people so you also need to know when to back off because they haven't thought about it enough maybe Ps I'm sorry about the country your inheriting. You kids are being asked to clean up our mess because we failed to clean up our parents' mess. It's embarrassing, but y'all have tools now that nobody else has had before. Overpowered double-edged tools. Hold the knife by the handle, not the pointy end. Good luck. May the force be with you.
@paulchavez3039 bro i cant afford college😭😭theres also no way i can ever get a scholarship. thoo i might be able to go to a music school or luthier school
Dumb. Or uneducated The fact people my age (23) will reference false information they read in a tiktok comment that takes 3 seconds of thinking to understand it’s definitely rage bate, but instead they tell all there friends “I think this” And they you tell them “hey that’s bull shit and you should think” They always say “That’s just what I heard” When I was in undergrad from 2019-2023 the idea of sports bending was laughable, it’s obvious the gate way to gambling addiction and not something people our age can afford. Now in my masters 2023-present All my younger friends sports bet. I’d say at least 10k has been spent on that crap over the last year. None of them thinks is a problem none of them think gambling will negatively effect them. We have been sheltered by the internet and we’ve lost our connection with reality. Put our egos on top of that and there you go a generation of less knowledgeable people than before.
My teacher has told us to start using chat gpt to check our answers for our chemistry problems. At the beginning of the school year this teacher was clearly very anti-ai. Me and my classmates saw this change after we got back from winter break. Ever since he said we could use chat gpt people have been using it. I’m not sure how relevant this is but I think it’s interesting.
when she brought up beans i was expecting her to pull out the 'i love pancakes - so you hate waffles?' post anyways anti intellectualism has been part of american culture for decades now [rockefeller literally turned schools into worker factories] something something idiocracy
A few days ago my AP lit teacher went on an about communism and I was with her until I said that if your conclusion to American capitalism is full communism then you need to better diagnose the issues and find a middle ground and she said no Americans are just entitled…
I believe we need to take calculated steps towards socialism, starting with social democracy. If we just change everything in one big step, we risk leaving a power vacuum that can be taken advantage of by authoritarians.
@drowsy7921 but if you do it too slow, privatisation takes over. Like in Sweden. Jokes aside, change need to be gradual to get everyone on board, unless everyone is already on board.
Have you actually engaged with any. Because communism calls for “diagnosing issues” and what is american capitalism? Settler colonialism with capitalistic characteristics?
@@timothy2491 This is false. Every time socialism is tried, literacy rates skyrocket, homelessness goes down, and people are well fed. Citizens love it, but these are usually African and South American countries that have resources that colonizing nations want, so they destabilize them until the countries have to go back to depending on the USA or France or whatever parasitic country.
I gotta say, sometimes I read the titles of your videos and assume I won't agree with you, but I still watch it anyway, and every single time you bring up points that match so much with my way of thinking. I really enjoy your videos and the way you express your opinion. One of the best channels out there
I used to think stupidity was the problem, but the more I've thought about it, I just think people are more or less naturally cruel. We're just as murderous and tribal as any other ape, and this explains our politics and social discourse quite succinctly, in my opinion. Empathy can work both ways: it can make us more likely to help the underprivileged, but also side with aggressors. I truly don't think we can reason our ways out of this.
@@ereegodofeternity9451 I _want_ to believe we can have more humane societies via better access to quality information and education, I won't say it's not possible, but there's always that problem of people interpreting the same information differently because of their background, genetics, etc. Ultimately, we can't escape bias or our species's predisposition to cruelty and violence, I'm afraid, and considering the emerging threats of climate change and political instability, I do think conflicts will worsen, online and off.
@potts995 (Sorry to type a paragraph but I'm passionate about this.) I agree that there will always be differences and divisions between people. It's definitely part of human nature. However, I don't believe it's our differences that make us violent towards others but instead our divisions. When the powerful have as much control over the media as they do right now. There will be people who believe it. They then act accordingly. DarkMatter2525 has an excellent video that somewhat touches on this subject called "The Ideal Society." Might be worth a watch if you have the time. You say our tribalism explains our politics but I choose to look at it through the eyes of what benefits everyone and what benefits the power structure. The power structure wants more power and the people want the same. The power structure will try every ploy to distract the masses with the wrong issues, so they can continue their exploitation. The people think they know what's best but are misinformed or misled fundamentally and fight because of it. I don't believe it's necessarily so insidious or conscious by the people in power so much a natural outcrop of the accumulation of power. If you read all this I appreciate you taking the time to read my words. Wish you nothing but the best stranger 🫡
Humans survive when they connect, I think school more beats it out of us, keeps us away from the natural will to tend to one another, cause children will team up to benifit each other in a system, and through lack of stimulation, abuse and conditioning their brains don't work too well anymore, and they become bigoted, I've seen kids, this isn't a natural state, this is taught because they're all shoved into the wwirdest of conditions for their early years
Also, try researching the evolution of trust, it shows how things feel worse now in terms of trust but how in WW2 people trusted and had so much empathy for one another they put their faith in the other and both crossed no mans land to celebrate Christmas.
The two party system, has been giving people limited perspectives. Yes there are idiotic people within those groups, as they are everywhere. I've seen comments from both sides that just sounded ignorant, usually making assumptions before they other person even talks. We gotta stop letting vastly wealthy people, gaslight us into having yelling matches.
13:38 OH MY GOSH THIS WHAT I’VE BEEN SAYING!!! if we keeping pushing men away and grouping them out of progressive talks/ideas just because they don’t get it the first time they’re never going to learn and the issue will only get worse. we can’t keep grouping them all in the same category and expect them to WANT to change.
Came here to say exactly this. Everyone attacking people who genuinely SIMPLY messed up, and I just think “and THIS is their villain origin story”. You think they were rac/sex/abl/etc-ist before??? Oh buddy
it's not only a disregard for intellectualism, but also empathy. those 2 are connected in some way, i don't know which one led to the other but the amount of times i've read "and the world kept spinning..." is making me terrified for the state of the world
I had the AI professor thing happen to me where I was taking an open notes test, so I could have references and paraphrasing and all of that, and then I got docked 20 points because it was “AI generated” when it wasn’t
@@sameersheriff7078 In the beginning, I took Woke to mean being aware of the real history of the country and the effects it had. Its accepting the realities of the policies that were in place, and the consequences of them. This was NOT to make excuses, but to learn from and to help us guide our actions and policies going forward. It also encompassed understanding that people different from ourselves DO exist, and have the right to do so. That gays, trans, atheists (like me), religious, etc all CAN and should be given the freedom to exist in the world WITH the understanding that none of us have the right to impose our particular values on everyone else. In that sense, I would say, sure I am woke but I always held myself to that standard sicne I was like 10...so really to me this is common sense. HOWEVER, woke got converted into this idiotic notion that ALL ideas are of equal value/worth...even when proven to be factually incorrect like flat earth, or anti vaxing or all white people are inherently racist or all women are sluts or all men are good for is wallets. When common sense went out the window, and people decided that putting everything out there for everyone to see was a good idea is when woke went stupid. I HATE the phrase authentic self...esp if you are talking about it at work...bitches, people dont want your "authentic self" they want a professional who gets the damn job done. And that isnt to say you cant have a personality/style, but that it has to be work appropriate AND if you push the boundary of work culture, you CAN lower some career options...the phrase dress and act for the job you want not the one you have is absolutely valid.
This is an interesting take, and thank you for sharing. But like others in the comments, I feel like this may be biased. I agree about the rise of anti-intellectualism, but I think it's wrong to assume (or imply) this is only coming from the "anti-woke"/"it's not that serious" people. I see a LOT of anti-intellectualism coming from my "woke"/progressive/far-left friends too. As someone who leans left but wouldn't consider myself a leftist or a radical, I've felt the constant pressure to go further and further left in my politics/worldview. Of course, my political orientation has changed through life (I grew up more conservative but relatively liberal, was far left-ish in college, now I'm progressive-leaning but more independent). I'm also Gen Z, and have a lot of leftist/left-leaning friends. That's kind of my crowd. But you'd be shocked at some of the things or sentiments I've heard from people who are college educated (even have multiple degrees), and did really well in analyzing complex social theories, but aren't always good at analyzing themselves . . . There's a colossal lack of self-awareness that can be off-putting, even disturbing, but if you only swim with people in the same pool, you'll never realize those huge blind spots. You'll never realize that you aren't applying your own ideals to yourself. For example, a friend of mine recently posted on her stories something like "if you disagree with me, that's proof of anti-intellectualism". That's crazy because that's LITERALLY what anti-intellectualism is - reactionary, not dealing with the substance of what people are saying, not considering your own biases, and just writing people off because you don't like what they're saying. We (progressive Gen Z) also have a bad habit of endorsing extremely left wing ideas or policies without considering the implications of unintentional effects of said policy in real life . . . and in conversations with friends, a lot of people will brush them off, not have a good answer or even not seem interested in discussing it. Like, it's fine to not think something through and make a mistake or put your foot in your mouth - I do that all the time. The concern is when you have no INTEREST in thinking something through, because you don't feel like you have to. You see the world in black and white, good guys and bad guys, and you don't need to think through things any more because you know who's "right" and "wrong". That scares me. Eventually, this becomes like religious fundamentalism, except it's secular and about politics instead of God or the Bible (or the Quran, the Torah, etc.). I feel like this is where we are currently . . . people are rebelling against one kind of secular, fundamentalist political worldview by adopting the opposite, which basically has the same problems. (Everything I just said could equally apply to conservative/far right/alt right Gen Zers/humans too.) I think at the root of this is fear, emotional immaturity, and the inability/unwillingness to deal with the complexity of real life. Not everything fits in a box. Not everything is simple to understand. Not everything can fit in a 30 second (or 30 minute) hot take. (No shade to you - I LOVE your 30 min takes lol.) Life is messy and complicated and beautiful and terrible and EVERYTHING all at once. We're losing our ability to experience and appreciate that. We want to dumb it down to dumb, bland, dishonest, disenchanted, flat political worldviews that give us basic stories to understand a complicated, rich, overwhelming, amazing world. I hope we stop running to things that tell us what we want to believe, and just accept life as it is, and work to make this world a better place, collectively. Sorry this was so long . . . I guess I had a lot to say 😅
Yes 👏. I’ve joked before,if you lean left hard enough you end up on the right, because without self-consciousness and the “why” for our views, it becomes categorized detached moral boxes without clear connections, when everything is connected. It’s scary how fascism slips in offering solutions when it’s really a cage.
Ugh....I had the most frustrating conversation with my mom about trans rights. Look, I completely understand if cis women don't want trans women in locker rooms. You're pretty exposed. I personally don't think trans women should be in women's prisons. But God damn, if we're going on FACTS and not feelings, there is no fucking problem with trans women being in bathrooms!!! Barring trans women from using women's bathrooms will only create more issues. Unless someone can pull up some unbiased data that attacks BY TRANS WOMAN have increased SIGNIFICANTLY, I will fight for every single trans woman to be able to use that bathroom. What's even more mind boggling is she HAS used the bathroom with someone she KNOWS is trans and it never seemed to bother her. I almost told her she should tell her that she's always been uncomfortable and see how that went. It's like everyone wants others around them to make them feel comfortable without reciprocating.
You wouldn't recognize extremely left-wing if it introduced itself as a Cuban intellectual asking for donations for a worker's rights union helping to provide healthcare for the widows of The Bay of Pigs. But it's great that you're such an intellectual and determined to learn and understand more about the rest of the world. That should be applauded and encouraged.
There's a difference between being truly woke and being self-righteous, selectively "woke" or even regressive person who wants to think they are a liberal but actually they're just an authoritarian bully. Most sane people don't have issue with the actual woke but with that whole... Second type attitude.
I always get shit EVERY time I mention sexism, pronouns, trans people, immigration. Like you can’t even get a word in if it’s about any of those IMPORTANT conversations
It’s not great when people accept ideas as truths without nuance and use it to hit others over the head with it. Unless you’re actually well studied on the subject (seeing memes on social media doesn’t count).
"Instead of thinking 'it's not that deep' perhaps you should think 'it is even deeper'." Pardon me for destroying that quote, but I think this was a perfect way to end your good video. I appreciate your perspective as a young person. I hope we find a way out of this mess soon. I don't know if I have any hope of seeing it in my lifetime (I am in my mid-fifties). There are just too many powerful people who want to keep us divided and anti-intellectualism is such a power tool to accomplish that. You and others like you give me hope that maybe you and my daughters may be able to see the return of some semblance of sanity in your/their lifetime.
My biggest issue is people are just taking opinions of people online and repeating them as facts. They are not making their own judgements, they blindly just agree with a stranger who may have a very different life. I find it inauthentic
I think the truth is somewhere in the middle. There are a lot of people nowadays who genuinely detest anything that even remotely sounds intellectual and will encourage you to “think for yourself” instead. And I think there are others who forget that it doesn’t matter how much information you consume, if you’re unable to relate to or communicate with the others around you - it’s a missed opportunity.
I've noticed this when people try to educate others on how to "detect ai," and it's always more interesting grammar like emdashes are semicolons. The words that they use as examples are always this way too, if its above a 5th grade reading level, it's "ai." This then discourages people from using "complex" words and grammar for fear of being accused of ai, especially in academic settings where an accusation like that is life ruining.
Thank you. As someone (also a Zoomer) who studied ethics and continues to study ethics, social sciences, history, zoology and environmental sciences (among others, I mean, that's what one gets when they're a scientist - you kinda need to cover everything a little bit), I am well-versed on this topic so I'm not gonna watch the whole thing, but I wholeheartedly appreciate what you're doing. It is very scary how we had this short burst of progression and popularity of science, only for all of it to go down the drain the moment the people in power realised that we were making progress and educating people, so they're doing everything in their might to start culture wars, create propaganda and implant the seed of doubt among laymen, particularly those who are vulnerable and conspiratorial. I can't believe just how popular distrust in science has become when *scientists* have so little to do with the government, we're primarily underfunded. Also, fascism goes EXTREMELY deep. It's mostly not apparent to a lot of people, but when people just shrug things off, don't pay things any mind, don't think critically, don't acknowledge issues or don't get educated, they're contributing to the problem of fascism becoming a threat to public safety. Newer generations have so much potential, but I fear they're losing out on a lot due to anti-intellectualism. What AI and borderline questionable videos on UA-cam have been doing to kids is really not good. Thankfully, the majority of the kids I've met are really smart and super willing to learn, but I fear it's not like that in America and Britain.
On the part where you mentioned somebody being made to feel crazy or made to feel like they're overreacting. My boyfriend actually is experiencing that or has experienced that and the recent past. My boyfriend had actually been around during a down power line in our neighborhood. And it actually caught a house or better yet the roof of the house and an RV on fire. My boyfriend had to help drag one person out of the house away from the property and they were badly burned. And then there was somebody who was trapped inside the RV and my boyfriend saw him burn to the point where they were near death. And they had been hospitalised 4 days in a coma and unfortunately they ended up succumbing to their injuries. And my boyfriend basically had been made to feel like shit from people who kept posting the story and trying to gain clout from it when not only he but the neighbor's and the family who actually experienced it were extremely traumatized after this event. My poor boyfriend was basically treated like shit and told to get over it and told that it wasn't that bad or it wasn't that deep and that basically people die every day and that he just needs to get over it. And my boyfriend is like dude do you know what it smells like to smell somebody burning? And people would sit there and be like your psychotic you're morbid, blah blah blah. When it's like traumatic shit like that stays with you. Your olfactory system is one of the most powerful systems that you have and a simple scent can take you back to an extremely traumatic event. Even the smell of someone's perfume that was abusive to you can be a major trigger. It's no joke! And while I don't want to poo poo on anybody's religion. I do want to actually have a conversation about how and a lot of ways there are a lot of religions out there that not only facilitate anti-intellectualism but promote it as well! And basically try to go to people into being happy with the bare bones basics of what they've got rather than actually pursuing not only higher education to the extent of improving themselves and their ability to get a better job and other such amenities that would help them better their life and their livelihood not only for themselves but their families. But it also disapproves and disavows those people's need to actually become a well-rounded person and to actually recognize that the world is bigger than their own personal insulated bubble. And that basically it facilitates people to not pursue the fact and understand the fact that the world is much bigger and more diverse and more beautiful than we come to understand!
I think we owe buzzfeed an apology. no, manspreading and sexist air conditioning are not the most pressing issues we face as a society, but they are small examples of how patriarchy pervades every bit of our lives, and it's worth exploring how these micro instances snowball into larger ones. we're so afraid of reading "too deep" into things that we won't even open the damn book.
Even if you're the smartest person in the room, don't act like it. I went to college with a guy who was really nice, even offering free tutoring but everyone hated him (even the professor) because of how smart he was.
😂 Sounds like they were arrogant and possibly lacked social skills and / or empathy. Which is kind of a hard to teach if you don't learn it when you're young... 😬
To add to what that woman was saying about convenience, I've actually scared myself several times when I've realized that I've been typing out slang for so long that I've actually forgotten how to spell basic words and it's like....where the hell did all the years of school go?...
AI is one of the most heartbreakingly disappointing things to me as of late. I was a champion of AI when it was first developed. I couldn't help but think of all the beautiful applications for medicine, engineering, ect. Now, it is being used as a tool for corporations to sell more and a way for students to rob themselves of the education they are paying for
the persecution of intellectuals reminds me of this short story we had to read in high school (might have been middle school, i can't remember) called "harrison bergeron". its set in 2081 america and due to the 221, 222, and 223 amendments, anyone being more than what is deemed "average" buy the government is required to wear handicaps given my the government. the ones who are stronger than "average" wear weights around their neck (at whatever weight the government deems will equate them to "average"). the ones who are "too beautiful" are forced to wear grotesque masks to cover their faces (the more beautiful the person, the uglier the mask). the ones who are smarter than what is allowed are forced to wear ear pieces that play ear splitting noises and frequencies each time a thought is made that is "too smart" or something that the government doesnt want them to think of ("average" intelligence is deemed as not being able to have complex thoughts).
Harrison Bergeron used to be seen as primarily anti-communist ("see? this is what wanting equality will lead to") but it works so much better as the online anti-intellectual race to the bottom. it isn't people wanting equality, it's wanting to destroy what they resent because they don't have.
I've seen so many micro aggressions on the internet and when anyone and I mean ANYONE comments about it immediately all the replies are "its not that deep" or "its just a joke" and those comments sexualizing characters that are sometimes teens is really frustrating like no you can't just casually say "raw next question" including to MINORS. people are too comfortable on the internet now and don't think that anything has a pattern when almost all of it has a pattern
@emptyshotgun no I said micro because it wasn’t flat out racism or sexism but the joke was racist/sexist only when you thought about what that joke meant. That’s why I said micro and it is that deep because it’s still exists
23:33 this has happened to me before i was accused of plagiarizing on a history assignment when i never use ai or directly copy news sources or paragraphs from informational sites i used to gather information to create my own informational writing on the event. however i didn't bother to call the teacher out about accusing of plagiarism because i knew would likely insist and i not be believed or played off.
Just a tip: I've learned that AI "detection" sites really just determine whether or not an assignment is AI based on how many big words you use. In other words, if it looks like a kindergartener wrote it, it won't be marked as AI. But if looks like a college student did, then you get the idea.
I think for me, I’m just so burnt out that I lack the motivation to really dig deeper. I’m an overthinker and use my emotions and experiences to help form conclusions so I do think things go deep. Where I am weak in is the researching and maintaining focus on work to make better conclusions especially for school. I used to be a top 10% try hard student but when the pandemic hit in my junior year of high school, it threw me off for some reason and I was not able to comprehend articles, texts, and readings anymore. I’m falling behind a lot in university and I’m in my 4th year. Idk I get so burnt out to read more into things, let alone read things but that’s hypocritical for me because I harp on people who don’t do research and read. So it’s just a weird situation for me.
From what it sounds like, anti-intellectualism is arrogant in not wanting to learn, adapt, and/or improve. While intellectualism is humble because there is something new to discover, learn, and adapt to.
That would be the incorrect take away. They arent intellectually aware enough, they dont have any grit. They dont know how to handle adversity. These are true. They dont understand boundaries in what is or is not acceptable for public sharing or how to act in a work force, or how to tell fantasy from reality....and they are MOST defnitely too "woke"in the absolutely worst ways.
Agreed. I feel like so many young men were introduced to antiwoke sentiments since 2016, and never had the context of it all. As a millennial who thought gen z was gonna be our allies, it's sad.
@@ytgytgy When you look at the woke/critical race theory BS, and what they actually stand for...its junk. Its one thing, and I support, saying that people should be allowed to exist without harassment. That they should be able to feed, and house and get jobs. What I disagree with is saying that ALL white people are inherently racist, that everything is oppression. That work is slavery. That, in the case of CTR, objectivity and objective facts are not real. That, again CTR, believe that all things must be seen through the lense of race, which btw is an idiotic term itself given us having different skin tones or language doesnt make us different races. Mil and Gen Z have gone way over the top, and took reasonable ideas of tolerance to idiotic levels and in doing so through away inconvenient facts like how trans woman being in same sex sports is a problem with competition. Getting to the pt to not being able to say that yes, you can self identify as X, but that doesnt mean you are X...if you can identify as a woman, but you cant do or be all that a female human, like give birth. Or trying to force pronouns or change terms to suit idiotic notions of :inclusion, like birthing person. F THAT. Stop trying to at like crazy people, get some sense of proportion and common sense, and you would have more allies.
What’s considered normal has just shifted so far right that almost any thought is now “woke”. Also, can we give that word back now? Poor woke, it never deserved this.
you nailed it saying that this ties into the rise of conservatism we're seeing and sadly it's not just in the US, it's worldwide. Everyone really needs to fight this in order to not repeat the past. the people that don't know their history are bound to repeat it. your videos are incredible and so well-researched, you're doing an amazing work that's actually very needed right now.
I’ve never seen your channel before today but this video was suuuper refreshing! this is honestly part of what has driven me to start studying art and art history because I’m sick of hearing “it’s not that deep”. sometimes it’s *not* that deep but a lot of times, it is!! nuance exists and I hate that people can’t or won’t see that. I’m not saying that everything can be up for debate (because some things aren’t and shouldn’t be up for debate). I know that old tumblr post about “lmao those curtains are really just blue” is just a symptom and not the cause but it’s crazy how prevalent that Idea has become. sometimes the curtains are just blue but sometimes it’s symbolism. I love to examine things for deeper meanings, and I’m glad to see other Gen Z folks pushing against the anti-intellectual attitudes we’re seeing.
Honestly the internet has made me jaded by life its soooo bad cause like I dont even want to smile at people or talk to them because whats the point they are probably horrible. Its an awful cycle.
@ its not really that simple people have already been awful to me in real life the internet just makes it worse. Its also unrealistic to tell me to just “talk to people” clearly if it were that easy for me I would have already done it.
@@mimi0w086 well to be fair I don’t know the nature as to how people “have always been awful” But I do know from experience anytime someone speaks in such complete and all encompassing language like “everyone” and “always” they are likely not thinking clearly. I highly doubt no one has ever been kind to you before and I highly doubt no one has ever helped you. Perhaps apart of that jaded effect you speak of is your view that ALL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE AT ALL TIMES FOREVER are bet negatives for you. Sounds like an overdose of online anxiety
I'm a late milleanial and feel so fortunate that I could at least experience the glimpse of pre-internet world unlike many kids these days rottin their brain 24x7
"It's not that deep" "I'm not reading allat" "Bro's yapping" "I'm just nonchalant fr" A good amount of this gen is so cooked lol they aren't even ignoring these things out of ignorance, like how it presumably was in older generations where they didn't know about these things and didn't seek these convos out because it didn't personally affect them, but these types of things are always said in comment sections and reply threads PURELY to get more likes/upvotes than the person who was being serious. The person is actively engaging with this kind of content so much that it's on their algo, they see all of these "deep" topics and know about them, they seek it out because it's literally the new form of "ratio" where this generation loves to dunk on people and gain the admiration of other dumb people. Not for actually engaging, but for saying a quippy "own" lmao
A lot of times I see people who are so closed off to other points of view, and it makes them look so dumb. It feels like more and more people can only see things in black and white, but don’t see any of the shades a gray in between. You see it a lot in politics, I think having a 2 party system has made it really hard for people to accept that there is an in-between that can/would be much better.
That’s why it’s so funny. When you see someone say define woke to someone who just screams it over and over again. We can’t just let people use buzz words and think that’s the same as like actually thinking something through.
The issue is that the terms "Woke," and "Far right," are thrown around way too much to the point where they're losing all meaning and have just become insults. Like standing for traditional family values isn't far right, and standing for Trans rights isn't Woke, they're both just human rights. I would blame the extremes on both sides for never shutting up, the likes of your Musks, Hasan Pikers, and Charlie Kirks, they all need to to away.
It's funny (it's not) that even in my honors English class, the students are never really asked what they think something like a poem could mean, they are only told what it "should" mean, and never what the students could interpret it as or think deeper than was has already been said. Sure, sometimes a student needs help in understanding a general idea, but we never go deeper with our understanding. This lack of critical thinking outside of what we are told it means is also something I think is important to talk about as well, since many propaganda techniques rely on you not being able to think outside of what you're being told
Good video. I’ve been growing increasingly concerned with how eagerly people are leaning on AI to avoid taxing their brains even slightly. I was just at a professional development conference in my industry and the association hosting it was pushing AI hard.
Thank you for doing a video on this, it's honestly scary. My partner and I share the sentiments that people who shit on science and other educational pursuits need to hand their phones over immediately because they don't deserve them.
the fact that people want to forget the past means its bound to repeat itself
Yep….we’re not teaching about the past to pin blame on countries and shame the people living there, it’s so we can avoid similar situations from happening again.
They don’t want to forget the past, they want to revive it. Pay attention.
That's part of the cycle of civilizations, sadly.
Some governments around the world intentionally censor and erase parts of history so that the people will not question them and to protect their reputation as being a capable (competent) government that serves the people.
well, the problem with that is although you're correct, the past is also WHY it gets repeated. we should learn about the past, yes, but people will use it as a way to inspire their more dangerous ideas and reiterate it into the present. i mean, antisemitism still exists (and keeps getting gradually worse to the point that we had to warn my jewish friend to not be so open about his religion on a college campus because of unfortunate situaitons---my campus is more left-leaning btw) despite us learning how awful hitler was.
The truth is that the folks who say, "it's not that deep," are they themselves, not very deep
I have personal experience of that, you will find they are the most basic of peipñe
Lolll I say it all the time, but that's usually my catchphrase for 'I'm too tired to go into this right now.' I work in a highly conservative field and it's a lot to take on the burden of explaining and introducing and providing context every time. But it's worth the introspection. There's something to be said about keeping a friendship if no one has the energy to dive deep.
It’s called being a shallow person lol
@alvakampfer9004 I know, but that woulda made the comment worse
@ True I guess
"I'm not sitting here and reading all that" cooked for sure
This right here
For real. It's just announcing you've never read a book in your life. And they act like you're the problem for not assuming they're a shallow idiot.
or when they say "glad for you or sorry that happened" as if they had to comment in the first place. its fine to not want to read something (as an avid reader, i still sometimes dont want to read long comments), but dont *express* that you'd rather be disrespectful than just scroll.
THISSS. ESPECIALLY when it’s not..even that long??? Like how the fuck do you study in school then
@@ghostinyourcloset I think that's just a joke or trolling in most cases. I ain't even think of saying that but looking at it now that's the exact type of thing I would say if I read a long comment, precisely because of how dumb it sounds, I find the irony of these situations really funny.
99.9% of the time when a take is labeled as woke, people just don’t want to critically think and see where the person is coming from. it just makes them uncomfortable and not want to reflect and have conversations with themselves/others around them
I wrote a 49 word comment on Metallica a few months ago, and someone responded, “i aint reading allat lil bruh”
@ and it’s never even that much😭😭 like how did they survive in school if a couple of sentences on social media is too much to read??
This is just not true. The word is 100% misused, but actual "woke" media becoming more prevalent is 100% a problem. So is hardcore red pill shit, its two sides of the same coin.
@@georgia_amoorefan I’m a teacher, and when I’ve gotten kids a book that’s less than 200 pages, the first thing they usually comment is that “This is a HUGE book”, and the first question they usually ask is, “Is there a movie for this?”
@@georgia_amoorefanprobably because of there short attention spans, I'm not the one in charge of that 😭
For example fascism doesnt just suddenly one day happen, its a process that takes time and could be unnoticed by inattentive people. Its like putting frogs in boiling water, they realize too late whats happening
I just had the pleasure of having a conversation with someone who claimed, prescriptively, that there are more important things to worry about than politics, because “if you attend to your mental health, everything else will fall into place”. Sometimes, I’m not sure what people think the word politics refers to.
@@WhatWouldLubitschDo if you can't afford mental health, then what else do you do besides become a Luigi? That shits not free either
@@WhatWouldLubitschDo I had to read that twice bro what does he mean "everything else will fall into place"? 😭😭😭💀
The shepherd is responsible for the lost sheep, we must hold ourselves accountable. Sometimes the only patience we have is for ourselves. This is a great video and take, I hope this young man is cultivated and grows to be a shining example to us all. This take is simply brilliant
While I appreciate the sentiment, frogs do notice when the water gets too hot for them.
There’s this one friend in my class who whenever I start getting into a “heated” discussion or debate, she always is like “guys calm down it’s not that deep, chill” which just makes me feel like “girlll we are in CURRENT EVENTS class can we talk about this?” Idk I hate it when people do that
Yeah but sometimes your tone can get annoying to people so I just continue to argue in a calmer voice.
@R0TEK I get that. Unfortunately the tone change doesn't work with her but in general yeah.
Why did she even sign up for he class if she doesnt want to talk or even hear about this sort of thing? 🤦♀️
@@idrabohm3678 Well to be fair, we're still in highschool and my school doesn't let you pick your own courses (exept afternoon electives). I go to a Christian school, so the class is kind of talking about like current events and what do we do about it as Christians (essentially)
can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen
The internet has made a lot of us into assholes, specifically because a lot of us have just learned to say whatever the fuck we want, without the consequence of getting punched in the mouth for it.
Ugh it is sooooo so ugly to witness. I’m ashamed to have engaged in it but know that we have the power to grow and become better humans
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I agree. And there’s a sense of entitlement people were taught to have which leads to lack of empathy.
I am glad there are some spaces that are more balanced and involve a bunch of people yelling at each other.
The internet needs more balance though.
@@idreadFell365 I し what you did there 🎉🎉🎉
there is no need to praise violence if you want people to be more polite
Can I be woke for a second... people leaving "raw" or "no lube, no protection" or "i know it's pink" or "all day" type of comments on social media doesn't seat right with me, it's sexual harassment and people are normalizing this harmful behavior, just say someone is beautiful instead of saying the most. PLEASE STOP IT
oh absolutely. it’s disturbing how comfortable people are 😬 if you wouldn’t go up to that person and say it to their face, don’t say it in their comment section/online.
THIS!
i remember thinking it was too bold or cringy AF when i first went to twitter but now it is so normal to me cuz i have seen it everywhere
@starrysemi people are crazy enough to say this to others' faces, trust me
@@niftythegoblin unfortunately yes 😞 there are definitely people who just do not care either way, but there are also definitely people online that think that just because they aren’t saying it to someone in person it means that it’s okay
Well yeah it is literally objectifying them and seeing the person only for their own s3xual gratification
It makes me so sad how anti-intellectualism and alt right ideas have made there way into the youth and even my own generation. The other day I asked a guy to stop lifting up the table I was using to write on, (might I add I’m in HIGHSCHOOL!!!) and I received the comment, “this WOMAN is talking back to me!”
Meanwhile them: "Why won't any woman love me? :("
I pretty sure algorithms, pipelines, and general sensationalism are to blame. At least partially.
I still cannot fully understand how did American right manage to become mainstream and trendy. I started watching political/social UA-cam starting 2015-2016 and those ideas are not new. The right have been saying the same things decades ago but back then everyone, including gen Z, laughed at them. Somehow the Republican Party which usually doesn’t even understand how the Internet works managed to win the algorithm and make their videos go viral, pushing them to the mainstream. If people hear something often enough, they will normalise it in their heads . This is what the right wing has done, somehow convincing the same Gen Z that were with us together even 5-8 years ago that trauma, emotional needs, feelings, racial sensitivity are all BS. I still don’t get how the right went from being freaks, fringe minority whom almost no one watched and just laughed at to being mainstream. This needs to studied
@@chriscortez2036algorithms. Yes. Daily wire learned technology and understood how to beat the algorithm. Or maybe even people who own social media were interested in helping their agenda (for lower taxes)
@@Jukestar I wouldn't date an immature brat, no wonder why people are leaving jerks like that. Maybe they should learn to treat people how they want to be treated
The internet 25 years ago wasn't like this at all. Because everyone using it was some flavour of nerd... I really miss it.
The internet 25 years ago was a publicly funded space that the private sector deemed unprofitable. Now people use 3 or 4 platforms that are products, not THE internet, just those sites, that are designed to be addictive and push anger inducing bullshit to keep people hooked for the sake of more engagement to sell more ads.
Stuff like this should be regulated but also there's the indie web and getting real hobbies that aren't scrolling 3 hours straight wich is a great counter to it all
As soon as I started seeing tldr being used a lot and proudly. I knew we were heading in the wrong direction.
@@MagpieMalone why'd my shit get deleted???
All i pointed out was how the internet was originally pubIi© funded snd the privat€ sector didn't deem it profitable and the biggest difference now is that it's a product that fosters h*te for engagement for pr*fit
There were plenty of weirdos and racists. White Supremacists were very early adopters of the technology and utilized chat rooms and domains to recruit and spread propaganda.
How do you think we got here?
OMG so do I . I made so many friends around the world. I can also honestly say that I spent all day and night online back then and never ONCE had a bad experience. Considering all that I was doing that is completely unheard of today. That was the time before mass online harassment and people genuinely engaged with others. I was telling my kids the other day how they had a site called MySpace where I could meet and befriend anyone in the world no even famous people (because the ones on MySpace were actually themselves. And you could email any random person anywhere to start a conversation about their expertise. This was fundamental for changing my life because it was being able to communicate with professors from all manner of Ivy League colleges and universities that pushed me to seek higher education and absolutely improved my ability to critically think....now adays you can't email anyone and expect a response and any given day someone will be so nasty or stupid in any given online space. It was much better when the web was mostly full of intellectual or curious people
To be woke is to be empathetic, and critical. Surprisingly, the ruling class and its enablers don't want you to be either.
Seems like a lot of Gen Z men are high -functioning sociopaths. To not care about people’s feelings AT ALL is not intellectual. It’s a characteristic of either a psychopath or sociopath- a mentally healthy “normal” person has empathy. Lack of empathy is a sign of serious condition. But they are proud of the fact that they don’t care about anyone’s feelings. Until their own ego is hurt and they turn into crybabies. So apparently their own feelings matter and they deserve compassion and understanding. But not everyone else. Social media has cooked their brains. I think social media is the biggest factor. They were kids when they started using it. Their brain never developed normally bc of it. Maybe they actually have brain damage and their frontal lobe is underdeveloped from all that time online as kids and teens.
Unsurprisingly. They'd rather have us fight each other rather than them having to get their own hands dirty
And it's quite strange how that word is being turned into a "bad thing" on social media 💀
@NotReallyJabu05 same same social media owned and controlled by the same ruling class
That’s a joke right?
I saw a reel on Instagram a while ago where someone released their pet goldfish and it immediately got eaten by another fish. As I’m doing my masters in environmental science right now, I took that as an opportunity to leave a comment with a bit of info about goldfish being invasive and how you should never release a pet into the wild. The comments I got in response were vitriolic and honestly just mean. Like I didn’t think it was a hot take to mention a best practice for preventing introduction of invasive species but here we are.
People were mad that I included my degree in the comment. I wasn’t trying to brag, I really just wanted to show that I have some credibility on that subject.
Ppl are stupid, glad you tried to provide some information bc it should be basic knowledge to not release pet fishes into the wild
That sucks, one of my fav parts of videos is going to the comments sections to read what people with experience have to say about it. And yeah goldfish are invasive and you should say it louder for the back bc way too many people think releasing pets in general into the wild will have 0 impact to the local ecosystem
If it was the fish owner’s account though that was insensitive as fuck. Time and place bruh. If it wasn’t though, fair.
it sucks cuz i can't go around the internet and chill anymore, i miss seeing cool comments and nice polite interactions... people are unnecessarily mad.
I’ve seen a few threads like that. I don’t know why people go to such great lengths to justify abusing their pets or harming the environment…
Once someone on one of those threads told me “We’ve already messed up the environment so much that it doesn’t matter if we release an invasive species.” Like bro, that is how one messes up the environment.
My mom (in her 60's) is the type of person that is okay with living in ignorant bliss, which can be frustrating when I try to educate myself and she says something like "why are you stressing yourself out for no reason?" because I'd so much rather be passively stressed but know how to be prepared than be happy right up until shit hits the proverbial fan.
You both found different ways to be self-sabotaging. The trick is to develop the kind of mentality that allows you to care deeply but without stressing about things. Ironically, the less you worry, the more you'll be able to act about important things. But right now you're mistaking worrying for caring.
@@Kriliska I know it comes from a place of care, and I get the point she's trying to make, but it just doesn't work for me personally. And like I mentioned, it's a passive stress, meaning the fear that comes with the knowledge is there but I'm not actively sending myself down spirals of panic, if that makes sense.
my mom is similar. she likes to believe that everyone ultimately wants to be kind to others, so whenever an atrocity happens, she ignores it or just tries to think about it for as little as possible. this gets frustrating, because I constantly have to tell her about how people like profiting from the suffering of others and she just akts like I'm talking about some story I made up
Exactly! Well said
@@callnight1441 yeah it's tough. Especially when she's helped people for free her whole life, but is surprised when those same people won't do free labour in exchange, and I've tried telling her being nice shouldn't come with expectations but here we are.
adding “-ai” at the end of a search gets rid of the ai summary for anyone that wants to save the planet and their brain cells
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oh thank goodness. that stuff is so irritating and i never opted in
Oh thank you!!!
Thanks gamer
Things aren't 'woke', all of these things that are considered 'woke' weren't considered crazy thoughts or takes in the past few years. The internet has made people too comfortable
Definitely made people lose shame.
Woke was never crazy takes TF. It's literally a term that comes from AAVE to mean "knowledgeable in the structures of white supremacy and willing to fight it". Stay woke literally just means stay updated on information regarding the structures of white supremacy and stay ready to resist it in any way necessary. It was originally a dog whistle for black activists fighting injustice, it had nothing to do with actual takes really. How does a 22 year old know this, but most people don't? Then again, I was brought up politically by the people who said stay woke, before it was appropriated by white conservatives.
We’re in an amazingly swift rightwing backlash within the longer saga. Not only can saying something normal from 1975 or 1995 make you a far left woke radical, apparently so can saying something normal from a couple years ago. The Overton window is being dragged so fast it’s leaving ruts in the ground.
Woke used to be a good powerful thing
@@empresscrafts689This too, I remember a few years back I was using the word woke and branding myself proudly from being it but now I feel like the common mass hears "woke" and they go "omg extremist sybau" or some wacky tik tok comment like that.
Generally speaking I just don't really and have never gotten how we got to this point, it was a GOAL to be woke, it meant intelligence, it used to be branded as somebody that is open minded, open mindedness was something that was seen as "positive" now it's just seen as propaganda.
Like what in the hell is going on with the world? I know this has been happening for a few years now, people like asmongold and other dumbfuck streamers that normalized "woke propaganda" have literally ruined the whole meaning for generations, and we all know all THEY want is for the patriarchy to just go hurr durr.
Crazy stuff man idk.
Trust me gen z is not as woke as you think. On the day Trump won all the straight guys in my class were silent when we were discussing it.
they’ll ruin their lives with the loneliness and lack of social skill leaving us only with the empathetic ones to reproduce with therefore breeding out undesirable traits 🎉
Are you assuming their sexualities??
We put pronouns on our student profiles now.
@@I.am.progress Pronouns are part of the English language. You literally used a pronoun in your comment, genius.
@@MissRedZeldaWe have quite the thick one here. Its admirable, I wish I had that level of thickness to cover for the head injuries I'll get in the future...
Everyone thinks AI is so brilliant for pulling together the data sets of previous humans thoughts, but how will we ever go forward if we’re only going to use AI’s recycled thoughts
Damn so just a bunch of people who can’t think for themselves because of AI thinking for them. that’s just dystopian
Exactly. The imagination of children is being comodified as well. Doesn't bode well for our future.
The ai isn't even really taking previous thoughts and smashing them together.
It is looking for a pattern in the sentences and categories of words and creating a text that is most likely to answer the question without a care for accuracy
It doesn't even understand the data or understands what it's putting out, it's just recreating a pattern.
Even a world where AI can put all previous human thought together, potentially for the benefit of mankind... should be understood as a dystopia.
...because among the applications are those that will not be used for the benefit of mankind.
It’s actually scary.
I graduated college in 2023
A person on the class after me 2024 literally said to my face “I feel like everyone uses AI to write”
Me and my friend had to flame this person, like how do you not see what you just said as insane.
That person is now a high school teacher and coach
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."-Isaac Asimov 1980.
"Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice."
- Johann Most
I’ve noticed it with “nerds” being beat up in movies or bullies since the 50s or before idk; it just changes and adapts to current cultural trends
I'm a masters student in essentially college and college students, and we are scared. AI is ruining people's brains. We are tasked with deciding on what is okay and not okay with AI. What is the line. Students are so fucking stupid now. Even faculty are using it for their work. Like chatGPT is being used in full faculty publication and they aren't even deleting the like "this is a generation from ChatGPT" paragraph. I tried ONE time to use chat GPT to compare two lists. It's task was to pull universities that appeared on both lists. It failed immediately and missed 2 from the 9 present on both lists. If it's going to fail just as much if not more than humans, why are we letting it throat punch an iceberg with every search? All I need is some food and water, provided by the eat, and some sleep, provided by me, to think and compare lists. Do we really have to kill the planet because people don't want to think any more.
Yeah, AI is only useful for making templates for things YOU (not the AI) are writing. Or asking it to help you make a paragraph YOU wrote flow better.
And even then, you have to check the work as well.
@sylokthedefiled7650 literally. AI is a great tool to say make a resume template. Because AI is scanning those resumes you still need to fill it in. It's so frustrating. Why are we so addicted to convince we don't even want to think? I tried that one time to do the lists while I was sleep deprived and still did a better job at maybe 50% brain.
right, so just fyi
if you want chatgpt to compare two lists, you are asking slightly the wrong question
instead, ask it to write code that compares the lists.
It's not perfect at code, but it's decent and at least you are asking a language model a language question.
PS: fishes can't climb trees, haha win for hoomans. 🐟🌴
@AZTECMAN yeah fuck the planet up beyond repair but it will only work if you ask it just right. FYI for you, I did that just to humor you, still fucked it up. Fuck I hate you AI groupies
Nothing pisses me off more than the amount of braindead cunts in my classes using ai instead of just reading two pages out of an easy book to study. Its hilarious how they screech "How can you tell bro" and you turn around and their illiterate and write like a 3 year old🤣
I've deleted majority of my social medias because of just how beyond cruel people are for no reason. During the pandemic one of my closest people and one of the kindest, strongest human beings passed away. So many people were saying the most vile things to her and harrassing us mourning after she passed. Because it was c*vid we werent allowed to mourn. I was called overdramatic, bullied into hospital, and told she deserved her death because she was open about being immune-compromised. That's it. She never said or did anything against anyone. And whenever I talk about this trauma it is swept under the rug with "it was a really hard time for everyone." Like that somehow excuses all the abuse. This experience has fundamentally changed my view of people and made me avoid everything internet for so long. Even in person, because she passed of the disease she did, people act like we didn't lose one of the most incredible people I've ever met. That's a huge loss of someone with empathy and a massive population of people without. And I'm not the only person with this same story.
Christ- that's fucking horrible, I'm so dissapointed in people. Like- yes, everyone was going through it during that time but it doesn't make deaths any less tragic and it doesn't mean we should've been more non chalant about it whenever someone did die. I bet that if any of those people had the same happen to someone in their life, they wouldn't shrug it off like that. I'm so sorry that happened to you, nobody deserves to have their traumas and pain dismissed like that.
Fucking disgusting what you and your friend went through. My heart is with her. Disabled health person here, I learned I was AFTER Covid. Yet I never said anything like that even when I thought I was in normative range. It’s just UGH. GROSS
I’m so sorry that’s so awful.
That's so fucking shitty and I'm sorry for your loss.
No matter the circumstances, people have friends and families that care for them.
Any loss is extremely difficult and the fact that people couldn't be empathetic about such a significant event in your life scares me...
For those who should've given it to you but did not: I give you my deepest sympathy for the loss of your friend. From how you describe her, she sounds like she was a wonderful person, and you cared for her dearly. I'm sorry so many failed to acknowledge your grief or her loss. Neither of you deserved that.
My parents' main thing while raising me was to make sure I was intelligent, wise, open minded, and possessed such skills like critcal thinking and analysis. One thing I've noticed growing up was when kids would get bullied for being "nerds" when they actually enjoyed things like learning or critical analysis. Like um, aren't we literally in school TO LEARN?! We need these "nerds" to progress as a people, and not just in fields like STEM but also in history, language arts, and media. Why are you looking down on them? This even ties into how either kids don't realize or aren't told why they're being asked stuff in lessons like "why are the curtains blue" and bash on those lessons. Like overall, it's not about the curtains being blue, it's what figuring out the reasons they could be teaches your brain to look past the surface level and come up with multiple solutions.
Knowledge is power. That phrase exists for a reason, not just to be some cool one-liner. When knowledge is erased or limited, it prevents the people from having that power, and oppressors know that. That's why they ban books, apps, media, and news outlets. When the people don't have the skills to realize why, that allows for them to be taken advantage of and be unable to reliably fight back.
YES YES YES. This is why anti-intellectualism is so dangerous. We have literal Hollywood productions like Idiocracy and I,Robot that show us in color picture why it’s dangerous to TAKE AWAY OUR OWN AGENCY and let robots and systems decide our lives!!!
In my country if u are dumb you’re bullied both by teachers and students
In my country if u are dumb you’re bullied both by teachers and students
In my country if u are dumb you’re bullied both by teachers and students
School is a mess post pandemic 😭
My husband is an anti intellectual. He always says I look on the depressing side of things. He always tells me it's not that deep and to stop trying to find the bad things. I don't though. I love learning and can't help but notice patterns. It's very frustrating
divorce. gotta get worse
Just because you notice patterns doesn’t mean you’re not seeing the bad side only.
When there’s a bad there’s always a good paired with it, to ignore that is, in my opinion, self detrimental.
@@phchikworst advice ever fr
@phchik
Don’t give relationship advice unless you personally know this person or are a licensed therapist. The BIGGEST problem with anti-intellectualism and online discourse is everyone thinking they’re armchair experts on topics they have no business discussing.
girl dump him
“It’s not that deep” it is that deep sometimes though😭. Like some ppl be saying “it’s not that deep” to everything the world could be ending and they’d say “it’s not that deep”
"its not that deep" they say at the bottom of a 100 ft pool
Idk mfrs be thinking too deep when most of the time. The intent was just to look cool not talk about how the uss liberty or the plight of the Uyghurs
@ I can understand most of the time if things really aren’t that serious, but when it comes to talking about the literal economic and global state of the world that can literally affect the earth for centuries and even possibly cause mass extinction then yea, it is that serious. And then when shit hits the fan ppl wanna act surprised and confused as if they weren’t the same ones that were saying “it’s not that deep” when ppl were tryna warn them
@nichepaper what are you talking about.
You said it perfectly. SOMETIMES.
Ik some people that try to overanalyze and critique EVERYTHING and link it to some greater event. It's like listening to an Alex bale theory except they think they're right and are dead serious.
Certain things I understand that they are that deep.
But trying to connect something that is so blatantly surface level and shallow to some horrible event or ideology is just stupid and then you have Others that will back that shit up and consume just for the sake of FEELING intellectual like they're saying something despite overall saying NOTHING.
And it doesn't happen everyday but damn does it happen as fuck of a lot.
Theres a lot of pushback in intellectualism right now no doubt, but there's just as much of a problem with fake intellectualism as well and wish people talked about that because that honestly is just as dangerous as anti-intellectualisam.
The fact that you had to bleep out the name of a significant historical event says a lot about where we’re headed right now.
That's youtube 😮💨
One strain of anti-intellectualism that particularly annoys me is when people *do* have theories about the connections between things and reasons for whatever they're experiencing, they *absolutely refuse* to consider anything with even a whiff of academic rigour in favour of just making intuitive connections between things.
Conspiracy theorists, basically.
ah yes, "common sense."
I have a theory about my life. Aliens are going to kidnap me and we're going to drink beers in a bar with a centaur.
@@gatospordoquierbars (in more than one way)
@@nondescriptcat5620 Yep people have confused gut reactions with common sense
If you reduce things to their surface levels, it’s so easy to just force a connection and then think they’re smart and the only people who know
I will never forget getting harassed online, and one of the “criticisms” about me was that I use big words to make people feel stupid
And that highlights the source of the anti-intellectual hate. No one likes feeling dumb, and apparently it’s easier to lash out and call them “elitist” than use that as motivation to learn
Too bad there’s no way to look up a word when you’re already online and clearly capable of typing 🤷🏻
From my experience, anti-intellectualism comes from two different places- people who are frustrated/envious/spiteful of those with education opportunities, looking for a scapegoat to blame, and people in power who seek to suppress any dissent against them. Ironically, the latter, the actual “elites,” manipulate the former into silencing anyone that questions their authority. Ever wonder why many conspiracy theories target poor and/or marginalized groups, and not anyone actually in power?
That's true but you and everyone else needs to remember literally the first thing we learned in English.
"Who is your audience" Because they are telling us the average America can only read at a 6th grade level.
So if your intent is to communicate with the masses, the public, the common man. You shouldn't be using uncommon words. Big or small.
And I know yall wanna bitch about anti-intellectal but just don't. That doesn't make sense in this moment or historicaly.
There have always been people who are undereducated and or illiterate. And how can you expect diffrent when everyone knows our schooling system is unfair. Many schools are underfunded, and students are under served.
Plus I can't mention how many time I've heard "Grandma had to drop out of school at 3rd grade, 5th grade. The got married had Mom or Dad...." Yall dont know that means Grandma can't read?
This is about Gen z so let's focus on today.
Bottom line communication is about the audience understanding you. So you should so you should speak to them at a level they understand. If you cannot do that. Then stfu you are just as bad as them because what good is you having knowledge you can't share?.
Because if yall wanna be up on your white horse then what you should be do is tell people what the word means or use Different words. Or stop talking to those people. Cuz your ass ain't helping them and they damn sure ain't helping themselves.
@TychoKingdom The commentor wasn't on the ground talking to working-class communities. They were online. People can literally look up words on Google. That's what I do all the time because I'm not an English teacher nor an intellectual. English isn't even my first language.
Also, you seem to assume a lot about people. You assumed so much from a short comment. Then, you went on to say they should stfu and that they're just as bad as "them". Maybe you're more elitist than you think.
@@TychoKingdomthat's really motivational and really cute for us people with small vocab but I feel like this might be kinda hostile towards who you're intending that comment for
Maybe you could be explained it kinder than saying they're on their white horse flexing on people cuz that person might jus wanna articulate their points better and people respond really harshly to that instead of asking politely y'know?
Am sorry but yea that's really considerate of you
Not too long ago, I was sitting in front of my teacher and we were in a debate about something mentioned in the PowerPoint, it wasn’t like heated or anything, we were both talking about our perspectives and listening to the other person but the people behind me started just yelling out ‘OMG JUST LET IT GOOOOO WHO CARESSSSS ITS NOT EVEN THAT DEEPPPPP’ and I was just like… 1) IM NOT EVEN TALKING TO U and 2) were not arguing or anything we’re literally just talking chill out. So it’s not even just online, it’s offline now as well.
I used to hate this in school as well. A lot of people don't like full-bodied discussion and will write it off as "not that deep" so often and even get upset with you for it. It's almost sad.
To be fair this happened all the time in the 90's from when I was in school. A bunch of hormone bombs who aren't there by choice are going to be often disengaged
It's so frustrating that everyone thinks everything is an argument now. I can't count the number of times I thought I was having a valuable conversation with someone and was told I was being combative or realizing suddenly "Oh, this person thinks we are in an argument."
@ I KNOWWWW! I feel like people think that if you have a different view from them, you are automatically arguing??? What happened to talking about our opinions and listening to the other person??? Even if we don’t agree with them.
@@britsaunders2151 I FEEL THIS! Like, I'll literally just calmly and politely disagree and be met with an emotional reaction seemingly out of nowhere. Like... I thought we were just chatting but apparently something went wrong!
This is also exacerbated by me being autistic and apparently having both RBF and my tone apparently reading as aggressive when I get excited or put energy into my voice. And I LOVE discussions and debates, especially with competent partners, so I have a hard time recognising when people take it the wrong way
As someone who works in education, I am so annoyed when a kid that can barely spell somehow rights a full page essay with no mistake. Like, I know this is ai because your using words you don't know the meaning of.
unfortunately thats how the school system works. it's much better for a kid to get a good grade on something they didn't do than a bad grade on something they did do bc grades are worth more than knowledge now.
"rights" an essay?
@@haroldcampbell3337Im assuming english isnt the language that the essays are in
@@haroldcampbell3337 its most likely autocorrect or english isnt thier first language
@@haroldcampbell3337that is what we call a mistake, a human error if you will. Now you know that comment was from an actual human no one really proof reads a UA-cam comment.
having knowledge of the shitty things in the world around us make it very hard to hold your tongue because being “woke” has basically become equated with being the party pooper 😭 like debbie downer from the old SNL skit
Arrogance of youth.
they always go after the thinkers first. its waaay easier to do nefarious things when there's no one left to question and critically think about what's going on. in a way, the general public thought-controls itself, deeming any sort of questioning as 'thinking too hard' or "too woke". it reminds me of George Orwell's 1984, where people are considered criminals if they don't just swallow everything that's fed to them. the more I become politically aware, the more relevant 1984 becomes in my mind. the book burning, the rewriting of history, the discouragement of critical thought, the poor, uneducated, distracted masses. our world is starting to resemble 1984, or really any dystopian work, way too much. I recommend anyone who hasn’t read 1984 to read it, because it seems that's where we're headed. to be woke is to be conscious
It's a crime to not worship the orange god emperor and refuse tribute.
to be fair and maybe give you a little hope, no dystopian fiction is based purely on prediction, it's things the author is actively seeing. So if he saw it all the way back then, it's nothing new, and means we will always have the opportunity to fight
@@aff77141the problem it’s that it’s not only Orwell’s future, but also Margaret Atwood’s and Huxley’s. It’s all coming true, shit got hipersticionazied.
i love 1984 and have been thinking the same thing. the amount of propaganda people willingly eat up is astounding, especially falling into a combative mindframe and blindly cheering one leader and party.
@aff77141 yeah I agree. it's nothing new, and art imitates life. I was just trying to make a point that if the stuff of dystopian fiction, which can be an exaggeration or representation of past or present real-world conditions, is becoming part of our reality, then we better take things seriously.
I also agree that we should fight for better conditions, but before we can do that, a significant number of people have to wake up to the fact that the horrors of the past and of fiction can happen again, and some things suggest that they are happening
If you think it's bad now, i wonder how bad it will get once they try to shut down the department of education?
I know that people who are kids right now or yet to be born are the primary victims of that plan, but I’m also very scared for the rest of us.
I think that's why they are targeting vestiges of our free educational systems. I'm so disheartened this is happening, and people are supporting it, esp broke ppl
that's exactly what they want. uneducated people tend to cling on promises that seem good on the surface level like "cheaper gas and groceries" not understanding that's not how it works
Try? That ship has sailed.
The Dept. of Education doesn't make curriculums or anything. States run their schools.
That being said, it does some important administrative things. So I doubt it gets shut down.
No, wanting equality for all humans isnt too anything to anyone but the hateful, and the hateful should not be respected or tolerated. And the word woke is used by fools and fools alone.
Preach
I’m definitely not respectful towards hateful people
That's what woke is about. It's not hateful for speaking the truth y'all just get butt hurt.
Stop confusing pigheadedness with integrity. That's exactly what was about. Tell both sides rather push agenda then care about us.
@RyanPayne-s1r im done. No. Im not going to tolerate hatred. I can tolerate ignorance. But not hatred, its not pigheaded to reject and ostracize the rejection and ostricization of other people for the way they were born. Stop defending hatred. You dont actually know anything about the people you spread hatred about. You dont know the truth at all, trans people are infinitely more natural than a gender binary, because now basic science tells us that sex is a spectrum, from more xy chromosomal expression to more xx chromosomal expression, trans people are more real than hating trans people for not conforming to the lie of the gender binary, anti woke grifters are science denialists. "Wokeness" is about uniting the working class by rejecting the atomization that the hateful enact every day.
My entire home flooded in Hurricane Helene and a very misinformed video of it went viral on TikTok and I only found out when I started received death threats. No concern for climate change. No concern for physics. No concern for human life. I hate this place.
Why would you receive death threats for that??
i am so confused, i grew up in an environment where you had to be intellectual and study, you couldnt be emotional or youd just be a lesser human, and now the same people hate on science because it prove a few things they didnt like.
I would argue true intelligence is using healthy emotion and logic together to see the whole picture of anything.
I wonder if this is a culture thing. I live in Canada and we were definitely taught both to varying degrees. I also feel the internet deeply affected people's ability to have and process both healthy emotions and value information.
The thing is that being emotional and irracional is seen as a woman thing. And anything femenine loke compasion, pacience and honesty is emotional. But lashing out, being cruel and indiferente is deemed asintelectual and manly.
Ironicaly the using emotion as the opposite of reason is what upholds anti-intelectualism. Because is an arbitrary idea used as a fact.
Science hate is so weird
I like science but I don't like it when they mess with mythological creatures or cool stuff, it makes everything more boring, if the scientific explanation or what is discovered is not cool, then there is no need to say it. There is no need to ruin the cool stuff. Honestly, it's the only shit I don't like about science (I know it sounds stupid, but it's funny to say it). Why can't I believe that a giant mythological creature exists in the depths of the water?, because deep-sea animals are tend to be small?, nah, i don't care. Though they are still cool, they may be small but they are cool.
@ nobody is messing with mythological creatures, otherwise id study phoenixes for my master xDD
People who complain others are “too woke” are usually Bill Maher types who can’t fathom why younger people don’t find them funny or relevant. Two Simpsons memes rolled into one.
Well a lot of young people are falling for that garbage and yet many are understanding that woke is just a lazy insult
Yep
No there are definitely people who are too "woke" the term yall stole from Black people and basterdized.
Usually people that are too woke are the people who don't actually know enough or anything about the movement they claim they are a part of. the people who get very loud in defense of groups they are not apart of and they are so offended by everything that they tend to perpetuate racism and other isms themselves.
I mean don't act like you can't think of people who fit this description and a whole lot more on the list that I'm not going to write. And again. If you have never seen anybody "Too Woke" it's you.
Don't make your movement your personality. Don't make someone else's movement your personality. Be a person 1st. A person who just happens to have to fight for their rights and the rights of others. And READ. Learn how to read and understand words and numbers(statistics) in context. And that will keep you from being TOO WOKE. Because then you will be educated and helpful.
I mean I can still see this going wrong, but it's not my job to fix people.
ugh my dad LOVES bill maher. i’m forced to hear his annoying ass voice way more than i’d like to
Gen X watcher here, and I recall doing research in books with "foot notes" or finding a title or an article that provided a loose thread to investigate. Pulling at those threads sometimes led to a completely different thesis. If Google is summarizing the articles and providing bullet points "deem important" you will miss the opportunity to discover and follow a new line of thought. This is a sad and expensive trade-off for expediency.
The issue is that it HAD to come about.
More things = less time to spend on individual things
Less time to spend on individual things = less attention to detail
It’s a product of its environment.
i'm a late gen x/early millennial, and i work with several teenagers. one day last week, one of those teenagers used the R-word very flippantly (i forget the context of the conversation; he may have actually been referring to himself and the way he felt in the moment of whatever he was discussing). there were a couple of other teenagers with us, and i calmly asked him to please not use that word. he looked at me funny and asked why, and i held my temper and said "because i asked you not to. it's offensive." and he just kinda shrugged and said okay and the moment was over. a few days later, i was working a shift without him but with one of the other kids who had been there, and i asked him if that word was now considered acceptable to use, and he said "yeah for the most part." this kid is more compassionate than the other, so i explained to him why it offended me, and he seemed to understand. we work with a gentleman who has down's syndrome, and i told him that the first kid wouldn't use the word around that man, right? and he said "yeah you're probably right." so he got my point. it's just so sad to me that this word is back into everyday conversation. how did this happen?
Some right-wing influencers have convinced many young people now that being disrespectful/selfish/anti-intellectual/vice-signaling is how you "win" in society. Trump is proof of that in a way.
This is returning!?
They did rug pull us with that one because it was taught in high-school psychology as just being the opposite of genius in terms of iq score. But I guess so many people misused it. Weird that psycho and sociopath are still OK but I don't make the rules
I don’t think it ever really went away to be honest. I know some people who use it and I think it comes from a general ableist attitude.
I imagine the internal subconscious operating like, “Sure, I wouldn’t call someone with Down syndrome that word, but I do think lesser of them and think the r-word is apt to use as an insult.”
People are mean today, partly because they don’t have trust in many people or institutions anymore. So I think they’re also not willing to learn more than what feels like common sense, but common sense is shaped by society and is biased in many ways. So a low-educated population depending on their own idea of common sense is promoting anti-intellectualism and reactionary instincts. It scares me how the decline in trust has totally put us off track to address climate change disasters and our ability to care for our neighbors.
@@Shinobo_demonslayIt never really left tbh.
In my experience whoever uses the term “woke” in a derogatory way isn’t capable of forming a coherent and meaningful thought.
0:19 my neurodivergent brain said…she’s still got two apples because if she “took it away” means that she still has to apples they’re just not in the place where they usually all.
Now if you said she ate one apple or gave away an apple to a friend or tossed it out, then that would mean she has one apple.
😂 same. I overthought it for a second. It's just 2-1=1. That's why when people ask me test questions like that a reframe it back to them to make sure. But then they sometimes feel like I'm talking down to them lol
@ meanwhile I think I’m dumb or overthinking it.
@JunipersLog the opposite, that is a perfectly ok way of seeing it. Breaking something down to try to get to the true meaning is the spirit of intellectualism
That was my first thought as well! Luckily he rephrased the problem soon after because I was getting ready for it to be a trick question. This miscommunication is why test questions and syllabi should be edited after writing and better yet peer reviewed, but also why sometimes it really is important to "show your work." 2-1=_ has a clear answer because mathematical notation is a mini-language where everyone who learns it agrees what the symbols say and what the blanks require. "She has two apples out and put one away, so how many does she have?" uses plain language which prompts the answerer to convert the words into mathematical notation, but since it is plain language it is also open to loop-holes, misunderstandings, and harmful assumptions. The harmful assumption here would be the question writer solidly believing that when someone puts an object away, they no longer "have" it in the same sense as when they held the object in hand. The question answerer who thinks like you and me comes to the words with a different assumption: that apple is still in her inventory so she absolutely "has" it. Forgive my ramble. Your comment made me want to share thoughts on teaching methodology. : )
I hate how the term “woke” has been taken and used to refer to anything progressive. My black gen x parents were so confused seeing politicians talk about wokeness and how we need to get rid of them. Cuz to them they thought they were talking about getting rid of black people.
RIGHT?! The word woke has been around for decades and popularized again in Redbone by Childish Gambino basically meaning to stay educated and aware of social issues. Now people (especially far right leaning white people) use it as a form of anti progressiveness and bigotry 🤦🏾♂️
To be clear: that is exactly what they are talking about.
I had a great college professor last semester, but my only gripe with them is that they would make these little handouts or practice questions and when we would go over them, they would say this first thing every time “I actually don’t know the answers to this, I haven’t read it yet because I had an AI generate these questions an hour ago” 👁️👄👁️ so yes, the student always loses! And I never used those AI handouts, just stuck with the textbook!!
That's insa😢. I wonder how they grade. I used to spend hours lesson planning for elementary school students. I couldn't imagine the lack of due diligence
as a gen alpha (2010) so almost gen z, i am not stupid BUT school sucks arse. i can think very well but ngl some of my class mates have no common sense.
That’s awful but don’t lose hope, i’m a gen z girl but i felt like that in my class too so my advice is spend more time learning skills and less time socialising w them. School system is created to keep people stupid so we can become slaves and at your age i was dumb as a fish, don’t make that mistake and learn lucrative skills as soon as possible. I personally love languages and electronics. Unfortunately the world isn’t gonna get better so i keep telling myself not to have kids lol.
@@zstardusttyup
I really can't understand my classmates at all it feels like it's all the same person
All the boys act like horny gangster wannabes and the girls are honestly normal except when they're breaking people's ribs and sending them to another country so they can get better medical help but also they both humped the furniture.. ive seen way too many people hump the tables and chairs--
I'm scared of messing with those people if you are in my class please don't
You can use school to your advantage, as both a platform and forum to practice and hone your skills. But if you just coast, it might just serve as a pipeline into wage slavery. With the upcoming administration, that slippery slope will become even more steep.
College(depending on your major and your college's resources) offers more, but the rules remain basically the same. You have to engage with your own education. Even though the system is set up one way, you can still utilize that experience as a training ground for dialectical materialism and an exchange/comparison of ideas. Always ask yourself, what is the sentiment BEHIND what this person is trying to argue? Who in history has asked similar arguments, and for what? Who benefits from this discourse and what is their end goals? What have their goals been in the past? Does this remind you of any other historical events? What is the logical conclusion to this person's worldview? Does it benefit all, or only a few? How so? What logical fallacies are happening right now? Etc. stay curious and use the Socratic method. Be warned, it may annoy some people so you also need to know when to back off because they haven't thought about it enough maybe
Ps I'm sorry about the country your inheriting. You kids are being asked to clean up our mess because we failed to clean up our parents' mess. It's embarrassing, but y'all have tools now that nobody else has had before. Overpowered double-edged tools. Hold the knife by the handle, not the pointy end. Good luck. May the force be with you.
@paulchavez3039 bro i cant afford college😭😭theres also no way i can ever get a scholarship. thoo i might be able to go to a music school or luthier school
Dumb. Or uneducated
The fact people my age (23) will reference false information they read in a tiktok comment that takes 3 seconds of thinking to understand it’s definitely rage bate, but instead they tell all there friends “I think this”
And they you tell them “hey that’s bull shit and you should think”
They always say
“That’s just what I heard”
When I was in undergrad from 2019-2023 the idea of sports bending was laughable, it’s obvious the gate way to gambling addiction and not something people our age can afford.
Now in my masters 2023-present
All my younger friends sports bet. I’d say at least 10k has been spent on that crap over the last year. None of them thinks is a problem none of them think gambling will negatively effect them.
We have been sheltered by the internet and we’ve lost our connection with reality.
Put our egos on top of that and there you go a generation of less knowledgeable people than before.
"He was high on intellectualism.
I've never been there but the brochure looks nice."
What is this quote? (genuine)
@affectojfgidi1246 "Everyday is a Winding Road", song by Sheryl Crow
@josephsager9425 thanks!
Great song - 90’s baby here and a big fan of Sheryl Crow
My teacher has told us to start using chat gpt to check our answers for our chemistry problems. At the beginning of the school year this teacher was clearly very anti-ai. Me and my classmates saw this change after we got back from winter break. Ever since he said we could use chat gpt people have been using it. I’m not sure how relevant this is but I think it’s interesting.
That is bizarre as hell
when she brought up beans i was expecting her to pull out the 'i love pancakes - so you hate waffles?' post
anyways anti intellectualism has been part of american culture for decades now [rockefeller literally turned schools into worker factories] something something idiocracy
sorry for the mic noises friends i clearly need to tighten my mic handle LMFAO
Me with an ear infection, thinking it is my ear popping😂
FINALLY, I FOUND MY LOGICAL PEOPLE :D
“Perhaps it goes deeper” me overthinking, pondering - critically 😏- about any and all topics that pique my interest
A few days ago my AP lit teacher went on an about communism and I was with her until I said that if your conclusion to American capitalism is full communism then you need to better diagnose the issues and find a middle ground and she said no Americans are just entitled…
I believe we need to take calculated steps towards socialism, starting with social democracy. If we just change everything in one big step, we risk leaving a power vacuum that can be taken advantage of by authoritarians.
@drowsy7921 but if you do it too slow, privatisation takes over. Like in Sweden.
Jokes aside, change need to be gradual to get everyone on board, unless everyone is already on board.
Have you actually engaged with any. Because communism calls for “diagnosing issues” and what is american capitalism? Settler colonialism with capitalistic characteristics?
@@drowsy7921why would you want socialism? Everyone from countries that do that are against it.
@@timothy2491 This is false. Every time socialism is tried, literacy rates skyrocket, homelessness goes down, and people are well fed. Citizens love it, but these are usually African and South American countries that have resources that colonizing nations want, so they destabilize them until the countries have to go back to depending on the USA or France or whatever parasitic country.
I gotta say, sometimes I read the titles of your videos and assume I won't agree with you, but I still watch it anyway, and every single time you bring up points that match so much with my way of thinking. I really enjoy your videos and the way you express your opinion. One of the best channels out there
I used to think stupidity was the problem, but the more I've thought about it, I just think people are more or less naturally cruel. We're just as murderous and tribal as any other ape, and this explains our politics and social discourse quite succinctly, in my opinion. Empathy can work both ways: it can make us more likely to help the underprivileged, but also side with aggressors. I truly don't think we can reason our ways out of this.
See i used to think everyone was naturally cruel but now I've moved more toward it being an information thing.
@@ereegodofeternity9451 I _want_ to believe we can have more humane societies via better access to quality information and education, I won't say it's not possible, but there's always that problem of people interpreting the same information differently because of their background, genetics, etc.
Ultimately, we can't escape bias or our species's predisposition to cruelty and violence, I'm afraid, and considering the emerging threats of climate change and political instability, I do think conflicts will worsen, online and off.
@potts995 (Sorry to type a paragraph but I'm passionate about this.) I agree that there will always be differences and divisions between people. It's definitely part of human nature. However, I don't believe it's our differences that make us violent towards others but instead our divisions. When the powerful have as much control over the media as they do right now. There will be people who believe it. They then act accordingly. DarkMatter2525 has an excellent video that somewhat touches on this subject called "The Ideal Society." Might be worth a watch if you have the time.
You say our tribalism explains our politics but I choose to look at it through the eyes of what benefits everyone and what benefits the power structure. The power structure wants more power and the people want the same. The power structure will try every ploy to distract the masses with the wrong issues, so they can continue their exploitation. The people think they know what's best but are misinformed or misled fundamentally and fight because of it. I don't believe it's necessarily so insidious or conscious by the people in power so much a natural outcrop of the accumulation of power. If you read all this I appreciate you taking the time to read my words. Wish you nothing but the best stranger 🫡
Humans survive when they connect, I think school more beats it out of us, keeps us away from the natural will to tend to one another, cause children will team up to benifit each other in a system, and through lack of stimulation, abuse and conditioning their brains don't work too well anymore, and they become bigoted, I've seen kids, this isn't a natural state, this is taught because they're all shoved into the wwirdest of conditions for their early years
Also, try researching the evolution of trust, it shows how things feel worse now in terms of trust but how in WW2 people trusted and had so much empathy for one another they put their faith in the other and both crossed no mans land to celebrate Christmas.
Either they are just dumb, or they are attempting to gaslight you.
"¿Por qué no los dos?"
i think its both, propaganda targets dumb people because propaganda doesn't work when you know its propaganda
Thank you for being a sane voice on the internet!
Thanks sm for explaining what anti-intellectualism actually is, I've seen the term thrown around a lot recently where it just isn't used right 💀
The two party system, has been giving people limited perspectives. Yes there are idiotic people within those groups, as they are everywhere. I've seen comments from both sides that just sounded ignorant, usually making assumptions before they other person even talks. We gotta stop letting vastly wealthy people, gaslight us into having yelling matches.
thissss💯💯
true. it's all rich vs. poor but the rich people just want us to fight each other rather than acknowledge who the issue is
13:38 OH MY GOSH THIS WHAT I’VE BEEN SAYING!!! if we keeping pushing men away and grouping them out of progressive talks/ideas just because they don’t get it the first time they’re never going to learn and the issue will only get worse. we can’t keep grouping them all in the same category and expect them to WANT to change.
Came here to say exactly this. Everyone attacking people who genuinely SIMPLY messed up, and I just think “and THIS is their villain origin story”. You think they were rac/sex/abl/etc-ist before??? Oh buddy
Nope not making excuses for or coddling men who don't see me as human. This is victim blaming be nice to your opresssor crap
After deleting all the apps I am coming here to youtube just to absorb more in depth information. I’m so tired of brain rot.
Good self healing
it's not only a disregard for intellectualism, but also empathy. those 2 are connected in some way, i don't know which one led to the other but the amount of times i've read "and the world kept spinning..." is making me terrified for the state of the world
I had the AI professor thing happen to me where I was taking an open notes test, so I could have references and paraphrasing and all of that, and then I got docked 20 points because it was “AI generated” when it wasn’t
If anything, we ain’t woke enough
Wrong response.
I concur
Wake up people!
Define woke ??? If you can't its very well fine since I guess there isnt clear definition to it similar to feminsim
@@sameersheriff7078 In the beginning, I took Woke to mean being aware of the real history of the country and the effects it had. Its accepting the realities of the policies that were in place, and the consequences of them. This was NOT to make excuses, but to learn from and to help us guide our actions and policies going forward. It also encompassed understanding that people different from ourselves DO exist, and have the right to do so. That gays, trans, atheists (like me), religious, etc all CAN and should be given the freedom to exist in the world WITH the understanding that none of us have the right to impose our particular values on everyone else.
In that sense, I would say, sure I am woke but I always held myself to that standard sicne I was like 10...so really to me this is common sense. HOWEVER, woke got converted into this idiotic notion that ALL ideas are of equal value/worth...even when proven to be factually incorrect like flat earth, or anti vaxing or all white people are inherently racist or all women are sluts or all men are good for is wallets.
When common sense went out the window, and people decided that putting everything out there for everyone to see was a good idea is when woke went stupid. I HATE the phrase authentic self...esp if you are talking about it at work...bitches, people dont want your "authentic self" they want a professional who gets the damn job done. And that isnt to say you cant have a personality/style, but that it has to be work appropriate AND if you push the boundary of work culture, you CAN lower some career options...the phrase dress and act for the job you want not the one you have is absolutely valid.
This is an interesting take, and thank you for sharing. But like others in the comments, I feel like this may be biased.
I agree about the rise of anti-intellectualism, but I think it's wrong to assume (or imply) this is only coming from the "anti-woke"/"it's not that serious" people. I see a LOT of anti-intellectualism coming from my "woke"/progressive/far-left friends too. As someone who leans left but wouldn't consider myself a leftist or a radical, I've felt the constant pressure to go further and further left in my politics/worldview. Of course, my political orientation has changed through life (I grew up more conservative but relatively liberal, was far left-ish in college, now I'm progressive-leaning but more independent). I'm also Gen Z, and have a lot of leftist/left-leaning friends. That's kind of my crowd. But you'd be shocked at some of the things or sentiments I've heard from people who are college educated (even have multiple degrees), and did really well in analyzing complex social theories, but aren't always good at analyzing themselves . . . There's a colossal lack of self-awareness that can be off-putting, even disturbing, but if you only swim with people in the same pool, you'll never realize those huge blind spots. You'll never realize that you aren't applying your own ideals to yourself. For example, a friend of mine recently posted on her stories something like "if you disagree with me, that's proof of anti-intellectualism". That's crazy because that's LITERALLY what anti-intellectualism is - reactionary, not dealing with the substance of what people are saying, not considering your own biases, and just writing people off because you don't like what they're saying. We (progressive Gen Z) also have a bad habit of endorsing extremely left wing ideas or policies without considering the implications of unintentional effects of said policy in real life . . . and in conversations with friends, a lot of people will brush them off, not have a good answer or even not seem interested in discussing it. Like, it's fine to not think something through and make a mistake or put your foot in your mouth - I do that all the time. The concern is when you have no INTEREST in thinking something through, because you don't feel like you have to. You see the world in black and white, good guys and bad guys, and you don't need to think through things any more because you know who's "right" and "wrong". That scares me.
Eventually, this becomes like religious fundamentalism, except it's secular and about politics instead of God or the Bible (or the Quran, the Torah, etc.). I feel like this is where we are currently . . . people are rebelling against one kind of secular, fundamentalist political worldview by adopting the opposite, which basically has the same problems. (Everything I just said could equally apply to conservative/far right/alt right Gen Zers/humans too.) I think at the root of this is fear, emotional immaturity, and the inability/unwillingness to deal with the complexity of real life. Not everything fits in a box. Not everything is simple to understand. Not everything can fit in a 30 second (or 30 minute) hot take. (No shade to you - I LOVE your 30 min takes lol.) Life is messy and complicated and beautiful and terrible and EVERYTHING all at once. We're losing our ability to experience and appreciate that. We want to dumb it down to dumb, bland, dishonest, disenchanted, flat political worldviews that give us basic stories to understand a complicated, rich, overwhelming, amazing world.
I hope we stop running to things that tell us what we want to believe, and just accept life as it is, and work to make this world a better place, collectively.
Sorry this was so long . . . I guess I had a lot to say 😅
I agree 100% with you 😊
@@00sPuppy thank you 🥹i feel that feeling when you get something heavy off your chest LOL 😂
Yes 👏. I’ve joked before,if you lean left hard enough you end up on the right, because without self-consciousness and the “why” for our views, it becomes categorized detached moral boxes without clear connections, when everything is connected. It’s scary how fascism slips in offering solutions when it’s really a cage.
Ugh....I had the most frustrating conversation with my mom about trans rights. Look, I completely understand if cis women don't want trans women in locker rooms. You're pretty exposed. I personally don't think trans women should be in women's prisons. But God damn, if we're going on FACTS and not feelings, there is no fucking problem with trans women being in bathrooms!!! Barring trans women from using women's bathrooms will only create more issues. Unless someone can pull up some unbiased data that attacks BY TRANS WOMAN have increased SIGNIFICANTLY, I will fight for every single trans woman to be able to use that bathroom. What's even more mind boggling is she HAS used the bathroom with someone she KNOWS is trans and it never seemed to bother her. I almost told her she should tell her that she's always been uncomfortable and see how that went. It's like everyone wants others around them to make them feel comfortable without reciprocating.
You wouldn't recognize extremely left-wing if it introduced itself as a Cuban intellectual asking for donations for a worker's rights union helping to provide healthcare for the widows of The Bay of Pigs.
But it's great that you're such an intellectual and determined to learn and understand more about the rest of the world. That should be applauded and encouraged.
There's a difference between being truly woke and being self-righteous, selectively "woke" or even regressive person who wants to think they are a liberal but actually they're just an authoritarian bully. Most sane people don't have issue with the actual woke but with that whole... Second type attitude.
this
I always get shit EVERY time I mention sexism, pronouns, trans people, immigration. Like you can’t even get a word in if it’s about any of those IMPORTANT conversations
It’s not great when people accept ideas as truths without nuance and use it to hit others over the head with it. Unless you’re actually well studied on the subject (seeing memes on social media doesn’t count).
8:13 "Ruining the fun". People like that voluntarily keep up the status quo of discrimination for "laughs"🙄
"Instead of thinking 'it's not that deep' perhaps you should think 'it is even deeper'." Pardon me for destroying that quote, but I think this was a perfect way to end your good video. I appreciate your perspective as a young person. I hope we find a way out of this mess soon. I don't know if I have any hope of seeing it in my lifetime (I am in my mid-fifties). There are just too many powerful people who want to keep us divided and anti-intellectualism is such a power tool to accomplish that. You and others like you give me hope that maybe you and my daughters may be able to see the return of some semblance of sanity in your/their lifetime.
My biggest issue is people are just taking opinions of people online and repeating them as facts. They are not making their own judgements, they blindly just agree with a stranger who may have a very different life. I find it inauthentic
I think the truth is somewhere in the middle. There are a lot of people nowadays who genuinely detest anything that even remotely sounds intellectual and will encourage you to “think for yourself” instead. And I think there are others who forget that it doesn’t matter how much information you consume, if you’re unable to relate to or communicate with the others around you - it’s a missed opportunity.
I've noticed this when people try to educate others on how to "detect ai," and it's always more interesting grammar like emdashes are semicolons. The words that they use as examples are always this way too, if its above a 5th grade reading level, it's "ai." This then discourages people from using "complex" words and grammar for fear of being accused of ai, especially in academic settings where an accusation like that is life ruining.
Cool that people are catching on to our "cult of ignorance". It was here all along though.
Thank you. As someone (also a Zoomer) who studied ethics and continues to study ethics, social sciences, history, zoology and environmental sciences (among others, I mean, that's what one gets when they're a scientist - you kinda need to cover everything a little bit), I am well-versed on this topic so I'm not gonna watch the whole thing, but I wholeheartedly appreciate what you're doing.
It is very scary how we had this short burst of progression and popularity of science, only for all of it to go down the drain the moment the people in power realised that we were making progress and educating people, so they're doing everything in their might to start culture wars, create propaganda and implant the seed of doubt among laymen, particularly those who are vulnerable and conspiratorial. I can't believe just how popular distrust in science has become when *scientists* have so little to do with the government, we're primarily underfunded.
Also, fascism goes EXTREMELY deep. It's mostly not apparent to a lot of people, but when people just shrug things off, don't pay things any mind, don't think critically, don't acknowledge issues or don't get educated, they're contributing to the problem of fascism becoming a threat to public safety. Newer generations have so much potential, but I fear they're losing out on a lot due to anti-intellectualism. What AI and borderline questionable videos on UA-cam have been doing to kids is really not good. Thankfully, the majority of the kids I've met are really smart and super willing to learn, but I fear it's not like that in America and Britain.
On the part where you mentioned somebody being made to feel crazy or made to feel like they're overreacting. My boyfriend actually is experiencing that or has experienced that and the recent past. My boyfriend had actually been around during a down power line in our neighborhood. And it actually caught a house or better yet the roof of the house and an RV on fire. My boyfriend had to help drag one person out of the house away from the property and they were badly burned. And then there was somebody who was trapped inside the RV and my boyfriend saw him burn to the point where they were near death. And they had been hospitalised 4 days in a coma and unfortunately they ended up succumbing to their injuries. And my boyfriend basically had been made to feel like shit from people who kept posting the story and trying to gain clout from it when not only he but the neighbor's and the family who actually experienced it were extremely traumatized after this event. My poor boyfriend was basically treated like shit and told to get over it and told that it wasn't that bad or it wasn't that deep and that basically people die every day and that he just needs to get over it. And my boyfriend is like dude do you know what it smells like to smell somebody burning? And people would sit there and be like your psychotic you're morbid, blah blah blah. When it's like traumatic shit like that stays with you. Your olfactory system is one of the most powerful systems that you have and a simple scent can take you back to an extremely traumatic event. Even the smell of someone's perfume that was abusive to you can be a major trigger. It's no joke!
And while I don't want to poo poo on anybody's religion. I do want to actually have a conversation about how and a lot of ways there are a lot of religions out there that not only facilitate anti-intellectualism but promote it as well! And basically try to go to people into being happy with the bare bones basics of what they've got rather than actually pursuing not only higher education to the extent of improving themselves and their ability to get a better job and other such amenities that would help them better their life and their livelihood not only for themselves but their families. But it also disapproves and disavows those people's need to actually become a well-rounded person and to actually recognize that the world is bigger than their own personal insulated bubble. And that basically it facilitates people to not pursue the fact and understand the fact that the world is much bigger and more diverse and more beautiful than we come to understand!
Whenever ive found myself labeling something as “not that deep” it was because it made me uncomfortable to think about
I think we owe buzzfeed an apology. no, manspreading and sexist air conditioning are not the most pressing issues we face as a society, but they are small examples of how patriarchy pervades every bit of our lives, and it's worth exploring how these micro instances snowball into larger ones. we're so afraid of reading "too deep" into things that we won't even open the damn book.
Even if you're the smartest person in the room, don't act like it. I went to college with a guy who was really nice, even offering free tutoring but everyone hated him (even the professor) because of how smart he was.
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Sounds like they were arrogant and possibly lacked social skills and / or empathy.
Which is kind of a hard to teach if you don't learn it when you're young... 😬
nah they’re just assholes
To add to what that woman was saying about convenience, I've actually scared myself several times when I've realized that I've been typing out slang for so long that I've actually forgotten how to spell basic words and it's like....where the hell did all the years of school go?...
Critical thinking is a very important life skill thats sadly not as common as it used to be. Its good to think for yourself and always ask questions
AI is one of the most heartbreakingly disappointing things to me as of late.
I was a champion of AI when it was first developed. I couldn't help but think of all the beautiful applications for medicine, engineering, ect.
Now, it is being used as a tool for corporations to sell more and a way for students to rob themselves of the education they are paying for
the persecution of intellectuals reminds me of this short story we had to read in high school (might have been middle school, i can't remember) called "harrison bergeron". its set in 2081 america and due to the 221, 222, and 223 amendments, anyone being more than what is deemed "average" buy the government is required to wear handicaps given my the government.
the ones who are stronger than "average" wear weights around their neck (at whatever weight the government deems will equate them to "average"). the ones who are "too beautiful" are forced to wear grotesque masks to cover their faces (the more beautiful the person, the uglier the mask). the ones who are smarter than what is allowed are forced to wear ear pieces that play ear splitting noises and frequencies each time a thought is made that is "too smart" or something that the government doesnt want them to think of ("average" intelligence is deemed as not being able to have complex thoughts).
Harrison Bergeron used to be seen as primarily anti-communist ("see? this is what wanting equality will lead to") but it works so much better as the online anti-intellectual race to the bottom. it isn't people wanting equality, it's wanting to destroy what they resent because they don't have.
I've seen so many micro aggressions on the internet and when anyone and I mean ANYONE comments about it immediately all the replies are "its not that deep" or "its just a joke" and those comments sexualizing characters that are sometimes teens is really frustrating like no you can't just casually say "raw next question" including to MINORS. people are too comfortable on the internet now and don't think that anything has a pattern when almost all of it has a pattern
The fact it's called micro aggression literally means it's not that deep and it's a minor annoyance that "You" choose to make an issue.
@emptyshotgun no I said micro because it wasn’t flat out racism or sexism but the joke was racist/sexist only when you thought about what that joke meant. That’s why I said micro and it is that deep because it’s still exists
“Woke” = aware. The thought-police are uncomfortable with that.
23:33 this has happened to me before i was accused of plagiarizing on a history assignment when i never use ai or directly copy news sources or paragraphs from informational sites i used to gather information to create my own informational writing on the event. however i didn't bother to call the teacher out about accusing of plagiarism because i knew would likely insist and i not be believed or played off.
Just a tip: I've learned that AI "detection" sites really just determine whether or not an assignment is AI based on how many big words you use. In other words, if it looks like a kindergartener wrote it, it won't be marked as AI. But if looks like a college student did, then you get the idea.
@ I get it but I am into vocabulary and am always expanding my vocabulary and using it in my work.
I think for me, I’m just so burnt out that I lack the motivation to really dig deeper. I’m an overthinker and use my emotions and experiences to help form conclusions so I do think things go deep. Where I am weak in is the researching and maintaining focus on work to make better conclusions especially for school. I used to be a top 10% try hard student but when the pandemic hit in my junior year of high school, it threw me off for some reason and I was not able to comprehend articles, texts, and readings anymore. I’m falling behind a lot in university and I’m in my 4th year. Idk I get so burnt out to read more into things, let alone read things but that’s hypocritical for me because I harp on people who don’t do research and read. So it’s just a weird situation for me.
“It’s not that deep” = “don’t think critically about anything”
From what it sounds like, anti-intellectualism is arrogant in not wanting to learn, adapt, and/or improve. While intellectualism is humble because there is something new to discover, learn, and adapt to.
Gen Z isn't woke enough imo
if anything they love teasing millennials for being “too woke”
That would be the incorrect take away. They arent intellectually aware enough, they dont have any grit. They dont know how to handle adversity. These are true. They dont understand boundaries in what is or is not acceptable for public sharing or how to act in a work force, or how to tell fantasy from reality....and they are MOST defnitely too "woke"in the absolutely worst ways.
Agreed. I feel like so many young men were introduced to antiwoke sentiments since 2016, and never had the context of it all. As a millennial who thought gen z was gonna be our allies, it's sad.
@@ytgytgy When you look at the woke/critical race theory BS, and what they actually stand for...its junk. Its one thing, and I support, saying that people should be allowed to exist without harassment. That they should be able to feed, and house and get jobs. What I disagree with is saying that ALL white people are inherently racist, that everything is oppression. That work is slavery. That, in the case of CTR, objectivity and objective facts are not real. That, again CTR, believe that all things must be seen through the lense of race, which btw is an idiotic term itself given us having different skin tones or language doesnt make us different races.
Mil and Gen Z have gone way over the top, and took reasonable ideas of tolerance to idiotic levels and in doing so through away inconvenient facts like how trans woman being in same sex sports is a problem with competition. Getting to the pt to not being able to say that yes, you can self identify as X, but that doesnt mean you are X...if you can identify as a woman, but you cant do or be all that a female human, like give birth. Or trying to force pronouns or change terms to suit idiotic notions of :inclusion, like birthing person. F THAT. Stop trying to at like crazy people, get some sense of proportion and common sense, and you would have more allies.
What’s considered normal has just shifted so far right that almost any thought is now “woke”. Also, can we give that word back now? Poor woke, it never deserved this.
you nailed it saying that this ties into the rise of conservatism we're seeing and sadly it's not just in the US, it's worldwide. Everyone really needs to fight this in order to not repeat the past. the people that don't know their history are bound to repeat it. your videos are incredible and so well-researched, you're doing an amazing work that's actually very needed right now.
Great title, I’ve been thinking this for so long it’s frustrating
I’ve never seen your channel before today but this video was suuuper refreshing! this is honestly part of what has driven me to start studying art and art history because I’m sick of hearing “it’s not that deep”. sometimes it’s *not* that deep but a lot of times, it is!! nuance exists and I hate that people can’t or won’t see that. I’m not saying that everything can be up for debate (because some things aren’t and shouldn’t be up for debate). I know that old tumblr post about “lmao those curtains are really just blue” is just a symptom and not the cause but it’s crazy how prevalent that Idea has become. sometimes the curtains are just blue but sometimes it’s symbolism. I love to examine things for deeper meanings, and I’m glad to see other Gen Z folks pushing against the anti-intellectual attitudes we’re seeing.
Honestly the internet has made me jaded by life its soooo bad cause like I dont even want to smile at people or talk to them because whats the point they are probably horrible. Its an awful cycle.
Have you tried Tumblr, it's mostly people goofing around and they're mostly left leaning, there are vids of what goes on there on yt
I hope you realize you’re the one who chose to think people are awful.
You should talk to people, the internet is not a real place
@ its not really that simple people have already been awful to me in real life the internet just makes it worse. Its also unrealistic to tell me to just “talk to people” clearly if it were that easy for me I would have already done it.
@@mimi0w086 well to be fair I don’t know the nature as to how people “have always been awful”
But I do know from experience anytime someone speaks in such complete and all encompassing language like “everyone” and “always” they are likely not thinking clearly.
I highly doubt no one has ever been kind to you before and I highly doubt no one has ever helped you.
Perhaps apart of that jaded effect you speak of is your view that ALL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE AT ALL TIMES FOREVER are bet negatives for you. Sounds like an overdose of online anxiety
I'm a late milleanial and feel so fortunate that I could at least experience the glimpse of pre-internet world unlike many kids these days rottin their brain 24x7
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A good amount of this gen is so cooked lol they aren't even ignoring these things out of ignorance, like how it presumably was in older generations where they didn't know about these things and didn't seek these convos out because it didn't personally affect them, but these types of things are always said in comment sections and reply threads PURELY to get more likes/upvotes than the person who was being serious. The person is actively engaging with this kind of content so much that it's on their algo, they see all of these "deep" topics and know about them, they seek it out because it's literally the new form of "ratio" where this generation loves to dunk on people and gain the admiration of other dumb people. Not for actually engaging, but for saying a quippy "own" lmao
“WAHHH everything I don’t agree with is woke, and that’s bad because media said so!”
A lot of times I see people who are so closed off to other points of view, and it makes them look so dumb. It feels like more and more people can only see things in black and white, but don’t see any of the shades a gray in between. You see it a lot in politics, I think having a 2 party system has made it really hard for people to accept that there is an in-between that can/would be much better.
That’s why it’s so funny. When you see someone say define woke to someone who just screams it over and over again.
We can’t just let people use buzz words and think that’s the same as like actually thinking something through.
The issue is that the terms "Woke," and "Far right," are thrown around way too much to the point where they're losing all meaning and have just become insults.
Like standing for traditional family values isn't far right, and standing for Trans rights isn't Woke, they're both just human rights.
I would blame the extremes on both sides for never shutting up, the likes of your Musks, Hasan Pikers, and Charlie Kirks, they all need to to away.
99.99 percent of my comments in 2024 was "define woke..."
The amount of time I’ve said something only to have my friends say “it’s not that deep” and undercut MY WHOLE SHIT absolutely infuriating
It's funny (it's not) that even in my honors English class, the students are never really asked what they think something like a poem could mean, they are only told what it "should" mean, and never what the students could interpret it as or think deeper than was has already been said. Sure, sometimes a student needs help in understanding a general idea, but we never go deeper with our understanding. This lack of critical thinking outside of what we are told it means is also something I think is important to talk about as well, since many propaganda techniques rely on you not being able to think outside of what you're being told
This is the first video I have seen of you and I greatly appreciate UA-cam recommending you to me. Time to do some binge watching me thinks.
Good video. I’ve been growing increasingly concerned with how eagerly people are leaning on AI to avoid taxing their brains even slightly. I was just at a professional development conference in my industry and the association hosting it was pushing AI hard.
Thank you for doing a video on this, it's honestly scary. My partner and I share the sentiments that people who shit on science and other educational pursuits need to hand their phones over immediately because they don't deserve them.