I read the description finally for the film about a week ago "Get Out" as I knew I never would watch the movie because of Jordan Peele's bullcrap.
It's so funny and ridiculous how far from reality what the "evil rich white people want" in that movie is.
It's different than what your comment is about stealing souls with technology, but there's enough in common to bring it up.
It's like the black equivalent of the girl-boss fantasies in movies in a way.
I just read the wikipedia plot description.
What you're describing is the result of not a generation thing, but a universal human thing.
In Proverbs in the Bible it talks about the wise person's approach to money vs the foolish person's approach to money.
Your approach and it's results vs your parents approach is yielding the exact thing Proverbs said would happen thousands of years ago.
If the Bible was talking about this behavior all the way back then, then this is a common thing and is not limited to certain generations.
Every generation, you'll see examples people who are foolish with their money and those who are wise with it and the results usually follow the predictable patters laid out in Proverbs.
If you're not Christian, which many of the young generation is not, then marriage doesn't make sense when society starts being this post-modernist thing where your well-being and even survival isn't dependent on having large families, which is why you see the same hopeless attitude in Japan and places such as that.
But who says you need a family? I have no intention of ever getting married.
Success for me will be paying my bills and being happy.
Not living to the standard of my parents. I never will be able to afford what they could afford.
When I realized what I would be able to attain based on a variety of factors, including my own foolish decisions throughout life, I adjusted what I need to be content. As the Bible says, Paul in the new testament, if you have a roof over your head, food, and water, you can be content.
I won't be able to buy the latest greatest stuff, but you can be content in a large variety of scenarios.
The ones who complain about this stuff are really saying "I won't be content unless I'm rich enough to whatever standard I have set that standard at being.
Considering the large amount of rich people who end up killing themselves, I think that's a pretty foolish idea to hang your contentment on.
Yeah, this is so Redditor in it's grasp on real life.
"I baby sat twice and I'm rich"
As someone who has a dad in his 60s who worked exteremely hard, spent far below what he made, etc. He has a good amount of money, but it's through discipline, hard work, talent, and not spending his money willy nilly, but making long term decisions.
A lot of these "the older generation could afford a home" people, they go out, they buy craft beers, they buy pot, they have 3 or so digital subscriptions.
My parents when they were in college, lived in a crappy apartment. They didn't drink, smoke, do drugs, due to them being Christian.
They saved up years just to purchase a crappy tiny little TV so they could watch their favorite football team play, before that, they were content with the radio describing it.
A lot of their meals were the ones they could get from the job they worked at, or other college meals they didn't have to pay for, and a lot of their meals was stuff like tuna on crackers.
I kid you not, but eating at Subway was something they treated themselves to about once a month. Back then Subway was actually good according to them.
That was a treat, that they'd give themselves. That would be like a Gen Z or millenial "roughing it" to have to subject themselves to subway.
They were living with their eye on the future, of having a family, of realizing that money has wings, and is fleeting and you could have an emergency and huge chunks of your money gets sucked up despite all your careful planning.
I doubt most millenials or gen Z could live a single week like my parents lived a good chunk of their early life as they were building the road to having a financial stability.
"But I need my spotify, and my Amazon Prime Video, and my decent cell phone, and at least 1 video game a month at a miinimum, and the ability to unwind on the weekends with beers with my friends, and pot, and....(on and on)".
They compare their parents general wealth but don't see the lean times.
The millenial and Gen Z (I'm a millenial) think they're living in a lean time because they don't have a nice situation like past generations at their age.
No, you'll be in a lean time when you live like you're in poverty, because that's what you are. My parents weren't rich, and they lived like some section 8 housing people.
If you were to see how they started to live in their 30s, people would assume (pfft, privelaged boomers get everything handed to them).
No, YOU'RE the generation that has had everything handed to you, not the older generation. You've had a life where you got 100x the luxuries that the prior generations had. Back when my parents were growing up, drinking a soda was a special treat that was rare. I imagine when you were growing up, it was a stable of your diet.
Then because of that extreme luxury you became used to because of your parents, as you grow up and see that life's luxuries don't grow on trees, instead of being grateful to the generation that provided you the luxuries throughout your upbringing you took for granted, you grow bitter assumming they had it easy.
Life has always had the desire, in every generation, to kick you square in the stomach and keep kicking you relentlessly, and being a man is forging a future forward in spite of that.
The generation wants to lay blame at the "boomers" because it's easier than taking personal responsibility.
The things they're describing isn't even a boomer thing, it's a CEO and people running the country thing and everyone, no matter their age, makes the same choice when they get into that level of power. Look at Elon Musk, selling America down the river for Indian H1B's. He's not a boomer, is he?
Millenials at that level of power and decision making, if given the same choice at the same power level, eventually, the ones that could, would. But it would only represent a small few part of a generation, not representative of the generation as a whole.
Boomers didn't sell the country for globalism. My dad, despite his relative financial success, was never presented with the option of "outsourcing the country for his own financial gain" (not that he'd pick that choice if he was given it) because that's the faustian choice presented to people with entire industries in the palm of their hands, not vast majority of individuals including the successful workers making up the various middle class financial brackets.
The lower millionares (less than 10 million) are the ones grinding away at jobs their whole life and living below their means and generally spending quasi responsibly. They aren't "selling their children's futures away" to globalism for a quick buck. That's a tiny tiny amount of people who even have that "option", and it's an option that if someone in that situation doesn't take, someone else with less principles will. There's no generation so principled that someone wouldn't be happy to take that deal when presented the option to own an island rather than a few mansions. That's because every generation will have greedy, evil people.
Generation blaming is why the black community is so stuck and will never become successful unless they drop that mentality. Personal responsibility is the only way out or worse situations. There is no other way.
But you were comparing them against all gullible retards throughout history and I'm making the point that take the most gullible, retarded culture from like 200 b.c. and white liberal women would still out retard them.
Even the most gullible and weird belief cultures had a general sense of selve preservation and pattern recognition.
It's a miracle liberal women don't die as often as they do from their lack of self preservation for some futile endless pursuit of out-group favoritism.
modern history?
Gee, you're kind
It's also such a feminine liberal thing to do, white liberals in this case.
I have never, nor could I ever imagine caring about someone's hair and asking if I could touch it.
That's a woman thing, not a guy thing and it's a particularly liberal thing because they like to elevate every aspect of being black to being "fascinating" because it helps avoid the truth if they were allowed to be honest with themselves that the black culture is just plain lower quality in its values, it's speech, it's crime ridden, etc. Theres zero that's interesting about the black community but they have to hype themselves into thinking it's great the way mothers tell their 5 year old son that his drawing of a house is "REALLY AMAZING"!
I don't know why liberal women feel this compulsion (extends beyond liberal women actually....women in general seem extremely susceptible to white self hatred for some reason that eludes me)
But it becomes "white folks do this to our hair"
No, retarded women do it to your hair.
The rest of us our over here wishing you'd just shut up as a favor for voluntarily freeing you from slavery, not holding you accountable for your criminality, pandering to you in every facet of American culture....could we maybe get a day of you just shutting the heck up as maybe a semi-trade off?
Oh best you can do is escalate and ramp it up?
Very well then carry on, we do give your "community" unlimited latitude for behavior so my mistake for making that request.
You put it out there wanting to not have discoverability? I understand the desire for privacy and not being doxxed, but I would want my site/blog to show up even if I wasn't paying to create it.
I'll probably go with that WordPress site if it's not too much money.
A few questions.
How much do you have to pay?
Do you need to know how to graphic design your website?
How's your discover-ability? Ie are you popping up in search results?
I know that, but still, it works as a meme.
The reason channels always say do shorts is because they do provide value once you're monetized.
Shorts can make you money, and when your channel is established (aka Youtube lets you be an official channel, probably because you played the retarded globohomo Youtube game well enough) you get extra features with shorts, including linking URL to your channel and other stuff.
When you're a channel that can't make money, can't access other features from shorts.
All they really do is....nothing. You'll get views, maybe a comment or two if it reaches 1,000 views or more. That TDS short that had tens of thousands of views, had about 8 likes and two comments.
Now if you're a decent sized channel and you really focus on getting two or three shorts out a week, it can be quite profitible, for a much lower effort than regular videos.
But the shorts that do well are all the really annoying and retarded ones that we hate. And while shorts can build your channel if you're already willing to play that faggy youtuber game, they're essentially meaningless if you're a normal person who refuses to be these weird sellout types with clickbaity titles, and whatnot.
Same, I hate shorts as well. That said, I was also going to make it into a short for that exact reason.
Also, note that I've never received a single subscriber from shorts.
I have this other channel that has 3 whole subscribers. I just will occasionally put a stupid video, an archival video, etc.
I had a short involving the constant TDS. It got tens of thousands of views, still the channel has only 3 subscribers.
Shorts views are essentially worthless. But I'll make one anyways for this because it's a fitting format.
Correct, but I also saw it as an opportunity for some people to get on my channel. I was going to post it as a video anyways to try to get some people to that gaming channel because based people might find and it and subscribe to the channel.
If I'm already going to do that, I might as well post it here.
Yeah, that's why I disagree with Charlie Kirk who was strong when it came to Christianity, but when it came to politics, he'd defend saying "oh, so you think Dave Rubin has no place in the conservative movement?" when confronted on the fact that he didn't call for true conservativism.
My response to Charlie Kirk is ABSOLUTELY Dave Rubin does not belong in the Conservative movement. If he's secretly gay, in the closet, then fine. There's all sorts of conservatives who have secrets, but that's the point, they know it's shameful and keep it a secret. When you wear it as a badge of unashamed-ness, you have passed the rubicon.
The question of "does someone belong" is easily answered when you view it this way. How would society treat this person in 1950s America?
There were people secretly homosexual in America and if they wanted to help conservative movements, go right ahead, but if they came out as an "open gay person" they'd be shunned, because we were a rational society.
It's like if a person had a really bizarre fetish, like they're sexually attracted to automobiles. If they have that fetish and also are a conservative, no problem. If they have that fetish and let everyone know about it, post it on their twitter bio, make it a public part of their life, they're clearly not meant to be a voice any self respecting person should listen to because they're clearly mentally ill or something is very off that they think there shouldn't be a level of shame/private-ness there.
Homosexuality is a mental illness as well as an immorality, and in the past we would deal with it accordingly. We wouldn't kill them, nor do I advocate that, but there would be real societal consequences for "coming out as gay" and you'd never make it to the place of having a platform. When I looked up if there were gay rights activists in the 1950s, I found out there was basically one single actress, who when she came out for it, it ended her career. And that's in liberal Hollywood!!
I love Charlie Kirk. I think he was a great man, a great example as a Christian, and I believe he's dwelling in Christ's presence right now.
But I do totally disagree with his position that you can have a sane and truly conservative movement while listening to and promoting "transgender" and "gay" "conservatives" as though they have anything reasonable to add that someone else couldn't.
My parents have slowly over the past year or so started to be more open to the idea that many of the narratives were crap.
Open to ideas they would have thought were racist before.
Kind of. I can tell, especially with my mom, it's one of those things that she can't and won't ever let go of fully. I don't know why, but there seems to be an almost like "verge of a mental breakdown" if she allows herself to think certain harsh things especially regarding race.
They grew up in a different time and will always see things a certain way.
And the problem is on paper, some aspects of what was sold in like the 1980s version of "let's all just get along man" kind of almost worked for a bit. It was almost stable in a sense, in the way that the 1950s had a stability with the sexes that ultimately was doomed to not last because of the 19th amendment and the 1960s was a quick turnabout. Likewise the 80s was almost kind of stable and the 90s it was quick turnabout with race.
And that's the vision that people have, and feel evil if they "abandon that vision", they feel that "they can't throw the baby out with the bath water", but they don't realize that there never was a baby...not really. For the 2% of truth of that vision, 98% was a false bill of goods. But it's that 2% that they feel is almost like abandoning Christian love towards others; I address this later in the comment on how that's not the case. I edited this part after the fact.
Growing up in a different time, I've never had the same hangups on race that my parents had. I didn't have the fear of being percieved as "racist" to much of any real degree.
But the 2020 "summer of love" is where I allowed myself to totally break free of any of the liberal rooted worldview that had been there since the 1960s in our society at least.
It's not that I had my mind changed about the black community. It's just I stopped caring about squashing lines of thinking that might be "too rough".
I saw it with clarity that just how I see it as absurd that the UK walks on eggshells with Muslims, we have it just as bad as the UK with black people.
Once I made that connection that when I look at the UK and their fear of offending Muslims seems utterly ridiculous to me, and then see how we're the exact same with the 2020 riots and people trying to still run defense for them, I allowed myself to arrive at more conclusions that I wouldn't allow myself to in the past.
Then I started realizing a lot more things, like preferring people who are closer to your culture and values is the normal thing.
It's not even hateful to dislike a culture as a Christian, it's only hateful if you dislike them so much that you would like Jonah refuse to preach the gospel to them (he did by compulsion).
I also realized how hateful we're being to the black community in our "niceness". When God had Jonah preach repentance to Ninevah, it was an act of mercy.
The black community is like Ninevah right here in America, but do you ever see churches preaching that the black community needs to repent? They'll tell their white congregants to repent (all people should be called to repentance so this isn't wrong), but they'll see burning, looting and murdering by BLM and say "we stand with the black community and we don't want to cause division. We know that Jesus can heal the wounds in this country". Yes Jesus can heal all wounds, but in order to be healed you must first say "I am sick, I am a sinner, please heal me". The church isn't willing to tell the ghetto culture that it's sick because they'll be labelled a "hate church".
They'd rather black people go to hell than be called racist. If that isn't one of the highest levels of hate due to self love and self preservation, I don't know what is.
I don't think that art or entertainment has to always be "positive".
Think of like 1920s, you go to a carnival. Some things are cool to watch there because of the talent and danger involved, like trapeze artists.
Others are dazzling because the performer creates an imaginative atmosphere with his control of the crowd as a magician, with smoke and lights creating an otherworldly feeling for his magic act.
Some things are appealing for the bizarre and the novelty, like freak shows; these are your conjoined twins, your bearded ladies, etc. It's a "Wow isn't that weird" reaction.
It's not meant to be subversive. Sometimes showing what's weird or unusual is interesting. I agree that a moral society should limit and prohibit the profane and things that truly subvert God and the Bible and are blasphemous, but I think novelty has probably always had a place in entertainment and art.
I wouldn't be accused of being liberal by anyone, but the most "liberal" side of me is the side that enjoys film. I'm a "film connoisseur" so I am very forgiving of artistic license in film particularly films of the past which weren't woke, but had their own moral issues that were different. However if I were "king of America" I wouldn't permit most of the same films I myself have enjoyed because an individual can enjoy a film, if they have the discernment to know what is subversive or demoralizing and dismiss it and see it for what it is, but on the general populace, art and entertainment does influence people on the large scale. It's like that line in Men in Black. A person is smart, but people are stupid.
However there is a limit to the swayability to the propaganda and subversiveness in film. You see today that people are abandoning movies, TV and games because of all the woke crap being shoved in, and they're not even good in the first place.
Jurassic Park would be an example of more dangerous propaganda in a way. It's feminism was there, but not as offensively egregious as feminist pushing narratives would be later on. It was 2 or 3 lines, just enough to squeeze in the feminist ideas, but not enough to distract from the spectacle of entertainment or draw too much attention to the feminist crap. Then you have the evolution lie and the "millions of years" lie which is intertwined deeply in the film narrative by nature, but they're careful not to be "preachy" about it, so people sit there absorbing lies against the Bible in the entertainment.
Now I like Jurassic Park. It's a fun movie, but that would be an example where if you're watching it with your children, point out the lies in the movie.
Agreed, worst fate imaginable
I'll check that out. I haven't listened to the commodores, but have been aware of their name
With all the shoving of racial stuff, I've wondered why this music video makes me feel positive and happy, when there are very few white people in it and it is demographically like a McDonald's commercial.
I think it's this simple. Everyone is smiling, everyone is happy, there's no black ghetto culture, unless you count some kids doing the worm and a robot type dance as ghetto culture.
There's African culture with the African garbs, but again there's nothing in the video that is putting across the message that it's superior. It's just showing another culture.
Every single person is on equal footing. The white people are attractive, man and woman, and smiling, and everyone is having fun with each other. There's no message other than "Let's have a fun time dancing the night away".
I think it's the meanspirited-ness of the "diversity" that would come that really makes it so foul.
I watched Blade the other day, and for the first good chunk of the movie, the characters with the most screentime are blade and a black woman he saves.
But race is never mentioned. So none of it felt like anti-white.
If you're not familiar with Tool's discography, go to 4 hours and 8 minutes and 20 seconds and see him play the opening drum part to ticks and leeches (one of the craziest drum intros of all time) and realize that he's been drumming non stop for 4 hours up to that point.
You know how Mr. Beast started by doing retarded stuff (as opposed to now where he does different retarded stuff), anything to get views, like counting to 100,000; something that takes no talent, just a desperate desire for views and subscribers?
Yeah well this guy did a 7 hour video of a herculean feat. Just thought it was an apt comparison
Totally not a Mafia am I right?
"Pfft....the gay Mafia.....you're a brainwashed religious bigot"
Yeah because being strong-armed by force of threat into enthusiastic capitulation bears no resemblance to Mafia tactics.
And this will have an endless regurgitation effect, like a snake eating it's own tail.
Step 1. AI looks to all popular human examples to create it's versions of things.
Step 2. Because it's synthesising everything, the same way when you mix all colors together you get the color grey or black, what it spits out is that signature AI inauthenticity.
Step 3. the AI inauthenticity becomes more and more ubiquitous leading more real people who could have otherwised come up with something unique, relying on AI's suggestions, thus making the human creations more and more inauthentic.
Step 4. The landscape of things AI is drawing from becomes 99% AI, or AI influenced things, so it's spitting out the vomit it's already regurgitated.
You know how when you have a sentence translated and retranlated 50 times, the 50th sentence bears no resemblance to the original with hilarious and bizarre results.
Well that's basically what's going to be happening more and more with AI.
It will keep being fed AI and spitting out AI which then gets fed back to itself until you have a artistic and cultural landscape so strange it won't resemble human anymore.
This is why it's important to still be a human on the internet and real life and don't rely on AI for suggestions of how to better curtail yourself. People will crave rawness in the future, they already are starting to.