Seven years ago I wrote this: "it's the world, not me", I concluded. This mirrors the conclusion at which the speaker arrives: "When your environment collapses, you collapse." The talk also recalls Stefan Molyneux's "do what you're going to do, but know why you're doing it": motives matter.
There were lots of interesting comments to the video, here are a couple-- bold emphasis is mine:
"Even older people have become this way. I am 63 and completely alienated from other people. They have no emotions or interests. They don't understand history. They seem like an alien race. My three dear cats keep me feeling life."
I too have written about this extensively. When I was young, old people had a quiet sort of wisdom about them, lots of personality, and many stories to share. When I talk to a sixty five year old today, it's the same as talking to a twenty year old. It calls to mind that old joke: They don't have sixty five years' of experience-- they have one year of experience, sixty five times over.
And:
"I am 65. I have witnessed what you have described. Here is my 'theory'... most children are not simply 'raised' by one parent, they are in fact, in the care of strangers almost from birth. There is no mother OR father.
Mom is working, if there is a dad, he is also working. Children may not consciously reason that Mommy would rather work than stay home, but at some point, they KNOW. How do you learn about love, if you are put in the care of strangers for 50 hours a week?
My granddaughter, at three, after she was placed in my care following 3 years at a daycare, (her mother is a Dr. of Psychology and works full time) burst into tears one day, so terribly sad and tiny, and asked 'Will I ever se Mrs. x again? I MISS her.' Mrs. x was her 'teacher' (that is the euphemism they use now for babysitters) at the daycare where she and her brother spent most of their days.
Mrs. X had been the one to hold her as an infant, to feed her and be present during her waking hours, 9 to 10 hours a day. Mommy and Daddy would take days off and leave the children at daycare. The children did not have 'personal time off'.
So these unwanted children go from daycare to preschool. They are institutionalized from 4 weeks on. Thrown in with others like themselves, in larger and larger 'educational' facilities, where they are prey for petty dictators (teachers) and a hierarchy that wants to turn them into perfect representations of their perverse ideologies.
I am sick from heartbreak as I look upon this Godless, dystopian landscape consisting of unloved children who’ve been taught to believe that they are gods."
Mom is working, if there is a dad, he is also working. Children may not consciously reason that Mommy would rather work than stay home, but at some point, they KNOW. How do you learn about love, if you are put in the care of strangers for 50 hours a week?
My granddaughter, at three, after she was placed in my care following 3 years at a daycare, (her mother is a Dr. of Psychology and works full time) burst into tears one day, so terribly sad and tiny, and asked 'Will I ever se Mrs. x again? I MISS her.' Mrs. x was her 'teacher' (that is the euphemism they use now for babysitters) at the daycare where she and her brother spent most of their days.
Mrs. X had been the one to hold her as an infant, to feed her and be present during her waking hours, 9 to 10 hours a day. Mommy and Daddy would take days off and leave the children at daycare. The children did not have 'personal time off'.
So these unwanted children go from daycare to preschool. They are institutionalized from 4 weeks on. Thrown in with others like themselves, in larger and larger 'educational' facilities, where they are prey for petty dictators (teachers) and a hierarchy that wants to turn them into perfect representations of their perverse ideologies.
I am sick from heartbreak as I look upon this Godless, dystopian landscape consisting of unloved children who’ve been taught to believe that they are gods."
Hearken back to the pair of aforelinked pictures. Almost everyone I know in the world today is pulling even further towards the latter picture, and away from the former. They are pulling in the exact opposite direction from where the world needs to go: towards centralized authority, towards coddled atomization. It's difficult to relate to people who have these instincts.