the sad thing is that the change he discusses has been so thorough that being an industrious person presently yields no real benefit over doing the bare minimum and expecting entitlements.
i have never had a job where i got a raise based on my performance, but only on length of time employed.
now after years of working under this system, i realize that the only thing i get paid for doing is to clock in and clock out.
anything that happens in between is irrelevent to my paycheck.
My parents are married and am currently 21 I still live with them during the university holidays. I defiantly would have preferred if they had divorced at a young age. They regularly have screaming matches at horribly inconsiderate hours and emotionally torture each other as a rule. They also occasionally get physically violent. This has happened since I can remember and life would have been much better for me if they where separated.
My parents are boomers, I am generation x. I was fucked up from divorce, 5 operations by the time I was 18, now I have a drug and alcohol problem, the only way I know to escape the pain. They are uneducated, my father didn't even have high school diploma, he had a govt job for 75k a year, pension, 401k, full medical, lifetime job no layoffs. There is nothing left now, no jobs, no pensions, no medical care, only shit home depot jobs, and I have a college degree, they ruined the PLANET, fuck em
In the future,work will be its own reward(nice work if you can get it,a working pension).
Quite a few of the generation 10 years younger than me that i know(i am 38)have dept of up to 30 and 40 thousand,they spent it on drugs booze and holidays.
I have seen the spoilt generation my age who some were perhaps well off with their baby boomer thatcherist parents who have eaten shit now because they have found out too late where they stand on their own;they were too materialist and haven't saved.
So many holes in this argument.....as someone else already pointed out so wrong on so many levels......the church over the years have never sort a solution to the problem as they are part of the problem...and it’s so blatantly obvious this guy aint had to struggle for anything in his life and has no real concept, true understanding of why and how people in the wealthiest nation on the planet are living, another do-gooder who believes handing out hot soup is being charitable.
@whizzles1-Why is he all those 'things'?And have you even listened to Rush? They have ZERO in common(except that they're both male of course),also apostrophes are your best friend.
The contours of the religious edifice have been modified or "parts fell off". I think we're underestimating the massive wealth and power residing there, I 100% disagree with a "falling away" argument. However, the imagining that it has, has DEFINITELY been taken advantage of by the power-structures that be, whether secular or non...
If you want to ensure that the poor kill the rich, take away their very means of survival, a revolution will come knocking on your door and the air is ripe for one.
"Feel good fuck the future philosophy" really bad philosophy I agree
Now here's the problem. You use legitimate criticism of a legitimately bad philosophy to draw a non sequitur conclusion which advocates social darwinism, and look I know you're a narcissistic sociopath with no empathy who doesn't value human life, and as a sociopath I can respect that, but I'm gonna get old and I would sooner kill you and drink your blood than starve to death in the streets.
@rahulk552008 Oh no I understand the philosophy of Voluntarism pretty well and I also understand the lie Capitalism has perverted it into, Ayn Rand was a social darwinist sociopathic narcissist, a lot like steph, not sure what immaculate wisdom you expect me to find from a narcissist prone to irrational caricatures and crude black and whit thinking.
I dislike the Boomers, I think they need to do us a favor and die leaving their Medicare and Medicaid entitlements behind. Worst generation up to date , the only generation who doesn't think about the future but the "What benefits can I get" now.
These are the words of a narcissist who thinks he's entitled to everything because he has it, and that everyone who's unfortunate or disabled deserves to starve, essentially.
Pro-Tip: There's a net stimulus effect for every dollar spent on SSI, most people live paycheck to paycheck, we aren't all rich like this egomaniac who looks down his nose at everyone who isn't as fortunate as parasites, but we're spending 59% of our budget on the military, and the 1% are all about MEism.
if the state is socialist and says it takes care of the pour and disadvantaged, i think this causes people to care less for others even in their direct community, this causes this mentality, so i thought, but i think u got things head on
same story everywhere in Denmark , they have a taxstop on houses, early retirement..The gov have reformed those laws, so they only included the boomers. They hold the democrachy ina irongrip. And the gov parties do their every biding
Who is this asshole? Is he the generation X version of Rush Limbaugh? Stupid bald headed prick should go get a job and stop complaining about other people. Maybe he should get a tattoo of some hair on that bald head. The baby boomers saved this fool from the draft. I'll bet they are sorry they did that.
@jarvy251 Oh wait, he's a rich Canadian? lol, self pwnt on the military statement.
Ohey @Stefbot I know you worship at the alter of Ayn Rand Social Darwinism and Capitalism, but have you noticed how health Cooperative and Syndicalist societies are? Not statist societies, not that old strawman of State "Socialism" or State "Communism" but like Mondragon in Spain, or what's happening in Argentina?
Our society fails to impart ethics based on reason and real world consequences tho, you got that.
@Laughingblades As long as it's voluntary, no an-cap takes issue of it. If you manage to make a social cooperative in which everyone agrees to share the resources, that's perfectly compatible with anarcho capitalism.
We're only opposed to people initiating coercion/ fraud.
@rahulk552008 Choices forced by desperation are not voluntary choices, nature imposes requirements on existence, meeting those requirements isn't optional.
@rahulk552008 Choices forced by desperation are not voluntary choices, nature imposes requirements on existence, meeting those requirements isn't optional, the alternative to fulfilling them is suffering and death, and there are those who prey upon the desperate to profit from their misery.
Slavery is compatible with Anarcho Capitalism, but it isn't compatible with justice or freedom, and when it is by choice the choice is often forced by necessity. You make excuses for predators.
i still cannot get beyond my parent's myopic bias of why i have not done better than them, i guess being surrounded by low-hanging fruit if not a full plate upon waking up lends to a narrow perspective on reality. note this is simplified (overly), it just saddens me because this is the rift between myself and my parents, economic prosperity as a precursor for 'love' and respect
Fact: 77% of the nations wealth is in the baby boomers hands.
I feel bad for McDonald's workers making minimum wage having to pay 15% of there income to medicare and SS that THERE NEVER GOING TO SEE IN THERE LIFE!!!
You were taught about debt by who? A boomer parent? You don't think the boomers were told the same things as you? How does shitting on the boomers help anything? Gag, I thought you had a better mind than this Stefan. Better to stick to educating people in proper ethical thinking as you do very well. Blaming a generation, not very novel, it's been done throughout man's history. It solves nothing and only creates bad vibes.
The boomers are just now retiring, and it looks as though they won't be getting much social security and medicare since these programs are not going to be continued. So the prior generation were the beneficiaries, that the boomers paid for. So all your statistics about how boomers are going to cash in on all these "unearned" benefits are bullshit.
Sorry, boomers rise of power in the 70's? No, the prior generation was in power. Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, Bush, these guys were NOT boomers. This shit started long before the boomers. Clinton was the 1st boomer president. Up until hearing this diatribe, I've admired your rationality. But I find a great deal of hypocritical ranting here. You fault boomers for lack of altruism. Society is a continuum, I find it strange that you of all people decide to find your scapegoat "generalization" boomers..
@equityboost2 who cares if a few men weren't boomers.. they supported the boomers and each of them spent more money and increased the state. When was the voting age lowered to 18? Ah right.. think.
The Boomers are passing on a generation of trust funds, mutual fund money, and many other goodies that has caused their children to see money as meaningless to being authentically human. SO, their children choose to be creative and innovative in a new technological world. They want to create meaningful connections between people, and it's not about money anymore, it's a generation with a drive to be passionate and creative.They're collaborative by creating startups and being entrepreneurial.
The guy in the video is right. Worse yet, boomers then projected these shortcomings onto their own children (gen x, y) who themselves grew up in an environment without many opportunities and were forced into temp slavery, all the while being reprimanded by their lazy entitled parents for being lazy and entitled lmfao
@hep48 Oh wow, i commented after hearing the first 10 minutes, and then at about 23:00 he actually speaks to the projected double standards and hypocrisy...
(cont'd from previous) And now we're being taken to task because our savings rate has dropped? When we turn over 12% of our income to a compulsory government-sponsored pension program? And then castigated as being greedy because we believe we should receive the benefit that is the whole point of that program? And which we paid into for decades? Hey, dude. That was our savings!
Sorry Stephan, but your usual clear-sightedness seems to have deserted you in this case.
@kxwilson9 First he is not glorifying anyone, second THERE IS NO SAVINGS, its a ponzi scheme and in order for it to stop a generation is going to have to lose, and sincee YOUR generation voted this in it should be you.
OK, so let me get this straight: We boomers are now, and have been, kicking about 12.4% of our income into Social Security and another 3% or so into Medicare -- income that would have otherwise perhaps gone into savings, at least in part. Meanwhile, the generation you so glorify never kicked in more than about 9% and for most of their working years never more than about 6%! How is it that diverting 12.4% of our income into Social Security should have no impact on our savings rate?
12,4 % means you could not save this 12,4 %, you got screwed, you been a fool, you believed the state, now you just got to live with it, instead of whining.
American Maritime Officers - probably the largest Union of maritime officers in the USA - their pension fund went bust when the market collapsed in 2008 - 09. They had to get rid of their defined benefit plan and replace it with a defined contribution plan.
To everyone reading that is 50 or younger: you are on your own. No one is looking out for you. Every man for himself, buddy. Good luck and God bless.
I think the problem is the generations that came after the baby especailly in my generation (80's Baby) and the generation after me is that over time what people value has changed back then people valued a person work hard and save his or her money. Now people want right now and over night they value people like kim kardashin and brittney spears and there stupidy. In the age of celebrity culture everybody in some way shape or from want to be and live like the rich people
Stef your angered is filled with passive aggressiveness. You put total blame of socialism at the foot of baby boomers. You did say you were a history major, but what history did you major in ???
Did it skip the immigration of the 1840-50's US immigration of failed European socialist revolutions eventually creating the radical republicans ? We know what that led to.
Perhaps you missed the 1880-1920 immigration of another set of failed social revolutionists ?
Wow... utter propaganda. OH NOES SOCIALISM!! Why is it that the French healthcare system was rated number 1 by the world health organization? over the us "Free market system"... seems socialism is works. bullshit
I remember reading that divorce went up because the people had more freedom and were economically better off. Why would you want these people trapped in relationships they don't like...
@TheEthanwashere no it wasn't It was abunch of drugged out morons who made some very smart people RICH at woodstock. THE WHOLE 60's COUNTERCULTURE MOVEMENT WAS A JOKE DISTRACTION
WE ALL KNOW ABOUT MORALS! the europeans and spanish showed us natives how to live with morals,they gave us turkey's and warm blankets.when are women was cold they would go into the tents to keep are women warm even if they did not want them to,they gave us a piece of land CLAIMD BY GOD...and they also took all of the gold out of the black hills for us so we natives would never become evil and greedy YUP WE ALL KNOW ABOUT MORALS!
To claim that the welfare state grew out of an absence of principles is an outstandingly disingenuous misrepresentation. I appreciate that this ramble is not intended to be a logically rigorous argument but, frankly, you lost me RIGHT there.
Growing up in a city of upper middle class boomers, (100k - 200k / yr), they almost universally worship the state, as religion, and out of selfishness. The state gives them an excuse not to care about anything but themselves, as their taxes pay for the state, and the state is supposed to take care of all the peripheral problems. The greatest generation had a thrifty consumer society of necessities, boomers were able to splurge on discretionary, hedonistic self directed consumption.
We need to start pin pointing the root cause of the problem and the ones causing it, instead of talking in abstract. Baby boomers is just like saying the white people cause all the problems. Ask people how many would steal directly from a video store and then ask how many would download a movie or a mp3 from the internet. In abstract forms much like defecit
@stefbot You once said "there are no opinions in philosophy". So if "Laziness, Greed, Entitlement - Baby Boomers Defined" isn't a philosophical discussion, is it a sophist discussion? I conclude a discussion is either philosophical, sophist, or the two mixed, i.e., a corrupted discussion. I conclude generation gaps are exaggerated by toxic culture for horizontal enforcement. Philosophy's freed me from wishing harm to artificial groupings. Not so for the many scapegoat hungry commenters here.
sounds to me like Calvnistic values were not so bad eh .... I am not one to propound the message of conformity to "religiosity" for the sake of ritual, rules, and comforting cliquism but it seems that the baby got thrown out with the bathwater
Wow. Normally I skim over the highlights, but this one grabbed me. You've pointed my mind in ways I wasn't expecting--which is odd, considering the dim view I have of the Baby Boomers.
Hi my parents separating could not possibly have been worse than having to witness them fighting like cat and dog every single day of my life as though it were normal. But they stayed together out of 'principle' I still wish they'd gone separate ways when I was old enough to understand, then maybe they'd be happy now...
You're too late, Steph. The problems did not originate with the Boomers. They were merely the generation that happened to live at the top of the orgy, just before things went into the crapper. They didn't start the fire though. You should give the Austrians more credence. The damage is done during the boom; the bust is merely the correction. The Boomers do feel entitled but who told them that they were originally? Indict the Twentieth Century, the generations that preceded the Boomers.
The only way your ideas would ever work practically is if everyone believed in the same mindset. Which is impossible down to pure statistics; 7 billion+ people on this planet, all mass-educated to conform to this globalised, corrupt system. How could you ever expect anyone, but their leaders, to make any significant change / impact on the people and their beliefs?
Best video you have ever done Stephen. I have such an immense hatred for babyboomers. I hope they reap what they have sown, and the entire world market collapses so they're suffering from starvation and struggling to survive in the world they have created for themselves. Younger people can endure and learn, these old selfish fucks cannot.
What's profound about this is the realisation that the growth in all the things that boomers like to credit themselves for, the welfare state, "human rights" legislation etc is the result not of principle but lack of principle.
I read the book the greatest generation by Tom Brokaw and after reading it I began to think about the boomers and can't understand how the greatest produced the worst. I therefore have come to the conclusion that the "greatest generation" was not the greatest.
and U "fans" of this useless "philosopher" obsessed with meaningless/abstract "big words" that offers absolutely ZERO solutions wonder why someone like Peter Joseph of the Zeitgeist Movement was able to utterly destroy Stef's "critique" of Zeitgeist.
Stef... is an out-dated supporter of the "free market" and rugged individualism. No debate about this.
@HeyItzMeDawg yah yah yah armchair philosopher! go read some Ayn Rand and contunie along with your Ayn Rand defined rugged individualism ok? Till then... it's clear to anyone with a practical — rather than faggy philosophical mind obsessed with "big words" that Stef and has loving fans are useful albeit "intelligent" fools!
@EricBochene Armchair philosopher as opposed to what? Where better to love thought/wisdom than a comfortable chair with the boundless knowledge pool of the internet before you? I find that "armchair" insult to be funny. "Faggy" words? such as "albeit"? Sounds pretty sophisticated, which you interpret to be faggy, which is like saying "gayish". Are you in the closet?
@HeyItzMeDawg I couldn't disagree more. The latest film actually has the most credibility in terms of evidence and scientific-based arguments (using Sapolski and arguments from Neuroscience, genetics, criminology, etc). It genuinely is the more credible of the 3, so your statement is absolutely wrong.
@EricBochene You don't particularly help much talking about Peter Joseph, because you come across as an irrational ass hole and Peter Joseph is anything but. You even managed to get a guy thumbed up for saying he lost the movement credibility with his latest film, when in fact it is objectively the most credible. I am a supporter of the ideas, and look you introduced yourself to me be being a complete fuck wit to me.
@EricBochene While I will always defend your right to believe in fairy tales, I did find these two sentences particularly funny because of the hypocrisy displayed in them:
"Stef goes WAAAAAY outta his way to sound "smart" and there's NO debate to be had about it!"
"Stef... is an out-dated supporter of the "free market" and rugged individualism. No debate about this."
Why is organized religion good? What does secularism have to do with being spoiled or greedy? Religion can be replaced with secular humanism. I do agree with you that mysticism is not the correct path to go. You should look into which religious groups have the highest divorce rate. What we need to go back to is the Clinton tax rates. He balanced the budget while providing care to people that need help.
PERFECT example of how Stef and the rest of you Ayn Rand worshiping usefull TOOLS just does NOT get it. And again... exactly my point of... While Stef is clearly an intelligent thoughtful individual... he and his followers are useless/abstract/no solution providing armchair wannabe intellectuals/philosophers. check oy Peter Joseph's MUCH BETTER speech patterns and Stefs! NOT to mention USEFULNESS and solutions!
You're a strange one Stefan, at some times capable of acute level headed analysis like this then at others, veering off into utopian fantasies worthy of the baby boomers themselves.
Born into relative peace? How is being born into a violently abusive narcissistic family "relative peace"? You've said many times before that children are born into a war zone (the brain scans mirror that). There is no peace in this.
Also, why are you now using words like "lazy" and "greedy"? Lazy might as well be replaced with "depressed", and "greedy" might as well be replaced with "addicted". It's all the effects of child abuse. You make it seem like these were chosen traits.
@freshlivn There is only one truth. Humans are created with free will and taking away others free will is evil. The primary right that all rights stem from is the Right to Choose. What is wrong is when some takes away your Right to Choose. The proper role of government is to take away peoples Right to Choose when they take some elses Right to Choose. It makes finding what is good or evil easy.
There are assholes or "the privileged" in every generation. I know a few "petty" and "greedy" baby boomers, but luckily I'm not related to them, but most are good and decent people.
The boomers were not or are not allowed to opt out of these programs. Just imagine slaves back in the day being blamed for taking the food or shelter provided by their slave masters as the cause of their enslavement. We are nothing more then free range modern day slaves. I would love to opt out of all programs and be in charge of my own decisions and destiny and i am currently working towards that, just like slaves back in the day wanted to be free.
With respect, I think you're flat out mistaken on your understanding of mysticism. It seems more to me like you're describing some kind of narcissistic hedonism, and indeed the 'good' ideas of religion that you list are in fact derived from mystical ideals. Mystical experience is the basis of religion, while religion itself is the stagnation and putrefaction of the mystical world view.
Enslavement is a process of making it dependent upon you for everything...
This enslavement is done by helpers, your schoolteacher, your politicians, your parents, your peers who all like to feel normal and there for work tirelessly to win souls over to the biggest group - the group they perceive and accept as normal.
People have been played for thousands of years and its' science that only a few can escape from. Why is abuse so popular? Because it's easy, even the stupid can do it!
Hi Stefan, Not to deny people their personal responsibility, I think you fail to mention that 'the people' have always been scared into following another misleader, towards the next pasture of towards the next slaughterhouse.
You know how much effort has been done to hamper the development of any individual mental abilities. Calves are separated from their mom cow very early to make for easy hurt control. It's the same with humans. Would you blaim a adult size child for following a misleader?
Okay I'm playing Socrates. "Laziness, Greed, Entitlement - Baby Boomer's Defined" -- isn't this sophist collectivism that definesl the details of an individual by birth date? Don't those three characteristics apply to all human generations that have ever existed, all having the same basic DNA, with the only difference being the boomers' entitlement opportunities? Isn't the boomer generation no more than being in the right place at the right time to benefit from the oligarchs' pyramid schemes?
The thing that you are missing is my generation the "boomers" were educated by a generation of left leaning socialists that moved in to the media, education and government while our fathers were fighting the socialists of Europe and Asia. We as a group had little other than to reacte to what we had learned through that lense. Luckily some of us still were able to think our way through the blinders of the media and educational propaganda. Unluckily it seems to have done little good.
If you thought your wife was potentially a cheating whore then you should have signed a pre-nuptual agreement OR you should have hired a PI to collect evidence on her before hand. If she left you because you were an abusive dick, then you deserve it and should fuck off. Best of luck for the future otherwise!
I notice you don't see the analogy when talking about private sector, bet here, when you describe baby boomer generation, you use the phrase "It's not the supply, that you need to look at, it's the demand". Meaning, in this example, people are guilty of exploiting their government and receiving all of those benefits, but when big corporations does the exact thing, you somehow blame it all on the government, adding that corporations just play the game by the rules that government sets. How so ?
Stef, you need to start eating a more natural diet which includes eating healthy meats. Tom Woods, Lew Rockwell, and Jack Hunter are all on the perfect natural human diet now, you should be too.
(continued from previous post) ...were conformists. If only us nonconformists had the Internet we could’ve gotten facts. We had a few books like Henry David Thoreau, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Mark Twain. Smedley Butler had written War is a Racket only 35 years earlier, but it was too relevant to each war since then to be put in libraries. We had some so-called “underground newspapers”, but they espoused violence so much that they must’ve been false flag ops." I've "fought the power" to my best.
(continued from previous post) "...that our sometimes violent family upbringings and so-called “educations” had mostly been propaganda and empty filler meant to mass produce workers, soldiers, and consumers who couldn’t, or at least wouldn’t, think for themselves The Establishment wanted robots, not creative or independent thinkers. We hippies and wanna-be hippies represented about a third of our generation. Another third hated us for being nonconformists, and the others... (continued next post)
@petewalker274 Wow some true stuff there... I don't get it why do you agree? A social democracy would've fixed a whole lot of problems but you're probably some libertarian. look up "crisis of democracy"
@TheEthanwashere I wrote several comments, so what precisely am I agreeing with? I'm more of a philosopher than a libertarian because I base conclusions on logic and empirical evidence, and am happy to be told of any logical errors or new evidence. I searched "crisis of democracy" and there's a lot of results. Please be more specific.
I'm a 1952 model and agree with much of the video. My concern is post-boomer polititions dividing and conquering, using boomers the way Hitler used minorities. I've seen public education dumb me down, double that process for my 40 year old son, and double that for my 19 year old son, who has no clue what "broad brush" means. I've been undumbing myself. From my journal about my 18th year: "We knew in our hearts... (continued in next post)
What's the difference between retirees getting more than they paid in and shareholders getting more than they invested? I don't know how it is in North America but where I'm from, pension payments are usually invested in the markets.
@madhillick To me the difference is coercion vs. voluntaryism; i.e., government "benefits" are based on force where shareholding is a voluntary action. Shareholders make investments, government accomplices participate in pyramid schemes forced on people.
...And when the private pyramids get big enough to influence politicians, they magically become too big to fail and they magically acquire the "protection" of the tax-payer.
@petewalker274 - "Coercion." You have this huge blind spot in your field of view, though. "Coercion" is "anything but telling you you have to accept death by starvation, exposure or disease unless you do what we tell you to. Threats of death by starvation, exposure or disease is no coercion." How you can believe those two things simultaneously is beyond me.
"Personal Property Rights" is not even a viable "non-government" system. Stop being greedy and think.
@LeksServices If I knew the sources you're quoting from I could respond better; seems like misquoting and taking things out of context. Where did I say any of that about coercion, property, or greed? Old powerful people threatening vulnerable minors is coercion. "Personal property rights" isn't a system. Greed is like sex drive: Inborn, unique, & skewed by toxic culture. Both are okay in the natural state except the very rare freaks of nature.
@petewalker274 That's not really relevant. I was referring to Stef saying that pensioners are at fault for receiving more than they've paid in. The reason for this is that pension contributions are usually invested in the markets and some of the profits from this are then used to pay the pension recipients. In this case, the pensioners are merely investors receiving their dividends.
@petewalker274 Well we've already established that you didn't get my original point and now accept it. The sentence that's unclear is the one in which you say you're not sure how YouTube conversations work.
@madhillick I'm new at YouTube comments/replies so I just gotta pay closer attention to which reply goes with which comment. This last time I replied to my email notification of a reply and assumed it went with my most recent comment.
Excellent video, as usual. What worries me about the baby boomers and the 60's generation is that they abandoned moral absolutism of religion, replacing it with moral relativism and, as you ppointed out Stef, mysticism. Look at the popularity of Postmodernism, feminist theory, and even existentialism and it is clear as day that it has contributed to the erosion of society. There needs to be a cutlural revolution to roll back this mindset, and I would like to think that it has already begun.
Politicians are only able to sell bullshit to people who will buy bullshit. I think you're onto something. America is full of shitheads. The masses of idiots who have bred exponentially, are brainwashed by and give their stamp of approval to the corrupt policies of the elite, even as it harms them. I don't care if they go into debt and give up their freedom, the problem is that I'm stuck in the pen with them.
I always respected the Boomers questioning the status quo and challenging the man. Of course, once they became the man, my opinion changed. They had a chance to repeal many, if not all, of the horrible policies set on upon us by the generation previous to them. They could have ended the welfare/warfare state, and the horribly uncivilized failed War on (some) Drugs. Instead we have the Patriot Act, TSA, an unsustainable debt, and a newly minted National Defense Authorization Act. Thanks guys.
The is the second atheist I have viewed today that is tipping his hat respectfully to religion. Thank you!
steve0281 8 hours ago
the sad thing is that the change he discusses has been so thorough that being an industrious person presently yields no real benefit over doing the bare minimum and expecting entitlements.
i have never had a job where i got a raise based on my performance, but only on length of time employed.
now after years of working under this system, i realize that the only thing i get paid for doing is to clock in and clock out.
anything that happens in between is irrelevent to my paycheck.
SUPERSTUD6000 2 days ago
why blame secularism?
ZombiBuddy 5 days ago
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ZombiBuddy 5 days ago
My parents are married and am currently 21 I still live with them during the university holidays. I defiantly would have preferred if they had divorced at a young age. They regularly have screaming matches at horribly inconsiderate hours and emotionally torture each other as a rule. They also occasionally get physically violent. This has happened since I can remember and life would have been much better for me if they where separated.
antonyneal 6 days ago
You've helped me realized that not all anarchists / libertarians hate Kant. I had it wrong in globalizing Rand for each libertarian.
PObserver 6 days ago
The boomers blew it.
trick29420 6 days ago
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oneblueorange 1 week ago
...the zombie apocalypse approacheth.
wind0wninja 1 week ago
My parents are boomers, I am generation x. I was fucked up from divorce, 5 operations by the time I was 18, now I have a drug and alcohol problem, the only way I know to escape the pain. They are uneducated, my father didn't even have high school diploma, he had a govt job for 75k a year, pension, 401k, full medical, lifetime job no layoffs. There is nothing left now, no jobs, no pensions, no medical care, only shit home depot jobs, and I have a college degree, they ruined the PLANET, fuck em
chuck3377 1 week ago
How man times have you heard Stefan say "um" when he speaks? #Excellent speaker
Angel22V 1 week ago 4
In the future,work will be its own reward(nice work if you can get it,a working pension).
Quite a few of the generation 10 years younger than me that i know(i am 38)have dept of up to 30 and 40 thousand,they spent it on drugs booze and holidays.
I have seen the spoilt generation my age who some were perhaps well off with their baby boomer thatcherist parents who have eaten shit now because they have found out too late where they stand on their own;they were too materialist and haven't saved.
PERFECTARYANBASTARD 1 week ago
This was an excellent video ......needs more exposure
Zac6230 1 week ago
this man talks some sense
poligon333 1 week ago
Allot of them won't be retiring like non in my family or their friends
Zac6230 1 week ago
So many holes in this argument.....as someone else already pointed out so wrong on so many levels......the church over the years have never sort a solution to the problem as they are part of the problem...and it’s so blatantly obvious this guy aint had to struggle for anything in his life and has no real concept, true understanding of why and how people in the wealthiest nation on the planet are living, another do-gooder who believes handing out hot soup is being charitable.
catspawo6 1 week ago
@whizzles1-Why is he all those 'things'?And have you even listened to Rush? They have ZERO in common(except that they're both male of course),also apostrophes are your best friend.
mariomash808 1 week ago
@kittencartman,why?
mariomash808 1 week ago
The contours of the religious edifice have been modified or "parts fell off". I think we're underestimating the massive wealth and power residing there, I 100% disagree with a "falling away" argument. However, the imagining that it has, has DEFINITELY been taken advantage of by the power-structures that be, whether secular or non...
waterspindle 2 weeks ago
This is so wrong...on so many levels.
kittencartman 2 weeks ago
You make a great argument for philosophical religion, yet you seem not to be able to see it.
rctube1958 3 weeks ago
If you want to ensure that the poor kill the rich, take away their very means of survival, a revolution will come knocking on your door and the air is ripe for one.
Laughingblades 3 weeks ago
"Feel good fuck the future philosophy" really bad philosophy I agree
Now here's the problem. You use legitimate criticism of a legitimately bad philosophy to draw a non sequitur conclusion which advocates social darwinism, and look I know you're a narcissistic sociopath with no empathy who doesn't value human life, and as a sociopath I can respect that, but I'm gonna get old and I would sooner kill you and drink your blood than starve to death in the streets.
Just sayin'
Laughingblades 3 weeks ago
@Laughingblades This demonstrates a pretty poor understanding of Volutnaryism. You haven't actually read any Ayn Rand or Austrian economics have you?
rahulk552008 2 weeks ago
@rahulk552008 Oh no I understand the philosophy of Voluntarism pretty well and I also understand the lie Capitalism has perverted it into, Ayn Rand was a social darwinist sociopathic narcissist, a lot like steph, not sure what immaculate wisdom you expect me to find from a narcissist prone to irrational caricatures and crude black and whit thinking.
Laughingblades 2 weeks ago
I dislike the Boomers, I think they need to do us a favor and die leaving their Medicare and Medicaid entitlements behind. Worst generation up to date , the only generation who doesn't think about the future but the "What benefits can I get" now.
brittanyverjes1 3 weeks ago
These are the words of a narcissist who thinks he's entitled to everything because he has it, and that everyone who's unfortunate or disabled deserves to starve, essentially.
Pro-Tip: There's a net stimulus effect for every dollar spent on SSI, most people live paycheck to paycheck, we aren't all rich like this egomaniac who looks down his nose at everyone who isn't as fortunate as parasites, but we're spending 59% of our budget on the military, and the 1% are all about MEism.
Laughingblades 3 weeks ago
if the state is socialist and says it takes care of the pour and disadvantaged, i think this causes people to care less for others even in their direct community, this causes this mentality, so i thought, but i think u got things head on
MGsven 3 weeks ago
"feel good-Fu*k the Future" The slogan of the boomers
rsoarch7 4 weeks ago
great vid.
same story everywhere in Denmark , they have a taxstop on houses, early retirement..The gov have reformed those laws, so they only included the boomers. They hold the democrachy ina irongrip. And the gov parties do their every biding
najbjergpoulsen 1 month ago
Who is this asshole? Is he the generation X version of Rush Limbaugh? Stupid bald headed prick should go get a job and stop complaining about other people. Maybe he should get a tattoo of some hair on that bald head. The baby boomers saved this fool from the draft. I'll bet they are sorry they did that.
whizzles1 1 month ago
@whizzles1 <---- Bet you're a baby boomer prick.
TheMammalian 4 weeks ago
@whizzles1
He's Canadian, Canada never had a draft to begin with.
jarvy251 3 weeks ago
@jarvy251 Oh wait, he's a rich Canadian? lol, self pwnt on the military statement.
Ohey @Stefbot I know you worship at the alter of Ayn Rand Social Darwinism and Capitalism, but have you noticed how health Cooperative and Syndicalist societies are? Not statist societies, not that old strawman of State "Socialism" or State "Communism" but like Mondragon in Spain, or what's happening in Argentina?
Our society fails to impart ethics based on reason and real world consequences tho, you got that.
Laughingblades 3 weeks ago
@Laughingblades As long as it's voluntary, no an-cap takes issue of it. If you manage to make a social cooperative in which everyone agrees to share the resources, that's perfectly compatible with anarcho capitalism.
We're only opposed to people initiating coercion/ fraud.
rahulk552008 2 weeks ago
@rahulk552008 Choices forced by desperation are not voluntary choices, nature imposes requirements on existence, meeting those requirements isn't optional.
Laughingblades 2 weeks ago
@rahulk552008 Choices forced by desperation are not voluntary choices, nature imposes requirements on existence, meeting those requirements isn't optional, the alternative to fulfilling them is suffering and death, and there are those who prey upon the desperate to profit from their misery.
Slavery is compatible with Anarcho Capitalism, but it isn't compatible with justice or freedom, and when it is by choice the choice is often forced by necessity. You make excuses for predators.
Laughingblades 2 weeks ago
i still cannot get beyond my parent's myopic bias of why i have not done better than them, i guess being surrounded by low-hanging fruit if not a full plate upon waking up lends to a narrow perspective on reality. note this is simplified (overly), it just saddens me because this is the rift between myself and my parents, economic prosperity as a precursor for 'love' and respect
SlingSalsa 1 month ago
Fact: 77% of the nations wealth is in the baby boomers hands.
I feel bad for McDonald's workers making minimum wage having to pay 15% of there income to medicare and SS that THERE NEVER GOING TO SEE IN THERE LIFE!!!
fargonbastedge 1 month ago
You were taught about debt by who? A boomer parent? You don't think the boomers were told the same things as you? How does shitting on the boomers help anything? Gag, I thought you had a better mind than this Stefan. Better to stick to educating people in proper ethical thinking as you do very well. Blaming a generation, not very novel, it's been done throughout man's history. It solves nothing and only creates bad vibes.
equityboost2 1 month ago
@equityboost2 Obviously, critical thinking has failed on you hasn't it?
D34thSetX 4 weeks ago
The boomers are just now retiring, and it looks as though they won't be getting much social security and medicare since these programs are not going to be continued. So the prior generation were the beneficiaries, that the boomers paid for. So all your statistics about how boomers are going to cash in on all these "unearned" benefits are bullshit.
equityboost2 1 month ago
Sorry, boomers rise of power in the 70's? No, the prior generation was in power. Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, Bush, these guys were NOT boomers. This shit started long before the boomers. Clinton was the 1st boomer president. Up until hearing this diatribe, I've admired your rationality. But I find a great deal of hypocritical ranting here. You fault boomers for lack of altruism. Society is a continuum, I find it strange that you of all people decide to find your scapegoat "generalization" boomers..
equityboost2 1 month ago
@equityboost2 who cares if a few men weren't boomers.. they supported the boomers and each of them spent more money and increased the state. When was the voting age lowered to 18? Ah right.. think.
D34thSetX 4 weeks ago
The Boomers ..are not responsible for the problem of falling profitability of capitalism ...
holographicsentience 1 month ago
@holographicsentience
They're voters, they are like all in power full responsible, for the failing statism.
kennjohnsen 1 month ago
The Boomers are passing on a generation of trust funds, mutual fund money, and many other goodies that has caused their children to see money as meaningless to being authentically human. SO, their children choose to be creative and innovative in a new technological world. They want to create meaningful connections between people, and it's not about money anymore, it's a generation with a drive to be passionate and creative.They're collaborative by creating startups and being entrepreneurial.
TheChertron 1 month ago
The guy in the video is right. Worse yet, boomers then projected these shortcomings onto their own children (gen x, y) who themselves grew up in an environment without many opportunities and were forced into temp slavery, all the while being reprimanded by their lazy entitled parents for being lazy and entitled lmfao
hep48 1 month ago 23
@hep48 Oh wow, i commented after hearing the first 10 minutes, and then at about 23:00 he actually speaks to the projected double standards and hypocrisy...
hep48 1 month ago
awesome!!!!!
kdwjunior33 1 month ago
A very elaborate way of saying "the fault is of those damn hippies"
rodrigodet 1 month ago
What a tremendous cunt Pierre Trudeau was.
randomActOfBlindness 1 month ago
(cont'd from previous) And now we're being taken to task because our savings rate has dropped? When we turn over 12% of our income to a compulsory government-sponsored pension program? And then castigated as being greedy because we believe we should receive the benefit that is the whole point of that program? And which we paid into for decades? Hey, dude. That was our savings!
Sorry Stephan, but your usual clear-sightedness seems to have deserted you in this case.
kxwilson9 2 months ago
@kxwilson9 First he is not glorifying anyone, second THERE IS NO SAVINGS, its a ponzi scheme and in order for it to stop a generation is going to have to lose, and sincee YOUR generation voted this in it should be you.
rodrigodet 1 month ago
OK, so let me get this straight: We boomers are now, and have been, kicking about 12.4% of our income into Social Security and another 3% or so into Medicare -- income that would have otherwise perhaps gone into savings, at least in part. Meanwhile, the generation you so glorify never kicked in more than about 9% and for most of their working years never more than about 6%! How is it that diverting 12.4% of our income into Social Security should have no impact on our savings rate?
kxwilson9 2 months ago
@kxwilson9
12,4 % means you could not save this 12,4 %, you got screwed, you been a fool, you believed the state, now you just got to live with it, instead of whining.
kennjohnsen 1 month ago
American Maritime Officers - probably the largest Union of maritime officers in the USA - their pension fund went bust when the market collapsed in 2008 - 09. They had to get rid of their defined benefit plan and replace it with a defined contribution plan.
To everyone reading that is 50 or younger: you are on your own. No one is looking out for you. Every man for himself, buddy. Good luck and God bless.
shmiggen 2 months ago
I think the problem is the generations that came after the baby especailly in my generation (80's Baby) and the generation after me is that over time what people value has changed back then people valued a person work hard and save his or her money. Now people want right now and over night they value people like kim kardashin and brittney spears and there stupidy. In the age of celebrity culture everybody in some way shape or from want to be and live like the rich people
ghostface1225 2 months ago
Stef your angered is filled with passive aggressiveness. You put total blame of socialism at the foot of baby boomers. You did say you were a history major, but what history did you major in ???
Did it skip the immigration of the 1840-50's US immigration of failed European socialist revolutions eventually creating the radical republicans ? We know what that led to.
Perhaps you missed the 1880-1920 immigration of another set of failed social revolutionists ?
We know what that led to.
northpal1 2 months ago
@atripa645 You mean there weren't any corrupt politicians before the boomers?
petewalker274 2 months ago
Show me a corrupt politician and I'll show you a baby boomer.
atripa645 2 months ago
why the fuck are you so obsessed with social structures? you want to dominate over people. look up crisis of democracy damnit
TheEthanwashere 2 months ago
Wow... utter propaganda. OH NOES SOCIALISM!! Why is it that the French healthcare system was rated number 1 by the world health organization? over the us "Free market system"... seems socialism is works. bullshit
TheEthanwashere 2 months ago
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@TheEthanwashere Maybe that's because the WHO can call what ever the hell the want as the best healthcare system.
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What you fail to mention is LBJ's war...
TheEthanwashere 2 months ago
How is the national debt the fault of the people? Blame the government for spending so much on wars and bullshit supply side economics
TheEthanwashere 2 months ago
Pure lies. My professor was not treated in this easy way you describe...
TheEthanwashere 2 months ago
ah 14 minutes in... got the point. pushing bullshit "pure" capitalism.
TheEthanwashere 2 months ago
I remember reading that divorce went up because the people had more freedom and were economically better off. Why would you want these people trapped in relationships they don't like...
TheEthanwashere 2 months ago
the 60's counterculture was fucking awesome... Why the conservatism?
TheEthanwashere 2 months ago
@TheEthanwashere no it wasn't It was abunch of drugged out morons who made some very smart people RICH at woodstock. THE WHOLE 60's COUNTERCULTURE MOVEMENT WAS A JOKE DISTRACTION
natritious1 1 week ago
There's no such thing as objective rational rules. What the fuck is up with this? calling for rigid social structures?
Socialism would help everyone... Greed is embodied by capitalism...
TheEthanwashere 2 months ago
Praising religion? what the hell? rules? these people need to be suppressed?
what is this the 700 club?
TheEthanwashere 2 months ago
wtf, he speaks like a conservative: secularism?
TheEthanwashere 2 months ago
@TheEthanwashere he is a conservative.
xtrafranky 2 months ago
WHO DO YOU BLAME THE CRACK HEAD OR THE DEALER?THE CHICKEN OR THE EGG?
mstrephoenix1 2 months ago
WE ALL KNOW ABOUT MORALS! the europeans and spanish showed us natives how to live with morals,they gave us turkey's and warm blankets.when are women was cold they would go into the tents to keep are women warm even if they did not want them to,they gave us a piece of land CLAIMD BY GOD...and they also took all of the gold out of the black hills for us so we natives would never become evil and greedy YUP WE ALL KNOW ABOUT MORALS!
mstrephoenix1 2 months ago
To claim that the welfare state grew out of an absence of principles is an outstandingly disingenuous misrepresentation. I appreciate that this ramble is not intended to be a logically rigorous argument but, frankly, you lost me RIGHT there.
Pettsvaldo 2 months ago
Growing up in a city of upper middle class boomers, (100k - 200k / yr), they almost universally worship the state, as religion, and out of selfishness. The state gives them an excuse not to care about anything but themselves, as their taxes pay for the state, and the state is supposed to take care of all the peripheral problems. The greatest generation had a thrifty consumer society of necessities, boomers were able to splurge on discretionary, hedonistic self directed consumption.
winterrosscharlton 2 months ago 12
We need to start pin pointing the root cause of the problem and the ones causing it, instead of talking in abstract. Baby boomers is just like saying the white people cause all the problems. Ask people how many would steal directly from a video store and then ask how many would download a movie or a mp3 from the internet. In abstract forms much like defecit
VedRunFit 2 months ago
@stefbot You once said "there are no opinions in philosophy". So if "Laziness, Greed, Entitlement - Baby Boomers Defined" isn't a philosophical discussion, is it a sophist discussion? I conclude a discussion is either philosophical, sophist, or the two mixed, i.e., a corrupted discussion. I conclude generation gaps are exaggerated by toxic culture for horizontal enforcement. Philosophy's freed me from wishing harm to artificial groupings. Not so for the many scapegoat hungry commenters here.
petewalker274 2 months ago
sounds to me like Calvnistic values were not so bad eh .... I am not one to propound the message of conformity to "religiosity" for the sake of ritual, rules, and comforting cliquism but it seems that the baby got thrown out with the bathwater
goo2u 2 months ago
Wow. Normally I skim over the highlights, but this one grabbed me. You've pointed my mind in ways I wasn't expecting--which is odd, considering the dim view I have of the Baby Boomers.
lordshell 2 months ago
Hi my parents separating could not possibly have been worse than having to witness them fighting like cat and dog every single day of my life as though it were normal. But they stayed together out of 'principle' I still wish they'd gone separate ways when I was old enough to understand, then maybe they'd be happy now...
IllichSketchShow 2 months ago
You're too late, Steph. The problems did not originate with the Boomers. They were merely the generation that happened to live at the top of the orgy, just before things went into the crapper. They didn't start the fire though. You should give the Austrians more credence. The damage is done during the boom; the bust is merely the correction. The Boomers do feel entitled but who told them that they were originally? Indict the Twentieth Century, the generations that preceded the Boomers.
deepfriedsammich 2 months ago
If there was anything good done by the baby-bloomers, it was systematic ignoration of a religion.
SvrchovaneCechy 2 months ago
Agreed about the dumping of the God of Abraham. The Boomers chased materialism since they never chased any other purpose.
davejoe75 2 months ago
The only way your ideas would ever work practically is if everyone believed in the same mindset. Which is impossible down to pure statistics; 7 billion+ people on this planet, all mass-educated to conform to this globalised, corrupt system. How could you ever expect anyone, but their leaders, to make any significant change / impact on the people and their beliefs?
boobmikesmith 2 months ago
Best video you have ever done Stephen. I have such an immense hatred for babyboomers. I hope they reap what they have sown, and the entire world market collapses so they're suffering from starvation and struggling to survive in the world they have created for themselves. Younger people can endure and learn, these old selfish fucks cannot.
Grutch 2 months ago
What's profound about this is the realisation that the growth in all the things that boomers like to credit themselves for, the welfare state, "human rights" legislation etc is the result not of principle but lack of principle.
cheesehoven 2 months ago
I read the book the greatest generation by Tom Brokaw and after reading it I began to think about the boomers and can't understand how the greatest produced the worst. I therefore have come to the conclusion that the "greatest generation" was not the greatest.
pck27880 2 months ago
What the hell? How does religion fight against greed?
Religion IS greed.
bary1234 2 months ago
@bary1234 How so?
TallDarkCoffee 2 months ago
@TallDarkCoffee "Obey me, I speak the words of god."
Thats just a man, hungry for power.
Tithing is another good sick example.
bary1234 2 months ago
and U "fans" of this useless "philosopher" obsessed with meaningless/abstract "big words" that offers absolutely ZERO solutions wonder why someone like Peter Joseph of the Zeitgeist Movement was able to utterly destroy Stef's "critique" of Zeitgeist.
Stef... is an out-dated supporter of the "free market" and rugged individualism. No debate about this.
EricBochene 2 months ago
@EricBochene The only thing Peter Joseph destroyed was his movements credibility, especially with their latest film...
HeyItzMeDawg 2 months ago
@HeyItzMeDawg yah yah yah armchair philosopher! go read some Ayn Rand and contunie along with your Ayn Rand defined rugged individualism ok? Till then... it's clear to anyone with a practical — rather than faggy philosophical mind obsessed with "big words" that Stef and has loving fans are useful albeit "intelligent" fools!
EricBochene 2 months ago
@EricBochene Armchair philosopher as opposed to what? Where better to love thought/wisdom than a comfortable chair with the boundless knowledge pool of the internet before you? I find that "armchair" insult to be funny. "Faggy" words? such as "albeit"? Sounds pretty sophisticated, which you interpret to be faggy, which is like saying "gayish". Are you in the closet?
xxxxAXIxxxx 2 months ago
@EricBochene "Ayn Rand"
Mis-characterization.
"rugged individualism"
Mis-characterization.
"practical"
Zeitgiest is pure fantasy...
"faggy"
Closet much?
Well, you're just all noise and fluff I guess. Is anything that spews out of your mouth of value?
HeyItzMeDawg 2 months ago
@HeyItzMeDawg I couldn't disagree more. The latest film actually has the most credibility in terms of evidence and scientific-based arguments (using Sapolski and arguments from Neuroscience, genetics, criminology, etc). It genuinely is the more credible of the 3, so your statement is absolutely wrong.
Neanderthalcouzin 2 months ago
@EricBochene LOL, Zeitgeist is a total joke.
Aryaba 2 months ago
@EricBochene You don't particularly help much talking about Peter Joseph, because you come across as an irrational ass hole and Peter Joseph is anything but. You even managed to get a guy thumbed up for saying he lost the movement credibility with his latest film, when in fact it is objectively the most credible. I am a supporter of the ideas, and look you introduced yourself to me be being a complete fuck wit to me.
Neanderthalcouzin 2 months ago
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@EricBochene While I will always defend your right to believe in fairy tales, I did find these two sentences particularly funny because of the hypocrisy displayed in them:
"Stef goes WAAAAAY outta his way to sound "smart" and there's NO debate to be had about it!"
"Stef... is an out-dated supporter of the "free market" and rugged individualism. No debate about this."
sheepOG 2 months ago
Why is organized religion good? What does secularism have to do with being spoiled or greedy? Religion can be replaced with secular humanism. I do agree with you that mysticism is not the correct path to go. You should look into which religious groups have the highest divorce rate. What we need to go back to is the Clinton tax rates. He balanced the budget while providing care to people that need help.
proatheism 2 months ago
PERFECT example of how Stef and the rest of you Ayn Rand worshiping usefull TOOLS just does NOT get it. And again... exactly my point of... While Stef is clearly an intelligent thoughtful individual... he and his followers are useless/abstract/no solution providing armchair wannabe intellectuals/philosophers. check oy Peter Joseph's MUCH BETTER speech patterns and Stefs! NOT to mention USEFULNESS and solutions!
EricBochene 2 months ago
@EricBochene "useless/abstract/no solution providing"
See: /watch?v=VDVNL0VyaEI
HeyItzMeDawg 2 months ago
You're a strange one Stefan, at some times capable of acute level headed analysis like this then at others, veering off into utopian fantasies worthy of the baby boomers themselves.
cheesehoven 2 months ago
Stef - what is wrong with selfishness? Surely the issue is trying to gain at the expense of others, not the desire to be selfish and gain as such.
ORIGINALUSRNM 2 months ago
@ORIGINALUSRNM Exactly. In fact, Stef has even said this in the past. Why the sudden change?
DrKleiner 2 months ago
collectivism lol
BroBroDude 2 months ago
Born into relative peace? How is being born into a violently abusive narcissistic family "relative peace"? You've said many times before that children are born into a war zone (the brain scans mirror that). There is no peace in this.
Also, why are you now using words like "lazy" and "greedy"? Lazy might as well be replaced with "depressed", and "greedy" might as well be replaced with "addicted". It's all the effects of child abuse. You make it seem like these were chosen traits.
DrKleiner 2 months ago 5
i could shut this guy down with all his BLA BLA BLA!
mstrephoenix1 2 months ago
f'n baby boomers............. i agree. A new modern 10 or more commandments free of religion should be agreed and voted on and taught to everyone.
freshlivn 2 months ago
@freshlivn There is only one truth. Humans are created with free will and taking away others free will is evil. The primary right that all rights stem from is the Right to Choose. What is wrong is when some takes away your Right to Choose. The proper role of government is to take away peoples Right to Choose when they take some elses Right to Choose. It makes finding what is good or evil easy.
guinnessman1970 2 months ago
Come on you can not blame the Boomers for taking us off the Gold Standard; that was Nixon's fault and he was no Boomer.
willyswear 2 months ago
There are assholes or "the privileged" in every generation. I know a few "petty" and "greedy" baby boomers, but luckily I'm not related to them, but most are good and decent people.
deadbloodlust 2 months ago
The boomers were not or are not allowed to opt out of these programs. Just imagine slaves back in the day being blamed for taking the food or shelter provided by their slave masters as the cause of their enslavement. We are nothing more then free range modern day slaves. I would love to opt out of all programs and be in charge of my own decisions and destiny and i am currently working towards that, just like slaves back in the day wanted to be free.
VedRunFit 2 months ago 11
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fergus247 2 months ago
@VedRunFit Just like a boomer to call himself a slave when he was given every opportunity the world had to offer and squandered it
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atripa645 2 months ago
Cage match: Boomers vs. Gen Y!!!
1977Melville 2 months ago
@1977Melville
Is everyone a retard on this channel?
CO2TROL 2 months ago
I don't care about his opinions so I turned it off, as he requested.
hagbard72 2 months ago
With respect, I think you're flat out mistaken on your understanding of mysticism. It seems more to me like you're describing some kind of narcissistic hedonism, and indeed the 'good' ideas of religion that you list are in fact derived from mystical ideals. Mystical experience is the basis of religion, while religion itself is the stagnation and putrefaction of the mystical world view.
ConsideringPhlebas 2 months ago
You need a broadcaster to make your videos, 'cause the composition of the video is illogical and makes you look like a floating head.
charged220 2 months ago
Enslavement is a process of making it dependent upon you for everything...
This enslavement is done by helpers, your schoolteacher, your politicians, your parents, your peers who all like to feel normal and there for work tirelessly to win souls over to the biggest group - the group they perceive and accept as normal.
People have been played for thousands of years and its' science that only a few can escape from. Why is abuse so popular? Because it's easy, even the stupid can do it!
ookiemand 2 months ago
@ookiemand
Yes. Well done.
CO2TROL 2 months ago
@ookiemand - You forgot landlords. How could you forget landlords?
LeksServices 2 months ago
Hi Stefan, Not to deny people their personal responsibility, I think you fail to mention that 'the people' have always been scared into following another misleader, towards the next pasture of towards the next slaughterhouse.
You know how much effort has been done to hamper the development of any individual mental abilities. Calves are separated from their mom cow very early to make for easy hurt control. It's the same with humans. Would you blaim a adult size child for following a misleader?
ookiemand 2 months ago
@ookiemand
"adult size child" ?
CO2TROL 2 months ago
Okay I'm playing Socrates. "Laziness, Greed, Entitlement - Baby Boomer's Defined" -- isn't this sophist collectivism that definesl the details of an individual by birth date? Don't those three characteristics apply to all human generations that have ever existed, all having the same basic DNA, with the only difference being the boomers' entitlement opportunities? Isn't the boomer generation no more than being in the right place at the right time to benefit from the oligarchs' pyramid schemes?
petewalker274 2 months ago
@petewalker274
Yes. Precisely.
CO2TROL 2 months ago
The thing that you are missing is my generation the "boomers" were educated by a generation of left leaning socialists that moved in to the media, education and government while our fathers were fighting the socialists of Europe and Asia. We as a group had little other than to reacte to what we had learned through that lense. Luckily some of us still were able to think our way through the blinders of the media and educational propaganda. Unluckily it seems to have done little good.
typeoneg1000 2 months ago
The longer a man supports his family, the more he will be penalized at divorce.
I made the mistake of sticking it out till the kid finished high school.
Big mistake. The more you give, the more you owe.
Wife never worked. Pension gone. House gone.
Leave as soon as you know its not going to be permanent.
ttrtilley 2 months ago
@ttrtilley
If you thought your wife was potentially a cheating whore then you should have signed a pre-nuptual agreement OR you should have hired a PI to collect evidence on her before hand. If she left you because you were an abusive dick, then you deserve it and should fuck off. Best of luck for the future otherwise!
CO2TROL 2 months ago
I notice you don't see the analogy when talking about private sector, bet here, when you describe baby boomer generation, you use the phrase "It's not the supply, that you need to look at, it's the demand". Meaning, in this example, people are guilty of exploiting their government and receiving all of those benefits, but when big corporations does the exact thing, you somehow blame it all on the government, adding that corporations just play the game by the rules that government sets. How so ?
Kukainis 2 months ago 2
Stef, you need to start eating a more natural diet which includes eating healthy meats. Tom Woods, Lew Rockwell, and Jack Hunter are all on the perfect natural human diet now, you should be too.
XulChris 2 months ago
(continued from previous post) ...were conformists. If only us nonconformists had the Internet we could’ve gotten facts. We had a few books like Henry David Thoreau, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Mark Twain. Smedley Butler had written War is a Racket only 35 years earlier, but it was too relevant to each war since then to be put in libraries. We had some so-called “underground newspapers”, but they espoused violence so much that they must’ve been false flag ops." I've "fought the power" to my best.
petewalker274 2 months ago
(continued from previous post) "...that our sometimes violent family upbringings and so-called “educations” had mostly been propaganda and empty filler meant to mass produce workers, soldiers, and consumers who couldn’t, or at least wouldn’t, think for themselves The Establishment wanted robots, not creative or independent thinkers. We hippies and wanna-be hippies represented about a third of our generation. Another third hated us for being nonconformists, and the others... (continued next post)
petewalker274 2 months ago
@petewalker274 Wow some true stuff there... I don't get it why do you agree? A social democracy would've fixed a whole lot of problems but you're probably some libertarian. look up "crisis of democracy"
TheEthanwashere 2 months ago
@TheEthanwashere I wrote several comments, so what precisely am I agreeing with? I'm more of a philosopher than a libertarian because I base conclusions on logic and empirical evidence, and am happy to be told of any logical errors or new evidence. I searched "crisis of democracy" and there's a lot of results. Please be more specific.
petewalker274 2 months ago
I'm a 1952 model and agree with much of the video. My concern is post-boomer polititions dividing and conquering, using boomers the way Hitler used minorities. I've seen public education dumb me down, double that process for my 40 year old son, and double that for my 19 year old son, who has no clue what "broad brush" means. I've been undumbing myself. From my journal about my 18th year: "We knew in our hearts... (continued in next post)
petewalker274 2 months ago
What's the difference between retirees getting more than they paid in and shareholders getting more than they invested? I don't know how it is in North America but where I'm from, pension payments are usually invested in the markets.
madhillick 2 months ago
@madhillick To me the difference is coercion vs. voluntaryism; i.e., government "benefits" are based on force where shareholding is a voluntary action. Shareholders make investments, government accomplices participate in pyramid schemes forced on people.
petewalker274 2 months ago
@petewalker274
...And when the private pyramids get big enough to influence politicians, they magically become too big to fail and they magically acquire the "protection" of the tax-payer.
CO2TROL 2 months ago
@petewalker274 - "Coercion." You have this huge blind spot in your field of view, though. "Coercion" is "anything but telling you you have to accept death by starvation, exposure or disease unless you do what we tell you to. Threats of death by starvation, exposure or disease is no coercion." How you can believe those two things simultaneously is beyond me.
"Personal Property Rights" is not even a viable "non-government" system. Stop being greedy and think.
LeksServices 2 months ago
@LeksServices If I knew the sources you're quoting from I could respond better; seems like misquoting and taking things out of context. Where did I say any of that about coercion, property, or greed? Old powerful people threatening vulnerable minors is coercion. "Personal property rights" isn't a system. Greed is like sex drive: Inborn, unique, & skewed by toxic culture. Both are okay in the natural state except the very rare freaks of nature.
petewalker274 2 months ago
@petewalker274 That's not really relevant. I was referring to Stef saying that pensioners are at fault for receiving more than they've paid in. The reason for this is that pension contributions are usually invested in the markets and some of the profits from this are then used to pay the pension recipients. In this case, the pensioners are merely investors receiving their dividends.
madhillick 2 months ago
@madhillick my bad, I'm just now learning how these YouTube conversation threads work.
petewalker274 2 months ago
@petewalker274 What do you mean?
madhillick 2 months ago
@madhillick I wrote six sentences. Is one of them unclear, or all six?
petewalker274 2 months ago
@petewalker274 Well we've already established that you didn't get my original point and now accept it. The sentence that's unclear is the one in which you say you're not sure how YouTube conversations work.
madhillick 2 months ago
@madhillick I'm new at YouTube comments/replies so I just gotta pay closer attention to which reply goes with which comment. This last time I replied to my email notification of a reply and assumed it went with my most recent comment.
petewalker274 2 months ago
Excellent video, as usual. What worries me about the baby boomers and the 60's generation is that they abandoned moral absolutism of religion, replacing it with moral relativism and, as you ppointed out Stef, mysticism. Look at the popularity of Postmodernism, feminist theory, and even existentialism and it is clear as day that it has contributed to the erosion of society. There needs to be a cutlural revolution to roll back this mindset, and I would like to think that it has already begun.
RockingMrE 2 months ago
nice.
matsutakneatche 2 months ago
You can't blame the babyboomers for a Political decision on economical futures i.e. Federal Reserve 1913
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th86stone 2 months ago
Politicians are only able to sell bullshit to people who will buy bullshit. I think you're onto something. America is full of shitheads. The masses of idiots who have bred exponentially, are brainwashed by and give their stamp of approval to the corrupt policies of the elite, even as it harms them. I don't care if they go into debt and give up their freedom, the problem is that I'm stuck in the pen with them.
undeadpresident 2 months ago
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@undeadpresident
And you are the next idiot standing in line and just as hypocritical, lazy, greedy as you accuse an entire generation as being.
LOL !
So "I don't care if they go into debt and give up their freedom, the problem is that I'm stuck in the pen with them."
LOL !
Need I say more?!
You are an absolute clown! LOL !
Ha ha ha ha ha !
CO2TROL 2 months ago
Well the boomer generation is blessing my position in healthcare as they age!! WOO HOOO
WOWISTOOADDICTING 2 months ago
You would really love the Tao Te Ching if you read if it.
dlotable 2 months ago
@MoneyIsSilver
What exactly is your point?
CO2TROL 2 months ago
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CO2TROL 2 months ago
I always respected the Boomers questioning the status quo and challenging the man. Of course, once they became the man, my opinion changed. They had a chance to repeal many, if not all, of the horrible policies set on upon us by the generation previous to them. They could have ended the welfare/warfare state, and the horribly uncivilized failed War on (some) Drugs. Instead we have the Patriot Act, TSA, an unsustainable debt, and a newly minted National Defense Authorization Act. Thanks guys.
sahutsd 2 months ago
@sahutsd
LOL !
Yeah, the "baby boomers" all agreed in unison in favour of the Patriot Act and TSA.
That wasn't the fault of a minority of neo-con republicans! It was the "baby boomers"!
It was the "baby boomers" that done it!
LOL !
Look! There's a "baby boomer"! Get him! Throw it under a bus!
Ha ha ha ha ha !
You are an unthinking clown !
LOL !
CO2TROL 2 months ago