 Welcome everyone to another episode of lunchtime with Luke or some of you guys have called it Smith Wars. I Like that one. So in this episode, we're gonna talk about the Bugman menace the bug man a lot of people see me using the term bug man Or people who subscribe to my channel using the term bug man, and they don't really know what this means Because the bug man. I mean you hear a bunch of meme terms to like You know just sort of make fun of people nowadays call people in PCs or something like that Bug man is a much more biting critique if you really understand what it means And I think if you really target your life into as you know towards being not a bug man You'll be doing yourself a favor. So what is a bug man? Okay? A bug man is like a redditor a bug man is Well, let's put it this way. I think the way the term was originally used is really the idea is okay, so You you're born and you're born with a tradition. You're born with a family. They have they sort of have a Folklore attached to them. They have a religion. They have habits. They have you know Generations and generations of people have fallen in place to generate you and now what a bug man does is a bug Man doesn't think of himself as being a part of a tradition instead of bug man Thinks of everything that he was born with as being bad and he wants to get rid of it He wants to deconstruct it. He wants to remove it from his life. He thinks it's irrational and Basically what a bug man does is you know, it's it's not just a rebelling against your parents kind of thing It's deep was way deeper than that. It's a mindset where you deconstruct everything About any kind of either traditional society, but more than that your life and you abandon everything You abandon all of that stuff and become a totally rootless person and what is your culture become? Okay now Let that question. I don't know Saturate in your brain or something like that. What does someone become if they abandon their family traditions? Well, what happens nowadays a Bunch of people do the stuff. That's really lame. Okay, for example People identify with increasingly stupid things So people identify with the music they listen to in high school. That's really lame People identify with diets that they do people identify with Ideologies you read the Wikipedia article for anarcho syndicalism. You really like it. I'm an anarcho syndicalist That's now an aspect of my personality. That's my identity when I introduce myself to other bug men I will introduce myself as that or religion remember remember all those kids in high school who read the Wikipedia article for Buddhism and now they're Buddhists because the bug man How bug men think about things like this like religion bugmen think of that as they think of it Autisticly they're they're high why I would call them high functioning autists But they're really low functioning because they don't really get the whole point of life to them You know religion for example This is like religion is a collection of factual beliefs that you believe in or not believe in and I have autism And I can't understand anything else besides that like I don't understand why people go to church and do all the social stuff and That doesn't make sense to the bug men because they are in this mode of deconstructing all that so again Their identity in lieu of that comes from things like dieting music You know your own personally chosen religion that you really have no Fulcish connection to you can convert to a religion of some other country in some other place that you know nothing about You might not even know anyone whose practice is this religion or even further Sexual you know people identify with sexual fetishes. Okay, that's a new thing nowadays So people will wear that people, you know the the archetypical tumbler user is someone who in their bio They're they're bug people so they don't have you know, they don't have any traditions They don't have any family line. They're continuing instead. They're continuing this bug line of you know Totally deracinated identity. I have chosen to be a furry I have chosen to be an anarcho syndicalist. So that is a bug man thinking now, of course, it's not always this extreme I'm I'm sort of taking a little further The fact is all of us even me of course have bug man aspects about us and that's part of That's part of the curse of modernity. All right. We have to deal with that, you know We there are parts of our life that we have abandoned Because we think it's irrational and when I say we think it's irrational Rational is often what bug men think that they're there the kind of line of thought they think they're following in that When it comes to something traditional, they will find any kind of logical machinations. They possibly can to destroy it Now of course when it comes to something like anime or video games or whatever people are identifying with They're not gonna Put the same kind of logical deconstruction to that because well, it's just not gonna work out so anyway This kind of person so the bug man when it comes to their opinions or their worldview They don't think of themselves. They don't think of themselves as an aspect, you know one extra stone in a long line of people Now that's not to say that if you think of yourself this way you have no individuality But bug men have a pseudo individuality. They have they are They they're into their I guess identity comes from something things that don't matter rather than who they actually are In fact, they spend most of their time Destroying who they actually are which is really lame and their mindset is they don't understand I guess the limitations of their own autism Okay If you're going if you have this rational mindset where you're trying to deconstruct all the you know live a rational life like Well, I'll just eat 2,000 calories a day exactly what the FDA recommends or something like that And that's a rational life. That's what people think about this now the problem with a rational bug man life is that it's based on Well, really it's constrained by our The layers of our ignorance so to speak that is our knowledge is never complete when we Decide on something that's rational in fact if you want a more robust strategy You rely on your traditions because those have worked for the longest time So when you're out in the real life, you know, you know take something like you know What what I do in my my wage-cucking job or you know sort of part-time thing You know, I work do carpentry and stuff like that now you could rationally Look up how to be a carpenter. You could even watch YouTube videos, you know about people doing it But that's not the same thing is actually getting in there and understanding what's going on And that's that's sort of the difference even if you your your reason is constrained by what is read in front of your face Whereas long-term traditions which are honed by I guess You know by the survivability so to speak They're not the same thing there. There's a even if you don't understand why they make sense sometimes they do now Anyway, you can say oh you just blah blah blah you post your reddit comments in the you know comments section I'm not gonna read them anyway But when it comes down to it compare the bug men in your life where they are at 30 with the non bug men in your life Where they are at 30 because when you're 16 or something sure many of you kids are still 16 It seems it seems really cool to be a bug man atheist. It seems really cool to Throw everything away. It seems really cool to you know Be an arcosyndicalist and all this stuff But as you go on there's a huge difference between bug men and non bug men and Bug men cannot survive without a hive. That's the fact of the matter. They don't exist as individual people And yeah, they're really just lame. That's what I'm trying to say. So anyway, I'll see you on the next episode of Smith Wars