preach

When I grow up I'm gonna look up from my phone and see my life

agree 100%

Can't even really say anything more, or to add, everything he said is spot on. The biggest act of rebellion, or to change the future marketplace, is to not participate in social medial. Even this comment I'm trping now is engaging with KZbin's business model to benefit the shareholders (that's wild to comprehend).

Bo Burnham for president?

We are Omega cooked

HE'S RIGHT

COME BACK TO US, BO 🙏🙏

We need to teach ourselves to put our phones away. I know it's obvious but that's the starting point: make an effort not to reach for your phone every time you have a thought or a spare moment or see something you like. Myself I make a point of intentionally not pulling out my phone when I board a train or sit down somewhere, then look around and see how almost every other stationary person has their heads down in their phone. Worse still people in company, all with their phones out. People must also realise that for folks with regular non-media 9-5 jobs, they will never have enough time in their life to review / relive all the personal content they are capturing. Take one photo of a nice moment then move on.

i’m reading russell brands 2014 ‘revolution’ (before it went all MAGA on us) and that’s the essence of what went wrong: capitalism made it so that nothing is for the good of the people, the planet, or the human race. every single sector of life is now about how big can we grow, how much money can we make; all without any regard for human life

"Surveillance capitalism operates through unprecedented asymmetries in knowledge and the power that accrues to knowledge. Surveillance capitalists know everything about us, whereas their operations are designed to be unknowable to us. They accumulate vast domains of new knowledge from us, but not for us. They predict our futures for the sake of others' gain, not ours. As long as surveillance capitalism and its behavioral futures markets are allowed to thrive, ownership of the new means of behavioral modification eclipses ownership of the means of production as the fountainhead of capitalist wealth and power in the twenty-first century." The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Shoshana Zuboff

Either my phone is busted or someone decided to add weird video effects to a video that definitely didn't need it.

Amazing

Everything he said could have been summarized with "I'm interesting and companies gain money from teenagers looking at their phones and teenagers look a lot at their phones".

If they are colonizers, then happy people are the indigenous.

Social media is a babysitter. Get off it and find a hobby. Stop blaming social media for everything when you have the choice of being on it for crying out loud.

Beyond being well said, I appreciate how much compassion he has for them. There's a gross system and these kids aren't stupid.

Yeah it’s 2025

Wow... this Made me think

Wow... this Made me think

I wish I could find more videos like this from actual people experiencing the fires. But KZbin only wants to promote news sites.

well said.

I’m glad I watched this ima quit using my phone so much live in the real world

Damn, that’s some crazy shit. I’m in Toluca Lake right now.

Ironically everyone else in that room forgot about what he said cause they instantly went back to their instagram reels after the meetting of these people ended. Sadly most of those people are child groomers too

This is why Gen Z keeps talking about things "iconic" and being a "core memory."

One day, we’ll recognize social media as one of humanity’s most detrimental inventions. I dont think humans are evolved for constant communication with hundreds, thousands and millions-it disrupts our natural development, fuels narcissism, ego, and hyper-individualism, and fractures the very fabric of society. Objectivity is already dead just because of this ability.

Seize the factors of attention

He's not wrong.

When you read Mark Fisher once:

1. Land 2. Attention 3. Your Soul 🙏🙏😇😇

I wish this guy makes more movies in the future. Eighth Grade was an amazing portrayal of Gen Z.

Twitter? What's that?

its all human evolution happening at an elevated speed, right before our eyes. The weak will be chewed and spit out while the strong minded will dabble a taste, make a disgusted face, and then move on with their lives away from such things.

Anybody got any solutions or ideas on what to do? I know a lot of people would say like "Get off the web" but I genuinely enjoy things like reading manga, not necessarily watching KZbin or anything- but irl stuff is too expensive to do nowadays, everything online is free. I can't do anything 🤷‍♂🤷‍♀🤷

I used to read books, then realized the author was trying to colonize my mind for profit so now I dont read anymore. Now my mind is empty and free, nobody lives there

A really brilliant book on this is Stand Out of Our Light by James Wilson Williams. Very short, very interesting, and talks about how we've shifted from an information economy into an attention economy in a fascinating way.

great video! ....duhhhhhhhh

based based based based based

I love this man so much

We were never meant to have this much insight into each other’s lives. It’s caused the worst of us to succumb to greed and pettiness and then the algorithm gives them the floor and pushes it into everyone’s phone.

So many of you don't even understand what he is implying by saying this.

Colonizing attention is an amazing way of putting it

my 3 year old daughter thinks everything is recorded... something can happen and she will ask to see the video of it... then I have to explain that it wasn't recorded, and that won't register with her and she will have a tantrum.

But where did you find/view this? Social media..

I hate to admit it becuase I love video games and youtube but, I genuinely think the only way to be truly happy/content/mentally well in this day and age is to basically drop out from social media, live on a farm, grow your own food, work hard, be close with your family and neighbords, but basically live very simply. Up with the sun, work with your hands, no sources of cheap dopamine to create tolerance/withdrawal. We have a lot of modern conveniences that are great - cars, medicine - way better than "the old days". I'm not glorifying everything, there's a reason people worked SO hard to get out of the jungles and caves and build houses, cities, to automate industry so life wasn't so brutal. I think we can have some level of modern life, but it's the digital age, the disconnection, the addictions to all sorts of substances / behaviors, that are causing so much harm now, and I don't see a way to participate in it and be well.

Soooo... thanks for introducing yourself, Bo... onto our next guest

🔥

This truly is TRUE

obviously I still use youtube, but I have my feed extremely curated and delete videos from my history all the time, but once I made the choice to delete facebook, all the other sites followed quickly. (edited to add Reddit to the list) facebook, instagram, twitter, netflix, amazon prime, and stopped watching and reading the news. just about everything billionaires want my eyeballs to watch and to occupy my brain. no more subscriptions to anything. companies don't make products to fit peoples needs. they are now trying to make consumers fit their products and to use those products how the company wants them to be used. i'm done with it all as much as I can. I'm glad to see someone like Bo come to the same conclusions I have started to come to.