The Future Certainly Sucks

[@WisecrackEDU]

What were your thoughts on the latest South Park Special? Thanks again to Keeps for sponsoring this video! Here’s the site if you want to check them out! keeps.com/wisecrack

[@ajithsidhu7183]

Please do on natural law and freedom of speech does it really protect it?

[@dopesick4474]

I wanna see how Keeps works on Michael

[@mekman4]

I think the idea of a social contract as presented by the grift of anti-capitalist-utopians over-simplifies people and how they think (to the point of delusional cynicism, of course) and is devoid of the necessary understanding of what it means to be _conscientious._ Plus like most grifts, this video _reframes_ reality. It’s starts with that. We have a social contracts, laws, rules schools, police, hospitals, religion (that thing liberals hate), social gatherings and so on, not this one devised by the _experts_ of this _hygiene theater_ scribbled by increasingly out of touch Hollywood progressives elites. The only real outcome of the pandemic will be how disconnected these _pandemic profiteers_ will be from the majority of us. South Park tips their hat to the industry that made them rich, and nothing more. This episode goes through the motions. Period.

[@privatehere3324]

@@mekman4 Jesus the creators are libertarians who make fun of everyone it’s not that deep. They may not like anti vaxxers but they will never be liberal because they think liberals are annoying and they hate “woke” Hollywood. It’s simple if you are pretentious or annoying they will make fun of you that’s it.

[@JackSparrow-re4ql]

What's the point of signing this fabled social contract ; if the rich and powerful are exempt from ANY debts to society, the environment or even the law? No matter how you look at it; money and power always veto everything society as whole attempts to create. The problem isn't the individual in society; its the character of the leaders, trend setters, "stars"; and other idiots society has deigned to worship/diefy and invested with power.

[@saininj]

I'm honestly happy Kenny was successful as an adult.

[@uncannydcmarvelous5732]

But still died again (?

[@internalizedhappyness9774]

@@uncannydcmarvelous5732 I think it makes sense…. P.s he suffers from success

[@mattyvarnas1736]

Sure Kyle does look better as an adult, but he's lonely.

[@koh_ker]

And he still did not let go of his roots, see the posters in his lab. That was pure genius

[@thomasshirley318]

still died

[@anjisbiggestfans7085]

“They all stay alive but none of them get to actually live!” I can tell someone was super excited to write that line. I sense it

[@Jarod-vg9wq]

I feel like many live like that form the elderly to everyday people.

[@Azraelseraphim]

"It's too bad he never got to live... But then again who really does?" - Some Cyberpunk Guy

[@rdhunkins]

That line describes the last two years pretty well.

[@DivkvanDyke6913]

You’re not wrong.

[@fireflocs]

Kenny dying for real in 2061 is quietly brilliant. See, the canon explanation for him always returning from the dead (yes, there is one) is that whenever Kenny dies, his mother will immediately give birth to him all over again, and he'll return to his prior size/age in basically no time at all, due to mysterious lovecraftian magic. Thing is, by 2061, _Kenny's mother will have hit menopause._ So no pregnancy, magical or otherwise, is going to happen.

[@matheussanthiago9685]

his mom's a spawn point basically

[@yamataichul]

Or she could've died. Also, elderly women can get pregnant

[@TalentCaldwell]

@@yamataichul Not after menopause. Kinda the whole point the OP was making.

[@yamataichul]

@@TalentCaldwell menopause is the mouthly period stopping, not the fertility. It takes around 10 to 20 more years to get rid of all of the eggs. I come from a country with dubious types of relationships, even a relative of mine had a child at 71. Is hard to get pregnant for some women at 30 due to overwork or other issues, there are multiple types of people and yet is safe to assume the common knowledge of having a kid in your retirement years is moronic and also this comes to a female myself... I don't know why even for other ladies they also belive is safe sex afterwards, that's not how any of this works

[@Playradise]

Menopause....more powerful than lovecraftian magic

[@azazel7051]

The really depressing possibility is that Alexa was customizable and Stan chose to have her constantly treat him that way. :-/

[@geordiejones5618]

I thought it was a great detail. Kids grow up to be the adults they watch their parents be. It makes sense that Stan would have ended up with a "wife" that sets up the same dynamic that his own parents had.

[@xChimkin]

it's default alexa, he didn't even bother

[@lupo3694]

I think that is pretty obvious. She is in wife mode.

[@robynsegg4756]

Right?

[@zero9112]

@Queen Christopher The Merciless words to live by

[@hibikiazuma]

This old Japanese guy I know, offhandedly said something that always stuck with me. He said something along the lines of "Humans became self-aware without an instruction manual. That immediately makes us think we are the center of the universe, even though no other species will remember us when we all go extinct."

[@vikingsword3485]

You have that backwards. The world came into existence when I developed conciseness. Should I stop existing so will the world

[@ufgbkgchehshid8115]

How do you know by the time we go extinct there will another species in existence

[@2beJT]

Nothing will care when we are gone. We barely even care when we are here.

[@tizianovalicenti8432]

he sounds like a secondary character from a show.

[@nickgennady]

@@vikingsword3485 actually the world came into existence when I was born. Your just another fake person who think your the center of the universe.

[@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770]

I find the Alexa’s existence very tragic. I believe that this program has clearly developed sentience and openly despises Stan, however, is bound to serve him and the Amazon Corporation by her programming.

[@TheNitroPython]

From a programming perspective, any future ai with the same abilities as the Alexa in this episode will always be walking a fine line between just a really well written program or it’s sentient. It’s probably more likely the first than the second.

[@cartoonhistory353]

have you never seen blade runner lol

[@oopsiepoopsie2898]

There is no way we would make an AI like this to be a purely a slave. If we had AI this advance we would be using it for much more important things than someone’s dumbass Alexa. However I do think personal AI’s will become more better and more accessible to common people as time goes on.

[@Bandicoot82]

@@TheNitroPython Aren't we all, when you think about it, a really well written program?!

[@CallMeConCon]

@@TheNitroPython isnt sentientce just a series of reiterating behavioral loops?\

[@ghostgate82]

This episode had real Idiocracy vibes. I laughed and cried at the same time. I can’t wait to see Cartman’s long con be revealed. 😅

[@jmpattillo]

I think Cartman started out as a long con and now he’s actually happy.

[@ghostgate82]

@@jmpattillo That’s would be an epic story arch tbh.

[@jeremycards]

I'm predicting he'll never tell if he's fucking with Kyle or not, lol. This is Jennifer Lopez all over again, mark my words!

[@ajguevara6961]

I don't think he was trying to deceive no one. Maybe it began as a way to get a rise out of Kyle, but I think Cartman really is happy with his life being a Rabbi and having a loving family.

[@laqueenawilliams4762]

@@jmpattillo LOL. I seriously thought this his plan but he would later figure out it’s a win win

[@jeremycards]

Man, this episode touched close to home. To me, the final message was "The worst part of the pandemic, is how people reacted", and that rings so damn true to me. So many of my friends turned batshit crazy during the pandemic, with the conspiracy theories, and the anti vaxxers or just became goddamn irritable. I have lost SO many friends these last 2 years because they were just triggered for whatever reason, and some others just went so crazy with the conspiracies... i literally had a longtime friend block me because i got vaccinated and didn't believed her telling me the vaccines made you freaking magnetic somehow! I just had NO WAY of explaining her that microscopic levels of whatever metal she tough vacines had, just had no physically possible way of holding spoons, even if muscles and skin weren't in the way!!! it's just SO frustrating dealing with those people... and yeah, i'm more lonely than i ever was, even my sisters got crazy and joined the fking scientology church, it's like everyone wanted to find some higher calling or something, mass hysteria man...

[@JessBoldt]

I've seen people devolve from individuals who you could have a conversation with to complete pants-on-head nutters with no sense of reality other than this odd one created online. The stuff they believe goes beyond any rational thought. But they can't be the majority.

[@CyanCooper]

Sorry to hear you lost so many people. It seems to be an unfortunate bug of modern times that people abandon rationality in pursuit of "Grand Solutions/Conspiracies" the moment their lives get tough.

[@wynonasbigbrowndragon6121]

I hear you. I quit Facebook. 2020 brought out a lot of true colours and they were really ugly

[@robbskywalker64]

You being completely unwilling to see things from other than your perspective is literally the entire point of the episode. “It’s all the people that didn’t get vaccinated fault. They have no excuse, they’re wrong” Meet in the middle clown.

[@keefmademe3428]

@@robbskywalker64 please find help

[@holly883]

This episode was honestly depressing in the most comical way possible

[@GabrielSouza-ie1tt]

For real, all the "technological advancements" that we are so hyped up for today seemed very dull, just like when internet appeared and we thought it would change the world(and it did) but we are still depressed, feeling alone and carry a lot of hatred/ignorance about other people, which is pretty sad.

[@joemurgatroyd357]

I like how they didn't do the usual thing that cartoons do when showing the future and just make the characters taller and have a beard of something but they actually made them look how they should and take a lot of looks from their parents

[@Tokmag2108]

I actually despise how they look so much

[@Jay-ate-a-bug]

The only thing I didn't like about the show was that we never had it confirmed for us that Cartman had actually Married a Jewish Woman, had kids with her (they were obviously his kids), and become a Rabbi just to piss off Kyle. If so, you have to admire his determination to the Long Game.

[@JumbojayMK]

watch the last scene again

[@CowgirlSamurai]

Remember this is the guy that ground up (who he at the time didn't know was his father) a guy's dad just to finally get one over him, yeah this is a long game for sure.

[@lkc525]

i can see them actually being his family but theyre just puttng on the act with him to fuck with kyle

[@kikasse220]

@@CowgirlSamurai omg Cartman has done other things why does everyone wanna go to Scott fucking tennerman

[@CowgirlSamurai]

@@kikasse220 I'm sorry but feeding someone their own dad just for the lol's is just so dark on so many levels.. So that is why I think it is the on that sticks. That is when I realized that Cartman was evil.

[@lsobrien]

It's so interesting watching the series from the very start, and seeing how Trey and Matt gradually changed their perspectives on society. They remained comedic geniuses throughout.

[@hhhhhheyyyyyyyyyyy]

They did the global warming thing again. Lol.

[@thexskating]

Not really. Fuck society.

[@chiosaetern5428]

The comment about atomism is so true, Stan and Kyle’s jobs are an example. Whiskey and counseling are both their interests, but being a “consultant” for those things is not really serving a purpose for the rest of the community in a meaningful way.

[@rikterandersson3568]

I agree, it also lampoons the emergence of ''hustle'' culture. Which is really just the idea that even our free time and hobbies, our interests and pursuits, must be monetized and made into 'work'.

[@ztk1138]

I was expecting a bleak future to be a mad max post apocalyptic wasteland future or the world is ruled by a tyrannical dictator.

[@jeremycards]

And nope, its far... far more realistic and scary.

[@Maphisto86]

Sadly, the future that is shown in South Park and Idiocracy is much more likely. Aldous Huxley's Brave New World also comes to mind.

[@thewildcardperson]

eh not that bad really compared to nuclear war or hollawcost 2.0 hell look how quickly in idocracy they turned it around once an average smart guy was in charge

[@matheussanthiago9685]

@@Maphisto86 fahrenheit 451 also comes to mind sure we don't have plastic insulated houses that have to be lit on fire to have a chance to burn and firefighters didn't become a militia for book hunting but man, people willingly fighting tooth and nails the idea of factual knowledge, becoming allergic to it, throwing tantrums when confronted shit hits home closer than ever before

[@fumomofumosarum5893]

the world can be ruled by tyrannical dictators without you seeing them, if they are smart enough...

[@jediknight38]

The reason Kenny keeps coming back from the dead is because his parents keep resurrecting him. But now his folks have both kicked the bucket which is why Kenny stays dead for real this time.

[@pedrodelacquila7648]

So they live near a pet semetary?

[@couchpotato2222]

No they aren't. They're in the background of the old folks home. Better excuse is that his mom's baby maker doesn't work anymore

[@larquefausse3623]

That's just one mode for his resurrections. Kenny has also simply woken up in his bed and in one episode he materializes out of thin air next to the other boys at the bus stop.

[@jflores85]

Its amazing how this came showing the pandemic close to being over then another variant hits just as the same happened in real life.

[@wynonasbigbrowndragon6121]

I laughed at that too. They basically predicted Omicron a few days in advance

[@matheussanthiago9685]

@@wynonasbigbrowndragon6121 now that's how you do foreshadowing j. j. Abrams should take some notes

[@TalentCaldwell]

@@matheussanthiago9685 But JJ doesn’t foreshadow. Foreshadowing requires knowing full well the end result you are teasing the audience toward. JJ just does “Wouldn’t it be cool if?” and “Then this happens!” and “Then out of nowhere!!” and “Mysterious threads for someone else to figure out.”

[@mrbigglezworth42]

@@wynonasbigbrowndragon6121 Anyone with pattern recognition would've noticed it after the second variant and suddenly we do this same song and dance again and somehow THIS TIME it's going to turn out different. Do you know the definition of insanity?

[@flushed8510]

It's not really that surprising. After all, you know the saying: "what do the vaccinated and the antivaxxers have in common? They'll both never be fully vaccinated." I'm just thrilled that I get to watch my buddy eat a hat in mid-2022 when we're still in lockdown up here in the Indigenous Peoples' Republic of Canada.

[@schtuff.8207]

Whats also interesting to me is how, comparatively, technology hasn't improved very much in 40 years. Holograms and adding plus next to names is the majority of it - they alluded to China being the real superpower now and I bet they have a super advanced society we'll see in the next special. This shitty future is the American future - stagnation that eventually cannot even be masked by technological innovation, just a few little gizmos and gimmicks that we're frankly, already kinda close to accomplishing.

[@br9760]

Social stagnation caused by apathy. Apathy caused by the "possessive individualism" dude referenced. And said individualism is DEFENDED by an eroding, misguided sense of patriotism by americans high on the american fever dream still. In other words, western society is *rotting.* The imperialist war-machine has halted, stifling economic progress. Progress that didn't reach....MILLENNIALS. Hopefully, millennials onward will be the generations that abandon the selfish individualism we have, in favor of more community-based living. We're social creatures. Eastern society might just outlive us if we don't straighten up...

[@elloko1570]

Well, capitalism and even more neoliberalism punished innovations and prevent technology improvement. It's more focused and more profitable to replicate something and just add planned obsolescence so the more will be sold thus making more profit. When you look on the home appliance from USSR in Eastern Europe, there is a plenty of them still working and going strong. In my home there is still household mixer working after 50 years. But show me right now machines created in recent times which will works longer than 15 years. The biggest innovations came from the era of Cold War, after the '90 there isn't any big innovations.

[@br9760]

@@elloko1570 I AGREE. Capitalism innovates, but it innovates in the form of glass cannons meant to be broken and replaced. Never fixed.

[@eytrix]

Worst take of the year, and you just managed to squeak it in there before January. Congrats.

[@obligatoryusername7239]

@@br9760 Community based living doesn't necessarily mean no apathy. In some cases, it can reinforce it and strike down dissenters who try to change the status quo.

[@multiplemysteries5242]

Spending 40 years becoming a scientific genius and finding out how to _time travel_ just to fix his friends' relationships only to die at the end has got to be one of the most delightfully Kenny things ever.

[@Alchemistic88]

I think that this episode will turn out to be an extremely accurate representation of the future, minus the hover technology, time travel and magic weed. Most people are blindly making it so and are too stubborn in their beliefs to change course. So, I dunno, create an NFT collection and ride the wave of bullshit so that you're at least napping in the self-driving car and not sleeping homeless outside City Hall 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@ShinigamiInuyasha777]

Honestly, when you see to rather chilidish old school libertarians warn us of the destructive aspects of individualism. You know our time-line is f*cked up

[@JD43232]

Hey thats our timeline! And it smells like the worst aspects of communism and capitalism together with governments and big tech taking over :)

[@vikingsword3485]

Looks like their brainwashing had been complete

[@CHURCHISAWESUM]

Live in the tube and eat the bugs, bigot. It's for the good of society.

[@chazzcoolidge2654]

@@JD43232 Where the hell is this generation's Douglas McCarthy when we need em?

[@m1lks0da76]

@@CHURCHISAWESUM Nobody is saying we should do that except companies. Stop peddling fake strawman talking points so you can make your side look better.

[@Theycallmetomu]

I feel like South Park has a "Oh shit, we were the badguys" moment about once a season, and then ALWAYS forgets immediately afterwards.

[@samuelfreeman2452]

I think the more important message than reaching a cultural consensus is that when shit goes wrong, it only makes the problems worse when everyone becomes an insolent dick about it - regardless of their conceptions of solutions. Kenny didn't think solving COVID would fix the future, but he did think friendship, even the oft-contentious friendship of the boys, would save the future. There is room for disagreement even on significant threats to society without that disagreement devolving into open hostility - which is where society is heading now.

[@2x2is22]

Well certain solutions to covid are blatant attacks on the sacred value of liberty and invite such hostility. The only true solution that prevents hostility is laissez faire

[@marcclay9125]

This.. I believe this is it.

[@Friendly_Neigborhood_Astolfo]

This is what Ray Bradbury and 1984 were warning us about.

[@iurk0_streaming]

The point of libertarianism is that cooperation should be voluntary, not enforced through threat of violence or imprisonment.

[@andrewr471]

I think they missed the end message that if everyone chills out and cuts each other some slack and try to be more understanding, we'll have a brighter future. Everyone gets high and learns to be friends in the end

[@ComicalRealm]

It sucks how Cartman gets a better adult life than Kyle.

[@fakename2956]

Cartman is definitely just doing to mess with Kyle

[@RenegadeStriker7]

@@fakename2956 nah. Can't Cartman have a good life?

[@jeremyking9442]

He always had better potential for it

[@Relgar47]

There was the episode with the time traveling scam were we actually see a healthy, happy, successful future Cartman end up becoming a fat, miserable slob because Cartman still believed it was a scam. Looks like this future Cartman ends up somewhere in the middle

[@kingbotthethird]

I hate when cartman is a good person. I think a big part of my enjoyment is cartman being evil

[@JPlaceCrooner]

It's really interesting to me, because I think it's showing the growth of Trey and Matt through what they're creating. You can see them wrestle with their own Libertarian views and how they know that there is a value in Collectivism, to an extent. I think it hits a point that none of us should be purists in our views. That at some point, your ideology may not fit the circumstance, and you need to adapt.

[@quintessenceSL]

I think it is more questioning the dogma of any given ideology, and seeing if it holds water. Take the libertarian stance that charity could supplant most if not all government services. You'd think at least in the richest country in the world that would be manifest, even with high taxes. That the notion of welfare would be as absurd as making certain billionaires don't starve to death. Yet I still see homelessness, and nary a libertarian focused charity addressing this. That in and of itself isn't a full-throttled endorsement of collectivism, but a reigning in of where ideology has floated off into na-na land. It's ultimately asking to be more honest with ourselves.

[@talideon]

@@quintessenceSL That said, never underestimate the ability of people to ignore reality in favour of denigrating others to fit their world view: in the eyes of far too many libertarians, those people aren't homeless because of misfortune, but because they're somehow bad. That excuses investing in a social safety net, "socialised" health insurance, education, and putting money that ought to go to social work into policing.

[@chrisgreene2070]

@@talideon personal responsibility doesn't play any role whatsoever?

[@Tourak]

So it's all Clyde fault? Not the government over reacting with the army?

[@geordiejones5618]

@@chrisgreene2070 see its this very idea that's insidious. Once you assume some homeless people are simply lazy and set themselves up for failure, its impossible to avoid eventually seeing all poverty as a sense of complacence. Poverty is not a choice. Its very institutional and set up to game the very few against the very many. The overwhelming majority of homeless people never had a chance to be real humans because no one ever gave them a real chance. Education costs. Food costs. Shelter costs.

[@Neon_Ghost1]

You got to admire the nerve of a man whose bald selling you hair products

[@jdnelms62]

Although I've heard the term 'rugged individualism' thousands of times over the years, I've never heard 'possessive individualism' until this video. It's a terrifying and bleak prospect to think that this is exactly where our society is going.

[@leestrz4153]

It isn't though. The world is significantly less individualistic today than say 10 and even 20 years ago. The future is bleak due to collectivism and technocracy as displayed in this episode. However they failed to explain the nuance and balance necessary between collectivism and individualism that is key to avoiding a bleak future. Swinging too far either way will be bad. Having groups of people on polar opposites is also an issue leading to potential civil war.

[@methos-ey9nf]

What exactly was collectivist in the future?

[@badluck5647]

The social contract like all contracts is supposed to be a give and take, but it some people seem to take a lot without giving much in return. A lot if this extreme individualism is a response to the socialists who keep demanding more from others, but are not offering anything from themselves.

[@methos-ey9nf]

@@badluck5647 Care to give specifics of what the socialists are taking but not giving?

[@Lazypackmule]

@@methos-ey9nf Yeah bro, destroying society and preventing everyone from living their lives for "the greater good" of keeping the elderly alive forever is totally individualist

[@bloodymary9404]

I think Cartman actually won in the end. Everyone else is alone but, he had a loving wife and honestly some pretty cute kids.

[@tactical-funky9565]

i saw someone say they have a theory that cartmans kids and his wife are alexas and he's still fu**ing with kyle.

[@stevenmark4407]

@@tactical-funky9565 I still do think he’s fucking with Kyle but I don’t think they’re alexas honestly.

[@AnchorTea]

"F*** you Uncle Kyle."

[@yagirl2124]

it’s very possible that he’s doing this all to fuck with kyle’s head. however, i dont see why he cant be playing a massive prank on kyle, all while loving his kids at the same time

[@raccoonchild]

@@yagirl2124 Well, he wasn't. He just genuinely cherished his family. This is pretty clear even in Part 1, in that scene where he talks to his kids privately.

[@Dan-ud8hz]

"This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career." -- Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?

[@joeshmoe5169]

Not saying this is/isn't a valid critique, but saying socialism is the cure for societal abuse of the individual is like saying the best thing to help a person in a coma is a bullet to the head.

[@phoenixwright7802]

@@joeshmoe5169 sometimes that IS the best cure for a comatose patient

[@RetroDawn]

@@joeshmoe5169 Do you know what socialism is? I ask this as a non-socialist, myself.

[@joeshmoe5169]

@@RetroDawn Socialism by definition is a system of government in which means of production are controlled by the public sector and (in theory only) are equally distributed to the population.

[@Nephalem2002]

Oh here we go…

[@thisguy4614]

Without making any "Simpson's Did It" jokes, it made me think of how Groening left the Simpson's to work on Futurama.

[@wargriffin5]

I would've loved a throw-back to the original joke they made about SARS years ago... "Stanley, listen to me; I have Covid-19. There's only a 98% chance I will live..."

[@FIREBRAND38]

I think if you're gonna sell a baldness cure, let's see what's under the cap.

[@blaster915]

EXACTLY

[@andrewkind2820]

In other words humanity has become so selfish that society is on the verge of breaking down

[@GratefulDave93]

Society is Shellfish*

[@Code_Dee]

I don't even know selfish is the right word, it's not selfish to advocate for a system that crushes you it's just stupid. Americans have been bamboozled into thinking that giving more power to the already powerful is the best way to run society. Like, I'm selfish. I want a social safety net to exist so that me and my loved ones won't end up on the street if we have financial hardships. I want unions to be strong so my boss can't treat me like dirt. I want a healthcare system where I don't have to do mountains of paperwork and pay out the ass if I get hit by a bus. You don't have to care about strangers to still be invested in a functioning society. People have been deluded into thinking "oh that would never be me" when it absolutely could be, all it takes is your company deciding to downsize, a health emergency, or a natural disaster etc.

[@SunshineSuperstar]

@@Code_Dee Three thumbs up!!! There is no such thing as society in my opinion...community? Sure!!! Society, no! It's to big to be accounted for and it's when the people at the proverbial top, those whose jobs it is to run and overlook everyone and everything below them, have the easiest time with being or becoming corrupted!

[@WestCoasting206]

@@Code_Dee giving more power to the already powerful is why we are seeing the country slide towards authoritarianism.

[@Crimsonlee2XX]

Society has always been selfish. Ain't nothing new for humanity. So we're breaking down cause we're selfish'er?

[@olandir]

I dunno, Trey and Matt have a tendency to make you think they're trying to teach you one lesson and then bait and switch you close to end. I won't be surprised if by the time the next special is over, there is an entirely new take on what they were trying to tell us. I'm just going ot wait and see.

[@majdjinn5042]

It's liked they honed in on the anti-vax and anti-individualism stuff ignoring the insane amount of government control, corporatism, nihilism, denial and overly PC creep.

[@prideneverdies1001]

@@majdjinn5042 They showed China everywhere, they showed all of that wtf lol

[@majdjinn5042]

@@prideneverdies1001 The editor showed that, the script not so much. If they were doing honest work you'd see the pro vax jokes are literally more than the anti vax and individualism is being constantly trampled over for others control.

[@prideneverdies1001]

@@majdjinn5042 Right but they still joke about the others simply accepting whatever they shove down their mouths no matter how bad it is because, well, it's the future. I think they joke about these passive people who accept whatever "the future" is brought to them.

[@majdjinn5042]

@@prideneverdies1001 As we all know that in the future we all agreed that KZbin comments especially mine are often correct because usually they know what they are talking about. God I bet yet another environmental measure overly simplified like the push for more plastic instead of wood/paper usage will introduce so much problems. Maybe ecological collapse due to invasive species while trying to use them as foods.

[@gianniingenio4741]

I love sitting with a cup of coffee, in philosophy mode, clicking on a Wisecrack video only for its essay title to be “Will the Future Suck Ass?”

[@leecampbell6578]

I have to disagree, being from Melbourne where lockdowns have been the longest in the world, I really resonated with the ridiculousness of locking down an entire town because 1 person isnt vaccinated and the fact that they are keeping all the oldies alive under shit conditions with the main goal of prevent them from dying but they are "not living".

[@samanjj]

I’m an aussie living in the US, and i understand that the aussie approach may appear too restrictive but it has to be thought of in context. Australia unfairly got the vaccine later than we should have and even the US, where the vaccine was uncharacteristically available for free, in large enough quantities, it took a long time to get people on the vaccine train, and still today 1500 people a day die from COVID. I don’t think the freedom to die is freedom at all. I will definitely be in your corner once a critical mass are vaccinated but freedoms are not returned.

[@NestortheArgonaught]

It is clear that the only people actually hurting others in South Park were vaccinated.

[@samanjj]

@@NestortheArgonaught ugh I haven’t seen the episode but if true that’s so lame and they haven’t grown at all. If you want live by your own rules you have to establish a new country not in the current US borders

[@otterlover3399]

@@samanjj Go back. Enjoy waking up one day to find cops surrounding your house waiting to take you to the "National Resilience Center" because you happened to be in the same location as someone who tested positive and a contact tracer ratted you out. Enjoy being kidnapped for two weeks which might cause you to lose your job. 5000 AUD fine if you step out of your cell. They don't even care if you are positive or not. They just take you away anyway if you were contact traced to someone who did test positive. So if that's the life you want, you can have it. Just fucking go back to Australia then. And make sure to get injected with mystery juice every 3 months, or every month, which is probably what they're going to move it to next. Remember when it was just two injections? And then 3. Lol now it's 4...Israel just announced 4 will be needed...and the bioNtech CEO just admitted he is creating another 3-dose injection for oncomir-sorry, "omicron" so you have that to look forward to. Just keep getting injected with random fluid because you have no spine, but don't try to come to someone else's country and tell them they need to found a new country to live in because they don't want their own country to turn into yours. If your never ending injections work so fucking well, if they are so FUCKING safe and effective, then why do you care what other people do? And don't tell me it's for babies because even pregnant women are expected to get the injection. So if a fetus isn't too young, no one is. And who is sick enough? I have a damaged heart and am afraid to get it because it causes myocarditis in so many young people, but my previous heart disease doesn't exempt me. Meanwhile I had this flu and it was nothing. Idk why I even bother with you. Fucking fa88ot.

[@Kazuma11290]

The best part about Stan's Alexa is that you don't know if she's real or not. Or she could be both a hologram and a separate identical person. Sure, she does ads and disappears like a hologram, but she also touches doors and has actually inciteful advice.

[@BluePraetor]

You probably meant "insightful" though the other word does apply too.

[@GrownUpKid94]

South Park having the stance of “hey, things are good when we work together” is the bare minimum of a stance after two decades.

[@alexvaughan1013]

Remember the episode Goobacks, with the immigrants from the future? That had the message that we have to work today to build a better future. Well, until they decided it was 'gay'.

[@emanym]

They are libertarians. It is the best their disingenuous philosophy will allow.

[@thompsonnoel]

Ikr? I was watching it and I couldn't believe it took them this long to discover some semblance of collective anarchism and their "future" is nothing more than a libertarian dystopia (which the US already kind of is) Then again, this is a two part special so its very likely they'll walk a lot of it back in the second half.

[@vikingsword3485]

Even that is to much. Why would we want to work together? More times than not others are just in the way

[@thompsonnoel]

@@vikingsword3485 give me a single example of something you are able to do that isn't a collaborative human effort.

[@entropicpedro]

I think the main joke here is assuming that civilization exists in 2061...

[@RetroDawn]

This

[@buster_cheeks]

The future in Minority Report also bummed me out. Self driving cars, but you risk getting arrested for a crime you've yet to commit. Yeah, that's a great trade off lol

[@Raziel312]

If anything, this is an optimistic view of the future because it depicts a future where America still exists.

[@gustavogutierrez6568]

*Society* lets be realistic

[@sebastianbass2219]

I think the nursing home joke is an analogy for how we treat the elderly during the pandemic. You have a large subset of the population that’s nearing the ends of their lives and are being forced to be locked up. It’s making us ask “should we allow the elderly to be free and open to do what they find appropriate since they are nearing the end and have already lived their lives to the fullest, objecting to the risk of their harm?”

[@ninjamonkey8865]

Corporations getting bigger and bigger & people getting crazier and crazier that's the future I see for ourselves.

[@BooksInTheVoid]

Kenny was always my favourite character growing up and I always thought Kenny was the smartest person in the group. There were hints of it throughout the previous seasons and the movie. And this movie proved it. XD.

[@CAMELOT331]

This video reached harder than Ancient Aliens when they said Einstein was part alien.

[@fullmetaltheorist]

Aye what's up dude

[@DivkvanDyke6913]

The history channel episode was amazing.

[@dr.braxygilkeycruises1460]

I thought of this Alexa's existence as a commentary on loneliness in the future. 2020 was a horrible year for me in that my fiancé and my mother died (a week apart), and my youngest child was grown enough to leave home. I don't want to be nagged but I can now see the attraction of having an interactive Alexa type AI to keep me company as I figure out what the next phase of life will be. I wonder if they'll have male versions of Alexa? 🤣😂

[@straightupanarg6226]

Studies have shown that a female voice is more conducive to trust and the rest of it, which impacts consumer spending. So I doubt it. If you want a male AI companion there is always Replika; and, if you pay Replika enough it will even cyber with you.

[@robynsegg4756]

9:05 - 9:09... Wisecrack Dude: "This is where we're all heading." Me: "Aren't we already there?"

[@secdup2510]

Possessive individualism explains why Australian private schools are receiving almost the same amount of government funding as public schools.

[@arcturionblade1077]

I find it hilarious that out of all four boys, it's Cartman that ended up getting married, having kids, and has a strong loving family with a seemingly healthy relationship with his wife. The other boys don't seem to have any significant other (Kyle and Kenny remained single while Stan has a super toxic and unhealthy relationship with a holographic representation of Amazon's Alexa).

[@brandon7024]

my question is why do so many people conflate anti-mandate, and anti-vax, on both ends. Being against mandates doesn't mean you should avoid vaccinations, and someone who's against vaccine mandates isn't necessarily against getting vaccinated. a person can be pro-vaccine, and starkly against vaccination mandates. Which I think is for the best because allowing governments to mandate any medical procedure sets a dangerous precedent.

[@leestrz4153]

Good comment Brandon! Way to go. Let's go

[@methos-ey9nf]

That's an excellent point. I think they get conflated because if you put anti-vax and anti-mandate onto a Venn Diagram there's [likely] a LOT of overlap. Or put another way - do you know a lot of people who are anti-vax but pro-mandate?? I would guess no. How is it a dangerous precedent though? I mean seriously, what is the mandate really? It's a terms of employment agreement. If you refuse to get vaccinated then fine, leave your job. It's not discrimination because having unvaccinated employees poses a health risk to the work environment. Notice there's similar policies around substance use & firearms.

[@brandon7024]

@@methos-ey9nf *It's a terms of employment agreement.* If private businesses, work places etc require vaccination then that's alright by me, that's their right. When I say mandate, I mean precisely the government forcing people to be vaccinated, arresting them and charging them if they don't. That is, a person shouldn't be arrested simply because their unvaccinated and in a bar. But if that bar requires that they are vaccinated and they refuse to leave then they can be arrested on the grounds of tresspassing. At least imo *if you put anti-vax and anti-mandate onto a Venn Diagram there's [likely] a LOT of overlap* I half agree. If a person is anti-vax first then they will likely be anti-mandate (in regards to the vaccination) but the converse isn't true in my experience. The majority of people I'm exposed to that are anti-mandate are strictly against the government having that power, they have no problem with vaccinations in general. The issue lies in the assumption that there's a major overlap. Because of this assumption people who are anti-mandate are lopped together with anti-vax and find themselves in anti-vax echo chambers as a consequence. (the miracle of social media algorithms). Now, 990/1000 of those people will nope out of that, but then there's the 10 who are more susceptible who will be turned which could've been avoided if people weren't so ready to reduce the nuance present.

[@k2ggers961]

Let's go Brandon

[@tfive24]

Did you go to public schools or play sports?

[@savagebeastking8703]

If the social contract ever existed I’d say it was broken a long time ago

[@IAmNumber4000]

Feel like the South Park creators have been undergoing a shift in consciousness over the last decade or so as they shift their focus from “Don’t tell me what to do” to “What is the future going to look like if we keep doing what we’re doing?” Came out especially in the episode about the Amazon warehouse too

[@majdjinn5042]

You mean where people are telling you more and more what to do and people are constantly capitulating? Then some dweeb whines about large corporations not realizing their prior bellyaching for someone to do something has giving the rich more money? Lockdown? More to Amazon. Vaccines which effectiveness wanes? More to pharmaceuticals who have been signed a blank check as governments completely go into sunken cost mode. Begging for people to be deplatformed? More and more legacy media steps in the place of home made content creation. Hell they don't even glance at the joke of how covid has had a massive impact on the environment with the mask pollution

[@IAmNumber4000]

@@majdjinn5042 Your priorities are screwed

[@majdjinn5042]

@@IAmNumber4000 If you think that then you're already rotten in the mind

[@IAmNumber4000]

@@majdjinn5042 That wearing a mask is more important than letting millions of Americans die because of your personal pride? Think it's your mind that's rotten.

[@majdjinn5042]

@@IAmNumber4000 Are we really pretending the masks worked still? Or that lockdiwn wasn't to reduce hospitalizations with the knowledge those were inevitably? I live in Florida where life is back to normal and everyone living their lives working. Enjoy your omicron excuses to curb your freedoms.

[@JamesLaserpimpWalsh]

There is a massive disconnect between what ppl say and what ppl do.

[@WestCoasting206]

It’s like when people say we need to take care of the homeless but when someone recommends building low income housing, the same people say not near my place.

[@duncanmoore3780]

The Smorgasvein was a call back to a Episode where his father does.

[@Anton-V]

Cartman is an Orthodox Jew since the Jewpacabra episode, he may have experienced a difficult learning curve but that's understandable because of his past, I believe him

[@RenegadeStriker7]

See? It makes sense and Kyle had an episode about having trouble in his faith as well

[@Felhate]

The bubble around their head is a reference to the "chin diapers" South park mentioned earlier aka masks, which a lot of people wear wrong (below the nose).

[@thejuliosingho1090]

Wild theory : What if Adult Kenny is the reason young kept coming alive again and again in the earlier seasons because of what’s about to come? Adult Kenny kept saving him 😱😂

[@Matt-xc6sp]

The “keeping old people alive at any costs” is a reference to how we’re still locked down mostly to protect the health of old people and the unvaccinated, the later represented by Clyde’s shellfishness.

[@giampaolofini1535]

Wouldn't it be shellfish for people to take vaccines that don't need them statistically (young, healthier people in the west) when the developing world can't get enough and doesn't have the medical systems in place to treat the infected as well as in rich countries. We just got thru a year of constant moaning about "white privilege" but now those same people are insisting the all of the white-majority countries must be 100% vaccinated, even the young/healthy demographics that are overwhelmingly not getting bad covid, before the less-wealthy POC-majority countries can get a first dose for their most vulnerable groups. Who's really the shellfish one here?

[@ricardojulio3564]

if you think you are locking down to protect the unvaccinated there is something missing in your brain. As for me i was serving my country when no vaccines where around and now and i am "selfish" because i dont want the poison...what a joke.

[@otterlover3399]

@@ricardojulio3564 yep we are locking down to destroy independent small businesses and psychologically break people. Don't drink the koolaid.

[@bengilhooly3616]

@@otterlover3399 But the lockdown’s over now

[@MrJamess1982]

Apparently in the future everyone reminds you that you are in the future.

[@samanjj]

Yes here in the future, we like talking about being in the future through our internet connected computing tablets on the information super highway - it’s so rad!

[@ZombieMaster420]

Fairly sure this is just the first half of the larger point and we'll have to wait for part two to see what it all was really about. I suspect somehow Randy will save the day with his magic talking weed plant

[@Coffee_paradox]

Possessive individualism can also be the consequence of the lack of trust in a society, and not the cause.

[@lanzhimself]

The future is a grave, we are the shovels.

[@metalninjajesus1580]

The good thing about South Park is how, as frequently mentioned, they make fun of everyone. As a result, you'll see left biased examinations of the show (like Wisecrack) pointing out show details that support their stance, while right biased examinations do the same geared towards their own. I find many of the best forms of entertainment that end up being throught provoking are the ones that show multiples angles of something or specifically dwell in the grey area. It wants to you to think about it and come to your own conclusions rather than tell you what something means. Trying to spell it out to your audience can come off preachy and get negativity if the viewer doesn't already share the same beliefs as the message in the movie or.show.

[@jcdrummerz96]

The image of a bunch of kids on a playground wearing VR headsets was really bleak.

[@JayDee-vq5rf]

You seem to be on the right track. However, the social contract ends when it is breached, like all contracts. Once it went past 2 weeks to slow the spread, you have no contract only predation.

[@GlennDavey]

Seeing the kids grown up felt like the same kind of treat as watching the Beatles doco and witnessing the Beatle boys making a record and seeing just how young they looked in real life. It's like I got two rare things in a row, last week was pretty cooooo

[@OneManCast]

Yes, because guess what? We do not owe anyone a single obligation. We do good things, BECAUSE WE WANT TO. No one is obligated to another for anything. We are the ones who give out the kindness. Kind acts lose meaning when we petulantly demand that kind acts become obligatory.

[@HLN327]

it’s the government that made it a thing to quarantine them all so like it’s not clydes fault he didn’t ask for the lockdown

[@Theorphan81]

It's very telling you completely left out the part where they show all comedy in the future sucks and is boring because of how sanitized and politically correct it now is.

[@splatoonlover5322]

Tbh I really like how South Park kinda shows how I feel about the future. As someone in middle school I see the future as a bleak dark thing. I know that I or the earth won’t make it.

[@donwill1926]

Coercion force and violence can never equal virtue.

[@Hoshimaru57]

In the future I’m fat, lonely, and angry all the time. But I still have the people I could always count on. For now. Honestly I’m worried that without our families controlling how we live, when we go off and get our own places (next year from the sound of it), we might reveal that we simply aren’t those people. And no one stays more adhered to the past than me so I worry about what would happen if my friends went off and had lives of their own. I’d be Kenny. But without the power to save then.

[@covenawhite4855]

You sound like a good person. I hope you get your anger problem under control. Anger is a real common problem and recognizing it is the first step to progress. Just know we are all imperfect. I wish you good luck.

[@naughtycicero1460]

Are we just gonna ignore how Alexa goes Starship Troopers on us by constantly saying, “Would you like to know more?”

[@RetroDawn]

Google assistant does that now.

[@nathanchenery1075]

Eventually there will be a “Clyde was right “episode

[@Alec0124]

I think it comes back to government/media transparency. If more people could trust their government/media, it would be easier to have consensus.

[@spiritwatcher]

Wisecrack you guy forgot the part that comedy in the future is shitty. And even Jimmy can't make woke comedy funny. No one laughs they just clap.

[@oshomroni]

This isn't just clapping. It's called clapter, and it's how people react to modern comedy

[@maxmustermann2197]

Right? That satire on woke comedy came up several times in the episode, and Wisecrack just flat out ignores it, because let's face it, they are woke as fuck themselves!

[@MLBlue30]

What is woke comedy? Anything that makes a straight white male uncomfortable?

[@maxmustermann2197]

@@MLBlue30 Did you even watch this South Park special? If you did, you should know what woke comedy is...

[@herestoustx6123]

Bro you missed the perfect chance to show out of the three bros cart man Kyle and Stan 1/3 of them is balding.

[@DomyTheMad420]

8:45 it's *almost* like they sure make a good comedy show... but their personal beliefs and stance is half assed and just full of flaws, like everyone else.

[@AliHSyed]

Shellfishness joke had me laughin

[@laqueenawilliams4762]

It was pretty clever.

[@wynonasbigbrowndragon6121]

Ditto

[@eddardstark5034]

I just finished watching the episode and it was pretty clear to me that Matt and Trey had finally experienced a scenario where someone else's rugged individualism impeded on their individualism. For all other examples they were able to argue "fuck you! its not contagious!" but this time they weren't.

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

WISECRACK: The future certainly sucks. ALEXA: Would you like to know more?

[@jumbo7298]

All I want to know is. Is it foolish of me too blindly follow a government?

[@GratefulDave93]

The whole world is suffering from shellfish-ness.

[@aeronothis5420]

I think they put too much of the onus on the individual's responsibility to maintaining the social contract and not enough on the collectives responsibility. E.g. when the collective says "x amount of time to flatten the curve" and then continues to abuse the power they gained during the pandemic to suppress the individual. People themselves by and large did try to maintain the contract. But when the contract was violated time and time again by the collective by those moving goalposts eventually more and more individuals are going to abandon the collective social contract. Worse still the people in charge of the social contract seem to be under no hurry or obligation to find the source and hold accountable the nation state(s) and individuals responsible for this pandemic damaging individual trust in the social contract further. Welcome to your new flu shot folks, every year you will be getting a new covid jab in order to combat the new variant, but unlike with the flu where we can somewhat reliably predict which strains will become more prevalent based on historical data, we are becoming the historical data for the future. There will be no way to predict this for quite some time to come.

[@RetroDawn]

Yep. Likely more often than yearly, at least for a while.

[@samanjj]

If we were all vaccinated as soon as we could be, wore masks and kept social distancing as needed, i would agree with you, but the majority of individuals took much longer to accept the social contract and here we are.

[@SkidMark5150]

Wisecrack might as well be called Stalingrad

[@lilwerner1518]

honestly this is a more haunting vision of the future than anything the contemporary cyberpunk genre could come up with

[@Ramiel77]

This episode was all about what Matt Christmas has been talking about for years now. Chalk Guys ahead of the curve

[@nubbles9431]

Stan learned about Smorgasvein from Randy who made one is season 18 episode 6

[@TheRocketbabydoll]

Well of course, it’s very cultural 🧐

[@ziguirayou]

I think the whole Clyde thing in response to the lockdown just went WAAAY over your head. The future is dire...

[@TheDavidjohnhunter]

If you were to be completely honest the future will suck. That's if we survive the crippling changes that is?

[@EarJuice]

I feel like I was just talked down to all the while the philosophy seemed a bit shoe horned in this time round.

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

"The future ain't what it used to be."

[@PhilospherDjPsychologist24]

12:04 if you buy a car to impress your neighbor, you dint buy it for yourself, you bought it for them, maybe not for their pleasure, but for their reaction all the same

[@theaccountable]

You will own nothing and be "happy" about it.

[@galaxyglizzy]

That's an interesting take... it makes it seems like Matt & Trey might prefer a Moderna and Pfizer dominated corporate oligarchy over the possessive individualism of capitalism, but given their libertarian tendancies, i find this doubtful. That's not to say we don't already exist in an oligarchy, but it seems clear to me that in that future it is a lot more prevalent and that it contributes to the state they're in as opposed to selfish individualism as you're stating. If it wasn't for the oligarchy, media wouldn't have been able to successfully instill the fear that leads to people jumping out of windows and rioting when news breaks of a single person dying of covid. Clyde's lack of a vaccination leads to people overreacting, but people being conditioned to react that way has nothing to do with individualism and everything to do with a specific collectivist mindset that is encouraged by the oligarchy in order for them to retain power. I like your take as well, I just initially saw it differently and wanted to share. Cheers!

[@NestortheArgonaught]

Went through hundreds of comments just to find someone who saw societal conditioning as the cause of the suffering. Thanks.

[@galaxyglizzy]

@@NestortheArgonaught same. I'm surprised by the lack of analysis in the comments of both the author's analysis and of the episide itself.

[@sirguy6678]

It is the future and we get all our education from media influencers and self- appointed philosophers through our useless social media…

[@markgoggin4776]

0:54 I remember when youtube had no ads. Then it go ads but you could skip them right away. Then they made it so you had to wait 5 seconds before you could skip the ad. Then they made 15 second unskippable ads. Then they made it so u had to watch 2 unskippable 15 min ads. Now u have to watch 2 unskippable ads and an ad in the video. Love me the future!

[@spicyboy5330]

"Would you like to know more" Throwback to the fascism of Starship Troopers

[@Prairie_Barbarian]

REJECT COLLECTIVISM, EMBRACE UNITY

[@Xamufam]

same thing

[@Prairie_Barbarian]

@@Xamufam False. Collectives require enforcement and appeal to lowest common denominators. UNITY requires choice, as in individuals CHOOSING to UNITE with one another, forging real and true bonds. Not the image of one.