Why America Keeps Making “Stupid People” Famous

I am by no means Einstein, nor would I consider myself even to have any particularly high intelligence by any means. However.. when I see people believe that such viral phenomenons as “Hawk Tuah” are even slightly comedic, I start to think perhaps I’m sharper than I usually believe.
Many people have started to notice a trend. Western society, but particularly the United States seems to have an obsession with making “stupid people”, or perhaps more accurately, people who do stupid things famous. Rewarding unusual moments that seem insignificant at the time with lavish attention, and even in some cases wealth.
In this longer than expected lecture I will explain my thoughts on why I believe this keeps occurring.
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[@joshuaherbert30]

Ishowspeed is a perfect example. Basically became famous for barking at people and badly pronouncing names.

[@Scepter1]

It's entertaining for kids and teenagers at least and he was famous for his gaming before he even started barking.

[@medievalcatguy6776]

I mean, that's an internet persona, but in real life he's a chill dude

[@joshuaherbert30]

@@medievalcatguy6776 idk last time he made a baby cry by barking in his face, then tried to say it was an "accident"

[@medievalcatguy6776]

@@joshuaherbert30 he gave a kid that was streaming 20k (im not sure about this next part) for his dad's sickness

[@griffiththechad9483]

@@joshuaherbert30yeah that was very stupid but at least he was apologetic and even attempted to deescalate the tense situation. Still a pretty dumb thing to do to a newborn, especially in front of their father.

[@monsterguyx6322]

This trend started back when Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian became famous for having leaked sex tapes.

[@GIGADEV690]

More like planned leak tapes

[@str.77]

Actually, Paris Hilton was first famous for being famous. Kim Kardashian was famous for having a big butt.

[@jcdentoid]

It should be noted these were both already well connected individuals. Paris being the daughter of the hotel magnate, and Kim being the daughter of a Hollywood lawyer who was close friends and defended OJ Simpson, as well as being friends with Paris. The people featured in this video meanwhile, were nobodies with no connections. Rather different situations.

[@screwybit8118]

Actually it's aloore complicated but effectively can be explained as they got famous because of someone else but quickly saw there fame was disappearing because they had nothing special about them so they resulted to trying to stay in the public eye no matter what it's why people like Jake Paul does stupid shit or why politicians will randomly say or do something stupid like it or not it gets attention

[@Awhaylenaw]

I dont think there was a specific time in recent history where this started i think this has most likely been a part of human nature since the dawn of our existence. Its just so out in the open now due to technology that were highly overstimulated to it and people subconciously revert back to it. Not gonna lie, i remember being in middle school when the “catch me outside” thing blew up and i remember finding her appauling but it still got me to binge a bunch of unhealthy exploitive material because i was just facinated by the thoughtlessness of the population. it was just entertaining to watch percieved smart people interview percieved stupid people because the bar was so low i didnt have to do much brainwork to feel superior 😂

[@Vapourwear]

The problem with an “attention economy” is that there’s so very little worth looking at; so people flock to what’s EASY to look at, not what’s worthwhile.

[@yeez13]

On the flipside, it also makes niche things more appealing to those who seek out the lesser known things that interest them and therefore tend to make more meaningful connections that way

[@JasonSpielberg]

Perhaps try looking inward. Then again, for most of these people, that's probably what got them so bored in the first place.

[@Wilhelm4131]

You have the freedom to be a slave to your desires

[@dickinwurfer]

Well said.

[@rusluck6620]

nah, we are slaves without christ

[@Bashbekersjiw]

​@@rusluck6620for being slave ro christ

[@GIGADEV690]

​@@rusluck6620 Maybe having blind faith in a 2000 year old guy is idioticratic

[@carlhobeychi2155]

@@GIGADEV690 Idioticratic is not a word, but go on.

[@buckfoster5989]

For the cash me outside girl. It's actually "catch me outside" meaning find her outside in public property so you can fight. She just speaks like a caveman

[@silasspeaks3301]

It's called Ebonics... 😅

[@HeroSword_P]

It's simply known as "ghetto"

[@thecossackcrusaderofholybr8448]

*blackman

[@DeadpoolX9]

@@silasspeaks3301 Why are you speaking Ebonics at Dr Phil?

[@craigdaubbeats-rapinstrume9185]

People can say what they want about her, she capitalized on that moment, built an empire and generational wealth and exposed the doctor Phil show for knowingly sending kids to abusive programs. I don't care what she did to get that money. She didn't harm anyone else in the process and she'll never go broke so... She could've become a junky like many celebrities that had everything handed to them on a silver platter. I have more respect for her than many of the celebrities people look up to. At least she's no virtue signalling political panderer for either side. At least she owns who she is and doesn't wear a clown mask like most celebrities, and people in general.

[@Burns_RED]

HAWK girl is the most UNINTERESTING person to get attention I've EVER seen. Thank God her 15 minutes are finally over.

[@bluedolphin5435]

I kept hearing that phrase a while ago in some meme compilations, I was like: "Dear god, what slang has gen alpha come up with now?"

[@thechudson]

This is my first time hearing about this. I’ve watched a good amount of videos from this guy and he seems to be will in touch enough, at least to my standards. But I looked up the video and yea it’s the to be expected trashy stuff, but are people actually talking about this, I mean there isn’t really much to add after your initial reaction of either disgust or laughter right? I don’t have TikTok or follow much mainstream media outlets, but I remember the other ladies’ stories transcending into my bubbles despite that, so to me this just seems like another example of the conservative bad habit to over exaggerate something’s popularity, that way you can complain about it being popular Sorry for the text wall TLDR; do other people actually care about this or is this just media being over dramatic?

[@dillonc7955]

I kept seeing it and scrolling past it on Facebook until a video came up about who she was. She's like most normal people: worked a factory job in an area with lackluster opportunity. Of course she capitalized on it and started selling merch strangely. Any person I see wearing that shirt, you're reminded that their sense of humor is ground down to dust.

[@The_Punisher]

From what I've heard she was offered some deal and it seemed like even she was confused about it

[@thecollierreport]

She's actually awesome, she has leveraged this for good, she has helped herself and others, and she is quite aware of how fleeting this is. I like her, even though I consider the thing that got her famous to be quite vulgar. Some people get a chance but it shows their ass, in this woman's case she caught a huge break and proved her mettle, in my opinion, brilliantly.

[@spirosma]

What I've noticed is that in Gen Z, we're either really smart, or truly idiot with a almost non existent middle.

[@LuisAngel-mu4zv]

Lol! This is something i was thinking about last time.

[@swoldier7308]

I think its just a side effect of being chronically online, they constantly watch rage bait and fake lifestyles and aesthetics which makes them feel inferior

[@spirosma]

@@swoldier7308 not always. As a Gen Zer, I watch content like this. There's a lot of us that are what you'd call normal. It's just that there's a very small minority that makes it onto the Internet and gets popular and used to portray us as horrible. Something that's happened wrongfully to every generation so far except (in my opinion) Gen Alpha, because God damn are they braindead.

[@NJGuy1973]

And the smart ones avoid fame.

[@MsSwthrt102]

​@swoldier7308 They believe so much propaganda now too, they repeat what they hear with no critical thought or research.

[@WaffleSSSSSPLUS]

the normalization of perverseness is caused by the shrinks, they have normalized it because of nonsense around puberty and sexuality, the exposure to perverseness has always been around but the shame has been removed because of shrinks. this openness also doesnt only apply to sexuality but everything, people overshare and the "audience" are forced to listen and be okay with it. if you show displeasure you get penalized, if you refuse to share you get penalized, and the most extreme things that are shared are rewarded.

[@matthiasthulman4058]

The "don't be such a prude" thing helped get us here. Like the opposite of kink shaming, just shaming you for being normal

[@DeadpoolX9]

@@matthiasthulman4058 Yeah so we're just watching the limits of the propensity to signal boost low effort degeneracy and stupid shit once the conservative speed brake was taken off. It's like my joke about TikTok in the US vs in China. Now I might be unknowingly running defence for China and I have nothing but my armchair as evidence here but I don't think China needs to manipulate the US algorithm that much. If anything I think they doctor their own tiktok algorithm very heavily to promote education and accomplishments. For the US I genuinely think they gave us an undoctored algorithm and we chose stupid degenerate bullshit for ourselves.

[@djentile7773]

People turning from God and morals on a huge scale. Leads to all kinds of evil and debauchery and even the celebration of it.

[@austin2245psn]

It’s caused by Jews

[@Deathlobster137]

Hey man I’m a shrink and I’m not about this shit

[@joaquinlanderretche]

I mean, the Hawk Tuah girl just said something that because of it's shock value and vulgarity made for a funny clip. Nothing else. It should've been just that. Why oh why would someone offer her thousands of dollars to appear in events and stuff. I feel like there's 15 missing steps in between.

[@jimboslam]

Very measured taked. It was the vulgarity, the shock, and the male approval of "SEE, SHE KNOWS WHAT WE LIKE!" spreading her message far and wide so most guys don't have to be the ones who come off as crude and vulgar. It's like "She said it, not me, but we agree." I don't fault her for riding the fame train. But it shows a deep rtardation of our culture that this is what passes as a fly by night celebritie.

[@P.Aether]

Why? Money. Simple as. She will sell products because people fall for familiarity and memes. We have invested trillions in the stock market in social media and tech companies. Guess how these companies make money? Advertising. We have invested our collective money in the selling of products, in which we have created this zeitgeist where hawk tuah is an idol. It makes sense when you see it like this. It would be insane stupidity if someone didn't offer her a deal lol

[@maximusolivia9982]

Things feed into themselves and snowball very rapidly on social media. The “steps in between” you speak of happen…. Just very rapidly and “ethereally”

[@GIGADEV690]

Funny?? I am the guy who will laugh at weird mosquito sounds then these

[@sagebarnett9155]

Exactly.

[@Bardo429]

I think that the fact that catch me outside girl got gold or platinum records means that these awards mean little more than listener count

[@YHWHsam]

I mean it’s quite literally awarding a listener count

[@camm5245]

Yeah that's the entire point of the award

[@evancombs5159]

More I think it means the listener count number is so low they no longer matter.

[@xenomorph6599]

Bro brought up the whole history of the human race to explain this

[@Islas_Canarias]

The intelligencia WANT the middle class to NOT have children because this social class is a threat to their power base. It's all going according to plan.

[@OGbqze]

Good.

[@youwatchwhatyouwant]

Irregardless 😅

[@geoffstemen3652]

Because we are of course part of the whole history of the human race

[@Ki-gz8ve]

all while ignoring the history of clowns, comedians and minstrels (which would explain his confusion regarding meme celebrity)

[@morthim]

"you don't have perverted adults in china" lol you believe that.

[@kathrineici9811]

The amount of men going to the ER with foreign items in their rectums has skyrocketed

[@theredknight9314]

Because those who are smart know fame is a risk

[@emperorpelican8187]

redknight you aint know nothing

[@leroysanchino]

@@emperorpelican8187you aint know how to speak English

[@slash8297]

Not only that smart people know about all the risks, they often tend to question themselves and their abilities, which usually just makes a person stagnate because they afraid to go on and act

[@kensurrency2564]

Fame is an illusion

[@fioredeutchmark]

So there’s this scene in idiocracy where the lawyers car is destroyed and everyone starts cheering, even the lawyer. I’m reminded of that scene every day.

[@user-mo7lg1gq2t]

I haven't seen it, but it sounds a bit amusing.. He's excited to sue for damages and get a better vehicle perhaps? =)

[@MarteenHobbu]

​@@user-mo7lg1gq2t nah, seeing shit explode is just radical bruh

[@chadkleckler5180]

It's "hock" not "hawk." That has driven me insane since the whole idiocy started. I get that the "tuah" is phonetic, but hock is the actual proper verb and fits phonetically to boot. My God. If hocking a loogie has become an esoteric thing then we have no hope left.

[@Dionysus_333]

lol that’s nuts

[@DeadpoolX9]

We do not. For some reason as the internet/social media proliferated we basically lost touch with the cultural thread of previous generations.

[@maximusolivia9982]

Yes. But I knew an old chunk of coal, when hocking a loogie it sounded more like “haaaaawcckkk”

[@djentile7773]

Its definitely Hawk Tuah.

[@djentile7773]

Its definitely Hawk Tuah

[@Sacrosanctity451]

I know I'm of relatively low intelligence and not above anyone else for any reason. I don't use tiktok and many coworkers approached me to share the absolute pinnacle of comedy that is the 'hawk-tuah' girl. I stared blankly at their phone waiting for the punchline. It never came. They were angry with me for not finding it downright hilarious. I was left in confusion.

[@noxplay4906]

I'd say you're average intelligence since you don't take ephemeral trends seriously, which is a good sign

[@FerutElCampeador]

I played a game in school about a small town. you had to help the neighborhood by doing various jobs: baking, trash collecting, carpentry, even a tin can manufacturing job. I loved it, remember every detail. If they had put numbers, math, equations, material properties I would know the barebones of those professions at age 10.

[@antonkovalenko364]

Do you recall the name of it? Sounds interesting.

[@publichearing8536]

​@@antonkovalenko364that sounds like the famous game: adolescent life before 1970

[@ridiculicious]

​@@publichearing8536Sounds like it, especially with the last sentence, but I wish they'd confirm. Saying they "remember every detail" makes it sound like they remember the name.

[@antonkovalenko364]

@@publichearing8536 I'm a product of the 70s. It sounded nostalgic. 😅

[@vladname9267]

Literal Idiocracy

[@antonkovalenko364]

Mike Judge is a prophet.

[@justadummy8076]

I’ve been saying this for ages, but no one wants to come to terms with the reality of eugenics. You cannot believe in evolution & disregard eugenics in the same breathe, it’s simply reality.

[@schlurpie]

i think your view of china and their social media is very naive. the problems you mentioned is everywhere, including china. the stupid videos from china just haven't reached western audiences

[@GIGADEV690]

I have seen a few but the Chinese government is at least trying

[@tamooz6649]

Yeah i liked his points till 4 & 5 😅

[@Ki-gz8ve]

@@GIGADEV690 Based on what exactly? China has a great wealth of online clowns/fools, same as the US. You just won’t be seeing them because you aren’t watching Chinese videos lol

[@mettatonneoex]

Especially the Gore situation people just think it's normal or funny

[@Freeze-cq1hj]

Oh I live in China and it's awful. People all around watching short videos without headphones, and even those sounds alone manage to send me into dopamine intoxication coma. You guys have NO understanding of how much their tiktoks are far aggressive in terms of dopamine.

[@langnostic5157]

I don't think porn is the only factor for "Normalization of Openess" I think it's Social Media. Social Media has turned people, and their private lives, into Brands and profit strategies, which causes social down stream affects in culture and society at large. And being "open about your life" is seen as authentic or "real" (even though it's all curated by definition).

[@bilodeaumichael3]

Agreed. Porn was perhaps the gateway to that openness. Make it accepted through sheer abundance and access. Then they gave the neutered version to the general public: social media. Then that became profitable, as per the course. And now people will record and publish their carefully curated lives for the world to see.

[@TaciturnusIneffabilis]

that MF not real woman was a very weird situation indeed. the apology she came with felt super forced and a lot of people pointed out that the person making the apology might not have even been her entirely. that was pretty weird nonetheless

[@a_fuckin_spacemarine7514]

I'm convinced that lady seen some real shit.

[@RyIev]

Alex, I’ve noticed since your last video you’ve attracted a lot more attention to your channel (probably because the topic at hand is something that moderate American neocons love to focus on) It’s great that you’re growing and I pray you hold on to your soul since I know thinking about where the world falls short is so draining. Thank you for your brilliant videos and God bless!

[@randomuser5443]

Agreed. I joined because i watched the pride video and genuinely expected some quartering or tim pool level analysis and “the wokes” to be the main argument. I was pleasantly surprised

[@RyIev]

@@randomuser5443 For sure, this channel is a breath of fresh air

[@RyIev]

@@koschmx Neocon as in the type of person who thinks conservatism is about “owning the libs” and outrage about Dylan mulvaney or drag queens. It’s clickbait conservatism, very surface level, and it can only exist in opposition to the left. And those guys still hold the connotation of being a neocon, but in reality their ideas are anything but new.

[@4850937]

"Collective ability to see what can be unburdened" "sitting at the table wearing a blue suit"

[@heatproofedwrens5449]

I wish i lived in a Hexagonocracy

[@KingOfNotHere]

Hexagons are the bestagons.

[@publichearing8536]

I'd live in a beehive, too

[@thedude5295]

8:18 - Just an FYI, brother. Irregardless isn't a word. I only know that because my grandpa always seemed to make a big deal out of that for some reason when I was a real little kid. It's just regardless.

[@a_fuckin_spacemarine7514]

It's a "real word", it's just redundant to say.

[@ericnail1]

He made a big deal out of it because the root word is “regard”, and then you add a “less” making it “no regard”. To then prefix that with “ir” is to say “no no regard” which means you don’t understand how words work and it makes anyone who says it look “illiterateless” - he was right to call it out.

[@thedude5295]

@@ericnail1 Oh, I know he was right. He was a wise man. I'll never forget him always telling me that Social Security wouldn't exist when I retired and I needed to save my money and take care of myself back when I was 5 years old and I still remember that to this day even though I didn't know what he was talking about back then. Still don't know if he was right or wrong about that, but I did what he told me to. But he tended to repeat himself about certain things a lot. Irregardless must have peed in his cheerios one day or something. 🤣 Love ya, Gramps.

[@ericnail1]

@@thedude5295 Smart man. He was correct about SS, it may even be much worse than he imagined. SS works by having more young people than old to fund it. This was doomed to fail eventually, but we’re now in a birth rate collapse, making failure imminent - currently SS will be out of money by 2035. Perhaps they bail it out, but then inflation: 📈📈📈 If you did what he told you to do, you’re in much better shape than at least 50% of Americans approaching retirement age today.

[@thedude5295]

@@ericnail1 Did one better. I bought a beat up foreclosure during the housing market crash with cash when I was in my early 30's. Still working on it 15 years later, but it's already paid for itself with all that rent-free living and then some a few years before the rents skyrocketed. Good thing too, because I never got a degree and any of the good paying jobs I ever did were all shipped to India 15 years ago. Now I just work part time retail every once in a while when I need to fill up the tank a bit. I try not to be black pilled on SS and all of that. But yeah... almost everything we do from SS to insurance is all just a bunch of ponzi schemes that pass the costs on to future generations. That's why I never had kids either. I think I got all my bases covered. Here's hoping my niece doesn't have too hard a time of it though.

[@salvatoreshiggerino6810]

The “not real” woman probably got an extra boost from international audiences who are not familiar with the American slang meaning a disagreeable person and instead assuming she meant someone who wasn’t actually human.

[@jcdentoid]

That's what she meant, she thought the other person was a lizard person or something.

[@Terrtail]

Openness has just gotten worse by being further pushed by LGBT people, when it's not only normal to talk about sexual stuff, but it's also encouraged to do it publicly and be shown to kids.

[@ad6417]

I totally. My manager thought it was appropriate to tell the whole department how many centimeters a co-worker's wife had dilated. I was so shocked and discussed.

[@BlackMantisRed]

You could learn a lot more about history by playing a historically accurate game then in high school.

[@Thavar91]

Civ 6?

[@publichearing8536]

​@@Thavar91Wolfenstein: The New Order, Obviously

[@DooDoo-f4v]

Yeah all the pro American garbage. Everything is bankrolled by a minority. Federal Reserve owns America and it's owned by Rothschilds. So yeah go off thinking you found some critical peak in that observation. Nearly everything is perverted history. Siths and Scythians. Pthumerians and Foromarians/Summerians. Come on you think you're finally thinking critically. Keep yapping.

[@noxplay4906]

I learned more about historical warfare from Rome Total War than I ever did in all those history classes in high school. The games made me want to do in depth research on the topic. In school, they don't teach you about the brave and epic feats of great generals and leaders, they teach you mindless minutiae and dates that you have to remember that aren't exciting in the slightest. History would be much more loved if they actually taught the INTERESTING parts But, I guess teaching kids about the more barbaric and violent parts of human nature, teaching them about bravery and strategy and masculinity is not politically correct or inclusive enough...

[@frankiecal3186]

We use to call this stuff " Dumbing Down the Public".

[@str.77]

I don't think gamification of education is the solution. Education will never keep up with video games and many skills and knowledge to learn will be lost in such a process.

[@user-qx8re2em1b]

Your channel is a treasure. Can't stop watching your videos! Though I am neither an American, nor even an english speaker or a Westerner, I can 100% relate to what you are saying. Unfortunately, I see the same trends im my country, as American culture and entertainnent are actively exported abroad. The decline in intelligence is also noticable here. Thank God, there is hope, as I see the trend to slowly be reversed

[@josephfox9221]

I really appreciate your channel but i gotta disagree with your darwinistic view of reproduction in regards to intelligence First issue is that intelligence isnt strictly determined by genetics. Yes many personality traits and advanages and disadvantages may be genetic but the vast majority would he determined by environmental factors. Secondly, it has always been that poor people have more children by the sheer fact that substance farming benefits from having many children whereas a craftsman in a city wouldnt see such benefit and for nobility having an excessively large family might a disadvantage. Which is why a lot of wealthy children were sequestered into monastic life.

[@herredward9277]

Alex, you must be the best educational KZbinr out there. I mean it. Thank you, it's very rare to have such an intelligent analysis these days.

[@herredward9277]

@-firefly7931 Why do you say that?

[@morthim]

'people would bury their (desires) in the forest' the number of serial killers this explains is too darn high! "it isn't normal" the shock and pearl clutching about meeting a bluecolar guy for the first time is both hilarious and disturbing.

[@codychapman7342]

There was program called Accelerated Reader when I was in elementary school that gave you a score based on what book you read and how well you did on a subsequent test on the computer. I read so many books i never would have read trying to get the high score in my class. Education has a lot of room for improvement

[@MIKEBEAN-hb3lg]

My gosh, this is the second video of yours I've viewed (already subbed) and you have NAILED my current failings in life so succuently!! I mean that in a positive way, It's very eye opening to me why I've been so angsty recently at my current life predicaments. Your philosophy is amazing for insights and improvements in my life outlook

[@YoLkE-22222]

you should watch his "the enemy explained" videos, some of my favorites of his

[@morthim]

"china doesn't make stupid people famous" how do you not know about mao or the ccp?

[@pk5727]

53:11 exactly….well that’s most of it. We also have a fatherhood problem….fathers teach their son’s what to do how to do and when to say such things. No fathers, contributes to the problem your describing.

[@joenathan8059]

i don't like the idea of of gamifying education,but i do think we need to make school work more exciting and interesting as possible

[@FacelessOddity]

Why not? It works. Ever try Duolingo for example. It's learning and it's fun.

[@MrBenMcLean]

I assume You've Been Framed is the British version of America's Funniest Home Videos with Bob Saget from the 1990s. I have fond memories of that show, not because the show was particularly intelligent or unpredictable, but because even dumb stuff can be funny when you're together with the right people. When the choices were watching that together with everyone on the only TV in the house or else reading a book by yourself off in your own room, watching that is not automatically the leas intelligent choice. It's about who you're with. So I think attacking shows like that as unintelligent is a little unfair. It's a social activity.

[@DanusTheManus]

i used to play times attack which was a math game that was super engaging and basically carried me through elementary and middle school. i have not seen a game like it ever and it is a shame. Also my history teacher used to play a documentary that had Total war game play in it and then he had an optional class where we would play war/historical games. and now I can see why math and history are my favorite subjects.

[@tina6824]

Americans aren’t making people who do stupid things famous and rich. Social media algorithms are designed to do that. That’s how social media companies generate income. Why are people fascinated by people who do stupid things? You explained that very thoroughly😊

[@brandonkelusky2493]

This is what society idolizes. Were doomed.

[@pyetrezavodchikov911]

Idealized for a week before it's forgotten, the problem isnt that dumb and drunk people do and say dumb stuff, it's that we have a terminally online addicted population, many of which have been on amphetamines since elementary school. The problem isnt the idiots being idiots, it's the ones who see it not speaking out. The truest evil is when a good men see evil and do nothing. We live in a surveillance state of fear. We are all so afraid to speak the truth because of what happens when we are brought on the sacrificial alter of social acceptance. Raise the issue, make it public, you'll learn there are more people in support of what you're saying than you thought. They, too, are just afraid to say it.

[@Pitchforkkk]

Recently discovered your channel. you’re doing great work man.

[@eagleeyeedit]

I like how im able to walk away from all of Alex's videos having learned something useful. Unlike most the slop on the internet.

[@thedude5295]

I was at a 4th of July party and somehow I was the weird one because I didn't know who that spitting girl was. I'm in my mid 40's. All of my male and female friends that were there are too. I would expect their kids to know who she was, but how am I the only one in the room that didn't? I don't have stupid friends either. This makes no sense to me. I'm grateful to be oblivious to most of this. Ignorance is bliss.

[@thedude5295]

To add... I'm the only person I know outside of my dad who still refuses to get a smart phone with a data plan. I'm almost entirely sure that this is everything. I am on the internet plenty when I'm at home and on my PC, but without even knowing what having always-on internet access in my hands no matter where or when, I recognize that not only are our exposure to the internet vastly different from each other, but likely our entire lives are lived differently from one another.

[@user-ue4fh5mv9s]

I was just thinking about how people made her famous and dont seem to find it outrageous at how shamless she is to talk about stuff like that for the world to see

[@cornbeefturbo1282]

Spot on with the you've been framed thing. Even when I was a kid I though it was the stupidist, most rubbish load of tripe imaginable. Because 90% of it literally was just old amateur footage of people falling over. Just awful.

[@AgentM3tallion]

Damned good to see ya again lad! Can't wait to tuck into this one!

[@TK_GX]

40:00 When I did well in my maths or other work in class at school as a kid and had free time, I was rewarded by being able to spend the rest of the day playing Diablo 1 on the schools Windows 98 computer. because I was too poor to own a computer. Now? Kids can play Diablo 4 or Minecraft or other games or tablets/smartphones whenever they want, which actually stunts their natural growth and intellect.

[@shroomer3867]

I'm a bit younger so what I can say is: True-ish kinda, but if it weren't for Minecraft, Starcraft II and other games I wouldn't be a programmer today haha. But yeah, having immediate access to entertainment as a child fueled me to be lazy and stunted my growth later in life when the high school classes actually started being difficult. Thankfully I got out of the educational system with enough to land an internship in tech and I'm still going strong. But yeah, for everyone else who isn't as innately interested in videogames or programming I would see why that's a huge problem, but I don't think it's not completely unaviodable, if you have good parents who are interested in your growth they can help set times for leisure and limits, but that's rare in today's world where everyone has to work and parents come home exhausted.

[@darkdawnbringer]

Pronouncing parents as purunts really gave me a good laugh. It sounds so silly... Is it a speech impediment of some kind?

[@pk5727]

42:46 we have that here in America. We called our version “ America’s funniest home videos”. In the 2010’s another type of that show started, can’t think of it’s name. But it shows people being stupid and usually being injured.

[@morthim]

'what kind of people do you think found these stories (and spread them)' people like you, cause you are doing it right now.

[@geoffstemen3652]

I don’t know if you know how right you are about all this, Alex. You have a solid gold thought process.

[@Sonicstillpoint83]

N word nonsense is only because of social media platforms. Random meaningless slur is ignored by 99% of people until it’s convenient for the narrative. Tertiary goal is to give it some sort of mystique or punch so that when it’s heard every other line and rap music that it might increase the probability of someone purchasing rap music to further normalize the bad behavior spoken about in it. The goal in all these cases is to encourage women to behave outside of what is considered normal in an effort to make women more unpredictable, which in-turn decreases any individual man’s likelihood of finding a suitable stable mother for his children.

[@user-mo7lg1gq2t]

Thankfully, there are still some sensible youth out there.. The challenge is to magnetize a sensible one to one's self. It can be done. =)

[@4850937]

"Gotta get down on Friday". "Everybody's Russian gotta get down to the bus stop "

[@pyetrezavodchikov911]

What is at bus stop, comrade?

[@4850937]

@@pyetrezavodchikov911 m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/b3eshHt7hJiaqa8 m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/oZe5pJmFiMd9j5I

[@majicman1395]

“He who should not be named” 100% gonna be stealing that joke

[@gacwav_]

Alex, if you know what's going on in Britain right now, I know you've probably been in grave danger for a while now. As a Christian, I pray earnestly for your health and safety as Britain takes it's first steps toward a horrible, horrible future. I hope to see you upload again soon.

[@HutchHere]

“Irregardless”

[@ulfmagnun]

You need more subscribers and views you are a very wise man.

[@7e8dn3id]

Ah yes and of course Mr. Hexagon is the smartest of all. He is simply too posh for all of us peasants.

[@Wilhelm4131]

Doesn't make him wrong, what entertains people today wouldn't stand 50 years ago foe the peasants. Also in England he would be just above peasant.

[@Ki-gz8ve]

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@Wilhelm4131 Why should comedy be what it was specifically 50 years ago anyway? Further back in history, jesters were even executed for being “unfunny”. People justified such punishments even decades after they were outlawed, but that doesn’t make them right.

[@LadLamer2421]

Yes, how dare him have standards for the populace and care for society and the people in it. He should smoke some weed, drink some beer, have some casual sex and chillax the hell out. Basically should just become an apathetic last man, as society literally deteriorates and falls around him. Now that is much better than being a "rude" and "arrogant" moralist.

[@katuni08]

I agree 100% that making education more interesting is the way to go. My kids are homeschooled. We use programs like ABC Mouse, Khan Academy Kids, Dr. Seuss, and Duo ABC to teach them. My 8 year old is very motivated to read so that he can play Minecraft better, so he has been working extra hard on his learning apps and has basically been teaching himself all summer. My 6 year old isn’t far behind him. I am finishing my degree online and Quizlet, Khan Academy, and Nerd Ai have been instrumental in keeping my attention. Textbooks are dry. Discussion, even discussion with Ai, is so much more engaging than memorizing pages of text. I would rather do a research paper on a subject any day over memorizing pages of text.

[@publichearing8536]

That's a wonderful thing and something I myself, and I hope competent parents around the globe, want to do for (my) kids, too. Unfortunately, this wholesome and effective practice is virtually illegal in a lot of countries. Imagine you do all of this to great effect only for some version of cps to come and take your children away from you for "harmful neglect", etc. due to chosing an alternative to the, in many places horribly outdated, antisocial-behaviour-factories in the public school system.

[@sharktooth4114]

The "N" word in America is like "Holocaust" in Europe.

[@angelaasadi9283]

Alex, I just found your channel. It’s so refreshing to listen to someone that offers highly intelligent information. The subjects you discuss are very interesting. 👏

[@Bashbekersjiw]

Angela il video contiene solo assunzioni senza effettive prove che può essere ribaltato facilmente......

[@kathrineici9811]

“Cashme outside” = “Catch me outside” = “I will fight you in the street”

[@susanmarie2231]

The Four Horsewomen: Young, white, beautiful. Is this why their outrageous behavior made them famous?

[@Pale-xr2ie]

Every time I see KZbin hide my comments I get less hope for humanity.

[@Military-gradenutella3068]

Stupid people can understand these things; they can relate. If you could set them down and have them watch, let’s say, a well-made, enjoyable, and humorous show about stoicism, it would simply bewilder, bore, or insult a stupid person.

[@Agartha_Inhabitant]

the main takeaway: 32:10

[@dancanfilm9626]

Based Alex as usual

[@Gares.]

Haven't even watched the video and I already pressed like. Bless the Hexagon 🕸️

[@maxarothdev7374]

That web is an octagon

[@Gares.]

@@maxarothdev7374 it's a hexagon on my cellphone.

[@Gares.]

@@maxarothdev7374 it's a hexagon on my cellphone's emoji

[@stepanbaranov8459]

In Russia there were several Jerry Springer-style shows in the 00s. So I don't think it's strictly an American thing, more like human thing, but exacerbated by the ultra capitalism in the USA (I'm not trying to attack capitalism, I love it).

[@Herobeans]

You're so underrated. Keep up the good work

[@geoffstemen3652]

He’ll go viral. We gotta help tag him, connect to other creators though

[@careercascade]

Esucation is always an effort. And writing things down has been proven to aid memotisation and it builds character bc at work we all have parts that we don’t like doing but have to- regardless if we have a fun thing to do at home or not. So gamification of education it’s the worst thing one can do. The key os moderation in all aspects. And saying that most poor pple are it as intelligent you need to explore th USSR education system- they had kids of peasants become space engineers in one generation. If it’s possin one country it’s possible everywhere. It’s the overall societal structure that’s broken that produces stupid pple. Going back to your video about the British class system.

[@tomnguen4200]

I think the chinese example is often overstated if you take a tour of doyin most popular content it would be still entertainment mainly short funny skit or "traditional" costume cosplaying. The subversive content they censored are usually content against their own government it has little to do with promoting educational content and i don't really think that even if they promote educational content it wouldn't be on douyin so the example is not really worth it. If you check weibo which is like chinese twitter or facebook in a sense the topics of discussion early mirror the west in content usually revolve around celebrity culture or goshipping. Political content are often suppress if it was deem against the party. The one thing they promote really heavily is nationalism or content that paint a worst view of the west like immigration or DEI. And even so intelligence is highly correlate with genetics so fixing the environmental component would still slowly decreasing the intelligence, it's just kicking the can down the road. What you would want is having lower intelligence people producing less while medium or midwit intelligence producing more to balance out the genes pool or have some form of embryo selection technology if you don't want a collapse. China also have their own problem of low fertility rate as well and probably also dysgenics but it seem your video only address the west I don't really know your view on nonwestern society situation so i won't argue on that point.

[@tomnguen4200]

@-firefly7931 it's not a measurement but highly hereditary I should have use better wording there it usually oscillate between 65℅ to as high as 80℅ depend on the study but that's more than half of your IQ. There might not be single gene where you can point to but you can observe indication that some individuals are highly intelligent by looking at their parent more than 60℅ of the time. My point about embryo selection is that we already can screen for genetic disease and I think there is a general correlation on how fit your gene and your IQ (less genetic disease = higher IQ) than embryo selection should result in higher IQ.

[@swoldier7308]

@-firefly7931 you don`t like it because it is stupid, if person A has great genetics because his bloodline were hard workers, ate healthy, tried to get informed as much as possible him living a degenerate lifestyle will automatically counter that and the opposite is true.

[@joenathan8059]

probably not a great example ,however, I see what he's trying to say. A government & culture that cracks down/prevents bad behavior.

[@tomnguen4200]

@@swoldier7308 epignetics is weaker than genetics effect and you won't change your genes because you exercise eat healthy or get inform it just mean you reach your maximum potential. Genetics is a capped on your potential and I'm addressing the fact that the maximum potential of the human population is decreasing it has nothing to do with the cultural side. Sure you can create a culture where everyone try there best and can achieve a lot but it is considerably harder if your genetics is just bad. If you want to say it is stupid go ahead but I think you need to put some thought to it before criticizing my argument

[@swoldier7308]

@@tomnguen4200 and how did those genetics form,was it magic? No they are adaptation to environment, consumption and habits

[@kitty5104]

You mean "Why the internet makes stupid people famous" 💁‍♂️

[@hgriff14]

its because people want to feel like there are people that arent as smart as them and the stupider the famous person, the larger the audience will be. people will just watch for different reasons.

[@astrahcat1212]

You say recent but Brittany Spears wasn't exactly Einstein

[@Charles_hodges]

Alex, do you think a potential solution to the problem of education is insulating young children from the extraordinary world of entertainment at home, until they have the discernment to understand the importance of education? Early on a lot of the strategy is in holding their attention, but once you’re in high school, it’s more about fostering ambition and a desire to succeed. I’ve a son, and one on the way, and I’m working on solving this problem. At the moment the plan is, don’t let him spend any time in front of a screen, and teach him from home, but that comes with its own host of problems.

[@Awhaylenaw]

Just imagine a Japanese Jerry Springer. THAT would be something

[@q4ssam]

it scares me how i never seen your channel, this is a gem ong

[@evancombs5159]

Health also affects intelligence.

[@nunomartins2209]

Making stupid people famous is something that is very prevalent since celebrities aka movies and tv started

[@dramir5953]

FINALLY someone is talking about this... I had the exact same question for 3 years

[@jordanpittmanmusic4753]

In a culture where all needs are easliy met, attention has become the biggest reward. This is how it was in school as well... only the rich and badly behaved children received attention or rewards in school.

[@GThu1]

I think the topic of "inherited genetic intelligence" is far more complicated. Why? Because I think, the "nature or nurture" question is more like "how much nature and how much nurture", while the answer is clearly different by each individual. This ratio can be easily a genetic feature itself... this makes generic rules valid only if both variables are influenced by the same factors.

[@muzainyshahiefisally5520]

@Alex Hexagon Singapore is not a good example at all. Adopting a collectivist has not stopped individual depravity from seeping in. Men being caught for voyeurism is an almost daily occurrence in our universities. Singapore’s abortion laws are some of the most permissive in the world. Porn is only symbolically banned and although porn production is illegal, these laws are rarely enforced. Singaporean collectivism turns its attention to individual expression as opposed to actual harmful acts. A recent example is a man who said that he hoped the former prime minister would be offed. He was given a few months in prison. Onlyfans models (apart from one male one) are never prosecuted despite the laws that are on the books.

[@hartfordhouse6997]

Burying pr0n was extreme to the point of negligence. I'm not saying it never happened (though I never saw or heard of anything like that) More likely, it was hidden in a closet or a bureau drawer. Under the mattress was almost a trope.

[@lemokemo5752]

This video made me think of the comedy film "Idiocracy".

[@theverysinfulcaterpillar5788]

I was in agreement until your discussion of education. I think you have it entirely backwards on this point. I am a high school math teacher and not all that old of one. I am young enough to have grown up daydreaming about getting home to my NES and Playstation and Playstation 2. First, it is simply not true that education is all done on pen and paper. The reality is (at least in the US) that schools have overwhelmingly embraced technology and everything is done in a way now that tries to make technology the center of the whole educational process. Second, it is in fact a *problem* that we have abandoned more old fashioned educational methods ("pen and paper") in favor of technology- and this for a number of reasons. For example, there has been research which has found that students who take notes on pen and paper learn better than those who use more modern methods. I can also say that the more modern technology based methods tend to teach things to a much more shallow depth than we learned them when for instance I was in school in the 1990s and 2000s. You argue that the problem is that students today are bored in school because they have more interesting things to do at home, but as someone who has been a part of education in both the 2020s and the 1990s I would say that I think you misjudge the degree of difference. Moreover, there is something else very important at play here: boredom at some level has always been a part of school, but what has changed is how well we *channel* that boredom. Today's students get bored during class. We did in the 1990s, too. However a big difference is that today's bored students use their chromebooks or tablets or whatever device their school has required that every single student have at all times (and in the US the vast majority of schools have done this) to go online or play a game or otherwise distract themselves - and no matter how much effort the school has put into blocking this stuff or making sure the devices are used for education only, the students are always ahead of it. In the 1990s, we didn't have devices, so when we were bored by whatever the teacher was saying we entertained ourselves by doing things like flipping through the textbook and finding something more interesting. This meant that we missed the lesson for that day, BUT crucially it also means that we were learning *something* even if it wasn't what we were supposed to be learning that day. Todays kids can't do this because they don't even have textbooks half the time: their textbooks are all in electronic formats on their devices. As a teacher I argue as strongly as I can for a return to less technology in the classroom. I don't mean to get rid of it altogether, for we live in a world of technology and we'd be remiss not to teach students how to use it (and they're mostly far, far, far less technologically literate than we were in the 90s!) I do mean to give pride of place to more "analog" methods that have clear advantages and which research even finds to have strong points. In short, the gamification of education is already everywhere in the US and it *absolutely is the problem,* not the solution. I also have to say that I think the real element of home life that really hurts education today is the *parents,* and this dovetails into the first half of your video which I think is well argued. It's not that parents are an intrinsic problem for education. Far from it: they are by nature a child's *first* and *primary* educators. The problem is that so many parents today seem to hold an immature and unhealthy attitude about education, almost as if they never grew out of the way they saw it when they were in school. They want their kids to get good grades, yes, and they push their kids to do so and they punish them if they don't and so on... BUT in an act of cognitive dissonance they simultaneously belittle and mock the material that their kids are supposed to learn in class. They send the message to their kids in some subtle and some not-so-subtle ways that school is really just a game you have to play, just a series of hoops to jump through and that what matters is getting through it with high grades to impress the people at the university, NOT that the material and the lessons are actually important in and of themselves. It's a HUGE problem, especially for math but also for other subject areas, and the difference could not be more stark between kids whose parents are like this (which is most of them) and those whose parents clearly think education is actually important. The children of those sorts of parents excel.

[@goatskin4487]

Disagree that most rich would care about “collective”’ There’s plenty of smart and selfish people.

[@Heartsjmc]

What is this a Eugenics Video

[@Ki-gz8ve]

Disgustingly so, yes

[@DooDoo-f4v]

A lot of life today are nothing but aberrations.

[@ravenillusion2596]

The 4 horsewomen "that mf not real" lady should be replaced by the Kardashians in this example.

[@mettatonneoex]

Imagine a Society that allows people to not only gain but profit from spreading degeneration oh wait.....

[@djblackprincecdn]

i was surprised to not see the Kardashians on here

[@NoBody-og2jg]

Man, ,thank you very much for all work you do. English is not my first language and they may be some errors in my writing, but I always was apathetic to elections and always saw those left-right parties as 2 wings of same bird, but could not quite explain it. Main divide is not about so called left/right, but individualistic and collectivistic ideology. Last couple of years do my apathy have fallen in mindless consumerism. Though, I manage to acquire some assets and always saw it trough some kind of instinct as my main objective no matter how high the price tag was. I have watched a lot of your videos last couple of days and you ignited again some kind of life spark in me again. Life without God is nihilistic and only made me cynical and zapped my life energy. I started to read a Bible and have gone to church first time after 12 years.

[@Klaevin]

I think that you are fundamentally wrong in your "idiocracy" section. since we invented civilization, human intelligence has played a smaller and smaller role in genetic fitness. genetic fitness is the likelihood that an individual will pass on its genes. so when we were still tribal, intelligence was very important. being able to strategize, be creative, be skilled, remember stuff... would bring you closer to the tribal leader or MAKE you the tribal leader. Naturally, being at the top of the pyramid meant that you would have more access to women ot to high quality men. (smart men have many women and smart women have the best men) dumb people would just d!e off. but ever since we had civilization, intelligence has played less of a role because if you were smart, you _might_ be able to ascend socially, but you woudn't necessarily have better/more mates or children. Being dumb is less likely to k!ll you and it wouldn't make you any less fit, if you were born into a noble familly. If you were at the bottom, you were disposable labor and might or might not have descendants. Free men might be farmers and have kids, but slaves might be castrated (or they could also have offspring). Intelligence didn't determine much, regarding the amount of descendants you had. If you were in the middle, you would need a certain floor of intelligence (I'm talking about a kind of artisan or merchant class) and would have a typical number of children : Above replenishment, but not enough to influence the human species. If you were at the top, intelligence became irrelevant to your genetic fitness. you would need to be an exceptionally dumb king for your court to kill your genetic lineage. Also, the king didn't want to divide the kingdom. The court didn't have much to gain in having a bunch of children. Again, it's nice, but not a must, like in tribal times. So having a bunch of children would need to be incentivized by the civilization's culture. But that just makes those at the top have more kids and that class can be inherited. Rural people have always had more children and this trend continues today. This is why white Americans are still the fastest growing demographic in America despite what MSM tells you, because immigrants go to cities and don't have kids, but rural farmers do. So the populations that pass along their genes are the rural ones, and being a smart farmer doesn't necessarily mean you will have more children than a dumb one. A dumb farmer will still be able to support his family, especially because that family helps him farm. because knowledge is shared, the smart farmert will tell the dumb farmer how to farm and they will both be as productive as each other. having a bunch of kids is instinctive, so both the smart farmer and the dumb farmer are trying to have big families. If anything, a particularly smart farmer boy will become a blacksmith's apprentice, a monk, a miller or any other skilled craftsmen. He won't need as many children as his father and would need to buy food instead of growing it. So he might have less children than a farmer. since the industrial revolution, urbanization has been on the rise, and birthrates have plumetted througout the West. THAT might be where the Idiocracy premice comes to play, but 150 years isn't enough to influence human genetics. I would also like to point out that I already said that urbanization id the cause of birthrate decline, so people who move to the cities and have less kids d!e off and the "average" farmer/rural person is still making as many kids as ever. So the human race isn't doomed to become braindead because of genetics. But it might become braindead from technology addiciton...

[@phyarth8082]

Binet IQ test is very controversial because of cultural aspect. For example, in biography had low IQ because he leaned only just only math music, art, philosophy, he not cared, joke he was "typical Anlglo-Saxon". Perfect in one specific field of expertise. Anomaly are French people they are everywhere but nowhere are perfect . English have Shakespeare and Newton, Germans have Goethe and Leibniz. France has the highest number of Nobel laureates but I don't remember any names of their super famous literacy stars. France also is anomaly in culinary it is very northern Europe but it has good traditions of cuisine at a level of southern Europe of Greece, Spain and Italy. This reason Hitler never could happen in France they are very divided very different always in war with each other over how things must go, no homogeneity of society. To some extend USA and Canada have same division, polarization of everything, democracy is very slow and ugly. it has no mantra all Roads leads to Rome, London, Washington. Paris become at one time absolute monarchy of France but kings head fall off in next generation :)))) Absolutism can win but for very short time. Simpsons - 14x16 - 'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky" by most funny British Eric Idle about Jack-of-all-trades and in the end not trade at all dedicated to Lisa Simpson. My interests include music, science, justice, animals, shapes, feelings. So you see yourself more as a buffet-style intellectual. Picking and nibbling... until one day you're 38 and managing a Barnes & Noble. Hey, that's not gonna happen. Lisa, I'm afraid you're a dilettante. Pick a path and follow it. Or you'll grow up, slog your way through Mount Holyoke... and squeeze out babies. I really like British and USA that they have unique sense of humor, Germans are perfect designing cars but if you remove human factor from country, it happened in WWI science became technology, education in Bismarck times "Prussian education system" boy is future disciplined soldier, girls education are home-economics (maid?). And today nationalism of Germany have slow internet so Germany will loosing technology competitive race to USA, China and rest of the World.. If you remove aspect of art, philosophy, music. Richard Wagner anti-Semitic essay about German Jewish composers is terrible warning. Maybe they been formulaic but they existed as independent art form maybe it was not-high standard art. Richard Wagner Teutonic romantism operas are very cheesy. High level cholesterol clogging veins cheesy :))))))) China produces perfect experts, but joke is: china produces all electronics but all culture (including low-brow) are copied form west and mostly USA. Dichotomy is that without high-culture low-culture cannot exist. Ironically most Chinese culture that existed prior communist comes form westerners scholars, for example John Gray book "Straw Dogs" very interesting Chinese philosophy concept is censored inside china (communist china). Dialectical materialism must coincide with modern China. Chesterton about japan, japan is more European that Japan itself it lost their unique identity, architecture. traditions. Amalgamation of japan traditions with western tradition fallen apart later or sooner.

[@aguilarraliuga1777]

Are ya crazy? The reason the French king fell was because it was too soft on aristocracy that was more then willing try out mad ideas that got themselves killed by their own madness

[@diemattekanzlei9124]

I have an IQ of around 130, and what he said about birth rate and intelligence is very true. I plan on having 10 kids because society needs more smart people, and also, I like children; but a lot of middle intelligence girls I have met see their job as the goal and kids as something they will do at 35 🙄. And the dumb ones get pregnant because "me like mush msuh"...

[@ChaosTherum]

I think one place where your point falls down a bit is that there is a different between being intelligent and being proper. Plenty of smart people, a pretty trashy, and I would include myself in that crowd. I find some real dumb humor funny, I also love witty humor, but sometimes you just want a dumb laugh.

[@heathergreenakers]

Sadly, we Americans spread our culture around the world. It used to not be a bad thing, but nowadays……….

[@Varangoi]

I learned the difference between East and West from World of Warcraft. I got a "Quest" that told me to go north-east to find a cave. Well i had to learn what north-east was. I also had to learn the difference between AM and PM through a flash-game. My English vocabulary got better because of videogames. And i learned russian swear-words from Counter Strike...

[@illTemperedSeaBass]

Call me Freudian, but I would argue that the "Single Mother Epidemic" is a large contributor to young people lacking a social filter in general. Generally speaking, men prefer to solve the problems they face, & only communicate when they can't solve the problem alone. Women prefer to complain ("vent") about the problem ad nauseam, & I say this with my own mother in mind, & only even entertain the notion of solving it once it begins to interfere with their ability to communicate. Sometimes not even then, they just go on a bitching spree as far & wide as they are able. & they, under no circumstances, will *ever* value another person's psychological well-being over their innate need to inflict their own damage upon others. Not even that of their own children. *Especially* not such a captive audience as their own children. What happens when that is *the sole parental influence* that the overwhelming majority of, at this point 2.5 entire generations have ever had? How could you expect people to have a filter of any kind when not a single day in their entire childhoods did they witness anything even beginning to resemble stoicism? Or, for that matter, anything other than abusive, selfish, obsessive lust for short-term gratification? Single mothers single their own children out for failure. Always have, & always will. That's why fathers are important.