Introducing The Red Pill Series
A series of videos debunking the myths of modernity
The Red Pill Series
I’ve been working on a series of videos called “The Red Pill Series.”
These videos will try to debunk some of what I call the “myths of modernity.” They’ll be about how we shouldn’t just blindly trust “The Science” or “the experts” or our institutions.
The Latest Video
The newest video in this series is about how modern society infantilizes people, and especially hurts young people by extending childhood:
What we do to young people is historically unprecedented, and has profoundly negative effects on society.
The first video in this series was: We need more conspiracy theories, not less.
Why I wanted to make this series
I wanted to make this series after I saw how fractured society had become during the COVID era, to the point where some friends and family were torn apart.
It became clear that so long as half the population still believed in the legitimacy of our institutions and other “myths of modernity,” our society would remain fractured.
I’m hoping that some of these videos can be used as a tool to help bridge the divide.
What’s to come in this series
Here are some other titles under consideration for this series:
Why modern science is broken
Why you should do your own research
Should you trust your doctor?
The Nobel Prize is a scam
Why socialism doesn’t work
How public schools turn kids into zombies
Is therapy B.S.?
How to support this project
If you’d like to support this project, you can buy me a coffee.
Your support is much appreciated!1
If you do decide to contribute something, let me know which of the listed video topics you’re most interested in. I can’t promise that I’ll prioritize those, but I’ll take people’s preferences into consideration!
This is an excellent video analysis, and I agree with most of what this lady is saying. In fact I was thinking about this very problem myself yesterday.
The Beatles had written all of their musical oeuvre in the ten years between the ages of seventeen to age twenty-nine when they broke up in 1970. But they were not considered to be abnormally young as in 1960 in the UK you could leave school and start work at 15.
I know it's exactly what the evil wizards want (i.e. totalitarian tyrants high and low), but at risk of making excuses: covid really turned the juvenescence dial up to 11. Many millennials I know who had ostensibly (and just barely) "adulted" by 2019 admitted with a nervous laugh that by 2020 they "are now living middle school 3.0." Which is to say they moved back home, and became largely passive consumers on their parent's credit. As our fellow Bret Weinstein aptly points out: "I don't blame anyone who had to choose from a menu of bad options." But he also says, "I don't want to live in a world full of self-centered people." 😂
Between the "affordability crisis" (i.e. USG quietly defaulting by debasement, inflating the USD) on top of "remote work" (a contradiction in terms if you ask me, as that hilarious South Park clip makes fun of), and of course "woke ideology" all multiplies to stack the cards against most young people nowadays: they lack the material requisites for building a family (hence engaging in fruitless serial-monogamy or metropolitan-polyamory, porn galore), or even self-starting (as they are indebted thanks to predatory college loans), lack actual social capital and have no professional network (due to sitting on the computer all the time), and are obsessed with conformity (not to mention the false promise that socialism offers to pay off said loans) driven largely by algorithmic inculcation and their "friendships" which are predicated on an endless repeat of insincere virtue signaling and passive aggressive struggle sessions to keep each other in line. The result of this equation = increasing infantilization, for sure!
I hate to be pessimistic, but especially within the Gen Y, the only millennials I know of that cohort who have a marriage, home, and children either begged, borrowed, or stole to get it (i.e. usually trust fund financed). Gen Z seems to "own nothing and is [un]happy" and is already living the "Great Reset" so to speak. Gen X made the "web 2.0" internet, and seem to have enough tech earnings to emulate their boomer parent's prosperity in some approximation.
The long in the short is consistent with your video though: _public school, and especially the institutional prestige path, is worse than worthless._ *Homeschool, and/or go hard with intrinsically motivated projects carried to completion.* To quote the Bret again: "Everyone should learn to do something that doesn't require social approval to know whether you've succeeded or not." 👏
The tragic irony of all this is _most kids today don't actually have a childhood_ that allows for *risk* and exploration of *self-discovery,* as you point out.