Support the show at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult for $3.11/month and get a bonus episode every week. This week we chat about Tony's weather trouble, killer palm trees, and the Cars video game Also, China puts restrictions on minors' usage of online games, and we watch the Fox News comment section try to reconcile its hatred of teens with its hatred of China Finally, Lil Nas X does a maternity photoshoot, complete with prosthetic belly, and in the backlash we note the way cultural conservatism, conspiracy theories, and identity scapegoating crosses racial lines
I don't let my kids watch very much TV, play video games, or eat that much junk food.
This gives them an inherent advantage, and they will reap the benefits in the future versus normal kids with lazy parents.
Honestly, this is exactly what I want.
Doc, I promise you, any benefit you've provided them with keeping them from that, you are going to ruin by being the piece of shit that you are.
I guarantee it, you are going to traumatize your poor kid, because I can tell your attitude, and you're going to fuck your kid up, so shut the fuck up.
Yeah, your kid's going to be a wide-eyed psycho that's going to kill you in your sleep.
Um, no, but okay, but this theory though, this theory is like, groundbreaking.
It makes so much sense.
Yeah, duh.
I don't want the government to implement the same good policies that I have for my kids because I need my kids to compete against their fellow citizens.
Fuck a national project.
No, it's my level up.
Fuck like the betterment of society.
Our society is based purely on competition and tearing other people down so that we can get ahead.
Instating some sort of like, I don't know, guidelines that will help us as a people, as like my neighbors, you know, all achieve success?
Dog to dog, baby.
No, absolutely not.
It's this whole thing where it's like, I mean, you say white privilege, I say cheat code.
They don't want to see us win.
You know?
It really is, like, this is what comes from viewing your neighbor as, like, the enemy.
Yeah.
And it's not even just, like, as dramatic as that.
Because we talk about a lot of, like, conservatism is, like, being afraid of your neighbor, being afraid of going outside, like, all of that.
But It is the more, like, fundamental nature of living in a hyper-capitalist society where all this sort of, you know, culture, not cultural, but like domestic or social, rather, social values, social cohesion has been just like completely chipped away at by the necessity for the market to grow and people at top, the people at the top to get more and more.
This is what happens, it's just you inherently view everybody else in the country as competition.
Yeah, it's that idea that, like, everything is finite, and that's just the way it is.
It's not because it is being taken from us and held from us, it's because it's finite in general, so I need to give them the level up, you know?
It's that whole thing, you know?
It's like, I always joked with P's mom, I'm like, listen, like, You're 5'10".
I just want my kid to have a chance at a scholarship.
It's that mentality.
It's like, no, this is just evolution, but with the economy involved.
Well, yeah, exactly.
It's like a social Darwinism.
That's what they're espousing.
But they're in love with the reality that makes social Darwinism an essential part of life.
That's the only way it works.
I'm using the term Social Darwinism very loosely, but like, just competition in general.
Like, it's one thing to be like, well, we live in this fucked up capitalist society where you have to, like, be better than somebody else in order to get food on your table or to be comfortable or to, you know, I don't know, have a life.
And so yeah, I'm going to teach my kids, you know, the best way to succeed.
And I hope that they are, you know, successful with these things.
And it's another thing to be like, no, I want to make sure everybody else is kept down.
That's the whole thing.
Yeah.
It's like, no, no, like I'm not going to teach them how to level up.
I'm going to teach them how to like step on.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Not only am I going to teach my kids how to succeed, I want to teach everybody else the wrong- I want to do fucking dog tooth to the rest of society so they don't even know what words are.
They could just survive on looks and hand gestures and actual violence.
I want other parents' kids, when they go outside, to think a cat is a monster and run away screaming.
You'll save a lot of money on Halloween that way, still get candy.
