Ep. 643 - Children Made To Suffer So That Adults Can Feel Safe
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, we will talk about the incredible toll the lockdowns have taken on our children, as at least one school district rushes to reopen in response to a surge in childhood suicides. Also Five Headlines including Biden admitting that nothing we do will change the trajectory of the virus. So why does he want us to wear a mask for 100 days? Plus, an MSNBC analyst tries to make a profound point by extensively quoting a Nicki Minaj lyric. And in our Daily Cancellation, yet another TikTok parent is on the slate to be canceled.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, we will talk about the incredible toll the lockdowns have taken on our children, as at least one school district is rushing to reopen in response to a surge in childhood suicides.
Also, five headlines, including Biden admitting that nothing we do will change the trajectory of the virus.
So then why does he want to wear a mask for 100 days if it's not going to change anything?
Plus, an MSNBC analyst tries to make a profound point by extensively quoting a Nicki Minaj lyric.
And in our daily cancellation, yet another TikTok parent is on the slate to be canceled.
That and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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Much of the conversation about the lockdowns over the past 10 months has focused on the question of whether they are actually the best way to slow the spread of the virus.
That's been the be-all and end-all of the conversation, but this has always overshadowed and obscured the more important question, which is whether slowing the spread of the virus should be the overarching number one priority of our entire society, relegating all other concerns to secondary status.
Is stopping people from getting the virus In fact, so important that any other cost they might have to bear as a result of our measures will be worth it?
That is and has always been the real question.
And it's not a scientific question.
That's the thing.
It's more of a philosophical question.
It's a question of priority, of importance, of risk versus reward, cost and benefit.
See, this transcends statistics.
It's not something you can figure out by looking at a spreadsheet.
It's not something that a guy like Anthony Fauci will necessarily have anything useful to say about.
And that's why the powers that be did not want the issue framed this way.
They only wanted us to ever consider the first question, which is, will the lockdowns stop people from getting sick?
All other considerations be damned.
All other questions are moot, they claimed.
And they are, and we're always wrong about that.
Which brings us to a rare event.
Over the weekend, the New York Times published some actual journalism for a change.
The story by Erica Green reports on the decision to get schools in Clark County, Nevada, Las Vegas, opened again as soon as possible.
And what's prompted this urgent rush to reopen schools is a surge in suicides among children in the area.
Let's read now from the piece a little bit.
It says, Since schools shut their doors in March, an early warning system that monitors students' mental health episodes has sent more than 3,100 alerts to district officials, raising alarms about suicidal thoughts, possible self-harm, or cries for care.
By December, 18 students had taken their own lives.
The spate of student suicides in and around Las Vegas has pushed the Clark County District, the nation's fifth largest, toward bringing students back as quickly as possible.
This month, the school board gave the green light to phase in the return of some elementary school grades and groups of struggling students, even as Greater Las Vegas continues to post huge numbers of coronavirus death cases.
Superintendents across the nation are weighing the benefit of in-person education against the cost of public health, watching teachers and staff become sick and in some cases die, but also seeing the psychological and academic toll that school closings are having on children nearly a year in.
The risk of student suicides has quietly stirred many district leaders, leading some, like the state superintendent of Arizona, to cite that fear in public pleas to help mitigate the virus's spread.
The piece continues by looking at the larger suicide trend, which it admits is hard to quantify because we don't have national data on suicides in the year 2020 yet.
Even so, it says, quote, one study from the CDC shows that the percentage of youth emergency room visits that were for mental health reasons had risen during the pandemic.
The actual number of those visits fell.
The researchers noted that many people were avoiding hospitals that were dealing with the crush of coronavirus patients.
And a compilation of emergency calls in more than 40 states among all age groups showed increased numbers related to mental health.
In Clark County, 18 suicides over nine months of closure is double the nine the district had the entire previous year.
Six students died by suicide between March 16th and June 30th.
12 students died by suicide between July 1st and December 31st.
One student left a note saying he had nothing to look forward to.
The youngest student Dr. Jara has lost to suicide was nine.
Nine years old.
So think about that.
My oldest kids, the twins, are seven.
Seven and a half, really.
Not that far from that age.
A child so young committing suicide, it's literally unthinkable.
You can't wrap your head around it.
And of course, we can't know specifically what drove any of these kids to this point.
It would seem safe to assume that many of these children, whether in Clark County or elsewhere, had other things going on in their lives in addition to the lockdowns, which may have contributed, though again, we can't know.
But anytime a nine-year-old kills themselves, that should be an occasion for the whole country to stop in its tracks and ask, what the hell is going on?
How could there be children so young and yet in such a desperate psychological state?
Now you can point out here that suicide rates among children have been rising across the country before the lockdowns were imposed, before COVID-19 existed, way before.
A report from PBS in 2019 had these findings.
It said between 2000 and 2007, the suicide rate among youth ages 10 to 24 hovered around 6.8 deaths per 100,000 people.
1024 hovered around 6.8 deaths per 100,000 people.
Then the rate curved upward, reaching a rate of 10.6 deaths per 100,000 by 2017, a 56%
increase in less than two decades.
Says by the year 2017, suicide was the second leading cause of death among Americans aged
To put that in context, suicide is the 10th leading cause of death among Americans in general, of all ages.
So, this is clearly a problem that predates the lockdowns, but that only further proves why the lockdowns were a disastrous mistake, especially with respect to schools.
Whatever the reasons, and the reasons are various and complex, There was already a crisis of despair and hopelessness among children.
They were already vulnerable.
And now you lock them in their homes for months on end, rip them out of their routines, take away their friends, take away their social gatherings, instill in them a deep fear over a virus that poses very little risk to them personally, force them to be muzzled when they go out in public, deprive them of the chance to even see the faces of strangers when they're out in public, I mean, how do you think that's going to end?
What other result could it possibly have but this?
And this is why I say the spreadsheets and the statistics and the bar graphs miss the point.
This is why lockdown critics are not denying the science.
We're accused of, well, you're denying the science.
Our point is that the most important questions don't have anything to do with the science.
The science is beside the point.
And if you disagree, if that scandalizes you to hear someone say the science is beside the point, okay, well then tell me, scientifically, what is the reduction in cases, the exact number, that makes even one childhood suicide worth the cost?
If you're telling me this is a scientific question, well then go ahead, Spock, make it scientific.
Tell me how.
Spell it out for me.
Take just the child who said that he killed himself before that, said that he missed his friends and he missed how things were before.
How many alleged lives saved from the lockdowns make that worth the cost?
What is the scientific answer to that question?
There isn't one.
Because this is a moral question, as I said, a philosophical one.
And my moral and philosophical answer is that there is no reduction in cases, no slowing of the spread, that can make one child's suicide worth it.
That's my answer.
What we're doing to our children right now, the damage we are doing, nothing can make that worth it.
Nothing.
And you can disagree if you want, but save me the crap about, I'm following the science.
This has not a damn thing to do with the science.
It's about priorities.
I believe our priority as a society should always be, always be, protecting our children.
That should always be our number one priority as a society.
Is that what the science says?
No, the science doesn't say a damn thing about what our priorities should be as a society.
That's what human beings are supposed to say.
And that's what makes us all the more disgraceful.
You know, we have seen a total inversion of priorities.
This virus was never a great threat to children.
So we have done all of this to protect ourselves.
We have asked, or demanded really, that our kids, our kids, our kids make the sacrifices.
Even bear the brunt of the sacrifices so that we can be safe.
This is exactly the opposite of what we are meant to do.
Societies can be judged by how they treat their children.
I believe that.
And we were already failing enormously by that measure.
60 million kids killed since Roe v. Wade.
So we were already a failure in that regard.
But now, after this, what will future generations say about a people that drove their own kids to suicide in order to protect themselves from a virus?
They won't say anything good.
We can assume that.
The judgment on us by history will be incredibly harsh.
And we will deserve all of it.
Now let's get to our five headlines.
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So, you know, they say honesty is the best policy, but sometimes in marriage,
you know, I do tend to doubt that a little bit.
I have to be honest with you.
I'll be honest about that.
Sometimes I doubt A little bit.
I sometimes doubt the value of honesty in marriage, and I'll just explain why.
Like, for example, yesterday I got home from traveling.
I was traveling over the weekend.
I was in Austin.
And for a pro-life event, actually, because they do have those in Austin, it turns out, and it was a great event.
Anyway, I came home.
A few hours, I thought everything was fine.
Everything looked, you know, everything looked normal and the same to me when I got home as it did when I left, because I only left a day before.
And a few hours after I got home, my wife said to me, She said, as we're sitting on the couch, um, Hey, so you didn't say anything about my hair.
And I said, and this is where the honesty kicked in.
Okay.
This is where I was going to be honest.
And I said, what about your hair?
And she said, I dyed it.
And I said, Oh, and she said, you know, it's, it's Brown.
Now it was blonde before.
And then I said, it was blonde before.
And then I realized I should stop saying things in that moment.
But here's my point.
I was honest for the whole conversation.
I was completely honest.
Now, do you really want to tell me that was the best policy?
I don't think it was.
And then actually, in my defense, I actually went, because I never know when to drop it, so a little bit later on, I went back to try to prove my point.
I pulled up her profile picture from Twitter, which is from before she allegedly dyed her hair, and I showed it to her, and I said, no, your hair was brown before.
It looks the same.
I was trying to mansplain her own hair color to her.
I was bringing facts and evidence and destroying her with it.
But it didn't matter.
She said I was colorblind.
I don't know.
Maybe I am.
Anyway, so keep that in mind.
Just a little marriage tip.
Let's go here.
Number one, President Biden last week had an interesting, well, interesting admission, I guess we could say.
And here it is.
Let's listen.
If we fail to act, there will be a wave of evictions and foreclosures in the coming months.
There's nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months.
That's what he just said.
Obviously, if we had if we got a media interested in the actual news, this would be like headline news everywhere.
This is a stunning thing for him to say, considering what his new administration is in the process of doing.
Like, for example, a 100-day mask mandate.
Everyone wear the mask for 100 days, even though people have already been wearing the mask for 100 days, more than that.
So why are we doing that?
And as far as I know, this question has not been asked by anybody in the media.
But it's like, okay, well, if we can't change the trajectory, I'm not saying I disagree with that, actually, but if we can't change the trajectory, then why are we wearing the mask?
What is the point of it, exactly, if it's not to change the trajectory?
I thought that was the entire point.
If it's not the point, then what are we doing it for?
Meanwhile, a local reporter in California Madarios Bab is her name.
She has this.
This is what she reports on Twitter.
She says, I've obtained an email from the California Restaurant Association that says Gavin Newsom will be lifting the stay-at-home order for all regions across the state tomorrow.
Um, and she continues, I'm not sure if this means the region will fall back into the tier system, but no matter what, it would mean less restrictions.
The CRA says it was informed of the lift today by Newsom's administration, but the formal announcement won't be until tomorrow.
So the formal announcement will come today or has already come.
I don't know.
But this is just another strange coincidence, isn't it?
Like as soon as Biden gets into office, he says, well, there's nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the virus.
Didn't say that before.
And now you have California, they're lifting those stay-at-home restrictions, opening up the restaurants.
And we've seen this really strange coincidence in states and regions across the country.
And the thing that makes it even more coincidental, I know this is all because I don't want to get into conspiracy theories, right?
If you connect too many dots, you're automatically a conspiracy theorist.
You don't want to be that.
So I'll just say it's a weird coincidence that not only do we have these areas opening up as soon as Biden is inaugurated president, the other strange thing is that all the areas doing this are run by Democrats.
Hmm.
But who could possibly draw conclusions?
No, don't be a conspiracy theorist.
Don't do that.
It's just, it's a coincidence.
You know, coincidental things happen.
That's all it is.
Number two from the Daily Wire, it says, in the past week, the Montana House Judiciary Committee passed a bill which would create the Save Women's Sports Act, an act that would bar biological boys from teams or in sports designated for women or girls.
By passing the bill, the committee set up a floor hearing in the Montana House.
The sponsor of the House Bill 112 told the Montana Free Press that he wanted to protect the 1972 Title IX permitting biological boys to compete against biological girls would be just wrong, he said.
So they're passing this bill.
The reason I'm reading this story is that You know, this is exactly what states have to do.
You know, it's been one of my themes of the last week is let's localize our focus, as we have sometimes neglected to do as conservatives.
And this is one area here.
Now, I also wanted to, as we're talking about, as we know the executive order from Biden, as we're talking about putting boys into girl sports or into girl locker rooms, just to demonstrate Just the demonstration.
You probably don't need a demonstration, but I'll give it to you anyway.
Because it's good to have the numbers just in front of you.
So, to demonstrate why it's insane to allow males to compete against girls in sports, and why you need bills like the one they're passing in Montana, let's go to kind of a famous example of boys competing against girls.
That's in Connecticut.
Where you had Andrea Yearwood and Terry Miller, they're both males, and I think now they've graduated, but for a couple of years, you know, they both guys, but they identified as girls and they started running against girls in track and field, okay?
So here are the results from the 2019 Connecticut State Championships, okay, for the girls.
This is the 55 meter dash.
Um, Terry Miller and Andrea Yearwood, for the state championships, they both came in first and second.
Again, in the girls meet, they came in first and second, as boys.
Terry Miller was first.
He had a 6.95, that was his time.
Andrea Yearwood had 7.01.
And then third, quote unquote, third place, which is Chelsea Mitchell, who really was first place, because she was the best female sprinter in the state in high school.
It was Chelsea Mitchell.
But she came in third place, and she had a 7.23, which is significantly behind a 6.95 in a sprint.
You know, that might as well be an eternity.
Okay.
Now, keep those times in mind.
You go over to the same year, 2019.
The men's varsity 55-meter dash.
Now, this is the field that Miller and Yearwood should have been competing against.
And Miller came in first place against the girls at 6.95.
First place for the men's was 6.51.
was 6.51.
Seventh place was 6.63.
So this is a guy who wouldn't even place.
He wouldn't even make it on the track.
He probably wouldn't have even qualified for the finals against the men with his times.
But against the girls, he dominates.
This is a mediocre, at best, male athlete, male runner, who, against females, dominates.
But if you look at the other, it's even more pronounced.
Like the 300 meter dash, Terry Miller had a 40.13, enough to beat.
Second place was an actual girl, one second behind.
Again, one second in a dash is a lot.
But against men, the number one time was 35.11.
12th was 37.65.
Again, wouldn't have even made it on the track with those times.
So you just, you cannot look at that and deny the biological, first of all, the biological difference between men and women.
And also the fact that just the simple fact of being a guy affords you enormous inherent advantages that are very, very difficult for a woman to overcome.
That a mediocre male athlete, or even a bad male athlete, could just waltz into a women's sport and take over.
Casually.
Without even having to work that hard.
Alright, number three.
The New York Times had this.
I just thought this was a great headline.
President Biden is perhaps the most religiously observant commander-in-chief in half a century.
A different, more liberal Christianity grounds his life and his policies.
Which, you know, it's similar, it would be like a headline that said, Arby's is perhaps the healthiest restaurant in America.
A different, more liberal view of nutrition grounds their recipes and menu.
So when you start phrasing things like that, it makes you feel better about eating at fast food anyway.
But this is obviously ridiculous, and we're just...
No, here's what I'll give you.
Now, leaving aside the fact that, as we talked about last week, Joe Biden's version of Catholicism is not Catholicism at all.
He does not belong to Catholicism.
He belongs to the religion of self, really.
But even putting that aside for a minute, yeah, he does go to church and all that.
So, at most, you could make an argument that he's the most religiously observant president of the last three we had.
Only because Obama and Donald Trump were probably the least religious presidents we ever had.
Is he more religious than George Bush?
George Bush was condemned repeatedly by the left for being like a theocratic fascist like me.
There's no possible way he's more religious than George Bush.
But of course we know during the Bush era, being religious was a bad thing.
It was a bad, scary thing.
Now that Biden's in office, all of a sudden it's okay again.
It's cool to be religious again.
That's big news.
Only don't get too excited because you have to be the right kind of religious.
Which is, in the end, we find out, not really religious at all.
Okay, number four.
This MSNBC clip I want to play for you.
Well, I don't know.
Maybe there shouldn't be any set up.
You just have to hear it for yourself.
Let's listen.
And this time, Trump is out of office.
So the entire case is not about removing him, but whether to convict and disqualify him from holding any office, like the presidency, forever.
This is huge, and has never actually happened before.
The United States Senate deciding something that can shape history, sanction Trump and ensure he never has power again, and do so on that basis that you see right there.
For life.
There's no more significant amount of time than for life.
That's why Nicki Minaj famously sang, for life, for life, and if the work is vindicated, best believe when it's done, it will be syndicated.
For life, for life.
And just as Nicki declared herself in this very moment a king, the question here is if the Speaker will ultimately slay Goliath with a constitutional sling.
I mean, what can I say?
That's a great ménage quote, personally.
And I mean, we all quote that all the time.
Classic, classic.
Personally, though, the one that I find myself quoting often is from her great song, and you even know what I'm going to say, Barbie Tings, which is one of the great songs.
And you know how it goes, but I always find myself saying this in just situations throughout life.
She says, and I love this so much because of how deeply it resonates with me in my life.
She says, it's time to make hits and it's time to diss.
How you still dissing, still can't find some hits.
Was it worth it, dummy?
I ain't mind a bit.
Still on that show gettin' no chips.
Time to dip.
I, I, I, I, I, I. I'm still fly.
Just bagged a white guy.
Richie, light guy, and I still eat Thai.
Want the Nicki cheat code?
Come on.
Nice try.
Let's be real.
All you bitches wanna look like me.
So that, you know, for me, so the guy in MSNBC, you know, we just, we all have different Minaj lyrics that we, we love to quote.
Uh, it's, it's, there's nothing weird about that at all.
I mean, this guy, he wanted to make a point about the fact that for life is a long time.
And he wanted to quote about, I don't know, life being long.
First thing he thought was Nicki Minaj.
Who, who among us, who among us wouldn't have done the same in that exact same situation?
Alright, number five, finally.
This video has gone viral.
It's a very important video.
Almost as important as Nicki Minaj, and I want to play this for you.
Because, you know, I don't like it.
I know I do a lot of cancelling myself on this show, and I'll be cancelling someone coming up in just a moment, but also based on a viral video.
But, you know, I don't believe in unfair cancellations, and I think there's an unfair cancellation happening here.
This is a woman, I don't know who it is, I don't know the context, okay, but it's a woman giving her recipe for how to class up a bowl of SpaghettiOs.
And she kind of makes this SpaghettiO pie.
This is, people are, she is getting, let's just take a look at this video, she is getting demolished for this.
So she's got the SpaghettiOs in a pie crust.
And then she takes some bread and butters it down real nice, puts a whole lot of butter on the bread.
This is her recipe.
I think this is what she does for her kids.
And then she takes garlic powder, and she's just, she's tons of garlic powder all over the bread.
Now, this is the one part here that maybe is a little bit hard to stomach.
She actually smashes the bread down with her arms and her hands.
She's never heard of a rolling pin, I guess.
Maybe she doesn't have one, so she uses her hands.
Her arms don't look too hairy, so maybe that's not so bad.
And then she cuts all the crust off.
Now she's got the smashed down garlic bread.
And then she puts some mozzarella cheese on the SpaghettiOs in the pie crust.
A whole bunch of mozzarella.
And that's the expense of mozzarella cheese, too.
Spare no expense here.
She's using like an $8 bag of cheese.
Puts more garlic on the SpaghettiOs.
And then she's going to put the bread... Oh, then she puts milk in.
Okay.
She puts milk in the SpaghettiOs.
And now she's going to put... And she mixes it together.
Oh, and then she puts more SpaghettiOs on top of it.
And then she puts the bread on top of the SpaghettiOs.
The garlic bread.
And bakes it.
And I think there's a follow-up video where she actually cuts the pie and serves it like a pie.
And here's my thing.
Okay.
This is all I'm going to say.
People are saying this looks like just a big bowl of vomit, and it's the most horrific video they've ever seen on the internet.
And there's been a lot of disturbing videos on the internet, so that's saying something.
I just want to say, we both know that actually looks kind of good.
First of all, there's not much you can do with SpaghettiOs.
So, can you think of a better way to class up some SpaghettiOs?
SpaghettiOs already are basically inedible, so can you think of a better way to make SpaghettiOs edible?
This is the most noble attempt anyone has ever made, to make SpaghettiOs edible.
And also, basically, look, we know if you add garlic powder and cheese to pretty much anything, it'll be okay.
Put some bread, add some more carbs to it, makes it a little better, too.
I tell you one thing, my kids would destroy that.
My kids would love that.
And I would, you know, I would eat it too.
I think we all would.
Let's stop pretending, okay?
Let's stop pretending to have fancier tastes than we really do.
The Spaghetti-O Garlic Pie.
I will defend it.
I will say for that, not cancelled.
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Today for our Daily Cancellation, we have another parent on TikTok to cancel.
I've selected this one as a representative of a larger problem.
It's not that she individually is deserving of cancellation.
I mean, she is, and richly so, but the issue is the greater cultural phenomenon on display, which we will discuss.
This is from a woman who goes by the handle catmightbefunny.
And she is funny, I can report, though perhaps not in the way she intended.
And along with the video is a caption that reads, This level of vulnerability is not comfy for me.
Hashtag parenting.
Hashtag moms of TikTok.
Hashtag parents of TikTok.
Hashtag LGBTQ.
Hashtag mental health.
Yeah, so we're at the point where people put hashtag mental health to accompany videos of their own mental breakdowns.
So let's check this out.
I've just been yelling in my car for 30 minutes because...
Parenting is hard!
It's hard!
Because they're little mirrors.
If I want my son to be a better person or to grow up and just be a good f***ing human, I have to be a good person!
There you go.
Everything I do, he mirrors everything.
So if I have a bad attitude, he's gonna have a bad attitude.
If I say, of course he's gonna say, I have to change me to change him.
There you go.
You know, I was just waiting much like you probably.
I was waiting for the camera to pan back, and her kid is sitting in the back seat.
Apparently he's not, so that's good.
Although it does raise the question, who's watching your kid while she yells in her car for 30 minutes?
I'm not gonna jump to conclusions, I just... Maybe she hires a babysitter for such occasions?
It's possible she calls up the sitter like, hey, um... Can you come over for an hour or so?
Yeah, I just had this psychotic break I had to go do.
Uh, it's on a calendar scheduled, so... Okay, see you when you get here.
I don't know.
I don't know how it works exactly.
More to the point, what we really have to consider are two things, right?
Context and content.
And this is what I factor in any time I'm deciding on a cancellation.
I'm bringing you into my process right now.
And in this case, it's the context, not the content, that gets her cancelled.
So on that end, the context here is that she is filming and posting the video of herself crying and screaming about how hard it is to be a parent.
This has become a very common genre of internet videos.
In fact, You know, if internet videos were distributed old school at like a Blockbuster video, and you had to go into the store to browse and rent the video you want, the genre of women crying in their cars would take up like five entire rows.
It would be like what it used to be at Blockbuster when you go in the action and adventure section, which was the best section.
That was almost half the store.
But now it would be women crying in their cars.
But why would you do this?
If you're having a desperate personal moment where a crushing existential realization has come rushing in and you are reduced to screams and tears because of it, happens to the best of us, but why would you want to film it and turn it into a spectacle for strangers like myself to gawk at and laugh at?
Why would you even think to do that?
The answer is that you do it because you lack the capacity for a true inner life.
It's a little bit too simple to say, oh, they want attention.
I mean, they do want attention.
But I think the problem is deeper than that.
Because in the modern age, many people have outsourced their inner life, their internal dialogue to the internet.
I'm convinced this is why we spend so much time on the internet in the first place.
It's why when you're in the checkout line or waiting for an oil change or an elevator or anywhere else, everyone around you is just on their phone the whole time, never looking up.
Not at all present in the moment.
They can't stand to have a moment of stillness, a moment of inactivity, a moment of silence, because then they start to think.
Think their own thoughts for a change, and that becomes too much to bear, so they retreat to cyberspace again to escape themselves, to escape their own minds.
So this woman is in the midst of what could have been, had she not involved the entire world in it, A really profound and painful and important episode in her life.
It's a confrontation with harsh realities, an occasion to feel, to really feel guilt and accountability and shame and determination.
All of these emotions that are heavy to bear, but could also be invigorating and motivating and clarifying, could have been a very human moment.
And she was in it, experiencing it, but she pulled back, retreated, and decided to use it as content instead.
Decided to reduce it to spectacle.
And once it's a spectacle, it immediately loses the meaning it could have had and the impact it could have had for you and on you.
There's something quite beautiful and human about having a moment of great emotional impact, an awakening of sorts, and then, I think the kids would call it a red pill, and then not telling a single soul about it.
Just keeping it within.
Letting it seep deep into yourself, letting it be.
You don't tell anybody.
It's just for you.
Forever.
Nobody else.
We should have many such moments as humans.
Did you know that?
We don't realize this anymore.
There should be many thoughts that we think and never tell anyone.
Many emotions we feel and never announce to anyone.
But now nothing is private, nothing is sacred, nothing is personal, nothing is left for the individual to hold within and ponder.
All is just spewed out into the public as empty distraction for strangers who don't really care anyway.
What could have been an occasion for growth has instead become an occasion to attract attention, and not even meaningful attention, but the cheapest and most pointless kind of it.
And that's why she's cancelled.
And that's why all women crying in their cars and filming it are cancelled.
And that's why all of us on the internet are cancelled for being a part of this problem to one extent or the other.
All that said, I do also have to acknowledge that the content was actually correct.
One of the hardest realizations for a parent is that you're really being pretty ridiculous when you get angry at your kids.
I mean, you have to realize at a certain point as a parent, you almost never have any legitimate reason to be angry at your kids.
It's hard to justify anger at your child when you consider three facts about them.
One, they have significant neurological limitations.
Nothing you or they can do about that.
Number two, they are acting exactly as you did at their age.
And number three, this is the hardest of all, and this is what she's dealing with, they're acting as you do now, too.
So if you're impatient and prone to shouting, your kid will be the same.
If you're disorganized and messy, your kid will be the same.
If you use bad language, as she mentioned, your kid will do the same.
You really have no right to be mad at them for doing and behaving exactly as you do.
If anything, they should be mad at you for setting such a bad example.
And then for having the gall to expect more of your child than you expect of yourself.
Because that's the truth.
If you are, again, let's say, to use an example that hits very close to home for me, An impatient person.
And then you get mad at your kid for being impatient, then you are quite literally expecting your, whatever, nine-year-old to be a better person than you.
And when you think about it like that, it, well, it makes you feel even worse.
And that's when the parenting guilt spiral begins, and you start falling down it, and you start thinking to yourself, my God, I'm a failure, I'm not cut out for this, I'm a horrible person, and you start crying in your car.
Which again, all that's fine, just don't film it.
The good news is, I guess if we can call it that.
Is that every parent is guilty of getting mad at their kids for doing stuff that they themselves did and still do.
Because while your child has limitations by virtue of being a child, you also have limitations by virtue of being human.
That doesn't excuse your failures as a parent, but it does mean that you might as well skip over the self-pity and guilt trip and just get back to work trying to be a better person, a better example, a better parent than you have been.
Because we're all trying to scratch and crawl our way through this, mostly blind.
We're all kind of making it up as we go along.
That's another realization you have as a parent.
You start thinking back to your own parents when you were your kid's age, and you realize, oh, they had no idea what the hell they were doing either.
That's why there are a billion parenting books on the market.
And they all sell a million copies each because all parents, if they have any self-awareness or intelligence, will reach a point where they say, holy crap, I have no idea what I'm doing.
And that's when they run out looking for the how-to manual.
Like, someone give me, someone tell me how to do this.
But we're wasting our money when we buy those books because the real parenting how-to, the real guide, is what we already know.
It's just we have trouble implementing it because it's hard.
Basically, just be a better person, be more patient, be more kind, have more discipline.
Set a better example.
That's really it.
Like, that's it, right?
And at that point comes yet another epiphany, which is this.
Wait, no.
I do know how to be a better parent.
Parenting is simple.
The problem is that I want to be a parent and raise good kids, well-behaved kids,
well-adjusted kids, without making the pre-requisite changes to myself and my own behavior and lifestyle.
That's where all of my problems are coming from as a parent.
That just doesn't work.
You gotta make the changes to yourself.
It sounds like the woman in the video was arriving at this conclusion.
And she should be commended for that.
I mean that sincerely.
But she's still cancelled.
Because she filmed it.
And there's just no excuse for that.
And on that note, a little bit of a bittersweet.
Commended, yet still canceled.
That can happen.
Happens sometimes.
We'll leave it there for today.
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