Comments by "Golden Croc" (@GoldenCroc) on "Lotuseaters Dot Com" channel.

Well, quite a few knew. But as with people everywhere, most just go along what the current thing is.
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Well said.
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Terrible misnomer though. It implies its rooted or have something to do with empathy.
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Very well written, superbly in fact. I am way older than you, waaay older. But I had a somewhat "Gen z"-like upbringing which was atypical at the time but is typical now (also known as the "broken home" upbringing), which makes me able to empathize reasonably successfully with what you are talking about. I have no bulletproof solution for the overarching societal problem unfortunately, but I have a pretty good idea what caused it and what can be done about it, within reason. We cant "save" everyone, but we can start with ourselves. First I am going to start a "supportgroup" for people with Aspbergers/autism (I have already helped kids/teens with those problems for years now IRL exclusively) because I feel that is where I can do the most good, for now. I want to help more people. I will do my best to make it happen, I promise you.
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Defining a human is a piece of cake compared to defining "harm". I would say if one gives it a bit more thought, thats were it falls apart already from the start.
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Its been said in influential circles since like the 1970s, more or less, even if it wasnt literally in text books for schoolchildren back then. The cultural upheavals of the 1960s-1970s was a great time for groups like the sami to push this narrative and effectively guarantee themselves the exclusive rights to land and lots of free government money for just existing. A nice job, if you can get it.
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Now that is a nice quote.
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@mattposky2892 Well they are the quintessential modern variety of conservative brits after all. I think we can forgive them for a bit of cultural bias and blinkered-ness.
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Its impossible to blame anyone. This is all the logical conclusion of developments since... industrial revolution I guess?
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As opposed to the rest of the lot?
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@mattposky2892 Being close minded and bitter about stuff is a time honored british tradition, on par with sunday night football in the US. It really is a quintessential part of brit culture.They just cant help it. I guess its the lack of space, class society and climate that takes its toll.... On the other hand, there isnt any malice behind it, so no need to take it "personally". Get them to the pub and they lighten up more often than not.
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You are wildly wrong in your analysis in this case. Its the complete opposite. Just about no one who "doesnt want to help" ever said anything remotely like that, they almost always use some variant of the "I am busy" excuse. Using words like these in the real world would mean you are extremely likely to be genuine.
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Not your best video if taken from a serious perspective to be frank. Even if I get its meant to be somewhat humorous, your UK biased cultural blinkers are as towering as the cliffs of Dover. Worrying about drive by shootings in houses made of wood? Really? Its fine liking what you know, and only that, but a bit more open mindedness is suitable, I would think. Listen, I found it kind of quaint and incredible when I went to the rural part of south of spain and found goats crossing the road, and lived in an apartment with a literal henhouse on the other side of the wall of my room. But I get there was a reason for it being that way. Ok, I watched all of it now and you do hit on some good points about the "fake" interactions etc.
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Its just what they know. Country side britain is already a "15 minute city" if not in spirit, then in literal wording practice.
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@ChimpOnComputer Well , not really to be fair. US got densely populatated areas of people that never leave their city block, and europe got large amounts of wilderness to the east as well. South UK and Midwest isnt the whole world.
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@jhoughjr1 Actually its not, not even close. In fact, europe is larger than the US, even including Alaska. I can only assume you mixed up europe landmass with EU landmass and I guess thats understandable. But in this case it was europe distances and population density, which varies a heck of a lot.
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@gifthorse3675 If by "people outside" you mean a portion of them, I agree. For those a bit less blinkered, its easy enough.
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I understand it just fine, and I havent ever been to America, let alone lived there. Seems perfectly simple to understand how culture changes by geographic distance, thats a thing in every country there is; rural vs city etc. So I dont get how one couldnt understand it, unless one is extremely intellectually inflexible. Perhaps you are affected by the inverse, courtesy of having just experienced europeans that are that inflexible?
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Disagree with most of what you wrote, sadly. In my book, you underestime the reasons, the causes and the eventual effect. Also, "tropes" can be true. There is a lot of truth in this one, as far as I can tell.
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You are a millenial. No, Millenals mostly arent the parents of zoomers entering the workplace, gen X (or if they got relatively old parents, Boomers) are. The text he cites got it partially wrong.
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@flowbrandz316 The truth is, a lot of brits are miserable and bitter gits all round, at least in a "part time" kind of way. But who can blame them considering the climate they live in. Get them to the pub and they cheer up. Americans on the other hand are often as fake and shallow as they come, far beyond most populations of europe. But thats easy enough to understand as well, considering the culture they live in.
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@CrossBreedTacoHD Demoralizing? Come on dude, please grow some thicker skin. Most everyone, everywhere from every country are total airheads. Thats just the way it is. What you see is simple as pie: A inferiority complex from europeans. Not a superiority complex. The same thing exist the other way around, but its far from as common. There really is no need to feel personally attacked at all.
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Anika? From Star Trek?
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@evenmoremax2540 I can explain why its not the same with the "kids these days"-trope as it used to be, but there are so many factors my post would be endless. Suffice to say, it you think about what has changed, you will realise things are indeed different this time in a manner of ways that potentially and quite likely impacts the humans living in the current culture/system.
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"Good times lead to..." etc. Quite right.
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Not much difference pushing buttons and dropping stuff from an office or doing it from a plane at 40 000 feet, way above where the weapons of those you are dropping stuff on can reach you, tbh, if thats the concern.
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Europe is a large place... UK is one of the outliers for population density.
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@Mickyway Its much less than half of it actually. I get that people arent aware of that, but its true. Look it up if you dont believe me.
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@illbeyourmonster5752 The density varies a lot, almost more than the US, certainly if you dont take the geograpically disconnected Alaska into account. So thats just as I said in my post, europe is just as varied as the US for distances and density. UK is an outlier.
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@Mickyway Well yes it does, but europe was what the dscussion was about and what I originally wrote. Not EU. So, it is what it is. I wrote europe because I meant europe. OP also wrote "Europe" and if its an old saying it likely predates the EU, which is "relatively" modern. Now of course it could be argued the saying used "europe" incorrectly as well, and really meant "North western europe".... I find that pretty likely. But I dont like it, I am a stickler for using the correct terminology.
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@ComicGladiator It might well have been, but I think its excusable considering its age. Its easy to repair after all. If it works, it works.
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