Comments by "Im Caj" (@KratostheThird) on "The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters" channel.

  1.  @pietrayday9915  As a Millennial, part of this applies to us as well. I'm 36 years old and I still cannot afford kids. I've gone thru several girlfriends who were utterly demoralized and by whom I could tell could never be real mothers. It's very tragic to see what is happening to the Zoomers.
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  2.  @angelmartin7310  Have fun with your cats. We're not playing.
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  3.  @pietrayday9915  I miss the days when Tomboys were accepted for who they were. Nowadays this medical industry encourages these kids and young adults to simply transfer to the opposite gender. America and the rest of western society is hosed.
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  4.  @DarkVeghetta With everything you wrote, don’t bother ever visiting the US. Other than the absolute riots raging in France, America has everything else you describe that you hate. Canada is in the same boat, thanks to Justin Trudeau. Given his love for mainland China, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that Canada has become more authoritarian. 30 years ago I would of considered the thought of seeing Romania off limits, due to the Soviet Union’s control of it for several decades. But times have changed. Romania of today resembles more like what America and the UK were back in the 1950’s - 1980’s. Both were prosperous cultures, with the UK giving us the Beatles, Led Zeppelin and Monty Python. Likewise, our culture had Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry.
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  5.  @JamecBond  The golden age, depending on who you talk to, was either the 1950s - 1970s, or the 1980s - 1990s. We're over two decades beyond that. The golden age ended with the Dot Com Crash and the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks that followed shortly afterwards.
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  6. I’m sure most of us are in the same boat as you.
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  7. I’d take Charlie Chaplin over any modern celebrity.
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  8. Robocop is another PROPER movie with FINE acting, that also released in 1987.
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  9.  @magneric  That’s what happened to women back in the Great Depression. They realized the things they have lost and had to provide for their families. The middle aged women seen in old black and white shows like Leave it to Beaver and Ozzie & Harriet experienced true hardship. Today, young women are getting praise on social media when they have done nothing. These kids I see on TikTok have no clue what hardship is or what it even means to work hard to achieve something.
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  10.  @RobzdaBlade  Your work is tough. I’m amazed at the lack of respect this society has now. Props to you for being able to handle it.
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  11. Not much we can do about it. The average Millennial is screwed, and Zoomers are even worse off as they have an even higher mountain to climb and overcome. What is happening has been the result of decades of decline, but the last 10 years have certainly seen an acceleration.
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  12.  @backintimealwyn5736  You're speaking of the Millennials and the Zoomers. I don't know how old Carl is but if I had to guess he is a younger Gen Xer. They weren't exactly great at families, but they weren't born with this fear and outright hatred like a lot of Millennials and Zoomers are. Gen X is no longer relevant to our society today, but they've been watching this culture war play out while they sit in the bleachers. Zoomers to me are mostly trending the path the Millennials started. Millennials back in 2005 - 2007 were labeled the "Me" generation. The generation that got its real start on social media, and we have seen how social media has influenced and to some extent brainwashed an entire generation. I used to think MySpace was facepalm 15 years ago, but it can't even compare with the filth and disgust TikTok and Tinder are. MySpace was child's play in comparison. The Baby Boomers got lucky. They earned themselves jobs and families back in the 1970s - 1980s, with union benefits so for them owning a home and having a family with two kids was easily possible by the time they were 30. Those days are long gone. Millennials are just beginning to grab administrative positions and authority, but at what cost? I'm in my mid 30s and many of us still don't want seats of authority. We don't want to be criticized while the old crusty Boomers and the nihilistic Zoomers attack us from both fronts. I'm childless, don't have a family of my own and I'm just working to make ends meet, nothing more. Turns out the degree I worked hard for back in 2005 - 2009 was largely an worthless expensive piece of paper. Took a long time to pay off the college debt I accumulated. It's going to take a lot of courage, commitment and strife to get us out of the mess we are in.
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  13.  @Steven9567  Did you bother to listen to their lyrics? Black rappers from the 90’s onwards largely victimized themselves. Part of the problem was the government.
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  14.  @justadummy8076  It's already affected the children. They are impressionable. There's a reason why so many kids look up to Kylie Jenner.
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  15.  4Freedom4All  Those old women endured real hardships. Many young woman today are overly self entitled as a result of the feminist movement that has been occurring in the United States over the past few decades. Somebody like Kim Kardashian doesn't deserve children. But she has kids, and well, I have to say I feel sorry for them. I blame bad parenting.
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  16.  @NazzyDragon  True, although I wouldn’t look past Generation X either. It’s been nothing but downhill since the 1990s.
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  17.  @HolyCodzta  It’s just depressing that we have to say ‘touch grass’ as an expression. And everywhere I go, I see everyone from kids to old grandparents in their 70s and 80s glued to their phones. Touch grass is a meme nowadays because everybody these days is on an electronic screen. I lived part of the life you did, and it was great. I’m considering going “off the grid” so I can experience it again.
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  18. I gave up dating myself. Women were too unstable and unwilling to do their share of the work. Going to the gym has done wonders for me.
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  19. The younger generations, more specifically.
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  20.  @electraleigh I just finished watching Lucas (1986) with Corey Haim. Hollywood teens getting abused is nothing new. River Phoenix died of a drug overdose at age 23.
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  21.  @SirBlackReeds  I give it a few years maximum. The societal and economic collapse will come soon enough.
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  22.  @Friggsdottir  Try 40 - 50 years.
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  23.  @robertbeisert3315  Wish those days would come back.
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  24. How far back do you have to go for fantasy novels to be good?
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  25.  @sixwingedasura3059  Same thing with Star Wars, Star Trek, Disney and comic books (Batman & Superman).
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  26.  @clicheguevara5282  You’re also a Millennial, which means you were subject to the garbage schools were starting to instill into kids back in the 90’s. It was also the time when participation awards really started to take off. You could have been a loser with no friends and failing grades, but still earn an award just for participating. What’s sad is at 38, you should have found your sense of self a long time ago. But you are a product of your time when kids were very live and let live. That was the 90’s perspective that I still hold to this day. Too bad kids today are growing up with woke values, which is going to leave them damaged and scarred.
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  27. Gloria had a point because she actually witnessed the change from silent to talking pictures. That’s not her character in the movie, that’s Gloria Swanson’s show business career. She was one of a select few who successfully made the transition. Most silent film stars had their careers end with talkies. Some of them fell into depression, committed suicide, while a good number fell into obscurity.
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  28. 20th Century Fox, ABC, ESPN, National Geographic…
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  29. What more did you expect when they were told as kids to work for a liberal arts college degree and work for some faceless, monolithic corporation? They were never given enough room to breathe in the first place. That’s why they are nihilistic, suicidal, unpredictable and angry because they were tossed to the side in their youth. As a Millennial who is autistic who was a computer nerd and antisocial, I was labeled an outcast. Looking back, part of that was my insecurities and inability to know my own identity as a child. Nowadays the poles have switched. When I was a socially awkward high functioning autistic child, people went outside more and talked. Today I’m much better at interpersonal communication and can hold my own, while society has decided to shut itself inside bedrooms and living rooms mindlessly playing video games and live-streaming Amazon Prime.
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  30.  @CamerOneiric It’s been this way since the 1960’s. Times have changed, but most popular musicians make the same leftist talking points, to the point where I shut them off completely.
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  31. An agenda WAS being played out. Black performers didn’t suddenly go from 1970’s soul, love and R&B to 2Pac style rapping without a motive behind it.
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  32. It’s no wonder people in the 1950s - 1970s seemed more down to earth and honest.
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  33. You can spend years at college and get the wrong degree. I knew a few guys in their 30s who were working a dead warehousing job because they couldn't get anything with standard business degrees. What I've noticed out of these kids in the 13 - 25 year old age group is how prone they are to automatically block if you come in and make a little criticism. Instagram and TikTok have brainwashed them. Looks mean everything, your skills and talents mean nothing. Getting a Master's Degree will cost most people tens of thousands of dollars, if not more. Sure, you can get a scholarship, but they don't help much. Loans? You still have to pay off the fucking tuition anyway, so you might as well be in debt. They hate kids because they were told to hate kids. They hate America because they are told to. I fucking hate these kids for all the reasons other people do. But at the same time, I feel sorry for them. There is no future, not a good one anyway.
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  34.  @napoleonblownapart8155  How I miss the days when people had to use dial-up and DSL to get to the internet, on a desktop computer. It was so much better before it was mainstream.
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  35.  @arminiusofgermania  Don't live in California.
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  36. For a guy who’s 49 years old, he looks pretty dam good.
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  37. Glad to hear someone from Hong Kong speak their piece.
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  38.  @johncorrall1739  One of my British friends has an elderly father who’s in his 90’s. He’s too old to really make a trek elsewhere. Very sad because the England this man knew is long gone.
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  39. She always lied.
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  40. It's much more disgusting now.
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  41.  @Ijusthopeitsquick  You also had John Lennon. The Who. Led Zeppelin. Jimi Hendrix. Deep Purple. So much musical talent came out of the British Invasion of the 1960's. You also had stuff like Fawlty Towers and Monty Python, probably one of the most hilarious things to come out of England. Nowadays, people like John Cleese are actively scoffing at what the UK has turned into, and I can't blame him.
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  42.  @insertnamehere8121 The West celebrated from the end of World War 2 to roughly the 1960s - 1970s. The rot was beginning to settle 50 - 60 years ago, and accelerated during the 1980s and 1990s. Now we are just freefalling at this point in 2023.
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  43.  @kerrell95 You look fairly young, but in retrospect I considered working in construction back in 2012. It just seemed like a good profession to get into, with on the job training, young people in your age group to bond with, and good benefits. Once I found out about HR and the corporates, I bowed out.
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  44.  @RJ-wx3fh  I think part of this problem today started with smartphones. Back in 2007 when I was working my way towards a college degree I don't recall too many college kids having a smartphone. Steve Jobs was making headlines for advertising his first generation iPhone which for the time, seemed like a major tech breakthrough. None of us would predict the impact of smartphones on our western society. Looking back, I personally think forcing everybody to walk to a desktop computer and directly hook up a line to the internet was better. High school and college kids respectively didn't spend as much time on the internet, for one it was far slower 20 years ago, and two it wasn't used for much outside of e-mail and casually browsing the web for fun. Friendster was the social media platform of the time and it never got big like MySpace. Most of us young folks had outside lives, jobs to commute to and actual family to interact with outside of electronics. Nowadays I can't even walk down the local city street without seeing a bunch of 14 - 25 year old kids stare into their smartphones. Good chance it's a iPhone 13 Max or whatever smartphone they have on them. Got to be trendy and keep up with the tech. It's an absolute joke. Tech and the internet are killing society. I'm beginning to think the Amish and people who are looking into a Kaczinski philosophy are more in tune with preparing for actual challenges. Not screaming over a video game, or being upset that your friends didn't approve of the TikTok video you sent them the other night. Modern society is boring, materialistic and shallow.
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  45.  @mikeylitchfield4651  The guy who made the comment was literally just starting grade school in the early 2000’s. From the Tech Bubble bursting to 9/11 and the following war in Iraq, Millennials didn’t stand much of a chance. The 2007 Housing Crisis and 2008 Financial Crash poured more salt onto the wound.
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  46.  @propheinx2250 The 1940s brought the Baby Boom era. What was prominent back then was working class men were not treated like dirt. Even minorities such as blacks in 1940’s America could still find jobs and their communities. They were segregated from white people, because that was the Jim Crow era back then. Men were encouraged to finish school, engage and marry a woman, have two to four kids, and live in a middle class home. Today, that is no longer possible. Obviously there is something going on, because while hard times in previous eras led to higher births, our current era is not giving us more children. Rather it is doing the opposite, thanks to anti male rhetoric being spread all throughout media and the internet.
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  47. At least it’s still better than London.
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  48. The fact he got canceled is appalling.
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  49.  Lily B  You people are taking this crap too seriously.
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  50.  @Illumirage  Christopher Tolkien according to what I read was the barrier. He passed away in 2020, and Amazon decides to buy up the franchise afterwards.
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