https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EbE1XQsExY
Good evening, everyone. I think that one of the most important things that modern people do not get is stability. Now, I don’t mean stability in terms of law and order or in terms of a peaceable society. I don’t mean stability in terms of economic opportunities. In fact, if anything, it’s almost like those are contrary to this kind of stability. The stability that people really need, and that people in the modern world do not have, is a kind of intergenerational strand, an intergenerational investment that you share with your parents and your children, but importantly, with every other family you live near—your community, your society, a real society. That is something that is entirely lacking in the modern world.
Now, what exactly do I mean by this? One of the ways I happened upon this revelation—let’s say it’s not really a revelation, it’s a very obvious realization, I guess—I remember when I moved into the country. I noticed something really queer about the people in the country, which really wasn’t something queer about them; it was something queer about me. The people I met there, whether they were 25, 35, 45, or 85, all knew everyone they had gone to high school with. They were still in contact with these people. The truth is, the people they knew in high school, they didn’t even know because they were in high school; they had known them for their entire lives. They had known them since preschool, since before that. Not just that, their families had known their families, and their children would know their children. That kind of constancy is something that was totally absent where I grew up.
Now, I grew up in a suburb, and a suburb is an imitation community. It’s an imitation of, you know, a pioneer American life where everyone has a little slice of property. It’s playacting that kind of stuff. Of course, the people in a suburb come and go. They’re there because your dad got a job and had to go to this kind of suburban area. You know some neighborhood kids—I knew some good neighborhood kids when I was younger—but my relationship with them ended when we left, and there was no way I could keep in touch with them. I mean, theoretically, they have phone numbers or Facebooks or something like that. I don’t have a Facebook; I have a phone. But it’s almost contrived to keep up your relationship with these people.
This is the same thing in high school. When I was in high school, the place I was at was so big; there were so many people that every class you had was with people you never had a class with before. You would have, you know, 12 classes a year or so with people you’ve never met before, and that was just how it was. I thought that was how the world was. Of course, none of these people—you never knew any of their families. They were just discombobulated atoms. Even if you got along really well with a person, there was a sense in which your investment in them as a person could only go so far. Okay, maybe you’re going to marry your high school sweetheart and keep it going, but aside from that, there is basically no reason to establish a connection. A year or so after I was out of high school, I had no contact with those people whatsoever. It wasn’t because I totally disliked them; some of them were my friends just because I kind of wanted friends and didn’t want to look like a loser. You know, I just thought, “Fine, you can be my friend.”
But when it comes down to it, there was no deep connection between those people and myself. And you know, there’s something there where, let’s say, the place that I grew up compared to the country area I had moved to—in terms of economic well-being, it was much better. Higher standards of living, people had way nicer houses, all this kind of stuff. We had all the tools we needed for a society, but for some reason, it just doesn’t happen. It doesn’t happen partially because you have too many options. There are too many people for you to get to know; you have too many choices of what subcommunities you’re going to be a part of.
When I moved into the country, I actually specifically remember this. Sometimes, you know, at the times when I wasn’t working and there was no one to hang out with, I just had to basically force myself to make friends. You know, here’s someone I wouldn’t normally hang out with; I guess I’ll do something with them. I remember there was an old lady in our town. She used to have a store. She passed away several years ago, but she would just sell stuff. She’d be the only person there sometimes; she’d just be falling asleep. I’d be like, “Well, I’ll just go see her.” You know, not the kind of person I would ever talk to where I grew up—there’s no reason to—but you know, it’s almost like I might as well.
What happens there, of course, and this isn’t about having friends or something like that; it’s not really my point. This is a superficial point, but it’s not really what I’m getting at. The real issue is that you need a kind of stability to have a society, and that stability to have a society is partially the people involved in it. You cannot invest in your community if your community is constantly changing. It’s like people say, “You can never step in the same river twice.” If the place you’re growing up in, or the place you’re thinking about raising your children, is like a river that’s constantly changing, constantly flowing, and you have different water and different stuff going down the river, it is not a place where a person can even invest in the future. You know what I mean?
What I mean by that is, obviously, in a place that has a kind of stability, it has a kind of constancy. You can trust other people because there is intergenerational trust built up. Even if there isn’t, they know that you’re going to be around for a long time. It’s not that they’re judging you, let’s say, but you can be held accountable because you’re not just some bugman in a city who could rip them off. You are around them for good.
So this is, I think, a thing. I just got to thinking about this earlier because I think of all the people I used to know in high school. There’s one example in particular. There was someone I hadn’t talked to since high school; it was like a year or two afterwards. I was walking by the high school where this guy used to live, and I just called him up. I said, “What’s up, dude? I’m walking.” I’m one of those sigmas who I just walk in American suburbia. I know there’s no sidewalks or anything, but I’m the kind of person who, like, I so don’t believe in cars. I will literally walk from my suburban neighborhood back then to a store like 40 minutes away, just on the side of the highway. Either way, I called this guy up and said, “Hey, I haven’t talked to you in a while. You want to hang out?” I just went by his house, we hung out, it was really nice, and it was good catching up.
Then, of course, we said, “Oh yeah, man, see you later. I’ll hit you up next time,” you know, blah blah blah. I just remember that’s the last time I ever talked to that person. Never going to talk to that person again. Haven’t seen this person in, what, like, I don’t know, 10, 15 years? Something like that, you know what I mean? So it just goes to show you, like, I actually kind of went out of my way even calling that guy. It’s kind of creepy, right? Calling a guy while you’re walking by his neighborhood is a little weird. But at the same time, it’s like that’s really what you have to do because I wouldn’t have been exposed to this person at all. It’s not like we’re going to run into each other at the grocery store like we would if we were in a smaller community.
Those of you who know, I think there are a lot of people who don’t want to do the moving-to-the-country route, or at least they’re coping about not doing it. So, you know, they try and playact this stuff in the suburbs. As I’ve said, suburbs are just like imitations. Suburbs are an imitation of American pioneer life, where you just have a slice of property and you just pretend you’re doing something. You know, you say, “Oh, I got my own lawn. I can have a little tiny garden.” I’m not saying doing that stuff is bad, but you know, fundamentally, that is not an environment that’s conducive to having intergenerational wealth and community. It’s just not built for that; it’s built for the opposite.
So those are some things to think about. I will say, you know, that example of that guy—I have so many others of friends where I knew them for years. I made sacrifices to, I guess, have so many fun hijinks with all these people who, for all I know, I don’t know if they’re alive. You know what I mean? They’re just in the ether somewhere. I’ve never heard from them. I’ve never tried to talk to them. It’s not really their fault or my fault. I’m just saying when you’re not in a community, there’s no reason to do that. It’s like you have to seem like a strident person to keep up with them. If your relationship with someone depends on one of you messaging the other on Facebook or something, it’s not really a relationship. It’s really like, you know, when you really know someone well, you don’t have to text them all the time because you’re next to them.
Either way, that’s just some stuff to think about. I think the saddest thing—it’s not just about friends I had or whatever—but I think the saddest thing about kind of my memories and even this concept of nostalgia, right? The concept of nostalgia, which is really so bittersweet, is so painful. I think people feel the sense of nostalgia when they feel a sense of loss. I’ve invested in these people. You know, I had all these friends; I had all this stuff going on, and it’s just gone. It’s just like I can’t even recreate that anymore. I can’t even—if I go back to where I grew up, it’s not the same. You know, the Blockbuster I used to check stuff out at is now like a Vietnamese nail salon.
There’s something to that. There’s something deep, esoteric, and severely unsettling about it. But you know, that’s the world. You have to choose not to live in it. You don’t have to do that. And worse, don’t think about it for your own emotional well-being. What I’m saying is really, when you have kids and you’re raising them up, you don’t want to raise them in a society that is like a river that’s constantly changing. You want to be able to invest in a community that they can reap the investment from, and they can invest further. That’s the real issue.
Your kids, you know, it is inherently traumatic in a way—not trauma like, “Oh, blah,” but I mean traumatic in a very objective sense. Just living in a place like that and not being able to have what every other human in every other society, no matter how poor or pitiful or even war-torn, has—this lack of stability, this lack of constancy that the modern world has is just so much worse. It really is so much worse in terms of the—you just can’t even have a society. It’s not like bombs went off and you can rebuild your society after that. You just don’t have one of those things.
So anyway, it’s a very pessimistic video. That’s it.
@bearmandeluxe - 2025-06-10 08:41:44
Bro finally made it to world 2.+933
@Ravix0fFourHorn - 2025-06-10 08:41:44
The worse thing is to think you have a deep connection with a friend only to realise to them you were just an acquaintance.+427
@szneka12 - 2025-06-10 08:41:44
Forest Luke: "Hey kids" Dark Luke: "Good evening everyone"+461
@F.a797 - 2025-06-10 08:41:44
therapist: Dark Luke Smith isn't real, it can't hurt you Dark Luke smith: You have no stability, no friends, no family, no society+842
@ryanpmcguire - 2025-06-10 08:41:44
This is what heritage is. Why be nice to your geographical neighbors? Because your children will have to cooperate, and their children will to cooperate. This leads to a natural "socialistic" behavior which emerges as a natural consequence of the society, not a top-down imposed version. You cannot compel charity.+289
@croft_95 - 2025-06-10 08:41:44
We (don't) live in a society+263
@Julien-f2t - 2025-06-10 08:41:44
"success" in America is moving to a big city a thousand miles away from all of your friends and family to work at a Starbucks+118
@Maccccccc - 2025-06-10 08:41:44
I grew up in a small town and used to hate the fact that everyone knew everyone. Now that I've moved to the big city made it and made very little connections with anyone in 8 years, I miss it.+120
@ponternal - 2025-06-10 08:41:44
This is also a reason why relationships are so bad and birth rates are decreasing. More and more people are living in large cities with no organic community. Throughout history large cities have always been population sinks and most people lived in rural areas.+199
@riverblack123 - 2025-06-11 08:41:44
Community is not the right word. The right word is tribe. We are designed to live in tribes of our own where everyone knows each other and likes each other. That's how it's been done for 99% of our history. Ideally, the modern day equivalent would be to have neighborhoods of families who are close to each other.+39
@kevinarea - 2025-06-10 08:41:44
I strived for 2 things as an adult. To never get a divorce and to have my kids live in one home so they can say things like "remember sneaking downstairs to the kitchen pantry in the middle of the night" or "remember playing hide and seek in the backyard". Having a consistent childhood is very important for the family to remain bonded later on in life.+34
@Marv-MZ - 2025-06-10 08:41:44
AUR has all the Stable releases we need.+63
@Unreplayable - 2025-06-10 08:41:44
The thumbnail looks like an intro to a horror movie+459
@timothylink4386 - 2025-06-11 08:41:44
I complained about the lack of stability back in the 1980s when I was in high school. Neighbors kept moving away, and I remembered a short golden age when I was in elementary school and we knew all the neighbors. It was a small neighborhood, but it kept expanding and became increasingly alienating. Now at nearly 60 I've inherited the house (at considerable expense due to estate debts) and now I live here with my uncle and a friend I've known from middle school. Many of the old neighbors from my childhood are indeed still here. The newer kids look so much like they did when I was a kid. I hear them playing outside in the summer and it sounds exactly the same to me. My next door neighbor is great and was very close to my mother for the last 20 years, and she knows all my nieces and nephews who can now come over and visit with her and help her with yard projects. We work together on both our yards, sharing yard equipment. It's great! So I'm lucky I guess. I didn't have my own kids, but I'm in a position to maintain this home, which feels very important to me now. I didn't expect to end up retiring in my parent's house, but now I realize it's a great fortune that it worked out this way. I'm super happy to be here. My mother cherished this home and it would have been a pity to have to sell it off and break the connections to this area and the people here.+8
@Andrew-27 - 2025-06-10 08:41:44
We've moved on from the forest to the backrooms.+215
@aamadmi5848 - 2025-06-10 08:41:44
Ok that title hurts+152
@powerovercorrupt - 2025-06-10 08:41:44
I became good friends with this coworker and hung out once every week for a month after switching jobs. Then suddenly, no response to texts or calls. Found it so weird that you are having great moments and connecting with someone and suddenly all that is over for no discernable reason. Trying to keep up friendships is hard and I used to think I was the problem for not putting the effort. Turns out even if you do it's still a two way street.+107
@neonblood4658 - 2025-06-10 08:41:44
this feels like unlocking a new area in a game+48
@Ionlyuseffmpeg - 2025-06-10 08:41:44
I have many old friends and acquaintances with whom I've lost touch over the years for various reasons, but I have one best friend who I catch up with once a year when I visit aging family, and it is the highlight of my year. Otherwise people are separated, half the population seemingly unable to forgive imaginary problems, while the other half is unaware of real problems. It is beginning of sorrow, though I do not know tomorrow+38
@justadog-headedman6727 - 2025-06-11 08:41:44
The modern world normalized exile, which in the ancient world was seen as equal to death itself+17
@iTzJeSsE08 - 2025-06-10 08:41:44
You kidding me? He took the warp zones straight to world 8 and just saved the princess. And converted Bowser to Catholic. Might have even Librebooted the Nintendo+42
@johnstamos5948 - 2025-06-10 08:41:44
@iTzJeSsE08 orthodox*+30
@Joko-u2w - 2025-06-10 08:41:44
Whoa, is he really your brother? Are you a bald neet too?+4
@bolls4865 - 2025-06-10 08:41:44
horror game prelude level change+3
@əöü - 2025-06-10 08:41:44
I can't take him seriously, he is kind of a meme+1
@houragents5490 - 2025-06-10 08:41:44
@iTzJeSsE08 Stop trying to be funny+3
@KentKorihisa - 2025-06-11 08:41:44
World 3 is the night world in Super Mario Bros.+3
@JesusChristLoves-You - 2025-06-11 08:41:44
@iTzJeSsE08 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 ESV — Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,+1
@JesusChristLoves-You - 2025-06-11 08:41:45
@Joko-u2w Matthew 8:20 ESV — And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”+1
@JesusChristLoves-You - 2025-06-11 08:41:45
@əöü John 10:29-30 ESV — My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.”+1
@yujunkonarukami - 2025-06-12 08:41:45
Thats not the worlds he's talking about.+1
@crownedCLAN - 2025-06-12 08:41:45
😂😂😂+2
@IrisJoens - 2025-06-12 08:41:45
*That bro+1
@milkman6218 - 2025-06-15 08:41:45
can't wait for him to make a vid underwater+2
@remigilliot9763 - 2025-06-16 16:41:45
😂😂😂😂😂😂+2
@БарашСмешарик-в4д - 2025-06-10 08:41:45
Because he was not a friend. A drinking/game/netflix buddy, but not a friend. The problem with this word is that it has lost it’s original deep meaning of having a strong connection with someone who you’re basically willing to sacrifice your life for or at least lose something in order to keep your relationship+52
@theelodgeovkeku - 2025-06-10 08:41:45
Honestly it feels just as bad to be that friend.+18
@xeriasual - 2025-06-11 08:41:45
Only real connections you can really have are with blood and only blood and in rare very rare case of finding someone who really loves you. Friends are just people you don't hate enough to ignore and tolerate enough to talk to.+12
@Discordistscheiße - 2025-06-11 08:41:45
@xeriasual least obvious racist be like+6
@donaldmack2307 - 2025-06-11 08:41:45
@Discordistscheiße you legitimately think that comment is racist?+6
@Discordistscheiße - 2025-06-11 08:41:45
@donaldmack2307 he edited it it said "pure blood" before+2
@thomas.thomas - 2025-06-11 08:41:45
@Discordistscheiße even that wouldn't make it racist, pure blood is also a concept used in monarchies and family lineages+7
@namenameson9065 - 2025-06-11 08:41:45
Modern relationships are prison relationships, like school. You're friends at school until you graduate, then most move on. You're only friends cuz you're serving time together. They aren't based on anything real.+13
@Discordistscheiße - 2025-06-11 08:41:45
@namenameson9065 in school its more likely but if both put effort in and do stuff outside of school its gonna go good+3
@IrisJoens - 2025-06-12 08:41:45
Even worse still is that this is the majority of interactions for most people anymore.+1
@xeriasual - 2025-06-12 08:41:45
@Discordistscheiße I knew I shouldn't have edited it because you would've said something but I didn't expect that. Idk if it's you being a little dyslexic or if it's something deeper but only thing I edited was I wrote have instead of hate.+1
@spartaticus - 2025-06-13 08:41:45
@Discordistscheiße even that went bad and i ended up losing my only real friend i ever had.+1
@Discordistscheiße - 2025-06-13 08:41:45
How did you lose them?@spartaticus+1
@spartaticus - 2025-06-13 08:41:45
@Discordistscheiße theyve found better friends apparently. i was left behind in the process.+1
@squintoncarbusier4963 - 2025-06-14 08:41:45
A lot of it is projection I think. It feels like a deep connection from our side, but more often than not, from their side it isn't. I remember running into my first girlfriend after many years, and I had all these cherished memories of our relationship. She didn't seem to remember any of it.+3
@spartaticus - 2025-06-14 08:41:45
@squintoncarbusier4963 if she doesnt remember any of it, then she has never cared enough about the relationship. that's when you should break up on your behalf. but hey, i hope it will work out for you next time.+1
@squintoncarbusier4963 - 2025-06-14 08:41:46
@spartaticus We live and learn. Thanks for the encouragement.+2
@Jordan-hz1wr - 2025-06-13 08:41:46
Forest Luke: “I saw something funny” Dark Luke: “I noticed something really queer”+10
@sparta117corza - 2025-06-10 08:41:46
LE GOOD REDDIT+25
@omg - 2025-06-10 08:41:46
seeing reddit comments like this with 500 likes and nothing to do with the video made me realize why luke smith quit+22
@FinnaTrynaBeHonest - 2025-06-10 08:41:46
Updooted 😊+8
@FinnaTrynaBeHonest - 2025-06-10 08:41:46
Edit 1: Quit normalizing therapy Edit 2: Thank you for recommending Nietzsche. I’ve never heard of that seems cool! Edit 3:You need to have your dark night of the soul and own it for yourself+4
@PikUpYourPantsPatrol - 2025-06-10 08:41:46
You will go bald, it's inevitable+6
@FinnaTrynaBeHonest - 2025-06-10 08:41:46
@PikUpYourPantsPatrol my grandfather is 85 with a full head of hair seethe ortho mutant+1
@PikUpYourPantsPatrol - 2025-06-10 08:41:46
@FinnaTrynaBeHonest I was talking as Dark Luke lol+2
@kirihitsugi - 2025-06-11 08:41:46
What do you gain out of having no self awareness typing reddit comments like this+5
@F.a797 - 2025-06-11 08:41:46
@kirihitsugi Your channel is a cool reminder of the old "alive" internet, back when people had their own personal websites and projects. You actually inspired me to get my own website going again.+2
@BoqPrecision - 2025-06-10 08:41:47
Putting to strained words what Bedouins, Somalis, Kurds etc know instinctively...+12
@michaelns9887 - 2025-06-10 08:41:47
But realistically, people in the countryside also have deep generational quarrels with each other and hold grudges for decades. I don't know how it is in US, but it is very commonplace in my post-soviet country.+50
@throwaway930 - 2025-06-10 08:41:47
Being nice to your neighbours for logical and practical benefits down the line is a great sacrifice of freedom and not at all the ideal means for promoting kindness.+6
@tropicaljupiter - 2025-06-10 08:41:47
Elaborate?+1
@ubermenschdog - 2025-06-10 08:41:47
@BoqPrecision If they know it, why are they the most violent?+5
@offensivearch - 2025-06-10 08:41:47
@michaelns9887 It is a thing here as well (eg Appalachia blood feuds). Luke is idealizing the country too much, there is a reason people wanted to leave.+7
@philalethes216 - 2025-06-10 08:41:47
@offensivearch Luke isn’t saying anything about absolutely positivity. Those people have feuds because they actually have a stake in where they live. Even their in-fighting has more meaning than anything that discombobulated particles in the city do. Your post is the same mentality as suburban nihilism.+7
@offensivearch - 2025-06-10 08:41:47
@philalethes216 Positivity is one thing, but holding grudges is evil. There is nothing meaningful about holding a grudge, it destroys meaning and lives.+1
@philalethes216 - 2025-06-10 08:41:47
@offensivearch It is evil. But evil exists everywhere, surely.+7
@offensivearch - 2025-06-10 08:41:47
@philalethes216 Yes. The people in the country have the same evil in them as those in the city or in the suburbs.+1
@philalethes216 - 2025-06-10 08:41:47
@offensivearch The individuals might. But the point of the video is the structure of communities, so that's non-sequitur. Have a good day.+5
@offensivearch - 2025-06-10 08:41:47
@philalethes216 I guess I disagree with Luke that this structure of communities thing matters with regards to an ultimate good. I see as much evil in community oriented people as atomized ones. I think it's a superficial difference he is pointing out. You too.+1
@Arbitrary_Moniker - 2025-06-10 08:41:47
But even your reasoning is top-down. Why people are nice in practice is for different reasons and explained by the lives they've lived, not a simple recognition of the need to cooperate. Cooperative people don't think when they're 3 and it's from experiences starting at that age, even before, when people start absorbing behaviours and making those instinctual adjustments.+2
@georgecisneros5281 - 2025-06-10 08:41:47
Hence…😬😑+1
@ryanpmcguire - 2025-06-10 08:41:47
Most human behavior is basically cooperative as it concerns motivation. To engage in pleasantries with someone you don't really care for is an example of cooperative behavior for the dual purpose of bet-hedging and basic stability. Everybody does it. Are there better reasons to do nice things? Yes. But the frank reality is the good portion of practical group morality stems firstly from an instinct toward cooperation.+5
@konnorporter5115 - 2025-06-13 08:41:47
@throwaway930How is being kind not the ideal means of promoting kindness?+1
@ryanpmcguire - 2025-06-13 08:41:47
@konnorporter5115 Good response. You could say that the initial motivation is less important than the actual result. Maybe cultivating kindness is a good thing even if it's for strictly personal reasons at first+1
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 - 2025-06-10 08:41:47
You don't. I live in an Eastern European ethnostate.+17
@jamesm5192 - 2025-06-10 08:41:47
I moved to one of those. Didn't turn out to be what the frog people online said it was.+19
@furiousfellow1583 - 2025-06-10 08:41:47
evangelion 3.0+2.0: We (don't) live in a society+6
@James-f4k9m - 2025-06-10 08:41:47
@jamesm5192 even if I spoke the language and had heritage from some other nation, I'm sure moving there would be different than growing up there, having family connections there, etc. That's my impression from playing Morrowind anyway, outlander.+22
@James-t6p1z - 2025-06-11 08:41:47
@James-f4k9m you're right James.+2
@theTruWaffen - 2025-06-13 08:41:48
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 I'm so jelly+1
@anima94 - 2025-06-14 08:41:48
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 you don't have to rub it in dude+1
@enqane - 2025-06-10 08:41:48
Sounds good.Have you met people living in villages?+3
@tann_man - 2025-06-10 08:41:48
I was born into a deracinated suburb within a major metro where I was a minority (20%) in my own homeland.+4
@JonJon69420 - 2025-06-11 08:41:48
no much different from a 3rd world country really+5
@JonJon69420 - 2025-06-11 08:41:48
@enqane land owners/farmers or people living in european-type villages, wehre they have no rights, almost no property and are poor?+5
@Templepatrickmusic - 2025-06-11 08:41:48
It’s not ideal but sometimes it is good for young people to get the “big city life” experience out of their system before settling down. It’s fun for a couple years then once you age out of it/realize it’s rather empty; you can come to your senses and start searching for true stability and happiness. It’s those who keep trying to make it work and stay in that lifestyle that truly suffer. There’s only so many drunken nights out and travel you can do before you realize there’s a God shaped hole in your heart.+2
@tbkswagg - 2025-06-10 08:41:48
man I am lonely af+8
@Anton43218 - 2025-06-10 08:41:48
In my experience, both groups would hate me due to being envious and having a life better than them. However one of them would know my address and what car I drive while for the other I am a simple passerby.+13
@jimbarino2 - 2025-06-12 08:41:48
You are living American history in microcosm.+3
@hellothere3609 - 2025-06-16 08:41:48
@Anton43218Isn't that simply the "middle class" effect? The rich hates you. The poor also hates you.+1
@sager56 - 2025-06-10 08:41:48
Organic communities are disappearing with the architecture hostile to them. I lament that people are trained to destroy this cozy feeling you see with small cottagecore houses which makes you have parties with other people, feel loved, ordinary and one with nature. I still think we have a chance. Christopher Alexander is one of those architects which deeply discusses this issue, although there are still some ideas to refine. Hopefully we can regain our spaces and create these organic communities again for the future generations 😢+27
@Iplaynfs1 - 2025-06-10 08:41:48
Community and large cities are not necessarily mutually exclusive+8
@alexxx4434 - 2025-06-10 08:41:48
@sager56 Architecture is only a small part of the problem.+9
@p4trickb4tem4n - 2025-06-10 08:41:48
@sager56 oh my fauci this house is so cottagecore+8
@sager56 - 2025-06-10 08:41:48
@alexxx4434 Though it can help this situation. The way buildings are made reflects the wisdom and knowledge of those people building it. If only the philosophy of Alexander's philosophy to architecture is applied to different fields, we would see radically different outcomes to the big issues currently facing.+3
@ViperXSS2 - 2025-06-11 08:41:48
@sager56 can you link this architect??!+1
@CodeCrafterAU - 2025-06-12 08:41:48
Wut?+1
@thebestSteven - 2025-06-12 08:41:48
A 30 year old man and 30 year old woman from different communities living 30 years of developing apart from each other, developing their own political and religious beliefs on their own are never going to work as a long term relationship. Used to you grew up with people. You went to the same church, started a relationship as teenagers, matured into adults together learning and growing together. This doesn't really happen anymore.+1
@Zelperx - 2025-06-14 08:41:48
@ViperXSS2 pretty sure it's this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Alexander+1
@jsedge2473 - 2025-06-12 08:41:49
Still ignores that for humans tribes and familiarity were always based on genetic similarity (race) since you are all like one big family genetically, which we can't have now even if these issues were brought to light due to 100 million foreigners being shipped in. There is no fixing this - either countries burst in to 1000 different states or the (invisible hand) continues to force everyone to live with people they don't want to.+9
@riverblack123 - 2025-06-12 08:41:49
@jsedge2473 You are absolutely correct.+4
@ルタフォリ - 2025-06-14 08:41:49
I think thats wishful thinking. I had a consistent good childhood and still have not much connection with any of them. And now, in my 30s, looking back at it, feels like it was a lot of wasted effort. It feels like it was all fake bullcrap because "thats what your supposed to do". Meanwhile the people I know who came from worse scenarios than me are much happier people, because they know how much worse it can be first hand.+1
@anima94 - 2025-06-14 08:41:49
@ルタフォリ What do you think your parents could have done different to prevent this? (other than purposely creating worse scenarios for artificial difficulty lol)+1
@captainclarky5352 - 2025-06-15 08:41:49
I agree with the intent but staying in one house isn't necessarily a better idea than moving. A house isn't community. Moving can introduce variety. Community should be the focus not nuclear family households+1
@dsquarre - 2025-06-11 08:41:49
🤣🤣 I want a mac+5
@cutepennypenguin - 2025-06-10 08:41:50
Starring Luke Smith yelling about Vim before vanishing into the woods.+22
@alan_core - 2025-06-10 08:41:50
@cutepennypenguin 😆+1
@calvinquallss4905 - 2025-06-10 08:41:50
It’s more of a horror reality+9
@paskaziemia5347 - 2025-06-10 08:41:50
@cutepennypenguin Innocent girl walking on the road but hearing luke roaring from the woods "Switch to linux", "Install vim", "move to the countryside" is a good plot.+13
@diegoestrada35 - 2025-06-10 08:41:50
consooomer comment, what? it doesn't have that bright colors and people pointing somewhere??+1
@ltxr9973 - 2025-06-10 08:41:50
Looks pretty comfy there actually.+6
@kodekata - 2025-06-10 08:41:50
As it should+2
@exclaim2820 - 2025-06-10 08:41:50
@diegoestrada35 TIL the sun is only for "consoomers" 😂+4
@kodekata - 2025-06-10 08:41:50
Optimism is cowardice. - Oswald Spengler+1
@hollowgonzalo4329 - 2025-06-10 08:41:50
@Unreplayable You should peruse Raymond's stuff sometime 😆+1
@MustObeyTheRules - 2025-06-11 08:41:50
I thought it was Fyodor Dostoyevsky at first+1
@calholli - 2025-06-10 08:41:50
Next vid.. He's walking through the riots and speaking. lol+12
@Podzhagitel - 2025-06-10 08:41:50
“Is that a heckin Youtube title? Oh… my feelings… please, no… Luke…”+17
@BRAVENmusic - 2025-06-10 08:41:50
@Podzhagitel less talking probably best+15
@slavecrusher6245 - 2025-06-10 08:41:50
@Podzhagitel bro is self loathing LMFAO!! Couldn't ever be me 🙂↔️+2
@Podzhagitel - 2025-06-10 08:41:50
@BRAVENmusic less eating more walking probably best 🙏🏻 hope this helps!+1
@blame1yourself - 2025-06-10 08:41:51
Did you have segx with him? That’s probably why he’s ghosting you+5
@Abhinav_Nayana_Sailen - 2025-06-10 08:41:51
@blame1yourself I mean same happened to me with college frens, we can call up for help for something (mostly not immediate) but no one is proactive to be in touch with each other (yes I asked). It’s either too busy with work or gooning (rest time not ykw). Relationships are not completely ended but in a limbo….+10
@powerovercorrupt - 2025-06-10 08:41:51
It was actually a girl but our lifestyles too different for me to want to pursue a relationship (she smoked tons of weed) but bonded over life situations. We finished watching a movie, hugged each other and said goodbye and that's the last I heard of her.+4
@nydo2069 - 2025-06-10 08:41:51
Similar thing happened to me. Met a girl at work, we would talk, hang out, help each other out. Didn't expect it to be a relationship thing, I just really liked her as a person and thought it was mutual. After a month of switching jobs she grows distant and at some point stops reading my texts. At first I blamed myself, but now it seems that's just the way things are with some people.+14
@kingnick6260 - 2025-06-10 08:41:51
she prolly found her future husband & found better use of her time+8
@p4trickb4tem4n - 2025-06-10 08:41:51
@Abhinav_Nayana_Sailen if you didn't mean gooning why did you say gooning blud 💀💀💀💀+13
@anima94 - 2025-06-14 08:41:51
@powerovercorrupt sounds like maybe she thought you wanted something romantic and was not interested?+1
@gnomelinux - 2025-06-10 08:41:51
Maybe I'll understand when I'm older but I just can't fathom seeing a friend more than once a year. I would feel too secluded.+2
@anima94 - 2025-06-14 08:41:51
Damn I never thought of it that way but you are kinda right.. We are basically almost all bums+2
@captainclarky5352 - 2025-06-15 08:41:51
Very nice way of putting it+1
@ponder3020 - 2025-06-10 08:41:52
Sometimes a community is just not good for you anymore and you got to leave them.+20
@bob-i3o5f - 2025-06-10 08:41:52
Bro filming himself in the night with that big bushy beard reminds me of a Dostoevsky novel.+99
@Ne0dymm - 2025-06-10 08:41:52
Ive grown up in the countryside and a metropolis, i can confirm. My neighbours always change every other year, friends that u dont go to school with flake or u never see them again, Old friends move out so they arent even close to u anymore if u wanna even hang out. Lots of people from all over the world here, literally hardly ever do u hear english being spoken on the streets. Mass migration is constantly changing my community for the worse. Even the indian neighbour i had as a kid, i was chill with and literally would hop each others backyard and play with. The issue is that it keeps changing, housing isnt bought its rented mainly. Literally all these issues are from mass migration, which all big cities in the west have in common in suffering in. Meanwhile in the countryside, knew all my neighbours, girl across the street literally was my gf. Would have barbecues with the neighbours every other night or we will go sauna or something. I literally had keys to my neighbours house to enter it an hour before he comes to school so i can hop on his pc. Everyone on the road spoke russian too. The amount of trust in the community was literally crazy and it was in a heavily anti social country like estonia where everyone is super reserved and sticks to themselves. Your not Insane for having social anxiety and u live in a city, ur literally the sanest person ever, we werent meant to grow up like this.+59
@abogmus8904 - 2025-06-10 08:41:52
Thank you Luke for the recent uploads+19
@estefencosta1835 - 2025-06-10 08:41:52
I spent 3 months in a city in Brazil, and then came back to the United States. There is a noticeable distance and coldness that you can feel when you come back to the United States. I didn't even speak fluent Portuguese and felt more connected to the people I was around in Brazil. There was a warmth that came from people by simply being their neighbor - it was like you just belonged because you were there. The United States has all sorts of status gated communities that people are entering and exiting, but there's no warmth whatsoever because the status is all about yourself and not about the community. The United States is utterly broken, and going somewhere else for a while where it's not broken teaches you a lot about America. That's not to say Brazil doesn't have problems, it has a lot of them, but this specific kind of American isolation and alienation is like a corrosive element in your mind that's there constantly but you're not quite aware of it.+13
@AffectedArea - 2025-06-10 08:41:52
No common culture - religion, morals, absence of 'political' division, even popular/national culture. And yes, race. It has all been destroyed by design. The industrial/post-industrial highly individualized set up of moving around and growing up with people you separate from during school/college - two or three times - doesn't help either.+31
@livelaughlove_88h - 2025-06-10 08:41:52
boomers and immigration and lack of self sufficiency destroyed this+15
@CeoLogJM - 2025-06-10 08:41:52
So much of politics today are just the consequences of bowling alone..+33
@Thaelkor - 2025-06-14 08:41:52
Social media ruined society.+7
@Jadoobi - 2025-06-10 08:41:52
Glad you’re back posting Luke. God bless+3
@6IGNITION9 - 2025-06-10 08:41:52
Game theory. Cooperation requires stable long-term relationships.+15
@CashyWashy-z1s - 2025-06-10 08:41:52
Coming from someone who moved a lot as a kid, whose family is scatters thousands of miles apart across the country, and has parents that were pretty insular and somewhat antisocial, this all hits close to home. Some people in my life have best friends they've known since they were in kindergarten or even as toddlers, and their family has been there for generations so they have cousins, aunts/uncles, grandparents nearby. I don't know how typical this really is but I remember reaching a point where I realized how alienated my upbringing was because of the lack of constancy and proximity. However, with the way things are going with rising home prices, wage suppressions, the death of industry and off-shoring/employers trying to rely on AI, in some areas unless people manage to get into lucrative career or have significant familial assistance it seems like a pipe dream to buy a house and stay in the area they grew up in. Not even touching on people becoming more terminally online and the lack of spaces where people can congregate without spending money (in a decent amount of places). The average young person these days has to work 200% harder to have a fraction of the same lifestyle their predecessors had.+12
@weflic - 2025-06-12 08:41:52
It is really sad to see this happening in my village. I live in India and people including myself have moved to cities for jobs and village is almost empty. There are no young soul to talk to whenever I return.+7
@danmurad8080 - 2025-06-10 08:41:52
Luke, I have a group chat that is very active daily for a small group of friends. Some are local similar in other states. With videos and photo sharing, we pick up exactly where we left off when the group does meet in person because we’ve kept the conversation virtual online community.+17
@stonebud - 2025-06-10 08:41:52
He has reached civilization+22
@austroasian4123 - 2025-06-10 08:41:52
Matthew 10:36: And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.+18
@monsterzero9456 - 2025-06-10 08:41:52
2 am you see this man in the park what do u do?+227
@convolvr - 2025-06-10 08:41:52
The trope of ambitious young adults "making it out" of their small, limiting town has become the status quo. When so few people stay in their home towns, the social fabric disintegrates affecting even those who leave and fail to find a funtioning social network in their new home. I am skeptical that an individual solution exists. Besides a cult, where can I raise my children and expect them to have access to a community when they grow up?+57
@Anton43218 - 2025-06-10 08:41:52
Indeed, I have no safety net and not even my family wishes me well. I wouldn't even dare to think that strangers aren't my enemies who are envious of my success.+64
@tom-j2r - 2025-06-10 08:41:52
I grew up in a small village in the countryside. Everybody knew your parents, your cousins, your grandparents, and you knew theirs. One thing most people don't realise about living in a small community is that you must get along with everybody, whether you like them or not. This forces you to be more understanding of other people's actions and perspectives, even if you disagree with them. City folks have options and can surround themselves with only like-minded people if they wish. I reckon this is one of the reasons small communities can be so welcoming. If you are willing to play your role within the community, they will accept you even if you're different from them.+5
@ЕгорКазей - 2025-06-10 08:41:52
He does remind me prince Myshkin a lot tbh+5
@Гусь-ж2ъ - 2025-06-10 08:41:52
@ЕгорКазей за это и любим его.+1
@honkhonk8009 - 2025-06-10 08:41:52
Nah fr. Im indian myself and that pmo too. Like its not even outta racism or anything. Its like we have such huge problems keeping a sense of community together, and that shit just exacerbates the situation and makes it worse than it was before.+4
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 - 2025-06-10 08:41:52
I speak for every Balt and European when I say that we're glad you left Estonia and went to, from the sounds of it, Canada or the U.K. Lol, you got played.+6
@electric_sand - 2025-06-11 08:41:52
So this fellow migrated, but it is "his community" and it seems he doesn't see himself as part of the "immigrant problem", but "others" are🤔+5
@Ne0dymm - 2025-06-11 08:41:52
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 i didnt leave my parents left lol. Esotnia isnt doing so hot u will have ten million indians there soon dont worry about it.+3
@Ne0dymm - 2025-06-11 08:41:52
@electric_sand no i dont see myself as the migrant problem, cuz my parents came here in the 90s. I grew up basically most my life in the UK, spent like 4 years of my life in total in east europe. I dont see myself as the problem cuz my parents dont constantly move out, even despite being anti social europeans attempt to make small talk to neighbours and try to setup a sense of community. Migration isnt the problem the rate of it is. Big cities are always going to have people from all over the world, i accept that. There is always gonna be a chinatown, an italian neighbourhood, irish neighbourhood, i understand that, but these areas are changing too quick. There isnt insentive to buy housing or setup a local community. Who knows at this point. My community went from English, to this weird hybrid mix of south asians and east europeans, and africans. An italian person in new york had a distinct accent from the irish in new york, and they have been there for almost over 200 years now. I seriously dont know what my community will look like in 10-20 years. The government can do a mandate any second or some war can break out in some east asian country and then before u know it my whole neighbourhood is east asian.+3
@Ne0dymm - 2025-06-11 08:41:52
@honkhonk8009 exactly same. And the fact there are other indians in UK or canada or western nations who then are pro migration to me is wild. They do realise they are ruining their own chance of getting on the work ladder, making their life more miserable in the process. I genually wouldnt care about migration if it was super stable and there was a set amount that was allowed to be let in every year or something. It is so wild to me.+2
@honkhonk8009 - 2025-06-10 08:41:53
I went on Roblox and the only people that actively come up and talk to you is usually people from those countries. Everybody from NA and Europe just larp as being nonchalant and never say anything back.+2
@sleepmore8587 - 2025-06-14 08:41:53
All of my friends throughout my life have always been immigrants. I’m white and sound American and still can’t connect with them. I ask myself, where are they? Do Americans go outside? I went to school with a few of them, did they all leave? Genuinely wish I knew where these people were located.+1
@estefencosta1835 - 2025-06-14 08:41:53
@sleepmore8587 It's hard to say. My experience is similar to the one Luke talks about. My childhood friends didn't travel with me to high school. My high school friends didn't travel with me to college. My college friends didn't travel with me post college. New friends I made at work didn't stay friends after that job. I've had friends of a decade suddenly not be friends anymore. My perception is that they just don't make an effort to stay friends. I think part of American culture is to not show feelings, to not talk about feelings, to literally not feel things. I think it's hard to build a true friendship if you're in an unfeeling space. On what would you base any friendship or community?+1
@brostoevsky22 - 2025-06-17 02:41:53
Man, Russia in many ways is more warm and welcoming than the United States. People are only superficially kind in the US. My close friends from Moscow still stay in touch with me and people that I was a good acquaintance with still reach out to me from time to time. I think I can partly attribute my efforts to master the Russian language and be a part of their world during the 8 years I lived there. I'm saving up and preparing to go back there. america is a wasteland now.+1
@honkhonk8009 - 2025-06-17 02:41:53
@brostoevsky22 >*Suspicously russian souding name* >"Yes Comrade trust me, Russia is so much warmer than the superficially kind USA" You aint fooling anybody lil bro. Your telling me a signfiicantly poorer country has a bigger emphasis on community than a richer one?? NO WAY+1
@MM-op6ti - 2025-06-10 08:41:53
Noooooo you have to be lonely like me!!!+5
@newwayve - 2025-06-17 05:41:53
I wonder how old you are.+1
@mitchelmattera - 2025-06-10 08:41:53
soyjak point+89
@matth3w-all3n - 2025-06-10 08:41:53
this man? nothing cuz i know who he is. a person who like like him? run lol+12
@Hopeofmen - 2025-06-10 08:41:53
"Ah, I see you're late for vespers as well brother."+23
@Fancyish7 - 2025-06-10 08:41:53
offer dutasteride minoxidil and hair transplant+21
@FrodoenedaknonomoeDeringbearer - 2025-06-10 08:41:53
Ask him to autograph my t440p and offer to buy us some drinks or some burgers 😅+11
@DanielBergerHewitt - 2025-06-10 08:41:53
Have a crazy cool convo with him about the nature of God Reality and such matters.+14
@looking_33 - 2025-06-10 08:41:53
Pass the blunt+13
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 - 2025-06-10 08:41:54
Just walk past him. I used to nightwalk around Arlington Virginia when I worked nights.+4
@Witnessmoo - 2025-06-10 08:41:54
Don’t get in the van+4
@EldWanderer - 2025-06-10 08:41:54
Ask if homeless+5
@pajeetsingh - 2025-06-10 08:41:54
Offer him truth.+1
@Josh-u3e - 2025-06-10 08:41:54
Installing Linux.+4
@kingnick6260 - 2025-06-10 08:41:54
Whip out my ocarina & play the Song of Healing+4
@calholli - 2025-06-10 08:41:54
High five?+2
@teuku-rezhaldy - 2025-06-10 08:41:54
good evening 😂+2
@AskTorin - 2025-06-13 08:41:54
Make friends+1
@honkhonk8009 - 2025-06-10 08:41:54
Its even worse for college. Nobody talks in college. College friends are nonexistent. Every single person in my college still talks to their highschool friends. More than their college friends.+11
@convolvr - 2025-06-10 08:41:54
Im sorry to hear that. College was the best social setting I ever lived in. Friends could walk to each other's houses uninvited and spend the afternoon with each other. You could meet a group of strangers and convince them to partake in an activity of common interest. I guess it depends on the college and how far away from "home" it is, but I also would guess that students have less in common with each other now than they did 15 years ago. Perhaps it is a side effect of ideological divergence and a more diverse student body. I hope you are able to find a group of supportive friends. If not, at least you will have one less distraction.+5
@honkhonk8009 - 2025-06-10 08:41:54
@convolvr I wouldnt say its cus of diverse student body's or having less in common. The real reason is covid and the housing crisis. Everybody commutes now cus living in dorms is just infeasible and is atrociously expensive. Not to mention always full/overbooked and practically impossible to get a spot in. Online courses during covid have been detrimental to the nth degree. Litterally NOBODY shows up for class. They all just watch lecture recordings at home. Nobody actually shows up and stays there. Also Covid managed to seal the deal and make people used to being isolated and antisocial. The principal for my highschool told me that teachers dont even have to tell kids to be quiet anymore. They just never talk to begin with. Nobody talks to anybody. Allegedly its pretting jarring since highschools are pretty quiet and dead inside now. Im always the guy initiating conversation with people in College. And they almost never reply back or do anything with me. Almost everybody hangs out with their highschool friends. The only people socializing are women unironically. I used to think that maybe my college is just wierd. But iv talked to some of my highschool friends who go to different Uni's, and its all the same no matter the location. Everybody hangs out with their highschool friends. Its honestly taken a toll on my grades. My first year Iv had rlly good grades. 3.9 GPA. But the loneliness is unironically crippling and I feel like crying. Its been 3 years of this torture. Im genuinely praying that maybe I'd get to talk to more people when I get a job. I wish I was born 15 years ago man. Theres a common saying with my age group. "Your biggest sin is not being born 10 years earlier".+7
@honkhonk8009 - 2025-06-10 08:41:54
@convolvr Its not ideological either btw. Most people dont care about your ideologies. Most people are indifferent to you. You genuinely end up wishing they gave af about your ideology or anything about you, because at the end of the day, you mean nothing to them. Your a disposable cog amongst 800 other students crammed into the same lecture hall. They talk more on discord than they do in person.+12
@AuspiciousViews - 2025-06-11 08:41:54
Join some kind of group. This could be a church, Republican/conservative/libertarian club, video game club, anime club, whatever. I can promise you they exist - active churches with youth groups do, if nothing else. You just need to look up what exists, and then go there. You're already initiating conversations, which is a great start. Feel free to reach out to me about this if you have more questions. Best of luck man, keep your chin up and try to maintain your grades too.+2
@honkhonk8009 - 2025-06-11 08:41:54
@AuspiciousViews Il try. I joined a few ones before. Mostly design teams and stuff I do as a hobby. Just never managed to get far with them or rlly connect cus of school. I think I should get a car. . . Im way too limited by where I can travel. Like I use public transit alot but im geuinely tired of sinking 1 hour to get anywhere.+4
@gplastic - 2025-06-11 08:41:54
@honkhonk8009 You're absolutely spot on, it's pitiful. If it weren't for my high school friends it would be a soul crushing living. The only silver lining is that living at home lets me pocket the extra scholarship money as neetbucks+3
@baestrosity1233 - 2025-06-12 08:41:54
Orania :D+1
@personalconditioning2380 - 2025-06-10 08:41:54
Have you considered learning about stacking gold? Have a nice day!+2
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 - 2025-06-10 08:41:54
Sounds like you're American.+1
@Anton43218 - 2025-06-10 08:41:54
Nope I am Romanian, lived in the same romanian city my whole life. I seem to do better with western foreigners than people from my own country and especially my city.+5
@Anton43218 - 2025-06-10 08:41:54
I have done this although with silver since I was 14 as gold is much too expensive and the people here are obsessed with gold so much they may just steal it or rob you of it.+5
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 - 2025-06-10 08:41:54
@Anton43218 Gypsy Russian confirmed.+4
@Iplaynfs1 - 2025-06-10 08:41:54
Perhaps you're a coward? You gotta be willing to be vulnerable to people if you expect to form relationships+1
@ghost-user559 - 2025-06-10 08:41:54
@Iplaynfs1 It’s either or in my experience. There is a saying, the nail that stands out gets the hammer. Both bravery and cowardice get you stomped in a small town. In a city too. In life really.+5
@darukutsu - 2025-06-10 08:41:55
real treasure was the friends we made along the way+26
@Phoenix8864 - 2025-06-10 08:41:55
I was close enough to people in my school to see most of them go insane and fall apart. My high school sweetheart also went insane robbed me and sent people to stab me. Despite this I have a pretty good outlook on life and ended up better than before. Thanks Jesus.+30
@arkbooi - 2025-06-11 08:41:55
Imagine suddenly seeing a boomer talking to himself about modern people not having stability, no friends no family no society, starting it off with "good evening everyone"+7
@lovelace-the-smug - 2025-06-10 08:41:55
Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next product+8
@Hero_Of_Old - 2025-06-10 08:41:55
When I die, I can imagine being welcomed in heaven by Luke, down that exact same liminal street in the dark.+81
@justadog-headedman6727 - 2025-06-11 08:41:55
I think part of the problem is that the deep connections with people arise out of necessity. If you need to deal with the person everyday for years, for example you live your whole life in the same neighbourhood and you have neighbour who also do and you have to solve a common goal with them, you will eventually develop a connection to them. Part of the problem for me is this idea of a supposed "magical connection" with people you have no necessity to deal with. There is no such thing, deep connections arise out of necessity, not out of some "magical affinity".+6
@meowmrrpnyanya - 2025-06-10 08:41:55
the beard grows with wisdom+15
@simongreaves9465 - 2025-06-10 08:41:55
Watching this from the UK. We had a referendum 10 years back where the stable 'People of a place' voted for Brexit and the unstable 'People of anywhere/no where' voted to remain in the EU. Instability is now the great dividing line of politics,+5
@CLTmental-d7w - 2025-06-10 08:41:55
Relationships, friendships and family are all sustained by convenience nowadays. Once you stop providing or being useful, it's gone.+5
@georgeunknown2833 - 2025-06-10 08:41:55
Dostoevsky + Tolstoy + Lenin = Luke Smith+8
@karlmannvoigt7546 - 2025-06-10 08:41:55
Your ramblings on your journey through the ancient forest of Libre software have been pretty interesting. God bless, OG.+4
@arnthorla - 2025-06-10 08:41:55
You're absolutly right. Modern life is broken.+9
@galacticusX - 2025-06-10 08:41:55
When you started talking, I thought about the breakdown of "intergenerational" bonds and then you mentioned just that word. It's the crux of the matter. Thank you for talking about this.+4
@gingerfeliciano9531 - 2025-06-11 08:41:55
Luke i JUST recently became aware of who you are and what you have to offer the community. You have no idea how BADLY i needed to hear someone say the things you say. Im hesrtbroken it's taken me this long to find you. Because its really helped me heal.+2
@maserati4000 - 2025-06-10 08:41:55
He is not wrong. And no, internet friends don’t count. I’ve tried to get my friends to come and hang out (I’m in Canada). Even something simple as picking up the phone to catch up and make sure everyone is doing well was like pulling my own teeth. Everyone is with “busy” or lazy. Eventually I stopped trying. If you aren’t going to put in bare minimum effort, why should I? And it makes me sad to be honest because a lot of them are great to talk to.+54
@squintoncarbusier4963 - 2025-06-14 08:41:55
Several years ago, I had an old Lenovo ThinkPad x220, and I installed Arch Linux and Luke Smith's tiled window environment on it. It was cool until it became unusable due to some kind of dependency conflict during an update. He used to upload a lot of videos about Linux, and now he's a peripatetic philosopher hermit in the woods. Interesting to listen to what he's got to say.+4
@jesuschristislord6790 - 2025-06-10 08:41:55
Late 30s, no friends, family is dead or we arent close and never will be, no wife or kids. Just depression and anxiety. At least I have God.+77
@antonikudlicki1100 - 2025-06-10 08:41:55
I disagree. My experience is towns can get you a comeback, would you work for one (building a new group of friends) and you're held accountable by the people you invest time in. In the countryside everything goes and nothing is ever forgotten. Evil towns can be saved, evil villages can only be outlived+23
@whiskeywight7844 - 2025-06-10 08:41:55
Luke is on his Rasputin arc. A wandering bearded mystic spouting wisdom off at random times and places.+86
@MewingPainter - 2025-06-10 08:41:55
This was the situation of Germany in the 1920s and Russia in that same decade. This can lead to one of two outcomes.+65
@yasiercurtis5342 - 2025-06-10 08:41:55
Interesting......................... imagination..............+4
@calvinquallss4905 - 2025-06-10 08:41:55
This is true, also thicker = packing more wisdom+2
@galacticusX - 2025-06-10 08:41:56
Yukay.+1
@Hero_Of_Old - 2025-06-10 08:41:56
I have a friend like that, who starts a conversation and then after a few messages just stops replying. 2 years later, he will respond. Im not even joking, it takes that long. I always see him online. He lives like 4 hours away but still.+10
@tbkswagg - 2025-06-10 08:41:56
same bro and these people were my best friends since middle school. 10 years man. they just started to ignore me and I stopped trying after+9
@Ravix0fFourHorn - 2025-06-10 08:41:56
@tbkswagg people in their 20s are trying to get their lifes started, it takes all their focus especially if they are also married with children. You can hope to reconnect once their children are teenagers and they have settled down.+2
@dayumnsun - 2025-06-10 08:41:56
@Ravix0fFourHorn nah. there are always time for friends sorry. a message is 30 seconds of ur times. I understand not being able to be in person but if u have friends that cant even bother sending u a message checking on u and u doing the same, they are not friends.+17
@Maximinvs8 - 2025-06-10 08:41:56
You're indian, saar.+12
@mylittlecancer - 2025-06-10 08:41:56
Why would they? You are the dependant in the relationship and for that reason, you are the only one who initiates contact. You are the one in need of company, if you stop trying you are doing more harm than good to yourself despite the fact that they don’t care enough regardless. If you are hungry, you go to the baker and buy bread. Saying “why the baker doesn’t acknowledge my hunger and deliver the bread to me” only gets you hungrier. It’s basic friendship power dynamics. If you are that upset, become the baker which may be hard for you because bakers feast on their own bread and you clearly can’t deal with that.+13
@Anton43218 - 2025-06-10 08:41:56
You're finding good people to talk to?+1
@ashrayadappa174 - 2025-06-10 08:41:56
@mylittlecancer the other friend is not like the baker. The other friend is lonely too, but they do not realise it deep down, that if they did respond things could be better. Instead, they keep wondering why they are lonely while simultaneously rebuffing any show of vulnerability from someone who might care to reach out. Yes one can try reaching out to an extent but after a while, it is important to leave them and let them understand their loneliness on their own.+6
@BaklavaSlayer - 2025-06-10 08:41:56
@Ravix0fFourHorn horrible advice lmao. That's how you end up with zero friends later on in life.+10
@honkhonk8009 - 2025-06-10 08:41:56
The only reason it feels like your putting effort into hanging out, is because you dont have a common activity your doing with them. Ask them to help you build an RC plane or whatever with them. Ask them to go kayaking or skiing with you. Do something together. Remember its basic highschool psychology that only WOMEN can socailize by just hanging with eachother and mindlessly talking to eachother. MEN hang out by doing common activities together. Its modern societies biggest lie that "socializing" is done by just aimlessly talking without actually doing stuff together. Playing god damn video games with your irl friends is more fruitfull than just hanging out in the mall and doing nothing together.+4
@valder8423 - 2025-06-11 08:41:56
@mylittlecancer So in order to have a friend, you have to become friend?+1
@anima94 - 2025-06-15 08:41:56
you mean i3 or dwm?+1
@alexha2884 - 2025-06-10 08:41:57
😯💯+3
@BaklavaSlayer - 2025-06-10 08:41:57
Stay strong brother. We must endure until the end for Christ. Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. ☦️🙏+20
@chell6022 - 2025-06-10 08:41:57
Praying for you.+3
@chell6022 - 2025-06-10 08:41:57
@BaklavaSlayer God bless you.+2
@BaklavaSlayer - 2025-06-10 08:41:57
@chell6022 God bless you too brother. ☦️🙏+4
@FromTheWombTotheGrave - 2025-06-10 08:41:57
What if you don’t have god+8
@andrewreed1329 - 2025-06-10 08:41:57
@FromTheWombTotheGrave find god then+3
@matth4784 - 2025-06-10 08:41:57
You can get a wife. Go to church and talk to the priest+4
@SeanGreenhalgh-i2x - 2025-06-10 08:41:57
Pray to God for a wife/husband. Took me 7 years, but she showed up when I was finishing college. The biggest step is just dating - just get out there. Doesn't matter how, even if it seems immoral if you use some weird dating app. But don't compromise on your faith. There are people out there in the exact same situation looking for someone. Start today, starting messaging people and hooking up dates. You might not meet anyone at church, you gotta make the effort. She doesn't have to be a supermodel, she just has to like hanging out with you. Be upfront about your beliefs too so it doesn't screw people around.+2
@nisixya268 - 2025-06-11 08:41:57
Come join the Orthodox church. Stay after coffee hour and talk to the parishioners, and talk to the priest. There's definitely a community at least in the American sphere.+2
@whatever-457 - 2025-06-11 08:41:57
@FromTheWombTotheGrave Soften your heart and let him in. We find Him when we let go of our pride and consider the fact that we might have been deceived by this world. He is the Truth brother.+1
@grey.knight - 2025-06-10 08:41:57
Truth. If you grow up in a "toxic" village even if it's in a beautiful place in the country fleeing to the city feels like a welcome escape.+12
@Ardepark - 2025-06-10 08:41:57
Yeah you can tell someone is a “trad” urbanite by how based and virtuous they think rural life is.+6
@antonikudlicki1100 - 2025-06-10 08:41:57
@ArdeparkPeasantomania they call it where I'm from+1
@thomas.thomas - 2025-06-11 08:41:57
I guess you need something in between. Not a tiny village with 100 people but also no city with 100k or more people either. Too tightly knit communites can feel suffocating+2
@baestrosity1233 - 2025-06-12 08:41:57
@thomas.thomas 100k towns seem to be the answer for me+2
@SauloA333 - 2025-06-10 08:41:58
I'm really feeling your pfp bro+2
@yasiercurtis5342 - 2025-06-10 08:41:58
Well, I don't think so, given Rasputin's history.+2
@robustov458 - 2025-06-10 08:41:58
More like Perelman+3
@michaelstarmer7760 - 2025-06-10 08:41:58
🤣🤣+1
@whiskeywight7844 - 2025-06-11 08:41:58
@SauloA333 tyty. It's literally me™+1
@Armored_Saint - 2025-06-11 08:41:58
Ivan the Terrible.+1
@Buster450 - 2025-06-10 08:41:58
The scariest thing to (them) is for us to unite!+24
@Anton43218 - 2025-06-10 08:41:58
The thing is that in Romania this has been the case for a couple decades yet the bubble hasn't burst and it looks like there is no end to this situation. What doesn't help either is that most of the people here look like indians and not romanians.+17
@BaklavaSlayer - 2025-06-10 08:41:58
@Buster450 The J...BRAZILIANS!+17
@long3311 - 2025-06-11 08:41:58
thank you for your opinion uncle H+7
@greenwendal5056 - 2025-06-11 08:41:58
You can smell the degeneracy, corruption and apathy in the air.+7
@ObtecularPk - 2025-06-10 08:41:58
I agree it's depressing, but I grew up in a tight community (town houses) with other kids for the eternity of my childhood. Now growing up, I can clearly see what a community means. Relationship now is all fake, or it feels fake. It's hi and bye, there is no community to go back to. It's not like this everywhere, only in 1st world countries.+6
@TheRegalReflex - 2025-06-10 08:41:58
I grew up Rural and had to Move to the Suburbs for High School--Flipped my world upside down and made me realize the Modern World has no rules, its just about feeling "Good". Lying, Cheating, Stealing, Faking, and Abandoning your own all seen as Virtues. I've lived a quiet life of Renunciation ever since, 17 years alone.+11
@filiuscanis2413 - 2025-06-10 08:41:58
Thank you for another great video Orthodox Varg+44
@NOYB1776 - 2025-06-12 08:41:58
Commenting this as I go along with what I know already is a great video! I lived in a small town where I knew 80% of everyone from elementary to high school. Riding bikes, exploring, midnight parties, hangout spots, all that. All my friends that I had known for decades left, betrayed me, slowly started to ignore/ghost me, and most importantly, vastly psychologically changed to where I am the only one left now going "wtf is wrong with you people, why did you do that?" They seem disconnected from reality, rejected what it meant to be human and a friend, and seem to have lost the meaning and capability of love. True, meaningful love. So what you say that things are different in the city vs rural, it isn't from my experience. But what you said with everyone having too many options, spot on. People forget about their roots, people don't hold on to their real friends, people don't want to continuously invest in that trust that was already built from the start. It's very strange. They for some reason throw away all those years of knowing you for delusions. They even leave you for people they meet and know for like a month or two, and suddenly you're sitting back seeing them together all the time going "hey dude the hell is your problem?" I do like your point about the community aspect in relation to keeping up with each other and doing things together. The nostalgia is spot on man. All that time and effort you put in to friends, places, what life once was, only to have it spit in your face and tell you to take a hike. But, luckily, Jesus taught us how to handle that. Turn the other cheek and know they will only go downhill from there, while you stick to what is right and good.+1
@boredlinuxuser - 2025-06-10 08:41:58
In Canada it’s getting tougher to have a community because we have thousands of newcomers from other countries who only talk to ppl like them from their country of origin. When I’m out in public I don’t hear English most of the time but ppl speaking various languages+60
@adcodes - 2025-06-10 08:41:58
We are grateful to get these videos.+2
@rhubarb1073 - 2025-06-10 08:41:58
outside of the country, the only place I see this kind of community is honestly in the hood. I used to work a trade that would put me in all kinds of neighborhoods in my city and the times where I'd be in the hoods just hanging out outside waiting to work or being at a restaurant for lunch or something, everybody knows each other and is actually talking to each other and shit. I dunno if it's because a lot of people there are in poverty and everyone has to kind of rely on each other a bit, or just that the same families have been living in these neighborhoods for generations or what. I waited in a line for a BBQ place that took over an hour and by the end of it I knew like 4 people's names and not a single person was complaining about the wait. If I go to a fancy rich neighborhood and wait in a line like that nobody is talking at all unless they're drunk and everybody's pissed off. I don't really have it in me to live in a place like that though. Everybody in my apartment building just walks by each other without even saying hi. Knowing your community has to be better+28
@jagcentral - 2025-06-10 08:41:58
Totally agree. These days, relationships have increasingly become transactional/ disposable.Individualism has led to atomization. We exist in low-trust societies, exacerbated, mainly by the prevalence of social media, AI, and mass migration from LICs to HICs.+6
@gr8ape111 - 2025-06-10 08:41:58
Everyone who tells me about me about those towns where everyone knows everyone tell me its fucking hell, full of gossip, judging, superficiality, and straight up mostly losers.+30
@RobertZachner - 2025-06-10 08:41:58
So happy you been posting frequently again my brother in Christ ☦️ still miss the Linux topic but this is as good if not better! 🙏+2
@ArmandoCalderon - 2025-06-10 08:41:58
Yes. "A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own household."+4
@NewEpictetus - 2025-06-12 08:41:58
There was shooting few days ago in Germany. Reason is this, instability in society... 😢+2
@rafaelf.9246 - 2025-06-10 08:41:58
Luke's Alter Ego really said "good evening" in a pitch black road.+6
@1111_poster - 2025-06-11 08:41:58
Best video you’ve made since your return.+3
@metalgearfan9802 - 2025-06-10 08:41:58
Globalization, capitalism, and low trust society just make it hard tbh+17
@alanwong4767 - 2025-06-10 08:41:58
as a fellow generally frugally minded person, I always found STABILITY difficult on the normal university to professional tract--- everything about going to university was about getting ready to be a bugman: living in a city, avoiding acquiring stuff (which includes USEFUL TOOLS beyond laptops etc), ... only going independent and quitting CORPO permitted me to beat this+2
@InNominePraxis - 2025-06-10 08:41:58
who would have thought the snow shoveler from home alone had so much valuable insight to share+20
@brettharter143 - 2025-06-11 08:41:58
As Tim Dillon says 'The sold you freedom but what you really got was chaos'+2
@dualfluidreactor - 2025-06-10 08:41:58
Hi, here is John, your childhood friend. Sad to hear that we were just friends because you didn't want to look like a loser.+12
@daguerref1 - 2025-06-11 08:41:58
I appreciate your honesty and emotional transparency+1
@jakelexington7610 - 2025-06-10 08:41:59
With whom did you reunify if you are alone+2
@hexf3248 - 2025-06-10 08:41:59
perfect analogy+2
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 - 2025-06-10 08:41:59
So paganism = young wife and 7 kids. Christian Orthodox Varg = 0 kids? Hmmmm.....good thing I'm a Baptist.+5
@bobross2140 - 2025-06-12 08:41:59
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 Are you not prioritizing connection with God?+1
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 - 2025-06-12 08:41:59
@bobross2140 The first commandment God issues is: "be fruitful and multiply."+1
@neptunianman - 2025-06-10 08:41:59
Then find people who are the same culture as you, and start building a community. If they can do it, so can you. A good way to start would be attending church.+22
@DanyloShamaiev-c3w - 2025-06-10 08:41:59
"Various languages" like Hindi, Bengali, and Kashmiri?+17
@trevor_mounts_music - 2025-06-10 08:41:59
@neptunianman I think this went over your head a little or you are really that naive...+3
@MichaelSteger-t5o - 2025-06-10 08:41:59
Hard to find community when the demographics are being flooded so quickly. Need to move somewhere else..+11
@lm2240 - 2025-06-10 08:41:59
@neptunianman that’s like trying to swim up a waterfall. The forces simply will not tolerate this in any significant way. No, we are heading for collapse and rebirth. Not recovery from our current problems.+3
@Gothicc_senpai - 2025-06-10 08:41:59
same in toronto, it doesnt help that gen z is very political hard to make friends+2
@alexha2884 - 2025-06-10 08:41:59
What other languages specifically?+1
@theloniuspunk383 - 2025-06-10 08:41:59
Organise politically for the “big one”+1
@missingno88 - 2025-06-11 08:41:59
@neptunianman lol the indians are even flooding into the churches too. build a community how again?+4
@trireme7442 - 2025-06-10 08:42:00
Yeah, the place I grew up in was and still is very much like this. It feels like there is a massive spiritual deficiency in practically every place on earth.+11
@alexxx4434 - 2025-06-10 08:42:00
Don't believe anyone idealizing anything. There are always downsides. It's better to strive for some form of balance. But most people can't help it - they always gravitate to extremes, arguably to get rid of complexities, to make everything clear and simple.+16
@bro4539 - 2025-06-10 08:42:00
that's just what happens when people are actually connected. nobody judges in a city because nobody gives a shit about anyone. that's why moral decay happens so quickly in cities, the network of gossiping and judging is gone+3
@greenwendal5056 - 2025-06-11 08:42:00
I live in a fairly quiet town where everybody knows each other. Honestly it is hell. If your anything other than the most brain dead of sheep everyone will hate you.+4
@thomas.thomas - 2025-06-11 08:42:00
how does that relate to the video?+1
@evilgranpda - 2025-06-10 08:42:00
Believe me there is no more paranoia than a commhnist state and low trust 😂+7
@MM-op6ti - 2025-06-10 08:42:00
>never groom >be self righteous >use linux The trifecta of making and keeping friends+5
@Aggnog - 2025-06-10 08:42:01
It's like WOW before realm transfers.+5
@Sean-te5xj - 2025-06-10 08:42:01
Thank you for trying to make sense of the senselessness... Our roots have been severed for some time now and we are just beginning to sense the irrevocable loss. Even those left over from the silent generation feel it, and even more deeply because they have lived through an even greater arc of loss and social decay. No one has the will or attention to create anything meaningful, including relationships, let alone communities. What communities you can find are composed overwhelmingly of restless, evasive narcissists.... There are so many people angry or complaining of being bored all the time. Disinterested in solving even their own spiritual hunger pangs.+3
@zil6470 - 2025-06-10 08:42:01
Instead they have a lot of addictions, debt, mental illness, selfishness, no empathy and so on.. But, it's not a reason to give up on everyone. Keep Up The Good Work Sir !+45
@Hallvard0 - 2025-06-11 08:42:01
This ties well together with your other video on building paralell societies - it's important that we truly put all our efforts into creating a stable community for our families and future generations, not entangled in the ever-changing modern global societies+2
@vexy1987 - 2025-06-11 08:42:01
This is what happens when there is no skin in the game. Mutual reciprocation is all that you need to build authentic relationships. Go out, and give away your skills and time, and it will come back to you in abundance. In authentic community, status was granted to those who gave more, not those who took most. The inverse is true in modernity. Work to bring back out our evolutionary adaptive behaviours. There are intentional communities that deliberately engineer this, or just ordinary folks who recognise their own worth.+4
@ExtraStout89 - 2025-06-11 08:42:01
So glad to see another post. The internet could still use your voice. For some reason I always listen to your old videos while i mow my grass lol+1
@Humnbrd - 2025-06-12 08:42:01
Bro doing a Dostoyevsky cosplay+4
@jameslegare5394 - 2025-06-11 08:42:01
Thanks for the video! Sometimes one has to make a clean break! - JL - :face-turquoise-covering-eyes:+1
@OtherDalfite - 2025-06-10 08:42:01
Yep this is so true. My web is pretty small. My parents are gone from cigarettes and coca cola, my gf soon to be wifes dad is a pdf (we dont associate with him, she grew up without him), and her mom is likely to die the same way my parents did. I have 3 good male friends id trust with my life, its hard to imagine having a big family but its something i want so badly for my boys.+4
@unrelentingspirit6888 - 2025-06-10 08:42:01
Good Video! The flux of people that come and go in modern life is really disorientating, can't really build relationships on shifting sand.+2
@leek5682 - 2025-06-10 08:42:01
It would seem I am not a modern person based on the title. Now hold my beer while I use a cloud service to run an AI skyrim mod on a data center GPU+10
@-.2.. - 2025-06-11 08:42:01
The problem with small communities is that you can't "get away with it". If you're stuck with the same people for the entirety of your life, you might end up being judged forever because of your faults. Bigger cities may allow some sort of anonymity through obscurity. Imagine how embarrassing it must be to routinely bump into an ex girlfriend, highschool bullies, abusive relatives and all sorts of persona non grata. A big city makes it easier to blend in the crowd and avoid certain people.+2
@idan4989 - 2025-06-10 08:42:01
The modern man is barely human+19
@livnyposting - 2025-06-10 08:42:01
Thank you for the words of wisdom, Ilyich Lenin+1
@BikZom - 2025-06-10 08:42:01
I was going to write down my thoughts on this but in the end it doesn't even matter+6
@sukkeri - 2025-06-10 08:42:01
stability limits your life. small communities are horrible. they prevent you from changing even if it's a good change. you start living in a bubble. you can't even know yourself and what you really are good at, if the group of people around you is so limited. of course today this kind of life can't really exist because the internet is always there.+7
@ProcuraRt - 2025-06-10 08:42:01
I visited my brother a few years ago and just so happened it was Halloween. He lives in a small town. 300-500 people by census. The one restaurant was normally closed for the season but they opened it for a Halloween event. When we walked in I found it odd that everyone stopped what they were doing to look at us. This was a few years ago. The power went out in the town around 9:30pm which apparently was not uncommon and everyone went to bed at the same time within 20 minutes. Another time I visited him and he moved to a “large town” that was 3,000 by census but very remote, no Walmart or McDonald for over a 3 hour drive. I was at a bar and was having a friendly conversation with another guy while in line for the bathroom. We were drunk and shared the single bathroom which I have never done with another guy before but we were vibin no homo. I made a comment that it would be a nice place to live, he sensed something and asked if I was a remote worker, and his attitude instantly changed towards me. There is a problem with jobs and gentrification in that town.+4
@thegrievancegordieshow9882 - 2025-06-10 08:42:01
Glad I found your channel 🤙+2
@notmenotnever4565 - 2025-06-10 08:42:01
He made it to Silent Hill.+32
@imatomato6402 - 2025-06-12 08:42:01
I come from a small town, I literally ended up finding out something several of the people I went to school with were cousins of mine 2 generations removed only after finishing highschool. This is just an example of the type of things I kept discovering as I aged just as I was noticing that the conditions for these types of things actually happening were rapidly disappearing every year.+1
@edwardcumpstey9061 - 2025-06-11 08:42:01
You can’t talk about empathy if you pass judgement on these people.+4
@QTwoSix - 2025-06-10 08:42:01
I had to fall to lose it all+5
@HPLovecraftsCat9 - 2025-06-11 08:42:01
It all started with one thing.+1
@klnmn3722 - 2025-06-10 08:42:02
Limits your life from what?+10
@badabing3391 - 2025-06-10 08:42:02
90% of the time any "good change" is just making more money. Unless you are unable to integrate into the community i dont really buy that leaving is much better in the long term.+7
@newwayve - 2025-06-17 05:42:02
@klnmn3722 From his delusional ego. His comment is nonsense, and unrealistic. Must be either very young, or not have a lot of real world experience. Stability is something most people wish they had.+1
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 - 2025-06-10 08:42:02
Now imagine small towns in Eastern Europe. They will just straight up tell you to speak Lithuanian or whatever or GTFO.+1
@oscillator_ - 2025-06-10 08:42:02
Havent watched the video yet but judging by the title this is a video for me. One car accident away from complete ruin LOL.+6
@SteveMNash - 2025-06-15 08:42:02
Loving the fact that you walk everywhere, especially in the States. I have a car - sorry! - but still choose to walk whenever I can... I salute you!+1
@anthonyharrow3891 - 2025-06-10 08:42:02
what hope is there for the majority of young people if it took a man of your inteligence to this point in life to realize some of these fundamentals of life? in a lot of ways you aren't wrong, but i disagree that this lifestyle choices would fix things. we need different solutions, as our struggle is not the same of people 100 years ago.+9
@aurochs1 - 2025-06-10 08:42:02
At least in childhood and school years even in urban or suburban areas it's still possible to form serious and long last friendships, after that, everybody has their own life, nobody cares about you, work, gym, heck even church, whatever, it's all just shallow interactions and talks, not someone who's gonna go out of their way for you or vice versa. All that's left is isolation.+3
@tdubs9981 - 2025-06-10 08:42:02
The primary reason for homelessness is usually the breakdown of these relationships. Being part of community like a Church is probably more needed than ever since globo idealogues have succeeded in breaking down those initial relationships.+18
@goldengriffon - 2025-06-10 08:42:02
When I visited an aunt who lives in a small community out in the desert an hour's drive from Las Vegas, I was astonished at the openness of the people. The mature, level-headed nature of their children (acting more grown-up than many 30 year olds in the city). The deep trust and knowledge between neighbors, and close social ties that made everyone feel like family. These weren't just a collection of acquaintances who happened to live close to each other. This was a highly interconnected, truly tight-knit community - a concept I hadn't really understood before that time. It was a big wake-up call for me, demonstrating just how damaging modern suburban and city living has been to humanity.+1
@UncleTed420 - 2025-06-10 08:42:02
He has successfully made it out of the jungle.+4
@DilairSingleton - 2025-06-10 08:42:02
It’s harder but not impossible.+3
@THNKKY - 2025-06-10 08:42:02
This is only tangentially related but I found this interesting. I’m a country boy who moved to the city after high school. I’m 41 now. Most of my high school friends have kids and 4 or 5 of em became grandparents this last year. Meanwhile most of my city friends and exes are childless and post nothing but pictures of vacations. Seems kind of sad to me…+10
@natterlynabob1472 - 2025-06-12 08:42:02
Not pessimistic, you are right on. My father was worked for a military contractor, and we were constantly moving. By the time I was in fourth grade, I had gone to six different grammar schools. I didn't want to make friends; I couldn't remember their names anyway.+1
@GurtGobain - 2025-06-10 08:42:02
What's the solution? We can't just all move to the country. Most people live in the city out of necessity because they can barely afford to rent, let alone buy a place. If everybody could move to the country, it'd just become another city anyway.+14
@robbur-h1t - 2025-06-12 08:42:02
I am over 40. I tried so hard to not loose connection with my old friends. But I was the only one trying, and at some point I just let go+1
@cinemint-music - 2025-06-10 08:42:02
Suburbs make much more sense when you realize that they're very comfortable refugee camps+8
@TheTastyPancake - 2025-06-10 08:42:02
You have a lot of great points, such as the intergenerational trust. I too believe the natural order of things would lead to a much more spiritual and well-being community. However, many of the problems you listed can be negated in the modern world. Parents don't have to move, that's possible. My parents and like 95% of my friends' parents didn't move anywhere, and I'm 27 now. I have the same friends I grew up with, and I'm from a suburban area in northern europe. My friends are starting to have children and me and my fiance will hopefully soon do the same. Our children will know my friends' children and so on. The world is of course a much more cruel place for introverts and antisocial people, who in the olden times had more opportunities because of a better system. Tl;dr: sounds a lot like a skill issue to me Also no sidewalks in the suburban area? How fucked up is that place lol+3
@Peter-u7p1t - 2025-06-10 08:42:02
What you don't get is that plenty of troublemakers and antisocial scumbags are part of these communities, just like the honest, hard working, god fearing moms and pops. Ever heard of the "good old boys" and other petty tyrants? If you stuck with your "community" for life, then you stuck with your tormentors as well. One big advantage of the freedom we have that we can just move away, instead of bending over every day for the rest of our lives.+16
@FinnaTrynaBeHonest - 2025-06-10 08:42:02
He’s made it to the highway. When he reaches route 5, he will finally be free.+3
@StayCalm0 - 2025-06-10 08:42:02
It's wild talking to younger people and warning them about these things (almost 40), not like preaching doom and gloom to them, but just saying they should be connected or seek some fom of community, and having them take offense. Then in the next breath they talk about how lonely they are. It's all very odd+6
@Truck_Kun_Driver - 2025-06-10 08:42:02
Thank you for the knowledge, Mr. Fyodor Dostoevsky+2
@frankprit3320 - 2025-06-10 08:42:02
1# Family and community started to unravel when all the women started divorcing their husbands back in the 80's, just because they weren't "happy". Bottom line is, Women are NEVER happy. ( All they do now on Tik-Tok is complain about everything). Because of that, the entire family unit and society in general has had to suffer. 2# along with that, our entire Industrial based was "outsourced" to China so the boomers could become super wealthy starting in the early 90's. this is why our small towns and cities have collapsed and created the rustbelt. Thus, no STABILITY.+6
@justadog-headedman6727 - 2025-06-11 08:42:02
When reading about the colonial period of my country (Brazil), you read about people living in their great, great-grandparents (or even more) homes (the casa-grande in the sugar mills). How that experience formed one I think is hard if not impossible to imagine for us today. Such a thing seems simply impossible to occur today.+2
@honkhonk8009 - 2025-06-10 08:42:03
Have I played Squad with you before? I recognize that username. I think my name was spongebob or something. Also churches aint doing shit. Litterally just do common activities together with people+1
@7enima682 - 2025-06-11 08:42:03
bringing new life into the world is a great thing, and I really mean that, however, I bet that the lives of your rural friends and acquaintances are much more boring than urbanites. It's just objectively true that the cities are the centers of culture and economic activity, that there is more events and communities (niche ones, too!), that, plainly speaking, there's more shit going on and more shit to do. If you want to be a good parent - your wishes and priorities take 2nd, if not 10th place, period, so there's nothing "sad" (although it is a problem in societal sense) in realizing that these people do have a lot to give up with kids - it is, in a sense, amazing that people can afford to not get bored of life enough to put themselves last for the sake of another until they're 40 (or possibly even more). As I said, of course, it is still an issue - it would kill the workforce of the world's entire population in a matter of like 2 generations, the old folks' welfare would be unsustainable, that kinda stuff, and neoliberalism corrodes this as well in many ways - it's not just the higher density of entertaining things in life. It must be solved, somehow. But saying people being without kids is a sad sight - idk, it can be fulfilling to raise one (as I said, bringing new life in the world IS beautiful), but first and foremost - it's work and responsibility, is all I'm saying+1
@Tweedle90 - 2025-06-10 08:42:03
there really is no solution. this has been an issue since ancient times. cities are always population sinks and miserable. Only way to live a happy family life is in the countryside.+7
@alexha2884 - 2025-06-10 08:42:03
Not really, because you can have gardens, chickens, hunting, etc.+1
@GurtGobain - 2025-06-10 08:42:03
@Tweedle90 Okay so basically happiness is gatekept for the rich (or at least upper-middle class) and there's no way around it except "pull yourself up by your bootstraps and just earn more money bro". Most of my friends can't save for a house... we aren't saving for retirement, we need a 72 month loan @ 10% just to get a beater car if we're lucky. Ironic that we've got to go through the process of getting wealthy just to buy a small piece of farm land and live like a poor peasant did for most of history. I guess the alternatives is you can choose to live 2 hours from the nearest grocery store and town to get cheaper land. And then spend another $50k+ to get your off-grid electricity set up, get a well drilled, and a septic system installed. And throw away 2 hours of your life whenever you want to travel anywhere.+4
@JohnSmith-dt5lq - 2025-06-10 08:42:03
maybe if people spread out when they move to the countryside it wont be too city like. might work but number will go up then a long time in the future down. theres alot of open land out there that people dont realize is there.+1
@toobskuiks116 - 2025-06-10 08:42:03
There is no easy solution. Society needs to change in a fundamental way. And that happens when there's enough people trying to change it, even if difficult.+1
@frothmoth6600 - 2025-06-10 08:42:03
Being poor in money is in no way equivalent to being poor in every other aspect of life, the family, community, cultural independence. Your financial situation does suck, but if humans beings made it this far fighting off lions and surviving famines and disease and so on I think you can find a way to move out of a city. Ranting in the YouTube comments won’t help you get there. Best of luck! I did it, so can you!+1
@MateuszMisztela - 2025-06-11 08:42:03
@GurtGobain There really isn't a solution that is available to most people. Of course, certain pro-social policies are possible, but generallly most people are not gonna make it.+1
@TravisHi_YT - 2025-06-10 08:42:04
That's a good point, it's not all upside.+3
@honkhonk8009 - 2025-06-10 08:42:04
Unironically true. Thats the beauty of the social isolation you get from big cities. You dont have to deal with said scumbags.+3
@ghost-user559 - 2025-06-10 08:42:04
This is what made the City bliss. It’s security via obscurity. It’s sad in some ways, but it’s definitely a blessing in disguise in many situations.+2
@MateuszMisztela - 2025-06-11 08:42:04
It kinda sounds like false dichotomy. Healthy communities are possible.+1
@Peter-u7p1t - 2025-06-11 08:42:04
@MateuszMisztela "Healthy communities are possible." - it's like saying that Communism is possible.+2
@nousquest - 2025-06-10 08:42:04
Sublime.+4
@mountainmanmcbeachfront5296 - 2025-06-12 08:42:04
Thank you for the videos+1
@sprinklednights - 2025-06-10 08:42:04
It really sucks to live like that. I'm in school, and I barely have done something with the people I talk to outside of school (other than 3 people). It's crippling to me as no matter where I go it really feels like there's nobody who is willing to engage with me. I could also do something wrong, but I've found to agree with Luke Smith (and I don't even live in an extreme suburb). It's not something I hope anyone to experience because it's poison to your mental health.+4
@Rayhuntter - 2025-06-10 08:42:04
well, good observation, Sherlock. Practically impossible for me to make friends or conjure up family. Society is in a decay.+2
@rockyrivermushrooms - 2025-06-10 08:42:04
Side effect of the modern world. It's required to live a modernized life I think.+3
@alabama2uz - 2025-06-14 08:42:04
I'm thankful to have a handful of 40+ year friends from school. It's easier when availability to a great education and good jobs near where you grew up.+1
@Gejmer1337-i4x - 2025-06-10 08:42:04
Skinwalker after stealing my camera be like+26
@markshamp3699 - 2025-06-10 08:42:04
I dont know how common this is, but I'm 26 and I've never experienced what its like too have a real friend who I felt I would do anything for, and who I felt I could trust to do anything to help me if I ever needed it. Ive heard and seen of people who have, but personally, I've only ever had people who were friends in name but never in spirit. At this point, I've grown to believe that the best one can hope for are helpful supportive acquaintances. It doesn’t really bother me. I take what I can get and Ive been farely successful in life so far so I'm not in a position to complain, but on occasion I wonder if I'm missing out on something critical to my humanity.+2
@mateusmeloxyz - 2025-06-10 08:42:04
Who wins? The virgin car centric advocate Vs The Chad walkable neighborhood enjoyer+17
@Val-ub4uw - 2025-06-10 08:42:04
Individuality is taken to extremes in globalist society. Helps a lot with divide and conquer+3
@pipbernadotte6707 - 2025-06-10 08:42:04
City slickers cope about not moving to the small towns bc building and maintaining relationships is, in a sense, work.+8
@Moshegadol17 - 2025-06-11 08:42:04
I can’t believe you’re back man+1
@Bjöhannes-w8z - 2025-06-10 08:42:04
People aren’t willing to bring it up, but immigration is a huge factor in this problem. If not the cause, it certainly accelerates it and makes it more jarring.+5
@Broly_1 - 2025-06-10 08:42:04
Wow, I share very similar feelings. I thought these things only happened to me because I'm an immigrant without many cultural things in common. So if even natives feel like this, maybe I'm normal. I’ve stopped inviting people to hang out at my house because they never come. Also, when people say “I’ll visit one day” or whatever, I already know it will never happen. I grew up in a rural area without Phone lines or internet. We didn’t have to let people know we were coming beforehand we’d just show up and knock on the door. Communities were very different back then.+2
@watsonblack7481 - 2025-06-10 08:42:04
Looking evil in the thumbnail tbh but vid is some fire+4
@baestrosity1233 - 2025-06-12 08:42:04
best is medium towns. the shame is women from these places get more or less tricked into becoming girl bosses in the big city because college is like so epic and having a job as an HR hiring "specialist" who walks post homeless black people every morning is also just so truly epic living la vida locaaaa and living their best lives yaas queen.+2
@MrPyro91 - 2025-06-10 08:42:04
the only stability is that sweet youtube money+2
@anonymousperson45152 - 2025-06-10 08:42:04
I love your videos dude keep uploading+1
@NeoRothbardian - 2025-06-10 08:42:04
Dark Luke Smith Arc+9
@riggel8804 - 2025-06-10 08:42:04
Suburban family man here. Getting married and raising a family is one of the best options available to young men. It is definitely the most accessible. A key component in being a family man is owning a suburban home. Living in the suburbs allows you to be close enough to the city to maintain gainful employment while at the same time giving you a safe environment to raise children in. Most cities are not safe. Most rural hones are too far from the job. Suburbs aren't perfect but I think they are part of the American spirit. America is a huge land mass and Americans are independent-these things go hand in hand with cars and suburbs.+2
@Snoy_remover9000 - 2025-06-10 08:42:04
All the people I knew from school are gone from my life now. Making real friends seems impossible in the modern world. I feel like it didn't use to be this way, something definitely happened to people.+2
@sprinklednights - 2025-06-11 08:42:04
@Snoy_remover9000 The internet happened (and YouTube starting to block comments).+2
@badabing3391 - 2025-06-10 08:42:05
doesnt matter when everyone tells you to move every couple years for a job.+4
@BaklavaSlayer - 2025-06-10 08:42:05
@badabing3391 not American, can't relate.+5
@BradLamberts - 2025-06-10 08:42:05
I like driving, sue me+2
@charlesblerzbo1616 - 2025-06-10 08:42:05
No, it's because they're afraid they won't find adequate employment.+17
@HPLovecraftsCat9 - 2025-06-11 08:42:05
@charlesblerzbo1616 You're both right, to be honest.+1
@leonardomangano6861 - 2025-06-10 08:42:05
yes, very sad+3
@LostInTheStack - 2025-06-10 08:42:05
When did Luke start using emacs?+4
@David.Isaac.147 - 2025-06-10 08:42:05
It depends on the town. I grew up in a liberal college town and although I miss the comradery that I had with my high school friends, I'm glad I left and I would never move back there. The overall atmosphere was so fake and alienating and most of my former friends moved away too+2
@alback - 2025-06-10 08:42:05
Where are you wife and kids?+7
@undecimal8589 - 2025-06-11 08:42:05
I didn't think about this a lot because I unconsciously assumed it's just how things are, but it's honestly depressing.+1
@fiatlux4058 - 2025-06-10 08:42:05
Стабильность (tm) есть только в России+4
@gbell9119 - 2025-06-11 08:42:05
Luke I think you are on to something with the esoteric Vietnamese nail salon. I had a Pizza Hut/Blockbuster right next door to eachother growing up. The PH shut down, the Blockbuster followed. A nail salon and chinese place opened. Now since covid, the entire parking lot is completely vacant. Not to mention all the drug deaths suffered in my hometown friend circle. It is just me and one guy left that still talk from that group. The rest are dead or have wife, kid, house and no time.+1
@mattdonnelly3743 - 2025-06-10 08:42:05
So online I’m the first comment+4
@jessewright3790 - 2025-06-11 08:42:05
I used to live in a small town in east Texas and it has the stability you're describing.+1
@inithinx - 2025-06-10 08:42:05
This is such a non problem in india. Our families are literally 15+ on average. It has it's pros and cons, but you have people to rely on. There's a temple around every corner, and you pretty much know everyone in your neighborhood.+7
@justian1772 - 2025-06-10 08:42:05
It takes deliberate effort to make this happen in our neighborhood. Let's get started!+1
@lucastavares3518 - 2025-06-10 08:42:05
got jregpilled?+4
@qwertyuiop8272 - 2025-06-10 08:42:05
Learned part of this by moving away, called them "friends of convenience". The suburban insight is a good one, the houses advertise as turn-key.+1
@kfhahn - 2025-06-10 08:42:05
lol, you have a lot of half-baked, stupid ideas and it’s so, so tiring that you get up on here and talk to people as if you’re relaying some sort of wisdom. “i had friends because i didn’t want to look bad so I said, ‘sure, you can be my friend.’” what a weird, machiavellian way to behave. you’re exactly part of the problem. you’re entire shtick is so contrived+9
@RobbieMcGougan - 2025-06-10 08:42:05
Good thinking, I like the comparison of urban society to a river with things so ever changing that establishling simple everyday interactions socially become almost meaningless. A strange irony in that even with our technological advancement and the structure of interactions becoming more open ended or empowered in our modern world, we are in real terms faced with emotional discombobulation to a degree.+1
@areyoutheregoditsmedave - 2025-06-10 08:42:05
Your last video had an incredible impact on me.+2
@danielgusarov2020 - 2025-06-11 08:42:05
As a guy that lived in tiny villages for most of my life, it’s nice to see someone put into words the feeling I’m feeling now that I live in the city. There is no community here, it’s too big. I try to be friendly to the neighbors and other people on the block but it’s not at all like getting immersed in a small towns community. Can’t wait for my wife to give up city life, will be nice to have our kids in a place where they won’t grow up to be antisocial douches.+1
@eriestreetgarage - 2025-06-10 08:42:05
What you describe is basically why good cities are so popular.+2
@GeorgeFluoride-e2m - 2025-06-10 08:42:05
9:00 I can see sadness in your eyes, the cracking in your voice, and i relate to it completely.+1
@drumitar - 2025-06-10 08:42:05
i realized this when i started working in IT, i thought everyone would work with me at the same place my whole life but instead everyone has 6 month contracts and no one gives a shit because they're leaving soon. what a disaster.+1
@CIB8282 - 2025-06-10 08:42:05
Night walk Luke is peak, love this channel.+1
@nousquest - 2025-06-10 08:42:06
He is married but I don't know about children+6
@Hero_Of_Old - 2025-06-10 08:42:06
Why would he show them off for all the internet to see?+8
@theyellowarchitect4504 - 2025-06-10 08:42:06
@nousquest proof he is married?+1
@luukhaag8772 - 2025-06-10 08:42:06
I can come up with two perspectives to answer that question. number 1: Assuming he is, why would he show that off to the world? You may agree with him or you may not, but his words stand on their own. They don't depend on his own personal choices. View number 2: Maybe he isn't married or has kids, which in some sense would make him a victim of the type of society he's talking about. Much like the rest of the growing population of people who don't get married or have kids.+2
@alback - 2025-06-10 08:42:06
If he has a wife and possibly kids absolutely he shouldn’t show them, and that was not what I was going for. But we’ve been fed with all these internet philosophers and ultra alpha males since the great meme wars of 2015., and I really think most of them are grifters. In one way or the other. I would use triple brackets but not sure if my comment would get the shadow treatment oy gevalt!+2
@Podzhagitel - 2025-06-10 08:42:06
лол, даже лмао+5
@Podzhagitel - 2025-06-10 08:42:06
that’s such a redeemed society. out here in the west we do not redeem.+21
@Mememaxing - 2025-06-10 08:42:06
Not in cities+2
@user-ayush818 - 2025-06-10 08:42:06
@Podzhagitel i heard you don't wash either.+3
@maximilianmusterhans4659 - 2025-06-10 08:42:06
"This is such a non problem in india" Not yet.+1
@usmcp - 2025-06-10 08:42:06
If it's so nice then go back.+2
@charlesblerzbo1616 - 2025-06-10 08:42:06
Does anyone smell poop?+1
@pippinproductions - 2025-06-10 08:42:06
@Podzhagitel do NOT redeem!+1
@tanyesil - 2025-06-10 08:42:07
based+1
@Eddengarthian - 2025-06-10 08:42:07
>macchiavelian Petersoncaca detected Macchiaveli is based+6
@looking_33 - 2025-06-10 08:42:07
He wishes that someone ever said that to him.+4
@perhel2396 - 2025-06-10 08:42:07
well how can you get a deep relationship with someone when you know that you will be friends just for a limited time?+2
@ExhaltedÜbermensch - 2025-06-10 08:42:07
Yap Yap yap yap yap, did you even watch the video at all?+1
@CIB8282 - 2025-06-10 08:42:07
Some old guys I worked with for a couple years retired with a full pension. They were replaced with contractors who dont even get paid for holidays...+1
@anima94 - 2025-06-15 08:42:07
I purposely went for a worse paying job because I liked my boss and coworkers when I interned. Feel lucky that most oft them are still here. If you have to work among strangers or dislikeable coworkers a job sounds like hell+1
@Данил-ж7э4н - 2025-06-10 08:42:08
I know some people that can make a friend in a day. And I was always surprised when I found that they just met but talked like they've known each other forever 😂+1
@teejay5516 - 2025-06-10 08:42:08
Had to turn my light on for this one+2
@perplexity000 - 2025-06-10 08:42:08
It's difficult to find areas like that. Even my little hometown has changed dramatically over 20 years, demographic shifts, stores coming and going, etc.+1
@chengiggler - 2025-06-10 08:42:08
I moved to a small island with about 1000 year round residents. You get to know just about everyone as you see them all the time and hang out with a wide variety of people doing all sorts of niche activities. I feel awful when visiting cities now.+1
@saenttor - 2025-06-10 08:42:08
This is so true, and in a way it’s affected the world in a lot of ways. Although it’s hard to say if it’s inherently a good or bad thing…+1
@tommygun19788 - 2025-06-12 08:42:08
this entire video can be summed up with one word. Community.+1
@FlavourlessLife - 2025-06-11 08:42:08
This one hits close to home. Not everyone can live on a farm in a small village of ~150 people, yet that's basically how we're biologically designed to live. Not everywhere has as much space as the US.+1
@wanderingmako - 2025-06-10 08:42:08
Moved from Virginia Beach with 7K kids in my high school to a small town in Maine with 400 in their high school. I totally understand this one and see it everyday.+1
@seamusoblainn - 2025-06-10 08:42:08
One way to think of what we're gojng through is that future generations will have 'data points', tactics, and frameworks for what and what not to do, from the local to the national lest you want widespread collapse.+2
@Гусь-ж2ъ - 2025-06-10 08:42:08
10:50 When you have children, you don't want to live and raise them in a house where repairs are constantly underway and construction crews are changing.+2
@lorddeathspit1124 - 2025-06-16 08:42:08
Bluntly suburbs are the best place for most middle class people because cites are too dangerous and living most aren’t cut out to live in the country.+1
@andrey9351 - 2025-06-11 08:42:08
Watched this in the dinning haul in my dystopian corporate company+2
@stigcc - 2025-06-10 08:42:08
Very insightful. Explains the falling birth numbers.+1
@louisthethird8081 - 2025-06-10 08:42:08
Thank you for your wisdom My well wishes with you+1
@InfoDisco - 2025-06-10 08:42:08
I think you'd inadvertently articulated the draw of social media in the modern age. Most people silently crave a tangible community, and social media enables them to fulfill this desire in a free and easy way. The caveat, of course, being that the lack of personal sacrifice involved precludes the community from having any meaning or value.+1
@fishfingers7325 - 2025-06-11 08:42:08
Become detached. Stare into the abyss and laugh with it. Bring it forth into this reality and turn everything into a circus. The universe asks only a question: AND?+2
@sparta117corza - 2025-06-10 08:42:08
this the type of shit I be rambling out in .txt documents when im really tired and my meds have lost their affect late at night.+2
@green.holden - 2025-06-10 08:42:08
Another video that I needed... I kind of wish he went more into the intergenerational stuff...+1
@vigaca1 - 2025-06-10 08:42:08
11:55 "that a very pesimistic video" -Luke smith Also him in the darkness+3
@JohnFreakazoid - 2025-06-10 08:42:08
Dark Luke Smith has risen+2
@ghost-user559 - 2025-06-10 08:42:08
Yeah. It’s true, but it goes both ways. Those same towns are a nightmare if someone doesn’t like you, or feels jealous or slighted. Having every store that exists or every business in an entire county shun a person is game over. Flying below the radar works, but even being born into a town like that can come with a lot of baggage.+1
@honkhonk8009 - 2025-06-10 08:42:08
so real. I have a logbook now. Thats what I be typing these days. I also noticed I be typing in the comment section alot+1
@champfisk5613 - 2025-06-10 08:42:09
Good thoughts again. I’m really not friends with people growing up anymore+1
@jimmyplayscds - 2025-06-10 08:42:09
Makes me miss my old life and my old friends...+1
@manners7483 - 2025-06-10 08:42:09
Luke's Unabomber arch is starting it seems.+3
@Being_Joe - 2025-06-10 08:42:09
My HS population was larger than my mothers entire village.+3
@Twtgod - 2025-06-10 08:42:09
The real Luke arc will begin when he gets married.+2
@blakebonecutter - 2025-06-10 08:42:09
Luke Smith after dark+3
@jonashansen2512 - 2025-06-11 08:42:09
Many busy NPCs everywhere. The inverse can often be said about small towns+1
@gl0sek - 2025-06-10 08:42:09
I was expecting slenderman to pop up in the background...+3
@mattias99475 - 2025-06-10 08:42:09
It's there, just abstracted away. Or at least here (Scandinavia). The community support is reduced to the practical, and it requires knowing "the system" to fully be aware of and confident in. I guess being unable to comprehend how it came to be and to what extent it's there for us in need also paves the way to its fall. The heartwarming reassurance from a helping friend I assume is rare from a social worker mostly dealing with xer's clients paperwork. And even wagies, mostly living in their own spheres, in the day of sneed, can be unsure of how to reach out for the support they have backed financially their whole wagie lives. That's when they need a friend to open the door to what politicians and public employees have hopefully created while they themselves were busy creating LE real value.+1
@porky1118 - 2025-06-10 08:42:09
0:40 I don't have friends, but I have a strong connection with my family (I still live with my parents and brother, and we still visit not that close relatives on birthdays). Also I have a rather strong connection to my job nowadays. It also gives me some stability. Also I tried to create some routines, which probably are good for stability, too. Not strong routines I have to adhere to. Just things I do regularly, especially writing and posting stories, and I also started to commission people for art, so I hope for long term contacts to them. Also you could count programming. But I don't do this regularly at all. I only do this when I have strong motivation or a clear need for something.+2
@wizkidstudios404 - 2025-06-10 08:42:09
20 seconds from quitting my job and living in my van+2
@whiterice6016 - 2025-06-10 08:42:09
I just graduated from highschool, and I plan on becoming an officer in the army. This idea of raising children within a fluid environment has been in my mind. Good timing with the video, Luke+1
@ironpumpkin0182 - 2025-06-12 08:42:09
Dude's starting to look like a philosopher/psychologist from the late 1800's.+3
@FellTheSky - 2025-06-11 08:42:09
I Would add to the title: "no religion or spirituality"+2
@alamputraaf - 2025-06-10 08:42:09
just opened youtube and seeing Luke Video in the dark mode+2
@cherubin7th - 2025-06-10 08:42:09
Welcome to the future bro.+3
@skeithus - 2025-06-10 08:42:09
No stability🗿No friends 🗿No family🗿No society🗿+2
@danielkaster2648 - 2025-06-10 08:42:09
LUKE I LOVE YOU!+1
@denis-w9e - 2025-06-10 08:42:09
POV Lenin lectures you on a dark street+2
@LightInTheNight1337 - 2025-06-10 08:42:09
Thank you, Mr. Dostoevsky+2
@MM-op6ti - 2025-06-10 08:42:09
Shalom thanks for serving my county+6
@whiterice6016 - 2025-06-10 08:42:09
@MM-op6ti ok, kid+1
@youtuberobbedmeofmyname - 2025-06-10 08:42:09
I have no idea how you can feel nostalgia. I have literally nothing I can look back on fondly. There was nothing novel that happened in my youth.+1
@Гусь-ж2ъ - 2025-06-10 08:42:09
To sum up, there is a succession crisis going on right now. We literally live in a Potemkin village. If the situation is so deplorable in the USA, then it is even worse in the territories of the former USSR (+1
@rotemlv - 2025-06-10 08:42:09
Did you ever ask your grandfather what his grandfather taught him about the past, and about the old family line? That's a start.+1
@crazyb1ch - 2025-06-10 08:42:09
I still have family. I still live in the same city as my parents and that's currently the extent of my social network.+1
@anonanon7822 - 2025-06-11 08:42:09
As a person who grew up in suburb Eastern Europe(which is more like rural place in western countries) and moved to Warsaw and then Tokyo and then to smaller japanese city( Kobe) and traveled all around different kind of places, i can agree. That’s unfortunately a big minus of big cities. I am honestly not a huge enjoyer of rural areas(because i like city anonymity and have my own circle of friends), but neither of mega cities. Places like Kobe, Fukuoka, Niigata, Takamatsu, Wakayama, etc are just a perfect balance for me+2
@mortonmuggsy7698 - 2025-06-10 08:42:09
luke, you should study the human zoo book written by some zoo keeper, he discusses a lot of similair ideas+1
@natcafe - 2025-06-11 08:42:09
love how everyone is commenting on your area as if it was something special+1
@alwaysskeptical7221 - 2025-06-11 08:42:09
It’s not about suburbs, it’s the corporate behavior of short term return focus. Most people unless independently wealthy, have no guarantee of the stability you speak of. The design of their neighborhood is moot.+1
@dsquarre - 2025-06-11 08:42:09
nowadays we do it using instagram and its just sending each other reels, actually talking to them or anyone is kinda hard; even my girlfriend who is in the same class in my college, I couldnt talk to her cuz she just wouldnt stop and no one just talks to anyone outside their friend group so I basically had to cold text her+1
@mohamedmonem2645 - 2025-06-10 08:42:09
That's some 3 AM motivational atmosphere right there+1
@anonanon7822 - 2025-06-11 08:42:09
Uncle Luke on a preview looks like exactly a person you don’t want to meet in the empty place in the middle of night+1
@aklem001 - 2025-06-10 08:42:09
These videos are great+1
@RussTeeTrombone - 2025-06-11 08:42:09
Luke out here wandering around Silent Hill+1
@theelodgeovkeku - 2025-06-11 08:42:09
My local bbuster is a trashy steakhouse and they just repurposed the sign no fux given lmao+1
@bigMax1337 - 2025-06-12 08:42:09
When i still went to church regularly you used to walk into people you knew around where you live all the time. This part of the city used to be people that lived here for generations. Ironically growing up in the city I know exactly what you're talking about. Honestly sad they rented out the church to other Catholic communities.+1
@godisgood5089 - 2025-06-10 08:42:09
Imagine living in a suburb and you come home from work one day and there's a homeowners association Karen standing in your house because she let herself in because you signed an agreement to ensure your grass wasn't too long+1
@JacksJournale - 2025-06-11 08:42:09
I have a theory about high school friends. Most do not get involved with people they went to high school with. If they do it don’t last long. Girls you went to school with for 12 years may still see you as a 3rd 5th or 8th grader! New guy comes to our high school and the girls like him better. Maybe they are tired of looking at the same people. Time spent with others when you are younger doesn’t make for long term relationships. Maybe a business relationship or co-worker, but nothing outside of that. There are exceptions where someone marries his or her high school sweetheart, but it’s not the norm.+1
@AK-hf3pf - 2025-06-10 08:42:09
Vampire the masquerade Luke 😮+2
@kyosefgofa - 2025-06-10 08:42:09
Regarding old-young people Friendships. Because of the pace of technology, old people's knowledge is perceived as being obsolete. This led society to view old young friendships as creepy since people can even imagine a friendship that is mutually beneficial between old and young.+1
@LuisArcadia641 - 2025-06-10 08:42:09
Having multi-generational households is a big part of that stability. One of the reasons the world outside the US thinks it's very weird that americans move out at 18, sometimes even get kicked out.+1
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 - 2025-06-10 08:42:10
What a sad statement.+1
@AnotherGameDoge - 2025-06-11 08:42:12
Like from Fukuoka+2
@anonanon7822 - 2025-06-11 08:42:12
@AnotherGameDoge hopefully, will move there somewhere in future. Or even Kagoshima, cost of living is even lover than Kansai+1
@honkhonk8009 - 2025-06-10 08:42:12
The only countries acting proud that their country doesnt kick kids out at 18, are the countries that have such HIGH HOUSE PRICES that its physically impossible to do that, and their actually just coping over how materially poor they are compared to Americans. Im not American btw. This was just the copium my countrymen were telling eachother to feel better about the sky high housing prices.+2
@heatproofedwrens - 2025-06-11 08:42:13
Bro cornered me on my walk home from work+1
@TaciturnusIneffabilis - 2025-06-10 08:42:13
cant say for other countries but here in eastern Europe we do not have different classes as in different students attending each subject with a different set of classmates. we have classes of 20-25 students and we all have the same subject together. every period we just go together to a different classroom and teacher. we also stick together for a lot longer. the students are being cycled only 2 times, in the 5th and 9th grade. its better like this because you meet the same people every day for minimum 4 years in a row. much easier to form bonds just by proximity.+2
@davidreese6519 - 2025-06-12 08:42:13
This is not compatible for pioneers, explorers, and those who venture out to experience the world. It's value is probably being overstated. Overall point is important though, but should not be treated as some absolute solution to society.+2
@pandadiestro - 2025-06-10 08:42:13
this new silent hill trailer looking incredibly realistic+2
@metrab8901 - 2025-06-11 08:42:13
artificializing everything is what modernity is all about+2
@chapas777 - 2025-06-10 08:42:13
Podcast about Julius Evola. Thank you+1
@Dan-nn8ys - 2025-06-10 08:42:13
Luke, I love me some Konoba's Amanet food. But, damn that kacamak did some kind of MK Ultra on your brain dude.+1
@ross-sound-journal - 2025-06-10 08:42:13
I grew up in a military family. Moved every 2 years.+1
@thatfellow7556 - 2025-06-10 08:42:13
This was my life post-college, and I hate it...+1
@brambasiel - 2025-06-11 08:42:13
Bro spawned in a liminal space.+2
@alexenios - 2025-06-11 08:42:13
Is it just me? He seems to glow every now and then.+3
@ChristopherWiggins-w5q - 2025-06-10 08:42:13
Stability now needs to be found in the self.+1
@dvox4361 - 2025-06-10 08:42:13
Wow, I dig this "Apollonius of Tyana" look (although he was less bald).+1
@babyfacenilsson6380 - 2025-06-10 08:42:13
Rocking the 'Island of Dr Moreau' look.+1
@aungthuhein007 - 2025-06-11 08:42:13
I would love to take a walk there.+1
@peterlastoria1717 - 2025-06-10 08:42:13
luke nightwalkers point is scarier than anything lurking in the night+1
@tmstani23 - 2025-06-12 08:42:13
Many good points. And I think this was more the case before the internet. Now even the rural areas, though people know each other) people are still very isolated and atomized. They just go home and work then go online. People don't socialize or form bonds in real life anywhere near as much. It is much more entertaining, relaxing, and convenient to chill at home online. And also much of the traditional labor people could find in small towns has long since been shipped overseas or made so efficient there arent nearly as many jobs. So overall there isn't really much community in small town areas as well. And religion is dying/dead due to scientific understanding and probably also the internet. We've advanced so far so fast we're separated from our natural environment. Still it's probably better than all the suffering and horrors of the old world. Real life is boring/exhausting compared to our illusion boxes.+1
@stillnotsergio - 2025-06-10 08:42:13
"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play." -The computer from red scare film WarGames (1983) exploring eschatology+1
@trimble-tech - 2025-06-11 08:42:13
Community is important+1
@chell6022 - 2025-06-10 08:42:13
God bless you.+1
@TaciturnusIneffabilis - 2025-06-11 08:42:13
@herethere5637 imagine being this demoralised+1
@TheTastyPancake - 2025-06-11 08:42:13
Yeah we have the same in finland, good system compared to what Luke was describing imo+2
@MelCholie83 - 2025-06-11 08:42:13
Unless you don't make any friends, then you are stuck getting bullied for more than 4 years with no perspectives of finding new people to connect with. This system works only if you are lucky and got into a class with people you can form bonds with.+1
@TaciturnusIneffabilis - 2025-06-11 08:42:13
@MelCholie83 idk man, to me it looks like bullying only exists in america. we were all pretty chill even the guys that would normally be bullies they just went to boxing and vented it all there.+1
@TheTastyPancake - 2025-06-11 08:42:13
@MelCholie83 That can be true. I guess you would see that same problem in any "stable" childhood bubble+1
@telescopicS627 - 2025-06-12 08:42:13
Pioneers found success and were able to build equity in their new community. Wage laborers who relocate for jobs are far less successful these days, they see their economic position being undermined every year, hence they are driven to migrate to greener pastures every decade.+2
@tomaszgora4353 - 2025-06-10 08:42:14
The Fossputin spoke again!+2
@SamBazzell-z8y1o - 2025-06-14 08:42:14
Truly the scariest and creepiest video in YouTube history+1
@leonardomangano6861 - 2025-06-10 08:42:14
This is exaclty how I feel+1
@skupire6547 - 2025-06-14 08:42:14
dudes with your phenotype always got something interesting to say lol i dont mean to offend, but ive met a few people who look just like you and its always been an intriguing and thought provoking conversation+1
@nicholaslonnon7509 - 2025-06-10 08:42:14
He's walking to the nearest city to show people how little stability they have.+1
@savonic2112 - 2025-06-10 08:42:14
Well said. Agree very much.+1
@SeanGreenhalgh-i2x - 2025-06-10 08:42:14
You are correct. Best place I've seen is Sardinia. Everyone lives a long time, they all eat healthy and everyone knows each other. Modern western society and big cities suck. So disconnected. We have it all wrong because people worship the dollar.+1
@pamus6242 - 2025-06-10 08:42:14
In a 100 years, I see a city named after Luke Smith.+1
@gurgelgubbe - 2025-06-10 08:42:14
I mean, people in small towns are stuck with each other? It's small enough to cataloge the people living there and you have little option other than get along. The oxygen for differences is less potent. I find it wonderful to pass through the "friendship river". Back when it was friends from school, the pool of kids changed futher along the path of education. Then friends came from work centric situations. Now friends are found around our kids, their friends parents and their activities. It's all good. Yes, you never stand in the same river twice – that's the whole thing, it's the life stream passing you by. In small towns rivers flow slowly, the water is cirulated and you kind of deal with it. Change is not dangerous kids.+1
@fschutt247 - 2025-06-10 08:42:14
People feel nostalgia because they are attached to this life. So, aging is a loss for them, they try to cling to their youth so hard. I feel glad now that I'm older because I'm closer to eternity. My only loss are the days I didn't use. I wish I could "speed up" my life, not because I am suicidal, but because I want life to be over, for good. I hate this life, this life is not natural, it's a lot of pain, war, struggle, work. I just want to look back at a life saying "yup, I did my duty as best as I could" and then "rest in peace", in the literal sense of "resting". But, I don't want to die having achieved nothing, I just want to speed up living, so that it's over sooner. It's a much different perspective, normies obviously don't understand.+2
@ghost_particle - 2025-06-10 08:42:14
Look! the beard guy reached civilization after walking so many days in the woods+2
@thel1chking - 2025-06-13 08:42:14
Complete truth+1
@LatchoLaiban - 2025-06-10 08:42:14
He is getting closer+2
@a46475 - 2025-06-11 08:42:14
Dude, we're not moving down to the country no matter how much you beg. You made your choice, we made ours.+2
@FloresOrtodoxas - 2025-06-10 08:42:14
I am about to make yet again another destabilizing move and I only yearn to pour my youth into a home and having what he describes. But rent be tripping and I can't buy land.+1
@bartek... - 2025-06-10 08:42:14
Not me, do not .......+2
@YeloPartyHat - 2025-06-10 08:42:14
10:05 I don't feel loss with nostalgia. I feel a sense of personal history.+1
@ltxr9973 - 2025-06-11 08:42:14
I feel in western europe villages already have become like the suburbs you describe. And they keep building more houses that all look like shoeboxes. Eastern Europe/The Balkans however is a different story, they still have real villages. Young people tend to move away from these a lot though.+1
@ttcc5273 - 2025-06-10 08:42:14
The American Dream is to be a part owner of The Colony, owning a little slice of it where you can be the sovereign ruler of your own little land+1
@AustrianHungAryan - 2025-06-10 08:42:14
Help! I have been cornered in a dark alley by a Russian philosopher!+2
@MateuszMisztela - 2025-06-11 08:42:14
Change is not always for the better.+1
@gurgelgubbe - 2025-06-11 08:42:14
@MateuszMisztela No, of course not. I just found "modern society bad" to be insanely simplistic view on the topic and wanted to counteract the sad boi comment stream.+1
@remorcist2499 - 2025-06-10 08:42:14
Depression be like: it's not that i am suicidal or anything it's just that I don't wanna live.+2
@TheTastyPancake - 2025-06-11 08:42:14
Bro you've gotta start getting more spiritual, you're halfway there but still dwelling in nihilism and ego just like Luke+1
@fschutt247 - 2025-06-11 08:42:14
@TheTastyPancake I'm traditional Catholic, not nihilist. I just wish to be "done with life already", it's hard to express but it's not a suicidal feeling. "Our heart is restless until it rests in you" - Augustine+1
@calholli - 2025-06-10 08:42:15
But this is my society.. Right here in these comments.+2
@captainclarky5352 - 2025-06-10 08:42:15
What are the signs to look for when searching for somewhere with an actual community that you can invest in? I think it's important to avoid regional towns that are like suburbs dropped in the middle of nowhere. Those towns are meth capitals for a reason+1
@TheMinskyTerrorist - 2025-06-10 08:42:15
The lighting and setting is making me feel threatened, in a good way+1
@mystiquesquared - 2025-06-10 08:42:15
All by design. All working according to plan.+1
@AlwaysAudacity - 2025-06-10 08:42:15
I appreciate that Luke throws the word queer in every video.+1
@jellyfishman5465 - 2025-06-14 08:42:15
It's good to try to succeed, but also some people are just doomed like abortions, so no reason to stress too much, or develop any mania about purpose...+1
@NeilBaker-n4u - 2025-06-12 08:42:15
Don't despair too much. Modern society is repairable. Of course, where there is no vision, the People perish but there is vision and it has been presented. It just hasn't been accepted. Yet.+1
@krunkle5136 - 2025-06-10 08:42:15
So multigenerational businesses. Good. Community? Sure. Not online though. Also, it helps to have the urban design so everything is close by, with NO separation between businesses and residential. Bring back businesses with the owner's home is the second floor. This creates accountability. Cars effectively let people avoid responsibility, via remote ownership and control to the extreme.+1
@sergeymironov7315 - 2025-06-10 08:42:15
Stability is the first stage of degradation.+1
@blauwbeer556 - 2025-06-10 08:42:15
Maybe it's because i went through the same childhood and have that bias but i doubt that a war-torn-society is better than an artificial society one, for early development especially.+2
@MrAngelmiguee - 2025-06-11 08:42:15
Bro gathered all the Ender eyes and is elytra bound.+1
@tidus4400 - 2025-06-11 08:42:15
You think that the relationship with your life long friends from the small village / city won't end when you move? Or that knowing everyone and their families for generations is intrinsically a good thing? It can for sure be, but it may also be the thing that keeps you stuck in your tiny bubble. I speak for experience, I moved from a very small city of ~2000 people to an European Capital. Both can be good or bad. But let me just say that after 2 years max no one remembers you if you're not the one who writes them first.+2
@alexxx4434 - 2025-06-10 08:42:15
The wanderer found the road!+2
@piked86 - 2025-06-11 08:42:15
Guys, we live in a society+1
@NeoRothbardian - 2025-06-10 08:42:15
At night A premiere in the history of this channel+1
@theyellowarchitect4504 - 2025-06-10 08:42:15
If you were granted full control, how would you plan a society's residences? Suburbia but thrice the land for everyone?+1
@PoolesReviews - 2025-06-11 08:42:15
I have bad news. The Blockbuster in the EPIC COUNTRYSIDE is also gone.+1
@robkam643400 - 2025-06-13 08:42:15
Any tips to actually get to be a part of one of these communities?+1
@testtor2714 - 2025-06-12 08:42:15
Dude leaves his house in the night, looking like a hobo, just to try and insult me.+1
@KentKorihisa - 2025-06-11 08:42:15
I GOT MY OWN LAWN, DON'T FUCK WITH ME!+1
@b.e.s.i3813 - 2025-06-11 08:42:15
Luke Smith goes Liminal Space+1
@TavarAlkaline - 2025-06-10 08:42:15
Do you have stability? (Friends, Family and Society)+2
@Weila4tube - 2025-06-10 08:42:15
Having tight relations with close societal circles is only beneficial if you are among the weak ones. If you are stronger, smarter, more self-sufficient, etc., the other ones will just take advantage of you all the time, which would take away resources off of you - and thus you won't be able to make your own path as fulfilling as it could've been. You will all get to be something mediocre.+1
@theloniuspunk383 - 2025-06-10 08:42:15
Need more seedy streetlight vlogs+1
@TheBaldingMan - 2025-06-11 08:42:15
Longhouse apologia by Luke+2
@Kitsune1054 - 2025-06-10 08:42:15
Walking around in the dark is too kino+1
@protogionlastname6003 - 2025-06-15 08:42:15
"Not trauma in like uhuhuuhhoobababa" - Luke Smith+1
@nintendoforever1995 - 2025-06-10 08:42:15
Too scary, I want forest Luke back.+1
@rustymustard7798 - 2025-06-10 08:42:15
Modern people have a 3" wide window held up in front of their face to view the world through. And by 'world', i mean Tiktok and Twitter.+2
@Cannedscourge - 2025-06-10 08:42:15
Luke is an appalachian folklore monster at this point.+1
@blitzkrieg2928 - 2025-06-10 08:42:15
After Dark Luke Smith isn.t real he can.t hurt you After Dark Luke Smith :+2
@palchum1185 - 2025-06-10 08:42:15
Well put+1
@ilkinq.8646 - 2025-06-10 08:42:15
Luke i found your loc in GPS bro. i will visit you next year+1
@remsee1608 - 2025-06-10 08:42:15
I’ll mention pension programs and social security socialize the benefit of creating new workers and thereby disincentivize having children+2
@wernersmidt3298 - 2025-06-10 08:42:15
Libertarian dad finds unfathomable wealth in the commune.+1
@NewLeaf1-zs4sy - 2025-06-15 08:42:15
What you say is true, that there's a Essential Element to a functioning society, one that's absent in Amerika, for the most part, some je ne sais quoi that's the KEY to a well functioning society, Society thing is that's not Amerika, Amerika is about STRIP MINING NOT CULTIVATING, no uplifting but sucking dry, sucking dry and poisoning, which aren't the same thing but lie in the same vein!+1
@crushtedtomato - 2025-06-10 08:42:15
Never understood the appeal of suburban living even in any practical sense. It's countryside with no space to grow produce, and city with no amenities or cultural events. Just a big empty house to get fat in.+1
@_deadpool_reynolds_ - 2025-06-10 08:42:15
There is much to learn in a stable place shaped by generations... now we’re just trapped with chatgpt+1
@shavebunny - 2025-06-10 08:42:15
Finally a video that's not in the middle of the woods+1
@spenarkley - 2025-06-11 08:42:15
My take on this is that religion provided all this but under the condition that you believed in it or at least played along. We need something similarly potent in creating a sense of strong identity providing community.+1
@tropicaljupiter - 2025-06-10 08:42:16
That’s a huge phone+1
@cooledcannon - 2025-06-16 08:42:16
That's why i love the city actually. Yeah suburbs suck+1
@noveltycrusade - 2025-06-10 08:42:16
Cool location+1
@ernstjunger2835 - 2025-06-12 08:42:16
Didn't it all start with the boomers?+2
@Indeed48 - 2025-06-10 08:42:16
Truth hurts.+2
@unkn0wn_416 - 2025-06-10 08:42:16
He's walking on Silent Hill now.+1
@Mq_oah - 2025-06-10 08:42:16
If a community is completely dependent on its people, maybe the problem lies in the value people bring nowadays. Almost like the value provided by the majority of the comments on this video?+1
@wookieewantacookie - 2025-06-14 08:42:16
Can u imagine driving down the road and you see him in a suit rambling to him self.😂 7:55+1
@Bloob124 - 2025-06-10 08:42:16
"I don't have a Facebook" ~Luke Smith+1
@RSanchez111 - 2025-06-10 08:42:16
Luke Smith reporting from the backrooms.+2
@imatomato6402 - 2025-06-12 08:42:16
Hey Luke, what do you think of the RTTL in the Ozarks? Do you think something like that can reverse this situation?+1
@miojao-r7r - 2025-06-11 08:42:16
The problem is cars.+1
@runix2189 - 2025-06-10 08:42:16
This is a consequence of civilization and transport being so cheap. Capitalist jobs where you move across the country for an extra 25% salary. This is why the left are the way they are. They have grown up in this system and their brains have automatically adapted to the best strategy from their socialization. They why they care more about external groups rather than closer groups, as close groups tend to rotate very quickly and you find new people all the time but the external society is where they get their belonging from. It's only going to get worse too, it's just more economically productive this way. Things are changing at a very scary pace and changing in ways our nature isn't suited for. The best people have always been able to adapt and change according to the situation. You can run away and hide in the countryside, but that too will come to an end one day.+2
@novitrix9671 - 2025-06-11 08:42:16
I sent this to some few dear friends from school days. Curious how they will respond.+1
@OlympiaCHUD - 2025-06-14 08:42:16
we are the doomeaters despite not being built for such a thing+1
@pt8306 - 2025-06-16 08:42:16
"I noticed something queer about me" - Luke Smith, 2025.+1
@NeoRothbardian - 2025-06-10 08:42:16
Alongside Night 💯+1
@sleepmore8587 - 2025-06-14 08:42:16
Go city or go rural, no in-between.+1
@sleepmore8587 - 2025-06-14 08:42:16
Go city or go rural, no in-between.+1
@SPQRIUS - 2025-06-10 08:42:16
the world was created on October 26, 4004 BC at 9:00 AM never changing+1
@himehomemi5642 - 2025-06-10 08:42:16
Evil Luke Smith be like: you do have stability, you do have friends, you do have family+1
@WomannequinReviews - 2025-06-10 08:42:17
LUKE WATCH OUT!!!!!+1
@Pepxico-y7d - 2025-06-10 08:42:17
you cant say that to me while standing in the middle of the night at a forest+1
@TheRogueVigilante - 2025-06-11 08:42:17
Welcome kids, today we have luke from the liminal spaces+1
@monkeivyisacat - 2025-06-11 08:42:17
Good enough, welcome back dostoyevsky+2
@lucaslopes1260 - 2025-06-10 08:42:17
This video isn't pessimistic, I would say, but rather realistic.+1
@milkman6218 - 2025-06-10 08:42:17
This will be extremely hypocritical of me, but different environments requires different actions. When you said "There's no reason to visit that friend". The better the economic opportunity, the denser the population- the denser the population, the more work you will have to do to maintain connections. Again I'm not the guy to say this, but I've dated plenty of women who made it a point to plan dates with childhood friends, people who live in different states. It kinda is a woman thing because they value relationships more than guys, but it's something we need to learn from them and not be weird about it.+1
@blitzkrieg2928 - 2025-06-10 08:42:17
Chad Serial Walker+2
@michaeldacosta7504 - 2025-06-11 08:42:17
This video is a mixed bag. Some good ideas, some half-baked ideas+1
@averwill324 - 2025-06-10 08:42:17
Biggest truth nuke in a while+1
@majnkrafcio6550 - 2025-06-10 08:42:17
OH MY SCIENCE LUKE SMITH ENDED UP IN LIMINAL SPACE HELLSCAPE+1
@citramate3633 - 2025-06-10 08:42:17
6:00, I think you've actually a major reason why the birthrate continues to go down.+2
@NyoQah - 2025-06-10 08:42:17
unfortunate truth+1
@paskaziemia5347 - 2025-06-10 08:42:17
How does he know sigma word I've started using it just like 2 months ago. He can't be truly disconnected+1
@Kart - 2025-06-10 08:42:17
Looks like my town+1
@mrsansiverius2083 - 2025-06-10 08:42:17
He's breached containment+1
@garret918 - 2025-06-10 08:42:17
I suppose Churches help the problem but nothing is going to last nearly as much as it used to, and even then churches still have this "flowing river" issue. I wonder if Orthodox churches suffer this issue less, never been to one.+1
@backyardbarbells - 2025-06-10 08:42:17
Bro chose violence 😢+1
@ReinisR.P - 2025-06-11 08:42:17
Luke Smith doomer nightwalk era 🥀🥀+1
@GuwnoGuwno-x1m - 2025-06-10 08:42:17
Lute when are we getting the jarty back+1
@NEVERGOON-e7q - 2025-06-10 08:42:17
The cost of modernity.+1
@Apollo-tc6sy - 2025-06-11 08:42:17
Which ideas are half baked?+1
@virginiasaintj - 2025-06-11 08:42:17
@Apollo-tc6sy Not OP, but my issue with the video is that Luke dances around perhaps the largest factor contributing to lack of stability: demographics.+1
@Epik-hm8ws - 2025-06-10 08:42:17
Dude… Vim Diesel on his way to transform into the Unabomber+1
@jaketnev5142 - 2025-06-10 08:42:17
came for linux stay for philosophy.+1
@TH1NK3R3R - 2025-06-10 08:42:17
Dostoevsky time traveled to our lord's year 2025 to preach to this rotten modern world about the importance of community and orthodox christianity+1
@matthewsiahaan1312 - 2025-06-10 08:42:17
Just like the Js planned+3
@klausreinsch5774 - 2025-06-10 08:42:17
You are right about this but I still can't take you serious if there is no pepe or wojak in the thumbnail.+2
@cosimomaio6116 - 2025-06-13 08:42:17
I think what you said is true but you didn't realize you became part of the problem by thinking that what you did was creepy, because it's perfectly normal and that's how you mantain ties with other people. When I remember someone I last heard from years and years ago, I just message him or her, who, if willing, will reply and hang out. Maybe here in italy we just have a friendlier mentality, but I really can't see how that's creepy. I'm also very introverted, but I guess being friendly saved me in a sense lol+1
@shaurz - 2025-06-10 08:42:17
Sam Vaknin has similar ideas on modern "society"+1
@trstensvold - 2025-06-10 08:42:17
He finally found his way out of the woods+1
@PINO1101 - 2025-06-10 08:42:17
yeah man that's me man+1
@Jalecko - 2025-06-10 08:42:17
Bro really just said what jreg said+1
@mountainmanmcbeachfront5296 - 2025-06-12 08:42:17
Luke: makes another video about him walking outside for the 69th time except this time it’s nighttime . Commenters: HEH.. L-Le dark.+2
@ToTheMaxWorld - 2025-06-16 23:42:17
hear me out....a community of people who understand this+1
@poru208 - 2025-06-10 08:42:17
Not sure that at any time in history or place on Earth that the stability you're discussing ever lasted for more than a few generations, unless you were a part of royalty and were then forced into it. Humans have always been on the move for one reason or another, both willingly or unwillingly.+1
@OneTwoFf - 2025-06-10 08:42:17
what to do in this lonely world, Luke?+1
@TheDoomWizard - 2025-06-11 08:42:17
Dude yeah exactly+1
@hanadm2838 - 2025-06-10 08:42:17
Where is the not related podcast+4
@SetBotolph - 2025-06-10 08:42:17
Exurbs or rural or bust basically+1
@ys1197 - 2025-06-10 08:42:17
Preach+1
@Maya-j8h1e - 2025-06-12 08:42:17
"I don't believe in cars"+1
@FUZASHIII - 2025-06-10 08:42:17
Luke why are you walking alone at night ??? Please go back to your shack, we are worried 🙏+3
@sarundayo - 2025-06-10 08:42:18
We gave up our dreams for memes 😢+1
@Treska_ - 2025-06-10 08:42:18
In other news: the sky is blue!+1
@necrospencer658 - 2025-06-10 08:42:18
Gregory Perelman had had enough of mushroom picking, I see.+1
@NocturneSMT3 - 2025-06-11 08:42:18
Learn to ride a dirtbike, and learn to adapt+2
@Jessesloveshack - 2025-06-10 08:42:18
rare night luke+1
@dandan-gf4jk - 2025-06-10 08:42:18
zomg new biome unlocked+1
@calholli - 2025-06-10 08:42:18
The people I see who really think they do have this, are the drinkers. I haven't drank any alcohol in like 11 or 12 years. But my girlfriend of 15 years still drinks a lot. And she truly believes or speaks of having this great "family" with her other drinking girlfriends. And sometimes they get together and get wasted on the porch, etc. and laugh at nothing-- while both are constantly talking and no one is actually listening. She has cousins that do the same thing; they come over sometimes and drink in the kitchen or on the porch and get absolutely wasted, and go to bed. It's literally all they do. If you were to take away the drinking they would have nothing to talk about. It's a bit unsettling to watch -- but she works and it's her own money; I just watch her waste all of it... everyday. It's actually bizarre. At least I get her to pay the bills with her money. She just wastes the rest. And that leaves me having the ability to invest and save my money and keep us afloat in bad times. But it's amazing to see her get $9k back from taxes -- and it's already gone and there is literally nothing to show for it. Eating out and a mountain empty bottles.... But she would tell you that she has friends-- she has family. lol. It's amazing to watch so closely and still be so detached from it.+1
@ParadisusParadoxum - 2025-06-10 08:42:18
luke smith is walking on a r- r- road 😱+1
@sebastian3742 - 2025-06-10 08:42:18
Oh is Luke having an Alex Hexagon moment?+1
@thenoorpath - 2025-06-10 08:42:18
Luke Tolstoy is wandering in the Yankees' land+1
@maximilianmusterhans4659 - 2025-06-12 08:42:18
Will you ever write essays again or have you become Google's eternal content creator?+1
@prawtism - 2025-06-10 08:42:18
upside down cross visible 🚎+1
@samandarkhan2431 - 2025-06-11 08:42:18
were not the big cities, even in the old times, like in roman civilization,egypt, also like this? people in big cities/suburbs, not knowing eachother??+1
@green.holden - 2025-06-10 08:42:18
Where I may differ somewhat is that I don't think you can go back... I like your perspective but I also don't think things were always better in the past and I think we need to embrace some moving forward plan like communism as an example. There are probably other ones. You just need to have a plan for how to move into the future. Maybe I'm strawmaning but this is what you make me think of.+1
@sebastianviruzab7986 - 2025-06-11 08:42:18
Meanwhile Luke still single+1
@robustov458 - 2025-06-10 08:42:18
He now looks exactly like Perelman+1
@node547 - 2025-06-10 08:42:18
coming out of the woodwork...+1
@visrut7 - 2025-06-10 08:42:18
What are your views on travelling? do you think moving for somewhere else for 1-2 month and get back home is good thing?+1
@Yunes948 - 2025-06-10 08:42:18
A night episode? was it ever over?+1
@albertoderfisch1580 - 2025-06-10 08:42:18
But what I do get is a stable supply of videos of a bearded boomer yelling at his camera, which is not that bad either 🤷🏼♂️+3
@remorcist2499 - 2025-06-10 08:42:18
That's sad. Hopefully you give her good pipe at least.+1
@calholli - 2025-06-10 08:42:18
@remorcist2499 Sad for me.. She thinks she's happy. lol.+1
@kirillholt2329 - 2025-06-10 08:42:18
traveling is for npcs and a waste of money. Maybe if you live somewhere very different for 5-6 years that would be beneficial, but it may not necessarily be worth it for most.+1
@anomynus - 2025-06-10 08:42:19
Book when?+1
@toshibapriest - 2025-06-10 08:42:19
lv1 friends be like: "i have a lot of friends"+1
@nicknewaccount7536 - 2025-06-10 08:42:19
what if all these new videos are just Luke slowly approaching your location...+1
@georgecisneros5281 - 2025-06-10 08:42:19
Ya don’t say…🤔😕+1
@TageraHang-j8s - 2025-06-10 08:42:19
you didn't have to come at me like this lol+1
@RippDrive - 2025-06-10 08:42:19
'the country' is large and not very online. How do you find somewhere to move to?+1
@TatianaRacheva - 2025-06-13 08:42:19
It’s called “absence trauma”+1
@t80combatmaster65 - 2025-06-11 08:42:19
So what do you do when you don't particulalry like or fit in with the community you grew up with? Like you're only there because your parents or grandparents uprooted their lives in the first place?+1
@Dionysus-gv9lz - 2025-06-10 08:42:19
YES!+1
@AdventuresofMrGibbs107 - 2025-06-11 08:42:19
I don’t mean this in a snarky or disrespectful tone, but genuinely, what do you think the solution is? Just get some people you’re in tune with and try to buy a home near each other or what do you think is the best option to get out of this?+1
@therealredforest9644 - 2025-06-10 08:42:19
yes I do+1
@candlelitscene - 2025-06-11 08:42:19
You made an earlier video where you said young people should not focus on friendships. Have your views changed?+1
@PabloGonzalez-uc3lu - 2025-06-10 08:42:19
will you be my friend luke? eastern europe chad over here.+1
@TheEternalClown - 2025-06-12 08:42:19
Good+1
@5000okok - 2025-06-10 08:42:19
Uncle Ted talking about queer people.+1
@stainlessdroid3249 - 2025-06-11 08:42:19
Please someone make a mod for silent hill to add a npc Luke Smith that wonders around just yapping to a camera+1
@porky1118 - 2025-06-10 08:42:19
6:40 Maybe I shouldn't leave my village. I don't know many people from my village, but everybody knows my mom and my grandma, and a bunch of people also know me or at least confuse me with my brother.+1
@wolfbrammr - 2025-06-10 08:42:19
i don't believe in cars+1
@GeorgeFosberry - 2025-06-10 08:42:19
Luke dislikes cars too? Based+2
@sobanejaz123 - 2025-06-10 08:42:19
bro changed his biome+1
@porky1118 - 2025-06-10 08:42:19
11:00 Or maybe I should, so my children grow up in some society which doesn't change that much. Maybe I should look for a wife rooted more in her society than I am in mine.+1
@Hero_Of_Old - 2025-06-10 08:42:19
I'm in a paradox with that, because I love motorsport and racing, but I kind of hate industry and noise too. Like I would prefer to go back to a pre industry society.+1
@kirillholt2329 - 2025-06-10 08:42:19
@Hero_Of_Old same, "car culture" is cringe but some automobiles and their ownership is rather metaphysically pleasant and therapeutic.+1
@fdsfjhjtjtea6497 - 2025-06-10 08:42:20
Luke, are you saying that it never began+1
@Nickelbawker - 2025-06-10 08:42:20
No friends, check that. Have the rest though+1
@uncannoid - 2025-06-10 08:42:20
Bro is on silent hill+1
@blossomcherrypink - 2025-06-10 08:42:20
discord is my society+1
@toamnatarzie5761 - 2025-06-10 08:42:20
he has finally reached civilization+1
@muhammedalfatah - 2025-06-10 08:42:20
Luke. I have been watching ur videos for the past 2 or 3 years🎉 Ur the best. But honestly ur a smart person. I wish the best 4 u. I know u connect a printer to read the comment section. Am asking u 2 review Quran. Ur smart enough, try to look at it. U would understand it. And if u have negative points, I am glad 2 see u debating against it+1
@marciomaiajr - 2025-06-10 08:42:20
Stabilily: having the same hammer your father gave to you when you were 12 in your shed and actually using it.+1
@ventricity - 2025-06-10 08:42:20
Speak for yourself. Most people have friends and family, if you have basic social skills. That’s darwinism+1
@anthonyl4778 - 2025-06-10 08:42:20
Thank my divorced parents+1
@jsmith108 - 2025-06-10 08:42:20
How do you find places like you're taking about?+1
@AllegoricalSelf - 2025-06-13 08:42:20
So it's not just me?+1
@murphymarlowe - 2025-06-10 08:42:20
Bro is in the backroad+1
@GeeeEmmm - 2025-06-10 08:42:20
Has Luke been in the backrooms this entire time??+1
@adamsawyer1763 - 2025-06-10 08:42:20
So true. I grew up on a military base - about as temporary a community as you can get. Moved around some more as an adult but then when our first child was on the way we moved to a small town in the Scottish Highlands. Everyone knows everyone else. Our kids know all the other kids. They're all at the same nursery and the same school and they'll be together all the way through. We go to the park and there are always kids they know there to play with. It is a form of stability everyone should have.+2
@vulonkaaz - 2025-06-10 08:42:20
true+1
@popohater88 - 2025-06-10 08:42:20
i saw slenderman in the background+1
@calholli - 2025-06-10 08:42:20
If you're going to walk (to stores). At least get a bike. It will change your life.+1
@baltemys - 2025-06-10 08:42:20
Will he ever make it back home+1
@quirinoguy8665 - 2025-06-10 08:42:20
Well I have and I'm very grateful for it, I do hope this never changes in the Philippines but over the years... It's not really looking good for us, slowly but surely our traditional values about family are chipped at and eroded by Globalization and I find it quite lamenting...+2
@peepoclown5838 - 2025-06-13 08:42:20
Daddy luke when are you setting up a techno foss cult community in the middle of the forest?+1
@evilgranpda - 2025-06-10 08:42:20
It would be creepy for him to walk in the middle of the night in the forest.+1
@evilgranpda - 2025-06-10 08:42:20
Nobody would be friend with him+1
@toamnatarzie5761 - 2025-06-11 08:42:20
@evilgranpda you are being muwuean. Luke-sama is a lovely individual and everybody would love to be his friends :3+1
@truwu8177 - 2025-06-10 08:42:21
Luke Smith in IRL????+1
@Pururin_Purin - 2025-06-10 08:42:21
its over+1
@nas337 - 2025-06-12 08:42:21
Good Preacher. Does he has his own christianity branch church?+1
@chuck_norris - 2025-06-10 08:42:21
Next video is going to be in the Backrooms+1
@tomogaming1984 - 2025-06-10 08:42:21
Who turned off the lights+1
@daspoopenfarten_ - 2025-06-10 08:42:21
Luke riced his recording environment to use dark mode+1
@matthewdacosta6502 - 2025-06-11 08:42:21
Nah, great video :)+1
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 - 2025-06-10 08:42:21
Would Sigma male anti-car Luke use European style public transit if it were available to him instead of walking down the highway?+1
- 2025-06-10 08:42:21
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻+1
@ifeigen - 2025-06-10 08:42:21
luke can you just run `/time set day` thx+1
@ChanceHarold8216 - 2025-06-10 08:42:21
Dark Dr Phil+1
@thequestingblade - 2025-06-10 08:42:21
it's fine. why even worry about it?+1
@narovaku - 2025-06-10 08:42:21
Dostoevsky+2
@iTzJeSsE08 - 2025-06-10 08:42:21
But did you ever solve your single computer for all purposes problem?+1
@redactedmane - 2025-06-10 08:42:21
I don't think Luke takes walks to think, and make these videos. he doesn't believe in cars. I think hes legit lost, and been trying to get home for months.+1
@eitantal726 - 2025-06-10 08:42:21
what happened to the grass boime?+1
@Official_Chat_Moderator - 2025-06-10 08:42:21
Does the performed version of yourself feel more real than who you are when the camera is off?+1
@bdinh3130 - 2025-06-10 08:42:21
do you live in a liminal space?+2
@apocalypsator6 - 2025-06-16 08:42:21
Afraid they don't matter?+1
@ccjtyd54r - 2025-06-10 08:42:21
Hell;o!+2
@milanstepanek4185 - 2025-06-10 08:42:21
Ok Luke, but are you working on spawning some child threads?+1
@hopscotchoblivion7564 - 2025-06-10 08:42:21
Can a Latino move to the country?+1
@trstensvold - 2025-06-10 08:42:21
What do we do?+1
@herrbert2505 - 2025-06-12 08:42:21
Read Peter Rosegger+1
@mx24p - 2025-06-10 08:42:21
is he... glowing in the dark?+1
@MultiDringus - 2025-06-10 08:42:21
at least they have hair+1
@money-war-f3d - 2025-06-10 08:42:21
luke you are a hypocrite you bought four thinkpads and you live in isolation+2
@heavyisbirb-qj1rq - 2025-06-10 08:42:21
my comment is not getting posted. i want to be your friend luke.+1
@dpmr0900 - 2025-06-11 08:42:21
Welcome to the backrooms+1
@Gaucho-x2p - 2025-06-11 08:42:21
platomaxxing+1
@orrin-manning - 2025-06-10 08:42:21
Yeah, well you look like vlogger Rasputin+2
@Chubbywubbysandwich - 2025-06-10 08:42:21
Man where tf does this man live. Its like he is stuck in some weird liminal space and the only job he has, is to upload his sermons to youtube.+1
@yuissance3623 - 2025-06-16 23:42:21
you are near, stop escaping islam…+1
@pyry1948 - 2025-06-10 08:42:21
Video on mass immigration?+1
@leifartist - 2025-06-10 08:42:21
I AM SO STABLE RIGHT NOW. 😫🙄😣😥😪😝o7+2
@SPQRIUS - 2025-06-10 08:42:21
I'm building one, want to help?+1
@bartek... - 2025-06-10 08:42:21
Utterly bullshit, after advertisement+2
@kingnick6260 - 2025-06-10 08:42:21
Blair Witch vibes+1
@SauliusKva - 2025-06-12 08:42:21
Marge+1
@snivels - 2025-06-10 08:42:21
Stop talking about me+1
@bigheart2221 - 2025-06-10 08:42:22
U look like karl marx with brown hair+1
@Thorgrax - 2025-06-11 08:42:22
Compootis?+1
@wvrlow - 2025-06-10 08:42:22
slender man!+1
@wvrlow - 2025-06-10 08:42:22
slender man!+1
@ayylmao5439 - 2025-06-11 08:42:22
Orthodoxy is the only way out ☦️+3
@BobanOrlovic - 2025-06-10 08:42:22
Where are you living? Rural upstate ny is not like that, it's a country-suburb. You sound like you're talking about serbia.+1
@TL-rh1lf - 2025-06-12 08:42:22
it's called being ahistorical+1
@nemodot - 2025-06-10 08:42:22
Hey Luke are you considering having children?+1
@2PaweL - 2025-06-10 08:42:22
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤+1
@bampoe8670 - 2025-06-10 08:42:22
Sorry Luke but I gotta skip this one+1
@Halpr - 2025-06-10 08:42:22
What's going on with Luke ? Is he a socialist priest now ?+1
@camerado9692 - 2025-06-10 08:42:22
Not from the US, but I'm super happy I don't have a so called "community" and god forbid I ever will. If you had let's say 4 or 5 actual friends throughout your ENTIRE life - that a lot. I'd much rather prefer having friends from other countries or even continents than having to talk to and maintain relationships with people simply because they just happened to live nearby. "when you're not in the community there is no reason to do that" - Yes, there is none. Apart from you actually genuinely liking eachother. And most people who live in the country don't live there because they moved there and chose it over living in large city/suburb/whatever - they lived there their entire lives and simply can't afford to move somewhere else even if they wanted to.+1
@snayke0 - 2025-06-10 08:42:22
First+3
@mikepict9011 - 2025-06-12 08:42:22
Better then you in every way. So im assuming your a stalker+1
@stalkerlohh - 2025-06-10 08:42:22
anyone know why this dude is known for or irrelevant `?+1
@RAJ-zo8cu - 2025-06-10 08:42:22
Real+1
@Gooooberx - 2025-06-11 08:42:22
bro think he Coach Red Pill+2
@mr-kg8kg - 2025-06-10 08:42:22
The meaning of life https://youtu.be/7d16CpWp-ok?feature=shared 😊+1
@johnj3845 - 2025-06-10 08:42:22
You kids need to get off the internet+1
@ryang7759 - 2025-06-10 08:42:22
I feel lobotomized when I'm in a small town too long+1
@mokafi7 - 2025-06-12 08:42:22
I hope you check out Islam, read the Quran.+1
@alexha2884 - 2025-06-10 08:42:22
He’s a YouTuber… I don’t understand ur question lmao+1
@raboija - 2025-06-12 08:42:23
You don’t seem stable enough to give advice buddy.+1
@drstewart - 2025-06-11 08:42:23
The projection of small town community is such a cope. Like everyone knowing all of your business and talking about it incessantly while smiling in your face and being "neighborly" is a positive thing. The idea of knowing the same people and doing the same things as your parents and grandparents is called stagnation, not community. Unfortunately to see an otherwise sensible guy buy into the anti-intellectual propaganda.+1
@TactDB - 2025-06-10 08:42:23
Eh I moved 14 different schools my entire life in 4 different countries. You get used to it. You learn early not to invest in anyone.+1
@jigglejaggle4732 - 2025-06-11 08:42:23
you strike me as a psycho+1
@MisterN1 - 2025-06-10 08:42:23
Prayers for this sad, old, homeless man. He doesn't know it yet but he's old and this is what happens. I suggest you get into motorcycles or even scooters and try traveling.+1
@stacksmasherninja7266 - 2025-06-10 08:42:23
Community: community edition+1
@gabor_kov - 2025-06-10 08:42:23
First world problems. He is running away to the country for his mental health while 90% of people try to get out of the REAL country life to survive. I would go as far as say he is peek pretend now. Not realistic at all.+1
@looking_33 - 2025-06-10 08:42:23
You are frustrated that you have no friends.+2
@gnomelinux - 2025-06-10 08:42:23
Luke smith has looked really goofy ever since he grew that beard lol.+1
@samoylov1973 - 2025-06-10 08:42:23
This rambling in the dark is ok and all that, but, Luke, for God's sake "Make (Vim Bash R) Great Again!"+2
@VincentVonDudler - 2025-06-11 08:42:23
Finasteride+1
@Dionysus-gv9lz - 2025-06-10 08:42:23
Return to traditionalism+1
@enclaveofdoom - 2025-06-10 08:42:23
it's all because of lack of morals which are derived from God, religion and civilization.+1
@victorkreig6089 - 2025-06-10 08:42:23
Just shave your head already and groom your beard goddamit+3
@berndlauert4741 - 2025-06-10 08:42:23
You bald+1
@DDTTELEWLLETEL - 2025-06-10 08:42:23
Your exhausting and difficult to invest in. Just be there for people with where they are at.+1
@Ryan-xq3kl - 2025-06-10 08:42:23
youre the epitome of the human who thinks theyre smart because they feverishly avoid natural criticism. its ok tho bro, mushrooms are evil theyre not from god theyre from satan 😂😂😂😂+1
@M_CFV - 2025-06-11 08:42:23
You know exactly what he's criticizing. Big city life is garbage.+1
@drstewart - 2025-06-11 08:42:23
@M_CFV Yee yee life isn't fantastically fulfilling wonderful because "community." City life can be good and bad, like life in general. No matter where you are, you're dealing with yourself.+1
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 - 2025-06-10 08:42:23
Behold, the last man. The perfect urbanite global cosmopolitan.+2
@TactDB - 2025-06-10 08:42:23
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 It's alright. Only twice I've lived in big cities, a few burbs, a few rural communities. You see the templates that people, no matter where, fall in. Everyone thinks they're a main character when they aren't even NPCs.+1
@EntropicHobbit - 2025-06-10 08:42:23
So you think everything he said is false and that he just has no friends?+1
@looking_33 - 2025-06-10 08:42:23
@EntropicHobbit I think him being frustrated that he has no friends was the primary motivator behind this video. He is using his intelligence to reason his way out of these emotions. He must learn to feel his emotions and self-reflect rather than projecting a reality on the rest of us contrived in his philosophically frustrated mind. Learn to feel rather than think, that is what he needs!+1
@EntropicHobbit - 2025-06-10 08:42:23
@looking_33 If you were him, what would you do to get out of the hole he got himself into?+1
@looking_33 - 2025-06-10 08:42:23
@EntropicHobbit YouTube has decided to block my paragraph reply, unfortunately no matter how I try to reword it. This site is useless for these types of discussions. Sorry.+1
@looking_33 - 2025-06-10 08:42:23
@EntropicHobbit test+1
@alexha2884 - 2025-06-10 08:42:24
You dork+1
@soundsnags2001 - 2025-06-10 08:42:24
Too much T+3
@mistahsusan2650 - 2025-06-10 08:42:24
fortune favors the bald+1
@Shitpostrius33 - 2025-06-10 08:42:24
Many such cases!+1
@looking_33 - 2025-06-10 08:42:24
This exactly.+1