- How old are you young man? You. - [Man In Crowd] 24. - 24? You don't know shit. (audience laughing) You don't know shit! You gotta Google shit
that I've lived through. (audience laughing) See this is why I lock mother
fuckers phones up, seriously. Cause the young kids, you guys look, you need to take a break from that tech, we all need a break just
from that technology. Just for a minute. (audience cheering) (audience cheering) You know, I'm from a
different time, young man, a dark time to you. (audience laughing) I'm from a time that I
didn't even used to know who was on the phone
until I answered the shit. (audience laughing) Like when tragedy used to strike. I remember when I was 12 years old and the teacher wheeled the television set into the classroom. Remember these days? (audience cheering) And she turned it on to
one of three channels, and she said, class the space shuttle is taking off and we're all going to watch it take off. Man, that shit was going great for like three to five minutes. That's right, you remember. It fucking exploded! (audience laughing) Right on television! Everybody on board dead,
immediately presumed dead. It was so bad the teacher
looked at all the kids was like, (audience laughing) you can go home. (audience laughing) It's a goddamned national tragedy. This was Cold War America. The Russians were laughing at us. My point is for a guy your age wouldn't even know the pain
because in your generation it's like the space shuttle
blows up every fucking day. How can you care about anything, when you know every goddamned thing? I'm getting over one cop shooting, and then another one happens, and then another one happens. and another one happens. I'm crying about Paris
and then Brussels happens, I can't keep track of all this shit, so you just give the fuck up. That's the hallmark of your generation. And that's fucked up
because your generation lives in the most difficult
time in human history. This is the age of spin. The age where nobody knows what the fuck they even looking at. Did you know that Planned
Parenthood was for abortions, it's for people that don't
plan things out at all. (audience laughing) (audience laughing) That's right. So a guy your age doesn't
really know how he feels. Are you pro-choice? Are you anti-consequences? What does it all really mean? (audience laughing) (audience laughing) It's easier not to care for you, but for us, we were trained to care. We were raised that way. I used to watch a fucking
cartoon when I was growing up, called The Care Bears. (audience laughing) (audience laughing) It was about a fucking
group of teddy bear people. They were like teddy bears,
but they were like people and they were all different colors and they all fucking just
walked around caring. They cared about each
other and everything else. They all had different
designs on their stomachs and the designs told you something about what they might be like inside. (audience laughing) Very, very, loving group of beings. And when shit got real bad, as nice as those teddy bears were, they didn't get mean faces, they got determined. And the leader would say, come on guys, it's time for the Care Bear... STARE! Remember that shit? (audience cheering) And them little teddy
bears would lock arms, and stare at the problem, and I'm not even bullshitting, actual love would shoot
out of their chests, (audience laughing) and would dispel anything
that was fucked up. And when we grew up we wanted
to be like those bears. And then we got our hearts
broken because we found out that life wasn't gonna let us do that. And that it's impossible to
shoot love out of your chest. However, I have shot love
onto somebody's chest before. (audience laughing) (audience laughing) I do it all the time. It's the next best thing. (funky music)
“Do not say, “Why were the former days better than these?” for it is not out of wisdom that you ask this.” - Ecclesiastes 7:10
I’m afraid that Dave is here engaging in a similar fallacy that many others do, including the bOrg. That the “Good old days” were somehow better.
But statistics show a different story. Overall, we are in the most peaceful time in human history (indicating to me that on the whole, people care more about their fellow humans than in decades past). Life expectancy is at an all time high. Poverty is in decline. And so on. The last 2-3 years have seen a bit of a dip in those statistics, but AFAIK we’re still doing better as a human race than when Dave C. was a kid.
That said, there is some wisdom in taking a break from social media and the news. Over-saturation can affect our mental health. But, I would rather have the information available to me, than simply trust the one or two news sources that were available previously. Yes, there’s a spin to everything, but that’s nothing new. At least now, you can fact check and use critical thinking to see what the spin actually is.
And ironically, Dave appears to put some spin of his own on things. Planned Parenthood is not “about abortions”. Yes, that is one of the services they provide. But primarily they provide critical sexual health access to vulnerable individuals. And PP healthcare workers are far more interested in preventing abortions (by providing contraceptives and sex education) than facilitating them.
Also, he implies that “pro choice” is “anti consequences”. I hope I don’t need to explain how hopelessly reductionist that outlook is.