00:00I'm your host, Dylan Sharma, and today I'm going to be giving my view on David Firth's Within the World
00:083.
00:09Take today's minutes. No sign of father. I expect he's sleeping off his sore head, the old booze hound.
00:15Again from mother, it's been the poor wishy-washy performance we've come to expect.
00:19Okay, mummy, I know you've been busy this week with the cake bake for church and all,
00:23but well, you've begun to neglect your duties around the house.
00:25Daddy mentioned it the other night, I overheard you talking, and, well, I think he was right to raise his
00:29voice.
00:30Rodney, it's not appropriate to talk to mummy from up in Bay Treehouse. I'm not one of your friends at
00:36school.
00:37I'd love to shoot the breeze with mother all day, sure, but I have my papers to arrange.
00:41Ah, new tax regulations. Capital gains, stocks and shares there.
00:45Every single decision I'm making is going to be taxed.
00:48Oh my gosh, this is horrible. I'm a dead man walking.
00:50I know the world is a rotten place, Rodney, but that's why mummy is a protester.
00:56The word association adverts are taking up more of our oxygen and killing our airborne friends.
01:03Oh mother, if only your simple mind could comprehend the trouble we're in.
01:08Glenfelder, my only sterling ally.
01:11I know I shan't find an answer at the bottom of you, but drink on, dear boy, drink on.
01:17So to me, this is a commentary on a few things.
01:21First and foremost, it's how society brainwashes, you know, brainwashes,
01:29um, the younger generation to be more like the older generation.
01:35Now, we have been doing this since caveman times.
01:40The younger men in the family have been conditioned to be more like the older men in the family.
01:47That's how society wants it.
01:49Whether you choose to believe that or not, that's kind of how it's been going for years and years and
01:54years and years.
01:56I mean, look at it.
01:57The boy in the beginning starts out by lecturing about his father and his alcoholism,
02:05then goes straight into lecturing the mom about neglecting her duties,
02:11and then says that the dad was right to argue with her about the neglecting of her house duties in
02:19favor of her activism.
02:23Then, when the mom tries to talk to him, he's just like, nah, fuck you.
02:29And he goes and reads the paper and freaks out and ultimately becomes an alcoholic, just like his father.
02:41So, society really pushes the younger generation to be like the older generation for good or for bad.
02:52And then, point two, the fertility of activism.
02:57Because ultimately, there are some activism causes that do work.
03:02But most of them, if you look at the data, they don't.
03:07You spend weeks, days, months, years and years and years voicing your opinion for something that may or may not
03:17change.
03:18Now, sure, the pro-activism people might say, that's the only way to get change is to voice our opinions.
03:25Yes, it works in some cases, such as the removal of Trump's name from that center or whatever.
03:34However, in most cases, you're just wasting your time.
03:40So, in my opinion, it's about the brainwashing of society and how they want us to be like the older
03:49generation, for better or worse.
03:51And how activism is ultimately fruitless.
03:57That is why I am not an activist and I do and say what I want.
04:04Fuck what the older generation would do and say.
