Bullshit Education and American Psycho 

I was in a similar situation in high school. I’ve worked a lot of cool jobs over the years that I loved and now that I’m a high school teacher, I’ve been looking back to figure out what makes school difficult for students who have unique abilities or potential. The shortest answer is that you are in a cohort spending all their time *preparing* to participate in the work of making society better, but you and many of your peers are ready to just get to the part where you *contribute* to making society better. Now’s the time to go to your counselors, teachers, and admin to say that you’d like to do internships, capstones, work-studies, or even dual-enrolling in college classes. You’ve got the chops and the drive, why wait around to go at the same pace as everyone else? The world needs what you have to offer as soon as possible, so come on out here and help us fix the real problems, my dude.

I felt this way in high school (if anyone says you should "move schools", I went to one of the "best-nationally" STEM high schools), and so did most people I knew there. College wastes much less of your time: an average schedule holds about 3hrs of lecture each day (maybe half of which is worth optionally attending), plus about 2hrs of assignments (if you spread work evenly). I make up the rest of a 30hr week reading, mostly related to my studies, which interest me. This is for someone pursuing two majors considered difficult at a decent state university. There seems to exist a law of Nature: Pursuing a goal only seems difficult and worthwhile in the long run when the motivation comes from within you. This is much easier to do when you're not under 8-hour-daily supervision from peons. excellent work! I'd love to see an update with your solution to the problem, or how you feel after graduating/in college.

I'm just a stray traveller on the waves of the algorithm but dude this video slams

Your scripting and presentation are insane for a high schooler, hope to see more of your videos.

I'm honestly jealous of how articulate you are! I'm in high school, too, and you put into words everything I feel about school right now. I finish my assignments early, and spend the second half of my day just killing time. It's soul-draining to sit around for hours on end in a glaringly bright classroom and an uncomfortable desk. Here's to hoping things get better in college!

underrated as hell, I'm a middle schooler myself and I have ADHD, this feeling is all too familiar. Keep going, and when people find you, you're gonna pop off.

I like the interpretations of AP in this. I always saw it as how Bateman's murders were an attempt to stand out, since he was exactly like everyone around him to the point were everyone would mistake everyone for someone else (Which you could even say that's how he managed to pull it off).

All these moments lost in time like tears in rain. I felt the hurt in your voice at the end. No one will save you but you will survive and save yourself. Live long and prosper bud. You will be the master of your own destiny again soon.

The last part though 🤌🤌🫀🔪🩸🚬⛓️🪓🔫📌📈📈💸💷🥿📼💋

I relate to what you said about feeling powerless and that nothing matters against this massive system we're in, I'm a high schooler and frankly the only solution I can think of to this is to have big ambitions and try to become powerful enough to change things, because I doubt the people who are currently up there will ever do anything about it, if I fail, oh well at least I tried

nice bro. great quality for a small youtuber, you have the presentation of a yter with 100,000 to 1,000,000 subs range. i am also a zoomer and i got my ass kicked in high school. Hours and hours of easy mundane worksheets, packets, powerpoints, etc. I wouldnt say this applies to everyone but for me school is probably the worst possible environment for actually learning

Amen to that. Even before having to get up at 5:30 AM (same time as me), and even without the intense "crashes" you talked about, this still feels like a perfect description of my experiences and attitude as a schoolkid. I've felt like this about school, life and pointless/empty occupations since elementary school. The waking up at 5:30 AM; the often ignored fact that most of what's taught doesn't amount to more than busywork; the "choice" between 7-ish years of school and no professional future; all while knowing that if pick the wrong occupation, it's going to be like this forever. Well, at least you get a Master's in recognizing how you _don't_ want to spend your life.

THIS VIDEO IS GREAT, I may be biased here because you just spoke my mind out. But damn the quality and the way you present is soo good.

Holy, the quality of this video is astonishing, let alone what you're actually presenting. Keep up the good work

Very well made video! Love the way how you presend things and change subjects. Hope your channel grows because its VERY underrated!

I resonate with this quite a bit. I have always hated school because it felt like a waste of time. Finished work in middle and elementary school months before the year ended, and maintained a perfect GPA my first year of high school without ever studying or otherwise putting effort in. COVID started towards the end of my freshman year, and as it was being made clear that it would continue into my sophomore year, I ended up taking the SAT and getting my GED. I took the rest of my sophomore and all of my junior year off to audition for conservatories (I’m a classical musician) and got into my top choice with a full ride. I am now attending a year early during what would have been my senior year. I did get lucky, but to whoever is reading this, know that you do have control over your future. Often when someone tells you you can’t do something, you might try it out and find that you can. Great video

for someone who has just a few subscribers and seems to be young, like still going to highschool this video was pretty provesional done! nice editing, writing, voice over, liked everything a lot! if you keep this quality up, you'll reach places, high places!

Amazing video, I was thinking you were somekind of 1 million subs youtuber, but I got suprised seeing you have only 500 followers, deserves alot more atention, keep it up.

This video is amazing, being in school I can say I’ve thought the exact things you described. This channel really deserves more attention.

3:26... no... no no no no no... the flash backs man... all those days I started and ended with minecraft, before going to and leaving school... i wanna build cringy shit in minecraft and think its badass again, the diamond huts, freaking out over endermen, starting tnt with a diamond hoe, the far lands, failing at summoning herobrine, watching SkyDoesMinecraft's living with slenderbrine series and PopularMMO's lucky block battles with Jen. Dont Mine at Night, Take back the Night, Hunger Games from bajan canadian, technoblade, dumb friends in my basement building dumbass houses and killing each other in every way possible, getting pissed and yelling at each other in real life whenever we took diamonds from each other... fuck adulting bro, i wanna grow up to be a kid again

Very well made. I don't usually tell a channel I subbed but this was a thought-provoking video in a vast sea of malarky. Keep growing!

How does this man only have

I can relate to you in some regard. As a child, I had no care for school and had zero interest in it. I basically only was graduated through classes because they didn't want me to redo a grade, and I was also among other mentally deficient children. Once I got to high school, I decided to try, and then I got A's in all my classes basically. I had work done early, beneficial as I never had to do homework and got everything done at school. With extra time I had, I walked around the mountaint trails around my school, which led to me getting over some of my stamina problems in regards to asthma. All I'll say is this: if you don't care about school, yet it's easy for you, then don't make it your highest priority. Throughout and without school I've worked on a map of human history, planned all the clothes I will buy for the rest of my life and wrote thousands of notes on all kinds of topics (I think I'm over 6,000 at this point, haven't checked in a while). These personal projects are my passion and my highest priority. I will be returning to college again (I was taking college classes while I was in high school because they snuck me in), and while I will certainly bring effort in regards to succeeding, that class will simply be another side topic for me. The prospect of getting a degree is simply a fun challenge to me; I do it not for any reason in regards to money, status or notoriety. This mentality is why I don't question the value of school; if school simply occupies as much space in your brain as you value it, what's the purpose blaming it for its limitations? It is led by people whose idea of value isn't the same as yours, and you're better off maximising that which you value and wish to aspire for.

Been a while since i’ve seen a really good video essay like this one. Very underrated channel

man, tbh this kinda goes on and on in your life, i'm in college and still feel like this sometimes, great vid, keep up

I’m 36, and this feeling took me to a crazy life completely outside the beurocratic world of normalcy. Been back for a few years and now am trying to learn the whole, job, bills thing, everything is just a lesson man. Great piece of content 👍🏼

I've been thru this a lot, thru high school and college. Honestly there's no immediate solution. Wait until you start getting into Philosophy, and not just surface level Phil quotes and memorable movie quotes, I'm taking about going deep into the theories from Ancient Greek, Chinese, Japanese, Buddhist, Christian, Islamic, Judaic, to closer modern day European Philosophy. Then you will have a better understanding of the world and the way to express your thoughts better, and probably have more questions after the fact. Good luck and God speed.

I know that a lot of other comments have already expressed the same point, but I want to reiterate that this is a fantastic video. You definitely have a talent for weaving a narrative and I hope you continue to use that talent to create things. Good luck with all your future endeavors!

really well produced and mostly great analysis, my only problem is that it came to an childish-gullible conclusion

American pshycho uses a stand in fore corporate greed,American pshycho a meaning at it's very core is a commentry at inherent violence of corporate greed,Christian bales movie roles are very carefully picked,and he has a preference fore stories that big deep in human nature.

Good video! Regarding 4:52, I think that's plausibly a delirious episode. I've had one half a decade ago due to extreme chronic sleep deprivation. But I didn't have any qualia of existentialism, just intrigued reflection instead, as I'm quite interested by altered states of mind. I think it's incredibly healthy that you are channeling this frustration into (video) essays. This way there can be actual societal change, as those with the capacity to articulate their words such as yourself are those that pave the way for people to even think about these things in a clear way. Regarding high school, don't worry, it gets better. I've had a quite bad experience with high school, but university or alternatively getting a job is leagues better. My disillusionment however has worsened my relationship to university and my lack of attention in high school as well as the complete rebellion against it has left me with academic regrets of insufficient mathematics and chemistry education, though those are the only two.

I believe you had some good insight and many young gifted ADD/ADHD kids (especially males) feel as if they are being cheated throughout education. Some crucial things need to be fixed, like increasing attention span and boredom, but boredom is a state of mind. There is an endless slew of information online and you can learn and do many things in our current circumstances for little to no cost. I think your arguments for the "bureaucratic man upstairs" controlling everything are based on faulty premise that doesn't accept any responsibility for any actions or circumstances. School may seem pointless, but school can help you learn many things if you learn how to play the game. Creating the most out of every circumstance you have is the best way to go. You can only be bored if you allow yourself to be bored. I understand your frustration with the man upstairs and the "lack of doing anything," but sometimes the only reason things are bad is because the people itself that the system is structured around are bad. If you aren't around a group of driven individuals or a strong household, then you'll never be motivated. You won't be able to see motivation. You have a bright mind and I think the only thing you lack are years and experience. Keep trying to experience life and join clubs and groups, maybe even a local church, that can help you in your journey. I would advise finding an older church-going male to meet with to get advice from. Stay self-motivated and good job. This was a good quick watch. EDIT: The inclusion of CRT was unrelated and off-topic. Delete it please it had nothing to do with the video

"They just haven't noticed it yet. And I'm sure they'll fix it soon." It's a nice thought. It really is.

I go to one of the best high schools in America and it's the same. Most of my bad grades are due to me not doing homework because I wasted so much time in school doing nothing. I started sitting into my friends classes just to fill up my day while I wait for the next class to roll around so I can sleep through that before I'm let out. If I had control over my schedule I would cut out so much. My math teacher is such a joke that I just do whatever I want and ignore him if he says to get off my phone and I exclusively learn from the homework and tutoring because he doesn't explain anything. He just gives us work and tells us to figure it out.

Hearig about yor drab school days makes me appreciate the school I went to. Though also helped by the fact I was educated in a three tier secondary school. It definetively isn't an ideal system, but it makes it easier for curriculum and teachers to be tuned to the individual skills of the pupil. As for your predicament, the establiseh system isn't at all designed to take the pupils feedback into account. I'd suggest to continue to educate yourself outside the system. Gather some peers and maybe augment your school days yourself. Depending on the teacher they might even be d'accord with you doing other stuf, as long as you manag your exams just fine. As for me, I'm atm at a verry interesting place education wise. I'm doing an internship with integrated academic education specific for the job. The way the school teaches has been changing evry time I went there for the past year and a half. At the moment we have a project we have to complete and present afterwards. The aim is to get the project done, if we want to, we can go into workshops to get some inputs specific to a project ajacend topic and to get our questions in with someone who has the info we need. Getting a fun education is highly dependant on how self-reliant and how motivated you are. Good Luck, you'll figure something out.

Hey man, I really enjoyed this video and I‘ve decided to subscribe to you. Not much more to say, just excited to see what else you put out in the future

The game of life is like chess, except you spawn with only the king, and the enemy has all the pieces, and is also the smartest chess ai ever.

Fabulous soundtrack

I stumble upon your video by chance. I think you are becoming more and more aware of how corrupted the world really is, and I give you a little advice: Don't think yourself superior to the one still blind to this depressing system. If you are hoping for a better future, then that future must be the future where people who you despise the most may thrive and live, as long as they don't harm the others. You, too, still have many unfair biases based on your limited experience, and you are not aware of yourself enough to realize them. Be curious and opened minded. It is not easy to fix the system that benefit the few in power. But if you have a strong connection to your community, it won't feel as hopeless as you feel now. If you have a lot of free time in school, I think it is time to think about the future. Not to alarm you, but even if you have a master degree, most people in the USA still has a hard time finding a job that pay above the poverty rate. It is hard to own a house without pre-existing wealth. Goodbye, and I hope you grow up strong.

came for the title, stayed for godspeed you black emperor

Great video, but my best advice is to find something, anything that gives you intrinsic pleasure. Most jobs, school are bullshit, but if you enjoy the actual work minus the externalities it won't be too bad.

You’re my new fave! I’m 67 and I sound and talk very much like you. I have no idea what the implications are there…what a fucking conversation you and I could have. More…I’m watching.

You need to find purpose. That's hard without religion. Distracting yourself can only go so far; once you're on your deathbed, regret will settle. Find purpose.

Bro, just do some cool shit if you are so bored at school lmao. Check out if you want but just make sure you have a tenable long term plan in mind. Use that time to think about where you’re heading long term.

Amazing editing

The last line before the skit was the best. "And I'm sure they'll fix it soon"

Yo what I didn't even realise you got only 200 subs, I got a feeling that you're really gonna blow up soon.

Also, that “person” doesn’t exist, the structure is entirely self sustaining. Anyone who enters the halls of power with the intent to change it will quickly face the inevitable reality that it changes you more than you change it. Real politics is praxis, and whilst engaging with the mainstream policial establishment isn’t exactly a “waste of time”, it’s an errand few are truly prepared for, worse yet, it’s an errand that draws good people with good skills that could be much better deployed elsewhere. There are much more political actions with much greater depth of impact you can carry out than the illusory act of ticking a box every four years for red or blue. Process your grief but give yourself a framework to do it with so you can start thinking creatively.

Love the video, excellent presentation and editing!

I'm so glad I went to a charter school

⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠Uh oh, individual thoughts detected⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠ Get back in line immediately sir. Deploying sigma male larp meme protocol to counter any thought detected.

I remember years ago in a family gathering, my father took a look at his phone, someone sent him a meme on whatsapp. it was a picture of winnie the pooh and someone else. the bear asked "what day is it?" and the other one said "Tuesday" to which pooh replied with "f*ck". my father laughed after a second, and so did I after looking at his screen. he was confused as to why would I laugh, he said it was a joke only workers would get. so yeah, that realization that the education system has it's similarities with the workforce is not very surprising.

no, this wont ever be fixed. this will go on forever and forever...

That’s why the best attitude to move through life with is to expect nothing in return and to make the changes you need, yourself. Nobody is going to do that for you. Not the faceless being at the top that you describe. To them you don’t exist anyway. Like a microbe, you can never stop moving, and in doing so, you can build your immediate reality into something that is more meaningful to you. You know what that’s like already. You can always just go bake some bread.

For such a small channel, its really good to see such high production value. Good job. What stuff are you running/using?

What you are describing is the truth behind your captivity and you are the only person who seems to get this film for the most part. It's not about masculinity, sigma male, or an attack on modernity. He has recently became self aware and is becoming self actualized and the film is the mental breakdown it causes. The matrix is real But it's not what you think it is

this person has to exist, because in part, its you. thank you

great video you deserve more subs than this, your editing and recording skills are amazing

10/10 music taste

Hey did you know that my point of view is very similar and I’ve also been spending 10 hours a day trying to not fall asleep in school (boredom hits different) and I’ve came to the conclusion that schools have a list of things in order (the first one is the most influential) 1 keeping kids somewhere to free up their parents to actually work . 2 teachings us about some stuff and morals. As a conclusion schools first priority is to free up their parents that in turn have a enough time to work somewhere.

Cool video! I don't really know how to feel about it, so uh... Here is a like, nonetheless!!! : )

Holy shit the quality of video man

Damn this was fresh as hell

if theres one thing to do at school when you are not working, its doing something other than school you think will make the best use of that time. I mean, certain students realise that you can finish school work quick and dirty and they do that and do what they want with the time they save and is what ur doing rn lol :>

man do i relate with this video

This was a great video; I subscribed right after watching it.

Why is a high schooler producing high quality videos than 25 year olds

Duuudee, great work you got here!

America isn't capitalist, we're corporatist. "Too big to fail" would exist in a capitalist society

what do you use to render these visuals?

bro thinks he's him

Whats the song at 0:53? I thinks it's and MF DOOM instrumental but can't remember the name

yo bro, capitalism creates capital through exponential growth, meaning that every laborer works exactly twice as hard as what is necessary to break even. The length of a school day relative tot he actual "learning" performed is to train you for that, to get used to spending Twice as much time on a series of tasks / to perform twice as many tasks as is needed without questioning it.

You've got my vote.

Hits hard

great stuff

I'm curious to know what the average teaching process is like. I know you said it was just schoolwork, but, like, what is it? How does the teacher introduce the subject, (attempt to) teach the subject, ask questions (do they even do that?), and what you the schoolwork be about?

good work keep it up

I go to school for the social aspect, do you not?

RIP MF DOOM

Just wait till college lol

450 subs nice

Cool story but I don’t get it are you a HS student or working a 9-5 at a soulless corporate job?

Video!

Preach

Any movie that has high interpretability lacks thematic depth. These two components of a story exist on the opposite sides of a spectrum. In other words, the more ways you can interpret a story the less meaningful it is i.e. the less thematic depth that story has. You are misinterpreting the American psycho movie and you're not providing any evidence from the movie to support your interpretation. The fact that different interpretations of the American psycho movie exist suggests that it lacks thematic depth. The term "thematic depth" suggests that a movie provides a well-reasoned argument to support one or more of its themes, but you use the word "thematic depth" to say something I don't understand? Do you even understand what you're saying? I certainly don't and it's not because I'm unfamiliar with either the movie or David Graeber's work. This is a low quality video with a catchy title and an interesting premise. Please put more thought into your videos, and please use evidence from the movie (not from sources outside of the movie) to support your interpretation of the movie. You did not establish with clear logic and sound evidence that the American Psycho movie is about how Bateman's loss of agency is making him miserable. EVIDENCE MATTERS. Where is the evidence in the movie to support your argument? American Psycho is a poorly written movie and that's why it has a "million" different interpretations. The novel might be a poorly written novel, but I haven't read the novel to say with confidence whether that's really the case. Perhaps the novel has a more definite meaning, but you didn't bother to find out. Instead, you just connected material that's wholly unrelated to both the movie and the novel and then just asserted that there was some connection between the movie and the Bullshit Jobs book without any evidence whastoever. Why can't anyone reach the conclusion that if X movie or novel is ambiguous, it's because X movie or novel is a poorly thought out work of fiction? If you write a thesis paper on any subject at school, you will get a low grade, probably a D or even an E or an F, for writing a thesis with a highly ambiguous conclusion and arguments that are confusing and can contradict each other. But when a work of fiction is ambiguous we all say it's a masterpiece as if it's worth an A+. I think there's something wrong with the human species. You prioritize expressing your political perspective over making a cogent argument. That's why I'm not going to subscribe to your channel. Your channel is a waste of potential.

Good work kiddo. Keep up the critical thinking. The world needs people like us.

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good shit

Bro spent 5 minutes complaining about how hard school is for him because it's boring. Jesus Christ, wait 'til this guy has to get a job...

Who does bro think he is. This video is legit the mindset of that one guy who thinks he's smarter then everyone else, and tries to find deeper meaning; just finish your school work kid: the class isn't designed for the average student, it's designed for the slowest student. If you really want more work just self educate.

I thought, i could never put these thoughts into worlds, yet you did, beautiful

CPicy, you are a great channel and have gained a new sub. BTW, do you have a discord server?

I love American Psycho as a satire and clicked on this video immediately, I’m 15 seconds in and have no idea if it’s gonna dog on the movie lmao, edit: 6:17 you forgot about the gay theory, murder is like sex and him admitting to his lawyer is like coming out but people deny him, there’s a vid about it by Orowen and I think you should watch it!