Charles Murray: How to spend your twenties 

...or 43 years.

Thank you so much

Thanks.

Thank you!

thank you so much!

One of my children went into the service to, shall we say, get out of town for awhile. His time at war made him a different person.

*too* And I hope your son comes home safe.

@@JRobbySh good or bad way?

Someone from a blue-collar family: the issue I see is families with multi-generational university grads don’t understand the average person. To make matters worse, this same class of people get into careers with most influence over the people they least understand.

Not mistakes, war crimes

Our military is the proxy arm of Israel's military. No more wars for Israel!

@@TRUTHbomb2.0 based and true

Higher education has become something of a racket for tenured professors and for administration. Many have become millionaires at the expense of the generations they have been teaching.

What job do you do?

Good for you, that was a bold move!

You discovered that knowledge is a fruit that must be ripened in the light of everyday life. Only then does knowledge become wisdom. In the 1800's a graduate would be considered a student until his knowledge matured in real life, usually a trip around the world. Only then would he gain the status of Scholar. For the last 75 years universities have lost sight of this.

This whole video is about removing yourself from the conditioning... It works in all ingroups. Basically, we're all hypocrites. Only... I'll respect you, if you at least admit it.

r44fje You did good to travel and see something of the world besides books before hyou went back (John Gatto would undoubtedly recommend this) but I don't understand your fears of ;what people might criticize you for? I cannot get my son to go to school for the life of me--he holds a poor paying job that allows him free time (as he works a simple crappy rote job) to learn and practice Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Russian, German, Cebuano (a Philippine language), Korean and I thimk some others. I've lost track. The point is, is schooling really any good for anytihng? the answer is NO! What schooling is actually for is to make sure you OBEY! That is, to obey your psychopath boss (see the comment on 'semite' wall street types). If you are not 100% reliable and trustworthy to the psychopath, then you will rarely be allowed to rise to the heights as these psychopaths are deathly afraid of whistle-blowers (that's kind of like a snow-blower, for those of you who don't know). I would be interested to know more about how your work is and whether you treat your fellows as well as you can.

True story. I read that the average 28 year old has a net worth of $10,000. If that is the case, it is truly cut throat out there. If you don't have thick skin, you'll never make it. Not only do you need tough skin, but you need the ability to think big and forward. What he is saying is that you need both to do well in your 30s and 40s. You cannot learn a way of thought or cognitive ability in the atmosphere of academia. Basically what he is saying is have fun, smoke some weed, and think about the big things in life - there is more to meets the eye with our society and the human race. ;-).

Mateo read all of his books.

Sent here by Thomas Sowell, who says as much about his mischaracterization.

Mateo - almost like he has his own beliefs developed in his own life.

@@geoffstemen3652 I hear 'ya about Murray, and gotta respect that. If only we could each come from that kinda genuine 'personal experience', rather than just repeating our respective dogmas and 'belief systems'. Though for the same reasons, dunno that an 'endorsement' by Sowell is all that encouraging, considering he has his own share of 'mischaracterizations' (many of 'em self-inflicted). Like many conservs, he makes sense and even has some occasionally great insight (loved his 'Black Rednecks and White Liberals')... yet unfortunately can never seem to resist swerving off into the usual sorta 'ideological' rants, about 'ebil libruls', yada-yada.

Keith Weber Explains why America is falling apart. This speech was just a serenade to see it out.

+Keith Weber _One of the wisest and most intelligent men you've ever heard speak ?_ You've obviously not heard many men speak. Exactly where are you ? On the moon ?

Got a chip on your shoulder, don't you boy?

Agree. You can also add Jordan Peterson

Charles Murray comes across more intelligent than Jordan Peterson. He doesn't feel the need to dress up his language with long words and elaborate metaphors.

you got it now - make the most of it

I was given this advice and followed it. This video made sense of it.

Then go and find a job in the yacht sales industry.

Here Have an Application.

Have you ever thought about getting into Antiques?

I agree to some extent, I too, loved being blind to class and other salient social dilemmas. but live long enough in a foreign culture and you learn these details as well, and one might call that the real achievement or lesson if one can overcome these prejudices .

Okinawa is also a Probability. Keep it in Mind.

Cebu in the Philippines is what I chose. And it was the greatest decision of my life. Get out of you safe zone and you will grow as a human in more ways than you could even imagine!

Used to recruit college students for a summer internship. It’s 100% true…classmates who took simple jobs during college had worse outcomes after graduation than those who took on a challenging, unrelated job while in college.

A lot of people at school in the ‘50s were legacy people. They profited by having had a better secondary schooling.

Not to ...cause conflict here, but this is an equivocation fallacy. I know it sucks to be told this, by someone who scored a 65... but... ya know... Since when did anyone enjoy inconvenient facts?

Not incompatible.Many in the elite think that the great mass of people are naturally fat and stupid.

Born and raised working class, single parent, we lived off the social system, and I achieved some upward mobility via the fine American College institutions to a moderately admirable career and I can say objectively that the upper class does know some critical things that the working class doesn’t-for example, that diabetes is often a choice (produce is the cheapest thing in the store) and so is taking out stupid dumb amounts of consumer debt on pickup trucks and other conspicuous auto toys, like more than an undergraduate degrees worth of auto debt. Wealthy people tend to keep or make wealth for a good reason-trust me, I have witnessed both sides-and I bet it has more to do with genetics than we want to admit unfortunately. Like bro, people I grew up with think they are going to jog away their fat rolls while they drink two liters daily-that shit doesn’t make sense from a thermodynamics perspective if you look at the calories that you can possibly burn by running at moderate intensity for an hour.

America was a better place when it was religious. It had a moral compass and people had a purpose. Today they sit around playing warcraft and call of duty and cry about their support of Bernie Bernie.

bighands69 christianity is one of the principle sources of stupidity in the US. christians may have a moral compass, but it points in the wrong direction. i have one, too, and it's calibrated by evidence and arguments that i'm willing to challenge and improve. either christianity is true or it's not. all the evidence supports the idea that christianity is just another religion. how can anyone believe that the bible is a divinely inspired book if it's trivially easy to improve it?

Here0s0Johnny seem like you have committed a great error.

+Flipver0 what?

+Here0s0Johnny The bible is human words but the actual philosophy stated in the bible hold truth to human emotions. Love and respect are some of the greatest human emotions. When Jesus was referring to the kingdom within thy self he was talking of an ancient philosophy of Introspection.

This. Is. Autism!

As a libertarian, Murray argues that the preaching should take place through cultural influence rather than legislation. This does conflict, however, with his lament in this speech that the elite control the media.

Murray was asking for the elite to get in touch with the values of their own grandfathers.

Beppe this is for people who know up having the money to do so not having to worry about debt or struggle

Bruh, the produce section is the cheapest section full of the most nutrient dense food. Turkey and chicken the leanest of the meat and the cheapest meat. Eggs are cheap as well. The middle sections with the highly processed fake food costs the most! The US, where the poor people are fat. We are a joke from the perspective of the third world. We don’t struggle with finances, we struggle with restraint. Why? What is the real problem? It’s not a problem of availability or access for most Americans. Perhaps it’s the exact opposite-unfettered access to poor choices!

They just haven't left the protective bubble of education, it's an extended adolescence, regardless of sex.

Ok, you know the future?

He did not say “don’t do internships”. He says try and do internships or paid work which allows you to experience a new dimension that you are not already exposed to.

He did not say “don’t do internships”. He says try and do internships or paid work which allows you to experience a new dimension that you are not already exposed to.

J.A. Strub Weird orientalism?

Traveling is not a meme. It's an opinion. More equivocation fallacies. Learn rhetoric. You suck.

Got fucking damnit imagine being so simple minded not to get wrap your mind around a famous phrase declaring something a meme. NO ONE takes that literally.

Heber Boerr She didn't mention the word white at all. Reporting this comment.

It’s true, she did NOT say “white privilege”.

Let me tell you what, I was drilled by my parents you have to go to college, to satisfy them I did... graduated with a degree in finance I was lucky enough for them to pay for it. Years later I work as a server in a restaurant and make more than 90℅ of my friends that graduated college with a bachelor's degree. DO NOT GET BURIED IN $100,000+ IN STUDENT LOANS... today education does not guarantee jobs, especially jobs that pay well... I don't have all the answers, I'm a restaurant server for God's sake... but listen to men like Charles Murray who are not afraid to talk about controversial subjects and are 100℅ genuine.

Murray is a modern genius. It takes a genius to discover another genius' creation. He speaks in subtleties, because if he revealed the truth he learned in the early 90s, his career would be over and he'd be buried 6 foot under. He sticks to scientific studies and facts in order to halfway defend himself. If he stuck his neck out there, it'd get chopped off. People don't like being called stupid, but it's a fact of life that most of us are "stupid". It's better if he continues to do what he is doing because it makes people start asking questions and looking at themselves. Essentially our entire world has become (intentionally or unintentionally) a production line for geniuses and everyone including you and me are just a cog helping to drive the machine. To argue otherwise is to say the human species is still very primitive. I argue against that. In order to progress the human species, we need more Newtons, Einsteins, etc. It takes a lifetime for a genius to understand another genius' work, therefore we need many geniuses working on the important things. How do we get more geniuses? Huge population with institutions in place to filter out the idiots. Some of the filters including SAT, ACT testing, college itself, graduate school attendance, etc. If they put as much energy into tracking terrorists, I'd bet they are also just as interested in tracking the progress of children and young adults who show much promise.

+garneroutlaw HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Thanks, I needed the laughs. Apparently you are not acquainted with the statistics on 4-sigma IQs.

Really really simplistic evaluation of the situation.

Why don't you check your privilege like the elite demand of us? Oh yeah! That's right... You're superior. Well.. at least you claim it. Your actions say you don't, though. Nice try. Basically you're saying, "ignore all this buzz and keep on doubling down on people you disagree with. Keep on shouting insults and calling people names that have nothing to do with anything... Make fits at all possible. Twist people's words and shift the blame. Force people to prove their innocence, because I don't like hearing this." Well... the feminists were right about one thing: "Equality feels like oppression to the privileged." Now you're gonna get mad that I turned your game on you. Irony? I don't care.