WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.919 --> 00:00:08.519 Do You often sit around and wonder what history is going to think of the 2 00:00:08.599 --> 00:00:14.599 time in which you're living in. You can look back at other generations, 3 00:00:14.640 --> 00:00:25.359 other decades, other eras, and you see a certain romanticism, whether it's 4 00:00:26.239 --> 00:00:32.759 the nineteen forties and the World War Two heroes and that generation often being referred 5 00:00:32.759 --> 00:00:42.039 to as the greatest generation, the baby boomer generation. You see the impact 6 00:00:42.119 --> 00:00:47.039 they've left. The nineteen fifties and the romanticism that we have with it, 7 00:00:49.039 --> 00:00:55.439 the sixties and the counter culture that began, and the protest and those things 8 00:00:55.479 --> 00:01:03.159 that you continue to see. Nineteen seventies, Disco, oh, nineteen eighties, 9 00:01:03.320 --> 00:01:12.120 Reagan era. You move forward and you get into today's day and age, 10 00:01:12.159 --> 00:01:19.680 and we're living in the TikTok era, the era of Twitter, and 11 00:01:19.760 --> 00:01:26.439 I do find myself questioning, how will history judge this era. I don't 12 00:01:27.280 --> 00:01:30.879 know that it's going to be as kind as we want it to be. 13 00:01:30.599 --> 00:01:37.040 Maybe they'll romanticize some of the things. Maybe they'll romanticize the fact that somebody 14 00:01:37.159 --> 00:01:42.280 can instantly get fifteen minutes of fame instantly for jumping on the internet and acting 15 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:52.120 like an idiot. But I look at these times and as you often here, 16 00:01:53.000 --> 00:02:00.359 I believe that we are currently living in the dumbest timeline the example are 17 00:02:00.400 --> 00:02:07.439 there. We continue to see things that don't make any logical sense any longer, 18 00:02:09.240 --> 00:02:15.560 whether it's the argument about a man waking up one day and deciding that 19 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:24.360 he is in fact a woman and me supposed to it just blindly accept that, 20 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:34.520 despite the fact that science says that's not possible. Other illogical arguments that 21 00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:42.039 we continue to see and are being told that, despite the fact that logic 22 00:02:42.159 --> 00:02:46.120 and history and science are on our side, that we are in fact wrong 23 00:02:49.960 --> 00:02:59.000 because it might hurt someone's feelings to say otherwise. You look at some of 24 00:02:59.039 --> 00:03:06.800 the content, the entertainment content, and it's all quick hitting, short, 25 00:03:06.840 --> 00:03:13.400 first TikTok videos. They're not usually very long. You go on YouTube, 26 00:03:13.479 --> 00:03:17.680 you watch videos, they're normally the ones that most people gravitate towards, or 27 00:03:19.000 --> 00:03:23.039 the shorter ones, the little, quick, short sound bites. Even in 28 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:31.479 American politics, we don't watch debates any longer for substantive arguments on the issues. 29 00:03:31.719 --> 00:03:38.159 We watched debates for that thirty second sound bite. We want to see 30 00:03:38.159 --> 00:03:44.800 who got the better one upman on the other candidate. We want to see 31 00:03:44.840 --> 00:03:49.800 who had the best line of the night. That's far more important to us 32 00:03:50.159 --> 00:03:58.560 than who was right on the issues. Now, when I think folks come 33 00:03:58.599 --> 00:04:04.159 back and look at when historians are looking at our era, our generations, 34 00:04:04.759 --> 00:04:10.680 I'm not sure how kind they're going to look at it. We look at 35 00:04:10.719 --> 00:04:17.639 We live in a time now where in youth sports, instead of declaring true 36 00:04:17.639 --> 00:04:24.399 winners, we say that everybody one just because they participated. We're not teaching 37 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:30.560 valuable lessons any longer because again, instead of showing them there are in fact 38 00:04:30.600 --> 00:04:35.519 winners and losers, we're saying that no, no, everyone won, even 39 00:04:35.560 --> 00:04:46.120 though we know that's not truly accurate. We are living in world in a 40 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:59.399 weird time now. Will this current generation be judged kindly or will it be 41 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:03.360 romantic size the way that we look back at the nineteen fifties and the family 42 00:05:04.040 --> 00:05:10.120 units that were around then and have a certain level of nostalgia for it. 43 00:05:11.560 --> 00:05:16.000 We live in an era now where marriage is treated same as going steady. 44 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:19.680 You don't like your marriage, get out of it, get a divorse, 45 00:05:20.160 --> 00:05:30.000 marry someone else. Marriage should not be treated like a high school relationship with 46 00:05:30.079 --> 00:05:39.800 two people just going steady. It should be treated with more respect. If 47 00:05:39.800 --> 00:05:45.639 you listen to the music that plays nowadays. Most your lyrics not all. 48 00:05:45.800 --> 00:05:50.319 There are some talented songwriters out there, but most of your lyrics are not 49 00:05:54.000 --> 00:06:01.560 lyrically stimulating. Most of the song are more about the great beat than they 50 00:06:01.560 --> 00:06:10.879 are about any true great lyricist. A lot of times when they say listen 51 00:06:10.920 --> 00:06:13.839 to that person, they're a great lyricist, and then when you do, 52 00:06:13.959 --> 00:06:24.000 you find out they pell in comparison to the truly great lyricists from the past. 53 00:06:26.680 --> 00:06:33.319 When you look at this generation and you see how sanitized their entertainment has 54 00:06:33.360 --> 00:06:43.720 become, it's a paint by numbers diversity checklist. The story doesn't matter as 55 00:06:43.879 --> 00:06:51.079 much as making sure that you have at least three black actors, two Asian 56 00:06:51.160 --> 00:07:02.240 actors, three Filipino actors, two Hispanic acts and maybe throwing a couple of 57 00:07:02.279 --> 00:07:08.279 Caucasians just for good measure. We're not worried about story, and we're worried 58 00:07:08.279 --> 00:07:12.360 about making sure that we check all the diversity checkbox. Oh, by the 59 00:07:12.360 --> 00:07:15.240 way, make sure you have a gay character in there, maybe two or 60 00:07:15.279 --> 00:07:23.720 three now, because maybe one's not enough anymore. Doesn't matter if that character 61 00:07:23.800 --> 00:07:33.720 doesn't fit the story, I gotta check that diversity checkbox. So yes, 62 00:07:33.839 --> 00:07:43.279 when we look at the time that we're living in, will history judge this 63 00:07:43.399 --> 00:07:49.959 timeline kindly? Will it look back with the rose colored glasses and say, 64 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:59.399 hey, look that's the time we long for. No, No, I 65 00:07:59.439 --> 00:08:03.839 don't think it will. I think at the end of the day, historians 66 00:08:03.920 --> 00:08:11.639 will point out that we are, in fact living in the dumbest timeline. 67 00:08:11.920 --> 00:08:18.399 Get the T shirt at teapublic dot com. This has been morning Coffee with 68 00:08:18.600 --> 00:08:24.920 the Right Side and I'm your host, Jack Fairchilds and we're a part of 69 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:26.439 the Midnight Ride Network.