rant · moment 12 of 19
The Harvard Kid and 'Life Experience' Losers on Facebook
from What is Shangri-La · #129
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5 minTim goes on an extended rant about a Facebook acquaintance criticizing a teen Harvard graduate for lacking 'life experience,' riffing that anyone who uses that phrase is a failure, complete with fake examples of degrading real-life experience like living in a van or nearly buying drugs from a fake hooker at Dunkin Donuts.
- 29:42Tim sees a Facebook post from a tour guide criticizing a 15-year-old Harvard graduate for lacking 'life experience.'
- 30:10The Facebook commenter argues life experience matters more than classroom learning and the kid should have waited until adulthood.
- 30:49Anybody who invokes 'life experience' is a complete loser—it means your wife left you and you live in a van.
- 31:07Tim contrasts the Harvard kid's inventions with real life experience: getting addicted to coke, losing everything, hanging out in casinos.
- 31:52Tim's daily life experience includes going to Dunkin' Donuts and nearly accepting sex from a woman who isn't technically a hooker for twenty dollars.
- 32:23The Facebook commenter has 14,000 followers and follows 400 people—which Tim finds absurd.
- 33:07Facebook is a weird platform because it tries to level the playing field and make everyone equal regardless of who they actually are.
- 33:41Most people shouldn't be on a stage, shouldn't have a microphone, and shouldn't live in public at all.
- 33:56People's opinions on social media aren't even their own—they're just restating things unnecessarily.
- 34:15Anyone talking about life experience or school hard knocks is always a loser, like Tim's mother's friend Dennis who died on a fishing boat.