rant · moment 9 of 25
Cancel Your Family, Not Celebrities
from 160 - The Ballad of The Fat Girl With The Clean Car · #160
4 min
Tim argues that real toughness is cutting off family and close friends who don't serve you rather than canceling strangers online, tying it to a broader pitch for radical individualism.
- Cancel your father instead of celebrities—it's harder to cancel someone you love.
- You need people in your life who love you but are also willing to serve you.
- Tim opposes socialism because he looks at people and thinks many of them shouldn't be on Earth at all.
- Radical individualism means your social circle will shrink if you actually say what you think.
- If you say controversial things—like why you can't fuck your cousin—the invitations dry up.
- Find a partner or one or two friends, then get away from society and stop attending work cocktails.
- Everything is collective now, but people are just pretending—they don't actually care about others.
- People post about health care on Twitter while their parents rot in homes and they ignore their siblings.