rant · moment 6 of 19
Villa Rats and Rule-Followers
from #182 - Beware the Villas | The Tim Dillon Show · #182
8 min
Moving to his new Hollywood Hills-adjacent apartment, he describes the petty rage of "villa" apartment dwellers who call management or police over parking violations, and expands into a theory about rule-followers being motivated by resentment and control rather than talent.
- Tim just moved to the Hollywood Hills and complains about aggressive towing on his new block.
- Residents of luxury apartments called villas are rats who call management and police constantly out of resentment.
- People who reach villa-level apartments are rule-followers who got good grades and followed every instruction without becoming talented or unique.
- Rule-followers forgot they weren't particularly talented and didn't have interesting perspectives, so they basically died on the vine as paper-pushers.
- Tim describes a certain type of anxious person obsessed with health insurance and Googling diseases they don't have, waiting their whole life for terminal illness.
- Really successful people often don't give a damn about rules, whereas rule-followers are shocked they didn't get further despite checking every box.
- Tim's aunt used horror stories about bankruptcy and car accidents to keep people in line and make them follow the rules.
- Rule-followers brought nothing new or valuable to the table and became indistinguishable from anyone else doing the same job.
- People obsessed with rules love school, college, and health care, but health care doesn't even cover the disasters they've been trained to fear.