rant · moment 7 of 29
The Uncle's Easter Speech: People Too Dumb to Be Governed
from Episode 148 - Streak of Evil (with Yannis Pappas) · #148
4 min
Tim recounts his uncle's Easter dinner theory that most people are too selfish and disengaged to be governed, leading into riffs on China's occupied workforce versus American Twitter-occupied masses and looming automation.
- Tim's uncle delivered his Easter dinner philosophy: people are too dumb to be governed.
- The theory: 90% of people are selfish and rotten, wanting only pretzels and pools, leaving 10% who crave knowledge but become sociopaths wielding it as a weapon.
- When the population doesn't understand complexity, they either join the Klan or call themselves communists while trying to get laid in Brooklyn bars.
- Tim describes the dumb masses charitably: they barely made it into the human category, like sliding into base at the last second.
- During industrialization, keeping people occupied with jobs prevents them from pursuing ideological movements they don't understand.
- China wins because its masses are occupied making iPhones for underpaid labor; America's masses are on Twitter telling each other what to do.
- Tim warns that without factories to occupy them, when robots eliminate jobs entirely, things will get very bad.