rant · moment 17 of 19
College Kids Today Have Too Much Pressure and Information
from Jessica Kirson & The Revenge Of The Basic | The Tim Dillon Show #387 · #387
4 min
Jessica talks about her daughter going to college and the different pressures kids face now versus her own youth, and Tim riffs on not knowing much about the world as a kid and it being better that way.
- Tim's daughter is going to college, and he's freaked out by how intense it seems now compared to when he attended University of Maryland.
- The pressure on kids has shifted from figuring out how to earn money to self-actualization, mental health, having the right opinions, and being a good person.
- Kids now know too much from TikTok about mental problems they may or may not have, adding to their anxiety and confusion.
- Tim didn't know what was going on in the world growing up and thinks that was better because he wasn't mature or educated enough to handle it.
- He wants back the '90s with coffee houses where angry musicians screamed about their trauma to passive audiences in big purple chairs.
- Tim recalls a specific song lyric: 'I killed myself four times last night for you,' exemplifying the suicidal angst everyone embraced back then.
- In the '90s, everyone was wicked and suicidal, but had a healthy relationship with the dark arts, like Harry Potter before it existed.
- That decade had Kurt Cobain, Friends, Frasier, Seinfeld, and diners that served good food, without the performative rage that now dominates service jobs.
- Now every job, even frozen yogurt places, acts like they work for the Department of Homeland Security, and employees seem enraged at customers.
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