Nobody Thinks This Life Is Better: Sociopaths, Vacations, and His Grandmother

• 1:12:36Nobody thinks this life is better — people are just doing it because there seems to be nothing else to do, fed like lambs to slaughter.
• 1:12:58When all meaningless office jobs disappear and people can't photograph themselves at exclusive restaurants, the city descends into hell.
• 1:13:39In the 90s, New York had blackbox theaters under restaurants where people put on plays about trauma and survival — that great city is lost.
• 1:14:05Tim's mother's friend wrote a play about being molested by her father, and when he attended, his only comment was 'It was a little long.'
• 1:16:04Britain banning smoking for people born after 2008 is absurd — they don't care about health, they're pushing injectable drugs instead.
• 1:16:40Women under 50 are getting lung cancer from eating salads daily due to pesticides in fruits and vegetables.
• 1:17:31Palantir's manifesto sounds reasonable about cultural superiority, but then wraps militarism and war in Christianity while their technology enables death in Gaza.
• 1:19:14Sociopaths are charming and fun at dinner — their argument is there are more ways to get rich now than ever, but that's not a society, that's a casino.
• 1:21:21Everyone's trying to live sober and healthy inside a casino while everything else has been destroyed by nuclear war.
• 1:22:17The people driving this culture want to live 24/7 in the casino getting richer forever — it's not a cohesive, fulfilling standard for anyone.
• 1:23:14When Tim grew up, the rich guy was portrayed as isolated and weird in Stephen King novels and The Simpsons — there was a weirdness to being super rich.
• 1:24:54The idea wasn't just to be loaded and rich, but Tim loves money and what it enables — helping people, nice cars and houses — except that's become the only thing that matters, which is psychotic.

Friend of the showMichael Dell