[sys42590]

That reminds me of a specific (de)motivational video of one of my favorite comedians Masood Boomgaard, which specifically covers the rat race that prevails in todays workplace culture. While it's meant to be funny, it actually touches some deeper philosophical truths.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8An2SxNFvmU [Do Nothing - a message of motivation from Self-help Singh- (un) motivational speaker and life coach]

[01acheru]

Thanks for the link! When it is well done comedy often covers something more profound and summarizes it in an accessible and more memorable manner just like the video you are talking about.

"The world is fucked, and you cannot un-fuck it."

"You will die one day just as confused as you are now."

"Everything you think you need to do was done before you and will be done after you."

"Whether you are fat or thin haters will hate."

"Nothing really matters."

There are some really deep insights in all of those thoughts, thanks for sharing.

PS: this remembers me of a sketch about giraffes being an animal created by a gay friend of the comedian, after the sketch I learned that giraffes engage in male-male acts more often than male-female acts and got mindblown. They have been called "especially gay" for this fact.

[AndyNemmity]

This is amazing, thanks for sharing. Looking at his other videos, the unbearable pain of working on friday is also great.

Something I'd have never been introduced to without your comment, thank you.

[bko]

What philosophical truths?

I've known people that 'do nothing'. The modern day equivalent of that is the pot head. It's a lot easier to do nothing when you're stoned. The other alternative is the basement dweller kid of a well to do couple that just spends his day playing video games. Due to his parent's hard work (or luck), he can probably afford to do so for the rest of his life. But still seems depressing to me to think about.

[helboi4]

If you're playing video games you're literally not doing nothing. The point is to give yourself time to reflect and breathe. If you're stoned and that makes it easy to meditate for ages, you could probably count that as doing nothing. Although you should probably worry if you simply cannot sit still for any significant amount of time without being stoned. But yeah if you're getting stoned and like watching movies and stuffing your face then you're not doing nothing.

[elaus]

But that kid in your example isn't doing _nothing_, they are playing video games. That is entirely different from consciously pausing and doing nothing.

[grugagag]

That kid is doing nothing with their life, there’s a difference between that and a nornal persob’s downtime that makes sure we don’t task out with some goal that feels like doing nothing but it’s got some agenda: no planned activity!

[eleveriven]

Humor can often make such profound messages more accessible and memorable...

[zingerlio]

I relate so much to his recent video on Friday meetings.

[gffrd]

I hear the voice of the stoics in there …