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Belle of the Ranch

Let's talk about bad kids, utopias, and Lord of the Flies....

Belle of the Ranch

Belle of the Ranch

Society & Culture

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:00.0

Well, howdy there you're going to know people, it's both young. So today we're going to talk about

0:06.6

Utopias, Utopian philosophies and bad kids. You know those kids that early on you're looking at a thing, you're just like, you are a bad kid.

0:18.0

You're not going to amount to anything.

0:20.0

No, you don't. You don't actually know those kids.

0:22.0

But... No, you don't. You don't actually know those kids. But we hear it.

0:29.1

We hear it. There are some people who the bar is set so low for because the expectations are low.

0:39.1

They behave in a manner that, well, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

0:47.6

There are kids who are told this so much

0:50.4

that that's the way they behave.

0:53.0

Nobody expects any different of them.

0:58.2

To reinforce that this is what they're going to be.

1:05.0

This is how it's going to turn out.

1:06.6

There's nothing they can really do to change it.

1:10.8

We know that's wrong. We know that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. We know the kids act out. We know that it

1:19.4

lowers self-esteem and lowers a lot of other things down the line. We know that's the wrong way to do it.

1:32.0

So why do we do it with all of humanity?

1:39.0

When somebody talks about a utopian ideal, people will often say,

1:47.0

well, that sounds great, but it'll never happen.

1:51.0

Why not? Because humans are selfish or lazy or whatever, whatever the negative attribute is.

1:59.0

Humans aren't anything. We're a tool using primates.

2:05.0

We aren't as cool as we think we are.

2:10.0

I think that we're doing a disservice because what's happened is that we portray ourselves in this negative light, all of humanity, all of society,

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