it's like jbp says

we're telling 17 year olds they're ok as they are

and shoving them out into a pretty miserable world

that is stupid as fuck

yeah if you're unhappy/unsatisfied and someone tells you you're fine exactly the way you are

what the hell does that tell you

people need direction and ambition and instead our culture tells them "you're fine, don't change, everything is good"

people have no outlet for the part of themselves that knows they could be better

yeah that's fucked

we need to start being less tolerant

less tolerant of ourselves i think

it would be good if society as a whole taught you that

is what i mean

we had this idea in america for a while but it got out of hand

we used to tell our kids they could be the president or an astronaut or a nuclear physicist

but that slowly got warped into "you can be a rockstar, a pro athlete, a youtuber, a streamer, etc"

I think that shit is too far

it needs to be like

Hey kids, here's some admirable people. You can be like them

we forget to mention it takes hard work

oh for sure, people think musicians are just talented

we have an unrealistic perception of reality

*my generation

there is for sure, inherant musical talent

but that doesn't do anything

that's like having a great piece of land and not developing it

my brother is the kind of person that will try something once and if he's not immediately good at it he'll never attempt it again

that's a lot of young people today man

lol

they don't have the patience to hone a craft

everything needs to be fast paced DOPAMINE DOPAMINE DOPAMINE

GO GO GO

that's what we are used to

over stimulation

it doesn't make sense

take any competitive sport

is your brother good at anything?

the people at the tops of those games are the ones that have spent inordinate amounts of time practicing

he's good at lifting weights

well wtf he knows how to get decent at things

unless he doesn't think about what he's doing whatsoever