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0:00Okay, be honest. How much of your
0:01opinions are yours? How much thinking
0:04part that you do daily is
0:06really coming from your own thoughts?
0:12Yes, exactly. That is the problem. We
0:14don't have anything of our own anymore.
0:17Ask anyone their favorite color. Their
0:18favorite color is either going to be
0:20black, white, or cherry red. Why cherry
0:23red? Because cherry red was in trend.
0:27Ask them to pick a place to live in.
0:29They'll either choose New York, London,
0:32or Paris. Why? Because they were
0:34trending.
0:39Talk to people about anything and
0:41they'll talk to you about how communism
0:43is a good thing because
0:45uh it gives justice to all, rights to
0:49all, happiness to all, and resources to
0:52all.
0:53Why? Because some reels told you so. Ask
0:57people to pick a politician they think
0:59is
1:00really good.
1:02They are going to pick Zohran Mamdani.
1:03Why? Because he was trending.
1:06Anything which makes it to social media
1:08trend is what people's preference is. We
1:11don't have our own preferences,
1:13favorites, in books, food, color, songs,
1:17movies, anything. We don't even have the
1:19attention span
1:22so that we can watch a movie without
1:24scrolling reels on side.
1:27People now have attention span of a
1:29goldfish.
1:30What they are actually doing is
1:33constantly exposing themselves to so
1:35much information that their brain is not
1:37even made to process in such a short
1:39time that they do give.
1:44Have you ever talked to someone and they
1:46just went on their phone in middle of
1:48the conversation?
1:51And they are just nodding to you and
1:53doing hm.
1:53>> [clears throat]
1:54>> Hm.
1:55And they are on reels.
2:00This is
2:02This is the new default setting of
2:04people. You're talking to them, they go
2:06on reels. They are in a resting period
2:08because they just finished some
2:10assignment. What are they doing in the
2:12rest period? Reels. What are they doing
2:14when they are going to sleep? Reels.
2:16What are they going to do after some
2:19hectic thing like uh set they completed
2:23in gym? Reels.
2:25Social media and so much information is
2:28becoming our and I'm not even talking
2:29about the brain rot yet.
2:32Social media is not really all about
2:33information. It's really what you
2:35consume, but there is brain rot on
2:37social media. So, a lot of people do
2:39consume brain rot.
2:42Your brain is not made for so much
2:45information in such a short period of
2:47time. And when you don't even give your
2:49brain a little bit of time to process
2:51all that information that just came in.
2:55So, how are you going to form your own
2:56thoughts?
2:59Okay.
3:01Give me a thought that really originated
3:03from your own head.
3:09Thoughts are Thoughts originate in
3:11boredom and people are not letting
3:14themselves be bored enough to form a
3:17thought.
3:18Conversation is going boring, pick up
3:21reels.
3:23The movie is very long and your goldfish
3:26attention span is not holding up, pick
3:28up reels.
3:29People are constantly exposed to social
3:32media and people have very easy access
3:34to social media and
3:36because we lost everything that we had
3:38on hand and we became isolated and we
3:41are constantly living on social media,
3:43it's really hard for us to form our own
3:47thoughts, even our own opinions.
3:50Our thoughts and opinions are borrowed
3:51from the people we think are smarter
3:53than us. So, we just take it as it is.
3:56We don't try to
3:59even
4:00think through it once again. If somebody
4:03gave you a conclusion, you just pick it
4:05up and you paste it somewhere else.
4:07Uh this is coming from someone who is in
4:10politics. A lot of people's
4:13answer to everything is just
4:15one word. A lot of people's political
4:18opinions are made just in just from
4:20reels that you can see in comment
4:22section. It is a very weird when you
4:25talk to someone, they are quoting
4:27Instagram headlines of the reels that
4:30you also have watched.
4:34How much of
4:36how much of the things that are coming
4:39from us are really what originated here?
4:44How much of the things that we like,
4:47listen to,
4:49admire, or our our preferences are
4:53really ours? This big 2026, people have
4:57people have preferences, taste, and
5:00admirations all borrowed from the people
5:03they think that are smarter than them.
5:06The problem is all of this not having
5:09your own thoughts, opinions, or
5:11literally anything of your own is the
5:14problem of boredom. We are not letting
5:16ourselves be bored enough. We are bored
5:18from our conversations, reels,
5:21bored from studying for 2 hours, reels.
5:24Let yourself be bored to form your own
5:26thoughts. Thoughts come to you when you
5:28have some empty space for them. If
5:30you're constantly feeding your brain so
5:32much information that you don't even
5:34have the time, your brain doesn't even
5:37have the time to process all of it, and
5:39you stack more on it,
5:41what is going to happen? You are not
5:44going to remember anything. Tell me how
5:46many reels have you watched today?
5:48You won't remember because you watched
5:51so many of them that only one of two are
5:54going to be highlighted in your head.
5:55Other than them, all of the other ones
5:57are just gone.
6:00So, instead of just being glued to the
6:02phone, we should let ourselves be bored.
6:06Embrace the boredom if you want to form
6:08something of your own. Embrace the
6:10boredom because it is the cheapest
6:13thing, okay? You have
6:16to be bored. What do you need to do?
6:19Nothing. You just have to sit there and
6:21stare at a wall. And if you can do that,
6:24just go for a walk.
6:25And if you can do that, just look at the
6:27sky.
6:28Be bored. It's free.
6:31Even though it's free, people's brain is
6:34in just stagnation because they are not
6:36letting themselves be. They need this
6:39constant stimulation in their brain,
6:41otherwise they are going to be restless.
6:45Snatch somebody's phone away for
6:472 hours and then
6:49look at the results. They are going to
6:51hate you for it.
6:55We cannot keep a device away from us
6:59which is not literally biologically
7:01connected to us and is not an essential
7:04need for us to live. We are not able to
7:07put that thing down.
7:11Our personalities, our preferences,
7:13taste,
7:15admirations,
7:16nothing of it is our own anymore because
7:19all of the things we borrowed from the
7:21people that we think are better than us.
7:24We just take it as it is and
7:27our work is done because thinking
7:29through it takes time, takes energy, and
7:32it takes a little bit of boredom because
7:36while you're feeding yourself constant
7:38information, you cannot
7:40process the one that you already have
7:42your head.
7:43And people are just not ready to accept
7:45and do that. So, what do they do? The
7:48easiest route. Stack and stack and stack
7:50and just brain rot themselves to
7:53eternity.
7:56This needs to stop. If this cycle keeps
7:59on repeating, all the humans are going
8:01to be turned into some brain-dead
8:04zombies.