Alright, so I want to talk about a mentality out there that sort of annoys me. And I don't want to point any fingers, but some of my subscribers have this mentality. In fact, a lot of them. Some of them have it jocky-o-ly, but it is out there. In fact, it's all over society. So I think it's worth talking about. So a couple of weeks ago, as you probably know, I made a form, forum.luke-smith.xyz, and, you know, of course, there are various topics, most of them are technology, but I didn't make some subforms for like, I think there was one that was something like real-life topics or something like that. And the thing about that subform is right now it's a bunch of mobing. And it's a bunch of, well, you got to put it in perspective. I've got to say that obvious. So my subscriber base is not representative of the population at all. So first off, there's something like 98% male. That's not very representative. They, of course, all most of them are into computers. That's a smaller subset. Most of them are into Linux and free software or VAM or LOTEC or, you know, something weird. So I think the people who watch my videos are going to be the kind of people who, let's say the kind of people who, de-precutorially, call themselves autistic or the people who, years ago, you would have called nerds or something like that, but now that term has been totally degraded. But those are the kind of people who watch my videos. And so I have, so, of course, a lot of these people have a very self-conscious image of themselves where I'm a nerd or whatever you want to call it. I'm a weird person. I'm autistic. And that's something that sort of they wear as like an identity. Because nowadays we live in a day where you have to be labeled with all of your mental traits as if they're like discrete diseases or something like that. Like it can be a personality trait, you know what I mean? And so a lot of these people went to the form and basically were, you know, I get no offense to you if you did this. But, you know, a lot of people get in this mindset where I'm a particular person and I have these flaws that I can overcome or sometimes they take things that aren't flaws and assume that they're flaws because they're different from other people. Now, first off, I think there are two main points to this. One is, first off, you're not weird. And second off, a lot of the things you think are weird are not really weird. In fact, a lot of the things that you do that differentiate you from other people make you more normal than other people. Okay, so on the first point, you're not weird. And to put it in perspective, first off, most of the people watching my channel are a little younger than I am. I'm 28. I got a lot of people watching this channel who are in high school or who are, you know, in college or something like that. And let me just tell you, if you, well, first off, from my perspective, I look back at my high school days and, yeah, I have memories of high school, some good, some bad, mostly good. I mean, I think it wasn't particularly good at high school. But, I mean, the thing about your high school days is that once they're over, they're over. Same thing with your middle school days and your elementary school days. You know, time passes and all of the little social things that you think are very important don't really matter. What matters for me in high school was the fact, you know, for my personal development is that's when I started getting into computers, I guess. That's also when I started learning Latin. That's when I started doing different things. Those kind of things lasted. Like, the fleeting social encounters, if you looked awkward at some event or if you look really cool at some event, those things don't matter. So, first off, and if you're the kind of person who's a late bloomer or if you're someone who didn't socialize as quickly as other people, like maybe you're still in high school and you still say slightly inappropriate stuff, and, oh, God, I must be autistic. There must be something wrong with me. No, that's a natural thing to happen, you know. I'm sure maybe you could get diagnosed with autism if that means anything. But that's a totally normal thing for people to go through. I mean, if totally, quote unquote, normal people chads, you know, they have the same thing. Go to a party and sometimes a lot of people say things that are just inappropriate and they totally mess up that isn't funny and, you know, it's just awkward or something like that. That's a normal thing to happen. And when you do that, if you do something like that, you can't beat yourself over the head with it. It doesn't. It's a silly mentality. So the mentality you need to get it or, you know, other things like, you know, if you're 22 and you've never had sex, I'm sorry, you're not weird. Like there's nothing weird about that. I don't know when, what the average age that someone has sex, but it doesn't. It honestly doesn't matter, dude. Like, that's something that so many people get obsessed with. Like so many people like talk about their body counts. Like it matters. And just as you get older, it's just like all water under the bridge. I mean, the things you should be thinking about are the things that are permanent. Skills you will have for life. Or when you do run into a relationship, whether that's romantic or rather that actually matters, be sure to keep, you know, keep watering that relationship. All the other ones, they don't really matter that much. So that's the first point. First off, you're not weird. Secondly, you know, there are a lot of things you do that are different from other people, but that doesn't mean you're the weird one. And that is a lot of people, you know, who I hear in the comments section or on the form will beat themselves up over the fact that, oh, I don't like Game of Thrones and TV and, you know, normy stuff. I don't like going out to clubs. I don't like drinking. Like that's not very fun. I don't like small talk. And, you know, a lot of that is just totally normal. Like the thing, like there are very few people, I think, in the world who really like going out to bars. They do it for different reasons. Sometimes they want to get dates. Sometimes they want to do different stuff. But no one really likes doing that, I think, at the core. They're like, well, okay, there are some people. I know some people who like doing it. But if you're the kind of person who like sees that and you're like, what the hell is going on? That's the totally normal reaction to have. The same thing is true. Like, you know, when it comes to TV, I can't watch TV without getting disgusted. And about, you know, different things. But if you're the kind of person who can't watch TV, like that's totally normal. It's not like in all times and places, it's not a normal thing for people to sit in front of the TV and watch it for hours and hours. It's a disease that occurred in the previous generation in our country. And that's never happened before. And hopefully it never happens again. It was a terrible TV, it was a mistake. Okay. So if you don't like things like this, or even things like dating, right? So dating is sort of the same thing as like binge watching TV, right? The institution of dating as it exists right now is really awkward and uncomfortable, right? Meeting someone, you don't really know going out for dinner a couple times. You know, just the whole rigour moral is not like an, it's not like an organic institution, the way that courtship used to be when we had civic institutions. You had community clubs, you went to church, stuff like that. You know, we use dating because basically we're all bowling alone, we're all living in this isolated society. But my point is there are a lot of things about society that are sort of off. And you feel weird because you don't like those things. It's not you who's wrong, you know what I mean? So don't beat yourself up about it. Anyway, so that's about it. Again, like just don't get into mindset of, I'm a weird person, I can't, you know, I'm diagnosable with some mental trait or something that makes me different. I can't improve myself, I have to put myself in this box and I have to be a prisoner in there. Just don't get yourself in that mindset. Yeah, people are different. Maybe you're, maybe it's harder for you to engage socially than other people. And that's not bad. I mean, the thing you have to remember about society, like we're not all supposed to be middle of the bell curve people. Sometimes, you know, society is a big genetic mesh and people have different traits and people do different things. And there's nothing wrong with your, the thing that you're supposed to do is something a little different. So my advice again for younger, younger viewers, improve yourself. Don't worry about the social details if they're not going to last. If you think they will care about them otherwise, just ignore them. They probably most things you think are important socially. They're probably still not important. But anyway, so that's pretty much it. It's sort of a random video, but I'll see you guys next time.