Bruce Wayne vs. Batman: Ted Carr's Permanent Vacation.

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rich you're like Bruce Wayne I get it but you know whatever respect we've got for Bruce Wayne how would you feel about Bruce Wayne if he chose to live like Ted car why would we respect anyone who lives like Ted car nobody celebrates Bruce Wayne because he's born rich the reason why Bruce Wayne is a major cultural icon is because he did something with his money to change the world but I mean take art so you've been living in Thailand for all these years which you boast about why for the sake of your personal joy your personal lifestyle what have you man I'm not even you know you know on some level take our you've never mentioned it on your channel I scroll through YouTube is I tried to find any video mentioning political reality or social reality in town anything poverty politics this has been an incredibly tumultuous time in Thailand's politics just the last couple of years last couple of years when your life is that a lot to do with Thailand your advice that we should not just think only about our own joy our own self-indulgence but that we should only think about a short term this way what about becoming a medical doctor what about any discipline like that to take years and years of hard work and study maybe punishing maybe miserable to go through but it's for the sake of the discipline it's for the sake of its let's just leave it simple it's for the sake of making the world a better place it's hard work hours and hours and hours sitting at a desk thankless thankless tasks and you can't control the outcomes I want you whoever the [ __ ] you are watching this video to not think about your happiness and to not think about the moment I want you to think about the politics of the decade and the politics of the century and the politics of the millennium I want you to think long term I want you to think about not just yourself and your family but thousands of people and millions of people and I want you to think about hundreds of years from now I want you to see yourself in an historical context that stretches back a thousand years and stretches forward a thousand years I mean I guess again the reason why I find this so revolting Sohrab Arbutus is that ultimate just that it's linked to veganism that's taking this cause and this concept I care about so much and from my perspective he's dragging it through the mud okay youtuber youtuber now like I'm doing now I'm being youtuber now when it's time for me to be an entrepreneur I'll be an entrepreneur that could be anywhere was a day that could be four hours a day when it's happening to be an athlete I'm going to be the best damn athlete I can be but it's not like you have to dedicate your entire life to excluding one identity rule you can pick and choose from many different identities and then you can change his life with on so for the first half your life you could be an athlete the next quarter life you could be entrepreneur than explore your life you could be Ted what the [ __ ] would you know about that there are people who are in our position to say what you're saying now Ted and you are not one of them let's just take one example you said you just said you don't need to dedicate your whole life to being an artist have you even talked to someone who dedicated their whole life to being an artist have you talked to someone who knows what it's like to dedicate just ten years of their life having that ambition and giving a hundred percent of what they can give to being an artist and I don't think dinars is the hardest thing out there to go for I don't but I've known I've done plenty of people like that a guy should have already mention this video partly because I was involved with art galleries and museums this [ __ ] if one of those people said you know what you don't really need to give it a hundred percent you know what you can be a great artist without really having any ambition without really thinking long-term without really throwing in all the energy and telling you can just [ __ ] around I'd listen to their perspective Ted almost nobody would take that sir just that one example out of the list you've given being an artist there are so many people who give a hundred percent and a hundred percent is not enough just even if we leave it at being an item title be an entrepreneur I don't know what experience you think you've got Ted being an entrepreneur that you think you can give that advice I know what's my job being an artist or being an athlete this is terrible advice and you know and you know I think the truth is if I was dogging someone whose ambition was to be an artist or an entrepreneur or an athlete I would say it's great that you've got that ambition it's great if you can give it under percent but I want you to also have the ambition to make the world a better place and may or may not be through veganism may or may not be through politics may not be through humanitarian work or charity if there's anything I would say should go above and beyond the hundred percent it's caring about political reality it's caring what you're ugly if you live in Thailand you should care about social problems in Thailand if you live in New York City you care about political and social bumps in New York City it's not just a Thai thing you should not live in a bubble created for your self gratification I would say even if you feel you're an artist you're putting a hundred percent of your time into your craft as a painter as a sculptor or any these other examples I think if there's one thing you should try to make time for it's exactly for having moral ambitions to being a morally good person a morally responsible person above and beyond when you feel you can't give any more your art find it in you to have that more of the same more ambition I had the more ambition I had to try to make Laos a better place to make Cambodia a better place and when I was back in Canada threw myself into learning Korean a Jib way and First Nations politics and so on that's what I would ask of you but I I completely respect I completely respect the fact that a lot of people don't have it in them to give a lot of people put the time in and when they're done painting or they're done you know that that's all they've got it's not like any two said okay if the next five years I'm going to be the bread you wanna meet being in the moment oh yeah so I used to think whatever you want to be be in the Montague car you cannot just be an athlete in the moment its years either part where you cannot just be a painter or a sculptor in the moment you cannot just be a medical doctor in the moment and let's take it back to language learning you cannot speak loshon or you cannot speak Thai or Bernie's or Sinha Lee's or any of those languages in the moment years and years of hard work dedication over a period of decades and you know what you can't be any age in politics in the moment because politics you deal with things that is a legacy going back at least a hundred years and you got to look forward a hundred years old so you got to know the history you got into the historical context you got into the background politically to what's going on and you got to think about consequence under those things take place on a totally different [ __ ] time scale but even picking with me even sticking with your shitty choice of examples Ted Carr meet and talk to a real sculptor somebody's put in the time had their hands torn up blowing glass have you met and talked to glass blowers I have have you men talk to people who work with [ __ ] bronze casting that I was going to be a writer I was going to be a writer but so he just said before his dream was he was going to be a writer and this is the sense in which his philosophy it's probably supposed to recommendations for you because you take his advice so seriously but it always seems to come back to it's so tightly down to the self justification the fact that he's a [ __ ] loser that he never became a successful writer he's never written anything that anyone wanted to read or buy or publish right Ted so now we're going to get the just occasion for why he wanted to be a writer but he didn't have any ambition so he dropped out of university and he's never really written anything he just takes off his shirt on YouTube but there is no identity is a label as he's a writer she's a writer they right so people have to come up with oh I'm going to be a writer we really had a technology no one the technology Chris came out then people started to adopt that their job title one thing that I'm going to be a writer so now we're moving away from the pen and paper a lot of kids are leaner on a write anymore they're learning to type on iPads learning to really write iPads I this is why you you gave up on your life stream on your ambition you're incredibly modest ambition of being a writer right that's what I'm hearing here right and why everybody else should just be a [ __ ] dropout loser with no ambition like yourself what everyone else should go to Thailand and live a fruitarian diet and live for their joy in the moment bla bla bla instead of pursuing their vision its critique of identity that being a writer's yeah you know what you know what Ted I've known people who were professional writers and they had ambition and they had pride in the fact that they had a resume they had a CV where they could walk into an office of a for-profit business in Hollywood and say I'm a writer I want to work for you I wanna think they could role walk into a newspaper office and be taken seriously yeah you know what some people have that as an identity tape because they made the sacrifice they paid the price they have years and years of hard work and pursuit of that ambition and they have a resume that says I am a writer even if they had to work in a coffee shop or do other jobs etc etc so they could pursue that dream would they had an ambition and a dream that drove them and the result is they take on that identity of saying I am a professional writer that's something you're never going to understand Ted because you're a professional loser on permanent vacation people are going to have a CV that says I'm a writer I want to be taken seriously here's why and you'll never understand that Ted because again as far as I know you're just a born rich loser you're just a Bruce Wayne who never had any interest in becoming Batman because I just I've met a lot of rich people doing humanitarian work met rich people in museums and even when you met rich people didn't really understand what they were doing or why when you met a rich person who is donating money to an art gallery because they wanted to provide art education to poor children like really those people exist and you think is this really the best way to spend millions of dollars teaching children how to paint a picture in downtown Chicago or in Cambodia or whatever share remember one example that from Laos two people were raising money donating money related art galleries and Fine Arts you know whatever my opinion is irrelevant you meet rich people and maybe their idea of how to help the poor it's kind of [ __ ] up it's kind of ineffective there's also this whole charity I could talk about where they were obsessed with digging wells digging wells to give people during water and a lot of time it was like they come to a village they already have enough drinking water they don't need any well and you're coming here and digging a well and there were environmental problems there problems with the the well water being poisoned there all these problems cuz they these people didn't understand the the actual scientific element you know what though when you meet those people at leat there are people who've inherited money and they have some concept trying to make the world a better place those people are infinitely better than you take car you're making the world a worse place and you're trying to pull others in - you're [ __ ] pathetic downward spiral of self justification for why you've never even bothered making the world a better place this state I'm in right now I'm totally just content I'm totally just a few lone I'm normally you feel that you better kind of just slip up and go back to cook through difficult Opik of this video is discovering your life calling and career this has been the longest four minutes of my life trying to force myself to listen to Ted car without interruption I'm going to bring it back to my light motif and end this video now I'm really glad I didn't discover Ted car earlier in my youtube career this is like [ __ ] kryptonite to me this is like the antithesis of everything I believe in and care about man and it's it's within veganism and I know it connects to a lot of other things that people believe in and talk to both in figures all right ambition gets a bit of a bad name because people so often associate ambition with a narrow focus on just earning as much money as possible and that's really not the meaning of the word okay ambition can be many things whatever your moral aspirations are in life whatever your moral code may be it is meaningless without ambition and on some level I think it's genuinely dangerous to have people like Ted Cole on the internet glorifying a life devoted to self-indulgence all ordered a life devoted to short-term pleasures a life totally devoid of ambition but a life that is the sea at the same time praised and promoted as if it adhered to the highest standards of morality as if it represented the highest calling for human beings imaginable as if the highest and greatest and grandest thing you could possibly do with your time with your talent with your money is to resign yourself to just being happy at any cost as if the best thing you can do with your adult life is to snuff out your personal potential and commit now to the permanent vacation ah da new Yin I want you to think about the politics of the decade and the politics of the century and the politics of the millennium I want you to think long term I want you to think about not just yourself and your family but thousands of people and millions of people and I want you to think about hundreds of years from now I want you to see yourself in an historical context that stretches back a thousand years and stretches for 2,000 years