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- lawngnomes4pres, on 04/13/2008, -13/+191beautiful
- LemonDefragger, on 04/13/2008, -4/+141Guys play the video backwards, there's a secret message
- profvegas, on 04/13/2008, -5/+137Excellent message and cool format, I venture to guess this was inspired by the 2006 Cannes winning 'The Truth' an Argentina political ad. An English translation of that masterpiece is at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbmn9YMc0Lw&eurl=ht ... - megaton, on 04/13/2008, -15/+111At first I thought, "Geeze, enough with the whining," but then the 2nd half happened... I cried.
- 3ugene, on 04/13/2008, -12/+72The government kind of forces us to work our tails off with the 33% of our wages they get right off the top. This number continues to rise and will not go down because of the fact that it is set by the amount of money we borrow from other countries. I guess people could lose their jobs when the economy vaporizes due to an apathetic attitude towards monetary policy and the unheard of balanced budget.....more time with the family, maybe there is hope after all...
- inactive, on 04/13/2008, -9/+61the modern mentality needs to change i.e. a shift away from materialism and towards a more traditional point of view. But the way things are going, the modern society will have a catastrophic end. This society is hollow and has no form. The sad fact is, the eastern world is now also accepting this "way of life."
- inactive, on 04/13/2008, -2/+54I had my mouse on the close button right before the second half. I'm glad that I didn't press it :D
- anagoge, on 04/13/2008, -3/+46Mmh mm mm. Down into my belly. Here it goes down. Scotch scotch scotchy. I love scotch.
Wow, I guess that works too! - vptel, on 04/13/2008, -15/+58I love scotch. Scotchy scotch scotch. Here it goes down. Down into my belly. Mm mm mmh
- inactive, on 04/13/2008, -5/+43You really think that this current generation of 20 somethings up anything and start saving money?
How about cleaning your ***** room, your home, your neighborhood and paying off your credit cards, before you run off to save the world.
I would love to check in on that broad in 10 years.
Bet 90% of you wouldnt give up GTA 4 to donate that money to some poor kid. - jaydoj, on 04/13/2008, -1/+38Based on alanr's comment, "somethings got to give", I really wonder if he's right. I'm 26, and I work about 50-55 hours a week. I make decent money, and can cover my costs. I am also however, a single male, with no children, and no wife. I do wonder if something truly will give, if all the Moms and Dads of the world will finally clock out one day, after a normal 8 hour day, come home and have dinner with their family, go play outside with their kids, enjoy each others company. I remember being young, and saying "I can't wait to grow up", the adults in my family, would say, "enjoy this while it lasts".....after watching that, their comments mean more than they ever have. Great video.
- inactive, on 04/13/2008, -6/+37The doomsday message. It's appeared since as far back as we can look. Guess what? Humanity is actually doing pretty good. Quality of life has steadily increased for humans pretty much since the discovery of fire. Can you guys even fathom how amazing it is that some young woman can live a life giving her enough time to ponder questions like those and have the ability to publish her ideas to the whole world with nothing more than a slight desire to do so? That kind of freedom is unprecedented. Can you really say we're apathetic? Mark Zuckerberg, a 24 year old self made BILLIONAIRE, would probably disagree. We don't care about the environment? Try watching TV for 20 minutes and tell me how many "green" oriented PSA's or ads you see. Can you even imagine a species SO capable it moved beyond just trying to survive onto actually "feeling" a strong desire that every other species should as well? I'm not saying we don't need to keep on improving, because we do, just don't forget that we're doin pretty good.
- Humbick, on 04/13/2008, -2/+31CAUTION: NSFW
- apophenic, on 04/13/2008, -0/+25Brought to you by the AARP, ugh.
- vptel, on 04/13/2008, -4/+26kill all humans...kill all humans
- tcpip4lyfe, on 04/13/2008, -3/+240% = anarchy
- fasda, on 04/13/2008, -5/+23Hey if you think about this for a second that speech can apply to every year since the late 50s and probably was said in most of them and guess what nothings changed.
- sittingduckss, on 04/13/2008, -6/+24Isn't that the most relieving and inspiring thing you've heard or seen for a long while?
- truthmatters, on 04/13/2008, -8/+25Inspiring. I do believe families should come first, and that the other four letter word for love is time. Unfortunately, divorce is sometimes necessary, and not always a bad thing. Children are better off coming from a broken home then living in one.
- Aorawn, on 04/13/2008, -5/+21I see what you did there!
- MikeSD34, on 04/13/2008, -3/+19It costs money to run a government. It costs money to sustain an army to defend this country from outside forces. It costs money to provide support for those who cannot help themselves. It costs money to make laws, to enforce those laws, and to protect you and your families from inside forces. It costs money to provide public schools and roads for you and your family members. It costs money to run a government, and that money has to come from somewhere. In a government run of the people, by the people, and for the people, that money comes from the people. It is foolish to think that you can run a government without taxes or income of some sort.
I'm not saying that 30% is right, or that the current system works, just that it's foolish to believe that you can run a government without some sort of income. - gwhardyiv, on 04/13/2008, -1/+15A little oversimplified. Sometimes, putting family first means putting work first.
- Mothrog, on 04/13/2008, -4/+16"The corporations kind of force us to work our tails off with a stagnant minimum wage..."
If you make minimum wage as an adult, you failed at life. The only one forcing you to work your tail off is you for making ***** decisions in your life. - Mothrog, on 04/13/2008, -1/+13Why would anyone want to give a third of their income to support a government that wages war in Iraq on the basis of a rumor that they might have WMD?
- Hetman, on 04/13/2008, -3/+15It was clever I will give them that. But everybody does not want to get married, have kids and a family etc. I mean that is fine for some people, it just is not for me.
- hotpuck6, on 04/13/2008, -4/+15I hear if you start it at the same time as the wizard of oz, it matches up.
- verkon, on 04/13/2008, -0/+11had the reverse effect on me.
- specialK16, on 04/13/2008, -2/+12I see what you did there!
- yellowfish04, on 04/13/2008, -2/+12yeah wow, that was really amazing. Who knew that the AARP had such wit, much less any wits at all.
- svetty, on 04/13/2008, -0/+10Poorly quoted from Fight Club?
- inactive, on 04/13/2008, -0/+10Sweet Jonny mnemonic / Aeon Flux society here we come. Sounds like fun can't wait.
- crobathias, on 04/14/2008, -2/+11Fail
- stonewaljacksn, on 04/13/2008, -0/+9this generation is so Lost that nobody here knows there already was "Lost Generation" (Hemingway, Fitzgerald, etc.)
At first i thought it would be something about those expatriates in Paris in the 1920s, then I remembered this is digg. - diggduggjoe, on 04/13/2008, -2/+11Why would anyone be greedy to wish to keep their own property which they worked hard for? No government has the authority to steal from you to give to another. The problem we have today is that the average person doesn't understand that.
- merper, on 04/14/2008, -0/+8God, I'm so sick of hearing about this magical past where people were honest and got along and we lived off the land. Human nature hasn't fundamentally changed in the past few thousand years. You talk about growing ignorance - how many witches do we burn these days? You talk about losing traditional families - People used to huddle with their kin only to scrape together enough food and shelter to get by. If they were inseparable from family, why did so many leave the old country and travel to Ellis Island? People are who they've always been. Technology has just magnified the worst(and best) parts of who we are, and it's given us the free time away from worrying where our next meal is coming from to worry about who we've become.
- inactive, on 04/13/2008, -0/+8Yes, I just gave away all my possession's and bought a plane ticket to Sudan.
- gfxluvr, on 04/13/2008, -2/+10That was amazing.
Had me totally pissed at first, but then it made me smile :) - antonio97b, on 04/13/2008, -2/+9What about during the industrial revolution? Workers had to work 6 days a week 12 hours a day.
- insanebrain, on 04/13/2008, -0/+7please learn to think.
- d03boy, on 04/13/2008, -0/+7I happen to know many people who live off of the state. They are perfectly capable human beings. I'm related to a lot of them. They refuse to work because they don't have to. What if I were to ask you what would happen if 50% of the people chose to live off the state? What if it went to 60%? Please explain to me how that would end up working.
- tabion, on 04/14/2008, -0/+7Hmm, all your comments have had negative diggs. It's a sign that nobody cares about what you say.
- dtd00d, on 04/14/2008, -1/+8You're doing it wrong...
- inactive, on 04/13/2008, -0/+7Yes.
- transitive, on 04/13/2008, -2/+8its not the taxes thats holding down your wages *****. its the corporate business practices that won't pay enough money with one job so you have to work two instead.
- Enasni1212, on 04/13/2008, -1/+7I think that the divorce message was saying, "not every marriage is a mistake," not, "every divorce is a mistake."
- Ollever906, on 04/13/2008, -0/+6AARP hook us while we are young and make us think that sitting on our asses watching inspiring internet videos will change the world!
- digggthat, on 04/13/2008, -2/+8well done..props to all the creativity in making that video
- KingBabi, on 04/13/2008, -2/+8"Blah blah blah, life is so horrible, there is no good in this world, everyone is controlled by the government. You're all sheeple. I'm a pretentious ***** who knows what's really going on. I get on my soap box and attack apathy but I do nothing about it because I claim no one can do anything about it. Our lives are worthless, life isn't worth living or enjoying because I don't live in a perfect world. Everything sucks."
Stop ***** complaining. Do something. Know what's wrong with the world? People like you. - 3th0s, on 04/13/2008, -1/+7Great find.
The original video was fantastic too. - masterm1nd, on 04/13/2008, -0/+6You're on to something. I would digress and say that there is just more material to be had. We can make everything more efficiently and we have more new crap being invented, exponentially. It just makes sense. It's the same reason the bum who just got a job consumes more food than when he was a bum.
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