New video on the school of life! Alternate/Uncensored cut

I wish every "nice guy" knew how frightening the nice guy trope is. How many "nice guys" become very, very not nice in an instant, how they may even become violent -- those possibilities all exist at the same time as the guy is being "nice".

I had the most amazing time watching your video. Thank you. I love the color of your hair.

Hey why you gotta do the poor guy like that, just leave him to his filth lmao

Their content is a lot of stuff I thought when I was 14 and isn't distressed to hear an adult uncritically say it.

Big Joel or I should say B.I.G. Joel's energy 24 seconds into the video https://youtu.be/aNwvHEme_JE?t=156 I love it!

This is so vindicating because I saw this guy's Ted Talk about secular alternatives to churches and thought it was interesting, so I bought his book. I read, like, two chapters and then returned it the next day because it was highly specific nonsense that devolved into "dude I think your kinks are showing." (e.g. there should be places for communal eating... also we should bring back ancient holidays that were all about letting go of inhibitions... so maybe we could have orgies in the communal eating establishments, here is a mockup of what that would look like.)

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I think you're a funny person, and I often get a chuckle out of your delivery, but I mainly watch your videos because they're thoughtful and insightful. That being said, this one had me wiping away tears from laughing so hard. Your recitation of that goober's stilted, sappy pillow talk was golden. Years ago I watched a few School of Life videos when I was trying to learn more about philosophy, and I found them to be substance-less ramblings with kitschy animation. Recently, I stumbled back upon the channel and was shocked to see that it'd not only gained a ton of new followers but also switched focus to dispensing vapid, absurdist "life advice". It's gratifying to hear you acknowledge how trash it is.

I've watched a few of their videos because with many Philosopher's they are the first major summary vids that pop up. But going through university, and even just watching their videos, it's often clear their understanding of many Philosophers is narrow. Even where its correct, its slanted by Alain de Botton's views. Also iirc once or twice he straight up implies certain thinkers were cultural Marxists where it's obviously a stretch.

This is the one. The one that gets you to 6 million subscribers. Also isn't there some tension between one explanation being 'your adult experiences don't stack up compared to your idyllic childhood' and 'a dissatisfaction with your adolescence is an important driver of adult accomplishments'? Seems like the claims made in those two videos are pretty radically at odds with one another.

Before this day I knew nothing of the school of life. Now this knowledge will burden and haunt me for the rest of my existence.

can’t believe you’re cutting out the dicks and balls. coward shit tbh

I HAD THE MOST AMAZING TIME LAST NIGHT. THANK YOU. I LOVE THE COLOR OF YOUR HAIR.

Shut up, nerd! Just kiddin'. You're great.