I feel like I'm in a cult. Even as a kid I was terrified of adulthood, I saw their lives and nothing added up. My dad worked, my mum house chores, repeat. It seemed like a trajectory that led to an ever narrowing hallway where it just got so tight that you got stuck and eventually forced out a tiny little door that killed you. Family, marriage, a house and career, this is what we are taught to do. As an adult I'm completely confounded as to how anyone could be happy for long doing this, correcting the wrongs of the world and only getting rewarded and paid enough in order to keep doing it. Horrendous.

@badart3204

Жыл бұрын

I somewhat enjoy what I do and I value my personal relationships with other people which money allows me to enhance. You really don’t understand how one can derive joy from working a job that improves society? Having a spouse and children that love you that you actively improve the quality of life for? If you have skills that others value highly you can have a very pleasant life.

@michaelshannon9169

Жыл бұрын

@@badart3204 But all you're doing is pushing the rock up the hill - fixing a problem, that tomorrow, still sits there in some slightly different form. You might say you enjoy fixing problems, that we are evolutionary designed etc then I say this is a form of insanity. This is what I mean by cult, the insane cult of constantly fixing, tweaking, altering, nudging things this way and that, just problems, problems, problems. Its incessant but we are bred in cult like fashion to think this is ok. You say improves society but I doubt that, i look at ppl today ever more selfish, more despondant, more atomized, more alone, rates of mental health are through the roof and to say that technology mitigates this in shortsighted. As for family, I have nephews and nieces and the more I see them the more I know I would never want to be a father, to bring them into this world of labour, toil, work and brief respite makes no sense. To adjust them to a society that we currently have is again, insanity. No offense but its usually normies who lack considerate depth who seem ok with whats current in society. I encounter so many ppl who are at ease with life and they always seem so absent in the capacity to perceive the world as it is. The amount of suffering that goes on on this planet, if witnessed or felt by those who are fortunate, would destroy even the most bright eyed optimist. It would break them irreparably.

@user-pn1tc6wm2o

9 ай бұрын

This cult of ours it's not so small after all 😊

@jimbonacum8917

9 ай бұрын

A friend of mine likes to say, "When I was a little kid, if I had known what grownups were like, I wouldn't have listened to any of them."

@tommygamache7352

5 ай бұрын

​@@jimbonacum8917Perfect!

He seen through the shit that most people live by, what a guy what a visionary

@mrwamble

2 жыл бұрын

Bukowski knew.

@breadoflifefaiupu8992

2 жыл бұрын

He was a moron

The 8-5 was soul destroying. After Bukowski died the norm went to 12 hour shifts. No time to work rest and play. They want you dead before you reach retirement age. What I notice is everything seems to be getting worse as time goes by not better.

@mrwamble

2 жыл бұрын

It's sad but true.

@twistedspanner

2 жыл бұрын

@@mrwamble And they've upped the retirement age too here in the UK. Bastards!

@christopherhogan691

Жыл бұрын

You are right. Bukowski was right There is beauty in children though.. But the Western world families have become carbon copies of each other. Fixer - upper is the ultimate goal in America. How sad. That is not life.. If youve never gone to the depths of yourself. Reached the PIT.. At the end of your rope.. Youll never meet the true light.. . The help of God and deeper respect and love of yourself.. If any man wants to find the Kingdom. Let him leave all securities.: Children.. Mother... Father.. Country. Prestige..etc.... Thats why the politicians can change the laws..like their underwear.. Push on us the poisonous vaccination. Because we are letting others dictate our lives from youth till old age

@bixou22002

Жыл бұрын

@@twistedspanner Same in France, Belgium, everywhere....

@Nature_Consciousness

Жыл бұрын

If you study history, you Will realize How the world was much worse than before, and current futurists are very hopeful about the future, I take them more seriously than the population in general

He really is like a breath of fresh air, of truth. Here I was wracking my brain with philosophers trying to find an answer. I then remembered my favourite writer of all time and he gave me peace, a cheers to you Hank! :)

I would do literally anything to get this Man back on Earth and have healthy lengthy conversations with him and be mesmerized till My last breath ❤️

@mrwamble

2 жыл бұрын

He was one of the greats 👍

@ameygade1977

2 жыл бұрын

Yet sadly he won't talk to us...

@jackquentin1950

2 жыл бұрын

Imagine if he did podcasts today. It would have been so epic

@christinegrillo914

2 жыл бұрын

@@jackquentin1950 he wouldn't have a goddamn thing to do with the internet. Bet.

@jimmolar1757

2 жыл бұрын

Its pointless

He had the most relaxed sounding soothing voice. I could listen to him all day.

Charles and I have a lot in common!!! So glad he went back to writing after his hiatus in his 30s =) we all need CB in our lives!

@mrwamble

2 жыл бұрын

We do indeed need more Bukowski. Bukowski knew.

@jonvia

2 жыл бұрын

@@mrwamble he knew that people are merely sheep that work for a society that enslaves them.

I am currently feeling aversion towards my in-laws and the exaggerated worries and their "we are the dedicated grandparents" role playing and could not relate more to this. People are pointless, thank you for existing and for your legacy. Thank you for recording and uploading this to KZread ❤

He was so obsoletely correct, and profound. The tragedy of a normal life is the truest of all tragedy. “The Tragedy of an Ordinary Life”

@mrwamble

Жыл бұрын

Bukowski knew.

@agentx3603

Жыл бұрын

@@jamelcarpenter327 Domestication is not an improvement. It makes an animal weaker and sick.

@mrwamble

10 ай бұрын

Being forced to work 60 hours a week doing something you truly despise isn't my definition of a blessing.

@mrwamble

10 ай бұрын

I get your point, we should be greatful as a society that we don't have people murdering us in the streets, but even you said hey if you don't want to work 60+ hours a week you could work 20 and live in a trailer, so the alternative to not working is also working? 😅 and we are not forced to work? It's work, or die out here, nothing has changed. We are slaves, whether we work 60 or 20 hours we do it because we have to do it, there is no real choice, no real alternative.

@InsanitysApex

8 ай бұрын

@@gregkirk1842 A normal life is declaring defeat before attempting victory. In your case you declare life a victory because you've normalized defeat.

Yeah I finally see it omg I wish I’d seen it when I was younger? I woke up to this shit as I watched my mother take her last heaving breaths. I was 49. Life has never been better I’m outta the rat race thank god! Rest In Peace brother you’re an inspiration! MaTeWa!

@mrwamble

Жыл бұрын

Bukowski knew.

You guys have got urself a new follower I love this guy.... Looking forward to see what you are sharing guys

@mrwamble

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks :) more to come

I'm now 63. I remember when I was single and 24 walking around the local housing estates on sunny evenings. And thinking it's all so cookie cuttered... Rows and rows of houses filled with couples with kids. It's all so predictable. 9 to 5 to pay the bills, retire, die and so the cycle repeats .. Like a boring predictable cycle of doom. I thought I'd change my views as I grew older. I never did.

@mrwamble

9 ай бұрын

And nothing else changed. The city dumps fill. The junkyards fill. The madhouses fill. The hospitals fill. The graveyards fill. Nothing else fills.

@primaryendo

8 ай бұрын

I work in a carpet cleaning company, the job os repetitive, exhausting and soul crushing to say the least. I've been in houses all over the suburbs of new york city and it's strange how house after house after house it's the same old thing... husband, wife, kids, the dog, the house in the suburbs. Why the hell is this cycle repeating over and over? And their kids will just grow up to do the same thing

@booshank2327

6 ай бұрын

​@primaryendo It's senseless and why I'm not having kids. There is literally no point. Humans aren't working towards anything grand. In fact I don't think there is anything grand to work towards. Uncovering the secrets to the origins of the universe? Shrug. Immortality through human-computer interface? Sounds like Hell.

He speaks from experience and with heart. I think a soul caught in a cycle like that thinks there awaits something beautiful in the end. What if you got hit by a bus? They are cattle and herds who stay safe by keeping close enough to the next person. The whole lot of them are headed for a cliff end.

Just like the man said , people are pointless .

@twistedspanner

2 жыл бұрын

I can't find the pont in anything but I'm reading Bukowski so he wasn't pointless and I guess we aren't either but those shirt and ties definitely are. Better die than shirt and tie.. Standing next to a conveyor belt all your life is pointless.

@mrwamble

2 жыл бұрын

Bukowski knew.

This is a wonderful video much appreciation

@mrwamble

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

His voice was so calm. I thank this man for the meaningful literature he's produced

Thank you, I'm not alone

His wisdom is incredible

@mrwamble

2 жыл бұрын

Wisdom comes from being alone with your thoughts, but it's dangerous.

@andrewwilson711

Жыл бұрын

Yes I know isolation can cause anxiety and depression

@jacksonreilly3441

Жыл бұрын

"the instruction of fools is folly" (Proverbs 16:23)

Making it up - he was lucky to meet his agent ( Svengali) to promote him .

@mrwamble

2 жыл бұрын

We all need a little luck 🥰

I'm so lucky I got to meet him a few times 🙂

@mrwamble

3 жыл бұрын

He really saw the world for what it is.

@supercompooper

3 жыл бұрын

@Ghost Heart And if you have the ability to love, love yourself first.

@justinscrivner5457

2 жыл бұрын

@Ghost Heart a comment as dead as that should never be a comment.

When the shit get kicked out of you long enaugh, ull say what u really mean. Thats true

@mrwamble

2 жыл бұрын

So true

And now you know where Ledger found his voice for the Joker....

@mrwamble

2 жыл бұрын

Very similar ideologies.

Alan Watts said the same thing too. Not the exact words, but the philosophy. Grow up, go to grammer school, get a degree, get a job, get married, have kids. He spoke a lot about it.

His voice reminds me of Terrence Mckenna's, who also died in 1994, I believe.

@mrwamble

2 жыл бұрын

Pretty close comparison actually, what if they're the same person!?!? :D

@bc2578

2 жыл бұрын

@@mrwamble I never saw them in the same room at the same time......Hmmmmmm....

Love this man!

Thats why we get so alone we know it makes sense. Wete all here cos we all get Uncle Buk. I knew from primary school i wasn't gonna get married have kids and watch brain rot TV and do the 9-5 just like my parents did. It seemed crazy to me even as a kid. Those Christmas gatherings he mentions makes me laugh cos i too dreaded them like the plague with their Christmas cards celebrating something that was two thousand years out of date and they knew nothing about .People are a pain in the fkn arse who impose on you. Want to know your business and spread rumours. "Are you working now?" Yeah yeah yeah. F.O.!!! The older you get the wiser you become and you get rid of those toxic fucks for good.. if i wanna talk with someone i will. People mske you wanna disappear off the grid. Peace ❤

I don't agree with every Bukowski had to say. But I admired his tenacity for his art. That guy just kept going and it lead him somewhere.

@mrwamble

Жыл бұрын

Bukowski knew.

@booshank2327

6 ай бұрын

Guess he was more like Tony Robbins than he'd like to think. Robbins would be proud 😅

Charles: 2023 and my 9 to 5 job is killing me more and more every single day...

Damn, Hank spoke to my core. This is exactly how I feel. And to think we all die.

@TheLionaaa

3 ай бұрын

Our consciousness doesn't die. We continue to live.

Ideology today: we all know that what CB says is true, but we enact it all out anyway. Because we know that even if everybody else knew it was true too, *they too* will act out this pointless existence regardless. And we all know the story of "the emperor's new clothes", which is all this is, but so long as you go along with it in silence and don't call it out like CB, you enslave yourself AND everyone else. That's literally all he's doing to be so revolutionary: have a backbone.

Thanks 😊

@mrwamble

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

It's strange, because I feel the same and I have this exact name: "Bukowski". :)

@mrwamble

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe you should be a writer?

And they ALL work right beside of you ❤

He lost me at the cutting off the heads🙃 but I get the point

love this guy

haha. CB contradicts himself... people are not pointless ... the system/ culture / environment maybe tho ... he himself said he must do something... else so he's also doing ... we are all not pointless... but the things we chose to do maybe....😊 let us make a conscious choice in what we do... .

@5aturnia

3 ай бұрын

You missed his point. He is speaking in relation to people in his time. Not cave men or ancient Egyptians. Post industrial people like you and I. We are for the most part pointless

What they want to do❤️

Sounds like a dark version of Mr Rodgers

Spot on I've only just come to realise it after retiring and hating and moaning the last 66 years of my 9 to 5 miserable life

@jayjayfreeman

9 күн бұрын

I've been realizing the grind and I'm 53. In fact, my 50s have been the most bizarre, depressing time in my life. It's just plain weird. I'm in debt, far from retirement, but fortunately I have no kids. At least I have that going for me, HA HA!

I feel lucky that I found a job/career that I don't hate, but actually kinda like doing. No idea how some people get through their lives doing jobs they hate. I'd go mad.

@mrwamble

2 жыл бұрын

We are lucky to have jobs, and homes even. Some people lose their perspective and don't realize how lucky they are to even be alive.

@bixou22002

Жыл бұрын

Exactly what's happening to me....I don't know how to quit this rat race !

@patriciavandevelde5469

4 ай бұрын

99% of people are completely nuts!

Saying that people are pointless doesn't mean u r not one from the people , Sir.

@Stardusthuman-g3m

11 ай бұрын

We're all pointless.

@downgradeddiogenes8378

3 ай бұрын

He is, that's why the self loathing

God damn it! More Bukowski and others who will actually be themselves...SBN RESONATE

@mrwamble

2 жыл бұрын

Facts

For me he is the only interesting poet I've read in the last many years

@mrwamble

2 жыл бұрын

He really had something.

I think it takes a lengthy 15-25 to get to be a man with such strong opinions. I imagine his 12-15 was the breaking point when he either made it outside or just decided those who scowered around were going to haunt him later in life. A person like him takes advantage of anyone who tries to accept him when he is unacceptable.

@mrwamble

2 жыл бұрын

Bukowski knew.

@sladest72

2 жыл бұрын

& probably tell you ...why listen to me? I'm justa drunk.

@mrwamble

2 жыл бұрын

🤣 I bet he would have said that

@sladest72

2 жыл бұрын

@@mrwamble gimmie a holler...luv sum mr chuck sir....could feel like i could learn something...in the meantime gonna research & learn....under yer guidance.

@sladest72

2 жыл бұрын

@@mrwamble & he actually did say that to me...I got to meet him ...a family friend knew him & I met him in a backyard get-together in Georgetown IL. In 1980-81.

What a legend .

@mrwamble

2 жыл бұрын

Bukowski knew...

diogenes is my spirit animal

Why is this so relatable chat 😢?

and he lived exactly like that

With the worst of humans is to LEARN. Like the Dingbells ,we need NEW laws!

Genius!

@mrwamble

2 жыл бұрын

Bukowski knew.

I mean no disrespect, cuz I revere Chinaski's strength and grit. But even in the hungriest times, he was looking for work where he could stand it, and in the end, or rather in the middle of his life, he buckled and went to work for the post office for over a decade. I mean, it's something almost everyone has to do. Hunt and eat. Rare is the man whose individuality alone puts meat in the pot. I admire how long he held out. I admire the contempt he demonstrated for the soul killer.

I sigh with relief when I hear or read the ugly angel. Ahhhhhhh 🤤

IMO funny how this nihilistic philosophy comes off not as cool after COVID. I think whether anyone wants to admit it or not, COVID got us all scared for a while and made us all realize we actually do need each other and that this world, despite its issues, is actually much better than if it all went to shit. We got it pretty good.

@mrwamble

2 жыл бұрын

We do have it good.

@diavolacciosatanasso

2 жыл бұрын

My good man, Covid has only shown us how close to the bottom the human race already is. People are truly pointless, and disgustingly so.

@sashidharan679

Жыл бұрын

Haaaa... That's what he's actually saying... Only in the time of emergency we're together respecting each others... Otherwise we're cheating each other... That made him sick I guess... That's what he's saying... You don't get it...

@CelestialSpirit-io5mf

Жыл бұрын

​@@sashidharan679Well said!

@abyss5883

9 ай бұрын

Nah it all still feels pretty useless. Even more so now. Just my opinion

This is one of the greats...like patrice o..

@mrwamble

Жыл бұрын

Bukowski knew.

crowd: Hank, You suck! h: Thank you, Aunt Mildred...

@mrwamble

Жыл бұрын

haha

You have my soul and I have your money. Let's begin...

Wisdom is acquired after genuine suffering of a thinking mind. Accidental suffering. Because mankind is primed to avoid pain at all times? Murkowski suffered.

One actor instantly came to mind, the legendary heath ledger..... THA JOKER

when we invent robots that are just like us our first fear will be 'will they destroy us'? WHY? because they are like us or because we fear everything?

@mrwamble

2 жыл бұрын

Probably because they fear that they'll be turned off if the human race is still alive.

"We all enjoy seeing mad men in movies or something"

It's interesting, because gangsters and mobsters have that philosophy too. They'd rather die than (as Henry Hill put it) live like shmucks.

Note to self: buy bathtub

@mrwamble

Жыл бұрын

ha!

What's that ...8 to 5...can anyone explain plz

@mrwamble

2 жыл бұрын

Working 8am to 5pm everyday.

@marufameem7973

2 жыл бұрын

@@mrwamble tnx💚💚

There was this black cook on this ship, he used to make tapioca pudding.

@mrwamble

Жыл бұрын

That's an interesting line.

@kpec3

Жыл бұрын

@@mrwamble Read Post Office.

the slow motion at the end is annoying, what a shame

Schopenhauer approves.

@mrwamble

2 жыл бұрын

They do have a lot of ideas in common 😅

🙏

I can somewhat relate to this especially with how everything in the World has been, With Sheep lining up to get sterilized by the quack-cine and how everyone is docile and low-IQ. It shows how much ignorance is dangerous Sometimes people are just too far gone, All I can do is pray for their souls.

@mrwamble

3 жыл бұрын

Amen 🙏 let's hope something changes.

@Shhhchris

3 жыл бұрын

Pray? If you’re religious, you’re the biggest sheep of them all 😂

@GamersRole

3 жыл бұрын

Ahahahahahha imagine thinking Bukawski would be on your side right now. Anti vaxxers are worse then the shit you step in when walking on the street

@chri5o53

2 жыл бұрын

I think if it came to covid, Bukowski wouldn't be for or against the vaccine. He would probably just do whatever makes his life easier, not even considering what the safer option was.

@mortuusintus236

2 жыл бұрын

@@Shhhchris Don't care yes I am super religious seeth harder demon

Here comes Grandma.

……….Until they’re pointy.

Hurry up and make some shareholders money... He seen through it all.

0:23 Altogether now “Bukowski knew…”

@mrwamble

2 жыл бұрын

Bukowski knew.

Bukowski knew

I’m a recluse , I hate speaking , in case I get a trick question

@mrwamble

2 жыл бұрын

I hate speaking too, solitude is king

Honest

Bukowski knew.

With his father beating him, who wouldn't hate family or life?

Bukowski knew....

Just the title 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

People are pointless...yes...But someone still made that shirt on your back living out their pointless life...don't forget that.

Job life aint so bad.

He's a sick puppy

:26 Prophecy

@mrwamble

2 жыл бұрын

Bukowski knew.

People are pointless

@mrwamble

2 жыл бұрын

Bukowski knew

@milmex317th

2 жыл бұрын

@@mrwamble I first heard of C.B. In Germany my Germany friend Told me about a book he read call "The F*&% Machine " in high school it was on his school's reading list

I get it but wish i didnt

I rest my case🤭

@mrwamble

Жыл бұрын

Bukowski knew.

Woke up this morning and it seemed to me, That every night turns out to be A little more like Bukowski. And yeah, I know he's a pretty good read. But God who'd want to be? God who'd want to be such an asshole? God who'd want to be? God who'd want to be such an asshole?

Manchester city 2.5 ov

The Hamster Wheel 🎡 🐭🐹🐹🐹🐹🐹🐹🐹🐹

He had a daughter and got married.

@TheSundayCall

29 күн бұрын

That's how he knows 😅

My issue with bukowski is all of this is a matter of circumstances and your own ethic on how to deal with things. Work can cure depression as well as cause it. It is how you handle things.

It isn't truth just because he says so. But pointless people will buy his word with no questions asked.

ben bader sent me here

@mrwamble

10 ай бұрын

Who is Ben Bader

Not everyone is pointless, Charlie. Someone had to work 8-5 to distill your whiskey, gin, and vodka. Someone had to work the counter at the liquor store to sell it to you. Someone had to work a LA street corner to sell you sex and drugs. Someone had to work for the money to pay the fee to listen to you ramble drunkenly at your poetry slams. Someone had to work for the money to buy your books and make you rich. You see, Charlie, everyone in life has a purpose. Even if that purpose is to set a bad example. R.I.P. Charlie. It was a dirty life. But someone had to live it.

@mrwamble

Жыл бұрын

Bukowski knew.

@JeanPaul-zq5yk

10 ай бұрын

You missed his point

@hospitalcleaner

9 ай бұрын

All that stuff you said, Bukowski thought was pointless. Including himself, his art, and his own alcohol addiction.

@mrwamble

9 ай бұрын

Bukowski was pointless

@padraicogawain3162

9 ай бұрын

When you see life through a lens of nihilism and addiction, you don’t opine from a place of strength and wisdom. You ramble to others like yourself seeking validation, false meaning and a bogus sense of purpose in a world of self inflicted ruin and anomie.

Smoke vegetables

@mrwamble

3 жыл бұрын

Smile

I live Bukowki but I disagree on this - i love the routine of daily life. I'm grateful for society. I don't have to kill my own food, make clothes, build a shelter, worry about killers taking it....I'll trade 40 hrs a week for all that and spend the rest of the time doing fun shit. It's a good deal I think.

@mrwamble

10 ай бұрын

I never thought about it like that.

I don't admire mad men, I feel sorry for them because they are suffering immensely. And these words just show that Bukowski suffered too...

@mrwamble

Жыл бұрын

Bukowski knew.

@BB-fo5mr

Жыл бұрын

Some of what you said is superficially true. But that’s all

This guy is empty. Truly the modern man. Vacuum

@mrwamble

2 жыл бұрын

He's dead now.

Cutting the heads off little girls 😶‍🌫️

@mrwamble

Жыл бұрын

Bukowski knew.

people are pointless...a real cynic, a modern day Diogenes

@mrwamble

Жыл бұрын

Bukowski knew.