WEBVTT - Bye Bye Nihilism?! 👋 🪦

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<v Speaker 1>Pat On flex and Firms flex and Firms. This is

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<v Speaker 1>the Flex and Firms catch up podcast.

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<v Speaker 2>In its Flexing Firms on CATA. If you've ever found

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<v Speaker 2>yourself in a bit of an Internet debacle and someone

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<v Speaker 2>told you to touch grass, you might be entitled to compensation.

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<v Speaker 2>That compensation is the joy of realizing that touching grass

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<v Speaker 2>is the new black and optimism might be the thing

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<v Speaker 2>that saves the Internet from itself and us. Listen to

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<v Speaker 2>this from DTS Trends on TikTok in case.

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<v Speaker 3>To me Si, Nihilistic attitudes in you to rise amongst

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<v Speaker 3>gen z and leils. In fact, it's predicated to be

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<v Speaker 3>one of the biggest strengths in the next year. So

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<v Speaker 3>we continue to navigate through relentless crisis. However, a new

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<v Speaker 3>wave of optimism is starting to emerge. Support it online

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<v Speaker 3>by anti nihilism content and the search of year and posting.

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<v Speaker 3>As we search for opportunities to reconnect with nature, third

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<v Speaker 3>spaces to meet people, and rituals to center our spirits,

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<v Speaker 3>we're witnessing a slow shift away from the domain and

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<v Speaker 3>secular beliefs towards new ideologies. Seemed that feeling the spiritual

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<v Speaker 3>void ooh.

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<v Speaker 2>I had to recently google the definition of trend because

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<v Speaker 2>I thought, are we just misusing it or you know

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<v Speaker 2>or or is it just trends every day? So I

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<v Speaker 2>googled it, and a trend is a general direction in

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<v Speaker 2>which something is developing or changing. That makes sense, I

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<v Speaker 2>can imagine. I talk a lot about pendulum swinging. We often,

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<v Speaker 2>especially on the Internet, veer towards one extreme way of

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<v Speaker 2>being and then we veer to the other end. So

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<v Speaker 2>we might recall in twenty fourteen, it was really commonplace

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<v Speaker 2>to get dressed up just to take an Instagram photo.

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<v Speaker 2>You see really pretty ball, really pretty house, put on

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<v Speaker 2>your best outfit, take a photo, and that was it.

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<v Speaker 2>And people knew it was contrived, and that's what we

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<v Speaker 2>liked about it. We liked the fact that it was

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<v Speaker 2>a certain level of commitment and dedication to the content.

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<v Speaker 2>Now fast forward twenty twenty three, and people are making

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<v Speaker 2>tiktoks and becoming millionaires from their bed, crusty eyes, morning breath,

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<v Speaker 2>just changing the game. There's seven figures in their account

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<v Speaker 2>right now. And so you have to wonder where to

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<v Speaker 2>from here, back from whence we came? What do you mean,

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<v Speaker 2>are we going back to aesthetic why don't think we're

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<v Speaker 2>going It's not we're going backward. We're going forwards, but

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<v Speaker 2>the pendulum is swinging back in the other direction. Similarly

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<v Speaker 2>with this optimism content, there was a time on the

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<v Speaker 2>Internet where positivity was commonplace. Then we were told it

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<v Speaker 2>was toxic to be that positive because we were really

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<v Speaker 2>segregating ourselves from the reality of the world and it's

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<v Speaker 2>not a positive place to be in, and that we

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<v Speaker 2>suppress actual real narrative. So everyone got really really into

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<v Speaker 2>the reality of the world and everyone's like, wait, the

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<v Speaker 2>Internet's meant to be escapism. I don't want to do

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<v Speaker 2>real world here. I don't want to be met with

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<v Speaker 2>the horrors that are never ending, and so I feel

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<v Speaker 2>like I feel like, for the most part, it's really

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<v Speaker 2>hard to find the center place for everyone without coming

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<v Speaker 2>across as so neutral that you don't have a point

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<v Speaker 2>of difference, and so the swing is to ensure that

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<v Speaker 2>change happens.

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<v Speaker 1>I wouldn't mind. I just I like the optimism vibes.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, optimism is good, but people know how to perform

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<v Speaker 2>it in a way that's not really helpful. So it's

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<v Speaker 2>like we like, I know a lot of people who

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<v Speaker 2>are quite optimistic and quite happy, but they don't come

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<v Speaker 2>across as sweet and saccharine, so it's not registering. I

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<v Speaker 2>think when you say optimism on the internet, you know

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<v Speaker 2>some person's going to be like guys.

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<v Speaker 1>Like so much to be grateful phone, like when the

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<v Speaker 1>world is falling apart like zig zep and it's like, okay, babes,

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<v Speaker 1>wake up, Like we can be optimistic about the vood

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<v Speaker 1>capasta arriving on time and being delicious, like there's something

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<v Speaker 1>to say about that.

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<v Speaker 2>But we can't deny reality in favor of optimism. I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>all we can. You can, yeah, absolutely, you definitely can,

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<v Speaker 2>but beware the consequences as we say. I enjoyed that.

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<v Speaker 2>Thanks for listening. Thank you your flexing firms. That's the

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<v Speaker 2>optimism coming through.

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