Ishmael Loutfi — Millennials and Gen Z are gonna be really good old people. Feat Ismael Loutfi
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Ismael Loutfi thinks millennials and Gen Z are going to be exceptional old people, but not for heartwarming reasons. His argument? Boomers didn't earn their nostalgia. They dodged the draft, coasted through cheap living, and now reminisce about beating up blind kids. Millennials, on the other hand, will witness the actual collapse of American civilization. By seventy, they'll tell grandkids about Florida before it sank, about trees, about voting between two pedophiles every four years. The punchline gets darker. Those grandkids won't ask why it happened. They'll just say "show," which means what in Mandarin. Kareem asks if Loutfi plans to have kids. Absolutely, he says. The conversation veers into whether Loutfi's thirteen-month-old daughter is learning traditional or simplified Chinese characters. She's learning neither. Just speaking. Kareem points out that makes her illiterate.
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So, what's your take? Millennials and Gen Z are going to be really good old people. 100% agreed, because old people now—they didn't see World War II. Half of them dodged the draft. Oh, you're saying they didn't do much. They didn't do enough. And they brag about how, you know, life was better. And it's like, yeah, 'cuz things were cheap and you could do whatever you wanted. They ruined it. We know this, right? Like, like the boomers ruined America. They talk about the good old days, and then they say the worst thing you've ever heard in your life with this nostalgia. They go, "Oh, we used to beat up blind kids." Like, they have the worst memories, right?
Whereas millennial—you're a millennial. How old are you? I don't want—you know what, I don't want to know. I'm a millennial. By the time we're old, we're going to have witnessed the collapse of American civilization. By the time we're 70, we're going to have seen this whole country fall apart. Death, global warming, fire. We're gonna—we're gonna remember the good old days. We're gonna remember them. We're gonna genuinely remember. We're going to tell our grandkids about Florida 'cuz it won't be here anymore. 'Cuz it won't be here. We get to tell them about trees. Those won't be here anymore. About voting. How fun is that going to be? We're going to go, "Back in my day, every four years you'd pick between two pedophiles. Sometimes a woman. They would lose. And she's often times not a pedophile, but always defeated by the same pedophile, right?" And then our grandkids, they're going to look up at us and—what are they going to say? "Why'd you let that happen?" No, they're going to say, "Show," which means what in Mandarin. And, and that's okay. That is okay.
Are you going to have a kid? Absolutely.
What about you? Do you have kids? I have one. She's already enrolled in Chinese. She's 13 months old.
Is she learning the traditional alphabet or the— She's not learning the alphabet.
Huh. Just an illiterate Chinese person. No, no, she—she speaks. She just doesn't need to read.
Well, yeah, that would—that would make her illiterate. Oh, all right. I'm sorry, dude. Have a good day.
You too, man.