Why Is Our Society So Bored?

[Music] brought to you by the Ramsey Network app download for Content that keeps you motivated today you know Rabbi taught me something else on that that was interesting um that the Hebrew word for worship and is very similar or almost exactly the same word for workship MH to work is a form of worship and in the New Testament we would say to do your work as unto the Lord but but it's this idea that working in something that you were designed the way you were designed to do the way you were knit in your mother's womb the way you were train up a child in the way he should go and when he's old he'll not depart from it and the way he is bent the Old King James says and the way the child is bent train up a child that the way they're designed and let them go in that that that is a form of worship I remember the uh I was just in Scotland and at St Andrews where they shot the uh the scene the opening scene from a Chariots of Fire and one of the lines in there was he said when I run I feel God's pleasure yeah it's a form of work can be a form of worship when you and it's not workaholism it's not some kind of weird spiritual thing by the way we worked in the garden right I mean like the the actual verse that talks about what Adam is tasked with doing in the garden it uses the the the verb is is laode right is to is to work it says that you have to actually aode you have to work and then it says and Vore and to guard right so you're there to work and you're to guard well what what kind of work is there to do in the garden right it's the Garden of Eden everything is perfect everything's wonderful right you got trees with fruit you got animals you can name everything is awesome and the idea is that even in the Garden of Eden it's not going to be a Garden of Eden unless you have a task people have to have a thing to do and we're a board society and you can see us tearing ourselves apart because we don't have a thing to do I think it increases anxiety and all all the other things as well I think we saw some of that during the uh the pandemic when we told people they weren't essential uh it creates a different kind of mental illness then because there's a uh this idea that I'm not worthy to worship I'm not worthy to do those things and U you know I raised a couple daughters and a son that that are all married off now and uh we had all dad jokes for the rising the teenage girls is like you know but before Adam got a woman he got work so if you're going to come date my daughter you need to be talking about having a job or having a career I just I just saw Professor Scott Galloway mention that what women are looking for in a man is the ability to provide in the future psychologically that's what they're actually looking for and I think what we're seeing is a lot of people who are living at home in their 30s who don't have a job they love to do and their growth is stunted because of that and it seems to be hurting culture all around there's probably a deeper problem when it starts with education where we tell people get good grades do the homework go to college get a degree then do a job for 40 years do you think that's part of the issue well I I think that we are all in this sort of post 50s mindset where we think of of the way that work was in the 50s and we think that that is sort of the ideal of how work ought to be which is very weird because the truth is that many of the jobs in the 50s are jobs that nobody would want to do we talk about the idea that you worked at like GM at a factory for 30 years and then got a gold to watch doing rivets okay how many people do you see in the modern world who want to stand over a machine doing rivets that's not a thing the 1950s are an outlier in human history they're they're an outlier because basically the rest of the world had been completely destroyed and the only industrial superpower on Earth that had not been completely destroyed was the United States which meant that we could essentially have one person in the house one person who was working full-time making a great wage doing a repetitive mechanical task and that ended up collapsing in the 1960s and70s which is why you see America's debt problem start to explode in the 1960s and the 1970s but if you go back before that the reality is that everybody was a Cooperative unit in the family in terms of work I mean you go back far enough and you go back to a farm and everybody's working all the time right if you go back to Proverbs there's an entire section of Proverbs where it describes the ideal woman right we sing it every Friday night it's called right it's it's the the woman of Valor and that that that whole section of Proverbs is all about how what the woman does it talks about her starting a business it talks about her you know importing Goods it like it sounds like she started a a is what it sounds like the woman of Valor and so I think that you know that that vision of of what life is is that like you just go into the job and you stay at the job for 30 years that's not how the market really historically worked and it's not how the market works right now and and I think our educational system is not designed for that it was designed to turn out people who are supposed to fit in sort of particular tasks I see with my son and my son is a sort of heterodox thinker he's 8 years old he is you know good at math he can't sit still cuz he's an 8-year-old boy and what I see is that the stuff that he's really interested in in he's really interested in and what a good educational system would do and this is what we try and do at home with him is dig into the stuff he's really interested in and use that as a gateway to learn the things that he's going to need to do you know in the world in the way he's bent exactly and and instead what we try to do is bend the kid to fit the to fit the the hole in the market and that seems you know it enervates it makes people feel uncomfortable and angry because they feel as though they're they're being turned away from the thing they want to do in favor of the thing that quote unquote Society wants them to do and and that's I don't think it's necess yeah I've got three kids are very distinctly different and they needed to go into three distinctly different things and I'm already watching for that and the grandkids you know it's amazing how fast that one's going to do that I can see it I can already see it it's czy and otherwise they're going to be miserable and they're going to suck at whatever they do that is outside their gifting set well I mean uh so much of this is based on the false premise that human beings are a blank slate you have a kid and the kid's a blank slate now you can sort of imprint on every blank slate what it is have you ever met a child you know this is not true it's amazing how many things are riant on people never meeting a child right like the idea that children are inherently good children AR inherently good are are you kidding me have you ever met a child children are inherently really really bad actually they're Innocent but they're certainly not good and and they require civilization and they have predilections they have things they like to do they have things they're interested in I can my daughter is a Humanities kid I can see she's a Humanity's kid my son is going to be an engineer like you can see it right now all he cares about is Rockets my my my four-year-old is a drama queen like you can see it she's adorable and she's also a drama queen and so we're going to have to see you how that in no time yeah exactly God forbid God forbid but she but you know on the microphone debating her father yeah like my daughter oh you have to look forward to Ben