the zurkie show - one way we can stop the end of the world

Episode Date: January 5, 2026

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I'm immensely concerned at the hopelessness in the world, especially amongst my generation. And I'm sure that you feel a level of pain that sits on your chest when you go through the news cycle, when you read about what older people that are in the United States have done to younger people, how our society has been rigged to favor people that own a lot of things in our country. I think that right now we are seeing a manipulation of hope to make us feel like we are cooked and that the only answer is to pass away in comfort. You can just door dash whatever you want, bro. Don't worry about it.

You can pleasure yourself out of this world and you can forget how terrible society is. This is not the answer. Zerk Yeah, okay, bro What am I supposed to do about it? We are going to inherit There's no really nice way to say it Other than a shitstorm

We already are in real time But I think that a generation like ours That has so much talent, so much understanding of technology So much understanding of the world Diminishes our importance of action. We think that no matter what we do,

if we vote, if we go out, speak to people, and assemble, it's worthless. It's not even worth trying. And I think that is so foolish. Now, I'm not going to sit here and act like I'm some kind of revolutionary, right?

And I'm like leading the charge. But what I do want to tell you is that we can still make change. and the war of attention, which is the one that we are all fighting right now, will try to make us think that that is not possible. One of the ways that you can actually make change, especially now, when you feel hopeless in this world, is at a small level within not only your family, your friends, but the community that you inhabit. it. People are suffering from a lack of community. We've known this for years. Nobody has done anything about it. I'm one of those people that needs to be held accountable for that. I have a platform.

I have ways of assembling people together, and I haven't done that. I've been trying to figure out a perfect way of doing it. There is no perfect way. We just have to figure out a way to meet and to share something and have an experience. And I think that what a lot of us have in stead focused on is the world is cooked bro I'm I'm like barely able to make stuff you know happen for myself and make ends meet this 12 dollar burrito is already costing me my sanity I'm gonna just stack my bread and worry about me and y'all I don't care about anyone else because I don't interact with anybody else everyone has their AirPods in when I go to my apartment complex everyone sitting inside their dorm room, they don't want to socialize.

I think that if you want to genuinely, I guess, protest the world, go out and socialize, go out and talk to people. That is the biggest form of rebellion that you can actually take on. That will actually make you feel like you're making a change. The more time that you spend consuming and just hearing things and just, just. Just having one perspective, the more you will believe that this world is one way and it is destined for doom. The more people that you talk to, the more perspectives that you have from real life people, real life conversations, real life pain, real life triumph. The more you will realize, okay, there's some good.

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But I think that being in a community and knowing people will become one of the most appreciated assets. I'm telling you right now. Because what we are seeing are people that are spending a lot of their life. I'm not even talking about hours. I'm talking about life online. And what that is creating is a false sense of existence only in an online sphere and thinking that that translates into reality when those are two different things. And I really do feel like our inability to,

socialize to get together, to talk to people, to create spaces where we can actually congregate, you know, and loiter a little bit, be a loiter squad. It's diminishing our entire development as human beings. It really is. You talk to somebody who grew up in the 70s, in the 80s, which I think a lot of people will argue are like some of the golden ages of America, right? Those people were outside as kids. Those people were outside as teenagers. They were outside as college kids. And although we have very different opportunities and our lives look very, very different, we have to figure out some kind of way to continue to defy what is essentially wanted of Gen Z, which is to become the next line of worker bees. And if we don't start congregating,

if we don't start socializing, talking about things, being just open, I fear that it will be easier to control people at large. It will be easier to feed an idea into your brain that is backwards. That is not inclusive of everybody because it will just be a drop in your algorithm. You won't even feel it and you will start to believe it. I also think a prediction I have for our generation is that we can be a generation that will, for the first time, re-appreciate, I guess, or like become more invested in physical media, not only that, but physical means of production, trades, hand skills, in a world where there will be a lot of inflation. things will be very expensive. A new t-shirt will not cost you $20. It'll cost you $100.

It will come down to what you know and who you know in order to repair your t-shirt because there's no way you're going to get a new one. I think it's very important now to learn old skills. The skill of communication is as old as time, being able to talk to somebody, being able to just be in a room and lead a conversation. Those are valuable skills.

At the end of the day, when, you know, the inflated, pumped up numbers of markets that are going, woo, you know, are too high for anybody to enjoy or too low for anybody to save, it will come down to what skills we have, just us, in order to make things happen and survive. This is an interesting thing, I guess, an anecdote that I learned from my grandparents, who grew up in communist Poland, in those times, you couldn't just go into a store and buy groceries and buy, you know, cleaning supplies. You had to have a ration card in order to be able to have the privilege of buying something. So everything was distributed evenly, right? But there was still corruption. There were still people that got extra or figured out like a way to run a meta.

but outside of your collection of what you got, it was important to know people because you were able to trade. You were able to not only trade, you know, resources, food, goods, but you could also trade information. You could talk in person. The minute that people are, I guess, influenced to no longer socialize, we lose the most important medium of information, period.

Because imagine this. Imagine that the world entire grid, right? The world's entire grid goes down tomorrow. It will be the word and mouth that will carry society. It will. It will be like on a small scale, you going to your neighbor and being like, yo, did you lose power? And your neighbor going like, yeah, bro, I did.

I don't know what's going on. I can't play, you know, Xbox. I don't know. And I don't even want to think about what kind of world that would be because that really scares me. I don't know how many of you have really thought, like, what happens if we lose power for a certain amount of time?

Mayhem happens. Mayhem happens. You know how angry you get when you can't find your phone and you're like going all around your bed being like, where's my phone? Who took my phone? Imagine that. Six billion people.

Or a country, right? like 350 million people. It comes down to what you know. And at the end of it, I think that part of us feeling hopeless is the fact that we've had history taken away from us. Not even from like a literal sense, like right, like, you know, 2020. A lot of us had our proms, our graduations, whatever, never experienced.

outside of that, a lot of us aren't reading, myself included. We're not reading about history. We're not reading about patterns. And that is what allows things in regimes that kind of seems similar to ways they were in the past to happen over and over again. Certain thoughts that at one point we thought this is bad, we shouldn't think this way. They become popular again. we don't read about how history happens. And when you forget about history, it repeats.

In the same way, right, when you don't exercise a muscle, it gets weaker and you forget how to do it. If you took two years off of going to the gym and you're trying to do a bicep curl, you're going to be like, how do I even do this? So if there's one thing you should do, read, read a lot, talk to people, have conversations. Do not let yourself go down the hole of doom because there is one. It is deep and there is a lot wrong. I promise you. I'm one of those people that worries about it all the time. But what I also acknowledge is that a lot of it is used to farm my attention. A lot of it is used to make me feel emotion so I do certain things. So I act in a certain way and adopt a certain ideology instead of just looking at like what do I have in my immediate future. I think that the way, the way, I'm a certain ideology. I think that the way, the way, you know, the way way in which we have the internet now is built in a beautiful way to hijack not only your immediate attention but long-term attention because you learn about these ideas that are really really stressing you out and then you go into these rabbit holes and spend more time be aware but do not let these things dominate your entire existence you are here for more you are here to be a part of our generation

and take place in a society and make change in a society so we actually live in a better world. I want to say fair world. This world isn't fair. Maybe we can make it a little better, but geez, man. I'm worried, but I'm trying to do my part. And I think if all of us just try to do our parts, we can learn from one each other, right, from one another. We can do a little bit better. And that is where progress is made. Zerky Show. Those are some of the thoughts I've been thinking as this new year starts. I hope all of you are doing super well. Today's episode of The Zirky Show was filmed in Orlando, Florida with the sunset behind me. If you want more of the Zirky Show, it is the Zirky Show everywhere you go all over the globe.

So if you want to tap in, tap in. Do the things that bring you joy. If it means getting a little bit uncomfortable, if it means taking a flight somewhere you've never been, if it means trying that spice that might be a little too spicy for you, do it. Just try it. See if it's worth it. And if it's not, it's not. And if you're trying something new, just know, at large, I believe in you.

And as always, Zerki Show, I am sending all of you lots of love. And peace. We're not cooked. Not yet.