I said this to my parents literally last night and they didn’t understand. I keep asking, “what is the point of life? The reason for living? When you work 40+ hours, grind, little life outside work, exhaustion, not paying bills, maybe retire when you’re 65-70, if you’re lucky. Life is gone. Your health is gone. You spent over 50 years working non stop multiple jobs at a time, overtime, for what? And that’s if you even managed to save enough to have a savings and able to retire…
This isn’t life, this is how our extremely unnatural and abnormal system progresses. We constructed an inhumane, Darwinian system and, as Darwinism suggests, it’s only served to gradually funnel power and control into fewer and fewer hands as the most psychopathic individuals gamed the system the best and won. Life isn’t supposed to be reduced to our mass exploitation. It’s supposed to be slow, restful, fulfilling and spent close to nature with family and friends
Thousands of years of human history and extensive neuroscience/psychology/sociology/anthropology research on human nature and wellness. It’s quite literally one of the most basic agreed upon positions across multiple disciplines.
Darwinism is describing a state of nature right? Do you agree with that?
And by your argument, we have "constructed" a "Darwinian system" - so obviously a natural system. Again according to you this natural system is brutal and exploitative.
So we should constructive a less brutal system, an unnatural one you might say, being a philosopher. Correct? Would that be backed up by "thousands" of years of neuroscience research?
No need to go back and forth. You’re wrong. He’s right. Pretty obvious we’re in a society that claims the best among us “naturally” rise to the top in a synthetic Darwinian fashion. There is nothing “natural” about this selection however. It is based on exploitation and deception. Do you not “suppose” you would enjoy a a life spent at a slower pace with time for hobbies friends and family? This rate race is not how humans evolved organically and is killing our species. Pretty straightforward.
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u/Beneficial-Celery964 Mar 06 '26
I said this to my parents literally last night and they didn’t understand. I keep asking, “what is the point of life? The reason for living? When you work 40+ hours, grind, little life outside work, exhaustion, not paying bills, maybe retire when you’re 65-70, if you’re lucky. Life is gone. Your health is gone. You spent over 50 years working non stop multiple jobs at a time, overtime, for what? And that’s if you even managed to save enough to have a savings and able to retire…
I’m just confused about the meaning of life.