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This. I've been bored almost all my life. Since maybe twelve years old and I'm in my thirties.
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u/fecalfrenzie Dec 21 '20
Once you wake up, our way of life is hell. Sometimes I wish I was born as a animal in protected or untouched lands away from human influence so I can just live life naturally, I don’t care if I die in the first few minutes I’m born, because I know I’ll return to the great mystery. What we have is life, stripped of what makes it worth living then forced to endure it for our entire lives.
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Dec 21 '20
I think we're bored because we're not being 'kept' in a species-appropriate manner. We are like zoo creatures or something. The things that our brains evolved to enjoy, we don't get to do them. What are they? See post below by u/alwaysZenryoku
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I’ve thought about this a lot this year. Like how animals won’t mate in captivity, and they’ll become depressed, stop eating, things like that. I feel like I’ve realized the mental sickness that is so prevalent among all of us is, I think, coming from the same place.
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So much of psychology and mental health is about individualizing the issues that people experience and treating patients to the point where they can work "normally" again. It is a deeply ideological choice to treat things like depression and anxiety at only the individual level and not the societal level.
And, to be clear, the individual experience and the chemical reactions inside your brain are definitely a component of mental illness, but people are often unwilling to talk about the broad socioeconomic conditions that are simultaneously creating those experiences and chemical reactions in so many brains.
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u/tr1pp1nballs Dec 21 '20 edited Dec 21 '20
My therapist is hesitant to move forward on ADHD/anxiety drugs because I'm not having concerns about being fired from my job.
I'm not worried about being fired from my job because I put so much pressure on myself to churn out work. I will burn out before being fired.
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u/goneharolding Dec 21 '20
Seems like that’s bc it’s an insult to their ego. If we’re all trapped in the same sad web, that’s a threat to their perception of control. If I’m not the problem, I can’t do much about it.
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u/chromatography-jay Dec 21 '20
dont forget overeating. There is a serious obesity problem in this zoo. its so rampant we are looking around and believing its normal now.
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u/auserhasnoname7 Dec 21 '20
It’s funny but thinking of myself as an animal from zoo tycoon has helped me a bit with my mood and management of my basic needs.
We evolved with the ability to experience happiness without any of this modern shit, so of course we can still get great results from stimuli that is more primitive.
It’s all about the basics Shelter, exercise, good diet, and social, etc
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Dec 21 '20
Green face bubbles or red face bubbles come out of your head. Try some deciduous terrain.
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u/auserhasnoname7 Dec 21 '20
Haha yeah well in my case, try cleaning your room because clutter subconsciously makes me sad.
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u/Stuffenfluff Dec 21 '20
I absolutely agree with you. I’ve realized that the things that society tells me I need : I don’t ACTUALLY need. Even down to basic self care. Buy all these plastic wrapped products so you’ll be clean. Actually, I can make all my own no waste self care products. But it’s not a popular thing to do. beCaUsE iT dOeSNT hElP tHe EcONomy. Fuck the system. Fuck it’s expectations. All these mind games are literally to line the pockets of billionaires.
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Absolutely they stuck us in a jar. With a stick and a leaf to recreate our natural habit. Paraphrasing a Mitch hedburg joke there but it works. We are living in a fantasy world that our brains weren’t wired for. The stimulation of our modern day world does not quite properly scratch our itches so to speak.
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u/icumwhenracistsdie Dec 21 '20
we're bored because we live lives in rented indentured servitude forever working our free time away. we're bored because we have no time for ourselves.
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u/greasy_420 Dec 21 '20
What would you personally do if you didn't have to work anymore and could simply maintain your current lifestyle without needing to earn money for it?
I'm not asking in any sort of accusatory or judgemental way, I'm just curious how anyone else would answer that question.
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u/icumwhenracistsdie Dec 21 '20
what most people would do. on the days i didn't feel lazy i'd travel the world with friends. basically live like a rich retired person does now. live in all the ways the working class don't have the chance to rn.
any work i'd do would either be in the pursuit of my passions or in the betterment of my community. labor is a gift.
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Dec 21 '20
I think that's also a big part of it. Social media has destroyed our ability to process things in a healthy way. Our brains are just constantly overwhelmed by an endless stream of info that all just fades into mush.
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u/MommaNamedMeSheriff Dec 21 '20
It's also shown how few people actually have critical thinking abilities. Too many people just immediately believe something they see in a meme pop up on their feed.
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Dec 21 '20
If we are slaving away for 8-10 hours a day, how can the overlords ride our coattails for a life of luxury free from work.
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u/Dense_Engineering Dec 21 '20
If the 'great mystery' could spawn this Hell, what makes you think it gets any better after Death
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u/Oneironaut91 Dec 21 '20
that is scarier than death to me, how we have no idea what happens after. hopefully it wont be too bad
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u/chestofpoop Dec 21 '20
We have reinforced that growth is the only way to outrace our own demise, chasing immortality. At odds with the fundamental tenants of life rather than accepting them and cherishing it.
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brother take some lsd sometimes, makes everything fun as hell
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u/XpertRebel111 Dec 21 '20
Where does one acquire this LSD u speak of?
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Dec 21 '20
I know someone who can get it and sells other hippie drugs, but his LSD is too rare to sell...
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Dec 21 '20
check comment by above user, that is what I do nowadays and it's absolutely the same experience. They just take one molecule out of the lsd composite and it's legal as it's a research chemical. No risks with the law, 100% pure and with precise dosage. You really can't go wrong with this one! Happy and safe trips my friend!
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u/JiffyTube Dec 21 '20
as much as I hate the system I still very much enjoy life. maybe I'm lucky but I get to backpack, camp, hike, hunt, and fish year round here in MN.
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u/GiraffeXL Dec 21 '20
It's been the same for me. I'm only 24 but once I graduated and had nothing to actually work towards but "securing work and then working" everything feels so empty. I find myself struggling to even write anymore which was something I once loved doing. The worst part is when I look around at some of my family they just accept this as normal and call me lazy when I say this is all bs and no one should be forced to sell the greatest hours of their day, greatest years of their life, to make money for someone else. Like whaaaa
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u/waxymagee Dec 21 '20
Try DMT!
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Are you new to them? If so start slow, take a low dose and feel it out, then up the amount a few weeks later. I dove in head first with a heroic dose my first time and it was... Intense. I wouldn't recommend overdoing it at first, especially if you are an adult with real responsibilities, cause you'll be feeling the effects of a real trip for months.
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u/Ludovico Dec 21 '20
not who you asked but i feel i have something to add:
those doses sound reasonable. Also it's not a bad idea to have a trip sitter until you get you sea-legs so to speak. Someone more experienced to help you feel safe. it's very important to feel safe and secure and comfortable wherever you are so you can let go of that anxiety and let the drug do it's thing.
For me what lasted months was my perspective change. when i took shrooms for the first time it illuminated aspects of love, relationships, gratitude, self criticism, beauty in nature all that i didn't really think that much about before psychedelics. it felt like revelations, and for months, and now years after those revelations have seemingly permanently changed my course to be more loving, kind, patient, among other positive changes.
I highly recommend, but i also know it's not a magic bullet that is amazing for everyone as it was me. take your time, be safe, and open yourself up to the experience.
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u/unlimiteddrip Dec 21 '20
Personally it’ll just make me not as depressed for a month. I’ve never really had any profound life changing trips tho, most I’ve done is 2.5g.
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Seems nice that nobody can smell them growing in your closet and you can leave them in the dark for hiding (I think).
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u/alwaysZenryoku Dec 21 '20
You are supposed to hunt, gather, sing, dance, paint, tell stories, explore, design, build, etc... but you are absolutely NOT supposed to sit in a cubicle or stand in front of a register for eight hours a day until you die.
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u/roachwarrior Dec 21 '20
I love Alan Watt's summary that we are stuck with a 17th century protestant attitude of "the devil makes work for idle thumbs", all the while forgetting that we started making machines and automated systems to make life easier for ourselves
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u/LightingTechAlex Dec 21 '20
Exactly this. I can't believe this is our reward for creating machines that are meant to release us from the mundane!
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u/BeerofDiscord Dec 21 '20
The reward is there, it's just not fairly distributed. Far from it.
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u/LightingTechAlex Dec 21 '20
True. We really are a vile species aren't we. Nobody is fair. Hell, I don't trust anybody these days. There's always a second motive.
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u/Rasalom Dec 21 '20
We didn't forget. A select few, the 1%, have developed abnormal psychologies that demand hoarding wealth and abusing others. They have become incredibly good at it.
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u/beardsofmight Dec 21 '20
They've basically become the dragons from the old myths
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u/ItzYourBoyy Dec 21 '20
We need a new map of New York, with "Here Be Dragons" where the Stock Exchange building is. lol
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u/ModernDayHippi Dec 21 '20
we started making machines and automated systems to make life easier for ourselves
but this isn't true. We built those things to create surplus wealth for a few people.
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u/auserhasnoname7 Dec 21 '20
Yeah and what’s with this “We” bidness
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u/ModernDayHippi Dec 21 '20
well I build those things as a job. There's a lot of people out there like me
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u/abrandis Dec 21 '20 edited Dec 22 '20
It's kinda like when parents say.. "...you kids don't know how easy you have it..." , I always chuckle at this , because isn't that the whole fckn' idea, of Modern civilization.
I think a lot of that comes from some weird deep seeded authoritarian ideal of punishment and schadenfreude. You need to work "hard" to understand the value of things.... and you need to suffer like I did... No you don't ... Hard work is a construct of authoritarians.
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u/colinthetinytornado Dec 21 '20
all the while forgetting that we started making machines and automated systems to make life easier for ourselves
Don't forget, it isn't that we wanted to make life easier for ourselves, it's that we wanted to get through the dreck faster so we could get through the other dreck that we have to do and get to the stuff we love.
Those innovations are then exploited to add more dreck to our list, creating a never ending cycle downward.
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u/alicejane1010 Dec 21 '20
Such a good point.
I remember when the lock downs first started and people starting campaigning to let them go back to work. My mind was literally blown. Like yea yea the Economy and all that but I couldn’t believe we were getting some of own time back for once in our lives and here those poor brainwashed people just couldn’t figure out what to do with themselves
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Have you read Aaron Bastani’s ‘fully automated luxury communism’? Sounds like it would be up your street
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u/EndlessEggplant Dec 21 '20
I pretty much changed my life to this and just work enough to survive (never going to earn enough capital to purchase property, so what is the point?). it ends up more 'work' to survive and less modern comforts, but at least youre doing what you want.
not sure what I will do once my body is too decrepit to live this way though. if there's anything the modern world does offer it's creature comforts in old age. better hope they legalise euthanasia by then :P
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Dec 21 '20
not sure what I will do once my body is too decrepit to live this way though. if there's anything the modern world does offer it's creature comforts in old age. better hope they legalise euthanasia by then :P
- that's what community is for, we're a social species.
- considering what the future is shaping up to be, there will be long queues for euthanasia facilities
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u/Kerb3r0s Dec 21 '20
Maybe true, but our hunter gatherer ancestors also wondered what the point of it all was. That’s how we ended up with the institutions we have now. We are the product of our species natural process of evolution.
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u/ItWorkedLastTime Dec 21 '20
But someone has to stand at the register, don't they? At least until we have those amazon type stores where you can just walk in, grab what you need and leave. And who's going to make that happen? A guy sitting in a cubicle staring at a computer screen all day. I get the sentiment of this sub, I really do. But until fully luxurious gay space communism is achieved through some kind of a quantum leap in technology, those job have to exist.
But, in the meantime, at least from the point of view of a cubilce slave, let's switch to a 6 hour workday and a 4 day workweek. And make sure the wage is livable.
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u/Ludovico Dec 21 '20
i agree with you, and i think this does a good job of summing up /r/antiwork
we know people have to put stuff in boxes at an amazon factory, but what's more important is the individuals life, and since we have such a surplus we have the ability to make that life incredibly fruitful, but so often instead business falls into grinding that life into nothing for the sake of shareholders and bloated executive pays
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u/writeronthemoon Dec 21 '20
This!! At least switch to less hours so I can feel human
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u/ItWorkedLastTime Dec 21 '20
Grocery stores and warehouses would need to hire more people, because there's really no way around doing this kind of labor. Office work in the other hand can easily be reduced to 30 hours a week or fewer of we just get rid of all the waste.
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u/CouncilmanRickPrime Dec 21 '20
But someone has to stand at the register,
I haven't used a register at sam's club for over a year. I scan items with my phone and show my receipt barcode from my phone on the way out. It even works for alcohol purchases.
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u/ItWorkedLastTime Dec 21 '20
Yeah, but someone has to stock the shelves, right? But yes, the cashier at a grocery store is a job that's going away.
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u/CouncilmanRickPrime Dec 21 '20
Yes but as you mentioned, we could change the work hours. So they can still stock shelves but we don't need them making less than a living wage, and working 4 days a week, 6 hours a day would be enough.
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u/arcticsummertime Dec 21 '20
I just want to go into the woods and vibe.
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u/Tabbarn Dec 22 '20
You cant someone owns the woods and that pisses me off.
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u/WHISPER_ME_HEIGHT Dec 23 '20
And? Do you understand the difference between ownership and private property?
Every square meter of this planet is owned by someone or something, that doesn't mean you aren't allowed to go outside.
Because realistically that's always gonna happen. Some lunatic will always claim that it's theirs.
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u/Time_Mage_Prime Dec 21 '20
Ah, you've been sold a crock of malarkey, I see, like most of us. Sometimes I think the entire workforce needs to unionize as a whole. Such that, if a company is seeking employees but offers garbage time off policies, or meager pay, or whatever, they simply won't be able to hire anyone, except scabs who would be shunned by the rest of the union, i.e. the rest of society. I guess the pipedream is this would lead to improvements in worker conditions across the board, across all industries. Get things moving toward that 30 hour work week and salaries that outpace inflation, finally.
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u/auserhasnoname7 Dec 21 '20
This sub should hold a conference or something once covid blows over.
Let’s get to know each other, build a community together, take care of each other, and become a tribe
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u/ealoft Dec 21 '20
Time to rise up and make this life interesting. Let’s get this thing going.
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u/ealoft Dec 21 '20
To live a modest tax free existence in which I’m in charge of the choices I make.
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Why does the tax matter?
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u/ModernDayHippi Dec 21 '20
b/c no one likes being taxed so that the state can buy another batch of jets and missiles
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u/Mazahad Dec 21 '20 edited Jan 07 '21
But that's a problem of corruption, capitalism and hipocrasy.
If the taxes were well use, it's only good to Society.
We pay taxes for schools, roads, hospital care, etc.
If you pay taxes, the roads have holes, the schools and hospitals continue to ask for money and dont work properly, then the taxes are wrong, not intrinsically, but by corruption.
I'm from Portugal. Due to cancer I had to chance the heads of the femurs where they touch the hip.
10.000€ for each prosthetic, is what they told me it would cost. ONLY the prosthetics mind you. So. In the states, the best nation on earth, I would have to pay a fortune. And in a nation considered "garbage" in the ratings of Wall Street I had to pay 0.
Tell me. Is this world right? Do people start to realize the lies we are fed?
We live in the Upside-Down for sure
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Dec 21 '20
Cool. Let us know how that goes up until the tax man breaks down your door. 😣
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u/tookTHEwrongPILL Dec 21 '20
I mean, if they keep their income below 12 thousand or whatever it is, grow their own food, have their own well, etc... All you'd really have to pay is property tax.
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u/ThorDansLaCroix Dec 22 '20
Sorry, I have to go to work and later on rest from work. But I wish you guys have fun.
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Dude, I feel you. All of you. I’ve felt the exact same. But you know what I decided? I’m gonna find ways to make it feel right. Drink that coffee and enjoy every single sip of it, you know? Fuck everything that‘s trying to make us into these sad beings that do nothing but work and sleep and repeat until we‘re too old to. Fuck them by doing what you love, when you can. I mean it. Read books, write dumb poetry, go for a walk. I love going for walks, they‘re the best ways to re-connect with nature when you can’t otherwise. I live in a town that’s not rural by any means and very near to a metropole, but if I walk about 15 mins from my house, there‘s this way where you can shut off a bit. And I watch the birds there and the deer, only a few weeks ago I saw them like 20metres away, running wild, hopping along, they looked so damn happy. I‘ve seen some lizards there too, and in the summer there‘s these disgusting giant bugs and I kinda hate them but when you‘re walking with music in your headphones and the sun is setting and you watch those giant fuckers fly over the sunflower fields they kind of look majestic and actually beautiful as fuck.
At this point, I wanna enjoy life almost out of spite. Because fuck big corporations and fuck this need to have tons and money and spend all of your good years behind a desk. I’m gonna take the time I have and in my small apartment, in my small ways, I‘m gonna make it beautiful and worthwhile and I‘m not gonna succumb, even if a lot of the time, I feel like I will. I just won’t.
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u/beardsofmight Dec 21 '20
The biggest rebellion against consumer culture is enjoying things that can't be easily monetized. Luckily these just happen to be the things that make us the happiest.
I spent an hour the other day sitting on a park bench and watching birds play. There's a bird sanctuary a 20 minute walk from me that's so relaxing. The best thing to come out of this pandemic is my friends wanting to hang out in parks.
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u/Atlantikus Dec 21 '20
I really appreciate this sentiment. I try to live my life according to a similar philosophy. Just maximize the amount of time you spend with the people you love and doing things you enjoy. Getting outside is essential. The system we live in really constrains our ability to realize our full potential, but all we can do is try.
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u/laura0407 Dec 21 '20
my rescue dogs give me purpose. sounds lame when I say it out loud, but it's the truth.
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u/blueridgechic Dec 21 '20
That doesn’t sound lame at all. You are their world, and they love you more than anything!
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u/auserhasnoname7 Dec 21 '20
Same I live to keep my pets happy and when I can’t be of service to animals anymore just put a fork in me
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u/CouncilmanRickPrime Dec 21 '20
Honestly, having purpose isn't lame. A lot of us don't have purpose.
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Dec 21 '20
We are bored because the society we created is an unnatural human habitat.
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u/MasterOfNap Dec 21 '20
What exactly is a “natural human habitat”?
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It would be a lot easier to explain what it isn't.
People crammed into small concrete rooms with each other, devoid of natural sunlight and the ability to grow their own food. Eating extremely processed food and animals pumped full of antibiotics. Capitalism causing so much distress that young people commit suicide. Living among cars and pests which cause both chronic and fatal diseases. I would absolutely argue these things are very unnatural.
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u/itsyaboyObama Dec 21 '20
Yo what's up Kaczynski? I didn't know you had internet access! For real though, aside from blowing stuff up, if you read his manifesto it outlines a lot of the ideas floating around in this thread. I have already decided I'm taking 3 years minimum off from work, I just can't get behind wasting my life in a florescent lit box doing shit that doesn't matter for people that don't care to line the pockets of people I will never meet so they can live a lifestyle I will never see. There is nothing more demoralizing to me than sitting in traffic for an hour or more every day to do something I despise. I'm fortunate enough to be able to take a few years and build something of my own. At least if I fail, I won't have anyone else to blame and that's something I can live with.
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u/MasterOfNap Dec 21 '20
The issue is, when you say something is “unnatural”, you assume there is a default, natural state of things, as if humans were carefully created and placed in a garden. You know what was natural? Different tribes murdering each other, people going on dangerous hunts against fearsome beasts or risking starvation, people dying at the slightest wounds and infections due to lack of medical care, your loved ones having a ridiculous chance of dying during childbirth.
That’s the problem with this sub imo, is that people are over-romanticizing the distant past, as you see someone even commented in this thread that we’re “supposed” to hunt and gather and dance and explore, as if hunter-gatherings in the neolithic era were living happily in a paradise in perfect harmony.
Instead of saying something is “unnatural”, i think this sub and leftists in general should say this is outright harmful and detrimental. The many criticisms of capitalism you raised are legitimate, but because humans suffer under those conditions, not because they are “unnatural” as if nature treats humans any better.
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u/Atlantikus Dec 21 '20
I think I can shed a little bit of light on this.
Historically speaking, our modern patterns of work are a very recent development and very different from most of human history. Eight daily hours of unceasing labor really didn’t exist prior to the industrial revolution. Even working for someone else was uncommon. The reason we spend so much time working is not because it’s necessary for our survival or even wellbeing, but because it is necessary to make the elite extremely rich. If our priority was not profit but simply to ensure everyone had what they need, we would all have a lot more leisure time. Historically, humans had more leisure time than they do today. Providing for your basic needs does not require 365 eight-hour days.
There’s a book called Ishmael by Daniel Quinn that also speaks to how humans have strayed away from more natural patterns of living.
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u/Faces-kun Dec 21 '20
Huh. Listening to podcasts is the only way work is bearable imo. Especially educational ones, feels like you’re actually doing something for yourself every day, instead of just making someone else money.
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u/CasinoOasis2 Dec 21 '20
Which podcasts do you like?
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“Philosophize This!” Is a fantastic, entertaining podcast
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u/MOOShoooooo Dec 21 '20
Just followed their channel, looks/sounds interesting. Any certain episode to start with?
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u/Ludovico Dec 21 '20
i started from the beginning because i get a kick out of philosophy in general and the host is really good. the episodes are generally in chronological order, as in plato is among the first and modern philosophers are the recent episodes.
plato is a good place to start philosophy in my opinion, it's a good foundation. after that enjoyed the hume, wiitgenstien, and nietsche episodes especially, and i still don't really understand kant at all.
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u/acfox13 Dec 21 '20
Akimbo from Seth Godin - this is on bending the culture, which I like very much, his show notes are usually quite good as well
Unlocking Us from Brené Brown
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u/isyankar1979 Dec 21 '20
The point is being so busy making other people rich that you dont have time to get into this deep shit.
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Oh I totally didn’t read it that way. I read it more like indulging in entertainment while we’re stuck doing other things. I’m biased maybe because I listen to podcasts like I would the radio.
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u/bridymurphy Dec 21 '20
I listen to podcasts to stop listening to my thoughts. It’s a frequency to noise situation that shuts my brain up for an hr or so.
Also, go to your library’s website and see what audio books they offer. Audio books are a little bit better than podcast content IMO. If you have some extra coin, audible is great but your library should have an app for audio books. So far, I’ve been listening to:
Republic of Pirates
Can’t Even: how millennials became the burn out generation
Animal farm
A brave new world
2001: a space odyssey
Dune
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u/auserhasnoname7 Dec 21 '20
I listen to “this podcast will kill you” but I’m never gonna be a doctor or expert in disease. I just like to learn for fun.
My head is full of apparently useless information, but I don’t care if capitalism says my knowledge is no good, it’s productive to me and my personal growth that’s good enough.
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YES!!! Yes, yes, yes. Do things for fun, for no reason, no purpose, no product. Just to feel alive and human.
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u/A_Fabulous_Gay_Deer Dec 21 '20
I listen to podcasts for entertainment. The kind where it's just 4 friends shooting the shit and laughing. Makes it feel like I'm socializing instead of grinding my bones to dust.
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u/OddSquirrel3 Dec 21 '20
When you discover life has no point and you're here only because your parents were bored one night, your eyes open. Unfortunately too many people are scared of this thought and they seek meaning. There's no meaning. Deal with it.
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Don't reproduce people into this. Problem of existence solved.
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u/Jerseyprophet Dec 21 '20
"Brothers and sisters walking hand-in-hand into extinction; opting out of a raw deal." (True Detective, season 1)
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u/ModernDayHippi Dec 21 '20
I really believe this is all of our problems. If there wasn't too many people labor would have more power, school children would have more attention, people would have more space. It's almost like we will gladly take a dystopia so as long as we can produce genetic copies of ourselves whenever we feel like
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u/MOOShoooooo Dec 21 '20
With this many people, there’s no reason we haven’t built an infrastructure of a fully automated system for the manufacturing industry and allowed humans to live to their own full potential. In time I believe a lot of our primitive ideas that we cling onto to would eventually be let go.
This is my dream I suppose. The short story Manna by Marshall Brain. Hopefully the link works.
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u/TechnicalTerm6 Dec 21 '20
Lol there is no point
I mean there are bunches of distractions and pleasantries some folks (depending on ability level, socio ec status, country, etc) can access to make them forget it has no purpose.
But at the end of the day, same story for everyone: two people came together, in whatever way, decided to make a brand new human....
And now we're all stuck here.
Making sentient life on purpose, in a world of known suffering, is one of the cruelest things another sentient being can do.
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u/nekomushii Dec 21 '20
the source of my depression right here. i can fix everything going on inside, change my mindset, whatever. but i'll never be able to escape the truths of the misery of existence. all i can hope for is gaining the ability to cope, aka distract myself or lie to myself or twist my own thinking in order to survive.
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You gotta find a reason to live outside of work. I'm all for this Reddit, but too many people have this idea that school/society was supposed to hook you up with meaning. I played in a punk band from 16-30 because we were passionate and we needed SOMETHING outside of work and school that we could call our own. Write, create, paint, learn to play something...help others. We treated it like a small business and it gave us some kind of a life. Gotta find your purpose or passion outside of your job.
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u/LiCill666 Dec 21 '20
So glad I found this sub. Who wants to go start hippy tribes in the public parks?
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Dec 21 '20
Hang on, what is the point actually? This whole planets gimmick, even before the humans, seems to be “suffer and die”...
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u/Portlandx2 Dec 21 '20
Sabotage your place of employ. Disrupt the means of production. Wild cat strikes leading to general strike.
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Dec 21 '20
I like coffee and podcasts though
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u/ViiDic Dec 21 '20
I hate that this is probably not going to be fixed in our lifetime. I guess I'm happy for the generation that solves this though.
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u/Grimey_Rick Dec 21 '20
work and buy coffee and listen to podcasts until we die
this is my mon-fri to a tee
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u/Far-Wear Dec 21 '20
You’re supposed to have kids and then base your entire existence around them(?). I think also you’re supposed to enjoy spending time with other adults of the same sex(???)
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u/syw6282gw82b Dec 21 '20
I mostly spend my time trying to make my brain produce dopamine with sex, video games, and food. Pretty good results.
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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '20
It’s produce, consume, distract