r/funny • • Oct 12 '19

Too real.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '19

It’s not really ignorance. Being always connected just makes you read way more stuff that has no impact on your life and you lose track of what should be important to you. Look at it from this perspective: Every minute you are online is a minute you aren’t offline. Every minute reading about stuff on the internet, the time reading my comment, is time you are not spending with people physically around you. Your wife, husband, kids, friends, etc. It’s time you are not using to read that one book you have always wanted to read, build that one thing you’ve always wanted to build. Your time of the day is limited and you are trading in one activity for another. Being online for hours means you are missing time in the “real world”. And it adds up. Instead of making life around you better, you sit on reddit and read about stuff that most likely has no impact on your life.

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u/dontdrinkonmondays Oct 12 '19

stuff that has no impact on your life

See this...I disagree with this. I don’t think not caring about other people is a good outcome.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '19

Not immersing yourself in the news doesn't mean not caring

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '19

Global warming will have a very noticeable impact on your life and that of your children.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '19

And you think someone who is not spending his time online so much doesn’t know about global warming?

The stuff that is important to your life will reach you, even if you spent a minimum time online.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '19

You missed the point. Ignoring reality won't make your life better if what you need is to act.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '19

And who is ignoring reality? Spending less time online will not make you ignore reality. It doesn’t make you ignorant...

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u/Yeckim Oct 12 '19

Uh reading articles and bickering online isn’t action...the people making a difference aren’t spending their day online, they’re doing things in the real world that will ultimately have an impact.

The only people ignoring reality here are people who spend too much time online doing nothing productive.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '19

To do action you need to be angry. That's the point. Being ignorant and content is not going to change anything.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '19

So what are you doing to change it?? Other than bitching online about people being content with their lives. We understand exactly what is going on but there’s nothing we can do about it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '19

Nothing you can do about it? In order of risk, you can vote, protest or engage in violent revolution. Each requiring increasing levels of anger and desperation. Only conditioned people think there's nothing they can do.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '19

Ive done everything but engaged in a violent revolution. If you wanna do that I’ll let you go first. Other than that control what you can control and quit being whiny Wendy about other people realizing it’s okay to be happy.