Yeah… let’s tear down the system and replace it with something that’s soul enriching instead of soul sucking
Y they gotta be blac tho fr fr
You won’t have superpowers, but nothing is stopping you from fighting cartoonish villains.
Or becoming one for others to fight
yeah but that would involve him getting off his ass to do it
The food bank is right there in your town looking for volunteers.
Too many is worse than none
I mean Elon is right therr
Um the police/fbi are specifically there to stop people from fighting their cartoonishly evil masters. And you aren’t really considered a hero for doing that.
At least you’re cleaning. I can’t even manage that
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Oh I wish I was. I used to keep my apartment really neat but now I haven’t cleaned in almost half a year, place looks like a humanitarian crisis
“It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.”
Diane Nguyen put it perfectly:
I guess I had my happy ending, but every happy ending has the day after the happy ending, and the day after that.
There’s no single happily ever after because there’s always more time, until you die. So just keep living as if you’re already in it.
Absolutely. Don’t wait until some future time to be happy. Find the enjoyment in what you have now.
Funny thing is, expectations that some cool fantasy things could exist are there because… you consumed a lot of media at some point.
Welcome to Buddhism.
Bela Koe-Krompecher spent a lifetime in Ohio’s vivid music and arts scene, with all its ups and mostly downs. I really like how he expressed this sentiment, both in his blog and in his awesome book “Love, Death and Photosynthesis”:
Nobody got famous, nobody ever really made a dent in any product counting mechanism like Billboard, The College Music Journal or MTV but we loved and cherished one another as if our lives depended on it, night in and night out. What we discovered was the result wasn’t the prize; the prize was the friendship and the making of art for fuck’s sake.
I’m not an artist myself, but I used to hang out a lot with a bunch of them. Maybe because of this, another quote of BKK resonated with me:
Our world was small but it opened up the universe where ideas bounced off of one another like bubbles in beer, we would have one ingenious idea flowing after another without a filter to identify the logical of said idea. Huddled around empty bottles and amplifiers the stage of the world was in the basements and living rooms of our lives.
It’s getting harder as you get older, and the same old stories you share ring more and more repetitive, but I still go out my way to stay in touch with my childhood and university friends, and sometimes I think, it’s the only thing that keeps me from going completely bitter.
BTW, I stumbled upon BKK’s story on the great “Local Waste Music” podcast which I heartily recommend.
Society is, for now, somewhat optional
Move to northern canada (possibly illegally using a tourism visa and just not leaving) and go live in the Yukon or Northern Territories or something. The woods will be your community. It’s too big and too expensive to find you, but you may struggle to find food.
Real. Ngl I just do weird shit just to keep going. Drugs, alcohol, self harm, binging happy anime, porn. I wish I died. But at this point the addictions want me to live to experience another hit.
Brain chemistry is a bitch, my friend. I am an indulger as well. But I’m trying to be less so.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Thoreau, Walden
”and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats”
According to Brittanica, muskrats are in the same subfamily as lemmings! I think Lemmy has its new motto.
I love this! Except it won’t take because it starts with “musk”.
Depression
No shit?
That might be a symptom of depression, too
Or not enough fiber
Por que no Los dos?
80% of 4chan
That is sadly when unpolished reality truely hits.
There is no unpolished reality… depressive thoughts are not more real than happy thoughts even though it might be convenient to assume so sometimes.
That’s an opinion, I believe, that a lot of people share.
Both ends of the spectrum are delusional, sure. But the effects of these delusions, in the world around us, differ.
In my own limited experience, the more “rose tinted” end tend to overlook potential problems, if not completely ignore them, more often.
But there are problems. A whole heap of them. That is what I see as unpolished reality. And acknowledging it is important, if we would hope to do better.
Yeah, it is a problem on both ends. If you get too far on the jade end, you acknowledge the problems, sure, but you lose all motivation to do anything about them because you believe it’s already too late.
And might start acknowledging problems that aren’t real problems.
I mean, this is still being studied…
And it will never stop. But interesting read thx :)
I make video games as a hobby. Ya gotta find something you really enjoy doing outside of your job.
It’s all in your perspective. Look up at the stars and the amazing things space has to offer. We aren’t all that’s out there in the universe. The universe is much more wonderful and strange than you can ever imagine.
Lucretius (a follower of Epicurus) pointed out that if you can’t be content with just existing, getting more out of life won’t actually make you happy. Yeah, being a wage slave sucks, and we need to liberate ourselves. But we also have to learn to just be happy with being, or we’ll always be stuck running away from ourselves.
Find better hobbies. Consume information, and then use that information to create. There are so many free resources if you are willing to look. Find friends who make those drab moments fly by. Talk to a professional if you legitimately cannot find the joy in anything. If you see parts of your world that could be changed for the better, then be a part of that change. Who cares if you’re just one person? What were you going to do with your time instead? Jerk off and shitpost?
No one is the secret heir to a magical legacy, but that doesn’t mean we can’t make the parts of the world we inhabit as beautiful as possible in the time we have.
Sorry to derail this, but I really wish Rise of the Skywalker was about this instead of what we got. Last Jedi brilliantly deconstructed Star Wars and the Hero’s journey, leading to “we don’t need to wait for a chosen one, we can all be the change we need in the world”, but instead we now have a broken trilogy.
My instinct not to watch the last one was correct, then?
Anything to make the sequel series more consistent would be better than what we got. Trilogy has gotta be 3 parts to a story, not 3 separate visions 🥲
No mention of other people. Antisocial behaviour
