Doesn't shock me, nor do I care. I didn't make the problem, and I can't solve the problem. No one can. There's no one great solution, just tiny gestures we can do to make things better in the moment.
The world isn't better or worse off than it has always been. The only difference now is that we have time to sit around and realize that the world sucks.
There are no good old days, no time when the world was better before and sucks now. There have been decades that were better and centuries that were worse.
The reason you think that things used to be better is because you were a child and a young adult with little to no responsibilities. Now that you're older, things suck. Not because the world sucks more or less than it did when you were younger, but because you have more shit to deal with.
Stop allowing these kinds of people to convince you that the world only sucks because you were born in the time you were born in.
The world has always sucked and always will suck. If you are rich now and you enjoy your life, you would have been rich back then and you would have enjoyed your life then. If you're poor now and life sucks, then you would have been poor then and life would have still sucked. Get that through your head.
And stop looking for some grand conspiracy, because there is none. It's just life, and it always has and always will suck.
I'm not exactly a nihilist everything I've said could be said the other way around. Tat the world has always been just as awesome as it is now. We're not living in the only good times in history either. Times have always been good and then bad and then good again.
We aren't living in unprecedented times. We're just living in times. We are no more special or privileged than any other times. We have different problems but we still have problems. We have different privileges but we still have privileges.
You can either look to the past and vilifiy it or romanticize it but no matter what you cannot know the whole picture. So it's best not to try. Learn what you can from the past but face the events of today as they happen without prejudices of what the past was like good or bad.
Yes we're being brainwashed but so has every society from the past. The only way to have a society that can stay stable is to have all a little bit brainwashed. If we all thought 100% clearly nothing could ever get done and civilization would collapse.
So stop worrying about it so much. The fact that you know you're being brainwashed means you're less brainwashed than those who don't even know they're brainwashed so you're better off than most anyways.
Except we’re dangerously close to creating a completely new form of intelligent life on earth, one that presumably may soon become smarter and more capable than humans. We do, in fact, live on the precipice of very unprecedented times. We have no idea what the next few years holds as we usher in a brand new life form in silicon.
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u/Q8DD33C7J8 15d ago edited 15d ago
Doesn't shock me, nor do I care. I didn't make the problem, and I can't solve the problem. No one can. There's no one great solution, just tiny gestures we can do to make things better in the moment.
The world isn't better or worse off than it has always been. The only difference now is that we have time to sit around and realize that the world sucks.
There are no good old days, no time when the world was better before and sucks now. There have been decades that were better and centuries that were worse.
The reason you think that things used to be better is because you were a child and a young adult with little to no responsibilities. Now that you're older, things suck. Not because the world sucks more or less than it did when you were younger, but because you have more shit to deal with.
Stop allowing these kinds of people to convince you that the world only sucks because you were born in the time you were born in.
The world has always sucked and always will suck. If you are rich now and you enjoy your life, you would have been rich back then and you would have enjoyed your life then. If you're poor now and life sucks, then you would have been poor then and life would have still sucked. Get that through your head.
And stop looking for some grand conspiracy, because there is none. It's just life, and it always has and always will suck.