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I personally would like society to be offended
Wow, rude.
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Whoa!
Just give society social media and in a decade they will be offended by everything.
I found everything offensive back in -83.
I sleep 18 hours a day and haven’t been outside in months, save an emergency hospital visit where my DNR was ignored. I don’t smoke this fentanyl on accident and these crooks keep reviving me
Of all comments ever posted, this most certainly was one of them
Give me the link to your SoundCloud, these lyrics go hard
What the fuck is that?
I work every day and dont do drugs but i feel the same
I get this sentiment, but the best way to combat this feeling is to build community.
Get to know the people around you. It starts small by just ditching the headphones in public and saying hello (and maybe some small talk) every time you encounter someone. Then start offering and accepting help, plan events, and keep track of their life milestones. People will be so pleasantly surprised when you remember things about their lives.
And you will probably be surprised at how many interesting people you pass by every day while keeping your head down. Over time, some of them will begin to reciprocate. Remember, they are probably also starved for community.
Capitalism wants us isolated, sad, and reliant on their products/services. The antidote is strong community.
build community.
That sounds horrible. It’s just society with extra steps.
It’s actually fewer steps. Society is just late-stage community.
Our brains evolved for living in groups of ~30-100 people. These communities are small enough to all know and support each other through life’s inevitable struggles. A healthy society is made up of thousands of these smaller, tight-knit communities, not just millions of individuals.
Our brains are not happy alone—not for extended periods. Reducing all our social interaction to anonymous chats (like this one) and passing hundreds of nameless faces does not fulfill your social needs and will leave you feeling lonely.
It is work, and you will encounter people that suck and/or won’t reciprocate, but if you keep at it, good people will reveal themselves. I promise it’s worth it.
I’ve been told that humans need community and social contact, but when I was living in the woods for 18 months, only really interacting with my remote coworkers, and spending my time doing yard work and home improvement I was at my happiest and healthiest.
Honestly, even seeing hundreds of people a day is my idea of hell.
You don’t need to know well all those dozens of people; it’s just more about not being total strangers. We would ideally have 1-3 very close friends and then a slightly wider circle of the next ring, and so on.
I would say your level of exclusivity is very rare. Few people can tolerate that little contact for that long. There is certainly a middle ground for everyone’s satisfaction and it’s great that you found yours but the majority of friendless society is lonely. Maybe you jive with your remote coworkers more than other people do with their regular company.
Nope. Dealing with coworkers is a mask I’ve rehearsed for decades.
This is the way.
This is also how Mormon churches work, last I checked; they’re called “wards,” and when a single ward grows to >500 members, they split off into two wards, to make sure everyone knows each other decently enough (probably to make sure they’re all tithing regularly and crap, but without such a sinister agenda, that can legitimately be a beautiful thing).
Capitalism wants us isolated, sad, and reliant on their products/services. The antidote is strong community.
I whole-heartedly agree, and yet it is virtually impossible to do such a thing as “build community” at this point, at least in the United States. There is like a pervasive anti-community dark magic / anti-matter sort of thing
Capitalism wants us isolated, sad, and reliant on their products/services. The antidote is strong community.
Thank you. This is what I’ve been telling people. I’m currently trying to build community as we speak - so far, it’s great. But a lot of people are set in a more isolated mindset, so it’s tough to “jailbreak” people out of this.
Thanks for sharing a more optimistic take in this thread. 🖖
Eh very much offense to society though
You don’t have to. You can literally just walk off into a forest. It probably won’t turn out well, but you can still do it.
Sorry, that forest is owned by a corporation and you’re trespassing. The angry men with guns are here to see you out.
Even in the US the majority of forests are owned by the government and accessible to people. In Europe you can roam even in private forests (right to roam). Otherwise, Canada, Alaska or Siberia are big enough that no one will ever find you.
Depending on what country you live in, you can’t, actually.
My father worked for the U.S. forest service and part of his job was kicking people off of wilderness and national forest land.
I listened to a documentary about that Grizzly Man dude who got eaten by bears in… Alaska, I want to say. Maybe it’s different between states, but they had a rule there that you need to move along once a week if you’re camping.
Yup. Where I grew up it was two weeks.
That said, as long as you lay low, be careful about any campfires, etc. you can likely hide for a very long time.
For sure. I mean in the end I think that rule is for your own safety and to make sure you don’t disturb nature too much or make it inaccessible to others by hogging spots.
Even in the documentary, the dude had a harangue about someone having left a note at his camp, like, “See you next year!” which was obviously meant as a well intentioned “Hey, we know who you are, we know you’re here, we’re not gonna make you move, please be careful <3 / Park Management” which the dude interpreted as a threat and an act of hostility but the dude was not right in the head and he got ate by bears and I have no clue why I am talking to you about this.
:)
Maybe I will! 🥺
I prefer interacting with my online gaming community more than my neighbors.
Cs2 solo queue is a more pleasant interaction than my neighbors
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black lives matter stealing land from honest working Americans now!?
/s
part of me thinks when doge looted the coffers for the bureau of land management they specifically only referred to it as BLM so that the dum dums actually thought what I said above.
How do you get money for stuff?
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Ah, that’s cool that you’re able to save enough to do what you want to do (Assuming you’re happy with your situation).
That’s what parallel societies are for!
I want to keep living in society. I just want to live in a society that doesn’t have the current cancer we’re seeing.
Do you put the cart back? Do you use a vehicle blinker correctly? If have not you may not have ever participated to begin with.
Well they do use the toilet rather than just shit anywhere. So there’s some expectations that society is gonna be there for them.
Sure. They also leave bottles of piss in the parking lot since its too much trouble to throw them away.
With those two incredibly low bars you eliminated like 30% of people around me every day, which is a good way of illustrating how insufferable it is to keep moving through this society
Find your people, and stop participating all together as a group!
Where are my people? And how do I find them? I feel like finding just one like me to spend live with took all the luck I had. Now we’re just weird with no other friends like us
It’s not easy, I’m sorry to say. Sometimes it’s easier online. Offline can depend a lot on your location. Even in a city it takes a lot of effort on your part. Put yourself out there, join clubs or political organizations. Maybe even something you don’t already know you like. If there really isn’t anything out there, try to start something! I’m currently trying to start a couple clubs. I’m not advertising too publicly, since I want to be a little more selective. When I meet people I think might be into it, I invite them to the Signal chat where I organize meetups.
Fun fact, part of what we’re going through in the U.S. today is being heavily driven by antisocial troglodytes in big tech companies who genuinely believe that you and everyone you love (or even remotely like) should die so they can get on with building utopia!
Idk, I’d personally like to do everything I can not to emulate them or help their goals succeed. That’s just me.
I was antisocial before it was cool. they are emulating me if anything.
besides, I’m not going to be something I’m not just because some rich assholes decided to make it their whole evil plan.
Sadly their version of utopia an underground vault with workers to do all the dirty nasty work while they live in luxury and complain about anything that bothers them.
I mean at this point fall out is looking to be a documentary from the future.
There’s a massive, massive difference between introversion and antisocial personality. One can be a shut in and not be anti-social. One cannot be antisocial and function as a healthy member of society, and like it or not we need society
antisocial
What you say is true, and yet there’s something more deeply unsettling. The ideology and founding of the U.S. is at its core anti-social. So is the competitive economy (and so on). It’s a dog eat dog structure of things, not just a few dip shits in the <1% (although it is that too)
At this point, they can have it. They just have to figure out how to upload my consciousness to a computer, load that computer into a von Neumann probe, and fire me off into space. Yes I like the Bobivers series. I’d kick back a few rocks to mine on my way out to pay my way, then take off and start exploring.
In the realm of possibility just give me $10 million so I can invest it and live off the dividends. I’ll build a nice three bedroom house and keep to myself and just work on things that actually interest me instead of working to survive. They can have their hellscape utopia, I just want to be left alone.
welcome to the group!
stay over there…
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Everyday when you’re walking down the street And everybody that you meet Has an original point of view
And I say HEY! (HEY!) What a wonderful kind of day. If you can learn to work and play And get along with each other
You got to listen to your heart Listen to the beat Listen to the rhythm The rhythm of the street Open up your eyes Open up your ears Get together and make things better By working together!
It’s a simple message and it comes from the heart Believe in yourself (in yourself) cause that’s the place to start (to start)
And I say HEY! (HEY!) What a wonderful kind of day If we can learn to work and play And get along with each other. Hey what a wonderful kind of day hey! Hey what a wonderful kind of day hey!
Okay!
