Registered: Jun 2003
Location: City, Country format
I noticed Western life is becoming more and more fucked up.
-Breathe shit.
-Eat shit.
-Work all day.
-Bad sleep.
-Everyone around you is a phone zombie.
-Girls are becoming crazier every day.
-Fake social justice while people are actually more rude to each other.
It seems like every western city or wanna be western city is like that or trending to be like that.
Jun-19-2018 09:42
r5a
snake inverter
Registered: Dec 2003
Location: Toronto
quote:
Originally posted by DJ RANN
You know, none of the industrial pictures bother me, but images of things like pigs in tiny breeding cages (and the like) have really started getting to me and making me question if I want to eat meat in the future. I love meat it but I'm struggling these days to reconcile how we treat animals.
me too man. ive heard theres some really hard to watch documentaries on the whole meat industry like earthlings that would probably turn me to vegan.
im just hoping in the future they can figure out a way to synthesize meat so it tastes/looks the same. get on it scientists
Jun-20-2018 17:55
r5a
snake inverter
Registered: Dec 2003
Location: Toronto
quote:
Originally posted by Viber
I noticed Western life is becoming more and more fucked up.
-Breathe shit.
-Eat shit.
-Work all day.
-Bad sleep.
-Everyone around you is a phone zombie.
-Girls are becoming crazier every day.
-Fake social justice while people are actually more rude to each other.
It seems like every western city or wanna be western city is like that or trending to be like that.
welcome to the byproduct of an "always connected" social generation. pretty sure if facebook/insta/snap/twitter didn't exist the world would be better off
Jun-20-2018 17:57
wotyzoid
it's not house
Registered: Apr 2007
Location: New Jersey
Hold the phone, the problems we face today do not stem from our connectivity. What exactly are you implying? Millenials are to blame for the declining quality of life in the west?
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: On a spit of sand we call Earth
quote:
Originally posted by Viber
I noticed Western life is becoming more and more fucked up.
-Breathe shit.
-Eat shit.
-Work all day.
-Bad sleep.
-Everyone around you is a phone zombie.
-Girls are becoming crazier every day.
-Fake social justice while people are actually more rude to each other.
It seems like every western city or wanna be western city is like that or trending to be like that.
This is true
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Jul-07-2018 22:13
SYSTEM-J
IDKFA.
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Manchester
It's the choice of the individual to stare at their phone rather than read books, to work like a robot and piss their money on cars and gadgets rather than live a modest life, to get caught up in social media competition rather than keep to themselves. The majority of people have no engagement with the conditions of their own existence, and then they blame the system when they end up miserable.
ah, the rare swamp devil has been photographed. the black bird looks almost like the poultry i get from the sewage plant
edit: the black bird is naturally camouflaging- not to be confused with oil or tar. also known as the negroanas cockpecker
Jul-08-2018 03:53
wotyzoid
it's not house
Registered: Apr 2007
Location: New Jersey
quote:
Originally posted by SYSTEM-J The majority of people have no engagement with the conditions of their own existence, and then they blame the system when they end up miserable.
Here is the heart of the fucking thing. Thanks Jack, no sarcasm.
Why do we do this? The individual is supposed to be the most important piece of this fucking chaotic system. Yet we beat him, criticize him, don't pay him enough, let him go without an education, put all of the responsibilities of the world's problems on his back... It's the individual that doesn't recycle, that drives cars and polutes, that is the fuckwit that doesn't get off their phone and doesn't read. It's his fault he lives in misery. Why?
Life has been a struggle in every human civilisation and every epoch under every economic system throughout history. The heart of the human condition has always been for the individual to navigate the challenges of work, money, love, friendship, health and try to find balance and contentment. Most people aren't up to the task and they never have been. Capitalism is never going to go anywhere when the vast majority of people blindly pursue its materialist ideals without questioning them.
As sound as an assessment that is deep inside I feel like the line of thinking is a cop out knowing what we know. We have to be more active in criticizing failing systemic structures and norms we know exist that hinder the individual and do not propel him/her.