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by 77pt77 313 days ago
Not only is it human, it's far more general than human.

The world is not what you think it is. Social problems are almost never a result of improper social systems.

The game you are playing by virtue of existing is just shit and no amount of "rules" you build on top of it will ever change that fact.

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It's not what I see. I go out and I see people helping each other, people having fun and taking care of the environment, social justice being discussed at the government level. I'm Brazilian though so I might be biased, but I think I prefer to be an idealist than a defeatist.

If the world is like what you say it is, shouldn't you just drop dead? Thinking like this is like committing philosophical suicide anyways, if you can't imagine a better world that's worth fighting for, even if it's just in a thought experiment.

This learned helplessness is by design, not by nature, so you don't question the status quo and keep working to make the elites richer without realising it's killing the world.