| If you have not read this piece, I recommend it: https://www.themarginalian.org/2017/03/17/diseases-of-the-wi... > The situation is far more serious: question everything. Someone who thrived at life or work to a satisfying enough point will always tell you something - nihilistic like "it does not matter", - or reaffirming like "that's a lot of stuff to write about, no matter how many people write about it" - or "that's a lot of stuff to deal with, are you in a state to work any of these inquiries problems?". - or they tell you all the above combined in the form of "that's where we are and there's reasons why and how we got here. Where do you wanna go?". In either case you are left with sticking to the prescribed reality or you say fuck it and go down any of the spiritual and or occultist rabbit holes. There's enough narratives for billions of lifetimes. When it comes to our online experience, the main questions are: how big or small is your network and how deep or shallow are the connections. Whether something is real is easier assessed in cooperation; as is whether and how something useless can be turned into something useful. But it all works solo just as much, except in cases where doubt is warranted, which is when more heads traverse more data, connections and patterns in less time. We found our inquiries entirely on our backgrounds and the motivations of our psychosocial (low base death growl in the back of my head intensifies) environment, which is, by definition, almost always, perfectly average. They don't take any of the things you mentioned serious because they haven't been negatively affected by any of it for at least one and half generations. 60 - 70 %, maybe more, of the population live by the narrative created by swarm intelligence and the gratefulness of having a comfy enough place, spot, role in that swarm. They will, passively or actively, support those who convince them of what is necessary to keep that place, spot, role comfy enough. In the end, these people and that process alone, is responsible for the current state of civilization. |
Too limiting. Make one's assessment to the best of their ability and satisfaction, which is all one can do, and then act out that reality for better or worse. Learn academically or via hard knocks self deception, or never learn and experience a life an anguish. Which is all anyone and everyone does anyway.