Originally Posted by The Batlord

The stakes kinda sorta don't matter. Accumulation is an irrational instinct based on experiences we had when we were still worried about having enough food for the day as poo flinging apes. It's an instinct built over millions of years which a house or a substantial bank account do not satisfy because the instinct is too primitive to understand what those things are or that it is possible to have enough for any kind of extended period of time. You might as well tell that instinct that you've watched enough television because guess what, that instinct insists that you haven't watched enough television cause it doesn't understand what television is or even that there's a difference between television and food.

Originally Posted by The Batlord

That's literally my life and I don't understand how it's supposed to be more fulfilling. The only thing I can think of is doing something to make life more novel. Like learning to sail and sailing around the world to keep each day as novel as possible.

Originally Posted by The Batlord

That's literally my life and I don't understand how it's supposed to be more fulfilling. The only thing I can think of is doing something to make life more novel. Like learning to sail and sailing around the world to keep each day as novel as possible.

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

I’d rather numb out on Xanax than feel it. And the Soma is only going to get better.

Give me AC, Xanax, ambien, and my phone, and a private room - **** a purpose - **** real interaction - **** sunshine and exercise

I can ride it like that for years too

I wouldn’t have wanted to spent my youth like that but from 45 on sure

Read a couple chapters, listen to a record, watch a show, post some bull**** on here, eat cereal take a nap - it’s very much like what Huxley predicted

Originally Posted by elphenor

I'd vote for Trump

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by jwb

you should absolutely do that

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by The Batlord

Yes, we've established that like five, six, seven times. The point is that meeting whatever can be considered "post-scarcity" as an individual solves only scarcity. And society has no solutions for dealing with how to be a human being living a post-scarcity lifestyle beyond giving you pretty milestones like a nice car, a nice house, and 2.5 children that it doesn't know how you should raise. Besides of course corny religions and self-help books.

And this is why school shootings increase by the month.

Originally Posted by elphenor

I'd vote for Trump

Originally Posted by The Batlord

Yes, we've established that like five, six, seven times. The point is that meeting whatever can be considered "post-scarcity" as an individual solves only scarcity. And society has no solutions for dealing with how to be a human being living a post-scarcity lifestyle beyond giving you pretty milestones like a nice car, a nice house, and 2.5 children that it doesn't know how you should raise. Besides of course corny religions and self-help books.

And this is why school shootings increase by the month.

Originally Posted by elphenor

destroy hierarchies

Originally Posted by elphenor

I'd vote for Trump

Originally Posted by The Batlord

Thanks for the useless encouragement. It's always helpful.