The Malaise

Does anyone else feel profoundly bored - or even disatisfied most of the time?

By any standard, I'm reasonably successful. Bought my first house at 24, am married to a great woman, I even have my dream job now, and am a member of a local church.

But I feel restless and unoccupied. Everything seems so stale - from work to social interactions. It all seems superficial and meaningless. I feel like I'm being strangled every day by mediocrity.

I can't stand going online anymore, which was always a way to escape for me when I was younger. Everything I read is driven by some agenda. Nothing is sincere. It's all running an angle - desperate demands for cash, moral outrage or judgement, lies and propoganda. The suspicions we had about the media were proven correct in the election - they're lying conmen trying to reshape our world. And they're only a step above the 'entertainment' industry, that disjusting collection of pedophiles and perverts that preach from ivory towers. All they produce is regurgitated filth, and the feckless morons around me lap it up. "Reee what do you mean you haven't gone and seen Justice League user." The whole society reeks of thinly veiled mental illness and hubris to me.

Tell me I'm not the only one. At this point, I'd love to go back to Afghanistan.

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Get into wood and metal working.

Use your hands and make yourself tired everyday from making things.

have children

I actually suck at arts and crafts. My job actually centers around creativity, so it's not like I don't have an outlet for that. I also do work around my house (thanks to winter raping us yearly).
Thanks for the suggestion though, appreciate it.

I'm modifying cars out of my driveway for people. Not in the least bored. Get a hobby bruv

That is probably something we'll be doing in the next year and a bit.

I am a complete fuck up, like it's not even funny. Yet I very often have experiences that feel extremely meaningful because I am literally crazy.

It's like my brain has a shortcircuit to religious experience or at least some kind of psycho-active state

Cool stuff.
I've always had a couple hobbies. I'm huge into photography, I do some boxing as well and play the violin. It seems like it's getting harder and harder to do them though.

Not sure if that's a blessing or a curse lel.

You sound like a miserable fuck

blow the heads off some local niggers

(through blowjobs, that is, not headshots)

I vent my pent up rage by leaving sarcastic comments at the bottom of news articles. Would recommend

Yeah I get it kek. I'm really not though. I do have some friends I see regularly and I'm well respected at work. Very close to my wife. I guess I just am having a difficult time living a static life maybe.

Flag - yeah that checks out.

Why go to Afghanistan? You have enough muslims to play with back home. People in the past close to their invasions had to fight them since childhood until the day they died, if they wanted to escape slavery.

I doubt they had the time to feel the malaise... You have plenty of pedo muslims to play with back home.

I occasionally do that, but the amount of drooling retards ready to cry about offense is utterly cringey.

>You have enough muslims to play with back home.

Not really. Canada has a handful of muslims, and they congregate in the cities. I live in a small city, quite literally 95% white.
It's also a bit more up north, and up north in Canada it's all whites and some natives.

I stare in a mean way at foreigners every time I see them on the street or hear them talking
Once some commie group was handing leaflets, I tore it in front of everybody else

Get land. Become self sufficient. This is the only true way to live your life. Most people are bred from it. It is in our genes.

>You have plenty of pedo muslims to play with back home.
I tried this, but they said I was too old

Try something new then. There is plenty to do and if you have a little cash then you got more opportunities.
Learn how to fix/modify cars or get into diecast collecting or model trains. Anything you can think of, try it out

Those three things are basically all I do with myself along the additional skateboarding shenanigans. Keeps me busy.

Your problem seems to be like you've got nothing to do when you don't have work.

>dream job
Lel. The human's natural state is that of hunter-gatherer. It doesn't take a genius to realize why people are so unhappy in the modern world.
>inb4 HURR ARE YOU SAYIN WE SHUD GO BACK TA LIVIN IN CAVES DUUURRR
Nope. Nice false dilemma and straw-man, though.

You need a hobby. Something preferrably creative. Pick up painting, carpentry or learn an instrument.

is pic related?

I feel the same OP. Have my own place and car, free and clear. Couple hundreds thousand in the bank but nothing I care to spend it on.

Already have a degree, but still have a free ride GI bill. Don't want to go back to school because liberal indoctrination.

Don't want to work because I don't want to feed the beast or subject myself to bullshit HR policies or have to pretend that incompetent fuck up women know what they're doing.

Relationships are a waste of time. Not stupid enough to get married. Pumping and dumping women damages your soul slowly.

Video games are SJW-infected shit these days. Even when I play great games from the 90s I'm just bored and know I'm wasting time.

Thing is, there's no productive endeavor to engage in that isn't serving evil in some way. And I won't participate in evil and falsehood no matter the benefit. No I don't believe judgment is coming. But right is still right.

Best post. I think you might be right.
I've talked about it with the wife before. Moving a bit further out of the developed areas and setting ourselves up. Thanks.

You're more or less right. Part of it is probably living in a small town in bumfuck nowhere. Not a lot going on.

>stare at foreigners in a mean way

If you're in France, doesn't that mean you're perpetually staring? Your eyes must be tired.

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Use your hands
Make things
Work with children
Make children if you see yourself growing old with this woman
Make children if you don't see yourself growing old with this woman
Walk innawoods often
Swim in the ocean
Learn zen meditation
Take up new hobbies
Indulge your desires a bit
Deny your desires a bit
Be at peace with what you cannot change; what you can, do. Spend some time figuring out the difference.
Run when you can; rest when you need it.

See A bit. Superhero movies annoy the fuck out of me for some reason, maybe because they're just this constant stream of garbage pumped out on a regular basis that normies lap up like pigs outside a slaughterhouse.

I think that might be right in general. I think that we're stuck living in a society that has overly fragmented 'work' so that we all are generally incompetent and rely on a huge network of support to get by.
Best of luck to you.

Goddam the feels.

All good ideas. I do some of them, some I need to do more often. Thanks.

I miss Iraq, a lot. 27 months in Baghdad. Going on patrol or a raid was the only time in my 35 years that I really felt "normal" and "happy". It's been over 10 years since 06-08, and I still remember it like yesterday.

>cucknada
Not many minorities where I live, but in some cities I'd need some really good glasses

You don’t have to offend anyone. When there’s an article about Russian bots I ask for more coverage of the Rohingya situation, and next time they ramp up the half arsed bullshit Rohingya articles I’m going to ask them for more coverage of the Russian bots.

Yw user :D

Here's a smiling deer, hope it makes you smile too!

Sounds like textbook reaction to the redpill, if anything. Interacting with normies post-pill is like talking to an empty vessel, there is no substance, robotic and their behavior and characteristics are painfully predicable.
Try and find like-minded people or you'll go insane.

That's a long fucking tour man. I only did 7 months in trashcanistan. Would still go back in a heartbeat.

I'm not sure that counts as advice but it IS pretty interesting.

Kek. I should really visit France before it's over run. Btw, yes Canada is cucked AF, but the ocean literally protects us. You can't walk here.

You are a top tier shitposter, I love it.

Thanks, have an uncle Jackie!

I grew up really conservative so I've been 'redpilled' for a long time. I'm definitely getting worse though. My socially unacceptable opinions are slowly starting to spill out into the real world.

It sounds like a meme, but study mathematics. There are tons of incredible mysteries hidden in the most fundamental mechanics governing reality, and they're all just waiting to be solved. You could work your whole life and barely scratch the surface of that bizzare and amazingly perfect structure and symmetry just beneath the surface of things. But even then, by leaving only the barest scratch, you've pushed all mankind forward for the rest of history in some small way. Unraveling and understanding some small part of the language in which reality is writ is among the most noble, challenging, and worthwhile labors a man can undertake.

>It sounds like a meme, but study mathematics.
I am unfamiliar with that meme kek. Good suggestion though, I haven't mathed since high school.

Wasn't all in one sitting. One 15mo tour in 06-08, and one 12mo in 09-10. Baghdad North / Taji AO.

JACKIE!!!!! Made me smile, thanks for that.

Hope you have a great day!

Still long tours for us lel. Ours are 9mo max, most rotos are only 6 months. Obviously we fielded a lot less people than you though. Some of the best people I worked with were Americans. First day I landed I remember loading some crypto in a marines MBITR since he didn't know how to do it kek.

Its a shame it can’t be like the good old days when the French just hated the English. The old ways are dying

You too user.

Sounds like depression if you ask me.

photography is not a hobby, its an activity. Its the point and click game of life.

every chick lists "photography" as a hobby

Fucking could be I guess. I'm certainly not going to see a shrink to be hopped up on pills fuck that.

Some women 'do' photography, but most of the amazing photographers are men, particularly landscape photography, which requires a lot of patience and is often physically demanding in its pursuit. I'm not talking about snapshitting my way though a meal or taking pictures of dogs.
Like I said though, I also play music, (classically trained violinist since 12) and I write, on occasion for compensation.

antidepressants are memes, yes. Studies have shown that they work only in extreme cases af depression.
Depression btfos your ability to derive pleasure from work, hobbies, life in general. That's how it works.
Do some research, talk to a shrink, they're not that bad. Tell him to fuck off if he suggests pills.

Men strive for adversity and conquest. Set some creativity and/or self-improvement goals and work hard to meet them.

Example: I was a fat shapeless lardass up until 30. Then one day after struggling for the x time carrying garbage food from Costco up the driveway, I decided I was gonna get fit and bench my weight. Now at 35, I'm pretty jacked and can bench 220lbs. There were struggles at first. Not just physical struggles but relationship-wise as well. The wife (we were both overweight at the beginning) started feeling insecure and thought I was going to leave her and the kids for some cardio bunny. So I asked her to come along with me to the gym, included her in my workouts, got the kids involved in fitness programs, and looking back at old family photos it seems we transformed into a different family in just 5 years.

Thanks. We do have people to talk to at work, so maybe I will. My ex-army buddy that became a cop recently did that and suggested I did too.

Congrats user, good job.
My wife and I are quite fit. She's a cardio bunny as well, and I do boxing and run quite a bit.
That's why I posted though. I'm not fat, or poor, or entirely unoccupied. I'm just a bit tired of it all.

You're right about adversity and conquest. Maybe getting to where I am has left me wondering where to go next.

>We do have people to talk to at work
I don't know about that. You never know how confidential that would be. Maybe i'm being paranoid but i wouldn't involve anything work related with personal issues.

I'm in the military. Those channels are prohibited from talking to your chain of command.

Read literature and take up book collecting. Also, get your wife pregnant.

ah ok, army doctors do keep confidentiality.

>Also, get your wife pregnant.
Probably will desu, just not sure I'd be a good father.

That's just what they tell you. They're not confidential at all.

How little time have you served, that you still believe the things they tell you?

Yeah they're pretty good for that at least. It can get tricky, because I've had subordinates that I couldn't help because I didn't know their situation. But for the most part it works. The doctors are often civilian, so they have no problem fucking off the chain of command.

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OP IS WHY WE SHOULD GAS THE YIDS. LET SLIDE THREADS FIRE YOUR HATE!

No one knows if they'll be a good father until they actually have a kid, and anyway you have a moral responsibility to have 2.1 kids since you can and are financially secure. Unless you're a race-mixer, of course.

>How little time have you served, that you still believe the things they tell you?
10 years nearly. I doubt you know more about the inner workings of the CAFs medical system than I do to be honest.

No we're both white AF.

>I can't stand going online anymore
Get a nice gaming PC and play competitive multiplayer games

I think I need to spend more time out of the house than in. Unfortunately the weather makes that difficult. Once it's actually all snow it'll be good, freezing rain is ass though.

Have a kid.

Oh I believe you. But you're still naive if you think there's true confidentiality in the military. You better believe that anything you tell them is going to be known by the right people if they found it useful. Maybe they can't openly act on it, but if they find it relevant they'll find other ways to act.

Become the leader of your local community.

kekcheck

Probably will.

You're not entirely wrong - like I said, I've been on the leadership side of dealing with someone having mental health issues.

Good point. That's definitely something I should look into aspiring towards.

Nothing has personality anymore. Advertisements, TV shows, movies, news broadcasts, talk shows, politicians, and all the art/media they use to identify themselves are so thoroughly optimised to make you buy something, adopt someone else's beliefs, or promote them in order to make them more money, that they all seem so insincere and soulless. Meanwhile, everyone is so focused on being morally virtuous that they have forgotten how to be good a good person. Everything is so impersonal. Nothing makes us more lonely than a room full of people.

This evades most people because everything is about pleasure, short highs and diminishing returns. Sex is so openly discussed people are forgetting it's meaning. Holidays feel more like filling in a checklists, designed to keep up appearances. Drugs are more acceptable than ever. Nobody is willing to make sacrifices anymore, instead choosing a comfortable life over a fulfilling one.

The instant gratification lifestyle has made it too easy to walk away. To the point where there’s hardly any community. Nationality doesn't exist anymore, it’s shamed. The family is dying. Gender, culture, languages have become a blur. People don't celebrate similarities and appreciate differences. Humanity has become a featureless soup that cannot identify itself. Worse yet, this leads to the foundations of society crumbling under a wave of apathetic egalitarianism.

Tribal animals prefer Tribal societies. The dream of decentralization. Where people and their communities rule and look out for their own. A time before people turned to big government as their first solution. There are ways to communicate with people around the world and still keep your community in tact, without interference of big governments of a small handful of controlling sociopaths in the world. Conscious thought is a powerful asset when people trust in each other and build societies that reward it. We need to stop giving our power away.

What's the weather problem that only snow works? You in BC rains or something?

Ontario. We get a lot of freezing rain. It's ass. Snow is better.
Have also been in BC for months at a time. That January rain boi, whew.

I've seen this before! Saved it on my tablet kek.

But it's all true, and it's exactly how I feel. Everything feels empty and plastic. Our tones are moderated, our language is policed - nothing is real anymore, just a caricature of what it once was.

You're alright Burger user, I know those feels.

Two broad options:
1. Give to others
2. Develop yourself

Giving to others could include having a big family, starting a charter or private school in your area, taking on a big civic project with vets, etc.
Developing yourself could include learning a language and culture and living there for a few months/years (Sanskrit and some part of India, for example), becoming a farmer/orchardist/rancher (mentioned above and highly recommended), delving into Christian religious belief (I assume you're Christian by background so why not take it seriously), learning a trade/skill/art and doing it well, starting a business and employing others, etc.

I feel ya.

>Does anyone else feel profoundly bored - or even disatisfied most of the time?

There is only one thing to do and that is to start being honest with yourself and does around you.

Become a terrorist.

This is The First Noble Truth. Now go on to the other 3.

Thanks for the ideas. I would really like to travel a lot more for sure, see some more of the world. I particularly like the idea of becoming more self sufficient. I am a pretty active Christian, member of their church, designed their website what not. It's a solid church.

No thanks FBI.

Mildly hoping this whole thing just burns to the ground. Maybe something better will come from the ashes.

Learn the ways of the pistol. You never know the joys of shooting steel until you try.

What sort of pistol? I've never used a revolver to be quite honest, but I'm super proficient with the AR platform, and am passably good with shotguns, the 84, LMG and GPMG.

I was the same. I was 24 and wagecucking for a successful wage at a chemical production plant. The malaise was suffocating. What fixed it for me was traveling. I became an English instructor and lived in 32 different Asian countries. I experienced just how different the world could be from America, in housing, in femininity among women, in concern over the well being of males, in everything really. It might not be the tier of exploration Columbus got to do, but I loved the exploration.

I'm back in America for another 6-7 months to finance my next trips abroad. I beat the malaise.

This comes to mind
youtu.be/InbLmw_x6jQ

Sometimes I think that. But we are worth the fight. Surrendering is the while agenda though.

Nice man, glad you got to experience that. My work ties me down to one place more or less, maybe I need to cut it off and sell my house and travel.

Learn to play the banjo. Not even kidding, get a skill and apply yourself to learning it every day and start the life long goal of mastering the fucking banjo. It saves your soul.

I'll give it a watch.

Yeah I'm not surrendering yet.

Get a new hobby, it's as simple as that.

Try RC cars, cheaper than actual cars and sometimes even more fun. Look up local groups, whether it be short course racing, rock crawling or anything.
If you're more outdoorsy, I recommend crawling.

Look it up, man.

>bored

user, wtf?

How are you bored when there's new vidya and anime released every few months?

I work like 60 hours a week. Those are available 24/7.

It's worth the time. It talks about how people in the west have withdrawn into secluded, materialistic, pointless lives.

Oh and I almost forgot, try to be competitive. Join competitions and get your drive to succeed going. That kills boredom like nothing else.

Thanks for link :)

I'm a violinist. Always wanted a mandolin though kek.

That's a problem around here. There's not a lot of people kek. But I do need to hike more for sure.

Vidya and anime...They're only good in moderation, and they're not productive. They are merely consumption.

Saved it, gonna watch later.

We have a new boxing gym opening in January, hoping to start there soon. Should help a lot.

As misogynistic as I am, some of the GOATs are actually women. Abbot, (((Leibovitz))), Arbus...

Career transfer to an intelligence agency. Everything's more interesting when you realise why they're really happening; and I'm not talking about Sup Forums's "JEWS AND NIGGERS" magnum opus.

>NEET, the post
Get a job, LARPing faggot

Have childeren....