I'm sort of a leftist, but basically, I've long given up interest in the possibility of a better world. I used to be regular on here, man, growing up. Then I left, have had a normal life, formed opinions, come to understand how fucked up our world is. The political deadlock, the omnipresence of violence, the cruelty.. I find myself at the other end. Transgression for its own sake. Directionless anger. Revolutions come and go. Shit is the same. From the earliest sacrificial myths to the rigity of today's science, shit is the same. Oh, great, we can choose between brands of smartphone, between a few trades, between restaurants... I find myself thinking that no matter what changes, I'll never be content.
Fuck all the piller noise, it's all repetitive, sulky ideology and fragility. It leads nowhere. Critiques of the void spilling out from more void. I need a newer, stronger black pill, one that could cure the world's ills and convince us all to stop reproducing. And one to convince me to stop fearing death. A stronger opiate.
Am I the only one who feels this way?
Connor Jackson
*rigidity
Fuck
I am so tired
Nathaniel Hernandez
I have an alternative for u op
David Sanders
>ideLOGy
Isaac Sanchez
Develop yourself. On one grander scale maybe the ebb and flow of politics seems pointless. But more localized to you, the world can be altered. There is some truth to magic. As above, so below.
Jack Sanders
Nigga what
Daniel Campbell
Hahaha Mhm Yes, sacrificing my personhood for the will of an ideal, totally gonna fix ALL my problems
Partly i agree with you, but self-development is this narrow field, it hearkens to a dream of an oceanic feeling before the void and ego boundaries alike, and these are all mere.. permutations of void I have studied many forms of transcendentalism I'm not satisfied by any myth of eternal return, any old ontology which holds some pure form, eidos, over the world of experience
Brayden Parker
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Carter Ross
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Lincoln Cox
There's two types of people who espouse that sort of nonsense.
The clinically depressed and the narcissist.
Nathaniel James
It's all supposed to lead nowhere. The only way to find a balance if if there is conflict between two sides
Hunter Mitchell
Yeeeep I am both What do i win
Juan Taylor
Nothing, you lose until you sort your life out. Then it'll be easier to sort your head out.
Juan Powell
But balance does not address or mitigate struggle, balance in the political just displaces it, distributes it according to a logic of its own Balance is an empty concept, the world of the political cannot be self-actualized or smthn like that, which is why it should be abolished I dont even have the energy to spread the word anymore
Sebastian Brooks
You know what I recommend?
Fuck the pill metaphor. Just let it go, no more memes. No more ideologue demagoguery. Recognize the world for what it is still; kingdoms with no rigid structure. You already made it that far realizing the trends and flux in society. Things are seldom as they are sold. Just keep walking. It's all you can do, just like the peasant and the thinker, the slave and the hunter.
Find your meager mundane poisons, drink them in moderation, leap across some ponds, and when your sun has set, lie ever still under the foundation. Or, do anything else.
Connor Price
Beautiful.
I only wish I had the courage for some Absurdism. Maybe I can get there in time.
Isaiah Nelson
Its easy to think balance is meaningless, but really it's the path that has the least struggle. I used to always wonder why the popular votes in presidential elections nowadays and a bit before we're pretty much 50/50. It's because society naturally creates a balance. Balance is all around us, and it isn't just political.
David Jackson
Time is all it takes, and it always seems to be the case that time is all we have in the end.
Jayden Price
We can always talk about balance when we hide from the violence running beneath our feet keeping it all afloat. This is blindness. Struggle itself is authentic, or would be if it could overreach balance and persist, and it can't in any existing system.
Time is the whole model for our interiority, it's true. The running substratum, the form and content of our being. I just wish the end of time wasn't always implied by our experience of time itself. Death, many deaths. But yes, maybe in this time we can reach something better for ourselves, even if it doesn't extend to others
