The internet is a mirror, it reflects back what you put into it.
Of course, some people want to inject politics into every single thing that we do, and some people want to inject bad lessons into everything we do, but you can use it to learn math, science, crafts, skilled trades, you can learn about literature, history, philosophy.
On the other hand, you should eventually step away from the screen, and go do some of those things that you learn about online. My beloved Soviet canuckistan is presently an Arctic hellscape, but when we end up getting our 37 minutes of summer, I intend to go out and play with a new kiln I bought for firing pottery and melting different metals.
Earlier today I made a post about the concept that the state owns you as opposed to you owning yourself. If you own yourself, and I think that most people should want to, it ends up becoming contingent upon yourself to come up with plans. The world is an adventure, there is so much out there, and so many things you can do without a penny, but just as you said, you need to get out of the house in order to actually participate, and you need to put in the effort to find those exciting things because no one else is going to do it for you.
In Plato's allegory of the cave, is the understanding of the forms which releases you from your bonds and sends you into the wilderness, but I think in postmodern society it is actually embracing your personal autonomy. For many people, if they see you doing something that they don't like, if they hear you saying something that they don't like, if they think that you think something that they don't like, and they get all of their opinions and actions from someone else so they don't need to and don't get to choose their opinions or their actions on their own, and they see someone else thinking for themselves and acting for themselves, and of course it enrages them because they know what they've lost even if they don't understand it.
All materialists are wrong -- if improved material conditions was all it took to be happy, then we should live in the happiest era in the history of the world because we have more stuff and nicer stuff than ever before in our lives. What it takes to be happy is something metaphysical, perhaps the satisfaction of creating something worthwhile, of sacrificing and seeing that sacrifice come to positive fruition, becoming better than you were yesterday and being able to look at yourself in the mirror and realize that you are a better person today than you were yesterday, or participating in a real life community that provides social stability to everyone within it and your role being important to many other people's lives and you know it. The people who are happy seem to be the ones who are chasing those metaphysical things rather than more material possessions.
Another thing along the same lines though is that there is a group of people who think that the key to fulfillment is trying to change the entire world, and many of those people are among the most miserable people on earth so I think that that tells you something as well -- that what really matters is making changes that actually affect your life or the people around you or the people that you actually care about, and if you try to take on the entire world and you aren't the sort of generational power that can go out and actually do something like that, you're just going to be even more miserable.
Of course, some people want to inject politics into every single thing that we do, and some people want to inject bad lessons into everything we do, but you can use it to learn math, science, crafts, skilled trades, you can learn about literature, history, philosophy.
On the other hand, you should eventually step away from the screen, and go do some of those things that you learn about online. My beloved Soviet canuckistan is presently an Arctic hellscape, but when we end up getting our 37 minutes of summer, I intend to go out and play with a new kiln I bought for firing pottery and melting different metals.
Earlier today I made a post about the concept that the state owns you as opposed to you owning yourself. If you own yourself, and I think that most people should want to, it ends up becoming contingent upon yourself to come up with plans. The world is an adventure, there is so much out there, and so many things you can do without a penny, but just as you said, you need to get out of the house in order to actually participate, and you need to put in the effort to find those exciting things because no one else is going to do it for you.
In Plato's allegory of the cave, is the understanding of the forms which releases you from your bonds and sends you into the wilderness, but I think in postmodern society it is actually embracing your personal autonomy. For many people, if they see you doing something that they don't like, if they hear you saying something that they don't like, if they think that you think something that they don't like, and they get all of their opinions and actions from someone else so they don't need to and don't get to choose their opinions or their actions on their own, and they see someone else thinking for themselves and acting for themselves, and of course it enrages them because they know what they've lost even if they don't understand it.
All materialists are wrong -- if improved material conditions was all it took to be happy, then we should live in the happiest era in the history of the world because we have more stuff and nicer stuff than ever before in our lives. What it takes to be happy is something metaphysical, perhaps the satisfaction of creating something worthwhile, of sacrificing and seeing that sacrifice come to positive fruition, becoming better than you were yesterday and being able to look at yourself in the mirror and realize that you are a better person today than you were yesterday, or participating in a real life community that provides social stability to everyone within it and your role being important to many other people's lives and you know it. The people who are happy seem to be the ones who are chasing those metaphysical things rather than more material possessions.
Another thing along the same lines though is that there is a group of people who think that the key to fulfillment is trying to change the entire world, and many of those people are among the most miserable people on earth so I think that that tells you something as well -- that what really matters is making changes that actually affect your life or the people around you or the people that you actually care about, and if you try to take on the entire world and you aren't the sort of generational power that can go out and actually do something like that, you're just going to be even more miserable.
Isn't that the dude who made a bunch of 80 iq comedy movies?
Maybe he should just stick to that....
Maybe he should just stick to that....
I like chai tea lattes (can't speak to Starbucks mind you, not a huge thing up here)... If those are gay, it's like the gay who does your interior decoration and helps you pick out a suit.
"not like me, John Bolton. I could be a great dictator. Look at all the dictatorships I helped.set up throughout my career!"
Worst hiring decision Trump ever made, and he's made a lot of them.
Worst hiring decision Trump ever made, and he's made a lot of them.
On Lemmy there uses to be a server called wolfballs. Now I understand why some people would block wolfballs back then, it was in some ways highly partisan leaning heavily right... It had lots of the content that wasn't allowed under most other instances.
But here's the thing: that instance shut down before 90% of instances today existed, like a year or two before the great reddit migration. So the admins of those instances don't even know what a wolfballs is, they just blocked a site that doesn't even exist and has never existed at the same time as their own instances. I feel like it's "I was just following orders to fight the bad guys!"
Anyway, it makes me thankful for all the chill people I can hang with here. Sit down with me 15 years ago, 10 years ago, and 5 years ago and you'll be talking to a different person each time with fundamentally different beliefs in some areas (not everything, but my life is so fundamentally different than it was 15 years ago, if I were to hold on to every single piece of who I was back then, it just wouldn't make any sense). Really thankful for all the people who are coming with me on my journey to try to understand the world and understand myself, and some of the dumb things I say along the way LOL.
But here's the thing: that instance shut down before 90% of instances today existed, like a year or two before the great reddit migration. So the admins of those instances don't even know what a wolfballs is, they just blocked a site that doesn't even exist and has never existed at the same time as their own instances. I feel like it's "I was just following orders to fight the bad guys!"
Anyway, it makes me thankful for all the chill people I can hang with here. Sit down with me 15 years ago, 10 years ago, and 5 years ago and you'll be talking to a different person each time with fundamentally different beliefs in some areas (not everything, but my life is so fundamentally different than it was 15 years ago, if I were to hold on to every single piece of who I was back then, it just wouldn't make any sense). Really thankful for all the people who are coming with me on my journey to try to understand the world and understand myself, and some of the dumb things I say along the way LOL.
I'm sometimes surprised at the number of people who feel the need to block me.
It's like.... If you feel the need to block some middle of the road Canadian maybe public discourse isn't for you. Maybe you should go journal instead.
(But hey, my blocklist is still empty)
It's like.... If you feel the need to block some middle of the road Canadian maybe public discourse isn't for you. Maybe you should go journal instead.
(But hey, my blocklist is still empty)
I mean, it's a giant Pink billboard so maybe for the sort of people that a giant Pink billboard is meant to appeal to it is. Along with the entire Middle East...
Tankies don't hate cops, they just want the cops to work for them. It's in the name.
"it's not often a company builds something and tells you not to buy it"
Laughs in film industry
Laughs in film industry
Ngl, if it was over 9000 degrees in the afternoon and air conditioning won't be invented for another 500 years I'd siesta like a motherfucker.
I mean, the US federal government was supposed to be the most strictly limited government on earth and look at it now. I think it proves you right. Hence why libertarianism can only be a platonic form of itself, it is immediately going to be sullied upon contact with the outside world.
I'd assume it would be a blanket thing. I dunno, wouldn't sign an NDA, and my hearing is still good enough I couldn't work with crowder.