Auto-SummaryThe author expresses deep dissatisfaction with their life and the modern consumerist culture, feeling marginalized and unimportant. They believe that constant consumption is destroying the environment and that people are more concerned with material possessions than genuine human connections. The author criticizes western culture as arrogant and destructive, advocating for a more meaningful, self-reflective lifestyle. They feel alienated and disconnected from their friends, family, and society, and believe that the current cultural mindset is detrimental to both individuals and the planet.
Cognitive_Shift said: I don't have anything positive in my life. I go to work for some shit job, i'm told by my co-workers i should go out and buy the latest thing i don't really need... I'm supposed to go out and consume MORE and and work to consume MORE... when in reality all of this consuming is destroying the very fabric we care for. We need to be consuming LESS.
I don't think there is hope for MY future. I might matter to my friends and family, but do they REALLY care about me??? Prolly not. They care about me because of things i provide them emotionally and physically. No one even stops to think i am a human, i'm a complex biochemical machine. A marvel of nature... now im marginalized as just a name and picture on facebook. I'm marginalized by my government as just a social security number in a computer. That my life experiences are marginal, and the only life experiences that have value surround materialism.
I'm simply in a constant state of suffering with intervals of false happiness perpetuated by this idea that i will be happy if i keep consuming all this shit i don't actually need. What i need is a loving relationship with family and friends. People who care about me because of me... the same way i care about people because of who they are, Fellow man.
I find western culture to be a bunch of arrogant assholes who claim they are so smart and innovative, yet destroy our home (nature) so they can have a bunch of toys they play with for a couple months and throw away, and ends up god knows where. Maybe washed up on the shores of far away beaches so we can turn a blind eye to the problem at hand. That our western culture is a cancer on not only humanity but to the entire world ecosystem.
I just wish people could take time away from their mindless 9-5 jobs and actually do something meaningful with their lives. Explore questions for them selves instead of relying on other people to know it for them. The more technology increases and people can do what they want instantly... the more i realize the true nature of my "friends" and "family." Deep down they really don't give a shit about me, i'm just there to keep them company. These are just my family and friends... let alone the general public, i'm just a consumer to possibly something to make money from to them. Nothing more. It's pathetic... and everyone is sitting by and watching it like "everything is okay." Well everything is not okay. We are selfish pieces of shit and nothing to be proud of. There is this cultural notion of self congratulation that we can do this and do that... but we can't even do the most basic human desires... To actually care about people because they are apart of your community, and whats better for community is better for you. But in this competitive capitalistic society where everyone is a competitor or a potential business partner, we no longer become what we are. Gregarious primates sharing a life experience based on this giant mystery of the very nature of our biological being and the life around us.
We figure that fucking everything else over and not exercise, become obese, diabetes and heart disease with the most important part of the day as watching some television show that fills our minds with big steamy piles of shit... and IT'S OKAY!
It boggles my mind people don't even think twice about what they do, and figure "it's okay, it will all work out in the end." Well guess what the end looks pretty fucking shitty... and it's too late to do anything about it.
reading this latest post I am more feeling you. I feel exactly the same. DE fukin pressed. My feeling is feeling like alienated, but also feeling part of the groups of people under attack by mindsets which seem totally cut off from nature in every way.
The way I have gone to try and dig whats going on--as also a form of self-healing (so i dont go completely fukin insane) is looking for the roots of why this is. Why this world we're born into is like it is. And I started looking at myths, because myths are what people follow and whats gets drilled into you from being little, and THE myths that have cut os off from feeling a deep belonging in nature and with our bodies and senses have been traditional religions and scientific materialism
it is GOOD you DO feel depressed because this means you can FEEL what is going on and dont pretend. You know things are fucked up and rightly so are depressed. You can make an analogy with a relationship. Say your in a relationship and it has become destructive. You can pretend it isn't, or you can feel depressed, realize it is due to the relationship and then do something about it. The pain we feel is the natural reaction to a cause OF pain. But in THIS culture the pain we feel because we feel oppressed is blamed on us. WE are said to be 'mentally ill' and should get 'treatment' or stop moaning etc.
But getting so-called trweatment in the way of suppressing drugs, and/or suppressing how we feel ourselves STOPS us from acting on the depression. IE>, like in a relationship where you have to face whats up so it is withour relationship with this cultural oppression. What are you, me, going to do about it. What can be done?
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