Modern culture is awful, LOTS of people are lonely and depressed. It's only going to get worse. It is hard to make new friends in the sickening rat race.
I remember when I first left college how completely unappealing the real world was. My whole life I NEVER had an interest in the rat race, a career, making money. Because I've come to realize, a life based solely on me is completely unfulfilling for me. I get no satisfaction out of doing shit just for me. That's why I feel like I was infinitely happier in college. I was in a group of close friends, we always did shit together, had so many great memories. But today, just living for myself, feels TOTALLY meaningless
Same, been a top athlete my whole life and it’s been tough readjusting my direction after college and seeing how everything in the real world works just sucks, greed, power, unethical practices. almost feels like I’m living to die sometimes.
So thats why I feel like shit, because of Homeschooling, in school, when I am in a class, when we do shit together when we laugh together, do stupid stuff. It's so fucking fun, damn I fucking miss that part of school. I feel like I dont belong anywhere anymore, I feel lost, lonely and gone. And I'll be 15 in a couple of months. I hope for better days man. Sorry for ranting
@@notoriusdrifter40 what’s good my guy, we literally need human interaction to exist.. so you not having that is what’s wrong. Nothing is wrong with you I promise. Just gotta try and get out and talk to people more. You plan on going to college?
@@91111ful Uhm I wont be going to college, but I will be going to like a school where you learn how to do a job you wanna do. I live in Germany by the way. It's similiar to college, but it lasts about 3 years. I have three really good friends, like best friends and I have some people i talk to. But seeing how much more my brother, or some class peers have friends makes me feel really depressed and like a failure. At least I am really passionate about Music and playing Guitar. I cant wait for this COVID shit to be over, so I have better chances at meeting new people.
I used to say this...wow!!.....that was the most awful feeling. Today....I love to be all alone and when I am in a room full of people I see their emptiness and lonliness I see the desperation in them to fill the void that is so obvious and that once existed in me....Jesus Christ came into my heart ...by faith....he saved my wretched soul from hell he brought me out of darkness he gave me life and he filled me with peace that surpasses understanding :))
“We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
That movie is my life. War is always going on....hot or cold, mental, spiritual, etc. The mental struggles I’ve been through by far out way any physical pain that I have experienced. The strange part is that I accomplished all the goals I sat out for....then I felt more empty than ever. How the hell does being in Bora Bora at age 23 not make your depression go away? I couldn’t figure that out back then. I essentially just let go of everything that I’d worked so very hard for. I’m much happier but money is always an issue no matter what right? I’m just trying to be content with what I have, and live day to day.
Bnlol1 True war is terrible But war gives men purpose To die and fight for a cause greater then themselves Men want purpose so much they will go to extremes to achieve that
@@ethanmcfarland8240 right the cause of "absolute and utter fucking masochistic chaos" sure is SO meaningful. Have you ever actually *read* the memoires of soldiers who saw war firsthand? In Vietnam, in Korea, in Europe, in the Pacific. there was no meaning, only trauma, pain, and insanity.
Yep, society is kept in a cycle of fear and uncertainty so people look for comforts to help them cope with life. The wealthy elite rule this world, the rest of us are just left to fend for ourselves in this rat maze.
Modern life is too complicated, simple as that. This is why people are depressed. Also; we never really enjoy the present because in western society we are always sacrificing it to create a better future.
@@bubbasernie5762 Has anyone ever "gotten ahead?" I don't think so. It's all a grand illusion. We can choose to do something different but we like the feeling that money gives us. It feels like...power.
Sometimes I look at a squirrel or a bird and think they have a better life. Sure they have their own issues but they don’t have to worry about human stuff like mortgage, credit cards, banks, housing, college and probably thousand of other things. They just roam around and search for food, eat, sleep etc. we all die eventually anyway, why does our life have to be so complex.
I feel like one day the world decided to conquer the entirety of the planet and coop us up in a place of capitalism to run their system. Life was not made to be easy but shouldn't have been this difficult either.
Because all of us have been bought by the system. We think all these luxuries in modern life are there to free us from the shackles of modern nature, but they aint. They are there to make a zombified slave out of you, me and everybody else. In nature we didnt have shit, but we were FREE. In society we have everything, but we are SLAVES. To our vices. to our clothes. To our conditions. To many empty signifiers to keep us distracted from that very fact. But it isnt going anywhere. And many people are starting to catch on...
people.need.to stop "following their dreams" and make themselves useful then they will feel needed because they won't be unskilled lethargiacs protesting for a higher minimum wage
I used to be a volunteer fireman. That's why I was always so happy when I was volunteering my time to the community. It gave me a sense of purpose and meaning.I never got that from my job when I was getting paid.
I feel awful for kids growing up in the modern world. There is NO WAY to protect them. It's HARD FOR ADULTS. These kids, the majority anyways, will all grow-up very fast, learn "painful truths" at far too young of an age, and as a result, many will suffer from permanent psychological damage by the time they are 16. Yet, to them, they will think of it as normalcy, which is even scarier. Side-note: I often see this group of 17-18 year old's that hang-out at a gas-station / bong-shop near my house, and when I look in their eyes, there isn't a SHRED of naivete, innocence, wonder, or awe that remains within them... They have the souls of a middle-aged con-man. Quite sad.
This is why I refuse marriage and kids. I do not want kids to this world. You can not play and be you, you need to perform and start working for the big. No wonder people are depressed when the only thing you do, is work work work, to have your 4 week vacation a year. Depression is here also because of this. People are just too tired to live like robots 24/7.
Never bringing or birthing any biological offspring’s from my bloodline and familial unit. I’m to groggy and calloused to even want to bring another human being into this bullshit cycle we call “life”. Definitely life itself and the world economic forum can be full of shit sometimes. Anyways screw the WEF. They can go scam they’re dedicated capitalists and hug their slave wagers.
Well kids have been living in this modern world for over 100 years. This man is talking about hunter/gatherer societies. For which most of us stopped living about 200 years ago. He's not talking about how different life is in the last 10 years vs 30 years ago. He's talking about live in the last 200 years vs life 200 years ago and beyond
@@coryburns4309 I agree with everything you pointed out, except one thing: Childhood, particularly the teenage years, has RADICALLY CHANGED in the last 20 years due to the internet. When I was 18-19 (late 90s) I was still VERY innocent. I had never seen hard core porn, a lot of ugly truths about the world and our society were still hidden from me, etc. In short, because of the internet, I was more of a child at 19 than many 12 year olds are today. But, I do understand what you're saying.
Dealing with depression, I'm beginning to understand both people who commit suicide and those nutters that drop everything and go and live in the arse end of nowhere in somewhere like Alaska
I’ve heard people say some of their most fun times was before & after a hurricane ( providing it wasn’t life threatening). Neighborhoods would be almost like a block party with people sharing resources & families staying with each other. In fact, it was a let down in a sense when the electricity came back on
SnippER that’s all this is, the economy is an expression and measurement of this cycle, of our behavior, our values, etc. it’s like a metaphor. The “money is evil” crowd really has quite a lack of imagination
I feel like society is the exact opposite of a tribe or family. In a tribe/family you can joke and argue and get angry and everything, but deep down you know you’ll always have each other’s backs. You would die for them (maybe). In society though, you’re very superficially polite and cordial with one another, but you don’t actually give a damn about the other people that you don’t know. When you do work for your family or tribe, you can see and care about the benefits that it brings about. When you’re working as a wage slave for society, it’s typically doing stuff for others in abstract ways that you can’t really see or care about. Tribal mentality and life just does not scale well, and society is an attempt to to scale it. It becomes diluted and meaningless. And we’re all isolated and trying to cling to bits and pieces of meaningful social bonds.
I envy that life. It’s not perfect, but there’s so much complicated bs from the civilized world. People weren’t designed to work in cubicles, indoors, eat processed food and socialize on personal computers.
We have plenty of personal struggles, but we don't have group struggles anymore. When we were on the edge of survival we all had to do our part for the tribe and we felt kinship with others because we knew that we all relied on each other to survive. Our brains evolved that way, to measure our own well-being in relation to the well-being of the group. Now everyone is out for themselves without any need to coordinate with anyone else. It's so much easier to survive, and that's definitely good, but we don't find meaning in it. In a sense, each of us is a lone survivor.
Society is horrible... No one is truly free. Most people are stuck feeling trapped living a miserable life. It's a shame that the world is this way. The system benefits the few and leaves the majority oppressed. How many people wake up everyday forced to live in a way they don't want to? If I were to guess, I would say it's a majority of the human population... Everyone is expected to act a certain way, live a certain way, and even if they don't agree with it, they put a mask on and do it anyway. Everyone is just pretending.... No one can truly live the way they want to. It's possible, but most don't achieve that dream. Everything you try to do, there is always an obstacle standing in your way preventing you from doing it. Some among us are lucky enough to overcome them. Others don't. It's like everyone is a zombie. We are not truly free... Animals for example are truly free because they can just live. Not humans. We are constantly pressured. We have expectations we need to live by. Do we really have free will? Isn't everyone just living there lives based off of someone else's idea of what the world should be like? Aren't we living our lives based off of the way people have told us things should be? We have these ideas planted into us from a young age and we never question them. We just say thats the way it is... Do we really have a choice? We are given the illusion that we do, but we don't. If we don't abide by societies expectations than we will be failures right? Make money to live... Live to make money.... All my life I've always felt like something was missing... Like there was something wrong.. perhaps the way we are currently living isn't the way humans are supposed to live... I've felt this way for a while... Once I reached a certain age I realized just how fake everything is... We have no choice, but to conform. Conform and live in a way that doesn't make us happy. This is the cruel reality of life.
Yeah, sit your ass off at the desk for 8 hour plus in your car for 2 hours traveling to do that. It seems like for most people work is life and the only remaining hobby eating all resources. I work too, but I feel like there is no other hobbies anymore as soon as I started working. Literally no time, then after work go for groceries, wash clothes and anything like that. Then people say, but at least we are free. I mean, free? Waking each day at six to do the same as yesterday? Our yesterday is our future in most cases...
@chillin like a chinchilla. I hear you. I feel the same that something is missing. Too much negativity, jealousy and greedy users with today's society, everyone wears a mask it's sickening. I do not wear a mask and I'm hated for it, lying or being false has never really done it for me, I was bought up better than that and as my dad said You can always watch a thief but you can never trust a liar. When you do try and help people they just take advantage and think because your kind that your stupid and weak, I'm over it, as my dad always said trust no bastard, not even your own family because they don't want you to get ahead and be better than them, I suppose he had been taken advantage off so many times that he didn't trust anyone in the end. it's sad I know but that is just the way life is now
MrBeaux You could be right. A vacant mind is the devil's playground. Depression is located by depressed as being felt in thoughts and in the brain. There is an amazing article by a scientist which claims that depression is like a switch, a switch that your brain turns on, therefore it has a function. He concludes that depression is your mind alerting you that you need to do more. I believe people become so stagnant and also bored in life that there brain has to kick in and tell them, "right that's it, you've had enough chill, I'm going to burst your happiness bubble and force you to choose between a shitty depressed existence or achieve and act on everything you want and everything you know is the right thing to do"
MrBeaux I read it some while ago. I've searched Google for 5 mins and cannot seem to find it. It was talking about some kind of receptor (TCH-134 something like that) and how it is like a switch, it literally comes on/alive and is only on for people that are depressed, he believes depression therefore is a necessary result of your brain switching on. Argh, i can't explain it properly..if I come across it I will definitely link you it. It is the only article that helped me believe there is a good outcome from my depression.
Calm down, dorks! Neither of them are saying we should get rid of our houses and set up tipis. But that we might want to take the good aspects of "tribe" culture and combine them the good from modern culture.
Theimbennn that's sounds amazing. The closest you can get to that is the video game Far Cry Primal. I played that game baked and it put me back in that time.
No society has removed human beings from a lot of dangers, The problem is our brains are hard-wired to live in that environment of the past, that's basically what he is saying. Our minds never got a software update for modernity.
John Glenn haha it’s called the noble savage myth which romanticises societies like the native americans as being in tune with the land, peaceful and wholesome. Native americans were routinely genocidal, burnt forests all the time, and exploited the land just like any other society.
I think it's very silly to imagine absolutely any human society that has ever existed as not being totally and depravedly barbaric towards everyone except themselves. Humans evolved on the murder of other tribes
This is sad world, we work 40 hours, that's too much. I have no energy to perform 40 hours at work. No one can. Then clock to these insane hours traveling work related and making yourself up. It feels like you are living just for someone else, and then you can buy stuff. Which is just stuff. Modern society makes us sick with too much work and we literally need to perform. How many of you working or schooling have time to do what you really like? Most people I know do not have time for their hobbies. They trade their time for money they don't need too much. For what? Everyone waits that one day we have marriage, kids, shiny houses, new cars... I never felt so alone in my life until I was around people. Everything is just the same scam.
It's because Materialism is the be all and the end all of modern society: people are judged by how much they possess, and what they possess...thus, people are divorced and alienated from their true selves...Spirituality, thus, is an antidote to that emptiness of modern life, because it reconnects the individual to oneself...
I can relate to what he is saying about adversity because me and my family have been at a long term financial struggle since 2013 with our family business and we are more united as a family since we take better care of each other. There is also a sincere solidarity with our staff and business partners. Thanks Joe & Sebastian for those uplifting stories!
I Just live like i did when i was 17. Im 44. No wife, no children. Have a work that use 15% of my day. I drink beer, skateboarding and listen to the same thrash and hardcore bands i did in 88. So the modern society dont depress me. Im not in it. I have zero social media accounts beside RU-vid. Quit Facebook 3 years ago. Best thing i did in life. It took me 2 Months to get rid of the addiction of telling people what i did. And thinking that thumps up was of any importance of what i do and feel in life. Its almost like a drug. Fucks you up. Sharing your life with every shitheads your met. You like maybe 10% of them
Hey Dan. Likewise I really dig those types pf bands (thrash metal/prog got me into music to the point where i can do sessuon work now, and recently have bern gettimg into hardcore too). I'm curious, what kind of job allows that kind of schedule flexibility? I ask because i am adverse towards most 9-5 situations.
I also attribute modern society depression to the fact that we work so many hours per week with so few vacations possible. And this leaves us such few time to spend with families and friends, or even personnal projects. And same goes for people going to school: you're forced to spend SO MUCH time absorbing HUGE AMOUNTS of information, probably more than a kid can ever assimilate. And the youth really need some time off. Society is the farmer, we are the crops, and we are dedicated to be harvested all time long and to individually offer something great.
That is massively untrue. Work load in hours has gone down, yet depression has gone up. A person 150 years ago would work 16 hours a day and yet they were significantly less depressed then we are. It’s seems you do not understand where happiness comes from.
@@forman208 We do not have data on people from the 1890's about depression. The furthest i can go back is the 1950's, the amount of time worked average has gone down from 1950 to today from 48 hours worked to 37 hours worked (that's a 20% decrease) and depression has gone up significantly. If depression was tied to working longer hours that number would have went down with the less amount of hours worked, this is not the case, so clearly hours worked isn't the source of happiness. Sources: Depression: www.happierhuman.com/is-depression-really-on-the-rise/ Hours worked: www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-2094769/Workers-1950s-worked-longer-hours-tougher-conditions-holiday--happier-now.html
@@Prometheus7272 But depression can occur for many different reasons, and our work habits and our work environment could be just a few of many variables. You must be aware that working conditions in some European countries are very different to those in other regions. Just take a look at work-related suicide in Japan. Also, perhaps working hours have dropped im the UK, but what about workload? Check this study out: www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=www.kent.ac.uk/safety/oh/Documents/HSE%2520MH%2520Stats%25202017.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiW1fvPu4bwAhVSKKwKHRzWACgQFjANegQIHhAC&usg=AOvVaw3V9eHol-9E-ZHzVMfDK8wj&cshid=1618703458961 And let's not forget the nature of jobs and industries have changed over time too. While in the 1950s a lo of jobs were still manual, businesses weren't as large as today, and commuting times were manageable. In today's world, things are quite the opposite .
From Tribe: “Human beings need 3 basic things in order to be content: ~They need to feel competent in what they do ~To feel authentic ~They need to feel connected to others
Society has become more and more and more based on the individual . People today are so insular . Hec you can live next door to folk for years and not know their names , let alone anything about them . Funny thing is they seem to prefer it that way . The word "privacy" is the all important buzz word today . Neighbors plant huge bushes and even trees hard up against fence lines so you cant even see their lawn let alone them , you cant smile and say a good morning anymore , as we all used to do many decades ago. Its frigging sad and yes it is depressing . People just seem to miss trust one another in this modern world now . I'm 72 years old and remember full well how it once was when I was a kid , and even as a teen and young adult . Not sure when the rot started . It just seemed to creep up on us I think as time rolled on . Its absolutely awful. Bigger cities now , huge populations , labor and time saving devices of every description , all the mod cons your heart can desire . Yet we hear all the time that people are so busy , so stressed and so lonely and depressed, in spite too of being able to contact anyone, anywhere , anytime , with communication devices my generation would never have even dreamed of . Go figure .
@@varolussalsanclar1163 absolutely. people don’t realize that socially speaking the only way forwards is backwards. tradition is tradition because it worked. i don’t understand (and never will) why we abandoned it.
The way our capitalist societyis button lt is a big portion of my depression and anxiety. The feeling of no escape from money and needing it, no matter where I go or what I do.....And it gets super loneyly since everyone is just going to work day after day keeping to themselves and it's like a free for all state....I wish we could live in a time where money didn't exist and we all just worked together to do stuff...
We also live in a society that equates careers that offer no fame, social recognition or tons of money as mundane, worthless and classify the people who do them as losers, folks that have settled in life. That's a problem.
As someone who’s been through a category 5 hurricane the feeling of unity and equality after when everybody in the community comes together is a feeling like no other
i went through a category 5 too and it felt like life before the iphone for 3 months. i was the only person complaining as soon as electricity came back when everyone else cheered
and after the entire event is over everyone goes right back to their old selves selfish ignorant and arrogant consumers slaving away to line the pockets of the elite upper ruling class so they can live life on our backs on easy mode
what else are you doing with your important life? you can download the audio, listen during your commute, or anytime you have spare few minutes. i always laugh at people who say i don't have time. it just means that you don;t know how to manage it well.
Aaqilian5.0 fucks it got to do with you what i do with my life are you a cop? 😂😂 wanna know what time a took a shit aswell you creepy little freaks in the comment section are always good for a laugh
Any animal I think would find it unsettling to be surrounded by other of its kind that it doesn’t know. Drop a monkey into an unfamiliar group and it will be uncomfortable.
An earth with no authority figures. I look forward to a world without anyone, able to even to boss 1 single person around, ever again (or own land / end feudalistic behaviors). Figure out a new way to build a bogus empire. Also this isn't debatable. People should just switch the narrative to bosses being honorable, to now they are dishonorable. In the gaming environment, 40 people raid to kill bosses & share loot evenly. That's how it should be done, if that sounds too extreme, then take that as half a joke. Treat people friendly & free, or fuck your business plans. You wouldn't tell friends to go do stuff for you, run around mazes. So the rest of the platform should be no different.
i feel like anomaly because i find most people annoying and i like to be by myself but also i feel huge sense of boredom because there is nothing meaningful to do other than going to school and doing your homework and even those activities are boring/not fun to do so i just end up sitting in front of my computer all day bored questioning existance and thinking what could i do
notes: European settlers living with American natives wanted to stay with the tribe and not go back. Lots young colonial flee to Indians and not one Indian fleeing to white society (developed society). More egalitarian society than civilised. In society where men and women are necessary for food production they are equal. If women involve in reproduction, equality goes down. As wealth goes up, suicide rate, depressed, schizophrenia goes up. We are evolved to live in 30-40 grpup all interdependent for survival, creating equality. We are design for this genetically. Modernity allows independence which can result in freedom or depression. We can be alone in a crowd of strangers. Not something human beings have experienced until quite recently We are wired to belong part of a group. You are valued by your contribution to the group. Capitalism contribute mainly to self-interest, to serve ourselves. We must serve a group as well, it must be in balance an dynamic tension. Without a group one falls into meaninglessness. In war we act as a unified society. Ironically the suicide rate and admission to psych wards goes down. Some even miss the war because of the comaraderie (explains partly why solders have difficulty adapting with returning home). Adversity produces pro-social behaviours in people. Safety and comfort allow people to act selfishly. If you feel needed in a society such as in war, you are able to abandon your self-interest and sacrifice yourself for others.
Interesting because I've noticed that after or during something bad happening society seems massively friendly. During a few hurricanes the last major one i saw that people were outside walking and talking to each other. Cooking out, going to the gas station to hang out. People were fishing and having barbecues and helping people with damages. For a day or two everybody was like a completely different person. After that it was back to society and it sucked
I'm going to respectfully disagree that adversity makes us better people. The flip side to that is civilization is hanging on by the thread. On either side it still depends on ethics. Adversity and stress turned the Red Army into rapists violating over 2 million German women. Adversity found Japanese soldiers marching with babies on their bayonets. And yes" even in hunter-gatherer groups adversity can lead to savagery often in the form of cannibalism and incest. Adversity and stress CAN make one stronger and better person, but that doesn't mean it will.
@@toiletdestroyer875 that comment was a long time ago. Now I completely understand why people may have suicidal ideation. But life is worth living, even the bad times are secretly good times.
Tribe is one of the most thought-provoking books. His chapter on Werewolf Syndrome is so prescient. Young men without a solid purpose have turned against their tribe for centuries. As a society we really need to get our minds around this phenomenon. Our purpose as humans is NOT comfort. If we lack adversity things always fall apart.
If you took the time to read this guys fictional book I have some bad news... You will never get that time back. This guy gave out false info at least twice in this short clip.
Joe talking about how different people acted after 9-11 is so true. The energy shifted and people were so nice to each other for a while. I'll never forget that energy and experience coming out of a horrible event
I remember a strong sense of unity in Texas , and I'm sure the country too, after 9/11. I also remember a homeless vet coming up to me and saying "we're gonna get those MF'ers". I was taken back that man that old, living in sub human conditions felt a strong sense of purpose. He seemed full of life, not the depressed sad worthless image one may expect from a homeless person.
My God! This is why some people here in Northern Ireland want the troubles to come back- they have that nostalgic longing for community spirit when their neighborhoods were being under siege or attacked either by oppressive British forces or IRA bombs
everyone wants change. i remember in the states in 2020 a lot of people i knew were unironically excited for the concept of national collapse, civil war, or massive disruption of society. we all want to escape our current lives
Dear Joe, this is easily one of the best pieces of content you've produced in an interview with someone. The more credible people you bring on the show, the better
Speaking of diet, the natives were healthy with plenty of nutritious food before the settlers came. What followed after is, well... there are no words to describe.
although I don't look for danger, I agree that danger really teaches who you can be. I learned from the dangers in life that I am capable to stand up for myself more then I thought.
"People are enormously self serving. Capitalism basically instruct us to do so." 🎯🎯🎯 Yep, we are products of our environment. What feels so natural to us is actually a learned behavior. And because it's learned, we can also un-learn it.
America post 9/11 was amazing. I remember everyone being so nice and us kids got away with skateboarding anywhere we wanted. Also I work construction and I worked so hard from age 17 to now (I am 28) I am pretty much gonna be able to retire in the next few years. Lived frugally and worked a fuck ton. I feel 60 years old. I have not met any other person out of thousands that works like me. Only one I know is an electrician. he literally will be on site at 3am running running conduit and shit.
It may sound odd but I felt happier in jail where I felt accepted and connected with people who appreciated me where I don't feel that in regular society...thats why a lot of people get stuck in that cycle and become institutionalized
Tribe is a GREAT book. You just need to look at a post industrialized society, like Japan (with the lowest birth rates, highest suicide rates, and highest levels of depression/anxiety), to see that modern society isn't making us happier.
Would be better to achieve same end without some horrifying -__-. We have been programmed to deny the existence of the spiritual and to pretend we just live in a material world. If we admit that all we experience here had a beginning that was meaningful, that we have a creator we could spare ourselves a lot of heartache and begin the healing process. I know this will trigger a lot of people but the fact that it does signifies that there is definitely something to it. His name, God's name is Jesus. We cannot have meaning in life without living for the purpose for which we were created by our creator. That purpose involves following His commands. We try as hard as we can to find meaning in empty uncommitted relationships, escapism, work but it won't fill the void. If we lived as He designed life would make a lot more sense.
@@syrenematin4676 Here we go again with religion. Religion is a superstitious comfort for people who need a placebo of comfort to make it through their hard life. I’m not here to hammer your beliefs but not everyone needs or finds happiness in religion. The truth is we make up meaning in our life. That’s what humans are masters at because that’s how we cope & survive in life.
Yup. The death of rock n roll. All this shitty pop we have today. People don’t wanna leave their house. Social media and tv is all we wanna do. Can’t talk to people because they’re on their phones. There’s not really any group activities. I just smoke cigarettes and weed, mind my own business, and watch this shit show go down.
No group to serve? My family, friends, local community? I get what he’s saying but only to a degree. Plus indigenous American tribes were warring constantly.
So did white societies, and other societies across the world. People were warring constantly all of the time. The colonizers just did it on a great scale wiping out large amounts of people. Almost like they continue to do today.
Please, most people barely get to spend time with their friends or family because everyone is working all the time. You spend MUCH more time with your coworker serving a company than you do friends, family or your community. That's what he meant, and it's true
I don't usually comment on shit but it's crazy how true this is. In college we barely all talk to each other except in days of exams when everyone is desperate and exchanging information. Then when we leave, for the first 5 mins everyone is all smiley and talking, but after that, everyone is back to being zombies.
HOLYSHIT. I’m 3 years late but I’m currently in college and what you said has described my entire interaction with the population of my campus. A link of dependence is clearly lost and it’s just the most depressing thing ever interacting. That moment before the exam where everyone is exchanging info really clicked with me. I rarely comment on anything in general too
One of the strange things about living in this world as a loving, highly sensitive individual is that when you attempt to demonstrate love and generosity and compassion.. It freaks people out. I saw a girl who looked very worried on the underground in London today and it was a natural impulse for me to just ask if she was OK..... And she looked confused by the gesture. My friend then commented that I'm clearly not designed for this world because that level of care and love will only result in a mostly negative response because people are so unaccustomed to it. But my thoughts on this are... If I don't demonstrate it... Who the heck will?? It seems like it's practically impossible to witness another human that takes a moment to consider a strangers comfort and safety above their one. It's just so bizzare to me that we don't do that for one another when it's so natural to me. We are designed for that level of care and compassion. And actively shutting down and numbing out has only resulted in complete devistation of our entire wellbeing. Maybe its because I was raised in the countryside rather than the city. We're just very different down there. Life is slower, we stay close to nature, we value our relationships above gadgets and things..... Its just weird that we've moved so far from our own innate nature that we've completely forgotten how to function as a fully thriving human being. And everywhere you go, there's a programme of how you SHOULD be is infiltrating your subconscious that certainly only confuses and messes people up even more. We need to develop stronger values. We need to stay close to this beautiful earth that supports us and gives in abundance. And we need more community. It only takes very simple things to make a shift in society. Things that we can all give freely. Empathy, sensitivity, love, compassion, generosity, support. It doesn't cost anything. And that's truly all we need to demonstrate individually towards one another to begin making this shift.
I try to be nice to people in public on a regular basis. Even just trying to be generally friendly is often met with suspicion or skepticism. Not always. But often. Everybody has their guard up. And for good reason. There's a lot of desperate and malicious people out there roaming around. But it still makes me sad. But I will keep doing it anyway because what's the fucking point otherwise?
2 years late but having been on almost both sides of the spectrum, I can make a comment. For me, If someone said "are you ok?" or any variation of that was sincere, I would second guess it as a ploy that that person was either just pure evil trying to lure me in to abuse me once they've gained my trust (abandonment from parents etc) or that the person was genuine and I didn't want to bother them because if they were a good person, I wouldn't want to shake their reality up and they would only gain a sum total of negative emotional burdens that I can't repay. If that makes sense. Victims who feel like victims often can come to the conclusion that there are only 2 types of people: those that are evil or those that are so good hearted that you're better off leaving them alone and not dragging them into your mess that you cannot fix and would be too much of an ask to ask for help.
People who do jobs that gave a sense of purpose and meaning are the ones who get the most out of life; First responders, Military service, volunteering, or anything that requires a group effort to get a task bigger than themselves accomplished is how humans were meant to be. Great friends can be found in these areas.
Wrong Europe is overpopulated with people that don't belong there and it's causing whites stress and anxiety for there future it's so obvious but if you address this fact then your racist
One of the best eras we went through in my country was during covid. This did not apply everywhere but because we had a lockdown, restaurants, coffee shops, bars etc. were out of order so people had to gather to parks and local forests and the sense of unity was unlike no other. You made new friends, went hiking together, enjoyed every second. Hell i miss this time.
Pro’s n Con’s in EVERY way of life throughout EVERY Century and Country. If you don’t like it then throw your smart phone , computer and walk to work 🙏
This society has everything we could ask for from a physical standpoint, but very very little from a spiritual, it's completely out of whack. I'm sure you could argue former societies might've had the opposite problem
You're a fucking idiot. We've had social technology for literally under 20 years. It isn't comparable to talk about the pros and cons of other societies you fucking moron.
I’m 35 years old most of my peers have feel head over heals for “technology”. For sum reason I personally have rejected this whole tech craze for the most part. I recently have begun to research educational subjects history mainly. This social media culture is the sorriest shit ever developed. It’s not social, nor a culture of any kind. My hats off to those creatures of social media for its the finest bit of propaganda this planet has ever known. Face it people the world passes you by while you check out how much better your friends back home are doing than you. For some reason we don’t see the reality of fake book. We say that the world lays at your fingertips and you can connect to anything in the world. But a person on there smartphone siting next to you mite as well be on the other side of this world. Interest will fade I hope. If technology crap continues on this course I’m afraid people won’t be people anymore. Wake up people life gos on all around you your missing the purpose of life.
Read SEX AT DAWN. The end. 2 parent households are completely unnatural. When parents split today (or one dies god forbid) the child goes thru trauma... that didn’t happen way back... there were 12 other parents (tribe) there to pick u up. Our gross misunderstanding of sexuality is the root of all of this.
European society was Pagan. We long for the forest n for tribe. For fires, for circles, for song and dance! The SJW’s ruin Paganism and try to make it political rather than social n loving.
This is really interesting, and something I've felt before. It feels unnatural for a human being not to have a supportive tribe around them. Modern society is just weird.
