What makes you think you matter? You don’t. Sure you have a small group of people that like you, but I don’t like you because I don’t know you. The person walking down the street doesn’t care about you. You talk tough and that’s it. You’re irrelevant to the grand scheme. When the earth begins to burn you’re going to burn along with the vast majority of the rest of the world. No one cares. You want to hate, fine. Do it. Where does that get you at the end of the day? No where. And you will continue being nothing to so many people. Stamp your feet, scream, cry. Do whatever you have to do. It will change nothing. You can change nothing. Regardless of how hard you try to impact people, you never will. And why is that? Because you’re irrelevant. You’re dissatisfied with everything and everyone around you because you can never be satisfied and that makes you miserable. So what do you do? You share your misery. You do the same exact thing that’s been done to you so many times, but that’s ok right? Because it’s not your fault right? Everyone screams for change, but all we do is the same things over and over again. So if that’s the case, why does it matter? Why do you matter? Whit makes you and your thoughts more important than the next person? You’re not good enough because no one is good enough and no one ever will be.
What I find the funniest is blaming everything around you as being wrong, you’re surrounded by bad people and enemies, yet you never question whether you’re the problem. Don’t worry about it though because it’s a new minute so I’m sure you have something new to hate
Fuck, selfawarewolves and the rest of the Jaden Smith gang have arrived. Awesome.
Dang bro go read Nietzsche or Camus or smth. Learn to love the boulder
For none of this mattering, dude replied to my comments in record time. Shrug.
I’ve read Nietzsche, and dipped in Camus, but will admit I need to read more. I’m assuming you mean Smith that’s a typo in which case, I have no clue who you mean. I’ve also read Diogenes, Socrates, and Confucius (which I believe I am contradicting the most)
Ay, based- the smth was an abbreviation of “something”. Confucian ethics is absolutely at odds with your post lol, but Confucius isn’t everyone’s vibe!
I think that there’s this place that a lot of people reach when grappling with the meaninglessness of existence, where they get stuck in existential despair.
My comment was glib, but the core of it was meant to be like: “keep going, keep investigating those ideas and push yourself to learn more.” If you can get ahold of some Emil Cioran, Kirkegaard, Ernest Becker, and José Ortega they’re good- I’d revisit Camus, then touch on Cioran first, probably. Deals a lot with absurdity and failure. Try not to get put off by the religious overtones of Kirkegaard.
Stick with it!
I’ve greatly appreciated Diogenes and cynics, but living like Diogenes did isn’t viable and the world is a lot bigger now then it was.
I honestly appreciate your concern, but no. I honestly try to do everything I can to find my own happiness. And most days I like to think I’m succeeding. Got an awesome supportive gf, a job that I enjoy working, two dogs that are absolutely ecstatic when I get home, and a one year plan of marrying my girlfriend and starting our family is going great.
I also am glad that reality brings you solice. It does the same for me. It’s so much weight takien off your shoulders. But since you think like that, you can also understand the existential double-edged sword
Our individual actions matters little but collectively, we impact the world around us whether we like it or not. This is a two edged sword. In return, we are shaped by the world around us. Even by choosing not to participate in society, your absence will create a ripple that affects others. Even in death, your molecules will recycle and end up in new life.
The problem with this is, once you’re doing everything you possibly can on your individual level, you quickly see that so many others won’t bother to lift a finger, or even work actively to undo all the progress. This is extremely demotivating.
I don’t drive, I don’t fly, I don’t buy fast fashion (or barely any clothes at all), I live in a small apartment, I changed all lighting to LED-s years ago, I don’t eat meat, I’m starting to smarten up my home with automation to squeeze out a little bit more energy savings.
And it doesn’t help jack shit since it is impossible to get even 50% of people in the developed nations to live like that and even if we could, one multinational megacorporation still manages to do more damage than an average European country.
Sure, we could start petitions—these will be simply ignored. We could come to streets in protest—just to be beaten up by class traitors and new legislation coming in criminalizing protests and throwing anyone who dares into jail for 10+ years. Nothing will change for the world.
From this point on, the only way anyone could change anything would be to actually blow shit up—not once, but all the time, everywhere, until no polluting industry is left. That’s clearly not possible to do in the era of mass surveillance.
I’ll give you that. And it’s a very good point. I’d like to take you ripple analogy and use it.
A pebble can make a ripple. A handful of pebbles can make a bigger ripple, and without interference, that ripple can travel a good distance.
But what kind of ripple can a Boulder make? What about a bunch of boulders? What if a bunch of boulders are dropped in the water the same time the handful of pebbles are? Sure. Add more pebbles. The pebbles ripple gets bigger, but then more boulders drop in the water. The logical response would be add more pebbles.
Suddenly you realize that you are about to displace all the water, but more boulders keep coming. You stop adding pebbles and that slows it down, but boulders keep coming. You can’t stop them until finally all the water is gone.
What should you have done different?
