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There isn't a need for there to be any conspiracy as people will go through cognitive dissonance of their own accord.
For instance money. What gives it value? Government decree to break your legs if you disagree that's what.
So you've got a system where things are controlled by leg breaky... yet OTOH people believe they live in a free democratic society and they're a million miles from overtly nasty controlling governments.
People if they think it through can discover this easily and a lot of people know this, but they have a roof over their head and food in their stomachs so they self cognatively dissonate. ____________________ Spain 2008France 2007Big one 2009 We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. In the end, your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching. |
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M.C wrote: | I don't think so. Conspiracy suggests some level of secrecy, we're so apathetic they don't need to hide anything. |
It's not apathy, it's imbecility. The handful of those intelligent enough to see the racket they're not part of cannot make their voices heard. Well, they can, but not in any language the imbeciles can understand. And most of those running the racket are imbeciles too, so it's pointless trying to tell them anything either. Conspiracy? Nothing more than multiple accidental convergences of the imbeciles in charge various rackets. Ten rapists in the same pub isn't a conspiracy.
True happiness is not giving a fuck. Not in any particularly cynical way, more from a recognition that nothing actually matters in this illusory insane asylum and it's ok.
The video in the OP clearly expresses an idea otherwise though. Tired banal cliche that it is. "Oh noes, don't chase material goods, that way looms oblivion!" Fuck off. Toys are a distraction from the futility of being. Without them we'd all be sitting around a fire in the cold, slitting our wrists to the sound of kumbaya on some guru's guitar.
Get your survival-needs met, buy and play with toys until your current body dies. If you can't be happy with that, top yourself or get drugged to the gills and STFU. ____________________ "There's the horizon! Ride hard, ride fast and cut down all who stand in your way!" |
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Vehicles I see as a (financial) burden, and if you think of fuel duty etc. aren't a very good way to stick it to the man.
Electronic goods don't really do much, yeah you might enjoy a film on the telly or a game on the Xbox, but that's fairly fleeting. |
Our TV is used almost exclusively for torrented movies. The car is used to spare us the tedium of walking, and fuck the spritual kumbaya experience of exercise. The bike is a toy, the cost of which is an acceptable buck for the bang.
PC, games, lots of joy, fun and fulfillment while virtually slaughtering hundreds of opponents, example provided:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnUtYb7oIwU
Spiritually empty? A soul-void? Balls. Money gets toys gets fun. This entire life is nothing more than a video-game. Kumbaya too, if that's what floats your boat.
However, if you're working your nuts off just to survive, THAT'S where some serious soul-fucking shit is at. But that's not what the kumbaya OP video is about. It's about not spending your surplus cash on material things. Balls. What else are you going to spend it on, pixie-dust? ____________________ "There's the horizon! Ride hard, ride fast and cut down all who stand in your way!" |
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Sun Wukong wrote: |
I suppose the difference is in spending money on experiences, not on things.
Having a car to get around and have experiences is different to requiring the newest shiniest to be happy.
Same with bike.
Same with games.
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All you're talking about is degrees of experience and even that's entirely subjective. A mong buying the 'latest & greatest' piece of iphone tat might be having as much fun as Mr Kumbaya strolling along a sandy beach in nirvana, watching the sun go down while chewing on a lotus leaf. Mr Kumbaya might also be struggling with the agony of existential angst ("The futility, maaan!") while the mong suffers no greater pain than realizing he'll never use 95% of his phone's awesome functionality.
Most of the world's 'existential angst' and 'depression' is boredom. Either got fed up doing the same things or fed-up knowing they'll never be able to do a whole bunch of other things, not thinking about how they'd become just as boring too in time.
Strangely enough, creative people suffer far less from these ills. There is, without a doubt, something far more fulfilling about painting a picture vs twiddling with an iphone app. But ultimately both are equally futile. You're born, you do a bunch of stuff to distract the mind, you die. Sand-castles on the beach or 100-floor skyscrapers, you still end up dead with nobody giving a flying fuck what you did to distract yourself for 70 years.
We're god, experiencing itself subjectively because...what else? ____________________ "There's the horizon! Ride hard, ride fast and cut down all who stand in your way!" |
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M.C wrote: | Rogerborg wrote: | You're clearly a smart chap (assuming your gender). Why so poor? |
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Accept my throbbing compliment. Whatever you're doing for that dollah, you can do better.
Absent a mass cull of geezers or deporting our 10,000,000 illegals, property is only going to get more expensive. I'd urge you to stop flushing money on renting and get any property, anywhere, and the sooner the better. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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Scraping? I didn't try to save, I've bought motorbikes, cars, whatever gadgets I want, gone on nights out etc. Had I actually put any effort in it would be considerably more.
I'm offering an alternative view and you're getting upset about it. You're ultimately a skivvy, unless you'd ordinarily go somewhere (nearly) everyday and spend 8 hours being told what to do? |
I'm not getting upset at all, just pointing out that pouring wages into paying your house off early is pretty much just waiting to get old
Being a skivvy implies doing shit work against your will, no-one really wants to go to work instead of having fun but it can be on your own terms. The '8 hours being told what to do' suggests you have only experienced the grind of a permanently employed job that you don't like, maybe time to reevaluate?
On moving up north, genuinely may be worth a look, I don't envy anyone trying to get a first house in the south east. |
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Or, don't buy a house, because why spend years and hundreds of thousands paying for something that will be taken off you eventually anyway? Blow all your money on coke, whores and toys, and enjoy your life. Chances are you won't get to see retirement anyway. Be a selfish cunt instead. ____________________ Mpd72: I can categorically say i’m Brighter than that, no matter how I come across on here.
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 6 years, 104 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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