I’m not saying I’m not utterly insane too. I am a people afterall. Considering that 99% of people are non-vegan, nearly everyone is like a flesh-craving vampire/zombie. That’s just scratching the surface as being a decent and intelligent person has more filters obviously. There are asshole vegans, so “not being an asshole” is another filter that groups many people into as well. I’d say majority of reddit/lemmy people are assholes.
You are right, we are all mad here. I agree with you. Empathy and compassion is mocked and exploited, vegans are treated like a joke. Freedom fighters, activists for equality, climate and genocide protesters, etc, are treated like stupid and evil terrorists and enemies of the state.
Our species sucks and we fully deserve this climate apocalypse we’ve created.
We are predisposed to be cruel and greedy locusts, who build and support systems of inequality with undeservingly powerful leaders who only ever lust for war/more. This is the story of nearly every human civilisation we have history for. Those who strived for a better civilisation are destroyed by those who want conquest, money, power, a leg up with their gods, etc.
I hope beyond hope that we fully die out before any of us get off world in any meaningful way to propagate yet more obscenities. It’s stupid to think that there aren’t trillionaire funds currently working on this, I don’t think it was just a punchline in Don’t Look Up.
And I also hope that maybe one day, billions of years from now, when the earth has had time to heal from the damage we have caused, something better than us could evolve here.
You and I both resonate on the same fundamental truth, but I get the sense that you’re more actively wishing death, “I hope beyond hope that we fully die out”, where I am more so just paranoid and avoidant. I agree that that activists do thankless work. The phrase, “We are predisposed to be cruel,” sounds Hobbesian in that it presupposes that man is naturally cruel, though I never read Hobbes so I don’t know actually. I think people are naturally irrational, but not cruel per se. I think they are also great at adapting, which leads to a frog in boiling water situation; there’s a sort of natural adaptation to toxic environments without knowing how or wanting to fix it. I think you’re more so an intense “hate humanity” misanthrope while I’m more a “mistrust & fear humanity” misanthrope. Fight/flight, anger/fear, both are responding to the same perceived stress.
why put reddit/lemmy qualifiers on it? You’re right in the title. People, in general, are assholes. Insane, self-deluded, moronic assholes. It comes with the territory of having a single perspective to live and grow with.
That’s fair when considering other massive online platforms. I guess subconsciously I assume people are somehow less insane in real life than online, but the book “just how dumb are we”, facts in history, and other statistics show people are wackos universally
I’m not saying I’m not utterly insane too. I am a people afterall. Considering that 99% of people are non-vegan, nearly everyone is like a flesh-craving vampire/zombie. That’s just scratching the surface as being a decent and intelligent person has more filters obviously. There are asshole vegans, so “not being an asshole” is another filter that groups many people into as well. I’d say majority of reddit/lemmy people are assholes.
You are right, we are all mad here. I agree with you. Empathy and compassion is mocked and exploited, vegans are treated like a joke. Freedom fighters, activists for equality, climate and genocide protesters, etc, are treated like stupid and evil terrorists and enemies of the state.
Our species sucks and we fully deserve this climate apocalypse we’ve created.
We are predisposed to be cruel and greedy locusts, who build and support systems of inequality with undeservingly powerful leaders who only ever lust for war/more. This is the story of nearly every human civilisation we have history for. Those who strived for a better civilisation are destroyed by those who want conquest, money, power, a leg up with their gods, etc.
I hope beyond hope that we fully die out before any of us get off world in any meaningful way to propagate yet more obscenities. It’s stupid to think that there aren’t trillionaire funds currently working on this, I don’t think it was just a punchline in Don’t Look Up.
And I also hope that maybe one day, billions of years from now, when the earth has had time to heal from the damage we have caused, something better than us could evolve here.
You and I both resonate on the same fundamental truth, but I get the sense that you’re more actively wishing death, “I hope beyond hope that we fully die out”, where I am more so just paranoid and avoidant. I agree that that activists do thankless work. The phrase, “We are predisposed to be cruel,” sounds Hobbesian in that it presupposes that man is naturally cruel, though I never read Hobbes so I don’t know actually. I think people are naturally irrational, but not cruel per se. I think they are also great at adapting, which leads to a frog in boiling water situation; there’s a sort of natural adaptation to toxic environments without knowing how or wanting to fix it. I think you’re more so an intense “hate humanity” misanthrope while I’m more a “mistrust & fear humanity” misanthrope. Fight/flight, anger/fear, both are responding to the same perceived stress.
why put reddit/lemmy qualifiers on it? You’re right in the title. People, in general, are assholes. Insane, self-deluded, moronic assholes. It comes with the territory of having a single perspective to live and grow with.
That’s fair when considering other massive online platforms. I guess subconsciously I assume people are somehow less insane in real life than online, but the book “just how dumb are we”, facts in history, and other statistics show people are wackos universally