/lit/ - Literature

>>23136845

We were not put on this earth to be comfortable.

>>21484192

You notice how zoomers retroactively apply modern concepts to the past, instead of vice versa? These "people" are rooted in the eternal present.

A lot of eastern philosophy has a good chance of making you lazier. Id recommend "hagakure". Its about samurai mindset and devoting yourself to others and an ideal, while not giving a shit about things you can't control like death. Might boost you up a bit ya know?

You have to get a job to be a man, tough pill to swallow, I know.

One of my friends who's very interested in /tg/ mentioned some book to me (I think it was from the Discworld series) where people managed to wire up a button directly to the pleasure center of their brain such that, whenever they pushed it, they got a massive dopamine hit. It was hedonism at a cold, machine-like level of efficiency.

I believe that the developed world is pretty steadily approaching this, where society is building its own skinner box where people are rewarded with dopamine for doing trivial and inane things. I don't think this is the result of some nefarious conspiracy or engineered by a fiscal elite that wants to get rich, people are just doing this because it feels good. I live in mortal fear that modern society will devolve to nothing more than shallow pursuits that reward dopamine and do nothing else, where people live essentially as heroin addicts, pursuing things that briefly reward them with pleasure but ultimately leave them unfathomably miserable, like children who are left unattended in a candy shop and gorge themselves until they're sick.

>inb4 that already happens now
Right, now imagine how much further we can degrade as people find more and more efficient ways to get their dopamine, until people really can just hook up a button to their brain. I fear that the things I believe will make me happy (a college degree, a career, financial independence, starting and raising a family, raising animals, trying to live a self-sustaining way) are just part of this skinner box and that I'll be made miserable upon achieving them. Alternatively, in my attempt to pursue these things, my participation in society will drag me into that skinner box anyway and I'll be just as addicted to instant gratification as everyone else.

I think about 90% of human beings living in the first world don't know what makes them happy. How the fuck do I know that I'm any different?

Ok I am gonna stop this climate change debate bullshit in this thread right now.
Anthropogenic Climate Change is real, but a non issue. The entire "debate" is only held so loudly and obnoxious to keep everyone more or less distracted from enviornmental problems we are having right now and are much more pressing(and, if we would solve them, would negate any climate change consequences). Soil degradation, net loss of forest, ocean accidification, desertification, world wide plastic polution, habitat loss, relative biomass of huamns and their stock compaired to all other life, waste disposal and more are all way more pressing, but have less spotlight, because their solutions would not be able to advertised with a carbon tax as a solution(though it isn't in cc aswell).
While urbanist leftists get set up to talk stupid and uninformed shit on their smartpones, wearing sweatshop clothes about the enviornment, retarded rightwingers get baited into a contrarian stand against anything remotly enviornemental and suck corporate cock instead.
Both sides are getting played here to keep everyone from ignoring the real problems that would actually costs international corps serious money.

>well no shit, the systems were created by my ancestors. If they don't suit you, make your own fucking systems.

you can't do that if you don't have real political representation

>All of black people's problems come from coveting the lives of white people

All of them? Really now?

> (for reasons I don't fully understand, since most whites are miserable af).

Mortals in general are miserable doesn't mean we don't want modest improvements like representation.

>This is why murder and crime rates spiked after the widespread adoption of tv/mass media

The war on drugs, which started around that time, disproportionately targeted hippies and blacks for having Socialist-leaning values. The law is selectively enforced. That's part of white privilege. It's also conservative orthodox status-quo privilege.

In America centrists are called pedophiles and communists.