I have long realized that reasoning with redditors has no purpose. No, expand that on people online in general. If you are stuck in an echo chamber long enough, you have zero problems doing the most incredible mental gymnastics. The internet will unironically be the end of western liberal democracy. We are regressing to ape like mental mindsets, our group can do nothing wrong, our group is always right, the other group is always wrong and only commit evil. Debate, compromises, talking to and understanding each other which Form the basis of our democracy are fading. Was uncle Ted a psycho? Yes. Was he despite his methods right at the end of the day? Looking at the internet probably yes.
Well anyway if you got here thanks for entertaining a Schizo. Feel free to insult me and call me paranoid in the comments, I probably deserve it.
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It has been dead for as long as I've been alive and I am not convinced it wasn't stillborn. Also this wasn't a very impressive longpost, you can do much better if you unleash your inhibitions I am sure.
enjoy some good content on the matter!The issue seems to be that the only way you can criticise society is through the lens of groupthink. I don't know why this has become the case but it seems that you can't oppose consumption without making it about China or conservatives driving trucks.
You can't discuss the implications of a lack of religion without it immediately being construed into a current political discussion of party politics. You can't discuss the global hegemony of mega corporations without it being turned into a discussion of rich old white men ^TM or a conspiracy about Bill Gates and conspiratorial theories linked to identity politics. You can't discuss any distaste for modern society or the ethics of advertising and marketing.
You really can't discuss any issue of the sort because you have to pretend to be content with your life or you will lose connections that you have established in your daily life- people just don't want to hear it so you don't talk about it. Instead you can only sneed on sarcastic Internet forums.
But there is a possibility that this might all be cope due to laziness and lack of want to commit to anything in society on a philosophical level. Or a delusional need to wear a mask interacting with your surroundings so that when you're rejected or hurt it wasn't actually the real you but the version of you that you were choosing to portray outwards, and I am sure that this is something a lot of people do all the time.
I feel like I would want to engage in earnest if I was given a chance to but now that I live in a setting where professionalism is seen as a key requirement both privately and publicly I don't know how that would be possible. I hold my tongue every day and it is exhausting to be playing a role that I did admittedly bring upon myself in a way, I could have had the guts like uncle ted and just remove myself from a society that I have always felt was corrupt in as great of an extent as possible but I am weak and I crave status and pleasures that I would have to give up.
Instead I have become a bitter observer that can only engage with other people by saying what I think will best benefit my situation to a great extent.
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