That's what parallel societies are for!
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Tried hermitry?
Same
I sleep 18 hours a day and haven't been outside in months, save an emergency hospital visit where my DNR was ignored. I don't smoke this fentanyl on accident and these crooks keep reviving me
I work every day and dont do drugs but i feel the same
Give me the link to your SoundCloud, these lyrics go hard
Of all comments ever posted, this most certainly was one of them
I personally would like society to be offended
Just give society social media and in a decade they will be offended by everything.
Wow, rude.
great success!
Eh very much offense to society though
if I could just exist in a room with my things and a pet dog forever (or just the rest of my natural life) and never interact with another human being ever again, I would jump at the chance. The social contract I have been forced to participate in merely by being born -- one in which I have to pay money to live (read: live normally. yes, you can live off the land off the grid in the middle of buttfuck nowhere, this does not make it a practical solution for everyone and their grandmother), unlike every other living creature on this planet, in a world of adversarial sociopaths controlling 99.9% of said money -- I would have chosen not to sign had I had the opportunity. The juice is simply not worth the squeeze, not in this world, not for me in this life.
Absolutely rational take, in my opinion. Social contract has been broken, I feel no obligation at all fulfilling my end of the deal. As far as I'm concerned me and society have separated but still have to live under the same roof, for now.
Every other creature lives exactly like you described you don't want to live: off the land, off grid, in the middle of nowhere.
What you want is all the comforts of society (running potable water, sewage systems, electricity, internet, Uber eats, heating, A/C, firefighters, roads, etc) without any of the obligations.
The winderness is out there, be free!
yeah but it's almost like those comforts and services of modern society should be able to still be performed without trying to extract value for shareholders and we just choose not to because line go up make (rich) monkey brain happy. I believe there are, in fact, plenty of people willing to do the things that make the world run, completely for free, if only we did not operate on a global system that enriches shareholders, executives and politicians while paying the people doing the actual work a pittance and forcing them to struggle to survive.
And let's be very clear about what your definition of "obligations to society" is -- busting your ass creating value that is extracted from you for ~40 years for comparatively dogshit pay on the tenuous promise of retirement somewhere down the line, a promise that is actively being taken back by the upper class. Now, you work until you die unless you're very, very lucky. I don't find that a very compelling or fair deal, and if you do, would you be interested in purchasing a bridge?
Last I checked, water systems, sewage, roads, schools, firefighters, etc are not owned by capitalists/billionaires/whoever your enemy is.
Rome had some of those. The Soviet union had those. North Korea has those.
If your problem is with capitalism, don't blame "society", just move to one of the communist paradises out there.
Yeah you should go live in the bush for a few years. Your mind has been cooked by populism.
and you have stockholm syndrome for capitalism, but I forgive you.
What economic system do you prefer?
You've pretty much described my life. Mostly just me and my dogs. But I do still have to leave sometimes. :(
there's a reason my username is shortened from the Latin for "I want to leave". I don't necessarily want to die, I just don't want to be here anymore. Unfortunately for us both, leaving society as a whole without dying is rather difficult.
"Stop the world, I wanna get off," is one of my favorite phrases.
Lately, I've been rationalizing it as "I don't want to die, I want to WANT to live."
Still figuring out how to make it happen, but at least now I've got a catchy slogan for it
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Animals live off the grid in the middle of buttfuck nowhere.
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I get this sentiment, but the best way to combat this feeling is to build community.
Get to know the people around you. It starts small by just ditching the headphones in public and saying hello (and maybe some small talk) every time you encounter someone. Then start offering and accepting help, plan events, and keep track of their life milestones. People will be so pleasantly surprised when you remember things about their lives.
And you will probably be surprised at how many interesting people you pass by every day while keeping your head down. Over time, some of them will begin to reciprocate. Remember, they are probably also starved for community.
Capitalism wants us isolated, sad, and reliant on their products/services. The antidote is strong community.
Capitalism wants us isolated, sad, and reliant on their products/services. The antidote is strong community.
Thank you. This is what I've been telling people. I'm currently trying to build community as we speak - so far, it's great. But a lot of people are set in a more isolated mindset, so it's tough to "jailbreak" people out of this.
build community.
That sounds horrible. It’s just society with extra steps.
It’s actually fewer steps. Society is just late-stage community.
Our brains evolved for living in groups of ~30-100 people. These communities are small enough to all know and support each other through life’s inevitable struggles. A healthy society is made up of thousands of these smaller, tight-knit communities, not just millions of individuals.
Our brains are not happy alone—not for extended periods. Reducing all our social interaction to anonymous chats (like this one) and passing hundreds of nameless faces does not fulfill your social needs and will leave you feeling lonely.
It is work, and you will encounter people that suck and/or won’t reciprocate, but if you keep at it, good people will reveal themselves. I promise it’s worth it.
I’ve been told that humans need community and social contact, but when I was living in the woods for 18 months, only really interacting with my remote coworkers, and spending my time doing yard work and home improvement I was at my happiest and healthiest.
Honestly, even seeing hundreds of people a day is my idea of hell.
Do you put the cart back? Do you use a vehicle blinker correctly? If have not you may not have ever participated to begin with.
Well they do use the toilet rather than just shit anywhere. So there's some expectations that society is gonna be there for them.
Sure. They also leave bottles of piss in the parking lot since its too much trouble to throw them away.
I prefer interacting with my online gaming community more than my neighbors.
Cs2 solo queue is a more pleasant interaction than my neighbors
welcome to the group!
stay over there...
You don't have to. You can literally just walk off into a forest. It probably won't turn out well, but you can still do it.
Depending on what country you live in, you can't, actually.
My father worked for the U.S. forest service and part of his job was kicking people off of wilderness and national forest land.
Sorry, that forest is owned by a corporation and you're trespassing. The angry men with guns are here to see you out.
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