I personally would like society to be offended
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Just give society social media and in a decade they will be offended by everything.
I found everything offensive back in -83.
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.
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.
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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"Stop the world, I wanna get off," is one of my favorite phrases.
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Same, but my cats instead.
I am not suicidal. I just don’t give a fuck if I wake up dead one day.
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.
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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
Of all comments ever posted, this most certainly was one of them
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I want to keep living in society. I just want to live in a society that doesn't have the current cancer we're seeing.
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.
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.
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That's what parallel societies are for!
Eh very much offense to society though
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.
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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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.
I listened to a documentary about that Grizzly Man dude who got eaten by bears in... Alaska, I want to say. Maybe it's different between states, but they had a rule there that you need to move along once a week if you're camping.
Yup. Where I grew up it was two weeks.
That said, as long as you lay low, be careful about any campfires, etc. you can likely hide for a very long time.
For sure. I mean in the end I think that rule is for your own safety and to make sure you don't disturb nature too much or make it inaccessible to others by hogging spots.
Even in the documentary, the dude had a harangue about someone having left a note at his camp, like, "See you next year!" which was obviously meant as a well intentioned "Hey, we know who you are, we know you're here, we're not gonna make you move, please be careful <3 / Park Management" which the dude interpreted as a threat and an act of hostility but the dude was not right in the head and he got ate by bears and I have no clue why I am talking to you about this.
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Have you tried reminiscing of a void instead, which lacks any sensory input or memories, but includes full awareness, which happened to be your first ever conscious experience? Wait, that’s just me? Oh.
I prefer interacting with my online gaming community more than my neighbors.
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Same
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.
With those two incredibly low bars you eliminated like 30% of people around me every day, which is a good way of illustrating how insufferable it is to keep moving through this society
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