Bloody mess

The way I feel it, it's a bloody fucking mess we've gotten ourselves into on this planet. I admit I'm in somewhat of life crisis at the time, so I don't see things in a very positive light, but then, it seems to me that we're in somewhat of a world crisis down here.
What I have experienced in my life so far is so utterly demoralizing: Societies built on dishonesty, ruled by individuals doing anything for personal profit; people having forgotten their true nature, believing blindly what they're told, following other people's rules no matter what damage this does to themselves and to others ...
We have destroyed nature to the point where we'll soon have made the planet uninhabitable; we have virtually eliminated all native cultures which still had the knowledge of how life can be lived in accordance with nature instead of against it ...
We're living crowed on top of each other instead of having the space every creature needs to thrive, we're leading totally unnatural lives sitting in offices in concrete buildings instead of being alive outside in nature where we belong, we feed on crap that makes as sick produced and sold by companies telling us every conceivable lie about nutrition to increase their profits ...

How the fuck in one supposed to live in such a world?
I understand that you guys in the US at least have some more space left - huge deserts and the like, where few people live if any. That makes for some room - it's not just hopelessly overcrowded everywhere, like where I live. Also, if there's a grain of truth in the movie 'Into the Wild', there are still people over there which manage to lead a life outside of this insane society. That sounds great to me. Over here in central Europe, matters are considerably worse. There's no place left to go - it's crowded everywhere. There are no wild places left here. No room to be. Control over people has reached a level where life is barely possible any more.

 

you think things are bad now?? lol,, wait till this time next year..

may as well put yourself outta your misery now its all down hill from here..

 

the empty spaces in the us are all owned by somebody, or government-controlled

many of them are not too livable--i like deserts but they can be tough, whether hot or cold

life is barely possible under the best of circumstances, time to accept that and get on with things

[how much flax?]

 

And here I thought this thread would be about having period sex.



But yeah, the holidays (the big one anyway) are over.

January is always a bleak month.

Just wait.

 

If you're using that movie example as inspiration, then you ARE inviting your own demise for nothing. Argue for his ideals all you want, but that guy sure did make some stupid choices.

As an American, I find this comparison insulting, you insensitive clod! :cheers2:

 

lol +1

 

Y'know, I want an office job. Everyone goes on and on about how it's hell and crap and you're just another mindless drone but I really do want one. I see it in the movies all the time how the guy was in a crappy unfufilling job (always at an office) and managed to burst free from his shackles.

But see, I went there on work experience and did product design and I have to say I liked it.

 

Office jobs sucks balls. I like to get my hands dirty, and the blood in my veins to circulate.

 

:cheers2:

 

Which is what everyone seems to tell me.

 

Yep...is thread is sorely lacking in the blood department.

 

Well, it might sound a bit too much, but somehow we all know it's true.
We are in denial of the harm we do to this planet and to ourselves.
But we do it believing it won't matter...

 

Quoting Jaitaiyai:
'Y'know, I want an office job. Everyone goes on and on about how it's hell and crap and you're just another mindless drone but I really do want one.'

Then go and do it - I'm not standing in your way; I'm not saying no one should work in an office, I'm just trying to express something I feel.
With the years passing by, the ways we're living our lives today started to appear ever more absurd to me. It's not something I can just convey to others - it's something I feel. I see the people around me exchanging their lives for money. I see how hollow their lives are. I see them grow up in an environment where there is no way you can start to develop your own personality - no way you can live your own way. I see how we cannot be parents for our kids anymore, because we're lacking the most basic qualities human beings should have - because we haven't got the chance to acquire them anymore.
I've done many kinds of different jobs so far, trying to stay alive somehow. Working in an office almost full time - which I do for the first time now - seems to me to be almost the pinnacle of how far away one can get from leading a meaningful life. That's a hundred percent personal experience. None of the fellers working where I do feels the same. But then: I doesn't seem to me that they realize what they're in.


Quoting sites:
'If you're using that movie example as inspiration, then you ARE inviting your own demise for nothing. Argue for his ideals all you want, but that guy sure did make some stupid choices.
As an American, I find this comparison insulting, you insensitive clod!'

When I wrote what I wrote, I was thinking of that hippie community where the main character in the movie stayed for some time before going to Alaska. Of course that's only a movie - I have no idea how things really are over there. But the way it was depicted, it made the impression that there are people who somehow manage to live a completely different live - living somewhere out there - on their own - according to their own ideals. To me, this sounds just great. It's something that's not possible here anymore.

 

Vaporize into the 4th dimension man its happening now

 

Well, there is something you can do to help...

Don't have any kids and stop the overpopulation problem.

...and if you do have kids, then kill them right now and save the planet!

 

I wasn't talking specifically to you but thanks.

 

There is no overpopulation problem. There is only a poverty problem- which is entirely political in nature and not an issue of "resources" (which can always be replenished by human labor since they are "resources" insofar as they serve human purposes).

 

I call bullshit. A whole lot of bullshit, so much bullshit that you can sink and drown in it within nanoseconds.

But there is a poverty problem, but it's not all political. It has a whole lot to do with resources.

 

It's essential to think that way if you're an elitist.

 

It's essential to call people "elitist" if you're an idiot.