If so, why?
Socialism doesn’t just seem like a good idea, it’s pretty much the only possible future that doesn’t end up with 99% of humanity suffering horribly.
The idea of everyone being able to work to make the means to survive has a rapidly approaching shelf life, most companies won’t employ humans over whatever tech is on the horizon as soon as it’s cheaper. The areas that remain habitable due to climate change will shrink
I do not know why this isn’t treated as a more pressing issue
It’s strange isn’t it? It ‘seems obvious’ but there’s such resistance, and not just from those who benefit from the status quo.
Just like religion, a bunch of people associate their work with their identity. If you remove the work, you threaten their identity and that is frightening.
That and some are just millionaires waiting to happen any day now.
I am surviving with you. I love you.
Being neurodivergent does that to you
It’s hard. I love you.
Often when I’m talking to give information, people get something completely different from it. I know how words work, but somehow it turns to garbage between my brain and their ears.
“Am I talking like the god damn riddler?” when my simple statement is somehow wildly misunderstood
Now I’m wondering if I shouldn’t start every question with “Riddle me THIS, Batman!” 🤔
This happens to me constantly. Just the other day I asked some friends for something and then they sent the literal exact opposite of that thing. Pretend I asked for blue with red stripes they gave me green with yellow polka dots. And it wasn’t just one person it was three separate people who all decided that made sense for some reason.
I was extremely specific too, even more than usual because I know people constantly misinterpret me. I made extra sure to not use any language with vague meanings and it still happened anyway. It’s like we live in alternate realities where words have completely different meanings.
It makes me not want to talk to people at all.
I don’t know anything about what is between my ears and your brains, but even so, I love you.
Hey thanks! Love you too!
I don’t know how to make a convincing heart on here so instead I will just say thank you.
Asking a technical question at work only for people to interpret it in a completely wrong way and needing to rephrase everything after confirming with a colleague that what I wrote the first time was actually clear… How do people’s brain works?
I only recenlty learned I have had undiagnosed autism my whole life (in my thirties now), and being able to recontextualise that I literally did have an - on average - different way of experiencing reality, with some filters missing, some intuitive normalities just not developing, and my brain focusing in a different way, that’s helping me a whole lot. Finally I don’t have to gaslight myself into thinking I am just lacking will and strength of character to fit into this world, as that’s what my socialisation had been instilling into me.
With having been obsessed with history and philosophy from a young age, I am also often not able to understand that the vast majority of people actually lives in a world where those things are at best superficially engaged with. Personally, at least at this moment of time, I think that is genuinely dangerous, because, oh boy, looking at the current material situation of the world and taking historical situations to estimate the possible consequences, things are not looking good. I firmly believe we need a globalised, socialist/communist mode of production and more short term, an international political infrastructure to organise the challenges ahead, but I fear it will only come about after things will be getting worse for quite some time, still.
Welcome to the doomer generation. I love you.
You might enjoy the book “Climate Leviathan”. It’s about all that and draws on a lot of history and philosophy.
That does indeed look right up my alley, thank you very much <3.
I’d also recommend “The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth” to anyone interested, for probably a bit more polemic piece that, from what I see from “Climate Leviathan”'s description, probably roughly argues around similar dynamics.
Honestly, sometimes yes.
I genuinely can’t understand ‘peoples’ need to hate on each other. All the time.
But I feel like the tin foil hat wearing loony when I share this sentiment with most people.
Most people are unsatisfied with their lives. There are two ways we generally try to deal with this; improve your own situation or try bringing other people down to your level. Many feel like the latter option is easier.
I don’t hate anyone or anything. Hate is a toxic emotion that poisons your own mind but leaves the target of it unaffected. It also implies the thing you’re hating is responsible for whatever it is that makes you hate it and assumes they could choose to do otherwise. I don’t believe in this. People don’t choose to behave badly. They just do and couldn’t have done otherwise.
“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
I get you. I love you.
Aww thanks! Love you too!
For whatever reason, I read the “I love you” like the Costco greeter in Idiocracy.
It makes me chuckle. As Joe Dirt famously said, Keep on keeping on.
Do most people live in a room chained to a bed and toilet, being gang banged by large women and doom scrolling Lemmy?
I love you.
You’re one of the large women, aren’t you.
Even when I’m by myself, I often get the feeling like I’m in a “bubble,” and everything I’m looking at outside of myself is some other reality different from my own. It’s not a positive or a negative feeling, just kind of weird.
So to answer your question: Yes.
To be fair, that is true!
We are each in our own simulated ‘reality’ of whats going on out there.
Perhaps it wold be nice if people could ‘re-calibrate’ their ‘realities’ sometimes?
I love you.
I see a lot of people have big meta thoughts and feelings. But mine is relatively small. I find that I live in a different reality since a lot of co-experienced events are remembered differently by the others. Let’s say a work meeting, when I think that it was a nice calm and friendly meetig others are heated and steaming by all the insults. The same with emails and other communications Also with a sportmatches. For instance when I really enjoyed a match and thought both teams did a nice job of performing, the media paints a vastly different picture where one team was really awful and performed well belowed standards.
So my perception of reality seems really of from the rest of the population.
My solipsistic reality is indeed different from yours. I love you.
Yes because I can’t comprehend how anyone else think or feel. I can empathize, but I cannot fully understand how they think or feel because I transpose my thoughts and feelings to what others perceive and think.
I am stuck in my head with my thinking and my feelings, but I will never know what it feels to not be me.
I’m fine with that, but it boggles my mind sometimes.
Only when I smoke crack…
Do not smoke crack. I love you.
Yes, we live in a world were many serious people with serious credetrials can’t see lasting. and people go to a Taylor Swift concert or a Football game
“I see no way out of revolutionary changes to how we live today … it is too late for non-radical futures” - Professor Kevin Anderson
https://social.rebellion.global/@ScientistRebellion/110235597189756736
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/un-expert-human-rights-climate-crisis-economy
Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says ‘there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’
I am a stranger in a strange land
What’s really disturbing is when they go to a Swift Football game. I love you.
If people realized how bad shit is about to get they would be using bombs in museums instead of canned soup.
I didn’t but then they killed harambe and now its like I fell through a crack in reality and entered a shitty distopian novel.
Yeah, asd/adhd does that to you when you see how other people function “normally” and how your hangups are wildly more uncontrollable over trivial things. Then you get the adhd on top of that. Focus is a highly ambivalent and fickle creature. Good times. The brain being the reality we each experience, I think people with neurodivergence actually do experience a different reality than normative people do.
What a good question! No, most of the time I feel I am stuck here with everyone else, in this timeline. Sometimes what I perceive diverges from those around me, other times it converges. But I think of those as different filters overlaying the same reality; although I don’t believe this is the only reality in existence, it does feel like a ride we cannot get off.
Following on from the previous person’s travelling lifestyle and only working when they want to work, and work on things that they want to, I have children young children which makes it a little more difficult. However, there have been times in my life when I’ve just packed up, jumped in my vehicle and driven wherever. It’s very liberating.
This type of thinking may come from my near death accident 23 years ago or maybe it’s a personal trait that I’ve always had, don’t know. Personally speaking, believing in the system that’s presented to us from a very young age is not healthy for society or yourself, sometimes you just need to embrace the fear of uncertainty and go for it.
It’s great that you’re no longer near death. I love you.
