What's something people should stop idolising/ romanticising?
What's something people should stop idolising/ romanticising?
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Poverty. It's fucking shit. You live in constant fear, fear of not being able to eat, losing your home, and one breakage wiping you out for months or years. You live day to day or week to week, your life revolves around money and you might have to take shitty treatment from employers cos you don't have options. The poor really do pay more. There's a reason that it's called the poverty trap and not the poverty easily escapable zone.
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Can you share some examples of poverty being romanticized? What comes to my mind is how there seems to be a lot of emphasis and appreciation for folks who are able to escape it, but that doesn’t seem too bad to me. Stories about poverty don’t make me romanticize poverty, they make me appreciate what I have. I don’t disagree with what you said. Just looking for the connection.
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My granddads fought I'm ww2 so I can't agree more. It's horrendous, not glamorous or exciting, it's devastating
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Religion.
To consider antireligion instead of atheism
The harm of religion is historically evident whereas the presence or absence of gods is not. Ultimately, the continued existence of religion is predicated on the indoctrination of children and suppression of rational thought. Therefore I am against religion but not necessarily against the idea of gods. For all we know gods are computer scientists and we are in their video game. —https://www.arscyni.cc/file/antireligion.html -
Wealth and the past
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Being rich.
As long as there are people without a home or who live in a permanent state of anxiety, then being rich is unethical. Solving the problem of disproportionate hoarding—greed—should be humanity's current prime directive because it's the cause of nearly all our problems.
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✍︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature. -
- The wealthy
- Space
- Planetary colonization (e.g. Mars)
These are all bad for the same reason; they're all trying to kill you.
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Nature as idyllic harmony, in the Rousseauvian sense. In reality, nature is metal as fuck. (As Werner Herzog put it, the birds aren’t singing, they’re screaming in pain and terror.)
Yep there's a lot of things that can literally kill and maim you . It's constantly trying to hurt you and is powerful AF
I read that in his voice.
In the same vein “natural” products. Arsenic is a natural product. Just fucking tell me what’s in it and where it came from and stop trying to mislead me.