We could have had it all
We could have had it all
We could have had it all
Nature is pretty brutal too tho
Not if you’re on the top of the food chain or have opposable thumbs (check mate cats)
You don’t explore morbid medical content enough.
There is no top of the food chain, it’s a big circle, and bacteria and fungus are coming for dat ass.
Cats are a bad example, as they're probably the species that's had the most success because they chose to attach themselves to humans. Dogs didn't choose, we took them in.
Yeah, life is super fucking ugly. We just have the ability to create beauty out of it (but usually choose to wallow in shit instead).
This shitpost feels like a hug. Thanks fren, real art
People are exhausted from work and that's what causes them to perceive everything in an ugly light. Because it turns out, when you're not doing well (mentally, emotionally), that skews your perception so everything looks a bit more ugly to you.
I am doing extremely well yet everything looks like an ugly light is shining on it. Because the suffering of other people matters to me and ruins my day. Fuck capitalism.
I have a theory, and it ties in with Agent Smith's theory from the Matrix. Mine is, that as soon as we remove one cause of stress in our lives, we add at least one new one to replace it.
Maybe we're just not meant to live in a utopia.
The kind of society that "won out" over the other kinds we've tried is definitely a contributor. When Europeans were integrating with the plains Indians in the US and Canada many of them noted how the "less-civilized" people seemed to be a good deal more civilized than themselves in a lot of respects (like with mutual aid, division of labor and resources, etc.). But there's no reason to think we can't get there again.
Is there evidence of this? Most historical writings on colonial attitudes towards Indigineous people is that they were seen as primitive and backward for not having similar infrastructure, focussing on sustainability rather than productivity and not being Christian.
It would be fascinating to hear of there were more balanced voices back then but the general attitude of European settlers at the time was we are here to take land and control trade because our God ordained it.
I really think that's just what "the system" wants us to think. We should at least never give up the hope and faith that good things can happen
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure it would be nice. It just feels like there's a constant resistance to our lives, in total improving too much.
Maybe meditation and inner peace are just elaborate coping mechanisms that exercise the muscle of rising above chaos so you can breathe, for a bit
The Buddha coped so hard he was considered to have escaped our reality. Lol.
Life definitely is ugly though.
That is one huge ass pigeon
Terrifyingly large, I'd say.
Or a tiny bench
Let's say we lived in an ideal global society. No inequality, no hatred, no pedo-governments, no war.
Life is only beautiful to masochists and or sadists.
In an ideal society,
An ideal society would do everything in their power to make it an ideal utopia, so why limit it to some pessimistic depiction even in your imagination.
Life is whatever you perceive it to be. You may have a shitty hand, but it still is yours to play however you want.
Life is not subjective because suffering is not subjective. If you really believe that life is what you perceive it to be, prove it to yourself by sleeping on a nail-bed starting tomorrow.
They hated him because he spoke the truth.
And its because life is already hard enough that we dont need the system shitting on us too.
Pigeons only unclean because they have to stand on our garbage
Pigeons only unclean
Birds are the filthy, degenerate hillbilly cousins of dinosaurs that are constantly covered in shit, dirt, blood and disease. Some are less dirty than others, and human garbage introduces new types of filth and disease, but their natural state (like most animals) is disgusting.
IMO, many humans are only marginally cleaner than birds. Some definitely have about pigeon-level self-awareness when it comes to the state of their personal hygiene.
Let's have it all. All I need is enough free time to design the perfect Lemmy community, then we can organize, then I will try to expand (need my own site because banned from Reddit. A prime example of why a corporation controlling most of the internet is a bad idea. They can just censor any movement before it even starts. Btw, I kind of deserve it, I acted out when I was in shitty mental health, I expected to kill myself anyway)
Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.
But but.. Money, and land, and power and that person is different to what I'm used to and makes me uncomfortable, where's my favourite throwing rock?