If you understand the way things are right now is broken, you should understand that you ALWAYS have a choice to stop being cynical, fight for your freedom and fight for what's right.
Below the title are 5 images and 6 lines of text. The first image is that of a person sitting on a chair at a desk. The text beside it reads "Sit at the desk 9-5".
The second image is the Netflix logo, the text beside it reads "Come home every night to watch Netflix".
The third image is a person wearing a backpack, shorts, boots, and a hat. The text beside it reads "Explore the world for only 2 weeks out of the year".
The fourth image is that of a box containing an assortment of items, the text beside it reads "Have zero creativity".
The fifth image is that of a person sitting on the floor with their knees drawn up to their chest, the text beside it reads "Have every single aspiration beaten out of them".
Underneath the images is a final line of text reading "THERE IS nothing MORE TO LIFE."
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Two weeks?? Longest vacation I've been on in the past 20+ years was eight days, with the eighth day being unintentional due to an issue with the airlines.
Y’know…I’m reading The Way We Never Were by Stephanie Coontz.
For much of humanity’s time in modern civilization, everyone worked. Constantly. From childhood to old age. The worst period was from industrialization to the labor movement. Literally worked to death. Probably one of the worst periods in human history with massive disparity and horrendous working conditions. The modern era is luxurious for many compared to what we used to have.
Yeah we're supposed to never leave our village for our 40 year lifespan, fear this that go against our myths and tradition and violently castigate those we deem different enough for us.
Or maybe civilization itself was too much and we should live in even smaller groups with our numbers limited by no agriculture.
I'll never understand the 9-5 thing. Even years ago, the people who didn't have shitty hours worked like 8-4:30 or something. Most people don't actually work 9-5.
Humans were made to reproduce and expand. Trough pure luck of evolution we got in a position that we don't need to be afraid of being eaten by lion, or dying from appendix infection, or getting impaled by some random warlord at the age of 5. By comparison sitting at the desk seems like a good deal.