this seems very idealistic.there is no better world for us all to strive for, thats the main lesson of history surely? people need false constructs and lies, like the lie of the state or of society. we have to have these fictions so the world is not so scary. people should believe in those lies so the system works. unless you think that we can live in an anarchist utopia with flowers in our hair. the system has to work so as many people as possible can survive one day to the next.
sorry this is taking so long to write with so little substance but i'm trying to write an essay on hebrew food laws
the reason why the west is suffering so badly from internal strife is because nihilism has struck us all so horribly. everyone is disaffected and depressed, thats why we are stagnating, no one cares about anything any more. at least when we believed the lies of god and country we achieved things. i think i'd be less likely to waste entire days sitting in front of a computer or the TV if i felt my life had any purpose
(sorry this is taking so long to write with so little substance but i'm trying to write an essay on hebrew food laws
the reason why the west is suffering so badly from internal strife is because nihilism has struck us all so horribly. everyone is disaffected and depressed, thats why we are stagnating, no one cares about anything any more. at least when we believed the lies of god and country we achieved things. i think i'd be less likely to waste entire days sitting in front of a computer or the TV if i felt my life had any purpose
Tom OBedlam I have control of a tank,
Wed 21 May 2008, 3:04,
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The false constructs are the ones which are telling us that there is a better world to strive for, and to follow it. So I don't see how you can claim that I am being both nihilistic and idealistic at the same time.What tells us that people need false constructs? Experience? Maybe, but then has anyone ever made a concerted effort to actually think about the possibility of a government or state founded on no principles or rather the principles that they will try to think about how they actually effect the world and whether it's positive or negative. Even then are you saying that the status of human civilisation and thought will never adapt or evolve, that we are mentally exactly the same as we were back when we were hunting and living in caves. I can see that humans don't like the idea of a lack of meaning and that they have to cling to false hopes, but I also see that humans see the need to have land wars over resources that technically don't belong to anyone; just because it's inevitable due to how humans act, doesn't mean it's necessary or a given that should not be thought or developed around.
I don't think people really are as disaffected as you make out, not from my eyes anyway. I constantly see people believing in their own certainties, their own ways of elevating themselves and justifying their lives. Whether it's the religious, the life's a bitch and then you die brigade, even the various alternative lifestyle types. They all believe their own hype and mould their own fantastical beliefs to insane levels where they will argue and fight over their whimsy quite easily.
Whether there's any more of a problem with disillusionment and violent abandoned men is hard to tell either, it's a sheer function of the media now that if anything happens that will set someone off then it will be in the papers/news. 30 or 40 years ago there may well have been a vast world out there that people could have got annoyed at if they only knew it existed. And I really need to go to bed now.
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Wed 21 May 2008, 3:28,
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I don't think people really are as disaffected as you make out, not from my eyes anyway. I constantly see people believing in their own certainties, their own ways of elevating themselves and justifying their lives. Whether it's the religious, the life's a bitch and then you die brigade, even the various alternative lifestyle types. They all believe their own hype and mould their own fantastical beliefs to insane levels where they will argue and fight over their whimsy quite easily.
Whether there's any more of a problem with disillusionment and violent abandoned men is hard to tell either, it's a sheer function of the media now that if anything happens that will set someone off then it will be in the papers/news. 30 or 40 years ago there may well have been a vast world out there that people could have got annoyed at if they only knew it existed. And I really need to go to bed now.
sleep welli'll gaz you a response to this tomorrow. i really need to finish this essay.
night man
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Tom OBedlam I have control of a tank,
Wed 21 May 2008, 3:36,
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