I feel like screaming and laughing at the absolute horror of modern existence. I feel a perverse vitality and frivolous merriment contemplating the absolute ruin of everything for everyone. I know indulging in dark nihilistic humor is harming my soul but I don’t want to stop.
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Personally, I felt some sort of catharsis once I freed myself from the pressure of expectations. No longer desiring a career, financial success, typical social achievements, etc. has been somewhat liberating.
teach me your wisdom anon. i want to reject the things you mention, but the idea of having to work some shit job every day to just be able to feed myself is some hellish shit too.
Nice. I have new good job and masters degree lined up and gf and good friends and want to kill myself because I just want to read and be left alone and live an idyllic life but that seems nearly impossible.
What do you do with your time? What is your situation?
Pussy.
Climate change isn't inevitable. You need to get out and join a protest.
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It'll only change when you kill enough of the leaders of oil, fashion, etc. to finally get someone who cares more about the planet than their wallet.
Protests do nothing but give them more time. It's too late for that.
I have a hard time believing humans actually impact the climate enough that's its an emergency. however, the planet itself will do as its pleases, humans or not.
>Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Stop listening to semi-obscure Canadian bands for starters, they’re not very good
>semi-obscure
Cruelty Squad
Haplessness, you say?
Behold:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B4M98NTH
yeah well the whole worlds gonna end when the sun blows up in 5 billion years
this is just the same thing but its like 10 years big whoop
Stop posting low quality threads
It took a minute for it to kick-in, but we are finally in the post-Darwin timeline proper. We tried to glue it together with humanism, that was the 90's, but the invention of instant global information exchange saw to the end of that. We now understand fully that nothing particularly special exists, and most of life is toil, when its not bowl-shattering pain.
I think countless civilizations have popped up across the universe, worked their way to self-awareness via natural selection, saw the nothing that is particularly worth doing, and laid down by the watering hole to die.
*bowel-shattering
Bowl shattering in itself is not particularly tragic.
It's very possible that "The Great Filter" is suicide, in my opinion.
Have you ever read Zappfe? Unfortunately this small essay is all we have in english. It talks about human conscience and its consequences, and about the things we do to cope.
Oh yes, I read TLM perhaps once a day, but thanks. Its just painfully obvious that consciousness wants nothing to do with existing. What good does it do the animal a mechanism that convinces it to leap off of a bridge, or to never reproduce?
One could argue "Well that's just certain kinds of consciousness, consciousness gone bad," but they would still have to concede that these things grow in the arena of self-reflection. If we agree self-reflection can twist into an anti-natural element, that's a startling piece of evidence towards its lack of utility.
As far as the great silence, its either a surrender to intentional destruction, meaning they either choose to go out or select to dumb-down until star-faring is impossible, if it ever was, or its a refusal to expand in favor of a small life with controlled numbers, and they patiently await the death of their planet.
Its no big shock the AI community is beginning to awaken to the horrors of exactly what their ideas are capable of. I think this for societies throughout the galaxy represents a turning point. I'd like to think they stop themselves before they unleash hell. Either way, we'll soon be too dumb and poor to accomplish anything, so it would have to be a very hard take-off and very soon, and we just don't see that happening.
https://www.edge.org/conversation/thomas_metzinger-benevolent-artificial-anti-natalism-baan
I have not read Zappfe, but from what you describe, another author that might be interesting to people is Becker and his Denial of Death. He touches on the same ideas - derived and refined from Freud and Ranke - that man is cursed with a dual nature. His intellect and the symbolic world it inhabits, which is capable of far outstripping our weak mortal coils. Our corporeal shells are ultimately doomed to die and decay like the lowest worm, and this fact presents utter horror to the self-concious intellect.
I've never understood the Great Filter? How would even have a method of ascertaining other civilizations existing? Wouldn't it require them to be absolutely massive to be noticeable from earth? And what are the chances anything scifi puts forward is actually achievable?
>I've never understood the Great Filter?How would even have a method of ascertaining other civilizations existing?
It's not that they don't exist, is that we don't have evidence for their existence.
>Wouldn't it require them to be absolutely massive to be noticeable from earth?
See picrel, 10 pages.(https://nickbostrom.com/extraterrestrial.pdf).
I'm sorry if I was not so helpful, I haven't read much about it myself.
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I think countless civilizations have popped up across the universe, worked their way to self-awareness via natural selection, saw the nothing that is particularly worth doing, and laid down by the watering hole to die.
I think the cycle you described can be attributed to one question that is describable, yet unanswerable.
>What is the point of existence?
If that single question cannot be answered by any civilization truthfully (which in itself is an impossible quest), it will cease to exist in time and either "lay down by the watering hole to die" or destroy themselves with their creations.
Shit poem.
what makes modern existence more horrifying than it has always been
Lurk more. Also the Road
I won't be original, but it's actually a Bible with commentaries.
There are many stories that are not known to the general public (for example, the war to avenge Leviticus's concubine).
The narrative goes from the sublime and turns into complete decadence, only to become sublime again in the New Testament.
Why read with comments? Because there are many topics in the Bible that were understood by the ancients, but for us these topics have been distorted. Most people because of the Masonic film think that God destroyed all the children of Egypt, but since the "first-born", i.e. In fact, it was adults who died. The same Pharaoh in the story of Moses died, and Pharaoh's son went after him.
start with the greeks, and stop being so cringe just for the sake of trying to sound deep.
As stated in the book The Idiot by Dostoevsky, I believe that Beauty is the only thing capable of saving men.
Erm chud, things have never been better. Go watch some sissy porn and smoke a bowl.
Conspiracy Against the Human Race
Modern world's terminally brain dead because we've forgotten what we actually are. Forget all that cowardly nihilistic tripe. Remember and return to the One.
>blahblahblah
It's saturday. Have a drink, touch grass, talk to a girl.
Stop being such a downer homosexual. Life is fricking awesome. It's not "modern existence", it's "modern society", and if you had any sense you'd recognize the old adage "can't beat em, join em" rings true. Except instead of joining the wagies, you join the hustler crowd and stack paper to the ceiling, and just spend it on chocolate milk and steak.
If you're *really* looking for "Deep" meaning, go on /x/ and just read a bunch of occult books.
Eventually once you've got all your psychic powers in order and have spoken to every spirit in your area you'll come to the conclusion that existence fricking rocks.
i kneel
Glorious.
Maybe you should just fricking go outside, try to appreciate your surroundings, realize you’re a part of the world, like any other animal for better or worse. Expectations beyond that are just narcissism. The world isn’t there to disappoint you.
I went outside and saw a dead cat in the road.
>go outside
>no walking infrastructure and nobody else on sidewalks because everything is built around cars
>pounding heat and humidity
>zero cultures just stores
>nothing to do unless you drive over an hour out of town to funner places
Every time I go out I just feel like a hobo wandering the streets with nothing to do, and trust me I have done a lot of walking there is not a goddamn thing to see here.
American cities are designed piss poorly. It's a major problem that very few people seem to want to acknowledge.
sounds like GPS
Back to Methuselah
Test
>One would think the boy would have been averse to fires of any kind, in light of his recent experiences. But it was not so. He found, rather, something almost appealing in the sight of this raging fire, and the beautiful airplane that was so perfectly formed and so shiny and perfect, slowly turning into a big gnarled mess of black smoke, its beautiful propellers twisted, its windows smashed, its smooth body torn and dented, and the people running over like ants from all directions and the firefighters unrolling their hoses and everybody utterly possessed with panic, though it had happened before and would probably happen again, all behaving as though it was the only time it had ever happened, some raising their hands to their heads in helpless, hollow gestures, and some instinctually ducking their heads at the sound of the blast. What was attractive to the boy was not so much the fire itself, but the thought of himself, watching it. And as he watched the long white arcs of water pouring onto the fires, and the smoke mounting into the wild wind, and the wind shuddering out over the trees on the shore and the darkening indifferent sea, he wondered what it would be like to be perfectly indifferent—not merely to say to himself that he didn’t care, but actually not to care. To be unaffected by fear and pain and hurt, free of suffering, his emotions silent, his emotions dead, his heart still—or even better, without a heart, heartless, neither kind nor cruel, neither happy nor sad, refined out of all weaknesses—disciplined.