Modern life is worse than this
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Modern life is worse than this
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You have to imagine le happiness
How, really how? you stupid homosexual. Go and be a slave building the pyramids or the great wall you stupid privileged moron.
Slaves didn't build the pyramids. Either way I would prefer to be a slavd during that time because at least everyone wasn't so fake and gay.
>I can't deal with existential dread
>so I would rather be treated like an animal
>maybe return to monke
You realize that you can always return to monke at will, right? You can literally start paying attention to your sense, get out of your head and start working on "le feeling good".
Impossible when the fakeness and gayness is seeped into every crevice of the world.
You can't have it more authentic than your own senses and if you are gay, then you are being authentic if you are being gay (as in your post sounds pretty gay).
Yeah? Was it aliens who built it?
>wasn't so fake
true
>gay
ehhh, people were pretty gay back then
The boulder is a computer, the hill is a desk chair. That might sound comfy, until you realize that even the thing which made it a challenge has been taken away.
>die at 20
>only 20 years of suffering
More like 15 or so, too.
Thank you very much.
>fake and gay
Amazing intellectual capacity to see through the bullshit of the modern world
Its succinct, populist and gets the message across. Non intellectualism is the way forward with messaging against the machine, it has never been intellectualism that succeeds
yours is, my life is awesome
someone shop the rock in the gay pride rainbow and put a surgical mask on sisyphus with george soros cackling in the background
To represent OP fighting with his gay thoughts
I have had the easiest life in my bloodline bar none. None of my ancestor had it this easy or good.
I earn double my dad/grandad/great grandad did doing less, way less. I don't think no one in their lives ever imagined that at the end of their genetic pool would be good ol me, posting on IQfy and jacking off, sitting in my home while I get paid for doing basically frick all.
This is the great triumph of all those farmhands, soldiers, killers, rapists (and rape victims), businessmen and hardworking people that came before me.
I'm gonna enjoy cumming to ponies high as frick during work hour much more.
Congratulations. You’ve achieved the vitality of a fungus and dignity of a worm. I bet your ancestors would be proud.
First day here?
I still don't get why Sisyphus is "happy". Is it because he has a purpose? But it was forced on him. Is he forcing himself to be happy in rebellion? I've read it 3 times and it's still 2deep4me
It strays into work essentiallism a bit too much for me. Work is a means to an end, the end is a good life with deep relationships with loved ones, time spent in nature, time to pursue hobbies and learn more about the world. Some people extol work as an end in itself, that there is dignity and nobility in the act of working itself, therefore even if you are doing pointless work, you should embrace the absurdity and smile and enjoy those things. It doesn't work for me, and I actually feel it's a deep insult to the very dignity and nobility of man, essentially you wouldn't know how to be happy in a free life so you might as well be a serf or slave working hard and enjoying it because you are garbage who can't comprehend any other meaning. Not for me, I can fill my life with purpose and meaning just fine without a master imposing work on me.
What do you do for work?
Why do you want to know?
Idk I get the hunch that you don't actually work, are a NEET, and recently read Nietzsche. Tell me if I'm wrong though.
I'm a line cook in a family restaurant. I work about 20 or so hours a week, enough to pay the bills and add a little to savings. You allude to a very interesting issue that I see with a lot of people which is actually just a need for novelty. I don't have this as strongly as other people in the sense that I don't get bored with the same routine. I have walked through the same park every week for 8 years now and it still holds the same appeal and refreshing awe as the first time I walked through it. Same with meals, I have the same thing for lunch at work for 10 years now and it still tastes as exceptionally good as the first time. I suppose I get my fill of novelty through reading new things and movies and stuff, but I actually feel like I could live my life exactly as it has been for infinity into the future and be generally happy and fulfilled the whole time. Other people seem to get bored or antsy and require drama or change or whatever and it seems that's the source of a lot of trouble, either the negative feeling of stagnation or the problems that arise from trying to make a change. I seem to be immune from these things, and instead seek to maintain the equilibrium I have found which is great for me. I actually am NOT a fan of Nietzsche at all, if that helps.
Alternatively, if you do indeed work, I'd like to know how you can dedicate so much of your time and energy to something that doesn't bring you joy/happiness of some sort, simply to fund your search for/fulfillment of 'meaning' all without getting depressed. I ask this because I was like you for a long time. I did find a modicum of happiness in the pursuit of 'meaning', in learning about the world, and cultivating relationships. But eventually that all becomes a bit droll. You reach a plateau in your curiosity and find yourself and your own inner life rather boring. I say "you" but I mean me. Idk, I had to find purpose in service to find joy anymore. I don't think this is an affront to the dignity and nobility of man (most don't have that anyway). On the contrary, I think service can be what makes man most noble and dignified.
Modern life rules if you can fulfill your extraneous needs (social, reproductive, etc) and avoid addiction. The problem is that most young people fall into these traps because the modern world changes too quickly for parents to teach kids how to live. In short, adapt or die; as it is, as it was, and ever shall be.
Yup. I voluntarily go to the gym in my free time to do that, and it's far from the worst part of the day. Maybe Ted Kaczynski was right after all.
Sisyphus did it for others and he was smiling. When is the last time that you have bled or went hungry so that the poor, dumb, ugly, aged, and fat could be more comfortable? How long have you gone with recognizeable sin? What is your spiritual health? The modern world is meaningless suffering without spiritual health but I do apologize if there are personal considerations I'm not being compassionate about. In short, get on your knees and pray every day and things will get better. Accept infinity because it's the selfless thing to do.
What the modern world hasn’t done is free up everyone to spend their life how they please, namely living for others, bleeding for others, or anything like that. Workers, for example, still spend their lives working. It’s simply that now the work is totally devoid of any meaning and mostly devoid of any human aspect at all.
>how they please, namely living for others, bleeding for others, or anything like that
Most men would spend it on cars, a nice house, and a hot wife and most women on israeliteels and clothes. What exactly do you mean by frees us? Free to do what you can already do if you forsake luxuries? Wanting "freedom" is literally insane - you aren't even free of the seasons and when wheat grows or when corn is ready for harvest and technological advancements allow for "incremental modifications" that ape freedom but are nothing of the sort. I wouldn't worry about work either - if you really hate it then get a remote job or something like that.
You pointed out that Sisyphus did it for others. The implication is that the solution for the modern condition is doing it for others, like Sisyphus. But the modern condition doesn’t necessarily allow for that. What modernity has actually done is kept all the trappings of pre-modernity but just made us less connected with it. We still work, we still wage war, we still do all of that. We just do it in a way that’s basically less dignified. So if you’re a worker, you still have to work. I have a remote job fwiw. The thing about remote work is that it’s almost modernity taken to the extreme. You “work” but it’s totally lifeless, basically just symbolic. You move around fake things on a screen. You don’t actually do anything real. And so it’s just as meaningless or meaningless than anything else.
>But the modern condition doesn’t necessarily allow for that
Why not?
It depends on where you live and who you are. It's more like that in the grotesquely overpopulous East than it is anywhere in comparatively lightly populated regions of the West. Even in comparatively dense regions of modern Wiemar, life is a cakewalk in a park for almost all concerned, compared to almost anywhere in Asia or the Southern Hemisphere. For comparisons to the ancient world in general, statistics aren't hard to find, never mind reliable accounts and research about the horrors of the Colosseum. Modern life is rather sweet, unless you're condemned to one of its backward and arbitrary tyrannies.
Unironically touch grass. Repeat daily and life improves dramatically.
>doing stuff is le bad
People like carrying rocks and other heavy things.
That guy should be crushed by the rock and everyone envies him for being able to carry it.
Fantasy
>I am le happy Sisyphus! Life is a tragedy but I embrace it!
Reality
>"There is no curse hanging over you. You may be a monster, but not a monster of the lower world. You do not need to writhe in agony or cry out in pain. There is no tribulation in store for you, no rock of Sisyphus, no one is going to offer you a chalice only to snatch it from your lips at the last moment, there is no crow with sinister designs on your eyeballs, no vulture has been assigned the indigestible chore of tucking into your liver morning, noon, and night. You do not have to grovel before your judges, begging for mercy, imploring their pity. No one is condemning you, and you have committed no offense. No one looks at you and then averts their gaze in horror." - Georges Perec
Damn that quote hits hard. Never heard of this author but this makes me want to read him.
Really captures the insignificance and banality of life.
here's your modern world bro
Soon the resources will deplete, and things will get interesting again
for most people things will become a living hell
Counter point: they deserve it.
megaman!
Acquire the energy Wesources!
This is just nonsense, gmos already have the potential to feed everyone but due to a lack of implementation they haven’t. It’s not hard to put all your energy into one thing when the success of that one thing is what saves you
Can't wait for the water wars. Perfect cure to existential dread is to be dying of thirst and spearing some paki for a sip of water.
So true bestie
>make massive gains pushing rock up mountain
>get to watch rock roll down mountain everyday
explain to me how this is a punishment
Every person throughout history has considered themselves living in the modern age
The average normie is so drowned in copes and delusion that they don’t realize it though.
>One must imagine Sisyphus happy