Idk if it was because we were mostly high the entire time, but we agreed that we tend to over analyze things because we value nuance
But that rabbit hole goes so damn deep
Honestly still trying to figure out whether this is a human inquiry thing or ND thing. What say you
Like, we were able to design so many simple solutions to problems using the rules of capital but from a need-distribution perspective. We didn’t quite touch the resource exploitation from the 3rd world aspect though.
But I do this shit all the time with all of the situations that make me uncertain, so maybe it is a ND thing.
It’s jokerfying because we’re talking solutions that could be implemented by elementary schoolers :agony-shivering:
I think reading Marx and other leftist works might’ve just permanently altered my brain. Sounds crazy, but that feels like what has happened
Yeah, I know what you mean I think. Sometimes I have to interact with my retirement community and the McCarthyism and the life long mental result of their adapting to a capitalist culture is isolating for me in a way. I mean, if you actually CARE if people are free and prosperous and live fulfilling lives in your heart and not just in your rhetoric then it's hard to find a common ground on things. Like, someone says "work harder and you'll get ahead" and all you can do is lie to get out of the conversation "Yeah, that's right" and smile. It's so disingenuous just to survive it seems. The alternative of engaging is just so exhausting after all this time.
Not trying to go doomer, just trying to be realistic. I refuse to hold in my heart that people deserve to suffer or hurt, especially when the means to alleviate it are all around us. I just have to keep my head about me to navigate a world full of people that don't and won't know any different so they make it a part of their life. I just find that capitalism is incompatible with...well, love. Basically.
I mean, I was told not to lie, but all the lies we have to tell ourselves to be okay with capitalism are okay? Yeah, nah. My solution was to go underground from an early age back in the 70's.
I’m too caught up on the “why” for everything
It’s ruined a lot of things for me- relationships, jobs, fun
Yeah, I think I get it. It' s like if "curiosity" was treated like "passion". If someone were to say "what are you passionate about" but for curiosity...what are you curious about? Same thing, different perspective and different outcome but similarly experienced. Still, the outcome of curiosity is knowledge and since knowledge is created in our brain it's a creative endeavor but inside instead of outside. Huh, never thought about it like that before.
I almost feel like, in everything I do, it’s like getting a piece of the puzzle to become the most “complete” human (complete in regards to my knowledge about the world). That ‘s probably just a convoluted way to say that I’m an inquisitive person, but the former is just what an inquisitive person looks like to me (I think?)
Well, at least it's knowledge about the world as it is.
I mean, that's actually what makes a person feel less confused and frightened to me, I just want to know what's out there and then I can handle the feelings myself.
Stuff like religion and addiction just tries to bypass all the hard finding out and go straight to the resolution of the feeling. I guess that's why religion is seen as an opiate of the masses. I don't go for the resolution of feelings without all the realistic work of understanding what the hell is going on in the first place, I need a place where the resolution of feelings can call home when it's all done.
:yea: me too