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0 pointsnubinetwork5mo ago0 comments

God forbid that people actually have to learn and do something instead of sitting around being a doomscrolling tiktok zombie... /s

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rfrey5mo ago

There's all sorts of things I have no interest in learning because they seem unspeakably dull.

That some people don't want to spend time learning the thing that you happen to find interesting doesn't mean they're wasting their lives.

9dev5mo ago

Not that I disagree with you, but that’s generally not how society works. If only everyone had some consideration, self-control, and curiosity, we wouldn’t have an environmental crisis, churches, corruption, or wars. Yet all of these things do exist and won’t go away no matter how I wish them to.

So the next best thing is trying to operate in the constraints that apply, such as most people being unwilling to learn new things and going down the path of least resistance.

bluebarbet5mo ago

Slightly offtopic, but the sheer scale of the phenomenon you allude to - of screen-addled zombification - is really turbo-charging my own misanthropy. People staggering around, necks hunched, eyes down, all but glued to their miserable little toys. Everywhere, everyone, all the time. It's just pathetic. I guess I had hoped humans would have more self-control than this.

nkrisc5mo ago

Stop viewing them in isolation and view them as a product of their environment. They weren't born with a phone in hand, someone gave it to them and someone created Tik Tok for them.

lotsofpulp5mo ago

I got screwed, I had to pay quite a few hundred dollars with a 2 year contract with ATT and I waited in line at 6AM for my first smart phone.

Even today, I doubt I could get anyone to just give me a smartphone.

bluebarbet5mo ago

That's a fair argument. It's also unfalsifiable and based on an underlying personal worldview. Specifically (I would venture) an "us and them" view of things where history is determined by groups and power - a left-wing outlook, basically! I'm a bit of a liberal individualist by nature, I see personal responsibility and autonomy as a thing. I'm not sure how I'd go about deprogramming myself of this even if I wanted to. But it would help with the misanthropy, for sure.

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rfrey5mo ago

There's all sorts of things I have no interest in learning because they seem unspeakably dull.

That some people don't want to spend time learning the thing that you happen to find interesting doesn't mean they're wasting their lives.

9dev5mo ago

So the next best thing is trying to operate in the constraints that apply, such as most people being unwilling to learn new things and going down the path of least resistance.

bluebarbet5mo ago

nkrisc5mo ago

Stop viewing them in isolation and view them as a product of their environment. They weren't born with a phone in hand, someone gave it to them and someone created Tik Tok for them.

lotsofpulp5mo ago

I got screwed, I had to pay quite a few hundred dollars with a 2 year contract with ATT and I waited in line at 6AM for my first smart phone.

Even today, I doubt I could get anyone to just give me a smartphone.

bluebarbet5mo ago

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