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2018-04-01 at 1:18 AM UTC in The Retardest Thread: Fashionably Late Edition.
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2018-04-01 at 1:10 AM UTC in How to efficiently overthrow government?
Originally posted by Lanny Wouldn't you give up some portion of your material wealth if meant living in a society you didn't feel disgusted by?
The system does not and cannot exist to satisfy human needs. Instead, it is human behavior that has to be modified to fit the needs of the system. This has nothing to do with the political or social or moral ideology that may pretend to guide the system. It is the fault of technology, because the system is guided not by ideology but by technical necessity.
Of course the system does satisfy many human needs, but generally speaking it does this only to the extent that it is to the advantage of the system to do it. It is the needs of the system that are paramount, not those of the human being. For example, the system provides people with food because the system couldn’t function if everyone starved; it attends to people’s psychological needs whenever it can CONVENIENTLY do so, because it couldn’t function if too many people became depressed or rebellious. But the system, for good, solid, practical reasons, must exert constant pressure on people to mold their behavior to the needs of the system.
To much waste accumulating? The government, the media, the educational system, environmentalists, everyone inundates us with a mass of propaganda about recycling. Need more technical personnel? A chorus of voices exhorts kids to study science. No one stops to ask whether it is inhumane to force adolescents to spend the bulk of their time studying subjects most of them hate. When skilled workers are put out of a job by technical advances and have to undergo “retraining,” no one asks whether it is humiliating for them to be pushed around in this way. It is simply taken for granted that everyone must bow to technical necessity. and for good reason: If human needs were put before technical necessity there would be economic problems, unemployment, shortages or worse.
The concept of “mental health” in our society is defined largely by the extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the needs of the system and does so without showing signs of stress. -
2018-04-01 at 12:39 AM UTC in The Retardest Thread: Fashionably Late Edition.
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2018-04-01 at 12:05 AM UTC in The Retardest Thread: Fashionably Late Edition.
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2018-03-31 at 7:43 PM UTC in We have a moral obligation to stop eating meat
Originally posted by Zanick Unless you're content for you and your family to be kept as livestock by a superior predator, bred with one another and eventually slaughtered hanging upside down in a barn, you cannot justify that you do it to another species. You scream about preserving the hierarchy of nature, but when it gives you something you don't like, you'll want to declare an exception.
The vast majority of people are basically livestock, except instead of meat the harvest is taxes. The system sucks but you can't really reject it unless you go live in the woods like the Unabomber and even there he still was dependent on society buying his supplies in town. Eventually it will happen to all of us too, the system will eat us up and destroy our humanity and we will become post-humans. -
2018-03-31 at 1:32 PM UTC in humans vs shapesNobody wins.
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2018-03-30 at 5:26 PM UTC in The Retardest Thread: Fashionably Late Edition.
Originally posted by Malice I am not a morning person.
Who else thinks about suicide every single day right after waking up? I mean, it's a pretty mild desire relative to the worst I've ever felt, I know what it feels like to be right on the edge, but, still, the happiness/pleasure I feel in life doesn't come close to being worth putting up with this bullshit for the rest of my life.
I think about sex every morning. -
2018-03-30 at 4:05 PM UTC in smoking enough weed to freak outDepends on your blood sugar and shit like that. I smoke daily. If I smoke too much at the wrong time it can be too much. Drinking can affect this. If it's something you WANT then drink like 3 or 4 beers quickly and then smoke a fat joint and you will be fucked.
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2018-03-30 at 2:48 PM UTC in We have a moral obligation to stop eating meat
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2018-03-30 at 2:07 PM UTC in We have a moral obligation to stop eating meatSo wait Lanny banned finny for shitposting in this thread? But when people were spamming my plant intelligence thread with shitposts he just let it happen.
Why is that? -
2018-03-30 at 12:04 AM UTC in >philosophy major
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2018-03-29 at 11:45 PM UTC in >philosophy major
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2018-03-29 at 11:41 PM UTC in >philosophy major
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2018-03-29 at 10:53 PM UTC in >philosophy major
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2018-03-29 at 10:53 PM UTC in >philosophy major
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2018-03-29 at 10:38 PM UTC in >philosophy major
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2018-03-29 at 10:34 PM UTC in >philosophy major
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2018-03-29 at 10:32 PM UTC in >philosophy major
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2018-03-29 at 10:32 PM UTC in >philosophy major
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2018-03-29 at 4:40 PM UTC in The Retardest Thread: Fashionably Late Edition.
