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[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 year ago

This isn't a meme

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why is this posted to memes? This sounds like a good way to live life. Stop chasing that next big promotion, or whatever status symbol you think will make you successful.

Just live and try do what makes you happy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

You can be successful in helping others and live one of the most fulfilling lives without needing to be rich*

*Disclaimer: This tends to be a lot more difficult when you're born poor. If this is the case, try finding someone who isn't, who is trying to live a fulfilling life.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I feel like the caption doesn't summarize the spirit of the quote. The indigenous folks cooked, told stories, made art, danced, fell in love, made enemies, had sports, and formed various unique cultures. There's a lot of "doing" in a that. For me this reads as you don't need to grind to make other people wealthy and collect a lot of plastic bullshit that Instagram convinced you was necessary for happiness. But like we're all slowly, collectively realizing this right?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's always "western culture" being compared to a vague "indigenous culture" in these posts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

As a not very well-traveled American, I definitely read this as the US and our indigenous peoples. I suppose only the speaker truly knows who they were referencing. Or it's intentionally vague to be relatable...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To me, the quote is another way of saying our ‘purpose’ is to be sensory organs for the universe: life is how the universe experiences itself.

The more you do, the more richly you contribute to that experience, but the caption’s take is also valid in that ‘being’ also contributes, if that makes sense.

(Disclaimer: I may be slightly high.)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I hear you, though the universe experiencing itself is due for reconsideration after I'm slightly high...

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We also do all that, the problem is that it's all commodified, advertised, ultracompetitive, conspicuous and repackaged, like we need to relate to each other and nature through something that has come out of a factory or a pr firm. There are ways to escape this, but it comes at a social cost, but it gets better if you find others.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Problem is I was born in a place and time where I need to do in order to be.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are western cultures not indigenous?

Or is this just more US defaultism?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Defaultism by default. It could also be the land of the upside-down, Canada, or anywhere else in the American continents.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Also Nature: relentless, uncaring, powerful, unpredictable, and disastrous.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hate it how hippies keep thinking nature is some Disney movie shit.

Nah, it ain't, plants devouring ants alive, monkeys been waging wars and raping their enemies skulls

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Ant super colony's waging wars taking over full continents n shit.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

“To be is to do” -Socrates

“To do is to be” -Jean-Paul Sartre

“Do be do be do” -Frank Sinatra

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

"DO THE DEW" -Mountain Dew

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Holy shit does this instance have a mod? What a fucking shit show over such a positive picture.

Happy indigenous people day.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I already banned people in this thread, but I didn't remove the comments as they were part of a discussion that was at least in part not total trolling.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Being alive for the sake of being alive doesn't do much to reduce infant and maternal mortality rates. Those are down from pre-industrial levels because incredibly smart people have worked incredibly hard over the last few hundred years.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I'm inclined to generally agree with this; what she left out is that now most people can live past 30 now and not die from a bacterial infection after scraping their leg.

I would add that the ideal is likely somewhere in the middle between the extremes of "living off the land and using every part of the bison" and "grinding away your soul until you collapse on the Walmart floor." Both are too far towards their respective ends of the spectrum.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm alive for a purpose. That purpose is to play Red Alert 2

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So like, is there some place I can go too live like that? One that isn't private property or owned by the government, etc? I live in a place that is mostly open, mountainous areas, but they're surrounded by barbed wire and 2nd Degree Tresspassing is a felony.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Still trying to work out if being White British means I have a natural mystical connection to the land and spirituality.

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