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submitted 1 week ago by refolde@hexbear.net to c/doomer@hexbear.net

If the planet's gonna die and everything on it with it, why drag it out this long? Just end it all at once and quit putting innocents through the ringer while fascist pedophiles get everything they want and live a life of luxury.

I swear if a world-ending meteor starts hurling towards the earth, I'm considering starting or joining a cult to worship that damn thing.

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[-] Red_Eclipse@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago

You're basically psy opping yourself with the Trauma Machine artificial-intelligence and it's breaking you. That's why you're thinking this way.

After bearing witness to the countless atrocities of the evil empire and experiencing all that secondhand trauma, you have painted yourself into a corner of Despair. k-pain

I think at this point you've broken your brain so much that your only option is to get spiritual or something. Focus on love. Even in secular ways, there is something within a revolutionary that gives them hope and strength even after having seen worse things than we have. We have to cultivate that within us. The Trauma Machine no-mouth-must-scream is literally designed to break us so we don't do that. Don't let them break you with 24/7 atrocities streamed into your optic nerves.

[-] refolde@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

I think at this point you've broken your brain so much that your only option is to get spiritual or something.

I mean yeah. Pretty much. Hexbear users will trash me for it, but honestly who cares what they think.

For the most part, consider me out of the "fight" (I never really participated to begin with, so no big difference was made) and don't expect that I would capable of anything better if I just read Mao or something.

[-] Red_Eclipse@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago

Hexbear users will trash me for it, but honestly who cares what they think.

Yeah it's not very materialist of me but one must do whatever it takes to not fall into a pit of oblivion.

For the most part, consider me out of the "fight"

Maybe I could be trashed for this too because it's too idealist or whatever, but part of the fight really is just loving and being loved. The enemy is anti-love, anti-human, anti-life, and anything to counteract that is an act of resistance. To spread love and peace and joy in your life to those around you. With the 'butterfly effect', who knows how that could ripple out? Even in the smallest ways it matters on some mysterious cosmic scale. Due to various circumstances of life, like disability for example, we can't always be the ones fighting on the front lines. All I can do is love wherever I can, so that's what I'm going to do. I really do believe even the tiniest spark of love matters in the face of the globally-spanning demon god of Capital, whose Trauma Machine attempts to smother us all in a blanket of sorrow.

[-] 389aaa@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

I would like to let you know I'm very fond of this perspective. I myself am disabled and am similarly consumed by despair as OP, and this is a very nice framing.

Admittedly I've still had to turn to religion to maintain any semblance of mental stability, but, I was always deeply dissatisfied with materialism anyway.

[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

and being loved.

oof

[-] BironyPoisoned@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

I feel the same way but for a different reason.

The more I've grown, the more I've come to distance myself from the cause of humanity. I used to think that capitalism was the problem, but my disagreement with people is something far deeper. In 10,000 years, when a there isn't a single living memory of war, hunger, scarcity, and racism, children will still bully the fuck out of the ugly and neurodiverse. There is something instinctual in humanity that seeks to exclude others. People make outcasts of those they deem unfit for their tribe. You can extend the definition of tribe, you can even attempt to smother the behavior, but you'll never be able to change that essential reflex.

"For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men."

[-] refolde@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

Honestly, I've been thinking about the past thousands of years of human history, and coming to the conclusion that humanity really hasn't changed much. Massacres, genocides, general disregard for the lives of others. If this isn't what humanity is inclined towards, then I dunno how we're all still like this when we've had thousands of years to learn.

[-] BironyPoisoned@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

Humans are animals and they have about the same control over their emotions and desires as the average dog.

There's nothing to learn because there's nothing deeper than base unconscious desire. The self is merely the mental organ that justifies those desires and actions to the outside in order to form a cohesive personal narrative.

[-] i_drink_bleach@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In 10,000 years, when a there isn't a single living memory of war, hunger, scarcity, and racism, children will still bully the fuck out of the ugly and neurodiverse.

I disagree. This is learned behavior. It's part of the cycle of violence that we all live with and all perpetuate. We are all raised in a cut-throat, dog-eat-dog, ruthless world where we're all taught to be mercenaries. You look out for you. Fuck social bonds, fuck family, fuck everything. We're taught that that's what's true, that that's how the world is. You look out for numero uno first and foremost. It's simply not true.

We are a collective species. The only reason you and are are sitting at a fucking computer sharing ideas instantaneously through the internet is because humanity collectively worked together for the shared interests of everyone. We are not evil and selfish. It is a learned behavior. It is a behavior we can un-learn. It is not inherent to our species.

Actual Edit: Fuck I just saw what /c/ I'm in. Carry on.

[-] BironyPoisoned@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

I disagree. This is learned behavior. It's part of the cycle of violence that we all live with and all perpetuate.

Bulling has existed in every culture regardless of boundary, economic system, religion, and race. It is a fundamental human behavior. It is not tied to capitalism or even civilization. Compliance and conformity within group dynamics is as instinctual as eye contact and facial expressions.

We are a collective species. The only reason you and are are sitting at a fucking computer sharing ideas instantaneously through the internet is because humanity collectively worked together for the shared interests of everyone.

We are a tribal species. The collectivist merely extends the tribe beyond family, country, race, and religion. Even the most collectivist person subconsciously rates the ugly and neurodiverse lower than the beautiful and charismatic. The idea of human that most neurotypicals have excludes me by default. It's analogous to public buildings that still don't have actual infrastructure to support disabled folk. You can say "It's for the community collectively" but in reality it was made with a certain person in mind.

We are not evil and selfish. It is a learned behavior. It is a behavior we can un-learn. It is not inherent to our species.

Humans aren't evil or selfish, I never said that. They are tribal animals with no greater control over their behavior than any other animal. People like to think that their thoughts and feelings are their own so we must be in control of ourselves. Meanwhile, pretty much every facet of the self is determined by subconscious urges and desires filtered through the brain to justify itself to an imagined outside group.

[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

No, we're gonna win, I have nothing but contempt for the fascist scum and love for the human race, anything else is just rebellious ego. Drown it in either contempt or love, but never despair to the point you try to convince yourself you don't care, because it's a lie

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

because there's no place like home

no place like home

no place like home to return to

there's no alternative, no backup, it has to be this one

[-] refolde@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Nah I can think of better things than a shithole prison planet. Just gotta expand your horizons a little.

Can't wait 'till I finally die so I don't have to deal with any of this shit anymore.

Can't wait 'till I finally die so I don't have to deal with any of this shit anymore

this sounds an awful lot like depression. i struggled with it for 15 years before i finally spoke to a therapist and a psychiatrist about it and three years later i feel so much better that i'm basically a completely different person. get help if you can, please

[-] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

Yea pretty often. Who cares. This place is shit anyway.

[-] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

I have children. Were I so privileged to just be like “fuck this place”.

I feel like this sometimes but then i look at drawings of the dog secretary from animal crossing anf then i feel better

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

I've definitely come to a conclusion that America as a whole cannot get better, only worse.

Certain parts of it might see improvement, but the overall decline will continue apace.

The question is whether we can build those parts around ourselves. Maybe get an Earth-preservation cult going? (only half joking)

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