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2013-06-14 07:48 7331799 Anonymous (mrk.jpg 1200x709 502kB)
ITT: We discuss some things that make this a fascinating time to be alive

5 min later 7331860 Anonymous
The Internet. Strange Chinese internet drugs. Your move, Atheists

6 min later 7331871 Anonymous
The Soviet Union level insanity that's going on in western civilization right now. We're rotting from the inside out.

9 min later 7331900 Anonymous
>>7331799 You know what's fascinating? American people literally voting away their freedoms, call themselves progressive, and think they're fighting the good fight Indifferent to everything that is happening, the most emotion they can show about even the recent constitutional infringement (NSA) that is completely true and is in no way "tinfoil hat" tier, is only a shrug They're the majority, the democracy that overpowers those like me. The most fascinating thing about this is I don't care. I've become as indifferent as them America sucks

10 min later 7331906 Anonymous
>>7331860 strange chinese internet drugs, you say? where can i learn more?

12 min later 7331919 Anonymous
>>7331900 Apathy is the disease that kills nations. It's hard not to be apathetic, though. With all of the horrible shit that goes on in the world how can any of us do anything about it? What hope is there?

16 min later 7331948 Anonymous
>>7331919 You can't really do anything, you can only hope it collapses like every other empire, giving a clean slate to the people, and hope they do it right this time Or, develop space travel and terra-forming, and repeat history and have a space Boston tea party

18 min later 7331962 Anonymous
The possibility of WW3. So many people will die, it would be wonderful. >tfw everybody talks about the "scary" possibility of war, and you have to pretend that it's a worrying subject too while deep inside you can't wait for it to happen

18 min later 7331966 Anonymous
>>7331900 I feel the exact same way, but I would probably assign less fault to the American people. I think most people just feel like they're voting for the lesser of two evils. The situation we're in now (corporations controlling basically everything, seemingly inexorable political corruption, etc) came about really gradually. Only a small minority could have really seen it coming from the beginning, and I'm honestly not sure I could be counted among them.

21 min later 7331992 Anonymous
>>7331962 >dat edge You realize you could die too, right? Not even necessarily in battle. It could be a nuke from any competent nation in the world.

22 min later 7332006 Anonymous
we live in a world where we have access to EVERYTHING at basically instant speed...but no one cares. its only lead to laziness and an apathetic needy culture of manchildren and sluts. We've reached the end days of our evolution as a culture and society. Id be interested in watching the history channel of the future to see what they think about us now...if they even get back to that point, or care about history at all.

22 min later 7332013 Anonymous
>>7331992 >You realize you could die too, right? Of course. Dying alongside normalfag assholes would be the best way to die of course, especially since I have nothing to live for. I don't see the point of your question...?

23 min later 7332016 Anonymous
>>7331966 Of course it's not completely their fault, but when people do try and help them see the errors and try to fix it, like maybe voting for a third party, they ignore it and even get mad at us. Even with the whole corporations thing, they willingly voted them that power, and get mad if you try to get them to help reverse it. They couldn't handle it if things changed for the better. The few that could are either a laughable minority, or already gave up

24 min later 7332025 Anonymous
>>7331992 >not secretly wanting to die by means out of your control pleb taste bro

25 min later 7332035 Anonymous
>>7332006 It's because we've completely eliminated the need to strive. The rats with direct access to all their pleasures just sat there pressing that button over and over and over again until they died.

27 min later 7332050 Anonymous
Computers No really. There's so much that Computers do that makes our current lives amazing. Some times, I do wonder how Franz Liszt might've sounded at the Piano, since he was considered the "Piano God" after all and how lucky everyone who heard him play must've been but then I realise how lucky I am that I can listen to music any time I like at the push of a button whereas back in Liszt's day, you had to go and actually see the musician perform. There were no recordings at all!

27 min later 7332052 Anonymous
>>7332016 Are we even capable of changing things now? I feel like lobbying and corporate dicksucking are so entrenched into politics now that the only way to truly root it out would be a full-scale rebellion, which is not going to happen in the America we know today. We can't use the system to fix things if the system itself is broken. So what can we do?

27 min later 7332053 Anonymous
>>7332035 I think we can pull a kind of benevolent indoctrination and make people think learning is a pleasure. It obviously won't be immediate, but I think it could be done.

30 min later 7332080 Anonymous
>>7331799 Juggalos. (Misunderstood and ostrasized) Feminists. (Accepted and promoted.) Reverse racism. (The term is accepted and implies that racism can only come from whites to others.) The Internet. (Everything in the world is a few clicks away.) To me, the juggalos represent that part of society which is repressed. For those still stuck on "blind following" and "shitty music" need to focus on their hypocrisy and realize treatment of juggalos is exactly what they want their government NOT to do. I'd go further but meh, too busy enjoying the 21st century.

30 min later 7332081 Anonymous
>>7332052 You can't rebel, guns are illegal. The masses are against it. All you can hope for is some kind of implosion, where the lazy simply can't survive, since the powers above fell apart. During that time, those who want change will rise up and try again, like they always do You can't fix the system by using the system, that would be like suicide. And suicide is illegal

30 min later 7332084 Anonymous
>>7332035 its interesting, ive read about 4 scifi novels/light novels lately about VR (virtual reality) plagues destroying the world. people become so addicted, they no longer care what happens to the real world, and die. another I really like is a manga called Biomega, that takes place in a large ever-expanding dyson sphere type thing. Most people killed themselves in it, or got so bored they just uploaded themselves to the net until their bodies died. its stated this is because they have evolved themselves past the need to eat sleep etc and everything is their for them..so what strive do they have to keep going? Its kind of sad that in reality I doubt we'll ever reach space. they'll perfect the perfect pleasure drug or VR long before life on earth gets desperate enough for us to leave and colonize..and really that's the only thing that could potentially give people enough care to not kill off our selves. for example, I should be working out but im online instead. why.

31 min later 7332094 willy
Medical marijuana for dogs.

32 min later 7332106 Anonymous
The fact that we don't know everything yet.

33 min later 7332113 Anonymous
>>7332080 >I'd go further but meh No you can't, the fact you needed to clarify you "could" go further proves you can't

33 min later 7332114 Anonymous
People are finally getting sick of (modern, western, after the point of actual equality) feminism and the wave of backlash against (all?) feminism will come within our lifetimes.

34 min later 7332128 Anonymous (le history channel face.png 1257x934 578kB)
>>7332006 > Id be interested in watching the history channel of the future to see what they think about us now...if they even get back to that point, or care about history at all. The history channel is now basically reality tv with occasional history-related undertones already. It's nearly gone the route of MTV. I agree with the rest of your post, but it felt worth pointing out that the history channel is already a joke.

35 min later 7332129 Anonymous
>>7332053 Well, the current indoctrination isn't working. >get good grades to get into college >get into college to get a good job >get a good job to make lots of money >make lots of money for a comfortable life *So* effective.

36 min later 7332134 Anonymous
>>7332106 >yet I don't think we'll ever know everything. It doesn't seem possible.

36 min later 7332135 Anonymous
>>7332081 Guns aren't completely illegal yet. And there'll always be gun-toting nutjobs from small rural towns that will want to say fuck you to big gubmint.

37 min later 7332143 Anonymous
>>7332129 Of course the current isn't working, that's why I suggested a different one

37 min later 7332145 Anonymous
>>7332128 I miss the days when the History channel actually had lots of interesting history shit in it. I watched that shit all day long.

38 min later 7332152 Anonymous
>>7332134 That's half the fun.

38 min later 7332157 Anonymous
>>7332135 In the eyes of the common person, having a gun means you're a crazy tinfoil racist, etc Those "nutjobs" used to be the founding fathers, but with different guns

46 min later 7332209 Anonymous
>>7332084 This kind of thing terrifies me, probably because I used to play a fuckton of WoW, and have first-hand experience with the impact that kind of thing can have on a person. It's fucking scary. Humans are in this adolescent stage of technology, where we can innovate like no other time in history, but we can't foresee the implications of it. We're primates, with nearly identical desires as chimpanzees, with infinitely more tools at our disposal to satisfy them.

49 min later 7332237 Anonymous
I'd like to expand on the whole apathy thing. We're in a lost generation. We're lost as a species right now. Every previous generation had something to focus on, something to overcome. World Wars, Great Depression etc. Even going farther back to when we were all farmers, we had to fight to survive. We in civilized countries don't have to fight to survive. We don't have obstacles to overcome as a generation or species. Full out war is quickly becoming a thing of the past, MADD has seen to that. Not even to mention with Globalization, the world is getting smaller every day. We're all linked together, a country can't risk cutting ties with the rest of the world. The only problems we face, are one's of others doing, and they seem so far gone and out of control that there's no hope of fixing them. We didn't break the economy, we're not the ones in power eroding our freedoms. At this point, apathy has taken over. If anyone hasn't seen the film Network, then atleast read this http://www.whysanity.net/monos/netw ork3.html The main qoute I want to take out of it is this >We know things are bad. Worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy so we don't go out anymore. We sit in a house as slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller and all we say is, "Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster, and TV, and my steel belted radials and I won't say anything." 1/2

52 min later 7332257 Anonymous
>>7331871 >The Soviet Union

53 min later 7332268 saturno
the fact that we might actually colonize other planets and shit. If this mars project is real I'll sign up for that right now

1 hours later 7332332 Anonymous
>>7332237 We see the massive problems we're facing, and the massive problems coming up, and it all seems unfair. Like the Network qoute, most of us just want to make enough money to have a nice house, a nice car, a family and some spending money left over. We want the American dream we were promised. The future was greeted with optimism by past generations, and yet today it is looked too with dread. Besides technologic advances, the consensus seems to be when looking forward, that the future will indeed "be shit". We need a movement. We need a symbol. We need something we can get behind. Some rallying call we can all scream, something that gives us hope for the future. To inspire a sense of optimism, and self empowerment. Operation Wallstreet was the closest thing to this movement thus far. It got rid of the apathy, we were doing something, we were making change Unfournantly, it didn't have a goal. It didn't have a plan. It suffered from the apathy it was trying to get rid of. We saw it didn't work, and we gave up. The government crushed it, and we all shook our heads and called it a day. This is where I run out of steam and trail off since it's 3AM and I have to work tomorrow..But generally my "thesis" I guess is, we need something to get behind. Whether it's a violent rebellion, a dimplomatic change, or something else I have no idea. All I know is the apathy in us as a species is deep rooted and it'll take something major to get rid of it.

1 hours later 7332363 Anonymous
>>7332237 You could say that our focus has turned inward now. With nothing external left to fight for, we fight for individuality among a sea of similar faces and self actualization. Maybe that's why everyone's so narcissistic nowadays. Everyone wants to be fit, educated, have a nice job, etc. That's probably why depression rates are so high; we're taunted with the images and ideas of the perfect human specimens and get upset when we fall short, because not all of our shortcomings relating to those can be fixed precisely because they're internal problems, and not external like the problems of our forefathers.

1 hours later 7332367 Anonymous (sadfrog.jpg 396x385 52kB)
>you will never discover land for your glorious country >you will never live in colonial times >you will never travel through space fuck this gay earth, everything fascinating has already been discovered or is centuries away from being discovered

1 hours later 7332379 Anonymous
>>7332367 This is silly, you know that, right? You wouldn't know what's out there to discover if it hasn't been discovered yet.

1 hours later 7332400 Anonymous
>>7332237 >>7332332 I agree, but causes are such short lived things. We need something bigger. I think that's why a lot of people secretly wish for WW3.

1 hours later 7332402 Anonymous
>>7332367 Grab your oxygen tank and start diving, motherfucker. We've barely made a dent in oceanic exploration.

1 hours later 7332483 Anonymous
>>7332332 I whole heartedly agree. I also think the apathy stems from a global nihilist outlook, people's vanity gets the best of them.

1 hours later 7332484 Anonymous
>>7332400 A world war would be great, it'd give people purpose, everyone who can fight will fight and anyone that cant will begin work to fuel the fight.

1 hours later 7332496 Anonymous
>>7332379 Australia was known to have existed from Europeans hundreds of years before it was settled, and that's the other side of the world. The Western Europeans had an amazing taste for adventure

1 hours later 7332508 Anonymous
>>7332402 But I'm a bad swimmer- and water creatures are scary as hell

1 hours later 7332605 Anonymous
>>7332508 No anon, you're scared of what you do not know.

1 hours later 7332610 Anonymous
>>7332484 >tfw you really want war, not to be edgy, but to satisfy your innate misanthropy with purpose and opportunity

1 hours later 7332633 Anonymous
>>7332508 But if you get killed by a leviathan then you'll have made a huge discovery for marine biology!

1 hours later 7332636 Anonymous
>>7332610 >>7332598 identicle posts the robot has failed

1 hours later 7332675 Anonymous (Biggu Bossu wants YOU.jpg 547x639 91kB)
Personally, I think we need something to unite us all with. I think there should be a place in this world that exists beyond borders. That's what we really need, a spice in this world. Something that anyone can go out to do, but few will survive and make do with. The laws of this world have constricted us to get those things that they want (House, job, family), because they don't want us to be something chaotic. But the Chaos is what makes us thrive. The Chaos is what makes things interesting. In order to pull that off, you need a power vaccum or something holding off those lawmakers from doing shit. This is why I love computers so much. Ever heard "The bigger they are, the harder they fall?" Yeah, our world is totally based on computers. That ensuing chaos is exactly it, companies who have enough gall to put up a base on international waters is the same thing. Regardless, break laws and go for Cosmopolitanism. Let's make this world interesting

1 hours later 7332790 Anonymous
>>7332113 I was only providing explanation as to why I didn't. Go play D.A. with someone else.

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