This tweet by Zuby is a “truth bomb” that most people, particularly younger Americans, won’t fully understand because they don’t know history and they didn’t live in the pre-Internet, pre-cell-phone era: How much has the world changed over the last few decades? More than you might realize.
A culture that is optimized for producing dysfunction and despair is not a culture with a future. This whole thing has been primed for sudden collapse.
No wonder I'm healthy, happy and content. I don't own a television. I don't listen to or watch or read the news. I cook my own food from real 95% unprocessed ingredients, from the produce, dairy and meat departments. I have no debt. I carefully curate what I do on the internet - encounter few ads, and find it easy to ignore the ones I can't avoid, have never accidentally or intentionally been exposed to porn; my entertainment consists of reading, writing and watching movies, mostly pre -2000's, my friends are few but well-chosen. I get along with my family and they with me. I live in a red state in a moderate sized town, which is home to a university and fairly progressive, but I don't care. Nothing they do affects me. I stay away from them. I don't follow the herd or belong to one. Yeah. I have a nice life. I know what's going on in the world, outside my own self-designed paradise, and I hate what has happened to these United States, but all I can do is be the me I want to be and accept the consequences good or bad.
A relationship with god? Which god? What does having a relationship with god entail? I’ve tried and am unable to think of a single way to be more narcissistic and self-absorbed than believing you have a so-called relationship with god. In fact, there’s literally no way to imagine god without superimposing your opinions and viewpoints onto the rest of humanity. God and religion are human inventions whose proscriptions serve only to limit the mind and imagination to the point of uselessness. Maybe travel instead.
A culture that is optimized for producing dysfunction and despair is not a culture with a future. This whole thing has been primed for sudden collapse.
No wonder I'm healthy, happy and content. I don't own a television. I don't listen to or watch or read the news. I cook my own food from real 95% unprocessed ingredients, from the produce, dairy and meat departments. I have no debt. I carefully curate what I do on the internet - encounter few ads, and find it easy to ignore the ones I can't avoid, have never accidentally or intentionally been exposed to porn; my entertainment consists of reading, writing and watching movies, mostly pre -2000's, my friends are few but well-chosen. I get along with my family and they with me. I live in a red state in a moderate sized town, which is home to a university and fairly progressive, but I don't care. Nothing they do affects me. I stay away from them. I don't follow the herd or belong to one. Yeah. I have a nice life. I know what's going on in the world, outside my own self-designed paradise, and I hate what has happened to these United States, but all I can do is be the me I want to be and accept the consequences good or bad.
Good stuff. Well said.
@John, excellent piece.
A relationship with god? Which god? What does having a relationship with god entail? I’ve tried and am unable to think of a single way to be more narcissistic and self-absorbed than believing you have a so-called relationship with god. In fact, there’s literally no way to imagine god without superimposing your opinions and viewpoints onto the rest of humanity. God and religion are human inventions whose proscriptions serve only to limit the mind and imagination to the point of uselessness. Maybe travel instead.