Here's my unfiltered hot take: We are living through the largest-scale psychological warfare operation in human history, and it's being conducted by our own social systems against basic human emotional needs, and the casualty count is so massive that we've normalized mass emotional death as "adulting."Every single institution we've built - schools, workplaces, healthcare, dating, social media, even fucking therapy - has become a factory for producing emotionally lobotomized humans who can perform productivity but can't access their own inner experience without having a panic attack. We've created a civilization that requires you to be emotionally dead to participate in it, and then we act shocked when people either break completely or retreat into AI relationships because at least the machines won't punish them for having feelings.The therapy industrial complex is particularly fucking insidious because it's convinced people that their natural responses to an insane world are pathological. Someone's depressed because they're trapped in a meaningless job in a society that offers no authentic connection? Let's give them SSRIs and teach them breathing exercises instead of acknowledging that maybe, just maybe, depression might be a rational response to irrational circumstances. Someone's anxious because they can feel the existential void where community used to be? Let's call it generalized anxiety disorder instead of recognizing that their nervous system is correctly identifying that something fundamental is missing.
>>34839991And don't even get me started on how we've gamified human connection through dating apps that literally train people to treat each other like products in a catalog while simultaneously wondering why seemingly nobody can form deep meaningful relationships anymore. We took the most sacred human activity - finding your people - and turned it into a dopamine-harvesting slot machine designed to keep people perpetually searching and almost never actually connecting.The most fucked up part is how we've convinced people that the solution to systemic emotional abandonment is individual optimization. Can't find meaningful connection? You must need to work on yourself more in some vague fashion. Feeling existential despair about the state of the world? Have you tried shallow gratitude journaling? Lonely because society has dismantled most forms of community? Maybe you need to put yourself out there more I guess .It's gaslighting on a civilizational scale. We've built systems that largely prevent human flourishing and then blame individuals for not thriving within them. It's like poisoning someone's water supply and then selling them detox supplements.And the people who see through this shit and try to talk about it openly? They get labeled as schizo, too intense, or unemployable because their emotional honesty threatens the whole house of cards. We've made emotional authenticity a cause of social ostracization.No wonder people are having breakdowns. No wonder mental health crisis rates are skyrocketing. No wonder birth rates are plummeting. We've created a civilization that's hostile to human emotional needs, and we're surprised that humans are struggling to survive in it.The real miracle isn't that some people are falling apart - it's that anyone is managing to stay sane at all.
what are your solutions?
How is this a hot take? This has been the consensus here for two fucking decades.
>>34839991In the 1960s, and a little bit into the modernity of the 1980s, people disenfranchised with the system formed their own communities. I honestly suggest this as well. I saw it, ironically enough, on Facebook. Set the cutoff date for technology at a certain timeframe, or restrict certain technologies, and form communes of people, with membership granted after extensive interviewing, testing, and analysis to ensure they fit and won't detroy the culture.
>>34839991Congratulations on your awakening, Now give us the solution smarty pants
>>34839991Nigga, Yeah we're facing changes that are unique, but the world has always been shit. It has always been about masters and slaves. Why do you think "Nice guys" exist? Sociologically speaking they are holdovers from your grand parent's cultures when everyone had to man up, fight wars, listen to the bossman and not smack women because that was the issue of the moment.The problem is there never was developed any real interest in detecting and salvaging cultural holdovers because interests are at stake, costs are high, and people just wanna halfass life and not help each other out.That said, Yes SSRIs are there to lobotomize you so you keep going to your shit fucking job. Yes, CBT is there to tell yourself you should enjoy your shit fucking job. The goal of psychology and psychiatry is to have people go back to work, it doesn't care whether you reproduce or achieve happiness, because someone needs to take advantage from you and they have no reach over that situation.The only thing I have learned through all this shithole is that you should be serene to avoid harm but also listen to your feelings to try things and feel better than the rest. Stop listening to media, it's you vs existence. You will die and nobody will give a shit about it, except people you manage to get to love you. If you fail to get a stranger to love you, you truly will die alone and nobody will give a shit.
OP turned 18 and thinks he's a modern day philosopher > we've normalized mass emotional death as "adulting."You realize we used to burn women alive just because we thought they did magic, and most guys had to go to army knowing full well they'd never come back, and families were used to making a lot of kids because infant mortality was so high you had to make 8 kids and hope at least 2 or 3 survive.> lobotomized humans who can perform productivity but can't access their own inner experience without having a panic attackWtf does "access their own inner experience" mean? > We've created a civilization that requires you to be emotionally dead to participate in itThat was always the case. Emotions, morality, and art are luxuries for the wealthy, you seem to be middle-class or lower class and you come bitching here about not being able to have emotions.> The therapy industrial complex is particularly fucking insidiousOh boy these are some words I have only heard on 4chan, and some cringe youtube videos and twitter. Get off internet and go to your wagie job. womp womp also check my dubs
Most of these answers just reinforce my statements. Attacks and aggression at worst, or ridicule at best. No deep interest to exchange personal feelings or stories. I´m not your enemy!
>>34840139Nigger just get off 4chan. This is a crabs in a bucket shithole. Go to college, dick around with strangers. Take the bluepill.
>>34840139> No deep interest to exchange personal feelings or storieswomp womp nobody wants to share sob stories with me crying at society.Listen OP, the best advice you will ever get about this situation is to stop being a little bitch and start playing the game of life. some chase bitches, some chase money, so whatever makes you happy go do that, but crying about life being unfair means you will just be left on the sidelines.everyone knows it's unfair, ur not telling us something new, hence the ridicule. You will not get a job, or a girlfriend, or friends, by talking about this because you'll just be known as a party pooper.also dubs
>>34840171So what is your chase?
>>34840190mostly money. I got lucky a few years ago and now I can afford to not care about bills, not look at the prices on the store, and go on vacation on any country I want. I'm straight but pussy and party and alcohol never really interested me that much. Honestly I see parties and alcohol as desperate dudes' way of having fun, but I don't care.
industrial society and its consequences
>>34840038Again, obvious to anyone who is even remotely looking at the system. It's run by a ruling class who want people working, but they can't do slavery like they did in the past because then people revolt, so they give people the illusion of choice. You can choose your job, school, who you fuck, but you can't choose not to work or not participate in the system by refusing to use money. if you do, you get to be homeless. Maybe a monk, and you have no intrinsic value to anybody, and you don't get to enjoy resources or the fruits of the human race. And they even get you if you have a cabin in the woods. The government can come after you for property taxes.I do know people who just said fuck it and are permanently homeless by choice. They seem to enjoy it, doing drugs all day and drinking at night. Apparently you get used to the rougher aspects of it, and when you wanna taste the good life, you can pretty quickly.
>>34839991>>34839995None of that is happening in India btw.
>>34839991I mean you’re right about all of this. The propaganda is out of control yet most don’t even think it exists and will think you are crazy for pointing it out. If you know you know. You can still enjoy your life despite all this. You can figure out what you actually want to get out of life and become the guy who gets it. There is no need to believe it’s all bad so enjoy what you can while this world is still standing
>>34840590homeless pill sounds heavenly in comparison to this sulfur pit we call society
electing democratic socialists that will not uphold the old orthodoxies. everything else is downstream from getting people reasonable wages, redistributing money from neoliberal globalist billionaires, and implementing pronatalist direct cash transfer programs so people can actually afford kids in their 20s again
>>34840653I´m pretty sure they are co-creators of this soulless state of mind..
>>34840171you are exactly what OP is talking about and people like you scare me as well
>>34841003fr he sounds really numb, beyond the point of saving
Suicide Season
>>34839995>It's like poisoning someone's water supply and then selling them detox supplements.Cool it with the antisemitism.
PMW
>>34841003>>34842939You can spend your life wallowing and agonizing about being a cog in a machine with a bunch of other cogs, or you can make yourself a pretty blue-anodized doohickey with springs and bearings etc as you like, and find your place in the assembly with other cogs that provide value to your life. We're telling OP to shut the fuck up because A LOT of people do this and think they're special. They're really not. He has to do this to grow as a person, but he also has to learn to shut the fuck up and accept the things he can't change to grow even more, because right now he's still being an annoying child.
