I'm young, in college, and have my whole life ahead of me - so why does it feel like everyone around me is taking life as some sort of joke? Whether it's in-person or online, everyone seems to living life as if it's a completely trivial matter. In person I'll speak to people and ask them about their life and everything boils down to>no thoughts>no beliefs>no direction>no relationships>no goals>no lifeWhen I actually make friends with people and get the pleasure of connecting with them on a "deeper" level, I still find nothing at their core. If I ask them to take anything seriously at all they just hit me with tongue out face. Everything seems to have to be wrapped in so many layers of fucking humour that what they're saying is virtually meaningless.The online world is also a shit show. Look, I understand wanting to be funny. I like when things are funny too. But Gen Z especially just seems to be creating absolute slop with so many layers of irony and satire that I almost wonder if they even care about their life?I'm asking this as someone who doesn't even put a lot of effort in; is this how everyone is? I have a gf and only feel comfortable talking to her about the state of people. I wonder how I should move forward from here...? I think a lot of people in my situation try to become useful through politics and provide value to the world but I'm honestly sick by how people act and don't want to help them at all. I understand why the elites just view us as pigs. It's hard to advocate for my generation authentically when we act like such cattle
>>35089071I mean, you aren't hallucinating, when I went to university in the 2010s I discovered that mostly they are cattle. I'm sure with zoomers it's significantly worse. However, there were enough exceptions to this so as to make it not completely suicide fuel. You just need to step back a little and devote more attention to spotting the actually interesting, intense people. They're there.
Apathy and irony are shields people use to defend their psyches from a world they see as hopeless. It frustrated me as well to see how no one could seem to be real about anything, but after understanding that I was able to have more empathy for their pain.
>>35089094I definitely understand this. I was friends with an overweight incel for years and we'd always talk about self-improvement. When my life started going up he freaked out and told me he just wants to be a fat gooner forever. Very sad to see
>>35089071What does "taking life seriously" even mean and why does it matter?
>>35089094Yeah but this stops being a valid excuse if there is nothing much underneath that armor. No inner life, no personality, no strong drives etc.
>>35089115It can mean a lot of things. One good example is literally every hang out I have with the boys is everyone just scrolling insta reels. Or when having a convo one on one with someone and they just pull out their phone and start scrolling on TikTok - just a completely unserious vibe?When you go to talk to people you find out they have no stories, and nothing has ever happened to them. They don't have any hobbies or goals. They don't even seem to particularly partake in degenerate culture - they're like not even real...? I don't think they've experienced a complex emotion like ever? I ask them what they're planning to do after uni with how high the unemployment rate is and I get no answer. Suppose the plan is to goon forever?I find it particularly bad among men. like they're just straight retards. People can call me gay and cringe or whatever but like can we talk about politics or meaning or something lol?I understand that there does exist a small contingent of people that 'care' but that circle seems so small it almost seems silly to take them seriously? The pipeline is like>I don't care about politics>let me look into it>omg this is really concerning we should do something about this>talk with hundreds of people>no one cares>"if me pushing this only benefits others, and they don't care, why should I push it?">I don't care about politicsSo few people care it almost seems stupid to care. The Epstein files is a great example of this - no one I know cares at all, so why should I care at all?
>>35089154In first part you just described people being chronically online, as even.if they did stuff it doesnt mean they would be serious about it, it would be just different way of wasting time.If you are not in some position of power or strive for one there is no need to be too serious about politics. Except as a hobby, otherwise your seriousness can only land you in being a cannonfodder for ideologues and grifters. In the case of ideologies is even stupider to take them seriously, as every ideology is at most based on some real element that is used to explain the whole, thus being aproximation at most. As such it dont deserves to be taken seriously. Saying that people arent serious about smth is common, but I think its offten used as a tool to convince people to do smth they otherwise wont. I thinkthe real question is, is something even worth to be serious about. Except if you see the value in seriousness in itself, that a person can stick with something, even if its some story franschise or other retarded thing (but then normies from your example are serious about internet).
>>35089154God WW3 can't come soon enough
>>35089071Gen Z unc herefor me personally my life has never really mattered to me. I've never known what I have or what I want to do with my life, and I still don't, despite having tried many times to find an answer. Back in school, when I still had plenty of energy and was surrounded by friends, I had something resembling a personality. But as the years went by and my social interactions became more limited, I gradually isolated myself from other people and stopped being interested in them.>no direction>no relationships>no goals>no lifeTrue for me, I've never wanted power, and I've never wanted to be at the top. All I want is a peaceful life that I can be content with. The problem is that I don't even know what that looks like for me. And since I want so little, why should I concern myself with bigger issues that I have no control over anyway, such as politics? My current plan is to buy some land far from people but still close enough to be able to buy food etc. buy a dog, build small house, and just wait, only time will tell if i will be somewhat happy with my life or I would kill myself.
>>35089138Who really "knows" themself? Most people don't bother. Western culture is individualistic on paper, but in actuality to break free from the herd you have to endure amounts of ridicule and abuse that most normalfags aren't able to. So they have nothing internally because it was never developed, everything about them was approved by committee. It's sad but I wouldn't hate them for it, they're also victims.
>>35089547You don't have to hate them, but you do need to seek out the actual living people among the golems. You can't socialize with golems, it doesn't work out.
>>35089556This I agree with, I'm just saying that you should at least learn to be fluent in golemspeak since they outnumber you and try to understand them so you're less frustrated when you're forced to interact with them, if only for reasons of pragmatism.
>>35089570Is there really any specific golemspeak to learn? From what I see in bars, they just sit around im groups being very sheepish and dull and discussing the most mundane things ever like food, or scrolling their feed. To blend in, it seems you just have to lower your mental activity and energy to near-zero, no?
Too many pretentious and obnoxious pseudo intellectuals in this thread. I do agree with >>35089071 and>>35089154 though.
>>35089649Cringe
>>35089071l>I'm young, in college, and have my whole life ahead of me - so why does it feel like everyone around me is taking life as some sort of joke?When the world is crumbling around you, only a fool would believe he has some sort of future ahead of him.
>>35089578Pretty much, yes. People that drift through life won't be able to empathize with people with dreams, and in some cases will even feel threatened by them. I don't really have any advice for you on how to find authentic people, I'm just recommending how to make the most of a bad situation. I don't enjoy talking to my coworkers, but I can easily do so and am on good enough terms with them that I've benefitted from it.
>>35089138So true. It's easy to psychoanalyse people to the point at which you've given them all of these 'complex' emotions and desires when they're actually just pathetic and retarded
>>35089678It's less about just a future. I don't even think these people can experience love
>>35089721One of my worst realisations in life was that my coworkers weren't hiding their true selves from everyoneThey were just that soulless
If you pry you will find some belief even if they're retarded ones
why would i take life seriously thoim here to have fun, not be le seriousalso this >>35089094 taking shit seriously will not fix any of the problems teh world has forced onto me
>>35089154What do you expect to achieve by fruitlessly yapping about politics with people who have no power and no capital and no property? It's useless navel-gazing. It's practically the same as zombie-ing out on reels except with illusions of enlightenment. You probably consume information in the same manner as this uncultured herd.
>>35089387Anon, I am like you. My ultimate dream is also to buy some land far from people and just live my days there. In practice it seems I might never make it. I'm actually considering migrating to canada at some point and take a wealth hit because in my yuro cunt there no nature and no land to be had.I also know it wont make me happy but it will at least be a peaceful simple life
>>35089071>>35089154lol get out of your own ass, being a whiny bitch isn't going to make your life or anyone else's life better. Randomly bringing up politics to get mad about solves nothing at all, if you're not gonna run for office or shoot up congress just shut the fuck up.
>>35089578the point of small talk is to sniff out someones personality and red flags before you go into deeper subjects. Is everyone in here this autistic?
>>35092867I'll take "things that don't happen" for 500, Alex.
>>35089071Life is a big cosmic joke though. None of this matters. Just do your thing and stop worrying about how other people approach life lmao
>>35089071>negro gifYou are cattle too. Just because you're making some moves that doesn't mean you're not just as unreflective and impressionable as everyone else. If you think being successful in life is what makes you not-cattle that just proves you are cattle.
