I'm like a person who is no longer sapient, nothing more than a collection of meat and preprogrammed directives. I'm no longer capable of making decisions, it's strange.. and it's like it comes from somewhere else. For example: something happens and I just act, I no longer think what's "right" or "wrong". Interestingly, I don't even believe in right or wrong anymore only better and worse.It's like what happened to Phineas Gage. Possibly part of my prefrontal cortex has been irreparably damaged from trauma. My entire personality has changed since doomposting and becoming a doomer. I am no longer the same person, my hopes, dreams, and wishes have all vanished. Now I only care about stress minimization and avoiding conflict.I have nobody to blame but myself, although I'm no longer capable of blame as I can no longer think for myself. And the worst part? I actually like it. I mean, I didn't choose to, I was programmed to, and somehow it worked...
wow its almost like we become what we think
>>25029598stop being edgy kid, you dont sound mysterious or intelligent by doing so, youre just cringetouch grass, find a job, stop living with your parents, take responsibility for your life and shortcomings
>>25029621>just succeed at life bro
lets all start thinking positively!!
>>25029598literally stop staring at random garbage online, that's all it takes>>25029637when everyone is a gay faggot depressed nigga gaylord (while living in an unprecedent level of wealth, comfort and safety in the history of humankind) then yeah "succeeding" is actually not that difficult if you put in any effort whatsoever
>>25029738ok chad
>>25029738>Massive epidemic of deaths of despair dwarf wartime deaths during WW2.>People miserable and find life valueless and meaningless.>Either participate in religion as therapy, as identity politics, or openly mock God.>Birth rate is straight up Black Death levels. In some places it is going to tank populations twice as hard as the Black Death and with no end in sight, literally 33% or replacement in multiple countries now.>Natives will be minorities in their own lands across "wealthy" nations. >Republican government in name, everyone feels powerless and there isn't even a king who can actually do shit to appeal to.Awesome! I love utopia!!!
>>25029738>while living in an unprecedent level of wealth, comfort and safety in the history of humankindwhoa... people are.... LE SAFE.>checks suicide statistics in first world countries
>>25029781>>25029789>generalized statements with no meaning meant to prove anythingjust because a bunch of ungrateful idiots on 4chan who never experienced hardships in life said that life is meaningless it doesn't mean that normal people are like this, or that US-specific problems somehow apply to the rest of the worldagain, you are literally living like kings and hundreds of millions across the globe could only dream about achieving the same level of comfort and safety (also how is a bunch of drug addicts offing themselves a counter-argument to the safety point?), if you can't handle it then it's only a (You) problemis the system perfect and flawless? obviously not but it works and so far nobody came up with a better alternativethe birth rates meme will never not be funny, you literally won't live long enough to notice any change whatsoever, if instead of doomposting you opened a history book then you would know that obsessing over """natives""" makes absolutely zero senseit literally doesn't matter where you come from and who you are, as long as you can follow the law, assimiliate and adapt to the culture/customs (things that are also not static) of a new place then everything is fine, besides is it surprising that a post-war boom in birth rates has reached a plateau?
>>25029861>You won't live long enough to notice any change.This is patently false. We're already noticing massive changes because costs for retiree benefits are crowding out everything else. If you remove those expenses and the revenues associated with them the US budget is actually close to running a surplus.As to the rest of your post, "losers on 4chan" aren't the only people who talk about values nihilism or extreme relativism or skepticism vis-รก-vis the human good. This is a fairly dominant position in academia and neoliberalism is grounded on such skepticism, which is why it elevates a wholly procedural justice over the good.Second, the idea that people are killing themselves in vastly larger numbers "because they have it too good" seems to be a bit much. Likewise, the problem that people are "too free" seems to require dogmatically presupposing the thin liberal vision of freedom as choice. Suffice to say, if there is a human good, and people are not free to attain it, then they are not free in the most important sense, regardless of how free they are from obligations or culture, their atomization, their ability to consume, etc. For instance, by the standards you lay out, which seems to rest entirely on consumption, safety, and comfort, Huxley's A Brave New World should be the ultimate utopia we are striving for. And yet it is an abhorrent dystopia (despite the fact that liberal welfare economics would probably be forced to conclude it is a utopia, but that just shows the flaw in those assumptions).
>>25029901How will the marriage of convenience between the neo-traditionalist/communitarian, Alasdair MacIntyre, Patrick Deneen right and the Neoliberal Reagan/Thatcher/Fukuyama old guard play out? Trump's first term was straight neoliberalism with some communitarian and populist optics. His second term has gone way more in the direction of the traditionalist camp. And yet despite some outcry, the old guard has basically lined up behind Trump, and even behind Vance as the presumptive successor, despite the fact that Vance seems much more committed to the traditionalist view. Actually, many of the influential billionaires have started parroting trad talking points, even if they mix these uncomfortably with neoliberal ones. But these don't mix well. MacIntyre and C.S. Lewis weren't even "conservatives" in the economic sense. Deneen makes a very good argument that liberalism and the classical view of freedom and a teleological politics of the common good are intrinsically opposed, and that capitalism undermines tradition and culture, particularly religion.Will one side win? Can they keep winning elections despite the nation's shifting demographics, given their reliance on nativism? In many ways, because the traditional view is more economically liberal and able to take advantage of migrants religious identities (the primary mode of migrant assimilation in US history, and most migrant traditional cultures hold to teleology because almost everyone outside the modern West does), I think this could actually make them more electorally successful, but then the business elite has many material interests in keeping neoliberalism as the reigning ideology.I am not sure how it will go. There is a pretty big gap between neoliberal "greed is good" and virtue ethics.
