Showing posts with label lifestyle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lifestyle. Show all posts

Sunday, March 20

We are living in the greatest time in the history of humanity. Why are we so miserable? (Part I)

We have the best technology, the best medicine, convenience up the ass. I could pull up any kind of information I want in seconds. I can communicate with people across the world effortlessly. And that is the tip of the iceborg. We live in an age where time is measured in seconds and minutes. Whereas before, a lot of the simple shit we do every day would take hours, days, months, or even years. 

Technological innovation is not similiar to enjoyable lifestyle, overwhelming modernization, online addiction, and depersonalization does not make for a good era. Because we are still bound by instincts we must attempt to control in order to live in society, and no amount of technology can ever change that.

We just moved up a slot on maslow's hierarchy of needs, we don't have to worry about acquiring food anymore, so now we wring our hands about how no one loves us. I wonder what humanity's like when we reach the top of the pyramid and we decide to become a part of something bigger than us. and yet, we're just a single mistake away from collapse. If we could only reciprocate that for every country in the world, and have no immigration/intermarriage anywhere, we would be living in a utopia.

Friday, May 7

Everything America has contributed to the world comes from Europe

The rich get a good education and opportunities, while the poor are encouraged to have sex as early as possible.

Education as it stands in the US today is analogous to operant conditioning. Americans are generally anti-intellectual. If it involves work, they'll vilify it. That's why the best paying, highest worth jobs involve so little work, whereas the lower paying jobs that don't earn you much respect require so much work. Think a manager vs a construction worker. There's a reason why the politicians try to present themselves as "someone Joe the Plumber could have a beer with".

Unlike Europe, where in every country, every student is given private, 1-on-1 tutoring growing up, and they all legitimately want to be in school, and everyone strives to do the best the can to make something of their lives. Since the poorer people are a majority, you have bigger classes in public school. Students usually receive less attention and there is a bigger chance you'll have people being rude and not caring. When you don't pay for school, what incentive do you have to make it worthwhile? It sucks, but that's America.

Stars and celebrities don't encourage it, making the masses not give a shit at all about it. They want the fame, the riches, and the glory that follows it. A single baseball player gets paid millions for what he does. A teacher gets paid a couple hundred for what it does. Celebrites get instant millions for simply acting. Someone going to school to "get an education" ends up waiting tables to pay off their student loan, then eventually end up turning into a stripper. In other words, Americans want something that will make them instant money. They don't want to go through a slow process to aquire it.

Americans want the glamour life. They want instant money. They want the lavish lifestyle/ material shit. They want ways to make money without needing an education. If they can't download an education into their brains instantly, they wont mind remaining stupid and misinformed. It's a fucking contest over there of who can get rich without having to do nothing, quickly! Their media and magazines promote glitz & glam. Americans want that lifestyle, not an education.