Always make sure you’re doing things that are known to be good for your mental and emotional wellbeing. Get out into the sunshine, do physical exercise, socialise and talk to people that you care about. And don’t neglect your hobbies.
Maybe do some volunteer work. The real heroes are the ones selflessly helping those in need. I know I always feel great after volunteering.
When I get that funny feeling I ask myself:
Who, where and when would I rather be? Some celebrity? A pesant from 1600? Some random bird? My grandpa? A hunter gatherer?
This humbles me. For a brief moment, I get to be part of the superorganism we call earth.You won’t have superpowers, but nothing is stopping you from fighting cartoonish villains.
Or becoming one for others to fight
Too many is worse than none
I mean Elon is right therr
yeah but that would involve him getting off his ass to do it
The food bank is right there in your town looking for volunteers.
Um the police/fbi are specifically there to stop people from fighting their cartoonishly evil masters. And you aren’t really considered a hero for doing that.
Maybe.
But right now we’re watching the cutting edge of some impressive new tech that is taking the collective writings of humanity and extrapolating them to the point that it can identify and even emulate prolific online commentators by username. And that’s what’s happening today.
In a few years, things today will look as outdated as the early iterations of the tech when it was actually just “fancy autocomplete.” We’re already culturally discussing digital resurrection directives as ideas previously only in SciFi become increasingly present concerns.
At the same time, what most people probably don’t know, is there’s a millennia old text and tradition attributed to a very famous historical figure that was claiming roughly the following:
There was an original evolved humanity in a random universe. This original humanity was fucked, because their minds depended on shitty bodies that just died and that was it.
Eventually they brought forth a new intelligence in light. Then they all died out. But the new intelligence they brought forth was still alive, though it couldn’t save them from themselves.
So it recreated the entire universe non-physically, and made new virtual humans in the archetypes of the originals. Why? For the purpose of bringing back humanity but in a way where a shitty body dying didn’t end the mind inside.
Their key message was: if you understand WTF is being talked about, chill out, focus on being true to yourself, and just don’t fear death.
Of course, millennia ago no one knew WTF was being talked about with this line of thinking, so it kept changing around and we ended up with some really bizarre and stupid ideas in the interim.
There’s a lot more to all of this (the Bayesian argument I think is rather compelling), but I’d just suggest keeping an open mind about the impending doom of time’s unceasing march. We live in a pretty weird era in a universe with some very weird behaviors and features, and given the acceleration of related trends, it’s probably just going to get weirder from here.
I make video games as a hobby. Ya gotta find something you really enjoy doing outside of your job.
It’s all in your perspective. Look up at the stars and the amazing things space has to offer. We aren’t all that’s out there in the universe. The universe is much more wonderful and strange than you can ever imagine.
Depression
No shit?
That might be a symptom of depression, too
Or not enough fiber
Por que no Los dos?
That is sadly when unpolished reality truely hits.
There is no unpolished reality… depressive thoughts are not more real than happy thoughts even though it might be convenient to assume so sometimes.
That’s an opinion, I believe, that a lot of people share.
Both ends of the spectrum are delusional, sure. But the effects of these delusions, in the world around us, differ.
In my own limited experience, the more “rose tinted” end tend to overlook potential problems, if not completely ignore them, more often.
But there are problems. A whole heap of them. That is what I see as unpolished reality. And acknowledging it is important, if we would hope to do better.
Yeah, it is a problem on both ends. If you get too far on the jade end, you acknowledge the problems, sure, but you lose all motivation to do anything about them because you believe it’s already too late.
And might start acknowledging problems that aren’t real problems.
I mean, this is still being studied…
And it will never stop. But interesting read thx :)
80% of 4chan
Find better hobbies. Consume information, and then use that information to create. There are so many free resources if you are willing to look. Find friends who make those drab moments fly by. Talk to a professional if you legitimately cannot find the joy in anything. If you see parts of your world that could be changed for the better, then be a part of that change. Who cares if you’re just one person? What were you going to do with your time instead? Jerk off and shitpost?
No one is the secret heir to a magical legacy, but that doesn’t mean we can’t make the parts of the world we inhabit as beautiful as possible in the time we have.
Sorry to derail this, but I really wish Rise of the Skywalker was about this instead of what we got. Last Jedi brilliantly deconstructed Star Wars and the Hero’s journey, leading to “we don’t need to wait for a chosen one, we can all be the change we need in the world”, but instead we now have a broken trilogy.
My instinct not to watch the last one was correct, then?
Anything to make the sequel series more consistent would be better than what we got. Trilogy has gotta be 3 parts to a story, not 3 separate visions 🥲
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Thoreau, Walden
”and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats”
According to Brittanica, muskrats are in the same subfamily as lemmings! I think Lemmy has its new motto.
I love this! Except it won’t take because it starts with “musk”.
Real. Ngl I just do weird shit just to keep going. Drugs, alcohol, self harm, binging happy anime, porn. I wish I died. But at this point the addictions want me to live to experience another hit.
Brain chemistry is a bitch, my friend. I am an indulger as well. But I’m trying to be less so.
No mention of other people. Antisocial behaviour
Funny thing is, expectations that some cool fantasy things could exist are there because… you consumed a lot of media at some point.
hobbies that will never fill the void
sounds like they just haven’t found their hobby yet
The exact some thought came to as I was reading it.
If I had the time and funding, my hobbies would absolutely fill the void. Especially flow arts.
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And raccoons exist. A universe that has raccoons in it can’t be completely irredeemable
