Name: Anonymous 2018-06-24 4:19
What do you value in life? List specific things instead of labels such as political parties.
What do you value in life?Abstract:
ComfortComfort is dangerous. It seems nice, but it makes you weak, and contributes to over-consumption and pollution. It feeds the current flawed capitalist system.
IndividualismIn other words, not caring about your community. It's important to be a part of a group that's bigger than yourself. Individuality is antisocial. You don't have to let other people dictate your entire personality, because that would be dumb. But too much individuality harms community. No man is an island.
ToleranceIs it good to tolerate mosquito bites? Is it good to tolerate a cockroach infestation? Do you tolerate your own replacement? The media makes it sound like tolerance is a good thing, but it is actually bad in a lot of ways. Tolerance is similar to apathy or ignorance. Discrimination isn't as bad as people say it is. It has a purpose. Let's say you harvest some apples. Some of the apples are good, but some are rotten. Some are infested with bugs. Tolerating the bad ones will harm the good ones. Discrimination is vital for survival. Unchecked tolerance will be your own undoing.
vegetarianismVegetarians claim that meat is bad because it harms animals. But consider this: our mere existence harms and destroys entire ecosystems. Even being vegetarian won't change that. There are simply too many people and our lives are too destructive. Colony collapse disorder. Roadkill. Deforestation. Extinction. Endangered species. All of these things can exist in a 100% vegetarian society. "Save the whales" bumper stickers, "green" organic vegan food at the grocery store, and recycling won't save anything. Those things are a drop in the bucket. The only way to make significant change would be to completely restructure society, but people don't want to do that. People don't want to give up their comforts. Not even you.
old videogames and animeNostalgic about those particular things from the past based on their objective qualities, or is it more nostalgia about when you were younger and more innocent and unaware of all the upsetting things in the world? I sometimes find myself feeling nostalgic, and I think it's more to do with the latter.
Ancient Egyptian/Mesopotamian Mythology.Zoroastrianism? Why?
Mostly Free MarketThe tragedy of the commons. The problem with a free market is that it allows people to make seemingly innocent decisions that are actually collectively harmful. Think of it like this: if you examine a drop of water, and bring everyone's attention to the small scale rather than the large, they will think water can do no harm simply because a single drop of water has no harmful properties. But the problem isn't an individual drop of water. A flood is nothing but drops of water put together, but there are emergent properties of harm that come with large scales. Individual, people might think they're not contributing to overpopulation, over-consumption, unsustainability, climate change, and so on. But the problem isn't a single person. The problem is with billions of people.
Economic CentrismFence-sitting, basically.
LGBTQIAP+ rightsWhy is this something people concentrate so much on? Both conservatives and liberals have silently agreed to care so much about unimportant issues like this. They have different views on it, but on any given day, LGBT shit doesn't affect my life. You know what does affect my life? Taxes, immigration, pollution, and the fact that, as a species, we are heading down the path to destruction with our disgusting modern lifestyles. But people don't want to talk about that. They would rather talk at length about whether it's okay for a dude to have a dick in his ass or not. People care more about that than the fact that we're melting the ice caps, replacing European populations, and ultimately going to kill ourselves off if we don't make drastic changes soon. What is wrong with the world?
Strong Social Safety Nets/Basic IncomeUBI is an incomplete reaction to bigger systemic issues. We need to fundamentally restructure society and culture before we can think about thing like income. Unchecked capitalism wants everything to be competitive, which means many people don't have job security. Capitalism and globalist multiculturalism is part of the reason why many have economic issues. There are some winners, but many losers made through this system.
LibertarianismNever go full retard.
Isolationism and non-interventionismOh no, what are you doing?
Government sponsored science/researchBias and manipulation always seep in. It becomes weaponized and politicized. Scientists say LGBT is natural, so let's destroy the idea of the nuclear family. Scientists say we need more diversity. Scientists say you should consume more. And so on. More than that, people often conduct experiments and get data on useless subjects. All while leading nihilistic lives devoid of meaning. I like Linkola's attitude towards science and technology. It has a purpose in some ways, but it is often misguided and also overemphasized. I am saying this as a STEM major, by the way.
Pro-eugenicsWould you still be pro-eugenics if it turned out that your genes were deemed to be bad? Who has the final say in what genetics are good and what genetics should be weeded out of the gene pool? I think gene editing is more likely. It's already being researched in China. The West is afraid to touch it because of moral issues. Instead of telling someone they can't reproduce because they have webbed feet, you can just alter their genes so their kids won't have the same problem.
Pro-nuclear energy/Thorium reactorsI used to be ro-nuclear all the way, but there's still the problem of the nuclear waste lasting for too long and there not being a good place to put it all. If we had a space elevator, that might not be a problem. But we don't.
Pro-solar energyIt sounds good, but there are issues with people switching from the power grid to solar. If more people have their own solar panels, power companies will have fewer customers. Their operating costs will still be similar, if not the same. So in order to offset the lack of profit, they will have to increase prices. Do you see where I'm going with this? People who are privileged enough to have money for solar panels can then get rid of their utility bills, but in doing so they are causing poor people to have to spend more on electricity because of the diminishing customer base. Poor people won't be able to afford solar panels, so they will have to continue to use the power grid, and when the power grid is in decline, it will cost more and more. Life can be very expensive when you're poor, since you can't afford the more cost-effective things that are cheaper in the long run but cost more up-front. So the proper way to do solar would involve a lot of planning, not just individuals buying solar panels for their individual homes. Or perhaps the government could help power grids convert to solar, instead of only individual households converting. Solar farms in the middle of a sunny place in the middle of nowhere. But this issue is more complicated than a lot of solar advocates make it seem.
For reduction of fossil fuelsI agree with this too, but the problem is that it's not just technology here, it's also political since many people will lose power and money if we switch away from oil, since many economies rely on their local oil fields. You can't change the tech without changing economy.
Radical Free speechWhat about subversive mainstream media that encourages people to hate your demographic and destroy your identity?
Pro-CryptocurrencySlow distributed databases backed by gaming graphics card hashing. Hmmm, no. At the end of the day, Bitcoin is very bad for the environment, very slow, and you can't buy very many things with it. I think a lot of people who are pro-cryptocurrency are either unaware of the underlying technology (blockchain = inefficient hashed distributed linked list) or just in denial about the numerous problems.
Comfort is dangerous. It seems nice, but it makes you weak, and contributes to over-consumption and pollution. It feeds the current flawed capitalist system.
all the results of the pursuit of comfort.Your "discount comfort" is example of poor people getting the lowest levels of comfort. These are cheap solutions to seeking comfort but they don't actually give you anything valuable.
Disposable products.Not a problem for rich people. They can buy a higher quality non-disposable version too, since they can afford it.
Debt racked up after buying unnecessary things.Rich people don't have debt as some damocles sword hovering over them, since their consumer spend is far lesser proportion of income.
Being easily offended because of a culture of being overly polite.They don't bother getting offended since they don't need to play the victim for sympathy. But they can more easily influence society if they find themselves offended.
Allowing social media and TV to reprogram your brain and feed thoughts to you so you don't have to think very hard.Rich people don't need to resort to TV/social media to get their self-esteem up or to feel happy. They have means for selecting their own personal entertainment/media/leisure activities: practically anything you'd think too expensive.
These are all the results of the pursuit of comfort.These are cheap comforts that have flaws and damaging properties.
Rich people have DVDsYou're not even making sense anymore.
The people in power who are able to dictate what happens in society have created a trivial society and culture. People who are powerless to changes things are influenced by those who are able to control things. So yes, poor people's lives are turned into shallow, consumerist, wasteful existences.
But what I am saying is that things need to change so that the average person and average city/town isn't just structured around pointless consumption and entertainment, which is wasteful and useless, aside from giving money to corporations to keep our flawed economic system going. Additionally, there are too many people and our emissions and waste are destroying the environment. When will it end? People will probably only care once it's too late.This is ridiculous argument:
without 50% of your comfortsWhat you're saying is you want me to imagine changing one aspect and leaving everything else the same. I am saying everything needs to change. Not just a tiny thing that you are deciding to autisticly fixate on.
Why not make it so that people have purpose and then don't have to resort to escapism when they're off work? What if we make a society that isn't centered around preying off of people's stresses and inadequacies and dislike for life and work? What if we form meaningful, traditional communities based on sustainability, family.
What ways to realistically reduce like 6 billion of humans you can think of?
This also has the hints of eco-fascismHints?! Buddy, I fucking mentioned Pentti Linkola. "Hints" is an understatement.
We can have 20 Billion indians.That's not the point. The point isn't to have a huge population. It simply isn't sustainable. A lot of societal problems are caused by the fact that there are too many people, which in turn decreases the value of an individual. It's an employer's dream world right now, since there are tons of applicants so they can pick and choose who to hire, and pay people shitty wages. If there was less competition, employees would make more money and have a higher quality of life. More land per person, less resource scarcity, and so on.
In other words, not caring about your community. It's important to be a part of a group that's bigger than yourself. Individuality is antisocial. You don't have to let other people dictate your entire personality, because that would be dumb. But too much individuality harms community. No man is an island.
Also liberals: it's NOT okay to separate illegal immigrant children from their parentsHow is that wrong?
over the past decadesYeah no. What about the prohibition? What about the WWII era? What about the forced sterilization programmes?
freedomGood
capitalismBad
limitsBad
socialismGood
when society was divided into citizens and slaves (helots)They also had foreigners who were not citizens nor slaves.
There is nothing wrong with illegal immigration, because no human being is "illegal", except for the fact that immigrants make angry these lazy xenophobes and other neo-NazisI will agree with this.
It is necessary to deconstruct all values, not simply compare themWhy don't you start by "deconstructing" why you should bother to "deconstruct" all values in the first place? It is ridiculously arrogant to think that you are even able to conceive of the reasoning behind common values, since these values formed over thousands of years of trial and error while your mind only formed by reading a few shitty postmodern books by Jewish boomers in the 50s.