Do you fit in modern society? What’s your opinion on it?

[venin]

I realize the trauma biases me to some extent but I think it's shit.

Too materialistic, shallow and misleading.

+ if you have mental health issues you're kinda screwed

 

[TheRottingContinues]

I feel like in modern society people are too focused on consumerism, and don't stop and take the time to think about what's really going on. Also I find the idea of "social norms" to be really stupid. Like I get laws that are there to keep people safe, but why can't I just go up and talk to people about random or "taboo" topics?

 

[venin]

I feel like in modern society people are too focused on consumerism, and don't stop and take the time to think about what's really going on. Also I find the idea of "social norms" to be really stupid. Like I get laws that are there to keep people safe, but why can't I just go up and talk to people about random or "taboo" topics?

Good take on it ty for answering

 

[LostFuture.]

It's awful. People are propagandised to be obedient slaves and consumers, and this is considered freedom. Been wanting this whole system to collapse for a long time, but it keeps getting worse each time they prop it up.

But the freedom is an illusion because if you will not or cannot walk this very narrow path of being a consumerist slave, you will be quickly disowned, made homeless or imprisoned. You can even be punished just for having an opinion deemed unacceptable by our rulers.

 

[conarc]

It's awful. People are propagandised to be obedient slaves and consumers, and this is considered freedom. Been wanting this whole system to collapse for a long time, but it keeps getting worse each time they prop it up.

But the freedom is an illusion because if you will not or cannot walk this very narrow path of being a consumerist slave, you will be quickly disowned, made homeless or imprisoned. You can even be punished just for having an opinion deemed unacceptable by our rulers.

Life is good up to certain age if you are healthy and pretty, but if not its pointless. Also, if you start to decay it gets even worse imho.

Most of the people do not understand that they are enslaved.

Seeing 3years old playing with smartphones I am quite sure it will only get much much worse in this society.

 

[venin]

It's awful. People are propagandised to be obedient slaves and consumers, and this is considered freedom. Been wanting this whole system to collapse for a long time, but it keeps getting worse each time they prop it up.

But the freedom is an illusion because if you will not or cannot walk this very narrow path of being a consumerist slave, you will be quickly disowned, made homeless or imprisoned. You can even be punished just for having an opinion deemed unacceptable by our rulers.

Morpheus: Do you want to know what it is? [Neo nods] The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Morpheus: That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind. Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself. This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. [opens hand, revealing blue pill] You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. [opens hand, revealing red pill] You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember: all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more.

 

[Alessa_Silent_Doll]

Capitalism, Ableism, Neo-Nazis, Misogynists, Bigotry, Stigmatization, Criminalization of mental health, Unaffordable life expenses, Homophobia, Transphobia, Corruption, Child exploitations and abuse, Femicide, Racism, Xenophobia...

You got the point, love.

 

[venin]

Capitalism, Ableism, Neo-Nazis, Misogynists, Bigotry, Stigmatization, Criminalization of mental health, Unaffordable life expenses, Homophobia, Transphobia, Corruption, Child exploitations and abuse, Femicide, Racism, Xenophobia...

You got the point, love.

Yes, darling

 

[Anon7b8]

Seeing 3years old playing with smartphones I am quite sure it will only get much much worse in this society.

Wdym 3 year olds. Some parents do it once the kid gets attracted to the stuff.

 

[imtired15]

Based on what most people say about people like me, I don't really think I fit in. I wish I did. I think I would do anything to just be "normal" It is one of the reasons I want to leave this place. If people don't want me here so bad, then why should I be here anymore?

 

[Forever Sleep]

I don't really feel a part of this world and I don't actually want to be. I hate how the people that boast about themselves and their achievements get on in this life- whether they are actually are that good or not. I hate all that social media crap. I hate how sociopaths do so well because companies admire how utterly ruthless they are. I hate being part of a system that exploits me and in turn- I exploit others.

There are some incredible things about the modern age of course. I love the internet. I love having entertainment at my fingertips. Things are obviously SO much easier now that we have machines to help us. It's not like I REALLY want to live in a different era that much either! I just think living at all sucks!

 

[venin]

Life is good up to certain age if you are healthy and pretty, but if not its pointless. Also, if you start to decay it gets even worse imho.

Most of the people do not understand that they are enslaved.

Seeing 3years old playing with smartphones I am quite sure it will only get much much worse in this society.

If healthy and goodlooking growing up but it was almost nothing since I was heavily traumatised.

It will. It does. People are now valuing sneakers and followers more that personality.

It wasn't great in the past but now it's just insane.

Wdym 3 year olds. Some parents do it once the kid gets attracted to the stuff.

I wonder if the peole who designed them had making them irrezistable in mind

 

[Darkover]

i think we've lost the way when you have to sacrifice everything to learn a living there's more to life then having to work to survive but thats all the vast majiorty do is work to survive to continue working to survive where's the fun in that?, it's dull boring and repetitive, your all a bunch of slaves

 

[venin]

i think we've lost the way when you have to sacrifice everything to learn a living there's more to life then having to work to survive but thats all the vast majiorty do is work to survive to continue working to survive where's the fun in that?, it's dull boring and repetitive, View attachment 118997your all a bunch of slaves

Workaholics living in denial in every way possible.

But they do have better lives than ours @Darkover

FMLLLL

 

[conarc]

I hate how sociopaths do so well because companies admire how utterly ruthless they are.

This! Its so disgusting and gets worse everyday.

 

[venin]

This! Its so disgusting and gets worse everyday.

They're like commercial hitmans

 

[passivethought121]

I think the only way I could fit in is if I forced myself. I'm not forcing myself now, and it'd be even more unbearable if I suppressed myself. And there's so many other things I can't get behind. Like devoting your soul to something for the rest of your life, but that thing is most likely something you hate. And the "ideal person" that everyone wants, someone who's competitive and outgoing and willing to put in 101% for the sole purpose of making sure they're on top, not because they care. And then there's that perpetual misery, that has been here for so long it's a default setting. I've accepted it as part of my being. If I tell people how I'm feeling by default, they leave, and they may recommend some lackluster help. If I lie, then I feel fake and ingenuine, and then I'll be suppressing myself a little.

 

[venin]

I think the only way I could fit in is if I forced myself. I'm not forcing myself now, and it'd be even more unbearable if I suppressed myself. And there's so many other things I can't get behind. Like devoting your soul to something for the rest of your life, but that thing is most likely something you hate. And the "ideal person" that everyone wants, someone who's competitive and outgoing and willing to put in 101% for the sole purpose of making sure they're on top, not because they care. And then there's that perpetual misery, that has been here for so long it's a default setting. I've accepted it as part of my being. If I tell people how I'm feeling by default, they leave, and they may recommend some lackluster help. If I lie, then I feel fake and ingenuine, and then I'll be suppressing myself a little.

Basically every day of my life since I became an adult

 

[SN drinker]

I feel like in modern society people are too focused on consumerism, and don't stop and take the time to think about what's really going on. Also I find the idea of "social norms" to be really stupid. Like I get laws that are there to keep people safe, but why can't I just go up and talk to people about random or "taboo" topics?

If you ain't rich, you're basically a cattle taxpayer slave

 

[brokeandbroken]

I realize the trauma biases me to some extent but I think it's shit.

Too materialistic, shallow and misleading.

+ if you have mental health issues you're kinda screwed

Not really. Not that I'm a great person but I try to be decent I guess. I don't really think people are. If you can be in medical school studying to be an oncologist... Then be a victim of crimes by the medical school.... Then have 0 people care either way to help whether it's to say you are wrong for xyz or helping to get justice. Id say no. I think people suck. I see very little redeeming qualities to be honest.

 

[venin]

Based on what most people say about people like me, I don't really think I fit in. I wish I did. I think I would do anything to just be "normal" It is one of the reasons I want to leave this place. If people don't want me here so bad, then why should I be here anymore?

For you

If you ain't rich, you're basically a cattle taxpayer slave

Mos def

 

[CrazyDiamond04]

Modern life is quite awful for many people. However, it's still much better than the past.

 

[venin]

I don't really feel a part of this world and I don't actually want to be. I hate how the people that boast about themselves and their achievements get on in this life- whether they are actually are that good or not. I hate all that social media crap. I hate how sociopaths do so well because companies admire how utterly ruthless they are. I hate being part of a system that exploits me and in turn- I exploit others.

Thank for shining a light on this. Especially the last sentence

 

[606]

I feel like in modern society people are too focused on consumerism, and don't stop and take the time to think about what's really going on. Also I find the idea of "social norms" to be really stupid. Like I get laws that are there to keep people safe, but why can't I just go up and talk to people about random or "taboo" topics?

Agreed. Honestly, I'm sick and tired of the direction the human race is going towards.

 

[WeDontKnowTheFuture]

I Cannot fit in it. The process of being format at school then working until your too old to do it doesn't appeal to me. I know that without work the food couldn't get to our plate or our home will not exist at all so work make sense.
Unfortunately, Unless you have a talent that excites you enough to give meaning to your life and with which you can earn a living, it is hardly enjoyable.

 

[Deleted member 65988]

Wait, what happened to Venin.n? Their account is closed?

 

[hermestrimegistus]

I dont lol

 

[jessisme]

I hate and fear most technology. I flee from it and have no mastery over it. I don't have any friends and don't cultivate relationships so I'm not really social and so as far as social media goes I am almost entirely left out. I am not competitive in the slightest or understand people who are. This puts me out of step with most all of society. There is nothing about me that fits into this era and I flounder greatly to find my place. I fit in only with my mother here at the outskirts and the margin of society. I cannot get into the mainstream no matter how hard I try.

 

[kuchenn1238]

no i don't lmao, i don't fit in society at all, i always struggle a lot in conversations, i always get the weird looks and people say they don't want to talk to me because i'm intimidating

 

[BlackMoon]

I can't fit in and I'll never fit in. The social stigma is killing me in the inside even before I kill myself. I would like to be an open heart but all I could get is a punch in the face.

And more generally I hate that I can't even talk freely about certain topics, that people prefer good lies that unpleasant truths, that politic means more choosing which group of people will be oppressed or invisibilized than building a safe and caring community, I hate human societies.