I pretty much hate the world right now. |
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The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended. - Frédéric Bastiat
I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves. - Christopher Hitchens
Formerly known as BLUELINE976
OP, you have only had the experience of one point of view of life. You would not feel necessarily the same if you were to die to day and be reborn into another person. Your life may be rotten, mine might be too, but the world is not rotten. This is the most important thing people today do not come to terms with when evaluating their unhappiness. The world is not rotten and has nothing to do with your life's rottenness. Believe me, I'e been in that same boat, but realizing that it is you that is the problem is essential. Otherwise you wind up like all these fucking mass murders because these people felt the same as us but believed that the world really was rotten and that it didn't stem from their attitude or life experience. Therefore, instead of solemnly accepting his own death, alone, just like he was when he was born, and going out with no one knowing, he decided to take it out on those he wrongly perceived to have ruined his life. |
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Maybe it is rotten, but rotten stuff tends to make good fertilizer for seeds, just saying |
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Don't watch the news so much or pay so much attention to the larger state of the world - it is literally extremely depressing because generally what they report on is when things go wrong. Not only that, but it isn't really productive or necessary to know too much about the wide world in general, unless you're the kind of person who really likes to do that. Until mass media it wasn't possible to know so much about what was going on in other countries or even across your own country - people mostly just knew what was going on in their own neighborhoods and to some extent their city or town. That's how we evolved to live and all this info overload largely just stresses us out, though it can also spread understanding across the globe to some extent. |
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Thomas Jefferson said something once about how the news fools people into thinking they're informed without actually informing them, and it's better not to read the news and know you're not informed than to read the news and think you are. This is very much true with mainstream news, but even good investigative programs like Vice will contort your worldview into pessimism if you take it as the entire picture. |
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Last edited by Original Poster; 06-09-2014 at 10:05 PM.
Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
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I do want to ask you, why do you think it is the governments responsibility to stop wrongdoing? Why should this not be a personal decision that people make? The more you force it down their throat, the more you "make" them stop wrong doing, the more wrong doing they will learn (and want) to do, because the government is teaching you to become subversive and that in order to do something you want, you have to break the rules. Now breaking the law is not only almost impossible to avoid, but it becomes cool to do so by those easily impressionable people which make up a majority of the populace, now being above the law or purposefully bad is all over entertainment (think drugs, violence, and other lude stuff that is in all types of media--music, movies, shows... everything) and again, it just makes it seem that much more cool. If there were less laws, people would a)be less able to break the law, obviously, b)be less willing to break the law since they aren't already breaking the law doing something they should already be able to do, and c) deciding to be good on their own. The reasons why you would want to be polite and do the right thing don't even matter at that point--either it's because you feel that is the right thing to do, or for the morally corrupt or completely devoid, for fear of being rightfully "taken care" of by the direct surrounding community, who realize for everyone's sakes and safety, choosing to be good is better than choosing to be bad. If there was a chance for you being an asshole and spitting on people and going over the speed limit through town that angry people would kick your ass or even shoot you, would you continue to do it? Would you think twice about your actions? You would probably develop some sense and not do such a stupid thing. Not only that, then people learn to have some self-responsibility. You don't act like a felon because the outside forces of the world taught you to be that way, you decided to act like a valueless, morally corrupt human being of your own accord, and the only way to atone for it is to accept this fact and actually sincerely be sorry for the fact you did such things. |
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I was reminded of that quotation attributed to Gandhi: "Be the change you wish to see in the world." Apparently what he really said was: “If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. ... We need not wait to see what others do.” But it's good advice either way! (Source: Brian Morton, "Falser Words Were Never Spoken," New York Times, August 29, 2011) |
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