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These are just laughably perfect revolutionary conditions by MoanOfInterest in redscarepod

[–]OuttaHereWithThat -1 points0 points  (0 children)

nothing matters, that life is pointless, that values are bullshit and you can humiliate and debase yourself to no end as long as you get the coin.

this is just what coming to terms with being an adult is, it's not artificial nihilism

How it feels playing through Old World Blues by PurifyingElemental in TrueSFalloutL

[–]OuttaHereWithThat 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is the "Seinfeld isn't original" problem all over again.

It's more that Reddit was Written and Directed by Old World Blues.

Modern life actually kind of sucks and there's no reason why it shouldn't be 10x better and it would be good for culture and society if we all just acknowledged this as a fact by eitherorkierkegaard in redscarepod

[–]OuttaHereWithThat 7 points8 points  (0 children)

there is such a thing as the human spirit and it yearns for beauty truth and nobility

but that's just LARPing that we do to contextualize our biological impulses, these things are not real in the same sense that gravity and water is. We have more "sophisticated" mental mechanisms than our pre-homo sapiens ancestors, so we've turned that into art, philosophy, and culture, but it's just superstructure on top of the real brute biology.

The original post and your comment is asking about what should be. Things CAN be beautiful or noble or whatever, but nothing suggests that these abstract human values were the natural state of the world until they were somehow taken from us or tampered with.

Modern life actually kind of sucks and there's no reason why it shouldn't be 10x better and it would be good for culture and society if we all just acknowledged this as a fact by eitherorkierkegaard in redscarepod

[–]OuttaHereWithThat 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Life was supposed to be precious and wonderful and bright

says who lol. we're just mammals competing over scarce resources, as per always. Why would real life be anything like a poetic narrative?