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Anon is tired (lemmy.ml)

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[–] Zink@programming.dev 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I’ve gone through a lot of crap to learn and really believe that happiness and contentment can only come from within. The outside world has a lot to offer, but it will never give you that.

Unfortunately the outside world and circumstances CAN make it pretty damn difficult or impossible.

It’s a cliche to think of a monk or philosopher saying stuff like “if you want to be happy, be happy,” but that’s a lot of how I I’ve come to see it. And obviously it’s not that simple, we are pretty damn complicated, but that’s the spirit behind it.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

I get what you're saying. There are ways to think that can help people feel happier or better on a personal, individual level. Thats more or less what some forms of therapy can do for people, and its a very good thing, again on an individual level.

But the context in that piece, and where i would put the emphasis, is that its an example of capitalist alienation and atomization. There's no individual answer to that. It's something that is pushed onto all of us through our relationship to capital, and to truely end that malaise, we need to work toward ending capitalism itself.

[–] UnicodeHamSic@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

There is a correct amount of resources. Too much and you lose touch with reality. To little and the weight of reality is too much to bear. Happiness comes from within but unhappiness can very much come from outside forces.

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[–] TrismegistusMx@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

It's been far too long since the sociopaths were put in their place. Now they have all the money in the world and can hire sycophants to be their personal armies.

[–] yrmyli@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 year ago

My family wasn't rich and I didn't have many luxuries, but I still claim to have been much happier than many children who live in this hectic world where everything is so superficial. 90% of ordinary people don't even dare to have an opinion anymore if it's not exactly what the mainstream represents.

[–] I_like_cats@lemmy.one 14 points 1 year ago

We consume pseudo-food, watch pseudo movies and participate in pseudo sports, heck even pseudo politics. Why pseudo? Because everything is made as cheap as possible and to distract us from the suffering that capitalism brings us so that we won't rise up.

Examples:

Our vegetables are genetically modified so that they grow bigger but they can't reproduce anymore and the seeds are copyrighted.
The movies that are watching are catered to the mainstream and don't even really get a message across. Marvel movies try to tell us that rich people with power will save the world
Football games are there to distract people "give them bread and games and they will never revolt"
The people at power, through massive propaganda, seperate our people into left and right. These two parties will then fight eachother instead of realizing who is really opressing us

[–] Strangle@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (26 children)

Turn off the news, and stay away from anything online that lets you or other people comment.

Lose Twitter, Facebook, reddit (or reddit alternatives) and the world will look like a much different place.

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