There's a fuckton of evidence that our society is fucked because we DO TOO MANY THINGS, and by so doing burn up resources on wasted bullshit The fact is that the biggest and most major way to fight climate change, for instance, is to DO LESS SHIT
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Radlein
Isn't it weird that we think if you're upset about something the right response is to DO SOMETHING, GET OUT IN THE STREETS "I'm so mad about climate change I'm gonna go out there and -- " Aaaah hold up -- go out how
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Radlein
"I'm gonna get on a plane to -- No, I'm gonna get in my car and -- No, I'm gonna -- huh" (I'm gonna be honest, "Why are you flying to twenty cities around the world on a private jet to yell about global warming?" is a good point)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Radlein
You wanna save the world from global warming? STOP GOING PLACES STOP DOING THINGS Be someone who never leaves their home, has never traveled outside their hometown, never tries exotic foods and spices and eats an extremely bland diet, never buys interesting new products
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Radlein
We are literally burning down the whole world with our insatiable interests and desires and appetites and curiosities Stop giving a shit Don't do things, don't care about things Just fucking sit there and exist
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Radlein
Climate change is just one particular angle to look at this from, of course This is also the #1 most effective way to not waste your money, not get mugged or assaulted or raped, not be emotionally harmed by others and not cause them emotional harm
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Radlein
This is the actual message of Buddhism, of "enlightenment" People say that it's an oversimplification of what it means to give up attachment and desire and seek satori but, well, they would say that
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Radlein
I'm not even fully comfortable committing to actually saying this without irony but what I am saying is that "depression brain" should be respected, it should get a vote In our society right now it's just fully suppressed as disordered, damaged thinking
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Radlein
Our society right now is fully in thrall to what Buddhism calls the "monkey mind", the voice of FOMO Christ they're trying to make "Yes Day" a thing, that stupid meme that they made the Jim Carrey movie Yes Man about -- "What if you had a day where you said yes to everything?"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Radlein
Well you'd spend a lot of money and exhaust yourself and fuck a lot of shit up that was better left alone How about a "No Day", where instead you say No to everything, including things you'd normally say Yes to
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(This DOES have a voice in our society, but it's a subversive, left-handed voice The sly little jokes about how good it feels to have friends unexpectedly cancel plans on you, etc)
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