We've become the saddest sort of hedonist culture, the kind that develops because caring about anything else in any way that elevates you as an individual designates you prey for the crowd's hungry maw
Show this thread
-
A puzzle that irked me when I was younger: why do people kill themselves? Why don't they run away? Show up in a new town with a new identity? Rob a bank? Try heroin? Shouldn't anything be on the table? I didn't understand that if they still had any such spark, they could live
Show this thread
This reflects a larger confusion, btw: that maybe more money (rob a bank) or euphoric brain chemistry (heroin) would help. Maybe they would, for some. But I now think a sense of inescapable, universal personal impotence is the brainworm that's rotting most of us out
-
-
Damn. Resonates.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Repeated collisions with is/ought boundary probably plays a role, as does experience of arriving to work on a project and finding a pointless social gyration.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Sometimes I just have to wonder who you’re arguing with in your head.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Not certain I have your answers. I got a friend who spoke truth to power, and they ended up telling lots of stories to protect their reputation. The institutional scorn underwent follows everywhere and makes it difficult to move on professionally, not to mention psychologically.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
For many, yes; for others, it’s may be a sense that their existence is so fundamentally harmful to Real People who Really Matter that the only good deed they can ever truly accomplish is the final one. Despair wears many faces.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
You're addressing people who wrongly decided they're impotent (and so became, for example, MDs instead of founders). A sense of impotence is in the air, but it's because most people *are* impotent. Most aren't worth what they're paid, and many aren't worth $5/hr, forget 15.
-
I agree, the people in the first group shouldn't be selling themselves short. As to the second, much larger group, the most any of us can do is (1) decide it's that group's plight and hope they don't someday storm the gates, or (2) vote our values differently with our dollars.
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
Have you seen an ep of Lodge 49 yet? That despair and gnawing miasma thing getting worked out in there.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
The realization of the value and power of simple things has been lost in a complex world full of tech. In person interaction>social media. Real connections are lost and it has a real cost. Too many people know more people on social media than their local neighborhood.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.