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Postby BluesDotEXE » 20 Aug 2016, 23:23

At this moment you could be anywhere, doing anything. Instead you sit alone before a screen. So what’s stopping us from doing what we want? Being where we want to be?

Each day we wake up in the same room and follow the same path, to live the same day as yesterday. Yet at one time each day was a new adventure. Along the way something changed. Before our days were timeless, now our days are scheduled.

The very elements we need to survive are owned by corporations. There’s no food for us on trees, no freshwater in streams, no land to build a home. If you try and take what the Earth provides you’ll be locked away. So we obey their rules.

We discover the world through a textbook. For years we sit and regurgitate what we’re told. Tested and graded like subjects in a lab. Raised not to make a difference in this world, raised to be no different. Smart enough to do our job but not to question why we do it. So we work and work, left with no time to live the life we work for. Until a day comes when we are too old to do our job. It is here we are left to die. Our children take our place in the game.

To us our path is unique, but together we are nothing more than fuel. The fuel that powers the elite. The elite who hide behind the logos of corporations. This is their world. And their most valuable resource is not in the ground. It is us.

We build their cities, we run their machines, we fight their wars. After all, money isn’t what drives them. It’s power. Money is simply the tool they use to control us. Worthless pieces of paper we depend on to feed us, move us, entertain us.

They gave us money and in return we gave them the world. Where there were trees that cleaned our air are now factories that poison it. Where there was water to drink, is toxic waste that stinks. Where animals ran free, are factory farms where they are born and slaughtered endlessly for our satisfaction. Over a billion people are starving, despite us having enough food for everybody. Where does it all go? 70% of the grain we grow is fed to fatten the animals you eat for dinner. Why help the starving? You can’t profit off them.

We aren’t destroying the planet. We are destroying all life on it. Every year thousands of species go extinct. And time is running out before we’re next. If you live in America there’s a 41% chance you’ll get cancer. Heart disease will kill one out of three Americans. We take prescription drugs to deal with these problems, but medical care is the third leading cause of death behind cancer and heart disease. We’re told everything can be solved by throwing money at scientists so they can discover a pill to make our problems go away. But the drug companies and cancer societies rely on our suffering to make a profit. We think we’re running for a cure, but really we’re running away from the cause. Our body is a product of what we consume and the food we eat is designed purely for profit. We fill ourselves with toxic chemicals. The bodies of animals infested with drugs and diseases. But we don’t see this. The small group of corporations that own the media don’t want us to. Surrounding us with a fantasy we’re told is reality.

One day, this sensation we call life will leave us. Our bodies will rot, our valuables recollected. Yesterday’s actions all that remain. Death constantly surrounds us, still it seems so distant from our everyday reality. We live in a world on the verge of collapse. The wars of tomorrow will have no winners. For violence will never be the answer; it will destroy every possible solution.

We’ve become disconnected. Idolizing people we’ve never met. We witness the extraordinary on screens but ordinary everywhere else. We wait for someone to bring change without ever thinking of changing ourselves.

Presidential elections might as well be a coin toss. It’s two sides of the same coin. We choose which face we want and the illusion of choice, of change is created. But the world remains the same. We fail to realize the politicians don’t serve us; they serve those who fund them into power.

We need leaders, not politicians. But in this world of followers, we have forgotten to lead ourselves. Stop waiting for change and be the change you want to see. We didn’t get to this point by sitting on our asses. The human race survived not because we are fastest or the strongest, but because we worked together.

We have mastered the act of killing. Now let’s master the joy of living.

This isn’t about saving the planet. The planet will be here whether we are or not. Earth has been around for billions of years, each of us will be lucky to last eighty. We are a flash in time, but our impact is forever.

For better or worse, our generation will determine the future of life on this planet. We can either continue to serve this system of destruction until no memory of our existence remains. Or we can wake up. Realize we aren’t evolving upwards, but rather falling down...we just have screens in our faces so we don’t see where we’re heading.

This present moment is what every step, every breath and every death has led to. We are the faces of all who came before us. And now it is our turn. You can choose to carve your own path or follow the road countless others have already taken.
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BluesDotEXE wrote:At this moment you could be anywhere, doing anything. Instead you sit alone before a screen. So what’s stopping us from doing what we want? Being where we want to be?

As a matter of fact, this is exactly where I want to be
BluesDotEXE wrote:Each day we wake up in the same room and follow the same path, to live the same day as yesterday. Yet at one time each day was a new adventure. Along the way something changed. Before our days were timeless, now our days are scheduled.

Noone dictates to you how you should live your life, many people do it because time is money and they like money. You can always go live like a hippie if you want.
BluesDotEXE wrote:The very elements we need to survive are owned by corporations. There’s no food for us on trees, no freshwater in streams, no land to build a home. If you try and take what the Earth provides you’ll be locked away. So we obey their rules.

Actually, no. There IS freshwater in streams, but noone drinks it because, simply, it is unfiltered and the human population's average age has increased because of things like these.
Also, all you have to do is PLANT a tree in your room for all I know, the sun shines on it, you water it, it bears fruit etc. If you're referring to going to someone's land and just taking their food, that's been illegal or at the very least punishable since, well, the beginning of man.
BluesDotEXE wrote:We discover the world through a textbook. For years we sit and regurgitate what we’re told. Tested and graded like subjects in a lab. Raised not to make a difference in this world, raised to be no different. Smart enough to do our job but not to question why we do it. So we work and work, left with no time to live the life we work for. Until a day comes when we are too old to do our job. It is here we are left to die. Our children take our place in the game.

I do agree that (especially people in first world countries) are raised exactly with that purpose in mind. But, it's not like you'd do something better with your life either way. Don't forget, the scientists and people that move the world forward are actually made from the same system.

BluesDotEXE wrote:To us our path is unique, but together we are nothing more than fuel. The fuel that powers the elite. The elite who hide behind the logos of corporations. This is their world. And their most valuable resource is not in the ground. It is us.

It's funny because I mostly agree, but their most valuable resource isn't you really. The elite like power, and well, most humans make for really nice pets.
BluesDotEXE wrote:We build their cities, we run their machines, we fight their wars. After all, money isn’t what drives them. It’s power. Money is simply the tool they use to control us. Worthless pieces of paper we depend on to feed us, move us, entertain us.

Not really, but lets see why:
You will NEVER be forced to build a city. You may become a civil engineer and design one cause you want the money that job offers.
You run their machines for the same purpose, noone forces you to.
You fight their wars because there are people, like you, that voted for them to be in power and they went and started a war. Money has actually been a thing since BC, and that's because it is the simplest form of trading. It actually IS as simple as that. You don't have to depend on money to feed yourself. Get out of your apartment, move to a city in the middle of nowhere, build a wooden or stone house, make a farm and live peacefully. You can be entertained by whatever.
BluesDotEXE wrote:They gave us money and in return we gave them the world. Where there were trees that cleaned our air are now factories that poison it. Where there was water to drink, is toxic waste that stinks. Where animals ran free, are factory farms where they are born and slaughtered endlessly for our satisfaction. Over a billion people are starving, despite us having enough food for everybody. Where does it all go? 70% of the grain we grow is fed to fatten the animals you eat for dinner. Why help the starving? You can’t profit off them.

The first line sounds moronic as it gets. The problem with money started with the banking system, some 2 or 3 centuries ago. You wouldn't know about it since you are just being edgy after reading a lot of posts on tumblr or some other Ruby based crap-site but the point is that you don't do your homework on things you say. The rest of the paragraph is something a vegan or hippie would say. As for where the food is going, noone is willing to help some noname country in Africa with food for the simplest reason imaginable: Some gang there steals the supply and gets all the power in the area cause starving people would do anything for food, OR some corrupt african or whatever leader takes it and does the exact same thing. Helping the starving is the same concept of "stopping every war there ever is on earth". It doesn't work if you remember than 99% of the people are corrupt and power-hungry.
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We aren’t destroying the planet. We are destroying all life on it. Every year thousands of species go extinct. And time is running out before we’re next. If you live in America there’s a 41% chance you’ll get cancer. Heart disease will kill one out of three Americans. We take prescription drugs to deal with these problems, but medical care is the third leading cause of death behind cancer and heart disease. We’re told everything can be solved by throwing money at scientists so they can discover a pill to make our problems go away. But the drug companies and cancer societies rely on our suffering to make a profit. We think we’re running for a cure, but really we’re running away from the cause. Our body is a product of what we consume and the food we eat is designed purely for profit. We fill ourselves with toxic chemicals. The bodies of animals infested with drugs and diseases. But we don’t see this. The small group of corporations that own the media don’t want us to. Surrounding us with a fantasy we’re told is reality.

Actually by the year 2045 to be exact, it is predicted that a human's consciousness will be able to be transferred to a computer, therefore making the need of a physical body useless. Even if you want one, there actually exist by now prosthetics that by using neurons can feel the same way your arms etc do. The human body is cool ,it got us this far, but it is dependent on food and a ton more other crap and it breaks down easily. Time to upgrade and become immortal. Heart disease will kill 1 in 3 americans for the main reason that it's a country with legitimately the most obese people in the planet (not the highest percentage surprisingly tho). And now you're crapping on western science.
After all the quotes I'll explain what's up with that. You fill yourself with a double burger instead of a salad because your mind is weak from all the crap you watch on TV and all the brainwashing you've endured(even this rant is actually a symptom of brainwashing, just a different kind). I doubt a lot of people are surrounded in reality at this moment, including you. As I said, after the quotes I'll explain.
One day, this sensation we call life will leave us. Our bodies will rot, our valuables recollected. Yesterday’s actions all that remain. Death constantly surrounds us, still it seems so distant from our everyday reality. We live in a world on the verge of collapse. The wars of tomorrow will have no winners. For violence will never be the answer; it will destroy every possible solution.
BluesDotEXE wrote:We’ve become disconnected. Idolizing people we’ve never met. We witness the extraordinary on screens but ordinary everywhere else. We wait for someone to bring change without ever thinking of changing ourselves.

Ok remind me to stop idolizing Tesla. No see, you witness extraordinary things every day.
Your screen is an extraordinary thing. It has taken mankind thousands of years of research and development to produce this technological marvel to you, this feat. You've just grown accustomed to it. You watch movies for example because they show things that (mostly) don't happen in real life, and you have fun at them because it's the only way you'll see such things. Thus, you trivialize things like HAVING ELECTRICITY, or NOT BEING ATTACKED BY WOLVES AT NIGHT, or NOT BEING LEFT ALONE AND STRANDED BY YOUR TRIBE TO DIE IF YOU BREAK AN ARM.

BluesDotEXE wrote:Presidential elections might as well be a coin toss. It’s two sides of the same coin. We choose which face we want and the illusion of choice, of change is created. But the world remains the same. We fail to realize the politicians don’t serve us; they serve those who fund them into power.

Presidential elections are just you choosing which oligarch sounds better. You're moronic if you think voting is a democratic process.
BluesDotEXE wrote:We need leaders, not politicians. But in this world of followers, we have forgotten to lead ourselves. Stop waiting for change and be the change you want to see. We didn’t get to this point by sitting on our asses. The human race survived not because we are fastest or the strongest, but because we worked together.

Actually this isn't a world of followers. Scientists working with psychologists have pretty much stated that we come in three categories, the alphas the betas and the omegas. Sadly, the vast popularity of people are betas. I don't have to explain what this is because you probably can figure it out or already know. The human race survived and evolved because of A FEW people, while the masses starved and died leading ignorant and uneducated lives.
Be glad your standing has at least changed for the better.
Your life will still be meaningless, but you don't have to fear death of starvation (depends on where you live)
BluesDotEXE wrote:We have mastered the act of killing. Now let’s master the joy of living.

What makes you think we have mastered the act of killing?
BluesDotEXE wrote:This isn’t about saving the planet. The planet will be here whether we are or not. Earth has been around for billions of years, each of us will be lucky to last eighty. We are a flash in time, but our impact is forever.

Actually, it has already been stated that the man to live to be 1000 years old has already been born, and I'm quite sure the first immortal man has already been born. The impact of a select few people is forever, the impact of the majority of people is nonsensical and pretty much a fantasy that schools etc tell you to feel special and keep working.
BluesDotEXE wrote:For better or worse, our generation will determine the future of life on this planet. We can either continue to serve this system of destruction until no memory of our existence remains. Or we can wake up. Realize we aren’t evolving upwards, but rather falling down...we just have screens in our faces so we don’t see where we’re heading.

That's literally what every generation tells itself
Just imagine that more important generations in history have existed, and more important generations will exist in the future. If you didn't have a screen in your face then apparently you wouldn't believe the rest of the world exists, given that you don't trust textbooks either.
BluesDotEXE wrote:This present moment is what every step, every breath and every death has led to. We are the faces of all who came before us. And now it is our turn. You can choose to carve your own path or follow the road countless others have already taken.

We are actually all following one path since forever, that of human evolution.
But I'm really interested in finding out what "our own path" is.
Please do say, what do you think you can change?



NOW for my two cents on your edgy story of our bleak present.
This generation, as well as every generation before it, is a group of entitled brats that think the world depends on them or else it will be destroyed etc.
This is actually probably the cleverest scheme since the very beginning of man, imo.
Why do you think you are special? Why do you believe that billions of people that have died before you were of less importance? Because if not, you'd literally have no reason to live. But like this, even with living in a crappy apartment carrying out your crappy life, you still feel you can change the world, someday. Truth is that day will most likely never come. The people that change the world already are doing so, they are scientists and engineers and doctors and whatever. The rest of the people literally exist just to support them, or else you'd live out the same era for all of mankind.

You feel we are damaging the planet etc etc etc, and we totally are! You know what is the fun part of it though? You'll never try to change that. You're doing the worst possible thing, complaining about it.
Either go and start burning down mills, or just go with it. It's that simple. You're just writing up this rant (if it is even original) for the reason that you don't want to do it, you want OTHERS to do it for you.
Well, I don't mind living in a machine world with no animals or trees, or even no oxygen, and believe me soon I'll be able to.

You bash on pharmaceuticals and scientists because they require money.
AGAIN, you are being an entitled kid. 50 years ago, AIDS was the greatest threat known to mankind. Now there literally is a cure for it.
In the middle ages the black plague wiped out 1/3rd of Europe. You know what that is? It's like nearly 500 million people being just WIPED off the map, in today's terms.
Now many people think that cancer is this weird disease and the evil companies dont want to fix it, but honestly you are uneducated and don't know 2 shits about cancer, so let me clear that up.
Cancer is when your OWN cells go haywire and start multiplying uncontrollably creating a tumor. It is so difficult (near impossible) to make a vaccine for it, for 2 reasons. It can happen to ANY group of cells in your body, therefore you'd need to make a vaccine for EVERY group cell in your body, and that's millions, and each person has a different DNA, therefore a slightly different form of cancer.
Therefore each person has to be treated SEPERATELY. You can't fight it like a virus because it is NOT a virus. It is your own body's cells going ham. The closest thing to a vaccine would be killing off your own cells, and that would quite literally cause your death.

You aare throwing money at scientists and scientists by the end of the century will have made humans completely immortal.
If you have doubts, you can look up the 2045 initiative.
Also, it is thanks to scientists (and a great writer, Huxley) that we have concepts such as Transhumanism, which again, is the near future of the human race.

Ofcourse, you didn't know about these because your entire education is about the presidents of the US, funny things tumblr says (or any other hipster-like ruby-based environment that has an "e" cut out), and basic algebra.

Most of the things you learn on your own, through that very screen that is in front of your head.
You just don't know how to use it properly and can't filter the information you receive, as is the problem with most of this generation of people.

inb4 "why are you so special" etc,
I'm not special, I plan to spend my life doing something I like, making money, entertaining myself in any way I like and can afford, and hopefully transferring my conscience to a computer in the near future.
I have not given up on changing the world, but my views of changing the world is making it as much of a utopia for me as I can, I am not that pure hearted to say I care about all the people in the world or whatever, nor do I WANT to care seeing that the majority share your opinions

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Postby Shadow00 » 22 Aug 2016, 06:42

If you actually bothered reading all that, congrats, you are either less of an angsty teen or "losing faith in mankind".
Either way, the point remains:

You will never change anything by copy pasting stuff others wrote, nor will you ever change anything being uneducated.

Homo Universalis may have died as a concept, but having an at least vague opinion on everything,that is actually based on examples and reasoning is the basis to change, including your own self, for the better

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Postby Flobalob » 22 Aug 2016, 14:58

Shadow00 wrote:If you actually bothered reading all that, congrats, you are either less of an angsty teen or "losing faith in mankind".

I read it all because I found I actually agreed with (most of) it. Would you look at that!?

But yeah, you can hardly complain about this "problem" when you're doing nothing to solve it. Why are you doing nothing to solve it? Because it's not, really, a problem. Unfortunately, due to basic human nature and things like a stable economy, the way the world works is the best way. We as humanity need the 1% and we need the poor, otherwise where would we be? No one's going to do those horrible jobs that we need doing unless they really have to. Why do you think communism doesn't work?

I do identify with the whole "not wanting to live a meaningless life" thing but since I'm pretty sure I won't manage it in my lifetime I'm just aiming to live forever because that way there's always the possibility that I will achieve something great. And like Shad said, it looks like that is going happen.

You can complain about the world all you want but it's not going to change so just be happy in it. 3dgy Internet posts will get you nowhere.
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Postby BluesDotEXE » 22 Aug 2016, 22:46

Shadow00 wrote:If you actually bothered reading all that, congrats, you are either less of an angsty teen or "losing faith in mankind".
Either way, the point remains:

You will never change anything by copy pasting stuff others wrote, nor will you ever change anything being uneducated.

Homo Universalis may have died as a concept, but having an at least vague opinion on everything,that is actually based on examples and reasoning is the basis to change, including your own self, for the better

To be honest, I wasn't the one who posted this wall of text. When I did read it, it seemed very interesting to me, and it made me think about the things I have done in the past, and it *kinda* made me want to do better as a humanoid and contribute to society.
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