The only value this human existence creates is for a select few to live a life of ultimate hedonism. We’re cattle, forced to reproduce to keep the consumptions flowing all the while having every aspect of our interests and personalities manipulated and mined for a few more pennies. Inevitably we’ll be kept alive far beyond our best by date so that our failing minds can be used to pressured into voting the wrong people into power to ensure the cycle continues. It’s a machine of suffering.

Also, the irony of the image above being most likely AI generated isn’t lost on me.

Positive nihilism is coping. Choosing to be happy while being crushed is coping. The truth is suffering is the point and has been for nearly as long as humans have been around. Those of you that choose happiness are impling that those of us that aren’t happy are choosing the pain. You’re putting the onus on us. It’s nice that you’ve found a path that works for you.

I’m sorry you got a poor education and aren’t able to figure out who to blame.

Teachers can’t teach outside a prepackaged, purchased curriculum. It’s not their fault.

You can eat at McDonald’s and call it food, but that doesn’t make it true.

Fun read, but the zinger of “it… Just… Isn’t… Important” really damages your argument.

The difference in knowing how our technological systems work versus just using them is how you wind up in a world where capitalist rule, intelligence dwindles and choice is stolen. We’re seeing these effects in real time. And it’s just not technology; take the electoral system here in the US. It stopped being about the functions of our government and became flag waving and baby kissing. Now our tax dollars kill children, the rich are all but unstoppable and we’re at each other’s throats all because we, collectively, let the systems work without understanding how and why.

Tech today being a glass and aluminum block feeds our lust, insecurity, inequality, comparison etc all in an effort to generate wealth and further divide, all by design. Didn’t you think it’s very important to know that?