If so, why?
Yes, we live in a world were many serious people with serious credetrials can’t see lasting. and people go to a Taylor Swift concert or a Football game
“I see no way out of revolutionary changes to how we live today … it is too late for non-radical futures” - Professor Kevin Anderson
https://social.rebellion.global/@ScientistRebellion/110235597189756736
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/un-expert-human-rights-climate-crisis-economy
Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says ‘there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’
I am a stranger in a strange land
What’s really disturbing is when they go to a Swift Football game. I love you.
If people realized how bad shit is about to get they would be using bombs in museums instead of canned soup.
No, and if that is a powerful feeling (not “I’m autistic and see things differently”, but “normal reality does not apply to me” somehow) then it might be something to check out with a medical professional.
I hope you are a medical professional. Because check it out, I love you.
Down with reality! http://soulism.net
I embrace your anarchistic and somewhat solipsistic views. I love you.
What a good question! No, most of the time I feel I am stuck here with everyone else, in this timeline. Sometimes what I perceive diverges from those around me, other times it converges. But I think of those as different filters overlaying the same reality; although I don’t believe this is the only reality in existence, it does feel like a ride we cannot get off.
Absolutely. Mostly because I don’t consume much entertainment. Movies and TV really shape how people think.
Corpo propaganda do be like that
Anti corpos unite! I love you.
Yes. Everyone lives in the same objective reality of course but everyone experiences a unique subjective reality. Everyone has specific thoughts and feelings that nobody else has ever had. Some people are more unique than others depending on their age, environment, and life choices.
I embrace your objective reality. I love you.
Following on from the previous person’s travelling lifestyle and only working when they want to work, and work on things that they want to, I have children young children which makes it a little more difficult. However, there have been times in my life when I’ve just packed up, jumped in my vehicle and driven wherever. It’s very liberating.
This type of thinking may come from my near death accident 23 years ago or maybe it’s a personal trait that I’ve always had, don’t know. Personally speaking, believing in the system that’s presented to us from a very young age is not healthy for society or yourself, sometimes you just need to embrace the fear of uncertainty and go for it.
Pppfff heck yeah.
Pretty good example is my lifestyle.
I travel perpetually. I saved money for several years, invested it, budget the interest, and don’t work unless I want to.
For years, when my lifestyle comes up, people often say something like “I wish I could do that” or “I’ve always wanted to travel”. After I say “you definitely can”, they ask me how they can do it.
When I explain how simple and cheap it is to work less/travel, they 1) get angry or 2) dismissive.
Their stated goals haven’t changed, they still claim to want to travel and stop working, but after hearing that they can do it at any point, they shut down or say “well, maybe one day…”, which means that after years of living a lifestyle they’re dissatisfied with, they’re going to choose to continue their confining lifestyle.
Usually in real life they insist they “could never”, but online they seem more comfortable condemning any quick or simple solution to working too much and being depressed/poor/trapped in their life.
Other travelers I meet say the same thing, that they can only travel for a limited time, but the allienation is more stark with people who I know more personally.
I’ll go traveling, and each time I visit old friends hear the same “wow, what, how?”, then “must be nice” and “I could never” stuff I’ve heard year after a year from the same people.
I haven’t brought up my lifestyle on my own initiative in years because I’ve experienced over and over how upset people become when they realize that they can take control of their lives at any point and are choosing not to.
I’ve come to understand that when people say, “I wish I could do that” or “I could live a life like that”… they’re just admiring a thing that is mildly interesting or fashionable.
Most people hear “you can do it too” as a challenge to their current choices and not an invitation to a happier life. I don’t take it personal…
As for how you’re living, I find it really inspiring! I’ve tried to work out how I can make some changes and it’s great to hear that others are doing it well.
I would never stop working. I enjoy what I do and I find it fulfilling. Nevertheless. I love you.
That’s cool. You can still work when you want to, I do.
Do you build?
I rarely receive that response, and I think when I have it’s exclusively from someone who builds houses or something like that.
I do build, but I build systems, not buildings.
Cool.
Creative endeavors are where it’s at.
So any advice on how to do it? Sounds intriguing. Not that I’d want to have that lifestyle, but still curious.
There are tons of ways, teaching English overseas, trick out an RV and add solar, digital nomad, it really depends on the interests of the person.
The nice thing is that many options take almost no training or prep time.
They’re right there to take advantage of.
What do you mean you wouldn’t want to have that lifestyle, traveling or not working?
Both, tbh. I’m not a workaholic, but I really like my work, so I’d get bored if I didn’t work. And I have a pretty sweet work-life balance.
Travelling I like of course, but not too often, I have a really expensive mattress to help alleviate my chronic back pain and sleeping somewhere else is not a pleasant experience. So doing it once in a while is fine, doing it regularly would suck.
And last but not least, lately I like my peace and quiet, constant travelling would not go well with that.
It isn’t that you stop working, it’s that you stop working on things you don’t want to work on.
You work only on things you want to work on.
Traveling is all about peace and quiet for me, but I hear similar preconceived anxieties pretty often.
Maybe 5 days ago or something, a friend called me up, said they wish they could travel, and asked me to walk them through it again.
I told them how to get a visa (One page online application form, five minutes tops), and they said traveling just sounds so tiring and they can’t do it right now.
Tiring?
Hang out, do whatever you want or relax, go eat sometimes.
Not an exhausting lifestyle, but a lot of my friends with day jobs imagine that their lunch breaks are more recuperative than having a lunch break all day.
Bonkers.
I wouldn’t really call chronic back pain a preconceived anxiety, but you do you.
Just accept that your lifestyle isn’t good for everyone. You found something that works well for you, congrats! Doesn’t mean you found some huge secret on how to make everyone’s life better.
The preconceived notion that travelling is tiring.
Why do you think my lifestyle is good for everyone?
I did find this huge secret, and people don’t like knowing how easily they can/could have achieved their goals.
They go on the attack as soon as they realize they’ve been wasting time.
I mean, I’ve travelled a bit and it is tiring. For me. It might not be for you, but really, your experience is not other people’s experience.
I only recenlty learned I have had undiagnosed autism my whole life (in my thirties now), and being able to recontextualise that I literally did have an - on average - different way of experiencing reality, with some filters missing, some intuitive normalities just not developing, and my brain focusing in a different way, that’s helping me a whole lot. Finally I don’t have to gaslight myself into thinking I am just lacking will and strength of character to fit into this world, as that’s what my socialisation had been instilling into me.
With having been obsessed with history and philosophy from a young age, I am also often not able to understand that the vast majority of people actually lives in a world where those things are at best superficially engaged with. Personally, at least at this moment of time, I think that is genuinely dangerous, because, oh boy, looking at the current material situation of the world and taking historical situations to estimate the possible consequences, things are not looking good. I firmly believe we need a globalised, socialist/communist mode of production and more short term, an international political infrastructure to organise the challenges ahead, but I fear it will only come about after things will be getting worse for quite some time, still.
You might enjoy the book “Climate Leviathan”. It’s about all that and draws on a lot of history and philosophy.
That does indeed look right up my alley, thank you very much <3.
I’d also recommend “The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth” to anyone interested, for probably a bit more polemic piece that, from what I see from “Climate Leviathan”'s description, probably roughly argues around similar dynamics.
Welcome to the doomer generation. I love you.
I see a lot of people have big meta thoughts and feelings. But mine is relatively small. I find that I live in a different reality since a lot of co-experienced events are remembered differently by the others. Let’s say a work meeting, when I think that it was a nice calm and friendly meetig others are heated and steaming by all the insults. The same with emails and other communications Also with a sportmatches. For instance when I really enjoyed a match and thought both teams did a nice job of performing, the media paints a vastly different picture where one team was really awful and performed well belowed standards.
So my perception of reality seems really of from the rest of the population.
My solipsistic reality is indeed different from yours. I love you.
Being ND, yeah. Especially when one of the things common with what’s different with me is that I often make weird associations that no one else sees.
Hopefully you will never be South Dakota. That would be weird. regardless of your dakotaness, I love you.
I thank my stars I’m not NT. Texas as a whole doesn’t seem like it’s all that great, let alone North Texas.
I operate in el camino reálity. Miss me with that ranchero and canyonero nonsense.
Yes because I can’t comprehend how anyone else think or feel. I can empathize, but I cannot fully understand how they think or feel because I transpose my thoughts and feelings to what others perceive and think.
I am stuck in my head with my thinking and my feelings, but I will never know what it feels to not be me.
I’m fine with that, but it boggles my mind sometimes.
Being neurodivergent does that to you
It’s hard. I love you.
Only when I smoke crack…
Do not smoke crack. I love you.
