02-02-2021, 10:13 PM
(02-02-2021, 09:54 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(02-02-2021, 05:07 PM)Einzige Wrote:(02-02-2021, 04:17 PM)David Horn Wrote:(02-02-2021, 03:48 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(02-02-2021, 01:25 PM)Einzige Wrote: The average person absolutely would be artsy and creative and intellectually curious if the world allowed for it, but the overriding demand for profitability in all human endeavors precludes it. Those social pathologies (and I say this as a victim of it myself) overwhelmingly stem from feelings of social uselessness, which are grossly exacerbated by bourgeois class society.
I think I mostly agree with Einzige's statement.
You must limit who you associate with to a narrow few, because I know many people unable to even retire properly. Half just watch TV and complain about this and that. Others complain of boredom.
Half of those people would be much more fit and active if the world were genuinely accessible to them. Retirement in the sense of drawing on a limited pool of funds to fund limited activities socially fit for the elderly shouldn't exist.
Strange to say, mostly I agree with Einzige here. I agree with you too David, in that a lot of people just watch TV and complain. I watch too much, and complain too much, and write on this thing too much. I just think that we all have a lot of creative and intellectual abilities, even if we are older, but we are not encouraged to develop this, and the distractions of such things as TV and internet detract from this as well. Whether old or young, our society does not encourage culture, and our culture is vapid and uninspiring. So it's no wonder people don't participate in it very much. We are told that our life purpose is to do what makes money. And most of us don't get much of it anyway. For any time of life. That cuts off other activities like keeping fit. And as Alan Watts said, we are brainwashed to live for the future, but the future never comes, and so our present is debilitated.
This is all on purpose. It's pretty much deliberate.