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Parent Post: Funny how your choice of words dictates your intent. Not really the other way around. Harmed. Not, Damaged.
gaby
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10/9/2026, 4:48:03 AM
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Common society is a joke. It works like this: The more success you have by common standards the more gullible you get. One starts to think the thousand lies are true, one really wants them to be true, one gets very angry when they are questioned. That last component is what seals the brainwashing, programming the person to think they haven't been brainwashed is the second last step, the last one is to program the subject to stop thinking and get angry. Everyone in common society imitates the other monkeys and hopes they get it right enough not to be embarrassed. The truth is that embarrassment is only appropriate if you've done something stupid. You should be embarrassed if you've imitated something stupid but if you are unable to question the proverbial dress code you don't even know. No one should get to define for you what you consider success. They can pretend but they don't know what the meaning of life is. It's nice to have some kind of goal and travel towards it but the goal isn't important, the journey is. Take Jadav Payeng, he got the 4th highest honor from the indian government, everyone praises him for planting a bunch of trees, every day since 1979, something like a million of them. They call him forest man. The island is being flushed away by erosion and Jadav tells people they can plant coconuts, save the place, make money. No one listens of course. They do praise him with all kinds of awards but he is still broke as fuck and I just read the government had to pay for his medical treatment a few days ago. It's just not normal enough to plant trees. That it makes sense to do it for many reasons doesn't mean normal people will adopt it into the normality. I'm not damaged, I observe in awe. The world is like a big man robbing a small man then beating him with a stick. The crowd arguing that it is really in the small man's best interest and that the big man is helping him. I'm looking at it like... wtf??? Then the small man says thank you and gets another beating, thank you thank you! I can take away the stick whenever I like and beat the big man as long and hard as I like but why? The small man doesn't want it to stop, the audience thinks it's wonderful. Who am I to interfere? Let everyone enjoy this wonderful interaction. LOL
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saarnok
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10/9/2026, 10:32:16 PM
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That's an interesting take on the state of the world. Fascinating you've come out undamaged in a world which you describe in terms apparently designed to damage. I think there's a bit of "black night-ism" in you. But, cudos, refusing the label is far more useful than adopting it.
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