The greatest tragedy of modernity is its mundanity

[vigor]

For as long as I can remember I have been bored. Mindnumbingly bored. I am almost always bored and cannot remember a time when that wasn’t the case.

It leads me to turn to ever more extreme copes just to feel something. Maladaptive daydreaming, stimulant abuse, needless risk taking, starting fights, consuming porn, casual sex, doomscrolling..

It subsides for maybe a moment but that emptiness always returns. The ultimate problem at the core of this is that most people are destined to lead boring and meaningless lives, because society requires it of us

The real world can never beat fiction. I’ve always loved books and shows and whatever kind of escapism I could find because those worlds are always infinitely more interesting than this one.

The characters have purpose, fighting for or against something meaningful. They have agency, their choices actually matter in their world. The people they meet are interesting and full of depth and they have deep connections and romances and bonds

Our modern world is the opposite. People aren’t fighting for anything because it is futile. The blame is decentralised, there isn’t one person or a small group we could topple or kill to “fix” the world. And even if there was, nobody has the means or courage to do so. People don’t have agency, our lives are determined by our genetics, upbringing, social class, governments, laws and institutions.

At the end of the day the avg person spends 1/3 of their life asleep. Another 1/3 working or studying. Maybe 1/12th eating & preparing food. Another 1/12th on hygeine, cleaning, commuting and maintenance. In that 1/6th left you get a little glimpse of freedom, yet the stresses and constraints of our lifestyle mean we often just waste it doomscrolling, rotting on forums, engaging in escapism, daydreaming, LDARing..

My own neural wiring makes me particularly susceptible to the all-encompassing boredom and banality of modern life. If I seriously try to live the corporate 9-5, normie wife 2 kids picket fence boomer fantasy I will just end up blowing my brains out.

More and more I feel as though I’m just destined to succumb to the downwards spiral of nihilism/drug abuse/risk-taking until I eventually lose it and go psychotic and reclaim whatever last remaining shred of meaning I can in death

 

[eyes33]

heavily agree

 

[mangotimer]

i agree

 

[ltnwhiteboy]

ye dnr

 

[eyes33]

ye dnr

iqlet

 

[ltnwhiteboy]

iqlet

no correlation kys fag

 

[vigor]

no correlation kys fag

I’d say poor attention spans and low iqs are probably correlated
Its usually low iq users that dnr and demand tldrs for anything I make that is more than one paragraph

 

[ltnwhiteboy]

I’d say poor attention spans and low iqs are probably correlated
Its usually low iq users that dnr and demand tldrs for anything I make that is more than one paragraph

if i wasnt lazy asf rn id read it i just wanted to not read it

 

[eyes33]

no correlation kys fag

stfu idiot, your low iq ape brain cant comprehend a good thread so you just reply dnr like a retard

 

[ltnwhiteboy]

i dnr because i dont feel like reading it fucking idiot

stfu idiot, your low iq ape brain cant comprehend a good thread so you just reply dnr like a retard

 

[vigor]

if i wasnt lazy asf rn id read it i just wanted to not read it

You could have read it 3 times over in the amount of time you’ve spent on my thread arguing btw

 

[ltnwhiteboy]

You could have read it 3 times over in the amount of time you’ve spent on my thread arguing btw

not diagnosed but i have adhd symptoms i dont do shit like that

 

[vigor]

not diagnosed but i have adhd symptoms i dont do shit like that

I have actual diagnosed adhd and this thread is literally extremely relevant to that if you’d read it

 

[ltnwhiteboy]

I have actual diagnosed adhd and this thread is literally extremely relevant to that if you’d read it

Alr imma read it ngl

 

[ltnwhiteboy]

For as long as I can remember I have been bored. Mindnumbingly bored. I am almost always bored and cannot remember a time when that wasn’t the case.

It leads me to turn to ever more extreme copes just to feel something. Maladaptive daydreaming, stimulant abuse, needless risk taking, starting fights, consuming porn, casual sex, doomscrolling..

It subsides for maybe a moment but that emptiness always returns. The ultimate problem at the core of this is that most people are destined to lead boring and meaningless lives, because society requires it of us

The real world can never beat fiction. I’ve always loved books and shows and whatever kind of escapism I could find because those worlds are always infinitely more interesting than this one.

The characters have purpose, fighting for or against something meaningful. They have agency, their choices actually matter in their world. The people they meet are interesting and full of depth and they have deep connections and romances and bonds

Our modern world is the opposite. People aren’t fighting for anything because it is futile. The blame is decentralised, there isn’t one person or a small group we could topple or kill to “fix” the world. And even if there was, nobody has the means or courage to do so. People don’t have agency, our lives are determined by our genetics, upbringing, social class, governments, laws and institutions.

At the end of the day the avg person spends 1/3 of their life asleep. Another 1/3 working or studying. Maybe 1/12th eating & preparing food. Another 1/12th on hygeine, cleaning, commuting and maintenance. In that 1/6th left you get a little glimpse of freedom, yet the stresses and constraints of our lifestyle mean we often just waste it doomscrolling, rotting on forums, engaging in escapism, daydreaming, LDARing..

My own neural wiring makes me particularly susceptible to the all-encompassing boredom and banality of modern life. If I seriously try to live the corporate 9-5, normie wife 2 kids picket fence boomer fantasy I will just end up blowing my brains out.

More and more I feel as though I’m just destined to succumb to the downwards spiral of nihilism/drug abuse/risk-taking until I eventually lose it and go psychotic and reclaim whatever last remaining shred of meaning I can in death

Fucking hell this is good and so real at the blowing brains out part

 

[vigor]

Fucking hell this is good and so real at the blowing brains out part

appreciate it
this is why i tell people to actually read the threads i make lol its usually very relevant to them

 

[pleasevanity]

ironic because to an extent this is the life people fought for

and because we have everything we act like it is all nothing

 

[vigor]

ironic because to an extent this is the life people fought for

Yeah it’s a funny one
Although that fight was always a trap

I’ve said it before but it goes back to the dawn of agriculturalism. We innovated to support a much greater population but quality of life went down so much vs the hunter gatherer lifestyle. As we continue to “progress” as a civilisation more and more we continue to erode more and more of the human experience in the name of safety and efficiency

and because we have everything we act like it is all nothing

The hedonic treadmill is law
If you have everything your baseline requirements are high and you will still suffer when anything happens. But at least in the past you suffered for something, it meant something. Now our suffering is pointless and meaningless

 

[Jgns]

For as long as I can remember I have been bored. Mindnumbingly bored. I am almost always bored and cannot remember a time when that wasn’t the case.

It leads me to turn to ever more extreme copes just to feel something. Maladaptive daydreaming, stimulant abuse, needless risk taking, starting fights, consuming porn, casual sex, doomscrolling..

It subsides for maybe a moment but that emptiness always returns. The ultimate problem at the core of this is that most people are destined to lead boring and meaningless lives, because society requires it of us

The real world can never beat fiction. I’ve always loved books and shows and whatever kind of escapism I could find because those worlds are always infinitely more interesting than this one.

The characters have purpose, fighting for or against something meaningful. They have agency, their choices actually matter in their world. The people they meet are interesting and full of depth and they have deep connections and romances and bonds

Our modern world is the opposite. People aren’t fighting for anything because it is futile. The blame is decentralised, there isn’t one person or a small group we could topple or kill to “fix” the world. And even if there was, nobody has the means or courage to do so. People don’t have agency, our lives are determined by our genetics, upbringing, social class, governments, laws and institutions.

At the end of the day the avg person spends 1/3 of their life asleep. Another 1/3 working or studying. Maybe 1/12th eating & preparing food. Another 1/12th on hygeine, cleaning, commuting and maintenance. In that 1/6th left you get a little glimpse of freedom, yet the stresses and constraints of our lifestyle mean we often just waste it doomscrolling, rotting on forums, engaging in escapism, daydreaming, LDARing..

My own neural wiring makes me particularly susceptible to the all-encompassing boredom and banality of modern life. If I seriously try to live the corporate 9-5, normie wife 2 kids picket fence boomer fantasy I will just end up blowing my brains out.

More and more I feel as though I’m just destined to succumb to the downwards spiral of nihilism/drug abuse/risk-taking until I eventually lose it and go psychotic and reclaim whatever last remaining shred of meaning I can in death

So true dude

 

[true juan]

For as long as I can remember I have been bored. Mindnumbingly bored. I am almost always bored and cannot remember a time when that wasn’t the case.

It leads me to turn to ever more extreme copes just to feel something. Maladaptive daydreaming, stimulant abuse, needless risk taking, starting fights, consuming porn, casual sex, doomscrolling..

It subsides for maybe a moment but that emptiness always returns. The ultimate problem at the core of this is that most people are destined to lead boring and meaningless lives, because society requires it of us

The real world can never beat fiction. I’ve always loved books and shows and whatever kind of escapism I could find because those worlds are always infinitely more interesting than this one.

The characters have purpose, fighting for or against something meaningful. They have agency, their choices actually matter in their world. The people they meet are interesting and full of depth and they have deep connections and romances and bonds

Our modern world is the opposite. People aren’t fighting for anything because it is futile. The blame is decentralised, there isn’t one person or a small group we could topple or kill to “fix” the world. And even if there was, nobody has the means or courage to do so. People don’t have agency, our lives are determined by our genetics, upbringing, social class, governments, laws and institutions.

At the end of the day the avg person spends 1/3 of their life asleep. Another 1/3 working or studying. Maybe 1/12th eating & preparing food. Another 1/12th on hygeine, cleaning, commuting and maintenance. In that 1/6th left you get a little glimpse of freedom, yet the stresses and constraints of our lifestyle mean we often just waste it doomscrolling, rotting on forums, engaging in escapism, daydreaming, LDARing..

My own neural wiring makes me particularly susceptible to the all-encompassing boredom and banality of modern life. If I seriously try to live the corporate 9-5, normie wife 2 kids picket fence boomer fantasy I will just end up blowing my brains out.

More and more I feel as though I’m just destined to succumb to the downwards spiral of nihilism/drug abuse/risk-taking until I eventually lose it and go psychotic and reclaim whatever last remaining shred of meaning I can in death

good read, the realitypill is getting much more real as i get older

 

[Ascending2Tyrone]

realest post on this forum man. I heavily agree it starts in grade school listening to a teacher talk while you sit there for 8 hours a day and then work is probably even worse. you could try to break free from the boring life/rat race but it takes an incredible amount of talent, and luck. I try to escape reality with fiction but it can only do so much. theres no solution to this feeling of boredom really. im slowly just turning into a walking zombie alive but dead