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Your last two comments here make me suspect you suffer from some kind of traumatic abuse you haven't had the chance to poperly recover from yet.
Doing the same thing but with other people is fairly universally baked into our psychology as a satisfying and good thing.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with leading a simple life focused on happiness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU0pZarehLY
Playing Factorio or Satisfactory?
They're some of the most engrossing games I've ever played.
Factorio is the only game I ever started a session with a friend at 9pm on a work night saying "just a couple of hours" and ended up playing until 5am.
They have this kind of bad side that they almost feel productive, too, where you redesign/rebuild something and fix a problem you had and suddenly the hours spent feel like you did something worthwhile.
I find them very fun and not at all boring. I almost entire solo them but playing multiplayer with good friends who want to play productively, they're even better.
Factorio most certainly is.
In the same way Heroin is really that good.
Bro I can name like 20 games that are better than Cyberpunk if you want, your bar is really low if this is your standard of happiness
Sure, go ahead. But I already played a lot of games, and I'm picky.
> your bar is really low if this is your standard of happiness
Cyberpunk is not that bad, I mean, it's definitely better than most AAA games that come out nowadays.
Those two things seem extremely contradictory.
I have a similar ideology to yours but I'm not sad like this because I'm not experiencing what appears to be clinical depression.
You should seek medical intervention, it saved my life and it might save yours, which is worth saving. Intervention didn't pull the wool over my eyes about how flawed our society is or how selfish neoliberal capitalism tries to force everyone to be, it just gave me the psychological tools to maintain enough optimism to keep me alive and having enough energy to try to make changes, even if they're small local ones.
> People gave up, we are locked in a system voting for people that don't represent our interests.
There are other ways to live. Just because a huge majority of people live in these systems doesn't mean you have to as well, plenty have "opted out" without ending their lives. You could find some people living alternatively through a Food Not Bombs chapter near you, or some other anarchistic or alternative living group.
The dominant social structure isn't designed for people like you and me to thrive and be ourselves and so it's totally ok to find other people like us that want to live differently and let everyone else do whatever bizarre thing they're going to do with these enforced ways of living modern society presents.
I agree that the capitalist system is sickening and that people are too complacent in general. But the fact that you think there are no good experiences to be had with other people because everything is transactional is alarming and a sign that you lack a healthy network of friends, allies, and lived cameraderie.
By the way, being nice is not altruistic. It's something you do to avoid conflict. If overdone it will erode your sense of self.
I think your gut feeling is spot on, but your response to it is maladaptive. If you want to feel joy in life again, get involved with people who acknowledge that the system itself is broken and who strive for revolution, so you can join them in your common goal and feel a purpose in life again. Those people usually also know how to party and cook great food in my experience.
Your suicidal ideations are not a sign that people suck, but that you need to find yours.
I agree with you, it's disgustingly condescending for a society to wag its finger at you and preach that you should be kind to one another while it turns around and sends its cops to harass you in your neighborhood, or to take from you taxes and give you little in return and instead spend it bombing people you don't know, or enforces upon you what work you are or aren't allowed to do or when.
What I wonder at is the failure of people who actually ascribe to unselfish value systems to prevent this false form from speaking for them and becoming the true form in the eyes of everyone. No wonder you find it inherently contradictory!
I wonder how those of us that actually ascribe to unselfish value systems might recover our ideologies from this libel.
General consensus. Also it seems to lead to more stable societies when people are kind to eachother. That creates mutual safety and comfort. Humans are uncomfortable with constant conflict and violence. Doing things that lead to that are wrong.
You're right in that there's no god or universal measure against which we can say that being good is Good and being bad is Bad, we have to just throw our hands up and pick, luckily humans mostly agree and so picking being Good isn't inherently a conflict-causing thing, except to those who prefer people are constantly at war with eachother. I'm perfectly fine saying those folks that prefer that are valid in their way of thinking, but invalid in trying to apply it, and therefore should be stopped.
> Being kind is being weak.
Well it's a bit silly for you to argue against universal morality and then argue for universal concepts of strength and weakness. Anyway I disagree, being kind takes tremendous strength.
> It forces you into situations u dont wanna be in in the first place.
Ah! Being kind doesn't always mean saying "yes," sometimes it just means saying "no" instead of shouting it.