Read my bio. I used to believe in those things. Now I kind of believe in nothing. With a small voice of hope in my head that I deeply deeply resent and wish to kill. That tiny voice of hope is partly why I come onto Lemmy though. Part of me wants to be wrong.
TBH, right now I’ve been focusing on just making more money, getting drunk at bars, and one night stands to distract myself. (Later about to be way more fun once I get my vasectomy done) Maybe a video game here and there. Putting my energy into just enjoying civilization’s final days as much as possible. I only get online and argue/despair about politics during slow periods at work.
I don’t value society as an intrinsic good: its only valuable in so far that it services the individuals contained within it. Society is extrinsically valuable. So talking about what society is doesn’t matter that much to me unless we’re talking about it as a means to that end.
If society needs some of its individuals to suffer more than they would without one in order to make it great: it is not a worthwhile endeavor. No one chooses to be born, no one owes society anything. Society in fact owes the individuals because by its very existence it must be natalist in nature.
That said, many people enjoy contribution to a greater societal project. Some people don’t. I think we should enable people to do what they want without allowing people to impose their expectations of themselves on others.
So what do you, like… Believe in?
Read my bio. I used to believe in those things. Now I kind of believe in nothing. With a small voice of hope in my head that I deeply deeply resent and wish to kill. That tiny voice of hope is partly why I come onto Lemmy though. Part of me wants to be wrong.
TBH, right now I’ve been focusing on just making more money, getting drunk at bars, and one night stands to distract myself. (Later about to be way more fun once I get my vasectomy done) Maybe a video game here and there. Putting my energy into just enjoying civilization’s final days as much as possible. I only get online and argue/despair about politics during slow periods at work.
Have you tried building something?
What is a society? What makes it work? How to start that shit? How to keep it going?
I don’t value society as an intrinsic good: its only valuable in so far that it services the individuals contained within it. Society is extrinsically valuable. So talking about what society is doesn’t matter that much to me unless we’re talking about it as a means to that end.
If society needs some of its individuals to suffer more than they would without one in order to make it great: it is not a worthwhile endeavor. No one chooses to be born, no one owes society anything. Society in fact owes the individuals because by its very existence it must be natalist in nature.
That said, many people enjoy contribution to a greater societal project. Some people don’t. I think we should enable people to do what they want without allowing people to impose their expectations of themselves on others.