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At first I thought 'this is so cool' , but then after thinking about it for a while, I realised that it's no cooler than any of the 200 videos or pictures with
by codeshaman 11y ago
At first I thought 'this is so cool' , but then after thinking about it for a while, I realised that it's no cooler than any of the 200 videos or pictures with 'cool stuff' that I see every day.
I think it's a pretty useless expensive gimmick created out of toxic materials to excite the numb neurons of the bored inhabitants of the digital realm for 2 minutes or so.
Then we'll all forget about it and move on to the next thing.
I'm already looking for something else :).
- koko775 11y agoThat's certainly an elaborate way of calling it art.
- GuiA 11y agoThe problem with reductio ad nihilum arguments like this one is that you can make them about absolutely everything and anything in life. It's a slippery slope.
- codeshaman 11y agoYes, I am doing that and it's a shitty way to see things, because it makes me sad and angry and everything is gloomy. Probably a phase I'm going through right now - my bullshit-filtering glasses are broken. I go through this phase after a startup or project that I've been working on is over. Without a project to focus on, I see the world as it is - a sharade of people bullshitting each other and hiding from who they are. I need a new project :).
- thaumaturgy 11y ago> I see the world as it is That is no more as it is than anyone else's way of seeing the world. You're simply seeing the world through the lens of your own discontent.
- gh02t 11y agoYou might like to read the transcription of Sartre's lecture "Existentialism is a Humanism." It's available online at https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/sartre/works/exist/sartre.htm https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/sartre/works/exis... . He wrote a lot on how to reconcile living in a world that he believed was devoid of inherent meaning and the sense of despair that this causes most people.
- nosuchthing 11y agoAll too often I see children playing on the playground, and I always do my best as an adult to inform the children of their pointless immature meandering. /s
- GuiA 11y agoSometimes we get so caught up in our little computers and programming languages and internet that we forget that there's a much bigger world out there. Go sailing. Learn how to carve wood. Make out with another human on a beach. Go take pictures in a foreign country. Learn how to play an instrument. Grow some vegetables. Volunteer in your local community. Go to a bookstore/library, pick a completely random fiction book, and force yourself to read it from cover to cover. It gets better.
- sebkomianos 11y agoThe problem isn't that the world is small, it is that it looks pointless. (I am experiencing a somewhat similar "phase" with codeshaman)
- GuiA 11y agoSelf fulfilling prophecy. If all you do all day is sit at home and think about how the world is pointless, it'll look pointless. If you engage it (for ideas, see my previous post), it will quickly appear less so. You gotta eat your vegetables.
- michael_storm 11y agoAt first, I thought your comment was interesting. But then, I remembered that we're all going to die. What a boring philosophy.
- smlacy 11y agoYou mean it's 'art'?