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There's a basic human need to be valued by others and to be part of a community, and the system we have now grades people according to traits that are mainly ge
by whatshisface 4y ago
There's a basic human need to be valued by others and to be part of a community, and the system we have now grades people according to traits that are mainly genetic and casts them aside if they aren't seen as desirable enough. As for what the cut is, well, it's many-faceted, but the waterline is rising and as you age all of your desirable traits are fading. If you have real personal relationships (either career or friendship-related) you've escaped it for now, but if anything ever happens to reset your network and cast you back into the default pot, you might get a chance to experience it.
- WhiteBlueSkies 4y agoYou know it's always the intellectuals who fret so much about life. I've seen construction workers succesfully dating and being happy and enjoying life. Maybe we overthink things too much. We'll be fine.
- annyeonghada 4y agoYour lived experience is irrelevant. Statistical trends are.
- WhiteBlueSkies 4y agoNo, it's not truth is on the streets and not on your spreadsheets. Life is to be lived and not thought of. If you consult statistical trends there's no reason for anyone ever to even feel any amount of joy. Either the economy is in collapse or headed towards a collapse. Either you are healthy and thus headed for illness or ill already.
- lazide 4y agoWhen has that ever NOT been the case?
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- whatshisface 4y agoThe idea that there's a certain line below which some mentally disabled or physically deformed people would go from being normal members to society to objects of charity has always been there, and it has always been a problem, but what's new is the extension of that category minus the charity to perfectly healthy 50 year old guys who basically have nothing wrong with them.
- JKCalhoun 4y agoI agree, but there are communities within the larger community. If you're into D&D you can fit comfortably within a like-community of RPGamers. And I can't help but think back to the punks, or goths or any of the other disenfranchised youth cultures that appeared to revel even in the rejection from broader society. "The children they despise us, the difference is now we want to be hated."
- whatshisface 4y agoIt's funny to think of a future where the rising difficulty of surviving in mainstream culture for anyone who's not a movie star eventually results in a society evenly split between punks and goths, but something tells me that's not a real solution. :-)
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