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Reading this stuff just makes me feel like people have been brainwashed out of seeking what they really need. Rent everything, eat the bugs, take the bus, give

• Blackthorn 3y ago
  ...what the heck is wrong with taking the bus?
  • throwaway22032 3y ago
    Nothing. I love buses. A lot is wrong in being shamed into doing it.
    • pixl97 3y ago
      You seem to be very confused on how society actually works. From the day you are born you are being 'shamed into not doing particular things and doing others. You just blindly accept the ones you've been sold.
      • throwaway22032 3y ago
        I have no issue with people using shame in order to encourage people into making better decisions.
        • malermeister 3y ago
          ... so why did you just say you're against people being shamed into using the bus then? Seems very inconsistent.
          • throwaway22032 3y ago
            It's not a better decision, in most cases it's an attempt to minimize someone.
  • ilaksh 3y ago
    Most cities in the US are structurally set up only for cars, with everything spread so far out that it makes things like buses impractical and a last resort. The bus in these areas is almost only used by very poor people, homeless, elderly, students. This is especially true if you are someone who lives outside of the core downtown area.
• rayiner 3y ago
  Society used to give good advice, that for 90% of the population would be the things that would make them happy or at least content. We got so caught up, thinking about the minority of people for whom that lifestyle wasn’t a good fit that we abandoned giving advice to anybody and left everybody to make their own choices with no guidance or reinforcement. And indeed, for the last 50 years, we’ve demonized the traditional choices. As they say, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. Are people happier now and more content now that they have a lot more choice than they were 50 years ago? Luckily at the individual level, there is an easy solution: listen to your mom and marry someone who listens to their mom and raise your kids to listen to their mom. Everyone else can have their choice.
  • monissiddiqui 3y ago
    I know what you mean, but 90% is too low. The Century of the Self. The individualistic attitudes have snowballed in severity over the generations to what we have now and probably have encountered many times in the past. You can't champion for being free to make individual decisions against the norm without acknowledging that lots of people will be making bad irreversible decisions. The norm was developed and able to propagate for a reason! It's just that those who align strongly with a religious collective will consist of the majority because those values tend to allow humanity to exist for another generation to play another round of the infinite game of life and evolution. What the individualistic attitudes (taken to their extreme) solve for is to play at most a couple of rounds, but have a lot of fun to compensate for sacrificing the long term.
• ilaksh 3y ago
  I think a big part of it is the economy.
• fullshark 3y ago
  Your role in life is to be an ideal worker for for the state / capital. We no longer need you to produce new workers and be distracted by that responsibility, we have enough workers for our needs and will shift them across borders if necessary. Just spend your life working for us and distract yourself with the massive variety of vices available to you.
  • monissiddiqui 3y ago
    Bingo
• hotpotamus 3y ago
  What you call brainwashing, I'd call advertising, and it seems to be the best paying tech companies' business.