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Considering it evolved and humanity is thriving looking at the numbers it seems useful yet it feels out of place to me in a cold, random, uncaring world.
Not everyone can be special. Someone has to do the boring, unpleasant work to keep society running. Not everyone can be great. Only the few get born with the talent to achieve greatness. So the way it works is that you get to do the boring job to earn money and in return you get to enjoy the fruits of the exceptional people.
But I can't help but feel sad over this state of humans being born just to get filtered by life. I do this myself when I search for things and filter by best rated. Someone might have put a lot of time and love into a work of art but if it looks bad I don't care about it. But seeing all these people who just aren't gifted be ignored and never get to experience glory makes me sad. Like seeing someone try hard to get their youtube channel off ground with 100 videos and they all got like 10 views each simply because they lack the good looks and charisma.
It just seems cruel to me that there are a lot of people, humans with a consciousness and not simple automatons, sitting in a factory doing extremely monotonous work for 8+ hours a day. But that's how we get everything made so cheap and of course I lack the willpower to relinquish all these comforts.
I can't help but feel "main character syndrome" as I experience life from my POV and intensely feel all these stimuli and desires and yet I know my limits and place in this world too well.
How did you guys make peace with it? Is the trick to just not think about it and distract myself or immerse myself in some hobby or job?
Not everyone can be special. Someone has to do the boring, unpleasant work to keep society running. Not everyone can be great. Only the few get born with the talent to achieve greatness. So the way it works is that you get to do the boring job to earn money and in return you get to enjoy the fruits of the exceptional people.
But I can't help but feel sad over this state of humans being born just to get filtered by life. I do this myself when I search for things and filter by best rated. Someone might have put a lot of time and love into a work of art but if it looks bad I don't care about it. But seeing all these people who just aren't gifted be ignored and never get to experience glory makes me sad. Like seeing someone try hard to get their youtube channel off ground with 100 videos and they all got like 10 views each simply because they lack the good looks and charisma.
It just seems cruel to me that there are a lot of people, humans with a consciousness and not simple automatons, sitting in a factory doing extremely monotonous work for 8+ hours a day. But that's how we get everything made so cheap and of course I lack the willpower to relinquish all these comforts.
I can't help but feel "main character syndrome" as I experience life from my POV and intensely feel all these stimuli and desires and yet I know my limits and place in this world too well.
How did you guys make peace with it? Is the trick to just not think about it and distract myself or immerse myself in some hobby or job?
>>212948
> Is the trick to just not think about it and distract myself or immerse myself in some hobby or job?
Yes.
> Is the trick to just not think about it and distract myself or immerse myself in some hobby or job?
Yes.
>Someone might have put a lot of time and love into a work of art but if it looks bad I don't care about it. But seeing all these people who just aren't gifted be ignored and never get to experience glory makes me sad.
Stop feeling sad for those who have not been awarded with public recognition for their efforts. Know that the true reward is the journey, and the product you have made for yourself. Those who can not see this, those who demand respect but can not command it, are to be ridiculed. Those who exist in the domain of social validation know of the risks. They can leave any time, but those who chose not to while not taking the necessary steps to obtain acceptance are not to be sorrowed over.
>100 videos and they all got like 10 views each simply because they lack the good looks and charisma.
"good looks and charisma" have little to do with finding an audience. You should stop relating so many things to this highschool level understanding of pack hierarchies based on who can smile the brightest or make the funniest joke. There are millions of "successful" Youtube stars who lack both physical beauty and charisma. You wouldn't know it if you didn't stray past Youtube's homepage recommendations, though.
>can't help but feel "main character syndrome"
You ARE the main character in your own life. If not you, then who the fuck else? Some Twitch star? Because it seems that very young people these days are defined by which streamer they watch the most of, and send the most money to. Feeling like the main character is not a syndrome, it's nature. To subdue that feeling is the true "cope"… Everything you do should relate to your own interests and acquiring your self-fulfillment needs.
Stop feeling sad for those who have not been awarded with public recognition for their efforts. Know that the true reward is the journey, and the product you have made for yourself. Those who can not see this, those who demand respect but can not command it, are to be ridiculed. Those who exist in the domain of social validation know of the risks. They can leave any time, but those who chose not to while not taking the necessary steps to obtain acceptance are not to be sorrowed over.
>100 videos and they all got like 10 views each simply because they lack the good looks and charisma.
"good looks and charisma" have little to do with finding an audience. You should stop relating so many things to this highschool level understanding of pack hierarchies based on who can smile the brightest or make the funniest joke. There are millions of "successful" Youtube stars who lack both physical beauty and charisma. You wouldn't know it if you didn't stray past Youtube's homepage recommendations, though.
>can't help but feel "main character syndrome"
You ARE the main character in your own life. If not you, then who the fuck else? Some Twitch star? Because it seems that very young people these days are defined by which streamer they watch the most of, and send the most money to. Feeling like the main character is not a syndrome, it's nature. To subdue that feeling is the true "cope"… Everything you do should relate to your own interests and acquiring your self-fulfillment needs.
>>212968
>You ARE the main character in your own life. If not you, then who the fuck else? Some Twitch star? Because it seems that very young people these days
nothing but projection in your own post, it's like you wrote it for yourself.
>You ARE the main character in your own life. If not you, then who the fuck else? Some Twitch star? Because it seems that very young people these days
nothing but projection in your own post, it's like you wrote it for yourself.
you either cope or try until come true. Most special people are psychopaths/sociopaths whom truly believe they are special until eventually they actually are special and even before that, most of time people will treat them specially because charisma (that's charisma means), which will boost them and turn them virtually special and when actually become special they won't even notice.
tldr; "muh MC syndrome", "muh I'm not special", etc. that's factually for losers.
tldr; "muh MC syndrome", "muh I'm not special", etc. that's factually for losers.
>>212968
>Those who exist in the domain of social validation know of the risks
We humans are social creatures who don't exist in a vacuum. Isn't it normal to want social validation?
>"good looks and charisma" have little to do with finding an audience
having a humor that connects with people and skill is important too but my point was that you need to have a certain something that many people just don't have
>You ARE the main character in your own life.
It sure as hell doesn't feel like it. Shouldn't the main character be either handsome and/or smart or if they are a relatable everyman have fate move their life in an interesting direction? Shouldn't the main character be able to achieve everything they want?
>Those who exist in the domain of social validation know of the risks
We humans are social creatures who don't exist in a vacuum. Isn't it normal to want social validation?
>"good looks and charisma" have little to do with finding an audience
having a humor that connects with people and skill is important too but my point was that you need to have a certain something that many people just don't have
>You ARE the main character in your own life.
It sure as hell doesn't feel like it. Shouldn't the main character be either handsome and/or smart or if they are a relatable everyman have fate move their life in an interesting direction? Shouldn't the main character be able to achieve everything they want?
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>>213012
>We humans are social creatures who don't exist in a vacuum. Isn't it normal to want social validation?
What is normal is a desire to be validated by one's peers. What is not normal is that in a world of billions who are all online, many people don't find peers at all, opting to believe that everyone is equally their peer, everyone is the same, and therefor everyone's attention and validation is just as valuable. Because of this, these guys without a unique personality, without a culture, without peers, demand validation and respect from millions and millions. There is no limit, they always aim for the goal of reaching an audience of everyone. That's not normal or natural.
A man with culture, with peers who share in that culture, will be content from validation from those peers alone. An old clog carver in the Swiss Alps who lives in a village that grows tulips is going to paint tulips on to his clogs. His fellow villagers will appreciate his work, validate him with words of kindness and fair business, and he will be content. He got social validation from those he socializes with. He couldn't care less to showcase his work to the masses and have it digitally viewed by 7 digits of people he will never meet.
A man without culture, who's every need and desire is orchestrated by roundtables of suits and ties, will only be content by seeing a rise in those who are viewing his work, rather than by how much his fellows enjoy it. For he has no fellows. He will take whatever path he's comfortable with to get those views, those clicks, those sweet thumbs up button smashes. It could be 1 billion Indian housewives accounting for his engagement and that would be just fine with him, because more views = more success = feeling better. It doesn't help that with advertising culture, this directionless demand for upwards momentum is now financially rewarded. This guy soyfaces in thumbnails and has no friends.
Be the clogcobbler. Find those who share in your interests and life philosophy, come to appreciate them as individuals, and then seek out ways to contribute to their happiness through a product of your own. Find a culture. Find contentedness.
>having a humor that connects with people and skill is important too but my point was that you need to have a certain something that many people just don't have
To have a charisma and humor that is to the liking of bugs is to be but a bug yourself. Be better than a bug.
>Shouldn't the main character be either handsome and/or smart or if they are a relatable everyman have fate move their life in an interesting direction? Shouldn't the main character be able to achieve everything they want?
No you fucking Disney princess, what the fuck
>We humans are social creatures who don't exist in a vacuum. Isn't it normal to want social validation?
What is normal is a desire to be validated by one's peers. What is not normal is that in a world of billions who are all online, many people don't find peers at all, opting to believe that everyone is equally their peer, everyone is the same, and therefor everyone's attention and validation is just as valuable. Because of this, these guys without a unique personality, without a culture, without peers, demand validation and respect from millions and millions. There is no limit, they always aim for the goal of reaching an audience of everyone. That's not normal or natural.
A man with culture, with peers who share in that culture, will be content from validation from those peers alone. An old clog carver in the Swiss Alps who lives in a village that grows tulips is going to paint tulips on to his clogs. His fellow villagers will appreciate his work, validate him with words of kindness and fair business, and he will be content. He got social validation from those he socializes with. He couldn't care less to showcase his work to the masses and have it digitally viewed by 7 digits of people he will never meet.
A man without culture, who's every need and desire is orchestrated by roundtables of suits and ties, will only be content by seeing a rise in those who are viewing his work, rather than by how much his fellows enjoy it. For he has no fellows. He will take whatever path he's comfortable with to get those views, those clicks, those sweet thumbs up button smashes. It could be 1 billion Indian housewives accounting for his engagement and that would be just fine with him, because more views = more success = feeling better. It doesn't help that with advertising culture, this directionless demand for upwards momentum is now financially rewarded. This guy soyfaces in thumbnails and has no friends.
Be the clogcobbler. Find those who share in your interests and life philosophy, come to appreciate them as individuals, and then seek out ways to contribute to their happiness through a product of your own. Find a culture. Find contentedness.
>having a humor that connects with people and skill is important too but my point was that you need to have a certain something that many people just don't have
To have a charisma and humor that is to the liking of bugs is to be but a bug yourself. Be better than a bug.
>Shouldn't the main character be either handsome and/or smart or if they are a relatable everyman have fate move their life in an interesting direction? Shouldn't the main character be able to achieve everything they want?
No you fucking Disney princess, what the fuck
>>212948
> Someone has to do the boring, unpleasant work to keep society running
well not everyone is born competent and awesome. A lot of people who do something great or make something of themselves could've spent like 20 years of their life being a nobody. The cool guy you aspire to was liking working a 9-5 and/or being utterly miserable most of the time before something happened.
>Only the few get born with the talent to achieve greatness
if you don't have talent you can have absolute madness to make something of yourself. you actually have to have a very insane worldview to push yourself to do things.
>So the way it works is that you get to do the boring job to earn money and in return you get to enjoy the fruits of the exceptional people.
if you are just working a boring job that only gives you 4 hours of freetime at the end of the day theres no way you won't consider suicide. If i work a 9-5 it's because i'm getting a couple grand to make something happen like start a side business, gamble, invest. Not so i can work there until i'm 60. if you are not an astute talented kid, a hardened worker then your only option is to be a hustler otherwise you won't get to enjoy life. like at all. The fat sickly pale queers who just work at target with no direction. Those are the real goys, like jew pond goys who will eat the bugs and own nothing and be happy.
>It just seems cruel to me that there are a lot of people, humans with a consciousness and not simple automatons, sitting in a factory doing extremely monotonous work for 8+ hours a day.
you are not in fucking china OP. You can find ways to work for a couple months just to get money then find a way to make more money with that money. If you mean as a rule, that yes a lot of humanity is just plane enslaved with no hope then yes. That is a depressing reality.
>How did you guys make peace with it?
i've never made peace with the fucked up aspects of life. I just live for revenge on it for lack of a better word. That one day i will seize a better life or transcendance.
> Someone has to do the boring, unpleasant work to keep society running
well not everyone is born competent and awesome. A lot of people who do something great or make something of themselves could've spent like 20 years of their life being a nobody. The cool guy you aspire to was liking working a 9-5 and/or being utterly miserable most of the time before something happened.
>Only the few get born with the talent to achieve greatness
if you don't have talent you can have absolute madness to make something of yourself. you actually have to have a very insane worldview to push yourself to do things.
>So the way it works is that you get to do the boring job to earn money and in return you get to enjoy the fruits of the exceptional people.
if you are just working a boring job that only gives you 4 hours of freetime at the end of the day theres no way you won't consider suicide. If i work a 9-5 it's because i'm getting a couple grand to make something happen like start a side business, gamble, invest. Not so i can work there until i'm 60. if you are not an astute talented kid, a hardened worker then your only option is to be a hustler otherwise you won't get to enjoy life. like at all. The fat sickly pale queers who just work at target with no direction. Those are the real goys, like jew pond goys who will eat the bugs and own nothing and be happy.
>It just seems cruel to me that there are a lot of people, humans with a consciousness and not simple automatons, sitting in a factory doing extremely monotonous work for 8+ hours a day.
you are not in fucking china OP. You can find ways to work for a couple months just to get money then find a way to make more money with that money. If you mean as a rule, that yes a lot of humanity is just plane enslaved with no hope then yes. That is a depressing reality.
>How did you guys make peace with it?
i've never made peace with the fucked up aspects of life. I just live for revenge on it for lack of a better word. That one day i will seize a better life or transcendance.
>>212948
>It just seems cruel to me that there are a lot of people, humans with a consciousness and not simple automatons, sitting in a factory doing extremely monotonous work for 8+ hours a day.
If they're doing it, it means they don't have that much self-awareness, actually. There are various levels of consciousness.
Those who are REALLY conscious either are homeless or on some sort of NEETbux. So I wouldn't feel THAT sad about modern slaves, even though of course they suffer to some extent, but everyone is, even those with better jobs, because it's the nature of the human condition.
> How did you guys make peace with it? Is the trick to just not think about it and distract myself or immerse myself in some hobby or job?
Distraction is always #1 on every human being list of the important things (even though some don't know it is).
There are some distractions however that don't forget about these truth, like writing, reading philosophy, making art about these topics, etc.
>It just seems cruel to me that there are a lot of people, humans with a consciousness and not simple automatons, sitting in a factory doing extremely monotonous work for 8+ hours a day.
If they're doing it, it means they don't have that much self-awareness, actually. There are various levels of consciousness.
Those who are REALLY conscious either are homeless or on some sort of NEETbux. So I wouldn't feel THAT sad about modern slaves, even though of course they suffer to some extent, but everyone is, even those with better jobs, because it's the nature of the human condition.
> How did you guys make peace with it? Is the trick to just not think about it and distract myself or immerse myself in some hobby or job?
Distraction is always #1 on every human being list of the important things (even though some don't know it is).
There are some distractions however that don't forget about these truth, like writing, reading philosophy, making art about these topics, etc.
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>>212948
I Just try to see the things by the way they really are, and humans are nothing in this planet, if i don't care for insignificantly tiny ants on my sugar pot, why should i give a fvck about unattainable human validation? especially from ykw. Because in the end of the day,only you and some very few people Will know your real value.
So i just try to live the best life i can with the resources that i have, doing things that genuinely make me happy (playing Vidya).
I Just try to see the things by the way they really are, and humans are nothing in this planet, if i don't care for insignificantly tiny ants on my sugar pot, why should i give a fvck about unattainable human validation? especially from ykw. Because in the end of the day,only you and some very few people Will know your real value.
So i just try to live the best life i can with the resources that i have, doing things that genuinely make me happy (playing Vidya).
The wank about consciousness is a thoroughly neoliberal phenomenon - a product of grotesque social engineering to tell us this is what we are, and what we are supposed to be. Even back in the 1950s, reasonable people did not think this way, though the critical mass was forming. There were always certain types of people given over to this indulgence, or some other sick ritual which recommended what is an absolute slave mindset. That's what is being relitigated with this excessive self-indulgence in psychology - slavery and the pleasure of masters who never have to hear the word "no" again. It's really disgusting what these assholes did to humanity.
I don't believe people caught in the wank can see the world or themselves for what it is, because it became effectively illegal to acknowledge that there is a society or organizations of people who command what we're "supposed" to think - while those same people take all of our shit and humiliate us. There's no need to "cope" - conscious experience simply is, and it will cease. The world will go on without us, and we really aren't beholden to the world in that way. We do depend on a world to sustain our existence, but it's not like we have to be the slaves of "the world" - or worse, humans who claimed the world and its name and took the actual world from us. We can choose to live on our own power in whatever space we claw back, and the chief threat to humans has always been other humans. If I died to a natural weather event or from diseases that I made a fair fight to resist, that is hardly the worst thing. It is the humans and their love of torture that create the true suffering. Without the danger of humans who have developed very extensive practices of their malice, and engineering a society which holds this cruelty to be sacred and the point of the entire enterprise, I doubt we would be this indulgent. Humans really aren't that smart, and everything about is has been squandered and sacrificed to this beast. If we were smarter, we would see that this society is so abominable that humans should avoid any further association beyond the small scale and properly constituted organizations which exist purely to make sure no such conspiracy is allowed to form again.
I don't believe people caught in the wank can see the world or themselves for what it is, because it became effectively illegal to acknowledge that there is a society or organizations of people who command what we're "supposed" to think - while those same people take all of our shit and humiliate us. There's no need to "cope" - conscious experience simply is, and it will cease. The world will go on without us, and we really aren't beholden to the world in that way. We do depend on a world to sustain our existence, but it's not like we have to be the slaves of "the world" - or worse, humans who claimed the world and its name and took the actual world from us. We can choose to live on our own power in whatever space we claw back, and the chief threat to humans has always been other humans. If I died to a natural weather event or from diseases that I made a fair fight to resist, that is hardly the worst thing. It is the humans and their love of torture that create the true suffering. Without the danger of humans who have developed very extensive practices of their malice, and engineering a society which holds this cruelty to be sacred and the point of the entire enterprise, I doubt we would be this indulgent. Humans really aren't that smart, and everything about is has been squandered and sacrificed to this beast. If we were smarter, we would see that this society is so abominable that humans should avoid any further association beyond the small scale and properly constituted organizations which exist purely to make sure no such conspiracy is allowed to form again.