You know what? They can go ahead. Fine. Good for them. They’ve shown they aren’t interested in actual argument. I agree with your point about the whole slander thing, and maybe there is some sad little invective, “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”, further belittling my intelligence to try to console themself. If other people read it and think “yeah that dude’s right”, then that’s their prerogative. I’ve made my case, and it seems the best they can come up with is projection and baseless accusation by buzzword. I need no further proof of their disingenuity.
Least you ought to care about is who thinks what about your comments. I mean I don’t wanna tell you what to think but it seems sane to just ignore that
This forum means nothing, nothing we or anyone says here is of any importance. It’s not even something that is saved anywhere in the long run but is merely some speck of digital dust that will fly away as soon as you turn off your phone
It’s the most meaningless words you will ever write, here
So you know, you either enjoy drama or memes or some arcane knowledge or what is exactly you are doing on the internet dear stranger? I hope you aren’t thinking what you say here has any meaning because no one cares and I can assure you I won’t remember about any of this in 10 minutes tops
I feel like you are trying to say something serious here and I assure you this is inherently absurd. Whatever you wanna change or whatever you want to cope with start outside the phone/tablet/laptop
A take with which I disagree, but mostly a fair one. If you want to live an unexamined life, it’s not like that’s any of my business. You are absolutely correct on your read of me. I am committed to arcane esoterica, so that’s what I’m doing here. I’m here to discuss, and to learn, and I genuinely want to explore the limits of my understandings, identify my biases, and catch my fallacies, so when someone throws out some take that seems spectacularly inane, like “all technologies are tools, and all tools are the same”, I want to know if I’m missing something.
As far as why I dare to be so “absurd”: I’m inclined to wonder why you have decided that your personal nihilism means that no-one else should be able to have a serious discussion of any kind. That’s kind of sad.
You are on the internet how do you want to have serious discussions when you don’t even know who are you talking to. I may be a toddler for all you know it or some kind of psychotic serial killer chilling with a cigarette after the job well done. Like seriously people get the heck out of social media and do something actually that matters
How am I supposed talk seriously when you call my common sense a nihilism too lol. Just focus your capacity of seriousness for real life, thats the only sane way to go around. Or feel free to go insane on the internet discussing geopolitics with toddlers and ai and drunk college dropouts.
Enjoy getting baited every 5 seconds and probably be angry and miserable daily because you treat your phone with funny digital people so firkin seriously
Even this is getting too serious lol, like cmon I can’t believe I am actually doing this and every fiber of my being recoils right now saying “run, there’s nothing productive here, get the frick away and rain missiles from afar instead of getting involved in the pointless trenches of internet keyboard warfare”
I’m a science teacher. I have serious conversations with unserious children every day. It’s what I do.
Don’t kill yourself. Engagement with people through a digital medium is not a sin.
Also, if I mischaracterized your position in calling it nihilism, I’m sorry. It seemed like your primary thesis was “none of this matters, and to think it does is inherently absurd, so you should do nothing”. To me, that sounds like nihilism.
You don’t understand it, you are naive as a fresh leaf on a spring morning. Internet is not a platform for serious issues. If you have seen what I seen and know what I know from 20 years or more web surfing experience you wouldn’t harbour so much benefit of doubt towards whatever composted filth internet is made of.
After all this is the very reason of why we are failing as a species. It would be crazy to still treat it in any serious way after it literally implodes democracy worldwide from insane tribalism.
Internet must burn and people must lose the disillusionment that they have any sort of power or that their internet speak matters when it is only a box to yell at and thus be silent irl. We must collectively touch grass. We must burn this place and any other, such is the duty of those who know
And yes, Ted Kaczynski was right, at least partially though he had wrong methods
I appreciate your response. If you think that the invention of the internet is why we are failing as a species, that it is the thing destroying our planet, then it seems I have much more work to do. Corporate greed and political corruption are what is literally destroying our planet. I agree: talk is cheap. Go find a way to make corporations, billionaires, and corrupt politicians fear the people.
You know what? They can go ahead. Fine. Good for them. They’ve shown they aren’t interested in actual argument. I agree with your point about the whole slander thing, and maybe there is some sad little invective, “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”, further belittling my intelligence to try to console themself. If other people read it and think “yeah that dude’s right”, then that’s their prerogative. I’ve made my case, and it seems the best they can come up with is projection and baseless accusation by buzzword. I need no further proof of their disingenuity.
Least you ought to care about is who thinks what about your comments. I mean I don’t wanna tell you what to think but it seems sane to just ignore that
This forum means nothing, nothing we or anyone says here is of any importance. It’s not even something that is saved anywhere in the long run but is merely some speck of digital dust that will fly away as soon as you turn off your phone
It’s the most meaningless words you will ever write, here
So you know, you either enjoy drama or memes or some arcane knowledge or what is exactly you are doing on the internet dear stranger? I hope you aren’t thinking what you say here has any meaning because no one cares and I can assure you I won’t remember about any of this in 10 minutes tops
I feel like you are trying to say something serious here and I assure you this is inherently absurd. Whatever you wanna change or whatever you want to cope with start outside the phone/tablet/laptop
A take with which I disagree, but mostly a fair one. If you want to live an unexamined life, it’s not like that’s any of my business. You are absolutely correct on your read of me. I am committed to arcane esoterica, so that’s what I’m doing here. I’m here to discuss, and to learn, and I genuinely want to explore the limits of my understandings, identify my biases, and catch my fallacies, so when someone throws out some take that seems spectacularly inane, like “all technologies are tools, and all tools are the same”, I want to know if I’m missing something.
As far as why I dare to be so “absurd”: I’m inclined to wonder why you have decided that your personal nihilism means that no-one else should be able to have a serious discussion of any kind. That’s kind of sad.
You are on the internet how do you want to have serious discussions when you don’t even know who are you talking to. I may be a toddler for all you know it or some kind of psychotic serial killer chilling with a cigarette after the job well done. Like seriously people get the heck out of social media and do something actually that matters
How am I supposed talk seriously when you call my common sense a nihilism too lol. Just focus your capacity of seriousness for real life, thats the only sane way to go around. Or feel free to go insane on the internet discussing geopolitics with toddlers and ai and drunk college dropouts.
Enjoy getting baited every 5 seconds and probably be angry and miserable daily because you treat your phone with funny digital people so firkin seriously
Even this is getting too serious lol, like cmon I can’t believe I am actually doing this and every fiber of my being recoils right now saying “run, there’s nothing productive here, get the frick away and rain missiles from afar instead of getting involved in the pointless trenches of internet keyboard warfare”
Remind me to kill myself if I reply once more
I’m a science teacher. I have serious conversations with unserious children every day. It’s what I do.
Don’t kill yourself. Engagement with people through a digital medium is not a sin.
Also, if I mischaracterized your position in calling it nihilism, I’m sorry. It seemed like your primary thesis was “none of this matters, and to think it does is inherently absurd, so you should do nothing”. To me, that sounds like nihilism.
You don’t understand it, you are naive as a fresh leaf on a spring morning. Internet is not a platform for serious issues. If you have seen what I seen and know what I know from 20 years or more web surfing experience you wouldn’t harbour so much benefit of doubt towards whatever composted filth internet is made of.
After all this is the very reason of why we are failing as a species. It would be crazy to still treat it in any serious way after it literally implodes democracy worldwide from insane tribalism.
Internet must burn and people must lose the disillusionment that they have any sort of power or that their internet speak matters when it is only a box to yell at and thus be silent irl. We must collectively touch grass. We must burn this place and any other, such is the duty of those who know
And yes, Ted Kaczynski was right, at least partially though he had wrong methods
I appreciate your response. If you think that the invention of the internet is why we are failing as a species, that it is the thing destroying our planet, then it seems I have much more work to do. Corporate greed and political corruption are what is literally destroying our planet. I agree: talk is cheap. Go find a way to make corporations, billionaires, and corrupt politicians fear the people.