What’s the point of all this? What are we even working towards?

[Apparition of Jack]

95% of our time goes to meeting our survival needs. We work to earn money to buy food and pay rent, but work is so stressful we spend whatever little money have left on distractions and coping mechanisms.

 Even if you live in a good country and/or are financially secure yourself, at most you could probably be some kind of leader in your industry or an academic, still distracting yourself all the while due to living in a decaying world.

 We are all so removed from nature that something that’s literally been free for all of human history - the natural world - is now incredibly expensive to access as you have to find enough time and money to draw yourself away from the cities to access it.

No one seems genuinely happy. Some turn to religion to find meaning, but modern religion feels mostly about condemning fringe groups than actually connecting to God. Some turn to progressivism and hedonism, but that leaves one’s limited social and psychological impulses as the only fulfilment in life. There’s nothing wrong with being gay for instance, but if your own purpose in life is to be vaguely nice to everyone without truly accessing something deeper, it ends up feeling shallow and inconsequential.

 Politics offers no answers. Pop culture offers no answers. Religion offers no answers.

 Everything feels so pathetic and meaningless.

 There’s got to be more than this, right?

Edited 18 hours ago by Apparition of Jack

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

Alas, a solid question being asked. Still trying to answer that one for myself

[SimpleGuy]

1 hour ago, Apparition of Jack said:

95% of our time goes to meeting our survival needs. We work to earn money to buy food and pay rent, but work is so stressful we spend whatever little money have left on distractions and coping mechanisms.

 Even if you live in a good country and/or are financially secure yourself, at most you could probably be some kind of leader in your industry or an academic, still distracting yourself all the while due to living in a decaying world.

 We are all so removed from nature that something that’s literally been free for all of human history - the natural world - is now incredibly expensive to access as you have to find enough time and money to draw yourself away from the cities to access it.

No one seems genuinely happy. Some turn to religion to find meaning, but modern religion feels mostly about condemning fringe groups than actually connecting to God. Some turn to progressivism and hedonism, but that leaves one’s limited social and psychological impulses as the only fulfilment in life. There’s nothing wrong with being gay for instance, but if your own purpose in life is to be vaguely nice to everyone without truly accessing something deeper, it ends up feeling shallow and inconsequential.

 Politics offers no answers. Pop culture offers no answers. Religion offers no answers.

 Everything feels so pathetic and meaningless.

 There’s got to be more than this, right?

Of course there is no absolute meaning in life. But that`s life`s beauty - that you have to choose the meaning of your life. And yes, there is more than just survival. Rewatch Leo`s Survival series especially 3 part.  

[Twentyfirst]

I think all those doomer videos was just a way to take out the competition before they even begun

Actually, I am very certain of it

[BlueOak]

Infinity.

There is no destination or working towards anything. There is no way to measure something inside of it.

Pick something and focus on it, you'll experience more of that. That's about it really. Sad to say, it's idealism in you meeting practicality, its never nice. Just try not to be overly fatalistic or nihilistic, as that's a common response which also needs balancing. 

Pick something and focus on it, you'll experience more of that - That's pretty much what I read you looking for, but the answer is always going to be yours.

Edited 16 hours ago by BlueOak

[Princess Arabia]

Towards never comes.

 

Edited 13 hours ago by Princess Arabia

[Alex4]

Mine are studying history and hiking

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

20 minutes ago, Alex4 said:

Mine are studying history and hiking

Based