Taliban sniper gets depressed over 9-5 lifestyle after Taliban take over Afghanistan

[LordFall]

I found this post to be a great commentary of our civilization. They interviewed a former Taliban Sniper Abdul Nafi and several other former fighters through the Afghanistan Analysts Network and he described being now bored of the 8-4 commute to work life in Kabul now that they actually took over the country. 

I find it interesting because I think a lot of us can relate to the sentiment although we were not freedom fighters in our teenage years. The good old days this guy yearns for, lack of responsibility, riding his horse with his friends, conquering the enemy, probably being more of a bandit and stealing from people instead of having a job, etc is basically stage red civilization that is a nightmare for everyone not on top. Once that civilization goes towards stage blue and stability, it ruins a lot of the fun for the average man.

It's also a commentary on feminism and the patriarchy. We often don't really see it in the west but it is a true way of life for earlier civilization where if you're a strong young man with a good group you're on top of the world and everyone else is a lower class of society. You see it now with the rich elites of the world where equality would bring down their standard of living big time.

It's also a commentary on our societies where traffic, paperwork and scrolling twitter is basically the civilization peak we've managed to achieve. We're now pushing the boundaries of that with AI automation which hopefully will lead to a better end state with win-win solutions for all sectors of society. 

It also shows how evil War really is because it's a zero sum answer to the problem of scarcity. Oh our society is getting bogged down and there is less surplus to go around? Just go invade these people and take their shit and enslave them so our standard of living goes back up.

Here is a longer article from the Times covering the phenomenon and a reddit threat discussing it

https://time.com/6263906/taliban-afghanistan-office-work-quiet-quit/

https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/1sc5cr0/taliban_fighter_becomes_disillusioned_with_the/

Edited 21 hours ago by LordFall