tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972120889629675714.post1490042023335156187..comments2024-02-25T05:24:24.948-05:00Comments on Beyond Easy: preface to a trivialityPatrick Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02410016566636603639noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972120889629675714.post-70962630291182916562023-10-29T04:37:08.920-04:002023-10-29T04:37:08.920-04:00Do what you feel is best for you.
I'm still ...Do what you feel is best for you. <br /><br />I'm still in my late 20s, but i hope i will not start to feel this way as i get older. I don't think that spending some your free time on entertainment is necessarily bad. You can still share your experiences and opinions with others. Having a personal hobby (like reading comics or playing video games) is not something to be ashamed of. Unless it's addiction like the other commenter said, of course. The problem isn't the thing itself, it's how you engage with it.<br /><br />I personally like reading obscure webnovels on occasion and engaging with the communities. I know it's a trivial thing, but i don't feel like i'm wasting my time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972120889629675714.post-61040189598163970372021-11-22T02:48:03.027-05:002021-11-22T02:48:03.027-05:00You'll never stop. This is an addiction. Just ...You'll never stop. This is an addiction. Just look back at the cyclical nature of what you write and do. You get a hit feel satisfied, decide you'll stop, go through withdrawals, and repeat.<br /><br />I get it though, I really do. Its your world, your identity. When step away from this online creative world you get the feeling like every day youre gone, this world is progressing and you're being left behind. <br /><br />But its all in your head. None of tiis matters. Its all overflow created from the decadence of a modern technological society. Its like youtube, or twitch. They contribute nothing essential to the continuation of life and if they disappeared tomorrow, nothing would be effected. But imagine that all farming, mining, and electrical power generation were to stop tomorrow. The death toll would be astronimical within a year.<br /><br />To truly break free youd have to leave this behind, stop spending your time on trivial things like this. But can you do it?<br /><br />I know ive tried many times and each time i whittle away a bit more. First it was drugs, then it was playing videogames, lastly it was excessive time in the gym obsessing over my physique. Soon i hope to give up reading about videogames and anime and childish things.<br /><br />The things themselves are not the problem. Theyre physical manifesttaions of the psyche. Vidogames, anime, comics, etc. represent a retraction from reality, videogames being the worst. Just flashing lights on a screen which mean nothing in reality. The mind that cares about these things; how can that mind ever look out to reality? <br /><br />The online world is an illusion of importance. A sinkhole pulling in the minds of our "advanced" world. A place where every person can create their own fifedom of closed thought, allowing in only those who support their already existomg views and strike down anyone who opposes. An example; i went into a random twitch videogame streamer the other day just to see what would happen if i offered a differing point of view. Not even opposing, but simply asking a question.<br /><br />The streamer was saying something about hoe a certain game protagonist should have been gender queer, not straight, and that the game company had a responsibility to be "inclusive". Now, all I said was that the company probably just made a product for its widest market and pointed out that less than 5 percent of the population identifies as something other than male or female (drastically less in most countries). This made him visibly upset, and he said that they should have been more inclusive. To which I then asked, why should a company in a country of freedom be forced to cater to any one or amything? At thia point I was permanently banned, much to the delight of his 20 or so viewers who then chatted aboy how white people are bad (bear in mind that the steamer, and most likely his viewers too, is white). The secons his viewpoint was questioned I was banished from the kingdom.<br /><br />Can you imagine this person having to function in a workplace? Can you ever picture someone with this mentality ever creating anything of use to society? How could this guy ever work on a team designing medical equipment, or a new process for mining copper? Impossible. This is the quinticense of the tech world. Infinite digital fifedoms all at war.<br /><br />You can leave this trash behind, absolutely, as long as you can be xomfortable with not being lart of its evolution.<br /><br />Please forgive my spelling and grammar; im terrible at typing on a phone without autocorrect engaged.<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com