i was a camp host for a summer and it was possibly the best summer of my life. no power, no water, no internet, minimal contact with people, cleaning toilets, and spending half of my day in a kayak.
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Snowies@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
The environment we created for ourselves takes advantage of our evolution and uses our biology against us.
Food is drowned in sugar to get us addicted. Social media is designed to keep us angry and upset. Entertainment is a recycled polished turd, designed to take no risks and challenge nothing and leave us with shallow amusement.
We are losing our empathy for the other and our curiosity for the unknown.
We have made a world of numbing poison for ourselves. A 29 day separation sounds like the most powerful “therapy” we could have tbh.
selfdefense420@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
theonetruedroid@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That sounds like a great way to spend a summer. I wouldn’t mind running water but I’d probably learn to appreciate it after not having it for a few months.
aceshigh@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
the unexamined life is not worth living
DominatorX1@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
That’s snappy. You should put it on a coffee mug.
Zink@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Damn, that is well said. This sentence in particular:
We are losing our respect for the profound, our empathy for the other, and our curiosity for the unknown.
is the kind of thing that sounds like an empty platitude when your mind/life is in a bad state, but after a few years of progress and healing I read that line and wish I could adequately express the years of reflection and learning that can be distilled down to such a short statement.
Snowies@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Thanks stranger.
I think a lot about daily life and the systems we’ve built and the way people treat each other and think about existence, and how we’ve changed and over time… or haven’t.
We’re advancing faster than we’re evolving.
I think that’s causing problems :/
londos@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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