Submitted 5 months ago by lunatique@lemmy.ml to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
People spend more time online than in nature.
Plastic surgery, makeup, skin bleaching, fake tanning are pushed above natural beauty.
GMO foods are consumed over organic (they could put money into farming organic instead of GMO).
Now ozempic instead of getting your porkback off the couch and exercising.
It’s backwards world.
I mean, theres the obvious answer that the world sucks right now. Even in the richest country in the world, large parts are the population are starving and/or homeless.
That said, your argument seems to conflate “nature” with “reality”. That answer to that is that nature is generally very bad for us. Bugs and animals will try to eat us if given a chance - killing us first is a luxury often not afforded. Plants, trying to avoid being eaten, are poisonous almost as often as not. With the limited availablility of food in nature, starvation is common. Even common diseases can kill hundreds of thousands without the use of modern medicine. We build and innovate to get away from all this. We build houses and weapons to protect ourselves from the elements and the animals. We develop pesticides and GMOs because they’re easier to grow and more nutritious, making feeding ourselves cheaper. We develop medicine to save billions of lives that would otherwise be lost. Being natural doesn’t mean something is good for us, and in fact generally means the opposite.
You people are lost. This is why your societies will collapse. You all are sick, literally sprinkled with diseases and mental illness not because of nature but because of your fake food, and chemicals. I don’t know if you are religious. Only reason I mention the religion is because I know many people are. Yet those same people speak on God creating nature then they go against nature every chance they get. They don’t even see it.
“You people…” That’s all you had to say for me to realize where this was heading.
Lemme guess, “vaccine bad” amirite?
I mean… Have you seen reality?
Don’t confuse condescension with reality.
Natures about the only thing I like in our reality.
No one wants to live in caves anymore!
I should have titled it why do people prefer fake things over real. By reality I meant what is REAL not artificial. I can see how semantics could confused the lot of you
But, what is REAL?
You? Me? Money? Coins? Math? Philosophy?
Natural things over artificial and synthetic things.
"We think that the internet is real."
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“Starving Children Screaming for Food”
OP: why do people hate reality? Fat and lazy ppl smh
You got something going on OP, I’m not saying its good, but it is something.
Why do YOU hate reality? The Internet, plastic surgery, GMOs and Ozempic ARE reality. I’m not endorsing or condoning any of those things, but frolicking in the woods for a few hours is escaping reality just as much (if not more) than doom scrolling TikTok.
Convenient escapism.
People spend more time online than in nature.
You know nature’s covered in dirt, right.
Plastic surgery, makeup, skin bleaching, fake tanning are pushed above natural beauty.
Only when it looks natural.
GMO foods are consumed over organic (they could put money into farming organic instead of GMO).
Organic refers to the chemistry of the pesticides used. The GMOs themselves are still very much organic. Besides, none of the food we eat is “natural”. It’s all been selectively bred (even cross bred) to yield more, taste and look better then they ever did naturally. Accept maybe shellfish. Seriously. How hungry was the first person to look at a lobster and think “I’m gonna eat that!”
Now Ozempic instead of getting your porkback off the couch and exercising.
That’s a natural response to the unnaturally calorie rich world we live in.
It’s backwards world.
Yep. Less natural every day, since we started farming 50,000 years ago.
While not perfect. I think things have undeniably improved over the last dozen millennia.
Eh, we’re all addicts in some capacity, and people have become really good at pushing those buttons. It’s kinda sad that this is what human nature is like, but it be how it be, the only thing you can do is be in charge of your own decisions
I agree your point is acceptable. Other points could be added and still be correct because its a diverse reason behind it. I can see by the dislikes these people want more fake not more real. Lol
Yeah, … Such wild posts here. Humans feel like they are barely human species anymore.
I didn’t downvote you, but I think I understand why the sweeping generalization in the title would turn people off.
I don’t disagree with any of your individual points, or the general sentiment, but “Why do people hate reality?” doesn’t describe what you’re trying to say here, and to be honest it just sounds ignorant. (Or at least sounds like you’re getting ready to say something really ignorant.)
There’s a lot to take issue with in your post that doesn’t mean people prefer fake things.
Assuming people hate reality because of these arbitrary dichotomies that aren’t actually black and white.
Spending time online can mean making real, personal connections. Why is that less valuable than spending time outside? Are people who have allergies or heat intolerance or live in a big city somehow lesser because they can’t spend as much time in nature?
Many people don’t get plastic surgery or any of the things you listed. Plus a lot of people who claim they hate makeup and prefer “natural beauty” actually just like natural-looking makeup and prefer that to people who truly don’t wear any.
Organic is more expensive and less accessible than not-organic; often it’s not a choice. Plus like another commenter said, it’s not like GMO means fake. We’ve been genetically modifying plants for millennia through selective breeding; we’ve just sped up how it’s done.
Ozempic is an easier way to weight loss and yeah, some people take it as a lazy way out I’m sure. But also a lot of people who are overweight aren’t just that way because they’re lazy, but because there’s an underlying issue. Mental health issues like depression or addiction; physical health issues that cause weight gain like hypothyroidism or issues that make exercise difficult (and yes, weight can add to these problems, but a lot of time it’s a both/and situation); socioeconomic problems that make healthy food inaccessible due to time or cost limitations or living in a food desert. There are many reasons people are overweight beyond simply choosing not to exercise. (And I shouldn’t have to do this but just to head off any judgment you want to throw at me: my BMI is currently 18.1, putting me in the “underweight” category. I have never been overweight, I just have empathy for people who live different lives than me.)
You’re making a lot of false dichotomies and everything you’ve said is rooted in judgments of people. I suspect that’s where the downvotes are coming from, but I also suspect you’ll find issue in what I’m saying and dismiss me for it rather than checking in with your own biases and judgments.
💯 Nothing is totally black and white, and there are things that don’t fit broadly for sure, humans are creative problems solvers too, some of these things are just solutions to problems, but there’s a team of marketers behind plenty of good ideas to try to turn them into some sort of pseudo drug
zbyte64@awful.systems 5 months ago
With you on all but makeup. I don’t do it but I know enough to know it is an art form and I also know there’s a paradox of self-expression that is intertwined with camp and seduction. These things are not inherently bad, but they are destructive when they are commoditized so that we start to think we have to pay admission to express ourself