What happened to man vs. nature? Why is it always man vs. man these days? Natural order is fucking horrible. It’s a literal world of terror, suffering and death.
We live in the most peaceful time in human history. We just also live in the most informationally accessable time, so you get a constant stream about new violence and inhumanity happening hundreds or thousands of miles from you.
Join an intentional community and trade your smartphone in for a dumb phone. You’ll have some disagreements with people, and once in a while there may be a fight with violence, but by and large this is a peaceful time. You won’t have the state threatening violence against you for keeping to yourselves. You won’t be taken over by a competing state unless you already lived in an unstable region of the globe.
By and large things are great. The corporatized internet has done a number on the minds of the global population, keeping everyone scared, where now someone letting their 10 year old walk to school in a decent neighborhood is reason enough for multiple calls to the police. Shooting someone for ringing their doorbell. Having family-breaking arguments over people’s private lives.
Everyone’s afraid and there’s largely nothing to fear. Far less than a couple decades ago, yet we’re far more terrified of everything, we’re the least connected in the ways that matter and the most connected in the ways that ultimately don’t matter at all. On the internet, toxicity has become the rule, not the exception. That carries over to real-world interactions.
What happened to man vs. nature? Why is it always man vs. man these days? Natural order is fucking horrible. It’s a literal world of terror, suffering and death.
These days?
We live in the most peaceful time in human history. We just also live in the most informationally accessable time, so you get a constant stream about new violence and inhumanity happening hundreds or thousands of miles from you.
Join an intentional community and trade your smartphone in for a dumb phone. You’ll have some disagreements with people, and once in a while there may be a fight with violence, but by and large this is a peaceful time. You won’t have the state threatening violence against you for keeping to yourselves. You won’t be taken over by a competing state unless you already lived in an unstable region of the globe.
By and large things are great. The corporatized internet has done a number on the minds of the global population, keeping everyone scared, where now someone letting their 10 year old walk to school in a decent neighborhood is reason enough for multiple calls to the police. Shooting someone for ringing their doorbell. Having family-breaking arguments over people’s private lives.
Everyone’s afraid and there’s largely nothing to fear. Far less than a couple decades ago, yet we’re far more terrified of everything, we’re the least connected in the ways that matter and the most connected in the ways that ultimately don’t matter at all. On the internet, toxicity has become the rule, not the exception. That carries over to real-world interactions.