I know, I can't change the thread name and this site fucking sucks for typing shit out.
Social lives are fucking stupid.
Social lives depend upon you degrading yourself to meet the conventional standards set by other degenerate morons.
I may seem like a fedora wearing neckbeard, but I can assure you I am not.
Though I have worn a fedora and consider them pretty fashionable.
Society is flawed, it's full of stupid people doing stupid things, and having a social life is participating in trivial and stupid bullshit for the rest of your life.
Personal development in a social sense is bollocks, you cannot develop you, as a person, in a social setting... It's something that requires knowledge and reclusion.
The mind, as I understand it, is but a lens by which one can see the world... It's a perception, a preconceived notion as to how the world should function, and everybody will arrive at the exact same conclusions given enough time alone to think about it.
You will understand that the social bubble, that which is a hindrance to our real understanding, is but an illusion.
We have created, in literal terms, an economy as defined by human interaction and transactions throughout an individuals daily life.
Based off what we have seen, and of our reflections of others, we have constructed a system that can successfully delude a person into believing life is meaningless without society.
The universe exists. We have a mind capable of acknowledging its magnificence, so why, then, do we not acknowledge it?
Why do we delude ourselves into believing that we have some privileged position?
Society is an illusion, it distracts us from understanding our real conditions: That of a tiny city, comparable to that of an atom, inside a vast and it seems endless universe of beauty and undiscovered knowledge.
Society takes this away, it removes man from the womb of that which he came, and that which he sought refuge in, as a refugee fleeing from his mundane senses into the raft by which he sails throughout the endless abyss.
I have a social life... In my mind. I constantly speak to myself out loud and in my head, I speak articulately and comprehensively on my thoughts of everything from biology and physics, and the more earthy scientific pursuits: Politics and political economy.
Do not think I have contradicted myself, for politics is a means of organising society, and it provides the scaffolding to construct a society worth living in.
I have become the most enlightened person in earth through reclusiveness and thought, I simply want others to share this with me. But they are afraid of the truth.
"Social life's are fucking stupid."
Socializing still teaches valuable lessons for how to deal with people and gain a tolerance against their BS. It also can serve as a reality check of sorts compared to isolation.
"Social life's depend upon you degrading yourself to meet the conventional standards set by other degenerate morons."
If you go for surface level approval from shallow people, yeah.
"I may seem like a fedora wearing neckbeard, but I can assure you I am not."
But you even have the unwashed greasy part down!
"Society is flawed, it's full of stupid people doing stupid things, and having a social life is participating in trivial and stupid bullshit for the rest of your life."
It's not that difficult to get out of whatever social life you've made for yourself, whether it's for a break or for making a new one from scratch.
"Personal development in a social sense is bollocks, you cannot develop you, as a person, in a social setting... It's something that requires knowledge and reclusion."
Why can't you? It still is helpful for training charisma and social skills, and it has you thrown into situations you'd not otherwise be exposed to. How can you know how you'd really be for anything without having done said anything?
Experience is a great teacher, and being by yourself offers a very limited setup for growth. Other perspectives can help round out your own and shape it into something more resilient, whereas staying away from people can shed social tolerance and make a person sloppier.
"It's a perception, a preconceived notion as to how the world should function, and everybody will arrive at the exact same conclusions given enough time alone to think about it."
People are the sum of their experiences, so how can people arrive at the same conclusions with different experiences under their belts? How can people fall onto the same conclusions if they are working with different data, especially if they lack data that can't be gained by just sitting alone absorbed in thought?
Thinking's great, but experience gives more to think about, while having experiences is pointless if you don't ever reflect on them. Having one without the other will always form an incomplete picture.
"You will understand that the social bubble, that which is a hindrance to our real understanding, is but an illusion."
It's a construct made by people for people, how is it not real?
"We have created, in literal terms, an economy as defined by human interaction and transactions throughout an individuals daily life."
Yeah, it's called bartering.
"Based off what we have seen, and of our reflections of others, we have constructed a system that can successfully delude a person into believing life is meaningless without society."
How long do you think you'd make it without Society as a crutch? You're likely no less domesticated than the people you find disgusting.
"The universe exists. We have a mind capable of acknowledging its magnificence, so why, then, do we not acknowledge it?"
What's so great about it? It's not like either of us can go out there and explore it ourselves.
"Why do we delude ourselves into believing that we have some privileged position?"
I don't follow.
"Society is an illusion, it distracts us from understanding our real conditions: That of a tiny city, comparable to that of an atom, inside a vast and it seems endless universe of beauty and undiscovered knowledge."
Humans are a social species, one that formed society as a means of both protecting and advancing itself. Society isn't an illusion, it exists and gets things done. Society's more of a construct. In a big picture sense it's meaningless, but in the big picture sense everything is.
"Society takes this away, it removes man from the womb of that which he came, and that which he sought refuge in, as a refugee fleeing from his mundane senses into the raft by which he sails throughout the endless abyss."
So... without society you'd still be in your mother's womb? It sounds to me like this "Society" of yours did you a favor.
"I have a social life... In my mind."
Starting to sound a little schizophrenic.
"I constantly speak to myself out loud and in my head, I speak articulately and comprehensively on my thoughts of everything from biology and physics, and the more earthy scientific pursuits: Politics and political economy."
Knowledge by itself is nothing beyond entertainment. At the end of your life, what will all of that knowledge do for you if you couldn't apply it to anything useful?
"I have become the most enlightened person in earth through reclusiveness and thought, I simply want others to share this with me. But they are afraid of the truth."
I can see why you'd aim to avoid people, they'd serve to puncture this little bubble of yours~
You obviously never tried to understand what I was saying.
I act from the peripherality of society, I go to protests and meetings and consider this somewhat of a social life, but you really don't understand what I mean when I say "Society."
For starter, your idea of Bartering being what I was talking about is wrong, I was speaking of a type of immaterial barter... Memes. That being, the spread of ideas in a society, how today's eclectic ideas come into being.
A society is constructed of that which the individual contributes into that society, so if there is a strong presence of stupid motherfuckers, you can rightfully say that the society is constructed from folly, or more accurately, irrationality.
What is a political belief? What value does it maintain by its existence in the mind?
Sure, it may be successful in forming a society, but that doesn't remove the fact that it's irrational...It doesn't have truth to it. Subjectivity accounts, somewhere along the line, for a whole... So I speak directly to the groups which I think contribute badly to society, and favour those that I agree with.
Society is constructed from ideological conflict, that is the Essence of a democratic society... I was reading Aristotle last night and he made this point in 'The Politics' where he basically explains the importance of a functioning and reasoned well seasoned bunch to be critical of the aspects of those that comprise the scaffolding of a society. Without political participation, there can be no society... Because society relies upon the subjectivity of its contributors... And a conventional standard will emerge according to the laws of memes (see The Selfish Gene: Richard Dawkins). That Could be a majority vote for some political party in a representative democracy, or it could apply to ethics in a society... Those in contrast to our inherent biological ethics.
So, In this sense: What society is, is but a mere and somewhat inaccurate reflection of a political ideology, there has to be a thesis and antithesis to continue the function of society: Producing immaterial principles to meet the conditions of a society in different stages of development (See: Hegel).
In what way does a man become idle when alone? What force comes upon him to make a man idle when he is solitary?
I don't know about you, but I love to paint, read, produce music and poetry in my time.
It's a matter of you not having spent enough time alone, if you would experience that which I have experienced- A reclusive life, taken up by deep thought.. You would know what I am saying.
Experience is very important, as Marx said in his Theses on Feuerbach: "Until now, the philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it."
And that's why I participate In the struggle, the only thing that bridges immaterial conceptions and real conditions.