What the hell is WRONG!!!

Soushi

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Pegghead said:
So bad things are happening in the world, that's nothing new. Way I see it we have things pretty good these days. We don't have to worry about the black plague, at least the economy's stronger than it was in the great depression, racism's down for the most part, the world's a global village, technology's pretty damn good, people can be Gay, Communist, Atheist or even Bi without fear of complete oppression. If there's one thing I've learnt in my travels it's that the more you have the more you take for granted, and all too often people seem all the more grateful for everything when the world gets 'em down. And every time I come here on the escapist I've got some user telling me how the worlds going down the shitter and that there's zero hope for mankind, I mean sure the world aint perfect but it's the only one we have for now and this is the one shot at life you get so for goodness sake don't spend all day bitching about it.
I realize all of this, but that doesn't stop some people from wanting to put their heads through a brick wall. I realize that there is good in the world, in fact i think there is more good than evil. In fact, i think that humans are MASSIVELY good creatures, we just make some really shitty moves. BUt this is all just stupid stuff, stuff that we should be able to fix, not even stuff like global warming and climate change, that shit is hard, but this stuff is simple common sense. So, i hope you'll forgive me for getting a little irked.
 

Superhyperactiveman

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People are idiots.

Put in your ipod, turn on some music, and forget about it all.
Too bad that music has been assembled on a factory line, manufactured with the express purpose of making you support the bullshit. Do you know what we need people? Rock and Roll! I mean real rock and roll, back when people were about the music, about having fun and telling anyone who tried to stop them to fuck off. Not pre-teens who make crappy pop music, call themselves rockstars, and want Fame/Money/Girls/All of the above. That's why things got this shitty. The rock just stopped and without it to hold back the bullshit, everything went down the crapper. Thanks a lot Michael Jackson. You helped Corporate America come to power, by tempting all those people hypnotized by your dancing/penis/dancing penis away from the true path, allowing those soulless mother fuckers to get their dicks in the whole and start bum-fuckign. We need bands descended from AC/DC, Van Halen, Led Zepplin, Freackin' Chuck Berry, all that shit. Rock and Roll has defeated this kind of bullshit in the past, and it can do so again.

We roll tonight, to the guitar band. And for those about to rock... I salute you...
 

iTeamKill

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Echer123 said:
Mustlookatkittensmustlookatkittensmustlookatkittens



That's better.

OT: Humans suck. What else is new?

I for one think we should start our own little community in the Himalayas, and name it "Escapistopia".
Sadly 4 of the 5 kittens died after being put back in the shelter due to overcrowding and very low adoption rates. The 4th was put to sleep because it was a gift to a 12 year old girl and she microwaved it. (Volunteer at a shelter, you would be amazed how common this is)

Welcome to reality. All you can do is take care of your own little space, buy guns to defend it, and pay your bills to keep the police off your front step. Every day a new fanatic gets air time to spout their garbage, another farming family goes out of business due to law suits by miss appropriated genetically altered Monsanto seeds, and Citi group earns another 1 billion of your money.
 

Burst6

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Soushi said:
-Warning, very depressing thread -

I can usually deal with this stuff, but today i have finally snapped. This is getting ridiculous!!! Has the world gone mad? Have we lost all shreds of common sense! What on Earth can we do to fix all of this! Is no one else banging their heads against the wall!!!

- France is thinking of banning the Burka in some places, even for people who WANT to wear them
- Certain European countries have banned the little towers on mosques, something akin to banning a cross on the tops of churches if I am not mistaken
- Australia is banning things left right and center, setting their standards like in 198-fucking-4
- In China, the ability to make cheap little plastic toys are more important than workers rights
- Religious nuts in the US are getting ridiculous amounts of attention and air time
- People are scientifically arguing that the world will end in 2012
- China doesn't give two shits what the world thinks of them anymore
- Canada is going frigging insane with its Olympic regulations
- The economy is in the crapper, yet thousands and thousands of people are spending way beyond their means
- The media is filled with more private interests than ever before
- And the cherry on top, this generation is going to live shorter lives than the last one, a trend not seen since the f*cking DARK AGES!!!
I...i just... this is all so..... AAAAAAAAAAARRRGGGGGG!!!!! *thump*

What can we do? What do you do? How do you cope? What is some light news?
Just do what i do. Think of this as business as usual for humans and take satisfaction in knowing one day our minds probably will evolve to a point where we get over the primitive survival instincts. Has to happen eventually, notice that we have gotten significantly less savage in the past few thousand years. That is, unless, we become extinct.

This leads to the "Don't care unless it affects me" train of thought. It's better for your health.

PS. Right and wrong have no real meaning. -warning, really depressing text ahead- Nothing really matters. If you think about it, nothing can have a ultimate purpose. You don't need to care. In the end there are no consequences.
 

Nadlice

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How negative emotion cycles is a *****. Don't worry, if the world is going to hell, there is nothing you can do to help. And if there is you won't.

Better?
 

JWW

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That's what videogames are for. Just sit back, take up the controller/keyboard, and just let the pixels take you away.
 

Fwee

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Seems like everything is getting pushed to the brink, huh?
Well maybe someday soon the brink will push back, and then the fun will really start. Enjoy the ride, take risks, don't think about things too hard, never trust anything anyone tells you, and realize that the only way to survive a broken system is to exist outside of it.
Good luck, and when it hits the fan get behind me, I'll be the one in the awesome looking mask.
 

Funkysandwich

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MilkyFresh said:
SirBryghtside said:
aseelt said:
Escapistopia?

I don't think there are enough women on the forums...
Person with second most posts is a chick :O
Who is that? And who is the most?
On the internet men are men, women are men and children are the FBI.

And I wouldn't worry about the way things are going.

Worry will probably make the problems worse.
 

Agayek

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Soushi said:
- The economy is in the crapper, yet thousands and thousands of people are spending way beyond their means
To be fair, it is a fairly basic economic theory that expenditure is the only way to escape a depression. If no one spends, no jobs are created, so just as many if not more people are unemployed, leading to less money to spend, etc, etc. On the other hand, though, people spending more money than they have is never a good idea.

Most of your points are valid, I just had to point this one out.
 

Wilbot666

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I'm just waiting for some of the larger governments to finally stop posturing and commit nuclear genocide on one another. Then I'll be packing up my shit and bailing to my fathers farm in the deep south-west, where I can live a safe and egrarian existence growing my own vegetables, brewing my own beer and slaughtering Kangaroos for meat with very large rifles.

It's the right thing to do.
 

DasAShinyGolash

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Jim Grim said:
TheNamlessGuy said:
Jim Grim said:
Wow, you're so deep and different. Such a badass.
Never said that [sub]You sarcastic little... you[/sub]
I just said that I won't be any help at all in this thread.
Because I have no compassion.
And I said that you're such a badass. Why not take the compliment you're so obviously angling for? Or would you prefer silent awe?
OHMIGOD! you don't know how much love i feel for you jim grim, you said what we needed to say, high fives are in order
 

Dexomega

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It's all about control. The problem is this is the information era, there is no control.
 

wierdman51

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people are stupid, once you accept that fact, none of their crap can surprise you. nad if it does, call the cops, for S.I.P, Stupidity In Public.