Bored. We are so, so very bored. The 21st century has bestowed upon us all we could ever want. We have high tech smartphones and smartfridges and smartcars so unbelievably advanced that the average layman could not tell you how they operate. We have factories ran by robots that manufacture anything you could possibly ask for. We have thousands upon thousands of little toys and games and movies to occupy ourselves with, and yet, we are still, so, so very bored. Do you recall, as a kid, when you only had, maybe 3 or 4 games on your console? You would sink dozens and dozens of hours into each respective one. Now, with subscription services and such, we have all the games we could ever ask for, and yet, they all sit there, collecting dust, unplayed, with 0 hours in them. constraints, and limits breed true creativity, and if you have all that you could ever want in modern America, you no longer need to really DO or THINK anything at all. We are suffocating in a constant consumption of content. The only true way to clear your cluttered creative conscious is to vomit out all you have clung onto, "all the ghosts, all the dreams, all you hold to in belief."
Sometimes having less means having more.
Posted at 2026/06/07, 05:59:25
Post ID: 8156
Bored. We are so, so very bored. The 21st century has bestowed upon us all we could ever want. We have high tech smartphones and smartfridges and smartcars so unbelievably advanced that the average layman could not tell you how they operate. We have factories ran by robots that manufacture anything you could possibly ask for. We have thousands upon thousands of little toys and games and movies to occupy ourselves with, and yet, we are still, so, so very bored. Do you recall, as a kid, when you only had, maybe 3 or 4 games on your console? You would sink dozens and dozens of hours into each respective one. Now, with subscription services and such, we have all the games we could ever ask for, and yet, they all sit there, collecting dust, unplayed, with 0 hours in them. constraints, and limits breed true creativity, and if you have all that you could ever want in modern America, you no longer need to really DO or THINK anything at all. We are suffocating in a constant consumption of content. The only true way to clear your cluttered creative conscious is to vomit out all you have clung onto, "all the ghosts, all the dreams, all you hold to in belief."
Sometimes having less means having more.
This is very true. A big part of this, which extends far past entertainment, is personal investment. The more you consume rather than invest into and create, the less importance each little thing has. Putting attention and importance into tasks and possessions.
Talking about deferred gratification and anti-consumerism is preaching to the crowd here, but I believe these things also have higher implications. Over the past year or so, I've started to deeply understand that my life isn't an atomic unit of just me: I'm part of my ancestors and my future descendants, and I have a duty to them. All of a sudden, life choices are no longer isolated and have bigger consequences. When that fully hit me, all of this shit about videogames and entertainment became pretty ridiculous. Wasting your life in hedonism isn't just wasting your life, it's taking advantage of all the things my ancestors and society gave for me and giving nothing back. If everyone had this mindset, I think consumerism would be a lot less of an issue in general. It'd still be an issue, but there would be a moral component to it.
Posted at 2026/06/10, 21:30:43
Post ID: 8156:8157
This is very true. A big part of this, which extends far past entertainment, is personal investment. The more you consume rather than invest into and create, the less importance each little thing has. Putting attention and importance into tasks and possessions.
Talking about deferred gratification and anti-consumerism is preaching to the crowd here, but I believe these things also have higher implications. Over the past year or so, I've started to deeply understand that my life isn't an atomic unit of just [i]me[/i]: I'm part of my ancestors and my future descendants, and I have a duty to them. All of a sudden, life choices are no longer isolated and have bigger consequences. When that fully hit me, all of this shit about videogames and entertainment became pretty ridiculous. Wasting your life in hedonism isn't just wasting your life, it's taking advantage of all the things my ancestors and society gave for me and giving nothing back. If everyone had this mindset, I think consumerism would be a lot less of an issue in general. It'd still be an issue, but there would be a moral component to it.
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