"Humiliate me, I like it; trample me, I love it; make me poor and miserable, I'll take my sorrows away with a little rum and music. I aspire to nothing more. Only to be happy in my scarcity, my humidity and my peeling walls. I don't need freedom, I prefer chains. It's enough for me to move a little and forget the rest. I prefer your crumbs to having to find the whole loaf of bread myself. Meanwhile, life goes by between jokes, blackouts and queues, but I'm happy in my own way, with my empty pot, my empty refrigerator and my speakers at full volume. I drown in the dance, I move to the floor, I hold on carefully to the limping dresser and the worm-eaten table, but I enjoy the atmosphere, the company, the last bottle. It doesn't have to have a brand or quality, just enough alcohol to not think about anything else, to alienate myself towards sexuality. So, with warm blood, I'll go to bed with you on the mattress with the springs sticking out. Tomorrow will be another day, the water will have gone down. My problems will rise, but I'll keep laughing. Until death."
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30 sats \ 9 replies \ @siggy47 1 Dec
Sad, dark scenario. I know people with these living conditions and sentiments in urban parts of the US. Some are my friends.
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43 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 2 Dec
Have they never been exposed to opportunities or the chance to improve themselves?
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43 sats \ 7 replies \ @bief57 OP 1 Dec
These thoughts are spreading more and more, it's scary. I'm sorry about your friends, I guess they didn't want to see beyond what they could achieve, sometimes I find it hard to believe that these situations also occur in the United States.
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20 sats \ 6 replies \ @siggy47 1 Dec
They do, although it's probably more rare and less extreme (for now).
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43 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 2 Dec
I don’t know about getting more rare. The mind virus is fairly virulent with a very high R value.
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43 sats \ 4 replies \ @bief57 OP 1 Dec
For now... yes, this society is in decline. Do you think there is salvation when talking about the U.S.?
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @siggy47 1 Dec
I don't know. There's lots of optimism post election, but actual change is unlikely, if not impossible.
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63 sats \ 1 reply \ @bief57 OP 1 Dec
Socialism is a bloody cancer. Sorry for the rudeness, but there is no other definition. I see more and more young people who know nothing about history, economics, hunger, the meaning of work, being the greatest defenders of socialism.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 2 Dec
The people in the picture are all the first casualties of the revolution’s success. Just ask the Cambodians about who was liquidated first to last.
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43 sats \ 0 replies \ @nym 1 Dec
Yea it’ll be slower than people hope and think, I think.
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10 sats \ 4 replies \ @DesertDave 1 Dec
Ignorance is bliss I guess.
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11 sats \ 3 replies \ @bief57 OP 1 Dec
I had a teacher who often repeated this phrase "ignorance is the basis of happiness" and also said "the more things you know, the more unhappy you are"
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @DesertDave 1 Dec
Yeah, it's a strange trade off. I felt quite content in my 20s looking back. I also feel like I was completely blind to reality back then relative to how I see it now. And I some ways I feel less happy. And also, I am glad to be here, and I wouldn't trade back . I guess that is how life goes.
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @bief57 OP 1 Dec
You understand me, I've thought the same when I look back, it's like I've been in a deep sleep or blind, but it's because of a lack of knowledge, we can't judge ourselves for not knowing things that we do know today. After all, what is happiness?
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 1 Dec
Ecclesiastes 1:18 "for in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow"
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