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Why do people say modern life is "so stressful" when it's never been easier?
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Date: December 17th, 2018 7:38 PM Author: passionate pea-brained pozpig Wasn't it a little more stressful when he lived in huts and died in childbirth and had to kill our food every day to eat? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4157836&forum_id=2#37423718) |
Date: December 17th, 2018 7:39 PM Author: Magenta state karate It was way more chill back then. No traffic. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4157836&forum_id=2#37423723) |
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Date: December 17th, 2018 8:13 PM Author: Harsh office ape (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4157836&forum_id=2#37423916) |
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Date: December 17th, 2018 8:24 PM Author: sexy brethren orchestra pit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4157836&forum_id=2#37424019) |
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Date: December 17th, 2018 9:00 PM Author: Iridescent fiercely-loyal point tank Fair (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4157836&forum_id=2#37424244) |
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Date: December 17th, 2018 9:08 PM Author: Coiffed dull masturbator ceo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4157836&forum_id=2#37424300) |
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Date: December 17th, 2018 9:14 PM Author: supple sandwich lodge 127. A technological advance that appears not to threaten freedom often turns out to threaten it very seriously later on. For example, consider motorized transport. A walking man formerly could go where he pleased, go at his own pace without observing any traffic regulations, and was independent of technological support-systems. When motor vehicles were introduced they appeared to increase man’s freedom. They took no freedom away from the walking man, no one had to have an automobile if he didn’t want one, and anyone who did choose to buy an automobile could travel much faster and farther than a walking man. But the introduction of motorized transport soon changed society in such a way as to restrict greatly man’s freedom of locomotion. When automobiles became numerous, it became necessary to regulate their use extensively. In a car, especially in densely populated areas, one cannot just go where one likes at one’s own pace. One’s movement is governed by the flow of traffic and by various traffic laws. One is tied down by various obligations: license requirements, driver test, renewing registration, insurance, maintenance required for safety, monthly payments on purchase price. Moreover, the use of motorized transport is no longer optional. Since the introduction of motorized transport the arrangement of our cities has changed in such a way that the majority of people no longer live within walking distance of their place of employment, shopping areas and recreational opportunities, so that they HAVE TO depend on the automobile for transportation. Or else they must use public transportation, in which case they have even less control over their own movement than when driving a car. Even the walker’s freedom is now greatly restricted. In the city he continually has to stop to wait for traffic lights that are designed mainly to serve auto traffic. In the country, motor traffic makes it dangerous and unpleasant to walk along the highway. (Note this important point that we have just illustrated with the case of motorized transport: When a new item of technology is introduced as an option that an individual can accept or not as he chooses, it does not necessarily REMAIN optional. In many cases the new technology changes society in such a way that people eventually find themselves FORCED to use it.) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4157836&forum_id=2#37424334) |
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Date: December 17th, 2018 10:06 PM Author: passionate pea-brained pozpig Haha wow, you're really into this uh...Unabomber stuff. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4157836&forum_id=2#37424616) |
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Date: December 17th, 2018 10:17 PM Author: supple sandwich lodge I am really into the ideas he espoused, because they were incredibly insightful, and have turned out to be largely correct/prophetic. It was this particular passage that got me so intrigued:
"34. Consider the hypothetical case of a man who can have anything he wants just by wishing for it. Such a man has power, but he will develop serious psychological problems. At first he will have a lot of fun, but by and by he will become acutely bored and demoralized. Eventually he may become clinically depressed. History shows that leisured aristocracies tend to become decadent. This is not true of fighting aristocracies that have to struggle to maintain their power. But leisured, secure aristocracies that have no need to exert themselves usually become bored, hedonistic and demoralized, even though they have power. This shows that power is not enough. One must have goals toward which to exercise one’s power."
It's a shame that his solution was basically to blow everything up, because, in addition to being impractical, it would be horrible. He did a great job identifying the problem, but not the solution. But yeah, if you have any interest in the future at all, you really should actually read it. |
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Date: December 17th, 2018 10:20 PM Author: passionate pea-brained pozpig Well he was a Harvard man. Sociopath or not, no one can take that away from him. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4157836&forum_id=2#37424706) |
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Date: December 17th, 2018 10:22 PM Author: supple sandwich lodge I've heard he has his Harvard degree framed on his cell wall (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4157836&forum_id=2#37424726) |
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Date: December 18th, 2018 6:39 AM Author: demanding quadroon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4157836&forum_id=2#37425903) |
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Date: December 17th, 2018 9:15 PM Author: doobsian dingle berry (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4157836&forum_id=2#37424339) |
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Date: December 17th, 2018 7:41 PM Author: alcoholic son of senegal they may be complaining about the psychological hell of this eras status seeking godless striver lifestyle. Thanks kikes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4157836&forum_id=2#37423741) |
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Date: December 17th, 2018 7:42 PM Author: supple sandwich lodge You need to read XO Ted. Ironically, making it too convenient to achieve our necessities has led to a loss of purpose and general malaise. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4157836&forum_id=2#37423747) |
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Date: December 17th, 2018 7:43 PM Author: passionate pea-brained pozpig & the feminization of the masses. In an overly comfortable world, masculinity is seen as dangerous and aggressive when until recently it basically sustained the survival of the human race. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4157836&forum_id=2#37423753) |
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Date: December 17th, 2018 7:46 PM Author: supple sandwich lodge Yes, that is part, but I think a small one. XO Ted basically predicted this stuff 30 years ago but didn’t use those terms.
Also, masculinity isn’t really seen as dangerous. Liberals tend to hate everything that is strong and successful, including masculinity, and have tried to tear it down for that reason. “Dangerous” is the fake reason they give.
GC is happy because less testeroned people = more docile = more easy to control. |
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Date: December 17th, 2018 9:01 PM Author: stubborn elastic band Do you move your lips when you read? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4157836&forum_id=2#37424249) |
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Date: December 17th, 2018 9:01 PM Author: confused feces cause you always need to be on call for shit if you work for a high earning job and you either work for a high earning job or are abjectly poor. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4157836&forum_id=2#37424250) |
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Date: December 17th, 2018 9:03 PM Author: Misanthropic marvelous gas station pistol I think there is a modern pressure to raising kids that didn't used to exist. If you are not spending close to 100% of your time with them and doing everything possible to make them 100% happy, you are somehow a shitty parent.
That's kind of it in a nutshell to me as a kidhaver |
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Date: December 17th, 2018 11:00 PM Author: Puce den digit ratio double income families, day care, pre-K, kindergarten, school, after school programs, nannies, au pairs, latchkey, iPaids as pacifiers...surely kids spend far less time with their parents than ever before (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4157836&forum_id=2#37424944) |
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Date: December 17th, 2018 11:05 PM Author: Misanthropic marvelous gas station pistol Actually, I don't think it's that simple
When I was a kid, my mom was a SAHM, but I didn't see her that much because I was always out riding bikes with my friends or playing basketball at the park, etc.
Kids aren't really allowed to leave the house unsupervised anymore and you don't want them on devices too much so it does kind of fall on the parents to entertain the kids in ways that they didn't need to in the past |
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Date: December 17th, 2018 10:14 PM Author: angry cruel-hearted center We feel the same level of “stress” in response to less serious stimuli. Instead of bear chasing you, we’ve got traffic. Instead of starving to death, you’ve got a coworker insidiously derailing your career. Your wife spends a lot of time going to “spin class,” but her phone locator says she keeps going to the Marriott Courtyard out by the airport. Etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4157836&forum_id=2#37424673) |
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Date: December 17th, 2018 11:34 PM Author: passionate pea-brained pozpig Whoa, that last sentence. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4157836&forum_id=2#37425141) |
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Date: December 18th, 2018 6:37 AM Author: Wine cocky public bath (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4157836&forum_id=2#37425901) |
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Date: December 18th, 2018 9:20 AM Author: Swollen Famous Landscape Painting Mexican (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4157836&forum_id=2#37426269) |
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Date: December 18th, 2018 9:25 AM Author: turquoise bat-shit-crazy athletic conference round eye (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4157836&forum_id=2#37426283) |
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Date: December 17th, 2018 11:03 PM Author: black irradiated set sneaky criminal (Pinkerton (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4157836&forum_id=2#37424955) |
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Date: December 17th, 2018 11:33 PM Author: passionate pea-brained pozpig (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4157836&forum_id=2#37425137) |