Horrifying Things That Are Viewed As Normal

[starborn427614]

Mental illness and autism, the real variety not the twitter kind. I don't mean it in an edgy way, things like should be seen as not great instead of the current attitude that is a precious and special thing. No it's not. I don't know what the next step will be, maybe they will be standing around epileptics cheering and clapping when they have a seizure then try to forbid any "conversion therapy" that makes people seizure free.

Mental illness should be treated like what it is: a cancer. You're forced to carry this thing with you that slowly eats you from the inside out. It's not charming, it's not fashionable and people should be better educated on the subject in general.

 

[Meat Target]

1) The near-extinction of practical life skills from the average person. It's a result of a perfect storm of factors; hyper-efficient technology, a service industry economy, "knowledge workers", and a culture of disposability, convenience, and "keeping up with the Joneses".

I'm a wannabe Renaissance Man. I've always admired resourceful people. I feel robbed that I didn't have more of an opportunity to cultivate well-rounded skills earlier in life. Even now, I feel constrained.


2) The ubiquity of screens. Screens. Screens. Everywhere I go, screens.

I pull out my phone? Screen. I go to work? Screen. I go to the gym? Screen. I go home? Screen. I get in my car? Screen.

My whole world is viewed through rectangles of electrons and plasma. No wonder my eyesight is kaput without glasses/contacts.

And yes, the irony that I'm ranting about this on a retard-mocking website where I spend a disordered amount of time is *NOT* lost on me.

3. Waiting in traffic. I have a finite amount of time on this earth, and it's constantly dwindling. Why am I wasting it waiting for lights to change colors?

Nursing homes, and the general practice of leaving your parents to rot. My grandparents live in a nursing home two hours away from their whole family. They do have friends in the town who visit occasionally, but my aunt is the only one who can visit regularly. My cousin moved away, and doesn't really have any contact with the family, let alone our grandparents. There's only so many days the average person can make a four-hour road trip. I'm trying to go once every two weeks and phone regularly, but I'm guilty of this too.

Nursing homes are so deeply unsettling that it's hard to work up any motivation to go. Every time I go in the halls, there's at least one person who's either completely lost their mind and can only moan while staring at me with blank eyes, or someone who's begging me to help them, but can't explain what they need. After a while you learn to just ignore these people, because there's nothing I can do that will help them. I've seriously considered breaking people out of there. Having to wear masks and face shields doesn't help either. "Fortunately" Grandpa is forgetful enough that I can break protocol and hug him without risking a ban from the building. That's not hyperbole either, I know someone who couldn't see their grandparents for a few months because they hugged and were deemed to be spreading the virus. Of course, in my country everyone was completely forbidden from visiting for a while anyways.

This is a good nursing home too, everyone there is extremely caring and means well, it's the system as a whole that has problems. The concept of euthanasia is utterly abhorrent, but I think it can go the other way as well. In the name of health we're keeping people alive far past the point where it makes sense. I've been told point blank by plenty of older people that they'd much rather die horribly of covid surrounded by family than live in isolation. Great evil can be done in the name of healing. C.S. Lewis said it best:

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals."

I have grandparents who have suffered dementia, and lived their last days in a haze of pain and confusion. Only one remains today, and wants to die.

It had me thinking recently: I don't wanna be 90 years old, wasting away and not even knowing what's going on. That's not living; that's merely existing. Let me croak at 80ish, when I can lucidly say goodbye to everyone.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Mental illness should be treated like what it is: a cancer. You're forced to carry this thing with you that slowly eats you from the inside out. It's not charming, it's not fashionable and people should be better educated on the subject in general.

There was also the outrage when Iceland did relatively early tests on fetuses to see if they were downsies and let the mother decide if she wanted to abort after informing her about what bringing that child into the world meant. And women in Iceland made a choice. In XX years there will be no more people with downs there. "Oh no, my downsies, this is eugenics!" cried american women who are pro-choice, "this should not be allowed!". As if downs syndrome is something desirable or vital to our general existence. At one point they're just a clump of cells, right, and women have the right to choose.

I have grandparents who have suffered dementia, and lived their last days in a haze of pain and confusion. Only one remains today, and wants to die.

It had me thinking recently: I don't wanna be 90 years old, wasting away and not even knowing what's going on. That's not living; that's merely existing. Let me croak at 80ish, when I can lucidly say goodbye to everyone.

I've dealt with dementia both as a job and in my private life. I completely understand Robin Williams killing himself. When I am distracted and enter the PIN for my phone when paying with my card I am almost ready to sprint out of the store and jump in front of a car, just in case it is starting to creep in. People die of dementia but people don't look into how and why. It is a horror.

 

[Montalbane]

How frowned upon long term planning is.
I've met a lot of people who basically coast through life without any semblance of a structure.
Like a chick I know she just blows money on tattoos,alcool and drugs.
Funny thing is she gets handed lots kf high paying gigs and quits them after a month too without any real reason.
It's maddening honestly.

Also the death of professionalism, more and more people are ok with being complete cunts on the job and they see it as normal.

 

[Atli]

The amount of wasted paper that is just thrown away because that’s how corporate wants it.

This but with plastic, especially saran wrap. When I worked at the grocery store we would literally throw away dozens of 50 gallon bags of these things everyday; all wasted on wrapping shitty products that nobody needs or wants. Working there unironically made me a bit of an environmentalist

 

[The Final Troondown]

something like half the country is on SSRIs and nobody sees a problem with it.

 

[Meat Target]

This but with plastic, especially saran wrap. When I worked at the grocery store we would literally throw away dozens of 50 gallon bags of these things everyday; all wasted on wrapping shitty products that nobody needs or wants. Working there unironically made me a bit of an environmentalist

I have journeyed to the center of a landfill before (we missed our large-item pickup day). Imagine an entire valley of garbage, vomit, feces, and probably corpses that has been baking in the sun for years, and all you have to walk and drive on is that, pulverized into packed dust.

Worst smell I have ever smelled, and it has made me a neurotic recycler.

While we're on the subject of wasted materials: electronics. Think about how many semiconductors, copper wires, fiber optics, and rare earth elements are just thrown in the dump every 5 years, all so we can have/maintain faster processing.

 

[Kermit Jizz]

How much time you spend inside a couple rooms. God have mercy on your soul if you're self employed or wfh you can spend literal days without leaving your house.

 

[JektheDumbass]

I have journeyed to the center of a landfill before (we missed our large-item pickup day). Imagine an entire valley of garbage, vomit, feces, and probably corpses that has been baking in the sun for years, and all you have to walk and drive on is that, pulverized into packed dust.

Worst smell I have ever smelled, and it has made me a neurotic recycler.

While we're on the subject of wasted materials: electronics. Think about how many semiconductors, copper wires, fiber optics, and rare earth elements are just thrown in the dump every 5 years, all so we can have/maintain faster processing.

CONSOOM.

I am probably way off, but consuming product literally because a slightly worse new version came out just feels gluttonous to me.

 

[Meat Target]

CONSOOM.

I am probably way off, but consuming product literally because a slightly worse new version came out just feels gluttonous to me.

Is there no way to recycle, reuse, or refurbish computer chips without compromising information security?

 

[Kermit Jizz]

Is there no way to recycle, reuse, or refurbish computer chips without compromising information security?

It's not cost efficient. Once we start to run out of the resources we'll start recycling them.

 

[Tomboy Respecter]

How fake people are and the death of friendship. I think most people go through life without anything approaching a best friend, just a person that satisfies this need or that need. It's really telling too since they almost always have something nasty to say about them behind their back due to jealousy or avarice of one form or another. Honestly, it seems that people that don't actively seek popularity are people that make at the end of the day but they are really rare to find (thankfully, I seem to find at least one left and right). In addition, I think a lot of people are just kind of fake when it comes to their religion an what they believe. I don't want to give off the idea that I'm perfect and better than everyone else when I very much am not, but it seems like people use religion more as an outlet to project how religious they are rather than actually connecting with God. Again, I might be wrong but that's just my observation.

1) The near-extinction of practical life skills from the average person. It's a result of a perfect storm of factors; hyper-efficient technology, a service industry economy, "knowledge workers", and a culture of disposability, convenience, and "keeping up with the Joneses".

I'm a wannabe Renaissance Man. I've always admired resourceful people. I feel robbed that I didn't have more of an opportunity to cultivate well-rounded skills earlier in life. Even now, I feel constrained.
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2) The ubiquity of screens. Screens. Screens. Everywhere I go, screens.

I pull out my phone? Screen. I go to work? Screen. I go to the gym? Screen. I go home? Screen. I get in my car? Screen.

My whole world is viewed through rectangles of electrons and plasma. No wonder my eyesight is kaput without glasses/contacts.

And yes, the irony that I'm ranting about this on a retard-mocking website where I spend a disordered amount of time is *NOT* lost on me.

3. Waiting in traffic. I have a finite amount of time on this earth, and it's constantly dwindling. Why am I wasting it waiting for lights to change colors?

I have grandparents who have suffered dementia, and lived their last days in a haze of pain and confusion. Only one remains today, and wants to die.

It had me thinking recently: I don't wanna be 90 years old, wasting away and not even knowing what's going on. That's not living; that's merely existing. Let me croak at 80ish, when I can lucidly say goodbye to everyone.

To add to your first concern, I wonder why people have so little wonder about the natural world and other cultures and their ways of life. These are magnificent things (for the most part, there are some flat out degenerate cultures in the past and present). I'm not saying you should be an expert in physics, math or some cultural studies, but I've noticed that most people have NO interest in the world past what is in front of their eyes. It's so depressing and confounding. Most people are so short-sighted and so self-centered that they literally are NPCs. Technology is a great thing, but I really question whether bringing it to the masses was good seeing how it dehumanizes people to be either self-centered automata or animals.

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

While we're on the subject of wasted materials: electronics. Think about how many semiconductors, copper wires, fiber optics, and rare earth elements are just thrown in the dump every 5 years, all so we can have/maintain faster processing.

I've always thought about that just how much really really useful material is thrown away as a mater of course rather than it being reused.

When I was in school in the 90's there was a big campaign of "Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Recycle" the same school trashed it's entire PE equipment stock that was used maybe 1 day a week that had nothing wrong with it to replace it with a more modern set they replaced a year later, in the last year I was there they got rid of school employed catering staff (food wasnt great but edible) and replaced it with a kitchen run by Sodexo who brought everything in microwave packets and replaced the majority of the kitchen equipment with microwaves.

It pissed me off then as a kid, and now when I see that sort of thing as an adult it drives me apoplectic.

 

[Tanuki Mixed Nuts]

How many substances or activities can quickly become addictive.

Everyone has probably dealt with someone with substance abuse problems, but nowadays it's not limited to that. Consumption of media, porn, food, products, they are all created and sold to be as addictive as possible and it's terrifying.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

How much time you spend inside a couple rooms. God have mercy on your soul if you're self employed or wfh you can spend literal days without leaving your house.

You know what's cruel? Confining animals into small spaces for the meat industry. You know what's great and liberating? Work from home to benefit another industry!

That isn't a complaint about working from home, it's more about creating the human termite stacks that is high rise apartment buildings.

It's not cost efficient. Once we start to run out of the resources we'll start recycling them.

I've long said that the garbage dump of old will be the strip mines of the future.

 

[Sandraker]

How fake people are and the death of friendship. I think most people go through life without anything approaching a best friend, just a person that satisfies this need or that need. It's really telling too since they almost always have something nasty to say about them behind their back due to jealousy or avarice of one form or another. Honestly, it seems that people that don't actively seek popularity are people that make at the end of the day but they are really rare to find (thankfully, I seem to find at least one left and right). In addition, I think a lot of people are just kind of fake when it comes to their religion an what they believe. I don't want to give off the idea that I'm perfect and better than everyone else when I very much am not, but it seems like people use religion more as an outlet to project how religious they are rather than actually connecting with God. Again, I might be wrong but that's just my observation.

The death of friendship came when people started getting more instant gratifications to simulate friendship alongside people living their lives in hedonistic ways. So many people are willing to give up real connections with people cause its not a 1 for 1 mold of what they feel is ideal. Most good long lasting friendships go thru some BS, but that just comes with the nature of dealing with people.

Its pretty insane that people not only retreat to these hiveminds and cut themselves from normal society but rather keep that up while simulating feelings in the worse ways like the rise if parasocial relationships just to feel like you're a part of something with minimal effort.

As for religion it still comes down to if people are willing to live that life without the vanity of a title. Its fine to know you're not perfect and full of sin, but you shouldn't wear your title only when its time to snapchat on Sunday. Shame that social media rewards narcissism.

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

How many substances or activities can quickly become addictive.

Everyone has probably dealt with someone with substance abuse problems, but nowadays it's not limited to that. Consumption of media, porn, food, products, they are all created and sold to be as addictive as possible and it's terrifying.

It's only when I started getting help for my Alcoholisim I noticed how many addiction treatment programs where cropping up for non substance issues, Gambling has always been there but there are some really weird ones starting to show up.

I've long said that the garbage dump of old will be the strip mines of the future.

It's been mentioned in Sci-Fi a few times, the most recent one off the top of my head was from one of the first expanse books mentioning Lithium Battery mining in old rubish dumps, there is kinda already a version of this happening with the poloution of Steel from Radiation meaning that shipwrecks and other older abandoned iron and steel like mine rails etc are now getting harvested for things like scientific instruments, some medical use, and some other sensitive things - that's a finite resources we've not got a answer too with nobody really getting close to providing one.

 

[Shiny Shroodle]

1.) The amount of unnecessary crap in food. I'm talking about corn, soy, added sugar, and stuff you can't even pronounce or have even heard of. I really don't want to eat something where the first two ingredients are corn syrup and high fructose corn syrup. I'm also not touching something with Titanium Dioxide or Potassium Sorbate as a listed ingredient. I don't care if it's "muh preservatives" or whatever. I was horrified by the ingredients in this store bought cookie I saw; there was like 30 ingredients in it and most were weird chemical sounding names.

Also Aspartame. That stuff plagues diet sodas and even chewing gum.

Most food isn't even real food anymore and is nothing but chemical concoctions, GMOs, and cancerous ingredients. The FDA is full of shit.

2.) The other thing that's quite horrifying is the amount of medications doctors prescribe to one person. I know people who take over 15 pills a night and it's so sad that this is the state of "healthcare." Just pop pills and not even try to tell your patients to better their health with exercise and eating right...

 

[Cats]

cutting off a small piece of a babys penis because an invisible man told you to

 

[JektheDumbass]

1.) The amount of unnecessary crap in food. I'm talking about corn, soy, added sugar, and stuff you can't even pronounce or have even heard of. I really don't want to eat something where the first two ingredients are corn syrup and high fructose corn syrup. I'm also not touching something with Titanium Dioxide or Potassium Sorbate as a listed ingredient. I don't care if it's "muh preservatives" or whatever. I was horrified by the ingredients in this store bought cookie I saw; there was like 30 ingredients in it and most were weird chemical sounding names.

Also Aspartame. That stuff plagues diet sodas and even chewing gum.

Most food isn't even real food anymore and is nothing but chemical concoctions, GMOs, and cancerous ingredients. The FDA is full of shit.

2.) The other thing that's quite horrifying is the amount of medications doctors prescribe to one person. I know people who take over 15 pills a night and it's so sad that this is the state of "healthcare." Just pop pills and not even try to tell your patients to better their health with exercise and eating right...

Blame Nixon. The corn syrup industry convinced him Americans were "dangerously underweight" and HFCF was the perfect supplement to correct that issue. So under his administration they started giving huge subsidies to various corporations add it to foods.