Made a throwaway account to respond.
I have a long history of studying philosophy (no not a larp, not a humblebrag just informing that I studied greater minds than my own).
most of what you have said applies to very few people I’ve met. But I think the reason you have this sort of take on reality is that you’re a boomer, I may be wrong but it’s why I believe you’re offering very nonsense and even destructive advice - boomers apply their solutions to everyone.
cherrypicking a historical figure like Caesar is just solipsistic, you are not giving a balanced account of any culture or trend happening in the time Caesar was around, you’re applying the ‘struggles of humanity’ as always possible to be overcame. And this attitude leaves every type of society passive and weak. As to what you said about the biological programming to feel good when we help others, this only actually applies to helping someone who’s within a tribe we belong to. But it’s not that simple to do that nowadays because of the individual selfishness being glamourised.
If you really want to keep minimising the issues being faced by everyone younger than you just to virtue signal.. people moving forward into a very messy almost identityless America, you should also look at what contribution the pushover husbands during 1980s have done by raising sons into the simps who you’re getting angry at now. Or something else productive like the reason why love and therapy is all around us but suicides are higher than they were before therapy was invented.
and as for this idea you have about happiness and being born, it’s a good few 100 years too dated to be rational when you think of the halo effect which is all around us. The idea that happiness stems from denying suffering’s existence would be very childish. The reason we feel satisfied when we eat is that we have removed the body’s drive (hunger) which gives momentary relief.
>This extends to ourselves, "you ate food, here's some happiness." If we go straight with biology, we should continue to do these things for ourselves and others because of it.
To say that humans are rewarded by a chemical of being happy is just the response you have had to situations you could handle. When you read about incels it’s different because you’d never know what it’s like to be genetically weeded out of existence so you ignore them because the truth seems so original to the decade we are in.. and is in fact a never before seen trend. There’s never been a time when women have been as single and stubborn as now.
if maybe (Like every incel ) they tried absolutely everything and society treats them like shit if they act nice or act horrible. The ones that have had to live like that will know womens nature way more than any woman even knows herself. In fact a woman has only been around herself and barely knows enough about how she acts compares to the way she thinks she does.
in fact that’s the only difference with boomers and millennials, one lived without absurd inflation of women’s egos and one is en route to bringing in the final smile at being right all along.. as a clown order now allowed by women’s moral ambiguity that it will become a new type of Weimar… and then boomers will run back to their ‘hobbies’. And in that time suicide will have been far less painful than the pain these Onlyfans girls will inflict on a world where it’s impossible to even have new children being born.
Your rant sounds like an entitled virgin who thinks he deserves to get his dick wet.
Wake up. The basic thing that keeps inches separate from the rest of the world is the we (normal people) actually have a life. We have jobs, we have families, we have friends, we have hobbies, we have projects. We have so many things that connect us with our peers, with our tribe, fucking some chick is not our main goal in life. Of course sex is fun, it's even better when it's with someone that cares about us, but it's not all there is in life.
You say you enjoy enjoy philosophy, so I recommend you take a look at Durkheim, he goes deep into the significance of the social group, and Michel Maffesoli develops the idea of tribalism in a more modern context.
Yes, part of being human is the need for a group to identify with, sharing interests and shaping each others behaviours. But I strongly disagree with your claim that the new generation is too selfish and independent. Globalization has lead to more complex identities, people are no longer required to conform to the status quo, but what that means is that it has become much easier for the "others" or "deviants" to find a group to identify with.
Instead of individual selfishness being glamourised, people have a larger choice of groups to identify with, and the speed of technology leads to radicalisation.
What we have is awkward teenagers that instead of maturing into fine adults, they find a group of other awkward teenagers and radicalise each other, strengthening each other's worse ideas about the world. Every teenage boy and girl are literal incels, they are all young and horny and desperate for the right person to appear for them to have sex. The problem is when a group of virgins start to blame external factors on their difficulty in finding a mate, something that is just about always the fault of the person themselves. A part of growing up is learning to accept yourself as you are, love your flaws, and spend more time worrying about paying your bills than the next time you get to have sex.
What you think is a problem with women is all in your virgin women-hating mind. What happened is that women stopped being objects of trade. A few decades ago women were not allowed to work, to earn money for themselves, and the only option was to be a
gold digger wife. Women used to be stuck in a place where they tried absolutely everything and society treats them like shit if they act nice or act horrible, (either she's a whore or she's frigid) anything a woman says, it's either because she has too much dick or too little dick. Now, thanks to feminism, women can actually make some money and pay for their own expenses, so naturally, they choose men who respect them.
Incels are really just little boys who don't want to grow up and watch way too much porn. You pay a girl to flirt with you on OnlyFans then you get angry when doesn't care about you. But isn't that what you wanted all along?
Incels are so obsessed with physical appearance, they are incapable of considering other people, or developing a personality that is anything besides their entitlement to sex.