The all purpose white pill thread - Probably gonna get raided but why the hell not

[JaneThough]

I replied to a post about politics.
Eat a dick karen

I bet you're fun at parties.

 

[Aum]

I bet you're fun at parties.

I bet you aren't.

 

[JaneThough]

Back to the white pill!

 

[Hellbound Hellhound]

You assume that a global rise in literacy or a decrease in poverty is necessarily positive and has no negative ramifications. You spare no thought for the broader implications of how or why these changes occurred, what caused them, and what other things those causes caused.


The truth is that your stats are meaningless and that nothing important is measurable.

What are the "negative ramifications" of increased literacy and falling poverty?

 

[Aum]

What are the "negative ramifications" of increased literacy and falling poverty?

Just off the top of my head...

Who works on the farms or fixes your toilet? Who mills your steel?
When no one in your society will do these jobs, what things are you forced to do to continue living in industrial society?
Are those things good?

Would you rather work in a nation of steel mill workers, or a nation of overeducated starbucks baristas where everything is fabricated in china?
Is the highly educated Californian really a boon to your civilization?

 

[The Great Chandler]

We are more closer to VR holodecks than ever before!

 

[Hellbound Hellhound]

Just off the top of my head...

Who works on the farms or fixes your toilet? Who mills your steel?
When no one in your society will do these jobs, what things are you forced to do to continue living in industrial society?
Are those things good?

Yes, because who will do those jobs? People who are literate and can follow written instructions, that's who. There are next to no jobs in developed countries which require no education, and in the not-too-distant future, even the vast majority of low-skilled jobs are going to be increasingly automated. Education is more important now than it's arguably ever been, and it's been shown to have a universally positive effect on society. This is not debatable, unless you want to define crime, political instability, barbarism, and starvation as "good".

 

[Clockwork_PurBle]

We will call Rohan for aid and save Gondor. Do not be a Denethor II. We must fight against the doom.

Just off the top of my head...

Who works on the farms or fixes your toilet? Who mills your steel?
When no one in your society will do these jobs, what things are you forced to do to continue living in industrial society?
Are those things good?

Would you rather work in a nation of steel mill workers, or a nation of overeducated starbucks baristas where everything is fabricated in china?
Is the highly educated Californian really a boon to your civilization?

There's so much wrong with this I don't know where to begin.

So basically "mill workers" and "steel workers" aren't allowed to be literate or educated? What pill is this? Cause it certainly ain't white.

 

[Aum]

So basically "mill workers" and "steel workers" aren't allowed to be literate or educated? What pill is this? Cause it certainly ain't white.

No one with a college degree wants to pick apples.
If you're going to try to disagree at least disagree about something which makes any sense to disagree with.

 

[Clockwork_PurBle]

No one with a college degree wants to pick apples.

Except for me. I garden.

If you're going to try to disagree at least disagree about something which makes any sense to disagree with.

Bold words from someone who just implied that literacy is bad because being educated means you can't work at muh steel mill and that apparently all "Starbucks baristas" have graduated from college.

 

[Aum]

Except for me. I garden.


Bold words from someone who just implied that literacy is bad because being educated means you can't work at muh steel mill and that apparently all "Starbucks baristas" have graduated from college.

Wake me when you have something to say and aren't just arguing to make yourself feel special.

 

[Clockwork_PurBle]

Imagine unironically saying that people should be illiterate and uneducated because being literate and educated means you can't farm. So much for college degrees in agriscience and animal science and such lmao.

Might as well dictate some people can't have any school at all so they can be plumbers or whatever. That is some The Giver shit.

 

[Aum]

Imagine unironically saying that people should be illiterate and uneducated because being literate and educated means you can't farm. So much for college degrees in agriscience and animal science and such lmao.

Might as well dictate some people can't have any school at all so they can be plumbers or whatever. That is some The Giver shit.

Imagine acting like "Skilled people don't work low skilled jobs" is even remotely controversial lmao

 

[JaneThough]

PS, let's ignore @Eris! new sock.

 

[Heckler1]

Even if you never have children or hold any sort of political power, you can still make a difference in your immediate world that is positive and measurable. Worry less about the pursuit of greatness and focus instead on the wholesome goodness we can all share in.

 

[The Great Chandler]

Even if you never have children or hold any sort of political power, you can still make a difference in your immediate world that is positive and measurable. Worry less about the pursuit of greatness and focus instead on the wholesome goodness we can all share in.

This! Focus, not on the world, but rather whatever difference you can make in your own world

 

[Heckler1]

This! Focus, not on the world, but rather whatever difference you can make in your own world

People get overwhelmed by all the bad stuff happening far from them and so they get blackpilled and give up on trying to do anything. When if they just focused on the things close to them they would find they have a whole lot of ability to make meaningful changes. Meaningful doesn't mean grand or instantaneous, and I think that makes a lot of people give up because they don't see the point. Stop comparing yourselves to other people who aren't you and just focus on the things that you need to do/make you happy.

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world"

 

[TheProdigalStunna]

Back to the white pill!

This is no joke my favorite CWC video. I don't know how something can be so wholesome and cozy and yet so depressing and heartbreaking at the same time. And no trolls or outside interventions had anything to do with it. It's a poetic masterpiece.

 

[jje100010001]

We will call Rohan for aid and save Gondor. Do not be a Denethor II. We must fight against the doom.

If all else fails, you can always take solace in your own pen-and-paper worlds.

After all, the The Return of the King was really a thinly-disguised rewriting of history where the Anglo-Saxons rode down to save the Byzantines from their final collapse at the hands of the 'orcs'.

 

[Fliddaroonie]

This is no joke my favorite CWC video. I don't know how something can be so wholesome and cozy and yet so depressing and heartbreaking at the same time. And no trolls or outside interventions had anything to do with it. It's a poetic masterpiece.

Christmas presents for the girlfriend Santa bought, but she didn't show is just heartbreaking.