From an elderly heterosexual point of view I sadly have to admit that modern concepts of masculinity are totally wrong.

What have we done to fail so many young men of Gen Z, and even more than a few millennials? They seem not to know what it means to be a man.

As a boy I grew up in Boy Scouts, which emphasized honesty, honor, duty, loyalty, kindness, and such as the traits a "real man" exemplified. None of it was about conquering, taking, having, dominating etc. The poem "If," by Rudyard Kipling was a guide to my conception of what a real man is, along with the books of Jack London.

Jack London wrote about men striving, surviving in nature, with a rugged nobility. Even his villains did not abuse women. I especially liked John Thornton, and the bond he formed with Buck near the end of "Call of The Wild".

Now it seems so many "so called "men (I use some vulgar words for them sometimes) seem that dominating others, especially women, gathering wealth, bragging, forcing their desires, (I hesitate to even associate "will" with them) is somehow masculine. The manopshere seems a perversion and not at all what I call manliness.

Andrew Tate with his "alpha male" is a monstrous ideal, based on a totally bogus study offensive to Canus Lupus for wolves respect and honor their mothers. Jordan Peterson denies Christ with his bizarre take on the "Sermon on the Mount".

As part of teaching my sons about sex, I spent a lot of effort explaining why they should demonstrate respect for all girls even for selfish reasons. I told them that self control was an important quality to develop and display. Now it seems young boys want to show how easily they can be offended and how violently they can react to being dissed. They seem think that showing toughness is important but demonstrating gentleness is stupid. And even their toughness is not resistance, it is just violence.

How can it be that some think women should not vote? Why do they think women should not control their own bodies?

We as a society have ruined so many boys. They will struggle to find love and so many women will not find a real man. And many women, in a frenzy of self defense, cannot see the males who hold to an honorable ideal of what it is to be a man.

edit: To all you men who are blaming the women may I suggest you grow up and take some personal responsibility. That is another problem with all of you who are saying "shut up old man" you just blame everything on someone else. Well wa wa wa, I did this because that. Jesus Christ what a bunch of whiners you all are. Grow a pair and maybe the girls will give you a look but shit all the crying isn't going to help at all.

edit: since this post has blown up I'm getting to many Jordan Peterson simps to answer all . Just check this video starting at minute 51. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtm9DX_0Rx0&t=134s

Preface (Edit): We’ve solved much of the external struggle, hunger, disease, danger, but internal disconnection grew in its place. I’m not calling for a return to the past. I’m asking why, after all this progress, so many of the things that made life feel human now have to be scheduled, monetized, or rebranded as self-care. And if we’ve built a world where we need reminders to breathe, walk, or talk— , we should be asking deeper questions. We need to rethink how we use our tech and design our lives to re-embed presence, connection, and meaning into the everyday.

In the past, we didn’t walk because it was healthy. We walked because we had to. We didn’t cook to ground ourselves—we cooked to eat. We weren’t present because we meditated—we were present because distraction didn’t exist. It wasn’t better. It was just embedded. And now, without necessity forcing our hand, we’ve engineered a life where most of what makes us feel human is optional, commodified, or forgotten entirely.

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I’ve been thinking about how insane this all is. We grind 40–60 hours a week, stress over money, structure our whole lives around income streams, just to maybe get to a point where we can afford to do things that used to be… normal.

Like gardening. Cooking. Walking. Watching the sun. Not for content. Not for performance. Just because it’s what humans do.

We work in high-rises to eventually save enough for land so we can grow tomatoes. We trade our bodies for paychecks so we can one day stretch in a quiet room, barefoot on wood floors, away from screens. We drown in information and dopamine just to spend thousands trying to “detox” and find silence. We buy watches to track steps we never take. We pay for gym memberships to mimic the movement our ancestors got simply by living.

It’s like we gave away the birthright, and now spend our lives trying to earn it back.

Even the idea of time off, vacation, freedom, peace, has become a luxury product. People pay for homesteading courses, artisan bread-making kits, solar circadian alarm clocks, therapy just to sit in a room and talk. Everything has been commodified, including the most basic forms of being human.

And we normalize it. We’ve so thoroughly industrialized life that slowing down now looks like rebellion. Self-sufficiency is a “niche lifestyle.” Hand-drawing a map, growing a peach tree, cooking beans and rice from scratch, these are radical acts now.

It’s like we traded participation in the world for access to simulations of it.

I’m not anti-tech. I’m not trying to live off-grid in a yurt. I just want to understand how we ended up here, working ourselves into spiritual debt just to afford the things our ancestors had by default. And I want to start reclaiming them. But it starts with community. We must necessitate a presence in our own life that is not at a whim of modern abstract but at the daily tangible struggles that we forget are the things that make us who we are.

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Edit: Yes, we live in a time of abundance. Yes, our ancestors had it brutally hard. But it seems like many of us still miss something, some felt sense of aliveness, connection, even struggle, because these modern struggles feel disconnected, abstract, and endless.

Edit 2: Not saying the past was better, just that in gaining comfort, we lost connection. I’m not romanticizing history. I’m critiquing how modern life disconnects us from what once made us feel human.

Edit 3: In a way, this also makes the concept of “retirement” feel strange. We defer living until we’re too tired to enjoy it. Not sure how to unpack that yet, but feel free to weigh in.

Edit 4: Some ask how to fix this. I don’t fully know. But the fact that this post resonated means there’s shared awareness. That’s a start. The next step is community, people experimenting, reclaiming, rebuilding what it means to live well. If you’ve got ideas, share them.

White people really would burn down their own home rather than let a person of color be put in charge and fix it. This is evidentally what this whole MAGA thing is about... this unwarranted fear of some Great Replacement. This fear of what does America look like with a Black woman in the White House? What does it look like if a my neighbor is from a different cultural background or gay or Trans? This fear of difference. Fear of the individual thought. Fear of intelligence. Fear of god knows whatever else and it started off around Obama as this weird TEA Party and you guys kept pushing more and more inept idiots and madmen, went from Sarah Palin and then snowballed into MAGA giving an absolute Fascist sociopath political power and he sold you folks out to Billionaires with a false promise to return to great racial supremacy.

Now that I’m in my 70’s. I find myself spending more time reflecting on what I have witnessed during the passing years. I saw television come into being. Phones had rotary dials and operators on the other end You could speak to. Plus you had to put up with party lines. That’s when you have several people who use 1 line and you had to wait your turn to use it.

Wars came and went. People and pets I loved left this world. A wife or two caused a major financial shift and life changes. Cars lost their class and became homogenous. The world became smaller and crowded. And you know that saying, you can never go home? I can’t. It’s not there anymore. In fact everywhere I used to know and love has been leveled and new places built upon. Every home I’ve lived in Is gone. It’s sobering and makes me feel lost. Well, the truth is, those connections are lost because they’re gone.

The other day I was making naturally fermented dill pickles. And my first impulse was to call my mother and ask her a quick question. Only to feel that surge of loss because I remembered she died many years ago. That sucked… I do accept getting older and know the reality of what’s fast approaching. Running out of time does that to a person.

I do try to reminisce on the positive side as much as possible. The birth of my children, holidays being surrounded by loved ones. Adventures driving from coast to coast, I’ve done that 7 times now. Sure wished gas was still 24 cents a gallon. Never seeing that again. Times do change and everything with it for sure.

Anyway, if you’ve read my ramblings, thanks. You all have a good one.

Back in the 90s and 2000s, if you were a pissed off, lonely teenage boy, you had alt rock, emo, punk, nu-metal, etc to scream along to. Radio stations actually played songs about alienation, heartbreak, and rage that felt real. Music gave you a way to feel less alone without turning that energy into pure hate.

Now that whole outlet is basically gone. Mainstream radio doesn’t touch anything like that anymore. Instead of finding a band that channels their frustration into something relatable, a lot of boys go online and stumble into the manosphere or incel forums. It’s like we ripped away their soundtrack and handed them podcasts about how women are the enemy.

ADHD-like traits are everywhere. People can’t focus. When I’m in stores, on the roadways, dealing with people in all sorts of situations day to day, they’re completely out to lunch. You can watch their attention come and go in a matter of seconds.

Extreme irrationality, rage, and emotional distress are everywhere. Anxiety and stress are out of control.

People’s communication and planning skills have grown quite poor. They seem to struggle to focus and think ahead just a few steps about very basic things. They simultaneously can’t communicate what they’re saying effectively, and also struggle to understand what others are saying.

I think our devices and our media are actively rewiring our brains and bringing out ADHD-like symptoms in the population at large. I think this is causing an impairment in people’s cognitive function that is affecting all areas of life.

Other factors like stress, poor diets, and lack of exercise also contribute to it.

I've noticed something disturbing about how we talk about our daily lives. When someone asks "How are you?" the expected answer has become "Busy!" - and people say it with a strange mix of complaint and pride, as if their exhaustion is a badge of honor.

We glorify people who work 60-hour weeks, praise entrepreneurs who "hustle" 24/7, and look down on anyone who prioritizes free time or rest. Even our vacations have become performative - we feel pressured to fill them with activities and post about them on social media to prove we're "making the most" of our time.

What's worse is that we've internalized this so deeply that when we do have genuine downtime, we feel guilty about it. We can't just sit and exist anymore - we have to be "productive" every waking moment. We've turned rest into "self-care" and then commercialized that too, making it another item on our to-do lists rather than a natural part of being human.

The result? We're seeing record levels of burnout, anxiety, and depression. We're losing our ability to form deep relationships because we're "too busy." We're constantly exhausted but can't sleep because our minds won't stop racing with all the things we "should" be doing.

The irony is that this constant busyness isn't even making us more productive - it's making us less effective at everything we do. We're not machines that can run continuously. We're humans who need genuine rest and unstructured time to think, create, and actually live.

Maybe it's time we stopped wearing our busyness like a badge of honor and started seeing it for what it really is - a societal sickness that's robbing us of our humanity.

In the early 2000s I met a woman over 100 years old. She was born in the 1800s. We conversed for a while. I stated that she had seen 2 world wars, planes and cars come into their own, the moon landing, television, etc. I asked her, "What is the biggest difference you have seen in your life?" She thought for a moment and then told me that it was the kids. In a moment of disbelief I wondered If her answer was touched by a bit of senility. In a distraught voice she explained herself, "I don't know where they put the kids." When she was young children were everywhere: outside, climbing trees, chasing each other, playing games, moving together in literal herds. Apparently one was always within arms reach. She said that she can now sit on her porch all day and not see one.

I think the benefits of this lifestyle were kind of lost on society during and after the feminist push to get women in the work force. I’m not saying that it should be a women’s role to stay home, as I have nothing against women in the workforce. But I’ll tell you what, I think a lot of the burnout these days is largely attributed to having an economy where TWO incomes are essentially required to be able to afford and maintain a life.

Consider the lifestyle of a partner staying home rather than working. Regardless of whether or not there are children in the household, the partner can do things like maintain the house, keep it organized, keep it clean, run necessary errands, prepare dinner, work on house projects, tend the garden, deal with contractors, take up a hobby or two, etc etc. And if children are present, then it’s even more beneficial. Essentially, it’s a person that works on all the work outside of ‘work’. And cmon….lets be honest, life even outside of work is a TON of work.

Again…I’m not saying women can’t work. All I’m saying is, guys…it actually might have been a better lifestyle. I think we were all duped into thinking we all need to be working on our “careers”.

It doesn’t matter, we can’t really go back. But this might be a good reason to implement the 4 day work week. People are collectively burnt out…give them an extra day to maintain the work of life outside of work.

I’m 29F and have been seeing a new therapist to help me cope with some lifelong mental health struggles.

In our last session, she and I were talking about my procrastination, executive dysfunction, and principles or motivations that drive my actions. I told her that I often find myself using guilt/self-criticism to motivate me to do the things I think I “should” be doing.

One of the most common thoughts I have to motivate me into action is something along the lines of “I need to do XYZ in order to stop/avoid feeling bad”. She showed me how that thought can be reframed to “Doing XYZ is important to me because it will make me feel more fulfilled.”

It was like a little switch flipped in my brain. Logically, I’ve always understood how a positive mindset is more beneficial for accomplishing goals than a negative one, but for some reason, that concept has never been able to change my thinking until now.

Shifting my motivation from avoiding a negative consequence to working towards a positive one is way more empowering and just feels so much better too. It amazes me how much simply tweaking a single thought can shift a person’s perspective and trajectory.

Okay, realistically, I am too young to properly remember anything about how life has been before 2020. But still I have some thoughts that I wanted to share.

I was lurking in American politics recently and founded a lot of similarities.

President who makes strange decisions, alienates his country from others, ruins its relationships with neighbors and the whole world, but still for some reason has massive support, clear dominance of the executive branch, full and unchecked power of the president, his supporters, that has a vast majority in all government bodies, lack of strong opposition, laws and executive orders that don’t make any sense but serve great as title in press, oligarchs and billionaires who affect politics to make even more money, clear as day but unbeaten corruption, spark in nationalism, bigotry, racism and hate, etc. etc. yada yada…

And this awful feeling of dread and helplessness, that feeling of being amongst last of sane ones in this madness, where people suddenly became so damn hateful and straightforward evil, this feeling of divide. All this while prices go up, and up, and up, and up, and up… And you just want to live a normal and sane life in normal and sane world.

You probably didn’t liked past month in the U. S. Imagine living like this almost all your life.

Well, at least you don’t get a shit ton of hatred pointed at you just because you were born in some particular country with some particular nationality (“All Russians should die or live in poverty for the end of their pathetic existence, Russian Federation should be dismantled and destroyed in nuclear fire” is pretty normal and highly supported take on Reddit and Internet, apparently. And don’t dare you try to oppose it, you what, a nazi?).

I wish luck and patience to you all. Hope you won’t get some kind of “Special Military Operation”. Stay strong and be kind. There’s too much hate and too less kindness in the world now.

P. S. Sorry for my English, it is clearly not my first language.

P. P. S. Well, someone will clearly say that I should’ve protested or in some way opposed everything that is happening now, and since I didn’t, I am actually a nazi and deserve to die too. Man, I just turned 18, what should’ve I done? I was born too late to see sane world and politics in 2000-2010s. I was born too early to be young enough to not understand what’s happening right now. I was born right in time to grow up through lockdown and a fucking war. Please, if you can, protest. In this way you at least tried to make a difference. Sorry for my rant.

This is kind of like meta-deep thoughts, but it's been my experience in life that the average person simply seems to not think that deeply about most things. They just go through life without questioning a lot. I don't think it necessarily has to do with intelligence (although it is probably somewhat related) because there are people who, like, do really good at school and stuff (probably have a high IQ) that still seem somewhat shallow to me. They just accept the world as it is and don't question it. They basically think as much as they have to (like for school or work), and that's it. If you try to have a deep/philosophical conversation with them, they get bored or mad at you for questioning things.

Anyone else with conservative family in red & rural areas notice this? These folks are very deluded. They see themselves as "free" mostly because they can buy any gun they want. But their schools have been gutted/defunded, they struggle with money and are constantly screwed by their bosses and the financial/insurance industries. Their personalities are mostly based on fitting in and not raising a stink. They are afraid to be themselves. They think they're free but in reality they're not.

I’m starting to think that there will be no revolution. Things will just slowly start to get worse and worse until there’s no coming back. We will all be starving and homeless and working for nothing. The crime rates will go up. More people on drugs. A real dystopia. At this point I don’t even know what to get up and do on a day to day basis life seems so pointless. I don’t know where to help or where to scream. Just lost.

Edit: lots of replies..first off…I am American, from Missouri. I have a small apartment for 800 I don’t need a car I work from home and use uber when I need to. Im not worried about funding consumer society on Amazon and Target. I’m mad because I have sick family who can’t afford medical bills and surgery’s and my mom owns her house but property tax goes up every year b/c they built a hotel down the street.…i wont be done paying student loans until I die…i can go on and on about the money issues everyone is facing. And now it’s about to get worse. I thought people would get pissed enough and start losing their shit. Yes we are boycotting target and others but eventually it will die down and Target and others will rebrand. Corporations have always won but it’s just getting out of control. They make us focus on nothing but money money money..you can’t even breathe without money. Now I’m realizing I never realized a revolution isn’t even possible we arent programmed that way. You know who is programmed that way…MAGAs…their revolution was what they did to those officers on 1/6…and they got their way with the whole country.

When you can become a third party observer and view the mechanics that drive people for every little action, it's hard to be happy.

I'm starting to wonder if true happiness is ignorance. To be high-level aware of your biological drives makes it hard to be ignorant.

Most people are satisfied by reproduction, and everything that comes with it. Another decent portion needs to perpetually dominate. Think sole proprietors and billionaires. And then a smaller portion needs growth in knowledge. And then there's the portion that can witness why everyone does anything they do.

I’m a working class American in my fifties. About six years ago I was feeling pretty good about my financial situation and was considering buying a second home. Then almost overnight home prices skyrocketed and mortgage rates did too. I decided to wait for home prices to come back down and here I am six years later realizing it isn’t gonna happen.

New car prices have gone up thirty percent over that same six year period. The average price is now about $50,000.
The working class has been priced out of home ownership AND new car ownership.

Now we are seeing food prices getting so high that average people can’t afford to eat meat and fruit among other foods that had become dietary staples in the modern world. I am seeing people I work with eating rice and beans or ramen noodles every single day.

My theory is that the rich and powerful decided the peasants were getting too comfortable which was making them lazy and less productive. So they devised a way to make us all poorer again and that’s what we are living through right now. It’s all by design.

I've been thinking about this a lot ever since I saw that clip (link to CNN news article removed due to mods) of Rich McCormick (R-Ga.) talking about how low income children should work if they want to eat. It made me reconsider if people like him and I are even operating within the same moral framework. Allowing a child to starve under any circumstance seems like it should be unacceptable to anyone, but it clearly isn't, and that mindset goes far beyond children's lunches.

The hatred of the poor from the right wing is a common topic here on reddit. Just about any discussion about it will see a solid handful of comments wondering if right wingers are stupid, how could they possibly be defending rich people on things like tax cuts for the wealthy, while government assistance programs face gutting/closure- when they're poor like the rest of us. You'll see the line "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" trotted out over and over as a way to explain it. The logic goes something like, "well they think they'll be rich one day, that's why they support the wealthy while actively hating the poor, they're just delusional".

I don't buy it.

They aren't temporarily embarrassed millionaires and they never thought they were. They simply bought into the lie that human worth is based on extrinsic factors, rather than intrinsic. If you talk to lefties you'll notice a lot of our political stances are based on peoples inherent value as humans. Everyone deserves to eat, be educated, have food/water, have a place to live, and the opportunity to pursue happiness. Right wingers do not think that way. They base a humans value on economic output primarily, and conformity to their perception of the ideal human (straight, white, god fearing republican) secondarily. Basically, what you get in life should be proportional to your economic output, modified by your conformity. Don't or can't work? Then you shouldn't get to eat or have healthcare, the logic goes. It makes them extremely vulnerable to propaganda, because if you don't believe in the inherent value of people, you can be persuaded that certain people or classes of people don't have value at all- based on external things like wealth or skin color or political affiliation.

It's a heartless way of viewing the world, and it shows. That's why they want to cut social security for example. They don't see the elderly as people who deserve to have a little financial security after working their whole life, they see the elderly as workers who switched from producing economic output, to consuming it. The same goes for the disabled, for immigrants, for veterans on VA disability, for anyone they perceive (or their propaganda machine has labeled) as a takers and non conformists. These are people to be discarded, because their economic output/conformity isn't high enough to justify their existence.

That isn't how poor people normally think, that's how oligarchs and the wealthy think. The only value we have to them lies in how much economic output they can extract from us, and when we're used up, we're tossed aside. Somehow an entire political party adopted that mindset as their primary directive, and now here we are wondering why we're taking food away from hungry children.

I have been seeing recently extremely wealthy(billionaires and 9 figure plus individuals) people be super against being taxed more or anything that would cause them to make less money. They also seem to constantly want to acquire more wealth, have more of the market etc etc.

I find this behavior to be genuinely absurd. They all have more money than can be spent in many lifetimes yet they seem to never have enough. Elon musks current behavior of just pushing for more power and money to the point of infiltrating the government to protect himself is genuinely insane. Blackrock, vanguard and the likes constantly acquiring and gutting companies for profit is so insane to me.

These people have enough wealth to change governments , end hunger for thousands, change societies and yet they do nothing but contribute enough for tax breaks and try to get more wealth.

Im all for wealth and all for the game but at a certain point you just are mentally ill, something is wrong with these people and its honestly terrifying to even imagine what goes on in their heads. Imagining how they probably see other humans is scary.

I had a realization while looking at my monthly bills today. Everything that our parents' generation could buy outright has been transformed into an never-ending monthly payment. This isn't an accident - it's by design.

Want housing? Instead of being able to save and buy, you're stuck in endless rent payments because housing prices have been artificially inflated by corporate investors. Want transportation? Cars are now marketed by their monthly payment rather than their total cost, and even car features are becoming subscriptions. Want an education? Here's a student loan payment you'll carry for 20+ years.

The wealthy have figured out that they make more money by keeping us paying forever rather than letting us own anything. They've created a system where we're all subscribers rather than owners. Even our jobs have become a subscription service - the "gig economy" means you rent yourself out by the hour instead of having stable employment.

What's truly insidious is how they've marketed this as "flexibility" and "freedom." They tell us ownership is outdated and that subscribing to everything is somehow more convenient. But the reality? They're ensuring we can never build real wealth because we're stuck in an endless cycle of payments that always flow upward.

The middle class isn't disappearing by accident - it's being systematically converted into a permanent renter class. The dream of working hard to own your piece of the pie hasn't died naturally - it's been replaced with an endless buffet where you have to keep paying just to stay at the table.

And the scariest part? The next generation is being conditioned to think this is normal. They'll never know what it feels like to truly own something outright. They'll just accept that everything in life comes with a monthly fee - payable to those who already have everything.

The American Dream hasn't died. It's been paywalled.

It is so easy for us humans to judge the morals of a situation only from our own biased perspective.

I remember reading about great Persian conquerers, Cyrus, Darius, Nader, thinking they were such a great people/rulers (I am Persian myself). But isn't that how Mongolians think about Genghis Khan? The man responsible for killing of (according to some sources) nearly two third of Iran's population?

Cyrus was much less barbaric and ruthless than Genghis, granted, but still, thousands of innocent people died because he wanted a bigger empire. And Nader, as brilliant he was as a strategist, he end up pillaging India. Killing many. I learned to stop idealizing people when they brought suffering to others.

The error in our view of wrong and right, stems from only looking at them from our own perspective. It is a global phenomenon, people want their own country to be prosperous and victorious. It is coming from nationalism which has been an important part of our civilization for such a long time it might literally be in our DNA.

But in no other country, I saw as much ignorance to their own wrongdoing as with the people of the USA. Only recently, (maybe due to change in views of newer generations, maybe because of all the information on net, most likely both) I see American people realizing how awful the US government has been to the rest of the world.

Putting WW2 US aside (which has its own history of concentration camps and dropping atomic bombs and burning whole cities) where was the last time the US government was on the right side of history?

Was it when they massacred north Koreans? When they killed millions in Vietnam? When they toppled left wing governments in South America and replaced them with likes of Pinochet? When they bombed kombodia to oblivion? When they invaded Iraq and Afghanistan? When was the last time Americans were the good guys outside of Hollywood movies?

I am saying this as an Iranian, with our brutal, fundamentalist regime which brought us, and the region nothing but pain and suffering. Most of us, know too well our government is evil. But then there is this strange blindness many over the US have about their own history of warmongering, destruction and aggression.

And I understand, US is the current hegemon of our world. Not only by military power and economically, but also culturally. It might be natural for US citizens to see themselves as the good guys, as it is so easy to mix-up the "might" with the "right". And because for years, the dominant narrative (which US controls) pictured US as the leader of the free world. "The good guys". But alas, the rest of the world might not see it that way, and for good reasons.

I know many of you guys are just, well-educated, level-minded individuals well aware of your country's history of wrongdoings. I have been here enough to enjoy your amazing analysis and perspectives. I just want to share an outside view with the rest of you, so maybe, maybe, you consider the possibility that what mainstream media wants you to believe, might be a cover-up for another major misdeed. The "America comes first" mindset, sometimes comes with a hefty price tag for another, much weaker, country. And many many times for ordinary Americans as well.

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A few points, first: I never talked about who is good, "we are the good guys" Is a slogan (and more importantly a mentality) used by US politicians, people and even in the movies. A sense of self-righteousness which is really hard to miss.

Second: We are not talking about the roots here, but the simple fact that the US is not better than , say, Russia when it comes to warmongering, breaking international laws and committing war crimes. They are just the ones controlling the narrative. Just go to Wikipedia and count the instances of US military invasions and coup d'etat staged by USA in the last hundred years. And then choose the worst country you can think of and do the same. Compare them. They are not even close. Maybe Soviet union.

Third: "but other countries are also doing shitty things" is not a defense. It basically changes nothing about my points, others doing bad things does not give you the license to be much worse. Not to mention people forgetting about the fact many "evil" some of those other countries have done are from long before (centuries sometimes) and completely unacceptable for their general public newdays. How many countries bombed another country to pieces in the last 50 years? How many invaded another country? How many times?

And lastly, I really want to answer comments, but there are more than 1000. So it is almost impossible to do it.

Ive interacted with more 30+ year old humans this year than i ever have and the one thing i can say ive learned is that they are essentially dog brains that can talk and are in a human body. It's almost like they are operating in slow motion . I am slowly realizing the human population isnt bad , we aren't assholes, we don't all actually hate each other, we are actually just unbelievably fckin stupid .

We cant even legitimately hate each other or oppose any other ideologies because 9/10 we don't understand the opposing side or know each other. Everyone is just arguing over some made up bs, misunderstanding, misinformation , fear, bias filled idiocy.

This year has done nothing but make me realize how ape like we really are. No wonder this place feels like hell world and makes zero sense. We're just fckin stupid and thats all there is to it.

EDIT: I love how so many people completely ignored my use of "we" here. Almost like i am aware i am no genius or special case.

EDIT: after last night and today the people who likened this situation to the movie "idiocracy" where SPOT on, at first i thought it was an exaggeration and then the fact that it is an exaggeration of a very real phenomena really settled in.

I mean, if you take the body’s anatomy into consideration, women have a better anatomy for pants than men, and men would be more comfortable wearing skirts right?? Why is it the other way around, like why is it the norm for women to wear skirts?