I talk often about this being a degenerate form of socially-embodied cognition, the horseshoe opposite number to the extreme autistic failure mode, when one is incapable of social cognition; an imbalance between the two generates many failure modes
nihilistic doomerism pervades all too much of the youth culture; I've found it to be akin to a spiritual assault, a miasma of hedonic hopelessness pervading the cultural commons. it takes some discontinuity to rise above this crab-bucket mentality.
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i lost friends for refusing to play along with depression/suicide jokes, especially as we all neared 27; that shit is poison, it wears you down, erodes your self-respect, …
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1394839854261932033
it is critical to find some article of faith to anchor your worldview to, some asymptotic guiding light at the unreachable limit of the future to orient yourself by.
mine is the extropian transhumanist eschatology. what's yours?
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homeostasis is the pursuit of biological ergodicity by living beings, an attempt to perpetually stave off the cessation of optionality, the halting state; in this way, organisms effectively…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1393631100497432577
there's also the factor of the self-abasing Malthusian degrowth cult which pervades much of left politics, which has a major influence on youth culture, and hence the personal worldviews of many millennials/zoomers; what use is long-term thinking if the we have no future?