What’s wrong with aspiring to do any or even all of those things? Those sound like nice things.

austhrow743 19 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Where's the time left to actually live your life?

	▲	GPerson 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Living my life is just everything I do? If I did all those things I’d live an extremely rich life, a lot better than what I’m currently doing, which is some mix of being addicted to the internet and watching all the interesting things get taken away by AI.

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p-e-w a day ago | parent | prev [-]

The pursuit is performative and pretentious, in much the same way as body culture on Instagram. It’s about collecting achievements in an imaginary social game, and then bragging about it, while insisting that it’s not like that at all but some modern pathway to enlightenment.

To be clear, I’m not saying that people don’t genuinely achieve many of these things; they do. Many Instagram models also genuinely have spectacular bodies. It’s not about whether, but about why they are doing this, and the culture surrounding all of it.

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GPerson 3 hours ago | parent [-]

It sounds like you’re fixated on people on the internet. Lots of people do great things in private.

	▲	p-e-w an hour ago \| parent [-]
		We’re on an Internet forum, so that framing is logical when discussing here.