Yeah, fully aware.

Hack3900 gets it.

Wait, how did you know? Are you my brain slug?

I tried but they kept starving to death.

You’d be surprised how many things you can apply it to.

You know, the usual stuff… Gummy worms are underrated, autumn is the best season, Lemmy’s better than reddit, there’s a big omniscient Pudu in the sky watching over all of us, Elon Musk is an SVR asset, Diddy was a CIA asset and so is 75% of the entertainment industry, non corporeal conscious intelligent entities not only exist, they influence our behavior all the time in our everyday lives, machine elves are the cause of me losing objects; logic is a fundamentally flawed system so we can’t trust anything we think, and economists are just 21st century soothsayers/magi/clerics/fortune tellers for the current dominant imperial religion.

Nothing too exciting.

(raspy zombie voice) Uhhhhhghh uhh If only all my male role models of my family that the CIA assassinated could see me now

According to that article they’re called “yeerks”.

What’s a yerk?

I’ve been told agreeing with me is listed on 6 different sets of criteria of the DSM-5.

Because the notion of not being surrounded by useless things no one needs is repulsive to westeners and the concept of people living without having any consumer goods or access to contemporary western medicine being different than suffering is impossible for us to grasp.

Hey, if I wanted to get humiliated I’d post about my life insteead.

Yeah, I’m not a smart person.

Naw, just a -something-_mom or -something-_dad. You guys get a suffix.

I mean you can call yourself that if you want, but no, we don’t need a special name for your occupation / stage of life / population density of your place of residence configuration because everyone’s already used to people they consider paradigmatically similar to yourself coming into their lives and workplaces.

Your world view is now predictable and known. Your future is not a wide array of endless possibility. Your potential and its course have been approximated with an acceptable degree of certainty. You’re not part of the new and exciting or terrifying winds of change anymore. People know what to expect from you. You haven’t merely worked for a living within the system, you became and now are the system. When the young reach the age of adulthood and come out to the world to claim things they feel entitled to, today it is sometimes you who holds the keys that determine if they get it or not.

Things would be different if you were a centennial (millenials are so passé), of course, but even if you attempted to rebel against your role as a system perpetuator, you’d just be another drone that has been adequately enslaved like the rest of us responsible workers, voters and citizens, only you’d be having a mid-life crisis.

But it’s not all bad. At least we can laugh at their vocabulary and tell them a thing or two about “how we used to do it back in the day” while they doomscroll.

Hope you have a great week, fellow middle-aged drone! :)

I like you.

Yeah, couldn’t agree more. I don’t know really know that much about LA cops myself but they have a p bad rep for discrimination of blacks and browns such as myself. I guess they’re just following what the higher ups of their organization tell them they have to and conforming their own tribal crowd mentality.

We had similar riots here in Chile back in 2019. I don’t blame the people who destroyed my neighborhood or tried to set the apt building I live in on fire (several times) any more than I blame the cops shooting bbs at the crowd wildly and taking out kids’ eyes… I was upset at both of these things of course but at the same time I realized how foolish it would be to expect any different from anyone of the same background, social ties, world view and living situation.

It’s crazy how reasonable and kind people with different world views can perceive the exact same situation as inspiring cathartic liberation or the end of civilized society.

Well, enjoy, but if my post starts to seem like an acceptable submission to you, you might want to get mids next time.

You’re not my dad.