Aging Hipster?

[Super Goku]

(Title of the topic changed to "Aging Hipster?" after watching the video posted by ZariusTwo.)

I don't want to cause a controversy, as I want to keep the peace, but I just wanted to tell everybody what's on my mind.

I feel that humanity has so much potential, yet it fails as a group. We are supposedly the most intelligent life form on Earth, but look at how the majority of people spend their time. There is war, hatred, and extreme selfishness in the world. Some people spend their time trying to get high in someway. Whether this is through drugs, or alcohol, or even excessive movie or TV watching. It is like people are trying to escape their reality. I'm disgusted with it. I have all these ideals for world peace, and I just have to accept that there is never going to be world peace. People as a whole are just going to treat each other like crap.

There's so much horror in the world. We have a bad history as a species. War, slavery, stealing, it just goes on and on. Its despicable.

I guess the best thing for me to do, is stop watching the news and avoid some TV shows and movies. It really disgusts me, and the worst part of it all is that there is no answer in sight. It is like someone standing on a beach, seeing a huge tidal wave coming at them, and all they can do is get washed away.

World peace would be great, but it is a fantasy, as if majority rules, the majority is corrupt.

I just wanted to get this off my mind. That's all. I don't know. I wish we had world peace and people just treated each other nice. Peace, and harmony, and love.

[Candy Kappa]

That's nature, other species do the same things. We're not that special when it comes to the inhabitants of Tellus.

[ZariusTwo]

[Aaronardo]

What's your solution? Not trying to be smart here, just asking out of curiosity if you had all the power in the world, what would your solution to world peace be?

[CyberCubed]

Are you the next Davetello?

[Super Goku]

I guess it could be the nature of humans. I have read that even apes practice warfare. I suppose it comes down to survival. I would think that the intelligence of human beings would override primal and animal behaviors, and we would all work towards peace and progress. Animals aren't smart enough to realize this, but people should be. Not all people are creating problems, but there are enough people who are creating problems that it messes up the world for everyone.

Originally Posted by That Collector Guy

What's your solution? Not trying to be smart here, just asking out of curiosity if you had all the power in the world, what would your solution to world peace be?

What's my solution? The world needs to get together and arrest all dictators. Then bad behaviors need to be shamed. I don't propose making more activities illegal, just frowned upon. All the money that is spent on weapons needs to be spent on food and housing.

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Are you the next Davetello?

Let's hope not, LOL. I don't want to metaphorically walk down a path that leads to falling off of a cliff. Deep thoughts are okay every now and then, but if you go too deep, you don't come back up. I guess it is like a guy in a submarine. Don't go too deep in the ocean.


Edit: The more I think about this, I think the answer is for everyone to just be the best person that they can possibly be. Everyone should focus on self-improvement. It makes me feel a little better by posting this topic.

I asked Machias Banshee to delete this topic or move it to The Disintegrator Unit, as it is just a pointless topic really.

[pennydreadful]

Rather than creating topics where you inevitably end up asking for them to be deleted (not the first time you've done this), maybe you should create a livejournal account so you can express your thoughts.

I'm sensing a fair bit of depression in your thoughts. If you haven't joined Leo's group for people who want to get things like this off their chests, you're more than welcome to join us - nobody there will judge you.

[Super Goku]

A livejournal might be better for posting thoughts. That's a good suggestion.

Maybe I do have some depression, but overall I feel like a happy person. I have a lot of anxiety, I might have a generalized anxiety disorder. I worry about things that are out of my control. I just need to toughen up and accept that there are things in the world that I can not change. I guess. That's what I think I need to do.

I didn't know about Leo's group. I will look into it.

I hope I haven't angered anyone.

[Gunpowder]

The problem with the whole "world peace" concept is that in order to attain that state of being, the entire human population has to unanimously strive for it, and the unfortunate reality is that will never be the case.

Originally Posted by Super Goku

The more I think about this, I think the answer is for everyone to just be the best person that they can possibly be. Everyone should focus on self-improvement.

Problem with that is self-improvement is extremely subjective. People all have very different ideas of what "being a good person" is.

Originally Posted by pennydreadful

Rather than creating topics where you inevitably end up asking for them to be deleted (not the first time you've done this), maybe you should create a livejournal account so you can express your thoughts.

I'm sensing a fair bit of depression in your thoughts. If you haven't joined Leo's group for people who want to get things like this off their chests, you're more than welcome to join us - nobody there will judge you.

I concur.

[pandaderek]

Originally Posted by Super Goku

I guess it could be the nature of humans. I have read that even apes practice warfare. I suppose it comes down to survival. I would think that the intelligence of human beings would override primal and animal behaviors, and we would all work towards peace and progress. Animals aren't smart enough to realize this, but people should be. Not all people are creating problems, but there are enough people who are creating problems that it messes up the world for everyone.

You give too much credit to humans. Free will and intelligence is limited to (within) the community and environment that they are raised in. So, in order to achieve world peace, we must change the environments of where there is bad influence and circumstance.

Legislation is the best way to do so because shaming people into do the right thing doesn't guarantee much. Like, if a corporation creates jobs within an area and a community is built around those jobs, that corporation has obligations to that community because it was the reason those communities exists. Now, if they outsource those jobs and destroy those communities, they're omitting their responsibilities to those communities. It's like, if you make a baby, you're responsible to take care of it.

So, if you really want to make progress towards world peace, you should study law and make amendments and force positive progress. We really need to hold these corporations accountable for the **** that they've caused, especially, the banks and how they damaged the world economy, making everything expensive.

[Katie]

You seem very bitter towards banks in a couple of posts I've read lately. What happened?

I don't believe banks are the root of all evil in the world. Mostly they are filled with Joe Schmo workers. Most people just want to work their 8 hours and go home. It's not a hive of evil planning and actively conspiring to destroy people. It's no worse or better than any other business.

Anyway, humans are animals with instincts that drive us to be special and important. To achieve this, we have to beat out weaker competition. We really aren't any different than chimps or lions or any other creature out there. We just have the means to whine and complain about wanting to be special and that's much easier than actually working to be something better.

[Cure]

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