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What is the modern opiate of the masses? Aside from the obvious, fentanyl and it's equally destructive equivalents. Maybe social media/shortform video apps? I'm not sure. To me they feel too plainly human. I don't think TikTok is doing mucb more than the times and the post were doing in 2005. We talk about outrage as if it was invented by small screens, like it wasn't on the big screens or the silver screens or the tabloids or the gladiator battles. We have always been angry
eveyones always talking about third spaces. SHUT the * * * up. I don't really get it. I saw this other video which mostly suggested the idea is a problem of perception, and of our social ////thing. uh uh uh... Milleu thats the word. What is up with our social milleu, where it is so strange to ask anyone to do something that doesn't involve spending money or isn't dumb. Nobody wants to play games. Nobody wants to fight. Last time I went to the mall with my friends none of us bought anything besides food. We essentially looked at expensive clothes and then ate chicken. We couldve just gone to a chicken restraunt in a nice area and looked at real people wearing the clothes. But thats not as fun I guess + chicken in nice areas * * *ing sucks. I did cop some of that JW anderson uniqlo though and these jorts that my friend evan also has.
summer is slipping away out of my fingers like it does every year. I wish it was always july. im going to la soon on a big metal bird. im gonna hit the beach with my friends and have fun. today is fuad day. That means we have to do whatever fuad wants. I think im gonna miss this time of my life, despite how surreal that feels to say and how plain this time feels right now. I wish july never left. I think people hate the summer cause it's a lie. In spring, summer feels like an oppurtunity. In summer, you feel like a hot blanket rotting out in the sun. When it's over you wish you did more. We're always just waiting for the next big thing. What do we do when its here. :). if im lucky i have about 70 more summers left. I hope when im comparing all of them, that i think this one totally sucked, cus next summer ill prob get a sick jet ski. - p
it is hot today. it is summer. I think it's good that it's summer. At least here, summer is a time for relaxation and fun. Heat does a strange thing to people. It's kind of animalistic a bit. We're like hot dogs [sic]. We are all very abstracted from our being, our animalness (?) in favor of humanity and rationality and individuality. we are so medicalized, rationalized, little hands driving big cars, airplanes, brands, touchscreens. We forget sun feels good on our skin because we need it. We forget beauty is physical and the physical is beautiful. Why don't we love the sun and the grass as much as we should. Children get a pass from this for a little. They can play with grass or throw balls around, but we expect people to act a certain way when they're grown. much has been said of this of course, it is a common mode. "Why yes, how odd is it that us with our monkey brains drive cars and sing opera, oh haha" but its too surface. In casual discussion humanity is the antoynm (learn to spell bud) of cruelty. Our humanity puts us above the animals right, but that is cruel, not violent, but hierarchal. hierarchies (which I do not know how to spell) are inately cruel, but they are also very human. We are drawn to ranking and ordering, whether it is movies, or books, or celebrities. Who dresses the best. Who can jump the furthest.
or is there a shame in knowing your jump is worse, that you are lower in the jumping hierarchy. Maybe if you try, you can be better in the sales hierarchy, or the mathamatics hierarchy. I don't know. I don't even know what "innately human" means. either nothing is innate or all of it is. Maybe everything is just a series of bounces and calculations right. And in that case there is no difference between nature and nurture.
as a sociology student I have to buy into the hope that understanding human behavior in a societal or economic context will give us the nessesary tools to improve society. many people kind of deny that. They think that people are the way they are and individualizing them is the only way. This is a genius, he becomes rich. This is a criminal, he is jailed. This is a degenarate, he is killed. We as sociologists have to see why these people become that way from how other parts of society acted on them. This is a genius, he was rich and put in high quality well connected schools. This is a criminal, he was poor and was continuely reinforced into doing crime through the justice and policing systems. This is a degenarate, he was abused, beaten, bullied, and shunned as a child.
But if you trace it back far enough, thousands or millions or billions of years, you find that maybe the first group are right. Perhaps stuff like racism, or poverty, or sexism is sociological. But those societies were built from the cruelty of people long ago who did what they did for power and success. There is an innate terribleness, an original sin that created these horrible situations for people, and it's within all of us. When you scream at your kid or your wife, maybe you can trace that back to thousands of years ago, when another you cried in the snow at the sight of his mangled brother. We hope sociology, and maybe psychology or anthropology can fix this. maybe
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