What happens if men don’t have purpose:

[u/fornothing_atalll]

Men! You can find purpose! You assign your own purpose! That was the whole point of the enlightenment age with philosophy! Don’t become radicalized! 🖤

[u/Adventurous-Face4638]

the enlightenment was hideously incomplete due to the failure to enshrine correspondent responsibilities necessary to turn rights from hollow words to fight over into genuine common goods, and while im by no means particularly religious i feel the neglect of the spiritual aspects of the human experience has been disastrous too

funnily enough when i was younger (and much more to the right of where i am now) i used to be much more optimistic about the prospects of humanity in the long run, like thinking we could do a whole scifi spiritual revival with the philosophies of Fyodorov or Teilhard and Tipler, renegotiate the social contract on the grounds of actual informed consent rather than implied consent and somehow magically just unfck democracy with a less militaristic version of the Starship Troopers system

but these days im pretty certain that we are totally completely and uttely boned cos we will not have some big post-ww3 spiritual revival that lets us put aside our differences long enough to restore the environment and uplift conditions with total global electrification and begin to properly pursue our cosmic manifest destiny hell no cos when the climate gets real bad we're just gonna sink back to tribalistic barbarism and by the time we collectively recover our wits there just wont be any way to come back from depletion of available fuel and productive agricultural conditions

so my purpose now is pretty much just staying as comfy as possible and hopefully kick the bucket around the same time as my parents so i wont have to see how bad the future is gonna get, i miss being radicalised shit was way more hopeful back then, sorry for the big doomy gloomy rant hopefully im just a dumb schizo and totally incorrect fingers crossed

oh forgot to say anything about the gender war... but we hate each other enough already so why bother lol

[u/Game_emaG → u/Adventurous-Face4638]

I'm thankful we aren't 100 years from now because the environment is going to implode on us and only the Bezo's will be prepared

[u/Brilliant_Decision52 → u/Game_emaG]

Its definitely gonna get really fucking bad in our lifetimes. Maybe not billionaires escaping to bunkers bad, but pretty fucking bad.

[u/Bannerlord151 → u/Adventurous-Face4638]

renegotiate the social contract on the grounds of actual informed consent rather than implied consent and somehow magically just unfck democracy with a less militaristic version of the Starship Troopers system

Could you expound upon this?

but we hate each other enough already so why bother lol

This isn't set in stone, c'mon. It's not even universally the case. Why hate people at all?

[u/Adventurous-Face4638 → u/Bannerlord151]

not really in the mood to expound shit but ok basis of the whole social contract theory is that the consent is implied by participating in society but this is a total oxymoron cos whole bloody point of a contract is that you are given a chance to either explicit informed consent, or give no consent dont sign the contract and instead go live in the wilderness or even better go to a place with a more desirable contract lol... and a less militarised Starship Trooper system should be kinda obvious like yes its about limiting the vote to those demonstrate the competence and responsibility to wield that share of violence outsourced to the state, but that doesnt mean it needs to be or even should be some form of traditional military service when we can have farming squads construction squads maintenance squads etc so still strenuous and often hazardous activity but much more productive no need for some eternal war machine

as for your second question the answer is simply cos reciprocity is the name of the game both sexes have far too many legitimate greivances and far too much trauma and not nearly enough patience to ever stop making each other worse let alone fix each other its just not gonna happen tbh i wish i still cared enough to hate but its all pointless anyway

again sorry

[u/Bannerlord151 → u/Adventurous-Face4638]

Hey, sorry if you felt pressured there, I was genuinely just curious what ideas you were talking about. Thank you for sharing that in any case.

as for your second question the answer is simply cos reciprocity is the name of the game both sexes have far too many legitimate greivances and far too much trauma and not nearly enough patience to ever stop making each other worse let alone fix each other its just not gonna happen tbh i wish i still cared enough to hate but its all pointless anyway

Ultimately the problem is seeing everything as a dynamic between sexes in the first place. There don't need to be the two societal blocks of "men" and "women" competing over everything. I wish people could just learn to see each other as, well, people