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The fine line between needing to be social and needing solitude.

Goatworshiper

Does anyone else have problems with this balancing act? If not I'm just getting this off my chest.

I feel odd when I'm with people, without being insulting towards other humans I find they frustrate the life out of me. I find people just don't really have much valid to say. At the moment I'm sick of hearing people being demonised for claiming benifits, by people who claim working tax credits, child tax credits etc. I'm not in a position were I personally need to claim benifits, however I'm not into the demonisation of the ill and unemployed. It's not only this issue, people just being wide of the mark on lots of topics, science denialist's tend to be particulary frustrating.

I'd like to get on with people a lot more, I enjoy being social (within my small circle of friends). But I just find people stupid, ignorant and inhumane. I'm generally misanthropic and tend to upset people quite frequently by telling them that human life is cheap and explaining about a history of slave labour, concentration camps etc. Well I say upset, I think it just annoys people as It questions thier humanitarian ideals. I suppose thier lies my problem, hypocritical humanist whom don't see that they treat humans particulary badly. For instance they want to save the world and help African children, but have a poor attitude to work colleages.

I went to Auschwitz recently and people seem perplexed that I didn't get upset from the visit. I find it very odd: when I here people talking about how they think other people should be dealt with for not working (and not conforming to thier belief system), I can easily see how something as big as Nazi Germany could escalate. I find it so odd that people think that work is the only important thing in life. Surely there has to be more to life than self regulated slavery?

Today I cut my grass with mp3 player on and it was just bliss. Solitude and the world blanked out.

Wierdly, I still crave some social activities even tho people frustrate the life out of me. 

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  • NAS11521 said:

    [quote] I This discussion digressed into whether people should be compelled to work , and I argued they should not, and that in a society without exploitation most people (not all) would freely contribute their labour [/quote]

    Would they really?  Do you think that people would willingly do jobs such as refuse collectors, cleaners, sewerage workers, etc - especially if there was no compulsion to work?  People do a job in order to keep a roof over their head and food on the table.  If these and other needs were provided for them then they wouldn't work.

    Of course there are some fortunate ones who manage to get the job of their dreams but they are very much in the minority and this would always be the case, even in your communist utopia.

    Hope's utopian dream could work, but only if the majority of essential tasks were performed by robots, or otherwise automated.

    Then, one probably would find that some people would choose to do all sorts of jobs, including refuse collecting, cleaning, and sewarage working, because, well, people are odd, and some would find those things interesting.

    The vast majority of people, however, probably wouldn't.

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  • NAS11521 said:

    [quote] I This discussion digressed into whether people should be compelled to work , and I argued they should not, and that in a society without exploitation most people (not all) would freely contribute their labour [/quote]

    Would they really?  Do you think that people would willingly do jobs such as refuse collectors, cleaners, sewerage workers, etc - especially if there was no compulsion to work?  People do a job in order to keep a roof over their head and food on the table.  If these and other needs were provided for them then they wouldn't work.

    Of course there are some fortunate ones who manage to get the job of their dreams but they are very much in the minority and this would always be the case, even in your communist utopia.

    Hope's utopian dream could work, but only if the majority of essential tasks were performed by robots, or otherwise automated.

    Then, one probably would find that some people would choose to do all sorts of jobs, including refuse collecting, cleaning, and sewarage working, because, well, people are odd, and some would find those things interesting.

    The vast majority of people, however, probably wouldn't.

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