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Originally Posted by dead_battery

well as long as your isolation doesn't disempower your chances of survival.

on the contrary, i think. i've loved cities for a long time but it's kinda the way one loves a pricey whore-- satisfaction isn't ever fully realized and you always have to pay and pay and pay and if you run out of money the love is gone. whereas now i'm spending the summer in the middle of nowhere and i'm enjoying it more the more i do it-- at first it's harsh, but then you settle into a satisfaction you can feel in your bones. so i'm considering staying for the long run (which is why the soylent recipe must be completed soon)

of course the fracking company could show up tomorrow and fuck it all up for good.

Originally Posted by dead_battery

the only lesson i was trying to impart is that SERIOUS isolation, which i have experience of, will cause insanity and incurable depression that can only be lifted by reentering some sort of group. casual drinking groups or whatever are not enough.

oh, i have a family-- and some animals-- hA!

Originally Posted by dead_battery

it seems we are moving in a direction where people barely even have friends anymore, and even talking to someone is taken as the same thing as wanting to fuck them. very depressing. every social circle i've been in in recent years has been worse than hell, since they were engaging in groupthink and suicidal behaviour with substances etc.

funny thing, couple of years ago i'm in new york, of all places, and i'm positively drunk on beer in some brewery playing darts with a bunch of international people, bunch of people i don't even know but it's all friendly, and i start talking to this dogfaced american lady who's hovering around us, because i'm not prejudiced with looks and i'll be friendly with anyone, and suddenly she acts like i'm trying to hit on her and i say ARE YOU FUCKING DEMENTED? i didn't tell her she was dogfaced or anything about her looks, but man, i made fun of her social incompetence, i didn't say or do anything remotely sexual except maybe be my hot manly self, but no, she had to fucking go there for no reason. idiot!

Originally Posted by dead_battery

i cant even pretend to know how to solve these problems.

it's an experiment! have fun with it.

Originally Posted by dead_battery

this is all happening at a time when reproduction rates are going down amongst us white folk, and especially amongst us rich and middle class folks. most of the racism i see stems from a deep jealously of the real or imagined community solidarity the racial groups are unconsciously thought to posses.

i grew up middle class but i'm not "white" but rather a full transcontinental mongrel and i married a brown savage and in my country of birth all "races" interfuck, but i read this yesterday which you might find hilarious:

http://gawker.com/video-of-violent-r...re-o-954939719

Originally Posted by dead_battery

we dont even really have places left were you can go just to discuss things with people. there are just a few highly competitive and highly hedonistic bar type places where you go to bleed money and have one night stands.

gotta say, the latin american middle class where i grew up was pretty highly educated relative to income, so while there were of course all those places to snort coke and act like an suntanned idiot, there were plenty of boho places full of nerdy leftists and street musicians and all kinds of people who were sincere in their experiments. which made it possible to stay up till 6am talking about all kinds of revolutions and singing cuban folk songs and other stereotypical latin-american boho bullshit. but silly as it was, it was enjoyable. that's something one can't find in 'merica-- but i have a couple of friends i can do that with--at home of course, because public places are utter shit here.

by the way, scientists are far more interesting and open-minded than humanities people. check them out if you can.

Originally Posted by dead_battery

i can see no way this process is suddenly going to reverse.

hence the need for need soylent!

Originally Posted by dead_battery

i am really envious of christians because they at least have some sort of trace of community.

ew. seriously.

Originally Posted by dead_battery

apparently in my town people have started going to the psych ward on CHRISTMAS DAY just because they are so lonely and have nowhere else to go. that's really sad.

i know i say this a lot and i really hope it doesn't sound patronizing like it might in other contexts, but you really really really need to travel, even if only to be able to pick and choose some refreshing/useful/fortifying cultural memes (in the dawkins sense, not the internet sense) before they are wiped out from the planet by anglosaxon capitalism.