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whackernews commented on The West is bored to death   newstatesman.com/ideas/20... · Posted by u/CharlesW
Aerbil313 · 11 hours ago
Congratulations on being lucky enough to not be afflicted by a bad enough mental health disorder! All you have to do is to "get out there and do stuff" to achieve fulfillment.

Maybe you'll consider not projecting your experience onto the many others who are literally unable, even though they are equipped with the same number of functioning hands and feet as you do, and don't seem disabled by mere appearance.

> They fill up their time with worthless empty "calories" of media consumption, ethanol, and doom scrolling.

You might consider extending this empathy by also not blaming the otherwise healthy people falling into these dopamine traps that are designed by professionals to entrap, designed carefully over many thousands of man-years to maximize ad revenue.

Don't get me wrong, I agree with you for the most part. Yet I'm struck by the complete omission of the robber from the story, and the focus on the robbed houseowner's weakly built front door, when it was already made of steel. And of course, the non-negligible fraction of the population whose front doors are made of weaker material through no fault of their own.

> Almost all of them are unhappy.

Then surely they would climb out of their dopamine gravity-wells in the first chance and pursue happier, more real lives, right, if they could?

I kindly ask you to reconsider your beliefs regarding "willpower".

whackernews · 7 hours ago
Lazy gunna laze.

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