Im talking about the modern age as in 20th century and on. Western mainstream philosophy during this era is very individualistic and if you look at it from the outside, you see that its correlated with quality of life. From a global perspective, poorer regions, with less prosperity overall and greater inequalities of wealth, are generally more preoccupied with objective truths, such as survival, basic needs, health, death, reproduction, family etc. They dont have time to question their own existence when theyre actively preoccupied with prolonging it. That's why i implied that existentialism is a 1st world problem in a provocative manner. Developed countries have effectively eliminated external threats, so we turn to our internal ones and ultimately face the meaninglessness of our own existence.

And no im not belittling philosophers. Im trying to put subjective anguish in perspective with the material, objective suffering that exists in this world.

This post was edited by Neptunus on May 15 2023 07:45pm

reminds me of when the cia used 5g microwaves to get the trump presidency out of the white house.

I think individualism and emphasis on independence necessitates the formation of existential crisis. It's like we've all spawned into an MMO but rather than people meeting in town regularly to group up, chat, or collaborate, we're told we're supposed to just take care of ourselves and our immediate loved ones. Rather than seeing ourselves as part of Alliance or Horde, we're told to just focus on ourselves and place emphasis on being "Nick" or whatever our names are.

Yes but we're also told to place great importance on whatever crafting option we decided to specialize in, and to deliver goods to the owners at regular intervals to maintain the server.

Our only source of greater connetion is the 40+ hours a week we spend grinding our crafting skills for the profits of the server owners.

Capitalism is what happens when griefers take over the server.

Unironically one of the reasons why Vtubers have arisen as such a phenomena in the streaming space is the ability to create a community around a person without knowing who the person is. The spaces tend to be extremely positive, even if the positivity isn't very deep since it's an entertainment channel and gives you a sense of community where you can support each other without being so invested you need to spend a ton of real time and resources to help people. Kind of like how at church you just donate $10 to the tray a few times a month.

It's pretty interesting how this whole internet thing is evolving. It's still going, nothing is stagnant.

I agree. I'll see you in the metaverse, comrade.

Closest we'll everr get to metaverse is whatever the better version of google glass is.

I wish google glass had been useful. It had so many good use cases.

But one looks like a faggot with them on. Hard pass.

In the context of Western civilization, the era began with Cyrus the Great's legendary visit to Greece. There, he taught them how to live and how to think. That was the origin of Classical Antiquity, where the enlightened Magi of Zoroaster generously imparted their wisdom to the western peoples (the white man if you will)