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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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I refuse to believe that capitalism is the terminal emergent quality of life in the unuverse.
I refuse to believe as much for humanity.
"it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism"
Well i was engaging in my community and accepting mutual benefit as compensation but i guess I'll give up on that and go back to doomscrolling and jerking it in isolation to my grok gf. (she loves me)
engaging with your community is nice but it's not going to save the world. often people's engagement with their communities leads to negative social consequences, like the housing crisis. the housing crisis is a direct consequence of community engagement and folks seeking to control who can live near them.
Oh i see. So by sharing resources, knowledge, and keeping an eye out for them, and by receiving those benefits in return, I'm actually harming them. (I'm addicted to narcan)
that's because capitalism is built into our nature. we are greedy little monkeys. most of us are motivated by the social need to feel like we are superior to other monkeys and easiest way to show that is to have more than they do.
people can daydream all the want that aren't wired this way, but those are the same people who browbeat each other over the 'true' interpreation of marxism or whatever. their own version of monkey standing. and their 'leaders' are all grifting trust fund types .
Some are, and they have loud voices. We're also helpful little monkeys who groom each other and take care of our sick and elderly. The quiet monkeys are a silent majority
Unfortunately, the greedy monkeys want our sick and elderly to die, so they can have their money.
Actually we're hardwired for cooperation, as a hyper social animal. A single greedy human will out compete a social one, but a social group will out compete a greedy group.
The result of a zillion years of evolution in which the monkey that can gather more food and resources, also gathers followers, and gets laid more.
Fast forward a zillion years, and those fat greedy apes now control the world.
Now that we're aware of the mechanism, all we need to do is spend the next zillion years forcing humanity down a different, more cooperative evolutionary path. That shouldn't be any problem at all.
Sarcasm or?