Social networks amplifying "mainstream"

[JohnChops]

You know mainstream? What everyone else is doing and you have to do it or else you weird or uncool. Anyone ever get tired of that sh1T? Its starting to just really annoy me now. Apparently if im not out getting drunk every night and smoking weed im not cool? Im supposed to get drunk and smoke weed because some rich uneducated rapper is telling everyone too?

Thats pretty lame.

Social networks amplify this effect 1000x. People posting pictures, statuses, the usual twitter stuff. And then you feel like sh1t because you decided you stay in that night. What makes something mainstream anyway? Who decided this stupid bullsh1t. For example tonight, no plans for new years eve, what am i going to do? Relax, rest up to go snowboard tomorrow, and play Xbox. Am I depressed about it? A little, do I give a fvck about "a new year?" Not really. Same as this year just a new number.

People make everything seem like a big deal when in reality its just moving forward another day.

Then you check your facebook,twitter, etc and youre like "damn i feel like sh1t cause i played xbox tonight blah blah blah"

The time has come where social networks seriously need to die. I deleted my facebook and twitter accounts and dont plan to go back to them. Time to detactch ourself from mainstream media and social bullsh1t networks.

 

[PrettyBoyAJ]

That's the exact reason I don't have Facebook or Twitter. It's all propaganda. I'm telling you Corporate guys are paying rappers to do silly a$$ sht like this so that the elite stay on top and the people under them stay that way. Look at hip hop today. It's total trash but everybody is following it and now dudes are wearing dresses???? The younger generation is getting dumber and dumber. I'm telling you right now soon you will see kids wearing dresses.

This stuff is poison to society. I have a girlfriend and she has twitter or what not. I remember early in the relationship I would leave the room for 2 minutes and come back and she is already on Twitter on her phone.... What the hell kind of sht is that. Even when we are on the phone she will say something random. I'm like where did you get that from and she just said she seen something then on the internet. I can't even have a conversation on the phone with my gf without her checking Twitter. What kind of world are we living in. I had to check her on that BS hard. I told her if she is doing other things which occupy her attention then just call me back when she is done. When I'm on the phone or I'm chilling with her I make sure I don't occupy my time with anything else and I focus on her. I had to check her on it before she actually did it.

Even on Twitter you see dudes gossiping like little btches. Twitter and Facebook should be apps that females love because they love to gossip but now you see dudes on it. How can anyone grow mentally when they have to see half the sht they see on these social networks. If your not advertising a business or making money on those social networks then I don't see not 1 point of having it. I keep squares out of my circle and I don't like anyone in my business. If I wanted to talk to someone I will make sure they have my number.

I swear to God our younger generation is doomed. They are co-dependant on WorldStarHipHop, Media, and Social Networks. I don't want to hear anything about those things. If it cant benefit my life then I don't want to hear it. If it's not about my family (gf included) or making makine some money then I don't want to hear it. Straight like that. I'm not a female, I don't want to hear about no goddamn gossip.

This is a well needed thread my brother. Let's chop up game.

 

[Burroughs]

The best slave system is a system where the slaves do not actually know they are slaves

 

[Deep Dish]

You need to understand: all the “bullshït” serves an evolutionary purpose. You should read up on Desmond Morris.

We evolved as tribal animals, living in comparatively small groups, probably of less than a hundred, and we existed like that for millions of years. It is our basic social unit, a group in which everyone knows everyone else. Essentially, the tribal territory consisted of a home base surrounded by extended hunting grounds. Any neighboring tribe intruding on our social space would be repelled and driven away. As these early tribes swelled into agricultural super-tribes, and eventually into industrial nations, their territorial defense systems became increasingly elaborate. The tiny, ancient home base of the hunting tribe become the great capital city, the primitive war-paint became the flags, emblems, uniforms and regalia of the specialized military, and the war-chants became national anthems, marching songs, and bugle calls. Territorial boundary-lines hardened into fixed borders, often conspicuously patrolled and punctuated with defensive structures—forts and lookout posts, checkpoints and great walls, and, today, customs barriers.

Today each nation flies its own flag, a symbolic embodiment of its territorial status. But patriotism is not enough. The ancient tribal hunter lurking inside each citizen finds himself unsatisfied by membership in such a vast conglomeration of individuals, most of whom are totally unknown to him personally. He does his best to feel that he shares a common territorial defense with them all, but the scale of the operation has become inhuman. It is hard to feel a sense of belonging with a tribe of fifty million or more. His answer is to form sub-groups, nearer to his ancient pattern, smaller and more personally known to him—the local club, the teenage gang, the union, the specialist society, the sports association, the political party, the college fraternity, the social clique, the protest group, and the rest. Rare indeed is the individual who does not belong to at least one of these splinter groups, and take from it a sense of tribal allegiance and brotherhood. Typical of all these groups is the development of Territorial Signals—badges, costumes, headquarters, banners, slogans, and all the other displays of group identity. This is where the action is, in terms of tribal territorialism, and only when a major war breaks out does the emphasis shift upwards to the higher group level of the nation.

http://homepage.smc.edu/zehr_david/desmond_morris.htm

The key point is that by virtue of Dunbar’s Number there is a biologically-wired limit of 150 people in a stable social relationship; anything larger is too chaotic. Tribes always splintered into two tribes whenever the limit was exceeded. The only reason why modern civilization exists today, with cities of millions, is the development of super-tribes; mainstream culture, celebrities, professional sports, digital social networks, and the like, are different manifestations of super-tribes. By all means think for yourself and develop a strong internal locus of control (self-determinism), but my point is you need to understand the evolutionary reasons for it all.

 

[goundra]

Read, Ayn Rand's NON-fiction works, PHILOSPHY,:WHO NEEDS IT? and THE VOICE OF REASON, among others. Her fiction is a drag, altho many have waded thru it. I've read ATLAS SHRUGGED 3x, and it was worse of a drag. each time, altho inspring at times. Get Harvey Binswanger's books, THE AYN RAND LEXICON, for short quotes of Ayn's thought, that will lead you elsewhere, if you are interested. Her protege, Leonard Piekooff, has a website, selling overpriced OBJECTIVIST stuff, but much of it is free, at your library, thru the INTERLIBRARY BOOK LOAN SYSTEM. Piekoff's OMINOUS PARELLELS is excellent political stuff. his OBJECTIVISM is post graduate level writing, superbly done but way over the heads of most people. Her former protege, Nathaniel Brandon has done much good work, mainly, tho, it was his PSYCHOLOGY OF SELF ESTEEM, written under Ayn's tutelege, that was his best work.

Ayn's biggest insight was that everything about human progress has been towards setting the individual free of the constrictions imposed by his "tribe". In the main, people suck, dudes. they don't know and don't care and they are dangerous to your health and your freedom, especially in groups.

 

[crossedup]

Took the words right out of my mouth. The USA is getting more retarded everyday. All of my former friends are heavy drinkers, stoners, think sex is all that matters in life. Destroying themselves with an instant gratification life. I had to get away from it all in order to not become consumed by this mentality. Quit my facebook, stopped hanging out with those guys...life is much better if you don't live through your computer, media, phone, and outside sh*t that doesn't matter.

I rarely meet a genuine person nowadays who doesn't have a hidden agenda, or isn't socially retarded. I have yet to meet anyone who knows the truth about the problems with the modern world, except maybe my dad. Just a bunch of idiot chickens with their heads cut off doing whatever the corrupt politicians say while these same politicains continue to spin their web of deceit.

It's a real shame that people can be so ignorant and never wake up and really take a look at what is going on around them. I'm extremely nervous about the next 10-20 years of my life, I would be lying if I said I wasn't.

 

[LiveFreeX]

We played Jenga last night, ate wagon wheels and drank soda pop. Wooooooo! Partaaay!

 

[backseatjuan]

The best slave system is a system where the slaves do not actually know they are slaves

GOLD!

Best prison is a prison without bars.


JohnChops, as you probably already know 99% of people do what other 99% of people do. The government is all bull sh`t, be it USA or Russia, everything is controlled. Of course no telling what the other 1% of people will do, but the 99% are controlled via controlled mass media and social networks. Simply imagine that people are sheep and live in a pen, and a few wolves come in sheep's clothing and tell the sheep do this, do that. It's that simple.

During 9/11 the idiots and morons didn't even question why or how a building could fall from a fire. Pancake theory was later introduced, and then later proved wrong, and nobody gives a damn. The only buildings that do fall at free fall speed are those that are being demolished. No wonder they found nanothermite particles in the ashes.


Don't look at what others do or think. They do that and think like that because they are followers.

 

[JohnChops]

GOLD!

Best prison is a prison without bars.


JohnChops, as you probably already know 99% of people do what other 99% of people do. The government is all bull sh`t, be it USA or Russia, everything is controlled. Of course no telling what the other 1% of people will do, but the 99% are controlled via controlled mass media and social networks. Simply imagine that people are sheep and live in a pen, and a few wolves come in sheep's clothing and tell the sheep do this, do that. It's that simple.

During 9/11 the idiots and morons didn't even question why or how a building could fall from a fire. Pancake theory was later introduced, and then later proved wrong, and nobody gives a damn. The only buildings that do fall at free fall speed are those that are being demolished. No wonder they found nanothermite particles in the ashes.


Don't look at what others do or think. They do that and think like that because they are followers.

Backseat I agree with you but you have to conceal your out of sync thinking to others or be branded insane by the masses. That 1% has to cloak themselves from the 99% or face punishment.

 

[FairShake]

Going out, drinking, and smoking weed IS normal, especially on New Year's. Staying in and playing XBox IS weird. If that's what you prefer it's weird. But so what? Weirdness is fine, you just need to be comfortable with the fact that you are weird. I'm weird, I embrace it and have found friends and girlfriends who are also weird or indulge my weirdness.

Your weirdness may hold you back in getting laid but find a way around it. Solitary day approaches might be your game, especially with alternative hippie/nerd chicks.

 

[Vantagepoint34]

For me social networking died with myspace. After that they've just been a bunch of posers. I'm starting to like foreign women because they are not into all the mainstream b/s you see now a days.

 

[backseatjuan]

John,

There is a TRUTH movement, that deals with truth. Many many people around the world. Some do blogging and trolling and other diversions, others shoot guns and kill.

This whole new world order situation is a point of no return. Literally, it is now free or dead.

Check out this William Cooper NWO piece. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rrG1VRfIKs
The man who knew something like 9/11 is about to happen 2 full months prior, and who got killed by NSA via local sheriffs office.


Your silence is working against you because there is a soft kill against you. You are targeted for extermination, slowly, through disease and sterility.

 

[btownbuck2012]

our westernized society is FULL of narcissistic, insecure, unfulfilled, passionless morons. That kind of thing is displayed in all it's glory on Facebook and twitter.

 

[backseatjuan]

I also have to P.S.

because in USA your average truther feels like black sheep. In Russia it's a common knowledge.

 

[Rave18]

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions;
it is easy in solitude to live after your own;
but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd
keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Just sharing the quote. Nothing more.

 

[JohnChops]

Going out, drinking, and smoking weed IS normal, especially on New Year's. Staying in and playing XBox IS weird. If that's what you prefer it's weird. But so what? Weirdness is fine, you just need to be comfortable with the fact that you are weird. I'm weird, I embrace it and have found friends and girlfriends who are also weird or indulge my weirdness.

Your weirdness may hold you back in getting laid but find a way around it. Solitary day approaches might be your game, especially with alternative hippie/nerd chicks.

It doesnt stop me from getting laid at all . In fact I do whatever I want and approach whoever I want. Who calls that the norm? Obviously its the mainstream, therefore you find it as the norm. Im not saying I sit in my room all day playing video games (maybe on a rainy day) but the point was that if I wanted to do this id be called odd/weird/ etc. Fvck it I say, thats life. You just gotta say fvck it and do what pleases you not other people. And yes I love nerd chicks, you ever try to have a conversation with the typical girl or worse the typical blonde? Oh my god I want to kill my self.

 

[Quiksilver]

You know mainstream? What everyone else is doing and you have to do it or else you weird or uncool. Anyone ever get tired of that sh1T? Its starting to just really annoy me now. Apparently if im not out getting drunk every night and smoking weed im not cool? Im supposed to get drunk and smoke weed because some rich uneducated rapper is telling everyone too?

Thats pretty lame.

Social networks amplify this effect 1000x. People posting pictures, statuses, the usual twitter stuff. And then you feel like sh1t because you decided you stay in that night. What makes something mainstream anyway? Who decided this stupid bullsh1t. For example tonight, no plans for new years eve, what am i going to do? Relax, rest up to go snowboard tomorrow, and play Xbox. Am I depressed about it? A little, do I give a fvck about "a new year?" Not really. Same as this year just a new number.

People make everything seem like a big deal when in reality its just moving forward another day.

Then you check your facebook,twitter, etc and youre like "damn i feel like sh1t cause i played xbox tonight blah blah blah"

The time has come where social networks seriously need to die. I deleted my facebook and twitter accounts and dont plan to go back to them. Time to detactch ourself from mainstream media and social bullsh1t networks.

I ejected from 'mainstream' in 2008 buddy Never been weirder!


Me and a couple friends were up on the rim of a volcano for new years, while all the mainstream trendies were standing in tightly packed areas watching fireworks and guzzling alcohol.

 

[backbreaker]

this is becoming my key/ hot button topic. I firmly believe we have hit a technology cliff in society.. it does more harm than good and this coming from someone who builds high end websites, including social networks for a living.

I thought about making a post about this a few days ago but did not but will share this here. the last few months i have been becoming increasingly unhappy with life. I mean, on the outside im' kicking ass.. but inside i'm just not right. or wasn't right. then my lovely wife about 2 weeks ago after Christmas suggested something quite drastic... wy don't you cut the internet off in the house. at first i was like woman please lol.. but then i thought about it.. i spend way too much time online. now, unlike most i have a reason to.. i own a web development company i kinda have to be online and i gamble online. but still i use it as an excuse to spend all my time online and it's taking an effect.

so what i did was i went and rented an office for my work **** about 5 mins from my house so when i have to work i either go there or i go to starbucks. the only internet in the entire house now is my wife's phone and her tablet which she is under strict instructions to not let me use unless it's a dire emergency. i plan my schedule out so i know when i have to go work and when i can come home.

and i have to tell you. i haven't been this upbeat and happy in quite a while. my wife defiantly notices. we have been ****ing like rabbits the last week. my son is usually.. not scared.. but he doesn't open up to me like he does his mom and he's coming around to me beucase i'm not always too busy for him or too busy in general. i'm just in a kick ass mood all the time now.

also you know, i'm moving around more and more, i am ripping and running and action stirs up emotion.

anyone who is miserable or who is having a hard time being happy i would recommend doing something like this.

netflix and **** like that is a tad inconvenient but i'm a tech and i can go to owrk and download **** and convert it to DVD format or just hook my laptop up to our projector and watch what we want to watch plus we have a nice movie collection anyway.

i wish i would have done this years ago.

 

[JohnChops]

this is becoming my key/ hot button topic. I firmly believe we have hit a technology cliff in society.. it does more harm than good and this coming from someone who builds high end websites, including social networks for a living.

I thought about making a post about this a few days ago but did not but will share this here. the last few months i have been becoming increasingly unhappy with life. I mean, on the outside im' kicking ass.. but inside i'm just not right. or wasn't right. then my lovely wife about 2 weeks ago after Christmas suggested something quite drastic... wy don't you cut the internet off in the house. at first i was like woman please lol.. but then i thought about it.. i spend way too much time online. now, unlike most i have a reason to.. i own a web development company i kinda have to be online and i gamble online. but still i use it as an excuse to spend all my time online and it's taking an effect.

so what i did was i went and rented an office for my work **** about 5 mins from my house so when i have to work i either go there or i go to starbucks. the only internet in the entire house now is my wife's phone and her tablet which she is under strict instructions to not let me use unless it's a dire emergency. i plan my schedule out so i know when i have to go work and when i can come home.

and i have to tell you. i haven't been this upbeat and happy in quite a while. my wife defiantly notices. we have been ****ing like rabbits the last week. my son is usually.. not scared.. but he doesn't open up to me like he does his mom and he's coming around to me beucase i'm not always too busy for him or too busy in general. i'm just in a kick ass mood all the time now.

also you know, i'm moving around more and more, i am ripping and running and action stirs up emotion.

anyone who is miserable or who is having a hard time being happy i would recommend doing something like this.

netflix and **** like that is a tad inconvenient but i'm a tech and i can go to owrk and download **** and convert it to DVD format or just hook my laptop up to our projector and watch what we want to watch plus we have a nice movie collection anyway.

i wish i would have done this years ago.

That is actually a really good idea BB.... Its kind of like no fap except its with the internet ha. I did this with TV before and I swear I never got so much done before. I wish I could do this now but im taking an online class but I swear once its done im about to try this and see what happens.

So what you did was made sure you dont use internet in the house but if you need to work you go someone like starbucks or your own workplace to work? Hm maybe I should unplug for a week or two (Rest of my winter break) and only work at the library.

 

[backbreaker]

pretty much.

my problem is twofold. first, i spend too much time online which gives me a somewhat warped view of **** beucase it's not real. and with my business, it got to the point that i expect everyone to always be online like I'm always online so i over think things like when to follow up with a client or when to expect some programming to be done, etc. now that i don't spend all my time on the internet it's a lot more natural as far as knowing when to expect stuff buecase i am going to an office just like everyone else is. It's hard to explain but it's a noticeable difference

plus it allows me to actually relax when i'm at home. something i usually have trouble doing, even when i'm with the misses or what not my mind might be off somewhere else now it's not. now i can give her the attention that she needs and wants and the same with my son.

i mean i still work.. today i'm at starbucks and i've been here 4 hours and i still have about 3 more hours of work to go. but when i go home, i'm done. it's then wife and son time.