We’re all in on the culture war now

  • RaoulDook@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Nope, I’m far from typical. I’m a well educated successful American with a Zen-like level of contentment. I have the true freedom to do whatever I want in the USA, whether you believe it or not.

    • ProfessorPuzzleCode@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Oh dear god, that’s sad. You are the definition of typical. I’ve spent years working and travelling in the US, and you speak exactly like virtually everyone else over there. My dear friend, you don’t have control over anything. You don’t even have control over your own bowels, they will drive you to obey them. Everyone thinks they are free and in control, and you, like everyone else, control virtual nothing in your life. This is not some great conspiracy, its just the law of nature. So enjoy your free dumb, you poor fool, but try very hard not to fuck up someone else’s freedom in the process 😉 or accept that there is no such thing and go with the flow instead. You are soo American, it would be funny it it wasn’t so sad. Sorry.

      • RaoulDook@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        Well everything you just wrote is absolutely wrong. Why don’t you go ahead and list anything that you think I don’t have the freedom to do? Put some substance into your hyperbole for a change.

        • ProfessorPuzzleCode@lemmy.world
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          9 months ago

          I tell you what, I’ll go one better, that I hope illustrates my point. I told this to every American I ever met and, so far, only 1 learnt from it.

          It’s OK to be hungry.

          You have the “freedom to eat whenever you want, whereveryou want it”, but you can eat so much that you die. You can eat as little as you like, so little that you also die. Your freedom you eat whatever you want, whenever you want is an illusion, driven by outrageous commercialism.

          You do not have the freedom to eat whatever you want, whenever you want. You think you do.

          Edited for autocorrect, I don’t even have the freedom to type ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

          • RaoulDook@lemmy.world
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            9 months ago

            Way to dodge the question with a philosophical yarn. You probably just don’t have a real answer.

            Everybody knows about the vices of excess consumption. That is not a useful metaphor relevant to individual freedom. Living a free life doing what you want does not require or even imply consuming an excess of anything.