The machines don't even have to trap us. We live inside them on our own.
We live our lives, day after day in these services.
Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok, are all the same.
Each post (like this very one) a call for attention. Followed by the reactions, some of hate, others supportive, each one of them also a call for attention by itself.
This infinite template. A loop.
We know there is something wrong with all of this, but we don't know what it is.
It is because this is not the real world.
This is not the real world, and we should not take it as a parameter for how we feel.
I think last night's mushrooms were my red pill after all.
Hey I just finished my freshmen year in Baruch College and I am looking at some good minors that go with my Accounting major. I am currently choosing between Economics, Mathematics and IT and Social Responsibility, but Mathematics is damn hard at Baruch so suggestion please!!
Does anyone here suffer from social anxiety and is also in public accounting? How do you guys make it work? I take medication for anxiety but I am still almost to points of panic attacks when I have to go out and do audit fieldwork, client meetings, or talking to clients. Some days, I feel so horrible I just want to curl up in a ball and hide. On some VERY RARE occasions I don't mind meeting with clients and to top it off, I am also very soft spoken.
People say to practice social situations, but I haven't changed in years. I am always working with clients but feel the same way dreading the interactions. I don't know what to do and I feel like it's hindering my ability to do well in public since there's so much client work involved. I have ALL of the knowledge but I cannot communicate well because of my anxiety issues. It's frustrating.
Guys, I finally get it and I am so glad to be apart of this new gang of edgy technocrats that understand society so much better than other sheeple.
I am totally not getting into this lifestyle because it boosts my ego by making me feel smarter than everyone else. You might say I am abandoning rationality as an excuse to not do research and instead make investment decisions off of emotion. It is totally not pseudo intellectual masturbation existing in a nerdy echo chamber and I will tell you why.
Value is not real. Nothing has value. The value of gold is fake. This means that my bitcoin has value. What don't you get about that?
At every level of abstraction, nothing has intrinsic value. The price of everything is a hodgepodge of bullshit collective decisions. It is all completely detached from reality. Utility and functionality are never taken into consideration when making a purchase. The value for everything is about ADOPTION.
Just like Gold! For the sake of mental gymnastics, ignore Gold's unique precious metal qualities and its ability to hedge against depreciation.
What is my answer to subscribing to this newfound shrill paradigm? Well, now I will use an electronic commodity to buy goods and services. Of course, these goods and services that I am buying do not have value (because value does not exist) so idk why I am buying these goods and services in the first place. idk, I have not trained my meta perspective enough to understand that Jedi mind trick.
I like how we can all accept cognitive dissonance any time we are questioned. It is my favorite part of this community. When ever you are wrong, just say reality is not real.
Materialism and consumerism have overtaken individualism. The man now controls your perception of value. Down with the man by buying into another mans version of value. Not your value, not your bitcoin.
If none of this makes sense and just sounds like a rambling stream of consciousness from a person that misunderstood the Sparknotes on Simulacra and Simulation, thats just because you're a broke no-coiner.
Value is fake and that makes me sad. My investment thesis for Bitcoin is to buy Bitcoin because it makes me feel good. We will become bitcoin. This is good for bitcoin.
Reality is not real. Welcome to wonderland, Alice.
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This is probably a pretty tame coincidence but it's still kinda weirding me out because of how specific it is. It literally just happened.
I was on Twitter, being a smartass and replying to tweets with inane comments. One of the tweets was something like "what do you wear to your third wedding" and after thinking about it for a few seconds, I responded with a gif of someone in one of those T-Rex costumes.
Shortly after, I closed Twitter and opened Instagram and no lie, the first post on my feed is a news story about a woman who wore a T-Rex costume to her wedding.
So weird.
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Craig Bond Films 4K (Casino Royale, Quantum, Skyfall, Spectre) - $35 Vudu
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Matrix Reloaded 4K - $6 MA
Philadelphia 4K - $6 MA
Rambo: First Blood 4K - $5 iTunes/Vudu/Fandango/GP
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Shape of Water HD - $6 MA
Star Wars: A New Hope 4K - $10 MA
I have somewhat manageable depression and anxiety but it makes me reclusive and tired all the time. I can put on enough of a professional act but anything more social just makes me want to cry. I feel like I can't fit in with the rest of my co-workers because of this. All I want to do is do my work and go home.
Is anyone else in a similar situation and if so, how do you guys deal with it? Preferably without drugs. I just don't want everyone to think poorly of me but I just don't have the energy to be "fun".
I was just thinking about how everything that we’re looking at on our screens is specifically tailored to us. Like obviously many of us know about targeted advertisements, but it goes deeper than this. We’re all living in this echo chamber matrix online that is tailored just for us. You can see this on YouTube. How the algorithm tends to showcase videos similar to ones you’ve watched. And how Twitter tends to show media geared toward you. Like most of us aren’t even seeing the same content or information every day, it’s no wonder we can’t agree on anything.
And to make things worse, this information is hitting us all the time. Everytime we look at our phones. We’re not even living in the same worlds really.
https://voiceofaction.org/collapse-of-civilisation-is-the-most-likely-outcome-top-climate-scientists/
are there areas of accounting where you can literally not talk to people most/all of the time?
Edit: then, I'm guess I'm not crazy for being hurt that someone I was really into, who seemed really into me after an intense couple of weeks of meeting almost daily, pushed me away and said she only wants to meet once a week or less, and doesn't want to text at all. Thanks for sharing your thoughts everyone.
Having to stop and take a pic with your brother and mom holding drinks because you got Jamba Juice so she could post it on Facebook, having to stop and take pictures of you all getting ice cream cones, having to wait for your mom to finish her meal because she spent an extra 15 minutes taking pics of it first before she started to eat it, etc.
I mean LSD just a few time to let's your mind think out of the box, But How to walk out of the box like leave the rat race game,create a system to let's someone work for you or just make you life better.
