Is it normal that i hate modern society?

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Let me start off by saying that I think something went wrong in the past 20 years.
After the year 2000, people have started to act more like sheep than humans.
Not thinking for themselves, brainwashed by the media.
The most well known example for this is Justin Bieber, girls follow him like he's a god, yet he can't sing for shit.
Or look at modern politics, it's obvious that we don't know what we're doing anymore, ever since the western world has made peace with eachother... we don't know what to do anymore.
Sure, we could send money to Africa or help the middle east, but they don't WANT to be helped.
Everything we do, everything we give, it goes to the wrong people.
And then my biggest problem, society labels EVERYTHING!
I think I'm smart, smarter than an avarage person, I'm not saying this because I'm an arrogant douchebag; but because I fucking mean it.
I'm good at maths, physics, chemistry and IT, because I TRY to be good at it, other people don't even care to try something, so they automatically say that it's too hard for them.
Adding this to my low views on society, people want to LABEL me, because I'm just a bit different.
People can just call you ''crazy'' or ''autistic'' just because you act a certain way.
"Oh, you don't enjoy life like we do?" "You don't want to have sex atleast 500 times in your life like everyone else?"
"You think your life sucks?"
"We'll you're depressed bro, you need help."
Why? I'm not going to, and don't even WANT to end up like Charles Manson or Breivik.

And here is the ultimate question: WHY IS THIS ALL NECESSARY!?

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  • disthing
    11 years ago

    Yes the world could be much better, yes the media can have a negative impact as well as a positive (nobody focuses on the positive), yes nothing is perfect.

    The fact that you think the most well-known example of media-'brainwashing' is Justin Bieber goes to show that it's actually you that needs to get your head out of the clouds.

    We're not all doomed, there are beautiful, wonderful things in the world to be enjoyed, the media isn't all bad, some people like music you think is shit with or without aggressive promotion by media companies, many people in African and Middle-East Asian countries DO want help, we label groups of people because it's HUMAN NATURE and an inherent aspect of large societies (there are positive and negative implications), there is a world of culture beyond the USA that you could delve into.

    Ironically you hate labels, yet label a lot of people 'sheep', acting as though you are immune - you aren't a sheep. Well this mentality of 'society is turning to shit' is actually very popular at the moment, and you seem to be caught up in the herd. Very sheep like.

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    • Zeromancer
      11 years ago

      I did not know this was a herd.
      Not saying I'm a complete individualist, but you did make some good points there.
      Maybe I shouldn't be bothered by society in this way.
      I just needed to dump my thoughts somewhere.

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  • AnonymousCanada
    11 years ago

    You can thank religion for most (if not all) of your political problems. Other than that, we as a species are total fucking retards.

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  • dom180
    11 years ago

    "Justin Bieber, girls follow him like he's a god, yet he can't sing for shit"

    Teenage kids have always and will always follow idols who don't really deserve it for no discernible reason. It's been happening since the cultural revolution of the 1960s.

    "Sure, we could send money to Africa or help the middle east, but they don't WANT to be helped"

    I don't like to curse on IIN, but what a load of bullshit. People in those parts of the world can't be helped by packages of money because money doesn't motivate all those people. The conflicts in the Middle East are largely based on religious and cultural differences, and money doesn't solve that; it even makes the problem worse. Africa doesn't need money, the people are not educated to know how best to use it. Those who have anything to buy, as absurd as it sounds, often spend it on alcohol because they don't understand it is a bad way to spend all your money. They need aid like water and food, and it needs to be in the right parts.

    The PEOPLE there want to be helped, the governments there don't want their people to be helped. If you think the people don't want help, look at all the uprisings in the Arab World right now. Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Tunisia and more... the people in those countries want help. But throwing money at them isn't the way to do it, and if you think it is you really aren't as smart as you think you are.

    What I'm trying to say is, you can solve the world's problems by burying them in a pile of money. Its too simplistic and shows that you don't understand the complexities of the world.

    On the subject of labels... people try and label me literally every day. But I don't let it affect me the way you let it get to you. You need to learn to relax more, which I know is a useless thing to say because there aren't any practical steps you can take to get there.

    I think you are the sort of person who's intellect (I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you are smart) thrives in the abstract - the theoretical - and can't see know how it can be applied to the big real world situations that you care about. I see it all the time in people I know, and it makes them frustrated at the world because they can't, for all their smartness, solve its practical problems. All they can do is spot more faults in it than everyone else, which is a good skill to have, but not one that will make you a happy person. I think you are probably one of those people.

    More likely, you're just having a vent at the world because you're an angsty teenager, as we all once were and I still am, and that's what angsty teenagers do. Either way, I enjoyed getting my teeth into this one :)

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    • Zeromancer
      11 years ago

      Giving people food and water would be a better way of helping them than giving money, that's true.
      Because, like I said, giving money to charity isn't going to solve anything 90% of the time.
      But I didn't mean that we should give MORE money, I mean we should stop giving money completely, but simple things like water and food didn't cross my mind.

      As for the teenager part, I think you've all been there. :)

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  • anti-hero
    11 years ago

    How is the year 2000 20 years ago?

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  • sega31098
    11 years ago

    Only after the year 2000? This has been happing for a VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY LONG TIME.
    Go back to the 1960's and see tons of people worshipping their favourite rock stars and buying all the merchandise they do. Go to the 1980's and people dress up like generic fashion lovers just because it's fashionable. Go to the 1990's and people practically eat up everything those boybands throw our way. Enter the 2000's and people do the same.

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  • nirmal
    11 years ago

    I get you man. I think the question should rather be "does it matter?" There is no advice one can give, one has to find by him/herself. Here are a few things that I think might help (not to sound like a fuking newage preacher) - you have to realize the insignificance of this whole thing called life. - you have to practice seeing things for what they are, without the bullshit - you have to come to peace with yourself (whatever that means) which probably means accepting shit for what it is. Now you can try change things around you (and you might be able to change) and thats a whole another story.

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  • MRmr
    11 years ago

    Its not that bad...you can get laid 100x easier nowadays

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    Everybody agrees, yet nobody will stand up. Humanity needs a leader, someone that starts the unity of us all, which I don't think will happen.

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    • joybird
      11 years ago

      Well, it will hardly be you as you are so intent on splitting up the human race into male vs female!!

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      • [Old Memory]
        11 years ago

        When did I ever even insinuate that I would be the person? I wouldn't even recomend myself to be the leader, and I wouldn't suggest the people that thumbsed down my comment. If they dissagree with someone saying they need someone to start the unity of humanity, then what good would they do if they disagree with it?

        Not to mention, I don't split them up, I give facts. If those facts make one look better than the other, and people are upset with it being seen, then that's not me splitting them up, that's me pointing out the differences, and it's other people thinking that if one is better than the other, then they should hate eachother.

        Not my fault if people don't like facts that go in their favour.

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        • joybird
          11 years ago

          Your 'facts' have never made one group seem better than the other. Your 'facts' make you appear stupid - a female gave birth to the male population so without females they wouldn't exist.

          I made a comment that you try to segregate people not that you wanted to be leader. They may have an impossible task trying to convince you of equality and the importance of unity.

          I don't know why anyone thumbed you down - except perhaps you sound as though you're not being 'real' or true to your opinions.

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          • [Old Memory]
            11 years ago

            Really? You mention me looking stupid with that added in the same paragraph...Really?
            Yes, and without males, women wouldn't be able to give birth to males. And in actual fact, a male has more greatness when it comes to reproduction. A woman can only be resposnible for one to three children a year, where as a man can be responsible for hundred of children a year. So in actual fact, if it wasn't for males, our population would be far, far smaller.

            But it amazes me how you say "women give birth to males" as if that's the greatest thing in reproduction. Without a man and a woman, she couldn't give birth, let alone get pregnant at all, so don't say it as if women alone are responsible for reproduction.

            "Well, it will hardly be you"
            Sounds to me like you thought I thought I could be the leader. I never said or implied I wanted to be a leader, so mentioning that as if I involved myself as a leader role was all you, not me.

            Wrong. I know what equality is, and unity. You don't. You view equality as seeing everyone equally, I see it as holding everyone to the same expectations, and if people or a group of people don't meet the expectations while the other does, then both shouldn't be treated equally. Why should the one tha does better be looked at as equal to the one that hasn't or can't do as much?

            Your idea of equality is looking at everyone equal regardless of if they both done the same thing at the same ammount

            My idea of equality is only treating everyone equal if everyone has done the same and the same amount.

            Your equality is a false equality to make people happy at the dispense of showing the great ones greatness. My equality is to show the great ones a great, while the not so great ones not as great. Your equality is to make everyone feel the same, my equality is to hold everyone to the same standar; you do more, you are more.

            I'm growing impatient with the IIN community. They don't progress, they just seem to stay in the same mindset, never advancing. The will always think that a fact is only needed if nobody gets a bad image from it. By impatient, it's more of a dissapointed impatience, not an irritated one.

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            • joybird
              11 years ago

              "Your equality is to make everyone feel the same, my equality is to hold everyone to the same standar; you do more, you are more."

              Yes you are right. I believe that everyone has feelings from the homeless to the Queen, and she is no more a 'worthy' human being than the homeless man. I do not regard my friends who are surgeons any better than my friends who are single parents and stony broke. They are all just different from each other. However, I have lived a lot longer than you and know that people are all of equal value. As we say, they all eat and shit the same, so why would I succumb to your way of life and 'social-climb' or be sycophantic to either group.

              I have changed many many lives for the better and have met wonderful people in my life.

              I wonder what makes you judge people when you personally have achieved nothing?!

              Therefore, by your own logic, you do not deserve the right to even own a computer - never mind respond to your superiors!!

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  • KristinaD
    6 years ago

    Depends on how you define normal. If you mean something that most people do then yes, it's normal. Right now it's very trendy to pose as an intellectual with rigid moral values who's disgusted with society. Of course this is just a primitive psychological defense mechanism to cover up for one's feelings of personal inadequacy caused by a dysfunctional family background and our affluent society that leaves young people without the experience and skills needed to cope with life's challenges. Basically you're like that fox in Aesop's fable who wanted to have grapes but couldn't reach them because they we're growing too high, and finally told himself that they sour anyway so he doesn't need them.

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  • reubaloo
    6 years ago

    2000's is deadstock

    people have become sheep and stupid,no one dont use their brain again look how advanced the music was back in the day now you got most people making crap that you dont even remember after the tunes finished.

    there was way more freedom back before the 2000's

    you could smoke anywhere
    there was not really any one way roads
    the alleyways were not blocked
    all these shit rules about noise pollution and ting didnt exist
    people could have house parties

    people were more happier and communtity orientated

    people used to visit and link up with people without phones

    now theres phone everyhere and thats all people do text rubbish and look on their phone and dont link up with no one

    people had more confidence and trusted others more back then

    werent so petty and selfish

    people were more creative and had good ears for music back then

    the last generation that was good like that were the 70's born generation all over the world when the 80's born and after came in they slowly abandoned these proper ways and ruined things.

    though theres a select few poeple in the current generation that is just like the 70's and before generation

    this is the reason so many people are depressed cause everything is superficial and shallow and people are yearning for the truth and a better quality of life.

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  • RomeoDeMontague
    10 years ago

    I hate it too... Most of society is just shit

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  • brianh1903
    11 years ago

    I Completely disagree. People had much more of a sheep mentality pre 1960's it's only now that people are starting to realize it. I think that music designed for preteens and kids is more prevalent in the media these days because the birth rate keeps increasing and kids make up more and more of our population every year. Ask almost anyone older than 14 what they think of Bieber and they will say he sucks...People who believe in the bible literally are decreasing rapidly, people who are for war and believe everything their leaders say are decreasing rapidly. So I would say that there are less people with a herd mentality, but the majority of people still have it just as the majority of people have always been sheep.

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  • myownopinions
    11 years ago

    No matter what, it's human nature to make judgements. You will always have labels no matter what you do. You can say you hate modern society all you want, but it's still a society that you live in, so you might as well make the best of it.

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  • ccjigsaw
    11 years ago

    I agree in a sense, I don't like todays society either. I hate rap, and the whole "sex is all" attitude is kinda lame. I like to think people still have sex for love etc.. Best way to get over it is just to stay true to yourself. I like non-main stream punk rock bands and I don't party, or do drugs. I respect people despite the recent "being a douch bag is funny" fad. It's all part of who I am, and not what others tell me to be. Give it a shot, and stay positive :)

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  • suckonthis9
    11 years ago

    I think what's missing is that the politicians simply do not have a vision for the future. With no vision, there is no direction.
    Think about it, has any politician detailed a comprehensive plan for the next 50 or 100 years?
    We are traveling blindly into the future.

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    Well i don't know about all that, but Charles Manson is an intelligent, thoughtful, Articulate, und misunderstood man. Don't put him in the same sentence as that piece of shit Breivik.

    And 500 times in your life like isn't that much lol.

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