Why is this cropped so poorly?
To avoid giving the original artist credit and also to avoid repost detection on Reddit.
I didn’t crop it. I just stole it from elsewhere
As a late 30s, shit like this stop being funny, because hits too close to home.
Yeah happened to me too in the late 30s. This is the real midlife crisis, trying to come to terms with existential nihilism, it’s not buying a fucking red convertible…
Ha, as if I had the money to lol
Do you too have a letter from the municipal that you need to open but keep stalling because you somehow know yet don’t know what’s in it ?
I too am a late 30s and I find this funny because of how close it hits to home
The hot take I’ve heard is that our ancient ancestors had a much higher chance of being killed by predators, so being on edge was an evolutionary advantage. According to this idea, the fear and dread of today is a remnant of our past.
Nah, I think that overstates the extent to which our ancestors were the hunter more than the hunted and ignores the social dimension. An early human might have been at risk for predators when they were out alone hunting or gathering but when you’re with the group I’d think that’s a much smaller threat. Having to deal with social threats from within the group, now, that’s ever-present. And still present today!
Also, after reading a book about the evolution of agency that suggests the evolutionary innovation of humans is that we’re a goal-seeking system that’s able to function as a part of a larger goal-seeking system (collective action)… I wonder how much that can account for existential dread. We have a diffuse drive to be part of something greater than ourselves but it’s not always clear what that should be.
I wouldn’t read too much into that, evolutionary psychology is a pseudoscience: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_evolutionary_psychology
Psychology is already a field full of rough concepts, bad statistics, and low certainties, we mostly have no clue why we’re doing things right now. Adding millions of years and unprovable speculation surely doesn’t help.
If evolutionary psychology is pseudoscience (which is debatable to begin with), it’s that way not because our evolutionary history doesn’t inform our psychology but because our understanding of both those things is too immature for the questions most people are are trying to answer. But that in itself depends on the questions and the level of answer one finds acceptable. I’ve found Michael Tomasello’s book “The Evolution of Agency” perfectly proportionate in the kinds of questions it seeks to answer given the information it has, and I think the wild speculations I extrapolate from it are totally fine to share in random internet conversations.
Climate change is going to kill us all reasonably slowly, but it’s OK because we’re in the brink of nuclear war which will kill us quickly… Unfortunately, where I live isn’t a historic nuclear target, but areas around me are, so I’ll not be vaporised, and have to endure the chaos…
But… It’s pizza day tomorrow so there’s that.
Damn dude…
It’s pizza day for me today! About to go pick it up right now actually. Stay strong 💪 thru the wait!!
Fuckin sweet… What you having?
Cheese pizza, pan crust, jalapenos, extra cheese, well done.
Was delicious and they actually baked it extra for once, even tho I ask for it ever time.
If there actually is nuclear war the fallout will affect the whole world. Even if you aren’t near the blast you’ll get a nice dose of radiation on the wind.
Yea, problem is I can shield in place whilst the worst passes and still be alive…
I live an hour from an a facility used in the Manhattan project. Wish me luck
Nuclear weapons are big and devastating but… An hour away from a modern weapon detonation - I give you good chances.
Fck. This is me. Jesus. Keep busy!
My brain did a nice little theme tune with Oppenheimer like anxiety sounds
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Oh wow. YT could not have been ready for me to play the little theme tune. They usually expect things more like eps2.4_m4ster_s1ave.aes
It’s a strategy. At least would be labeled as “functional” and not some other things…
You never talk about the fight club.
You should also never fight about the talk club.
Probably not. :)
the reason to live
Why is everyone so anxious nowadays?
What’s there to dread?
People are worried about getting the tops of their heads cropped off. Its become an epidemic.
Happened to a friend of a friend of mine. He never recovered.
I have anxiety. It’s funny because I don’t feel anything until it happens.its like my brain remembers “hey you should feel bad” and it happens, otherwise I’m cool as a cucumber
Must be nice to be so comfy
I, for one, almost died at a mass shooting.
My body has left in a permanent state of pain and suffering, where every few days the pain intensifies and there is next to nothing I can do about it.
What about you?
That’s not existential dread, that’s just everyday “life sucks” though
I’m in a permanent constant state of pain everyday. My entire existence is pain. I’m not sure what else you need me to go through to prove my existential dread.
Existential dread by definition has no specific definable cause. That’s not existential dread.
I don’t know why you’re gate keepint existential dread, but here is the APA’s definition: “a profound, deep-seated psychic or spiritual condition of insecurity and despair in relation to the human condition and the meaning of life.”
I’m feeling plenty of despair to the human condition and the meaning of life. I wake up everyday and ask myself why live and exist at all when existence is nothing but pain.
I’m not gatekeeping, it’s just the definition.
Can you tell me where you got your definition from, and what it is?
Avoidance of dread breeds more dread.
Why is everyone so anxious nowadays?
For me it’s financial, though as a middle-aged person I am nowadays also plagued with metaphysical questions.
About the financial part, I’m actually very well-off but the world has become such a complex place (or it always was and I am only realizing it now at my age) and I have little to no control over most aspects of it. I don’t want to lose what I have worked towards because of geo-politics, climate change impact, global recession, or such things. It’s not an existential crisis for me but there is some amount of anxiety and dread that I previously did not have.
Are people more anxious or is it just more acceptable to talk about it??
Classic Traeger moment
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Too late… Le sigh.
