Yeah this ain't a meme

You can be successful in helping others and live one of the most fulfilling lives without needing to be rich*

*Disclaimer: This tends to be a lot more difficult when you're born poor. If this is the case, try finding someone who isn't, who is trying to live a fulfilling life.

It's always "western culture" being compared to a vague "indigenous culture" in these posts.

To me, the quote is another way of saying our ‘purpose’ is to be sensory organs for the universe: life is how the universe experiences itself.

The more you do, the more richly you contribute to that experience, but the caption’s take is also valid in that ‘being’ also contributes, if that makes sense.

(Disclaimer: I may be slightly high.)

We also do all that, the problem is that it's all commodified, advertised, ultracompetitive, conspicuous and repackaged, like we need to relate to each other and nature through something that has come out of a factory or a pr firm. There are ways to escape this, but it comes at a social cost, but it gets better if you find others.

I hope we are. Based off some shit lords in here, I'm having my doubts.

Don't do the cat!

Defaultism by default. It could also be the land of the upside-down, Canada, or anywhere else in the American continents.

I hate it how hippies keep thinking nature is some Disney movie shit.

Nah, it ain't, plants devouring ants alive, monkeys been waging wars and raping their enemies skulls

You just described western culture, too.

"DO THE DEW" -Mountain Dew

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Sorry don't hate me

Yeah, I'm inclined to generally agree with this; what she left out is that now most people can live past 30 now and not die from a bacterial infection after scraping their leg.

I would add that the ideal is likely somewhere in the middle between the extremes of "living off the land and using every part of the bison" and "grinding away your soul until you collapse on the Walmart floor." Both are too far towards their respective ends of the spectrum.

I already banned people in this thread, but I didn't remove the comments as they were part of a discussion that was at least in part not total trolling.

With Yuris Revenge expansion. Mental Omega isn't half bad either.

Not anymore because colonialism has essentially destroyed that way of life in its entirety.

The antarctic maybe? There isn't much land that isn't claimed by some group of people

Thanks!

Sure. To the land of Britain. Read up on the Druids and go dance around Stonehenge or something.

I have a soft spot for Wicca despite knowing it was mostly made up by white British people. Because it's a deliberate mindful attempt to recapture the old ties between white British people and their land and ancestors that lie underneath sixteen hundred years of Christianity. And that's worth doing.

Bro Europeans aren't responsible for everything. If todays folks in your country wanted to do things differently then nothings stopping you

Struggling, eh?

I for one loathe your world of eternal unnecessary struggle.

I think it’s weird how we use terms like indigenous culture. Western culture is indigenous to the west.

It’s weird how the whole noble savage myth just keeps on trucking

That's definitely one of the opinions of all time.

Is it underdeveloped though? They're certainly not the ones driving us toward the 6th mass extinction and potentially an uninhabitable earth (for humans)

Imagine behaving like this with the one life you have

Their validity, or even their level of quality as a culture, is not necessarily measured by their ability to invent writing. We are not automatically better than them just because of that, and we certainly don't have the right to pass them off as savages.

They don’t have time to engage in any sort of philosophy.

They did. Columbus made contact with a very sophisticated culture that was soon wiped out by disease, and effectively entered a dark age from which it never recovered.

We normally divide human philosophy into Western and Eastern types. There's some evidence that on the American continents, there was a third independently developed branch of philosophy. It was all but lost, with only oral retellings remaining.

Wow, least racist comment I have seen. Bravo.

Read up on Boasian anthropology and it states that no cultures are inherently better or worse than another. How is the culture of Christian Europeans killing and enslaving hunter gatherers, who haven't made written records, better? Many oral records also turned out to be just as accurate, provided they have been corroborated by scientific evidence. Many tribes have knowledge and wisdom unknown or unthought of by arrogant civilised and pampered individuals. An American Christian missionary was de-converted when a Praha tribe member from Brazil asked him if he had seen Jesus. When he replied "no", the tribe member quipped why would he believe Jesus is god if the missionary had not even seen him? The tribe's philosophy live in the moment, unlike the Western society always thinking of the future and past, striving for status symbol and material wealth. The Praha tribe may not have running water or huge houses, but they live their life carefree.

You think playing Civilizations game with its oversimplified digirtal cartoon tech tree makes you an expert on anthropology to judge others. No, it just makes you a donkey's cunt for doing so.

Spoken like a true colonist.

Yea fr, the only species that can even entertain the idea of "just being" are humans, it's not part of the natural world whatsoever, it also comes at the expense of other humans who are actually supporting the society.

Not really, the point is that you don't have to work yourself to the bone, or always be trying to climb that next rung in the company ladder to validate your existence. Your existence doesn't need to be validated by metrics based in money.

Just existing and living your life is okay. That's not something to sneer at. Rather, you should ask yourself why you are so triggered by that idea.

How on earth do you make the jump from "some indigenous cultures believe this cool thing" to "fetishizing indigenous cultures as these perfect things"

Like, I don't think they're saying it's true because some indigenous cultures believe it - and those specific indigenous cultures are to be trusted as a moral authority.

They're just saying that some cultures believe this thing and they agree with that belief.

I guess I can't know for sure what she meant without being able to ask her, but there's no reason to assume she was making an extremely weird claim when that obviously isn't necessarily true.

But I guess if you are willing to jump to that conclusion, you will see claims like that everywhere, and maybe that makes it seem like a safe assumption that that is what she's saying.

(When I say "maybe," I really do mean maybe. I'm not under the impression that I know everything about you, lol. I'm just exploring a possibility that there's no real way for me to ever confirm or falsify. Just thinking out loud for curiosity's sake.)