Take note my lesser materialists stuck in the psychopathic illusion of maya.
6 posts omitted.look man buddha said desire is the source of all suffering but if that is truly so then why did he not advocate total suicide? because middle path. stop overemphasizing the one sided path of asceticism. people are gonna TREAT themselves to a little whimsy and pleasure every now and then instead of being total service automatons to the "collective" from birth to death. the truth is even the individual is a collective of single celled organisms, and the society is an individual composed of multicellular organisms. The middle path is moderation of both pleasure seeking and dedication to the higher purpose. If we truly did everything right and never fucked up, life wouldn't be interesting at all. We would have invented all the tech, solved all the diseases, colonized the stars, and stopped the heat death of the universe. Then we would be bored. And lapse into what? pleasure. All successful and disciplined people ultimately become "degenerate" because they become complacent once at the top. If it doesn't happen in a single lifetime, it happens over multiple generations. One hard worker who never learned how to let loose accumulated and accumualted until he became bourgeois… And for what? to leave it to his brat children who squander it on pleasure.
>>771933> The middle path is moderation of both pleasure seeking and dedication to the higher purpose. If we truly did everything right and never fucked up, life wouldn't be interesting at all. We would have invented all the tech, solved all the diseases, colonized the stars, and stopped the heat death of the universe. Then we would be bored. And lapse into what? pleasure. All successful and disciplined people ultimately become "degenerate" because they become complacent once at the top. If it doesn't happen in a single lifetime, it happens over multiple generations. One hard worker who never learned how to let loose accumulated and accumualted until he became bourgeois… And for what? to leave it to his brat children who squander it on pleasure.This is common idealistic slop people promote.
The truth is, if everyone’s lives were fixed, we would still need to be productive and still have pleasure.
This idea that the perfect life would be boring is why we have so many problems
Posting on /siberia/ also leads to misery yet here we are.
>>771804It most certainly can lead to misery when not used to generate life and instead used to destroy a part of ourselves.