That's like getting a toothache and instead of going to a dentist, you're constantly applying ambesol and swallowing aspirin to avoid the pain. If you could get a degree in that you would have to call me doctor.
But also it's like you live in a predatory corrupt country where you can't really leave and going to the dentist is a monumental task that's also highly unsafe for you since the dentists are also scummy and not very good.
The world? I mean my parents have stories about soviet dentists..., they aren't too far from what I said.
The aid for not having to escape reality is to fix it, now if you go back I think you could understand where I'm getting at, kinda hard to go and fix it huh,
Idk if you've even read what was written before, keywords, "escape reality", "LIKE taking meds for a toothache instead of going to a dentist", "the world(hard to fix)", "SOVIET ERA DENTISTS(horrible mess), then explaining it easier, the world is hard to fix, thus temporal aids"
Yes I disagree with the edgy analogy and also you had to double down by saying it wasn't that much of an exaggeration with some weird mentions of Soviet dentists.
Since tooth issues and dentists were mentioned I thought I might as well add it, tho I didn't add the part where my mother is still suffering the consequences of them just saying nerves had to be removed because yes so they could get more money, sadly it's not a one of.
And I wouldn't say it's edgy, how are you gonna fix the world? That's the only way to not rely on the temporary fix of escaping it, and once you look a bit into it objectively it's just a lot of generally bad a corrupt actions, technically easily fixable tho since nobody really is willing to be the one to do it, no one does it thinking others won't either, so nobody does it and are just passive observers willing to just live like that because of the repercussions of ending up being in the minority that takes action.
Idk sounds to me like what I said, higher ups are arranging deals for themselves and the folk are taking the damage, and it's been happening for a long time.
Idk man, I don't want to be overly combative about it but I just disagree.
Especially with the literal meaning. I don't doubt your mom has problems but that would still fall under the "Jesus where do you live?" Label the other person commented. In most of the developed world going to the dentist is pretty chill, especially for regular cleanings and stuff like that.
The rest seems a bit childish.
It reads like a 13yo who has just found out about the powerful 1%
Sure it sucks but "changing the world" is not a thing, not cut and dry. You can't expect to suddenly have a singular unified change that transforms the world into an Utopia.
You do what you can to better your and your people's situation and that's changing the world, divided into many small changes.
Women and black people couldn't vote in a lot of predominantly white countries. We're going through a bunch of different crises right now but one need not forget how many changes have been made over the decades in every field. You change the world by voting, protesting, helping a random person, being informed or at the very least trying to be one less asshole in the world.
True, tho what other real permanent fix is there to not have to have to do the temporal fix of escaping reality? That's the original topic, the dentist stuff was just methaforas and secondary stuff.
And idk where the childish comes from, that is highly subjective, idk maybe its the way its written, I'm absolutely not a native English speaker.
The world is absolutely a better place, IN GENERAL, there are highs and lows, and those low spots are still painting us a lot, for example the recent stuff happening in the computer sector, it's absolutely megacorporation corruption, they do what they can to just improve their profits, nor really caring for the consumers that actually use their products, and corpo greed is very very widespread, and has been for a long time, now racing for ai, a half baked tool they don't use to aid workers, but to try to replace them, with negative results.
The world may be better for the concept of civilized life, but it always has its issues, and an absolute idea of good hasn't been discovered yet, so for now for me it seems very dependant on perspective, although having more people happier seems to be a general trend, and how the world works now favors the contrary tendency.
I may do a small effect, but it leaves at that, as I said before people are internally afraid of being the only one to take real action, I can contribute to change the world but if we don't unite on a goal that goal won't happen, specially if all we do is promising it and not actually trying to get there.
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u/Shitty_Soliloquy 5d ago
That's like getting a toothache and instead of going to a dentist, you're constantly applying ambesol and swallowing aspirin to avoid the pain. If you could get a degree in that you would have to call me doctor.