You are not wrong. There seems to be a similar level of responses too.

That’s a good point, and a nice sentiment, but I feel the need to point out that the owl actually was poisoned by living in the city.

how could someone view this as anything other than dystopian?

:(

Zardoz Clause!

I’ve felt this way quite often in my life, including recently, and I usually get through it by focusing on the small moments that I can enjoy. But reading your words and thinking about that feeling again this time made me think “I should do a random act of kindness for someone”. It sounds cheesy and kinda pointless, but helping someone else or doing a random nice thing for someone else can sometimes make the world seem like a better place. And when the world seems like a better place, it has the potential to become that. I guess it’s the old “be the change you want to see in the world” thing.

This is all stuff people have told me over the years when I’ve sought help for depression, and I usually brushed it off, to be honest. But I empathize with your words, and I wouldn’t want anyone else to feel the hopelessness about the world that I’ve felt, so I thought “maybe a niceness would prevent that feeling for someone else”.

Idk, I’m rambling now, but I hope this makes sense. And I hope you (and I) find a way to feel better about the potential of our world, as opposed to its apparent current state.

oof I certainly hope so

I think you’re probably right, but a world where robots do art and humans do the tedious manual labor sounds eerily similar to the world we live in. At least, it is not outside the realm of possibility.

ah, the “Shane Gillis” approach

“ghosts aren’t real”

“well of course, but they don’t know that”

I was able to quit cocaine, cigarettes, and alcohol and of those 3, cigarettes was the hardest to quit, with alcohol being a close second. I don’t want to get into a discussion about the roles of behavioral addiction vs. chemical addiction when trying to quit something, but sugar has been just as difficult as alcohol and nicotine, if not more so. It doesn’t help that it is seemingly everywhere and included in all the food. It’s not as easy as “I’ll just stop having ice cream”, of course anyone can do that. If you start paying attention to all the foods sugar is added too and try to avoid those foods, you really have to completely rethink your whole approach to food (where to buy, the role it plays in your life, i.e. why you eat) and spend a lot more energy trying to find “healthy” foods.

Kinky

yes, probably

ok

I prefer buildings that weren’t demolished by airplanes

That’s a good one; first one I read by him. I think Jitterbug Perfume is my favorite. Totally changed the way I think about the sense of smell haha

Are you one of those people who needs an authority figure to tell you what you are experiencing?

… noodle noodle moo…

you’re thinking of jackitvision

But how can he reach maximum productivity if he’s sitting down ?!