re: When "Normal" is no longer normal...

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Now he thinks everything he ever did is bullshite and that everyone around him is perpetuating the bullshite.

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Did he go have ego death in a Peruvian jungle? Acid or shrooms?

No bullshine, psychedelics will lead some to the conclusion that everything they ever did or will ever do is a charade.

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Except he didn't used to be this way. He went to college and got a Chem E degree. He had a good job. He used to love to golf.

Now he thinks everything he ever did is bullshite and that everyone around him is perpetuating the bullshite.

This post isn't really about him, per se. It's about a mentally ill society..

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This is not "mental illness". I have no clue why we label any emotion other than pure bliss "mental illness".

He's resentful of his situation and I dont blame him but I think he underestimates how many people feel EXACTLY like him. Our isolated society rarely provides us the opportunity to connect on that level. A materialistic society has no concern for moral issues.


I can probably guess, he's resentful he busted his arse in school, maybe went into debt, gets out, his job isn't that great, the pay doesn't win him over, he feels like shite.


Then he looks over to Joe blow history major with daddy warbucks who funds his entire existence and he doesn't have to lift a finger or some 14 year old multi-millionaire youtuber douchebag.


He thought taking the harder path would be rewarding but he looks around and doesn't see any reward.


The real story of modern America is that nobody values a modest humble existence anymore. Every kid wants to be a youtuber or some other famous celebrity and that's exactly what our biggest corporations sell to them.

Instagram, tiktok, snapchat, they sell them easy wealth and notoriety and make billions off of the market they cultivate.

How would you feel if you grinded your arse through a chemical engineering degree for a meager $70k salary while the Paul brothers, total doofuses make millions without a single day of grinding in their lives?

Women are attracted towards the Paul brothers and athletes, not the chemical engineering majors.


I'm not saying this is true, but it's the mindset and a part of it is valid.

Celebrity culture, whatever form it takes, is poisonous and corrosive to the health of a society.

America was socially healthier also because he didn't spend so much time obsessing over other people who had it better. You didn't even have the opportunity to know who had what and now everyone knows everything. Your entire life is on display and the instinct to compare is impossible to relinquish.