I’ll start with these few idiotic things:
(back when I worked)
-In the summer when it’s hot as shit, you go into your office building/floor and it’s cold af, the AC cranked to the hilt so much so to the point that you actually put ON a giant ass winter jacket or sweater to keep you warm. And it’s literally 98 degrees outside.
-In the winter when it’s cold af, snowing outside, they BLAST the heat in the office to the point where you come in and literally strip down to a tshirt bc it’s that hot in there.
-In the middle of winter, where there’s SNOW and ICE on the ground, go to any store or restaurant, order a drink, or a cup of water like I usually do, and they give you ICE in your drink, in the middle of fucking WINTER. And you have to specifically ASK to not have ice, when it’s common sense to NOT put ice in a cup of water in the dead of winter.
Then when you bring up these very logical points, people just look at you like you’re a weirdo or just a “complainer” when the reality is that society is WHACKED. Not just the idiotic rules or things that are done, but the fact that NO ONE even bothers to think or question a single thing. *face palm*
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This is just the tip of the iceberg. What other idiotic things have you noticed?
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most new things are overhyped, and the decent old thing is usually replaced with a less decent new thing. This is especially in the last ten years, since my granddad died, and it’s not a coincidence, it’s the death of his generation that built up to this.
I want to contrast, growing up when I went to my granddad’s house he’d have machines and stuff from the 60s or older, and it’d all be in working order, often of higher quality than anything you could buy at the time, that is the 90s and 2000s. But during those decades if you cared to look, you could find the stuff and for a pittance fix it and be set for as long as you were willing to work on it.
I’ve managed to buy a few of these things, of the older quality;
a truck
a 1960-70s deep freeze
a pre 1960 metal desk
but it’s a big part of my antipathy regarding consumerism. Quality goods are not a goal of this marketplace. I can hear you saying “of course” already, but it doesn’t follow. It makes no damn sense.
another gripe of mine about the modern era; MDF, Medium Density Fiberboard. I used to not mind it, until I realized that everything I owned made of it would slowly turn into dust. It’s planned obselecence on a huge scale. I have a 10 year old MDF dresser, and it’s barely holding on. Meanwhile, same room for the last two years, I have a 20-50 year old solid wood dresser. It’s impossible to tell the age because as long as you keep the wood clean and oiled it’ll last centuries.
so most of consumerism is literally buying your future garbage. Then they don’t even properly dispose of it when it IS garbage. Now, the future has arrived, they won’t even take half of your garbage, you have to come up with elaborate schemes to sneak it into a public dumpster because it’s damn sure never going to be picked up by the regular trash man.
Eh. It’s been all downhill for at least 20 years. I don’t think I’d mind as much, if I could earn enough to buy good stuff. But I have to scrimp and save to get stuff. And even then, garbage product sneaks in. Forget being paranoid about the new world order or government conspiracies, I want someone to do something about the amount of corn they sneak into all of our food in the United States, and MDF…. often you’ll find it masquerading as “solid wood”, which it isn’t. I’ve resorted to buying plastic furniture, which I hate, but at least it’ll hold together for long enough for me to replace it.
I could publish a book on the things I think are ridicuous in this society only to conclude this…society is deliberately ridiculous to exrtract – not the maximum – but the most effective level frustration from people. Designed to withould a very specific but very large amount of happiness to keep one rutted into working for money.