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What are some things that make you lose hope in society?
I'll start us off with a couple things.
electronics completely taking over peoples lives, leaving them like zombies
music, a lot of music is just crap, and the lyrics will be something like:
kids being wimpy brats that get everything they want

Parents not disciplining their kids.

Using the TV as a babysitter....
anyone remember when you would play outside from the time you got off the school bus to the time your parents threatened to punish you if you didnt come inside... THEN you did your homework....
Now its do your homework so you can watch tv/play video games...

People who make poor life choices and expect others to pick up their slack (looking at you US welfare system).

People on welfare and medicaid having more kids...

People who make "I'm losing hope in people/society" threads on the internet.

Its best to give up hope now. Then you can learn to capitalize on it! If we're all rats then someone has to be King Rat!

Seeing people get away with things because people refuse to react to the or on technicallities. This happns while others get punished for stupid crimes because people lack common sense.

Dominos Pizza taking 30 minutes to deliver.

Frazzled wrote:Its best to give up hope now. Then you can learn to capitalize on it! If we're all rats then someone has to be King Rat!

Yup just take a people are idiots until proven otherwise approach. Then you are never disappointed, just surprised!!!

I think this expresses it perfectly:

What makes me lose faith in society?

Justin effing Bieber.

i blame McDonalds and rap music.

I rather like our society. There's lots of interesting things to look at, and do.

Are you talking about looking at Bewbs and doing the neighbor?
Sadly, that was my kneejerk reaction to your post Dogma

dogma wrote:I rather like our society. There's lots of interesting things to look at, and do.

Same here - I find people who complain about western society to be a curious mix of boring and childish.


Seriously, all you people complaining - would you rather be living in pre-industrial revolution London/New York/Wherever? Earning near-starvation wages and working 16-hour days in a filthy and dangerous workplace? For your wife to have around 10 kids, and for you to feel lucky that a percentage of them actually survive their first year? Leisure time? What's that? Holidays? What are they? Retirement? All there would be to look forward to is the squalor and penury of the workhouse, or a sudden death.

Life is pretty good.


Quit. Whining. You. Pussies.


SIDEBAR: I bet the OP is like, 13 years old.

Depending on where you live, those may be among the referenced group.

Ugly people. They're ruining our society.

dogma wrote:Depending on where you live, those may be among the referenced group.

Who, pussies?

Nah, responding to:

Sanctjud wrote:Are you talking about looking at Bewbs and doing the neighbor?
Sadly, that was my kneejerk reaction to your post Dogma

I lost faith in society when I realised that Britain is a (sorry I meant gak) hole. There goes everything my Grandma said about being british and having british pride....

@Dogma - Ah. That's what I like about you, Dogma - after all, why answer a post with a simple 'yes', when you can speak like Robocop instead?

People often confuse society with a few individuals. Most of us are ok, it's the occassional feth wit that tend to drag us down a bit.

My theory runs thus... If you imagine that 1% of the population are feth wits, you only have to pass 100 people a day, to encounter or bear witness to the actions of a feth wit. Yet the other 99 people were just like you or me and if you think about it, we could all gang together and give those feth wits a good kicking

Ratbarf wrote:I lost faith in society when I realised that Britian is a (sorry I meant gak) hole.

Yeah, som ov us can't even spel. Unlike you, of course.

Albatross wrote:@Dogma - Ah. That's what I like about you, Dogma - after all, why answer a post with a simple 'yes', when you can speak like Robocop instead?

Four years of logic destroyed my ability to write in a colloquial fashion.

The OP has to be prepubescent. College cures any and all loss of faith in society.

dogma wrote:

Albatross wrote:@Dogma - Ah. That's what I like about you, Dogma - after all, why answer a post with a simple 'yes', when you can speak like Robocop instead?

Four years of logic destroyed my ability to write in a colloquial fashion.

Hey, don't worry about it - it makes a refreshing change from all the OMGLMAOROFLN000000BBZZZZORZZZ!!!1!!!ONE!!! -type stuff I see floating around the internet. It seems we (as a culture) are making a virtue of uncouth behaviour. The rising tide of anti-intellectualism is something which actually really worrying - there is a lot of pride in ignorance starting to take hold in our respective societies, and there are people who use this very forum who exemplify this.

Honestly, I think North America blows. I know i live here I'm so fething shallow.

But Europe looks sweet, same with Australia. Most people wana go to Japan due to the Anime and stuff.

That and at least in the UK I wouldn't have to learn a new language.

@Shads - You should come to the UK - it's pretty awesome, and we have a gakload of castles... eh? Eh? Tempted?



Don't listen to Ratbarf, his opinions are about as intelligent and well thought-out as his username.
I've met quite a few North-Americans who live and work in the UK, and they seem to like it. My Uni course co-ordinator moved here from Texas about 20 years ago, and he LOVES it. But then he's a liberal Texan - that's got to be a fairly lonely existence...

Albatross wrote:@Shads - You should come to the UK - it's pretty awesome, and we have a gakload of castles... eh? Eh? Tempted?

Don't listen to him. In Australia we have... uh... Funnelweb spiders!



I mean, just look at the cute little guy!



(Fun fact: Funnelweb spiders are very aggressive and will latch on to you with their fangs. They can swim across water with ease and will actively chase you if you piss them off. Oh, and their venom is fatal to a fully-grown man in less than an hour.)

The Dreadnote wrote:People who make "I'm losing hope in people/society" threads on the internet.

/endthread

Shadowbrand wrote:Honestly, I think North America blows. I know i live here I'm so fething shallow.

But Europe looks sweet, same with Australia. Most people wana go to Japan due to the Anime and stuff.

That and at least in the UK I wouldn't have to learn a new language.

Maybe it's the "copy and paste" sameness of North American suburbs & small cities that you don't like Shadow (?).

As far as "losing hope in society",sure things could be alot better,but as Alba pointed out,things could be a hell of alot worse.

Cheese wrote:(Fun fact: Funnelweb spiders are very aggressive and will latch on to you with their fangs. They can swim across water with ease and will actively chase you if you piss them off. Oh, and their venom is fatal to a fully-grown man in less than an hour.)

Oh yeah? Just try and beat our murder rate!