I feel that. I’ve had it a few times where a girl is walking in front same speed and direction for like 5 turns. I’ve had to go completely the wrong way before and make myself late for fear she’ll phone the police that she’s being followed.

She’d be justified in the fear, I’d be nervous if I were them, I just hate that that’s the world we’re in.

The song is so weird. It means absolutely nothing, just a bunch of imagery he thought would sound cool, but I still get goosebumps like it’s something real.

Depending on what problems you’re talking about, I think everyone is to blame to some extent. For example global warming is largely due to humans producing more and more energy to keep up progress, and here we are spending it on basically useless discussion.

I was idly thinking about this the other day, how absolutely lonely it must be in say North Korea, where if you’re caught by the regime to be thinking the wrong thing you’ll get killed. I’d know its bullshit, but I’d be terrified of speaking out or asking questions, incase the person I’m speaking to is an agent of the state, or will suspect me of being an agent and inform the authorities incase I’m testing them.

It must be awful not knowing who’s a secret police, who’s a gullible rube for buying the propaganda and who’s just hiding behind forced conformity.

I don’t think many of them will believe the propaganda, but I bet the ones who do will be the happiest. Or least miserable I guess.

Necessity. I didn’t have much of a support network so when mine got so bad I could no longer work I just let everything slide until I ended up homeless. At that point I absolutely had to go through all the motions and that means meeting a lot of people and pleading your case and so on.

I know its not the same thing, but we’ve completely done away with the barter system. Way back in the days of yore people would be swapping things for things, and then money came along and they were like “whaaaat you want to take my stuff in exchange for a few little discs?” And now it’s totally normal.

I’ve seen many youtubers my family follow start out doing a thing - gaming, celebrity gossip, cleaning tips, guitar accessories reviews, whatever - and once they get to a certain size they’re in the drive thru at McDonald’s filming themselves eating a meal as an entire 15 minute video and people fucking watch it.