I’ve always identified with Ron Swanson in that way. Though it’s less about not caring, we can actually care, we just don’t say it, then may or may not regret that 15 years later at their funeral.
“The less I know about other people’s affairs, the happier I am. I’m not interested in caring about people. I once worked with a guy for three years and never learned his name. Best friend I ever had. We still never talk sometimes.”
Do you really need an answer? Parodies are exaggerations of reality and that series is old, since then humanity kept getting worse. Why do you think the manosphere and all that crap is so widespread? Because it feeds on men unmet needs.
I was just playing around, but now I have questions… if you know men have unmet needs, why not just meet your needs? That seems like a shorter path from a to b than doubling down and building a whole manosphere?
It’s too complex and I’m not qualified but here’s my take on this:
We live in a patriarchal society where men are told all those things they need are feminine traits and their masculinity is valued in the most toxic way, so when adults seem to have nothing they need nor expected one would think, like you do, they should learn, evolve and reconstruct what’s broken. But you are using logic and people are idiots too tired or too lazy to put all the energy and effort required to do that.
There’s also that human thing that apparently used to help us survive somehow where, when confronted with the harsh reality, we tend to choose our own beliefs instead or follow the logical path of questioning everything and adapt according to the answers. We fight wars to defend what our environment instilled into our minds. The manosphere tell them they are right, their beliefs are true, they offer them a group to be the worse version of themselves thinking they are doing what’s right and that the uncomfortable world telling them otherwise is wrong.
Comforting lies vs rough truth; lies win too many times. It’s like a cult and we all know how hard it is to get someone out of those.
Nah I dunno, I think being forced to live inside their head, even for a day, would be a level of hell that’s unmatched. They might have money, but it’s like scratching an itch that never stops itching. I like our kinda fucked up, better.
I’ve always identified with Ron Swanson in that way. Though it’s less about not caring, we can actually care, we just don’t say it, then may or may not regret that 15 years later at their funeral.
“The less I know about other people’s affairs, the happier I am. I’m not interested in caring about people. I once worked with a guy for three years and never learned his name. Best friend I ever had. We still never talk sometimes.”
That’s a PARODY!? It’s satire!! Holy fk are men ok??!?
Do you really need an answer? Parodies are exaggerations of reality and that series is old, since then humanity kept getting worse. Why do you think the manosphere and all that crap is so widespread? Because it feeds on men unmet needs.
I was just playing around, but now I have questions… if you know men have unmet needs, why not just meet your needs? That seems like a shorter path from a to b than doubling down and building a whole manosphere?
It’s too complex and I’m not qualified but here’s my take on this:
We live in a patriarchal society where men are told all those things they need are feminine traits and their masculinity is valued in the most toxic way, so when adults seem to have nothing they need nor expected one would think, like you do, they should learn, evolve and reconstruct what’s broken. But you are using logic and people are idiots too tired or too lazy to put all the energy and effort required to do that.
There’s also that human thing that apparently used to help us survive somehow where, when confronted with the harsh reality, we tend to choose our own beliefs instead or follow the logical path of questioning everything and adapt according to the answers. We fight wars to defend what our environment instilled into our minds. The manosphere tell them they are right, their beliefs are true, they offer them a group to be the worse version of themselves thinking they are doing what’s right and that the uncomfortable world telling them otherwise is wrong.
Comforting lies vs rough truth; lies win too many times. It’s like a cult and we all know how hard it is to get someone out of those.
It’s like asking why haven’t sad people just tried being happy.
Who is okay in this society?
The people getting rich by causing the problem and then offering a solution for a price.
Nah I dunno, I think being forced to live inside their head, even for a day, would be a level of hell that’s unmatched. They might have money, but it’s like scratching an itch that never stops itching. I like our kinda fucked up, better.