[–] chirogonemd ago (edited ago)
I think it depends on your values. If your values don't align with that culture, then it becomes depressing. I think there is sort of a revival happening in parallel with the conservative movement, and it has to do with the value of hard work, blue collar lifestyles, and appreciation of the working class that represents the foundation of the country.
Along with that, there is this realization through our vicarious experience of wealth and the upper echelons of society, that money/fame aren't as glamorous as all of us had been hypnotized to believe they were, from years of celebrity lifestyle adoration. The internet has caused their world to become more transparent over the years, and exposed the ivory towers as less desirable than they used to be.
Because the innate core needs of the human, on a philosophical and meaning level are still there, and the money isn't solving that. There are tradeoffs to everything. Fame and richness has its perks. No doubt. Adoration and importance are probably highly satisfying. But we are also realizing they trade a lot of the awesome aspects of simple life in exchange for those perks.
For someone who has values that don't center on wealth accumulation and social status, then being immersed in a culture that does will cause depression. You will feel "othered" in that group, and struggling to still find an identity/role within a group that you really don't care about. It's a recipe for being lost.
The key is to recognize it, decide now what your actual values are, and defend them. I think the "feeling lost" part comes when you get wishy washy on your values. You let social pressures, or some misconception about expectations of yourself (to play the game), shake your "value tree" and cause you to pursue things that really don't have that meaning for you, because everyone else is doing it. You've got to find your own values, set up boundaries around them, defend them, and pursue the places/jobs/people who share those. And what I mean by defending them is the ability to resist social pressures to mold your values for you. Many in my generation fell prey to this. Even if they had held blue collar values, they wouldn't admit it. You've got to go to college. Get out of the rural area. Get a fancy desk job in a high-rise office. That was the portrait of success. If you had values without boundaries to defend, then you were susceptible to being manipulated to feel shame/guilt about what you actually wanted.
You need tribe. Make no mistake. And you need a defined role or sense of self-identity within that tribe. Those are probably the most basic keys to being happy. People who aren't happy are probably in the wrong tribe, or they are lost without a defined/accepted role in that tribe. Where society comes in and tries to guide you is by telling you WHAT tribe is the desirable one. Forget that.
For pure and simple human happiness, what tribe it is is actually irrelevant. You take a blue collar guy with a family in a small town, who has a defined role there, people know him and appreciate him for that role, and he recognizes he does it well, he is probably one of the happiest humans on the planet and he could be relatively poor. Of course, if your values ARE wealth accumulation and power, then you have to imagine that there are people who are happy in that environment too. The rudiments of happiness are pretty universal across human beings, but the tribe and the values are what change. Society has just told you that everyone but the rich are worse off and less happy, which is a massive lie.
[–] Alpha_Voat_Protecter 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
As soon as I can pay off my (largely-college-based) debts and build up a little reserve, I would enjoy nothing more than moving out to some little town somewhere far from the big cities (maybe Kansas, since the Jews and their yuppies have worked hard to make everyone believe that "there is nothing to do in Kansas": I just hope that I can find a place where I won't have to worry about snow more than 3 months of the year), find some people who I can have long honest conversations with (without having to regularly break topic to shoot down some of the Marxist propaganda that the brainwashed regularly spew), settle down to raise a good family, and live a happy life, only being remembered by the friends I made, the loved ones I cared for, and the family that I personally raised into fine men and/or women.
I mean, think about it. At the end of it all, I would just need some space and tools for carpentry/electrical/car work (or other general handyman stuff), a field to play with my kids in, a study to constantly learn everything I need/want to know (or to check what I already know {this would be the only area where I might even want any computer}), enough bedrooms for all of the kids (plus at least one for a guest), a bathroom for every 1-2 bedrooms (the master bedroom gets a bigger one, because it is used by the 2 adults, obviously), a decently-sized kitchen, a dining room (do we really need a "formal dining room" in addition to the normal one?), and a dog house for the family pet (little dogs are not welcome unless they were specifically bred to be herding dogs, and must be gentle around kids while still able to act as a tough guard dog).
I could easily get all of that into the traditional 2-story ranch house (like what you see in the movie Twister).
Add in a red-pilled talk show on an AM radio station (Limbaugh is out-of-the-loop on some big things these days, and (((InfoWars))) is packed with lies or baseless rumors practically designed to make you go insane with rage) that I could pick up in my pickup truck (I saw that people are reworking some Hummer H1s into high-end military-grade pickups, among other variations on the base chassis/model) when I want to hear about the world outside of my little town, and I'll be happy with a calm little life like that.
[–] theshopper 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Lol trust me my friend you won't find much in Kansas but if that's what you are looking for.
The problem is that I just don't know where I could go to find what I'm looking for. Any city big enough to easily find a group I can meet up with will also be tainted by the socialist brainwashing omnipresent in modern society, and I might have to wait a while for any of the small towns to recover enough from the 8-year recession for their culture to swing away from "drug use, suicide, and cashing in welfare checks or fleeing to the city for a government job".
Just as the old book title goes, I feel like "I have No Mouth, and I must Scream."
[–] TeddyJackson ago
"oy vey" You don't want to rich goy! Aren't you glad you are poor?!?!?
Thats why people like Marylin Monroe, Robin Williams, Michael Jackson and Elvis commit suicide.
None of those people commited suicide you retarded jew.
[–] HeavyBleating 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Mork did! Who's the Jew now?
[–] TeddyJackson 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
Nope. He was killed Mossad style.
You are and op are both still the jews.
[–] aCuriousYahnz ago
Don't know about Beverly Hills, but all the really rich areas in my state are closer to the farms than they are the city. But yes, country >>>>city.
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[–] IsraelFirstGoys 3 points -2 points 1 point (+1|-3) ago (edited ago)
What a bunch of garbled nonsense. You sound like a dirty hippy to me.
[–] theshopper 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Exactly and that's why the system will stay the same. The perks of being above average in wealth continue to accumulate. Tell me, what is the $ worth of being sucked off by a 8.5/10 20 year old cutie when you're 70+ because you own the place she works at and she is poor.
Urban farms would be the perfect answer... one house... empty field.... one house.... empty field... Growing your own food keeps you human... isolation destroys people. Balance is the key.
[–] theshopper ago
Isolation destroys hive-mind concepts and ideas that putrify in the brains of urban dwelling humans. Such as: How can I get through life without my phone? The government should help me because things are expensive, I think transgenders should be given equal rights, and I don't care what social media does with my private information.
That is the rotten America that we all wish to escape from.
[–] cyclops1771 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
You can like rural and abhor commotion and disorder. Cities bring commotion and disorder. Rural areas bring a pastoral feeling around farms, and a quiet life where you can sit on your front porch or take a quiet walk around the neighborhood.
Yards are clean, people are friendly, roads are maintained, even if dirt roads.
Canada, Iowa, Wisconsin are far from puddles, dirt, commotion and disorder, quite the opposite in fact.
[–] theshopper ago
Biggest thing I miss about living in the country is taking a piss in my front yard.
[–] cyclops1771 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
My friend told her realtor when she was looking for a place, "I want to be able to walk to the mailbox naked, and no one will know."