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Anonymous Mon Oct 5 15:05:56 2015 No.7197306 [Reply] [Original]

are enjoyment, fun, satisfaction, happiness ... only relative to the suffering of our normal days and life?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 15:07:11 2015 No.7197309 >>7197306 Surely it can be no other way. Imagine a post scarcity society in which all surface desires were instantly satisfied. Imagine if it were Christmas every day. Don't you think suicide rates would increase?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 15:20:02 2015 No.7197347 Literature

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 15:27:25 2015 No.7197367 >>7197309 They would increase imo quite simple to understand why.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 15:30:16 2015 No.7197380 >>7197367 >Don't you think suicide rates would increase? why

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 15:38:45 2015 No.7197403 >>7197380 because boredom would gain us. What we fail to understand is that our existence (with pain, suffering, joy, angst, despair, etc.) is in fact made for the world we live in and vice-versa. The best you could "wish for" is a life without desire.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 15:43:05 2015 No.7197416 >>7197403 >because boredom would gain us. Are you sort of kinda implying that most people are not bored with their 7hr/day jobs and dumb bullshit menial tasks like friday evening shopping?

Anonymous Mon Oct 5 15:50:32 2015 No.7197439
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>>7197416
They are, but would they feel the same joy feel them up when they obtain a 2€ reduction at their local supermarket every now and then in a world where every day is Christmas to quote >>7197309 ? No and it is because our conception of satisfaction comes from the rarity of the joyfull situations.
(however that doesn't lie in our essence as beings but it is more of a social construct of our modern world).

>>	Sage Mon Oct 5 16:00:04 2015 No.7197469 Literature

Anonymous Mon Oct 5 16:08:34 2015 No.7197494

>>7197309
Seems like a really pleb answer m8. If we live in a society were every single desire was instantly satisfied, we would also have a culture that mirrored that fact, i.e a Brave New World-esque type culture where decadence would be seen as a cultural positive, and very few people would see it as a problem to constantly consume and enjoy.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 16:15:23 2015 No.7197513 >>7197306 >fun maybe someone will appreciate the abstract of my favorite wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discipline oh and op you're not wrong, but i find your question boring

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