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[Anonymous No.13803696]

>One must imagine Sisyphus happy
We are
We are
WALLMART
We are
We are
WALLMART

[Anonymous No.13803709]

STOMP STOMP CLAP

[Anonymous No.13803717]

>>13803696
There's nothing Sisyphean about this scenario.

[Anonymous No.13803724]

>>13803717
There's nothing Sisyphean about anything that goes on in modern society. There's no struggle to admire, just pathetic cowards crawling over each other like insects to reach the top of the heap.

[Anonymous No.13803727]

>>13803717
>work everyday of your life at a temple to Jewish America, the taste of Regional Manager always lingering yet never within grasp, die at 80 and have your grandchildren upload photos of your corpse onto Facegram with the caption “c u gramps*
>repeat generation after generation
>not Sisyphean

[Anonymous No.13803785]

>>13803727
Well if you didn't marry a low iq roastie you wouldn't have had such retarded grandchildren.

[Anonymous No.13803816]

>>13803785
>It's all just your fault LMAO

[Anonymous No.13803824]

>>13803696
As embarrassing as this is, at least it confers a modicum of communal life on the Walmart workers. It would be more Sisyphean for them to toil away in isolation as he does.

[Anonymous No.13803860]

>>13803824
Have you ever experienced a morning pep meeting at a shitty retail job first hand? It just breeds resentment against the managers for wasting their time and making them dance like monkeys.

[Anonymous No.13803867]

>>13803824
>it confers a modicum of communal life on the Walmart workers
No it doesn't.

It makes everyone despise management, it makes the grunts feel like garbage and helps no on.

[Anonymous No.13803874]

>>13803696
I used to work at a Walmart and it's the closest I've been to killing myself.

[Anonymous No.13803882]

ATTENTION WAGIES
ATTENTION FOR A VOLUNTARY TEAMBUILDING SONG
FAILURE TO SING ALONG WILL BE MET WITH JOB TERMINATION

Buddy, you're a boss, you the one who employs
paying me to greet, gonna be CEO one day
Come to my place, fuck my face
licking your ass all dressed up in lace, singin'

You must, you must profit, sing it!
You must, you must, yeah

Hey boss, was a young man, bored man
Waging here is sweet, gonna work hard this day
Skidmarks on my face are no disgrace
Stocking the shelfs all over the place

We will, we will serve you
We will, we will serve you

[Anonymous No.13803895]

>>13803867
Hatred brings people together.

[Anonymous No.13803903]

Young man, young girl
welcome to wallyworld;
your gonna be a cashier someday.
Got a smile on your face,
You love this place—
Moving those carts all over the place.

[Anonymous No.13803904]

>>13803724
I'm sorry to hear about your father

[Anonymous No.13803908]

>>13803874
Any stories?

I worked in a store once, on day 2 a woman who was training me told me all about her recently dead sister and her funeral unprompted. I felt like screaming in her face "I DON'T CARE".

[Anonymous No.13803920]

>>13803882
*ahem* based

[Anonymous No.13803930]

camus killed himself when he realized sisyphus can't be happy.
he yanked the steering wheel and drove the car into a tree or he told the driver about his discoveries and both realized that sisyphus can't be happy so they drove into a tree

[Anonymous No.13803941]

>>13803696
>>13803727
You did not understand the point of the book.
Pushing the rock is not doing any particular repetitive task over and over again like working a dumb job, and then finding happines in that.
It's quite the opposite. Pushing the rock represents the absurd. The absurd is the combination of two unavoidable yet incompatible truths to Camus: our human search for meaning and the objective meaningless of reality. Pushing the rock is our "search" for meaning that will never end. So Camus advocates for finding happiness in the eternal search. That means trying as many different experiences as possible during your life even if no particular one will ever fully complete you. It is quantity over quality.

[Anonymous No.13803944]

>>13803908
Nothing ever happened. Other than my boomer supervisor telling I worked too slow and didn't smile/greet the customers enough

[Anonymous No.13804117]

>>13803724
Except is the opposite of this. Say anything about capitalism based society, but at least it gives endless ladder of goals for the working man to strive for. The cowards you speak for are the ones who are perfectly happy with working minimum wage jobs, punching the clock, and running back inside their hole. Sure there are the problems of materialistic driven society, but at least it solves the myth of Sisyphus

[Anonymous No.13804151]

>>13803696
I never took this seriously until I went to America. Went to an Ice-cream store and the employees were periodically shouting shit like "life is great!" and other weird shit like that.

[Anonymous No.13804162]

>>13804117
>still believeing hard work = success in 2019

[Anonymous No.13804172]

>>13804117

[Anonymous No.13804182]

>>13803696
Why did I sing this in the cadence of
https://youtu.be/WnVOUIvahYk

Have I gone full Demolition Man mode?

[Anonymous No.13804205]

>>13803785
>my grandchildren will be the ones who don't do this stuff

ah yes, the demented c*ckold

[Anonymous No.13804215]

>>13804151
I can’t go to chick-fil-a anymore man. The way they make the kids act is so fucking off-putting

[Anonymous No.13804221]

>>13804151
That sounds like a horror movie

[Anonymous No.13804222]

>>13803696
>WALLMART
>WALL
It's Walmart you fucking European heathen.

[Anonymous No.13804223]

>>13803717
Isn't the right term Sisyphusian?

[Anonymous No.13804304]

>>13804222
Learn to spell, backwards mutt

[Anonymous No.13804319]

>>13803941
And if I prefer to not search and remain with one "meaning?" In other words, does Camus find it problematic if I prefer quality over quantity?

[Anonymous No.13804378]

>>13803908
What the fuck is your problem dude? Can't even manage some small talk?

[Anonymous No.13804670]

>>13804304
>being a retard
Walmart is named after Sam Walton, being a contraction of Walton's Market. It has nothing to do with walls.

[Anonymous No.13804699]

>>13804319
All the "meanings" are shit though

[Anonymous No.13804707]

>>13804378
>Can't even manage some small talk?
No.

[Anonymous No.13804713]

>>13804670
That's stupid. It should be Wallmart. I'm not going to stop saying Wallmart when it's pronounced wall-mart.

[Anonymous No.13804732]

>>13804713
It would be pronounced the same whether it had one L or two, you mongoloid. The problem is your spelling.

[Anonymous No.13804751]

>>13804732
One L is Waal like the Sal in Salvatore

[Anonymous No.13804777]

>>13804751
It goes either way, example: although, altar, salt. Also for names: Walden, Walter, and Walton, which as already stated is what Wal-Mart derives from.

[Anonymous No.13804798]

Most modern research suggests that team building exorcises actually reduce productivity so it's rare to see them anymore. When you do it's always from some out of touch boomer manager that really has no business being a manager.

[Anonymous No.13804856]

>>13803696
American positivity is a cultural Thomasson. There's nothing Sisyphean about Thomasson because art is a means to nothing in particular.

[Anonymous No.13805924]

>>13804798
>begin to trust and build relationships with your coworkers
>spend all shift fucking around out back and covering for each other

[Anonymous No.13805961]

At least serfs got to work outside

[Anonymous No.13805971]

>>13803696
Do Americans really..?

[Anonymous No.13806067]

>>13803717
Um.

[Anonymous No.13806097]

>>13804319
If that's your wish, then who's there to tell you otherwise?

[Anonymous No.13806125]

>One must imagine the wagie happy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHIlRy_Hmmg

[Anonymous No.13806377]

>>13806125
Mike Rowe is such a faggot boomer stereotype.

[Anonymous No.13806424]

>>13803882
+1

[Anonymous No.13806518]

>>13804319
Any one "meaning" you attach yourself to will eventually show itself to be unfulfilling and vacuous. If you choose to continue dogmatically believing in it, that would be called a leap of faith, and it is condemned by Camus (think the talk with the Priest at the end of The Stranger).

[Anonymous No.13806563]

>>13804215
America is very disgustingly fake. It's seriously stupid.

[Anonymous No.13806592]

>>13804699
Obviously you need to justify not searching for meaning by saying there is none. You, doubter of light, should crawl from his dark cave to see all the light there is to see.

>>13806097
No one of course. The self matters above all

>>13806518
I'll check that talk out. But yeah, I have attached myself to a meaning and haven't really found it unfulfilling. If anything, it drives me forward because it's always under attack from every position. Spite towards the attackers and love of this "meaning" are what drive me to take this "leap of faith."

>>13804215
The kids serving you? Yeah, it's a dog eat dog world jobs-wise, and if you're not willing to serve smiles with a slap-happy grin plastered all over your face, there's ten people waiting to replace you (or so it seems)

[Anonymous No.13806603]

>>13803696
>walmart backwards
>tramlaw
>tram law
>law of the mine cart
>walmart employees are miners submerged beneath the earth carting coal and being left dirty by their sooty environment, a dirtiness they'll never wash off

[Anonymous No.13806606]

>>13803882

[Anonymous No.13806626]

>>13804117
Except is the opposite of this

[Anonymous No.13806794]

>>13804162
>>13804172
>>13806626
Poorfags seething

[Anonymous No.13806939]

>>13804319
>>13806592
>I have attached myself to a meaning and haven't really found it unfulfilling. If anything, it drives me forward because it's always under attack from every position

Keep going and eventually the rock will fall to the other side of the mountain and you will see how that "meaning" you chose was not of sufficient quality.

[Anonymous No.13806994]

>>13805961
>toil under the sun
>no one to supervise your work
>work for yourself
>give some of the production to your lord
>family is nearby
>the local parish teaches the gospel and manners to the kids
>drink beer with fellow serfs
>play a string instrument and sing out of tune with the bros in the inn and have a jolly fun time
>come summer help the village with festivities
>toil under the sun
>develop calluses in your palms
>learn about crops and different tools
>do shit with your own hands

GOD, PLEASE GIVE ME FEUDALISM AGAIN

[Anonymous No.13806999]

>>13804117
>it solves the myth of sysyphus
Bro, it IS the whole myth. Are you a literal retard?

[Anonymous No.13807424]

SISYPHUS PEERED INTO THE MIST
A STONE'S THROW FROM THE PRECIPICE
DID HE JUMP OR DID HE FALL AS HE GAZED INTO THE MAW OF THE MORNING MIST?
DID HE RAISE BOTH FISTS AND SAY, "TO HELL WITH THIS" AND JUST LET THE ROCK ROLL?

LET IT ROLL, LET IT CRASH DOWN LOW
THERE'S A HOUSE DOWN THERE BUT I LOST IT LONG AGO.

[Anonymous No.13807439]

>>13806125
doesn't this homo take money from the kochs?

[Anonymous No.13807443]

>>13805971
Yes
And as soon as someone exercises their right to free speech and speaks up against it, a bunch of flyovers start foaming at the mouth screaming incoherently about muh Commiefornians.

[Anonymous No.13807509]

>>13804707
based

[Anonymous No.13807564]

https://vocaroo.com/i/s156Bqlcy763

[Anonymous No.13807595]

>>13804117
>>Except is the opposite of this. Say anything about capitalism based society, but at least it gives endless ladder of goals for the working man to strive for. The cowards you speak for are the ones who are perfectly happy with working minimum wage jobs, punching the clock, and running back inside their hole. Sure there are the problems of materialistic driven society, but at least it solves the myth of Sisyphus
You can't really be eating your own bullshit and not notice everyone around laughing at you, right?

[Anonymous No.13807603]

>>13806994
kek, America fucked up so hard people want to be medieval peasants again. Lordy lord.

[Anonymous No.13807625]

>>13803941
And you misunderstand me - people working dead-end jobs for little pay only to allow themselves a day per week to fill with menial activities are Sisyphean in that they think they *are* searching for meaning. Ask most worker bees if they’re happy and they’ll likely tell you that fundamentally, ‘yes, I am’. The comparison to Sisyphus only ends when you realise that these people aren’t content pushing the rock up the hill, they’re content in just rolling it back and forth around at the base of the hill, never striving for freedom because they can’t even see the peak up which they are supposed to push.

[Anonymous No.13807641]

>>13807443
>Kazoo Line 1 and 2

[Anonymous No.13807798]

>>13806994
we had graeco-roman rennaisance, will we have medieval rennasiance?

[Anonymous No.13808949]

>>13807625
>they think they *are* searching for meaning. Ask most worker bees if they’re happy and they’ll likely tell you that fundamentally, ‘yes, I am’.
Completely untrue. They know thet are not living meaningful lives. These people bitch about their circumstances and project their unhappiness into other people and the world. They blame and criticize everything in life. And use escapism (alcohol, gambling, TV, religion) to hide their hopelessness.

[Anonymous No.13809217]

why killing arabs though

[Anonymous No.13809478]

[Anonymous No.13809512]

>>13804117
Either capitalists are retarded and don't understand their own economic laws (not everyone can be a seller), or they are manipulative cunts.
I'm going with ASS.

[Anonymous No.13809563]

>>13809478
Imagine a world where no work is ever done

[Anonymous No.13809585]

>>13809512
honestly people who study humanities or business (read: making powerpoint presentations and excel spreadsheets) shouldn't feel entitled to make any more that minimum wage

[Anonymous No.13809632]

>>13809217
Do you understand how stressful things are when it's 100 degrees on the beach, the sunlight is hitting your face and some sandnigger that jumped on your hommie minutes before pull a knife on you?

[Anonymous No.13809824]

>>13809563

[Anonymous No.13809839]

>>13809512
If retards went to school for something other than communications or gender mastery maybe they wouldn't make shit money

[Anonymous No.13809904]

>>13809839

[Anonymous No.13809923]

>>13809904
Is that San Francisco?

[Anonymous No.13809964]

>>13809923
dunno

[Anonymous No.13809995]

>>13807443
>he yanked the steering wheel and drove the car into a tree or he told the driver about his discoveries and both realized that sisyphus can't be happy so they drove into a tree

good fucking lord
much of music is already pandering to popular or corporate tastes, but this is just horrifying
some soulless drooler committed energy to writing that chant. There's something particularly horrifying about corporate culture to me, building all aspects of life and aesthetic into pure commodification in this quasi-religious, soul-eclipsing nihilism.

Reminds me of the first time I smoked salvia and felt torn between worlds like a vacuum was sucking just beneath all the cloaking mara/sensory experience, in a way which this painting comes close to describing.

[Anonymous No.13809999]

>>13804223
ima sissyslap yer sissypuss NIGGA

[Anonymous No.13810005]

>>13807443
that's straight up dystopian

[Anonymous No.13810036]

>>13806999
checked

[Anonymous No.13810038]

>>13809999
cringe

[Anonymous No.13810043]

>>13809999

[Anonymous No.13810053]

>>13803696
THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT
THIS IS WHAT YOU GET
THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT
THIS IS WHAT YOU GET
THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT
THIS IS WHAT YOU GET
THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT
THIS IS WHAT YOU GET

[Anonymous No.13810130]

>>13803696
FOR A MINUTE
I LOST MYSELF
I LOST MYSELF
FOR A MINUTE
I LOST MYSELF
I LOST MYSELF

[Anonymous No.13810245]

The boomer generation and its consequences have been a disaster for humanity.

[Anonymous No.13810263]

>>13810245
Was there a better/another option?

[Anonymous No.13810285]

>>13803696
>YOU'LL BE A CASHIER SOME DAY
>YOU BIG DISGRACE
>FUCKING AROUND ALL OVER THE PLACE

[Anonymous No.13810328]

>>13803696
AMERICA
FUCK YEAH
FREEDOM IS THE ONLY WAY NOW

[Anonymous No.13810382]

>>13809632
feel that bright sunlight on my face and want to kill an arab tbqh

[Anonymous No.13810416]

>>13807443
Kazoos are based and litpilled

[Anonymous No.13810588]

>>13810263
They chose convenience over sustainability in nearly every situation. There were variations of this theme the world over.

Ex: Labor rights. In America we saw the relegation of the worker to automaton for the sake of corporate gains. In Europe we saw inefficient labor squeeze and stagnate innovation for the sake of impracticable wage increases. Both types wanted the same thing: personal material gain with no consideration for the implications of their choices. Now their children are left without rights or jobs. Left in the weakest possible position to smoothly transition into an automated society.

[Anonymous No.13810670]

>>13810263
>>13810588
Give me one reason why boomers shouldn't all be gassed.

[Anonymous No.13810722]

>>13810588
yeah i notice this too
people above certain age can't into systemic/ecological thinking

[Anonymous No.13810737]

>>13810588
>They chose convenience over sustainability
We do that too. We're fucking pigs.

[Anonymous No.13810755]

>>13803696
is there anything more pathetic than a wagie? I would honestly be a NEET if i didn't feel bad about leeching off my mother

[Anonymous No.13810770]

>>13803696
Writing fake commercials sounds like a blast honestly

[Anonymous No.13810786]

>>13810770
>"Ohmygosh, baby: I just read this facebook post, and it says, Ladies, the truth is, you man don't know where he wants to eat either! Hah!"
>"SHUT UP BITCH, WE'RE GOIN' TO MCDONALDS"
>car peels out, woman screams
>"McDonalds: tell your bitch, to shut up."

[Anonymous No.13810798]

>>13809923
>>13809904
Lmao that's Santa Cruz CA, the homeless situation has gotten so much worse since I left. That shantytown in the picture is probably about 10% of the giant homeless camp they have set up there.

[Anonymous No.13810802]

>2000 years of stoicism
>100+ years of sociology and economic theory
>10000+ years of literature, song, dance, folklore
>All of it rendered redundant after a few repeats of:

WE ARE
WE ARE WALMART

[Anonymous No.13810810]

>>13803860

Have you ever had a white collar job and see the face of a slavering normie 40 something fishwife as she assembles a pointless large meeting in a large conference room?

[Anonymous No.13810822]

>>13810130
I'M NOT HERE
I'M NOT HERE
THIS ISN'T HAPPENING
I'M NOT HERE
I'M NOT HERE

[Anonymous No.13810936]

>>13810802
Progress marches ever onward.

[Anonymous No.13811440]

How do i get out of retail?

[Anonymous No.13811442]

>>13811440

[Anonymous No.13811450]

>>13811442
Suicide is for virgins: a true chad makes a noose then pulls his waifu out from the gates of hell instead of killing himself.

[Anonymous No.13811470]

>>13811450
Only a monster would pull a creature accustomed to existence on a higher plane to this lowly, wretched world, especially if one can only provide for his waifu with retail work.

[Anonymous No.13811471]

When I saw this thread on the catalog I knew it was going to be shit, I clicked on it anyway.

[Anonymous No.13811643]

>>13811471
well thanks for making it even worse!

[Anonymous No.13811672]

>>13809999
>>13809999
>>13809999
>>13809999

Ninice

[Anonymous No.13811732]

>be american founding father
>create your new country with no religious foundation
>200 years later everybody worships you and corporations instead
surely there must be a correlation here

[Anonymous No.13811814]

>>13811732
I'd honestly prefer a theocracy to what we have now but given how wretched and utterly bankrupt American protestants are it's probably better to worship corporations than exalt the malicious, wicked, parody of faith that these freaks call Christianity.

[Anonymous No.13812521]

>>13804798
>Most modern research suggests
Every time someone says this, they never link even a single reported study. Fuck you.

[Nick Land No.13812662]

>>13811814
America is the natural apotheosis of Christianity. It's return to the desert.

[Anonymous No.13812911]

Maybe Academia is based after all
Berkeley hosts 'The Right to Be Lazy: Shifts in Marxist Thought' class for credit
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13700

[Anonymous No.13812970]

Maybe Schopenhauer had a point after all.

[Anonymous No.13812995]

>>13803696
Gimme a quick rundown of this pic.

[Anonymous No.13813000]

>>13812995
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOkQJm_UGM4
>the literal absolute actual state of boomers

[Anonymous No.13813103]

>>13806563
Americans actually are a friendly and optimistic people, it's just hard to persist in that outlook when you live in the belly of Mammon.

[Anonymous No.13813578]

>>13804151
https://youtu.be/dwBOpBHHflo

[Anonymous No.13813596]

https://youtu.be/JIoZHGupZA8

[Anonymous No.13813605]

https://youtu.be/MEDxfzLkCk0

[Anonymous No.13813617]

https://youtu.be/qbKfFWPNeAM

[Anonymous No.13813641]

https://youtu.be/vb_418xm734

[Anonymous No.13813662]

>>13813617
What's happening in the webm?

[Anonymous No.13813669]

>>13813662
Rollercoaster ride takes pictures of you as you go around then charges you insane prices if you want a copy. The wagie is trying to stop the cameraman from recording the images.

[Anonymous No.13813673]

>>13813662
They're photos of people on some ride, and the wagie is desperately trying to block them from filming a clearly displayed sample of the product.

[Anonymous No.13813708]

>>13813617
Subhumans are so cute when trying to block cameras.

[Anonymous No.13813803]

>>13813596
That pic was made tongue-in-cheek, right?

[Anonymous No.13813820]

>>13813803
No, God has abandoned man

[Anonymous No.13813899]

>>13810722
What do you mean? And how is what that anon said an example of systemic/ecological thinking?

[Anonymous No.13813901]

>>13809999
checked

[Anonymous No.13814339]

>>13813899
>no consideration for the implications of their choices
we can agree that economy, politics, society and other things are hyper-complex interlinked systems, if you fuck a part of the system this could cause unexpected consequences in the long run.

My first job was to develop climate risk scenarios for 2020 - 2050, boomers laughed at the 2050 model, which was really grim, because "who the fuck cares about this shit, we're gonna be dead anyway". Since then I've been seeing this kind of worldview everywhere. Boomers don't care about things beyond themselves.