[CW: modern dating, commodification, capitalism]

Attraction isn’t the point anymore.
Material escape is.

Alienation doesn’t just hollow out labor; it hollows out intimacy. We treat partners the way we treat jobs: “What can this give me?”

Sexual identity gets folded into lifestyle branding […]

It’s easier to say “my neurodivergence won’t let me” than “I don’t feel like doing that.” It’s easier to blame “trauma” than admit “I struggle with boundaries.”

Not every preference needs a pathology.
Not every awkward moment is abuse.
Sometimes you’re just human and that’s okay.

#mentalhealth […]

[CW: existentialism, suicide (philosophical)]

Camus never said, “Life is meaningless, so give up.”

His answer was: “Life is meaningless, so live anyway. Defiantly.”

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Life is absurd and that’s the starting point, not the conclusion.

We can still build meaning, even if it’s temporary and personal.

In fact, that may be the only honest way to live.

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Camus offered a different response: Not despair. Not retreat into comforting fictions (religious or nihilistic).

But rebellion: the choice to live, create, love, and act without needing cosmic permission.

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To choose “death as the meaning of life” is just a new dogma - a coping mechanism for people who can’t sit with the absurd.

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This is not nihilism.

Nihilism doesn’t replace meaning with a darker, edgier meaning.

It accepts that there is no final answer, and refuses to lie about it.

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In this community, the old religious structure was simply inverted: “Life has meaning because of God” → “Life has no meaning, therefore death is the only truth.”

Same structure. Same certainty. Just inverted and bleak.

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Camus argued that once someone recognizes there is no inherent meaning, no divine purpose, no cosmic script, most don’t embrace the freedom and they panic.

To avoid the discomfort of meaninglessness, they create a new “absolute truth” to cling to […]

And that’s what being human is:
sometimes good people make bad decisions,
and bad people make good ones.

It doesn’t mean free will is an illusion.
It means responsibility still exists — even in a world of pressure and pain.
Freedom isn’t purity. It’s the space to admit:
Yeah. I did that. And I […]

And the people around us — friends, followers, communities —
often live through us the same way parents live through their kids.
They push us toward the versions they wish they’d had the courage to live.

But regret disguised as advice is still regret.
And just because one path hurts
doesn’t […]

Because that’s not profitable in the online marketplace of attention.

The crowd doesn’t want truth.
It wants curated perfection — the illusion of virtue.
A world they can believe in, not the one they actually live in.

#philosophy #identity #barthes #internet

That’s not oppression. That’s life.

You can’t always change the room. Sometimes you have to change your frequency.

#worklife #psychology #reflection #honesty

You’re the same being moving through time — changing in detail, but not in essence. Every thought, every regret, every choice still belongs to you.

Change is possible, but it’s not erasure.
You can’t rewrite the past — you can only decide what you’ll do with what remains.

#philosophy #identity […]