u/donn_12345678

In life if I want perfectionism in every aspect of my life and refuse to settle for less, why the hell should I continue?

This is not an emotional response this is one of philosophy and logic.

I want it and only it at all times in every way, you can argue if you should want this but that’s a fruitless argument as wants and just general opinions on what life should be or what’s worth it or what’s valuable are completely subjective therefore this is not a wrong take and is simple what someone wants from their life.

If I realise I cannot achieve this why the hell should I put up with it? And why is the automatic response to try and cope, change or philosophise that it isn’t actually what you should want.

If we are thinking truthfully here the correct response would be to not put up with it or to feel completely justified in kicking, screaming, crying and doing whatever not being and getting what you want out of life at all times gives you and makes you feel.

Sorry if this also has some elements of food science to it

So we all get told to eat in season stuff because it tastes better, has more nutrients and less climate impact, and back in the day they could only eat what the land gave them at that point and it worked well (especially in the Mediterranean) but then we see recipes with the classic mirepoix for year round recipes when carrots and especially celery do not grow year round.

Now I know there are greenhouses, imports, cold stores and other various methods. But when were people actually starting to be able to eat fruit and veg not in season? Also, from the methods I just mentioned (and maybe others throughout history I forgot about) that actually still count as eating food that was grown ‘naturally’ (whatever that word means) in season ?

And my final question, what does this all mean for the modern man trying to eat seasonally and locally but adhere to good traditional recipes?

Not someone who goes clubbing all the time, although not excluding clubbing.

I’m not rich but I’m not poor, I can afford to go out for a couple pints a week or occasionally go out for a take away every now and then. But I wish for more

My ideal life is working, but before or after work or on my lunch break always trying a new local place, or being a daily regular at a bar or a pub and then on the weekends going to a members only club or something like that.

Is this type of bachelor comfortable life realistic, even exists anymore or all it’s cracked up to be?

I genuinely enjoy it. Like yes I occasionally like to do stuff that’s productive or enrichment or whatever, but if I could my daily life would be 90% doomscrolling till I die. Eat, occasionally do something when the urge comes but that’s it. The rest just go on my phone. It’s not a meaningful or fulfilling life but that doesn’t seem to matter to me right now, not sure why

What is this idea or concept?

People will believe what they want to believe, where even with good evidence, a semi compelling argument that can’t be disproven will be taken as proof over it.

E.g climate change data both positive improvements and negative outcomes can both either be replied with ‘eh humans have always innovated out of problems before’ or we have never had a problem this global before, how can we possibly solve it, it’s too late’. Both are technically not right or wrong or provable yet. They can both be reading good data, not misinterpreting any of it, making logical arguments yet neither mind will change

Probably doesn’t actually exist but here’s the vibe.

Well dressed, drink alone or with a couple of close friends in a speak easy type bar or a men’s club.

You drink beer or whisky or maybe an old fashioned, something like that. No loud music or old dirty men’s pub. You go out drinking from 9 or10pm all the way to say 3am, maybe even later if it’s ‘a good night with good company’

No one gets drunk or loud and it’s always civil and classy. You get socially lubricated and stay that way till the end of the night.

How can this be achieved

I don’t mean in an emotional way, I mean in a technical sense

You can’t do anything you want without having it be bad.

\- buy or do something = exploitation, bad for environment, doesn’t respect the craft of whatever it is (idk bad chocolate doesn’t respect the cocoa farmers who care about their cocoa).

So you just do nothing and then waste your life

You simply can’t win and ‘good enough’ when it comes to literal child exploitation and destroying the planet simply isn’t enough

All off Amazon for my birthday, hate all of it to the point it makes me angry to see them

Don’t wanna wear it but don’t wanna hurt mothers feelings. What do I do

What do I mean by hippie movement?

Something big enough to influence the wider culture at preset, something that would make changes to how the general world works rather than being in its own subcultural bubble. It has to be something other people can’t help but know and recognise. Doesn’t have to be called a hippie movement or even hippies, just the core tenants of peace and love for the world and others.

We should learn from tbe previous hippie movement and learn from our mistakes, not to turn just into a drug group, be cringly sweet or oversimplistic and dogmatic, to be nuanced about it and clever and almost diplomatic in how it’s done.

Be careful of the modern age issues we face such as the toxicity of the internet and how that could QUICKLY turn us on our selfs once we get real momentum and things are truly on the line, to adapt to each modern struggle and difference. And of course, to rebrand to not ride on the coattails of something once gone and to not be a ‘cheap imitation’ of the previous movement.

And finally to actually do stuff, saying stuff is great and a start but I mean doing something to try and stop the pain, war, suffering and destruction in the world in of course our peace and loving ways and methods.

Now I doubt anyone will actually do something from what I’ve said, who am I to tell anyone what to do, especially when life is as hard as it is. I just needed to share