Yesterday I was enjoying a beautiful spring day in New England, laying down and reading in a park, when a thought entered my mind: should I be concerned with the advancement of mankind as a species or with my own personal life’s journey.
I suppose these two things are not mutually exclusive, but nonetheless I couldn’t shake this dilemma. On one hand, if it weren’t for those who dedicate their lives to researching cutting edge technology, we wouldn’t have many of the devices that make our lives easier today. We may still be in the paleolithic times or the middle ages.
But does the latest technology really even make our lives easier? You can definitely make the argument that devices like smartphones – in all their glory, gigahertz, and mega-pixels – are actually a huge detriment to society. They take away from having real experiences and replace them with kids and adults who visit some ancient monument like Machu Picchu only to stare at a screen the entire time they’re there. And while improved food production techniques have allowed the population of our planet to rise exponentially, this has led to overpopulation, disease, and problems of it’s own.
However, I can’t take a hard stand against human progress. The medical field, for example, is something whose progress I can only view in a positive light: it serves to directly improve our quality of life.
When I picture someone who’s dedicated his life to the progress, or the advancement of technology, at least, I think of Steve Jobs. He’s undoubtedly considered a great man, but if you read his biography it’s unclear whether or not what he sacrificed – in many cases this was his own happiness – is something that I’d sacrifice in exchange for his achievements.
The flip side of the coin, and the argument that I support, is valuing your life’s journey above all. That is, thinking of your life as a story and spending your days making decisions that will fill this story with unforgettable experiences and remarkable growth. This means not taking anything too seriously, including yourself. It means not trying so hard to please your family, friends, girlfriends, or strangers that you sacrifice your own best interests– your own story. It means putting your physical and mental health above everything else.
I’m not advocating being the tyrant who sacrifices his close ones for his own personal gain. No, I want my story to be one of the respectable alpha who dominates his own life and is also a good friend and supportive family member. To do this you must maintain an unwavering integrity. You cannot let an obsession with money, women, or any other desire blind you. Everything is temporary, including our lives, and we must proceed with this fact at the forefront of our mind.
We must invest our time into pursuits that will reward us with rich experiences and a sense of personal growth. The good thing is that often times these pursuits end up offering value to all of those around us. This can could be through dedication to cutting edge research that culminates in a life saving device or simply through writing books that motivate people to change their lives for the better.
Regardless of what path you choose, viewing your life as a story can serve to help remove you from your immediate circumstances and emotions, and allow you to make level-headed choices that will lead you in the right direction.
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should I be concerned with the advancement of mankind as a species or with my own personal life’s journey.
You should be concerned with a life of service, yes, you heard it right – to give of yourself and help others, first. As you do so in a wise way, which involves taking care of your own basic needs, BUT NOT GOING BEYOND THIS, you will benefit more than you can possibly imagine.The true masters are true servants of others.
The question is does it matter whom you serve? Your wife? Your mother? Your children? Your friends? Your country? The military? Or anybody?
God?
The descent of Man in one picture:
http://danieljmitchell.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/pajama-boy.jpg
CAn someone kill tbis guy???????
BTW u should all watch Rick And Morty… there was a post about it a while ago… most redpill show i’ve ever seen… i’m overloading on redpills right now.
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As a proud Hindu ( and former Buddhist) the reason of my life is God and I am happy with it : )
Definitely not a player character.
Be a player character, not an NPC.
“Definitely not a player character.
Be a player character, not an NPC.”
Jesus
He totally said that
Yep, I did.
Old D&D nerd. Haven’t played in decades, though.
I wonder if he actually an American citizen. The chick on the Hoeboma care website was and is in America illegally.
he’s a YKW
http://forward.com/articles/190011/obamacare-pajama-boy-controversy-wrapped-in-anti-s/?p=all
This surprisingly isn’t that bad. I see worse everyday at the mall I work in.
courtesy of heartiste. if it shows.
Every time I see pajama boy, I don’t know whether to love, cry or go into a killing frenzy!
The guy in that pic is the prototypical democrap.
^This was CLEARLY manufactured by the Koch brothers o discredit Obama. Bear in mind, the president has a staff of full time professionals who work hard to ensure that nothing that’s released to the public shows him or his policies in a negative light, there is just no way that something like this could ever get the go ahead. It has to be fake.
Do you think homesteading on another planetary body, or travelling the solar system/stars in your own vessel, seeking your own fortune would be an enriching experience? If so, then yes, you should care about human technological progress.
Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and their ilk, are not innovators. They’re marketing geniuses bent on making money. The real human innovators don’t give two spits about what fame or fortune they achieve, they care about solving problems. You’ll never hear about these people, they exist in all science and engineering fields, and their work ends up in obscure texts until someone with practical experience puts it together into something worthwhile.
Currently, humanity is a family of beings that is stuck in a one-bedroom apartment. We have environmentalism because some people get a burr up their ass about any mess they find anywhere in this apartment. We have wars because some people lose their shit when another group takes over their space in this one-bedroom apartment. We have corrupt governments because a few “elite” people control armed people to then control access to energy and food in this one-bedroom apartment.
Until human progress makes it possible for the average person to leave the earth and make their way off-planet, we’re all prisoners, and no one is truly free. If you want this situation to remain as it is, by all means, regard human progress, particularly our capabilities of living off this planet, as not worth helping out with.
epic post
u should write a short story
Quote: “Until human progress makes it possible for the average person to leave the earth and make their way off-planet, we’re all prisoners, and no one is truly free. If you want this situation to remain as it is, by all means, regard human progress, particularly our capabilities of living off this planet, as not worth helping out with.”
This.
What makes you think things will be any different on other planets?
No governments with magic markers claiming your land on paper and taking it with guns because elites want it.
Why would that stop? Who do you think would be funding space colonies? Probably governments and wealthy elites.
Anywhere an average person can go governments follow and take control of resources.
You can bet any planet that can support human life will be taken for resources by the elites. Your dream of freedom is not realistic in the least; not to mention there is no way in hell our technology will ever come close to achieving what you envision. I’m no astrophysicist so maybe you could tell me, how many lifetimes do you think it would take just to travel to these theoretical livable planets? Or are we just cryo-freezing people like in the movies? Shit, how long has it been since NASA went to just the moon? We are stuck here.
So, you think earthly governments will have control of what goes on, on Mars? That’s a little difficult, wouldn’t you think?
“…no way in hell our technology will come close to what you envision…” — Said by lots of idiots about all manner of imagined technology before it’s time.
We are better prepared, right now, to send men to Mars, than we were to send men to the moon in 1960, that is a fact.
I do think “earthly governments” would have control of Mars but for the sake of your argument let’s say there is an independent Martian government – Why would it be any different than any other government that has ever existed? They are all pretty much the same.
First though, we’d have go figure out how to pierce through the van Allen belts without getting fried on the other side. There was no moon landing.
I’m an idiot because I don’t believe mankind is going to develop the
capacity to travel thousands of light-years through space to planets
that haven’t even been discovered yet? Maybe you need to stop watching
so many sci-fi movies and look at the world around you instead of
daydreaming about star trek.
This is EXACTLY what people told intrepid explorers like Columbus and Magellan. “You think you are going to sail off the edge of the flat Earth to continents that haven’t even been discovered yet? What an idiot!”
“Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.” — Lord Kelvin,
British mathematician and physicist, president of the British Royal
Society, 1895.
“There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be
obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at
will.” — Albert Einstein, 1932
“The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty – a
fad.” — The president of the Michigan Savings Bank advising Henry Ford’s
lawyer, Horace Rackham, not to invest in the Ford Motor Co., 1903
“How, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by
lighting a bonfire under her deck? I pray you, excuse me, I have not the
time to listen to such nonsense.” — Napoleon Bonaparte, when told of
Robert Fulton’s steamboat, 1800s.
“Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to
breathe, would die of asphyxia.” — Dr Dionysys Larder (1793-1859),
professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, University College
London.
“Fooling around with alternating current is just a waste of time. Nobody
will use it, ever.” — Thomas Edison, American inventor, 1889
“[Television] won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after
the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood
box every night.” — Darryl Zanuck, movie producer, 20th Century Fox,
1946.
At least you are in good company, with all these other “experts”.
Let’s be real here; we have a time limit, an extinction event will occur and human life will end. If we were progressing in the slightest towards this dream of building space colonies I might be hesitant to dismiss the idea but if anything we are regressing. Combining the time restraint and the ever dwindling resources this planet has makes it clear we are not going to land on one of Jupiter’s moons and create an artificial atmosphere wonderful utopia bullshit community.
I understand you have a “science is the answer to everything!” attitude/religion but your faith in the greatness of human beings is terribly arrogant. Mankind’s greatest achievements so far have been centered around learning to kill each other more efficiently. We are animals, not gods.
I’m an idiot who runs his mouth and thinks he knows stuff because I’ve seen lots of movies. I knows stuff! The people I argue with aren’t necessarily right, but I’m certainly talkin’ out my ass!
no we are not – solar radiation = cancer. until we can block solar radiation anyone going to mars will have cancer when they get back to earth 😛
wow old article!
In short? The human race is a virus, a cancer, that needs to be wiped off of this planet.
Nikola Tesla in my opinion was a true innovator. We use his inventions to this day. Thomas Edison was more of the Bill Gates and Steve Jobs you mentioned.
“The real human innovators don’t give two spits about what fame or
fortune they achieve, they care about solving problems. You’ll never
hear about these people, they exist in all science and engineering
fields, and their work ends up in obscure texts until someone with
practical experience puts it together into something worthwhile.”
^This.
Hands up if you’ve ever heard of any of the following: Norman Borlaug; Maurice Hilleman; Wallace Carrothers; Bob Widlar; Edwin Armstrong; Alan Blumlein; Vladimir Zworykin; Sergei Korolev; Maxime Faget…history is full of such examples of men who did not work for the glory that clever marketing could bring but rather for the challenge of solving a problem.
The problem with “progress” is defining exactly what it is your progressing towards. I wish I would see something to make me think otherwise, but I think we a “progressing” towards a mighty fall in the West.
All this techno gadget garbage gives us the illusion of being advanced human beings, but at the end of the day it only separates from real human beings and replaces them with a screen.
I haven’t completely gone off the grid, but I have cut back on technology use. After all, everything you search, everywhere you go, and everything you think is going into a database somewhere. The end result of that can’t be anything good.
technology hasn’t made life better, it’s just made it faster…
the problem is that faster often sacrifices quality for speed….
a guy like Hemmingway who wrote a novel on a type writer had truly considered every word…. today any clown can bang out a novel in MS Word, all spell checked …. but the end result is invariably shite….
20 years ago you had to shoot a movie on 35mm at $1000 a minute….. to record music you needed a million dollar facility on $1000 a day…. now you can bang out music and movies in your laptop…
but there’s hardly any good art or music to be found…
funny thing that…..
just because you can make a noddle pot in 2 minutes, doesn’t make it good food….
All this technology really allows us to celebrate mediocrity, doesn’t it?
Good point, it’s not that there isn’t quality stuff out there, it’s just that all the garbage doesn’t get filtered anymore, there is no natural selection process and everyone is a winner.
Its very difficult to find the balance between yourself and the world around you. In my opinion, this is what becoming a man is all about: finding that balance. I would say becoming an adult, but the more I digest the red pill the more I assume that women are not even capable of thinking for the greater good of man and sacrificing personal satisfaction.
Life has to be about more than ourselves. This is why we villify women so much on this site. They think of only their selves and their desires. The biggest example of this is their hypergamy. If there is a guy at the bar hotter than their boyfriend, he gets all a females attention, with no regard for their “loved one’s” feelings. Most of us have been on both sides of this equation.
Respect, honor, loyalty, love, etc. all involve placing other people’s feelings/existence above your desires and they are necessary for MEN to survive and live in harmony. It is a sign of growth and maturity and it is what really separates the men from the boys. Not money, confidence, or any other alpha trait. When you can follow your beliefs in the face of adversity, you have become a man that stands for something.
I found my purpose thanks to this site. I want experiences, I want to do as much shit as possible too include women, eating and staying in different countries. When I’m dead and dying taking my last few gasps of air, I want to be able to look back on my life and say to myself, “It was a hell of a run”
The biggest thing you can do is attain enlightenment, that your soul becomes fully alive and divine ecstasy becomes manifest from within your heart, your soul. No need to travel all over the world. Take LSD, do yoga, whatever it takes, but attain that state of being truly alive. Focus on yourself.
You cannot change humanity. But you can change yourself and get out of this sick fucking universe and escape the cycle of birth and death.
Excellent article
As a boy, I heard my dad and all his friends tell these amazing stories. He was a marine engineer, and he and his guys built and ran a submarine for MIT and the navy (the one that found the Titanic later on). They did stuff like get drunk and steal the largest yacht in the world, finding a missing nuclear bomb and getting into a brawl with Jacques Cousteau’s crew at a bar in Haiti, then running from the Tonton Macoute. Real adventure shit. I felt as though I’d never fill his shoes, and was destined for mediocrity.
When my father passed away a few years ago, we had time to say goodbye, and he told us how happy he was with his life, for all the love within it. At the end of it all, he was more proud of raising a big family and the strength given by a 50-year marriage to my mom.
I’m the same age my father was when he built the ALVIN, the sub that made his career. Telling stories of storms at sea, and life aboard an oil tanker, I can see that my boy feels as I did at his age, that the age of discovery and adventure is already passed. If I can prove him wrong before he’s ready to go on his own, I’ll have eliminated all the worries that Jefe wrote about in this article. At the end of the day, there’s still nothing wrong with tuning out everything except for what’s in front of you.
Your father sounded like a fucking winner back in the day.
“At the end of the day, there’s still nothing wrong with tuning out everything except for what’s in front of you.”
Sage advice here. I’ve started doing that recently, and it’s paid dividends. Once the illusions the media and the government’s “education” system have programmed into you from birth have been intentionally deleted and lost, you can then embark on a life journey that’s far richer, and where you will find much more than the narrow vision they promote.
“The medical field, for example, is something whose progress I can only
view in a positive light: it serves to directly improve our quality of
life.”
I read that, then fucked right off from this article and came straight to comments. There’s no fucking progress in the medical field; just fancier names for the shit that’s killing us. Consider that there is no single acknowledged cure in all of mainstream medicine, then try to claim that’s “progress”.
“There’s no fucking progress in the medical field; just fancier names for the shit that’s killing us”
– said no cancer survivor, ever.
Guys, this is simply a rehash of an article from THREE DAYS AGO.
http://www.returnofkings.com/34242/every-day-you-get-a-little-closer-to-death
Editors, you can do better than this.
I disagree the with the author.
You’d have to be damn selfish and lazy to choose happiness over a lifetime of achievement if it means you improving the world.
It is better to BUILD or DESIGN a Machu Piccu than to look at it. Looking at it in person and staring at a smartphone while standing in front of it is essentially the same damn thing; there is little difference involved. You’re still a participant and not a creator.
Steve Jobs >>>> Daniel Craig.
LOL improving the world. You mean improving the CANCER that calls itself humanity? The human race is a goddamn CANCER. The sooner the human race is extinct, the better off this beautiful planet will be.
Wait, you are serious with your Guidestones post. You dumb fuck.
Quintus please ban this phaggot.
Off-topic and not even funny. Feminist fights against the Wikipedia gender-gap :
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/wikipedian-editor-took-wikipedias-gender-gap/
When we’re talking both to Wikipedians and people outside of
Wikipedia, we say, “Look, if we want to include all of these other
narratives besides the typical narrative that we usually tell of dead
white men, we’ve gotta get it in there now.”
Editor’s note: A few weeks after we taped our interview with
Adrianne Wadewitz, she died following a rock climbing accident. We
broadcast this report with the encouragement of her family.
You can read about her on Wikipedia :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrianne_Wadewitz
Decent article. Nice to see that ROK is leaning towards meaningful writing again.
My Letter of Apology to the Illuminati
For the past 10 years, I have tried my best to oppose and expose the agenda of the global elite, the “1 percent” as Occupy Wall Street calls them, or as “conspiracy theorists” call them the Illuminati.
I did this out of a false humanistic ideal, thinking that human beings are inherently noble and good, and that if given freedom, humans could create a perfect world.
What a fool I was. I realize now, that the elite are doing God’s work, and are being compassionate, by CONTROLLING the human race, especially in terms of population control. Because let us simply face the unpleasant truth- we humans really are a cancer on this planet. We reproduce uncontrollably, and suck up all the natural resources, until there is nothing left. That is by definition what cancer is. The human race is a virus, a cancer, on this beautiful planet.
I truly feel regret for opposing the Illuminati’s agenda. If only I had been a bit older, a bit wiser. The global elite are doing THE RIGHT THING by using GMOs, vaccines, chemtrails, forced abortions and sterilizations, and other methods in their depopulation agenda. If we don’t get the human population to a manageble number within the next few decades, it appears that we are a human race is going to go extinct, as we will have depleted the natural resources of this planet and destroyed the planet environmentally.
To John Rockefeller, to Henry Kissinger, to Bill Gates, and to the other compassionate elite, I want to sincerely and humbly offer my apology to you. You guys were doing the right thing all along. The human race does not deserve unlimited freedom, or actually any real freedom at all, as we have not evolved or perhaps are not even capable of evolving beyond the cancerous species that we truly are.
Let me end this letter of apology with the astounding wisdom that the Illuminati has promoted on their Georgia Guidestones:
1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
2. Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity.
3. Unite humanity with a living new language.
4. Rule passion — faith — tradition — and all things with tempered reason.
5. Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
6. Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
7. Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
8. Balance personal rights with social duties.
9. Prize truth — beauty — love — seeking harmony with the infinite.
10. Be not a cancer on the earth — Leave room for nature — Leave room for nature.
Signed, A truly useless eater,
John Doe
Subtle sarcasm sucks. Bad post. the Guidestones have too much truth that leaves the poster’s intent open to interpretation. At least make a point to say “never mind telling people not to have kids. that’s too much effort and won’t work. depopulation is the only legitimate answer:”
“should I be concerned with the advancement of mankind as a species or with my own personal life’s journey”
Why do the two have to be separate?
The human race is a vile, disgusting, vicious creature. Why on earth would you want to help such an animal? The human race needs to be wiped out.
Praise LUCIFER, who will open your eyes with the Divine Light of TRUTH!
Everything is ultimately meaningless. If you want to spend your life advancing humanity, then do it. If you want pursue hedonism, then enjoy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpaRouocBes
FUCK HUMANITY! The human race is a fucking virus that needs to be wiped off the planet. Why in the fuck would you try to HELP such a goddamn virus?
Fuck the human race. Praise be to LUCIFER, the Divine Light Bringer! Humanity should be sacrificed to LUCIFER, the Light of the Star of David!
Who is Lucifer?
Are you out of puberty yet?
The advancement of our species – in moderate balance with nature (and no, that doesn’t mean depopulation) – should be a high priority both personal and social for everyone, everywhere. On every level, mind, body and spirit, personally and as a species.
Yes, we will pollute the planet and drain its resources. It’s what civilizations do. Yes, we will eventually either outgrow it or cease to exist as a species on it. No two ways about it. Hopefully the former, if we manage to pull our collective heads out of our asses and start working on ourselves and each other in time to find a new planet to spread to. Earth is a cradle and we’re still infants for the time being.
Screaming ‘hail Lucifer’ & bleating about pointless sacrifice shows no appreciation for either the deeper concepts of human existence nor for whatever so-called “Satanism” might have stood for if not for people who merely scratch the surface of the human spirituality and then run around screaming nonsense. The above is nothing but Christian religious fanaticism turned the other way, every bit as blind and misguided as those who scream the same things ‘in the name of God’.
“They take away from having real experiences and replace them with kids
and adults who visit some ancient monument like Machu Picchu only to
stare at a screen the entire time they’re there.”
Because smartphones are better than Machu Picchu. Those ruins were the best they could do. Screw those guys. The Golden Pavilion isn’t a patch on the foyer of the average Hilton. The Great Wall is not visible from space, but the lights of our cities are.
Yeah, and the works of Aristotle pale in comparison to Farmville. Sure.
Steve jobs furthering technology … Jesus ROK has gone downhill
Ted Kaczynski seal of approval
“It means not trying so hard to please your family, friends, girlfriends, or strangers that you sacrifice your own best interests– your own story. It means putting your physical and mental health above everything else.”
Some might gloss over these lines, but they were the most resounding ones for me. I found myself trying to be a people pleaser, scared if even strangers didn’t like me and buy the whole “cool fucking guy” routine. Now things are much more clear and what truly matters is as you said. Not selfish, but self respecting, mentally and physically. Great article.
Lovely post and on point. thestinky dot com
Propagate your genes and piss off liberals at the same time by having a big, traditional family.
>Machu Picchu
It’s the new Mecca for the pseudo-sophisticated Western White female.
This is the worst advice ever. Once again, some personal trainer or club promoter telling us about success. You have no idea what it’s like to actually work hard on a craft. You have to sacrifice a lot. You’re just an average dude who plays charlatan on a website full of gullible idiots who haven’t been laid in a while.
BTW, it was the motto of the Boomers to “change the world.” Take a gander at how that worked out.
Do you Hyperdrive?