Boredomistan: There's no I in team

Comment from Bob Batty

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 00:43:32 GMT

Yeah, you have to wonder about unhappiness

Comment from Invig

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:36:08 GMT

dude, thanks heaps for your story. its really shone a light on the whole confusing mess that is ACT government. i have good, rare skills too but zero experience. my plan is to go for some bullshit temp work, get some references, and try to make some contacts. pity us virtuous, saintly bloggers can't get together and start some serious nepotism in the circles of power... ;)

Comment from Ryan Albrey

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:27:59 GMT

Guy, Guy, Guy. Will you ever learn? How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man? What exactly would you have Nick do before you can regard him as living a worthwhile life? Should he climb Mount Everest, have sex with a hot chick at the summit and then skateboard to the bottom? What sort of thing would you have him do before you say "ok, now your a cool, fuck 'The Man', fuck 'The System', kinda guy who is living a life worth living"? If the worker ant lifts his head and can comprehend the vast African Savannah around him is he a better Ant? Is he living a more meaningful life? Would it bother you that he still cannot comprehend Planet Earth? Answers below. Man. A meaningful, fulfilling life does not come from earning lots of money, it doesn't come from deciding to not work in a 9-5 job, it doesn't come from being a part of the system and it doesn't come from breaking the rules and living outside of the system. Each individual must decide for themselves where it comes from. And I will tell you another thing. It is not for the sake of the colony that bees, ants and humans form the colonies they do. It is for the sake of the individual. I think you could have shortened your original comment down to the following: "I am damn unhappy with my life. It feels meaningless. How dare you cunts feel happy." Answers (I would write them upside down but I don't know how): Maybe someday 5 roads Dunno Yes he should Dunno It would make him a super-ant no I'm sure it would bother you.

Comment from Dr dooshy

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 02:32:35 GMT

i like boobies

Comment from WiseGuy

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:05:49 GMT

Ideas aren't "deep" if they're on the surface of your consciousness most of the time. Maybe it's just that most people are shallow and what they designate as "deep" is a bit too uncomfortable or difficult to face and resolve ;) Trainspotting was shit, apart from maybe making a few people think twice about adopting the glamorous junkie lifestyle. I'm not saying "choose life," i'm saying re-evaluate your whole perception of what life is and what it can possibly be, because people have no fucking imagination any more and obviously no realization that their time is currently finite and of infinite value, being short and bookended by infinite non-existence. "Money can be exchanged for goods and services" is an amusing though weak argument - in fact, it's the over-emphasis on the money, what we have to do for it and the shit we buy with it that was the crux of my previous statement.

Comment from silpheed

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:34:09 GMT

Comment from Mat

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:40:17 GMT

Wiseguy, read this. You might also to have a look at anything by William Morris.

Comment from The Editor

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:43:01 GMT

Someone's been watching too much Trainspotting. Deep, man. Deep.

Comment from WiseGuy

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:02:59 GMT

I can't help but read all of that and think, fuck, i'm so glad i never automatically agreed to playing by the rules and becoming Mr CareerMan, although it was a close shave (in IT, no less) and the agents of social pressure sometimes make me doubt my choices. It's just nuts that people continue to find this type of society acceptable - what do they spend their existence's doing? Is it really satisfying to be little ridiculous cogs in the giant machinery of capitalism, to go to work 5 days out of 7, getting told what to do, when and how, just to enjoy the mod-cons, the big tv and the shiny car? How does the worker bee feel at the end of it's stint of existence? Are we all supposed to take to heart that dumb t-shirt motto: "He who dies with the most toys, wins?" What are you gonna do with all that hard-won cash you're trading your existence in for Nick? Go on a few expensive guided-tour-type holidays, get yourself tied to a mortgage just so that you can say the shelter you're currently utilizing is your "own" and spend more money on it to impress others? Make like the baby-boomers you hate so much yet are clearly emulating, and raise a couple more little additions to the overpopulation problem and start the process anew? Where the fuck are we all heading? Does anyone even fucking THINK about it? Or do they just accept they have to assimilate into the society they're thrown into when they're born, play by the rules and then shuffle off into eternity, supposedly content at the end that they "played a good game?" When that fairly inevitable day comes that a man in a white coat informs your family that all he can really do for you is "make you comfortable" from here on in, will you still be trumpeting about your shrewd manipulation of the IT scene in early 21st century Canberra? In the context of your evolved value system you believe you've had a win and you feel good about it. Feeling good is feeling good - it's subjective, and i suppose that if one feels like that most of the time i can't argue it's a wasted life, but man, like someone surveying an anthill in the middle of a vast African landscape, and thinking about those worker ants, with their single function in their single little niche, my brain just screams "There's so much MORE to life! Wake the fuck UP!"

An anonymous comment

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:44:51 GMT

Well done silpy, proud of you dude.