Notice how on top of being degenerate, vicious, corrupt and superficial the Kali Yuga is also so...

[Lessenech]

Dull?

Everything is incredibly predictable and homogeneous on account of the rise of one global culture, so music, culinary, dressing styles, tourism, romance is increasingly similar and done with the same consumer rationale everywhere. Was looking at real estate options and it all looks the same in urban locations across continents, so unless you purposely go out of your way to buy things from ages past you just get the same thing regardless.

There's no real prospect of a political revolution having a chance of altering anything in the grand scheme of things. War is permanent but always low scale and waged in a sanitized way that reduces the viciousness of it, so it's both pointless and fails to phase anyone. The economic crisis is permanent, nobody knows how to fix it, yet nobody cares too much about it anyway. Same with the social system, everyone goes on about how crumbling hospitals and schools are, but other than band-aid immediate solutions nobody really believes it can ever be turned around anyway.

Daily life for people is often even more repressed than that of peons in ages past, who at least got to occasionally cover large swathes of land walking, got the thrill of hunting an animal sometimes to eat, or the near certainty of having a small family to deal with the tediousness of mortal life. Today's 'free' people spend life in a treadmill chasing idols that never really add anything to them. A diploma, a job, a pay cheque, a divorce settlement (if even married at some point that is). Wake up, ride the metro/car, stare at a computer while the sun is up, leave when it goes down, heat something and try to sleep and hope for the weekend where psychotropics are needed to release oneself and cope just enough.


Bronson's book often mentions that one of the worst things to deal with in prison is the excruciating boredom. His solution was to pump iron and exercise, yet doing that for 2-3 hours everyday for me is still not hiding away how dull this whole era is. Only meditation really seems to do anything, spirituality is salvation after all.

I used to just laugh at the people who mentally masturbate over at r/futurology, or the silly alien/sci-fi documentaries that get posted around (you know, Frank Grimes' types), but I now understand that it all is just a defence mechanism to deal with the crushing boredom, hoping for STEM geeks to deliver a new gadget or fun ride to deal with the all-consuming gray boredom that the post-industrial world is about.

Just a morning musing.