The goal of this post is to function as a vent post. Tell us what’s on your mind, yell, post pics, do whatever to clear your mind.

So yesterday my father in law and I went to this lake for a morning swim. It was 8 degrees celsius (46F) outside, the water was probably of a similar temperature. There were a few fishermen walking around in special wetsuits as to not get hypothermia and they were staring in disbelief at two guys walking into the water in underwear.

It was cold as fuck to the point that the cold water did nothing but hurt my skin. I swam for around ten minutes I think and the entire time I kept thinking: why would anyone do this? Why do humans feel the need to go to great lengths to do stupid shit like this? Surely it has to be more than just adrenaline.

Did I enjoy swimming in cold water? I don’t know. It made feel alive-ish. Would I do it again? It does have a certain lure to it.

It did make me think about people bragging about ‘suffering’. For example, my gf and I want to try to keep the heating off until at least the 21st of December, because shit is expensive yo. But when someone mentions that they already have the heating on, I start feeling proud of myself in a way. Because I don’t have the heating on yet, and I’m fine. Money is not even what I think about then, just that I am able to tolerate more cold or something stupid like that. I have no idea why I do that. It’s completely in line with my ideology and party work. But it still happens. Why do humans do this?

Also: FUCK CAPITALISM

  • @Munrock
    20•1 year ago

    I live in a communist country, but I live in a capitalist city that has its capitalism legally protected until 2047.

    It’s shit here. A handful of tycoons and big landlord conglomerates own everything, including in their number the successors of the opium peddlers/smugglers that kicked off the fucking opium wars. They carry the same name as they did back then.

    All of the difficulties of this shithole stem from the private sector, but the government cops the blame for practically everything.

    And me? Son of a colonizer, and colonizer-brained myself until I went to university in the imperial core and travelled and widened my field of view enough to see the bigger picture.

    It’s exhausting here. As a native English speaker my friendship circle is saturated with high-minded brainfart liberals who are the nicest people in so many ways but completely fucking braindead when it comes to class consciousness and critical consumption.

    It’s so frustrating. They love to hate on the CPC and they hate when I query the gaps in their logic about blaming the CPC for whatever mundane 1st-world hardship inconvenienced them that day.