7 reasons the 21st century is making you miserable

Adamantium

Wasn't sure where to put this, so I decided to unleash into the sarcastic,barren,windy bowels of After Hours.

One of the best, most profound articles I've ever read in ANYTHING EVER and its found in Cracked of all places.

http://www.cracked.com/article_15231_7-reasons-21st-century-making-you-miserable.html

I couldn't help but nod my head consistently all the time and yet feel depressed, for I recognised how refreshingly honest and brutal it shows some things up to be!!

No 2 and 6 are particularly good

What you think?

ardinn

Adamantium wrote: »

What you think?

I thought it was Bullsh!t tbh!

Tzar Gringo

And that ability to suffer fools, to tolerate annoyance, that's literally the one single thing that allows you to function in a world populated by other people who aren't you. Otherwise, you turn emo.

:eek:

nevermind the unfortunate oldschool goths, seems even travis bickle was an emo now!! can we just keep it confined to tufty haired chemical romance kids?

Degag

Lol OP, if those 7 reasons were all i had to be miserable about, i'd be a very happy boy!

Terrible Banking system
Crippling Inflation
Ridiculous Economy
No Jobs
No Money
ECB

And on a personal level... No sex!!! Alot worse than your list!

hondasam

I scanned the page for one minute and what I seen was crap.

The Agogo

I read the whole thing - depends what mood you're in for it to work effectively.

I can see what he's getting at, but it's written in a very childish manner - not to mention that it's hypocrisy of the highest order! (well, maybe not highest).

bonerm

Adamantium wrote: »

What you think?

I think : "Who's the hippy chick with the bodhran?" She's kinda cute.

syklops

That article could have been written about me. I love the honesty of, and I wish the author suggested some solutions. I have googled for some but not found any <- Slightly ironic.

Lol OP, if those 7 reasons were all i had to be miserable about, i'd be a very happy boy!

Terrible Banking system
Crippling Inflation
Ridiculous Economy
No Jobs
No Money
ECB

Seriously? Unless your the Taoiseach or a TD then I really feel sorry for you that these things all make you miserable.

In my opinion, banking crisis/no money/inflation/no jobs/Bad economy < Not having close friends/feeling lonely.

In fact in my opinion, booming economy/choice of jobs/a million in the bank < Not having close friends/feeling lonely.

Phill Ewinn

Wimmins wearing too many clothes. That is all.

ScumLord

Most of those things only apply to city folk.

Sergeant

What makes me miserable are greedy websites that make you click through 10 pages just to read content that could easily have been placed on one page.

Fluorescence

Cut a bit to close to the bone for my liking. Kinda depressed now

Cookie_Monster

1 H&S
2 Fuel Prices
3 H&S
4 Office jobs sitting in front of a PC all day
5 H&S
6 Perceived need for tolerance of everything regardless of how stupid, dangerous or ridiculous it is
7 H&S

Tonyandthewhale

This article is bullshit, the main argument seems to be that everyone is depressed because all their friends are just strangers who they talk to over the internet. Who actually lives like that?
At one point the article asks how many of your friends have you only talked to through text/internet? None, there are some that I mostly communicate with through e-mail and the like because they live in other countries but I've definitely met all my friends in real life just like the vast majority of people would have.

IrishGrimReaper

I couldn't help but relate to number 3.

SparkyTech

Im miserable enough without articles like this addding to it :eek:

syklops

I am not connected to this article, but I got annoyed with the one-liner responses. This is not twitter, you get more than 140 characters to express yourself

ardinn wrote: »

I thought it was Bullsh!t tbh!

Care to qualify that?

hondasam wrote: »

I scanned the page for one minute and what I seen was crap.

Well why dont you go back and read it, and then qualify your statement, and maybe we can get a discussion going. This being a discussion forum.

--Kaiser--

I actually thought the article had some good points (albeit badly made), although not a lot of it applies to me as I don't social network and have plenty of annoying friends

ScumLord

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

I actually thought the article had some good points (albeit badly made), although not a lot of it applies to me as I don't social network and have plenty of annoying friends

Annoying friends are great when they're annoying other people, makes them so worth while.

deathrider

So that's the reason! Here I was thinking it was just the lack of getting laid that was pissing me off.

pickarooney

It was depressing enough but not as depressing as the next article about all the cool people being Scientologists.

brummytom

I agree with number 3, definitely.


It's so easy to misinterpret something completely innocent in a text/message and get in a mard about it.

HoneyRyder

I think there is a lot of truth there albeit in a generalised, simplistic capacity. People and their relationships are complex so there will rarely be a neat, one-size-fits-all vox pop that accounts for everything.

Personally, I think one of the fundamental reasons that there's such a disparity between our modern happiness and the happiness of yore is largely to do with our expectations. Today, we are conditioned via our parents positive affirmations from birth, shiny happy ads in the media and our own sense of entitlement to not only want, but to expect to lead successful, comfortable, 'happy' lives.

And not only do we harbour these high expectations but we're armed with the necessary weaponry of education and money to put these plans into place. And if they don't fall into place, we feel inadequate and with that inadequacy comes negative self-comparisons with our peers, low self-esteem, feelings of marginalisation and the aftermath of not achieving our expectations and happiness revertebrates across our whole lives.

And I think a lot of that is because people are ill-equipped to deal with disappointment. And because we measure ourselves with other people's yardsticks. And these things combined with the enormous pressure of expectation weighing upon us leads to inevitable sadness.

Our parents and ancestors didn't have the same expectations and grandiose plans that we have and their happiness is forever being flung freely in our face. Maybe life is what's happening while we're busy making plans. And maybe if we stopped being prisoners of our own plans we'd be free to find that elusive happiness. Whatever that is.

AhSureTisGrand

Why must everything always be getting worse? For centuries people have been saying that the current era is the worst. If they were even half right, civilisation would have collapsed by now and we'd all be cannibals and living in caves

Aswerty

I'm a fan of cracked but that was fairly meh.

Who gets their knickers in a twist because someone doesn't wanna eat your Chilli (or substitute Chilli for whatever else).

W.Shakes-Beer

My list:

1) Dreadfully fast paced way of life.
2) Crazy fuel prices.
3) Everything revolves around social networking.
4) Nightclubs and how I hate them.
5) Pressure regarding education and qualifications.
6) Prices of everything in general.
7) Lack of jobs.


blah.

sollar

Young rapscallions getting badder and cheekier by the year.

Daegerty

Very good article but thankfully becoming slightly less relevant due to the recession.

Daegerty

W.Shakes-Beer wrote: »

3) Everything revolves around social networking.

Does it really?

5) Pressure regarding education and qualifications.
7) Lack of jobs.

these kind of cancel each other out though

Khyra24

Just thought this was a bit funny as it was discussed two years ago as well...

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055453741