Originally posted by General
[email protected] 20 2006, 04:44 AM
I didn't expect you to understand the question. Sorry, but I will refrain from 'toking up', because it might inspire your type of thinking.
You really really need to relax, guy. I don't toke up either, but shit.
Why live for today? Is that to say that you would short-change your own future just to live in the moment and attempt what everyone else seems to be doing, which is pretending to live in a perpetual state of bliss?
What are you doing in July that is so important that it makes you so superior? Your probably a high school student, too, because I recall these concerns vanishing once I actually had to work to feed myself and realised I deserve to have as much fun as I could have. Plus, carpe diem means seize the day, not live for today.
Am I the only one with an ominous or foreboding sense of the future?
No. You just seem to be angry because others have different goals and ambitions. Take me: I plan to a) get a doctorate, b) work in foreign affairs, c) potentially take over the world. :) Does that mean that a) great sex, b) a nice flower garden, and c) finally reading through all of the Lost Generations works, are somehow less important? Maybe, but why be ambitious and achieve things if you don't have any interests?
Is your desire to live in the moment a function of an overwhelming state of helplessness on the part of the majority of our generation? Are we going to continually allow our futures to be short-changed for us while we are searching for nothingness at the bars?
You know, you're on a forum for people who have overarching political goals that instill potential and purpose to their lives. If your wondering about why capitalism has sucked the life out of your generation, go ask those people at the bars, because you can't assume everyone here actually does what your suggesting. That being said, sometimes a shallow one-nighter is what you need, and who are you to judge?
The outcome of our future is largely dependent on how much attention is paid to the moment and how we react to processes and events that directly affect our quality of life. If we do not recognize the threat that liberalism poses, then all of us clear thinkers might be exterminated in some kind of new-wave purge, right here in America.
Okay, this conclusion has absolutely nothing to do with carpe diem. How do liberalism and living for the moment collide to destroy America, exactly? How are liberalism and living for the moment at all similar? Liberalism, I thought, is a political idea, while carpe diem is largely philosophical and social. A pro-gay rights stance is liberal; actually being gay is in the social/personal realm of life. The two touch, but aren't the same thing. A anti-Immigration stance is conservative; being a native-born American is social/personal. Not the same thing. Your argument, a term I use lightly, is a mishmash of useless accusations against American youth which you then turn into a widely based attack against liberalism, which is killing America. Isn't it easier to say "Young People Are Killing America," or "Lazy People Are Killing America." Why toss in carpe diem, which doesn't mean live for today, but seize the day, which means to make things happen. Your attacking the view that the future doesn't matter, and in this case, unless you can inspire your generation to change their attitude, you have to deal with it.