>realize that my depression is caused by addiction to consumption and materialism
>go outside
>hike to a backcountry lake
>take in the view of the glacial turquoise waterfall dropping into the pristine water
>depression deepens
>realize that changing my location and scenery does change my relationship with the material world and that instead of consuming porn, I am now just consuming the natural world and I have just brought my materialistic worldview into the mountains and that I've been tricked into romanticizing a lifestyle brand fantasy
>spend a sleepless night listening for bears, cold and alone
Complainer alert
Good for you!
Just be aware it's not
>consumption and materialism
per say, it the dopamine chasing, which can sneak up on you in anything, but if you stay aware of it you can navigate away from temptation wherever it starts to manifest.
>taking in the splendor of nature without paying a subsciption fee or applying for a loan is just as bad as sitting at home staring at porn
What did he mean by this
who cares just make it hard and painful enough so you forget all you´re earthly problems and walk it off
being PrepHole is not always fun and it is not supposed to be
Babbys first existential crisis
Find more distractions
These kinds of posts are really lame and cringey. I agree with
moron alert. Humans have always consumed even in the fricking ice age we were hunting and gathering, which is consuming.
if you feel that you can only enjoy art and nature through the lens of identifying with a lifestyle brand your mind has been scrambled, by design and very much on purpose, by large corporations that seek to commodify everything, including the experiencing of nature.
you may enjoy this video, which talks about how it is the objective of advertising to constantly get you to "identify" with a lifestyle brand for short periods of time to buy the products associated with said lifestyle.
If they can make you identify and wish for a more artistic lifestyle, you will buy more art shit; a fitness lifestyle, buy more fitness shit; an outdoors lifestyle, more outdoors shit.
It begins to make you only see the world in terms of nothing other than what you can buy and, what is being sold to you.
https://www youtube com /watch?v=9srhgHzUFd4
The funny thing is that even though you seem to have had a bad experience with your depression in nature, the cure is probably found in the simple enjoyment of nature. It's one of the few things that is almost entirely free to enjoy.
the more you expose yourself to the wonders and comforts that can be found in nature, free from constantly worrying about money or appearances, the more you will stop looking though the capitalistic lenses that have been placed upon your head, and more with a right and natural way of thinking and observing the world
keep going PrepHole
this is a good post
Also,
OP needs to shatter his (her) paradigm bubble and rebuild his (her) psyche
absolute banger reply anon, thanks
How to say nothing in 2000 words or less.
Dumbass. Of course depression is just your state of mind. If you lived in a hand built cabin and worked to provide food for you and your family and had nothing to buy do you think you would be depressed? They keep introducing more things, more levels to society to keep you unhappy, wanting more. If you thought you were happy you wouldn't be so willing to take out so much credit and wage slave
stfu moron
Consooming the outdoors as you put it will still in time lead you to more peace and satisfaction. Just keep at it and try not to strive too hard to attain the feeling, you cant push these things, you have to give it time. Even if you want to frame it as consumption, the things you consume do to some degree rub off on you, consume better things -as an alternative to the shitty things- (not on top of them) and you'll feel better in time.
depression isn't real, you're just a whiny homosexual
This but unironically. It's just the zoomer mentality.
Yup, it’s thinly veiled narcissism. Those kids in Africa with flies in their eyes and distended bellies are less likely to have the feel-sads than soft whiny zoomers
>Those kids in Africa with flies in their eyes and distended bellies are less likely to have the feel-sads than soft whiny zoomers
This is as dumb as someone stating "Distended bellies aren't real, I don't have a distended belly, therefore it does not happen". Science!
Because we are subjective. A starving kid has clear pathways to satisfying their wants (note, I said clear, not easy) they are in a situation humans are evolved for. Kids in developed countries are not in anything like the conditions they are evolved for. Say you have a cat and a field with some mice in it, and a cat which sits in a windowless cell being fed every three hours with canned food, which do you think is going to be happier and thriving?
>I have just brought my materialistic worldview into the mountains and that I've been tricked into romanticizing a lifestyle brand fantasy
look into animism
it's the religion of the hunter gatherers aka the most PrepHole kinda people
Sounds like a good way to be eternally miserable with that mindset.
If you're tired of consuming and materialism, maybe try creating something?
A wood carving, helping someone else out, learning a new skill you want to put to use for others/yourself.
There are many ways PrepHole anon. Seeking to run away from yourself instead of acting in a manner that will get you closer to who you want to be is one of them, but it won't get rid of your depression.
tl;dr get obsessed with something else, act on it and do less introspection for now.
Just another NGMI thread, move along, nothing to see here
As long as you are not a white woman pls don't be so hard on yourself because you probably don't deserve it
go to church, develop faith, believe in God
If god exists, he's very good at hiding. If I die and he turns out to be real, I'm kicking him in the nuts for inventing mosquitoes.
>I am now just consuming the natural world
I'm guessing you never left the city.
the real consumer mindset is expecting to have your way of experiencing/making meaning in the world substantially changed literally overnight. u have been trained to expect instant gratification but the truth is it will not happen that fast and it might not happen at all. take the time&effort to connect with things which are very slow and complex and hard (or impossible) to understand in a straightforward way. that might not feel "good" but i think its worthwhile, don't u anon?