Good thought, wrong sub.

This isn't a meme

Why is this posted to memes? This sounds like a good way to live life. Stop chasing that next big promotion, or whatever status symbol you think will make you successful.

Just live and try do what makes you happy.

I feel like the caption doesn't summarize the spirit of the quote. The indigenous folks cooked, told stories, made art, danced, fell in love, made enemies, had sports, and formed various unique cultures. There's a lot of "doing" in a that. For me this reads as you don't need to grind to make other people wealthy and collect a lot of plastic bullshit that Instagram convinced you was necessary for happiness. But like we're all slowly, collectively realizing this right?

Problem is I was born in a place and time where I need to do in order to be.

Are western cultures not indigenous?

Or is this just more US defaultism?

Also Nature: relentless, uncaring, powerful, unpredictable, and disastrous.

“To be is to do” -Socrates

“To do is to be” -Jean-Paul Sartre

“Do be do be do” -Frank Sinatra

Holy shit does this instance have a mod? What a fucking shit show over such a positive picture.

Happy indigenous people day.

Being alive for the sake of being alive doesn't do much to reduce infant and maternal mortality rates. Those are down from pre-industrial levels because incredibly smart people have worked incredibly hard over the last few hundred years.

I'm alive for a purpose. That purpose is to play Red Alert 2

So like, is there some place I can go too live like that? One that isn't private property or owned by the government, etc? I live in a place that is mostly open, mountainous areas, but they're surrounded by barbed wire and 2nd Degree Tresspassing is a felony.

Original tweet: https://twitter.com/melatoninlau/status/1419765478474485760

https://web.archive.org/web/20221219113245/https://twitter.com/melatoninlau/status/1419765478474485760

Still trying to work out if being White British means I have a natural mystical connection to the land and spirituality.

Europeans fucked everyone in the ass.

I hate doing 9-5 and hate myself. FML

Oh yeah cheers Melanie.

That's a rather empty way to live one's life. While purpose isn't an objective mandate from the heavens, it can be found within oneself, and struggling towards that ideal is where human beauty truly lies.

That's a rather empty way to live one's life. While purpose isn't an objective mandate from the heavens, it can be found within oneself, and struggling towards that ideal is where human beauty truly lies.

Sounds like communism talk

/s

LOL I don't question why we're here, but since we are, it's nice to be a part of society where I can learn to be really good at 1 thing, and then do that 1 thing, get compensated for it, and then pay others to do things for me that they're good at. Work is cool.

If you want to live in the woods and "be beautiful and strange" and learn to do everything yourself without anyone teaching you, by all means, feel free to exit society.

Bet her idea of being one with nature is a picknick in central park lmao

Some indigenous cultures never invented writing and are hunter gathers. They don't have time to engage in any sort of philosophy. There's no basis for them to even describe these ideas.

It's not better. It's not different. It's underdeveloped.

Disgusting libshit, fetishising indigenous cultures as these perfect things.