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Sisyphus 55 | October 16, 2025



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  3. @jme_lewis

    October 16, 2025 at 9:44 pm

    I really enjoy this channel. I guess I’m in the middle of an existential crisis and your videos are helping me see a way through this mess in my head. Thank you for making these videos. You have inspired me to start reading and writing more.

  10. @Vundeq

    October 16, 2025 at 9:44 pm

    May i ask you if the comment "half the greatest country on earth believes in a conspiracy theory" is a retort at those who state that the USA is the best country on earth, period. Or are you being serious in genuinely believing it trumps all other nations in terms of education, life expectancy, rehabilitation and more. Thanks.

  11. @ndlmous

    October 16, 2025 at 9:44 pm

    I think we should all just play Grand theft Auto. Just a world filled with all those times I put cheat codes into San Andreas to make sure that the only thing inhabiting the world were a bunch of rocket launcher wielding Elvis's playing PVP. So come on everybody, grab a pompadour wig and a shotty and let's see who can rack up the highest wanted level.

  12. @razumikhim

    October 16, 2025 at 9:44 pm

    what am I gonna do? nothing
    there isn't anything to coerce me into caring
    I'm gonna live my best life, trying to do everything thst I can the right way
    why would I have to plague my mind with activism and waste my time when I can do something productive for me
    nationalism is long dead, if I don't care about my country why would I care about the world?

  13. @gerald6811

    October 16, 2025 at 9:44 pm

    I find an unhealthy amount of solace in the fact that when faced with the tidal wave of issues we are being burdened with, that so long as I strive to make the most of my brief time here and jam pack it with as much meaning as I can find, I have lived well. Think of it like this. You know how it is going to be, so hug the homies tighter now. Go get that piloting license, ask that girl out, quit that job you fucking hate and live in a van. We are very intimate with our mortality in one of the most detached ways. Almost in the sense that our finity is unreal to us, because its event horizon is so far off we cant be bothered to care about it. This apathy is robing you of your experience, your playthrough.

    TL;DR live and seek a meaningful life as an antidote to the black pill

  17. @madeleinep.828

    October 16, 2025 at 9:44 pm

    I feel like something terrible is going to happen soon. I know terrible things are obviously happening all the time, but I mean something absolutely catastrophic on a global scale. It’s like we’re all just ignoring it and pretending everything is still okay.

  21. @garretthilb8346

    October 16, 2025 at 9:44 pm

    Half the country does not believe a conspiracy theory off of 4chan. That would be media propaganda telling you that. Its a relatively minor percent of morons. But guess what conspiracy theory nearly half the country does believe in: wHiTe SuPrEmAcY as a meaningful, quantifiable element of our system and institutions. Such that narratives are being derived from these "critical theories" are being implemented not only in our public education but in media as well as corporations, which should be a red flag itself. I find amusing how the proportionally few idiots that believe in "Q" are discussed as a serious problem when there is a much larger conspiracy theory of distortions and misrepresentations of American history being perpetuated quite openly, and being parroted by a much larger percent of the population.

  27. @sinto_hd4443

    October 16, 2025 at 9:44 pm

    What am I going to do now?
    I'd love to fight, but I don't know if it is possible for me, because I don't see that much possible action to take here in Germany.

  28. @ChuckNorrizHIM

    October 16, 2025 at 9:44 pm

    Just my doomer cent

    The thing with these problems is this is LITERALLY an indoctrinated belief that simply reduce, reuse, and recycle was one of those sentiments hammered into my elementary classes with postage and repetition.

    As time marched into middle grades you still saw it, but hearing it was more for a specific day or when a snarky kid made a comment about using both bins. High School it wasn’t even relevant as we fully realized there’s a job that cleans and I think people at that point respected that job or didn’t.

    The pandemic definitely proved the use of transportation to be the BIGGEST contributor as when “the world locked down” the detection of certain gases IMMEDIATELY began to decrease, but I think that data will be used as a slant. “Look how quickly the gases dissipated, the Earth will be fine once we find a resolution”

    Which feels once again like a placation because we are decades away if not a century or two away from phasing out the use of gasoline (AS A START)

    They put the change up to us because there will always be more people willing than companies/megacorps able

  29. @loopiloop

    October 16, 2025 at 9:44 pm

    In a similar fashion to how in genetic evolution, every step from one form to another has to be beneficial, in memetic, societal evolution, every step of the process must be beneficial too. Humans are inherently vad at making short term sacrifices for long term benefits.

  30. @kuldeepjoshi8010

    October 16, 2025 at 9:44 pm

    People buying more bs products(unnecessary) -> bs product market thriving-> it's manfctrng pollutes planet for no essential reason whatsoever and that too in large numbers.

  34. @MalMotorDedo

    October 16, 2025 at 9:44 pm

    Guys, chill, if we're fucked, then try to think: "What can I do to not contribute to the bad things in the world?" That's all we can do, preach about it, we can only go up, right? (Cuz, yk, we're fucked ¯_(ツ)_/¯)

    Also, remember, there's ppl who are dying rn, because they can't afford food, they live in terrible places that are full of dangerous conditions or they had the terrible luck to have a mortal disease (some were even BORN with those diseases), to those ppl, it really doesn't matter that we're fucked in a different level, they're condemned regardless.

    Conclusion, do the best you can, we may "un-fuck up" the world 🙂

    ILY, thanks for caring!

  37. @bamboolaceway

    October 16, 2025 at 9:44 pm

    I remember my graduation speaker clearly, his message, not of hope or inspiration for our futures, but this:"My generation ruined the planet, and your generation will have to deal with the disaster and clean it up."

  38. @MaddesG1

    October 16, 2025 at 9:44 pm

    If you have an answer for the world give an answer for the problem you could fix this instant. Start small within your own life, right the simple wrongs in your life if any and don't stop until you can get to that problem and by the time you do have answer someone else will have answered that problem…the burden will be over and you will have cleaned up in your life enough to focus on not the problems of this world but what would really matter for the world. It's not the problems that matter. It's solutions and each and every solution comes to each and everyone. Some solutions aren't technological or help in that sort of sense to rectify the problems at hand; however, it's the solution you make that can be seen as a cure for so many. Say one simple thing that comes from a place that is deeper and can level with peoples hearts and there will be a resounding feeling of grace as if whatever you feel no matter what or how many times you've experienced such a thing it will always be something that makes you feel like a better person. Thats humanities strength. Look upon histories brightest and histories not so brightest and everything in between and understand that we come from something incredible feel that connection and never forget that we are all the same upon this Earth from cretan to saint.

  40. @the1exnay

    October 16, 2025 at 9:44 pm

    I see our hope and potential doom in the same place: automation. Sufficient automation will make UBI or similar not just possible but necessary. And in such a system it's possible for consumerism to become less necessary, i think.

  43. @Eric06410

    October 16, 2025 at 9:44 pm

    Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
    Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
    To the last syllable of recorded time;
    And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
    The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
    Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
    That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
    And then is heard no more. It is a tale
    Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
    Signifying nothing.

  44. @Varan566

    October 16, 2025 at 9:44 pm

    There’s obviously things you can do. You can join protests. You can join your local litter sweep. You can recycle. You can buy one water bottle and reuse it. You can look up the new viable sources of energy, I recommend doing a lot of research on thorium sand reactors. Stop being hopeless! It’s time for change.

  45. @AJX-2

    October 16, 2025 at 9:44 pm

    It's important not to give into doomerism. The problems we face can be solved, just like the problems we faced in the past. Do you know why you never hear about the hole in the ozone layer anymore? That's because it's gone. We fixed it. Even if it seems like there is no way out yet, history is full of daring last-minute rescues but more than that, it's filled with regular people who did their best to solve the problems of their day, and getting it done. Given humanity's track record, I have absolute faith that we can fix this.

  48. @forposterity4031

    October 16, 2025 at 9:44 pm

    Human caused Climate Change is anti science. Learn how Co2 molecules work and understand that the greenhouse effect is good and one of the reasons we are able to live on this planet, 70% of greenhouse gas is water vapor, Co2 is minuscule to non existent by the time it reaches the atmosphere, any molecular physicist will tell you this. Why do you not hear of pollution anymore? Because no side can argue pollution is good, pollution cannot be made political. Pollution is visible to the average person and children can understand it and how to help mitigate it, they don't teach the 3 Rs anymore but instead teach climate change. Pollution one person can make a difference, but climate change one person means nothing. So the narrative switched to climate change, which is contentious and divisive, has many contradictions and is more akin to a cult or religion than a scientific hypothesis. Most people don't realize the models they use for climate change are the nearly the same tech and algorithms they use for the weekly weather report. You mean to tell me we can predict effects of climate change in 5-10 years with greater accuracy than the weekly and monthly reports? Core ice samples show rises and falls in climate temperature happen all the time through the eons and this warming is well within range of natural occurrence. What if by causing global warming we evade the next ice age? Why have 99% of global warming, and climate change predictions from 10 years ago failed to manifest as predicted, especially if we've been making it worse not better in the past decade, wouldn't they have all come true or have been worse if this is the case? A little critical thinking and your own research will free you from fallaciously appealing to authority. The same people telling you to trust their cartoony, nuance void, oversimplified info-graphic on climate change are the same people that tell you critical thinking is a waste of time and say "just trust us bruh, we're the all mighty scientific consensus, and you're just too stupid to figure it out on your own. Oh those other scientists not back by government grants that have evidence otherwise are 4chan conspiratorial incells. And definitely don't look into Ingaz Semmelweis and the hand washing chronicles, and always remember the consensus is always right"

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