Hmm...your views never seem to make much sense to me. On the one hand, you like to harp on like a jumped-up postmodernist about the relativity and subjectivity of all experience, saying how we can't speak for anything outside of our own sensations or beyond our own perceptions; on the other, however, you appear to forever claim that you have discovered the single, universally applicable truth about life: that it's somehow "woefully inadequate at best and horrifically painful at worst". You also seem to think that anyone who is happy in life is somehow deluding themselves.
I think what all this betrays is a fundamental misunderstanding of what life is all about.
It's a cliche, but a true one, to say that life is largely what you make of it. These values that we attach to it -"crap", "horrific", "wonderful", "dull", "amazing", whatever takes your fancy - do not exist intrinsically and external to the observer, but are imposed as our own subjective meanings on our experience as we perceive it. If you incessantly wish to perceive life as one long tortuous and pointless endeavour then that is what it will be for you. No surprises there.
Now, I agree with you that in many, perhaps most, ways the world is a pretty bleak place. I think that's pretty undeniable right now. However it doesn't follow that we somehow have to be miserable bastards and resign oursleves to a position of indignant misery and haggard cynicism.
Live, form relationships, have a laugh, develop your skills and talents, do stuff you enjoy doing, develop your mind, work towards a career that you enjoy, get laid...these are all things that help you to feel good and see life as not so bad after all. And all these things and others can be done quite easily in the world as it is now.
Of course, it's much easier to sit back and pretend that it's not worth it because it's all bollocks anyway. This, to me, is a pretty cowardly thing to do. If you have the capacity to be happy, but choose not to be, then it's unsurprising why you'll come back unsatisfied every time. Think about what you're doing to yourselves, guys. Change is often not so hard if only you're willing to alter the way you look at things.
MonkeyD
