You can be successful in helping others and live one of the most fulfilling lives without needing to be rich*

*Disclaimer: This tends to be a lot more difficult when you're born poor. If this is the case, try finding someone who isn't, who is trying to live a fulfilling life.

It's always "western culture" being compared to a vague "indigenous culture" in these posts.

To me, the quote is another way of saying our ‘purpose’ is to be sensory organs for the universe: life is how the universe experiences itself.

The more you do, the more richly you contribute to that experience, but the caption’s take is also valid in that ‘being’ also contributes, if that makes sense.

(Disclaimer: I may be slightly high.)

We also do all that, the problem is that it's all commodified, advertised, ultracompetitive, conspicuous and repackaged, like we need to relate to each other and nature through something that has come out of a factory or a pr firm. There are ways to escape this, but it comes at a social cost, but it gets better if you find others.

Defaultism by default. It could also be the land of the upside-down, Canada, or anywhere else in the American continents.

I hate it how hippies keep thinking nature is some Disney movie shit.

Nah, it ain't, plants devouring ants alive, monkeys been waging wars and raping their enemies skulls

"DO THE DEW" -Mountain Dew

I already banned people in this thread, but I didn't remove the comments as they were part of a discussion that was at least in part not total trolling.

Yeah, I'm inclined to generally agree with this; what she left out is that now most people can live past 30 now and not die from a bacterial infection after scraping their leg.

I would add that the ideal is likely somewhere in the middle between the extremes of "living off the land and using every part of the bison" and "grinding away your soul until you collapse on the Walmart floor." Both are too far towards their respective ends of the spectrum.