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You actually can do a lot of those things, believe it or not

You mean like decorating your driveway with dragons, making gnome gardens, letting vines rule your porch, or making a tiny zen moss garden? Stuff like that?

I know I'm like a broken record, but capitalism.

Because not enough people have dropped acid before. And as such, they haven't yet realized that you can do all those things.

I would be cool to see a global boom of NeoAndean architecture

Capitalism made it not fun

You're welcome to do any of these things - have at it.

The reason(s) most people aren't doing those things is they have other priorities.

It can be but peer pressure seems to cause problems.

My wife and I give few fucks and do what we want because we can. Our house is full of laughter, music, silliness, and fun. We're deadly serious about our whimsy.

Read also: snow days.

The world comes to a halt for a day or two. You get to take your kids sledding, you build a snow man. You have a snowball fight. You get cold and wet. You go home to get changed into your warm pyjamas and sit by the fire with a hot chocolate. You're exhausted, but you laugh and joke with each other about the fun you've had.

You go back to work 2 days later and fuck all has changed. The world keeps turning, the rich have lost a tiny bit of their wealth from you not been 'productive' for 1 day. Oh fucking well.

We're so bound up in keeping the big capitalism wheel turning, that life's fun moments just pass us by.

I don't want to dye what's left of my hair. I don't like needles and have absolutely no desire for a tattoo. I do silly things all the time to the dismay of everyone around me. I dunno about buildings shaped like things, like it makes no difference to me, to be honest and feels like that's more of a a you thing. Go for it gurl. There's art on a lot of buildings, but I suppose there could always be more. And I do have flowers literally everywhere. Life is way too serious despite all this.

I'm not a sociologist or anything, but I'm like 99.968% sure that it has something to do with the whole "puritanical ethics" thing - which boiled down to 'how do i determine if something is a sin?' 'did you enjoy it in any way?' 'yes' 'SINNER!'

I mean, they left pre-Victorian England and split with the already recently (relatively speaking) fractured (and some might say fractous eyyyylol) Church of England because Luther's 99 Theses were for pussies and his reformation wasn't hardcore enough. Imagine being so full of sin that you simply couldn't see the inherent blasphemy in things like music... Or how it was evil (and probably slutty or something) to have clothes that had horribly prideful (not to mention slutty) features such as 'color'

I do like the thought of them eyeing the Amish that are moving in down the way warily and just muttering, "There goes the neighborhood! Fucking hippies here to corrupt the young'ns" while they shake their heads in disgust

Anyway, thanks for coming to my TED Talk!

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Life definitely isn't that serious

I never take myself very serious and get mistaken for a college student, even at 41. Laura Loomer and other right-wing taking heads look 10 years older than me while being 10 years younger. I see high school dudes, part of those jock cliques in high school, who are balding, fat, and look miserable. I am convinced that the way you view yourself and how you play your role in the world keeps you young. Don't take yourself too serious and be happy with goofy shit to stay young! If you wanna talk to cats like they're people with feelings, do it. Same with squirrels. Make that crow friend you've always wanted to make. Form those bonds with things that make you happy and get more crow friends. Then take your army of crows and slay your foes!

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let's make that world a reality, first we feast on the wealthy.

I remember after having a complete mental breakdown was an intense desire to protest the world. So I decided to tattoo both of my arms.

I was still pretty scared of showing my tattoos and tried to hide my arms for some time because I was still scared of those miserable types who can't stand other people being happy as themselves.

Eventually it got too hot and the arms had to come out and to my surprise I got so many compliments. That was such a huge confidence boost and I started to feel so much better about myself.

My favourite compliment ever was when I was Cardiff visiting a friend. This little boy was hopping around the grocery store, stopped and paused for a moment then said with a giant smile "I like your tattoos!" and then hopped away after I said thank you.

As an added bonus, I get to annoy miserable old men who hate people being themselves and I don't even have to say a word.

These days I am definitely more comfortable about being able to have fun with my life.

A pity you missed the 90s. To answer your question, because we’re in a class war.

The donor class didn’t have enough votes to get what they wanted so they purchased the representatives voted in by We The People. Now, they have everything and we’re supposed to be happy to simply be in the extraordinary presence of a house appliance, working or not, in addition to having a job that allows said donor class to take even more money from us.

None of that sounds very out of the ordinary