@Atelier3 I know what you mean, and my first thought was in regard to alcohol. My view on alcohol consumption and all the culturual rituals has changed quite a bit since I distanced myself from that. Why poison onself to near unconsciousness, beat someone up or get a bloody nose yourself, then eat fatty garbage, black out, wake up next day dehydrated with a headache, no voice, a shitload of money gone, stolen phone only to do it again as soon as possible? Really?
But then, I know (more than ever) why people do it, or why I did it. Then my mind went full circle, as so often, and: You can ask that question in reference to almost all human activities!
Why destroy nature and therefore destroy ourselfs?
Why breed new human beings?
Why do the same thing over and over again (e.g. drugs), making ourselfs suffer more but believe that the result will be different one day?
Why fight something we have no control over? And on and on it goes..
Throw Freud at it and you perhaps get some sexual bullshit, throw some other thinking system at it and you arrive at some other bullshit, throw religion at it and you'll get religious bullshit. I feel it's not difficult to come the conclusion that it doesn't make any sense
whatsoever! So why fucking bother in the first place? We've erected a lot of stuff to give "answers" and the less discerning you are, the more you have to choose from. Afraid of the pandemic? Make yourself believe it's all a hoax, problem solved! They say all the cool kids mix benzos, weed, MDMA, and beer every weekend and fuck up. I want to be cool more than anything else, ..reason found. Sorry for the philosophical rant, I couldn't help it.