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How do I cleanse my brain from all the garbage I have consumed in years

>>44036 I literally broke a lot off my video game consoles as well as my phone after i noticed i wasn't able stop using them compulsively with just willpower. All you then have to do is wait some time. It took me like a year of not thinking about internet politics until i felt sane again. Time heals everything or however the saying goes. You just need find things to do in that time so you don't get too bored and go back to all the bad soykaf again.

Read any one of the 20 other threads about self-improvement on here instead of making this piece of crap.

>>44038 I have some fake accounts around the web that give me important information but also paralyze me at the same time. I tried deleting them but every so often I start to feel the need to search for some important memories and/or people, so I revive them every time until I give up trying. I have no willpower to get rid of them forever. >>44039 I'll take it into consideration, thanks I guess

Redesign the websites you visit.

Have you tried reverse-engineering DesuDesuTalk from /layer/ ?

>>44041 I get that. Maybe archive the content on an external harddrive and put it away? Thing is you lose way more memories and connections with people by not making them in the first place, being stuck with your vices or whatever.

>>44043 I'll need to delete 5000 saved stuff manually and that's just the pictures, not including anything else. It's easier to just say fuarrrk it. >>44045 no, pls enlighten me lainanon >>44046 hmm, I actually like this idea. Seems like a good solution for me.

Will you just give up ? Is that what you rly want ? signed, >>44043 >>44045

>>44038 I hope the consoles you didnt break where retro stuff.

two weeks of camping without any electronics was shown to reset a lot of behavior and fix broken sleep

>>44036 What garbage? Movies? Videogames? Why the fuarrrk would you need to "cleanse" your brain from that? >>I have some fake accounts around the web that give me important information but also paralyze me at the same time. Get a job, read a book and go make friends IRL. If you are somehow incapable of doing it on your own go see a shrink and stop visiting this website.

Obviously OP refers to advertising. The pollution YouTube or Facebook enslave search algorithms to create. Ask how you would find the movie or game, through a friend, a slave, or an institution. The context affects the interpretation, significantly.

>>44237 >Obviously OP refers to advertising. IMO it's not really that obvious. OP could've meant as well that the images/ideas he has thus far consumed are insofar persistent that they are starting to affect his normal thinking habits - like a sudden, involuntary mental picture of Winnie the Pooh, accompanied by an annoying tune, or something similar. He also could've meant that all the games, movies etc. that he has thus far consumed, are now, in his mind, of such a mediocre quality that they are impoverishing him on some spiritual, psychological or cultural level. >>44036 You couldn't have been more vague, even if you tried. Anyway, if you're trying to kick a bad habit, like gaming, the most effect way to do so is by totally ruining the experience for yourself. For instance, use cheats to beat the game or make a private server where you can do anything. That way you'll come to the awareness that the system's limitations that you're engaging with are totally arbitrary, and you recognize the pointlessness of it all. In short, seek ways to ruin the meaningfulness of the experience by diverting your conscious awareness from the positive affiliations to the negative ones. In case you want to rid yourself of media that you now regard as "garbage", but which already occupies a space in your mind, there are at least four ways to eliminate them from your consciousness. 1. by destroying the brain. Sniff some paint, or whatever. 2. Active unlearning. There are probably many ways to go about doing this, but it all boils down to directing your active thoughts into distorting, misremembering and unmaking the contents that you want gone. I have had warying success with this method. 3. Repression. try to push these unwanted intrusions mentally out of your awareness. Can't really explain it any better than that. With enough denials and negative responses the mind should automatically learn to push them to your subconscious mind, but there are no guarantees to this method, as they'll probably just pop up back in your dreams. 4. Forget about them. Yeah, it's as hard as trying to think yourself into sleeping. Occupy yourself with subjects/content/activities that you regard or associate with positive feelings. Eventually, if you keep yourself long enough from having the possibility to think about the unwanted content, the positive content will steamroll over the old contents, and they will naturally start fading away. That's my 2 cents. Do with it as you will.

>>44036 If we're interpreting the question our own way I assumed OP meant "I want to learn how to reverse normal socialization and then avoid it, so anything I create is divorced enough from current culture to be considered outsider art". The latter part of my interpretation is mostly guess work, but the former, reversing socialization, explains why they need to 'cleanse' their brain. I don't think you can cleanse your brain beyond what (>>44239) said. The more productive goal I think is ending the garbage flow and replacing it with what you deem is productive. Know you can't reverse the past garbage, but you can prevent future garbage. You can try to unteach the garbage, to varying degrees, if what you're running away from political, worldview based, etc by reading books against it. This part will be based more what I think you're saying, aka my interpretation on "I want to be an outsider artists". The biggest trap I see is someone replaces 'popular garbage' with 'pseudo-indie garbage'. 'Pseudo-indie garbage' is just normal 'garbage' except it's slightly obscurer or with perceived benefits which hellp them cope with keeping it, but the obscurity is manufactured or the benefits out-weighted. Think how people think arctic monkeys is obscure or people have one social media site they wont quite because it's "different", ex: 4 chan.

OP mentioned an archive. Clearly, that suggests intense artistic activities. Recurring motifs in algorithmic feeds, probably reinforce old fascinations and fetishes.

stop being a anarchoprim skullmask poster is usually a good start.

>>44245 I'm confident OP is a nuisance user I've seen on other sites, but I could be wrong. If they are who I think they are though, then they're a lost cause. I say this because this thread was made in synchronization with something that happened elsewhere that would explain its existence.

>>44246 Why not post a link ? OP chose a picture that shows (if nothing else) excellent attention to detail as well as thoughtful harmony between visual and literary story telling. On the other hand: Your post shows nothing of who you are or your intentions.

>>44036 This image perfectly say what I feel

>>44036 >>44365 >How do I cleanse my memories from garbage I've been brainwashed by on the Internet? Even though it could just be an *ironic!!!* joke. Your image depicts anarcho-primitivism despite their autistic community still relying on being online all day, using technology and is ultimately just a dumb fuarrrking meme, which is the very garbage you consumed. I guess this is what >>44246 referred to then.

I myself would just want to be an actual okay person, I currently feel mentally ill and the Internet isn't making me feel any better, such as controversial politics, constant brewing soykaf and pornography leading people to weirder fetishes.

>>44036 put false memories in your brain

>>44373 You will eventually feel just as lost, empty, and miserable. You just won't remember why.

Why do anarcho Luddites always seem attracted to cyberpunk imageboard site. I can understand scriptkiddies, but why flatout luddites who hate tech.

>>44376 Proselytism. Find self through not self.

>>44366 What if anarcho-primitivism turns out different from ludditism? What if it turns out a hyper-capitalism from grassroots? What if the point or hope pushing primitive technology would turn out none-other-than to create capital in a primitive environment?

>>44381 >What if anarcho-primitivism turns out different from ludditism? it's not, if anything anarcho-primitivism is a more extreme form of ludditism. >What if the point or hope pushing primitive technology would turn out none-other-than to create capital in a primitive environment? Why would anyone do this, you would just make less of it. Your trading your tractor in for a cow pulled plow. It doesn't make any since.

D34R >>44389 Y0U L057 THE GAME

Anprim is impossible for it is an-. Anarchy doesn't work because no matter how hard we try we can't not be free from rule. We naturally follow our instincts, leaders and the pack. If everyone arounds you have a certain opinion it would be very likely for you to have the same.

Unironically learn to become a "normaI user". Imageboards have poisoned my mind with individualism and an inflated sense of self for more than 10 years and now i'm working to undo the damage.

>>44389 I don't think you know what luddism is. The followers of Ned Ludd weren't against technology as a whole, just forms of it that replaced people and left them in poverty and unemployment.

Go inawoods for a weak totally no electronics, eat nothing but plants, no drugs and do yoga every day, all day.

>>45077 You have provided nothing to support your claim of human nature.

>>45090 Individualism is not a bad thing, narcissism is. Individuals got us to the point were at right now. Have courtesy for other people and realize that society is a team effort. Its easy to forget real people are behind the mask of anonymous. I usually don't say on imageboards what I wouldn't in real life. >>45092 has a pretty good idea. Its worth getting out in nature to "reset" your mind and wash away neural networks/patterns in your brain that are facilitating this horrible lifestyle of yours. I'd do it for 1-2 months instead of just a week, though. Don't hesitate to bring notebooks along with you to document your surroundings and thoughts.

>>45100 > Individualism is not a bad thing It is. > narcissism is Pretty much the same thing. Individualism is narcissism turned into an ideology. > Individuals got us to the point were at right now. No. All the progress of mankind is thanks to collective effort.

>>45100 I meant more about the "anons vs normal users" mentality that imageboards have.

>>45161 I dont think the issue with that is individualism and more actually a group identity thats similar to a cult in that anyone whos contrary to said identity gets painted as x type of person who is beneath understanding. vaguely

>>45103 >Individualism is a bad thing For whom though? It's pretty nice thing for the individual

>>45166 > It's pretty nice thing for the individual it isn't, which is why unhappiness and mental illness is on the rise.

not op but my mind has been fuarrrked because i have been browsing various imageboards since i was 10 I constantly day dream about reading imageboard threads or making them and imagining the replies I will get My head is also full of racist soykaf that I do not want in my mind and bullshit conspiracies Im 18 now so how do i lobotomize 8 years of mind fuarrrking?

>>45167 >it isn't, Why isn't it? >which is why unhappiness and mental illness is on the rise. Is it? And if it is, how can you attribute it to individualism?

>>45167 Mental health refers to the mental environment, not existences. When exposure to collectives or the environment harms interest in life, existential crisis'es arise in frequency as well as potence, in other words existential health weakens. > Narcissism Only abusive people find agency in such a word. Everyone should feel self-important, especially those who want to. If someone considers others less important by comparison, that person need only deem others more important not own ego less important. Never let such ethics negate.

>>45171 We could close into specific subgroups of the population to analyze further: women, for example. Despite their dramatic rise of freedoms, rights and benefits afforded to them by society and their ability to exercise their individual freedoms without any inhibition or consequence, they are able to fully realize their individuality. https://users.nber.org/~jwolfers/papers/WomensHappiness.pdf Feel free to read what this paper come sup with for explaining it, but I'd recommend to just focus on the data, as one should usually do. Compare this population to the happiness of men. they were free to do what they wnated for a bit longer and thus serve as a nice control group. I am sure men are unhappier than before, too (due to other societal ills adding up to the rampant atomization of society), but the gap widened.

>>45175 But how can we be sure that individual freedoms are the cause of unhappiness? I could think of many things that happened between 1980 and 2005, both those that affect only women and those that do not.

>>45179 list the factors that aren't correlated to individual freedoms and we'd get closer to the source

>>45181 Purchasing power has kept decreasing in the last several decades, and women typically have a harder time getting a good wage.

>>45182 Only if you cherry pick your data and complain about muh google job wage is 5% lower than those dudes #oppression. Men fail academics more than women by a significant margin and do all the soykaf jobs. Nobody is even caring to improve this unlike the myriads of fund fem in stem campaigns. (which of course also have corp interests such as flood market with more competition = lower wages) This dynamic proliferates into dating. Women dont date men below them in social standing/finance. So you get a growth in incels/femcels as they overtook men as a group and thus became undateable to each other. Lastly i like to empathize this isnt some new revelation. I remember reading first about this and predictions of current year like a decade ago while in high school. >>44036 Do something constructive. You dont forget garbage consumed but you can overshadow it with new positive experiences.

>>45182 >women typically have a harder time getting a good wage untrue

>>45175 > muh fallacious propaganda. What a clear and obvious scarecrow. The architects of social systems cannot also claim oppression. If 99% among all who study social class or gender belong to one gender or class, can you sincerely fail to see the pinnacle of privilege there? Or, have you chosen to lie on purpose ?

I cannot remember when I last saw someone post such blatantly off-topic non-sense in a thread.

>>45184 >>45186 Note that I didn't specify in USA. I said so in a general manner, because in a lot of cultures it is true. Go ahead and tell me how China, India, Poland, Russia and the United Arab Emirates are very friendly to career women. These aren't necessarily the poorest or the worst, but my point stands.

>>45191 The happiness study does not target women of those areas, but specifically emancipated ones, as per the topic discussed: "are individual freedoms enjoyable to the individual?".

How the fuarrrk did a thread about help regarding the consumption of soykaf media (this includes youtube, instagram, twitter, and many news sites) turn into an argument about the pay gap. Oh wait, it's because trash opinions and outrage culture ruined the thread. Stop paying attention to social media, outrage culture, and the rest. Focus on becoming better, learning more, and doing the things the distractions keep you from. Most people are just trying to recruit another idiot for their campaign. Once you see that you can start filtering the trash and start focusing on what is important

>>45196 Don't you understand? Twitter told me imageboards were all about making le epic soykafposts xd and being contrarian just for the sake of creating bantz. I think that's what anonymity is for... right? So I spent so long on imageboards, I became contrarian against contrarianism... Which means I need to embrace mainstream ideology... and outrage culture... but... only ironically? Post ironically? Meta ironically? Counter ironically? I forget, which cycle of irony are we on and what is "based" this month?

>>45198 Your sarcasm has killed me, but it's definitely a mockery of how disgusting most people's lives are.

>>45196 Or you just look at outrage-culture topics and dissect down to their apolitical core elements to understand the big questions of the world. It is the "programmed" ones who, despite seeing a discussion about individualism with (surprise!) a current time example, immediately derail with fighting-words of the political camps.

>>44239 >IMO it's not really that obvious. OP could've meant as well that the images/ideas he has thus far consumed are insofar persistent that they are starting to affect his normal thinking habits - like a sudden, involuntary mental picture of Winnie the Pooh, accompanied by an annoying tune, or something similar. He also could've meant that all the games, movies etc. that he has thus far consumed, are now, in his mind, of such a mediocre quality that they are impoverishing him on some spiritual, psychological or cultural level. This is generally what I experience. It's painful. I think the only solution is to cold-turkey stuff. I've moved onto books because film is messing with me too much. It's too easy for a scene from some movie to replay endlessly in my mind and it's quite frustrating. I do not think destroying the brain is the correct answer - rather, I think it'd be better for OP to move onto books. That seems to be helping me a lot. If I could find a replacement for music, I probably would, as that tends to get stuck in my head frequently as well. IMO the best solution is to saturate the mind with someone else, something new and useful.

>>45203 Books are definitely better. You have to focus for a while, and your brain processes the ideas better. Also why no one reads anymore; books strengthen the mind, they demand your undivided attention for extended periods of time. Our current media landscape is trash; if I recommended a ten minute video, most of you would bypass it. Anything more than a tweet is too much. A book? Preposterous

>>45199 Are you telling me that the spirit of anonymity culture is dead and that all we have now is a soykafty cargo cult version of it perpetuated by teenagers who learned about chans from ifunny greentext screenshots? No no no... I used to go on /p0l/ to own the niggers and feminists, but now I became a (post-post-post-post ironic) feminist to own /p0l/, but now /p0l/ is also becoming feminist to counter its own culture 4 teh lulz... So... I react by reverting back to the way I was before? No, but then do I do it ironically, unironically, satirically, post-satirically... Intentions matter! I'm confused, isn't that what not having a username is all about? Owning people? What degree of sincerity is most effective at owning people (because that's how I need to make all my posts)? Surely there's no higher use for anonymity than arguing for no reason, right?

>>45206 Feminism and racial discussions have a place in modern discourse because they are important discussions, but we no longer have those discussions. All we have is screaming from both sides. I think you are trying to troll me, maybe? I can't tell, your post is nonsense.

>>45207 No. I'm trying to say that the utility of anonymity in evaluating ideas without external baggage is lost on most imageboard users, so even if we did come to imageboards to discuss things which are difficult to talk about elsewhere most of our discussions would self-sabotage due to the worsening culture and attitude cultivated by the changing userbase. Instead of attracting curious people, these places now attract ideologues, propagandists, pathological trolls (in greater proportion than before), underdeveloped children... Basically people who only discover chans for the wrong reasons. My post was meant to illustrate the ecosystem of self-reinforcing anger propaganda which has taken hold, and how certain people think they can rise above it merely by adding layers of contrarianism and irony. Less and less I think discussions which take place here, regardless of the subject matter, can be honest and meaningful.

>>45211 Thanks for explaining. It was lost on me for the moment. I agree. Most people are just mouthpieces for the campaigns they have been caught up in.

>>45196 apt to OPs idea your outlook is tainted by consuming too much of the ideological idiocy. Its much simpler and omnipresent: When nothing is to be said ontopic people go offtopic because they feel the need to "contribute" to discussion to be part of it. brewing soykaf makes the majority of online discussion because a significant enough portion doesn't have the discipline to remain lurkers when they cant contribute meaningfully.

>>45205 I actually enjoy 30 min+ videos (documentaries, tutorials, woodturning, restoration, etc) on YouTube and my favorite music is easily 10 min+. I agree with you, though. The attention-span of most people is significantly lower than it ever has been IMO. Books are superior to most forms of entertainment. I'm angry I haven't read more. I finished At The Mountains of Madness and fell in love. So good.

>>45207 You mave ideas pushed by the billionare class and mainstream media steamrolling over everything. It's not a real fight. Feminism is massive not because it's a good idea but because feminists slogans are beamed onto papers, TVs, and phones every single day

>>45188 >The architects of social systems cannot also claim oppression. Enlighten me lain, who are the architects?

>>45565 not him, but generally NGOs, universities, Big Tech, policymakers and marketers. And we know what sort of people they are (they/them) :rainbowflag: :rose: :heart:

>>45218 >Feminism is massive not because it's a good idea but because feminists slogans are beamed onto papers, TVs, and phones every single day It's not 2013 anymore. Feminists are literally Nazis now. Transsexuals are the big new thing being pushed.

>>45166 If individualism was good or at least neutral, then solitary confinement would be a pleasant or at least neutral experience. The fact that solitary confinement is torture proves that people are not meant to be individuals, but part of some kind of group.

>>45824 being caged with nothing does not equal to being alone. You are stripping people from their ability to interact with the world not just people.

>>45826 That doesn't explain why the isolation feels like torture instead of just prolonged boredom. There's plenty of NEETs with access to the world but no people to meaningfully interact with and they're miserable, which means the problem is lack of people not lack of objects.

>>45851 Solitary confinement is essentially sensory deprivation. Boredom never deprives you like that and prolonged boredom on that scale doesn't exist. You are never bored for a month straight. You can get the same effect even faster in sensory deprivation tanks. People can go crazy deprived of external input.

>>45837 >Define the word "garbage" All the images you keep posting.

>>45852 The existence of bored NEETs refutes that, they have access to as much or as little stimulus as they want and yet they're still bored and miserable, so the fundamental problem caused by confinement is not access to entertainment. We could also consider elderly who live alone and are only visited a few times a year, that's pure misery despite having access to entertainment.

>>45856 I would contest neets being neurotypical in first place. You have at least dopamine receptors blown out which makes them a poor sample study if you seek to generalize for society. Secondary they still dont go as cray as people in sensory deprivation. As for elderly it depends. Neurotypical people need social contact to stay happy but outliers exist likewise who are happier with no people around.

>>45858 Absolutely there's outliers and I agree that NEETS don't have it as bad as solitary inmates, but I think it's reasonable to put this information together and conclude that for most people, social isolation is unbearable. Obviously you couldn't test this in a controlled scientific way, but this is enough evidence to show that individualism is not the default for most people, which refutes individualism as metaphysical claim about people.

>>45579 >pandering to every sexuality and race generates more profit than pandering to white heterosexuals wow!!

>>46884 Actually that's debatable

we need websites which require you to read the javascript before entering .

>>46884 Yes and no. The pandering is not to customers its to regulators. Theres something called ESG score that affects a companies credit score and it rewards you for social justice pandering. So the easiest way to keep financially afloat is pander to get your social credit points.

>>44036 >anarchoecolain.jpg Come on dude, you already know. GET OFFLINE. Don't ask for advice from us tech-addicted freaks. Be a real person again. The garbage will trickle out of your ears gradually once you've cut out the source of it. Go figure out how to meet people without the neet net.

>>46898 >Liberation >Single-income households become impossible again It was a con job the whole time. Some Tom Sawyer fence-painting ѕһіt. It's horrific what capital-funded leftist academia did to women in order to more effectively exploit the population.

>>45579 Never trust a theythem or a trans lesbian. It could save your life

>>49025 >>49027 having just posted literal male genocide . smh

>>49026 stop making analogies only your host nation will get . we live on the Internet , not Usono you eejit .

reddit tier but I don't really care.