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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Usually these make me feel old. This one doesn't make me feel old. This one makes me have an existential crisis. Because 2100 sounds like it's going to be filled with just this dark dystopia of hatred and anger.
And 1950 had racial lynchings, and Japanese-American citizens, who had full citizenship as a legal born citizen, had just gone through the past few recent years of being held in camps, and worked, in terrible conditions, all because their parents came from the wrong country. It had governments actively trying to brainwash their citizens into being patriotic and thus easier to control.
I look at the past, and look at the future, and it makes sense why we are where we are. This is what humans are. Humans are the worst people. It's not going to get better. We've thrown shit at ourselves for so long that now we're all a bit dirty and smelly. But also an elephant is trying to use your body as a poop knife, so it can break up the shit in it's butthole, and take an even BIGGER shit on you. Like 80lbs of shit just falling on your head.
That's where we are right now as a society, because we've paved the way to get here.