How do you get the energy or motivation to do anything? If you

>All jobs outside academia are intellectually worthless

But they get paid, which is what matters

What is your calling?
That is all that matters.

We get it. You're smart.
Now pay your fucking rent.

>>1961795
>How do you get the energy or motivation to do anything?

don't want to live in the streets

That's kind of the dillema that deep people face...

Money was good in the sense that it gave us motivation to feed the machine and achieve "progress"
But then, as we grew more and more and created a society of illusions where we can spend our money in order to be happy (in a happiness we created ourselves), it kind of transformed itself into something really useless but kinda hard to escape. Its like OP said

>All of art has become a mechanism for social signalling by the consumers and blatant money grabbing and self indulgence by the producers.

And I wouldn't consider videogames an exception to that.

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>>1962002
How do you find your calling?

>>1962106

OP here. Videogames as social signalling in the same way as rich people sipping wine at an art exhibition? Don't be stupid. They are seen as a manchild activity, similarly to literally every new endeavour in the history of mankind.

>>1962136
Yeah but you know, I mean, what is the difference between rich people sipping wine at an exhibit and 4 good guys drinking beer and playing TitanFall?
I say videogames ain't an exception in the way that it has already entered the "Cultural Industry" cause many of the producers are making videogames only for the profit,and while I think that yes, there are some videogames wich carry a high potencial of change and Philosophical toughts that can bring up interesting questionings, I also think that there are lot of other "art" ways that do the same, while also, lots of the other "art" ways are simply produced to sell and keep up this huge illusionary-masturbation-society we live.

For an example, Assassins Creed. Used to be a huge fan, great stories, I would learn lots of things as kid playing the games and reading the books. Suddenly they start releasing new titles every year to profit and it kind of loses it's "aura".

>>1962201
cause the plots are shitty, I mean

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>>1961795
It is all how you view it.
Distributed systems or fiber optic cables may save someones life.
Researching technology is second only to art that rises one above animals.
Everyone who does not practice the above with passion is just an animal following its basic instincts and programming.

>>1961985
Exactly, in terms of who is more "cucked" - the based physicists or the businessman who allocates the funding they sometimes have to beg for?

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>tfw forklift driver

>>1961795
what do you think about high power lawyers or judges

In this post-modern landscape of nihilism and material comfort people are waking up the importance of family and community

>>1961795
I value the farmer who tows the earth for a living. You seem to forget to mention them.

>>1961795
>he thinks he's pursuing the sublime when he plays video games

>All Philosophy consists of flailing about in the infinitely large space of unfalsifiable thoughts
Our whole existence is pretty much this if you look at it from different perspectives. Philosophy at-least alerts you about such possibilities and it's fun to bring up big abstract thoughts / questions or divert discussions to them with plebs whenever they get too annoying and watch them get pissed off.