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Yes there is. No there is not.
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Is there a point of living in today's society?

I don't mean this in a suicidal, need-for-attention way. I mean what exactly is the reason or purpose or aim, if you will, of living in the world that we live in now? What gives us the motivation to wake up in the morning, repeat the same routine and end it all with the same if not slightly different evening and night? The few control the many with over-dominant power gained from falsly believed and no-doubt corrupted attained wealth. Many are pushed to the shackles of what i deem to be self-inflicted slavery which we know to be employment by the fear of rejection and poverty. Dim-witted politicians further the agenda that best suits their needs and those who control them with little, if not no, regard for those that they see as being below them (which is basicly everyone less powerful than them). So i ask again, what is the point of living in this society; the cruel are rewarded and the kind are ridiculed, with few exceptions. 

Yes there is.

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No there is not.

Side Score: 5
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It's called happiness.

Side: Yes there is.

Perhaps the point of living is to create one, no matter how small or large. Some people turn to religion to give their lives purpose and a point, for myself I set goals. I have goals to someday join the military, get married, and have a family. It's really about finding something to achieve or look forward to.

"Enjoy the little things" - Rule 32 from Zombieland

Side: Yes there is.

The only point to life is trying to find as much happiness as you can until you die. That's it.

Side: Yes there is.
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I think everyone wants to continue living to some degree, but everyone also desires non-attachment. Everyone wants to be free of the turmoil inherent in this world.

The point of life is tautological: the point of living is to live. So our purpose as sentient beings is to be comfortable with the fact that we live. This is harder then it sounds since life is tough and hard. We want life but we don't really like all the suffering it inherently brings us. We want to be free from this, but we can't as long as we live. So at the very bottom of human existence there's a contradiction. We can't escape suffering as long as we live, but we don't want to die.

It seems to me that the point of any persons life is to accept life as it. Life is not about distracting ourselves through food, sex and even company. The point of life is to live, to live as fully and completely as possible. It's the exact opposite of forgetting about suffering so that we may better cope, it's about embracing everything. I am going to die some day, and my greatest regret would be having never fully lived. So I guess the point of today's society is to exploit any resource it grants us. In the developed world we have the wealth to travel all around the world. We have the means to experience all kinds of cultures, travel through rain forests, deserts, mountains and so on. We have so many opportunities. The point of today's society is to get the best out of today's society. We could forget about we have in favor pondering about things like the current wealth distribution, but I don't think that's really the right way to look at it. Obviously much of this criticism is realistic, but that doesn't mean we have to forget about everything else.

Side: Yes there is.
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Uhhhh.... well, it beats the alternative I suppose.

Side: Yes there is.
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You continue to live do you not, is there not a point no matter how unacknowledged it is? if there was no point, you would have already killed yourself.

Side: Yes there is.
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My point of living, is survival .

Side: Yes there is.

Nah. You just do what you want to do.

Side: No there is not.
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I enjoyed reading this, it's a perfect look into the mind of a pessimistic cynic.

The answer is, there is no point. The many will not make it to become the few, end of story. That doesn't mean your life should end. As I started with, this is a very pessimistic view on life, but just as easily as it is to assess it with the most critical eye, and find the faults it is equally as easy to find the good things life has to offer.

You may not become rich and powerful one day. I personally, behind my computer screen would bet my life stating that you, the original poster actually will not, because it's so unlikely to. Why be the top though? You'll do what you do now, in a more luxurious way, and maybe sustain your happiness and optimism for a few years longer, only to realize you're in a bigger rut and crash harder than ever. If you hate your life being too monotonous change it. You can, it's very easy.

You hate your job? Don't go. You hate your lover? Leave them. You hate following the rules? Break them.

You'll be faced with the question, do you hate the monotony more than you'll hate the struggle. If the answer is yes, then you'll find a reason to live, and it'll be ever changing and wonderful.

Sorry if this was long, I really liked the topic and tend to ramble when I enjoy something.

Side: No there is not.
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I agree and take your point that you can make changes that would better serve you or bring that which gives you happiness. Though however i would say this, it is difficult to make change of what and who you are and the things you do when the opportunities to do so are not there/frequent or that you do not possess what is needed to do so and by this you are limited in what you can do to change. That aside, would you agree that living in the sense of what you do, the many, and particular the working class, are in some way crafted by the almost indoctrinating ideals and standards of society and it's pressing expectations to be only but a product, as a mean rather than an end? Can it be in some way that monotony is the foundation of society perhaps? And if so we are limited further in the pursuit of change by what we are told we cannot do by threat of consequence and limited further by the resources we can only acquire by conforming to prescribed monotony.

Side: No there is not.
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Society is crafted by the monotonous. When a group of people become content, and don't want for anything, and don't aspire to be anything, they carry on their shoulders those that do. It has happened with slavery, it is happening now with the working class.

Side: No there is not.
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No point to live in today's society, only in tomorrow's society. ;)

Side: No there is not.