The hikers who died on Everest and what it says about the Instagram Era

Big time post, jam!

And we are now the most drug-addled and unhappy society ever, despite extravagances unheard of in past generations. Time to get back to basics people.

And THIS upsets you. Live and let live, jamin. I wish you happiness and love.

a bunch of millennials using the internet to get attention by whatever means possible.....who wudda ever thunk it, jamin, who wudda ever thunk.

Everest is $80-120k.

In a way it is a good thing, social media drives the average person to push themselves out of their comfort zone a lot more. Technology has caused the strong to push hard and adapt to the higher pressure and it is bettering us as a species. Social media pushes us to conpare, work harder and strive for more. The weak minded people are the ones who leech off their parents and have no motivation to make their own sucess so they get caught up in the glam and document their every Starbucks and show their boobs off on instargram to compensate meanwhile they are getting more and more envious of other people who have worked for their cars, money and success and this is why depression and mental illness is on the rise, social media is filtering out the poorly adapted people. This is great because now the pharmaceutical conpanies now have an entire population to test monkey their antidepressant and antipsychotic medication on.

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Some people are the happiest when the are on the edge of death.

And sometimes this results in actually dying.

Wonderful post jamin

jamin wrote:

A couple decades ago it would be considered a unique thing to run a marathon or sky dive. Now the average person has probably done both of those things.

No. The average person has not done both of these things. What you see on the internet is not average. Most people in the world are not trying to do spectacular things for internet points.

The average person doesn’t even speak English.

If it wasn't captured on Instagram then in effect it didn’t happen.

There are many people who are not on Instagram. These people make up the majority of the human race. Most people do not care about Instagram.

Don’t believe what you see on social media it will give you a very narrow and warped view of humanity.

It's a coincidence that the rise of social media coincided with the great economic recovery after 2008. All these things you mention... the frivolous travel, the rampant one upmanship, the """experience""" culture... can only exist in a bubble environment. Our stock market is at an all time high, same with the housing market. All this propped up by record low interest rates. We are living in the 1920's all over again, folks. Once the big one happens all this decadence will disappear in an instant.

Read Into Thin Air about what happened on Everest long before the Instagram era, and get back to us with a more original and astute observation, knucklehead.

@jamhole wrote:

Read Into Thin Air about what happened on Everest long before the Instagram era, and get back to us with a more original and astute observation, knucklehead.

When were ever queues like an iPhone launch for hours on a rocky ridge to get to a 4 sq metre summit packed with 20 people vying for the ideal selfie?

I Am Sam wrote:

@jamhole wrote:

Read Into Thin Air about what happened on Everest long before the Instagram era, and get back to us with a more original and astute observation, knucklehead.

When were ever queues like an iPhone launch for hours on a rocky ridge to get to a 4 sq metre summit packed with 20 people vying for the ideal selfie?

Well, Jon Krakauer made a big deal about the traffic jam at the Hillary Step in 1995, when 15 people died on Everest.

Pictures of the conga lines on Everest have been de rigueur since at least 2012, when Ralf Dujmovits took a bunch showing how conditions on the Lhotse Face:

imagine that wrote:

a bunch of millennials using the internet to get attention by whatever means possible.....who wudda ever thunk it, jamin, who wudda ever thunk.

Pretty sure most of these deaths are middle aged Gen Xers and Baby Boomers throwing around their retirement accounts to do stupid stuff. Millennials don’t have the 60k to climb Everest.

Broke Gen Y wrote:

imagine that wrote:

a bunch of millennials using the internet to get attention by whatever means possible.....who wudda ever thunk it, jamin, who wudda ever thunk.

Pretty sure most of these deaths are middle aged Gen Xers and Baby Boomers throwing around their retirement accounts to do stupid stuff. Millennials don’t have the 60k to climb Everest.

My thought exactly, I am an older millennial, and most of my peer group (within 2-3 years of age of me) in my city are finished with college debt, but are now paying off mortgages and raising children.

The people I know who have sky dived and run marathons for fun and not competition are my parents and their peer group (I don't personally know anyone who has climbed Everest).

I don't get how you could just die on the top if the weather was meant to be good. Maybe some of the people climbing it are weak and have underlying diseases which will kill them anyway and they want to do something amazing before it happens. I would never let myself just die while relaxing on a rope in a queue with a view

Concert prices are a separate issue. Bands used to tour as a loss-leader to drive record sales. Now no-one buys records so they release music as a loss-leader to try and get people to their concerts. The proportionate split of most musicians' earnings between tickets and merch on the one hand and concert tickets on the other has flipped on its head. $500 tickets are the price you pay for having 50,000 songs in your pocket (and the ability to stream any others), none of which you paid for.

Spot on wow

Chaim wrote:

It's a coincidence that the rise of social media coincided with the great economic recovery after 2008. All these things you mention... the frivolous travel, the rampant one upmanship, the """experience""" culture... can only exist in a bubble environment. Our stock market is at an all time high, same with the housing market. All this propped up by record low interest rates. We are living in the 1920's all over again, folks. Once the big one happens all this decadence will disappear in an instant.

But it's gonna be ok. When the big crash happens, we can sell all the junk we have accumulated, or burn it to keep warm in the winter of the big crash.