r/WTF • u/BigBlackSabbathFlag • 10d ago

What is going on with these stairs?

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u/me_like_stonk 9d ago

You joke, and I have no idea what's the real context of this video, but that's pretty much on point for how grim Russia is.

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u/HoaryPuffleg 9d ago

I wasn’t joking, I’m actually horrified that people would find that entertaining enough to have a whole show about it. Like Americas Funniest Home Videos but somehow less funny and more depressing

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u/banjomin 9d ago

AFAWK kindness is a relatively new thing that most life does not have.

Try not to be too horrified by humans who lack kindness, instead really treasure kindness as being special and hard-earned.

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u/zebramatt 8d ago

Humans are communal animals. The collective success of communal animals relies on what we might call "kindness". Most human societies for 300,000 years have shown evidence of being centrally based around "kindness".

Individualism is a relatively modern concept in human society.

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u/RemCogito 8d ago

Yes, Kindness for the ingroup. But the outgroup is evil, and dangerous and dumb, lets watch them hurt themselves in their confusion, and laugh.

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u/banjomin 6d ago

Being part of a community isn’t kindness, it’s an acknowledgment of the benefit of being part of a group.

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u/zebramatt 5d ago

Members of the community give freely to other members of the community without promise of transactional return. The group being kind to one another is one of the benefits of being part of the group.

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u/banjomin 5d ago

“Community” =/= “idealized community”

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u/zebramatt 4d ago

I'm just drawing from recorded history. Cruelty to one's own isn't an inherently human trait.

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u/banjomin 4d ago

I didn’t say it was.

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u/BibleBeltAtheist 8d ago

I can't say from experience, but isn't this basically on par with modern reality tv?

Not that you should be any less horrified, mind you. I feel like the world we've built is just inherently miserable and disgusting. That folks tune in to this kind of thing to get a sense of others having it worse off than themselves, and in doing so, making their own lives a little bit more tolerable.

You know what show is/was absolutely horrifying to me? I don't know if it still airs, but like 20+ years ago there was a show called Intervention. If you don't know what I'm talking about, its centered on the idea of tricking addicts into an intervention, then blackmailing them to get "help". It took advantage of people, many of whom were at the lowest point in their lives and heaped unimaginable amounts of emotional and other types of pressure. Moreover, it also took advantage of people who were dealing with family members that were addicts, that didn't have the understanding or resources to adequately help their loved ones. It was one of the last reality tv shows that I've seen a full episode of...entirely disgusting. Since then, I just completely tune out the entire genre.

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u/HoaryPuffleg 7d ago

Oh yeah, I’m disgusted by most reality shows, they are there to exploit vulnerable or desperate people. And while I know that some show sets do supply their cast members with ample liquor and put them in dramatic situations, this Russian show seemed to revel in the grossness of it all and couldn’t even provide the cast with a handrail or fresh paint.

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u/Pollomonteros 9d ago

Are you Russian?