Great post Kohadre, made my day. Yes it's all true, but yes there is a flip side. I came to the same realizations when I was in middle school, it definitely played a role in ostracizing myself from society. It was through my negative experiences and perceptions that gave me the hard push out on my own which led me to create real friendships that have taken me to where I am today. After spending years in the mountains now though, and with the help of this place, I have learned to let go of it all except for the frequent cynicism and sarcasm.
Sometimes I feel things are the way they need to be for us to wake up to our humanity, and that when we find ourselves in situations such as yours with this thread, now since you have identified all of this, you understand it and can communicate it, you now have the ability to make choices based on the outcome you'd rather experience. It's a struggle no matter what, and the odds can be against us at times, but you know all those people "wasting" their lives, without care for themselves, others and the environment, they will have a rude awakening at some point. The flip side to this is that you can go learn about the obvious tinkering and social engineering that goes on by the ruling classes throughout history. While I can entertain the idea that everything is how it needs to be for us to wake up, I also realize that a lot of these problems did not occur naturally. This consumerism and materialism was pushed onto us, our cultures have been raped and our minds colonized. The rampant drug use and sex, were also pushed onto us. Keep the human mind entertained so you don't get in the way of those trying to shape this world they way they see fit, and the way for them to achieve a New World Order is to create disorder, to promote and encourage everything you wrote about so there is an excuse to bring in a totalitarian socialist global government where the same bloodlines of insane false-ego driven power freaks get to do whatever they want however they want and we live in a post-industrial neofeudalistic society, however we'll all see it as the ultimate utopia because we've been literally dumbed down chemically and psychologically. Check Llama Su's recent wall post with the video of "What highly conscious people talk about" hahahaha.
Now I don't know you, or what you've been through, but you have received your wake up call. What matters is how you respond to all of this, are you going to attack people or yourself because of all of this? Will you stand up on a soapbox and preach to them? Or will you find a means to respond constructively with compassion through your personal choices and those you make having to do with your family, the human race, the planet and universe? Like the Incubus song says, "Those left standing will make millions writing books on the way it should have been."
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