Us humans are frustratingly complex organisms. We are wholly addicted to self-destructive behaviour that renders us partially functional and unfulfilled. This way of running our lives is totally unnecessary and pointless. This was not how life was designed to function, but a product of an effort to control humanity from the highest level. Many methods of subjugation have been developed by high functioning societal elements since mankind began to realize a surplus from his enterprise and began to have spare time on his hands. Employment is one of these traps that developed into a method of controlling the general populous. But this required a powerful enabler to work – enter religion…
During the Middle Ages, before people in general were able to read and write, they were dictated to by both a coercive and a persuasive source. On the one hand they were ruled (often aggressively) by a feudal master who dictated the physical nature of their lives. On the other hand they were controlled spiritually by religious zealots who preached a doctrine that very few people knew first-hand, but only as it was recited by priests from texts. This defined the way that modern culture thinks and operates. We are a function of this meta-programming, and it has become so ingrained in our bodies and minds that most of humanity finds thinking in other ways virtually impossible. We have become consumers without parallel, out of rebellion against this delusional method of existence. This is a sickness, an addiction, that seems to have no cure. If this doesn’t change, we will soon become completely dysfunctional as a society, or sink into extinction in our last violent thrust to consume absolutely everything.
There are ways to live that go a long way to circumventing all this bullshit. We mostly just need to change our perspective and try to love what we do again. This helps to alleviate the need to spend wildly in order to satisfy the damaged craving that we have as a hangover from years of slavery to religion and extravagance (maybe that’s a religion in itself). As a step further we can try to live a sustainable lifestyle (yes, grow your own food!) in harmony with our surroundings. Not all of us were built to take things this far, but we should push it as far as we are comfortable. Give it a try!
