I learned that even though I might feel some way or another, it isn't 100% sure that it's "justified". if it feels justified, chances are that the ego is at work. props for expressing it, though, I don't do that quite so often and honestly. no idea which is the "better" way, though.
what hit me is that advertising is partly
made to make you feel sick and angry, and boy it does/did a good job at that for me, but not anymore. I shall be so free that my mere existence is a peaceful rebellion. please excuse me if that sounds superficial
do you know that, when you insult someone, and it just goes right through them, as if there was no one to be harmed? the kind of people who know that the one who is insulting them has basically some sort of pathology, but loves them nonetheless, because they recognize that they are of the same spirit, the same source, but gone astray far into separation? we need more of those.
I'm not having the best of times right now either since I'm shift working once again in order to get some $$$ to travel and do other stuff that I basically feel like doing.
shift work is crazy man, you'd hate it. the radio is on almost all the time and it's tough on my mind, all this shitty stupid artificial music. if anyone ever wondered what Bartes meant when he said that people don't want passion, they want the image of passion,
this is the crystal clear answer. and all these infinitely idiotic ads, it's nauseating. cue shrill and annoying voice: "forget about the austerity plans and money savings!!! we have the best way to save money! buy our new car! for just 15.000€!!!" I'm not making that up, the logic is
exactly that. it's pure provocation. makes me want to throw stones, if only I thought it was a way to make things better in the world.
a big part of the system we live in seems like an egoic entity, which, like some people who are possessed by their egos, is completely antagonizing, trying to pull you into its sick game, or get you even so far as to believe in it and making you part of it while it is sucking the life out of you, sort of like an abusive partner, but at a way bigger and more insane scale.
at the workplace, you also get a picture why nothing seems to change in the world (even though it does), it's because people are way too tired after doing stupid repetitive work that doesn't draw on the creative capabilities of people
at all, but much rather degrades them into mere cogs in a mega-machine that has gone completely mad, calling for growth without end, like cancer, but in contrast to cancer isn't widely recognized as such. to the contrary, the people who one might think should know best that endless growth is neither possible nor desirable, don't see it at all. I'm thinking of all the professors of economics, and all the people in high economic boards or whatever. it is completely beyond me! these people are completely immersed in their topic, for years!, and they don't seem to see the most fundamental error. they are doctors and PHDs, but they call for more and more growth on a
finite planet. *wake-up-gong* the economy cannot grow endlessly! let's change the money system, no??
it is consoling, though, that a great deal of people, I'd guess more than graduated ignorants, realize all this, at least to degrees.
a big part of ranting seems like a way to make oneself feel "right" and the others "wrong", though, so I try to refrain from it mostly.. egogames.
I think you people here are pretty cool, because you question big parts of our culture, from economics to myth, but what always kind of hurts me is when you start scapegoating "the elite", "the illuminati" or whatever. (similar to what I did above..) if people like this exist, and I think they necessarily
exist, they too are nothing but hyper-robotized puppets of the pathology that resides in the human mind. so to scapegoat them would go completely beside the point and just furthers this pathology, it would be to buy into it.
hate forms you in the image of the thing that you detest, so be careful.
if we're boring you I'm sorry, create your own roadshow, man. we're not here for your entertainment, or to answer to every topic you write. that being said, at first I didn't like your ravings, but I read them nonetheless, and often there were some nice gems inside
if I'm writing dull and boring posts, or no posts at all, please excuse me, I'm probably tired, of frustrated, or both at once. if I'm feeling good, I'm probably outside climbing, or in nature, because plants don't lie, or not all of them, anyway :lol:
