When You Buy Into This Millennial, Gen X, Y, Z, BS!
Mollycoddled, and therefore crippled, an entire generation since the Blair regime now exists.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. If this country were invaded we'd all be screwed. This is an age of learned helplessness where all manner of charities and services are provided by the mere touch of a button, and, just like abracadabra, there'll be a provider, right there at your fingertips to provide a solution, and - in a war situation all the 'new age' protected rights bullshit put in place to appease people will become absolutely meaningless.
War doesn't care if you're black, white, or brown. War doesn't care if you're gay, bi, tri, quad, trans, pans, pots, plates, or whatever way you choose to ego-label yourself to be - because we're all just theatre on the big stage of the world that'll make no difference to bullets and bombs when they hit. Quite honestly, I've since attempted and failed to ignore it all.
Yet, while I find myself consciously not bothering to be engaged with it any more, my slightly now schizoid mind somehow cannot resist this ongoing pantomime, and it irks as much as it amuses me to spectate this ongoing bullshit. So, somewhat reluctantly, I now find myself seduced into continued spectatorship of the world as a form of mildly amusing, and somewhat cynical entertainment, more than anything else. You know, like a major soap opera should be.
My salvation from so much drama is that I've never done emotions too much. It's not to say I'm cold by any stretch of the imagination. Just somewhere between tepid and cool to everything, that to me, registers as balanced: moderate even. I'd like peace of mind, except there isn't such a thing. Peace of mind is an illusion because peace and mind are of opposite nature. Whereas peace is a state of stillness and silence, the mind is a constant state of unending movement and noise. Therefore, peace is a state of no mind, and to be in that state where there's little if nothing else to think about is a lonely, yet wholly satisfying journey of reconciliation within the self.
It's also a source of constant amusement when people readily label me as a hater of people, a misanthrope, as this is nothing more than lazy thinking. Those who really know me would disagree entirely. In fact, I like lots of people - even if they don't like me, in the wider community sense of my life. I'm simply a free, and independent thinker who has cut loose the copied constraints of life that I've subconsciously absorbed from others over the years. You know, the egos, and behaviours of an increasing number of people in this world I'm now free of, and of which my newly found askance speaks volumes.
The ability to think for oneself nowadays is nye-on impossible unless you happen to be living in a yet to be discovered rainforest somewhere in the world that's so remote it's completely shut off from the media influences that affect the rest of humanity. The simplicity of having all your needs met within the vacinity of where you live, and without any knowledge of the societally polluted; commercialised; corporation and profit-driven; war-torn; selfish; ego-driven; consumer crazy; have's against have nots; planet pillaging society we're inhabiting would be harder work, yet blissful to a greater degree by comparison, I'm sure.
If that person inhabiting the rain forest enjoys a life which to them is the truth, what does it say about this world we inhabit that doesn't reflect it all as one big heap of human-made bullshit, and a lie based on ego-driven greed, otherwise known as progress?
I read an interesting anecdote earlier today that states. The Lie said to the Truth, "Let's take a bath together, the well water is very nice. The Truth, still suspicious, tested the water and found out it really was nice. So they got naked and bathed.
But suddenly, the Lie leapt out of the water and fled, wearing the clothes of the Truth. The Truth, furious, climbed out of the well to get her clothes back. But the World, upon seeing the naked Truth, looked away, with anger and contempt. Poor Truth returned to the well and disappeared forever, hiding her shame. Since then the Lie has run around the world, dressed as the Truth, and society is very happy because the world has no desire to know the naked Truth."
So, what therefore is this naked Truth, you may ask. In short, fear. No one wants to accept this planet, and all species within it are dying slowly, and have been since the first forms of life came into being. Darwin even applied a name for it that ended in 'lution' - I believe. Hence, families aren't taking their kids out for a day on Dartmoor to feed the dinosaurs. Or, be fed to the dinosaurs - that given nowadays sprogs and their behaviour probably wouldn't be such a bad thing. Nonetheless, people are so embedded in the insecurity of emotional attachment that while birth and life are celebrated, people just don't seem able to get their heads around the death part, and simply let go when the inevitable happens to those they are close to.
It seems there are very few who accept that humanity is on the way to the big exit door, and that's how it goes. Some will leave through natural causes, others from illness, violence, war, envy, greed, famine, drought, natural disaster, and more as humanity journeys through an existence of fundamentally killing itself, and no amount of do-good, charitable efforts, government rules, regulations, and laws; or religious beliefs will ever change this. No amount of well-meaning, ego-based, save the people and save the world type interventions will ever change the course of evolution's fateful destiny: and it's a complete waste of both time and energy even trying when the basics are very simple - we're born, we live, we die. Period.
I know I've spoken before about the Buddhist view regarding emotional attachment, and detachment, so I need not bother repeating myself. Suffice to say, in brief, while the consumer-driven world continues its attachment to materialism, ego-based status and emotions, greed, jealousy, hatred, envy, and more the faster self-fulfilling prophecies of human demise will transpire, and the more people fight against it - or, more accurately, themselves, the quicker the circle of evolution will complete itself through learned helplessness. Which is more or less where I began.
