Do we reproduce in our own amount to fill this world. So we’d have people, people to harm to hurt to hit to hurl. Do we buy the newspapers every morning so we’d have stories to make us feel so seized with fear, afraid leave our homes, that a date might end in rape, that a father might sexually assault his daughter, that a son might kill his mother, that a gang might murder another, that another plane might crash into a tower, that yet another bomb blast might occur. Do we splash our cash on branded products so that the children in Thailand continue to suffer, the women in china continue to work long hours for a dollar; while the mighty big corporations grin in glee, clutching on tightly to thick wads of u.s. dollar bills. Do we study hard to get a degree, to get a job, to get a husband, to get married, to get children; whom we will push to the limit to study even harder, to attain: a better degree, a better job, a better husband, a better marriage, and possibly better genetically-designed children? Do we lament and moan about the sad existence of our lonely lives. So we’d have people to come up to ask ‘what’s wrong?’ and hold your hand so you wont cry, while we selfishly think the world revolves around our frail weak-minded pathetic body, while billions of others have no food, no water, no education, no legs, no hands, no sight, no hearing, no rights, no hope, no love, no care? Do we analyse what people do or say to us in nitty gritty detail. So we’d have the chance to curl up in a corner and want to die because we self-centeredly conclude this person doesn’t like us and that person doesn’t like us. Do we shout and scream at our parents and bang the bedroom door in their faces so we’d get a later curfew, more drinks more drugs more freedom. Do we act cool and pretend to be someone we’re not, so we’d fit in like a glove and conform to follow blindly so that the others might not speak against you. Do we speak ill and spread malicious gossip about other people. So we’d feel powerful for once because we are deep down insecure. Do we even give a fuck about anyone else aside from our precious precious selves, so we’d fit in, belong, blend in and become a happy part of an ugly, monotonous cold and competitive self-fulfilling society.
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my two-cents: yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes and no.
It's just a consequence of
1) our fallen nature, I guess... and
2) all the social programming that we have received from popular culture: to watch out for Number One because if we don't no one else will... and
3) the proliferation of American culture which elevates the rights of the individual over the rest of society... hey! it's in the Declaration of Independence for goodness' sake... in Abe Lincoln's words: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." He just forgot to qualify and clarify whether this means intruding and stomping on the rights of others... which is why it's such a dog-eat-dog world...
the right question is, what is the purpose of life. life and our life. and i may have an answer
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