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Interesting thread.
I think that you have a multitude of choices about what kind of life you live. IMO, I find that people in western culture strive too hard to define some sort of set goal in life. More often than not, any goal you achieve in life has a very indirect path. Thus, most people in our culture strive towards a form of control and direction, meanwhile not being able to realize their failure to achieve what it is that they're aiming for. Thus your revalation. The question you asked is freaking awesome man. I hope you're really serious about it. Start reading, and exposing yourself to new ideas and new ways of thinking and rationalizing. There is a lot of scary and cool shit out there. Generalizing your lifestyle into a hippie, or a hipster, or a mobster, or a career, or whatever, I dunno, it seems like these generalizations are just ways to limit the creative aspects of your soul. Its nice to have nice things, but its cool that you reached that conclusion of "what's the point of it". We judge our success with survivability, thus making many people ultimately unhappy down the road if they're not reaching their goals of 'success'. Point of rant: redefine your goals. Instead of reaching for something in life, reach for nothing. Try to let go of everything, and just be. Spend some time like this. Who knows what your mind will come up with.
| quote: | | To the point where we're just not able to affect change so we just follow suit and have families (which is alright) but these aren't huge goals in the larger scheme of things. So we're just forced to go along with the way the world and our current societies run. If all of the larger more 'well to do' countries got together and solved REAL problems instead of just how to make crazy amounts money in the interests of maintaining the economy (although I'm not saying the economy should just shut down) the world would be a MUCH better place. I'm an idealist...shoot me. |
I totaly agree, but the current state of matters forces humanity, on a large scale, to live in a symbiotic relationship, leeching physical and mental resources. Its a system doomed to failure, eventually. If even one person can break away from this mould, they in turn will affect countless others through their everyday walks of life, and thereby 'sow the seeds of discontent', if you will. If these ideaologies grow, which they inevitably must, all of a sudden one person making a difference in their life becomes a pretty big thing afterall. There is plenty of frustrations about our lives, but as you said, we're trained to be afraid of breaking out of the everyday.
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