I'm going crazy.

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Khalsa

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I almost never post in life sucks, but this time I am cause I'm going fucking crazy.

Lately my understanding of how much fucked we are as a society hit me in the face, and since then, I've been increasingly unhappy.

I'm not writing this to have anyone's pity or advise. I'm writing this to get this off my chest.

I think I'm going crazy with all these issues regarding the environment, the economy, our way of life, people at the top that control literally almost everything and so on. I mean, our way of life cannot continue and we are in for some serious global clusterfuck (see the Money as Debt and the What's the worst thing that could happen? threads in the issues).

I would like to be happy, to not think about stuff like that, to do like most people and ignore reality and find comfort in lies. But I can't! How the fuck can I find a balance between happiness and the cold, sad, hardcore fucking reality? Do I think to much? Do I act not enough? WTF do I need to do? Of course, you can't answer that...
 
I understand what you mean, that's why I'm sick of reading that kind of stuff. I've even stopped watching the news for a while, not because I don't want to know, but because I know all too well what's going on.

It's useless to worry about things you cannot change, I mean you alone can not change the course of a war in let's say Ossetia, or change our economy system, or force people to recyle.

So what I do is inform people, try to do anything to help make things better, try to talk to people around you, and do what you can at your own scale. I believe that if we all do a little something, one day things might change and I try to hope for the best.
 
All phases of human civilization were untenable at least eventually; ours leans incredibly heavily upon technology being ever improved. We, like all civilizations before us are susceptible to epidemics taking the more potent members of our society and pushing us into oblivion. A life of pure reason or pure hope or purte faith is never wise, but a mix of the three is key to survival.
 
I think that's why legal drugs (such as alcohol and cigarettes) are so readily available. I mean, beside the fact that they tax the shit outta them. I also think that's why illegal drugs can be easily found, and they don't put a lot of effort into finding and jailing those who supply them.

Because with the way things are going, people need these things to occasionally numb their brains. Without something to kill the pain from time to time, there would be mass suicides. Or mass riots. Or both.

So ... HOORAY, BEER! :thumbsup:
 
Rage, it's like you read my mind. I've been feeling the same way lately.

The world/humanity, as of late, is freaking me out and making me depressed.

Well, I guess I'm making myself depressed but the status quo isn't helping.
 
If you think to much about the future and cannot live in the present, your ideas and doings will not be done, and another wonderful, smart person will be wasted... I keep myself sane by remembering that if everyone will fall into the numbness and carelessness we will certainly deserve the doom, but if some of us keep sane and even try, it all will not be wasted what we've done :happysad:


oh and.. :hug2:
 
If it helps to know this, Rage, I'm telling everyone I know at my school about the Money as Debt videos. My professor of finance found them to be an easier way to retell a concept she's been having difficulty explaining to students for years. People are talking.

I have yet to see the effect you're having at my school, but I'll let you know.

Also, I sympathize with your problem. Is it better to be ignorant? I don't know. But all I can do is vent once in a while. I am working on a graphic novel right now that addresses my concerns in a metaphorical manner, and it's cathartic.



Also, to paraphrase Karl Marx, ever heard of "religion as opiate for the masses"?
 
That makes sense if you don't think about it for more than two seconds. what about the hundreds of billions of dollars that have been wasted in the "war on drugs" since it's inception? If the government wanted us to free out minds with drugs, they'd probably legalize them and tax the shit out of them like they do alcohol and tobacco.
 
You just need to find a way to make yourself happy...

I represent my local government and my job is the end result of federal, state, and city planning. I see the positive effect it has.
 
:yeahthat:

The occasional bong toke doesn't hurt either. I also take great pleasure in getting laid, but that's not an option for everyone, I know. For those people there is always video games or reading books for fun (not the 9/11 Commission Report). You could also volunteer to help people that have sucky lives or take up a new hobby.


I've been in that place before. November 2004. Right after W. said, "Let me put it to you this way: I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it."
:banghead:

I also got fired and dumped that week.

As long as you keep trying to do something about it you're on the right track.
 
Why torture yourself into thinking there is something you can do.....You cant.....without full blown revolution you're just going to jail or getting sucked up into what you hate......Unplug and retreat...let the so called 'civilized' burn with their civilization....I'll be in the woods....fighting the bears for honey and winning.
 
Actually, I believe that religion is used to calm us for our "after" life (the greatest unknown), not our current one. Alcohol, caffeine, nicotine, and sex are all pleasant diversions for where we are now. The bible, praying, etc. is for later.



All very good points.

But, RA, the best question to answer is the one they posed in the movie American History X. Is this making my life better? Asking any other question or thinking about any other "bigger pictures" is just wasted time and futility. You don't have control over it.

Live your life the best you can. Find happiness, if possible. That's all you can do, really.
 
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