an unraveling
We go through our lives in this digital age, on sensory overload. We get told "Your life sucks; you need THIS product!" We get told how we'll never be happy without blah-blah. We are conditioned from a young age that we will find our purpose in this life out there in the rat maze, being a slave to the 1%, and that we'll never attain true happiness unless we cram our round selves into the square holes of the cold, indifferent system. Our brain applies filters on this overwhelming amount of information we encounter on a daily basis, based on what we expect to find, and all that influences our perceptions greatly. Two people can see the same news stories and get something completely different out of it depending on how they are programmed!
This is how we get conned into believing all this nonsense. . . Us & Them, Democrats & Republicans, Godless & Godly, Christians & Muslims, Foreigners & Natives, Welfare Recipient & Contributor, Heathens & Chosens, Saved & Lost.
What it really boils down to is the 99% of people who want harmony in this world, and the 1% who want us divided, disenfranchised, weak, and powerless. And what we really need is to stop paying attention to all the bullshit. Anything that makes you look at another human and feel or think that they are less than you is a lie. Anything that makes someone who is "just following orders" feel justified to kill another man who are themselves "just following orders", or even for defending their way of life. . . that is a fiction. Remember, "just following orders" doesn't necessarily stand up in war crime trials. . . Remember, together we stand and divided we fall. The choice is ours. . .
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