Showing posts with label world. Show all posts
Showing posts with label world. Show all posts
Monday
the price of pleasure
"Weaning" isn't good enough.
Hershey's is "weaning" itself from child labor.
Buy fair trade chocolate.
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Hershey's is "weaning" itself from child labor.
Buy fair trade chocolate.
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Saturday
what if
we live in a world built based on the suffering of others, of their toil and petty compensation.
those who struggle to survive are the ones who are keeping us alive, feeding our habits and bodies.
and this can be because we
are unable to relate to each
other (don't even mention animals and plants)
separated by barriers of history,
language, "culture," religion, fear
everything is a result of circumstances.
every name, "person," is a result as well.
of culture, family, genes
and we give these circumstances
meaning through gods
they can't possibly be random
what if random and purpose are nothing
but creations of our egos as well?
like good and bad. it's not that it's
"random" but it also was not "done"
or created with a motivation. it just ____.
those who struggle to survive are the ones who are keeping us alive, feeding our habits and bodies.
and this can be because we
are unable to relate to each
other (don't even mention animals and plants)
separated by barriers of history,
language, "culture," religion, fear
everything is a result of circumstances.
every name, "person," is a result as well.
of culture, family, genes
and we give these circumstances
meaning through gods
they can't possibly be random
what if random and purpose are nothing
but creations of our egos as well?
like good and bad. it's not that it's
"random" but it also was not "done"
or created with a motivation. it just ____.
not ours
at a loss for words in the face of the loss of humanity, of the destruction of our brothers and sisters by our brothers and sisters and ourselves.
solution? to the unsolvable problem; how to make people realize that they are not the most important. that their needs do not supercede the needs of others. that this is not a sinking ship and we do not have to be in survival mode.
cycles of violence... in homes, ghettos, countries... physical, emotional, economical. religion is one of the main problems; self-serving "we are right and you are wrong" violence perpetuating. imposing beliefs and ways of life onto people. something false, created, and you are taught to believe it so much that you will die and kill and maim and rape for it.
no one wants to be perturbed shaken out of their bubbles. me either. i want the comfort of monasteries, believing in reincarnation and the lethargic evolution of the soul of mankind.
but in the meantime...
our actions have direct consequences on everyone else. we can't pretend that things spearate us anymore. only a fool thinks he does not depend on anyone else in this world. and our riches and luxury and comforts are enjoyed at the price of decent living for the rest of the world.
we tie ourselves to fake institutions of countries and governments and enconomy and let them spearate us even furthur. obsess over traditions and customs and insist that these things make us different from one another. when, in reality, our customs are only different ways of expressing and repressing the same things.
such small minds and mentalities. i can not only see a part; i see the seething, interconnected whole. others will not be bothered with the whole and instead wish to deceive themselves, believing that their part is the whole... not the whole, but an island, isolated from the rest.
and so the cycle continues.
we hear news of a holocaust and refuse to believe its real. because that would mean giving up our egocentric self-serving lifestyles and putting ourselves on the line for a problem that is "not ours."
solution? to the unsolvable problem; how to make people realize that they are not the most important. that their needs do not supercede the needs of others. that this is not a sinking ship and we do not have to be in survival mode.
cycles of violence... in homes, ghettos, countries... physical, emotional, economical. religion is one of the main problems; self-serving "we are right and you are wrong" violence perpetuating. imposing beliefs and ways of life onto people. something false, created, and you are taught to believe it so much that you will die and kill and maim and rape for it.
no one wants to be perturbed shaken out of their bubbles. me either. i want the comfort of monasteries, believing in reincarnation and the lethargic evolution of the soul of mankind.
but in the meantime...
our actions have direct consequences on everyone else. we can't pretend that things spearate us anymore. only a fool thinks he does not depend on anyone else in this world. and our riches and luxury and comforts are enjoyed at the price of decent living for the rest of the world.
we tie ourselves to fake institutions of countries and governments and enconomy and let them spearate us even furthur. obsess over traditions and customs and insist that these things make us different from one another. when, in reality, our customs are only different ways of expressing and repressing the same things.
such small minds and mentalities. i can not only see a part; i see the seething, interconnected whole. others will not be bothered with the whole and instead wish to deceive themselves, believing that their part is the whole... not the whole, but an island, isolated from the rest.
and so the cycle continues.
we hear news of a holocaust and refuse to believe its real. because that would mean giving up our egocentric self-serving lifestyles and putting ourselves on the line for a problem that is "not ours."
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