They made the world to fill us with fear and then sell us a remedy for the fear. They give us pointless work to fill up our time, and then sell our time back to us in the form of convenience. They made the world filled with anger, and then sold us outlets for our anger.
They had the stuff, so they made the rules, so they made the rules to favor them getting more stuff, so they have the stuff, so they make the rules…
The Ouroboros eats itself starting from the tail, but it’s the head that does the eating. These actions always start with someone who has enough wanting more. If we had the ability to shape our own destiny, we’d grow far beyond these petty things (think of how much generational trauma starts with “we can’t afford to live” as the ignition point). That requires the people with the boots to get off our necks first.
Or for people to collectively decide to throw the boots off, but we’ve been waiting all of written history for that. I’m not sure humanity is capable of it, as a whole.
We are capable of it, but the incentives are all fucked for it. It requires people to put in a fuck ton of effort… and then not suck up more then they need in doing so. Then, while they’re not vacuuming up excess resources, they also have to fight all of the people who want them to fail in order to maintain the status quo. It’s gonna be hard, but it isn’t impossible. Once a big enough group gets past that line, it’ll get easier for the rest of us to cross it as well (assuming no unnecessary lines get drawn in the doing so)
They made the world to fill us with fear and then sell us a remedy for the fear. They give us pointless work to fill up our time, and then sell our time back to us in the form of convenience. They made the world filled with anger, and then sold us outlets for our anger.
They had the stuff, so they made the rules, so they made the rules to favor them getting more stuff, so they have the stuff, so they make the rules…
The Ouroboros eats itself starting from the tail, but it’s the head that does the eating. These actions always start with someone who has enough wanting more. If we had the ability to shape our own destiny, we’d grow far beyond these petty things (think of how much generational trauma starts with “we can’t afford to live” as the ignition point). That requires the people with the boots to get off our necks first.
Or for people to collectively decide to throw the boots off, but we’ve been waiting all of written history for that. I’m not sure humanity is capable of it, as a whole.
We are capable of it, but the incentives are all fucked for it. It requires people to put in a fuck ton of effort… and then not suck up more then they need in doing so. Then, while they’re not vacuuming up excess resources, they also have to fight all of the people who want them to fail in order to maintain the status quo. It’s gonna be hard, but it isn’t impossible. Once a big enough group gets past that line, it’ll get easier for the rest of us to cross it as well (assuming no unnecessary lines get drawn in the doing so)