As I’m sure you’ve heard from someone, somewhere, at some point in time…modern life seems almost designed to be stacked against our ability to succeed. Whether it be the looming presence of late stage capitalism, the ever trending introduction of some Marxist or fascist ideals, or the idea that quadruple billionaires are scheming a new world order to brainwash the working class of society in order to expand the wealth gap for total world domination…we seem hell bent on coming up with some theory to explain why things aren’t working out for us or our peers.
In reality, Who really cares?! All this is a just distraction from doing the one thing that actually matters: finding a way to succeed anyways.
Let’s face it…the world we live in is an absurd place. The more you try to dig to a deeper level and gain some sort of insight or level of understanding on what seems to be a pressing issue, the issue will hawk up a lougee and spit it in your face. No matter how good or ethical we try to be, someone will always find a contradiction in your efforts that completely opposes your initial intention. We can’t be completely good. We almost can’t be completely bad. We’re just existing in some weird limbo where we battle our inner conscience to be a good as we possibly can, and bring about a change to the world that ends with some complete net positive impact that we fabricate from our own improvised worldview. If we try to take a step back and comprehend the world and everything that exists in it as whole, its just the same as covering our eyes with duct tape and sticking our head in the sand. This place is impossible to understand, and seemingly unchangeable. Nothing about it makes sense, yet somehow it all makes sense in the most contradictory way. When we start to understand the basics of the absurdity of this universe and our existence in it, we eventually realize how little control we have over everything eCxept our ability to perceive said control. We can spell “except” however we want. We can write sentences in paragraphs that really might not mean anything to anyone except those who come up with some bullshit gymnastical interpretation of said pseudointellectual mumbling. We can even contradict ourselves to such great lengths that our sense of morals and ethics are almost completely indistinguishable from what they were just a few moments ago. Nothing needs to make sense…unless we choose to allow it to. We can establish ultimate contentment in life by using the most available entity in our access…ourselves.
i think this notion of “ultimate contentment” is the greatest leverage we have to bringing about a noticeable net positive change to the world. Even with the knowledge of universal absurdity and an existential understanding of our existence, we can still be content and happy. Especially knowing that all the bad in this world just comes from our choice on how to perceive it. With happier and more content individuals, i think the world will easily become a much better place, or at least round itself out. Therefore, our best option to move towards a better tomorrow is to navigate our way around all the bullshit that life pushes in our way, and find success…especially when the popular opinion is to doubt our ability to do it. Be a little selfish for the good of society. When we think of it that way, its not really selfishness, is it?
This leads me to the two rules that I have carefully set for myself. Yes, only two rules. these rules are contained in the mantra I’ve chosen for this site “Exist for a while, and be decent”. I will dive deeper into these two rules in the future, this post is long enough already.
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