i hate everything so i decided to write about it

reflections and ruminations from an acutely observing mind that is also very angsty

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Energy and culture.

I hate to say this but I think this brand of low-frequency stoner culture that we are seeing infiltrate music, art and other popular movements is a symptom of bioenergetic insufficiency.

“Brooo.. [insert some platitude presented as original advice]”

When a people are running out of mental energy to organize their thoughts, their expressions progressively take on a crude form - one closer to reflex than thought.

All solemnity and sincerity of the spoken word and action becomes irrelevant in the cultural discourse.

Only gestures and platitudes can then convey anything at all - as we see with this modern menace of one-liners and mic-drop responses that have seemingly crept up across all social media, or of virtue signalling and identity politics.

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The fear of death.. and what true liberation is all about.

If you’re living your truth every moment — death should hardly bother you.

Only a man who lives a lie fears death — for all the things he’d be missing out otherwise — all of the connections he could have had — and the very fact that nobody still knows what he truly is.

There’s a certain liberation in knowing you’re being understood.

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The “love” hormone?

Progesterone (taken orally) is basically what love feels like. It’s essentially the same feeling.

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On music.

Music is the most honest expression of universal truth — the intrinsic qualities of harmony and form.

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Karma works on a level far beyond most people’s comprehension.

What you may see as your suffering is just a small fragment within a larger picture of how karmic destiny works.

Maybe you hadn’t wronged — but your ancestors did — and you are an expression of the blood they spilled.

Your achievements are tainted with the suffering of everyone that had to give up their right to exist to enable you — and what you do today.

The crushed potential of everyone and everything that was denied a right to take root and prosper on this Earth will come back to you eventually.

Think of agriculture, for a quick example.

The European peasants thought they were outsmarting nature by ruthlessly destroying the natural flora with monocrop agriculture.

Reliance on a single crop would soon kill millions, because of pests and malnutrition.

There is karma attached to everything.

Almost all of our modern diseases are the result of agriculture - the desire to rule over Mother Nature to buy comforts and abundance.

In the end, a truth-seeking system such as evolution only cares to reward, well, truth.

If your societies and your very existence is the product of hypocrisy and deceit, you can see what’s coming for you.

Unintended consequences (karma) rules over all else.

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People seek to create a reflection of themselves in their environment.

A population of devolved humans (running on stress hormones and limbic responses) — just as if you were to let these people loose on the roads will create a traffic jam by short-sightedly and selfishly overtaking each other and blame fate for the inevitable mess that turns out, which really was their own doing — will predicate their arguments baselessly around things like “corruption, overpopulation or competition” for the mess that they’d created.

If our great ancestors making conscious choices and acting with principle, our societies would be looking very different today.

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The more you’ve gone through in life, the less likely you will be to just ‘get with it.’

Suffering is fuel.

One doesn’t awaken or enlighten by mere choice.

A certain dissatisfaction must exist to motivate the individual to transcend his current (or limiting) form.

All worldly suffering then comes to serve as the fuel, laying the groundwork for such an awakening to occur.

For most people, society already meets their basic needs quite well. The news, sporting arenas, bars and dating apps are enough to keep them smug and complacent with their authorities or the prevailing state of affairs in society. They feel no compulsion to seek out anything beyond the ordinary, of what is already available in abundance.

For others, there is no fulfillment to be found in the common life.

It is often these unhappy individuals who go on to develop spiritually, bestowing the world with their esoteric gifts and other acquisitions of wisdom and far-flung knowledge.

You ambitions will gradually turn incorporeal, your actions purposeful. You will find it harder to just push along with the crowd. You will not bend to the situation as it conveniently suits your interests. Your ambitions will no longer see everything as a means to an end but rather seek to make everything an end in itself.

This is why some of the most tortured souls are also the most passionate and purposefully-driven individuals you will meet with impenetrable moral systems. Because they have decades worth of suffering behind their reasons to want to walk their chosen path. They have simply lost the utilitarian and opportunistic bent found among men who lead the common life.

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Science is overrated.

Anyone capable of seeing the overarching trend throughout history knows that the prevailing scientific narratives of the day will always be used to justify the interests of industry first, not of man. It is only through the long arc of scientific history does any meaningful science actually prop up, as commercial interests shift with the changing needs of industry.

Not to mention science has some serious epistemological problems as anyone who has ever dabbled in analytic philosophy should know, with many of its paradigms of inquiry terribly reductionist.

Besides, a lot of what passes for “science” these days aren’t really deterministic explanations for how the world works, which is the science I grew up with, but rather a broad-brush statistical approximation of complex systems behaviour.

The need of the hour isn’t more information of which we have enough. The professional training system and institutions are already saturated with specialists - data crunchers and jargon spitters.

What we so desperately need are thinkers and wanderers or in other words, people who will make the most insightful connections and pose the most revealing questions. We need people who can help make sense of all the information that the specialists have dug out for us.

Because where the specialist can dig out useful information through his very specialised tools of inquiry, he cannot understand. Only a generalist can meaningfully integrate, relate and stitch together information coherently so that the words now read like a sentence. This is not much unlike our own brain, where the prefrontal cortex integrates and makes creative associations between far-ranging sensory stimuli and experiences conjured up by other specialised centers of the brain.

We need people with intuitive minds who have impeccable observational skills - those born with sensitive nervous systems that can detect BS from ten or some twenty miles away and ask the right question long before an answer becomes apparent for it - so as to direct all further inquiry in a more relevant direction.

For this is the bedrock science was founded upon - a holy sense of wonder and a general dissatisfaction with the prevailing explanations for the many whys and hows of life - not with peer-review, consensus and eminence.

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The world only (really) needs farmers, artists and philosophers.

The world only needs farmers, artists and philosophers. Farmers to feed us. Artists to console us. And philosophers to guide us. Be either one of these. Be involved in the creative process. Everything else is made up and exists solely to maintain a status quo that doesn't serve larger humanity. If you're not creating something of value, whether tangible (like food) or intangible (art and values), you really aren't being productive or being of good use to anyone.

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Society needs ignorance.

Society needs ignorance. If you teach people how much more happier they could be on their own, they would not keep coming back to work, the doctor's appointments, file taxes or have any reverence for religion. Ignorance is necessary for a society to thrive - to keep people depending on and thereby perpetuating a social order that maintains the status quo. Ignorance and fear go hand-in-hand. Remove fear from people's hearts and there will cease to be a society.