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Cigarettes, drugs, sex, alcohol, television, movies, religion, multiple personalities. People have these things that keep them sane. What about the rest of us? What about the ones who realize tv is fake? What about those of us who realize that movies are manufactured in Hollywood? What about those of us who realize that eventually we may regret destroying our lungs and liver? What about those of us who cannot bring ourselves to act or posit blind faith? Not quite sane, not quite insane. Many of us are given diagnoses. Some of us can't even bring ourselves to get diagnosed, since said diagnosis has a prerequisite of faith - that is, faith in other people and faith in oneself. Faith that someone can take a summary of my condition and give me a label and faith that I can be totally honest with myself. Both are faiths more tenuous than the belief that my own self diagnosis will be far more accurate.
People haven't evolved that much from animals. We are fooling ourselves. We need drugs. We need pleasure. We need family and social ties. We need entertainment. Take away our capacity to develop complex written and spoken language and what do you really have other than the primeval drives found in much "less complex" beings. Change a few chromosomes and we're fish, apes, ants, birds... We aren't any more special. If fish had the capacity to believe, they would begin with the idea that they are divinely endowed. If they had enough sense, perhaps they would take a more liberal, less self-centered viewpoint. The human race as a whole is to the housefly as the wealthy capitalist is to the starving third worlder. He who has shaped God in his likeness has done the damage of creating the beneficent apathy of the masses that will forever preserve the status quo. Humans have created money, the universal languages that undermines every word ever uttered. Equality and the freedom entailed by the human condition are but illusions that we continue to accept.
People haven't evolved that much from animals. We are fooling ourselves. We need drugs. We need pleasure. We need family and social ties. We need entertainment. Take away our capacity to develop complex written and spoken language and what do you really have other than the primeval drives found in much "less complex" beings. Change a few chromosomes and we're fish, apes, ants, birds... We aren't any more special. If fish had the capacity to believe, they would begin with the idea that they are divinely endowed. If they had enough sense, perhaps they would take a more liberal, less self-centered viewpoint. The human race as a whole is to the housefly as the wealthy capitalist is to the starving third worlder. He who has shaped God in his likeness has done the damage of creating the beneficent apathy of the masses that will forever preserve the status quo. Humans have created money, the universal languages that undermines every word ever uttered. Equality and the freedom entailed by the human condition are but illusions that we continue to accept.