Freedom sounds like something nice but most people are so institutionalized from birth that they actually prefer to live under the systems of control that have been built around them.

These systems are especially difficult to escape when they provide their captives with near constant distraction and neatly packaged versions of community, purpose, and sense of superiority over others. It’s like an especially potent form of Stockholm syndrome develops.

The truth is that very few people can actually handle thinking for themselves. From my own experience, I can say it has taken me years and plenty of resources to even begin to do so. And still, I regularly catch myself regressing into the patterns that define the systems that I seek so desperately to escape.

I’ve said it before but it bears repeating (mostly for myself): humans are stupid and anxious animals who represent nothing special at all in the context of the universe. We only make fools of ourselves and others rich by believing differently.

I reject meaning or purpose. I can and do still find joy and fulfillment without believing the lies that are constantly being sold to me by those who seek to profit from my human weaknesses.

Talk about first world problems. :)

#grownostr

#thinkdangerously