Replying to Not my name

If you’ve ever been to the beach and looked out over the vastness of the ocean, or to a mountain range and gazed below at a grand valley vista, you’ve likely experienced the sensation of being “small” by comparison.

This very powerful and nearly universal human response (it crosses cultures, political ideologies, ages, races, etc) to the scale of the natural world tends to put a lot into perspective. It seems for many to cause empathy for one’s fellow man, who appear equally as small when viewed in such light.

This is why governments and many others who seek to control you don’t want you to go outside. They want you to live in cities, consume their propaganda, and produce yield for them. They want to destroy and limit the natural world because it brings out the best in us and tends to make us realize that we don’t need others telling us what to do (and watching us) all the time.

They want us to bring more and more people into the world to squeeze us into ever smaller spaces so that our perspectives become equally as narrow.

A narrow perspective lets “leaders”convince us that it is okay to hurt others who are more like us than we are like our leaders.

What a shame.

#grownostr

#thinkdangerously
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MichaelJ 1y ago

This sense of smallness in the face of the universe is certainly humbling, but it is not sufficient in itself to give meaning.

I agree we should strive to humility and empathy, but if we are seeking for meaning, we are more likely to find it among our fellow men and women in the cities than amidst the solitary vastness of nature.

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Not my name 1y ago

Thank you for sharing your perspective as I appreciate learning about the ways others perceive the world around them.

I personally don’t strive for meaning and have found that to be a worthwhile path for myself. Trying to find meaning for me often led to exploitation by those who were merely selling their own ersatz version of it.

Once I abandoned the quest for hope, meaning, and purpose (which are pretty intangible concepts when you think about it), I actually found more joy in my life.

While I would always recommend going through the exercise of trying to see things from a different perspective, I must admit, this one is pretty tough to do. There is a lot of cultural programming around these concepts, probably because so many people make money and gain power/status via other people’s quest for them.

Thank you again for considering what I wrote and the genuine reply.

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