Nobody WANTS to understand.
Society’s just a big shambles.
Everybody cares when you’re dead.
What’s the point?!
“Can the lonely take the place of you?”
I’ll forever be fine in your eyes. I don’t hurt. I don’t cry. I don’t cut my skin. I don’t want to die. I’m not unhappy.
I don’t think about killing myself every single moment of every single day.
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We are a part of society. Does that mean we must accept responsibility for the role we play. I believe that Whales should be protected from Japanese fisherman turning them into sushi. However, I have no right to oppose them or their views because when I had the opportunity to do something about it by donating money to greenpeace or joining save the whale activists, I didn’t. I’m just as culpable because I stood by and didn’t make a positive contribution.
@ Livingonborrowedtime: I think you make an excellent point. Why would anyone want to live here. Maybe I am more right than I know. I said in a previous post that I feel like a sane person in a crazy world.
One of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes is “Time Enough at Last.”
The shared self image our society has, is a caricature of the Best of Times. Not just for Americans, but the best of times in human history: probably the mid fifties to the mid seventies. Those years are recorded first in black and white then in color, are replayed and carefully reviewed in detail as standard candles every fiscal year for comparison.
It’s been written that the greatest stresses for an empire happen before its collapse (not during the collapse) because citizens are looking back to their Good Times while their reality gradually sags rusting and sinks in shallow water. Once the 100th monkey realizes that collapse is underway, society dials back on the propaganda and bullshet.
Tension turns to grief. The grief subsides to a new terror that superpower really means empire and there are plenty of past empires to study. Any child with a phone and Wikipedia can read about the die off that’s coming. So the new terror and grief subside too. The present begins to resemble a Monty Python intro with a stubborn cart being dragged through crowded muddy streets as the undertaker’s cow bell is struck and “bring out yer dead” is beckoned to the sobbing filthy dwellers.
Anyone seen “Time Enough at Last?” If not then the 26 minute episode is on YouTube. I won’t spoil the ending.
@ changeling; I love The Twilight Zone. KTLA channel 5 used to run a Twilight Zone marathon every Thanksgiving. My sister and I used to go to the canyon behind our childhood house and get baked, then go inside and watch TZ episodes all day long. It was tough waiting for the turkey – dinner wouldn’t be ready till about 3PM and we really wanted to eat NOW. It also took some effort trying to act normal around my mom when I was high; years later I found out that she knew we were smoking in the canyon but she never said anything about it at the time.
Ahh….the good ole days.
I have always wanted to live in the Twilight Zone TV show,people would get punished the way they deserve.Kinda like very cruel cosmic justice.You get EXACTLY the kind of punishment that suits you,and allows you to learn the hard way exactly what you needed to learn.
I couldn’t have put it better myself. We are sane beings stuck in a crazy reel which we call ‘human nature.’
“We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world — mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.â€
@changeling……I guess I was lucky, having been born in 1954, and graduating from high school in 1972. As a kid we played outside, built under ground forts, climbed trees, hung out in the neighborhood and beyond. I read where in Britain parents won’t let kids climb trees anymore. I also just read a report which studied why children in eastern Finland had such high rates of Diabetes1 compared to the kids growing up in more industrialized Russia not much farther east. The conclusion? Dirt. Kids in Russia still played in it, thus exposing their immune systems to many more microbes, thus building resistance and strengthening their immune systems. We are being sanitized to death. The drive for empire is in full swing and it is their intent to keep us compliant, crazy, and drugged. My first bit if advice is to kill your TV. The education system is not geared to produce critical-thinking, they don’t want that for citizens might begin to truly question why the system works for power and crushes the common folk. I grew up watching The Twilight Zone. Rod Serling was a genius, but eventually he was taken off the air for being too controversial, for “scaring” us tykes. The truth of course is that the show enlightened us, and THEY were the ones who were scared. The U.S. has never been a land of freedom, that is PR. It is about to get a while lot worse, all by plan.
@LivingOnBorrowedTime……I like that moniker ’cause it is true for all of us. In a cold, chaotic world where money and possessions have more value than compassion, it only takes finding a few kind souls, maybe even just one, to change one’s perspective. I have gone, in the span of a few days, from being one ready to take my life, to instead wanting to be the compassionate soul I know I am who needs to rise to the occasion and fight the evil forces of the globalist bankers and merchants of death. I have known for many decades this time would arrive, we need people aware of the Matrix who are brave and caring enough to stand and fight. Shit, to do so may be the best suicide method available, but at least we will go down with integrity.
InTheKey–I like what you have to say, I admire your energy. Speaking of which, can I sign up for your Army and just join in when I have some energy?
Sure, you can join. Lousy pay though. Actually, I take the show on the road soon. I leave the comfort of warm, secure digs and will travel to meet and talk with people, play music, and be the wandering hobo I have always been inside. Finally, at almost 60, it is time to be who I truly am. When studying history it was always the traveling minstrels and court jesters who caught my imagination. As Fleetwood Mac said, “Heroes are Hard to Find,” and I have few, but Woody Guthrie is one. We may be a rag-tag army of commoners and simpletons, but we have the weapon of truth and justice, and that in the end will win out over armaments. It is hard to focus on the bigger picture when our minds are beset with pain and suicidal thought, perhaps it is my role to paint a few strokes of the bigger picture so some might give it thought. The world is being murdered by greedy people, they must be stopped, love and compassion ARE the answer.
You’re right. They must be stopped. My shrink told me to “pray for” all the people specifically hurting me and to think of them as ill. for 2 weeks, forgive them and think of them as ill. That’s fine as far as it goes, but when we’re talking of the larger society, are love and compassion really the answer to the powerful few, to the direction we’re going?
“Everybody cares when you’re dead.” No! they care only briefly then they will move on at least most of them. I know that i will end my own life, or i will end another..
That WAS a surprising Twilight Zone ending (Time Enough at Last). Though when things started to look good for him you knew something terrible had to befall him. Does make you think about what it is we’re searching for and would we know something made us happy if it fell into our laps? Do we hate what we need?
Good question, I don’t know the answer. It’s true that we sometimes snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Part of why I consider suicide is because I was thinking about my wants/needs and somehow I’ve come to the conclusion that I don’t WANT to live until I’m 82.6 years old.
Then I concluded that I don’t NEED to live at all, or for much longer anyway. It seemed ridiculous. So I’ve given it time and it’s been a consistent belief for me, for 17 months now. I’m glad you liked “Time Enough at Last,” thanks for sharing CTB 🙂