Okay. I write this while I'm listening to the songs of one of my favorite movies 'Into the wild'. Eddie Vedder is a fucking magician, hats off. And while this jingle goes on in my mind, the movie recaps in my mind. Pure magic. Sheer bliss! Magnum Opus!
..And while the movie goes on in my mind, the only thought in my mind is that, can anybody be actually so free? At a point I feel poor for the chap, dies a miserable death, on the other hand I feel jealous. He spent his last days as a free man. Free from all the tension, relationships, communication, social chains and the biggest of them all EXPECTATIONS. Can a man be ever free in life? In this life? In the next? Was a man ever free? I don't think so. Being a 'Social' animal has brought with it a huge amount of expectations and tensions. Man is a social animal, but can never be a free animal.
An excerpt I just read recently tells about a humanities teacher and his group of students. They were having an intense discussion about life and all its realms. Just to elaborate and figure out what his students think about life, the teacher got an idea. He offered everyone a cup of coffee. He went back into the kitchen and brought coffee in assorted cups; Beautiful, classy, crass and broken. He noticed that none of his students attempted to take the bad cups and were busy looking at each others cups wondering whose was better. The teacher then said: 'You talk about life? Life is nothing but coffee and the cups are only the material possessions. You people never cared about the coffee but just cared about the cup. What should matter to us is whether the coffee tastes good or not. A beautiful cup does not make the coffee taste better, and a course cup does not make the coffee worse. If we only concentrate on finding the better cup, the coffee will lose its taste some day.'
Is there anybody who claims is not tempted by the shimmer or the neighbor's cup? I bet a rats ass there ain't anybody!
The real question is: Can we Refrain?
And the answer is NO.
We social animals have sunk way too deep in the social quicksand to ever come back. Even if somebody wants to, we crabs pull him back! The 'Social' part is the reason. The idea of having a course cup in our hand is too demeaning to imagine. Everyone is running around for a shiny cup and stale coffee. And the shimmer is getting more attractive with the human race getting older. And the race for gold is going to get even uglier.
It is necessary, all this is necessary. Imagine God sending Adam and Eve and both go out on an adventure, separately. The future of our retarded race is doomed. :D
Even in Zend Avesta - the holy book of the Parsis; according to Zarathustra it is a Human being's first responsibility to make a family and take care of it. It is necessary to raise a family. And a man who does not, is the greatest sinner, for he is responsible for the demise of his race.
But trust me, it never says a thing about a studio apartment, flattest screen TV, expensive SUV and a rare breed dog. Make any justification, just backtrack with questions, you'll finally be left with no answer. Let me give you an example:
I want to buy an expensive perfume. Why? Because I have sweat problems. Why? Is sweat a problem? Because people around me make funny faces. Why do we care about people making funny faces? We have no idea why.
You end up spending a fortune to prevent people making funny faces around you. It is not a necessity, it is an unneeded luxury. We sacrifice necessities for unnecessary luxuries. Just because we have too much money to make ourselves socially acceptable. And because we love screwing our brains about what people think about us.
I'm no preacher, I'm no perfect man. I'm a mortal who is an enthusiast in blowing away money for unnecessary things. If you call this rat race, I'm way ahead of the curve. I know the problem, but I'm too scared to go for the remedy. Why? Because it makes me socially unacceptable. It makes my family look down upon me because I could not fulfill expectations. Expectations which were not set by them, but the society. What would a parent like? A happy child or a distraught child running around in circles trying to fulfill expecting, finding the shiny cup till the coffee is too stale to drink?
Parents are never at fault, they are social beings like us and they NEVER set expectations. Society makes them set expectations.
What is the solution? There is no solution. Its just gonna get worse with time. The bare truth, the harsh reality. It will make life a mistake. A mistake everybody repents for committing. The day is not far when parents will hate themselves for bringing children to life and making them suffer so bad. Being responsible for the demise of race is far better than spoiling lives of the future. They will proudly bear the crown of thorns and take the punishment. Lets stop making the coffee, so the cups are never needed!
Moral: I don't want to be reborn as a human. Do you?
..And while the movie goes on in my mind, the only thought in my mind is that, can anybody be actually so free? At a point I feel poor for the chap, dies a miserable death, on the other hand I feel jealous. He spent his last days as a free man. Free from all the tension, relationships, communication, social chains and the biggest of them all EXPECTATIONS. Can a man be ever free in life? In this life? In the next? Was a man ever free? I don't think so. Being a 'Social' animal has brought with it a huge amount of expectations and tensions. Man is a social animal, but can never be a free animal.
An excerpt I just read recently tells about a humanities teacher and his group of students. They were having an intense discussion about life and all its realms. Just to elaborate and figure out what his students think about life, the teacher got an idea. He offered everyone a cup of coffee. He went back into the kitchen and brought coffee in assorted cups; Beautiful, classy, crass and broken. He noticed that none of his students attempted to take the bad cups and were busy looking at each others cups wondering whose was better. The teacher then said: 'You talk about life? Life is nothing but coffee and the cups are only the material possessions. You people never cared about the coffee but just cared about the cup. What should matter to us is whether the coffee tastes good or not. A beautiful cup does not make the coffee taste better, and a course cup does not make the coffee worse. If we only concentrate on finding the better cup, the coffee will lose its taste some day.'
Is there anybody who claims is not tempted by the shimmer or the neighbor's cup? I bet a rats ass there ain't anybody!
The real question is: Can we Refrain?
And the answer is NO.
We social animals have sunk way too deep in the social quicksand to ever come back. Even if somebody wants to, we crabs pull him back! The 'Social' part is the reason. The idea of having a course cup in our hand is too demeaning to imagine. Everyone is running around for a shiny cup and stale coffee. And the shimmer is getting more attractive with the human race getting older. And the race for gold is going to get even uglier.
It is necessary, all this is necessary. Imagine God sending Adam and Eve and both go out on an adventure, separately. The future of our retarded race is doomed. :D
Even in Zend Avesta - the holy book of the Parsis; according to Zarathustra it is a Human being's first responsibility to make a family and take care of it. It is necessary to raise a family. And a man who does not, is the greatest sinner, for he is responsible for the demise of his race.
But trust me, it never says a thing about a studio apartment, flattest screen TV, expensive SUV and a rare breed dog. Make any justification, just backtrack with questions, you'll finally be left with no answer. Let me give you an example:
I want to buy an expensive perfume. Why? Because I have sweat problems. Why? Is sweat a problem? Because people around me make funny faces. Why do we care about people making funny faces? We have no idea why.
You end up spending a fortune to prevent people making funny faces around you. It is not a necessity, it is an unneeded luxury. We sacrifice necessities for unnecessary luxuries. Just because we have too much money to make ourselves socially acceptable. And because we love screwing our brains about what people think about us.
I'm no preacher, I'm no perfect man. I'm a mortal who is an enthusiast in blowing away money for unnecessary things. If you call this rat race, I'm way ahead of the curve. I know the problem, but I'm too scared to go for the remedy. Why? Because it makes me socially unacceptable. It makes my family look down upon me because I could not fulfill expectations. Expectations which were not set by them, but the society. What would a parent like? A happy child or a distraught child running around in circles trying to fulfill expecting, finding the shiny cup till the coffee is too stale to drink?
Parents are never at fault, they are social beings like us and they NEVER set expectations. Society makes them set expectations.
What is the solution? There is no solution. Its just gonna get worse with time. The bare truth, the harsh reality. It will make life a mistake. A mistake everybody repents for committing. The day is not far when parents will hate themselves for bringing children to life and making them suffer so bad. Being responsible for the demise of race is far better than spoiling lives of the future. They will proudly bear the crown of thorns and take the punishment. Lets stop making the coffee, so the cups are never needed!
Moral: I don't want to be reborn as a human. Do you?
