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Human Weakness Part 1b
People naturally go through phases in their lives. These phases involve everything beginning with the stages of growth from being an infant to an adult, all the way to your current preference of music. I think we change everything in our lives in roughly the same amount of time as it takes for a snake to replace it’s skin. As these things stand on their own, I see no fault. I deeply feel that the ebb and flow of development is a beautiful thing to watch and should be vigorously encouraged. The phases that we leave in our past are the building blocks that form the foundation of our present moment. I personally have gone through some phases in my teenage years that I would never be a part of now. What some people call regret, I call a learning process. I say to people frequently, “Hank Aaron didn’t set the record for most career home runs in his rookie season. He had to play twenty three seasons to achieve that!” What I mean with that statement is to not be so hard on yourself, keep trying. People generally leave a part of their life behind simply because it no longer works for them. From my recent observations, when someone tries something new and isn’t immediately good at it, they stop trying and either try something else or go back to whatever they were doing before. Even though I don’t think that the behavior I just mentioned has any virtue, it is still on an individual basis. Once again I must stress that I agree with the ebb and flow of trial, error and success. However, when mass amounts of people train their brains to think of themselves potential failures, society fails. I believe that to be one of the many roots of the world’s collective problems. I know it sounds cliche; we need to fix this problem one person, one mind at a time. It’s like trying to undo the conditioning of Pavlov’s dogs. I’m up for a challenge, what else is there to do anyway?
When mass amounts of people train their brains to think of themselves as potential failures, society fails. When we compare ourselves to the picture perfect images of popular media culture, we fall short. This concept is drilled into the average person’s head constantly. This feeling of inadequacy is the reason why big pharmaceutical companies make such huge profits off the sales of anti-depressants. If you saturate masses of people with commercials for anti-depressant pills, no doubt some dumb suckers will tell their doctor they want a prescription for an anti-depressant. When anti-depressants become unpopular, a new pill will arrive to replace it. Masses of people led by a tether, generation after generation. So it goes! How masses of people can easily be convinced of something or led in a specific direction is a weakness that we do not have by ourselves, yet collectively this weakness is painfully obvious. I know this weakness is being and has been exploited at least since the invention of the printing press.
In my last post about weakness, I wrote about how people are gullible. That topic is the basis yet I think this is much, much worse. I’m pondering why large groups of people will allow themselves to be exploited, when individual people fight over the smallest of compromises? Why does society act in this way when individual people are capable of being better? Why do people espouse an opinion that isn’t their own when they feel differently in their hearts? Why do masses of people seem to betray the common sense in their hearts? On the other hand, why does an individual feel steadfast with their heart? This is the base of the problem I’m pondering. A unique illness this is that in only infects the minds of the gullible. I don’t know a definitive answer for any of those questions. Although I can and will think about possible answers to those questions. Those of us blessed with a steadfast heart need to remain strong. I feel that now more than ever these questions/problems need to be thought about and need to be answered/solved. I am always up for a challenge, what else is there to do anyway?
I hope you had as much fun reading as I did writing.
Human Weakness Part 1
The average person believes human beings to be the smartest, most advanced and capable creatures on the planet. I do not think this is so. Humans may have more capabilities, although we also have multitudes more weaknesses. It is these weaknesses that I will focus on here. I am not going put them in any particular order, they are all bad, some are worse than others and they are not organized as such. So don’t think that the first is the worst.
Before I begin, I feel I must address some strengths first. Thumbs are the first thing I can think of that separate us from the animal kingdom. The ability to understand complex mathematics is another. On a side note. I have observed my cat catching many mice and his precise method of doing so. Like calculating when a train traveling south at forty mph and a train traveling west at twenty-five mph will meet. My cat springs towards his destination arriving at the same time as the mouse. That considered, the unique skill of mathematics that humans have developed can break down the actions of my cat into an equation. Animals perform feats of mathematics multiple times per day, human beings break it down to math and logic, over and over. Also the medium I am engaged in is unique to humans. The written word provides a reference or a written memory for future generations to look upon. Our ancestors knew how to make a message last. They wrote everything important on stones. The written word in my opinion has been a positive to the human species as a whole. The exception to that being the people deemed by the higher ups responsible for creating and distributing the written word to the masses. The ones who decides what gets published as written word have degraded the practice of writing to the point that in today’s world people would rather dry their clothes in the rain than read more than five pages of writing.
Having control of the written word has a distinct advantage as long as the ones reading don’t question what they read. So, gullibility will be the first thing I write about. Every person ever born has believed something that isn’t true. Ninety-five percent of people believe everything they hear from an authoritative source like the television or newspaper. I don’t know this for a fact, yet I would bet that around only eighty percent of person to person interaction is perceived as being true. Every major event in history is marred with lies. Even information about the Great Pyramids are saturated with lies. How far do these lies go? When did people start believing them? The path that the human species would’ve walked to reach the present moment would have been drastically different if we all knew a lie as soon as we heard it. I, personally have been deceived in the past. In hindsight it looks so clear, however when you are living the moment your innervision isn’t as good as it is in hindsight. The ability to discern is apparently not there. I used to wrack my brain trying to figure out how to wake up gullible people. Then I discovered that the reason they don’t listen to me is because I don’t own any badges with the label; Authority Figure. I’ve tried providing evidence to their face, despite the evidence in front of them, the average person will say 999/1000 that the guy on television is right.
In the year 1999 the internet was starting to make headway as far as exposing the big lies. Ever since 9-11 the lies have been swallowed like medicine. When the real medicine is the medicine that will let you know when you have been hoodwinked!
How Does Feeling Old Effect My Enthusiasm?
I am finally realizing that I am in fact getting older. I’m not talking about sore muscles and aching joints, those are normal things to feel after working hard many days in a row. I somewhat like having sore arms and legs when I wake up. I work hard, play hard and have had a “go big or go home” mentality for years now. However I am mellowing with age. When I tackle a project I try not to miss the smallest details. I’m a young thirty year old man so I’m currently in the midst of learning about fine details. I’m a long way from knowing everything and everything is something that only collectively we know.
Not just learning the fine details, the time I spend learning basic details puts me in a place that I wasn’t in before. This hands on learning is absorbing so much of my time that I only have time to think during tedious work. When the work is done I feel satisfied and tired. Even though I still have these thoughts running wild, I don’t think I have the wherewithal to do any good writing. I am a perfectionist who deletes more than he writes. That considered, I work too much for anything I write to meet my standard. So, I am going to have unpredictable timing with my posts. I hope I have the wherewithal to do this once a week for the next fifty years!
I must be getting old because I am becoming the kind of person I used to rail against. I am becoming the man who works so much everyday, so much that he/she can’t do any research to know that the very system they are beholden to is owned by the same putrid individuals who designed this system of wage slavery. We work too much. So much in fact that we have no time, no free time at all to ask ourselves; “why do things work the way they do?” Or, “why is Daddy only home at night to sleep.” Or the famous question: “Isn’t there more to life than this?” I still crave an answer to these questions yet I work too much now to write anything of any worth down. I understand the system to which I am enslaved. Not having time to fight against this system of Wage Slavery is making me feel bottle-necked.
Worrying about my battles against nature, battles against time and also my own fatigue have made me understand my priorities much better. The political battle is always in my head. The farming battle cannot wait. For example; if I spent a week handing out fliers from town to town, hanging banners.. My crops will die. Whatever doesn’t die, the quality will be greatly diminished. It’s these old man priorities that make me wake up early everyday. The battles of truth and “waking people up” is less serious to me now that I have so much to work to maintain. Is it a sign of old age that the time I spend working greatly outweighs the time I spend philosophizing? Is this the part of my life where my skin becomes so thick that is appears calloused?
Life is good. My seeds are sprouting at an amazing ratio. The speed of the germination has caught me off guard. I’ve had to put in some extra hours to keep up with it. I suppose that’s why my co-workers call me “the germinator”! No one knows why the seeds I plant have such a better success ratio… I love gardening, maybe that’s why? That considered, I’ll put some pictures of my sprouts/plants up soon.
Onto more pressing matters. I usually dribble out my information a little at a time so I don’t shock the reader/listener. This time I feel like cutting straight to it.
What is going to happen to our Father’s house? What about our Mother’s property? I may be wrong, yet the general idea from my unique point of view is that our parents hope to sell their home and retire on that money. There’s one problem. No one has the money to afford a house! I’m afraid we will have an overflow of penniless, homeless, disabled elderly. The children of today will refuse to help because they might risk damaging their style or popularity. This is a real problem that no one ever mentions. Small business owners started a business for the same reason. To build it, sell it and retire. The young people today seem to have no interest in doing any hard work. They have no concept of sacrifice let alone working hard and long enough to be self-sufficient. (A country boy can make it in a city, but a city boy can’t handle the country) I’m not just worried about who will look after our elders. I’m worried about who will buy their homes and property. I know the people around here would rather sell their house than give it away to a son/daughter that did nothing but loaf around. Hard working people naturally have disdain for loafers, I understand that. I know first-hand that my generation doesn’t have any real chance to save money. Wages are low and costs are high. I wish I had the money to buy the houses and property of the elderly. I have money saved, but the cost of a house is a hundred-thousand dollars at minimum. I certainly don’t have that much saved. I also know first-hand that my generation refuses to admit they are wrong. Admitting you’re wrong means you should change what was wrong into what is right. Just ask the older generation about making mistakes if you want to know more. Meanwhile the younger generation complains that their daddy doesn’t just give them the house. It seems like a silly complaint to me. It’s normal for high-school graduates to move far away from home and go to university. It’s normal for university students to never call home, never visit and still feel entitled to the family fortune, which happens to be in the form of a house/property.
So I guess we have old hard-working minds clashing with a self-absorbed, lazy minds. The self-absorbed people haven’t done any of the hard work necessary that would entitle them to what they feel should be automatically entitled to them. Living in the country, I’ve noticed that the weak people move away to cities. In their minds they are leaving a life behind them akin to slavery. That considered, do you ever see a television show that isn’t based in a city?
There are many things going on in the world today that trouble me. (I hope we all are troubled by these things.) So many people are distracted by television. We all have problems that would be taken care of if we spent our time constructively. Instead of watching a football game on your day off, we should be figuring out the necessary steps we need to take. We need to think about the future a lot more than we have. If you feel like me than you probably love animals, nature and sunshine. If I may be honest I’d say that I love those things more than people. I’m one of the few people left that feel a responsibility to clean the land instead of polluting it. My conscious wont let the Earth die. Call me an environmentalist if you like, although I don’t like being labeled. The way I see it, people have dropped the ball when it comes to the environment. It’s about time we picked that ball up and started cleaning up this dirty world. I think it’s time people started putting their money where their mouth is.
The necessary steps we need to take to ensure a good future for the Earth that our children will live on is something we all need to think about. We also have financial worries. I worry about what I’m going to leave behind. I think the problems that we push to the back of our minds needs to be in the front.
I’ve been wanting to create an online journal for a while now. I guess I should get on it now or I’ll never get to it. First off I should tell the readers exactly what kind of online journal this is, or at least what I hope it will be.
Firstly, my reasons are selfish ones. I have always found writing to be therapeutic. I also feel that my ideas are worthy of sharing and you can benefit from knowing them. That last sentence considered, I also think that I can do better than most people at this. Most people’s ideas basically repeat something I already know and I hate wasting my time listening to someone who doesn’t know that I’m way beyond what they are trying to communicate. Writing for me is therapeutic. The written word doesn’t have to be shortened or simplified. If I have a thought that takes longer to explain than a person’s attention span can handle, then I suppose the written word is for me. Conventional therapy doesn’t work for me so I do what I call “unconventional therapy”. Which is something created by me, for me and not for resale.
Secondly, I want to start a debate. I cannot be completely self-centered if I didn’t consider my own personal growth process. How can I plant my feet firmly if I don’t think about the ground that surrounds me? That last sentence considered, I will write points of view that aren’t my own. I will occasionally present the opposite argument to my actual position. When you’re writing and not speaking it’s hard to know what tone someone is using. Whether the tone is sarcastic, parody, serious, etc. Sometimes all of those tones may be utilized. As the reader how are you going to tell what mood I’m in when I write something? Just remember one thing. I am human and my mind changes constantly. I am not monotone. So if you’re interested in an idea that I have and you’re not sure if I’m joking or not, just ask what I mean. If my intent was not what you thought it was. (which happens to me daily) Then we can start a philosophical debate! After all, when you actually try and discuss your ideas to someone who hates your ideas, that’s when you really learn how solid your ideas are.
Thirdly, I am generally frustrated with talking to brick walls known as people. At least with an online journal I may attract some like-minds. Some things that seem like obvious, common sense, even a child can understand things, aren’t accepted by society. A great example is the comparison between alcohol and cannabis. Example: If you’re at a hockey game and a fight breaks out. Who was more likely fighting? The people smoking cannabis or the people drinking? Answer: Obviously the people drinking… So, common sense would say. Alcohol promotes violence. That’s something we all know, don’t we? Alcohol promotes violence? Yes, it also promotes many other unsavory things… Yet violence is the topic for now. Cannabis also has it’s downfalls. However most of those are caused by stupid impressionable people emulating the Hollywood style “pothead”. Teenagers smoke Cannabis and get hypnotized by television, video games, smart phones etc. and they’re useless. I’m not defending Cannabis simply because of those idiot video game addicts who are currently creating a new stereotype…… That is an example of the topics I will be writing about. If you don’t like someone breaking stereotypes than you will hate me.
Fourthly, I absolutely hate how people accept everything they hear on the news at face value. The only thing that should be accepted at face value is money. even money now-a-days is a scam(that’s a topic for later). I wrack my brain as to why and how people got so gullible. I wonder everyday why people believe everything they hear. That last sentence considered, I also don’t understand how some people can lie so easily. I know that people are gullible. That doesn’t mean I will take advantage of it. I deplore such practice. I am somewhere in the middle of knowing and naive. I admit that I am gullible too on an occasion. However, when i am involved, the same mistake is never made twice..
Thanks for your time. If you like what I have to say come back weekly. The exhaustion from my job keeps me from doing this daily. I hope you had as much fun reading as I did writing.
Doyle Dewolfe
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