origami_itto wrote:Quigga wrote:How about we just agree that life kinda sucks for everyone involved, that suffering comes on it's own even without anyone willfully hurting one another and that the way to leave it behind has been established by various people in the past
I mean... Sure... Suffering is eternal, that doesn't mean we can't improve the conditions of man made systems that bind people in servitude to the direct benefit of others.
Otherwise i guess we should have kept slavery and Jim crow and never given women the vote or workers the weekend. Fuck it let's roll it back to feudal times, would fit well with the gold standard
Improving systems that grew over 2000 years or more is such a complicated process that you can do a lot more wrong than right without noticing it
A trap I fell into that almost cost me my live
Sacrificing one's own peace of mind for the sake of supposed group advancement is not worth it
Love yourself first and foremost, then act out of that source of abundance that never seems to dries up if the internal conditions were set up right
Don't throw away the baby with the bathwater