I can't recall the source, but it spoke of that fine line between money being a means to reach your goals and money becoming the goal. Where once you cross over that space a path is set towards doing what it takes at all costs.
So much is clearly wrong, this post touched on it nicely https://www.rintrah.nl/what-lurks-beneath-the-soil/
"They think they’re doing good, but there’s this inhuman hateful force, that plays their brain like a piano whenever they feel successful and dominant."
"Evil is not what low status white males imagine it to be, 13 Illuminati bloodlines gathering together at the Bilderberg conference to discuss how to use vaccines to enrich themselves and kill off all the obsolete proles who will be replaced by machinery before they sink their fangs into a terrified child. No my friends, evil is an ugly banality. It’s the guy who screwed everything up posing for a magazine without any shame. It’s getting backrubs from a fifteen year old on Epstein’s private jet. It’s whenever you embarrass yourself, by failing to live up to what you could be."
Unfortunately I feel like I overlap in one of these spaces (taking steps to exit), but I would say there is truly no awareness of the insanity except from that perceived of those opposed to mandates and what they believe in. There is celebration of greed, pride, excess, the greater good, and it's just accepted as good. It reminds me of this video which discussed how over the past several decades artists "selling out" went from a pejorative to the celebrated goal.
This quote came to mind from Ursula K Le Guin "The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
I'm not sure if any of this was helpful, I think there is just so much complexity that it is truly impossible to see it all and know in a way.
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Re: Big Picture Questions
Date: 2023-01-12 07:15 pm (UTC)So much is clearly wrong, this post touched on it nicely https://www.rintrah.nl/what-lurks-beneath-the-soil/
"They think they’re doing good, but there’s this inhuman hateful force, that plays their brain like a piano whenever they feel successful and dominant."
"Evil is not what low status white males imagine it to be, 13 Illuminati bloodlines gathering together at the Bilderberg conference to discuss how to use vaccines to enrich themselves and kill off all the obsolete proles who will be replaced by machinery before they sink their fangs into a terrified child. No my friends, evil is an ugly banality. It’s the guy who screwed everything up posing for a magazine without any shame. It’s getting backrubs from a fifteen year old on Epstein’s private jet. It’s whenever you embarrass yourself, by failing to live up to what you could be."
Unfortunately I feel like I overlap in one of these spaces (taking steps to exit), but I would say there is truly no awareness of the insanity except from that perceived of those opposed to mandates and what they believe in. There is celebration of greed, pride, excess, the greater good, and it's just accepted as good. It reminds me of this video which discussed how over the past several decades artists "selling out" went from a pejorative to the celebrated goal.
This quote came to mind from Ursula K Le Guin
"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
I'm not sure if any of this was helpful, I think there is just so much complexity that it is truly impossible to see it all and know in a way.