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  • lath@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlNaw it must be the vaccines
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    7 days ago

    It’s a bit more complicated than that. Current society is flawed as it requires conformity in individuals to serve it when instead it should serve the individual.

    The base flaw is authority. It requires the individual to act in a specific way that is consistent with its needs and that will suppress other inclinations. Added to that is nature itself, which doesn’t give a shit about anyone and cares not if any needs are met in any way, at all. Which is further compounded by the simple fact that not every divergence plays well with all the others. So conflict will eventually become unavoidable regardless of the development path.

    A complicated part is that not every divergence is good for the individual’s development or survival. So it then becomes a matter of balance in regards to personal freedom in acting as such even though it might be harmful to oneself or others, having the necessary support that allows an individual to make an informed choice on whether to maintain that freedom or suppress it and living with the consequences of the choice and finally, whether to fight against nature’s own form of ruthless culling in order to preserve and develop all the variances that might emerge or allow it to run wild.

    It can get very sketchy once you dive into the gritty details and every aspect of the possible ramifications when trying to find a reasonable approach that takes everyone into account.


















  • An average person doesn’t mechanically compartmentalize emotions and puts them aside because they aren’t “productive solutions”.

    It’s good for you that you’ve managed this kind of selfcontrol in order to improve your life. But that’s because you’ve numbed down the things that do you harm.

    A person that isn’t depressed doesn’t have that kind of ‘benefit’. Emotions run freely and wild without fear. And cause all kinds of trouble.

    Lovers being jealous of outside attention to the point of madness.

    Siblings being jealous of biased parental love to end up estranged.

    Children in patched up clothes on the streets begging or on the fields working - being jealous of children dressed in brand new school uniforms and going to school together.

    Any person in a hospital bed with a terminal illness watching through the window the world living a life they can’t have.

    And so many other examples…

    Productive solutions don’t mean shit when it comes to strong emotions and jealousy can be very strong at times. Strong enough to murder even. I mean forget about the world-ending news regurgitation, at the local level where the average person lives, jealousy is high up in ranking as a reason for commiting crimes.