Basically I am very scared by what I see in the world these days. Since I can remember I have always wondered why things are set up in an unsustainable way; I can remember pondering this since I can remember. I used to go for drives with my dad and ask him all sorts of questions on why people act the way they do.

Now I have understood that this is all mostly caused by greed, fear, want of power etc. But what I don't understand is why we cannot get over ourselves as a species and just be content to be alive.

I am sick and tired of seeing more and more crap being built everywhere I look. People destroy themselves with food ,drugs, general consumerism and countless other vices. Does this make people happy? No. It makes them more discontent.

I am trying to find a way that I can better the world and better myself; something that will allow me to get by and help other people as well. I have ideas for this and I am looking into them.

However , this does not seem like enough to me. People are being brainwashed on every level of there lives. You can not got anywhere without seeing some kind of psychological manipulation . I want to find a way to make people think for themselves; put themselves back in the drivers seat. People are constantly being told how they should and shouldn't do things. How can they be told to do things as they want to do?

I know this seems very open ended, and it is, but hopefully I can see some other points of view on the matter. I feel we are at a point in time where people should be able to just "wake up" but they are being drowned out by more and more bullshit from the media and in turn each other. It seems all the bullshit just gets louder and louder and it makes the lies seem more and more obvious to me. Maybe it will become clear to other people? They can't just keep shouting lies and expect everyone to believe it.

All I believe you need to be truly happy as a human on this planet is food, shelter , water, good company and to add to that more "free" things, music, sex and plants. Do you agree with this or do you feel you need more?

Thank you, I love you all.

Everything you've stated is valid.

I, too, lead a fairly minimalistic life: I work at a job that I enjoy, I make slightly more money than I need to afford the necessities I have, and I horde the rest of it in savings so when I decide I want to do something like build a cabin in the Alaskan wilderness and live off the land for the rest of my time on this earth, I will be able to.

My lifestyle baffles and terrifies people. When I tell someone money doesn't make me happy, they look at me as if I have four heads. When I say I don't watch TV, they give me this dumb slack-jawed look and saying something like "Well then what do you do in your spare time?" When I tell people I like biking better than driving, they say "But isn't driving easier?"

Everyone wants to be lazy; no one wants to work. I don't mean this in the sense of a job. I mean in the sense of surviving. You can make a million dollars a year, drive a Lamborghini, and bang models on your private yacht while you're doing lines of coke off a hooker's ass, but if you can't make fire, forage/hunt your own food, construct your own shelter, you're basically useless. People work so hard at their jobs to make "more" money to buy "more" things to make everything "easier," but what they don't realize is that they're often the cause of their own problems and the cause of their own debt.

One thing I think about a lot is the current generation and people around my age range (24). I was never a good student and I always worked my ass off at crap retail jobs making minimum wage. What has this taught me? To shut up and do what I have to. Life's tough sometimes. That's why I find it infuriating when co-workers around my age range in my workplace complain about not getting paid "enough," because they think that having three semesters of college under their belt elevates them to the level of "ubermensch" and fills them with a sense of entitlement and self-importance.

But whose fault is it really? The parents. Parents are obsessed with giving their child a "better life" than they had and giving them "the best," but what they are really doing is CRIPPLING AUTONOMY AND FOSTERING LAZINESS. My parents never taught me a damn thing: my dad never showed me how to shave, my mom never taught me how to cook, no one ever explained money management to me, no one ever showed me how to change a tire, no one ever showed me how to do laundry, no one ever showed me how to dress a wound, etc. etc. Of course, their mindset was "If he goes to college, he'll have a good job and make enough money so that..." So that what? So I can pay someone to cook for me? So I can pay someone to paint a fence, build a house, change my oil, fix a loose screw on a cabinet?

This might sound like angst and resentment, but it's not. I understand the decisions they made and the way they went about raising me, and, though I certainly don't agree with it, I can understand why THEY thought that this would be the best.

Sorry for the rant, this post really just hit home with me.

preach to the choir, so to speak in cliche. lots of us have discussed it to no end.
it'll take an economic collapse to see the pure reality of human nature, untainted by the illusion of perceived worth.

For some people the look and the way of the world might be frustrating. They might have worried about the future of the planet, environment and human species. One who looks out and sees only bad sides of the world is creating his own view of the world, that it is dumb, unconscious and etc. Basically in this way of seeing things the World seems to be going into jaws of doom and despair. It is totally negative way of thinking.

As all we know the world is made of opposites, where is negativity, there must be positive side to it. There is always the equilibrium of those two. It is the way of energy to exist and everything since the beginning of the universe to the moment of now and to the end of it all, was, is and always will be one energy. This energy as you see in your daily experience is conscious. This consciousness stands behind all creation, it is on every level of the existence from the thinnest particle of an atom in ones smallest toe to the deepest thought and feeling of ones soul. It is the matrix of all existence, from which everything that is emerges. Its intelligence arranges all that was, is and always will be. There is no person, there is no object, there is no thought and feeling that is not it. In other words everything was, is and always will be connected. It is a whole oneness of all being.

One as a construct of it might think, see and feel this way but do one really creates ones views? Ain't this way that all which is here and now emerges spontaneously in ones human head, dependent on the level of ones understanding, the consciousness? If it is so that what one think, feels, sees and perceives depends on the consciousness, which is universal oneness, then all that one does in life is what all consciousness is manifesting by its existence.

Because we as humans in our daily experience sees the world in separated way, not a totality of oneness and consciousness, we divide and categorizes the world into independent parts and its labels. But if we look deep enough into our self, we can cross the brier and the illusion of the separation, walking into deeper oneness, the higher order of the all existence, not only material universe but also spiritual, cause that which manages all universe stands behind it all.

As one perceives and labels the universe here and now, is totally observable by ones consciousness but is not totally made up by its feeling of individuality and individual will. It is just a sens of an ego that tells ones in experience that one is doing something totally independent and oneself created act.

The point of all this writing is to focus the attention of the reader not on act but on the observer of an act. In this one may see that all which is called here willful ignorance is just manifestation of the conscious energy. There is no point of adding a person and its will to it except in order to create a world which has a direction and complex elements of its drama.

In other words the existence, so called universe is unfolding consciously in its own direction. One sees only a small part of its own perception, in an human experience. There is no point to worry or not to worry, it is only and not only an observable act of the whole creation. Only because one consciousness is always still and observing the act of creation. Not only because through and identification with the perceived form one becomes a part of the scene. It is an illusion of reality and reality of illusions.

What one feel in heart of ones consciousness, one will do. But only in observing as the story unfolds not through an identification, one is liberated and fully conscious. The complete clarity of view is this without judgement. Afterwards we are one. All acts perceived as dumb and unconscious are just an actors of the stage called existence. There is nothing to worry about in the heart of consciousness. There are only lessons for a human being and human species to be done in order to go into this heart, the highest consciousness. Only through overcoming the suffering and making unconscious conscious one teaches one self how to differentiate the good and the bad for ones life and all life as one.

It is the drama that we all act and perceives, as one universe. <3

Your parents may not have taught you many of the practical things in life but i would imagine that the current value system that you have developed would, in part, be down to how they brought you up as a child. Perhaps they have taught you about the important things in life without you realising it.

Right. I wouldn't be the way I am today if I was raised any other way than the way I was, and as I stated, I don't necessarily consider them "bad" parents or "bad" people, because I sure as hell probably couldn't do a better job raising a child. However, my point was that this is how people in general tend to raise their children these days from my observations: less practical knowledge, more theoretical knowledge.