People are traumatized and so desperately want to feel safe and secure...they give their power to daddy government and anyone else who claims to be a protector and acts like they have all of the answers. Truth is, there are no guarantees in life, and there is no such thing as safety and security. Every moment, we are walking a knife's edge of life and death, and instead of celebrating life, most people live in fear of death. It creates the mess we currently have today: people sleepwalking through their lives, too afraid to really live. It is truly a self-created hell, and I actually feel sorry for anyone who lives this way.
My father once said "we are all so fragile." Sting sings a similar theme in his song "Fragile." The fear of death has always been used by oligarchs, the Church, and despots to subjugate the plebians, while they reap wealth from their labor and enjoy paradise on earth in palaces and billion $ yachts. I have great admiration for the Ukranians who are taking a stand in their own defense against the Russian Goliath, audaciously declaring "We are not afraid." Win or lose on the battle field, they are showing the world how to defy the oppressors with courage. They are conquering the fear of death. That's a victory in itself.
I have admiration for anyone who stands up for themselves, though problems are never solved at the level of consciousness with which they were created. They will only perpetuate in an endless cycle of victim and perpetrator, oppressed and oppressor. Trauma must be healed for the cycle to be broken for good.
People are traumatized and so desperately want to feel safe and secure...they give their power to daddy government and anyone else who claims to be a protector and acts like they have all of the answers. Truth is, there are no guarantees in life, and there is no such thing as safety and security. Every moment, we are walking a knife's edge of life and death, and instead of celebrating life, most people live in fear of death. It creates the mess we currently have today: people sleepwalking through their lives, too afraid to really live. It is truly a self-created hell, and I actually feel sorry for anyone who lives this way.
I've had some success getting around the old existential angst following Alan Watts.
I, too, have listened to some Alan Watts. I usually purge through art.
"freedom" is nothing but "having nothing to lose"
yes, when you realize that you have nothing to lose because you are everything...
My father once said "we are all so fragile." Sting sings a similar theme in his song "Fragile." The fear of death has always been used by oligarchs, the Church, and despots to subjugate the plebians, while they reap wealth from their labor and enjoy paradise on earth in palaces and billion $ yachts. I have great admiration for the Ukranians who are taking a stand in their own defense against the Russian Goliath, audaciously declaring "We are not afraid." Win or lose on the battle field, they are showing the world how to defy the oppressors with courage. They are conquering the fear of death. That's a victory in itself.
I have admiration for anyone who stands up for themselves, though problems are never solved at the level of consciousness with which they were created. They will only perpetuate in an endless cycle of victim and perpetrator, oppressed and oppressor. Trauma must be healed for the cycle to be broken for good.