Thursday, July 31, 2008

There is something really wrong with the world

There is something wrong with the world. I keep looking at how our world works today, and it really doesn't make sense. Stupid, illogical rules that are guaranteed to put people offside appear everywhere and there doesn’t seem to be anyone questioning them. There are several examples that I'd like to focus on: Money, Education and Social interaction. Money. The concept behind money is a good one: place ones worth in something tangible, and then use it the purchase someone else's worth. The problem is it is also the idea method of control. Nobody has the will to try out a different pattern, a different method or different measure because nobody can think of a better way. Well, come people have thought of other ideas, without taking into account that a majority of people are greedy, selfish and stupid. Even those who claim to be clever are just as prone to these traits, and more often than not, they are more likely to be the ones that you preserve as the above. Money has become more depressing as time has gone on. First there were loans, bribes and interest, now there is credit, overdraft and 'variables' in contracts that allow organisations that have horded money over the centuries to chase and prosecute you where ever you go. Credit is the creation of the devil, because it allows people, who in any other situation would be honest, to become vindictive and aggressive: and totally obtuse. People angrily blame the banks for issue them with credit when they should have said no, and the refuse to pay it back (although they spent it) because, again, it was the banks fault. And these same people won't feel guilt, because the bank isn't a person. Actually, allot of these people probably wouldn't feel guilt even if it was, and seem to enjoy lecturing about the moral obligations of others towards them. Education. It seems that the idea of education was born out of the upper end of society, because the more people I come in contact with, the more I am made to realise just how little value is place on someone being interested in something other sport or drinking. Indeed, the major goal of my 21 year old brother was "to have a wife, house and job." Again, this is what he wants at 21. Talking to some of the students I teach, I have realised that allot of them have exactly the same dream, even though they say they want to learn, a majority of them only want to do the degree to meet people, and to find the "one". The "one", the exactly right person for you, doesn't actually exist -- The entire concept of true love was made up to sell bras, or more accurately, to sell bra ads to bra companies (thank you Mad Men. If you haven't watched this already, I would recommend it). Everyone is convinced that their experience is absolute and that they know that there is someone out there for them; some people even cheat on the ones they "know" are for them simply because they need to feel someone else(A 에 대한 증오를 향한 당신), and really do excuse their actions due to this. Others simple don’t know what they want, and continually draw things out that should be ended, and state that they will never feel the same about anyone else again. Then there are those who proscribe to the theory that every moment is unrelated to the ones before, so you should live as if the current moment is your last. Yet this can't be true, as a truly random world would never produce the number of coincidences in such as small part of time and space as what a single person expenses in their life alone. Although I don't believe in god, I do believe that the overall chaos this reality is governed by some overarching law and this law dictates what people are going to turn out like, who they are going to connect to and the actions they take. Although I hope everything isn’t set in stone, I think that the overall world must be set in clay, which can be shaped by the chaos that surrounds life.

Social interaction, this feeds off what I was talking about before. People interact with each other on a strange level. I know that I have been spoilt in my life, as far as I have never dealt with someone I didn't want to deal with, and if someone I had liked become unlinked, I have been able to not deal with them again through simple process of non-interaction. But that has change remarkably, and it is mostly due to me being forced to come out of my shell at the ending of my last major relationship. I had a set of rules and actions that I would follow into every situation, and they had served me for all intents and purposes well until then. Once I started to really pay attention to the world around me, really started to interact with more than the people I simply had to deal with, I started to realise just how native I had been until then, and just how sheltered I had been. Dating, something that I had only really done twice before - one ended after about a month, the other went on for four years was even more of a shock. The myth that every guy really just wants sex at all times is not that true - most of the time when faced with a choice of short or long, most choose long, only because it lends self-worth. When faced with situations involving more than the single person, the left loathing comes into it in a major way - why am I not good enough to be the "one". Allot of the people I talk to think this, and allot of the apparent "playboys" are simply overcompensating for this simple reason. Again, they are driven, with a few exceptions, by the simple dream of a picket fence, and don't understand why they aren't good enough to keep. The girls that I've talked to always repeat the same line "he simply wasn't the one". Some more interesting variations are that the boy has flaws that are unworkable (so why did you go out with him in the first place?) that their family put pressure on them (most interesting being a mother of one of my friends stated that her boyfriend wasn't good enough looking for her..... then again her mother tells her that she is a sl*t, even though I think this is her first boyfriend in her 22 years.... weird). But, I suppose if something makes you happy, you should do it... not always the safest routes, but you can't take the smoothest road unless it is by chance.

I've finished my rant for today; I might put some Quantum notes on tomorrow simply to help me think. Oh, and me and the other guys in my office have reach a new level of nerdom==the printer started breaking down yesterday, so instead of calling maintenance, we all stood around trying to work out the wave function of the printed pages..... We went so far to start taking down numbers. Then our supervisor, who keeps a punch card calculator in his office because it is interesting, walked into the room and called us nerds... We sucked up stating it was his good influence that caused this.... Ah nerdom in the office. Lovely.

18 comments:

Anonymous said...

I know this is an older post so if nobody ends up reading this I guess it's ok. I Have been experiencing almost the same thing. Society doesn't make a whole lot of sense anymore. Not that it ever really did, I just didn't notice until now. I think the problem is that in the past century so much has changed that our rules for living with each other no longer really apply to the reality that we live in. We need to change the rules but it's harder to change traditions and customs and ways of thinking than it is to change technology, or laws regarding human rights and interactions. So we are left with old customs that no longer serve their intended purpose and yet everyone still uses them because that is what they have always done. Another part of the problem seems to be that people are able now to insulate themselves from reality. If they don't like what's happening in the world they just have to change the channel. This allows them to create an image of life that suits them, but doesn't necessarily reflect reality as it exists. This in turn causes people to become more and more disconnected from each other as their respective views about the world grow further and further apart. Anyway, those are just some of the problems that I think the world is experiencing. The only problem I have with all of this is that whatever explanation I come up with doesn't seem to explain the strange feeling I have that something is fundamentally wrong with the world right now and that something terrible is on the horizon because of it.

Anonymous said...

Maybe things just change?

Plantaganet said...

future shock is what I would call it :/ Kinda surprised that anyone could find my little blog.

Rock3rTo said...

You can only try and do the best you can, i remember i was held accountable to my actions, but so many people can't face up to their own and are hiding away, even if you see them every day. Is it that we are just too big a society to care what everyone is doing, that people get away hurting others in some way or another. I always thought the small village extended family model is a healthier type of community, and in this day and age, the internet can keep us all connected, and our local produce or materiel inputs could be organized in an efficient manner, but no, greed and corruption is everywhere, because no-one cares if they cant see you doing it...

You would be surprised how many people can find things and sites m8, it is, 'a small world after all'
Rock3rTo

Vexx said...

Your rant reminded me of a feeling I've had for quite some time, Plantaganet. And then I watched the following videos and suddenly, everything made sense...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRdNNQYQZmE - Estoric agenda

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHiuaGJ46zo - Zeitgeist 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gKX9TWRyfs - Zeitgeist 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX_qOaZmCFM - wake up call

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG3xH3LJbBg&feature=channel -
government conspiracies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNf-P_5u_Hw - The greatest story ever told

I realize it's an old post, but you know what they say: old is gold :)

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Cléber said...

I think will gona hapness something, because that´s write in the Bible

clr1025 said...

Read the Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield. It is a short read but fairly interesting and might hold some answers for you. These coincidences are everywhere. Please tell me what you think after the read.

Anonymous said...

i'm been doin alot of random research on the messed up stuff going on in the world and theres so much that i was running out of specific things to google so i decided to take a shot in the dark that out of the billions of people in the world with internet access that SOMEONE would b either doin the same or whatever so i typed "something is wrong with the world" on google and you popped up. you made alot of very interesting points that i agree with....ur view on money is one i havnt thought of and i find it incredibly insightful. my sister needs the computer so ill have to chat more later. really interesting stuff though....
ps. your 22 yr old friend wouldnt happen to b named jen would she? idk shot in the dark but i only know one girl whos never had a bf b4 the age of 22 and dont think its that common....w/e jw :-) -nae

Anonymous said...

there is something wrong actually.

Anonymous said...

Sorry... I realize that this thread is somewhat antiquated, but oh well.

I began to *feel* that the world was broken back during my Sophomore year in High School. It was always like some sort of emotional shroud of hopelessness encased my everyday reality. I could never put it into words back then because it was unlike anything I understood. Now, however, I realize that it had to do with something ranging between the loss of innocence, dying goodness, and hopelessness.

Fast-forward to today, and much is the same except on a more verbose level of detail and granularity, thanks to things like the internet and the increase of idiot savages in the world.

Mark my words: something big is about to happen from all this. No, I'm not saying that it has anything to do with some anti-Christ prophecy or any such religious rhetoric normally listened to every Sunday at your local hick Church.

No, instead, I'm very much down-to-earth. I've had sex before marriage, moved away from mommy and daddy, I cuss all the time... I'm down to earth. I'm a realist.

What I am not? Naive. And I'm telling you, there's something coming...

When you have people commenting on websites, promoting their appreciation for films like "Hostel" or "Touristas" as if these are what constitutes for "good movies", to me, that says that something is wrong. When you have people flip you off just for standing on a sidewalk and nothing more, that, to me, says something is wrong. When you have parents (or guardians) paying thousands upon thousands of dollars to be educated with a completely unemployable skill set, that, to me, says something is severely wrong. Last but not least, when you have a booming pornography industry, well... Maybe you can read my mind now?

I'm sorry, but the economy, the terrorists who strap bombs to pregnant woman, sexual solicitation for drugs, and whatever other poisons you can think of in the world, to me, says something bad is just about to go over the edge of the hill. When it happens, pray to whatever selfish prick you whisper to at night that you're not inline with the coming storm.

Because it's going to be mortifying.

Francis said...

So so true :( I'm totally with Vexx on this one... There is a glimmer of hope in those links. Check them out readers!

Anonymous said...

the world is comming to an end as we know it. It will happen, coz of what u said, greed, we cant get enough, and we want more. and to top it, we dont know when to stop breed. we are to many in this world allrdy. when disaster fall upon us, to many people to take care off.

Linda Ndaba said...

I think it's New World Order...I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but I am a free thinker...

RocknRolla said...

I'm experiencing the same feeling... Like Morpheus says, I feel there's something wrong with the world, but I don't know what it is...It's society, but society it's a very large concept. I hope a change will occur, but I'm afraid the people will continue to mind their own business doing shitty things and the end will come. I'm just happy to hear that someone who feels like I feel is out there and to let you know that I'm with you :)... I don't know if it's gonna help, but for me, knowing it helps, I hope it also does for you...