Don’t Call Me a Commie or Utopianist Baby!
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence. ― Charles Bukowski
First of all, I’m part of the full of confidence group. Stupid af. Here let me prove it - when I'm in the kitchen and start to bla bla about world change and shit, someone would call me a utopianist, and here's my uneducated answer:
ahhhhhh, everyone wants to become a better pianist. Or a commie, commie? Like uhmmmm, come on you?
It is probably much safer for me to be stupid because I get hurt pretty quickly (it was just how I was made, sorry!). You see, most of the time I have no idea what I’m talking about, I can only define things based on my experiences in real life. Yeah sure, I’m the uneducated you all fear of, and I’m taking over the world, muwahaha. The problem with these labels is that you try to enclose a person in this tiny little bubble of yours hoping that person will become just like you, just like you. You project your own realities to other people, you own insecurities, and of course, I could be like that sometimes or most of the time - you tell me. Be careful of the definitions though, someone out there who is so knowledgeable about everything is always ready to attack you.
Go easy on me political big boys who like to argue on the internet instead of going out there and knowing the real shit happening around the world. For me to aspire change means I have suffered enough, yes, it is normal for me to dream of a better world - availability of food, fresh water for me down here, and not be a cheap wage slave and receiver of all shit anymore.
This shit's got to go! - Jacque Fresco
The problem with people who call others commie or utopianist is that they don’t want to wake up - truth hurts, yeah I know. It is more convenient to believe what we were lead to believe instead of welcoming change and be open to better things.
Why wouldn’t I dream of equality? I am a baby of inequality for chrissake! I look around and there are so much excess and waste in this world and it makes me sad, awwwww. Few people up there are basking in their accumulated wealth while people like me scavenge. There would be hunger, famine, climate change, depletion of natural resources and environmental degradation as long as my few daddies up there make profit the driving force of this economy. Why have more and more? I don't really get it. Why can’t I and the likes of me have UBI instead? When I was a kid I would cry so hard because of suffering. Now that I’m old and a bit happier, I don’t suffer that much anymore in a sense of having nothing, but the memory remains, it haunts me like a ghost, like a stalker every night that invades my mind - wherever I am in this world. It sucks to remember and I’m pretty sure you would not wish that on anyone.
I remember when I was still active on Facebook, I would post silly things - like how a big nation would do sillier things to our marine life (which I’m more worried about by the way), and of course, I would blame the ruler and not my friends. Why would I blame the innocent, ignorant people? Nevertheless, I was accused by a friend I met during my travel that - I don’t know what I’m talking about, in defense of his beloved leader. He started preaching about political terms and definitions, look I don’t care about this political shit especially when it doesn’t do a goddamn thing in my life and the lives of others. Why wouldn’t I know my own problems? I’m surprised how intelligent people are so clouded that they don’t see the real thing out there, of course, they wouldn’t know until they have experienced and witness something harsh, or until they have waken up.
I believe everything is just pure self-interest. When I was a kid, between my highly sensitive years, 5-12, I thought everything would harm me, everything was a threat, I was so unsafe. And because of that, I learned not to trust anyone because everything was all about themselves. Everyone would just treat me like a commodity. Now that I'm an adult, I thought the same to the political leaders and do-gooders out there. Everyone will hurt me - you too. EVERYONE - I couldn't take it anymore, fuck!!!!!!!!
Anyway, sorry about that. The point is, in the end, people do good to make themselves feel good - and don’t deny it. I feel good too when I help the helpless help themselves.
Sometimes I feel like traveling just makes me witness more shit out there you know, like more than what I have already experienced. As you all know, I am not traveling to attend a full-moon party or consume a lot of drugs - maybe just a little. It is easy to judge people when you’re sitting there, cowering behind your computer and trying to make a point to someone you haven’t even met or known in real life. Go get a life.
We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them ― Albert Einstein
I believe that nothing is going to change if you are still in that same level of mindset and if you are judging and labeling those who only try to achieve social reform in order to live longer and have better lives. Greed and ignorance are the symptoms of the current paradigm - stop justifying it. And if you don’t make any effort to wake yourself up, your children and your children’s children will suffer, no more planet earth for them soon. Nevermind you.
Besides the cynicism this was very well written. I think what people should realise is you are not alone and many feel the same way as you. I have always thought about the human nature and our history, and one thing is clear, this shit has always been around. However in the past you could just stay home and you would not hear the bs and conspiracy theorists and the like. Now they come into your home via broadband and in technicolour ...
We need more filters. Hard if world leaders and news leaders are the ones polluting our heads with rubbish though.
PS. What is wrong with a utopian mind set. It gives one hope, however far fetched.
I am glad that you can understand my cynicism and I'm happy that I am not alone. I expect some attackers here who represent the irony of this post.
We need more filters indeed. You have my 5 cents.
Hope I can handle. Provided we don't get fixated on what utopia looks like. I think that utopians are never actually attainable or stable and humans lack the crystal ball necessary to predict the future to keep them that way. So, yes, hope is great, but I never want that dream to come true.
The problem is that most of the people can't stand different opinions and state of minds. If you tell someone you have different political point of view they will probably argue with you without even hearing and understanding what you have to say..
I do think that most of the people would like to have better world and society, but without having conversations with open mind and heart we would never achieve it
#life
Benjamin Franklin
:Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
Thank you for the quote.
I don't believe that any progress in a discussion can be made unless it first proceeds from agreement. So, when -ist labels are thrown about, and I care enough to try, I try to dig past them. I don't believe that anybody truly is communist, capitalist, democratic, utopianist, egalitarian, humanist etc. for the sake of each of those labels. Those labels are like false idols that are ways to approach what we care about. Usually it's the same things; a concern that every human gets to fulfil their full potential - which first means a chance to move out of poverty. The rest is window dressing on how we get there.
I don't think anyone can really be an absolute something.
You're absolutely correct.
Voltaire summed up the social responsibility of man—"Il faut cultiver notre jardin."
You are so right, most people are blind when it comes to their governments and companies.
Somehowe they al think they are here to serve us, keep us safe, provide us with food and the latest gadgets for our amusement al from the goodness of their harts, they dont want to control, they dont want to make profit?
How to keep making profit, make people dependable on their laws and their corrupted product's wich always seems to end up costing you more and more.
Love your story, and to me you are nothing but just another human being.
No commie or whatever, we are all the same people living on the same planet ruled by a few rich folks.
And it has been this way for thousands of years!
Have a nice day!!
Thank you, I appreciate your kind words.
Have a nice day too! 😊
Why can’t I and the likes of me have UBI instead.... ?....
The final nail in the freedom of people . Big brothers wet dream. Totalitarianism on steroids.
I can imagine someday people might have to throw up what they have eaten, ok no thanks.
PS I realized you have your war gaming and my website. Is it wrong to feed myself by my own means, some people say otherwise lol?
inspired by you - post coming, in an hour or two!
Everyone is responsible for feeding themselves by their own means - government try to stop that process, and encourage dependence on other peoples production - they redistribute - ie it's legalized theft.
Business isn't the problem - it always comes back t o governments and corruption - crony capitalism.
Your posts trigger me lol.
😁😁 I have a talent for triggering people....
Ok, I'm not the only one. I have this feeling you are Tyler Durden lol.
🙂🙂- I think..mmmmmm.maybe not......
Yes, the hubris and cultural hegemony of the western mind (although we are not the only ones who suffer from this disorder i.e. China).
That colours quite unique and fitting to the season and works really well for you:)
I know you are so smart unlike the rest lol. That's why I always come to your post. Your latest post inspired me by the way. The bad thing about sharing my startup here thinking, rich guys here (threat?) lol, little did they know it is about food to mouth thing.
Calling someone a name or labeling them something shows an inability to communicate effectively. Glad to see I am not the only one who likes Charles Bukowski
Nice to see more people here with critical thinking skills
Thanks.
I don't know, just really bad experiences with people, I couldn't take it anymore - my fault.
Wow nice
Good job
Thanks!