Let's speak like rational people, can we? I have accounts all over the internet that I have problems parting with. The reason is because I think they are all valuable ways to reach out to other people. There is so much variety out there that every one has a preference, so it gives me the chance to reach out to more people.
Last night, I nearly punched a hole through a wall (as I've done before), out of frustration. My body felt like it was it was in a vice and it was absorbing all the pressure and energy. Like freaking out and losing your mind. It's all because of a lack of order and discipline.
About Variety
If there were just a few people on this planet... let's say in one spot, decision making would be easier. Within a 24 hour period, you would be able to get most of what needed doing done. Well, at least it would get started since you might have to wait longer to hunt for your food.
When you can't agree on something, you have to find some practical solution to fall on that requires common sense. I'm sick of common sense not even being an option we can use. In a smaller pack of people, common sense rules and it's something everyone can agree on. If we don't do something, we won't have this or that.
In that context, I make my point but this isn't the way things are. Now you have variety of ideas, tastes, preferences of every kind, the pressure of urgency, fear, etc. All of these things bombard us and keep us second guessing to keep changing our minds in smaller time increments.
I'm afraid that if I tell you want I'm getting at too soon, you'll shut down and move on. My message of common sense won't get to you. That's because you have the choice not to listen, and you know it.
This is the variety that we have now and we take pride in it. Does it really change what the end result is to begin with? Well, it changes the fact that either you will or won't get the final result. It all comes down to that.
Being Interested
Everyone knows everything. This is the age that we live in now. Common sense isn't used anymore because if the system "works for me" then what am I worried about? For instance. You take your children to school. You know they have to be there on time and then hours later, they are either back home and your checking to see if they have home work to do.
What happened in school? What's due? Questions about friends, activities, events and so on. You have to be engaged and for the most part, parents are engaged with what's going on. But you also have to think about the system that's been put into place. What are the administrators demanding, what are they letting through and what are they rejecting. How much of what they do impacts how your child develops? Shouldn't that be something you need to be involved in? Shouldn't that be something you should know more about?
That's just one example of a small part of your life. Let's go for one more. You have to get a social security number in order for you to get access to many things. Things that society enforces in order for you to succeed (the kind of success that society deems appropriate, assuming that you want to go this route like the rest of us and not live entirely off the map.)
Even if you agree with this policy, shouldn't you know more about it? What about the people behind the mandates?
From Primate to Power
The standards of life are not so simple anymore. Since we were primates (in order to keep this out of the evolution debate, let's suggest that primates are not monkeys, but rather, not developed for to civil standards of modern society), we've had to protect ourselves from other people taking our shit. You want someone else's stuff? You better be more than determined to get it or not get caught or killed while doing so. You could either use strength to do it or plan ahead to reduce 'casualties'. This is done on an individual level or as a group.
But why would you want to take anyone's stuff? What motivates you to do it?This is where ideologies of different kinds begin to form. If you're taking someone else's stuff, you have to convince yourself one way or another as to why before you get to the how.
Also, is the thing you are taking an object? It gets more complicated if it's a position, an idea, and more.
What's a better way to take these things? Well, you could get more people on your side to take it... and therefore, you can take more of what you want. But you have to motivate those people to have a reason to support you. So, how do you do that?
That isn't all, you also have the ability to keep taking that thing if you want to, so it becomes generational. How would you accomplish this? For instance, how do you keep that idea of war fresh in the minds of a new generation? They don't have the first hand experience of the quarrel. Well. You have to have an ideology that keeps it going and a way to keep that idea alive.
Suppose it is your job to do that. Would you do it because you believe in the idea? Would you do it for free? Would you do it if it fed your family and you? Would you do it if it made you rich?
The Cycle
When we get into bickering about anything, politics, money, success... what are we really defending? When you do or don't support something, what exactly does it mean?
As we get older, we tend to bridge the gap between learning and experience using stubbornness. We do this because it's much easier. In between those two points though, we put very little investment in learning what it's like to be human. What frustrates me completely, is that people don't see this and just keep taking other people's shit in the form of objects or ideology. Of course, I find myself in a cycle because I find myself creating an ideology. Ugh!