Small Write: Why Do We Desire The World?

Why do we desire to be like others, why are we so easily swayed to do things that everyone else is doing even when we know it is wrong?

Why do we desire a world that hates us?

This is something I am constantly asking myself, it has become much more noticeable in recent times. People are too afraid to be the odd one out, they would rather change their opinion, change what they wear, change how they talk or/and the most fatal to one’s mind: change the truth.

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”

– Excerpt From Carl Sagan’s (cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, and author) Book “The Demon-Haunted World”

By changing the meaning of truth, one can truly manipulate someones thinking. Instead of there being a foundational truth, one can impose a “personal truth”. This perverted version of truth is one of the most fatal worldly views you could bestow into someone’s psyche. This belief, does not only affect the individual but affects everyone around them. All of us are influenced by something, it is either the truth or not the truth (good or evil). This meaning, by allowing one to pursue this personal truth they can freely influence others with something incredibly wrong and damaging to society as a whole I.E current societal world events. The world socially is a mess, and this is due to a lack of truth. We’ve gone so far past the truth that even though we know inside we’re wrong it’s better to deny it and keep with this false idea of what is correct and good.

Connecting this to the subject, by sitting back or joining in we are allowing our current generation to say “meh, it’s wrong but it’s fine”. In the future, will turn into the next generation’s “this is good, and it is acceptable”.

Stay strong, fight for what is good and honorable. Your soul longs for things this world will never offer, you know exactly what it is. God Bless.

– FM