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seeyatI see a sickness in society; apathy, avoidance, ignorance and dominant "I'm better. Be like me." mentality tossed in with, "Sure we're different and we'll fight but let's have a drink and never communicate through it."
I see patterns in all of that, creating easily manipulated pawns in an interconnected ocean of social control and systemic submission. Waves of tension, anxiety, insecurity and shrouded fear pulsating through the masses with a layer of intellectualization and rationalization that screams, "I've got it all figured out" while barely whispering, "but I can't feel anything" and sometimes only showing up in the rageful determination to make and spend money without consideration for anyone's individual needs and feelings.
I think that's why I'm straightedge. I see an unwittingly self-destructive and suicidally naive species numbing themselves with substances instead of bothering to communicate... instead opting for conflict and competition.
I'd rather allow my decisions to be the clearest possible consciousness even if Robert Sapolsky and a number of other neuroscientists are right and we truly have no fundamentally free will. ...we're essentially a social gestalt consciousness defined by experiences and reacting according to patterns in our life, relationships and experiences.
I've noticed the healthiest, safest and most potentially emotionally secure pattern is found in sobriety.
I see patterns in all of that, creating easily manipulated pawns in an interconnected ocean of social control and systemic submission. Waves of tension, anxiety, insecurity and shrouded fear pulsating through the masses with a layer of intellectualization and rationalization that screams, "I've got it all figured out" while barely whispering, "but I can't feel anything" and sometimes only showing up in the rageful determination to make and spend money without consideration for anyone's individual needs and feelings.
I think that's why I'm straightedge. I see an unwittingly self-destructive and suicidally naive species numbing themselves with substances instead of bothering to communicate... instead opting for conflict and competition.
I'd rather allow my decisions to be the clearest possible consciousness even if Robert Sapolsky and a number of other neuroscientists are right and we truly have no fundamentally free will. ...we're essentially a social gestalt consciousness defined by experiences and reacting according to patterns in our life, relationships and experiences.
I've noticed the healthiest, safest and most potentially emotionally secure pattern is found in sobriety.
