ISSUE #97: Humanity is slaughtering humanity.
Sometimes, I feel that something is fundamentally wrong with the way most of us spend our lives.
It feels like the way we are living is crushing our souls and making us depressed.
It feels like we have enough to survive, but very less to actually live.
It feels like the harder we work, the less we achieve.
Our bellies are full, but our souls are starving.
Our bodies are free, but our minds are enslaved.
There’s a flood of entertainment, but a drought of happiness.
Information is abundant, but the ability to propagate through propaganda is rare.
The more we allow ourselves to be trapped by society, the more we are told that we are succeeding, and the more our inner voice tells us that we are failing.
We know something is wrong, but we are too busy, too anxious, and too depressed to do something about it.
We have the intelligence to develop nuclear weapons, but we don’t have the wisdom to not develop them, or at least not use them.
We have the intelligence to invent something as significant as media and the internet, but we don’t have the wisdom to use both of them to spread peace, love, and awareness.
Our interconnectedness is at an all-time high, yet we are far away from each other.
We have this newfound capability of abstract thought which made us the dominant species on this planet, but today most of it is used to create insecurities around us that have become the source of almost every human suffering.
We have the freedom to choose between two parties, both of which are evil, but we don’t have the freedom to push for a system that is not evil.
Deep down we know that humanity would be better off if we learn to collaborate with each other and the planet, but we are convinced that that’s “unrealistic.”
The irony is to live on a planet that can feed everybody, but still have millions of starving bodies.
The irony is to know that we depend on this planet, but still destroying it as if we have another one as a backup. The conditions in which we evolved on this planet can never be replicated on any other planet, no matter how hard someone may try to convince you.
We are not humans but fuel for the powerful, that’s being used by them to enrich themselves and enslave us.
Humanity will keep slaughtering humanity as long as we don’t make efforts to wake it up and make it realize its self-destructive behavior.
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