For Anyone Who Might Care To Share Some Input...?

Question

Does anyone study any combination of sociology, politics, philosophy, psychology, and spirituality, if not all of them?

I've started with this kind of study about a year ago and from all the stuff that I've learned, I've become a very depressed person, sometimes wondering if it's really worth even living. It just seems to me that people on Earth can't help themselves and have become indulgent to the point of creating inevitable self-destruction. There's constant war, greed, illness, corruption, mindless self-indulgence; things that are so painfully unnecessary.

I often wonder what our purpose is and why we exist on this physical plane. I was religious at one point in time, but I found it to be self-defeating (especially when you understand sociology and the history of mankind). I found Joe Rogan's view on life to make more sense than anything else I've come across. He said in a video that he thinks we're nothing more than a complex form of bacteria. Think about it. Earth springs life, and is therefore a living organism. What do we do? We add unwanted things (pollution, landfills), reproduce, and kills living things and rob the earth of its natural resources. We're like parasites or unwanted bacteria feasting on this living organism. If the Earth would die, so would we.

But back to the sociological aspect; I think the government takes a lot of blame as well. I came across a very interesting article a while back that really stuck a nerve in me. Here's an excerpt from it:

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"Experience has proven that the simplest method of securing a silent weapon and gaining control of the public is to keep them undisciplined and ignorant of basic systems principles on the one hand, while keeping them confused, disorganized, and distracted with matters if no real importance on the other hand.

This is achieved by:

1. disengaging their minds; sabotaging their mental activities; providing a low-quality program of public education in mathematics, system design and economics, and discouraging technical creativity.

2. engaging their emotions, increasing their self indulgence and their indulgence in emotional and physical activities by:

a) unrelenting emotional affrontations and attacks (mental and emotional rape) by the way of a constant barrage of s*x, violence, and wars in the media - especially the TV and the newspapers.

b) giving them what they desire - in excess - "junk food for thought" - and depriving them of what they really need.

c) rewriting history and law and subjecting the public to the deviant creation, thus being able to shift their thinking from personal needs to highly fabricated outside priorities.

These preclude their interest in, and discovery of, the silent weapons of social automation technology. The general rule is that there is profit in confusion; the more confusion, the more profit. Therefore the best approach is to create problems and then offer solutions.

In summary:

Media: Keep the adult public attention diverted away from the real social issues, and captivated by matters of no real importance.

Schools: Keep the young public ignorant of real mathematics, real economics, real law, and real history.

Entertainment: Keep the public entertainment below a sixth grade level.

Work: Keep the public busy, busy, busy, with no time to think; back on the farm with the other animals."

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You can read the entire article here:

http://www.lawfulpath.com/ref/sw4qw/index.shtml

I just wish I had some kind of answer or hope. I guess I needed to voice myself in hopes of someone who cares hearing me. I tried talking to a close friend of mine who says they're open minded about all this stuff. They got mad and told me to shut up after they said they don't give a d*** about the constitution and I said "if you don't care about your freedoms, then you shouldn't have them". They were already pretty mad up to that point, but that was what really set them off. I wasn't trying to be offensive, but I had to support my beliefs in that matter. I guess ignorance really is bliss. I've tried to look for the good in this world, but I honestly can't find any. I'm starting to believe that no one actually cares about anything other than money and self satisfaction.

I wish I could be surrounded by beings who actually care about their actions and consequences and the feelings of others. Kind of like monks, but less strict.

Idk....maybe I'm not fit to live here.....

Answer 1

you cant live a good life unless you live like a monk,

Don McClanen thinks a condition called pleonexia has overtaken the U.S. 'Pleonexia is an insatiable need for more of what I already have, and it has penetrated our culture to the point where people are angry at the poor,' he states."

Jaye Scholl; Don McClanen Offers the Wealthy a Different Kind of Freedom; Barron's (New York); Sep 18, 2000.

Answer 2

Yes,  I've been thru all that you relate.  Many profound thinkers have commented on how willfully ignorant a discouragingly large portion of the population is.  "There are none so blind as those who will not see."  I'm repeatedly tempted to write off many of my fellow citizens, until I remember "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the other forms that have been tried"  [paraphrase of ???]

Personally, I'm am atheist, and have a naturally down disposition. I find relief in the intellectual beauty of what humanity is capable of accomplishing, by following discoveries in astronomy, biology.  The true center of my life is reading up on Darwinism; it has such a subtle and powerful far reaching power to explain so much of the world's, and human behavior.  And unlike philosophy or old-style sociology and philosphy, it has a firm base:  you don't end up in a state of despair wondering if your philosphising has any beginning or end.

Day to day advice:  get involved in day to day concrete activities, stay involved with people.  I found atheletics and volunteering on an ambulance squad helped keep my head from being stuck in the dark clouds.

As for the hint of "to be or not to be";  I held onto one quote more than any other. Alexander Dumas had a character (I believe Athos in The Three Musketeers) advise against suicide with:  "that is the final folly, for it is the only one for which there is no remedy"  (it's the only thing you can't go back and fix.)  Cheers!

Answer 3

Whoa! Dude!  You are supposed to be studying this material, not living it.

You cannot take on the burdens of the world, no one man is strong enough for that.

read the following and take it to heart.  Then when you have learned it start reading your material again and you will not be depressed.

“And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today.  When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation-some fact of my life-unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.  Nothing, absolutely nothing happens in God’s world by mistake.  Unless I accept life completely on life’s terms, I cannot be happy.  I need to concentrate not so much on what needs to be changed in the world as on what needs to be changed in me and in my attitudes.”

Please read it again, and again.  It will help if you want it.

Answer 4

Look within yourself to find the good in the world, don't expect to find it elsewhere.

I think you are on the right track, you are not one of the ignorant ants marching where you are told.  You are questioning the reason we are marching in the first place.

Just keep trying to do what you can to help those who are within your reach.  Educate, but don't preach.  Show them there are other ways, often better ways to reach the destination.  If they still chose to go down the path that you know leads in the wrong direction, don't abbandon them altogether.  Most people will eventually turn around and ask for help, let them know you will be there.