What You Are Missing in Life
The modern human existence is one dominated by hollow experiences, bullshit, material consumption, and a constant sense of isolation and abandonment, despite being surrounded by masses of people. Why?
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
— Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau’s famous quote rings as true today as it did in the 19th century. Why do most of us accept a status quo that forces us to give our lives to empty, most often corporate, tasks in soulless offices that provide no meaning or value whatsoever except enhancing the profit margins of owners and CEOs? Why is there no widespread resistance to a system that is the most unfree in the history of humankind?
There is one way to live, one way to survive — their way. Do not fool yourself into thinking otherwise. Do not be gaslighted by the propaganda of ‘freedom,’ consumerism, and material wealth. Your life, more likely than not, is lacking in true meaning, purpose, and breadth of human experience and emotion. Your soul craves for something you know, in your heart, exists and has existed for all human history, yet seems so unattainable now.
What, in fact, are you missing? Why are younger generations more depressed,…
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