I'm not suicidal, but what if I told you, that I don't want to live in a world...
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...where the only way to live a normal life is to follow the rules of a broken system?
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...in which we throw out more food than would take to feed the hundreds of millions of others who are starving?
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...where the only way to stay connected is through electronic devices that are virtually exclusively made possible through the exploitation of other human beings, many of them children?
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...where the rich care more about extra square footage for their pool than about building shelters for the homeless and those displaced by war, disease, and climate change...
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...where the politicians care more about their lust for power than they do about building a just system?
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...where the only way at all to stay sane is to live in an invention of personal and social narratives that continually hide all of these facts from our consciousness?
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If I didn't want to live in such a world, could you blame me? If I didn't want to live in it so much that I thought it a moral obligation to commit suicide so as to stop taking part in it, could you blame me?
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When you start to see through the stories you've been living in for your entire life - that you're special, that the universe cares about you, that things naturally work out, that you deserve the privilege that you were born with...
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...it becomes harder to not see these facts more and more clearly throughout your waking life.
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So no, everything isn't fucking perfect, and the universe isn't sending you positive vibes, man. Life can be beautiful, that's true. But human life has mostly been shit, because humans have mostly been shit.
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