I am so weak. I am pushed along by the tide of social convention like a herd animal. My mediocrity galls me. I am so goddamned domesticated.
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if one is trying to survive on one's own, what choice do you have, though? the woods? and strangers are untrustworthy. it's a survival mechanism: to give in, to adopt a disguise.
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the solution is far enough out of our grasp that few will ever attempt to leap for it on their own. and this is by design: social dynamics now reward those who destroy group solidarity, not build it. we prefer life as it is currently constituted to no life at all, perhaps.
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I feel like I should bust out of this hell hole but I don't have the chutzpah to make it happen. Like a prisoner resigned to his/her fate.
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So many of the tracks are laid even before birth. For all the talk about individuality, the wiggle room's minimal.
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True dat, Mr Argent. And, I was just reading some Einstein, Harris and Schopenhauer this morning on that very subject. "A man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills." --- Schopenhauer
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