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Originally Posted by Seth Haniel
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Same here, I think.
For as long as I can remember, I have always had the feeling that there was something dreadfully wrong w/ the society I was born into, and that it could be different, better.
It's like in "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".
"You know," said Arthur thoughtfully, "all this explains a lot of things. All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was."
"No," said the old man, "that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that."
There is a reason we all have this feeling, and there is a reason that society does so much to dissuade that feeling.
At about the same time I became interested politics I immediately realized where the problem lies. It was so clear in my head, but for some reason I could not clearly convey to others what was so obvious to me. The words escaped me until I heard Bill Hicks explain exactly what I felt.
The world is like a ride at an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think that it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills, and it's very brightly coloured, and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question - is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us. They say 'Hey! Don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride.' And we...kill those people. Ha ha ha. 'Shut him up! We have a lot invested in this ride. SHUT HIM UP! Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account and family. This just has to be real.' It's just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter because: it's just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings, and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourselves off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. Here's what you can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defence each year, and instead spend it feeding, clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, for ever, in peace.
I cried just a bit when I first heard this while my friends were laughing. They thought he was still joking I guess. I knew it was sincere though, and it made me so sad that others didn't see the beautiful simplicity of this idea. It's simply undeniable imho.
The real catalyst though, had to be when I finally got my own computer.......information overload!
