I’m really going to have to sit down and review my own history on this one. No matter how well intentioned our efforts at ridding the world of misery can be, they have never succeeded. And the world is getting more fucked up. The exact same people who were the initial sources of misery also continue to be the sources of misery. You want to blame the victims of the system for it’s continued existence? There is no better illustration of this than the fact that the creators of the system – dictators and autocrats and egomaniacs – continue to enjoy power as the world slides further and further into a state of misery.
The point is this: I think it is possible to escape from the wheel of life and reach a point where we no longer view existence as an inevitable cycle of suffering and destruction. But I also think it is possible to inadvertently create a new cycle of misery. This cycle would include the broken system of rules and regulations and institutions we have now. The only way to break this cycle is to join in, to actually create a world where we do not have to suffer.
Now, if the state of the world today is such that the only solution is to suffer, then I say that