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The only way to be truly happy is to be ignorant of all the ills we are inflicting on the world and each other. Once you attain this awareness as part of grow
by KozmoNau7 8y ago
The only way to be truly happy is to be ignorant of all the ills we are inflicting on the world and each other.
Once you attain this awareness as part of growing up, the only way to drown out the awareness of this deplorable state of the human existence, is to numb the mind with drugs or to damage the brain to such a degree that it stops mattering to you.
- muzz 8y agoDoes it require ignorance of those ills, or can knowledge of them but with resignation be sufficient?
- KozmoNau7 8y agoI find that leads more to a sort of nihilism.
- agitator 8y agoI think there are two sides to this. Either ignore it, or embrace it and accept it as part of the human experience. If you accept that suffering is inevitable, you recognize the positives in life more readily. To me, this approach allows me to be present in life, as opposed to numb with drugs, waiting to expire.
- KozmoNau7 8y agoThe main problem is that no matter what, those positives are only tiny points of light in a big pile of shit.