Everything is fucked and everybody sucks

When facing day to day life, it has at some point become very apparent to me that Limp Bizkit were quite right. Virtually everything in our world is fucked up. Quoting Frank Rieger: “At this point it is undeniable that we have reached a completely bizarre branch of reality that was never meant to be used”. Most of the times when I browse through the internet I think “man everyone is fucking terrible, humans are terrible creatures”- and then I go out and talk to people and I go “man a lot of these people are very fucking okay and not really malicious at all”. So how the fuck does that work? How can we live in such a fucked up world when it seems like most of the people are not actually malicious.
Where does all of the bullshit come from, if most people themselves are not full of shit?

No clue, dude

Maybe my assumption that most people are not actually rotten to the core is wrong but I personally believe that to be unlikely. Although I haven’t quite found a definite answer to this question, one of the main reasons is probably that society is very good at looking away from problems and very bad at taking responsibility and action. I will talk about responsibility and decision making in a future blog post (probably) ((maybe)) but that’s too much for my already clustered mind on this monday evening.

“What’s your point then?”

Alright, alright. Essentially, what I believe that a lot of people are lacking is the ability to differentiate between abstractions and individuals. If I say I hate society, then that doesn’t mean that I hate the individuals belonging to society - it means that I hate the values that I associate with society. The same goes for any other group of people. It’s impossible for me to hate all individuals from a certain group of people because I can’t know all of them and most of the time I don’t even know one of these individuals enough to be able to hate them. People are incredibly complex and I don’t dare to have very strong feelings about people that I don’t know very well. Basically, I don’t judge individuals just because they belong to a group of people, which I associate with values that I don’t like - at least that’s what I strive to do. I’m not entirely sure if this is the right approach to the underlying dilemma but I have found that I usually encounter people with very little prejudice while still maintaining integrity in my worldview.

“Why do you even care for all this?”

I banged my head against the wall too often as a kid :)