You are brainwashed. That’s the first thing you must realize. Not your ancestors. You. They lived every day in contact with the full force of human nature. Birth and death, friends and foes, toils, triumphs, and tears. You get your life lessons from a screen.
people love the effect of mindfulness (calm, warm, ungrasping presence) but they actually find the idea of someone being happy and calm all the time unnatural and offputting. most ppl bond through venting and talking abt anxieties and to them it’s proof of caring
I think people love the idea of equanimity or equanimous people but my lived experience of equanimity is “what you hold tight I hold very loose” and people often do not like that at all
Was literally explaining the, "society falls when old men don't plant trees they will never sit under" to my neighbor (boomer)
He said he didn't get it and why would he plant trees if won't be around to see them
Much of your adulthood will be spent dodging miserable people who think they're smarter than you because you're hopeful when they're not. They mistake your strength of spirit for naivete, and preach what has made them despair like it's wisdom. Everything is spiritual warfare.
The people who think they have high odds of having a bright future are not "strong", they are stupid and delusional.
The strong people are the ones who understand that they have very low odds of having a bright future, and are still giving their full effort to improving the odds that the next generation will have a bright future.
This is what’s so scary. Ppl lack the range to even know what is happening to them in real time. They don’t realize when they’re being indoctrinated with hollow ideologies.