These days I find I'm weepy. I live a solitary life, but have become comfortable with it. However I'm weepy with loneliness. Haven't been since childhood. This when it became so clear I was different,...and hence prey.
If I still had shrinks I'd ask what has changed?
What don't I see what is doing this? Why has it returned after so many years. A minor thing in the face of the world. However noticeable on my small ledge of it.
Alienation has become the major issue of our time. We are alienated from each other, from our environment and from nature. They call it "progress" and "development", but it is pathological and it is destructive to people. This is a near global phenomenon where everyone has bought into the lie of "civilization".
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"We come upon a contention which is so astonishing that we must dwell upon it. This contention holds that what we call our civilization is largely responsible for our misery, and that we should be much happier if we gave it up and returned to primitive conditions. I call this contention astonishing because, in whatever way we may define the concept of civilization, it is a certain fact that all the things with which we seek to protect ourselves against the threats that emanate from the sources of suffering, are part of that very civilization." -Sigmund Freud "Civilization and Its Discontents"
"The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization." -Emerson
Food simple shelter meds toilets model airplanes, and books...shit can the rest.
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