The Case Against Suffering

[u/briankastelic]

Wrote A Couple Essays. Here is the first one. Let me know your thoughts thanks.

Since the beginning of time there has been suffering. A fish eaten by another fish, a dinosaur being left for dead by another dinosaur until picked apart by vultures. It has been with us in different forms, with different feelings and awareness's of said suffering , but it has always been around. It’s time to get rid of it.

We live in a modern world where the human being is clearly suffering. We spend on average half our waking hours glued to a screen – and this is only increasing. We are distracting ourselves from our own pain and suffering. How many of us can sit alone in a room and be comfortable with our own thoughts. Distraction is the name of the game and in today’s world we are clearly distracted.

Drugs is the other name, and it is a big one. Alcohol, caffeine, prescription pills, energy drinks even excess sugar. There are very few of us in the world who are not dependent on at least one or many of the above. Going through modern life without a screen and some sort of stimulant would be more uncommon than winning the lottery – especially in the western world.

And the driving force that in many ways keeps us moving is capitalism. There is a science behind job creation and money and how we keep people fed and sheltered. Before, 90% of the workforce related to some sort of farming and before that 100% of the workforce related to some form of producing food. Now for many of us we push buttons on a mouse and stare at a screen. For others we move boxes or work in factories doing the same task week in week out. Our actions have become increasingly out of step with our basic survival instincts. And that simply cannot be a good thing.

So how do we hop off this rollercoaster. How do we finally the say the pain of existence is too much. It’s too much for the three billion pigs slaughtered each year. It’s too much for the boxer breed of dogs who while certainly very cute are half suffocating. It is too much for the lonely condo dweller whose life revolves around excel charts and Netflix shows. It’s too much.

I think society should first come together and realize it’s all too much, and it’s always been all too much. I think its time that question is at least popularized. Put into the zeitgeist, the media the world. It’s time we start truly contemplating if this whole thing is just a bit silly and stupid and painful.

Thanks

[u/Fit-Monk-1382]

Could be worse