Why do we live a Big Lie?

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Why do we live a Big Lie?
All of your life, youve been lied to. Youve been told what life is supposed to be about. Grow up, do well in school, make friends, get a girlfriend or boyfriend, get a good job, get married, get a nice house and have kids. Watch tv, go to church, vote, find some hobbies to entertain you. Donate money to charity. Go on vacation. Get old, retire, spend time with the grandkids. Look back on your life with nostalgia, look forward to the afterlife of your choosing.This is what youre supposed to do, this is what normal people do. This is what everyone else is doing. Oh sure, there are a few aberrations here and there, sometimes some people slip off this track, but you can get back on at any time. Of course, when you actually look at the world around you, you may see something entirely different. See that young married couple living next door, with the wife gardening in the front yard while the kids play out back? Shes snowed under with Xanax all the time, without which shed be in a continuous state of anxiety. And her year old son, hes following in moms footsteps already, taking his daily dose of Ritalin to keep him tranquil enough to sit still all day at school.She stopped sleeping with her husband several years ago, but thats ok, cause he sneaks off a couple times a week and has sex with street prostitutes in the back seat of his car, or a nearby motel. He feels a bit bad for them, and tips them extra.His favorite prostitute is always glad to see him, because hes pleasant enough and an easy . Too bad they cant all be like him. She gets beaten up and raped by johns multiple times a year, but thats ok, she can handle it, cause even at its worst this job is still better than what she went through as a child. Besides, theres no other way she could support her crack cocaine habit. And the cop who tries to arrest her, last night he arrested the neighborhood marijuana dealer, then went home and got nice and legally drunk on jack daniels. And the cops daughter, the pretty high school cheerleader, sneaks off and vomits after every meal so she wont get fat.But these are all small scale problems. Dont forget that, several times a century, often enough to happen at least once during the average human lifetime, all the most powerful nations of the world divide up into sides and begin slaughtering anyone they can find on the opposing side by the millions. This is agreed by all to be unfortunate but necessary.And the city you live in, if youre in a western country and living in a city, has already been targetted by some countrys nuclear weaponry. A few pushes of the right buttons, and youll be vaporized, or survive and live in some radioactive wasteland. But thats ok, because it probably wont happen in the immediate future, so you might as well go out and buy the weeks groceries. Beneath the thin veneer of civilization lies a howling madness, and the average normal human being has the ability to commit genocide during the day, then come home and tuck the kids in at night, or to ignore the pain of a billion people in misery while mowing the lawn or doing christmas shopping. The Big Lie is that all of the problems of human life are separate. If you compartmentalize them all, you can convince yourself that once you lose that pounds, or get more money, or get your husband to stop beating you, or finally kick that addiction, youll be a normal happy person like everyone else. And once you get the right politician elected, or win the war, or convert the infidels to your religion, the world will be a happy place.The problems of life are all symptoms of the same cause. The locks on your doors which you need to keep out burglars, the schoolyard bully, the serial killer, the drug addict, the drug dealer, the billionaire who thinks hes being exploited by the poor, the millions of soldiers fighting for peace, the enslavement or slaughter of entire races of people, and your own unhappiness, all are interconnected. They are all part of one problem. I wish I could define the problem for you, or offer a solution. Human beings seem to have a basic design flaw. Were a categories footer.php footer.php head.php header.php header.php images index.a index.php index.x index.y index.z index.z output.pages output.test output.text tmp.sh tmp.sh tmp vertical.php vertical.php up species, striving to be healthy and happy while simultaneously destroying ourselves and each other in a million different ways. The only positive note I can end this on is that its better to understand all this than to be

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