Solitude

Just wanted to share this poem by Ella Wheeler-

Solitude

    Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
Sing, and the hills will answer;
Sigh, it is lost on the air;
The echoes bound to a joyful sound,
But shrink from voicing care.
Rejoice, and men will seek you;
Grieve, and they turn and go;
They want full measure of all your pleasure,
But they do not need your woe.
Be glad, and your friends are many;
Be sad, and you lose them all,—
There are none to decline your nectared wine,
But alone you must drink life’s gall.
Feast, and your halls are crowded;
Fast, and the world goes by.
Succeed and give, and it helps you live,
But no man can help you die.
There is room in the halls of pleasure
For a large and lordly train,
But one by one we must all file on
Through the narrow aisles of pain.

Devil's Advocate

The most politically correct are also often the most hypocritical. For example, religion, Christianity is the most widely practiced religion in the world. And because of their personal relationships with God, many Christians are very self-righteous. In history, Christians are the number one offenders when it comes to mass killings, the source of a lot of the hate in the world and also very very successful, seeing as they make up over 30% of the world population. That goes to illustrate how subjective humans are and how our behaviours are often against "political correctness". Benjamin Franklin said, "So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do." How very true. And that is why people like me have such a good time picking people's decisions apart. Because it is so very amusing when really, the reasoning behind them are on the shakiest of reasons. 

Forced Perspective

Media is two-sided. It shows you want you should know, not what you need to know. But then the question arises, what do you need to know?

Power

It is the most wonderful thing in the world. Politically, financially, mentally and physically powerful. They hold sway over the over the best of us. Some people are born with the ability to effortlessly acquire it while others are starved of it for life. Some go to extreme lengths for it while still others abhor it. But what is power? How can you say you don't want power? Power is freedom, really. A literal and figurative power to break the chains binding you. Do you not want power if power is the only reason why you can say you don't want power? It is strange. When you have it, you don't realize it, but when you don't have it, you'd do anything for it. Or maybe it's not so strange. We are human after all.

Violence is the Universal Language

Not everyone is capable of the mellower and more compassionate aspects of the human psyche. But everyone knows what a raised fist and a burning urge to hurt feels like. Violence is a survival instinct, a reaction to threat, real or imagined. My point? Speak it wisely for, just like any other language, it identifies who you are and the more you speak the language, the harder it becomes to fall back into your original language. But when all else fails, violence will beckon, a little devil on your shoulder, whispering in your ear.

A Beast or a God

"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god." -Aristotle

Either way, both are pitiable fates. The beast cannot live with society because it is feared and rejected. A monster is an entity that is not normal. A god, on the other hand, has no need for society. Humans seek connection because it gives them the illusion of being normal, of being connected and accepted by their fellow creatures. Gods are already connected. They are accepted and is acknowledged by all it rules over. But they are utterly alone as well. The world is them. They don't have a home because their whole world is their home. Meanwhile, monsters don't have a home. It's something unnatural and doesn't belong anywhere where the normal exists; it can only go where the normal doesn't exist. The question is, which one do we fear more? The one that's different or the one that has absolute power? 

There is no normal...

There is no normal. There is only the majority. Therefore, everything that mankind has deemed normal can, in fact, change within a moment's notice. Before an apocalypse, the normal life included going to work, watching TV and going to stores to buy supplies. Afterwards, the norm would be to simply survive. Whatever is perceived by the majority is what is normal. So basically, human society is based on the subjectivity of our brains.