Most everyone wants the same simple thing: a peaceful decent life for themselves and their loved ones. Societal complexities have repeatedly made this impossible.
Society is a reflection of the human mind. We are aggressive, acquisitive, and we are not very wise. We are clever, yes; but wise? No.
The cloud of fear under which humanity exists is the product of aggressive ignorance. We are aware of much of which we are not conscious. There exists a pre-conscious dissonance which will not permit a spontaneous sense of well-being, and which tangles the opacity of consciousness in a web of unease. This unease may express its self in politics, in religion, and in some variety of cultural rebellion; but its source is the same: awareness has subordinated its self to consciousness and sacrificed its acuity to a kind of clouded narcissism. We are a creature with a mind just barely emerging from the darkness of animal existence.
But we are very clever.
Meditate.
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