The longer I live, the longer I know people and meet people, the more I experience this... living business, the more I feel repulsed and angry and several other emotions I'm not sure how to convey.

The following is something that has been the subject of many pieces, so it may seem to those of you who actually read any of this as though I am 'beating a dead horse'(though I don't condone that kind of thing, in any manner of the phrase).

Does anyone actually realize where they are anymore? When you wake up in the morning and look around, does it occur to you that we are the only animals on this rock that think living in a house is normal? Yes, other animals build houses but they build temporary structures to make the winter. We seem to think that permanent housing is such a good idea that we get lost in the society that follows. So much so that few seem to notice, much less care, that we're all living a dream. Well, for many it's more of a nightmare but that's all perspective anyway, right?

As for society, well, all dreams end eventually. Many animals have what could be called 'societies' but not like ours. Theirs is usually harsh on many levels but it tends toward the survival of those within the 'society', while ours appears to do the same, until one attempts to navigate it. In so many ways, on so many levels, other people are trying to bury you just so that they can make a little extra money. Matter of fact, people will even do that for a living. And for what? So they can get some food? To maybe get some shelter? No. They do it so they can buy some useless piece of plastic or nylon or whatever to make them feel happy for a few minutes.

This dream world we've created for ourselves, the one that tells us that we are nothing and belittles us if we aren't part of it, is the only one of its kind and the only one that is truly detrimental to everything involved in it and around it. Its effects are global. Sit and think on that for a while. All of our different versions of 'society' and what they are doing to us as a species and everything around us and then try and tell me how any of this was a good idea.

Good luck.



P.S. Irony be damned. It's a means to an end.