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The way Bttlrp and Great King Cat Food 88 reacted to this was hilarious.
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Well, I admittedly enjoy aggravating those people who seek to try to stuff me in boxes I do not belong in and do not fit into. Theres always going to be those who try to pressure you to conform to their belief systems. Aggravating those types is very easy. Be yourself. Respect their rights to be who they are.
This is the most painful and insufferable thing you can do to anyone who feels that they are always right, and that everyone else is always wrong. 
Huge egos are always extremely paranoid
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Lmao, you seem to believe that if only we changed the way we think, war would end, the top 1% would vanish, inequality and misery would disapear. Sadly this is delusional, and consciousness alone only reflects reality; it is not reality itself. Change only comes with real hard work and solidarity in the world, not fantastical delusions and wishful thinking about life being better than it is
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By the way, thanks for inspiring me to my newest Facebook Post: "You know you're on the middle path when the Airy Fairy Delusionals think you're a Negative NWO Nut, and the Negative NWO Nuts think you're an Airy Fairy Delusional."
I love left-right paradigm. Neither side can see that I don't fit into their box.
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Ha! I am intrigued that your point of view construes me as an 'Airy Fairy Delusional' XD
Insofar as you express political beliefs, you fit very squarely into the left right paradigm, as does everyone
Your anti-rich populism, humanist empathy and outrage at inequality is of the left! When you say 'you see the world as you are, not as it is' if that's the case, then how can you say the world 'is' a certain way at all? You wouldn't have the knowledge to make the distinction!
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Again, you completely misunderstand me. But don't worry, I know better than to bother trying to explain. lol
I completely agree with you. And I agree because I'm not saying what you think I'm saying. So I agree for different reasons than yours. Welcome to being human. lol
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The reason I attack you for willing the world to be a better place is because you say that secretly, we're all equal and secretly, not all waged work is a form of slavery. Does this imply there's a hidden world of mental phenomena where waged work and social inequality don't exist?
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I think the top and the bottom represent extremes, and neither one seems true to me.
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The bottom one seems untrue to most people, which is part of the point.
Which of the points in the top box do you feel society does not promote?
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The upper one sounds partly like realism, partly like extreme pessimism, and the lower one sounds partly like realism, partly like extreme optimism.
I'm not sure how society promotes things like "you're useless, you can't be happy and have any dreams", but it's not something I've felt from my society.
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I see you are from Sweden. This explains a lot.
Sweden and Finland are both two extremes of contrast.
For most Sweds, politeness and respect are basic common sense. For most Fins, it is difficult for them to perceive the idea of genuine politeness and respect. This is because of the psychological traumas that were suffered as a society as a result of the Winter War. So Finland has a "perfectionist" view of things, which as a consequence harbors some extreme pessimism. I have had friends from both Sweden and Finland. I have received much knowledge from them
The USA is a cultural melting pot. I live in one of the major cities, Chicago. Here I have been exposed to many different cultures. Many different cultures live together. Sometimes in harmony, other times not so much. We are still learning cooperation.
So I have experienced many different perspectives. Many different points of view. The Internet has also been very helpful with expanding my knowledge of the different points of view.
So my expressions and who I am are based in recognition of many different perspectives being melted together. So this would be equally difficult a thing for someone to understand who comes from a country where things over all are perceived as very good, such as Sweden -- as it would be difficult for a pessimistic Fin to understand.
Reality is everything contained between two points of extremes. Just as black and white. Where as white is the inclusion of all colors, and black is the exclusion of all colors. So all of the colors exist between those two ideas. Just as when you look around the world during the day, you think you are seeing light and no darkness. Because maybe the sun is shining and you can clearly see the flowers blooming. But you are not seeing quite what you think you are seeing. What you are seeing is a mixture of light and dark, which is compatible with human eyes. If everything was pure light, it would damage the eyes and there would be blindness. Just as in complete darkness, there is no sight either. Light and dark mix together and this allows human eyes to see.
If you can see between the extremes, then you can understand the message of this artwork. If you look only at the extremes, then you can not see the message. Just as with my example of only light or only dark.
Understand?
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Its the core of what society teaches and how humanity always acts. What planet are you from then? lol
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Apparently not because I never heard that before in my life, except maybe in a kids show when the villains speak
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Are you using satire or are you serious?
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No I'm dead serious. I seriously don't think the above quotes are the type of garbage society is fed, especially since there's so much protesting and so much creativity that goes on that rebels against conformity. Maybe this was true in the 50s, or the 40s, or the 30s, but this is the 21st century and times have changed.
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If society did not promote the things in the top box, then there would be no conformity to rebel against. We'd have no war. No suffering. Everyone would be empowered and respect individuality. No one would feel repressed or enslaved. We'd be living pracically in a paradise if society did not promote the things in the top box. There would be no top 1% elites. No corporate corruption. None of it.
Most people I know have been fed the garbage in the top box and suffered emotionally and psychologically from it. And most people I know including myself, were not alive in the 50s, 40s, or 30s. In fact with bullshit like common core and every child left behind, and the increases in unconstitutional laws and brutality, etc -- i can say that there is much more psychological and emotional abuse now than when i was a kid. I could take each line i wrote in that top box and give tons of common real world examples, but i feel that would be pointless for me to do if the obvious is being so elusive for you.
What more could i say that would be of any benefit to you in regards to it? Besides, i respect everyones rights to believe as they wish to. I don't feel compelled to jam anything down anyones throats.
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You're just assuming that. The "There would" argument is nothing more than an assumption
Then those people you're talking to sound like they may have psychological and emotional problems. No one I know is like that
True that
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All any human has, is perception. Because we are not robots. We see the world as we are, not as it is. So I guess then everyone has nothing more than assumptions, even in the face of so-called evidence. Because even so-called evidence can not help but be viewed through the filter of perception of the viewer.
And if you can't relate to anything in the first box, then I envy you.
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I think it's safe to say the reality may just be a mix. Perhaps some fragments of society are like the top box, but I know for a fact that not all of them are and I take that from my own experience, but I think we're agreed.
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Well then you are truly blessed, as most people in general can relate to the top box. And I wouldn't wish that top box on anyone. I have experienced the top box and thankfully have been starting to experience much of the bottom box. My life has been under going a lot of transformation these days and for this I am truly thankful
And it has been helping me view the top box as nothing more than opportunities for positive change. Like fertilizer in a garden. And I happen to like gardens
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Well I wouldn't say that most people in general can relate to the top box and you don't know that's the case either, but I'll take the compliment
I see
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Well if you're going for semantics then I'll say that "to the best of my knowledge seeing as i am well researched, and even in the face of my inherently human lack of ability to 'know everything' -- that based on what i have researched about history and present human behqavior to whatever the extend of my own abilities to discern, think critically and understand things, trouble shoot and put concepts together as properly as i can muster -- that it seems to me in my own life experiences, as well as the shared experiences of others i have known over the years, as well as documentary assets and the list goes on -- that if i am any judge what so ever of human history and behavior within said history, past, present and probable future based on my own findings -- that the top box appears to be common for what appears to be most of the population of this planet, as far as i know, based on its past and present reputation for brutality and subjugation and all perceived and presented evidences of such there of available within the overall archive of human knowledge, as per however much i have been able to assimilate and hopefully, maybe, with any luck -- having at least somewhat close to an accurate grasp".
And you're welcome.
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And I'd say it isn't based on what I have researched about history and human behavior and my experience and other people's experience. So who's right? I'd say we both are to an extent, but only to an extent
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Or we could both be equally right. The existence of light does not make the dark cease to exist. Or vice versa. Both continue to exist mutually.
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True that and their mutual existence is inevitable, eternal, and essential
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