Mother Nature, the monster of all monsters
As Pseudoreality we designate a world that is perceived by the beings living in it as true, correct and immutable, but actually is life's greatest enemy and does not deserve to be real. Characteristic are totalitarian, non-negotiable laws of nature, which form the basis for the worst atrocities, but are accepted and often even defended by the population. The environment as well as the inner nature of the human being cause immeasurable suffering and limit the possibilities to feel pleasure. The psyche feigns a sense of meaning and hope in order to disappoint you repeatedly.
In the striving to master all the problems, people burden themselves with additional regulatory systems, which often culminate in oppression. This article is dealing with the fallibility of nature. The resulting societal problems are a vast topic in itself, and will be discussed under social criticism.
Pseudo-reality is designed in such a way that it makes pleasant fantasies and games appear subordinate to the morbid "seriousness of life". But fantasy, on the contrary, is the legitimate reality because it offers much more freedom and joy. Game scenarios can also be subject to rules, restrictions and simulated danger, but this is voluntary. Here you consciously forego some of the possibilities to compete or have a special experience under special circumstances. Losses in such a scenario are not final or life-threatening. If games have negative effects, such as addiction or unhealthy escapism, then the fault lies not with the game, but with the reality within which the game is played. If in the following we speak disparagingly about imaginary things by dismissing them as "illusions" or "hallucinations", it should be made clear that we are not rejecting the imagination itself, but rather the fact that the world sometimes leads us astray and as a result false hopes and actions emerge. But anyone who is aware of the badness of the world and deliberately indulges in escapist practices has our understanding.
With reality we commonly refer to the physical world in contrast to virtual worlds and fantasies. This definition is acceptable, as long as it serves as unbiased designation to distinguish forms of existence. But it becomes problematic, when the term is used to declare the "real life" the only true and right one and to discount everything idle and intellectual as useless visionariness, when it´s used to justify deficiencies of the physical world just because of their alleged immutability and to disparage critique and idealism. My personal connotations with the term are:
Reality≙
constraints
suffering
earnestness
work
heteronomy
boredom
stress
threat
aging
decay
Fantasy≙
freedom
joy
fun
leisure
self-fulfillment
adventure
satisfaction
safety
youth
creativity
Just because "reality" counts as superior and without alternatives, I don´t have to consider it immaculate and righteous. Precisely because it is non-negotiable, it disqualifies as a just system. Therefore I decided to declare the "seriousness of life" to be a fundamentally wrong form of existence and its overcoming towards an existence in pure fantasy to be the desirable ideal. The highest form of truth should not be in this limited, imposed, painful world, but in the unrestrained access to everything conceivable, real self-determination and the feasibility of infinite joy.
About the term Nature
As Nature we commonly designate the wilderness in contrast to civilization or the living / self-emerged in contrast to the artificially created. In view of the ruthless exploitation and destruction of nature by humans, nature is prematurely portrayed as the well-meaning, innocent victim. But nature in the broadest sense is the natural law according to which everything in the universe develops. The superficial beauty and delicate balance of untouched ecosystems is just as much a product of natural evolution as the restless human spirit, which damages the environment in its irrepressible will to develop. Beneath the pretty surface of imposing landscapes, lush greenery and lively animals, nature is a cruel, abysmally perverse regime. And because nature has no consciousness and no will, it evades all responsibility.
It is said that life is a miracle because it is so unlikely to come about. Conversely, that means nothing more than that this universe is quite unsuitable for life, and that life in it is a bad deal with great hardship. Nature gifts nothing, it forces life into a merciless fight for survival, which produces such a monstrosity like humans. Evolution does not think sustainably, it gives preference to what seems useful at the moment. Then the world suddenly goes to its knees as a result and we only have the choice between suppressing our drive to develop, or moving on and being executed by the broken world. It doesn't matter to nature whether we destroy the world now or the dying sun does it in the distant future. That is why I will not glorify nature as an original state of perfect harmony. It is a callous system that allows life and consciousness to blossom on the basis of a long chain of beneficial coincidences until it reaches its limits, and then leaves it alone with its inadequacies and torments it with the realization of its own transience.
Injustices are often played down by saying that life is not fair. The question, how we can best come to terms with nature, however, must be followed by no less important questions: Is life then still worth living? Is it morally acceptable to come to terms with an unjust system? Is it morally acceptable to put children into an unjust World?
Overpoulation
Evolution promotes efficient reproduction. Normally, populations are balanced by unflattering eating and being eaten. But every now and then a species multiplies too much, space and resources are limited. Stupid animals just keep going until everything is stripped bare and they starve to death. Conscious beings must choose between short-term and long-term survival, which leads to internal conflict. Since every individual decides differently, there are also external conflicts.
Scarcity of Resources
Many resources are only scarce because nature is too stupid. There is enough energy, but it fizzles out because it is so difficult to tap and store. Heat is a waste product in many processes, but you cannot store it and you have to burn extra fuel again for heating. There's enough water, but it's salty and unpalatable because dumb evolution makes you unlearn any useful skill the moment you don't need it for a moment. Of course, the little fresh water is not distributed fairly; there are either droughts or flood disasters. There is enough space (as long as we don´t mindlessly multiply), but many areas are uninhabitable and you need an excessive amount of farmland to feed a few mouths.
piles of garbage
Plastics are great materials, but it would be quite new if nature let us take advantage of the many possibilities it offers without spoiling everything yet again. The oceans are polluted, the garbage mountains are growing and we are eating microplastics. Stones don't rot either, but of course that's something veeeeery different because her serene highness Mother Nature herself made them.
Greenhouse Effect
The occurrence and reproducibility of chemical reactions that release greenhouse gases are disproportionate to the opportunities to sequester them. No wonder this poorly organized system gets off balance. And of course, because causality sucks, there's a domino effect right away. If it gets a few degrees warmer, the whole planet will explode. We screwed up on climate change, that's for sure.
Extinction of Species
Human influence on nature is causing more and more pathogens and pests to go extinct, while useful animals become more robust and form new, more adapted species. Oh no, it was the other way around. Naturally!
nuclear waste
Radioactive radiation is another preposterous invention of nature. Not once will it grant you a rich, safe and clean source of energy. Nature is downright asking to be destroyed by us. If the radiation could at least be converted into something useful.
The body is a disability
the ugliness of "real" humans
One major reason, why life is bad, is because it´s bound to a fleshly host. Am I an ascetic preacher who condemns the sinful flesh? No, on the contrary, I want unbounded expression of all lusts, including the physical. And to do that, the body is in the way. Consciousness arises from the mind, so you could simulate physicality without all the dangers and disadvantages. You should not be tied to a body, to a single, unalterable, fragile, for constant attention crying one, which is restricting you and telling you how to be and what to do in order to to grant you the happiness hormones. Our behavior and body functions eventually serve just a pointless self- and species-preservation, never we get asked, whether we agree to the dictated goals and conditions. We shouldn´t serve life, but life should serve us. In the following, we will eludicate, how the body restricts our freedom and happiness.
food consumption
Life support of a body is usually based on mutual exploitation. In order to get vital nutrients, other lifeforms must be killed and eaten (Plants are living things too, it's pure coincidence that they don't seem to have feelings and don't make vegans feel bad). The dead body parts are devoured and digested with unappetizing juices to abominably stinking toxic waste. The food chain and eating hierarchies are a fundamental part of nature. The casualties are already calculated into the numbers of the offspring. Most living creatures are too dumb, to see through this perverted system. Humans have to struggle with conflicts of interest between hunger and morality. This leads to emotional repression, blunting and indifference, or to auto-aggression and militant tree huggers.
Special food can be delicious, but the daily ingestion is annoying, the procurement and preparation requires disproportionate effort. Toiled all day and in half an hour everything is eaten. Additionally, nature meticulously dictates how to feed, to avoid dieseases galore, so it is impossible to eat properly without measuring and analyzing every morsel. Almost everything that makes food tasty is harmful to health. The evil fat, the evil sugar, the evil salt, the evil meat, the evil roasting flavors, the evil additives.
unhygiene
A biological body is an unequaled polluter. Sweat and rancid fat oozes from all pores, dead meat exfoliates, in each body opening you find another stinking, slimy waste pit. One is trapped in a piece of rotting flesh, a petri dish for microorganisms, pests and pathogens of all kinds, which involve you in an endless struggle against the all penetrating filth. Bacteria populate every nanometer, shitting onto you, and you are even dependent of this vermin. You are decaying alive and have to do a sisyphean task to scrub off the dirt every day. And not just yourself, the whole world is a sewer that keeps producing dirt that covers everything and makes it toxic.
sexuality
Sexist is nature, which divides sentient beings into sexes and genders in the first place. Neither can you choose your body, nor your sexual orientation and you are trapped in it for life. Too easily, you are cursed with the wrong body, ugliness or preferences, which can only be satisfied by harming others. The sexes are limited to their one-sided horizon of experience and develop completely incompatible ideas of relationships. It is foreseeable, that sexism, sexual violence and prudery can easily develop here. Lust and love could be so beautiful, if they were not just instruments of vile reproduction, which, because of its central biological importance, takes itself far too seriously. The great drama of pregnancy, birth and the immense responsibility for the offspring takes away the light-heartedness of love and puts a strain on relationships. Feelings of love, romance and lust are only reproduction-enhancing mechanisms, their magic is a fleeting illusion. Evolutionary and societal optimizing pressure leads to completely exaggerated demands and cringy mating behavior. In addition, there is the danger of venereal diseases, which fuels fears on all sides. So it becomes an unenjoyable, hysterical farce. But the sex drive overwhelms every reason. People sacrifice their lifes and their dignity to the reproduction and raising of brats, unmindful of their wellbeing, and they feel important, competent and morally superior with that. More and more generations have to endure this vale of tears.
brain chemistry
Intelligence is tolerated by the body only as far as it is useful for self-preservation. Those who can build tools, think one step ahead of their enemies, have a survival advantage. But the ability to think is also accompanied by the reflection on one's own existence, the desire for meaning and fulfillment in life, for something that is greater than just crawling over this earth, eating and multiplying until you die. And as scientific knowledge progresses, one becomes aware that one's own mind is imprisoned in the skull, written on a fragile, slimy mass that can percieve reality only as an unreliable interpretation of limited senses, that one is a slave to their genes, instincts and imprints, and that one can never truly understand other beings and the world as long as they are in that prison of flesh. Most people take the yoke of nature as given and do not plague their minds with such pondering, or try to strengthen their self-esteem in dubious religions and ideologies. We long to be something transcendental, independent of material inadequacies. But our mind is nothing more than a function of a meat machine that can be lobotomized away with little effort.
unused potential
Our physical and mental performance has enormous potential, but its use is prevented by many mechanisms. A barrier separates us from our subconscious, and therefore from a large part of ourselves and from very entertaining abilities. It can only be accessed through lengthy meditation techniques or brutal methods such as drug use and oxygen deprivation. Other things such as giftedness or savantism can only be achieved with special brain conditions and are associated with deficits in other areas. Still other skills, such as the concentration and body control of martial arts masters, can only be achieved through extreme training and the sacrifice of many other pleasures. Our normal waking consciousness is reduced to the things necessary for survival in a world that is not even worth living in.
limitation
Who doesn´t know this, you just sat down comfortably, then you remember something to do, or something drops. Telekinesis doesn´t work, so you have to stand up again, leave your for the actual activity adjusted posture, to wrench and bend yourself, to inconveniently go somewhere just to do a minor matter. You also stumble against everything, you are too small, too big, too light, too heavy, moving on your own is slow and cumbersome, why you are dependent of complicated, expensive and pollutive vehicles. Communication doesn´t happen through direct thought transmission, but has to be phrased in words, which is time-consuming and imprecise, regularly leading to misunderstandings and annoyance. These are all small issues, but they add up. But one big Issue is the helplessness of such a weak body in the face of the overwhelming injustice of the world, that leaves so many people behind in desperation.
addiction
The brain craves for constant entertainment, because in prehistoric times this made sense, when there were only the classic sources of pleasure such as eating, sex, etc., and these had to be worked hard for, so there was little risk of overdose. The same nature that has set this up, also has allowed us to develop a brain that can invent sources of pleasure that are much more easily accessible. But habituation comes quickly, we want more and more and always new and then we have to macerate and mortify ourselves to protect us from the evil temptations that deviate from the natural path of happiness. The satisfaction of preprogrammed addictions, such as social interaction, however, is thwarted by our own brain, since it irreversibly mutates into an antisocial cripple from the slightest miscalibration during childhood.
Loss of Control
It is useful, that many body functions proceed automatically, but you cannot consciously intervene when the need arises. For example, energy management still thinks we are in the Stone Age. Consumption-intensive things such as brain and muscle mass get dismantled immediately, if they are not used for a while, instead excess energy is put into useless fat reserves lying around. Another shortcoming is the unconscious body language that cannot be turned off and the simultaneous lack of an innate conscious understanding of body language. So you are an open book, helplessly at the mercy of those who have learned to understand body language and who want to sound out and to manipulate you.
aging
Life is a process of physical and mental decline. Every age group has its advantages and disadvantages, but the disadvantages usually dominate the attitude towards life.
Unborn children
When someone gets pregnant, most people lose their minds. Everyone starts cheering nonreflectively, because evolution has programmed us to see reproduction as something positive and to ignore the disadvantages. Unborn babies are irksome parasites that cripple their host body for 9 months, cause extreme health risks and decimate its brain mass. In addition, they are so fragile that even the slightest misbehavior on the part of the parents leads to irreversible disabilities even before birth. For the parasites themselves, this is the most pleasant phase of life because they are still untouched by the worries of the world.
Babies
Birth is a disgusting, torturous process and traumatizing for the child. The host is usually drugged with hormones in order to find joy in this misery, but with postpartum depression, nature has found a way to make this time miserable for everyone involved yet again. There is no use for babies. They're ugly as hell and drool all over everything. They can't do anything but scream and poop in their diapers, they rob you of your sleep and free time. You never know what they're trying to tell you with their screaming and they immediately fall apart if you do something wrong and then you, as the parent, are the bad guy. Despite their useless existence, when they roll up with their court and their supply train, they undeservedly attract everyone's attention. The elders interrupt all brain activity and indulge in archaic sounds of affection. This is of course an advantage for you as a baby, but you don't remember it anyway.
Toddlers
As soon as the little beasts learn to move and articulate themselves, they become annoying, selfish, immoral liars and kleptomaniacs. They invade your privacy, have to stare and grope everything and leave a trail of destruction behind. In their stupidity, they also display recklessly self-destructive behavior. They maneuver themselves singlemindedly into every dangerous situation, you can't react that quickly.
Children
Children are the most ambivalent age group. Their fresh enthusiasm and unbiased perspective hold great potential, but the reality of life does its part to ruin their potential early on. Incompetent parents, an inadequate education system, already corrupted peers and the general constraints of the world have a disastrous impact on their still malleable psyche. On the other hand, they continue to be annoying. We know not only from our own school days, what annoying assholes they can be.
Teenagers
With puberty, you transform into a werewolf. You completely pointlessly start to stink and grow lackluster, frizzy bristles everywhere, which reinforce the stench because of the surface enlargement. The skin becomes dull, limp and patchy. The few who are not born as unsightly freaks, soon become disproportionate clumps of meat with disfigured grimaces. The brain is transformed into a construction site where everything lovable is torn out without being asked. The teenagers become obnoxious, irrational, criminal monsters who think they are so super cool and super smart. They are interested in superficial banalities such as drinking, parties and brand-name clothes and bully anyone who was able to carry a bit of childlike sophistication with them into puberty. Their relationship problems and lovesickness are pathetic, but exciting for those affected because they are new feelings. But youth fades away quickly. As soon as you learn to appreciate it, it is gone and you can be sure that things only go downhill from now on.
Young adults
After surviving puberty, young adults actually have the potential to become pleasant people. There are always high hopes for the young generation because they are idealistic and want to do better than the older generation. But most of the time they quickly betray their ideals, dreams and friendships and are only interested in their shitty careers. The formative years are over anyway. Whatever you want to learn or change from now on, you will forever lag behind. If they then marry and bring brats into the world, they are a dead loss and transform into the next age group.
Adults
The adults are cold-hearted, internally empty stiffs, buzzkillers and philistines. At every unrelated event, the brain cells commit collective suicide. In addition to intelligence, love of life and enthusiasm also decline. The once new and exciting world becomes a habit. Curiosity and desire for freedom transform into routine and entrenched thought patterns. As an adult, you have to deal with countless annoying problems that poison your mind. They only live to toil, annoy you with their rules and regulations, only want to talk about boring things and block every original idea.
Old people
For most of your life you are a calcified, shriveled mummy. You are increasingly plagued by ailments that make life difficult for yourself and your loved ones. The elders think they are wise and experienced, but in reality they are stubborn, resistant to education and hostile to progress. They close themselves off to any new experience and want to impose their medieval worldview on the entire society. You have to care for their rotting bodies and listen to their complaining.
diseases
Whether it's little ailments that permanently pester you, or terrible strokes of fate that ruin your life - all diseases are hideous enemies whose existence has to be totally exterminated. Besides the shining self-healing power, it is often overlooked that there is also a self-destructive power. Physical defects are repulsive and cause psychological distress, and psychological distress is in return harmful to the body. You don't have enough worries yet, so a problem must of course spill over into many other areas. Diseases can turn life into unbearable infirmity that makes death seem like a better option.
contagious diseases
I am very racist towards pathogens. Stupid nature invented parasitism, but that is not a legitimate reason for these vermin to exist. They belong exterminated. However, this is extremely tedious because there is no collective immune system that can automatically download every current vaccine.
congenital disease
Congenital diseases, or even just inherited predisposition to disease, is based on a lack of the body's own quality testing of the germ cells. Many unsuitable mutants die in the early embryonic stage, but a number of diseases allow people to mature, only to torment them. Congenital diseases, which have long been known, occur again and again because nature learns nothing.
ametropia, tooth displacement
DNA is too stupid to shape your eyes and teeth into the right shape. Or the body is too stupid to counteract environmental influences.
autoimmune disease
A body incapable of distinguishing itself from pests, how stupid one can be?
Caries
Of course, the mouth is populated by unwanted parasites that piss their destructive acid in your mouth. Teeth are also designed in such a way that the dirt gets stuck in all the gaps, where it is difficult to clean. Brushing too thoroughly damages the gums. However you do, it is wrong.
Dementia
Memory is unreliable anyway, forgetting and constantly falsifying memories, encroaching on an essential part of who we are as individuals. Dementia is an unforgivable act of violence by nature, a mutilation of a person. It turns loved ones into strangers. Often into dismissive, annoying, aggressive, stupid assholes as well.
mental illness
The problem with the psyche is that its dysfunctions are not perceived as external damage that one is prepared to objectively assess and treat. It feels like an integral part of who we are, and any tinkering with our brain chemistry to fix it feels like an attack on ourselves.
Cancer
Cancer tops it all off. Everything causes cancer, sitting, standing, lying down, the sun, your own shit, almost every chemical substance. Every tweak can mean cancer and everyone just dies of cancer. Cancer here, cancer there. Such a penetrating crap! Doctors recommend amputating the entire body because the risk of cancer is 5000%, and for those who are still persistent, there is out-of-body cancer. It is a disgraceful death to be murdered by one's own treacherous body cells, this world is neither our home nor hospitable. It stabs you in the back at every opportunity.
Bad anatomic Design
Since the body is not the work of an intelligent designer, but of an unconscious evolutionary process, things are always just changed based on the existing basis, but never completely overhauled. The more complex a body becomes, the more it becomes an inefficient patchwork. The list of shortcomings is endless, we can only name a small selection here.
trachea next to esophagus
Danger of choking inevitable.
toes stub toe
Exist only to stub them. You always hit the furniture unerringly.
teeth
asshole next to pussy
The body's biggest polluter right next to the most sensitive princess. And then women have to keep running to check-ups because stupid nature has constructed the body so self-destructively.
testicles
All cells can take body temperature, including egg cells. Only the stupid sperm cells need special treatment, which is why their factory, which is also unreasonably and completely exaggeratedly sensitive to pain, hangs outside in a annoying and unaesthetic sack. You feel like a video game boss who has a built-in vulnerability.
hair growth
Many animals have an attractive fur design, but on humans, the body hair looks like the stuffing is coming out. Scattered islands of frizzy bristles without clearly defined edges messing up the shape and coloring of the body and look more like smudges. You feel neither the smoothness of the skin nor that of a fur, but individual hairs get caught between the fingers and twinge. The hair on the head grows senselessly over the face, beards overgrow the mouth. Ass hair is trap net for shit, armpit hair is useless and just stinks, pubic hair looks like a shapeless censor bar. Over thousands of years, humanity has used sexual selection to shape hair growth exactly as it is today. And now they suddenly realize that this is totally unsexy. Instead of nature allowing us to control our hair growth ourselves to adapt it to erratic fashion, we have to constantly trim everything into place using all sorts of brutal methods. And because every hairy monkey can now cheat itself hairless, there is no need for selection pressure to beautify hair growth through evolutionary means.
Pain
Pain is said to be a warning sign. This works for small injuries, where you immediately step back and treat the wound. But when it hurts somewhere, and you first have to study and need unaffordable devices and medicines to do something about it, it already gets absurd. A howling siren is of little use, if no bug report and no repair instructions are delivered. But it gets really idiotic, when you are incapacitated by your own alarm system, when the pain is so severe that you double over on the floor and are unable to do anything about it.
Positive sensations quickly lose their appeal and can even turn into the opposite in the case of continuous fire. But you don´t habituate to pain, even if you die anyway, the siren continues to howl pointlessly. When one realizes that before the invention of modern medicine, pain often led to unbearable misery and suicide, one can only conclude that nature failed completely in developing this "warning system". Often the pain is not even caused by the disease itself, but by the immune reaction, which is unnecessarily painful. And there is even pain when you are not sick at all, e.g. the notorious menstrual cramps. The most inglorious consequence of the pain function is, that it provides violent criminals with a wide variety of torture methods. The function, that is supposed to protect us from injury is our greatest vulnerability. This function enables unfathomable, pointless suffering, that humans inflict on each other.
dying
After the life sentence of aging, the dying process is the icing on the cake of the desecration of any mortal life form. Dying is a cruel and indiscriminate destruction by the callous nature, whose heartless logic created the contradiction of self-preservation instinct and mortality with cynical contempt for our feelings. A life of hardship to build something, shape your character, gather experience and memories, and in an instant it's all erased. Gladly served after a slow, painful process of wasting away, but occasionally completely unexpected when you have better things to do. In principle, you can also help it along with violence.
Nature still mocks us in our final moments through near-death experiences. They show that a state of complete bliss is possible and flatter our deep need for security, meaning and knowledge. But they are just hallucinations that give false hope. In fact, it's likely that the nice feelings only arise after the fact, as the brain tries to interpret the system failure. So if you are not revived and die normally, death is completely useless and anticlimactic. The misery may come to an end for you, but not without the bereaved being tortured with grief, and the more so the closer you were to them.
Instead of gently dissolving into air, the end has of course to be as undignified and unaesthetic as possible. You will bother the posterity with your ugly, filthy carcass, which must expensively be disposed of as hazardous waste, while your personal valuables are plundered or carelessly thrown away by philistines and vultures. Unless you're a celebrity, two or three generations later, any trace that you ever existed will be lost forever.
The evil dominates
Not everything is bad in pseudoreality. There are good and bad things in the world, but the world itself is bad and always gives priority to harm. This taints good things, because they don´t exist on their own terms and constitute an independent alternative to the bad, but are only kept in their shape by energy and matter, which are subject to the vicious laws of nature.
unjust causality
Unhappiness is the default setting, that is always present without any action, to which everything goes by itself. Happiness is something, that must be worked out and therefore can break again. In a just world, good deeds should lead to good results, bad deeds to bad results, and if you do nothing, nothing should happen. But in pseudoreality, there is no clearly defined good and evil. Decisions are rarely made out of bad intentions. We do what we believe is right based on our limited perspective. The effects are often delayed, subliminal or are corrupted and superimposed by outside influences. What is useful to one person, is harmful to the other. With every step, that seems good at first glance, you have to keep in mind: Are there conflicts of interest? What are the side effects? Do my supposedly good actions cause unintentional suffering? Is the positive effect only short-term and harmful in the long run? No good deed goes unpunished. If you look closely, almost nothing can be achieved without risks and sacrifices. And if you do nothing, don´t think everything remains as it is. Relationships must be maintained, houses must be maintained, body and mind must be trained, freedom must be defended. You have to drudge to build things, then you have to drudge to keep them. You always have to work for your well-being, but for the bad, you just have to sit back.
unjust propability
Usually, there are only one or few ways, to make something right, but countless ways, to make it wrong. Since doing nothing is mostly harmful, and you can only do a limited amount of things, the propability to cause harm is infinitely bigger, than to cause good, independently of whether the things you do are good or bad, simply because of the fact, that there is always an infinte number of things, you don´t do. Additionally, you have to expect the worst possible reaction of your fellows, regardless of the factual outcome of your deeds. They will slam even good intentions and sabotage everything, because they know (consciously or unconsciously), what a threat emanates from everything and everyone and, in their fear of this, they themselves act rashly and harmfully.
You need to make only one bad mistake in your life and you will be forever branded as an evildoer. But conversely, if a persistent evildoer performs a good deed only once, that does not make him a saint. Likewise, a tiny malfunction can render a machine completely unusable, but a heap of junk will never be transformed into a useful machine by a single functioning part. This makes it clear that the fact, that good and bad exist, does not make the world neutral. The bad things downright impose themselves on you. The very possibility of the bad and its ability to overshadow good, even in small doses, makes the world a bad place.
Evanescence has always the last word
In the beginning of a life, the world appears full of possibilities. Carelessly, we nest in this world and invest emotions in its ephemeral things, that then get wrested from us without mercy. We get the chance to build something, only to fall even deeper. Positive and negative things are equally transient. However, evanescence is rather associated with the fading of good things, because no one grieves for bad things. When we weigh joy and pain, we don't compare the total number of respective events, but we think of a specific positive event and compare its receipt, which is temporary, with its loss, which is eternal and irreversible. There is no guarantee to find love, but a guarantee, that loved ones will die. Hope makes us cling to life, but the fear of loss prevents us from enjoying life relaxedly. We are far more busy pondering about dangers and fighting problems, because these have far greater impact, than the little joy we can wrest from life. They always say, you have to get over tragedies and carry on. This would make sense, if there was something to win at the end. But you only put off the evil hour, you have to overcome neverending obstacles and to look back to more and more lost things. In the end destruction always wins.
fragile psyche
It is said, that happiness is largely determined by one's own thinking. It is also said, that the first years of life are the most imprinting. Therefore, the external influences, which are actually less responsible, have their greatest effect at the time, when a human being is most vulnerable to them, in which one has not yet built up a solid world view in order to defend themselves against harmful influences. No rose-tinted glasses, no self-deceptive mantras to sugarcoat your life, even the smallest of the bad role models strike you uncheckedly and ruin your life permanently. Parenting is a tightrope walk, you can only do it wrong. If one is too strict, the brood depraves, if one is too lax, it also depraves. Yes, even if you sincerely praise your children, you still need to be careful how you word it so that they feel encouraged rather than resting on their laurels. The psyche absorbs negativity like a sponge, every flaw burns irrevocably into the subconscious. Destroying is easy, repairing is nearly impossible. To procreate under these circumstances is a reprehensible act.
the brake of progress
The lifespan of people is limited. Once a generation has learned from its mistakes, it goes extinct and the new one has to learn everything from the start. While organized gathering and sharing of knowledge enables some progress, experience can not be taught. The further the misdeeds of the elderly date back, the more unreal they appear, the easier the mistakes are misjudged and committed again. In addition, the everyday struggle for survival lets the latest scientific findings take a backseat. The quick buck seems more urgent, the barely wheezing status quo safer, than to worry about fundamental changes that make life better in the long run. Thus the progress is long drawn out and a few backward fanatics or natural disasters are enough to throw everything back to the Stone Age. Even if people succeed in learning from history, it is not a reasonable price that they always have to fall flat on teir faces to figure something out, because it does not only strike those who need it.
the lie of the balance
Pushing something out of balance is a bad thing. But if the balance is a middle way, it should not just be able to fall in one direction, you could tilt it in the direction of positivity. But that does not work. Tipping is always bad, only the balance is good. But balance can´t be good by definition, because it is balancing good and bad. So if the balance is the best possible way, 50% positivity is the maximum, and that is just the impropable ideal state, most of the time it's out of balance. Although theoretically more than 50% positivity can be reached, you have to have a guilty conscience because in the end the equation has to work and the negative surplus is shifted on to somewhere else.
no escape from subjugation
Who accepts the unfair rules of life and makes the best of it, is a servile opportunist, who is only thriving, because he adapts to the ruling order. But who has the backbone, despite all senselessness, to question the laws of nature and to rebel against adaptation, has to accuse himself of succumbing to his pride and convenience, instead of doing something for his happiness. Whatever you decide, you are always the humiliated one. Our opinions and decisions, what we perceive as our self, is nothing but a compliant minion of our subconsciousness, which eventually just serves self- and species preservation and bypasses or overwrites our personality at a pinch. But as long as the psychological strain isn´t strong enough, it remains in its dreadlocked thought patterns. We are imprisoned in a body, ruled by a program, exposed to an uncontrollable world. Our waking consciousness is degraded to a passive observer, who underlies the delusion, to be the ruler of itself. Free will is an illusion, and yet it feels like we are responsible for everything. If you sit back, nothing will happen by itself. Then, your fate has always been to die in the gutter.
coercion leads to more coercion
Since natural constraints such as mental isolation and limited resources lead to greed, envy, and lack of understanding, some folks come up with the crazy idea to oppress people and impose a panacea for wealth and happiness onto them. This lifts greed, envy and lack of understanding from the personal level to a societal dimension. Personal problems you can theoretically solve on your own, but if the madness is nationalized, the shit has hit the fan. Nature itself is sad enough, but then you are additionally opressed by things like economy, politics and religion.
Deceptive statistics
Statistically, poverty, illness and wars have continued to decrease in the long term. But that doesn't mean it's the natural trend. It's just a fluctuation in statistics that will pass. Our prosperity is only built on credit, at the expense of the poor and the environment. Nature is just waiting to get back at us. At some point, the fragile structure of civilization will collapse and the misery will increase (see Balance). Also, the individual doesn't care about statistics. Our isolated mind has no comparison to the suffering of other places and times, we only see our own problems. When one problem is solved, we look for another, and the brain doesn't care if it's a real existential threat or a luxury problem. It draws the greatest possible suffering out of every situation. That evolution deemed it useful to develop a worry-dominated mind says something about the true nature of the world.
The World sides with the evil
People like stories that glorify love as a powerful, magical force that overcomes everything. With the exception of a few individual cases, love has nothing to oppose the immeasurable wickedness. Natural laws don´t know human rights. They give violence its tempting power, which bad people gratefully embrace. While forces of freedom are thwarted by constant explaining and mediating, violence and oppression simply override everything. Those who would be wise leaders usually have no interest in ruling over others, or no one listens to them. The top positions logically fall into the hands of those who seek power, and these tend to be narcissists and psychopaths who know how to manipulate others and have no qualms about dirty business. It is them, who benefit from and fuel crises, while righteous people suffer. They infect the world with their lies, their hatred and their hate speech. Good examples and pleas are useless against this depravity. The natural way to deal with danger is fight or flight. But these reactions are no longer appropriate in the modern world. The former leads to an escalating spiral of violence, the latter to the despots silently taking power. Violence is not a solution, but neither is non-violence. Constructive solutions are extremely difficult for the human brain, but even if you have internalized the most noble principles, one day the world will bring you into such distress that you yourself are tempted to become evil.
Victims become perpetrators
With every harm that occurs, we feel the need to identify a clear culprit and mete out a just, satisfying punishment. Even in accidents and natural disasters, scapegoats are sought who can be blamed. Stories of personified evil and mustache-twirling supervillains are an expression of this need. But real perpetrators are always victims, too. They were born innocent and turned into perpetrators through precarious social conditions and unfavorable psychological predispositions. They are evil not because they want to be evil and strive for a kingdom of darkness, but because they believe that evil actions are necessary due to external circumstances, because they mistakenly believe that their actions are just, or because they are unable to assess the consequences. People who have suffered a lot of violence know best how shitty it is and you would think, they would do better afterward. But nature ensures, that they apply the same manners or repeatedly seek out violent partners. Nature turns us into irrational, instinct-driven, deluded idiots. It stirs up hatred and a desire for revenge in us, but even when these are appropriate in the face of a cruel perpetrator, every punishment causes collateral damage, which in turn creates new victims and potential new perpetrators. Breaking the spiral of violence means acting against our instincts, against the will of nature. Of course, such a system can never lead to peace.
The Personality Dictate
In your head, there is a little judge. If you dare to neglect the way of life prescribed by nature, he will punish you through disease, unhappiness, depression and increased mortality. On the other hand, if you behave well and do exactly what you have been designed to do, then he rewards you with a candy full of happiness hormones. The judge can be bribed temporarily, but only to pay back manyfold afterwards. If you want to obtain your fortune through deviant activities and substances, he will punish you with addictions and all their consequences. The required personality itself is nothing else but pre-installed, incurable addictions.
the dictate, to like physical training
You are unathletic and do enjoy the conveniences of civilization? Guilty! You are an animal, designed for life in the wild. Evolution does not keep up with technological progress. You must sacrifice your time to fidget, you must toil physically and take an eye on your diet, otherwise you will get fat, sick and weak. You will get heart diseases and cancer. And of course lack of physical health also affects psychical health.
the dictate, to like mental challenges
You like to relax and don´t want to keep stressing your brain for your mental fitness? Guilty! You have to scourge your synapses, you have to trudge out of your comfort zone, otherwise you'll be punished with stupidity and demotivation, your already built up synapses will be taken from you, making it increasingly difficult for you to do anything. And then your verdict is depression and dementia.
the dictate, to have suitable interests
You are interested in idle things and have no truck with useful work? Guilty! Nobody consciously chooses their likes and dislikes, and yet you are solely held responsible for them. If your interests do not match the externally determined demands of life, you will always lead an unfulfilled existence and in the worst case be unfit for life. And then you have to endure the constant accusations and reprisals of your more capable peers.
the dictate, to have the right appeal
You are introverted, pssimistic or have any quirks? Guilty! They say, you should be authentic, but only as long as your authenticity coincidentally matches that of a sociable optimist, who is always funny and entertaining, who knows to put himself on the market, otherwise you will find no friends, no love, no sex, no job, no help and you are doomed.
the dictate, to have social contacts
You are a loner and think you don´t need company? Guilty! Nature doesn´t grant you to become happy alone. It has condemned you to be a social being. If you are inroverted, you can get along alone for longer, but you will suffer even more from the superficiality of others. If you don't have social contacts, you are deprived of many important hormones, which reduces your physical and psychological resilience. You will be punished with depression, dementia, increased risk of infectious and cardiovascular diseases and shorter life expectancy. This is even worse than the other dictates, because it is dependent on unreliable other people. Even if you are willing, the others will reject you, if you don´t meet the requirements.
The dictate to adapting your ideal of beauty to reality
You have a pronounced sense for aesthetics? Guilty! Nature puts you and others into flawed bodies, and you must uncritically accept, what is thrown at you. Since nobody has chosen their physical appearence, a fine taste is automatically a discrimination against everyone, who is ugly, and you are co-responsible to promote a morbid beauty cult. So, be satisfied with mediocrity! If you look for beauty in fantasies, nature will destroy your real relationships and make disappointment in the ugliness of reality your prison.
The dictate to have trust
You don´t have trust in the world? Guilty! Without the world showing you the slightest trustworthiness, the so-called basic trust is simply expected. This term already sounds like brainless naivety, running blindly into your perdition. But without it, you will be punished with desperation, depression and increased risk of dementia. If you have trust, the world will do anything but stop to anguish you, which leads us to our next point:
The dictate to be be resilient
You are sensitive and no born fighter? Guilty! You must be hardboiled and blunted. Who doesn´t stand up again, repeating the same mistake over and over again and build upon the life, that takes everything from you in the end anyway, will be charged with great unattractiveness and left behind without mercy. But anyone who praises resilience as a virtue, is actually just pandering to a dictatorship that demands you to generously overlook all of its misdeeds and will otherwise plunge you into misfortune.
The dictate to stand on one´s own feet
You are well sheltered and live happily in Hotel Mum? Guilty! You will be called lazy and spoiled. You will be punished with dependency and learned helplessness and your parents will be reproached for their good intentions. Life will tear you out of your safe home without mercy and rob you of all your loved ones. It forces you to learn all the annoying crap to survive the wilderness.
The dictate to let go
Are you attached to your relationships, belongings and your life with all its achievements? Guilty! Anyone who clings too much to the material world, will suffer extremely from every loss. Some say, practicing to let go makes you freer and happier. But what kind of freedom is it, when you are not even allowed to call your own hard-won existence your own and are told how you are allowed to think and love? This is nothing but another coercion to adapt one's own will to external constraints and to lie to oneself about one's feelings.
The dictate to follow the prescribed path
You want to improve yourself and take your life into your own hands? No way! To do this, you have to put up with so many conditions and detours, that in the end you can hardly claim to have gone your own way. First you have to have a positive mindset to persuade yourself, that you can achieve something on your own. In truth, this is total submission to the laws of causality and the market so that you can uncomplainingly do what must be done instead of what you want. Next, you have to waste your time learning secondary things. Financial expertise and social networking are probably not your actual goals, but they are prerequisites for everything else. If at some point you are no longer at the mercy of your boss, you are instead at the mercy of your clients. You will have to work hard, a long ordeal, before you can reap the fruits of your labors. Unless you act like a masochist, accept the journey as the reward and glorify the excruciation. When you reach your goal, your psyche only gives you a momentary pleasure and you soon need a new goal to work towards. But you're so hardened now, that it doesn't bother you anymore. Then finally you can pat yourself on the back and say you are the master of your own fortune. But the truth is, you've only made compromises your whole life, just as if you'd chosen the easy way. The world may reward you for the drudgery, but it's no longer the dream you once had, but only a compensation for becoming someone else.
The dictate to be grateful
Even if you meet all the requirements, that is not enough for nature. You also have to be grateful for it and deem it right. Act as if everything is sunshine and roses, what life is selling you at extortionate prices and idealize the dark sides into "opportunities" that the oh-so-benign nature grants you to grow on! If you use your alleged freedom of thought and think too much about negative things, then the judge will make those thoughts your prison cell and self fulfilling prophecies. Nature will do nothing of its own to save you from this condition. It will continue to destroy you unless you choose to acknowledge the dictate and struggle your way back under torments of self-denial.
The 2 principles of psychology
The human psyche can be boiled down to two basic principles, which always turn against oneself:
Self is the fool
The first rule says, that the blame is always on your side. Even if not, you must carry the can for it. Nature will never bother to admit a mistake and always shift the responsibility upon you. If you suffer from something, it´s always because of your negative thinking, never because of the obvious depravity of the world. The flaws of the others are only your own projected weaknesses. And if your psychical problems are indeed the others´ fault, you must still work off everything yourself. Then, you must accept, forgive, get over it, always you have to betray yourself and to adapt to the world.
Always the Opposite
The second rule says, that the truth is always the opposite of your convictions and to overcome your shortcomings, you have to do, what you precisely want to do least. If you hate or fear something, you must expose yourself to it. If you are lethargic, you have to be active above all. If you are idealistic, you will get disappointed and have to accept the opposing side. As soon, as a wish becomes fulfilled, you are unsatisfied and want something else. Also, if you want to help someone with mental issues, the logically obvious actions are always just wrong and make it even worse. Negative personalities get the advice to seek the presence of positive people, while positive personalities get the advice to avoid negative people.
The evil is pointless and illegitimate
There are several attempts to justify the evil in the world. No matter what excuses one invents for the necessity of evil, they are circular reasoning based on the logic of the same laws of nature that cause evil. Wether badness is real or imagined, evitable or inevitable, just or unjust, absolute or relative, doesn´t matter. The perception of evil exists in the form of suffering and this contradicts the will of every sentient being. The good things in life don't excuse the bad things. A dictatorship is still a dictatorship, even if it does a good deed from time to time. We should not apply a different standard to nature than to any other criminal system.
Dualismand false humility
Nature works. For that reason alone, complacent masochists think, it is perfect and just. Suffering and loss are glossed over as an inevitable part of life. Joy would only be experienced in contrast to suffering. The challenges would make life interesting in the first place and you would grow with them. If we got every wish fulfilled, we would become spoiled, decadent assholes. This view is idiotic, hypocritical and mocks all victims. In the worst case, it leads to the glorification of suffering and to people being burdened with unnecessary suffering instead of consistently fighting it.
It may be true, that a too easy life would corrupt us, but we should remember: Man is bad because the world is bad.
The nature of our brain and how it responds to stimuli is the evolutionary result of an environment, where scarcity and danger are the norm. Joy serves to motivate, suffering to avoid danger. When a danger is successfully overcome, this leads to relief and greater appreciation of the good times. In times of plenty, this system becomes unbalanced. The sensation of pleasure dulls, we need more and more extreme stimulation. That joy can only be perceived in relation to suffering is then presented as an universal truth.
The supposed necessity of suffering rests solely on the existence of itself. The total abolition of suffering would also include suffering from too much joy. In a world without danger, there would be no need to learn to deal with suffering, and the blunting of permanent joy would be superfluous. If one could enjoy the same thing forever, the motivation to tap into new sources of joy would disappear, which wouldn't bother you in your bliss. But making new discoveries and overcoming challenges are themselves sources of joy, that we don´t want to withhold from anyone. Problems are only really inspiring, when they are based on real sportsmanship, i.e. on the desire to test and improve yourself, without all the pressure and drama that threatens your existence.
But most problems do not enrich us, but rather annoy, hinder and demoralize us. Most of the time we are trapped in a hopeless defensive, busy with fighting deterioration, with no chance to go on the offensive, with no realistic prospect of sustained improvement. And absolutely nothing justifies catastrophes that kill you, cripple you, or wreck your psyche. Everything people learn from a crisis, everything they rebuild, even the positive distortion of memories of bad times, comes from the will to escape suffering. We value joy in spite, not because of suffering. Anyone who claims, that they would not want to avoid suffering, if they had the opportunity, is lying to themselves and to all of humanity.
creator of one´s own reality
Disciples of this mythos claim, that our negative thoughts and evaluations would make the world appear so bad, we should kindly see everything positive. If we only adjust our opinions and behavior, it can hardly be said that we are changing reality. The fact, that reality does not adapt to our desires shows, that the mental creativity is subject to limitations. If these constraints indeed do not come from the outside world, but are in the interests of an unconscious, higher self, the problem would only be shifted one link in the causal chain. What reason would the higher self have to torment its incarnation, if it was free to decide and there was no external need for it? The laws of nature have no consciousness, no feelings, no needs. But we do. We are the ones who suffer, and yet it is not us who are allowed to shape the world in which we have to live, but we have to let rules be dictated to us by a callous machine, that does not even benefit from being so shitty.
merit principle
As already mentioned, the unjust causality ensures, that you have to toil for your wellbeing. Instead of looking for the guilt in the system, some postulate a basic guilt of the living being, that has to prove itself in order to deserve the good. This manifests primarily in economic pressure to perform and religious concepts such as divine testing or karma. We were neither involved in drafting the laws of nature, nor did we sign a declaration of consent. We owe nothing to the world. It is obvious that the distribution of joy and suffering is not immediately based on good and bad actions. It is not the case, that everyone starts life with the same chances. We cannot influence things like the environment into which we are born or certain diseases. So there is injustice right from the start, regardless of one's actions. We have already established that good deeds do not necessarily lead to good results. The complex causality in a world where everything influences each other, cannot guarantee that effects remain linear and unadulterated.
A higher power that controls everything according to a hidden plan is also no justification. A plan that involves suffering is a bad plan, and an entity carrying out such a plan would be either incompetent or evil. The fact, that this entity does not unequivocally and verifiably reveal its existence and its plans to all people, does not speak in its favor either.
The 4 stages to vanquish evil
Just warned against this, I now present the panacea for all problems. Of course it is not realizable. This wouldn´t be pseudoreality, if hope was realistic.
recognizing the evil
The root of all evil is coercion and the essence of all evil is suffering. Where living consciousness is plagued by coercion, suffering arises. Different forces collide, and where they cannot find a constructive way, the stronger force mercilessly overrides the weaker one. Often times, both parties have legitimate claims, but it seems impossible that everything can unfold freely at the same time and forever. This is a coercion as well, the coercion to compromise. Nature rolls over us with disease, death and destruction and all of its crimes remain unpunished. It coerces us to accept. Evil does not occur personified and separate from good; it hides cowardly and is inextricably mixed with good. It occupies the brains of potentially good people and uses them as a human shield, because you cannot kill them without also killing the good parts and thus causing new suffering. We are forced to keep evil down with lengthy and cumbersome methods; we can never really defeat it. Our whole life we are coerced to put up with every whim of the extortionate laws of nature. Those who submit to causality and jump on bandwagons seem to be able to live happily. But that's just phoney peace. We want to achieve happiness beyond being obedient, which is only possible if the laws of nature are destroyed and replaced by a completely new nature in which good reigns supreme.
fighting the evil
Imagination is the legitimate reality, that shall defy all coercion. Dreams, playing, art and stories open up worlds, that can be so much better than the wrongful reality. There, everything is possible, There, evil can be personified and fought overtly. By means of imagination, the evil shall be expelled, isolatet from good and banished into vulnerable bodies. Evil shall be torn out of its hiding place and face responsibility. It shall feel like us, what it means to be trapped in a perishable piece of flesh without a chance of escape, defenseless at the mercy of violence. It shall become aware of how it is hated by the whole universe, how wrong and useless its existence is. To do this, we use its own means against it: "Misfortunes never come singly". Anything bad has a domino effect, a long, causal trail of blood, that we pick up and reverse. This suffer-mirror-curse allows the suffering to flow back to the perpetrator, who experiences everything he has ever caused on his own body. Every fear, every physical and psychological pain, every loss, every sadness, anger and despair, every helplessness, all of this in the full extension of the life of every single victim, falls on the personified evil and kills it in immeasurable agony. We can have a clear conscience, take truly fulfilling revenge, because we do not destroy living beings that succumbed to evil, but rather coercion and suffering itself.
ignoring the evil
Ignoring does not mean accepting the suffering. Suffering is to be despised with every fibre of our existence and deserves not the slightest concession. But while at Stage 2 we had still to sacrifice too much time and energy to eliminate this nefarious entity, we now move on to passive annihilation. We no longer pay any attention to the enemy and pursue our lusts undisturbedly. The power of imagination will build up a shield around us that protects us from any persecution. No pathogen, no unwanted creature, no weapon can penetrate it. It can also be activated a refraction of light, which makes us invisible or hides all attackers. So we do not feel disturbed anymore. The intelligent force field expands over things that are important to us. This way our friends, family and our property are protected. If we are eager to commit a "crime," let's just do it. The time line will be split, so that both of them, perpetrators and victim are equally happy. The damage is outsourced to an extra dimension and via suffer-mirror-curse returned to itself. We determine the causality of our actions ourselves and are no longer forced to maintain our lives at the expense of others. For diversion, the coercion shall have to take a step back and struggle in vain to spoil the fun for us.
escaping the evil
On the last stage, we no longer have to bother with this inadequate world at all. The imagination forms a so-called Panzercloud. This is an indestructible dimensional field in which our imagination becomes reality. Our personal universe, with which we become one and experience infinite joy. We float as a self-contained cycle, independent of any external influences through the framework. "Reality" bothers us only as a voluntary amusement. We enlightened ones can visit each other and experience adventures, while the evil suffocates lonely and forgotten in itself.
