Yet another thought train headed over the horizon

We live in a pretty fucked up world. We are trained from birth to be like everyone else, or at least act in ways that others expect. We throw away opportunity to be closer to the loved ones in our lives. We work as little slaves to the dollar, and expect the money to make our lives better. We have better relationships with our paychecks than our lovers, our children, our friends, our parents. And so do they. Because, that is what we are all trained to be, that is how human’s in our culture are expected to act. Money has become the god of our culture, and we are trained from an early age to worship, and not question. Just like religion, it has shaped our schools, our laws, our traditions, and our minds. Money makes for a shitty god though, and the bible says you can’t worship god if you worship money, and power. Money only makes those happy who can paint over the scratches in their damaged lives and not be bothered with what lies beneath the new sheen. But, this rant isn’t about money, no it’s about our fucked up world.
Money being just one cog in the machine. Perhaps grease is a better analogy.
Why do we humans just allow the destruction of our world to continue? Is it because we have rationalized it for so long now that we have based a bit of what we call reality upon our mistakes? Is it because we know that by analyzing our issues, personal, and universal, we can find a higher perspective, and usually an answer, and that we know to look into that huge cosmic mirror is a journey full of pain, full of guilt? Is it because along with finding a better way to sustain life on this planet, is finding a better way to live our individual lives. We know that power structures inhibit this. All the great prophets came to tell us that the way we were living was hindering us, was only a superficial existence. And still we hide. It seems to me that those keeping us from the greatest spiritual and life-enhancing lessons are those who we allow to guide us. As sheep allow a shepherd to guide them. The religions and governments are fat on the labor of those they rule over, and they have never seemed to like the masses to understand the teachings, to live whole happy lives. They can’t encourage people to truly live free, or people would do just that. A world of 6 or 7 or twelve billion people living free is absolute horror to those who understand only control and power. It’d be anarchy, and they will tell you anarchy isn’t a healthy way to run a viable economy. We couldn’t have all those people running around, playing with their children, eating meals with their family, and making all sorts of decisions about how best to live their own lives. Well, we couldn’t have that and keep going on the way we have for the last few thousand years anyhow. So instead we keep on truckin, keep on destroyin, until we get saved from ourselves, perhaps a messiah will come down to earth and tell us “hey you all sure fucked this planet up, good job, as a reward come with me to heaven”. Something tells me that’s not how it works. But what do I know, our culture didn’t teach me think for myself, and especially not to tell others my insane fantasies of a healthy planet, and an enlightened humanity. Maybe we can find a new vision of our future, maybe we have and we just have to have the courage to stop fuckin our world up.
namaste