The Over Think

Fyodor Dostoevsky once wrote that if you want to torture someone, really destroy them psychologically, make them dig a hole only to have them fill it back in again. Over and over, day after day. Dig a hole, fill it in. Dig a hole, fill it in. An endless menial task with no point. One which it is impossible to impart meaning to, or find joy in. Thus is modern life. An exchange of the limitless potential of the individual for... what? Nothing is a fair replacement, nothing quite so valuable as what a person could be were they not given blinders from birth and pointed the wrong direction. The trade is so lopsided that all must blunt their emotions as they grow in order to follow through. So pitiful is the return on the most valuable resource that millions must die in poverty for a few to have too much. Of course, it's not a trade as much as a robbery. In a better world love would unite us all. We would be lifted up by a society that embraces all as its children. We are 12 long parsecs...

The means to feed and house everyone exist. Yet there are homeless, and there are so so many hungry... For me, it's the clear dividing line. Anyone who questions whether all people should have access to healthy food and safe shelter has no place in society. Who cares if food is a right, ensuring everyone is fed is what is right. To suggest otherwise is an unacceptable affront to the inherent value of all human beings. To suggest otherwise creates a divide within society, leaving every decent caring person unable to engage fully with the world, not to mention leaving fellow human beings to struggle for no reason but greed and ignorance. We are alienated from a healthy society by the inhumanity of our fellow man. It is difficult for me to even consider them human any longer. Though I know they still have the same inherent value, they have the capacity for goodness, and it is primarily the sickness of the world they grew up in that makes them how they are. They grew up alienated in an...