I wrote about this a few days ago but I'd like to expand on it more, delve into some deeper concepts with everyone whilst keeping the flow enjoyable and readable; this is my mastery if you haven't already guessed, explaining difficult to understand psychological concepts so that everyone can get their head around it. I was once a deep writer, I'd sit out there and balance arguments for Cogito Ergo Sum (I think therefore I am), but friends that read me at the time began to tell me that they loved my work, however they could not understand it in the slightest. I had to develop a better flow and a light-hearted tone from there, or it became boring scientist research.

Living a lie

Anyway, we're basically living a lie, from birth to death; we endlessly conform to a system that's set up to keep us as free-range humans. We are allowed a certain amount of freedom to keep us from becoming aware. We can travel to most places in the world with a relative amount of safety, most of us are allowed to choose whichever partner we want, what food we eat, what games we play and so on. It's safe to say that we have a good amount of freedom. If we can live a relatively comfortable life then it's probably going to be the case that we'll never wake up, like Neo did, in the Matrix, so dependent on the system that keeps us in chains that even if presented with a remarkable realisation we still would want to ignore it.

There was a good article from @carry0n here and I sort of feel this in a deep way. I champion acceptance and mindfulness but I can't help feeling that the picture below has a raw and uncomfortable truth about it. I'm happy and well, yet I feel the world around me is being set on fire and I am absolutely powerless to stop it. I may be Ok, but so many other people are not. This is not Ok in my eyes. I can shine light on a few, but there are many others that need that help.

The segregation, urgh!

There is so much segregation in the world today. When are we going to grow up and accept that killing people, dividing families, or merely arguing over the internet like an arrogant cunt isn't the way to be? So people are different, who cares? It's not your job to even everything out so that it fits in line with your reality. It's time to perhaps accept that life exists outside of your narrow bubble. There is a deep, deep ravine in humanity right now; we have connected on a level like no other, but like any race in its infancy we have yet to grow past the simple mindset that divides us so well, our primal territorial thinking meshes with our advanced logical thinking and we begin to think that because it's different then it must not be as good.

Well, I call bullshit.

Bullshit!

How many of you can say that they've sat in the middle of a Moroccan day market and sucked on a Hookah pipe? How many of you can sit there and tell me that you've travelled to Greece and tried one of their delicacies, Goat? How many of you can sit there and tell me that you've studied the Quran objectively and from an unbiased mindset? Visited Israel to the birthplace of Christ? Or Mecca? Or China? Yeah, well, if you've not done it how can you say that it's worse? I live in a country with people that sit here and think we're back in the 1500's when Sir Francis Drake was pillaging the Spanish empire of all their bullion from South America; the dawn of the epitome of the British Empire, they think people come here to claim benefits and suck our country dry. Little do they know, or have read that our country was far more multicultural back then than it was now. We owned 75% of the world, Britain was a central hub for many, many cultures, and yet here we exist, in our post-Brexit village mentality. Ger orf moi land! Hah.

Again (I say it a lot) we are humans

What we are at the end of the day is humans. Nothing more, nothing less. Some live over here, others live over there. They all believe different things and like different stuff. Isn't that beautiful? :) Why, may I ask is it so important that others conform to our own worldview? I like pie, so EEEEVERYONE must like pie! The same can be said for countries, religions, male and female, everyone.

We are being lied to constantly from the media, and those that govern us. Your country is great and so are you they will say. So, um, how did they come to that conclusion? Can YOU, personally, list some great things you have done that makes you proud? And can they? Can it be that they are giving us the illusion that drawn-up boundary of lines is something worth fighting for when the time comes?

Sorry, not me.

I'm a hippy!!

I'm more of a modern hippy without the drugs if that's a thing. Peace, not war. Learn to love thy neighbour as the bible says! That includes someone that's different to you!

Thanks for listening :)