@maxxthefan Perhaps all the above together

Sheep are fluffy and peaceful and pleasant to be around. But if they fall over they just lie there with their feet in the air until someone turns them over.

A functional person/community is not made up of those who are compliant to societal expectations in a corrupt society due to fear. There is no logic as a basis to where we are now. Its composed of various emotions. Emotions arent bad but they aren't stable either. Anyway part of the problem is people are fighting problems created by people who create problems to sell you solutions. And the fighting is only on paper because people identify as "advanced civilization" or peaceful. But paper isnt power. It is livable resources. So if those resources are being stolen while telling you its normal, that is actually violence in its most deceptive form.

There is a small minority that conformity and compliance suits, just as much slavery as it is genocide. Its only genocide if you dont conform. When it reaches a point where you cant survive even or especially by conforming (where we are headed) then there is revolt. But it takes awhile for that for those who are brainwashed by social pressures.

@no_identity Yes

The Badlands in the dark and rain

Some things should remain nameless

Forget the patriarchs. That's a classic story of what some guys will do to get... . It evidently didn't happen before the fruit. Maybe it required the idea of good and bad to make it exciting.

@gregsometimes Such an interesting story.

One thing I like about the Sam's Town album is each song is from a different very earthy human perspective. https://youtu.be/GQzDG-tILbo?is=yDsIZ9tbz0g7i8ZU

@gregsometimes Oh ok. Well the story is The Pedestrian and its on an online library

@captainharshaplays Also, the people ive been mad about have made me crazy for a reason, and it wasnt to feel safe or validated.

@captainharshaplays Thanks for writing. People seem to be thrown together by an order they dont see. It has to do with connection, but nothing to do with romantic ideas of domestic bliss. Without common values or direction, that kind of relationship will not last. There is the love of friendship or other connections that can last forever because of acceptance, lack of pretense

@gregsometimes It wasn't meant to be a link in my sentence. I fixed it.

@gregsometimes It's only my post that's messed up. Haha. But really. When information from primary sources was first readily available, you could access it on links without registering an email, proving your identity, adding a debit card or demographics for search engines to bombard you with ads after monitoring your search history. It was amazing.

@gregsometimes It's from an official library of short stories. No weird site.

"The Pedestrian". Quick classic short story. Ray Bradbury, 1951. https://libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader/the-pedestrian#:~:text=Ever%20since%20a%20year%20ago%2C,and%20wandering%20the%20empty%20streets.

Compliance and complacence is not affordable for your life. It never was.

@no_identity We have these identities and filters we look at the world through. All of us. So we perceive experiences and challenges that fit into that vision of the world. Because we are subconsciously looking for it to validate our experience. It becomes a bit of a burden because it becomes a pattern -- our subconscious determining what kind of life we will have.

Economic war/recession proof ideas. Set up distillary. Make moonshine.