You are confused.
You can remain confused.
Or you can try eradicating your confusion.
You try eradicating your confusion.
You try a little or you try hard,
you try basic solutions and you try drastic solutions…
You solved your confusion or you did not.
If you didn’t — you return to ground zero, to step one.
Now you decide again: to remain confused, or to try some more.
There’s the third option however — you can also DELUDE yourself.
You can delude yourself,
You can pretend you solved your confusion,
Your confusion was confusing, by definition.
You’re confused about your own confusion.
You don’t even know what you know.
But now that you tried so hard — you wish you have gotten something.
You are invested.
Therefore you are likely to delude yourself.
To pretend that you know.
To pretend that you’re no longer confused.
To pretend that you have some answers.
Now, we’re all confused,
about life
about god
about ourselves
about others
about love
about meaning
about money
about cryptocurrencies
about politics
about sex
about what we want
about how we feel
about what is right and what is wrong
about the world
We’re all confused about everything
yet we must act anyway
and we do
and chances are we are still confused
and the only thing we can do is to own up our ignorance and confusion,
it’s the only right thing to do
and the only wrong thing to do is to delude ourselves
which unfortunately, often we do
This problem (of confusion) is obviously universal to all humans
I do believe however that we are even more confused and more delusional today, in some ways anyway
Modernity gave us TOO MANY OPTIONS
TOO MANY OPTIONS to give us the illusion of progress
TOO MANY OPTIONS to get really invested in this idea of finding answers — only to find fuck all
It got so bad that we don’t only believe all those options yield solutions to our personal problems — we COLLECTIVE delude ourselves about the availability of solutions to our problems
We continue selling each other one useless magic pill after another,
We want to believe our lies
And we pay for it with more confusion
There are horrible lengths to which modern humans go in their delusional hopes of redemption
Terrible drastic lunatic measures
I refuse to even name this nonsense out of pity
I hope you see it for what it is
I hope you see how the madness of this world and worldly is no answer to true inner inquiry
Your inner problems obviously won’t be solved from the outside. They are inside!!!
The ultimate philosophical-logical formulation of this problem follows:
“HOW CAN YOU BELIEVE THE EXISTENCE OF CERTAIN SOLUTIONS TO UNCERTAIN, UNKNOWN, CONFUSING PROBLEMS?”
How can you hope there are reliable solutions to your ill-defined, mystifying, profound problems?
Ask yourself any time you see someone attempting to abate his inner turmoil with a single drastic outside measure
It will obviously not work
Please see it for what it is
Please see it for what it is and
Don’t support this madness
DO NOT grant the benefit of doubt!
Again — how can they believe in certain solutions to their uncertain, confusing, bizarre problems?
They don’t deserve the benefit of doubt
The only matter which is beyond doubt is their own confusion
And you owe them this truth — the truth about their own confusion
The truth about it being paradoxical to believe in sure solutions to their utterly unsure problems
Please understand, and pass on this truth:
It’s ok to be confused.
We are only human
Please continue your pursuits!
Just don’t hope for the world to give you what you seek
Please respect the great extent to which you are ignorant and lost
And search within
And you will find answers, or not
But for as long as you don’t succumb to the temptation of delusion — you are not yet lost — and there is still light
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