Modern Chronicles Part 2: What Are The Options?

In the spirit of inquiry, let's take a look at our options. The most popular one would be to go with the flow and not let yourself be bothered too much. You're born into something or the other, with certain values inbued into your mind. After a purely evolutionary process, you have reached adulthood and are more or less used to thinking a certain way. Just ease into it. Settle in and enjoy the ride. You didn't cause the fucked up state of affairs and you certainly cannot do much about them. Might as well take any wins you get and stay in your lane. But to really enjoy the benefits of this one, namely the peace of mind and comfort, one does have to make a commitment.

Tell yourself regularly that you are so and so from such and such. Define what your capable of, what your limits are, and stand by them. Be sure to actively reinforce this metaphorical moving castle and borrow down in the front lines to steer clear of any disconcerting elements in the world and hold your gurad up high. It's not easy to remain rigid, after all, it takes great effort, dedication, perseverance, and commitment over gruesome periods of time. 

See, people judge these old ones for being stubborn, itellectually lazy, and ignorant, when that is simple one side of the coin. I can see how such a position can be considered commendable, especially in full context of the most common possibilities. Yet this first option shares one thing in common with a few others, and that's the part that's the hardest to get right. That part being, of course, other people. The people who choose the first option desparately need other people who share a similar kind of worldview. Without each other, it becomes increasingly hard to remain docile and submissive. 

A single moment of introspection can be the difference between peace and war. A single moment can change from life to death. Although, I suppose that is true for many. Then we have the second most obvious option, at least to my mind: Forfeiting your existence, one way or another. Put in better words, you could call it the purest form of escape. I'm very familiar with this one myself. You see, a creature doesn't want to die, not really. Any living body does wish to continue living as long as possible, but there are thousands of ways to die, most of which do not require any unaliving.

Video games, food, alcohol, drugs, all those things I mentioned in the Part 1 are a crutial part of this option. Anything that numbs can allow one to escape the horrors of civilisation by detaching them form their ego. After all, this materialistic world is plagued because of that core component that keeps us suffering. Fentanyl, horse tranc, spider venom, snake poison, morphene, weed, mushrooms, meacaline, acid, cocaine, ecstacy, meth, and heroine, all of them might have wildly differing effects but they do in fact fulfill that great purpose of pulling people away from themselves. They get the frozen ghosts unstuck from their meat bag prisons and lets them slip right out into some place or the other.

Of course, as long as the meat bag remains, the "trip" is only temporary. This is why suicide is the only logical conslusion of this second option. In fact, embracing death is generally a logical solution to the problematic situation of the world as a whole. While it's good to be causious of logic since it also likely comes from the ego, it's hard to argue how those who have passed on are somehow regretting their actions, feeling anything at all, or the many other things worth arguing about. We are all agnostic at the end of the day, who knows what lies beyond the veil? Whether it's something out of Brian Weiss's books, or a straight up biblical purgatory, there's no way to know for certain. 

In the equally likely alternative of abysmal nothingness, there is nothing other than peace. Once again, the most difficult part for us human beings is the people left behind to pick up the pieces. That's why most prefer to stumble around in a chemically-induced stupor until the reaper shows up at their door. Of course, there are contless other options, a few of which I'd like to cover, but I run short of time once again. Perhaps you can share with me a few of your own? I can only discover and collect so many by myself, after all.