Prideful(l) + moral relativity

Alright, this is a big and complex one.

I am writing this amidst still recovering from a horrible virosis, flu, it might as well be COVID with these symptoms, so I am hoping I'll make enough sense to get my points across.

ARE you prideful?

Like, really, think about it for a few moments.

If you instantly said “No.” – congratulations. You might have a proper bearing about yourself and the world, but you aren't safe.

Nobody is.

The world is trying to pressure all of us, and it's trying to put us into bubbles that make us seemingly happy and comfortable, no matter at what cost it actually comes with. An almost perfect mould. A mould which blinds us and makes us be exactly the way that they want us to be.

At this point you will either agree or disagree. But if you disagree... Congratulations are in order again, you are already blinded.

I'm not going to mince my words here, nor try to beat around the bush like people do.

What I mentioned is a thing that has been happening for decades. This is a tough to swallow fact for some, but it might open the eyes of others.

This is just the state of the world. The world wants you to be prideful, often without you even noticing it. To be blinded, and happy, thinking at least that most things are alright, and that the world is almost perfectly fine the way it is. It doesn't matter what it is, good, bad, as long as it keeps you somewhat happy. Selfishly so. Again, without you even realising.

And, dear reader, I'm not sure people realise how dangerous this is. How trapped some of us already are.

“But why would they do this?!?! This is not true!!!”

Oh yeah? Really?

The why is very simple. It's for control. Nobody can be controlled more easily than those who are comfortable and have not a single care in the world, about the world. Because if we're “happy” or “satisfied” it doesn't mean that the world is right, it only means that we are consciously or subconsciously overlooking the problems that are actually there. We're not even properly recognising them, and we often misattribute cause and effect.

I'll be blunt and clear and say that, yes, there are a lot of old views in this world that were problematic, and weren't exactly right, however there are quite a few outliers in this modern worldview and direction that is being forcibly pushed down our throats, ideologies that cause more harm on the long run than anyone can correctly ascertain as of this point, yet some of us are accepting them like brainwashed cattle just because it's different. Just because it enables something that wasn't enabled in the past. Just because we are suckers for new, but we don't realise that new doesn't automatically mean better.

Alright. What is better? What is good? What the hell is bad?

This is where it gets tricky.

In some ways it's harder to tell than ever. The world, its governments and influential people, wants to seed and sow distrust, disagreements, confusion, and rather controlled chaos. Again, for the simple reason of controlling us, because controlling us makes them richer. It makes it easier for them to perpetuate evil (yes, I am sure some of the folk out there don't even believe that evil exists), just because they are inspired to do so, and because they can do it.

With it comes their goal of making us unable to discern between right and wrong. Because if we can't do that... Then anything can happen and can be pushed down our throats. Sure, there will be some voices and outcries from various groups, but they never seemed to be loud enough to actually change the course of a set goal, unless it was to the advantage of reaching said goal.

Moral (un)relativity

(This one deserves its own subtitle.)

A concerning amount of people are adamant that right and wrong is not only completely relative and interchangeable, but also outright don't exist. And that is a dangerous oversimplification made by people who carve and shave down the way the world works until it fits their own shallow and “factual” worldview.

So the question is can we actually discern between right and wrong?

In short, yes.

We were made to understand and feel the difference even at an early age. Unfortunately at this early age the numbing down of our ability to distinguish between right and wrong may happen. Not necessarily because our parents and (later on) teachers don't want what's best for us, but simply because they also don't know any better, and this has been getting worse over the past few generations.

How can we discern between right and wrong?

Here's some food for thought:

And since it is a trained ability, we ought to do our best and actively train it, otherwise it will go to waste. And such and important part of us should never be let to go to waste. We must continue to seek to understand, every single day, what exactly is right, and wrong, how we may be wrong about the things we consider right, and vice versa. Because it is good to have convictions, but we must be certain that those convictions are right. We shouldn't let ourselves be fooled and blinded; put into this overly self-gratifying bubble in which we think we know everything, in which we are so perfectly isolated that our discernment gets cloudy, all whilst paradoxically thinking we are smarter and more right than ever. But are we really? Or are we just put into this bubble to be made to think that way?

Never let yourself be fooled like this.

But alas, a split is happening. Bubbles are bursting. People are waking up from their sweet or morose slumber, and they started opening their eyes. Once one person opens their eyes, and raises their voice, like a chain reaction, others are soon to follow. Lies are going to be dispelled. And the symbolic cataracts from our eyes will disappear, and we will see things more clearly.

But the rest of people?

They will be even more blind.

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see. ” ― Henry David Thoreau