Look at how neighbor is turning on neighbor. Look at how country after country is retreating into its little shell. Look at how we give up on the challenges before us — the big four — climate change, inequality, stagnation, and division. Look at how we cannot even band together as a world to fight a pandemic. We shrug, or hand our heads in despair — but either way, it feels as if we are defeated.
This is a loss of libido, of Eros, at a social scale. What is replacing it is Thanatos, the death instinct.
The impulse to seek vengeance, to take revenge, to burn the house down , when you cannot climb to its top. Thanatos seeks annihilation — the exaltation of the self, as the only being, even at the price of the destruction of the world.
The truth is that we are surrounded by Thanatos. Immersed in destruction, because we are permeated by self-preservation. Technology, social media, is a mighty force of Thanatos.
Rather than offering us genuine self-transcendence — like we might feel watching a beautiful sunset — it offers us nothing but unbridled narcissism. The annihilation of the world, so we are the only ones left standing. Look at me! Like me! I am the one that matters most!
Capitalism, too, which created this kind of technology, is Thanatos in pure form. It tells you are inherently worthless, so then you compete for status through consumption — you are basically competing to be the only one that matters, with more money, toys, prettier partners, and so on.
But that is exactly how you get to a planet melting down, democracy dying, society in tatters, nations divided, and a world this troubled.
Thanatos is the impulse to ruin, destroy, and pillage, so that one can stand atop the wreckage, it is the aggressive, egoistic, domineering force in us. So quite naturally, when we build institutions and norms and values upon it — where else can we end up? But the most difficult thing about it, perhaps, will be the challenge of building a world on Eros, not Thanatos. What is the obsessive focus on gender and sexuality if not Eros?
But it is a small kind of Eros. Every river, tree, insect, and person. Flowing, growing, humming — maturing. Do you see what I mean? So the more flowing rivers there are, the more self-transcendence there is for you, too. In this way, all things are linked through Eros — your possibility is to maximize the possibility of all things, just as their possibility is to maximize yours. Thanatos, sadly, finds its truest expression in modern American life. Why would they prefer to make their neighbours beg for insulin online?
The human being experience is being divided and package to the point were many are being left out and nothing to live for. The Elite are consumed in material items and power that society will cave in on itself. There needs to people more compassionate people, and less self-centered people in order for society to be more enjoyable. How would you like it if someone didn't care about your foreclosure issue?
Im sure you would be angry, if people didn't give a shit. The world is so mess up. Even though that the modern society has given us a lot more than we ever imagined like the invention of the mobile phone; internet; social media etc,etc, their bad points have started to show visibly year after year.
Younger people tend to be living at home instead of working because they are just plain 'lazy' and 'don't try' at all to improve themselves. While co-workers now will not acknowledge the word 'Oh you look nice today' and take it as a sign of flirting rather than a sign of compliment. There are more unruly, disrespectful and insecure people than ever before and the list goes on and on and on.
Think about it, why does old people say; 'Back in my days Simply put, those are the words of truth. It's worse to the eyes of many. Society is messed up. Why is the media making young people think that they'll find true love at a young age and think that it will last forever? That's not reality, and I think that the media should show a little more reality in movies so that it doesn't get young people thinking that every love story has a happy ending even though that's what they may like; they'll just have to deal with it.
So mamy people have grown lazy these days to help out other people in the world, or they're so consumed in their own lives that they don't even care about what's goingi on in the world!
If we really want today's society to be better, I think that we should at least make an effort to help them out and not just do what we can! Society is letting this happen and iit's making kids feel very insecure about themselves and feel unsatisfied with themselves.
Yes, I get how the parents are the ones that are buying the stuff for them sometimes; but society is letting this happen. And I guess no one would want to get in the way of someone's parenting; but kids looking like tarty teenagers is becoming a big problem for society these days because there's no grown up's around to tell these young children that they don't have to dress like that in order to be cool; that they just have to be themselves!
Yeah, sometimes it's hard to get kids that age to listen, but if we all play apart and help them out; I am sure society would be a lot better! Like; I don't even know why some of these rules exist; and I'll be honest, some of these rules kind of lead to judgemental things because some of these rules are based on race, age, ability, and other things that people judge other's on.
If we stopped creating rules that were unneccessary; maybe society would be a lot easier for people! It's so astonishing how society today has it's certain ways of living. If only people took these thing seriously, bad things wouldn't be happening! Well, that's all I have for now! You can leave your comments in the comments below and add your opinions or anything you want to the list!
But just don't be nasty with your comments or I'll delete them!
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