A Reasonable Amount of Paranoia:

It seems to me that in society we must need a certain amount of paranoid thinking to be able to survive and exist as functional members of society. Many people I talk to seem to be overwhelmed with paranoia and this causes worry that effects their day to day life. Should I worry more about the richest people trying to make me their slave and destroy my free will, or should I live within the system that we have built over the last 30 000 years and find peace in simple things? The latter will make me rest easier, but the former seems important and apparent if you look at it.

The society we have today is the created world of 30 000 years of humans saying that they know things that they do not before demanding the others follow their direction. This is why we are imperfect. Even today we have people who have never lived the lives of those who they decide the fate of, and these are symptoms creating a great dissent within the people on the street. The worry is that we cannot do anything.

We are made to fear the ultra-rich. This remains their source of power over us. Without the fear we hold, the acceptance that they are able to decide our fate and devise plans for our domination, they could not hold power over us.

Even money is an agreement that people must make, and without this trust and agreement that the money holds value, it will not hold any value. This serves as a metaphor for the power that we give these feared unknown people we hold in abstract. It also speaks to the value we hold for money as the be all and end all of life's worth. We are not to blame for thinking like this, we are conditioned from a young age and from hundreds of years of human existence to think that this is the way that life is.

We use the constructs we already have to explain what we are experiencing, but who is to say that we know anything for certain? What are the chances that the books that we have read are the ones that are true? Who is to say the culture that we are forced to exist within is the one that we should? All theories are just someone's intricate opinion, argued because the author feels the world would be better with their mind's idea in the public discourse.

We have a hard time realizing this, because what we know is all that we know, so we can't find other things to relate to reality. This is why we must always be broadening our horizons, learning new things and finding more opinions to find our own truth. This is my paranoia... Is there an absolute, real and objective truth anywhere in this world? If so, does anyone know it? The intellectuals of the past did their best to describe the world as we now know it, but were driven by their own desires and experience so to come to conclusions based in their own form of reality.

We are now able to find information from all over the world, to amalgamate societies entire depth of knowledge by searching the internet, but are we any smarter for these gifts? This is basically my theory on life, in a general sense, but it doesn't need to resonate with you. I fear that we are too far gone to realize that in knowing something we are taking a leap of faith, in learning we must trust those who are teaching us and in being fearful of the powers that be, we are being fearful of the unknown.