the red pill

Feed the homeless…go to jail… October 11, 2009

I think one of the signs of acceptance of the red pill is the day you first recognize it’s always going to taste bitter …and  you ask for it anyway.  I think the reason I have been on the red pill/blue pill tangent lately is that  I’m  starting to thaw out. Things that just didn’t bother me before, bother me now.  Not enough to stay awake at night and ponder on it (I have the more common, yet inane things to accompany me there), but enough to start a blog about it.

Another weird thing that has been going through my mind lately is how society tolerates, no – “encourages” us- to become “numb” to the suffering of each other. And just in case we forget to feel nothing, we always have reinforcements to help us remember to forget everything else.  Some are in the forms of movies – which elicit mass bloodshed drawn out to rock and roll, and the music itself - lyrics stating  women are  “bitches” and “busting a cap” is a right of passage.  A two for one on the sale for dehumanization and sensory depravation.

In the past, it only bothered me when I saw injustices visited upon animals, children and the elderly, but now I am seeing in whole new light that we have become, collectively, a universe of beings who have forgotten how to “feel” ANY empathetic emotion – unless it has something to do with us personally.   I am not placing blame on anyone, just stating an observance, – this was me for  a long time, and its the same with a lot of people still. It doesn’t make you a bad person, it just makes you numb.

The question that keeps running through my mind when I witness things in person or  in the media like the video I just posted for your “enjoyment” , is why?  WHY would it be OK for any of us to become “numb” to the suffering and injustices visited needlessly upon our fellow human beings?    Then an answer in the form of a quote pops into my mind ” A house divided cannot stand”.  So, along with our other freedoms that have gone the way of the dodo bird,  we have been giving up our inalienable right to “feel” compassion or empathy for anyone who lives “outside our boxes”.  This creates a lack of bond with each other, which if in place, could make us all strong – when we are single and weak – anyone can do anything to us.

I was going to post on the stupidity of a legal system that encourages fat, lazy people to sue fast food for their weight condition, but I think this video deserves our attention more.

Those homeless people – don’t feed them for God’s Sake – you might just cause them to survive one more night.