There are two ways to ensure the continuation of life: Stupidity and willful blindness. The first is related to the inability to understand basic vital principles of life. The second is the solution of the smart and powerful: hypocrisy.
The stupidity needs no further explanation. But in this theater of deception, repeated thousands of years now, is worthy of analysis.
When man realizes the sensitivity of human life he looks for ways to continue. So he chooses to live his life thinking that he is taming it like he is holding a wild animal by the horns while in reality he turns a blind eye to the riddle of life’s destiny. Either he can’t explain it, or he understands it and is terrified. He feels the emptiness, the coldness of the wet grave surrounding him and chooses to get caught up in material and carnal pleasures to fill him with distractions.
Distraction. The source of success. The farther and farther they look, the more likely they are to find a vein of gold. There is no workaround to where the road ends. No alternatives, no secret passages. All worlds collide into the same core.
For the rest of the bench, there is silence. The road of life, unfolds in reverse order. A man’s life begins with the pain of the mother and the agony of the father. And that’s how it ends as well. Some will sense this and decide to deal with it. Some will fail and give up. The inequality of the assimilation of human error will bring even the strongest to its knees.
The ultimate form of ridiculousness is the advice to focus on the present. It is the same as wearing blinkers and running fast on a dead end road. How could someone forget a post traumatic tragedy? How could possibly someone embrace the “sweet” inevitability of future terror? How can someone lifelesly whisper “it’s all past now” for raw brutality dissolving into the cosmic madness? For souls mutilated in the vortex of time?
The wise shall numb the pain to make things bearable.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering (Friedrich Nietzsche)