I've been thinking about happiness a lot recently. I just watched the
picture 'Into the Wild' and it inspired me a lot. Enabled me to cross
boundaries I didn't think possible. It gave the message that 'Happiness
is only real when shared' which is a philosophy that I live by.
I think in life, all anybody really needs to be happy is love and
friendship. Nobody NEEDS a computer, or a mobile phone. But it modern
society, it's just things, things, things. Everybody feels they need
all these things to allow them to live comfortably, which turns them
into selfish people.
Something I don't understand is why people are so horrible to each
other, everyday? Why? It just doesn't make sense. EVERYTHING is judged.
It seems as if all love and friendship has been swallowed up by
corporate giants and politicians who just want to take all the great
things in life away.
The only REAL politician out there at the moment is Ralph Nader, imo.
All the others are just puppets which huge corporate hands stuck up
their asses moving their faces. Why would some people do so many bad
things, just to gain a little bit of self satisfaction?
Love, is what set's people free. But some people don't realise this.
Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly
into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.
I actually agree with Zach. Ralph Nader has tarnished, if not destroyed, his public image by running failed presidential campaign after failed presidential campaign.
In your situation, I'd say become an anarchist. You get to complain a lot, without reforming anything.
Read some Transcendentalist works by Thoreau and Emerson. They are the prominent figures of the movement that inspired McCandless and I think you'd take a lot out of it if you enjoyed the concepts in the film so much.
"It seems as if all love and friendship has been swallowed up by corporate giants and politicians"
There.
Ah yeah. I got my words muddled up I guess. But what I really meant was that corporate giants are too busy trying to get us to give away all our money making us forget what we are really living for; 'love and friendship, etc.'
Btw, if you don't like my views just say! I won't be offended.
No-one NEEDS a computer, or a television for that matter. But if it wasn't for that (and technology in general) you wouldn't have seen 'Into the Wild' at all. You would have known far less music than you do today. Of course these are not the destinations, but purely the media. Money doesn't make happy, per se, but it can definately help. At least, as long as there are materialist people. In an ideal world where everybody is as enlightened as the 'pure person' there would be no need for money anymore. But I can't see it happening anytime soon, or anytime at all. The Rousseauian method of education might be what you are looking for, if you're interested in hypothetical solutions.
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